AVOID AT ALL COSTS! Every so often, I get the feeling that certain (often highly respected) critics are either involved in slipping us a mickey, or have gone bonkers. Take this film... please! Critics RAVED about it! ROGER EBERT called it virtually "perfect". He is soooooooooooooooooo wrong! Here's the film: For the first 40 minutes we watch four incredibly boring young people do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! (Well, unless you consider stacking bags of ice "something") Then one of them gets in some trouble and (although WE never get to see it) leaves some kind of cryptic clue about it that the others soon figure out, even though there is no good reason why the person in trouble couldn't, simply, have TOLD the others! Anyway. The other three solve the problem by, basically, doing nothing more than (SPOILER ALERT) running into a restaurant, stealing a "package" and running away. They ARE NOT CHASED! They are NOT CAUGHT! They are in ABSOLUTELY NO DANGER WHATSOEVER! And so, the film stops. It doesn't END (How could it? It never began!) It stops! And you have lost 96 minutes of your life that could have been better spent watching paint dry. At least after that, you have dry paint!

Dated and horrible 70s exploitation flick Not even Richard Burton could save this careless eploitation effort. It isnt'even much by early 70s standards. Much better films came before and after. By today, it has utterly failed the test of time, looking corny and dated.  And it tells you everything you need to know to make you switch off even after a few seconds, in the opening title. It reads 'LIBYA-1943'.  In contrast to what the following exposition title tries to make you believe, in 1943, Rommel's African Adventure was long over. All the Axis' African ambitions were blown to bits, and most of the Afrika Korps along with them. Remaining Axis forces had long retreated to Tunisia, a third of a continent away. The British had re-captured Tobruk on 13 November 1942. So here's a film disregarding its historical setting so blatantly it doesn't even bother checking the simplest facts.  Now you maybe could forgive historical inaccuracies in a fictional film that is much rather concerned with, say, a powerful anti-war message. Did someone say 'Play Dirty'? This one isn't, though. It never lets you doubt for a second its motive is pure greed, despite - or especially through - some audio 'flashbacks', still images etc. inserted when some characters die. This completely perfunctory attempt at psychedelic stylings in the spirit of the times achieves nothing but letting the flick look even cornier. These effects are too few and far between, they are not executed deliberately enough to create any great impression; but most of all, the characterization is too haphazard and weak, so the viewer simply doesn't care.  Worse though: The script is none too crafty even by exploitation standards. The plot with the fictitious (and ridiculously quick-firing) coastal guns is an embarrassingly obvious 'Guns of Navarone' rip-off. Rommel, despite being portrayed by an actor who could in theory give James Mason a very swift run for his money, is made out as a gullible, stamp-collecting fool and rendered a laughing stock. The same goes for the German Hauptmann, a minor villain. Any child knows you can't have a great film if you fail to make the heroes' adversaries great. It's a comic exploitation effect, but since this film is not entirely meant to be a comedy, it completely ruins the atmosphere.  Final quibble: Props are especially bad and the most obvious sign of low production values. There is not a single German, or indeed German-looking vehicle in sight. It's a wonder they bothered painting the markings on. Mostly American products were used, some from decades later like the M47 tanks.  Admittedly, the same does go for much of 'Patton'. But that is simply a so much better film that you can forgive it much more easily. In fact, this common flaw is absolutely the only reason even to mention these two films in the same review.

This is a terrible film. Have the positive reviewers even seen this movie? Everything about this movie just reeks of being churned out because the makers figure kids have no taste. The animation looks cheap, and unlike the far superior Pixar movies, the film makers don't know how to stay out of uncanny valley or have a decent story.  Most of the actors can't muster much more than dull surprise in representing their one dimensional characters. The annoying comic relief characters appears to have graduated from the same school as Jar-Jar Binks, but less well animated. The nadir of comedy is when a minor dolphin character has a whole scene about him farting. This doesn't advance the plot at all.  Not that there is a plot. The script lacks structure with Daniel moving from scene to scene with little motivation, needing narrators and a literal voice from the sky to explain why he is doing the things he does. The apparent theme of the movie, of following one's dream could not be any more trite and vapid. Daniel runs away from home and his ultimate triumph is to go SURFING in the lamest sort of anti-climax imaginable. The resolution to the conflict to the monster fish, if you think about it critically, makes you wonder how Daniel could even be considered a hero. Except for freeing some slaves at the half-way mark of the movie. He does very little in the way of heroism. How is riding the perfect wave supposed to help anybody?  This is a terrible film. It is uninspired trash, a low budget pixar/dreamworks wannabe. Don't buy this. There are much better films out there for children.

Bad This movie is seriously crap...I have every episode of Family guy and watch American dad religiously... and this DVD does not come close to those shows. A major disappointment... not to mention it was not even funny.

Abysmal Nightmare I absolutely hated this film! But let me explain. The film was supposed to be a period drama or musical of some sort (it was based on a play), but instead of evoking the '60s with its musical renditions, the female trio that forms the movie's singing group sounds more like a recent R&B act. This shatters any nostalgia one can hope to have, and it makes the movie seem unbelievable in spots. The only song that sounds remotely '60s-era is the one sung by James "Thunder" Early (Eddie Murphy), "Steppin' to the Bad Side."  Beyond that, the movie goes all over the place, not really establishing a solid, focused storyline. The film is loosely based on The Supremes, but since it isn't a full-blown biopic, in the vein of Ray or Walk the Line, the film heads out in every direction it can without settling on a good one. The performances are okay, if you can stomach the awkward scenes where dialogue is sung--beginning about a third of the way in--and I say awkward because Dreamgirls, unlike Chicago, or any popular film based on a musical, does not start out like a musical at all, but it eventually ends up being one (we can probably blame that on the play it is borrowed from).  Eddie Murphy, though in rare form, couldn't save this film, and Jamie Foxx is wasted here--he even seems bored with the role. In short, Dreamgirls goes down like hard medicine; the really nasty tasting stuff that leaves your face all twisted in disgust long after you've swallowed and chased it down with a spoon full of sugar.

Stupid movie The story is irritating and makes no sense at all. A est&oacute;ria do pinguim &eacute; irritante e não faz sentido algum.

stunned with how bad this was I am amazed at anyone who thought this was a good movie. It was shallow and boring. There was nothing of any intellectual or thought provoking nature. I am always amazed at how people can be so enamored with pure drivel and then be totally bored when an in depth movie comes along. I would give it zero stars if I could.

dud after receiving this dvd i tried to play it and discovered that it was the wrong area code so rather than sending it back i gave it to a friend of mine who can copy any area code into australian format so it can be watched. he called me to advise me that the dvd i was sent is completely blank with nothing on it i will never purchase a dvd or similar product from here again

Unwatchable Here's the scoop...... one actor standing in front of a poorly drawn backdrop.... saying something stupid, to another actor standing in front of a poorly drawn backdrop.....saying something stupid.  OH!!!! dont forget the less than video game quality animation of the terrifying demon...... garbage.

What happened to the workout? The entire DVD seems to be more instructional than anything else.  There isn't much of a workout at all.  In between some of the movements there is a splash on the screen while a huge amount of rest time goes by and this is where you are told how to workout using what has been demonstrated.  And by told it says that if you are a beginner you do this many sets and if you are intermediate you do this many and if you are advanced you do this many but that is it.  There isn't much to follow after that.  Even the warm-up in the cardio section leaves you cold.  All in all I am still in search of a basic kettlebell workout that requires a little bit of effort.  I was hoping this was it.

absolutely ridiculous.  SPOILER ALERT! just a warning. This movie was so bad. All that for the bible...how utterly stupid.  And then at the end when it turns out that he is blind.....that is the stupidest thing ever. To walk so perfectly, go where he did, walk right into stores, right up to bar, fight like he did and not fall off the bridge-and it turns out he's blind????? are you freaking kidding me. And all that to save the bible???  This gets added to my list as one of the worst movies ever.

another blu-ray from Olive Films without subtitles or closed captions! (8/21/12, 1 star for this Blu-ray release, 4 stars for the movie) What gives with Olive Films? I was very disappointed to see them release two of my favorites of American cinema, The Mountain and High Noon, with no English subtitles or closed captions, and now they've done the same with this classic sci-fi/psychological thriller. Whether Olive Films opts to produce Blu-rays with few or no extras is a business decision on their part. But closed captions are a necessity for millions of cinephiles with impaired hearing, and the lack of captions is probably a deal-breaker for countless others like me who often watch movies at low volume with the captions turned on or who are non-native English speakers. If for no other reason than solidarity with those having impaired hearing, I won't knowingly purchase DVDs without closed captions, and I hope that these bad Olive Films releases won't discourage other studios from entering the market with decent releases of their own that include subtitles/closed captions.

Looks nice but that's all Essentially, this is "Pretty Woman" set in Japan. Han Chinese are not Nihonjin and seeing Chinese play the roles of Japanese speaking English in phony Japanese accents only makes matters worse. The music is faux Chinese music composed by John Williams. He actually ripped off a track from soundtrack of "The Last Emperor" by Cong Su. Other pieces of music are clearly modelled on music written for Chinese cinema by Tan Dun and Ryuichi Sakamoto.  The movie was made by American who seemed to have thought that China and Japan are virtually identical.  A deeply offensive film.  I love Ziyi Zhang, she was fabulous in "House of Flying Daggers" and "2046", but these are CHINESE movies made by the Chinese director Wong Kar Wai and set in China and feature Chinese casts. However, she is NOT an ethnic Japanese. She is Han.

Major Dud Yes, there are a lot of stars but overall this movie was a DUD; very choppy and boring. While it might have some good moments, it didn't hold my interest at all; my husband actually walked out of the room to play video games.

Too bad this was the first movie we took our son to Saw this movie in the theatre with our son.  It was the first time we took him with us to the theater.  Cars 1 was great and had a lot of good messages but this movie was all about politics and pushing an agenda on the younger generation.  The plot of the movie was weak and seemed to me that the storyboard was centered around brainwashing children that oil is bad.  My boy still enjoyed the movie because he was really still too young to pick up on the political agenda and just liked watching mater fly around with a jetpack.  I have to say this video will fit well in your collection if you're a bleeding heart liberal and are planning on raising your children to be also, otherwise i'd say skip it.  It seems like the folks at pixar are trying more each time to leverage their grasp on children to push their views on society.  p.s. to the writers at pixar,  I know this is silly but it still bothers me every time i watch wall-E when the captain's wheel tilts the spaceship IN OUTER SPACE all the people go sliding across the floor.  Explain to me how the artificial gravity system in that ship works.

Coraline - Good DVD But Definitely Not in 3D I ordered the Coraline 3D DVD for our granddaughter who is almost 8.  She had seen the film at the cinema but not in 3D so she was very excited when I gave it to her.  We've got an actual 3D television with the proper glasses and the effects are absolutely brilliant with all the 3D DVD's we've bought from Amazon.  However, I suddenly turned from the most awesome nan ever, her words, to a not very impressive nan after all, once the 3D DVD was put on their television. (this 3D version had 4 sets of special glasses enclosed with it and could be used on an ordinary television as long as these glasses were worn).  Well, it was dreadful.  The DVD came out as virtually black and white, there was hardly any 3D - it just came in now and then and when it did it was very blurred. She was so disappointed and because we were going on holiday I had ordered it by first class post (my choice, I know), but it made it almost £18.00 which was even more disappointing.  I wouldn't have minded had the quality been first class. We all watched it to the end thinking it was just a blip and would improve, but it didn't. Huge disappointment all round. I'm actually considering sending it back to Amazon for a refund.  Their stuff is normally of a very high standard and I've never had a complaint but I feel we've really been ripped off with this one.

This movie is very silly To make a long story short, this movie is very silly.  I'm sure I will not watch it again.  This is what I call a one timer.  I also don't understand others who bought this dvd and watched it and gave it 5 stars and a review saying what a good movie it is.  Like a few others I found it hard to even watch once.  The only other movie I have made by the same company Pink EIGA is Tsumugi.  Its just as bad and just as silly.  I have to assume all movies made by Pink EIGA are the same quality.  I did notice the video quality of The Japanese Wife Next Door was a little bit better than Tsumugi.  I would rate the video quality of Tsumugi as poor. My understanding is Pink EIGA uses film and not a video camera. Im not so sure that is the right choice. For those of you who love sexy asian girls like I do, there are a few in these movies that are cute and even sexy but I think you will be a little dissipointed meaning, just when you think the movie is going to get good your in for a let down.  I would like to say when you buy this you get what you pay for, but the truth is, these movies should sale for less than $10.00 new and under if used. They should be buy one get one free at the least. They are just bad all the way around.  In the future I will avoid buying anything with the name PINK EIGA on the box.

Boring. Sucks big time. Ong Bak movies are classic compared to this one. If you have nothing better then watch it but be drunk and it will be a classic.

What a stinker! There is nothing entertaining, or uplifting, or laughter-inducing about this stinker of a flick.  It's not even worth my time to "review" this sorry piece of trash. I am writing this to warn everyone not waste their time or money on this.

I really tried, but this is just awful. Colin Farrell is ludicrously miscast, with black eyebrows and blond ill-fitting fright-wig, so that it's just very hard to look at him at any point during this painfully long film. None of the other "Macedonian warriors" look so absurd. Why? I'll just leave it there. In the battle-scenes with stirring music he's still badly choreographed and too short compared to the extras. QUO VADIS way back when in B&W with Peter Ustinov as Nero was better for decadence at court. This is just a very very bad film.  An infinitely more nuanced, indeed fascinating portrait of this time is the recent book DIVIDING THE SPOILS, by British historian Robin Waterfield, which deals with what happened to the vast territories conquered by Alexander in the years immediately following his death.  Oliver Stone no doubt remains a very rich man despite wasting many millions on this film. Too bad. Maybe if he was hungry he might recapture whatever talent he originally displayed. Doubtful though, by this point.

Cable movie for Gospel Music Channel (GMC)- What's it  about?  105 minutes Profanity free. Also story, direction, and mostly performance free as well.  Forster and Bob Gunton add some acting weight, but Modine (remember when he was going to be the WASP Al Pacino?) is pretty flat.  The rest of the cast ranges from bad Summer Stock to adequate.  Courtroom genre fans move on. Nothing to see here.

Art School Confidential Not funny, not suspenseful, not a love story, all around this movie stank and I would not recommend to anyone.  One star is even too high a rating

Love the book, hated the movie... It just didn't live up to the book. Which was amazing by the way, and should be read before or instead of watching this movie. I didn't like the filming technique which came off too "Hitchcockian" and cartoonish. Plus it was horribly over acted (even after Dicaprio's awful Boston accent ). It would have been better as a suspense/mystery film instead of trying to sell it off as a "horror" flick. At least one Dennis Lehane book turned out good as a movie... Gone baby gone!

Galaxy Cheesey??? When this film came out I was too young to watch it theatrically I was 9 but I do remember it fondly from the old "Telepromters Galaxy" service of the then new Showtime..It played constantly..I was hooked at age of 11 in 1982..I bought this film now available for the first time on blu-ray just as I remembered right down to the infamous "worm rape" scene this movie is way to short barely 80 minutes and long due for a remake (hint hint) Erin Moran was a lousy choice for a empath in this movie I think and the only thing that shines in this movie was all the hard work that the effects team led by James Cameron did and Cameron's second unit photography..this blu-ray plays more like a dvd there is no closed caption and minimal featurettes..great popcorn movie though..

Amazon sent DVD for wrong region We attempted several times to play the DVD "Ruthless People" that Amazon sent to fill our request.  It would not load, only displaying a message "This DVD cannot be viewed in this region".  After trying several options, we gave up and bought the movie on a DVD at Best Buy.

Triad "Remastered Edition" of The Stranger is a lousy copy. The Stranger is an interesting film, one of the better film noir of the era. This streaming version from Triad, described as "remastered," is crap. Check out the other reviews. The MGM version has positive reviews.

Insulting What an insulting fantasy of Diane Arbus. How could they get away with this trash with Arbus' name attached to it? I wanted to know more about the woman and her career as a photographer. You will not find this here. What you will find is just a plain ordinary "Beauty and the Beast" story that could have been about anyone. Why make this with Arbus in mind when any Jane Doe character could have done?  Terrible. The only good side is that Nicole Kidman is always lovely to look at, but that's about it.  TC

Chisum Movie Too Far Off This has to be the worst view of a real character Hollywood, and especially John Wayne, ever produced. The names I recognize, but the story is so far off. They could have named it something else, and used a fictional character. Chisum's life is interesting enough w/o pasting it with so many falsehoods, including his relationship or non-relationship with William Bonney. I tried to watch it after so many years, but it was like Home from the Hill....really worthless except for the background scenery.

Case broke the CD The first time I used the CD, it was difficult to remove the disk from the case. Somehow I managed without cracking the disk. The yoga workout was great and I eagerly looked forward to working out with Rodney again. On my second try, I wasn't so lucky. The disk cracked and no longer plays in my CD player or computer. So while the content might be stellar, your use of it may be short-lived due to the overly tight center button that holds the disk in place.

Wait until the end.... Yeah, normally, when you say that its followed with a "....you wont believe what happens" Not the case, what I liked about the end, was the excellent rock playing as the credits rolled, AND the fact that the movie was done. I absolutely hated this movie. I felt like it had a cast filled with supporting actors, no heavy hitters anchoring it down. Now, this movie is compared with ID4, Alien, War of the Worlds, whatever...NO WAY... ID4 has real heart, characters you care about, they have an affect on the outcome. Alien is cinematic classic, this doesnt even come close to touching Alien...so forget that comparison! Lastly, War of the Worlds, brilliant, beautiful, scary and like nothing I'd seen, this movie doesnt touch IT either. Skyline largely follows in the footsteps are larger more successful sci fi movies, and gives you nothing new. Do yourself a favor, dont substitute the originals. You'll be happier watching the ones that came first.

TERRIBLE It arrived in good time but i was unable to watch the video because it wasn't in my area.  Now i have to return it and i havent even had time to and its a pain to have to do that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

over rated Really? Why do people want to love a movie about a mean kid who hates women? yes he's smart, but he wasn't the first to come up with this idea. yes, the acting was good, but not worth all the hipe. this is much to do about nothing much. boring, over indulgent boys who didn't get enough breast feeding.

Absolutely Horrible This movie does no justice to a Pulp fiction classic. Cato is the only salvagable character, but even he was not enigmatic or mysterious enough -- too American.  And Rosen, why him?  Horrible casting.  it completely sucked.

Waste of an hour and 40 minutes Would rather have holes drilled through my head than watch this terrible movie again. Do yourself a favour and don't watch this unless you enjoy torture.

"Mirrors 2" is Huge Let Down!! "Mirrors" was a creative, atmospheric movie about demons and contained quality acting, suspenseful moments throughout and superb special effects.  "Mirrors 2" was a major disappointment on all levels.  The acting was lame and the story was overly predictable with no surprises or shocking moments.  The movie could have been part of Night Gallery's "Sixth Sense" series--more of a esp-crime show than horror movie.  I'm glad I checked it out from Red Box for a dollar.  Even at that price I feel I was ripped off. If you liked "Mirrors", save your money and avoid "Mirrors 2".

bella i didnt want this.........i only wanted the cd for my husband for xmas. we cant watch videos on here. just want the cd  that i order. thanks

DVD does not work. DVD is faulty.  It stops about 5 minutes into the only 2 programs I wanted to use.  This is a problem with the DVD facility, as it apparently was not checked before packaged.  Need to return, and that's a total pain.  Plus I pay shipping.  Not buying DVD's here again.

Documentary of a dysfunctional family This is not a video for family viewing. A film of a a dysfunctional family filled with no moral terpitude, drunken parents behaving badly in front of small children. Babies born addicted to drugs, murder; a total train wreck. Watch at your own risk.

Good Movie... But digital copy doesn't work I bought this movie because of the digital copy. I thought i was going to save some money for the blu ray and digital copy instead of buying the $4.99 off itunes. I was dead wrong. I bought the movie and tried to upload the digital copy to my ipod touch 3rd generation. well, it uploaded to itunes well but kept saying unable to to upload to the ipod.  I contacted the makers of the digital copy and got no where. I would not purchase this dvd/blu ray/digital copy for $19.99

Not funny at all Like some others I didn't find anything amazing in this movie. Maybe it is the accent, maybe it is the slang, maybe it is the acting...I would really like to know what is so cult about it. The cast list was promising, but the delivery is disappointing. Somebody wrote in a review that he was torn between throwing a brick at the tv-set or pressing "stop" button, when watching. I chose the second option in 34 minute of this "master piece".

Australian dvd product, sucks I wanted to see in LARGE PRINT that is came from Australia and will not not work in a US DVD player, total waste of $$$. So looking and found another source for electronics, games, movies. Bad form guys!! lynn Bordelon

too many scratches. doesnt work they inside of the dvd case on BOTH dvds was broken and didnt hold the dvds in place. they are both covered in scratch and barely play.

English subtitles needed This movie may be worth watching if you speak both German and Swedish since there are NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES. I don't have the two necessary languages and so am unable to properly review (or enjoy) it..

Never let me go I thought this would be a love story. It was in a way but it was a disgusting story about selling body parts. A mind control over these poor kids that thoughgt they couldn't tell the adults NO.

Avoid this garbage The first couple of reviews must have been written by folks involved in the production. What horrid and inept film making. In an era where lower budget Zombie flics can actually be GREAT there is no excuse for this sort of crap. AVOID IT.

I should make a movie -5 stars I don't understand how anyone could consider this movie worthy of their time. I only watched a few minutes up to the fantasizing of the main character taking out a little girl. Sick stuff. At least it was free.

Offensive I hate to break people's bubbles, but the film Noelle is not only poorly written and corny, but is downright offensive. The course of the story basically follows a priest, who has been sent to shut down a small Catholic parish, and then encounters a young woman with whom he shares some sort of "cosmic connection". He later discovers that she is pregnant out of wedlock, and in the end, he "finds redemption" for his past sins by abandoning his vows and marrying the woman, raising the child with her. The film quickly loses credibility by moving from moderately intelligent dialogue to incredibly corny scenes, such as when the priest discusses buying an oven with the Inn Keeper (presumably a metaphor for wanting a family). And the comparisons the film makes between its characters and those of the original Christmas story is not only inaccurate, but also extremely offensive. Finally, the film has a completely inaccurate portrayal of Catholicism, especially in regards to its nearly flippant treatment of the priesthood. I am not Catholic, but I know many Catholics, and I was outraged at Wall's portrayal of their faith. Save yourself two hours of time and $16 from your pocket.

The Smurfs Review This is the 1987 film:Masters of the Universe all over again. They both have the same stupid storyline. The only difference is that Master of the Universe was made at the height of the shows popularity. This film was not. The acting is not that good. The subplot is ponitless. It doesn't know which age group they trying to appeal too. Neil Patrick Harris and Hank Azaria were wasted in this film. It's not funny at all. The Smurfs song is annoying. The only good thing about this film is the CGI. AND YOU THOUGHT THE LAST AIRBENDER WAS A BAD FILM!!!! I give this film 1 out of 10.

"Why don't you be a girl and sunbathe or somethin?" Sub-par script that delights in the dismemberment of females; for every male torn apart by piranha, ten females meet the same fate, and the females' fates are more graphic and freakish to boot.

Weed, Rentals & Temporary Insanity Due Date was... well... horrible. If you ever saw Planes, Trains & Automobiles than you saw the superior version of this quick cash grab send off. I'm sorry but I didn't laugh once (ONCE I TELL YOU) during the entire run time. It just didn't make any sense even in the most stoner, moronic or desperate of ways. There are several times in this film where you say "I would have parted ways with this guy." but for some unexplained reason they keep staying together. The whole "I have to get home one way or another before the my wife's due date" just didn't gel with me as a sufficient reason to risk life or limb. It's an important event but is it worth all the crap RDJ went through in this film? I understand desperation but the scenarios were unfunny and idiotic. Anytime somebody nearly kills you or seriously maims you is a surefire reason to part ways with them. I know they want Zach Galifianakis to be the lovable, clueless moron but he never seemed like a nuisance you didn't mind having. Zach was the same exact guy you saw in that "other" film and I mean the exact same character. Robert Downey Jr usually kills with his charm but in this he was equally at fault as Galifianakis as to why this wasn't funny. Neither was relatable or you cared about and neither were Jamie Foxx  or Michelle Monaghan who equally gave some wooden performances. Planes, Trains & Automobiles had heart and plenty of laughs but this was the 1st time in a while I didn't like any character in this film. It was forgettable or maybe more so unforgivable depending on your expectations. Potential diverted.

Ultraviolet ruins everything Loved this movie in the theatres but this trend of only an Ultraviolet copy sucks. I will not buy this as a physical copy. I complained about Harry potter and now this one. iTunes is going to be the way I get it.

What the heck were they thinking? This movie bills itself as a monster movie but is anything but.  It uses this alternate reality as a back drop about a guy and a girl making a difficult journey.  During the trip they learn a lot about themselves and the other.  However, I wanted a Monster movie.  I give this movie two thumbs down.

Pass this one up! I purchased this at a local store for $5, so I can't complain about the price too much. But I would certainly not pay more than that for this series. As another reviewer stated, the music is just horrible! The plots have no depth, and are so short that really not much happens, and what does happen is predictable. Some of the plots had potential if they had been longer. Sometimes the acting is a little too obvious and not very realistic.  Also, this has nothing to do with Jack London's book. The only similarity is the name of the dog.  I would recommend this instead. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003ZVJFEI">Call of the Wild-Complete Series</a> It, too, has nothing to do with Jack London's book, but the story is much better.

WORST PIECE OF S#@T EVER !!!!! I've just finished watching this HORRIBLE so called horror film. Please avoid this movie at all cost! I've been a horror fan for years and have never been compelled to leave a review until today. I know this is a prequel, i did not watch "MALEVOLENCE". After seeing this garbage, I never will. This is like ever other torture movie ever made: no one survives except the simple minded killer (okay, in this case the killers trainee). I'm tired of seeing women being tortured- it would be nice to see a movie w/ a woman serial killer hanging up men and giving them what-for. Too bad Anchor Bay chooses to release this repetitive nonsense while no doubt other, more original horror movies languish unseen.

adult rating This is not my type of series. I was surprised when I watched it. It should be marked Adult rated "R"

Cheap looking Sin City wanna-be. The film attempts to follow in the visual story  telling of Sin City, 300, The Spirit etc., but fails. The story line and the acting leave a lot to be desired.  The movie is full of popular actors, but no stars. You recognize mostly what I can only guess are out of work actors.  This is a typical Saturday afternoon made for cable movie.

Ghost Rider sprit of vengeance This movie looked like it was on a low budget.  Watch the first one, better story better graphics.  No need to watch this movie

Slow & boring It was a little hard to follow but in all lacked any excitment. I found it to be dull and boring. Certanly ranked low of any movies he has made.

Can I give it a No Star. I can't wait for the second installment..."Blue State"... where Far Left wing nuts who for years of subversive and sublime Communist indoctrination and rhetoric, evolving from and through the Colleges and Universities, to the media of MSNBC, Newsweek, Time, Huffington Post, and CNN, and the equally intellectual members of the Today Show, the Communist who call themselves democratic socialist "reformers", finally take over the nation by circumventing and ignoring the Constitution "it's just so hard to understand, too old and obsolete," revisioning history to school children and the ignorant, the rich are at fault and should pay for everything except for left wing U.S. citizens not living in the U.S. and who severely condemn the U.S. for everything, movie stars and rock musicians, and the social animal needs to be controlled and taken care of by the elitist state from cradle to grave, your `moral compass' must always point left or governed by social engineers, the U.S. is the worse nation in history and in the world today, it's all the Republican's and Bush's fault and Obama is the 4th greatest President in U.S. history.......and because losers who watch this propaganda trash called "Red State" actually take the movie seriously as an academic study in plausible reality.

CRAP HATED HATED HATED IT. This is an anime-style film i nearly turned it off after 7 minutes..but it ended up being one of those wastes of time you watch all the way through, hoping the plot will actually come together. Although the graphics are well done here, that cannot redeem this blank, confusing, completely void of semblance, film. The writer obviously wrote it for himself, simply assuming the general public would actually be able to follow this dizzy storyline. This film is made for people on hallucinagens.

Just Lame. I never write a review!  But be warned.  This movie was disturbing. I'm a fan of comedy but REALLy?  This was just gross!

Gods awful I would rather be kicked in the balls for two hours than watch this movie again. The first one was ten times better and that sucked too.

Stick with the book The book was AMAZING, movie was awful. I was very disappointed. Too many differences from the book, what the hell was with the screwed up ending?!

what a waste of time I am a huge bruce lee fan,I have read many of his books,watched his movies a countless  amount of times.this show is a mockery of a true legend.I'd say 75% of it was complete garbage,I guess the director just wanted to make "entertainment "the script sucked,the editing sucked even more,the only part they got right was that the actor looked just like bruce and the fight seens that most of them never ever happened in real life. next time just go to the circus.many other words would describe it,corny,nonsense,baloney,I will not be watching the second volume.if you want to make some honest money next time just sell this dvd with a roll of toilet paper.that way it will be worst something.

Truly awful I thought this film would be fun, but I had expected it to be an homage to the old flicks like The Car.  Instead we have a boring bunch of incredibly foul-mouthed and brainless women interminably babbling, and finally, at the end, a distasteful car chase with (spoiler) a woman on the hood of a car.  It even manages to make Kurt Russell seem gross.  Yech!  I loved Tokyo Gore Police, but this is so much of a mess that it's not even campy.  I can't believe I watched all the way through to the end.

Rubbish There are compelling things about this film that others have commented on: more power to them. From an objective and pragmatic point of view, this film was rubbish. It's about drug abuse. So what? It's not entertaining, nor thought provoking. What it IS, however, is disturbing and disgusting: coming from a horror fan, that's saying a lot. There's absolutely no reason to ever watch this film again. Sure, people go through bad things like the events portrayed in this film, but having once seen it (regrettably so), I would not recommend it, nor watch it ever again. That is my primary means of estimating the rating of a film, on my desire to watch it again. 1-star.

Highly Overrated The music is great, the sets and clothing are good. All positive characteristics end there.  This movie is centered around a self-indulgent narcissist, and a idiot girl who doesn't seem to value herself enough to know what's good for her. This movie made my skin crawl- not in a good way! As a strong feminist, this movie is particularly unpleasant, as it is centered around chauvinistic world views that have plagued America for the last 300 years.

Drive If you are an action person like myself this movie is a total let down save you'r money this movie really bites!Bad story line etc!

Good movie to put your kids to sleep It was a good movie to put my 3 kids to sleep in the movie theater. I don't know what violent reaction you will get when you loop this over and over again. Terrible, terrible movie.

Unwatchable OMG what a horrible movie. I'm a Johnny Depp fan so much so that i tried watching a movie with Angelina Jolie. It was a bad decision. The plot was ridiculous (even for a blockbuster), and the performances were totally unconvincing. I think the best part of the movie is the way it was shot and the beautiful setting. Aside from that, it's just not worth the time.

Don't Waste Your Money... Don't waste your money like I did.  This movie is tripe.  It is complete garbage.  From the opening scene you see a man inside a man hole get decapitated using a barb wire noose.  It is foul, gory, and completely unbelievable.  The language is very awful and crude.  The torture scenes are highly unbelievable.  Don't believe the reviews you see on sites like rottentomatoes.com or imdb.com, this movie is either a very well planned joke (April Fools anyone), or just a complete failure.  It is not worth your money.

Require much patience and causing headaches and nausea Very slow motioned. Requires a lot of patience to get into it. Then the camera was handheld, like a home video. The shaking of the images caused me huge headaches and nausea. Could not watch for more than 10min.

Ipcress File Absolute rubbish it's in Spanish, with no option to view in English. Also very expensive over $50 dollars a ripe off !

Disappointing Not only is this the weakest film, despite the length and despite the hype by all of those who are high on WB/Yates Kool-Aid, but its DVD is the worst packaged of the franchise, with no extras.  When it arrived in the mail yesterday from Amazon, I had to re-check the return address because I thought it was a bootleg copy that had been sent by mistake.  The sound and picture quality are sub-par as well.  I learned from reading the comments to other one-star reviews here that the sort of DVD release we have come to expect for a Harry Potter film (two-discs, widescreen, etc.) is only available from Walmart. Had I known, I would not have wasted my money signing up for a pre-sale from Amazon. Unfortunately, I opened it, so I can't send it back.  After watching it, I can say I am still not happy with the adaptation of this film from its source.  For all its length, it is dreadfully paced, seeming simultaneously rushed and draggy, and it has left out at least as many important themes and scenes as any of the earlier films.  Scenes are added willy-nilly, too, which is not in and of itself a crime, but only a crime when the tacky new material replaces the brilliant original.  Steve Kloves is no J.K. Rowling, and should stop trying to "improve" on the better writer's work.  ******SPOILER AHEAD******  The film cuts an important scene that is one of the first in the book, and that is the tete-a-tete between Harry and Dudley as the Dursleys depart from Privet Drive. That scene would have added so much more to the film in terms of character development than the film's made-up opening scene of Hermione erasing herself from her parents' photos and memories. Much has been made of that Hermione scene, but I was not impressed and thought it raised more questions than it answered. In the book, Hermione mentions in conversation how she transported her parents to Australia, changed their names, and wiped their memories clean of the idea they had ever had a daughter. In the movie, it seems that the parents remain in their English house. So what happens when the neighbors ask the Grangers about their daughter? Or did Hermione supposedly perform memory charms on all the neighbors, too? And how does simply wiping the parents' memories supposedly protect them -- or Hermione -- anyway; aren't they still vulnerable to Death Eaters who might want to hurt them in order to hurt Hermione, regardless of whether they remember her?  I am tired of people going on about how this scene brought tears to their eyes. I am as sentimental as anyone can be, but I found the scene bogus. For an authentic emotional statement, give me Dudley and his handshake and his "Dunno" and his teacup.

Multiple Copies Defective Like many others, I received more than one copy of this Blu-Ray, and both were defective, allowing roughly half of disc 1 to work. On top of that, the packaging was horrendous, causing the discs to have to be bent to be taken out.

Not worth the money As a huge Maroon 5 fan, I got excited when I came across this DVD. I became a little suspicious when I couldn't find anything about it - not even the review that's quoted on the front of the case. I wish that I had listened to that little red flag in my head, because this is not a great DVD. It's not even much of a DVD.  There's nothing here that you don't already know or probably couldn't have found on YouTube. It's mostly comprised of video clips swiped from other sources, including the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0010WW63Q">Wal*Mart Soundcheck Maroon 5</a> interview and paparazzi video, with the occasional interview of random people (I guess, as I didn't recognize them and there are no captions to explain who they are or why they're relevant). Then there's random still photography like a generic Los Angeles postcard. Most of the video has no relevance to the narration (like showing us Adam doing motion capture for his appearance in the video game <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0028ZNWWS">Band Hero</a> while talking about the pre-Maroon 5 years).  The titles bounce all over the screen and look incredibly cheesy. The narration is flat, like an automated phone recording, and it states the obvious...sometimes more than once. For example, near the beginning we hear about how the original four members of the band attended high school together. Then, 20 minutes later, the narrator tells us that all over again. It all reminded me of those slideshows that people used to put together in high school.  I give it one star because it was fun to watch some of the interview clips (like Adam and Jesse discussing their pre-Maroon 5 jobs). But a couple of minutes of footage here and there isn't worth slogging through the rest. If you're looking for a Maroon 5 DVD, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000AL732W">Live Friday the 13th (CD/DVD)</a> is infinitely better.

Buyer Beware The "dvd" did not work in two of my dvd players. It does work on a MacBook and MacBook Pro but I caution you if you expect this to work on a standard dvd player.

Will not load on my blu-ray player... I actually like the movie, but I have went through 5-6 copies of this movie, and it will not load on my blu-ray player... The very first copy I got played the first time, but every time there after (and every copy since) reads "load" then "home", and then a counter/timer reads from "0.00" to "0.07" and freezes there... I just updated the firmware on my player, and still it will not work... I will not buy this title again, at least not on blu-ray...

I HATE BD LIVE Package arrived safely. Product was in very good condition. (That why its gets one star at least) However CAN NOT BE PLAYED because this product has what is called BD Live which requires that your Blue Ray player be connected to the internet in order for you to enjoy it. Silly really. I could understand if you wanted to access "special features" but to have to pay for an internet connection just to watch a movie really BITES

Bad, just bad. I had to see this film with the camp that I work for, and it was the worst part of working there. Let it be known that I never saw the first Cars because it never really appealed to me, but Pixar has never let me down before so I went into Cars 2 with an open mind. Unfortunately I was let down by this film.  To me, the film was boring, felt too long, the main character(Mator) was terrible, and did not have a topic that the children (most likely Pixar's target audience) would not relate to in any way. I can understand how Mator may have been a good supporting character in the first film, but the whole dumb, airhead character is never a good main character. The film being about cars and their oil is not something that children would know anything about. The group of kids I was with did not really understand what was going on with the whole changing of oil plot and even though I understood the plot, it is not something that I would want to sit and watch a movie on.  To be honest, after seeing this film I have no interest in ever seeing the first film or watching this one again. This series may be financially successful for Pixar, but one thing that I always loved about Pixar is that even though they produce animated children's film, their films can be enjoyed by all. It seems as though they put so much work into their films to create some of the best animated films around that everyone can enjoy. Pixar has disappointed me with Cars 2. Cars 2 is without a doubt the worst Pixar film I have ever seen, and it seems as though the critics agree with that. I would not suggest Cars 2 to anyone, whether it be someone my age, a chid, or anyone else for that matter.  One last note, the short film before Cars 2 was excellent and better than anything seen in the main feature.

this isnt what it looks like.. Thought it was the full blown movie and it wasnt. dont waste your time downloading it. its just a preview thing.

I would rather lick a dirty toilet bowl than watch this movie again. I don't even know where to start......  First and foremost I am going to put this out there; I do not care for Rob Zombie. I never really cared for his music, not to say it is bad it just doesn't do anything for me.  So when I first heard he was going into the realm of cinema I wasn't too excited about it.  I totally detested "House of a 1000 Corpses", awful.  My friend suggested to me to watch his version of "Halloween" claiming that it was actually pretty good.  Being a fan of the old school "Halloween" flicks I figure I would give it a shot.  I must confess that I enjoyed aspects of "Zombie's Halloween" (mainly Malcolm McDowell version of Dr. Sam Loomis) but overall didn't care for it.  I figured I might as well watch the sequel, what a mistake.....  I will take back my original thoughts about Zombie's 2007 version of "Halloween"; I appreciate it much more after I watch this schlock of a sequel.  In stead of providing text why this movie was awful I am going to note some key points.  * Don't know why Michael Myers was so pro-mask in the first film and in this sequel he would take it off quite a bit.  * Michael Myers looked like The Undertaker (the wrestler).  * Michael Myers eats a dog.  * I never thought I would get sick of seeing a white horse and a lady dressed in white. The lady in white is Michael's mom; the role is played poorly by Zombie's wife. I don't know who the horse is.  * Why waste 20 plus minutes on a no reason hospital dream?  * The character development of Dr. Sam Loomis wasn't believable as a money/media whore, given what had transpired in the previous film.  Then the last minute "change of heart"?  * If a dollar could be given to repay the "government bailout" every time Laurie Strode cried, this country would be out of a recession.  * Speaking of Laurie Strode, Scout Taylor-Compton's acting was so horrible. Was she supposed to be a whiny Emo girl? I lost count how many times she used the F word and stated her life "sucked".  * Rob Zombie loves using the F word.  * The acting in this movie was truly poor.  * The over the top blood and guts was basically torture porn.  It is like Zombie is trying so hard to be "dark" and "disturbing" and it comes off comical. For instance, Michael Myers was going out of his way to kill people. Some of these moments I was laughing so hard it hurt.  * Every character was unlikeable; I truly didn't care what happened to anyone.  I am still questioning myself why I didn't turn the movie off.  * The entire supernatural/psyche aspect of Myers and Strode's relationship was totally out of left field.  * Does Margot Kidder know Rob Zombie?  Her two small scenes seemed really out of place.  * Did I mention the white horse and the lady dressed in white? Oh and Michael Myers eats a dog.  This movie didn't receive the praise as its predecessor and I can see why.  This movie at the end of the day was unnecessary; everything was really tied up in the first film.  This movie was nothing more that a pot boiler.  Recommended for a deflating your IQ or hard core Rob Zombie fan.

not happy at all i have not received the dvd yet,i am not happy about it at all . i order the dvd on the 31-1-2012,it was surposed to have been sent on the 11-2-2012 along with twilight breaking dawn part one. i have not received either of them so i want my money put back in my account immedateley.

NO Redeeming Qualities, painful to watch I had heard that this movie was an instant classic.  The word was that this was a highly entertaining and consistently funny movie.  I'm just glad I didn't have to pay to see this movie.  I thought the entire film was very poor due to the plot and the cast of uncharismatic actors.  I was still waiting for the funny parts by the end of this film.  I liked "Super Troopers", it was definitely not the most mature movie but that was some of it's charm.  This movie seemed like it was written by 13 year olds for other 13 year olds.  Absolutely awful. The jokes were almost directly plagiarized from "American Pie" (which I also thought was a waste of time) they both had no redeeming qualities.

what is this bs??? What's Ozzy running for title of jesus now!?!?  This is the same old stuff repackaged with more annoying footage of sharron....

Boring Movie.  Absolutely NOTHING happens. Just caught most of this movie on television. It's a stewardess movie from the early 50s.  Kept waiting for something to happen...anything, anything at all.  I finally gave up and started channel surfing for something better. Boring, boring, boring.

Conan the Movie 2011 This movie did not live up to my expectations. Whoever did this movie has never read any of Robert E Howard's books.  Even Arnold's movie was better.  I certainly hope there isn't a Conan II in the works.

Not Worth Watching I am a huge fan of The Avengers, the Ultimates, and of most of the Marvel properties shown in these movies.  I saw the first "Ultimate Avengers" and promptly threw away the DVD.  Why?  Because it was so, so bad.  Reasons: The writing.  It is inconsistent, bad, and leaves plot holes large enough to drive a helicarrier through.  A friend watched it with his 10-year-old son, and the 10-yr-old pointed out how the plot made no sense and was stupid!  The casting.  They chose voice actors who did not fit the roles.  Scrawny little Bruce Banner should not have a deeper, manlier voice than Captain America.  The animation.  Adding shadows to a cartoon does not make it good.  It was choppy and inconsistent.  And if the animation wasn't bad enough, they throw in some CGI that is *obviously* CGI that just seems to punch up how bad the rest of the animation is.  I was suckered into seeing the other two movies, and they were no better than the first.  In short, save your money on this farce, and pick up Disney's "Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes" and go see "The Avengers" in theaters (or, if you're reading this after it's left theaters, buy the Blu-ray!).  Whatever you do, avoid this "deal."  It's just not worth *any* price.  *EDIT* I see folks saying this review is "not helpful."  Could you comment and let me know precisely how this is not helpful that someone is advising folks to avoid a bad animated movie series?

I will not buy Blue Rays on Amazon Any More Waste of Time I received blue ray in a sleeve. Now who seriously buys a blue-ray for just the disk. One thing that Amazon can be dis-credited-ed for is the leniency they give to sellers. Although I felt duked out of my money thank god for Amazon's A-Z guarantee because I was refunded my money. The movie casting was A+++, the bad was this VIDEO was shot on digital cameras and you can tell so very much on a HD TV as it is grainy and looks digital. THIS MOVIE SHOULD HAVE BEEN SHOT IN FILM SHAME ON THEM.

Terrible!!!! Ordered this film on Netflix.  It's all footage from the 1980's, very poorly done.  The $24.95 price is laughable.  This DVD is appallingly bad.

Best little hothouse in texas DVD only works on computers not on regular DVD player or Xbox or ps3 Big time drag watching a movie on a laptop

False advertisement Hello all I normally don't complaint about my orders from Amazon but this one really upset me I was planning a pajama party for my daughter and thought having 3-d movies will be a cool item. Received my movie and comes to find out the movie wasn't in 3-d format. To make a long story short the company needs to get into details letting their customers know that the movie isn't really in 3-d.

I hated this movie! Okay,I actually expected this movie to be good and was more than dissapointed. Okay,first of all, the age differences. The movie views Percy, Annabeth, and Grover as around 15-17 yers old...totally wrong. They're around 11-12 years old. Second of all, Annabeth's hair is blonde,not dark brown or black. Also, it mentions nothing of the Great Prophecy, or Thalia's tree, or,anything actually important from the actual book. To add to this bull****, they make Grover black ...nice, make the satyr the black one.Also,their so-called "quest" had nothing to do with what happend in the book, really, trying to find the three pearls which Percy got from a river spirit in the book...nonsense. And also, when they leavethe Underworld, they take Percy's mom and leave Grover to do God kmows what with Persephone after throwing Hades in some fire in the fireplace...???, that never happend in the book. And also, the ending wasn't remotely similar to what happend in the book.Now,I realize a movie is never gonna be the same as the book,but they took it to far with this one. If I was Rick Riordan, I'd have a heart attack after viewing this movie. i think giving this movie one star is more than generous.    P.S.   The acting sucked.

2 Million Armenian Christians were murdered by Muslims but this has nothing to do with me so who cares? ARARAT (2002)    Starring Eric Bogosian, Elias Koteas and Christopher Plummer. A gaggle of modern day Canadian liberals and artists are having the type of narcisistic problems that characters in a SEINFELD or Woody Allen picture go through. One has just discovered that his son has turned into a homosexual, another is getting his last shot at movie success, another--oh so self important--teen putz is having sex with his stepsister and smuggling dope out of Turkey while another resorts to the vandalism of art because her father just committed suicide instead of getting cooly(Repeat after me..a Terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. Zzzzz) killed trying to assassinate someone like her stepbrothers and finally another is just trying to lecture on a dead armenian artist without being heckled.    Luckily in 1915, the Muslem Turks committed genocide against the Christian Armenians and thus allowing someone to learn to embrace the Gay Agenda and let drug smugglers off, another--Spielberg like ala SCHINDLERS LIST--to get a box office success, two young people to learn to take no responsibility whatsoever for their actions and a mother to learn that she should stop worrying about dead armenian artists and pick her son up at the airport.    Isn't it just great that two million Armenians died horrible deaths in the 20th centurys first(Thank you Muslems for your progresive efforts on this field) genocide so it could be used to solve some Liberals personal problems in 2002?    An appalling pile of self centered pretentious rubbish that explains much about Liberal attitudes toward the current war on terror. For no matter what Evil has or is being perpetrated in this world, in the final analysis, it is always all about Liberals and that really groovy bit of lint in their navels. All everybody does in the film is talk about and care about is themselves. Christopher Plummer, up to his neck in excrement, could not give a bad performance if he tried but his character is impossible. The film takes nasty potshots at the ONLY decent attempt to tell the story of the Armenian genocide THE FORTY DAYS OF MUSA DAGH. The rest of the cast are wretched. The film trivializes a horrific crime and then pathetically concludes with the whine that Turkey still denies that the genocide has taken place.    And this film will only help in their efforts to claim that it is all a fraud by those dirty silly delusional Christian Armenians.    Artists should always be kept away from serious subjects and only be allowed to deal with stories about phallus symbols, Gay progaganda and how wonderful it is to be them. Leave the adult important things to the mere hacks.    Embarrasing tripe.

The Pale Rider I'm a fan of Clint Eastwood but not this movie. The acting is awkward and the script is a bit comical at times even though I'm sure it's not meant to be. The scene between Clint's character and the daughter is painful to watch. She professes her love for Clint's character even though he's been "in town" only a few days. His acting in this scene is the worst I've ever seen however the ridiculous script left little to work with. All in all a forgettable western in the Clint collection. If you're itching for a Clint western go with The Unforgiven, High Pains Drifter, The Good the Bad and the Ugly or The Outlaw Josie Wales and steer clear of The Pale Rider.

Anti-Christian Bias Hollywood strikes again!  Let's attack Christians by making a movie where we take a sincere Christian (Monk-sincere faith with good heart) and turn him into a  fanatic religious killer that tortures women.  And let's use the backdrop of the plague, obvious distraction, so that we can bash the Christian faith without putting it right in front of you!  You think the movie is about the plague and corresponding hardships, but the real theme becomes clear as you see the ending.  It was all just a set-up to take a jab at the Christian faith.  They could have just as easily had this end with the Monk finding his true path to God, which was not a "religious" path , but one based on true love.

Highly Disappointed I should have read the reviews it's just a bunch of advertisements. It looks like they pieced together this video with edit room scraps. It shows like 30 secs then advertisements and it repeats this cycle. I have little to no budget but I need to lose weight I sacrificed the money and I am highly disappointed of the value I got for my dollar.

Drop dead Fred (Region2) It stinks because I cannot watch it because it won't play in my dvd player. Very disappointed. Be careful what you order.

Really bad Movie was as stinky as their shoes, but then you'd have to see it to understand that comment - don't waste your time or money.  I feel horrible about the #3 and 2 hours that I just parted with to see this.  I kept thinking that it had to get better, but no.  Male lead was the only saving grace, not bad acting with the script given to the poor guy.

not worth the time or effort this is a real snoozer...that uses film angling and music to fill its space...a wicked subject matter which is poorly explained...and then even harder to believe is how fast the brother goes off the deep end and wants to do it again....

save your $$$$ I was very disappointed with both the video and audio of this.  I was going to add this to my blu ray collection but the resolution is not clear.  Also pauses sometime.  The only reason I purchased this was for the jets sound but not loud enough.

Blown away by the descent into terrible. To be entirely fair, my experience with this series is the U.S. released, English dubbed version. I want to be as objective as possible, but in 20+ years of enjoying anime of multiple genres, I can honestly say that in my personal experience, only a few have gone from mediocre to terrible so fast.  Demon King Daimao/Ichiban Ushiro no Dai Mao is a story about Akuto Sai, a nice guy attending a magical school, where he is saddled with the predicted future role of being the destructive Demon King. Cue the fights, school-age romance elements, lots of nudity... and more fights. Obviously, this anime is supposed to be a silly T&A romp like many others. It starts out with a predictable and fun enough premise, and a handful of interesting characters. Gratuitous nudity and sexual situations are par for the course, flirting at the edge of soft-core anime porn at times.  All of that is fine, if you know what you're getting into with a series like this. What blew me away was the sudden drop from mediocre and silly fun to abysmal, confusing nonsense. Demon King Daimao was not a unique and outstanding series to begin with - it seems to take a piece from every anime sub-genre stereotype and slap them all together. Shojo meets occult, adds mecha, and showers in fan service.  But after the first half of the series, the episodes become a giant cluster of new plots and characters crammed on top of each other. The plots randomly multiply without explanation, add some jargon, roles and terminology that are never explained, and all before you can pause and scratch your head.  Add to this the fact that somehow, the writing/dialogue gets progressively worse than ever before, until the seriously said line: "It makes me cry demon king tears" slayed me and made me stop very near the end of the series. Wow. I didn't pay to watch this series, and I am relieved. There are so many entertaining, equally gratuitous series out there that won't let the viewer down like this. What were the writers thinking?

Bad Acting Bad Movie Bad Story can I get my 3.99 back AWFUL the best thing about this movie is the trailer and the movie cover, the actors are awful story disjointed they probably left all the good parts on the editing room floor.

Avoid at ALL COSTS! No stars for this piece of.... well, you know. In this version, Godzilla has no fire breath, runs AWAY from tanks, and is female. Despite what the director says, laying eggs = female (he claimed it didn't mean Godzilla had gotten a sex change; yeah, dude, next time you ovulate, let me know). Bad acting, bad dialogue, scenes directly ripped off from "Jurassic Park". An insult to Godzilla and his fans.  Everyone who's seen a REAL Godzilla film is pretty much familiar with the genre. Why these clowns felt they needed to "reinvent" the character is beyond me. As the saying goes, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it".  Godzilla reduced to a big iguana. 'Nuff said.

"Nothing works anymore." Before settling in to what I hoped would be an enjoyable - if mindless - action movie, I had no idea that KARATE COP was actually the sequel to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001E5QMWU">OMEGA COP</a>.  There are no words to describe the feeling of pure joy I experienced when Ron Marchini entered his first scene wearing the same "Special Police" cap he spent five minutes of screen-time chasing during the earlier film.  Unfortunately, while the film does retain Ron Marchini's John Travis character and John Travis' hat, it does not retain Adam West, which is excusable given that he blew himself up with a grenade at the end of the last movie.  This lack of camp value is something that would negatively impact the film.  When we last saw Travis, he was swimming in the clean waters of Montana with three post-apocalyptic babes.  He had found a oasis of hope in a future gone mad.  However, as this film opens, he has gone back to his old profession of beating up random derelicts and troublemakers in the name of enforcing a system of laws that have long since been ignored by the remaining members of society.  His opening scene involves him and his dog rescuing a woman who looks and is shaped a lot like Rachel Lee Cook (fortunately for my brain, she is in fact named Rachel).  Rachel is played by a young actress named Carrie Chambers.  The two most prominent credits in her IMDB profile are as "Chairwoman" in THE BIKINI CARWASH COMPANY II (yes, they made a sequel - a nation demanded it) and as Kelly Preston's body double in LOVE IS A GUN.  I'll leave it to the reader to speculate on what caused her to be cast in this film.  Rachel invites Travis back to her base and promises him a hot meal.  At the good guys' headquarters, Travis meets the "Freebies" - a bunch of strategically dirtied young orphans who fancy themselves as freedom fighters.  Here, Rachel introduces the film's very poorly executed McGuffin: the Star Trek-like teleporter.  The Freebies HQ contains a broken teleporter and all it requires is a replacement crystal.  This teleporter would allow the orphans to escape to greener pastures as long as those greener pastures also contain a functioning teleporter.  In what was presumably a neat cost-cutting move, the audience is never actually shown what is on the destination end, so we take it on faith that they would actually be in a better place.  The most plausible thing about the teleporter it is controlled via a battered and ink-stained Commodore Vic-20 (the movie was made in 1991, and the Vic-20 was obsolete even then).  Travis decides to help and leaving his dog behind (the dog disappears until the end of the film), sets off on a motorcycle to find and return the crystal.  KARATE COP is a hard movie to like; it's an even harder movie to stay awake through.  When I watch a bad movie at home, I'll find my attention beginning to wander.  I'll wonder if perhaps there isn't a more interesting 29 inches of space somewhere in the living room I could be directing my eyes towards instead of the TV.  In this case, my eyes felt that a more entertaining sight would be to look directly at the inside of my eye-lids.  It's an awful clich&eacute; to say that a film is a cure for insomnia, but in my two viewings I found it incredibly difficult to stay conscious both times.  Ron Marchini is a sort of poor man's Chuck Norris.  He spends most of his screen-time kickboxing a seemingly limitless number of masked or hooded bandits.  The fight scenes drag on and on and on.  It's a relief to get to the end of one, even though you know that the end of such a sequence inevitably results in a humorless and banal would-be catch-phrase, delivered in a dull, flat monotone.  Like OMEGA COP, this future is populated by roaming bands of dirty deviants with nothing better to do all day than stand around holding crowbars, planks of wood and metal bars, waiting for a stranger to pass by so they can chase him.  Unlike the previous film, in this version of the future, no one has a nice coat, just wife-beaters, stained flannel shirts and dirty collared shirts with parallel slashes in them.  The slave trade from the previous film has been replaced with an illegal drug trade (although no one in the movie is seen using, buying or selling drugs).  The film's main bad guy is called Supreme Commander Lincoln, a tubby guy with a handle-bar mustache and bleached blond hair.  He spends most of his time in a gladiator-style fighting area watching extras covered in filth unsuccessfully attempt to defeat his champion.  SCL's main henchman is an overactor named Snaker.  He's a gang leader with a strangely deformed face, long stringy hair and a noticeable bald spot.  Snaker constantly refers to himself in the third person in a serious of loud, oddly phrased shouts.  It isn't much, but his gang does contribute something new to film lore.  While other movies have often shown individuals hurling Molotov Cocktails, this is my introduction to a Moltov Shopping Cart.  Well played, Snaker.  One should also note that while David Carradine enjoys a prominent position on the DVD cover and on the cast list, he's basically here in an extended cameo.  His five minutes are as the manager of a greasy spoon diner called Jackass Junction... specializing in rabbit stew and clean water.  Strangely enough given their mutual background, Carradine and Marchini do not have a kickboxing fight.  Why bring David Carradine into a martial arts movie and not have him perform martial arts?  John Travis' greatest talent is choosing enemies who scream at the top of their lungs when charging at him from behind and blow any element of surprise they might have had.  If they didn't do that, then they'd save themselves the trouble of many, many minutes of unendurable kickboxing sequences.  The movie would be better paced, and it would be tremendously shorter.

I couldn't believe how stupid this was I hated this so much that I completely forgot about it until stumbling upon this on Amazon.  It is retarded on so many levels.  I leave it to other reviewers for more details.  Just watch it before you buy it.

Dance, you Nazis, dance! This is no ordinary schlock entertainment. The movie is actually very well made, smart and very, very funny. Sort of Dr. Strangelove meets Airplane by way of Mel Brooks, only the Nazis don't technically dance. Five stars for political satire, nods to film buffs, internet Hitler-riffing fanboi references, CGI and overall general ballsiness of the seriously wacked out entire credit list of individuals who will never work in this town again. One star to try to keep me from going to hell.

The Movie that Made Me Stop Going to Movies for a While This film is so utterly preposterous, I had to take a step back -- "what the?" -- and reconsider everything I "relied" on to guide me to a worthwhile cinematic experience.  CAUTION: I can't really discuss what it is about this "work" that so boggled my mind -- albeit, in the opposite direction of "awe"; we're talking real "incredulousness," here -- without a few "SPOILERS," so I'll try to give advance notice as I proceed (though -- let's face it: the TITLE ITSELF is practically begging for it!).  [SPOILER ALERT #1]: He really WAS in the mob!  No, really?  Is that a surprise?  'Cause, guess what kids: if that were REALLY true -- REALLY REALLY true -- as soon as the Ed Harris dude shows up (the one with the scratched-out eye & scar across his face, which "reminds" him of the main character), one wouldn't really get much time to hang around afterwards.  He could B.S. his way through the first convo -- sure, fine -- and then dash home to get his family out of town, go on the run, explain it to wifey & son later ...  WAIT A MINUTE: That's NOT what he does, does he?  NO!  No, apparently, we -- the viewers -- are supposed to swallow that he'd just hang around -- new haircut, and all -- and figured ... like, what?  The mob guys would get so tired of his constant evasiveness ("No ... REALLY guys!  I'm REALLY someone else entirely!  Honest!"), that they'd lose interest, out of irritation, and drive ALL THE WAY BACK across the county to Pennsylvania with a "Well, I guess that WASN'T him after all!" sort-of attitude?  Um ... nah.  Not so much.  There's, like, NO WAY that would've happened -- and there's NO WAY the Viggo Mortensen character couldn't have, uh, KNOWN that -- so ... what do we get, instead?  A bit of "narrative sleight-of-hand" -- the hinge of the premise, the title, & the "big truth" of the film -- flying in the face of all "traceable," outside-the-film logic.  [SPOILER ALERT #2]:  Killing someone with a shotgun -- especially if you're a teenager (from a sheltered, suburban upbringing, no less) -- does NOT make you a "samurai warrior," or even an "angry, violent-type" fighter: it's a TRAUMA!  The kid would've needed COUNSELING -- or, more specifically, exhibited the sort of behavior that would lead people to recommend counseling -- because pulling the trigger and experiencing the viscera/energy-loss/psychic-"maxing out" of taking a human life would leave him in NO OTHER state.  (This, in a sense, gets at what I find most disingenuous about this film: the way it plays with genre conventions & art-film "truths" willy-nilly, whenever it feels like it.  Clearly, the teen son "saves" his father in a "cliffhanger" fashion -- we won't go into how his dad manages to overpower & outwit everyone but the mob boss character, since this is a Sylvester Stallone film, and we expect that ... er, wait ... WHAT was the premise of this film again?)  Right.  "Deep truths."  Of course!  SO: the kid goes to school, and ... overpowers two (2) jock "bully" types, because ... the diegesis (& David Cronenberg, the screenwriter) see fit to reveal this as a "life truth"?  Hmm ... no.  No, because fighting's like anything else that requires experience: on top of the fact that the kid would likely be home from school that day, anyway -- suffering night tremors, horrific nightmares, vomiting, etc. (and, what: I'M being "melodramatic"?) -- he's able to "best" two (2) opponents who -- jerks though they are, and limited though their "arsenal" of approaches may be -- pound other guys faces on a semi-regular basis?  Right.  Sure.  No problem ... for a "Die Hard" movie!  [SPOLIER ALERT #3]: Ultimately, this is point #1 "brought home," to the denouement of the film: leaving aside the fact that no-one in the mob would, ludicrously, try to kill someone lured into a we-have-all-the-advantage trap with as outmoded and troublesome a method as strangulation with piano wire (???) -- allowing the Viggo Mortensen character to "escape," while the audience rolls their eyes & the William Hurt character makes a weird, semi-ironic joke about "f***[ing] that up," (which is sort of lost in the shuffle, given that, obviously, the screenwriter painted the characters into that particular corner; which are we supposed to "believe"?) -- besting all the adversaries (again: ACTION MOVIE realism!) hardly means the father has "escaped" these folks ... I mean, like, what supposed to happen next?  The DEATH TOLL of high-ranking dudes in the mob the father's escaped is WAY HIGH ... you think they won't, like, NOTICE?  And, uh, take RETRIBUTION?  Y'know ... like ... EVER???  Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh!  Gimme a break!  What crap!

Not my Buddy I was conned into buying this for my grandson, and in fairness, he seemed to enjoy it.  But if you have illisions that Disney still makes movies fun for the whole family, then don't pick this one - it will pop that bubble.  The writing is the worst I have ever seen, and the acting was horrible.  The plot was so canned it was predictable at every turn.  I have seen better third grade plays done at the local grade school.  I am hoping to hide this one so I do not have to even hear the background again......  One star is a gift..

Funny, if you are 13 and have an IQ of 13. I usually like Owen Wilson, but this was just awful.  It was predictable beyond reason, it was so predictable maybe a computer wrote it.  I do not think we laughed one time, which is pretty sad.  A good cast, Wilson, Fischer, Applegate, Campbell and so on just completed wasted.  Don't bother with it, more hype than results.

Do not even consider watching. Worst movie. I could not have been more bored with this trite attempt at re-duxing a new 300. It was trying to be way too "artsy" in the graphics department without a fully developed and intelligible script. Mickey Rourke's performance was sub par and a sad attempt at furthering his some what lack lustre "acting" career. The editing was horrendous... a plot that really goes no where "exciting", lack lustre "Gods"... without reiterating what I have already said... don't bother with this film it is boring, inane and you wish that you hadn't have sat through it.

Received Two Reloaded, but missing Revolutions Buyer Beware!  I have received an extra copy of Matrix: the reloaded, but missing Matrix: Revolutions.  Very disappointed in the purchase that such a simple thing can go wrong. Since I have the DVD version of Revolutions already, I probably won't bother returning it, but it is still very disappointing.

Not Up to Snuff In a rare performance as the heavy, funnyman Robin Williams disguises himself as an old Scottish bitty to throw fruit at James Bond. Meandering "high-concept" picture goes on too long, but nonetheless thrilled 007 fans from Seattle to Shang-hai.

DO NOT BUY IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR ALPHABET DVD Mostly about shapes and colors. What a waste of my 25 month year old's time. He was bored of it easily because he enjoys letters and being stimulated. I feel very mislead by the title.

Alas, What Happened to Barbie??? Our family has seen, and enjoyed nearly all the Barbie movies. And we now ask ourselves, "What happened?!?"  "Barbie A Fairy Secret" is abysmal. My husband and I were giving eachother disgusted glances throughout the movie. It was the pits. It is nothing like the "cool" Barbie movies of yesterday. This one is a total turd of a film.  Please don't expose your children to this embarassing drivel. If you need to get your Barbie fix, just get one of the older movies and save your family from this garbage called "A Fairy Secret".  Why, oh why, can't we give out zero stars??

A real downer If you are looking for a french romantic film, this is not it! Wow, a real downer, and quite perverse. If you like true tragedies, then I think it would be a good film. The acting is quite good. At one point the main character tries to make love to her own mother. The whole movie was just too disturbing for me.

Sherlock Holmes, Game of Shadows - One big boring snooze-fest. Good acting by Downey, Law and others, but terrible direction and storyline. I found it confusing and almost painful to watch the entire film. I'm sorry I did because I would have spent my time better sleeping. Even the 99 cent deal was too much! Free would be too much.

It should have gone up in smoke We saw a production at our local high school that far surpassed this video!  I wish I had my money back  -  we were very disappointed!  You should take it out of your offerings!

stay away from this version! this DVD is unwatchable.  i ordered it through the library at the institution where i teach.  a sticker was affixed on the cover warning that this was a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD equipment.  nice disclaimer.  the DVD cover is cheaply printed.  the distributor, unknown video (sic!) should sell their product in the streets, rather than to educators.  truly disgraceful.

Batwoman Foreva!!!!! Viewed: 8/03, 6/08 Rate: 1  6/08: Batman Forever...Sucks is the title of third Batman series. A change of director, a different Batman, another lady of love, a new partner, a couple of fresh villains, and a ride of bore are part of the package. It's definitely time to kill this ill-fated series and flush it down in the toilet. Surprisingly, Val Kilmer receives much more to work with than Michael Keaton ever did in the first two films. The new Batman is terrible, boring, and lifeless. I have a hard time seeing him as Batman but rather as Val Kilmer. For the third straight time, Batman feels the need to (Jesus, Val Kilmer again...Nicole Kidman....Tom Cruise...Top Gun) give away his identity. For the third straight time, Batman/Bruce Wayne finds another female on prowl and decides to play darkly mysterious with her. For the third straight time, the impossible-to-comprehend plot is predictably so, and nothing worth noting happens. A slight improvement over Batman Returns is the reduction of sexual references and innuendos but not completely eradicated yet. It begins with "Master Dick" and ends with "sexual fantasies." Is it just me, or don't I see nipples on Batman's suit? Joel goes even further to show me Batman's butt. Violence seems to be somewhat toned down. It's weird to see so many Batman logos everywhere; the Batmobile looks stupidly retarded. In terms of atmosphere and lighting, Batman Forever seems to be lightened up more than before, after the first two films appearing too dark, but the colors, especially the neon lights, are obviously overused. At the same time, the boredom factor is amped up by three levels this time. The special effects of Batman Forever are badly looking and fake. I think there are too many characters on board. Chris O'Donnell probably can survive by his looks alone, but is he a necessary component to the series? Nicole Kidman does a great job of showing that she is undoubtedly one of the worst and most overrated actresses in business. Tommy Lee Jones is plain and unremarkable as Two-Face Harvey, and Jim Carrey overacts and goes ridiculously over-the-top in hopes of equaling the incomparable Jack Nicholson's performance of Joker. Joel Schumacher's direction is all about no substance but a lot of style. Actually, this man has no sense of style, let alone of anything else. I am following a bit of the storyline, and I am guessing all of this happens in matter of days, if not weeks? So, how did Riddler find the time to see that his magical kingdom is constructed and decorated to suit his likes? What I saw looks awfully extravagant. In the beginning of Batman Forever, Batman jumps on the helicopter and shows off his cape at top of the cockpit window where the pilot sees through to fly. Now, the riddle is: won't Batman have his body chopped off by the propeller blades? Why do I see so many of masked men who look like they came from the set of 8MM (I know it hasn't been made yet) and at the same time they don't serve any purpose to the film except to get their butts kicked? When Robin yells that the rock is full of metal, I hope I am not the only one who has no idea what the heck he is talking about. If Billy Dee Williams played Harvey Dent in Batman and he is black, how come Two-Face Harvey is white? Oh of course, stupid me... it's the sweeps week. How can Riddler have an orange hair and go to brown hair and back? That must take a long time to accomplish. Riddler gets a goldmine chance to kill passed-out Bruce Wayne when he had the gun pointed at him and doesn't do it. Speaking of him passing out, was he already shot in the head? And then he looks fine afterwards? That vault scene with Batman trapped inside with acid, that scene bothers me since the idea of doing this could have been a foolproof way to kill Batman. But no, Batman must survive and allow the series to continue no matter how tortuously bad it is. All in all, Michael Keaton made the wise decision, and everybody else made the unoriginal dreck, that is, Batman Forever a hell of a chore to sit through. I am dropping the rating of `6' (I am surprised at myself for this) to `1' for Batman Forever.

So she dies, Boo... Knowing the outcome of this movie didn't stop me from watching it but... This woman problems wasn't guilt from her affairs and conflict with her religious beliefs. No, her problem was that she kept getting involved with wimps.  Men who played on her motherly instincts that as we learn are suppressed because she can't have children. So she seeks out men that need to be mothered. And to top it all off she gets ill and refuses to see a doctor. That's suicide. So much for religious beliefs. I guess I can't stand stories that are this pretentious. But I guess the author needed to write a tragedy for tragedy sake. What she should have done was bought a ticket for points unknown and left while not leaving a forwarding address. That would have been a better ending and you could have still left her wimpy lovers crying with their head in their hands. Jeez...

Dinosaurs the complete thirdand fourth season I just recieved a second set of the dvds and this set does not play either. I have tried to play the set on two different dvd players and a laptop and it still wont play. Since its the second set of the dvds ive recieved and still have the same issue its obviously a product defect. Does anyone know how to get the disc to play? i dont think its a region issue because i bought the set from amazon and im in the US.

Atrocious The worst rendition of this play I have ever seen . The acting is atrocious . If I ever had a purchase to take back , this would be it !

Gross Underperformance I ordered this DVD to share with my 11 yr. old son over the Christmas holidays. I have been doing Yoga from TV and Sara Bates's DVD for several years now and wanted to hook my son to it but this DVD grossly underperformed despite the positive reviews I read here on Amazon on it. I wished the teacher would have gone more slowly introducing every one of the poses instead of rushing through them, going from basic poses to some very challenging ones without proper education of them in sequence and labeling them within 20-30 minutes. This was unlike any of the good programs I've been involved in whether in real life or in DVD form. A big disappointment to both my son and me. We used my DVDs instead to do Yoga together and enjoyed my DVDs a lot more than this one which was supposed to have been geared towards children being introduced to Yoga!!

farenheit 451 I can't play the DVD because it was made with the wrong country code!  so VCRs and Blue Ray players won't recognize the DVD...how do i return it!??

Boring and slow. So boring, and so slow.  Did I mention that already?  Skip it!  Try something else, like The Man From Nowhere.

Worse than Baby Einstein Very cheaply made. I could've made this out of my garage. My son wouldn't even look at it. I ended up just giving it to Goodwill.

The most boring Superhero ever? Slight spoilers...  Hancock is easily one of the worst comic book/superhero movies I've ever seen. I would place it on par with duds like Batman and Robin and Daredevil. The only difference is, at least with the other two there was at least a semblance of a plot to follow. The biggest problem with Hancock is that there is no adversary. None, unless you consider himself his own worst enemy. He is fighting alcoholism and recklessness and ummm boredom. The other problem is lack of plot. There's alot of awkward flying and some random fighting, more drinking, a tornado........oh yea, and a poorly devised ending bordering on ridiculous.  Will Smith has basically one facial expression in the whole movie- a cross between constipated and bored. I can't tell if he was acting or he really didn't give a crap about anything that had to do with the film. Also, who didn't see Charlize Theron's character coming from a mile away?? Eye-rolling rubbish.  I can't believe this movie is rated as high as it is when there is literally nothing going for it. But please, if you love boring acting, zero plot and not so great special effects, by all means, buy this film!

A very boring movie The movie didn't pull me in, it didn't make me iterested in the characters or the story. Very boring....special effect alone do not carry a movie.

Don't waste your time! I was excited to finally see this on DVD...only to have all the excitement drain away when I looked at the DVD. My copy looked like someone had used it as a coaster. It had a ton of scratches on it!!! As soon as I saw that, I knew it probably wouldn't play very well...and it didn't. It was skipping and actually stopped playing where the DVD player said 'Cannot read disk' a couple of times. The quality is also horrible!! It looks like someone used a bad copy of the movie and just transferred it onto a DVD. Sound is bad and picture is very washed out. PLEASE don't waste your money on this! You'll end up doing what I'm about to do...return it!!

Not even a wide screen ratio for a blu-ray.  Side bars on a blu-ray really? Pre-ordered this movie for my daughter.  Loaded the digital copy to the iPad and when my daughter got home we put the blu-ray it.  It has side bars and you have to format your wide screen tv to stretch the picture and remove them.  Who makes a dvd in that format these days?  All other disney blu-rays I have purchased are in widescreen format.  It is 2012.  Aspect ration is 1:33:1 whatever that means.

Why ruin the movie with director voice???????????????? The option to just watch the movie minus the director explanations doesn't seem to be available. All the junk movies are free. This is one of them. Probably won't renew amazon prime.

BOOOO!!! I enjoy disaster movies but oh no not this one....complete and total FAIL!!! BOOO!!! Only real good thing about this movie was the effects. It was too long it felt like half of it could have been eliminated. In fact I couldn't even finish the movie and I don't care. I doubt that whatever I missed would have made what I did watch, worth it!! Usually when I don't finish a movie or a book it bugs me that I have to eventually complete it but I don't at all feel this way in this case. What was about with John Cusack's character, he's a good actor but was his role supposed to annoy the crap out of you? He had annoyed me lol. Danny Glover is always good it seems in whatever his role is. The rest of the cast, dialogue, script was bad. UGH!

Buyer Beware - this is not the movie - it's just a short I can't believe I paid $3 for an 18 minute newsreel.  I thought this was the Movie.  Buyer Beware.  There isn't much else to say.

Not for a classroom of students I got this video in hopes of showing it to my 2nd grade students when introducing Monet.  Unfortunately I was not able to show it because it is really inappropiate for an audience of students - lots of violence and language.  I just thought I'd help out other art teachers - not appropriate for an audience of kids...

Kiosk Rating &lt;1 Railsback must have had an empty typecasting "horror/weird" portrayal week to fit this movie into. Interesting that the remainder of the cast, besides being limited to the usual TV series and video shorts, seem to be living off of cheap horror film gigs for the remainder of their filmography bios.  A list of a few obvious deficiencies: Too cheap for subtitles. Two cheap plastic toy models for space ships. Stars that twinkle/blink on and off and roaring space engine sounds both when viewed from the vacuum of space which as every elementary school student knows is flat out wrong which tells us something about the writer/director. Space ships made of hardware store air duct tubing and vast quantities of salvage yard heavy steel fabricated to look like a 1940s factory. Seems as if the director failed to learn anything about mass in space. Script writer who seems enamored with military jargon and swearing to portray toughness and to compensate for something called acting. Storyline of fluorescent green day-glo thingy turning crew into zombies was dumb. Doesn't even qualify as spoofing anything if that was an intention.

sh't brained yahoos! Prometheus has mixed reviews and I can see why. Its part genius and big let down. I mean it starts off amazing but the last 20 minutes felt like an episode from Buffy the Vampire slayer. Its like the producers inserted the big explosions at the end and edited out the better parts, like the scene with Guy Pierce giving a Ted talk (you can see it on Youtube, its better than the film). There were other clever scenes planned for Prometheus that didn't make it into the final cut.  I don't know why it's being marketed as a prequel to the Alien movies, this has nothing to do with Alien and Aliens, it isn't a prequel, it is sh't! Al  I reckon that the produces chickened out and dumbed it down for some reason... Its like they showed another version to a group of people who didn't get it and so they cut all the cool stuff out and patched it up with rubbish.  I listened to Terry Gilliam once on the radio saying that Hollywood is reluctant to release a film unless it's first been viewed by a focus group. This way the film can better suit the tastes of the public, or to be more precise, the tastes of the small sample picked for the focus group, and because this tiny sample of humanity represents the rest of us, the film will be just great. So this boils down to about 40 people, picked at random from the public, like they do in jury service, choosing what goes into the final cut. It doesn't matter if the writer of the film is a genius, like Terry Gilliam, because these days, a jury of 'yahoos' choose how the film develops"! I borrowed the 'yahoo' bit from Bill Hicks who complained about the same phenomenon.  This 'sample of the public' that Terry Gilliam and Bill Hicks are talking about, or to use less Orwell-spach jargon, the whims of the average person, is reflected on the final cut of the film and this is why many films we see these days always end happily, even when the plot was obviously leading to a tragic finale, or the narrative sometimes seams 'chopped' and dumbed down in places and so confuses and abuses the intelligence of the paying viewer.  Welcome Prometheus, the biggest pile of horse dung the yahoos can muster!  "If an ass peers into a book, do not expect a saint to peer out." (Augustine)

So bland, I couldn't make it through the movie. 4 people, arguing over their petty children's scuffle. It lacked depth. I couldn't make it past the moment where they came back inside, to have scotch.

Embaressing Note to the studios and the powers that be that financed this piece of trash: Find another line of work that has nothing to do with animation, animals, music, entertainment industry or any path that might inadvertantly cross those of us who paid to see your lack of talent, concern or what passes off to some as "ability."  To everyone else: Do not see, pay or even think about this movie.

Car 54 Where Are You? When you receive Car 54 Where Are You, make sure to check the package ASAP. When I opened mine, I have two disk threes, and no disk four.

I knew what I was getting into.... I blame myself, but this is exactly what you expect. Taylor shirtless, and then yada yada yada.  Teen flicks can be fun from time to time, but this was obviously an actor (obviously depending on his looks, as he should before they fade away) taking a paycheck in-between projects. This is a god-awful film. I'm just warning you now... I would love to meet someone who actually watched it all the way through with interest.

I should have known better What did I think I was going to get for $4.99?? I mean really??  The premise of this dvd is a good one and the instructor has a ton of energy. The music is lively... BUT, the production quality was terrible.  There is an echo and the music is too low to hear.  There are 6 chapters: Introduction Warm-up Technique workout Cool down credits  Before the warm-up, workout and cool down, Nath explains what we are going to do.  OK are not the chapter names self-explanatory.  The warm-up is very spirited with Nath shouting counts to you non-stop. The workout is very high impact aerobics with a follow along feel to it.  Most of the workout consists of ponies with hand movements and jumping around with hand movements.  Very easy to follow.  The cool down which really isn't one, is just lower impact aerobics.  The class takes place on an all white sound stage with a terrible echo.  That being said I could have gotten into it if the music was louder.  But wait, the dvd comes with a music cd.  So I thought I'll just mute the dvd and play the cd since the music is the same right?  Wrong!!! The music on the cd is not the same as the music on the dvd.  Really??? WTH.  Rats, I want my money back but since this dvd wasn't sold by Amazon, it's me or the trash.  All I can say is that you get what you pay for.  Will this be in my dvd rotation? Umm no.

hate the puppets my 2 year old girl cries every time the puppets come on between Caillou episodes I wish I could return this. will also check for puppets next time I buy a Caillou DVD

WHY WHY WHY?!? I'd really like to see the movie "Amadeus".  However, I am forced to watch the director's cut.  I'm sure someone decided this was a better version, but I really prefer the original.  There is a reason these scenes were cut.  At least give me the option to see the original on blu ray.  I don't want an extra 30 minutes that take the movie from amazing to 'overlong'.

Absolutely horrid. I usually don't buy blu-rays without having seen the movie first but because I'm a fan of Liam Neeson's movies, I took a chance- big mistake.  If you have even the slightest knowledge about wolves or winter survival you'll be irritated by how pointlessly inaccurate this movie is.  I say pointlessly because there was room for a good movie here if they'd have used some realism.

What did I just watch? And Larry did it once again...flub that is!!! This movie was one big smug and at best a summary with no development. Again, the actors were stale and untrained and yes the cursing returned. The plot was very, very weak. Noelle seemed to just fall into peer pressure with no reasoning or resistance and no sooner than she fell, she was very quickly redemmed after only one conversation with her pastor. Sorry, but this is just not real life. People don't simply fall into sin, they back-slide (it's a process). Oftentime, when we are redemmed, it is also a process of healing and forgiveness.  I hated the fact that Tosha's character was not explored further, she and her Mom had issues that were quickly wrapped up at the end with no inside story. Also, the script; was this improve or were there actual lines? The characters seemed to be feeling their way. The sound again was off...Varying from too LOUD to What is that noise? Larry, i'm tired of complaining; this is just not your calling. You have no passion, no vision, and obviously no patience for writing and producing good movies. Save yourself and these poor wannabe actors the shame. Vow to never make another movie!!!! I don't know how I tricked myself into watching the sequel to the already poorly written original. Thank God I got this free on Netflix this time around. I will never make this mistake again.

Cut Version Guess I should've known better than to buy a "special edition"  This has scenes edited out.  I'm very disappointed, what a prude sissyfied country America is these days.  ZERO stars for this version.  Original version gets FIVE!

I've seen worse....not many.....and I watch a lot of crap. So as the video stores are going out of business I find myself going "Well...it's only a buck...remember when a VHS used to cost $80.00?". Needless to say rather than researching the good reveiwers here online I just bought it. Then I regret the time I spent on it more than the dollar. This is one of those films. What makes this one even worse than most is normally when I have a very bad movie I am intrigued to re-watch it with the commentary as these are usually fascinating in the study of delusional minds. This didn't have a commentary.It is as bad as the others say.

Giant Ad for the Boeing 787 I am an Aviation Nut and was first attracted to this movie at a local 3D display to sell 3D TVs.  I was impressed with the excerpts and shots of the glider.  I bought the movie and start following the story.  It's not about legends; it's about bringing the Boeing 787 to life.  The technical content is lame and disjointed.  Unrealistic shots of Computer Animated Airplanes plague the movie.  Gimmicky 3D wire animations models are shoved at the audience for the sake of 3D and not telling the story. Even as a documentary of telling the Boeing 787 story, it lacks real character and feeling.  Leave this Blu-Ray/DVD on the shelf.

In the 1 dollar bin at Walmart I'm just wondering why such a poor quality product is so expensive here.  This edition of this fine film consists of a heavily censored version, that has been basically burned directly from a poor quality VHS tape, complete with tracking rolls and drop-out audio! I originally bought this edition from Walmart; for 1 dollar! After I eventually found and bought the beautiful Asian dvd for this title, I put this one where it belongs; in the garbage.  I wouldn't sell it here because i would feel guilty, like I was ripping someone off! Unfortunately the sellers here don't seem to possess that kind of moral code. Buyers you have been warned..and sellers, good luck selling your crap at your inflated, laughable prices..

Poor production values I support legalization. This film is poorly written and hard to follow. Bad editing makes me dizzy, lots of jump-cuts, inappropriate background music, raw interview footage that makes no sense... I could go on and on.  The VoiceOver is hard to listen to and is sometimes sped up to fit in making even worse. Sounds like local truck dealership commercial.

Poorly-made ridiculous propaganda Hogwash propaganda.  Every time 'meat' was mentioned, the background was McDonalds or KentuckyFried, as though junk food equates with meat.  And every time 'vegetables' were mentioned, the background was a lovely display of vegetables at a market. No mention that many of those vegetables could be GMO frankenfoods. They were tricky in noting 'plant-based whole foods' were the better diet.  Well, yes, when you eat real food instead of BigAg processed junk, you will feel better, especially when meat is included in with those 'whole' or 'real' foods.  So this poorly-made propaganda piece was actually about eating real foods versus junk, not meat versus vegetarianism.  Much research of late shows that vegetarianism (a diet which includes whole grains) is truly unhealthy.  Read 'Lights Out; Sleep, Sugar and Survival" or any Weston Price Foundation literature/books for the truth about diet and the dangers of a high-carbohydrate diet.

Disgrace To the Movie Industry. I've recently watched Batman (1989) and Batman & Robin. 1989 was a classic and a great film, Batman & Robin was a disgrace to any movie in any genre. Acting was OK but the atmosphere and plot were fake and the movie was made because they were doing successful and got greedy, anyone that bought it or saw it in theaters were taken an advantage of. In fact, the only way I would watch this movie again would be if someone paid me money and it would have to be quite a bit.

Not bad enough to hate. Rated D+ Well, they tried. If you could see the credits at the begining of the movie rather than at the end yould see that it was filmed in Lousiana by a small local production company. The result is less than mediocor. Peter Jurasic does do his usual excelent job of presenting a complex charicter for all three minutes he's on screen, but everyone else's performance is somewhere around the level of a highschool play. The idea of a quantum 'something' eating the earth and being saved at the last minute by a 'rain-man' with a nuclear missel which results in a time loop is interesting, but the sub plot of a highschool romance and a complete disregard of anything like real physics, coupled with a paint by numbers script leads me to give this movie only a D+, and that + only because it wasn't bad enough to make me angry that I watched it.  Better stuff elsewhere.

Other than the Amazing Racist, This Deserves to Still Be Lost The premise of LOST REALITY is that each one of the segments on the DVD is from the pilot episodes of proposed reality tv shows pitched to various tv and cable stations that were never greenlighted.  In short, it's an attempt to spoof the reality tv genre.  The segments on the DVD include:  "He Said, She Said"--this show is a dating show, ala THE BACHELORETTE.  However, the joke is that the woman whom the men are vying for her affection, is actually a transvestite.  "Old Age Home"--hidden video cameras at a nursing home show the fun, hijinks, and violent episodes that happen to and among the elderly who live there.  "Amazing Racist"--broken up into two separate segments, the first has the "Amazing Racist" driving around a black neighborhood in his KKK robes.  He drags his cross into a mini-mart and tries to get some people at a gas station to give him gas. Later he tries to get his robes cleaned.  The second segment has the Amazing Racist selling offensive items outside of a mosque, interrupting prayer meetings, and touring the mosque for a possible location for a Jewish festival.  "Casting Couch"--a casting director gets women to pull off their tops, strip naked, and bounce around in their clothes.  "Caught Stealing"--a contest between two individuals.  They are given various acts of theft they much complete without getting caught, from stealing everything at their table at a restaurant to stealing a car while it's coming out of the car wash.  "The Whore"--a dating show where contestants are set up on a blind date with a woman who is actually a prostitute that has been paid to have sex with them.  At the end of the act, the host and camera men appear to find out the "contestants" response and see how the prostitute will lampoon the contestant.  "Psych Ward"--a group of patients in a psych ward are placed in real life situations. If they react as a normal person, they move on. Most do not and are forcibly removed from the room.  "Take That Drug"--a group of people drinking and smoking and challenging each other to "take that drug."  "Dying Dave"--a man who has just been told he has a terminal disease begins living life like a jerk.  It doesn't matter who he hurts because he's dying.  "Money"--a host pays people money to perform a variety of disgusting acts from licking the bottom of a person's foot, eating dog food, and eating vomit off a sidewalk.  The only episodes on the DVD worth watching are the "Amazing Racists" episodes.  The segments were clearly inspired by Sacha Baron Cohen (his ALI G SHOW had a fairly large following on cable at the time), but I found them funnier than just about everything in BORAT.  Beyond that, there isn't anything on this DVD to recommend.  There has been some confusion among people whether or not these shows were real shows that actually were pitched to networks or if it's all a performance.  I believe that the confusion has risen for two reasons.  The first is that each of the segments opens with a short written statement explaining where the show came from and in many cases that it actually did air "in Europe".  The other reason for the confusion is that the entire film is shot in a handheld, amateur style; I don't think a steadycam was used in any of the segments.  Therefore, to set the record straight, LOST REALITY is NOT real.  Though some performed under their real names, the people in this movie are actors.  Some are really bad actors, but they are actors nevertheless.

not worth it! i almost bought this dvd but am glad i didn't.  i rented it from netflix and i only made it through the first 15 minutes.  this dvd is broken into segments so this is not one fluid yoga practice.  also, the instructor does not talk during the video, she uses a voiceover.  it's kind of creepy.  she is staring straight at the camera (actually looking kind of pissed) and not saying a word as she goes through the poses.  not recommended!

Different and Interesting, but in the end...Dissapointing Dogtooth was strangely interesting for a while.  It's storyline (as explained by other reviews here) is new and unlike any I've seen.  It was somewhat interesting for a while and kept you wondering where is was going. Another 10-15 minutes at the end to keep the story going would have made it so much better.  However, it just ended like someone just shut the dvd off and left me highly dissapointed.  I'm a fan of weird and off the wall movies, but overall, I was not impressed with this one at all.

UltraViolet Digital Copy,  Two thumbs down. The movie was great.  5 Stars  Dealing with the UltraViolet Digital Copy has been a nightmare.  I could not download the movie, the worst customer service ever.  I may not purchase anymore movies that require me to access an UltraViolet Digital Copy account.

Don't buy if you own mac Ordered a digital copy because they download a lot faster.  This one however would not download because the source code is expired for iTunes.  Fox had no resolution other than saying it would work on microsoft.

So Disappointing! I saw the trailers for this movie. I love science fiction so it looked like it would be really good to see. Oh my gosh was I wrong! It was the most boring story, horribly acted ,and cheaply done! I wasn't sure I could stand staying for the whole movie! I think it was the worst movie I've ever seen except for"European Gigolo."

Absolutely horrible movie with plodding disjointed script Even with star power there is little to like about this film, at least for anyone with any interest in it from the perspective of a historic narrative.  The first time I saw it I was impressed at how well Kilmer did at emulating and looking like Morrison. His singing was even okay, in a way. His performances would have been passable even, if it had been a local college putting it on as a weekend theater event, but to suggest that Kilmer did a passable job at singing Morrison's parts is to admit one has either never listened much to the Doors, has a tin ear, or is already impartial to Kilmer. The film would have been much better with Jim Morrison's own voice whenever possible, and much as I hate lip-synching, that's what Kilmer should have done. I'm sure that it would be very hard to find any professional singers who would be impressed by the singing in this movie.  Any doubters may want to try a little experiment - watch some of the movie tracks, then put on the Doors and listen to how much more effective, natural and musical a singer Morrison was. Better yet, find one of the many available videos of Morrison onstage and see how amateurish the impressionism of Kilmer's performance looks. Now just in case anyone thinks I have a bone to pick with Kilmer; I don't. I simply find the emulation of Morrison to be very poor for a movie with the kind of budget that a maker like Stone would have had available.  That said, I think Kilmer did a much better job on L.A. Woman than any of the other tracks, and wonder if it isn't at least partially because he was focused on the much more relaxed atmosphere of the track, rather than the weird side of Morrison he was instructed throughout to portray.  By all accounts Jim was a strange fellow in many ways, but also anything but one-dimensional, but with Oliver Stone being so one-dimensional himself, it's impossible for him to tell any story as a passive teller. He finds it impossible to stand on the sidelines and let us know what happened. It's much more empowering for him to interject his values and agenda onto every story told, which is so much more disappointing because he tells so many important stories - always with his opinion/agenda as more important than history itself.  They say that fact is stranger than fiction - I also find fact to be more interesting than fiction.  When I read so many positive reviews of the movie itself and Kilmer's performance, it immediately reminds me of the Emperor and all the crowds exclaiming about his stylish new outfit. Maybe I'm only a child, because to me, the Emperor has no clothes.  Anyone who thinks Morrison was nothing but a sick weirdo might want to listen to the Doors a little further, and some evidence of the romantic in him is very easily unveiled by listening to such tracks as Touch Me, Love Her Madly, I Can't See Your Face, Indian Summer and Blue Sunday. The incredibly up-beat and positive atmosphere of Land Ho! from Morrison Hotel is very often surprising to people not completely familiar with the Doors albums in general.  Now go check out some real Doors material!

This film is beyond horrible. I was FORCED to watch this last night by my girlfriend, she balled all over how great it was.  It was not.  First is the story, it's gap filled with zero explaination of what the hell is going on and when you are led to fill in the blanks yourself the rest of the movie's improbable and impossible plot make you even less likely to rationalize anything you are watching.  There is allot of action in this movie.  Like its a CGI fans wet dream.  But there is no story and less likeable characters.  Wesley the main character is a constantly sweaty and aggitated doofus, whom you can't even remotely root for, in fact I hoped he got wacked throughout the entire movie as he said the most annoying things at the oddest times.  Jolie is in this movie and she gives the usual dead pan acting while making sexy faces.  She is a horrible actor, period.  Morgan Freeman also graces this "epic" of unrealistic violence as the-of course-smart and wise elderly leader.  There isn't much to like about this movie, its all been done before countless times and the story is flimsy and makes little sense.  Don't watch this unless you really are simple minded.

A Movie This Bad Can't Be Made by Accident! It has to be a National Lampoon parody of how bad a bad movie can be. The humor is corny enough, the social milieu is sleazy enough, and the sly efforts to suggest a latent 'political correctness' are phony enough to qualify "Striptease" for main-time Fox Network TV. ...  "Ah, but then, there's Demi Moore!" Maybe. Are you sure it's her? If it's really Moore doing the high kicks and back bends around the porn-pole, then she's a much better dancer than an actress. It's conceivable that the whole sordid boring mess was created specifically for Ms Moore to show off her silicon, which she does abundantly, but hey, were your eyes focused on her face consistently enough to be sure it was indeed HER silicon? Would it matter whose silicon gets revealed? I mean, jell is jell! I suspect that Ms Moore's ladylike enunciation and prim manners wouldn't win her the camaraderie of the other pole-polishers backstage either. Nothing about this full frontal satire of America manhood and American power structures is close enough to the sordid realities to be funny.

no use Zero stars; negative-five stars. I like art movies with a strong signature - other things don't interest me much. But this one, like all too many of them, is nothing but a frontal attack on vitality and beauty.

Problems with the DVD If you buy this product, Please try to see the DVD at sooner at possible because... I left the guaranty pass and know I realize that it works well but in the middle... the DVD is cut.. And continue but with a huge split. so you lose part of the story.

Beware this is region B/2 This is a joke trying to pass it off as an US blu ray. This is region B locked UK blu ray. It will not play on your US player. Why are you trying to sell this off to a US site? complete rubbish!  US buyers will have to wait for the anchor bay release sometime in 2011/2012.

Really? Wow.What a 2 1/2 hr. waste of time. What a waste of good acting. Good thing I was sick that day anyway.

Worst movie ever After I did see The Notebook , I kind of fell in love in Rachel McAdams but this movie is a disaster. It is waster of 10 dollars and 2 hours time. I could not even see this movie in one shot..I had to pause and go back to my work on and off. Sheer waste of time and energy. Harrison Ford disappointed the whole movie and he was not at all needed for this movie. His worst performance ever.

Lousy Too many quick movements that jerk your joints around.  If you have joint problems, don't buy this video.  I wish I could return it.  I had another Prevention workout and that one was not great either.  I will stay away from Prevention workouts.

Is there as British spelling for C*R*A*P? Big Clunes fan, therefore had some expectation of entertainment. The flaccid porn pushing was first a surprise then an impediment , to coin a phrase, to take the humor seriously. The overall persona of the film story became VERY dark which gave a feeling one should be wearing a grungy raincoat and sitting on slightly sticky "art theatre" seating. Reflecting, the porn stuff had the flavor or the behind the scenes ones in "Death At A Funeral" if you get my drift. I have walked out of one or two films in my time - difficult to accomplish at home - we looked at each other, said "why" and turned it off 1/2 into part two. I may donate this to my local library for the tax deduction . . . . . or just toss it in the trash. Likely the latter.

Wrath of the Titans I downloaded in the US to watch after a flight over to Germany. I missed the 48 hour time limit I guess, it didn't work.   1 star because it wouldn't play, I hear it's good.

Rock Music & Yoga? Seriously? Really, rock music?  It's a way to ruin a potential good yoga workout.  Sorry folks, can't recommend it.

disappointed watch this on PC.  Reception terrible.  Saw Tom Jones when first released.  Shameful that you release such a dreadful transmission.

Really unfortunate! I am so grateful to have the opportunity to rate this product.  The first in this set of discs was perfect, so I threw away the paperwork for returning any later viewed discs - incorrectly assuming the rest would be perfect.  They were not!  This poor rating has nothing to do with the content.  I saw "The Wire" and it is a fantastic series!!  But every disc that I bought was of such poor quality: lengthy sections dmaaged and skipped and not viewable.  I tried the remaining discs (roughly 25 of them)in two televisions and three computers.  They were all damaged!  What a disappointment!  Im sure the vendor didn't intend to do this (vendor was rated 100% satisfaction!) but charging high prices for low quality just isn't right!  I hope this rating sends the message that quality control is very very important!  If I knew who I bought it from, I would never buy again. Really unfortunate!  Btw, I purchase quite a lot through Amazon and have had all perfect quality until this time.

Watch out for the price (update) This is a 5 star collection, but is currently selling on Amazon for more than the cost of buying the seasons individually.  As long as people support price gouging on sets like this, Amazon and others will try and get away with it.  Moral of the story - before you buy a high priced set, set what buying the elements individually would cost.  If the price for this comes back under control, I'll re-raise my rating to 5 stars. (see review below)  For me, this is the perfect set, as I think the first four seasons of ATHF were the strongest. It seems like since then they've been straining a bit to come up with great concepts.  There's no question this is an uneven show.  Some episodes don't work at all.  But that's more than made up for by those episodes that leave you laughing so hard you cry, while your brian quietly explodes at the insanity of it all.  While this has worn off for me a bit from when I was first enthralled by it's sheer dada-esque insanity, the best episodes still transcend to inspired levels of bizarre, gross, tweaked humor.  When your starting premise is a giant talking shake, fries, and wad of meat living in New  Jersey, how wrong can you go?  As far as my personal ratings, on a scale of 1 to 4...Season 1; `MC Pee Pants', `Love Mummy', `Dumber Dolls' ***1/2, `Escape from Leprecopolis', `Circus',***1/4 ; `Bus of the Undead', `Ol' Drippy',  `Revenge of the Moonanites', `Dumber Days', `Bad Replicant'***.  Remaining 8 episodes **1/2 or **3/4.  Season 2: `Mail Order Bride', `Universal Remonster',  `Super Bowl', `Super Squatter', `Super Spore', `Super Computer' ***1/4. `Super Birthday Snake',  `Super Sir Loin', `Meat Zone', `Super Trivia' ***.  Remaining 3 **3/4.  Season 3: The Clowning ***3/4, Total Recarl, The Last  One ***1/2, Revenge of the Trees, The Cloning, Broodwitch, The Cubing, The Shaving ***1/4,  Frat Aliens, The Dressing,  Remaining 2 **3/4.   Season 4 `Video Oija',`Dusty Gonzangas', `Hypno Germ' ***1/2,  `Unremarkable Voyage', `E-Dork', T-shirt of the Undead', `Spacegate World' ***1/4,  `Gee Whiz', `Little Brittle',***, remaining 4 **/34 or **1/2.  If you like strange, gonzo humor (Monty Python would be my generation's touchstone) and/or out-there adult animation, you owe it to yourself to give this a try -- and give it a couple of episodes to let your head get into what the creators are doing.

Don't Overpay Don't get me wrong. I love ATHF. But you can buy all the individual sets cheaper than in this collection, (at least at the time of this note) so why pay extra? It's not like you're getting more material, or even special packaging. Don't be seduced by price gouging!

Mean Streets After (re-seeing) Taxi Driver recently, I was eager to see Mean Streets on satellite.  After 25 minutes, I couldn't stand it anymore, and deleted it.  This movie is drivel, about a group of worthless losers who somehow think that their pathetic lives are important to anyone but themselves.  Yes, there are some stylistic similarities to Taxi Driver (along with some of the same actors, of course), but the result is dramatically different.  I am guessing that a good bit of the dialogue in this movie was improvised, but in order for that to be a success, it would need to have some reasonable framework to hang on.  This movie is tedious, a total waste of time.  It may be that "students of film" find this movie worthy of study, but it's a clunker.

complete waste of money this is what you call complete b.s. as in that is even an understatement. whoever made this should seriously consider another job like any job at all. i mean seriously it is simply horrible. whoever wrote the script did horribly. whoever did the animation messed the entire thing up. i mean the snow looks like dough and just cut the crap with the excessive music. it looks like a messed up video game. and i'm pretty sure alligator don't snap their jaws like that. i mean i had to watch this with my nephews and i seriously considered breaking the tv. i mean it. it IS that BAD. Don't let the pack deceive you!!!!!!!!!

tai chi fan I bought this product because it had good ratings,HOWEVER, it was awful. The video, i know would be used, came not fully wound. The  pictures were blurry. I COULD NOT rewind it( had sooo much fuzzy lines ) or even pause/still it.

Cranford Return to Cranford I bought this particualr DVD not realising that it was zone 1, however have an American friend with a zone 1 DVD player and we started to watch it...the quality is truely terrible.  The colours are dreadfully enhanced, the screen rolls..don't buy it.  I have since however purchased a zone 2, and am now able to enjoy this delightful production. An evening in the company of the characters of Cranford is most pleasantly spent!

I can't believe I wasted my night watching this film I have to agree with most of everything that has been said. The story is not there. It makes not sense. Gruesome murders of parents, suicide and torture by neglected children who vow to get revenge on their absent parents. The ultimate temper-tantrum. "We are  brats and monsters because you made us this way."  I can't believe this movie made $2,000,000. The producer must have laughed all the way to the bank. Don't waste you time or money on this one.

BAD This was a bad film with a bad script with terrible directing and the worst performance from Pattinson and Thurman that I have seen. Please do not bother.

Foot loose I receive this movie on a plain DVD with no cover. It was in a envelope with the title written on it. Was not in any form of original packaging. Could not give as a gift!.

Unlogic film - I'm glad I didn't watch the movie Hmmm, where to start... I stopped watching this movie after 15 minutes. [spoilers] Whty would a company invest hundreds of thousands of dollars to build a ship to fly to another star system just to land at the first place they can find? Why not sending robots into the newly discovered location? Why putting people into the team that will definitely cause trouble... It's all an illogical mess.  The good thing: The visuals are stunning :)  Don't waste your money!

A New Camp Classic Or Just Plain Painful: Lovers Of Bad Movie Mayhem Unite Has the world been clamoring for a movie about parkour or freerunning, an acrobatic style of moving through areas densely populated with obstacles? There is no doubt that since its inception in France, the FreeRunning movement has been gaining traction in some urban markets--but can you really make a movie about it? Or perhaps the better question is, should you? Whatever the answer may be, we've got "Freerunner." I'm going to be particularly blunt in my evaluation of "Freerunner" as a movie. With amateur theatrics, nonsensical plotting, blatant errors in continuity and timing, and head-scratching dialogue--the movie is a bizarre disaster. Feel free to call me names now. But with some well choreographed sequences, does it achieve what it set out to do? Probably. I doubt anyone here really thought they were serving up a new classic, they were only interested in showcasing Freerunning as a phenomenon. As such, certain action segments are quite successful.  The movie's so-called plot revolves around an established group of racing freerunners fronted by a low-level hood. Sean Faris, playing an idealist hoping to establish his new life, bets everything on what he hopes will be his last race. The movie begins as the race progresses with jumping, fighting, and general mayhem. But things take a sinister turn. I actually would not reveal the plot development that transforms the movie at the 30 minute mark--it is the film's biggest moment. But any surprise has already been destroyed by the film's marketing, product description, and DVD cover. So, I'll be vague and say that the race turns into a scramble for life itself as unscrupulous billionaires hijack the proceedings for inhuman sport. The rest is a fairly entertaining, fairly brainless race to the finish. Who will survive?  Here's the real deal, though. I'm not sure if I think "Freerunner" is just bad or if it is gloriously and brilliantly bad catapulting it to a whole other level worthy of respect. It really does border on being a possible camp classic. Here are some highlights:  The Good: Good choreography--racing and fighting Explosions  The Bad: Faris' awkward narration about friendship that opens and closes the movie Rebecca da Costa's brutally wooden performance as Faris' girlfriend The most ridiculous batch of billionaires imaginable Rules of game consistently change--you can be driven to a checkpoint in a freerunning competition? Pretty much the entire script and all dialogue. Six people share credit for the screenplay!  So Bad, It's Good: They sell the car, but da Costa is driving it several minutes later. With 20 minutes left to the race, they want to put henchmen on Faris. Next scene (with no time elapsed), he automatically has people chasing him. Danny Dyer as the primary villain, always a delight Pretty much the entire script and all dialogue. I repeat, six people!  I have no doubt some people will think "Freerunner" is the worst movie of the year, and with good cause. But is there brilliance to the badness? I'm still not sure. If you think the movie sounds terrible, stay far away--nothing in the actual film will change your mind. If you don't particularly care about logic or acting or screenwriting, but just like action--this may meet your needs. And if you love bad movie mayhem, this may also be worth your investment. KGHarris, 10/11.

different case The 1 star is for the movie. The case that Amazon shows is not the case that you receive! The case is the old version not the new one as seen in the pic. Come on Amazon! If you are selling something, the show the right item!

poor disc quality I purchased "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" AND "How to Marry a Millionaire".  Gentlemen skipped, and had poor picture quality as well.  Totally unwatchable.  How to Marry was somewhat less a mess but still not pleasant to watch.

Is "Horrible Movie" taken? Why, yes it already has been. Horrible Bosses represents exactly why I should watch the trailer before seeing a mainstream, Hollywood film nowadays. I haven't been paying too much attention to new releases lately, so when I saw the poster of the flick I thought it looked neat. Kevin Spacey is a great actor, and he was great as a horrible boss in "Swimming With Sharks." I imagined this film would be something similar to that, but crossed with something more accessible like Office Space.  What I didn't expect was the actual film. Spacey, Aniston and Farrell are good, okay and weak in their roles, respectively. They are barely in the movie compared to what I expected. They may have about 20 minutes of screen time put together. The rest of the film centered around the bumbling hijinks of Bateman, Day (in an extremely annoying performance) and Sudekis (in a suprisingly annoying performance) that just felt like The Hangover. I didn't hate The Hangover, but I hated this film. And so did my roommate and his girlfriend. We watched this film together, and I don't think I've ever hit the stop button as quickly as I did in this film when the credits began to roll. And my roommate and his girlfriend had exited the living room within the same ten seconds. The next day I apologized for renting the film, they accepted and we all had a good laugh. Laughter is the best medicine, especially after a piece of crap like this film.  One star, and that is for Spacey's first two scenes. Even Aniston was trashy in it. And Farrell looked like he was sleepwalking.  Did you know that Jamie Foxx is in this movie? Yeah, I didn't even know either.

Crom laughs at this flick I never thought I would say this but this movie makes the original Conan the Barbarian movie look like a major academy awards winner. Once you get past the nice sets, there's no heart or soul. It's like Star Wars, with characters so thin that if they turn sideways, they disappear. Even the music is forgettable. Give us motives, theology and a feeling of popular culture next time. As much as they ripped off from the original flick, you'd think this would be a winner, but except for the born on the battlefield scene, this goes rapidly nowhere much. I always thought I could write and direct a Conan movie and now I know I could do better than this. Crom on his mountain laughs at this movie and so do I.

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What Garbage! Wow. All I can say is: Don't. Waste. Your. Money. Don't borrow it, don't rent it. Don't waste your time. No plot. No acting. No continuity. Why didn't I pay attention to the other reviews?

Disgraceful version of a true classic I have watched every episode of the original series and the revival series created by the late Dan Curtis believing that they are outstanding without a peer to compare to.  Dark Shadows 'the movie' with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter is awful in character changes, dialogue and casting.  The writers should be chained in coffins and the keys to the locks thrown away.  The music is a horrible distraction and not worthy of Robert Cobert, who was the musical genius of the original series, the two movies out of the original series and the revival.  Gothic romance and slow developing horror is substituted here for fast paced special effects that do unjustice to building suspense.  While I normally am a fan of Mr. Depp and Ms. Bonham Carter;  neither could save such an empty, modernized distortion of a true classic.  If you are have been unfortunate, like I believe I am, in purchasing this version and watching it, please take the disc out of the case and use it for bird cage liner.  Your friends will thank you for this, but your bird will give you the bird.  If you are reading this considering whether you should purchase this, I suggest you do not buy it.  Buy the original series in the coffin version, buy the two movies from the original series and buy the rival series which to me was the greatest of all, but pass on buying Dark Shadows the movie starring Johnny Depp.

This video was hard to watch. The technical aspects of the video itself were fine. I do enjoy PBS documentaries. But I don't want the public to believe that this is the norm for assistance dog training. I was alarmed to see these poorly trained young dogs representing service dogs as a whole. I couldn't believe these dogs were considered to be ready for placement. It was shocking to watch these large puppies turned loose to romp in a room full of disabled adults and children. One mother tried to pull her son out of the way before two dogs ran over him.  As compared to Canine Assistants, many other organizations use outside puppy-raisers. This policy allows the puppies better socialization and adaptability to a home setting, but it also offers the trainers a bit of emotional distance from the dogs. Some dogs don't make the cut into final training in other organizations. According to Canine Assistant's website, however, few of their dogs are rejected. In this video, we meet Nala, a dog who demonstrates the necessity to be objective. As a nervous animal, she should never have made it into a training program. Having raised and trained her since she was born, perhaps her trainers let their affection for her cloud their judgement. Ironically, the dog whose placement was disrupted after a few weeks is the cover-dog for this video.  It's a dog training-wreck. Watch as a dog who is supposedly ready for placement fails his command to open a door. You'll see every single dog that is paired on the first day fail to respond to a single command. You can watch as a dog that is supposedly trained to work with someone in a wheelchair continually switches sides as they stroll through a mall. My sincerest hope is that no one is injured by one of these half-trained animals.  I am disappointed that PBS didn't do a little more research.

Nortorious The DVD was damaged.  The movie stopped at the most important moment of the movie.  I returned the DVD. I was very disappointed.

Region codes Be sure to look carefully in the search results to determine what Region Code a DVD is being sold for.  Also, check in the body of the write up of a DVD (under the picture) to make sure it is good for your region.  You will not find that information in MovieMars's "Seller Information".  The DVD I received was brand new and unwrapped and unusable.  MovieMars will give me a refund if I return the DVD.  Since that will not even cover mailing it, I will chalk this up to "lessons learned".

Damaged DVD, no response I received this item loose in the case.  The DVD was damaged beyond repair.  I have emailed Movie Mars and have not received a response.  I have submitted this issue to Amazon for resolution.

redefines unconvincing the main character is such a weiner that you will wish his dad had been more mean to him when he was younger. his transformation into hard man action guy is something to behold in a "see how many ways we can make this not work" kind of way. ***spoiler alert*** the twist on the twist at the end - sheesh. imagine if rambo had got to vietnam to rescue the gi joes who'd been left behind and it turned out the evil mastermind behind everything had been his own mum. that's the kind of twist we're talking about here. i will say, if you enjoy watching slow motion car crashes then you will get something out of this. i thought i was one of those people but this film has taught me a lesson.

Beware of this one! "This one" refers to the [supposedly] remastered DVD edition of A2zcds. I just bought it and IT IS AWFUL! Ditto for the soundtrack. The picture quality is equal to that of a bad video. Dark and murky and full of "moth holes".[Large white spots, commonly referred to as snow]. For the first 40 minutes or so, it was hard to figure out what was going on, or who was who, as the picture was so bad that one just couldn't see, never mind make out details. On top of that, lovely Geraldine Brooks was very unfavourable photographed and Glenn Ford looked as though he hadn't slept for days. [Which may not be that far from the truth --]. During the lengthy chase scene up the mountain side at the end, it is so dark that you just have to guess what's going on. And naturally, one thinks it is night time. But no, suddenly we're in broad daylight. Or maybe the moon came up real bright or something. But by that time you don't care anymore, since the whole thing is a mess anyway. Aside from the technical flaws, the scrip leaves a lot to be desired also. It is all over the place and utterly confusing. Should you still want to buy this DVD, there are 3 photographs on the back of the box the disc comes in. In one photo one can just barely make out who's on it. The other two are just black, or nearly so. That will give you a pretty good idea of what the movie is like. Well, you win some, you lose some. And this one is a dead loss. A waste of time and money.

As bad as a movie gets!!! Louis Malle did many great films!  Zazie, Lacombe Lucien to name a few!  What on Earth was he thinking when he made this piece of surrealist garbage?!?  At that moment, he had reached his limit!  I am only too happy that he gave it up and directed wonderful movies such as Au revoir les enfants and Atlantic City afterward!  Watch before you buy!

Picture Quality I would not recommend purchasing the "HD" version of this movie.  I paid an extra $2.00 to upgrade quality and was very disappointed.  The picture was blurry and I could even make out the individual block pixels, something that should be unheard of with respect to HD.

Disappeared from ROKU These episodes...all of Season 4 have disappeared from my streaming device. How can I get them back? This is how I watch them! Thanks!

Low-budget, predictable writing, corny moments, all over the place I'll keep this review short; but I picked this Blu-Ray up at Fry's Electronics, because I saw it was in the bargain section for only $5.99. I figured a Blu-Ray for $6 was a great deal, and I happen to be interested in 9/11-related movies & documentaries, plus the quote on the front compared it to 'United 93', which was a great movie. So I was sold.  While watching the movie, it started to become apparent that the story predictable writing with corny dialogue. I don't know if it was "predictable" to me given that I had already read the 9/11 Commission Report, but I doubt it. But a lot of the dialogue was just silly.  Someone else here said it was "atrocious" acting - and while it may seem like that at first, I'm also aware that poor production & direction can make otherwise good actors look bad. I thought some of the actors were good, and that the bad elements of the movie overall was a mix of bad writing, directing, and bad acting.  The movie was all over the place, jumping scene to scene, and it just wasn't very interesting. I wanted to give it 2 stars as I was trying to find some redeeming quality of the film, but I just couldn't.

Lamest movie I have ever seen!  NOT a family movie! This is definitely NOT a family movie.  Lots of weddings but also lots of infidelity going on and the "cowboy"  falls in love - telling 3 different women he loves them in a short period of time.  I just didn't get it. I mean, I got that the sick lady was an angel and that at the very end she says she didn't come for HIM and insinuated that she came for her girlfriend but how is that possible????  That she could be the best friend with an angel and know nothing about her.  I didn't like this movie and I usually like anything I watch.  This movie made no sense including the title.  The main male character wasn't even a cowboy although he did own a few hats.  Strange, waste of time, waste of money.

5 star movie BUT they accidentally put compressed DTS instead of DTS-MA audio file on disc The movie itself is awesome, one of a number of the very well done Branaugh Shakespeare films.  And it has a very cute, very young Kate Beckinsale. One of her earlier roles. Nobody seemed to know who she was then back in '93. But I told everyone that would NOT be the case for long. And that sure proved to be the case. Who has not heard of her now?  The blu-ray video transfer seems to be pretty solid. Not much EE and maybe no DNR. Nice. A little bit of dirt and scratches but whatever, it's no worse than in the theater and it's refreshng to not get titles mangled by tons of EE and Waxy DNR.  I would give it a 5 star BUT they made a ridiculous mistake and copied the DTS 256k core track to the disc instead of the DTS-HD MA track (including baseline DTS 256k heavily compressed core)!! An absurd mistake! The packaging even promised uncompressed master quality DTS-HD MA! So to bring this to their attention I give this one star for a ridiculous mistake in creating the commercial master. And really bad since they already had people point this out to them from the Canadian release and they didn't bother to copy over the proper audio file for the US release even knowing it was bungled!  So the movie itself is 5 stars, the blu-ray video call it 4-5 stars but the audio is 0 stars for a terrible bungle that makes it no better than VHS audio at best and a 1 star overall for not bothering to check the title before release in Canada and then failing to fix it for US release and still lying about it on the packaging.  I mean the low quality audio file is hardly end of the world but it's something the studios should be held account for.

Exceptionally Poor Quality Reproduction The 1968 BBC performance of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" was terrific.  Unfortunately, as others have noted by others here, the quality of this reproduction of that performance is abysmal.  Absolutely abysmal.  THe color is uneven and faded, and the sound uneven as well.  It is most unfortunate that this fine production by a sterling cast should be so degraded in this edition.  This is a movie which really is in want and need of a proper treatment.    This version is not such a treatment.

So bad it's BAD! I got this hoping it would be so bad it would be good. Turns out it's so bad it's just plain old BAD!  In many ways it pointless trying to apply rational criticism to a film like this, nevertheless... dreadful script (including lines such as 'I managed to speak with one of the only survivors!'), dire acting, utterly unrealistic sets and about six SFX shots just repeated endlessly. All extremely amateurish. Oh, and what was all that black and white flash-cutting about?  The one thing I couldn't work out was whether the film is deliberately being ironic or is meant to be taken at face value. Either way, I couldn't care less.  Maybe if you've downed a bottle of wine, are in giggly mood and with friends, it might be fun. Otherwise, and to repeat myself: plain old rubbish!

WASTE OF TIME Perhaps my dim view of this movie is because I cannot seem to get hold of Argento movies.  In any case this one gets boring instead of better. After a dynamite murder scene early on, the ensuing scenes are far too dark and the music extremely loud. I will bore the reader no further as my title for this review speaks clearly enough.

A Waste..... I like low budget horror, Blair Witch, Paranormal Activity, Paranormal Entity and so on. However I just didn't get this, the set up was there, the acting was well, acceptable, but the camera work and directing was terrible, at times it felt like it wanted to be a hand held camera film, then it would move to a mounted camera and your standard acting fair. The premise was well thought out but such a terrible execution, no horror at all, no goosebumps, just a mild chuckle that I had wasted just over an hour and 30 minutes for possibly the worst ending to a horror, made even worse by the poorly buried head that any half decent Sheriff would have found!  However is giving the move 5 Stars and saying it's really scary have clearly never seen another horror film, or are in fact friends and family of the director!  Don't buy, don't watch, just ignore all the mock hype, nothing new here, nothing special and for sure nothing scary!

Not for young children! I can't believe this film is rated PG. It is way too dark, serious and scary for young kids. We have PG13s that are more appropriate. I'm sure this movie is "visually stunning," but it doesn't make up for dark plot as owls kidnapped and forced into slavery in the name of what could be seen as a cult.

More crap from Romero You know how you've been eating steak and chicken cordon bleu and salmon for a while and suddenly you crave something really greasy and unhealthy from a Mexican restaurant? Well, this film is the equivalent of barbacoa.  Quite simply, this film is basically a vehicle for the enjoyment of low-IQ people, showing revolting dismemberment of people.  However, the plot is that a city has been turned into a refuge for humans from the zombies. There is an exploting capitalist in charge, with his trained army, there is the underclass and, outside, you have the exploited proletariat zombies. Well, the proletariat suddenly become somewhat smart and rise in a Revolution against their exploiters, marching and entering the city (they couldn't sing the International in the process because they were inarticulate; oh, well, can't have everything). The military defenders of the city are inept and more stupid than the brain dead zombies, certainly as stupid as Romero. The zombies finally penetrate towards the heart of the city, an opulent building/mall where all the decadent capitalist exploiters live and they eat the rich (something a Marxist once advocated in the US during the Seventies). You got all the cliches there; at the end, the exploiting capitalist (Dennis Hopper) gets killed by a combination of the black leader of the proletariat zombies AND a representative of the city's underclass (Mexican) as Hopper (the WASP) tries to leave the mayhem with bags of money (just what is he going to do with it? put it in a Swiss bank account?). An explosion occurs and Hopper dies and the money is burnt. Justice prevails. Towards the end, the black proletariat zombie and the working class hero cross paths, but they go their separate ways in dignity, with respect towards each other.  What's more revolting, the plot, or the gore? You choose.

Terrible, terrible, terrible My wife and I started to watch What a Girl Wants because of Colin Firth who was fine but the movie as a whole was terrible. We struggled through about 30 minutes before switching the channel. Amanda Bynes was extremely irritating as the daughter. This movie is about on a par with the teen shows on the Disney Channel. I am very disappointed because the premise was good but the execution was not.

video doesn't work in usa mars doesn't realize when they see a usa adress so they send a different county move to usa  i will not ever order moves from them again

Brokeback Mountain DVD One of the more lousy movies out there. It is always interesting to see how non-cowboy/western people believe everything Hollywood puts out there for viewers who believe their spin on things of which the general public know little to nothing about. Perhaps, these viewers believe these fallacies because this is what they want to believe instead of beliefs based on unbiased facts. That being said, the large majority of "cowboy" representation in this movie is a farce. I mean really, what is Hollywood after here? Reality based on facts is certainly not being represented in this rendition.

Oooohhhhh...  I get it.  You're a drunk. I loved this show for a couple of years.  After the first few seasons though I realized that it's the same crap over and over.

A weak attempt at a classic For fans of the worlds of Frank Herbert's "Dune" this is a sorry exercise and a total waste of film. Hopefully the 3 disc saga put to film by the Sci-Fi channel (directed by John Harrison) will get the full Blu-ray treatment. In the meantime I'll wait. Thanks but no thanks

Great movie, TERRIBLE DVD The film I believe is a 4 or 5 star, depending on your love of 80's horror.  But this is almost a worst case scenario for DVD.  Full screen, the image looks like first gen VHS at BEST.  I'm not even an aplha nerd, but there's no reason for this picture quality.  THEN, there's the extras.  There are none.  NOTHING.  I'm surprised they even have a menu.  Your option is start, or chapter select. I don't know what the market is for this film, but I know it's a very good film, and a decent sequel to the seminal first installment. With the first being remade, you'd think it would have been enough to spur a bit of a renewed interest in this film.  Guess not.  SEE the film, but I'd rent it.

The sound track was out of sync I am a huge Christopher Guest fan so I have all of his movies and I bought this to round out the set. I was greatly disappointed because the soundtrack was sadly out of sync. I saw the original in a theater and this was not Guest's intention.

W T H  Was I Thinking? The title pretty much says it all.  The trailer was more entertaining than the movie.  Definitely a loser of a movie, and $0.99 for the rental would have left me feeling cheated, so now I feel cheated four times over for $3.99 rental.  Want to waste $4.00 and save yourself some time, then throw your money in a river and walk away.

A Great Story Ruined By War Porn and Medical Experiment Gore I'm starting to truly believe that a large segment of the human race (mostly male) has a defective gene. This defective gene causes a love of gruesome violence and a total lack of concern for the suffering of others. This gene also promotes binary thinking - the guy with the white hat is good and the guy with the black hat is bad. There's no in-between. And if there is - who cares!  A certain segment of Hollywood knows how to precisely exploit this genetic weakness and billions of dollars pour into their bank accounts. Telling a good story is a lost cause for this segment of the population. Show as much blood, guts, torture and torment as possible. It's such a formula recipe, it could be written on the back of a matchbook cover: Blood, guts, action = BILLIONS, year in, and year out! Why didn't I think of that?  If you love oceans of blood, vomiting, heads and limbs popping off of bodies with regularity, a graphic torture chamber used for medical experiments and repeated attempts at cutting off someone's arm - then District 9 is for you! And there is also ZERO sexuality in this film. (Why am I not surprised?)  The only reason I didn't walk out was because I wanted to see if the good guys were going to win in the end. I did actually care about the main characters and the gruesome violence made watching District 9 all that much sadder and annoying to watch.  THIS NOT A FILM FOR CHILDREN!! If the images shown do not disturb your children, I suggest they need to get some help. THIS IS A WAR PORN MOVIE! It exploits the audience, plain and simple!  Beside feeling sad, I felt empty when I left the theater. Lucky for me I was able to sneak into another movie and watch it for free. It showed only a single act of serious (and accidental) violence and that story was an absolute delight! Too bad Hollywood doesn't make more great movies that actually entertain instead of making films that are so depressing and annoying!  See:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1475075049">Save Me the Aisle Seat: The Good, the Bad and the Really Bad Movies: Selected Reviews by an Online Film Reviewer</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1456312812">What's A Nice Actor Like You Doing In A Movie Like This?: The ultimate guide to the most embarrassing movies in history, and the celebrities who appeared in them.</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1446522814">War, Sadism and Pacifism - Further Essays on Group Psychology and War</a>and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/076791547X">Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present</a>

What? What is this movie about? Communism? Mediocrity? This has to be the worst movie I have ever watched. I cannot even describe how bad it is. I can't believe there are good reviewers. Maybe those who made the movie. I cannot think of anyone in their right mind who could give a positive review.

White Lightning Buyer Beware. I share the same opinion as Cisco/Dec 2011. This company did not advertise the DVD as being a Zone 2 which will not play anywhere in the USA. Sending the item back is not worth the freight charges.

boring cephalods Towards the end of this mind numbing piece of mysogonistic crap...a lil more on that later, we get to see some hentai tentacle porn.  Its cthulhu folks but not as we were hoping for...  the monsters are oversized calamari. And the poor little rich girl gets to be carted around by this skinny bloke with the most ridiculous chest hair I have ever seen becuase he kept her passport and tickets then was robbed by a mexican lass. Daddy could of sent a chopper for her but oh no skinny photographer with no hair on his belly but copious chest hair who canno speako espanol is supposed to guide her ffs watch skyline instead at least you will get some action... People who hate Skyline will love this as they will say it is intelligent sci fi....well you are the same people who think The Social Network is the best film ever because David Fincher directed it and because Zuckerwhatsisface is a genius.  And every little rich girl wants to be saved by a pushy skinny photographer who practically demands he has sex with her, and maybe she should of because then her passport would not of been stolen and she wouldnt of had to spend any more time with him.

And Bigfoot Wins Babysitter of the Year Like his other videos, Elvis Found Alive and Paul McCartney Really Is Dead, Joel Gilbert has concocted another 100% fictional piece of junk to fuel the nuts who want to delegitimize a strong president. That an individual peddles these conspiracy fallacies is one thing but that someone other than his mother believes a word of it highlights the sad state part of our country is in. The good news? An oddity like this works in an unintended way; it further compartmentalizes the radicals who perpetuate such paltry myths.

the phantom DVD would not play in my region. In future would like item be clearly labeled as to what region is compatable.

Too much hype I was really excited to watch this movie. The previews were pretty awesome but once i saw it I was left wanting back the time I spent watchig it. The best parts are in the trailer. It felt like some aweful indie film. The acting was great, just the story (it had potential) and how it came off through the lense was not decent enough.

Worst mission impossible. Most horrible big budget action flick I have ever seen. Half the movie is in slomotion. Horrible acting and bad directing. Skip it

Misleading Title The title "Gothic Cathedrals" is misleading. Only the fist 10-15 minutes are spent on explaining the architecture and some of the (theological) meaning. However, only very few minutes are spent, for instance, on the Cathedral in Chartres - one of the most significant cathedrals. The main part (some 30+ minutes) deals with the National Cathedral in Washington DC, built in a "neogothic" style in the 20th century. If you seek information on gothic cathedrals in general, this video/dvd is a waste of time. Of you seek information on the National Cathedral it might be worth the while.

Must miss The Farelly Brothers were fighting bad writing, bad acting, lousy editing and Larry David.  The high points were Will Sasso and Sean Hayes; they were dead-on hits as Curly and Larry.  The rest of the cast made a just so-so movie about these Three Legends truly awful.  At times, it was like trying to watch a Stooges short that featured Joe DeRita instead of The Legend himself, Curly.  A real shame, too.

Almost the worst BD DVD ever I have only seen one other bellydancer who was worse than these two (dancer and assistant), and that was Janine Rabbit (wife of Eddie Rabbit).  Don't waste your time one this DVD.  The instructor had no idea what she was doing.  She called omis yummies, he posture was off and her technique was slobby.  Don't get me started on her assistant!  Buy a different DVD, Jillina, Neon, Asyua, Neena/Veena, to name a few.

Not a wholesome old family movie, and not typical Hitchcock Is this movie exciting? Yes. But if you, like my wife and I, like to watch old Hitchcock movies because they are usually clean and wholesome, this film will very much disappoint you because of one scene. Following such strained script lines that you will want to cringe, which no woman in her right mind would ever utter, the primary female character brazenly states lustful intentions for a total stranger, whom she obviously knows is wanted by the police. Next, the two hop in bed together. Though nothing is graphically shown, it is quite obvious what has happened. She does it to seduce him as a spy, and to neatly arrange his death, and he willingly accepts like a dumb animal being led to the slaughter.  He narrowly escapes death as a result, bringing to my mind the words of wise old King Solomon:  "Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes, for the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread, and the adulteress preys upon your very life. Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned? Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched?"  Perhaps that embarrassing scene was an effort on the part of Hitchcock to appear as  part of the trendy new sexual revolution. I am glad that most of his films are not like that! 4 points for an otherwise exciting and well crafted film. Three points off for the unrealistic dialogue of that very strained scene, which for us, ruined what would have otherwise been a good movie.

DVD Quality This product did not perform up to the standards that I feel are acceptable.  This DVD stopped severals times and completely stopped a couple of times.  I feel that this particular DVD is an inferior product.

Man as a beast This movie's production values were ok.  No more than that.  This movie showed men to basically be no more than animals and not God the Creators finest creation.  Men were shown to be cowardly and totally without any creative thought process.  Women were shown as submissive vessels for a man's primitive urge and nothing more.  There was no Eve here.  If the producer of this movie chooses to say evolution is a fact and not just some theory then I still can't agree with his vision.  I believe women are born with the inate sense that they control men with their so called feminine wiles or does he also think that this is something that evolved?  If men were cowardly and unreasoning brutes then how did they survive in the world that this producer thinks was real?  No, I saw no value in this movie of any sort not even as a mildly entertaining adventure yarn.  Ugh!

Fine if you like to watch men kissing men The story was interesting and engaging, but I stopped watching when they portrayed a man kissing another man romantically.  Not my cup of tea.  If you like that sort of thing, this will likely be a good choice for you.  If you don't like that sort of thing, be prepared for a surprise "yuck" factor.  NOTE: This was accidentally posted on the Season 2 review.  I have reposted this under Season 1 where it belongs.  I am leaving the accidental Season 2 review in place because of all the dialogue it generated.

Really Terrible Movie I saw this one in the theater and hated it. I was told it was an action film. It is not...it is terribly slow. It was pointless and boring.

I have not received Short Eyes I received a notice of some sort, but I have not received the DVD of Short Eyes.  It's hard to rate it at this point.

Don't buy blu ray version Love this movie, but I am totally unsatisfied with the quality of the blu ray version...beware  the blu ray version is no better than the cheaper DVD version and the movie completely stopped 5 minutes before the ending.  I guess blu ray no longer means 1080p.

Stupid & Annoying Movie!! Fred The Movie is based on a Youtube character name Fred Figglehorn created by Lucas Cruikshank who used to be the one who has the most subscribers on Youtube. Fred has a high pitched voice and speaks very fast and he will give you a headache. Fred is very creepy and annoying. He has very awkward temper tantrums like he is diagnosed with high functioning autism.  Fred (Lucas Cruikshank) falls in love with Judy (Pixie Lott), and attempts to get Judy fall in love with him back. Fred gets upset because his enemy Kevin (Jake Weary) hangs out with Judy and tries to keep Fred away from Judy. Fred tries to get to Judy's house, whenever he got to her house, he realized Judy has moved to a new house. Fred plans a journey to find Judy. Fred is very creepy and annoying.  I think this movie is very annoying, stupid and unwatchable for adults. I had a terrible headache watching this entire movie, I CAN'T STAND LISTENING FRED SCREAMING THROUGHOUT THE MOVIE. It's one of the most annoying movies in my life. Kids would laugh and love this movie, but adults wouldn't. I would not recommend this movie at all. Thumbs down.

Refuse top finance ABC Season 2 ends with a huge cliff hanger that is an absolute embarrassment to ABC and it's writers. There is no season 3, the show was cancelled. They royally screwed us over, and please do not give them your money. Please don't buy this horrible show of respect to loyal fans of a once great franchise.

AVOID THIS RELEASE! Echo Bridge's release of Halloween H20 is severly comprimised and should be avoided. First, this release is not in the original aspect ratio.  Originally released theatrically at 2.35:1 (per imdb), this Blu-ray includes a cropped 1.78:1 aspect ratio Second, the only audio option is a DTS-HD 2.0 stereo mix, as opposed to the 5.1 mix included as part of the original dvd release from December 1999!  Additionally, there are no subtitle options for the hearing impaired. Lastly, there are no special features whatsoever. So, let's see, no OAR, comprimised audio, no subs, no special features.  Remind me again why anyone would by this rush cash grab by Echo Bridge?

Harry Potter Rip Off I was extremely excited to purchase this product, however; when it arrived the case was cracked.  Okay, that's not really a big deal, but as I watched the movies I noticed that there were scenes missing from them.  As a huge Harry Potter fan, I was extremely disappointed.  By the time you get to movies 6 through 8, there is either no sound, the sound skips, the picture lags & freezes, the screen goes blank...  These are only a few of the problems with these.  Don't buy these unless you enjoy being scammed and wasting your money.

tempest - garbage - SAD - LAZY version of a great play. DREADFUL/LAZY version of this difficult Shakespeare play. Plummer can not help here - and i remain a fan. a shameful waste of time and cash for you and I -- at least we did not have to pay more to see this live in San Diego.  DO NOT BUY - read instead! Sadly there remains not a single decent version of this great work.

Dont Waste Your Time and Money There is nothing thrilling about this movie, it was just a fatal attraction between the housemaid and her rich employer. She did not get anything out of the relationship and ended up killing herself. If you call that a sweet revenge, I call that stupidity. Sorry , I have nothing good to say about the actors because I have seen a better movie.

Propaganda made from  Other Mainstream Propaganda. The links drawn in this documentary are little more than a compilation of  Fabrications that were created by Government Intelligence Services and the Corporate Media that does their bidding.  If someone wants to learn the real facts about 9/11,  this is not the place to find them.  I wouldn't be surprised if Friedman was on the payroll of the same propaganda machine.  Science, history and Logic run contrary to this documentary.  If you want to be confused by lies, shoddy story lines and connections that never really existed,  then this film is for you,  or you could read a book by Peter Lance.  I give this ZERO stars for its ZERO value.  Search for a film called ZERO: An investigation into 911 if you want hard facts.  Thank You.

Not for kids! This movie was boring and had nothing to hold you to continue watching but I did. The ending was the only part of the movie that had a point. But this movie is NOT for kids, too many adult statements and crude remarks. Really it was a waste of my time.

NOT THE  UNCUT VERSION I am waiting for the uncut version to arrive somewhere in the world. The UK version has 49 censor cuts according to one seller on the internet.Censorship is an insult to our intelligence.

Was it someone's intention to make a movie this bad? I agree with many that maybe they should have just tried to make a modern-day movie of "Bewitched" with Samantha, Darrell, and the obvious recognized cast names from the original TV series.  Making a movie about some pansy actor who wanted to make a movie about an old TV series, and then meeting a real witch was far beyond the realm of creative cinematic expectation. It's like, they wanted to take a tangible idea of re-making something familiar, and then going to distance to really make it so stupid that people will walk out the theatre angry as hell for wasting their time and money.  Did Nicole Kidman and Michael Caine read the script or even get the gest of the film before they committed to participating in the film, or were they unfortunately stuck to someone's forced demeaning legal contract that insists that they have to do this film?  This is the kind of film that could destroy the careers of already established actors.  Will Farrel, I couldn't care less about.  He always does something stupid for films anyway. Stupid stuff like this, sounds like his dumb concept world anyway.  I have yet to see a Will Ferrel movie that IS funny, or that I would at least say "....was okay, I guess."  But No! This movie sucked beyond belief.  For me, I haven't really enjoyed very many situation comedy movies since the eighties anyway.

Overrated Who doesn't like hot lesbians? ...but only the LGBT community really appreciates the "issues & challenges" in this series, so ...no universal, long term appeal.  This is just another niche series for a niche audience.  Years from now, it will be forgotten.

Where are the speeches??? You would think thst this DVD would actually have the speech for JFK's inauguration. All it really is is an old news clip you would see in a movie theatre in the 50's with narration talking over it. Home made...dont buy!

We stopped watching about half-way through Don't waste your money. Not appropriate for children and definitely did not keep my little one's interest at all. It will be in our garage sale in a few days!

Completely UnBiblical. A Pagan Fantasy This movie, while full of great acting, is nothing but a fairy tale presented with just enough fact to fool those who have never read the Gospels. Jesus is shown to be nothing more than a man whose whole wisdom and knowledge is gained not from God but from Mary. If this movie is to be believed then by taking her out of the picture Jesus would of been nothing, let alone the all knowing Son of God. The most disrespectful part of this movie, which is full of disrespect for God, is early on when the young Jesus doesn't even know he is God's only begotten Son. Watch this if you want a good story, but keep in mind that it is nothing more than that, a fairy tale.

Not widescreen Should have looked closer as this is not widescreen.  Can't watch this on HD tv as the picture is distorted.

DEFECTIVE PRODUCT 2nd time trying to buy this movie. Wife's favcorite. Both versions have subtitles LOCKED On and crappy sound. Tried to order before and received the same crappy defective quality disk.

Just Really, Really Bad I guess I don't get it. The writing might be the only thing worse than the acting. It is painful to watch. This movie misses out at being laughably bad because you can tell they are actually trying to make something good. A total waste of $15. This review was written by someone who can laugh at movies like Santa Clause versus the Martians. No laughing at this piece of junk.

Disappointing movie I got this video which was truly a home video in a fancy box. There was no information at all. No credits, nothing. The producers missed the boat on this video, would not recommend it. Very disappointing.

Quality This is an excellent movie but the quality of the DVD was poor.  The DVD disk was really fragile and when I got it out of the box, it broke.  I didn't even get to see it once.  I do not recommend buying it.

Kids are not suppose to be your advisor Dad rehashes his sordid life complete with bad habits of all sorts and expects his pre-teen daughter to help solve all of his problems.  Too many parents, especially in divorce or separation use their children as crutches and friends.  Too bad, I like all of the actors/actresses but this is a depressing story that moves slowly and painfully through all of the gutters of his life in plain view of his daughter.

A complete waste of money! Very confusing & that's after you watch hours of the history of HDTV. After trying to follow the not so easy instructions the picture was way worse than before I started. My Blu-Ray's & DVD's looked horrible after following this disc. Had a much better picture just by setting the TV to movie mode, very happy with the picture now. Wish I had not wasted my money on this product.

An abomination This film is a tumor. This film is the ultimate expression of everything wrong with "art" films.  This is the ultimate triumph of "message" over substance and story.  A million dollar compendium of glorified stock footage that ends with a slow view of an exploding rocket ship that seems to almost mock the deaths of those involved.  This is a film illustrating pure and utter contempt for human life that exists beyond a primitive tribal state.  This film is Anti-Life, its like art made by the friggin Anti-Spiral.  If you think this film is good, and not just parroting the usual tripe of modern film criticism, if you think this film is good by your own honest opinion you are either a sociopath or a hipster. Or maybe you were just mercifully misinterpreting into something less soul-crushingly bleak.

waste of cash It's just 46 minutes of Angelica dancing. Lisa Ann is only in a bonus feature and all she dose is stand off too the side.

GAGGINGLY AWFUL Well, let's see, how do I describe this latest installment in futility?  Awful; no that doesn't do it justice.  Mind-numbingly boring; well, we're getting closer.  How about the biggest waste of 2-hours plus in my entire lifetime (and I'm a little long in the tooth)?  On the nosey.  I am darn near speechless at just how awful this movie was.  Not much has changed.  Well, Bella and Edward now talk in barely audible whispers; before they just grunted at one another.  Eduardo and Bella (Lugosi) get married.  Finally.  He looks just as transluscent as he ever did.  Bella, well, she has more screen presence than a rock...but hasn't mastered a turnip--just yet.  Edward did FINALLY manage to do something with that hair.  As usual, every whisper, every look, every nuance these two characters have, you would think the fate of the earth rests on the outcome.  They float through their wedding vows and after-party. Taylor Lautner (the werewolf) finally shows up, and he and Bella have a b*tch fight about lord knows what.  Hopefully, by the next picture, Lautner's sac will have dropped because he was BY FAR the biggest woman on the screen.  To see him on screen playing this beast who's supposedly in love with one of the main characters is the ONLY touch of comedy through this gawd-awful POS.  Come honeymoon time, it seems Eddie and what's-her-name finally knock boots and she's pregnant (and GROWING) in two weeks.  Who knew?  Honeymoon interrupted, they jet back to the northeast so Bella can look like a cadaver (her BEST moments) and the werewolf clan can run around and howl.  A lot.  And a reason for Bella to show she can now be frail and speechless.  A lot.  Also, some of her better moments.  I rented the first movies in this series.  I actually watched this one on the movie screen.  What was I thinking?  All I can say is, I hope the Mayan's are right and the world ends before the release of Part 2.  I'll take the vampires and other things that go bump in the night of the Sookie Stackhouse books (a/k/a True Blood) anytime.  At least they don't take themselves soooo seriously.  P.U.

Omg This DVD did not work at all not in my DVD player not in my laptop not even in my ps3 I'm so angry that I never want to order anothet thing from amazon like don't u check things before u send them and I can't even get my money back

Complete waste of money!!! I bought this Product thinking it would be informative but it's more like the instructor want to show you his skills without taking the time to instruct the student on how to acquire said skills. It's a complete failure put out by Hal Leonard I expected more from one of the Premier guitar instructional companies. Don't waste your money.

Simply Terrible. No Humour. No Mystery. Nothing. This awful awful remake of an absolutely perfect movie known as "Willie Wonka & The Chocolate Factory" reminds me of the equally insufferable "Cat In The Hat" starring Mike Myers and "Toys" starring Robin Williams some years back. Just wasted, empty time. Johnny Deep's character casts Wonka as an effeminate sociopath emotionally and psychologically crippled by a repressive childhood. It's just not believable. It felt like the incredibly overrated Johnny Depp trying to act weird and creepy instead of the character being so. There's no laughs. There's no warmth. There's no suspense. The musical numbers are plain dumb and desperate. It's a complete fail. There really was no need to remake Wonka. Gene Wilder's performance was pure genius. Depp's Wonka is simply a case of bad acting to a poorly written script. I don't care about the book and whether this film sticks closer to it. It STINKS.

Not sure what the other's watched I have to wonder what movie the other reviewers watched, but what I watched stunk.  I drifted out of the living room to clean the garage rather than watch the rest of the movie.  Pretty sad when cleaning the garage is more interesting and entertaining than the movie...  Save your money and pass on this one!

bad item Received the movie just before an extended trip so I didn't have time to watch.  Got back after the return time was up and discovered the dvd, which showed no marks, would not play.  The disc is the correct reagion and everything.  Not pleased that I bought a movie only to be given a defective product that I'm unable to return.  The disc should have been tested for funcionality before being sent out.

Not the Original Narrator for Disc 1 Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob & Joseph Disc no longer has the original narrator reading from the King James Bible.  Reader's Digest must have purchased this from The New Media Bible and decided to dumb it down.  The authentic music and the bible verses read by an amazing voice, have been replaced by an annoying narrator who tries to explain the stories for a pre-teen who's never read the bible.  I've been waiting 15 years for these films to be converted to DVD, and now I'm extremely disappointed that they've been ruined.  I've never seen the other 5 discs, so I don't have a reference as to whether they've been changed from the original version.  I will be buying the VHS and converting it to DVD myself.

No Digital Copy! Buyer Beware! This boxed set does NOT come with a valid digital copy, even though the product picture says it does and the product description said it came with it when I bought it -- "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 (Three-Disc Blu-ray / DVD Combo + Digital Copy)".  There was nothing in the product description indicating that the digital copy had expired over a month before I purchased this.

George Burns & Gracie Allen Show video This is a horrible product. The quality of the video is really bad.  It looks like someone just recorded it off tv with awful reception.  Save your money - do not buy this video.  We are huge fans of this show and watch it on our own TV - thought we would like to have this in our video file - we should have just recorded it ourselves off our tv with good receiption.  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004ASDNNE">George Burns & Gracie Allen Show: Volumes 1 & 2 (Two-Disc Edition)</a>

Not very interesting I had high expectations of this movie as I had heard so much about it. It turned out to be a let down. Perhaps, you should come to it with very low expectations, and you'll enjoy it more.

Another "Oldie,but Goodie"! I have watched this treasure 5 times since it arrived,  I still get laughs each time.  I think Dick Van Dyke must have watched some of Dennis O'Keefe moves, as he reminds this viewer of him.  Good movie to watch on a cold and wintry night !

horrrible... i had ordered this item and was excited when it finally arrived. It came in the specified time frame but when I opened the envelope it was in, I was not happy with what I could see. The plastic wrap was very shoddily put on, not factory sealed like I was expecting. I could have worked past that if when I opened the dvd case there was an overwhelming smell that actually made me nauseous!There was some kind of dirt or dust in the case as well. I wrote an email to the company regarding this and seeing about a refund and I have never heard back. Would not reccommend this company due to these facts. This is my first bad expreience with buying anything through Amazon. No problem with Amazon, just Movie Mars...

It's sooo hot. The characters constantly complain about how hot it is, but they refuse to take off their jackets, and overcoats. I just couldn't get past that.

Can a movie be this Bad? I just don't understand how people with millions of dollars, with able actors like McKidd, Demi Moore, Harrelson, Perlman can produce such BORING, repititive garbage!? Sword-fight after sword-fight, bare knuckle power beats up many, many, many bad guys; and always for the right reason (something about freedom?), etc. The visuals grab you at the beginning; the comic-book scenery back to live-action is interesting for about 10 minutes, but nothing changes in this dull, 1-dimensional no-brainer. There is NOTHING of any interest to hold your attention.

Never received! I ordered this for my great grandaughters Birthday. After several weeks I contacted shipper. First he said it had been mailed. Then he said thay had no more to ship!! VERY DISAPOINTING!

Flopville Loaded cast but awful script. If you buy it buy used or run like I should have. I love D. Talbert but this script sucks.

Beware Beware of Amazon misrepresentation for this movie. IMDB says "Joe's Apartment"  was released in theatrical format (Widescreen in DVD terms). Amazon is representing for sale a 2005 release of this DVD in 5:3 (1.66) Widescreen. However, I have been sent a cropped (Full Screen) version (from the "Seller" Amazon represents as selling the DVD in Widescreen) and Amazon says they can't replace it with the represented Widescreen DVD I ordered. No choice but to return it for a refund.

wrath of the titians The disk will not load on my blue ray mechine. I have tried 10 time and each time I get an error message. I am really dissappointed. I guess I paid for a movie and got a coaster!!!

Terrible In fiction, there are many places where it is okay to bend the rules of reality, but there are certain places you just cannot.  There is nothing wrong with a fictional universe being different from reality, as long as its premises are consistent.  In Cube 1, the plot was consistent.  In Cube 2, ideas such as parallel universes and time distortion are being played around with.  While somewhat interesting, there is no logic to them, it is just an amorphous plot device.  And the plot is predictable from the start.  Also, the film went wrong by giving too many details, such as a military procurement corporation that is behind it all, where it should have been open enough for each viewer to give their own interpretation.  It's illogical and is devoid of intelligence, unlike Cube 1.  But it is somewhat entertaining.

What a dog! Nothing to recommend this ridculous nonsense. It was one of the most boring movies I have ever watched and has zero to recommend it. Don't waste your time, I love movies but this goes in the trash.

DVD-system of Sometimes in April Name of the DVD : Sometimes in April. The DVDsystem of this DVD is not used in Europe.So I can't watch this video in Europe. I can recommend this DVD to customers with DVD-systems usual in the USA.

was this intended for children? I would leave a long discouraging review but this movie already waisted 2hrs of my life so I'll keep it short and say don't waist your time.

Defective DVD Disappointed to find that after returning first DVD, the second one had exactly the same defect--missing last 2/3rds of third episode.

Dreadful.....simply dreadful At the same time I ordered this movie and its sequel. The original was beyond terrible and approached petty theft. I cannot remember ever seeing a worse movie....unless it was the sequel. Avoid this movie like the plague.

BROKEN AGAIN I am doing the litter mermaid play, and i was excited to watch the movie, so i put it in the VHS player, and it wouldn't play, i tried putting in a different movie to see if it was the player but it was perfectly fine, so i hated this and i was mad and almost cried

Misleading description I ordered the product because it was the 2 disc edition. When I received the movie from the seller it was in half Spanish and English. I did not bother to open the movie and sent back for a full refund.

Bad movie, even on Zombie Movie standards I love Zombie Movies. I own plenty. This one was one of the worst I've seen. It is in Norwegian and subtitled, so that is distracting to start with. I'm guessing it is filmed with a digital camcorder. The images are clear, but it does not have a "movie" look. It looks like a long, home-made maovie of someone's vacation. Some of the special effects were OK, but it took a VERY long time to get to any zombie action. Over all I rate this a D-, even though I expect zombie movies not to be cinemagraphic masterpieces.

Motives revealed This film is D'Souza's adaptation of his book "The Roots of Obama's Rage". From reading this book and hearing the author speak about it's central ideas, we learn that Dinesh D'Souza must be the most magical pied piper on the planet. His slick command of language, impressive intellect, and amazing facility for thinking on his feet all combine to empower a master illusionist who can offer up pure nonsense disguised as common sense, and send you home believing that the secrets of the universe have been revealed. A man as intelligent as Dinesh D'Souza obviously is cannot possibly believe the twaddle that he doles out to those who cannot or choose not to think critically. What is revealed here is a man who is contemptuous of his audience. The book and it's film adaptation say absolutely nothing about the motives of Barack Obama. They say everything about the motives of Dinesh D'Souza.

nilistic trash Everything about this film is ugly, the dialogue, the plot, the characters. its self indulgently nilistic and its 'abstractness' is skitzophrenic. Women treat men like trash, every conversation is castrating. The women blow up the Eifiel Tower, every crime is punished by death by torture. Sickness pretending to be deep.

Do not buy! Waste of money! Why in the world would anybody charge a buck to watch a preview? I guess I didn't read carefully, and thought I was getting an actual episode. Oh, no. It was about 30 seconds of montage, and then finis. I'm a big Dr. Who fan, but this particular video is just a prank. Do not buy!

If you loved the first one, you'll hate this one I first want to say that when I saw the trailer for the Ghost Rider, I had no idea it was a comic book series. I'm not into comic books by any means, but I do love Marvel and DC movies. For the most part, they're well produced and packed with action. The greatest comic based movies are the ones in which the main character first discovers or receives his or her powers (Ghost Rider, Iron Man, etc). I love the often comedic, awkward transition from regular, every day person to super human.  I'm a huge fan of heavy metal music, and you'll usually find me adorned with skulls in one way or another, and I have a motorcycle, so naturally, I was pumped to see a movie about a flaming skeleton who rode a sick, flaming motorcycle, and hunted demons. The first Ghost Rider movie grossly exceeded my expectations. I loved every minute of it, and I've nearly worn out my blu-ray copy of it. I didn't get a chance to see Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance in theaters, but when it came out on blu-ray, I bought a copy believing that it would be just as enjoyable, for me, as the first one was. Only a few minutes in, I knew it was going to be horrible, and after suffering through the entire movie I felt compelled to read some reviews to see what other people thought.  Apparently Ghost Rider was a comic book series from the 70's (I was born in 1985), and Spirit of Vengeance closely followed the story line presented in those comics, so the people who are really into those comic books hated Ghost Rider and loved Spirit of Vengeance. As I mentioned before, I wasn't aware it was a comic book series, so whether or not the movie followed that series was of no matter to me.  Right off the bat, Spirit of Vengeance brings it's viewers up to speed on the Ghost Rider story in a wannabe-Tarantino style, but instead of using cut scenes from the first movie, they reenacted scenes from Ghost Rider using different actors, in different situations. As I watched I found myself saying, "Wait, that's not how it happend..." The movie goes through a few major plot points of Ghost Rider, then tells another story of how he changed how he felt about being the Ghost Rider, then tells the story about how he "fled to Europe," all in the opening two minutes. As the movie begins, we find a completely changed Ghost Rider character, with a different bike, a different outfit (what happened to the "nice jacket?"), in a different country, and with a different outlook on life. And when Nicholas Cage changes into the Ghost Rider, the skull is different, the flames are different, the bike doesn't change much (except for some flames coming out of it in a few places), and he's basically wearing charred, black leather pants and a charred, black leather jacket. Already, the awesomeness of the character has been reduced to nothing special. And now, anything he rides changes into a "Ghost vehicle" that he can wield however he pleases.  These are all minor points, nit picking I suppose, but overall the movie was just horrible. The acting was terrible, the plot was ridiculous, the characters were never properly introduced, I could go on and on. It may sound like no big deal when I say the Ghost Rider's appearance was different, but imagine if you watched Iron Man, as it is, then watched Iron Man 2 to find that Robert Downy Jr. wore a green suit and never mentioned any sort of reason for the change. After reading the reviews of this movie, I can say one thing for sure. If you loved the comic book series, and hated Ghost Rider for being so apart from the comics, you'll probably like this movie. If you loved Ghost Rider, however, I can almost guarantee you'll hate Spirit of Vengeance. It's not Ghost Rider 2 by any means. It's someone else's idea of how the Ghost Rider comic book series should've been portrayed in a movie.

conspirsy theory This item was to be nearly new it was in poor condition. The case was old. It was meant to be a Christmas present and I had to get another present instead.

"I have to pee." I am extremely disappointed. The message is heavy handed, the tank and its crew are unconvincing and the dialogue amounts to little more than, "I have to pee". If you are looking for an intelligent war film you won't find it here. If you are looking for an action packed war movie, you won't find it here.

Don't do it! Well, I will start with why I purchased this movie.  I like simple films, good values, and no violence.  That being said, although it is a simple movie, it really lacks entertainment!  The two girls, although looking completely cute on the cover, really are brats.  The one girl doesn't listen to her parents, the other girl shows the first girl how to get away with doing what she wants without "really breaking the rule", the bad guys are fools, and the kids talk to them like they aren't worried at all they have been kidnapped..at the age of 9.  At the end, the mother tells the 9 year old she is sorry and needs to start trusting her daughter.  Sorry, but if I don't want my kid crossing the highway and she does... AND gets kidnapped... I will still enforce my rule... I just don't like that it is saying even though all the "bad things" happened... a 9 year old knows enough to get herself out of that danger... totally unrealistic and lame.  Should I even mention the fact that one girl's parents aren't in the movie because they are on vacation and the 9 year old is left with her sister, who doesn't care what she is doing and the only two scenes she is in are:  1) When she is yelling at her sister as she is getting ready for a date (and tells the 9 yr. old to be in bed by 10:00 and she comes home at 2:30am) and 2) When she arrives home to their house being on fire and that is when she is concerned something happened....  I can't begin to say how much I disliked that part!  My twelve year old daughter hated it and she likes horses a lot; she was even pointing out the lame ideas/values shown in this movie.  It was not worth the money...and I can't get back the time I wasted.

STREETS OF FIRE I HAVE BEEN BUYING DVD'S FOR SOME TIME ON AMAZON BUT LATELY I HAVE BEEN RECIEVING DVD'S THAT CAN'T BE PLAYED,THIS IS THE 5TH ONE I RECIEVED. I SENT BACK TWO AND EAT THE OTHER 3 AND I'M TIERD OF THIS HAPPENING.I RECIEVED REGIONAL DVD'S,HD DVD'S, VHS, AND NOW CODE DVD'S THAT I CAN'T PLAY, WHEN ORDERING YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO EXPLAIN TO THE SELLERS WHAT YOU WANT,I'M SURE I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WITH THIS PROBLEM. THANKS HAROLD LOGINS

WORST 3D EVER The movie itself is a wonderful movie.  DO NOT purchase the 3D Version.  I bought the 3D version for my children thinking this would be terrific family fun.  I have never seen such poor quality in 3D production.  Even with the glasses on everything still looks like it has 3 images and everything looks red and blue.  It is horrible.  Great movie but do not get the 3D version you will be disappointed.

Disappointed Not too happy about disc audio. The audio is really bad, it keeps going low and high then low then high again. Disappointed! I tried it on both my Mac and my PC same issue.  Image is fine but not worth the money because the audio ruins it.

DO NOT BUY! This DVD is flawed by the Paramount Company and Showtime.  As soon as you put the DVD in, it shows you a promo video for Showtime which includes the ENDING to THIS SEASON.  Do not buy unless you do not watch this promo video.  You cannot fast forward it or skip it, so you would have to make a conscious effort not to watch it each time you put on the DVD.  I contacted Showtime about this issue and they did nothing to address my concerns.  They claim they will fix it for future DVDs, but I wouldn't risk it.  There is no way to tell if you are getting a new version or an old one.

Disc is completely blank I ordered Kiss of the Spider Woman on July 27, 2012.  I opened it and it looked good, no damage.  I finally got a free evening and decided to watch it.  The disc has NOTHING on it.  Incredible!  Now when I look into returning it they claim I'll only get partial money returned.  It's my fault for not checking it immediately.  I'll know for future purchases to do this.  Who charges someone and sends them a blank disc? That's terrible.  I hope your laughter and my hard earned money is worth the scam.  Congratualtions, you're a horrible person!

Hollywood Garbage! I have read several books on the case.  I knew it would be a "hollywood" film, but this version is absolutely horrible!  A shabby try at film noir.  Did I mention it was boring as heck!  Don't waste your money on this tasteless trash!

Just not that interesting.... I love zombie flicks, and most of them get a pass if they have a decent story line and enough action.  This movie had a weak plot, weak acting, and was just a disappointment.  I would not recommend it.

wife I dont know what to say. I really think the movie is bad. everything about it is bad. wow sorry I know my wife is all dreamy eyes over it but this nothing more then a teenage vampire drama and that is all. shiny vampire.... wow do not buy this. read a book or watch paint dry it be better then this

Conan the Barbarian It's been almost three decades since the last big screen portrayal of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian, and most will remember that he was famously played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. How, then, would a remake fare, with a new story and a new Conan? Not very well, actually. This time around, Jason Momoa plays the titular warrior, who is born in the heat of battle and trained as a warrior until his entire family is slaughtered by an evil warlord named Khalar Zym in search of pieces to a mystical mask. Conan escapes the onslaught and lives on as a pirate until a chance meeting provides him with a new lead to seek vengeance for his clan's extermination. Co-starring Rose Mcgowan, Rachel Nichols, and Ron Perlman in small role as Conan's father, Conan the Barbarian failed to impress. I felt the film lacked any good characterization, worthy dialogue, or competent acting. It's gory and over the top, so if you're looking for a mindless action flick with those credentials, have at it; if you're looking for anything more, search elsewhere.

Swiss Family Robinson Will not play on my DVD, it says to check region code.  Ordered on 29 March did not get until 5 May.

Buyer Beware! Se7en is a solid 5 star movie.  But watch out.  There's a Canadian version which is the wrong aspect ratio, 1080i  (not 1080p), and contains no bonus features.  The newer one (with a red and black cover) is the one you want, NOT the version with the 2 actors on the cover. These 2 versions are getting mixed together somehow, as I've tried to order the "correct" copy TWICE but was sent the wrong one each time.  Don't order if the supplier is a Canadian dealer!

Time waster.. A movie can be unrealistic movie and still be a good movie.  There are just too many holes in this movie, and as you get closer to the end, you can't stop thinking "come on, this is ridiculous!".  Just to give you an example, the highlight of the movie is when his young son finds a loaded rifle hidden into the piano.  And Kevin Costner, who is the dad, buries the rifle into the ground.  Who does such a thing?  Especially if things are getting scarier.  I could see ordering a machine gun, or more ammunition for the rifle.  :)  There were just too many holes in this movie.  Your mind is wondering about these inconsistencies instead of feeling the suspense and drama.  Kevin Costner is a great actor with many good movies under his belt, this is not one of them.

Format misleading The disc indicates that it includes Blu-Ray + DVD + Digital Copy, but unlike other Blu-Ray disks you can not download this movie to your iTunes library and therefore you can not watch it using your AppleTV.  The inclusion of the "Digital" copy is one of the main reasons I actually purchased the disk.  Unfortunately, WB has used this misrepresentration to actually sell you something with some new "streaming" service, and even though it says you can download the movie, that is only true using third party software and completely disconnected from all your other digital media.  Given the media companies usual disregard for their customers, this should not have surprised me, but it does mean I will go back to BestBuy for my movies so that I can actually see what I am buying.

RIPP-OFF! I'm shocked that this movie was released due to the blatent plagerism committed.  This movie was a copy of the film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.  Do people have the memory of a gold fish?  How do so few people not release if you pay to see this crap you've paid to see the same movie twice.  Both movies have the same story, plot, twist, character development, villian, setting and only the comic version of the LOFEG has Sherlock Holmes as the leader of the group.  For some reason the studio changed the lead to Quartermain from Sherlock.  However, both protaginists have the same fate at the end of both films.  Guy Ritchie should've stuck to indie flicks cause he obviously can't hack it in the major league.

Unintentionally hilarious There's much that is amusing -- all unintentionally -- about this movie.  The acting is particularly wooden, but given the dialogue that Ayn Rand wrote, it's difficult to see what options the performers had.    I have to say that the strangest scene revolves around Howard Roark's trial.  After all, his destruction of the buildings can only be described as an act of terrorism, and his defense of his actions reminds me how the Weather Underground described their use of violence in the 1970's.  And yet many in the Republican party have come to deify Ayn Rand and her ideas.  I never would have believed I would have lived long enough to see such a strange transformation.  All hail the revolution!

Worst Movie Ever This was the absolute worst movie I have ever seen! Do not waste a minute watching this movie. The acting was terrible, the plot stupid, and the ending was junk. I wouldn't take 100 dollars to watch this movie if someone paid me. Horrible!

damaged and defective even after repurchasing I'm usually very pleased with my amazon purchases, however, I purchased this video for my son who is really into the Titanic but the item was defective. I had to reorder the documentary again. When it arrived it was also defective and could not be watched. I have never seen a look of disappointment such as I did today. I will never order another video from amazon. I even purchased a third, different one and it too was damaged. So now I literally feel like I threw away my money three times over. You really ruined the experience and did not even take measures to prevent it from happenig more than once. What horrible experience and lack of service. Thank you very much.

very unsatisfied I was very excited to see that the movie I have been looking for for so long was so affordable, but I was very discouraged when I got it to find that it was the international edition and did not work on any of my tv's in the U.S. I returned it

Item appeared to be pirated. I shopped the local Blockbuster, WalMart, Target, etc... for a copy of the Nightmare Before Christmas before checking the Amazon website.  Most stores did not carry the item and those that did, had the "special edition" version with a staggering $30 price tag!  This was a Christmas gift--one that was scheduled to be hand delivered on December 14.  While the item was delivered within the required timeline, it was "loosely" shrunk wrapped and the DVD rattled inside the case. It did not sound "broken" but I wanted to test the DVD because the "sloppy" packaging was worrisome.  The DVD played on a computer but on no other device.  This included several high end High Definition surround sound entertainment systems to external DVD players connected to old-fashioned tube television sets--including but not limited to a hand-held DVD player.  I received a "file not found" and/or "please insert disc" on a couple of these units.  Suffice it to say, I paid $30 to Blockbuster so that I could make the delivery on time.  The item appears to be pirated.  I will never buy from this vendor again.

Beyond Shocked. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I want to say that first before I give mine.   This movie is sick. It's downright beyond insane. The gore in this movie is so graphic, elaborate, drawn out and detailed it's horrifying. I am a horror movie fan myself, but this is... phew. There is something called morality, humanity, sanity, and being reasonable. I've seen the trailer of it, read about it, and after that decided to brace myself and watch the piano scene. That did it. Most movies I can watch in full, but not this one. I couldn't continue watching something so evil. I've never been so horrified or shaken up by a film in my life. To think that people, actual PEOPLE, thought the plot up for this honestly worries me. I didn't know the depths of one's mind could go that far down in depravity. I'm surprised it was allowed to even be made. Wow. Dogs & pigs eating organs? Ripping out someone's organs by a chainsaw? I mean COME ON! I'm sorry, but that is beyond, and I mean BEYOND... I can't even think of a word to describe how SICK this movie is.

The noble singlemom steroetype I wish hollywood would stop perpetuating this crap about the noble single mom forced to "do what she has to do".Basically people making poor decisions with there own life and then dragging there kids into the consequences of there poor life choices, and then compounding the bad decisions with piss poor ethics by getting involved in illegal activity.And what,where supposed to root for her? As a victim of circumstances...

Dull, boring sloooow SUPER SLOW dull dull dull. Perhaps it is because I watched the extended version. Maybe the books were better, I haven't read them, and I don't plan to, but watching this was painful. I kept waiting to find out what all the hype was about, and it was just hype. I love subtitled movies, movies with unique flare, and lots of culture...so do not dismiss my review because you may think that I do not have a broad enough perspective.  The entire movie was centered around old men having obsessions/sex with younger women, with a really sloooow mystery mixed in.  The uncle obsessed about his niece The Hacker was raped by her older parole officer It was eluded the Hacker was molested by her father The Hacker had sex with the journalist twice her age The missing girl was raped by her father and brother The father and then older brother had sex and molested young girls

I only watched this once. Bad movie. Story line is awful. I watched this only once. That is a bad sign. There is no plot that I can tell. I should say it has less of a plot then the second and third movies. If you are going to buy or rent this movie then lower your expectations down to one star or less then you won't be too disappointed.  So much talent in Johnny Depp. To bad he is forced to act with a poor script.

Um, no About a bunny who poops jelly beans and some how lives in a mansion. About a man with no ambition other than becoming an Easter bunny. Sadly, he does not achieve said dream and becomes a "co-Easter bunny". A movie with absolutely no depth, or meaning. Not even my seven year old sister found this funny. Oh yeah, and I only gave it one star cause I had to put in a rating.

Most disgusting awful blood bath movie I have ever seen AWFUL --- I watched this movie because of 2 reasons 1.  its high ratings & 2.  it was compared to the movie TAKEN.  (which was a great movie) This movie however- was the most disgusting brutle, blood bath that I have ever watched -  I am not usually squeamish but-  this was in very poor taste bringing children into it. Also having to read subtitles through the movie is so annoying.... SO WISH I WOULD NOT HAVE WATCHED THIS ---- even the end was dumb.....

Prejudiced It's a sorry film. Horrible quality. Cheap laughs at the expense of gay people. Demonstrates the unfortunate, but widespread prejudice against gays in the black community. Characters act as if gays have a disease. Just sad. God is love. This movie sure ain't showing any love.

90 minutes of your life you won't get back I never write a product review but I wanted to write one to warn others about this movie. Everything you need to know about this is in the trailer. The nun on the front is actually a passerby in a scene and nothing to do with the film at all. If you want to see a really poor exorcist meets blair witch then this is for you. I regret watching this as my neither my wife nor myself enjoyed it despite the beautiful italian architecture that it doesn't even appreciate.

Makes Highlander 2 look like Lord of the Rings This movie absolutely sucks. Period. Should be zero stars. I can't believe Adrian Paul would make this. He must have been contractually obligated. It's time for a reboot. This time make a Highlander movie with sequels in mind from the beginning, instead of haphazardly putting this crap together.

if i could give 0 starts i would this is one of the worst debauchery seance space balls. I grew up watching the tv show and it was ok (good for its time) but this piece of filth should be washed from our collective consonances. there is no real coherent plot or any of the classic characters, i of course relies that it is imposable to take 60 tv types and translate that to the big screen. well apparent its also imposable to make it at all interesting instead of just stuff happening.

Digital Copy is not compatible with iTunes, iPads, or iPhones I rarely if ever take the time to write product reviews, but I have to point out that the so-called Digital Copy included with this disc is completely incompatible with iTunes and cannot be downloaded to iOS devices (iPhones, iPads, iPods). The disc requires you to sign up for two obscure services (Flixster and UltraViolet) in order to "stream" the movie to a third-party app on your device... i.e., you have to be connected to the Internet to view it. There is supposedly a way to download the movie to your computer, but this required installation of yet another software application. I cancelled out of all of these useless installations/services as soon as I realized I needed them to watch the movie.  Amazon needs to warn buyers that this Digital Copy is incompatible with iTunes and the very devices the Digital Copy was created to work on. Calling this a "Digital Copy" is blatant bait-and-switch false advertising.

Worst Video Quality EVER on a BluRay This is not a review of the movie, but of the GAWD AWFUL quality of the video.  Some people have left reviews of scenes looking grainy. Well it's worse than "grainy".  In certain scenes, it's downright "snowy".  You know, that snow you used to get on old TVs with rabbit ears....YEAH, that bad. If you take pride in your BluRay collection, then DON'T buy this BluRay. Rent it, Netflix it, whatever....just don't buy it!

Tristan Darling where's the privy? TRISTAN AND ISOLDE (2006)   Starring James Franco.    Supposedly based on the legend of Tristan and Isolde set during the time of King Arthur involving the conflict between Christianity and Islam as the very Christian Knight of the Round Table Sir Tristan battles Muslem knight Sir Palamedes eventually persuading the later to convert to the true faith, the chivalric love of English Tristan for the celtic Isolde involving honor and duty, this film, save for the fact that it dispenses with King Arthur and Camelot, Sir Palamedes, any mention of Islam and only a brief acknowledgment of Christianity and turns the tale of chivalric love, duty and honor into one of selfish narcissism as two self absorbed teens put their country and thousands of lives at risk so they can rut like randy rabbits and which the film heartily approves of, is a superb dramatization of the famous story.    Save for that the direction is incoherent, the dialogue practically monosybilic and moronic with no exchange consisting of more than four sentences at a time, everyone speaks in a hushed whisper as if ashamed of speaking the teenybopper babbling, the acting is putrid from Franco on down to the utter lack of period feel let alone history and, for a film set in England and Ireland, that there is not an English or Irish accent to be heard, this is a masterwork of the highest order.    Let us see ..just what does one take from the film?? That Muslims are not the enemy and, in fact, apparently do not even exist in a story where the MAJOR villain was a Muslem. That when your country is threatened by a foreign enemy threatening your leader, your friends and way of life, do not worry about it. Just think about yourself and go have sex.    Hmmm this sounds familiar.....Isnt this a Democratic talking point???    About halfway through this rubbish, my dog began gnawing spasmodically at her sphincter and finally had to be let out to drop a great steaming pile. One could only sympathize.    Oh what will the future make of what passed for art during the great war for western civilization and human freedom????    My dog created a thing closer to art than this doo doo ca ca.

skyline disappointment Skyline Review..  I was not happy with the movie which was produced by the same people who produce many of the SyFy channel shows. The movie could have been shot in a one bedroom apartment.  It certainly did not compare with Falling Skies or even Battle:Los Angeles.

Bark! Bark! As a professional photographer and one who wants to believe he appreciates "thinking" movies, I had hoped this might be a better-than-average film. I understood going in that this was probably 50/50 reality-fantasy, and that was okay. I am a fan of MD,Jr. (4/5) and I can tolerate Nicole Kidman's (2/5) acting. However, even they couldn't save this movie from a painful, and unnecessarily-slow death. (Hint. Hint.) This wasn't an especially compelling story. Nor did it inspire on any level - the cinematography is ho-hum, there were virtually no references to Arbus' work (which was supposedly ground-breaking), and the main characters were nothing more than mid-20th-century, self-indulgent, self-centered, self-destructive adherents to Existentialism (which, like Post-Modernism, necessarily breeds that kind of person). The real dwarfs in this story were Arbus and Lionel. Is that what the writer and director wanted us to see? However, all-in-all, this movie is a real dog...and not good FUR much at all.

I would have loved it...if... I don't know if it was my system, but the double feature Village of the dammed and Children of the dammed could not play in my DVD player. I tried everything I could try but no showtime!! Now I tried to contact Amazon about it but my emails would not go through. So if anyone out there has this video please do me a favor... since Amazon won't refund my money, let me know what YOU think of the video.

BEWARE: This is a Euro zone DVD... even though it says it's not.  It won't play in normal USA devices... Beware: Although the description states that this is the correct USA zone formatting, it is not.  It won't play in my DVD player.

Does not run on some DVD players I can run the DVD on a laptop computer, but it will not run on a 2011 DVD player or a 2009 DVD player.

NOT THE COMPLETE MOVIE!! Be forewarned-this is NOT the complete 4 part movie produced by showtime. This is only the first 2 episodes. If you want the complete story, look for "Bonanno: A Godfathers Story, The Complete Series" which is currently around 65 bucks, otherwise you're just getting half the movie. It strikes me that one of the producers is listed as 'Bill Bonnano'. So is this just a way to rip off the public and get them to buy the same movie twice in order to rake in more royalties? Think about it...who sells half a movie? Gee, I hope I don't get whacked for exposing this fraud!!

I am sure glad I didn't pay for it... My wife and I found this on-demand through FiOS last week.  What a HORRIBLE movie!  It is not funny, drawn out and is complimented by an atrocious script written by Adam Sandler and Fred Wolf.  Thank you god we didn't pay for the viewing - it was free and I now understand why!  I would have been so mad if we paid $50+ to go to the movies to see this garbage.  The funniest (and this is a stretch) part of the movie can be found 10-15 minutes in when Kevin James busts through the side of his pool.  It is all downhill after that.  Save your money; don't purchase this horrible, horrible movie.  You will be much better off purchasing Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore and/or The Wedding Singer.  Sandler's career takes a sharp down-turn after these films.

I'M SURPRISED THIS MOVIE DIDN'T CAUSE THE END OF THE WORLD Oh...My....God..... This was just awful. 158 Minutes of painful acting and completely unlikeable characters. I have to also mention to Mr. Emmerich that he put just a tad too many cliffhangers into the movie. I mean, come on. This one stupid #$$ family avoids how many giant fissures and fireballs that it kind of got a little annoying that he was making these flying leaps across gorges in a limo AND an RV. Come on! Yes, it worked in SPEED, but it only happened once in SPEED. It was every three &#$%ing seconds in this farce. The reactions by the actors/actresses were also just horrible. Around 95% of the earths population was just violently killed and the remaining 5% of the people are cheering for the life of one man who didn't drown. Yay, all my relatives and friends are dead, but this guy didnt drown. COME ON!!!!! WTF!!!! Absolute garbage. They also end the movie, and I mean the last &#$%ing line of the movie, with a memorable quote about bedwetting. Yes bedwetting ends this 158 minute vomit fest. If you are looking for cringe inducing action scenes involving Limos, RVs and airplanes evading every gigantic piece of thundering fireballs and crumbling skyscrapers AND you like to gag while viewing sappy dialogue about stepfathers and world peace. Then by all means rent or buy this barrel of $#1%.

Great--as a Comedy! Where's the Zero Stars button? I'm not even going to bother wasting time with a long review on this one. Let's just say it's a long way from Travolta in "Pulp Fiction." What is really shocking is that this waste of celluloid actually got 67 five star reviews here on Amazon. These people should be drug tested.

Boring movie We visit Ireland so I wanted videos that include places in Ireland.  I could't get to the scenery because the acting was so boring and story line so slow.  I turned it off and gave  the movie to my son.

What a Waste I'll give it this: Cool opening (though some of the characters struck me immediately as insufferable), and some cool actors that are completely wasted.  What is wrong with this movie is nearly everything else.  The antagonists have no motivation, they are randomly violent, without need to be, they are evil, just for the sake of being evil, and the way the movie just plods along with comically stupid characters getting bumped off with pathetic special effects, it delivers on nothing.  It isn't scary.  The dialogue is awkward, stilted, and dull.  The pacing is jittery.  And the acting seems so forced it is just terrible.

Bunk Most folks that I know that tried to watch this movie fell asleep before the end.  Save your money, or get a real documentary like Dear Zachary.

Movie funny- quality of extremely poor The movie is funny.  This review is about the quality of the product.  I rented this video on Amazon.  The image was poor and while still visible had distortion effects and pixelation in parts.  Looked out of focus most the time.  Oh about the movie...not much different than original...just more shots of boobs.

Want Digital Copy? Be ready for disappointment This is not a review of the movie (which I very much recommend) but a heads-up about the very disappointing but common practice that I have recently discovered about time limits on digital copies [...].  In other words, the disc comes with a digital copy BUT if you don't activate it by the expiration date you can't take advantage of it.  When I ordered the Sherlock Holmes Blu-ray in May I didn't know that it came with a digital copy (I don't think Amazon advertised it as having one - if you look closely at the customer photo of the product you might see it) but I was pleasantly surprised to see the digital copy feature advertised on the box when the movie arrived.  Surprise turned to disappointment and frustration when I tried to install the digital copy in iTunes. "Offer Expired" is what you get when you tried to use the enclosed code.  I wrote to Warner Bros and I got a "too bad - how sad" form letter:  "Hello,  We have researched your issue and this Digital Copy offer has expired. The Digital Copy offer is intended to be available only for a limited time following the initial release of the DVD and/or Blu-ray Disc. The expiration date is specifically stated on (a) the outside packaging of your DVD or Blu-ray disc, (b) the insert, (c) the Digital Copy disc, and/or (d) the redemption site.  We appreciate your feedback and continued support of Warner Home Video products and apologize for any inconvenience.  WB Digital Copy Support Team"  Hmm... I don't think they care about my feedback or my inconvenience.  While I never condone breaking copy-right laws, after this experience I now have a LOT more sympathy for those who do.  I think the movie industry intends this practice to encourage customers to purchase the movie sooner while the price is high to take advantage of additional features. It won't work.  Not only because of poor marketing - I had never heard of this practice until today but also because it will encourage otherwise law-abiding citizens to learn how to copy DVD's themselves.

Really Sucks This is a quirky, slow movie.  It had extremely little dialogue and little background noise.  I'm sorry but I couldn't finish it and I can't imagine why it got such good ratings from the rest of the reviewers.  This is not for the average person.

Agreed - worst DVD EVER Great movie, remember seeing with high school friends it at the Cinerama in downtown Seattle when it came out in 1981.  The DVD itself is an absolute disaster. I could only watch about 2 minutes of it, skipped forward a couple of chapters to verify the whole disc was that bad, and then threw it into the trash. It is truly not watchable. This is the only DVD I've see that is worse than VHS.  Let's hope the remake will cause WB to spend a the time making a decent Blu-Ray of this movie.

Horrible image and sound quality I'm not sure why some reviewers are claiming this to be a nicely remastered DVD.  I found the sound quality so bad as to make the film unwatchable.  The cracking made it impossible to understand the dialogue and the picture was horribly scratched, muddied and unclear.  Also, the description calls it a two-dvd set and mine only came with one dvd.  Needless to say, I'll be returning it for a full refund.  I'd give it zero stars if I could.

Manufacturer Scam, Still For Sale as Phony Blu-Ray This horrible product, with its two manufacturer defects, was twice pulled off the market by Amazon.  I'm the stubborn customer responsible for making enough fuss to produce that earlier black on yellow, rectangular box, headed by "Item Under Review".  It unfortunately took over 5 years, since the first known Blu-ray review getting this right, second from the top, left side, declared: "Disappointing Transfer February 15, 2007".  And now it's back up for sale again.  Amazon seems to believe all defects were cured/irrelevant, despite plenty of scathing customer reviews.  Since Amazon never will watch a "Total Recall" Blu-ray, it's hard to avoid being cynical.  The pair of best Amazon customer service representatives I've talked with cannot even agree over what happens to an "Item Under Review".  One thinks a defective "Total Recall" Blu-ray is watched by Amazon at a "fulfillment center".  He fails to realize that's a fairy tale.  The other Amazon person claims as follows:  "we do notify the manufacturer about any issues in regards to products when being reported in multiple instances. This is to ensure that we are able to get corrected merchandise if this is something the manufacture can deliver. In some instances we return inventory if the product is unable to be corrected."  That's not what really happens either, in my opinion.  First the two Amazon representatives directly contradict each other, nothing new.  The "Amazon Rule Against Direct Contact With Customers" means I'm always speaking with somebody new, and can't easily get back to anyone.  So I hear endless contradictions from Amazon people.  At one point I believed nothing said by Amazon, errors due to negligence, guesswork, and poor training, rather than being intentionally deceptive.  I conclude that, since no manufacturer turning out such horrible Blu-rays like "Total Recall" cares to do anything about it, while Amazon is no better, the only truth is failure to watch any defective DVD.  Thus, neither Amazon nor the manufacturer are concerned about continuing to sell "Total Recall", despite it being fatally defective.  So after a certain number of days elapse, with zero progress, no defective DVD/Blu-ray having been watched by ANYONE, an "Item Under Review" automatically goes back on sale by Amazon.  Only a theory, but it fits the facts.  Of course nothing ever changes regarding more than 5 years of Amazon continuing to sell this awful "alleged" Blu-ray.  The defects remain:  1. The alleged "Total Recall" Blu-ray disc, falsely advertised by the manufacturer as in a Cinemascope screen aspect ratio of 2.35:1, is actually at 1.85:1.  2. Despite being falsely advertised by the manufacturer as in "High Definition", the alleged "Total Recall" Blu-ray is in standard definition at best.  Consumers must never give up.  If you receive a defective product, complain to any retailer.  (Also note that great "Total Recall" Blu-rays do exist, as reviewed by specialty websites.)  A pity Amazon seems to have never received those from the manufacturer.  You may ask: How could all this continue over five years, with Amazon selling fatally defective "Total Recall" Blu-rays?  It's easy to explain.  First Amazon people normally never read customer written reviews, believing they are only for customers.  Second, Amazon fails to clearly place reviews in two entirely separate categories, one category for ordinary standard definition DVDs, the other category for Blu-ray High Definition DVDs.  My suggestion to Amazon that this helpful division become standard policy is at least under consideration, or so I have been told.  I once again urge Amazon to begin doing what makes sense for both Amazon and its customers.  Blu-rays have close to nothing in common with standard definition DVDs.  Separate the reviews, starting with brand new Blu-ray releases.  Had all "Total Recall" Blu-ray reviews been collected under a single heading, even Amazon might have noticed that nearly every single Blu-ray review complained about one or both of the two defects I've described above.  At least fewer of us consumers, who read the reviews, would have purchased such an absurd product.  Truth is that extremely helpful Amazon personnel finally read those highly negative "Total Recall" Blu-ray reviews.  It happened because I politely asked them to become better educated by such reading, also guiding their way to the most incriminating Blu-ray "Total Recall" reviews.  Putting it another way, I was a pest, not just about the alleged "Total Recall" Blu-ray, but also two more discs purchased by me, suffering from similar manufacturer defects.  They are a Judy Collins standard definition concert DVD with stall/skips in two songs; and"Superman II - the Richard Donner Cut", not in high definition.  Amazon needs to be educated on such matters by its customers.  It's up to us.  And good Amazon DVD/Blu-ray consumers MUST understand Amazon's binding "Rule of 2".  Any Amazon DVD or Blu-ray purchaser has to receive TWO different discs with the same defect, FROM AMAZON.COM, before ever being taken seriously.  And Amazon means two separate discs of the exact same product, purchased only from Amazon.com, a first one replaced by the second one, with the identical defect a second time.  Most importantly, defective DVD/Blu-rays purchased from Amazon Marketplace sellers NEVER count under the "Rule of 2".  You may ask: How am I supposed to know about this "Rule of 2" that excludes Amazon Marketplace sellers?  I'm telling you now, exactly how some Amazon people explained it to me.  Always obey the "Rule of 2", and that means ignoring Amazon customer service representatives who themselves fail to understand the "Rule of 2".  Those well-meaning people only got in the way, greatly delaying my compliance with the "Rule of 2", the secret to any hope for success.  Consumers must know more than many Amazon people they talk to.  I'm also assuming we want such products with manufacturer defects to promptly become an "Item Under Review", even if it currently gets us nowhere.  I intend for that to change.  Of course I don't agree with the "Rule of 2", and plenty of other Amazon rules.  So long as Amazon follows its "Rule of 2, then Amazon should prominently display the "Rule of 2" everywhere it sells DVDs and Blu-rays, also training and testing every customer service representative as to their knowledge regarding the "Rule of 2".  I also oppose Amazon excluding purchases from Amazon Marketplace sellers as never having happened under the "Rule of 2".  I got four separate,  standard definition DVDs of Judy Collins, all with the exact same manufacturer defect in the same two songs, but purchases #1 and #2 failed to count under the "Rule of 2", the result of trying to save a little money buying from Marketplace sellers cheaper than Amazon.  You may ask: How does Amazon handle the kind of manufacturer defects you keep talking about, such as the defective "Total Recall" Blu-ray?  I intend to learn, starting with an inquiry about whether "Total Recall" Blu-rays put up for sale yet again have ever been watched by anyone from Amazon and/or the manufacturer.  This is the fundamental question, and I currently know that "none" remains the only possible answer.  Just want Amazon to admit this fact, then hopefully changing its "Rule Against Amazon Personnel Ever Watching a Defective DVD/Blu-ray."  Wish me luck, since I am gong to need it.

sucks don't waste your time, haven't seen such a bad movie in a while. Skip this one, there are other better options, there isn't  even hot chicks.

Ummm... This film is a spectacularly daffy project. How people could summon the strength to keep going, day after day, all the while knowing what they were making is beyond me. Wouldn't you just run out steam and say "Eff it. This thing is a far too daffy to continue"? I mean, Gary - what were you thinking?

Do not do it! Slow, boring, uninteresting, and leaving one wondering what is happening. I only finished it because I paid for it. Spend your hard earned dollar elsewhere.

I'm not satisfied,it is inconformity. its title name include "3-D movie",but received disk is 2D-version!I have seen fact after the package be opened,I don't like to return.  but I'm not satisfied this item

Nothing my kids enjoyed. I got this movie for my kids for Halloween.  We we watched it I was very disappointed.  It was weird......story didn't make any sense.  Neither myself or my children understood the point of the movie.  And I have to say that the sceen with the large busted woman with a bikini bottom and pasties on was a little inappropriate for my kids (6 and 8yrs.).  Luckily neither of my children noticed it much except for my daughter to comment "she has huge boobs".  I wouldn't recommend this movie for anyone with younger kids.  I guess if you like Tim Burton you might enjoy this movie but I think most of his work is a little out there.

doesnt play I tried to play this video, had company to watch it with me. Wont play. I will try it again, if not I will need to return the DVD

Waste of time and Money One of the worst films of the year. Plot was predictable (if you could call it that) Barely any dialogue. Film was pretty much special effects only. Aliens invade earth. Aliens turn humans into cyborg monsters. Flat and predictable.

I want my money back! This flick is unwatchably bad. It is also a calculated rip off--it poses as a sequil to an excelent film, The Skeliton Key. It has nothing to do with it other than the name.  Filmed on home vidio equipment, with special effects that consist of play-doe, green grease paint, and items that can be bought at the dolar store or party central, it uses attempts at humor that most highschool seniors would find lame, along with any excuse to show girls topless, to grunt out the most foul excuse of a film that is basically two hours long with a quality that falls below the average idiots on vidio youtube upload.  Avoid like the plague!!

Beautiful visuals, but not much else The only things that were good about this film are the visuals, and Michael Fassbender who honestly is the only actor in this film worth talking about, if the rest of the film was as incredible as Fassbenders performance then this movie would have been an absolute masterpiece. What killed this film was the troubled script and poor performances by several key actors. There are a lot of great ideas represented in this movie, but unfortunately a lot of bad ideas too.

maybe, maybe not I guess there could possibly be a greater waste of time, but I cannot see how.  Maybe I could coin a phrase to describe this mindlessness: celluloid torture.

Bad Movie This movie is one of the worst I have ever seen.  BAD acting...poor special effects....stupid plot line....BAD MOVIE.  Don't waste your money like I did.

Bad acting and no plot at all This movie has nothing to recommend it. The actors can't act, the dialogue is inane and unbelievable, the photography is second-rate, the macho histrionics and constant cursing are unimpressive, and besides that, I don't think I liked this prole-trash very much. I watched this movie because of the high "star" ratings given in these reviews. BIG MISTAKE.

Wow! Pretty bad and predictable. The kid is the evil one, not ther parents. There!  Spoiler!  Who cares. This business of not giving away spoilers is plain dumb. Anybody could IMDB or Wiki the darn plot.  Rene Zellweger's is Emily, the Social Worker trying to save Lillith, the "poor kid"  from her evil parents. The plot was predictable after the parents tried to "Roast" Lilli in the oven. I mean, come on, both parents trying to kill their child at the same time? Both psycho's? You knew the kid was going to start working on everyone involved in freeing her  from her parents.  You have had to be pretty dense not to figure out the kid was the evil one, and not the parents.  She "kills" some boys parents (by phoning the boy to kill them) then Emily's psychiatrist friend Bradley Cooper, then her parents (mom burned, dad stabbed in mental institution), then the cop.....................do you see where this is going? The only way to kill Lilli is while she's sleeping. Anyway, Emily kills her in the end. Case 39 CLOSED.  LOL!  What a crock of *^>@#

AVOID ULTRAVIOLET AT ALL CAUSE...... I'll never buy a bluray disc with Ultraviolet Copy.  Its a rip off. You thought your buying a digital copy but in reality you are just renting it. Warner Brothers is fooling you to think that's its accessible and easy but all they care about is for you to pay for the same movie over and over again...  After you dowload the movie several times your out of luck.  Typical consumers like me, You've been warned.  Don't be fooled by Ultraviolet...

This movie is really bad! The title itself doesn't make much sense.  This movie should had been located in the "cabin" like the first and not in a school. But, it being not in a school is the least of its problems.  The character development in this movie is really bad. When I started to see each and everyone of the main characters die, I didn't really care. All I thought was, "everyone dying really fast". There's is no scary or horror feel to this movie. It is just people dying one after each other. Or it is people trying to escape from the extermination people. The extermination people were never really introduced and just seemed to come out of no where. Then, they just started killing people off.  This movie doesn't seem to have much planning out to it. The first movie was much better made. It had a few main people. Then, one of them slowly get the disease and they all try to help that person. Then, another gets it and that person try to find help. Then, one after another gets it, but it is slowly done. This is good because you get to know the characters better and by seeing them more and more you start caring for them to stay alive.  The second movie, wasn't like the first and everyone dies way too quickly. Save yourself the time and don't watch this one.

As a fan of the 1st and 3rd films, this one is garbage. I'll start off by saying this movie is awful. Chevy's just chugging through bad writing and bad jokes in this one. His older age didn't help any either. The kids are terrible actors and I didn't notice one genuinely funny line from either of them. Rusty's just a nerdy douchebag and audrey is just bad. Not even cousin Eddie could save this film, as he was not on par with the original Vacation or Christmas vacation standards. This one is down among the ranks of European Vacation, which is also terrible. I don't know what happened with these two films or how the writer or director thought they were good comedy, but they both stick out like a sore thumb for being the two huge duds of the series in my opinion.

Very Very Disappointed I was very disappointed in this movie.  It too graphic and very sad.  The things that went on in the movie was not just a black but a people thing.  As a Christian, this was nothin my eyes would want to see and I would not recommend anyone to see it.  I was very that Tyler Perry produce such a movie.

Most controversial film ever made In the hype for this movie they claim it is the most controversial film ever made.  The only controversy I can imagine is whether or not this is the worst movie ever made.  I could only watch about 20 minutes of it.  I have only myself to blame for purchasing it, but my defense mechanisms want to blame another entity for this scam.  Amazon...shame on you.  You should pay us to take this trash out of your inventory!  Ah, just thought of another controversy.  How in hell did Guiccione (or however he spells his name) manage to get marquee names like McDowell, Mirren, Gielgud etc.  associated with this travesty?

great movie wrong region When I purchased this I didn't realize it would not work in the US. I am very disappointed that it will not play.

not good This film was far from "refreshing".  What ever happened to the decent things in life?  Hesher had a very BIG filthy mouth and so did the boy, therefore taking away any lesson there was to learn in this film...except how to have a filthy mouth and be violent.  How sad.  This film just gives people bad ideas of how to act!  Nothing they did was exceptable.  There are better ways to let of steam.  Just walking into someone's home and making YOURSELF at home...give me a break!  Hesher was filthy and discusting.  This was a very depressing movie. A waste of time.

A Disney Dud... This was the one DVD my kids wanted for Christmas, as they had seen a snippet of it in the Disney Princess Christmas of Enchantment. What a disappointment!  Poor animation quality: strange mix of 2D & 3D, boring plot, horribly lame lyrics:  "If you're turned on then just turn off"  "you'll go to pot you'll turn to drink you'll never rest you'll end up mad and looking like some poor demented dove"  Really, Disney?  The only positive is the stellar voice cast, but that doesn't redeem all the cons of this dud of a movie...this one's definitely not staying in our Disney collection.

Gullivers Travel 3D Maybe this is the very first Region Locked 3D Blu-Ray Movie ???? I bought Gullivers Travel Region 1 on Blu-Ray 3D from Amazon.com but the Movie is not Playing on my Playstation 3 3D Blu-Ray Player Region Australia because its Region Codet ???? I have about 20 - 30 3D Blu-Ray Movies most of them from USA and some from UK/Germany/Australia and all are Perfect to Play / Watch in real 3D with Shutter Glasses incl. Avatar / Ice Age 3 / Meatballs / Monsters - Aliens / How to train a Dragon and so on...? But Gullivers Travel in 3D is not Playing with Playstation 3 Australia 3D Blu-Ray Player.....? Can anybody help ????? Why ?????

Title Misleading This product information is misleading because it comes across as a history of why nations made Israel a scapegoat and why their is anti-Semitism. The information should include that from the beginning of this DVD and througout it is about the history of people in the New Testament.

Nice movie, bad message First off, the digital quality is very poor, both in visible and audio formats. Secondly, the movie starts off great. Chick just graduates from college, and is searching for a job in NYC. For some strange reason she is offered a post as a secretary in a fashion magazine, even though she wants to be a journalist at anything else but a fashion magazine. So, apparently, she cannot get a job that she wants, but thinks this one might be the job before the job she wants, though how anyone can believe that a secretary job in a field she dislikes can get her a writing job in a field she wants is beyond me. Secondly, the entire theme of the move is "Go try and be successful but if trying to be a better person changes you then you should be ashamed of yourself." It preaches that to be successful, you have to sacrifice everything good in your life, and that people that are successful are unhappy and lonely. So, every beautiful dress and handbag, every beautiful blouse and shoe, created by hours of work by successful fashion designers in that movie has now been washed in the pond scum puddle of anti-successful feelings.

An Affair to FORGET! For years and years I've heard about this movie, how great and romantic it is. So when I saw it was on my local cable companies free on demand TCM movie channel I decided to take two hours and watch it. I now thank my lucky stars I did not buy this movie.  Don't get me wrong. I love and am a huge fan of romantic movies. But this movie? I feel I must be missing something or have watched a different version of the movie than most people have seen.  Where exactly is the chemistry between Gary Grant and Deborah Kerr? I didn't notice any real chemistry between them during the entire movie. The dialogue between them didn't inspire any passion that I could see. Then there were all the other items in this movie that made my go UGH. My first cringe was the dinner scene on the boat and the other passengers laughing. Come on, this would never happen. People might stare for sure, but to break out in such laughter? Then there is Terry McKay's long suffering boyfriend Ken Bradley. What man is going to keep hanging on like this? Ken had the looks (for the time the movie was made) and his character apparently had money, so why would any guy in his right mind keep hanging on and waiting around for a woman who is in love with someone else? Ken needed to grow a backbone (among other things) and tell Terry to push off. Don't even get me started with Nickie's fiancee Lois Clark. Personally I can't see Nickie's character blowing off all that money for someone he thinks he loves and whom he just met. Come on, this just isn't how things work in the real world.  Then there are the other really annoying parts of the movie itself. Can you say "Treacle Children's Choir"? To sit through the first scene with them was bad enough, but two scene's? The second scene in Terry's apartment is beyond watching so I hit the fast forward button double quick. Plus does anyone notice in the first scene when the children sing only the two black children come down in front and dance? OMG! I guess this was acceptable for the time the movie was made, but now? (By the way, I'm caucasion and this part of the movie really bothered me)  The only part of the movie that showed any promise is when Nickie see's the painting on the wall of Terry's bedroom. At this one point in the movie you can see some real emotion come through on the face of Mr. Grant.  Like I said I'm glad I didn't buy this movie and it certainly is a mystery to me on what makes it "one of the most romantic movies of all time". Personally I wish the movie script had been thrown overboard.

Lacked all originality I had high expectations for this movie so I was very disappointed to find a rehash of the Alien legacy. The movie was well executed with good acting and good effects but yet it lacked any originality. Apparently it was assumed that only people living in a cave for the last 20 years would watch this movie. A lot of money and time could have been saved by just splicing old sci-fi movies together with no loss of entertainment value.

Soft-core garbage, NOT a good tribute to classics I bought this movie on DVD after reading a number of reviews praising it as being a tribute to classic monsters, including (obviously) the Frankenstein Monster and Creature from the Black Lagoon. There's also a werewolf. The dirt cheapness of the film didn't bother me in particular, but the fact that it's dull dull dull dull dull really did.  I also didn't go into it expecting the extended scenes of heavily siliconed women posing nude. If that's your thing, fine, but I bought this as a monster movie, not a titillation flick. The Ron Jeremy appearance was just weird.  The only good thing about this was the Creature costume, but even that didn't work out particularly well. The scenes with the Creature and Monster running at each other to battle on the beach were ridiculous beyond words.  Really, an atrociously bad, dull and dirty film, a waste of even the small amount of money I spent on it.

Inferior to the DVD! I am one of more than 400 reviews and it is likely nobody will read this, but perhaps someone can save their money on the bluray version if they do. In teaching a musical theatre appreciation class a few months ago I presernted this in DVD along the theatre version. Young high school students will love this one more; it is gothic and true to their taste. But I am not going to write a long diatribe on the quality of the piece; everyone knows that. I am a Broadway and Sondheim fan, and I do like this movie. I might not find some of the actors convincing (Bonham Carter cannot sing) but as a movie, drama and tragedy this is very compelling.  What I am truly angry about is the bluray delivery.  Having showed it on DVD successfully, I got this bluray version expecting improvement, but no. Perhaps the video is slightly better, but the audio volume is so low, I was forced to put on subtitles!!  For that reason, this is a disgrace and Dreamworks should be ashamed of themselves. If you want a true awesome experience, get the DVD or wait until some idiot at DreamWorks wakes up and apologizes.

Just like the first one I went in to the theater and saw the movie, and much to my surprise, it was EXACTLY like the first movie. It had small groups of special characters, it had the kind of plot which centers around a young and "different" member of the species, and in the end, everything sorts out. Not worth it, if you've seen the first one, you have seen this one, and even if you have REMOTELY seen the trailer to Happy Feet 2, you pretty much have seen what this movie offers. There aren't any more funny scenes, than the ones in the trailer, aren't any more characters or anything. Really Dull movie.

Great movie, abysmal Blu-Ray transfer This was one of the shoddiest transfers I've seen lately. The back cover boasts of an 'astonishing remaster' which, basically, consists of your garden-variety noise reduction, artificial sharpening and edge enhancement. Detail in most scenes (even closeups) is scarce. Some scenes look as if they were lifted from the (not exactly stellar) DVD. Usually even below-par releases have at least some redeeming quality to them, but unfortunately not in this case as far as the picture quality is concerned. The blandness of the image is perhaps what Walt Disney Home Video means by 'astonishing'.  I bought this together with High Fidelity (which, *thankfully*, is a fairly decent and strong-looking release)  Also let me talk a bit about the extras. Wait! There are none. Not even a trailer. The astonishment continues.  The only aspect I would give somewhat high marks for on this disc is the audio, as they have actually managed to not screw this up along with everything else. But all in all this made for some very poor treatment of what I consider to be a unique classic from the period. Shame on you Disney for treating your customers this way.

Does not play on any DVD player. Only plays on HD DVD players. My wife bought it for me for christmas and did not notice that it clearly stated that it only plays on HD DVD player. I really like this movie and was looking forward to watching it!!!  This product should not be offered for sale since the average customer would be wanting a DVD that plays on PS3, DVD, etc players. Since the item was opened we could not return it.

Sick movie - this is not how people are There was no need for multiple women to get raped to make the point in this movie.  It's not how people behave. Sick.  I shouldn't have watched it and neither should you.

Poor transfer & Missing Scenes The other reviewer is right in calling this severely truncated -- it's missing several vital scenes. And the Kino VHS has better image quality. Wish I had watched it sooner so I could return it. Save your money!

Horrible customer service, and three weeks later, no movie I ordered a movie from this company and it has been almost a month, and I have yet to receive it. I emailed them with an inquiry ten days ago, and never got a response. There is no way to track my order, and I cannot reach anyone by phone! I would not do business with these people!

Horrible movie By far the dumbest storyline I have ever seen. I do not care that the movie is suppose to be a different genre because the underlying theme of the movie is dumb people. More specifically,  if the characters in the movie were rational, even by horror movie standards, this movie would have lasted exactly 7 minutes. For example, if I know that a hotel is haunted and I hear a voice, I would not think it is my friend calling me, I also would not then decide to go in the basement where the ghost lives, which I also know, thinking that my friend will be there. Having that said, there is literately no twists, and zero complexity to the story.  Do not watch this movie,or if you do make sure your playing chess, or poker, or backgammon at the same time. Moreover, do not waste a great Friday night, as I just did, watching this movie.

Caution: Buy the MK2 Box Set, not the "Enhanced Version"! Rest assured my one star review is NOT for the film itself,  Charlie Chaplin's THE KID, one of my favorite movies.  I'm hoping my rating raises a flag to potential buyers of a particular DVD version of the film--i.e., THE KID (ENHANCED EDITION).  My negative comments DO NOT APPLY to the MK2 version, as will be obvious if you trouble to read the entire review (which you should if you are thinking about purchasing the film).  Amazon is getting increasingly sloppy in terms of supplying accurate information about its products, and this is a prime example.  Apparently the product on sale here is a single disc DVD-R version of THE KID (which multiple customers have complained about, reporting it has no music track).  The Editorial Review, however, is for an entirely different product altogether, the MK2/Warner Bros 12-disc set, THE CHAPLIN COLLECTION, VOLUME 2, which was out-of-print but as of this writing seems to be available again.  See below:  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00017LVRI">The Chaplin Collection, Vol. 2 (City Lights / The Circus / The Kid / A King in New York / A Woman of Paris / Monsieur Verdoux / The Chaplin Revue / Charlie - The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin)</a>  To add to the confusion, most of the 5 star reviews pasted here are obviously referring to the MK2 set, not the single disc version of THE KID.  Needless to say, it's extremely misleading to transfer all the laudatory reviews for a brilliant box set to the home page of what is apparently a shoddily produced single DVD-R.  (Maybe the reason there's no soundtrack is because it's still under copyright, while to the best of my knowledge the film itself is in the public domain.)  I did my best to update the product information through the website, but this proved to be an exercise in sheer frustration:  Amazon's automated list of questions doesn't let you get at this particular problem (which is rampant throughout the site, especially in the MP3 department).  I fully expect this to come full circle:  Amazon will transfer this review to the home page of THE CHAPLIN COLLECTION, VOLUME TWO, where it will receive lots of unhelpful votes and inspire outraged comments.  Urgghh.  But at least this is the sort of machine age irony that Chaplin himself would have found funny.  Chaplin was arguably the greatest filmmaker ever.  See all his movies.  Buy as many as you can afford, because they all improve with repeated viewings.  Just be aware of what you're buying (and as a rule of thumb, avoid DVD-Rs, an unstable, easily damaged format).  Let Amazon know it's not right to give out misleading information about their products.  P.S.  As predicted, Amazon HAS transferred this review from where it was originally posted [under The  Kid (Enhanced) 1921] to The Chaplin Collection, Vol. 2 (City Lights / The Circus / The Kid / A King in New York / A Woman of Paris / Monsieur Verdoux / The Chaplin Revue / Charlie - The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin) (1931).  Sigh.  To reiterate:  the 12-disc MK2/Warner Bros set is wonderful; the "enhanced" DVD-R of The Kid is by most accounts woeful.  P.P.S.  Amazon has finally--after I wrote to them--unlinked this edition of THE KID with the MK2 box set.  They have also deleted the erroneous Editorial Review.  Those are improvements.  However, this 2-disc public domain product is apparently still linked to the MK2 2-disc edition (which is probably the sole reason why it still retains a very high rating from Amazon customers).  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00017LVNC">The Kid  (2 Disc Special Edition)</a>  The MK-2 edition has been beautifully restored and includes many wonderful special features, including "Chaplin Today:  The Kid," a 26-minute documentary by Alain Bergala with the participation of Abbas Kiarostami (!); "How to Make Movies," a 16-minute Chaplin short from 1918; deleted scenes; a brief introduction by David Robinson, Chaplin's biographer; newsreel footage; footage of Jackie Coogan dancing in 1920; "My Boy," a 55-minute film starring Jackie Coogan and Albert Austin made shortly after "The Kid" (no soundtrack; not restored), etc.  I have no idea what the special features are on this set, but note the company's name:  Public Domain Flicks.  Also note that these discs are DVD-Rs.

Really upset Apparently, "this disc cannot be played in your region". I can't believe Amazon allows stuff like this to happen. Yes, I noticed the SMALL red warning, not nearly noticeable enough. I am really upset that after waiting and specifically choosing a seller one state away from me to get it sooner, this DVD won't play. Why would a DVD seller from the states make DVDs formatted for South Africa? Amazon should look into a better way of warning it's buyers before purchase of regions. I wasn't aware that they even existed. Now I have an open DVD that the seller probably won't even take back because the seal has been broken. I always shop through Amazon, but am seriously doubting them after this inconvenience.

Another Hollywood walk down some ridiculous primrose path. This movie is not worth the time it would take to write a review. Garbage. At least Julia made some $$$$ (not mine thank you JESUS).

Product not received! I have not received this product at all, I ordered "Man Called Horse" also and have not received that either.

This isn't a real movie. No dialog for most the movie. I stopped watching. It is just two women who strip and seem like they have some experience at it. I just don't get it. I wouldn't waste my time.

Movie wouldn't play One of my favorite movies. Ordered the movie and received it in two days. Went to watch it and it would not play in any of the 3 dvd players in my house! Very disappointed to say they least!

just awful - just read through the 1 star reviews. Don't need to repeat it all. the idea wasn't that bad at all, but the way it has been worked out was horrible. Amazon should add zero stars or minus points. That's the category for this flick.

a lot of vulgar language to make it  funny it could have been funny without the use of vulgar language but the comedian used a lot of cursing and foul words as a crutch to make his comedy.  what a pity.  the use of foul language means you don't trust your talents in making people laugh.

twilight series.......snooooozeville got hot milk? tired, exhaused from a long day working 2 shifts.....can't keep yer eyes opem? this dribble is for you.....teen vampires.....ooooh boy! crappy script.....weak acting.....and gay werewolves.....what a treat for the whole family......burn these discs....wait ban them first .....garbage! not worth reviewing.....going to staple my eyes shut!

Waste of money This DVD will not play comes up with "out of region" message so was a total waste of money. Not sure how to get this replaced with one that will play for my granddaughter!

don't buy Weird weird weird. that is what sums up this movie. My five year old liked it for the first five minutes and then went on to other things. It is very strange and may give me nightmares. Do NOT buy this movie!!!

Public Domain footage freely available (in DVD quality) from archive.org Do NOT spend a single dime on this item, please.  This is a blatant rip-off of a DVD created by me a few years ago (from high-quality Public Domain footage freely downloadable from archive.org) to be shared freely via bittorrent.  This seems to be an EXACT copy of what I compiled, down to the sequence of contents.

Stay Away from this Blu This has to be the worst Blu-Ray transfer I have ever seen. It is so grainy in spots that it feels like I am watching it on TV in the 90s with a bad antenna signal. Some parts are even worse than others, how this got released is beyond me. Do yourself a fav and do not buy this version of Stargate.

Was not in English!!!! And site didnt say it wasn't!!! I got this as a gift and when given it was not in English and had no way if changing it to English. I am very upset but this and the person this gift was for was so heartbroken! Contacted the seller waiting to see what will get done about this but wanted to let anyone looking to buy this to make sure you get English if that's what you want don't just trust what is on the site.

Absolutely Awful!! Ridiculously stupid movie and it will be an even worse experience if you've read the book.  Having said that, let me just say that I absolutely LOVED the book!!  However, the entire storyline from the book was completely thrown out, and an entirely new (and awful) one created for this movie.  Is there anything from the book in the movie?  Yes, 2 things.  Abe Lincoln and Vampires.  Aside from that there is not one scene from the movie that is in the book.  Even taking the story from the book out of my mind and just rating the movie on its own merits, it remains awful.  The entire storyline is just predictable and unimaginative, not to mention entirely unrealistic.  Now, I'm not saying that vampires and such are realistic.  When I say it've unrealistic, I mean the normal things happening in the movie.  Everything from leaping across the backs of stampeding of horses for miles to the climax of saving the union in the battle of gettysburg.  I would go into detail here, but if you haven't watched it and intend to, then I don't want to spoil it for you regardless of the stupidity.  Additionally, they made it seem like the southern army led by Lee was nothing but evil, demons and vampires while the north was good and the best humanity had to offer.  I think if you live in the South you will probably be VERY upset watching this movie!!  FYI:  The book doesn't portray this, so in closing.... Read the book and don't waste your money on this crap-tastic movie.

worst movie ever I gave this movie one star because it wouldn't accept zero stars. modern war movie with old shakespearian type dialogue. It didn't work for Romeo and Juliette set in modern day why would it work for this.

Terrible movie with a serious lighting problem I am a huge fan of the Dougless Preston and Lincoln Child books. "Relic" is one of their best, and this movie does it no justice whatsoever. While I understand their reasoning for not including Pendergast (the FBI agent from the books) it hurts the story of Relic so much that it goes from being a high intensity monster-thriller, to a failed B-movie.  The two things that actually made the movie unwatchable is the constant darkness, and the terrible cuts. Frenetic action with byte sized dialog and pitch black lighting is not a good recipe for a monster movie.

Quality, quality, quality... Love the quality of the movie. Hate the quality of this version. As others have noted, my DVD player has issues playing this. The beginning is great, but then around the "Last Days of Pompeii" scene culminating in "Sincere" the picture has pixel issues and my player has issues tracking it. Cleaning, polishing, and buffing the disk surface helped a bit but not enough so I think a major problem is with pressed DVD layer itself. I thought my copy might be an isolated example until I read some other reviews. I'm getting another copy of this great movie, but the 2011 version this time.

predictable so predictable it is not even worth watching, it starts out his robot kicks butt then gets creamed and the same with the 2nd robot, then he gets his kid for the summer and the kids robot takes a beating but always ends up winning until the final event is the judges decision. Of course as predictable as ever the kids robot won but the decision is for the bad robot, lol

Hated it If your a guy who does not want your wife turning into a cheating (&*&^. Don't let her watch this movie Or the show

Good story poor Producation This is stealing. first the movie or should I say movies are not complete. they are more teasers than full featured story. they leave you wanting more while you bought it because you thought ou will see one complete story. I loved the idea that africa is making its own animation stories based on our own legends and history but that was not what this package had. stay away from it and I find the five star given above as more lies. thank you

I HAVE BEEN DUPED I was so thrilled to find/get this but I had no idea about the quality and the cuts. I noticed the poor quality right away. Also, the "fancy" cardboard packing arrived damaged. So disappointed!! Can I return this defective product?

bad, worse, worst i love topher grace and the other actors in this movie, but it is the worst "entertainment" i've seen since i can remember. please rent something else. "the double" is beyond forced and cliche at every waking moment and the reason straight to video was invented.

Absolute rubbish; a waste of money I agree with the critical reviews below.  This is a travesty of history; even "Cromwell" was better than this. If this is the best the British film industry can do, I shall never make fun of Hollywood again.  There are so many factual errors it is not worth listing them.  This is not a criticism of the actors, however - only the script. If you know nothing about the Civil War, then you might enjoy the film.

Horrible movie I like Hockey, do not like this movie. I really wasn't sure what to expect when I rented this, but I found myself bored during parts of it and really this entire movie is about fighting. I understand the title is "Goon" and that's the premise of the movie, but literally every scene is of blood splattering on the ice or the players sitting down talking. There are a few great scenes but the majority of this movie is just guys beating each other up with no real plot.

There are low budget, independent movies... ...and then there are movies NOT to see! This movie is the latter in the biggest possible way!  The sound track is the background music you hear when you go shopping. The script could have been written better by first-graders...  This movie is so low in quality that it should not even be on Amazon - even for free! Definitely, not even worth 0.99$, not to mention 1.99$  Do NOT waste your money on this!!! This movie is a rip-off!!!!

Thumbsucker Sucks Like "Igby Goes Down" and a long list of other failed teenage-angst flicks, this sucker also goes down. What made the novel "Catcher in the Rye" such a success was that the teenage protagonist Holden Caulfield had a good reason to be full of self-absorbed angst (the death of his little brother Allie); also, Holden Caulfield was funny and endearing. Igby and this thumbsucking kid were not funny; they are merely self-absorbed for no particular reason and thoroughly unlikeable. This movie deserves kudos for partially exposing the drug Ritalin as the societal blight that it is, but that's about the only positive thing to be said about it. The supporting cast is very talented, but their talent is largely wasted: For example, Vincent D'Onofrio is an extremely talented actor, but watching him in this movie, I felt sorry for him, and I wondered why he ever took the part: Although he is playing the role of a father and husband, practically all the script calls for him to do is to shrug his shoulders and grunt or let his mouth hang open in silent stupidity. Did they want D'Onofrio to reprise his Private Pyle character or what??? Keanu Reeves's acting was a wooden as ever, but at least the part he played was initially interesting. However, this subplot, just like all plots and subplots of this movie, go nowhere. There is also an insidious theme of misandry running throughout this movie: Every single male character has some inherent attenuating flaw: D'Onofrio's character is a moron; Reeves's character is a space cadet; Vaughn's character is a teacher chaperoning on a field trip who books the same hotel room for both his male and female students, and then buys them alcohol!; Bratt's character is a drug addict; Pucci's character doesn't know what the heck he is--only Tilda Swinton's character stands alone as not suffering from any such flaw. She possesses wisdom, is capable of love and sacrifice, is successful, is heroic, is patient with her moronic husband, etc. So many movies evince a misandric theme like this these days, and I am getting sick of it. Basically--and you knew this was coming--thumbsucker sucks indeed.

Grisley and horrifying - I'll have nightmares for life I'd give it zero stars if I could.  The acting is good, yes, but the movie is physically sickening.  It's a violent and gruesome expose of child torture.  I wish I hadn't seen it.  At the very least, the filmmaker could have shown what happened to the accomplices, who I wish could have gotten double what this defenseless girl got.

Unfortunately I Bought Both Movies!!! I am a horror fan, but Hostel I & II are the worst movies I've ever seen!!!  If I could Have given them a lower rating like a -100 I would have.  Whoever made this flick and whose who rated this movie high need to be on a wanted list.  Just GORE and PERVASION.

Incredibly boring movie. This is a very boring movie. The humor is very bland and corny even for a childrens film. There are plenty of better movie out there. This is one to skip.

It's an Asylum movie... that is all... As a common b-movie night, my friend and I decided to watch Princess and the Pony because it's the first family movie from The Asylum (infamous for their awful Titanic 2 and monster VS movies) and let me just say... it's equally as bad. Aside from the main character, every other actor is AWFUL!!! There's no real plot other than the bad guys wanting to kill... yes, kill... the little princess. There's a scene where the villian is actually pointing a gun at 2 little girls... ugggh. The pony has no real effect on anything... the girl just encourages her to jump. Does it reflect the princess' self-esteem or makes her a better person???? NO! There's this character that actually looks like a meth addict and IS a rather bad thief in the film. Fake moustaches (with obvious glue around the guys upper lip), atrocious one liners (Oh, I like me some black licorice!!"), and a specific rainy night shot that looks like somebody's hosing the car in their closed porch (LOL)... if you're up for some laughs due to really bad production... watch this film. But if you're looking for something ala Princess Protection Diaries, then rewatch that movie instead.

Good bye, Nicole I am on a roll. Yesterday I reviewed the worst spy thriller, today I found the bottom of the lowest of home invasion thrillers. I have usually been friendly towards Nicole Kidman, but I am challenged about my attitude now. She gives us a terrible performance as hysterical hostage here. We don't expect better from Nicolas Cage any more, but I still had illusions about Nicole. Well, too bad. Let's not lose too many words about this trashy flick. No script, no plot, no suspense, no actors, no nada. Nuff said.

Very cheesy movie So first, i will say, i did read the book before watching the movie.  BUT...  i'm not one of those people who judge movies by the book.  Movies are merely based on the idea of the book.  So i am NOT one of those people who complain about how a movie didn't stand up to the book!!  With that said though, i just finished watching the movie (literally, 5 minutes ago).  I was extremely disappointed in the movie as a whole.  The editing and basically entire flow of the movie was very choppy (and i assume quite confusing for anyone who didn't read the book, trying to figure out what the movie was really about).  The acting was not good, the plot was not very deep, and to be completely honest...  It just wasn't scary!  You can tell they they tried to build suspense, but it was so flimsy, it fell on it's face!!  One thing that made me just throw my hands up, was how they cut from scene to scene not really explaining too much, but spent like 5 minutes on Ben walking from one truck to the other (if you watch, you'll know what i'm talking about - i don't want to give anything away).  I would just say, watch the film before you spend the money on the DVD!!!  I can see positive feedback, so obviously some people do like it.  But i imagine this is one of those hit-and-miss films...  I'm glad i checked it out on you tube before ordering (which i never ended up doing).

Lousy and pretentious This was one of the worst movies I'd ever seen. Absolutely boring, lame movie about the life of privileged people. Maybe they think this is entertaining, but this is one of those films you will swear you've seen before. Just don't even bother. BTW, what man isn't like this guy? Give me a break.

Funny Girl The disc I received did Not have the film on it.  It had the accompanying features and interviews but no movie.  I was had!  I hope none of you had that experience.  It cost me $12.49.  This says much about the quality control at Amazon.  I am a very loyal customer, but this is the second time that Amazon has "stolen" money from me.  By the way, the Features were great!

Tron Legacy I waited to see this movie on DVD, as the movie reviews were not too good.  The original Tron was a simple, OK film.  Tron Legacy is something else.  It is complex, relying on special effects instead of a good story.  This DVD goes into my "donate" bin, not a keeper.

Godzilla,was he in the film You know,I have been watching godzilla films since the 60's,although the film is good..they forgot the name of the show,godzilla...not people run though new york..we olny see godzilla breifly.and only half of him..well I guess thats show bissnesses

Another very average "poverty porn" movie that rich moviegoers overrate Terrible average, boring TV movie of the week sort of film that gets a lot of raves from rich urban critics that never have experienced life outside of a high-rise. The whole movie incorporated scenes that are supposed to be jarring of old cars rusting outside of rural homes and junk, which are to illustrate the shocking poverty of the place. The climax of the movie is very lukewarm at best and you practically waited the entire movie to see what you knew was going to happen.  The rave reviews of this film remind me of the ones "Animal Kingdom" got. I just don't understand where it is all coming from. I can only conclude that rich people that would call these areas "Flyover Country" would think movies like this are amazing. To someone like me that has driven all over America, this could be anywhere, any day. The only thing is, real country folk are nothing like the people in this movie. The film's characters are way too sanitized and stereotypical.

I'd give it less than one star if I could This has to be one of the worst movies I've ever seen and, except for Hollywood's built-in nepotism, would have not been made.  My primary distaste for the movie and what distracted me from the "story" relates to the props and the over emphasis on "perfection."  All of the signs for Coke, etc., were in perfect, unblemished condition.  The shoes worn by the girl star were totally today's.  The mother's French manicure made me want to set my hair on fire....  Help!!!  Guess it's really no worse than the Thin Man series and other movies from the 30's and 40's where most of the characters are rich and overdressed and were intended to encourage the masses to go out and attain their own impossible dreams but not to my taste at all. At least the earlier ones could be entertaining.

History of "Technology and Triumph", not 'us' Americans.... I watched this video on my younger brother's behalf, and he said that this was a good documentary. After viewing it in it's entirity, It's obvious that I don't agree. I'm aware of the fact that it's impossible to record 400 years of American History into a segment of even this length, however, that response has little to do with my overall rating. I would mention the errors that I was knowledgeable of in episodic order, but that would serve better with a video review. I'm not able to do that, so I'll write my review in the following order: Errors of 'Fact', Omissions/Useless Information, Presentation, and Positives.  Errors of 'Facts' - Paul Revere. He was one of the significant persons on the first episode, and they couldn't get anything right with him. For one, he didn't draw the Boston Massacre picture, he only engraved it (drawn by Henry Pelham), but he usually gets credit for the entire work. It was also use as a propoganda piece during the events following up to the Revolutionary War. Revere wasn't even the man who did all of the work of the Midnight Riders, as Williams Dawes and Israel Bissel, among others did a lot more. Revere was stopped and had to lie to get out of danger with the British. His horse was confiscated and he walked the rest of the way to get to his destination at a Reverend's home (to deliver a letter from Hancock to John Adams) - Boston Tea Party. This could have been one of those 'interesting facts', that some of the people who participated were dressed as Mohawk Indians while dumping the barrels. - One of the 'experts', said that the declaration was made for Women, Blacks, Gays, and everyone had a right. One of the issues that I had there is that she implemented today's views on a document that didn't have that same meaning back in that era, and that's something that shouldn't be done for objectivity (but it's a recurring theme in this film). Jefferson was going to include slaves on the Declaration of Independence, but the majority didn't feel that same way about this issue, and felt that the issue of slavery should be held later. Women and Gays, not likely thought of, either. -The Revolutionary War. Saratoga was without a doubt the turning point in the war, but they mentioned nothing of Horatio Gates or Benedict Arnold, who actually was the man who was most significant leader, not Morgan. The Sniper shot was not arguably the most significant aspect of the war, and neither was the Culper Spy ring. Both were important, not that significant in a 6 year war. (And that mention of the modern FBI Sniper Rifle being insufficient in terms of distance to the Kentucky Long Rifle is a total farce, look up the longest sniper shot ever recorded). - George Washington's impact wasn't that strong, especially during the Southern portion of the War, for he was unable to go down there until near the end of the war because of Morristown, among other factors. - The Flag that was used while they had Washington read the declaration of independence to the Slaves isn't even accurate, let alone the scene itself. At all. I shook my head when I saw it. I didn't have 50 stars, but it didn't even the stars used in a horizontal banner in during the war. I think, or at least I would like to think, people remember Betsy Ross. - Von Steuben was only accused of homosexuality, yet Schreiber (the narrator) declared he was a homosexual. - The loom that they referred to wasn't invented by anyone in America, only modified, yet it was declared as the first modern day computer to tie in with the rest of the theme. It was invented in France, by Joseph Marie Jacquard, in 1801, the beginning of the 19th Century. And besides, Britian was around a half-century ahead of America in the Industrial Revoultion. - The Donner Party has actually been speculated since the 19th century, as various members of the party denied. There's even been scientific research that has been confirmed that there can be no physical evidence that can be found of it occuring. That's not a definitive answer, of course, but considering that one of the Donners' wasn't found, it can lead it not to proving it happened. It's even been debated that the cannibalism (if true) didn't take place until February or March of 1847 rather than Christmas Day in 1846 like the narrator said in the movie. - The Alamo wasn't an 'American' fight, rather Texas itself from Mexico. Texas became a country of its own after defeating the Mexican Army by capturing Santa Anna, and became it's own country for around 9 years before it was annexed into the U.S. in 1845. The Alamo had no significance in the Mexican-American war that took place a decade later. It had to do with Mexico not recognizing Texas Independence and becoming an American state. In fact, they linked the Battle to the Alamo directly to the recieving of the territory recieved after the Mexican-American war, without even mentioning the Mexican-American War at all. That was appalling. - The Trail of Tears was portrayed as it had to do with the removal of Indians in the West, when it was moved from the East to the West. Schrieber even stated afterwards, now the West was open for business. Excuse me if this is out of order with the order of events, I'm only going in order of notes and how it was presented by film number. It involved the Removal of the Indian tribes in Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, Alabama, etc., into the Indian Territory, which was Oklahoma. They didn't mention that at all. - One reviewer mentioned of Lee and Bull Run, and it was actually Beauguard who led. Also, the lack of mentioning of Grant, Jackson, and Sherman's March to the Sea and the telegraph as the two significant factors in the War. Gettysburg was the obvious turning point in the War, and the telegraphs have been understated in significance in the War, but that doesn't mean you don't go out and say that it was one of the major reasons the war was won. - James Miegs (who says some outlandish 'facts' throughout) states that the Civil War was the first 'modern war'. This term is subjective, but it is more thought that the Crimean War fought in the 1850s (1853-56) was the first if this era is to used at the beginning of modern warfare. - Schreiber stated that when the Photographers started to photograph the Civil War events, this was the beginning that the government could never go to war again without permission of the people? The U.S. hasn't done anything like that since the formation of this country, that certainly wasn't the case during the Civil War. There were even instances such as families that picnicked near the battlefield to watch during the earlier parts of the war, since the majority always heard of war, but never seen it. - Niether the Horses, or the Cattle came to America in 1493 with Columbus. Columbus didn't even come past Central America. They came in the 1540s during the Coronado Expedition, yet Schrieber says with authority that it's true. - Gates mentions that the majority of the Cowboys were black, when that is not true. There were significant portions of blacks (up to 25% in certain regions), but there might have been as many Mexican Cowboys as there was Blacks or Whites. - The president in 1928 was Calvin Coolidge. Nowhere have I read that he owned a wine cellar, during prohibition. Correct me if I'm wrong here. But it is mentioned as fact on this documentary. - Schrieber stated that the L.A. aqueduct was the largest water product in the world. The Panama Canal, which happened to go on around the same time, was on a much larger scale. - The Hoover Dam project was compared to that of a 1930s equivalent of putting a man on the moon. That's not a fact, and shoudln't be mentioned as such. - WWII: Mass production and women won the war. That's a lie. The value of women and their impact industry has been understated, but that doesn't mean they won the war, which is what was said at least once, and mentioned as a significant strategy. There are so many other factors that could be mentioned, such as Stalingrad (which wouldn't be mentioned for obvious reasons), El Alamein (2nd), to mention a few; but D-Day always gets the default mention. - Also: The mention of America's 'guerrilla warfare' tactics being used against them during Pearl Harbor. That style of Warfare isn't exclusive to America, as the British dealt with this during the French and Indian Wars a few decades before the Am. Rev war. Not to mention that wasn't the first time that was used 'Against America' (The Indian Wars). That style of warfare has been used for thousands of years.  Omissions/Unnecessary Showings: - The lack of mentioning John Smith. I thought they were going to do something good with Rolfe, and they mentioned nothing significant except that he was married to Pocahantas, which makes me wonder if that's the reason they mentioned him to begin with. - The lack of any mention of the period between the Articles of Confederation and the U.S. constitution. That part was as just as significant as the War, and could have been mentioned instead of the unecessary. - The lack of mentioning of the War of 1812. Undermentioned war in American History. - Mentioning of the compromises (1820 & 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, etc.) and focus on John Brown. - When mentioning the Fugitive Slave Act, Gates was right with what he said, except they never mentioned the option of escaping to Canada. They barely mentioned anything dealing other countries, even what it was appropiate, like in this situation. I'll mention more on the other countries later. - Reconstruction. The issues with equality for blacks didn't end after the Civil War, and this should have been mentioned. - Carnegie is the only person in the Gilded Age and/or the 'Robbern Barons' they mentioned. None of Vanderbilt, Morgan, or Rockefeller, who were just as significant. They mention Edison, and not Bell? Ridiculous.... - Battle of the Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee and that's all? Nothing of Geronimo, or the Commanche? Perhaps not get into too much detail, but there were more to the Indian Wars than that. I suppose I could be nit-picking with this one. - What was the point of mentioning the man who was a car salesman who couldn't drive? His whole story could have been omitted. - Lack of the mentioning of WWI. We weren't in it long, but it was significant enough to mention something on it. - The mentioning of the Chicago Race Riots? I would have preferred more of the 'Great Migration' and the influence of the 'Harlem Renaissance', rather than the former, and might have been better suited for both Prohibition era and the Great Migration. - Joe Louis' part could have tooken out for something else mentioned, and make better use of time alloted. I possibly would have preferred Jesse Owens if they were going to present this type of story of triumph, considering the 1936 Olympics were in Berlin, and Hitler was watching in person, but maybe it had to do with the idea of keeping the theme in America? - The World War II coverage wasn't good. Pearl Harbor, Jeep, Women, D-Day, and the Atomic Bomb, in that order, I believe.... - You mention planes in the 50s, and not mention the Wright Brothers. That easily could've been in before Ford, and used as a mentioning of WWI, since in less than 15 years, planes were being used in combat. - How can you discuss the Space Race without mentioning Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin? The Soviet Union was ahead of the United States for a period of time, and they go straight to the 60s with Kennedy and his speech on the Space Race, and the Apollo 11. They do mention the Challenger incident later, though. - The lack of Coverage of the Cold War was bad, too. They don't go into detail of how it ended, just it's beginning. They don't even talk about Stalin or McCarthy, just show their faces in motion film.  Presentation: - The cliched lines "What happens here will change America/the World forever". Just stop. - Like I had mentioned in some previous posts, it's America-oriented to a fault. It was about the Fugitive Slave Act, the lack of talk with any of the wars excluding WWII (which couldn't be ignored for obvious reasons), the Panama Canal, to speak of a few. - The constant flashing, suspensful music, pausing or slowing-down of action sequences, came off as gimmicky and redundant. It aggravated me, especially when you have to rewind to clarify what the narrator says on a regular basis because of the unecessary background music. If you don't mind this, that you should be fine, if so, brace for impact. - As always with recreation-style documentaries, you get repeating sequences, sometimes the same scene for two different events (Erie Canal and Transcontinental Railroad, for example). - They focused too much on insignificant events (such as the smallpox events of the Rev. War, Slave impact before the Revoultionary War, etc.) - The order of events per film is horrible. You go from the Donner Party in 1846-47, then Abraham Lincoln as a teenager in the 1810s. And you go from the Space Race, back to the Civil Rights movement, back to Communism, and it's done from the beginning of the Sixties each time. Also they discuss the founding of the personal computer (1976) before the beginning of the internet (1969) when dealing with computers. It's done this way practically throughout the (especially of the second-half) of this series. They could have done this year by year, instead of making it so confusing. - The commentators: Among mentioned: Donald Trump, Martha Stewart, Melissa Ethelridge, Sheryl Crow, P. Diddy, Al Sharpton, Meryl Streep, Rudy Guiliani, John Legend, Bruce Jenner, Michael Strahan, James Miegs, Michael Bloomberg, Michael Douglas, Brian Williams, Tom Brokaw, Soledad O'brien, Bill Maher, Henry Louis Gates, Margaret Cho, Newt Gringich, Colin Powell, The Creator of Pixar, Jimmy Wales, Vera Wang, Tim Gunn, and the Rick Harrison (of the Pawn Stars Series) These are all of the notable people that I can remember. These aren't all of the non-qualified people on here that I can remember. Even the people who were qualified on here didn't go where they were supposed to. Buzz Aldrin talking of the Lewis & Clarke expedition, for example. The people they had on here were tried to be linked on here, such as entreprenual feats spoken by Trump, or inventions by Miegs or Wales, but they didn't add anything worth merit to inform. Some of the people mentioned disturbed me, such as Margeret Cho speaking of the Chinese Railroad people (is it because she 'looks Chinese'), or someone controversial such as Al Sharpton on the Great Migration (Promised Land/land of Milk and Honey? This isn't a sermon, and you aren't reading from the Book of Dueteronomy). Some of the constant morale booster lines aggravated me to people when I did want to hear something I haven't before. For example, when they discussed Jedidiah Smith, I wanted to hear more about his situation dealing the aftermath of the bear attack, but instead Michael Douglas saying something his perserverance is the essence of the American Spirit. What does that have to do with anything here? Or I watch a segment on the Prohibition, and I hear Bill Maher say his opinion of it's stupid to regulate morals in law. Or watching the Hoover Dam or the Civil War and hear Tom Brokaw and Brian Williams say nothing informative. It's nerve-wrecking. And why do your opinions matter. Keep your personal opinions out of informing the public. The number of celebrities, news anchors, authors (which weren't non-fiction) and politicians outnumbered, and a few of the historians and other experts tried to relay opinion as fact as well.  Positives: - Some of the stories mentioned such as the ones with Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, I liked seeing, in spite the commentary. - Impact of the Model T and the assembly line. - The significance of the Interstate System initated by Eisenhower was my favorite segment of the series. - Impact of Carnegie and Steel, in spite of other 'Robber Barons'.  Overall: The presentation dealt with excessive patriotism with morale-boosting cliches, and an over-analyzation of the impact of technology in American History to the point of telling lies. Also the mentioning of major entrepuenership moments intertwining with the previous two points mentioned. This program was too agenda driven, too politically correct, too encouraging instead of informing, to give this anything other than that of one star. I wanted to give it two stars, but due to the commentary, and some of the gaffes of presenting these 'facts' (note these are the only ones I noticed), makes question the legitimacy of this film too much to enjoy. Don't show this to your students if you're a teacher, you would be doing a major disservice. Or your own children, for that matter....

young adult? This was the stupidest movie i think I've ever seen, dnt buy it, not worth it at all. I spent a dollar on it in the redbox and i wanted it back

TRASH! TRASH! The description of the video sounded like an interesting movie.  But when I put it in and started watching it-I was soooooooo disappointed.  It was a lame attempt of being a documentary, and heavy on being LAME.  I can honestly say the only good part about this CD was the case it was shipped in.  Total and complete trash!!!!!!!!!!!

if i knew this movie had as much cussing in it,and so nasty.i wouldn't had ordered it.it's very nasty. this movie is nasty,cussing i didn't care for it.it sure wasn't worth no money in my opinion.i liked billy bob thronton in sling blade but this was not his best at all.

THEY SHOULD OF STOPPED WHEN NO ONE SAW THE FIRST MOVIE I have not seen the first movie and it might of helped as this one made constant references to it. Fortunately they tossed in a couple of flashbacks and slasher films are not hard to figure out. Brenden and Darryl are close friends who both have super wives who can't act. Brenden is troubled by nightmares which he believes are portent. In one night Darryl, Brenden's wife and niece are missing and Darry's wife shows up at Breden's place and she seems to be putting the moves on him...  The movie soon turns into a torture film as everyone becomes a prisoner of the experimenting doctor, although it is not graphic. For instance, we see a cutting device move toward a finger, then we see a severed finger (without blood). The acting, dialouge, and plot were all fairly bad with few bright spots. The camera angels were awkward and I noticed it cut off the tops of heads too many times at the beginning of the movie. This is just amateur camera and directing mistakes. No real horror. Nothing to see here folks, just keep moving on.  No F-bombs, no sex, no nudity.

Critics have multiple Os over another Piece of CRAP! Why did the critics go orgazmic over this stinker?  Because at one point Natalie Portman's dance instructor grabs her by the crotch and in another scene she has a dream/hallucination about getting...getting..y'know that scene in her bedroom with Mila Kunis?  They're uh... ..well, let's just sweep that one under the rug. Okay..bad pun. A totally derivative psychological thriller (I found it psychologically boring).  The only thing good about this movie? Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis. they're quite dreamy in the dance scenes...  The only movie worse than this is The Crying Game.  At least in Black Swan I didn't have to be forced to see some hairy-knuckled guy in a dress show his ...show his...eh...okay I'll stop right there.

Ruined by Kristen Stewart This movie was ruined by the bad acting of Kristen Stewart. My wife and I both felt that way after seeing it at the theater. If they had a different Snow White this would have been a good movie. The scene where she gives a speech to rally the troops was the worst acting I have ever seen. She has no emotion. I wonder if she is a zombie? Charlize Theron was amazing as the evil queen and the rest of the cast was good but they can't overcome Kristen Stewart's poor acting. Save your money and buy anything else.

The Emerald Forest We had The Emerald Forest on VHS. It was our favorite movie. All of our friends that we shared the movie with, loved it also. We were very excited when it finally came out on DVD. The quality of both the audio and visual on the DVD edition of this movie are the worst that I have ever seen. We watched it one time, then took it to Goodwill. It is disgusting to see a movie as beautiful as this one ruined by such sloppiness. Whoever put this rip-off of a DVD on the market should be sued.

Rip-off Very short review:  Cynical rip off of a great movie called "Another Earth".  Stay with the originality of a work of art and don't support robbers.

Confessions of a Shopaholic I used this video as part of my Consumer Economics class to talk about the problems of using a credit card inapproriately. My students loved it. It was very high interest and entertaining.

A Caucasian-French film masquerading as African This film was written and directed by a Caucasian French-Belgian who spent time in Africa when his colonialist parents were doing imperialist business there. He is NOT African. 1. The film demonstrates no knowledge of African culture (other than the supposed idea that the story is based on an African tale; even if so, films often are nothing like their literary counterpart) 2. demonizes African artistic achievements (like the use of sculpture as evil "fetishes" that carry out the sorceress' wishes.  African sculpture is more often than not dealing with healing, fertility, religion, etc, and not used as a "fetish" for evil. 3.  It focuses a lot on the nudity of the women and chilren.  It does not make it natural, but draws attention to the nudity, thereby, encouraging Eurocentric views of nudity. 4. It creates horrible caricatures of African women, especially the evil sorceress. 5.  It provides people of European descent with their desired image of Africa (funny, silly, evil, backward, and always suffering from tyranny). This is why it is so popular with people of European descent.  Since there are black images (nevermind that the writer and director is Caucasian)they can pretend to enjoy learning about another culture when they are in fact celebrating the perpetuation of a false Africa (think Heart of Darkness).  Since the colonial writer once lived in Africa (didn't many Caucasian imperialists and there children! as if that means something)they can pass it off as African. 6.  Some blacks (not all) will soak it up simply because they are so starved for representation in animation and other genres of film. Not to mention, since it received many awards some blacks, so starved for validation, will love it because it is Caucasian approved.  DO NOT BE THIS SORT OF CONTROLLED BLACK, BROTHERS AND SISTERS.

Two Words: What Happened?! I got into The Office right before Steve Carell's departure and I found it hilarious. I spent a great deal of time last summer catching up on the first seven seasons of the show. Then Season 8 came, and if I would describe it in two words, they would be "train wreck".  First of all; what happened to Robert California. He was hilarious in the season seven finale, but they toned down his character so much, he becomes the very thing he was meant to spoof: being creepy and strange.  Secondly, that new girl, Nelly I think, She was terrible. She was very hard to watch and was an absolutely horrible character,  and that's me being nice all right. She got Andy's job by just simply walking in and sitting down in his chair? How much are they paying these writers, well clearly not enough because they can't any who know how to actually write.  There were four good episodes of the season: "The List", "The Incentive", "Doomsday" and "Pam's Replacement". These four bring back memories of what the show used to be like. Every other episode of this season was pure trash. They better improve for Season 9 or believe me I am out.

**GARBAGE** Complete and utter trash! I seriously don't understand how this movie grossed more than so many other movies....other than that Americans are completely idiotic and easily manipulated by marketing.  I have not seen such a horribly, illogical, and poorly acted movie that happens to get "rave reviews".....by Twilight fans of course.  Please, save yourself some money (I got it for free via a digital promo) and support a much better movie. There are millions out there

Aimless and worthless Each "twist" is really a non-sequitir summoned from the writers' heads. By the end of Season two, our two cops have fingered at least 10 people for this crime and the list keeps growing. By the end of it all, there's no linear story arc, no rational development of plot or suspects and an array of red herrings that do nothing more than add episodes to an increasingly pointless series. I can deal with not having the mystery wrapped up in one season. I cant deal with weak writing that needlessly pads the plot with distractions trying to make them look like intrigue.

Totally different from reality which is DISSAPPOINTING! Just watched the movie. Characters were fine but the plot was awful. They skipped too many murder scenes that you would expect to see. I have followed the Bundy murders and read Ann Rule's book. She is spot on easily with the Bundy case but the movie was way off. I don't remember Bundy kidnapping women in parking garage in front of people. There was supposed to be a small police chase before Bundy's arrest in Utah. Not showing the State Park kidnappings was stupid. Bundy's cast was made from plaster not fabric material. Characters were not named in the movie using the real people's names like Victoria being Stephanie awful and dumb. Not much action in it like the Ted Bundy movie. The people that made this flim should have read the book themselves and read some of the facts about Ted Bundy before screwing up what could have been one of the best True Crime films instead they did it their way and made it look PG instead of R like it should be. I would not reccomend this film at all!

Suckiest Sci-Fi films of all time! I rarely buy a sucky DVD ... even my shots-in-the-dark rarely turn out all that badly ... but these three?  OH, GOOD LORD IN HEAVEN !  What a Triad of STINKERS !  A Triplet of STEAMING Puppy Piles ! RUN AWAY! HIDE!  DON'T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE I MADE!  PLEASE SAVE YOUR MONEY !  Somebody I don't like is getting this for Christmas !

VERY BAD MOVIE I love the Wicker Man so if you do too, this movie completely ruins everything "The Wicker Man" stood for. BAD ACTING and BAD PRODUCTION, not even the pagan story we all know and love can save this mess of a film.

Almost as Enjoyable as Rectal Surgery, but Not Quite If you buy this Blu-ray, the terrorists win.  Sucker Punch was so horrifyingly awful I found myself longing for a Twilight movie.  If you were (like I was) hoping for a flick about butt-kicking babes who take on robot samurai, keep looking.  This film is more along the lines of Girl-Interrupted set to techno music.  All the cool stuff you see on the poster only happens in dream sequences and has no bearing on the plot whatsoever.  This isn't a spoiler.  I'm giving you fair warning.  This movie is about a girl in an insane asylum who dreams about being trapped in a brothel with no escape other than to dream about having super-powers and fighting evil.  With such a ridiculous plot, you'd think there'd be some tongue-in-cheek humor.  Well, between the numerous rape sequences and savage beatings by the misogynist pimps/orderlies, I guess the filmmakers felt any humor or levity would be misplaced.  The self-important lameness of this movie gives me cold sweats at night.  I shiver and try to muffle my sobs.

pretentiousness Right from the start this flick lost me. I listened to the lead actress narrate some New Agey type stuff while gazing at some pic on the wall of two people on a beach. Then it goes to an incredibly sketchy-looking scrawny dude in the midst of his soon-to-be-ex-wife packing up and leaving...he walks outside, knocks on his kids' window and proceeds to light his hand on fire.  I thus started hitting the fast forward button to see if this thing goes anywhere. It doesn't seem to.  Don't believe the awards or hype, this is sheer painful slow death to sit through and, trust me, I'm saving you the pain. The pace is far too glacial. Sorry, but at my age I no longer have the patience to sit through art films hoping something will happen or looking for the meaning in a stone on a sidewalk.  I get it. The director is young. She wants to say something profound and create something magical. Sorry, but sometimes you need a bit more experience in life to stop navel gazing and learn that narrative has to have pace. People mainly go to the movies to escape and also see people onscreen they either can relate to or can sit and gawk at for their looks. If this works for you, fine, but you still need to reach beyond the audience who will sit through stuff like this to actually make yourself heard beyond your circle of enablers.  It's an art fillum, folks, and it isn't Truffaut. If you dig this sort of thing, you might like it. Those days are long over for me ever since I was stuck in a grubby downtown theater with a bunch of First Nations folks watching Eraserhead and wishing someone would put me out of this pain. I have better things to do with an hour and a half of my time as I hit Hawaii 5-0 years than watch performance art onscreen. At least if this performance art was on the street my boos and heckling could be heard and comedy might ensue.

A reeking 'reaping' Some kid dies mysteriously, then some odd events start occuring that are very similar to the biblical plagues. Katherine (Hilary Swank, "Million Dollar Baby") comes to the town of Haven where these events are taking place (quite a bit of irony with that), this town is deep in the Louisiana bayou so naturally the locals don't like outsiders like Katherine coming to their little town. They're especially upset since Katherine is here to debunk these events as anything but religious based, she does find a young girl (AnnaSophia Robb, "Race to Witch Mountain") who may be the key to either solving or be the cause of these things happening.  This might've been a very campy yet suspenseful movie, if oh say there was any scares or chills to be found anywhere in the entire running time. Swank at least does well in her roll as she's truly a bright spot in this dull flick, AnnaSophia isn't given too much more to do but look scared and well that's about it, which is sad cause she's actually a decent actress. Sadly the events or plagues that take place while somewhat visually impressive feel quite hollow and just blah.  I've seen worse movies that's for sure, but "The Reaping" is not something to rush or even walk out to rent and watch. * out of 4 stars.

Doesn't Work :( I was very, very disappointed in this product. I have tried to play the DVD on two different DVD players and it will not work. I am hoping to receive a product that works in return for this one or get my money back. I'm very disappointed.

WOW When I read some of these reviews I wonder if Tyler himself had people write these. This movie is a big piece of crap. The same stupid plot line, bad acting, just horrible. But yet there are a bunch of people who seem to love it. Just goes to show you that it doesn't have to be good for Tyler Perry make money. He should be ashamed of himself. I would be embarrassed to put my name on this turd.

Just not my cup of tea My title says it all. I was bored and a family member wanted to watch it. We both agreed to turn it off since it was catching our attention.

The Criterion Collection DVD is best. Bad 1st transfer to Blu-Ray Outstanding film, sorry source material was dumped onto BluRay. Seek out the old Criterion Collection single disc DVD if you can. It blows away this first Blu ray edition of Robocop.

Did the screenwriters see Alien??? Incept-Alien Filled with spoilers because buying/watching this was annoying.  I know my bar for Ridley Scott is high, but considering you'll see his name or ScottFree at least 10 times before the movie starts, I think a high bar is fair. LOL.  Blu-Ray - 1 takes forever to load.  I'm talking 4-5 minutes of black screen after the Blu-ray may take a while warning.  Loaded Avengers = 10 seconds.  Supposed to connect with Alien - So explain why the "Engineer" doesn't die in the pilot's seat as shown in the first 15 minutes of Alien.  The "mama" Alien barely looks like Aliens.  I'm not one to be nit-picky but seriously I don't think the screenwriter and/or effects designers have watched Alien.  The robot - Seriously, "Data" from Star Trek without the silver makeup but with pink lipstick instead.  Rich Guy - makeup, think Old Biff from Back to the Future.  I think they just reused the mask.  I think other reviews have hit on other points.  Ships Captain - (probably the best supporting character) a black man who carries a squeeze-box from Crosby, Stills, Nash and sings their songs. Ugh!  Charleze Theron - Rich Girl In-Charge - has a medical bay that is only for males.  "I didn't come 2 years away from Earth to get laid... Come to my room in 10 minutes to get laid." Nuff-said!  A spaceship that is 2+ years away from Earth with a "lifeboat" that doesn't fly.  Guess what ... the Alien is on the lifeboat.  So maybe they watched enough of Alien/Aliens to go for a recurring theme.  The mapping team that leaves first but is the only pair to get lost. I swear I thought that guy was Jason Sidekis? from SNL.  A genetic poison that is used by the robot to make Alien sperm that impregnates an infertile female to have a c-section that turns into a giant Alien egg layer, that lays an egg circa Alien in an Engineer, that turns into Mama Alien.  Really.  Incept-alien.  An alien in an alien laying an alien to spread aliens.  Do yourself a HUGE favor ... just watch Alien/Aliens again!!!

No Blood; Dead in London What a huge let-down! This concert is unwatchable in one sitting. It's so boring I fell asleep the first three times I tried to watch it, and had to set it aside for a while. There is no energy, it's like Pete is reading a eulogy rather than singing in a concert. The female accompaniment was likewise poor. For me this was a huge waste of money, I will probably never put this disc in my player again.  I'm truly amazed that some people have given this title a good review, different strokes I guess.  Jay

Blood splatter Reading the story line is why I purchase the movie. I thought it would be simular to Criminal Minds but it does not come anywhere close. I can understand Dexter"acting" as he does because he is suppose to not have any feelings, but the other characters have no excuse for their poor acting.

poor quality dvd The movie is a very good movie but the quality of the DVD is very poor we could not get it to play in our DVD player or our computers I would not recommend buying any DVD from this company unless you want to waste your money.

Really bad Sound transfer We purchased this movie because we had seen it years ago, and liked it very much. However, when they dubbed the movie onto CD, they did not make sure the sound transfer was equally captured and pulled into the CD. We had the volume up to the highest settings, along with the speaker volume, and we could barely hear it. I am sorry to have to write this review on such a wonderful movie.

lamest movie ever this movie is for people over 40 who are married and are not happy with their marriage. has to be the stupidest movie ever made. don't not recomend buying. if you want to buy it, email me and ill trade it for blue ray transformers one. azboarder23 @ yahoo.com

One of the worst movies ever made I don't know which was worse...watching this movie or knowing I paid for the DVD.  The movie is terrible.  There were so many celebrities in the movie that I never thought they would all sign up for such a horrible script but I was WRONG.  Don't waste your money.

Lame Movie I'm a big fan of Kristin Scott Thomas so I had high hopes for this movie, but they were misplaced. She must have a child to put through college or something, to be making lame movies like this. The plot is pathetic and the acting bad; a total waste of time.

NOT A CHRISTMAS MOVIE!!! I can't began to explain my disappointment with this movie! I should have read the rating more closely, but I just trusted anything with the name Christmas Cottage and about the life of Thomas Kincade would have been fine. Boy was I wrong!! I totally agree with one of the other reviewers about the blasphemous actions in the church. I know that they could have brought the meaning they were trying to portray in this scene without all the leg and bust show and the language. This is definitely not a family or Christian friendly film. I have not even mentioned the  talent in this film from the directors to the actors.That is because there is not much to comment on!! Don't waste your money!!

vgt63+?,@mhu did my title make since? No neither did the movie. I could take a blob of mashed potatos and next to that add three 4 foot long 2x4's next to that add a cup of scope mouth wash next to that add three spools of blue thread and  a ice cube and take all these ingredients and try to convince you that they combined make up a 1965 BMW. We have all these creatures thrown in the movie at different times and we never know what they are or why they are there. Stupid movie. a person can follow Gone With The Wind or Wizard Of Oz or the movie The Birds and understand what is going on but this movie a person can't. It is a waste.

0 STARS: Nonsensical Rubbish "Bloody Mary" is a bloody mess of a movie, and I mean that in the worst possible way.  This movie tries to be cute by making the plot difficult to follow, but the problem is that the story sucks, and the plot has gaping holes in it and the movie never makes any sense.  Some movies are difficult to follow leaving the viewer to make some conclusions on his own like Dario Argento's great "Suspiria", but this movie just does not make any sense.  The acting in this movie is atrocious, the movie doesn't flow well, the script is terrible and there is no atmosphere whatsoever.  The result is a movie that is completely unable to create any suspense whatsoever.  Avoid this one like the plague because this movie is stupid.  Some people call this a horror movie...I just call it rubbish.

yuck This movie was weird and not real world credible (ie not really believable). I didn't relate to or like a single one of the characters and dialog was empty and I had to fast forward many of the speeches and conversations because they were boring. I rented this movie because it had a 4 star rating... It is definitely NOT a 4 star movie. Clearly Amazon's rating system is flawed and I regret my purchase.

TRASH Suffice it to say, this DVD is one of the worst I have ever had the misfortune of buying.  In my view, the movie lacked substance and was boring.

Old Movie, Bad quality THis is a funny movie that has a second DVD with bonus activities and games. Unfortunately, we received an old DVD box with old, dirty and scratched DVDs inside. I managed to clean the first DVD (the one with the movie) but the second DVD gets frozen during the games. This DVD is part of my son's Christmas wish list presents, so we cannot return it. But we got frustrated. I had to tell him that Santa did not sent this but the 'naughty elf' ! I will never purchase a DVD on line. Better go to a store.

Worst video I have ever seen This video is made by people and kid rock has nothing to do with any of it. It is just a bunch of people telling corny stories about kid rock. Worst thing I have ever watched and I am a huge kid rock fan. ZERO stars!!!!!

Blu Ray Quality The movie was defective.  I played the movie in three "new" blu ray players and it would not play on them correctly.  The movie would play just fine for 30 minutes and then it paused (stalled) for a long periods of time before it started playing again for a few seconds and then stalled again.  The movie did that on every blu ray player at the same spot in the movie. Totally defective movie!

utter garbage ok, so anyone who looks at amazon reviews quickly discovers that 5 star ratings are dished out like there's no tomorrow:apparently we're living in some golden age of entertainment with neverending quantities of televisual genius. oh but wait, why is there never anything good on the tv to watch??? answer - amazon reviewers suffer from rating incontinence. and on to mystery science theatre. imagine you have come back to your rented apartment. you're looking forward to relaxing in front of the tv watching a trashy movie. oh, your flat mate who you don't know that well but who you suspect you will never be friends with is sitting in the living room with 2 of his friends getting ready to watch the same trashy movie. fine, you think. how painful can it be to spend one night with these people. you have just made a fatal error. these 3 people turn out to be the unfunniest, unimaginitive people you have ever had the misfortune to spend time with. they seem to think that any sentence which makes gramatical sense is ipso facto funny. their "humour" never builds to a crescendo or descends into a lull - they have one gear and one gear only and that gear is marked "death by inertia". welcome to the world of mystery science theatre. i beg you, do not purchase this mince.

Must be seen 55 yr old kim basinger being chased by "bad ass" lukas haas and his cronies thru the woods. she ambushes them all rambo-style plunging tire irons thru their eyeballs, a giant knitting needle thru the eardrum, etc. then she has sex with haas at the end after the others are dead, only to pull out a flare and try to shove it in his mouth. it is absolutely hysterical. boy Alec mustve really destroyed her self esteem for her to be in this crap.  Some of the things you will learn from watching this movie...  1. even lukas haas seems imposing when hes flanked by 2 puerto ricans and a black. 2. if youre a hot chick and the killer is about to shoot you.....diffuse the whole situation by having sex with him. 3. even 55 yr old kim basinger can outrun 4 young thugs while carrying a toolbox

Broken Arrow Takes the Cake on Insulting Your Intelligence Top 10 Fails:  1: Howie Long (a villain) passes himself off as a good guy in the nuke-recovery team, even by shooting one of his partners in crime, who is somehow not too wounded to fly a chopper later on.  THEN he shoots the team's last survivor.  2: When bad guys take the chopper to go kill Slater and Mathis, they decide to "have fun" by scaring them with bullets instead of actually trying to kill them.  Then, all of a sudden, they can't find Slater when there was clearly nowhere in that canyon to hide.  3: In the truck chase, the gas tank doesn't explode when it gets shot.  And the leak was too slow for Mathis to notice a sudden change in the gas gauge.  4: Mathis hides under a blanket and becomes a stowaway on a small motorboat with 4 villains and doesn't get caught.  WAY too far-fetched.  5: In the train scene the chopper pilot risks crashing by killing a bad guy with the rotor blades, even though the colonel inside still had a loaded machine gun.  6: On the train, one villain w a machine gun tells Slater and Mathis to freeze, even though he can see the gun in Slater's hand - he had no reason to take him alive.  7: The remote control for the nuke still works, even after the satellite dish for it gets shot up and unplugged.  8: Since the remote worked anyway, Slater grabs it half-way through his fight with Travolta to disarm the nuke.  Just before the struggle continues, you hear 6 different buttons being pushed, even though he knew he only had to push the CANCEL button, which he does later.  9: Gas barrels on the train by Mathis are shot and don't explode.  They leak, flames ignite the puddle, but they STILL don't explode for several seconds.  I guess the barrels thought it would be cooler to wait until Travolta's body flew over them.  10: The train was not going nearly fast enough to crash and throw the nuke in a straight line 30+ feet long so it would kill Travolta.  While it's flying, you hear a jet engine noise, even though the nuke had NOTHING to push it through the air.

DISAPPOINTED Well from reading all the reviews this appeared to be the release that had the movie on ONE side. That's why I purchased it, as I already owned the 2 sided movie and thought in buying this one, I could view it through its entirety. Too much of a hassle to send back. But, super disappointed that I wasted my money. So, if you think this disc is one sided---it is not. BEWARE.

Great shows! I absolutely love this show! We've had many laughs watching it. The problem I've had with this set is the fact that there are black lines across the dvd's from sitting in the packaging and the dvd's don't play right. I have to try to clean the lines off without scratching the dvd. If it was an easy task to return them, I definitely would have done that.

shark + octopus = turkey "When the shark bites, with his teeth dear, CGI blood starts to spread. But as octo-pi have green blood, there's never (no never) a trace of red..."  I spotted this in the $5 bin at Best Buy, and couldn't resist.  "MS vs GO" is beyond ludicrous. The sight of a (roughly) 1000-foot (!!!) shark leaping into the air a height several times its body length (!!!!) and snatching/snacking an airplane (!!!!!) has to be one of the most-idiotic scenes in the history of motion pictures.  The acting and directing are on the same level. The actors exude an almost-continual cheeriness that's completely out of place. The director has no concept of pacing or tone. He doesn't make the least effort to create a sense of fear or dread, or even /frighten/ the audience, something that even awful '50s flicks attempt.  If "MS vs GO" is /supposed/ to be a spoof, ya coulda fooled /me/. The closest it approaches satire is the way the Japanese scientist (Vic Chao) talks like the scientists & reporters in a Godzilla movie. The writer (one "Ace Hannah" -- is that the screenwriting equivalent of Alan Smithee?) misses many opportunities to skewer the genre.  The CGI is cheap-looking, but appears to have been so expensive (relative to the minuscule budget) that the same shots are used over and over and over again. Even after the shark has bitten off part of a tentacle, the following scenes show the octopus intact. The shark more or less resembles a shark, but the octopus looks like a cheap plastic toy. And when they finally battle it out, it looks like /two/ cheap plastic toys struggling in a bathtub of dirty water. Say what you like about the films surrounding them, but Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion animation had /style/, something utterly missing from this film. The closest it gets to style is -- what appears to be -- the dying octopus waving "bye-bye" at the end.  A great party flick. But make a note of the best sections so you can skip to them. Your friends aren't likely to tolerate sitting through all 90 minutes.

There's "Bad", "Really Bad", and then there's "51" I've always had a vague fascination for UFOlogy and Area 51. I thought that with an engagingly simple title ("51"), and an equally simple premise (security problem in the course of a visit by two (two?) journalists to the legendary facility in the Nevada desert), it just might work. It didn't.  The entire production, from opening titles to end titles reeked of low-budget inadequacy. This can work if it's part of the intent, but "51", it seems, was a serious effort at movie-making. Honestly, though, in this day and age when CGI can be run on relatively modest platforms at moderate expense, is there really any excuse for the cheesy "man-in-a-rubber-suit" monster? Naturally, starting from these unpromising special effects, it was inevitable that the filmmakers would compensate for their toy aliens by pouring out buckets of blood. Lots of blood, lots of silliness, lots of unexplained overacting, and lots of disbelief at the incredibly bad quality of a) writing; b) sets (a random warehouse somewhere and a few hangars at an abandoned airfield), and c) acting.  The plot line, such as it was, was inadequately developed, and simply unbelievable in places (e.g. a top-secret military installation with only a dozen or so trained guards - and those, armed with Vietnam-era M-16's??? A Willy's-style jeep loaded with TNT packed in CARDBOARD boxes??? A multi-level secure biohazard lab underground in the desert, but with more holes in its security than a colander???)...  Sorry, but if you have a choice between watching this lifeless dog of a movie, or spending your $3.00 on some twinkies and pork rinds, go for the twinkies and pork rinds. They have more substance.  I know that LA film people have to work, but this extravaganza of inanity is a poor excuse for work. Back to parking cars and slinging burgers, folks.

Not pleased with how item looked This item came to me in new packaging, but the cover of the DVD, was not how it was shown on the sellers account. Instead of it being a full picture of Alvin and the chipmunks, it was a small picture of them in the corner of the DVD cover and the rest was a design. I was giving it as a gift and honestly it didn't look "real". It looked like it was not a real copy of the DVD and looked Ike a bootlegged copy. I was embarressed to give it as a gift.

Lots of swearing I was really disappointed with this movie. It was highly recommended. We actually only watched about 1/2 hour of it and then turned it off. There was so much swearing and taking the Lord's name in vain. I know that doesn't bother many of you, but I wish someone had mentioned this before I bought it. So if taking the Lord's name in vain bothers you don't get it. If it doesn't then go ahead, but don't make nasty comments on my review. We are all entitled to our own convictions.

It is Magic!!! It put me to sleep in the middle of the day. I hardly remember the book and this movie did little to refresh my memory. I do recall how Rowling wasted 200 pages with Hermione & Harry apparating around the country doing NOTHING, and the overall impression of being underwhelmed by the story (or lack thereof).  I thought they would cut short all the Harry & Hermione "on the run" sequence from the book since it doesn't do anything to advance the story. But I was so wrong.  There is  what seems like 12 hours of nothing but H&H camping, again doing nothing to advance the story.  There is so little action, so little dialog and so many slow-moving scenes that I couldn't watch the whole thing.  I started fast forwarding after about an hour that felt like half a day and only watched scenes where people actually talked to each other (rather than just staring at each other) or some action, no matter how meager, was taking place.  I did enjoy the "Three Brothers" sequence. The animation was very interesting and unusual.  As for the rest of the film I recommend that if you must see it, you rent it or see at a theater, but don't waste your money on buying it.

would not buy again The vender sent the product quickly. This DVD is not formatted to american DVD players. My daughter purchased DVD's in India that were supposed to work in the US. They were not formatted for this country either. Now we have wasted even more money.

chrome dreams rips people off with different packaging same earlier released product like the lyrics to the great song  numb this is the same product with new packaging  chrome dreams  deceive customers into buying the same product...what is chrome dreams address so we can all picket them

I'd Rather Pay to Take an Exam and Fail then Watch this Again First off, I don't enjoy writing negative reviews about pretty much anything; I respect the time and effort it takes in putting a production together and I'm always way more forgiving towards an ambitious project that fails as opposed to any by-the-number production that turns out exactly as expected.  The only reason I'm writing this review is that this film actually bothered me enough to prompt me to do so, as I felt tricked into watching it based on positive reviews I encountered when some more negative reviews floating around could have spared me the time and mental anguish.  I'm also going to attempt to get my opinion across without spoiling anything because, again as evidenced by the amount of positive reviews here and elsewhere, there is obviously some sort of audience for this film which isn't me, so to each their own.  I guess the number one issue (in a sea of issues, but I digress) is the fact that the entire concept is so completely unbelievable to the point where it's actually condescending to the viewer.  Again, I am truly willing to overlook certain aspects of a story and forgive filmmakers for going off on irrational tangents if the payoff is worth it, but at the end of this movie, if you truly soaked it in and weren't sidetracked by what the filmmakers expected you to ignorantly focus on instead, you will leave this angry and disappointed when trying to make it all connect afterwards (and not because you 'didn't get it').  Taken straight off the cover is the tagline: "How far would you go to win the ultimate job?".  First off, that sounds more like an interview question than a serious reward, right?  Wouldn't the ultimate job actually be not having a job at all but still making enough money to travel and spend time with family and loved ones, etc?  Or else doing something that you love and are passionate about and can do daily without having to worry about bills or your financial future in the meantime?  So automatically, based on the fact that the people competing for this mysterious job don't even know what the job is can be a little suspect right off the bat, as that really only leaves a decent salary and professional accomplishment as true motivators.  Don't get me wrong, landing an ultimate job would actually be great, but here we go to the main motivation of the story: if only one in eight will get the job, what happens to the other seven afterwards?  Do they lose all their money and get demoted to the lowest rung on whatever band system their company structure allows?  Do they die in some creative and tragic Saw-style death?  The answer is nothing, they simply leave the room and go back to their life they knew before and they are free to apply for any new job they desire.  Or how about this scenario: for the one person that did win the job and made, say, a $500K yearly salary, would you be more motivated for the actual job or just to win the amount of money the job would pay without actually having to work?  I mean, a jobs a job, you still have a boss to suck up to and a demanding schedule, and at the assumed professional level of the mythical position, you would need to be a workaholic, 80-hour-a-week type personality to survive, and is that really a great reward after all?  If you've followed me this far, this is why I conveyed it this way: the absolutely only way the motivations and actions of the characters could make any sense whatsoever is if whoever did not answer the exam correctly and win the job would in fact be tortured and murdered in grotesque fashion while the winner would receive unlimited funds for the rest of their life.  There is absolutely no risk if the participants lose but it would be impossible to tell if you jumped in halfway through (and the ridiculousness progresses even further from anything coherent the longer you stick around).  And really, this is not the only aspect I'm basing my rating for this movie on (and there are a lot more) but, as I've written this much on this one topic alone, I'm hoping to convey that all of the other elements (the acting, the `twists', the fact that there is no large company that would ever stage an event like this without killing off all of the participants afterwards to prevent the inevitable legal issues guaranteed to follow, etc.) are all done in the same insulting fashion.  It's like, for every scene, the filmmaker says "look over there!" and you look over, see something confusing, and ask "why?".  The response is "be quiet, you're gonna miss this!  Now look over there!" over and over again.  If you're on the fence and have stumbled across this movie looking for a hidden gem, remember there's a reason you've probably never heard of it, and I'd urge you not to fall for the surprisingly positive reviews as I did.

Crap HD transfer Avoid this turkey of a HD transfer at all costs. That was rather poor quality 8 years ago, now it's shameless to sell this. No HD detail, no proper 35mm texture, no proper colour and shadow detail. Someone should tell Marty...

Could be good Could be a good movie without Kristen. She must have slept her way to get the role. It was just a wrong cast. No way in the right mindset would anyone cast her for the role. She cannot act, she does not look innocent, and she is not pure, not pretty like what the storyline describe her. I will never watch a move with her in it again! Charlize is really good in the movie.

Drivel of the first order Tries and fails to make the case that Obama is a "Manchurian Candidate" - All under a veil of very poorly disguised white supremacy...

The worst film I have seen in recent times. This is one of the worst films I have seen in recent times. Do not hold a candle to first Alien. It's just a sci-fi movie claims to be a mystic film, dominated by the ridiculous idea of looking for an origin, an answer to why we exist. Any attempt to fill this why, of course, results in a failure, fueled by the philosophy (again, The Gods Were Astronauts) that we are creations of a superior alien race and that somewhere in space would be the answer. Screenwriters: read Georges Bataille before attempting to make a film like this. It's sad to see a great director like Scott get lost in the midst of a story so naive, in which the characters are poorly developed, engulfed by tons of special effects, except for David, the android, by far the best character in the movie. However, a good character is not enough to save the movie. Why Ridley not spend his talent adapting works such as "The Man in the High Castle", "Ubik", "Stars: my destination" and "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub" for the cinema? These books need you, Ridley. Please read them and make great movies with them, not movies like "Prometheus".

Nothing To Offer Audiances Another shining example of Hollywood attempting to improve on a classic story and falling short. This re-imagined Snow White is a complete failure.  Rupert Sanders first venture into feature directing provides viewers with a lackluster trip; more painful than visiting the dentist.  Despite a few beautiful locations, the film wasn't even visually stunning.  There is nothing within these characters that leads the audience into an emotional investment. If a character dies, one is left with a feeling of "I guess they're not going to be in the sequel."  Despite a good cast (for the most part), Sanders doesn't bring out their best. The performances are mediocre (with the exception of Stewart). Stewart on the other hand is mediocre in every way on her best days! Her beauty is quite plain; her voice is annoying; her acting style is awful. She was only successful in the Twilight series because her style is exactly as dull as how the character is written. Her performance in Zathura is identical to her performance in Twilight which is identical to her performance in Snow White. Her range is far to limited to carry a movie. Her accent changes throughout the movie, probably due to the filming schedule. It is more of an accent one picks up the longer they are around people with similar accents. Her acquired accent is beyond poor. Most likely due to regional differences in the shooting locations within England, plus Scotland, and adding in Chris Hemsworth natural Australian and Charlize Theron's South African accents. It's a bit of a hodge-podge accent. Stewart's rally cry to incite the people to stand against the queen completely lacks conviction and passion. It's almost as if she's calling out to some from the balcony of her home: "brother, don't forget to pick up milk on the way home!" It's unbearable!  Even my "tween" who loves Thor, and is a disturbingly huge fan of the Twilight movies, asked if we could turn it off and watch something else; she was that bored!  Overall, the final product leads one to believe that the Sanders/Stewart scandal was nothing more than a PR stunt to bring audiences to the theater!

Stay Away These DVDs are absolutely rip offs. M-1 had some great fights, however you only see the action that was on broadcast TV. Each of these only come with 5 fights and many cut out rounds 1 and 2. The DVD's only hold about 50 minutes of action. I am a big time MMA Fan and these DVDs are just not worth it. HDNET should have bundled the fights together and made compilation DVDs

Wonderlost What a let down. What a waste of talented funny actors. What a terribly unfunny film. What terrible screenwriting. Unwatchable.

Tmccormick DOES NOT COME IN ITALIAN!, I needed it to have some italian in order to understand! Was unhappy to pay for something not offered.

ZERO STARS - The worst movie ever made! This movie is terrible. I hate it with a great passion. There is no film that will ever rival the awfulness of this horrendous and twisted piece of crap. Please don't watch this abhorrent load of goat crap, read the book (which is great) but whatever you do, don't watch this filthy thing that calls itself a movie. The Polar Express is a product of the devil.

It was Broken I haven't seen the movie in a long time, and i was excited to watch the movie, so i put it in the VHS player, and it wouldn't play, i tried putting in a different movie to see if it was the player but it was perfectly fine, so i hated this and i was mad and almost cried.

WHY BOTHER! Just terrible...sad to watch ...just because its working for Robert Downy Jr, doesn't mean its gonna work for every 90's actor.

Big disappointment! I was so looking forward to Jeff Dunham's new show, as I've been a fan for years and think his past work is hilarious.  That being said, I found Controlled Chaos extremely disappointing and was not amused much at all.  I've read in the press that he went through a recent divorce and also the circumstances (which I won't go into as there are usually 2 sides to such things), but this entire show seemed to be a display of sour grapes and subtle (at times not too subtle) jabs at his ex-wife.  It is apparent he's upset with the property settlement the divorce brought about and let it spill over into his comedy.  He also seemed to "brag" about having a younger girlfriend.  I can understand his anger at his ex, but since he has children I find his material in very poor taste!  He seems to have no consideration for his children's feelings in relation to the divorce.  This particular show consisted of stale comedy, bitter material and culturally insensitive humor in the form of Achmed's dead son puppet.  Achmed's dead son puppet consisted of a half mutilated torso with a British accent.  Don't get me wrong, Achmed is one of my favorite characters, and I find the dead terrorist schtick very funny, but with a war in progress and people being blown up everyday (especially civilians and soldiers), it was almost sickening to see a puppet/character with half of his body disfigured by a bomb.  On top of that, the puppet appeared to be a white preppy type with a British accent(which I didn't get).  Maybe I misunderstood and just didn't get the bit.  Oh well, at least Peanut was still funny!

dispointed disappointed Am a little disappointed I thought I was getting the move "the sootiest " in this collection by the way you wrote up the material let me show you. BY THE WAY I owen over 5000 movies. WHY WOULD YOU WRITE ABOUT THESE MOVIES WHEN THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS COLLECTION?  Editorial Reviews Amazon.com The Sons of Katie Elder John Wayne recovered from his first bout with cancer to appear in this 1965 film as the brother of Dean Martin, Earl Holliman, and Michael Anderson Jr. All four characters are wandering souls prone to trouble, but after the funeral of their frontier mother, they set out to avenge her death. Directed by Henry Hathaway (Wayne's director on True Grit), the film moves like a conventional, latter-day Western, with good performances from Wayne and Martin, who'd already costarred with the Duke in Howard Hawks's Rio Bravo. Nice support from Dennis Hopper (who had a legendary conflict with Hathaway on this film), Strother Martin, and George Kennedy. --Tom Keogh Big Jake Big Jake (1969) is not one of the Duke's classics, but a diverting attempt nonetheless. Everyone seems to think that Jacob McCandles is six feet under ("I thought you was dead" is a running line throughout), so some bad men kidnap his grandson. They want a piece of the family fortune and will kill to get it. Patrick Wayne, the Duke's own son, plays one of Big Jake's kids, and together they start out after the boy's abductors. Richard Boone makes a worthy adversary to Jake's larger-than-life figure, and the final confrontation between the two contains some great gritted-teeth dialogue. Maureen O'Hara is barely in the feature, sharing the same fate as Bobby Vinton as the boy's father. He seems to be onscreen just to get shot. --Keith Simanton The Shootist The last film of John Wayne could not have been more fitting, full of details that can't help but make one reflect upon his legacy in the movies and his life as a star. Wayne plays a career gunfighter in the autumn of his life, trying to hang up his pistols after he discovers he's dying of cancer. Boarding in the house of an attractive widow (Lauren Bacall) and her son (Ron Howard), Wayne's character opts for peace in his final days but is dogged by his reputation when a handful of killers seeks him out for a final fight. Howard is fine as a fatherless boy who needs the strong mentor the hero represents, and James Stewart--who costarred with Wayne in the great Man Who Shot Liberty Valance--plays the doctor who gives the big man the bad news. Don Siegel (Invasion of the Body Snatchers) thoughtfully directs a very special and sensitive production. --Tom Keogh

Worst video series EVER!!! I recently previewed the Industrial Revolution video in hopes of showing it to my students.  When I started the video, I realized it was produced by the "Just the Facts" people, and that we had several videos from this series in our school library already.  Without exception, these videos are dry, dull, and of questionable production value.  If I showed this to my students, they would either fall asleep, hate me, or both.  I will never, ever purchase another title from this series again.  It is truly awful.

true grit dvd this dvd did not play in my region so i would like an address to return it to its sender and claim a refund.

Yes, they want your money for this DVD This is republican/conservative propaganda.  I was lucky, I rented it, and it lasted about 20 minutes in my DVD player.  Do not let them take your money.  You can watch this type of garbage on Fox for free.

Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Celebration I returned the Diamond celebration blu-ray disk from a supplier through Amazon, it had audio, subtitles were fine, however, absolutely no picture throughout. I went from section to section still no picture. The return process was easy and efficient, thank you Amazon.  I purchased the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Celebration again, this time from a different supplier through Amazon. Exact same problem as the 1st time, I can not believe it the exact same problem. My blu-ray disk player works fine.  Same problem twice, from two different supplies, I got to believe the product is faulty.

Amateur video - really bad Bad acting, bad sound, and bad lighting. It's like a college project that might be fun to watch if you or your girlfriend was in it. I really didn't get very far because it was also boring. Sorry to be harsh but I'm annoyed I paid to rent this.

Really Bad Not even marginal..just bad.  Jonah Hill, usually pretty funny, is painful to watch and talks in a goofy fake character voice.  Jeff Garlin has a small part..what was he thinking?  The soundtrack is the only redeeming quality.

P & T Bears The seller was great and I received it on time.  However, I was very dissapointed in the movie itself.  I had never seen it in the theatres.  The blu-ray was fine but there was something lacking in the movie I can't put my finger on.  I do not think it was worth buying, best to rent.

Bad News Just received this movie and was excited to watch it in 3D, Alas, NO Glasses - is this made for the 3D tv's and the special 3D $ 100.00 glasses ?  Not too happy unless they just forgot to enclose the glasses.

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan The book was so good, and the DVD is so bad, what a total waste of money - they should write on the  cover, doesn't follow the book hardly at all.

Meh, was alright. Meh it was alright, but I've seen better. Kind of old, like we've seen this all before. Really got to stop with the sequels and come up with more original ideas. So repetitive. Really trying to milk it.

Do not waste your money At first, I thought it might be a good haunted inn story. I soon realized the acting and writing was some of the worst I'd seen in ANY movie in awhile. I fast-forwarded grueling slow scenes, hoping it might get better. But it got even much worse.  Do not waste your money on this movie. It's just that bad. I felt very ripped off and was mad at myself for paying for the rental. Not scary, stupid annoying characters, bad acting, bad everything!!!!!!

I HATE ULTRAVIOLET DIGITAL COPY!!! SOO MAAND BECAUSE ULTRAVIOLET DIGITAL COPIES ARE "NOT ELIGIBLE TO REDEEM IN MY REGION"???!!!! ALL OTHER MOVIES SPECIALLY THE DISNEY ONES HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THIS!! I HAVE ABOUT 4 MOVIES THAT CAME WITH UV THAT I CANT REDEEM! JUST PUT A DIGITAL COPY TO REDEEM IN THE MOVIE AND DONT GO FANCY WITH BELLS AND WHISTLES!!

DEFECTIVE AND INCOMPLETE PRODUCT ? This product seems to be made in Germany. My first problem with that is that DVD's are two sided. But more importantly than that, Episodes are missing and are even badly counted. For example, in Disc four (4) Episodes 11-13, Episode 12 is missing. And so on and so fourth. Between Disc one (1) and (2), the outside labeling of Episodes is wrong, i.e. Episodes are missing. And since the episodes are NOT labelled on the discs (you cannot see on the TV which Episodes are playing, despite the facts you have to watch the credits again and again) this defect is harder to detect. You have to sense to discontinuity in the history line ! I would like to be shown that it is my mistake and that I am missing something, but we checked the discs again and again. So buyer beware : Despite the claim this is NOT THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON !!!

WARNING: No english dub! When I bought this movie, the article description was very brief.  After returning home and putting it into the disc what do I get? Spanish.  That's right, Spanish.  Like, just one moment here. I bought this movie in an english speaking country and I get the Spanish original? Where is the english dub?  If I buy this film in Germany, I get the German dub. If I buy this movie in France, I get the French dub. How come the Germans and the French have the talented people to make a dub, but all English speaking countries in the world don't?  Don't buy this film until an english dub is made. I can't believe we are the only linguistic group who either lack the money or the skill to make dubs of all foreign films that are being sold in our markets.

Boring and stupid movie I'd like to say that this is the worst movie ever made, but it isn't. "Dark Star" was, but this runs a close second. I think that a child under 12 would maybe enjoy this movie? But maybe not, there are alot of smart kids out there. My only regret is that I watched it to the end..... I found the story line implausible and very boring, and the main character pretty dull..... I like sci-fi, but not like this.

I don't understand the love for this movie Totally unrealistic, anyone with half a brain knows that wolves don't act in that manner.  A lone wolf does not run full bore at a group of people.  Wolves are opportunists and pack hunters.  I would rather see a monster movie with a mythical creature than a movie about real animals acting totally out of charecter.  AND THE ENDING!  Really?

Bad quality control I love this movie, which is why I ordered it from Amazon.  Twice.  Each time it was defective (some scenes impossible to turn off captions/subtitles).  Gave up and asked for a refund.  Just FYI.

This is really BAD! I had just seen Bob Hope in "The Cat and The Canary" and I felt in the mood for more of the same kind of "old dark house" shenanigans. Having enjoyed Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner in "The Woman In Red" I figured "Haunted Honeymoon" to be a safe bet. How wrong I was..!!! The amazon staff reviewer comparing this movie to "Radioland Murders" is dead wrong as well. While "Radioland Murders" fevered pace and non-stop one-liners don't really allow any time for character development, it is still a damn funny movie. "Haunted Honeymoon" sags and drags and eventually collapses under it's own (very light) weight.  This movie is simply NOT funny to be called a comedy. It is too brightly lit to be an "old dark house" movie and, at only 80 minutes in length, it seems to drag on forever in search of a joke that never happens. The radio show cast laughing at the end of the movie, laughing at Dom DeLuise's very lame slip of the on-air tongue (he says "p!ssed" instead of "past") just about says it all. If you think that is funny, you may find something else of worth here but I found it to be a poorly-scripted dud and an unfortunate final movie for Gilda Radner. Like Peter Sellers with "The Fiendish Plot of Fu Manchu", she left this mortal coil with not a bang, but a whimper. This movie is not a fitting tribute to an otherwise outstanding comedy talent.  The funniest part of the whole movie: The farty noise that Dom DeLuise makes when he/she slides down the bannister rail... TWICE! Yes, that's how bad this film is!

Infantile Mess My God pure torture for 3.5 hours. A very stupid story about unrequited love. Most Bollywood movies are joyous. This is so misguided that you want  to to slit your wrists. such talented actors and music in such a horrible screenplay. Please don't  waste your time.

Bad, low budget, Sci Fi channel type movie This movie would be perfect for SyFy channel. It is horrible. Lame , Lame, Lame. The characters were ridiculous, storyline and costumes are even worse. I was begging for the movie to end.

NONSENSE This isn't a documentary, it's just a snake oil ad. This is science via promotional video. Burzynski's antineoplaston therapy is not supported by rigorous study, and has not been approved by the FDA. Attempts to replicate his seemingly miraculous claims fail. If you've seen this movie and feel convinced that antineoplaston therapy truly is the cure "they" don't want us to know about, I would urge you to at least consider the criticisms again Burzynski. If you check out the wikipedia page about him, there are plenty of links to other sites and articles presenting cases against him. Don't believe everything this one-sided movie has to say.

Should never have been made Nicolas Cage your should be ashamed of yourself! He should never have ever thought about being in this dreadful movie.  The script should have told the entire story. If this isn't the very worst movie ever released than it must be a close second.  Avoid this one like the Plague!!!!!

One of the worst movies I watched this movie mainly because the trailer was well made and the ranking was very high at IMDB (7.1 at that time with 20-30K raters). I was thrilled during the first 15 minutes then at the middle of the film I was already bored. I kept watching it hoping some good twist or surprise towards the end of the film. I was wrong, totally wrong. One thing I did learn from this movie is not to count on the reviews/ratings. But then, how and where can we get more objective opinions. It is not about the money wasted on this stupid film, but about the time and emotion you put in that 100 mins.  I will never watch a movie directed by Joe Wright.

There are no negative numbers.... I was looking forward to this.  I had heard that this was supposedly even better than the original.  Nope.  This just degrades into the silly after the first 5 minutes.  I don't dislike "bad" movies (I love Plan 9 and The Lost Skeleton), but this was just boring and silly.  It's not particularly gross or horrific.  It's poorly exiectuted and makes absolutely no effort to hide it or the the stupidity of it all. I mean, a 280 lb guy who looks like a weight lifter 1) fails to break out of one round of cheap duct tape that happens to be falling off another guys mouth and 2) he sits as still as he possibly can while his teeth are knocked out - a preggo who is unbound except for her feet doesn't move for DAYS and decides to run for it only after being declared dead, AND The chick at the front just sits there without struggle while her tongue is torn out.  I don't care how much of a concussion you have, if you can scream, you can move.  It's almost as painfull to watch as the 30TH anniversary remake of Night of the Living Dead (DON'T BUY IT - I implore you).  I think I'm most offended that I was stupid enough to fall for the hype on this movie and the fact that the producers were obviously just attempting to ride the wave of the first movie with _no_ effort put into this movie.  More fool me...  Pay attention:  Don't buy ths.  Watch your copy of Faces of Death instead.  This DVD is a coaster.

Terrible This is the worst documentary I've ever seen.  And I can't stand Obama.  It's called 2016: Obama's America.  But only the last 15 minutes are about that.  If you want to see something about how bad things could get, watch Agenda: Grinding America Down instead.

The horror just won't end. And no, I'm not talking about the Resident Evil franchises' ability to frighten its audiences. After four (!) installments, it has become clear that these aren't horror films. These are sci-fi action films. I'm done asking these films to scare me. In fact, I'm done trying to look for anything of any merit in these films. But why watch and review them, you ask? Because it's so much fun to verbally kick in the teeth of the people who inexplicably love these movies enough to warrant more sequels for this franchise. And for the record, I didn't pay a dime to watch this movie, I borrowed my sister's Netflix copy. I resolved not to give the thieves they call producers any of my money long ago. So, let's start the thrashing, shall we?  This film picks up with all the Alice clones launching a full-scale assault on Umbrella Corporation's home office in Tokyo. Albert Wesker, Umbrella's HNIC, manages to escape, but not before encountering the real Alice on his escape chopper. They tussle, and he injects her with some formula that strips Alice of all her cool powers. The chopper crashes, and though we never see if Wesker makes it out (though you know he does), Alice survives. Wait, how did she survive the fiery crash without her powers? Why, with the aid of slow motion, of course! Who needs telekinesis when the world simply slows down to a crawl for you, giving you plenty of time of avoid any kind of physical harm, no matter how deadly and perilous the situation? I guess the T-Virus pandemic has affected the laws of physics and the space-time continuum as well. Great Scott!  Anyway, Alice somehow makes it to Alaska, only to find the safe haven known as "Arcadia" to be nothing more than an empty beach. She runs into her pal Claire Redfield, who has some metallic insectoid mind-control device stuck to her chest. After removing it, Claire starts to come to her senses, though her memory is a little fuzzy. Good thing Alice is an expert when it comes to amnesia, since Alice seems to be stricken with amnesia in just about every film in the series so far. So the girls put on their traveling pants and head for Los Angeles, which is a burning wasteland. Somehow, all the buildings are still burning and there are still zombies years after the initial outbreak. Logic would dictate that these walking corpses would have starved to death (or back to death) without anything to eat, and the flames would have also died off. But oh, I'm bringing logic into this review. I keep forgetting that logic does not exist in the Resident Evil dojo.  They come across a handful of survivors who have taken refuge in a prison. Among these survivors is Chris Redfield, Claire's brother. What are the odds that two siblings who haven't seen each other in like FOREVER would both survive a zombie apocalypse and run into each other? That sounds highly illogic....OW! Sorry, I just slapped myself. No logic, remember?  So the refugees concoct an escape plan when it is discovered that Arcadia isn't a place, it's a tanker boat. The ship has set up off the L.A. coast, so Alice and company resolve to head for the ship. Of course, that's easier said than done when there are millions of zombies waiting to tear you apart outside. Oh, and the zombies have now developed tendrils that come out of their mouths and the ability to burrow through the ground. And there's a big dude with a burlap sack over his head dragging an ever bigger ax/meat tenderizer with him. Where'd he come from? Ah, just don't bother to think about it.  So most of the survivors (see: disposable fodder) meet a gruesome end and Alice, Claire, and Chris make it to the vessel. Turns out, Arcadia is a clever (see: predictable) ruse pulled off by Umbrella to round up survivors to experiment on. And who's on the ship? Wesker! Dun dun DUN! Now Wesker wants to eat Alice. Yes, he states his need to digest her. See, he's infected himself with the T-Virus but has managed to control it to an extent, but it's slowly taking over. He wants to chomp Alice because her DNA was strong enough to control the T-Virus, so if he eats her, he'll be able to control the infection within himself. (Why he doesn't bother to try eating her back on the helicopter is never explained.) Get that? No? Well who cares anyway? It's fight scene time!  They tussle, and though Wesker pulls off some wonderful bullet-dodging and acrobatics that would make Neo cream his trench coat, he ultimately takes a lead sandwich from our heroes. But since even bullets can't keep him down, he gets to anothah choppah and flees. But luckily, Alice has planned for this contingency and hidden a nuke on the craft. Ka-boom!  Alice and the Wonder Twins have saved the day. OR HAVE THEY? Swarms of Umbrella choppers approach the Arcadia (loaded with Umbrella soldiers the company seems to magically pull out of their posterior despite the fact that most of the world's population has been turned into zombies), one of which is helmed by mind-controlled Jill Valentine. And so, we get the set-up for yet another unwanted yet inevitable sequel.  In short, these movies are nonsensical crap. AVOID. DO NOT WANT.

You're kidding right? I would give this a negative score if available. It just blows my mind that crap like this is given the BluRay treatment and classics like Ben Hur are ignored. A must have for those with a sub-60 IQ. Pathetic.

ghost rider spirit of vengence I wanted to give this movie zero stars but you must select at least one star to submit a review.  I love Nick Cage but there are many other movies to see him in and even the ones that are not so great are better than this one.  I am taking the time to write this in hopes of saving someone else the time, pick something else...anything else to watch.

Dont Trust Amazon Reviews I have bought a dozen or so 'scary' movies like this one on the advice on Amazon reviewers. This movie got 4.5 stars for over 100 reviews - it seemed like a safe bet.  This movie was yet another disappointing 80s cheapo non-scary pre-teen movie.  This would get a PG rating by today's standards.  Frankly, I have stopped reading Amazon's movie reviews as too 'positive.'  Skip this movie unless you're 11 years old!

Scarface's vocabulary was better The storyline of this movie would have been good until someone got the script from Scarface and gave it to the actors to speak like Tony Montana.  Every other word was "F" this and that and the other.  I can't imagine Drew Berrymore needing the money, perhaps the charm of someone actually giving her "boyfriend" Justin Long a job that made her take this role.  I would not recommend this movie to anyone it was so bad, we didn't even stay till the end.  What a shame they would stoop so low as to make this movie slightly and I mean very slightly above a "porno", very low class movie.

disc won't load My Blu-ray player isn't that old and is certainly not a 1st generation model.  The disc is a replacement from the same vendor when the original one wouldn't play as well.  This is the only Blu-ray disc I've had any problems with.

Attempt at Artistic - Fail The best way for me to describe this film is find the drugs the director and producer were on, and view it using them.  The cinematography is interesting at first, but quickly gets old.  The lack of dialogue not only makes it difficult at best to discern a story line, but also makes it virtually impossible to emotionally connect to any character.  One reviewer was impressed that the actors were "nude 90% of the time."  Ok, the director managed to achieve something any porn director pulls off in almost every film.  I've seen well-made art films that use black and white, that use symbolic imagery. Ingmar Bergman's "Seventh Seal" is a touch-stone film in that category.  This film, however, succeeds only in showing a narcissistic director presenting a look into his own lack of ability to create a meaningful experience for the viewer.  I threw mine away.

Does not work This is the HD version. My DVD player is HD but the DVD player does not read the disk. The process to return the tape is not worth the time or effort because the cost was low.

Better than Orson Welles! Wow, I must have missed something.  This movie has a better Amazon rating than "Citizen Kane"?  I have to say I didn't think it was as good as that.

I wanted a video to use at home and unknowingly got a REGION 2 I am very very disappointed because this video is from REGION 2.... which means I can't use it!!! I certainly wish "REGION 2" would have been made clear to me when I was choosing it. I wish I could send it back and get a copy that is US player friendly!!!

THE DARKEST HOUR AND A HALF!!! I would have preferred to have sat in the DARKEST closet instead of watched this piece of garbage. Go towards the light and forget this one.

Absolutely horrible This is a base plot line, incredibly bad animation, and taught mixed values to any child that watches it. The MPAA should be ashamed of themselves for letting this garbage come to fruition

Very stupide movie! Bad acting, idiotical manusscript, boring, boring, boring! Has no common with the "Hangover", so, no false comparations, please! Don't waste time and money in this.

Sickness and Depravity should be rated NC-17 Sickness and depravity.  People tortured in sick ways whose details others can discuss - not me.  This brings up two philosophical points about film in general:  1) Some ideas should NOT be put into film; and 2) what the H*ll is wrong with the movie Rating System?  Concerning #1 -- would filming families inside an Auschwitz gas chamber be considered film material?  If not, why not?  If not, then why would society put up with this garbage?  Concerning #2, if this isn't an NC-17 film, then the movie rating system is worthless.  TOTALLY WORTHLESS.  You know that the industry can't police itself because many movies that should receive NC-17 don't.  Why?  Duh.... Money!  So the rating system for NC17 movies has broken down.  Watch this film if you like sadistic themes of torturing innocent people in twisted and depraved ways.  Then go demand they make a gas-chamber film and watch it.  Then look in the mirror and ask yourself what kind of person you are.

Take Shelter from this movie!!! Save your money! I could understand had he come out of the shelter and everything was gone, but this was ridiculous! long, drug out waste of time. How did they get 2 hours out of this? Are we able to eliminate stars? When you finally get to the end, (if your able to sit through it) still didn't show enough of what was happening. Very disappointed.

Terrible DVD quality I liked the song selection on this DVD and my daughter was so excited to watch it, BUT it skipped the entire time. I tried cleaning it, but nothing helped, it was just a poor quality DVD. I ordered it early knowing that I will put it in her easter basket, so by the time we realized the DVD was bad, it was too late to return it. What a waste of money! Next time I'm going to Target, they return everything!

This movie should be classified as a horror, not a comedy While the cast for this film is stellar, and their acting is wonderful, the story, as it is, is garbage.  There is nothing humorous (in my opinion) about seeing someone dig through their own fecies to find a key leading to a million dollars.  Or cannibalism, which is also a component of the story.  I am shocked that this film is receiving anything above 2 stars.  Writers of the new millenia seem to have confused VULGARITY with comedy and we are left with films that leave us wanting to take a shower instead of making us laugh and feel good about the two hours we allowed this person's imagination into our heads and lives.  Great writers of our time had the capability to create suspense, drama, and even compassion for the antagonist, without taking us to the latrine of the writer's  subconscious. They left us thinking long after we watched, but for good reasons, not shaking our heads that not only did someone THINK of such things, but someone else bankrolled to have it put on film.  If this story had been written by the great Alfred Hitchcock it could have been a classic with this wonderful cast.  Or Joe Eszterhas who wrote Jagged Edge, another classic.  All the suspense, twists and turns, without the human degredation.  The reason I say this film is better classified as a horror is that it has the feel more of The Roommate, than Father of the Bride.  Writers are confusing IRONY with comedy these days as well.  This film will probably make you sick at heart if not literally sick, but I sure didn't see anything to laugh about.

one star is one too many I've long believed that there's some worth and redeeming value to virtually everything, but this movie disproves that belief.  Everything about this movie was worthless, and I regret that I stayed with it to the end in hopes of finding something of merit; no such luck.  Don't invest time or money in this.

The board game sees more action Title almost says it all. Some bad movies are real bad. This I must say makes my #1 bad of all time. How did this crap even make screen...

VERY POOR VIDEO AND SOUND BAD REPRODUCTION, SOUND QUALITY POOR AND COULD NOT UNDERSTAND A SUBSTANTIAL PART OF DIALOG.  REALLY NEEDED SUBTITLES FOR THIS VIDEO.

AF Cinema wastes YOUR money... Stay away from this God-awful release!! I don't know where all these "legit" DVD releasing companies are popping up from but sometimes you're better off going to one of the more highly regarded "bootleg" vendors for uncut and original language versions of these classic films. Or just get yourself a multi-region player and buy the original PAL discs. This sucker has cuts right from the very beginning. I have a bootleg from the PAL disc (out of print) that has a much longer opening scene (and is in original Spanish w/English subtitles). This Apprehensive Films release is not even widescreen. It's FULL FRAME! C'mon guys! Really? If there's a widescreen version that was made available to the Euro market, why couldn't you license that one? You're giving fans a nasty, chopped up public domain version and have the nerve to make it seem so important that we grab a copy because it's limited to ONLY 500 COPIES! You should have limited it to only 5 copies. One for each of your buddies/fellow employees. STAY AWAY FROM THIS RELEASE!!

Doesnt work on my tablet I chpse amazon for the download because I had the app on the tablet I can only use it on my lap top I wished I would have know I would ha e chose another app.

Disturbingly inaccurate. In my opinion the creators of this DVD are either grossly misinformed or pushing an agenda. I was absolutely repulsed by the amount of bashing of the US Medical System in this DVD.  The final straw for me was when the creators repeated an often used and misleading "statistic" regarding infant mortality rates in the United States compared to other countries around the world. The same type of propaganda that we saw coming out during the ramming through of Obamacare. All done to make the best healthcare system in the world look like a failed third world system based solely on profit without any regard for the patient.  Every country has their own rating system regarding infant mortality and it is impossible to compare these ratings between different countries because they simply are not the same.  As an example: Most of the European Union does not include babies born before 26 weeks as "live births" into their statistics. Switzerland does not include any baby born under 30cm in length as a "live birth" and Germany and Canada do not include any babies born under one pound as a "live birth".  Many of the industrialized nations which boast some of the lowest infant mortality rates like France, Hong Kong and Japan do not include babies that die within the first 24 hours of birth as "live births" (Half of reported US infant deaths occur within the first 24 hours). All of these "exceptions" help to suppress the infant mortality rates of other countries substantially.  In comparison, the United States has a much more encompassing set of standards for the category of "live birth". The United States includes ALL babies born with ANY signs of life irrespective of weight or size into the category of "live births".  Once I see blatant misinformation like this in a movie, the entire work becomes suspect for bias and and cannot be trusted.

Not enough story The author of this did not put enough of a  story to justify the boys running around naked. A better storyline would have justified the naked boys on the beach and running around. Some will say I did not understand the dvd but I did and what he did was to toss in a lame background to justify the nakedness in the story. He should have taken the man out of it entirely and just had the boys run from home and meet on the beach. Anyway this is only my opinion and others may get more out of the movie.

A Code Of Lies SPOILER ALERT! This movie is a cleverly contrived character assassination targeting Jesus of Nazareth and Mary Magdalene constructing the premise of the plot upon a multi-layered foundation of lies so outrageously slanderous by their very nature that had Jesus himself decided to make an unannounced appearance at the world premiere of this dastardly flick, I can imagine more than one smart lawyer handing Him their business cards. And the producers of this cinematic spectacle of the disgraceful desecration of He Who So Magnificently Fuses Divinity And Humanity (thereby revealing God to Man and Man to God), these very same self-serving producers of carnival-like deception saved one of their biggest lies for last as the final credits rolled and this appeared on the screen: "The characters and incidents portrayed and the names herein are fictitious, and any similarity to the name, character or history of any person is entirely coincidental and unintentional." Coincidental? Unintentional? Do they seriously take those of us who are spirit-born students of the Life and Teachings of Jesus (and everyone else for that matter) to all be perpetually silent, unthinking puppet-fools who shall turn a blind eye to the absolute absurdness of all their blatantly false assertions, preposterous speculations and unfounded accusations that are only magnified exponentially by their unapologetic attitude regarding their profane propagation of blasphemous baloney masquerading as a work of so-called fiction?!  Judas Iscariot got thirty pieces of silver to sell Him out. What did they get? An adjusted amount due to inflation minus one suicide.

Dumb movie I didn't know what "final destination" was about when I rented it, but I suspected it was one of those dumb movies - the kind with not much plot, cheap thrills, and few surprises. I would have rented it anyways since a friend wanted to see it, but really, the movie was just dumb. A bunch of young people getting bumped off one by one in gruesome and semi-fathomable yet unrealistic ways. Really just an outlet to show blood, gore, and accidental death.  Some people enjoy this type of movie, but it wasn't my cup of tea.

don't even bother with this movie The movie spends more time with political comments about pharmaceutical companies than on the story.  Regardless of how you feel on the issue there is no point in watching this movie because the information is essentially a lie of omission and it takes up so much of the movie that the story is completely lost behind it.

Charles Solomon underestimates the awfulness As one of the titular writers of this DVD, I must take exception to the Editorial Review of Charles Solomon, who wrote "These films epitomize the bargain-basement schlock that gives cartoons and children's entertainment a bad name."  I do not believe these cartoons give children's entertainment a bad name. Rather, they call into question the very definition of "entertainment" if the term can be so loosely applied. They are, I would say, something more akin to "child abuse" than "children's entertainment." How any child could watch these cartoons--and we know they watch them over and over--without his/her brain resolving into a viscous gray sludge is beyond me.  These cartoons were quickly excreted to take advantage of Disney's far-superior offerings, Hercules and Pocahontas. Their perceived market was confused parents who, seeing what they thought was a bargain or perhaps a pricing error by a careless clerk, would pick this DVD up by mistake. Really. And what a mistake it would be!  Of course, as one of the writers, I am prejudiced. What parent finds their own children anything but beautiful? Well, in this case, even I have to admit that what we have here are two babies of such hideous aspect that, if they were abandoned, orphanages would leave them on the doorsteps of other orphanages. Gypsies would recoil in horror. Wolves would refuse to devour them.  They are, in fact, a vile abomination upon the face of the earth.  If you buy them by accident, remember that Amazon has a generous return policy.

how is it possible to make Miro seem dull? When you look at a Miro piece of artwork you are struck by the colors, the crazy shapes and the fun of it all. Where is the fun in this DVD?  To start off there is some person dressed up in a costume with a mask much like the faces Miro painted. This person wanders throughout the film like some sort of mime on acid.  The narrator sounds half asleep and/or pretentious.  The actual film or video stock this was shot on lacks any brightness or sharpness. It's like the quality you get taping over programs on old video cassettes.  Given I love stuff like the two seminal BBC series on art--Simon Schama's "Power of Art" and "Private Life Of A Masterpiece"--I was expecting similar with this. This was done by some New York-based company called V.I.E.W. (are they related to the "The Man From U.N.C.L.E."?) and all I can say is they didn't convince me at all with this to go out and check out any more of their art or music DVDs.

Zombie Hell indeed.................. Needless to say, the cover of the DVD does not represent the movie in any manner, shape, or form, which makes it deceit by any name.  Yes, this is another of those tedious handheld camera flicks that defy rationale (even for a zombie movie).  Exactly where did this cameraman get a never ending power supply to keep filming day and night?  And how did he keep from tripping in a forest at a dead run and in the dark!?  And why was he filming carnage instead of helping the few survivors fight off the zombies!? The opening "found footage" is likewise unreasonable.  Who goes out in the night to investigate a "noise" with a handheld camera glued to their face instead of using a flashlight!?  This was a disjointed mess made worse by bad acting and terrible dialog and not one but two rapes! But as far as the story goes, the most shameful act of stupidity was when the cameraman and his gang are captured by thugs.....who then take up his camera and continue filming!  Yeah, that's a natural impulse.  Besides taxing all logic and reason, this was just a poorly made film on every level.

Poor Quality VHS Having read the poor reviews on the DVD quality of this movie, I ordered the VHS version.  Unfortunately the quality of the VHS is so bad I could not watch the movie.  Amazon should withdraw this terrible product by "Star Classics".  Don't waste your money.

Truly horrible Have to admit that I was only able to watch twenty seconds of it before the rancid dialog forced me to tear the blu-ray out of my player, but maybe the rest of the film is billions of times better than the first five or six lines.  If I were you, I wouldn't risk it.

Ultraviolet what??? No iTunes folks I am so upset, got this movie and it said digital copy, well that digital copy is not iTunes compatible is for some knock off service called ultraviolet I feel dipped and ripped off, this movie is getting returned.

If only there could be a no-star rating... NOTHING HAPPENS IN THIS MOVIE! Absolutely nothing! The sheriff character blathers on about steer and man's relationship for no reason as well as complaining how mean the world has gotten, the bad guy has no character at all (and yet SOMEHOW he won a OSCAR for his bland, plain-not- scary performance), the main character guy spends the majority of the movie wandering around doing nothing, then gets KILLED OFF TWENTY MINUTES BEFORE THE MOVIE ENDS!! THEN the movie continues on like it's main character didn't die, and suddenly tries to make it some sort of huge mystery as to if the main characters wife dies or not. Well, guess what Coen brothers? I DON'T CARE ABOUT THIS GIRL! She was never in the movie for more than five minutes of screen time, and NOW im supposed to care if she dies?! Even worse, after this, the bad guy gets hit by a car, buys a kid's shirt to use as a sling, and walks off, and guess what? WE NEVER SEE HIM AGAIN! THAT'S IT. No resolution, no reprecussions, he just leave the movie. Oh, but that's not the worst of it. After this, the sheriff tells his wife about a random dream he had, then, i'm not kidding, THE MOVIE ENDS RIGHT THERE!!!! Don't try and tell me that I just don't get it, because there's nothing to get. I've heard other people talk about the violence in this film being so real and scary. What, the one random guy who got killed with an air-gun at the start of the movie? that's all the violence i remember seeing in the movie. This movie is about nothing. I can't even remember the names of any of the so-called characters here, they left that little impression on me. This was a waste of my time, and i can't believe i watched the whole thing. It's an empty experience.

Abduction Let's be fair here: some inspirational cinema may be a bit obtuse and unsophisticated, but there are plenty of worse films that don't preach any particular spiritual message. Case in point: Abduction, which stars Twilight heartthrob Taylor Lautner as Nathan Harper, a teen who, while researching for a school project on missing children, discovers that his true identity has been kept hidden from him all his life. As Nathan uncovers more about his past, he and his friend Karen are plunged into the dangerous world of his biological father, a former CIA agent embroiled in an espionage war. Apart from Lautner, who has yet to establish himself as an actor of some range, the cast is surprisingly solid: Alfred Molina, Sigourney Weaver, Jason Isaacs, Maria Bello, and even the original Dragon Tattoo star, Michael Nyqvist are all on board here. I say "surprisingly" because, despite this pedigree, Abduction is one of the worst films I saw in 2011. The film is soulless and incompetent. Things could have been worse though.

Oh my God! do not watch this film! Please save yourself the pain I had to suffer watching this piece of tripe. Awful, just awful! The cover is the best bit!

Pre -the Hollywood version not a fan at all of the Hollywood cariacatures of Pre. this one is the worse of the two in my view.

Crank2 -Blah Crank 2 is a total bomb of a movie. While the original was fresh, and exciting, this sequel is stale, vulgar, boring and borders on the pornographic. The plot wanders and strains to find a storyline amid the mindless set pieces. I could only watch half way before loosing my lunch and turning it off. No, I don't care how it ends. Save your money unless you want to see Amy Smart naked and performing graphic simulated sex ( very demeaning for this actress ). All and all this movie is garbage.

Not worth it. Disappointing. Wasn't enough good character development for me.  I never really cared for the protagonist and what would happen to her.

Kiosk Rating &lt;1 Starting at the ending credits I am often alerted to a "make money" movie by such circumstantial evidence as the number of producers in the movie - in this case there were twenty. Second are acknowledgements in the  "Special Thanks" listings which usually means people with an invested interest in the movie - there were sixty. Both numbers way overboard. As far as the movie the acting seemed overly method "recite the lines" and the storyline seemed too contrived to be believable or to emotionally draw the viewer in. Inadequate research into police interview protocols; psychiatrist interview methodology; school/teaching policy with regard to a teacher with her medical issues; even the rescue sequence seemed rushed into the script. Add the romantic connection between the witness and the detective and it all seems to just make a more marketable movie. Too bad, the subject is interesting in itself but seemed to be demeaned by the cheap soap opera presentation in this movie. The story itself is essentially based on some pop psych cases that have been floating about for a few decades concerning people who, more commonly because of a genetic disorder and rarely through accident, cannot recognize faces unless they learn to use other visual or sensory cues.

Horrible Blu-Ray for an awesome movie Terrible.  I love this film but the presentation on this Blu Ray is probably one of the worst I've ever seen.  Colors and blacks are blah.  It's grainy as all hell, and any kind of depth and texture is just gone.  It's an upscale of the original first run DVD that wasn't even 16x9 to begin with.  No form of restoration went into this ever.  Why is it a 25th Ann. edition when they did NOTHING to celebrate it's release excep press it on a new medium with a fancy blue box?  Avoid...unless you don't want to adjust your TV Zoom settings from the original DVD.

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Terrible and NOT FAMILY freindly Eddie Murphy can ruin any promising plot with vulgar, lewd, and uncalled for trash humor. Whether him or the writers ruined this movie it reeks and is not suitable for mature adults let alone children...

When the Beatles excelled at mediocrity... This movie has to be one of the worst films ever.  It is so bad that I watched once and got rid of it immediately after.  The videos for the songs are fun though...

The orginal Scandanavian film is much better The original is far superior! Let the Right One InLåt den R&auml;tte Komma In(2008) R  Even though this is almost a shot for shot remake,it lacks the quaint charm of the original. The two children are both outcasts and there is a sweetness about their relationship that is not present in the remake. The original did not have the Satanic overtones as this film does. Why the filmmaker thought he needed to set this film in the 1980s, I'll never know. It is just distracting. Just because there is a Rubik's cube doesn't mean you need to set your film in the 1980s.  The pacing of the original is slow but that is how their narrative unwinds and it could be a European non-Hollywood thing. And perhaps the slow pace of the original is meant to be a character itself the isolation of cold dark Scandinavian winters. This remake is slow because the filmmaker cannot tell his own story and is literally using the same shots to make this film without good character development or plot development. I would not classify the original as a Horror film in the American sense of slasher/satanic films as this one is. Do your self a favor and rent/buy the original. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001MYIXAC">Let The Right One In</a>

Watchmen 2 disc Dr. Manhattan head case Just a packaging review...don't get your hopes up. If you have or have seen the "Iron Man" head case Marvel did for the firsrt movie, this is nothing like it. That was actually a case. This however is 2 trays attatched to a cheap, barely 3D, Dr. Manhattan. Its only his front the back is non existent, making the whole thing look rushed & unfinished. Now on to the box. Clear box, cardboard backdrop, trays (to keep the doc in place), & your digital copy. Sure it sounds cool...heck it looks cool...but throw all that out the window, because you need to be Dr. Manhattan to get it all back in safely. The cardboard gets easily bent & wrinkled. The trays to hold the case in place are hard to get back in. If you dont use the trays (like me), the case slides around scratching or marking up the inside plastic. It just looks bad & heavily used after 2 uses. All in all its not what I expected, so unless your a huge fan of the Watchmen, or a "collector's edition" collector, save $10 and buy the regular  blu-ray.

Really bad movie! While I can't comment on the actual Blu-ray or DVD, I will say that this movie just stinks!  I had really high hopes since I really enjoyed the original TV show.  This movie takes out all the magic and charm of the original and is a poor copy.  I suggest you stay away from this movie and watch the original instead.  I was embarrassed to show this movie to my kids it was that bad!

Worse than a bad case of diarrhea Some time ago, I had a really bad case of diarrhea.  I thought that after I flushed the toilet, it would be gone forever.  Little did I know that Sarah Palin and her handlers were siphoning from the sewage pipes of Los Angeles County and repackaging it into a 'documentary.'  Leni Riefenstahl couldn't have made a film with more right-wing propaganda than this piece of garbage.

Scariest thing is the waste of time Seriously, could the studios screw something up just a little bit more. Here's a hint. Fire anyone who put this together. The first one had me on edge the whole time. I was freaked for ever. I was on edge on this one for most of it but nothing happened...? Finaly I decided to not base my expectations from the first one and I just sat back and relaxed....and continued to relax....and relaxed some more. Excuse me, this is paranormal activity? Everything that happened felt so....obvious and staged as well. Honestly, you could skip at least half the movie and not miss anything. Well, except the hispanic nanny who is a ghostbuster in hiding. Everyone knows that hispanics are only good for basic jobs for the white man and also that they are all super religious and know about spirits! White man is to advanced to acknowledge the spirit realm anymore. Bring in the brown and red people! They are backward enough to understand. What garbage. I hope Paramount lost lots and lots of money on this. Losers.

Just plain bad This movie is kinda like a cross between Superbad and Uncle Buck, but much more poorly written. It tries to fit too many plot elements into the movie and therefore none are ever developed. Even the jokes are thrown out in such rapid succession in the hopes that one might make you chuckle but they come off as lame and un-funny. Just plain bad. Avoid this movie.

Mean and Evil We start with about 3 minutes of nice family time, then we are thrust into evil resembling the horrors of World War II with the Pure Ones having kidnapped and brainwashed young owls.  Many battles follow and there is even a traitor.  This movie is not even redeemed with the fact that good conquers evil.  I would not recommend this movie to anyone.  Not sure how this made it to movie theaters!

Action scenes are bad jokes + Tailing-enemy scenes are like kids' play. + Very little suspense = These wolves DON'T BITE The fighting and shooting scenes were bad jokes compared to today's movies. For example, in one scene, one of the British hit the area around the shoulder of a German sailor with the butt of his hand gun. It sent the bad guy to the ground unconscious! Yeah right! Also the scenes where the main character tailed the enemy are laughable.  There was little suspense when the team of retired British boarded the German ship to destroy its transmitting equipment. However, the suspense was quickly shattered by the ridiculous action scenes that followed.  Luckily, I borrowed this movie from my local library instead of renting it. Save your money and time on this one.

WTF I haven't even gotten the damn DVD!!!! So u took my money but ant send it??? That's really sucks cause this was definitely my first time buying online and it has been a very sucky experience do... Never doing it again. Am I at least gonna get a refund??

The Charles Dicens Collection Volume 1 Watch out because the Our Mutual Friend movie only got half way through and then seemed to get stuck and wouldn't go any further. I tried it on 3 different players with the same result.

Nice show but wait for the 3D version Wait for Black Friday or the 3D version to be released,it gonna be like LOTR Bluray all over again.  First version Theatrical version(normal length) Second Version Extended Cut

The worst movie ever The movie starts out very dark and stays that way.  The plot was so hard to follow, at times very boring. This is probably the worst writting, editing, in any movie I've ever seen.  It's very hard to believe that Sam Worthington and Jeffery Dean Morgan  lent their talents to this rambling, incoherant movie.!  It was a waste of an hour and a half.

Page Eight not great I was stunned by the blatant anti-Israel/anti-America writing that dominated this movie.  Perhaps vilifying both was the main interest behind its production.

Amazon Rental Service Sucks Tried to download while on train. Instructions led me to believe this was possible. Can't remove charge from account. Can't seem  to contact amazon about it, only get "canned responses" from help.  Won't ever use amazon video again.

Poor excuse for a rip-off I wish to firstly say that I am a huge fan of war films of just about all makes and styles, even if they take extreme liberties with the actual events that transpired.  And I am one who actually does enjoy some foreign films, though personally I will live with subtitles over dubbing, especially if you throw in some of the god-awful dubbers out there.  Now that that bunch of crap is out of the way, this movie is the worst war movie I have seen since The Thin Red Line. To call this movie unoriginal is being very nice to this Russian rip-off.  Did you like Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, or any other war films in the past 100 years? Then you will love this if you like those movies done on a smaller budget with a lot less capable actors.  I wouldn't harp on this being a complete and utter hack in terms of stealing from other movies (Good lord knows I like some good old exploitation from time to time) but this movie is completely unashamed with how much it steals from other movies.  Like there is the whole drill sergeant who does his best Gunnery Sergeant Hartman impersonation, and of course there is the bunch of soldiers who hate him for no reason except he is tough, and that just sticks in my craw.  No, I have not went through boot camp, but still, the man does not do anything except be a little bit tough, and truly that gives no reason to be angered at him for everything it seems.  And then there is the few, note really few, action scenes that exist solely at the end of the movie feel totally unrehearsed thanks to the fact that there is no one seemingly being shot, killed wounded or anything.  Seriously, there are lines of men charging head long into gunfire, no one seemingly getting hurt in any real way.  This movie really is annoying with that, and no saying it was on a low budget should excuse it or anything like that is ludicrous because if you take a movie say like Godzilla: Final Wars which had a smaller budget, it still was enjoyable because it was it's own thing, not a rip of everything that is American.  There is just no excuse for anything like that. Now, to comment on the movie in terms of anything like acting, it is all blah at best, and horrid at worst.  Most of the actors seem like they have nothing better on their mind except wondering where the paycheck is, and the "main" character (it is really hard to follow who is the lead, which would be fine if one or two of these guys didn't look the same and sound the same) is about as enjoyable as fresh bird poo on a freshly waxed car.  Seriously, these people are not memorable in any way, they might as well be called Soldier 1,2,3 and so forth and you would notice no difference in terms of story or development.  Oh, and to touch on the biggest issue that bugs me (along with Black Hawk Down) this movie seriously deviates away from the actual events by a large margin, making it seem that most of these character you won't care about die, when it reality only 2 soldiers died.  Really, why did this movie try to dramatize this battle in such a way, especially considering this was Soviet Russia's Vietnam, and considering you would figure Russians would have treated their history better.  Ok, rant over when it comes to history. To sum this horrid movie up, it is slow and oddly paced to the point that counting hairs on my arm became more interesting of a prospect.  And to top it all off, the actors are forgettable, the story is pointless, and just makes you wish that there was something better on, like I don't know, maybe We Were Soldiers.

bad dvd the product was not secured in the package and it scratched it so it stopped 2 minutes into the program.

Digital Copy Expired and Missing Authorization Code The digital copy expired September 2011 and the there wasn't an authorization code. The slip was in the case but the code wasn't printed on it.  Update: The Warner Brothers support site says that the digital copy has been extended until 2013. The code may be embedded on the DVD or Blu-ray disk. That information isn't printed on the insert.  I contacted WB support via email. They said they will reply back within 5 business days.

Worst Narration Ever. I bought this by accident on another website not realizing it was the Oprah version. I didn't even know it existed. Oprah's narration is not only bothersome, it is dumbed down to the point that it is absolutely false. For example in the fish episode she talks about the mud skippers filling their lungs with air. They don't have lungs. "They breathe gaseous air using a mechanism called cutaneous respiration, where the capillary rich lining of the mouth and throat acts as an oxygen absorbing membrane. They will gulp air and hold it in their mouths. They do maintain water in the gill chamber to keep the gills wet and will mix this water to enhance oxygen mixing in that water, but they have to have gaseous air to survive."-quoted from a web source. But when she talks about their lungs it gets confusing as to what you are watching.   She also says "We know what happens next" to refer to an animal mating or killing it's prey...basically anything that would take any depth to describe or anything that doesn't need description. She also uses's idioms such as an animal living the "life of Riley." Or that a place is a "Goby Shangri la." And she says things like that a hippo is "Trailed by a school of fish just waiting for breakfast." Her narration is really distracting from what is going on in the film. Worst of all she throws in words that she picked out of a thesaurus to sound authoritative, but they make her come across as condescending to the viewer. I enjoy it better with the narration turned off which is an option on the blu ray, but sadly the Attenborough narration is not an option. The way she says things may be nice for a kid, or an old person, or someone who has a mild mental retardation.   Bottom line...if you want information or documentation from your documentary then get the Attenborough version. Haven't seen it yet, but have seen all his others, always a wealth of information. If you want to show your kids, then get this but your kids will grow up to be misinformed. They will probably end up like the water boy and think alligators are angry because they have all those teeth and no tooth brush.   The camera work, and soundtrack in the movie are second to none. That being said he original version is apparently 1080p vs. the Oprah version I've seen in 1080i. Still looks stunning, but I have no idea why they would reduce the quality. Still absolutely amazing and beautiful. The "making of" sections of the disc are great...and feature original Attenborough narration.   Also, I understand the British English of the original can be boring for some, but at least there is depth that makes it captivating. They should have had someone like Mike Roe do the American version.   If this is what people in the UK think American's want then I feel really offended, and if American's decided to make it this why...maybe we really are just idiots.

Chopped version of 1.33:1 This version is nothing more than a cut down 1.33:1 -- ie they took the old DVD, and sliced off the top & bottom and stretched it to make it "widescreen"... DO NOT BUY it.  I had hopes it was a new transfer but it is not.

Check the run time While there are many things to like about this blu ray disk, buyers should understand that the DVD version contains an additional 8 minutes of movie content. As such, I cannot give this blu ray more than one star.

BOYCOTT THIS HORRIBLE UA/FOX RELEASE of this great film...DO NOT BUY!! This is a horrendous transfer, looks close to VHS quality... I own an import version and it is literally about 3x clearer. This edition looks like they took the cheapest route possible and used 2nd or 3rd generation prints to create this Blu-Ray, with quality worse than the DVD. PLEASE DO NOT BUY THIS DISC - BUY THE IMPORT VERSION INSTEAD, AND WRITE/EMAIL/FACEBOOK/TWITTER TO UA/20TH CENTURY FOX to let them know you are boycotting this shameful release. Demand a refund if you purchased already!!!

asininity in slow motion The plot can be summarized thus:  some people realize they are part of a truly evil scheme and they do nothing.  And by nothing I  mean literally "nothing".  They don't even seem to move much at all except for the occasionally eye flutter.  To call this a "movie" is simply false advertising as  no one moves.  If I found out that I was the victim of a nationwide conspiracy to use my organs without my permission, not only would I move I would make sure some of the evil snots went down with me.  I would slay - Conan the Barbarian style- every last one of the conspirators I could get my hands on.  In short, anyone who falls within the following categories will hate this movie with all the passion which it lacks:  (1) Americans (2) people with testosterone (3) people who have ever consumed caffeine (4)  anyone who ever got up off their butt to do anything at all.

What a Terrible Movie! Un-Pixar like ... My 6-year old son liked the first Cars movie, loves Tow-mater, and couldn't really pay attention to this and fell asleep. Not because he was tired, because it didn't make much sense to him, and I don't blame him.  I got kind of angry, because its a shame to spend money on such a lousy movie, and have the precious time with a young wasted on this. I'm also shocked that Pixar would put together such a lousy movie.  My main criticisms are:  - My 6-year old, Pixar loving son completely did not enjoy it - so what's the point?  - Too many plot points and lines that reference James Bond, etc. that will go over a kid's head. See, the Incredibles, for how to write lines for both kids and adults so both enjoy it. See Cars 2 for too many essential lines being over a young kid's head. Aarff.  - The sweetness and simplicity of the Cars story get replaced by ... a jumbled mess of a plot.  - Parts of it feel like a mini-ad for Ethanol. Well, there may be merit to that (or there may not), but I don't really see the point of putting that in a movie for 6-year olds. There is plenty of time for the crappy reality of big business, subsidies, rent-seeking, politics, etc. later in life. Why the heck inject that into happy family time with a 6-year old?  - And so on.  This one will age badly. I really don't understand those who rated this highly. I enjoy James Bond, I enjoyed Cars. This supposed blend of the two was not enjoyed by myself, by the kid, or other adults.  Take your kid outside and play ball with them instead, or find a card game to play, if you are tempted to buy this. You both will be happier for the choice.

Hands Down, the Dumbest Ending in Movie History Terrorism.  What do we know about it?  Well, typically terrorists commit violent acts in the name of a cause, an ends-justifies-the-means kind of thing.  In this case, Tim Robbins wants to show his hatred of the Federal Government by blowing up an FBI building.  You see, any terrorists know that merely blowing up such a building won't actually shut down the government.  The hope is to 1). bring attention to your political cause and 2). Disrupt the political machine you feel is oppressing you.  In the history of terrorism, *no one has ever completed a terrorist act and blamed hid the motivations behind it*.  What would be the point of the act then?  This why the ending of this movie is so baffling.  Nevermind that extremely complex, Rube Goldberg series of events that had to unfold perfectly to pull this plan off.  For all his hard work, all Tim Robbins has to show is 200 dead government employees and people under the opinion that it happened because some guy was upset that his FBI wife was killed. Robbins's cause is not moved forward one iota, is not given one extra second of media attention and in the end, he accomplished nothing. This would be the equivalent of Al Qaeda executing 9/11 and then intentionally blaming it on Brazilian coffee farmers.  It's tragically clear that the makers of this film understood nothing about the nature and motivations behind terrorism.  And it's a shame.  The first half of the movie is compelling and thoughtful.  The movie had a golden opportunity to explore the roots and nature of terrorism and examine the horror of the "man next door" being capable of such atrociousness.  Instead, they opt for nonsensical schlokiness which does nothing but prove that the film makers are deeply stupid.

Not satisfied I notified this company within the time frame they failed to responed and now I stuck with a movie that does not work. I bought this film for my mom. I should of went to target and just bought the film. Now the company wants to say I never contacted them or within the amount time. Defected material is defected material. I order alot from this website and so do alot of people I know. I would rather pay full price or go to a store then purchase from people who sell defective materials.

This Movie is Terminally BAD! Boring, slow, Dull, one of the WORSE movies I have ever viewed. Save Yourself some precious time and watch a good movie, i wish i did. how the heck could a studio allow such rubbish to be released. it makes you wonder.

what a piece of crap...... story!!! acting!!! no movie is good without them no mater how good the special affects are, and they are not that good either

BARBIE PRESENTS: A LIBERAL TWIST ON THUMBELINA! When I heard Barbie Thumbelina was coming out, I thought, "Cool, I love that fairy tale!"  When I saw the review, I thought, "What???"  When my younger sister got this movie and we watched it, I was only disappointed further.  While entertaining, this movie was just NOT GOOD!  It's the story of a fairy named Thumbelina, who gets captured by a snobby rich girl named Makenna whose parents don't have time for her.  They become friends, and find out that the land the baby fairies are going to be born on is being developed by the big bad (not wolf) construction workers...and Makenna's dad.  Thumbelina and Makenna join forces to save the fairies, and eventually succeed.  But even though this story is about saving fairies, not minnows or whales, its themes are very liberal.  It enrages me that politics is creeping into children's programs!  The whole theme is GO GREEN! and  IT'S OK TO BE A SNOB, BECAUSE YOU CAN STILL HAVE FRIENDS!  These aren't values you want taught to your children!  Barbie needs to go back to the princess movies about love and imagination and leave liberalism alone!  Kids are going to start believing that an ordinary life is harebrained parents that care more about their Blackberries than their children!   I didn't even mention that the animation of this movie is terrible and the dialogue is extremely cheesy.  And I think I forgot to add that Makenna only gets her parents' attention by HIDING THEIR CELL PHONES! Don't watch this movie.  Unless you want to feel all your brain cells pop one by one.

D'Souza's downfall It seems director D'Souza, a bastion of Christian values, got caught taking his his mistress, who he was engaged to, to a Christian Values summit. Only he's still married! So, everyone please rent this, his soon to be ex-wife wants your money. I think his next documentary will be titled: Why won't anyone listen to my b.s. anymore?  Reviews will read,"the most thought provoking, honest documentary made by a lying POS"

Not for a Two-Year Old... I bought this for my two-year old to reinforce what we are teaching him and what he is learning at daycare. This video is so simplistic and boring that he wouldn't watch it (and he LOVES television. He only is allowed a couple of hours a week and he CHERISHES that time). I would not recommend this for any child older than a year and a half. I returned it. It was that bad.

How I came to watch Jessicka Rabid... Recently a friend of mine posted a couple DVDs on his Facebook page that he'd recently got in the mail. One was Jessicka Rabid, a movie I'd heard quite a bit about for some years now and until seeing the box art had forgotten about. I commented about how "I loved the box art, but wasn't interested in the movie". Executive Producer/Star Elske McCain then went on to go crazy and take it as a personal attack. Reading her uneducated rambling was as much a refresher on the crazy side of this business as well as total downer that it wasn't a malfunctioning automated system.  Back on point, the above does have one, which is that's how I came to be here renting Jessicka Rabid on demand with the last $2 in promotional VOD Amazon credit.  Poor Trent Haaga. I've never met or worked with him, but I've heard nothing short of excellent things about the man from people who have.  I think that's the nicest thing I can say about the movie. Also, I'd like to point out, my disliking the movie has nothing to do with any shenanigans EP/Star Elske McCain has pulled behind the scenes, had I dug the picture I'd say so and also point out that I did despite not being able to get along with the lady. I can separate work feelings and personal.  So back to the movie, if you want to call it that. It was one of the biggest chores I've ever had which required me to stare forward while sitting. Usually with these movies you sit there, numb minded, waiting for the nudity or possibly creative violence....NOPE. You get the nudity here, but lordy is it the nudity you didn't want. The violence? 'Meh' at best. Just so bland. In fact, that's the word for the movie: Bland. It really tries to sell you on how extreme it is, but it does nothing to shock you in the least. It's all been seen and done...and seen and done better.  How about the story? What story? She's in a cage? She acts like a dog (DO YOU REALIZE HOW HARD IT IS TO NOT MAKING JOKES HERE?! I'M TRYING, RINGO, I'M TRYING REAL HARD TO STAY OBJECTIVE HERE.), she eats dog food (without putting it in her mouth!), she doesn't speak ...which leads me to believe the only way McCain could get a leading role was to fund the movie herself, hence the sole and front and center EP credit.  So yeah, the camera work is on par with what you'd expect in a movie like this. Just flat and uninteresting. The sound is all over the place, constantly causing me to turn up and turn down the volume, the editing wasn't all that creative, but it was functional. It's all just bad. Just bad bad bad.  Even if you're looking for a 'so bad it's good' type movie, I doubt this is it. (furthermore, I don't think the rape/revenge genre is the place to look for 'so good it's bad' fare, yeah?) It's the three B's all the way around: Bland, boring, and bad.  Avoid.

"Save Your Tongue For Licking My Boots." It's not every movie that begins with a bad narration AND shadow puppets. It's not just that this is a very bad movie, there's also a sequel to it!  Now that takes some nerve, repeating one's mistakes..AND, making people pay for them. Unimpressive, to say the least, populated with a cast of unknowns struggling through an adventure that wasn't much of one; what was the point?  Except for one surreal moment when they're on a column in a desert (what a swell wallpaper that'd make for a computer), there isn't much to distinguish this from every other quest that's been put to film.  It was like watching the Three Stooges on a hike.  And what was with that goddess of the flying ribbons.  That noise that emanated from her sounded like her stomach was growling.  It came across as more humorous than frightening.  But when it came to lacking menace, no one could top the lead bad guy, Randy Couture.  Whoever told him he could act, LIED!  Not even CGI could help him convey a sense of villainy.  Unfortunately, they would keep letting him speak. Not going to buy The Scorpion King 3 and this one isn't a keeper!

Really bad! I was actually looking forward to this movie. I was expecting a silly comedy with Nathalie Portman being a geeks dream. But unfortunately this movie must have been filmed, produced, directed and reviewed by stoners. I mean ... I saw Pineapple express and even liked it but this movie can only be enjoyed high as a kite. And since I don't use any kind of drug, I was not able to enjoy it at all. Nathalie Portman was still hot though. Oh.... maybe if you are 16 with an IQ of 20 you might enjoy it.

The moon under her feet Very misleading. The Roman Church deems Mary "Mother of the Church", who is Christ. "Woman behold your son"; we,  Humanity, are her children and she is our Queen. She is the greatest saint. A sourse to her Son. Christ said, "whom ever praise my mother, praises me."

Awful mess of a movie. I only made it partially through this movie.  A stellar cast could not make this movie work.  There is a huge difference between being depressed & being a jerk.  You can be depressed without being a jerk.  Kirsten Dunst's character is a jerk, who happens to be depressed.  I just wasn't buying the whole "I'm depressed, my life is terrible, I make bad choices" thing.  The plot was painfully slow.  Whatever the movie was trying to achieve, I freely admit that I didn't get it.  Hated this movie.

This is a waste of time. I liked Guy Pirece from "LA. Confidential", and I was really looking forward to this film.  While the concept could have good, it completely breaks down.  This is one of the worst movies, in that you keep hoping it will be explained, or get better..... IT DOES NOT !

Unwatchable... and I'm a fan of bad films. I'm going to keep this brief, because there is not much to say that my title doesn't.  On first becoming aware of a new Snow Beast I was genuinely excited because I am a huge fan of the 1977 original (which by the way deserves a legitimate high-def transfer and release. The current DVD editions, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00077BOOW">Snowbeast</a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000929AUA">Sasquatch Horror Collection</a>, being just a step removed from VHS). I hold it in the highest regard, and consider it to be one of the very few legitimately well done Bigfoot/Sasquatch/Yeti horror films, and a staple of the genre.  That said, Snow Beast (2011), which is not a remake, but instead a particularly drone re-imagining, was absolutely terrible. And decidedly not terrible in the way some bad films retain a sense of dignified charm. It appears a modicum of effort was put into this production. And that's being generous. The directing is terrible. The story, poorly scripted and uninteresting. The Snow Beast in question is a basic scary Yeti Halloween costume, and the special effects are among the worst I've ever seen. In fact <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001H5X6S0">Yeti: Maneater Series</a>, another fairly terrible addition to the genre, is akin to a work of art in comparison. That should speak volumes to true Sasquatch film aficionados. The only even remotely salvageable aspects of this atrocity are John Schneider (Dukes of Hazzard), who hams it up regardless of the fact that this is possibly the lowest point of his career. And Jason London (Dazed and Confused), who, though somewhat bloated and appearing significantly depressed, was OK nevertheless. If anything at all good comes of this, it will be that it leads to some real work for Schneider and London, both of whom are talented, and yet obviously struggling under the yoke of fleeting fame.  In conclusion: The fact that, unlike the above mentioned Yeti (which at least had substance enough to get picked up and broadcast as a Syfy Channel original movie), Snow Beast (2011) went straight to DVD, should be a big red flag. And that the distributor is Sun World Pictures, bigger red flag. All said, while young children might enjoy this film for it's amateurish "Goosebumps" production values, for genre fans like myself I'd recommend skipping this dud (at least until it's in the bargain bin), and, if your unacquainted, purchasing the original!

Just plain awful, tedious, dumb and poorly acted There are 2 somewhat OK episodes, Battleground and The End Of The Whole Mess but they don't compensate for the drivel factor of the rest. I don't get it - why do they bother? Even the good actors are stiff as a board, no doubt frozen by the terrible scripts and low budget effects.

I hate this movie. Nothing can better sum up how I feel than that simple phrase - I just hate this movie - I hate everything about it.  I hate that it came at this point after EXTINCTION gave the franchise a surprisingly strong boost.  The movie is a travesty from the get-go. Well, that's not quite true - actually, the opening credits sequence is pretty cool, ending with the crash zoom out to the heavens.  But, it's when we come back down, and we have this overblown action opening that the problems begin.  After the poorly edited opening action sequence, we are shown how Wekser (ah, Albert...was there ever a more annoying villain in film OR video game!?) uses an injection to remove Alice's T-Virus, and hence, her "abilities" - you know, the filmic excuse for her to be able to pull off all her Matrix Rip-Off moves.  This seemed like a very promising concept - and it made sense, for a moment.  Open with the crazy action so fans get their fix, then strip our heroine of her advantage and put her back into the danger zone.  Well, this proves to be short-lived, for IMMEDIATELY following this scene, Alice survives a head-on airplane collision.  Not just survives, but walks out of the wreckage unscathed.  Indeed, the entire duration of the film, you'd have no idea she was fully human again, aside from a knife injury near the end.  Why they introduced this plot point, then never explored it is beyond me.  The film is rife with these kinds of "go nowhere" plot points.  In the second act, we are introduced to Wentworth Miller (from FOX's PRISON BREAK- someone must have thought it hilarious to introduce him incarcerated in a prison cell) who insists he knows the way out.  After the characters finally trust him to let him out, he promptly leads them to a door with an ATV inside ... a door anyone of the characters could have found at any time.  And, this proves to lead nowhere anyway - the ATV is non-operational.  So, again, a pointless plot element.  Furthermore - this is a Zombie movie, right?  I ask only because the zombies are barely in the movie.  Other than a final influx in the final act, they only pop up here and there for a quick shoot out, and that's about it.  Ali Larter, who brought a fresh element to EXTINCTION, is relegated to the sidelines for the bulk of the film with a convenient "memory loss" theme.  She only comes back in the end for a quick "look how bad-as$ I am" fight scene.  Well, it all boils down to a final battle with Wesker, who is apparently 100% indestructible - which means one more boring element added to his already boring character.  And, after the obligatory final action scene, we are left with the threat of yet ANOTHER sequel to come, as our characters are literally left facing an all-out assault (again, not by zombies, but by humans).  My problem with this film is that it just highlights the overall weakness of the entire franchise.  It was based on a series of games that were themselves based on a genre of b-movies.  Yet, none of these films really plays into the zombie-horror mythos - rather, these are thinly veiled Matrix-wannabe action flicks.  Constant slow-motion, humans displaying inexplicable kung-fu powers and imperviousness to injury, and plots that don't even measure up to video game "standards" - that's what this franchise has come to represent - and while EXTINCTION gave us a brief glimmer of hope, AFTERLIFE plunges us back into reality - this is just a weak franchise that needs to be put down. Sadly, it makes money - and that's all that matters to the producers - and really, who can blame them?  Poor Milla, meanwhile ... I imagine her at night sitting on the floor in the corner of the room, hugging her knees to her chest and rocking slowly as she contemplates the state of her career, muttering over and over to herself "I still have THE FIFTH ELEMENT ... I still have THE FIFTH ELEMENT..." until she finally falls into a restless sleep.

An utter useless garbage What is wrong with everybody? You would think people don't like gloomy, depressing scenes where cows are marching slowly in the dark mud and the camera follows them for five minutes without us knowing what this is all about? I guess this is another case of the emperor with no clothes. The movie has been appraised for some unexplainable reason and people think they are sophisticated if they like it. It is a shame that something like this gets all the recognition while talented movie makers are struggling. I am Hungarian and I am deeply embarrassed about this "something". Looks like the crazy you are the bigger artist people think you are. Enough said. Rating: minus 10

Cursing is not equals humor I decided to give this movie a try based on the good Reviews. I did not actually read the reviews as I was trying to avoid any spoilers. But Just based on the 4.5 stars rating it seemed like a good movie to enjoy on the holidays. I found most of the characters to be annoying and not funny at all. Most of the conversations were stupid, boring and  filled with profanity. Now Don't get me wrong, I can stand a movie where characters drop the F word here and there but I can't really think of any conversation where the F word was not present multiple times. If you are one of those people who get really excited by hearing people curse at each other then this is the movie for you. If profanity = funny to you then watch this movie. I will admit there were some funny parts but most of the movie was garbage and the ending was really bad. I think this is one of those movies where you either love it or hate it in most cases, but in my case I will just say that I did not care for this movie. It's not a movie I will remember or even buy ( I tend to rent movies and then buy the ones I love), I don't think I hate this movie either. I would just classify it as one of those movies you watch once and then forget about it. I won't recommend you not to watch it as we are all different and we tend to like different movies. I will just tell you to rent it before you decide to buy it. Better be safe than sorry.

Quality?? I am very curious: can anyone explain why the single season disc reviews are so positive? Also, the 'Will & Grace Seasons 1-8 Bundle Pack' for sale at Amazon for a few dollars less than 'The Complete Series' has, as of today, only 5-star reviews, with no one complaining about the quality of the discs?? What is it about this Complete Series that garners such bad reviews?

BUYERS BEWARE!!!! BUYERS BEWARE !!!! MOVIE MARS, Inc, the seller of this dvd is marketing Region 2 dvd's here on the AMAZON - USA website...Region 2 does not play on dvd players sold here in America - so this dvd won't play if you buy it...AMAZON SHOULD ONLY ALLOW REGION 1 DVDS TO BE SOLD ON THE USA SITE! Now I am stuck with a useless dvd and out the cost. AVOID shopping with Movie Mars - they are dishonest!

Ugly and unfunny excuse for a "movie" I went into this movie based on strong word of mouth about how good it was and I regret spending my time and money on it. It was basically an hour and twenty minutes of unlikeable losers doing a lot of idiotic things and trying to get lucky. The main character named Costa was the most detestable person on the planet, I seriously wanted to dropkick him in the face the entire movie. The only reason why I didn't walk out was because I was hoping that he would get what he deserved in the end. I'd rather watch "The Devil Inside" a hundred times over than this piece of **** ever again. Avoid like the plague.

Quality Sucked This movie would have been great if the quality didnt suck. It was pausing every two second so I couldn't even understand what they were talking about. Bullshit.

so run of the mill even a die hard anime fan like me was shaking my head...... Total, complete waste of time.  Another unoriginal alien invasion story with kids in Mech suits screaming in predictable battle scenes.  Futile, pandering and an unbelievable waste of money.  How do scripts like this get funding?  If you are looking for some new decent anime check out REDLINE.

CAN YOU SAY "SUCKED BIG TIME"!!! I cannot believe they let this director butcher a great book, nah a great series like that.  Rowling's should sue for defammation of character. HARRY!!  Nothing, absolutely nothing followed the story and that was my favorite book of the series.  Too bad, so sad.  I hope they have another director for the last one. If you haven't read the books, don't bother to see this movie.  If you HAVE read the books, DON'T BOTHER TO SEE THIS MOVIE!!

In a word, "Dreadful"! Yes, Kevin Spacey was too old to play the up-and-coming Bobby Darin -- when Darin was Spacey's age, he'd already been dead eight years. Yes, the script is awful, the story-within-a-story framework strained and messy. The dancing's grotesque -- probably designed to cover for the fact that Spacey can't dance. And yes, most of the acting is cringe-inducing: Bob Hoskins and John Goodman giving tired retreads of every other performance they've ever given; Kate Bosworth -- forgeddaboutit! But the biggest problem with "Beyond the Sea" is that it shows up Darin's determination to out-croon and out-star Frank Sinatra for what it was: a succession of embarrassingly tacky recordings and live performances (with maybe one or two exceptions) supplemented by B-movie attempts at acting. In that sense, it's a homage tha backfires.

Terrible. Absolutely terrible. Terrible writing, terrible directing, terrible acting.  I could go on, but this movie doesn't deserve that much effort.  There are many gems to be found in the genre of independent horror.  This, however, is not one of them - it's a strictly Z-grade production in every regard.  Don't waste your time.

Not sexy! I bought this thinking I was going to learn something. When I saw this video I found it ridicules and not sexy at all. I give a better and sexier lap dance. The instructor dances in front of a teddy bear and her moves are awful to me. If you're looking for a sexy dance, please find a better dvd.

Complete disappointment Completely ridiculous. I bought this on an 8 DVD nostalgia buying spree. Eight DVDs - this is the only one still coded in the ancient anti-piracy "won't play if you own a DVR".  Every PC these days has a DVR - this is an obsolete business model. Will be asking for my money back.

Festering  Garbage I started watching this only because it had some buzz at the Oscar ceremonies, but found it unwatchable after 10 minutes, as it was an infantile, solid mass of cliche, poorly written, acted, conceived, shot, edited, and imagined, and with loathesome cartoonish characters. I can't say if it was the worst film I've seen in ten years. But it could have been.

The Car Was The Best Actor. It Didn't Talk. This is possibly the WORST film I have ever seen in my life! Sure I may not like the Twilight films, but I don't outright hate them as they make me laugh on several occasions coupled with the fact that the third film was OK. But this? If I could rate it any lower, I would! I actually even tried to give it the benefit of the doubt. The only thing I ever saw the Green Hornet was the two-part crossover featured in the original Batman series and since then have wanted to see the original series. Then I first heard about this garbage 2-3 years ago and found out Seth Rogen was writing and starring in it. At first I wondered who Seth Rogen is and then once I found out what kind of films he was in, I was like "Well people were upset when Michael Keaton was cast as Batman and look how that turned out." Boy was I wrong! He's an unfunny, talentless person (remember this is all opinion as I'm sure others have found him funny in other projects) but he should've stayed away from this! When I saw this in theatres, at first my dad and I were the only two in there but then at least five to ten more people showed up. Those other people found it hilarious. I sat there in silence, hoping it would get better. Rogen portrays the Hornet as a half-wit and screams with joy during one of their escapes as the police cars crash into obstacles. Britt Reid may want the Green Hornet to appear as a criminal but at no point, at least from the original series, does he get excited at the thought of mayhem and destruction. The guy who plays Kato, the name escapes me at the moment, was OK he didn't leave much of an impact on me (though that strange way he fights or gets pumped during a fight I thought was unnecessary and "out there") Cameron Diaz (another person I don't personally enjoy but she's OK) was wasted in this. The villain was bland, along with his recurring "joke" and the reveal of the DA being corrupt was expected. Black Beauty though was the highlight and I wish it was the Green Hornet who got totalled in the end and not the car. Believe me I wanted to like this but it was just stupid and I hope there is not a sequel. Another thing I noticed is a parallel with Batman; in the '60s, Batman was played as farce while the Green Hornet was played straight with Batman being far more successful. Nowadays, Batman is the serious one and Green Hornet played for laughs, again with the Caped Crusader far more successful. If you want to get into the Green Hornet my suggestion is to find the radio series or the much better Van Williams/Bruce Lee TV series (along with his crossover on Batman). And what really astounds me is that THIS has made more money than Green Lantern (just to clarify, Ryan Reynolds wasn't my first choice either and I actually thought they'd go with the John Stewart character for obvious reasons but he was good).

Blood & yawn This movie had the potential to be grotesque but unfortunately didn't quite cut it with the special effects. It had some mildly erotic moments but just didn't make it as a horror movie. If the actors had been Muppets in stead it could have been a killer comedy.

Complete Crap! Finally got around to watching this remake and must say that I wasn't surprised by how bad it sucks ... no pun intended!  The original is so much better than this recycled garbage it's not even fun!  Even the special effects seemed as though they were something out of a "B" movie.  Charlie was such a wuss and a douche bag that I was actually rooting for Jerry this time around!  Colin Farrell actually makes a great villian, just to bad the rest of the cast blows!  If your looking for a good vampire flick, look elsewhere because this isn't it.  Just hope they don't try to remake Interview with a Vampire ... that would be a freaking disaster ... lol!

Don't waste your time.  No story.  Drags on.  Bad acting. No character has a real goal.  No structure.  Motivations aren't believable.  This film is cheesy and pretentious.  I bet the writer  wrote this in a week.

FLAMES WENT OUT FAST Did Nick want to bail on this movie franchise?  Probably. It was evident by the lack of acting, and the lack of something as simple as a story. Hey, let's get together and make a sequel - who needs writers or good acting. Recommendation: Don't even wait for it to come out on television, because it probably won't even make it to the half-dollar video bin at the local carwash. The DVD for this movie would be useful for replacing clay pigeons at the local shotgun range. DON'T BOTHER - This movie doesn't deserve a fraction of the one star that I gave it.

Don't waste your money They should have called this movie BURN BEFORE WATCHING. I understand that many popular actors like to do films that are different to what they normally do, trying to mix things up a bit, but how did Brad and George choose this film? I wouldn't waste my money buying this film. It's the type of film you download from one of those sharing torrent sites, watch it, and then delete it from your computer immediately - Not to be added to any DVD collection. It won't be added to my collection for sure.

This movie was gross The story line could have been entertaining, but the movie itself was gross.  Too many references to disgusting behavior, etc.  The acting was sub-par.  While I think Emily Blunt is a good actress, this movie was not worth the time or the $$.  Don't waste your time.

Don't bother!! Sorry, Amazon, but your movie-making ability isn't as good as your movie-delivery. This is probably the worst movie I've ever seen, and constantly wanted to just say "to heck with it" and turn it off. $14.99 for this? I got taken. For your own sake, don't bother purchasing this nonsensical piece of tripe.

Simply terrible The movie had a great story to it, until Clint Eastwood decided to shove in his liberal propaganda with the euthanasia crap.  Hey Clint, don't ruin any more movies with your sick social and political views. What's next, a movie about the benefits of abortion?

LOL I can't believe so many people rated this movie a 5 star and even after I read why they gave it that rating, it still don't make sense....hmm, just like the movie! LOL Anyway I had to see it through because my mother rented this and with the scene of Affleck and Damon just walking in the desert (crunch, crunch) she couldn't stand it and returned it to the library. The only good parts in this film is the scenery and the fact Damon choked Affleck lol. It was a drawn out movie that should of never been made.

Beware, not the orginal theatrically release This DVD does indeed include new scenes, as the description says.  And these scenes are indeed incorporated into the film.  My MAJOR problem is that there is no way to turn this feature off.  There is no way to view the movie as it originally presented when I saw it as a kid.  I don't mind having new scenes incorporated into films, but the option should be just that: an option.  There should be a way to view both the 'new version' and the old.  Most films now have a 'directors cut' option for viewing and will allow to view choose between it or the original theatrical release.  The newest Robin Hood with Russell Crowe springs to mind as an example, as does James Cameron's 'The Abyss' which includes quite a bit of extra footage.  It really is a shame that on both releases of this film to DVD the big wigs just couldn't seem to get it together and give fans the DVDs they deserved.  On both DVD releases there are issues with sound and picture quality.  The major gripe with the first release is that it is a 'flipper', which means it must be flipped over part of the way through in order to finish viewing the film.  The newer release took care of this problem, but inability to view as it was originally released, combined with the still poor sound and picture quality make for a great deal of disappointment in viewing.  This is a great movie, it should not be receiving such sub standard handling when being offered on DVD.

Aladdin DVD We ordered this product over two months ago and have never received it although the charge for it appeared on my February 15 credit card statement  I sent an email to the seller and had no response.  How do I get a refund?

anti-social network - We don't want zombies on our lawn..... Wow - saw this cause of the hype about it.  What a waste of time.  This could have been done in a 1/2 hour episode for "how its made" on the Discovery channel.  Boring movie with nothing happening.......ever!  If a movie could have ever used a zombie it was this one.  Wait a sec - it did have a zombie in it.  All of us watching this drivel.

I Need An Exorcism To Erase This From My Mind... The first time I saw this about a year ago, I really liked it a lot (I think I was high). However, upon recently viewing it again about a month ago, I noticed all of its flaws. The performance by Laura Linney is pathetic! She's so much better in a similar role (as an attorney) in "Primal Fear". And, the courtroom scenes played out like a tv movie, a Lifetime movie at that. And the dialogue was a joke! Laura Linney's character was reduced to simply saying "I object" every other second, with no REAL legal argument behind it, and the Judge would always agree with her.?.! It was so painful for anyone even remotely interested in legal thrillers to have to watch. There was not enough 'exorcism' footage shown to excite anyone, and the greatest scene in the film (in the barn) was way too brief. There were way too many loose ends left dangling, and things like the 3:00 A.M. phenomenon were never explained. Plus, it's never made clear as to whether Emily was really possessed or just an over imaginative anorexic teen whose religious fervor drove her to believe she was possessed. Oh, and the whole "Mother Mary" s**t at the end was just crap! Even if she was possessed, she might have had visions of Christ or the Devil, but not the dead Mary! Only Catholics (if you're Catholic, I mean no offense) believe that Mary was a Holy Figure, so that's another reason that scene was SO wrong for this film. Thank you. :>)

Awful Seller In very small print I find out that this DVD won't work on most US DVD players, so the DVD is useless, thanks a lot!

piece of junk this movie is false advertising and i bought it by mistake WASTE OF MONEY, TIME, EFFORT, and LIFE. Never buy this product, it causes SARS

another long, dull film in the style of "Che" This is a long, tediously comprehensive film about the terrorist career of Carlos. It comes in at way over five hours. To its credit, its more watchable the "Che" was as a long-form work. But it shares most of Che's other faults. Being better than "Che" is worth something, but its not really praise.  Carlos is another Marxist robotic terminator uberman like Che. We drop into his story with little background on the making of the man. The early parts of his life, his family life, his time in Moscow and his early days in the middle east....would have actually been far more interesting that much of what was dramatized on film. It would have also made Carlos slightly more human. But I dont think making him more human was among the objectives of the film makers. It would have seemed like covering his early years would have been possible in 5+ hours of film. Likewise, we never really see the aftermath with him in prison.  The film's greatest flaw its that it endlessly repeats itself. Its less like a film and more like a giant collection of dramatized stock footage covering every possible moment of significance in the terrorist career of Carlos. We get stock scenes of (political meetings, hanging around apartments, meeting germans, using women) over-and-over-and-over again. The names change, the background change, the words change but the scenes are essentially the same.  The high point of the film is the material covering the OPEC incident. As action and drama, its well done. The acting is excellent too. But its only a small part of the whole. And the rest is not so good.  The film, despite its length, is also structurally good. It covers the rise of Carlos up to the OPEC incident, shows him peaking there, and then shows his steady decline into irrelivance. Its too long and its repetitive, but they did a good job of making it work after a fashion. The craft of those involved overcame some of the limitations of the format and the material.  There are some historical problems with the script. There is too much name-dropping of certain well-known characters for effect: (Saddam Hussein, Khadaffi). They put Saddam in charge of Iraq several years before it really happened. They take too many wild theories by intelligence agencies as if they were absolute facts. And they take things like the plot of Carlos to go after Sadat way too seriously. There are also some strange notions about who was leading the PFLP in the 1970s.  There are also some curious omissions. Such as the non-mention of the nickname "Jackal" in the film. And I don't know how easy it will be for those not familiar with the history of the era to follow. The film assumes a considerable about of knowledge.  Its not a good film. And quite honestly the life of the main character is not worth spending five plus hours covering. But if nothing else, its better and more watchable than "Che".

Not much for storyline Story would better serve as a documentary on animal planet. Not much detail and a sudden ending. Glad I didn't pay a theater price to see it.

Thanks, Fox, You've messed up another one... How thoughtful of Fox to ignore the way DVD menus have been done for years and make us work so hard to find the features we paid for....  Their record with musicals on video is really bad.  One thoughtless sloppy release after another.  The Fiddler Blu-Ray was obviously not quality/compatibility checked by Fox.  When you put in the disc, after some loud pretentious self-promotion from Fox, (and remember this is NOT their movie) the movie starts.  No menu or other options, in fact, when you push the menu button, you get an error icon that means "not allowed on this disc."  Two discs, no extras to be found on either, and it illustrates all too well that the Blu-Ray version isn't much better than the DVD.  Update 4/38:  Well I heard something about some new Blu Ray releases not having menus intentionally (stupid idea) in favor of some pop-up stuff.  I put in the disc and hit every button on the remote until about 4 options came up in bland, boring generic text.  Selected one of the features, and then after a while tried to get the options up again.  No luck.  In fact, it locked up the player - wouldn't respond to ANY of the buttons on the player or the remote, and I had to unplug the player.  So Fox doesn't consider you might actually want to get from one feature to another.  Yeah, this is a pretty "Foxed-up" disc.  Don't buy it.  The movie on Blu Ray isn't enough of an improvement to warrant replacing the last version on DVD (the one with decent bass and color, where the menus and special features were easily reachable).  I'm sorry I sold my old copy of Fiddler as this one clearly isn't what it should be.  It's true about the synch problems, and the sound is also a badly mixed mess.  Apparently no one is left who remembers how stereo movies were mixed in the pre-Dolby days: three to five channels across the screen, and ONE surround.  Instead of being faithful to the intended direction of the sound, this mess mixes them all up and the surround is just an echo of the front.  And color: Tevye's dream is supposed to be in Black and White.  Period.  Whoever mastered this must've seen Schindler's List and thought the red in this scene should still be red.  Just like they saw Wizard of OZ and incorrectly assumed the B&W segments of another 60s musical should be sepia tone.  All that booming base under the Fox fanfare is nowhere to be found in the "Tradition" sequence where it's been on every other video release of this movie.  By comparison to Fox's pretentious fanfare, the movie itself sounds like a cheap transistor radio.  See where their priorities are?  Considering how many roadshow movies are in their own catalog, Fox still remains aggressively ignorant of what an Intermission is.  Fiddler's Intermission title from the film is missing here, replaced by a jump-cut to a bad graphic that covers the Entre'Acte music.  There is not even the slightest beat that would allow the viewer to reach for the remote and hit the pause button to do what people do in an intermission.  And that graphic is not 2.35:1, it's the old standard def Entracte title created for the old discs, stretched ridiculously out to something like 6:1.  For proof, look at the oval shape of the sun in the corner.  Very very sloppy.  All they had to do is leave the movie's original Intermission title on, let it fade out, leave at least a five second pause and run the Entracte music over black.  But they were in SUCH a hurry to cut that Intermission title off, you can even hear the sound fading out too early.  Or did they even bother to DO a new transfer for Blu-Ray?  Captions/titles: is Fox's legal dept afraid to reproduce the song lyrics because they think they haven't got the full music rights?  Dropping out the lyrics is just careless and sloppy and there is no excuse for it.  Even the packaging is a letdown compared to the DVD, which wasn't so great itself.  Fox has a long repeated habit of ignoring the much nicer original poster art for ugly generic covers that make every catalog title look like just an old movie.  Careless and sloppy is how studios like Fox will continue to handle catalog films, passing them off to some unknowing fool to handle unless someone throws some extra money at them like they did with Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno and Valley of the Dolls.  Add the dicey, unreliable and difficult navigation to the awful audio synch issues mentioned elsewhere and this is a definite No-Buy.  Until Fox admits it did a bad job and issues a replacement.  Let's not hold our breath.

WHISTLEBRITCHES Russell (Joel Weiss)has a junk food diet that leads to his production of gas which he enjoys to the dismay of everyone around him. While his wife Heather (Shannandoah Sorin) is away, Russell watches TV. The movie consists of a "Groove Tube" montage humor involving fart humor. Perhaps the best feature was the "Gong Show" parody.  Very low brow stuff.  Parental guide: No f-bombs, sex, or nudity.

Not Worth Comparing This 2nd movie of the Ghost Rider is quite pathetic. Nicholas Cage acted like a junkee needing a fix, (And not allowing himself one), and the Ghost Rider acted totally out of character and they changed his powers to boot. If you want to waste your money, this is definitely the movie to buy!

King Ralph Ordered this DVD through Amazon.com.  When I received it and tried to play it, it said wrong region.  In the trash!

Sorry (or not really) to pop everyones delusions... As the actor Bruce Willis already has found out. You ALL don't OWN anything on your i-whatevers, you're RENTING THEM! Mr. Willis tried to write in his will the ENTIRE collection of music within his ipod to his children.. turns out in the service agreement (who does read All of it?) that EVERYONE needs to click on to download ANYTHING belongs to HIM ALONE. So when he finally sheds his mortal coils. EVERYTHING is NULLED and even if the machine is given.. if it breaks. EVERYTHING IS GONE + unltra~, i~ or anything else is on borrowed time.. YOUR TIME ONLY + ONCE YOUR DEAD ~ IT'S ALL LOCKED OUT AND THE ACCOUNT IS NULLED & VOIDED + Mr. Willis has taken this to court.. He'll probably die before the court comes to any decisions with endless appeals on either sides..... + + This movie {Starship Troopers, Superman, X-Men, Batman~ ad-nauseum in the pot} was the attempt by the studios to cling unto them much like what that guy who owned the Troma studios did when he made Fantastic Four.. you don't know about that? He made a mess of a movie to cling unto the rights of that series. Dropped a few pennies or bucks, released it insanely briefly in ONE theater for a week (maybe less) that gave him the right for just a few more years. He finally gave up and sony grabbed it all up and must produce a movie in the next 1 or two years or it will lose the rights too. I have NO doubt this isn't gonna happen, because the mouse is Big and has dropped BILLIONS into ownership of marvel, so they'll pump out junk just to keep it. + Final though: the mouse's claws into pixar will be felt in the next two of three years when ALL movies made before it bought them has passed by. JUNK food cg is the mouse's motto. IT WILL HAPPEN

Yeah, It was Good in the 80s, but Now...Nah. Viewed: 9/04, 3/06 Rate: 2  3/06: American Ninja is a cheesy, mindless cult flick made with extremely low intelligence. If I am to disregard the logics of the plot and the subplots and think of the film as brainless, then the movie is simply quite boring and mindless. There is not much to look forward to in American Ninja, although there is a couple of good characters in Michael Dudikoff and Steve James, who manage to shine much better in the sequel. It is pointless to discover the many faults of American Ninja. I am a good fan of the Ninja genre, and American Ninja has plenty of Ninja action. Judie Aronson is a major babe in this film, so feast your eyes on her when the going gets boring in American Ninja.

Everything Went... The title of this movie is a quote from the main production meeting for this movie. No real plot, no humor, no...well anything. The movie is painful to sit through, you are begging for it to end and wishing you were the drunk one to make the pain go away. Anything remotely funny is over in the first 5 minutes, and anything slightly interesting that could have happened in this movie...doesn't. Spend your money on PBR like Will does...instead of even a $1 on this movie. I think it might have actually dethroned "The English Patient" as the choice "Movie to Cure Insomnia"

Product does not fit description I haven't watched the movie yet, and my husband cannot enjoy it at all. He is DEAF, and it is supposed to have subtitles! It is in the Amazon product description, but not on the box or in the menu. I tried pressing the "subtitle" button on my remote, but the subtitles are not on the disk!

Terrible movie This was the worst Tyler Perry movies I ever watched, Madeas Big Happy Family was such a let down. The cast is a talented group of actors to bad the writing didn't reflect it. Madea's rants in this movie were over the top, long and boring it had no posative message. There were a few lines that were funny and the Murry Povich scenes were for the most part spot on but over all this movie sucked. I wigh I had just rented it for a $1 instead of buying it.

Hideously bad Certifiably horrible waste of time and money. Up there with the worst movies I have ever seen in decades of life on this earth. Even the deaths (which can sometimes be cool enough to save an otherwise crummy shark movie if they're gory and gnarly enough) are nonexistent. Just totally, completely bad.

What Happened? <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006LL3WP2">Jack and Jill</a>  I am an Adam Sandler fan. I enjoy his comedy and can always find a laugh in what he does. Not this time folks. I have no idea what happened to him. JACK AND JILL was absolutely the worst movie I've seen in my 64 years. I can not believe that Mr. Sandler had the guts to actually put this out for the public to view.  Adam plays Jack and his twin Sister. He should have found a female to be his sister. It might have made this flop a slightly bit less terrible. I found nothing funny with his portrayal of a female / sister. Sandler just doesn't do women well or funny.  We all know that Adam Sandler can be very funny and very believable. I would like him to go back to doing those things. I sure wasted my money this time. I bought this video based on his name. What a mistake that was.  I am truly sorry Mr. Sandler. I wish this review could be better than terrible.

The Last Kiss Billed as smart, witty, sexy... I say WHAT?  nothing but a glorified soap opera with endless four letter words. this Zach Braff person wouldnt even be considered a character actor in movies in the past.  Homely to the point of being almost freaky.  The scenes change so fast you could care less about any of the characters.  This movie is typical of the crap that is cranked out of the movie industry these days. Ebert and Roeper gave this movie (2) thumbs up.  I think they must have been on crack when they watched it.

Dreadful Cheap,dreadful, and painful! I am really thinking about asking for a refund for this rental! Just horrible!  I can never get those hours of my life back!

Terrible movie. Cheezy special effects, ridiculous plot, bad acting - this movie has it all.  If you only remember one thing let it be this - DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME ON THIS MOVIE!

This documentary is awful!!!! This is the worst documentary I have ever had the misfortune of viewing. Hands down. And that's saying something because I love my doc's! :) I wonder how much money this guy got payed to make this crappy film? This movie is a big fat slab of frosting covered, bacon wrapped rationalization. With just a pinch of racism and a dash of sexism. The point Tom Naughton seems to be trying to make is that people have the right to be a fat a** and eating fast food is all American! And that those big bully vegetarians have taken over the government. Com on! The fact that a cheeseburger cost less than a head of broccoli is messed up and could only happen in the US.  So if you want to watch a pretty annoying middle age guy stuff his face with gross junk food to some equally annoying back round music watch this film. Or save yourself a few bucks and try exercising and eating healthy.

Next! Could not get past the first 2 minutes.  Too slow....am I supposed to be "wow-ed" by the artistic expression and special effects?  I guess this just isn't my kind of movie. Next!

Don't watch this movie unless you have 1.5 hours to throw away! This movie is awful!!!! If you must watch it, download it for free just don't buy or rent it!  Nothing happens in this movie...

Great movies, absolutely terrible transfer! The one star is for the pathetic transfer. Those are great movies that I have seen many times in Paris. This is the second set I am returning with the hope that I am going to get a set of DVDs that I can really watch without getting a headache from the fuzziness.

Waste of money when you WILL see new extended editions out eventually Yep, a waste of money. Sadly, as someone who worked doing financials at another studio and in tandem their product division, they follow a nice formula that basically says "the profit they make from this set + the profit they'll make from another released box sex later will > than just releasing one more extensive box set now."  My theory and most of theirs, collectors are impatient and will spend more NOW for something slightly inferior and many will still purchase later as well when a nice new one comes out. And whomever misses this one will still be able to purchase the later version as well.  So, you WILL see extended versions later on. Don't be shocked if some are just the movie with the inclusion of already known deleted scenes, but they will come out sooner or later. I guess 1-2 years tops for Harry Potter.  So, does this contain everything up to date pretty much save for some ABC Family editions? Yep.  However, it could be done better, with a nicer actual box, maybe thrown in at least one or two more extended editions. Maybe thrown in a nice collectible. For this price, its probably not worth the money for anyone who has the Ultimate versions or even a couple of them.

You have to be kidding This "deal" is insulting!!! $478 for 30 movies, how is this a good deal? At almost $16 per movie (not even great movies), you're delusional. Whoever thought up this bright idea needs to be drug tested.

Not funny This movie was not funny, and not at all what I expected.  It was less about Bridesmaids and more about the main character's depressing life.

Green Hornet This is a movie which could not make up its mind, comedy or action. The result was ridiculously poor movie. I am glad I only paid a buck to see this movie.  I usually like most movies and find something good, ok the gadget were good, but the story was poor.

Pathetic Nothing but poor script and acting that they attempted to cover up with excessive profanity, violence and nudity.  Can't believe Cage actually was in this turd.

Horrible Movie This movie is horrible from start to finish.  Poor acting, a terrible plot, dark scenes and poor audio.  Forget the widescreen it wouldn't have helped this amateur film.  I wouldn't recommend this to anyone. I regret my purchase.

this movie doesn't load this is a great movie, i wish you could enjoy it.  i can'yt imagine th ereson for not fixing it, these guys really aren'yt on the ball, now are they?

Funland? No fun here. I must have gone to dumbland when I purchased this DVD. Nothing is good about it. it isn't a horror movie. It's for sure not funny. I have seen cockroachs more interesting to watch than this junk. It is stupid. I can't say anything good about it.

If you like stupidity, you should check this out... I would give this thing a half-star, but Amazon does not give us that option. Anyway...  Pure garbage. Well, not entirely pure. There is some good acting, decent cinematography, a believable storyline (well, of course, since it is based on a true story, however wretched, moronic, and uninteresting), and a moral (see my title for this review).  Wow.  But it's like this: I think the whole reason to write, act, paint, sculpt, sing, dance, etc., is to create art. Interesting art. Something that moves, entertains, takes you on a journey to "somewhere i have never traveled", or even makes you think. I'm struggling to see how this movie fits even the most rudimentary elements of that definition.  I repeat: wow.  Why would I give rat's left testicle about this dude, who chucks everything (family, friends, education, his car), just so he could "prove" something to himself(?) by living in the wild? And this dubious endeavor means what, exactly, to me? Honestly, why would anyone care to watch some grandiose, narcissistic, self-absorbed, inadequately prepared individual attempt a not totally foolhardy or unachievable quest, knowing all the while (even to himself) that he is going to die a forgotten, stupid, and unnecessary death?  I don't judge here. "Live and let live", I always say, and if you want to be unintelligent, moronic, suicidal, even evil, more power to you! Just keep that crap to yourself (I guess keeping evil to yourself would be difficult, as you would probably need an agent upon which or whom to enact it in order for it to become tenable), and don't expect me to care.  Wow.  (I once saw, in the infomercial hours of the night, an "Extreme" program on television. Among the lowlights of enacted human idiocy, I watched as 12 individuals, wrapped around and fastened at the waist by the same bungee cord, took off en masse from a mast on a ship traveling 30 knots. Predictably, the bungee cord snapped, and 12 imbeciles hit the water -- which at this speed is like hitting a wall -- with arms flailing, limbs cracked, blood pouring from all orifices, etc., crying for help. Really. I'm supposed to feel sorry for them? I mean, what were they thinking? Unbelievable! I guess, just like the imagination and human aspiration, stupidity knows no bounds.)  But if you like your poison served up this way, here's another pointless thing to watch: "Open Water".

missed the point I learned how charcoal is made. Nothing else positive to say. reviewers glowingly used words like sublime...way too sublimey for me. Reviewers raved about humorous scene of dog barking after Easter procession...what's humorous about dog barking? Clearly different strokes for different folks. I wished I had saved my money.

Not Spanish I received this and it's not Spanish, it's French! Returned... Description is wrong, thanks NETDEALZ, NOT!!! Garbage not worth my time.

rango very bad copy;the subtitles were stuck on,the menu would not let me turn them off,the second half of movie was scratched up and it froze up.it kinda sucked.

Not one thing is funny in this film This was in NO way a comedy. Advertised as `achingly hilarious' but the only actual ache was waiting, and waiting, and waiting for anything funny to happen. Advertised as `consistently, uproariously funny' but the meager sporadic attempts at humor were ho-hum at best. The whole theme was heartfelt, so should be called a drama NOT a comedy. What a rip off advertisement!!!! Now for the story. The characters behaviors were totally illogical in dealing with terminal cancer.  As a drama, the believability factor is a total zero.  Watching Seth Rogan waste his excellent acting talent (based on his role in Knocked up) was really sad, too!

Eyes Wide Shut I mistakenly got a Blu-Ray version of this movie and have not been able to get it replaced yet.  As one of those older, unknowing Grandmas I had no idea that the Blu-Ray thing made a difference (still not entirely clear about the difference).  Hopefully, I can get a replacement since this was one my daughter especially wanted.

Disney's Adventures in WONDERLAND VHS~2 Helping Hands First, this was not the VHS I ordered. I ordered Alice in Wonderland VHS Disney Masterpiece. I was trying to complete my collection. The item I received appeared brand new, in a cardboard slip cover, and arrived immediately. I just wish it had been the selection shown <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6300274268">Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection) [VHS</a>]on Amazon.com. The review photo of the VHS is correct, but I guess your link wasn't??

Did not work! I was not able to experience the movie.  The DVD sent to me did not work on any of my equipments.  So I was refunded of my money.  I ordered from iTunes , because I really wanted to watch this movie.  This was the first time I had experienced this problem.

OBSCENELY BAD 2012 TRANSFER FROM CFS The few charms of this 1979 regional horror film (shot in rural Canada) by talented schlockmeister Bill Fruet are totally undermined by THE worst presentation of any commercially released title I have ever seen... EVER!  Not only is it taken from a VHS tape, it looks like it was from a blurry, smeared, sludgy, ghost-ridden third-generation copy.  I paid six bucks for this and it can't even be donated to a thrift store-- I just couldn't foist it on any unlucky retro-horror fan.  SO it went right into the trashcan.  Amazon should pull this from sale and refuse to do business with this rip-off outfit.  Times are too tough and technology too advanced for this to even be remotely acceptable.  Take a clue from Blue Underground, Synapse or Code Red and treat these movies with a little respect!

No more Zack Snyder I'll be honest.  I was intrigued by this film from the opening credits.  Everything seemed like it was going to make an interesting viewing, but alas that turned out not to be the case.  As I mentioned, the opening credits fascinated me in a way, because they presented us with an alternate reality that was going to inhabit the film.  Music, images, editing...everything was going well, and then the movie started.  This is the third film by Zack Snyder, and the only one I actually finished watching or rather forced myself to finish watching, hoping there's some sort of a point to it all.  If you haven't guessed it by now, the answer is NO!  THERE IS NO POINT!  This is a very long, boring slog of a movie, that is shot like a slow-mo music video.  The film is shot in dark and murky colors, forcing me to squint quite a bit in order to make out what's happening on screen.  Overuse of slow motion, incoherent plotting, endless special effects and odd musical design of this picture contributed to it's failure, but not as much as the excessive violence.  At a certain point, my brain shut down on trying to figure out what's going on, and began to dread the next blood soaked set piece.  I have nothing against violence in films, however, I hate it when it's excessive.  Numerous limbs are broken, heads split, faces bitten off and arms cut off by a circular saw.  Overall, this film is full of needless excesses, which do not, I repeat, do not come together as a coherent whole.  I walked out on Snyder's remake of Dawn Of The Dead, because of it's violence, checked out of his 300, about 20 minutes into it, because of it's overkill of special effects, which should have prepared me for Watchmen.  He does have a strong visual sense, but goes way overboard with it.  Overall, this is a terrible waste of time that will leave you angry and depressed. There's nothing to be gained here, so skip Watchmen and rent or buy something worth your while.  V for Vendetta, perhaps?

Boring, too much Drama This movie is not that funny as expected, esp. not for children. In addition, there is too much drama esp. for a movie like that. Sometimes it was boring and i was happy as the movie was over.

Most Boring Video I've Ever Seen Don't waste your money ordering this awful video. If you do, you can expect a bunch of boring taking heads with text plastered unprofessionally around their heads. This video does not contain any footage of live babies or anything to add visual interest to the talking heads. I couldn't understand 50% of what one speaker said because of her accent. I have ordered dozens of newborn baby videos to prepare my husband and I for our first baby together. This was by far the worst video I have ordered.

Bored the entire family My kids stopped watching the movie after the first 5-10 minutes. After 30 minutes everyone else got bored. We are by no means animation snobs. The story just didnt draw anyone in and for that matter, neither did the characters. Hopefully your family likes it if you decide to rent or buy the movie.

Great movie, terrible DVD Poor rating is for the DVD product, not for the movie (which was awesome, by the way -- the best of the series)  The DVD starts with something like 20-30 minutes of commercials which you can't skip.  Commercial for the video game.  Commercial for the other video game.  ANOTHER commercial for the other video game.  Commercial for the theme park.  It just goes on and on and you can't skip them.  Here's how you watch this movie:  pop it into the player, press play, go out for dinner.  Then, when you're back home, turn on the TV and watch the movie.  I see why some people download pirated movies -- it lets you skip the commercials.  Agree with other comments about the picture quality.  I wanted to fiddle with the brightness controls on my TV.

Sucks or Blows? I can't decide After watching Anchorman, I couldn't decide if it sucked or blowed;) The one thing I did know is that it took up 94 minutes of my life I'd never get back. If you like silly brain dead comedy, this movie is for you.

Three Suckskateers Don't waste your money.  This movie really sucks.  Sucks really isn't a harsh enough word to describe how bad this movie really is - it's sucky-suck.  I would watch this again if someone paid me - a lot.

HATED IT ! My Brother told me about this one we do have different taste in movies he loved it i hated it. Just hate phony car crashes and stunts just not possible or believable.... horrible plot so much more wrong with this movie big waste but i said enough...

UNDERSTAND DIRECTOR HAD A MESSAGE - MESSAGE FROM VIEWER - DON'T CARE!!!! Oh Tom Cavanaugh - how much I respect you. That being said - I already wasted almost 2 hours of my life watching this director's totally murky view of several opinions (thus giving me the right to continue my rant about the complete and infuriating hubris that those self involved jerks in Hollywood actually think average America, who pays good money for these movies, who just want to have FUN, actually CARE what these self-involved morons think about local/national/world politics and whatever political view of said Hollywood big ego wants to share with us) he wants to convey. I won't waste any more of my time reviewing this terrible mess of a movie. YAY for you highbrows who think you know better than we, the movie-goers and thus money spenders do and are trying to educate us to expand our tiny view of the world. As for the rest of us dumb heads who simply pay your salaries, we'll continue to vote with our feet and go to the ENTERTAINING movies and in the end, we win because you get terrible votes and nobody goes to see your garbage. Sorry I didn't go into what this loser was about, don't really want to relive it again. And please? Put DRAMA as category for movies like this? The only HORROR was wasting my time watching this loser!

Not worth buying! I am a huge Mad Max fan, so when I found this copy I was really happy (it's hard to find in store) I waited for it to get delivered and sat down with the partner to watch, only I was so disappointed when it was finished as they have cut out half of the original movie!!! Majority of the major scenes are no where to be seen!! I must admit this is the first time I have been let down by Amazon, but with such a classic movie (with the correct rating) why was there any reason to cut out soooooo much of it, for a person who may not have seen this before, they would have no real idea as to what the movie is!!!

Under the Speed Limit Oh my, that was almost torture! Super slow movie, and I have to ask...How on earth did Gosling memorize all those lines?!!! *insert sarcasm*

Not the right disk I ordered this as it was advertised to be the three disk set by Mill Creek, which has a much better sound mix and better quality video than the newer two disk release.  But, what I received was the newer two disk release, NOT what was advertised.

Don't be fooled by the good reviews! Don't waste your money. This is by far the worst Jane Eyre I've ever seen. I didn't even finish it. The main actress plays Jane Eyre as if she is half asleep. There is no passion or spark to her performance. It's as if she has no interest in the role that she is playing. If she has no interest, why should we? (Note the young actresses playing Jane Eyre were great, but they're on the screen briefly.)

NPR liberal social-engineering I could just as well have titled this "Anatomy of the modern American white female".  This series basically takes the cultural cliches of our country and assembles them in an order that is best compatible with our reconstructed civic religion.  One thing that is characteristic of the liberal 'educational' impetus is the degree to which pornography is utilized by the narrative so as to corrode everything else. We live in an age where the internet dispenses pornography to anyone and everyone on-tap. Bin Laden watched porn. Why is this sensationalism still saturating the television? It seems that since the war, sex has been so institutionalized that it can no longer be taken seriously.  The virtuous characters of the series are a rigid old Jewish man and a 34 year old white 'female' whose sexuality has the unjustifiable temperament of an 18 year old. I immediately thought of the hilarious internet blog, 'Chateau Heartiste'. The contemporaneous white female protagonist is terrified of marriage, binges her hypergamy, manipulates her historically assigned aesthetic domination, screws until her fertility has run into the ground and then, at 34, finally finds 'love' after screwing a married, 'possessive' 40 year old ex-Marine at a secluded getaway in the forest. The series also brazenly casts the uncomfortable issue of miscegenation at the audience, which is predominantly whitebread, by revealing that she has screwed her black superior and thus forced him into a divorce, which is truly compelling. Another compelling character, the rich, yuppie Ivy-League educated white daughter of American oilmen and now Taliban terrorist also has flings with Muslim boys out of her superior empathy for the downtrodden of the Earth. The black and Jewish characters back at Langely solemnly comment on this wildley controversial fact as they follow her trail into Mexico after her "Brown boy" gets greased by the Taliban. The series should be commended for its realism in this intriguing aspect and its messiac will to continually push an increasingly old and tattered envelope.  The main plot is boring: the Marine has an attack of conscience. I won't go over the gushingly sentimental details. He basically enrolls himself in the struggle for universal suffrage and wants to destroy the United States because the Jihadists are more humane than the U.S. The Bin Laden copy surrounds himself with children and dares the U.S. to sling the bombs. The U.S. slings the bombs, blows up the children and then the old Jew dares to blow the whistle. The black senior CIA officer assures him of his futility, which he accepts and then communicates this missing piece of the puzzle to our modern white woman, a former CIA intelligence officer who is now undergoing electroconvulsive therapy to correct her bi-polar disorder. No wonder Obama loved this series.  As a throw away, I was highly amused by a rather anomalous side-show in this series, when Damian Lewis and the female protagonist go to the forest to screw each other. These old fossils simply decide to go to a rundown bar in the middle of nowhere, for whatever reason, and end up fighting a bunch of backwoods rednecks who have "HH" tatooed on their arms, as the series tells us. Not surprisingly, the emancipated white female protagonist intuitively understands this to mean, of all things, "Heil Hitler". Thats right, our white male ex-marine adulterer and Jihadist terrorist and hypergamous, emancipated, white 34 year old female protagonist end up assigning themselves the mission of fighting that old boogeyman, "white supremacism". She even calls these illiterate bumpkins "real Nazis bent on world domination". Yeah, none of that is premeditated *wink*.

Disappointed Description indicates this is a color edition which I have been looking for. The picture on the front of the box is in color but the DVD is in B/W

Terrible This was the most agonizingly boring movie I've ever seen.  I kept hoping it was going to get better but it was not to be.  Don't bother.

New Bluray Video Butchered. If you care about this film at all, run away far and fast.  Somebody botched this disc so badly it almost has to be a mistake.  It's an incredible shame that a film that earned Paul Newman accolades and an Oscar, is among Scorsese's best, has an excellent performance by Tom Cruise gets this kind of treatment.  Hopefully it will end up like Gladiator and Gangs of New York that somebody will acknowledge that this isn't what was approved and the real intended Bluray will be released.  Everybody knows about the John Carter debacle and how much money Disney probably will lose, but butchering a classic Live Action film isn't the way to recoup either money or reputation.  Multiple end-users and professional reviewers have been appalled at this attempt and hopefully once Scorsese gets a copy he and his people will throw some weight behind getting this abomination fixed.  I only wish I could give this 0 stars or worse.

Misleading I thought I read very carefully what kind of movie thismwas, and was sure it was really 3d.  I get it and course isn't, eve though it came up on a list of blue ray 3d.  Very disappointed .

Who writes this crap? I love the scifi genre and was looking forward to watching this series.  It is very well produced and looks good, but that doesn't overcome the horrible acting or the incomprehensibly bad writing.  If a show decides to take itself seriously (as this one clearly does), then there needs to be a high level of consistency within the story as well as coherent story lines that maintain the integrity of the story line.  The story is chock full of holes, the acting and writing is campy and I find my self saying "who writes this crap" regularly during each episode.  The story lines force most every character to be ignorant, foolish, or both (because none of the plot-advancing devices would work if the characters were not idiots) and treats the viewer as if they are 12 years old and have no grasp on human behavior or character.  Perhaps that was the target age group.  Few, if any, of the characters behave in a consistent fashion with their role or are consistent from episode to episode.  The story fails in just about every way possible.  It isn't riveting, there is almost no action, those in the military don't behave as if they've spend more than a day in training, petty infighting and lame superstition-based narratives replace what should be the focus of the stories (struggle for survival related to direct and indirect effects of their mortal enemy).  The Character of Gaius Baltar may very well be the worst written, acted, and actualized character in the history of television.  Rather than focus on any of the endless possibilities at the disposal of a scifi show, the story focuses on petty politics and shallow, inconsistent characters.  The flaws in the story lines are too numerous to list and rife throughout every single episode to the point of distraction....assassins shoot their targets in the stomach, stomach wounds are referred to as chest wounds, and apparently the spleen is located in the chest...if just goes on and on.  Just a horrible show.

Cringe-worthy I remember back in the day when the presence of Charlotte Rampling in a film promised something classy.  Wow...I have to wonder what happened to her over the years.  Maybe she just needed the work.  I am a sucker for anything set in the South of France so I made myself sit through this pretentious wreck of film.  One reviewer used the term "Eurotrash" and I have to agree.  Again, I guess I'm showing my age, but I recall when a film out of France was a treasure.  There are still some good ones appearing but this is so bad that I can imagine Francois Truffaut and Louis Malle screaming from their graves.  The plot starts predictably.  The archetype sexually repressed Englishperson, in this case a woman, goes to a Mediteranean county to get liberated.  Here poor sweet Charlotte, who was once so sulty and charming is now a frump who dresses all in tones of beige.  Maybe she had her "colors" done and was told she was an "Autumn."  She seizes on the opportunity to spend some time at the home of her publisher, a dastardly charming fellow whom she has the secret hots for.  She makes him promise to visit her there, but the cad doesn't quite show up.  He does, however, allow his out-of-wedlock young French daughter to show up.  This interferes with Ms. Prissy Englishwoman's plans but at the same time...as we all know....this is what she Really Wants.  The daughter who is quite voluptous and who spends most of her time topless, introduces Miss Prissy to the wonderful ways of the flesh.  Gone are the Pepsi and yogurt (argh) meals taken in front of the telly, now she's drinking the daughter's wine (and refilling the bottle with water) (more argh) and soon she's gobbling down brie and then smoking a joint and dancing up a storm with the local young waiter she's been making eyes at for a while.  Later she even gets to show her private parts, too, to the aged gardener.  (more argh...)  Those are the good parts.  The really yukky parts are too gross to mention.  So I'll just say, "If you value good cinema, stay away from this pretentious disgusting mess.

It's not funny!!! I couldn't finish watching the whole documentary on Netflix instant play. What a waste of my time. Tom has his points but I am not buying them. How would I know he was not manipulating his weights by exercising or eating diet pills off the camera if he thinks Morgan Spurlock was manipulating his weights as well. Personally, every time I eat at McDonald's, the food just made me sluggish. It's not good and quality food and we all know it as a fact. People eat at McDonald's only because they don't want to spend too much money on eating out, but still want to eat out. Mr. Tom Naughton, it is your choice to eat fast food, even though you claim it actually helps you lose weights. Best of luck living your life being sluggish and cranky. Meanwhile, I will stay away from fast food chains as much as possible. Clean and healthy eating is the only way to go to live a good life.

Awful Sadly, unwatchable.  I was looking forward to seeing this but I had to shut it off 1/3 of the way through because it was so horrible.  Totally predictable story lines and poorly executed writing.

How can more than 100 people give this a 4 or 5 star rating? I'm not one to write reviews but after deciding to buy this movie because of the positive ratings I'm just blown away. This has to be one of the worst movies I have seen in the last 30 years. I know we all have different tastes and opinions but I will never understand how so many people could conclude that this is a good movie. WOW! Horrible, horrible, horrible.

Surprisingly bad. It wasn't a surprise this movie was bad, it was surprising just how bad it could be.  The script seemed like it was written by a 13 year old, and the direction is ridiculous.  To say it's stupid is such an understatement.  How does a wooden boat sink?  How does a sword stick into a marble column?  How does a knife sever a 2 foot thick stalactite?  They turned a hero into a grumpy juice-head, they threw in a gratuitous "strong female character," and the so called story is the minimum amount of dialog to string together over the top, silly fight scenes.  Supporting actors did a good job acting their parts, but when your part is written like crap, directed like crap, and edited to be a steamy pile of crap it doesn't help that they have strong supporting actors (many of which have about three lines).  Don't watch this movie.  All it will do is upset and disappoint you.

Did we see the same movie? This movie is MUCH worse than the other reviews say it is. It is so stupid and so phony and so irritating - and the music is so annoying and overbearing - that I wanted to start screaming and write my OWN suicide note just to get away from it.  Maybe you have to be Japanese or a ten year old girl to appreciate it, but whatever it takes I don't have. I hated it.

NOT the Whole Bloody Affair! Do not buy this thinking it's the whole bloody affair! The reviewer up top says it's a great way to view both films, but at the end of the day you still have 2 discs! The Whole Bloody Affair is supposed to have a new anime sequence attached, the crazy 88 black and white scene in color etc. So, if you want to buy this don't! You're better off buy them separately off amazon USED! Not sure if the Whole bloody Affair is still coming out, but it was screened last year (march/april) in cali by Tarantino. I don't know what the hold up is!

This is what happens when you depend on one of your favorite actors I bought this sight unseen because it had R Downy in it. Now I am afraid to look at the first one, also bought on the faith of R.D. That will teach me, the only thing worth wathching was Scarlet whipping butt and it was not even enough of that. A bit expensive for a few seconds of a really serious good fight sceen. UGH---get it from the library if you must hurt your eyes.

A disaster of a movie This is a disaster movie. The production was a disaster. The script was a disaster. The jealous husband tries to shoot somebody to his right. How does the bullet end up taking out the motor on the end of the left wing? Did it circumnavigate the earth that fast? Then the shooter sits back down as if nothing happened. No restraints, no reaction from the crew. Then he walks free at the end of the movie, right past the police. Sorry folks, assault with a deadly weapon was a violent crime even in the 1950s. Wayne plays a character who began flying in World War One, but he looks remarkably well preserved for a character who must be pushing 60. Not one gray hair? And after losing his wife and son in another plane crash? The only good line was the very last one. The rest was stilted and trite, stock characters mumbling stereotypical lines. Stick with Airplane if you want an entertaining airplane disaster movie.

Horrible Slow, boring and predictable.  Recipe for 2 hours wasted that you'll regret and never get back.  While Denzel does an OK job, the script is pretty limiting.  I wondered how Reynolds would be in a serious action role and he was, as I suspected, not believable and bland.

bogus history in action A movie based on bogus history long since debunked except for true believers. A good cast, good actors, but the story itself based on lies told by self serving individuals.  A move for the aforementioned true believers.

skips scenes the disc has circles scratches all over the disc and it keeps gliching it skipped 3 scenes and it was described as like new this is crazy i want refund

TLDNR: Snoozefest. Skip it. If you laid down the script in writing for every person this movie, I doubt it would break 5 pages. A lot of staring at each other, and the relationships are incredibly unrealistic because of it. There were several instances where the main female lead asks Gosling a question, he says nothing, and after 30 seconds silence, she just continues talking, as if there was missing script, or a real person answered. I get it, you're trying to have a general mood, you can accomplish that without destroying the cohesion in your character development. A love story comes out of nowhere, and in the end a strong case could be made that there could be something developmentally or mentally wrong with Gosling's character.  Action is fun and exciting, for the 15 seconds that it happens in the beginning. A couple different, and frankly, almost unnecessarily violent scenes towards the end I think would turn off potential art-house critics that would appreciate the slow and plodding nature, if you have the patience for that in the first place.  The characters decision-making in the end seems like it was put there to add to the mood, not the story. I wouldn't be able to say why without some significant spoilers.  I'm sure quite a bit of people were fooled by the trailer, as it seems it was trying just to get action fans in the theater. Underhanded in my opinion, considering it was a complete lie. I don't mind a little cutting room discretion to make your movie look better, but don't make 'Alien' into 'E.T.'  Design Sidenote: They didn't pay for a designer when they put the movie out, so the poster, and subsequent pink MSword font they used, was a travesty. Seems like nothing changed with that train-wreck of the cover.

Potential That Evaporates Also known as FARHEIGHT HIGH: THE SCI-FI HIGH MOVIE MUSICAL, I picked up SCI-FI HIGH THE MOVIE MUSICAL because I thought it might be a sci-fi parody of HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL. There have been lots of knock-offs of that popular Disney Channel movie, most of them horrible. However, I thought a sci-fi version would be hilarious. As I started watching the movie, I discovered that this movie is not a parody of HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL. It is instead, a creature entirely of its own.  In terms of story, it's the 1950s and at Farheight High School, the annual Sadie Hawkins Dance is approaching and half the girls in the school haven't asked the guy of their choice for a date. The class clown and trouble maker, Eddie Cassavette is determined to get the school's prettiest girl to ask him to the big dance. Meanwhile, Cara Ann is thinking of asking Billy Dever, a dreamboat with a voice of gold and self-confidence problems. In school, Billy has a secret interest in science that his science teacher, Professor Vadin, wants to cultivate. On the night of dance, the school is overrun by blood-sucking aliens bent on killing everyone insight and its left up to Billy and his cohorts to try to outsmart them and save the day.  SCI-FI HIGH: THE MOVIE MUSICAL is an extremely low budget movie. For me, that's not such a big deal. I've seen many low budget movies that are much better than most of the big-budget pictures that Hollywood churns out. . I applaud anyone who actually makes a movie and is able to get it distributed. It's a major undertaking that most individuals have no idea how difficult it is. However, some people are going to have an issue with the budget because it does affect the sets (Ed Wood seemed to have some better sets than some of the scenes here) and the way the film actually looks.  Chances are that if you make it all the way through this movie, you won't even think about the low budget because there's so much that goes wrong. The movie starts off rather strong with an all-girl musical number that begins in the girl's bathroom. Not long after that, there's a decent musical number with the guys as they are driving back home after hanging out in the country that includes a dreamlike sequence with them flying in their car. However, after that musical number, the movie takes a turn for the worse. The rest of the musical numbers are so jumbled by the terrible juxtaposition of the soundtrack to the film that you can't hear, let alone understand, what the person is singing about. About three-fourths of the way through the movie, Billy Dever sings a great musical ballad, but the instrumentals that accompany the number eradicate almost any semblance the number has to music.  Then there's the dialogue; as the movie progresses it gets worse. It seemed to me that maybe the first fourth of the screenplay was scripted, but the last three-fourths were mostly ad-libbed (and ad-libbed terribly). The special effects, particularly in the last part of the movie, are awful. For instance, most of the time the man-eating aliens appear no bigger than a slug, yet they are capable of ripping men in half (think of the movie SLITHER, but the aliens are only seen as shadows "rippling" along a piece of plastic film). Of course, there are other times that the aliens apparently have tentacles longer than an octopus on steroids. Then there's the whole alien who looks like a person. Other than a few moments here or there, the acting is pretty bad, but I'm willing to give the actors a break because the script is so bad they just didn't have anything to work with.  Lastly, there's the story. There are several characters that have no purpose in the movie. For instance, there's a sadistic principal who beats the boys in the face with a rod during detention. Other than providing a way for Billy to have an opportunity to work with Professor Vadin on his special after-school project, there's no reason for the character of the Principal to exist: he doesn't provide any comic relief and he seems completely unnecessary. Of course, at the end of the film the justification for his existence is attempted to be explained, but like most of the movie, it makes no sense.  I'm not sure if the filmmakers were trying to go with the original ending to LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS-vibe or what. However, the ending just doesn't fit. When you have a movie as bad as this one is, it can't end the way it does.  In short, unless you like wasting two-hours of your life and enjoy watching really, really, really bad movies, I wouldn't even visit SCI-FI HIGH.  The only extras on this DVD are a trailer for the movie and two trailers for a couple of other low-budget films.

Even worse than 'Augustus' After watching 'Augustus' - which like this movie focuses on first century BC Rome with a focus on Octavian Caesar/Caesar Augustus - I thought it wouldn't be possible to find a movie about this fascinating period with both worst acting and worst history. I was wrong. At least 'Augustus' had Peter O'Toole. This movie lacks even a single redeeming performance.  As for the history, I don't expect exact historicity, but I would prefer movies not be made if they are going to be this far off. 'Empire' could hardly have been worse. For the central character, Octavian in this movie spends most of the time trying to deny his patrimony, not wanting to be 'Caesar.' If there is anything which is clear from the historical record, it is that from the time of Caesar's death and the revelation that his will gave the young man almost everything, including his name, Octavian sought absolute power, and would stop at nothing for that. This is clear even from sources friendly to him. And of course the way the Octavian-Mark Antony rivalry is portrayed is almost entirely fictitious.  And I would have thought a pro-Caesar bias would be out of fashion these days. Both 'Augustus' and 'Empire' portray Caesar as he wanted to be portrayed - as a man of the people, wanting to bring justice to the poor of Rome. While Caesar had some admirable qualities, he used his gifts to obtain supreme power and destroy the Republic. He showed no qualms at the use of corruption and political violence in doing so. Please read a book first.

Couldn't get past the first episode The "pretty boy" and girl look of this show was my first disappointment. The anachronistic dialog was my second. Even if 1890s Canada were to have a lovely young female pathologist on the police force (unlikely at best) she would not be so frank in her speech.  The producers and directors should have watched the British series "The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells" for an example of how to balance modern viewing tastes with more authentic atmosphere.  The other drawback for me was the erratic, jerky filming techniques. I realize this is quite "en vogue" right now, but I felt the fast cut video editing and overly dramatic music was an attempt to make the show seem more exciting than it was.  I'm first to admit that my dislike of the show is a reflection of my personal preferences so YOU may enjoy it. And perhaps I was hoping for another series like the great Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes series (in which case, I was sure to be disappointed).  On the plus side, the show had very nice set design and included SDH subtitles.

DVD 1 star, movie 3 stars FRANTIC is not among the best of Polanski's movies, in fact it represents one step in his decline. However, he is/was a serious filmmaker, and the movie deserves to be presented in its correct 1:85 to 1 format.  The same goes for ARTHUR, the same goes for CHARLEY VARRICK. Also MOSCOW ON THE HUDSON, perhaps Paul Mazursky's best movie, full screen only. Very good movies incomprehensibly marketed in full screen.  I would be delighted to see My Cousin Vinnie or American Pie released full screen, because they deserve it. Junk release for junk movie.  Do not even think about buying this.

Took forever to ship from Amazon I ordered this item at least a week before release and Amazon did not ship it until a week after it was released. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002ZG98UK">Resident Evil: Afterlife [Blu-ray 3D</a>]

OH GOD If you saw this film.. You should sue Tom Green for PTSD....God this thing is badThe only good part was when Green was ran over by the truck...!!!!! And even THAT was way too short...Green should be tried for crimes against good taste And still breathing after making this ...If there is a Hell for bad taste.. Green will be there

Not a comedy ... not really anything This is over 2 hours long and there are very few laughs if any in this film. The pace is slow and the overall message quite depressing. This is the movie equivalent of a 2 hour budget airline flight. If you want to be uncomfortable and frustrated for 2 hours then this is the film for you.

DUD I attempted to play this DVD for my grandson and got the error message that my player could not read the DVD.  I'd give it no stars but the system won't let me leave that blank.

Absolutely Gut-wrenching to watch I love, love, love this story.  I listen to the Broadway soundtrack more than I'd like to admit.  I did not know there was an actual movie until recently.  My friend told me that she found the movie and we watched it together.  She was unfamiliar with the show AND the soundtrack, so she thought the movie was "Okay."  I, on the other hand, watched the whole thing with my jaw dropped opened (there might have been a little drool, I'm still in shock), in complete disbelief.  How on earth could they massacre this story?  It was SO BAD...SO BAD!!  I was embarrassed to watch it.  I was embarrassed for the actors, the director/s and the producer/s.  The acting was TERRIBLE, the songs were unemotionally sung and hacked to pieces, which was the worst part for me - The whole thing was a disgrace.  The only teeny, tiny thing about this movie that was decent was that the actors "Looked" their parts, but that was it.  Just awful!!  I'm against movie remakes, but this one definitely needs to be redone...redone and the old one buried forever or burn to a crisp in secret.  By all things good and great, please let the portion of my brain that retains the memory of this terrible movie rot away and be absorbed by my body and excreted in a cleansing and natural way...amen

"From Dusk" gets the shaft on Blu-Ray, courtesy of Echo Bridge "From Dusk 'Till Dawn" is not a great film by any means, but it is entertaining...up to a point. The first half of the film is an effective, stylish and creepy noir/suspense film, with director Robert Rodriguez showing uncharacteristic restraint in his film direction. Clooney and (surprisingly) Tarantino are good in their roles, and play off of each other well. Unfortunately, the second half of the film becomes increasingly silly, as Robert Rodriguez succumbs to his fetish for over-the-top action and cartoonish violence, quickly undoing all the creepy suspense that was so carefully built up over the film's first half and settling for a parody-like tone for the rest of the film.  If done right, over-the-top horror film parodies can be very entertaining, as the first two "Evil Dead" films show. However, that sort of tone usually works best in a short feature format (such as the "Tales From The Crypt" television series). If the film is to be feature length, then a good deal of imagination is needed to sustain interest, otherwise a sense of a fatigue sets in. It is imagination that makes the "Evil Dead" films work as well as they do, and is what's missing in "From Dusk 'Till Dawn" (endless vampire explosions notwithstanding).  Still, if you're a "B-Movie" horror fan, the film definitely has its moments; besides the two leads, there's a great supporting cast (put together especially for genre fans), fun (albeit goofy) make-up effects, plenty of scantily-clad women, and buckets of fake blood, making the film an acceptable (if padded out) "B" genre film. Overall, a three-star film (out of five).  Regarding the Echo Bridge Blu-Ray release, it is truly a lazy catalog release title, if I've ever seen one. Currently available exclusively at Best Buy stores (but not on Best Buy's online website), I picked this up for ten bucks less than a week ago, and have already decided to get my money back (the Blu-Ray will see a general release in stores on May 3rd).  Presented in the incorrect film aspect ratio of 1.78:1 (from the film's original 1.85:1), the picture quality of the Echo Bridge transfer is a wildly inconsistent mess. A few scenes here and there look very good. However, most of the time the picture quality is soft and murky-looking, giving the film a dull, flat look. Colors tend to look unnatural and overly-saturated. The picture has plenty of digital artifacting and is riddled throughout with edge enhancement, killing off fine background detail. Blacks come off as strong but shapeless, crushing any detail thanks to the transfer's murkiness. I've read by some that DNR was occasionally an issue with the transfer; personally, I didn't see it, but I think we can all agree that even if DNR has been used, it is the least of problems for Echo Bridge's Blu-Ray release of "From Dusk 'Till Dawn".  As a result of my disappointment with the Echo Bridge release, based on the good reviews I've read online, I decided to take a chance and order online the Canadian Blu-Ray release of "From Dusk 'Till Dawn" from Alliance. Now, I must confess that I'm not very big on importing Canadian Blu-Ray's, and I've heard fairly crummy things about Canadian distributer Alliance's Blu-Ray releases. Well, after a side-by-side comparison, there is simply no contest: in every respect, the Alliance Blu-Ray release is superior to the Echo Bridge U.S. release.  The picture of the Alliance disc is sharp throughout, without any of the murkiness and softness that plagues the Echo Bridge Blu-Ray. Colors pop but maintain a natural look, blacks are strong without being crushing, and neither DNR or edge enhancement are anywhere to be found. Regarding the audio, both the Echo Bridge and Alliance versions contain a DTS-HD 5.1 audio mix (ignore the notation of 2.0 stereo on the cover of the EB release of "From Dusk", as it's a misprint). My initial (and rather quick) comparison did not find much difference between the Alliance and Echo Bridge releases. However, a second, deeper comparison revealed there was indeed a difference between the two soundtracks, and once again, Alliance came out ahead. Surround was more expansive throughout with stronger panning effects, and bass was definitely more present. In fact, about the only thing the two releases have in common is a complete lack of extras.  Overall, while the Alliance transfer is not quite demo quality, it is a vast improvement over the Echo Bridge release, and a commendable hi-def transfer for a catalog title (In fact, I'd go so far as to say that the Alliance transfer of "From Dusk 'Till Dawn" even trumps Lionsgate's recent U.S. Blu-Ray releases of the "Scream" trilogy, which were all flat-looking and had far too much edge enhancement for my tastes). Only the complete lack of extras prevents me from giving the Alliance Blu-Ray release a four-star review.  So, to sum up: since both Blu-Rays are competitively priced and available right here on Amazon.com, I recommend that casual and hardcore fans skip the U.S. Echo Bridge release and pick up the Canadian Alliance Blu-Ray release. Is the picture quality on the Echo Bridge Blu-Ray disc better than the Miramax DVD? Sure...and for all my complaints, it's not the worst transfer that I've seen on Blu-Ray (check out "Five Corners" and "Lars and The Real Girl" to see truly terrible Blu-Ray transfers). However, considering the fact that a far superior three-year-old Blu-Ray transfer already exists elsewhere, there is simply no excuse for the existence of this poor Blu-Ray release, which is why I give Echo Bridge's Blu-Ray release of "From Dusk 'Till Dawn" a one-star (out of five) review.  Of course, true fans will also need to pick up (or hang on to) the Miramax two-disc DVD set, with all of its top-notch bonus features, including the feature-length making-of doc, "Full Tilt Boogie", audio commentary with Rodriguez and Tarantino, deleted scenes and outtakes, a special effects doc and more (I do not recommend that DVD set for casual fans, as the picture is presented in non-anamorphic widescreen).  Between this and the shamelessly cheap Blu-Ray release of "Halloween: H20", I'm going to take a pass on future offerings from Echo Bridge.

Watching tree bark grow would be more stimulating THE TURIN HORSE is by far the most ridiculous movie I have ever seen.  Two and a half hours of ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.  And I do mean NOTHING.  After about 25 minutes of watching this film you will fast forward a bit because you THINK that something is going to happen.  NEWS FLASH:  IT DOESN"T.  Read the reviews on NetFlix because they are more accurate than the reviews written here and they are funny as well.  This movie is a waste of a blank DVD.  If you watched the trailer, watch the trailer 150 times, you have then seen the movie.  It is ridiculous and exhausting.  I enjoy a lot of different types of films and books.  THE TURIN HORSE is quite frankly one of the silliest movie I have ever had the agony of sitting through.  Don't waste your time.  Honestly. It's just dreadful.

Disturbing I found this movie incredibly depressing. I felt bad for the character regarding his drug use & life choices. The part where he goes in to the alley with the old, dirty, bearded stranger that he eyed in the bar made me gag. I have no issues with homosexuality, I do however have issues about the purpose & plot of this movie. I was left repulsed & wishing I could have the hour & a half of my life back that I spent watching this movie. It was very disturbing.

This shipper is a very late shipper I will NEVER shop from this shipper again. I have not gotten the item yet. They just sentit today and that is a shame cause i have ordered a lot of other items and got got all of other items and not have gotten this item. I hate this seller.

Makes you think... This movie makes you think... "Why did I spend an hour and a half of my like watching this"?  Yes, some of the elements were visually entertaining, but I got tired of watching Hugh Jackman floating around in his bubble after about 30 minutes. I really have no clue what this movie was trying to say, but then I'm a drug-free individual...  Perhaps one needs a little organic help to make sense of it.

Review of WB Digital Copies -- Not This Movie Be cautious about Warner Brothers movies that include a digital copy -- they EXPIRE quickly, and it is not obvious on the packaging. I had purchased Inception from Target on June 12, 2011 for $29.99. When I attempted to redeem the digital copy, I found it had expired on May 6, 2011 -- over a month before I had purchased it. I contacted Warner Brothers about what had happened, and the representative told me there was nothing I could do because they adequately posted the expiration date on the DVD insert, the redemption Web site, and on the box. Two of those methods are moot because you have to open the box before finding out the information. The expiration date is on the back of the DVD in fine print, meanwhile the  "+ digital copy" is in very large print on the front of the box. How many times do you look at the back of a movie before buying it? So obviously Warner Brothers wasn't helpful, and Target wouldn't take the movie back even though some of the "product" had expired before purchase because I had opened it. I have unsuccessfully tried to resolve this with the corporations involved, so I'm warning the public directly now to prevent it from happening to other consumers.

Do not waste your time or money on this film If it was possible to give this film a minus 1 I would have. Thackery must have rolled over in his grave at a very poor attempt at writing a screen play for his masterpiece novel. My DVD copy will go in the trash bin.

remake??!! This remake is not good as original one. Poor actors, boring, more violent and less country than original one. Don't buy, just rent it.

Would Not Buy Again - Regret That I EVer Bought It!! This was a requested gift, so I bought it for a member of our family, but after learning about the graphic nature of it, I would not buy it again for anyone; I regret that I ever bought it to begin with! I will definitely check these Video Games out, thoroughly, from now on to make sure they are safe, non-graphic, and worth buying! This one is NOT!! <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000MXXVWY">Team America: World Police [UMD for PSP</a>]

Baby farts I am now in a terrible mood. I was not satisfied by this poor excuse for a sci-fi action/drama/donkey excrement. No dialog, no character development, no story, no boobs even.  There was action. There were explosions. There were unrelenting aliens with unclear motives. I predict that in the future history of our branch of the multiverse, there will never be a sequel to this crap taco.  About the only thing that can cheer me up now is a baby fart.

Art Film for Adolescents--Actual or Eternal For a certain kind of kid who has grown tired of the Disney films with which s/he have been raised and has never heard of, say, Michelangelo Antonioni (much less seen one of his films) this will be a revelation of sorts.  For anyone else this is a staggeringly lightweight piece of narcissistic wish-fulfillment.  I was interested in seeing what Coppola would do with this story of the daughter of a self-indulgent philandering Hollywood star--she certainly knows the material first-hand. Alas, the answer is: almost nothing.  In our superfast world I love the idea of a slow carefully-observant movie. BUT few of the observations in this one are anywhere near being new, insightful or even interesting.  I love long takes--but the material has to merit the time.  In this case, the director seems to indulge herself every bit as much as her male lead. The opening shot seems to go on forever which might be fine if it had anything to say. But the point--like all the points in this film--is simple, slight and well-worn: our male lead is racing in circles in the middle of a desert... If it takes you 5 minutes to convey this you either aren't much of a director or you have absolutely no ideas worth getting to.  And, ah, yes, what a funny concept: twin blonde pole dancers in the star's hotel room! Coppola thinks this is so wonderful we not only have to watch one long clumsy routine to awful music, but about 5 minutes later we have to watch ANOTHER one in full!  The problem with this film is not at all that it is slow-paced but that it is slow-witted--in the extreme.  And like nearly all narcissistic wish-fulfillments the story never really has any drama to it because the author/director stand-in is nothing but adorable and blameless and lovable. The only question is: will the loutish but basically decent father realize just how wonderful his daughter is?  SPOILER ALERT: He does, and he suffers under the realization of how much he has wrongly neglected her.  What more could any little girl/nearly-40-yr-old-director-who-was-once-that-little-girl ever want?

Great movie..Horrible transfer..NO EXCUSE FOR THIS..DO NOT BUY The movie is amazing..Val Kilmer deserved an Oscar for his roles..Maybe the best acting role in the 1990s.  Ok..The DVD 2 disk special edition..You'd expect the movie to be a proper transfer..Heck, the put released it with 2 DVDs..NOPE..  It is in widescreen letterbox 2.35:1..BUT it is so small that it's a little bot in the center of the screen(bars on the top, bottom, right, and left...big ones)..You need to use the zoom function...or the cinema function on your TV to make it full screen letter box 2.35:1  In doing this..it greatly reduces the video quality...WOW..I was shocked.  I've only encountered this ONE OTHER TIME on a straight to video junk movie from Netflix a year or more ago..I've never seen this codec used..it is like it was made for use in a video ipod.  I have "Gladiator" Extended edition with both Theatrical and Extended on one DVD..Same with "Apocalypse Now Redux" so it isn't a size limitation as both those films fit on a dual layer DVD..  I do not understand why they would do this..Maybe Hollywood does truly hate Oliver Stone

Totally Unfunny When the film first started playing, my partner and I looked at each other as if to say "What on earth is this?..." but we decided to give it a chance and let it play - for about half an hour before we couldn't bare to watch any more.  The title says 'Funny' - it wasn't.  The overall cover is totally misleading and gives you the impression it is a funny film by someone who had previously done a funny film - but it was in no way funny at all.  The jokes were terrible, the script was terrible. Very disappointing.

What a Waste I got this with high hopes.  I'd heard the movie mentioned during an interview on a PBS radio show.  So, I checked it out as I find watching movies about baseball more interesting than watching baseball.  The plot and dialogue are as predictable as the alphabet.  It got so I knew what was going to be done and said a full minute before it materialized on the screen.  Gag...

Very poor effort I'm a big fan of creature features but this one just plain stunk. Most of the things the characters did in the film didn't make any sense and it seemed as if they were just making it up as they went along unscripted. The shark would show up occasionally to liven it up but not enough to keep interest.Carmen electra's character was ridiculous and she spent her time primping and mugging for the camera to look 'sexy'. I think they told her she was the star of the film or something but she was rarely involved.The rest of the cast never rose above typical victim-of-the-quarter hour status. This was more like one of the new National Lampoon films than a creature feature.

What the Heck I purchased this to show my students in connection with our unit on Heart of Darkness. I chose this version because it was significantly cheaper than the original. Bad choice. The scenes that were added include gratuitous sex and violence. They add nothing to the story line. It is clear why they were not included in the original. Advice is to spend a few extra dollars and get the original.

I Want My Money Back $4.00 and 2 hours completely wasted. Even if I would have paid a mere penny for this movie I would still be enraged.

Hangover what??? Hahaha...someone is really high...I mean how can you compare this to the Hangover or to anything good really! This movie was not interesting at all. Some people say the best thing was Melissa McCarthy, but I actually found her unfunny and gross.

swing and a miss I am a fan of the "Point of View" or "Found Footage" genre of horror.  Some, of course, are better than others and other are icons of the field.  I thought the idea of a parody of this would be interesting.  I'm still hoping this is true.

Pre-orders through Amazon suck I pre-ordered this movie a day or so before it came out with the understanding that I wouldn't get it the day it was released.  However, today, a few days after I placed the order, I received an email from Amazon bumping the ship date out even farther than they originally stated.  No big deal, I figured I'd just cancel the order and buy the movie somewhere else.  However, when I go to my Amazon account I can't cancel the order because it is being prepared for shipping.  If they were going to move the ship date they should have at least left me the option to cancel the order.  Huge dissapointment; I will never pre-order through Amazon again.

Akkk.... Really... it's not worth my time to write this... but just to warn those whom venture here.  The short and long of it.  Terrible, terrible acting, lost plot, annoying nuances.  I did sit all the way through this hoping it would get better, but it did not.

Boring and Bad This movie revealed to me how difficult it must be to make a good action thriller. Sure, Gina's acting is awful, even painful, but that wasn't the worst part. The movie spends long stretches of time exploring boring, tedious moments set to ridiculous, comically bad smooth jazz. You keep waiting for a reason to care, and it never comes. Watch the four action scenes on Youtube instead.

This movie in one word, "awful." This is a pointless movie, how did anyone like this? Stay away, the characters are awful. Starts nowhere goes nowhere.... This is simply to avoid.

IP Man dvd Returned first dvd because movie kept freezing after previews. Exchange for new dvd thru amazon was easy and convenient. Unfortunately 2nd dvd had same problem. Only then, did I notice upon going to Ip Man dvd webpage that the dvd doesn't work on Panasonic and Sylvania blue ray players - there is a notice. So I have no idea how the movie is, although it sounds great. So disappointed. Not sure if I can return opened second dvd.

helen hunt is like a piano with one key From the beginning of the movie, to about three-quarters of the way through, when I ejected it--I kept telling myself "it's got to get better"--it never did. There wasn't a single character that "grabbed me"--and at least two that finally caused me to push the eject button.  Does Helen Hunt ever play a role where the audience isn't glaringly aware that it's Helen Hunt on the screen? She whines and chews her way through every line of dialogue until the hair on my arms stands on end. She never deviates: A Good Woman and Then She Found Me--these are very different movies--you'd think she'd do something different with the characters (to fit the time and the place in which the story takes place). I've made a pact with myself--no more movies with Ms. Hunt. This one was the last.

Agenda-driven and fast-and-loose with the science "Forks Over Knives" can make quite an impression. Despite the occasionally slow documentary style, the film, which compares seemingly rock-solid scientific data with impressive anecdotal examples of four individuals who benefit greatly from "whole-foods plant-based diets," seems to make an incontrovertible case for veganism.  The trouble is, the science is far from incontrovertible, the examples are cherry picked and over-simplified, and the whole charade is shamelessly agenda-driven.  The whole film is predicated on a series of purposefully misleading assertions, made to portray the highly questionable "science" discussed as unquestionably certain. "The China Study" - Dr. Campbell's huge epidemiological study of Chinese diets, which is referred to repeatedly in the film as indisputable scientific gospel - is anything but.  I am often distrustful of reviewers who refer to external authorities, but there are groundbreaking critiques of the study, and any prospective viewer willing to give $15 and 2 hours to watching this film would do well to dedicate an hour to double checking the highly dubious science. Denise Minger's brilliant dissection of the studies is a great place to start: [Just Google "Denise Minger China Study"; she has a special section on this film].  The use of the China study isn't the only instance of misleading in the film. When discussing an asserted relationship between "meat protein" and cancer, for example, they neglect to make clear that this relationship was only shown in rats (not generally milk-drinkers) fed abnormally high levels of not meat but the isolated milk protein casein. No such relationship was shown between actual MEAT consumption and cancer rates (or, for that matter, the other main milk protein, whey, and cancer) - although the filmmakers are happy to bulldoze this fact by fabricating a false positive (that Minger dissects) from the China Study.  Moreover, the success stories in the film are truly inspirational, but they hardly merit the simple explanations the agenda-driven doctors give them. When a former junk-food addict who had never tried a serious diet is made to drop all refined and processed foods and sugars, exercise regularly, consult regularly with a personal dietician, and eat significantly smaller meals, it's hardly certain that their weight-loss and health successes are due exclusively (or at all) to the elimination of meat from their diet.  This misdirection (always blaming meat, never with any evidence) makes sense only once you realize that this film is hardly concerned with the accurate science, because its goal - making veganism appear to be the only healthy option - is at odds with the actual nutritional evidence.  "Forks Over Knives" is in interesting film, and one that could certainly make an impact on your life. By all means, watch it - but I'd strongly caution fellow viewers against taking it as gospel, and I'd certainly encourage them to give the counter-evidence a reasonable shot.

Stupid Don't waste your money. Don't get me wrong I love Larry the cable guy But this was just done right bad. I hope he new that this movie was a disaster.

Bacon makes everything taste better So I was at this New Year's Eve party in the Presidio, and either somebody put something psychotropic in my drink or there really were people writhing around on a pile of dead tigers in the back of George Lucas' pickup and babies were crawling around in the fireworks mortar shells as they went off. Oh, and George actually does have a real light saber! Anyway, those are the few snippets I could remember when I woke up the following morning. I also found a copy of an interesting e-mail in my back pocket. Thought I'd share it with you. I have, of course, removed the e-mail addresses so I don't have to go through the chore of redacting them later:  March 5, 2009 Attn: Mimran Schur Pictures Re: "Stone"  Dear Mr. Mimran,  It has come to our attention that the script has become unworkable, a feat we feel has been quite acerbated by Glenn Beck signing on as a ghost producer. What in its original form was a meaningful study of morality and basic human impulses has lately devolved into an ambling discourse on religion that at times border on fringe spiritual cults such as Eckankar.  Since we can't afford to fall out of favor with Rupert Murdoch (or George Soros for that matter), we feel that our hands are tied at this point regarding any remedies to the script. We feel the best possible thing to do at this point would be to consider bringing in Edward Norton to play the title role. He has expressed interest because he feels pigeonholed in the "Hulk" franchise. And, as we all know, Edward Norton is like cinematic bacon; he makes everything better. Please get back to us about this at your earliest convenience.  Sincerely,  Avi Lerner Danny Dimbort

Comedy or Flop? This is an AWFUL film. The acting is horrible and would serve better as a comedy. Don't waste your time on this movie if you are looking for a action film. If you are looking for a comedy then this movie is for you.

disgustingly boring/foul a waste of bandwidth,time and money poor acting, lots of foul language does not a good movie make!!!  30 minutes or less??? mostly less

Not what I wanted at all. I was extremely disappointed in what I ordered. I had wanted to see" Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol" and that's what it says I'm getting. But when I received the DVD it was nothing but recorded comments about the making of the story, without the story! I played it over and over, checking all of the options, and that's all there is on this DVD. I really had wanted to show this to my students at school, and unfortunately, I wasn't able to.  I have never ordered anything online, so this has been a real disappointment to me. Unfortunately, I feel a little cautious about buying anything else.

Worst movie I have ever seen After watching the first 5 minutes of this movie, I was blown away by how utterly terrible it is. We wanted to turn it off and just watch TV but we decided to stick it out. Bad choice. The movie didn't get any better. It just kept going down this slope of stupidity. I swear whoever made the movie was on acid the whole time. We watched it on bluray, the picture was very grainy and disappointing. Will not watch ever again.

Dammit Amazon, Seperate Your Product Reviews Already! First off; I have not purchased THIS PARTICULAR version of this all-time great film, however, I do want to purchase it for a friend who has bluray.  The problem with this particular release is that the bluray version seems to be a terrible transfer.  My real issue here aside from the fact that Warner Brothers continues to foist garbage transfers on an unsuspecting public is that ONCE AGAIN, Amazon.com refuses to separate it's product reviews, so it is simply IMPOSSIBLE for me to ascertain the quality of the DVD RELEASE vs. the BLURAY RELEASE.  AMAZON.COM, if you are going to continue to provide customer reviews, PLEASE STOP mixing reviews for separate products together;  The QUALITY OF INDIVIDUAL RELEASES IS DIFFERENT AND AFFECTS THE CUSTOMER'S DECISION TO BUY!

Do Not Buy This Do not buy this item.  These are unauthorized bio's that are made like cheap tv tell-alls that give you nothing.  Hopefully one day Blink will get the doc treatment like Foo Fighters or Pearl Jam has in the past few years, but this is not the doc you are looking for.  AVOID AT ALL COSTS

unbelievably bad i cant begin to describe how bad this movie is.  not at all what you would think.  gilbert godfried as the duck .. but not a duck just a grown man with a feather suit.  this is horrible shlock dont waste your time

Extremely disgusting! An anime based on the idea of a 27 year old man falling in love with a 15 year old that also happens to be his sister. I don't think this anime could  have turned out well in any scenario. I didn't know what this was going to be about going into it. It was recommended to me after watching the Cl'annad series. I don't think I've ever seen a more disgusting anime than this.  Watching this just makes you feel like you want to take a shower after seeing it. There's a long running joke about another grown man who wants to find young girls. If you think that's funny than you probably are already a registered sex offender.  The anime starts out with a dopey 27 year old who lives at home with his father and obviously is a failure with women. He doesn't have any ambition and he doesn't have any real goals. He just works and comes home. The anime starts off with him getting dumped (can you really blame the girl?) and that's the end of the good parts about this series.  After that you are introduced to a young girl the main character is attracted to and later on you find out she's his sister. The guy can't help himself but think about his sister constantly and even pleasures himself to the thought of her while sniffing some of her personal belongings. The anime is really disgusting and perverted.  Trying to understand it is like trying to rationalize with a pedophile. They just don't see what their doing is wrong. The only person in the show that makes any sense is the main characters co worker and for whatever reason he's not interested in her even though she sleeps over at his apartment. He's too wrapped up in his sister. Unfortunately the only voice that makes any sense in this entire anime is made to be seen like a villain trying to ruin their love.  I won't spoil this for anyone who is curious enough to watch it but I just couldn't stomach this series. Reluctantly I finished and I hope that I forget it but I probably wont because the main character is probably the most pathetic excuse for a man I have ever seen in any anime or cenima. A man so low he would basically take advantage of his own sister just so he wouldn't have to feel alone in the world. He pretty much ruined her.  Enjoy if you like incest...I'm still shivering.

If You Like Mindless Mayhem Then Go For It First I want to say that I am very tolerant of movies that contain violence and political statements, etc.  I realize that unless a movie is a biography movies are for entertainment and the contents are not meant to be interpreted as fact. However, Machete is where I draw the line.  Robert DeNiro, Steven Segal and Don Johnson were the reason that I purchased this movie.  After all with with this line up how bad could it be?  Welllllllllll,  1.  Steven Segal playing a Mexican???  2.  Jessica Alba is an ICE agent who goes rogue?  3.  In a Texas border town there is virtually no police presence?  4.  Mexican running an Underground Network from a Taco Truck??  5.  Six guys shooting (with automatic weapons) at a car dead on and only the passenger gets hit?  6.  Mexican's driving down the boulevard in Austin, Texas with weapons raised and no police to be seen?  7.  Lindsay Lohan looked high during the entire movie.  8.  People getting shot in the eye at point range and survive but die when hit in the eye with a stiletto?  9.  Redneck bigots not recognizing their own powerful politcal, highly visible ally?  Tsk, Tsk, Tsk.  Rodriguez you can do better.  I would give this movie -1 star with two thumbs and 8 fingers down.  If you want to see a movie with a real political statement watch El Norte instead.

The Fury The Fury a Plymouth Fury? More like a dud.Despite the ensemble and having Douglas great portrayal as well Andrew Stevens,the movie was trying to be too many things at once,Think Fire Starter,Carrie and other movies and genres all squeezed together in a nonsense plot.Despite the BANG for the buck at the very end of the movie,it comes up short for me.

deceitful I had this movie sent to my nephew in Sarasota, unfortunately it would not play because MOVIE MARS sent the wrong region and to make matters even worse only refunded me the cost of the movie, I had to pay their shipping charges and additional shipping charges to send the movie back and they would not even exchange it.  So as much as I wanted my nephew and wife to see this movie they were not able to watch it.

good actors, bad writing This was just a shallow piece of work. I was very excited to see the cast put together but as the story played out I soon came to realize that even they could not make lemonade out of this lemon of a script.

It's not what it think it is. You are lead to believe that it's a documentary on LSU football. It's just a video of clips for NFL scouts to look at.

Rogen made this movie horrible and unbearable... They casted someone good as Kato, but Rogen was a horrible choice. From start to end it was not believable and also seemed like a lame comedy. Would not recommend this movie to anyone by any means.

Huh? I realize I am a latecomer in the reviews for this film, and Obama is succeeding in his competition for the title of our worst president (isn't it convenient that as of yesterday, he is able to take credit for killing Bin Laden...just in time for his re-election campaign?). However, I expected much more from the director of JFK (which still doesn't do justice to the conspiracy, but at least debunks the Warren Commission).  I'm only about 1/2 an hour into this film, and I have already spotted some glaring errors. There's Phi Delta Kappa, the fake fraternity that W is shown being initiated into (apparently Stone has been intimidated into keeping silent that W is a Bonesman), and W claiming to be a Texan (he was born in Maine) and an Episcopalian (he's a Catholic), and there's still another 90 minutes to go!  The best film out there if you want the truth about both W and 911 is Alex Jones 911-The Road to Tyranny.

Not one of there best seasons It is not one of there best seasons, not as funny, not as creative. It was sort of a let down.

Ridiculous I can tell you "The Situation" is not doing those workouts in real life. If you wanna look like him all you have to do is buy some needles, get the roids and start pumping away.

Very Disappointing I really like Africa Screams, so I was hoping that Jack and the Beanstalk would be similarly funny. However, it was really dumb. The opening scenes (before the fairytale begins) were kind of funny. I did think some of this movie was humorous, but not enough to redeem it. First of all, there are several really long, boring, stupid songs that people sing in that kind of Disney cartoon style. Second, there's a stupid romance between a prince and princess that I don't recall ever being in any version of Jack and the Beanstalk I've ever read. The prince is a sissified looking fellow who isn't handsome, and both he and the princess are stupid and boring. Third, a whole lot of the movie seems to be trying to copy the earlier (and brilliant) Africa Screams. For instance, Abbot and Costello walk underneath the giant without noticing it (just as they do underneath the Orangatang Gargantua in Africa Screams), as well as Costello's character being bullied by Abbott's character. Also, Jack goes around without seeing the giant standing five feet away from him. There's other things that seem to be ripped off from Africa Screams, but even more than that is the really long and stupid dance that Jack has with the giant lady. I haven't been this bored by a movie since I can't remember when. Even though it's only 70 minutes long, it seems like it's about twice as long. So, you've been warned! Africa Screams is way better than this stupid movie.

Very disappointing I have read all of the Miss Marple mysteries and was so happy to receive 4 DVDs from my son.  What a disappointment!!  The producers really should have read more than the title of the books.  The plots have been "sexed up" and as other reviewers have pointed out some of the changes are totally foreign to the character of Miss Marple:  she is seen to have an illicit affair with a married man.  Miss Marple had too much class to demean herself or to betray a man's wife in such a way.  Of course two women who are living together have to be lesbians - news to readers of the novels. Mrs McGillicuddy's son is of course living with his girlfriend etc etc  I will have to see if I can purchase Joan Hickson's Miss Marple without my son finding out.

His Girl Friday, Goodtimes Classics Terrible copy of an excellent movie.  Buyer beware.  If it says "Goodtimes Classics" it's not worth the money, no matter how cheap.

Why would anybody give this more than one star? Almost unbelievably bad.  Feels like it was written by a very poorly organized and half-hearted committee.  It lacks cohesion all across the board, from casting to art directing to the songs themselves, all of which have such a vastly different feel that it's hard to believe anybody ever thought they worked together as an opera or a musical.  The lyrics are weak (with the exception of Zydrate Anatomy, the one and only number in an entire OPERA, for god's sake, that feels like somebody actually tried to make it good).  The music is bland, with one song unrelated to the next.  The score exists only to carry the extraordinarily weak dialogue, almost all of which is delivered in awful singing.  The self-conscious gothiness of the film comes across as silly and way overdone, like a greasy-haired girl in fishnet fingerless gloves and black lipstick hissing in the corner at the high-school Sadie Hawkins dance.  It's a miserable attempt at entertainment.  How the hell did they ever convince Sarah Brightman to subject herself to this humiliating goofery?  Did she owe the producer money, or something?

JUST MORE CHABROL JUNK Claude Chabrol made some of the worst junk imaginable; one movie starring Ann Margaret and Bruce Dern, in their prime, couldnt even get a usa release, it was so lousy.  The story on which this movie is based could have became another SHADOW OF A DOUBT---now that would have connected Chabrol to Hitchcock.  Instead, Chabrol pays homage to Hitchcock's lousy TOPAZ! Both movies have Michel Picoli and an off camera death for the climax.  There's some blood at start of movie, lots of boredom, some blood before the end, and an offscreen, pretentious, death for the ending.  Anthony Perkins typecast as a psycho; Orson Welles does a Burle Ives immitation.  Mario Bava was a lot better than Chabrol---but his movies were shown, dubbed (omg), at drive-ins, so the superior Bava is still not regarded as Chabrol's artistic superior.

Nothing like the series I know that the director can't possibly fit everything into a movie from a series but at least they could put in some of the best fight scenes. I've watched the entire series and I'm very unimpressed with the content of the movie. The movie just can't grab my attention long enough to want to pay attention. When the series came out on netflix I sat down and watched the entire series in 2 days. I waited a long time for this movie to come out and I'm so disappointed. I really hope that they don't do any of the others. Please leave this amazing children series alone.

Hollywood out of ideas Vaughn, Anniston, Favreau, Stiller, Owen Wilson, Diaz, Sandler et al just keep making the same movie - for about the last ten years. If you have a number of movie channels and flick back and forth you can just watch one big whole steaming movie of over-acted Freudian-Jewish-liberal moxie

Nonsense -terrible acting and a meandering plot The lead actress has one expression, most of the lines sounded like a vocabulary test that the actors failed.  The plot was nonsensical and it was time out of my life I wish I could get black.

La pelicula no esta en espa&ntilde;ol como lo indicaron La pelicula se indica en idioma espa&ntilde;ol sin embargo la que me enviaron no esta es espa&ntilde;ol, solo en ingles con subtitulos en ingles.

Remember Lot's wife Adam long ago joined the ranks of "esteemed" actors that have donned women's apparel for all the world to see: Snipes, Russel, Liguizamo, Mackulay, Hanks, Hoffman, Murphy, Farley, Spade, Rock, Foxx, Curry, Swayze, Schrieber, Wayans Bros., Carey, Timberlake, Law, Depp, Lawrence, Travolta, Gylenhaal, Pearce, Rodman, Duchovny, Gooding Jr., Cilian Murphy, Tyson, Chan, Tucker, Schwarzenegger, Franco, Prince, Cera, De Niro, Meyers, Short, Carvey and Craig... just to name a few.  One might get the impression that it's contractual obligation. Perhaps not, if you consider Chappelle's unexpected trip to Africa.  It's incredible what people do for filthy lucre; to possess temporal objects where moth and rust doth corrupt.  Deuteronomy 22:5

no idea Sorry to say I have no idea how this movie is since it is restricted to DVD area 1 and we live in area 2. Pitty beceause we would have loved to see what we paid for.

This rating is not for the movie itself. This review is instead for the physical product. As of right now I am filing a return for a second defective disc. Upon first playing the disc the previews all work fine, but as soon as the main menu tries to load up the disc stops playback altogether. I have tried all the menu buttons on my player and have only gotten past the error once, but upon trying again after stopping the film I cannot start playback again. Hopefully the publisher will be recalling the defective discs sometime soon but until then I will be getting my money back.

DONT DOUBLE DIP!!  WAIT FOR THE BETTER VERSION This version is being rushed out at the end of this month. Michael Bay has stated that a Bigger and Better 3D bluray version will be released later, with ALOT more extras than this edition. That version will be release on standard Blu as well, Looks like before the end of this year, just in time for the holidays.

Not the real story of Flynn What a shame this film is....It's really too bad because the actual story of Flynn's early days would have made for a great film. Just as in the picture Flynn was in real life a big time womanizer, cad, and outrageous adventurer. But the sequences in this film are almost all totally false and the ones based on reality are way off base from what actually happened. Why on earth did they even bother when the real stories would have been just as scandalous and outrageous? Sadly, fans looking for the real story of the early days of Errol Flynn will have to wait...This film is a major disappointment and not historically accurate at all.

Chechnya's "terrorists" and militainment. I think the other one-star reviews of this "Act of Valor" make good points.  It's appalling how this film advances the Russian propaganda of framing the resistance in Chechnya as the terrorists, while the systematic violence of the Russian government that Chechnya's people have suffered is ignored <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226674339">A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya</a>.  It's exactly the same manipulation that takes place here in the U.S., where our long history of state violence is ignored, while the blowback is totally removed from the context in which it takes place <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001HWCNCI">Blood and Oil</a>.  Chalmers Johnson, a veteran of the Korean war himself, wrote the classic book on the topic of selective outrage and how governments have a blind spot a mile wide <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805075593">Blowback, Second Edition: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire</a>.  Another one-star reviewer made a good point about the military cultism he saw in this film.  I imagine that reviewer, like so many people here in the U.S., doesn't have access to much independent analysis (like the radio show, 'Democracy Now!') that further confirms his point.  Most of our elite establishment media feeds the cult-like idolization of the military; but, here and there, a person can find resources that expose the military industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us about <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805089195">The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives (American Empire Project)</a>.  Eisenhower also warned us about how the military complex would affect our spiritual lives as well.  His warning, and the workings of the warfare state, are brilliantly presented in the film, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FBH3W2">Why We Fight</a>.  We desperately need to stop the Big Government and Big Business collusion that is bankrupting our country through the endless waste, fraud and abuse of Pentagon spending; and end the suffering caused by our perpetual warfare.  Our best defense, and the best way for citizens to act in a valorous way, is to seek honest critiques of war-mongering and the propaganda that makes it possible.  To that end, I'd recommend the following movies. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00118SUHU">War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003JUINFM">The War on Democracy</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004C39E3K">The Tillman Story</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1893521931">Peace Propaganda & the Promised Land: U.S. Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict! Media Education</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/193286900X">Reel Bad Arabs How Hollywood Vilifies A People. (DVD)</a>

terrible release for a great movie, avoid... Best Buy has these on sale now so I have it prior to the release date.  Avoid it no matter what.  I already have the Candian triple feature blu-ray with this movie, but I was intrigued when I read that in this release the black bars at the top and bottom of the screen are removed to actually show more picture.  It was cheap and I'm definitely a cult fan, so I grabbed it.  Yeah, not worth it.  It makes it look bad...too much sky above people's heads in lots of shots and things like that.  The picture quality is overall atrocious.  It looks like a DVD print with a noise reduction filter applied to it.  Some parts make you feel like your player or tv is messed up because of flicker or jitter, but no, it's just a horrible transfer.  Definitely NOT 1080P even though it says it is.  It also says the audio is "2.0 STERE"...great attention to detail guys.  I'm going to jump on the bandwagon and say hold out for a better release or get the Candian triple feature...it's much better quality and true to it's claim of 1080i.

How does Larry the Cable Guy get work? The fact that someone felt that The Tooth Fairy needed a followup is amazing in it's own right, but then to stick Larry The Cable Guy (who's schtick got old many years ago) in the place of the charismatic Rock is just embarrassing.  Skip this one - not even the kids will laugh.

A Missed Opportunity! I'm writing a review of Jeepers Creepers for the same reason I've written 90% of my Amazon movie reviews, because it just came on cable tv. What's frustrating about Jeepers is how decent of a movie it could have been had it been handled by a director with far more skill than Victor Salva.  I like Justin Long, I think he's one of a handful of Gen Y actors who has genuine talent. I thought he did an admirable job of conveying real fear in this movie. I think he's only continued to grow as an actor and I really enjoyed him most recently in Drag Me To Hell, a film which I absolutely loved. He has a likeable quality about him in anything I've seen him in. No problem with Gina Philips either, she's easy on the eyes and did a great job playing the "smart" sister. It wasn't the acting that doomed this movie for me, it was rather the absolutely assine character decisions and huge plot holes that doomed it for me. You ask for examples, here goes in no particular order:  1. When Darry gets hauled off by the Creeper at the end, why didn't the sister have the entire police force follow her back to the old church, since she knew damn well that's where he was heading?  2. Why did Darry (Justin's character) go into the well? I know in the movie he talks about all of a sudden his conscience getting the better of him, but there is NO ONE in their right mind who would have done that over calling 911 to send police to handle the situation themselves.  3. Why did the brother and sister get back in their car and leave the safety of the restaurant? Or at the least, why didn't they drive with the police if they knew the Creeper had just been in their car and was seriously after them at that point?  4. What was wrong with the patrons of the restaurant, not a one of them showed an ounce of emotion to the plight of these kids. That was probably more action than they had seen in decades and they all acted as though they were comatose.  5. Could the old psychic have been any more cliche and unbelievable?  6. Who is the Creeper and where did he come from? Supposedly in the third film the Creeper's origin will be revealed, but guess what, that's then, and this is now, and having a creature with absolutely no back story is the laziest kind of film making. They pulled the same stunt with Cloverfield, a movie which was even worse than this one.  7. How is it that only one, little old crazy psychic lady knows about this thing, when supposedly every 23 years it comes out to feed for 23 days straight? You mean to tell me, NO ONE would have found out about this Creeper thing or its lair in all the time it's been kidnapping and killing townsfolk? At the very least, if the psychic was having these visions and knew the Creeper was taking people to the old church to torture and eat them, don't you think it would have been decent of her to alert authorities about it?  I could go on, but it's a 10 year old movie and I don't want to spend any more time on it. Plot holes and stupid character decisions withstanding, the biggest sin this movie made was, it wasn't very scary. The scene where Darry enters the well and discovers the old church basement mutilations and instruments of torture was about the only time I felt a slight increase in my pulse. I also jumped immediately after from the cheap scare tactic anyone who's seen the movie knows what I'm talking about.  I skipped the 2nd, but am midly interested in the 3rd due to the revelation made by Victor Salva that the origin of the Creeper will finally be relevealed, and that he aims to make it "very scary." I'll believe it when I see it, and since its due date is sometime in 2013 I won't hold my breath.

Mary Poppins  DVD I am unable to play this Mary Poppins DVD as it is not for my region and will not play. My grandchildren were extremely disappointed and I felt I had been duped.  I think Amazon should send me a replacement that will play in Australia. I have bought before and always been happy, but will hesitate before I buy from Amazon again.

So Disappointed! A horror movie that takes place in a mortuary where bad things have happened in the past.  How could they possibly screw that up?  Well, apparently they found a way.  The first few minutes did an excellent job of setting the tone, but unfortunately, it all went downhill from there.  Cheesy acting, horrible effects, and a head-desk-inducing plot ruined what could've been a great movie.  Heck, even the Cthulhu couldn't save this movie!  I picked this up really looking forward to it, but I was disappointed beyond belief.  A horror movie designed around a funeral home should be easy to write.  Instead they went in some weird directions that made no sense.  Now I know why it was so cheap.

Sympathetic I am sympathetic to high school students wanting to start their film career with their first lowww budget endeavor but ... Help!  First, whenever you seen multiple prolonged shots (i.e. something on the order of 30 seconds for each of many) of basically nothing (e.g. freeway, Portland skyline, clouds, more clouds, trees, unmown street side vegetation, ice making and ice bag stacking, street driving, apartment chats) then you've filled 90% of the movie and you're left wondering when is something going to happen.  Second, when an ex-girlfriend disappears which was bizarre in itself and the supposedly intelligent ex-student/ex-boyfriend misses a bunch of obvious clues while also being able to solve some that make no sense unless he was told the answers by the script director or had Houdini like clairvoyance you are going - huh! Or, the near ending scene where the soon to be victim is in a restaurant with an important briefcase inches from him and some girl walks up to the briefcase, grabs it and runs out the door, tosses it to another person, then runs around the car, gets in and drives a half block before said victim makes it out the door is like - sure, whatever!  Third, an obvious give-away to poor directing/writing is when the victim's car is being followed about a block or two behind (mostly no other cars around) and for multiple turns over miles and that person is clueless about being followed?? Even more surprising is when it happens more than once.  Fourth, the ending was like having bought one big firework for The Fourth and it doesn't go off. And, the alternate ending is even worse with just more prolonged shots of clouds, a waterfall, a creek, a tree branch.  Maybe this movie was made for really bright Nietzsche and Sartr&eacute; Nihilists and Existentialists to appreciate.  I guess it's time to start my brain exercise reading.

super snoozefest This is beyond slow and boring. It takes relationship flicks to a whole other level of stupid. Honestly, I started to fast forward and just stopped on Grechen Mol's scenes. Paul Rudd dials it in. Rachel Weisz is just plain annoying and whomever Mol's fiance was he just takes up screen space.  If you honetsly think this is some brilliant pastiche of modern relationships...uh, maybe you need to get out a bit more. Bor and ing.

B-O-R-I-N-G! I only went to see the movie to make fun of it later. Good Lord, if not for the pervy old ladies sitting behind me doing their own Mystery Science Theatre 300, I woud have slept through it. Bella was not the least bit happy on her wedding day. I thought she was supposed to be over-the-moonin ove with Edward. Then, an eternity of pointless filler later, Jacob had become a pedophile. Why did his pack kill him for that and why didn't Bella or Edward do something about it other than being proud? I have to admit watching Bella get slowly killed was the only interesting thing. What is it with Stephanie Meyers and ruin great buid up with stupid little things such as the "imprinting"? Would it have been so bad for a bloody battle scene or hey maybe some sexual tension between the stars? Why is gorey violence okay but not pg-13 sensuality?

Sucks! Total garbarge.  Total waste of time.  Another movie where a seemingly bright woman is portrayed as a bimbo who left her brains at home.  Tits partially exposed, as if a thriller just can't be a thriller unless we see half naked women running around. Next, we have her holding an ax, but yet somehow doesn't quite understand the concept with regards to how to USE it!  Reminds me of another movie I saw just the other day called "The Resident" starring Hilary Swank.

This Network Blu Ray version sux Missing dialog!!!No kidding. If you want to be stunned by the fact that miscellaneous, important dialog (28 seconds worth) is actually missing buy this. It is actually quite a joke. I cannot belive that this is even available. Check out (regular http address prefix, then)film.thedigitalfix.com/content/id/71678/night-of-the-living-dead.htmlfor some of the missing dialog (scroll down) as well as a fair comparison of this Blu Ray with Optimum's version.  This disc should be pulled from distribution. Buyer beware!  I wish I could give it less than one star...

Butchered! I read the book and loved it because it conveyed the culture in China during that period of time.  It was all in first person ... a personal conversation describing her feelings about the things that were happening in her life.  This movie butchered the original story by making the movie about 2 modern day Chinese women.  It reduced a rich and intriguing novel into a few fragments of imagined scenes in which these two modern women played the main characters.  VERY disappointed and actually, I'm very annoyed that this movie was allowed to be made in such a juvenile way.  Don't buy it!

No dvd inside of package! there was no dvd inside of package, Imagine the embaressment as i opened the "sealed" DVD in frontof some family and out pops Nothing!!! please get back with me on this one, Thank you very much, i really wanted to watch this movie

Buyer Beware I purchased a DVD from the seller and when I opened the package there was a sticky tag on one side of the DVD and upon removal it ruined the disk. It was obviously repackaged. It was only $5 but when you can only use it as a coaster, it's $5 too much.

unusable purchase I purchased Midnight Lace as a gift for a friend, but when it came time to enjoy this movie, it was un-playable on my dvd device, I am assuming because it is an import perhaps? It was a waste of money.

Won't play I've received two copies of this Blu-Ray/DVD and still haven't been able to get the DVD to play.  We don't have a Blu-Ray player yet, so I can't comment on the quality of the movie itself at this point. :)  The DVD when inserted starts buzzing wickedly and won't load on either a stand-alone DVD player or my computer drive.  I now notice Amazon has yanked its inventory but it was enough work to get an exchange on the first one, so I'm not sure what I'll do at this point.  Bought it for $10.99 on Thanksgiving and there's no way I'll find that price now.  To Amazon's credit, they did refund the difference to me to basically get me an even exchange, but now that the second one is bad too I'm not sure I want to risk it again.

terrible quality! This video actually looks like someone went into a theater and taped it as it was playing on the screen!  I have never see a "real" movie play like this...the sound is distorted, the playback is scratchy, and even the whole screen doesn't show up, it has a black line across the top portion of the screen during playback.  I just assumed that the video was used was the reason it was so cheap...I didn't realize it was a rip off!  Not even going to try and send it back, it only cost $3, just makes me mad that my son now doesn't have his video!

Snooze I know so many people who love this movie that I decided to give it a try.  I found it so boring that I actually fell asleep during it.

False Advertising Supposedly this dvd set is closed captioned and is advertised as such under the format information. The dvd boxes even have the closed captioning symbol. Unfortunately it's not closed captioned. This is a deliberate rip off by the seller "rightpricedvd". BUYER BEWARE.

One more flop from Cheap SF. One good TV show. But SF is to cheap to put CC are SDH on it. They will not get my money are money from a few million others. Thanks again Cheap SF...

poor choice The price for the product is extremely high for the quality of the workout. You get three exercises for each area (abs, butt, thighs) and the rest of the time is spent listening to the female give the instruction than waiting for the male to give the same instruction in non-english. If I wanted to learn another speaking language I would have bought a tape for that instuction. Also all the exercises that this program provide are well known is other forms (pilates, cal, yoga, spot reduction programs, toning and firming programs) DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT FIND ANOTHER DVD!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tribute Honoring James Taylor Disc does not play in and BD or DVD player. Also tried in a computer and various friends players. Could be a European format? Went to a good cause but would have preferred to see it.

price I just want to point out that WB has not confirmed this so this could just be amazons collection. If it was confirmed by WB I would have gotten an email by them and it would be on their site but it is not. Also this price is stupid. I am sorry but most of this is not even knew information the UK and all them got a better deal on a HP set and with a better price then we did.

Previews Are Not What They Seem The most boring movie ever. Waste of time. I kept waiting for it to pick up because the previews made it look like a pretty good spy movie but you will feel duped if that's what you think it is. Clooney spends most of the movie chewing gum and assembling a gun that will eventually be used to kill him. Why not just kill him and get it over with. The sex scenes were over the top and rediculous. The ending stinks as well as the rest of it.

defective disc DVD arrived in undamaged packing.  Watched while playing on fairly new Blue Ray player.  Never went for more than 3 minutes without interruption of movie by audio and/or video dropouts. So annoying that I couldn't appreciate any improvement in picture. Only good to throw away.

SWISS  Family Robinson The video would not play in any of the DVD'S in this region and I was not aware of this when I purchased it for a gift. There was nothing that said it would not play everywhere. Very disappointed.

Bootleg I bought this gift used for a "cheap" gift. I figured it wassnt to bed to spend $18 for this blu ray used because new ones are around $30 and up. So I get the package ontime, which I was happy about, open it and there is a Burned copy of the disk is there. I can say they did a great job by putting the picture on the disk and making a decent looking package but the disk when you looked at it was blurry. Also there was 2 disks not three.The outside package was folded and tapped and it had written on the back of it kodak paper. Really now, when did kodak start making the movie covers for disney? Ill answer it for you, they didnt. I didnt bother playing the disk because it wassnt a orginal Disney blu ray. How can someone have the balls to burn disk make a make shift case for it and try to pass it off as a deal. If I paid $2 bucks for the rip off I eat my loss, but $18 your out of your mind. Product was returned.

The Wolfman Blu-ray Digital Copy Expired Why Amazon.com is selling a blu-ray with expired digital copy authorization code and not advise customers about it?  I purchased this blu-ray for a digital copy.  I should have just purchased a digital copy from iTunes.

what a load of croc! 3 words: Do.  Not.  Buy.' Even if the movies were half decent, I wouldn't be able to tell because the footage is so washed out.

Why put fear in your child? I agree with apparently the minority in saying that this movie is too dark, depressing and hopeless for too long and I wouldn't recommend it for children. Spoiler alert: It has a theme running through it that deals with abandonment, concentration camp like places and near incineration. Does my 3 year old need to see this or do I?  We skipped past alot then just turned it off but our boy still acted out a little bit. Was screaming a little after the movie.  And was shy the next day.  And we turned it off as soon as things started going badly. I don't know what the moral of the story is but I don't think it has any correlation with reality. Ending was short and felt unreal like a dream.  Overall not at all redeeming or rewarding. And why get desensitized and/ or instill fear in your child? Personally, I would rather spend time with my family doing something more worthwhile.

Any one-sided view of history is poor Of course, it is good for westerners (or any culture) to see history presented from the perspective of another culture. But this fantasy is not in any way an objective or representative depiction of either the history of Spain or even of Al-Andalus. It is about as balanced and accurate as, say, 19thc western fantasies about "progress" and colonialism (or a Cecil B. DeMille epic depicting Middle Eastern history). Read a good book on the topic and skip this pretty but shallow, biased presentation.

Unwatchable I care not if Quentin T. was paid to hawk this movie. It's absolutely horrible. Utterly painful to watch Asians (attempt to) affect a U.S. "cowboy drawl" and stagger through lines best left unspoken. It was blatently obvious they didn't know what they were saying as they phonetically... woodenly... pronounced their lines.  What a piece of crap. Only buy this movie if you're a masochist who enjoys sadly-made movies.  *In Asian accent* Ye hear, pardner?

not for me This movie is similar to Cloverfield, except with aliens instead of dinosaurs.  The aliens win.  The homosexual/gay sex scene was unnecessary and disgusting.  The other suggestive sex scenes were also unnecessary.  There is some gore in this movie...with people's heads being ripped off (and their brains being assimilated by the aliens).  There is some foul language, but not as much as you might expect from a movie like this.  The only actor I recognized was the african-american man from Scrubs.  The acting was so-so.  The special effects were fine.  The ending is dark.  This is definitely not a family movie.

The DVD was blank The DVD won't play in any machine at all.  My computer says the DVD is blank.  It did arrive on time and the price was good.

An insult to the original The most insulting thing about this movie is in the final credits where they claim that it was based on the original radio series.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  Where the original (radio) green hornet was a mature character with a great deal of depth, this movie was designed for teenage drunks with an attention span no longer than 140 characters.  The screenplay is something a hungover slack could have produced after dinner.  I could do better in a weekend.  None of the characters are true to the original.  The origin story is stupid and completely opposite that of the original series.  Basically, they took a great old radio series (still available on Radio Classics on Sirius/XM) and dumbed it down to the twitter generation.  It is a total failure.

Never buy from this company Warning: Never buy from this company.  I ordered this 6/20 and the payment was immediately taken from my account.  Over a month has passed and I never received the video.  An e-mail to the vendor via Amazon got no response whatsoever.

not so grand This was not so grand.. the only funny part involves a sm car and museum.. otherwsie made for t.v. might be a better choice of film.

Garbage! Don't waste your money. This movie is NOT funny. I don't know what the other people watched, but the first scene is just plain sad. The 2nd scene is salacious and shmarmy, bordering on sickening. Maybe the 3rd act had a funny moment or two, I'm sorry I rented it and definately glad I didn't buy it. Just because someone says it is funny, just don't make it so. I wonder about why people would promote this movie... could it be just to get you to buy something, even if it is bad...? Hmmmm... Buy something else, episodes of "The Office".... or almost ANYTHING for that matter.

Ulitmate Editions for Deathly Hallows pt 1 and 2!!!!!! Warner Brothers is really irking me beyond belief right now.  Do they really think everyone who has spent money already to collect the ultimate editions will just say "Hey oh, well...guess it's time to drop another $350 to get my Deathly Hallows extras!"  I don't THINK so!!!!!  I couldn't care less about most of the extra stuff it's claiming to have.  They are money hungry jerks at this point.  I want my Ultimate Editions collection to be finished, and I will refuse to buy anything else they try to shove at me until they release them.

Dances with Wolves I bought this for my aunt because she lost her copy and I thought that she would enjoy the special features, but the copy she received was all scratched up and would not play right even after we had it buffed. My advice to you is do NOT buy a used product. You cannot believe people when they say their product is "near perfect"

Wanderlust The Wanderlust- movie  Would not recommend this to anyone.  It was vulgar and really not something I would want to see  again.

yuck did not enjoy this movie at all. I will be more careful in the future when it comes to these types of movies.

A Study in Idiocy This was one of the stupidest movies I have ever seen. I am now convinced that movie reviewers are on the film maker's payrolls, at least in this case. I couldn't even finish the movie. Please save your money and buy another movie.

Nice try.... If you listen to Rush, Fox news, Palin or any other scare tactic, this movie is for you. Explore, read or find your own facts without bias.

A conversation with a wino would be easier to follow than this movie The previews looked good, but within 15 minutes of watching the film, I had no idea whether the sequence I was watching was in the past or present.  The movie jumped around so much that, before long,  I did not care anymore.  There are plenty of passable action films out there.  This is not one of them.

Waiting Not much of a story at all. Three people bumped into each other after having a traumatic experience. What happens next? Nothing.

Shock Was waiting to write a review as I did not remember if I purchased from Amazon on from one of your contributors.  Purchased over a month ago and just placed in my DVD shelf.  We finally had a free evening a few days ago and dcided to watch it.  What a surprise there was no DVD in the sleeve.  Just put it aside because I did not know where to complain.

Based on a true story but containing lots of untrue details. Neither funny nor interesting. It's a scam waiting to fail. - This movie is loosely based on a true story but it contains lots of untrue details. Just search the Internet and read about this con man, Clifford Irving on trustworthy websites and you will see the differences. One of the troubles is it's based on his book. Yet he's a liar. Faking Howard Hughes's autobiography is just one of his scams.  - It is neither funny nor interesting.  - Before watching this film, I knew nothing about this story.  What annoyed me the most was I knew the scam would fail because Howard Hughes was still alive when Clifford was trying to pull it off. Of course, Howard would try to expose Clifford' lie. Clifford had to be very illogical or extremely desperate when doing this. It's a scam waiting to fail.

It would take an Imperio curse to make me buy this! You have GOT to be kidding me. $350 for the same footage I can watch for free on YouTube and the same movies I have already?! Warner Bros. is out of their gd minds if they think we care about a fancy little box enough to buy this. Go to the GoodWill, buy a $5 wood jewelry box, insert dvds you already have, put a Hogwarts logo sticker on it. Win.

Cheesy and not too good. Bad acting and storyline make this movie a bit of a joke.I bought it for my husband because Jack London is his favorite author. Like a lot of things that claim to be a "Jack London Story" I somehow think they probably took a lot of liberties with that claim.

not accurate portrayal of series i really didnt like the choice of actors. speed and trixie were ok i guess, maybe a taller and more fit speed. sparky looked like a drug dealer. pops looked like a fat slouch instead of a healthy fit guy. goodmans acting was horrible for example when he tried to act stern. inspector detector didnt have the beard. but, the lines given by the actor playing racer x were very convincing.  most of the scenes were shot way to fast leaving just a blur of information instead of telling the details of the story. that final race scene for example could have been the most awesome race ever but it was just a blur of cars flipping, bumping, crashing. speed won the race but there was no clear moment of a super skill driving trick that put him over.  the mach 5s specials features were not accurate or even complete. i really couldnt believe they didnt even credit those features to the genius of pops racer. they were added later to the mach 5 by a third party.  they could have picked a better plot. the whole thing about a teams financial status and the stock value and that racing is fixed i guess is all the news these days. the thing about the other racer not wanting to use the invitation and speed using it even though he didnt qualify and the way they got him in, didnt make sense. the violence of the teams lead driver being beaten and tortured was totally not needed. and speed saying that he wanted to enter the race because he wanted to harm those that wanted to harm his family was not something that the real speed would have said.  the real speed would fight in self defense but not set out to harm others. and rex faking his death - no way - i dont get it. running away from home is one thing but putting your family through that, not something the real rex would do.  i did like the way that they blended reality and cartoon with sort of surreal environments and characters. very innovative, and a first in the movie business, that i know of.  once again this could have been an amazing movie if it had kept with the roots of the series and the cast more acted and resembled the originals. i have yet to see a series or show that was made into a movie that i really liked.

Don't Waste Your Money I was really dissapointed when I watched this movie.  A fifth grader could have written a better dialog than what was contained in this so called movie. About the only facts that were true was there was a war called World War II, there were Germans, and there were B-17s, P-51s, and Tuskegee Airmen.  The rest was a bunch of made up unrealistic grade school drama.

This is a cult classic? REALLY? Let me first start off by saying, I love low-budget horror. I adore low-budg. So when a friend told me about this "diamond-in-the-rough," I was all too eager to see it.  Now, for those who have a great deal of love and respect toward this film, I applaud you - I applaud you for being able to find ANY kind of redeeming quality. Because, budgets aside, I think there still needs to be an acceptable level of execution, directing, acting, writing, etc. This film simply doesn't have any. Now again, I can certainly respect those who enjoy that about the film. I'm certainly not out to criticize anyone's tastes in the genre. I'm sure that, to some, the lack of experience and professionalism is all just part of the movie's charm. But for me, it just didn't work.

Offensive to cat lovers A perfectly good cat was killed for this movie.  It was killed off screen but the eviscerated body was shown for everyone's edification.  I really did not like this and found the movie more than a little tiresome and pointless.  I'm sorry I watched it.

Totally Worthless From the acting to the special effects this movie has no redeeming value. The story has so many problems that you can't find the plot for all the plot holes. Save yourself the lost time and money you'll get from this stinker.

Is this a joke? I don't know if I received a bootleg or if this is for real.  I just tried to watch it again and it IS as bad as I thought.  First there are about 7 minutes of showing all the different kinds of rebounding you can do, but only 4 are supposedly on there.  I wouldn't know since you cannot forward and there is no menu.  Therefor, you can only watch the routines in order and if it is taken out of the dvd player you have to start all over.  I won't go into how wacky some of the people seem, but I will also say that the video just pauses for no reason.  I know it could be my player, but it doesn't do that with any other dvd.  I am sure there is some good stuff in there, but how would I know?

no blu ray = no buy Green Bay is the smallest market in the NFL which, in the NFl's eyes, apparently justifies not even making a blu-ray version of this product. Sad and selfish on the NFl's part.

THE quintessential idiot's horror movie favorite Wow. The amount of 5 star reviews on amazon and the internet in general praising this movie is incredible. Simply one of the worst movies ever made, horror and otherwise. To give this 5 stars is to say Justin Bieber is Jimi Hendrix. I don't feel I need to explain myself, the first 20 minutes of this crap is about a chick getting her period, go watch Buffy and True Blood if you like this garbage.

Possibly the worst movie I have ever seen. This movie was just awful. Acting was terrible, plot was trash and to top it all off its preaching about immigration and open borders the whole time. I went to this expecting a fun, over the top, hack and slash and left with my wife vowing to never let me choose another movie. Avoid at all costs.

Very depressing movie Everything in this movie is depressing: the characters, the situation, the acting. The plot is confusing, there are no redeeming qualities to it. It is not the first time that I get an Argentine movie and regret having done it. I must clarify that Argentina is my native country and that some of the latest I've seen, like "El secreto de sus ojos" and "Carancho" are excellent, but not La Ci&eacute;naga.

Not impressed I watched this Royal Albert Hall version on TV during the local PBS fund raising campaign. I have see Phantom twice at the Curran in San Francisco and listened to the original CD hundreds of time. I have heard many different voices in the lead parts. The three leads at Royal Albert, singing Christine Daae, the Phantom and Raoul were disappointing. To my ear, Lisa Vroman is by far the best Christine, even better than Sarah Brightman. Franc D'Ambrosio does the best Phantom with Michael Crawford a close second. No wonder the SF and LA runs went so long.  The acting is very artificial, maybe due to the use of close-ups. Live theater, even from cheap seats, is much better and gets stuck playing in my head. The various singers/actors performances are available on YouTube by bootleg video. Even bootlegged, Lisa Vroman is the best.

another bad movie The acting is terrible. Can Jennifer Aniston ever play a role of some quality? This movie had weak characters and a weak story. Will the day ever return when we no longer have the need to show male and female genitals in order to sell tickets. I could go on forever, but please do not rent or buy this movie.

Movie about death and grief too upsetting for my seven-year-old. The packaging of this DVD is very misleading. Nowhere did it even allude to the fact that this movie is about death and grief. My seven-year-old sobbed and sobbed for about the last 40 minutes of the movie. After his beloved owner dies (Richard Gere), the dog Hachi is grief-stricken and for the rest of his life waits at the train station for the master who will never return. It was heartbreaking. I have no interest in watching this movie again and regret that I bought it and showed it to my daughter.  I'm surprised it was rated G.

Not Impressed I recently gave this as a gift to find out it won"t work on dvd players. Wrong regional code! Plays on my laptop. Makes me think twice before buying online again!

Save your money... I am not a negative person who likes to crticise or say negative things, but this is a field I take seriously. DO NOT waste your money on this video. Sound, picture, and commentary are elementary. It was actually taxing to watch the first ten minutes, and I couldn't watch anymore. I'm not even going to try to finsih it, it was that terrible.

This movie is absolutely terrible. I may have done permanent damage to my child's cognitive development by letting him watch it.  Rehashed, unoriginal crap designed to steal your money.

Disappointed Customer It took 3 weeks from the time the DVD was shipped until I received it. It supposedly came Air Mail from Germany from the Sellers' M & L. It could not be played on my American DVD player. I returned it to Germany and requested all of my money back including both postage and handling (from Seller  and back to Seller). I have yet to hear from them, Why would a Seller send something to the U.S. that can't be played in the U.S.? M & L said there was notification in the Amazon ad that the Seller was a German company and that the DVD would not play in Region 2. First of all I never saw anything about Germany or Region 2. Even if I'd seen something about Region 2, I wouldn't have known what that meant!!! I really wanted that DVD as the VHS tape I have of the movie is showing its age! If you live in the U.S., don't buy any DVDs from M & L!

Scratched & Skipped in a Box the DVD skips beyond belief, it doesn't play cleanly on any machine. Wasted my money, wish I could REWIND and purchase a workable DVD. Kids were beyond disappointed.

I tried to like it The movie's new cut was more watchable than the original.  BUT  As a reader of massive amounts of history I hate how the movie butchered the history and sequences of the actual event.  The two initial lynchings that so outraged people at the time are missing totally.  Instead we get people doing things they never did at times when they should already have been dead.  We get a mis-mash of poorly handled gun fights in an out of sequence manner.  The invented gun fight where the various people surround the gun men is so badly handled it is silly to watch.  The actual seige of the gunmen by the sheriff's posse of 200 men is ignored in favor of a silly circular wagon fight where the settlers are symbolic indians.  Characters and their basic motives and history are misrepresented in so many instances that it is pointless to note them all.  Beautifully photographed and as a child of people who actually lived through that era IN Wyoming that is the only redeeming thing about the picture.  The scenery is not enough to rescue this child of the 60s movie.  The result is the triangle shirt waist gang versus the bad guys and that is not what happened.  I bought it but can't stand to watch it again.

Not worth any $ Of all the reviews I have written for products on Amazon.com, this is my first negative.  This movie is terrible - I have been a big fan of Are you being served ever since I was little.  This movie isn't even like the movie, it almost seems like the actor are purposely acting different because its a movie.  Bottom line - DON'T BUY.

Not Worth Watching ! Predictable: Almost a copy of an Outer Limits Episode Scarey: NOT ! Racey: They have to do something to keep people watching, so they threw in sex and nudity. What I would have preferred to be doing: Digging lint out of my bellybutton. CONSIDER YOURSELF WARNED !

Horrible quality - frequent streaming interruptions Rented the movie via instant viewing and the frequent streaming interruptions ruined the experience.  Oh well, live and learn.

Despite the Starry Cast, An Absolutely Ludicrous Film Vis a Vis The Script Some spoilers ahead.....  Despite the starry casting (one can still feel the PR machine swinging into place for McConaughey), this film is a total eyeroller when it comes to anything approaching realism.  I've tried to wipe the entire thing out of my mind, but my memory still shudders at the recollection of Ashley Judd (nothing against Judd, but the bleached blonde hair immediately signals she's gonna be the misunderstanding, shrewish wife), and Bullock and McConaughey (sure, he's a solo practitioner who says "no thanks" when a briliant Law Review student/editor who can quote every capital punishment citation off the top of her head shows up to work for free (that's qualification for disbarment right there).  Or that despite the fact that crosses are being burned on their front lawns, their staff and staff family threatened and/or essentially killed, etc etc etc., both of the lead characters are perfectly comfortable with driving around in convertibles, leaving down the tops all of the time.  Spacey does his usual smarmy things; it might have been a lot more interesting if he and Matthew had traded roles.  Samuel L. Jackson gets to sweat a lot.  The Film is a total eye-roller from start to finish.  P.S.  I didn't want Matt's dog to die, but when the dog shows up alive, it totally bucks any convictions the film might have had - Matt's character doesn't move anywhere emotionally the entire film thanks to the script.

ginger snaps This movie was such a lame B movie that you could see throw the cheese a mile away. Real amateur movie making. You had to accept leaps of faith and still it wasn't scary but laughable.

Boys Town Terrible bathroom humor and violent to boot.  Wouldn't watch the whole season unless I was being tortured.  It has a fun premise for about 4 minutes into the film.

A fountainhead of stupidity. The dialogue is all a bunch of doublespeak.  None of the characters are remotely realistic, there's no human nature found in any of them.  Instead the script reads like socrates dialogue, with the viewer being spoonfed completely ridiculous notions.  The two main integretists simply come off as hippie idealists, what an irony.  At the same time every single reference to socialist ideas is simply argued with talking points constructed using only straw man arguments, black and white reasoning, and absurd oversimplification.  You seriously have to be retarded to take Ayn Rand seriously as a 'philosopher'.  She must have been a total idiot to think ANYTHING in this script made sense.  Oh and bonus points for the weak female that must be subjugated and dominated by the male.  As an aside, I waited far too long to expose myself to anything Ayn Rand.  I had always read about how all these dumb neo-cons looked up to her and her work.  There's nothing resembling intellect or even common sense here.  Just excuse after excuse for why people shouldn't have to help anyone else but themselves.  Pathetic.

UtraViolet digital copy a rip-off Movie is OK, but I buy Blu-rays labeled  "digital copy" so I can import to my ITunes library and sync to my IPAD and other IOS standalone devices to watch when traveling. Ultraviolet does not work with ITunes - it is simply a streaming service - so unless you are connected via wi-fi or 3G - when you want to watch the movie - you are out of luck. I sent an email to Ultraviolet asking for the ITUNES authorization code (they do exist - go to the Apple Blog related to Ultraviolet) and received the following response: "UltraViolet works on iPhones and iPads and many more devices (Android phones/tablets, Windows PCs, Macs, etc.), but currently, the iTunes library does not support the listing of UltraViolet content."  THIS IS NOT TRUE "DIGITAL COPY" - IT IS DECEPTIVE ADVERTISING.

Fast forward failure On a scale of 1 to 10 I would give this movie a 1, but only because I couldn't give it a 0.  The plot is so slow and boring that I had to fast forward over 95% of it at 4X speed to keep from falling asleep.  And even at that I couldn't take it anymore about halfway through and ejected the DVD so I could watch a rerun of Gunsmoke.  Gina is hot, but her fight scenes mainly consist of her getting jumped from behind and getting beat up.  She ultimately prevails with some ground submission thing out of Gracie jujitsu which is inconsistent with the rest of the fight.  The other action scenes mainly consist of her running away from someone.  I don't know if the second half of the movie is any better, but I didn't want to fast forward through it long enough to find out.

Still Looking Same 3 episodes as are on the DVD Rifleman.  I love to watch different episodes of Rifleman not the same 3 all the time.

DVD Busted This DVD arrived before expected, but it is not viewable.  The disc skips from the start.  The menu is not accessible - The DVD is broken.

junk just put it in the dvd player tonight and the thing is skipping through the whold movie, what a pile of junk, amazon i want my money back.

DVD will not Play - Do Not Buy if you are in USA DVD will not play. Player says it is a region issue and is not formatted for USA play. Do not buy if you are in the US. I have filed a claim and will see if I get my money back. Product description says all regions and it is not...BEWARE!

hate it this would have been a good movie but the language ruined it all. will never watch again in fact will probably destroy it. language like that does not make a movie!

One of the worst movies of all time This 1972 attempt at a horror movie is painfully bad, a cinematic disaster on all levels. It is utterly boring, completely amateurish, and more likely to inspire annoyance than terror. It fails in every way. Even the music is totally inappropriate for a horror movie. It is far beneath any episode of "Gilligan's Island"; yes, it's that bad! Anything currently available on your TV is better--including static.

Oh my, this was awful One star probably is rather harsh, but a movie with any kind of budget certainly should have done better than this. The idea of an alien invasion is nothing new, and it has been done far better. In this incarnation, we are given a sad lot of characters who somehow survive the onslaught of invaders by partying all night and sleeping in as to avoid the bright lights that attract humans like bugs to the zapper (literally). They spend the rest of the movie trying to figure out how to get out of the apartment builing in which they are stranded. At the same time, our intrepid invaders, appearing as superintellingent reptilian creatures, can storm across the vastness of space but cannot figure out how to enter a building. Most of our time is spent with nonsensical conversation with caricatures rather than characters while watching what is happening in the city block that surrounds the apartment building. Therein lies a real issue. The world is being overtaken and we're stuck with a few people in an apartment. There is no real drama inside, and the ruckus outside never seems to rise to apocolyptic prportions. It just seems to be a nuisance.  I do give credit to some of the special effects, though War of the Worlds should sue for copyright infringement. I can't halp but think this would have been a more exciting picture had there been more tension or urgency. As it stands, this is arguably the dullest apocalypse on record.

hate it this movie is a waste of money. i didn't like it. to boring not enough dancing.  don't spend your money on this movie.

You're Joking, Right? Oh My God... BAD BAD BAD... Now, I'm SURE, that This film is made for The Male "Ego" that sits between our legs... Well, For Some of us... I'd rather be seen playing with myself!  I Was expecting a spectacular Spoof Movie... I Didn't Get that, What I got instead was exageration of female body parts, At the MOST unexpected moments, And overdone "Girl Power", With women Whose language sounds like it should be spoken by men... Watch "Sex & The City" Instead, Not that I have a solid view on that show Either.  Seriously, Are the 5 star reviewers ALL watching the SAME film I got? Or do they enjoy Saddistic Feline Violence? (No Need to Answer that, It WAS a rhetorical Question!)  Quite Honestly, My Opinion remains that One would get better contentment out of watching adult films.  WHAT A WASTE OF MONEY...  BTW, This Is NOT A "B-Movie", As Someone Has tagged it. If you're Expecting that, Look Elsewhere. I might even Suggest "Meet The Spartans", Or "Dance Flick"...

Avoid at all costs. This is the first review i have ever written on here. After seeing this on here i felt compelled to comment. This show....WOW just not good. The special effects used literally look like they are out of a 1970's cheap film. The plot of this show was boring and the last 5 minutes of the series has got to be the WORST SEASON FINALE EVER. Made no since at all, was stupid and felt like they just thought it up before shooting the scene, didn't answer any questions, and was just laughably terrible. Once i watched it i knew for sure this show would never be back on tv Thank God.  If you like excellent shows such as The Wire, Breaking Bad, Sopranos etc... This show is the definition of the complete opposite end of the quality spectrum.

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN ON STRANGER TIDES FOR SOME REASON THIS ITEM SEEMED TO BE A BOOTLEG DVD. IT SHOULD OF BEEN A BLU-RAY/DVD COMBO, BUT I ONLY RECIEVED ONE DISK WHICH SHOWS AS A DVD, WITH A BLU-RAY LABLE ON IT! THE COVER WAS NOT AUTHENTIC AS WELL! IT LOOKED MADE UP, OR PRINTED! I HAVE NOT YET BEEN ABLE TOP ENJOY THIS ITEM! HORRIBLE SELLER!!!

It's not "very good" at all. This item is wrongly tagged as "Used: Very Good". A better tag for it would be "Acceptable" or "Poor", since the disc is damaged, and the movie freezes and skips several times.

not awesome The second one has nothing on the original Center Stage. Not an awesome moive not even on it's own without an original or first movie. I was pleased with the seller, product quality, shipping. Good good.

not quite! These seen to be more or less advertisements for military families and not even a real show.  Not even 5 mins of show and all previews and ads.  Not quite what we were expecting.

A THUD IN THE NIGHT Anyone proficient in Horror 101 knows that a horror movie should never be slow and/or padded with useless dialogue or extended suspense scenes that aren't suspenseful. These are just some of the failures in FALL DOWN DEAD.  Here's an outline of some other examples: PLOT - Hard to believe.  Why does The Picasso Killer have a pencil sketch of Christie, a girl he's never met?  How does a 70 year old killer overpower much younger and stronger victims, including our two hero cops?  These two cops have the combined intelligence of a slug.  Why didn't they take Christie to the police station for her witness statement instead of holding up in the office building?  Knowing the killer is nearby and no help is possible?  There's more but I don't like to spoil things for future viewers/victims. ACTING:  Dominique Swan starts out well, but the script manages to reduce her character to a boring, wailing clich&eacute;.  The two cops whose names I deliberately forget, are just plain awful.  Period.  The late David Carradine has a mercifully brief role as the wanna-be-a-real cop security guard.  And then there's veteran character actor Udo Kier who not only chews up the scenery but devours it gleefully---and acts like he's loving every minute of it.  It's really bad---shame on Udo! Jeers to make-up artist (?) Starr Jones for laughably bad make-up. FALL DOWN DEAD does just that and with a giant thud.

EDITED VERSION! This DVD looks great, the image is sharp. The colors are good. The film has been EDITED though. All "full frontal", as Mr. Skin would say, scenes are edited out. It looks like other scenes have been cropped to avoid the pubic region. I'm wondering if this print may have come from Japan where they blur the lower region even in adult films. It's too bad the film has been cut because the image looks great. And the credits have also been edited out, replaced by the Cheexy Flicks logo!

Not worth the dollar I paid for the rental I was really looking forward to watching this movie.  Reviews seemed to suggest a good horror movie.  The first half of the movie seemed as if it was heading in that direction.  Had a creepy feel to it, similar to Paranormal activity.  Then the pace of the movie changed completely.  It was if they switched directors mid movie, the change was that dramatic.  It went from creepy horror with promise to corny cheesey, b-movie wanna be.  I won't post an spoilers incase people still decide they want to continue with watching, but be warned.  The scariest thing about this movie is how scary bad it got towards the end!

Blue - ray special Limited edition box set Buyer beware ! I returned this item twice and bestbuy opened up two in the store and they had damaged discs .I sent an e - mail to Paramount about this 4 wks ago and have not recieved an answer!

Nausiating Way too much blood and gore for my liking.  Made me sick to my stomach so I turned the movie off.

Disney Second Screen will not work on your computer I spent a couple of hours today trying to find out why the Disney Second Screen feature on the Blu Ray of ON STRANGER TIDES won't play on my computer like the package says. It will also play on an IPad but I'm not buying one of those just see a bonus feature.  No one at Disney can tell me how to make it play.  I feel defrauded by Disney because after making me pay extra for a DVD for the Blu Ray bonus feature I find it won't play and Disney cant' help me.  Perhaps Disney can stop gouging and defrauding their customers and do like the rest of the adults do. Put the fricking Bonus Features on the fricking disc. It's not that hard.   I love bonus features and the film is a remarkable production.  Too bad Disney has to frick around with their good customers.   They can go frick themselves on this one.   I wrote the Disney Store and they told me to call Starlight Griffen Customer Service. Dead end. They gave me the Disney Store Customer Service number but they did not have a clue about their product or how to play it.   If corporations are people I'd like to punch this on in their fricking eye!

Except for Charlize Theron's acting, the rest of this movie is terrible. Expressionless and always whispering her lines, K Stewart is miscast in this role as she plays most of the role as somebody who doesn't want to talk and who is hard to root for because she is expressionless and doesn't respond to any conflict. The effects are over the top and, while visually cool to look at, did nothing to add to the movie. Something about the entire film was cold, distant and shallow. Charlize Theron's evil queen was the only thing that created some fire in this movie.

Lacking So this DVD seemed promising as the menu was up and I was geared up to watch this excellent movie...but then once it started something very important seemed to be missing....yes it was the audio throughout the film. There was audio in the menu but not the actual movie...so that was pretty lame

Absolute waste of time!!! The handling of this ahow was not even worthy of using the well established title. It is fast and dark like the rest of the garbage on tv today.  They should not have used the Bionic Woman title.  The original was a great role model for kids.  The creator of the new show forgot to put the heart into it and didn't have a clue as to what he was doing. He should have watched the old show to see how real talent and production values were made.  Case closed!

Waste of my life I'm into action flicks but this movie was a waste of my life. The plot was ludicrous, the acting terrible, and the special effects were even worse. The only saving grace is that Amber Heard is easy on the eyes. I would not recommend this movie to anyone. I felt robbed of the $1.05 that I spent at Redbox. If you're curious, rent it.

B movie It seems as though they made a list of every bee joke they could think of, and then designed a movie around it.  and then, when that didn't  make a movie that was long enough,  they go into this whole muddled lawsuit thing.  It's funny how kids seem to not like the movie when a grownup doesnt. and when the movie is well done, like cars, they love it.  And no,  they did not like this mess of a movie.

i knew it, i knew it,  i flipping knew it!!! sam dunn and scott mcfadden have lost their minds!!! most of this series is crap. only the thrash/speed, shock rock and viking metal(4) episodes of this series are any good, the rest is pure junk. and apparently "sammy boy" took the easy way out.  sam dunn if you want my metal dollars you had better take your head out of you dark-place and give this metal-mentary series the official release it rightiously deserves or we are going to have to dig penelope spheeris(DWC2:the metal years) out of six feet under of retirement to give you some serious motherly advice/discipline. this is clearly a hack job, the cover-art sucks and one thing i do know with the nature of metal docs....failures always comes in 3's...."metal a headbangers journey" is an instant classic, "global metal" is it's expansion....but this is "total sheet-cheeze" and i am not amuzed! i have been a metalhead since 1986 when i used to rip it from then radio station 105.5 KNAC(1985-1995) long before anybody thought it would get bought-out and converted to a mexican radio station(life sucks for us metalheads sometimes), but i have to admit something i NEVER thought i would EVER say about a supposed genius like yourself.....you sam dunn have gone off the deep end, far beyond jumping the shark, because jaws has just ate your brain and corrupted your ego(scrapping the barrel is not cool).  get a much better cover-artist and get this doc series to either metal blade records or blue underground and release this RIGHT!! you OWE it to US! keep one thing in mind sam and scott, we metalheads the world over made you, and we can very well change our minds and destroy you! look at dee snyder of twisted sister(he opened his mouth too many times and got himself kicked out of the metal community, for too many reasons. metallica are still the most reviled band in the underground metal world), regardless of what fightin phil has to say about it(like anybody cares what he thinks these days).  I AM NOT BUYING THIS!!!

Totally laughable! What a joke this movie was, I should have known better, the first "true grit" with John Wayne was 1000 times better, don't purchase and waste your money!

Profoundly Disappointing and Nothing Like the Book I had just finished reading the book, _The Rite_, about two or three months before this movie came out in theaters. The book was fascinating, provocative, informative, and often riveting, so when news of the impending release of "the movie version" came to my attention I was thrilled at the prospect of seeing it. In the interim, though, I found out about a significant plot discrepancy in the movie (I won't spoil it for you) that sufficiently disgusted me--to the point where I chose not to see the movie in the theater but rather wait until it came out on DVD. On a whim, I ended up buying the DVD ($20) before I had bothered to take the time renting it first from a local Red Box rental machine ($1).  My mistake.  The first clue that the movie may not be faithful to the book's contents was its opening statement that it was "Inspired by True Events." This is not the same thing as saying "Based on True Events," and there's good reason why the former statement was used instead of the latter: the movie has virtually nothing to do with the book. The movie is quite fresh in my mind (I literally just finished watching it), and the extent to which it bears any resemblance whatsoever to the book is as follows: (1) It has the same name. (2) A possessed woman who spits up nails occurs in both, though in the book she was not pregnant. (3) A priest goes to Rome to learn about exorcism from a seasoned, older exorcist. (4) The real life senior exorcist, Fr. Carmine DeFilippis (who happens to be mentioned in the movie), and Fr. Lucas (once, early in the movie) tapped people when the exorcism was done. That's where any and all parallels end.  The movie's plot is fairly straightforward. It involves a young Catholic seminarian named Michael Kovak who goes to Rome to learn about exorcism from an older, experienced exorcist named Fr. Lucas. While there, Michael wrestles with his own theological doubts as well as unsettling memories and unresolved issues from his childhood. He meets a female reporter whom he befriends, and she serves as a kind of sounding board for Michael.  Both of them "want to know the truth"--he about God, and she about reporting facts--so their mutual journey proves to be a kind of revelation for them, both in their individual ways and simultaneously about the existence of the supernatural.  The main problems with the movie vis-&agrave;-vis the book are significant:  (1) The movie revolves in a big way around the fact that the seminary student (he's not yet even a priest, for crying out loud), Michael Kovak, is someone who doubts God's existence. I would even go so far as to say he is portrayed as an outright unbeliever, which is quite odd given that he is a seminarian. The writers were clearly more intent on showcasing this doubt/lack of faith than other aspects of the storyline, and it smacks of near ridicule of belief in the supernatural. I can only guess that perhaps the writers intended to show a progression of the character's own spiritual journey from doubt to belief, but it just comes across as contrived and plastic. In fact, Michael doesn't even come to believe in God until about ten minutes before the end of the movie.  (2) Except for a few dramatic scenes that occasionally punctuate the storyline, the movie trudges along at what I found to be a painfully slow pace. I kept looking at the elapsed time display on my DVD player to see how far along the movie was, hoping that "any time now" the movie would pick up and sustain its pace. I was still waiting for that to happen more than an hour into it.  (3) There are so many details in the book that were ignored, distorted, and/or misrepresented in the movie that made the movie lose most of its credibility. From where (in a cramped room that could barely fit four people at most), how (often using Latin prayers taken out of the Roman Ritual of Exorcism), and how often (usually more than a dozen times in a single day) the real-life Fr. Carmine DeFilippis performs exorcisms to where and how he lives (not discussed in the book but portrayed prominently in the movie), the movie takes all kinds of liberties. Here's another small example that demonstrates the director's inattention to detail. The real-life Michael Kovak, a priest named Fr. Gary Thomas, actually served as a consultant for this movie. He specifically instructed Anthony Hopkins to form the Sign of the Cross as up-down-left-right, but in the movie we still see Fr. Lucas doing it up-down-right-left. It may sound like an insignificant detail, but since the Sign of the Cross is such a major Catholic sign, and since it plays such a prominent role in exorcisms, to do it the opposite way is just ridiculous and careless.  (4) SPOILER ALERT! The most egregious element of the movie is when Fr. Lucas himself becomes possessed. This plot detail is absolute, utter nonsense compared to the book, which not only didn't even HINT at such a prospect but if anything strongly implied the absurdity of it. For the writer and/or director to put such an element in the movie was proof positive that the movie was fiction, not fact.  (5) The "update information" provided before the end credits, which normally adds credibility to the movie and provides continuity with the present, is clearly meant for dramatic effect and nothing more. It just isn't accurate. The first blurb reads, "Father Michael Kovak is one of 14 exorcists practicing in the United States today. He now works out of his parish near Chicago." The fact is that Fr. Gary Thomas went back to his parish in the Diocese of San Jose, CA and continues to serve as its exorcist. As far as the number of exorcists in the U.S. goes, it's hard to know for sure. Their identities are usually not publicized. However, it is safe to say that there is definitely a shortage of them compared to the demand for them. There *should* be one exorcist per diocese, and there are 197 dioceses in the U.S. Pope John Paul II really did emphasize the need to train more exorcists, but their number surely is not what it should be. The second blurb reads, "Father Lucas Trevant has performed over two thousand exorcisms. He continues to practice in a township outside of Florence." Fr. Carmine DeFilippis, who mentored Fr. Thomas, continues to serve as a exorcist in Rome, and though I don't recall the book specifically mentioning the number of exorcisms he has performed to date, based on the number he performs daily (which *is* mentioned in the book) coupled with the fact that he's been an exorcist for 24 years, I'd say that 2,000 is a very low estimate--in fact, distortedly low. By comparison, Fr. Gabriel Amorth, Rome's chief exorcist who has been performing exorcisms for about 2 years longer than Fr. Carmine, has dealt with 70,000 cases of demonic possession.  As other reviewers have accurately pointed out, Anthony Hopkins' performance is wonderful, and the cinematography is exquisitely done.  For me, however, those elements are overshadowed by how much of a travesty of the book this movie is. If you choose to watch it, I highly recommend that you rent it or borrow it from your library before you buy it. That way you can make a more informed decision about whether or not to plunk down your hard-earned cash. If you want to see a high-paced, provocative movie about exorcism that is based on real-life circumstances, I recommend you watch "The Exorcism of Emily Rose." Though some liberties were also taken with that movie, the essential details of the actual case are portrayed accurately, as are the elements of demonic possession.

don't waste your money do not waste your money. go to the library and rent any dvd on massage you see the same thing.

Sherlock Holmes - Terror by Night DVD The item shipped was not what I ordered. The supplier substituted a Family Dollar DVD for the item ordered. The price of the digitally restored DVD was $10.99, but the item shipped was prepriced $1. If I wanted a cheap DVD, I would have gone to the dollar store myself.

Movie of lies This movie is complete crap! NOBODY knows when the "End Of The World" is gonna come.The Mayans never even said the world would end or any kind of disaster would happen on 12/21/12.Just some phony pagans took the Mayan calender ending and blew it up into something COMPLETLY different.It's not even logical.Time zones are different all around the world.So 12/21/12 is not REALLY 12/21/12.For the other side of the world it could be 12/22/12 or 12/20/12.Those of you who buy into this 2012 crap,should stop and think about that,before getting all scared.

The quality of mercy is not strained Portia: The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.  The Merchant Of Venice Act 4, scene 1, 180-187  For a connoisseur of such films as "What's Up, Tiger Lily?" (1966) you may be a tad disappointed as they had to add scenes and run the film backwards to get the effect they needed to match the dialog.  The basic story is of a suntan lotion that went awry. The film is chock full of cheap secondary sexual innuendos.  Based on a "scale" of 1 to 5 I would give this a one.  There are a few positives to note:  Jay Leno is the voice of Ishmael Pivnik the Sun Demon.  Original title "What's Up, Hideous Sun Demon" (1983) Re-titled "Revenge of the Sun Demon" (1989)  Googy Gress a versatile actor plays Chet. See him again in "Vibes" (1988) with Cyndi Lauper.

Death Race 2 First half is boring/predictable. Second half is a remake of the first movie almost exactly. Same cars. Same concept. Same story.

Rob Zombie, Hoover Dealer! Rob Zombie may as well be in the business of selling vacuum cleaners, for he has given a whole new meaning to the word 'suck'! I've never seen any of Zombie's trash, er, I mean films (if they could be called such), but I have heard from a LOT of people (friends/family/critics/strangers) that "House of 1,000 Corpses" was horrendous, a poor man's "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", awful, dreadful, NOT scary, etc., etc. I had forgotten (like a LOT of people) that he had made a 2nd 'film', "The Devil's Rejects". How he was allowed to even make a 3rd, especially a remake of "Halloween" is SO beyond me!! When I 1st saw a trailer for it I thought it was yet another awful sequel, but NO, it's a remake...UGH! This is garbage. Yes, garbage! This is a vile piece of celluloid. It's a useless remake of a film that did NOT need a remake! Zombie took something and revamped it when it was something that didn't need to be touched.  Calling it a 'reimagined version' doesn't change the fact that it is still a REMAKE (and "remake" is just another name for "theft"!) , and a totally unnecessary, unneeded, dreadful, awful, atrocious, sacrilige at that.  And, for the people posting on here "Who cares about the original? It was boring and slow, and it took SO long to develop characters, which was a waste of time, cause you're just getting to know characters that are gonna get killed anyways?", well, you all scare me more than this crap ever could! Where is your moral compass? Your moral center? Your moral core? In other words, your Human side? Just how dehumanized (not to mention how lowbrow) society has become is so frightening. Plus, you all miss the entire point of a horror movie, showing your ignorance to the mechanisms that make a scary movie successful; a rule of thumb that goes all the way back to the silent days of cinema: You MUST get to know the characters so you can feel for them, then therefore be scared when they start getting murdered.  It seems as though the mass viewing public doesn't feel the need for 'plot' these days, they just want the latest trend in being 'shocked' instead of being scared, and unfortunately they aren't educated enough to know the difference; or, they have become too dehumanized to even care. Just because Zombie loves horror does not mean he can make a good horror film.  What made "Halloween" so great: Pacing, and realistic situations, and realistic characters doing realistic things, and VERY creepy atmosphere and music. Plus, it is a very dark psychological film at heart. The way Michael Myers kills off Laurie Strode's friends, making sure she has no one to run to when he goes for her. And, none of them were running around a lake out in a deserted forest in the middle of the night like stupid airhheads screaming "Here I am Mr. Murderer, come kill me!" like they were in the senseless "Friday The 13th" movies, which were just clones of Carpenter's classic film. No, they were all doing very realistic things suburban teenagers (of that era) do: Smoke a bit of pot, go to school, baby sit, etc  Rob Zombie has raped/pillaged/stolen/ruined/destroyed everything that was great about this horror masterpiece (yes, masterpiece!) by tinkering around with something that didn't need fixing. He needs to be committed to the 'house of 1,000 corpses' and tortured by 'the devil's rejects' for this sacrilige! Poor Debra Hill is doing flips in her grave, for this is the second John Carpenter/Debra Hill film to be remade counting "The Fog". R.I.P. Debra! Carpenter's "Halloween" is considered a classic, and ranked among the likes of Hitchcock's "Psycho" for a reason: It is a solid masterpiece of psychological horror, NOT just another slasher/horror film. It didn't need sequels, and sure as heck didn't need to be remade.  IF it had been a frame by frame/shot for shot remake, I might have given it a fairer shake, but to try and give 'history' to Mike Myers, and making his family look like white trash from "The Jerry Springer Show", well, he should have called it something else, because it is NOT "Halloween"! I just don't find it necessary to have a 'backstory' on Michael Myers, well, other than the one that was put into "Halloween II", revealing that Laurie Strode was his younger sister. That was the only thing I like about "Halloween II", and wished there were some way to edit it into the original film.  I would urge anyone that wants to see what all the fuss is about to seek out the John Carpenter/Debra Hill classic, and see the film that has terrified audiences for over 30 years to this day, the last 15 minutes so intense, it could induce heart attacks; and forget this dog turd even exists! I mean, really, who's gonna be talking about Rob Zombie's "Halloween" in a few years from now??? Except to say "Avoid it like a rabid dog!". People won't even remember it long enough to say that in another couple of years. It will fade away and rot like a rotten tomato, so it begs to question: WHY did Zombie waste his time remaking a classic when he could have at least tried to make something original (even though his 'original' films are just as forgettable as well)? This ranks in the same lowbrow category as Gus Van Zant's atrocious remake of "Psycho".  Sorry, but I'm trying NOT to think about anything in this film anymore. I'm trying REAL hard to forget it even exists, which really isn't that hard to do. Either way, good or bad, I do wish the remake cycle would come to a grinding halt! As for Zombie, well, I don't know what else to say, for I feel like he's a waste of breath (no offense), and his 'remake' is sucking trees out of the ground! AVOID!! Thank you!

Hollywood vs. America The movie was fun enough, but in reponse to J. Kitsinger's review...why the viewers behind him seemed to hate it, was probably because they saw the same hidden messages in it that I did.  I doubt that it was their dismay over Bond movies...I myself, love Bond movies and can't wait for the new one next year.  No, it is the new Hollywood messaging system playing out upon unsuspecting viewers.  Oh, they are subtle enough, and most viewers probably wouldn't even notice, or care.  Did you even notice that the bad guys were Gremlins and Pacers?  Those are "American Motors" cars, or may I say, Hollywood's view that the bad guys in this world are Americans.  Cars 2 is not the only movie that Hollywood used to send along their viewpoints.  Did you notice that the Chinese were the heros in "2012"?  At the end (the last scene)of the movie "Knowing", did you notice the tree that the little boy and little girl ran towards?  It is a reference to the Bible's "Tree of Knowledge", or, "time to pick the fruit and let the sin begin".  There is no reason for Hollywood to use these images, as others, or none at all could be substituted, but it is becoming clearer to me that Hollywood is getting their message out, and we're standing in line willing to pay for it.  I am sure there are other things I missed in current movies, but I am sure the viewers behind J. Kitsinger saw what I saw, which spoiled the whole movie for them.  As for myself, I just make note of it.  I gave the movie one star because of this.  Hollywood gripes about political correctness yet they throw it back on us, the viewers.  Hollywood needs to get out of politics and religion, and just concentrate on entertainment like they did back in the beginning of motion pictures.  I did buy this movie however, as I liked most of it, and it goes with "cars" on my shelf, but I really don't know why I should have, as I noticed this in the theater first.

Not quite the classic IMO... While I appreciate the film's historic and even prophetic tendencies, for a modern audience it comes across as a drearily long farce without many laughs. The protagonists barely hold one's attention. I have an understanding of French complicity in the origins of the Second World War, but my main gripe and single star review is intended for Criterion's ridiculously overblown marketing of a cinematic relic and it's critical placement among film's timeless classics.  When it comes to "scathing", "savage" critiques of upper societal conduct and etiquette I'll take Bu&ntilde;uel's "The Exterminating Angel" or Kobayashi's "Hara Kiri" any day of the week. These two films literally shred the specific social mores at which they are aimed and yet still have an empirical value for humanity. They are still watchable today with as much punch as when they were initially released. As tiresome as Bu&ntilde;uel's life-long criticism of the bourgeoisie frequently is, his scenario, protagonists and their relationship to one another are instantly recognisable and engrossing.  Watching Renoir's "The Rules of the Game" I received the distinct impression that one had to be French to comprehend what the fuss was about - and after listening to Peter Bogdanovich's commentary I found I was correct. Not only does one need to be French, but being of age in 1939 seems a prerequisite as well.  Renoir's highly rated film simply has little to say to the rest of us. There is nothing "scathing" or "savage" about it. It is only barely a comedy of manners which takes all but the last fifteen minutes to set up before the punchline. Perhaps it loses something in the translation from french to english, I don't know. But when I think of "savage" and "scathing" films I think of Kobayashi's "The Human Condition" or Kubrick's "Paths of Glory". If, on any level, "The Rules..." approaches these two epithets it must do so so subtley that I missed it.  I like Renoir's films on the whole, but to rank this as one of the greatest films ever made is absurd. The characters are virtually cardboard cut-outs and their banter yawn-inducing.  If "The Rules..." shocks in any way at all it is due to the inordinate number of small game massacred solely for it's production.  Given it's collection catalogue number, this is an early instance of the good folks at Criterion having exaggerated not only the nature of a film's content but it's very artistic worth in order to sell copies to the broad mass of public consumers. As their catalogue grows and they have less films to draw on worldwide it might be wise for lovers of cinema to take their exhortations to excellence with a grain of salt... or two.  ******************************************************************************** Postscript: Amazon reviews are not the be-all, end-all of film criticism nor do they reflect entirely on the film alone... nor are they meant to.  They are subjective criticisms of the film itself, edition, format and marketing of such.  Don't like the critical expansion beyond merely the film's content regarding the "star" system? Grow up. Don't like my review? Get over it.

Sorry I wasted 120 minutes of my life watching this one! Great Cinema - in fact, it's actually better on mute listening to Dark Side of the Moon . . . There is NO STORY here, nothing feels real or tangible.  It's a blur of fantasy and loud noises with no purpose.  I wouldn't even give it away.

you can watch this on hulu for free It doesn't cost a thing to watch this same movie on hulu.  So if you love watching movies on Amazon and paying, watch it here.  And if not, check it out on hulu and save your money for laundry.

very disappointing I too am a HUGE fan of the written Plum books and wanted to love this film...but didn't!  First of all fire the director, casting director, and the script writer. Characters had NO chemistry and the men were extremely miscast. Morelli and Ranger were no way near hot enough and all of the cast rambled through mediocre lines with about as much passion as a wet paper towel. What a shame because it had such potential. After seeing the movie I took the dvd off my wish list. There wasn't much urgency with the Ramirez threats either so that didn't work in the movies favor either. Overall the filmmakers were too worried about their rating and cut the film back too much. The end effect was choppy and uneven.  I prefer to go back and reread my books that are perfect! Sorry KH, but you didn't make a great Stephanie. And this character deserved to be great...

Planet of the Apes (Bluray) the DVD does not work.  It begins with the introduction and that is all.  No movie at all.  Last time I purchase one from Amazon.

Worst planet of the apes movie! okay ill rephrase, other than the remakes this is the worst planet of the apes movie.  It doesnt keep my attention. Its boring, the characters are dull.  Its simply a tie off movie.  *Spoiler alert* the bad guys get it, the good guys win, people and apes learn to live together as equals. okay whoever saw that happening raise your hand.  since like every single favorite character of mine was dead in this one i went into it with very little expectation. taylors dead *explosion, that scene was intense*, Ziras dead (zira was my favorite character of all, i think she was by far the most likeable in the her films of any human or ape), Cornelius is dead , Zaius is dead &lt;even though lets face it, he asked for it>, Nova is dead &lt;very sad>. To me though as time has gone on more characters have been introduced and well, caesar, lisa and cornelius have replaced zira and cornelius as far as peaceful apes go, its just not the same. When there are no characters from the original installment to me it loses touch with what it is.  to me by the battle of the planet of the apes it was totally boring to me.  im debating seeing the rise of the planet of the apes. luckily i only paid a dollar for this one.

Couldn't even make it to the end! This is a crude crass very loud and obnoxious film.  The writers of this movie should never work again.  I hate it when movies are this dumbed down.  When will they get it that criminals screaming and swearing nonstop is niether scary nor suspensful.  I cannot remember the last time I heard the F bomb used so many times in a single movie.  Why would Kidman sign on to this?

Huge Disappointment I was very disappointed in this production; I suppose there are only so many ways to bring to film the events and tragedies of the Kennedy family, before it becomes simply a rehashing of commonly known facts. This in no way compares to the 1983 NBC Miniseries "The Kennedy's", for one's money that is DVD to purchase.

God Awful Snoriffic I would much rather watch repeat after repeat of Dog the Bounter Hunter for several straight hours! This movie is awful.

lame as sin! did not like it! Boring!! wasn't expecting watching same scenes over and over! Next time I will pay attention what I am buying. Comparing to any other movies I would not recommend this movie.

Katey Sagal is brilliant - the rest is not mentionable! I bought the 3-Season Pack DVD (Code Region 2) because of it's overall positive review from most viewers! When I heard about this show's comparison with 'The Sopranos' (I loved every 6 1/2 Seasons of it!) I knew that there was no doubt that I'd be falling in love with 'Sons of Anarchy' aswell... Well, I didn't.. I ended up forcing myself through the complete first season - actually giving up after just a few episodes. One of the reasons why I really wanted to love this show were actors Ron Perlman and Katey Sagal. I actually loved Katey's character 'Gemma' for different reasons but mostly because you would never see Katey in a role like that but she did an awesome job, she really did! Unfortunately the other cast members look not so good and all the 'wanna be bad-a.s.s characters' seem waaaaay over the top and not natural at all! The dialogues were just absurd - it seems like every character wants to overtrump his opponent with even cooler and even blatant sound bite: it's just lame and a little embarassing... Character 'Jax' portrayed by actor Charlie Hunnam is the least credible - I really think that the actor did and still does a very bad job portraying a member of a biker gang! His walking is just hilarious and doesn't fit the rocker style at all. At this point the complete show and the wonderful job Katey did with her character 'Emma' were ruined and ludicrously! What a shame as I really think that a show about an american biker gang/family has huge potential!  I'm aware that I will get a lot of bad comments because of my negative review concerning this all beloved Tv-Show (can't agree...) but always remember: It's always a matter of opinion! I wanted to love this show but ended up hating it!

Pathetic I loved The Pusher movies; this was just terrible. This may count as a spoiler since there was nothing else to the movie, but be prepared to watch an hour and a half of people staring at each other and rocks. Don't get me wrong, I am a huge fan of boring, silent movies, (as made by the likes of Nicolas Winding Refn, Terrence Malick, and Werner Herzog) but there was nothing profound about Valhalla Rising. This one didn't do anything for me.

low budget, crappy, put together in five minutes What else can I say? This movie SUCKED. SUCKED. SUCKED. But it wasn't bad enough to become good again (like Torque). Save yourself.

A really bad copy This is a really bad copy of the original. I have a better u.k. video home transfer to DVD, from a video I bought here years ago. I should offer it to the company that made this one to do it again. It would improve on it a lot, even though my tape had tracking problems! My one star rating is for the outer box only, that part was fine!

skip this one...why... Crass and stupid!  There are some scenes that were good...the best that I remember was when Robert D.'s character was sitting on the plane and the goof ball was trying to get his luggage in the over bin and when they were on the road and they stopped for grass.  What he did to the boy was hysterical!  The kid had it coming.  The masturbation with the goof ball and the dog was low class.  After that I could not waste my time.  If you want a stupid and crass film this one is for you.

BORING AND OBNOXIOUS. I am a big fan of George Clooney and Andy Garcia. They are both superb actors and even in this movie their skills are apparent. However, the constant profanity and foul language nauseat the viewer.

The T in Trex must stand for Terrible blu ray transfer I'll preface this by saying that I am a HUGE Jurassic Park fan. It's what I played as a kid. I've probably watched it close to 8 billion times. I was 6 when it came out, so it left a big impression. Obviously, I had to rush out to buy the blu rays I had been waiting so long for. I got home and immediately put in the first movie. Within 5 minutes, I was disgusted.  This is the worst transfer I have ever seen. It's VHS bad. It's 1960's spaghetti western on antenna bad. I have a pretty decent collection and I prefer older movies so the flaws of production stand out and give it a surreal feeling. Total Recall, Clint Eastwood movies, Star Wars, etc have all been given worthy transfers. Now, people may say "it's 18 years old, what do you expect?" I expect a movie that won the Oscar for special effects not to look like an impressionist painting. When they see the first dinosaur in Jurassic Park, the background moves because of how grainy it is. My VHS set when I was a kid had better clarity. I am appalled by the low quality of this set. I will be returning it and I no longer look forward to Jaws coming to blu ray if this is what Spielberg thinks is acceptable. This collection is a travesty.  If you care about video quality, the transfer rate will actually make you mad.

Can"t view it on my DVD player I tried to play the DVD on my DVD player which attaches to my TV and it wouldn't play, says something about the region.  I can play it on my laptop only because it props me to change the region on it.

An insult to women Wow. Just. WOW.  And not "wow" in a good way, either! Sex in the City 2 starts where the first movie left off. I'm a fan of the original HBO series and even though that show didn't exactly do much for empowering women, it was still a guilty pleasure of mine. After all, there's nothing wrong with girls enjoying fashion, makeup, fabulous lifestyles in fabulous places, and MEN... Even if some negative stereotypes separating the genders were still enforced even if the show supposedly broke boundaries.  The first movie was unnecessary, in my opinion, and this second movie is even less necessary. And yet, I willed myself to see them both -- it's just something one has to do if you're a fan of the show, and the makers of these films were definitely banking on the original fan base to sell this mess. It's clear the writers are different for this movie compared to the original show, because even though Carrie is just as lame with her stupid puns (which she THINKS are so clever) in this movie, the "wittiness" in these movies is more just for the sake of having some jokes rather than having the witticisms be part of Carrie's personality.  *** spoilers ***  I thought it was inconsistent with the characters' personalities that Steve would cheat on Miranda and they'd break up. I don't know if other people think differently, but that's just the way the movie hit me. I thought the subplot with Carrie and Aiden kissing in the Middle East was flat out forced and just stupid.  AND most important to me of all is that this movie is insultingly ignorant of women's issues in the Middle East.  Utterly ridiculous.  Subplots with Charlotte and Big and Samantha were all just excuses to bring familiar characters around for an extended SATC episode. Nothing shocking, though it tries to be. It's just all familiar, tired ground, and not interesting.  -- and the karaoke scene! SO painful my stomach hurt, I was so embarrassed just watching it.  Rich, stupid, aging women act like teenage tramps in a foreign land and completely disrespect that country's customs. One can challenge a society's views without coming off as an ignorant snob, and yet that's exactly how these women came off.  YAWN.

I don't like this. I feel that this is one of those films that I feel is a part of the contemporary polarization.  Vampires are either romantic teenagers or nearly mindless killing machines.  It's one extreme or the other.  No one remembers balance anymore. I miss characters like Dracula who could be charming and occasionally sympathetic but still able to be predatory and vicious.  Now that is an interesting vampire. I miss vampires like that.

Spongebob he episodes were either bad or they had horrible endings.  The one in the trench was possibly the worst episode ever and the other ones sucked also.  Please, don't buy it.

Sad I was so excited to get frida, but very sad to discover that the DVD didn't work when I got it.

Worthless, Don't Waste Your time The writers took what could have been a great true story of a charismatic conman who evolved from a small town businessman to a white collar criminal, who has little regard for the law.  The conman is crafty and talented and escapes a Texas prison on four separate occasions to be with his true love. Poor judgment in the casting of Jim Carey who turned the film into a piece of crap.  Great story, it deserved better,too bad.

plagiaristic piffle Other reviewers have mentioned the er, "storyline", but just to add to what's already been written I'd like to ask a question : do you consider a film in which every other word seems to be motherf****r or S**t as entertainment? Still not convinced as to the worthlessness of this drivel? It looks as though they couldn't afford lights so that most of this rubbish that takes place in some old warehouse is unviewable - it proclaims to "star" Reggie Bannister (who obviously needed the $17 he got paid) but he gets flattened by a truck after about 15 minutes. I'd also like to know why an alternative title of Last Rites was allowed - this was the title that was used on U.K's TV Horror channel & should not be confused with an excellent movie with Tom Berenger from a while back hence my heading of plagiaristic....I quite enjoy bad movies sometimes but this mess makes Ed Wood Jr look like a genius

awful This movie was awful. The storyline, the characters, and the music....all awful. It was hard to watch all the way through.

CORMAN PLUS BULLOCK? It is a miracle Sandra Bullock got any work after this film at all. She was absolutely lousy with some of the worse lines imaginable. Craig Sheffer plays an obnoxious reporter who has his camera in everyone's face while Bullock is an activist attempting to save the rain forest. One of the protest leaders is killed and the story becomes a very bad who-dun-it. I kept hoping for Sheffer to die, but alas that was not the case.  The sole attraction of this film is the love scene between Bullock and Sheffer where she shows more skin than usual, with strategic spots missing the camera so as to not technically classify it as a nude scene per se. It is a bad ecology film, lousy drama, and worse murder mystery. Heck, it is not even good soft core.  This is for die hard Bullock fans or Bullock stalkers.  Everyone else: Avoid Avoid Avoid.

Great film HORRENDOUS dvd I purchased this edition for the extras specifically the audience participation segments. What an astonishing and frustrating surprise. The cameraman focused on other cameramen or bored audience members who were sitting and talking to each other. You can barely see the actors in the shadow cast and when you finally do see other audience participants they seem lost. If your going to film something and charge extra for it then MAKE IT WORTH VIEWING.  The audience participation track was especially convoluted and USELESS. So many people talking out of unison and at once that it was the very essence of what Susan Sarandon describes as a disappointing anarchy. She said in the beginning when it was done right going to Rocky Horror was like going to mass. Now it is just anarchy. Everyone yelling at different times or shouting each other down. The unity that was the RHPS experience has died if this dvd represents the current live show experience.  Hope someone will redo this one day with REAL FANS who are organized and electric and together...not trying to upstage each other or the film. Great flick absolutely TERRIBLE dvd. Save your money

Awful Never thought I'd see the day when Criterion would decide to dip into Rhonda Shear's "USA: UP ALL NIGHT" territory, but that day, it appears, is upon us. Yes, this might be the Citizen Kane of cheap 80's sex comedies, but what does that say exactly? All the visual grandeur of an episode of Love Boat? Got it. Alot of innuendo but curiously lacking in any real sex, as if edited for tv (the USA network, per say?)? Got that too.  Alot of people will see a one star review and see it as reductive, as in -4 stars. But I really mean this review as +1 star. There were a few jokes that made me snicker. There were a few sexy flashes of nudity. It stars Mary Waronov, who will send you to your computers in search of the films that you've seen her in before. It was ahead of its time in documenting our sex-obsessed culture. One can find some social significance to justify this being a release in the Criterion Collection. But really, if you look hard enough, that would probably apply to most every movie.  Fair warning to all those discerning buyers out there, this film is pure trash. Not even fun trash, but cynical, evil, boring trash(the worst kind!).

Steaming pile of Pegasus Poop This movie was made.  The writers were paid, crews were hired.... actors were hired.  Good actors.  Good actors who must've gotten caught up in some studio contract a long time ago and couldn't say no.  But yeah, this happened.  This is one of the worst movies I've ever see.  It's all over the place.  Nothing tracks or makes sense... it's just a studio produced story.  A complete waste of time, including everyone who worked on it and probably got paid.

Ruined a classic bit of my childhood! Couldn't even stand to watch the thing.  The awful Disney-esque music had me ranting like a mad-woman!  And the princess bs?  Was that really necessary?  One would think an entirely different director did this "cut".  Its going straight into the garbage!  Ruin a bit of my childhood, why don't you?!

About the worst movie I ever saw The only reason I stayed with this movie thru most of it was because I was watching it with my granddaughter. Had never heard of the book it was based on, or the authors. But this may well be the worst movie I ever saw. Imbecilic characters, an impossible plot, and I cannot tell how it ended because, when the granddaughter fell asleep, I turned it off and went to bed. Had to give it one star because Amazon won't let you leave it blank.

I wish I could get a refund I just wasted 30 minutes of my life before deciding to turn it off and delete it from the video library. I wish I could get a refund.

A candidate for Mystery Science Theater 3000! In 2022, a disabled repair ship for satellites with nuclear missiles is on a collision course with the dark side of the moon (why these satellites are so far from Earth, and why there are no maps of that dark side are a mystery).  Their ship's curvaceous humanoid computer brain claims all systems are reporting functional (why is the computer set up as a female human sitting in a lounge chair?). With no one answering their maydays, they are surprised when the Space Shuttle Discovery suddenly appears and docks (supposedly, it had been lost in a oceanic crash; "Oh, we better go explore it, with our machine guns" - why are machine guns on a repair vessel?).  As they explore Discovery, there are lots of pipes and bullet-stopping walls and steam and... space (the shuttles must have gotten a lot larger).  They really needed those rifles with scopes in such a compact space!  And, of course, there is a mystery, as in what's with the face in the guts and the cat eyes?  You'll see what I mean.  This is the perfect movie for Mystery Science Theater 3000!

Forces you to watch previews Even though you bought this movie perhaps even at full retail price, they force you to watch all previews with no option whatsoever to otherwise just start the movie for your kids.  That's an automatic 1 star.  I'm going to have to rip and reburn the thing just to get rid of the garbage.  FAIL

Worst Movie Ever The absolute WORST MOVIE EVER.  My husband and I spent our time laughing at the movie not with the movie.  We spent most of our time analyzing how anyone with a directors title did not see the serious flaws in this movie.  Robin Givens and Elise Neal must have had to complete some type of community service to be in this film (well below their standards).  Horrible, Horrible, movie.  Stay far far away. And the $16 asking price...please, it was not worth the $1.25 I spent to rent it. A disgrace to movies.

And THIS is the buildup to the finale? Decided to rent and see this movie before going to the LAST ONE!  After the first two in the series, I stopped going because it all became a bore and my sons both grew up and decided the HP movies stunk (which I agreed with). Yes, the kids in the movie are no longer kids and the movie does attempt to show the angst, temptations, jealousies, etc.... of teens BUT the movie is still a bore.  Maybe in the theaters it was better, but on TV, scenes look too dark and the special effects don't look too special.  As for character developments and acting - well the actors try do the best with the material but there is nothing noteworthy in any of their scenes and everything drags right up to the final scene. You can take this LONG movie, cut at least an hour out of it and not miss a single point the movie is trying to make - which isn't much.  This is one of those "disposable" movies - things look serious, actors act serious, everything is dark and gloomy but, in the end, it's all pointless.  The minute you finish watching the movie is the minute you start to forget all about it.  Update: Went and saw Part 2 - enjoyed it. You're not missing out on much by skipping Part 1.  In fact, you'll be doing yourself a favor by not sitting through a terrible movie totally conceived to rip off the "Harry Potter" fanatics who could be fed 3 hours of brooms flying in space and they would love it.

the waste of a good chance Having read the book twice, and seen the BBC 1989 movie version several times,I was entertaining high hopes with this new version of one of my favorite Gothic-horror stories.I was hoping that a more generous budget would do full honors to this little jewel of  the Gothic-horror genre. Although the 1989 version proved that intelligent choices in directing can overcome many obstacles, including a low budget. On the other hand I also was a little fearful about this movie falling prey to today's curse on horror movies:succumbing to the temptation of drowning the story in computerized, cheap special effects, resulting in tons of cheap-gore and gallons of blood, and Disney-like ghouls and monsters. As it has been mentioned here by other critics, changing the story a little is not a crucial problem when the essential elements are kept,and respected.The 1989 film version did a few changes, but the story plot was there, and it could be followed at a real pace.The script was intelligent and it worked.But this is another story... I went to see this new movie at a classic movie house from the 50s,restored and with a big screen.I wanted to do full honors to this new version.But,as the movie progressed,the horrific truth was evident, my worst fears were materializing in front of my eyes.There was no real story-plot to follow.I was in for a Blackberry generation version of The Woman in Black. It was to fast-paced to be nothing but a video-game,the scenes kept moving forward,as if slashed with a machete,unable to create a story line.And finally, when I was confronted with the exaggerated and ridiculous "house on the marsh" of this version, I knew I was watching a pathetic blend of 'The Adam's Family meets Stephen King' for the blackberry generation.From there on it was downhill, a movie predictably drowned in unnecessary and exaggerated special effects such as the bleeding-bed, and a woman in black so unsubstantial that it looked more like a Japanese-anime figure running amok the Adam's family house.The end was not only too much of a travesty,but a corny and childish idea,unworthy of Susan Hill's work. For those unfamiliar with good literature, or a good reading, this 'video-game' version might do.But for those who are familiar with real stories and good scripts, my recommendation is:AVOID this waste of money and time like you would the plague.For me this was THE WASTE OF A GOOD CHANCE... If you want your intelligence to be respected, stick to the 1989 BBC version.It might be too slow for those whose attention span can not survive anything beyond 60-seconds bytes,or nothing deeper than a video-game plot,but for those able to enjoy true suspense and a good literary build-up of the plot, the story IS THERE,and its good! If you like classic Gothic horror stories, with well written scripts and literary style, I recommend movies like: The Changeling,Haunted!The Reincarnation of Peter Proud,The Uninvited,and even The House Where Evil Dwells. And the wonderful literary ghost stories of Japanese films like KWAIDAN and Ugetsu,

Suitable for DOLTS I had to stop it at the catwalk part, where he vomited on her boobs. It was all really idiotic and quite dull. Doing nothing was more entertaining

No zero star option. sigh THIS is an abomination. Convoluted stories strobed about at random, crap acting, poor musical score, AND worst of all, NO resolution to any of the multiple story lines. Go ahead and waste 2 hours of your life if you have more time to live than the rest of us.

So stupid... I watched this movie with my Grandma last night because she thought it looked cute.  I will admit, the dogs were very well trained...but that's as far as it goes. I work with dogs all the time, and most of the dogs I know get confused if they walk on the wrong side of the tree with a leash on. There is no way a dog knows what olive oil is, or flour, or understand the premise of a exhaust pipe on a car.  And seriously, how slow was that car driving for those dogs to be able to keep up? Ten miles an hour??? With tens of thousands of dollars on the line, they sure don't seem to be in a hurry. I understand this is a kid's movie, but the behavior of the dogs was so blatantly absurd and unbelievable. A movie like Homeward Bound might give the dogs human personalities, but they still behave like dogs! The dogs in this movie launch such a better-ordered scheme than most humans would in the same circumstances.  Honestly, this movie was incredibly boring. Maybe an eight-year-old would like it, but there isn't any substance to the plot. Some of the banter between the two hired men was enjoyable, but that's as far as it went. I wish I had these two hours of my life back. Don't watch it unless you have little kids, or you will regret it.

Trying way to hard and please stop the yelling...thanks. Seems forced and not natural, too much going on, too loud, too "set up joke" too ... well, just bad.

Does sandler think he's funny in this movie? It stunk! Terrible. Lose the voice Adam. Nothing funny. Waste of 2 hrs. Simply stupid. Absolutely pathetic. What happened to sandler? How does this film get made?

Problem with DVD Unfortunately attempted many times to get this DVD to play with no sucess however all other DVD's that I have play perfectly ok.

Not too thrilling I personally was not thrilled by this film.  The acting on the part of Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth was quite good, but Stewart cannot act.  Frankly, she is abysmal, and cannot even deliver her lines in a way to make you feel anything towards her character other than dislike.  Stewart made this film difficult to watch at times, and to be quite honest, it is hard to believe she could ever be fairer than Theron.  Theron was amazing, and I think if they had shortened the film and found a different actress to play Snow White, it would have done much better, but overall I found so many parts of it rather dull or a let down.  I was actually just waiting for the film to be over while watching it in the theater.  There was great potential here, but it did not deliver.

not worth it in 3d This movie is great but don't buy the 3d version, I couldn't tell any differance than the regular blu-ray. If you wan't 3d buy alice in wonderland or resident evil afterlife, both are awesome in blu-ray 3d.

Typical Spielberg Historical Fantasy Steven Spielberg has made great, entertaining movies, yet many seem to promote a particular comic book-like, propagandized version of history perhaps meant to influence the thinking or emotions of the movie viewer. The Empire of the Sun does not begin to portray the historical reality of life in China under the Japanese. Anyone who has read WW2 prisoner biographies, or collection of the experiences of POW's in WW2, will learn the truth of how the Japanese treated prisoners of war. This movie does not even a hint of what that was like. For instance readers of books like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0688143709">Prisoners of the Japanese : POWs of World War II in the Pacific</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553585673">Given Up for Dead: America's Heroic Stand at Wake Island</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1574888064">MY HITCH IN HELL (Memories of War)</a> or other historical accounts of POW's will get an unfiltered version of what being a prisoner of the Empire of the Sun really encompassed.  World War II in the Pacific was a war of opposing races, the Japanese against the white man, the West. Japanese massacres and abuse of Koreans and Chinese is a horrific story unto itself. Both Americans/British and Japanese sides thought they were racially superior to the other. The books listed above give some details you will never find in this film. Spielberg largely ignores the often gratuitous and cruel behavior of the Japanese towards captured military and civilian prisoners. The only blatant exhibition of outright murderous racism occurs at the conclusion of the movie.  After the war has ended, an American POW looting Red Cross supplies shoots and kills, with no provocation, the Japanese youth who is a friend of Jamie, the British schoolboy. POW's were quick triggered killers, not the Nippon Army that committed the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465068367">The Rape Of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust Of World War II</a>. The book above by Lester Tenney notes that POW slave laborers like himself were denied the right to sue for compensation against large Japanese companies that had abused them, and often worked them to death. This was due to action by the US government. Japanese companies got off the hook, although scores of it's more sadistic Army personnel were executed for war crimes. This movie does not help any still living survivors of Japanese brutality in their search for justice.  A movie which more appropriately deals with the prejudices, emotions and behaviors POW's and their prison masters in the Pacific war can be found in the movie <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006AUGN">Three Came Home</a>. One star for pretending the movie bears any accurate historical witness to the life under occupation by the Empire of the Sun.

Surpisingly disappointed I have never written a review on this website before, but I was so thoroughly disappointed in this Veggie Tales movie that I had to share with other potential buyers that there is a much better Easter story for kids on the market...Easter Carol, also from Veggie Tales.  I confess to being a huge Veggie fan, and even though my kids are older now, we continue to buy the new releases and enjoy them as a family.  I was surprisingly disappointed in Twas the Night Before Easter, which I found lacking in any real explanation of what Easter was, as well as so redundant of past Veggie movies (this time it isn't Larry and Bob as Cavis and Millword trying to save an old theater by stealing a star, but Petunia Rhubarb as Marlee who was committing the theft...and this time the star was a celebrity "star," not a physical light-up star...but the motives were the same in each.)  I think Big Idea is trying to hard to crank out two movies a year these days and rushing through the script.  I have not liked the recent movies as much as I did the movies from Veggie's Glory Days under Phil Vischer.  I find the much less effective and the message is too forced.  At any rate, this Easter show pales sorely in comparison to it's bigger brother Easter Carol (released years earlier); if you are looking for a much better venue from which to discuss the meaning of Easter with your kids, then Easter Carol is a far better bet.

Waste of money My fault for not reading the description. I just read the title. I was expecting a DVD, instead I got the one disc of special features which the kids liked, but the third disc was a gathering of interviews with pats on the backs by the directors saying how great they were with all the special effects etc, It also had repeats of disc two. Like I said a terrible waste of money. This will teach me to read the descriptions not just the titles.

Disappointed The movie itself was great but very very poor DVD quality, sound was barely there and the picture very dark.  Definitely not a quality DVD, shouldn't be sold like this at all.

Digital Copy - Not Really I always make it a point to buy discs that include a digital copy that I can import into iTunes and take with me on the road. If this is also what you do, DO NOT BUY THIS DISC. Their "UltraViolet" digital copy is only available via Flixster and there is NO WAY to import the movie into your existing iTunes library. I'll never buy another disc with the UltraViolet so called "digital copy". Be warned.

Don't waste your money This movie plot is extremely predictable, even by action movie standards.  I am still trying to figure out how Angelina Jolie keeps getting selected for these roles.  If you have seen Tomb Raider or Mr. and Mrs. Smith or Wanted then you have already seen this movie at least once.  Move on.

Should have looked more carefully, movie in French Bought this impulsively, and didn't notice that this is the French version of the movie and not in English. Now I'm trying to return the movie to the European distributor.

Should have been titled Self Absorbed Man I am astonished at how bad this movie was.  Michael Douglas plays a 60 year old washed up car dealer, womanizer, horrible father, and all around despicable person named Ben Kalmen.  I'm trying to think about the plot so I can write a synopsis, but I'm having a difficult time because there really wasn't one.  The viewer gets to watch Ben as he lives his life with only one priority: pleasing himself.  He enters into a relationship with a woman solely because of her wealth and connections.  This woman asks him to take her 18 year old daughter to her college interview (presumably because it is his alma mater and he knows the dean).  While away, he sleeps with the girl that is 42 years his junior.  He shows no remorse whatsoever, and even tries to "reconnect" with the girl once they are home (she turns him down).  He constantly lets his daughter down: repeatedly asking her for money, disrespecting her husband, telling her about his tryst with an 18 year old and how it was "so worth it," missing his grandson's birthday party, and having a one night stand with his daugther's friend.  Father of the Year material...  The movie tries to offer up justification for his awful behavior but I thought the "explanation" was completely lame.  It didn't make me feel a bit sorry for him, nor did it in any way excuse his actions.  I was amazed at how many talented actors were in this movie.  And I can't help thinking all that talent was wasted on a horrible script.  As far as content goes, there's profanity and sexual content.  The language isn't pervasive as it is in some R rated movies, but there's still some (the main character uses the f word often).  The sexual content isn't extremely graphic, but the scene where he sleeps with the 18 year old is disturbing regardless.  There's a small amount of violence- in a scene where Ben gets beat up.  I have to say, he deserved every punch.  Yes, that is how much I disliked his character.  Conclusion:  If you are looking for an interesting movie with a main character that is even remotely likeable, skip this one.  I wish I had.

If only I could score less than 1 star. This movie is awful.  The acting talent is there, but the storyline is hateful.  Came away with 3 things - according to this storyline all black men are bad, black men want white women, and white women want black men.  Oh, and the black woman is right when she torches her cheating hubby's car.  There are very few movies that irritate me.  This is one of those.  1 star is too high for this trash.

So Bad It should have never been made Who ever made this just wasted time just to make a movie. I think this is one of worst movies ever o my god. Trust me if you want to check it out don't waste your time trust me. This movie is so bad if I had the power to destroy every copy i would. This movie deserves -20.

"What th.......?" Whoever wrote the initial review was not watching this serial. The sound is muffled, the video is murky,   and the story is enough to put you to sleep within 10 minutes. You will probably not get to read this   because my low rating will be interpreted as a sales killer by Amazon. So, I will say, "Buy this video, if   you do not like a quality serial, you will love this one!!" I looked forward to showing on Saturday to   "The Loony Goons," but I'll stick with SPY SMASHER, CAPTAIN MARVEL, or SUPERMAN. If I was sure of how to   spell "lousy" that is what I would call "The Return of Chandu" - Lousy!

Disc didn't play I was very disappointed that this disc did not play on any of my devices; BlueRay Player, Mac or PC.

nothing I have not received the products, including the amount has been debited from my credit card, but have not received anything, does estraviou?

Damaged product I got the movie damaged! only the first 20 minutes work the case looks like it has been beat-  the case looks like it has been bent (paper crinkled on one side and ripped on the other) and in the lower half of case near the middle you can see some thing hit it because the plastic is dented in and paper ripped the worst part was this hit dented the disc as well so there is a little bump sticking out on the underside of the disc, and this disc was supposed to come in NEW condition! It could have sustained this damage in shipping. Most places have bubble wrap in packaging to help prevent this, but this package came with none so they must not really care about there customer.

THIS MOVIE IS A JOKE I was excited to see this movie then i saw it and found out its a load of crap. dont buy it

sleeper I rented this movie because of the positive reviews, and found it to be a waste of time to watch. I rarely post reviews, but had to do it this time to offer another point of view. Uninteresting storyline - it has been done sooo many times. The characters are cartoonish and use profanity for impact. Unartistic use of nudity and tasteless toilet humor. This movie has no redeeming aspects to speak about.

It is insane!! How can this film NOT be on blu ray? What is the studio waiting for? Let's hope they get the message soon.

Family Secret.....This Movie Sucks! I cannot believe I wasted money on this home made crap! It really is a joke of a horror movie. Bad acting,low budget quality and the old lady character is very fake looking. With a low budget movie like this I wonder why they just wouldn't cast a REAL old lady. The makeup is laughable.  The real secret is simple, this movie BLOWS! Don't waste your money!

Worst terminator movie This is the worst terminator movie. How anyone can like it is beyond me 1-3 were good this one was utter crap.

problems with dvd software that comes with film this is the only dvd i have in my entire collection that forces the viewer to download software.  if you dont have an internet connection, you cant watch it. if you do have a connection, well...the add on software never worked. it makes you register and go to a web site, which then just says error.  needless to say, ive never been able to watch this dvd. nowhere on the packaging does it say that the dvd cannot be watched on a computer without the crappy software.  in my opinion this is a major mistake on the part of the distributor.  im assuming if you watch it on a tv with a dvd player it will prob. work, but if u only have a computer you may have problems.

disappointed The product I received would not play. There was nothing appearance wise wrong with the disc that I could see, however if it doesn't play it must be defective. I would not order from this source again.

paid and never got it! I've waited for more than one month now and have not received the item yet! I absolutely do NOT recommend this person. I just wish we didn't have people like this on amazon because this is a great site and I've bought lots of stuff and have never had problems with!

Cropped and Crappy Bullshot - what a great movie.  It's a shame there isn't a DVD company out there that realizes this and is willing to give it the proper release it deserves.  I picked up this DVD and couldn't wait for it to arrive - I'd been hoping for it to come out on DVD for many years.  What a disappointment to see what a bad job was done on the transfer.  Looks like a bad VHS copy; not even widescreen and the edges are cropped (actually ruining some of the visual jokes in the film).  The extras - trailers for other "Handmade Films" titles like "A Private Function" are obviously from VHS (they look like they have tracking issues at the bottom of the screen).  Betcha if people read this revue and decline to buy the DVD, the assumption will be that this is an unpopular title that won't sell.  Which is a shame.

where is the garden folly??????? It may seem petty to focus on the removal of one short scene but that walk with Moll and Rolland up the spiral hedge was so magical that it was calling to me after 16 years.  That is why I ordered this, I thought I was getting what I had seen on Masterpiece Theater.  This is a different edit and it has lost its beauty.

Do Not buy the Director's Cut version I need to read the fine print better on Amazon.com, this DVD did not include both the Director's cut AND the Theatrical Cut like most Director's cut versions do.  Impact - the Director's cut only DVD...well....sucks.

SLOW - ONLY FOR BEGINNERS This might be a good video for an older person who is just beginning exercise.  It is definitely not for baby boomers who want to strengten their bones, and are in good shape.  While the instructor is clear, and the exercises are very easy, it moves too slowly for someone who wants more strenuous exercises.  I was very disappointed by the background music, and repetitive instructions. If you already have knowledge of osteoporosis, and are in good physical condition, I don't suggest you purchase this tape because you will be disappointed.

disappointed i purchased this product and was not aware it was a region 2 product, which meant it wouldnt be able to be played in my dvd player, as i am from the united states. i contacted the seller 30 minutes after i realized it and they did not cancel the order, it was delivered to me about 2 months later and i once again contacted the seller to let them know i was unable to use it and that i contacted them previously to cancel the order and they did not follow through. they then told me i would have to send it back with a handwritten note with the order number and also explaining the situation as well, so i did. i have not received my refund or anything from the seller and that was about 2 months ago. i am not pleased.

Did not play Put the disc in and it just hangs at the intro. Tried multiple devices and it did not work. The disc came from Beach Body. Trying to decide if I want to roll the dice and get another one. Need a work out for rainy days and extreme heat.

Pfffffffffffft! This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. The original TV series comes off like HBO's "Rome" compared to this. Even if I ripped off this movie from the internet I would feel cheated out of the download time and look for a lawyer so I could sue for trying to steal something and having a bear trap waiting for me.  I can't imagine a movie being more out of touch with its subject matter unless they made a contest out of trying to do so. I even feel cheated writing this review because I know that this movie is out there in the world somewhere. Even had I watched this when I was 10 years old I would've felt angry and cheated and have considered the movie beneath me. If I wanted revenge on someone I would trap them in a snowbound cabin in the mountains with only copies of this movie whose name cannot be mentioned. A cloud passing over the sun is more mesmerizing and I can get more laughs out of watching how light glitters off the ripples in a stream.  Be warned, this movie is an utter waste of time. The United Nations should get involved.

skip it not worth the 3.99 to rent When I saw the previews for this movie I was so excited see it, little did I know that the all of the funniest part were shown in the preview. The movie was long and boring and considering the great cast that was in the movie I could not believe how bad it was.

STAY AWAY if you have any decency!!! I just finished watching this movie and.....................I was never so disappointed in all my life. This movie is absolutely horrid. Save your money and spend it on the original 1960 film, which still gives me chills (even though I've seen it a dozen times), by Alfred Hitchcock, the Master of Suspense. I don't know what Universal was thinking when they allowed a director to do a remake of a timeless classic.

HORRIBLE I HATE THIS DVD ... IT WON'T EVEN PLAY IN ANY OF MY DVD PLAYERS OR COMPUTERS ... I WON'T EVER BUY FROM THIS PERSON AGAIN ... A COMPLETE WASTE OF MY MONEY ...

Critique of product gift wrapping I ordered this item as a gift for my son.  I can't comment on the set of DVD's at this time, but I have a complaint with the gift wrapping of the set for which I paid almost $5 extra.  The item arrived within two days, which was great.  However, the gift wrap was cheap, plain gold wrapping paper, and it was torn at two corners.  It didn't look like Christmas wrap at all, but an attempt to be politically correct.  I've heard no end of criticism from my wife for adding the gift wrapping, most of which is, unfortunately, justified.  John Ewing Peoria, IL

At Least Henry Cavill (Theseus) Has Nice Muscles! Immortals is so bad a five year old could have written a more coherent story! It's the most boring piece of war gore I have ever seen in my entire life! The violence is so tedious and predictable, Immortals borders on camp! But you do get to see psychopathic behavior in all its depraved glory! This pathetic film leaves you feeling like you have to go brush your teeth after spitting something out that tastes bad! Good job, Hollywood! The toothpaste companies of the world salute you!  Sorry, but as hot as Henry Cavill is, he's just not worth $14.00 to drool over his gorgeous muscles! That's right, a single ticket cost $14.00! Now you get ripped off by being forced to watch stinkers in 3D! And it didn't even make any difference that I could see!  What made me such a sucker to see such a lousy, rotten movie? I love fantasy as a genre. The movie trailer was fantastic. It appears there's even a scene in the trailer that was not in the movie! I like ancient Greece as a subject matter. And, I was in the mood to gawk at some hot, sweaty bodies! But now I'm so frustrated at wasting my hard earned money that the next time I have the urge to see a movie in a theater, I'm going to rent one for free from the library. It will give me great pleasure to spite Hollywood for deceiving me! A movie trailer should never be so much better than the movie it is supposed to represent!

Editorial Review? "More cool it does not go?"  Sometimes Google Translate doesn't work as well as we would like.  I haven't watched it.  The Editorial Review just amuzed me.  Caveat emptor.

Import has NO Special Features This is a must have movie for any collection. Sadly this import has none, zero, nada special features like the DVD!!!!!!!!

Goodfellows This was supposed to be a brand new movie. When I recieved it it was not wrapped in plastic and the disc clearly has been used it is full of scratches!

Juvenille Humor If you enjoy the humor of middle schoolers or high schoolers this is the movie for you.  The movie moved rather slow at the start and then fell into uncreative plot devices in an effort to be humorous.  And let's not forget the little stab at 10 years for video piracy.  Hmmmmm makes you wonder what corporate drone wanted to make sure THAT made it on the script.  Save your money..it's not worth it.

What a waste of time I cannot believe that there are so many good reviews on this movie!  Paul Rudd does not even play the character that well.  I mean is he supposed to be just a dumb pot head or a seriously mentally challenged person with a low IQ?  He seems too articulate to be either, but what do I know.  It isn't even funny one bit and I was shocked that a few good actors were in this and were not that good.  Zoey being a die-hard lesbo was a shock and let down too but I guess I will get over it...lol.  Seriously though, you could not pay me to own this idiotic movie.  Wish I could have back those 90 or so minutes of my life.  I would rather watch Warren Beatty's worst movie.

Terrible The only think shocking about this movie is how think Bales became.  He looked as if he just came out of a prisoner of war camp.  The whole thing didn't make sense.  Another wanna be mind bender that didn't work.  I could not figure out how his bosses didn't know he was sick and let him continue to work there doing dangerous work.  A complete waste of time.  The movie Repulsion with Catherin Deneuve was so much better in every way.

Space Jam.... The DVD doesn't work.  It says WRONG REGION.  I want to return it.  I want a copy that works.

if you buy this your next purchase will be citalopram. i watched this in theaters and was disgusted to say the least. I have depression and this was just plain not even depressing it was flat out boring! Insulting ect.  graphic sex scenes, sexual content, slurs,  mockery of others, adultery, rape, pedophile, and lack of respect for women are shown in this film.  i do not recommend this unless you want something very very dry filled with all of the above that might push you that last inch towards suicidal actions.  basically you stare at one scene for most of the movie. A waste of my time and my meds.

Highly overrated Not sure why this gets such high marks from reviewers. The music is annoying, Chalene is annoying, the other exercisers are super-annoying, and the moves are repetitive and boring. I did stick with this for 4 weeks and have seen no results other than being out of the money it cost and losing motivation due to said lack of results

H-O-R-R-I-B-L-E This has got to be the worst zombie movie I have ever seen. When compared to movies such as I Am Legend, Zombieland, and Shawn of the Dawn, this movie is a big pile of turd.

I wish there were negative stars... This is the worse movie I have ever seen in my life! I wish I could get the money I spent to watch it and my time back.

Disliked I found this movie to be a bit boring. It seemed to drag on. Would not have bought if I knew that it was going to be this bad.

This must be the condensed version. I started watching this and thought I missed a movie in the series. Not having read the books (although being a fan of the movie series), I found the story confusing and a little tedious. It was a disjointed and convoluted series of scenes mashed together without purpose or reason.  In my opinion the entire movie could have been condensed into a brief narrative at the beginning of the next movie (much like this movie started. Referring to events that didn't occur onscreen, but apparently caused major changes to secondary characters and relationships).

Home Movie Galore! I really don't see this as a documentary but more of a home movie.  This film really isn't about Autism either - the last ten minutes are the only time you hear about Chris and his art.  It is almost insulting to watch how Chris is being interviewed .. you can feel the pressure put on him to have the "right" answer.  At one point in the film Chris is filled with worry that he might stare directly into the camera........ almost as if his bipolar Grandfather (or father for that matter) sucked in his cheeks and yelled at him directly before the shoot. I also had a hard time feeling bad for a family that lost their "beach" house in South Hampton.  The mother seems to have been able to land in a very nice area of Manhattan and the family eventually landed a log cabin retreat in Maine.  No riches to rags story here, just spoiled rich kids that had the rug pulled out from under them at one point which was only a mere stumbling block.  Everyone lands on their feet and at the end the "film maker" decides he forget to spotlight the main character -  so ten minutes are added to show how Chris has lived independently for almost 25 years, working two part time jobs and creating art worthy of a one man gallery show in Soho.  I would have liked to have heard more about Chris and his struggles to get where he is today.  My cousin has a son with Autism and although it is inspiring to see Chris and the success his art has found, I fear for the Autistic person that does not have "Gloria Vanderbilt" as a friend of a friend to discover one of the many talents found in people with autism.

OMG, What A Total Train Wreck I very rarely give a one star review, but this film earns one.  If I could give it none, I would.  The acting was so bad, it was fascinating to watch.  It didn't help that the soundtrack was off so that the lip movements did not sync accurately. Very distracting.  The plot, although a somewhat interesting premise, took off into a confusing, fragmented blur.  Overall, I just couldn't believe how awful this was.  Total and complete waste of time.

BAD FILM The film has many film problems on dvd.  Hopefully I can get the VHS.  Won't bother tyring to get my money back because Amazon only gives half of your purchase in return.  This is a reminder for all, starting with me, to buy your movie at the store and with cash.  A lot easier that way.  Don't bother getting this movie. It's a shame that the people who put this movie on DVD didn't do a better job.

Don't. I did not read any reviews of this film before I watched, pardon me, started to watch this film. And it seems I didn't read any reviews before I bought it, either. Had I done so I would have thought twice about buying it.  So I settle down happily, all expectant, for I am a student in a screenwriting class myself and we know how hard it is to write something that will actually be put to screen, something that enthralls, that moves, that stirs people, something new and remarkable.  Well, first rule is, always show action for a reason. Make it lead somewhere, every single shot. Add dialogue for emphasis, to enhance the story. To help you out when you can't show something or don't want to. Rule two: make every character credible. Give them a function. Make them come alive, memorable.  First thing I notice when I watch the opening scene, how badly it is acted, but this is only the start and I am forgiving. Then I hear the dialogue and I think this better be good soon and start to play with my cat. When it doesn't I get curious and check out Leo Fitzpatrick. Can't find anything wrong with him, healthy boy he his (and good in the film Kids) and I think why do you use a real African American but can't use a real person with cerebral palsy. Mhhhh. Just to make a point in a seemingly shocking film.  Anyway, then it quickly deteriorates to the point that I stop and check how many people think the same and check it out on amazon sites in various countries. It emerges that the European sites have nothing but praise for the film and I am incredulous. The American one has got a good number of warnings. Let me add mine.

review for mistrals daughter the story was great as well as the actors. I did not like to see the english sub titles on the page. When I tried to remove the english sub titles they would not go away and so it ruined the viewing quality.

Beware of Fox bundles! Nowhere did I see in the product description that this BD would only play (forced) on region code A bluedisc players, so it will not play on a region code B player (like e.g. in Europe). This is the very first overseas BD which I could not play, BTW. The digital copy with DRM just for the PC is not a real compensation, since it lacks a) BD quality and b) BD goodies. And due to DRM it will only play in Windows Media Player or iTunes.  In the meantime, I know from various forums that FOX is one of pretty few studios forcing this customer unfriendly BD regional code.  So, customers from overseas: refrain from buying FOX media in the US if your player does not support the BD region code A.  It will certainly influence my buying habits. No more FOX. Pity.

This movie was disappointing... The movie starts where it leaves off at the end of Ong Bak 2.  It felt like it was starting to be good, when the body healing process begins for Tony Jaa's character.  The healing process continues... He's wrapped up like the guy on Kung fu Hustle, but for more than an hour of the movie.  When he finally heals, the action isn't nearly as good as the other 2 Ong Bak movies.  The villain he's waited to kill for his whole life is killed by some demon and it doesn't make sense.  When he fights the demon it isn't that entertaining...  This movie isn't a must see...  It's not enough action...  Save your money...  Watch Ong Bak 2 again and imagine your own ending...

Save Your Money This movie was not filmed in 3-D. This release is computer generated and manipulated. They are placing two slightly offset images in a stereo window and it does not have true depth.

One Star for the dvd release not the movie itself I've waited for years for Amberson's to come out on dvd. I'm pleased it finally has. It's a fine film and I'm glad to add it to my collection but I'm so disappointed with Warner Brother's release. It has no commentary, no extra features, it doesn't even have any chapter stops! No chapter stops! Are you serious. Warner Brothers you used to be one of the good guys releasing a wide range of films with quality and care. My how you have fallen and let down your customers. The only saving grace is that this is a pressed dvd release and not one of those Warner Archive dvd-r releases.

one of travoltas worst movies due to a bad script John travolta has made some classic modern movies and this isn't one of them. Even in his slump periods where he made some obscure movies they were better than this. In fact this one is so bad that it claims it's based on real events which is not the case. In fact even my most liberal friend thought some nutcase must have written this one! I can say that yes there's crime in the military and rapes and such but this one seems to have a motive of just being antimilitary instead of telling a good story about bad people in the military which is acceptable.  This is almost as bad as 'the valley of elah' and like that one you had excellent actors lost in a movie driven by a underlying idea of smearing rathering than telling a story. That one though was far worse than this one!  Travolta acts as well as ever but he can't save this one.

Don't watch, you're not missing a thing I saw preview after preview of this at the D23 expo. I was initially excited as I thought it meant the return of good Disney movies (before Pixar joined) like Lion King, Little Mermaid, Pocahontas, etc. There was so much hype. After watching all the previews there I knew the film sucked.  I saw the film twice. Second time was just because I kept falling asleep while watching it, due to how dull it was, the first time. I thought it might have been just me at the time so I gave it another go. Wish I hadn't.  The characters are really hard to fall in love with. I was annoyed by how one dimensional they were. The film is predictable, The singing was nothing special-- and in fact, I often wonder what happened to the gorgeous singing/orchestra they used to have for the early 90's films. I don't see how kids would enjoy this. There's nothing flashy in there and in this day and age, you really need that. Don't waste your money.

INSANELY TERRIBLE Who in their right mind would give this thing five stars? It's a mish mash of tacky one liners and sterotypes from conflicting genres which came off more like a spoof of every cowboy and alien movie ever released. Its just as silly as the title implies...cowboys fighting cowboys, then indians then aliens...The best minds in Hollywood lost their minds for this one..I gave it one star because you can't beat Daniel Craig in chaps!!!!!

Stupid movie (SPOILER INCLUDED) Not worth seeing. It made me laugh but not because it was a comedy, because it was stupid. Won't recommend it to anyone. Unfortunate that I can't give it zero stars.  For instance, niether character apparently has a job since you never see them at work yet they have plenty of money to get plastic surgery and live in nice apartments. Moreover, the surgeries are not done in sterile operating rooms using standard sterile techniques.  But let's talk about the basic story line. Crazy women gets a face change to make her boyfriend happy but then she changes her name and ID to trick him, only to find that he doesn't love the her as the new stranger and although he still loves the old her, the gets a face change himself and  makes no effort to be with her.  Ha ha ha, that is funny.  Maybe you must live in Korea to understand this strange movie.

Bad experience Here it is 30 days since my movie was "shipped",We never recieved it but they did refund my money.I don't think I would shop Amazon again.I promised my 6 yr old she would be getting her movie.Try to explain to a child why this didn't happen.I am truly disappointed.

Prequel Trilogy has no bonus features or extra's there are many reviews intermixed with the reviews of the 9 disc box set...this review is about the 3 blu-ray prequel trilogy with the Yoda face on the cover: THERE ARE NO EXTRA'S OR BONUS FEATURES ON THIS 3 BLU-RAY SET...i was terribly disappointed...no deleted scenes, no making of's, nothing...just a lousy commentary...(i hate people talking over my movie, this isn't Mystery Science Theater 3000 y'know)...movies are fine, but all the extra's are ONLY on the 9 disc box set (with boy Anakin on the cover on Tatooine) Lucas has robbed me again.

The movie is a solid 5*'s; The Deluxe Blu-Ray set gets 1* for complete lack of audio, during main feature playback I can't give The 70th Anniversary Casablanca Blu-Ray set very good marks at all. My initial shipment of this item was great as long as I was watching the extra features. The trouble started when I went to watch the film; there was no audio broadcasting, during the playback. I quickly reported the item as defective and Amazon promptly sent me a replacement. Unfortunately, the replacement had the same issue. I'm running  a Samsung BD-6500 blu-ray player with all of the most recent updates. I'm not sure where the problem actually lies in this issue; but as I have no problems on playback with any other blu-ray I watch, I'm afraid there is a fault in the Warner Bros. production line. Hopefully I just hit a small, confined issue with this blu-ray as I would love to eventually own it; but until I hear that the issue has been dealt with, I can't be bothered with spending money on it right now.  Is anyone else having issues with the audio playback?

Unbelievably tedious, boring, and awful This movie is one of the worst that I have ever seen.  If it were a little better, then it would be funny because it is so bad.  It's even worse than that. It has achieved my rating of "Unbelievably tedious, boring, and awful."

In a word: Boring This story would have been better told in a half hour or (maybe) even an hour long show.  It drags on and on and on, and even though you want to know what happens to most of the characters, getting there is almost painful.  It does show how drugs destroy lives, but there are so many unnecessary scenes and some that don't even make any sense.  The actors are okay, but their talent is wasted in this snooze-fest.  It tries to tell a story about a doctor who steals prescription medications and ends up trading them for illegal drugs, and it throws in alcohol abuse for good measure. But in the final analysis, ultimately it misses.

I would give this version a negative star vote if I could I always loved Amadeus and watched my VHS all the time.  I accidentally ordered this director's cut, which I avoid religiously because I've never liked director's cut movies.  This one is arguably the WORST I've seen.  Even though Salieri is bad and is responsible for the death of Amadeus in the theatrical version, in this version he is made truly evil.  That's only one thing I hated about it... I can't even list all the things I hated.  There's  even nudity, which just does not fit with the theme of this incredible movie.  Buy the theatrical version- it's SO much better than this one, and if you have not seen the theatrical version and hate this movie, then buy or rent that one.  You won't be disappointed!

Unlikable character who is totally selfish.  Very slow. Julia Roberts character starts the movie married.  He is totally devoted to her but she looks at him with total contempt from the beginning.  The first part of the movie is about her mid-life crises.  She feels trapped and wants to selfishly abandon her husband to travel the world.  Despite everyone around her telling her she is acting like a teenager or early twenty year old, she divorces her husband.  In the divorce proceedings he even turns down all her money and says he just wants her; he also laments she never told him she was unhappy, just left (she instantly starts sleeping with a much younger man-I mean instantly).  She then leaves to go and do what the movie should be called, "Eat, sleep with Younger Guys and Be Selfish"  How many women would love this movie if the main character was a man?  What if the man instantly left his wife and started sleeping around?  He would be a "pig" and they would hate the move.  Falling in love is easy, staying in love is hard; it takes work.  With "Hollywood" role models guiding so much of our life, I wonder why our divorce rate is 50%?

Do not  buy - total scam Love both of these movies and could not wait to get for my kids. However this is not a double feature, the Secret Garden does not exist on this DVD. I ordered one, complained to Amazon who acted like I was trying to scam them over a $5 item and they finally sent another one. Guess what, same thing, only Little Princess. Save yourself the headache and buy the 2 movies separately, there is no value/savings with this particular item.

she was also just a human and not perfekt Der Film &uuml;ber das Leben von Filmstar "Joan Crawford" ist die Sicht Ihrer undankbaren Adoptivtochter "Christina Crawford" die neidisch auf den Erfolg Ihrer Mutter war und nicht die Sicht von Joan Crawford weil die zu dem Zeitpunkt die Erde schon von unten betrachtet hat.  Christina Crawford hat sich "nach Ihrem Tod" (wie sch&auml;ndlich und niedrig) an der Ber&uuml;hmtheit Ihrer erfolgreichen Mutter bereichert weil sie von Ihr enterbt wurde. Sie wollte Geld verdienen mit der Ver&ouml;ffentlichung Ihres gleichnamigen Buches und diesem schlechten B-Film. Es war ein klarer und berechneter Rachefeldzug gegen Ihre Mutter, ihre Kindheitstraumen h&auml;tte Sie genauso gut diskret einem Psychologen erz&auml;hlen k&ouml;nnen und nicht der ganzen Welt publik machen m&uuml;ssen...  Au&szlig;erdem klingt Ihre Geschichte sophistisch und verdreht und erscheint mir ma&szlig;los &uuml;bertrieben. Ich habe auch Ihr Buch gelesen und glaube Ihr nicht alles was Sie schrieb. Papier ist geduldig. Es sagt schon viel aus wie indiskret Sie mit Ihrem Privatleben und dem Ihrer verstorbenen Mutter umging. Ich finde die ganze Person C. Crawford unaufrichtig und falsch...  Eigentlich wollte Christina Crawford auch Schauspielerin werden doch Ihr war der Erfolg nach diesem miesen Trashfilm wohl nicht mehr verg&ouml;nnt... Sie hat sich damit nur eine Mauer in Ihrem Leben gebaut, h&auml;tte die Vergangenheit besser ziehen lassen und nicht aus Ihr Profit machen sollen. Au&szlig;erdem ist Sie dreimal geschieden, was nicht gerade f&uuml;r Sie spricht. Familienmythen werden ja meist von Generation zu Generation weitergegeben... Vermutlich hat Joan noch aus dem Grab &uuml;ber Sie regiert! Joan hatte auch kein Gl&uuml;ck mit M&auml;nnern au&szlig;er sp&auml;ter mit Alfred Steele der Ihr leider fr&uuml;h verstarb.  Zur Rolle von Fay Dunaway: Soviel Energie, Temperament & Feuer konnte Fay Dunaway nicht darstellen... Ganz einfach, weil Sie nicht die Crawford war! Sie war so elegant und dynamisch zugleich! Ein echter Hollywoodstar aus den goldenen Jahren Hollywoods wie man ihn heute nicht mehr findet und Sie hat sich Ihren Ruhm hart erarbeitet.  Ich liebe Joan Crawford!  Forever!  (egal was &uuml;ber Sie geschrieben wurde)  englisch  The film about the life of movie star "Joan Crawford" is the term of your ungrateful adopted daughter, "Christina Crawford" the envious of the success of your mother was not the view of Joan Crawford because that has seen at the time the earth already from below.  Christina Crawford has enriched "after your death" (such as shameful and low) on the fame of your successful mother because she was disowned by you. She wanted to earn money with the publication of your book and this same bad B-movie. It was a clear and calculated campaign of revenge against her mother, her childhood traumas you have as good a psychologist to tell discreet and not have to make public all over the world ...  Also, your story sounds like sophistry and twisted, and seems to me grossly exaggerated. I have also read your book and you do not believe everything you wrote. Paper is patient. It says a lot from how you dealt with your indiscreet private life and that of your deceased mother. I find the whole person C. Crawford disingenuous and wrong ...  Really wanted to be an actress Christina Crawford but your success was granted to this rotten trash film is no longer good ... She has built a wall so only in your life, the past would be better not to take make your profit. In addition, it is three times divorced, which is not exactly speak for you. Family myths are so often passed on from generation to generation ... Joan probably has ruled from the grave about you! Joan also had no luck with men except later with Alfred Steele of your sadly died early.  On the role of Fay Dunaway: So much energy, temperament & Fay Dunaway fire did not pose ... Simply because you do not Crawford was! She was so elegant and dynamic at the same time! A true Hollywood star from the golden age of Hollywood as he is no longer finds you and has earned its fame hard.  I love Joan Crawford!  Forever!  (No matter what was written about her)

One of the worst movies ever... I never understood the hype around Fulci. He's severely overrated. This movie is one of them. Slow, terribly acted, terrible directed, and just plain stupid. This is not a great movie, even from the 80's. Even beyond the "cheesy" classic. Definitely a movie worth forgetting. Watch Zombie 2 instead.

rubbish rubbish movie, waste of time dont buy it.  why this movie was made is beyond me but these movie producers are losing their touch with movies.  absolutely bland, boring and just a pointless movie.  wanna see penguins? go to the aquarium or zoo

Sophomoric Entry Level Humor, ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz!!!! Fell asleep 3 TIMES trying to watch this.  The ppl in the audience must be medicated or something, maybe they need to get out more since they are just in a frenzy for the set that I found to be grade school level humor.

Total rip off The Three stooges( Collectors Edition) The box says "7DVDs over 11 hours" what they dont say is that there are only 4 classic stooges shorts and only on the first DVD. The rest of the set is crap. The reamaining 6 1/2 dvds /10 hours are patched together bad movies and cartoons ( remember the really bad stooges cartoons you wouldnt even watch back in the 60's)  It is intentionaly misrepresented. The packaging is first class, a real eyegrabber, but whats inside is junk.

Unashamed indoctrination This movie does not even TRY to hide what it is.  Hollywood is at it again.  Pushing their liberal / statist agenda on to children with the goal of turning them into brain-dead drones that will tow the line of the far left and environmentalist whack jobs.  I agree that nature should not plowed down for another strip mall that we don't need, but this movie is practically anti-human.  Every time Hollywood tries to put out a far-left leaning piece of crap like The Lorax, it always fails.  The ticket booth numbers for this movie pretty tell that tale - it flopped.  If you are one who is into the whole go-green, environmental movement, you will totally love this movie.  If you are one who just looks for movies for entertainment and not a political agenda, skip this movie entirely.  I am sure that there will be a smattering of liberals who will add hate-filled, angry comments to my review.  I am used to them.  In fact, it is the leftists / liberals / statists who claim to be loving, tolerant and ACCEPTING of other peoples' views / ideas / choice of lifestyle / political beliefs.  However, when you make a statement that goes against their views, get ready to get flamed like I will with this review (and like the founder of Chick Fil A recently did).  Bottom line - this movie is exactly what you will expect it to be.  Whether you like it or not is up to you.  Addendum:  One other thing.  I have read a lot of the 4 and 5 star reviews of this movie.  Many people mentioned how important it is to "protect the Earth".  Well, if you TRULY believe that and the indoctrinating message this movie carries with it, DON'T EVER DRIVE A CAR AGAIN!!!  Get rid of your house.  Live off of the trees and bushes as not to purchase anything from a store.  Do not buy anything ever again so that you won't generate any garbarge or recyclable material.  Don't fly on a plane.  Walk everywhere you go.  Do not use any paved roads.  Get rid of the computer you are reading this on right now. NEVER USE PAPER AGAIN.  Don't wear clothes or shoes.  If you truly believe that man is killing the Earth, or that we actually have the power to change what nature does to this planet (there was global warming way before the automobile), you should follow these guidelines to TRULY PROVE you believe the garbage that is in this movie.

Eat Pray Love - Pass In short pass. I watched this drivel with my mother over the holidays thinking it would be a wonderful chic flick with beautiful travel cinematography. It was terribly boring, no great travel shots and a waste of our time. Neither my mother nor myself are fans of Julia Roberts but thought perhaps this movie might be fine because of the travel. I only paid $1 from the kiosk rental but still not worth it. Save your money and time - even if on sale. I agree with another reviewer the companions in Italy were the most interesting part of the movie but never really developed the characters. The reason for the main character's up and leaving husband - the hopping in/out of bed from husband to flaky actor to sensual Javier Bardem. I could not emphathize with the character. Too self absorbed and she brought the unhappiness upon herself. For a similar chic flick I'd rather watch Under the Tuscan Sun which had a nice ensemble of characters that were allowed to develop; not Eat Pray Love.

Aunt Bam is the best but not even she can save this play.... I love Aunt Bam's character. She is the perfect sidekick for Madea and Cassi Davis's comedic timing is amazing, but not even her antics and humor can save this play. Its a little more dramatic and over-the-top than Tyler's usual plays and while the singing is AMAZING, the script and subject of the play is weak and at times way less than entertaining. Hopefully Tyler will do Cassi Davis justice and write a play that is deserving of her skill and presence.

Gun? seriously. . . . Omg this movie sucked balls, the plot was pointless and the lack of action. . .I fell asleep twice trying to watch it! Its really that bad, val kilmer you really fell off making this movie, please please stop making this striaght to dvd bull(bleep)!

This Movie would have been cool, if it went somewhere This movie was cool, decent amount of action, not too much character progression, then it just ended out of nowhere, totally annoying, its like ok, thats it, done. were out of money, just end it. did the guy survive? did he find help or get out, did he tell his story, what? just end, ok that's dumb. its like i started watching a movie and left half way in.

Purchase challenge The movie I received was in a European format that my player was not comparable with. The cost to return the video exceeded its value so I am stuck with a useless disc.

off the mark the original Cars film was amazing and my son loved it.  We thought Cars 2 would be the perfect first theater experience for him and were sorely disappointed.  Pixar has never been more off the mark.  The first film was funny for kids and adults, with jokes appropriate for all age levels.  Cars 2 was violent and offensive.  My son asked to leave after 20 minutes and I wish we had.  We stayed, thinking it was just the theater experience he had to adjust to, then they had cars beating up another car in the bathroom!  The whole film was uncomfortable to watch with a 4 year old. I was happy that they made reference to losing Paul Newman and there were obviously a few funny things, but overall, this movie is not appropriate for the same age group as the first movie. Definitely screen this movie before family movie night or you could have some upset children.

your conscience should dictate I admit I was lured by the incredible characterization in Martin's novels. You can't help but be drawn in to the tragedy of Bran or Jon or their parents. So for the sake of learning that there might be a happy ending somewhere along the way, I tried to ignore the filthy language and skipped over sections that truly plagued my moral conscience. I finally realized that after pursuing the most recent novel to find out what appropriate end was met by some of the most horrific players in the drama, not only did I get bored but this book contained far more trash than wholesomeness, more pangs to my moral fiber. A little more than half way through it (after skipping more than I read), I deposited it in the trash shute down the hall.  I will probably be interpreted as an extremist but I will sleep better at night knowing that I'm not playing with fire anymore. If you are drawn into the story lines of each very long novel, you are being drawn in as a fly to a spider. If you have children, you don't want them looking at this stuff. If you believe that you are what you read, you will never know what I'm talking about. You're safe.

Young adult This  was the most boring, and messed up movie I have seen. I think there were maybe one or two laughs in the entire movie. I would not recommend this to anyone.

What A Mockery ! Ok, I can understand the intentions of this film .. great intentions.  I've watched this film a few times now, examining it more and more each time, and now realizing that the only thing that deserves to go to hell in this film is the terrible cheese that goes along with the mainstream hardcore fundamentalist message of " salvation " through hellfire and brimstone .. , in which to this day continues to make people like myself look awful when the word " Christianity " is brought up .. and a subject in which I feel scares people from actually coming to God .. but hey, to each his own ..  I do believe heaven and hell are actual real places, yet .. I don't believe that you should go all Westboro Baptist Church on people and deliver the message in THIS WAY ! I gave it one star, because the message of Jesus Christ ( I must admit ) is the only thing that saves this awful documentary in the end from receiving a zero ! I'm sorry, there are some good messages here and there throughout this film, .. but you'll be able to see who's REALLY JUDGING OTHERS and who's not .. who's REALLY COVERING UP THEIR OWN SINS and who's not .. typical hypocrisy .. I dunno .. check it for yourself, don't expect to be too far impressed with anything you see .. it's all good intentions, just awful executing in the end result, and people and experiences throughout that you just sit back and question.

Warning: LETTERBOXED The one star is not for the movie, which I like, but for the DVD itself.  It's letterboxed, which means the viewer sees a small rectangle in the middle of the screen.  The disk is labeled Widescreen, NTSC, with a DVD date of 2011.  One would assume it's anamorphic (fills a 16x9 screen)--especially considering that there's no mention of it's being letterboxed.  But letterboxed it is.  I certainly would not have ordered it had I known this.

Bad Acting Bad acting, awful fight scenes, unrealistic special effects, horrible plot line with no real character development... I could go on, but it would force me to only reflect on a time well wasted. I do like the Johnny Cash song at the end though.

Ship really does happen... Jack Black is one of those actors/musicians that you either like somewhat or hate with a passion. There really is no middle ground. For me, Jack Black the actor will best be known for Be Kind Rewind, the Kung Fu Panda films, Saving Silverman, and High Fidelity while Jack Black the musician kind of lost his mojo after the first Tenacious D record (which is still a favorite amongst friends). Truth be told, Black seems to be at his best when he's not confined to the limits of family entertainment or at least has some room to stretch in a PG-13 environment. Gulliver's Travels actually feels like a Jack Black movie despite its family friendly rating, but that still can't save the fact that it's a fairly horrid experience overall.  Gulliver (Black) works in the mail room and comes to the realization that he's not going anywhere in life. He finds himself on the way to The Bermuda Triangle after informing the office travel editor, Darcy Silverman (Amanda Peet), that he's this supremely gifted (plagiarized) writer. On his journey there, Gulliver wakes up on the island of Liliput which is filled with nothing but tiny people. As a giant amongst mere men, Gulliver sees this as a chance to start over and be the "big man" for once. He soon learns that the size of a person isn't always an accurate portrayal of how big they really are.  For a movie being marketed towards children, it was kind of shocking what actually made it into the film. There's an entire conversation centered on the term, "lame ass," which is blurted several times throughout the entire two minute conversation. Can you remember the last time Mickey Mouse called Donald Duck a "dumb ass?" I sure can't (that "South Park" episode doesn't count). After a fire breaks out in Liliput, Gulliver thinks on his feet er...with his groin and puts out the fire by urinating on it as well as a handful of tiny people in the process. When all else fails, when you have a problem you're having a difficult time resolving, just piss on it as well as everyone around you. That's pretty much what you'll take away from the segment. And did they really squeeze the phrase, "skeet skeet," into a family movie? Really?! That's pretty insane. What's even more ludicrous is what the film followed that part of the conversation up with; "ship happens." It sure does, Gulliver. It sure does.  You can probably accept the way the movie begins; mostly because it actually looks and feels like the way Jack Black wakes up every morning. Walking around without pants on, re-enacting Star Wars with action figures, and mixing coffee and creamer in the filter to make coffee all seem like something the Jack Black people have gone to see on-screen the past fifteen years would do. That's kind of the only good thing about Gulliver's Travels. It does feel like it's Jack Black approved and authenticated by the man himself, which it probably was since he also produced it. The movie is based on the Jonathan Swift novel of the same name, which was written in 1726. But the movie gives no on-screen credit to the novel and that should be the first sign that you should probably abandon ship before you even board.  The bottom line is Gulliver's Travels isn't funny. Not even a little bit. It's just toilet humor and expensive special effects colliding together while Jack Black shoves his goofy antics down your throat. The guy passes out after he falls on his backside, which is honestly something I've never seen before this movie. While Black does look to be having fun in the role, it just doesn't translate very well. These tiny people build Gulliver a life size home in less than seven days, which doesn't seem very logical. Forcing Horatio (Jason Segel) to recite Prince's "Kiss" while trying to woo Princess Mary (Emily Blunt) probably should've been more entertaining than it was. Jack Black can sing. He has the talent and the ability, but he's one of those performers that's better heard rather than seen. Him singing "War" at the end of the movie really should've just played over the credits rather than be an in-movie, choreographed with tiny people music video. Was Emily Blunt being awful on purpose? She was just horrendous at times. Plus she dropped out of Iron Man 2 for this? Somebody explain that to me.  Gulliver's Travels is more than likely just as bad as the unfortunate soul that actually sat through it told you it was, if not worse. Jack Black does try to carry the film the best that he can, but it all crumbles once he literally and figuratively urinates all over everything. Throw in a giant robot and Black's butt crack and it's immediately labeled as something you should probably never sit through. Ever. Although featuring some well done special effects, any little bit of good Gulliver's Travels once had is massively outweighed by bad acting, weak story points, and humor that's more disgusting than it needs to be.

It just leaves out one thing... And that would be any concrete (or ANY?) evidence that Frank Marshall Davis was his father.  Joel had built an impressive edifice, but it fails when this premise at the foundation of his argument is not proven.  Claptrap.

Absolutely Dreadful! Since I don't see movies in theaters anymore, I had to wait until this hit DVD. I am a big fan of the first two RE movies, and thought the third one was fair. This fourth movie however is awful. I am mad I paid $20 for this at Fry's, $20 that would have been better used as toilet paper.  This movie picks up right where the third one ends, with all of the Alice clones going after the main Umbrella headquarters in Tokyo. Yes, they do infiltrate and kill lots of soldiers, but their main target is Albert Wesker. Well he is the only one who escapes, and he proceeds to detonate the entire underground complex from his stealth plane, killing all of the Alice clones in the process. Of course the real Alice is hiding on the plane, and just before she shoots him in the head, Albert injects her with a serum that contains a virus that targets T-cells and destroys them, with the result that Alice becomes human again. Alice losing her super powers however seems to make no difference, as she continues to flip, run, jump, kick, punch, chop, and shoot with the same intensity and accuracy as she did in the previous two films. Eventually she meets up with her old gal pal in crime, Claire, played by Ali Larter, who's butt is getting bigger each time I see her in a new movie. Without spoiling anything, the plot of this movie is a bunch of survivors trapped in a high rise building, work towards escaping with the help of Alice and Claire, still determined to learn origin of the broadcast Arcadia. Claire's memory is shot and slowly recovers throughout the movie, after she is rescued by Alice early in the movie. Anyway, that's as much plot as I care to get into.  Why is this movie dreadful, oh let me count the ways:  1. It's boring. Yes, it's painfully boring, not a moment of suspense in the entire movie.  2. It's unoriginal. This movie shamelessly steals from the Matrix and takes a few ideas from The Thing, Silent Hill and Blade II for good measure.  3. The plot is incredibly weak, and there is very little detail throughout.  4. The characters are stale and poorly scripted. Milla Jovovich seems real bored in this movie, she just goes through the motions. She displays no emotion, and speaks in a monotone voice for much of the film. The other characters add nothing to the movie either, you don't care whether any of them live or die. The acting also ranges from fair to bad.  5. The effects are subpar. Yes, I know this movie was made as a 3D experience, and since I don't have a 3D tv, I was not able to experience it like that. So while the 3D might have been good, the 2D is sadly lacking, with some of the worst CGI I've seen since I am Legend.  While the ending of the third film clearly left the door open for a fourth, the ending of Afterlife insinuates the end of the series as well. Truthfully, after seeing Afterlife, killing off the series might be the right thing to do. I think the RE movies have run their course. The R rating combined with the premise of Afterlife, promised hope it would be the best in the series, but it's the worst. Avoid at all costs. Sadly I think Afterlife did well enough at the box office, that studio execs will probably pump out a fifth film.

One Star is Generous Zero stars. I felt compelled to write a review to save people from wasting their time and money on this garbage.  I had the misfortune of seeing this movie today with my husband and we both couldn't believe what a horribly written and misogynistic movie this was!  Literally people were walking out left and right.  The movie attempts to create an engaging storyline that leaves the viewer disgruntled and confused.  The ending was flat, like the storyline, and at the end of the movie my husband said, "Well, that was a waste of two hours," and the couple behind us said, "We were just saying the same thing."  Save yourself the time, and frustration, and skip this one!

Would like to rate it 0 stars My neighbor and I traded some movies, and this is one I borrowed from her. I watched it with no knowledge of the subject, content or reviews.  After watching it (and I really wanted to stop after the first 45 mins. or so, but kept watching thinking it just HAD to get better...) I wanted to have a hose to flush the memory of it from my brain.  This ranks up there at the top of my list of worst movies ever made.  I like DiCaprio a lot, and have several of his movies, but I think he and Winslet just wanted the paycheck.  This movie is a strong statement about the gender-defined "roles" everyone was expected to play until the 1970's, and how trying to fit into those sterotyped roles stifled and suffocated. The movies' basic tenet is that anyone who married, had children, had a nice house in the suburbs with enough money, (i.e. played their roles) couldn't possibly have been happy or fulfilled. The only way to be happy and fulfilled would be to always be a totally self-indulgent child who goes through life only doing what feels good at the moment.  Responsibility is to be shunned, since it forces one to maybe have to do something that is not "fun."  The movie offers no insight into their personalities or motivations, no interaction with their two children or anything else that would elevate them from shallow, one-dimensional, paper cut-out dolls.  DiCaprio and Winslet are excellent actors.  But two hours of watching them fight visciously and tear apart themselves, their marriage, their lives and possibly their childrens' lives is not entertainment.  It is shallow, narcissistic voyeurism.  Bottom line...I hated it.  Will not watch it again.  Do not recommend.

TOTALLY GYPPED!! The movie DVD was completely blank. We tried it on 3 different DVD players and it never played. What a waste of money and unfortunately I purchased the DVD for an upcoming film production class project I had registered for so I didn't open the pack and check it right away. A total waste!

It should never have been sold I have never been so disappointed in a purchase.  The movie was green and by adjusting my TV I got a little color, but at best it looked like Sepia.  I realize now that what I purchased was used and a rental, but maybe you should have reviewed the movie before selling.  $11.44, really?  I have returned it and expect a refund, but it really was a waste of my time and my excitement to see the movie again was depleted.  I really don't think you (Amazon) want customers to know that this piece of work came from you so I will not check the box to label it.

Wrong Picture i bought this product because it was supposedly an special edition with a box and all it is is a regular common DVD. I really want to sue Amazon just for selling this product with that picture.

never received my order i received a wierd email about my package and when I went to send the seller an email about it, it said they cancelled their acct with amazon ! we just called the credit card company an had them stop payment

Good flick.  Lousy sound. No matter my inclinations towards Lancaster and his no nonsense duty and honor, the movie was not at all enjoyable due to the lousy sound--I've heard better in downstair closets filled with 20 years of dust.  What went wrong?

Disappointing Absolutely, utterly and completely boring.  This has to be Duvall's worst movie ever.  The story line was about an old man who, it seemed, had lost his mind.  I kept waiting for a plot or something to happen, but there was nothing.  The only part that included "convicts" was in the first scene and then just an old man's rambling imagination.  Nearly every sentence contains "G** damn" in it.  The coffin scene was hideous.  Ok, I sat bolt upright, took my ginseng, B-12 and Acai berry and I still feel like falling asleep it is so dull.  This movie was a terrible.  Not worth watching even if you paid $1 for it.  So, if you have a hard time falling asleep, just pop this movie in, you will be out in 60 seconds tops....ZZZZZ!

What a wasted opportunity All of the actors and actresses in this production are excellent, BUT the movie is a waste of time and money (yours and the producers).  The rewrite is not well thought-out.  I would recommend the European collection of all three books/movies (One may purchase it in a 4-disk set and the additional material is as well done as any additional production material I've seen on an accompanying disk).  I'd read all three books before seeing the three original films, and the compromises are small and not disconcerting (like the changes in the American version to Rooney Mara's personality and belief system. They are senseless and compromise the performance of a very talented actress). I also can't believe that Daniel Craig agreed to have his name associated with the American version.  Sorry for the rant, but I liked the books and Swedish movies a great deal.  A "1" rating is really harsh. I just read today that it means "hate," but there's no one-and-a-half rating.  My opinion wouldn't have changed, but I personally would have felt a little better.  That's the American way, eh', ;}

Dull, inappropriate humor, not funny - waste of time! I am a huge Seuss fan.  LOVE the Grinch.  Now that we don't have cable, I requested it from our library, and was surprised to get this Jim Carrey version.  We put on the fire, snuggled as a family and eagerly sat down to watch it.  About 30 minutes into the movie, I yawned.  It wasn't funny.  It wasn't entertaining.  There were some cringe-worthy moments as this story introduced sexual innuendo between the Grinch and another character.  The scene where he winds up with his face in her breasts was downright icky.  The kids chuckled a bit at some of the sight gags, but when we stopped because of time (this is a LONG movie!), they didn't protest at all, and never cared to see the end.  Usually my kids love to watch any humorous movie and can't wait to see the second half.  But this Grinch bored them.  My husband and I talked afterward - this is not the Grinch we know and love.  Dr. Seuss must be rolling in his grave.  The added theme of consumerism and excess consumption weren't needed - nothing was needed.  The original story was brilliant in its own light.  I've since returned the dreaded movie and ordered the real Grinch on DVD to add to our collection.  I wouldn't waste your time with this version.

Great series, terrible DVD quality. I own EVERY Season of Heartland on DVD and every single set I have owned (bought brand new mind you) has been terrible quality. The characters look grainy and the colors are very washed out. The odd thing is that the episodes on Netflix are almost HD quality so I don't get it. It seems as though whomever is converting it to the dvds is doing a shoddy job.  My husband walked in while I was watching (he is an Engineer) and said "Wow, that looks like a VHS" and that is exactly what it looks like. We have two HD TVs and I have watched it on both TVs and still the same results. I think they are cutting corners and using a crappy company to do their conversions. I feel a little ripped off to be honest. Especially since I am such a loyal fan and this is one of the biggest shows in Canada so its not like they are low on budget. If you can get your episodes any other way Netflix, iTunes, etc...I would do that. I know its nice to have the box sets , but believe me when I say its not worth the $45.  Unfortunately I live in the US so I have no choice, but to buy the box sets since Netflix takes forever to post the seasons up and apparently there is a Canadian iTunes and a USA iTunes so it won't let me buy the episodes through their because they are only offered to Canadians.  If you have a choice skip the DVDS as they are terrible quality. I actually just bought Season 5 and its so grainy that I have been watching it on YouTube, thats how sad it is. I own the Dvds and I am having to resort to YouTube to watch it because the quality is so annoying. I even played one episode on Netflix on one TV and then the exact same episode from the DVD on my other TV and the difference in quality was astounding!! The Netflix version had vibrant colors and no graininess and the DVD version was very washed out (think VHS from the 90's).

DO NOT BUY THIS! ITS TERRIBLE! DO NOT BUY THIS MOVIE ITS TOTAL JUNK!    This movie is terrible ESPECIALLY if your a big Halo fan. First off I was excited, but when I found out it was going to be Anime I wasn't as encouraged to watch it, I bit my tongue and watched it anyway. I was right, not only is it poorly done even by Anime standards but it makes a mockery of the whole series of games by making it some cheesy half witted group of scatter brained mini series'. Just the whole Spartan 1339 part was typical corny Anime junk like Pokemon and all the other poppy junk. Spartans are genetically engineered killing machines not crazed idiotic contortionists. This movie way under shot its mark and took the "Bad ass" quality of Halo and the whole battle riddled world the Spartans defend, and made it cute and cuddly land of stupidity with pet dinosaurs and Covenent Samurai sitting at their dinner tables conversing with there wives over a cup of tea before teaching at their Dojo... seriously thats whats in the movie.    I can't stress enough that actually watching this made me even more angry with Microsoft. If your going to just throw funding away for a piece of crap like this movie, why not make an actual movie that's not garbage. Your better off holding on to the dream of "maybe someday they'll make a movie and its going to be awesome!" rather than have it obliterated by this movie.

Awful Boring With Kids This movie sucks. Surely, even people with kids have interesting conversations. The pace of the movie is to fall asleep to. The most exciting moment was when I hit the off button on my remote.

Rubbish Crap. Viewed: 5/12 Rate: 2  5/12: Last Exit to Brooklyn...what a terrible film. All of the characters are so intensely disliked that there is nothing to hope for the rest of it. There is just nothing else. Whatever the crap they are doing, I am having none of it, and I couldn't wait for the film to end. Where is the police on the street the entire time? Completely unrealistic. Even more unrealistic is how fake the characters tried to imitate the era of that time through their clothes, mannerisms, and attitudes. Such a fake acting. I've grown extremely wearisome of Burt Young due to his oft repeated demeanor that he carries from Rocky movies. Of all, the worst performance goes to Jennifer Jason Leigh (thoroughly overdone) who stinks in every film there is. Every time I see Stephen Baldwin, I just want his brother Alec to beat him with the set of brass balls from Glengarry Glen Ross. All in all, nearly everything about Last Exit to Brooklyn has nothing to do with each other; a one disjointed mess of a flick.

ZZZZZZapphire and ZZZZZZteel I was very excited to purchase this DVD set since I had watched some of it when I was about 5 or 6 years old.  I don't know what made me think that my love of it at that age would somehow tranfer into a love for it at my current age. This DVD set is DULL, DULL, DULL unless you like confusing plots, terrible acting, stories that go nowhere, heroes that can hardly be called heroes because in the end you're not really sure what they've actually accomplished, and most of all, in Episode 1, one of the most annoying little girls you will ever encounter in so-called "sci fi." I would highly recommend not buying this DVD set unless you absolutely love cheap shows that try unsuccessfully to rip off the entertainment value of the almighty Doctor Who.  Yours truly,  Bored as heck and wishing I had my money back

Lost in Translation I didn't read the book but I did listened to the audio book. I found it interesting though it was a bit hard to determine which character was saying what.  So I bought this dvd. The screenplay was worst than the audio book script. You could follow who was saying what but chunks of the story were missing. I expected a Cliff Note compression of the book and audio book, not a total gutting of them.  Basically it's a "Straight to Video", Soap Opera-ish B-movie. With all of the cable channels out there I can't think of one that would pay money to air this. Not even a community access tv station in need of free programming!  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00009MEC7">Mary Higgins Clark: You Belong to Me</a>

Foreign Purchases I purchased the DVD video Ponyo and when I tried to play it I found that it is not "region compatible."  Apparently when a DVD is purchased from another country (I purchased it through Amazon) there are compatibility issues and will not play on USA players.  I didn't realize that it was being shipped from England.

KILLER YUCK PARTY Well then, Hell must have froze over, Troma, America's sleaziest movie producers have forgone their normal, stupid, gross, over the top gorefests and made a movie that's just stupid.  A wanna-be bimbo drags her deceptively frumpy room-mate from party to party to yacht to mooch drinks off guys who only think with their "little" heads. Bimbo hears about a yacht party and its anchors aweigh. There is a back story about a woman who burned to death on the yacht and now she haunts the yacht as a party pooper ghost. Of course.  There is no acting in this movie and being a Troma film it suffers the same kind of low-rent production values.  With the sole exception of some stock footage of yachts and sailboats--once the party-goers have boarded, there is nothing about the location that looks like they are on a boat, although in a couple of scenes the camera does linger on a life-saver hung on a wall. And the kill scenes are boring and curiously blood-free and at one point someone loses their head but since the special effects are so lousy, it looks like the killer is holding a very hairy coconut.  one scene I have to admit is a comedic classic of stupidity, the robots on MST3K would have a field day with this one-one party-goer is slashed with a grappling hook and falls overboard-the laugh being, the fall from yacht to water is comparable to falling from a very low canoe. It's little touches like this that keeps Troma on the bottom of the movie industry. And by the way-the DVD cover is a fake-doesn't happen.  I saw this piece of guano on my cable-they have a channel set-up with movies you can watch without an additional charge. This movie is being released in May and I will take a peek to see how many 5 star reviews start appearing.  If Troma wants to play fair maybe they should assign the name "The Toxic Avenger" to one of their fake reviewers.  But I'll be fair too, I liked The Toxic Avenger.

Reviewing two versions of this film This is for the 2011 Elstree Hill version of this film. Forget about a review of the film - this is about the product. This version looks as bad as all the other cheapo versions of the film, but this one has bad audio. There is no audio in the left channel, and what is in the right channel is low volume.  Pure rubbish! At least earlier versions of the film don't have a sound problem.  I gave this release only one star, because amazon.com's system won't let you give it zero stars.  Now, let me get to the 2012 video on demand DVDr version of this film. The description and cover says it is released by a company called Blue Laser.  I was reluctant to order a DVDr of this because I really didn't believe it would be letterboxed, or any better than all the other junk versions of the film. I was very wrong.  It is truly letterboxed at 1:85. The picture is sharp, the colors are bright. If you have to own this b action flick, it is the one to have. To help you spot it, it has the title in green. The photo is a publicity shot of Brandon from Rapid Fire, and he is in a similar pose and wearing a sleeveless black t shirt. It is a DVDr, and it cost a little more than most versions of this film, but if you are a fan and you want this in your collection, this is the only version worth owning.  Remember, Blue Laser version, DVDr on demand, price around $12.  The Elstree version, Pickwick versions, Platinum versions and all the rest are pure crapola.  http://www.amazon.com/Laser-Mission-Brandon-Lee/dp/B0076D083I/ref=sr_1_6?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1345831509&sr=1-6&keywords=laser+mission

Hard To Even Evaluate Maybe it's just a sign of the times or what,but I just don't find such a film even remotely acceptable. A bunch of soldiers go around horribly killing and torturing German soldiers and it's supposed to be mad-cap funny and still somehow "deeply profound"? Could such a film be made today in,say,Germany? A movie of a group of German soldiers going around hilariously killing and torturing American GI's? Would it have won awards? An Oscar? Or maybe a film of VietCong comics running around carving up American's foreheads with knives and splattering their skulls with baseball bats? Funny award winning stuff,for sure. And,before you trot out the old "It was War! They Did do that stuff! It's only right that we like doing it back to Them!" argument,yes-terrible things happen in wartime-I Know. But to make mockery of things like this is terrible regardless. No one would dream of making a film about the hilarity of living in Andersonville Prison or some other hellish prison during the Civil War. How about a righteous comedy about Auschwitz? This movie is beyond tact and taste. It's just Wrong.

Don't waste your money! OMG!  This is the absolute worst movie I have EVER purchased.  Don't waste your money - wait for it to come on the sci-fi station - during "Z" flick week.  Did Hollywood completely run out of talent?  It's not the graphics that are lacking in this really bad film...those are not bad but they are entirely wasted on this film (you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear).  The "story" is old..aliens come down to wipe us out.  However, it's a story that can be made entertaining with the right characters and plot.  This film lacks BOTH.  I rarely commment on movies - however, this one is so incredibly bad - I felt it my duty to warn those that might be considering parting with the 16 bucks for this movie - save your money!!!!

Ugh. It's obvious what the director was reaching for in his cut of the film. Unfortunately, his reach exceeded his grasp. Which is why the studio had him do a rewrite, add scenes, and actors. The original theatrical release is an outstanding example of contemporary Crime Noir.  Fortunately, the Blu-ray release in the UK has _both_ versions of the film, and can be had for only a few dollars more than this disc (and there are no problems with playback on a stock Oppo BDP-93).

Terrible!  We turned it off. Despite having two of my favorite stars in the case, Maureen O'Hara and Jimmy Stewart, this movie was a great disappointment.  I watched it with a room full of people and the unanimous consent was that it is a terrible film!  It features some mild cussing and basically the whole attitude in the movie is very negative and contrary to family values as we see them nowadays.  Don't waste your time with this film.  While it is true that family vacations often turn into nightmares, the attitudes in this movie are just so distasteful that we couldn't understand why it has acclaim.

This dvd arrived broken Out of 3 dvd's, this one and another one arrived broken in 2 pieces. I sent it back and got a refund. I ordered another one that was brand new which was more expensive from someone else.

ultraviolet digital copy, no thanks. Bring back the regular digital copies.  I refuse categorically to buy anything with an ultraviolet digital copy.  Using Flixter to stream a digital copy is terrible strategy.  Unless it can be copied onto my devices, I don't want it.  When the streaming servers go dark, and they will go dark, you will be left with nothing. &lt;edit> The movie itself is great.  It is a wonderful adaptation of the book.  The music is dated, having a hokey 70s sound to it. However, the product itself - a blu ray movie with an ultraviolet digital copy is flawed.  I imagine the actual blu ray and/or DVD will be great.  4+1/2 stars for the movie itself. I hope the manufacturers will take note that they are losing sales to inferior digital copies. &lt;/edit>

Steve Austin the early years. I just recently bought this dvd to see Steve Austin in the early years. It wasn't worth the time and money, I remember watching Steve Austin in the 80's when he was young but this dvd only had 4 matches and they were not good at all. The matches were lame as all get out.

Painful This movie is slow and predictable. It is not funny, it is not much of anything. It was painful to sit through it. The money that these stars made for this, they should donate to charity.

this should be PROM NIGHT V. not no remake. this should be a fifth installment not no remake. everybody know that the original prom night was about revenge. a boy witness his sister got killed by 4 kids in a banddet bulding. six years has past. he gonna killed them at the prom. this is about an obsessed teacher killed this girl familys went to prison 3 years has past he some how got out and stll trying to get with her. it not scary it like a nick show. i rather watch prom night 3.it maybe funny but lease it got more killing in it.

A Total Waste of Money Shame on Warner Brothers for re-releasing this short film and simply adding two trailers of their other old short films and one trailer featuring the story behind the trees at the same time that the feature film of the same name was released on dvd. It is obvious to me that they are trying to catch people like myself who are not paying too close attention to what they are buying. I was looking to purchase the new feature release, not this poorly produced product filled with commercials for their other products. It reeks of corporate greed. The short film itself did not age well and the quality is just bad. They did not do anything to enhance it and the film is just the same film that was shown on television in 1972. The short film in its entirety (approximately twenty five minutes), by the way, is available for free on an established legal website. The main special feature was boring and rather short. Ironically, the theme of this movie is about greed and big consumerism as well as environmentalism. This product is a waste of paper, plastic and other resources as the short film is available free online and on other media already.

bad.. Don't watch it! The plot is unappealing and dull. Just save your money and go buy something else or just watch it online for free. DON'T BUY IT.

Rip-Off  Of Other Movie - Tuskee Airmen Looks like "Uncle George" is hypeing his special effects studio to get more $$$$ by re-cycling another movie done better by someone else.  Get the Tuskee Airmen DVD ( original movie ) instead of this oh, so obvious, retread / remake.

No sure if satisfied yet Wrote to ask if movie was in italian or english...opened to see after no reply..will not play in our DVD so going to try a brand new one my daughter has. If works and is in English we will keep it. If it in Italian or it does not work in their dvd we will be sending it back.  Stewart Schofield

Very Disappointed I purchased this dvd in good faith that I could simply put it in my dvd player and watch the movie and not have my family crowd around a pc.  I went back and checked and your advertisement and it did saw region 2 disc which at that time did not mean much to me but to me it don't make sense to sell dvd's in America that won't play in an American dvd player. When people order off Amazon they look for cheapest price in order to save. Since you are not willing to pay for the return, not willing to refund the postage paid and only will refund 50% of the purchase price it's not worth the effort to return it and since I don't know anyone in Japan, Europe or South Africa I'll throw this mess in the trash where it belong.

Preachy, boring, uninspired and scary in places for little kids. And the music is really bad.  I genuinely do not understand why anyone likes this. The story simply isn't engaging for many kids. Either they're too young and don't get the scary parts or they're older and realize how lame it is, and bad the music is. My little boy turned it off about 15-20 minutes into it. We replaced it with Tarzan which is infinitely better. I do realize some kids may like this. I just don't know any of those kids.  Nor is this something that adults could enjoy. The animation is not up to the level of other similar movies. Even if you can get past Robin Williams' grating voice, the story is simplistic almost to the point of stupdity. Good animated movies should be enjoyed by both adults and children. I can't imagine any adult anywhere sitting thorugh this drek.

Just get the DVD instead (if you don't have HDMI) There are two ways your Blu-Ray player can connect to your television with high definition video: HDMI (the new single connector) and component (a set of Red, Green, and Blue plugs). Some foolish adopters of HD displays bought before HDMI existed, so we have to use the old-school component wires.  Just to taunt you, all of the previews on the disc will run in high definition, showing you what you won't see when the movie starts.  Because, you see, the movie might be stolen if they let you watch it through component, so a message pops up, explaining that video resolution is reduced when viewing through unprotected connections, and the rest of the viewing experience is no better than DVD. Possibly worse than DVD.  Perhaps I'm being unfair to the fine work done by the actors and crew on a fun movie, but the accountants and lawyers got in the way and ruined my viewing experience, so I thought I might warn others. Unless you have HDMI, don't buy this movie in Blu-Ray.

Region I recently purchased the DVD The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest, I live in Australia which uses the 'PAL' UK, Euro TV system, message comes up select your region code, I should have been sent the DVD that uses our system. What's more can't find any email address to communicate with Amazon.

Almost the worst sci-fi movie ever Absolutely terrible. I loved Battle L.A. and District 9 for the record. This was almost as bad as that John Travolta "Battlefield Earth" and "The Mist" with the most depressing ending ever(which I believe came from the same director?!  I dont even want to review this, and why I hated it ,because it will require me to think about it again. Go see Battle L.A for the same but done much, much better.  Go see  Avatar, or Aliens, for great Sci-fi.

Don't bother waiting for anything exciting to happen Hard to believe George Clooney would even tarnish his career with this one.  Nothing exciting happens in pretty much the whole movie.  Even the scenes with gunfire are predictable and underwhelming.  This one seems like an 'art' film that snuck through the cracks into the mainstream.  If you are expecting action, suspense, drama or much of anything else, you'll be disappointed.  If you like watching muted dialog, maybe you'll like it.

BAD QUALITY It's Terrible. Won't play on any DVD Player sold in U.S.A. When I find the time, I plan to send to dvd back. Don't know if I can trust Amazon any more, if they let someone like this sell products on their site.

True Grit Special Collector's Edition I was charged for this DVD, but did not receive it after nearly a month.  I am trying to figure out who to contact to get my refund!  No communication from the seller.  Very poor service.  The other video I purchased, Rooster Cogburn, was a horrible quality DVD.  I wasted my money!<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000O179FY">True Grit (Special Collector's Edition)</a>

DVD: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix We enjoyed the DVD until it stopped playing because it was "layered???"  We called SunCoast.  They said the DVD must be defective because it should have gone right to the next layer.  We just ordered another copy--not widescreen.  Hope it works....

Boring Not sure where all the 5 Star reviews came from; my guess would be that these reviewers were either friends of the director or they worked on the film.  This was unfunny, poorly written and the acting was bad.  Not worth the $2.99.

An ironic title if ever there was one... There is a theory amongst trekkies that Even films are Good and Odd films are Bad. Although true of all the other films, this rule breaks down with this film, which is devoid of any of the brilliant writing of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6305127638">First Contact</a>, and lacks even the more mediocre writing of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000AOEMXM">Enterprise</a>.  This movie is filled with plot holes, cliche's and lazy sloppy writing - all the things that I never thought Star Trek would sink to. To start with, there is that 'happy families' scene at the start on the holodeck, followed by the contrived 'buggy racing' scene (just because they haven't done it before) and then there is the whole plot with Shinzon, which is desperately trying to be a 'devil twin' thing, but fails completely.  Overall, this film is so dreadful that I have thrown in the towel and joined the 'dark side'. Yes, that's right - I now believe that <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FQJAJG">Star Wars</a> would win the battle against Trek not through weaponry or tactics, but through sheer relative Charisma (even with Anakin in tow - how uncharismatic can you get?)  As an interesting footnote to this film, isn't it interesting that the phrase 'grow a beard' meets its counterpoint in this film, when Riker shaves it off? If growing a beard is associated with TV series suddenly getting much better (based on Riker growing a beard in series 2) then I find it deeply ironic that, when Riker shaves off his beard in this film, Nemesis turns from an initially promising film to the pile of tripe it has become!

This movie is painful to watch I saw the movie and it was really painful to watch. The theme of the story is controversial. This is the story of a Muslim who is secular and has Asperger's syndrome.  The director tries all ways to portray this lead character as empathetic and intelligent individual with a syndrome, which actually makes movie silly and rather dishonest. After drenching people with hugely exaggerated emotional drama, the lead character in the movie takes up the responsibility to make America know that people with names ending with Khan are not terrorists, because he was mistreated due to his name. However, he never tries to tell the other side of story, which indirectly suggesting that Muslims condone the violence done by Islamic extremists and it's okay to do so.  This movie is purely commercial and aimed at Muslim community. There is no truth or valid argument in this movie about anything, but still this movie got great reviews by some people just because they want to be politically correct. I would still recommend this movie so that people can see how dishonest movies can be. I am from India and this movie is flop show in India.

Worst movie ever. Oh....&lt;snooze>....my......&lt;snooze>......gawd......&lt;snooze>. The most boring movie ever! I've officially wasted one hour and twenty six minutes of my life watching a series of short stories that don't tie together.

Waste of time This movie robs you off your precious time. It's nonsense from the beginning but it sucks you in and leaves you hanging. The crime brutality blood violence is TOOOOOOOO MUCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHH. Avoid this movie.

cussed out I loved the Jump Street T.V. series, however this movie discussed me within 15 min. of watching it. I'm sure those that that don't let cussing bother them found this to be a good movie. For me I couldn't get past the language used to enjoy the movie. Sad too because I really thought I would like it. To those of you whom are offended by the use of the F bomb in every other sentence and other derogatory actions should steer clear of this movie. If offensive gestures and language doesn't bother you the movie might be just what you want to watch.

WHERE IS MY VIDEO? I have not received the video, I'm lost as to what to do?  I sent you an e-mail and received the below message: Dear MARY BROWER,  We are sorry to let you know that your email(s) below cannot be delivered. The recipients have decided to leave the Amazon.com platform or are not eligible to receive any further email communications.(Krisriddy6)  Can you help me, or can you at least send me their phone number, this has been very upsetting, I wanted the video for my granddaughter's Christmas.  I have used Amazon several times, never had a problem until now, but it seems like you do not want to become involved.  I can be reached at 310-851-7249. Thank you!

all i can say is wow i watched this movie thinking " its ray liotta, its gotta be good"...... BUT no, the whole thing was very predictable, everything down to the end, it just kinda sucked. the "supporting roles" ether over acted or under acted, they didn't sell it. and dont get me started on the partner... who hasent seen a cop movie with a way to young over achieving cocky a** cop who thinks he has something to prove and who thinks he knows it all, hmmmmmm lets see, nobody. from the moment he came on screen the movie just went down hill all the way to the not very good end, most of the time i watch movies i will watch it all the way through, weather its a bad movie or not, this one took me 3 times of stopping and starting back up.  for people looking for a movie to watch this in my opinion is not a good movie, but for collectors like me, who want "full series" of movies that were favorites (the first one) then id get it, but dont get your hopes up for the movies "cinematic value"  if theres something else you have to do, like pay your taxes, get a root canal, or do do the dishes i would chose those

Who approved the cover art? Movie = 5 stars. Cover art for this release = No stars. I can't believe this passed approval. The gun is floating in the air, there's no hand holding the weapon. This was put out by a major (?) distributor yet the artwork looks like a bootleg graphic.

Easy Rider I AM OVER 65 AND WHEN I GOT THE DVD I WAS A LITTLE BIT DISAPOINTED. IT'S A TIPICAL MOVIE SHOWING  THE MENTALITY 45 YEARS AGO. I ONLY PURCHASED THIS MOVIE BECAUSE I HAVR A HARLEY AND REMEMBERED THAT ONCE A GO THERE WAS THIS MOVIE AND I WANTED TO SEE IT AGAIN. FOR ME MOVIE HAS NO ARGUMENT.

Terrible This... Is a terrible movie. The acting is horrible. The plot is stupid. The characters suck. Sigourney Weaver is the only bright spot of this film. Just don't waste your time... -Trent Foreman, Author of Nightmare

I Dare You to Break My Record! I bought this on VHS from a thrift store, and the previous owner had stopped it at 25 minutes. I lasted a full 35 minutes before my popcorn ran out and there was no more reason to sit there watching this Truly Awful Thing. I bet you can't last any longer, unless someone ties you to a chair and pries your eyeballs open with toothpicks. Or maybe if you're drunk.  How in heaven's name did they get so many big names to sign on? It must have involved either blackmail or a legally binding promise extracted by a dying man. I can't imagine that George or Arnold or Uma actually read the script and said "Wow, this is really good!"

where is BLU RAY ???? I want BLU RAY?? there marketing Dark Angel and you can buy it brand new.so I will buy season when its on Blu Ray. it upsets me when we have to wait.most people have hdtv and they got blu ray player and when you put Dark Angel into the player you get box picture and its horrible. players lack 4:3 16:9and lot of player need a Auto setting or you get Box picture. I have to keep screwing with setting putting it back 4:3 , when I want to watch it in 16:9 .my rating should drop. I love the tv show. its one of the best shows I have ever seen.if they come out with a DVD in 16:9 is all I ask and I will give 5 star

I Melt With You This was by far one of the worst movies I've ever seen. While some may wonder how this film was made, I would ask "why" it was made. Save your money.

REALLY BAD.... ok, the movie visual effects are amazing...the planets, the aliens...everything is really well done visually....but the story and the green lantern themselves are pathetic....Hal Jordan looks and sounds like a goofy teenager who can't understand what's going on, and all the development is confusing and mediocre...Really bad! Most movies of today got amazing images, but a really poor story....

Like watching a home movie. I was really looking forward to this program.  The good news is that it showed quite a few animals that I had never seen before and that is good.  Not all of that footage was good and some was only a few seconds.  They rarely mentioned what the animals were.  I was glad to see the footage but now I want to know what those animals and birds were.  I have to say that a lot of it was like watching home movies.  The thing I really hated about the program was that they would show a scene and build an imaginary bridge over the area and show a ball of bubbles shooting across it and leaving a trail of bubbles.  They did this to show how animals were using these land bridges to migrate.  They also showed the bubble in footage that had nothing to do with the animals just as filler to drag out the movie.  They would have been better off to leave those entire segments out and shorten the entire set to an hour of good footage.  They also used footage of only parts of animals such as the lower half of the torso and some of the legs.  They also had footage of a quarter of the head (what good is that).  They should not use footage that they had to zoom in on to see the animals either.  The pictures were grainy on occasion.  The quality of the footage was lacking as well.  To call it breathtaking was a stretch.  The colors appeared to be not as vibrant as they should have been.  They also used footage of African animals to represent the animals that were living in the area of the Sahara but were no longer able to live there.  For the people who did this program, you failed.  This was like a home movie.  Don't show footage of going down a waterway and into a bush.  Please leave segments that have no substance out of the program.  Don't zoom in on the head of an animal and use the footage.  Show the whole animal so we know what it looks like. Do more editing and leave out all that filler.  The naration was extremely annoying.  They tried to describe animials with attributes they don't posess.  A heron fishing is not evil and neither is any other preditor.  Why play music depicting them as evil.  Animals do not have a treaty with us to allow them to survive as you suggest.  You made me want to turn off the sound.  I have collected nature programs for many years and this is the only one I would use if I am unable to sleep.  It was almost a complete waste of time.  Perhaps I am used to programs like "Life" and "Planet Earth" which were vibrant an alive.  This program doesn't even compare.

The Black Swan eye makeup was the only good thing... All the bad stuff about this movie is too long to go into, but a sneak peek: -average to poor acting from all (Natalie Portman had better watch out, or her face will stick in that expression she kept for the entire movie -flat, predictable plot filled with holes and capped with a pathetic ending -trite themes about repression and obsession, both tritely resulting in sexual depravity -5+ sex scenes of some sort or another resulting in forwarding through a lot of it and wondering why I ended up renting something calling itself an oscar winner and being cheap trash instead. Come on, people, in 2012, do we really need such a slutty movie to help "liberate" from repression. It's all been done. To death. And better.   I'm not someone who just doesn't like deep, unpleasant themes in films. This film had nothing deep or meaningful about it. Want meaningful violence? Watch Last of the Mohicans. Want meaningful analysis of mental illness? Watch A Beautiful Mind. Want an actual transformation of a character who is feverishly pursuing perfection of some sort? Watch The King's Speech.

UltraViolet is a step backwards UltraViolet digital copy is a terrible idea.  iTunes compatible digital copy is the only standard.  Don't support this garbage.  You can only use them through the apps they want you to use so it will not work with an Apple TV.

Srsly?  Adding my name to the protest... First of all, let me say I am a huge Harry Potter fan and was looking forward to a complete box set of the extended edition blurays.  This is not that collection.  To be fair, the movies themselves all warrant 5-stars.  This package and extra labels and all look very nice and would make a great addition to any collection.  But not for the outrageous price they are offering!!  Come on, give the fans a break!  I would be willing to pay roughly half what they are expecting to charge.  But it would have to be for the EXTENDED versions... for all of them!  Fans do not want piece-meal versions or just years 1/2 two extended.  Give us the additional scenes, give us the deleted material included.  Give us Hogwarts the way it was meant to be!!  I wouldn't even mind if they did it the way Lord of the Rings did... a normal boxed-set and an extended version boxed-set.  At least there we got what we wanted, just had to wait longer for it.  As much as I was looking forward to this, I cannot justify buying this at the current price.  Especially for a product that, in my opinion, is still incomplete.  Please put the magic back into Harry Potter... =(

Was going to buy...but, I won't do Ultraviolet... I want to own this movie, but I want a digital copy.  Everything I've read about Ultraviolet tells me to avoid it like the plague.  When they come out with a combo pack with a DIGITAL COPY, I'll fork out my dough.

They tell Jonah Hex's origin in animation Origins are important.  Imagine if a Batman movie told the origin story in a quick animated sequence.  Bruce and his parents leave "The Mark of Zorro," they go down an alley, a gunman demands Bruce's mother's pearls and Bruce's father defends her.  Shots are fired, the parents die, Bruce lives and Batman is born.  In "Jonah Hex," they do the complicated origin in a quick, badly animated sequence that really says nothing.  You shouldn't be surprised that the rest of the movie sucks.

Eh I dont really like to ever critisize films. Although this film wasnt very good. I bought this because I use to live directly behind waverly hills sanatorium where this was filmed and I was let down.

Reprocessed through Teal filter! Question: What good is the color Teal? What great work of art has ever had a predominate Teal cast? What great photo? Do they even make Teal filters for cameras? The answer is a resounding no. And more importantly, did Ridley Scott use a Teal filter when he photographed the movie Alien? Once again: The answer is a resounding no! So why would the morons who remastered this warm, rich, amber film drain all the life blood out of it and convert it to a bleak, cool greenish blue vomit color? Currently there is a group of idiots in Hollywood who are taking warm, rich, amber films and draining all the life out of them with the accursed never before existing Teal filter. I was so shocked and angered by this transfer that I immediately got out my Alien 20th Anniversary Edition DVD and popped it in for a direct comparison. It is night and day. The DVD has less resolution sure, but its colors and contrast are vastly, let me repeat, vastly superior to the new Blu-Ray of Alien. Let me make this clear: LV-426 was an Orange/Brown planet not a sickly vomit colored Teal planet. Do not under any circumstances stand for this type of abortion of a director's work. Has Ridley Scott ever made any film that was not warm, rich and amber? I mean come on, this is his trade mark. I give this film only one star because it is one of the greatest films of Sci-Fi, but this transfer is the worst possible transfer of a film ever besides Fellowship if the Ring which was also a victim of Teal and Aliens that went from being a  predominantly electric blue film to being a sickly vomit colored Teal. Avoid them all.

Terrible This is most likely the least funny movie I have ever seen.  Save your money. And your time.  I love HUMOR. Of all types.  Including modern extreme humor.  This movie simply isn't funny.  It relies on the "humor" of idiocy, self-indulgence, and  emotional disturbance.

Didn't know what to think. I like Jim Carrey, but I don't understand Hollywood's obsession with penguins. I don't recommend to anyone tired of the MPAA's same old garbage.

Bad DVD DVD does not allow skipping of ads. Further there are many ads and trailers.  The amount of time wasted for this to complete is staggering.  Movie is mediocre.  Do not recommend this product.

Boring! Is this moving supposed to be a comedy?  No laughs. Is this moving supposed to be entertaining?  Boring! Not going to waste another word.

Blah, blah, blah... I had high hopes for this movie, but frankly it fell flat. The plot was tired, the romantic chemistry was lacking and quite frankly I thought that Christopher Lloyd would have made a better evil cartoon character than winemaker his acting was so over the top. The actual film making was decent, and Sokoloff and Righetti had good banter as friends- that 's about all that's positive here.  Move on to greener pastures folks...nothing to see here.

Disappointed After hearing all the praise for Winter's Bone I immediately picked up the book and read it in two days. The book by the way is great. Beautiful writing, engaging story, interesting characters. Needless to say I had high hopes for the film. Wow, was I disappointed.  With a movie like this it's not about where you're going but how you get there. Unfortunately that's where Winter's Bone fails. Much of the history and personality behind the characters throughout Ree's journey have been whittled down to mere clones of each other, making each encounter feel like a repeat of the preceding one. The reason her mother is in a drug-induced haze, Teardrop's reputation and past, her relationship with friend Gail (Sweet Pea) -- all are left unexplained. Many of the more interesting and exciting segments from the novel, symbolic elements, and emotional breakthroughs were omitted as well. What's left is a lifeless shell of a movie.  The acting is average to bad.  Jennifer Lawrence's performance was not the nuanced, anger bubbling under the surface performance I was expecting. Her repertoire vacillates between deadpan and over the top. When intense emotion is required her face contorts a la Edvard Munch's The Scream or she over-emphasizes a curse word for effect. Lawrence's poor acting was most obvious when Ree makes a particularly grisly discovery. John Hawkes was good considering what he had to work with and the rest of the cast was par for the course for a low budget film. I wanted to like Winter's Bone and kept hanging in there hoping it would get better. But it never did.

Huge disappointment If you're the type of person that likes the journey, regardless of the destination, Lost may be worth it. But if you like a story ending that actually makes sense and ties together all previous story arcs, don't waste your time or money on this series.

Don't Trust SyFy I won't watch this or any other series from Sy Fy until they come out complete on DVD.  SyFy is unreliable.  They get you hooked and cancel.  They move their series all over on different nights and even different seasons. You will watch a few short episodes before the series will take a long break after which you will have no idea if the series is going to continue....  The network was once my favorite.  Now I consider it the worst network on Television.  Other networks produce far better programming that can be called Sci Fi than the channel that once had it's name.  Pathetic.  So, I do not advise anyone to watch any programs produced by SyFy.  Apparently they have no way to tell who is watching their programs online and must only get their numbers from broadcast/cable numbers.  They don't have a clue and unless they undergo a radical shake up in their upper management and program direction posistions, I know more like myself who will not be bothering with this network.

Not worth watching.. I was expecting so much more from this film and it just wasnt' there.  I tried and tried to get into it, and the film was hard to follow at times, and sometimes, just plain stupid.  It was major angish to watch till the end, however, I did and wished I hadn't.  Watch if it's for FREE and don't if you have to pay for it!

Never showed up Can't review something that was never sent. Still bitter about it. Would like to be able to review--was hoping to use it in a class. Used something else instead.

MOUSETRAP My grandson & I love this movie so i purchased it for us.  Was very dissapointed that the movie doesnt play. We tried it on 4 different dvd players & there is no movie. Unfortunately i didnt keep my packing slip to return it since i never considered the movie wouldnt play!! I will purchase from somewhere else

Sleeping Beauty Well, I purchased this Blu ray for my fiancee as a gift and was very happy that i got it for such a great price. But after sitting on the shelf for a few months we picked it up last week to watch it and it wouldn't load. I took the disc out of my player and cleaned it and it began to play but then skipped throughout the entire movie. I suppose I have learned my lesson about buying used Blurays. I love amazon, and will continue giving them my business, but wont buy from anyone but amazon from now on.

Wooden Tin Man I can't believe I watched the whole thing!  I should have turned this off after D.G. arrives in O.Z. and meets a zipperhead, a person who has had their brains removed, and yet still is able to walk and talk and interact with people.  By the end of the mini-series, I was convinced the scriptwriter was a zipperhead.  Aside from the zipperhead character, which should be more than enough to tell you the kind of thinking that went into writing this alternate universe story, there was the oddest collection of primitive technology, steampunk technology, superscience and magic all mixed together in a random fashion.  People drove cars that looked like they were new during the 1930s and the military drove what looked World War II military vehicles.  The military reminded me of World War II German soldiers.  There were iron maiden style suits you could lock people in for years that provided all the nourishment that anyone would need to survive.  I wasn't sure if that was supposed to be science or magic.  The one person we meet who has been imprisoned for years (very long hair and beard) is able to walk out without the expected atrophied muscles I would have expected under the circumstances.  There were holographic projectors that displayed images in broad daylight that were real enough to confuse onlookers into thinking they were the real thing.  Was this science or magic?  There were robots that were so lifelike that D.G. never knew that her (foster) parents were actually robots.  Nobody living in contemporary Earth knew they were robots either.  Pretty impressive technology.  Although when the robot parents returned to their hometown, they were met with a very steampunk cyborg.  An evil witch, who manages to be imprisoned without a body for 500 years is helped by D.G. to escape her prison and take of the body of her older sister, Azkadellia.  Shortly thereafter Azkadellia kills D.G.  Their mom brings D.G. back to life but loses all her magical ability in the process.  All her magic has been transferred into D.G.  Then there is the evil witch sister, Azkadellia.  She is able to teleport, keeps flying monkeys stored on her chest as tattoos and sucks souls out of people that displease her.  When she is not using a teleporting spell to visit her imprisoned mom, she uses horses rather than cars for transportation.  Did I mention yet that they have the ability to move between (teleport?) Earth and O.Z.?  The evil witch has built a machine, that wouldn't be out of place in a World War II epic, which is supposed to be the power plant for some kind of laser to be used to end the world.  Whenever the evil people use their streampunk technology (mind control devices, prison doors, brain in a jar computer with the adding machine interface) the controls never look like they could possibly be functional.  Are you with me so far?  There are plenty of other examples of why having a brain makes this a difficult mini-series to watch.  Instead I will go to the stake in the heart of this story.  The moment when I had to ask myself, how could I have wasted that much time watching this came near the end when D.G. talks Azkadellia into fighting the influence of the 500 year old witch that inhabits her body.  This is the 500 year old witch who has killed D.G. once already, the 500 year old witch who eats the souls of people that bother her, the 500 year old witch who enslaved the whole land, the 500 year old witch who personally killed or ordered killed many people, the 500 year old witch who imprisoned many people (a massive prison is featured in a couple of scenes), the 500 year old witch who enlisted an army to do her evil bidding, the 500 year old witch who had enslaved Azkadellia for years, after all that, all it took for Azkadellia, to fight off the evil witch was D.G. saying please fight.  Even better, when did this fight happen?  Not when the evil witch is tired or recovering from exerting herself.  No, this takes place with the evil witch at the height of her powers after she managed to gain possession of the all powerful green gem.  I'm sorry, but as bad and as dumb as the mini-series was up to this point, the ending is so over the top bad and so unbelievable that I had to write this negative review.

Cheap disc, broke when I opened it. The case had been smashed or something because it had a huge indentation when I first lifted it from the box.  Then when I tried to take the disk out it just snapped in one spot probably due to the trauma it underwent with the damaged box.  Waste of money.

Only about half the concert, bad VHS-quality transfer I agree with the previous reviewers.  When you see the big finale number where everybody is on stage at the end, you can spot about 9 people on the stage whose individual performances were not even included.  I waited all these years to see that performance of Johnny Winter doing "Highway 61 Revisited" again, but that was left off, apparently so they could include 15 minutes of people booing Sinead OConnor.  On top of that, the video and audio quality on this DVD is more like muddy VHS.

dissappointed I thought as it's a buddies movie it won't be that scary.. we could watch only 20 min or so with our daughter and we gave up. Too scary for her (sorry, even for me..) You let kids watch scary movies and then you're surprised they have nightmares.. sorry, for me it's common sense! So sorry you can't return DVDs after you opened them - definitely would return this one!

DVD won't play DVD doesn't play in my very expensive sony blu ray. I purchased two other dvd's since recieving this and they play fine. Think I will send back even though I hate returns!!

Even Worse than Green Lantern Just when I thought that the Green Lantern movie was the worst Comic Book Adaptation ever......along comes Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. Now I'll be the first to admit that I'm not well versed in the Ghost Rider mythos, but I do know a good movie when I see one and Spirit of Vengeance is NOT a good movie.....at all. The first 5-10 minutes of the movie started out strong and then did a 180 and went downhill fast. Bad acting, bad writing.....pretty much bad everything. The special effects for Ghost Rider were decent, but that's about it. I was really looking forward to this movie and I was let down by how bad it was. Seriously, don't waste your money. Wait for it to hit STARZ or HBO if you really want to see it. There's always Redbox, but I wouldn't waste the $1.20.

Worst historical film ever made IF youre looking for an interesting sadist porn, with comic book costume design, this is your movie. If you want a serious historic account, keep looking. The film seems to romanticize the suffering and cruelty inflicted by this man. Too much fixation on graphic, artistic recreations of sexual violence, while almost ommitting the greater portion of his violence against people in every forum of life. The scene where he rapes the bride and groom was an insult to what those people really went through. Total downplay of the violence inflicted. His victims are surely rolling over in their ancient graves.

LAME Movie I used to like this actor. Not any more.  Weak story, lame acting, very weak storyline.  I kept waiting for something other than walking to happen and with the exception of the best part of the move, wolves, the movie sucked!

WHY VERTIGO? The first point I would like to make is that I have no objections to this film.  My only beef is with its soundtrack.  Do I mind the black and white?  No I don't.  Do I mind the 4x3 screen?  No I don't.  Do I mind that it's a silent?  No I don't.  These things are inconsequential to me.  I am quite used to all three, having grown up on a fare of old time Hollywood films.  Is this a great film?  No, I don't think it's a great film, but it's certainly a good film, and it's a cute film.  Manipulative?  Yes, but then aren't all films manipulative?  As far as a history lesson, there is nothing new to learn here.  Anyone familiar with the chaos that ensued when silents began to talk already knows what happened.  There are no revelations here.  This story might be revelatory to today's audiences, who are not familiar with the silent era, but it isn't to any real movie fan.  So yes, I liked the film.  And I loved Dujardin.  His amalgam of Chaplin and Fairbanks is wonderful to see.  And the bastard is damn sexy!  I haven't been so turned on by an actor in years.  Even if he is overweight.  It's a great performance.  His smile alone is worth the price of admission.  But I began to have a problem with the music early on when what appears to be a love theme in the film sounded to me very much like a variation of Kurt Weill's, Speak Low, from One Touch of Venus.  And then when it came to the sequence where the music from Vertigo is used, the film ceased to matter to me, and I just couldn't concentrate on anything but Bernard Herrmann's wonderful score.  Who is the idiot who decided to use such a well known piece of music as "soundtrack underscoring"?  I have no objection to any piece of music being included in a film, as long as it is done properly.  Look at what Unchained Melody did for Ghost!  In The Artist we get a fabulous version of Pennies From Heaven which is delightful, and it actually adds to the film and works for the film.  But to use Herrmann's music as it is used here?  As if it were an original composition?  No can do.  I am afraid Kim Novak was right.  It is rape!  I understand it's legal rape, and by the credits I can see that the Vertigo soundtrack was properly licensed.  But it's rape nevertheless.  I hope this doesn't set a trend, because I'd hate to see the same thing happen to Steiner, Korngold, Raksin, Waxman, and all the other great composers from the golden age of film.  And please spare me any indignation about my use of the word rape.  It's a word like any other.  Get used to it!  It can depict a heinous act, or it can be used metaphorically.  Kim and I have used it metaphorically.  We don't need any feedback.  Free country.  And BRAVA! to Kim for her fabulous cojones.  Well done, Miss Novak!  ++++After I wrote this review I did a little research on the lady who sings Pennies from Heaven.  I loved her version so much, that when I first watched the film, I actually stopped the DVD and went back to hear it a second time.  Her name was Rose Murphy, she was black, played the piano, and sang.  She was known as the Chi-Chi girl.  She recorded for RCA and Verve.  I had never heard of her, but I plan to get my hands on her recordings.  The woman was absolutely FABULOUS!  If anyone has pertinent information on her, please share it!++++

Debunked The film flutters to the ground like so much GOP convention confetti, all assertions, few facts and little substance other than the conspiratorial right wing talking points that are D'Souza's bread and butter.

Awful, Awful, Awful This is what happens when a junior high school film project gets a national release.  Everything about this movie SUCKED.  I suffered through 20 minutes of it trying to give it a chance...the only thing I got was a void of 20 minutes in my life that I will never get back.  Learn from my mistake: DONT DO IT. Save yourself. This belongs in the category of double A (AA...all puns fully intended!) Awful and Amateur.

BAD MEDIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bat media? No BAD media. BEWARE! THINK TWICE BEFORE YOU BUY THIS! I purchased this item with the mistaken notion that it would come in both a Blu-Ray and 3D version. Shame on me. I located a current model 3D player and found that it wouldn't even load because it turned out is was a European region only ! This was not made clear when I purchased same. I contacted the seller twice by email. They who would not even return a simple reply to my inquiries.  Now I am stuck with a useless piece of plastic. Thanks BAD MEDIA!

The reviews are making me laugh The reviews on this site resulting in such a high rating are clearly the result of wanting others to believe the reviewer is a bright, introspective, deep thinker. What a bunch of hogwash! This movie rates as one of the worst pieces of trash ever to be put out. If it wasn't for the fact that no one watched it, James Taylor's career would never have flourished, for if you thought his acting (nonexistent) was any reflection of his wonderful musical talents, you would have laughed him off the stage before he ever struck a note. Imagine a Tarantino movie with absolutely no point or theme, and acting that makes your high school play look like an Academy Award winning film. I watched this movie last night, waiting and waiting for an explanation for the terrible acting, for characters whose actions made no sense, for a point to be made where not point was ever made. In the end, I almost wanted to pull out a utility knife and cut myself in multiple places for wasting my late evening.

incompatible dvd-Kingdom of Heaven The listed dvd was incompatible with both our dvd player and our computer player, thus we were unable to view it.  The return postage is almost as much as was paid for the dvd, and so we are stuck with it.  We had heard good things about the feature itself, but we'll just have to find out another way.

An Amazon First I order from Amazon all the time and I have never ever ever had any problems with any product I have received. I order this DVD and it came and it was defective. While the movie was playing, it would pause before continuing to play. I exchanged it for another one and the disc did the same thing. This is the only DVD I have ever had a problem with. Love the movie, but not the ones Amazon has. Buyer beware.

Save your money! English Subtitles!  Episodes 1 - 7 were boring! Episodes 8 - End were good.  Most of the telenovela only showed Daniel and Eva; so 10 - 11 hours of the same two people. Although the acting was good, the problem was probably in the editing - someone deciding they knew which parts we wanted to see; yet the editor got it all wrong.  The good thing about this telenovela is that is was filmed in the U.S.A. (Florida and California).  Disk 2 was fuzzy for many of the episodes.  If you are considering this DVD for learning Spanish then you might want to look elsewhere as the voice and diction of the Spanish here is not very clear - except for Julio (the old man).  However, the voice and diction is acceptable.  P.S.  The best part of this DVD was the singing of Ave Maria during the last 13 minutes of the telenovela.

bootleg....vhs transfer Don't waste your $$$$ on this.........A very interesting movie has been ruined via a transfer from a vhs tape......VERY POOR QUALITY........the packaging is scanned and on close inspection the discs have a laserprinted label with no indication as to copyright etc.........the images are out-of-focus having VERY low resolution. AND AT A VERY HIGH PRICE........Amazon shouldn't allow this to be offered for sale

M7 P. Poor  was downloaded and gone the next day. Was charged for three mins of movie. But I am aware of this being a great movie

half hour of boring Couldn't even get past the first half hour - what??  zzzzz :[  not a girl movie. good movie if you can't sleep at night.

Really, really bad If this is supposed to be a mockumentary, I guess it might be funny.  But I don't think it was.  I agree, the voice sounds nothing like George Harrison.  And the dates make no sense.  Rubber Soul, Revolver, and Yesterday & Today were all released before the alleged date of the fatal accident.  They said that "Faul" began using LSD after the trip to India.  However, Paul's LSD interview took place in 1967, prior to their trip to India.  If anyone takes this seriously, then (1) they don't know much about the Beatles, and (2) they probably have a tendency to want to believe conspiracy theories.  And, what people forget, and is that all of this stuff occured within a 3-4 year period (1966-1969).  How could anyone, in addition to writing some of the best music ever, have the time to think of seemingly hundreds of clues to inform people that Paul was dead?  And there are so many mistakes.  In regards to the plates on the VW Beetle on the Abbey Road cover, Paul would not have been 28 at that time.  He would have turned 27 in 1969, the year Abbey Road was released.  It also claims that "Let It Be" was the last record recorded by the Beatles.  Most Beatles fans know this is not true.  It was recorded prior to Abbey Road, but released after it.  Also, the alleged picture of him playing the bass right handed is a reverse image.  You can see that the Rickenbacher label on the headstock is backward.  The chronology just makes no sense.

Spears anyone? Why didn't they make spears by sharpening sticks?  Seven large, strong men with spears could have wiped out the whole pack.  That's just one example of a bad story that's just too unbelievable.  A survival story without any real weapons, serious food gathering, shelter building or signal making is ridiculous.  The drawn out emotional drama only emphasizes how the movie fails to depict a realistic story of survival where all remaining energies must be focused on survival.

Classic first season mistake Never kill off the actor that is the only reason people watch the show in the first place in the first season. Same reason Jericho and countless others were canceled. Stupid decision.

pure sweat, not As I was looking everywhere on the box for the length of time on this DVD I found it odd that it doesn't indicate how long the workout is going to last. Then as I excitedly tried the workout since I enjoyed Rainbow Mars on The Exercise chanel on TV, I found out why. It is way too short, and too simple. I am one disappointed  Yogi. What a waist!!!

SAVE YOUR TIME AND MONEY!! Do not purchase this movie thinking that you are about to see anything closely related to the original Titanic! This movie should not even have the name Titanic in its title! This movie should not even be associated in any way with the word Titanic! I watched this movie on Syfy and I honestly thought to myself 'What a joke!' - no one should ever waiste their time or money on such mess like this!

Final Destination 2 Review I said before and I'll say it again:While still bloody & gorey as before its still the same stuff you saw in the first movie. The cast is forgettable. The acting is passable. Some of the deaths here are more funny then they are scary like Kats,Rorys & Tims deaths. While not the worst of film I ever review but its still the same old stuff you saw before. Need I say more? I give this film a 1 out of 10.

"Depp Shadows" Wears Clown Shoes As a die-hard fan of the original '60s version of "Dark Shadows" and the 1991 NBC version of the series, I waited anxiously ever since this movie was first announced in 2007.  What Burton and Depp created five years later was comedic trash.  They could've produced a gothic-horror classic, instead they went for the juvenile comedy route instead.  EPIC FAIL.

disappointing relative to the book The book was a really inspiring story and since I love truth I was disappointed to see so many parts changed from the book which I assumed was all true.  If that assumption is correct than this movie is lying and you're not getting the real story.  It was changed and not just for the sake of length and clarity.  I can't understand why the Jewish man that Corrie said she "liked right away" and was a humble man who was one of the only ones who stepped in and asked about their comfort (whether or not he should keep his pipe) instead did not get along with Corrie at all and stepped in the door making demands for his comfort!  How unbelievable when he was one of the people who couldn't find a place anywhere else to stay.  That's how I found the whole movie, changes which just seemed strange and ADDED time to the movie!  Like the woman who found Corrie parts of the Bible and some little treasures did not demand anything in return but was a nurse doing it out of her own kindness and just that fact helped her before she could get her anything.  They mixed characters together a little like the "prison expert" who had been there 3 years and the nurse and then that mixed character went much further into the story than anyone in the book.  Just read the book.

Aristocats I did not view this dvd immediately because I was waiting for a visit from my granddaughter.  However, when I did attempt to watch it, it does not play.  As a matter of fact, it has a problem loading. There is no action whatsoever.  I would appreciate, very much, information regarding a replacement. Thank you for any help in this matter. Kathy Long digitfrontrange@yahoo.com

Stupidest Movie I've ever seen I went to see this movie in the movie theater with my girlfriend. (I had no interest in the movie, but you know how that goes.) I've never before wasted my money on such a terrible movie. The acting was terrible, and the transition of the movie was even worse. My girlfriend agreed with me, worst movie we've ever seen at the theater. DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS MOVIE.

Lousy I bought this on a whim ... figuring with Orlando Bloom in the lead and Ridley Scott at the helm that it might be a good movie. Turned out to be one of the worst I've ever seen. It was choppy and difficult to follow. Don't waste your time or money.

The dead cat did it I had to stop watching it at that point where Nell kills the cat. I hate it when they kill pets in movies. That part made my veterinarian sister cry and shake because it disturbed her so much. We returned this movie after that and watched Inception.

Disgusting and Disappointing I ordered this DVD expecting to hear and see one of Garrison Keillors good old-fashioned Radio shows.  What a horrible disappointment!!!  I would return it but the packing slip stated that "if used, I would not get my money back".  So I will keep it as a reminder to watch more closely what I order in the future.  I had also ordered Garrison Keillors 30th anniversary show and that was great!  Exactly what I had expected the other DVD to be.  Why do some people insist on trying to change Garrisons Radio show?  Leave it as it is.  It is far more enjoyable with Garrison in charge of what his show is like.

Total Crap The worst aspect of this film is Scott Anthony Leet, I actually googled him to see if was a real actor or maybe just a friend of the director. He has two modes:  1. happy excited best bud: "hey I bet I can wolf my burger faster than yours!" 2. instant channel change to crazy-eyed killer: "what do you MEAN you don't like pickles..."  Just look at the DVD picture, that's how he looks in mode 2.  Also, wasn't Bonin a homosexual who raped young men and killed them?  I guess that was too much research to do for the screenwriter.

Disappointed Princess I ordered the Sleeping Beauty (Two-Disc Plantinum Edition)DVD from this site and received a bootleg copy.  My daughter is three and loves all of the Disney princesses.  The DVD was received in original Disney packaging but right away I could tell that the quality was off.  My daughter watches the video but there are technical problems when starting the movie.  There is an unfamiliar icon embedded in each frame.  Queen Mom -- not happy!!!

THIS IS MY TOWN The film opens with some horrible first person narration to build a story. Queen Pin (Rhanni) becomes the mistress of a drug dealer. When he gets busted, she goes to jail too for being a bad actress, a crime in Jacksonville. Once out she wants to build her "own organization" so she can start her own record label, although I couldn't figure out why she needed her own record label. She mostly spends her disposable income on clinging clothes that make her look chunky.  As a new drug dealer in town, she steps on the toes of the existing one. The writing was cliche and the dialouge was terrible. The actors couldn't deliver their lines with any kind of realism. One of the guys had the nickname "Killer." The only thing Gin X accomplished was to make 50 Cent look like a genius, and I didn't think that was possible.  F-bombs, n-words, sex, no nudity.

Pretentious Wayward, masculine persona gallops in to a seaside villa to reunite and romp with her more feminine counterpart.  It was more like nude yoga or Cirque de Soliel than a passionate love story.  To say that the entire presentation was any less than utterly self-absorbed and pretentious would be a huge stretch.  I may not be the most qualified to rate this genre, but I can still recognize that the story, acting, and chemistry are far better in films like A Room in Rome or Summer Lover.

Eric Forman's Nightmare The movie starts out, as many have already noted, with the closing scene from one of teen idol Tad Hamilton's cornball movies. It then switches to a scene where Tad is driving all over the road while drinking and smoking. The next day he is reminded by his manager of his tarnished boy next door image and of a win a date contest to polish it. The winner of the contest is Rosalee who, unbeknownst to her, has been admired for years by her friend Pete. Will Rosalee chose the rich Hollywood phoney or settle for the real boy next door in her hometown? The trouble here is that on top of being predictable is that mostly this movie is just not funny. You could over look the predictability of the story if there had been a few laughs. They could've made this a satire of cornball love stories or as a parody of the disposable Hollywood teen idol. Instead they did neither. Topher Grace is still playing this as though he were on "That 70's Show." Unfortunately for all of us he isn't.

Unsatisfied! I ordered this DVD for my daughter's 4th birthday! She was ecstatic because this would be the first time to ever see the movie! She got on her Cinderella dress up clothes and sat down to watch the movie only for the movie to be of poor quality and to start skipping and then quit playing half way through the movie. Needless to say the smile went to a frown and tears started rolling. This was classified as new but it was only "new" because it was a copy. Don't recommend purchasing this product.  The only positive to come of this would be it was delivered in a timely manner.

Boring, Tasteless & Contrived! Bound is your basic noir film rip-off with the anti-hero/dupe role played by a woman (Gina Gershon) instead of a man.  The plot runs rather predictably.  Dupe meets pretty girl (Jennifer Tilly) in trouble; dupe tries to save the girl and gets in over their head. The only change to the noir formulae is that, in Bound, the dupe actually gets the girl rather than ending up facing prison time sans girl (who double-crossed the dupe at the film's climax). I saw this film once, and have had no desire to see it again.  As I've stated in my title, I found the film to be boring.  The plot is contrived and I could not suspend disbelief for the film's running time. Joe Pantoliano's mobster was believable up until the point that he finds himself in conflict with his girlfriend, Violet, and her desire to leave mob life. Then he goes from scary violent to gutless loser faster than you can blink with no foreshadowing whatsoever. Also, I found Jennifer Tilly's character, Violet, to lack believability; after all, this character is clearly an opportunist who will sell herself to the highest bidder in exchange for pretty clothes and a nice apartment, and the viewer is expected to believe that love (for Gina Gershon's Corky) has redeemed her. Please! And I'm unclear is to why the filmmakers, the Wachowski brothers, with their heavy-handed directing/writing style would think that Violet was believable as a woman who suddenly finds love and a new life; instead of the more believable concept of Violet as a greedy opportunist who will use anyone, male or female, to get what she wants. This film seems to exist for the sole purpose of allowing the Wachowski brothers, of Matrix fame, to get their rocks off!  The salacious close-ups during the one and only sex scene in the film seems to prove the point. After that, it's all downhill. Pointless gratuitous violence, unnatural character deviations (see above), and the schmaltzy Hollywood-style happy ending sealed with a kiss. I wouldn't recommend this film to my dog (if I had one), so don't waste precious time watching this sub-par film. Better to spend your time more wisely, i.e., alphabetising your DVD collection.

bad boys/bad boys II I had purchased this as a birthday gift, sent it off and when it was received, I was told that the picture quality was awful, so being that it passed the time to exchange  for  another it was too late.

Don't believe everything you read on the 5 star reviews Not suitable for someone who doesn't watch R-rated movies to begin with but trusted too much the reviews.  Duh!  Dumb me!

Tokyo looks nice. I didnt expect much and it was not. Was really surprized where these supposedly teens find money for custom made cars but realism was limited to Tokyo streets which looks fantastic on any night. The movie itself dont make sense--yes, cars moving fast, yes, chicks are hot but we never see anything appropriate for ages over 13. And all those underground criminal activities kinda strange and pieces dont stick together. Avoid.

Not like the show The show is amazing and it's good to have the episodes so you can watch them anytime. However be aware that this is a DVD-R that has extremely poor picture quality. Very bad! Also the ZZ Top theme song is gone and the episodes are labeled incorrectly in the menu.  The Duckmen deserve better and hopefully they will be able to release a proper Season 1 soon.

Genero??? Yes, this one is a bit on the tooooo generic side. I do enjoy B horror films the best but this one, might need only a small consideration. If you want to torture a family member,,,,,,have them sit through this one. Premise sounds great, which of course is why i purchased it, but it just does not have the WOW factor. A good filler for any home video library none-the-less

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman This review is directed at the KINO VIDEO DVD production of Pandora and the Flying Dutchman.  1. The color, brightness, contrast and color saturation levels are unacceptably poor and change from scene to scene. Seems to have been re-mastered by incompetents.  2. The plot is utterly convoluted, seems trite and full of cliches, and does not hold one's interest. Irrelevant "Spanish Color" has been inserted here and there in an unsuccessful attempt to liven things up.  3. The acting is less than mediocre. Ditto the script.  4. This version of the movie is meant to be nothing more than a showcase for the glamorous Ave Gardner who, with all her glamor, is no great actress.  I recommend you not buy this low grade DVD.

IRRITATING GIRLS & VILE FINALE This is really ugly stuff folks. This 'movie' is basically just a lot of obnoxious footage of 2 irritating teenage girls making YouTube style videos calling each other 'bitches' and 'sluts''. They throw in some fake looking 'news reports' (why can't they ever get the right words at the bottom of the screen that look like the words you see on an actual news report?), and finally the last few minutes shows the fate of these irritating girls which is actually really vile. There's no gore here whatsoever but the final few minutes are vomit-inducing and I really can't believe they allowed this thing on Amazon. Curiosity seekers will get burned badly and won't be able to get some of these sick images out of their heads and TOTAL sicko / psychos now have some new masturbation material. I'm really sorry I even watched this vile crap.

The only Unfortunate event is me watching it! If you have read all thirteen of these books, DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE!!! You will be sadly dissappointed with the brief review of only three books of the WHOLE series. I have now learned not to get my hopes up with a series with many books like this. Terrible with a capatal T-E-R-R-I-B-L-E.

Disc did nt work and got stuck in computer Finally opened the disk after having it a year and put it into my DVD player and it wouldn't read it...then put it into my MacBook and it couldn't read it either and actually got stuck for over 30 minutes.  Very disappointed and will not be returning to buy from this seller.

Excellent series, ridiculous DVD set. A 10 episode season spread out over 5 discs, really?!?  The extras being no more substantive than the old promo adverts that ran on HBO, this seems no more than a pretty transparent tactic for inflating the price point.

DO NOT buy on Blu Ray This is an average film, honestly, its a poor attempt at a comedy with a monster in it. I think there should be a law against companies putting things like "On a Par with JAWS" on the front, what a nonsense. Its false advertising and this film does not deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as JAWS, its not even scary the monster is bumbling and stupid and something akin to tadpole, the script has the actors being stupid and dumb for this movie to story to be taken serious at all.  The BLU RAY quality is bad, if you feel this is a movie that you would like to watch, just get it on DVD, this is the worst quality Blu Ray is have bought so far, luckily for me I bought it used. The attempt to make this HD did not work and the grain in some scenes is quite obvious, honestly I don;t think this ia a genuine Blu Ray at all, just packaged as such to make more money.  Says Collectors Edition but nothing special about this disc or the box it comes in?  leave it on the shelf, or rent it. not worth it.

i want my money back i paid 1 cent for this i want that back. this movie sucked badd i bought this for my mother. she a godzilla fan since her childhood. when she seen this she threw this dvd on the side of the floor. i said i check it out. boy this is a jurassic park rip off. that is a lizzer not godzilla. this movie is STUPID!!!!!!!. im gonna trade this in for jersy shore season 5 dvd when it come out.

Crude Doesn't Equal Funny If you make a list of a few of the films involving Ben Stiller: There's Something About Mary Meet the Parents Zoolander Tropic Thunder The disastrous remake of The Heartbreak Kid  You'll have a collection of some of the most inept films classified as comedies of the past couple of decades. Ben Stiller obviously learned nothing from his brilliant parents, but he did make a lot of money.  To quote the great writer, H.L. Mencken: "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people."

Great Movie, Lousy Quality DVD The Essential Art House version of Throne of Blood is a poor quality DVD of a poor quality film print.  There were 3 or 4 places where the screen dissolved into the same square pixels I see when my satellite TV goes wonky.  The cover of my copy didn't resemble the Essential Art House cover show on the Amazon page.  But the acting and cinematography made it worth the 12 USD I paid for it.  I'll be glad if it comes back into print from Criterion though.

Thanks for thanks! Thanks to Sony for the giant kick in the rear!  After buying all the volumes, they're now re-releasing them in their original packages along with a bonus set of DVD's.  What a rip-off for the fans that already bought all the volumes and just want the bonus discs.  Hopefully they'll listen to their fans and release the bonus set seperately.  Also, the shorts that were released in the original volumes that were presented in the "widescreen" format weren't actually filmed that way.  Columbia, or Sony, simply cropped the tops and bottoms of the later shorts to have them appear to have been filmed in widescreen.  Why was this done?  The only thing I can think is that they released these shorts to theaters that were showing full length features that were in the widescreen format, which was new to that era.  If these shorts would be released in their original full screen format and remastered, I'd gladly buy them again.  Not holding my breath, though!

The Technicolor is good Gene Kelly, obviously, had his heavy hand in this. He does not understand `how' to get an honest performance out of actors. The performances in this film are `result oriented' performances. They are characterizations of the characters they are playing. They are overblown, silent screen film acting (of the worst kind) in a talking film.  When not speaking of the `musical' numbers in this film and, just comparing the height of sophistication of the silent era's numerous highend films like `City Girl', `Lucky Star', `Birth of a Nation', `Underworld', `Docks of New York' (just to name a few), `Singin in the Rain' reaches a level below Vaudeville, below Burlesque, and even (gulp!) below television.  All the `expert' reviewers, especially Ebert, rave about how this film just towers above the rest of the `musicals' because, "unlike the rest of them, it did not come from the stage but is it's own original production"... what snobbery!  No one will EVER convince me that `Singin' can even hold the bootlaces of great musicals like: Oklahoma, Sound of Music, The Music Man, South Pacific, Pajama Game etc  As far as `musicals' NOT done on stage but written specifically for the screen that blow `Singin' out of the water with sophistication and subtlety, I would put forth: Pete's Dragon, Mary Poppins, Victor Victoria, The Court Jester, A Song is Born, The Inspector General, New York New York, White Christmas even, though it's a stretch, The Wizard of Oz etc  Debby Reynolds performance is unconvincing and plodding, Jean Hagen (check out ONE of her SUPERIOR performances in Asphalt Jungle) is way over-the-top. If you want to see a sophisticated performance by a REAL babe using that kind of voice then watch Barbara Nichols in `The Sweet Smell of Success' or Lesley Ann Warren in `Victor Victoria'. I know Jean Hagen was `encouraged' to over blow this stereotype character and, in my opinion, she reached new performance lows. She is NOT funny, she is not subtle, she is only obnoxious but, in all fairness, it's not her fault, it's the fault of the director Gene `The Tyrant' Kelly - I really don't think Stanley Donen had much input and Mr. Donen's "Pajama Game" showed the superior subtlety, sans Kelly, and his ability to get `real' performances out of actors.  It's the Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor show and that's about it. The opening sequence montage where Gene Kelly looks back fondly at the start of his and O'Connors careers at the first screening of his new silent film shows that he and O'Connor are great dancers. We, the audience, already knew this. Their quick skits show massive physicality but no subtlety of class. Compare this inferior tediousness to the wonderfully understated sophistication of the dance montage of the upcoming song'n dance team of Danny Kaye and Bing Crosby in `White Christmas'. `Singin' doesn't even come close.  The recycled MGM musical songs from the 1930's are uninspiring and dull, just like most of MGM's musical pictures of `the day'. They treat the audience like we're stupid enough the buy into the ridiculousness of the obvious-as-hell STUDIO SET that opens `Singin' rather than let the film breathe a proper realistic breath and film it on location.  `Singin' is dumbed-down tediousness and it insults my intelligence to watch it and I will never EVER watch it again - it makes my skin crawl.  Of course, most of the other beings on the planet will disagree and certainly flame this review as blasphemy but my signoff to those who are going to, is: I NEVER look at my reviews once I've posted them so, your efforts are wasted trying to refute an honest opinion.  I don't try to understand the `fans' of this film, I'm just glad that I'm not one of you and that I can see through the artifice - I do NOT watch television. I ONLY watch and collect films.  Finally, the real funny thing about this film is, it is NOT funny... at all.  OvUr'n Out

Unbelievable, Cheap, And Lazy Let's go over the standard arguments.  1. You know what this movie is about. It's about a maniac attaching people in a line from mouth to rear. A large portion of the world would give that sentence zero stars, let alone choose to watch and review a movie about it. Therefore, if you have a moral or just biological aversion to that sort of thing, quit reading these reviews and move on. It's not fair to give a movie zero stars just because you find the premise repellant.  2. It's not supposed to be art. Six does a competent directing job, and he's adept at creating suspense and unease. The main character, Martin, is so ably played by newcomer Laurence Harvey that it seems odd to believe the actor didn't inspire the script. The black and white and the focus of the story contrast cleverly with the first film, which was downright clinical compared to this. The point (part of it) seems to be that the depravity experienced by the victims is nothing compared to that of the villain. But all of this is really just a footnote to the main point, which is graphic torture, gore, and people eating a lot of "down there desserts." This is hammered home by the inclusion of only one color to the film's palette, and it ain't turquoise. The point being, you can't give the film zero stars just because it is artless, pointless, and base if that's what it aspires to be. You can't complain that your hot dog doesn't taste enough like a steak.  3. Is it done well? Ah. The most important question. You can argue story, characters, setting and dialogue all you want, but if a movie doesn't want to have those things, or if it seeks to be a cartoon of them, then so be it. You judge a film by its own goals, not your preferences. And in that respect, this film fails.  You heard me.  Look. This is all fake. We all know that. The power of a film -- good or bad -- is to draw you into its world so firmly and deeply that, even if you loathe what you are seeing, you still invest part of yourself into the reality. It's called suspension of disbelief, and gory movies have used the natural human aversion for pain as a way to skip the tough work that usually a plot or characters do to slowly pull a viewer in and hold them fast to the film. You see something graphic, and an instinctive part of you is jolted into that reality, happily or not-so. As tech has improved, films have found more and more envelopes to push, sometimes for no other reason than to say, "Look at how convincing this is!"  This film is not convincing. The gore is so overboard, that it becomes a parody of itself. The movie seems to hint that it is supposed to be a comedy. There is more than one obvious ploy for humor as Martin interacts (silently) with his psychotic mother, ludicrously lecherous psychiatrist, malicious and thick-necked upstairs neighbor, a whole host of drunk, obnoxious, or unfortunate people with cars, and even an actress from the first film who is lured into his clutches because she thinks he's involved with a Quentin Tarantino film. Ha ha ha ha ha! Hilarious! Now let's kill them all!  Wait a minute. The horror wave of exploitative torture isn't funny, nor is it meant to be. Or maybe I didn't get a memo or something. At any rate, say what you will about the film just being goofy or playing tongue-in-cheek or just being a lampoon of the first, this kind of dismissiveness is one kind too many in a film where the thrills are meant to be a more visceral kind of voyeurism. As a result, you cannot help but be pulled out of the reality of the film and into a world where people who are wide awake, of above average build, and bound by a single strip of duct tape politely lie almost perfectly still while someone knocks out their teeth or cuts up their knees. They wriggle and grimace and scream to show you it hurts, of course, but they don't appear to have enough energy to, say, turn over or thrash violently or even slip their hands out of the loose and blood-slicked tape.  That's just one example. I could listen dozens and dozens of more where the scene, moment, or very idea is so outlandish that it's very ludicrousness robs it of any power it could have. As a result, I spent most of the movie wondering how each special effect was achieved, or how these actors felt midway through filming, or what the conversations were like in between takes. And please don't think I'm saying this to say how tough I am. There were at least two moments where I was pulled into the film's sickness, where it was looking for an effect and it pulled it off. Overall, however, the movie was so excessive that it became redundant and stupid, and both of those things are bad no matter WHAT kind of film you're trying to make.  But does that mean I get to give it zero stars? Maybe the film WANTED to be an over-the-top parody, a farce, a redundant, relentless, uninspired hate letter to its audience. Even if this were true, I finally chose to give the film this website's lowest rating because...  SPOILER ALERT  ...the whole thing is just a dream. Yup! It was all in Martin's head. I say boo and hiss to that. Sorry, movie. The only film that I will ever accept that ending for is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002QRCBW0">The Wizard of Oz</a>. It gets a pass because I like the Lollipop Guild. Beyond that, "it was all a dream" is a conceit that robs every film of its very purpose. If you don't believe me, try to think of the last time you actually were glad to hear someone say, "You gotta hear about this dream I had!" If you're not in the dream, you don't care, and I feel the same about stories found in books, plays, TV shows and films. "It was all a dream" is one of fiction's lamest cop outs, and it is used here to lazily explain every single one of the film's plot holes as the consequence of being in the head of a lunatic.  Ultimately, the film is insulting but not in the gut-wrenching way it wants to be, which means this movie fails to achieve even its own meager goal. Zero stars.

AWFUL Wow. This movie was terrible. How it got several recommendations is beyond my scope of understanding. I would rather pull my toe nails out with pliers than watch this again. Yes, I really didn't like it.

angry buyer well, it's kinda hard to review something that you never got to watch because the seller forgot to mention that you need the right player that supports hd dvd's. the seller has yet to contact me to correct the issue;nor has amazon made any attempts to contact me regarding the issue i have with this seller,beware of all purchases you make at amazon.

Really Dnesh? Not impressed. I swear Dsouza must be the living, breathing personification of Gunga Din or something. Innuendo and supposition in lieu of facts is not helpful.

Huh? My kids and I love the cartoon and this movie was supposedly based on the cartoon.  But if that was the case, WHY would you change the pronunciation of the MAIN characters name???  It was very confusing to a 5 year old.  And that was just the beginning.  I know it would be difficult to adapt 3 seasons to the big screen, but I swear whoever wrote this didn't even watch the cartoon. So, in conclusion, if you LOVE the cartoon, you will probably not like the movie.  On it's own, if you have never seen a single cartoon, then you might like it for the action, but that's about it.

An interesesting but overpriced collection If you love Bob Hope, or have a morbid fascination with typical mediocre movies of the period, you'll enjoy this collection, because they depend on Bob Hope, rather than a good script.  Further, as others have noted, these movies were not remastered.  If you can find the collection for $10, it would be worth buying, but not for more than that.

Super corny. Not credible. Far fetched!!! She has never been kissed (obviously!) and she's 25, just happens to go to the school with the teacher who is basically her soulmate, finds nerdy friends but then finds catty friends, has awesome brother who makes everything ok, gets asked to the prom by the cool guy Guy (still 25 mind you), and everything works out because she blows her cover! It's stupid too! She starts crying every 5 seconds, goes into a weird fairytale mode when she talks to the teacher/soulmate, and is obsessed with Shakespeare and correcting people on grammar! Not something I would recommend...

Don't waste your money on this one! Horrible movie, horrible script, horrible acting, horrible clothes, just plain dumb! the women are old now and looked awful in the closeups, one even had red lipstick smeared, unbelievable silly movie. So don't waste your money on this one!

What happened to Freddy??? This isn't him!!! Badly directed (expected way more from Wes Craven), bad acting, stupid plot that doesn't really follow through, the guy playing the killer is just weird and doesn't even remind me of Krueger, and not scary at all. Oh, but it has great special effects. I guess that's how they spent the profits from the original and cut back on good writers or actors. Either come back with Englund, or don't come back at all.

Read the fine print DVD does not work on DVD players in the US. I was disappointed that this was not advertised more clearly. I should of read the fine print.

BUYER BEWARE I have three Blu-ray players including a Playstation 3 with  3.72 firmware.  The Blu-ray will not play in any of these devices and complains about the encryption keys not being available to decrypt this Blu-ray movie.  Update:  I got my PS3 to work with it by updating the the firmware.  The other two Blu-ray players still refuse to play the movie.  :-(

Wrong Movie I ordered this box of 4 films and when it arrived the movies inside were completely different than what I ordered.

Not able to watch True Grit This DVD would not play in either player that we own.  It said "Bad Disk" & "would not play in this region".  I returned the DVD to Movie Mars & received an email that I would receive a credit on my credit card.  I will not be ordering an more DVDs from this company.  I was able to receive a credit from Amazon.com.

This is a waste of money and a scam! This is not an extended version.  There are no additional scenes.  You're basically paying extra money for a lot of extra packaging,  Don't waste your time.

Hard to get through. I'm not a newbie to Shakespeare or any similar writers. I'm not put off by the idioms or way of speaking in this movie.  It was just utterly awful in every other way. Imagine Blade Runner meets Romeo and Juliet - that's what this movie made me think of.  For the most part, save the lead role played by Eccleston and the actress who portrayed Castiza, the acting was atrocious. The direction was all over the place. I generally like bizarre movies, but this was too much - I don't like bizarre for the sake of bizarre.  I found the meaning of the play was completely lost in this movie.

NOT 3D! I cannot believe I spent the money for this 3D movie...this was not a 3D movie.  I don't know if this movie was originally released in 3D at the theater, but I couldn't imagine if I had gone to the theater with my family and spent $48 to see this movie!  The movie itself I also did not care for.  I did not like the plot and thought it was a horrible sequel!

Wouldn't work I bought this DVD for my mother in law.  She tried playing it and it would not work.  It said region error.  After several attempts at changing settings we still were unable to get it to work.  We used a DVD player and a PS3 to play it and neither one worked.  I took it home on my laptop and it showed the region was Asia (I live in the USA).  There was nothing in the description or on the DVD case explaining what region it was in.  Now I have a DVD that we can't watch and I'm going to have to buy a different one.  Very disappointment that the description was not clear.

Didn't play in any DVD player! My husband got this for me for christmas and it wouldn't play in any of our DVD players.  We tried in a Sanyo, a sony and a PS3.  NOTHING!  I was so mad!

The Executioner's Song - DVD Director's Cut I saw the original on TV, have rented the VHS numerous times and have read the book numerous times. The Director's Cut is a hatchet job on the film.  The relationship between Gary and Nicole is crucial to the story, yet here we see very little of it.  It has been cut so severely that one gets the impression that it was not much of a relationship at all. If Lawrence Shiller cut this film, then shame on him! I, like many, have been waiting for this to come on DVD.  They could have put the original four hours on DVD, yet have reduced this to a 2 1/2 hour abomination.  I want my $18.00 plus shipping back!  I have ordered the original VHS because I was so disappointed in this.  DO NOT BUY IT! <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000Q6GUWK">The Executioner's Song (Director's Cut)</a>

Reserved only for the JAZZ cronies and pius Jazz fanatics. The book is not authored by Jaco, rather he is co-authored by Jerry Jemmott (I believe by the dialog that Jaco is already gone).  The intro is brief, and the music composition is poorly script (notes are overlaped, no natural accension or decension in sharps/ flats, and octaves are not expressed accurately).  The booklet only offers a brief insight as to composition approach; not technique: The author hints on method by only expressing "you have to have a clear, advance knowledge of where you are going."  So much on method and technique.  I must admit, I am only an intermediate bass player musician.  My interest and taste for music composition is preferenced to rhythm, human expression, and entertainment.  I am an artist who believes that Jazz can be a closed, complex, self-served, expression of improvisation; in other words, Jazz can be made only to entertain the musician.  I enjoy Classical Bass (emotional human expression), Dance music (rhythm), and Musicals(entertainment).  Other words, I am a musician of the audience entertainment.  Yes, you guessed it.  I am really not a big fan of Jaco.  Although I do respect him as a musician, and I find his work interesting and challenging.  Unless you are a fanatic in the Jazz venue, I recommend you pass on this book.  The book does not lend itself as a developmental learning experience, but offers only a poorly documented, brief advanced improv, and fragmented bass grooves to Jaco's work.

boggy creek - snoozefest Don't know where all these good ratings and reviews are coming from but I've been duped! Boggy Creek is a very boring and nearly unwatchable movie from the 1970's that does nothing to build the suspense, mood or atmosphere that would be related to the mystery of Bigfoot sightings. The whole film is made even worse by the happy sounding bluegrass, hillbilly music and a "Wild America" style narrator, who sounds like he's announcing the arrival of a healthy litter of playful wolf pups rather than presenting something ominous. The one or two actual good scenes of a lurking Bigfoot are ruined by the music. Had to fast forward though most of the movie, it will never enter my DVD player again!

A Snooze: Not very engaging I wanted to like this DVD, but it was so boring I couldn't finish it. My review is based on about 20 minutes of the 1/4 modified routine. It wasn't too hard for me, but it was too slow. It confirmed for me that my Pilates workouts are much more engaging for me. If you don't mind a very slow class than this is for you. The weight loss angle seems added on. I'm not sure that this is challenging enough to make you burn any more calories than a brisk walk.

Worst film this year I was looking forward to seeing this movie but it did not live up to expectation.  The main characters are so superficial it became painful to sit through the entire movie.  We turned it off after 30 minutes. . . .  Which is really unfortunate as we usually enjoy movies with Miss Hathaway.  This is a definite miss.

Atrocious closed captioning.... DON'T BUY IT! If you're deaf or hard-of-hearing and rely on closed captioning to read who is saying to who, don't buy or rent the 3rd season of The Tudors.  The closed captioning was non-existent in the first episode and the second episode, so I skipped to the third episode, but captioning was awful. By the fourth, it was bad. Words jumbled up, misspelled, or missing. Half of the times when the characters were talking, the captioning skipped out some wording, making me not sure to understand what was that about between characters talking.  The closed captioning was pretty bad in Season 2, but it is atrocious in Season 3. Season 1 has subtitles but Showtime decided to skip out better-quality subtitles for inferior closed captioning quality coded in the DVDs in Season 2 and Season 3. I will not be watching the Season 4 of the Tudors because of this.  In fact, I decided to remove any prospect of purchasing the Tudors series in the future. Showtime/Paramount will not be getting my money. Screw you, Showtime.  I went to the Showtime website to file a complaint but there's nothing for me to reach out to a customer service representative this way. So, it's obviously that Showtime doesn't really care about the viewers and the customers, whether feedback could be positive or negative.  I'm done with Showtime.

And what about Albania? Ok, so the acting was great from all involved, which of course is a star packed film. The script is carried by an interesting concept, one that posits American politics is all spin with very little truth. Very good. So why am I giving this one star? Because the film posits you can manufacture a fake hollywood produced war unbeknownst to the American public which would be fine except for a few nagging and distracting OBVIOUS questions:  Wouldn't the Albanians know they are not involved in a war?  Wouldn't their neighboring questions know?  Wouldn't the press, foreign and domestic, head straight to the borders to try and cover the war and refugee problems?  Wouldn't the Albanian government be so flummoxed they would openly go to the press and UN with scratched heads and say its all good and well to be declared an enemy of the US but there is no small nor large war going on in Albania? That they aren't being bombed, gassed nor shot at? That the people are farming and starving as usual?  Wouldn't the European nations and its media also know there is no war on their continent?  I mean after all the US is a NATO member.  What about US troops and Generals? Even if the generals are willing to lie would the actual troops know none of them were being deployed to Albania? Even if it was a Delta or some other such elite agency?  Not only does this film charge the American public with general stupidity, which one could argue to be true, but it also believes those watching the film are also.  So one star for the fact that there is a great cast wasting its time on a script with worse holes than Ridley's Prometheus.

Don't waste your time and money!!! I love movies but this movie was awful.  1) You have to be able to stomach over 150 F-bombs, plus multiple other signs of a limited vocabulary.  The trailer was prepared to misdirect the potential audience.  I watched the entire movie including the short post-credit scene;  still very disappointed.  Don't rent it; Don't buy it.

A Sad Excuse For A Special Edition Psycho is one of my all time favorite Alfred Hitchcock movies. Having said that I have to say I was disappointed with this 2008 Legacy Series Special Edition. In 1998 Universal released a Psycho Collector's Edition (which is $5 cheaper) which compared to the 2008 release has a different format (a better format I think), the same bonus features as this new release, the only difference is the Collector's Edition is NOT a two disc set. Obviously I had the 1998 Collector's Edition prior to buying this one. I thought this newer one would be better, its not. I expected more for my money. The DVD is already $19.70 + $2.98 = $22.68 and for what? Basically you're paying more money for a 2nd disc. Save $5 and buy the one from 1998.  Don't believe me? Open a new window and search Amazon for Psycho Collector's Edition and compare that one to the Legacy Series Special Edition on this page. Judge for yourself.

This version is dubbed As another reviewer has mentioned, this version of the film is dubbed and NOT, as I had expected, subtitled. If you're cool with that, fine, but after watching about 5 minutes of the dubbed version I couldn't take it anymore. It just looks jarring and silly, it's much easier to take the film seriously when watching with subtitles...

can't watch I got the wrong DVD & can not get any help in returning it.  I am very disgusted with USTrade.

On The Buses Move Bewarned these DVDs are extremely poor, bad quality. I purchased On The Buses Movies: On The Buses, Holiday on the buses, Mutany on the buses, They look as if they have been taken off very bad warn out home video tape recorded off TV. Some parts of the DVD were so bad I could not see what was happening DONT WAST YOUR MONEY as I found them anoying to watch due to quality issues Supplier did provide well packaged product on time, no isue with seller just the DVDs

Really really bad This movie has to be the worst thing on Amazon. In fact, this is my first review ever... if I can save even one poor soul from this blergh-fest it'll be worth it.  I really loved the book -it's oppressive, well-written and completely engrossing. This movie, however, is so poorly written it's unbearable to watch. The characters are at best 2-dimensional. You seriously cannot give a crap about what happens to any of them. Not that much happens anyway. Sadly the lead actress is actually really good. She probably could have interpreted the original character/narrator properly -interesting and intelligent, while flawed and creepy.  I realize that when adapting a book into film, a lot of creative choices are made. The chief example here would be that while the book works with an unreliable narrator and we are left to wonder whether there is a supernatural element or whether it's all in the lead's mind, the movie makes its choice quite clearly as to there being a vampire. While I personally miss the ambiguity, that's not the problem here: this movie is not suspenseful, it's not frightening, the dialog is stiff and lame, and the story-line itself seems absent-minded.  I wish I could get my money back. Or sue. Or get a neck massage as compensation for holding my head up for 80 minutes to watch this.  If you want to be creeped out in a good way, go read the book.

Cabin in the Woods In my opinion this movie was a waste of money and time.  That's 2 hours of time I will never get back!

Writer/director's second effort proves to be an uninspiring portrait of a sad sack sex addict *** This review may contain spoilers ***  Rating: 1.5  I'm still trying to figure out why this film has received so many accolades from the media. Perhaps it's director Steve McQueen's visceral style and the performer's intense performances. But none of this can make up for the vapid, manipulative screenplay, featuring characters we learn next to nothing about.  McQueen's protagonist is 'Brandon', a sex addict who appears to be angry at the world for largely unknown reasons. The one thing that Brandon is clearly resentful about, is having to put his co-dependent sister, Sissy, up in his apartment. Sissy alludes to the fact that they were both abused as children but we never learn any significant details about the abuse. Sissy turns out to be a wholly unsympathetic character, a freeloader who expects her brother to take care of her.  We end up getting a brief peek at Brandon's work world when we're introduced to his obnoxious boss, David, who flatters every woman he meets, and gets nowhere. In contrast, bad boy Brandon acts disinterested with the same women David tries to score with, and becomes an instant babe magnet. The best loser David can do is bed Sissy at Brandon's apartment, with the angry brother, seething, as he's forced to listen to the sounds of their lovemaking inside the bedroom.  McQueen has an annoying habit of holding shots for too long. There's a wholly unnecessary scene where we see Brandon urinating in the bathroom from a distance. Ditto when Sissy sings an awfully slow rendition of 'New York, New York' during her gig as a lounge singer.  Eventually, Brandon has a 'normal' date with Nicole but admits to her over dinner that the longest relationship he's ever had was four months. When he attempts to have sex with her, this time he's a complete flop, as he's unable to cope with the intimacy of a more genuine encounter.  By now, we realize that Writer/Director McQueen has no additional aces to play. Brandon is hardly someone we can care about because McQueen doesn't know how to develop his characters. Yes, we 'get it' early on that Brandon is an emotionally stunted, cut-off individual who uses sex do dull his inner turmoil, just like any addict. After watching one mechanical sex scene after another, culminating in Brandon's particularly dull encounter at a gay sex club (which is supposed to represent the apotheosis of his desperate fixation), our sympathy for this loser of a protagonist, has reached its lowest nadir.  Now McQueen aims to redeem Brandon through a decided, manipulative, sleight of hand. The police action in the subway station which Brandon is about to disembark at, leads one to believe that someone has jumped on to the tracks. Could it be sister Sissy? Brandon runs out of the station and up to his apartment, only to find that Sissy has opted for a much more conventional attempt at suicide--she's a bloody mess after slitting her wrists. It's taken the shock of almost losing his sister, to wake Brandon up. At film's end, director McQueen implies that Brandon will no longer be cruising the streets for his next pick up.  Take away all the slick cinematography and one is left with the standard melodrama of a sad sack who can't stand himself and hates the world. McQueen, and other uninspired film makers like him, believes this is enough for character development. But for those who appreciate the craft of screen writing, only fully realized, BELIEVABLE and sympathetic characters, should populate the pages of a screenplay, the particular type, that truly deserves all the honors bestowed upon it.

Disappointed I puchased this product from someone in England evidently and it said that it was in a different format.  It doesn't play on any of my machines.  This is a fabulous movie that I purchased to show at school and it is useless.

Nothing's happening. Starts out interestingly enough, but becomes more boring and ridiculous as the movie goes on.  The acting, dialogue, and scenes are just plain boring.  Plot turns out to be very laughable.

Dont Buy! It is hard to believe that you can only get Kindergarten Cop in full screen, denying us movie fans the pleasure of watching the film as it was intended by the director, in the original format.  What can Universal Pictures be thinking?  Such a travesty.  Don't buy.  Boycott until they release this movie in widescreen.

Junk quality BOOTLEG Don't be fooled: this is a garbage-quality DVD-R bootleg, "mastered" from the old VHS. I know people are desperate to see this great, great film in the digital format (obviously I'm a big fan myself), but be patient and DON'T waste your money.

WARNING: DON'T BUY--THIS ISN'T THE "REAL" LONE RANGER! The REAL Lone Ranger, if you grew up in the 1950s-'60s, was played to the hilt by the immortal Clayton Moore. Moore's "faithful Indian companion", Tonto, was played by the equally immortal Jay Silverheels, an actual Indian. Both were great actors who made the roles their own.  NEITHER ACTOR APPEARS IN THIS BAD RE-MAKE MOVIE. DON'T BUY IT.  In 1978 Jack Wrather, who had been the producer of many Lone Ranger TV/movie projects with Clayton Moore in the title role, gained the legal rights to the Lone Ranger character and planned a feature film with a younger actor.  In 1979, Wrather obtained an injunction to stop Clayton Moore from appearing as the Lone Ranger in public, VERY much to fans' displeasure! Wrather anticipated making a new film version of the story, and did not want the value of "his" character being undercut by Moore's appearances. Also, Wrather did not want to encourage the belief that the 65-year-old Moore would be playing the role in the new picture. This move proved to be a public relations disaster. Moore responded by changing his costume slightly and replacing the mask with similar-looking wraparound sunglasses, and by counter-suing Wrather. He eventually won the suit some 18 months later, and was able to resume his appearances in costume, which he continued doing until his death in 1999.  Having grown up with Clayton Moore as *THE* Lone Ranger, I was there and can tell you myself how absolutely furious my fellow Americans were when Clayton Moore was prevented from making a living due to the injunction and this movie. It was the subject on every talk show for weeks! You see, Americans who'd met him understood that Clayton Moore the person was every bit as good as the Lone Ranger character he portrayed. Beyond that, he was a kindly old man then, just trying to make his living as he always had. The whole thing stunk of unfairness, and everyone could see it.  This movie absolutely bombed at the box office, losing 6 million silver bullets...er, dollars. Then, Clayton Moore won his counter-suit. Everybody cheered over that, especially when Jack Wrather apologized for the whole mess he'd created!

Another Hollywood legend gone the way of the Lucas. I was really excited about this movie until I saw the reviews for it and waited until now to finally rent it.  I cannot say I am even glad I only rented it because Prometheus is one of the worst movies I have ever seen so it wasn't worth the $5 or the 2 hours to watch it.  Without its big budget and Scott's name attached, it probably would have been rejected by even the SyFy channel for a 3am time slot on Tuesday morning.  As many have already stated, there are problems everywhere and it is hard to believe Ridley would produce such a horrible project.  His first mistake was obviously hiring Damon Lindedof of Lost to rewrite/edit the script.  Lost was a mess of a story and Prometheus is no different.  It has the characteristic underdeveloped and incoherent script/story that will soon be known in Hollywood as a Lindedof.  The characters are horrible cookie cutter stereotypes (the dumb biologist with the coke bottle glasses, the annoying cocky guy that yells WOOOO!!! every scene he is in, the machine that tries to be human, the mean group leader, etc.) and, has been pointed out, there are so many plot holes and nonsensical points it is impossible to care / take seriously anything that happens in this movie.  There are so many that its just impossible to even turn your brain off to overlook them.  And no, this wasn't a "it's too deep for you to understand", it was dumb/stupid/moronic.  If you want to see something complex and deep, read the Dune series.  You want to watch a movie so bad the MST3000 guys show up, watch Prometheus.  Then there is the travesty people are calling visuals.  Seriously, the people who gave this movie 5-stars need to get over your Michael Bay idea of anything GCI is art.  Nearly completely gone are the beautiful works of biomechanical art produced by HR Giger that in my opinion MADE the Alien franchise.  It was replaced by standard stock GCI used in almost all SciFi movies and TV shows.  And do I even need to mention the freshman year old-guy special effects?  Do yourself a BIG favor and pass on this.  Do not rent it and certainly don't waste your time when it is free on TBS in a few years.  It isn't worth it.  You are better off watching something on the SyFy channel.

Sick show To all the men who have daughters...... KEEP THEM AWAY FROM THIS SICK SHOW. Everything about it is wrong. I could only watch 10 minutes of this show and i had to shut it off.  i thought the L word was short for The Loser Word. lol

Boring, Slow, and Shallow Watch only if you want to waste some time. It sub-titled, starts painfully slow, but with plenty of violence and hookers for the teenagers in the crowd. Probably why it is watched so much.

Not worth 5 cents or five minutes This propaganda stuffed film is only 30 minutes long. It is not a documentary, it is a slanted testimonial of a religious bent. I'm shocked that Amazon has selected it as part of a catalog of independent films. Don't be fooled by the compelling cover of the prison/convict montage. This is poorly edited, bad camera production all jerky and mangled. I wish I knew where to go for a refund. YUCK!!!!

Bulleted List of Why It Sucks Event Horizon... hmmm. What makes this movie so good at being bad?  Perhaps its that the movie is meticulously set up in terms of likeable actors, appealing visuals, and a beginning that doesnt set off alarms. This raises your expectations somewhat. When the movie tanks, its almost completely because of the plot, and the plot collapses in on itself in ways that are interesting to analyze but not fun to watch. Here is my bulleted list of what this movie does wrong:  - Its hard to be scared of 'a force', forces are inscrutable and abstract. We never grow to understand the limits of 'the things' power, so it feels like the crew are fighting God or the Devil. Fighting an omniscient, omnipresent, all powerful force is not really a fight. There is no hope of winning. The conflicts arent conflicts, because no one can fight back, they are just 'slaughter'. These people are essentially being slaughtered for 50 odd minutes in this film. That is not actually conflict.  - The central character is inscrutable, opaque - basically gives no clues to his mind's functioning that resonate with the viewer. His actions indicate wildly changing motivations. None of the dialogue gives us access to his inner thought process, except for rushed arguments with Fishburne's character, which can all be summed up as: "Damn it, we're in trouble, now do what I say!" or "You're wrong, you must be imagining things!" He never speaks more than four sentences in succession, nor does the camera linger on his facial expression for longer than 3 seconds - yet his psychological dynamic is almost all that is happening in terms of the character development in this movie.  - Satanic/Demonic themes are handled with no finesse. A red figure of a devil on fire emerges at one point from The Machine. It looks like a child's drawing of our collective cartoon picture of the devil. This is actually the most interesting part, since 'the force' is given a face - yet literally within five seconds, the being disappears, never to be seen again.  - Illusions/Altered perception of reality used to no real effect. When you have characters 'seeing things', 'imagining things', the suspension of disbelief in the viewer is being messed with, since we no longer know what is really happening in the movie vs. in the head's of its characters (we are being shown both). The filmmaker is 'showing us things that aren't really happening' and thus begging the question: 'OK, what are we seeing here that IS really happening?' This device has to be used with great care, or the viewer will be exhausted trying to keep reality and illusion separate in their minds. Event Horizon indulges in this device with such nonchalance, unfortunately making it the central 'trick' of this 'force'. Its exhausting, and all the tension it builds is just immediately diffused by the realization: 'Oh, it was just an illusion.'  - Sci Fi premises not handled with any flair. If were digging into the bag of sci fi tropes and topics, lets do it with style. Show me some subtlety or nuance in the approach that will justify all the baggage of the genre.  - Hectic pacing, no point of focus. This movie doesnt seem to understand that every time we jump to another scene, or shift to another barely established character's POV, or have another dialogue shouting session, we diffuse the focus of the film and lose the suspense we are trying to build. Its hard to build slow-burning tension with hectic scene changes. Yet this movie jumps from scene to scene with no pauses, no silences, something is constantly happening.  - Dialogue is always in the form of an argumentative shouting session.  There you have it.

Pacino's camp classic comes to blu-ray Not even thirty seconds in, and it's obvious Al Pacino's SCARFACE is acutely unaware it's been positioned as a future camp classic:  outrageously over-the-top Al, affecting an uproariously exaggerated Cuban accent and playing a character whose every other word begins with "F," delivers a go-for-broke performance that best approximates a freebasing Daffy Duck.  Decked out in garish polyester suits that would make Tony Manero blush, Pacino annunciates every line of Oliver Stone's trashy script as if someone has slipped a freshly-fired horseshoe down his hot designer pants; it would be another eleven years before Rod Steiger would showcase an even more embarrassing Cuban accent in 1994's THE SPECIALIST.  Released in the midst of a particularly fallow period of Pacino's career (his comedy AUTHOR! AUTHOR! wasn't half as funny as his Civil War epic, REVOLUTION) SCARFACE serves as a reminder that even the finest of actors have their "off" days.  Pacino and director Brian DePalma would fare far better with CARLITO'S WAY a decade later.

Faye Dunaway kisses her career goodbye in this travesty.  When the film first came out, all I heard was "Faye looks just like her!", "The sets are to die for!",  "She should win an Oscar"!  Faye was so this and so that and she was all over the place.  On magazines and TV shows like she was....  Joan Crawford.  It's not a good film and poor Faye Dunaway, once one of the "new breed" of actors, burned herself at the Hollywood stake.  And we all sat back and watched it happen.  We even bought tickets.  In truth, Faye didn't stand a chance.  The scriptwriters turned Joan into a bulldozer and Faye, who really needed a hit film, (her career was sliding) decided that she could bulldoze along with the best of them.  The result is an eye-popping, jaw-dropping portrayal of one of Hollywood's most glamorous citizens.  And all of this was taken from Christina Crawford's bitch-fest about her mother.  If that tome wasn't "bulldozer" enough, the screenwriter's made damned sure that they would portray Joan as a maniacal and out-of-control fruitcake.  With an axe.  With Bon-Ami.  With (dare I say it?) wire hangers.  Faye took the role and ran.  I think she's still running away from this, as after "Mommie Dearest" her career never recovered.  It's "Baby Jane" with Faye Dunaway.  Joan works and boozes and smokes and sleeps around.  (For me, that's Wednesday).  She wakes up at the crack of nowhere to do awful things with her face (hot water and ice cubes; and I only say "awful" because Mancini's soundtrack tells us that it is) and scrubs her fingers furiously....you can hear her moan at the pain....and she keeps on doing it.  She hits the studio before dawn and finally finally finally Faye turns her face to the camera.  The sets and wardrobe and makeup are excellent.  Very impressive and indicative of their time.  But....wait.....Faye turns her face to the camera.  It's Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford.  When the film was released, we said "Ohhhhhhh looks just like her" but viewing the film today, it's Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford.  And suddenly the sets look shabby.  Not as first-rate as we had originally thought.  Grade B.  And she should have known better.  After this, and to this day, she turns up in avant-garde or low-budget films that no one wants to see.  Much like  Joan Crawford.

Debating The Purchase I know the movie will be bad. I'm still debating the purchase, just to complete the set. Here's the way I heard it...  After the popularity of "Star Trek" in syndication, the studio asked Gene Roddenberry to come up with another series. He presented the idea for "Genesis II." It was shot and aired. In a moment of history repeating itself, the studio hated the movie, but liked enough of the idea that they asked GR to do it over. The result was "Planet Earth," with John Saxon. Only this time, the studio hated the second attempt as well. As with the first, too much thought and philosophy, not enough violence and T&A. But once again, they liked the basic premise.  So, they threw out GR, and did it the way they wanted. "Strange New World" was the result. According to the article I read, it was so horrible that it was never aired. The movie was shelved and hasn't been seen since.  SIDEBAR: If that's true, you have to wonder just how bad "Strange New World" could possibly be if the studio went on to not only create and air, but shoot multiple seasons of the abomination "Andromeda." Surely "Strange New World" can't be THAT bad... Can it?  So the question isn't whether or not the movie is any good. The question is this: I have "Genesis II" and "Planet Earth." Should I complete the set?

ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER BAD ROM-COM  1 OUT OF 10 Somehow, some way, director Garry Marshall and hack writer Katherine Fugate churn out a romantic comedy that is worse than Valentine's Day. Now think about that for a moment. Valentine's Day was already an incredibly pathetic film that was nothing more than a star-studded piece of crap jammed with just about every rom-com cliche in the book and comatose performances from the cast. It was easily one of the worst films of 2010, but New Year's Eve ups the ante as if Katherine Fugate is exacting revenge on the audience for calling her out on her wretched writing skills (To think that this woman teaches writing seminars scares the hell out of me) by making New Year's Eve even MORE cliched and pathetically written. The only resolution this film ushers into the new year is the further destruction of romance films. WHAT IT'S ABOUT: Like Valentine's Day, this film follows the incredibly boring lives (Only this time, the characters are even more boring) of several characters who are overly obsessed with the New Year's holiday. One story follows a character named Claire who has been put in charge of the ball drop for New Year's and how she is stressing over it. The second story follows a woman named Ingrid who quits her job at record company and with the help of a delivery boy named Paul to complete the tasks on her list of New Year's resolution in exchange for tickets to the record company's masquerade ball and the two have a series of adventures. A third story follows a woman named Kim who is having troubles with her rebellious teenage daughter who wants to go out with her friends by herself to the ball drop and be with her boyfriend. A fourth story is about a man named Randy who hates the holiday who ends up getting stuck in an elevator with a woman named Elise and the two begin to fall in love. A fifth story follows a woman named Laura who is in charge of catering the masquerade party for a record company who has troubles with a famous musician known as Jensen who left her but is now trying to rekindle the relationship. A sixth story is about a dying man named Stan whose last wish is to see the ball drop one last time and ponder over the mistakes made in his life. A seventh story involves two couples competing with each other by trying to have their babies born on New Year's to win $25,000 An eighth story follows a man named Sam who has to give a speech at the party, but has trouble getting there after getting into a car accident and also has to decide whether or not he wants to meet a woman he met a year earlier. Yes, every story is as redundant and cliched as you can picture them, and also come with even smaller subplots in between which matter even less than the already pathetic series of subplots. MUSIC: Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad! The film's score is already crappy and uninspired, but the songs are even worse. Even with Bon Jovi singing, the songs are still crap and Glee star Lea Michele also sings bad songs. There's even a really terrible duet to boot. ACTING: Only Michelle Pfeiffer escapes with any dignity since she was able to provide her character with life and showcased her acting skills nicely. In fact, whenever Pfeiffer appeared on the screen, it made the film tolerable briefly before going straight back to being horrible. No one else escapes from being terrible and having their careers tarnished, even though I like a lot of these actors. The saddest case of all is seeing how much further Robert De Niro's career has sunk since his performance is so flat and brings no life to the film. Sofia Vergara's character was annoying and seemed to sponge jokes off of being Spanish which were never funny in the slightest. Bon Jovi neither brings his musical or acting skills to the film and never seemed to care. There are also tons of other stars like Halle Berry, Hilary Swank, Sarah Jessica Parker, Carla Gugino, Jessica Biel, and several other stars who are also completely wasted since their characters and subplots are so thinly written that a blank piece of paper has the depth of the deepest parts of an ocean in comparison to the script itself. ENTERTAINMENT: As mentioned before, the only parts of the film I didn't despise was when Michelle Pfeiffer was on the screen. Other than that, there was nothing enjoyable whatsoever. I hated every other character, every other subplot, and every other aspect of this film. There were no interesting interactions, no insight into relationships, no funny humor, cliches upon cliches that would rival the size of Mount Everest if you were to examine them, wretched dialogue so pathetic that you may feel physically ill, and more. HUMOR: New Year's Eve is ruthlessly unfunny and I sat in my seat watching it with either a stone-faced look or a look of disgust watching it unfold because it's not funny in the slightest. OVERALL: HORRIBLE. Once again, Katherine Fugate proves she should never be allowed to write anything, let alone teach people about writing. New Year's Eve is easily my pick for the second worst film of 2011 (Losing only to Beastly, which is also a horrible romance film!). This film is jam-packed with stars, but does absolutely nothing with them (Which is shocking, considering how poorly used the celebrities in Valentine's Day were). This film is nothing more than a paint-by-the-numbers rom-com. Actually, scratch that, because those paint-by-the-numbers crafts from stores actually take more time and effort than what was put into writing this pile of crap! This film is no better than if someone was to look at a pile of dog crap and think to themselves, "Hey look! Dog crap! What can I do to make this more appealing?" and then sticking a bunch of small diamonds and other valuable jewels into the pile of crap. Sure that pile of crap is now very shiny and very expensive, but that doesn't change the fact that it's still a pile of crap. And that's all this film is: a shiny and expensive pile of crap. THE GOOD: Michelle Pfeiffer. THE BAD: Wretched writing by Katherine Fugate, terrible music, wretched dialogue, unfunny humor, too many cliches, too many celebrities that go unused, and no effort.

Problems with Fit & Strong "Play" Level 1 & 2 I would LOVE to view this DVD but have had problems with 4 of them....I've come to the conclusion maybe it's my player?!  I've viewed the "Getting Started" but there is no way to then move to Level 1 and/or Level 2.  What is it??  Is there a secret to playing it??  This is not the first time I've viewed a DVD!!!!  I'm frustrated because I really want to see and do this video!!!  Can someone help me???

Very confusing Biography indeed. I am still terribly confused.  I wondered if this biography was even authorized, but John Malkovich was in it, so it must have been.  That makes me worry it was autobiographical, he seemed so lucid and sane in other movies.  Also, the building with a floor at half height, what building inspector signed off on that?  Talk about a fire hazard.  The thing could not have been structurally sound.  I am just glad no actors got hurt filming in that strange building.  There are a lot of good reviews though, so maybe I am missing something.

Weak film at making a film... I was truly disappointed after watching this film. It's a disjointed film about making a film which never materializes. Not worth more than $7. Save your money!

Don't Waste Your Time or Money I wanted to like this - because the premise sounded so promising - but had to shut it off after about 30 minutes. I like dumb movies, movies that are "Grade Z" - but I have to find SOMETHING to laugh about in a movie. It wasn't even remotely amusing. I purchased this because of the rave reviews it got here on Amazon. This one's going into the garbage - a waste of money.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat? This is nothing like the cartoon in the 1960's. Flaw number 1: He and the dogs are treated like pets by the humans instead of equals in the toon. Flaw number 2: The dogs in the film look NOTHING like the dogs in 60's series. Flaw number 3: CGI is gargabe almost as bad as the one from Howard The Duck. Flaw number 4: The Villain and his sidekick in the film looks nothing like the ones in the cartoon. Flaw number 5: The movie focus too much on the human owners then we do on Underdog. Flaw number 6: The film saids he got his powers when he accidentally got shot by a laser beam and keeps the powers by the end of the film while in the cartoon, he gets his powers from blue pills. Flaw number 7: Recycled material from other films. Flaw number 8: Sloppy production. I give this [bleep] a 0 out of 10.

Great movie. Crappy DVD I need to caveat that I purchased this DVD used and it only cost me $4.18 including shipping and handling. With that said, it's still not worth it. You're better off downloading this movie off the internet. Unless you can find another version that's NOT this one, just be a pirate. All you get when you put this in your DVD player is the movie, scene selection, "special features", and languages. When you click on special features, all you get is the trailer and a dvd-rom features. when you click on that, it tells you to put it in your pc. You have to hunt for the extras like interviews and such. The features are hidden in the boxes of the menu frames. Not all of them work. you have to click them all to determine which are duds. Even if you find the features, THEY'RE JUST SLIDESHOWS WITH AUDIO!  tl;dr  No extra content. Don't buy this DVD. Yarr.

Don't Buy This video is a mere 10 minutes long.  It simply shows images of the very basic facts in every guidebook published about Cambodia.

Major Disappointment First one I purchased began a continual pause after about the first three minutes of play.  Returned it for exchange.  Second one played fine for the first 20 minutes (105 minute DVD) and then it started pausing for increasingly longer periods until it was no longer playable.  I probably should have given it 2 stars because it actually accomplishes, if it could play properly, what this bluegrass student/customer was looking for (and is still looking for).  However, this made me even more frustrated with the DVD defects and resulted in my "I Hate It".  Incidently, tried cleaning both DVDs - No help.  Tried playing on different players and computers - all the same.  Bottom Line - Both DVD's were defective - What a MAJOR DISAPPOINTMENT!!

STAY AWAY FROM THIS MOVIE!!! ***Spoiler Alert*** Do not read further if you want the joy of discovering how bad this movie is on your own.  Where do I even start?  I thought this movie was going to be about conspiracy, but it's not.  Essentially, Elizabeth Bank's character is found guilty of murdering her boss.  We see a few flashbacks of the crime, but not enough to really know what happened.  Russell Crowe, the husband of Bank's character, exhausts the repeal process.  He then concludes his only option is to break his wife out of jail.  Completely reasonable and based in reality.  The movie then delves into Crowe's attempts to plan the big escape.  We see him try to  buy fake passports and shave keys.  He ditches his job and his son a lot to work on his escape plan.  We're introduced to a slew of characters who don't matter: the cops who arrested his wife, Olivia Wilde's character, and the deaf motorcyclist.  Furthermore, I never could figure out the motivation for Crowe's character.  He's willing to leave his son with a woman he barely knows so he can break his wife out of jail.  Apparently leaving his son at a birthday party is part of his great escape plan, even though he forgot to read the details on the birthday invitation.  What bothered me most was his decision to rob some  drug dealers.  Bad idea to begin with, but he ends of killing one of them.  No remorse whatsoever.  No pause to rethink his whole plan.  He just continues on his path.  I also found it implausible at the end of the movie that his wife's innocence was dependent on finding a button in a storm drain.....from three years ago.  I just highlighted some of the problems in this movie because there are soooo many.  I just felt an obligation to warn people away from this awful movie.

Forgettable I wish I could list all the reasons why this movie is so forgettable such as a not believable, told before storyline with bland acting and directing/editing that belonged in the made-for-tv mode. But, even though I watched it three days ago, I can't remember the movie. I did watch "Few Options" the day before it and "Miss Bala" the day before that and I do remember them. Oh well!

GOBBLE, GOBBLE Perhaps the perfect commitee movie.  There isn't a personal or idiosyncratic moment in the entire film. It oozes 'safe'.  The movie team has taken a theme from The Red Shoes:  Life immitates Art immitates Life etc. and mixed it with a theme from the Michael Redgrave episode from Dead of Night:  The Creator is the Creature is the Creator etc.  Into this mush the movie team seems to think they have created not a horror movie but a ballet move so they threw in a lesbian sex scene to get red-blooded American boys to go see it.  After over 40 years in the business Barbara Hershey is still playing Barbara Hershey roles.  The people at the Foreign Press Club and The Academy have deemed Natalie Portman's 90 minutes or so of whining and sniveling to be acting.

I need 2 hours and 8 minutes of my life back Firstly for those people who found the preview alluring let me warn you this "action packed movie" spends more time blankly focusing on Kristin Stewart making all the same ridiculous facial expressions she did in the twilight movies. The plot started off as a promising one , but quickly they get caught up in trying to create beautiful eye catching scenes rather than actually telling a story. The movie earned the one star but Charlize Theron and Liam Hemsworth both did a great job.

terrible response Have still not heard from veco the italian company need your help I was prommissed in a passed e that i would be contacted  disappointed that amazon  would be selling dvd that are zone 2  thank you

Painful to watch This movie may have been Oscar-worthy 20 years ago, but it sure has not aged well. Several problems:  1. Al Pacino's jerk performance in this movie is too often over the top. It's just too much. If you're Charlie Simms (Chris O'Donnell), you're just going to walk away. 2. At what age does a man's obsession with sex just become creepy? Think about what the reaction would be to a 60 yr old loud mouth who, upon each and every introduction to a woman, names her perfume. And who frequently discusses women in graphic detail (loudly, in public places). And who asks some nubile twenty yr old girl to do the tango in a hotel restaurant. And who makes his young sidekick wait in the car while he "experiences" a prostitute. 3. The conflict Charlie is dealing with (rich kids, boarding school trouble) feels contrived and predictable. 4. The climax of the movie (Al Pacino's speech in the school assembly) requires an especially strong suspension of disbelief. 5. The musical score is nauseating - especially the piece that gets played whenever we're to feel sympathy for Pacino.  I could go on, but I've already wasted enough of my life thinking about this film.

BORING I almost fell a sleep watching this. DC needs to STOP with all the Batman stuff. We have seen it all before....twice. DC has such a wealth of characters and all they do is Batman or Superman. I get it's all about what sells but at the very least make it interesting. AT least the Superman movies are watchable. We all get Gotham is a hole in the ground corrupt city. Move on DC.

Don't be fooled This film has all the ingredients -Tommy Lee Jones, the back marshes of the Louisiana bayou, a murdered prostitute, and yet the overall execution falls flat. I can't remember the last time a plot was so dry, slow, and lacking in creativity that I actually didn't make it to the end. Yes, that is correct -I shut this movie off before the predictable conclusion. In the Electric Mist? More like in the BORING mist!

Blank Disc I didn't really watch the movie to rate it. I got a blank disc when I put it in the bluray player there was no picture. I checked the HDMMI cable several times to make sure it wasn't that but each time it registered that it was good. Most of the movies I get from Amazon are good but this soured me alittle.

Does not work I sent an E-mail two weeks ago telling you of my problems the tape didnt work they said they will send one out two weeks ago still havent got it. All my orders have been good before but this the worst and bad service not happy at all

What happened to the Harry Potter film genre Just wanted to express my utter displeasure for what seems an unfortunate change in the Harry Potter film genre.  From magical delightful escape, we are now presented with a harsh monotonous slow story which bores and shocks. What a great pity.

Could Not Finsih it. BORING. Thats all i can say about this one. is just VERY boring. I got about 15 minutes in it, and took it out of my DVD player. DO NOT reccomend.

Not the original. Darn! In my youth this was one of my favorite movies. The party scene in the original was absolutely enchanting. This version altogether lacked the magic and exacting beauty of the original.

They Are Right: One Star I am sorry, I really wanted to like this film.  Read all of the One Star reviews and there you have it.  Boring, boring, boring.

so freaking nasty I really believe this is one of the sickest movies out there. I watched the whole thing and almost puked. I have no idea why i even punished myself like that. I thought it would be funny but it wasn't at all. It's just nasty!

Kiosk Rating &lt;1 Story: (1.) A fully nude elderly man as a ghostly figure with a bed-binding chain and a couple of brief scenes of seminude women probably cast as a male audience gratuity. (2.) A 20s era gang escapes into the house of their leader who shows up later carrying a blind woman who is able to see ghosts and other intangibles. (3.) All with the police outside the house with a glaring spotlight to highlight their presence to the viewing audience. That's the extent of their cinematic contribution. (4.) Gang has a hostage who supposedly is the son of the gang leader whose memory is governed by illusion so he doesn't recognize his son. The leader goes from room to room within the house with the blind woman as his clairvoyant looking for his dead lost love. He looks through the door keyholes and asks if she's there. (5.) Other ghostly or illusionary figures show up in the rooms.  Criticism: (1.) Usual cheap period props such as lots of clocks (including a grandfather clock, of course); odd toys; stuffed animal. (2.) Obvious fake thunder & lightning; lots of hanging see-through fabrics, linens through-out the house for the camera to view as a ghostly effect; lots of repeated sound effects (cello, cymbals, synthesizer, shoe stomping, etc.) that were just overbearing; lots of scene jumping flashing at different camera angles for effect also pointlessly annoying. (3.) Actors had that stage style, stand rigid and read a line with a very limited number of words style robotic presentation. Dialogue was a sophomoric, script writer type speak. (4.) A b & W "film noir" that is typical obtuse, see how clever I can be, ambiguity driven writing and directing. If one needs mental exercise with deception it's easier to simply watch CNBC financial news and anchor/reporter analysis.

It was not in good condition This is a great movie that my son loves, but the condition of the DVD was not 'good' as it was stated by the seller.  It skips throughout the movie and in some parts, it's got sucn a deep scratch that it locks the DVD up.

Cash-in I saw this movie in the theaters.  It was a cash in that did not add anything new to the series and ruined the first movie for me.  A simple cash cow,  Do not buy this.

Viewer BEWARE! This is not a Horror Movie or even a good movie for that matter My co-workers and I decided to watch this during a slow day at work. Judging by the cover, one is led to think...."Horror Movie" At first the errie atmosphere seems promising. As it drags on you realise it's meant to be a thriller and by the end of the movie it's safe to say homicide has been commited. That's right, this film just killed over an hour of your precious life that could've been spent doing something actually enjoyable. Nope, it's gone right down the toilet so to speak. This movie has one of the most dull endings I've ever seen, it's just a really bad, BAD MOVIE! Please heed my advice and walk away, otherwise, consider yourself warned.

Cougars, inc. Don't know what I did with this one but all I get is the selection where they talk about the film. Have never been able to see the actual film so do not know if I like it or not. Don't know if it's a defect in the DVD or if that was all it was to begin with.

Make sure and scroll down the page This DVD will NOT work on players sold in the USA.  It is coded for Region 2 and was only in the small print.  Should have been larger or brought to attention considering it is shipped FROM North Carolina  !!!! Returning product :(

Hipster Wagner??? I really wouldn't recommend this performance. It seems to make fun of the opera more than to perform it. The famous opening of Act 3 is set in a girls' dormitory and involves a pillow fight. The sets are spare and ugly, the singing is adequate but not good. It might be worth watching if what you want is an attempt at ironic commentary on the original, but for me it really just ruined a good opera.

great show, atrocious product Like everyone else is saying, this isn't a knock on the show.  The show is amazing and a must watch.  This is a knock on the product. The product is a turd sandwich.  HBO should be ashamed of themselves.  The design of the packaging is terrible and leads to the discs being ruined.  Because of how the packaging is poorly designed many of the discs had already slipped out of their slots before I had opened the set. Nearly every disc in the set had scratches because of the poor construction. The plastic slips inside the cardboard slots are glued in haphazardly.  I wasn't able to pull some of the discs out because of how some of the plastic slips were positioned.  Other discs had glue residue on the backs.  I even had 2 discs that had small cracks, one of which was unable to be read by and dvd player i own.  It needs to be noted that this is for the 2008 edition of the series.  AVOID THE 2008 EDITION LIKE THE PLAGUE!!!  I ended up getting a replacement (the 2011 edition) and it is a much better product.  The discs in this set come in more traditional plastic dvd cases.  If you are buying the boxed set of "the wire" instead of individual seasons go with the 2011 edition.

Where there's love, there's a will, and where there's a will, there's a way In the years since I've seen this film I have held a quiet dislike for it that was hard for me to voice, particularly due to the fact that so many of my friends admire it.  It has much to like, I think: the acting, the pacing, the themes, cinematography, great story, etc.  However, as a gay man, my personal reaction to it was that it was disingenuous--that this film is not true to life, that it was incredible and unconvincing in that it does not agree with what I know to be true about love between people and love between men.  When two people love each other, and when that love is a great love, like the one depicted in this film, that love gives courage and enables the lovers to overcome certain obstacles, like fear.  In this movie that doesn't happen.  Mind you, it is not that I am addicted to happy endings.  I was not, at the outset, hoping for the two lovers to end up together and happy like in straight soap operas.  I expected them to be together because my own logic led me to that conclusion.  I thought, well, if their love is that great and strong, they'll find a way.  The love between the two men had that quality of greatness that, naturally, would lead me to think that way.  When that did not happen, and the men never really come together, never overcome their fear, it just didn't seem real or true to me.  Either their love was really not that great, or the story is lying at some level.  Let me tell you, when two closeted gay or bisexual men in their situation (married to women) fall in love, they can and do find ways to be together.  One of the most common ways of doing so is by going into business.  A business partnership between two men can become an unofficial marriage, granting the men ample time together and also many opportunities for traveling in each other's company for business related reasons and pretexts like: business conferences and fairs, meetings with investors, business expansion endeavors, etc.  Men in such a partnership can hope to enjoy a high degree of marital closeness, even though they have to be discreet about it.  Watching this film, I remember having the expectation that at some point the lovers would go into business together and manage to stay close to each other that way.  So, when the lovers do not come together, yes it was disappointing, and for a long time my mind searched for a reason why because the reasons given in the story were unconvincing--even untruthful.  And finally, I struck on what may be the answer--director Ang Lee's Chinese cultural background, with it's eastern philosophical tenets of individual self-sacrifice for the social order and a nebulous "greater good."  Is the subtext here, I wondered, that gay love does not serve the "greater good," and is the greater good equated with the social order and, by extension, mysteries? Sacredness? God?  You must admit, the characters possessed a great reluctance and fear to upset society.  The whole idea of a great love that existed but was not known nor acknowledged by anyone outside of the two lovers, is a concept that is very Asian--the lovers who cannot consummate their love because society forbids it, and that there is something spiritually beautiful in that abnegation of their love.  There are Chinese folktales that run like this, and it is this very type of romanticism that I find both disagreeable and dishonest.  Because the fact is that every single day, human beings have to find ways to subvert the social order in order to snatch some of the rewards of life for themselves, and they are also often successful in doing just that.  The failure of these lovers to do just that is incredible, untruthful, and dishonest, and does not serve any mysterious and deceptive "greater good."  It is worth noting here that the lovers in the film are not cowboys by mere accident.  They are cowboys because the cowboy is one of the chief and most respected stereotypes of masculinity in America, and as such they make a convincing pitch for the heartstrings of those who believe in that stereotype, in John Wayne and the Marlboro man.  Imagine for a minute if the lovers in "Brokeback" had not been cowboys but instead had been truckers, or better yet, beauticians.  Could viewers have taken their love as seriously?  I don't think so.  The movie hinges on the idea that the cowboy-lovers are "real" men, and that it is the love between two "real" men that the story is about.  Why?  Well, to augment it's subtle but devastating insult to gay men.  It says to gay men that they are not men, that they are something less--because they do not conform to trite masculine stereotypes.  And the clincher is that the moviegoer is complicit in this insult because, if the movie had been about the love affair between two male hairdressers, far less people would have cared to see it.  I resent this movie because it represents a great put-down of gay men and of gay love.  It suggests that love between "real" men is not really possible, even as the "real" men in question are mere stereotypes.  It insults gay men by refusing to acknowledge their manhood.  It is ridiculous in it's belittlement of gay love because it suggests that even when that love is great, gay lovers are incapable of asserting and establishing that love and that closeness in some way, even subversively.  In the end, you may believe whatever you want to believe, but when men really love each other they find ways to be together, whether they are closeted married cowboys or high-powered businessmen.  And the social order be damned.

Been done before ! Goofy & boring  10 mins was all I could handle of this dvd  I am glad I did not pay to go to see it the dvd was a gift.  I might even see if it can be resold on Amazon that how much I did not like it.

Unfunny, total waste of time I agree with the others who gave this a one-star review.  I watched it as so many people said it was "hilarious" and a sequel was made.  But I didn't laugh once.  It was less a comedy than a bumbling mystery to figure out what happened the previous night.  If you want something that aims at college-age humor, watch Animal House.  This is a waste of time and money.

Not even a good recruiting advertisement I am an avid Action movie watcher. I went into this film with low expectations because I realized the Navy SEALS are not actors, they are warriors. I did expect the action sequences to be a bit more interesting... Honestly it just looked like a dumb, scripted, B movie. I could have dealt with the bad acting but I was interested in seeing a bit of the well oiled machine that is the US Navy SEALS here and that did not happen. This one isn't even worth the price of the rental, just watch the trailer again.

Do Not Buy DO NOT BUY! This is the worst video I have ever seen. Most of the best bits are COVERED over with someone showing off their immature psychedelic color washing or comic book pictures. If you want to SEE the musicians play, DO NOT GET this video. I should have listened to the one star comments! It seems that who ever added the junk to this concert hated ELP and didn't want you to see them. I wish my one star could be a negative 5.

What happened?! I just wrote a review of the new Spider-Man movie (The Amazing Spider-Man), and felt compelled to write a review of this one as well. Afterall, this movie left such a sour taste in my mouth that I was SO happy that they rebooted the series. Now, I know that some peoople will complain about me giving this movie one star, but it is literally one of the worst movies ever made! If it is any indication, this movie is worse than Ang Lee's Hulk movie (and that movie was a giant steamy pile!)! I don't understand how Marvel can have such a good series going and then cock it up on this one. Not only that, but Venom is the coolest Spider-Man villain of all and they made him look like a giant pansy here! Anyway, give The Amazing Spider-Man movie a try. Don't get me wrong, it's definitely not Dark Knight status, but it is MUCH better than this!

Waste of $5... Same clips of W over and over again... The only thing more painful than the editing in this film is the first several minutes listening to his daughters attempt to be funny... If you want to waste your money on this DVD, I will sell you mine...otherwise it is destined to be a coaster.

Con Air OMG!!!! NO!!!!! It's in a different language or something that I cannot even play in my DVD player!!!!!!!!! How can I get an "American/English/USA" copy ??!!

Is this thing supposed to be funny? One of the most stupid and boring movies I have ever seen. I am a big fan of comedy, but this is more like a horror movie.

Curious motivations. What this movie boils down to is one great battle scene surrounded by incessant character assassination. Why, more than two thousand years later, a popular director should be so offended by a historical figure as to create work of such intense defamation has to be wondered about.  The film segments which show any of the major characters in anything resembling a positive nature could be edited down to several minutes in total. The remainder is dedicated to proving that Macedonians were foul people, their leaders even more foul, and the world around them only a debauched cesspool.  Three versions now of this pejorative portrayal. How could one director be so obsessed with such perverseness?

Unviewable DVD in some geographic zones The DVD is a UK import. We were not aware when we purchased it that it would have a copyright geographic zone block on it that would prevent it from playing in our US DVD player. There is probably some way around this block, but unless you're aware of how to do that, be careful buying this UK import.

Absolute Crap...... Read the 5 star reviews and imagine the reciprocal. I am not going to waste my vocabulary on this poorly acted over rehearsed tripe.

Not Happy They mailed me the french version instead of the english one that I ordered.  I've returned it, but I have yet to receive a refund.

"The Polar Express" DVD The condition of the DVD is terrible. When viewing it for the first time it skipped in several places.  It appears to be a very "used" DVD.

Worst Sequel EVER Did someone lose a bet?  I am beyond baffled as to HOW this movie was ever made.  Shame on Chris Lambert and Especially Shame on Sean Connery.  And as BAD as this one was the 3rd came in a close second.

horrible condition dvd was listed as being in like new very good condition. came with food (I asssume) stains all over it and significant ware and tear to the cardboard case. I have bought over 30 dvds in the past 2 years on amazon this was the worst shape and most mislabeled quality product yet.

This movie is horrible... This is the worst adaptation of a serial to date... I had high hopes as Michel Gondry is an amazing director, but Seth Rogan is the person to place blame on here... Assuming writing, producing, and acting roles... You can see that Gondry really had nothing to do with this, and that SR got a big head and F'd it all up. Shame on you Seth Rogan... Take a back seat next time and let a master do his work. Let's hope this doesn't mess Gondry up in the future ala David Lynch and Terry Gilliam...

Disappointed The most depressing film I have ever seen and I have seen a lot. Unrelentingly dismal. Although the performances are excellent, especially the lead's, this does not a good film make. Warning: it might forever change your image of  party-hardy, trendy Barcelona.

Yikes! Not for kids With respect to people who liked this movie I don't usually write negative reviews but wanted to give parents some warning. We bought this movie for our small daughters thinking the idea animated immune cells fighting germs would be cute but it was really violent. In one scene a character gets strangled to death. Don't get me wrong many cartoons have a little violence like Tom and Jerry chasing around with hammers or Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner with explosives but Osmosis Jones was just way over the top. Kids don't need to see someones eyes bulge out and struggle as they are slowly strangled to death. To show that to little kids is just sick.

Support your local Gunfighter I can't give a review on this movie because I still haven't received it yet. Can someone please let me know when I might expect to see this.

One of the worst movies ever... One word, horrible, that's it. I don't review many movies but this one was a waste of time. I fell asleep during part of the movie. There was no point to the movie.

Boy, did I hate this I love Coen Brothers movies. Every one I've seen is near the top of my list of all-time favorites. For years my friends said to see "Lebowski" and I finally did. I have rarely sat through such a boring, pointless, humorless piece of junk. (It's sad that all the obsessed fanboys who sit on here are going to immediately give me thumbs-down reviews because they have nothing better to do than sit on Amazon defending their precious cult favorite).  I'm not a child (32) and I have no problem at all with sex, drugs or cursing in movies. I like comedies...FUNNY ones. This movie does not have the slice-of-life hilarity of "Fargo" or of Javier Bardem's mushroom-haired killed in "No Country". This is Will Ferrel humor, especially the idiotic Jesus character...come on, haven't we had enough of ironically-"funny"-take-their-lives-too-seriously Ben Stiller/Steve Carrel characters? (Yes, I know this is an older movie than those actors' heydays.)  I just really couldn't stand it. I hope my one-star helps build up the body of negative reviews on Amazon to possibly dissuade people from wasting money on this junk.

Cabin in the Wodds... stay away. Simply put, quite possibly one of the worst movies ever made. Not even eye candy (of which there was little) could make this worth seeing. Don't buy, rent or even waste time if it's free to watch. Wish I could have given 1/2 a star or a negative.

worst show ever I wish I could give this show negative stars. Awkward posing, uncomfortable moments, dumb noises, but nothing funny. The jokes just aren't funny.

One of the worst Blu Ray transfers extant! This is awful....grainy, full of artifacts.  Absolutely no effort was put into this disaster.  Minus 1 million stars!  I think it is in many ways worse than the DVD.  This is not worth considering on blu ray.

Vach's for your own good go back to Death Ring Island Just by looking at the cover most would assume we're dealing with a 1 star event at best. It's the typical super B movie that slaps some creepy image on the cover, which has no relevance to the actual movie, hoping to draw some suckers in. Well we will admit we were suckered, but not because of the cover. It was because of the name Billy Drago aka the immortal Danton Vachs being credited as the main role. Clearly we are a little more then obsessed with the greatest movie in history...<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00069QD74">Death Ring</a>, and go to great lengths to support any of the horrible actors that were part of the masterpiece. Unfortunately our support sometimes leads us down the road less traveled leaving us bored to tears. The only thing interesting about this mess was the zoom in on Drago's yellow/gray teeth. C'mon man and hook yourself up with a dental plan. We know you're not rolling in the dough, but you must be making at least a few hundred dollars per role.  So as we stated before, the creature of the cover has absolutely nothing to do with the movie itself. In fact the cover had to be the most expensive portion of this entire movie's budget. If there is a plot this may be what it is; At a naval base some guy finds a relic that turns him totally insane. This relic seriously is a little stone monkey that looks like to came straight out of a dollar store.  After this nut goes on a killing spree he stashes the monkey relic in a wall. And then he became a little monkey....a little monkey. Flash forward years later and we get introduced to drago that seriously looks like a lesbian at this point in his life. He's doing some renovations to the base, hires a bunch of punk kids, then they all die once one of them finds the relic. That's the entire movie.  So Sid was rooked thanks to the casting of Danton Vachs. Even he couldn't take it anymore and just disappears half way through the film with no explanation of where he went. Since he couldn't have gone to the dentist, he must have gotten a lift from skylord back to Death Ring island. A place where horrible acting receives no judgement. The film was so dull moving that we actually watched in in a sped up form where everyone sounded like mickey mouse. Watching everyone move around all fast actually made it somewhat comical, rendering the film watchable. For anyone possibly interested with Blood Relic we implore you to keep away. However if you do watch it you can only return it one way. You must run down the street screaming "he's gone, the evils gone from here!"

OMG - words fail me I didn't think I would ever see a film that might qualify as "the worst movie ever made" but I believe it has arrived.  It is clear to me why so many reviewers gave it 1 star.  BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T GIVE IT 0 STARS! In the genre of the great white hunter/explorer looking for mines that contain some fabled treasure/Indy films, and wannabees this is so low in the pile that you would have to take a coal mine elevator to get to it.  So glad that I caught it on Showtime.  I cannot imagine paying anything for this garbage.  The only treasure in the movie was when the credits started to roll and you knew that nothing else was going to happen - not that anything had previously happened.  My three day old grandson creates more action when he sleeps that this movie has in it.  If you happen to see this DVD in a Walmart special bin, then run, I repeat, RUN, to the nearest exit - you have been warned...

Absolute garbage. Waste of time. Not funny, not cool. Just a way for a bitter, washed-up comic to vent. No redeeming qualities, just like Bobcat's act.

extremely annoying movie If the movie were clever or cute I could ignore the propaganda.  But, sadly, it wasn't.  It was extremely annoying.  Don't waste your money or time.

Does not play I purchased this DVD along with several others. Just a few days ago I was able to view it . IT DOES NOT PLAY COMPLETELY. While all the others do. I would like to return the defective item. Thank you.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN VS ZOMBIES HORRIBLE MOVIE WITH HORRIBLE ACTING.  EVEN THE MAKEUP, ESPECIALLY THE BEARDS LOOKED LIKE THEY WERE GLUED ON.  I COULD NOT WATCH MORE THAN 30 MINUTES OF THIS MOVIE. IT WAS REALLY BAD.

I broke up with my friends who recommended this movie to me. I wanted to like this movie. I really did. Judd Apatow, Jonah Hill, a spin-off of Forgetting Sarah Marshall? Yes, many reasons why this movie seemed like a good gamble. Actually, it had so many things going for it, how could I lose?! I even had a few friends recommend the movie. I trust them. they've never steered me wrong. Buy the movie, I told myself, belly-laughs will soon follow. Trust. It's a funny thing. Unfortunately, this movie made me want to "walk out" of my living room as a symbolic gesture of my disappointment. The movie had a few funny moments, but by no means, would I consider it on the same level as such gems as 40 Year Old Virgin, SuperBad, Knocked Up, or Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Actually to compare it to those movies would be unfair and make the DVD copies of them cry. The few funny moments that this movie did provide were barely audible chuckles and I can't recall one memorable line from the movie. The movie tried too hard to be funny and then tried throw in some warm moments toward the end. I really don't know why. I'm sorry, Get Him to the Greek, I need to Get to Another Movie. *No friendships were irreparably harmed in the making of this review.

The Proposal One of the worst movies I've watched in a long time.  Sandra was horrible and I can't even remember the  guy"s name.  Save you time and watch something else.

disk wouldn't play received on time but the dvd wouldnt play. I did not return bc the cost to return and all of the hassle.

Worst movie I have ever seen!!! At first I thought that I was a bit off colour and that my eyes were playing tricks on me. This movie is bad with five stars. Maybe the director wanted this type of silly acting with dead pan lines. After twenty minutes I decided enough was enough and I pressed the stop button.

Weak action flick The story has been done before, if not for a beautiful lead actress nobody would have bothered seeing this flick. Plot is very forced, acting is acceptable at best and writing is pretty bad. Stick to renting this, don't waste your money buying it.

not so much... I took a chance with a used product and lost. The CD has a frame that freezes. It is not a consistently smooth CD.

a dark dark downer I did not read the books, so I am not comparing the movie to the book. I merely watched the movie for it's own merits...of which I find little.  The acting in this film is executed superbly, so that I never felt outside of the characters or the film.  The story, or 'mystery' as it is sometimes called, was so predictable to me that I found it hard to believe this aspect alone recieved any acclaim.  The content of the film, or story, is dark and vicious. Ugly sexual appetites are the springboard for this descent. Nothing to laugh at or enjoy here, nothing to recommend this to anyone I know.  I have no interest in viewing the next two movies that follow this one, because of this one.  I wish I had not seen this movie. Life is too short.

Not even of comedic value... This film had many first rate actors but unfortunately they were either misdirected or miscast.  The movie was not bad enough to be comical, but just bad enough to lose everyone's attention.  Colin Firth as a roughneck legion commander was sadly unbelievable.

Gruesome and Horrifying This movie is a fictional account of the Sylvia Likens story.  If you have a weak stomach, don't even consider watching this movie.  This movie IS NOT suitable for children.  The only similarity between this story and what happened to Sylvia was the torture that took place.  I give this movie one star because I don't understand Jack Ketchum's motive for making a fictional story based on a true event; it was as though he was glorifying what happened.  I saw this movie on Netflix so I'm glad I did not buy it.  Save your money.

they did not sell to me the item that they describe in the description they say that it has audio and subtitles in Spanish and is a lie, they delivered to me two movies of the saga twilight only in English.

Ridiculously Ridiculous! I'd have to write a 200 page review on why this movie sucked royal nuts.  So, since I have better things to do with my time, I'm simply going to leave any reader with one of the most uncreative, horrific, and stu-tarded things I've ever seen in a sci-fi movie -  An Alien ship that is engaged, powered up, through the use of a few notes on what looks like a wooden whistle!  Yep, there you have it folks...you've been warned!

I'm sorry, was that funny? Huh? What is that he's saying? I'm sorry, was that supposed to be funny? I sat through 25 minutes of this, and realized I was bored. I never laughed in the whole 25 minutes. I don't know what show those other people were watching who said this was funny, but this obviously wasn't it. If you want to hear 1 hour and 15 minutes of some large guy talking about food, excercise, his fatness and how miserable he is because of it, then this may be the show for you. NOT funny.

Very, very underwhelming This was the DCAU's version of Mark Waid's STELLAR storyline "Tower of Babel". Tower of Babel involves a villain team using Batman's protocols for defeating the JLA against the team. It's a BRILLIANT idea. It setup years worth of stories, eventually culminating in Infinite Crisis. The whole point of the story was to create tension in the team. Batman was right to create back-up plans to defeat his fellow leaguers... But they should've talked about it. The result was a long standing air of distrust amongst a team of the World's most powerful superbeings.  This movie, "Doom", took the central aspect of the storyline it was based on... and resolved the problem in 5 minutes. The rest of the movie was a by-the-numbers hero team vs. villain team. It SUCKED. I expect much, much more from this studio.

Icky pooh A cross between the Mayan calendar and the rupture (oops rapture) someone has to get a cross to the temple on time. A woman with a bun in the oven also must get to the temple on time. A paramedic must get to the temple on time. As everyone converges their traveling companions fall prey to natural disasters and most horrible special effects. We have to listen to Ayn Rand length speeches on God and Faith.  The best part of the film is the end credits. Soon the film will be "left behind."

Very disappointed ***May Contain Spoilers***  I didn't see the prequel one (which I believe was the third one) but really enjoyed the first two movies.  This movie is about an hour and a half long, but if you cut out the action scenes (by action I mean anything with violence in it) you'd have a movie about 15 minutes long that is nothing but back story. The graphics were pretty pathetic and every scene involved the lights flickering off and on. Very obvious special effects, especially in a scene where Selene is holding someone up to a window. That scene the green screen effect was very low quality.  My husband and I watched this together, and after and hour and a half we were both like "Finally! The movie is really going to start now!" and they left a cliff hanger for the next movie instead. -.- My only other comment was "the writers were reading Twilight".  Very unimpressed with this movie. I believe my exact words were "that's an hour and a half of my life that I will never get back." I am just glad that I spent $3.99 to rent it instead of $23 to buy it!

Shout Factory snub the disabled - again! I would've been interested in purchasing this set, but unfortunately Shout Factory haven't subtitled any of the material on it. Which, as I am deaf, makes it completely inaccessible to me. A poor show and no mistake.  [As the Amazon page makes no mention of subtitles, I've provided this review for the benefit of other disabled customers who will not want to purchase a set without subtitles.]

Calling it a 'Documentary' is a stretch If you like Michael Moore, you will like this movie. He follows the same formula as Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 911, etc, etc, etc. His ability to take 25% of a story and turn it into a full-blown 'documentary' is definitely an art. The irony of the film is not lost on some of his viewers; Mr. Moore is a multimillionaire who reaps the rewards of America's semi-capitalist society. What he deems Capitalism in this film is more cronyism and the unintended consequences of government meddling than anything. Capitalism ceases to exist when the government intercedes. If you want to be manipulated and get fired up about something based on a movie from a director who would seem to promote socialism (while at the same time using non-union labor for his film production), then this is the movie for you.

If you like Twilight, you'll like this. 90% of this movie was about two teenagers falling in love. They don't even show any werewolves for the first hour. And thereis little to no gore. Most of the other Howling films were good/cheesy horror flicks but this was just a retarded love story made by some douche who was trying to make money off the Twilight fan base.

This is one of the worst movies I have seen I am a fan of "different" movies, i was gonna order the blu ray to this b/c i found this guys store fairly interesting..but thank god i didnt and rented it.. It is boring, tasteless, with no plot, take my word for it.. its complete garbage

Criterion Collection There are a very good movies into the Collection but there are limited for the lack of subtitles in other lenguages

Should not have been released as a Blu-ray! Have been waiting for this Jerry Lewis goodie ever since the dawn of DVD. This is probably one of the best Jerry Lewis movies ever. Fast, funny and completely insane. But what a horrible Blu-ray it is! Some few scenes (or rather shots) look just as good as the recently released Blu-rays of The Geisha Boy, Rock-a-Bye Baby and Boeing Boeing, but 95% of the time the image here is super-soft, fuzzy and far, far away from fresh Technicolor. Incredibly sad. Olive Films should not have accepted this HD master from Paramount, and if it really represents the best that could be found in the vaults (which I doubt), then a DVD release only had been a better decision. This ugly-looking crap of an image does not deserve a transfer to Blu-ray. It will only give this superior format a bad name among those who do not know better. Olive Films should be more careful about their products - and reputation.

Absolute RUBBISH! AVOID Seriously, I must have watched around 3 episodes and thought they were terrible. What a waste of time. The critics who LOVE this must not be on the right wavelength!!!! I was kinda hoping for the 'A Haunting' style of docos, but these truly are a waste of time..... Terrible cheap stories and they're only 20 mins long at best...Rubbish!!!!

Terrible Movie I'm not sure how anyone would rate this movie with anything above 1 star. It's one of the worst movies ever, and should not be classified as a Christmas movie.

Hated it, the kids thought it was okay. I took the kids to see this, I wished I had waited to see it on video. I thought it was painful to watch, I can't remember being so irritated at a movie I just couldn't wait for it to end. I liked the smurfs as a kid but these smurfs were strange and not what i remembered. I'd let the kids watch it for free, but don't pay for it.

NOT a Kid's movie, and I didn't even like it as a grown-up movie My wife and I have a habit of pre-screening our kid's movies before we let them watch (they're 8 and under).  This movie failed our test, bigtime.  **I wouldn't even recommend it for adults because it was just a dumb movie** (with admittedly an OK meaning)  I might even rate it PG-13--not just because of the adult language, adult violence, and adult humor, but because I don't think my kids would even WANT to see it until at least age 13.  And even then they'd only see it just to know for themselves boring and dumb the movie was.  It's really not worth seeing which is too bad because a lizard holding a bug-eyed fish makes a cool cover and Dep is normally quite entertaining.

Bleh! The movie is everything the book series was not: tedious, unimaginative, contrived, poorly cast and a colossal yawn. I would have had more fun repeatedly hitting myself over the head with a roller skate. The only good thing about this movie was that I rented, versus buying it. You couldn't pay me enough to watch this train wreck again.

Good actors bad movie Strange thing happened when I was watching this movie: actors performed greatly but I was not able to watch this movie, it was pretty painful. Probably it was the Voice-over translation or may be it was complete wrong movie description... Something created alternate reality feeling. So, overall impression "NEVER AGAIN"...

picture above is not the movie customers are reviewing! The picture above of the DVD is not the movie with bruce le,  the above picture is the biographical series starring "CHAN KWOK KWAN" (Kung Fu Hustle) as Bruce lee, and was filmed for Chinese television & Shannon Lee was the Executive Producer, Customers wanting the the version that is being depicted above "BEWARE" THIS IS NOT IT!!!!!!!  Looks like they may have fixed this!

Other 1 star reviewers NAILED it I think I clicked "thumbs up" on every single 1 star reviewers' review.  I was watching this movie and several times caught myself thinking, "What the crap does this have to do with the story? Who are these guys? Where is this going?  What's the point of this?"  All of those questions swirling through my head like turds in a toilet, which culminated into a clogged drain of boredom and indifference and the ONLY ANIMATED MOVIE FROM DC THAT I EVER JUST TURNED OFF IN THE MIDDLE OF.  Wait, does Invincible Ironman count?  No no that's Marvel.  Anyways there was absolutely nothing ALL*STAR about this film.  The plot line is incoherent, the characters are just plain boring.  Nothing seems to come together, like a stretch of puzzle whose pieces don't connect, but you try to get away with just stacking the edges over each other and hope they look ok.  Well it doesn't look ok.  It looks like a crappy puzzle.  Man I'm really nailing it with the analogies in this review.  Too bad i have no more left.  I don't care that this came from a series of comic books, it's not worth watching.

Junk.... Bad History and Bad Action... Don't be a lemming!  While oft considered a "classic" and "accurate" concerning medieval warfare and Scots history, it is neither!  The writer himself said that he "...never lets history get in the way of a good story..."!  If you can't make the REAL history of these times into a good story, then perhaps screen writing is NOT your true calling!  The plot is perfectly adequate, as is the acting.  The action has little to do with "realism" or true medieval warfare.  The history?  Just plain WRONG!  Wallace was not a Scots/Pict warrior in woad, but a KNIGHT in ARMOUR.  Robert the Bruce did NOT ride for Edward I and betray Wallace.  Absolute RUBBISH.  If you want a tear-jerker and schmaltz, buy this film.  If you want a good action and history flick, AVOID THIS LIKE THE PLAGUE!

You'll want to punch the TV screen You want to punch the characters. It feels like it was written by someone that hates women because both women are selfish, clueless, lazy sluts. They even throw in the sleezy salesman to really paint the "screw you! you actually sat through this movie!" I didn't even pay for it. I feel really sorry for the people that did. The ending is pretty obvious and there are a lot of plotholes (like the missing cats). If anything, Peter the Dad was a redeeming character, but he doesn't even get the happy ending he deserves which makes someone hate the movie even more.

Never laughed once I figured since Bill Murrey was in this movie it was going to be hialrious. However, the movie was boring and not funny at all. I wish I never bought this dvd. DO NOT BUY THIS!!!!!!!!!!

Hanging ornaments on a dead man Most of the negative viewer responses related to the content of this movie are due to the fact that this "Devdas" has stripped all of the content and dramatic substence from the original Bengali classic and substituted a skeleton story surrounded by gold, glass, and glamour. Viewers who have only seen this "Devdas" have NO idea what they have missed.  It is the materialist production values combined with a complete disregard for the actors/screenplay that make this movie such a failure.  Not to mention the size and arrogance of the set, and the presumption that the movie is an inheretor of "Devdas". It is not a surprise that they kept the name, because the hypocracy of the production demanded it, for it would be literally nothing without it.  To use the Baul quip in a different way:  "It's like hanging ornaments on a dead man,"  (not Devdas the character, Bhansali's movie.)  I bought about 50 Indian movies this last year and this "Devdas" by Sanjay Leela Bhansali is the worst movie of the bunch, rivaled only by Bhansali's "Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam". The two movies have some things in common, the "Devdas" being a greatly expanded version of the same shallow preoccupation with set, scene and crane shots, used in "Hum Dil.." not to mention a sacrine sensibility for color.  Both these movies had great actors, but Bhansali made characteristically little use of the.  See Shahrukh Kan in "Swades", or "Dil Se". See Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in "Umrao Jaan", or "Guru". See Madhuri Dixit in "Lajja".

DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok ,if you buy this keep in mind that this is an unauthorized documentary. So Avril Laviqne had nothing to do with the making of it. It's a 22 minute long piece of crap . You'd be better off renting it than buying it if you still want to check it out.  I've been a fan of Avril Laviqne ever since I heard her first CD [Get a Grip] and I've got say as a longtime fan this film would've been better with Avril's participation. She would've done a much better job telling her life story than the idiots who made this film.  Don't waste your money on this DVD.

Vampyres Only reason worth watching is the British Birds in this film,the movie starts right away with the "Action". lesbieaction that is! It is not scary as it is more "erotic" although the Brunette looks kinda of hot and "exotic" there is something bizarre about her in the face,as for the movie Acting is good,story is good but it just doesn't appeal to me other than that the full frontal/rear nudity most would still want to watch it. just another zany euro flick.

OH CRAP WAS THIS BAD! This movie is just bad, really bad. If you have no knowledge of the franchise prepare to be lost, in fact even with knowledge of the franchise  you will be lost.  The story is unintelligible, making the Super Mario Bros. movie look amazing by comparison. The animation is bad, the humans look way to stiff at so many moments you'd think they were robots. It's a bad movie by bad filmmakers, avoid in all costs.

Returning of items due to wrong region code Returned because it was coded for US ( region 1 ) and I could not play it here in Spain ( region 2 )  The Kray Brothers was ok, but it came from another source.

If you like this movie our friendship is over. American Ninja 4 was better. Overrated action slop for the masses. It gets all sorts of praise and I have no idea why. I like the premise, but really it's just a dude running around and stopping to fight every once in awhile. I think there are like 100 chase scenes in this movie.  Matt D. is not the problem as I believe him to be an adequate actor.  It lacks the level of intrigue one would expect from this plot. Franka Potente is a bright spot in the film, but I probably just think that because I like a lot of her other movies.  If you are going to make a mediocre action movie at least put a bunch of awesome ninjas in it like in the American Ninja series. Also, adding at least one yetti would have been nice. If jason bourne found out he was born to a yetti family and was later shaved and trained as a US agent...that would have been an awesome twist.  Then he could regrow all his hair and have an amazing chase through the streets of a populated city as a yetti.  It would also be cool if he finds out all of the us agents are also yettis and it sparks a civil war between two tribes. One tribe could be really good at hand to hand combat and spying and the other one could be advanced hackers that spam viruses and make really crazy iphone apps that help you organize all your favorite recipes. There would need to be some humans too because otherwise the whole idea of yetti super agents becomes pointless.

VHS I thought I was ordering a dvd to replace the vhs tape I allready had. So I was dissappointed. The condition seemed to be ok.

Disappointing Overall his humour is low-brow and unintelligent; he speaks in a slow, un-engaging way and the topics he chooses to discuss are not ones that people can relate to universally or that truly highlight the comedic nature of life. He just swears a lot and crosses a lot of lines. Very disappointing.

$84.95 are you serious? 1 of 0 Stars to Anchor*Media for there outrages overpricing 5 Stars for the film and Digibook its self.  I love Jaws but to pay $84.95 for a bluray digibook That's just Highway Robbery. $25.95 would have been the right price.

Boring I went to see this movie in the theater and it sucked. I rather have my head boiled in acid.

Avoid Music Box Blu-rays Do not buy Blu-rays from Music Box films. They begin each disk with many, many previews that you cannot skip by. I have tried everything I can think of, but you're just locked into watching them all every time you insert the disk. This is infuriating, and the only way to send a message to these people with no consideration for their customers is to boycott their products. I bought the disk; it's mine; I want to be able to watch whatever I want to watch when I want to watch it.

Blu Ray Bad Picture Quality!!!! Bad, crappy, horrible  picture quality!!!  48hours is the best action comedy of all time!  Why doesn't the director, producers , studio, or someone involved with it feel the same way I don't know.  Someone needs to fix the picture quality.  Don't buy this Blu Ray version unless you have to have it.

Rage at Dawn Very poor copy - not sharp. Amazon.com should not offer such back copies. I try to trust Amazon.com to treat me right.

Where is my order? Until today, 14/05/2012, I have not received it. I'm waiting to find out when the going to get! SDS. Vicente

One of the worst movies I've seen My husband brought this movie home telling me how great it was... It was absolutely AWFUL!!!  This was an hour and a half of my time I will never get back (actually less, because I couldn't finish watching it).  At one point I was cracking up, not because it was funny, but because it was so ridiculously unbelievable.  I ended up reading a book while my husband watched the rest of this trash.  I normally like John Travolta, but this movie was just a conglomerate of guns blazing, explosions, and stupid dialogue.

Poor characters, poor story and basically rips off animes Terrible, poorly made movie. I absolutely hated every character except the black guy. It's a shallow teen movie. I'm really shocked that these sorts of films haven't been banned. So in order to be a successful teenager, you need to drink and have sex at parties? Nice message. I was hoping the film would explore subjects like how people with superpowers would deal with it, but that was wishful thinking. The story needed to be much deeper than this. Where is the US government? Other governments? One of the characters does turn evil, but the way it's done is quite poor. He was bullied, gets a mean scowl on his face and starts destroying buildings. That's it?  This is not a movie for people who have been in the working world for a few years. It's great for teenagers, but it's a ridiculous movie that gets really pretentious and silly at the very end. It's a movie written from the perspective of a person that grew up in a well-off area, living a shallow party lifestyle, and it's fairly obvious. While there are some great special effects, it's the kind of movie that most people imagine they could do a far better job with if they were in charge.

See What Happens When You Write Yourself Into A Corner! I found Half-Blood to be very depressing and even worse, so predictable! There is no greater sin in writing a story than being boring! Half-Blood also made no sense. No, I did not read the books, nor would I ever waste my time. The only strength in the world of Harry Potter is the bond amongst friends. This strong sense of friendship and loyalty is the only redeeming element in Harry Potter series!  I guess that's the reason why I, and many other people, keep going to the theater. Of the six films I watched so far only the previous one, film #5, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," felt enjoyable and made plenty of sense. In Half-Blood, I'm amazed that you can kill off a major character and have even Harry Potter, himself, going around saying: "It was a waste, it had no meaning. He died for nothing." How ironic when a story's main character literally sums up the ENTIRE story!  I had high hopes for Half-Blood! I don't like seeing Harry Potter and all the other "Good Guys" being so powerless/clueless, or a main character turning into pure evil for absolutely no reason, whatsoever! (I should be able to know what's going on by not having to read the books. I have watched every film in order, but it still made no sense!)  What is obvious to me is that the Harry Potter series has become a commodity like toothpaste and underarm deodorant! Lets stretch a very thin storyline into as many billions of dollars as possible, and see all the star-struck idiots spend their hard earned money! Sorry to say, Harry Potter could have easily been condensed into a trilogy and if Half-Blood was never written/filmed it would not have harmed the Harry Potter storyline ONE iota!  Sorry, but I refuse to watch the last two (wasn't the grand finale divided into two parts? What a surprise!) Harry Potter films. I have spent enough money on Harry Potter movie tickets and I have no intention, whatsoever, to waste another penny on making the writers and filmmakers of Harry Potter, richer!  SEE:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3639085213">Film as Commodity: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Newspaper Film Reviews</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/097999893X">For One Week Only: The world of exploitation films</a>

Don't buy this product if you live in the United States All purchasers should be aware that Region 2 means that this DVD will not play on standard equipment in the United States. The item was shipped with basically no packing protection, which resulted in damage to the DVD box.  Also, no product return form was included in the order.  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005UO5W">Marathon Man [Region 2</a>]

Don't praise a terrible film Yes, one star for the worst film I have seen in years....and years....and years. I made the mistake of purchasing this on blu-ray. BLU-RAY for heaven's sake! This is more amaturish than a film I made at six years old with a 16mm bell and howell. Looks as if the film-makers are attempting to beat Ed Wood's "Plan 9 From Outer Space" for the worst film made. Wood's film IS terrible - but certainly it is technically hands and feet above this garbage. I would give a terrible movie (but one fun for that reason) five stars if there was a serious attempt to present a film with any technical merit. Absolutely nothing in this film shows techincal adequacy. The soundtrack is full of sound mismatching - or total dropouts. The special effects (eagles or whatever) are so laughable that it seems the film-makers are relying on people to see the film (or review it here) just for the fun of seeing something truly crappy (and that's very kind, indeed.) Watching this film is difficult due to its techincal inadequacy - specially the sound. Watch ten minutes for a laugh at how horrible a film can be. Then go on to better things (which will be so easy you won't have to even think about it.) But don't praise and give credit to film-makers who obviously intend to make a terrible movie hoping to get praise for a "so bad it's good" film when they really show no talent and certainly do a disservice to the film's actors and to its audience.

no closed caption My wife loved it, I couldn't understand a thing !!!  They did not release this movie with closed captions, and the accent was thick enough you need the subtitles.

cinematic putrefaction If there has ever been a more stupid, inane, foul, god-awful piece of garbage produced by the bottom-dwellers of Hollywood, please don't tell me.  This movie should be thrown into the gutter and burned.  What a waste of everything: time, energy, resources, creativity.  One can only hope that the creators of this film are incinerated, just like humanity in the movie.  Worse than dog poop.

Worst Frank Sinatra movie by a mile. This is a great Blu-Ray copy of Frank Sinatra's worst movie.  It is directed like a 1950's sitcom. The diver who doubles for Sinatra in the underwater scenes bares no resemblance to the great man. Virna Lisi looks and dresses like a million dollars but sounds, hilariously,dubbed. Alf Kjellin is in the best Harvey Korman/Blazing Saddles villain mode and is a hoot. I fell asleep seventy minutes in and only woke up for the pathetic denoument so I had to run back half an hour to find the only shots of the Queen Mary which are few in number. My main interest in buying the disc was the boat as my Dad worked on it from 1935 to 1938 taking numerous trips from Southampton to New York.  He was the manager of the bookshop on board and I have a "Shining" stylehand-tinted photo of him on board which I treasure.  The cover of the Blu-Ray looks great, but no similar shot appears in the movie which is shot almost completely straight on at eye height asif it were a segment of "Friends". Olive Films presentation has no extras but the disc is pin sharp with accurate colors,and now and then you get to look at Frank Sinatra and Virna Lisi. Virna looks sensational. Frank is just starting to develop a pot belly. Another evening of my life wasted. Was it worth it. Hell, yes!

A Real Loser You can tell this is a 21st century movie: everyone curses constantly, mostly with the f word and variations. Everyone has a really, really foul mouth. Also, there's lots of blood. Not a movie you want to let your kids see.  Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio are two state police officers. One was actually planted in the police by a gangster (Jack Nicholson). The other goes undercover and goes to work for Nicholson. So they are both working for the police (one honestly, one not), and both working for Nicholson (one honestly, one not). They end up sharing a girlfriend, too.  Nobody knows who is lying (they all are), nobody knows who is loyal to whom or what, and frankly, it's hard to care. I think it is entirely possible this whole thing was done to display the various uses of a cell phone to cops and criminals. Cell phones everywhere. Cell phones and guns.  I give this one star, just for letting me look at two handsome young hunks, and because Jack Nicholson does a bad guy so well. Otherwise, it would be no stars at all.

Blah. I'm sorry, but this really is a lame, stupid movie.  Nothing new.  Stupid people go camping in backwoods of Arkansas and run into twisted inbreds who capture and torture them...

Lame They aren't going to ship last season until after the fourth episode of the new season????  And they didn't show end of last season reruns.

Bad Bad Bad I ignored the low reviews... H'm - I can't find words to describe the failure of this movie... Why would Bruce even accept to act in this piece of garbage?  When was shooting for no reason, no script, no story, poorest acting ever... make a movie? Do yourself a favor, go take a nap instead.

worthless information This video is worthless! The information regarding the vidio is maybe ok but it does not tell you any locations & the video quality is antequated. I would not recomend buying this at all. Save your money & time & buy a book. Nick

dumb Someone said this was a good movie so I rented it and it was the top 10 dumbest movie i have ever watched. Don't waste your time.

cant download!!! Bought the movie but cant download to kindle!!! I can watch, but the download tab is half hidden under the watch tab!!! Don't have Internet access where I want to watch. Gonna send back kindle if this is the crap I gotta deal with.

what a waste of time One of the most stupid and poorly acted movies I have seen in some time, and I like a good sci-fi movie, too. Bad. Just not worth your time.

Couldn't stand it... Started with the music, and I couldn't shake the felling the whole time that I was watching a Lifetime movie. Honestly, sice the first 10 minutes you could tell what was going to happen, even without knowing the storyline. Everybody was miscast, characterization is awful, and I just stayed watching it thorugh the end since I made the mistake of buying it (additional to the fact that I have a crush on Thomas Gibson)

Classic Movie, Extremely Poor DVD Ever since the Hallelujah Trail first came out in Cinerama (yes, I am old enough to have seen the original showing), it has been a favorite of mine. The DVD, however, was an enormous disappointment! The video quality was horrible with most of the scenes having a flickering appearance. Much of the original movie has been cut out. One of my favorite scenes has the Irish Teamster leader, Kevin, when accused of black mail, saying, "Blackmail is such an ugly word. I prefer extortion." That was cut out. Another scene that got cut was when Kevin was was telling Cora why the Irish were hired to drive the wagons containing champagne. Most of that was cut out. The still that was projected on the screen when the overture was being played was not present on the DVD, just a black screen. Other than the credits for the leading stars, the credits are missing at the end of the movie. All that's shown is a black screen with the overture playing. Since the original had an intermission (which was included on the DVD), they could have easily used two DVDs to allow them to include all of the movie, credits, etc. at much higher quality. MGM should be ashamed (and shot) for putting out such a poor quality product.

Are you guys serious? I'll keep this short. I love movies, including disaster ones, but this one has to be the absolute most ridiculous waste of talent ever assembled. It's not even worth discussing all the examples of stupidity in this movie, but if you are looking for a lot of laughs (what a sad comment to make since practically the entire human population dies here), this is the place to go because almost everyone in the theater kept on saying "are they serious?" as the 'heroes' kept escaping everything mother nature threw at them. Throw in every stereotype under the sun and you have another Hollywood extravaganza thought up by some people high on drugs. Save your money.

I shall Dance, I shall Meditate, I shall put you to sleep Bad. See Tony Jaa get beat up, meditate, dance, meditate some more and dance some more. I walked out after an hour+.  This is good for insomnia. Avoid this movie even if it is FREE.  Go buy IP Man 2 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003INBOEM">Ip Man (Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray</a>]

A Waste of Money! "...what you need to know to pass the GED Test" is available online for free at numerous websites (including the GED Information Center (dot) com. This is not a GED test prep video; simply general information on the particulars of the GED tests. Please don't waste your money!

Not very thought through The movie trailers made this movie look very interesting to me but after reviews I watched it not expecting very much. Just to keep this simple, the acting was poor, the story line I feel was not thought through. They would say one thing like it was important but left you hanging wondering why they said it in the first place. The ending was one of those that leaves you hanging yet disapointed. I do see how some may like the way this movie ended but it was not for me.

WARNING: If your player is not new it might not play this Blu-Ray version. One Star Release for a FIVE star movie. Not all Blu-Ray is the same. This disk will not play the movie in my Blu-Ray player.  The menus work but the movie just locks up.  I have to unplug the player to get it to reset.  I bought this and have to watch the DVD version. I watch other Blu-Ray movies on the same player, but not this one.  Looks like I have to stop buying Blu-Ray movies until the Blu-Ray specification stops changing then buy a new player. Very Disappointed!

Movie Disc Missing The disc that arrived was not the movie but a "Special Features" disc.  The case was made for only one disc but the movie isn't on it, only the added stuff.  Never had this happen before so I didn't check the "customer reviews" beforehand, after all, what could go wrong.  After I received the disc I did check and found out this happened to several other customers.  Buyer beware!

not that into it The only reason I have this movie is because my husband likes it. He is a fan of Steven Seagal. I tried to watch it last night, but I lost all interest. I think this movie is boring.

not scary[to me] i previously reviewed this movie, but many fans of the film complained about it. just so you know, i'm not changing my point of veiw. i'm just going to write it with more intellegence, or whatever. so this is what i think: it didn't scare me. that's it. i just didn't find it scary, and trust me, cats sometimes scare me. i didn't like certian aspects of it, being a christian. mabey it is because i had 102.2 fever while watching it for the first time. it just didn't scare me. myself. not directed at any of you.

This is where the series begins to really lose whatever steam it had: *1/2 In what has been accurately referred to as Carrie VS. Jason, A traumatized teenager [Lar Park Lincoln] tries to use her telekinetic abilities to ressurrect her dead father but instead ressurrects Jason by accident setting off a whole new series of murders at the infamous Crystal Lake. Really, was this one even neccessary?? I know Jason was still alive at the end of Part 6 but it would've been better if Part 6 were simply left open-ended rather than this inferior movie being made to continue where that one left off. Other than the newest main character and her telekenetic powers, This movie isn't any different than the last six films. Kane Hodder, the man most associated with the role of Jason Voorhees, makes his debut performance as the masked killer in this one. Die-hard Jason fans should like it as this is one of the more violent ones in the series and there are naked girls on display as well but other horror fans can avoid this.

vhs picnic video was poor quality and it stated it was letter size.  Letter size was unacceptable too narrow, cut out beauty of film.

Could not believe I could not believe that this movie was marketed for children. There was a lot of violence and quite inappropriate language for the targeted audience. I found it difficult to believe that Johnny Depp would lend his voice to such a "project" for lack of a better word. Parents not only is this movie inappropriate for your children, I found that my grandkids got bored and restless and wanted to leave the theater way before the end of the movie. In short, the movie sucked and I regret wasting time and money going to see it!

dont waste your money!! This has to be THE WORST MOVIE I have ever watched, a complete waste of my time and money, I hope all future purchasers read my review and act on it -  DO NOT buy this, it really is 100% rubbish  - GUARANTEED!!!!

Terrific show. Terrible DVD. I should've read the other reviews before purchasing, but I didn't.  That said, as soon as I pulled these out of the packaging and inserted into the DVD player they began skipping.  The DVD's are impossible to watch in there entirety, which is extremely frustrating.  Not only can I not watch the DVD's, I'm no longer able to return them to get my money back because the packaging has been opened.  If you want to watch The Wire, do yourself a favor and buy the set season by season.  DO NOT PURCHASE THIS SET!!!!

mindless green wet dream drivel for mindless prepubescents Its hard to think back on this crummy movie which militarizes space, and come up with any scene that wasn't lame. So i'm not going to bother other than to say...it stinks.

Unbelievably bad There are no words to describe how unbelievably bad this film is.  There are no words to describe how unvelievably bad this film is.

This movie SUCKS We watched this movie early in the night and found ourselves falling into a deep, deep sleep. This movie is TERRRIBLE dont waste your time or money, just go to water world and surf the wave pool with no plot or problem and you will have a way better time. This movie has no intention on this earth. If you cant fall asleep, then turn on this movie and your problem is solved!

Bait and Switch Alert! Be careful ordering this BluRay title. If it says sold by anyone other than Amazon you are probably going to get a foreign made BluRay disc like I did, not the product described in the listing / pictured. Amazon was good about returning the BluRay since it wasnt what was pictured but since it was a gift I didnt appreciate having to run around locally at the last minute to try and find the correct BluRay I wanted. Clear case of bait and switch. Buyer beware.

Almost better than being poked in the eye with a stick The very thin plot exists only to tie the action cutscenes together.  Speaking of which, the camera work on the cutscenes was so shaky it made me nauseous to the point where I couldn't even watch.  The actresses all seem to have studied at the Kristen Stewart school of acting.  I only recommend this movie to people who have wronged me in some way.

This movie made no sense whatsoever I'm as big a fan of simple action movies as anyone, but the plot in this movie is simply incoherent. Why did Denzel turn himself in in the first place?  Why does Reynolds pull a gun on local police officers?  None of the actions of the major characters makes any sense, and the reveal doesn't help-- it just hopes that you didn't remember the first 20 minutes, I suppose, because it makes everything all the more illogical. Then, the big reveal just follows the now all too formulaic plot of most CIA oriented movies of the past decade or so.  The action here is good, and the acting decent, but it can't make up for the writing.

Should have been great and IS...unless you have a moral compass Has all the trappings of a very good action/adventure/drama: excellent director/actor in Ben Affleck...John Hamm, Jeremy Renner. Interesting plot.  The whole thing is subverted by the absolute lack of a moral compass in the plot structure and characters.  We are supposed somehow to identify with Doug, a career criminal who, with his co-conspirators, rob banks, destroy property, put lives in jeopardy, kidnaps and terrorizes an innocent witness. Then, after accumulating all this money decides to leave "the town" with Claire and leave his life of crime.  Is it due to remorse over his antisocial, criminal life? Not hinted at.  Just tired of it.  I was actually angry as I left the theater, and cannot to this day understand how rational people think this film is so great. If you want great Ben Affleck, watch Gone Baby Gone.  Big thumbs down to this one (sorry, Roger Ebert for stealing your copyrighted phrase).

Pathetic! This is one of the worst movies ever made. It may be the worst movie ever created. Bad, real bad and boring. CHEESY.

Not the uncut extended versions -- BEWARE Nothing wrong with the video or audio quality on this blu-ray double disc set.  THE PROBLEM IS that both films are represented ONLY by their theatrical versions.  If you have seen either of the uncut extended versions of the films then you will be VERY DISAPPOINTED in the versions presented on this disc set.  Both films are included on disc one and some nice extras are on disc two.  But the extended uncut versions of each film are so much better than what is offered here.  Buy these films individually in their extended uncut versions.  The same extras offered in this double disc package are also offered on the single film versions.

Charles Starrett instead of Rod Cameron I agree with previous comment. The consumer deserves more respect. The DVD is announced and also printed on the back cover starring Rod Cameron and John Mack Brown that  is actually another movie with Charles Starrett pre Durango Kid I've owned. I hope the ARTIFLIX will correct this mistake and release the announced with Rod Cameron.  Rated (*) because it was not the movie I wanted to buy.

How can anyone stand this DVD?!?!?! Luckily, I picked the dvd up at a yard sale for a buck.  I would really kick myself if I had spent any more than a dollar for this creepy, badly made nightmare inducing dvd.  The fake mouths on the weird looking babies are bad enough...the eyes actually blink occasionally.  The out of tune voices make "cute" mispronunciations at times.  This is supposed to for young children who are just learning to talk.  How is mispronouncing the words supposed to help with talking.  If you want a dvd with music and cute kids go with Baby Songs....yeah they are a little dated but sooooooo much better than this piece of trash.  I will be putting it in the free box at my next yard sale.  Let someone else get tortured my this monstrosity.  (At least they won't be paying money for it!)

Exceptional Film, But Who Cares? "The Descendants" is to great movies what packaged rice cakes are to fine dining. With that said, I have to admit that this is a well-crafted film.  And because of its locale (Hawaii), visually interesting, too.  The acting is brilliant, as well.  Especially George Clooney in what had to be a challenging role.  I mean, he plays completely against the grain of what he really is: a handsome, confident movie actor.  And pulls it off magnificently. The reason I so disliked this film, I think, is because I've seen one too many movies about angst.  Or, I should say more specifically, angst in characters I don't give a rat's patootie about. Clooney plays an oblivious real estate attorney -- really more dork-like, I think, than oblivious -- whose family life disintegrated because of his habitual inability to see what really has been going on.  We're given to believe that he's been utterly clueless as to what his wife and kids have thought, needed and felt.  All because he was too absorbed in his "fascinating" law practice.  Or something. Woven into that "melodrama" then, is also his status as the administrator of his huge family's (seemingly a hundred cousins) extensive island land holdings.  All of which seems comprised of the last of Hawaii's prime undeveloped real estate (and worth approaching a billion).  Which, naturally, his countless cousins start squabbling over when legal technicalities are about to force a liquidation. Anyway, I just couldn't begin to care what happened to any character in "The Descendants."  At its ending, had Clooney been washed out to sea by a tsunami, my reaction would likely have been, "Oh... that's one way to end it, I guess." In all fairness, this film deserves more than a single star (just on the acting alone).  But  because of my antipathy towards films featuring shallow, boring, self-absorbed characters, I'm going to go with my bias and rate it as I have.  I just couldn't get interested in people who had less  depth than a toddler's wading pool.

Doesn't load This is the first HDD DV that I've ordered and it doesn't work in any of the 4 DVD players that I have.  The website for upgrading the DVD players software is no longer available and I'm at a loss as to whether it's the DVD or the players.  It's more of a bother to send the DVD back than to just chuck it.

Worst downslide season of a formerly brilliant show ever! C'mon, at this point for Hank to finally put two and two together is inanity. The idea that Walter could have made all that money, carting it around back and forth, all the drugs moving and Hank doesn't even have a clue?  It's ridiculous.  Also, you can't store money in those rental places, authorities watch them for exactly that reason (I think Jesse pointed that out in the pilot even when Walter wanted to cook in one of them).  There are dogs that can sniff money as well as drugs.  Also sadly, Bryan Cranstan's acting has devolved to silly cliche "villain."  And the violence is just gratuitous now, since the story lacks anything coherent for it to hang on.  I really hope the writers pull it out next season, but man give me my six hours back!

bad S.F. For hard-core S.F. films this will be a disaster. The casting of Jake G. is really off the mark, like casting Jim Carry in Goodfellas. This is a weak entry, nowhere near the other competitor in its class, Inception, which I also disliked. I suppose I might have found it tolerable if someone else were cast in the lead role, for JG is truly an awful embarrassment of an actor. The first minute of bizarre facial expressions in the train scene prove that. This "acting" had me in stitches.

akin to a pbs fundraiser The interviews are good---but the modern concert renditions of the 60s music come across as the sort of thing pbs stations show when they're looking for money; 60s hippies performing in the 21st century.  And, once again, the musicians are ripped off, as backup to some singer in concert!  There is at least one ten minute jazz version, without a singer, of "My Favorite Things", from THE SOUND OF MUSIC on cd somewhere---so why couldn't the motown guitarists, drummers, horn section, be allowed to perform, finally, without a singer getting in their way?  A phoney documentary for easy to please, nostalgic, baby boomers.

porn I can not believe I spent over $20.00 for this piece of trash. What I really can't believe is there are people out there who give this trash more than one star. This is without a doubt one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Nothing but porn. No horror at all. The zombies are terrible. The make up stinks. And by the way the dead do not make it a porn. Only the living. Don't buy it.

A Waste of Time and Talent I wasted 30 minutes of my time watching this movie. A waste of talent using Forest Whitacker. Useless plot. Don't bother.

Dreadful and Unfunny I love all kinds of movies.  I rarely meet a movie I don't find something I enjoy about it.  Not Bridesmaids.  The characters are completely unlikeable, most especially the main character.  Comic moments are very few and very far between, to the point of being almost non-existent.  Segments that aren't at all funny to begin with drag on and on to the point of complete embarrassment.  Too many segments of this film are actually painful to watch.  In the real world, when the main character gets tossed off the plane, she would end up in prison, and rightfully so.  Most of her shenanigans are so mean-spirited and awful that one cannot understand how her best friend, or her potential new boyfriend, could forgive her.  Ever.

It is all about politics no educational value I bought this hoping that my kid will learn about Fuel formation, extraction and associated problems, alternate fuels etc, mainly with educational interest. This Video has little or none educational value, filled entirely with biased, agenda based political interest documentary. Very disappointed.

Somebody's crazy... ...and it's not me. A couple of months ago you could have pre-ordered this item for $65 and now you have somebody ( ClassicFlix) selling it for $999.99 !!! Don't buy gold, invest in L & H DVD's.

avoid ultraviolet digital copies Avoid ultraviolet digital copies, they are more trouble than they are worth. Purchase a version without a UV digital copy. Their customer service is terrible. This is a fantastic movie.  It is a great adaptation of the book and brings Salinder more to the center of the story, something I felt was lacking in the Swedish version. I am sorry to give this great film one star, but I have been ignored by Flixster customer service and hope someone at UV will read this and see how angry they are making some of their customers. Really, buy a version without UV digital copy.  It's a great movie.  Don't let the digital copy anger you like it has me.

Johnny Depp's Absolutely Worst Film! Too Bad I Had to Pay to Watch It! The only reason I went to see Dark Shadows is because I'm a big fan of Johnny Depp! I'll never make that mistake again! Like most actors, Johnny will do just about anything to make a buck! Storytelling as an art? What's that? And, who cares anyway? 2012 is turning out to the worst year in decades (and I have been going to the movies for over 40 years, so that's saying something) for really bad blockbusters: first, Hunger Games; next, The Avengers; and now Dark Shadows!  Here are some of the twisted messages you will find in Dark Shadows, which is a mere shadow of the 1960's TV series (pun intended)! It's OK to harbor a blood-thirsty vampire that has killed 11 totally innocent blue collar workers and then 10 friendly and gentle young adults because the depraved vampire will make my family prosperous and prestigious again. A 10-year old boy with no super powers can unchain a vampire, but a vampire with super powers is totally helpless. A ghost can destroy an all-powerful witch but a shotgun, a vampire and a werewolf are totally useless! It's OK to create another blood thirsty vampire because you are in love and the person blackmails you!  The main message of Dark Shadows is that's it's OK to kill in order to have wealth, power and prestige. The ends justify the means! How sickening!  Dark Shadows is so bad I have made a pact with myself! Despite how much I love sitting among a live audience, I will refrain from going to the movies until the The Hobbit is released at the end of the year. I hate wasting my time, money and emotional energy on films that do nothing but exploits the audience with drivel, and ends up being nothing more than boring, tedious trash!  See:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/097999893X">For One Week Only: The world of exploitation films</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0822323745">Bold! Daring! Shocking! True: A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959</a>

snow white and the huntsman (extended edition) This was not what I saw at the show. I got three differnt movies,and none of them were like the moive that I saw this summer.I love going to the movies, and I love seeing them over and over again but this one I was very upset about it, they took to much out of it.I wish they would just leave it alone it was great as it was and now it is not.

A "Super Dumb" movie--NOT FUNNY. The people who created this film knew nothing about comic books.  It had no funny fan-boy references.  It was primarily just a snoozer of a spoof of the 1st (of the Toby Mcguire) Spider-Man films.  The dvd cover was misleading--For you thought that maybe the "heroes" pictured were gonna work together in a story.  But, they didn't.  Much of the humor was just blah, schoolyard garbage--mostly what you see today on tv in the likes of shows such as 2 Broke Girls (which is junk).  This was disappointing for me, for this flick was make by the same poeple who did the "Scarey Movie" films-Which I found were all funny and featured many elements from various horror flicks.  "Super Hero Movie" seemed to have like 5 second cameo-spoofs of other comic heroes.  This movie was obviously written by typical, lame Hollywood writers who don't have a clue about comics nor the films made of them.  I can count on one hand how many times I may have laughed during this 75 minutes of comedy-boredom.  Skip this and search for YOUTUBE comic book satires like "I'm a Marvel, I'm a DC"--Those less than 5 minutes spoofs will have you laughing 10 times more than you ever will watching the trainwreck of Hollywood "comedy" junk!

horrible movie You ever want to reach into the screen and punch someone lights out, batemen was tolerable, the other two and the verbage, typical today, constant cursing and base language, where the hell is my refund for this pile of poop.  Didn't laugh once, was just frustrated and didn't finish the film.

Dashiell Hammett on Poverty Row This is a typical Poverty Row production of the early 1930's.  It has a weak, implausible script, is cheaply made, with direction and photography that is pedestrian or worse, and the surviving print is blurry and dingy.  It does have a few points of interest:  1) The story on which the screenplay is based is credited to Dashiell Hammett at the IMDB and Wikipedia.  However, no surviving print seems to have any writing credits at all (the film is in the public domain, and is available on YouTube and Archive.org).  Perhaps Hammett or his estate was able to get them removed at some point, or at least demand royalties for the use of his name.  2) The only trace of Hammett is the way the character of the protagonist, played by Ralph Bellamy, is written: He is an ex-convict (although apparently an independently wealthy one), and is tough, taciturn, and somewhat bitter.  Bellamy plays him well. In fact, Bellamy is not just the best thing in the film, he is about the only good thing in the film.  This is not saying too much, given the kind of film it is, but he is surprising if you have only seen him in "The Front Page" and "The Awful Truth".  3) This film seems to have been made before the Hollywood Production Code went into effect, yet released afterward.  The fairly explicit efforts of Melvyn Douglas's character to seduce Fay Wray's would not have been allowed under the Code, nor would Fay Wray's flimsy white evening gown, which nearly falls off her shoulder as she stumbles on her way to Bellamy's "cabin" (which, incidentally, appears to be a 15-room Tudor-style mansion).  Nor would the scene where Wray puts on a dress while wearing a low-cut slip - what's worse, in the same room as Bellamy, which he churlishly refuses to leave.  Yet it is said to have been released in late 1934, after the Code was in effect. From the fashions and film technique on display, I would say it could easily have been made as early as 1931, and simply sat on the shelf until point 4 kicked in:  4) The film seems to have been released to capitalize on Fay Wray's stardom after "King Kong" hit it big in 1933.  Although Ralph Bellamy is the hero and the star, Wray is given top billing.  In the poster for the movie, seen above, only Wray is seen, looking much as she did in "Kong".  In the actual film, her hair is dark, almost black.  She is almost unrecognizable, except for her voice.  5) The indoor scenes were shot at the old Biograph facilities in New York City.  Although Biograph was long gone, it's facilities survived under different ownership, used mainly for shooting short films starring performers based in NYC.  Outdoor scenes seem to have been shot silent and then had some sound dubbed in afterwards, increasing the dated feel.  6) In case you are a big Melvyn Douglas fan, he has relatively little screen time.  Although he is the best actor in the film after Bellamy, he is given little to define his character.  With his natural attractiveness and charm, it becomes hard to understand why Wray's character is repulsed by him and attracted to Bellamy's rough, cranky, ex-con.  (Incidentally, Wray is very pretty in this movie, but not very much of an actress.)  In conclusion, it is difficult to recommend anyone spending 69 minutes their life on this movie, unless they are very curious about Ralph Bellamy or Fay Wray.  As a pre-Code talky, it is a part of film history that lasted less than five years, but there are much better examples of that out there.

Worst Sci-Fi Movie ever Just watched, and sorry I did. The worst movie I seen in years; glad I didn't buy it. Thank God for rentals.

Not what I expected! I first saw "The Fighting Lady" in Karachi on a layover.  It was presented in Pashtun, with Belgian subtitles.  I couldn't understand any of it, but I really liked looking at Hillary Swank hitting the punching bag.  If I could read lips, I'd have understood it, but my eyes watered and I got a headache.  So when the last of my air-popped millet kernels were eaten, I was out of there!  When I saw that "The Fighting Lady" was available on Amazon, I immediately ordered it (fast delivery) and told all the people in my group we would have a dinner party (vegetarian enchiladas) and watch the show.  I was careful not to select the Belgian subtitles.  Imagine my embarrassment when I found it was a film about World War Two aircraft carriers!  This was very false advertising.  I had already seen the movie on this DVD in Jakarta, it was presented in Tagalog with Belgian subtitles.  I will admit that watching it in English I understood it much better, and Admiral Mitcher somewhat resembles Hillary Swank, so not a complete loss.  But if you are wanting to see Hillary Swank getting hit in the face, this is not the movie for you.

Why would anyone buy this ? There are 10,000 other fitness videos out there that would not profit a traitor to our country. What this rich woman did to our soldiers is unforgivable. Anyone who would let such a person profit by buying their goods is spitting in the face of our veterans.

Skip This! Diehard comic book fans need to pass on this.  The Movie GREATLY differs from the comic book storyline, and seems to focus way too much on the Green Lantern Corp.  Ryan Reynolds is very annoying and does a very poor performance as Hal Jordan. Grade F all the way around, and what's with the glowing costume?

JUST WRONG I saw the first film in this franchise some years ago when it arrived on DVD. I wasn't thrilled but I didn't hate the film either. It felt like they were taking the horror genre Wes Craven started with THE HILLS HAVE EYES, an inbred cannibalistic mutant family, and relocating it to the back hills of West Virginia. The location change shows Hollywood's contempt for anything found in flyover country. I think they still think DELIVERANCE was a documentary and that folks outside of New York and Los Angeles are all this way.  But things progressed from there. With the quick return on investment from the first film a franchise was born and the sequels began. I had a hard time even finishing the second (and I'm not quite sure I did) and never bothered to seek out the third film. I wish the same could be said for the newest fourth film which is subtitled BLOODY BEGINNINGS.  Yes they've decided the best way to go with this one is to take us back and show us where it all started. Never fear though even with this one we could still go back a few more years and have a part 5! Lucky us!  The film opens in 1974 at a sanatorium where a new doctor is being shown around the facility. The head of the place takes her down the secluded hall where the worst patients are, including three inbred hillbillies from West Virginia. One had eaten 2 of his own fingers, another forked out his eyeball and eaten it and the last has filed his teeth into sharp points. All three suffer from a malady where they feel no pain. Of course another patient steals a hairpin from this new doctor, tosses it to the 3 brothers who then escape and let the rest of the inmates out to wreak havoc on the sanatorium and kill all in charge.  Fast forward to 2003 and the obligatory nude sex scene introduces us to two couples enjoying one another's company. They're interrupted by a friend who enters and tells them they have 5 minutes to get dressed and ready and then she's leaving. The group is heading for a weekend in the woods at a cabin their friend owns. They take cars to a designated dropping point and decide, even though a terrible winter storm is on the way, to take their snow mobiles and head out.  Of course they get lost and where to the end up? At the infamous sanatorium from the start of the film! They enter and are not surprised that the building is warm, thinking that of course someone takes care of the boiler in the place to make sure the pipes don't burst. After a series of stereotypical stupid ideas ("hey let's divide up and search the place!") they turn in for the night, sleeping (and of course having sex) in various rooms.  During the night the first victim is killed, one of the boyfriends who can't sleep and sneaking around the building comes upon the body of a friend who was separated from the group. The next morning when he can't be found they search for him only to have his girlfriend find the 3 cannibals snacking on his body.  She runs screaming for the rest of them to get out but not before another is lassoed with a piece of barb wire which after a tug of war between the cannibals and her boyfriend decapitates here. With no winter clothing they can't leave so are forced to find a way to overcome the incredibly intelligent inbreds. Well, they seem incredibly intelligent compared to the stupid things these kids do.  The movie is little more than a way to show off a body count and various gory set pieces. In the extras you discover that the movie was shot in 19 days and while the photography and technical aspects of it are pretty good, the whole set up and story makes you wonder if the money couldn't have been spent better elsewhere.  I'm not a fan of movies that have been termed torture porn. I hated HOSTEL but at the same time appreciated the SAW films. At least those had some story behind them, some mystery to solve. Fans of this sort of film are not horror fans, they are body count fans. They live and breathe to watch some new form of torture or murder occur. That's not scary and honestly becomes quite boring after a while. And truth be told that's the biggest sin with this film. It's boring.  If you're a fan of the series then by all means enjoy. If you like little more than watching the body count rise and various forms of blood gushing incidents happen then you'll like it. If you want a horror film though or something that doesn't have the dumbest group of kids around then pass it by.  I leave you with one of the stupidest thing that happens in the movie. It irked me so I have to share it with you. The group, minus a few friends who've been killed, captures the 3 inbreds and one says he's going to kill them by lighting them on fire. Another tells him not to, that it will only drag him down to their level and they're above that. Needless to say he dozes off guarding them so they escape, kill him and later on the rest of the group. Yes they all die but then again if you noticed the title this is only the beginning and had they not then it would be the end, eh?

Pure propaganda The core of the story cannot be validated - this is just another attempt for someone to exploit the election and partisanship in this country to make a few bucks, a real disappointment.

1bigchis This was a children's movie.  I am an adult. It was a waste of my time and money since there are no children in my family.

Not what I expected I bought this DVD after reading the reviews because I wante something a little more challenging than the Shiva Rea Prenatal Yoga DVD I had. I tried to go through the 15 minute short form and just gave up and decided I'm returning this. The movements are way too fast, I don't even have time to figure out what to do before they are doing something else. Also, the music and quality of the film is poor. I'm not a beginner to yoga so I thought I would be fine, but I was wrong, it's way too fast. I am back using my other DVD and I'm okay with that.

rodant This movie sucks a big one no joke I puked So hard I barley had enough strength to snap the disc into 50 peices

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sp...zzzzzzzzz I love this cast! Love Gary Oldman and John Hurt, and most especially love Colin Firth. That said, wow, what a dense plot, what straight-faced line delivery, and such confusing cuts back and forth to the past, back to the present. At least I THINK that is what was happening. Don't ask me, though, because I fell sound asleep after about a half hour of wondering if Gary Oldman's character was going to remain silent through the entire film or eventually speak. My husband also fell asleep.  Recommendation: For fans of serious, British, ponderous, impenetrable drama.

The Edge I received this movie, and am very disappointed in the quality.  It freezes and skips during the first 20 minutes or so.  Makes it difficult to watch.

Can only view first two minutes Paid $3.99 to watch something that I can only watch a minute and 56 seconds of.  Not sure why the entire film is not available.

Disappointed not worth the money I thought this would be more like the Doc Martin series which it is not.  I was very disappointed in this purchase and would not recommend this movie.  Save your money the cost of this DVD isn't worth it.  I am very disappointed in this product and price.

Sound dies On my Blu-ray disc, from Sony, the sound dies once the dialogue begins.  This is the second such Sony Blu-ray screwup I've experienced, the other being Midnight in Paris.  No wonder the company is dying.  Buyers beware.

Boring Just kept waiting for something to happen, not much to the story, not much to a plot leading up to the "I'm gonna go see some sights" or something along those lines.

I expected way more when I saw that Sam Neil and Lawrence Fishborne were in this I bought this because it was recommended and it has two actors I really like. Big mistake. I thought this movie was cheesy and even dumb in parts. I like science fiction but this is just a slasher movie set in space.

Did i watch the same movie? I find all the positive reviews about this movie very interesting indeed.  This is certainly not the best war movie ever, and I ask you to watch some other war films ( including some foreign ones)such as: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Das Boot, Tae Guk Gi, (The beginning of) Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line, even Apocalypse Now to name just a few. The movie does get a point for showing the different points of views and how the invasion was planned, but the bad acting and the boring over-stereotyped hollywood charachters make a good idea for a film fall flat.  And where are the Canadians?!!  I do beleive they were there!

$1.99 from iTunes As a math teacher, I have found these videos entertaining for students and very helpful for keeping student engagement high.  However, the price Amazon is expecting you to pay for this DVD is incredibly overpriced.  Go to iTunes and download this item for $1.99.

no actual documentary on the topic unless u want previews i got this video thought of it documents the 2012 event but it such great disappointment nothing on the topic except preview on other topics .  it is crap disc .

JOHN HUGHES RIPOFF. 'nuff said ~ THAT's EXACTLY 16 Candles - revisited. Interesting how time doen't change anything ... hello!  Original?  Original my A##!

Hated It I'm not normally squeamish.  I enjoy the Saw and Hostel films.  This film however was terrible.  It was just an exploitation film filled with one gross scene after the next.  Bad acting, horrible overacting by the mad doctor and just a stupid premise really sink this film.  Interesting cover roped me into giving this a try.  I do regret it.

Inversely Proportional to # of Songs Besides a poorly designed and viewer unfriendly DVD menu (e.g. lack of chapter or subtile options) the next obvious criterion for quickly discerning the quality of a movie is the number of songs used as a filler for lack of acting, story, script, directing, etc. and this production had 42, yes 42 songs of mostly poor unknown quality at that. Possibly a record for any movie in history thus far. The over 17 rating forewarning at the beginning tells of "crude sexual language" that plus filler music plus the principal theme of old guys looking at young females should tell us something about the value of 90 minutes of American time.  The only explanation is that these rom-coms must be produced for lonely dissatisfied American men and women still stuck in some adolescent fantasy world.  The only surprise is that neither a N.Y. or L.A. studio was the customary cash cow assembly line source for this well worn redundant genre. Money speaks and Atlanta listened.

Never, ever watch. Ever. To any who want to buy this movie, I will give you a few less painful alternatives; you could A-drink a bottle of Hydrochloric acid, B-stick your hand in a blender, or C-chew glass. No matter what you pick, watching this film would be a thousand times more horrible. This movie is on the level of Avatar: The Last Airbender, and if you have seen that, then you should know not to get this horrible live-action adaptation. The flaws are all the same; too rushed, a lack of vital characters, and no connection to the original story. It is just terrible. There is nothing good about it. If I had to put my hatred for this movie on a scale of one to ten, it would be OVER 9000. That is how much I despise this movie.

Disc won't work in DVD players in US You must have a region 2 DVD player for this movie to work..... Which basically means unless you play it on a computer ..... Any US sold DVD player will be region 1 and the movie won't play....don't buy it!

cliche Thet were good for young kids who are too young to see the low quality acting and writing.  I'm sorry I bought it.  No one will buy it.  I'm  stuck wth it.  Save your hard earned money for something worthwhile.  The old saying you get what you pay for is true.

tried to like it. i found this movie to just be too talky. i think it would ve worked better as a play. nothing really seems to happen....i just could nt get into this 1. ...and i do like leslie neilson

Soulless copout So disappointed--seemed like so many people gave this high marks. Bradley Cooper does a great job acting, but the rest is just some tiresome, and rather humdrum, absolutely non-mind-bending stuff. The part about him now being able to access 100% of his brain is actually a very small part of the movie--he gets smart, can do cool things, and things are looking up, and then....nothing. That's it. A little action, no twist, no nothing. The movie ends incredibly boringly and makes you feel like you went through all the rambling storytelling to get absolutely nowhere.

HATED IT! Don't waste your money! This is a dark movie and hard to follow. I couldn't finish it was so bad.

After watching the movie and thinking about it a bit At first I liked the movie, but then after thinking about if for a few days, I agree with most of the one star reviews. This movie is pretty bad on many levels! Just senseless violence to rake in the entertainment bucks! And yes, the guy does not talk! The girl does not talk either!

By far the worst movie ever made The movie is supposed to be from the point of view of a handheld camera. First 10 minutes of this view is interesting but over an hour of the movies bouncing around gave me a headache and made my friend nauseous. Asked all my friends that saw it too and they said the same.

horrible , do not watch I only watched this movie because my uncle really wanted to watch it during the holidays and since I had amazon prime and my laptop I thought why not. Its message that cross cultural tolerance and understanding is bad and that along with basically equating the United Nations and the European Union with the coming of antichrist made me irate with indignation.

Christina This movie was awful. To have it be compared to E.T. and other great movies like that was ridiculous. I couldn't wait for the movie to end and then the ending was even worse then the actual movie.

streaming interrupted So far, I'm not pleased with Amazon's streaming video. The movie kept stopping and starting. It was very annoying. The movie is great, but I'm not sure about Amazon's streaming.

Save your money- not worth the upgrade to Bluray The movie itself is as entertaining as it always was, but this is one of the worst Blu-ray transfers I've ever seen. No special features either. If you already own the DVD, you're good to go. Save your money or put it towards something else. Very disappointed.

Newer 3-D TV's I bought this thinking that it would work on my new 3-D TV after reading some reviews, however it doesn't. It does come with 4 pairs of 3-D glasses but they are ancient technology and by today's standards they stink. It did also come with a regular DVD which was good.

Good show -  Bad advertising Ordinarily, I don't mind too many ads before a movie plays because I simply fast forward them most of the time.  However Season 2 of the Andy Griffith show, which I am now re-watching really bugged me, therefore I rarely play that particular disc anymore. At the beginning of the first CD were a number of long ads for sitcoms which were locked in and could not be fast forwarded.  Therefore to see the CD, one was forced to either leave the TV or sit through a whole bunch of grueling coming attractions or ads, until the series started.  Each one was rather long and I didn't like any of the shows that were advertised. In fact they were all pretty bad shows. I'm glad that most present day CD's either have a FF on such ads, or don't use them at all. Thankfully, they didn't do it again on the rest of the series. Perhaps they had some complaints.  I really liked the Andy Griffith show, and still watch it sometimes. But unfortunately, I have to skip the 2nd show because I hate those ads.

Predictable, horrible ending... The movie is slow-moving, predictable, and has a horrible ending.  Decent idea, but doesn't go anywhere with it...  Probably not even worth watching once you can get it for free, much less paying to watch.

Trash from the bottom I have a high tolerance for trash and bad cinema, but the material here layered it on and with a shovel. There is funny here, but revolting and overdone. Sorry, not my type of film. Bleg.

A War Movie on the Liberal Side To put it plainly.  The title of my review says it all.  If you hold any American patriotism within your hearts and believe our governments goal is not to betray and use its American citizens, then this movie is not for you.  The plot is merely this: Following the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his men are charged with finding the so-called weapons of mass destruction, whose existence justified American involvement, according to the Pentagon and their man in Baghdad, Poundstone. Veteran CIA operative Marty tells Miller that there are no weapons, it is a deception to allow the Americans to take over the country and install a puppet leader. Also suspicious of Poundstone is Wall Street Journal reporter Lawrie Dayne, who lets slip to Miller that Poundstone told her he had secret talks in Jordan with an important Iraqi, code-named Magellan, who told him about the weapons, though it now seems likely Magellan's true information was to the contrary. So begins a hunt for the truth.  However, the movie has a disappointing ending and in my opinion, as a true conservative-American citizen and one who believes in the "fight for freedom," this movie left me angry and emotionally fatigued.  I am bewildered in believing there really are people in this country who believe the way this movie portrays American's to be.

A great movie ruined by an torture porn ending. I love horror movies. I especially love horror movies that use webcams, video cameras etc. So I went into this movie thinking its a non supernatural Lonely Girl (anyone remember that you tube web series?).  I loved the first 90% of the movie. Megan and Amy are best friends. Megan is a damaged party girl and Amy is a naive sheltered girl. The first part of the movie sets up how damaged Megan is without losing sympathy of the character. One of best scenes is when Megan confesses how her she was abused by her stepfather.  Megan and later Amy are abducted by "Josh" who they ",met" online and thought was just a teenage boy.  If the movie kept on that vibe and just kept the ending ambiguous, sort of like Blair Witch I would have given it a 4-5 star rating. But no...  The last 10% of the movie is just a bunch of gratuitous violence and torture. Why the director needed to show exactly what happens is beyond me. Why not allow the viewer to guess what happened to the girls? It would have been a lot more scarier.  As it is with the torture porn ending we are left with a movie that is just another Eli Roth clone.  Horror can be scary without gore. The first 90% was scary , the last 10% just gory.  Please don't watch this movie.

DVD review It would appear that this DVD was not an original as my main DVD player does not play burned discs, and it would not play this disc.  When I did find a player that could play it, the sound was poor, which is unfortunate because I bought this for the music.

Wouldn't play Never got to see the movie.  I just got an error message after it dowloaded.  I paid for it, but never got to see it!

Hope and Glory dvd This dvd arrived promptly so the customer service was excellent.  The problem is the great disappointment my family and I felt when we sat down to watch it--so silly and childish.  We were flabbergasted in view of the glowing praise of the reviews about this one.  Couldn't even stand to watch the entire movie.  Maybe it got better but we found it tedious.

so terrable what i got out of this was that the guys were just casing destruction.  and just raping women i tell you this is stupid.

What message does this movie send? What can I say? Next let's make a movie about Josef Fritzl, and how his life was tragic (as it was) and how he's a victim, while totally ignoring the suffering he put his daughter through, locking her in his basement and sexually abusing her for a couple decades. Not to mention the fact that daughter had a much harder life, but unlike Aileen never did anything bad - robbing, whoring.. the effects of which everyone seems so happy to ignore, while in hypocrisy feeling self righteous about accusing others of things like cheating, as Aileen does in this movie numerous times, as if it gives her some kind of high ground. In fact maybe some of Aileen's victims were similar people to this daughter locked in the basement, with worse lives but who suffered to do good, while getting screwed over even more. by Aileen.  But I digress, I've been known to feel pity for people like rapists and so on. I think what I'm trying to say is that I'm mad at the way society overlooks some evils, like whoring, while demonizing others. This movie does that, and to REALLY cut to the chase; I just feel like this movie is really just another platform for selfish people to be parasitic; sexually careless and selfish; flaunting; virginity collecting and so on, totally profiting and dehumanizing the best of people, who suffer way more at the hands of a conformist society, all the while making themselves out to be victimized. It's so standard in society, and I can't stand how the dynamic between victim and victimizer has switched roles in people's minds from where I really feel it should be. You know that 99% of what goes on in the world is just people being selfish. Not their hands being forced, and even if their hands are forced, the negative consequences remain.  On a more personal note, I've studied Aileen, and she's nothing like the film portrays....

The hour I watched was pure torture Perhaps it's somewhat unfair to review a film that one gives up on after only an hour; if the film redeems itself in its final minutes, I would not know.  But the fact that I did give up on it after an hour is itself indicative; of the dozens upon dozens of films that I watched over the last couple of years, this is one of only two that I simply could not continue to the end.  Every minute of watching was unpleasant, and it felt more like torture than anything else.  After abandoning the effort, I felt like sending a telegram to every director and studio in the US:  PLEASE STOP MAKING FILMS LIKE THIS.  Enough with the dysfunctional families. Enough with the wry, presumably ironic but painfully unfunny dialogue.  Even with the narcissism and lack of self-awareness.  Enough with the self-congratulatory post-film discussion about how this is "reality" and "honesty."  (On a personal note, I like challenging, often disturbing films, and have no desire to see an antiseptic treatment of American family life; but this film and others like it do NOT represent my reality.  If I had to live among people like this, I would hang myself.)  The "plot," such as it is, involves characters played by Catherine Keener and Oliver Platt, a married couple who buy up future left behind by the recently deceased, mark up the prices dramatically and re-sell it; they also have plans to buy up the apartment space of a yet-to-be-deceased person.  On the surface, they seem like decent, charitable people, but there is an undercurrent of moral concern about the vulture-like nature of the way they make their living.  The film spends most of its first hour smacking you over the head with the central contradiction of the Catharine Keener character.  In the abstract, she wants to be compassionate and charitable -- she is constantly handing out food and money to the homeless, she is searching for volunteer opportunities. She has a highly developed social conscience.  But on a personal level, she could hardly be less considerate and compassionate.  She shows almost no empathy for her daughter's problems, and she incessantly says really inconsiderate things to offend other people, only catching herself after the fact.  The film really beats this into the ground; she has opportunities for compassion all around her, but she neglects them, in pursuit of the self-affirmation of charity towards faceless strangers.  You basically want to scream at the film:  "OK, I get it, I get it.  Let up on this point!"  The other notable aspect of the film is that everyone sits around saying the most rude, self-centered, obnoxious things, all in the same low-voiced monotone.  It's not interesting; it's not funny.  Keener and Platt's neighbors are "caring" for a 91-year-old grandmother on the brink of death.  The two girls are constantly bickering, and one in particular keeps saying horrible, insensitive things in front of Grandma, who returns the suspicion and contempt in kind.  A bit of this here and there would be tolerable -- but the entire first hour of the film is wasted on similarly horrid dialogue.  There are occasional attempts at humor (mostly by bringing up previously-introduced subjects again and again) but they fall flat.  Basically, the film consists of people saying insensitive things in front of each other in scene after scene.  After an hour of this, one can't help but feel:  what the hell is the point? Nothing really happens, the moral contradiction of the Keener character is beaten into the ground, and all that one can feel is disgust at the shallow, unfeeling narcissim of the characters, and irritation at the cynicism of the film itself.  Nothing really interrupts the relentless torment of the viewer.  No, this is not insightful, it's not entertaining, it's not amusing, it's not involving. It seems to be all in the service of an allegedly iconoclastic take on American life.  All in all, one of the four worst films I have seen in the last five years.

Terrible Toby McGuire was a way better spider man. This guy is good but definitely not spider man worthy. The over all movie was not even remotely as good as any of the previous spider movies. I felt it to be boring, shallow, and very cheesy. This movie will definitely not join my DVD collection and I will pretend that this film was never made. Terrible glitch in the spider man series and hope that it never goes back in that direction. Toby McGuire didn't take this role because the script was poorly written and he was smart not to. Watching this movie is disappointing, don't waste your time.

UNIVERSAL FAILS AGAIN Season one DVD by UNIVERSAL is horrible quality. Many DVDs produced by Universal are unplayable. In this season one DVD set you may view about half the shows. The rest stop and won't play or have serious glitches..stop and go or freeze up or display ditized pixelated sections that won't play. Sad. I have found this to be true of many universal releases. When I see the universal logo come up on the screen I am just filled with a feeling of dread. The Show is great but the production quality of the DVDs is crap.

The Legend of Hell's Gate... Waste of time and money. As a fan of westerns, I wanted so much more  but was left totally high and dry. TOTAL GARBAGE...

Horrible audio! Great movie but the Blu-ray is a comple waste of time and money. It is as bad as other reviewers have stated. Unfortunately, I did not read the one star ratings prior to purchasing this. Technically, the worst Bu-ray I have ever watched.

Overstretched Concept Which Should Have Remained Bite-Sized A half-baked science fiction plodder in which Gary Sinise tries to convince the authorities he's not actually a body-snatching cyborg with a bomb in his heart. Originally intended as one-third of a short story anthology, the studio called an audible midway through production and stretched it to a feature length by itself. The lack of preparation is crippling, as bad effects, terrible scenery, atrocious dialog and a heavily padded plot are exposed and emphasized by the longer running time. Sinise's character, the intended heart and soul of the picture, is incendiary and unlikeable, a standoffish prick who makes an already-bad position worse for himself in almost every situation. The awful lines he spits (seriously, the worst-written dialog this side of The Room) aren't helped by a hyperactive editor, switching angles several times in a single sentence. Awful in almost every sense, at least it goes out with a bang.

"Art" in the worst sense I'm sure there's a great movie to be made about crank cookers -- but this sure isn't it. I have no idea how "authentic" or accurate it is, but in trying to make it feel oh-so authentic and (ugh) important, the filmmakers left out all the creativity. There's not a single charged or surprising moment in the entire movie, with the exception of the chainsaw scene, and that's only thanks to the yuk factor. This film is a great example of what happens when someone with little narrative talent or feel for character thinks they're making "art". Pointless.

Lucille Ball Slaughters The Role Of Mame The only way you could get me to watch this a second time would be in A Clockwork Orange mode of enforced viewing.  The gravel and frog in her voice when she sings are worse than finger nails on a chalk board and she conveys none of the charm or warmth of the role.  Live on stage with a talented production is the best way to see Mame and Rosalind Russell is the only movie version that comes close to capturing the humor, warmth and spirit that is Auntie Mame.  Save your ears and eyes, avoid the Lucille Ball version Mame.  Remember, there are things you can't un-see and un-hear and this production is one of those.

Burn this movie..no,really,I mean Burn It! No dis meant to Robin Hardy,but this movie is just a pot-boiler attempt to capitalize on the re-awakened interest in The Wicker Man. The writer of the first film had nothing to do with this "sequel" and it shows! Christopher Lee is shown as Lord Summerisle in a flashback for just a minute or two,and the great man's cameo sadly can't redeem the rest of this movie. Thin plot,loose ends and portrayals that insult Christians and Pagans alike. Sorry I wasted the money.

Steel Review This is the film that killed the comic book movie. Shaq's acting is wooden at best. The dialogue is soo bad it makes the dialogue from DIC's Battletoads pliot sound good. The story arc is luke-warm and has many mindless filler. Infact it takes 37 minutes or more to get to see Shaq wear the Steel suit. The villians are morons. The action is basic. The ONLY cool factor of this is the laser-shooting wheelchair but it fails to help the film in the long run. I give this film a 1 out of 10.

So unbeliveably disappointed- still weirded out. If you love Andy Griffith and think of him as a sweet, well respected Christian man, DON'T WATCH THIS MOVIE.  I am hoping that when Andy watches this movie now, he regrets it. That would be the only thing that would help me get past his references to oral sex, constant arousal and viagra.  He encourages his grandson to forsake chasing after one-night stands and to look for "companionship". But by the end of the movie they've switched places and basically what Andy is looking for is sex NOT companionship. Poorly written, terribly acted (except for some early scenes with Andy) and pathetically casted. I can't believe the freaky "ice cream man" (C-flick horror movie) is cast as the leads father. Truly-NO one else must have wanted to act in this mess of a film.  Yuck!

The Tree of BOREDOM This movie was a total waste of time. I wanted to turn it off within 15 mins but thought if I only watched a little longer, everything would pull together (Pink Floyd...as a team - Shine On You Crazy Diamond). So...I watched and watched........until the end (Her Majesty's a very nice Girl). Then I'm scratching my head, my balls, my arm pits.....looking for a meaning.....OMG, I don't actually think with my penis 'cause I scratched my head first. What deep meaning! If only I could have felt so much of a religious experience watching this film! My favorite part was the film's ending. Hurrah! Want some advice? Drop some 1960's acid and listen to Pink Floyd, "Echoes" (Meddle Album), and imagine yourself in the Pompeii ruins, and watch a volcano heat lamp light. You'll be glad you did. We'll leave the light on for ya. ROFL.

Am I Crazy? With 264 Five Stars, I was expecting an incredible movie. I seriously don't know what people see in this movie. It was totally hokey and offensive, and the acting was horrible.  It is beyond me why this movie is rated so highly.  I guess I cannot trust the Amazon rating system.

Eclipsed Love Lesson From Twilight #4,267: "Love" turns all guys into controlling jerks who don't do anything except compete to see whose dingdong is bigger.  Sadly that's most of what's going on in "Twilight: Eclipse." It's the best of the series thus far, mainly because some underdeveloped characters get some backstory and there are some interesting action scenes... but the movie is smothered in a thick coating of phlegmlike teen angst, whining and bickering. It gets to the point where you WISH the bad guys would arrive.  In summary: Edward (Robert Pattinson) is pestering Bella (Kristen Stewart) to marry him. Bella doesn't want to because (boohoo) her parents are divorced and marriage is dead to her, but she DOES want to become a vampire. Jacob (Taylor Lautner) wants Bella to dump Edward and be with him instead.  Meanwhile, the evil Victoria is raising an army of newborn vampires to come to Forks and kill Bella. Yes, seriously -- she raised an entire army to kill ONE bland human teenager. Not the Cullens, or the people of Forks. Just Bella. And since the entire universe revolves around Bella, both the werewolves and the Cullens are desperate to protect her. So they overcome centuries of mutual hatred and join forces to protect her.  I will admit it: "Twilight Eclipse" is easily the best movie in this series... which is like saying that a pinch is less unpleasant than a poke in the eye. Amazingly, there are actually some taut, fast-paced scenes here, as well as some creepy eerie scenes involving the newborn army (like their too-briefly glimpsed mayhem in Seattle).  Too bad that isn't what the plot is REALLY about. Instead, we're battered with a bad teen soap opera -- lots of heavy breathing, kissing, whining, and romantic estrangements that last about two minutes. The dialogue is painfully vapid ("You love him." "I love you more." "I know"), and the director seems to be desperately trying to come up with some kind of plot other than Edward and Jacob being emo jerks.  Kristen Stewart gives her usual one-note performance -- dead eyes, masklike face and a monotone voice. And the insipid Bella just drifts through the movie, more of a living MacGuffin than a heroine. It's hard to see why not one but TWO boys would be ready to die for a boring girl who just sits there breathing through her large front teeth.  Robert Pattinson is pretty obviously just here for for his paycheck, while Taylor Lautner gives it his best effort. Unfortunately his character has turned into a controlling jerk to rival Edward, and the two male leads have more sexual chemistry with each other (the tent scene) than with the leaden Stewart. In fact, the only decent character development is given to Jasper and Rosalie, and seeing their backstories (especially Rosalie's bloodthirsty bride rampage) makes them richer and more intriguing than our bland protagonists.  "Twilight Eclipse" is the best movie of the Twilight series.... which isn't saying much. It has some good moments, but those are smothered by all the teen soapiness.

Feel sorry for this guy Cant stand this guy, Just like George Carlin, he wont be laughing too much when he fades into the night. Why is it that everyone interviewed is always so inept- must be coincidence. If you have real questions about God and how he wants to save us, check out GCCCpray.com  No fact in the Bible can be disputed it was all fact. We either choose to believe or not.  The Bible says "the fool says in his heart there is no God". To me it takes a lot more faith to believe that this world is just some big accident than that it is the creation of a divine God whom loves and cares for us.  Peace

Waste of time! I bought this movie when it first came out thinking it might be good, WOW was I wrong!!!  It was the worst movie I had ever seen and I've seen some BAD ones!!

They said the DVD of fiddler on the roof was in stock? I ordered this DVD 6 days ago for my grandchild who is going to play a part in fiddlers on the roof. She was so excited when I told her it would be there the next day...as I paid extra for...the next day shipping. Still waiting. I cannot find a # to talk to a human. I just want to know if they plan on shipping real soon or if it's on back order or what. They say "your order is not yet shipped" but they don't communicate when they will ship it ???? I'm dissapointed.

Didn't laugh once This movie is bland and humorless. It should be avoided as if it were contaminated with the bubonic plague. I honestly can't believe I watched the entire thing. It must have been the confusion from all the wonderful reviews I read. Sure Hurley plays a beautiful seductress, but there needed to be more to the movie than just a beautiful body.

Indulgent, introspective, incomplete This film is an example of all that I hate in a poorly made foreign film: boring characters who endlessly talk in the existential sphere ("What is copy? What is real?), tightly filmed shots that give little sense of locale-- but which manage to always maintain a constant focus on the female character's breasts--, and a preoccupation on the act of eating. The main characters are very serious, very educated, and very boring. As typical of existential-type films, the female character represents Woman i.e. she who man needs, even if he doesn't know this himself. The man is just an oaf who struggles though life. It's all a bit much. But, if you like seeing a woman's bosom throughout a film, this is for you. If you think the French language makes everything sound deep and enlightened, this is for you. If you enjoy seeing actors speaking directly to the camera, this is for you. This film is a forced and indulgent exercise producing nothing. Thank goodness for 1.5 speed!

Not that funny After all the good reviews, I was expecting this to be an entertaining and funny movie.  It was a real disappointment - way over-rated.  There were a couple of funny lines (too few and far between), but overall I would say its not worth the time or the $2.99 rental fee. Its not that I dislike "over the edge" humor (I liked Borat enough to buy it). The real problem with this film is that its just not that funny. Don't waste your time.

Ultraviolet = Ultrafail Nothing wrong with the film, it's the UltraViolet Digital copy you need to avoid. This is a format that does absolutely nothing for the consumer, is unplayable on both PC and Apple products without additional software, and has a limited streaming life of 3 years then you have nothing. I will never buy another Blu-ray/DVD/digital copy that has the Ultraviolet method.

PAS DE VERSION STF MALGRE VOS INDICATIONS LE BLU RAY CONTAGION PARU CHEZ WARNER NE CONTIENT NI VERSION FRANCAISE NI SOUS TITRAGE FRANCAIS. A EVITER POUR LES NON BILINGUES

OUCH, THAT WAS EMBARRASSING Here's a novel idea: Macho mafioso has emotional breakdown, bearing his sensitive side. It makes the storyline for Analyze This/That look like genius. It's the British version of such a concept (like Johnny English of Austin Powers, like Shaun of the Dead of Zombieland, etc, etc), only you get a handful of men sitting in a room mouthing off.  About the mouthing off. It's the movie's centerpiece. It's the meat & potatoes of the dialogue. It's what you do when you have no, well, real dialogue. "Eff this!" and "Eff that!", all delivered with the slurpy gusto only London mafiosi could muster. It's embarrassing too -- these older actor chaps reduced to such juvenile strategies to keep the film from coming to a complete standstill. It's called 'impress by profanity' and teenager culture around the globe thrives on it.  Well, folks, that's what this flick has to offer: no scipt and a tired old gimmick to cover up the fact. Where's Billy Crystal when you need him?

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So much potential! This movie had so much potential!  There really could have been a real story, some depth.  There is not climax to this film and there's really just a surface story.  [SPOILERS]  They mention when the alien touches you, you understand it.  Yet they don't elaborate on this point.  They're just like 'here it is, we're not going to do anything with it.'  It could have been a great movie. I was so disappointed.

Hmmmmmmm This movie STUNK! It seemed to just "lay" there till the very end.... Only the last 5 minutes was mildly exciting! Hopefully there is not a F D 6.

It doesn't make sense The movie is boring...the way the surgeon did the surgery to create a supposedly "human centipede" is just obviously absurd. I love watching thriller/horror/suspense movies and this one is one of the "worst horror movie" i've ever seen..I would rather waste my time watching Slither or See No Evil than this crap!

Vile I wish I could un-see The Human Centipede, but it's too late for me. Not chilling, not scary, and certainly not clever; it is a truly unpleasant torture flick.  You will feel guilty for the minutes of your life you have wasted if you don't turn it off the first time you say to yourself "this has got to get better soon."  More disturbing than the actual images, however, is that someone had to dream it up.

Unabe to play on player I was unable to play the video. I requested a return and received 1/2 of the purchase price. Next time I will only buy from Amazon sites and pay the higher cost.

It is NOT a comedy! It is not a comedy! It is even not a melodrama - it is tragegy! I was surprise by performance of Hadson and the story itself, but also I was disappointed by misleading- when person is dying it difficult to laugh!

Beware of which DVD you order The Man with the Golden Arm (2008) from: NorAm International Partners, Inc.- Sold by netdealz and Fulfilled by Amazon. arrived quickly, No problem with the service, but this is a bad print with poor sound, Marketed by CatCom, no mention that this is packaged as a double feature with Suddenly and cartoons and commercials. I should have paid more attention and bought the 50th Anniversary Edition. Bad Menu. Cheesy opening narration,  The CatCom tiger does't exactly roar like the MGM lion, he kind of sounds like he is having some gas issues. Has grainy 1940's Popeye and Superman cartoons, a rather strange 1980's PSA by Clint Eastwood about the dangers of crack, a Buster Keaton beer commercial, and a 1950's safe drivin PSA. Not the disc to buy if you want a good copy of an Otto Preminger classic.

Buyers beware I ordered this DVD because in the product description it states that it's Region 1. When I tried to play it, my player said it wasn't the right region. I cannot even return it because the slip the buyer usually includes explaining how to go about returning an item was missing. I'm sorry to have to write this because I've bought many items through Amazon and had always been satisfied till now. Still, if this can help any other buyer from going through an experience such as mine, I feel it would be remissness on my part not to do so.

Do not watch this on Amazon Instant Video I'd give the film, a 2 or 3, but Amazon Instant Video makes it completely unwatchable. It momentarily pauses literally every 15 seconds once the second part of the movie starts, at the same parts every time, regardless of whether my connection was good or not.

How did they get Jude Law and Forest Whitaker to appear in this garbage? It must have been quite the payday.  What a stupid movie.  Don't waste your time, watch Blade Runner again instead.

Boring, Slow, Misadvertised Excuse of a Film This film was advertised as a suspenseful monster movie, but instead was a boringly slow drag about two whining Americans wanting to go home and their journey.  No one cares about these two dumb characters, but apparently the writers saw some sort of redeeming quality about their constant complaining for an hour and a half.  The aliens, not monsters, are only part of the subplot, and the script is devoid of any information about them.  In fact, you only see them for several minutes on screen, and that is a generous estimate.  Learning about the aliens would have made a much more interesting film, and it deserved to be the main plot of the film instead of the two idiotic Americans.  District 9 was superior to this film in every aspect and is much more deserving of views than this time-wasting boring mess.

Loved the classes but DVD quality was terrible I loved this DVD the few times I used it, but it kept freezing. I returned it, Amazon promptly sent me a new one, which did the same thing. What a shame.

Disapointed I ordered Wildfire Season 4 I loving the show only to get season 4 and the blue side of the dvd wont read in my dvd player. It takes me like 10 minutes to get it to play. The dvd player is brand new and will read every other dvd but this one. I am disappointed that I cant watch this without having such difficulty.

worst SY FY ever My husband and I watch  a lot of SY FY movies. This one takes the cake!  We were laughing out loud at all the mistakes as they happened. Just as an example: the movie takes place in and around Los Angeles.  They show a map of the super cyclone rolling across southern FLORIDA! Ming-Na is supposed to be from NOAA, she hands someone her card who reads that she is from the National Oceanic Atmospheric ASSOCIATION!  Come on! who was consulting on this! What a bomb!

TERIBLE! AWFUL! I totaly hate this movie. I totaly LOVE the book. I understand movies aren't always the same as the book, but there are good movie & book combos out there. THIS is NOT one of them. If you want a good movie and book combo try Where the red Fern Grows.  Now this movie is sooo disapointing! There are a lot of good parts in the book, but in the movie i only see a few. I now you only have 2 hours in a movie but actors are terrable too! This movie turns into a comedy. The book is comedy, loyalty..... so much more. I totaly HATE this book. This might satisfy your kids but it sure won't if you read the awsome book.  Don't buy this it's a waste of money! waste of time tooo!

1 Star for this terrible Goodtimes release - don't buy it Basically, this is a really bad old print of the film.  If anyone reads the reviews on Amazon, make sure you do your homework especially with old films.  I've been burned once.  Never again.

Meh Trite and boring. This movie should have and could have been very interesting. The dialogue was extremely contrived and the screenplay was very poorly executed. Having such a profound concept on which to base this film, I feel that the writers fell short on almost all fronts. This movie ended where it began, taking the audience nowhere.

Ended Up Just Doing It Myself Everyone's TV is different. There are different brands, models, and manufactures. Once I realized that I couldn't help but feel a bit cheated. After spending 25$ for this I was angry that I had to sit there for a good hour and calibrate the whole entire thing by myself with no help at all. In the end, I ended up going by what I liked and saw, and it had nothing to do with what this told me. Very Disappointed!

Prime Video Version Unwatchable! This is a great movie. Too bad Amazon is providing an incredibly awful transfer of it as its Amazon Prime version. Truly,truly misguided decision.

BEWARE: Won't Play on regular DVD or Blu Ray players The Zodiac (two disk Director's cut) HD DVD will not play on regular DVD or Blu Ray players.  There should be a Caution on the listing but there is not.  OOPS, I guess someone noticed and now there is an "ALERT".  It's a hard way to learn that HD means that it takes a specific HD player.  Granted Amazon does take it back but they charge the shipping and you have to pay the shipping back---so that's not a good deal.

Not so good... Although movie quality is good it is the wrong movie.  I ordered several movies in this Jack Lemmon Collection and when I finally got around to watching this one I discovered it has the wrong movie recorded on the DVD.  The labeling and packaging all appear to be original and the item arrived shrunk wrapped, but it has the wrong movie recorded on it.  Be careful with this title as it may be a mistake you better check the DVD out promptly or get stuck with the wrong title.  I would not have minded, but I had already purchased Operation Mad Ball so this is a useless duplicate...  Buyer beware...

Legend strikes out One of these days, a Region 1 DVD distributor will get it right and issue a fully complete, good-quality edition of this movie.  Because of its public domain status in the U.S., plenty of editions are in circulation.  Yet each one is lacking in one way or another.  Even the "restored" Kino version is a disappointment.  I had high hopes for this Legend edition (and not because of the colorization), but it turns out this is an edited version, which makes it utterly useless to me.  I'm not even particularly fond of this film; I've always considered it one of the team's lesser efforts.  But I'm a completist, so it's a must for my collection.  The wait for the definitive DVD release continues...

BAD BAD BAD BAD!!!! I saw some of the clips that they used to promote the movie and I thought that this could be a some worth watching. Oh how I was badly disappointed. This is utter rubbish and like someone mentioned in a previous review, which I regrettably missed before renting this movie. Do not rent it unless you like crude terrible acting with no theme or plot to speak of.  Not even Justin Timberlake could save it.  Give it a big miss I beg of you.

Terrible I like that type of movie, T2 was my favorite movie of all time, but this was horrible. I am a fan of both Christopher Plummer and David Morse, so I'm surprised it was that bad. Send me a dollar for postage and you can have mine.

Slow Drawnout Romance Story Disguised as an Action Film If you are looking for a film that includes good gritty action and non-stop car driving look elsewhere. This film has its moments and one or two kill scenes that are pretty good but the title is misleading. I was expecting some "Bullet" car scenes or at best "Transporter" driving action; this movie is not for the fan of car driving/chase scenes. It's slow, sludgy and it's cleverly disguised as an action film when in reality it's a romance story. No "Whiteline Fever" scenes, no "Live and Die in L.A." commitment to the chase ... even Fast and Furious had better action behind the wheel! NOT A GUYS FILM for certain; if you want to share a movie with your girl and don't want to include Jennifer Anniston on the screen then here you go!

Terrible! This movie was terrible!! So predictable. It could have been such a good concept too. Very disappointing. Save your money and skip this one.

Not impressed with Amazon's digital download service On 12/14/2010, I placed an order for a DVD and received an email stating I had a $5.00 credit for the video section of Amazon.com. This morning, I attempted to use it to purchase a movie, The Core, priced at $4.99, and I subsequently was charged $4.99 per a follow-up email and I do not know why my credit was not used. There was no place for me to input the code (12/14 email: past order entitles you to a promotional code that you can apply on your next qualifying order). The instructions from Amazon stated this: "although the price on the button will not change, your credit will automatically be applied to your purchase." Additionally, the movie did not download so I do not have that either! I requested the $4.99 be refunded to me and I will not be using the video services from Amazon.com again in the future. Compared to iTunes, I find the service via Amazon not nearly as user-friendly.

Horrible Movie I only rate this movie with one star, because zero is not available.  The first movie was great for this type of genre, however this sequel was a waste of time and money.

Terrible This was a complete waste of time.  Pointless, unexciting, and random.  You're better off watching any given episode of the TV show than this movie.

Great Movies, Bad Packing I've seen all the movies and already had some on DVD, so this Blu-Ray collection was just an upgrade for my collection. I bought this on sale so I got the nine movies for about six and a half dollars apiece. I haven't watched them yet, but I'd give just the movie set 5 stars if they came in any kind of useful packaging. Instead they are packed in a "book" with nine fat "pages" and the movies are slid in the side of each of those fat pages. If they slid in and out easily, that would be OK since the pages face into the book cover and can't fall out. Instead, the pages are really tight and the disks not only won't slide out, they won't even shake out.  The only way to get the disks out is to stick your finger in between the top of the disk and the thin cardboard cover and push down and slide it out a little. It only comes out a little since there is a bump inside the top and bottom of the inside of the page that prevents it from sliding easily more than about an inch out of the page. You then have to get a piece of Kleenex or toilet tissue or some other soft paper and fold it over the stuck out part of the disk and pull it out the rest of the way. I didn't have any scratches on my disks, but if you drag the disks in and out a lot, they'll be draging their playing surface back and forth across the cardboard which can't be good for their surface.  The "book" is a really pretty way to keep the disks, with pictures and text on each of the facing "pages" about that movie, but a horrible way to get to the disks if you actually want to play them a lot. A better solution would be to just keep the book on the shelf as a curio and put the movies into nine DVD slim cases and set them next to the book. Barring that, if you could find some of those old paper sleeves that DVDs and CDs use to come in, you might try putting the disks in them and trying to slide those in and out, tho it would probably be a tight fit unless you cut the top and bottom of the sleeve off, but at least it would protect the disk surface from sliding over the cardboard.  Again, a five star rating on the movies, but a one star rating on the packaging.

Ripped Off It's a nice box for my money but that's it.  Who knew that a UK DVD with the DVD & Blu Ray logo wouldn't work in a U.S. DVD player.  What a waste of money.

Same old fish story You've probably heard of the incident with the Northern Snakehead (Channa argus), an aggressive fish that can breathe air and walk on land.  An invasive species, the snakehead was nicknamed "frankenfish" by the media and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. In 2008 the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation poisoned Ridgebury Lake, New York with CFT Legumine, a liquid rotenone formulation, to kill it off.  The Northern Snakehead can grow up to 33 inches long and weigh up to 15 pounds. This is not to be confused with the Giant Snakehead (Channa micropeltes) which can grow over three feet long and weigh up to 40 pounds. There are rumors, unsubstantiated, that the Giant Snakehead killed a child in Thailand.  Sometimes, reality writes the monster movie for you. Conflate the two types of fish, exaggerate their threat in the States, and add a pinch of healthy dose of human growth hormone and VOILA! You have Snakehead Terror.  Snakehead Terror, unlike Frankenfish, starts small.  The titular snakeheads are large but not abnormally so - micropeltes size - and with each successive scene they get larger and larger. This gets ridiculous by the end of the film when a whale-sized snakehead crests in the middle of the lake.  Bruce Boxleitner is the sheriff. I don't need to give him a name, because a quick scan of IMDB indicates that good ole Boxleitner is ALWAYS the sheriff: Bone Eater, Sharpshooter, Legion of the Dead, and even Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone. He's starting to repeat himself in more ways than one. Like in Bone Eater, the sheriff has difficulties with his daughter (Amber, played by Chelan Simmons) getting mixed up with a boy (Luke, played by Ryan McDonell) he doesn't like - which guarantees that she will be threatened by the featured monster.  And so we have the two-plot solution to monster movies: authority figures over what to do next while stupid teenagers swim in the monster's hunting ground. In a clever twist on the usual Jaws-theme, news of the people-gobbling snakeheads actually draws more fishermen to the lake looking for a trophy.  What's surprising is how mundane Snakehead Terror is about its fish. It's a bog-standard (or is that lake-standard?) fish attack movie.  With the exception of an attack on a house, most of the time the fish are just swimming around eating people.  Snakehead Terror tries to appeal to gore-hounds and spends more time playing up the horror of being eaten by fish (which isn't all that horrifying) and less on the actual fish attacks, which happens largely off-screen because the fish are in murky water.  The movie gives up on its ripped-from-the-headlines sensibilities and decides to go over the top midway through, but it's too little, too late.  Piranhas, barracudas, whatever - if it's in the water and jumps out to eat you it's all pretty much the same fish story. Frankenfish, which embraces the insanity of it all, is much more entertaining.

This movie SUCKS. I want a refund! Amazon should give you a refund if you hate a movie within the first 30 minutes. I hated this movie in the first 10 minutes. The lead female has the most annoying voice I have ever heard. I can't listen no mo. And the cinematography is awful! looks like it was shot on 16mm or something. I can see it working on stage as a musical but it doesn't work on the screen. Don't waste your time. Wait till it is free on netflix. Maybe it would be good to watch while vacuuming the rug.

missed end Movie was well done great direction and acting , but did not get to see the last 29min. 10sec. on to different copies.

Disappointed. I was not amused at any time.  Mad at myself for wasting so much of my time .  Misuse of a great cast!  Watched this on the recommendation of a family member.  I consider myself forewarned.

Terrible plot, script and acting First movie I've ever turned off half way through. The writing was terrible and not once did it make me giggle. Go for something else.

wow this sucked So happy I only rented this garbage, only wish I could striken it from my memory.  This has gotten to be about the worst movie I have seen this year.  I would only watch this again if someone put a gun to my head.

Most boring video Better watch something for free on Youtube. This is boring. Narrator is boring and keeps mumbling throughout. His reasoning is questionable. Keeps referring to non existent practices in different places with no proof.

If you want to laugh at a movie so bad it is good This movie was brought to my attention at a professional meeting of astronomers, where it was cited as one of the worst movies in recent times for bad science content.  Since my friends and I regularly get together for "bad movie night", and many of them are astronomers, I acquired this one immediately.  It lived up to its billing.  There is a scientific mistake almost every minute of the movie.  When you add bad acting, a bad script, and inane dialogue, you can't go wrong, ROFL all the way.  Yes, Hillary Swank appears in this film, but Olivier couldn't make anything serious out of this script, and Swank certainly doesn't show her Academy Award style here.  They also stick to the action adventure cliches quite closely, and that makes the overall plot completely predicatble and the characters are all one-dimensional.  They are intended to be steriotypes, but they don't even have a sufficient grasp of scientists to be able to carry that off.  In summary, if you want to laugh at a truly bad science fiction movie, then this is worth picking up.

NOT THE 78 MINUTE VERSION - INCORRECT PIC The product received was of the 61 minute version not the full 78 minute one advertised here. Also the one received came as a double feature, the one advertised and picture here is not double feat.  ~A~

No Extended Cut I guess I shouldn't be surprised. As you know, Warner Brothers has officially announced the Ultimate Editions of years 5 and 6. The product descriptions are quite wordy. There's a lot of talk about how fans should be excited about these new releases. But there are two words missing from the descriptions of both these products: Extended Cut.  What sold me and so many other fans was the extended cuts. And so I began collecting the Ultimate Editions. And what excited me even more was the idea of more extended cuts to come, especially for The Order of the Phoenix.  Then Prisoner of Azkaban and Goblit of fire Ultimate Editions came out, and of course, there were no extended cuts. And Warner Bros. spun us a tale of directors and their creative preferences. And so, we all said "fair enough" (although I, for one, never quite bought that explanation). Still, I had hopes for Order of the phonex and Half blood prince. Director David Yates is on record talking about having to cut 45 minutes from The Order of the Phoenix. And yet, here we are again with no extended cut to speak of. I'm sure the studio will spin us a tale of how busy Yates has been with the final installment of the franchise, thus making it impossible to return to these previous films and give the fans what they want,AN EXTENDED CUT.  I understand Warner Bros. desire to get these editions on the shelves before the final film hits theaters. As for me, I would gladly wait a year for these editions if it meant getting to see extended cuts of the films. But this is not about the fans. This is about the bottom line. If the WB can get a half-@$$ product onto the shelves sooner, and therefore presumably make more money in the final season of Potter movie mania, then who cares what the fans want? We will buy anything with the word Ultimate in front of it. Or maybe not.

Pirated DVD - Do not buy You have to flip the DVD over halfway through, can't rip it, it is a pirated DVD and no one should buy it.  Also it is lousy video quality.

Geographical Ignorance The DVD I purchased is useless to me as it is a US product which will not play on my dvd players because it is not formatted for the UK/Europe region.  Is this a matter which Amazon is not aware of?  When orders which have a geographical qualification are placed Amazon should either cater for the area issue or at least point out that the problem exists before the (pointless) sale is made.  Very unhappy let-down customer!!

Disappointing My girls have been waiting for four years to watch all the princesses in one night.  When it came time to play the movie the tracking was horrible and would not adjust with my tracking controls.  The color jumps from B&W to Color constantly, and the tape jumps scenes.  My girls were very disappointed and I would like to mail it back to them and get my money back.  No exchanges no replacements.

DON'T NEED TO SAY MUCH HERE! All I have to say after having wasted 76 minutes watching "Suddenly" is that it blew mightily, pure and simple.  Nuff said!

Stinker!!!! This film was S L O W and pointless.  It was actually painful to watch Kristen Stewart try and act the role.  Her solution? Jutting frozen jaw and pigeon-toed gate.  Simply awful and boring.

A Less Than Royal Treatment Where is the much-ballyhooed PG cut of the film??  With all the studios forcing digital copies on the consumer to jack up prices, you'd think the "family-friendly" version could have been included...

Hugely Disappointed Dreadful film making. I can imagine the outcry if the story of Reagan was told in a similar way. I was really looking forward to learning the story of Maggie, but hated the time given to 'current' story / dementia (not sure if it is even accurate) and the focus on aspects of her later life that are so unimportant. I rarely tune out during a movie, and didn't expect to on this one, but I did. It's a real shame as the actresses were great. It totally deserves the number of one star reviews it is getting. What an opportunity missed. Hopefully someone one day will tell Maggie's story properly. I was never a fan of the lady, but wanted to see the story of a strong British PM done right. Not sure who was responsible for this indulgent pap, but they don't deserve another movie to make.

WORST FILM I'VE SEEN IN A LONG TIME Really, this is the worst film I've seen in years.  I had expected a quality film from Julia Roberts, but this film distorts, changes (for the worst) and ruins the classical Snow White story most of us are familiar with.  It's too scary for children, and yet the film was probably made for audiences under 10 years old.  Nathan Lane turns in an embarrassing performance, and Julia Roberts' performance is one-dimensional and SO boring.  I'm sorry I wasted my money on this movie.

"BABY GENIUS" SUCKS !!! PURCHASED A SET OF 5 DVDS THROUGH GROUPON FOR $25.. WASTE OF MONEY!!! YOUR BABY CAN READ IS A MILLION TIMES BETTER THAN THESE DVDS!! THERE IS NOTHING EDUCATIONAL ABOUT THESE DVDS WHATSOEVER!! THEY ARE VERY BRIGHT WHICH KEEPS HER ATTENTION FOR A WHILE, BUT THAT WASNT THE PURPOSE FOR ME BUYING THEM, THEY ARENT TEACHING THEM ANYTHING.. THE NAME BABY GENIUS DEFINATELY DOESNT DESCRIBE THESE DVDS... I

Awful I hated it from the very beginning with the ever so trying to be hip Dad & the creepy touchy feely type uncle ("My have you Grown Sarah"). It was the worst movie ever! All she (Olson) did was run around & cry the whole damn time & I had no idea what was happening and when because of the way it was filmed. The film gave no real background of her character like where was her Mom and other family? why after all this years did they come back to sell the house? Hated it!

Poorly Constructed The French director may compose the movie in an unique matter, but felt a bit messy. His transitions were too off, sometimes quick and sometimes slow. The humor was a bit off taste. At times that's what made it feel slow.  And I must mention, good movies should almost never be remade.

Castle DVD The DVD was great. It's Castle after all.  However, just returned from the post office £12 the poorer. They didn't tell me I  would have to pay duty on it. Wouldn't have ordered it if I had known. Made it a hefty price to pay even for Castle

Lies and falsehoods Really poorly done. This is for people who know nothing about anything and will believe anything. Doesn't even go into detail about the process. A total smear job.

left out disc #2 this was to come with 4 discs, #2 was left out and replaced with a another Drew Carey dvd which I also ordered seperately. If you are gonna replace one disc with another it should be stated in the descripion. Now I paid extra for what you sent that you were not suppose to and NO disc 2! rip off and not happy

Bad disc This is not a bad review of the movie.  This is a bad review of the disc and the return policy.  I tried it in 3 different high quality DVD players and it would not load.  I purchased this at the end of July, but because it was a Halloween movie, I didn't try to watch it until October 1.  By then I couldn't return it for a new one without a penalty and the DVD was under $5, so it wasn't worth the penalty.  I think an exchange for a new disc at no charge would be appropriate in this situation.

Awful Film Just when you think the horror industry cannot possibly find a way to release a more grotesque torture film, they do it. This is in no way creative, scary, or imaginitive. Just a high body count, and people being needlessly butchered. The film does not connect to the audience in any way, the story is boring, and everyone gets slaughtered when they are in helpless positions. Nobody even attempts to fight back, thus there is no suspense. Back in 1999, Stir Of Echoes, Blair With Project, Sixth Sense were all released in the same summer. Oh how the genre has fallen since that time.  On a bright note, films like this one, "Open House," and "Funny Games" are actually SO bad that it might convince producers to stop making these types of movies....but as long as people keep forking over money to see them, they will be made. Don't pay to watch this!

I Am Legend (alternate ending) This was a good movie at the theatre (4stars).  So, I wanted to see what this alt ending was like.  My opinion is that this movie is good until the ending; LAME.  It seems to dislocate the continuity and consistency of the film.  How would one feel after destroying all humans and creatures on Earth.  And when his best friend dies, he goes postal.  Anyway, was his escape a dream Or was his escape just a result of his mind fracturing or diverging.  So was the woman and child real or were they internal conflicts; his way of saving yet sabatoging himself?  Is there a right or wrong answer?

Poor Instant Rental This is not a poor review of the movie, but of the instant rental service.  You get 2 days to watch the movie that you rent, but I could not watch it on the night that I rented it. Not because of my connection, but because of some problem with the amazon.com server.  I am very disappointed and this experience has probably ended my instant rentals for good from amazon.com.

ATTACK OF THE 50 Ft. STINKER Most remakes of classic movies usually never work out well . Although the original b&w 1957 version was a low budget drive-in cheapie, I felt the only way a remake could go is up . Not so , this up-dated version will put you to sleep faster than a handful of Ambiens . A slow moving borefest . Skip it !

extremely disappointed this dvd is terrible.  and, it was not what i expected.  when it says 'functional fitness, brain power', i expected that it was mental exercises for the brain, and i was excited with that prospect.  when i first put in the dvd i saw what i considered a 'cheesecake pose'.  it was cheesy, cheap, and amateur, with suzanne andrews wanting us to see her breast size rather than wanting us to improve our brains. this is followed by a 'morphed' image with what was apparently suzanne andrews 'in the old days' and then her after exercise.  this intro seemed like someone created it who was just learning video-making, certainly not someone professional.  this intro contributed nothing to the exercise video and should have been edited out. i actually took the dvd out in disgust.  a few days later i thought, 'well, i have to give it a fair chance', so i went through the whole thing.  calling the poorly made exercise video 'brain power' is just a gimmick of marketing.  i can get many better made exercise videos and have them work just as well for my brain since any physical exercise which gets my heart pumping, helps the brain.  in the introduction, suzanne andrews is giving us a 'pep talk'.  it appears that she has practiced this many times with a producer saying 'you've got to be more lively and enthusiastic':  so, she gives us lively and enthusiastic.  it doesn't ring true, it is just someone *trying to be* lively and enthusiastic.  the exercises are fine. i would rather take a walk. the whole thing kind of gave me the creeps.

Very disappointed. Picture was not 1080p blu-ray quality. I own and watch many blu-ray and this one was more like DVD up-converted to 1080p. Maybe it's the IMAX camera, I was very disappointed in the picture quality. Some of the clips are not even HD, just standard SD. I watch all my blu-ray on a 106" screen with high quality 1080p projector and this was terrible. May be okay on a smaller size HDTV but you will be disappointed with larger size HDTV or screen.  Roving Mars mainly focused on the beginning of the project up to the point both rovers landed at Mars. I felt cheated, didn't show any of the Rovers exploring Mars but the initial landing. I had hope to see more actual pictures of Mars, but only a few shots were included. I saw much more exploring and pictures of Mars from the Discovery channel show on this project than this blu-ray. Very disappointed in my purchase.

I wanted to like this movie but... I wanted to like this movie, but I came away thinking it had potential and did not deliver. The premise is a good one: a redemption story set in the Christmas season. Unfortunately, the script is poor and predictable. The actors, including Mickey Rooney, did as much as one can expect with a mediocre screen play. I found myself feeling sorry for the actors trying to make this dud work--- rather than empathizing with their characters as the story played out.  Don't buy this movie. Send me $3 for postage and I'd be glad to send you my copy. On second thought, don't do that. That would be like giving away that old junker car knowing the new owner would be better off without it. Save your cash and get another movie you'd enjoy. There are plenty of good Christmas movies out there.

More propaganda from the English historical establishment! This dreadful movie is typical of Hollywood's biased version of History. This film takes extraordinary license with the facts of History and twists them to create a biased farce.  The propagandistic English historical establishment is the best in the world at manipulation via mindless entertainment, discrediting other nations, diminishing the history of others while inflating their own, and distorting Historical facts. They, along with the Dutch (research the Paper Wars against Spain in the 16th century) have been masters at the art of deception and propaganda for more than 500 years.  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0822302500">The Black Legend in England;: The development of anti-Spanish sentiment, 1558-1660 (Duke historical publications)</a>  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/082634576X">Tree of Hate: Propaganda and Prejudices Affecting United States Relations with the Hispanic World</a>

Got Lice? If you thought "Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla" had to be the worst Sammy Petrillo movie, think again. In 2007 I said of Petrillo's performance in that vastly better (!) production "...be advised that Sammy Petrillo may be the most annoying man in show business," and in retrospect that was generous. "Keyholes are for Peeping" features Petrillo in a dual role: he plays Stanley Bebble, nerdy newly-minted marriage counselor, and Mrs. Bebble, his mother. The obvious reason to see this would be because it was made by Doris "Nude on the Moon" Wishman, and after watching this disaster you will be pining for the moon dolls (even the one in the disgusting brown outfit.) I have certainly not seen her entire catalogue, but this almost certainly has to be Wishman's worst (I hope so, anyhow.)  This transfer of the film is horrendous, but I can't imagine it looked good right from the processor in 1972. The lighting and locations are among the ugliest and most depressing I have ever seen (note especially the early dream sequence,) but the costumes and hair are even worse. Worst of all is the script and acting, which is a career low for all involved. Pacing is nonexistent, nobody has even remotely rational or realistic actions, and the best performance is from Cocoa Stahl, who is a dog. No really, she's a canine. The story is pure Wishman, and finds Stanley as a marriage counselor who can't get his own life together with his fianc&eacute;e Katie (Kristen Steen,) despite all the various plot distractions of the film. Even the interrupted vacuum cleaner scene, which is intended to be titillating, can't make this film fun. Nor can the worst (and least suggestive) shower scene I can ever recall seeing.  Stanley hangs out a shingle and starts giving out business cards (handwritten business cards typically captivate the highest paying customers, I hear.) He has to overcome problems with Katie and his mother, and deal with Manuel (Philip Stahl,) the building superintendent of the New York dump who is also the peeper-in-chief. As an aside, I hope you like vaudeville music and slide whistles, because if you do, you will want to buy the soundtrack; if you don't you will want to invest in earplugs. The film is supposedly risqu&eacute; and I imagine it would still get an "R" today, but believe me when I tell you there is nothing enjoyable about the tawdriness of this film. At all. A better title might have been "Ugly People in Terrible Situations."  Eventually Stanley gets two couples on the hook for group therapy, and after counseling Cocoa (I'm not kidding,) the onscreen action turns positively oily, and the film devolves to a huge fracas where Katie and Manuel join in the maelstrom of physical and situation comedy that wraps up the movie in a totally predictable, yet offputtingly seedy way that will make you want to take a long shower (cold is fine.)  "Keyholes are for Peeping" is an abomination, and the transfer is its equal. While Wishman was a true pioneer and had an unnatural ability to make oddly risqu&eacute; films, everything about this film is poor, most significantly casting Sammy Petrillo in the lead: in "Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla" he comes across as an impoverished man's imitation Jerry Lewis, here his long hair and need for some cosmetic dentistry (especially unappealing in drag) make this an absolute chore to watch. Mercifully it was his final role. The DVD case claims it's 70 minutes long; you will be very unamused to discover that it's actually longer. How much longer? You'll have to watch it yourself to find out.

"I Am Going Where God Wants" ~ Still Waiting For A Good Film On Sister Aimee I really wanted to like this film. My family were all members of the Foursquare Church for the first 16 years of my life and I'd heard the name "Sister Aimee" spoken lovingly and reverently more than I could possibly count. Even though I've long since moved on and away from my Pentecostal roots I still have a curious fascination for the churches founder and first minister, Aimee Semple McPherson.  While there have been several Hollywood films that have been to varying degrees loosely based on the life and exploits of this charismatic figure, the 1960 classic `Elmer Gantry' being the most memorable, nothing purely factional and of relative depth has yet to be presented. Thus when I came across the low budget, independent film `Sister Aimee: The Aimee Semple McPherson Story' I was more than willing to forego the usual expectations of what generally constitutes a good movie (production values, acting) in hopes of discovering an honest, intelligent, well told true life story of a fascinating 20th century icon.  I suppose the film did succeed on most levels mentioned in the previous paragraph, the story of Aimee McPherson is told in a straight forward, truthful fashion. However despite that admission my already low expectations of what to expect in terms of production values still couldn't prepare me for this movie. It was much worse than I had imagined it would be. The septitone coloring, interspersed scene descriptions, and twenties soundtrack didn't provide the anticipated nostalgic effect hoped for. Even worse, everything appears to have been filmed within the confines of one or two rooms. If the scene calls for a church simply hang a cross on the wall or if you've just arrived in China place a little statue of Buddha on the desk and you're there. See how easy it is? Ah..., the magic of cinema!  I could have overlooked all the negatives if the acting was acceptable and rang true. After all I went into this viewing already fascinated by the story of Aimee Semple McPherson so it wouldn't have taken much to win me over. Just give me an enjoyable. memorable performance and I'll go away happy. Well, unfortunately it didn't happen. The performances were flat, uninspired and forgettable. I guess my long wait for the consummate McPherson film continues on...

How much for just the box? For years I was intrigued by the title and poster for this film, with its outrageous title--NIGHT OF A THOUSAND CATS. I see it has been awkwardly retitled NIGHT OF A 1,000 CATS for this DVD release. I am fond of the idea of cat horror films, although one can count the good ones on one hand and have fingers left over.  When my wife (also a horror fan and cat lover) and finally got a chance to own a copy on VHS, we were prepared for some goofy fun along the lines of Ted V. Mikels's THE CORPSE GRINDERS or the TV movie STRAYS. No such luck. There is very little cat action. The felines take a backseat to the serial killer flying endlessly in his helicopter.  Also there is little gore, nudity, or even ridiculous dialog to hold one's attention. Just over an hour, it feels like it goes on for days. If you must spend your time on a Rene Cardona film, BEAKS  is more satisfying. At least it has some characters and some bird attacks and an unintentionally absurd mood.  Oh yes, the box art on this DVD looks very nice from what I can see online.

Expensive dvd and it wouldn't work! I bought a "new" dvd from someone through Amazon for my grandsons 7th birthday. It was very expensive because I needed a full screen version of E.T.! I got back in touch with Amazon who got in touch with the seller. I was told NOT to worry about returning the video if it didn't work...BUT I would also be reimbursed my money. IT NEVER HAPPENED TO THIS DAY!!!!! Be very careful who you deal with on Amazon!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mary this so called dvd on galapagos was down right awful. If I had paid attention to the amount of it gave, I would not have ordered it. There was enough attention on all the different animals.  When they went into the cave,they didn't really explore the cave for long. I think they did not know what they were doing. They should have explored the other galapagus islands. I can't believe this was done by the Smith Sonium. Im' Glad I only paid 4.50 for the so called dvd.

Great story but very poor production The production of this DVD is very amateurish. The animated characters are not really animated, but rather an arm or mouth moving on occasion on a stationary cardboard like figure.  An elementary school project would produce a better viewing experience.  The history included is fascinating, and enlightening and the audio is very good.  Mike and his adorable daughters did a nice job in trying to bring history to life.  Too bad this was marketed as a DVD which in and of itself is a very poor product.  The content gets lost in the annoying presentation.  I would recommend this for the content, but it is not a video worth buying.  It should be sold as an audio disc and priced accordingly and then I would have given it 4 or 5 stars.

Low Budget Film short on theme This is a good film to rent if watched in a writer's workshop group. Endless debates could swirl around just what the writer intended to convey. Myself, I prefer just a little more exposition and a conclusion prior to the credits. The forgiveness/history rewrite during the final scene was a bit much. Don't worry, that opinion/impression isn't a plot give away for a film like this.

Gothic Fantasy What might have been a great film was ruined for me by an unfortunate turn into Gothic fantasy.  I guess that was the intent, but then what is the film about?  It's not about art or dance, or sexual awaking; it's about the onset of aberrant insanity so extreme in it's consequences that it approaches a Betty Davis horror film.  Not something I'd like to sit through twice.

A disgrace to the name Godzilla! Warning: I spoil the movie! This movie was not a Godzilla movie at all! 1. Godzilla ran a hid most of the time! 2. Godzilla is suppost to be indestructable! 3. Since when does Godzilla lay eggs?! 4. Matthew Broderick looked like he was just saying his lines half the time! 5. Maria Patillo was such a fake crier! 6. Harry Shearer was annoying with all his news reports! 7. Give the fat mayor thing / gag a rest, please! 8. Kevin Dunn was too hard headed to his co-stars! 9. Vikki Lewis was a great character but seriously under used! 10. Come on, Godzilla needs to have his atomic radioactive fire breath! 11. Godzilla was suppost to knock down buildings not jump on or through them! 12. The whole movie was focused on the human characters and how they coped with the disaster with a giant creature! 13. Sargent O'Neil was not much of a sargent cause he didn't know how to handle a bad situation! 14. The movie had little to no plot! 15. The whole baby zilla thing was too Jurassic Park- ish! 16. How could they possibly loose sight of something that big! 17. Was all that rain really necessary?!  Overall, I did not like this movie! While the action, special effects, set designs, and filming were all good, all the things I mentioned above make this movie very forgettable! Hopefully the next 2012 movie will be better! One can hope... My grade: D+ or a-star-and-a-half!

Exceedingly Bad Hammy acting, hammy dialogue, cheesy music cues; it's a terrible movie. I'm a fan of Hemingway's writing and even I couldn't force myself to sit through this. No wonder HBO premiered it on a Monday night.

bad acting it is so predictable, are you kiding me flying kick with one leg. c'mon now after one month of training you can do all that lets be real.

very upset! I was looking forward to watching officer and a gentleman and not only was my package late but its the wrong movie. they gave me a triple feature with different movie titles and i dont even know how i would even get this fixed because the company had no number on the invoice. i would of given this a five star if i at least got the right movie!

Junk! This is a dvd-r! it looks like it was transferred from a vhs. it looks absolutely horrible!  My favorite complaint is that amazon sold me this, not a dishonest seller. there was absolutely no mention of this being what it really was. it was conveniently populated first for me so i didn't even realize there were other better and cheaper versions! i completely got ripped off. please use this review as fair warning and buy the better one and in the process save money!!!

Utter Garbage I don't usually write reviews, but I couldn't let this pass.  I knew going in it would be a dissappointment, but the story of Scotland's wars for independence is so important to European and American history that I figured I had to watch it.  Setting aside the historical innaccuracies, the assassination of Wallace's character is worse the barbaric execution that Edward I put him through.  History reports Wallace as a knight, a brilliant tactician, and more importantly, a gentleman.  Nothing like Gibson's adulterous schizophrenic savage.  The story of Wallace would be extremely compelling without embellishment.  To substitute this garbage is a crime against history and the civilized world.

Not a movie/film but a great slideshow if you have ADD Wow...nobody has reviewed this yet? Maybe because nobody has watched it. Call me a sucker. Oh well. This is NOT a movie/film...it is only a slideshow with a horrible soundtrack of music and a narrator that is eerily similar to the computer generated reader voice on my PC. Boring. No creativity. Many many of the same images were used multiple times. If the editor had only used the images once each, the slideshow would have been about 15 minutes instead of 2 hours. Don't waste your time. The producers should be ashamed. I would have given it ZERO stars, except that one of the themes in the slideshow emphasizes that the 5-pointed star is a sign of evil. So...1 star!

No instruction/cues I was VERY disappointed in this after reading so many positive reviews. I've been doing yoga for a few years and have many DVDs from a variety of instructors. This is the first time I've used one of Shiva's and she is the first one I've run across who fails to cue you during the routines. Many times during the routine I looked up at the TV to see she was in a completely different pose. She had moved on without instructing the viewer to do so! This happened many times, not just once or twice. The only way I could possibly do these routines would be to watch them all several times, memorize them, and then do them. Not! Total waste of money. I'll be trading this one in. Much Much prefer Zyrka Landwijt's vinyasa flow DVD.

Blue Valentine or Blew Valentine? I vote for the latter, 'cause this movie just plain BLOWS!!! This movie, I don't know? It just didn't do anything for me. I couldn't route for the couple, who as the story unfolded, didn't get the chance to have a real relationship--or at least one that the audience got to see.  It's like the movie used this device wherein it would go to the past and then return to the present. I don't know if this was the best thing or what, 'cause the whole middle part of their relationship, the part where they would've built it, is TOTALLY absent. And I don't know how you're really supposed to get a feel for them.  Also, I feel a lot of times the film seemed to be lacking a script, and the interesting part is that during the end credits, I saw that there were three, count 'em THREE writers. I mean, maybe that was the problem? You know, like 'too many chefs spoil the broth'? I don't know?  There were scenes of intimacy that made me feel uncomfortable. I mean, there was a scene where the two characters were trying to make love and something wasn't quite working and the Michelle Williams character ran into the bathroom and the Ryan Gossling character started shouting 'Open the door! Open the door!' And at this point, all I wanted was to 'Run for the door'!  I mean, the whole scene seemed overly under-motivated and without a lot of purpose.  And don't let me forget another scene when the Michelle Williams character was still in college and she and her boyfriend are 'getting it on'.  For some reason, the director had to have them do it in a very 'crass' way, and having to watch this, I nearly lost my popcorn! Or at least, I couldn't finish it! (I can NEVER understand why this kind of thing has to be done.)  I mean, I enjoy a good sex scene like anybody else (check out the one in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005V9HI">Coming Home</a> or maybe even in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000MGBSGC">An Officer and a Gentleman (Special Collector's Edition)</a> but the way filmmakers are going at it nowadays, it's alway like that piece of trash 'Monster's Ball' (YUK!!!) And to have to see something like this, I ALWAYS find it, off putting. Something akin to degrading even!  I mean, I felt bad for Michelle Williams. (Note to directors: Can we PLEASE do away with these types of scenes. Or at least, can we use another position?  Please!!!  I'm just trying to bring the dignity back!  All in all, for those of you who were thinking about seeing this movie, I'd say don't waste your time and hold on to your money.  This movie is AWFULL!!!

inconsistent with books and games I'm a halo fan and have played all the games and read most of the novels. Each of these short stories had Elements that were inconsistent with facts from the other media. Most of the shorts didn't fit the mood of the halo universe. It's a fail.

Totally stupid, but priceless in nostalgia value. I took just as much pleasure watching this movie as an adult as I did when I was a kid, but went away realizing that kids will watch anything.  I mean _anything_.  The animation quality is abysmal, the songs are painfully stupid and the entire film is a plug for the latest Hasbro merchandise. (Dream Castle is destroyed by Shmooze? And the ponies have to move into Paradise Estate? Which just so happens to be on the shelves of your local toy store at this very minute? Along with those cute baby ponies that were introduced in the film?) Ultimately though, those details weren't enough to stop me watching the movie through and basking in warm childhood memories of My Little Pony. And in fairness to My Little Pony: The Movie, consumers cannot reasonably expect that any current or latter-day movie or TV series based on a toy--a toy, for God's sakes--will be anything more than an extended advertisement compliments of the toy manufacturer.

Boring. boring, boring...... This movie didn't entertain anyone of any age for even minutes. It is a boring embarrassment to all penguins everywhere!

Get it to market ! Grier is an amazing guitarist otherwise why would I have bought this? The tab is notoriously incorrect and leaves out tons of the best stuff David plays. If you just want to watch him play then perhaps this is a good purchase for you. If you are prepared to copy the music and uploaded to your favorite transcribing software and then go back and forth between and the DVD to see if you have the correct fingering , then by all means have at it. However, if you really want to learn something without all this fuss, then do yourself a favor and save your money for something else. Also, David isn't the greatest teacher. He seems high on something. This looks like one of those deadline jobs that suffers all over the place.

Stereotypes Inc. Seen thirty times told before movie stereotypes of loser dad with lots of former wives (by various stereotyped marriages - hooker, Asian, etc.); gambles; self-centered to the point of making money off of his kids by enrolling them in, a supposedly for profit, drug testing program. Dad commits suicide (off screen) and so we follow his stereotypic kids, starting with the funeral, and as mostly adults with a variety of stereotypic dysfunctional personality quirks - selfish; non-commital; anal; not-so-bright; angry. All given unbelievable, over the top, characterizations. The usual boring traits you can look inside or across the street and see. As predicted everyone gets their individual acts together and everyone lives happily ever after. It was suppose to have some comical elements but they were all barely little snicker-laughs; about the same substance level as watered down non-fat milk.

bad experience received dvd that would not play in my area.  attempting to exchange now for one that will play in louisville ky

Mumbling Bumbling Fumbling As a huge fan of Prince, and U2, I usually go out of my way to be very kind when they dabble in the world of film. U2's soundtrack to this thing is pretty good, and sometimes great. The movie, written by U2's Bono, just may be the worst film that any musician has ever been involved with. To be worse than Prince's Graffiti Bridge takes Ed Wood type talent, and Bono and Wim Wenders somehow manage to pull this off. I have no idea what it is supposed to be about. Some guy is mumbling to some girl, and I think they live in a Hotel, but nothing in this film is made clear. I almost want to say it is so bad that it is good, but this film goes full circle a few times: It is so bad that it is good, but just when you think it is good, it is so bad that it can't be good under any circumstance. Please avoid this. Now if U2 had taken the best songs off of the soundtrack, and placed them on their future(at the time) album, All That You Can't Leave Behind....it would've been a much better album....which was still pretty good.

boring single white female A boring 1968 french movie, when roger corman and mario bava were making much more interesting stuff, though they weren't french and had their movies released to drive-ins.  Chabrol is more respectable, and less interesting.  If you've seen SINGLE WHITE FEMALE that came about 25 years later, then you know what this movie is kinda about.  St&eacute;phane Audran is a rich, jaded, woman, who picks up a homeless girl, takes her to her villa, where two annoying men, akin to the comedy duo from BELA LUGOSI MEETS A BROOKLYN GORILLA, are also living, for some boring times together that eventually ends in a death; big deal.  The 2 most interesting things about this snooze fest is that, (1), Audran looks like a less charismatic Ingrid Pitt.  And, 2,  Audran was married to Jean-Louis Trintignant, who is in this movie, and later to director Chabrol.

Worst storytelling for a suppose A-film! Right from the beginning. The film confuses you. This is what I was thinking when I was watching the movie:  "Oh, They're friends and they somehow can see/read people's thoughts, or they can can maybe see slightly ahead in the future?"  "The teacher got ran over, but wait...all of a sudden, he's getting ready to go cabin-camping with his friends?? What happen in between the accident and the camping trip? Is he dead? Or is this in the past we're seeing? I'll keep watching and see if they're going to clear it up."  Nope, they didn't.  "Look like they found someone lost in the woods. There is something surely wrong with him. Something is moving around in his chest and stomach. What the hell..."  "Holy crap, the character Jason Lee plays gets his face bitten off! Just like that, he's dead?? Wow, what a way to end someone's elses life. I would have thought he would stick around with his friends longer. I mean, isn't he suppose to be one of the four that the story centers around??"  "Morgan Freeman and Tom Siezmore just showed up. What is going on?? I think they're saying something about aliens. Was that an alien that ate Jason Lee's face?? And what the hell Morgan Freeman's character is talking about?? Bucko, Boss, and some other crappy phrases. And yes, there's the stereotypical alien with the big head and 2 eyes! And his name is Mr. Gray??"  "I'm totally confused even more. The military comes full force into this movie and they're hunting and killing aliens! It's like I'm watching two different movies! What kind of storytelling is this??"  "Jonesy and Mr. Gray are the same character now. And the presentation of the character is just too confusing! What garbage!"  "Morgan Freeman's Curtis character is insane and Tom Siezmore turns against him? Huh? What happen here? Henry (Tom Jane) tells Tom Siezmore about what he thinks is happening and Tom believes him?? Just like that? He believes someone that he hardly knows, and just jumps on board with Henry's plans?? Wow!"  "So Duddit knew about this alien invasion since we met his character as a pre-teen boy? And what's going on with Duddit?? He turns into an alien too?? So he's an alien now??"  So you can tell where I'm going with this. This movie was made by Lawrence Kasdan, who I think is a great movie writer and not too bad director, but man, what kind of garbage is this?? And the way it ended. He steps on the little worm and that's it?? C'mon Mr. Kasdan!! As a movie fan, you must able to see that that's one of the worst ending that a movie can have! This movie shouldn't have even been release into the theaters! Straight to DVD is the quality of this movie. What a let down.

Waste of film If you are even remotely considering renting Wesley Snipes new movie, Game of Death, put down the mouse and step away from  the keyboard. What a waste of film/time. Nothing but shooting, kickin, and punching; totally lacking in a storyline.  Movie should have just been called Death. There is no game!  He must be really desperate to pay all those back taxes. It has severly impaired his judgement when it comes to picking a good script.

bad to worse to even worse I am about half way through this god awful movie, I don't believe that Robert downey made such a slooooooooooow, crappy flick. I bought this based on the quality of the actors, obviously I was wrong to do that, save your money and time and watch something else. Anything else.

It can't be that bad......it is......don't do it. The plot is extremely shallow which is fine for an action movie, but you get an hour in and you are wondering why they even made this crap movie.  Also, in every Underworld movie for something that is supposed to be more powerful than both vampire and lycans, Michael is always getting hurt/saved like a wuss (So annoying). Seriously, I had low expectations of this movie, and it sucks. I know he is your husband Kate Beckinsale, but tell him no already. Put a stake in the Underworld movies they are officially done.

Yawnfest Not many legends and very little flight.  Lots of shots of the inside of a factory and engineers sitting around talking about airplanes.  This is like watching a board meeting with a few eye candy videos mixed into a very uninteresting story.  The 787? You really have to be into commercial aviation for this to be AT ALL interesting.  To the average Joe, or military aviation fan, this is just a flying greyhound bus.  Try,<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001RTKKQM">IMAX: The Magic of Flight [Blu-ray</a>] MUCH better!

I can't warn you strongly enough At his farewell party, college professor John Oldman confesses to his colleagues that he is actually an immortal who has been alive for 14,000 years.  That's the premise of "The Man From Earth," and if you think that sounds ridiculous and overthought, you're absolutely right. Turning your whackiest back-of-a-napkin idea for a movie script into an engaging drama with plausible characters takes some convincing writing and acting. Unfortunately, you're not getting any of that in "The Man From Earth."  Heaps of energy has obviously been spent trying to make the dialogue deep and intellectual, but the outcome is the film equivalent of a lecture from 17-year-old self-pronounced philosopher -- just as toe-cringing, just as much in love with itself.  Don't watch this film, you'll never get those 90 minutes back again. And if you do watch it, do yourself a favour and watch Shane Carruth's "Primer" (2004) afterwards just to get a sense of what films can do when they try more than just toying around with a loose thought.

Extras NOT on DVD!! Anyone who buys the DVD is in for a disappointment. The deleted scenes, particularly Matt Bomer's Ken Doll strip sequence, is ONLY ON THE BLU RAY! It is nowhere to be found on the DVD. Don't waste your money on the dvd. I don't own and can't afford either a HD TV or a Blu Ray player.  This was a MAJOR DISAPPOINTMENT!!! Not all of us has a blu ray. Some of us can't afford one. Why would the powers that be market it this way? Frankly, I'm not even sure that the Blu ray has the Ken Doll sequence at all. At least not in it's entirety. THIS SUCKS!!!

Stupid, unworthy, boring, waste of time.... I'm more of a serial killer type of horror fan if you will. Not even sure if that counts as horror. That being said, I read most of the reviews for this and thought it must be a good flick. I have to be honest and say there are a few options I've come to the conclusion of. The reviews I read were created in the positive nature to give the appearance of a great horror flick, in other words(fake). Or possibly I have my own opinion of what horror should be, and I'm different than most others and thinking that serial killer movies should classify as horror. And finally, the true fans of true horror really did enjoy the flick, hence writing rave reviews. My opinion...I feel better writing a crappy review for this waste of time and poorly thought out flick than actually watching it. I think the only other flick that was almost as bad, and I thought was going to be good was " The Midnight Meat Train". That was just dumb. It's pretty bad when you can just about predict what's going to happen next and 9 out of 10 scenes you're correct. That to me is, I guess I should say, Simple. I think with that, I'll say I like a bit more complexity.  I think all in all, I was trying to figure out why the reviews that were given for a great horror were made so great, as I thought the movie was boring, it just sucked. I truly was more frustrated waiting for a good scene that actually enjoying watching this pointless waste. I think I feel better after writing all this, and glad that it only cost $2.99 to rent and that I didn't  actually by it like the waste I did with midnight meat train. So, I'll end hear, as I need to use the toilet, which I'm sure will be more enjoyable that the past hour and a half.

dissapointed I was not prepared for all of the sexual intentions in the story line.  I think it took away from the content of the movie.  I fail to see why this movie won awards.  If I had known the way the story line was going....I would not have bought the movie.  This movie could have gone on a different route and it would have been much more interesting.  There was no suspense between the two women who were going after the part of the black swan other than sexual.  Truly disappointing.  NAC

Boring, incredibly shallow. Justin is a usual bore and Mila is plain annoying, with plenty of sarcastic, dry banter that's not really funny. The plot is very shallow and contrived, and it feels like the movie was sort of done for the heck of it and nobody really gave too much cr@p. Boring!

Past its peak No disrespect to those who loved this movie, but to me it was a wine so full of alcohol you couldn't taste the fruit.  This is the sort of movie that critics love.  Others in the same vein include Little Miss Sunshine and Annie Hall.  This is supposed to be a hilarious comedy, the best movie of the year with an incredible script.  To me it's a pretentious sitcom, but because it's a movie and not a show it can have heaps of nudity and awkward sex situations for shock humor.  The script for the first half of the movie is forced and the characters, instead of being realistic are fleshed out cliches.  At least when the women enter the dialogue gets better.  Yes, the scene between Miles and Maya is nice, but it can't save the movie.  I kept watching Miles's life tailspin wondering when the humor was supposed to come.  It, in my humble opinion, never did.  I must have been missing something, right?  I must not be smart enough and the jokes must have gone over my head.  I think, however, that they went under me.  There's a lot of low-brow humor here and the script feels weighted down by over-use of profanity.  No, saying [...] doesn't make you more realistic, nor is it especially funny.  Yet that's the opening punchline and the script-writers go-to bag of tricks.  This is a film about a loser winning (Jack) and a loser losing but perhaps making a surprise come-back (Miles).  What it never explains is the relationship between the two losers.  Why are Jack and Miles friends, and why is Miles Jack's best man?  I know, I know-- they're the odd couple and that's the point of the film, but when the only glue to hold that premise together is the excuse that they were roommates in college, then it's not credible from the beginning.  What follows builds upon that premise in a sort of frenetic "If we pile on the booze they won't notice" sort of way.  Well perhaps next time I'll watch this movie when I'm drunk and sideways.

I *REALLY* missed something in the advertising - maybe THAT is the spoiler Can't have zero stars?  Okay, half a decade later and I have to say this about this movie: I expected 'spider wick chronicles' or even something Narnia-esque and I got  . . . stand by me.  Except Stand by Me was "as advertised".  The question I have is Why all the CGI and magic?  Couldn't we have done more "The Others", "Fight Club" or even "Mothman Prophecies" based on the tone we end at?  Maybe this was a case of 'the book was better', but there was NO sense in the film of the weighting of the reality of the two worlds, which left me (and my wife) with the emphatic sense of . . . WTF?

Propaganda More craziness from the bat wacky idiots who brought you the tea party. Waste your money at your own risk. Listen to Glen Beck... It's cheaper.  I'd give it no stars if it were possible.

Defective DVD Froze about 30 mins into the movie. DVD is scratched? Good movie but twenty mins of the movie is unwatchable

Ulzana's Raid My Husband loves old westerns.  Though he loves this one it took forever to get here and will not play on either of our dvd players.  He whatchs it on our laptop

Boring Gone Wild How's that possible? Somehow, this movie made it so. Lake Victoria is invaded by a bunch of childish adults there for 'spring break' (I'm refusing to give that capitalize letters, like it's a real holiday) and plenty-more piranha are released into the water after an earthquake reveals a subterranean lake. So...they go on a feeding frenzy, chowing-down on the morons who remain in the water despite the sheriff telling them to not go in. Many of them die in gruesome ways and you'll see chewed-up flesh (plus some that's better-looking beforehand). How will the fishies all be destroyed? Do you care? Not if you saw commercials where it was basically given-away.  One thing I'll say, comparing it to the original, I really disliked the movement of the fish very-much. Here you have obvious computer-generated piranha. With the original PIRANHA in the 1970's flick, from what I recall (it's been a while) you see them on a slight-angle but as a group coming straight ahead to their target and it looked neater. They were of the proper size of the animal, the sound of them chewing things was just really awesome and scary to me, and you didn't see them for too-long on the screen which added to the mysteriousness/suspense. The classic, which this 2010 movie is very-loosely based around, is more interesting to me and Joe Dante was a better director at balancing humor, drama, and horror in it.  If you want to see some porn 'actresses' (Riley Steele, Ashlynn Brooke, Gianna Michaels) getting killed, a lot of fake 'spring break' scenarios (with people behaving like drunken, drugged-up idiots like at the actual stupid event), and bad acting which mostly consists of people screaming and Jerry O'connell's character portraying a perv, check it out. For those who saw this attempt in 3D, I bet that the majority of it was some nudity and the shot of the dude's unit floating in the water, getting eaten by the fish, and then spit up. You even hear the fish burp! Funny? Nope. There was no reason for any of this to be 3D; it wouldn't have improved it and I'm surely not going to view it a second time for any of that or whatever else might be in 3D.  Actually, Mr. O'connell did fine with his filthy character, but it was just annoying in time. The movie has some really great gore-effects and puppetry, but it overshadowed by plenty of bad CGI and the piranha that are laughable. It was simply a waste of time. The plot's generic and bare (ha ha...a 'naked' reference for you) and despite a good beginning with a great cameo by Richard Dreyfuss as his JAWS character, it all falls apart afterwards.  Of course, with something like this released in the summer, it's not expected to be anything but a popcorn flick and the audience it was made for are just into it for the nudity and gore. Yet I didn't have fun and even if the director wanted it to be a throwback to crazy horror/monster flicks of 1970 & 1980's, it was just embarassingly dull. A lot of the gore was just so over-the-top I couldn't have fun with it. It's not that this type of movie is a kind that I couldn't enjoy. Here, it comes across as trying too-hard to be shocking with the nudity or gore and that resulted in it becoming nothing but repetetive nonsense. The only cool moment that I was really wondering what was going to happen was where Ving Rhames' character was fighting the piranha with the boat propeller, but that was too-short and ultimately boring. It's assumed that he didn't even survive the attack. They should have used him a lot more. NOTE: from what I read, the character's in the failed sequel minus his legs.  Oh, how could I forget to mention the really lame and too-long lesbian scene with the two women performing an underwater 'ballet' (according to the director) with a silly classical music score? It was very forgettable and dumb, to me. The women apparently learned how to live with oxygen and it went on way-too-long, obviously so people could see more nudity. The part should have lasted just a little -- and then piranha should have gotten rid of them. That's what expected in stuff like this: the naked gals get a nasty death. I can picture O'connell's character, who was filming through the glass-bottom boat, in form and not really being as disgusted as he should be but yelling at the fish to get out of his shot or complaining about how he now couldn't use a lot of the footage.  Though I saw this free from the library, I don't even recommend that you try to find it there. One star is generous for this banal creature-feature.

Ruined My Baby This film ruined my baby.  I thought it would be funny to joke with my buddies about my son being such a huge Buckeye fan that he "watched it every day," so I popped the VHS tape in every day for a week and forced him to watch it.  I thought that was that.  I was wrong.  After the week was up, my baby demanded I put the tape in again.  I did, thinking nothing of it, until it happened again the next day.  And again.  And again.  And then his behavior began to change.  He would scream the OSU fight song over and over for hours on end (my neighbors could hear it four trailers over!).  He would curse and swear and rant about how he hates Michigan, despite knowing nothing and no one from the state.  If we dressed him in anything but a sweater vest or a Buckeye jersey, he would remove it and call us names.  He would try and cheat in every children's game we played despite being caught every time (or so we think). He had become a true Buckeye fan almost overnight; obnoxious, rude, haughty, and absent of any moral turpitude.  If you're looking for a film to reinforce the absence of values in your baby, this is it.  Please consider my comments before allowing your child to view this tape; the last thing the world needs is another brainwashed Buckeye baby.

Wreckless and pointless The characters are not even anti-hero survivalist with any kind of plan or common sense. If this scenario were to happen for real you can bet I would not be wasting ammo, worrying about worthless money and shooting people I come across in the woods for no reason (i.e. the rednecks they encounter.) I cannot believe how stupid and naive people in this film are about the zombies. They don't even pick up their dead commrades weapons or gear which would be critical in such a situation. The classic fued scenario would have made a good subplot in a better script, but here it is just plain silly. I imagine Romero is trying to build up to Evolution of the Dead or something like that based on the last several films, but he needs a big budget like he had for Land of the Dead to pull it off. I would like to see another film where scientist have made a breakthrough and can restore the dead to full functioning people again or even breed them into a new species. We want to see a new direction here.

This movie's 3d was terrible and a waste of my money Purchasing this movie was a waste of my money.  The 3d was terrible and I could have watched it without the glasses.  Don't waste your money.

THE DEBT I am german so I understand the german that was spoken in this movie. The movie was boring and very hard to understand.I would not recommend it to any body

My brand new DVD was cut short and had no ending! I was really excited to get my movies, but extremely disappointed when the first movie I watched (Robin Hood Prince of Thieves) cut short of the ending. It just went blank in the middle of the movie as if it had no ending. I tried going back to the main menu and choosing a scene I also trie fast forwarding to it. It was NOT there!!!! My movie is defective... what do I do now???

One of the worst movies I have ever seen The acting is laughable, the pacing is slow, there are ridiculous scenes like when the guy has bullets zinging around his head but does not move, and it goes nowhere. Hard to stuff up a compelling idea but Cuaron manages it easily.

it's KULTUR  again! Gelsey Kirkland and Mikhail Baryshnikov are superb; the changes/deletions are not a problem. THE PROBLEM: it's KULTUR again! The video is very cheaply reproduced,as usual, at premium prices. In addition to the individual and conjoined talents, the creativeness, the staging, lighting, costumes, directing, etc- a large part of one's experience is the quality of the physical presentation. As usual, the colors are washed out,the sound outdated. Others, even with old material, put in the financial resources to restore quality work. KULTUR as usual is cheap and rips off the consumer. They do the same with their DVD of the Bolshoi Ballet's presentation, incidentally. For comparisons check out Maurice Bejart's version of the Nutcracker- on another label and The Royal Ballet's presentation on Opus Arte. Granted these were recorded in recent times; nevertheless, check out lovingly restored DVDs by a company with integrity and you will see and hear what I mean. The one star is for the superb work of Gelsey & Mikhail ( I wish I could have given it 5 stars) Fortunately, I am able to check out DVDs from my Public Library system and thus avoid getting ripped off by KULTUR!

Disappointment As much as I like Jennifer Aniston, this is a very bad movie. In order to fully appreciate how bad this movie really is, one has to watch it till the very end. At first, it seems that the wife of the couple is the stupid one, while the husband is just tired and unlucky. But at the end it gets clear that both are complete idiots (and that is why they are married). There are only few funny jokes.  Most of them are captured in the trailer for this movie. If you are still curious, watch it, but do not spend too much money. I spent around 20 dollars on DVD. It does not worth it.

dont watch hate amazon for tricking you this is not the movie why would you want to watch clips of the making...etc

Lame Acting This movie was exactly like it thought it was going to be bad acting and more bad acting. There was one real actor and that was Lisa Morales (Played by Roselyn Sanchez). A waste of a $1.50 at Redbox.

Poor quality online viewing The online streamed version of this movie is NOT widescreen. It is pan & scan and looks like a low-quality YouTube video circa 2003. I did a bandwidth speedtest showing 10 Mbps download but Amazon's video connect shows 1 of 5 bars, so their video server cannot handle decent quality video. Refund please.

SKYNETUP The cover and title have you so  psyched out. No hot thing in this movie at all, and bad acting... The only thing thay snatched is the time spending watching it  ( no star )

PATHETIC I love True Blood, Vampire Diaries, and many other vampire movies and series, but for the life of me I cannot like this movie.  It's pathetic.  The acting is at most, marginal, but the wolf isn't that bad.  At least he's trying.  But the two main characters are so stilted, wooden, and bland, it kills the movie.  Save your money and just read the book.

disappointed We rented the movie after reading the series. We were so disappointed that it did not follow the series, left out characters, added characters that weren't even in the book, left out so much of the books. It may have been a better movie had it not been titled "Spiderick Cronicles" leading the viewer to believe it was a movie of the series. Would I watch the movie again? NO!

Hatari! the damn thing wont work I cant play it at all, keeps saying error. So i paid for something that not worth a dime

Disjointed film I found this to be a totally disjointed effort.  I did not like the presentation of the storyline.  The characters were not interesting.  It was a poor film.

Boring I didn't like this movie at all. It seemed like the whole movie I was waiting for it to start and then it just ended. No action, seemed not well thought out. I would not watch Part 2, if there ever was one. I wouldn't waste my money on renting it.

Horrible production One of the problems with having a festival dedicated primarily to the works of one composer is that you have to keep mounting new productions offering new views of familiar works.  This production certainly went too far.  La Rondine is a charming, though not profound, work.  This production misses all the charm and goes for the ghastly.  The costumes and settings are a poor man's version of the Capitol in Hunger Games, and it is just as bleak.  The singing is not bad, but you are constantly distracted by the dancing r-rated commentary and the hideous production and you can't enjoy it.  This convoluted version has Magda being dumped by Ruggero because he is betrayed--not altogether convincing.  Go for the charming Metropolitan Opera Live in HD version of this opera instead of this downer.

I don't reccomend it there were no vocals, and the description stated that they used the same actors, which they clearly did not. I would have liked to have watch it either way, just thought that was odd. Love the series, was disappointed with the rental on movie 2 as a whole. hoping for a refund.

Disappointed I love these cheap multiple Disc sets, they're loaded with all the B movies I used to see at the Cornell Theatre in Burbank (which has long ago been torn down). The 1st movie I watched was "China 9 Liberty 37", it stars Warren Oates and this Hottie name Jennie Agutter, it's about this Gunman who stops to visit Oates and and his wife, there's lots of chemistry between the vistor and the woman, and Warren senses it, he starts to beat her, she sticks a knife in his back, assumes he's dead, runs away with her new boyfriend, Oates recovers, forms a posse, tracks them down, takes the woman back, the gunman chases them to rescue her, a shootout breaks out! ..... and then the movie STOPS! and goes to the menu!  IT DIDN'T FINISH! ... I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED! ... Also, every time you were about to see Jenny naked, the film is cut! ... I HATE THAT!  ... I don't know if I want to invest the time in another story, only to be disappointed again!

nothing like the book When I saw this movie coming out, I was excited because the book was amazing.  This movie was severely disappointing.  The characters are flat, predictable, and annoyingly cheesy.

beautiful scenery, terrible story Some stories don't transcend time, and this is one of them. It's like a bad soap opera. The only redeeming moments, were the opera and beautiful Italy in general... The actors are all first rate, but the storyline is unbelievably bad. Self-righteous, selfish people doing stupid things. Not worth the time.

Scarred my sister for life Worst crap I've ever watched. Kept waiting for the ballet to start, never happened. Penis man was so disturbing it's not even funny. I saw this on Ovation with a bunch of other versions of the nutcracker ballet. Although the story was very different in the nutcrackers, they were good and the purity of the music remained. Not so in this trash. They played the same music over and over, the story, costume and behaviors were seriously disturbing. Whoever thought this crap up should be shot.

Blu-ray is fuzzy... Excellent movie - blu-ray is very poor quality.  As someone else suggested, buying the DVD and up-scaling on the player is probably about the same effect.

Just my two cents worth.... Almost everything bad has already been said about this creative black hole of a movie.  In fact most of the reviewers are apparently much more masochistic than I am, as I was only able to get through to the second commercial. I had to stop watching as I was feeling soiled by this film.....it was like waking up on the bathroom floor in a pool of your own vomit, after an all night drunk. And since I have not done that for many, many years, I didn't really feel like subjecting myself to it again. I will leave this film to the hard-core terrible movie buffs.....good luck. And, if you are going to watch this movie you may want to get some of these to snack on during the show....<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005H0P2W4">Mother's Tranquil Tummy (Anti-Nausea Crackers) - 12 - Pouch</a>

Problematic Disc This is not a region-coded disc, correct?  My understanding is that this Blu is R0 NTSC, so shouldn't require an all-region player.  Yet, it's behaving just that way.  It won't play and unfortunately I can't return it!  And I wouldn't think of passing on a bad disc like this to the next unsuspecting innocent.  After reading other reviews for this and the Raro Dorian Gray disc, I am now a more wary consumer.

Don't waste your time Terrible movie. I wish I could get the time back I spent in front of the TV. It was my fault for not turning it off.

Rip-Off Alert! If you already own the excellent 6-disc Ernie Kovacs set that Shout Factory released last year, do NOT buy this disc.  This release is nothing more than Disc #5 of that six-disc set repackaged, even to the extent of printing a new label on the disc itself.  When you pop it into your dvd player, it will come up as "Disc 5" of that set.  I can't believe Shout Factory is pulling this kind of nonsense.  I have been very pleased with their product offerings in the past, but I guess those days are over -- I will be very leery of future Shout Factory offerings for fear that they are nothing but retreads of what I already own.  Shame on you Shout Factory!

Over the Top I watched this movie knowing that it might be too over-the-top and sadly, it was.  I can take Adam Sandler in small amounts or supporting roles.  Had he acted opposite a real woman and a better developed story, I may have liked the movie better.  However, his role as the sister was just too much and downright annoying.  I couldn't even make it through half of the movie.  If you are a huge Adam Sandler fan, you might like this movie.  Otherwise, don't waste your time.

The DVD was damage, and I was not able to enjoy the movie! I was not able to enjoy Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars, because the DVD was damage!! I wish I could send it back!! OK

Poor Bruce Willis I had heard that this movie wasn't that great, but saw it on sale really cheap for Christmas, so picked it up.  My wife and I like Bruce Willis films and he's usually pretty consistent  This movie stank so bad, we're still trying to get the smell out of our house.  Tracy Morgan was not funny at all, but just annoying  Watching this movie was like torture.  We sat through the whole thing hoping it would get better but it didn't.  Even at the $5.00 Wal-Mart bargain bin price, it was a waste of money.  There were some talented people involved with this film, but they could not save it from the bad writing and terrible acting.  It was sad to see.  We honestly felt sorry for Bruce Willis for being involved with this stinker.  It was if the director was trying to make it bad on purpose.  Not even a 1 star rating is low enough.

Huge waste! for a movie made in this decade - it was like a bad 80's flick. I feel more dumb for having sat through the entire movie. What a sad excuse of a movie.

So bad it's almost... no, it's not even that good. &lt;strong>Witches' Night (Paul Traynor, 2007)  On at least one level, &lt;em>Witches' Night&lt;/em> is the quintessential direct-to-video horror movie. If you're looking for a flick that delivers every last horror movie trope you've seen since the mid-seventies, then look no further; you've found nirvana in a DVD case. This will give you everything you've been looking for, in much the same way you can find everything you want in a romance novel if you pick up a book by Barbara Cartland or Danielle Steel.  Of course, the icky dark side to that is that the reason people read Cartland and Steel is that they're safe, above all. Within a page of meeting any given character, you know exactly what that character's trajectory will be through the novel. When you come upon a situation, you know exactly how the repercussions from that situation will affect everything that happens after. It's not a quality one should aspire to as an author, though it's impossible to argue with the number of people who've bought the two ladies' books (wikipedia reports Steel has sold more than eight hundred million books worldwide as of 2005, Cartland's website reports her sales figures at 350 million as of 2011). It is even less a quality one should aspire to as a filmmaker, where people seem far less likely to put up with it; as I write this in mid-2011, &lt;em>Witches' Night&lt;/em>, which has racked up just 227 votes in the four years since its release, has a pretty woeful 4.3 IMDB rating. (It is unreviewed at Rotten Tomatoes, perhaps for the better.)  Now, listen to this story, and tell me if you've heard this one before. Four guys head out into the middle of nowhere after one of them, Jim (&lt;em>Jeepers Creepers 2&lt;/em>'s Gil McKinney), is left at the altar. The other three are his erstwhile groomsmen; his layabout brother Bill (&lt;em>Batman Begins&lt;/em>' Jeff Christian) and their friends Rick (&lt;em>Public Enemies&lt;/em>' Wesley Walker) and Ted (Jeff Alba in his first feature appearance; no idea if he's related to Jessica). You've got the jilted would-be husband, the [censored for Amazon consumption] brother who's an assistant manager at a chain restaurant, the bitter guy whose nicest sobriquet for any woman in this movie is [censored for Amazon consumption], and the married one who finds himself faced with temptation. Want to make any guesses on who the final girl is, who dies first, etc.? I don't need to hear your answers to know you're right. In any case, Ted decides they need to go canoeing to get their heads together, and at the local bait and tackle shop, they rent a couple of canoes from Marge (&lt;em>The Evil Dead&lt;/em>'s Betsy Baker), half of the old married couple who run the place. She tells them a story on the way up to the dropoff point about how there's a commune of old ladies who live out there that the locals consider witches, when in reality they're just folks who want to live an alternative lifestyle (no, not THAT kind of alternative lifestyle, get your mind out of the gutter). All well and good until the boys, deep into their beers and grilling up the steaks, hear the laughter of nubile young ladies farther off in the woods. After a brief conversation in which Rick and Ted push for going to investigate while Jim and Bill resist, they head off with the cooler in search of companionship and find four lovely young things sitting around their own fire, who turn out to be Eva (&lt;em>The Thirsting&lt;/em>'s Lauren Ryland), June (&lt;em>Sigma Die!&lt;/em>'s Meghan Jones), Valerie (&lt;em>Save the Last Dance&lt;/em>'s Elisabeth Oas), and Gretchen (Stephanie Cantu in her first feature appearance), each of whom latches onto one of the boys. Jim, uncomfortable and still wounded from the events at the altar, heads back to their own campsite, trailed by Bill, while the others stick around. When Ted gets back in the morning, his face is marked with an odd rash where Eva touched him. Even if you hadn't figured it out when you heard that first feminine laugh through the trees, you've got it now, right?  I'm not going to say that it's impossible to take an old dog and teach it new tricks. That happens all the time in horror movies. I'm saying Traynor (no idea if he's related to the infamous Chuck) didn't even &lt;em>try&lt;/em>. He's made, essentially, the horror movie Danielle Steel would make if she wrote horror movies. There is nothing here that will surprise you if you're even a casual fan of the genre. There is nudity, briefly, because someone who was working on this movie thought "that's what the fans want to see". Which is exactly what they were thinking when they came up with everything else about this movie. There's not a single original thought to be found in it. It is safe, it is boring, and thus, it is not at all worth watching. ½

Over Ireland [Blu-ray] Buyers beware!  I purchased 3 new DVD's and there is a sound problem with the video.  The pictures are beautiful, but the sound breaks up on and off continuously.  Note:  I have a new Blu-Ray player and all of my other DVD's work perfectly.

Movie for sci-fi losers. I should have read the reviews before I watched this thing. If you can bare to read some of the 5 star ratings, then you'll be able watch this movie. I was never into star wars, or matrix, etc.. so i couldnt get into this.

Nothing like the book If you've read Bryce Courtenay's book, you will hate the movie. It is nothing at all like the book. It deviates so much from the story that Courtenay told that it is almost completely unrecognizable. If it wasn't for the fact that the movie title and some of the characters have the same name, I wouldn't have known it was supposed to be the same story.

where is it? I have been waiting over a month for my DVD and have not received it yet. I know the cost has already been taken from my credit card but I have been patiently waiting for my purchase.....where is it??? Kathleen Najera

I smell a recall... I feel this is a great masterpiece of a film which is mistakenly missing the subtitles, so if you can't interpret the main character's sign language or if you don't speak the tongue of the New Zealand natives then you're going to have a problem with this Lion's Gate release.  A few other reviews posted here are calling the blu-ray release inferior due to picture quality issues which I don't understand one bit.  Sure, there are some low-lit scenes which appear grainy but that is simply the nature of celluloid.  Even the master print will show that.  Point is, I wish I could return this copy in exchange for a corrected version.  Is someone at Lion's Gate Studio listening...or do they even care to fix the problem?  I'm going to try returning my copy for a refund.

waste of good plastic very seldom do i come across a film without a single  redeeming feature...this is one!!! save your cash...even the fight scenes are dreadful...i'm using my copy as a door jam...

Tai Chi for Beginners with Grandmaster William C.C. Chen For being a grandmaster & a beginners guide was not informative as I expected it to be. There were not any all around angle shots. If I wouldn't have been so busy I would have returned it for a refund!

Collector's Edition Ong Bak 3 - Disappointed Very sad to say I received my Ong Bak 3 Collector's Edition Blu Ray disc in a Blockbuster Movie case. I was a bit shocked because they made no mention of this in the product description.  Had my window to return the product not expired, believe me I would have definitely returned it.  Buyer Beware, when the price is too good to be true... IT IS!!

Don't buy this Blu-ray Just recently bought 2 blu-ray movies, ten commandment and Fiddler on the roof- the contrast is like day and night, with ten commandment being absolutely amazing and jaw-dropping and fiddler on the roof being an absolute disappointment. This movie has the exact Sound and picture quality of its DVD version -really folks , there is nothing BLUE about it and is a very cheap remastering(if anything????) Don't waste your $ on it, or you'll be truely frustrated.

A Dissappointment This film makes the biggest mistake any film can make. It makes a giant radioactive dinosaur stepping on terrorists boring. The human plot is execrable and Godzilla takes ages to do anything. Mothra is absolutely wasted in it as well, completely motionless until the end. Ebirah is a moderately interesting Kaiju with a few brief fights. A giant condor is also just... there at on point.  This film is a cure for insomnia and is best skipped over for better Showa films, like Mothra vs. Godzilla or Invasion of Astro-Monster

Von Triers' 'Melancholia', aspires to Ingmar Bergman-like heights, but ends up as pretentious, pseudo art house fare *** This review may contain spoilers ***  'Melancholia' is not only the name of the condition that afflicts Danish Director Lars Von Triers' protagonist, Justine, but it's also the name of the planet that has just come out from hiding behind the sun, and is on a collision course with earth. If you're anticipating watching another sci-fi thriller, this is not the film to go and see. Like this year's other entry in the indie pseudo sci-fi category, 'Another Earth', the focus is not on that annoying other planet up in the sky, but on the conflicts between the afflicted parties down on earth.  Von Triers divides 'Melancholia' into two parts that focus on two very different sisters, Justine and Claire. In Part I, Justine is a mid-level advertising copywriter, who arrives two hours late to her wedding with groom Michael, at brother-in-law John's estate. Just about everyone is speaking American English, so I assume the setting is supposed to be somewhere in the US, but it's not really clear. Justine is suffering from severe depression for unknown reasons and there are some suggestions that she may have psychic powers.  One explanation for Justine's blues is that she comes from a highly unpleasant family. Don't ask for any back story, you'll just have to be content to accept the fact that Von Triers' characters are inherently dysfunctional. There's a method to Von Triers' madness and I will attempt to shed some light on it by the end of this review. Suffice it to say at this juncture that in Von Triers' weltanschauung, all the so-called 'normal' people, are uncaring, and in some cases, plain 'evil', and the 'abnormal', those suffering from so-called mental illnesses, are actually quite sane.  Justine's relatives, friends and business associates are designed to offend our sensibilities as they all come across as self-centered and misanthropic. The worst offender is probably Justine's sarcastic, divorced mother, who tactlessly condemns the institution of marriage in a wedding toast, and expectorates numerous insults in front of the assembled guests, including the bride and groom. The father isn't much better, a card-carrying alcoholic who promises Justine, in the midst of her worst moment of decompensation, that he'll stay the night, but later leaves a note to his daughter, apologizing for leaving, due to a change of mind. There's also Justine's creepy boss, who attempts to humiliate one of his new employees in front of her, only to provoke an enraged Justine to send the boss to an early exit from the festivities. How does the new employee respond to Justine sticking up for him? He promptly has sex with her on the golf course. Passive schlub husband Michael, decides to leave Justine, with nary a protest. Lest I forget, brother-in-law John has no tolerance for the mother's bi-polar-like outbursts and at one point gathers up her luggage and dumps it outside the front entrance of the estate, until passive-aggressively reversing himself, and bringing the luggage back up to her room.  The second half of 'Melanchalia', Part 2, focuses on Justine's sister, Claire, who lives with John and their young son, Leo, at the estate. Claire is seemingly the most 'rational' and 'normal' of anyone who we've met so far, so when Von Triers transforms her into an abject coward, then we began to see what's going on here. It's no secret that Von Triers created 'Melancholia' as a result of his treatment for depression. When his therapist suggested that depressed people are more 'calm' in moments of crisis, that gave Von Triers license to affirm what he knew all along--that he, otherwise known as one of the "depressed oppressed", are better than all those nasties, he's been pitted against during his entire life. Of course one must accept Von Triers' supposition that all the antagonists we meet in 'Melancholia', are not caricatures, but multi-dimensional portraits, of living, breathing, human beings.  Evidence of Justine's 'triumph', can be found in Claire's reaction to her impending doom. As 'Melancholia' (the planet that is), is about to take the lives of everyone on earth, past nut-job Justine calmly pulls herself together and miraculously becomes the 'strong one'. When she finds John after he commits suicide, she calmly covers him with hay in the barn and doesn't freak out. She then builds a protective 'magic cave' for Leo, so he won't be afraid at all when earth completely implodes. Meanwhile, once 'normal' Claire, is frantically driving the family golf cart (the cars don't work because of earth's new found, screwed up, gravitational pull) with Leo into town, so she can get "help" (of course the implication is that she's 'lost it' because of course, how can you get 'help', when the earth is about to collide with another planet?).  One can view 'Melancholia' as a poor man's, reverse 'Persona', the classic 1966 film by Ingmar Bergman. Von Triers echoes Bergman's preoccupation with the differences between two women from different classes, different walks of life. In Persona, a lower class nurse, cares for an upper class, well known actress who suffers from mental illness. The 'simpler' nurse turns out to be more 'real' than the actress, who feigns mental illness to cover for her narcissism. Here, the seemingly afflicted Justine, proves to be much stronger than her sister, the wife of a millionaire, who, when faced with the fact that earth is about to be destroyed, is unable to muster the courage to face death, bravely.  If there's any saving grace in 'Melancholia', it's the iconic series of magisterial images in slow motion, mainly seen at the beginning of the film. Otherwise, the actors are hemmed in by the pretentious screenplay, which make them all seem like laughable caricatures. Von Triers' use of a bombastic Wagner score only adds to his reputation as a director with adolescent sensibilities, who doesn't even come close to approaching the sensibilities of the world's master filmmakers.

A movie about a woman--not about anything more I feel like writing a review for everyone out there who didn't like this movie. who found it awful and slow and unrewarding. it's hard to say that about this kind of film--a film full of misery, self betrayal and self hatred. about rape and injustice. about the oppression of women. there is a point to this movie and it is impactful,but you can get the point in the first 15 minutes. While the protagonist's survival and ability to speak about afterwards is wondrous, this movie in and of itself does not do her plights justice. there is no development of character, no understanding of the reasons for the situation. it is simply a film about the oppression of one nameless woman. There are plenty of movies about the atrocities surrounding world war II but this movie doesn't grant any understanding to why the events within the film unfolded. if you are interested in watching a film about a woman getting raped, taken advantage of and having to sell even the most fundamental aspects of her life, then this film may be of interest to you, but don't hope to get a better understanding of why her circumstances were as they were or what led the Russian soldiers to have such resentment and animosity towards others.

DON'T BUY - BOOTLEG COPY!! Don't buy! This is a bootleg copy of The Sum of All Fears. It repeatedly displays that it is a Paramount Pictures Screening Copy!!

True Grit [Region 2] I am not able to give a review, because it will not play on my DVD player. It says check region code.  Ordered on April 29, did not get until 5 May.

Beyond Frustrating.... OK, full disclosure- I have not seen the ultimate cut, but I did see the director's cut, and the inclusion of the Black Freighter animations will not change the problems I had with this film. I could go through and innumerate each of the problems, but I can sum up everything I was thinking as the credits rolled in one statement: Either Zack Snyder never actually read the Watchmen graphic novel, or if he did read it, he did not understand it.

Great Movie I like this DVD. Video and sound are very good. Soundtrack is just as it was in the original movie. Enjoyed watching it. Good deal for such a low price.

An utter waste of money I'll keep this brief. If I could give Skyline minus 5 stars I would. This was an absolute utter waste of money. I can sit through an alien movie with bad acting, but this had atrocious acting. It was down right off the scale bad. Aliens journey millions of light years to steal human brains? Seriously?!?! I'm glad I didn't waste the money on the Blu-Ray disk. If you're looking for a good alien sci-fi action movie, check out Battle: Los Angeles instead. Peace.

Gross Trevor Reznick (Christian Bale) hasn't slept in a year. But he's a machinist, which is a dangerous job for someone who's mind is going. So what portion of the story is his nightmare, hallucination or whatever, what part is memory, and what really happened the way it is presented to the audience? An interesting question if the truth is eventually figured out. All I can say is that this is the poor man's "Number 23." We never do find out exactly what is real and what isn't, even when Trevor finally says to Ivan, who has been haunting him, "I know who you are." He doesn't tell the audience!!!  The other thing I hated was that Trevor was so skinny he looked like he was just released from Auschwitz. Various people ask if he's OK, but he says he is. Clearly he is not.

waste of money didnt work I feel my title said it all. I purchased the movie (condition new) when I recieved it the case was broken. The disc looked fine. We tried to watch the movie and a message poped up saying the disc doesnt work in this regin. I have never heard of such a thing. HUGE WASTE OF MONEY

Poor movie! This was a poor movie.  It took two tries to get through it.  It was a total waste of time.  Save your money!

Horrible release for such an amazing film Honestly when I first purchased it I was really excited. Being able to see one of my all time favorite films on blu-ray would have been amazing...or so I thought. When I got this product and started watching it I noticed a few things wrong. First the menu, it was very cheap, low budget, and well over all it wasn't impressive. Secondly the film itself, two different version of it both complete pieces of crap. The original version didn't fit my screen at all, but what both of them had that was just god awful. The films themselves were horribly remastered for blu-ray. I mean so horrible I'm pretty sure dvd and vhs had out-beaten it in quality. The film was extremely grainy throughout most of the film, looked like sandpaper with the film printed over it with cheap ink. It was that bad. The audio quality seemed a bit better than the original but audio to visual ratio not worth it at all. I hate it so much I'm probably going to resell this pos. I own the other 2 of this series and I must say those are remaster very well. I have the 25th anniversary edition of Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness screwhead edition. I hope they have another version of this film with better quality because I feel cheated both out of money and out of loyalty to their fans. Do not buy!

dated we've definitely progressed if what passed for comedy in the 80s (james belushi's character and dialogue) now just sounds sexist and offensive.

DVD DEFECTIVE! I assumed that from all the positive reviews that I'd have no problem with this DVD. If only I'd read the 1 star reviews!!!!! Apparently some of the DVD's amazon is shipping out don't work!  Sending this back with a sad face. I love Leslie Sansone and I was really excited to try this workout.  Lame amazon... Lame.

CD How the West was Won I received this new CD and when I played it the other day it kept skipping.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0018O4RT2">How the West Was Won (Three-Disc Special Edition)</a>

Boring.  Actually fell asleep ....zzzzzzzzzzz I noticed all the bad reviews were about this being a digital problem.  My complaint is content.  On the outset it looked like a fun movie.  A lot of animated films these days are done with parent and child in mind.  It was just us adults watching and one of us fell asleep.  The other one (me) stayed awake because ... well, I'm the one who bought it so I wanted it to be good.  It sounded like a really fun story line but the story was all jumbled and it didn't tell the story in a way that was very interesting or funny.  If I could have fallen asleep I would of but someone had to turn off the telly.

I threw it out! I'm not a movie buff... and usually like some movies that the critics hate... but THIS movie was sooooo boring boring boring boring...  I threw it out rather than burden anyone else with this waste of time.

For sure I am skipping any sequels This has to be one of the worst family movies I have ever seen.  For sure it is the worst movie based of a comic book movie.  Maybe its because I do not appreciate the action, or the story.  I have heard from fans of the comic book that it accurately follows the plot of the comics.  If true, I will not be reading the comic books.  First of, the very concept of people who can, by doing kung fu moves, manipulate the four elements; earth, fire, air and water, just looks ridiculous on screen.  Yes, the Jedi Knights in the Star Wars movies could do similar things, but at least it looked natural there, as if the Jedi is reaching out beyond their bodies to do it.  Here, it just looks stupid.  And then the casting was way off.  There are characters played by Indians that have Chinese names, which was wholly unbelievable.  Overall, a bad movie.

Another sequel for $$ Ever watched a movie and thought "they only made this because the first was popular and thought they could make more money"? Well, this movie is a wonderful example.

TERRIBLE Katie Holmes should have divorced Tom Loser for making this terrible piece of garbage.  Don't watch this if you like good movies.

Staunch Birth to Death Republican I've never seen such a fear fest in my life! I can't believe people are believing something just because the way the music swells, the film is edited & the way somebody says something with supposed conviction. They did all this stuff with Bush & most of my co-hort GOP voters never said a thing about how that was put together! They used actual quotes from him & supposed charts & graphs etc, etc & if you ask me the whole lot of it is fear mongering! If you use this film as actual factual material you very well could've been one of Jim Jones' followers drinking the Kool-Ade with everyone else. If you're looking for facts look in places you normally wouldn't look as well. Look for simple, uneditorialized informational facts... not just something that supports only your views. Just because somebody FEELS & shouts something strongly enough like my new enemy Rush Limbaugh, doesn't mean it's necessarily factual. If you can find the same facts in at least 2 varying places then MAYBE you can begin to think of it as fact. I'm not saying this movie is bad because of what it's saying but how they tried to make me fear/believe what it said. This movie has really & truly made me, my wife & first time voter 19 year old son to actually vote for Obama. I honestly never thought I'd say this but after fact checking everything this film purported I find that at least 90% IS fear mongering. We, my family & I, have lost a couple of friends over this but I don't care because I have to vote for the facts first & the correct context in which they were written. This film made me do a LOT of homework but I am very grateful to God I did. I have been suggesting to friends who want to see it to check out my work after viewing it. 2 couples have & did see what I was saying... one of the couples from Ohio called me tonight & said they understood my qualm with it & the whole Romney campaign... they too, after much prayer & thought are voting for our (who I have now come to believe as our) staunch, Christian president. After all Jesus did provide for the poor & hungry & those who had little or no voice. I believe this with my whole  heart today.  I have no desire or intent to argue or try to proselytize regarding my views but in reviewing this film I must thank the filmmaker for helping me see the extremes some politicians will go to "fear" people into voting.  Now, with no fear or anger in my heart I hope & pray you all vote your hearts & minds as well. Not the way you may just "feel" about someone/something. God Bless (I apologize if you leave comments regarding this review... I have no intention of checking any responses)

No product I was so looking forward to watching this movie.  I had taken it with me to friend house. So we could watch it together.  To my surprise, I open a the nice package, great wrapping and no dvd.  I was truly upset.

Lack of Titles The lack of titles for the episodes is a large problem. I have never gotton an item that did not have titles before. The Eighth year not only had titles but a synopsis of each of the episodes. I got it about three months before the Ninth year. I would hope that the tenth year which I have ordered and is to arrive the end of February will  have titles.

disappointed Month later and still haven't received Video. Have sent e-mail to inform them but no response ! Not sure what has happened with this purchase !! Gave 1 star cause I had to just to write review..

Shameful!!!!!! Amazon has this terrible habit of slapping the DVD reviews on BluRay versions when they are released. Terribly misleading.  The review presented here is of the BluRay version of the movie.  It is perhaps the worst transfer to BluRay I have even seen. I found it super grainy, too dark in the darker portions of the film. Sometimes it appears to be out of focus. Worst of all, dust specs. Hundreds of dust specs that "snow" down on the screen through 50 percent of the movie.  The movie is one of my all time favorites. The BluRay version is a disgrace!

If I could give less than one star, I would Bought this back in October, just tried to watch it (Yes, it has been sitting in my dvd cabinet) and it will not play in anything I own (DVD, computer). Looks like a bootleg copy.  Sweet, gotta love being ripped off!  :)

soundtrack ruins this disc Based on prior reviews I was looking forward to seeing this documentary.  But after 5 minutes of watching, I turned it off.  Why?  The music portion of the soundtrack is way too loud drowning out the dialogue.  Perhaps this is (was) a great documentary.  I'll never know since I'm not about to spend 90 minutes straining to hear what is being said.

The Big Valley Review This is my show from years ago even until now.  The People in the shows are Great Actors.  I am so sorry that these shows were rated 4 Stars instead of 5 Stars.  Each person is a 5 Star to me and my husband. The show when Audra get spanked was the one of the best to me.  I have watched that show a few times over and over. However, I did enjoy and liked all of the shows. I have to now get season 3 and 4 very soon.  My husband and I come together and watch these DVD's together and it great bonding time with each other. This Big Valley Family is well bonded together and love one another and support one another as we should today. Thank you so much Peggy Roberson Washington, DC

It's As Bad As Everyone Said It Was Twenty Years Ago It took me over 20 years to finally watch the entire version of this book and it's only because I recently read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0517124912">The Devil's Candy</a>, which discussed the craziness surrounding this movie.  I recall enjoying the book when I read it over two decades ago and remember how the word was that Tom Hanks was miscast.  When Hanks became a superstar a few years later, I thought about how he had been dissed during the Bonfire period and feel today that he was actually the best actor in this film -- but he really was TOM HANKS and NOT Sherman McCoy.  It was very confusing how the audience was supposed to understand Hanks' character.  I am biracial and was not prepared to actually feel some sympathy for Sherman McCoy.  I posit that the reason is twofold:  Hanks was too darn likeable AND the film presented such a caracature of Black people.  I am from NYC and could not imagine driving into the South Bronx and seeing people all over the street like that.  Maybe on the sidewalk, sure but not in the middle of the street blocking traffic as if it were a block party.  Give me a break.  I also didn't like the portrayal of Reverend Bacon.  Yes, the Director was probably channeling Reverend Sharpton but one must go back into history and see the contributions of the Black church - such as by Martin Luther King, Jr. - in the fight against racism.  Of course some people back in the 1950s and 60s would have considered King and Sharpton to be similar, e.g., trouble.  I also didn't like the courtroom scene, with Black folks doing all of the yelling and screaming.  In addition, it was disturbing that the young man who was hit by a car was portrayed as possibly threatening to Sherman McCoy.  Wasn't Sherman supposed to be the greedy yuppie and the teenager an innocent?  Or perhaps we were supposed to see the scene through Hanks' eyes?  Well, it was not the two young men who were acting suspiciously in the Bronx.  It was actually McCoy, who was walking around in a neighborhood that was probably not his, doing something strange with a tire.  However, the audience is probably supposed to sympathize with Hanks (even though he is the greedy yuppie). And a second watching of the scene shows one of the young men (not the victim about to be hit by the car) gesturing as if he had a gun inside his jacket.  In any event, one wonders what William Hurt would have done with this role and if I would have had any sympathy for him.  Or what if Bruce Willis had the McCoy role?  As for Willis, that opening scene may have been one of the worst in movie history.  What was he doing with that salmon?  That scene was the reason why, when I first tried to watch Bonfire on cable years ago, I switched the channel.  As for Melanie Griffith, she was just OK.  Her character was horrible but she tried to act the best way that she could.  She did have a great hat in the airport scene.  The big shock was seeing Camryn Manheim in the credits, playing a "Poe picketer," whatever that is.  There was one white(?) lady in the courtroom giving Sherman McCoy "what for."  Perhaps it was her.  Believe it or not, I'll have to give it another look.  Who did well?  Hanks was a trooper and Morgan Freeman was, well, Morgan Freeman.  He's a star.  I also appreciated the "Concorde shot," which was detailed immensely in the book that I mentioned above, Julie Salamon's The Devil's Candy.  Although it was a blink and you missed it piece of the film, second unit director Eric Schwab spent a lot of time and energy to get the scene right -- although I kept thinking of how it would probably all be done on computers now.  That's sad.  And so is this movie.

Nausea Sorry. Can't give any documentary style movie a good rating. I wish there was a warning on films like this. I get easily nauseated watching these types of films and did not make it through 30 minutes. My wife watched a bit longer but does not care for this style of movie, either. Her complaint is that it's hard to get "mentally lost" when watching a movie that looks like a home video. Just be warned if you are like me, and don't care for a documentary/home video style of movie.

Terrible Movie I watched it and thought of it as just bad. I am speechless it's just bad please don't watch this movie.

A long promo for the Thomas center(s) Unless I missed something, there are only one or two actual episodes on this DVD.  The rest is a long commercial for the Thomas the Train centers and an ode to Ms. Allcroft.  Waste of money.

Not a goof movie for inlaw night... Don't watch this with your in-laws. The movie opens with a guy eating a girl out. Seriously? Wow. We turned it off and my face turned red. I was prepared for some raunch, but not within the first minute.

Deliberately Obtuse Nonsense I don't know what kind of twisted brains would think this movie is great, "one of the Coen brothers best", but it is a sick movie with no redeeming message and no sympathetic characters.  One feels obliged to watch it to conclusion because one hopes to find some kind of logic or some insight into what motivates the characters.  The actors are wooden and often mumble, if they speak at all.  There is nothing memborable, nothing to make you want to watch it again.  Instead one feels it was a total waste of time to watch this degenerate crap.  Fortunately I did not buy it but saw it on TV.  I would not recommend anyone buy this DVD.

Will not play I can't even watch this. It starts off with no sound and only last about 30 seconds and then states that my bandwidth is too low. Which isn't a problem when I watch other movies. I don't know why it's only THIS movie that won't play.

MOST ANNOYING! - Dont Believe good reviews STUPID story line with the most trite and cliche scenes followed by a really annoying kid doing an english accent non stop. I had to turn it off - couldnt take any more complete mindless stupidity. Makes the Wedding Singer look like an academy award winner by comparrison.

Worst movie ever made. 3 hours of my life that I will never get back!  Don't waste your time or money watching this turd

The only "shame" is this movie was made to begin with! Ok I'm not one to be a movie snob, but this movie was horrible. It doesn't hold my attention the way movies such as The Rock and Empire do, and those two movies are far more superior compared to this one. Keenan Ivory Wayans takes on the triple threat of star, writer, and director, and Clint Eastwood and Ben Affleck he is not. Eastwood and Affleck have churned out some great movies taking on the triple role such as Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, Blood Work, Gran Torino, and The Town. Those movies are smart, character driven stories. This movie is flat out insipid. Now don't get me wrong because I think Keenan Ivory Wayans is talented. But his best work was on In Living Color, whereas he doesn't have the chops to be in movies. His younger brothers Damon and Marlon on the other hand, teamed up for one of the best comedy movies of the '90s. That movie being Mo' Money. But as I make my third different movie comparison, this movie has nothing on Mo' Money. I can't take Keenan Ivory Wayans seriously as an action hero and he just didn't fit the role as Shame. He would have been better off just directing and having someone like Jamie Foxx star in this movie. Foxx as Shame would have been interesting. Charles S. Dutton was actually good as the deceptive DEA agent Sonny Rothmiller and Andrew Divoff as Mendoza was intimidating and charismatic. Those 2 make this film somewhat watchable. Salli Richardson as Angela, was too plain for my liking. Even when she wasn't being cold and callous, Richardson's attempt to make Angela likable was nothing but a failure. Someone like Jennifer Lopez or Delilah Cotto would have done a better job capturing the likability of Angela. And last but not least, Jada Pinkett Smith. See my Jason's Lyric review about her performance in that movie. As for this movie, she's funny as Peaches, the spunky friend and side kick of Shame. But she gets really annoying as she becomes more of a motor mouth. Her performance here is slightly better than Jason's Lyric. Perhaps I shouldn't unveil the "spoiler" about Shame and Peaches, but those of you who plan to see this movie will probably figure it out. The action-comedy movie can be successful and the genre has churned out some good movies such as Beverly Hills Cop 1 and 2, both Bad Boys, all three Rush Hour movies, All About The Benjamins, and Money Train. But as I make my fourth comparison in this review, A Low Down Dirty Shame isn't in the same class with those movies of it's genre that I mentioned. No pun intended, but passing up on this movie certainly wouldn't be a "shame". For those of you debating about seeing this movie, take my advice and avoid this "shame"!

Very Disappointing If you are looking for a book that tells you how to be a Christian even when circumstances are difficult, then you might enjoy this book. If you are looking for a book that tells about Jason Kent and the crime he committed, then there are better articles out there (I recommend [..] ). I estimate that about 85-90% of this book talks about how to find faith and keep going, or about OTHER people's tragedies. Very little of this book actually focuses on Jason Kent or how his mother handled the events as they happened. In the end, I just felt that slightly deceive. This book felt more like a long sermon rather then a novel on a mom's journey as her son is jailed for murder. Overall, this is not a book that I would read and not one that I would recommend. Just not my "cup of tea".

DVD appeared to be a bootleg/counterfeit copy! :-( When I received this DVD of "It's Complicated", I noticed that the graphics on the DVD case seemed slightly blurry and almost as if they were printed on a home printer. The disc itself inside also looked slightly off and fake somehow. Overall the whole item looked very cheaply produced for such a popular mainstream movie. To test my suspicions, I went to Target and purchased one of their DVD copies of the same film. Upon comparison, both the DVD case graphics and the DVD inside seemed much more sharp, polished, and obviously professional on the Target copy. I've never had an issue like this in the many years I've been purchasing from Amazon.com. I noticed this DVD was sold by VSource through Amazon, and NOT by Amazon directly. Nevertheless, it's disheartening that a vendor Amazon works with would sell a counterfeit copy of an item. It definitely gives me pause about purchasing anything from Amazon's other "sellers" again. Very disappointed.

Emergency Have not received this yet.  It was a special order. If it is like all the other Emergency's, I will like it very much.

Like watching paint dry! This was undoubtedly one of the worst movies I've ever watched.  It's much like watching paint dry - or watching grass grow.  There should have been a disclaimer at the beginning suggesting that the viewer should fast forward at 3x or 4x to come reasonably close to the normal movement of actual humans.  People just don't act like this.  If someone says, "let's go," you don't stand and stare at the floor for 15 minutes before you move. When someone asks you a question, you don't stare at them for 10 minutes before your lips begin to move.  Watching this was a real waste of my time.

It is nothing like the first First was amazing, this was created just to try and take your money. Was horrible! Go watch the first one, leave this one alone!

Not Impressed I couldn't get into this movie. I found it boring. I watched only about half of it. It's homor was too dry.

poor This is a chessy movie with some big names. Jessica and Michelle are hot as hell as usual but thats about it. very disappointed. 1 3/4 hours I will never get back. Watch at your own risk

No, no D'Onofrio Not a great movie.  Vincent D'Onofrio is my FAVORITE actor, but his acting skills are wasted on this movie.  Cannot recommend this poor movie.

WHY The investors who put their money up for this movie did not even really know what the movie would end up as because Mr. Six was not forthcoming about the content. The poster for this movie would lead you to believe that it is a person with extra arms sewn on, but the reality of the movie is much more disturbing. The fact that Mr. Six was not forthcoming with his investors should tell you something.  At the beginning, you have plenty of cliches - car breaks down in the middle of the night, stupid tourists go wandering in the woods alone instead of staying on the road and calling for help, etc etc. Even when the host of the house, the doctor, asks them if they are alone, the girls do not realize something is amiss.  Is this movie gross or bloody? No. There's little blood/gore, a lot less than what you would expect, in this aspect this film is cleaner than 'Hostel' and 'Martyr' and the like. The scariest part is when the doctor is explaining to his three bed-bound patients what is going to happen to them with 'helpful' drawings on an overhead display. The fear, revulsion, and terror is clear on the patients' faces, especially when one of the girls cries out for her mommy. One girl manages to break free from her bed, but acts stupidly and is re-captured soon enough.  So the two girls and some Japanese dude are sewn together. The Doctor says he wants to make a creature with a continuous digestive system - but despite him being a doctor, he apparently doesn't realize that it's just three digestive systems sewn together, as the middle- and back-pede are now no longer able to use their mouths, they cannot even breathe through it or take in water, so they are doomed and S.O.L. (and 's*** out of luck' is sickeningly literal in this case) This is reflected accurately because the back-pede gets sick from blood poisoning and etc, but then what do you expect when your mouth has been cut and is now a gaping wound sewn to someone else's back-end? He gets mad as he realizes the back-pede is sick, and this guy is supposed to be an acclaimed doctor! Yet it seems as if he has not even a basic understanding of the human anatomy, how it works, and why his centipede 'experiment' is not working. (he tried this before on 3 dogs, which is referenced to in a photo we see at the beginning of the film which shows a centi-dog. Pause the film and look closely, you'll see that the dogs are the same and are clearly a result of Photoshop, lol)  Detectives show up to investigate, but like the girls, they made really stupid mistakes that result in their deaths. Oh boy. The Japanese dude that makes up the 'head' of the 'pede goes into harakiri mode, thus trapping the middle-pede while the back-pede is on the verge of death, he is such an idiot because he was the 'head' and thus able to life the upper half of his body, he could have used his advantage to get help, but NO. :(  This movie establishes the fact that being a human 'pede would totally suck. However, this movie was not enough for Mr. Six, who now just made a movie where twelve people are sewn together and contains the gore we didn't see in the original and graphic scenes of rape. Are you kidding me? Is such a movie/sequel even necessary after this one? God help us all since there's people out there that think this sort of trash is 'art'.  This movie is disturbing enough, and is one of these films that you cannot forget.

Check first I just want to say...  Check the review history of the other reviewers of the SKINOUT videos. It speaks volumes.

Stupid I should have read all the reviews before I purchased this movie. It was the most awful movie I have ever seen. I had to turn my head away from the human waste scenes. The psychiatrist was just as crazy as Martin. The mother was a crazed lunatic. All should have been in an insane asylum, and never be released.

Makes the first movie look like GONE WITH THE WIND! The TWILIGHT series is definitely a guilty pleasure -- at least, the first three books are, and the first three movies are at least fun, in a "this is really stupid on screen" way.  I only WISH this had been so bad it was funny; I can always use a good laugh.  But the movie BREAKING DAWN commits the worst sin there is for a movie:  it's BORING.  The wedding takes half an hour, the honeymoon seemed to take forever (and not in a good way), and the rest of it -- well, aside from counting the number of times the werewolves' ears flopped over (they do, really), it was so dull I kept falling asleep.  Maybe I can save it and the forthcoming Part 2 for those nights when Sominex just doesn't do it.

Awful, betrayal of franchise's toddler fans My son loved the first Cars.  It's slow moving and sweet with recognizable personalities.  Cars 2 is totally inappropriate for him, violent, herky-jerky, with an indecipherable plot. You cannot imagine a real or imagined gun, let alone automatic weapon in Cars 1.  Cars 2 has guns a violence in spades.  Not a movie you can put on to have your two year old unwind.  They made a 180 shift here and I can't understand why.  They should have stuck to the toddler market.  I think they betrayed and ruined this franchise.  Spy movie?  Why?  WHO CARES!  SO bad!<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001EDVNMG">From Russia with Love (Two-Disc Ultimate Edition)</a>  Don't buy it.  If you want a spy movie buy From Russia with Love instead.

blank dvd The video would not play in the 3 different players that I own.  Each machine read no file to upload or blank dvd.  I am not happy for having to pay for shipping on this product twice when it was not my fault for missing product.  I love the movie and would love to own it but this now will make me hesitate from buying movies online through amazon dealers.

Very Poor The original Stargate movie was great. Stargate: Continuum was also good. (And the plot is such that you can enjoy it without watching 7 seasons of TV episodes)  Stargate: The Ark of Truth, however is just plain terrible. The central piece of this movie is the Ark of Truth, but we never are never led to understand it, and it is never really explained. It is simply a magic wand used to tie together a plot which has plenty of progression, but no purpose or direction. The end result is nothing other than un-imaginative dross.

A Waste Just saw this movie on cable and I still want my money back.  A horrible waste of time.  And where did they find this script and cast?

Gimme my mom's maney! ha ha Too slow. Dark scenes. I guess the movie makers coulnd't afford lighting. Don't waste your time watching this teenie weenie doing the same thing over and over again.

dont believe the hype after reading all the reviews, I decided to order this 2pack...Haven't watched Gladiator yet, and don't know if I will - I watched Braveheart, and I have to say, I was pretty disappointed in how it transferred....I own the original DVD, and that looks just as good, if not better, on my blu-ray player.. It's not my equipment - my remastered star wars look awesome on this setup. Why can a movie shot in 1977 look 10 times better then a current movie? I thought Sapphire editions were supposed to be good? Don't be like Nike - just 'don't do it.

Love the Harry Potter Series... But there is no way I would spend $349.99 for the box set!! I really love the Harry Potter Movie Series... But I wouldn't spend $349.99 for it!! I don't much care for extras, I would have preferred a a set with All Movie Extended!!! And only if it was a decent price...

THE DEPARTED I WAS UNABEL TO OCMPLETE VIEW THIS MOVIE, BECSAUE IT WAS GIVING ME SYSTEM ERROR AFTER 1/2 HOUR  OF VIEWING, AND WE WERE UNABLE TO RECONNECT WITH THE SYSTEM ANYMORE

***AWFUL MOVIE****** Quite possibly one of the worst I've seen.....completely plotless, difficult to follow.  Reminds me of a B movie that goes straight to DVD.  Appears to be about a married couple going through some difficulties....but really, who can tell?  And who can stay awake long enough to confirm?  Really awful.....save your money and wait for it to come on cable if you're so inclined.  I really would recommend skipping this movie entirely.  DYB

Ooops or We Simply Don't Care About Accuracy ...and the TV series is, methinks, in the wrong aspect ratio as is Timeless DVD of The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant,

Masterpiece rendered with horrible quality BluRay Since this release of Kubrick's masterpiece was so recent, I expected that the poor quality of earlier releases on DVD would have been addressed. After all, who at the studios would in their right minds release a BluRay of this timeless and visually fantastic work with poor quality?  Well, my trust in the good sense (and art appreciation) of the studios was terribly misplaced. The BluRay quality of this release (Amazon Exclusive - 11 May 2011) is atrocious! It looks more like a VHS version transferred directly to BluRay. It is not even DVD quality! Why bother?? It is an insult to Kubrick and his meticulous filmmaking.

didn't like it This is a taped vinyasa taught to other students in a hotel, Seane walks around with a mic...no music and barks at people to tell them whether pose is good or not. I was surprised...not what I expected

never received My granddaughter loves these videos so I ordered one that she did not have. An attempt to deliver was made on December 13th but today January 5th she still has not received.

Horrid Definitely one of the worst movies I have ever seen. The only reason this tripe got squeezed through the sphincter of Hollywood and into theaters was because of Sly and his ability to get the majority of washed up action stars to costar. The dialogue is cringe worthy throughout. Bad script + bad acting = I want my money and my time back. I blame myself for even wanting to attempt to see this. I should have known going in that it would have been more entertaining to watch grass grow. At least grass can't say lame dialogue that can induce vomiting. The action teeters on cool and absolutely ridiculous. I wish I could say there is a redeeming quality to the film... but there's not.

Paint Your Wagon I received a DVD that will not play in my REGION!  I did not know that there was such a thing as regions for DVD's. The shipper said I could send it back and get a refund....... Great!!!  I pay for shipping both ways and get a refund when and if they feel like it.  I will take the loss on this and learn a valuable lesson.  I will never purchase another DVD or anything for that matter from you or anyone else again.

lame and boring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! buy something else instead wwe is lame and weak i can see why no hardcore wrestling fans came back to watch this pg rated kiddie show

I wish I could give it zero stars Let me begin by saying that I love Japanese monster movies.  I also love Dr. Who.  In short, I am willing to adopt a frame of mind where I can enjoy almost anything. I  especially love camp.  But this was film was just too bad.  I was never able to get into that suspended disbelief frame of mind that allows me to enjoy a campy movie.  The result is that I have not had my intelligence insulted this much since I read the party platform of the Texas Republican Party.  It was so bad that I could not make it past the first 20 minutes.  Save your money and save your time.  Avoid this movie like it was the plague.  Peace  David Courtney

Are you serious? I will put this garbage video next to the video that states that the POTUS is the son Malcolm X! You dummies REALLY need to find some other hobby to get into, yeah I called it a HOBBY, for if this man wasn't the pres you would make NO ATTEMPT to "figure out" who he "really" is. Please kick rocks elsewhere.

Review of Cold River VHS Video The VHS tape had such poor tracking it would not play regardless of how we attempted to adjust the tracking.

Silly Hollywood nonsense Wow!  Hey, let's exhaust every trite Hollywood stereotype in one movie and get it over with.  Its supposed to be HE-E-EAVY M-A-AN but is pure formula pap through and through.  Nuff said since I already wasted my time watching it so may as well not waste time writing about it.

Cloying Clean Oh So Cute Hipster Fare Wow this movie is in love with itself. Too bad that the unoriginal Williamsburg Silverlake sheen hangs over every inch of the frame like a heart sucking cloud.  Like watching a Ryan Mcginley Levi's commercial that is trying to take on the profundity of cancer, homosexuality, love, family... Throw in a little French New Wave and some Spike Jonze and Miranda July and you have... Vomit

Have the FF remote handy The quality of the DVD is poor.  The first third of the movie the voices and mouth movement don't match up at all.  The basic premise of the story is similar to Braveheart (except without good action or acting).  Especially early on the story is choppy and uninteresting.  The first fight scene is horrifically bad (laughable).  You can see the actors hesitating and waiting until the guy they are fighting is ready.  The battle scenes do get better as the movie goes on.  The siege of Milan is pretty good but can't save the poor acting and unlikable characters.  Intertwined in the choppy story is just plain weird, silly, and sick scenes.  Examples: 1.  Rutger Hauer's character Barbarossa, catches the blacksmith assassin who somehow manages to get through thousands of German troops and into his tent.  So, what should you do with this guy who is threatening you and just tried to kill you?  Well, of course it just makes sense to let him go so he can organize the resistance to your kingdom!  I should say the blacksmith guy had saved his life when he was young but I think when he just tried to kill you and is threatening you you go ahead and kill him.  2.  The blacksmith is unconscious after the initial fight scene and this "witch" lady who has random "visions" does the rational and sane thing, she fondles and kisses him when he is unconscious?  Ew!  That isn't necrophilia but its unconsciousaphilia and still just plain sick. 3.  During the siege of Milan the German forces capture a food scavenging party from Milan and plaster them to the front of the siege engines-OK that's a cool idea if your a German I don't have a problem with that.  But then, suddenly the Milan defenders let a whole bunch of women on top of the wall to scream at the soldiers not to fire on the approaching "War machines" because they are going to hit their own men.  First, why are there screaming women on the wall? Second, I don't think the Germans are exactly bringing cookies and milk to share.  What exactly are you expecting to have happen when they take the city?  OK, so finally they decide they should fire on the siege engines and try and save the city.  Now, instead of aiming for the Germans on the sides who are pushing the war machines, they aim right for their own men.  I mean heart and neck and head shots?  What?  Do they suck that bad with crossbows?  Really.  Only after they shoot all their own men do they start to shoot at the Germans but without fire, just plain crossbows.   So overall, poor quality DVD, poor character development and unlikable characters, lots of slow painful scenes, random and silly scenes.  Initial fight scenes is ridiculous and there are some good battle scenes later they are punctuated with unrealistic and just plain silly parts.  I regret buying it.  Maybe a rental if you have insomnia or something!

This is crap Looking for the 1970's Chuck Jones "Horton Hears A Who" film. This is a sour disapointment fit for the trash bin.

The rapture and salvation with no mention of Jesus?? How does a movie about the rapture and salvation NOT mention Jesus?? Well a classic dud movie. Do not waste your time or money if you are a Christian it may grieve your righteous soul. Any non believer watching this movie will come away more confused than before. it leaves a lot of questions and no answers because Jesus the answer is not mentioned AT ALL. I would highly NOT recommend this film.

Don't waste your time This film is boring, slow moving and not worth a viewing. The theme is disturbing-an older man having an affair with a teenager.

DISAPPOINTED IF I WERE HISPANIC, I PROBABLY WOULD BE SATISIFED. BUT I DID'T LIKE THE GODFATHER AND THIS IS JUST A HISPANIC GODFATHER MOVIE I'M RETURNING IT TO AMAZON FOR CREDIT

Just Awful Despite the technical proficiency on display, this film lacks even an ounce of humanity. It is a cold technological exercise as we have come to expect from Peter Jackson. I saw this and "War Horse" on the same day and could not believe they shared the same director. Tintin is ice cold, overbearing, and boring. It is closer to Spielberg's worst and most indulgent movies, "1942", "Hook" or "Temple of Doom", than his best fantasies, "E.T.", "Close Encounters", or "A.I.", as it should have been. All of Herge's warmth, intelligence, and fanatical attention to detail is lost here. What we have is one "clever" action set piece after another. Moffat's screenplay is as one-note and show-offy as his Dr Who scripts have become, at this point I'm ready for him to crawl back into the obscurity of the BBC where he came from. I really cannot think of anything to recommend this movie unless you simply want to check out the latest in mo-cap technology. A huge, insulting, painful disappointment for any Tintin fan.

Battle of Britain DVD Blu-Ray I was not able to view my copy of this DVD that I received from Amazon. The reason was, it was only Encoded for Blu-Ray Disc Region A/1.Ilive in Australia which is Region B/2.So unfortunately the DVD was of no use to me. So I had to go to a local Video shop and order one from them. It would have been helpful if Amazon had taken my Region in consideration Region B/2 before sending out the product.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000WC39RW">Battle of Britain [Blu-ray</a>]

Switch to bluray There's no reason for them to be releasing 4 disks per set, and then only giving 24 episodes.  Even if it isn't HD they could still fit 100+ episodes on one disk.  This is no different from what they did with DBZ, they see that people love this show and find a way to milk every single penny they can.

DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME!!! What a horrible movie!!! Disjointed plot, could not care less about any of the characters. Truly a disservice to the Original 26 Zatoichi films which were excellent. A waste of 2hrs!!!!!!!!

Bad disk I am so mad. The dvd completely stopped working 20 min int the movie and started skipping then stopped working completely.

Not for me. A great movie....for a 12 year old.The kid is this movie was very irritating, really spoiled the movie.Very nearly  bought this, I'm just glad i rented it first.

One of the WORST films ever made This film defies logic -- in every sense of the word! If not the worst film ever made, certainly in the top 10. This film is an example on how NOT to make a film -- any film! I scarcely know where to begin. The music, singing, acting, directing, story, and dialogue, are all simply awful. People getting killed (albeit most off-screen), those you do see receiving bloodshed, are almost always singing as they are being killed. Right, someone is stabbing you to death and your still belting out a tune while blood pours out. It staggers the mind how truly poor this film was. Thank goodness I saw it free on cable. I should have known that when I saw this mess was written and directed by Vincent D'Onofrio (lead detective on Law & Order: Criminal Intent) it was going to be bad. He was laughable on "Criminal Intent", and he brought his lack of skills to this abomination of a movie. Why were people getting killed? Who was doing all the killing? Who knows? Who cares! The writing was that pitiful. The only reedeming value of this movie was when you saw the credits role at that end. That is when you knew, the 1 hour and 28 minutes you lost watching this dog of a film was finally over. Your misery was over. Take away the cussing and a few scenes, this film is easily PG-13 (almost PG). Better yet, just take the film away period.

AWFUL This movie was AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL. It did not finish the story from the original series. It was basically about a Jewish girl and Hub. If you want to watch this I would recommend ordering it from the library, not wasting money purchasing it. How sad that such an amazing series was cancelled and we are left with this crappy movie to try and tie up loose ends.

Most disturbing movie I have dared to watch What kind of sick bastard thought up of this? This movie pushes the edge when it comes to sadistic. I highly recommend watching this if only to watch the South Park Episode "The Human CENTiPad" afterwards. The South Park episode makes more sense than the actual movie.

what a joke to the gay community as a bear, this movie is just terrible. i can see where they had good intentions but it is so by the numbers predictable. the film struggles to find its own identity the entire time but ends up imitating every love story in the book. the lead and his love interest are so incompatible it doesn't work. he disses him SO many times yet the kid keeps coming back. it borders on disrespectful and mean with the way he treats the younger guy. like hes a nobody. you cant have sympathy for a vain shallow low self esteem guy in a romantic comedy. the younger lead actor deserved better than what the writer came up with. yet the young guy keeps coming back its just insulting. way over dramatic and juvenile, you cant help but feel bad for the actors having to deal with really bad cliche dialogue. if you want to see a MUCH better film, see bearcub. that movie is actually smart and has way more heart and soul than this trainwreck. this is not how gay bears are guys, this is a bad representation of the community and it is so far fetched. this is not how any couple, gay or straight conduct ourselves. its just insulting.

Get Underworld I don't really understand how these movies can draw out so much money, and yet they're just completely dumb. I guess when you have a self-centered tween-age girl and a few shirtless men and "vampires" that sparkle, I guess thats your box-office win in a nut-shell.  I had went to see the previous movies that followed before this, and had hopes that something would change about these fake vampires that sparkle, but it looks like all most people can do right now is wait till this Twilight phase ends. As quoted from Peter Travers of Rolling Stone magazine "Twilight Is Cat-Nip For Fraidy-Cats!" The dialogue in the movies are gawd-awful, and I have not seen acting this bad since Bruce Springsteen's first divorce. This is the most sanitized vampire movie you'll come across.  Like I said: how these movies really are succesfull in the box offices, 1 can only wonder. Here a few vampire movies I do recommend, but then again, they might be too realistic for anyone going on the Twilight-only initiative.  Underworld Van Helsing Interview With The Vampire Let Me In The Lost Boys

really, really creepy I found this movie to be really creepy, not at all for small kids.  If I were a dis I would have been scared to pieces and had nightmares.  The spirits were weird and not at all like Dickens wrote.  The animation is interesting, but off putting, and although I have never been a Jim Carey fan, this is not his best or worst effort.  All in all the movie is creepy, that is the best word I can use to describe it, it made me uncomfortable.  A Christmas Carol is supposed to be about lessons leered from our mistakes, not something that sends you running away from it as fast as you can.  All of the retellings of this story in all of it's versions this is the by far the worst.

what happened to amazon? I ordered this movie 8/9/11. and to this day i still have not received my order. this is actually the second order that amazon has done nothing about. I wish i had some rights as a consumer. two burns on amazon. its time to find another way.

Awful Catch 44 was one of the years worst films I have seen. I felt that it lacked any depth that these stars are capable of performing. Bruce Willis and forest Whitaker have both been nominated for Oscars in various movies. I thought they could pull off at least a weak film. Boy was I wrong. If you enjoy seeing individuals pulled from the nightly news's on the use of drugs, killing and sex trading then this film is for you. On the other hand, if you're like me and like being entertained and pulled away from the nightly news, do not even attempt to watch this movie. I thought the actors tried to portray something with depth however it got left on the editing floor.  I truly expected more and broke my rule of: Expect nothing and be surprised instead of expecting something wonderful and being disappointed. I could not recommend this film for anyone unless you like to see blood and dark humorless humor. I have never found killing as a sport or at the least funny. Don't waste your time or money on this video.

Right title, wrong synops The title and the video describe the Broadsword which is correct.  However the description talks about the New Form which is incorrect.  They need to update the description.

Who would pay $99 for this? Look around $99 for this set is laughingly ridiculous.  The single-disc version of this movie is on sale for $4.99 at Christmastime 2011.

DO NOT BUY THIS VERSION!!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU BUY!! GO BACK AND SEARCH FOR THE UNCUT VERSION AS THIS VERSION CUTS OUT SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SCENES!! I AM SO MAD BECAUSE I ORDERED THIS IN OCTOBER & AM JUST NOW OPENING AND WATCHING TO FIND THAT THIS IS NOT THE RIGHT VERSION... UGH SO UPSET.. SO I AM GOING TO ORDER THE UNCUT VERSION NOW AND JUST PASS THIS ONE ALONG TO MY MOTHER!!! LOVE THE MOVIE, BUT THIS IS NOT THE VERSION YOU ARE LOOKING FOR AND DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY IT IS BEING OFFERED!!

Wouldn't know The DVD wasn't the same as shown on the case.  It was the same as the Hallmark Collector set V.3

Ruined by Digital Noise Reduction Predator is a classic sci-fi action film, and fans have been waiting for a proper release of this film on Blu-ray. When Fox announced the Ultimate Hunter Edition, we all rejoiced. That is until we seen the quality of the movie on the disc.  The movie has undergone a heavy scrubbing with the use of Digital Noise Reduction (DNR). For whatever reason, studios are using the more and more on catalog titles released on Blu-ray. Sadly, because most people don't understand what DNR is and what it does to the image.  Digital Noise Reduction is an automated process done to the image to reduce noise and artifacts on the video. DNR can be used to a positive effect (see the recent remaster of the Alien films for example), but studios are overdoing it. If you look at the image on this edition of the Blu-ray, you'll see that the texture of people's skin has been made almost as smooth as a Barbie doll. What the DNR has done is not only remove the noise from the video, but also all the fine detail that Blu-ray is supposed to provide. You're actually getting less detail than the standard DVD because of all the missing video information that has been scrubbed away.  If you'd like to see other movies that have been the victim of heavy DNR, check out the Blu-rays of American Psycho, Tremors, Walking Tall, and Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

Worse than the first My friend told me not to watch but I didn't listen and went to see it with my nieces and it sucked.  Review should be 0 star.

THIS MOVIE IS TRASH,THE STORY AND 3D IS AWFUL bought this yesterday bc the previews lookd cool, when i started watching it i soon turned off the crappy 3d, and turnd on the 2d picture, wanted to see some 3d but first off this movie has the dreadful black lines on the top and bottom of the screen makin 3d watching so horrible to watch, just a crappy story,and crappy actors and doesnt tell you,how the aleins got here nor shows them beating them at the end, they just floated away in a sub. come on people and the aliens cant see you thru some glass, give me a break

Don't Buy I don't often do reviews, but this disk (set) was so bad, I had to.  Although the production has many merits, all is lost in the utterly incomprehensible editing. You will see from the other reviews that the series ends abruptly, without resolving the story or many (any) of its sub-plots. I can't stress this enough: in spite of high production values, very good acting, and brilliant intertwining of fictional characters and story lines with real history, this set will leave you profoundly disappointed.  Throughout the series there are many instances where the editors have jumped over non-essential story elements, and even complete story arcs, to condense a long telenovela into a manageable set of disks. Never-the-less, you can follow the main narrative and most of the minor arcs up to almost the end. The final episode, however, ends bewilderingly at the start of what must have been an important scene (one of the lead villains discovers his wife's corpse), and doesn't resolve any of the other, many, subplots, or even the principal story arc, the war for the independence of Mexico.  I simply can't imagine how or why such an utterly shoddy, sloppy, (fill in your own profanities here), could be released to the public as a viable product. I have seen a lot of bad editing in the conversion of long telenovelas to disk (not just Mexican, but Chinese, Indian, Turkish, and others), but absolutely nothing so bad as this. It is so bad, I am almost convinced that it must have been deliberate. Somebody must have really had it in for someone. But, like I said, in the end it is utterly incomprehensible.  One last word. I didn't bother reading any of the reviews which would have alerted me to this set's short comings because I assumed, based on other historical Mexican telenovelas that I have seen that this would be great. I won't make that mistake again.  I promise you, and more importantly myself, that I will pay more attention to others' reviews in the future.

Slower than watching a mule walk. The first thing you notice is how sloooow time is moving as you doze off while watching a bunch of people riding or should I say walking their horses while going nowhere except to some poorly scripted dead end at the hands of some guy that just shows up and shoots them dead seemingly always about in the same spot. Even the fatal gunshot was always in the same chest spot. I guess the props people must have used the same red paint blood seeping vest over and over again. That's the whole movie.  Dialogue was bizarre in that it sounded more like some one from Hollywood trying to imagine how people talked back then. Always amusing when they use some contemporary phrasing. Acting was mostly a crew with little experience or maybe a few TV spots and a few well known titles such as "Terror at Blood Fart Lake", "Stiffed", "The Stink of Flesh", "Rotgut". Directing and cinematography gave us a lot of scenery of sage brush desert. Exciting!

disappointment As an avid fan of the core fusion series, I was shocked at this dvd.  First off, the quality of the filming is atrocious.  Often part of the picture is blurred ( I wondered to myself if this was a copy of a copy)...absolutely terrible camera quality.  The set is all one tone of yellow and it looks terrible- nothing like the other dvds in the series (I own all of them).  I still cannot believe that they released this.  As for the workout, it is okay but with a name like power sculpt I was definately expecting a bit more...all in all, save your money to buy something else.

refund please!!! awful. Very FEW of the classics you'll remember, and lots of high brow orchestra limiting Ray and his magical voice. The sound seemed really low quality, we've got an incredible sound system and it sounded like AM Radio at points. Whenever he spoke to the crowd or the orchestra, you couldn't hear his voice.

Not so good.. This was one of the worst top 10. The acting was bad, the script was bad. Too much profanity in the wrong places as well as the fighting was horrible. What were they fighting for???? The whole movie didn't make sense or have direction. Don't waste your money on this, like I did to rent from Redbox.

Not impressed I am in the middle of watching this movie.  I am not impressed in the least.  Mr. Rupert has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and was a cop for 30 years.  Apparently that makes him an expert on CIA drug operations, oil drilling, economics and doomsday prediction.  The documentary is fragmented, non-linear, unsupported and is based off the testimony of a man that says that the CIA has been trying to kill him for years.  As a side note, if the CIA wanted to kill you, you'd already be dead.  This is the alarmist nonsense that people have been predicting for hundreds of years.  I was hoping for something a little more substantial than a fat old man telling me that the CIA is trafficking drugs through El Toro Marine base, killing Marine Colonels and that the world is coming to an end.  His proof?  He says so.  Oh, ok, I believe it now.  Terrible, F.

This is not THE A-Team Sorry, but this movie is just a bunch of wannabees. The real A-Team was from the 80's. I can't stand to watch wannabees. I can't only watch the real deal and these guys aren't it.

true grit very disappointed as I was unable to view the product. The DVD is Zone 1 (USA only) while I am in Zone 4 (Australia) There was no information regarding zoning at the time of purchase. All in all, very disappointing and, to me, a complete waste of money. I am yet to receive RED, which was purchased at the same time as True Grit. Hopefully I'll have better luck with that one. Having said that, this is the first time I have had any problem with any of my numerous purchases from Amazon.  Regards

Move along, nothing to see here. I don't expect a cinematic masterpiece from a movie like "Legend of the Mummy", but I do expect to be entertained. This movie failed to deliver. Marketed as a horror movie, it's mostly a mystery with horror elements, and its main problem is the script. The plot is a barely coherent mess and there's absolutely no suspense or anything even remotely interesting going on in the movie. It's just boring. Not recommended.

Blair Witch 2:Book Of Shadows review The opening is super confusing at best. It has little-to-nothing to do with first film at all. The cast are jerks at best. It has more plotholes then Top Cat & The Beverly Hills Cats. The editing is second-rate. There's way too much overacting from them. There's also way too many pointless scenes like the ghost girl. The movie also never explains about the some plotholes like the ghost girl,scenes fo people getting killed,how the goth girl can see into the future and most of all,The Book of Shadows. Infact,they never talked about it or even show it for that matter. There's some blood & gore but not enough. The only A+ in this film is the sick twist ending. I give Blair Witch 2 a 1 out of 10.

How'd This Even Get A 3 Star? Goes to show no matter how bad a movie is, there's still some senseless people that think it's good or were high on multiple meds. This movie was horrible (similar thoughts about Green Lantern). It was not funny, it was not witty or clever, and no way was it worth the ever rising theater price.  Everything was just plain boring and mind numbing-ly plain. Cameron Diaz isn't laugh-out-loud funny and making her the main character only made that fact clearer than ever. Justin Timberlake also stars in the movie, but the attempts to make the things he do or say funny failed. Only die-hard fans that would jump off a bridge if these two asked would root them on. Snooze-fest alert. Making Cameron Diaz the main star in a comedy type movie is almost as bad as when they put Gerald Butler in a past comedy movie with Jennifer Aniston as a couple, Bounty Hunter, which was a major fail. Gerald Butler in a comedy? Jokes aside please.  Now for possible movie spoilers to back up some of the stuff that I'm saying.  SPOILER ALERT!  1. Timberlake is a nice, fun guy. This movie, in my opinion, made him look bad. Not a funny kind of bad, but that of an insulting nature to the point where it was starting to disgust and annoy me. Maybe even to the point where one would ask themself "maybe this is how he is in real life off camera?" He received corny, stale dialogues and actions throughout the movie. Example would be at the bar where he sung that stupid rhyming song. I know it was meant to be funny and to poke fun because we all know he's a great singer, but I could only manage a mild awkward smirk. It just wasn't laughing material, it was sad really. Another mention goes out for the scene with them at the attempt of making love with clothes on, funny, but mostly awkward of the lowly nature. Trying a bit hard to get the laughs in are we?  2. You sort of get the feeling that the movie was steering Diaz away from Timberlake and more towards the gym teacher (whatever his name might be). However, there were no real strong scenes to show that. Her interest slowly switches but there were no strong scenes to give reason to that change. Sure they ended up talking to each other more, but that's pretty much it, small chit chats here and there.  3. The conflict between the main character and her rival is rather boring because if you think about it, they're both bad teachers who seem to pay more attention in getting at each other than their student. One's a plain out bad teacher and the other one is a closet psychopathic B. Now who do we REALLY root for? Of course Diaz since we know her better. It's more like "which teacher do we hate more?"  The movie is not only NOT funny, but there's nothing to get out of it either. No morals, no real objective, nothing. It's movies like this that give further reason why people are pirating and downloading illegal movies more and more everyday rather than pay money to watch it. People are afraid to spend REAL money to watch a FAKE movie. It's more of a gamble nowadays to find a good movie in the theater and I might even add a bad gamble. I wouldn't even watch this movie with my enemy so why would I even consider bringing a friend? If a friend made me pay to watch this with them, I would have hated them almost as much as my empty wallet would if it could speak. Only I alone should suffer, I'm the guinea pig of movie watching.  Movie industry against pirating and illegal downloads? Solution? Make better movies and lower theater/dvd/bluray prices. Sounds simple but obviously very difficult or probably impossible. Making us pay top dollars for a crappy product...I'm pretty sure they're thankful to all those people out there that can't tell the difference between something of acceptable quality and total and utter crap.  I can be for certain when I say there's probably countries that are using movies like this as torturing methods.  SUM IT UP!  Movie failed cause of two main factors: 1. Boring plot littered with tons of worthless scenes that add little to nothing to the general storyline. 2. Actors that were NOT suited for the movie and therefore did not feel natural. Diaz as the main character to a comedy? NO. I love her and Justin, but they were not meant for this movie.

I changed my mind Being a very passionate Harry Potter fan, this collection made a very good impression on me, especially the slick design and collectibles included. However, upon reading all the other reviews, I realised how true their comments are. I wouldn't mind spending that much money if it's actually worth it, but truthfully, it's not. Why are there only extended cuts for the first 2 movies, instead for all of them? Because that is what we Harry Potter fans actually WANT. The series is over, so just GIVE us the most complete set ever to be made instead of gradually making different sets to rip us all off. All I'm saying is, just make another limited and numbered edition, with a beautiful design like this one, complete with all the extended cuts and special editions ever made on the Harry Potter movies (and I mean ALL of them!) and of course, the collectibles wouldn't hurt either. I really hope that Warner Brothers will actually consider all our comments here and give it another thought because this is absolutely ludicrous.

not so good It was recomended, but couldn't watch the whole thing.  Not so interesting for me, wrong generation, maybe good for the younger generation.

Dogma? More Like Dogs--t In the mid 1990s, a group of Danish directors like Lars Von Trier and Kristian Levring formed a filmmaking movement called "Dogme 95", a manifesto where they attempted to create movies without special effects, technology, props, sets, lighting kits, optical work and filters. It was considered a groundbreaker at the time and gained international appeal throughout the world.  Well, after watching "Dancer in the Dark", all I got to say is they're breaking new ground, alright; they're breaking new ground on how to make worse movies than before. If anything, "Dancer" confirms the uncomfortable and eternal proof that, despite the efforts of shallow critics, most European filmmakers have no clue how to make good, intelligently crafted movies.  This movie aspires to be a cross between Robert Wise's "I Want to Live", musicals and Douglas Sirk melodramas, with a typically depressing tone found in many turgid European movies. Note that I said "aspires" and not "succeeds". Otherwise, this movie DOES succeed as empty-headed, incompetently directed garbage that has no respect for the audiences' intelligence or any normal human being for that matter. The musical numbers themselves are poorly choreographed, visually unappealing and horribly sang by Bjork, who gives a performance that would please orangutans. Critics defended these ridiculous scenes for being bold and different. I'm sorry but Rebecca Black was bold and different too and look where it got her.  Many of these dopey critics even go as far as hailing the movie for its realistic, sympathetic portrait of a disadvantaged person in a compromising society. Give me a break. Explain to me what's so realistic of a blind woman covering for a guy who stole her kids' eye surgery money because he made her promise not to tell anyone of his own money problems. Where's the realism in that person refusing to confess to the judge when she is put on trial for his murder? Or her friend not believing that this blind girl did not commit a crime but that her loser husband did? Furthermore, how come she doesn't tell any of her other close friends about it in private? This movie is no more realistic than a Hollywood chick flick, except this time, both male AND female audiences will be in pain sitting through this godawful movie.  And for a movie that claims to be realistic, "Dancer in the Dark" spares no expense at trying to get us emotionally riled up. Besides the hackneyed eye-operation subplot, there are scenes where Von Trier has the nerve to try to jerk tears from the audience. One of the most painful scenes in the movie is straight out of a ludicrous 1950s melodrama. This scene occurs in the end when Bjork is in prison. As she walks toward her execution, she falls down and the security guard acts sympathetic and tries to bring her back to her feet. As she stands on the platform reading to be hanged, Bjork sings a horribly off-key song in happiness before her death. Oh, please. And critics say "Schindler's List" was manipulative. I know I'm supposed to be moved to tears but when she was cut off and hanged, I was standing up and cheering that one of the stupidest characters in movie history was killed.  Speaking of crap that doesn't work, you would think that this movie may have something to recommend in its cinematography, right? Wrong. This is one of the ugliest-looking movies I have ever seen. Think about it: this movie is so bad that not even the cinematography is good. Most European pictures, even some of the worst, at least provide some visual pleasure. The camerawork in "Dancer in the Dark" is so nauseating that Michael Bay movies seem more elegant. The non-musical scenes are shot in poorly lit, irritating shaky and sloppily edited to resemble a documentary while the musical scenes are in hideously bright digital video. Apparently, these shots were made to distinguish the real scenes from the fantasy scenes but something's not working when the whole movie looks like crap. There's even a scene where Joel Gray appears at the end to tap-dance and Von Trier doesn't have a clue how to frame him properly.  Nevertheless, an idiotic shambles like "Dancer in the Dark" was guaranteed to win prizes by some of the most ignorant pseudo-intellectuals, even nabbing Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Of course, this would not be the last time Cannes would hand their prestigious awards to feeble movies, as was seen with Gus Van Sant's boring "Elephant" and the shamelessly cloying "Fahrenheit 9/11". Von Trier can rest easy, knowing that this abomination isn't the only movie to receive undeserving accolades from deadbeat critics.  As for the rest of us, we will realistically stay away from this abysmal wreck and watch movies made by directors who know more about the human condition in their finger than Von Trier does in his whole brain. To me, that's more realistic than anything in "Dancer in the Dark".  Strongest recommendation to avoid at all costs.

bad purchase movie came in quick time, was actually delivered before the est. delivery date. on the bad side, it wouldnt play in any of my dvd players (computer included) for regional problems. i was not very happy about that, purchasing from providers inside the US should mean that the dvd's reflect OUR region, not a different countries.

No extended Cut They're clearly waiting for the inevitable 16-DVD BluRay Box set to release the extended cuts of the films and Deathly Hallows in HD on iTunes.  Save your money, once I got my 3&4 and found I'd been fooled into buying them, I brought all four of my "Ultimate Editions" to a used store.  I already have these movies on DVD and don't need to spent 40 bucks to see "making of" features and get a picture book.

Don't believe the Hype OK, first off the story-line of this movie is good, but it winds up being a piece of trash and ruined, and I mean the bottom of the trash heap for the following reasons 1.Matt Damon just doesnt cut it as a bad-ass 2."Matrix" style fighting sequences just dont go with this movie 3.Its a Spy/Action movie..I understand that there are going to be things pulled off that are un-realistic..and thats cool...I like movies like James Bond, Rambo, XXX, The Matrix, Expendables, and Crank..but watching Matt Damon fighting sequences are about as un-real as it can get..come on..disarming like 3people in 2 seconds, then kicking the crap out of another 2 in another 5sec...wow I have nothing against Matt Damon..Great Actor...just not fit for this role..he's not a tough guy..and that what these movie wants us to believe, and since it is actually meant to have a story (which is does) its way 2 over the top with action that belongs in ps3 video games or movies like Crank..just not here...Alot of people liked it...and its spawned 2 sequals, which surprised the hell out of me..i just didnt buy into the hype

Horrible! Only Photographs, NO Video!! This is basically someone taking a Hubble photograph and slowly panning over it with a video recorder.  No explination of what you are looking at other than a small typed title at the bottom which disappears after about 10 seconds.  My son kept asking me "What's that?" and I couldn't explain anything to him.  Boy, was I was expecting MUCH higher video quality!  It looked like I had put a VHS tape in to watch.  I guess it was because this was a video of photographs.  I wish I would have bought the HUBBLE IMAX movie insted!

Flawless( DeNIro) I need to know how to return.  The disc says it" cannot be played in this region".  I have never seen this before.  Someone sold me a copy that  cannot be used. I very much appreciate trading for a useable disc asap. Thank you, Jeanann Eckert

Horrible film This film won awards at film festivals and I can only see one reason for it to have won. The cinematography and acting job by the lead character. The film other than that was a bore for me. There was nothing that shocking or shocking at all in the film. But I will give credit to the filmmaker for his directing and the supberb acting, and thats about it. For fans of horror and bizarre cinema skip it.

El Cid Have ordered several movies from Amazon - never knew when I ordered this Blu-ray that there were Region codes.  Bought as a birthday gift.  Will return this.

Abba dabba don't! After repeated attempts to look at this movie and literally falling asleep in the process, it dawned on me that I was looking for the thing to make sense, to have a plot, to actually be something that went from point A to point B and actually told some sort of story. This was the mistake! There is none of the above. All it is is trans-spiritual gobble-guck rife with hordrometts and gizzle-wigkets, dolp-grommets, bing-slammits and wands that can do anything including creating flowers on graves. This is the worst movie that was ever so-called created for children. It is a false spiritual odyssey. The next door youngster when asked if he had seen it said: "It's goofy! I don't like that." This is a massive exploitation of the American and other publics' inability to not "be with it!" There is no plot, there is no single thing to draw and keep your attention and it is so dark, dank and depressing because it is so completely absurd. To enjoy and appreciate anything there must be some sort of theme or idea that catches the imagination and leads it and you through the adventure. The Wizard of Ox did this brilliantly years ago, and is still treasured as a masterpiece and always will be. Fifty years from now, will there be an anniversary edition of this? Congratulations, to the lady who started and continued this saga. She's made a fortune, and like the Piped Piper, she has "whistled" the kids of all ages straight into the sea! Oh! And then we have part two... Lastly, Amazon will eventually have to print this. The "pics" (people in charge) will discover the consequences if they don't.

Miserable Misdirection - Logic Errors and Poor Pacing I hated this movie, I really did.  Here is why:  ****SPOILER****  *there is a massive logic error in that when Hermonie spells Harry and all are captured nobody seems to realize that Hermonie and Ron means Harry is there too, especially since the makeup job on Harry was so obvious to make it clear to every single person watching this film that the game was up.  Yet, all the other characters remain blissfully unaware even though the snatchers seemed to realize who they had.  Now, you can argue that maybe Draco didn't want, in his heart, to give them up but obviously Draco's father did - and he knew Hermonie and Ron by sight (and what about Pettigrew?  Did he just loose his mind?).  This made absolutely no sense but it was absolutely central to the plot.  To compound the error, Bellatrix writes the name 'mudblood' in Hermonie's skin which makes it clear that she recognized who Hermonie was (otherwise, what's the point of doing this?) but nope - they all had an incredible case of the stupids.  Blame the director, cause obviously he didn't care one way or the other in making this believable.  *the entire sequence in the Ministry of Magic should have been spine-tingling but instead was lifeless and lacking in any danger or drama.  I was shocked that the director managed to suck the life of what could have been the absolute highlight of the movie, especially the riveting sequence in the book when Harry saves countless people from the dementors but in this movie an epic sequence is reduced to - what - 60 seconds?  What a waste!  *it was boring.  Let's admit it, this movie didn't flow like the 4th film or any of the others, with pacing dreadfully dull and lost opportunities galore from the books.  It was telling that the best part of the movie was the Deathly Hallows cartoon sequence where for once the director showed some imagination and style.  Unfortunately, the rest of the movie didn't feature anything else inspiring.  All in all, I found this movie incredibly disappointing and an absolute disservice to the original material.  Oh, and I agree on the special features and packaging - it was absolutely disgraceful.  P.S.  It was pointed out that the book had an explanation for the logic error, but the funny thing is that was in the book, NOT the movie.  There was NEVER any hint that V had a nasty temper regarding inappropriate or missing Harry sightings - quite the opposite was implied!

Skip this movie Very poor movie. The acting was very bad and the camera angles, zooms and "special effects" we're really bad. They used green screens that looked like it was from " Fresh Prince of Bel Air." I wouldn't waste your time.

FRIEDKIN IS A RACIST PIG I was astounded / offended when I heard this idiot refer to Gonzalo Gavira -the sound effects creator- as a "Mexican peasant with no shoes" in the accompanying documentary 'The Fear of God'.  Mr. Gavira -to whom much of the film's success is owned- worked in more than 100 films both in Mexico and abroad up until 2004, less than a year before his untimely death, and `The Exorcist' is just one more example of his brilliant talents as an artist (in fact, sound effects are known in the Mexican trade as "Gaviras", in honor of his creativity).  And FYI Friedkin: most foley artists work without shoes for fear of ruining their recordings with the unnecessary sounds of footsteps, as they have to move around the studio all the time while working, so it should be no surprise to a professional like you say you are, but referring to him as "a Mexican peasant with no shoes" really has no excuse, as damaging and offensive as the 15 seconds deleted from Disney's "Fantasia" (Warner Bros., take note).  I am definitely throwing this movie in the garbage can.

Retarded! Most horror movies have some holes in the plot but this one really takes the cake. "The collector" manages to rig a whole house full of traps in the few minutes it take a burglar to walk up stairs and look around. These are traps like running piano wire back and forth all over a room, filling a room with a dozen very large and very heavy bear traps, and putting a bunch of knives on a chandelier and rigging it to fall. He also manages to not only board up all the second story window but also put razors in between the boards. Amazingly the skilled burglar who had been casing the place didn't notice all the windows suddenly boarded up since he was there a few hours ago. The daughter of the family and her boyfriend also managed to miss this when they came home.    The worst part was that all the traps weren't needed. He already had the parents, he didn't know about the burglar, and he grabs the daughter as soon as she comes inside. Plus the villain is abnormally strong, impossible to kill and has no back story.    This is just horrible straight to dvd movie with a god awful plot that didn't make any sense and a bunch of pointless traps.

Weird, Dated, Lame Movie I should have done some research before paying $2.99 to watch this movie. If musicals and the idea of animals being burned alive bother you, then skip it. I don't even know if it was a good movie. The characters were so annoying, the basic premise so overblown and browbeaten that within a few minutes I could find nothing in any scene to rest my eyes on. Maybe that was the point. It was like a long, bad acid trip. When I read later that animals actually were burned alive I just felt sick. Neither entertaining nor enlightening. Just effed-up.

Why??  because the movie was awesome...not with this though!! The only reason this will sell is because people will figue it to be like the movie...but the thing is NO hammer!  I will pass on this!

you get what you paid for This is a five star movie.  It is a classic and worth every star BUT i should have purchased a restored version because this copy is hardly viewable.  My own fault.  I will have to get the better copy and then i can write a decent review.  If you want this film be sure you get it in the restored version.

Great Film For Disturbing Violence Junkies! I truly regret seeing Limitless! The violence is excessive and disturbing. PG-13 doesn't mean very much anymore! The current movie rating system in the United States is an absolute joke and it should be abolished! Have a sex/violence activity rating system that's practical! At least that kind of rating system would be much more honest! When stabbing out a man's eye and making him blind (he was already blind in the other eye) is PG-13, then what's next? Scraping an eye out with a spoon?  See:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0552149845">War Junkie: One Man's Addiction to the Worst Places on Earth</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0871136643">The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History</a>

Don't bother I started watching this with high hopes but very quickly felt let down and was pressing stop half way through. If you want to see this story done properly then get the original (Infernal Affairs) rather than this pile of trash. Why do English language directors feel they have to dumb down Asian movies when they remake them. To me this goes in the same bin as The Grudge or The ring or just about every remake of a good Foreign language film. I can only hope there isn't an American director out there hoping to remake Pan's Labyrinth.

No English subtitles.  Said it did on the Amazon description. The Amazon free shipping delivery time was very good and the product arrived in good condition.  But, I was disappointed to find that this dvd of Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince did not have English subtitles.  My wife and I are elderly and have trouble understanding (we hear just fine) the modern movie recording techniques.  It would have been a good bargain but, as it is, I have had to return the dvd and look for a proper dvd to add to our Harry Potter collection.

ugh Smirking, obscenities, obscenities while smirking, obscenities while not smirking.  This film has nothing else to offer, so unless you find smirking and/or obscenities intrinsically humorous don't bother.

Nothing new here and the music sucks! If you are a Betty Page fan (of which I have been since the first issue of THE BETTY PAGES in 1986), it's likely you've already seen this material.  It's a half assed documentary that is really just an excuse to show a succession of Irving Klaw film clips; the very same film clips that have been circulating for over twenty years now.  They're not even very good copies of them.  I was stunned at how blurry and scratched some of the films were since better copies do exist.  I know, I have them. I will give the film a little credit.  It does start off as a documentary of Betty Page and does include school pictures and family pics of Betty's youth I had never seen before. And we get a pretty accurate summary of Betty Page's life before she took up modeling.  But when it gets to Betty making films for Irving Klaw, the documentary pretense suddenly stops, the narrator disappears, and all the viewer is left with is a short succession of edits from Klaw's films.  One would get the impression that Betty's sole claim to fame is her infamous bondage films.  There is no mention of her work with Bunny Yeager or Betty's television spots or anything of her life after she gave up modeling.  I have to mention the music.  The Klaw films were silent so the brains behind this quickie added some ragtime piano as a soundtrack.  It's horrible, inappropriate, and intellectually insulting!  These films are from the 50's.  Why play music from the 20's and 30's?  They are not silent films from the silent film era!  The people who made this film just did not care.  The whole thing comes across as something some nerd put together on a computer and decided to make a quick buck. Betty Page deserves better. Oh, and the title...Betty Page is not nude in any of the Irving Klaw films and apparently the film makers don't have any nude films from private collections...so, why call it The Naked Truth? Just to tease you and take your money. Resist.

Meet Mr. Meldrew I can enthusiastically recommend One Foot in the Grave, Season 1. Newly unemployed Victor experiences everything from hand grenades to escaped snakes. This is a wonderful introduction to a very funny series. This is the second Season 1 I purchased from Amazon. The first did not play, but I returned it and quickly ordered another, which was just fine. Returns are very easy with Amazon.

I'd rather meet Al in a dark basement.... I'd rather meet Al in a dark basement than have to sit through this turkey again. Low budge doesn't have to mean low quality but sadly in this case....

More is less I hate to do this. As a lover of the original American Graffiti I had high hopes for this title. That having been said, More American Graffiti sucks like a Hoover & makes a mockery of the characters & themes from it's marvellous predecessor. Don't contaminate your fond memories of American Graffiti with this Dreck. Fair warning.

Secret is movie sucks This movie failed to understand how to make a succesful B-horror movie. First mistake this movie had was that it tried to make a serious horror movie. When you don't have a budget to pay for great actors or effects, don't try to make a super serious film. There is going to be flaws and terrible acting in your film so accept it and add comedy into your horror movie to lighten up the mood. Making it super serious will only make you judge the film as a serious horror movie and your not going to draw the audience in. There were really no likable characters in this movie and the plot is really thin. The gore, which usually is in abundance in these type of films was lacking. It is also a confusing mess what is going on. Is there a ghost killer, serial killer, killer clown, going on, No it happens to be witch craft.Wait a minute now it's something else. Zombies now are the killer.  To confusing for a B-movie. Don't waste your time on this dud. Find yourself a better movie to entertain you tonight. You'll thank me for saving you time watching this sad attempt of a horror film.

DIE ultraviolet DIE!!! Being stuck on airplanes most of the time this ultraviolet "fake digital copy" is useless! Wifi is usually 10 bucks to use so again there's more. They should NOT be able to call them digital copies! They are online copies! Just buy the Blu ray version. They can get the ultraviolet crap version back and use them for coasters!

Low Budget Disappointment I cannot believe this video had a five star rating. I feel ripped off. Here's why: -All the footage appears to have been shot using a home movie camcorder. -They talk about how amazing glaciers sound when they crack...but you never hear it because the sound quality is so bad. And on top of that there's super annoying tourists yelling "whoo hoo!" "Yay!" in almost every shot. Gets old fast. -Terrible soundtrack. Generic filler drivel. -Poorly written narration.  Watching huge chunks of glacier fall into the ocean IS pretty cool--but the sound, image, and music quality are so bad that this film was actually painful to watch.

Research One star is too high here. With very few lights in this speech except that there is a hidden agenda, which is agreed upon, but he basicly relies on research from the burnt Library of Alexandria. If this is to be taken seriously, there needs to be more research than this. Just using Library of Alexandria to base attacks on problems is not researching nor is it giving your audience any direct substance. If research is not improved, he is doing more harm than good. Stay away from this guy.

Crazy Stupid Movie I really can't understand why people are rating this movie so highly! My husband and I watched it and we found it was so boring we could barely sit through it. I'm really disappointed because I have waited for this movie to come out for months :(  Everyone knows what happens, Steve's wife leaves him because their marriage is falling apart and because she slept with someone else. Of course, AFTER they separate and Steve sleeps with someone, she's offended because apparently only Julianne is allowed to do that.  All the kids in the movie were little nutcases who will probably spend time in jail at some point. I didn't find the son's obsessive relationship with the babysitter cute, nor did I find her sick obsession with Steve to be heartwarming, either. Besides that, it didn't really drive the plot, and it wasn't funny. So the point was...? Oh and the speech at the end was so ridiculously cheesy I felt uncomfortable watching it.  The only time I laughed out loud was once during a line spoken by Ryan Gosling, but he was also an implausible character because of this sudden altruistic act where he decides to help Steve. Even the trailer showed a scene that sort of explained this (when they're in the bathroom and Steve asks for help) but the movie makes no such effort. Also, his story with Emma Stone was completely ridiculous. When is Hollywood going to stop telling the story of a cute girl who is just so different that she's able to reform a womanizing man without even realizing it? Oh, Hollywood, you are so in touch with real relationships, I applaud you.  My husband and I are in our twenties so there's no issue that we didn't understand it or that it was too racy for us. We just didn't like it. I feel like it had so many big names that they didn't feel they needed to try with silly things like a plot and dialogue.

What were they thinking... Take a so-so science fiction book (Id give it 3 stars) and put it through the Hollywood wringer with a director that spends a massive budget on big name actors and special effects.  Plotline, pretty awful and has absolutely huge holes that you could fit a carrier battle group through.  I mean, harriers that are in one piece after 1000+ years, let alone fuel and munitions and are able to outfight an alien race that conquered Earth in 9mins?  Was there any actual thinking that went into this?  Many of those A-List actors, this is the worst parts I have seen them in; Im not sure if it was the director, the script writer, or the actor just not giving a damn about the part.  Frankly, the nicest things I can say is that it does end, and it fun for drinking games.  It really makes me wish that MST3K were still around so they could heckle this pile of crap, maybe then it would be watchable.  Otherwise, steer clear of this flick.

Horrible - Horrible movie The main character in this movie finds his teenager dead one day and decides to hang him in the closet from a belt. It's absolutely horrible, terrible movie. Don't confuse this with traditional Robin Williams movies that inspire you. As a former fan, I will never watch another Robin Williams movie again after watching this one. And I never used to pick movies by the director but I'm not watching another movie made by this loser again either. Worst movie ever.

Once again, it seems... No extended cut. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. As you know, Warner Brothers has officially announced the Ultimate Editions of years 5 and 6. The product descriptions are quite wordy. There's a lot of talk about how fans should be excited about these new releases. But there are two words missing from the descriptions of both these products: Extended. Cut.  These are the words that sold me in the beginning. The promise of seeing extended cuts of the HP films was enough for me (and many, MANY other fans) to double dip and get the Ultimate SS and CoS Blu-rays. And you know what? There were worth it. Not because of the endless array of worthless swag packed into over-size boxes. I mean, seriously... Anybody out there framing their lenticular cards and hanging them over their mantles? I didn't think so. But I digress...  What sold me and so many other fans was the extended cuts. And so I began collecting the Ultimate Editions. And what excited me even more was the idea of more extended cuts to come, especially for The Order of the Phoenix.  Then PoA and GoF Ultimate Editions came out, and of course, there were no extended cuts. And Warner Bros. spun us a tale of directors and their creative preferences. And so, we all said "fair enough" (although I, for one, never quite bought that explanation). Still, I had hopes for OotP and HBP. Director David Yates is on record talking about having to cut 45 minutes from The Order of the Phoenix. And yet, here we are again with no extended cut to speak of. I'm sure the studio will spin us a tale of how busy Yates has been with the final installment of the franchise, thus making it impossible to return to these previous films and give the fans what they want: An official ultimate collector's replica of a square of Hogwart's Toilet Paper.  Oh, I meant AN EXTENDED CUT.  Now, I understand Warner Bros. desire to get these editions on the shelves before the final film hits theaters. As for me, I would gladly wait a year for these editions if it meant getting to see extended cuts of the films. But this is not about the fans. This is about the bottom line. If the WB can get a half-@$$ product onto the shelves sooner, and therefore presumably make more money in the final season of Potter movie mania, then who cares what the fans want? We will buy anything with the word Ultimate in front of it. Or maybe not.

i want my stinkin 2.99 back If you want to waste your time watching the stupidest piece of ass film ever made, then this is your movie.  idiocracy doesn't begin to describe Mike Judge's apparent descent into life as an imbecile. He used to write, right? He drank his own coolaid on this one.  Really, couldn't stand it.  Couldn't even get twenty minutes into it.  Awful. Lame. Pathetic.  Some of the cartoon effects are mildly amusing.  I want my stinkin 2.99 back.  Really.

Just.... Bad I tried to watch this movie at the recommendation of a friend, who never steers me wrong.  I'm sorry, but this movie is just crap.  The socio-political events of the time are really just a backdrop against which a whiny feminist tells her tales of rejected love and the challenges of adult relationships. If you are looking for a story that focuses on the tumultuous events the author lived through, this isn't it.  This movie is almost entirely focused on her love life.  The movie always makes it very evident that while the author wants to be seen as a rebel, She is really just craving attention and acceptance.  Please don't waste your time on this garbage.

Aweful This movie is a destruction of good work done over years. The story line is weak, complex relationships and tensions among crew members are torn apart and solved in a blink of an eye. Seems like a big revenge strike against those who always knew better (and used to be in charge). Characters are flat and their relationships reflect no desire for bridging cultural gaps, for understanding, something that  used to be so important in the saga. I do not really see why every feature version has to come with a full destruction of the ship, but so be it, if the story carries. Unfortunately, also the directing makes it clear from the very beginning that the god guys are going to win once more, an attitude which (since we know this will happen because it has to) frankly reflects the lack of precision in directing (not only the story). A pity, but this is just a crash and explosion movie that tries to exploit the saga. Well, I guess it worked at the time, and it paid well.

Worst movie ever! For a movie named Drive, it had very little interesting driving in it, and no action what so ever. This movie's dialog was limited to one word answers like yeah, whatever, no. Really? That's the best you can do. It's Horrible.

Digital Copy Has Expired This is a 5-star movie, however, it is being sold as having a digital copy included.  I just bought this and was disappointed to see that when I entered my digital copy confirmation code, I got an 'expired' message.  Amazon should remove "digital copy" from the product description.

complete trash This movie is a waste of life that should never have been made. No character development at all so you don't care at all what happens to the unfortunate humans in this sad excuse for a movie. The main antagonist is an alien that somehow became a "hybrid" when it impregnated a predator. Seriously? Somehow when a predator gets face-hugged the alien can become a hybrid? Okay... whatever. Totally disregard any pretense of actually sticking with any part of the "Alien" back-story. Maybe if the viewers had never seen an Alien movie we could get past that...  The hybrid also somehow has the ability to bypass the whole "egg laying" process that normal aliens have and can implant multiple eggs into hosts by giving them a big sloppy kiss. Let's try to ignore how far out and ridiculous that is, and how much is screws the whole "Alien" concept even more, but the directors of this lamentable use of film decided that this hybrid needed to prance through a maternity ward and give eggs to multiple pregnant women. It was heart-breaking. Overly gory. Revolting. The extreme gore is all this movie has going for it, which is why, I imagine, that this "uncut" version is the most popular one.  If you get your jollies off senseless gore, then by all means, you may appreciate this pathetic excuse for entertainment. If you have a mind and the ability to use it, or if you've seen any other predator or alien movie and expect equally well thought-out mythos, you won't find what you're looking for here.  The first AvP was amazing. Excellent character development. Mild gore - and what was there was purposeful. Plot twists (including the alliance between the human and the predator - loved it), and a well-written script based loosely on the AvP books (which are also very good).

Hopeless I was sent a copy that will not play in the US. I was asked to jump through many hoops just to get a refund.  It was only $9 so I chose not to bother. Don't ever trust this company.

CAGE RAGES IN A NEW DO The need for a fix of "Cage Rage" is really the only reason to see this film that begs the question of how and why some movies are made (other than cashing a check).  Terrible reviews and hardly in theaters, but now on DVD and BD, this slick-looking but loud, abusive, shrill, one-note tale of a home invasion and a family's risky fight for survival was directed by Joel Schumacher and co-stars Nicole Kidman.  Not for all tastes, but the committed Cage fanatic will find things to entertain in addition to yet another hairdo.

BORING ACTUALLY LESS THAN 1 STAR The cover is more exciting than the movie horrible from start to finish,where are the real horror films?????? this year and the last 3 have really sucked for horror films

Missing the Universal 100th Anniversary Slipcover!! My first order was missing the Universal 100th Anniversary Slipcover (see item description picture), got a replacement sent the very same day and received it before today but still this one also was missing the slipcover... So this one will go back for a refund. Too bad, Amazon has a great price and my two other Bourne discs that I ordered from Amazon did have the Universal 100th Anniversary slipcover.

disapointed I was very disapointed with this purchase I thought it was the movie not all the bonus and behind the scenes stuff -_- and I only received 1 dics, it said 2 disc set.

Flaw 20:23 into presentation the DVD stops.  This is at the 3:42 mark of 1st quarter.  It skips a touchdown by both teams.  I sent back the two dvd's in the original order.  Just received my replacements and YES...these have the same issue.  You should wait for the new shipment of DVD's before ordering.

Spare yourself! If the write-up on this film leads you to expect an interesting story about a quasi-incestuous relationship between two half-brothers, spare yourself. Spoiler alert: the boys love each other as children, as teens and as adults. Period. There's no story development, just tedious sequences of the boys swimming together, then kissing, then swimming. It has all the drama of a 4-hour commercial for speed-o's. To paraphrase a critic's assessment of Poulenc, this director had absolutely nothing to say...and he said it. If you want really soft-porn, but have a heart condition, go for it.

BUYER BEWARE! HORRIBLE,HORRIBLE PRODUCT! The sound is at least five minutes off after the first few minutes, and the movie cuts off before the end. You will not see the entire movie, so you're wasting your money. The transfer quality is very poor, as well. DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT. I was able to get a refund from Amazon and bought a satisfactory copy from another vendor.

Cary would turn over in his Grave This box is marked "Collector's Edition,"  and the description the box says "fully restored and enhanced digital masters."  What a crock!  This version is an insult both to Cary Grant and his fans.  The only thing worth keeping is the picture of Cary Grant on the front of the box.  The quality of the movies is atrocious.  Not only do they look worse than anything I have ever seen on something taped from television on an inferior VHS recorder, but the picture is cropped on the sides.  It is a real thrill to see the cast listings starting with "ary Grant," followed by "ss ???'s wardrobe . . ."  If anyone at Amazon reads this, I would suggest that they stop offering this item.  It can only hurt their reputation.

YOU PEOPLE ARE CRAZY! This review has nothing to do with the movie itself but the prices you all are trying to get for this movie. un-fricking believable. If anyone pays these prices for used movies they are mental. I honestly hope they are smarter than this. lower your prices or your going to end up poor. disgusting.

Fooled again AMAZON please deal with this! There are scads of us who have run into this problem. I am yet another viewer who ordered this item online not realizing this was an animated film and not the most recent Batman movie with Christian Bale.  Nowhere in the product description on TIVO does it mention that this is an animated film. Unfortunately no refunds on digital content. I am sorry to have contributed $4.99 to this scam.

Now This is Plain Stupid Ok, so the worst scene in this film is when Pandra and Benny are walking to find help for Mr. B. While on thier journey, Pandraoeaoeaoeo is complaining about her more popular, much prettier sister. Then Benny stops her abruptly and says "I find you attractive". Then Panda Bear looks on the ground for a bit then says back "I find you attractive too." Then they just keep on walking and that is it. No kissing or nothing. I literally had to shove my head into a pillow to muffle my screams because I was laughing so loud. That scene put tears in my eyes.  The story of this film is about a bunch of campers and their 2 guides, Mr and Mrs. B. During their trip Mr. B pratically falls off the Grand Canyon and somehow survives with only broken bones, as he lands in the softest tree known to man. The campers have to split up to find help for Mr. B. To guide the campers along their journey a stupid wolf appears out of nowhere and tells them where to go.  The main character is this camper named Benny, who is angry at life. I mean this kid hates EVERYTHING; icecream, sunshine, Christmas, flowers, etc...You name it. He hates it. But, hey I guess I would too if I had his stupid name "Benny". Just change it to Ben, and you will be amazed at how much your mood improves Benny Boy.  Rent only to mock and make fun of.

mulan [ Region 2 ] I got this movie because its one of my favorite. I guess I didnt pay close enough attention to detail because i am unable to watch it. It says im in the wrong region. Amazon did everything right i just wish i would have known what region 2 meant.

Did not work The DVD did not work after the first few chapters.  Sorry but it was a bit of a rip off, but since the item was not new I could not return I:(.  Such is life.

The DVD would NOT play at all. I was given the impression I was buying an english subtitled version of this film, that would play in American blu-ray players and it did not play at all! Very dissapointed indeed.

Amazon sucks It was not clear that I was getting a Download, I thought I had clicked to BUY a DVD of the movie to watch on our TV at home with the family. I don't watch anything on my PC. I'll buy all future movies at a store, where I know what I am getting. There was no way to stop the purchase once I realized it was a download.

Preview review only. I wanted to see the preview of this movie before i bought it. I love how the free preview consisted of the opening credits and no movie bits....

Disgusting I have enjoyed some of the recent comedies like The Hangover and Bridesmaids, but this movie was so awful, I couldn't finish it. Some things just aren't funny to me, and some movies just go too far with the gross-out humor. I assume that if I had continued past the scene where the two guys spend the night in the car with the dog (you know what I'm talking about), other funny scenes might have redeemed the movie. Maybe if I'd been in a movie theater, it would have seemed funnier?

The Absolutely the Stupidest thing I have ever seen It is obvious to me that this Bart Sibrel gets other dupes to write his own reviews. He is the most egotistical person I have ever seen on Amazon. If you fall for this one, you will be one of his con victims. This video is about 40 years old and he is so dumb, he thinks that ALL of our Astronauts are dead. Many scientists all over the world have looked at this claims and laughed their heads off. He knows NOTHING about the properties of light, physics and mathematics. He has been debunked by so many people including MythBusters that he should shut up and disappear.  Our world would be a better place without him. He is selfish, contributes NOTHING to anyone and spits venom in his vile video. His "proof" came from Nashville and was cheaply made in a 2nd rate studio.  I heard that he used cardboard. He is of absolutely no use to anyone or anything. He is charging almost $50.00 now for this video because he is losing money at $40.00. Don't be a sucker. Oh, I almost forgot, anyone can see this video for FREE on YouTube.

MoneyBall Found this movie to be boring, I didn't realize it was all about baseball.  Brad Pitt staring in it was the only reason I bought it.  Must be more careful in the future.

Ultra Upsetting!!!! Unfortunately... I have to add my lumps as well as the majority of other reviewers. The Motion picture industry continues to drive a wedge between themselves and the buyer by instituting things like this. Even digital copy rights are rediculous, due to the fact that you can only download one version to one type of device (either WMV for windows based players, or Quicktime for Apple). This Ultraviolet thing takes it one step further.  In my humble opinion... When honest buyers aren't afforded the benefit of having there own personal copy to share between members of the same household, you run the risk of them just going to get it illegally. If you want pirating to stop... stop doing crap like this. The music industry seems to have gotten the point.  Remember when they tried to make CDs "unripable" by encripting them. All it did was irritate the person buying it, because they couldn't play it on their MP3 device. Really short sited folks. DUMB!!!!

This is a well thought out review I have many many points to illustrate to discuss my displeasure in this feature film.  1. It is not good  In not good I'm specifically speaking about the content, design, and follow through of the picture.  2. It wasted my time.  In the time I spent watching this movie I could have been doing any number of things.  From Botany to small home repairs.  I could EVEN have watched something good (which this was not)  3. It had a big budget for no reason.  The actors, stage crew, all the way down to the film stock used for this film could have been better served with any number of better projects (even romantic comedies)  If pressed I'm certain I can find more things I disliked about this movie.

not what it claims The digital copy included in the set expired in April 2010.  I just purchased it for the holidays.  I would not have purchased this set if I had known.  Now that it's open it can't be returned.

THIS IS NOT A PRETTY WOMAN THE WOMAN has a truly repulsive villain in Chris Creel, expertly embodied by Sean Bridgers.  Pollyanna McIntosh is frightening as the titular feral captive.  Angela Bettis (MAY, the CARRIE remake) is effective as Creel's submissive wife and ZACH RAND and CARRIE ANNE STANLEY do well as the teenaged children.  But THE WOMAN is a mess.  The plot jumps all over the place and its "Who is the real animal" theme becomes a moot point by the film's preposterous climax.  What transpires in the "doghouse" makes no sense at all.  This is not entertainment, merely a repulsive example of glorified torture and violence.  Good performances in vain.

A cinematic abortion Sometimes certain movies just have this aura about them. Movie posters for these particular films are just pungent with a vile odor while trailers seem to leave the most horrid and putrid taste in your mouth and cause your face to twist and distort as if you were being put through the most despicable forms of torture. You pretty much know, it's like your knee acting up when it rains and you can basically just feel it in your bones that this movie is going to be terrible and is going to be the furthest thing from a pleasant experience. Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore is such a movie.  You know you're in for some trouble when you hear a cover of Pink's "Get This Party Started" over the opening credits. It feels like it goes on forever. Let the torture begin. You see that twist on Jigsaw's infamous line, "Let the games begin," from the Saw series? You'll be begging to be put into one of Jigsaw's traps by the time this movie is over.  The special effects were at their best when they were more subtle. When you could tell that real animals were used and CG was used to only add reactions to the animals or for more human-like facial expressions. But these subtle effects were few and far between, as you can imagine. The film revolves around spy dogs and undercover agent cats after all. Things get exciting, chases heat up, and effects get more extravagant. That's the thing though; you can tell you're just watching something that was created on a computer. They wouldn't be bad if the entire film was CG, but they look really artificial with the real world as their backdrop.  After seeing a movie like this, you have to wonder how much some of these actors were offered to do a movie this bad. Did they actually believe in the product or were they just that desperate for a paycheck? It's got to be the latter, right? You've got Cyclops as Diggs (James Marsden), Cape Fear's Sam Bowden as Butch (Nick Nolte), Veronica Corningstone herself as Catherine (Christina Applegate), A Pimp Named Slickback as a pigeon (Katt Williams), Jack McFarland as the feline rip-off of Hannibal Lecter (Sean Hayes), Vizzini (INCONCEIVABLE!) as a calico cat (Wallace Shawn), oh, and Bette Midler as Kitty Galore. Michael Clarke Duncan shows up as an Old English Sheepdog, says a few lines, and you never see him again. Is this the first movie Chris O'Donnell has been in since Vertical Limit? It sure feels that way and it didn't seem like he could get any lower than Vertical Limit until now. Meanwhile, some guy from "Saturday Night Live" shows up (Fred Armisen) and plays with a cocker spaniel while Jack McBrayer channels Pee Wee Herman in the most handicapped of ways for some scenes that probably should have been cut in the long run. Neil Patrick Harris and Katt Williams are probably the least offensive and closest thing to actual humor in the movie, but that still isn't much of a compliment.  The story is the typical cats against dogs routine with a bit of an edge; an evil cat plans to use a sound that'll be channeled through a satellite orbiting the earth to eventually drive dogs mad and turn against their owners. Since humans are also a potential target, spy dogs and undercover agent cats will have to team up (cue Scooby Doo saying, "Ruh-roh!"). The story just felt stupid in the long run, especially with all the little side plots going on. Diggs tends to do whatever he wants as a police dog and is reckless, but he learns the error of his ways by...doing nothing but that the entire movie? Then his owner can't find him even though he's practically right under his nose the entire time. Most of the material with human interaction just makes you want to stab yourself in the face with whatever you can get your hands on to keep yourself from having to sit through this monstrosity of a movie any longer. It's a lot like Barney the purple dinosaur if he was replaced with CG cats and dogs; just awful, smash-me-in-the-face-with-a-cinder-block-to-end-this-madness, cutesy, garbage.  Lastly, this movie references a lot of movies you know and probably love. The down side is that it feels like sacrilege rather than a shout out to great films. There are countless references to the James Bond franchise; Paws and Kitty Galore illustrate that point fairly well. Everything from Mission: Impossible to Batman to Silence of the Lambs and Terminator. The Batman and Terminator references are low blows, but the Silence of the Lambs one is the worst mostly because it lasts longer than any of the others. Think of those terrible spoof movies like Date Movie and Epic Movie with a slight we're-trying-to-make-this-as-adorable-as-possible-by-shoving-it-down-your-throat edge.  Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore is quite possibly the most painful movie watching experience I've ever had the displeasure of sitting through. Jokes are lame and corny, dialogue feels forced and overacted, popular movie references tarnish the reputation those movies made on society instead of paying homage to them, and the storyline walks a thin line between simple and ludicrous which results in a product that isn't even halfway entertaining. It'd be more appropriate to rate this movie in the amount of times you'll actually groan verbally throughout the movie's duration. It might be fun for children who haven't developed the ability to distinguish a pile of steamy excrement and something that is actually entertaining and it may be amusing to your pet since my dog seemed to enjoy it, but if you have any sort of expectations or qualifications for what a good film should be then you are going to hate this movie or you'll be smart enough to stay away from it forever.

Sorry, I really tried to like this movie With the creepy looking cover I got roped into renting this movie. With all the "eye candy" amongst the actresses, I REALLY tried to like this movie but frankly, not only has this theme been done to death it seems to be re-done on a monthly basis. As attractive as some of the actresses were I really hoped that at least ONE would exhibit some ability to act. Not a single actress or actor did, at least not in this dreadful movie. Not a single thing original in this movie, not a single thing truly scary in this movie.....the theme has simply been done to DEATH. I didn't pay much for the rental so no hard feelings there but I don't care if you drop an equal amount of money into the bucket of one of those "will work for food" guys sitting outside Walmart, DON'T spend it in any fashion toward viewing this movie. Maybe an eventual complete lack of paying interest will finally get the makers of films such as this to come up with an original theme or idea or plotline. I wouldn't recommend this movie to someone I hated much less to anyone else. Avoid this movie like the visual plague that it truly is.

Very poor There are many problems with this film, but the core of its problems come from a very weak script filled with trite dialogue and situations.  I don't think any actors could have done anything to save a script so poorly constructed.  The overall effect is to demean a group of brave servicemen who had to resist the racism of the 1940's U.S. military while they fought the German military.

Assassination Tango This DVD won't play.  It's useless to me.  The vender keeps asking me for the description, which I can not find.  I don't understand why a DVD formatted to play in some other country would be sent to America. fred hamilton

Did Not work, DVD said "Wrong Media" would not play at all Did Not work, DVD said "Wrong Media" would not play at all. Was looking foward to seeing the movie but I got a lemon DVD

Just Plain Poor! An absolutely dismal movie. A school play would have better acting & performance. The acting was almost laughable & painful to watch at the same time.

Bad disc I have seen this program on PBS.  I purchased it for the library which I run.  Unfortunately, prepared it for the shelf without looking at it first.  I later found that I had received a bad disc.  It skips throughout.  I have tried cleaning the disk and cleaning my computer, but with little improvement.  I feel I wasted the library's money.

tourist I thought with 2 A lists actors this would of been a box office hit....what a dissappointment.....I'm a big fan of both actors....but not together there is no chemistry with these to...

Pathetic This is a zero-star movie. Its pointless, juvenile, ludicrous and the zombies are just ordinary folk painted gray. The "comedy" is unfunny and misplaced. Cr@p acting and useless special effcts. Don't waste your time with this retarded offering. Go with Romero!!!

Dissapointed I didn't realize it was Blu-Ray so I can't watch it. If I had a blu ray player I'm sure it would have been a great movie.

Worst Video Ever This video was absolutely awful.  I expected performances and all I got was the same music on everything and no Elvis singing.  What a disappointment!!  This return policy said to return it it had to be unopened.  I threw it away.

Funny? One of the worst movies I have ever (partially) seen. I tried to watch it all, but, I opted to have my hair set on fire and the flames put out with an ice pick -it was less painful. None of the" bosses" were believable, though Kevin Spacey at least gave a convincing performance; meaning he appeared to believe he was the character he was portraying. The sexually harassing dentist is least believable of all. Jennifer Aniston must have decided she hadn't done enough to change (shatter) her image in "The Good Girl," so she chose this role. She's so unconvincingly over-the-top that you keep expecting someone to say, "Live from New York! It's Saturday Night!" And her constant gentilian references and remarks are JUST PLAIN STUPID. Eventually, they reach a point where you have a difficult decision to make: was the writer not accomplishing trying to be outrageously funny, or is this their own perverse fantasy? Hopeful as I was that things would improve they didn't, and I couldn't stand to see any more of the movie. The screenplay must have originated in a high school creative writing class; or locker room. If it appeals to you, you are likely either newly pubescent or truly young at heart -perhaps in a pathological way. The concept could have worked, but the writer was not capable of making that happen. Probably couldn't concentrate; too many guys snapping towels in the locker room. Stay sweet. Hope to have you in a few classes next year. Most of all, don't watch this movie.

Really, really awful. Slow moving, clich&eacute;d. Two dimensional characters in a plotless story and a terribly written script. The only merit lies with the cinematography, but like the compelling premise, it is wasted on this production. There's a reason you've never heard of this film.

Used DVD: a great risk! Had to return this DVD since it was not playing on my HD DVD + XBox player. Companies should test every and all used DVDs prior to mailing them to customers.

Yawn Hype pure hype. You do better finding out takes on Youtube if at all possible. I suckered into this one. There was some cool footage at times but same old news.

"You can smell it from miles away." ***SPOILER ALERT***  If you like smelling poop stains than you'll love this.  ......S...... .....(-)..... ....(-_-).... ...(__(__)... Big ol' pile.  not ok.  Save yourself 2 dollars and go look in your toilet and watch it for 2 hours and 5 minutes.  Equal.  As a wise man once said, "wow!"

Cliche, Corny and Predicatable. Poor writing. Queen Latifah plays an over weight physical trainer who's passion for the Nets, and her unexpected run in with Nets star player Scott McKnight at a gas station (Common) leads to an "unexpected" love affair. It also leads to a high profile career in the NBA as a Trainer.... uh, yeah sure.  The plot is as far fetched as the writing is cerebral.  Everything about this film is horrible. From the corny game Latifah kicks, to the fact we're watching a film about the Nets, yet the film has absolutely no historical connection to the team.  After 15 mins of watching the film, you'll be able to predict the entire film.

Worst Movie Ever This movie is probably one of the worst I have ever seen.  I don't know who all the people above are, probably people trying to promote the movie because they benefit from it monetarily...that could be the only explanation for saying anything good about it.  I'm mad i spent 1.20 renting it.  And I had to give a star to write a review.  So actually, that is a minus one star.

Original vs. Director's Cut -- What are you really getting? Amazon has two item pages for Darling Lili, that is one for the director's cut (107 min) and the other appears to be for the original release (136 min).  The picture showing the Director's Cut reads "Director's Cut" directly below the Movie Title.  The page for the original does not say Director's Cut in the picture.  Under product information for the original it states:  ""Studio: Paramount, DVD Release Date: October 25, 2005, Run Time: 136 minutes, ASIN: B000ANVPT2 (the number for Director's Cut is different)."  I checked out the Director's Cut edition from the library and watched it.  It was okay but it seemed choppy and I kept feeling like I was totally missing parts of the movie (it really jumped around in a bad way).  I assumed that was the way the movie was made but I did some research and found out it was originally 136 minutes.  It seemed to me 29 minutes was a lot to cut out of a movie and maintain any kind of flow so I started looking for the 136 minute version.  Thought I had found it on Amazon.  I wasn't crazy about the movie so I looked on Amazon Marketplace and found a "like new" copy to purchase.  What I received was the Director's Cut.  I promptly notified the vendor via email that they sent the wrong movie version.  The vendor emailed back that the Director's Cut is the ONLY version available on DVD.  I was also told to file a claim with Amazon to avoid shipping it back (shipping was half the cost of the movie).  I did that and Amazon did refund the cost of the movie and shipping.  I am very fond of Amazon.  I don't particularly care about the Director's Cut (the library can always use another copy) and I still want to see the original 136 minute movie but I'm afraid to order it from Amazon because I suspect, given what I've found on the Internet, that the Director's Cut is the only version available to the U.S.  I've read that the original 136 minute movie was released in Europe and also in Australia but, again, I have no proof that is true.  If anyone has been able to buy a copy of the original movie I would love to know where they got it!  Thought it was worth pondering this before plunking down the money for what you might hope is the original, longer version and end up with the Director's Cut.  I still can't believe that they chose to release the shorter, severely chopped version over the original.  I would rather be bored through part of a movie and even fast-forward through parts of it than feel like I completely missed seeing nearly 1/3 of the movie.  Hope this might help someone.

DONT WASTE YOUR TIME I am a huge fan of Charlize Theron....but this movie was so awful. I watched the whole thing thinking "it has to get better..." well,  it doesn't, then it is over and you are disappointed you have wasted your time and money on such a flop! Don't waste your time!

Yet another Japanese horror film remake A lot of U.S. horror films these days are remakes of Asian horror films, this one being a remake of the 2001 J-horror film "Kairo". This film had a plot that could have been used differently, but since it wasn't, it really doesn't break a single mold. It basically is the mold. It's about a virus that breaks loose, causing anybody using electronic devices or anybody in a Wi-Fi area, to get their life sucked out of them from these-looking holographic-ish creatures, causing them to basically commit suicide. Maybe the film should have just been about contacting the dead through electronic devices. It sounds a bit better at least. The film did have some good and scary pop-outs though, but the whole story and ending, were really neurotic. It wasn't anything shocking. It was actually really dumb. Altogether, it was a pretty horrible movie. About as horrible as "One Missed Call", which I'm pretty sure even the original Japanese versions of both those movies are horrible, too, so I guess it doesn't really matter. Anyway, you should probably skip "Pulse".

Better tracking for item in shipping This is a Christmas gift, but I still have not receive yet.I have no way to track the item in shipping.

Dear Lord In Heaven Above!... BLACKENSTEIN is truly one of the worst pieces of cinematic waste to ever ooze forth from the bowels of hollywood! I remember watching this when it came out, trying to enjoy it to no avail. The big-headed monster lumbers sloowwwly along, somehow able to catch and mutilate young ladies, resulting in breast exposure and intestine gooshing. Now, I know this sounds great, but trust me, it is agony to watch! Stick to BLACULA...

Do Disappointing I'm not a big movie fan, but my husband is.  Although the effects were spectacular and the story line was unique, the movie dragged.  We didn't watch it to the end, so I'm not sure if it got better.  I'm glad we didn't pay the $10 per person to see it in the theater.

Disappointed Why put this video in the catagory 3 combo pack DVD/Blu Ray/Digital copy if you only get one movie? That's false advertising.

Trash!!! Stay away from this pile of trash.  Once the invasion began, I had some hope for this "film," but it quickly disappeared, once I realized that this was just another brainless, tired attempt at making a quick buck.  The story is non-existent, acting is subpar, visuals are drab and the ending...  If someone can explain why we (the audience) were put through all the nonsense, only to be saddled with a horrendous ending like this, please let me know.  Stay away from this, and please do not allow Strause brothers touch another camera ever again.

TORTURE to watch- AWFUL I read the reviews saying how terrible this movie was- but i thought that it couldn't be all bad- so decided to watch it_ and i was proven wrong- it was ALL BAD_ If you enjoy bad films for the sake of watching how badly something can be filmed/acted/plotted/framed- by all means you may enjoy this one--some people enjoy having bad movie nights- so i suppose this movie would be good for some yucks and laughs for that alone

Digital copy auth code has been used on supposedly "new" factory sealed bluray Digital copy auth code has been used on supposedly "new" factory sealed bluray. Need I say more. Would like to review the actual movie, but will have to wait to get home. why bother with digital copies.

A Rip-Off This 12-minute segment on 60 Minutes can be downloaded for free. I was embarrassed when my students asked me why there wasn't more information.  I had stupidly assumed that 60 Minutes would be 60 minutes of information. Why would anyone but an idiot pay over $17.00 for this downloadable 12-min segment? To Amazon's Customer Service credit -- when I brought this 'little problem' up and said the DVD is a rip-off, they promptly refunded my money.

1.0 Audio on a Blu-ray?  Come on. Such a great, GREAT film (I'm referring to the original Arthur, not Arthur 2, PLEASE no Arthur 2!), but the Blu-ray leaves a LOT to be desired.  Since when do RECENT Blu-ray releases of a MULTIPLE OSCAR WINNING FILM get released with 1.0 (yes, you read that right) audio on the Blu-ray?  How is this acceptable??  Truly a shame for such a great film.  It deserved a better release, and has for years now.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1 The movie was fine but the product overall was disappointing.  I preordered this movie but others had this movie ( that went out and bought) days before I received mine. The price of my preordered movie offset this somewhat, but not enough for the enjoyment and the excitement of the kids who's friends already had and watched. There is more but discussion with Amazon on other issues was taken care of satisfactorily.

Shallow, cringe-making, meandering and pointless... I couldn't agree more with the reviewer that titled his/her review "Great topic, poor treatment".  If you are buying a dvd on the topic of "spiritual journey", it's safe to assume you've probably done some spiritual journeying yourself, you've probably read many books in the 'spiritual' genre (there's a plethora to choose from) and you've probably seen most of the less-to-choose from spiritual films available. So...just bc this topic of "spiritual journey" is clearly NEW to those who made this film, doesnt necessarily mean the rest of us who are NOT new to this topic are up for watching a shallow, poorly edited, directionless film.  I must say I really couldnt help but feel this 'spiritual film' was ... fairly UNSPIRITUAL (in fact, it wasnt really even 'moving' - except where Jonas' girlfriend Mira sees clearly how unsupportive she's been with Jonas (goodness, what a self-righteous, tanty-throwing, left-brain dictatorial little pain in the arse she was until this time!)... In fact, even the head Buddhist Monk hints at the shallow-ness of this journey, during the film, saying something along the lines of "Well, mystical experiences are one thing, but the REAL FUEL for REAL EXPANSION towards spiritual enlightenment is suffering".  Sure you feel for Jonas and his girlfriend Mira - they seem so very out of their depth - but ... they dont actually come very far in their journeying do they?  For me the film was sorta like if you made a film about  being given a really slick hotrod (visions, apparitions etc), and then spending a lot of time looking and talking about the finish of paintwork (visions, apparitions)...and then deciding you must have been given the hotrod, with all this great paintwork for the sole purpose of entering a particular race (called "spiritual journey") and crossing the finish line (named "enlightenment") ...and talking a lot, a lot, a lot about that finish line without really saying anything at all ...and then rolling the credits before you've even sat in the hotrod and turned the engine key!  Kinda frustrating for an audience member to be dragged on such a pointless journey!  Further, this is definitely my ego speaking, but nonetheless I must make comment that my own spiritual journey (4 years in) seems to have more momentum, exploration and expansion (4 to the floor!) in ideology than jonas' ... so given that, how could you possibly find this a fulfilling movie? Point being: I cant help but think other audience members will also be arriving with their own spiritual journey in fully fledged high-definition panoramic scope, and will also find this movie a bit "Enlightenment-not-really-just-kidding-like-really-sooooo-kidding!"...ah...annoying.  Look, to be fair, they probably just filmed themselves too early. If I know anything about spiritual journeying, it's that you don't wrap it up in a year (ridiculous for them to even try! i mean you dont wrap up spiritual journeying in a lifetime! It's eternal!)... but certainly the longer period of time that passes, the more profound the discoveries - the 'epiphanies" of yesterday quickly become old-news-and-limited when today's epiphany overlays them. So probably, they just should have waited. But given that they didnt, I guess now it will be interesting and something to look forward to in a few years (like 10!) if Jonas & Mira were to then film 'where are they are on that spiritual journey now"... Meantime, I wouldn't recommend this dvd to anyone who long ago separated gnosis from religion, that's all it's about. Beginners' ephiphanies.

NOT a family movie! there was just too much cursing and disrespectfulness.  This iMovie should not have been labeled as a kids and family movie.  Not to mention very boring. turned off the movie before it could even get past the boring stage.

JCVD This movie is just as bad as any other movie that JCVD has made in the past 15 years.  It was a big waste of money and time...

the most homophobic gay movie i've seen it is no wonder the best characters in this flick are the two females:  the sad-sack fiance and the mother of the gay predator; the flick was made by women.  the two male characters at the core of this flick (one of whom is way too attractive and the other way too NOT) are stereotypes at best.  are we really supposed to empathize with the hunky dude who wants his cake and eat it too; who is so obsessed with having the perfect preppy life, he'll do anything to make it so?  are we supposed to see ourselves in the gay predator who is simply adding another notch on his bedpost (wreaking havoc on the way)?  i have the distinct feeling this flick was made backwards from the really lame ending:  making the 'plot' fit; the end justifies the means. well, i have a word for the makers of this fiasco,  W R O N G ! i am really tired of 'gay' flicks filled with self-torturing angst and life-ruining neuroses; enough, already! give us R E A L gay rom-coms, please. stay away from this mess.

This is sooo terrible Maybe I was expecting too much....but this is absolutely god awful. If you have read the books like I have and have high expectations for the movie to be able to mirror the genius of a 17 year old prodigy of an author then you are to be sorely mistaken....  The main critical review hits the main points...Arya being an elf yet 15 dollars of silly putty to give her pointed ears was over budget and the acting being completely and utterly embarrassing to the human race...  Honestly most of my views were voiced perfectly by most of the one star reviews I was just so utterly appalled at how bad this movie was that I felt I had to try to save the rest of mankind from attempting to enjoy it.

Worst Movie EVER Step away from the buy/rent button trust me you will regret renting/purchasing this movie...  Oaky, First off I 'm a fan of action movies and had high hopes for this particular installment of MI. Wow was I wrong. It's bad as in never want to see it again... want my money back... wasted my life... screaming profanities at the TV kinda bad. The best part of the movie was the end and I don't mean the ending. I mean the end as in when the screen went black. Seriously a total disappointment.  Additionally I tried to give this zero stars but Amazon wouldn't let me nor did they have a negative stars option but if they did I'd be so there.

Crap I won't bore you with a long narrative.  This movie was awful.  Very big disappointment.  I will even sell my copy!

Bad is right! The only reason I watch TV nowadays is for Jersey Shore and MTV in general. Wanting to expand my tastes, I heard about this show which was apparently one of the greatest shows on TV. After watching a few episodes, I was too disgusted to even go any further. The horrible acting was bad enough, but its message made me throw up. This show condones smoking meth, which is the worst drug in the world. How could the great FCC allow this garbage? This filth needs to be cancelled, and Bryan Crapson should be arrested for association. This show is the reason why our country is in decline.

Ultraviolet == Ultra Lame I went to buy this and then saw the digital copy is an ultraviolet copy.  No one uses stupid flixster or whatever this is.  Everyone uses iTunes and iOS devices.  This is stupid.

Kiosk Rating &lt;1 (1.) Loaded with bad science, bad acting, bad dialogue, bad or stereotyped CGI and modeling. Didn't I see that space craft at my toy store with the same blue light  LED propulsion. The spacecraft landing on the dusty planet was like it was landing on a kitchen counter. (2.) Borrowed heavily from Aliens, Predator, Tremors. Usual story of abandoned mining planet with human made machines turned anti-human. The Tremors like burrowing through the ground/rocks was just dumb. Anyway, for some reason humanity sends a crew to some distant star to rescue one person that at any foreseeable future speed should have taken centuries (and cost billions) but in our film just takes two months. (3.) Acting? They could have used any warm body and done better. Usual Hollywood (in this case Canadian film industry supported by their tax dollars) crew of self serving male; attractive females (in shorts); African Canadian (who should have had a more important and non-stereotypic role). (4.) Alien planet landscape looked suspiciously like Utah or Arizona but was Alberta (just north of Glacier Park, MT). Seen one desert - seen them all (well, somewhat). Alien planet gravity and atmosphere were suspiciously Earth like. Cheap and not too creative. (5.) Predictable, and poorly implemented, "Aliens" type ending of female astronaut returning to Earth with alien goodies. (6.) Forgettable.

Not worthy of the name Disney. This sequel is a total disaster. Joseph Kosinski cannot direct actors or craft anything but the most cliched of scenes, and even his eye for visual effects lacks discipline; shots are loaded with egregious lightning flashes, poor use of particle effects, and a certain monomania in all aspects of audio / visual design. I actually think there are a few decent ideas in the script (Clu turning evil, Boxleitner's cameo, the Lightcycle course), but all are mangled by dreadful execution. Then we have "Zen Master" Kevin Flynn, evil Dillinger Jr., computer vixens prancing around in platform heels and inch-thick eye shadow, "2001" rip-off furniture, going back to the arcade (where there's a Tron game!), a motorcycle-riding jock as son of Flynn... it's all just beyond hokey.  For all of the film's technical prowess, it does not hold a candle to its predecessor from nearly 30 years earlier even as eye candy. The kitchen sink production design deviates tremendously from the stark, haunting grid envisioned by Syd Mead and Moebius; Kosinski's world looks more like a ride at the Luxor Hotel (Fireworks... really?). Gone too is Wendy Carlos, replaced by the danceclub beats of Daft Punk... which are a bit of a mixed bag. It makes the whole thing feel a bit like being at a late-90s rave, and maybe that was the idea. Unfortunately for stock ticker DIS this sexed-up/dumbed-down approach did not translate into titanic revenues; this film grossed less than half of either The Dark Knight or Avatar worldwide.  The original Tron was not a perfect film, but its spirit and originality, its conception of the burgeoning world of computers helped define an era, and lived up to Walt Disney's dream of breaking new ground with his company's films. The destruction of the MCP, its bizarre worlds and charming interludes (e.g. with the byte), along with some genuine creepiness earned Tron a solid place not only in the Disney canon, but I think it fares quite well alongside many classic Sci-Fi films like "Things To Come". I doubt that many people will be saying the same about this preposterous sequel.

George and the Dragon I was very disappointed.  I love this movie and I was looking forward in seeing again.  Yet as I was watching it, the screen would go into a black and white mode and a lovely message would appear across the front of the screen (For Screening Purpose ONLY, Not for Rental or Sale).  At first I thought it might be a glitch, however it happen again and again thru out the movie.  Where ever you got this movie from, you need to take them off your list of sellers.

Sheer propaganda This "documentary" is so misleading and slanted it should be listed as a comedy, except the damage that this film and the billionaires behind it have done to America's children isn't funny.  This film is the face of the destruction of the middle class being perpetrated by the Koch brothers, Eli Broad, and Bill Gates.  Do not buy this film!

DUMB Boring movie and a waist of 2 hrs time.  I would not waist my time watching this movie.  THE WORST MOVIE EVER.

So Disappointed and Distracted Looking for dvd's to build a wintertime viewing collection.  This one will not be part of it. I was so disappointed with the plot and the acting.  The audio sounded like a sound stage recording, even though the background scenery was beautiful. Viewed it on blu-ray and was so distracted by the white band above Mia's upper lip that I lost track of what she was saying.  Still don't know what it was.  Make-up?  Read the reviews, but did not take the negatives seriously.  I wish I had.  I donated this one to the public library.

Terrible! DVD never worked I purchased this for my son.  received it on time but it never worked.  I put in 3 different DVD players and nothing.  Called twice and got no response.  o'well i should have taken my chances on eBay.

Don't waste your money I have watched a lot of anime in my day and this is easily the worst I've ever seen. Bad animation, terrible story writing, bad voice-acting, no depth, no character development. Please trust me on this one and don't bother watching it. This is on par with the legend of zelda animated series, which was pretty terrible.

Disappointing adaptation For a book with so much amazing imagery and such a well developed plot, the movie adaptation was honestly pathetic. Had I watched it without reading the book first, perhaps I could have enjoyed it as a mediocre adventure film. With the technology available today for special effects, so much could have been done better. And the alterations to the plot and characters were unnecessary and irritating. If you loved the book, do not waste your time or money on watching the movie.

doesn't flow This workout doesn't flow and is a very boring workout. The half hour feels like 2 hours. Bryan Kest gives a better more intense workout with great flow leaving you feel refreshed as well as having worked muscles and the 50 minutes goes in no time. Or try "quickfix power yoga" if you want a 30 minute power yoga workout when short on time.

Reheated McCarthyism I received this as a DVD in the mail recently. It was made by a film production company whose other titles include: "Elvis Found Alive", and "Paul McCartney is Dead". Need I say more? It is insulting to an intelligent person. And, it should be instructive that over 1.5 million of these DVDs have been mailed to voters in swing states. The sad thing is, there are enough people who don't bother checking facts that a certain percentage will believe and be afraid, be very afraid, of Obama.

wanted for filmmaking crimes The director's Russian vampire flicks are interesting, if uneven, B fare. Taken takes those B movie sensibilities to new levels of stupidity (and there are plenty of spoilers in this review). The whole curving the bullet trick I could go with but the idea that the guy's son was the only one capable of doing this job was beyond lame. The training was laughable as if in a few days (could've been weeks but who knows the time frame with this movie) he was able to master this. The butcher knife fight scenes were far too brutal really for the subtext of the flick which was about skill with a gun.  The cast is terrific as you have Morgan Freeman as some sort of all-knowing Obi Won, Angelina Jolie as an assassin (does she have some sort of mortal lock on assassin roles?) who doesn't have to hide her real tattoos (hey, all that aside but eat a burger once in a while because although your beestung lips are nice, you are looking coat-rackish at times in this) as well as the ubiquitous Terence Stamp. The problem is the script is laughable despite some classic lines.  Wait till you get to the dolphins with frickin' lasers...I mean mice with IEDs strapped to their bodies. Willard? Are you there Willard? I'm not making this up. There are actual suicide bomber mice in this.  This movie jumps the shark several times that your jaw just drops how dumb it is. Given that the opening and closing scenes are thrill rides. I still think the whole shoot a bullet from miles away deal is way too implausible in the key murder scenes.  No extras at all on the particular DVD release I saw this on, so very low scores even from the Russian judge on this one.

Very Disappointing Film. Viewed: 10/11 Rate: 2  10/11: So, I guess what the film was saying is that the twins were a good people and we must look at them at a different perspective. *yawn* Yeah, right. The Krays is one of the most poorly directed films I've ever seen in my life. The scenes are so stupid that each of them had so little meaning into it and has no connection to the next one. Is the movie supposed to be about the women? Or about the twins? It doesn't make any sense to me. Originally, I thought I was going to see a hard hitting gangster film in a cold blooded fashion, but no...it's just a lot of women talking with a gratuitous violent scene interspersed throughout it. The story portrayed on the film is very inaccurate and glossed over. So, it becomes pointless. There isn't even a structure to why the twins became feared gangsters in England either. All in all, The Krays is a highly disappointing picture.

So bad--- you can't help but watch it I really liked the Twilight books and I want to like the movies but they are just horrible.  As one reviewer put it its Romeo and Juliet with vampires and werewolves but the sad part is--- they don't die at the end.  The acting in the movie is so bad, it can only be accented properly by the worst make-up team in Hollywood,  the vampires are supposed to be white (due to the whole lack of sun thing) but the actors in this movie look like they were dipped in whiteout, and Rosalie's hair is about as realistic as sticking a poodle on her head and calling it her hair.  Some of this stuff was acceptable somewhat in the first movie because the books didn't get super popular until the movie was like mid-production, but New Moon had a huge budget and it was worse than the first movie.  The two main actors are so bad when I was in the movie theater my sister and I couldn't stop laughing at some of the scenes with one or both of them in it (we really ticked off some of the die hard movie fans).  But an issue with translating the book to movie is a) fans of the book have an idea in their head about what the characters should look like and Twilight doesn't come close to it  b) the majority of the book is Bella's inner thoughts and they can't translate that to the movies.  The best advice to give is to tell everyone: If you are over the age of 13 and you want to see what the Twilight series is like read the books because the movies are so horribly cast& produced its disgusting. But it's so bad that you get morbidly curious about it.

Awful Colin Firth and Bette Midler are good actors but this movie is just awful.  Helen Hunt is just so depressing.  There is nothing light or funny about this movie, as the cover might imply.

Really? This video was quite a dissapointment.  I was thinking it was in concert form.  Nope. It's just a compliation of videos. There was nothing in this video that kept our interest. You truly get what you pay for.  If you pay more than 50 cents, don't buy.  Trust me. Unless you absolutely love Kutless and don't care about production.

An inane script, horrible acting, and slited direction make this an unwatchable movie "The Happening" did the impossible... it made Zooey Deschanel unappealing. An inane script, horrible acting, and slited direction make this an unwatchable movie. Mark Wahlberg's performance reminds me of the SNL skit "Mark Wahlberg Talks to Animals" (and I don't mean that in a good way.) I can't believe this is the same guy who wrote/directed "The Sixth Sense." Maybe the evil toxin from this movie soften his brain and stole his talent.

Horrible! First, anyone who wants to see a real ballet movie should dig through their old VHS tapes and watch "The Turning Point" instead. I like Natalie Portman, but this was awful.  All of the dancing sequences are shown from the waist up..no legs, and that was a huge mistake. The dance scenes instead seem like you are watching through a porthole. The story line was weak, and while I am not a prude, I can't help but think if they'd spent the same amount of time developing the movie as they did on the 4 masturbation scenes and one lesbian sex scene it would have been a better movie.  I'd only recommend the movie for the closing scene of the black swan where she grows her wings onstage, that was done well.  Aside from that I'll be selling my copy.

made of fail I have just cancelled my pre-order of Glee S3 on hearing that the infamous Klaine Box Scene, cut from the show but promised in the box set is not, after all, to be included. The marginalisation of the gay couples, most notably Kurt and Blaine in S3 has been appalling, as signified by the loss of this scene. I can't believe that I was prepared to shell out good money just for the chance at seeing SOME semblance of intimacy from this iconic couple. Alas, no, once again, I am to be disappointed.  No Klaine, just endless boring Finchel arguing about pointless pigs.  So, congratulations, Fox. I'm done with you, and done with your show.

Terrible, Slow, Boring This movie was terrible, it was extremely slow. it dragged and dragged the character building.  jack Black did a great job, but other than him the movie was terrible, do not waste your money,

UNBELIVABLE HORROR AND GORE CRAP First off this is not for the squeamish, this movie will make you vomit out your shoes. So don't buy this if you don't like gore. I mean the unrealistic stuff in it is amazing. This girl gets her arm cut off and bleeds and keeps talking after she loses like 10 gallons of blood spraying out all over everything and everyone. Her boy friend or brother gets shuricans threw him and he keeps talking then falls apart in to multiple peaces. Wow the kicker is when she chops off this dudes head and then drags his corps to the bath room to squeeze his body on to his brother so the blood can spray all over him. What Horrible junky crap is that. I mean like come on!!! There is no real plot and no real dialogue. But there is allot of action that is why I gave it 1 star. Its not all lost. I promise you multiple night mares and sickening of your stomach if you see this wasted red paint movie. The girl is slightly cute but after that the rest is simply GARBAGE! I want to write more about it but I have to run to the bath room to go vomit. Wow just thinking about this move makes me sick. I couldn't make it the entire film. Just to much gore to make it appealing. I'd rather watch night of the living dead at least those zombies can act. Blooaahh!

Not a complete season Stop jerking everyone around CN and release complete season packages instead of double dipping. Until then people will just continue to torrent these episodes.

Don't get This product was in the format of England VHS's. So I could only hear the voices but could not see the movie.

Horrible Plot Hole Hollywood is known for taking a book and completely screwing up the plot, and this movie continues that tradition. Within the first 10 minutes the plot hole upon which the rest of the movie is based is revealed: Jason Bourne supposedly leaves his fingerprint at the scene of an assassination. Wow!  In the first movie Conklin tells Bourne that he is a "30 million dollar weapon." So, Jason Bourne is a highly trained assassin who comes out of hiding to assassinate two people, but conveniently leaves behind a pristine fingerprint; and no one in the briefing room at the FBI could realize how incredulous this seemed? I mean the first thing an assassin learns in Assassination 101 is wear gloves. Again, wow.

this show makes america look bad this tv show is pure trash from the very begining to the very end i hate this show alot its not even a show its one of the dumbest tv shows ever produced for mtv i use to like mtv when i was younger but mtv has since changed and gone downhill you want a real tv show look at the show jag or cheers heck even the simpsons and family guy and south park put this lame mtv show to shame and buy something else instead this show stinks buy a book or a cd instead of this trashy show

Ugliest Barbie film EVER! This is hands down the most poorly executed Barbie film yet. Evidently, hundreds of millions in profit a year are not enough for a corporation like Mattel, because now they've yanked production from Rainmaker in Vancouver and shipped it off to Technicolor in India. It's a pretty telling sign of how little respect Mattel must have for us when they assume that we'll buy off on this visually ugly movie, because, "What the heck, it's Barbie, so they'll buy anything right?" Wrong.  "Barbie in the Nutcracker" was made 11 years ago and the characters looked more alive than in this drek. In this movie, Barbie and her sisters are lifeless automatons with robotic motions, plastic faces, and dead staring eyes. The toy dolls have more personality! Mattel has always cut costs by using motion capture (recording people in suits like Avatar) rather than using actual animators, but I honestly didn't think you could make animated characters look this stiff and dead in 2012.  As for the movie itself, it is vanilla bland and harmless. The message is fine,if not somewhat overstated. There are so many songs jammed in to help pad out the thin story that even my daughter grew tired of them after a while. I'm so happy that she is growing out of Barbie, because I honestly wouldn't want to reward Mattel with any more of my hard-earned money for such sub-par offerings.  Their last, best movie was "A Mermaid's Tale". It was well done and was the last to star Kelly Sheridan as Barbie's voice. Unfortunately, she must been cost reduced as well, but she will always be THE voice of Barbie.

Cheap A** Movie!!! Horrible movie.  The plot sounded like it would be okay, but it was very cheaply made.  Translation: Horrible acting, vomit dialogue, and the shooting was amateur at best!  I spent the entire movie fast forwarding every now and then just so that it would get over sooner!!!  If I could I wouldn't give it any stars at all!!!

Don't waste your time This movie jumped around so much I kept asking myself if I had missed something. But no, it's just very convoluted, and nothing ends up happening anyway. About halfway through, I gave up on watching it because nothing happens, and started ffwing through it. Waiting, waiting, waiting, then it was over. No point!

horrible I should've payed more attention to the 1 star reviews about shaky cam (and the main character is someone I wouldn't listen to for more than 2 minutes in real life). I took the dvd out after 10 minutes and proceeded to check reviews online, to no surprise there were others who stopped watching after 10 minutes. Maybe someday I'll be able to tackle this one, but not today.

River of no Return DVD was working only about fist 20 minutes and then no picture, only sound.I oredered may DVD from you and this is the first time happend I would like t send me naother one. Returnign the item will cost money. Please let me konw what your service departemnt to decide to do by e-mail  Bernard Lee

need regular digital copy for USA I bought the bluray region free version from amazon.co.uk since it came with a digital copy, however it won't download since that redemption code is only for Itunes store uk and ireland customers only.  I'm trying to get a solution through apple so I can download here.  The ultraviolet subscription is extra cost, as I understand it, so it's not worth having to pay more for using the service when Itunes can download movies for no added charge beyond the purchase price.  I have no desire to participate in the ultraviolet service at additional charge.  That is a crock. Here is what I bought and can't use digital copy in us.: [...]

Gotta really be jonesing for breakdancing to endure this movie The biggest mistake for this movie was using Jules Urich to portray a high school breakdancing phenom.  I know it is typical that Hollywood uses twenty-something actors to portray high school kids, but seriously, Jules looks thirty-something and no amount of makeup is going to change that! Her dancing at times was awkward (not her fault) and if she was attempting to have a NYC accent it was hard to tell.  No doubt there are definite limitations making a plot line on a movie based on breakdancing. Jules Urich is talented, but misplaced (age wise) for the storyline in this movie.  There were some really good breakdancers in this movie, but it feels as if they had to be toned down at times to allow Jules to come off as prime. Also the amount of dancing was few and far between.  My suggestion to those who want to make a breakdancing movie, take a chance on finding a real teenage (14-18 something) breakdancing phenom that can act. As for Jules, she can dance and act, there must be some action packed movie she would fit in if given the right director (to direct her).

they had me, but then lost me... Some good actors, good concepts, good effects, but it felt like they started filming before they knew where they were going with this movie.  I really wanted to like this movie...but as it moves on it feels like its missing something.  The ending was just odd...not in a good way either.  Skip this movie, or redbox it, or stream it for free....If you pay 25 bucks for it you will be pissed.  Expect it to be in the 5 dollar bargin bin fast!

Dreadful I was so looking forward to this movie. The commercials looked awesome. Unfortunately, the lack of a good script, terrible acting from Kristen Stewart, and funky, creepy dwarfs ruined it. There was no chemistry between Snow White and the huntsman - the characterization was glazed over at best. We're told Snow could inspire people to follow her, but why? Kristen Stewart does her usual fly-catching, mouth-open, blank-eyed gawping about - nothing about her portrayal of the character would inspire anyone to do anything but find something else to watch. I didn't expect or want silly dwarfs, but these guys were just dirty and creepy and weird, like little pedos. The huntsman had the most potential to be an interesting character, but his dialogue quickly ran out of steam. The evil queen and her brother were the best characters, but not enough to pull this stinker out of the hole. I would have been so happy if this was still a flawed but fun movie, but unfortunately, I couldn't wait for it to be over. A big disappointment.

One of the Worst Remakes Ever Made Whenever he's remaking or adapting something, Burton always makes the same mistake; putting his "vision" ahead of the original source material and sometimes even showing utter disdain for the source material (Planet of the Apes, Batman, etc.). This is not only hands-down the worst thing ever done with the Apes franchise, but also Burton's worst movie ever. In this film, he makes the ridiculous choice of having all of the human characters capable of speech... and that is just the beginning! Check out RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES instead, which is easily the best thing done with the franchise since 1968.  If you respect so little of the original, why are you even bother adapting?

Not Worth It This was just bad. I bought it from the 5 dollar bin at WalMart and I don't think it was worth that much. It plays the same video clips about 100 times. The stuff talked about was stuff we pretty much all ready knew. The worse part was how much time they spent on Harry and then brushed past the other boys like they weren't as important. I love Harry but it shouldn't be about him all the time. The other boys deserve the same respect. This dvd just isn't worth purchasing in my opinion.

WAIT FOR THE BETTER DVD COMBO!! So dissapointing! I pre ordered this thinking it was a great deal for 18$ but I was so wrong! Not only was it just the blu ray movie but there were NO EXTRAS on either the blu ray or the regular dvd!! They rushed this out to trick us all. This is worth 5$ not 20$! For 20$ I bought the extended edition blu ray/DVD combo edition of suckerpunch and it came with over 4 hours of extras! WAIT FOR THE BETTER VERISON! THIS MOVIE IS SO INCREDIBLE save your money and wait to see it with the extras! trust me!!! I returned this the day I got it, and will be saving up for the deluxe edition and maybe even the box set with tons of extras!

paris when it sizzles We were VERY DISAPPOINTED !!!! I rented this movie to take with us on our flight to Paris. I rented it LATE the night before and we were informed that our rental had expired  only a couple of hours after the order had been received. You can see our disappointment as we were looking forward to viewing this on our trip. I was charged the full rental price for NO MOVIE !!

Pretty bad This was a pretty bad movie. Adam Sandler should have never done this movie.  That is all I can say about this movie.

Piece of doodoo This movie is horrible. Not funny at all, and totally disrespectful of the genre. How did this get made? What a waste!

Just an awful documentary. .  .    CIVIL WAR:  AMERICA DIVIDED  DVD    From the nightmarish  soundtrack to the glib narration,  this is one of the worst documentaries I have ever seen. Even the film editing is just awful, where many pictures  do not even illustrate that the narrator speaks of.   The story telling is uninspired, and the DVD case doesn't even identify the narrator, but whoever he is, he has no future. His voice drones on in a dull monotone, precisely as though he is reading  without any passionate understanding of the events. The narrative focuses upon  some superficialities about  Union Generals like Burnside, which nobody regards as important anyway  except to cite his bungling handling of his troops.  True, it doesn't cost much,  but even with the modest price, you just don't get critical history here. There were times in watching this that I could have just  screamed;  "Arrrggh!!!"    In comparison, if you don't want to go all out for the Ken Burn's  Civil War documentary,  look for the DVD entitled "Civil War Battles".  I just finished it in the last week, and it covers  all the major battles in detail, and its narration is clearer, the soundtrack better, and the detailed accounts of the battles, just excellent, and this is something that event the Ken Burns documentary does not focus upon.  .

Slow and boring This movie could not keep my interest. I got a good nap while watching it though. The rest of my family had the same reaction. I'm not sure why this movie receives so much praise.

Another Classic Thrashed Thankfully I bought the set with the original classic included; that, is the only redeeming quality to my purchase. No-one appreciates great SFX eye-candy more than I do, and this movie has its share; but the "artistic liberties" the producers have taken with this film and its original storyline prove once again why liberals just can't be trusted to do a remake that respects the original Artist's work. Every time they get a chance, they turn well-loved, classic characters and story-lines into a propaganda platform for their radical world views! You'd think by now they'd get it- Most people just do not appreciate them doing this. And as proof, the box office sales are always low.  What is it with Jennifer Connelly? It seems that every remake of a classic comic book character she's involved with turns up a BOMB! She directed the Incredible Hulk remake in 2004, and just look at what a flop that was...once again, another leftists propaganda piece.  We need a law to protect what remains of our beloved super heroes from being co-opted by Leftist producers with an agenda:  If you can't show enough respect for the Artist, and their original story-line and characters, then go invent your own!Truth is, I suspect they truly lack the intellectual talent needed to do so, which is why they rip-off everyone else's work!  Save your money. If you really must see it, check it out from the library, or Tivo it.

Global Warming Hysteria, Patronizing An extreme one sided presentation of global warming alarmism and crazy energy schemes. Features long time environmental radicals like Lester Brown, Van Jones and Armory Lovins. Takes a patronizing attitude toward  featured "regular guys" who supposedly benefit from windmills, etc. The regular guys use profanity to make them seem more regular. Makes all kinds of unsubstantiated statements blaming every bad weather event on climate change being here now.  Everthing in this movie is pretty much a lie.

Rip Off on Price I found this DVD in multiple locations for $14.95. Don't be ripped off because one of the stars passed away...

pointless unbelievably boring stay away from this movie.  save your time and money. there is just no words to explain how meaningless it is.

DVD THEY SENT ME THE COMPLETE WRONG ITEM!!!! DON'T EVER GO THROUGH THIS COMPANY!!!!!! I waited FOUR weeks for my item and it was completely wrong

horrible bag o crap This movie was one of the worst films I have ever seen. If you feel compelled to watch it, pay the dollar at redbox. You will regret it.... you have been warned.

Could this movie have been more boring? No.  A major snooze-fest.  Avoid it like the plague unless you have insomnia.  __________________________________  129 minutes of my life...... wasted.  Hopefully I'll get them back in the "Hereafter". Because I sure squandered them in this lifetime.

Alpha Bombs Again I should have known something foul when I got the DVD ad discovered it was Alpha Video. The picture quality isn't very good at all. On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being unwatchable and 10 being remastered, I would give this DVD release a 5. They also superimposed their logo on the corner and freeze framed the opening title screen. If you want better quality, I recommend the Sinister Cinema release on Amazon.com (about the same price as Alpha's) because their release is not altered. I'm more a purist and I prefer to watch my movies unaltered.

Useless worst purchase ever at Amazon I bought this for myself for my birthday and I can't watch it at all, by me returning it at my expence just cost me more money so either way I lose more, I did not know this movie would not play in my DVD player, so I am stuck with something I can not use, 1st of all I got nothing for my 63rd birthday so I figured I would buy myself a presant well this sucks not only do I have a useless movie I cant watch I totally lose all togater, this makes me not want to buy anything from Amazon now.

Save Your Money - Don't Bother You are not missing anything if you do not purchase or download this movie. It's a empty flick; nothing here. Trust me, you won't miss nothing. Keep it moving; there's nothing to see here.

Terrible DON'T go see this movie.  Boring and cliche.  zero interesting scenes and depressing as well. A total waste of Hollywood actors time and material.

The Muse DVD media We were unable to view this movie as the DVD player kept giving us DISK ERROR message.  Must be out of tolerance or some key coding is missing.  The other disks we received from the same source and with Albert Brooks worked just fine.

5 minutes to start We put in this DVD and had to sit through 5 minutes of screen logos, warnings, and ads before we were able to actually watch the DVD.  I understand not being able to fast forward through the FBI warning, but to not be able to fast forward through the 4 minute ad for their Little Einsteins cartoon was just torture.  My baby started crying.

after this movie series they will not be able to be inany movie just what the title says.  is this a vampire series or a soap opera.  the lamest thing out there.  do not waist your time and money.  you will thank me.

Romeo and Julie Malo, malo, malo. P&eacute;sima grabacion y calidad sonora, teniendo en cuenta la calidad extraordinaria de los bailarines. No me explico como Amazon puede ofrecer este producto de tan poca calidad visual y musical.

Extreme right wing point of view Politically I consider myself a middle of the road or slightly left. I'm a white single female from a republican Midwest state. I voted for Obama and plan to again. I educate myself on both sides of the coin no matter what my instincts are. I wanted to watch this movie to gain more perspective of how republicans view our President, and possibly learn some truth. I have to say, if this is the way most republicans view him, I've only heard this from extremists on television. 50% of my friends and family are voting for Romney 2012. I have never heard of them speak in this way about Obama.  One of the worst things I heard about the election from this movie is that the only reason he got elected was because of race, and that he got where he is because he has the ability to convince 'white america' that we want to help him and that he didn't have any new ideas. If that's not extreme I don't know what is! I voted him BECAUSE of his ideas; he was actually going to, and did, make real changes (if you disagree with that, you need to educate yourself on what has been done during his term). I love the fact that his background is so different and he comes with a fresh perspective.  Nothing is wrong with being a 'white picket fence, white family, strong religious background, wealthy family' type of candidate; but we've had too many of those and they haven't done the jobs we hope they will. Americans have said for years that we need a change, and when it comes, we get scared off and twist the truth so much to make this look like the biggest mistake we have ever made when in fact it could be the best we've had. Then people like Dinesh come along, while he seems to be extremely well educated and intelligent, made it clear that he only looks at the President the way he wants to see him because he is scared that some BLACK man whose roots are not similar to us 'normal' Americans could actually make this country better. The fact that Dinesh completely ignored the financial collapse of America that came from republican power is just sad. If Obama was not President I don't believe we would have made as much progress as we have today. Somehow we all pretend that nothing happened and it should have only been a couple years to recover completely. How ignorant!!!  I'm really disappointed. I was hoping for something new and fresh. If you want to make an anti-Obama documentary, by all means do so -- same goes for any other candidate. But if you're going to do that, look at the WHOLE picture and it will be received much better. Being so judgmental, one-sided, ignorant, and oblivious is not appealing. I would have LOVED to watch a documentary about Obama, even if it was a republican point of view, that had some actual sense and came across as intelligent--point out the great things he has done for our country; how many Americans he has helped, along with your criticisms. If you believe he's not the one to run our country, let us know that, but don't insult our intelligence by eliminating and ignoring all the good that has been done on his watch.

Don't bother This was one of the worst movies I have ever seen.  Confusing and unintelligible and I certainly wondered why someone like Hugh Jackman would have ever become involved with it.  I threw away the DVD after I watched it!

Skip this one There were many problems with this movie, it is hard to decide where to start.  It was filled with inconsistencies and most of it did not make sense.  Were they villains or heros?  They go about destroying public property and fight with the bad guys. Kato is the side kick but it is as if he is the real hero.  He builds these amazing cars in just a few days, but you don't see how it all happens.  It is not funny, it is not an action movie, no good special effects, and the script is no good.  I would skip this one and choose something else, there are lot of other good movies out there.

Great Movie - BAD DVD You like being forced to watch commercials?  Buy this DVD  You like Harry potter Movies?  Go Torrent it.  One day these guys will wake up and realize we have options and information.  We don't need their force-fed commercials on their dvds.

An explosion of distractions Just as lousy as the first one.  Politically charged liberal hug-fest.  The movie's short-sighted storyline is peppered with producers dangling string in your face so they can show off to their friends how they can make you do whatever they want.

DO NOT BUY This is a 4:3 aspect ratio version, with terrible image quality. The package indicates it is in original format but it is NOT. The image is lopped off on both sides to fit a 4:3 tv. I'd think Terence Malick would be horrified... Amazon should not allow this to be sold.

So unbelievably bad I was shocked by how the tone in this installment had shifted. It is almost as if the director was out to make fun of the film he was creating. The wedding toasts, really? Gah! Embarrassing to watch. The dialog was stilted and the acting was soap opera'ish'. Poor Taylor Lauten seems to have been given the worst direction. What happened to the breath taking scenery? Even the scenes shot on the honeymoon were nothing special. Parts of the film looked like a television series while others, most notably Edward and Bella leaving in the Volvo for the honeymoon, looked like a car commercial. I really hope the second installment is better but if shot the same time as the first, there is little hope for improvement. What a shame. This whole series could have been something spectacular if one great director had stepped up to helm all of the installments, like Peter Jackson did for the Lord of the Rings films.

Ugh Ear-splitting, insipid violin; smoking (LOTS of smoking); a few good performances by supporting actors, a comatose pace, and stilted, stupefying dialog. I guess this was made to remind us all how stilted and stupefying movies were in the 1950s.

Are the 5 star comment people working with Viz? I feel like the previous reviews with 5 stars are part of a plot by Viz to improve their ratings... like who would say that it was a good price and/or value.  I love this series.  I absolutely love it, and if I was offered a deal that I could not consider just a slap in the face, I would buy it.  I have to watch it on hulu plus or weird websites that I get viruses from, but I won't buy this again until they start charging appropriate prices.

Total waste of time Absolutely boring. Not suspenseful or scary. I was hoping for a good "haunted house" story but this was just plain dull.

oops oops. I guess I didn't see that this item was from the UK and would not play on a standard DVD player. had to return. Big hassle and disappointing!

A Waste! Don't even waste your time viewing the trailer. And the people who produced this should be locked up for bad taste and horrible movie ideas. The acting, the cast, everything with this movie was horrible. I seriously want my money back for renting this trash.

Impossibleto watch on a PC I could watch with sound OR good video, but never both at the same time.  i will stay away from these "extra" cost views on my PC until they get the ability to stream.

wont play in australia Was disappointed when DVD arrived in the mail as it would not play on my player because of area code.

Terrible Resolution on Amazon video. There really should be an option to pick the resolution to download.  Certainly I should be able to get at least 720p on the download but this looks like crap.  Netflix Resolution is better than what you can get out of this service.

A REAL RIPOFF This review is not for the Actual movie. It desires 4-5 stars. The one star is for the extended version of the movie... It is ONE WHOLE MINUTE than the standard version. That is not an extended version.

If you like a drawn out affair with a Hollywood leftist PC message The cast of this film seemed impressive.  I thought it perhaps was not just another end of the world type film.  After seeing the first 10 minutes I was suspecting this to be about a needless global disaster caused by either the military industrial complex, evil conservative government, global warming, or the other usual suspects in the land of Hollywood fantasy.  If only we had not driven all those SUV's, etc.  Without giving the end of the movie away, after suffering through the entire affair (which I spread over three nights as kept losing interest)I found I was...exactly right!  The political hit is delivered at the end, for those who actually last that long!  Avoid this unless you think that these types of fantasies are true.  Sadly, Matt Damon is best in action movies, not those that try to make a far fetched political claim with no science to support it...

Commentary track doesn't work. Very disappointed that the commentary track does not work.  The menu shows that there are commentaries during the USA version of the movie.  But when you put commentary on during the film it just plays the movie, no comments.  I can not recommend this DVD set even though I love the movie.  All of the specials should work if they are mentioned in the menu.

An Insult To Mankind Don't you think that its getting the wrong message ? it took 40 years to lose his ? That's not the first thing that comes to mind when were born in this world. That film is a disgrace and does not deserve winning any type of award for that desperation what they call a film. Shame on everyone who wasted money on this !

Poor remembrance for a memorable playoffs The 2011 playoffs was loaded with storylines:  Dallas vs. Miami part 2; "Not one, not two, not three...."; Dirk and Lebron's chase for their first championship; Dallas as comeback kings; "Coughgate" and Phil's last stand among others.  Yet this DVD manages to water down the 2011 NBA playoff saga into an uninspiring mash-up of rehashed game and interview clips (most of which had been shown on ESPN) and bland narrative.  I'm a huge Mavs fan but after watching this, all I can say is "There's nothing to see here".  Buy a championship shirt or hat.  You'll get more from those than from this video.

It bites This movie was painful to watch.  In this soulless, toothless followup to the hit Lost Boys, Corey Feldman portrays a caricature of Edgar Frog that made me wince with every word he said. Edgar and Alan were, as I interpreted, a couple of posers with some knowledge of the undead, yet who'd never actually staked a vamp in their lives. The tough guy attitudes a charming mask for a callow lad.  Played straight however, it can only be what it originally was: fake.  Edgar Frog is also saddled with the same hardship as Burt from the Tremors franchise: exceptional as a supporting character, he simply cannot carry a movie.  Ironically, The Lost Boys may have starred children and youths, but the vampires were truly deadly and the viewers were in fear for characters we genuinely cared about.  It took phenomenal courage, luck and turning their house into a vampire deathtrap for humans to defeat two vampires at night. In this presumably `adult' movie, the vamps melt like butter on a hot plate, killing and being killed by characters for whom we have no regard, every bit as scary as a cartoon villain in a kids show.  Then there's theme. As many reviewers have already pointed out, vampire literature and movies excel when the vampire serves as metaphor. In the Lost Boys, the theme was alienation, the dissolution of family bonds and the need for connection. Even the vampires are driven by this motivation to create their own twisted family.  This movie does not know what it wants to do or be, other than make money from the original's name.  So what are the good points?  We get to see Tanit Phoenix in lingerie and a bathing suit.  That's about it.

Bad One? Ra.One is one helluva over-hyped, glorified video game show on a big screen. That's what it's all about. Not forgetting over acting from SRK( I don't think he should attempt to be funny or do any comedy at all). The only redeeming features are the songs and thank god for that! Avoid it unless you are a kid under 10 years old.

Thumbs up for Hopkins, thumbs down for Hannibal This movie is disgusting. No one with a brain should see this movie. Sir Anthony could act his way out of a firing squad but this film is garbage.

The General Allied Artists DVD This review is specific to the of Buster Keaton's the General produced by Allied Artists version, the one found in the Buster Keaton Collection by St Clair vision, and those by Kino.  I won't bother to discuss the story, others do an incredibly good job of that, this review is limited to technical issues.  Finding a full length copy of the General can be a serious problem for a silent film aficionado.  I have long regarded this as the best silent movie  and wanted a perfect copy of the original full length film at 105 minutes long, unfortunately every quality copy I could find is an abridged 75 - 78 minutes long.  Some people have attempted to explain the difference in speed as the cameraman's decision to run the reels faster or slower, but quite frankly a speed differential of 40% due the enthusiasm of the cameraman was a little hard to believe.  I later did a side by side comparison and found over 200 differences where I could find cuts in footage. The movie seems to have either been cut differently for American and International audiences or the surviving 35mm version was abridged for televised broadcast when they first started playing silent movies on the tube.  I have been able to discover that the 105min version was preserved on a 16mm reel found in either Australia or New Zealand, this 98 minute Allied Artists version  comes from a Spanish 16mm reel; and the 75 minute versions by Kino and others come from the remaining 35mm reels found in the States.  It would be nice to know what theater audiences originally saw in the U.S. but information from the era is sketchy and best guess is that they watched the short version. I have found writings which claim that American audiences of the 1920's preferred movies to be around 70 minutes long while International audiences preferred longer films. One thing which influences the review, I have a personal preference for original organ scores because the original artists tended to understand the importance of music to a movie and gave it a lot of thought, music is key to setting the mood and tone of any silent movie.  The Allied Artists version of the General rated one star because there is no sound track.  Someone at Allied needed to pay more attention to production details.  I could live with the movie originating from a 16mm pressing since the full version of the movie is not available in a high quality print, considering the origins it is clean.  When it comes to sound; however, the case clearly states "dolby stereo", which is a near universal format and there is no sound track whatsoever.  I ran some rather sophisticated anaylsis on the disc to make sure I didn't have an equipment compatibility issue - and it just isn't there.  This is an unforgivable lapse, and more than a little deceptive.  Others on the net have made this observation as well so I don't believe the problem is limited to my disc.  Face it, Dolby Stereo silence is not a big draw when purchasing a silent movie.  The Buster Keaton Collection by St Clair Vision contains a lesser version of the full 105 minute movie and would also rate one star but for different reason.  They appeared to have a random classical music soundtrack.  How they thought Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance" (most know it as graduation music) could be be applied to an American war movie is beyond me.  Its use is sloppy and indicates a lack of thought.  The music is jarring and ruins this most worthy of films.  Again you wind up watching the film truly "Silent".  So I am still left watching the short but visually and symphonically perfect Kino pressings.  Most of the Kino Releases are perfect and this one is no different. Kino provides multiple musical scores depending on ones taste and they offer the best visuals available.  I gave them four stars because I wish they would produce a full length version of the General, but otherwise there is little I can say that would result in a better product.  Lastly, the film is based on a book written around 1898 by  Lieut. William Pittenger "Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railway Adventure (aka The Great Locomotive Chase)"  a fictionalized account of the Andrews Raiders attempted sabotage of the Confederate Railway System.  Historically this raid was itself a fascinating story. I have never seen a copy of the book.

Smells Like You Need to Change the Kitty Litter... I had never seen this movie until recently, and not because of lack of desire. I love comic book movies, and I generally jump to get the chance to see one. Catwoman, however, gained a bad rap early, and that was enough to keep me away. Folks that hated it loathed it, and well, I didn't know anyone who didn't hate it. Kinda killed it for me, so I went on with my life...  It's been years now. I figured, why not watch it, how bad can it be? I mean, it does have Halle Berry in it, and she looks great. I was dying to see how she interpreted one of the great likeable villains in comic book history.  Well, it turns out, this movie is as bad as they say, and has no real redeemable qualities.  #1 This is no comic. This movie has nothing to do with the comics, except the name of the movie, and the fact that she is a somewhat catlike woman. After watching this, I am sure the comics are greatful that this is an anomaly. #2 Halle Berry is awful. Her alter ego is unlikable, which ruins the whole movie. She dresses laughably bad, and her personality is transparently fake. How can you develop interest in a movie where you can find no one to root for, no one you want to follow? #3 The plot. The plot is ridiculous, where you can have a graphic artist break into a closed research facility after hours by entering a "back door"? Having a cat "test" you by seeing if you will climb out a window in a multistory building and "save" them, even though they can get down on their own...is that a test of compassion, or stupidity? Having a person come back from the dead because they are deemed worthy by a cat? Like how did they know she would die? Why did they test her, if they didn't know she would die? How many deaths each year are caused by a deluge of industrial waste from a top secret cosmetic research lab? I could go on, but I will stop right there... #4 The special affects aren't very special at all. Catwoman jumps from second story ballustrade to second story ballustrade somehow evading the poorly aimed bullets shot by police officers. Evidently the policmen in this town were not trained to "lead a target" and shoot ahead of a moving target. They shoot direct at a moving target and miss every time, and then have the gall to look shocked.  Leave this one alone.

unsuitable I live in Australia...I purchased the dvd's in good faith that the product will be ok. When i tried to play the dvd, my played could not and the print on the screen said "check region code"....I was not aware that I had to do this....I am now as I have been informed by many....could you not have let me know about this I am in region (4) who knew that....I will not purchase anything from you in future. Do not email me again Thanks for nothing but trouble Ruth Mundy

Sad and disappointing . . . Liza, the legend. Avoid this performance if you want to remember her at her peak in the 60s, 70s & 80s. This concert showcases her decline. I can't imagine this performance winning a Tony. Sad & disappointing - to put it mildly.

Unwatchable. I attempted to watch this movie in HD using a Roku device with wifi connection to high-speed cable internet.  The first attempt loaded in resolution so low it looked like I was watching through frosted glass.  The next four attempts loaded in HD, but the picture was jerky and the sound choppy and cutting out every 1-2 seconds.  It was unwatchable.  I found it interesting that the "resolution may  be downgraded to match connection capabilities" disclaimer came BEFORE the movie would attempt loading.  How about offering a sample to allow this test BEFORE charging a non-refundable fee?  Using the exact same setup, I was able to watch HD movies from Netflix with no problem.  I will not be giving Amazon Instant Video a try a second time.

slow boring burn Haywire makes no sense whatsoever. What should be a cool flip of the typical tough guy looking for revenge formula, just falls flat and drags on.

Utter Bull Crap This movie was such a let down. The previews made it seem like this amazing epic cinematic experience, instead you wait the whole movie waiting for something interesting to take place. Well it never does take place.

Broken Disc While I was extrememly excited to get the item and it arrived in an orderly fashion I was very disappointed to learn upon opening the case that the disc was broken.

the unit rip off how can you people send dvd with the wrong format to Australia  I need my money back on all purchases

guns, bombs, and torture scenes? I took my two granddaughters to see this movie, and was absolutely horrified.  Every problem was dealt with a gun, bigger foe, bigger gun.  Lots of bombs, blowing up continuously, one strapped to Mater, others set off with remote controls.  Two scenes with cars strapped down and sadistic grimacing torturers cranking up the ray to disintegrate their innards.  This movie was disgusting.

The Outlaw I have heard of this movie since I was a teen ager (I am now 77).. it was about as sorry a movie as I have ever seen, High school actors could have done better.

No subtitles I love this movie and was really exited when I found it on Amason. Unfortunatelly, when it came, I found out there are NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES! So, unless you are fluent in German, dont get it!

Epic fail This has to be one of the worst films in recent memory.  First of all, the "deep message" isn't deep.  It's your usual "evil rich guys have too much and everyone else is oppressed."  Now, I get that some people here might really buy into that message, but even if that's your thing then this is the most transparently-done version of that message.  It's like they figured that everyone watching this was some junior high kid wearing their brand-new silk-screened Che Guevara 50th Anniversary Limited Edition T-shirt and getting ready for some revolution against the machine.  So they had to beat you over the head relentlessly with how bad it is to have too much time/money.  Point is, there's nothing subtle or elegant going on here, regardless of your political leanings.  Second of all, there's nothing new here.  You want to know the entire movie?  Here it is: rich girl is upset at being rich, then she gets thrown in with noble poor guy, they do a "Bonnie & Clyde" and everyone loves them.  Roll credits.  You'd have to be about six years old to believe the plot holes in this movie.  Here are some SPOILERS: Timberlake's character "wins" fights by giving people his time ...and then they somehow don't notice that all of their time is gone!  Magic!  Uh, what?  Time is the most precious thing around and yet these two bungling fools repeatedly rob banks by ...driving a car through the glass facing of the banks!  Magic!  The police can get daily rations of time and it takes literally less than a second for the transfer, but when one is hot on the pursuit of Timberlake's character ...you guessed it!  He decides to cancel his time transfer and wait until later.  You figure out the big spoiler about what happens next!  Lastly, the acting is pretty horrible.  The dialogue consists of short one-liners.  Meaning, they were short, not funny.  Generally, what moved the movie were short bursts of action, but all of it was totally predictable and it wasn't even gripping enough to be called a "popcorn thriller."  Seriously, skip this movie.  In case you couldn't tell, it stunk.

Good movie but poor Amazon video quality The movie was fine. The quality of the "instant" format was terrible.  I will never rent a movie from Amazon again.  They should make it clear which movies can be downloaded and watched at a decent quality and which are only available to watch streaming. I wasted my money on this one.  Next time I will rent the DVD locally

Can it get any worse than this? Have you ever been really hungry and the food is still lousy? How about when you're really in the mood for a good sci fi flick and it's so bad you can't watch it? I rented this online really in the mood to watch it and couldn't get all the way through. Besides a lousy script and effects the lighting was so bad I couldn't watch it. I mean most of it was filmed in darkness, I could barely see what was going on. Terrible camera angles and directing. Complete waste of time and money.

Sadly, one of Carpenter's worst. I usually enjoy the director's films and Amber Heard is fun and gorgeous.. but this film just does not work. The story is lame, the 'scares' are ridiculously stupid, and the characters are very stale. Avoid this one and check out some much better horror that's out there.

Boy, did that suck! A strained sequel. Too much unnecessary build up to nothing. The only thing I came close to appreciating about this saunter-through-boredom was Jack Palance.

Dangerous Female The DVD was of extremely poor quality (when it played) frequent stops. Unable to play at all at about 20 min. into the film.

Long and boring For some reason I could never watch this one while it was in theaters.  Tried to watch it last night on DVD, but could only force myself to sit through the first 50 agonizing minutes.  This movie is bad at all levels.  I am shocked Nancy Wilson was somehow involved in it.  I love old Heart music.  Most annoying things:  Jason Lee's nosejob seems to have been performed by a blind person and Kate Hudson has no upper lip.  I wonder if all the 5-star reviews are just sarcastic.

Terrible I am a Tim and Eric fan myself, but this has to be the worst movie I've seen in my life. All of the jokes were just recycled crap from the show, with some of that photoshop poor editing they do, in the show it seems to work because it is meant to be random, but in a movie it only makes the jokes even worse.  I had really high hopes for this and I felt I was watching Epic Movie or something like that, not a single laugh was given.

Didn't work for me I looked forward to this CD but on listening found it very disappointing.  I don't think Pavarotti's booming tenor blended at all well with any of the other artists, nor did his voice seem to lend itself to these types of songs.  It didn't seem that LP could adjust his  voice to be able to soften, to tone it down in order to blend.  Every time he came in, it just felt to me to be bombastic after the other singer had been much more sensitive and in the pocket of the tune. Most of the duets were back-and-forth rather than harmonies but during those LP's voice just drowned out the other's. The whole thing just didn't work for me despite my positive expectations. Evidently I'm the only negative review thus far and of course this is just my own personal opinion.

Spartacus I gave this item a rating of a 1 because the second disc, the 6th and 7th episodes did not play all the way through, the 6th started a 30 mins into it, and the 7th played about 30 mins then stopped.

Garbage This embarrassingly awful film, released in 1972, features some fairly well-known B-movie actors from that era, including Grant Williams, Ruta Lee, Mala Powers, and, for some odd reason, musical star Bobby Van. I suppose devotees of truly terrible films might get a smile out of the absurd plot, wooden dialogue, atrocious acting, and laughably cheap production values. I just felt bad thinking that this was the final film performance of Williams, who had actually been a professional musician (opera singer, pianist) before going into acting. His earlier science-fiction films (notably, "The Incredible Shrinking Man," but also "The Monolith Monsters," and "The Leech Woman") and soap operas ("Written on the Wind," "Susan Slade") may not have been masterpieces, but no one should go out of this world with a cinematic pustule like "The Doomsday Machine" as their parting contribution to civilization.

This Came From Zack Snyder? When was the last time you saw a movie that was just so completely, unbelievably god-awful that it actually made you mad? Well, this steaming crap-fest is just such a film, the most pandering, inept piece of junk since Mel Gibson's "The Patriot". I love Snyder's work and couldn't wait to see this movie (despite the abysmal reviews), and I just can't figure out what possibly could have possessed him to even make this. A complete waste of two hours of your time.

The Darkest Hour The Darkest Hour is a movie that should be left in the Dark. It's story line is Dead. The special effects were the worst. The only thing I can see good about this movie was the ending. I can say save your money and don't rent or buy this movie.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007SSDS24">The Darkest Hour</a>

A Horrible Piece of Crap When I came to this site to review, I was NOT SURPRISED to see 54 one star reviews already.  I stopped the movie at the first brutally violent (and totally unnecessary ) scene, with the intuitive knowledge that there would be repetitions of this kind of sickness. I see from the other reviews I was correct.  I wasted my time and money, and got my expectations up that this would be along the lines of a well made fantasy... it had all potential to be... i for one would like ratings for violence and cruelty in movies from now on!  I had to smudge my room and light white candles after this!  And go out for a long run.  I felt insulted and violated.

Why We Laugh I do not like this DVD at all...Not at ALL what I expected and hope that Amazon will take this back and give me a credit for something that I will enjoy!  My first BIG HUGE disappointment from Amazon...we will see about the return policy!

Annoying and melodramatic with little action I like Aaron Kwok. He has a lot of detractors who call him wooden and full of hot air, but I've enjoyed him in movies like 2000 AD and China Strike Force. But it really pains me to see him act like such an annoying and dense character in City Under Siege. It's supposed to be a running joke in the movie that he's an idiot, but it's not the least bit funny.  He stars as a circus performer in a traveling troupe. One day, they all discover strange chemicals underground, and for no reason at all, Aaron's fellow performers turn on him and become evil. Then they get mutated with augmented strength and start a rampage. Aaron also gets mutated which doesn't alter his looks, but makes him an expert knife thrower.  Shu Qi plays a news reporter who gets fired in favor of someone younger. .........Yeah right. She meets Aaron and they end up having some of the worst romantic chemistry of the year.  As mentioned before, the villains have no motivation to be villains and are just ridiculous. Colin Chou is their leader, and his mutant makeup looks awful. The script also requires him to be a whiny crybaby who has fits of rage.  Wu Jing also has a role as a cop tracking down the mutants. He looks like he should be the star of the film, but is completely out of place playing second fiddle to Aaron Kwok. His character also proves to be unlikeable when he proclaims that the mutants are freaks who need to be tortured and given autopsies.  One of the characters also has a girlfriend who dies simply to force emotion out of the audience, and it comes across as cheap.  After scoring big with New Police Story and Invisible Targets, it's a wonder how Benny Chan can direct a film with so little action. The fight scenes are very short, and instead of cool choreography it's a mix of gimmicky CGI and lame comedic antics.  This film is a waste of time, and I can't believe US distributors would want to expose this to potential audiences.

There's nothing good about this movie. If you were to walk up to any random person on the street, hand them a video camera and let them make a movie, the odds are better than not that they would be able to make a better film than this.  The script was boring, sparse, and uninspired. The acting was bad. The characters were uninteresting. The events didn't make sense given the first 5 movies. The special effects were bad, and they made the film incredibly dark and hard to see because they hoped we wouldn't notice. The score was sub-par. The shots were poorly set up. The movie was terribly cut and edited. Heck, I'm pretty sure the gaffing was wanting!  If you're an Aliens or a Predator fan, save yourself some aggravation and just don't watch this. The directors and writers of this "movie" are wholly without talent and do not deserve to be actually paid to make movies!  For reference, I would give Alien and Aliens each 5 stars. Alien 3 and 4 would earn 3 stars. AVP1 would deserve 3.5 stars. If Amazon would let me, I'd give this insult of a disc 0 stars. I hope it goes out of print.

Moon Church The essence of this movie is that humans live on the moon in the future, but they're constantly traveling back in time to mess with the timeline. The movie is done in a semi-documentary style.  It features a group of male friends that believe they have stumbled upon evidence of a government cover-up. But then they discover that it's really the Church of Lunology that's behind the cover-up.  Question: What is the church covering up? Answer: Aliens (aka humans) living on the moon. Question: Why is the church covering up aliens living on the moon? Answer: They're in cahoots with the future humans.  As members of the church chase the men to get back the time machine device they stole, the men are trying to find out more about the church and the role it plays in humanity's past, present and future.  From my perspective, this was a very boring movie, not the least bit scary. I had a hard time staying awake. But then the screenplay was weak and the special effects (where they existed) were done on a shoestring budget.  The only positive point about the movie was the acting, which for the most part was good. However, acting can't save a poor screenplay/plot.

hideously ridiculous ....but,but jolie is in it !!!! shes hot so the movie has to be great. right ?!?!?!?  this might have been an alright waste of time in the vain of RED, The Expendables, From Paris With Love and any jason statham movie if it hadnt taken itself seriously. its highly unbelievable, poorly acted, had zero humor (implied or intended), those behind the scenes didnt fair any better.  from what i remember; shes a spy, but isnt on the side she thinks she on or should be on. this takes the premise from ''last kiss goodbye'' a little further. the action sequences were lame, there was no tension or intruige. the plot, again, was laughable. if this didnt have jolie in it, it would not be getting attention or ratings above 2 stars.  easily forgettable.

Hollow and severely lacking in substance The minute I saw Holly's (Sissy Spacek) reaction to her father's murder at the hands of Kit (Martin Sheen), I knew was in trouble. The problem was she didn't react. The very first murder taking place in a film about a killing spree was not exploited as what should have been an earth shattering moment for Holly. Badlands is loosely based on the "Starkweather-Fugate" killing spree of the 1950's. I know that in the medium of film things are romanticized. Even the worst situations look attractive to the viewer but the film gives the audience nothing to look at. Kit and Holly are painfully forgetable characters who coast through this film with a blase attitude. Kit just murders people left and right without batting an eye and Holly perfectly accepts what is occuring. What's even more infuritating is Holly's narration, which was unnecessary in general, was substituted for more crucial, emotional, character development. I was patiently awaiting for one of two moments; Kit, the violent sociopath who committed all the murders in the film, would finally unleash his fury on Holly or some sort of suspense in which the couple could be very well be killed by the authorties. Neither moment happened. Instead, Holly decided she just had enough and Kit simply turns himself into police custody. Again, neither person reacts to what was happening. Badlands is a beautifully shot film with talented actors but it's ulimately comes off as a juvenile fantasy.

Do people really pay to watch this crap? Oh yeah, I did. Do you know the best thing about Wikipedia? For free you can pull up this kind of movie and read the plot in about 15 seconds for free. And there would be more entertainment value realized in that 15 seconds than in the whatever length this movie is. I don't know who in God's name is writing such favorable reviews on Amazon about this and all kinds of stuff, but for movies I am going to consult imdb.com to find out the gross from now on. Only after wasting 2 hours on this thing did I find out it grossed like $50,000. Should have been an indicator.

Dog of war One star for special effects, but I'm glad I didn't see this dog in the movies and I would not rent it again.  No acting to speak of.  The two women are known for singing and posing for SI respectively, and can't act.  First forty minutes could have been eliminated since this isn't From Here to Eternity, but a vehicle to use special effects and the characters being 'developed' have nothing to do.  Liam Neeson, who is great in action flicks lately, basically has a cameo.  The only thing that 'caught' me off guard was when the guy in charge of the Hawaiian communication site (I thought the most interesting character) was stealing something (not sure what), and the alien lets him go...with a nod to ET.  Best laugh for me was when the hero gets a silver star.  I'd of thought he earned the highest award possible for saving the earth, but maybe that's just being picky.

A Whole Lotta Nothin' Zach Braff, tired of being lively and appealing on Scrubs, decided to do a 180 in his first (and hopefully last) feature film, where an emotionally stunted waiter (who's an aspiring actor) goes home after news that his mother has died; and here we follow the exciti-mind numbingly dull adventures of a narcissistic whiner who's unhappy (cue the violin).  Here's a summary of Zach Braff's emotional range in Garden State: =I. Actually I think that emoticon had a little more range to it but basically Zach Braff looks bored or high or something throughout his movie. The hip fanboys will probably argue that the reason Zach Braff doesn't emote much is because he doesn't know how to express himself but unless you count dressing up in garbage bags and yelling into a hole, Zach Braff never shows any emotion or revelation or whatever the movie was going for, and it seems like an excuse for him to smoke a joint or whatever during the shooting (and probably pushing his crappy music on Natalie Portman).  In fact it's not just Zach Braff's lack of acting, the whole movie just reeks of laziness. The set designs are boring and uninteresting, the directing is bland and completely uninspired, and the writing is typical indie garbage about *slightly* dysfunctional people doing *quirky* things like crying over a pet cemetary or wearing a shirt that matches the wall; wow, that's so deep/clever/original Zach Braff, anything else to say in your bloated turd of a movie besides 'let the little stuff go'? No? Wow, it's like a 2 hour fortune cookie, how deep man.  I think I'd rather watch Scrubs: Interns Edition that this movie again. At least Zach Braff can use his facial muscles there.

Weak I downloaded a couple of movies like this to watch and was disappointed that they weren't as good as I had hoped.

ugly film about ugly people Everything wrong with the European, civilized world--the substitution of political pretensiousness for anything resembling a good intelligence.  Speaking critically, all of the films in this series are diffuse and poorly structured;  I found that passing from scene to scene with my forward button removed nothing from the plot, which was thoroughly predictable.

Literally the worst movie I've ever seen Hands down the worst movie I've ever seen in my life. I sat through the whole thing thinking that maybe, just maybe, there would be some redeeming quality about it. That it would at least be funny or interesting or something.  I was dead wrong, from start to finish it was a boring and pathetic look at an idiot's life.  To this movie I say:  What you've just shown me is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever seen. At no point in your rambling, incoherent storyline were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational and interesting narrative. Everyone involved in this movie is now dumber for having seen it. I award you no stars, and may God have mercy on your soul.  If this comes on TV, maybe Comedy Central, and you're bored enough to watch it. Change the channel, do something else, because there are a million things that would be better than watching this film.

Do not agree with the founding premise of this movie An effective teacher in my view does not just "boost test scores".......an effective teacher should ignite passion and zest for a particular subject. Just because someone graduates does not mean they are successful.....by the same token just because someone makes a ton of money does not make them successful. In my view, if someone is happy with what they are doing and make a good living at it, THAT is true success. Something that cannot be measured in test scores and standardized tests. This movie compares US test scores to that of other nations.....why? it not the test scores we should be concerned with. Its the final product that matters.  I really thought this movie was going to something fundamentally revolutionary, but alas, it sadly misses the mark. Totally disappointing!!

Worst picture so far Don't bother wasting your money on this copy. It was upscaled from the dvd on not digitized in HD from the original film. I wish the Bluray industry would get their act together.

Land Before Time- Anniversary Edition I wouldn't recommend this movie until it gets remastered. It was of very poor quality. I can't wait until they remaster this movie, I loved it as a child and would love to watch it again. This edition is very scratchy looking and the sound/visual, leaves something to be desired.

Horrible I so much wanted to love this movie but I hated it.Read the book or watch the BBC miniseries and you'll understand that you can't cram this much nuance into such a tiny package.

unusable I am always very happy with my purchases at Amazon, but this one has been a blaring exception. Video starts and stops every few seconds, audio makes loud clicks, making it impossible to watch. All  5 disks are the same. Just like the old software copy-protection, it hurts the legitimate user while not protecting against bad guys. You should mention that it is copy-protected.

Comedy??? Not! I brought this movie home looking for a good laugh. There were none. I did not see any comedy in this train-wreck. Actually it was quite sad. Don't rent this movie looking for a good comedy. This movie does not have anything funny in it. I don't see the humor in watching a mentally disturbed, alcoholic floundering around in life. The story takes forever to get off the ground, and left me feeling anything but humorous.

DVD Did Not Work The Saved by the Bell Season 1 and 2 DVD did not work. The DVD was put in and did not go past the 7 second mark and had a great big line downturn right side of the screen. It isn't worth it for me to return it because it costs just as much to return it as it did for me to buy it in the first place due to shipping. It is frustrating because now I have Seasons 3-5 but Seasons 1-2 don't work. I guess I am just out what I paid for them and need to buy them again unless new ones are sent. I'm eager to see if anything actually happens because of this poor experience.

Meretricious Dreck The only impressive thing about this overblown and self-important film was that the director was able to get it released with easily an hour of totally disposable footage and scenes included. That must have taken some doing. Otherwise, it is totally undistinguished: hackneyed, false, and tasteless.

Not what I expected I had previously watched the movie "Taken" with Liam Neeson and thought this would be along the same lines. I found Taken to be the much better movie. In Trust you don't feel much sympathy for the girl because of her horrible attitude. I was actually mad at her! I wouldn't recommend this movie although I do like the actors.

X-Men Blu Ray Not First Class <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004LWZW4C">X-Men: First Class (+Digital Copy) [Blu-ray</a>] I wish I could say that this is a great movie.  However, Fox dropped the ball in manufacturing this Blu-ray disc.  Yes the picture and sound are great.  If only the picture didn't freeze every 10 seconds or so as the sound keeps going only to have the video playing catchup.  At first I thought I needed a PS3 Firmware update, but according to Sony, I was already up to date. I tried other blurays in my player with no problem, so I thought maybe I had a bad disc.  After exchanging it for another at BestBuy (Thanks to the guy at the counter for hooking me up even though it was against policy) I brought the new disc home only to be frustrated again.  I've looked online for answers and apparently I'm not the only one with this issues.  Fox needs to release a statement as to what they're going to do to fix this situation.  Very Disappointed!! If anyone else has these problems or has heard from Fox, please leave a comment.

Beware the Editing! This review is not necessarily based on the plot of LND itself but more on the poor style of filming and editing used.  LND was not filmed it the style of the recent 25th Aniversary Phantom at the Royal Albert Hall special.  THe RAH Phantom recording still gave you a wonderful sense of spectacle where as this did not.  In watching LND at a movie theater, there was no sense of grandeur or the theatrical experience due to the closely cropped facial shots.  The cinematic director relied far too heavily on close ups and, frankly, it made me feel like I was watching a poorly directed soap opera.  And when I say close ups, I mean "count the performer's nose hair" close and that's no joke.  I wanted to see how the sets moved and the overall choreography in some scenes, especially the quintet at the end with the Phantom, Raoul, Mme Giry, Meg and Gustav.  Instead the film kept jumping back and forth to faces.  And nostrils.  The performaces were fantastic even if I didn't care for the rehash of the plot from Phantom of the Opera.  Like comparing Coney Island to the Paris Opera House, Love Never Dies felt cheap and easy rather than rich and filling.  The DVD and Blu-Ray may be edited differently, so it may be worth a rental but unless you're a true fanatic and simply must collect all things Phantom, I'd advise you to stick with the cast recording and your own imagination rather than purcahse this.

Region 2?  Now I Know! PLEASE PLACE THE EXPLANATION THAT YOU ARE SELLING A VIDEO THAT I CANNOT VIEW HIGHER IN THE AD!!!!!  Before this experience I could not have told you that America was in "Region 1", since this has never happened to me before.  I was able to alter the format so that it will play on my computer, and can now view the movie while seated at my desk in an upright chair.  Hardly an ideal solution for me.  I now know to be more cautious when ordering videos from Amazon!

The Worst Blu Ray Ever Sold This review is not about the film it's about the Blu Ray.  After seeing "King of Kings" 1961 restored to Blu Ray, and the great job that was done on "The Robe" from 1953 no less, as well as plenty of other titles that look pristine, this is total crap.  This Blu Ray does not have film grain, that is DIGITAL NOISE, that the studio didn't bother addressing. I had my DNR and MPEG Noise Reduction set to high for this, and it didn't help.  I'm so sick of trading in my old DVD's to buy Blu Rays, and I end up getting crap like this. I'll bet even the VHS is better than this.  Sometimes they just don't take the time, "Spartacus" 1960, a disappointment. Thankfully they fixed "Gladiator".  Now if they fix this one, we will have to go buy yet another copy. I haven't viewed "The Ten Commandments", but I'm not worried because I've seen the positive reviews.  I don't know what's going on with Fox restoring MGM's Blu Rays but they are hit or miss totally.  "The Manchurian Candidate" 1962 looks great, while "Leaving Las Vegas" is almost as bad if not worse than this disc. I would say be wary from now on when Fox is releasing MGM Blu Rays.

Do not buy this DVD!!!! Do not purchase this DVD.  It is bogus!  Counterfeit!  Poor video quality, terrible audio quality and the music was not the Bonanza Theme. It is some sort of strange Chinese version which makes sense as this DVD was produced in Hong Kong. Again, do not buy this DVD.

YUCK ADDED TO MY WORST MOVIE EVER LIST. OH MY GOD WHO THOUGHT THIS UP.  I AM USUALY A LOVER OF CAMP.  THIS IS NOT THAT.

One of the worst 3D movies released to-date I like 3D and have watched the majority of 3D movies available on bluray. This one is one of the worst released to-date. The only positive things I can say is that its computer graphics is well made (although it lacks 3D focus), and that the Russians are not shown as morons or as enemies. Everything else in the movie is bad. The plot is primitive and details are not too believable (especially technical details). Acting is average at best, if not plain bad. 3D is below average to average, and the worst of all is that extensive computer graphics which the movie is filled with does not take advantage of it. The ending leaves you feel disappointed - it feels like the script writer, who did not have too many novel ideas to begin with, completely ran out of them by the end. With all this, you end up with a sub-par movie with a lot of graphical violence and noise and very little of anything else.

Way to Ruin the Series Guys Absolutely terrible.  The graphics, scenes and acting were all awful.  Not only that, but what ever a-hole was in charge left it open for another one to come out, I am sure only to be worse.  Do not waste your money or your time.  I want to kick all but one of the directors and producers in the crotch, the last one I would just light on fire.

A Racist Anti-American Movie Yes, this movie is pandering to the Latinos in the audience.  What do you call it when you have a 'hero' who enjoys chopping up Anglos, all of whom seem to be low-lifes and disgusting characters?  There is no realism, and splattering blood and body parts all over is no real.  The movie's director must be a mental head-case to want to glorify this sickening kind of krapola, while he pretends to want to create a Latin Schwarzenneger...frankly, you can have the original, just dub him in spanish and you've got your machisita on celluloid.  Redeeming qualities of the movie? ............still thinking about that tough question............still thinking...........

NOT SO MUCH I watch a lot of plays and will continue to venture threw all of them, but this one here was OMG the worst. Long, drawn out, and just boring. oh well, they can't all be great.

Blu-ray rot problems While the set played okay when new, I tried to revisit it.  The first movie would play after a couple of attempts; the second one never would play at all.  I tried another copy of the second movie and it too would not play.  Apparently Fox used some shoddy media and they do not last.  Very disappointing for an expensive box set.

will Sherlock Holmes please stand up First of all, I'm a huge sherlock Holmes fan. Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, followed by Jeremy Brett. And I've heard it all, that you have to reimagine characters every so often. But not at the sake of destroying the character all together, as one reviewer said, the only thing this movie and Sherlock Holmes had in common was the name, Holmes is not an action hero. In the books Watson is the one who carries a gun not Holmes, Holmes is a cerebal character. Being described in the books and the early movies, that he is so preoccupied with solving the case. That he forgets to bring along a weapon at the conclusion of the case, but appearently. Today's society can't have a movie without explosions, mindless chases. And no story, and yes. Holmes does know martial arts in the books, but he doesn't fight regularly. In fact, his background in fighting is only mentioned in one book. And please, Guy Ritchie isn't that great of a director, this was more of Robert Downey jr doing his toney stark impersination as holmes. This wasn't close to Sherlock Holmes.

French only... If you speak French then purchase this DVD, if not you will be disappointed as I was that there are no English subtitles.

Triumph Of The Will/Olympia These are classic documentaries but the quality of this particular release is terrible.  It has the quality of a one dollar movie in a bargain bin.  Do not buy this!  It is a rip off for any amount of money.  If I could, I'd return it but I have opened it so I'm stuck.  Do not make the same mistake!!!

waste of time This movie is so disappointing..i was looking forward to seeing this movie because I admire Margaret Thatcher so much.  I was disappointed in Meryl Streep for portraying Margaret Thatcher as a demented old woman, instead of the strong world leader that Margaret Thatcher was. It is disgusting to me to see Margaret Thatcher portrayed this way. Hollywood obviously disliked Margaret Thatcher's conservative politics so they chose to  portray her this way. It shows how morally bankrupt Hollywood is when they cannot tell the truth about one of the truly great women leaders in the history of the world.

Steve Martin craps on a franchise, Part 1. Peter Sellers has got to be turning over in his grave effective the day this movie came out.  How can a movie get so bad, and acting be so non-existant for an actor that has been in so many films?  Martin seriously couldn't act his way out of a paper bag, based on this film. He takes the Cluseau character and makes him sound like he's only got a 3rd grade education and overly effeminate. His piss-poor attempt at a French accent is insulting to phoney accent-makers everywhere (well..best term I could come up with there...just sayin' his accent is beyond stupid).  Sellers did a great accent that was dumb, but possible....plausible  Martin's is so bad, it's not plausible at all.  Everything he does, he does in the style of "Wild and Crazy Guys" routine from the 70's.  I realize he is not Sellers, but he's worse than a charicature of anything resembling and he puts a rather odd effeminate tone to the character.  I'd say it's valid to compare it as if Sellers were a Van Gogh work of art, and Martin was a kid's crayon drawing on a paper bag as far as acting ability and comic knowhow.  If you want to buy this movie, fine, but please do us all a favor and don't resell it and subject anyone else to the disappointment you're going to feel after viewing this film.  Martin has thoroughly crapped on the Pink Panther franchise and really needs to retire from "acting" if that's what he's calling it.

skip it This is just a poorly executed core body boot camp, nothing particularly "postnatal."  The three ostensible fitness levels aren't different tracks of the disk but just two other women (one looking a lot like Olive Oyl) doing the same exercises as Lindsay Brin but not as well.  None of them look like they could recently have had a baby.  The lousy videography and awful camo outfits make this video difficult to even watch.

You're too dumb for this movie, and so was I This film was long, tedious, overwrought with baseless emotion, etc, etc. I would have rather been doing laundry then wasting my life watching Melancholia. You've been warned.

Read the captions and stare at a black screen This movie is so dark that you spend the majority of the time reading the captions and staring at a black screen. WB needs to make quality DVDs instead of this junk. I can't rate the movie because I couldn't see it.

pointless This is a movie written, directed and produced by people who don't know, or have any interest in how to tell a story.  There's no plot whatsoever, no discernible meaning and no resolution at all.  Completely unrewarding artsy crap, battling it out with "Stone" and "Lost in Translation" for most pointless cinema experience of my life.

48 hours *rolls eyes* I rented this for my son cause I accidently deleted cars from our DVR and I figured thr would buy me some time to get to the store to buy it on DVD. My child watches this on a loop 24/7 and has a melt down when he can't. So it sucked majorly when after watching it one time it said he had no more time to watch it. When I rented it it said 48 hour rental so I assumed that ment we could watch however many time he wants in 48 hours. I guess that's not the case.

LOVED THE FILM; HATE ULTRA VIOLET COPY!!!! I just picked up the Blu-Ray/DVD/Digital Copy here on Amazon.  The movie is great but the product itself sucks.  Including Ultra-Violet copies of the film instead of the standard digital copy was a poorly thought out idea.  It speaks volumes to me (and apparently the majority of consumers here) that Warner Brothers has elected to insult their customers this way.  Why irritate people with a locked down, Internet-only copy of the film for portability?  I might not be able to speak for all movie buffs, but I enjoy taking my films with me on the go.  The Ultra-Violet copy requires an Internet connection for viewing which isn't always available.  What a mean thing to do to your customers, Warner Brothers.

It must be a generational thing! I am sorry, guys, who even in 1-star talked about the great series!  I mistakenly ordered series 3 thinking it was another one, the one where something wiped out the telecommunications system on earth.  I had tried to watch this series when I had commercial satellite, but just couldn't get it even on the recommendation of a 20-year younger friend.  From my boomer perspective, the routine fist fights are silly in all action/adventure scenes because we know that the good guy always wins, so to my mind, you could just fast forward through all of them and this series has more of these scenes than anywhere else seen.  Secondly, we know about computer-generated virtual scenes, so who cares?  Does a technological innovation become the only thing we watch nowadays?  Where is the character development and where is the good script writing.  A first clue to me whenever I start any film or television production is the line where writer and director are the same.  A writer is a different art than directing and there are very rare geniuses who can do both.  A writer/director in the same person means a low budget.  I am about half-way through watching this season because I hate to waste money and I have gotten about 2 chuckles out of a couple of lines.  I don't get any of the rest and I don't think two such disparate generations can ever understand each other.  Are there any boomers out there who find it as I do or am I an anomaly to both generations?

Plot Hole I found the part about the Deadgirl's bite being infectious and creating immortal dead people not made at all. Did anyone get the idea that Johnny became an undead when he fell upon the bathroom floor? And why did his guts fall out? Did the same thing happen to TJ and Wheeler? They were bitten to. And what about the dog? Did it become an undead immortal? It would have closed the plot hole if they had showed Johnny lying in the hospital and the doctors trying to figure out how he could possible still be alive. Or the dog running around with a big hole ripped in its side.

Discs don't play on a Sony PS3 I had such high hopes for this.  There's added audio commentary and a restored original edit of Arrival.  Alas, my PS3 -- which is quite likely one of the most common blu-ray players in the hands of consumers -- insists that the discs are invalid.  A&E fouled up in their first outing with the DVDs around a decade ago.  I tried contacting them, but they're not owning up to anything yet.  They're just telling me to return the discs to the seller.

Amazon makes good on faulty item! My husband and I wanted to have a digital copy of this movie, Amadeus to replace the VCR tape that no longer works. After two tries, with the same result, a DVD that did not work. It seemed to be recorded incorrectly from the manufacturer. We gave up and applied for a refund.  After a little disagreement over a restock fee, Amazon refunded the full amount of purchase.  We feel Amazon is one of the best on line places to shop!

DVD's & packaging appear used When I received the Elvis DVD collection the box was in poor condition.  Also, the DVDs appeared used and/or copies of the originals.  Each DVD came in different packaging and some of the DVD's were missing a DVD label on them.  Not the quality I expected for a DVD collection.  I bought them for a christmas gift but after receiving them I was too embarassed to present them as a gift.  Quite disappointing.  This was the 1st item I purchased an Amazon item that was poor quality.

sucks dont watch this is one of the worse films i have ever seen dude who made this stop don't give up  your day job

stunk This is probably the worst movie I have ever seen and I've seen lots of crappy movies. Approximately 30 minutes into the movie I was ready for it to end. The movie suck stunk and I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone!

No Rom and No Com I am a sucker for a romantic comedy. Over the past few decades I have sat through a lot of garbage just to get to the cheap thrill of a satisfying ending - doesn't have to be neat and tidy - just satisfying. I love them all from the hokey Beach Blanket Bingo to the wonderful Crazy Stupid Love. I even watch ABC's Bachelor/Bachelorette, which is surely the king of all that's cheap thrills romance. Well, I've met my match with Bending All the Rules. Finally, a rom com that even this rom-com sucker couldn't stomach. It's really that bad.  If you're thinking that watching a younger Bradley Cooper is worth it - think again. Rent Wedding Crashers for a sweet love story AND loads of laughs. Even if you've watched Wedding Crashers 10x, you'll still get more laughs and find more surprises than you'll find in this stinker plus get to catch Brad after he's had a few years of acting practice.  SPOILER - And worst of all, worst of all ... the ending is horrible. Someone forgot to follow the rom com formula but is still marketing it as one. I fast forwarded just to find out who "Kenna" winds up with and of course, no one. Come to think of it, she's not really that likeable (sorry to her mom) so guess I shouldn't have been surprised. That's what must make it a "non Hollywood" ending.

DVD was for REGION 2 DVD was for REGION 2 (Europe) and will not play on my Panasonic DVD player. Total waste of my time and money. Typical unscrupulous sales practice from a company that cares little about the customer. I will never do business with them again and advise everyone else to avoid.

Worst program on space I am a space junkie and love to watch Morgan Freeman, Hawkins or Asimov talk about space. But I am astonished how BBC could fail to recognize the flaw in this narrator's character. This narrator talks about well-known phenomenon and then feigns philosophical bewilderment while taking partial credit for the creation of the universe. The program is a total failure mostly due to the narrators personality and I am surprised some folks rate it high which makes me wonder if this fellow has friends and relatives among Amazon buyers. Don't waste your hard-earned dollar on this DVD. The DVD is worthless and boring.

Still waiting... I purchased this product over a month ago and are still yet to recive it. This was a birthday present that will be given extremely late. Disappointed.

The Man who shot Liberty Valence <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005ASGG">The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance</a> The DVD will NOT play on any of our four DVD players.  States "REGION ERROR".  Need to send a replacement.

So Bad it Doesn't Qualify for a B Movie There are a lot of good B movies out there, this doesn't even make it into the alphabet for reasons noted by the other Amazon reviewers here.  I've seen parts of this on SyFy before, it's on right now and is worse than I remember.

A very unbalanced documentary I am a huge consumer of fresh organic fruits and vegetables.  I drink fresh-squeezed fruit and vegetable juices daily.  I think there are many sensible reasons to pursue these food choices, including abundant nutrients, modest caloric intake, adds to liquid intake, impact on the environment, etc.  However, the Gerson Therapy goes far, far beyond these sensible activities.  It advocates a number of specific treatment options which I think most people would find odd: calf liver extract, coffee enemas, massive vitamin supplementation, failed chemotherapy approaches (Laetrile), etc.  It also prohibits seemingly normal choices as nuts, legumes, berries, cucumbers, pineapple, etc.  Why would anybody accept this?  Because they claim it cures cancer.  Fair enough.  What's the evidence?  This movie basically relies on testimonials and anecdotes.  Watching  the movie one would think that Gerson Therapy cures 100% of all patients.  There was simply no discussion of specific patients failing to recover.  In fact, in the segment on the the Japan clinic it was mentioned that the success rate was "over 50%."  That sounds like a large portion who didn't recover.  If any other product was sold this way, I think most consumers would feel conned.  Why not address the actual success rates?  It's not as if the Gerson Therapy would be considered a failure if it cured less than 100% of cancer patients.  It would just need to cure more than other methods.  Some cancers cure themselves.  What is the rate of success versus natural remission?  This is just one example of many about the strong bias exhibited by the filmmaker.  The false balance of "skeptics" and "good" doctors was actually funny to watch.  Dr. A claimed one thing, Dr. B claimed another.  Who is right?  Dr. B says Dr. A is wrong, and since the filmmaker is sympathetic to Dr. B that's that!  The filmmaker and many of the people interviewed show a profound lack of understanding of science.  It was claimed that "science" can't evaluate something like the Gerson Therapy because it can only analyze one compound at a time.  That is patently absurd to anybody who is even remotely scientifically literate, but it is a common defense of treatments that fail to present evidence for their effectiveness.  Moreover, Gerson's daughter is quoted on 3-4 occasions saying the Gerson Therapy has been scientifically proven to treat cancer and most other diseases.  Well, which is it?  Can science settle whether Gerson Therapy works or not?  Gerson's daughter seems to think it can.  If so, why not present evidence in a way which follows best practices?  If I thought I had a real cure for cancer and most other chronic diseases, and that a significant barrier to adoption was the lack of high-quality research demonstrating its effectiveness, I would make my number one priority getting that research done.  Having high-quality research supporting the Gerson Therapy would do far, far more for its adoption than speaking at "Health Freedom" conferences to like-minded attendees.  Don't say the research funding isn't there.  The NIH and NCCAM, for example, has spent $2.5B funding just these kinds of therapies.  And there are many more avenues of funding.  I was not surprised to hear the usual conspiracy theories presented.  "Big pharma" doesn't want anybody to know about Gerson Therapy because it makes too much money treating cancer.  "They" don't want "you" to know about Gerson Therapy because it doesn't make money.  Many doctors are morally equivalent to Nazi's according to Gerson's daughter.  First of all, in terms of commercial interests, the insurance industry dwarfs the cancer treatment industry.  If there were a known effective and cheap way to treat cancer, the insurance companies would make sure it was available, wouldn't they?  They currently pay for various alt-med treatments with suspect effectiveness in part because they are cheaper than science-based medicine.  Also, if cancer strikes 1 in 2 Americans as suggested in the movie, presumably millions of cancer patients are sons / daughters / wives / husbands of oncologists, pharmaceutical employees and cancer researchers.  Does it really make sense that the latter would employ science-based treatments on their own family members just to line the pockets of the "cancer industry"?  Of course not.  It's much more likely they are simply unmoved by the quality of evidence for Gerson Therapy's effectiveness.  If this film gets more people to increase the fresh fruits, vegetables and juice they consume, great!  I would applaud that.  Yet I fear this movie will also turn people towards a point of view hostile to science and filled with conspiracies.

you will waste your money if you get this dvd its just hitting yourself not more then that you will waste your money if you get this dvd its just hitting yourself not more then that so don't buy it

NON EXISTANT Ultraviolet Digital Copy I just wanted to add my comment of DISGUST at the SO called ULTRAVIOLET Digital copy that is advertised with many Blu ray Disc's now.  I have a number of Blu ray's that are advertised to come bundled with an Ultraviolet Digital copy of the movie to watch on a computer/portable device.  Well I have not be able to even get to the stage of trying to download as when I try and goto the web site shown on the download instructions, nothing comes up at all.  With iTunes digital copies it's mostly been a straight forward process, although Warner Bros iTunes Digital copies have come up with error's in the redemption code and I REALLY don't like that all the movie studios still advertise a digital copy when they have an expiry date and after that date you may not be able to download the digital copy to iTunes. The best system I feel is at Universal Studios through iTunes, they seem to have it together the best.  What amazes me is that both the majority of Movie studios and Record Companies have bitched non stop about people pirating movies/music and yet they appear to be completely unable to come up with an effective way to distribute digital content the way people want it.  Incredible that such talented people appear to do nothing other than drive customers away.  Check out Apple you guys and perhaps one day the penny will drop that you NEED TO MAKE THINGS FAIR AND STRAIGHTFORWARD for the consumer. Particularly at WB's you guys seem experts at upsetting consumers!!!  Pretty well much everyone will play ball when the rules respect the consumer!!!!  WAKE UP!!!

Worst DVD transfer in my collection First let me say that this 1-star rating is only for the DVD transfer quality----it's just terrible; everything else about the movie (story line, characters, scenes, suspense, acting, etc.) are great.  To get an idea of how bad the DVD transfer is, imagine almost every scene out of focus; like uncontrolled watercoloring on a very porous canvas. It's that bad. If you are into the story, like I am, you can ignore this fault while viewing; but I'm certain it would be much more enjoyable watching it in bluray.

dts-HD Master Audio lacks Center Channel Concert & video quality are outstanding and the lossless PCM stereo track is beautiful; however, there is no audible output to the center channel speaker from the dts-HD Master Audio track.  I verified that this is not a problem with my decoder--all of my other Joe Thomas-produced "Soundstage" Blu-rays play dts-HD MA flawlessly.  Thank goodness for Amazon's easy return policy.

Disappointed Seller had DVD listed as "mint condition", this was not the case. I was embarrassed giving this scratched up disc as a gift!!!!

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LA CASA DEL TERROR (1960) AND FACE OF THE SCREAMING WEREWOLF (1964) The posthumous classification of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello erroneously places them on a level with Laurel & Hardy or The Marx Brothers.  However, few, if any, of the Abbott and Costello films withstand the test of time.  Their initial rendezvous with a trio of Universal monsters retains some dated charm, but little of it comes from the comedy team.  Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) is essentially a vehicle for Bela Lugosi`s Dracula parody and Lenore Aubert's vamp.  The Monster (Glenn Strange) has little to do, and Lon Chaney Jr. seems mightily uncomfortable with the surrounding juvenile antics.  Even worse is Bud Westmore's unimaginative assembly line makeup, which reduces Lugosi's Count to baby powder and black lipstick and Lon Chaney Jr's Larry Talbot to a rubbery lycanthrope.  La casa del terror (1960) is a south of the border imitation of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, along with about a half dozen other films, including King Kong (1933).  German Valdes (aka Tin Tan) is Casimiro and, just like in A & C Meet Frankie, he is doing some work in a house of wax horrors, which currently has a real mummy display.  Below the exhibit, the Professor (Yerye Beirut) is deep in mad scientist experiments (just like Boris Karloff in his Columbia movies or Lugosi at Monogram).  None too surprising, the Professor has an assistant who helps his boss steal bodies and blood.  When bodies are not to be found, the two extract fluids from Casimiro, which renders our hero lethargic (at least Lou Costello kept his energy level up).  Narratively, having your protagonist sleep through half of the film does not seem like a sound idea.  Casimiro's gal Paquita (Yolanda Varela) doesn't think so either.  After all, she is working a full time job and beau here is one lazy sot!  Perhaps the all too repeated shots of Casimiro counting sheep are not necessarily a bad device after all because when he does wake up, he breaks into comedic patter which actually makes Lou Costello look funny again.  Valdes elicits more groans than laughs and he even engages in a song and dance number with Valera.  YES, IT'S A MUSICAL TOO!  Valera does not have to work hard at making Valdes' musical talents look pedestrian.  Director Gilberto Martinez Solares cast Lon Chaney Jr, clearly past his prime, as a dual mummy/wolfman which, of course, were the two characters that Chaney played most often in the 40's Universal horror cycle.  Chaney is only briefly glimpsed as a mummy, and a rather well fed one at that.  The make-up job is something akin to a glob of silly putty.  The Professor, tired of Casimiro's rotten blood, decides to steal the mummy for experimentation. The Doc and his assistant put the ancient Egyptian into a big Son Of Frankenstein (1939) contraption.  Briefly, a slumbering Chaney takes the place of Karloff's monster on the table.  Lo and behold, the bandages come off and, underneath all of that, this mummy is dressed from head to toe in black just like Larry Talbot.  With the next full moon, our revived Pharaoh transforms into a Bud Westmore-like phlegmatic canine with a pronounced feathered Farrah Fawcett hairdo.  For a broad comedy there are some bloody (for its time) moments.  This Larry Talbot gorges on victims aplenty (which, I suppose, is why he looks even fatter in black fur than he does in white bandages). Among the victims are two women, something never seen in a Universal pic!  Larry dances around Casimiro a few times (just like he danced around Lou twelve years earlier) before aping out like King Kong to Valera's Fay Wray.  The big, bad. pointy-eared Tex Avery lady killer climbs atop his building with babe in arms.  Yes, this is an amorous wolfman and, again, the movie gives us something Universal would never have resorted to (implications of bestiality, that is).  La casa del terror is only available in the Spanish language version, not that it matters.  The minimal plot is easily decipherable, if one actually desires to decipher it.  Yes, La casa del terror is a dreadful movie, but it's unintentionally bizarre in its borrowing from virtually everything to produce a quirky, redeemable mess.  It's certainly passable enough with a plate of cheap, store-bought cardboard pizza.  Not so with Face of the Screaming Werewolf (1964), which incorporates footage from Casa that producer/director Jerry Warren mixed with The Aztec Mummy (1957-directed by Rafael Portillo) and added footage.  Warren bought the rights to the two films and, as he was apt to do, spliced them together with his own footage to produce an even more incoherent mess without once crediting Solares or Portello (making Warren a sort of prototype for more than a few contemporary indie filmmakers).  Warren's footage looks like it was shot on a two dollar 8mm camera (my family had a better home movie camera back in the 1960s).  Ed Wood`s films were, at least, decently photographed. What little one can make out in the "new" footage doesn't help. Oddly, deciphering the foreign language film is an easier task than deciphering the English language atrocity. There is endless footage of a hypnotized woman in a pyramid and an aztec mummy that is the result of exchanged body fluids with the "other" mummy.  Or something like that.  It's often joked that sex is like pizza: even when it's bad, it's good.  Not so with anything Jerry Warren put his hands on.  My advice with the latter movie is buy the 75 cent cardboard pizza and throw the DVD out with the irredeemable trash.  *my review originally appeared at 366 weird movies

Would be much better without the constant foul language Great characters, settings and cinematography very good and started watching and enjoying but the constant unnecessary filthy language unfortunately has slowly turned me off watching. I'm no prude but the constant use of of such filthy talk is a real turn off, particularly the denigration of the females in the series... Why do they think they need to put all that in? It would be so much better if toned down. Sure people swore back then in the old west but I don't believe most of that sort of language was about in those days. Very disappointing and sorry I spent my money.

Dissapointed I wasn't so sure to buy anything used "that looks like new". I was dissapointed with this dvd because it is defective. I had difficulty watching the begginning and also selecting language options. I should have gotten a new one for $4 dlls more.

Just because they make a movie look real doesn't mean that its scary. I hope studios learn this soon, getting old. I say C- "You know me, everyone knows me." After her mother brutally kills three people during her exorcism Isabella Rossi (Andrade) decides to investigate what happened. She travels to Italy and meets a group of "underground exorcists" who are trying to get enough evidence together to prove to the church that exorcists are still needed. I have to admit that I was actually kind of excited to watch this. I don't scare easy and the last few that got me were "Insidious" and "Emily Rose" and this one I expected to be more like "Emily Rose". I was severely disappointed. For those that have seen the "Last Exorcism" you will know what to expect. This is yet another fake documentary type movie and I really think that that genre has run it's course. My big problem with it is that it went from a movie about exorcisms to a type of "Real World" movie with each person taking their turn complaining about the others on camera. I expected to be scared and would up trying to stay awake and stop laughing. Overall, nothing like I expected or even wanted. I give it a C-

poor audio I am sure it is a great performance, but the audio recording was really poor, turning up the volume did not help, the words were still unintelligible

Diamonds May Be Forever, But This Movie Sure Isn't In 1971, United Artists and Eon Productions were desperate enough to lure Sean Connery back to the James Bond franchise that they were willing to pay the actor the biggest single paycheck ever up to that time.  Connery thus accepted one final bow as Agent 007 (at least, until 1983's "Never Say Never Again"), and, to his admirable credit, his impressive $1.2 million salary went to a Scottish educational charity.  Unfortunately, Connery's initial farewell to 007's world is also easily his worst Bond movie and certainly a pathetic contender for the franchise's all-time low.  Here's why: assuming this mediocre film's continuity extends from the tragic ending of 1969's "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," Connery's Agent 007 displays an inexplicable sense of boredom hunting down and eliminating his murdered wife's assassin, Ernest Stavro Blofeld (portrayed by a very dry Charles Gray).  Rather than seeing an intense, vengeful Bond, we get Connery in a rather nonchalant mood.  This disappointing pre-credits sequence is then somewhat salvaged by Shirley Bassey's seductive title song.  Bond soon returns to usual business by tracking a South African diamond smuggling ring based out of Amsterdam only to encounter sultry Tiffany Case (a miscast Jill St. John) and a bizarre assassin tag team before tangling with the elusive Blofeld yet again.  Even under the veteran direction of "Goldfinger"'s Guy Hamilton, the movie simply misfires start to finish.  This time, Blofeld's master plan implausibly involves a diamond-studded, satellite-mounted death laser intending to extort countless millions of dollars from the world.  Yes, this same diabolical scheme was recycled in 1995's sleek and exciting "Goldeneye," but that film is far, far superior to this tongue-in-cheek snooze-fest.  Primarily, the campy, often boring "Diamonds" script is deep-sixed by uninspired acting.  Connery sleepwalks through the movie, but his half-hearted efforts still play better than St. John's annoyingly shrill, ditzy Tiffany Case.  Case in point (pardon the expression): watch her amateurish reaction shots to an assassin's sneak attack with a bomb in the finale aboard a cruise ship, and you will see the epitome of campy acting.  Her dismal efforts were more suited to a guest shot with Adam West on the "Batman" live-action TV program than as this 50-year old franchise's worst Bond Girl.  Granted, Natalie Wood's younger sister, Lana, has little to do as flirtatious, ill-fated Plenty O'Toole, but her character is at least memorably introduced in a Las Vegas casino.  The nefarious assassin duo is only notable for their homosexual inferences, but the two gimmicky characters are still cardboard filler waiting to be disposed of by Bond.  As for Charles Gray, he suffers from the so-called Moriarty curse (from decades of Sherlock Holmes movies): following a succession of actors in the same villainous role, somebody has to wind up as the least interesting and dullest of the bunch.  Gray easily wins the nod here as the franchise's third and final Blofeld.  Also, it may be indicative of Connery's expensive presence that recruiting more talented co-stars perhaps wasn't a viable option for this movie.  Not surprisingly, Connery has little, if any, chemistry with this particular cast.  Ultimately, "Diamonds Are Forever" is a sluggish waste of two hours, so it should be viewed with minimal expectations.  It is very tempting to say that "Diamonds" ranks as the Bond franchise's utterly worst movie, with other deserving contenders being "View to a Kill," "Moonraker," and "Man With the Golden Gun."  Still, much like "View to a Kill," a dose of recasting (i.e. replace St. John and Gray) and some suspenseful rewrites improving the leading lady's presence beyond bimbo status could have saved the movie.  Instead, it ranks at best third-worst ahead of "Golden Gun" and "Moonraker."  In other words, a lackluster Connery and an unimpressive cast failed to turn his last romp as Bond into a real gem (yes, pun intended).  Rating: 3/10 (for ages 13 and up).  The DVD's saving grace is a wonderful collection of trailers and documentaries included among the special features.

popcorn Big budget, big stars, big action. Big snore. Not really invested in characters or plot. Rented through Netflix so not mad 'bout wasting my money. But would not recommend to anybody.

Individual Blu-Ray NOT Presented in Original Aspect Ratio. I just bought and watched the individual Blu-Ray version of The Godfather (not the version in 'the collection').  I was shocked when the movie started to play. For all the hoopla over the 'meticulous restoration,' the movie is NOT presented in it's original aspect ratio!  In other words the movie is not as widescreen as originally presented.  Something seemed wrong early on, but it wasn't until some of the real wide shots - including the massacre of Sonny Corleone.  In the theatrical release and earlier DVD releases, these panaramas were breathtaking.  In this version they looked like a version you'd see on AMC.  What is even more offensive is that the movie included in 'The Collection' IS presented in the original aspect ratio!  Why would one blu-ray version be so botched in the individual disc than in a box set.  I'm amazed.  Shame on me for not reading the specs closely on all the discs before I bought the disc.  Having said that, the picture quality IS amazing and I was really happy with the overall restoration.  I just don't understand why Coppola would approve this altered version of his masterpiece on a Blu-ray release!  I may seem a little anal about this, but I buy DVDs and Blu-rays so that I have the closest possible version to the original.  This is one reason I hated pan and scan in the early days of DVDs.  Luckily the disc only cost about $13, so I can afford to give it away.  If you don't care about things like this, I totally recommend the individual disc. If are a purest, spend the extra $20 and get the collection so that you can see the film the way it was intended.

Please !!!! No more, no more, no more I read the book years ago, so even before I watched this movie I knew what I was getting myself into.  Like the other reviewer said, this movie is depressing and serves no purpose other than to shock and depress and further serve to delineate black women.  Personally I am sick to the back teeth of depressing movies dedicated to and 'celebrating' the black woman's plight.  At length and last we finally have decent black directors but they still continue to churn out the same clich&eacute;d stuff year after year.  Honestly, it's little wonder any black women get married at all.  By all accounts we appear to be damaged goods and no one goes out intentionally looking for damaged goods; I wouldn't.  Can anyone see a pattern below ?  Waiting to Exhale - A movie dedicated to black women and their non existent love lives Diary of a Mad Black Woman - The title speaks for itself ( in fact throw in all the Tyler Perry movies) Jungle Fever - Black man would prefer to love a white woman ( in fact throw in all the Spike Lee movies) American Gangster - Black drugster makes it big by having black women working in his crack factories Madea's family Reunion - Incest, child abuse and physical abuse Disappearing Acts - Black woman and her useless black man The Brothers - Black men who have issues loving black women Two can play that game - Black people and their stupid games of love Soul Food - Sister sleeps with other sister's man The Color Purple - Incest and sexual abuse How Stella got her groove - Black woman can't find a man in America so she goes to Jamaica to find herself a toy boy Good Hair - Huh ????? I mean why was this even made.  People don't have Google ? Precious - Violent sexual abuse of a child by her father culminating in her becoming pregnant TWICE.  The list goes on and on but I'm sure anyone reading this see's what I am driving at.  No more drama. please.  Can we sit down and PLEASE be entertained with stories of young black people finding love, respecting themselves and each other, getting married, not being baby mama's, not being raped by their fathers, step fathers, uncles, lovers and boyfriends, can we watch movies of professional black people and blue collar black people being respectful and loving towards each other.  Can we see movies of black people taking romantic trips to Europe and drinking latte's in Rome.  There is drama in other communities.  I don't know why we black people feel a need to share OUR failings with the whole world and worse of all, we must be raging mas*chists to want to sit down, part with good money to watch two hours of depression centred around our people.

Poor Movie: Based on a narrator speaking. It is distracting. The movie is driven by a narrator.  The movie relies so heavily on the narrator to move the story along that the narrator interferes in what could have been an excellent movie.  Every movie that I have started to see that is based on a narrator to move the movie along has taught me one thing: The director does not have faith in the acting abilities of the actors to move the story along.  And this movie is no exception.  It is frustrating for when the actors are allowed to act they are excellent actors.  In fact the actors have no need of the idiotic narrator that states what does not need to stated.  The actors themselves could act out what the narrator states.  So am very disappointed in what I first thought would be an excellent movie.  All of the factors are in place for a stellar movie and the director is so spineless that he or she cops out and heavily relies on a narrator to make the story work.  I want my money back.  I would advise not to see the movie if you are looking forward to watching a movie that is based on acting instead of based on a narrator.  What was this director thinking?

An Unfocused Mess Ocean's Eleven was a great movie that always gave you the feeling you were a part of the excitement. Even when you were wrong about what their plan was, you didn't feel confused, only surprised.  Ocean's Twelve is a totally different beast. You spend the entire movie waiting for it to start making sense, and you never really care about any of the characters or relationships. There's never a feeling of danger, and therefore, never any excitement. Once you think you know who the villain is and what needs to be done, the villain becomes absent for most of the movie, and they don't end up doing what you thought they were supposed to do.  By the time the credits role, you feel like you've gained nothing from the movie, and just watched a shadow of the original. It leaves you feeling like no one who worked on the original was involved in the sequel and begs the question "why didn't anyone raise their hand and object to this?"  If you enjoyed the original and are looking forward to the sequels, watch this one only so you'll appreciate Ocean's Thirteen and not be lost - just don't expect to be too entertained in the process.

Do you have a tolerance for corniness? This movie has some cute moments esp. at the beginning where Eric McMurkin (Peter Riegert) wakes up and begins his day's ablutions in his compact little home - his car.  Progressing on into the Americ-athon itself, things are entertainingly corny.

Dark, marginally entertaining road to fame Eight Mile is a stylish, gritty and often explicative-filled movie that is sorta interesting if you are into rap or Horatio Alger, or want to see Michael Shannon beaten to a pulp by a young Eminem or see Kim Bassinger as a drug addicted mother. Let it be said that Eminem is not much of an actor. Still, the movie is bleak, brisk and upwardly mobile enough but I wouldn't pay more than $3 for it.

Rodriguez's version of a Spike Lee film.... only not as intelligent, and more amped up.  i had to watch this a couple of time to decide if i liked it or was too disgusted with the stereotypes everyone played in this flick.  i was mostly disappointed in deniro and don johnson.  great actors(deniro anyways), but shouldn't have had to do this movie.  the others i could see, they needed the money, exposure,etc...but deniro, WTF?  even the italians were terribly portrayed.  that being said, the action is over the top and the filming itself is odd. at times giving the gritty feel of an older seventies flick, other times it looks more modern. on the plus side, trejo kicks ass, always has. lots of action and t 'n' a gave it an extra star, cause i am a guy. and over the top is still fun...  bottom line, though, the message in this movie is pretty heavy handed and because so it loses its validity as a real social comment. i blame mostly the deniro and johnson chacters for that part.  lindsey lohan was doing anybody any favors either, 'til she got naked, even then....eh...  this must be the kind of movie rodriguez wanted to see as kid and never got to.  it's a bummer it was so wasted an opportunity on what i hoped would be a truly fun movie.  also, some of the dialogue is just the most god-awful tripe you've ever heard.

Digital Copy is a Rip Off... Yeah, the movie is great.....what ticked me off is Paramount's false advertising on the front and back of the blu-ray packaging in regards to the digital copy working with iTunes.  It clearly says "Digital Copy" with the words "Works with iTunes" below it.  So, for those of us who like having the better picture quality of an actual blu-ray disc, but also want a digital copy, we've been used to throwing in a disc and transferring the copy to iTunes.  Well, this new UltraViolet crap from Paramount is exactly that...crap.  By "Works with iTunes", they really mean it 'works with our app, and our app only, which is available on the iTunes App store'.  There is no way to transfer a digital copy into your iTunes library...unless you rip the DVD.  So...if you want a digital copy, just buy it through iTunes or Amazon.  I won't bother buying another Paramount blu-ray again...I'd rather give Apple my money than get lured in by straight up lies on the packaging.

Disappointing I love scary movies and do not like ones with gore, so I was truly hopeful when starting this film. The plot never developed and the characters, while well acted, lacked motivation and purpose. The plot line seemed focused on setting up scenes that were expectant with something scary just about to happen, but I couldn't stop thinking, "so what?" There were a couple of times where I found myself tensing up, but then I found myself thinking how stupid the story line was. The ending really ruined it for me, it seemed just plain stupid. I hate giving negative feedback about someone else's artwork, and there were good things about this film but I felt it was a flop. Sorry.

A Story About Refugees The House on Carroll Street, 1988 film  The movie begins with a view of a cemetery. A man walks along the graves. Next there is a Senate hearing in NY. Miss Emily Crane is summoned as a witness; she is a photo editor for a large circulation weekly magazine. She refuses to hand over the information demanded, and is cited for contempt. Back at work she is fired. The parked cars say it is the early 1950s. Emily goes to look for another job; a reader for an elderly wealthy woman. While relaxing in the backyard she hears a conversation in a foreign language. She recognizes a face in that room. The next scene tells about the doctors: they are technicians (or something). Emily meets a young man and they talk. What is the secret? Later two men from the FBI search her rooms; she is a suspect. [Never keep records or documents in your rooms.] A man calls her on the phone, she meets him in a famous bookstore. "Run!" They join a group in a theater. "How do you get out of here?" Somebody stabs the young man.  The police question Emily. She tells about Ray Solwin at that house. Emily remembers those spoken names. She finds an uninvited visitor in her rooms. "What do you want?" "Does it concern you?" Emily breaks into that house, and searches the rooms. There is a surprise from a man with a knife. She is rescued by another man. What is special about that book? They visit a ship at a dock. Next a wedding party. Emily snoops again. "We have met before." Emily enters a church, then is taken away to a restaurant. Ray Solwin is there, and talks to her. "No one else knows." Emily returns home, and is warned by her new friend Mike Cochrane, FBI agent. Soon there is a big noise. The next morning her friend explains his work. They are friendlier now. Emily visits Grand Central Station. The trains go north to Albany, west to Buffalo, then on to Chicago. Emily snoops on the train. She runs away again. Mike meets her again. Another man meets them. Emily flees again. She is pursued. Ray finds her! Run, Emily, run. There is a chase, then gravity does its thing. Mike Cochrane enters the railroad coach to make arrests. Later the case is wrapped up. Mike is transferred to Butte Montana, he is finally off the case. "Take care of yourself." "I have nothing to say."  The film tries to recreate New York City in the early 1950s. But only a few men wear hats, and few ladies wear white gloves. The non-actors smile when on-camera. This story is below average. It seems the story was put together by a committee with conflicting aims, and lacks focus. It is based on facts but hides it well. It seems like a message movie which suffers from wishful thinking. It could not have been a box-office success. Anyone who knows the history of the early 20th century would know of the fascist sympathies of the big corporations, and their flunkies or agents in the government.

This movie is a bad apple Well, where to begin. We all understand this is the classic story of the young girl imprisoned by her evil stepmother and blah blah blah.  That, in and of itself, might be a reason to give this movie a miss, even though Charlize Theron is quite good as the evil queen.  It is nonetheless a tale which has been told countless times in one form or another and there is nothing new or remarkable about this telling.  The biggest problem here is Kristen Stewart who, for the most part, makes her way through the movie looking as though she has a bad case of hemorrhoids.  Her acting is wooden, unengaging and she brings nothing to the character that I could connect with.  She spends the entire film with a pouty look on her face which changes only slightly as she segues from one near-disaster to another.  There is no breadth or depth to her character.  In fairness to Stewart, her acting might be the result of poor direction, but whatever the reason she is just not very good.  The film is beautifully filmed and has the usual dose of special effects, especially for the villains.  Unfortunately, the special effects seemed a bit out of place with some of the villains looking like they had been borrowed from the set of a science fiction film.  I think special effects are over-rated but in this film they seemed somewhat out of place.  Save your money.  Rent it if you must, but it is not worthy of a place on anyone's shelf.

Practically unbearable other than the amazing fight scenes Most martial arts and action films share one thing in common; the action scenes are usually pretty well developed while everything else is either weak in comparison or just flat out poor in quality. This is especially relevant when it comes to foreign action films. One could make the argument that you don't go into a film like this for Oscar-worthy performances or a thought provoking story and that is true, but when you come to the realization that your dog that spends all day chewing on its groin probably could've written a better story or when you've seen better acting come out of that geriatric man plagued with tremors when he greets you during one of your shameful trips to Wal-Mart then it becomes a bit of an issue. That is actually a great way to describe BKO: Bangkok Knockout; a shameful experience that's about as entertaining as chewing on your groin.  The story is pretty atrocious. It's almost on the verge on pain inducing. It's that bad. Two fight groups square off for a chance to go to Hollywood and make it big. If "So You Think You Can Dance" was actually "So You Think You Know Martial Arts" then that is exactly what we'd have here. The team you're expecting to win does and they go off to celebrate, but oh no! They're drugged and wake up the following morning in a strange place without their cars or cell phones. It turns out that this is what they were competing for. This is the show they were so desperate to be a part of. It's like The Running Man filled with two dozen people who can't act, but can fight like CRAZY. Now our winning team, team Fight Club, are just trying to survive the endless supply of fights, challenges, and mostly just struggle to survive this hell they've been tricked into participating in.  BKO tries to throw a few twists in near the end of the movie, but it's nothing you can't see coming a mile away. Not only that, but it's done to death. Oh, did you not like that the first time? Here's the same twist two more times to make it really redundant. The last one involves a character you don't even care about. There's this character in the movie who's a wedding singer and is basically a Thai version of Pat from "Saturday Night Live." Is it male? Is it female? You won't care. You'll just want to see this THING have its face shoved through the hood of a car. Then there's this fight scene that involves a man in drag who's also addicted to pain that is just incredibly peculiar. It's as if they were aiming for it to be entertaining, but it came off as if it was directed by Buffalo Bill. That may sound intriguing at first, but once you get that lotion in that basket and he tucks it in then it's mostly just sad.  The acting is about as pleasant as nails on a chalkboard. Even when everyone acts and talks in their native language, every scene is littered with overacting. Then to make matters worse those scenes are dragged out so the torture lasts even longer. But then they decide to throw a bunch of English dialogue in there spoken by people who can barely speak it. It's all just very underwhelming and its ridiculous charm runs thin extremely fast.  BKO does deliver some entertaining fight scenes, but it feels like an eternity before we ever actually get to that. A few exciting things are teased, but nothing really fully gets underway for about forty minutes. We have too much of the lame story to experience in the mean time. But it becomes very clear that not everyone in the cast is as skilled of a fighter as some of the others. The two women who try to keep up with the men are pretty bad in comparison, especially the actress who plays Joy. Her fight scenes are sloppy, slow, and/or very obviously sped up to try and keep up with the pace of the rest of the film. However most of the fight scenes are worth seeing. The cage fight is easily the highlight of the film while Lerm's fight with the man in the iron mask is pretty incredible, as well. There's a fight involving water, an axe wielding man who gets lit on fire only to continue fighting., and a Mad Max inspired car that has about a dozen people get shoved through it in all of the crazy mayhem.  If you loved Ong Bak, then this may be worth looking into for the rather jaw-dropping action sequences. Otherwise you probably won't really enjoy it too much. The story is terrible, the acting is worse, and the dialogue just makes you wish you could knock yourself out from experiencing it any further. Then to top it off the women can't act or fight and there's this really annoying man-girl that gets on your last nerve. BKO: Bangkok Knockout does have some good buried deep within its layers of nearly unbearable inadequacies, but does the rubbish it shovels down your throat in the meantime make the entire journey worthwhile? You'll have to be the judge of that.  Special features are pretty slim. There's a Making of BKO: Bangkok Knockout featurette that's about fourteen minutes long. It's mostly just a good portion of the cast talking about how things came together for them to be part of the movie. Things discussed in the feature include the meaning of the title, diversity of fighting styles, the movie taking two years to develop, this being the first action movie for Spuksorn Chaimongkol (Joy), Kerttisak Udomnak (Wanchai) doing his own stunts, Pimchanok Leuwisedpaiboon (Fern) discussing action scenes, Chachapol Kulsiriwoottichai (Pod) telling the story of how he seeked out the part, Tanarit Wongsuwan (Pom) talks about incorporated all of his training into one fighting style, Sarawoot Kumsorn's (U-Go) water fight being unrelenting, and Puchong Sartnork (Eddo) participating in free running and using that as part of his fighting style among many other things. A Behind the Scenes featurette is a little over ten minutes in length and is mostly an in-depth look at many of the big fight scenes in the movie while they're being filmed. The cage fight, the fall, Joy being tied up, the pole fight, Pod and Joy's fight with the ninja, the rumble scene near the end featuring everybody, and the man catching on fire are all in there. What's interesting to notice is that all the fights look to be real. Every punch, every kick, every fall taken was actually taken by the actors. Injuries seem to be minimal and usually just involve somebody taking a kick improperly or their finger bleeding. Lastly, a one and a half minute trailer rounds out the twenty seven minutes or so of special features.  BKO: Bangkok Knockout is rated R for violence and strong martial arts action and some language. It's available in languages English and Thai with English or Spanish Titles, is available in 5.1 Dolby Digital sound, and presented in widescreen with an aspect ratio of 1.78:1. It is approximately 106 minutes long and should be available in both retail stores and most online retailers now.

Cyborg Crap Flap CYBORG CONQUEST what a piece of crap this film was, I painfully tried to watch it. If you are looking for Terminator type Cyborgs etc, they are NOT in this cheap biker style movie. Actors/Actresses were all bad, script was worse, whoever gave this piece of ______ more than 1 or 2 stars must have been in this horrible movie. Glowing green eyes is about all the CYBORG effects in it. I filed it in File 13 (Trash) after painfully trying to watch it. Was a waste of money & time. I would not recommend to anyone living in the free world.

Our dogs didn't watch The issue with dogs is that their sense of smell and hearing is so acute that they seldom pay attention to those things that humans enjoy. That is the case with this video. Our dogs would rather look out the window at real people, and while they will peek through the cracks in the fence to watch for other cats, dogs, and people, they completely ignored this DVD.  I gave it two stars because I enjoyed watching it ... Once. Save yourself some money and just take your dog for a walk when you get home. Both of you will have more fun.

No Subtitles!? The series itself is great y chistoso, with lots of interesting situations y actrices buenisimas.  However, if you're looking for any subtitles, either English or Spanish, you won't find them here.  Quite a disappointment to release a DVD with ZERO subtitles.  It appears that other DVD versions do have subtitles [...]. Amazon needs to correct the description which claims the product is in "English" when in fact there is only Spanish audio and no subtitles.

WOMDERFUL MOVIES, BAD DISC! I love both these movies and wanted to own them, and this set was priced cheap enough.  But the "It's a Wonderful Life" disc was faulty and would only play about a third of the way through before freezing.  After trying it on another dvd player and finally a brand new one,it still wouldn't play right,so I decided to send the set back and get a refund.  I did not even try "White Christmas" as I had to return them as a set anyway.  My money was refunded quickly, so no problem there.  I cannot say that an exchange would have done the same, but I didn't want to have to bother with another return if it did. My guess is they are cheaply made.  I will purchase movies separately in future at my local store.

A by-the-numbers haunted house movie In 1973, ABC Television presented a made-for-TV movie starring Kim Darby and Jim Hutton in the first version of this story.  For some reason, Guillermo del Toro and the folks a Miramax Films thought it should be remade. Mr. del Toro has had some success with films of this genre including "The Orphanage", "Hellboy" (I and II) and the brilliant "Pan's Labyrinth."  It is not surprising then that the art decoration and sets are first class.  The old house is sufficiently large and creepy even though it is undergoing renovation.  This time the directing chores are performed by rookie Troy Nixie.  The problem with the film is that it just isn't very scary.  Bailee Madison plays Sally, a girl of about 11 or 12, who is being foisted on her divorced dad by a mom (never seen) who has had enough of Sally's behavior problems.  Sally sets the stage early on by gobbling Adderal and getting caught lying several times.  So for the rest of the movie we know that no one will believe anything she says.  Dad (Guy Pearce) has a new live-in girlfriend (Katie Holmes) and together they have invested everything they have into the restoration.  This of course means their focus is not on Sally's stories but on getting the house in "Architectural Digest."  The house is haunted, but not by traditional ghosts.  Here we have little 10 inch thin skinned humanoids with small heads and sharp teeth.  Oh yes, the teeth.  Evidently that is what they use for sustenance.  Children's teeth are best.  There is a history of lost children and adults that is shown in the opening sequence, which is actually pretty good.  Kim (Holmes) eventually comes around and believes Sally's tales of creatures.  Kim gives Sally a Polaroid flash camera (yeah, when's the last time you saw one of those?) to get a picture and protect herself (the creatures don't like bright lights).  We know exactly what is going to happen from one scene to the next.  This is a by-the-numbers haunted house film that I suspect will also be on TV pretty soon.  This Blu ray version also contains a digital transfer.  The video is excellent.  The dark scenes still stand out.  The DTS-HD Master Audio displays the sound effects and creepy music in all the right places.

StereoTyping Indigenous People and Portraying Women Negatively If your eyes are not open already, the portrayals in this Disney movie are highly stereotypical and misguided. In this film some Indians are shown as acting like stupid, cartoonish, warlike primitives.  There is a song in the film that is offensive called "What Makes The Red Man Red?". Here are it's lyrics:  "Once the Injun didn't know/ all the things that he know now / But the Injun he sure learn a lot/ And it's all from asking "How" What made the red man red/ Let's go back a million years/ to the very first Indian Prince He kiss a maid and start to blush/ and we've all been blushin' since."  The author of Peter Pan, Mr Barrie, has also been criticized for his treatment of female characters.  Most of the female characters: Wendy, Tinker Bell, Tiger Lily, and the mermaids try to gain immature Peter Pan's affections; and Tinker Bell makes several attempts on Wendy's life out of jealousy, yet Peter shows no empathy and ignores all of their affections with indifference.  Would you like children to watch and learn from this on how to understand Indians? Would boys watching this be helped to learn how to grow up to be mature men, and have happy relations with mature women?  Would girls learn from watching this that its okay to try and have a boyfriend like an emotionally unavailable Peter Pan?

Overwrought, Preposterous, AND Strangely Fascinating: It's Hard Being A Privileged White Guy There are two questions one has to propose after watching an overwrought parable of a film like "I Melt With You." Is the movie any good? And is it worth watching? I know some who feel these answers are always the same, but I don't. If someone asked me if Mark Pellington's outrageous examination of middle-aged regret was good, I'd have to say no. So over-the-top and patently ridiculous, the movie is an absolute mess tonally and thematically (even to the point of morphing into a thriller for its conclusion). But is it worth watching? There's something to be said about the absolute madness of it all that makes "I Melt With You" sickly fascinating. Even as I was laughing at how inept the story line felt, the movie kept pushing into greater and greater outrageousness. And I must admit, there is an odd entertainment factor to be gleaned from this unpredictability. While it may not be a "good" movie, it patently refuses to back down and play it safe. I respect that as well. My rating, therefore, is divided. I give it one star on merit and three stars for its bold commitment to lunacy. Overall, I'll make it two stars and predict that this is the love-it or hate-it proposition of the season.  The movie introduces four childhood friends who get together once a year for a week of insane debauchery. Without much preamble or development, we meet the guys briefly in their everyday lives before they assemble at an isolated chalet. Thomas Jane, Jeremy Piven, Rob Lowe, and Christian McKay play the quartet and it's clear that, as a whole, they've been a pretty privileged bunch. But looks can be deceiving, or so the screenplay would have you believe. Each man is haunted by regret and the life not chosen. Despite being successful professionals (some with families), the trip instantly devolves into a drug-fueled music video of bad acts and excess. The movie, in these early scenes, has so little plot momentum that it seems a repetitive (and rather silly) glorification of poor choices and a complete disconnection with recognizable humanity. As each man faces his supposed demons and idealizes a more innocent time, the movie slows down to hear their hard luck stories. But one tragedy and a childhood promise will forever change these men. I won't reveal any more than that, other than to say that the movie just gets systematically more loony as it progresses.  With pulsing music, disjointed camera work, and absolute hysterics, the movie becomes a preposterous thriller. To their credit, the actors never waver and all serve up deliciously over-the-top interpretations of "real" people. I know some will consider the subject matter provocative and thought-provoking, but it's so far out there--you can't take any of it seriously. But by the time the film enters its final 45 minutes (and the great Carla Gugino shows up), the movie has jumped a school of sharks (not just one) to enter bad movie nirvana. It's so bad, it's good! I'm not sure how anyone would get deep meaning out of "I Melt With You," although its central premise is sound enough. If you do, however, good on you! For me, it's a master class of excess that takes itself way too seriously and thus becomes an absolute treat for lovers of bad movie mayhem. Without the slow start, maybe I'd have rated this higher for the delirium! As is, though, I hated it AND loved it (but for all the wrong reasons), yet am hard pressed to actually recommend it. Despite those that will proclaim it some sort of modern masterpiece, there's a reason its critical consensus on Metacritic is 26 out of 100. KGHarris, 8/12.

Not even Paul Rudd can overcome this drowsy script Paul Rudd must have a particular fondness for hippies because he seems to love either playing them or playing off them. They make for relatively easy laughs and breezy comedies, similar to Rudd's performance as the free-spirited moron in last year's Our Idiot Brother. Hippies are fun, and they make for relatively soft targets for a likable actor like Rudd. Wanderlust, the latest comedy from the Judd Apatow umbrella, has Rudd paired up with a familiar face in Jennifer Aniston. Even though the two haven't done a movie together since 1998's The Object of My Affection, they spent plenty of time together on the set of Friends. Their chemistry together is on point, and the bulk of the film's laughs come between one another. Separately, Wanderlust succumbs to a drowsy script that can't overcome the slight plot.  George(Rudd) and Linda(Aniston) are a seemingly happy married couple devoted to the idea of setting up their lives in bustling New York City. He's a businessman of some sort, while she just seems to be drifting from career to career. At this point she wants to be a documentary film maker....about penguins with terminal cancer. It doesn't go well. But their commitment is strong, and are pushed by a hilariously unscrupulous real estate agent(Linda Lavin!!) into buying a high priced "micro-loft", which turns out to be a closet sized studio apartment. George almost immediately loses his job, whatever it was, and unable to afford the lifestyle, they find themselves headed to Atlanta to stay with his scummy but successful brother(Ken Marino).  Disaster strikes during the interminable road trip, in the form of a hairy nudist(Joe Lo Truglio) and his floppy man sack chasing them into a freak accident. Forced to stay at the ironically named Elysium Bed & Breakfast, they discover that it's actually a hippie commune, or as its leader Seth(Justin Theroux) calls it, an "intentional community".  The big city folks quickly fall in love with the relaxed nature and the close-knit bonds forged among the denizens, and after a wild night of drinking, pot smoking, and being treated like beatnik royalty, George and Linda feel they've found a new home.  No more stress, no more reliance on technology, and no more barriers.Basically every hippie joke you can think of becomes an instant factor, whether it's farm animals turning up in the oddest places, wacky acid trips, and shocking infringements on one's personal space. It's all stuff you've seen before, but Rudd and an excellent supporting cast do their best to make it work. You know from the start that Seth has his eyes on Linda, who is acclimating to the group better than George ever could hope to. You know where it's going, but Theroux shines as the manliest guy in a town full of pacifists.  Rudd nearly saves the day, however, especially as George's perceptions of the group begin to shift from enthusiastic follower to caustic observer. Tempted by a free lovin' sex pot(Malin Akerman), George is willing to give up good food, bathroom privacy, and his favorite local coffee to give the lifestyle a shot. If only Rudd help from a better script, one which wasn't so devoted to skit show cliches. Too often the film feels razor thin, like screenwriters Ken Marino and director David Wain came up with the idea on the fly to do a hippie movie, but never got past the conceptual stage. Basically, it's like they just assembled a talented group of comedic heavyweights and said "Have at it". Not everybody is capable of making chicken salad out of chicken crap the way Rudd can, and unfortunately too many scenes don't work for that very reason. It's sad to watch the great Alan Alda wasting away with a one-note bit that is never funny, yet repeated over and over again as if we'll suddenly change our minds about it. Sometimes that works, but not often.  A look at the trailers for the film show a number of scenes that were apparently left on the cutting room floor, which makes the inclusion of some of the worst jokes utterly confusing. George's excruciating, profanity-laden attempts to psych himself up for some guilt free sex is a serious low point. It's only matched by a mother who gives birth to a baby right at George's feet, then proceeds to lug the placenta around like luggage. Why is this funny?  Nearly all of the offensively lame attempts at humor come in the second half of the film, when it appears that Wain and Co. basically threw in the towel. For the first hour or so, Wanderlust moves at a solid pace, letting it's two charming leads tell what was a clever fish-out-of-water story. Too bad it all vanishes in a puff of smoke.

Great movie ruined by added music This is one of my favorite movies and I was excited that there was added footage to this Complete Novel. I saw some reviews of people not liking the music that was added, but thought, 'how bad can it be'? It was HORRIBLE and really ruined the movie for me. Even though the extra footage is great and some was definately needed in the original, I would still recommend getting the original version.  The music often doesn't fit with what is going on in the movie and ruins the feel as to what is happening. More times than I could count there was music with words being played at the same time that dialogue was happening and it was very difficult to hear the dialogue and the music drowned out the scenes. So much new music was added that it seems like there is not much of the movie anymore without annoying music happening.  The extra disk and special features is interesting, but I would still recommend getting the original version of the movie.

The cheese! The cheese! "Vampire Journals" is a wonderful movie. An awful movie. This is a WONDERFUL, AWFUL movie that takes every romantic vampire cliche in existence and squashes them into a big velvet-and-lace disaster.  In fact, watching this movie is kind of like diving headfirst into the fanfiction of a 13-year-old Anne Rice fan, with lots of lace, velvet, classical music, marble pillars and flowing hair. It moves very slowly and there isn't actually a lot going on, but the serious, melodramatic tone of every scene makes it unintentionally hilarious ("I have no wish to violate your flesh!").  The story follows Zachary (David Gunn), a melancholy vampire with a conscience who seeks to destroy all vampires of his bloodline. Fortunately, he has the Sword of Laertes, which has the power to kill vampires... just like every other sword.  Zachary's latest target is Ash (Jonathon Morris), a master vampire with a love of classical music -- and he's fixed his gaze on Sofia (Kirsten Cerre), a talented young pianist. Zachary manages to rescue Sofia from Ash at first, but it turns out Ash has invited her to perform at his personal abode, Club Muse (which is a sort of casino/brothel/vampire restaurant).  Well, you can probably guess exactly what Ash has in store for Sofia -- he wants to immortalize her musical skills by turning her into a vampire. So he entraps her in his bedroom, slowly breaking her will so that she will accept him as her master. Zachary has only a short time to save her, but doing so might lure him back to the darkness.  "Vampire Journals" is one of those baroque/gothic/romantic slabs of vampire fantasy -- graveyards, wrought-iron, classical music, silk and satin and lace, old world aristocrats and vast shadowy mansions filled with marble. Supposedly this is a spinoff of "Subspecies," but it has a completely different atmosphere and storyline.  And it's HILARIOUS. The entire thing is very ponderous and melodramatic, with lots of talk about the torture of being immortal and so on and so forth. The dialogue is often silly ("Take me out into the Great Night, Master! I crave the hunt!") and there are long, slow-moving parts where we have people just sort of drifting around looking off into space and/or biting people. And it's handled SO seriously that it's difficult not to giggle.  Also, there are breasts. It's actually hilarious, because they just sort of appear randomly. For instance, the movie opens with a woman in a gauzy dress dancing slowly in a dark, misty mansion... and then when a vampire chases her down, her boob pops out. Very unintentionally funny.  Compared to "Subspecies 4," Jonathon Morris is actually quite enjoyable here -- Ash is refined, manipulative, and always talks like he's in mid-swoon. Gunn does as well as anyone can with the "vampire with a heart" cliche; Cerre is required to do little more than cry, scream and twinkle at Gunn; and Ilinca Goia says every single line in a breathy pseudo-erotic whisper.  "Vampire Journals" is a bad movie, but in a hilarious MST3K way -- it's so melodramatic and full of vampire schlock that it ends up being fun by accident. It's like overdosing on Anne Rice fanfiction.

Deceptive Listing Do not for one minute believe this part of the product description:  Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC  These disks are full screen, chopped and fitted for regular TV.

Has anyone actually lost any weight? I was thinking about buying this, but after reading the reviews I noticed that not one person had mentioned that they were losing any weight... so I'm guessing that while this may be an interesting concept it's really difficult to apply it and see actual results. I'd be curious to hear from those who lost 10lbs or more because of the info in the dvds.

Not good Based on all the positive feedback and what seems to be an interesting storyline I finally got around to seeing this movie and wow was I disappointed. First it looks more like a made for TV movie from the mid-70s than a full fledged movie, there is nothing epic or big about this movie. Second, with the exception of Eastwood and maybe a couple of others the acting is awful. Third by the end of the movie I find myself hoping the Indians come in an slaughter everyone, that's how little I cared for an how much I disliked the characters surrounding Eastwood. Overall the movie is a major disappointment and shouldn't be compared to real classic Westerns. In fact I wouldn't even call this a western, its probably closer to Every Which Way But Loose than The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

Grapes on a Vine I did not like the movie. I did not like the plot. Someone else may like that type of movie. It was not a good ending to me.

Didn't work for me.. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000N5F6OW">Hatari!</a>  Much to my dismay, I was unable to watch this movie on my computer.  I don't know if it was the feed or what.  It skipped and stopped repeatedly.  The voice was not in sync.  Hopefully I can figure out the problem.

Very Disappointing... This movie, for me, had so much potential. Paul Rudd is an incredible comedic actor, and I had high hopes for Justin Theroux. Jennifer Aniston, in every role since Friends, plays the "Rachel"- like character and frankly it is getting old. This movie is simply not funny.

Bad movie, some good performances "Locked Up" is a pretty appalling movie.  The story is absolutely ludicrous.  Do they put prisoners guilty of credit card fraud in with hardened, violent criminals?  Maybe they do.  It's been a long time since I was in a German prison, but do they really let you pick your own cellmates, bring your own furniture, decorate the walls, have your pets, make your own coffee?  The warden asks at what point, "What do you think this is?  A hotel?"  The answer is, I guess, "Yes!"  The actors were horrible, with a couple of exceptions.  Mike Sale is the worst offender.  He sounds about as American as Queen Elizabeth.  David Parstein gives a sympathetic performance as the wimpy little doormat Kevin.  Better still is Marcel Schlutt.  Yes, he is apparently a big porn star in Europe and is very nice looking, but in this movie at least, he is actually quite sweet and vulnerable.  It would be interesting to see if he would be able to make it in more mainstream movies.  Probably not, but it would be nice to see him in something better.  I think this turkey deserves one star, but I'm giving it two because of Schlutt's performance.  Terrible movie, good star.

Better for those who are more advanced I love and admire Rachel Brice's abilities, however, this is DEFINITELY NOT FOR BEGINNERS. Had I been able to keep up, it would've been great. But, as I am just a beginner and have never been shown how to do the moves, it would've been nice if she had gone slower and explained each move in more detail.

Sinking sub Submarine is one of those quirky and eccentric coming-of-age comedies in the vein of Rushmore.  Unfortunately, it's too quirky and eccentric for its own good.  Oliver Tate (Roberts) is a peculiar young man growing up in Wales.  He finds himself with his first girlfriend, a peculiar firebug (Paige), while trying to save his peculiar parents' peculiarly sexless marriage.  First time director Richard Ayoade, who also wrote the screenplay (based on the novel by Joe Dunthorne), is primarily known for his acting, having starred in one of the best comedy series in the last 20 years, The IT Crowd (a British show, available on DVD in the U.S., highly recommended).  He tries to hard to emulate Wes Anderson, but falls short.  Hell, sometimes even Anderson himself can be too "Anderson-y" (sic).  The film is watchable, but ultimately forgettable.

OK. I LIKED THIS ENOUGH. USUALLY THESE ARE MY TYPES OF MOVIES, FUN, CHEESY, AND SCARY. BUT THIS ONE JUST WASN'T FOR ME I GUESSE. BEING A CHRISTIAN, I DIDN'T CARE FOR THE UNNECISSARY NUDITY, BUT OTHER THAN THAT I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST AVERAGE. I'M NOT OUT TO AFFEND ANYBODY. I KNOW MOST EVERYBODY LOVED THIS MOVIE, IT'S JUST MY OPINION. I, HOVEVER, LOVED THE SEQUELS.

Aeon Flux-Disappointing! I'm a pretty big fan of Charlize!However,this movie is really slow,difficult to stay with it,in other words,boring.The first 2 times I tried to watch the movie I fell asleep,both times!!Really,it's the gods truth!!Charlize was fantastic,sexy amd smart.She also does at least 90% of the stunts,many of those in this flick.I'm sorry to say though that I can't recommend this movie but the 2nd disk is very informative and again,in some areas,boring.This movie gets only 2 stars!

What in the world are you people listening to? What in the world are you people listening to?  113 five star reviews? I purchased this DVD 2 weeks ago based on all of these great 5 and 4 star reviews. And have now given 3 listens, beginning to end, thinking maybe I'm missing something. If not for the nice video quality, this would be a 1 star review.  What bothers me the most about this concert is the fact that they squandered a (probably) once in a lifetime opportunity to take advantage of having a full symphony orchestra at their disposal for a live performance. But the orchestra looks and sounds like a bunch of under rehearsed high school kids. They aren't really given much to play to begin with, they're consistently out of tune, and what they do play is very basic string and horn accompaniment, which is buried so far into the mix, they might as well not be there at all (probably mixed that way because they WERE so badly out of tune). If you really want to hear what a rock band with a great symphony arrangement has the potential to sound like, check out Sting's Live In Berlin, Peter Gabriel's New Blood, or even Kansas' There's Know Place Like Home. Hell, try Transiberian Orchestra - they been at the live Rock/Symphony thing for years. Some of the stuff they do will melt the hair off the back of your neck.  Jon Anderson's voice is spot on - he sounds strong and clear, and hits almost every single note effortlessly. My complaint - and I saw one reviewer actually COMPLIMENT this fact - is that his vocals are absolutely "dry" (a recording term meaning there are no "effects" on his voice - no reverb, no delay, no nothing - dry). Jon Anderson's singing without the vocal effects is like having cake without the icing. His voice just lends itself PERFECTLY to nice deep reverberation and a slight trailing delay. I think he is done a disservice in this respect. Anyway - moot point now: I'm very glad to see/hear his solo efforts going so well.  Alan White sounds great as always. And he and Squire are really trying their best to create a strong rhythm. But Squire is overplaying everything. He's probably trying to overcompensate for the lack of excitement at the opposite end of the stage. Which leads me to -  Steve Howe - should just pack it up and go home. He's really been starting to tick me off for the last 10 years or so. His playing anymore is stale dry and completely soulless. His guitar sounds/tone are completely lame - thin, tinny and dry. Even his hollow body - how does one manage to take a big hollow body guitar and make it sound like a tin cup with a metal string attached?  He looks bored all the time....as if he doesn't want to be there at all. Maybe he is, but dam it, when people are paying their hard earned money to see a show, you put on a show. Whether you're hating it or not. As a guitar player myself, Steve was a god to me when I was a kid just starting out. From the very first note he struck on Yours Is No Disgrace, I was hooked on his playing, and much of my own style developed based on his technique on those early Yes albums. But to be honest, I don't think he's had a decent guitar riff since GFTO. Tormato was the beginning of his downfall, and now his riffs are just aimless squabling all over the place. Top that off with the horrible tone of his guitars/amps and I really don't think he has anything left to offer.  The keyboard player is ok (Tom Brislin), although a little bit spastic - I'm guessing he was attempting to drum up some sort of excitement out of this boring mess. Although, I do really like his band "Spiraling". Check them out if you want to hear a "newer" band with some Yes/Gentle Giant type of influence.  Yes, the overall sound and picture on this DVD is crystal clear....but to what end? You hear the crystal clarity of a mostly uninspired band just going through the motions, and an out of tune novice orchestra. This borders on torture.

A little uncomfortable While it had some minor redeeming qualities, I would say pass on this movie if you're planning on watching it with your kids. There are a few too many sexy girl party scenes for my taste -- I guess to establish the story line of the dad as a playboy -- but if you ask me, it was just creepy. Totally inappropriate for kids (mine are aged 9 and 6). Rock is a little weird to look at too -- super white teeth, giant greasy muscles. Ew. I didn't like it. But, the little girl is cute (that's the redeeming part).

Beginning was funny, then slowly got ruined. The movie started off funny, but towards then it just got worst and worst and the end...at least in my sister's and I opinions was really lame and, of course, predictable.  It definitely had it's good moments, though.  Really light watch and no much substance to it, but I wouldn't reccommend it as a date movie. Disliked the ending.

Blu-ray is a dud.  What a shame ! So sad.  Such a great film, but I've given it such a low rating. What a disapointment  Why is the Blu-ray disc PQ so bad?  Yes, there are some well lit scenes that are outstanding, but there are many, many more shots that are dull, flat, and just plain poor picture quality. It looks like the lens was fogged or gauze was placed over the lens. This spoils the whole film.  Glad I rented and didn't buy.  I'll wait for the remastered version....

A beautiful environmentalist hallucination. So, you've got an evil clandestine organization of Pacers and Gremlins (made by American Motor Cars) who work for an evil German monocle wearing stereotype who together are sitting on the largest new oil field in the world (owned by the Americans and defended by US Navy Independence Class frigates) and some british spy cars that are trying to defeat them.  Americans bad.  Big oil bad.  The irony is that all these adorable cars are trying to get rid of the fuel they were designed to run on because they'd rather run on "alternative fuels" that don't exist yet, much like so many Americans want to run away from their own greatness for some utopia wonder-world that exists in their imagination.  Oh, and since this movie has dredged the 1970's for some of the most awful cars, how about some exploding Ford Pintos?  I would have added another star if I'd seen some of those.  At least try to see it once before you pay cash for a clunker.  ----------------------  Edit 11/20/2011 Got to see the movie again without spending any money.  In the 23rd minute of the movie it is explained that the Americans "discovered" this "biggest oil reserve in the world".  What the Americans discovered was the platforms already existing and being controlled by evil lemon cars.  So, the drilling platforms were not themselves owned by Americans.  An American agent was working with the brit spies.  So, I missed that and I'll admit that I was wrong.  I changed the title of my review to remove "anti-American", but I still think the whole thing is a preachy propaganda piece that I have no desire ever to see again.

Jack Black was good. Jack Black showed his range in this film, however, pretty slow overall.  Not very invested in any of the characters.

Warwick Davis Having turned into a horror franchise, this fourth offering in outer space has little to offer other than a brief nude scene. I would not recommend it.

Skip I could never get into this movie.  I never understood the bad guy's motive and they made the lead charater to look like such a prick.  Skip.

Dystopian snoozer This film is better acted and has better scenery than the usual Sci Fi channel made  for media films.  However, it is not as much fun.  This film does not bring anything new to the dysptopian film genre.  Somewhere behind it I suspect might be a novel that is far better than the movie.  Interesting ideas are presented but not developed.  Mankind declines because it brought genetically cloned mammoths and other beasts into the world.  There are a series of guardians who trot around on horses and are supposed to protect people.  The son of a scientist must seek a yellow powder to cure the disease that turns folks into mutant zombie orcs.  Too many ideas subsumed by smashing and bashing action and too little development of the post apocalyptic world are the focus. We are asked to accept too many plot points like only one person in the world can read. This character has learned from a third grade text and is expected to do some Nobel level o chem to save the world.  The characters are poorly developed also.  Cardboard bad guys, big bobbed heroines, and plucky teenage cavemen abound.  My biggest question is "How did Sean Bean end up in this film"...... Tax liens, alimony payments, or bad judgement? I can't really not recommend the film to the avid Sci Fi fan since this review is only my opinion but I am not putting it on my list of yagotta sees.

Disappointing I bought this thinking it was a continuation of the Kayako/Toshio story but it turned out to be two different movies on one disk....one called White Ghost, the other called Black Ghost. The story line  described on the back of the case looked very interesting but each film had about 3 different plots going on, none of which related to one another, and the "ghosts" weren't Kayako and Toshio at all but two new ones that didn't even hold a candle to the original ghosts. The entire film was a joke; not even scary.

Not the best I have been installing PV and solar thermal systems for over 10 years and I found Bob's video severely lacking in several critical areas.  One is electrical safety regarding the National Electric Code. If you think you can safely build a battery box that has absolutely no acid containment you are wrong.  The do-it-yourself mounting systems didn't look very professional or long lasting.  I wouldn't use rope as a guy wire.

Punk Rock Is Not for the Weak? "Hey is Dee Dee Home" is a sleeper hit for Ramones fans only. There are some brief snapshots of the Ramones in their heyday, rocking out at CBGB's (now defunct), some of their music... but other than that, it's a rambling interview with uber-stoner Dee Dee. It's a sad sight. Dee Dee was once wild&rambunctious with Johnny Thunders,Billy Idol,Sid Vicious&Richard Hell--now he's so mellow, he's not there (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0013D8L7C">I'm Not There (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)</a>) As a biopic, it's sadly disappointing. Dee Dee recounts living with Debbie Harry of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006IM9Q">Blondie - Greatest Hits</a>, but most of the time, it's about scoring dope. The music gets a cameo role. We don't see his family, his friends. He's oddly isolated. Dee Dee was part of a beloved group;he passed away in 2002 (RIP, Dee Dee). This documentary is not merely that of a candle in the wind, but a candle that barely glimmers.

Terrible merger of one good and one great book by Anne Rice This movie took The Vampire Lestat & Queen of the Dammed and merged into on VERY bad movies.  Do yourself a favor and read these two books and don't watch the movie.

fast shipping, lousy product Product came quickly but it was so scratched that halfway thru the movie you could only hear what they were saying with a blue screen. would NOT recommend this product.

Missing One Key Component: Acting I rented this movie because I enjoy period films about U.S. history, and what better event to be covered than the Lincoln Assassination?!  Unfortunately, this courtroom drama fails in a number of aspects, with acting being first and foremost on that list.  For a basic plot summary, "The Conspirator" tells the story of Mary Surratt (Robin Wright), accused of harboring the men who conspired to kill President Lincoln.  With all the odds stacked against her, Surratt is given a military trial that she has no hope of winning.  The only thing in her corner is lawyer Frederick Aiken (James McAvoy), who is persuaded to fight for her cause.  As a courtroom drama, this film is okay.  It touches on a few interesting themes and really shows the mood of the Civil War era.  However, the acting is so poor that it never really sucks viewers into the proceedings.  Besides Wright as Surratt, the acting performances fail in a variety of ways.  McAvoy does not convey "period" whatsoever, the auxiliary cast isn't given much to do, and the laughable casting choices of Justin Long and Alexis Bledel only serves to further exemplify the acting in this effort.  Also, "The Conspirator" does none of the "little things" right, like character depth.  A romance angle with McAvoy's character goes nowhere, for instance, while the drama of the film is confined to the courtroom scenes and no others.  Thus, I cannot recommend "The Conspirator" to those looking for anything more than a mediocre, stuffy period piece about a very specific topic.  If you only want to see it because it has Lincoln on the cover, go elsewhere for your history fix.

Not worth the time or money Really, if I had not paid to see this movie I would of turned it off about 15mins in to it...  If you have seen the preview than you have seen the best of the movie.  I am giving it 2 stars because there was a funny  part here and there BUT again, 90% of that I seen in the previews.

The workout I hate to hate... I  love Bob.  I think he's inspiring and a very well rounded trainer.  That being said, I hated every minute of this workout.  I hate to always compare Bob vs Jillian- but I'll take on of her DVD's over this series anyday.  I look for challenging workouts, but this is just painfully repetative.  I don't understand why he didn't incorporate different exercises than kettle swings...over and over and over.  I couldn't believe it.  Some people might enjoy this DVD because when it's done- you know you've gotten a workout.  I try to enjoy and have fun, while pushing myself.  This DVD I kept looking at the clock, waiting for it to be over! Also, the people in the workout video were terrible.  If I can keep up the pace- so can these people.  I don't know if they were being over-dramatic or what.. but it was distracting and annoying.

Painfully Inaccurate This movie is so painfully inaccurate, one could assume it was written by someone who not only has no notion of who Joan of Arc was historically, but also has no reverence for her as a saint. Joan of Arc had two brothers, not a sister. Domremy was not attacked by the Burgundians or the English, as it was already English territory. Joan heard the voices of Saint Catherine, Saint Margaret, and Saint Michael. Saint Catherine, and Saint Margaret were the dominant voices. She also spoke of the voices comforting her, not terrorizing her for following their direction. I despise this representation of Joan as a broken, pathetic, and incredibly insane antihero. Anyone who has given the time and thought to reading her trial transcripts would know that she was so much more than this film could possibly pretend to portray.

Slow and Borring The point was made about 20 minutes in. The rest is just one person after another getting healthier by doing juice fasts. Extremely slow and boring. I was just waiting for the juice machine infomercial to start...

Poor dvd This dvd skipped at two parts of the movie, they skipped 3 to 5 min of film and there is no way to know what happened or what was said. I am disappointed and i have just bought it new from walmart instead. Sorry i hope your purchase is better

Never Watch it Again. Wow.  What can I say about this one, that hasn't already been said?  Yeah - it is a blatant rip-off of the 80s classic FRIGHT NIGHT, only it substitutes a werewolf for the vampire as the main antagonist.  The acting is wooden, the plot is weak, and the scares are predictable.  So, why two stars?  Well, for one - Kevin Sorbo.  He plays a great 'reluctant hero' type, and provides the much needed humor this film is lacking.  He is the 'Peter Vincent' of this film, and was well chosen.  I just wonder how drunk he had to get to agree to this project.  Star number two - Nina Dobrev - while not quite up to the acting talent of Sorbo, she does make the rest of the cast look amateurish, and she is extremely soft on the eyes.  I usually can watch a film several times over - even if it isn't 'the best' of films, I can find a redeeming quality or two that makes it if not re-watchable, then something I can put on as background noise.  Not so with this one.  Rent it if you must, watch it when it comes on cable, but Never Cry 'Click to Buy'.

Awesome Series Smallville is a great series thats not why i give this product review 2 stars it due to the fact that whoever had the idea of packing 64 discs in a tight cardboard book wasn't really thinking. The idea was kinda of cool but that fact every disc gets scratched no matter what, unless you cut each disc out it is inevitable. If you are planning on buying this entire series just buy all the discs separately. Hope this helps!!

Who was the target audience for this movie? Farfetched.  The characters are farfetched, the situations the characters get into are farfetched, and the dialogue is farfetched. "The Boondock Saints" is a vigilante-type movie about Boston that takes place in Southie, and unless you are part of the targeted demographic, you won't find this film to be very interesting.  Willem DaFoe portrays a Godlike bitch who knows everything and drives everyone around him in the Boston Police Department nuts.  I guess that's supposed to be funny.  The two Irish kids who decide to take on organized crime in Boston are so seemingly invulnerable, they may as well have superhuman powers. I guess they were supposed to be dudes who were not to be screwed with, but they came across as just plain weird.  The only reason I didn't give this film one star is that "The Boondock Saints" isn't offensive; It's just forgettable.

FAR FROM A TYPICAL STEVE MCQUEEN MOVIE I'm a huge fan of Steve McQueen and have been working my through all of his 30 or so films. AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE was one that I have hesitated to see. I knew from McQueen's picture on the cover of the DVD and from the storyline that this would be a drastic deviation from a typical Steve McQueen film. AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE was one of the last few films in McQueen's amazing career. He had done it all already and had created his macho "cool" image. This film must have been a labor of love since it was so completely non-Steve McQueen. The film goes against any role McQueen had ever played It's hard to recognize Steve McQueen under the huge beard and wild mane of long hair and glasses. Steve McQueen was known for saying little in his movies and for speaking words with his eyes and facial expressions. Here is a movie where his face is hidden and he actually gives speeches and relies on dialogue to tell the story. Although set in the 1890's in Norway (althought the country is never mentioned), the story stands the test of time. A town's prosperity depends on the healthful and rejuvenating mineral spring waters that bless the town. Soon the town will be famous for it spa waters--well, until the local doctor (McQueen) learns that pollution from a tannery has turned the water toxic. This Henrik Ibsen play was adapted for American audiences by Arthur Miller and brought to the big screen by Steve McQueen. Unfortunately the film does not bring the story to life and AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE best remains a theatrical production. Seeing it on screen adds little to the sad story. The scenery is dark and dismal and there is an amazing lack of color and vibrance. Of course, this is a dark story that pits right against wrong. McQueen's character tries to convince the town that in a democracy, the majority are not always right. It's a disappointing film but I applaude Steve McQueen for trying to change his image. I've heard that this picture was never released or released very briefly and not really available until decades later on DVD. I can imagine studio executives were jittery seeing Steve McQueen unrecognizable and in a morality play.

didn't remember saw this movie back in the 80's and thought it was cool, got both versions to watch and compare.  however, re-watching it as 'adults' didn't find the original as entertaining as we once did and the ending just leaves you hanging.  can't say that the 'new' one impressed us either.  we care for younger children and they enjoyed them.

Lost opportunity The premise is interesting and so much could have been done here. The cast is pretty good.  Timberlake is a relatively weak link...he's a basically competent actor, but just surrounded by better ones, including Cillian Murphy and Amanda Seyfried. And, we've seen better performances from Timberlake (The Social Network, most notably)  The problem here is the constant flow of cliches and standard action movie moments. There are all kinds of logical problems and plot improbabilities.  I guess there a little bit of popcorn value, I guess, (including a bunch of pretty cool futuristic/retro cars) but not enough to make it worth your while.

Another Day You probably won't be in the middle on Another Earth; either you'll find it to be a hypnotic meditation on fate and circumstance or a pretentious, self-serious snoozer. Regardless, few would call it conventional. It's the tale of an aspiring astrophysicist whose carelessness changes the life of a brilliant composer forever; now that a new planet exactly like ours has been discovered, can our heroine get a second chance to make everything right? Brit Marling stars and co-wrote the screenplay for Another Earth, and the film offers proof of her unique talent -- just don't expect a typical sci-fi story.

Good Movie No spanish subtitles The Road Warrior is a classic, but doesn't have Spanish subtitles on the features. I hate when a good movie comes without this feature.

Yogi's first christmas! I could not hear it because I'am hearing Impaire Watching Yogi's First Christmas was like watching a silent movie! you people never think of the hearing impaired!! or just don't want to be bothered w/it which would mean u don't care about us

Movie Fragmented Before I comment on the program, will break down some facts: - The actual program length is 184 minutes.  As Titanic was aired on ABC in a 4-hour frame (3 hours on 4/14 and 1 hour on 4/15/12), this averages to about 46 minutes of program time per each hour of air time. - The above translates to 14 minutes of commercials and promos every hour. - Nowadays, A typical 1-hour air-time program will have anywhere from 41½ to 46 minutes of actual program.  As annoying as the commercials were, Titanic was on the high end of the program-to-commercial ratio. - Extra trivia on actual program times in the past: ---  In the 1960s and before, a 1-hour slot had 51 minutes of actual program (check out DVDs or VHS tapes of shows like Star Trek or Hogan's Heroes [latter was a half-hour show; each episode has 25½ minutes of run time]). ---  In the mid 1970s, a 1-hours slot had 48 minutes of program time. - Nowadays, it's a very rare event when I watch a non-sports program while it's being aired, whether a major-network primetime show, a quasi-syndicated show on a cable network (an example is Covert Affairs on USA - Avg pgm time of 42 minutes in a one-hour slot), or a currently-airing game show (Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune).  I normally record these shows on a DVR and watch them later.  Besides the advantage of being able to skip commercials, I can also pause when the need arises without having to miss a scene.   Now to the so-called mini-series.  The show was not easy to follow, given the fast rewinds that occurred when the next episode began.  The show also highlighted too many characters.  It was more like several mini-sagas that had one common setting, namely the Titanic.   While I am a Titanic buff, I would not recommend this movie/mini-series.  In my opinion, the best movie done on the sinking of the Titanic is "A Night to Remember."  While knowledge on what occurred during the sinking was considerably less in the 1950s versus the 1990s or even today, the primary focus of "A Night to Remember" was the sinking and the events leading up to the collision, not some side romance or family breakup.

Ilogical scenes made this hard to enjoy Things like: -Alice waiting to approach wesker so he could try to kill her, instead of destroying the (seemingly) only getaway for wesker. -Having all of alice's clones die fighting at a single facility - Wesker who claimed to be bettter than Alice at being superhuman is too injured by the plane crash to kill Alice, yet she walks away with a limp -How people, after 7 years, are still living in a prison AND have running water -having an elevator go into free fall and hit water DOES NOT stop you from suffering massive injuring (more than likely, you'd be dead after falling 30 stories) -Alice not being super human but performing super human stunts, like falling off a building the way she did (i'm an engineer, physics says that a regular person would die) -How a random big zombie happen to find a funky big ass hammer to suit him. Obviously he didnt create it himself -WHy/How on earth did that big zombie just happen to be at the shower and somehow hide from everyone while they were debating on whether or not to use the tunnel -Why the hell is every zombie trying to break in the prison in the first place? - "It's not a lie... its a TRAP!" (as they are walking into said "trap" instead of walking away) - Alice walks into the room where wesker was so she is in plain sight, yet chris and claire somehow knew of a backdoor they could sneak through - wesker, being super strong and faster than bullets doesnt figure out that he could take the guns from his enemies hands and kill them within 2 seconds, instead he decides to perform a little dance with claire, chris and the bullets - Wesker, while trying to (eat?) alice, takes 5 seconds to reveal his monster mouth giving alice a chance to kill him, not once, but TWICE!!! Everyone in their right mind knows he could have easily pinned her down, yet decided to let her try to kill him two times...  - While on the floor, knowing wesker has super healing powers, just keep shooting him and walk away... obvioulsy they expected him to wake up and take a plane (they planted the detonation bomb in the plane). But who is to say they also knew he wasnt going to keep attacking?? - Everyone were psychics as they knew exactly which plane to plant the bomb into - They woke up over 2000 people and planned on feeding them what again? zombie meat? - umbrella knew they evacuated arcadia, yet alice decides to use their system which ultimately leads to having an army come attack them  i'm not the type to critique movies like this, but this was super annoying to me...

What's the matter? Haven't you ever seen an art film before? For some reason, film sometimes insists on taking upon itself the entire burden of Western culture, trying to make itself the equal to painting, music, literature, philosophy, etc... Film is indeed the equal to those other artforms, but only on its own terms, never by trying to be something that its not. Which brings us to the film in question, Certified Copy. It takes some very timeworn post-modern theories about art and reality and applies them to a rather pedestrian story about a relationship between a man and a woman. What results might one expect from this? Something that's all over the place and never completely decides what it's saying? I would say so. Godard got away with this sort of thing in the 60's because it was the 60's and he was Godard. What's Kiarostami's alibi for here in 2000's? I would say it was a semi-noble attempt to make an art film like this in this day and age...but on the other hand, it just feels like wishful thinking, that somehow there's something new to be said. Anyway, the film gets upped from one star to two because Juliette Binoche was good and the film was at least watchable (barely). If I feel the need to see a film that plumbs the depths of modern alienation between men and women, I'll pick out an Antonioni to watch.

Disappointing... I should have listened to all of those who read the book and said how disappointed and pissed they were and should've never watched the movie. Despite of all the warnings, I still went ahead and watched it, I guess because of all the anticipation.  Let me start by saying, Breaking Dawn was a disappointment in so many levels. The reason I fell in love with the series was because it was so romantic and magical...there was not much of that in Breaking Dawn.  I'm just pissed with how much Edward and Bella changed, the wedding, the honeymoon, the pregnancy (according to Meyer this could not happen).  Thanks Stephanie Meyer for killing all my imagined magic this Sage might once held for me...  The baby's name: Renesmee!!  And then Jacob imprinting on her. I felt sick.  I have never been so let down by a movie. This was a total betrayal of the series.

It's alright funny I felt like the whole concept of Bad Teacher was stupid. However, I did laugh at parts. This has more of a stupid humor. The story line wasn't very good at all. This is only worth a rental and not a purchase! I just felt like the whole movie was off for some reason, that the characters and story was just there for the sake of being there with no real purpose. I don't really know who to describe it. It almost seemed by the end of the movie nothing was really achieved and we're at the beginning again. Overall, two stars for at least keeping me semi interested with barely decent humor.

Not timeless -- the DVD Well, after many years in storage, I decided take this special edition set out let my grandchildren experience this movie. My children had watched it and it brought tears to more than one and on more than one occasion. We watched the updated version and were disappointed because the dvd began to stutter, jerk and finally stop. There were no visible scratches, at lest none that serious that could cause this kind of playback problem. Cleaning the disk, using a different player, etc did not solve the problem.  My conclusion is that this could be a media problem. Someone, somewhere could have overlooked quality control and used inferior media because there was some distinct discoloration on outer margins the offending disk and this could be the cause of the problem. I immediately made a copy of the good disk just to be safe. If you have this special edition, check your disks...they may deteriorate faster than you think.  The disk with the original version ran without a problem. And we watched this the next day and the grandkids and one of my grownup daughters thoroughly enjoyed themselves. The movie is timeless but this DVD set may not be.

kinda boring this movie is about an author that goes into the future.  my brother got the DVD version from a pawn shop and we were wondering what it was like.  the point of the story is good but he complains about every thing and says that it is sinful.  for an example this boy watches T.V. and sees two kids kissing and stands in the kids way just so the kid will not see them kiss and it was the kids home.  1 thing i do not get is he says you should not do this should not do that yet he lied at the end.  you watch this then you will see what i mean.

There are not Iced Earth songs !!!! I bought this BD because i am a big fan of iced earth, and 'voila !' there are not iced earth songs !!!!.  Big Mistake !!!.

Yet another bad video reviewed by people who worked on it I suspect the two people here who have one review, this movie, which they rave about, are the same folks who left the rave reviews at the IMDB too (where there they also have one review - this one). Once you see the actual movie, you'll understand. This is not good - it's essentially a rip off of Day of the Dead - with amateur actors, bad direction and a bad script. Not the "tremendous" movie you read other "reviewers" writing about. And what is it with folks who've worked on a movie who come in here and praise it - they ALWAYS say "it wasn't what I expected." Do they get these lines out of a "how to pretend to be someone else praising your own movie" book? I've said it before, I'll say it again- people who work on the movie should NOT be allowed to write pretend reviews in Amazon and the IMDB. It's unethical to see someone talking about how great it is when clearly it's not. Then you get folks like me who are even more angered and make sure to let the public know the truth - so the whole fake review thing backfires. AVOID

A let down Ehh...I enjoyed the action scenes, but the rest...the story and how it played out in the asylum/brothel was retarded...how can I describe this movie........maybe an action chick flick?  I still don't know...I watched the movie and was impressed by the action sequences, but that was all.....I felt disappointed in almost everything else....I will not buy this movie nor would I recommend it to anyone

Gentleman's Agreement: A Noble But Failed Attempt at Social Commentary I give this 20th Century Fox DVD issue of Gentleman's Agreement 2 stars. One star is for the DVD quality, which I found excellent -- a clean, sharp black and white high quality print with good sound. The second star is for Celeste Holm's performance, which is the standout performance of the movie.  The plot has been described in great detail in other reviews, so I will not repeat it. What I want to do here is to warn people not to purchase this movie until they have seen it.  Gentleman's Agreement tackles the social issue of anti-Semitism, which is a noble undertaking, but it bites off more than it can chew.  I have seen all but a few of Gregory Peck's films, and this is his weakest performance ever. In fact, Gregory Peck was one of the all-time great actors, and I have never seen him give anything other than a first-rate performance until I watched Gentleman's Agreement. In this movie he seems very uncomfortable with his character, and his performance is forced and wooden.  His character is supposed to be engaged in the noble fight against anti-Semitism, yet he makes his character unlikable.  Peck plays his character as preachy, self-righteous and self-serving, even pompous at times. It's difficult for the viewer to develop a sympathy with the character.  Early in the movie Peck's character starts to become as ponderous as the anti-semitic characters, which I doubt was the intention of the director. It doesn't help that the plot and dialogue handle the subject in an awkward manner, devoid of anything clever and intelligent. Celeste Holm is the exception.  Always a great actress, her performance here is first-rate, and she makes her character interesting, honest, sympathetic and likable.  John Garfield's performance is good, but not on a par with his best, and again, I think that has to do with the stiff and predictable plot and script. Dean Stockwell does a very competent job at playing Peck's son. Dorothy McGuire's performance as Peck's love interest has been harshly criticized by many other reviewers.  I'm not sure it was a weak performance.  I think she may be playing the character exactly as the director intended.  It's just that her character is not very likable.  And the fact that her unlikable character is Peck's love interest instead of Celeste Holm's lovable character may be a weakness in the script that ultimately pulls down the movie and damages its believability.  Another problem with Gentleman's Agreement is that it drags.  It is boring and ponderous. Even Celeste Holm's great performance does not add enough spark and sparkle to this drab film to save it from being a snoozer. About 1/3 into the film you start to wish they would just get on with it and get to the end.  Too many points are repeatedly rehashed and beaten into the ground long after the viewer has gotten them.  There also appears to me to be an additional problem: The movie seems to exaggerate the degree of anti-Semitism in order to play on the viewers emotions, thereby reducing much of the movie to melodrama. Granted, the movie was made in 1947 and I was not born until 1949, so I may have missed the intensity of the problem at the time the movie was made.  But growing up shortly after that period in the 1950's I did not witness such rampant anti-semitism in practice.  I lived in a suburban community and had Jewish neighbors. I swam at a swimming club with jewish friends. I went to school with Jewish kids. My father worked with Jews.  Yes, I am non-Jewish, and surely I would have felt it more directly if I were Jewish. But the fact that I was not able to observe any descrimination that was as obvious and rampant as that depicted in the movie leads me to believe that the movie overplays its hand. The movie implies that Jews were routinely denied jobs and housing, and were routinely refused service in hotels and restaurants merely because they had a Jewish name or looked Jewish. The movie appears to exaggerate the problem, even for 1947.  I want to be fair to this movie. Therefore, I encourage people to view it and decide for themselves.  My criticism here is merely intended to serve as a helpful warning to those who are thinking of purchasing a copy sight-unseen. I made that mistake and am now sorry.  It's a worthwhile movie for one-time viewing, but not good enough to keep in my permanent video library. So my recommendation is to find an inexpensive way to view it before you decide to purchase it. I hope this review is helpful to the perspective buyer.

terrible So boring. It was really a huge disappointment I had bought this used for a present and watched it first, now i'm not even sure I can gift this without being embarrassed at how bad it is... I recommend any other horse movie ever made over this one.

Disappointingly simplified and divergent I've heard that Harris wrote the novel with an eye towards this movie being made (someone else was going to tell the origin story if he didn't)...but the differences between the two are glaring. I made the rookie mistake of writing an extensive review of this film before viewing the last fifteen minutes (sorry); after watching the climax of the movie (and picking my jaw up off the floor) I decided to rewrite. Hannibal Lecter is (obviously) a very complex character, and regardless of whatever pressures Harris might have felt while writing the book, it was still a quality novel - it does a good job of fleshing out the title character's back story. I bought the DVD with my expectations properly adjusted - a two hour movie obviously cannot replicate all of the details, relationships, and careful narrative of a 323 page novel. That being said, there were moments in the film that completely flipped the book's story on it's head, ESPECIALLY near the end. Lines were added that were completely unnecessary, and radically altered the audience's perception of character motivations from what was laid down in the novel. Sigh. The liberties of film adaptation strike again.  Gong Li is stunningly beautiful, and does extremely well with a character whose depth and purpose has been criminally minimized (obviously not her fault)...Gaspard Ulliel is actually quite good as well (though his arrogance near the end is a bit over the top), but the material they've been given (or lack thereof) limits their impact. The movie is well made (edited, shot) and the scences and period details are great, but...this movie takes a great character study and disseminates it into a simple thriller. The text takes great care with the relationship between Hannibal and Lady Murasaki, letting it grow over time from a maternal protectorate of woman over boy to a respectful love between two adults. The film just throws a post-pubescent Hannibal into her presence and somehow expects us to believe that (TWO SCENES LATER) some kind of great connection grew between them...seemingly, FROM NOWHERE. This type of compression/simplification happens throughout. Regardless, I gave the film 3 stars in my initial review - it is well acted and nice to look at- but after watching the end (and the aforementioned story flipping moments) I feel compelled to reduce that to 2. In the end, I don't think this is a story that can be effectively told through film...there are too many subtleties present in the novel (that, in their entirety, do the complex character that is Hannibal Lecter the proper justice) to be conveyed in a single film (or even 2). The actors try, and are often good, but the script lets them down.  My final thought? If you love the series (and the Lecter character)...read the book. It's worth your time.

Swallowed by big-a#% plot hole All I have to say about this is, if you were a group of four menaced by a group of two in a cabin, don't you think you would stay and beat the snot out of them rather than panic and run into the dark woods?  The story CANNOT get over this huge black hole of a plot crater, as far as I'm concerned, and as it is slow enough before it gets to that point, the OK performances, OK script and OK horrors aren't enough to make you forget it.

Slow Was looking forward to a fun filled movie along the line of lost boys, this movie was so slow, I couldn't even finish watching it!

Vanilla pack only---waiting for the entire set PLUS extras! I'm not going to critique the episodes themselves...people have already done that. What I'm going to focus on is the release itself. True fans, this is just the "vanilla" pack. Notice that there are no extras, no commentaries, and it doesn't even include the 2010 Christmas special. Granted, it's dirt cheap, but you get what you pay for.  I for one will wait until they release the entire set, all 14 episodes, with the Confidentials, the episode prequels, the commentaries, and all the other goodies. Frankly, if you don't get those, then why should you pay for something you could just as easily torrent?

Cant watch this story in this animation style I was never a huge Batman fan until I read this graphic novel series - I read the series the day before the first Batman movie with Micheal Keaton came out.  After reading the book, I very much wanted to see a very dark, serious Batman. Obviously, thats not what any of the original Batman movies were about until Chris Nolan started directing them.  Ive never been into watching this cartoon series either, as the style is just to casual for Batman for my taste.  In a world of Toy Storys, I just cant watch minimal animation techniques where only mouths move when speaking and animation is conservative. This isnt 1970 Speed Racer...this technique just does not convey the character emotions that animation could bring to this story using modern techniques.  That said, I gave it a shot, and watched about 15 minutes. It depressed me similarly to the way the first Michael Keaton Batman movie depressed me. Just not the way I would personally like to see this story introduced to moviegoers who havent read the story.

The Most Implausible Movie I've Ever Watched A shirtless Houston Rhines FROM A DISTANCE?!?? What a waste!  For that miscalculation alone, the movie gets 2 stars. The producers CLEARLY don't know their audience or otherwise hot, hot, hot Houston Rhines would have shown some skin UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL. Though, MUCH to my disappointment, Houston appears to be tattooed...a TOTAL cliched, TURN-OFF these days!! Loved watching Houston though and hope to see him in other films. I found lots of implausibilities in this movie that other reviewers here just skate right on past. The Cupid software seemed too all-knowing, which made no sense WHATSOEVER and how likely is it that Marshall just happens to click on, and with the camera perfectly aimed, to see Grant packing up his things. And how in the world would the application know Grant's destination? The inclusion of Morgan Fairchild's character made even less sense. (Though it's wonderful to see Morgan Fairchild looking as radiant as always.)  And would Marshall REALLY have purchased Gabe's diner when he wouldn't have known whether Gabe would even take him back?  And if Marshall got fired, how could he afford the financing? After all, he was only 30 & was just starting out on his own!  This movie is just a well-intentioned mess. It's only redeeming quality is the ability to leave one feeling spell-bound by the physical attractiveness of its leading man, Houston Rhines.

An Oscar for THIS?! I watched this movie the day it came out on PPV.  Worst $5.99 I've spent lately.  I love ballet, took dancing lessons for 15 years and this movie is just disappointing.  Further, I cannot believe Natalie Portman got the Oscar for her role....all her character does is react, react, react to everything and everyone around her.  She is a cipher.  Barbara Hershey and Mila Kunis were great!

Mediocre at best, does not resemble the book. Buy the book. The movie is mediocre at best and the script does NOT even resemble the book. Hollywood took a great book and produced a script not worth watching.

my place of birth Found this film to portrait Colombia as violent, not like I remember it. there has always been violence, only not as in your face like this films shows. I'll give it one thumb up

Like a trainwreck. Wow, this movie was special. I don't know where to begin!  I actually have a thing for these bad, Lifetime-type movies with crazy plots and overwrought acting. As long as the story can keep me interested, I'm good to go. It's a guilty pleasure. This movie delivered. I am still laughing to myself at the implausibility of every major plot point. I felt a little bit dirty when the movie was over.  I'm only giving two stars because the quality of the production was really poor, the screenplay was overly long yet still managed to gloss over a bunch of major stuff, and I know that this type of movie is not most people's cup of tea. I'd hate to lead you astray.

Al Jourgensen high. That is all. The End. This thing is 93 minutes of nothing more than Al getting high and his behavior while high. It's not about Ministry as a band at all. It's more sad than entertaining.  This thing should have been a 10 minute bonus footage track on some Ministry Live DVD. 90minutes of Al Jourgensen high is boring.  The interviews with Ogre, David Yow, Maynard and others is interesting but there is very little of this in it.  Don't waste your time or money on this. Instead go buy/watch the LEMMY documentary. It IS worth watching. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004GMYGTE">Lemmy: 49% Motherf**ker, 51% Son of a Bitch [Blu-ray</a>]

not good I did not like this film too mcuh. It was too strange and you can't follow the story. The acting is great only the story line is terrible.

NOT for horse lovers. This movie started out well. As the movie progressed it got to to point I had to stop watching it. (My daughter continued to watch and I only listened) I could not stand seeing the abuse of so many horses. Though I know that no horses were actually harmed in the making of the movie it was hard to see horses killed and driven to the point of dropping to the ground totally worn out and then shot dead. On one hand it is a somewhat uplifting story but the animal abuse depicted out weighed that. I wish I had not watched it.

Who Would Name a Planet Melancholia? I have to say I got pretty excited at the beginning of this flick when the Earth crashed into that other planet. They really psyched me out for a wicked post-apocalypse story about people living by a golf course. Unfortunately what you get instead is fifty minutes of rich people murmuring mean things to each other at the worst wedding ever. The story as far I could tell was that Kirsten Dunst (Mary Jane from Spiderman) was marrying that vampire from True Blood at Keiffer Sutherland's (Jack Bauer) house. They're real happy at first, but then Kirsten Dunst gets all sad for some reason and just messes things up for everyone. People kept taking baths and talking about advertising and I couldn't understand what people were saying half the time because of all the murmuring. So then Kirsten Dunst and the Vampire from True Blood break up. Good riddance.  This is where things get weird. Because all of a sudden Kirsten Dunst is super sad and has moved into Jack Bauer's house so she can be taken care of by her sister. Apparently when you're depressed, you have trouble bathing, because Kirsten Dunst can't muster the strength to get in a bathtub, what is that all about? Then Jack Bauer starts talking about how some planet called Melancholia is coming close to the Earth, but won't hit it. It was hard to tell what exactly he said, because of all the murmuring. Anyway people murmur a lot and then finally Melancholia hits the Earth and everybody dies. Good riddance.  This brings me to my most important point: who names a planet "Melancholia"? I'll tell you who would: no one. When you name something big and ominous, you're going to go with a happy name, like "Blue Brother" or "Mickey Mouse." If you give something a name like "Melancholia" you might as well call it "that big thing that's gonna kill us all." I mean come on. Do you really think anyone in the planet naming community is going to name something after a bad mood? There are plenty of ways to imply melancholy without putting it in the name. How about "Hamlet"? Great name, alludes to melancholy without beating us over the head. Honestly, I would have been happier if they named the planet "Sadsville" so at least they're being honest about talking down to the audience.

awful acting Just horrible, embarrassing acting kept me from continuing past the first half hour.  Who are the people who gave five stars? Religious mini-intellects? It's scary how indoctrinated the mega-churchites are.

Get the 1966 Chuck Jones-directed version instead. I'll say it up-front. Personally, I'm not a fan. If you want true Seuss-y enjoyment, you can get a copy of the original How The Grinch Stole Christmas! (with the exclamation-point) on DVD (with extras) and it includes the almost as great Horton Hears A Who, both of which had the direct-input and approval of Dr. Seuss.  Screenwriters Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman (and, I'm certain, an uncredited squad of fixers and hacks) added an unnecessary back-story to the Grinch in an attempt to give the miserable SOB "motive" and to make him, for some reason, more sympathetic. They give him a public-humiliation in grade school, something with which any viewer can relate, but even in that they hedge their bets, making him a vicious little monster as an infant as if they simply can't decide how they want to present his character. Is he naturally cruel, or the creation of his tormenting classmates? Most bewilderingly perhaps is that the Whos, previously so pure and joyful in their observation of Christmas, are turned into petty, greedy, consumption-obsessed nitwits, many with less-than-noble ulterior motives. Carey and Howard pack everything they can into the film in order to make Hollywood Holiday Blockbuster Magic and, in that at least, they succeeded, garnering a worldwide gross at the time of this writing of over $345 million, but where is the joy? The action is frenetic, Carey is manic, the cute and funny dog is cute and funny in all the right places, and the comedy is in turn satirical and slapstick. Somewhere in there, a holiday about love and selflessness gets lost.  Art direction, it should be said, was delightful. The sets and costumes, hair and makeup, are all very well-executed eye-candy, and have a definite true Seuss look. They got that much right at least. But then, they had Theodore "Dr. Seuss" Geisel's wonderful drawings to use as a blueprint. If only they had kept true to the spirit of his story as well.

Watch Something Else We enjoy mysteries of all kinds but this movie was not very interesting.  We have enjoyed other Dennehy movies and the part he played was fine but this must of been one of Hershey's worst performances.

Not so good One and two was good one i could look at over again, but this one i think that it was over done an to long. I fell asleep on it so the next day I watched the rest an I just wasn't feeling it I think it's a rap on Pirates of the caribbean.

not I Didn't like it - not my type of movie - kind of boring - I don't recommended it - fast forward helped.

Tom Jones - spotty transmission Movie quality was fine. ( For a 40 yr old movie) but the transmission was very poor.  Repeated stops for "loading" with problems re-starting at the proper spot.  Decidedly lower customer satisfaction on this event..

Worst Lars Ulrich performance ever! Good shows all four.  But I never saw a Metallica video where Lars Ulrich is simply destroying ALL the songs! Never watched he playing so bad before. he was basically playing whatever he wanted... awful.

disappointed the DVD arrived on time, no problems there but unfortunately it was scratched. It froze and skipped repeatedly through out the movie and we had to bypass whole scenes just to keep the movie moving forward. Disappointed, will never buy a used DVD again.

Gettysburg, Ride with the Devil & Field of dreams All the above movies are great films.  The reason for the 2-star is Amazon's terrible instant video feed. For ages, I didn't have any problem with your feed then you tried to fix something that wasn't broken.  As I stated in my Numerous emails to support the problem has to be on your end, as I get tremendous feeds from other online providers. I can stop an Amazon poor feed and then go to Hulu and get a great feed.  I am not upgrading to Prime Membership because of your poor instant video

Sounds Better than it Actually Is Sidney Lumet directed this almost-forgotten early 70s adaptation of Robert Marasco's play, wherein a group of students cause all kinds of disgusting horror at a New York City catholic school. James Mason and Robert Preston play the bickering teachers at odds with each other; Beau Bridges is the idealistic gym teacher caught in their path. While this Paramount release (now available on BD and DVD for the first time) offers an intriguing premise -- it was released before The Exorcist revolutionized the genre -- the film is close to a total misfire, with a confusing story line and an absolutely dreadful score by Michael Small that feels the need to punctuate every moment with obnoxious, foreboding "horror" music. Mason and Preston are fine, but Bridges seems out of his league; one can only imagine that the Broadway play worked much better in its original context.  Olive does deserve credit for rescuing this little-seen picture from obscurity, though their Blu-Ray transfer is hampered by elements that haven't stood the test of time all that well. The 1080p image is freed from DNR -- the issue is that there isn't a whole lot of detail in the print itself. No extras are included.

Wonderful Film I saw this movie when my son was 6, he is now 22.  This movie is just wonderful.  We often don't think of our background and where we come from.  It was beautiful acted and the film was just beautiful.  It was a shame that it was never seen on the big screen for long. I have tried to edit this to give it a 5 star rating but amazon won't let me so I will say it in my review.  5 starts!!!!

Not a good teacher The purpose of this DVD seems more to show how wonderful and beautiful Shiva Rea is, but not to teach yoga.  It is hard to follow and, while the matrix format itself is great, it feels repetitive.

Secrets? Behind the Scences? Are they kidding? This DVD promised secretes and behind the scenes information, but it did not come close to living up to its promises.  This video promised new information for travels who have been to Disney World before; however, after looking at this, I feel like I knew more about Disney World than the creators of this video.  Really, it is a three hour information. The problem is I have gotten a better information on a DVD I got for free from Disney when I began planning my trip. Instead of telling you unique information about the attractions, it talks about them in the broadest generalities possible.  For example, the segment on Space Mountain consisted of 5 minutes of them informing me that it was really thrilling because it was in the dark. I know that. That is not really secret or behind the scenes information.  There were a few nuggets of interesting information, but they were very few and certainty worth less than $20. I was particularly disappointed that they had virtually no information on their resorts and restaurants. Their one segment on the Hotels was less than 10 minutes long and basically listed the different resorts.  If you have never been to Disney before, this might be an interesting video. However, if you have any background information on Disney. Don't bother with this. It is overly repetitive, and uninformative. Go to Disney's website and get their free video. I rarely write bad reviews; however this product deserved it. I was very disappointed.

Camille Keaton, One Hit Wonder. Camille Keaton, the grand daughter of Buster Keaton was barely 22 years old when she starred in Tragic Ceremony, so her sleek naked torso and pert cones looked simply scrumptious in her one prolonged topless scene. Outside of this, this movies title matched its overall quality to a T  A T for tragic.  From 1972 to 1974, Camille Keaton starred in six different Italian oddities before she was to become infamous as Jennifer Hills in I Spit On Your Grave 1978. Out of these six Eurosleaze Giallos, Tragic Ceremony is the only one to see the light of day with an actual NTSC DVD release. For the life of me, I can only hope that this is not the best of the lot.  The plot to this mess really isn't important, as it only serves as a means of delving into exploitation. This is all music to my ears, it just so happens that I truly enjoy generous helpings of gratuituos sleaze and senseless violence. The problem is, is that the waiting around for these brief moments of nudity and violence are filled with bile inducing tedium.  The film starts off funny enough, with our four hippies riding around in the open sea in a luxurious sail boat over some campy fully orchestrated Goblin rip off soundtrack, but once the dialogue starts, the rigor mortis sets in. Worse still, the only launguage option is Italian with English subtitles, so the laborious job of having to read this meaningless dialogue becomes a Buster Keaton type task of trying to muscle a two ton boulder up a sand trap. Sure, there is some sort of love triangle thing going on between two of the fellows trying to win over Camille Keaton's slinky assets, and some other incestuous yearning going on between the rich dude and his mother, but it's not nearly enough to fill the hallow vacancy of the lack of script. Even more perplexing, none of the facial expressions by the cast (especially Keaton) seems to match any of this melodrama filler. Not that I actually blame her for this, I think that like the rest of the actors, she was just doing what she was told to do. While watching this awkward excuse of a film, I can only conclude that maybe this film was never intended for an American audience. Why Tragic Ceremony was chosen out of the six features in which Camille Keaton was in good old Europe, is beyond me.  When the real violence does reveal its ugly head, it is as unbalanced as everything else in this film. During a demonic ceremony in which our nubile Camille Keaton was to be the human sacrifice, our host of high society devil worshipers suddenly start attacking one another in a rabid free for all. This whole oddball sequence reminds me all too much of Michael Findlay's The Ultimate Degenerate from 1969, except in this case, it's far less effective. The music chosen to back this action is some overly dramatic racey carnival sounding piano music, that is abruptly distracting and doesn't really match any of the action, and the fisheyed lens had the edges coated in petroleum jelly, just like in the fire poker scene of The Ultimate Degenerate. There is this one blood filled paper mache head that gets hacked down the middle by some old sword, but they overuse this cheesy effect by showing this props death a good dozen times more during the final acts many montage sequences. There is another good campy moment in which the blonde rich dude is found dead on the floor coated in the thickest blue green death make up I have ever seen. He is even oozing blue green fluid out of his open dead mouth.  When in Rome...  Other then that, the only other scene that stood out was near the end of the feature, when the winner of Camille Keaton's charms laid her down by a river during their big escape. He did this so that he could make out with her. Not exactly what I would do while fleeing for my life, but when in Rome...For a moment, they only showed Camille Keaton's eyes staring back up at him with an unnerving blankness. It is when he pulls back to take in her beauty, that we find she is missing all the flesh around her nose and mouth, revealing a death skull. This is easily the most effective scene in the film. Still, what can a person say about a film that is trying to emulate something as obscure and lowly as The Ultimate Degenerate?  This is a real shame, because I happen to find Camille Keaton very attractive. I have a this thing for skinny chicks that have a special quality that defies classical ideals of beauty. To me Camille Keaton is the cats meow. Yet, all I can say is, uless you're a die hard fan of Camille Keaton, or a collector of Eurosleaze and Giallo films, then you should steer far clear of this title. Your money would be much better served going into the bank.

Nice beach... I took this out from the library and am amazed that I actually sat through the whole thing.  I am also really amazed that DiCaprio, who is a first rate actor, agreed to appear in this.  From other reviews I gather that the book from which this was taken was very good.  That must have been why he took the role.  Too bad it was so badly adapted.  The scenery is wonderful and perhaps the best way to "experience" this is to turn the sound off and probably take a lot of dope. The fault is not with the actors.  DiCaprio does a good job of playing the central character.  He seems so normal, so average, like any number of young guys who want adventure in life.  He seems likable in the beginning and only slowly do we see what he's really made of.  Actually I think he is very believable---not a total villain and certainly not a hero.  The rest of the cast is good too.  Tilda Swinton excells in playing yet another deranged person, the French couple are lovely, as are the rest of the supporting actors.  Again, from reading the reviews of people who read the book, it seems that some gross errors were made---in the effort to make a sexy, adventurous film at the cost of exploring the psychological interactions of the characters.  Too bad.  It could have been all of that in the hands of a more capable director.  Don't waste your time on this.

A License to Kill...the Freaking Film! Viewed: 12/11 Rate: 3  12/11: In case if you are wondering about the possible misspelling in the title of the movie, licence is how it is written in Britain although in America, it would be license. Anyway, no matter what, Licence to Kill is just like every other Bond film made: boring, flat, trite, and predictable. This one had no pulse either. I keep looking at the clock, counting the minutes left to go, and wow...it is a one long film. At certain points during the film, it did have a nice pacing, and things were getting interesting, only to be marred by random, inexplicable scenes. Probably the worst moment is when James Bond caused a small fire in a chemical lab of a major drug manufacturing center. I am thinking at that moment, "Hmmm....chemical lab...fire...chemical lab....fire...is that so typical? So, where are the sprinklers?" Yet, the whole insanely huge compound is eventually set ablaze, drawing a finish for the film. Pretty implausible as it gets. Probably the worst part of the movie is the short lived on-screen performance by Benicio Del Toro who was practically the best thing going for the film. He didn't even get the chance to do very much, and he could have been a very memorable Bond villain. This proves once again how dumb everybody is and why they keep making the same bad Bond crap over and over. In the entire time, I see two women, vying for Bond's interest...hmm, but does it matter, really? Because James always moves on in the next film...a new batch of women: to woo, to kiss, to lay, and to use them. That's why all Bond films are boring, flat, trite, and predictable. Notice at the end of the film how James and his archenemy hung on to the back of an oil tanker and it flipped over the rocky cliff. It is amazing to me how they survived it very well intact. Ridiculous. Nobody would gotten out of it without hundreds of broken bones, a coma, and/or an intensive medical care if not left for dead. Interestingly, at the beginning, Felix's newlywed bride  seems to want to have fun with James in a sort of an open relationship way. You must be joking me that a man is fed to a Great White Shark and is later still alive and recovering from an amputated leg. I could never understand the point of James Bond character. I mean, is he supposed to be working for his country? Or for himself? Is he supposed to have ethics? Live by the law? Or what? Or is he just a robot? All in all, I should have a license to kill Licence to Kill. By the way, Talisa Soto, who plays Lupe, will go on later to marry Benjamin Bratt.

Be warned. Gay Dracula is edited I have purchased the VHS and DVD version of SNL Halloween. Both have the funniest part edited out of Travolta's Dracula skit. I have not been able to find an unedited version on the internet either.

Rambo returns to Vietnam Due to the great success of "First Blood" fans demanded that Stallone grab his knife and bow and return for some action. "Rambo First Blood part 2" did deliver the action, but the story lacked after the increadible story that "First Blood" was.  "Rambo First Blood part 2" picks up right about where the first one leaves off. Rambo has been in prison for a while. The film opens with him chopping rocks. Col. Trautman comes to tell Rambo that there is some strong emotions invested in the pows left in Vietnam and they are looking for someone who can go into Vietnam and investigate. Rambo excepts this offer as it gets him out of prision and back to what he does best. When Rambo meets the man in charge of this mission, he is not impressed due to his lack of interest in Vietnam, and his lack of knowledge about the topic. When Rambo lands in Vietnam and finds the village he is supposed to take pictures of, he discovers the camp is not empty and in fact there are about a dozen pows. Rambo takes one of the pows to the extraction site and Murdock the man in charge orders an abort of the mission. Rambo is left in Vietnam.  Overall, Rambo part 2 fails to live up to the original "First Blood." The plot is not the best and the effort was focused too much on the action.

Don't Bother So many things went wrong with Series Three of "Being Human" that it is hard to know where to begin. After a strong showing in Series Two, the writers and producers just seem to have lost their way in the third outing for the show. The episodes seem disjointed, there is no consistent theme, or plot, to the season until near the end and it seems that the writers are just throwing things at the audience to keep us busy until they can come up with a storyline. The series begins with a couple of one-off episodes to introduce the new sets that they have built and to let us know that our heroes have moved to Barry Island in Wales, but those episodes are largely uninteresting and barely connected to the rest of the series. The behavior of the characters in this season makes little or no sense in the context of the world in which they live and the behavior of the ghost, Annie, particularly in the later episodes, is senseless in the extreme. Once again, plot driven stupidity is used as an excuse to move forward a story that is barely worth telling. If I were you, I would forgo Series Three and just watch the second season again.

Only One Old Heckle and Jeckle I bought this looking for Heckle and Jeckle cartoons and there's only one of them on the entire 4-DVD set.  The King Midas and Rapunzel clay-mations on the first DVD are great.  I remember them from grade school and haven't seen them since then.

please read this and consider it before you purchase i was originally very excited about this dvd because the reviews were really good.  my original pregnancy workout consisted of speed walking on my treadmill for about an hour 3 days a week, some light free weight exercises and yoga once a week.  when my treadmill broke down i wanted to just get a workout dvd that i could rely on in combination with yoga.  at 36 weeks into my pregnancy i found out that my baby was breech and in doing A LOT of research into what could cause a breech baby i found out that an overall strong core can cause all the ab muscles and ligaments to be extremely tight, giving the baby less room to move inside your belly and discouraging him to go head down.  i only used this dvd a few times so i don't blame it for my situation, obviously, BUT this dvd has some VERY extreme ab work for a pregnant body and if you choose to use it consistently throughout your pregnancy, just be aware that it can have a downside.

Oh, how movies have changed . . . Wow. I did not remember this movie being this cheesy. Just saw the new version with Colin Farrell which I totally enjoyed, so I wanted to see how the original compared. Nice to see that some remakes are an improvement on previous versions. I remember enjoying the Schwarzenegger version when it was out, but that was a long time and many great technological advances ago. Still love the full-body scanner scene in this one! I remember is being quite the thing to see back then and I still get a kick out of watching the skeletal images walking thru the scanner.

Stilted The premise of this movie is good: one eleven year old boy whacks another with a stick during an argument and the parents discuss it to try and enlighten the boys about what's right (at least that's what one mom wants). Despite an impressive cast, however, the conversation and movie is unrealistic and stagey. The characters seem implausible and one inconsistent. Like always, Kate Winslet is awfully nice to look at and there is something there, so not a total loss, but definitely not a recommendation.

A dull, disappointing performance I can't recall the last time I've been so disappointed by a major ballet release. I thought the Mariinsky dancing Balanchine's masterpiece Jewels -- what could possibly go wrong? Turns out, a lot.  All the fault does not lie at the hand of the dancers. This video has bar none some of the worst camera work I've ever seen in a ballet performance video. The director is fond of the "eagle cam", in which the camera is placed overhead on the dancers and then swoops down to the dancers. The effect is dizzying. At other times, dancers are repeatedly cut off at odd places -- the arms, the knees, the feet. There are closeups as inappropriate places. It was as if the cameramen had never filmed dance before.  But even had the camera work been great, it doesn't excuse the dull, listless performance by the Mariinsky Ballet. I've seen them give beautiful performances of Balanchine's Symphony in C and Serendade, so I know they are capable of it. But in this video it is as if the dancers are on xanax. The energy level (so important for Balanchine) is very low. It's not even that they can't exactly master the Balanchine style, it's that they just look so bored. When the dancers look bored, how can the viewer be excited?  Emeralds when done right is an unbelievably dreamy reverie. The Mariinsky ballet in general looks uninspired and they lack the perfume and mystery this ballet needs. Zhanna Ayupova as the lead female dancer is lyrical and graceful, but also rather cool and disinterested. Her partner (Denis Fisov) also looks as if he's doing a dress rehearsal run-through. A bright light is in the second girl (the one who does the walking solo). Daria Sukhorukova doesn't look like a Balanchine dancer, but she's lovely and is the only dancer to create the right aura of mystery about her. The trio is miscast with an overly boyish, leaden Anton Korsakov, although the two ladies (Yana Selina and Xenia Ostreikovskaya) are lovely. I don't know why they didn't perform the lovely, haunting coda Balanchine made in 1977 that ends with the three men of Emeralds kneeling and paying homage to the ladies who have vanished into thin air.  I thought the Mariinsky, if they couldn't capture the aura of Emeralds correctly, would nail Rubies. But Rubies was surprisingly the worst of the movements. Adrian Fadeev is very fine as the male cavalier, but the two ladies are really just miscast. Irina Golub in the Patricia McBride role looks right for the part -- sassy, big smile, high extensions. But Golub is all flash, no substance. She doesn't have the quickness of movement that's so essential for this part, and her portrayal I found unsubtle -- way too Vegas showgirl. She preens and prances, and kicks her legs high, but her movement is slow and leaden. Sofia Gumerova as the tall girl I actually found kind of creepy -- she has the height, but the closeups reveal a face that's utterly devoid of expression, and she actually looks ... angry. Again, she has the flexibility and look for the role, but not the charisma or style. Most disappointing. I wish Diana Vishneva, who was the main Rubies girl for the Mariinsky for many years, had been available to do the filming.  Diamonds was probably the best part of the video. Uliana Lopatkina in the Suzanne Farrell role dances in a glacial, careful style, and ignores the fast, off-balance lunges that were a Farrell trademark, but in its own way it works. Lopatkina gets what the role is about. The aloofness, the mystery, Lopatkina has it in spades. It helps that her partner is Igor Zelensky, who is handsome and elegant and a great partner. The Mariinsky corps de ballet is as usual impeccable and elegant.  An overall missed opportunity.

Disappointed Too long and boring.  I was looking forward to seeing this and it was not what I expected.  My son and I are into fantasy and sci-fi movies.  He fell asleep !

Beware of this poor looking version of the film! A crummy copy of the sound version of the Ten Commandments was used for this DVD.  If you want a beautiful, restored, crisp picture you will be greatly disappointed. On the other hand, if you only want a decent copy of the silent version of the film buy this.

Disappointing As everyone knows by now, Matt Damon is the essentially invincible Jason Bourne. He has ice water in his veins, a computer for a brain, and physical strength and agility an Olympic athlete would envy. He's also the best at car chases, car crashes, motor scooter chases (up and down stairs, etc.), chases on foot, fights with any sort of weapon or none at all, and inspiring women to risk everything helping him.  Of course, he has some formidable opposition, too. He has worked out that the CIA is behind whatever it is that was done to him, and they are after him with all their technology, a huge staff of "assets" and a thoroughly cold-blooded chief. The action is so fast that you would probably need to slow down the speed four or eight times to actually figure out what's going on. If you feel you need to know what's going on. Ultimately, the action seems to be more for its own sake than to advance the story line. I won't call it plot, because there's already enough plotting in the story already.  If you've read the books, as I have, don't count on having any major advantage in figuring out what's going on. The details are enough different from the books that you can't trust them, and nearly all the characters have uncertain loyalties and motives. Except the women somehow end up helping Jason. Wonder why? Two stars is the best I can do, though I do like Matt Damon. I can't take the pace.

DECEPTION WITH SUBTITLES GOOD AFTERNOON,   I RECEIVED YESTERDAY IN VENEZUELA MY DVD OF ECLIPSE. I'm pretty annoying since PRODUCT IN DETAIL THAT CLEARLY SAYS IN SPANISH subtitled. And when I tried it I realized that ONLY have subtitles in English and French. Can you explain what happened? GOOD AFTERNOON,

this might be cute if you haven't seen the original a bit of fluff for the holiday season, but nothing much compared to the original.  Edmund Gwenn WAS Santa Claus, and his charm, and the charm of the supporting actors in the original film far surpass this bit of Hollywood handiwork.  Certainly no harm in this film, but I'll not be watching it again.

Omega - The Last Man Omega Man was one of Charlton Heston's early movies.  The part didn't require much skill and he came through.  It was a simple little story that kept me entertained.

Unforgiven blue ray This blue ray movie was very disappointing in it's color and clarity. The DVD I already have is almost as good. Bottom line , I would not purchase this blue ray movie as an upgrade. It is not worth the money. Amazon should place all blue rays movies in a group. In the future I will go to other sources for reviews and purchases.

Disappointed This VCR movie was a disappointment to me.  I have the Zane Grey book this movie was made from, and Clint is entirely different from the way he was represented.  The storyline followed the book very loosely, and what was left out was important.  I feel sad if this is the only movie of that great book.

A Movie Gallery resale I received this movie and was very disappointed when it arrived.  It is a Movie Gallery rental and the labeling on the disc cannot be removed.  Even though the packaging was acceptable the item should be identified as not original.  The disc played through without a problem but I will not purchased from a company that does not represent its product accurately.

Great concept, poor execution The story idea that someone of ancient age walks among us is not new or original, but it is an intriguing concept pregnant with possibilities. Unfortunately, the midwives of this film delivered a stillborn.  The 14,000 year old man is played with little conviction, and comes across as a whiny schmuck who's gained darn little insight into the human condition. If the film couldn't offer wisdom and inspiration, I would have settled for a little juicy gossip about what went on behind the scenes. What's the deal with Catherine the Great and her horse? Was Napoleon a cheap tipper? Did Augustus Ceasar have bed wetting issues?  I don't mind a film that's all dialogue. I enjoyed "My Dinner With Andre". But this film's dialogue tells us little and takes us nowhere. It's a disappointing waste of time and money.

Stupid I bought this because of Anjelica Huston. She's not even in any of the first disc! It's pretty boring and the bits that she's in aren't any good either.

Just bad This film is bad.  I love me some Bette Davis and even her bad movies are good, but this one just crosses the line.  For her to think she would ever get away with it is beyond ridiculous, a miscast Karl Malden over-acts atrociously and the ending lands with a resounding and very predictable thud.  Just not a very good film.  Check out "A Stolen Life" for a better Davis-as-twins film.

Mandroid A pair of brilliant researchers have developed a powerful new element with limitless scientific and military applications, but when one partner refuses to sell the secret formula to the military, the embittered Drago attempts to steal it back. Drago is horribly burned in the process, and he sets out for revenge against Dr. Zimmer and his allies using a mind-controlled robot: the Mandroid. Essentially a DARKMAN clone made on the cheap, MANDROID also includes a few other muddled Science Fiction cliches that are added for good measure. Jack Ersgard's untimely pacing puts a great amount of distance between the action sequences, although the film closes with a high-powered gun battle in the end. The Mandroid unit, itself, is criminally underused throughout the plot, which instead focuses on Drago's slow-moving quest for revenge. MANDROID would be followed by the slightly superior INVISIBLE: THE CHRONICLES OF BENJAMIN KNIGHT in another blend of Science Fiction, Horror, and Fantasy.  -Carl Manes I Like Horror Movies

Aaaaagghhh. It seems almost irresponsible to give this more than one-star, but I'm going to anyway. The film is so strange, and so awkward, that I have to give it points just for "standing out" from the rest. A+ on copying Madagascar with the title, too.  Life's a Jungle is just a strange, strange film. Textures pop in and out, animation glitches cause characters to stutter as they walk, and the film's soundtrack is permeated by odd noises, like loon calls, and cats that sound like human babies. Combined with the film's meandering pace--characters often stand around, silent, for minutes at a time--the film takes on a tone that's almost impossible to describe.  The film doesn't feel like it was made by "people." It doesn't remind me of anything I would come up with, or anything I've seen other people come up with. It feels like it fell out of a tree somewhere, created by a wholly alien intelligence. It's incomprehensible to us. This is not a compliment.  With unlikable characters, an eerie, static, dead world, horrendous sound and animation, a trite, predictable story line, and some of the most baffling and drawn out moments of on screen silence and inactivity ever, Life's a Jungle: Africa's Most Wanted has really earned its place in the pantheon of terrible animation. Video Brinquedo and Spark Plug Entertainment have found a friend in whatever this is.

Suprised how underwelmed I was **1/4 Rating  I watched this yesterday (finally) and wasn't expecting a 5 star masterpiece but was expecting about a 4 star riveting war movie. Needless to say I didn't get what I was expecting. The movie was *good* at all levels but nothing Oscar or major award worthy. To me the film looks like it was shot digitally which is fine if it would have added some "grittiness" to it or something. To me it just looked cheap. Honestly I never once really cared about any of the soldiers and that suprised me to. There was simply nothing for me here.  As much as I thought Avatar was overrated as an Oscar contender for best picture, if I would have had a vote, I probably would have chosen it over this (and I can't believe I'm saying that). And while I thought the directing was realistic and solid, I defenitaly would have voted for Cameron as Best Director. The near to final season scene (w/ the suiside bomber) was ultra compelling and the sole reason I give it an extra 1/4 star. Overall....thumbs down

Poor interpretation of a decent book It's always hard to watch a film after you've read the book that it was based on. I always try and think of them as two separate entities. In the Film, "We Need to Talk About Kevin" it was very difficult not to think about the book because a lot of important plot points and dialogue were left out.  Having read the actual book by Lionel Shiver, I found the movie translation rather disjointed and bland. I know it's impossible to add every detail of a book into a film, but a lot of the scenes were wasted on images of home improvement projects gone awry.  This should have been a better movie for the simple fact that the subject matter of a school killing is chilling, controversial and timely. It almost felt like the director depended on that so much that the actual story got lost in the almost two hours of blurry, nonlinear images.  What really bothered me is that the description of the movie promised a "chilling "ending. Like the book, it is quite clear how this is story is going to end from the very beginning.  What was truly chilling about the book, were the last few chapters that outlined the plotting and planning and what really happened on that "day." The movie wasted an opportunity and instead of really getting into Kevin's mind, we are left with images of Swinton  painting, scrubbing and power sanding.  I highly recommend reading the book as the film leaves out too much meat of the story in favor of artsy filler.

The worst kind of kids' stuff Imagine the oldest fairy tale there is. Have you got it? No, not that one. Have you got it now? Yeah, that's it. Now ask yourself if it can be made into a movie, again? The brain trust at Relativity Media asked themselves that question and came back with a resounding yes.    Snow White (played by Lily Collins) is the only child of a benevolent king, referred to only as The King (played by Sean Bean) and his late wife who, except for the detail that she died while giving birth to Snow (Collins), is not referred to at all. The King was raising Snow so that she might one day rule over the kingdom, but he was consumed by a beast known to inhabit the woods long before that could happen. With The King gone and Snow not yet ready to take the throne, the duty passed to his wife Clementianna (played by Julia Roberts). With her husband gone, Snow is the only threat to The Queen's rule, so she keeps her confined to the castle. When speaking to Snow, she claims it's for safety reasons, but when her subjects inquire about the matter, she makes it appear as though the princess they've never seen is in a fragile state as a result of either physical or mental illness. All the while, her excesses have seen a once happy, wealthy kingdom turned into a fiefdom in dire financial straits populated by overtaxed miserable subjects. Her closest advisor, Brighton (played as an obsequious toady by the talented Nathan Lane) informs her that her best hope is to marry a Baron who has made numerous overtures in the past. But while the Baron possesses the wealth she desires, he is older and not particularly attractive. Then, as luck and uncreative storytelling would have it, a prince from a wealthy, faraway kingdom (played by Armie Hammer) is robbed, bound, and gagged by bandits inhabiting the woods, freed by Snow White, who has left the castle without the Queen's permission, and then brought to the castle by the royal guard so that she might offer an apology and, of course, the King's vacant seat in the throne.    Now, of course, there have been numerous successful films based on fairy tales. Tangled (based on Rapunzel), Beauty and the Beast, and the original Disney version of Cinderella in a film simply titled Cinderella. While the two older films may not have the same appeal with the youth audience that Tangled does, they have greater appeal with older audiences, not just because of nostalgia, but because they are quality films. So, if you're a parent and your children have been begging you to take them to this film, make whatever effort you can to convince them to watch the older classic film or the more recent Disney features based on other fairy tales. This one just doesn't hold up.

Not worth it... I still can't figure out why Wes Bentley of "American Beauty" stardom has relegated himself to films that barely make it to a public audience. While this film may feature good production quality, fine acting, and an attempt at a new perspective...it ultimately fails in all respects. Not even good acting can make this film interesting or plausible, it's entirely skeletal in its plot line.

Clint Eastwood sings in this one (Lee Marvin too) I'm a BIG fan of Clint Eastwood, and I like the old west (and gold rush) type movies --- but this is just NOT one of the better ones.  However Clint is handsome in this, and if you're curious he also sings a song or two in this.  (But you don't have to watch the movie to hear that, you can catch him on YouTube [...]  There are may other Eastwood movies out there...you're better off picking another movie (unless you want to put something on to fall asleep to).

Way overrated... This movie slogs along on some tried & true Hollywood tropes & lots of long slow stretches of treacly sentimentality. The "hero" is supposed to represent an icon from the classic period of silent film but from the few movies you see him performing in it's hard to tell if he's supposed to be Fairbanks, Chaplin or Valentino. I think The Artist would have worked better if the Artist had been portrayed as a consistent character with backbone & spunk, but ultimately he's just a cartoon Norman Maine, from A Star is Born, wallowing in self-pity.  Harold Lloyd made many films in a similar vein but every scene was filled with inventiveness & humor as well as pathos.  The dog should have received the Oscar.

Fuzzy. A DVD stamped to a Blu-ray disc. The package says blu-ray. It's on a blu-ray disc. But it's not the quality that one would expect from a blu-ray. It wasn't mastered for high def. It might look good on an antiquated standard definition TV. But on a high def TV you get a clear view of its fuzziness.  A waste of money.

Strange, strange film This was a strange, strange film.  Not in a 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' or 'Army of Darkness' kind of cult-strange (which I adore in all of its campy awfulness), but just strange.  Lots of potential here, but the film was bogged down by some truly awful acting.  The lead character, Gabriel, is a decent actor, and so were the actors depicting Uriel and Raphael (very minor characters unfortunately), but the rest were just mediocre and the guy depicting Sammael was a truly awful cartoon of a villain.  The love interest is just so-so given the potential of the set of circumstances she was given to work with and the love scene is truly ... bland.  Given the R rating, they should have spiced things up.  I probably should have rated this only one star, but the depictions of Purgatory and the sense of helplessness and hopelessness depicted by some of the most minor characters, many of them simply 'extras' without a single spoken line, earned it the second star.  The whorehouse bouncer was kind of funny.  The children without lines ... there was more acting in those tormented kids faces than most of the major characters.  Purgatory as depicted in this movie just seemed far more real than the purgatorio painted by Dante and numerous old testament and mythological rantings.

This is NOT Entertainment I agree that this movie is unforgettable.  But so are some of my worst nightmares especially when I have dream paralysis.  I watch movies for escape and entertainment and ERASERHEAD is not a movie I need to see again as I do not want to escape to any setting in it.  If you like being creeped-out in a gross kind-of-way or consider yourself "into" cinematography and enjoy discussing art house films for hours on end about what you think the director was saying or meant or the "message" he was trying to convey, then by all means watch it and discuss away.  Reading all these reviews after watching the film does explain some things but so what?!  It doesn't make my viewing experience any better.  But then again, I did not enjoy Blue Velvet either.  There, I said it!  Another unforgettable movie that I wish I had never seen.  So if you liked Blue Velvet or any of Lynch's shows or films, then you'll probably like this B&W film.  But if you never "got" or enjoyed Twin Peaks or Blue Velet, I would not recommend you watch it.

Comedic way of reenacting some awful realities. This movie is a comedic representation of the stupid way of living of some ultra rich people.  It is not an exaggeration of that stupidity, but surely represents the ways of Bernie Madoff and the French guy who raped the hotel attendant.  I should have known it is a sort of fable lesson before wasting money making its purchase.

awfull camera work Here is one movie destroyed by camera work.When will these idiots  realize that to change camera every 2 seconds and prevent the audience to follow the actions is not really fun  to watch.This movie could have been  a great one ,but this camera work is so annoying. How can you enjoy a chase if you can't even follow it.There is so many people are complaining about this but Hollywood keep using the same stupid editing.I will stop watching action movies until they film them properly.They ruined this one too.

Really just casting a vote 4 movies in 2 wars all set in the Pacific.  The reasoning in my opinion:  Destination Tokyo 5 out of 10 - Cary Grant, John Garfield in a submarine destined for Tokyo in 1941. Back to Bataan  4 out of 10 - John Wayne coming back to lead the Filipino resistance. Bataan  3 out of 10 - Robert Taylor and Lloyd Nolan fight a losing battle so John Wayne can return. Green Berets  0 out of 10 - a John Wayne Vietnam propaganda piece that is a bad movie as well.  It's cowboys and indians, white hats vs. black hats - reality was nowhere that simple minded.  So bad I sometimes had to laugh to keep from crying.  Roger Ebert probably thinks I'm being kind, I think he gave it 0 stars as well.  Average 3 out of 10 or 1.5 out of 5 because only the Green Berets drives it down, I went with 2 stars.

Good special effects but the predictable plot put me to sleep. Saw this 1984 film on Netflix.  I had never seen it before.  Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as a cyborg from the future who is not human.  His mission is to kill a young woman (Linda Hamilton) because these creatures are going to take over the world but the son she will bear in the future will foil their plans.  However, Michael Biehn, who also comes from the future but is human is out to stop all this and save the world.  What follows are a lot of chase scenes, guns, explosions and other predictable special effects that were available to 1984 audiences.  This fight doesn't seem fair at first because the cyborg is not human and can grow new body parts when necessary.  However there is no doubt how it will all turn out.  The plot is simple, actually too simple for me.  Once I figured it out I fell asleep and awoke just once in a while to the sound of explosions.  I guess I'm just not into this kind of film.  But I'm glad I tried to watch it just to check it out.

Predictable Zombie Movie With A Ridiculous Premise and Without Actually Any Zombies In It If there is one thing I have learned watching all these end of the world and zombie apocalypse movies then it is that I would be worried about other human beings just as much as I would be about the end of the world. One would think that with the world having come to an end and plagued by flesh eating animated corpses, human beings would rise above the occasion, drop all the pettiness, greed and hate and band together. But not so, as apparently apocalypse or not, humans somehow still seem to manage to rival, and sometimes even outdo, the zombies in terms of evil and cruelty. This is where Land of the Dead is set.  It is the world several years after the zombie take over and the few remaining humans have barricaded themselves in a part of the city. Those rich and powerful enough (how?) have moved into a high rise they turned into a small living city with all the luxuries you can imagine, while the rest is on the cold streets, barely eeking by.  The "rich" have hired hands who go out in armored trucks and scavenge goods from nearby houses and department stores for them and it is almost comical watching these rich pukes pretend like nothing of catastrophic proportions has happened as they go by doing "business as usual". I mean the world has come to an end and you hear advertisements for the stores in that high rise and see these people dresed up and sitting in a 5 star restaurant being served fine food. Never underestimate the power of denial. Tension ensues when one of the hired hands gets snubbed by his boss and seeks revenge. The specifics are irrelevant at this point because Land of the Dead is not one of those smart, even bleak zombie apocalypse movies about the end of human kind and the fall out of that; it isnt even so much about survival and asking the tough questions; instead it is your typical, run of the mill action movie a la Escape From New York or something with zombies and all the gore that accompanies them thrown in. Here story is secondary.  What made this all ridiculous was the fact that the zombies basically stopped being zombies and developed intelligence, organized, knew how to handle tools and basically became much more than evil animated corpses, which IS THE WHOLE POINT OF ZOMBIES. They arent supposed to be intelligent, thinking things through, organize, assemble and be freaking McGuyver or something. I think that sort of defeats the whole purpose of this genre. Zombies are great because unlike any other horror villain, zombies dont have a will of their own and are bereft of consciousness and self-awareness, yet ambulant and able to respond to surrounding stimuli; they dont seem to have a reason for being really other than feeding on the living and moving on in their brain dead daze. That is what makes zombies so terrifying and changes the landscape of a movie from delightfuly scary to unexpectedly terrifying. A zombie is not supposed to think and assemble tools - he is no longer a zombie then. This movie ventured into that direction to the point of trying to evoke sympathy for them and their "cause". Zombies going to take revenge, crying when one of their own is "dead"....come on.  This movie wasnt eerie, it didnt provoke that feeling of desolation and desperation you expect nor that of horror or terror; it was sort of like Mad Max (in terms of the post apocalyptic depiction) meets Water World, Total Recall and zombies or something. Overall I wasnt very impressed with this. It is entertaining if you can manage to suspend disbelief completely but pretty low quality script wise. Bad writing, two dimensional characters, non existent character development, ridiculous premise of the "zombie cause" and trying to get sympathy for them as if they were just "misunderstood" or something, clichees piled on top of more clichees and predictable at every turn. Me thinks not.

Didn't like it Wesley Snipes seems to be following the same career path as Steven Seagal.  This direct to DVD movie is about as B as B-movies gets.  I won't give away the plot, which is very cliche.  How many movies have we seen where corrupt people claim they are "owed" and that is why they have sold out.  Why can't they admit they are greedy, and don't have a soul?  Why always blame whoever it is they work for?  Oh well.  Like I said.  Very cliche. Gun battles in this movie are lame.  Watching Snipes blindly fire hundreds of rounds from a suppressed weapon, simply looked stupid. But, I guess aging action stars have to make a living too.  And of course Snipes needs to get caught up on those taxes, so it may have simply been a case of desperate times calling for desperate measures.  Rent it if you like Wesley Snipes movies.  He's still a decent actor.  Just makes too many less than decent movies.  Would not recommend buying the movie.

movie review on Albert Nobbs A waste of time and money.  No amount of good acting can make up for a crap story.  Pure waste of my time.  I am forgetting it as fast as I can, someone pass the brain-bleach

odd format DVD was formatted for use in Europe.  I was able to change some settings to play it, but it wasn't what I expected.

Impressionist Revolutioon Eisenstein's Tenth Anniversary recreation of the October Uprising certainly isn't designed to educate about the event, it is meant to stir the passions of remembrance. Someone unfamiliar with the events will be pretty lost as far as understanding how the events unfold. Eisenstein's montage style reaches nearly impressionistic levels as the sense of story, which was strong, if undeveloped, in "Strike", and faded a bit in his second film, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000V7HFL4">Battleship Potemkin</a>, is nearly abandoned for "October" in favor of impressionistic intercutting. The film montage technique which was used in service of story in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0053TWW6S">Strike</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000V7HFL4">Battleship Potemkin</a> had become technique in service of itself.

Long wait and yep theres a problem! Ordered this title for my growing Blu ray collection as I really enjoyed this movie on theatrical release and DVD. Took nearly a month to get to me(I live in New Zealand) but was a couple of weeks earlier than Amazon had estimated so a bonus I guess. I found this Blu ray version of JFK to be of very average quality picture wise but rather than blame a poor transfer I think it was more to do with Stone wanting to invite the viewer into to an emotional laden storyline than worrying how good this movie would look in 1080p.(Of course Blu ray was not mainstream when this movie was released) but as this version was released in 2011 it perhaps couldve been a chance for Warner Bros to really give this film the once over that I believed it deserves. The 5.1 Dolby THD soundtrack is also of average quality but better than my DVD version but there seems to be a small technical glitch where the sound and picture appear out of sync in several key scenes of the movie. I have a 2011 Panasonic Blu ray player and a PS3 and it did this on both machines so maybe its due to the fact of a poor soundtrack transfer Im not sure but Im not impressed. Overall Im glad I have this movie in my collection now(Currently not available for retail in New Zealand at this point of time) however I do believe that this version could've had benefitted so much more from a decent remaster(picture and soundwise)to enhance what is an enjoyable watch and arguably a great movie.

Only watched part of it Just watched maybe 1/2 of it and thought it was kind of a "dud".  Some reviews were good though??? Just didn't get into it at all.

"Alamo"? , or Just a funny western spoof. This movie had  little thought of anything but to make a buck. A movie is a way to pass the time, and this one sure delievers. Which is not a bad think, but for a young kid or of those lacking, it posses a real threat to understanding and correlating historical events. In the making of this movie the producers even trashed the film by using the Hildago flag which was way back around 1800 and nothing to do with Alamo ,but confuse things a bit more. The REAL FLAG of the ALAMO for 176 years remains in MEXICO CITY on display for all the world to see in THE NATIONAL MUSEUM of MEXICO. It's a shamefull thing to not only hide HISTORY but to CHANGE history for a purpose of personnal gain... well that's just a crime. In fact TEXAS has been trying for 60 YEARS to get the "TRUE" Alamo flag back . Even two PRESIDENTS of the UNITED STATES have tried..."WHAT PRESIDENT" you say? Take your pick... they're both named BUSH.

Very Disappointing - 'Titanic's Final Mystery' purports to answer questions regarding why the nearby Californian did not come to Titanic's aid, and why the Titanic's lookouts did not see the fatal iceberg until only 37 seconds away.  The Californian had stopped upon reaching the edge of a large ice field, and its radio operator, Cyril Evans, called to tell the Titanic of the situation. Unfortunately, the Titanic's on-duty radio operator was busy with personal messages to/from passengers and responded with 'Shut up, I am busy!' Evans went to bed, and ten minutes later the Titanic hit the iceberg.  Titanic's first distress call followed, 25 minutes later, followed by five rockets. Californian's Captain Lord was told, and responded to signal with the Morse lamp, but did not request wireless effort. The gist of the preceding was later confirmed by several sources. Lord later gave conflicting statements at ensuing inquiries. Both inquiries concluded that Captain Lord failed to provide proper assistance to the Titanic.  Director Nigel Levy, however, despite claiming to have exhaustively researched testimony from eyewitnesses, formulated an abstruse theory of reverse miraging that purports to explain why Captain Lord could have concluded the Titanic that he saw was actually a much smaller ship.  Similarly, Levy contends that rare atmospheric conditions (Fata Morgana) prevented spotting the iceberg earlier - supposedly the lookouts could see 30 minutes ahead (about 12 miles). But how? Levy also tells us it was a moonless night!  Other sources report that the Titanic's radio operators received six messages 4/14/12 from other ships warning of ice. Not all were relayed to ship's officers - turns out the radio operators did not work for White Star Line, but the Morse company. Regardless, the Titanic's speed was not reduced, and it continued at 25 mph. One survivor reported the see was so smooth that the stars were clearly reflected - now known as a sign of nearby pack ice. Had the sea been rougher, waves breaking against the icebergs would have made them more visible. Other evidence from experts reports that the steam-powered steering took up to 30 seconds to turn, and the center propeller was stopped, reducing the rudder's effectiveness. Had First Officer Murdoch simply turned the ship while maintaining speed, Titanic might have missed the iceberg.  Again, Levy ignored these sources, and utilized his same Fata Morgana theory (actually lifted from amateur historian Tim Maltin and an academic expert). While scientific experts have not rendered an opinion on the Levy/Maltin explanation, Wikipedia sources assert that such a mirage only occurs in the vertical dimension - thus, would not explain Captain Lord's claim that the ship he saw was too small (short) to be the Titanic.  Bottom-Line: Levy's explanation relies on selective extraction of material from subsequent eyewitness testimonies, violates the common-sense Principle of Parsimony, and represents egregious plagiarism. Further, it doesn't begin to excuse the facts that the Titanic had too few lifeboats, its radio operators did not act responsibly, the Californian's wireless should also have maintained operations, and that even knowing the Titanic didn't have enough lifeboats, they were launched without being near full. (Levy claims this was because passengers felt safer remaining on the ship - perhaps, but if so this would simply represent another failure of Captain Smith's leadership.) I do not understand why the Smithsonian would stand behind such sloppy and seemingly dishonest research.

Message Great, Cameron Good, Execution Extremely Amateur I am a believer in the salvation of Jesus Christ, and so I really saw much merit in the message of this film. The message was great. Kirk Cameron also surprised me; he is actually a very good, very well trained actor at this point. He is as good as most of the actors who play more prestigious roles in more worldly renowned movies. That's about it for the good things I can say about this movie. Unfortunately, everything else about the film was very, very bad. In all seriousness, this film had the most poorly written dialogue of any film I have ever seen. Seriously, NOBODY in real life speaks to one another like that in our culture. Nobody. In fact I don't think they ever did. Likewise, with the exception of Cameron, this was seriously the most poorly acted movie I have ever seen. And worst of all was the "actress" who played Cameron's wife---yikes was she ever bad. She couldn't act her way out of a paper bag. Not that it was all her fault though, for again, the lines they gave her to read were abominably stilted. And what's with trying to portray the leading "actress's" mother as having some sort of illness or debilitation when she looked as normal as could be? Couldn't they try at least to make her mom LOOK somehow sick in some way? Instead, they just told her not to say anything. You could totally tell she was faking it, just like the rest of the cast. Get this: There was one guy, the fat blonde guy, in the firehouse, that the "film makers" were trying to portray as the goofy, cut up, comic relief guy. But the lines they gave him to read were ham-handedly written and too obviously cornball to get a laugh. However, when you watch the DVD's extra features, there is an interview of this actor where he shows himself to be quite naturally and quite spontaneously funny. Now, since this guy was actually quite funny in real life, why didn't these "film makers" just let this guy improv, just let him be himself, instead of forcing him to read the stilted, cheeseball lines of the horrible script writer?? I feel like I wanted to like this movie so so so much, but it was botched in so many areas that even the fantastic message, and Cameron's strong performance, are extremely undermined. Sorry to be mean, but for those of my fellow Christians who would be likely to believe I am being mean, those of you who gave this movie 5 stars simply because of its message alone, and willfully turning a blind eye to this film's glaring artistic shortcomings, I myself consider you folks as speaking with fundamental dishonesty. So which is worse? Seriously, how can I recommend to my friends that they watch this film when it is so poorly written and acted?? There is one last complaint I have, and which I expected to have even before I watched the film. I was right: the message of the film nowhere addresses the anti-Scriptural, and historically novel (in this country) practice of engaging in State marriage licenses in order to get married. Hosea 4 tells me why these film makers, and virtually everyone around me who proclaims Christ as their Saviour, are ignorant of the fundamental sin, and its requisite punishment, that accompanies making such unGodly covenants with the gentiles.

Action, Camera, UGH I went on line to get a DVD on one of his concerts, and this had the best reviews and price--forget the concert--buy popcorn and watch this movie instead which is what it really is.  And--a really "C" movie at that.  He is still a great singer in my book, but "Julio", thanks for staying a singer.  Would I ask someone else to purchase this???  No, and I do not have any enemies to pay back by asking them to buy it.

Pure Hollywood Special Effects Movie Visually it's a stunning movie. Special events are great  Plot and acting are weak.  Storyline is  disjointed and military tactics and protocol is non exsisted.  Liam is barely in the movie (which I don't blame him for, I wouldn't want to be in the movie either). Find something better.

Weak Sequel on all Counts What a disappointment.  Actually, I didn't think Aja's Piranha held a candle to Joe Dante's original, anyway.  However, it was at least a visceral, gory blast with lots of great eye candy.  In this more-of-the-same sequel, there is less of everything.  Less fun, less gore, less tongue-in-cheek comedy, less professionalism on the parts of the writer and director.  What you get in this sequel is a bunch of pointless cameos, cartoonish direction, too-goofy comedy and less creative gore.  Not to mention some less-than-inspired acting.  It's no wonder this only got dumped into a handful of theaters before ending up on disc.  However, if you're looking for mindless fun on the level of a SyFy channel movie (with a bigger budget), then you'll probably enjoy this undemanding junk.  Not too bad for a beer-drinking time-killer.  You be the judge.

Great premise... ruined Secret government project... leads strange technology... leads to mind control over reality??!?... and that's where things fall apart.  The book actually explains what is going on.  The movie tries to scare you into thinking you understand what's going on.  It gets so bad that at the very end of this 'action flick' they have to spend 5 minutes of seemingly ad-lib'd dialog just to arrive at the same plot point as the book.  Fail.  Just in case you were wondering, the book was written by Michael Crichton.  That's the same author who penned Jurassic Park, and look how that movie turned out!  $$$ must have decided this movie.

MEXICAN BLOWED! This movie was one of the worst movies I have ever seen.  Acting sucked.  Story line sucked. A waste of time. Sorry to give a bad review!

DVD-Love is a Many Splendored Thing Another of my favorite movies.  There were two skips in this DVD causing me to miss some of the best parts of the movie.  Very disappointing.

no surround sound from Verbier again! For those of us  expected to pay $30 or so for a blueray disc with NO surround sound, only stereo, this is a disgrace! These performances seem like they might be worth having, but to saddle a blueray performance with only stereo sound? What's the matter with this label?

It Sucked Sorry, but it sucked. Good actors do eventually get stuck with a script that does not work. I could not even finish the movie it was so boring. But you can find out for yourself cause everyone has an opinion.

1080i ****BEWARE*** this release is the 1080i version.(hence the two star rating) if u dont care.. then buy away. Other than that, this a Great movie....

NOT for a Beginner I would even say not for an intermediate. I wanted something that was challenging and face paced. I am an out of shape 38 year old with a good cardio level and 12 years of dance training. This was hard to follow. Like all fitness videos, I watched it before attempting it.  There was no demonstrating/practicing of the coming moves and the moves are such that you are often looking upward or otherwise not looking at the screen to get confirmation on the execution of the move. Then the instructor moves with almost consistent lack of segueway. This is the just the "warm-up."  The rest of the video is just like the warm-up as far as instruction. It is extremely challenging and face paced. It gets you moving and your heart pounding for 48 minutes. I danced along three times before I gave up. I was picking up very little and felt like I was "failing." This is not a good tape for anyone who is like me. I am a recovering bulimic, which means I am a control freak and give myself very little slack when I don't accomplish tasks as I want. For those who are just starting out in a fitness regimine, this could be very discouraging and (I feel) lead to backsliding. Been there. Done that.  I also found the instructor very annoying. Upbeat, grinning constantly. I guess for some that is encouraging. However, as I was failing to perform the moves, I found it mocking, not motivational. Yeah, I know. I'm crazy, right? I have found Denise Austin and Dolphina annoying, but they are a LOT easier to follow and so I don't give up on their workouts.  This DVD has been donated to Goodwill. (The Salvation Army might have been less ironic, but GW was closer.)

I have read book several times but this????? First of all, I am a fan of the book having read it many times. And when a movie, film announced, thought to myself, how in the hell is anyone going to get this book into a movie, film?? Well, as it turned out, "they" didn't. If you have never read book, this movie is not going to give you any real insight as to what the book is really, really, about and so do not recommend. READ THE BOOK. Ok, so you have read the book..... being a fan, I must admit it was nice to actually see actors with names I know so well and yes, there are some dramatic moments but this film fails in conveying the underlying evil, thought, policies that have such good intentions and wind up killing the goose that lays the golden egg. God I wish there was someway to actually capture the book on film. Perhaps a series of some kind on PBS, like 20 hour shows or something. AND PART 2? Yes, I will see it cause, as I said, I am a fan.

Absolute crappola I can't believe an actor like Danny Glover would lower himself to act in this piece of tripe.  Not the least exciting, scary; acting was deplorable, and found myself rooting for the dragons.  Don't waste your time or money.

not a family movie The movie was just ok. It had too much profanity and adult innuendo to be considered a family movie. Which confuses me, since the message at the end was positive. There were only a few funny parts. It was definitely more drama than comedy.

The barbarian and the Geisha The color was wonderful but---The sound faded in and out to the point the music was blasting and the voice was almost mute.  Very hard to watch. Sorry.

Smaller than average sampler This was not my first time buying 'sampler' DVDs, and I'm fully aware that some 'first season' broadcasts were mid-season replacements. However, normally 'season one' means a compilation of easily 6-8 episodes. This was a great disappointment. Only four episodes are included.  I well remember enjoying "That Girl" in its first run, and had not seen it in years. I'd expected a pleasant trip 'down memory lane.' I regret now that (since, as it true of many, I cannot afford Netflix or $36 DVD sets) I'd purchased what I thought could be some enjoyable breaks, only to find just four episodes, and those before the characters were well-developed. Even at this price, it is not worth the money.

Wish Amazon allowed a separate publisher/provider review I love Kristen. Glad she made this. Movie is 3.5-4 stars. Hate to taint reviews of the movie with this, but it won't change the aggregate rating anyway: I gotta vent about the pre-expired downloadable "Digital Copy". Bought the movie mid-May 2012. The enclosed digital download expired February 25th 2012. I didn't think it was possible for me to be more p****d off at the stupidity and shortsightedness of the content providers. It was. And, yeah, theoretically, I know there are other options that involve only a little time and inconvenience but, of course, it would be wrong to mention those. DMCA. Thought and speech control. Thanks again, Hollywood dorks.  Not you, Kristen.

Not what we were looking for Decent enough story for an adult movie, but we (wife and I) were a little dismayed by how little "action" there is in this movie.  There may be 5-6 scenes that are of short duration, and they are separated by 20 minutes of political/philosophical dialogue.  Not a bad film, just not what we were hoping/looking for.

Not as expected Video and or music would not play on blue ray player.  Could only watch on my laptop. Video was poorly made considering the cost, looked like one of my highschool projects.  On the upside the information provided has proved to save our life when the baby gets upset!!! I would recommend watching but would suggest you buy a used copy or split with group of expecting moms.  You only need to watch once or twice to get the idea!

Lotsa Action, Little Substance 2010 had 2 action films that were populated by old-time actors. RED was outstanding, and this one, in which it seems like all the actors think they're still matinee idols. When the film starts, there's no end of listing the producers, associate producers, executive producers, etc. Red flags immediately went up in my head. I tried really hard to keep an open mind, but the script was so bad, I couldn't believe what was presented to me. It's a dark film, and it's intentions are geared entirely to the action audience that's looking for 'splosions 'n stuff. I'm sorry but this one just didn't do it for me. It simply wasn't entertaining. As an alternative, I would most highly recommend RED, old guys going crazy and having as much fun as their audience.

"Nice disguise Bond" I only give it two stars because while it's certainly bad, it's not worse than moonraker. Or Man With The Golden Gun, but close. Having recently gone back and watched the series again, I can say that when I watched this movie again. I was reminded how painful it can be, Now Roger Moore was replacing Sean Connery. No small task, but right away. Roger's bond is more, jokey. Jump in bed with any available woman at the time, a cartoonish bond. And it didn't help that Live And Let Die, puts Bond in Harlem. And in louisiana, and finally Jamaica. Jane Seymore does her best as Solitare, and to be quite honest. Yaphet kotto steals the movie as Kanaga, other than Julius Harris who plays Teehee. I do agree with some of the other reviewers, this was the start of the decline of the franchise. You know it's a really bad movie, when you only want to watch it with the commentary on. And even that is laughable, because they try to explain why they wrote it this way. There's no excuse for Bond becoming a shell of himself, when Roger Moore took. Thank God Timothy Dalton saved it, And Pierce Brosnan kept it alive. Again, it's pretty bad when the only good part of the movie, is a bit player. Sheriff Pepper, and we have a whole scene of bond trying to escape from the bad guys, by stealing a plane, trashing it. Then jumping in a motor boat, Now the chase was cool, but pointless. I do agree, this movie started the fall.

Wrong Movie Sent Instead of receiving Soul Plane we were sent Soul Men even though the order form and receipt clearly stated Soul Plane! We kept it anyway, too much of a hassle to return it.

Very old fashioned story telling While it was interesting to see the background behind Secretariat's story, this movie feels like a made-for-TV feel-good movie.  As a horse person, some of what they showed with the horses was just foolish.  The BluRay looked nice on the new HD TV with the new player.

Is it over yet?  Do I never need to stay culturally literate by watching another one of these on cable? I kept blanking out.  I have no idea what their problem is or why tween girls would tolerate so much indecision.  Victoria's very small story would have made a great episode of Criminal Minds or Buffy/Angel.  The music wasn't as good this time.  The werewolves dialed down their workout.  There was not enough of Dakota Fanning and her movie brother.  IS it over?  an eclipse, a total permanent eclipse, that's what's called for

What in the World? Can somebody please tell me just what in the World this crap was about? Way too complicated for its own good. Utterly devoid of any of the suspense of the original Alien. As far as I can see NO questions were answered about who the "Engineers" were. Why they created US. Why they then decided to destroy us. Why that Engineer at the beginning was committing suicide? What the hell that squid-like thing was supposed to be inside Noomi? Why David put that Alien substance into the scientists drink? A confusing and highly disappointing mess in my opinion. Thank God I didnt see this at the cinema. Boy I would have been pissed.

Secrets & Lies DVD The movie itself is great, one of my favorites.  The DVD I purchased is of very poor quality.  The video quality is poor, which makes me believe it's a pirated copy. The notes on the DVD case are in an Asian language. In addition, it has subtitles in an Asian language that cannot be disabled, thus the bottom portion of the screen is obscured by the subtitles.  I'm very dissatisfied with the product overall, and feel my money was wasted.  I should have searched for another seller.

Incredibly Stupid Remake and of an Incredibly Stupid Movie <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6305596247">Piranha</a> (2-D?), is a 1978 Joe Dante movie about killer fish that is bad enough to be called a comedy horror despite just being a really bad movie and an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of Jaws.  However, it is actually remade here by ballsy contemporary gore peddler Alexandre Aja (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ARFPMQ">High Tension</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FAOC2W">The Hills Have Eyes</a>).  I like Aja's serious horror films because he makes it impossible to trust his movies and is willing to mangle his heroes and heroines in cold and brutal ways.  He's capable of being a terrifying filmmaker and I love that about him, but here he is brought in to make his hardcore horror fans laugh, and I have to ask why?  Especially when the only reason anything could be seen as funny is because of simply how far Aja is willing to push the limits of decency.  How many people can be eaten by fish?  How much blood and torn-up flesh can fit into one aerial shot?  How long can two nude women spread their legs and hold their breath?  Can Jerry O'Connell's nether regions really be gobbled up, spat out, and then eaten again?  These are questions I just don't care about but hey it's in 3-D, right?  Yeah, so let's go!  Piranha 3-D's plot is simple.  An ancient breed of fish is released after a small earthquake opens an underwater rift.  This happens right around the time Spring Break begins, you know where all the sodomites come out to drink and get naked in various bodies of water all around the world.  So yeah, they deserve to be eaten by cartoon fishies with big snarly teeth, right?  Well these kids do because they are less authentic then their primitive aquatic co-stars and about as likable as the cast of MTV's Jersey Shore.  So yeah, to summarize; naked people get eaten by fish.  The thing that really makes Piranha bad is its lead actor, Steven R. McQueen.  Now it could be that he simply doesn't care because of the kind of film he was in, but in order for schlock like this to actually work you really need a lead that is capable of either playing it straight in the most dead pan way possible or actually outdoing the campiest of campy supporting cast members.  Quite a task actually because one of the film's bright spots is Jerry O'Connell's sleazy Joe Francis-like pornographer character.  He is a boorish and silly quasi-rapist slithering around in his speedos, and few characters deserve their comeuppance like he does.  All in all, the horrible CGI and unreal 3-D effects make Piranha fake enough that the film needed more than empty one-dimensional stereotypical characters to support its pathetically lacking story.  I still won't say I hated Piranha 3-D because I let out at least half a dozen belly laughs, albeit some were no doubt unintended by the folks behind the scenes.

Couldn't get past the cheap shots I'm sure it was a funny movie. Luckily I didn't have to pay for it because I didn't even finish the movie. I'm thinking the screenwriter has some bone to pick with Buffalo, NY. That's the crux of the movie, the main character, in order to start paying off his student loans after college, has to take a menial job at his uncle's business in the northern most, snow filled city of America, Buffalo, NY. Nearly in Canada as the main character's ex girlfriend put it succintly. Meanwhile, it's December 30th, 2011, right now and we've barely gotten an inch of snow here. Which sucks because my nephews wanted to go sledding.  Anyways, I didn't really appreciate the cheap shots at my city. It would have been funny one or two times.

He's not a house So-so drama about Rusty (Patrick Tatten), a young architect who specializes in restoring houses.  His latest rehabilitation project becomes Denny (Dale Dymkoski), a drug addicted low-life he picks up in a convenience store.  Rusty becomes obsessed with Denny, who in turn uses him to support his crystal meth habit.  There aren't many likeable characters in this one.  Denny, of course, is a sleazebag, and Rusty is a classic enabler, who is more interested in hanging onto his new boyfriend than in really trying to help him.  It's hard to develop much sympathy for such a pathetic door mat who over and over allows himself to be used and abused.  All I wanted to do was slap him in the head to try to knock some sense into him.  The only really nice guy in the whole movie is Rusty's business partner, who tries to help him break free from Denny's spell.  The story is far-fetched, particularly toward the end where Denny tells his sad life story.  His sudden transformation from first-class creep to pathetic victim seems forced and unconvincing, as does Rusty's reaction to it.  The story ends on a happy note for most of the characters, although again, it is unrealistic.  The movie is well made, although the score is a bit irritating.  The actors are fine, particularly Dymkoski. But the script just isn't believable.

Poor job "The Outlaw" is probably the most over-rated western around. Made in 1943 by Howard Hughes (1905-76), it is primarily a showcase for Jane Russell's ample bosoms, and as such, it does its job well. But as a western, you've got to be kidding. The historically inaccurate story has Doc Holliday (Walter Huston) and Pat Garrett (Thomas Mitchell) being long time friends, and Billy the Kid (Jack Buetel) as the man out. Of course, Billy and Garrett were the friends who lived and died in New Mexico and, as far as anyone knows, never met Doc Holliday who spent most of his time in Kansas and Arizona. Moreover, there was not such a wide age discrepancy between the three men, whereas Huston was nearly twice Beutel's age at the time of shooting.  Putting history aside, Mitchell and Huston were both great actors, but clearly not suited for the Western genre. Mitchell (1892-1962) is best remembered for his supporting roles as Scarlett O'Hara's father in "GWTW" (1939) and  Uncle Billy in "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946). Over a 38 year career he won an Oscar, an Emmy, and a Tony. While he played in westerns (e.g., "High Noon", "Stagecoach", "Destry", "Buffalo Bill") Mitchell's short stature and portly appearance were best suited to non-action roles. He hardly fills the bill as the famous Pat Garrett .  Much the same can be said for Walter Huston (1883-1950), who won the Oscar and the Golden Globe for "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948), and racked up 3 more Oscar nominations including playing Jimmy Cagney's dad in "Yankee Doddle Dandy" (1942). Huston's great voice and animated facial expressions were well suited for his roles that included playing the Devil ("The Devil and Daniel Webster"), but at nearly 60 years of age he makes a poor Doc Holliday. With his oversized store-bought pistols hiked up above his waist, Huston looks more comical than dangerous.  Jack Beutel's (1915-89) Billy the Kid is the typical over-confident play acting we see in many westerns. He has a kind of little kid appeal, even though he was in his 20s at the time. Unfortunately for Beutel, conflicts with Howard Hughes, who controlled his contract, kept him off the screen for over a decade. By the time he returned to the screen, his career was nearly over. He made a few forgettable westerns then transitioned to TV.  Look for Ben Johnson (1918-96) in his screen debut. Johnson would go on to portray the classic westerner, in films such as "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" (1949), "Rio Grande" (1950), "Shane" (1953), "One Eyed Jacks" (1961), "Hang em High" (1968), "The Wild Bunch" (1969), and "Bite the Bullet" (1975).  Jane Russell (1921-2011), of course, was a sensation. She received top billing in the film (very usual to have a woman starring in a Western), her screen debut. She went on to make nearly two dozen films, including "Paleface" (1948) with Bob Hope, "Double Dynamite" (1951) with Sinatra and Groucho, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1953) with Marilyn Monroe, and "Gentlemen Marry Brunettes" (1956).  The film was actually made in 1941, but Hughes had trouble getting it past the Hays censors. It surfaced for 1 week in 1943 and finally general release in 1946, where it was a big hit. The B&W print was colorized in 1988 and again in 2009.  The poor quality of the film can be accounted for by the many personnel changes. Howard Hawks was fired as Director, and Hughes himself took over, even though he had directed only one (silent) film (Hell's Angels") more than a decade earlier. But Hughes was busy running an empire, so directing often was taken over by screenwriter Jules Furthman. Some scenes were shot by Lucien Ballard but the official cinematographer is Gregg Toland.  The musical score appears to be written by someone who thinks the film is a comedy. In fact, the dialogue and the old grisly film stars are indeed comical, although not on purpose.  Bottom line - it's a poor film that has some historical value but only from the point of view of Russell's ample bosoms.

Tries hard to be Sideways, Fails Miserably I loved Steve Coogan in Hamlet II ad was hoping to see more of his range.  Instead I was bored for two hours with the vain hope that it was just a build up to a good punchline or something... anything.  It never happened.  The most you'll get out of this is watching actors ad lib some ok impressions of other actors and some navel gazing.  Don't waste the time.  Watch Sideways again instead.

Jumped the Shark Okay the first Harold and Kumar was great!  The second one was okay, but this one was just lame.  Every 20 minutes or so I'd chuckle at something stupid that Kumar said and that was about it.  The performances that both actors gave was pretty bland, almost like they didn't even care about the movie they were making.  The only good parts of this movie were Danny Trejo and Neil Patrick Harris.  They actually TRIED to give good performances and they seemed to actually give a rip about this movie.  Every other actor just phoned in their performances.  Plus did I really need to see Kumar's penis in clamation?  And on top of that did I really need to see Harold's penis stuck to a metal pole?  I really hope this is the last one of these movies that Hollywood makes.  Seriously, what are they gonna call the next one, "Harold and Kumar: Still Milking It?"  If you're bored and you want something out of the Redbox, it's worth a dollar to rent it, but not worth 25 bucks to own it.

Just "OK" I had high hopes for this movie - my young daughters LOVE Sharpay, but we all lost interest about halfway through and we had to keep reminding the girls to watch.  After having watched the HSM trilogy about a million times, we wondered: The plot takes place only a few months after graduation (a bit of a stretch), why didn't she stay with or call her twin, Ryan - didn't he get a scholarship to Juillard?  Same with Chelsea?  Wouldn't Ryan of all people be at her broadway debut?  It would have been nice to have some reference to the HSM characters (a la soap operas - Ryan is in Paris, London, etc.).  I don't recall there being any reference at all to Ryan or the others.  The love interest looked a lot like her brother.  We had to keep telling the girls that it was not Ryan.  Also, the entire pink thing was a bit over the top - very reminiscent of Legally Blonde.  Finally, we were disappointed that there wasn't more music.  The few songs that are in the show occur on stage.  What happened to bursting into song instead of talking?  Speaking of, the broadway musical concept was really bad.  Couldn't the writers come up with something more interesting. Really?  An entire musical about a girl and her dog?  The finale made absolutely no sense in relation to the musical. I realize this is way overanalyzing a child's movie - but after watching the HSM triology so many times, we were really looking forward to something fresh.  What about a High School Musical Homecoming? LOL.  On the plus side, Ashley Tisdale looked great (finally, the hair extensions are gone) and her nemesis has an incredible voice. It is definitely worth the money and a good break from HSM, but I don't think it will be something that the kids will want to watch over and over.

Incredibly Stupid Writing for an Otherwise Cool Movie -Warning- There are spoilers in this review, because that's really the only way to talk about what's wrong with it.  There were many good parts in "I Saw the Devil", but ultimately the script writing failed this movie. The main character's wife was killed too soon, and he caught the killer way way way too soon. There could have been an aspect of mystery, but there wasn't even a hint of it. His father in law literally just gives him the names and pictures of 3 sex offenders, and one of them happens to be the killer. Then, since he's captured the killer so early, and they don't want to torture him for an hour of film time, he just lets him go. Yes, the idea's original, and I could see this happen as he loves the thrill of the hunt. However, how he does it makes no sense. He just breaks the serial killer's hand, and then lets him go kill and terrorize other people. If you're going to let him go, at least cut his hands off so he can't kill people, or stay close to him, or take him to some sort of game preserve where you can be sure he can't kill anyone else. I would have wholly embraced more torture, but really the film was pretty tame. In the final act, the supposed climax, all the main character does is put out a cigarette in his face. stab a screwdriver through his cheek, and decapitate him. It just felt like a let down after so much build up. The majority of the movie is just so stupid and frustrating, especially when at one point the main character and his friend are talking within ear shot of the killer, and the guy explains his entire plan, how he was tracking the killer from place to place, and even who his murdered wife was (putting the rest of the family in imminent danger) while the killer is of course pretending to be asleep.  It's really horrible, because the actors are amazing in this film, and the action is great, they just needed a better writer.

Lots of real movie critics gave it bad reviews There's no propaganda with these low-rating reviews. Lots of other "expert" movie critics didn't like it either. Go to rottentomatoes.com to read what top movie critics around the country are saying about it.

Two Heads Are Better Than One "2-Headed Shark Attack" is the latest ridiculous sea monster flick from The Asylum. Before you can even get to the film there's an intro from The Asylum bragging how they have done over 100 of these cheesy disaster films so far, and the beauty is that if you've seen one you pretty much know what's going to happen in any of the others: just substitute "two-headed shark" for "giant alligator," "enormous squid," or "subterranean volcano under a metropolis" and you've got it. As the credits unwind to obnoxious college students on a speedboat, creature feature fans may feel the hairs on the back of their neck stand up when they see the director is Christopher Douglas-Olen Ray. With B-movie genetics like this you know it's going to be an entertaining movie for all the wrong reasons. Not that I fault Chris Ray, it's not like anyone was going to make a good movie called "2-Headed Shark Attack" or anything. You know what you're buying when you see the title.  The opening starts the production off right. Two talented water skiers in bikinis are pulled behind a boat towed by three ogling guys taking their pictures. I therefore found it a bit incredulous that nobody in the boat noticed when a giant two-headed shark leapt from the water and neatly munched them down. Not that it matters. The real meat of the story, the chum as it were, starts when we meet Professor Babbish (Charlie O'Connell) who is taking his class of insufferable students on a "semester at sea" to learn...well, something. It starts off with a lesson in sextant use, but quickly turns to a sunbathing demonstration. They are on a typical Florida tourist boat...no I'm sorry, a "US education vessel," the "Sea King," sailing "hundreds of miles from anywhere" and immediately sustain shark damage via a curious scene that you may not find entirely plausible. In the process the shark damages their radio antenna (ponder) and they cannot communicate with anyone. The interesting point is that bonehead jock Cole (Geoff Ward) was scolded to turn his cell phone off not more than five minutes earlier. But never mind, they are really, really stuck at sea with a crippled boat. Just take our word for it.  The dialogue is predictably ridiculous ("We're not sinking. We're taking on water.") Fortunately by an amazing coincidence a deserted island is right next to them. For some reason they decide to send the Professor and students ashore to look for scrap metal to repair the boat (really?) while Mrs. Anne Babbish (Carmen Electra, who is clearly here only because of her name and sundry assets, not because of any contribution to the plot whatsoever) is in charge of vessel repairs. She has two Spanish speaking deckhands who work hard and Laura (Morgan Thompson) the lovely welder to do the work. That's a good thing, because as senior officer onboard with her ship sinking what do you think she does? Well, obviously she changes into a bikini and soaks up some rays on deck. While all that's going on, the kids are getting into petulant arguments and exploring the island, and believe me they cannot get eaten fast enough for my taste. I hope that shark is famished.  If the plot isn't enough to make you laugh out loud, the acting and terrible CGI will. I have some seen some awful shark movies, but this is one of the worst on a whole bunch of levels. The effects are utterly laughable, and among the least scary of any of The Asylum movies. (That's saying something.) I truly enjoy how the entire scale of the shark varies by orders of magnitude throughout the film. Bonus points for that. The backstory unspools in an even sillier way than you would expect: voluptuous, angst-laden, uptight blonde heroine Kate (Brooke Hogan, Hulk's daughter) enrolled in the semester at sea because she was spooked by a shark in the ocean when she was 12, and hasn't been in the water since then. This is not how normal human beings make decisions. As they explore the deserted island which has well-developed roads, infrastructure, and even a church, they discover two boats which prompts the line "Hey guys do you think these will work?" For what? What part of "boat" don't they understand? What was the point of going to the island again? Never mind. Fortunately Kate is an engineering-mechanic-welding savant and fixes the boats with the help of smart guy Paul (David Gallegos,) the only remotely likeable member of the cast, while idiot Cole almost kills himself with a spear.  It sure was lucky they found this island, wasn't it? Oh, but wait! The shark is making the island have earthquakes and sink into the ocean! The first earthquake injures the Professor's leg to the point he needs to be ferried back to the "Sea King" (why did they ever leave again?) Fortunately they forget about this as he is able to run again within two hours. Assorted mayhem occurs with much CGI thrashing and foam teeth in attendance while idiotic canned interpersonal conflicts occur in abundance. Cole steals one boat for the cool kids, leaving Kate and Paul on the other. Oddly many of the students elect to stay on the sinking island as the boats race toward the "Sea King." This scene will have you praying for natural selection to work its wonders. Cole comes up with an ingenious plan to jump into the water and swim for the "Sea King" abandoning the boat's other occupants to the shark. Sadly Kate rescues Cole and when back in shallow water explains where their relationship stands in no uncertain terms.  Because this is going nowhere everyone comes ashore, abandoning the "Sea King." (Oh, whatever.) While Cole emotes over the loss of his party buds, the Babbish clan comes up with a brilliant plan: sink the "Sea King." No, seriously. You mean that boat they just left floating over there? Yes. Apparently they believe that it would be safer than staying on the visibly sinking atoll, because that would trigger its EPIRB (they don't call it that) to summon help. Turns out you don't really have to do that, but for the plot to work that's the best idea they've got. Paul (the student who should be in charge because he's the only one who knows anything about the ocean, fish, or boats) comes up with an alternate plan: fix the "Sea King." Brilliant! There's an elaborate subplot about distracting the shark with an electric bridge (don't ask) while the Professor sends, of all people, archenemies Cole and Kate to fix the "Sea King." (Suspension of disbelief is key here, people.) A favorite moment is when Professor Babbish watches the shark and yells "It's confused!" For a moment I thought he was talking about the plot, but nope, just the fish. Kate starts welding to fix the amusingly fake "hull damage" while the shark gets tired of its electroshock therapy and destroys the bridge, freeing it up to do more important things. Like eating.  Cole steals the "Sea King" as soon as the welding is complete, leaving Kate alone in the water. You'd have thought she was imperiled what with the giant mutant shark on the loose, but no, she just wades ashore. Suffice it to say that Cole doesn't get far, and the Professor's original plan is put into action, though this is lost on the cast for some reason. As the island sinks ever lower in the water, most people run inland, but two particularly dim coeds run to stand on the smallest, spindliest dock imaginable, then precariously perch on the very edge of said dock saying "I think we're good." What do you, the audience, think? Do you think huge two-headed sharks can leap clean over a dock? I won't tell.  Because this in an Asylum movie, there's not quite enough going on yet, so what do you think could go wrong next? Volcano? Good guess, but wrong. Enormous altruistic intervening squid? Again, good guess, but no. How about this one: tidal wave. Sadly, it's true. As it strikes the island the Babbishes have one last kiss as they are engulfed simultaneously by the rogue wave and the central character of the film. To seek refuge from the shark the remaining kids seek refuge in a church, which the shark treats as a snack basket before getting hopelessly lost inside. (It's a small church, but sharks have small brains.) Paul even gets to beat it on the snout with a crucifix. I am so not joking. The film concludes with a wholly ridiculous plan and multiple acts of bravery, and Kate and Paul finally putting us out of our misery by climbing onto the rocks of the island and waiting for the rescue helicopter which promptly shows up as the credits start to some truly awful music.  The DVD has a few extras, none of them good. There is a "Gag Reel" which consists of a couple of minutes of assorted clowning and bloopers. It may be the single lamest blooper reel I have ever seen. Don't waste your time. There are some trailers for this and other Asylum movies, and last but least, a "Making Of Featurette." This documentary interviews just about everyone including the costume designer (the "costumes" are shorts and bikinis...really, you needed a costume designer?) It goes without saying that this is pretty boring and self-congratulatory stuff. I was amused when they interviewed Brooke Hogan, the star of the show, that there was no audio of her answers. Nice bonus feature! Don't waste your time with this one either. I will save you the time by summing up: location shooting on water is difficult.  "2-Headed Shark Attack" is just another insane monster fish debacle from our friends at The Asylum, no more and no less. If you are looking for brainless B-movie hilarity, I suppose this could be a good choice. Most people will find the cast too obnoxious to endure for 90 minutes, though fans of the feminine form will likely be pleased. It's a given that it's a bad movie, but under the right circumstances, with the right group of people it could bring joy to fans of extraordinarily bad camp. If you want to see a good or a scary movie, though, this is not for you.

Kind of boring I don't have a television and do not live in the United States, but someone gave me a set of disks, which I watched on my computer. Well, that's not true. I watched the first five episodes of the first season, then gave up on it. This was largely because (a) each character was a modern drama archetype, (b) no character behaved believably, (c) the story was needlessly strung out, strung out only for the sake of making the serial draw people to watch the next episode. Really not much interesting here, just typical American tv junk. Some of the scenery is pretty, though.

Okkkaayyy Not bad for a creepy movie but, if your looking for a film based off the Bell Witch this is not it. It just uses the outline of the story to add it's own story to it. Not so good.

Horrible Waste of Talent, Money & Time Only made it through 20 minutes of this filthy mess of a trashy romp, and only because my wife wanted to see it. If you want to see incredibly good actors saying and doing impossibly stupid things, this is your bag of crapola for sure. I am no puritan, and can appreciate a well done movie no matter what the subject matter is. This is just swearing and sexual innuendo for the sake of shock and laughs, although there's no humor to be derived from this joke of a film. Got 2 stars because Jennifer looks absolutely stunning. The writers of this should be flogged for thrusting this on the public. The majority of US movie goers are dense, no arguing that, but not dense enough to devour this. Forget it!

I AGREE THAT THIS IS NO "RESTORATION" At paying full price at $29.99 at Barnes & Noble and reading that it was a restored print from George Eastman House, I was expecting a lot more than what I saw.  The DVD from a few years ago was better than this, though still flawed and needing further restoration.  I give 2 stars only that the story is still one of the greatest regarding Hollywood of yesteryear.  The transfer to Bluray is a shear disappointment, sound & picture, especially when one of the trailers for "Nothing Sacred" with Carole Lombard that is included in the Features portion is in so much better shape than this film.  That film was restored.  Someone needs to call Martin Scorcese, Thelma Schoonmaker & their teams to get this one back into pristine condition.  I'm not wasting money on this classic again until it is fully remastered the way "Gone With The Wind" was done.  Flawlessly.

so so Did not hate or love this movie.  Great photography, but the story kept going too long and the owner finding his horse at the end was almost a "what else can we do with this" type of scene.  The happy ending doesn't do away with too many downer scenes that made me wish I had seen a more happy film.

SORRY 1) Most of the Miles Davis fans I know consider the 2nd period from "In a Silent Way" to his "retirement" to be his best period. The 1973 band is a phenomenal group that has never been equaled to this day. Why is most of this video the 3rd period band widely considered to be Miles' weakest period?  2) God I get tired of camera people and editors on music videos. They all seem clueless. When Pete Cosey is playing they zoom in on Dave Liebman fooling with his amp. Too many closeups of the wrong thing. They never seem to get it right. When the entire band is playing as an ensemble they zoom in on Reggie Lucas' hat. One of the great things about live shows is seeing the band play like a single instrument. Once in awhile its nice to see a closeup of fingers and strings but MOST of it should be the whole band from front row center.  3) Good sound but really there are way better performances from this period, I can't help but thinking there is a better set from Montreux. Obviously Miles was in fine fettle.  I sure wish whoever is controlling the bulk of Miles output from this period would put the stuff out. Much of it is available on bootlegs, why can't the family or CBS release all this truly great stuff for fans? We long time fans know there is amazing stuff available. PUT IT OUT and put someone on it that knows how to edit and what to edit.

They PIRATED me out of a decent package!!!!!! I now have all of the PIRATE movies, but interesting how the greedy pirates at Disney decided that in order to sell their 3D version, they would add a bonus blu ray disc with extras to the package but NOT give one to those of us who only bought the blu ray (and really don't need the regular DVD they stuck in there).  AND THEY LIED ON THE ADVERTISEMENT (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo).  That adds up to 3 discs to me.  And here I am, stuck with a purchase that I have spent over $20+ at Amazon, and it turns out I'm buying based on what the add says, and wind up with a version that Disney has sneaked out under false pretenses.  The movie is fine, the blu-ray is crisp and clean and the sound is great....but all of my other Pirate movies (pre-3D)have a movie disc and a bonus disc, both in blu-ray, and no need to stick in the dvd.  Anyone want to start a complaint group?  I want to get what was advertised and that's all.  Yo ho indeed......

Yeah,it's cut Well,it misses over 4 minutes,which are probably the only interesting ones,given you buy this item  for the gore. The movie itself is not that bad,but still somehow overlong and not really entertaining.It's worth a look though. Uncut running time is 99.24 minutes by the way.

For a film that seemed to work the first time around... ...`Double Take' has not aged very well for me.  I remember seeing this in the theaters and liking it.  It made me laugh and it had action and I was like sixteen and that was all that mattered at the moment.  After the dust cleared and my mind aged I revisited this film to find that it was nothing like I had remembered.  The laughs didn't come as readily as I had hoped and the plot was such a mess I was stumped as to how I enjoyed this at all when I had first seen it.  Then I remembered.  There are some films that knowledgably toss a recognizable and likable name in your face in order to blind you to the ridiculousness of everything going on.  In 2001, those names were Orlando Jones and Eddie Griffin.  For what it's worth, both actors are charismatic as all get out and they feed off each other rather well here.  They have their usual shtick, and it works for them, but when you cast aside their inherent likeability, the film just falls apart.  The action sequences seem out of place and the plot development is vacant.  Really, the only selling point here is the two lead actors.  I am not saying that all `buddy/action' flicks need to make sense.  I am a fan of films like `The Fast and The Furious' and even `Rush Hour', but that is because the films have more focused delivery that allocates for the implausibility of their plots.  They don't make sense but the films are still focused and deceptively cohesive.  `Double Take' doesn't understand that necessity.  It just continually lathers on the crazy without taking the time to polish it, to properly execute it.  This could have worked, but sadly it doesn't.

Just like all proms, the best part happens afterwards It's been three years since Donna (Brittany Snow) watched her family butchered by a knife-wielding chemistry teacher (Johnathon Schaech) who had one too many days of high school girls in short skirts.  Still troubled, she goes to therapy and lives with her aunt and uncle, but otherwise is adjusting well.  Prom night is upon her brain-dead senior class and the killer plans on crashing the party.  Chasing the less-than-intimidating killer is Detective Winn (Idris Elba), a hapless civil servant who is always one step behind the killer without a plan.  Paint-by-the-numbers, folks.  To be honest, I have no clue why this movie is rated PG-13.  The gore is nonexistent, the killings are exclusively off-screen, and a recent nosebleed produces more blood.  Actually, I think I do know why the movie was rated PG-13: the acting.  No blood and no boobs, and the evil character lives!  Are the rules of bad horror movies no longer sacrosanct?  The dialogue in this film is sub-moronic, but that may actually reflect teen speak of the day.  The script is worse.  Given the decisions made by the primary characters, I can only assume this was the sexiest, most expensive Special Ed prom in history (rest assured, the cast is attractive).  There is literally nothing worthwhile in this film other than Idris Elba, whose yeoman's effort drowns in a tidal wave of incompetency and predictability.  Director Nelson McCormick should be ashamed of this cookie cutter effort full of continuity errors and plot holes.  It's so bad that MST3K is also not really an option.  The only real suspense?  I'm still not sure who won prom queen.  Jason Elin

Gory, gross, no hope Okay, it's a horror movie and they don't exactly uplift the viewer. But this one is just plain...mean, nasty, a real downer.  I like a tad bit of fun or comic relief with my horror, but this one offers up a sick universe where no such things exist to counterbalance the nastiness.  That said, Brad Dourif is as effectively creepy as ever as a teacher who does not care for technology inside or outside of his classroom.

Not challenging enough I am intermediate/advanced level for exercising, and I would not use this video again.  Pros: * Violet's personality was tolerable, not fake or over-the-top enthusiastic, just matter-of-fact and calm. * Uh, that's it.  Cons: * I barely felt like I had worked out.  Definitely not intense, in spite of what the description indicated.  With a name like "cardio sculpt", I expected both elevated heart rate and feeling the burn in muscles, but didn't really get any of either.  This was very low impact. * Cue-ing was a little late, I missed several moves on the first try because they weren't cue-ed until she was already doing them, or not clearly explained if in advance. * Although the moves were mostly on beat, they weren't matched smoothly within the phrasing of the music, which made it impossible to establish a rhythm. * Not enough reps of each move. * The music was not bad, but combined with all of the above, the video was boring.  "Crunch: Boot Camp Training" is one of my favorites and I would strongly recommend that one over this for strength/toning.

The Giant Behemoth This movie was okay. In spots there were some flickering, but it played all the way through. I have seen other black and white movies with better picture quality.

Not worth watch again I was so excited to watch "Snow White & The Huntsman" but, I was disappointed. It was not what I had expected. The acting was not good, well, except for Charlize Theron...she was exceptional! This movie just didn't do it for me.

Worth watching for interviews with veterans, but seriously flawed Interviews with veterans are great but that is where the good news end. This is pop history with serious errors, incomplete research, inaccurate CGI, etc. Still, it is enough to spark interest and imagination so that's a plus. Watch it to get some perspective on the horrors of war from people who were there, but then do your own research.  Another, rather annoying fact, is that the documentary literally repeats itself endlessly every 10-15 min or so, because it was designed for commercial breaks. So, multiple times during one episode, the screen goes blank momentarily (where the commercials would be) and then, immediately starts summarizing the entire episode up to that point, to allow for short span of an average viewer who must have "forgot" everything over the commercial break! So, there is actually a lot less material than the length of the episodes may lead you to believe.

Simply Awful This film had potential, but blew it with poor acting and a plot that went every which way.  It really made no sense, and I couldn't wait for it to end.

a blu ray fake copy A beautifull movie, it does not need explanation, you can read too much good things abouth this clasic. Well done for the movie. BUT, the idea of a blu ray disk is an improvement in quallity. and here you have the same as DVD, not even a good video translation to avoid que small surface, the same ugly sound and 1.33 ratio without filling the space in my XBR LX900.  Just more money to the garbage.

Ugh! This movie was just awful!  The acting was horrible; the plot & characters were undeveloped.  The only redeeming quality of this movie is the setting - Chippewa Lake Park was a great place, both before and after it closed in 1976.  The movie is worth a watch ONLY because of the setting.  It's too bad something more worthwhile could not have been filmed there before the park was completely torn down.

Don't Stretch the Image! Unfortunately and like "The Best Years of Our Lives, this Opuls masterpiece has been reformatted to fit the new wide screen television screens.  Hence, the actors are much wider than they should be giving this film--and all others like it--a kind of side show look.  A crying shame is what it is.

Russian slasher flick, takes too long to get on track... Part of Ghost House Underground collection, Trackman (2007) is a slasher film shot in Russia (CCCP), and dubbed in English.  While the language barrier contributes to the film having poor dialog and kind of a rough edge, the major problem is the uneven pacing, and underdeveloped storyline.  Way too much time is spent establishing a creepy "atmosphere", before the level of action finally ramps up in the third act.  Trackman starts out with some promise, as a man named Splint recruits three criminal types to carry out his plan to rob a bank.  Unfortunately things do not go as planned, and some soldiers in the bank are killed.  After grabbing some cash, the three bank robbers each grab a hostage, and escape down into a system of underground tunnels.  The plan is for the three robbers, Grom (Dmitri Orlov), Kirk (Oleg Kamenshchikov), and Kostya (Tomas Motkus), to rendezvous with Splint underground, and then make their escape.  Two of the hostages, Olga (Yuliya Mukhailova) and Katya (Svetlana Metkina) are bank employees, and the third is a police sergeant (Aleksandr Vysokovskiy).  For about 40 minutes, the film follows the group as they wander noisily through the tunnel system, which lucky for them is fairly well lighted.  Along their journey, there are brief shadowy glimpses of the Trackman, a masked figure with goggles, carrying a pickaxe, reminiscent of the killer in My Bloody Valentine.  When Splint is found dying, with his eyes gouged out, the group realizes that they are not alone.  When a strange mist conveniently appears in the tunnel, it is finally time for the Trackman (Aleksey Dmitriev) to swing his pickaxe.  After this, the pace begins to pickup, and the herd is thinned down a bit.  Things get more interesting, when the Trackman sets his sights on Katya, and tries to strangle her long distance using a cord.  Grom manages to save her, and they barely manage to crawl to safety.  Somehow the Trackman remains close behind, and even engages in a little gunplay, before whipping out of all things, his trusty flamethrower!  Grom and Katya battle the Trackman at his hideout, which soon becomes an inferno, bringing this unlikely adventure to a fiery conclusion.  Trackman gets off to a decent start, but quickly looses momentum, dragging on for far too long before it finally gets going.  Even after the action ramps up, most of what occurs is pretty ridiculous, such as when Katya shows no damage after hitting her head with a pipe.  Other strange events are not explained, like how does a motorcycle get stuck on the ceiling of the tunnel, and then somehow get back down again?  Still, the action scenes in the final act are decent enough to keep the film from being a complete waste of time.  Trackman is a fairly robotic killer, who doesn't speak.  He usually moves at a snail's pace, but occasionally is capable of bursts of speed.  Character development in general is very shallow, with the dialog mostly consisting of senseless chatter, or people giving commands or making threats.  The tunnel settings are very inconsistent, and the structure varies widely.  About the only constant are the narrow tracks for mining carts, that run through the tunnels.  Walking through the mud, the cast manages to remain remarkably clean.  There aren't any spectacular kills, and the characters and killer aren't particularly interesting, so Trackman might be best suited to slasher enthusiasts.  The movie is disjointed, inconsistent, unpolished, and loses something in the translation, but it does have pretty decent production values, and a few scary moments and well shot scenes.

Disappointed With Digital Copy I was surprised to discover that Walt Disney supplies only the STANDARD DEFINITION digital copy with their BluRay packages.  This is very disappointing.  It seems that the Ultra-Violet digital copy is true 1080p HD digital copy which is distributed by other studios.  This was confimred by Disney and they did not seem to care that their competition was offering a true 1080p HD digital copy, and would not agree to upgrade my digital copy for Mirror, Mirror.  BAD BUSINESS DECISION..

Sad. .  .Just very. . . very. . .  sad. . . . . This film is/was incorrectly listed under "comedy" on Amazon.com.  A better listing would be "documentary".  For the record. . . I'm overweight myself.  I've been this guys weight, though I'm not now.  Somewhere or the other I saw the word "inspirational".  This movie is NOT "inspirational".  It's really just sad.  Sad in SO many ways.  It's just one sad thing after another.  You want there to be some sort of redeeming value. . . . At least a "happy ending". . . but there's really not.  It's just sad and boring.

BE CAREFUL! I recieved the movie combo on time and in the right condition.  Unfortunately, instead of getting the double feature, I recieved the first NeverEnding Story on both sides of the disc.  The one side was Widescreen, the other side Full Screen.  The packaging is just as listed above with the double feature, but only one version :(  Very Disappointing

MLK Mountaintop DVD This item was really not what I had expected.  The "Eyes on the prize" chapter "The Promised Land" is the best look I've seen on the Memphis speech and the events surrounding it, but "Citizen King" and the History Channel's "King" also do a good job.

Cheesy and miscast! I wasn't the lucky one since I actually rented this and watched it online.  Zac Efron is believable as the leading man, but the leading lady wasn't his match.  She looked too old and wasn't attractive enough to play the love interest of such a handsome leading man.  The story was cheesy and predictable.  The sex scenes looked awkward and I didn't see any chemistry between the lead actors.  Efron's acting at times was as weird as Kirsten Stewart's acting in all of the Twilight movies. "The Lucky One" will appeal to hopeless romantics who enjoy a love story no matter what.  I wanted to know more about Zac Efron's character and see more of the bayou culture...so many scenes with the dogs!!!

Not great The price and service were exemplary. However the series has no fluidity or any real direction. There are some naughty parts in the first disc of the series. But then they didn't know which way to take it. They just kept making them anyway

Director's Cut, just as bad as the Regular Cut I was hoping for more with the "Director's Cut" then just commentary and extra scenes.  the Daredevil "Director's Cut" was 30 minutes longer and the changes , back to the directors original, made the movie better.  as for Elektra, it just didn't do that well as a spin-off. The director makes the action scenes unexciting and just a collection of poor CGI, meanwhile using music in a hamfisted attempt to make the audience have any emotional attachment with the product. Even die-hard Garner fans will struggle to enjoy this dog.....

Horrible acting, improbably storyline Not good.  Bad Acting.  Bad storyline.  Bad camera work.  Bad lighting.  The dog is the best one really.  My 6-year-old liked it, but I had a very hard time watching it.

subtitle????? spanish????? I saw this movie on television and enjoyed it so i bought it for my mother. She needs subtitles and was very disappointed to find out they are in spanish not english. NOT HAPPY!

A slow-paced thriller A middle-aged loner tries to blackmail a young woman into loving him, and pays the price. As a detective story, this movie has serious weaknesses, and the pace is slow, but the DVD subtitles are very easy to read. Will at least improve your French. (In addition to the absence of fingerprints and other logical weaknesses  noted by reviewers, how did the woman have access to Hire's apartment to plant the purse there?)

Pure Hollywood Did a perky white woman ever give Rosa Parks the strength to stay in her seat? The cardboard baddie and her drones are unrealistic. I liked the performance of the two maids which leads me to wonder why they weren't the protagonists. Chick flick reminiscent of Fried Green Tomatos but in no way measures up. (This review reflects my opinion of the movie only and not the book which I haven't read.)

Bored? Only watch if U R Xtremely bored - and have not another thing in the whole video stratosphere 2watch other than this....I gave it a chance, but I will watch Troy for the 112th time B4 continuing to torture myself with this.. sighhh. I should not have even reviewed it. Just should have typed"no"

disappointed It became obvious to me shortly into this movie that it is finally time to call a halt to the resident evil and move on to the afterlife.  It has become such a bore that I had to struggle to remain awake during the running of it. I wish there was something more positive to say, but for me, it is a dud.

"Immortals" I recently watched this film and found the title misleading.  Although the name of the movie is "Immortals", it is mostly about mortals.  There is only about 3 minutes worth of immortal content in this film.  The rest of the movie deals with the shame of being born a bastard.

Very disappointed I've always been a Pixar fan, but this was the first big miss that I've seen from them.  I thought Toy Story 3 was bad, but this was worse.  I should have waited for this movie on DVD from netflix.  $5 was too much to pay for this movie.

The Flop This was the worst of his films. Would of much rather watched Ali G 100 times over than this movie :(

Rather dull and no cardiac effect I really did not like this video. For one thing, the music was incredibly dull as was the set. For another thing, I felt no cardiac effect from the workout and I didn't get the post workout "lift" that I usually get after doing a workout. I think it is too easy. I would recommend Janis Saffell's Beverly Hills Pilates or Ellen Barrett's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00009V7QF">Crunch - Fat Burning Pilates</a> video as much better options.

It is slow and feeble This is the opinion of Brian Garfield in his Western Films book. I saw this film lately in a VHS version, which was a factory, good quality tape, but I felt just like Garfield after seeing this film. Some talking styles irritate. MacMurray's way of talking is such one for me. It is about robbers which quarrel with each others. MacMurray will see his bad ways. I remind you that in IMDB many have liked this film. I do not know why. The actors are good, though, but the story is from B-films.

5 stars for Dalai Lama, 1 star for rest of  'smart' persons ego This is only worth watching for the wisdom and heart of the Dalai Lama.  Take a bunch of 'leaders' in different fields who are working in their field and spirituality, bring them all together to accomplish some great process (renaissance) and see it nearly self-destruct.  Really, the whole premise that you are going to get 'smart' people together to conference, and then tell the Dalai Lama something he does not already know is preposterous.  Every agenda from boycotting China (for the sake of Tibet) to 'I wanna speak to the Dalai Lama' comes up and it's not pretty.  This is mostly a pass for sure.  Watching nearly any other video on the Dalai Lama would be more worth your time.  There is plenty on you tube featuring the Dalai Lama that is better than this.  If you want to pay for it you can go here <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000HRMAQI">A Path to Happiness: His Holiness the Dalai Lama</a>  Yea for Dalai Lama, but check your ego at the door.

Awesome Splatter flick but horrible delivery I love this film and was wanting to add it to my collection.  However, the day I received this in the mail would not be that day.  The disc tabs in the case had broke leaving the disc the slide around while in transit which left horrible, deep scratches all over the disc.  Customer service issued a refund and let me reorder it without shipping.  Hopefully second time is the charm

Focus on Ardennes offensive, no coverage of Eastern Front This documentary picks up where <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002E2QH5E">Gotterdammerung: The Enemy At the Gates</a> ended.  The covered period starts in October 1944, after operation Marketgarden, and ends on 29 March 1945 with the last V2 launch against Britain.  There is some mention of battles around Koeln and the Ruhr industrial region, of the Rhine crossings and of the Remagen bridge, but most of the DVD is about the Ardennes counteroffensive ("battle of the Bulge").  The Ardennes offensive is described in some detail but the supporting maps are barely readable and do not illustrate well the troop movements.  Surprisingly there is an extensive collection of biographies of the major German commanders, including what they did in WWI and what became of them after WWII.  No information about Allied commanders.  There is no coverage whatsoever of the Eastern Front, even though during that time period the Soviets advanced from the Vistula line (Warsaw) to the Oder-Neisse line (Kustrin, Frankfurt an der Oder) just short of Berlin, after having encircled the fortresses of Koenigsberg, Breslau, Poznan.  Therefore, this documentary fails to give an appropriate 360 degrees overview of the vise around Germany in late 44, early 45.

Live ELP, marred by poor sound On the one hand, here is a chance to see live ELP, including my personal fave, Pirates.  It's too bad the sound is exceptionally poor (muddy and imbalanced), which ruins what would have been a great treat.  It's just no fun watching this because the sound is so bad, and I am not an audiophile by any stretch of the imagination.

Get him to the geek (bonus points for making fun of Lars Ulrich) This should have been a funny film, instead it was a f ilm about people you don't really care about. If it had been an over-the-top rock `n' roll fantasy it would have been fine, but instead we get all sorts of mush, like Aldous Snow's reconciliation with his dad, with his ex-wife, and Aaron Green getting the courage to stand up to his boss and to break up with his emotionally manipulative and boring girlfriend. Wooo... aaaaahhh... Some funny bits, like the pretentious "African Child" stuff, and Sean Combs was surprisingly good as a corrupt record executive (then again, maybe he was just playing himself). But I wouldn't recommend this film to anyone, really (the MMF threesome scene, for example, is particularly unpleasant). Oh, wait, maybe I would - the cameo with Lars Ulrich is pretty funny, especially because the filmmakers are particularly unflattering towards him, making Lars look like the dork that he is.

No Blu Ray, No Widescreen.  Pointless to order. Very Very disappointed to see it is not Widescreen, and there was no indication in the original advertising.  I might have even missed it before opening the packaging if I had not gotten bored and read previous reviews.  Since Blu Ray isnt an option yet, I finally broke down and decided widescreen is at least better than nothing.  Now I find I received nothing.  Sent back same day.

Skip it The quality is not that of an HD irrespective of what camera they used. The bright areas are burnt out. If you adjust your TV's brightness the dark areas become really dark. I may still play this disc during a party but am not thrilled with the quality.  Will like to appreciate the offer from the producer/cinematographer to refund the cost of this purchase but the cost of shipping it back is more than the cost of blu ray. And it's too small an amount anyway.  My search for a perfect HD aquarium continues...

Unable to play on US DVD PLAYER I was looking forward to viewing this movie which I hadn't seen available since the early 80's. None of my 3 DVD Players (Sony, Yamaha and Panasonic) would play the movie. I then looked at the box and noticed that the movie was for Zone 2 which is Japan and Europe. I don't understand how this shipment could have occurred.

Poorest Quality This movie although old, is of the poorest quality of all the old movies I ever purchase. If I had known it was going to look and sound like it does, I would not have bought it.

4 Film Favorites? REALLY?!! When I think of my favorite Sylvester Stallone films, I think of ROCKY, FIRST BLOOD, NIGHTHAWKS, not ANY of these films. I'd pick ROCKY IV over OVER THE TOP, RAMBO II instead of THE SPECIALIST. This is just a pile of mediocre Stallone films in an attempt to actually SELL them.  DEMOLITION MAN is probably the best of the bunch (however some reviewers are claiming that you can't turn off the director's commentary, so beware). Unlike the other action films Stallone or several others have been in, this film has a clever sense of humor, thanks in part to some hilarious banter from Wesley Snipes. Stallone is the perfect straight man, but the role of the comic foil is handed to Sandra Bullock. Quite simply, she isn't funny. After a funny setup of the pacifist future San Angeles, and Stallone and Snipes a pair of 90s rivals doing battle in the future, the film gets bogged down by typical action boredom. Do check out the foreshadowing of Arnold Schwarzenegger's political career as Sly and Bullock discuss "President Scharzenegger," funniest moment in the movie.  TANGO & CASH has its moments. Kirt Russel and Sly turn out to be a well-matched comedic pair, but the story is so one-dimensional, and there really is no payoff at the end. Better than COBRA, but still not worth it.  THE SPECIALIST is incredibly boring. I couldn't even sit through the whole movie, falling asleep within 30 minutes of the film.  OVER THE TOP is probably the worst here, although I enjoyed it more than THE SPECIALIST. At least the title perfectly describes the film: OVER THE TOP. I think Norm MacDonald really outlined this movie perfectly: "It combines the emotional drama of a child custody battle with... ARM WRESTLING!" And that's basically, the whole movie. How Sly could have possibly though Arm Wrestling would be an interesting sport is beyond me, however the final match does leave you on the edge of your seat. The big problem is Stallone's son, who is unbearably annoying as is the whole premise to this stupid plot involving his grandfather. However, if you are an avid Stallone fan, than you have to watch this!  If you're not much of a Stallone fan, I highly recommend ROCKY, which is simply one of the best movies of all time. Some of the sequels, II, III and ROCKY BALBOA are good too. His best action movie? Probably RAMBO, although I think FIRST BLOOD is much higher quality film in terms of plot, execution, and political statement. Get those movies before checking out this "Film Favorites" and you'll see it is improperly titled.

Alien: Regression With the self-sacrifice of Ripley in Alien 3, the Alien series could have just ended right there with two classic films and a good but troubled third installment. But what do you know? It seems that 200 years after the events of the previous film, they managed to make a clone of Ripley from blood samples that were taken before she died. But why bother with the cloning process when there is barely anything worthwhile in this film?  First off, did I already mention that Ripley is not in this film? Yes, Sigourney Weaver is part of the cast, but now her character has alien DNA that gives her certain traits shared by the aliens that her previous incarnation has been fighting off. Then we have a crew of scientists and other ship members that are poorly developed, most notably being the miscast Winona Ryder. Even the all bald males on the prison planet in Alien 3 had more depth to their characters! These are nothing more than your typical cardboard cutouts given their stereotypical role.  The script is rather cliche and tired if anything. Joss Whedon takes the screenwriting responsibilities rather than director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, who is well known for screenwriting the rest of his works. We could tell what was going to happen from a mile away, further eliminating any aspect of suspense. It comes to the point that we don't care that the characters are getting killed. It just comes to show that paper thin personalities blend well with predictable deaths.  While the film isn't terrible, it just comes off as a pointless live-action cartoon that has "Alien" slapped on it. Only recommended for die-hard fans, otherwise, you're not missing out.

Unoriginal, Predictable - Strictly Fanboy Fluff Ridiculously over-hyped, overblown and thankfully - over there.  Basically, I'm over it.  I'm not sure I'm watching the same film as so many of the reviewers here.  Have a strong suspicion I'm dealing with drooling fanboys slobbering over their manga and anime discs next to a film guide thesaurus to bolster their unrequited love.  I get that this is supposed to be a dystopian drama - dark, ugly, claustrophobic, a populace faced with hopelessness in a dingy monochromatic world. And I guess this Japanese/Russian film does convey that appropriately.  But it's the tired retread of a screenplay itself that does it in, at least in my opinion.  The story of a 'young star' that will rock the staid establishment - someone who will go farther than any other person ever has - is far from an original plot. I can think of a dozen films that has that as the main storyline. So it's on shoulders of the writers/director to find a unique angle to accommodate their vision. Avalon fails in this most important and basic requirement.  Blending elements of '<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00007KQA3">1984</a>' and most obviously '<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000P0J0AQ">The Matrix</a>' - finds Ash (Malgorzata Foremniak) as one of the premiere gamers, quite possibly the best game player in the world. She hears a rumor that the interactive online gaming system she has mastered, Avalon, has a secret level - a level guarded by something so bizarre that the few players that have faced it are invariably left brain dead. This includes her former teammate and team leader, who now resides in a hospital bed, lost in a permanent vegetative state.  Her goal: Locate the secret level, defeat it and move into a world that can't be imagined.  Unoriginal and decidedly bland. And the ending is oh-so-predictable it borders on satire.  This is what happens when 15-year olds who never grow up, end up as 40-year olds with a film school degree.  No surprise that James Cameron is quoted on the dvd cover, no surprise at all.

Passable fantasy adventure; worst movie score ever? As medieval fantasy adventure goes, Ladyhawke is passable. The conceit of the lady being a hawk by day and her sweetiepie a wolf by night is clever. And it's decently executed here by director Donner, and stars Broderick, Hauer, Pfeiffer and McKern. But the music score? Who, even in the 80s, thought that something like this was a good idea for a medieval story? This awful score would barely do justice to a Starsky & Hutch or Magnum PI--where it actually might kind of properly belong. My wife and I watched the film recently and were practically rolling on the floor with laughter as this 80s musical kitsch filled our living room coincidentally with scenes from a medieval fantasy. It absolutely ruins the film.

Inferior McLintock DVD Unfortunatly this DVD is poor quality. The sound track doesn't always match the mouths of actors and there is a shadow or double image particularly in the beginning. I was very disapointed. Thinking of returning this DVD. Bird Lady

meh In some ways an interesting plot, but overall I thought the acting was average at best. The movie is fairly dark and gruesome, though it does have somewhat of a redeeming message mixed in. Also some fairly explicit sex scenes (to the line of being what some would likely consider to be pornographic). If you're mainly looking for a movie with very graphic violence then I think you will probably enjoy this to some degree. If not, then I probably wouldn't waste your time.

Great production for disturbing material If you like the perverse, this is the DVD for you. Well-acted and well-produced, but the content is disturbing (to say the least).

boring I know this was supposed to be some great funny movie, but I just didn't get it. It started off OK, Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis were fine, but it just got boring. I couldn't see the point of the movie, even in retrospect. Why make this movie? Plus, the Michael Keaton character was so annoying, I just wanted to go away. I know he was supposed to be annoying, so fine, he did a good job with that, but I don't want to have to listen to it. We watched as a family and my 8-year-old son hated it too. My husband liked it. Maybe it's a guy thing, a grown-up guy thing.

Blu Ray Video Quality is Poor This is a review of the PQ of the newly released blu ray of the original True Grit. There is so much edge enhancement applied to the picture that it appears fake, more like overprocessed video than film. I found it very distracting through the entire movie, and would never choose to watch this blu ray again.  Not unless it was remastered properly and reissued (not likely).  Stay away from this blu ray release. At the very least, rent it before you buy it to avoid disappointment.

Great acting, lousy story. Meryl Streep did an amazing job in her role, amazing performance.  However, we did not like this ,movie due to the horrible writing.  This could have been such a good movie about the rise of Margret Thatcher.  Instead the primary focus was her going senile, most people will have problems as the age.  We were disappointed that the director chose to capitalize on her aging problems instead of delivering a solid story about this historical woman, I'm glad we rented this.  This is one we will never watch again.  Real disappointment.

Dreadful & disappointing I must say I was extremely disappointed with the is movie, it was, at best B grade and poorly acted with a wishy washy story line, no more Titan sequels for me!

Too much bad Salt I saw it once.  Don't believe the reviews about this being a smart or intelligent thriller.  Smart is not a CIA agent open firing at someone in the middle of bumper to bumper traffic where innocent people could easily be hit by a ricochet.  Intelligent is not obsessing if one of your own is a traitor after the same informant kills two of your people.  I have no interest in seeing it again.

Nothing to see here... move along I wish I had read the reviews for this movie before I lost 90 minutes of my life to it.  I gave it two stars, because the production was OK and that saved it from one star.  The plot really was fairly meaningless with little to no character development.  The latter is a must if you are going to make a drawn out film that really has no ending that ties the whole effort together in some way.  Otherwise it is just a bunch of stuff that just happened.  So at the end of the day, the "mystical", lack-luster ending left me feeling empty and also left me feeling that my time would have been better spent people-watching at the mall for an hour and a half.

Absurd ** SPOILERS INCLUDED **  Children, especially teenagers, are smarter than what parents think. Hence, the foundation of the plot is absurd for these reasons: 1) a 14 year old high school freshman girl meets a guy online who she thinks is a sophomore.... 2)...then the guy admits the he is really in college (she keeps talking to him)... 3)... then the guys admits that he is a graduate student (she is still talking to him)... 4)...then they meet in person and they looks like he's 40! (she still talks to him).  Really?  No, really?  This was a .99 rental on Amazon Instant Video and I stopped the movie right there. It was just impossible for me to believe that in the age of 'To Catch a Predator' and extensive media coverage of situations like this that a modern teenage girl wouldn't have run for dear life, or at the very least realized that the guy was a creep and ditched him.  Giving it 2 stars because of the great acting in the 30 minutes that I watched.

Disappointed I have always received good products from Amazon.  The DVD Braveheart works 1/4 of the way through the movie, Then it stops and starts at the beginning.  I would like to return.

Timeline with Gerard Butler Received Broken and Glued I received three movies today and even though Timeline was in a sealed package it is cracked near the center and is tacky as it has been glued. Not real happy with this but I do not think I should pay the expense to send it back. The other two were fine.

My son yawned halfway through the movie I watched this in the theatre with my four and half year old son. While we had enjoyed Cars at home, this time we were disappointed. One might argue the movie is a bit too violent and sinister for kids his age but even as an adult I found the movie to be dreary - little substance under the fancy wrapping paper of high end graphics.There is a plot and an agenda but the presentation fails to deliver. My son didn't like the movie at all. This was a very different experience from watching Bugs Life, Monsters Inc and Toy Story with him.

Buy the remastered version The sound on this video is muddled and difficult to understand--it sounded better in the 50's on my parents' black and white TV.  The coloring is less than realistic and the action-to-sound sync just the tiniest bit off.  All in all, it makes the film not worth watching

Movie froze to often to finish I could not finish this movie because it kept freezing. The last several times I have rented a movie from Amazon they all have frozen.

Underwhelming time passer This film professes to be based on a true story, but the question is, why? There's no mystery solved. There's no significant details revealed. If you want to spend almost 2 hours watching a police detective watching a self-proclaimed clairvoyant, that's all this movie is.....  It's 90% about a police detective trying to decide if a self-proclaimed clairvoyant (in the psychic sense of the word) is actually able to see things that no one else can in an attempt to solve a murder. If you're naive enough to buy into such things, then you might find this film more engaging. If you're more realistic, then it comes across a more silly and slightly boring. It's not done in a fantastic sense, but in a real world, almost docu-drama sense. It just doesn't work.  The "clairvoyant's" silly actions of falling on the ground and such whenever he gets a vision get old far before the film ends, and in the end, it's meaningless.  I bought this based on a review on another site claiming that this had a strong word of mouth when it was released, but then fell in obscurity, and was a forgotten gem. Reality is that it was forgotten for a reason.

not worth your time Yah  - Pretty below average movie for Jonah Hill. Predictable plot and characters - this has all been done before.  Was too bored to finish watching it.

Disappointed I find this DVD to have poor instruction, and the names of "sets" are unfamiliar to me. I feel like it may be outdated since it was released in 2007. I also don't like the lack of instructed warm-ups and cooldowns. It makes the experience feel disjointed. Overall it's difficult to follow what Ana Caban is doing, and the poor camera angles don't help. I also didn't feel challenged by this DVD at all, never broke a sweat even though I consider myself a beginner. Perhaps I'm not doing the movements right, but since there's no guided instruction I can't be sure. I'm mostly interested in a quick Pilates workout I can integrate into my rushed mornings to help get me up and feeling awake. Although I don't hate it, this DVD really just doesn't do anything for me, and I'm pretty disappointed.

the package was broken i cant put the disc on the package because is broken and if i leave it in the disc will be loose and might get damage. i have a picture of the product

Waste of time The story was convoluted and the movie was too long.  Interaction between characters was forced and unbelievable.  The effects were okay.  I would not waste my time watching it again or encouraging others to spend time and money on this movie.

Too Overtly Political Not about cuddly penguins, this film, if watched closely should make you feel uneasy. There are references to mating, sex (Salt n Peppa's song that says Let's talk about sex) and another song says I just need your body. I began to ask myself just who this movie was made for. Also, I just wouldn't own a movie that goes as far as Happy Feet does on this whole pushing a big, left wing political agenda. First, it makes the older penguins look like fundamental Christians and displays them as sticks in the mud trapped in tradition to the point that it's causing the penguin population to suffer. So, you can see how Hollywood views Christians (or those they believe to be Christians) and constantly makes fun of them.  Second, I understand being responsible and taking care of the earth. But, since when do animals come before humans that humans should completely stop consuming a certain resource (fish) and give them all to the penguins? It's just ridiculous. I'm sure PETA applauds this one, but I don't. If the message was don't overfish, then I would be fine with that. But, the message is clearly a very narrow minded, extreme liberal agenda. I just wish Hollywood Studios could come out with a kid's film that wasn't anti-Christian and without their version of environmental awareness and maybe just have a simple moral to the story such as treat each other kindly, don't be bullies or be generous or something like that? I don't care what your views are. If you're going to trash a movie by filling it chalk full of propaganda, then at least put a big warning on it or title it "A Movie about how people should stop fishing with a few dancing penguins thrown in".

Done better before If you want to watch a good film about alien abduction, Fire in the Sky does it better. If you want the cream of the crop of alien abduction, then watch the X-Files television series. The 4th Kind is alright, but it's been done much better before.

Train wreck, but at least Isla Fisher looks cute I was so excited when I heard Confession of a Shopaholic was going to be a movie because I absolutely love the books. Yes, the books are incredibly stupid, but I still think they're cute and funny.  Well, I missed the movie in theaters and kind of forgot about it until I was flipping through my on-demand listings tonight (yes, 2 years later!). I knew from the movie trailer/commercials that it was going to be different (ie, Becky & co being American, set in NY, etc), but wow, I had no idea how different the movie would be. I feel like the differences really ruined the movie too. In the movie, Luke is a total schlub, works for a magazine, and there's that whole fashion magazine thing. None of that happens in the books, nor do Suzy and Tarkie get married until later. It was a total train wreck.  Do yourself a favor and read the books instead!

Where's the Disc? So, the first info says 3 discs but the description only says two - for both 5 and 6.  So, which is it and what is the mysterious and possibly non-existant 3rd disc??  Also, if material was cut to shorten the final film (i.e. removed only for length) then there should be no need for the director to do anything.  An editor/edit team simply inserts the already ready footage (electronic signals) back at the points they were moved from.  I do not know why (sarcasm) but I have a feeling there will be a New, Improved Double Ultimate Edition in our futures.

A Fantasy Island Stepford is a mythical place in Connecticut where fantasy's come true. However, they end there, too.    This film might be worth three dollars. Maybe.

If you gave it five stars there is no way you read the book! If you gave this movie five stars then I can't imagine you read the book. The books are always a million times better than the movies. I think it would be worth it to have five parts to this movie just so it could be more accurate to the book. Of course some hate he books but I really enjoyed reading them. If you hate the books then you are just a Twilight hater so this review does apply to you at all. If you really enjoyed the movie then I beg you to read the book because you are really missing out. I loved the series of books much more than the movies.

Too much crouching of the upper body. I know what the charismatic Sean T. is trying to do:  get the abs to do what they're designed to do, which is, among other things, to curl the upper body.  The problem is that his technique only accentuates the upper-body (thoracic) curvature, which is already exaggerated in so many of us.  At least it doesn't put the strain on the neck that the horrible crunches and even worse sit-ups do.  Instead, learn Pilates and try practicing the Pilates breathing on a mini-trampoline (please don't hurt yourself on a cheap one--ReboundAIR is the most reasonable high-quality rebounder) while bouncing as if you have the slightest slant board behind you.  Or sitting bounces.  Wow--4 min. and I can see & feel the difference.  I only do this targeted ab work a couple of times a month 'cause I'm not terribly diligent, and I have a flatter belly now at age 57 and 2 kids than when I was age 30 (I have the pictures to prove it).

2 hour SNL skit that won't quit I'd heard such wonderful things about this movie that I jumped at the chance to rent it for only .99 through Amazon's Video on Demand.  About 30 minutes into it, I started to worry.  The movie was advancing so slowly that it felt like a drawn out SNL skit that wouldn't end.  Things did get a little better and I smiled two or three times by the end of it. If you really like Kristen Wiig or Maya Rudolph, you might enjoy this.  However, as a weekly viewer of SNL, I failed to laugh out loud even once.

Very difficult to keep up!!!! Honestly these are great workouts...for professional that is. It was very frustrating trying to keep up with almost every move that instead of feeling good about my workout i felt stressed. I had to constantly pause and practice the moves on my own for a few min before pressing play again. At first i thought i was just being lazy and i keept on telling my self, "oh ill eventually learn the moves"...WRONG!!! Tell me why i was able to keep up with the workout INSANITY with no problem (not that it was easy),yes the moves on this workouts were hard but at least they were in a normal paste. Then i realized no its not me, im not the problem its Turbo Fire and their crazy SUPER FAST workout moves. Plese people dont waste your money in something that your probably not going to use. I would recomed this to someone who has been working out for a long time or someone who can use their whole day learning moves to then use as a work out. Im a beginner in my 20s and not overweight but omg this was not for me.

2 1/2 stars for an art snob satire Sometimes even if you don't get what a filmmaker is trying to do, you like the result.  And then sometimes you do get it, but don't like it.  This film has half a dozen totally unlikeable characters, all narcissistic artists - is that redundant?  The beautiful but way quirky gallery owner has one brother (Eion Bailey) whose art is very commercial but it keeps her financially flush.  She doesn't like him or his art all that much, instead she likes the bizzarro artists of modern style.  You know the type.  Stick a cigarette on the wall, give it a name and call it art.  Well the gallerist (Marley Shelton), does like the brother of her bread winner (Adam Goldberg) who's as nutso about his music as the guy sticking the ciggy on the wall is about art.  I understand how this is a satire about art snobs, but I found the whole thing rather tedious if not odious.

Black Swan For some inexplicable reason, Amazon has removed the rate-movie feature from the main product page. One must now write a review in order to rate a movie and generate recommendations. This is not a review, but merely a means to allow me to rate this movie and improve my recommendations. If you are as annoyed by this new "feature" as I am, please register your protest w/ Amazon help.

Moore Shines in Mediocre Action Thriller Released as "ffolkes" outside the United Kingdom, "North Sea Hijack" (1979) provides Roger Moore with a surprisingly good character role. However, one wishes this action thriller was more effective. Director Andrew V. McLaglen cannot salvage a formulaic script and lackluster production values. The solid cast (including James Mason and Anthony Perkins) makes for an OK time-filler. McLaglen and Moore fared better with "The Wild Geese" (1978).

Roan DVD-R This is not a review of the movie but of the Roan release.  As of March 2012 (and probably earlier), Roan/Troma is selling theirs on DVD-R, which was not mentioned in Amazon's listing, or by the Marketplace seller I used.  Roan's release has some marginal extras, which may make it the more coveted version, but if DVD/DVD-R is important to you, consider the Image DVD instead, or inquire with used sellers.  I will be returning this DVD-R.

Almost fell asleep. I wanted to punch everyone in this movie in the face: The main characters, all the extras, paw-paw, and I guess shirt-shirt as well. At times I was confused as to who the male/female main character was, as they had same haircut and body frame. From watching the trailer I had somewhat higher expectations, things could have been more interesting, but they just drag on, and on, and on. I vision Miranda July and Hamish Linklater working at Starbucks, not in theatrics.

Mae West and W.C. Fields??? A mistake in itself!!!! Just to start off this review, let me just say that I am a Mae West fan. However, I don't believe "My Little Chickadee" (1940) is a good West film at all! The film is something of a "Destry Rides Again" (1939) spin-off and, I must say... it's not a good one at all!!!! The film's cheesy, corny, meaningless, and going-nowhere plot is so dragged out that the film so impossible to enjoy! Another thing is that Mae and co-star W.C. Fields don't share good chemistry. In my opinion I think Fields is completely wrong for the part anyways. Why couldn't they cast Mae with a handsome young man? Who said W.C. Fields was a good or bankable actor? And why did this film have to be a corny western? Some westerns make the grade, but, ta! Not this one! And hello, Mae and W.C. Fields didn't get along anyways. They should've fired him when Mae kicked him off the set for drinking and replaced him with someone who was way better. But I guess if you like the corny, cheesy, meaningless westerns and Mae West, you should get this movie.

NOT A REAL DIGITAL COPY Though the digital copy is not the biggest thing in buying this movie, I personally like to expand that library as well and well this movie does not provide that.  You cannot put it on your phone or use it on any tablet. You can use it on the ONLY PROGRAM it will let you which I hadn't heard about until I bought it.  Ultraviolet. And well this program will let you use your other digital copy files, it will not permit you to use the property you bought with any other program. it is not a "Digital Copy" it is an "ULTRAVIOLET digital copy" ie. worthless.

Good action, weak plot Maybe I've watched one too many spy thrillers, but the twist in this one was clear from the moment ... well I don't want to spoil it. I'll just say someone who plants bugs for a living should know better. It was so obvious that I thought it might be one of those fake twists to throw people off when they think they've got it. Disappointingly, it wasn't.  I was able to suspend disbelief for the pleasantly over-the-top action, yet I couldn't stop wondering why this rosy-cheeked assistant was ever considered for "special ops training" in the first place. From the beginning, he would just mess things up and get lucky enough to talk his way out of it. He'd make a better politician than clandestine terrorist hunter.  As an action flick, the second part of the movie doesn't disappoint. There's a fair amount of creative death and destruction, and a respectable car chase. It just felt like a waste of talent. This would be a good movie to play in the background while doing laundry.

Boring The "evidence for faith" was silly, and the story moved so slowly I fell asleep less than half-way into it. Too boring to replay. Maybe it ended well?

Disappointing I loved The Lorax as a kid.  i loved the book, and I loved the cartoon that would come as an evening special on network tv.  I was extremely excited when I saw it would be made into a full length film, and couldn't wait to see it.  I would have watched it in the theatre, but I couldn't swing the funds at that time, and when I could I had other things I needed to do.  So when it came available to rent online, i did it.  I was pretty disappointed.  Not so much for the story, or anything that was great, and that is why it got two stars.  The songs ruined the whole movie.  It would be one thing to have intelligent, humourous lyrics to add to the film.  That would have been ok.  However, the songs were inane, idiotic and did not add anything to the film.  In fact they were very irritating, and as I stated before ruined the whole thing.  If you want to watch it, that is your choice...however I will not be purchasing this film.

CHOP GOOEY Adam Green who was so subtle in his FROZEN shows little restraint in this blood-soaked sequel to HATCHET.  I've been a lifetime horror fan my whole life but it seems today's films rely on massive gore rather than real scares.  Aside from the insane ways the cast is bumped off, HATCHET II has little imagination or thrills. The story picks up from the original and instead of mindless teens we get mindless rednecks.  We even get Tony Todd as "Rev. Zombie". Danielle Harris from the original HALLOWEEN is our heroine..now HALLOWEEN is one scary flick. If you like lotsa gore, this is for you.

Didn't much care for it. Bored.  As a med student, ... I like to make allowances for film, but this pretense had me yawning to tears.  Goodnight and good luck.

Faster than a speeding bullet!!! Good thing, I read the Deathly Hallows in the book. I liked it very much. But the DVD finally came in and I just watched it. If I hadn't read the book I wouldn't have been able to follow the story at all. The scenes changed so fast with a whsssh! They didn't make any sense at all.

No, the critics didn't see something I missed I purchased Rio Bravo with some humility, knowing that Roger Ebert makes a case for it as a great film. So I watched it, dumbfounded. Then I turned on the commentary by critic Richard Schickel and director John Carpenter, and made it about half-way before I gave up. The emperor has no clothes.  Not only is the film awful, but the commentary is inane bordering on stupid. Carpenter calls Rio Bravo "my favorite film," but he doesn't get it that the Burdettes are big ranchers, not "a gang of thieves." The "gang of thieves" would be in The Magnificent Seven, a movie released a year after Rio Bravo. Nathan Burdette wears, in the course of the film, three 19th C equivalents of Armani suits with Luchessi boots and a cream-colored Stetson that would go today for about $500. It's true that the sheriff identifies Burdette's men as "pros," but that's just the fantasyland of cheap Hollywood westerns. What are they "pros" for? They apparently don't do anything but sit around Burdette's ranch being bad. Not like the pros Ryker hires in Shane (1954) to harass the settlers.  The casting is amazing. Dean Martin actually looks good in comparison to Ricky Nelson and Angie Dickinson, who are embarrassments. Nelson's delivery of his lines is so arch and narcissistic that the only thing more irritating is how "pro" John Wayne repeats endlessly that he's "the real thing." Horst Buchholz and Steve McQueen in The Magnificent Seven are the real thing; "Colorado" is a kid playing cowboy. Dickinson is burdened with dialog that Katherine Hepburn couldn't have made believable, and situations beyond any stretch of credulity. Her character is a bizarre anachronism (she has her first private conversation with Wayne in her underwear, but we are to understand that she is a "good girl" maligned by prejudice). Hawks wants to have it both ways with her, but he doesn't have Hepburn or Bacall to pull it off.  Either Schickel or Carpenter claims that Wayne and Hawks made Rio Bravo as a response to 3:10 to Yuma -- a much better film released in 1957 -- because they found the notion of a "pro" asking the townspeople for help "disgusting." Fairly bizarre, because Ebert quotes Wayne at length on how the film was a response to High Noon (1952) and the disgusting notion that the hardy frontier settlers wouldn't chip in to help. They aren't totally contradictory explanations, but fishy. They also explain that Hawks was responding to the decline of the screen Western and rise of mediocre TV westerns. This decline is evidenced by High Noon (1952), Shane (1954), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), The Last Hunt (1956), Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957), Bad Day at Black Rock (1957), The Searchers (1956), The Big Country (1958), Man of the West (1958), The Left-Handed Gun (1958), and Warlock (1959). And that's just the best of the bunch. Meantime, Hawks borrows from the TV western he despises claustrophobic sets, arch dialog, utter disregard for historical accuracy, hokey names (the five main characters are named Chance, Dude, Colorado, Stumpy and Feathers), and a plot that was a cliche the first time he used it, in a silent film. Rio Bravo is pretty much a big screen TV western.  Carpenter would have us believe that Rio Bravo, in 1959, redefined the Western film. Hogswaddle. It was such a dead end that Hawks himself remade it twice (Eldorado and Rio Lobo). Within a year, Sturges had done one of the greatest westerns in the film canon, The Magnificent Seven (inspired by the greatest film ever made, Kurosawa's Seven Samurai), no thanks to Hawks. You couldn't put any more space between the lawmen of Rio Bravo and the Seven. Robert Vaughan drinks Dean Martin's milkshake as the self-doubting expert gunman, and Horst Buchholz owns "the kid." Ford had made the other contender for best, The Searchers, three years ago, and would soon move on to Sgt. Rutledge and Liberty Valance. The best westerns of the early '60s owe little to Hawks: The Magnificent Seven, Liberty Valance, The Unforgiven, Ride the High Country. And Hawks is not on any road map that will get you to The Wild Bunch.  We are to love this movie for the music, by Dmitri Tiomkin (who wrote the theme for the despised High Noon). The only thing memorable about it is the strange variations on "As Time Goes by" that creep in when Wayne is talking to Dickinson. Ebert tells us the "No Quarter" song (the Deguello) haunts the entire film. Actually, after doing a five-minute set piece on it, Hawks forgets to keep it going -- as Burdette has supposedly paid the musicians to do. The score is barely noticeable and seldom even pertinent, especially in comparison to the incredible score Elmer Bernstein wrote for The Magnificent Seven.  This is a silly movie, in a bad way. I loved it as a kid, but it's a movie made by adolescent impulses and sensibilities, with a homoerotic subtext that is childishly oblivious to itself. Just a round of equivalences to The Searchers shows how immature the conception is. Compare Wayne's Ethan Edwards to John T Chance, Jeffery Hunter to Ricky Nelson, Vera Miles to Angie Dickinson, Stumpy to Old Mose, even the embarrassing cartoon "Mexican" hotel keeper to the Comanchero who finds Debbie. The Searchers has its flaws, but Rio Bravo is a kid with a stick gun peeking at girlie magazines.

**SPOILERS** Disappointing film. **SPOILERS**  Maybe I missed a point or two because I didn't quite understand what was wrong with the central character. The film's pace was a little different yes but it was effective no. A bride is feeling moody, drunk, unwell, happy, unhappy all at once. Her sister's piercing looks are getting the worse of her but she is trying not to care. Minutes into her marriage she commits adultery. There is also an end - of - earth situation which is running parallel to her story of being unhealthy. Amidst all this there is a bad relationship between two sisters which is rather uncomfortable to watch. The climax is finally when things get into motion and what happens is well...justified?  But the whole affair seemed really pointless. It was not even arty or fun to watch. The entire texture or the mood of the film is coarse. This is not the film you will look back in four years for inspiring moments, even the grief didn't transpire or move me as an audience member. Although I didn't hate the film, I feel inclined to mention my opinion cause I'm pretty sure I saw the same film as the others.  2011 was a year where another similar science fiction was made, I suggest you go try that one too. It's called Another Earth and it is much better, more capable and somehow doesn't act like an excuse a bad student makes for failing a class.  Good luck.

Does not deliver The original Mission Impossible stories used to take one, or on a special occasion, two episodes for special occasions, to tell their story. Dated they may be, but they are streets ahead of this disappointing sequel to the revival that seems to drag out a flimsy story into over two hours. It takes 40 minutes for the story to start properly, and then when it does there is way too much invested in lovey-dovey nonsense. This isn't supposed to be a love story; it's supposed to be an action flick and as such needs to move fast. A few fancy effects yes, but who can't do this there days in movies. Does not deliver.

A Furious, Fists-First Showcase of Masculinity When a nuclear winter descends on the entire planet, the last survivors of humanity forage the globe in search of food, fuel and fisticuffs, not necessarily in that order. In fact, any yearning for the first two items on the list only seems to exist so these last men standing have a reason to throw down. With a grand total of three body types in play (child, inconceivably muscular and, in just one instance, morbidly obese) there's clearly a distinct appearance that's best suited for surviving an apocalypse, and on the surface it would appear that we're walking into a series of evenly-matched competitions. But that's when the Dragon Ball Z-styled aural superpowers kick in, and the mass of limbs begin their lazy, bloody, individual arcs through the sky. There's very little substance to this story - really, it's just a nonstop barrage of enemies against differing backdrops a'la the fighting games of the mid '90s - so it's good news that the battles are at least viscerally entertaining. Gorier than Mortal Kombat with the blood set to high, it's amusing at best if not terribly consequential.

Insidepulse Movies - Mike Noyes read my full review here:  If you're requirements for a horror film are blood, gore, death and gratuitous nudity, then Blood Oath might be the kind of horror film you can sink your teeth into...  [...]

Good Idea, Bad Execution --SPOILER FREE REVIEW SPOILER FREE REVIEW  I'm a Nicholas Cage fan and despite very solid performances by Nicholas Cage, Amber Head, and William Fichtner, they could not save a bad script and horrible direction.  I think this movie is a great example of having a good idea but being unable to execute effectively.  The premise and plot are very interesting however the script was not cohesive and the direction could not quite find the right balance between being bad ass over the top and being grounded enough to connect us to the characters.  Some parts of the movie come off as cartoonish, some as if it should be on Jack Ass, some as if it should be on Airplane...  basically the movie is just a giant mess.  But even with all that, I think the actors did a phenonmenal job.  So IMO, its just not their fault, but rather a bad script and horrible direction.  amnightus

Over-rated!  The Godfather It Ain't A confusing script, actors that so physically resemble each other they are difficult to distinguish, overly long and poorly edited, gratuitous violence, and a self-indulgent commentary from the lead actor, director, and screen writer that clarifies nothing. ("It rained." "You were really good here." "I love how this turned out." "You should have showed more emotion."  "We did 29 takes and were tired."). Although some brilliant cinematography and a masterful performance by the Danish godfather Cesar, the film is no "masterpiece" as some have claimed.  One needs "cliff notes" to follow the convoluted story.  Count how many times the lead actor takes off or puts on a shirt, or walks down still another hall.  The film may be more enjoyable if you speak French, Corsican, and Arabic, as the subtleties in many of those exchanges are lost with the sub-titles.  The "ghost" bit didn't work for me either.  And, the title?  I have no idea what the point of it was.  I see dead deer???  Hopefully, no sequels are planned!

Adam Sandler not at his best....or worst. Not very funny to me. Really did not live up to the hype.  Should have paid more attention to the reviews.

Literally made me gag Argghh. Yuck.  Ptooey.  If there is a more revolting -- literally -- movie than the remake of "Piranha" I hope I never see it.  Alexandre Aja managed to throw every cliche in the book into this regurgitating mishmash:  underwater earthquake unleashes prehistoric species which turns populated area into a giant Cuisinart, pulverizing everything they latch their razor teeth into.  Blood and gore galore.  Teenagers frolicking on the beach at spring break, silly obligatory side story, lots of gratuitous nudity (how this movie managed to get an R movie with all that boobage showing is beyond my comprehension), etc. etc. etc.  Bodies chewed into holes, ripped in half, savaged in ways you won't want to imagine.  You've seen it all a hundred times in a hundred other movies, most of them better done than this one.  The whole movie is in execrable taste.  Apparently one of the piranhas thought so too.  The funniest scene in the movie takes place when the piranha chows down on a private part of the male anatomy, burps it back up and spits it out.  That scene alone earns the movie a second star.  Judy Lind

Video PR release I saw Keith Olberman and Bill Maher's interview and I was intrigued. This video is just a nothing but a PR bio. No science. I had thought it was something in the Carl Sagan mode. Two stars for my bad, and his.

Remarkably Average.... Let me start off by saying I am a huge fan of the Justice League, as well as a fan of the majority of the DC Animated movies.  That being said, Justice League "Doom" is a largely forgettable and mildly entertaining feature.  When I first heard there was going to be a Justice League animated feature with the Legion of Doom I was pumped.  When you mention Legion of Doom to fans of the old Super Friends and Justice League Unlimited series you think about of the most entertaining villains in the DC Universe.  You think of Luthor...Sinestro...Gorilla Grodd...Bizarro...Braniac...Solomon Grundy.  I was bored out of my mind watching this new Legion of Doom led by Vandal Savage.  I new when I purchased this DVD that I was not going to see my beloved Legion of Doom, but I had hoped that this new Legion would be somewhat interesting...unfortunately that was not the case.  It's very difficult to make a successful superhero animated feature, cartoon, movie...whatever...if the villains are about as interesting as watching paint dry.  Additionally, I was not a fan of the animation.  I know the "anime" look is all the rage...and in many instances I can overcome the anime look...but in this case I really disliked how my favorite heroes were animated.  This animated feature is a rental at best, and the special peek at the next DC Animated feature (Superman vs The Elite) has the look of being another average animated release.  Note to DC...not every animated short you release has to star Superman or Batman.  Yes they are your most popular characters, but you have some other great characters and stories from groups like The New Teen Titans or Legion of Superheroes.  If you want a good Justice League animated short, pick up Crisis on Two Earths.

Watch The Trailer...It's All You'll Need When the trailer for "Morning Glory" first hit the airwaves, it looked like a fun little film.  Rachel McAdams plays a spunky journalist, Harrison Ford lends his big-screen gravitas to the project, and the entire project is produced by JJ Abrams.  Unfortunately, this is one of those cases in which the trailer shows all the best parts of the film.  Beyond that, there really isn't much.  For a basic plot summary, "Morning Glory" focuses on Becky Fuller (McAdams), a workaholic TV journalist who gets fired from her cushy position and thus takes a job at the lowest-rating morning news show on the air.  In order to turn the show around, she reaches out to news anchor "legend" Mike Pomeroy (Ford), whose gruff exterior threatens to destroy the entire project.  The trouble with this movie is that director Roger Michell never allows us to truly feel for the characters, as they are so cliched and one-dimensional.  He tries to develop McAdams' go-getter character, but she's so over the top as to be almost laughable.  Ford's character is almost a walking cliche of "hard news" grumpiness.  Even the romantic angle that should (with a better script) tie the characters together instead falls flat and wastes many precious minutes.  The one redeeming factor in "Morning Glory" is the performance by Harrison Ford.  Though he seems to be an odd choice for the part, as his actual news anchor scenes are not convincing whatsoever, just his incredible acting talent in general carries the entire film on his shoulders.  When he isn't on the screen, you'll be wishing he was, as that is when things are funny and interesting.  Overall, I found this movie to be quite disappointing.  It was almost as if Hollywood figured "Ford will bring in the men, McAdams the women, so why work too hard at making it really good?".

Short concert but that's a good thing. This a short concert, maybe 60 minutes. It's supposed to be a tribute to Old blue eyes but most of the music is not Sinatra's legendary work. Just as the concert is picking up momentum with New York New York, that's the final song. The sound is fair. The good thing was because this concert was short I had enough time left in the evening to watch the Jackie Evancho blu ray concert "Dream with Me". Absolutely spectacular. I'll have to add my review to the other 5 stars for Evancho.

Poor DVD Quality; Disappointing Performance The quality of this product was about the worse thing I've seen on DVD from Amazon. It was distracting. Just awful. The seller replaced it immediately, but I don't think it was the seller's fault. Also, Julia Stiles was just not the right choice. I was so bored with her performance (and panting) - a first while watching my favorite show on TV. Fingers crossed for Season 6.

2 1/2 Stars: Intriguing at Best, Embarrassing at Worst I began reading Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged back in June and five months later I am on page 298, which leaves me with a measly 771 pages. At this rate I should finish the book by mid-2012. This 90-minute film is based on part one of her novel which stretches 312 pages and anyone who has opened the book will realize that each page, top-to-bottom with words and in very small font, has a bit more writing than the average page of a novel. Rand wrote the novel as a thinly-veiled allegory for her philosophy Objectivism, much of which has been embraced by libertarians and conservatives and has seen a recent surge in popularity. With no political or philosophical leanings, which seem to influence many critiques of her literary output, I began reading the novel solely for educational value and am close enough to finishing part 1 that I figured I might as well see the filmed version. Filmmakers have been trying to bring this to the screen for years and the finished product is an independent film made for $6 million with a no-name director and few familiar faces in the cast. With no real marketing budget, the film was heavily promoted by the Tea Party movement and grossed an impressive 1.6 million on only 300 screens it's opening weekend. Expanding to more screens the following week, the box-office numbers took a serious tumble and the film failed to make back its budget. In addition to the financial performance, the film received abysmal reviews with only one of seventeen top critics on Rotten Tomatoes giving it a positive notice. Holding a rotten 12%, one may be surprised to look to the right of the screen and see that 80% of audiences liked it. I immediately questioned the validity of the reviews, wondering if the dislike stemmed from personal feelings about Rand and her work rather than the product itself. I have no solid opinion about her philosophy or her novel, ergo I have no bias. Even so, Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 is quite underwhelming.  The film begins on September 2, 2016 in a dystopian version of the United States that is in a sustained economic depression. A gas shortage has made prices rise to $37.50 per gallon and rail travel is now the only affordable means of transportation. This is good for Taggart Transcontinental CEO James Taggart (Matthew Marsden), except that a major accident on his Rio Norte line threatens the future of his company. His sister Dagny Taggart (Taylor Schilling), the Vice-President in Charge of Operation, is dissatisfied with her brother's handling of the issue and decides to replace the aging track with rails made by Rearden Metal. The credibility of the metal is the subject of controversy, but inventor Hank Rearden (Grant Bowler) insists that his metal is lighter and stronger than conventional steel. Dagny takes the gamble and the remainder of the film consists of nearly everyone, seen and unseen, trying to keep Rearden Metal from being used. Meanwhile, during many conversations that occur throughout the film, characters repeat the phrase "Who is John Galt?" A man, who is safely assumed to be John Galt, appears several times draped in shadow. People of merit have been mysteriously vanishing and the film makes it clear that they mysteriously vanish after speaking briefly with this shadowy figure. This way of incorporating the character could have made the film more ominous and mysterious but unfortunately just comes off as cheesy.  The mediocrity of the production can be attributed to budget restraints, but the filmmakers must take responsibility for how they presented the material with limited means. With a six million dollar budget it's not ultra-cheap and classier films have been made with less. The truth of the matter is that those responsible for this film may have been too inexperienced for such an ambitious project. The musical score by Elia Cmiral and how it's used is the most irritating thing about Atlas Shrugged. The music itself may be fine, but rarely has a score been used so poorly that is actually cheapens the overall film. The score is so overbearing and overwrought, used needlessly in every establishing shot and nearly every scene, only getting worse as the film progresses. It's irritating at the beginning and grows to be inappropriate. Like someone performing stand-up comedy at a funeral, it just doesn't fit. I am unable to comment on his ability as a composer and I don't want to be the guy that slams him for his past work, but it's worth nothing that Cmiral has previously scored Wrong Turn, Battlefield Earth, and The Lost Boys: The Thirst. If he publicly admits to sabotaging the film, I would not bat an eyelash. For part 2 to be a success, either Cmiral or whoever responsible for displacing the score throughout the film needs to be fired.  The cast consists of unknown actors and at least four character actors whose faces are more easily recognized than their names. These four; Michael Lerner, Jon Polito, Patrick Fischler, and Garham Beckel fare much better than those around them. The unknown actors that make up the principle cast all seem to have backgrounds in television, which may be to blame for their stiff, lifeless performances. Ironically, Matthew Marsden gives the stiffest performance and he actually has some film work behind him. Schilling makes a convincing Dagny, intelligent and beautiful without being too sexy. When it comes to the cold, calculating nature of the character she falters and her attempts to sell this attitude seem forced. Worse, some of the acting is straight from evening television with actors delivering their lines without thought or feeling, as if they're just reading them directly off the page.  Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 feels like a made-for-TV movie, the Hallmark version of Rand's novel, complete with a sex scene that appears to be directly lifted from a Lifetime original movie. While it's not glaringly bad, it is thoroughly mediocre. It's not incompetent, just very amateurish and guilty of an obvious desire to look more refined than it can afford. It even has that faux-polished look typically reserved for television dramas. It's not that it too closely resembles a TV-movie, it's that it too closely resembles the worst of TV movies. The material is just presented in such a silly manner, with the camera angles, the music, the choppy editing, and the acting style all evoking sub-par material found on nighttime cable. It came as no surprise to me that director Paul Johansson's previous directorial credits include directing episodes of the television show One Tree Hill. In another shocking twist, the cinematographer Ross Berryman previously shot 28 episodes of Ugly Betty and 66 episodes of Angel. Even the lead actors Taylor Schilling and Grant Bowler immediately followed roles on television with this. Even when the film presents beautifully scenic images, they just seem superficial and generic, like framed pictures of blue skies and green trees you'd find hanging on the walls of a dental office.  Putting aside any thoughts you have on Ayn Rand and her work, it's inarguable that Atlas Shrugged is an important piece of literature. This makes this adaptation even more frustrating, as it completely fails to capture the appropriate tone for an important philosophical novel of this stature. Some people consider Atlas Shrugged a ludicrous joke and the filmmakers almost seem to treat the material as such. Significant sections of the film play like a pretentious parody of the material and, even worse, it seems blissfully unaware of this. The heavy-handed has been rendered into a ham-handed film. The abrupt ending is especially laughable and it's inconceivable that they couldn't have made the transition between this and the next installment a bit smoother.  The film doesn't stray too far from Rand's text with everything essential remaining and only minor characters and minor scenes omitted. It moves by quickly, a remarkable feat when one considers that the first part of the novel consists of boardroom meetings, train rides, more meetings, characters thinking about meetings, and endless discussions about Rearden Metal. Rand wrote in a very detailed, elaborate way and the fact that the filmmakers have seamlessly condensed this section of her opus into a 90-minute film that never feels dull is an achievement in and of itself. While it's hard to believe this film had a budget in the millions, there are moments that are impressive considering what little money the filmmakers had to work with. Some of the architectural aspects alone had to be daunting for such an independent production. Unfortunately, a larger budget and a more experienced crew would have done wonders for this film. A big studio would never fund this project though and it's doubtful that better marketing would make it a box-office hit, so this is probably the only adaptation we're likely to see.  Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 is intriguing at best and embarrassing at worst. Those familiar with Rand will find her story present beneath the amateurish filmmaking, but how they'll respond to it I cannot say. I'd imagine that those drawn to see it will be readers of the novel who want to see this interpretation of the text and those interested in the novel but too lazy to read it. If you're reading this, you'll likely have already made a decision about whether to watch it. Some have loved it, some have hated it, and I fall somewhere in the middle, so do what you will. I am open to seeing the second and third installments, which the producers say will have a higher production budget. Hopefully the filmmaking team will learn from their mistakes and figure out how to properly use it.  GRADE: C-

I asked for this I asked for this. I knew what the movie was about. I knew it was going to be stupid. It lived up to its expectations. The movie is basically about two guys who don't know where their car is and end up dealing with a bunch of groups (the tech group, the jock group, the "hot chicks" group and two random guys) who want to take over the world. I knew I shouldn't have watched this movie, but I did. And now that I've seen it, the next time I hear about a good movie not being financed by Hollywood, I'll think, "If this can be financed, ANYTHING should be." People got a kick out of the "and then" but I thought that made the movie even goofier. And this is coming from someone who would watch every episode of "Beavis and Butthead." This movie made that cartoon look mildly smart.

beware of regional copies this DVD was a copy that will only play in a machine you can change the region on, this one was for europe. I had to play it on my computer. Some older DVD players will play these,just be aware

Suspense seemed too contrived The Naked Edge was Gary Cooper's last movie, which is what attracted me to it, he being my favorite actor.  The story has potential, but the movie focuses too much on the mood swings of Deborah Kerr on whether her husband (Cooper) is a criminal, which got tiresome to me.  I think the music and ambiguous shots (not knowing whether it's Cooper or another person walking, for instance) try too hard to create an effect of terror, which would probably be more effective if they were used more sparingly and the story clipped along at a faster pace.  It seems like it tries too hard to manipulate/persuade you.  It was probably an attempt to capitalize on the success of Psycho, which had come out the year before.  At least it didn't have the perverse content of Psycho (which I've never seen and don't intend to, due to its content).  (By the way, I've heard a little of the music of Psycho, and the music on The Naked Edge is probably intended to imitate it.  Also, the writer of The Naked Edge had adapted Psycho from a book to a movie.)

More like R than PG IMO. So I sat down to watch this with my son. It's PG after all. Well, like so many movies I watched when I was younger, I've forgotten how inappropriate (language, nudity, etc.) the movies could be. So we didn't get into this film more than a few minutes before the F-bomb was dropped and there was close-to-full nudity. My son was out of the room at the moment, so I was able to halt the showing.  The point is that PG is a crap shoot. Don't assume that it's good for your pre-teens or teens to watch.  It's a very funny movie, but not something for typical PG age groups.  That's our sensibility for our kids.

Strange, no director or actor commentary option during play of film. Why didn't the producers of this DVD not have the Director or Actor or Cinematographer give running commentary.  No option for running commentary?!  What, you think I'm stupid and don't know what most other DVDs have?  Do we have an elitist director never saying a blessed word even during a production documentary about his own movie ever?  What's going on here?  Great movie, however again stupid DVD that also edits out the montage following the credits: who of the famous would not have been famous with the standards of the "Gattaca" world.

It could have been so much better but unfortunately....... I really thought this movie might be something from watching the trailers but it was a great disappointment!  The ending especially was awful, no sense at all!

Undercooked Bedtime Story With an Identity Crisis A strange effort that aims to capture the innocence and vibrancy of children's fairy tales in a more adult setting. It's intensely repetitive, with a plot that's only advanced via a series of chats with a superstitious old woman, and outright refuses to decide between serious or lighthearted material; both emotions tug at the narrative in a few bizarre, important scenes that just don't work. M. Night Shyamalan has always had a slightly aloof nature to his films that's never felt completely at home with its surroundings, but in the past he's been able to lean back on the immense ambience of his premise and some great cinematography to compensate. Here, with neither of those skills showing their best, his odd idiosyncrasies are lain bare. Casting Bryce Dallas Howard as the titular lady was a smart choice, with her nymphian, otherworldly appearance giving the role a certain validity, but Paul Giamatti is merely okay as the weirdly comical stuttering maintenance man at the root of all the drama. The only other cast member worth mentioning is Shyamalan himself, who climbs into the role of the nonplussed creative genius, destined to indirectly shape and inspire a happy future. Take that for what you will. Lady in the Water has the echoes of a few good ideas reverberating through it, but they're never adequately reined in or solidified. Let's call it below average, and I think that's being pretty generous.

Lousy plot and terrible message I try to watch every war movie that comes out.  Some of them have been very good, this wasn't in that category.  The implication from watching this movie is that everybody comes back diminished in some form.  They can't function in society and war in general is a bad thing.  The liberal producers who made this movie obviously forgot how this country was formed.  No, war isn't pretty.  How can it be when people get injured and others die?  I almost couldn't watch the whole thing but I kept hoping it would get better (it didn't).  We should never be in favor of a war and most military people would agree with that statement.  Wars are ugly, but occasionally necessary.  I don't support the war in Iraq and never have.  I will, however, support the troops who are fighting there.   Whether somebody goes in to the military due to economics, a sense of duty, patriotism, or whatever; we should always keep in mind that those who fight for this country have volunteered to fight for us.  Nobody twisted their arm or drafted them.  Without these brave men and women we would be speaking a different language than English by now.  So, I for one think that we should be a little more thoughtful when it comes to putting out a movie about war and it's effects.  I've known many soldiers who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq and the majority of them come back to the US without feeling like outcasts or mentally off-balance.  God Bless Our Soldiers!

Do not waste your money The lighting levels in virtually every scene are so dim that you would be far better off to simply re-read the book.  Paying to look at a video that consists of a totally black screen for two thirds of a 2 1/2 run time is utterly ridiculous.  I am ticked off at this.  (Seriously -- I am a huge fan of the series and all of these actors and whoever shot this movie ought to be ashamed of themselves.  Whoever is responsible for this, at best, has a great future in radio.)

The Worst Season Of Castle -- Lazy, Sloppy Writing, Boring Cases, No Magic My wife and I were into Castle from Season 1, Episode 1. And that's mostly because we're fans of Nathan Fillion. In our eyes, the man can do no wrong.  Castle was an instant hit with us. The chemistry between all the characters was amazing. And we hadn't seen magic between two characters like we did with Castle and Beckett ever. She was hot. He was witty. Castle was our favorite show on TV.  Then came Season Four and it all went to the dumpster.  I can't even begin to explain all of the things wrong with Season Four. It was a train wreck from the very first episode -- a massive let down that set the stage for everything else to follow.  Everything we loved about Castle from Seasons 1-3 is missing in Season Four. A partial list:  1. Beckett's not the same person. Instead of being flirtatious and hot, she dressed like a dowdy librarian, was withdrawn and cranky, and rarely paired with Castle on cases. Stana Katic is, easily, one of the hottest women on TV. But her looks and personality were hidden throughout Season Four. Beckett wasn't Beckett in Season Four.  2. Castle was morose, tense, and ill at ease in Season Four. He rarely wrote, talked about writing, had fun with Beckett, or even was particularly playful with his daughter and mother. Castle wasn't Castle in Season Four.  3. The special writers pokers games with Castle and other giants of the literary world were absent. Not a single game took place. The writers weren't the writers in Season Four.  4. The camaraderie between Castle, Beckett, Ryan and Esposito is absent in Season Four. The first three seasons were hilarious, especially in seasons between Ryan and Esposito. Don't look for the fun in Season Four. It's not there. Ryan and Esposito were not Ryan and Esposito in Season Four.  5. The new precinct captain is a tool. She's angry, terse, and brutal. Thankfully, her role was minimal. She was barely there. And, when she was, she wasn't likeable. We definitely missed Captain Roy Montgomery. So the precinct captain wasn't the precinct captain in Season Four.  6. The near misses between Castle and Beckett reached new heights of aggravation. The writers/producers built up a tremendous relationship between them over the first three years. After the cliff hanger of Season Three, everyone had high hopes for the start of Season Four. Tragically, the potential relationship died at the end of Season Three. It was over and done within the first 15 minutes of Season Four. After the first episode, everything fell to crap and Beckett and Castle were estranged from the first episode onward. Every time they nearly spoke honestly to one another, they were interrupted by Ryan or Esposito or a phone call or something. Over and over again. It got so bad -- and so frequent -- that we felt manipulated. We knew we were being conned, strung along, by the writers. So many times we said to ourselves, "This is it. We're done." So the romance wasn't the romance in Season Four.  7. The writers introduced a character -- Michael Dorn -- as a counselor/psychologist, a person in whom Beckett could confide. Dorn's character was a way for the writers to trip over themselves with exposition, occasionally letting the audience in on secrets in Beckett's life. However, this character was never fully realized. He appeared only, maybe three times in Season Four. Dorn was wasted. So important characters were not important characters in Season Four.  8. The first three seasons felt like the writers treated the audience with respect (with the exception of increasingly implausible near misses between Castle and Beckett). We didn't feel used, cheated, or talked down to. Season Four was exactly the opposite. We felt like we did when we watched the last few episodes of the TV show LOST, especially the series finale. The last episode of LOST surely qualifies as one of the worst in TV history. The writers got lazy and didn't give a rat's keister about the audience. That's how Season Four of Castle felt. The writers squandered characters we grew to love. They wasted the talents of gifted actors. And they wasted our time as members of the audience. So the writing was not the writing in Season Four.  9. The stories lacked snap. The cases these character investigated were B-grade compared to the first three seasons. They just weren't interesting, compelling, or worth staying up to watch. So the stories weren't the stories in Season Four.  10. The season finale didn't make up for an entire season of garbage that came before it. It was too little, too late. And absolutely unrealistic. It was phoney. It should have been the first episode of Season Four, not the last. (Plus, the writers lost our trust with the abysmal Season Four opener. We expected big things in Season Four, at least a relationship between Castle and Beckett. So we don't have high hopes for Season Five. We've been burned before.  Season Four of Castle was one of the biggest letdowns we've ever experienced in a TV show. It was sloppy and contrived and unrealistic and a sad waste of time.  We may buy Season Four when it's released on DVD. But we probably won't. None of the episodes are worth watching again. They were painful enough the first time.  Season Five has 2-3 episodes to redeem itself, to make amends for the sins of Season Four. After that, we're tuning out and spending our time elsewhere. So we hope the writers found their mojo again -- or put some effort into their writing. Castle is too good to screw up.

TERRIBLE QUALITY! How sad. One of the best films ever. I purchased this film with great anticipation. It arrived on time, in perfect condition, until I played it. This is the worst film quality I have ever seen. Grainy, blurry, terrible lighting contrast. It amazes me that a corporation with the rights to selling dvds so highly acclaimed would ruin their reputation and insult their customers by having the greed and, to their shame, the lack of intigrity, to distribute such garbage. Save your money. Don't buy this dvd...it is too lousy to even try to watch.

Pretty Bad, could have been better The Frog Brother grunting was kind of cute when they were little kids but it gets annoying as adults.  The overall acting is pretty bad.  The story is predictable with lots of stereotypical characters.  There are some good scenes and the vampires overall look pretty cool with their red eyes.  They could have made the story more believable quite easily, makes you wonder who (or what-could have been a room full of monkeys on typewriters!).  A few examples: Cory Feldman gets stabbed with a sword in a spot that had to have punctured his lungs and likely severed his brachial plexus-i.e. he would not have been able to move his arm and he would not have been able to breath and would have bled out pretty quickly and died.  Instead, he is carried to the beach and falls asleep for an hour and then has full function restored to his arm and perfect breathing!  Whew, quick healer!  Also, the "climactic" scene when the Frog brothers are battling the head honcho vampire there are around a thousand vampires being held back by a rusty chain link fence when they are supposed to be ten times stronger than a gorilla.  This is probably a 2.5 movie just for the flashbacks and some of the action but it is definitely not a 5 or a 1.  Any of the blades would be a much better choice but if your are nostalgic for the 80's you could do worse than rent this, I wouldn't ever need to see it again.  Also at least for the DVD, there is no way to skip the previews (you can fast forward but not skip or hit menu button); the menu screen has two choices 1. play movie and 2 languages.  So, no scene selector or extras at least on DVD.

good show. bad actor I really like the show and music....when done with actual musical theater actors. Putting Hoff in just to add a better known name was just a hail Mary to try to keep the show on Broadway. I saw it in 2000 on Broadway. DVD should have been made with less popular names who were much better singers and actors than Hoff.

DISTURBING someone had said this movie was good, so when i started browsing for something to watch, I didn't even read about it. I just clicked to watch. While this movie has great scenery, IT IS HORRIFYING. THIS MOVIE WILL BURN HORRIBLE IMAGES IN YOUR MIND. I really wish I had never watched it. These are things I did not need to see or hear. These are things that have no place in reality nor fiction.  I can see how this would be pretty good as a book, but it needed to remain ON PAPER!! The storyline is meant for paper as well. The first part of the movie is not well tied into the end of the movie. It's obvious that it's a chunk of a book series. It's missing something as a single movie. and yeah DO NOT WATCH IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE TAINTED BY UNNECESSARY HORRIBLENESS.  I think I need to watch Mary Poppins 1000 times to overwrite the blackness of this flick.

Weak... Watching Johnny Depp filter his charm through an almost comatose portrayal of American Gangster, John Dillinger was disheartening.  I miss the old Depp, 90's Depp, the Depp with serious acting chops; the Depp there was before Depp was a huge name.  Remember `Benny and Joon'?  Remember `Ed Wood'?  Remember `Donnie Brasco'?  UGH, he's seriously tarnished his own reputation by lathering on uninspired Tim Burton caricatures, but I was hoping that working with Michael Mann may do him some good.  Sadly, `Public Enemies' is flawed from conception onward, and Depp's `barely there' performance doesn't help any.  Aside from some sharp action sequences (Mann has always had a knack for sustaining tension within moments of pure chaos), `Public Enemies' suffers from lack of originality or inspiration, and it feeds off of old school clich&eacute;s in a way that doesn't pay homage, it merely insults.  To get into a long list of `no' here would be tedious and unnecessary.  I'll just jot down a few quick notes to explain my disappointment with this film.  First of all, the acting is just plain bland.  There is no real connection to any of these characters, outside of Billie who is brought to life by the amazing Marion Cotillard.  The only character who seems to be somewhat soulful or at least human is Babyface Nelson, and Stephen Graham (who was SO good in `This is England') plays him like a walking clich&eacute;, like he were trying to impersonate James Cagney, and it just doesn't work.  Both Depp and Bale come off stagnant; they barely register.  Bale is especially terrible here, showing no emotion and generating nothing from the audience.  When the film ends and they run a small blip of what happens to Melvin Purvis afterward, I didn't care.  The film didn't make him a real character; he was merely a prop.  The least said about Billy Crudup the better.  The production values, editing and cinematography were all fine; nothing special but nothing wrong either.  The editing was key to making those action scenes stand out, and I will admit that a few of the frames (especially with the brown tints and the glaring gunfire) were actually eye catching.  Still, the script was somewhat hollow and the character development of Dillinger was horribly manipulative.  In other words, Dillinger was a saint of sorts with a fetish for knocking over banks.  He is presented as a caring, kind, loving soul and you basically despise the law, who is depicted as woman beating Neanderthals.  I understand that good people do bad things because of circumstance, but this just seemed one-sided and unrealistic.  And that ending, with the theater scene and the `prolific' presentation of `Manhattan Melodrama' was simply stupid, and that final burst of violence looked incredibly fake.  At least Marion Cotillard was in this film.  She is a light in a dark tunnel, producing incredible light and stealing my heart with every spoken word.

What were they thinking? It's been a while since I've seen the first Tooth Fairy starring The Rock, but from what I can remember, it was way better than the sequel that came out on DVD March 6th. I don't know if Tooth Fairy 2 was professionally considered a flop, but it definitely was in my opinion.  I used to be a fan of Larry the Cable Guy but after seeing the roles he's chosen to play, I no longer consider myself a fan. The funniest part of the movie was seeing him in the fairy getup with the tutu before he changed to the pink overalls.  Children ages 5-8 would probably find the humor in this movie, but as an adult I found it seriously lacking.

Not Impressed I think maybe I should have been drinking when I watched this.  I laughed maybe twice.  It just felt like a waste of a few hours.  There were a lot of conversations, only it felt like they made it seem more like reality... with all the boring, tedious things that sometimes come along with it.

amusing, not hilarious I decided to watch this after seeing her on Jimmy Fallon plugging her new show.  She seemed funny during her interview but I was disappointed with this performance.  Her comedy often comes across as mocking and bitter.  Her spiteful humor centers almost exclusively on relationships.  As others mention, there are not a lot of original jokes, and none that are laugh out loud.  It is amusing, and she certainly puts a lot of energy and effort into the material but fails to deliver innovative and laugh out loud comedy.

Pretty bad movie Went into the theater to see this with low expectations. Sadly, I was still disappointed. Bad, confusing plot, and story line. Sub par acting and so-so special effects. It could of been a good movie with the story line but it was not.  I wouldn't recommend you wasting your time on this.

A movie so obsessed with being cool, it neglected to tell a story I was extremely disappointed with this adaptation of a book I loved as a child--and even now as a parent reading to my children.  Being familiar with Spike Jonze, I was not expecting a Disney movie; I was just hoping for an inventive movie loosely inspired by a classic story of imagination.  That was obviously the plan, but then things went terribly wrong.  There is just no magic here, at all.  It is a movie so obsessed with being cool, that it neglected to tell a story. At times it even wandered into the forced sentimentality of a greeting card commercial.  I guess I am just not cool enough to get the irony.

HORRIBLE video transfer! Avoid! I am a big fan of the original Predator movie and I can't even express how dissapointe I am by this release.  I won't be wasting much of your time. The video transfer is simply horrible. This can't be called remastering and Fox doesn't have a valid excuse for this unless they allowed some rookie to work on the movie using some average video editing tool. The 2008 version has some grain to it and lots of grain during the dark shots, but at least it preserved the details and that are very important in order to maintain (and this is what bothered me the most) the atmosphere and tension of the showdown between Dutch and the Predator. While some of the daylight scenes MAY look better (but more CGI in my opinion) compared to the previous release, contrast has been really messed up for the night shots and by removing the grain through a shockingly noticeable noise reduction filter, almost every background detail that added to the creepyness of the final fight is gone! Even the DVD versions feature more details than this one during these shot, which is totally unexcusable.  The sound MAY be a bit improved when it comes to dynamics, but unless you own a really expensive, high-fidelity surroun sound system, you won't be able to notice the minor improvements. Bottom line - not even worth a rental, not to mention buying.  If you already own the previous version, don't make the mistake I made and stick to that one. It may not be a perfect transfer, but it's much more sharper and at least it doesn't spoil any key moments by lacking important details and shadows. This Hunter Edition is a total waste and we can only hope that Fox will release a proper restauration of the movie in the following years. I just hope that the new generation won't be buying this one for their first view of this great movie.

Watching the Trailer did not Inspire Me to Rent or Purchase The review actually consists of about 1 minute of film. I am a New Thought minister and enjoy metaphysical explorations. I thought "What the Bleep" was pretty good. This did not impress me.

Huh, guess the disaster must have wiped out all the good actors? I'm a little late to the party for this review so I'll keep it short and sweet.  Apocalyptic thriller that takes itself far more serious than the casting director obviously did.  I mean, really?  He must have promised his old college roommates he'd get them into a movie some day.  Too bad for director Xavier Gens because he's got quite a knack for the technical aspects of film making.  Beautiful shots, nice use of sound, slick and stylish while keeping with the overall darkness of the plot... Just those dang actors!  Probably not totally their fault, they are being forced to play some of the most unlikable human survivors this side of... I don't know, that show Survivor maybe(never seen it, but heard bad things)?  So all in all what did the Divide teach me?  That if you were a miserable person before, surviving a nuclear attack certainly won't help brighten your outlook on things any(also be selective when running into shelters during emergencies, I know your life is at stake but-- these are the people you are most likely spending the rest of your life with!  It's okay to be picky).  I also learned that The Divide runs about 20 minutes too long(why must ALL movies be 2 hours now?  Even horror and romantic comedies?  Why?!), and learning is half the battle.  Pass.  *Quick aside.  For those on the look for something really sick and twisted-- this ain't it!  The film is hyped as being fairly depraved, and maybe to the casual moviegoer it is, but if you're a horror/cult cinema regular then there's nothing overly memorable in that department here. End aside.*

Singing in the Rain I didn't realize I couldn't play Blu-ray DVD's on my player.  Unfortunately I had already opened the package so it couldn't be returned.

New Age Propaganda With a Bit of Nice Worldbuilding Having been impressed by Labrynth, I decided to watch one of Henson's other less-watched films; the Dark Crystal, knowing almost nothing about it, except that it was a fantasy film about characters in a world full of strange creatures.  It sounded, from this alone, like something I would like.  You see, I'm a big lover of fantasy stories of all types.  The premise of this movie is that in another world, there is a crystal, which seems to influence the wellbeing of the planet and its people.  The crystal cracked, and this led, apparently, to an evil race, named the skeksis, seizing power over it.  They use it, along with their scouts, the crystal bats, and their shock troops; the insectoid Garthim, to enforce a rein of terror over all the less powerful races.  Meanwhile, a race of mystics have been raising a young gelfling (like an elf with only eight fingers and a very low nose,) for his destiny of fulfilling a prophecy; recovering the lost shard of the crystal and returning it to where it belongs, thus robbing the skeksis of their power.  The Gelfling's name is Jen.  In his quest to restore the crystal to its true form, Jen meets up with a female Gelfling named Kira, and her furball Fizzgig, all of them having lost loved ones to the skeksis, and eager to put an end to their reign.  Done right, this could be a charming story about grief, redemption and love.  However, this movie is not done right.  For one thing, neither of the two main characters seems to have much of any personality to them.  They exist to assist in the story, and their backgrounds consist of a series of loose associations and talents.  They're both about as bland as can be, and not much of anything is ever learned about them.  This is the first big problem I had with the film.  It gets caught up in its alien worldbuilding and odd visuals, and forgets that it's supposed to be telling a story here.  The second big problem with this movie, and for me, the most serious, is that the whole thing, from start to finish, is essentially one long piece of new age propaganda.  I've seen signs of this is Henson's work before, but never to this degree.  The prominence of the crystal, the sorcery of the mystics, the dream-sharing between the Gelflings, the poor understanding of the relationship between body and soul demonstrated by the movie's ending (in which people essentially merge into one another,) the clear failure to grasp what an "essence" is, and finally, the bunk new age ideology spouted by the shimmering aliens at the end about how "we are all one."  This type of thing alone is enough to turn me off to the film.  There's also a not-very-forgivable scene of the two gelflings sleeping together in the woods.  Granted, they are essentially puppets, but the whole movie takes itself so seriously, that I have no doubt what this was meant to convey.  If it seems like I'm complaining a lot about this film considering the grade I gave it, this is only because I really did appreciate some of the worldbuilding, scenery and creative creatures that Henson and Company came up with for this flick.  They're very beautiful, visually-impressive, and they capture the imagination, but it's not worth putting up with the problems this film has.

Pales in comparison to 10 year anniversary cast I admit it is unfair to hold the 10 year Anniversary Concert as a standard. Those performers were all top notch, and the execution near perfect for a live performance. That being said, the 25th Anniversary falls far short. Nick Jonas is an embarrassment as Marius. His voice is not that great and his acting worse, the same expression used for the entire performance, like he was experiencing gastric pain. He should stay away from the theater and stick to singing for 12 year-old girls who have no discriminating musical taste. ValJean and Javert were decent performers, but in my opinion neither possessed the powerful voice required for their roles. Bring Him Home was the best performed song, the higher pitch of the song seemed to be in singer's wheelhouse more so than the rest of his numbers. The girl who played Eponine appeared to have a strong sweet voice, but she spoke more than sang, clearly annunciating each word at the expense of her singing. Even Lea Salonga as Fantine was disappointing - she seems to have lost the canary-sweet voice that she had 10-15 years ago.  I will say the video and audio quality were excellent (Blu-ray). The big chorus numbers such as At The End of The Day were also good. I am waiting for the day when the 10 year concert is remastered and released in 5.1 audio, however with the 25th just coming out now, I don't expect that to happen anytime soon (if ever).

Not too good! I wanted to like this movie, but I just couldn't.  Bad acting and no "Chemistry" make this a movie to avoid.

SOME CALL IT STALKING, I CALL IT LOVE Originally released as Match.dead. The movie was supposed to be about online dating and killers, but it never hit on all cylinders with that theme, so the name was changed to fit the movie they made. (Not a good sign.)  James Ray plays a psychotic killer. He is a young buff version of G. Gordon Liddy. He doesn't kill to make skin masks, but rather to just thin out the herd of human existence to make room on the planet. He does this from his desert home. Kathleen Benner plays Valora Smith, a woman he has abducted. He has a fancy for her, so he doesn't kill her, but attempts to get her to like him...in his own way. Valora sports a t-shirt that reads, "Some call it stalking, I call it love." She is not very likable either, and seriously lacks personality. She relies on memories from growing up with grandpa (a John Wayne type) to give her strength and at times guidance.  Occasional f-bomb, sexual situations (no rape) and nudity- Earl's butt.

Yoko Was Not to Blame! You are humor-deprived if you're not rolling in the aisles, or at least rolling your eyes, the second that "Feorge Harrison (ie, false George)begins his ridiculous tale: with the voice of young George portaying old George, Feorge begins detailing the conspiracy behind the attacks suffered by "he" and John Lennon.  But from the reviews here, many were angry by the time the film delivers its only real punchline, that as-yet unborn Heather Mills was the hitchhiker "Rita" who caused the death of the real Macca.  To me that's the film's weird pleasure--trying to figure out whether ignorance of time sequence is the joke or if these guys really are as idiotic as they seem to be. By tying every name in a Beatle record and incident in their life to an idiotic conspiracy (I suppose under threat of death they wrote "Maxwell's Silver Hammer," which the film sets up then never even mentions?), the film rolls by amusingly with a few (a very few) new clues added to the mix and otherwise chaos in the minds of the Beatle faithful.  By and large, though, it should convince some that the clues were real, even if this "conspiracy" wasn't.  I have no doubt that (mostly) John Lennon and his cohorts, no longer touring and with lots of studio time available, aimed  to concoct this  myth, playing on their love of art, dark humor and studiocraft. For a brief while, around the time Wings released "Let Em In," the story seemed plausible. But this intentionally(?) disastrous mockumentary puts it forth as highly "flausible."  The main message I think is that Yoko was not to blame (evidently the Beatles had already broken up before John met her).

Good thing this was at a low price. There's only one word I can say after watching this Blu-ray: Depressing! The characters are all non-entities, trying to find reason as to why they're existing in this world. Maybe the problem here is, you have to be stoned, before watching? Since I wasn't, and I don't drink either, will just put this away in my collection, never to be watched again! (Although my wife make look it over when I'm not home?)

Disappointing Maybe I expected too much after watching BBC's nature videos.  It did have some nice visuals but the overall tone seemed to be anti-American.  It seemed like they were blaming America for Cuba's wildlife conservation problems but then two minutes later it said that Cubans sneak on the beaches to steal sea turtle eggs to eat them.  I'll stick to BBC's videos from now on.

The Point Is Four stars for the movie and extras themselves but there's no sense in releasing a Blu-ray with an unfinished slipshod transfer like this one's got. It's one notch sharper than an upconverted DVD which isn't all that great. I saw this on Universal and A&E a few months back and it looked superb but don't raise the bar if you're buying this version, just go in expecting the worst and spare your disappointment.

Movie ok, previews misleading The movie was a good movie, however the previews led me to believe that there would be more comedy in the movie.

Rented but returned early We received Cars 2 as a DVD rental from another place (outside of Amazon). My 2 1/2 year old grandson devours the original Cars and has watched it perhaps 30 times. He lost interest in Cars 2 in the first 15 minutes. I have to admit it didn't hold my interest either. This is such a radical departure from the original Cars. I think the producer went too far allowing this story line to depart so much from the strong character focus of Cars. Cars 2 also seemed loud, dark, and flashy.  This may have been a good video done on it's own but as a sequel I think it fails.  We turned it off and returned the disk without watching it all the way through.

boring I found this movie to be on the boring side. The trailer makes the film look a lot better then it really is IMO. I was really hoping to enjoy it. Def. save your money, rent before you decide to buy.

Disappointed First of all I LOVE Ashley & her character, Sharpay, but 3 questions: 1. Where was Ryan???? 2 Why did it go to DVD BEFORE it aired on TV? 3. Why was the TV version different then the DVD?  Why did they cut the DVD short??? I would never have bought it had I known the tv version was longer!

a real downer Frank Morgan plays Shirley's thieving old grandfather who would cheat his own mother.  Every time he is trusted, he betrays that trust and steals again.

Got A One-Way Ticket On "The Polar Express." It Was OK Once, But I Won't Be Returning A scrooge all year round, I have another opportunity to upset some people with my two-cents on "The Polar Express." I came into the film with no preconceptions. If anything, I thought it would be cute and pleasant. I am not one of those people who treasures the book and dislikes the film for not being true enough. While I may not be the most sensitive viewer in the world, I've been known to enjoy a good Christmas tale or two. The animated Grinch, Frosty and Rudolph all work for me. "A Christmas Story," "It's A Wonderful Life" and a number of variations of "A Christmas Carol" always delight. And I love animated features from classic Disney to current day Pixar (only the good ones, of course). But, truth be told, "The Polar Express" kind of mystified me.  The film has some visually appealing moments, and the animation is state of the art. The action sequences were technically impressive. I particularly enjoyed the scenes with no characters (for reasons I'll outline in a bit). The exterior shots of the train are stunning, especially during the more exciting moments. When the Express is racing around roller coaster tracks or sliding across ice, the movie comes to life. And an extended sequence following a ticket as it flies through the air is artfully done, a truly great moment. The voice acting is fine. While I didn't particularly think it stood out, it also didn't hamper the story. And the plot was serviceable, if not unique in any way.  Much has been made about using the real actor's movements and turning them into animation. I certainly don't have a problem with the concept, but in some cases, it had an unfortunate effect. I truly found some of the characters to be creepy. Now, I usually try to use objective wording, but "creepy" is exactly how my friend and I both described it after the movie. And interestingly enough, it is a word used many, many times within other critical reviews. The little girl, especially, was so unreal in her realness. I don't know, something was lost in the translation.  Then there were a couple of exceedingly odd musical numbers. One, the songs were bizarre. And two, the frantic pacing of the accompanying "dance" performances (be it by waiters or elves) was jarring and unsettling. The music adds nothing to the story except another opportunity to be "creeped out." I didn't feel it was necessary to try to extend this story, the film is too long by half. Only the most attentive and patient of adults or children are likely to make it to the end without needing a break. While, of course, the film's message is sweet, it's laid on so thickly at the end. I know some people love this film, but for me it didn't work. Call me Scrooge this year, but "The Polar Express" will not be joining my annual Christmas viewing. KGHarris, 12/06.

Someone who bought this thinking it would be like 300 Not worth the money people! it wasn't the greatest storyline i've seen. The battle sequences were okay but not great. If you're gonna buy this film wait till the price goes to at least $10, that's honestly how low i value this film. I made the mistake of buying it without watching in theaters. Don't make the same mistake.

Covers material but rambles badly Larry Crow apparently knows a great deal about Remington, its guns, its history and how to disassemble and assemble a 870 shotgun, rifles, and some 22s. He covers the disassembly and assembly, but it is interspersed with history, discussion of other guns, and future course information among other things. He shows various steps with a gun and a factory cutaway (a helpful thing), but occasionally does not position the gun so you can see the parts he is talking about. There is a camera operator he talks to that should recognize this situation but he doesn't. I have not watched the course through, so I don't know if he covers it completely or not. I find the course very tedious to watch.   If you will follow the manual that comes with the gun carefully, it should cover what you need to know, at least the basics for a 12 gauge. I bought a 20 gauge, got the 12 gauge manual. There are some differences which I find to be significant (you decide).

no Close Caption The movie itself is FIVE STAR, but without Close Captioning it is worthless to me, as I con't hear very well.

Pfft... I'm sucker for street kid/gritty/coming-of-age films.  Sure, I can always HOPE for some cult action, but as my mother used to say, "wanting ain't getting", and besides, I'm not usually that greedy.  So how could a movie with all FOUR of these fabulous elements go wrong?  Well, "Mouth to Mouth" manages, and the result is a train-wreck, minus the drama.  Perhaps it's the acting: sub-par at best (and cringe-worthy at worst).  The biggest offender in this regard was Natasha Wightman (hang your head and hide your face, Natasha!  How could you?), though there wasn't a good performance in the bunch.  But the pacing was just as awful as the acting; I mean, what a DOG.  WOOF.  Was the editor paid by the frame?  Or was it an attempt to be artistic?  Whatever it was supposed to be, the result was really hard to watch.  And the ending--I almost forgot to mention the ending--oh, wait...that's because THERE WAS NO ENDING!  The best thing I can say about the movie is that I DID manage to sit through the whole thing (and I can't say that about every horrible movie I've ever seen); it wasn't boring, exactly, and it wasn't all that long at 101 minutes.  How sad is it, though, when this is the highest compliment I can muster?  That I actually managed to endure it?  Maybe the movie would appeal to very small slice of the disaffected, suburban, 15-year-old girl-with-a-chip-on-her-shoulder audience.  Thank heavens, that's not me anymore.  However, if that IS you, I'd recommend you skip this one and try "Thirteen" instead...it's so much better and (if I recall correctly) it actually has a POINT.

7.1 only comes through 2 speakers of my 5.1 system First off, this would have been a great blu-ray edition had it not been converted to 7.1, not everyone can afford to buy a 7.1 receiver and speakers.  I find it infuriating it does not even support a 5.1 system.  There is no reason for this I have no trouble playing other blu rays through all 6 channels which is the purpose of a 5.1 system, why is it Star Trek ONLY supports 7.1 in the english language?!

Very Ambiguous... kinda frsutrating! I usually love movies that make me think, but this one drove me crazy.  It was basically telling three different stories at the same time and it wasn't until 46 minutes into the movie that I had any clue as to what was happening.  The three stories all come together at the end, but at that point, it was too late.  I do think that this movie will appeal to some people.  The acting is good and the London settings are interesting.  It does try to make strong statements about religions, post war mental trauma and child abuse.

not that into it The blu ray played great. I'm not a blu ray fan. Have a lot of bad experiences with them not playing right. The movie is good. It has a good story to it. I'm sure a lot of people enjoy it. Special because it keeps your brain working.  But it's not for me. I'm not a bright person and this movie puts me to sleep. I have this movie added to my collection because my husband likes it.

A giant leap back for humanity I'm sorry but this movie is a failure in my mind and I know the fans of the franchise are going to crucify me for this review but we have to call a spade a spade.  Btw, I'm a huge fan of the Alien franchise and of the Alien vs Predator franchise.  PROS - It's a class A movie - Fantastic special effects - Great actors  CONS - Unbelievable actions by supposed rational people (forgivable in horror movies where victims are dumb teenagers in a cabin in the woods but not forgivable in a science fiction expedition filled with supposed brilliant people)...yes, let's land and immediately run off into the alien pyramid, let the robot uncontrolably flip every switch out there that does god knows what with alien technology, then immediately take our helmets off (sure what could possibly be in the air!?), then proceed to play with the vats of alien goo that (we don't know are highly mutagenic, again because we don't take any time to act like real scientists!) and then let them spill onto enedmic life forms,  then because we didn't take time to look at the weather or because the pyramid triggered a storm (we don't know, because we don't take any time to act like scientists) we rush back to the ship barely make it, then back at the ship we start to expermient on a dead engineer head (the supersmart aliens that build humanity and the scary aliens) and we just dive into immediately experimenting on it vs cataloging and preserving and in the process of trying to reanimate it (god knows why) they cause it to blow up and splatter everywhere, after that we get drunk while the existentially demented two dimensional robot poisons one of us with the same mutagenic substance and back at the pyramid the two unlikeliest people to die in the pyramid (the two scientists who actually created and have the map!!!)..get lost precisely in the pryamid becaused they were too scared of the dead aliens ...then when those same scientists find a very alive mutated worm alien, they think it's perfectly ok to try to pet the snake(be afraid of dead aliens that look human but be friendly towards aggressive super strong snake looking alien, sure)...then all hell breaks loose, zygotes conveniently begin to mutate everywhere and even one poisoned crew member impregnates a second crew member with an alien baby....in an effort to remove the alien baby from her womb, one lady almost does surgery on herself and then two seconds later is running around fighting aliens and nobody seems to be shocked at all at her stapled and bloody abdomen!....oh did I mention that they find an alien engineer (the supersmart alien) in suspended animation....while this mess is going on, I have a great idea, lets wake him up!!! Sure, what other idiotic thing could we do?  - Unbelievable actions by the robot ( in the original Alien movie the robot didn't care about the crew, he was programed by the weyland corporation to get an alien....in this movie the CEO of the corporation is onboard and his daughter and still the robot doesn't seem to care about safeguarding them, the robot seems to be running some aberrant existentialism program without regard for the safety of his CEO....c'mon you'd think the CEO would have had the thing programmed to not endanger him or his daughter....I know I would've).  Throughout the movie the robot does things that go contrary to direct orders from his human owners.  At no point in time is the robot sent back for diagnostics or for repairs....don't open that door!...oops the Robot says as it opens the door.  Even after the robot tries to put the pregnant with alien baby woman into stasis to be shipped back hom, you'd think that the pregnant lady would forever be distrustful of that robot.  No! she believes him whole heartedly later on in the movie.  Preposterous.  If the robot is malfunctioning, have his memory wiped and reprogram the thing until it follows basic commands!  As a child, if I broke the sugar jar and spilled the sugar after being told specifically by my parents to stop playing with the sugar jar...there were consequences!! Also the robot seems to have a basic knowledge of how to operate some things on the alien pyramid....was this knowledge also passed down through DNA to humans who built our earth stone age structures with the same user interface???? Only here the Robot seems to barely know enough to really screw things up really badly.....the robot is like an existentially demented 5 year old trying to grapple with his humanity....and at every turn his human masters seem to think that it's ok for the robot to be mucking around in what is perhaps the biggest archaeological find that humanity has EVER encountered!!  This robot creation is the very worst thing to have around in such a significant potentially dangerous environment.  - Unbelievable aliens that grow super fast, are super aggressive, love flesh, don't need food, and have acid for blood. And the aliens aren't even cool.  They're like proto aliens.  At the end of the movie you get a glimpse of something that looks like the alien we know and fear but even this alien is proto version of the alien we know.....only the aliens we know existed on earth thousands of years before and one was even kept for game by the predator aliens in one avp movie....so why go proto?  to show us how the mutagenic goo has the power to convert every living thing out there into a self destructive bioweapon that bleeds acid?  Interesting novelty, but frankly would've been more impressed with cool looking and really scary aliens....like from the first movie!!  - A complete incompetence by the Weyland corporation in how they fund and pursue this expedition with utter disregard for the mountain of information that they have on what could potentially be out here....in other movies the wetland corporation winds up being involved and aware of high tech aliens and even the deadly ALIENs. Yet, they send out this sloppy expedition, virtually unarmed, uninformed, untrained, crewed by the cheapest guys money can buy....and with a buggy robot that seems to be existentially demented acting like a 5 year old and by human masters who seem to be ok with letting the robot do whatever it darn well pleases even if it severely endangers the crew....seriously?  I'm supposed to buy this?  As soon as I saw the crew, I could tell you the order they were going to die in to the woman.  And the stereotypes.....just disrespectful.  - Inaccurate scientific facts.  They say that the atmosphere is 71% nitrogen, 21% oxygen and 3% carbon dioxide and they call this level of carbon dioxide poisonous.  No, actually it's not.  Carbon dioxide is not a poison AND at those levels some people might exhibit a mild headache from displaced oxygen but 3% is no where near dangerous and it is not a poison.  Get your basic science right!  If I can't trust you with the basic foundations of science then its harder to make that leap to believe your mutagenic goo theories. :-)  OVERALL I found myself saying, "this is dumb, why are these supposed smart people doing such dumb things."  I can accept honest mistakes by characters to help keep the plot going.  I can even suspend disbelief and accept that these aliens grow fast and are super aggressive.  In a teen horror movie, I can accept that the teens are dumb.  However, in a movie like Prometheus....I expect better much much better and I didn't get it.  The special effects were great but the special effects people do great work in hollywood these days.  The writing was sloppy.  The characters were sloppy.  The research into the previous films was woven in sloppily. Even the attempt at philosophy was sloppy.  Many of the special effects scenes appear to be sloppily lifted from other movies....yes we noticed guru tech special effects dude, we noticed that too....there are millions of us. We also noticed that the holo tech on the weyland ship looked eerily the same as the alien ship....you'd think that our holographic technology would be different from theirs, at least use another color and weave in elements from the 1979 film into this human ship.  No lets portray all technology in the same bluish slick way.  Sorry guys take your advice, nature doesn't build in straight lines and our technology is not going to look like some alien's technology from thousands or millions of years ago.  Oh and doubtful that aliens would've imprinted a calling card in our DNA that makes us draw maps that point back to a weapons facility and that the DNA trigger of such compulsion to draw the map only manifests to compulsively make humans map a course to the super secret weapons lab only during the human Stone Age!.....Wouldn't we find that compulsive pattern in the bathroom graffiti of he Prometheus and bathrooms around the world and in every girls' high school doodle notebook throughout he ages?!!!  No guess not - only cavemen and stone age hawaiians wrote these magic symbols. Oh wasn't the anachronistic map in ancient civilizations, multi ethnic pyramid a theme in another avp movie, yes it was!...if this was an homage, it came out sloppy too!  ANSWERING QUESTIONS In the end, this movie tries to answer all the questions out there regarding the ALIEN film and it answers a lot but quite frankly as an astute audience member and fan of the franchise, I don't really need ALL the loose ends tied up.  I need and crave for the plot to be advanced in a more intelligent fashion than simply in a space horror movie which this movie is not. C'mon guys don't make me wonder whether the people in hollywood are every bit as dumb and lazy as the characters in this movie.  LAZY To me the people who did this version of the movie were lazy.  I'm sorry. Not the special effects guys - they get an A+++.  The writers and storywriters were lazy I'm sorry.  You had a mountain of help.  FANTASTIC actors like Charlize.  A monumental global fan base.  The best special effects crews on the planet.  And then you the very best you can come up with is the super slow Euro-philosophically limp beginning sequence of the movie <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000Y7U98W">Sunshine [Blu-ray</a>] and then transmorf into Friday the 13th part 87.....to generate this LAZY sop of a story for me and expect me to rave about it?  NO! GET TO WORK or WE'LL GO ELSEWHERE!

Never got the package. Don't have a review on product,because I never got the package in the mail. If and when I get the package, I will be glad to revise my review.

No. No *sigh no* This is hardly hot, even for chick flick wanna be porn. Every cliche possible and minimal imagination. Jacqueline Bisset, a lovely and talented actress walks through this as bored as you will be. The heroine meets nothing but handsome, rich well dressed and coiffed men. So of course she falls for the guy with the three day beard... every day its a three day growth, did I mention he is a photographer. Did I mention she is married? Ok, all the women other women we see are classy hookers? - classy as in expensively dressed, no nudes please - But they are all going to marry rich sugar daddys who all marry for love. And they all get lovely, customized, high fashion wedding gowns.  Dull and not at all sexy.

Save your time Horrible ending....... Movie switches too awkwardly from one date in time to another. No real cohesive story other than how different people are dealing with kids

Defected Disc I ordered 2 Bond movies and both arrived super fast, however one of the movies (Quantum of Solace) does not play.  When I put the disc in to the DVD player it just made loud rumbling noises with the disc just spinning.  I was only able to watch one of them.  I had to return it back to Amazon and get a refund.

Dull I was very disappointed. The movie is very slow leading up to some major revelations, barely keeping me from giving up altogether. And the main subject is about a film maker that was almost forgotten and movie preservation! By the end of the film, I almost feel like I was watching the life-time achievement award ceremony of the Oscars! This is probably a cherished topic for Scorsese, probably reflecting his childhood memories, but it does little for me.  The Station Inspector character is a major failure. You can tell he is simply not a villain, but then he's not a clown or someone worth sympathies for (considering the children he had sent to the orphanage). As a result, you never feel the kid is in any real danger escaping from him, and there is just not a lot of tension.  Like Isabelle, Hugo's friend, I was looking for an adventure (with an automaton no less!), but didn't find it in this movie.

Witless Protection Bullitt, 1968 film  The story begins at night as the credits roll. There are gunshots while a car leaves a parking garage. "We lost him." A man takes a taxi, her is being watched. This takes place in San Francisco (the major financial center on the west coast). Lt. Frank Bullitt is called to protect a government witness from organized crime. [Note the vent windows on cars.] Two men enter the hotel room then leave without talking. Bullitt arrives after the ambulances. An unlocked door? The doctors work on the patients. Who will take the blame? An older man enters the hospital and asks a question. There is a chase to the basement. There is a Code Blue in the ICU. Can this be kept secret? Chalmers shows up, the patient was transferred. Will Bullitt be blamed? A hotel clerk identifies a man. Chalmers talks to the Captain at a church. A writ of habeas corpus to produce a missing witness? Johnny Ross was caught with his fingers in the till.  One car follows Bullitt until he reverses position. Both cars speed off (to provide the car chase that is part of most action movies since cowboys rode horses). This pads out the film. You see more scenes of San Francisco. [No seat belts!] Shots are fired, a car crashes and burns. The Captain learns the facts from Bullitt. Bullitt visits the motel that Ross called. That woman won't talk to the police. Her luggage contains men's clothes, monogrammed shirts. A facsimile machine sends a photograph. Was there a foul-up over the wrong man? [No TSA screening in those days.] Can this flight be recalled? "He's still my witness." The passengers deplane. One man takes a short cut. Did passengers carry pistols then? There are jet planes on the airport runway. There are shots in the dark. Did Ross get away? "Get back!" People stare at a body. Bullitt returns to his girlfriend. Chalmers is driven away.  The ending may surprise you; did you expect it? It seems like part of the story is missing. If they didn't pad out the movie they would have enough time to provide a better ending. While the identity of a person provides a surprise, it makes the authorities look like fools. A ten-minute car chase does not itself make a good story.

Trying to recover their movie losses??? I share everyone else's outrage over the UltraViolet Digital Copy. When I placed my order on Amazon, it only listed "digital copy". I tend to order in advance and I have never needed to re-check the wording afterwards on any other orders. (After receiving this travesty of a "digital copy" I have gone back and cancelled my order for "Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows Part Two "digital copy" version since it also contains the Ultraviolet version). I may have to stop ordering in advance since it defeats the efficiency of pre-ordering if I have to go back in and re-check my orders constantly to make sure the wording hasn't changed. My other concern is that this is the movie studios way of getting me to spend more money. Now to get the versions I usually buy, I would have to spend $19.99 for Blue Ray version and then have to spend another $14.99 to buy a standard version on ITunes. It may be worth it in the long run not to have to buy any more "Ultraviolet" junk. Like everyone else, I already have too many accounts, too many passwords, too many whatevers to keep up with. Why do I need another headache??

Gruesome and upsetting A research vessel presumed lost for several years reappears, and a small crew of rescuers, along with the vessel's designer, are dispatched to investigate. Sci-fi setting but a horror plot, by the end of which it becomes very gory, including a few very disturbing images. If that's your thing, go for it, you might enjoy it, even though the story development doesn't make a lot of sense. I found it to be disturbing, not in a good way, and I regretted getting it. Video quality on the Blu-ray is very good, a noticeable step up from standard def.

Blu-ray is Extended Cut Only The Reason for the cutting room floor is displayed in this, the bloated 236-minute Extended Cut on Blu-ray.  One can see right away why these scenes were deleted in the first place, as they drag badly and do nothing to advance the story.  There is no reason in the age of Seamless Branching, why these additional scenes could not be made selectable by the viewer, save for the obvious $$$$ grab by the studios setting up the inevitable double-dip on Blu-ray.

Gorgeous gals. Beautiful women with a 2 star story.  The romance was helped by fantasy to the right ending.  Worth the price.

decent enough to watch; barely 1.  I think a lot of folks confuse reviewing a movie vs reviewing the subject matter of the movie.  The story of the Tuskegee Airmen is / should be an inspiration to all; a no brainer. 2.  But this movie about the Tuskegee Airmen is a half-baked affair.  Unlike a lot of those who liked the CGI, I was kind of put off by it because it appeared so... CGI.  As soon as I saw the initial battle scenes, it was obvious that it was created via CGI;  it reminded me of the history channel Dog Fights.  Technically, looks great, but at the same time it looks artificial. 3.  As with the other folks who gave this movie a somewhat negative review, I 100% agree that the weakest link in this movie is the writing & acting.  And when you get down to it, no matter how great the special effects etc... the fundamentals of a great movie are always going to be solid writing and acting; this movie has neither. 4.  An alternative to this movie is the older DVD: The Tuskegee Airmen.  It's not as high tech as this movie, but the fundamentals were there.

plot lacking poor plot pretty good special effects. Theron was pretty good stewart was pretty bad. Would probably skip this one and wait for it to come out on HBO or something

movie loading It sucked!!!! Tt froze every few seconds and this rental was a rip off. I will never rent another movie from amazon again.

OK movie, but digital copy was misleading The digital copy bit was misleading.  Ultraviolet Digital copy is not like most of the digital copy.  It does not download into iTunes.  Its basically streaming from Flixster's site.  You cannot watch this on your iPad or iPhone without an internet connection and installing the Flixster app.  The movie itself made good use of 3D effects, but suffered from a common problem of trying to stuff a universe of comic book awesomeness into a limited time.

Highly disappointed This is a movie that purports to show the jury process at work, along the way implicating such human weaknesses as peer pressure, personal biases based on life experience, classism, apathy, and indecisiveness. Instead, it implicates our capacity to sell, to be sold to, to allow propaganda (when dressed nicely and well-spoken) to change our positions, no matter how reasonable they are.  This movie isn't about the beauty of our justice system. Quite the contrary. Juror #7 spends the entire movie creating attenuated stories to question witnesses AFTER the trial, without the witnesses present. These are witnesses who testified under oath. Witnesses who are the juror's peers. Witnesses who, by even the most cynical of interpretations, were closer to the crime than any one of the jurors.  If you want a movie about a slick-talking juror selling people on the idea that a woman didn't see a crime because she had eyeglass indents on her nose at trial, this movie is for you. If you're the type of person who would presume to give the witnesses' testimony the respect it warrants in our justice system, if you're the type of person who would ask if those indents perhaps came simply from reading glasses, or sunglasses on the way to trial, or perhaps that she began wearing glasses AFTER the crime in question, then this movie isn't for you.  This is a salesman movie, about how easily duped we are, about how the appeal of social justice can empower us, can appeal to our emotions (the movie puts the emotional appeals on the "guilty" side but makes them so unsympathetic that the viewer experiences the opposite emotional reaction), and can force us to question the very fabric of our judicial system even when overwhelming evidence would otherwise compel us to make difficult--yet just--decisions.  This movie is for people with big hearts and small brains.

(2.5 STARS) Disappointing: Not as Good as "Ip Man" (and Its Sequel) In "Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen," Donnie Yen plays Chen Zhen, a fictional character that first appeared n a 1972 Hong Kong movie "Fist of Fury" (aka "The Big Boss"). In the film Bruce Lee played the role of the hero, which has been taken up in many films and TV shows since then, including "Fist of Legend" starring Jet Li and, of course, a 1995 TV series starring Donnie Yen as Chen Zhen. Donnie Yen's new feature film directed by Andrew Lau is not a remake of the Bruce Lee film, but a sequel paying homage to the martial arts legend.  The story is largely set in 1925 Shanghai. Chen Zhen, who has returned from WWI, is now a member of the resistance group to stop Japanese army from invading China. Hiding his true identity, Zhen visits a club (named "Casablanca") owned by Liu Yutian (Anthony Wong), where Japanese and Western military officers including a Japanese colonel Rikiishi (Ryu Kohata) frequent. There Chen meets a beautiful singer Kiki (Shu Qi), who also has a secret or two to hide from him.  There are so many characters (including a cameo from Yasuaki Kurata, a familiar face of the 70s martial arts action films made in Hong Kong and Japan) and so many ideas and references thrown in. Some of the characters are unnecessary (do we really need Western characters here?). Some references are amusing (Green Hornet sidekick "Kato," for instance); others are pretty obscure (one character's name is Yamaguchi, possibly referring to a real-life actress Shirley Yamaguchi). But wait, isn't this supposed to be an action movie?  Action scenes (choreographed by Donnie Yen himself) are certainly unique and powerful. The best part is the first scene in which Yen's Chen Zhen fights back the German soldiers in the WWI battlefield like a deadly version of Spider-man. Action sequences are mostly well-done except the very disappointing fight with Ryu Kohata in the climax. All the fast editing and camerawork cannot mask the fact that Kohata is not ready for the role as the opponent to Donnie Yen's hero. I read Kohata was an amateur boxer, but obviously he needs more skills as a fighter and an actor. You need someone like Sonny Chiba, someone with martial arts skills and charisma here.  Not a bad action movie, but far inferior to "Ip Man."

Not A Cohesive Narrative. The Best Bit Is The First Half. I saw this crappy movie just out of curiosity about Vincent D'Onofrio aka Goren in his early days. It's not even worth one viewing. The best part of the movie is the first half, parts of which (I think) are viewable online; and R. Lee Ermey (a real-life soldier in the army) is hilarious as Sergeant Hartmann. I really dislike this movie because it's not a cohesive narrative. There's not one character (except maybe Gomer Pyle) that you can really care about, but even Pyle doesn't get enough screen time. It's just as if there are two parts of an idea assembled in a hurry, and the result is a huge mess. To quote a blurb describing another movie, "Scattershot narrative." Worth only one viewing. Not as bad as "Scarface" (1982), but almost. Rated R.

A weak script sinks this Battleship (Blu-ray review) although visual effects are impressive Decent movies can be made from board games for example <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006YZOXLW">Clue: The Movie [Blu-ray</a> or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004VRK3ZU">Jumanji (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo)</a> both entertaining flicks that manage to transcend the limitations of their origin. Then there's "Battleship".  Coming off as a second-rate rip off of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0060FXBNM">Transformers Trilogy (Transformers / Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen / Transformers: Dark of the Moon) [Blu-ray</a>], "Battleship" benefits from strong visual effects that borrow so much from the "Transformers" films that Michael Bay and Hasbro should sue. The plot is merely a pretense for the visual effects as are the performances from the actors.  Aliens are invading Earth (is there no where else to invade? Haven't they seen <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003BJO8KU">War of the Worlds [Blu-ray</a>], <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000JGD26E">War of The Worlds</a>or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000WQWPKA">Independence Day [Blu-ray</a>]?)? Stone Hopper (Alexander Skarsgard, True Blood) is a commander of a ship in the Navy, and his screw up brother Alex (Taylor Kitsch, Friday Night Lights) serves as a Lt. after lacking direction in his life and getting in trouble. Alex is in love with Sam (Brooklyn Decker)the daughter of their commanding officer an admiral(Liam Neeson poorly used in the film). When Stone and Alex's ships are trapped inside a force field created by the alien invaders, they are the only thing preventing a Pearl Harbor style attack by the aliens.  "Battleship" is a stunning looking Blu-ray. Skin tones are a bit off but, otherwise, this is a marvelous, detailed presentation of the film.  Audio sounds terrific with a lossless presentation that puts you in the action.  The biggest special feature here is director Peter Berg's "All Access" picture-in-picture presentation that features pre-visuals for the aliens, rehearsals and behind-the-scenes bits.  Quite honestly I didn't dig into the other special features because I didn't want to waste my time.  "Battleship" arrives with a sharp, nice looking transfer that could blow most other Blu-rays out of the water. The movie itself, not so much. The film deserves an extra star for the visual effects, stellar transfer and the "All Access" special features.

Whu Hoppened? I wish I had read these reviews first and got the original Chilling pack instead of the recent edition. I wanted so bad to see the Ken Russell flick Gothic... too bad. Boris Karloff in Snake People... sorrrrry. All the movies I WANTED had been removed. And they left that awful Massacre movie... it's not campy, it's not "chilling"... it's just mean. I hated that movie. If you can't get the original 50 pack, don't get this... they took all the good movies out for some reason.

Predictable Movie a disappointment, with tired jokes, predicatable plot and outcomes and overall movie was not flattering to the main stars.  Having them do pratt falls and insult one another about age, comsmetic surgery and affairs.  Overall movie tiring, didn't watch it to the end.

Toy Story 3 Blu ray 3D According to website of this product, a Blu Ray disc should be 3D with Spanish subtitles or dubbed into Spanish. I received 2 promotions amazon this film (with 5 disks each), but nowhere came the 3D movie dubbed or subtitled in Spanish. It was false advertising.

Great story but poor execution The story is very realistic and you really sympathize with the characters that were bullied. Unfortunately the middle part of the movie fell quite below average. When I say middle I mean basically 80% of the movie. I was sitting there thinking "what the hell is going on" several times during some of scenes. To some degree I was thinking "that doesn't seem that bad" but maybe my mind is just much sicker than the director. Also, the acting for MOST of the characters was also pretty bad making a lot of the scenes seem less believable. That said, it does end the movie fairly well.  To some it up, start and end is good. Middle is bad due to poor execution on both acting and not so interesting scenes.

It's no Cars 1 Compared to the first Cars this movie falls flat on its face. I don't know if the director thought the momentum of the first movie would carry over and they wouldn't have to try as hard, but this movie did not meet expectations.

Odd movie Kept hoping it would get better.  Could have been great.  Dull, flat and nearly horrid.  I kept watching it though, hoping it would improve.  I had nothing better to do, except maybe wash my hair, or bake a loaf of bread.  I missed both.

All of these positive reviews are misleading. I personally wouldn't recommend this film. Don't get me wrong, it started off alright, but halfway through it started getting bad, not better, and then ended up horribly. I don't understand these 5 star reviews, I honestly don't. The acting was good, but the script was terrible. And the ending just blew.

What A Flying Piece Of Crap! Wow...my head literally hurts after this movie. I LOVE the original! This one is so bad! First off, there is no character development. Second, there are just so many unnecessary scenes and so much unnecessary dialogue. Third, we don't even see a piranha fly until 40 minutes into it! Fourth, the big fish-fry-at-night-on-the-beach scene is SO anti-climatic! That is supposed to be the "big scene"! How did James Cameron ever work again after this? Apparently, whoever thought up this idea had no idea that actual "flying fish" jump up into the air and need to land into water again to survive. Actual "flying fish" are still fish and can't survive out of water. If you see this movie, you know why I say that. There is a plus, that many of the guys wear tight short shorts of tiny bathing suits. In fact, in the opening scene, the guy has an actual half-chub, ha. Overall, if you enjoy the original, don't watch this. Save your money! It's not nearly as cool as it seems.

Disappointed that it didn't follow the book at all I think my problem was that I read the book just prior to watching the movie.  I had neither read the book nor seen the movie up until now and I was excited to see how well the movie adapted the story.  As I read, in my mind I kind of had to imagine Kevin Costner in the role of Gordon Krantz knowing that he played the role in the movie, and I just went with that.  I kept thinking as I read "I wonder if they'll include this bit, or if it got lost in the adaptation?"  Also, in my mind I imagined the kind of gritty, dark world of the book/movie "The Road", but with a slightly more optimistic tilt (because, *anything* would be more optimistic than "The Road").  So, naturally you can see why, with the kind of expectations I had in mind about how *I* would have made the movie, that I'd be disappointed at what happened.  All in all, it's not to say that the movie was terribly made... the cinematography was pleasant enough.  But then we have Costner's usual hammy acting, the bizarre introduction of Tom Petty, apparently playing himself, which was more distracting than you'd imagine (somehow he failed to play himself convincingly).  Add in the fact that the entire story is basically different, and all it shares in common with the novel is the most basic premise of a man pretending to be a postman, and I just can't like it, no matter how much I try.  I suppose if I'd watched the movie without any knowledge of the book at all, I might give it 3 stars, because it wasn't bad and it wasn't great, but the poor adaptation from the novel knocks a star off and moves this into "didn't like it" territory for me.

Not very informative and Alec Baldwin sucks. This video has nice computer generated special effects. That's the good part. There is not really any useful info or actual scientific data. It's a story for a child. I also really cant stand Alec "The Ego" Baldwin. I think national Geographic dropped the ball on the narration and really should of made this video much more informative about the universe. Thanks.

There's a REASON it's mostly awful I missed the earlier versions of this film in the cinema, and rented this "revisited" version as a prelude to perhaps purchasing it.  I'm deeply grateful I approached it with caution.  The reason epic historical films (often, but not always) worked better in the "old days" is that they were largely cast with seasoned English actors who had some Shakespeare on their resumes, or at least some real stage training and voice classes.  Even in 1963's "Cleopatra," for example, Rex Harrison runs away with the entire film because he has easily the best training in the cast (that's including Richard Burton).  Here you have Colin Farrell trying to carry this monumental mess with two assets:  he's capable of honest emotional work, which has served him well in less demanding roles, and he's easy on the eyes, which is an obsession of Hollywood studios, and to a fault.  Alexander did not conquer a large portion of the ancient world with his pretty face, and no actor on the planet can carry a biopic of Alexander merely with a cute tush and honest, sensitive eyes.  Colin Farrell dropped out of acting school as a young man, and apparently before he got anywhere near a decent voice class.  He shouts hoarsely through most of this 3.5+ hour film, his weak little voice burnt out like a cheerleader's, pausing desperately every 5 or 6 words like William Shatner used to when he was especially bored with a bad Star Trek script.  Worse, Colin's been around Hollywood so long he's picked up a lot of Southern California sound changes, so he speaks like a vapid Irish surfer dude.  There is a wild tangle of actor dialects in this film, ranging from Scot to English to Irish to Italian to Persian.  One can understand this and almost forgive it with an international cast.  But why then is Angelina Jolie the only one attempting (and for no reason) a Greek accent that in fact comes out vaguely Bulgarian?  (And why is her entire performance about her pouty lips and pretty eyes?  She's usually better than this.)  Why did Val Kilmer decide to make just a few Irish sound changes while chewing the scenery as Alexander's monstrous father Phillip?  Did he feel that sorry for Colin Farrell, and assumed everyone else had gotten the memo?  Why couldn't someone have coached the pretty young actor playing Bogoas to pronounce the title of the film correctly?  (I kid you not:  his character has followed Alexander halfway across Asia for years, and near the end of the film says "You have made me so happy, Ales-kander."  *Sigh*)  All of the young men in this film are pretty, gym-pumped, earnest, and can barely articulate their lines.  (Elliot Cowan as young Ptolemy fares better.)  Hardly any of them can get through a single line on one breath; they all rasp out 5 or six words, take a Shatner pause, and then finish with effort--it becomes the film's fetish, and it's torture to listen to and watch (like the two monumentally dull and brutal battle scenes).  This weakness of delivery is heightened when the film is sprinkled with tiny performances by older actors with actual stage training, such as the great Brian Blessed, Christopher Plummer, John Kavanagh, and especially Anthony Hopkins who takes the thankless task of narrating this glop and manages to dance on everyone's inarticulate grave, most notably in his heartfelt summation at the end.  I do appreciate Oliver Stone's refusal to avoid or demonize Alexander's bisexuality--he must have had screaming matches with the terrified studio execs on that one, and for the most part he won out, thank goodness.  I just wish he'd been able to insist on an actor who could pull it all off.

The Ugly Dachshund (1966) Read good previous reviews by Amazon customers. But sorely disappointed. Too much bickering over the dogs by the hubby & wifey - I mean it was throughout the entire movie ! ug Wish now I would have watched it on Amazon demand B4 I bought it.

A fictional story of Rommell. I guess this and THE DESERT FOX aren't as good as the publicity used in the theatrical release years ago. I have both titles in my collection. I like James Mason so it isn't a total loss.

Great Movie but not in his full length This is such an excellent movie which I still have on Laserdisk. The Player unfortunally is somewhere in the garage and I hoped that the movie would have been released on DVD in his full length by now. As I can see, this is not the case. Very, very sad.

Do your research on Ridley Scott before watching I'm more angry at myself for not figuring out this movie than I am angry at Scott or the movie.  The acting is good but the story is very boring and tries to add suspense but never fulfills.  If you are going into this expecting something new and exciting - you will be disappointed as I was.  The movie begins almost 100 years in the future and the team of doctors/scientists/engineers and yes, the ubiquitous millionaire investor, are looking for answers to our existence.  Searching for God, if you will.  If you are not religous, you might find the "awakening" for these folks funny.  If you are religous, I suggest you be prepared to be insulted and even angry.  Not a horrible movie but I would wait for it to come out for $1 - if I had done that, I would not be so emotional about being disappointed by this movie.

Why do this to Holmes? Why do this to Holmes? Not in the spirit of Holmes at all. See Jeremy Brett (classic) and the new Sherlock Seasons I and II with Cumberbach (?) if you want a "modern" Holmes. This one is using the standard slam-bam violent movie techniques of today and pasting Holmes' name on it. Also tasteless= the image of a nude fat Mycroft was a turn off,particularly for my wife.

Bawdy Some of it was funny, some vulgar. Watched it once, but no more.  Would have been better without the vulgar parts.

not as good as cars not as good as cars. But my son sometime still watches it. He watches Cars way more than he does with Cars 2 though.

We're all screwed? Average movie at best but that's not what's really wrong with this movie.  What's wrong is the whole premise that terrorism thrives because our government is so inept and screwed up. Bridge's character is screwed up because the government screwed up his life and the same goes with Robbins' character, although they're supposedly on opposite ends of the spectrum on what is right or wrong.  Terrorism succeeeds in this movie because everyone associated with government and media, including FBI, is inept and screwed up.  So, what is the message we're suppose to take away from this movie - that the terrorism will succeed and should be allowed to succeed because our government is so screwed up?  If you buy into such pathetic cynicism, you'll fully enjoy this movie.

stinky Halloween II is absolutely dreadful.  I never would have guessed a horror movie that focused around nonstop violence, lots of blood and frequent stabbings would stink as much as it does, but well, it's true!  It's 100% true in fact.  I hated this film.  Oh sure, it starts out fine.  A nurse gets stabbed, and a teenage girl runs for her life down a hospital hallway the moment she witnesses a huge figure running towards her with a knife.  Eventually however, the storyline seems to go away completely and turn into a mess of random killings and disjointed storyline segments focusing entirely around this one girl.  The storyline isn't coherent enough and it showed.  People would just appear out of nowhere, and they'd die.  Zero concern for storyline consistency.  Plus there was a constant question buzzing inside of my head "Why am I torturing myself with a low budget horror film?"  The acting, the stabbings and the supposed "suspense" were all really predictable and cliched.  The only truly interesting aspect is that people would die while classic rock songs were being played in the background such as 10cc's "The Things We Do for Love", the Moody Blues "Nights in White Satin" and Lynyrd Skynyrd's "What's Your Name?"  That was the only interesting part of the movie- the song selection while death would occur.  I highly recommend avoiding this disaster of a horror movie.  The storyline was confusing, the deaths were predictable and bland, and the level of excitement just wasn't high enough to leave me with much of an impression.

Disappointing I am sorely disappointed.  Based on the Iron Sky web site content and trailers, I was expecting a very different movie.  Nazis actually escaped to the dark side of the moon and are returning after 70 years to perfect some of the things they were working on in 1945?  I'm there!  What kind of heroics will it take for us to defeat evil?  Sure, it would be an action-adventure movie like so many, but at least with new villains.  What I got was a relatively flat attempt at uber-campiness.  Add in an over the top dose of "Gee, but aren't those Americans a bunch of reckless cowboys!" and it just gets old fast.  The dialog and most of the acting are nothing special.  The Nazis are cardboard cut-out Nazis.  Everyone on Earth is an idiot.  There is one semi-bright spot, and that the unexpected homage to the "Hitler learns about" Internet meme.  That cracked me up for the first 15 seconds, then it deteriorated into "effing this and effing that".  Really?  Is that the best you could come up with?  The scenery and special effects are also good.  Not up to the latest Hollywood, but still very good.  Judging from the support they got from the Internet and from various national film agencies, they had the resources to have done so much better.  Why they didn't is anyone's guess.

OK, but not really worth the time Suppose you were a former member of the Spanish special forces and terrorists had kidnapped your brother.  Would you shoot 15 secret service agents one-by-one and kidnap the president of the US to get your brother back?  Would you murder 15 innocent people to save your brother?  Makes no sense right?  That's the plot of this movie.

wish it was more realistic the movie was ok till the end. no one with an eating disorder just accepts recovery so easily. it takes months, if not years to deal with an eating disorder. it was as if andie was dying one moment, then the next month eating a whole meal. gives the viewer the wrong idea of the eating disorder healing process. very unrealistic.

Misses the Point and Boils Astro Boy Down to It's Most BASIC Elements If you are a real fan of Tezuka and are into the deeper meanings embedded in his works, this movie will probably annoy you.  First, I always fail to understand how they can spend all this money on high end computers and CG and still get the art wrong. I miss Tenma's "rooster" hairdo and Astro's eyes were the wrong shape. Ham Egg was also much fatter than usual, but they may have done that intentionally to make him look more like his voice actor Nathan Lane (which by the way was one of the highlights of the movie as he made a very good Ham Egg).  Tenma, on the other hand, voiced by Nicholas Cage, was what I feared it would be, a non-emotional, uninspiring performance where he used the same voice inflection for every line, every situation, no matter how bad or good the action on screen was. I prefer the Tenma (Dr. Boyton) of the 1960's American Astro Boy dub over this performance; at least he got upset when his son died and actually conveyed the "mad" part of Tenma well. Tenma, was pretty much a boring, middle of the road kind of character and I didn't particularly care for him one way or another. I simply could not connect to him or relate to him on the level I should have. Tenma could have gotten hit by a bus and that really would not have made me feel bad for him.  Ochanomizu (Dr. Elephun in this one) wasn't bad. I think he more or less was what I would have expected him to be. Ochanomizu is generally a "good scientist" in Osamu Tezuka's world and he was pretty much that. Concerned with the environment, understanding and the voice of reason, I think Tezuka would have liked this version of Ochanomizu. However, you completely lose the good/chaotic mix between the two scientists with Tenma's sub-par performance.  For those who are familiar with the Tezuka Star System, the movie fell short of a chance at awesomeness by making President Stone, an almost Duke Red clone, but not actually Duke Red. If they had Duke Red play President Stone, I think this movie would have gotten a bit more interesting. However, as it stands, President Stone pretty much only shares a nose with Duke Red and lacks Duke Red's multi-dimensional personality and cunning. So, I suppose it is just as well that they did not go with a full blown Duke Red part, as Duke Red is so much cooler than that.  NOTE: the rest of this going to focus on plot points. Anyone who is familiar to the Astro Boy series will not likely be spoiled but if you prefer to see the movie yourself before I nitpick it, then you may want to stop. __________________________________________________________  The story wasn't as horrible as it could have been, but it left out some of the subtleties that Tezuka worked into his manga and other previous installments of the Astro Boy universe. I half expected Keenan Ivory Wayans to jump up and scream "MESSAGE!" every time there was some lesson to be learned a la "Don't Be a Menace to South Central..." They didn't leave anything up to the viewer to figure out for themselves, they spelled out pretty much everything.  One example comes to us when Tenma straight out says to "Elephun" that he may have made a mistake and that the robot Toby is not his real son, and merely a "replacement." Osamu Tezuka respected the reader/viewer's intelligence enough to use the "robot boys cannot grow" metaphor to convey this same fact. In the original story Tenma rejects Astro because he "cannot grow" when in reality if the viewer digs a LITTLE deeper they can infer that this is the point when the "mad Dr. Tenma" has realized that Astro is not his son, and you cannot replace a human being. But apparently, that would be too much work for your average American audience and God forbid we let parents debate any plot points with curious children. So, instead they spell it out for you.  But since Cage made such a poor Tenma who never REALLY reached the classic Tenma madness breaking point, I suppose it is just as well, as such an emotional plot point would have been hard to glean from that performance.  Cage's performance also reflected poorly on the plot in general. In this version of the story Toby is vaporized by a giant, "peace keeping" robot, in a military experiment gone wrong at the Ministry of Science. Tenma didn't seem NEARLY as upset about this as he SHOULD have been. I mean 1) his son just got VAPORIZED and 2) it was HIS robot that vaporized him! It just didn't sit well with me at all. The choppy animation of the 1960's Astro Boy "car wreck scene" was more emotional and Tenma's ensuing madness made more sense. (Though admittedly the whole vaporization thing was problematic as it is anti-climatic by nature. You're here one minute then "poof" you're gone, not much room for drama and not much closure in that. I assume this move was made to make it less traumatizing for kids but it also made it less "real.")  Tenma does not seem that upset while he spends, about oh... maybe a week making his new robot son (it took a year in the manga and other versions of the story which just emphasized how obsessed he really was).  This story also touched on Osamu Tezuka's environmental messages. The story begins in Metro City, a floating city in the sky which was raised to escape the garbage pile they created on earth. Metro City is shiny, new, clean, and is maintained largely by servant robots. This also felt a little like Wall-e in that respect. Ochanomizu has a dream of cleaning up the pollution they left behind on the ground below and returning to their old life.  The people dwelling on the surface, at least in the immediate area, seem to spend most of their time sifting through Metro City's trash that they throw out of the city quite literally. They never really explain why there are so many ORPHANS on the surface. Ham Egg has a collection of these orphans who he sends out in search of robots and robot parts that can be salvaged and rebuilt into working robots. (It is later revealed that he does this to win money at the "Robot Games" which are similar to the "Robotting" tournaments from the manga).  This is where some of the robot right's elements of the Astro Boy story start to play out, but do not make much progress in this movie. On the Earth's surface, Astro encounters a rag-tag band of 3 robots calling themselves the "Robot Revolutionary Front" (RRF). This band of communist-worker-party style revolutionaries who have posters of Lenin and Trotsky's name glued all over their hideout, are hardly likely leaders in a movement to win robots the right to be free from human ownership. In fact, they were so idiotic I'd be hesitant to give them the freedom they were fighting for, and I love robots.  This freedom from ownership is granted relatively early in the original Astro Boy narrative, partly due to Ochanomizu's efforts. However, in this movie the robots are granted little more than a brief show of appreciation at the very end of the film. As readers of the manga know, granting one's freedom is not the solution to the problem.  What really needs to change are the minds and hearts of humans. So, perhaps they decided that this was a bit too much information (or too much thinking) for your average viewer of PG rated movies.  They also used the RRF to briefly mention Asimov's laws of robotics, and there was a minor suggestion that Astro may be free of those laws due to his human memories. But other than that, they didn't go much beyond referencing the first law and avoided the complexities and issues that the other laws suggest.  One final thing that was somewhat annoying was the fact that Astro "gives his life" to save the city, and is promptly revived, which made the whole self-sacrifice thing a bit pointless... I also could have done without the stupid random alien attack at the end to further ram home the point that the world needs Astro and he's a !HERO!.

makes me feel dumber than a blonde wow, this movie had jenny go through unfortunate circumstance after another, but none of them were funny! the plot was terrible.. everytning was. overall, this movie sucked!

Soul-matin' on the internet... Here is some reality-TV crap disquised as a documentary movie.  It covers the vapidity of the cellphone-generation craze of yammering with strangers on the internet.  Folks with that kind of penchant might go for this, but sadly, most can spend the time better by just going on the net and searching for someone to piss off on their own behalf.

english bottom of the screen SUCKED...not even in english..2 very dizzy women..this one was another barn burner,a total waste of my money..Don't buy it..there is lots/lots of better gay films out there..

Sloppy Blu-Ray Leaves Much to Be Desired This is easily one of my top ten favorite films. Maybe even in my top five, which is why this new blu-ray edition was so disappointing.  The film's transfer is frustrating to watch. It vacillates wildly between grainy, speckled, soft, and finally the pristine look that one normally associates with blu-ray.  Now, I know what some of you may be thinking, that I simply don't "understand" how film grain should look in the new format, and I'm talking through my hat on the subject. While grain may look different on a hi-def trasfer, there are points (notibly in the opening scene where the town crier reads the news of King Richard's capture), where the grain looks almost like static.  And some sequences are overly soft, if not almost blurry. We aren't talking about a limited understanding of Digital Noise Reduction on my part, we're talking about a slapdash job of processing the master.  Worst of all is that throughout the entire picture, there are white speckles that come and go in varying degrees, but almost always present, interspersed with pristine scenes, usually close-ups of the characters. It honestly reminded me at times of an old VHS master!  In fact, I suspect this bad mastering is the reason the disc is relatively inexpensive. I swear, this couldn't the master Warner Bros meant to use. Perhaps it was the one used for training their technicians, and it slipped through into production by mistake.  Sound and color are both good. Extras are fair for a low priced disc such as this. But for now, until this classic is revisited properly for blu-ray, your best bet is to stick with the excellent two disc DVD release from a few years ago.

Couldn't Finish This Made it to the halfway point, and just couldn't continue.  Felt it was very poorly acted and felt too much like a Hollywood production.  Just couldn't take it any longer.  Cut my losses.

My kids didn't really enjoy it... My sons really didn't get into this movie. The jokes weren't very chuckle worthy, and the whole Christmas plot seemed forced. This truly won't be a Christmas classic my kids won't enjoy.

the red and white this film is in black and white.  characters are many, and they have short film appearances for the most part.  one doesnt know which side is which most of the time, reds or white!!  very haphazard film editing, story line almost impossible to follow. i though most of the people in the dvd were whites, but other reviews say they were reds.  i dont think so , which is one reason this is a very confusing movie...why is was banned in the ussr after it came out i dont really know. dont see why though.. the acting is pretty bad too.

Very Predictable.... When I got dragged to see this in theatres, the one bright spot i kept telling myself was depp is a good actor and he is, well most of the time, in very good movies. In the very least, one that makes you think....For this Movie, that was not the case. It was well-acted, the scenery was great, but it was very obvious how it was gonna end in the first 30 mins.

Bond isn't quite back And it's a sad thing, because "for your eyes only" was Roger Moore's best Bond movie. And it was awsome,  But Octopussy tried to do waaaaaaaaay too much. Instead of just a smuggling ring, Bond has to battle a crazy Russian gen. Who wants to start WWIII, An Octopussy is involved, even though she doesn't know what's really going on. And this all takes place in India, Germany, and back to India.General Orlov and his crazy WWIII plot should have been left out of the movie, because even though Octopussy is the title of the movie. She doesn't really do anything, but be in charge of a smuggling ring, run by an all female circus. While the movie is okay, it shoves too much at once. The General Orlov plot was never really established, and what made it worse, was come to find out, he's working with Kamal Khan, and his henchman Gobinda. Kamal has gone behind Octopussy's back in taking over her operation, but both her and Bond win in the end. All in all, this movie is slightly better than Moon Raker. But not by much, there was waaaay too much going on. And Roger really looked bad in this movie, It's sad when Maude adams is the best actor in your movie.

Action is good but not enough and too much Icky Sticky High Schooly Poo Poo I would have liked this movie (more) if it had moved fast like SALT. Unfortunately, it is way too saturated with (to put it mildy) high school gumi poo poo. A little less high school poo poo and more action would have pleased even the HS crowd and brought in more mature audiences. Straight up, not enough action! Disappointing. Poor studio, director, writer judgement. Certainly the overall draw was/is/will be impacted by this lack of insight. Rich with inane highschoolish nonsense.

Not Joining The 'Gushfest' Wow. The reviews from just about every credible source is simply gushing over this flick ("...best film of the DECADE!"). I love my violence, I love my Coen Bros. and I just could not get behind this one.  Apparently, it's flat out cinematic genius. I'd be nuts to recommend that you not see it. Still, if you like a slightly more "human" story with a tad more character development around "found money," check out A Simple Plan.

Shallow Story Line The story line was incredibly shallow and did not make me intrigued at all.  This made all the scenes seemed forced and therefore less entertaining.

Just ok Just an ok performance. Too many new faces and sounds. Doobie Brothers were under utilized. Not much to do with Lake Michigan.

Terrible I thought this movie was going to be funny but it was one of those movies where the jokes and acting just didn't do it for me.  It was trying to be overly funny.  I really like J. Hill and all of his movies but I thought this was his worst.  C. Tatum I just don't like as an actor especially when he is trying to be funny.

A Disappointment I'll be the first to admit that I am not the greatest fan of Harry Potter. The first six movies, though, are enjoyable. For the most part, they are a nice mix of tension and comedic relief. However, when the Deathly Hallows Part I credits started to roll, my first reaction was: That's it!? The tension throughout the movie was constant and high. About midway through the film when our heroes were beset once again with trouble, it thought "ho, hum, there's another set back." Because of the consistent level of tension, I had no sense that the film was even coming to an end, and was taken quite by surprise at the suddenness of the ending. It held no dramatic effect whatsoever for me.

A disappointment The director certainly tries his best to capture the feeling of the Woodstock phenomenon / festival from a periphery. The film is well shot. However, the script examines the phenomenon through the lens of a money-driven family and major events through their son who is coming to grips with a whole bunch of non-Woodstock related events. Homosexuality, interpersonal relationships, career etc.  ZZZZZZZZZZZZ.  Personally, I could care less what this uninspired actor/comic does.  Liev Schreiber is one of the few actors in the film who keeps you from turning off the whole thing.  In short - there was nothing of Woodstock in there to hang your floppy hat on. No sequences of musicians, no staged behind-the-scene sequences. Nothing, other than a drug-induced scene in a van where there is some Woodstock music played against a dreamscape of LSD inspired visions.  Slap in some nudity, some tie-dye, some eccentric people and call it movie.

I am tired of terrible movies based on video games. I understand that Silent Hill, like Resident Evil, were really popular games with interesting characters, but that doesn't mean they all need movies made about them.  And this movie does not seem to treat him as a product of James Sunderland's psyche at all!  He is not supposed to speak at all, but instead keeps talking about "rational actors" and "pulling oneself up by their bootstraps".  Also, it is supposed to be a pyramid on his head, not a fountain.

You'll Get Sick I can't believe I watched this film. I was encouraged to see it by a friend and I should have known what kind of thing I was getting myself into when this friend is really into zombie movies.  But Quarantine isn't a zombie movie.  If you mixed 28 Days Later with The Blair Witch Project, you would get Quarantine.  It was compared to Cloverfield because of the camera work, but I'd say it's more like the Blair Witch because of how horrible the camera is. At least there was some steadiness to Cloverfield.  But enough of the comparisons.  This film is about a late night reporter (the girl you see in the photo) doing a story about firefighters. After the first 20 minutes of learning some stuff about what it's like for them, there's an alarm and they're sent off to an apartment complex.  They go inside and some of the tenets claim a woman was screaming in the upstairs. They go up to investigate and find this lady having trouble breathing and blood over her shirt.  Then the attack comes and they're trapped inside the building. The police believe there to be some kind of outbreak and seal the place up tight.  The plus side of the film is that the questions are answered. You find out what is going on and why. Another plus is how realistic everything is. Well, let me amend that. There are some recognizable faces in the cast so that puts a damper on the whole "it's real" thing going. You'll see people like Rade Serbedzija (of Batman Begins), Greg Germann (from Ally McBeal and other tv shows), and Dania Ramirez (from Heroes)  The negative side; I really got sick watching this film. I still have a headache from it. I didn't get sick by Cloverfield. There's alot of cussing, but that's to be expected when you're scared out of your mind, right? And the big negative is the lead - the reporter. She is incredibly annoying. Her cameraman does all he can to calm her down but she just gets more and more agitated which translates into the whimpering and crying.  I know defenders will say that's realistic, and maybe so. By the time we got near the end of the film, I was ready for the camera to be turned off.  Unless you're a zombie fan, don't bother with Quarantine.

Overburdened By Eccentricity: This Dark Comedy Pushes Hard, But Doesn't Provide Many Actual Laughs I think that it's become my mantra: "quirk is the curse of independent cinema." In an effort to be cutesy and/or clever, films have been systematically stripping away genuine warmth and humor by presenting over-the-top character types and sitcom contrivances instead of mining what is really funny in our everyday foibles. It becomes a fine balancing act, then, because a good quirky film can be both hysterical and touch your heartstrings. However, one that pushes too far can be painfully unreal and hard to sit through. And, in my opinion, there is very little middle ground. Filmmaker Dennis Lee includes a lot of big ideas and some major ambitions in the dark comedy "Jesus Henry Christ," but the chaotic result is too enamored of its own eccentricity. None of the characters feel remotely real and the situations are absolutely preposterous, but Lee wants us to care about a deeper meaning underneath it all. And the movie never made me care. More importantly, though, the outrageousness is never particularly funny.  The film benefits tremendously by casting Toni Collette and Michael Sheen in principle roles. Both of these terrific actors try valiantly and perform to the rafters with big overblown performances. The central story revolves around a 10 year old wunderkind, Henry. Curious about his parentage, he uncovers some surprising details about his birth. His activist mother (Collette) has a secret, and as Henry pushes toward the truth--they come into contact with Sheen and his daughter. Without giving away too many details, these four create a strange nuclear family with each cast member trying to out-wacky the others. None of it is, in the least, believable which would have been forgivable had I had more fun. Some of the humor is quite dark (which I love), but most of the intended laughs fall flat.  With some of the deadpan sensibilities of Wes Anderson and some of the same peculiarly flawed characters of John Irving (the early scenes of Collette and son reminded me of the flavor of Garp), I really wanted to like "Jesus Henry Christ." It is absolutely the type of movie that I would generally connect with. Something here, though, kept me at a distance. Lee seems to have thrown everything but the kitchen sink into his storyline, and nothing felt grounded. I think there are plenty of good ideas in the movie, they just needed a bit more editing, a bit more focus. And the humor needed to be sharpened. Most attempted laughs derived from shock value instead of cleverness. Consequently, the eccentricities just seemed layered on with little purpose as I never particularly cared about the characters nor laughed along with their exploits. A misfire, for me. KGHarris, 6/12.

Not for me Rather disappointing and contrived.  I felt that the acting was mediocre and I certainly would not recommend this movie.  How about some heartwarming stories!

The main thing's to get away with ...THAT kind of Blu-ray release?! Actually this elegant caper is one of my Big Studio favs but THIS Blu-ray release is a real letdown... Sixties-classic starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway / directed by Norman Jewison / editor/coproducer: Hal Ashby ("Harold and Maud", "Shampoo", "The Landlord") / Oscar-winning theme song by Michel Legrand ("Windmills Of Your Mind") / then-new "multiple screen" aesthetics (N. Jewison had seen Christopher Chapman's "A Place To Stand", at 1967 Montreal World Fair) But what you get for your money is: - cropped picture - hardly any upgrade from DVD picture resolution - BD that's rather fatless in the extras department.  Film: 8.5/10 Picture Quality: 5.5/10 - like DVD Aspect ratio: ca. 1.77:1 (= cropped) (Orig.-Format: 1.85:1) Audio quality: 6/10 Extras: 2/10 -Audio commentary Director Norman Jewison -Trailer Studio: MGM/2oth Century Fox  Together with MGM/Fox's "Butch Cassidy" this is another disappointing BD release of a classic sixties hit coming from this studio...  Do you think this film deserves a DECENT Blu-ray release? Visit my Listmania lists 'Friends of Blu-ray' Pt. I-V

Movie Killer This wasn't the worst movie ever made but KILLER MOVIE is far from being any good. First off, the acting was not terrible it was just that the story was weak and they didn't have much to work with. The casting director nailed it with the girls they chose because all of them are hot but how are they going to cast JC Chasez? I tend to stay away from anything Nsync. The production level was okay, not bad editing, lighting was fine, it really was just a weak plot and I never jumped in my seat once. Screw White Plains, North Dakota, I have seen scarier things go down in White Plains, New York on a Tuesday night. It was like they were trying to do too much with this horror movie and the end was anticlimactic as I thought it would be. Jason London, what happened to Randy Pink Floyd and your glory days? Ouch that it has come to this. One more thing, what the hell is the guy from LOST doing in this flick? Isn't he still on the island? Sorry, that was lame but so is this slasher flick. Recommended for high school kids.

Not Good The opening scene is hilarious; it's not supposed to be, but it is due to hokey acting and staging.  The rest of the film disappoints in covering nothing new.  Disappointing.

not worth it Definately a let down. Just not very funny at all. Actually turned it off after about 40 minutes. Don't understand how they pick the clips they do when they aren't even funny!

The Kings Speech Received the dvd very quickly and the packaging was fine, but I had to stop the movie three times to clean up the disc.  I realize that this dvd was used, but it seems as though it should have been sent clean. The movie was terrific! Thanks

Acting yes, story no. In terms of acting, it's a great film. Each character is fleshed out to the point where they seem like real people. The problem with slice of life pictures like this, is they often don't offer a reason to watch. It's so much like life that is boring. Nothing ever happens. I don't mean that there needs to be explosions, or car chases or death. But beyond a few arguments, there is nothing here to make someone feel like the story should have ever been told, if there were a story at all. Conflict sure. Climax... sorta.... Resolution... not really.  Just, a few bickers, a flighty affair, and then, nothing. Nothing is changed, solved or resolved.  Again, actors are great, the story is not.

All downhill after the 1st 10 minutes. The story is nonsense, and I mean NON SENSE.  The bad guy gets the final piece from Conan's father than can't figure out for how many years what to do? I assume PURE meant "virgin" and all indications thru out the movie with the bitchy daughter would lead one to conclude that.  She drinks the blood of the main female character AFTER she's had an orgy nite with Conan and what?  The whole s.....t with the quest to get all the pieces to achieve immortality is pure nonsense!

Stupid If you are into that paranormal activity junk and you believe it (which I don't) this might scare your pants off. As for me it had a few scary moments. As a mystery movie it kept me watching. As a horror movie it wasn't my thing. Give me a zombie movie or slasher movie any day. That is how I define horror. I bought it at a pawn shop for 99 cents. I'm glad I didn't pay more for it.

MISTAKE I didn't realize that "Region 2" meant that it wouldn't play on DVD in the U.S.  Make sure if you are from the US or Canada that you always buy a Region 1 DVD otherwise it will be unplayable in DVD Player :(  My son was very diaappointed that the Christmas present he had been wanting didn't work.

to HBO:  "Holy crap"-and I mean CRAP!!!!!!!!! First let me say the reason I ordered this DVD complete set is because I absolutely love the show "Everybody Loves Raymond".  That said, why does HBO have such shoddy packaging???  I received my set and the individual season sleeves were so tightly bound by the outter sleeve that I thought I would have to tear the packaging in order to access the dvds.  I was able to pull out a dialogue "script" of the last show (huh???) that was included and that loosened up things a bit.  Then I opened Season 1, disc 1.  The discs are jammed into the CARDBOARD pockets pretty well, which might explain why almost ALL of my dvds-from EVERY season-have a thin line of color that seem to be match the cardboard pockets.Hmm.....also, a couple of the discs have small gashes (like the had been dropped), and a plastic substance peeling from the edge and sides.  I've tried to see if gently rubbing with a lens cloth would remove it, but no such luck.  I'm going to have to check EVERY disc to see if it affects playing, but who's knows what will happen a week/month/year down the road?  Return it, you say?  Looks like I will.  Amazon does have the option to exchange, but I have a feeling it would be more of the same. Hey HBO, you can't affort to package the dvds in plastic? "CHEAP [...]!" Thanks Frank!!!

Boring! This movie was waste of money! it was boring. I thought it would be a good movie' but i was very wrong.

DVD watcher I love all of the Harry Potter books and movies. However, this is the worst one, mainly because it looks like most of it was filmed in the dark and it is very difficult to see the action going on through most of the film. You can still have dark overtones and still have a few lights on so you can see what's going on. Don't these directors review them before they say "print"?  What's the point of filming a movie when it looks like it's almost entirely in the dark?  They also changed quite a few things from the book. This was a very disappointing Harry Potter movie.

Incredible subject: irresponsible filmmaking The great tragedy of this film is the fact that Joel Gilbert squandered so much incredible research on such an amateurish production. He makes a strong case for the true parentage of the president and in doing so reinforces to thinking people how little we actually know about him . But Gilbert the opportunist can't hold back from one cheap shot after the other --- including "Betty Page " pornography pictures of his mother . To what greater purpose is that suppose to lead us? As much as some conservatives detest the president does viewing nude photographs of his mom in her youth advance our cause? I think not , and in fact only leads one to a grudging admiration for a kid who coming from such circumstances eventually rose to the nation's highest office.

Busted Illusions I had only half-formed notions about The Picture of Dorian Gray, both the book and the various film adaptations of said book.  I've always been somewhat intrigued by the story, by the mystery of it, and the fact that it's not entirely clear in any version (save maybe the book) what, exactly, happens to the main character.  My expectations were somewhat shattered when I saw this take on the story. It's definitely more of a horror film, with very specific horror-movie gags and devices.  I'm not sure how one would take this film out of context - probably not too well - but even in context, I was not entirely impressed.  Big motivating factors for me to see it to begin with was Colin Firth and Ben Barnes' involvement, both of whom do fine (and no one is surprised) but, again, not what I expected.  In any sense.  I have since picked up the book and found that it is entirely different (and better) in every way.

Boring I thought after watching the previews it looked action packed.  Unfortunately it was slow.  Matt Damons acting was disappointing compared to The Bourne Identity which was great.

Disappointing season I have not purchased this from Amazon, but I have watched all the episodes.  I wanted to leave a review to advise people against purchasing this.  After following an excitement of 5 Seasons, I couldn't wait to see Season 6.  I was so so disappointed.  This was just one waste of my time.  Nothing happens in any of this season except stupidity.  I think at this point selling Nancy as a sex object is pretty ridiculous.  Basically this whole season is the family on the run from Nancy's Mexican husband.  They get in several very stupid situations.  Nancy thinks she can use her sexuality to get her out of every situation, it just doesn't work any more at this point to me.  The only thing exciting is the last episode when her husband catches up to her, you want to find out what happens next.  That is about it.  Save your money !!

Good adaptation of the book, but not very interesting. The book was simple and so was the movie.  If you loved the book you'll like the movie.  I thought the book was fair and so was the movie.

Too much concentration on contests Although the presentation of mother and daughter is delightful to watch (and they both have awesome looking bodies!), unfortunately the video fell short on its instructional format. Perhaps it is because we have all been so used to "follow along with step-by-step" workouts that following the program as outlined is difficult. Really too bad, because it could have been a terrific instructional video if so much time had not been spent in promoting the muscle buildup contests. Most of us who simply want to stay fit but not develop massive bodies really would not benefit much from this video. Having said that, my hat goes off to these two incredible ladies who have followed their quest to be champions.

potential gone flat I got this flick because I had a coupon for Redbox. I'm glad I didn't pay full price for it anywhere.  The movie started off interesting enough...for about the first ten minutes, then pffft.  I ended up fast forwarding through a lot of the film, then finally getting to the end only to be left seriously hanging.  No explanations.  Nada.  It could have been worth my while had the killer been explained because what they did finally show of him at the end could have made him a very intriguing character.  I'm usually not a harsh critic, but I wish I'd read the reviews before renting this.

Be careful! Same shows on multiple DVD titles! Make sure that you don't already own the Flower Power, Cuddly Bear Collection, Tell-tale tummy or Cheer here, there and everywhere because they are the same videos just broken up.

2 stars The Patriot was made in 2000 and it was directed by Roland Emmerich. It is a Historical fiction Hollywood movie about a family who lives in South Carolina in 1776 whose lives are deeply affected by the American Revolution. The movie has a definite bias in favor of the American colonists and against the British and colonial loyalists. Benjamin, the protagonist, his family and the other colonials are portrayed as loyal patriots who are noble, brave, and determined to fight off British aggression. In contrast, the British are portrayed in a very negative light as sub-human, ruthless soldiers who fight and kill without morals. The important antagonists in the film are loyalist Captain Wilkins who betrays the colonists and British General Tavington who was portrayed as a blood thirsty monster.   The movie portrays the British as beasts without morals. Benjamin's oldest son, Gabriel, is portrayed as brave and noble. Gabriel stumbles into his father's house all bloody one night and warns that the British Green Dragoons under General Tavington murdered all of his regiment who surrendered. Then, British troops swarm upon Benjamin's house the next day. General Tavington orders his men to burn down Benjamin's house because their family is taking care of wounded rebel soldiers. By giving this order, this makes Tavington look sub-human because Benjamin, a loyal patriot, was taking care of wounded British soldiers also.  In the next scene, Gabriel tells Tavington that he is the rebel dispatcher they are looking for in order to protect his family. Tavington declares that since he is a spy, he will hang, even though this is against military protocol of the rules of war. Benjamin pleads to Tavington to let his son go. Tavington aims a pistol and inquires whether Benjamin wants a lesson in the rules of war. The lesson would be a pistol shot to Benjamin's head. Benjamin is trying to stay out of the war because he has a family to take care of. This scene suggests to the audience that the Americans are being victimized and dragged into a conflict with Britain rather than choosing to do so by their own free will. Tavington then orders all the wounded rebels to be killed. We then see a scene of them executing all the wounded soldiers. We see a kid crying after this scene which adds to the sympathy for the Americans. The British look like murderers who lack human feelings. Benjamins 2nd oldest son, Thomas, decides to attempt to save his older brother Gabriel, however despite his brave actions, Thomas gets shot right through his heart by Tavington. I believe the director did this to symbolize that by attacking families, the British are attacking the back-bone of the revolution. This scene was deliberately done to further make the British look sub-human because they killed a kid who is 15. After Thomas dies and his older brother Gabriel is captured, the British carry out the order to torch and burn Benjamin's house. This is symbolic because the movie is further suggesting that the Americans are being forced into this war and no longer have a choice in the matter because it is affecting their personal lives. Benjamin wanted to stay out of the war and now he is being led to conflict with the British.   Later in the Movie during a battle, Gabriel also is killed by Tavington. For Benjamin, hearing of his son's death is the last straw and he is now convinced that he must join the war effort. The movie again portrays that Benjamin was forced into this conflict rather than choosing to do so. The movie shows him proudly carrying the American flag in battle. Benjamin looks noble and determined. He bravely fights to end British oppression and to bring justice for the death of his sons.  At one point in the movie we observe loyalist Captain Wilkins, who has been acting as a spy by giving information to the British about the colonials. He is sitting on his horse and just watches while Tavington traps a group of innocent civilians and children inside a church and then sets the church on fire. The church burns up and kills all the people inside. The movie also again uses children here to make the British look especially evil. When Captain Wilkins just rides off with the British General Tavington, the movie is portraying the loyalists in a bad light because Wilkins did nothing to stop Tavington.    The movie raises some viewpoints concerning American foreign relations. In the scene where Benjamin went into a frenzy and hacked a soldier to pieces with an axe, the audience is led to believe this is okay because the British have been established by now as the sub-human enemy. But if a British soldier killed an American like at this point in the film, it would have been seen as completely evil and barbarous. This scene reminded me of the Jacksonian view of foreign policy, which is that America abides by the rules, but if America is attacked first, then America will do anything to ensure total destruction of the enemy, and what ever way America deems fit is justified because America was attacked first. The end justifies the means. I think the director of the movie feels that since Benjamin was attacked first, that represents "America" being attacked first and all rules are off the table, and so therefore the movie is concluding that it is morally okay that Benjamin brutally hacked the guy to pieces over and over with an ax.   After rescuing Gabriel, Benjamin's young son is upset that he killed British soldiers with his father. I feel that Benjamin's response drew another parallel to how America conducts its foreign policy. Benjamin tells his son that he did what he had to do; there was no wrong in it because they were wronged by the British. If we compare that statement to America's war policies, it seems pretty similar. America feels it has a right to do whatever it takes to win as long as America feels it is on the morally right side of dishing out justice. Benjamin obviously felt that he dished out justice that day. The ends justify the means to America and to Benjamin. His son responds that he is "glad" that he killed those British. Again the Director uses children to obtain disapproval against the British. In the next scene after this one, his wife's sister tells him that he has "done nothing for which you should be ashamed." Benjamin responds to his wife's sister by saying, "I've done nothing...and for that I am ashamed." This is a further outlook on America's foreign policy that America doesn't feel shame for killing any amount of people as long as America was wronged first.    The final battle of the movie takes place in Yorktown in the year 1781. The French are seen coming into the harbor to support the Americans. The movie wonders what took the French so long. The French are portrayed as the "long lost friends who had finally arrived" with their naval support. The battles in the movie are shown as being fought with colonial soldiers independent from the aide of any foreign soldiers. It's never mentioned that some of the war supplies came from French aide. Only a single French General is shown at the end of the movie in the last battle at Yorktown. The last battle was portrayed as an easy victory by the colonists. The French are portrayed as chickens who just stayed out in the water safely on their ships while the Americans did the brutal fighting.   The movie also never discussed the foreign policy side of the story Benjamin Franklin went through over in France in order to secure French aide for the revolution's battles at places like Yorktown and the rest of the revolution. Two treaties with France were signed in 1778, one economic and one military treaty. Benjamin Franklin was over seas begging the French for military aid, and finally was able to convince the French to support our revolution after the battle of Saratoga in 1777. The French gave the revolution military and navy support, money, and weapons, so France in this movie is never given enough credit for their help in the revolution. The director and writers of this movie obviously felt that America is exceptional, and they obviously have a distorted view of American foreign policy. But I did enjoy watching the movie. I love watching biased movies.  Written by Steven D. "Ikihi"

saw this turkey when it was in first release And it stunk then.  Time doesnt improve it any.  WARNING: SPOLIERS FOLLOW  The plot makes no sense whatsoever.  Ina nutshell, an ad company is surgically modifying models to fit a perfect profile, digitizing them for computer animated commercials, and then killing them so they dotn have to pay royalties.  First off the plastic surgery makes no sense.  It is difficult, expensive, and unnecessary as you could just edit the digitized model after scanning.  But then killing them to avoid a few thousand dollars in royalties??  For a company making advertisements that cost multiple millions of dollars to produce?  Clearly no one consulted accounting.  The "LOOKER" in question is light-gun that puts people into a freeze where they don't remember time passing and, while an interesting plot vehicle, again makes no sense as part of this story.  Its like it was inserted just so they could user the pun.  I don't entirely blame them, though, as the gun is the most interesting part of the story.  Its too bad they couldn't have actually written a good story around it.  Remember Sphere?  This was worse.  When Crichton stinks, he does it like a skunk.

"It's been fun..." Then we have this one. Suffice it to say, I was not happy. For example:  The Death of Captain Kirk: With Kirk out of the way, no more adventures with the original crew. Even if the other characters were assembled, Kirk's absence would be painfully obvious.  The Destruction of the Enterprise-D: This was the most visible symbol of Star Trek: The Next Generation, proof that Gene could catch lightning in a bottle twice. With its destruction, the biggest example of his influence also goes up in flames.  The Destruction of Data: And let's be honest here, with that cockamamie emotion chip, the Data we all knew is dead. Data was Gene's window on humanity, his way to view it from outside and comment on it. That window has now been shattered.  The Death of Rene Picard: This is a bit more subtle, but remember the last shot in the episode "Family", with Rene sitting under the tree looking up at the stars? Once upon a time, that little boy was Gene Roddenberry, dreaming of sailing the stars in some sort of spaceship like an interstellar Horatio Hornblower. Killing Rene (by fire, no less!) seems to be saying "The dream is dead, and we're now using the corpse to stoke our own fire."  Couple this with the numerous, and oftentimes blatant, violations in the established continuity throughout the film, which I'll get into later, and you have the distinct impression that the powers that be, which in this case are frequently identified as Rick Berman and Michael Piller, with Ron Moore and Brannon Braga being identified as co-conspirators (I don't know why Jeri Taylor is generally left off the hook; maybe she's given fans a better impression than the others) really don't give a flip about what the fans feel or what their opinions are. They just expect us to be good little Trekkies and accept whatever product they put out, regardless of quality, just because it has the Star Trek name on it. For instance,  1) The Continuity Breaches: Scotty's presence on the Enterprise-B (dialogue from "Relics", Act I, when Jimmy Doohan looks at Riker and says,"The Enterprise? I should'a known! I bet Jim Kirk pulled her out of mothballs himself and came lookin' for me!" pretty clearly established that Scotty knew nothing about what happened to Kirk, or anything about the Enterprise-B; all of this was known to Berman, who hoped that "no one would notice" Shyeah! Right!),  The appearance of the Enterprise-B (remember that sculpture in the observation lounge? That showed the Enterprise-B as a straight Excelsior class vessel)  The appearance of Data's emotion chip (in the two episodes in which we saw it, "Brothers" and "Descent pt II", it was depicted as a small c-clip, and was not functional when Data, who was about to destroy it until talked out of it by Geordi, puts it away in what looks like a watch case. When we see it in Generations, it's grown to a two-inch square contraption suspended in what appears to be some sort of magnetic field, which is generally a bad idea for computer components. Plus, instead of installing it in Data's neck, as Dr. Soong originally intended to do, Geordi installs it in his head! By the way, shouldn't one of them have notified the captain before they undertook what amounts to reprogramming the ship's operations officer?)  The performance of the Enterprise when attacked by the Duras sisters (whatever happened to backup systems? the aft torpedo tubes? rotating the shield frequencies? ejecting the core?)  In my calmer moments, I've acknowledged that if you took away the Star Trek elements from Generations, then it was a pretty good movie. Unfortunately, we can't do that. It has all those Star Trek elements, and that includes thirty years of baggage to lug along behind, and several million volunteer sherpas more than happy to point out where you screwed up in Scene 23.  Combine these, and more (I only touched on the highlights) with the credibility gaps (whoever heard of commissioning a ship that only had half her systems installed? And about that bit about how you couldn't get into the Nexus with a ship. How did Soran first get in there? In a ship. How did Kirk get in there? In a ship. It didn't matter that the ship was blasted around them, they were in the Nexus, which came across as the ultimate desperation device; just throw it up on the screen, and the only explanation of why it does what it does is that it's a temporal anomaly (an explanation that has been sliced, diced, and turned into fifty-seven different types of pretzel by various posters on AOL and BBS's across the wonderful land of ours). Even spatial rifts have to follow rules, and the Nexus violated just about every one, with the exception that it was strange. It's impossible to be a self-respecting viewer and just accept some of this stuff.) and you have thirty years of pretty consistent continuity tied up into a very ugly knot, and a very touching series finale overshadowed by a very confusing, muddled, and sometimes insulting, film.

Pales in comparison to actual musical - Travolta in fat-suit falls flat Perhaps it's unfair to review a film adaptation of a Broadway show shortly after seeing a first-rate live production of that show.  But that's where I found myself - my daughter and I saw a terrific live stage production and she was so excited that I had to snag the movie . . . what a disappointment.  To be fair, the movie is a faithful adaptation of the Broadway show, which is in turn a faithful adaptation of John Water's original film version featuring Ricki Lake.  The movie is more tame than the Broadway show and much more sedate - although it's hard to see any film providing the same stand-up-and-dance exuberance as that hysterically upbeat show.  For the most part, the cast plays their parts with good cheer and warm humor.  Nikki Blonsky takes on the key role of Tracy Turnblad, the plump and plucky Baltimore teen who wants nothing more than for everyone to dance together in harmony to the coolest tunes on the Corny Collins show.  Blonsky's got a fine voice and has the rampaging cheerfulness to play Tracy, and that's saying a lot.  Several other supporting roles, such as Amanda Bynes as Tracy's best pal and James Marsden as Corny, are well-played.  The story also gets high marks as ever - "Hairspray" daringly takes on the racial and sexual mores of Baltimore circa 1962 - and there's lots of fodder there.  But it's hard to give a remake of a remake a lot of credit for telling an original story.  The key is whether this film version of "Hairspray" does a good job, and that's where things fall apart.  In their zeal to sell a Hollywood hit, the filmmakers made some big casting mistakes with some of my all-time favorite actors.  John Travolta's fat-suit performance as Tracy's obese mother Edna just flat-out does not work.  Travola adopts a weird accent that, like Ben Stiller's in "Zoolander," wears out its welcome quickly.  The gimmick of "Hey, that's Travolta in a fat suit!" also wears thin as the effect is more creepy than comical.  It must be said that while Travola's performance in Greece spawned a million karaoke performances, his singing in "Hairspray" is subpar.  The movie would have been much better served if they had chosen a relative unknown from a touring production of "Hairspray" rather than finding a Big Hollywood Star brave enough to take this role on.  Michelle Pfeiffer fares a little better as Velma Von Tussle, as her razor-sharp cheekbones and chiseled triceps embody the evil mother's frosty competitiveness.  But she does surprisingly little with "Miss Baltimore Crabs," a disappointment.  For all her brassy talents, Queen Latifah doesn't have the singing chops to pull off Motormouth Maybelle's bring-down-the-house number, "I Know Where I've Been," a song that had the crowd alternately cheering and tearing up at the live show we attended.  Saint Christopher Walken seems to sleepwalk through much of the movie, although he does shine on his duet, "You're Timeless To Me."  I'm not naive about Hollywood's need to bring in big names to get movies made . . . it would have been too risky from a box-office perspective if the filmmakers had chosen relative unknowns but who had brought the house down in one of the many live productions of the Broadway show.  But it would have been a much better movie.

Good movie, damaged Blu Ray I purchased this item over Amazon a phew weeks ago. I was not able to try it until today. I was looking forward to watching it, but it turned out the Blu Ray was damages and was not read by 3 Blu Ray Players and 2 PS3 systems. The movie itself is good though, have seen it like 2 times.

"An Ephemeral Tale" If you are looking for drama, excitement or suspense, this movie will prove very disappointing.  In fact, the bulk of the film deals with a group of endearing and quirky characters having a grand old time at a 1904 Dublin dinner party, where sentimentality, drinking, poetry readings and maudlin ballads prevail.  In one brief moment, a couple engages in a sad pensive conversation. And that's really not enough to carry this film.

A little short on content So this movie is better than a few other Snow White remakes that came out recently but that isn't saying much. The director obviously wanted Kristen Stewart for the Twilight popularity and a little something on the side (just Google it if you don't know). She isn't real believable in any movie I've seen her in and always seems constipated before she delivers her lines. For some reason Charlize Theron seems a little off here don't know why she is a great actress maybe it was the writing. But that said the rest of the actors are pretty good the dwarfs are awesome and the sets are done very well. So not the worst movie you could watch but certainly not a great one.

Not happy with product The 3-D glasses were not effective at all.  We did not enjoy it as we thought we would.  We could not see through the red eye part of the glasses.

Waste of time I watched this movie with my brother since he bought the dvd (waste of time and money if you ask me)...The only good thing about this movie was the baby. She was adorable. The worst part of the movie to me was when they decided not to smoke pot but baked it in the brownie instead. I'm sorry but i didn't find anything funny about that. They are supposed to be taking care of the baby and they are getting high. Ridiculous.

Great Movie but Disappointed with product I purchased this movie for my 18 year old son, I was happy that he was interested in a classic movie. I received the movie in a timely manner, however the movie will not play properly. I wanted to exchange this movie for another copy of the same but to my disappointment I was informed that I will not able to exchange it for another copy, so I do not know what to do, My son really likes this movie and would love to be able to view it without it glitching continuously. No offense against the movie, just apparently this specific copy.

"El Doublo" "El Dorado" might more aptly be called "El Gordos" as the two stars are clearly over weight and out of shape in this 1967 Howard Hawks film. Or you might call it "El Doublo" since the film is clearly a remake of the far superior "Rio Bravo" (1959) that also starred Wayne and was produced/directed by Hawks and written by Leigh Brackett.  In this film, Wayne plays a deputy sheriff to his old friend Robert Mitchum and he is assisted by a young man (James Caan) who is nick-named after a state (Mississippi) and a grouchy old man (Arthur Hunnicutt). They are besieged in a small town jail because they hold land-grabbing Ed Asner who is responsible for ordering a man's death. The gang is led by gunslinger Christopher George. Mitchum plays a drunk. There is a half hearted romance involving Charlene Holt.  In Rio Bravo Dean Martin plays the drunk and the deputy and Wayne is now the sheriff. They are besieged in a small town because they are holding the brother (Claude Akins) for murdering a man. Akins is the brother of a land-grabbing rancher (John Russel). Wayne and Martin are assisted by a grumpy old man (Walter Brennan) and a young man (Ricky Nelson) who is nick-named after a state (Colorado). There is a half hearted romance involving Angie Dickinson.  FWIW - Wayne wanted to play the Sheriff in "El Dorado" but Hawks wanted  Mitchum.  We think of Howard Hawks (1896-1977) as a Western director, but in truth, Hawks made all kinds of films, including comedies, gangster and war films. He was nominated 3 times for a DGA award for "Red River" (1948), "The Big Sky" (1952) and "Rio Bravo" (1959) and he was Oscar nominated for "Sergeant York" (1941). Among his other notable films were "Scarface" (1932), "The Big Sleep" (1946), and "Gentlemen Prefer Blonds" (1953).  Leigh Brackett (1915-78) was a science fiction writer who also worked on screenplays. She was nominated by WGA for her work on "Star Wars V". She worked with Hawks on "The Big Sleep", "Rio Bravo", "El Dorado", Rio Lobo",  and "Hatari". She said - "When I write a novel I am God at my own typewriter and there is nobody in between. But when I write a screenplay it must be a compromise because there are so many elements which are outside the writer's province."  It's hard to believe that Hawks and Wayne made "Red River" (1948) when you watch this film. There is very little in this film that will attract anyone. Christopher George is a villain only in name. We see nothing to convince us that he is dangerous, so when he is gunned down by a crippled Wayne falling out of a buck wagon, who cares? And Ed Asner hardly evokes any fear or awe.  In 1967 the top grossing films were "The Jungle Book", "The Graduate", "Bonnie and Clyde", "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner", and "The Dirty Dozen". Oscars went to "In the Heat of the Night" (Picture, Actor), "The Graduate" (Director), and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (Actress). Other notable films that year were "Bonnie and Clyde", "Cool Hand Luke", "Camelot", "I am Curious Yellow", "To Sir With Love", and "Point Blank"  Westerns released in 1967 included "A Fistful of Dollars", "For a Few Dollars More", "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", "Hombre", "Hour of the Gun", "Welcome to Hard Times", and "The War Wagon".  Give this one a miss. Everyone has done much better in many other films, so why spend your time and energy on this one.

Eh Not a good movie at all. Maybe if you are a video game nerd you might enjoy watching this movie.

Unique spin with way too much Hollywood glamour When I see a good movie it usually entails characters that are developed or developing, high detail in story and portrayal, and uniqueness from the mainstream archetype.  This movie fulfilled the bonus points for initial interest, but lacked detail and coherency for plot.  There were too many holes in the story that seemed like things were rushed and filled in with a gleaming overabundance of "the bigger the better" mentality.  A decent movie if you're not interested in thinking at all while your eyes are fixed on the screen.  There's a tremendous amount of eye-candy (not specifically speaking of the scantily covered ladies).  However, a horrible movie if you need more substance to feel a longing for more or rewardedness for plopping your butt down for the duration.

I must have missed something. I didn't get what was supposed to be scary or interesting about this. Someone else might get more out of it. The sound quality was horrible.

End of the Festivities The finale of the Feast movies, and the shortest of the three movies at less than a hour and twenty minutes.  While it does go about wrapping up things with the other two movies but one thing that bothered me a bit is that some characters that were introduced in this movie was killed off in five minutes or less if not a little longer.  Another thing that seemed to bother me a bit was with the one guy that got a pipe in his head, and somehow managed to stay alive even if it was through the brain a bit.  Other horror movies that I've seen over the years when something like that happened the character died from a injury like that nor stayed alive for that long.  The writing seemed to be decent enough but it didn't seem to be that strong and as for the acting it wasn't that bad yet it could've been done a little better at least to me it could've.  Overall Feast III: Happy Finish, got a decent ending not the best, 2 stars out of 5.

Boring This should have been an interesting story.  She's a fascinating character and the movie gave me just enough information to form that opinion, but the entire plot was shallow and lacking.

The Wrong. I saw this movie last night and I have to tell you, my sides hurt so bad from trying not to laugh out loud in the theatre that I feared that I was going to cough up a nail myself.  Basically you have this young pretty boy actor who wants to drop out of priest school so he can do normal things like getting laid. But drat it, he owes too much on student loans. He is also a questioning rationalist who is unable to buy any of this 'God made the world in six day' hokum, so his superiors decide that sending him away to exorcism school in Rome for a few months will cure him of his skepticism. Sure it will..And I'm the pope.  There amoungst the marble archways and impressive study halls, he goes to class like only three times or something and looks at slide shows of people who live at my local mission. He also learns the signs of possession which are, apathy, trembling limbs, knowledge of something that they shouldn't know, stink eye, yoga contortions, baggy eyelids, and a voice like Al Pacino's.  Several times the film does a flash back into pretty boys past just to show that his father was a creepy mortician who traumatized him as a young boy with the embalmed corpse of his dead mother. In the car ride to the funeral, the boy glares in hatred at the dangling rear view mirror crucifix and bends the one he is holding behind his back when his mothers casket is being lowered into the ground. The part of the flash back that they left out was when he became a preteen goth and arm slicer.  According to The Rite, in order to banish a demon you have to at first know the demons name. What the teachers forgot to tell pretty boy, is that you can only perform an exorcism in dingiest most ill lit room available. This was actually covered in the exorcism schools evening classes on Satanic Home Decorating Design. Unfortunately, pretty boy was too busy hop scotching around with Anthony Hopkins to go to any of his classes anyway.  Pretty boys first hands on introduction to exorcism was in treating this rather flirtatious pregnant Italian chick who says things like 'Judas cross, and lickity split'. She also spreads her legs a lot while liking her lips like a porn star and saying the come on line of 'rape me'. I half expected Pretty boy to do a Leslie Neilson impersonation by suddenly undoing his priest collar and robe while delivering the line. "If it's this consensual, it's not rape."  There is also this possibly possessed little boy who speaks of seeing a red eyed mule, but like all little kids in The Rite, he is unceremoniously kicked to the curb like yesterdays news. I mean seriously, pretty boy and his (If I wasn't a celibate monk I would be getting it on with her) female side kick character go through all the trouble of exorcising a major demon out of Anthony Hopkins, and then just go on their merry way to live happily ever after. They just forget all about the little boy who is still seeing red eyed mule demons and getting the tar kicked out of him every night by them. The one thing you will come away with from The Rite, is that little children really do have it rough in this feature. If you don't believe me just ask the little girl that got back handed by Anthony Hopkins for having the nerve to ask him to bless her teddy bear.  In the end, the exorcism of Anthony Hopkins turns into a comedy roast from hell. Anthony Hopkins transforms himself alright, into one part Hannibal Lecter and two parts Triumph The Insult Comic Dog. The real comedy clincher was having pretty boy stop being an atheist on a dime, only to fallow his heart so he can't be wrong. That's what did it folks, that's what saved the day in this film. One second pretty boy didn't believe in the 6,000 year old world story and Anthony Hopkins was all in his face doing 'The Linda Blair' thing, and then the next second, pretty boy had suddenly found his faith right next to his missing bic lighter and ball point pen. Just like that Anthony Hopkins was cured...'Lickity split' as the Italian pregnant chick had said.  Now that I know how easy it is to change, I will never left a finger to do any actual real work towards self improvement ever again. I will believe in every diet fad and home exercise gimmick on the market before just taking a pill. Incidentally, when the film shows the red eyed jackass, that was actually the person who made this film.

review and spoilers - so read carefully Spoilers below, but it tells why I give this movie 2 stars tops. The movie is 90 minutes and (spoiler next line) the first hour is just the mafia guy showing up, sticking around and trying to get the guy to go do the heist job.  An HOUR just on that ?  I started fast forwarding through some bits because I started to think the whole movie was like that.  The heist itself takes up 5-10min of the whole movie.  You get about an hour of "you will do it !", "no  I won't", "you will!", "no I won't".  Not for my tastes, disappointing.

A little over hyped... Alright so 20 years and that's all they came up with?  Anyways the story seemed lacking, spent too much time making everything look pretty all in lights.  The 3D effects also were like a 6/10 nothing really flew off the screen at me, you'd think with all those discs flying everywhere one would make it off the screen...but no.  There were a few parts where you could really feel the some depth however.  I would strongly suggest they not use the 3D as a strong selling point.  As for the thing switching between letterbox and 16:9 really wasn't needed and it lessened the 3D effects, and also at times seemed to just happen randomly.  Overall it wasn't horrible but really not worth running out to own, there were a few highlights such as Olivia Wild in something you could paint on.  The best way to get through it is just think of it as a 2 hour Daft Punk music Video...I probably wouldn't of been so cruel had it not been blown up with ads and hype.

It didn't work for me Mildly entertaining, but the falling in love in 3 days was not believable in this movie.  It had a good set up, but Sandra Bullock's character never became endearing, and resorted to the same "i love your family" lines that made While You Were Sleeping such a great movie.  Ryan Reynolds, Betty White, and some of the other characters were enjoyable.

Overrated I love other Nicolas Sparks movies like The Notebook, Dear John, but for some reason this one didn't do it for me. Wanted to see it in the theater even, but glad I waited for home rental.

Hunchback of Notre Dame Not what I ordered I had to send it back Quite a hassle I did not reorder the fact that it was on Spanish was not clear

Pass it by The story had the potential to be much more inspiring,amusing and promotional of chess. It disappoints on these fronts.She is clearly a great actress as is Kline but the somewhat sombre style of the film results in a missed opportunity.

Weird "Blotches" and (Yikes!) DVD Rot on Disc #15!!! I give the show itself 5-stars (for nostalgic reasons if nothing else), but I DID have unusual problems with the DVD's.  I purchased the SPACE: 1999 30th ANNIVERSARY MEGASET from Amazon New/Factory Sealed in 2007, the first week that it was released.  When I opened the set I was concerned to notice that ALL 17 discs had weird looking "blotches" on them.  I returned the set to Amazon for a replacement--and--SHOCK!--the replacement set had the EXACT SAME "blotches" on all of the discs!  Fast forward to 3 years later, I played back the discs in 2010 and had no playback problems whatsoever--THAT IS until I got to DISC #15 which would NOT PLAY--I examined the disc and was HORRIFIED to see that it was COMPLETELY ROTTED!  If you own the SPACE: 1999 30th ANNIVERSARY MEGASET set PLEASE check for weird looking "blotches" on the discs and/or DVD Rot--*hopefully* your set will be blotch and rot-free!!!  UPDATE: In early 2011, several other discs in the set had also become ROTTED.  I ended up junking the entire 2007 set and (instead) purchased the Big Box--SPACE: 1999 MEGA-SET released in 2001--the original set is both blotch and rot-free!!!  I realize that my experience with "blotches" and DVD Rot may have been unique--at least I hope it was!  Comparing both sets, I prefer the Big Box SPACE: 1999 MEGA-SET by a wide margin--it is PERFECT in every way!  If you found this review useful, please click the "YES" button.  (Please read my other reviews as well).

Certainly not Virginia Woolf Hmm. Even though the script provides all the necessary elements for a great movie, Jodie Foster (who is normally so capable), overacted annoyingly and remarkably badly, whilst Kate Winslett (equally capable of wonderful work), did not manage much better either.  John C Reilly gave a good and controlled performance, but the other male actor also failed to improve the problem.  Perhaps the problem lay with the direction.  I don't really know, as the film could have been superb. I just realize more and more how difficult it is to get everything just right.  "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf" comes to mind in this context, a movie where parties confronted each other with equal intensity.  Only there the mix and the acting was spot-on and the direction masterly.

A scoundrel by any name I always like Michael Douglas--he's interesting and watchable no matter what the material.  But I couldn't like him in this movie--he has no redeeming qualities and it is hard to root for him.  He self-destructs and keeps himself from getting what desires.  I should feel sorry for him but didn't.

Needed help I sat through the whole movie though there were a number of times my mind just wandered without missing anything.  Battle scenes were OK, but the direction wasn't tight and the film sorely needed a good editor.  A decent effort, but in addition to some of the dialogue not being able to be heard (as noted in another review) there were also scenes that went too long and honestly the "900" only went into action the last 30 minutes or so of the movie.  With editing and clearer audio, it would have been a four star in my view.  I'd say a potentially great story that took too long to tell here.

Bollywood Musicals - No Thanks I had no idea what a Bollywood musical was, but now I do.  And, honestly, I had no patience to continue.  The first 10 minutes or so of this movie starts with a regular storyline.  Suddenly, it's three years later and people are dancing around and singing.  What the...??? At first, I thought it was a joke or defective film spliced with something else by mistake.  Then I realized it's a "Bollywood musical" and I didn't last long after that.  Really didn't like this film at all.

You're all gonna hate me and in a way, I don't blame you.  So many people give this film so many stars, but I just can't.  It's Fred Astaire!  It's Arthur Freed!  It's Vincente Minnelli!  Too many chefs can somtimes spoil the soup, you know.  And there are way too many chef's here.  And by this time, all three knew how to make bisque out of celery.  The stove is on.  Enjoy the show.  By 1953, Fred Astaire hadn't changed his "Easter Parade" personae.  Ane here he is again.  The same role.  The same ever-growing tired elegance.  The same wonderful.  It's a serve-up of everything he has served up before.  And before.  And before.  The Technicolor is in full swing, MGM style, but not wildly so.  Fred Astaire can NOT, CAN NOT, do "wild".  Didn't you get the memo?  Minnelli certainly did, and he tones it down here.  Freed needed the studio to make bucks, fast ones, as his career was beginning to slide.  (He'd shore it all up for "Gigi" a few years later.  With Minnelli, happily, in the drivers' seat).  But here we have Astaire in a run-of-the-mill role and he's exhausting to watch.  Exhausting because he's not only so one-of-a-kind talented, but exhausting because he's STILL doing it.  Fred is tired.  We all are.  20 years of watching him and he's still doing it.  Better than anyone else.  But we can't do it 20 years later so we hate him.  We love him.  It' Fred Astaire in a Minnelli musical.  Pay attention.  But how can we pay attention when Fred Astaire, FRED ASTAIRE!!!!!!!!, who paired with Ginger Rogers in all of those wonderful RKO musicals, who made movie love to Rita Hayworth, (twice), who canoodled with Crosby, stunned us with Garland, had the misfortune of working with Jane Powell and Betty Hutton (yikes, but they got the MGM treatment, too) wind up with....  Nanette Fabray.  We have a right to be tired.  A Constitutional right.  How was this possible????  People think that the "Triplets" number is so wonderful.  I find it embarassing.  But Fabray and Jack Buchannan need the gravy that these hapless roles provide.  And they get the gravy.  But it's Astaire.  It's Minnelli.  It's Arthur Freed.  I have a feeling that after "An American In Paris" and "Singin' In The Rain", the Freed Unit was so exhausted and just looked around the studio and said "film anything".  And this is what happened.

Do not buy on Blu-Ray! The movie itself is good.  It deserves 4 stars.  However, someone should be fired for allowing this on blu-ray.  The quality is terrible.  This never should have been a blu-ray.  Buy the dvd version and enjoy.

Great...till Kara and Darkseid start talking. There should have been more bat's and sup's as well as better animation is some areas. For instance when lila and kara are walking its just their picture being moved back and fourth with their lips being the only some what fluid movement and when superman and kara are flying at the end she makes a loop in the air and it was just bad, her movement was stiff and choppy as if it was rushed but I notice most of dc's animated projects cut corners whether it be some parts or the whole thing(JL season one). All in all Kara is annoying, Darkseid's voice threw me off, sup's and bat's use of the words "a**" and "damn" are not something kids should be hearing, title should have been superman/batman/supergirl go shopping, music score was too familiar with the orchestra going "DA!! du du, du du DA! du du, much like the opening of batman begins.  Batman was cool.

Misleading This was not at all what some other reviewers described it to be. Just an okay disc in very cheap packaging.

Okay, not good enough for Ron Howard This story is just okay and not nearly up to the caliber of Ron Howard when he is at his best. Then again, he directed the painfully dull Dan Brown novel turned film whose name I can't even remember because it was so bad.  I like the actors here too, but they needed and deserved much better material.

Ultimately undone, despite some good elements There is some good acting in Take Shelter, and an interesting and nicely developed story line.  It has a nice feel for life in our complex times, and life in a small town.  But as many reviewers have noted, it could use about 15 minutes of editing.  And especially the last minute, it completely undoes the movie and makes you feel you've just wasted the last two hours of your life.

Preacher Got this for my husband for his birthday and we where both very disappointed in the movie.  I don't know if it was the scrip, the director, or actor but I am sorry I got this for him.

Unwatchable sensationalist exploitation Yeah, we get it - tha hood is big on flash, volume, and excess. This video, however, takes it up a notch into mockumentary territory. Featuring an overload of shucking and jiving, excessively LOUD boasting, and shameless mugging for the camera; the hood is apparently populated by attention-seeking wannabees with an overcompensation complex.  Much of the problem can be laid at the slipshod method of getting footage - take the crappiest videocamera you can find, gather a group of six or seven homies, and have them shout over each other about how gangsta they are. A great deal of the dialogue is unintelligible, the shaky camera work nausea-inducing, and the stories told so implausible that only a fool would believe even half of what is said. If there was any editing, I'd hate to see what was left out. Jay Gee Entertainment neglected the most important rule of thumb - you have to shoot 10 hours of raw footage to get an hour of worthy stuff.  Still, this video has some value - it's unintentionally hilarious and rich fodder as a recruiting tool for white supremacy organizations.

No Subtitles on this DVD. I am huge fan of Michael Jackson and ordered this set. The songs listed on this DVD are the best songs. But there are no Subtitles and the DVD quality is also not so good as I thought. This is like watching on basic TV channel but at least they have Closed Captions to see what the lyrics are. I wanted to return this DVD but I did not see any other DVD set of Michael Jackson that has subtitles.

Feeble Adaptation, Despite the Good Acting from the Lead With the cast including Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox and Michael Fassbender, "Johan Hex" should be a decent action movie. And sure, the film opens with a nice gun fight sequence, but something goes wrong after a while and, despite its short running time (81 minutes including credits), the film soon becomes a long, tedious ride, with a story that doesn't know where it really wants to go.  Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin) is a post-Civil War bounty hunter with special abilities like (only briefly) resurrecting the dead. The DC Comics anti-hero, whose family was killed by Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich), agrees to work for President Grant (Aidan Quinn) only because the very terrorist plotting against the government is Turnbull himself.  The script is by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, known for their works "Crank" and its sequel (as a writer/director team) starring Jason Statham. Perhaps their fast-paced, anything-goes style could bring something new to the weak story. I am afraid Jimmy Hayward (who served as a co-director in "Horton Hears a Who!") is not the best choice for this material.  Players are doing their best. Josh Brolin as the vengeful titular hero (with impressive special make-ups) and Michael Fassbender ("Inglourious Basterds") as Burke, Turnbull's sadistic henchman both did outstanding jobs. Even their skillful acting cannot help the entire project, though.

Not the Best End to What was Once a Fine Show Not utterly terrible, but close - and likely the ultimate end of the franchise. The script is bad, the story uninspired, and the acting by the leads feels curiously tired. Indeed, there is such a lack of inertia to this X-File - a creative stagnation and a laziness of plot - that it seems no one involved had any real interest in it outside of the dream of potential remuneration (and considering the justly paltry revenue this thing took in, I'd guess that dream was quashed).  When this movie appeared, "The X-Files" had been off air for almost six years. It had been even longer since Agents Mulder and Scully had appeared together on a regular basis, and even longer since the leads had displayed any visible interest in their roles. Having once loved the show, I lost interest when I thought I detected the actors exhaustion (for the record, that was near season six). Even so, it would have been a nice surprise to find a well-crafted picture - for the sake of nostalgia, if nothing else. But alas, the results of this offering aren't good. Duchovny and Anderson are actors who can project a natural intelligence, but here they're saddled with a hackneyed script that provides them with laughably clich&eacute;d dialogue and logical gaps galore. Worse, these guys still seem tired. Time hasn't heightened their interest, and while it's lovely to see them paired up again, I wish they'd had more energy.  I used to enjoy this show, back in the day. But then time marched on, and so did I. Occasionally I'd see the actors pop up in other venues and Id smile, thinking - "Hey, there's so and so..." - and then I'd move on. Then this film brought the show back from the dead, briefly rekindling my interest. But like one of its own undead creations, something about this flick just doesn't feel right.

What a Waste of First Rate Talent and a Great Film Series How bad can a Terminator movie with Christian Bale (AND Sam Worthington), a big budget, and access to modern special effects be?  Pretty darn bad.  It plays like a cheesy Mad Max movie - except it wasn't produced in Australia with a then-unknown brand new actor and a low budget in the '70's.  The key "reveal" of the movie is thrown away almost accidentally. No psychological, wonder if, wonder what, build up. No doubt or surprise when a team member switches sides. In short, these days even comic books are much deeper.  Don't get me started about the young actor who plays Kyle Reese, John Connor's future time traveling father. He was completely unsuited to the role! (But played an excellent "Chekhov" in the Star Trek reboot the same year.)  I won't say don't waste your money on it. But don't have much in the way of high expectations.  And stand in awe of James Cameron, who with spit for budget kicked off this series in the first place, with the low budget, but high impact, original Terminator.

Lame And Predictable While I'm a fan of Mark Whalberg's it's obvious that this film was a pay day. I didn't turn it off, however the film was predictable and half assed. the typical, "I was the best at what I did but now I'm retired and now someone in my familie's in trouble so I have to get back into the game for one last job," deal. And of course one of his best friends has set him up. As always, Giovanni Robisi is awesome, however even he can't really save the film. The actors themselves aren't the problem as much as this is obviously just a paycheck for Whalberg and everyone else is there to say they were along for the ride.

Disappointing The others were so good but this movie was quite disappointing.  It seemed to draw out with no real purpose other than the wedding.  Certain aspects of the movie seemed cheesy like the wolves talking.  In my oppinion it just didn't seem well done.

Weak entry Episodes 8-10, 3rd disc of 4  This is the weakest volume of the series.  Episode 8 is strictly a clip show summarizing the previous 7 episodes.  You can't skip this disc though, as it resolves the plotline of Mitsuko's mother.  Hmm, actually, maybe you can skip it.  2.5 stars rounded down.

Disappointing Like others commenting here, I expected something better from the "__________ of Steel" series, and I was looking forward to newer moves and approaches--not to mention an escape from the thongs they used to wear!  This workout is different, with interesting routines and nice variety, but the standing and seated sections were too complex to be effective. I've been working out on my own for years (and did some drill team and color guard stuff in high school and college), so I have a decent level of coordination. I'll get the choreography after a few more turns with it, but it won't be thanks to Leisa's cueing--it's almost non-existent. Good cueing is timely, clear, and specific (left hand or right, describing good form, etc.). Instead, she gives almost no advance notice and goes into new variations lickety-split from the get-go, and though she's talking all the time, she doesn't really explain much. It would be just as effective to do the workout with the "mute" button on.  More important, I think, is the fact that I hardly felt a thing in my abs--even though I did the entire DVD all the way through! I'm going back to my old videos.  Shame on me for making an impulse buy on a non-returnable item.

mediocre and not worth renting Having had an illness lately and being bed bound a bit I have been in search of action movies to get my mind off my suffering. Two of the ones I saw in this vain were: The Eagle, and "I am number four". Neither were great, but I could get subsumed in the reality they created. Battle Los Angeles on the other hand was super cliched and not very believable at any level. We are supposed to empathize with the staff sarge and his personal pain and then watch him as he performance continuous heroic acts that make his soldiers worship him. Following him everywhere he says hoorah. I love a good action war film and I'm hoping cowboys vs aliens lives up to expectations. As far as this piece of trash though, save your money.

Thin Plots, Cliched Love, Indifferent Cops I have not read any of the novels on which this series is based. I do know, however, that reducing a lenghty novel to 85 minutes means the plot will be slighted, if not completely emasculated or ignored. The show has virtually non-existent plots and lots of love looks between Zen and a fellow cop, who is shallow and poorly acted. The actor who plays Zen is charismatic and no doubt could have made a good detective in a show that was concerned with plot, even just a little bit concerned.  I watched all three episodes simply to see Italy, hoping something along the lines of a plot would develop. No plot-- but there were action scenes and some smooching. This was a major disappointment. The 5 ratings are inexplicable and proof that a show can sink below mediocrity and still find an appreciative audience.

More Holes Than Swiss Cheese, And Not Nearly As Tasty Not having read any of these teen-angst-superpower-secret-lives novels, I have to admit that I enjoyed the '<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001P5HRMI">Twilight</a>' films. But having been exposed to and experienced that world, I am less enthused with the stunning array of wannabes that have been spawned in their wake. Had no idea this movie was based on a similar set of teen storybooks (learned it only after reading fellow Amazon reviews) thinking instead this might be an original concept. So to say I'm disappointed would be an understatement.  That's not to fault the actors, all of whom did a decent job in their archetypical roles. But even solid acting can't save a director's snooze-fest. And this reveals another pitfall of the uninspired - plagiarism, intentional or not, can be deadly for a film. Rarely are copies, in any media, as bold or engaging as the original.  Where Twilight had a quiet electricity, both in terms of performances and tempo, the same formula in Four is incredibly stodgy and the pace molasses slow. Where Twilight is understated, Four is shallow. And I won't count the stunning array of plotholes in this flick, suffice to say there are quite a few. I often wonder if these directors ever take the time to work out the basic framework of these projects in pre-production? How difficult can it be to sit down and ask the writers some basic queries? Seems like there's no end to the simple questions with simple answers that elude these filmmakers.  Won't count them, but I'll highlight a few:  - If their intent is to destroy worlds, and according to Timothy Olyphant's character, that's their purpose: Why are there only a half dozen bad guys? Is their entire race comprised of six humanoids and their two whatchamacallits? And since they were so easily killed, doesn't that put a crimp on their destroy-the-world campaign? Why haven't the bad guys sent in an army? And why stop at an army if your intent is to destroy a planet - wouldn't you basically have an entire battle fleet? In other words, your intent is to destroy a world - what do you do? Send in six of your men with two attack creatures to slowly hunt down the remaining victims from your previous conquest AND THEN set out to destroy the world. No one sees a logical problem with this?  - Why are the bad guys hunting them in order? Is it important? Symbolic? Does it have some significance to the symbols? If so, why wasn't it explained? How long would that have taken - thirty seconds in the film?  - Why only one bodyguard per Number? If you were testifying against the mob - the FBI throws a virtual mini-army around you. Is it the 'Spartan' thing? One man = one army? Another 30 seconds, maybe less for an explanation.  And I'm only asking those few because I don't want this review to become thesis-length, which it easily could do.  There really isn't a nice way of framing this next critique. But I'm really amazed by how incredibly stupid some directors are when it comes to family pets - especially dogs. I'm not certain the current crop of film school graduates understands that there is a vast amount of pet lovers in America, their primary audience and market. And that market does not like seeing pets, even fictional ones, hurt in films. And in truth, stupidity would be a step up from emotional disconnect.  Because if you lack empathy - you're not human. I'm not being glib, I mean it seriously and literally.  My definition of 'humanity' requires empathy as one of the building blocks. If you're missing it, then you're fundamentally flawed. That isn't to say you're not functional, so I'm not suggesting serial killer or the like, but clearly you're damaged goods. And I would certainly never trust you in any capacity, under any circumstance, for any reason however trivial. Essentially, if you think it's okay to hurt a family pet - even a fictional one - you're a certified freak in my book. And again, I would never trust you or ever turn my back to you.  Nor watch any of your films.  I think directors or soon-to-be directors need to quantify who and what they want to be on a professional level. Art house artist&eacute;, non-traditionalist deviant and avant garde isolationist - all have their fans squirreled away in dark pockets of academia and fringe chic bars filled with the smoke from Gauloises-stained fingers. But acknowledgement and future employment typically goes to the pleasure providers. Think about it.

Title card: "...and they all lived happily ever after... well, maybe not." THE BROTHERS GRIMM was directed by Monty Python's animator and contributing writer, Terry Gilliam. Gilliam's small but impressive directing resum&eacute; includes <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005O3VC">MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL</a> (UK-1975), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000844JJ">TIME BANDITS</a> (1981), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0783225903">BRAZIL</a> (UK-1985), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0043X1FM2">THE FISHER KING</a> (1991) and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0783229526">FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS</a> (1998).  Visually cluttered and awash with CGI crâp and mud, THE BROTHERS GRIMM challenges credulity at every turn, even as it distorts the 19th Century timeline. Set in 1811, characters hum "Brahms Lullabye" when not listening to Rossini's "La Gazza Ladra." Feh!  I shoulda known better than to hope for a semi-biopic about these guys. In an ultra-busy fairy tale about fairy tale creators, Jacob and Wlhelm Grimm are depicted as a pair of traveling ripoff artists. The reality is quite different.  They came from a family of nine kids and had an idyllic childhood. Both were academics; together they compiled a German dictionary. The fairy tales the Grimms are renowned for were written as a result of their main interest, the study of linguistics.  In 1808, Jacob was named court librarian to the King of Westphalia. Their first volume of legends was compiled two years later; some of these got published in 1812. Eventually the Grimms amassed and published over 200 such fables.  These facts wouldn't make for a good movie, though... or would they?  Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 imdb viewer poll rating.  (5.9) The Brothers Grimm (UK/Czech/USA-2005) - Matt Damon/Heath Ledger/Monica Bellucci/Jonathan Pryce

avoid Dumb movie with a father character in it that is the stupidest man to ever have inhabited a film. It would have been much better if he had killed himself and saved us the time early on.

Dubbed with new voices My sons loved this movie growing up. I thought I would gift each of them, since they are older and still talk about this movie. I thought I was really giving them a special treat from their boyhood days. Unfortunately, the voices were redone with different voice. I should have viewed the cover but, I jumped on the Two-disc Special Editiion band wagon. My sons were very disappointed and I felt bad for not noticing. I will try to return both DVDs and look for the original version.

Wow, what a decline in quality. I loved this show. Seasons 1 through 6 were wonderful.  This episode was horrible. Beyond a doubt the worse I have seen.  I usually bust out laughing when I watch IASIP, but I just had a couple tiny chuckles with this episode.  The whole premise was absurd and poorly acted. They definitely "jumped the shark" with this episode.  It's a shame. I won't be purchasing any more episodes.

Great effects....bad movie Why didn't Hollywood learn from "Clash"? It was awful and so was this one. I'm not referring to the 80s stop-motion classic BTW.

Interesting subject - bad documentary I agree with others that the subject matter was interesting, but the total substance of this documentary could have been presented nicely in 20 minutes.  Each new bit of information was given in a small spurt and then repeated and emoted upon while being loosely illustrated with redundant video footage.  I found it boring.

English Dubbing is horrible, couldn't finish watching The English dubbed version of this movie is terrible! It doesn't even sound like the voice over people are *trying* act. It came off as incredibly cheesy and I found it incredibly distracting. It took me three days to get halfway through the movie and finally, after giving it a go the third time, I just had to stop.  I'd much rather hear the actual actors voices - even if it's not in my native tongue. I can still feel their emotions and hear the real tone. I'd rather read the subtitles than experience this horrible dubbing.

The kingdom of boredom Saudi Arabia looks like a cross between Vegas and Iraq in this incredibly illogical, boring film signed Peter Berg. Jamie Foxx does his best to look like Denzel Washington, and even succeeds to a large extent, but not even he can save this production. The only action scenes are in the beginning and at the end ("Abu Hamza, I presume?"), and the ending feels strangely lachrymose. Frankly, this is so bad that it only deserves one star, but since I don't like Wahhabis, I suppose I have to give it two. And now, a weather forecast!

Completely one-sided This film is completely one-sided. The filmmakers don't interview anyone with a different point of view than themselves. They say they "tried" to reach the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, but that they "didn't speak to filmmakers." OK, then go find 10 doctors who don't represent ACOG, and have them tell you in rational terms why all OB/GYN's aren't evil, money-grubbing monsters. I think they have a valid reason to want to encourage mothers to consider their options. I also agree that we have medicalized pregnancy in America. But at least try to present both sides accurately. Don't just use angry midwives and PhD's who have an axe to grind as your experts.

This movie will get under your skin and stay there! Someone's earlier review put it perfectly: It doesn't matter if you liked it or if you didn't, you will NOT be able to stop thinking about it.  And someone else said we might think of it forever, and that scares the hell out of me because I think that could be true.  I consider myself a "horror movie connoisseur", but this is one sick movie that I would give anything to not have seen.  Up until now the most disturbing movie I'd ever seen was Strangeland, but the fate of those people seems like summer camp compared to fate of the people in this flick. And I'm sure there are movies out there worse than Strangeland, but I've successfully avoided them, until now.  I think there are enough reviews giving the actual details of the movie so I won't belabor them here.  Typical stupid female travelers lost in the middle of nowhere with a flat tire and no cell reception in the dead of night. But when they try to find help, rather than following the actual road that their car was on, they somehow manage to get lost in the middle of the forest.  What sort of help were they hoping to find in the middle of the forest anyway?  Long story short, they wind up at the mad doctor's house and with a fate worse than death, in my opinion.  When the creepy doctor answers the door and asks the girls "Are you alone?", that should have been warning flag #1.  From the fateful drink of "water" each girl took to the horrifyingly detailed instructions of what he was planning to morph them into, you're part of a deranged journey of suspense and disgust.  These victims, all tied down with restraints, are utterly helpless as he pumps them full of whatever drug he uses to knock them out.  Can you imagine being told where your mouth was going to be surgically attached and what you could expect in terms of a common digestive track, and then knowing that within seconds, you'll be anesthetized only to wake up to the reality of the horror as described?  I don't know how many times the hair on the back of my neck stood up.  As many reviews have also pointed out, there isn't a lot of gore or blood.  But who needs gore or blood to be freaked out?  To me, this movie is pure psychological torture, not just for the victims but for the viewers as well.  I found myself in the terribly uncomfortable position of actually feeling the emotional aspect of their torment - how utterly horrifying it must be in their minds, let alone the physical suffering.  What thoughts could someone in this depraved situation have?  The abject hopelessness, the utter despair, all of the "what if" thoughts about what they could have done differently to have avoided this situation. I seem to be stuck with both the mental imagery of the movie and the emotional fallout. This movie just gets under you skin and stays there.  And what about the dogs?  No one says anything about them but I'm bothered by their fate as well. At least humans understand how horrible other humans can be, but animals are innocent and don't understand. So for me, that was a level of psychological buildup that was already bordering discomfort. Sure, they didn't show anything, but this movie is short on graphic detail and long on implication.  I guess one of the things that I enjoy about horror films is seeing the idiotic things people have done to get into those situations, which gives me some comfort and assurance that it will never (at least I hope never) happen to me. But what's scary about a horror flick is the idea that this "could" happen to me.  I always doubted a scene from SAW could really happen because what person has the time, the money, the location, the creativity, the ingenuity, the materials, the level of depravity AND the skills to build those contraptions anyway? Scenes from Hostel, however, seemed a little more realistically possible, at least in some cases. Someone in one review felt that what happened in this film could really happen to any of us.  I seriously doubt that, but don't think it isn't lurking somewhere in the recesses of my mind now.  If you're looking for a good horror movie for a dark winter night, watch something else.  This movie will stick with you for a whole dark winter and beyond.

Technically Beauthful But Weird The film is beautifully made & from a purely technical standpoint deserves 5 stars. But it's premise is never realized & in the end the film is a big disappointment because though Phibes defeats all his "enemies" his dead wife is not brought back to life. A very weird film.

a bit ridiculous We enjoy both of these actors, but feel the story got lost with all the fighting/action scenes...they went on and on and on....actually got up and did dishes waiting for a fight scene to get over-  over the top..was disappointed.

A Conventional Slasher, Very Conventional, Topped Off By An Unnecessary And Illogical Conclusion OK, I'm pretty easy going when it comes to this type of film. I never expect too much--I don't expect redeeming value, I don't expect character development, I don't expect great acting. Heck, most of the time--I don't even expect much of a story. Having caught Alexandre Aja's effective remake of "The Hills Have Eyes," I was more than willing to give this French (but poorly dubbed) entry in the slasher genre a chance. Well, now, I'm not really sure if it was worth it.  The film has a pretty standard setup. Some have already noticed its similarity to Dean Koontz's "Intensity," which is apt--but that, too, already followed pretty conventional guidelines. As two girls are staying in a desolate family home of one of them, a rural madman comes a knocking. Jumping right into a brutality and unpleasantness, various members of the family are dispatched and/or attacked. One girl manages to elude the madman while the other is taken captive. The film has plenty of effectively tense moments during the "house" sequence. It sets itself up as a nasty bit of brutality, but nothing particularly original.  Intent on helping her friend, the free girl rides with and/or chases the kidnapper's van for the remainder of the picture. Things get a bit sillier, but it is what it is. You know you're just biding time until the final confrontation. Again, I know there is an audience for this--but as our heroine never displayed much ingenuity, she wasn't really someone I cared about. Mainly the film is "Hide and Seek" followed by "Hide and Seek" with more "Hide and Seek" after that--Not a lot of diversity, I guess I'm saying.  Now, then, in the last 15 minutes--the surprise twist is unveiled. I have seen this device used in countless other movies, and it can be a tremendous revelation. But not here. Had it been done with any sort of logic, it might have enhanced the film. I don't want to give anything away, so let's just say that a perfectly detailed film is needed to pull it off. A film where this device is used must be a thing of precision. "High Tension" just isn't that movie. The twist here makes sense in the context of the picture, however it is not logically supported by what has transpired. For anyone who thinks it is ingenious, I'd like to sit down, have a cup of coffee, and list the dozens and dozens of inconsistencies that just don't work. That said, it irritated me more than anything. What was going to be a 3 star review for derivative unpleasantness with some chills turned into about 1 1/2 stars for being nonsensical. KGHarris, 01/07.

Christmas Carol is NOT the Alastair Sim classic as advertised Contrary to the claim "This is the desert-island choice of the many versions of A Christmas Carol, with a magnificent, full-bodied portrayal of Ebenezer Scrooge by Alastair Sim that leaves everyone else in the dust" this is not the Alastair Sim classic. I bought this collection to get two classics -- Sims in a Christmas Carol and The Shop Around the Corner, yet another Lubitsch classic.  The version of Christmas Carol included is a dreadful MGM production. And the other two movies are equally bad.  Oh well, at least I have my Lubitsch. And for that and that alone I give this collection 2 stars.

Disappointing Video Quality This review is for those of you who already know this is a great movie with a great soundtrack...but are considering upgrading from a DVD to this Blu Ray for an expected boost in video quality.  Don't bother with this "upgrade."  The video quality of this blu ray is no better than my DVD (tested on a 60 inch plasma HDTV).  Very disappointing...

Dreadfully dull The best thing about this film was looking at the costumes and the surroundings. While Keira Knightly did a good job as the long suffering wife of the Duke of Devonshire, it wasn't enough to make this movie more interesting. Period pieces can veer towards the tedious and boring, which this one was.  If anything, what I carried away from this movie, was that women, even those in high society positions such as the Duchess of Devonshire were only secondary citizens to the power and privilege of men.

TWO STARS -- ONE FOR EACH HEAD There are good cheesy movies that are so bad, they're fun to watch and then there are cheesy movies that are just bad.  2-HEADED SHARK ATTACK falls in-between. Carmen Electra as a doctor?  Charlie O'Connell as a marine biologist?  Yeah, totally believable---LOL. We have a slew of college students with huge boobs or six-pack abs stranded on an atoll stalked by the hilarious two-headed shark.  The cast is awful; the effects are terrible; and the direction uninspired and inept.  The Asylum boasts a catalogue of 100 films, most of them easily forgettable. There are a few laughs and the ladies are some of the worst screamers committed to celluloid.  Rent don't buy!!

Visual, but the characters and plot, garbage I actually yawned. Im not sure why this thing made it to the academy awards (there were better films) but it really left a lot to be desired. Come on, a kid, a key, an orphan, and then...oh my god the ridiculous story of the old man and his wife. It was just...ummm. whatever. I could have done without it.  I really did give it a thumbs down.

Wish this movie could have been better. :( I have watched this movie twice now so that I am ready for a review. I decided that since this movie is based on an actual historical event, I should review it both on the level of entertainment/story telling as well as historical accuracy.  ENTERTAINMENT VALUE:  This is the area where I give the movie its lowest review. Basically, this movie sucked! The love story (which is obviously used to develop the bridge between the Mormons and the wagon train) felt very forced and lacked that chemistry to make it believable. Basically, it felt like the love story was there for the sake of there being a love story. Jon Voight's character was beyond ridiculous. In Jon Voight's attempts to come off as a religious fanatic, he feels more like an insane man who makes schizophrenics seem normal. People who commit violence in the name of their religion are very angry people, but Voight just seems to be a mixture of a drug addict combined with a helping of the local village idiot. The movie seems to love painting this black and white picture of the wagon train people of being these warm loving, good Christian folk and the Mormons as being blood thirsty and demonically possessed society. In short, the characters lack dimension and credibility and the love story could have been done much better, by someone else.  HISTORICAL VALUE:  While most movies take historical licenses to make a movie entertaining, and this movie is no exception, it did do a much better job at portraying history than most historical narratives. Granted, the wagon train did not spend a week near Ceder Falls before the first attack, but the attacks and the final massacre were accurately portrayed. The sermons given by Brigham Young (Terrance Stamp) were word for word exact with the real sermons given prior to Mountain Meadows Massacre. Granted, Brigham Young did not have a British accent and Mormons were not actually killing each other to atone for their sins (probably added that to project Mormons as blood-thirsty demonic people), but there really was a tension between Mormons and outsiders and their was a growing amount of fear and resentment to the US Government. Mormons were really making an oath at this time to avenge the blood of Joseph Smith when the opportunity presented itself, giving the conditions necessary to start something as tragic as Mountain Meadows Massacre.

Wonderful show, Terrible quality. To start off, I loved these OVAs when I watched them when they first came out. They were stunning and so crisp. They were what anime should look like! And the story is excellent.  I expected the blu-ray version to top the digital form I'd previously seen, so I bought it when I found it had finally been released.  Unfortunately, whoever did this version did a terrible job. It is blurry and looks to be a much older anime than it is. I have been impressed with blu ray quality in all my other experiences and was disappointed in this. I had looked forward to buying them after watching them on Youtube, but now I am a bit regretful that I did.  On a brighter note, the English voice acting is incredibly well done, even on par with the Japanese...except maybe for Fai's, who seems to not have the same tone he did during the tv series.

High Concept, Low Reward A conceptual Christian Bale sci-fi vehicle that can't quite commit to its one primary plot point. It's the future, and we're living in a totalitarian regime thanks to a government-mandated drug that saps humanity of its ability to feel. Bale plays the cold, emotionless head of the gestapo, responsible for tracking and exterminating the few remaining shreds of liberal thought in the wild. Curiously, after incinerating every shred of artwork, poetry and literature he can find, this super-cop then retires to his ornately decorated office where a big show is made of the beautiful architecture and lavish sculptural decorations. The story's failure to comply with its own focal point doesn't end there, as Bale's coworkers and bosses are surprisingly animated and emotive for men supposedly removed from their own feelings. The plot offers no revelations, with the protagonist stomping through a shallow character arc and an overly simple, black-and-white evaluation of the grand scheme. There's fruit to be harvested here, but Equilibrium is either too short or too lazy to reach for it. A few very good action scenes (leading to an unusually high body count) are its only saving grace.

North by Northwest I was disappointed in this video because I thought it was going to be the movie.  Instead, there was almost constant commentary by the screenwriter Ernest Lehman during the time the movie was playing.  His dialogue blocked out a lot of the movie dialogue.  It actually is a video about how the movie was shot.  It does say on the back of the DVD case that there is commentary but I didn't realize it would be all the way throughout the movie.  This might be a good video for people who are interested in how a movie is made.

No real flesh on the bones For me this was too much Hollywoodish. It was too much cheap-effect. Certain emotions that were wanted to put forward determine certain supportive effects, and these intended effects in turn regularly determine parts of the storyline or the editing. (Isn't this an upside-down form of creativity, to start at the intended emotion or effect and work 'backwards'?)  The character Schmidt is not played particularly well by Nicholson, if you ask me. I admit it is not easy to play this predominantly 'empty' character; still, I found his performance not convincing, rather at times artificial. (This is a big difference with the character Peter Sellers plays in 'Being there'.)  When Schmidt's wife died, I thought, felt and hoped: now he can and will change his life! It really was in the air. When his only daughter let him down emotionally, I thought: now he will accept this bitter pill and he will change his life! And does he change? No! It just stops at 'realizing his failure'; this realization does not become the fuel for a much-needed transformation, which would be still possible for someone his age.

A Feature Length Short Film It's hard to write a review on this film without it turning into a complete spoiler. Mainly because there is so little in it to give away.  In a nutshell: Altitude is a 15-minute student film project that got stretched out to feature length and given a minor movie budget.  Despite a decent premise, hints of H.P. Lovecraft, and an attractive young cast, it just doesn't work. Mostly because the script goes absolutely nowhere after the first 20 minutes.  Basically the 'story' keeps looping on "We're doomed! We can't get down! What's going on here? OMG! What is that?"  Nothing in the 'story' provides an explanation for what is happening, or even provides a fantasy context in which to place it. And what foreshadowing is provided by the "fear of flying" character and the absolutely ludicrous "comic book revelation" is amateurish and heavy-handed.  While the cast showed some dramatic promise early on, their overall performance level eventually deteriorates into pointless squabbling, screaming and tears. And the overall level of acting is less than what you'd see on TV in one of those 20-something 'angst' series the networks used to be so fond of.  I can't really fault the cast however. They obviously put themselves into it. But you can't make something out of nothing. Any actor needs a decent story and a well-crafted script to work with. And this film's lightweight script would have defied a seasoned veteran's attempt to wring anything resembling a performance out of it.  An ok movie to watch if you don't have anything else to do.  But don't expect very much - unless you want to be very disappointed.

TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL The people who would enjoy this film are barred from watching it due to the rating. This is an immature sexual romp. High School kids are attending a very hip sex education class. The viewer is treated to a number of skits similar to "Groove Tube" but with sex being the constant theme. Poorly written and edited. Go watch "Grove Tube" or "Kentucky Fried Movie" instead.  F-bomb, sex, nudity

A Fantastic Counterfeit The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, 1970 film  The copyright for Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional characters expired before this film was produced so anyone can appropriate his characters today. None who do this are as good as the original four long stories and fifty-six short stories (which reflect life in those passed times). This parody is not as good as the low-budget movies of the 1930s and 1940s. The part spent at the opera can be omitted without affecting the rest of this story. It applies an outlook that did not exist then, and denies these stories about the beginnings of criminalistics and their effect upon later fiction. We know people in show business do not lead normal lives. Those who pretend to be characters on stage may suffer psychic damage and seek drink or drugs in relief. The first false note is showing a dusty manuscript. If it was kept in a sealed box where did that dust come from?  In August 1887 Holmes and Watson return to London. There is some comic situations. Holmes complains about a lack of action (and fees), and reaches for his small bottle. They receive an invitation to an opera; this is followed by some "funny" skits. It does show how gossip is spread by the expressions on faces. People believe what they want to believe when it belittles someone else. That is the appeal of gossip. ["Thou shalt not bear false witness."] "Goodnight, Watson." The doorbell rings, a young lady is brought in. They accept delivery of this package. "I don't know." Who is Gabrielle? Holmes traced her luggage ticket and found her name and valise. Her husband is missing! Holmes sends a letter to 32 Ashdown Street, an empty shop. Who will take the letter? Who is buying a dozen canaries? Mycroft tells Sherlock to drop his investigation. [Official Secrets?] Holmes has a plan to drop any tail. Why does Gabrielle open her parasol indoors? [Bad luck?] They travel to Inverness in Scotland. A picnic in a cemetery? Did Watson see a monster in a lake? There are mysterious events. What are Trappist monks doing in Protestant Scotland? They travel around the country lanes on bicycles. [The great bicycle craze of the 1880s inspired the invention of the automobile.] They visit a castle undergoing restoration; it is closed to the public.  On the lake Holmes hears the rattle of machinery. [Sound carries farther in water.] Their boat is upset, yet they all survive in that cold water. Holmes speculates about a mechanical monster. Where will they go next? Mycroft visits Sherlock and talks about "submersibles". Madame Valladon is really an agent of Wilhelmstrasse! [The street in Berlin where the German Secret Service is headquartered.] Queen Victoria arrives after dark to view the `Jonah'. That craft is not sporting and un-English. Would her grandson Willie ever bomb London? [Yes.] This project is cancelled, but Mycroft has a plan to let no crisis go to waste. Fraulein von Hofmann-Stahl is awakened. "Unter den Schloss?" She will be useful in a trade. And so the story ends. "Auf wiedersehn." Later a letter reaches Sherlock in London with sad news about Ilse. The Kempei-Tai are not easily fooled. Sherlock reaches for his little bottle.  It seems that writers without great talent will try to tear down a fictional character because they cannot produce a better product. There were "Sherlock Holmes" movies in the 1930s and 1940s, and a TV series in the 1950s. Tastes and expectations change. Hammett, Gardner, and Chandler were popular in the past but are no longer being published. Nowadays people watch television, but you learn little (compared to the novels of Hammett or Gardner).

Okay Not "A" number one but, okay for action...somewhat decent in plot... Not a Lot of replay value here mates...so so...sos so...

"Family that preys" Love the movie but wasn't able to watch the movie,I downloaded thought it was complete but it will not play..

funny good sound Funny movie. Good 5.1 effects. The HD isnt very high def. Can't compare with newer HD movies. Good for the price though.

not frightening in the day or night... This is the first movie I've rented/streamed online from the Amazon website. $1.99 was just fine: cheaper, of course, than a DVD rental or seeing it in the theatres. Nevertheless, I'm disappointed in the flick and didn't have fun with it.  Here are some various thoughts:  - I think it's fine that Peter Vincent was a magician/illusionist....but I was very-much hoping that that would be a part of it in someway. I was picturing a creative illusion or trickery that, in some way, fooled at least one of the vampires and led to its demise. I think that would have been awesome. Even though that didn't happen, lil' Petey's just a foul mouthed jerk and totally unlikable. A full-of-himself, ignorant, gross, alcoholic worm -- the worst part of the flick and totally opposite of the awesome Roddy McDowell and his distinguished representation of Mr. Vincent.  - My favourite part here was actually quite tame: when Jerry was wanting Charlie's beer, but he couldn't come into the house since he wasn't invited. Charlie was 'testing' him...and Jerry couldn't even stick his hand in the doorway to reach for the beer, making it more obvious that something was amiss.  - Jerry causing the house of the Brewster's to explode because he couldn't get invited in (and nobody in the neighbourhood noticing). Give me a break. As well, the Brewster's didn't even seem to care much afterwards that they lost everything!  - Amy is just eye-candy, as is the mom. For the women in the audience, Jerry would be as well...but they are all disposable characters that are boring and smile too much.  - Ed (aka 'Evil') was just a normal nerd and within the first few minutes he comes out and tells Charlie that Jerry is a vampire. It was better when Charlie was trying to convince 'Evil' and others that there was a a vampire living next to him. What about Ed's evidence? I saw Charlie checking it out on the Ed's computer after Ed was killed -- but it seemed to show nothing of interest. Ed should have had more of a part, as he was kinda cool to this nerd.  - They say that Chris Sarandon (the original Jerry in the 1985 version) made an appearance but I didn't notice. Oh well. 12.21 UPDATE: He's the driver who pulled-up to see what was going on and was bitten by the new Jerry Dandrige. I had no clue; of course he didn't look like he did over 25 years ago, yet he didn't sound the same either.  - Dandrige was duller than a lone razor in a barber shop. He didn't change form into a bat or wolf, which vampires did in the original; had no scary/appropriate voice; died fast and bored me even faster. Well, at least he still eats the apples. An apple a day keeps the dentist away (that's how the saying should go, as I've learned that's more accurate). Does he go to a nighttime dentist if there's such a thing? Do vampires get cavities? That's one question I'd love to have answered and another expectation that was a letdown in this flick. (Don't be ridiculous and take that serious).  - Charlie 'gearing-up' was cool and his idea which came to fruition at the end was pretty-cool. It was the only thing of originality. I liked how it ended Dandridge and it was worthwhile -- yet it all happened too quickly and there wasn't much suspense. The CGI looked like garbage, too, throughout the flick and some of the other vampire's endings were very "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer"-like (of course, being written by Marti Noxon as well, I think that would be expected).  Anyway, "Welcome to 'Fright Night'...for fake." should be the tag line for this. Go ahead and rent it online. It can be passable at occasional moments, but I didn't enjoy it. CGI is not good for this re-imagining and non-computer effects would have been better. It's completely not a horror flick and barely makes two stars.

Deceptive Title The title of this DVD is totally deceptive. The content has very little to do with UFO landings and a countdown to alien invasion.  Most of the content comes from what appears to be community TV programmes, and whilst obviously amateur in production values, the interviews are quite interesting with subjects ranging from the star child skull, to crop circles, to what really happened during the Apollo `moon landings', to UFO sightings.  Admittedly the music video and the Michael Jackson nutters are quite irrelevant, but on the whole the DVD was of interest. It's a pity it is misrepresented by its sensationalist title.

The Town is Thumbs Down Was hoping I'd at least be entertained.  Ben Afleck really isn't a good actor. The plot is predictable and uninteresting.  I think that says it all.  Didn't even finish watching it.

Like Watching Someone ELSE Play a Video Game I loved the first movie.  I enjoyed the second movie.  The third movie.... If you think of it as watching someone else play a video game, it will be OK.  Don't expect much in the way of plot or even dialogue.  It is pretty, though. I'm happy I didn't waste theater money on it. It's pretty modest for an R-rated movie.  The steam keeps all the naked parts covered.  Plenty of violence--but not more than you'd see in a video game. Know what to expect and you can still enjoy this movie.

Good music...awful movie I really wanted to love this movie since I grew up listening to the music in it.  However, the acting was horrible and there wasn't really a strong storyline.  I'm no prude but this movie had a couple of very unnecessary parts in it that were just thrown in without any reason.  I would not recommend this movie.  Buy the songs by the original artists and skip this waste of time.  The music was the only reason I gave the movie 2 stars.  Otherwise, it truly doesn't even deserve one star.

Shame on Universal. i am always wary of straight to video movies and rarely expect much but when i heard universal was going to work on putting their monsters into that market i was a little excited. Maybe after the costly idiocy of van helsing they learned something... Wrong.  this is just bad storytelling with less money and worse acting (Rea gets a pass on this). How can they continue to mistreat big properties like the universal monsters? Find some people who can make a monster movie...please. The originals are good because they were taken serious with top notch talent and money.

dvd the dvd did not work,got it for my little grand-daighter and she was very upset when she could not watch it,not sure I will buy from them again,for the price it should of I think

Immensely Overrated Number 17 in the Bond series is pretty much a compilation of 90's action films and as a result has dated considerably. I consistently see this film put among the best Bond films in fan forums, particularly among the 18-30 age group, either for the sake of nostalgia or the fact that they loved the video game this spun-off of. I don't hate Goldeneye but I am rather annoyed by this film's so-called "classic" status among Bond fans, and non-fans, alike.  I am just going to be frank, Pierce Brosnan is dead-last on my list of Bond actors. He never brought anything worth value to the role of Bond except having the right looks. It seemed like the previous actors did everything else for him and he was just there to fill in the empty slot. Even Roger Moore, who was a bit too much of a comedian in his Bond films, had a remarkable talent of making the dumbest lines and moments dignified no matter how bad his films got. Brosnan isn't a bad actor but he was a total non-entity. He felt like a coporate logo as opposed to a character.  The film itself moves quickly enough with a standard larger-than-life scheme that would impact the world. A former 00-agent, 006 Alec "Janus" Trevelyan played by Sean Bean, betrays Bond and manages to take control of a EMP weapon housed in outerspace. The weapon, dubbed Goldeneye, has the capability rendering electronic items useless. Trevelyan was alledgely billed as "the man who knows James Bond" but the writers never took advantage of this. He does every Bond villian cliche. Does he leave Bond to die in a escapable trap ? Yes. Is he surprised every time he shows up alive ? You bet. Alec even pulls a "Blofeld" and lets Bond stay in the control room to screw up all his plans. On an ironic note despite my mis-givings of Trevelyan, I always thought that Sean Bean would have made a far better Bond. Bean is a little rough around the edges but he carries himself far better than Bronsnan in this film and actually having the better dialogue.  Basically, this is a very standard action film. Natalya was a decent Bond girl, the other minor villians ranged from great like Ourmunov to the very annoying Xenia and Boris. There seems to be echoes of major action films from the 90's like Terminator 2, No Escape and yes, even Jurassic Park when the film shifted to Cuba inside Trevelyan's base of operations. Eric Serra's film score is lagerly inappropriate making some scenes just far too moody and there is a litter of general James Bond cliches. There were better Bond films made and Goldeneye isn't one of them.  As an aside note, why did this film look so cheap ? They spent far more than they had on The Living Daylights just eight years earlier and yet Goldeneye looks like a TV movie. Sure there was a few good shots in Monte Carlo and Cuba but everything else looked like rubbish. Then what further exacerbated the film's cheap look was the excessive use of minatures. Practically everything that blows up or flies in this film, and it was a lot on both counts, clearly was just a model. If you think I exagerrate Special Effects Supervisor Derek Meddings, who died before the film was released, himself stated he made more models in this movie than any other film he worked on and he had worked on many blockbusters over his long career.

Boring! What a shame! We had high expectations considering the good reviews, but unfortunately very boring, limited plot, poor acting. Had to turn it off. Silly, just didn't make sense.

A complete disaster...with a vengeance I haven't watched this movie. Nor will I watch it. I just looked at the trailer.  It all looks rather familiar...  I suspect "2012" is just another disaster movie, but with more spectacular special effects.  Yawn.  Perhaps a rebout featuring Bruce Willis could do the trick? They could call it "Die REALLY Hard 2012".  Incidentally, all the claims about the end of the world happening in 2012 are bogus. Nothing will happen in 2012, I assure you. Except that Barack Obama will be re-elected! That may be the bitter end of the Neo-Cons and the Leo-Cons, but hardly the planet as such.  And if we are really lucky, maybe Ronald Emmerich will make a new disaster movie? I'm sure the apocalyptic cults will set a new date when Disaster 2012 fails to materialize. Some illusions, after all, die hard.  [This review was actually posted in 2009 on another product page. Told you so! Nothing happened. Except, of course, that Obama will be re-elected...]

One Man, Three Wives, One Fiancee (I Can't Even Count The Children)--Fascinating Topic With Superficial Execution In a bold programming stroke, TLC flouted convention and dropped "Sister Wives" onto its 2010 TV schedule. A reality TV show in which the subject matter is considered both taboo and illegal is a daring bit of maneuvering that might have garnered TLC more press than actual viewers though. In truth, I don't watch many of these types of reality show--but I suspect people tune in because they identify with the participants or because the antics are so outrageous, they can't wait to see what happens next. As an avid fan of "Big Love" (who despite a rocky last season is TV's most consistently underrated drama) and Brady Udall's "The Lonely Polygamist" (one of my top five books of 2010), I threw caution to the wind with "Sister Wives." It might be interesting to note, at this juncture, that this TV show did open up a Utah legal investigation into the Kody Brown clan and they have subsequently relocated to an unspecified domicile in Nevada. Such is the price of fame!  I suppose the primary goal of "Sister Wives" is to show that polygamists lead lives much like you or I. The show is structured around Kody Brown and his three families that live under one roof. However, much of the season's dramatic arc comes from Kody courting and marrying a fourth wife. While I found the whole situation slightly distasteful and I didn't particularly like Kody, I'm going to be very politically correct and try to evaluate the merits of the show on their own rights. However, if you don't care for Kody or his wives, let's just say that there are really no more merits. What is lacking from "Sister Wives" is any sort of narrative drive--nothing ever really happens. Heck, if the wedding wasn't part of the deal, I fear we would have been hopelessly stranded in inertia. The interchangeable interview scenes are so incredibly repetitive--we get it already! So intent on being absolutely normal and palatable to a mass audience, the show loses any sense of real life.  The most real moments in "Sister Wives" come from Wife #2 Janelle and Wife #3 Christine. Wife #1 Meri has a lot going on in her thoughts, but is fairly careful about what she allows to make it onto TV. Wife #4 Robyn is sweet enough in a brainwashed kind of way. Christine is easily the most opinionated of the wives. She has structured this existence to her specifications (she only wanted to be a third wife), so an introduction of a new sister wife does elicit some hostility and jealousy--however rationalized these emotions are in interview segments. And then we've got Janelle, who works full time outside of the home, and misses out on many reindeer games. What is fascinating about Janelle's home is that her teenage son is left to raise her brood of kids. All the women proclaim how they are mothers to all the children, it just struck me as oddly cruel to have this boy sacrifice his youth when so many "parents" were present.  Ultimately, though, whether you like Kody and clan or not--the show suffers in lack of real content. I came in with a high degree of curiosity, but any episode is pretty interchangeable to any other episode. If they all insist they're happy--that's fine, I'll believe them. But how many times do I have to be told that in the course of the 7 episodes (and a Honeymoon special)? I may be completely wrong and you may love the Brown family, I just found it too mundane to qualify for entertainment. My suggestion would be to watch one episode elsewhere before investing in the DVD season! That way you know how much further you'd like to go with "Sister Wives." KGHarris, 1/11.

Lacking Continuity with Orson Bean fims!? If you enjoyed the Hobbit then you will probably be disappointed with this as the 2nd in the animated series (3 Total).  It is over stylized with a mix of animation and live action background and just seems really over-produced because it is the namesake.  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005MP59">The Hobbit</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005MP5D">The Return of the King</a> are consistent and both very entertaining, but unless you are looking to just complete your collection this movie is not really worth the price unless you are buying a WELL USED copy.  As a side note, if you have children both the Hobbit and Return of the King are fine for them to watch as tales of morality, but this film is a bit more violent and graphic in its depictions of gore.  It also attempts to 'frighten' the audience more with flashes, bangs, and dark characters causing mayhem.  Don't know if Orson Bean is still living, but he needs to make a Lord of the Rings film to make up for this mess of a film.

Not an Ancient Aliens Substitute As a long-time fan of the hit series Ancient Aliens, I was hoping that this documentary would live up to the quality and thought-provoking material that AA currently presents.  NOPE.  I'm sure several people purchase this film solely based on the familiar face of Philip Coppens in hopes that this program will resemble Ancient Aliens.  NOPE.  Ancient Aliens star; Philip Coppens virtually provides no new theories or evidence that isn't already covered in Ancient Aliens.  The production is quite poor and there are definitely no attention-grabbers.  Keeping yourself awake during this film should be a personal achievement.  This 70-minute snooze fest is plain and flat.  The material is quite vague and never gets more in-depth than just being theories.  There are several topics that are featured in this documentary, but all lack the definitive hard-hitting counterpoints to conventional human evolution explainations.  The study of ancient extraterrestrial contacts is rapidly becoming a mainstream fascination, but is being pursued by independent theorists without serious scientific backing.  We understand that everyone has their own opinion on what really happened during our remote past, but programs like this are not much help.  For hardcore Ancient Aliens fans, stick with the real thing, this is a poor substitution.

Time Travel & Bollywood? Based on a famous Gujarati play of the same name, ACTION REPLAYY also sees the reunion of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Akshay Kumar after KHAKEE. Also, Vipul Shah is back with his blue-eyed boy Akshay after AANKHEN, WAQT and NAMASTEY LONDON.  The plot is inspired from Robert Zemeckis' BACK TO THE FUTURE, a time-travel comedy. Bunty (Aditya Roy Kapoor) loves his girlfriend Tanya (Sudeepa Singh) but doesn't want to marry her. Why? Because of his parents, Kishen (Akshay Kumar) and Mala (Aishwarya Rai). He has seen them quarrelling all through their married life. One day, Tanya's grandfather, Professor Anthony Gonsalves (Randhir Kapoor), gives him the choice to either marry Tanya or forget her forever. Using Professor's time machine, he transports himself to the 70s and plans to rewrite his parents' destiny.  If you're expecting a fun ride with loads of gags coupled with romance and drama, you are in for a disappointment. There are just a few smile-inducing moments in this otherwise lackadaisical film.

Katherine Hepburn IS annoying in this movie indeed Of all the classic movies I have been watching recently, "Bringing up Baby" seems to me the silliest, and I have to agree with the reviewers that state Hepburn is utterly annoying and the movie has terrible direction.  This in no way meant to discredit the work of Katherine Hepburn or Cary Grant, as they carry their endless, silly dialogue throughout the film beautifully and without any flaws; he as the nerdy Paleontologist who right up to the end of the movie, finds his match in the carefree society girl who literally brings him to his knees.  Katherine Hepburn plays Susan Vance, a witty, utterly careless and carefree daddy's girl, who has it all and thus has no cares in the world whatsoever.  If she crashes her car, her auntie will pay for it.  If she takes someone else's purse by accident, she brilliantly finds another culprit to blame.  Cary Grant plays David Huxley, a nerdy but very good-looking paleontologist on the verge of both marriage and a nervous breakdown (especially after meeting Susan).  The two have a series of misadventures while trying to deal with Susan's latest gift, her pet leopard Baby, who can only really be controlled while hearing the lyrics to "I can't give you anything but love".  This movie is famous for being `the one' where a woman "wore the pants" for the first time in Hollywood.  From a practical perspective, it is easy to conclude why Hepburn insisted on wearing trousers.  Just like me, she has thick ankles, a feature that makes for not very attractive legs.  But practicality aside, it is obvious that Hepburn knew what suited her better than anyone.  In the scene where she and Cary Grant are strolling through the garden following George, a fox terrier that has hidden a prehistoric bone which is the last piece David needs to complete an elaborate brontosaurus skeleton; Hepburn looks effortlessly and utterly chic in a loose blouse, light coloured trousers and a canopy-style hat tied with a bow underneath her chin.  There is no better example in movie history of a woman who chooses her own man and wears the pants to get him.

My POTC Reviews Part III So I wrote these for my blog originally, but I decided to put them up here as well. If you liked this, read the others because they're meant to play off each other.  Pirates of the Caribbean III: At World's End  Just when we think Jack Sparrow is dead (even though we kind of figure they're going to risk their lives to get him back in the poorly disguised foreshadowing in the end of the last one) Wait, there he is! In--I guess--Davy Jones' Locker? Well, it doesn't really matter, does it, because that part of the movie was about the weirdest thing I have ever sat and watched in my life. I have no real words to describe the weirdness of all the Jack Sparrows and the crabs. What is with the running gag on crabs in this movie? And the peanut joke was not funny. This whole scene reminded me of a Dali painting. (Yes that guy who painted the melting clocks and a whole lot of other weird and freakish stuff.)  But Dali used lobsters in his paintings instead of crabs. He would have had a lovely time with this concept though. Dali in motion picture.  But I think I got ahead of myself because this movie actually comes in with the singing pirates getting hanged. One thing that really irked me in this movie was that the song and its supposed connection with the coin were never explained. That's another great thing in this series. After the first movie, no one bothered to explain anything that happened. You get a vague idea of what is going on, but your mind is so smothered by Jack Sparrow's shenanigans that you don't even really end up paying attention to the rest.  And then there was the Chinese pirate lord. There has never been a traditional swashbuckler that had anything to do with China or Asia at all. Barbary, Spain, France, even Russia and Arabia, but never China, and there were reasons for that as you can see in this movie as it obviously didn't work because it was yet another plot that didn't go anywhere! Chinese pirates just don't do it for me because there was no reason they had to be Chinese over any other nationality. If it had furthered the plot in some way, I wouldn't have cared so much. You have to keep swashbucklers European, otherwise they turn into those martial arts films. So yes, this was not a highlight of the movie for me.  Elizabeth, of course, is just as annoying as ever. Will is still the same, except now that he saw Elizabeth kissing Jack in the last movie, he's a little more angsty. Norrington is back in the Navy, and the only reason I liked this movie remotely more than the second one was because Barbosa was in it, and as I said, he is my favorite character. He still had all the best lines and he was still the only person who really got anything done in this or knew what they were doing. And why did we have to bring the freaky voodoo lady back again? Her plot-line ends so abruptly, just like a lot of other plot lines in this series, including the one about Will's father--who tried to kill him in the end, and also kills poor innocent Norrington who should have been on HMS Indefatigable instead of with these fishy people just because Lord Beckett told him to. Oh yeah, and did I mention that right before he was killed, Elizabeth (who had been made pirate lord, lady, or whatever after the Chinese guy was killed quite randomly and abruptly) had to tell him that, oh yes, she still loved him TOO! And then she had to kiss him too and thus condemn him to death because that's just what happens to all the guys she decides to kiss. While I was very sad about Norrington, I am glad the love square ended.  Oh yes, and I guess some of you might want to know they rescued Jack Sparrow. And then I think he got captured again? Well it doesn't really matter.  The climax of the movie comes around when they have the meeting of pirates, The Brethren of the Coast (This is the one thing they actually took from real history. That is actually what the pirates called themselves) so that they can go to war with Davy Jones and get the heart in the box and stab it so Jones will finally die. Elizabeth ends of getting elected (OH JOY!!!) so now she's practically in charge of ALL the pirates of the brotherhood. Then they figure out that the voodoo lady is a goddess in human form (when this was decided, beats me with a stick, because there was no real foreshadowing besides her weird story, but who really takes those to heart--oh yeah, and she was in love with Davy Jones once upon a time.)  So they stupidly do the ritual to free her from her human form (in which she turns into crabs) and end up creating a giant whirlpool--Which then, obviously, they have to wage this giant battle in!!! This scene, while overblown, was at least not as stupid as the water wheel scene in the last movie, or the Morris dancing, er, fighting. You could actually take it seriously at least, but Elizabeth's high pitched voice screeching a pep talk kind of ruined the martial effect of the battle scene. Amazingly, Jack actually picks up a sword and fights in this scene, though he still does lots of antics. Will and Elizabeth also get married during the battle and what a great scenic wedding it was! Lot's of blood and gore to tie the knot. My favorite part: Barbosa yelling at them to "Just kiss already!"  And yes, since Elizabeth kissed him, Will dies! But then they cut his heart out and put it in the box and so now he's in the place of Davy Jones (who amazingly, Jack managed to kill, thus, finally, actually taking the part of the hero.)  Now Elizabeth and Will can only see each other one day out of every ten years so in a couple decades, she's not going to be looking quite so great anymore while he stays young and handsome forever (Just what you'd expect from an Elf!) And so this story comes to a, somewhat, happy ending...I guess. Though not as happy as the FIRST one ended! Jack seems to be happy anyway. He has shallow women and rum.  And just when you thought it was over...  Wrong! By the saints, nay!!! They have made another blasted sequel!!!

CD Case Issue So disappointed that this CD arrived in a clear plastic case rather than its original packaging.  Had I known, I would not have ordered it.

WAY too much HYPE! I'll probably get rated badly for this review. But before you give me that bad rating, please read the rest of my review.  I went into this movie with sky high expectations. I know it isn't fair, but I kept hearing from people that the movie was terrifying. People couldn't sleep after, people were getting sick to their stomach, and others were saying it was the best movie to come out in years.  The movie started off pretty decently, some of the acting was a little off, but I was willing to overlook it for the ghost aspect. The movie quickly goes downhill sadly. One ghost dances around looking like a Leprechaun, and it was hilarious. The "demon" looks like Darth Maul on crack, and the other spirits just are not scary. On top of this it was very predictable when and where the ghosts would show up. To have a good ghost movie you can't do that.  Once the movie is explained to really mainly be about astral projection, demons and other dimensions I got really bummed out. But I was hoping the movie could be saved. Sadly it couldn't. It got a LOT worse from there on out. The movie was just completely silly, especially when the old lady puts on a gas mask to communicate with the child...  For a more in depth review on this movie and other horror movies and horror books visit my profile for a link to my website.

not really Blu-Ray quality pic decent movie, but pic was only a little better than normal DVD, but did not approach Blu-Ray quality. If I had known, would have saved a little by buying the normal version of this.

predictable With the exception of a few funny moments the best parts of this movie could be seen in the films trailers.

not very thrilling Let me sum this up for you in simple terms and fairly quickly.  this is not Braveheart. Its not "300" Its not even Troy. heck the 13th warrior was a true masterpiece by comparison.. for the record i liked the 13th warrior.  This movie plugs along with big name actors and a big budget and no direction in my opinion.. i dont care if its historicaly correct or not. Im not watching the history channel im watching a movie and want to be entertained. This movie fails to do that. Its not the worst thing ive ever seen but its far from the best.. save yourself the heartache and just re-watch braveheart and be happy.

Hate this UltraViolet Digital Copy stuff Took forever to sign up for two different services (UltraViolet and Flixster) that are mandatory to get the digital copy, and found out in the end that it won't play on my iPod Touch.  Very fine print only on the web site says it works only on iPod's with 3G or 4G service.  I watch my movies on airplanes and streaming certainly doesn't work there.  I've got way too many digital services already and I certainly don't want or need these.  Amazon and iTunes is plenty for me already.  If they are going to go this route, then just sell me a Blu-Ray, DVD set and leave the faux digital copy off.  I'm not going to pay for it.

i want the way it was first made on dvd or Blu-Ray this release dont have the music it was made with. so this release sucks... punn added :) so if you want a release with the music it was made with then dont buy this release.

The Red Baron - Not so great There are a number of documentaries available about the Red Baron, but not many movies, if any.  If you are an military aviation history buff, this may not be to your liking. Most of the historical aircraft are duplicated nicely, especially in the digital flying scenes which are fairly well done, from a viewer's perspective, but probably pretty awesome for the technical crew that put it together. The actual life and historical military activity on Manfred Von Richthofen was pretty far off, and had most of the real history been included, it would have been a far more interesting and exciting movie.  If you are into a movie with some fine digital work, but very much lacks on historical accuracy, this may be for you.

Had potential... This movie had potential, but it eventually flopped. The dialog was terrible, as well as the acting. Some of the scenery was outstanding, but not worth boring yourself for two hours. Sorry James, this one was a loser...

if you have nothing else to do not quite bad sci-fi, but not good either. a story told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.  acting mediocre. effects OK.  sorry i rented it.

Poverty Row thru and thru "Murder at Glen Athol" is a routine Poverty Row murder mystery, in a typically bad Alpha Video print - washed out and scratchy, wtih plenty of reel change marks.  It would be useful for showing someone what bad B&W TV reception was like, back in the analog days. To me, the movie had only a few points of interest, listed below, which probably include SPOILERS.  -Although both Amazon and the IMDB date it to 1936, it seems older: the character of Colletti is a bootlegger (Repeal was in 1933) and the few cars that are seen look older, and seem to have been shot silent - although they could be stock footage from an older movie.  -Iris Adrian, as the perky Muriel, is the best thing in the picture even though her dialog contains cubic yards of exposition - but she vanishes very early on.  -Irene Ware (Miss USA of 1926!) is, to me, nothing special, and is given the worst clothes and hair in the movie.  -Ridiculous moment 1: The hero and his faithful companion are driving home when they realize they are being pursued by gangsters. Faithful companion asks if the hero wants to shoot it out with them. Hero replies, "No, I have a better idea" - which turns out to consist of pulliing over, getting out of the car, and shooting at the gangsters as they drive by.  -Ridiculous moment 2: The hero calls all the surviving characters together for a big announcement, which he intends to be the solution to the mystery.  However, at the get-together, another character announces a solution - which the hero decides to accept!  When then asked what he called the meeting for, the hero blandly announces that he and Miss Ware will be getting married (the very next day, too) despite never having made the slightest suggestion of it to her earlier!  But in the very next scene, they are on their honeymoon.  -The musical score is conspicuous by its complete absence.  Despite some of the above, I cannot recommend this movie.  It is ugly, dumb, and mostly dull.  Even of its type, there are much better time-passers out there - for example, "The Death Kiss", which has a far more interesting locale and cast.

Again...? There are two crucial movies in this series: Final Destination (1) and The Final Destination (6). FD 2, 3, 4, and 5 are simply less and less exciting rehashes of #1. They do get progressively bloodier, but also progressively less relevent.  Basically, see FD1 and TFD6 in that order, back-to-back. It's one big, exciting ride. Leave out the fluff that is 2-5.

Not a clue what this was meant to be about This was recommended by a friend, and I do love anything that Keira Knightley does - but this film is awful.  The idea, and story idea, sounded great - a female bounty hunter, that is based on a true story.  Yet, apart from a very good performance by Keira, this film is a let down from start to finish. The constant chop chop of the film makes it feel as though you have taken something. The film is boring, unbelievable and tediously overdone.

sucked Why force 20 words amazon?, "sucked" suffices.  The music in the movie sucked, the acting was ok but the story was just too random and SLOW.  Random doesn't equal good.

An Imitation Journey to the Center of Time more then liberally borrows the idea and most of the script from an earlier movie, "the Time Travelers" (1964) Including the future leaders name Vanni vs Vanno. There are only minor changes and infact it uses footage from the ealrier work to depict a starship that is being pepared to leave the earth with the last surviors of the civilization.  Although the original is a bit hokey, by todays standards, it was the original and has a cameo by Forrest Ackerman, the ultimate fan and the man who coined the term "Sci-Fi". If you like grade "B" science fiction and enjoy doing your own version of MST3K, this is then a movie to watch, otherwise...

Poor Viewing Quality Ocean's Eleven arrived on time, in good condition, and with no problems concerning the shipping and handling.  I may have been mislead as to the description of the product.  I bought this movie 'used' and its condition was prescribed as 'good.'  I figured that since it was labeled as 'good' then the viewing quality would be good.  However, there were multiple scenes that would not play due to the extremely scratched nature of the disc.  At least three of the scenes in the movie were impossible to watch and when reached during the flow of the film, the screen would pause.  I could not change scenes or fast forward from this point.  The movie stopped completely and ceased to run.  I still made it through the movie by reaching these scratched scenes, stopping completely, then skipping that scene and choosing a previous one in the scene selection part of the main menu.  It was frustrating to watch.  I will try to improve the disc by waxing it.  We'll see what happens.

Information very interesting -- music soundtrack lousy I really enjoyed the informative nature of this particular Nova program.  They interviewed scientists and showed us some good science regarding physics and how the earth's magnetic field works, as well as speculating about whether or not the earth will lose its magnetic field or whether it will revert to the South Pole.  What was intriguing was their discussion of Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii, as well as the geologic evidence of rocks in a particular area of Oregon.  The geologic history of earth compared to the other rocky planet, Mars, is interesting.  However, whomever decided on a tacky, "Destiny's Child" rip-off type of music for the soundtrack should feel ashamed.  It really spoiled the quality of this video.  Because of the tacky music, I could never sit through it again without being totally annoyed.  They were way off base when they were trying to make the background music "hip" in this Nova episode.  Rather scary and makes the episode dated almost immediately.  I would not recommend buying this DVD for this reason.

depressing really a downer. depressing. bad blues. After viewing this, I feel dark and gloomy.  If it had been in a theater, I would have walked out of the darkness as soon as possible.  Life is so much brighter than this stuff.

Best Hollywood Cheesey Steak This movie embarassed me. No joke, when Pacino gave the speech in the black church about the killing of the black boy, he out-blacked the blacks. Truly cringe inspiring. And the cliches! Only the credits stopped them. The predictability! Awesome, I felt as if I'd co-authored this piece of. I only kept watching out of a fascination with Pacino's rug and to see what other fine character actors would appear, only to be under-utilized and poorly directed.

EVERY SENSATION A SYMPHONY Capitalizing on bad movies, the film opens up with the annoying hand held camera as 2 young males (Nick Eversman and Jay Gillespie) head to Mexico in hopes of a sexual encounter. The next thing you know their car is jacked, then they are opening the puzzle box. Pinhead appears. Now I understand real people age and in hell they don't so they needed another pinhead. But if you are going to have someone speak monotone lines and sound odious, you must use voice enhancements, like they do in low budget films. There are times when both guys are being filmed at the same time and you have to ask why is the camera still jerking around? Now I can't remember the last Hellraiser I saw, was it the corporate one or the thing in outer space...or was that a Jason thing? And apparently it doesn't matter how it ties into the other films in the series.  The two boys have disappeared and the sister/gf (Tracey Fairaway) is extremely interested in what happened. 10 minutes into the film I was thinking, they are going to need some good nudity to save this one, and with the first hooker still having her clothes on, I didn't hope for much. Then there are some plot points I am confused about. We see Pinhead take the puzzle box, but it appears in the boy's room in his bag along with the camera they had when they went missing. How did this get back to his room from Mexico? The police saw the movie on the camera, but didn't keep it for evidence.  The puzzle box is not really a puzzle as everyone seems to be able to open it. It opened once by pushing the top, a second time by twisting the corner. Could we have a little consistency? And doesn't Tracey Fairaway take showers?  The vagrant (Daniel Buran) had some of the best lines, which to say were not that great. Nick Eversman as Steven was very weak and unconvincing as one of the main characters.  The movie breaks down into a bad home invasion film with a Hellraiser background. The poor ending hints at a squeal.  F-bomb, nudity, sex, torture.

Unhappy People...and they all die I was wary about watching this film, and I should have stuck to my misgivings rather than rent it. I must admit, I didn't watch all of it. The story moved along so slow that I skipped through much of the last half of the wedding scene and the next few days. I'm reasonable certain that I missed nothing because every time I stopped to check the story it was still not moving.  There was nothing redeeming about the main characters. All of them were annoying and mostly uninteresting and let's face it, if I wanted to see rich, dysfunctional people I could always catch up on the Republican Presidential candidates. The only character I had any sympathy for was Leo, who's only crime was to be born into the worst family ever. Fortunately, Leo didn't have to spend the rest of his life putting up with them.  I should stress that the acting in Melancholia was good to great...it's just that the characters and the story were written to be intentionally depressing, so it was like walking into an retirement home or a mental ward where no one was ever going to get well. This is a movie where the happy ending is that they all died.

Disappointed..... My sister gave this movie such high praises that I went ahead and rented it in amazon instant video. What a let down this movie was. I was expecting more action but all I got was half that. If I could get a refund I would surely ask for one

Not Liam's best work It was painfully obvious that this movie needed so much work done to it. It was icky, boring and downright disgusting at times. Had potential but didn't follow through.

Chinese Spaghetti Western with Not Much Sauce I agree with another reviewer who said that the first minutes of this film grabbed your interest and attention with some bold, train robbery action but then it went downhill from there and I found myself looking at the clock throughout the movie to see how much longer the film would last. I found the premise and plot ( basically Robin Hood in a western style Chinese film) of this movie silly and after awhile the senseless violence of revenge upon revenge only became tedious and repetitive rather than anything interesting. I guess it's supposed to be a black comedy set in 1920s China but most of it I honestly did not find funny.  I guess for me it boiled down to a shallow, nonsensical, silly, violent movie that had some very good cinematography. I read it was the highest grossing movie ever at the cinema in mainland China but their view of what is terrific must differ a lot from mine. Maybe the star power of the famous Chinese actors in this movie drew in the crowds too. The English subtitles seemed hard to read at times as they went by too quickly. This is not a movie I would ever bother to watch again. I give it 2 stars and I'm probably being generous at that. If you must see it rent but do not buy!!!

Love the Movie! But no bourbon? Okay, first off, I love Bogey, He is one of my favorite actors. And I wasn't born until 1987 so yeah I have awesome taste in film. I even watch ones with subtitles. In fact I don't bother watching movies unless they are in Black and White or have subtitles.  So my reason for giving it two stars? Obviously there is nothing wrong with the actual movie. But this says it is a two disc Special edition. If it is so special, then why didn't mine come with a cool gray fedora or a flask of bourbon? How am I suppose to watch this wonderful "Special" edition without bourbon? It's typical hollywood fat cats creating all kinds of "special" "alternative" "directors'" "extended" editions just so they can sell more copies of the movie. I mean seriously what the heck is wrong with them? Do they not realize that many people rebel against that by downloading through bit-torrents? Next time a production company tries and makes a "Special" edition of a movie with bogey and they don't include a flask or colt revolver, they are simply wasting their and especially the fans' time.

What a waste. Tim Burton takes everything that made the original series so wonderful and trashes it.  I'll admit this is a very beautiful looking film and the cast is for the most part very good but the story is so poorly executed that it simply becomes a CGI spectacle by the time the film lurches to its routine conclusion.  Burton makes some unforgivable errors with the story.  By turning the Collins family into a down on their luck bunch of has beens, turning Collinwood into a dump (and then burning it down), making theCollins family an object of hatred in the town of Collinsport, rather than the respected community institution, and changing the nature of ALL of the characters from the series...it just isn't DARK SHADOWS any more.  Even cameos from original cast members are wasted, as is the appearance by Alice Cooper.  Nothing works.  The entire film has been boiled down to a movie by committee.  You can see all the places where studio execs have had their input and alterations made from endless test screenings. It ends up being another typical bloated Hollywood extravaganza lacking heart, creativity and emotion.  Sincerity and originality are no where to be seen on screen.  I will say that the costumes and set design are gorgeous and if they had been put to use in a film that had an authentic script instead of this cobbled together atrocity they could have really enhanced the film.  Now I'm not just another fan of the series complaining that they changed everything.  When I saw the first trailer for the film I was shocked and delighted to find that the film was a comedy.  I would have been fine with a comic take on the beloved characters.  As it turns out, THE FILM IS NOT REALLY A COMEDY, in fact it seems to have no idea what it is.  ALL of the comic bits were shown in the trailer and the rest of the film is played pretty much as a strange fish out of water horror drama.  The sudden shifts in tone are jarring and mostly obnoxious.  With such a talented cast and gorgeous look, this film is such a missed opportunity that it is depressing.  All of the merits of the film (and there are a lot of them) simply are not enough to save it from an awful script and a wildly self-indulgent director who seems to have run out of original ideas and simply keeps remaking his own tired movies over and over and over again. I doubt I'll see another take on DARK SHADOWS in my lifetime since this one was a failure at the box office and despised by most critics.  Too bad.  The Bluray transfer is fantastic.  Not a flaw to be seen anywhere.  Absolutely beautiful.  I bought the bluray only edition and it has one short documentary as an extra feature.  A pretty bare bones affair in keeping with Warner Bros new ultra cheap standard blu ray releases complete with no artwork on the disc and a bluray case so flimsy it will fall apart if looked at.  Menus are also bare bones (actually a good thing) and the disc loads quickly with no BD live garbage and no forced trailers.  There is a skipable hype trailer trying to persuade us all to dump our current HDTV's and Blu ray players and purchase new 3D equipment so we can watch stellar versions of such classics as GREEN LANTERN and CLASH OF THE TITANS 3D and animated films about penguins.  Yippy.  Rest in Peace Barnabas.  You deserved so much better.

Not What I Expected I normally enjoy Matt Damon movies and was looking forward to this one. I can be a very forgiving viewer but this movie was boring. It had the excitement level of watching grass grow. There were a few interesting scenes, in the beginning, but after that - it was plain boring.  I gave it two stars instead of one because Matt Damon tried his best but could not save this sinking ship of a movie.

Yep, not for rugby fans... Was this written for New Zealand and then crudely adapted to be set in the US? The history and sentimentality portrayed in this film is a farce. The Haka, a traditional Maori war dance, has nothing to do with rugby's origins and is performed by one international rugby team in the world, New Zealand's All Blacks. Why is this being performed by a team in Utah? A culturally more appropriate tradition to honor is rugby's roots in gaelic football. Anyway, the sentimentality is trite and factually inaccurate. Not for rugby fans.

The New Begining  2012 Its something about this film that bother me thats because im a film makers im not here to judge those involved in the making of this film i would say if redone today that the result will be different as fur as directing and acting is involved in this production i would like to redone this film again if possible what was lacking was the story lines that didnt grab the attention of the viewers and professional camera equipment ...! Sign GM

Really? I was so disappointed in Pirates of the Carribean on Stranger Tides.  None of the amazing special effect as the first two.  The story line was totally lame and the casting terrible.  Penelope Cruz may be cute but she was miscast in this movie.  I felt no credible connection between her and Johnnie Depp's character plus it was extremely difficult to understand what she was saying.  Johnnie Depp acted throughout the movie as though he was bored.  Ho hum another one.  Just didn't get it for me.  My husband felt the same way.

Not interesting! I just didn't find it interesting. I don't think kids need to watch this kind of stuff, there's enough out in real life. It kills me how there's always a kid crying about not being trusted by their parent and then they prove why they shouldn't be.

Personally... not a fan. There are plenty of other reviews which explain the plot very well. I just wanted to share my own opinion on it.  I had wanted to watch this movie for a few years and just never got the chance. Wouldn't you know that literally 2 days after it arriving it was on MTV. I would have been much happier watching it for free. Its not to say its the worst thing ever, as it did have its good moments, just not really what I was hoping for.  My friends hated it WAY more than I as they were expecting basically another Jackass movie, which it really is not, saying its just too forced and disingenuous. Their top 3 favorite things about the movie (and basically the only three things really) were: 1: Bam's woman in bed in panties 2: The map of Finland tattoo 3: Andy McCoy from Hanoi Rocks  I'm not saying "do not buy this movie", just that you may want to check it out as a rental. If you do purchase it I hope you enjoy it more than I did.

dvd FIRST DVD CASE TABS BUSTED, AND FIRST DVD NOT PLAYING PROPERLY, BEST SHOW IS FIRST ONE WIFE NOT HAPPY,X-MAS PRESENT,ME TOO.

saving silverman This was a gift to a family member. I hope the dvd is intact, because when I received the product most of the case was cracked. If it was packed better that would not have happened. As far as the dvd being ok, the person hasen't opened the package yet. I hope there is not a problem. Sorry for the review.

Great Story, Lousy Movie This is a great story, and could have been a riveting movie had the producers not opted to save money by hiring screenwriters from the 7th grade remedial writing class. Seriously, this is some of the worst, corniest dialog you will ever hear in a movie theater. I cringed every time someone opened their mouth. Only need to watch this one if you have a serious P51 thing.

Spoke too soon I wrote my review after I rec'd my unopened DVD movie. I noticed the problem when I opened the DVD. The circle holder the DVD sits on was broken so basically the DVD was bouncing around inside it's unopened box. It's a minor defect but I wish it was not broken. I played the movie and that was ok. So I guess that's all.

Aimless This movie is aimless and the characters are completely unbelievable tropes.  This is a poor rendition of "pretty woman" in reverse (the hooker is now a man).  The tired meme of the crazy (but somehow very successful) family.  Ugh.  All that lame and no reason what-so-ever to care.

Tea: Half a touch, just, please.. Overall, not as funny as I had hoped for, and a tad more gory then I was ready for.  This was a movie where the trailer was better then the movie. The movie follows a young outcast high school boy, as he decides to change his life, by becoming a Super Hero, complete with outfit and all.  However, his first confrontation doesn't turn out so well, when he is stabbed and beaten to a pulp.  Though that doesn't seem to deter him from trying again, after he mends up from getting out of hospital, which is when he meets Hit Girl and Big Daddy, the real take-no- prisoners-crime-fighters of the movie.  And Hit Girl, is awesome!  But it doesn't take long for the bad guys to find the newest Super Hero, and mistake him for the one damaging their business, when it was really Big Daddy and Hit Girl.  So the battles ensue, with a final blow out battle and somewhat happy ending. It was a great idea for a story, though I felt the movie fell short on delivering the story to screen.  I did like think the idea for the story was unique, as was the inclusion of the comic book story as a way of depicting the story.  It has some fantastic action sequences in it for sure! Though, it wasn't as funny as it could have been, in my opinion, or as witty.  Nor did I find the characters as compelling, as I wanted or hoped for them to be, which leads me to believe that the writing was a little lacking in character development, as well as story. I'm fine going to a horror movie and having some gore.  However, this movie, had way too much for my tastes.  And I don't believe it really needed the gore in it, to make the point or be visually entertaining/interesting. If you're looking for action and gore, with some humor, this might be just the ticket.  Otherwise, if you're expecting a really funny movie, and a great story, you may want to pass... It was somewhat of a let down for me, and one that would not be included in my library.

A recipe to cure a dull marriage The men of the movie take their wives for granted so the wives grant them a hall pass - do what they want for a week. Of course, the men are so out of practice and completely tame from years of marriage that they really do nothing...a little unbelievable, given the married men I know. Of course, the wives have an effortless time getting something going with new men, so the Hall Pass kinda backfires. It was funny in places but the ending is bad, with one of the characters getting away with her transgression a little to easily to be rewarding. Not the Farelly Brothers best.

A Great Premise And Good Actors Struggle With Clunky Dialogue, Unbelievable Characters, And Overly Convenient Plotting Writer/director Matthew Chapman had a terrific idea for a complex movie dealing with faith and sacrifice set in a neo-noir framework. I absolutely love the idea of "The Ledge" and its intriguing premise earns it some merit. But if I'm being honest, the themes that Chapman wants to introduce and wrestle with are largely undermined by a screenplay that presents some of the most awkward dialogue and contrived settings that you're likely to encounter in a serious picture with this much talent involved. Patrick Wilson, Liv Tyler, Terrence Howard and Charlie Hunnam are all actors that I have connected with in the past. It's easy to see the attraction that this type of movie would have held for them. But aside from one great scene near the end for Wilson, the rest of the cast flounders with the clunky script and overwrought ideology. The film bludgeons you with its many debates on religious notions by forcing characters together that would never expend so much effort in the real world attempting to communicate. Sadly, it's a near fatal flaw.  The plot of "The Ledge" is exceedingly strong. Hunnam starts the movie by climbing out onto a ledge (no big surprise considering the title) with the intent to jump. Howard, as a cop having a bad day, is on the scene to talk him down--but instead is the recipient of a story of why the potential suicide may be more than it seems. Hunnam relates a tale that involves adultery and religious debate with his new neighbors (Wilson and Tyler). Both have had a challenging past, but they've settled into a life as fundamentalist Christians. Their friendship with the atheist Hunnam is an opportunity for basic debate. And while it's always nice to have a movie that is unafraid to tackle religious themes overtly, there is a clumsiness to these scenes that can be difficult to handle. Neither party is particularly likable, have nothing in common, would never develop a relationship more than to say "hi" in the hallway--but the movie consistently puts them together for meaningful dialogue. There is nothing natural about the flow of the film.  I'm not going to discuss more of the plot so as not to give anything away--but it is these central conflicts that eventually drive Hunnam to the aforementioned ledge. The film could easily have been turned into a nifty little thriller with more realistic character development. Hunnam's character is blatantly unprofessional and inappropriate at work. A good actor, here he is stranded in a thoroughly unappealing and unbelievable character. Seriously, his seduction scenes with Tyler made me alternately laugh and cringe with some of the silliest dialogue I've encountered this year. Tyler, for her part, plays one emotion. It's hard to see what is supposed to be so alluring about this expressionless character. Howard is undeveloped. His plot thread is conveniently tacked on to heighten the drama and for him to be the recipient of the piece's deep philosophical lessons. Wilson, one of our most underrated actors, is turned into a zealot--but has one scene that sticks out in a refreshingly riveting way.  It was, ultimately, the characters that left me cold as well as the heavy handed message. For example, Christopher Gorham is on hand as Hunnam's homosexual Jewish roommate. Why? As a plot device, of course, so Wilson can scorn homosexuals and Hunnam can challenge religion (he can quote from the Talmud, naturally). At one point, Gorham is bathing the apartment in blessed Temple water. Really? It's overdone and obvious. With a bit of subtlety, Chapman might have scored a real triumph. I loved the idea, I like the actors--but (for me) little about the movie worked. Good ambition, but lacking in the execution. KGHarris, 9/11.

Didn't meet my expectations I decided to watch this east-german cinema effort, after I read the positive reviews. This plus the fact that it's an european work set my expectations quite high. But the reality bites. Although there are some positive things I can say about it (for example it lets us see how the life looked like 20 years ago in East european countries), the total impression is not good at all. The film is way too long. Some scenes drag, one wouldn't imagine! Music soundtrack!? MISUNDERSTANDING! It made no good to the story. There are too many questions marks left without any answer (what about the baby?abortion?when exactly they got married?why did the principal decide to investigate main character's lessons?etc). Some of the questions wouldn't arise if the plot was more consequent. Unfortunately, it has huge holes and the director didn't deliver any explanation in the end neither. I will repeat some of the opinions writing this, but the most intersting part was the history told by an old man in the gay club...  Before you buy it, rent it.

Total Recall,Blu-Ray This was one Dvd upgrade I wasted my money on,sound quality much better,but picture quality was still grainy,don't waste your money on this one.

Combo of Independence Day, Dear John, and Blue Hawaii Street guy (though stylized), underacheiver, with successful older Brother, is convinced to join the Navy...grow up...do the right thing.  His final statement as disheveled barfly is to break into a convenience store to steal a barrito (?) for the shockingly beautiful daughter of a Navy Commander..who decides to enter a neighborhood dive for said treat...too late...bar tender can't open the freezer door and look for the microwave. (typical government worker - jk). Then the tribute to Cable TV's "World's Dumbest CRiminals"...a mock-video surveillance tape where the dude falls violently from the rafters but accomplishes his mission. Actually a well-crafted and hilarious scene.  His next screw up is to approach a UFO sitting out there off the coast of Hawaii..he bangs on the outside of the thing...then the fireworks. Is it..the end of the world?  Thus, he gains confidence and knowledge (too bad he gets his Brother blown up in the fallout from his  "curiosity"). But this endears him to his "love interest"...who, by the way, not just a shocking blonde beauty but a physical therapist who works miracles for everyone she meets.  Will our hero save the planet *and* get engaged to her?  Just short of three stars. Special effects: phenomenal. Acting: pretty good.[Review based upon Theatre viewing].

Boring for an "action" movie It gets an extra star for the cast, but really, what were they thinking? I literally fell asleep about 20 minutes into this movie. There is very little character development, dialogue, or background, all of which would have been helpful to explain the loosely woven fight scenes.  Overall this was no "Taken," and definitely not a Jason Statham movie (unless maybe Killer Elite). I had such high hopes for a female focused movie - very disappointing.

Failed Potential This movie had some excellent photography and I was looking forward to watching it. But the movie never delivered on its potential. It had to be the script--as I found the acting fine.  Before long I found myself bored, really bored, wanting something to happen.

Plot??? Good thing this movie was free because it definitely isn't worth paying money for. The plot makes no sense, the acting sucks, and Christian Slater must have owed someone a favor or lost a bet to be seen in this flick. The only reason I'm giving it two stars is because I actually watched it all the way through... unfortunately.

Apocalyse Now, movie, did not have a choice for the English language The movie began with a choice of which language I wish to view the movie.  ENGLISH WAS NOT ONE OF THE CHOICES! The accompanying disk was set with english as the default language.Therefore, I needed to order a differrent Blu Ray of "Apocalypse Now". Please refer to my purchase records. This time I ordered the same Blu Ray movie but made sure it was sold directly by Amazon. That movie works perfectly. Thank you for requesting review. Reagards, Ted Simmerman

Still love the girls, the rest falls apart First of all, I loved this show; I still exercise to the reruns with a glass of wine and sparkling water daily. I fully enjoyed the first film, finding it mostly true to the show and the characters. However, this film is a letdown. It is almost an insult to the characters and the actresses. In fact Kim Cattrall should be angry; due to the writing and editing; Samantha becomes a over-sexed, pathetic, matron who doesn't seem to know herself any longer. She is in reality a beautiful woman and Samantha should have been allowed to show her growth and depth, which suited her previous character and experience. Carrie becomes a whining, foolish, almost (dare I say) annoying character. I wondered why 'Big' would stay interested. I can barely remember what Charlotte or Miranda did or did't do. The setting and plot are almost ridicules, and while beautiful scenically, the plot doesn't support any reality. It could have worked too; I could see pieces that worked. That being said, I think the most offensive part was near the beginning; "the Gay wedding". I was embarrassed for every Gay person I know, and those I don't know. It was awful. Plus they made a mockery of the incredible Liza Minnelli by airing the scene of her signing and dancing to Beyonce's 'Put a rock on it...' I had to look away in shame. Soooooo inappropriate on so many levels! Actors cannot see themselves...the director should have caught that. I was deflated from there. They owe us another, better film to wash the bad taste left by this one.

Pilates? I purchaed this for pilates and didnt find to much of that. Disappointing. I also found it very boring. The voice on the DVD bored me and made me sleepy. I dont know how pilates can be in the title and not have much of it in the video.

The Men from Shiloh I was very disappointed.  I love the show "The Virginian" and this was nothing like it.  The first show was somewhat about the ranch and the owner and the next ones had nothing to do with the ranch and the people on it.  I returned it and was only given 1/2 of my money back.  Very dissatisfied!!!

Cash for a clunker of a movie Today my son and I watched the Blu-ray version of Cars 2 from the 5 disk set. We had not seen the movie in the theaters so my review is mainly of the movie but I also talk about the Blu-ray quality. Overall I was a bit disappointed but let me give you the full 411.  The animation is top notch. The colors on the Blue-Ray version were awesome. The graphics were super cool and very impressive. All of this did not make up for a weak story line however. The movie starts off with an unfamiliar cast of cars so it took me a couple of minutes to figure out what was happening. It turns out that we are watching a movie about alternative fuel. Only later does the new cast meet the cast of the first Cars movie. While I enjoyed the original line up and voices, it really seemed like Cars 2 should have been totally separate but needed to ride on the success of the first movie. The story tie in was weak and the Cars 2 movie could have been developed independently. I feel like this is a sequel in name only.  I don't know who saw <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0013FSL3E">Wall-E (Single-Disc Edition)</a> or how you felt about it but I did not appreciate being lectured to by that movie about the ills of society, and I don't appreciate the social commentary here either. The message wasn't so pronounced that children would pick up on it but it overshadowed the story for me.I get it, as the movie says "once big oil, always big oil."  The movie did have some good lessons about friendship and the value of sticking by a friend and being loyal. I think this is what the kids will pick up on and that's a good lesson to learn. The voices are the same from the first movie and are generally entertaining. I think you kids will enjoy the animation and the action but more so for the under 7 crowd but there is a lot of cartoon violence with cars shooting at other cars trying to "kill" them. My son is ten and claims to have enjoyed this movie.

Meth replaces Moonshine in this updated tale of hillbilly stereotypes *** This review may contain spoilers ***  Wikipedia informs us that the classic 'hillbilly' stereotype began during the Great Depression. The image was one of "the poor, ignorant, feuding family with a huge brood of children tending the family moonshine still." Filmed in the Ozark Mountains, 'Winter's Bone' continues to advance the same stereotype--this time however, the 'hillbillies' are not making moonshine but rather cooking up the more deadly brew of methamphetamine.  When we're first introduced to the film's protagonist, Ree (Jennifer Lawrence), she's taking care of her almost catatonic mother and two much younger siblings. The family is so destitute that at one point they shoot squirrels and eat them. One wonders why no social services agency becomes involved with this family. After all, the local sheriff is quite familiar with the family's situation--that Ree, a 17 year old minor, is caring for the younger siblings and the mother is a virtual basket case. Wouldn't the sheriff have been obligated to report the family situation to social services so they could be placed in foster care? After all, if something happens to those kids and law enforcement was found to know about it, they could be held liable along with the county for not calling in various helpful authorities.  The inciting incident occurs early on when a bail bondsman informs Ree that she has a week to find her meth-selling father who has used the family home as collateral to be released on bond. Ree seeks help from various relatives including 'Teardrop', her uncle, who at first wants nothing to do with finding brother Jessup, Ree's dad. Teardrop's strategy is to intimidate his niece, so that she won't get into trouble when the meth dealers get upset over her snooping around trying to find her father. It's established early on that people in town are scared of Uncle Teardrop due to his deep-seated anger management problem (Teardrop likes to smash car windows and refuses to get out of his own vehicle when ordered by the police).  Ree eventually contacts other members of the community who she is supposedly distantly related to. One of these men is Thump who heads a group of meth-dealing bad guys.  He gets the word out that Ree should not be snooping around but she won't listen.  Because of the hillbilly code, he ends up sending the womenfolk to beat Ree up. Finally Teardrop levels with Ree, explaining that her father was killed because he was an informer. I had a hard time believing that Thump and his men didn't kill Ree outright as she was doing all that snooping around. You would think that meth dealers wouldn't give a hoot about some old hillbilly code about not hurting a woman. And then despite the fact that they outnumber Teardrop, Thump and his men somehow accept his word that Ree won't snitch. Unlikely. And then they capitulate and send the womenfolk to cut off Ree's father's hand, as proof that he's dead. And here his daughter accepts that? The point I guess is that people are so intimidated by meth dealers, that their spirit is completely crushed. So Ree makes a 'deal with the devil' in order to save the family. You've got to assume that law enforcement is so totally corrupt that they look the other way in every case. Here, Ree assumes the police know about what's happening and will take no action. So there's not one good person in law enforcement who might try to do something? So they're all completely intimidated and ineffectual? No higher authorities become involved in cases like these?  Sure there are cases where people are intimidated and refuse to cooperate with law enforcement. But if everyone did that, the vast majority of criminals would get away with their crimes. So you have to buy this whole scenario and I have trouble doing that.  The problem with 'Winter's Bone' is that most of the hillbillies are creepy, malevolent figures, reminiscent of some of the unpleasant characters in the film 'Deliverance'. Ree comes off as hardly heroic, refusing to rat out her father's killers in a desperate bid to save her family.  It's understandable but nothing to cheer about.  Similarly, we're asked to sympathize with Teardrop too as he's saved his niece from the clutches of murderers--but he too is complicit in his brother's murder.  'Winter's Bone' was directed by Debra Granik, a Columbia film professor. She is to be admired for using some local talent during the filming and does a fine job in getting good work out of her director of photography and editors. Nonetheless, her big mistake was deciding to adapt the source material, a novel which apparently promotes the idea that there is a community in the Ozarks who are completely unlikeable and have little or no redeeming qualities, due to their association with the methamphetamine trade. Even if we accept the idea that there is an underclass of such people, how about humanizing those characters by giving them some kind of personality, instead of depicting them as suffering from a terminal case of uncontrollable hostility?

a travesty "Flash Gordon" could have been a truly great fantasy. Its intentional campiness is an insult both to the audience and Alex Raymond.  Raymond was one of the great cartoonists -- which is rather an unkind, left-handed compliment, because his work more-closely approaches serious "illustration". Considered objectively, the "Flash Gordon" storyline is absurd. But that doesn't justify camping it up for a "modern" (ie, stupid) audience. Had the producer, director, and writer taken the comic strip as a serious work of art, the film would have been a beautiful romantic fantasy. Instead, we have a pile of shlock that doesn't take itself seriously -- so why should we? (See my review of "John Carter", a pulp-fiction film that treats its source material respectfully.)  There are compensations. Max von Sydow again shows why he is one of the world's great actors. Brian Blessed is the perfect Vultan, finding the right balance between broad humor and aggressive pompousness. (If you don't believe Blessed is a fine actor, see the 1989 "Henry V".) And -- forgive me -- I have a terrible weakness for Biro (the late Ted Carroll) who's adorable. He gets a classic groaner -- when asked whether he's all right, he responds "They just winged me".  Alex Ross -- a great comic-book artist in his own right -- should have known better than to deliver a ten-minute lecture on just how wonderful "Flash Gordon" is. All he does is reveal how little he knows about art (of any kind), and his apparent lack of knowledge of really /good/ movies (of any genre). "Flash" is trash, and its destruction would be no great loss.  The transfer -- presumably from a Todd-AO 35 composite negative -- is spectacular: razor-sharp, detailed, and kandy-kolored. I saw no visible dirt, specks, or scratches.

unbreakable this movie was so policial crap i wouldnt watch it again if you paid me . wh yowuld someone never get hurt and be good but one who suffer all the time be bad .

Dark, Depressing, and Generally Uncomfortable Our search for a show to help us kill a few hours each week led us to try Breaking Bad based on reviews we had heard. After watching the first season, we will not be ordering the second.  Overall the acting is good, and other technical pieces are well done. However, the plot line is very dark, and the characters seem to be steadily engaging in a series of bad decisions moving to worse decisions.  The show deals with terminable cancer, drug culture, healthcare woes for the middle class, and portrays even the 'good guys' in a negative light. The themes the show uses are discordant with my value system, so the show is not enjoyable.  I can see why the show is so critically acclaimed, and the use of suspense is effective. At the end of the season though, I don't feel motivated to continue.

...RedBox Rental... ...everyone says this movie is sooooo funny! i disagree!!! there are a few funny scenes but overall its just not that funny.

Confusing movie The actors act very well, but the boy's behaviors and lots of scenes are cnfusing in the movie. I do not recommend it to anyone.

LOVED THE MOVIE-DVD QUALITY POOR When I first saw this in the theatre I enjoyed it. Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law make a good team and I appreciated the fresh approach to Sherlock Holmes. However, when I bought and played the DVD on my 73 in screen I was disappointed in the video quality. The transfer suffers from obnoxious pixelation and macroblocking, making the movie un-watchable. I have recently noticed this same effect on other movies: Inception and Legend of the Guardians. I have over 1600 DVDs and all play clear and sharp except for these 3 recently released movies. While I'm not usually a conspiracy theorist, I do wonder if this an attempt to push everyone into BluRay?

Too Long and Too Many Characters I was disappointed by this movie, primarily because: (1) it is at least thirty minutes too long, (2) there are too many characters to try to track, (3), The murder comes too late in the film (up to that point it is too talky), and (4) the murder mystery is not resolved when the movie finally ends.  The BBC series Downton Abbey (shown on PBS and available on DVD) is much better.

Ugh Just add an "L" to the end of the title and there's your one-word review. What a waste of (my) time and (their) talent, especially the lovely Carey Mulligan, who was horribly underutilized. Heck, Ryan Gosling was better in "The Notebook" than in this, in my opinion, and I didn't care for that movie either. And using pop-culture music (also horrible!) and gory, gratuitous violence doesn't make you Quentin Tarantino.  Art house movie, my ass.

Not MST3K's Best Work Amazon's Instant Video glitches. This failed television series (read: feature length production) is one of worst MST3K shows, so I am not even going to bother watching Master Ninjas II. It's no surprise that the production is bad, but it is so bad as to be unredeemable by Joel and the robots. Some occasional one-liners, but not enough to make this one worthwhile. Check out <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001R2PZ00">Mystery Science Theater 3000: Future War</a> instead.

Gone to soon This movie could have been great but ruined it with that ending and all the plot twists just made it confusing not entertaining at all

Not for young potty trainers At first this video caught my daughter attention since it features Elmo.  But there's very little action, so she bored of it quickly.  It's more of an interview movie, where he talks to other puppets about the potty.  Not very engaging for the potty training age range.  This would have been more effective if you actually saw any potty training happening.  She may find it more interesting, AFTER she is finished potty training, since perhaps she'll be old enough to have the patience to sit and watch a bunch of other people and puppets sit around talking for an hour.

There is no excuse for wasting Helen Mirren. But this movie manages to do it. Two decent people became hired killers, and the motivation is unconvincing (they don't seem to need the money that badly). Also, this is the kind of movie in which a doctor with a lighted cigarette in his mouth examines a new-born baby -- and no one seems to think it's strange.  You might want to rent this movie to see Cuba Gooding Jr. -- he's the very essence of cool in a scene in which he picks up a woman in a bar, intending to kill her to fulfill a contract.

Way to slow and confusing The DVD jacket, the Product Description provided by Amazon Instant Videos and the trailer really fooled me. I wanted Horror and didn't get it with this video. It was so slow, I never did figure out what the point was and was never scared. Ting Yin somehow opens up the door of the supernatural guided by one of her book's phantasmagorical creations and when it came to life, it was not terrifying at all. I had to ask, what did those "things" have to do with her book/life? I felt it would have been better if I saw more scenes of her writing the book while experiencing more supernatural incidents before it comes to life. And who is Miss Chu Xun and that other writer? And why couldn't she recognize her grandpa until the end? Angelica Lee is a very good actor and her young supporting actor had good chemistry together; that is what kept me until the end, but I would not recommend this.

A big name does not make for a great film Sorry folks this one is grossly over rated and the acting is pedestrian at best.  It's a cliche that the book is better than the movie but in this case that doesn't even begin to tell the tale of this film.  First of all, it is not a good movie. Period.  The script is riddled with errors, the dialog is dull and if you cut out all the thoughts of the actors contemplating and staring you have a 90 min movie.  The pacing is brutally slow and the film lacks any heart or emotion.  This movie is better than a sleeping pill if you have insomnia.  I will only touch briefly on the whole Moneyball myth.  True baseball fans know that it is a myth and is a style which was used by the Kansas City Royals in the 1970s was used by the Cleveland Indians in the 1990s to win several division titles and perfected by the Boston Red Sox to win in 2004.  Billy Beane copied the work of others and acted as though he invented it. The reason Jonah Hill's character is a composite is because the two characters he represents were fired by Billy Beane when he thought they were getting too much credit.  Basically, this movies is dull and boring and wildly inaccurate. If they have an Oscar for the dullest movie of the year, this is it!

meaningless I am a mature adult, however I could not make heads or tails of what this movie was all about. I have donated it to a thrift shop.

2 were good - 2 were not! I thought that two of these mysteries were entertaining and fairly well done, however two were not.  Poor quality of film, and they seemed to be quite old - I did not like "Four Feathers" and "Lady Audley's Secret".  Very poor.

No one can hear you scream in the dark I've never seen a movie shot "night for night" so badly -- this movie is dark and nothing can change that.  There are many night scenes where you can barely make out anything at all. The day (or lit) scenes can be surprisingly colorful.  The beautiful Zoli Marki is about the only reason to see this train wreck.  Cameron Mitchell shows up to utter some stupifyingly bad lines (as some else mentioned: "He's less than a man. But more than a man. So much more than a man").  Wow -- bad.  And despite the fact that the plot makes no sense, the killer/demon's mask appears and then disappears and is not relevant at all, and despite the fact the guy can kill with his bare hands but prefers plastic wrap, and despite the fact he can kind of phase in and out yet at the same time can be held up by doors ... the real sign of a bad movie here is they run out of music during the end credits.  Skip it or rent it.

Still disappointing after all these years I first saw this film when it was initially released in the theaters, and I remember how disappointed I was at the time.  Thinking that perhaps I'd missed something, I chucked my expectations at the door and gave it another try, only to find I liked it even less the second time around.  Eastwood, as a mysterious stranger wearing a preacher's collar, arrives in a small mining community and decides to help out a group of pan miners resisting being run off their claims by the goons of a hydralic mining outfit.  Mixing and matching elements of both <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0792163710">Shane</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0783225725">High Plains Drifter</a>, the 'Preacher' trades in his collar for Colts and, when hired guns masquerading as the law comes to town, he not only gives the panners a chance to survive, but at the same time gets a chance to mete out divine justice.  The actors involved with the film - Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgrass, Chris Penn, etc - are competent in their roles; the film's problem is its script and dialog, and some sloppy choreography.  Taken literally, Eastwood's character can be assumed to have been a gunfighter at one time who was seriously wounded, and who thereafter gave up his guns for a bible.  And though it is never confirmed, it would seem that the same band of killers who are called in to run off the panners were responsible for nearly killing Eastwood's 'Preacher'.  Yet the film keeps hinting at a supernatural element - hinting at a lot of backstory that's never filled in - but instead of adding depth, it only leaves a nagging, incomplete feeling to the film.  This doesn't kill the movie - I do think it detracts from it - but coupled with a no-surprises resolution, it puts the entire effort firmly onto mediocre footing.  One scene I had enjoyed when watching this in the theater was Eastwood standing up for the miner Hull by taking on several of the hydraulic miner's with a hickory ax handle, but on second viewing it looks about as convincing as an aging Steven Seagal fight scene.  I can even let that one pass - but what really sinks this movie is the utterly ridiculous interaction between Eastwood and the young girl from the mining camp who falls in love with him, as well as the scene between her mother and Eastwood when she comes to him in the middle of the night.  Eastwood fans will probably be able to overlook these and other flaws - his acting style remains fairly consistent from film to film, so if it is Clint you are looking for, it definitely is Clint you will get.  If, on the other hand, you are more interested in the film as a film rather than a vehicle for its actor, then I recommend against it, as it is lowest common denominator type filmmaking.

Dark and disappointing Not your usual Harry Potter movie.  Many scenes were dark and hard to see.  Plot was murky at best.  Hope the sequel is much better.

Not especially scary, but nice not to see a ridiculous amount of gore, violence or foul language used I would say that this belongs in the "horror-extremely lite" genre, though it's more in the range of a ghost tale than towards the slasher range of the spectrum. As I'm more inclined to watch ghost stories, finding psychological motivation (sadness, betrayal, untimely death, etc.) behind paranormal activity more stimulating to view in a film than just a series of shocking visuals thrown together, I don't mind that. If you don't want a movie filled with foul language (it doesn't matter to me one way or the other, but it does to some people, so that's why I bring it up), this could be the film for you. There's no nudity in it. By today's standards, the shock value of what few graphic scenes that there are is very minimal. I can't say that I jumped or was even surprised once while viewing this, let alone did it scare me or even stay w/ me for a bit afterwards. It isn't a movie that's likely to make you keeping lingering over the details when you're done watching it.  I found myself viewing the film from an actor's standpoint, at least in terms of the protagonist's character. I thought he could've been a little bit more "animated" in places, and in the beginning, he was just downright boring- but, overall, this wasn't a horrifically-acted film. Carlos Leon, while no Olivier, was certainly passable in playing the main characters' boss, and was a sympathetic guy here. Leon has a surprising "presence" to him, which is about the only thing that stood out to me in the movie. The girl who played the main character's on-again, off-again girlfriend, while attractive enough, wasn't anyone who'll sets the world on fire. Again, she gave a passable performance, but not memorable. Character development was quite one-dimensional here, so I don't necessarily fault the actors- but better actors could've perhaps bumped this from a two-star movie to a three-star film.  I did think that the movie (unsurprisingly, considering who made it) was very similar in setting to "Dark Water", though was less effective in the creepiness department. I didn't find "Dark Water" scary, either, but at least it was slightly better at character development & plot than this was- not great, but better. Hoepfully, that'll give you a point of reference (if you've seen Dark Water, that is!) If you're expecting something as good as "The Grudge" or "The Ring"- look elsewhere! This is a low-budget flick, and could pass for a made-for-television one (which maybe it was & I just don't know it). It's not the worst film I've ever seen, and I've most definitely seen worse acting & plots in my life. The main character was easy enough to empathize with after a bit. The plot was fairly predictable, and the "motivations" on the part of the main ghoulies were definitely stretched beyond anything reasonable, raised more questions than answers & it all was laced w/ inconsistency. But if you just want to look at a flick, to get you through a boring evening, you could do worse than this.

more than i bargained for There was no photo of this item on the Amazon page where i purchased it.  Had there been i would have kept looking for the collection in a box. Seriously.

Review of "Into The Wild" DVD The "Into the Wild" DVD is done in a almost continous flash back format. It is very hard to put the young mans life story together unless you have read the book. The book is excellent. I recommend reading the book and not watching the DVD.

I'm confused I rented this movie via AMAZON VOD after reading all the great reviews. I couldn't get past the first 20 min. I'm a Christian, so that wasn't it. It was just bad acting for me. I found it somewhat painful to watch and found myself nearly wincing a time or two. Maybe it got better as it went along, but like I said, I couldn't watch more than 20 min. Very disappointing.

boring routine I bought this dvd thinking it would be a fun workout, different from what I normally do. However, I got bored doing this dvd. The main motion is swaying your hips. You pretty much do this the whole time while sometimes moving side to side and alternating leg movements. There isn't much varaition to the arm movements at all either. I felt all I was doing was stepping into place with a little extra hip movement.  The steps weren't terribly hard to follow, and the energy of the instructor is good. It's about a 35 minute workout total, and there is also a tutorial about 15 minutes long that goes over the steps. I did the tutorial before starting, although I think you could jump right into the workout and still be okay.  This isn't a very strenous workout, and it's very repetitive. I do not see myself doing this dvd again and wish I wouldn't have bought it.

Video Game Physics - Plus Amazon Fail on Rated/Unrated 2 Things.  First, the movie's ridiculous video game physics during the initial motorcycle chase pretty much ruined the whole movie for me. My disbelief in how sucky movie special effects can be in 2012 was not suspended.  Second, I noticed after I rented it there was an unrated version. I really think I should be either 1) alerted to the fact there is another version of the same movie I'm about to rent and be given a choice, or 2) allowed to preconfigure my desire to see the most raunchy, censor-needing version of anything. Guaranteed, if it is going to make someone feel awkward because it messes with their morality or limited world-view that's the version I want to see.

Big build up, then an equally big let down. I had really high hopes for this movie when I heard that it was coming out. The teasers gave it just the right edge, but the reality was different. Making this movies was one of those ideas that seems better than it actually turns out to be. I could have said the same about "Underworld: Rise of the Lycans", but that's for another time.  We start with Selene recaping the Lycan/Vampire war leading up to her meeting Michael. Then it's like "Houston, we have a problem--The Humans are trying to exterminate the Lycans, the Vampires, and us along with them." Selene & Michael are captured, and spend the next decade or so on ice until they are able to escape, helped by the mysterious "subject 2"  Ok---no more spoilers.  As far as the film itself, Kate Beckinsale starts strong, but gets bogged down trying to figure out where/when she is, and trying to find Michael. Michael appears in a couple of "blink & you'll miss him shots". It turns out that "Michael" is actually Scott Speedman's face digitally superimposed on a stand in. The production values seemed dark--Not grim & serious, but "who turned out the lights?"  Were they trying to save money? This is not to mention that some of the most important dialogue seemed forced and awkward.  A lot of important details were either glossed over or omitted entirely. But then, what do you expect from a movie that's only 78 minutes long??? I'm hoping that an extended cut of this film will be released at some point. Maybe that will fill in the gaps until the next sequel.

Zero effort put into this release and it shows I purchased this movie on blu-ray because it was cheap and I never owned the DVD.  As I was opening the package I noticed an unfamiliar name: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment.  If what I saw with this release is indicative of their other releases, do yourself a favor and steer clear.  If you want this movie with a decent quality transfer and NOTHING else, then this may work well for you.  However, know that it really has nothing else going for it.  The disc looks cheaply made and actually has the UPC on it (never seen that one before).  The menu is very minimalistic, just like the rest of the disc.  The only two options are to play the movie and select scenes (the scene selector is painfully slow, by the way).  There are no special features whatsoever (not even a trailer, which was considered pathetic even for a DVD).  There aren't even subtitles or other languages.  And these remain the same two options during movie playback, just play and scene selection.  Plus the menu is so poorly designed that if you hit play again during the movie, where common sense says the movie would pause, it actually starts all over; first taking you back to the unskippable MPAA rating info and Miramax logo.  All in all, it's safe to say that Echo Bridge did not put any effort into this release, and personally I feel if some kid was making a bootleg of this movie, he'd do a better job.

Boobs and Blood - Little Else Nothing much beyond nudity and nonsense.  Bloods and Boobs, little else.  A little humor, production quality and special effects were redeeming, but really a waste of time.

Corny stuff I wonder why in 2011 we're here to spend our eight bucks at movies and see a musical rooted in silent melodrama where Cher must save her failing nightclub from a villianous developer that wants to repossess it and tear it down. All he needed was a black top hat, cane, and mustache to put us back a century where we could watch Mary Pickford play Christina Aguilera's part.  But those folks really had writers working on the word titles-- they could think of a more realistic love story than where Ali (Christina Aguilera) finally falls in love with Jack and after their night together, she can only say, "I'm so glad you're not gay." I also was turned off by the double standard. No put downs were delivered about women who might be gay. Cher and Christina were a love story waiting to happen themselves. Aguilera's acting has not matured any since she was in The New Mickey Mouse Club.

It was meh. My opinion of this movie is based off the movie, not the books. Not "historical significance". Not "my Uncle was in this!". Just what I saw on the screen 15 minutes ago.  The premise was a bit odd. The "world" background was totally left out (seems like it was supposed to be a modern day Japan) so it seems odd that the adults decided to toss a bunch of unruly teens -by unruly I don't mean murderers or rapists, just kids who didn't seem to like "respecting their elders", although in Japan, maybe that's worse than murdering or raping your parent... - onto an island to kill each other off. At least Running Man had a whole world built around it so the suspension of belief was much more attainable.  The action wasn't anything special. No cool moves or creative effects (although for the time the addition of the post production blood spray - much like what you see in The Expendables now - might have been ground breaking). All pretty standard to sub standard. The Uzi of unending ammo got real annoying after awhile (he did change clips once but that was for drama - yhea yhea, showing all the clip changing is boring and uninteresting so they just edited those out, right? All, say, 15 of them? how heavy was that backpack in the first place!? btw it was amazing how much his ability with that thing varied).  The movie was more about the relationships between the students than anything. That's where most of the screen time went and creative writing. But if that's what you're into, go check out The Breakfast Club before getting this. Personally, I didn't care if any of them lived...or died, really. Of course, I'm not a 16 year old Japanese student, either, so who am I going to relate to? The only two ****incoming spoiler, kinda**** I was glad got it was Ms Psycho chick (with the sickle) and the Uzi guy (just so he'd stop firing that damn Uzi).  No idea why this was given 5 stars. I generally don't write reviews even though I have over 1000 movies in my collection, many off Amazon, but the rating for this movie was just so overbalanced I just had to say something.

The 90's weren't good to him In a word? Bad. More than one word? Has potential, but ends up sucking. What you have here is a movie that sounds good on the treatment and even looks promising when looking at the script. However in execution falls flat on many levels. To be fair this version of Captain America has its good moments. The problem is they are too few and are outweighed by the very bad elements of this film.  I'm still trying to fathom the thinking behind making this movie. 21st Century Film is a small operation. I get that. However when you look at this film, that was made in the early 90's, it looks like it was done in the 70's. I'm not just talking about cinematography and quality of cameras. I'm talking plot structure, music, special effects, stunt work, a whole of lot of elements that make a movie. It all feels like this movie should have been seen as a TV movie alongside 70's Wonder Woman and Spider-Man. More care really should have been taken putting it together instead of trying to get it released in time for Captain America's 50th anniversary (which they missed that deadline anyway).  Where to begin? Lets start with the story as it is the more complicated aspect that shows some good elements as well as bad. On the good side we have a pretty tidy explanation about how ole' Cap gets his abilities and why we don't have an army of shield wielding super soldiers. The backstory of Steve Rogers and his 40's sensibility and how he copes with waking in the modern world has a good deal of heart to it.  And... that's about it. Now we have to deal with the atrociously disconnected origin story of arch nemesis The Red Skull that starts off with the massacre of his entire family and moves from there to his callous treatment as a child. You would think after all this Red Skull would take vengeance on his "benefactors", but instead we are supposed to assume this history merely explains why he is a bad guy because he was treated bad. Doesn't really connect on film that way. Once you get past the origin and back stories the main plot tends to just coast in neutral throughout the film. What motivates the baddies into being bad is yawn worthy. What motivates Captain America to save the day? Seems like the answer is "just because."  What makes the story shortcomings even worse is the inane actions that fill up space in between exposition. You get bland scenes like Captain America sneaking away from the good guys for some reason or another, villains following good guys and being stereotypically mean to people. And don't get me started on the action scenes. The movie either feels like it's in a standstill or actually gets more boring with the fights. And this is in spite of the fact the studio re-shot stunts after test screenings.  Technical aspects of this movie hurt it the most. Like I said before the camera footage looks very cheap and not much attention was made on maximizing the use of camera angles for dramatic effect. Lighting and special effects (mostly practical) further reinforce that dated look to the film. Makeup effects are actually serviceable in regards to the Red Skull's face. The one thing that stands out the most is Captain America's costume uses fake ears on his cowl. It's almost embarrassing seeing any close ups of Cap in full costume.  The acting is a mixed bag of B-Movie style nonchalance from supporting characters and some pretty decent acting from the primary. Ned Beatty does a pretty good job with what little he had to work with walking the fine line between believable reporter and comic relief. Matt Salinger actually does a good performance and gives you that feeling that his character is from a simpler time.  So this movie was intended to be released to capitalize on Captain America's 50th anniversary. Maybe that's why the cheap production values as the studio was more focused on cashing in on the timeliness. Well it looks like they did it again. This DVD was also intended to be re-released to coincide with the new theatrical release of Marvel Studio's Captain America: The First Avenger. Instead the released was pushed back a couple months and now has that onerous feeling that it's an intended bait and switch for people thinking it's the new movie out on DVD early. Sorry if you got duped, but I'm sure the packaging gave off some warning signs.  While this release is the latest and "greatest" there is only so much polish you can put on a turd. The source material was very cheap film stock to begin with and I doubt any amount of remastering will make it look any better than the 70's TV show vibe it started out with. In other words no high fidelity images and lots of specks and scratches. I think the audio fares a little better on Dolby Digital Stereo than previous releases, but it's been a while since I rented the old version. The only special feature includes is the "Theatrical Trailer", which is ironic as it was straight to video release in the United States with very limited theatrical release internationally.  So should you buy this DVD? No way. Not unless you already seen this movie and really like it. In that case this is the best (and likely last) release available. The rest of you who may be curious rent first... preferably via uber-cheap RedBox or Netlix subscription.

Not good Plot was very bad.The actors had poor performances.  Visual effects were great, but they did not help the movie.  Save your money.

all scratched The disks season 6 and later are all scratched and don't play right. I'm highly disappointed in this purchase. It's been longer than 30 days since I purchased this item (and who can watch 20-some disks in 30 day?) so it can't be returned.

pretty bad movie This movie was mindless shakey camera garbage.  It may be because I watched the english dubbed version so if you really need to see it watch the spanish version.  The english voice over actors were really bad.

Short on 3D The movie is good, I've seen it once before, but wanted to actually own it since I liked it.  I recently purchased a 3D Blue Ray player and wanted a few more 3D movies.  I was disappointed that there was very few 3D effects and some if not most scenes didn't have any 3D effects.  If you are looking for a nice 3D movie, this is not the one for you.

Come on.......... What could have been a good movie ended up being a little stupid.  It may help a lot if you know nothing of wildlife and firearms when you watch this movie and if you have seen neither "Survivorman" nor "Man Vs Wild".  Liam's character carries a rifle but we are always shown shotshells.  Then, he "Macgyvers" the shotshells to the ends of sticks and states that they are like "bangsticks".  I wouldn't try that at home nor in a survival situation.  Liam takes control of this group of "survivors" but if I were one of them, I would have thought that he was dummer than a bucket of hair.  They should have never left the wreckage of the plane in the first place.  Lastly, the portrail of wolves as "land sharks" is way over the top and only adds to an unjustified bad image for the animal.

didn't live up to its potential This movie was boring. But it wasn't the worst in the series. Rent before you buy it. I made the mistake of buying before renting

Snow White and the Huntsman I saw this movie recently and felt I should make a review to share with people who has seen the movie or for  people who want to see the movie and want to get a perspective of it at first.  First the only snow white in the movie is the 1. Mirror 2. A Dead King 3. The Idea of a Stepmother who wants Snow White dead. That is it, no more, I do not understand why they simply didn't make something else, the fair princess who is in a total mess and everything around her will suffer till she meets 7 gnomes? yes not dwarfs and who apparently is followed by Thor who is lost in it's character and chased by a looney albino ???  Seriously WTH is this, not only the main character who was supposed to be Snow White who by definition , was as white as snow, hair as dark as night and have red lips as red as... and whose beauty surpassed everyone else even the "queen" ok that fails, the girls is not white, the hair is ok black the lips are idk what and she is not breathtaking.  The story then falls into LOTR then turns into fairy land and comes back to WTH... I mean really whoever wrote this was on something, then the persons who thought of the main characters and their roles, shared the something the first guys inhaled, and the casting person was clueless.  Over all go see Mirror Mirror it's dumb but at least funnier and entertaining.  whoever gave this movie 5 or 4 starts is entertained with plain crap.

Don't bother! This movie is a disgrace to Mary Higgins Clark and to Lesley-Anne Down. I read the other reviews before purchase, but I ignored them. There were too many story lines, and some of them were unbelievable. I was extremely disappointed.

CHERNOBYL DIARIES A DISAPPOINTING DUD When PARANORMAL ACTIVITY stunned Hollywood with its phenomenal financial success, writer-director Oren Peli was propelled into the world of write your own paycheck for future endeavors.  CHERNOBYL DIARIES is one of his latest efforts. Starting with its misleading title, the movie is a rather tedious, uninspired film.  Although there are a couple tense moments, the movie limps along to predictable set pieces, with a nebulous and unsatisfying conclusion.  And ask yourself:  if you were touring Eurasia, would you really want to take a side tour of a radioactive deserted town?  Not me! CHERNOBYL DIARIES is one of 2012's biggest financial misfires and certainly not a prominent entry on Peli's resume.

Venice Tourism Board thanks you This movie would probably get one star if not for the gorgeous setting of Venice where most of the story takes place. Although the story is pretty good and has some nice twists, it plods beyond belief when Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie converse. I felt there was virtually no chemistry between the two. Depp seemed totally miscast as a fish out of water and the stumblebum type jokes he's scripted seem forced.  Jolie just comes across as a bonerack with big...lips. Put it this way, she's no Sophia Loren when she glams it up. I think she works far better in the Salt/Tomb Raider roles where she kicks serious butt even if someone as skinny as she is being a world beater seems beyond belief.  The director is mainly why this thing falls so flat and despite a terrific performance by Paul Bettany as the cop on Depp and Jolie's trail. It seems like he couldn't decide how to pace the story because it crawls to a halt in those scenes not involving the cops staking out the couple. This seems incongruous as you have two huge stars who should command the screen when they are together. They don't and it's hard to explain why.  The extras are also hit and miss. The short on the glamour of Venice and the classic looks the cast are dressed is fascinating as is the alternate title sequence which is animated (although I have no idea how the pyramids and a hot air balloon got in there). The explanation of the gala came across as pretentious twaddle, the outtakes are just so-so and the director commentary is a waste of time.  Oh, yeah, to director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (gesundheit!), Albert Brooks wants his permed hair back (or being German maybe I should say soccer great Rudi Voller wants his perm back).

"Alive" meets "Frozen" Even though I kind of knew what this movie was about, I was really, really disappointed.  It wasn't much more than a rip-off of "Alive" and "Frozen".  Frankly, there was just nothing original about it, nor was it very realistic.  Plane crashes in arctic, wolves hunt survivors. My personal favorite has to be the fact that in the movies, people seem to be able to survive being submerged in icy water for extended periods of time, emerge dripping wet in subzero temperatures and yet continue to plod on.  Yeah, yeah, I know... it's just a movie!

Great potential lost. The special effects were well done and scary but the problem I had was the fact that the "alien" was intelligent enough to carry on a conversation, and even operate a freakin spaceship, yet it continued to act more like a wild tiger hiding and hunting!  W.T.F.?  We are a smarter audience and we deserve better. This movie does have its "entertainment" value but there was a much more interesting story that could've came of this and we didn't get it! It seemed geared toward, shall we say, a teenage audience. This movie is a poor follow-up to the original (circa 1980's).

Good movie but terrible Twilight sequel If you are watching this as a stand alone movie, I would say that it is a decent movie - lots of action scenes with some romance thrown in.  But as part of the Twilight Saga, I have to say that this movie is a disaster!  Let me start by stating that like thousands of Twifans, I had eagerly waited for this movie and saw it on opening day. My initial reaction was that it's a terrible sequel. To give is a fair chance, I bought the DVD and saw it twice again, once on it's own and then again as part of my weekend movie marathon from Twilight to New Moon to Eclipse.  So what's wrong with the movie? 1. The sweetness and magical fantasy weaved in the first 2 movies was totally non-existent in this movie - it felt too 'real-life', like some action movie. 2. The camera angles felt too close when compared to the first 2 movies, and it felt almost like it was "in your face" too much. 3. The hair on the key characters look really fake or awkward, and the skin tone was either a weird shade of pale or bronzy in some scenes. 4. Bryce Dallas Howard as Victoria was totally disorientating - she played the character so differently that it was clearly 2 different personalities. They should have stuck with the same actress throughout the 3 movies. 5. The music was too loud or too epic like - the bedroom proposal scene music was way too loud and it totally destroyed the mood of the scene. The music at the end of the movie was too epic like, too LOTR (I have done the LOTR movie marathon enough times to recognize Howard Shore's touch anywhere - and the Twilight Saga is not LOTR).  David Slade and Howard Shore are both great artists and great in what they do, but I personally feel that they have not understood what Catherine Hardwicke and Chris Weitz had done in the earlier movies. Where New Moon picked up the mood and transitioned well from Twilight, the transition from New Moon to Eclipse is not there.  I hope they don't destroy the next 2 movies that they are making from the last book.

Not the best video edit, but music is amazing The music is great but the video editing is terrible to say the least.  I bought this DVD as I have been unable to make a live show. The editing makes it hard to appreciate the amazing visuals and stage show. For half the intro the camera is panning around the crowd instead of showing the stage/screen. You are better off just downloading the music from beat port or buying the 4X4=12 CD and watching youtube  clips. Hopefully he releases an HD version of the Meowington Haxs tour but has a different editor.

wow, what a waste of time I read all these great reviews so was ready for this movie. What I wasn't ready for was how inane and boring it is. And that music that keeps playing whenever Adam Sandler is riding on his segue, or scooter, or whatever it is!  It wants to be a feel-good movie, but in the end, you're left scratching your head and thinking...'did I really waste a whole evening on this drivel?' How this movie got so many stars is truly a mystery. The only saving grace was seeing New York city.

Transformers: Good, Transformers 2: Tolerable, Transformers 3: TRAINWRECK Where do I begin? As a kid growing up in the '80's I loved all the great cartoons (G.I. Joe, Transformers, Thundercats, etc) so when I heard there would be a live-action Transformers film in 2007 I was totally cought up in the hype. Still, I knew all about Michael Bay's style of directing from his previous films (The Rock, Pearl Harbor, The Island). He shoots WAY TOO FAST, he makes sure the dialogue is spewed out so that no one can understand half of it, and he always makes sure the action scenes are so sloppy that no one can see whats happening.   When I saw the first Transformers movie on opening day I expected that it would be like any previous Michael Bay film: loud, messy, and barely coherent...and he did not disappoint! Still, I found it to be an enjoyable movie despite its obvious flaws (I did buy it after all). Of course, since Hollywood can't leave well-enough alone, especially if they think they can make a buck or two, we all knew there would be multiple sequels and they wouldn't waste any time to crank them out. Since my views of the first film's flaws were shared by so many of the TRUE fans, I had hoped Bay would take them into consideration and correct them for the next films...oh how wrong I was!   Transformers; Revenge of the Fallen was an unnecessary action trainwreck with annoying characters (the stereotyped Twins, anyone?), an uninspired story that no one could remember, and scenes that made no sense. Case in point: Sam and Mikaela are in the National Air and Space Museum in WASHINGTON DC when they find Jetfire, then they leave the building and suddenly they're in the middle of a DESERT? Can anyone explain that to me??? It was literally a non-stop action sequence that only appealed to pre-teens suffering from A.D.D. Needless to say, I did not add it to my DVD collection.   With the disapointment of the 2nd film, I lost all faith in Michael Bay as a director, sketchy as it was to begin with. But you know what? I STILL went to see Dark of the Moon on opening day without any expectations that I would actually be sitting down to enjoy a GOOD movie. Two and a half hours later I left the theater with a splitting HEADACHE! You know you saw a terrible movie when it leaves you in physical pain caused by its stupidity. The visuals were good (as is always the case with Industrial Light and Magic), but it doesn't matter how real the effects look if you can't even see them! Every shot literally lasts less than 2 seconds. The only logical conclusion is that the film makers DID NOT want anyone to see what was happening. Really, would it hurt Michael Bay to slow things down even a little? Not at all. In fact, people would thank him for it!   The new female lead played by Rose Huntington-Whitley (SP?) was only there for the eye-candy factor. Don't get me wrong, I love sexy ladies, but she literally added nothing else to the stoy. Why was she included at all? Because the film makers decided Shia needed a hot girlfriend. That's it. She's also always 'pristine'. She can be in the middle of a battle with smoke and debris everywhere, but she's still magazine-cover perfect. Get real. The only thing I was truly blown away by was finding out that Sentinal Prime was a bad guy ---- did not see that coming.   Writing out all the GOOD things about the movie makes for a much shorter list, but it's in my nature to point out flaws that should be corrected instead of what needs no attention. Therefore, like Revenge of the Fallen, Transformers; Dark of the Moon was a never-ending action TRAINWRECK with total destruction in every shot; it only appeals to people with an I.Q. below 85. The effects were a sloppy mess, the plot was forgettable (but when was "story" ever a priority to Michael Bay?), every line of dialogue was SHOUTED, incoherent, or said so fast you could not understand it. This movie wouldn't even find a place of honor at a yard sale. Avoid it at all costs.

Swedish Film This is the highest grossing Swedish film of all time. It's in the Swedish language with English subtitles. I would not recommend it. Worth a rental, though. Outside of a few very brief nude scenes, I found it rather pedestrian and wouldn't want to see it again.

A Woman Under the Influence Peter Falk and Gena Rowlands give excellent proformances----very moving----but the story is a little off beat and certainly not a happy or cheerful movie

Meh This movie definitely did not live up to its hype.  Gimmicky plot devices, very unlikable characters.  Enter the Void was amazing, though.

The Cheesiest Courtroom Drama Ever Made Rob Reiner directing a movie about US marines. Yeah, that'll truly boost morale in the ranks.  Cause that's what the world needs: yet another Hollywood product that bashes the United States military. But more than a Hollywood product; a Hollywood product that's ridden with cliches. Umberto Eco once wrote in a mixed review of "Casablanca" (1942) that two cliches could make us laugh and that a hundred cliches could move us. When one finishes watching "A Few Good Men" (1992), you ask yourself: "How many cliches did I miss?". This movie is so cheap in its pandering to the audience that I wanted to watch John Wayne's "Green Berets" (1968) to cure me of acid reflux.  Where to start with this movie? Oh yeah. The hero in this courtroom drama is a cocky, upstart lawyer (Tom Cruise) who has potential to become important but chooses to languish in baseball practice. His assistants are his low-key, calm friend (Kevin Pollack) and the tough-as-nails female lieutenant commander with a soft, feminine side (Demi Moore). Off the subject, why do most liberal movies portray women like this? Seriously, where's Barbara Stanwyck when you need her?  The villains in this picture are, of course, the raging right-wing Marine colonel (wow, how original) played by Jack Nicholson and his mindless pet lieutenant (Keifer Sutherland) that does most of the work for him. The defendants and innocent victims of circumstances are two Marines that were following orders, because you know, they are prisoners of the establishment. One of them is, of course, a noble Negro, cause that's what moviegoers needed to see: yet another black man portrayed as a victim for the white man to protect.  In the hands of a great left-wing director like Sidney Lumet, Costa-Gavras or Ken Loach, this movie would be more bearable to watch. But in the hands of Rob Reiner, whose very name is synonymous with emotional sickness, the movie devolves into a standard liberal melodrama straight out of a PC television show. In "A Few Good Men", Reiner tries to milk every emotion out of us through every cheap trick in the book, from the gooey music score and creamy cinematography to actors screaming their lungs out in showy monologues that would embarrass Robin Williams. To see Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson go at it in the courtroom is to be shown that you are indeed watching a movie.  Speaking of Jack Nicholson, he is the saving grace of this hackneyed movie. Nicholson has become such a pleasure to watch that he can make any bad movie enjoyable. Seeing Nicholson chew out Cruise for daring to ask him question impolitely actually made me wish that he would win the case. Unfortunately for us moviegoers, Nicholson is only presented in the first and last quarter of the picture. When he is not around, we are shown tension-filled scenes of Cruise, Pollack and Moore discussing plans on how to beat the New England Patriots in the Superbowl. Okay, I'm only joking but you get the idea.  A movie like this would normally get one-star. But I have to give it two because it IS entertaining in its badness, in its crude, mentally impaired methods to emotionally rile up the audience. It blatantly worked since it was one of highest-grossing movies of 1992. As slick entertainment goes, "A Few Good Men" delivers but as a picture with something meaningful to say, this movie belongs in the Special Ed class.  Recommended for good comedy, NOT recommended as an actual movie.

Disjointed and superficial I'm  not entirely sure what this was supposed to be about but I saw a documentary loosely about behavioral economics. Unfortunately the subject matter was so all over the place it was hard to be sure.But I think I just got duped into buying a self published intro to a stock picking system. This film basically tells you, no one is going to take care of your money but you! Not the government! Not your broker - so you'd better look out for yourself. Of course the filmmaker is just the guy to teach you!  The filmmaker starts with a cautionary tale about the housing market as a poster child for what went wrong with debt markets during the mid-90s period of artificially low interest rates - but if you are looking for any detail about the mortgage crises (CDOs and mortgage bundling, CDOs^2, swap derivatives etc) there are none here.  Next he takes on financial media. The author points out that trading in hyped stocks you catch in Fast Money, Mad Money, On the Street and other CNBC shows is probably a bad idea. But people do it. Not professional portfolio managers, but "people." Point: don't buy the hype of the financial media.  Then there's 5 minutes about how bad social security is, and how it is going broke. The filmmaker obviously dislikes social security because it assumes the government can make better investment choices than individuals - but provides a retirement account that is barely above the "rate of inflation." From there - he oddly enough dives into state and international lottery spending and shows how the poorest people spend disproportionate amounts of income on powerball. This he points out is bad...because the odds of winning are so low. The lottery is then contrasted with online poker, where the odds of winning are directly influenced by the skill of the player and their understanding of probability theory. This, the filmmaker states is a better retirement planning tool than either the lottery or social security (though he may have said that tongue in cheek - since he had previously pointed out that if you live an average life span, social security has a 100% probability of generating a positive return, albeit not a large positive return.) He doesn't include anything about the demographic challenges of the social security trust, or the structure of the program at all...but he does chastise Congress for banning on-line poker and taking away that avenue of savings/investing. He compares this to rules prohibiting non qualified investors from getting into hedge funds.  From poker/hedge funds, the film maker goes back to the equities market and wages a critique on the buy and hold strategy. I'm not sure what his critique was exactly, but if you are looking for financial theory, any real economic history or theory....you are barking up the wrong tree. The last 20 minutes is cheerleading for the filmmaker's stock picking system. Stay away from the equities herd folks, do your own due diligence and practice...and you too can make money in the stock market!  I cannot believe what I was charged for it. The only reason I am giving it two stars is because some of the archival footage is clever.It really does "look" like a documentary, and a reasonably intelligent person like me got duped into buying it.  Get Daniel Kahnemans book, Carmen Reinharts book, John Cassidy's book - or watch any of the PBS Frontline series about Wall Street and the crisis. Even NOVA had a behavioral economic special called Mind Over Money that was WAY more informative than this. This is a self published infommercial for a stock system...NOT a documentary.

I do not know about this? I found the movie lost something.  You cannot make a movie good with alot of action scenes.  There has to be some substance and believe-ability..this movie failed by my thinking.  LOVE the actors hated the movie...BUT the price was reasonable as always on Amazon...

J. Edgar movie Paints False Impression I really looked forward to this film because DiCaprio is an excellent actor (and he did a fine job here), and I am a big Clint Eastwood fan as well.  So I willingly paid top dollar for this in my Amazon digital box and boy oh boy was I disappointed.  I really thought that Mr. Eastwood is so big he is beyond political destructiveness, so that he would tell the truth about this horrible little man, J. Edgar Hoover.  The real J. Edgar Hoover was deeply involved with the American Mafia all his life.  The mafia set up his happy horse race trysts with his gay lover and they kept the "dirt" on Hoover for his entire life.  The mafia was involved in the assassination of JFK and Hoover was not in a position to even investigate the crime.  You see, when Hoover was young, the ONLY place gay people could go for socializing was mafia owned clubs, and the guest lists at these clubs provided the mafia with quite a powerful blackmail weapon against many a politician, actor, activist, or any other public or private individual; Hoover included.  The power of the tools of blackmail was not lost on him and he became quite the master of it.  The movie touched on his files a tiny bit, but the guts of that story was completely left out.  Hoover was a paranoid angry little man who used his blackmail list to stay in his position far beyond his time.  He ruined the reputation of the FBI and his name does not belong on their buildings.  Hoover's fight to stay closeted has flavored many a closeted politician in today's Washington D.C. scene as well.  Seems today's politicians took a cue from Hoover, and they keep dirt files on one another today, and they use blackmail and backstabbing to run today's America.  Some gift this guy left for America, huh?  This aspect of this tiny, evil little man was never touched upon in the film.  Instead the entire film played like a soft shoe gay love story minus the sex scenes.  I was very disappointed.  I hope some day some director will write the truth about this guy.... how about it Oliver Stone?

Forgotten for a reason. &lt;strong>The Phantom&lt;/strong> (Alan James, 1931)  Pre-code thriller that lacks anything relating to thrills. A bunch of folks staying at a remote mansion, later including some of the local constabulary, are stalked and done away with one by one by the title character, an escaped convict (potboiler vet Sheldon Lewis in one of his final movie roles). Now, you might be thinking to yourself, "hey, this sounds like a pre-code slasher flick!", and reading back over it, it kinda does, but really, it's not. Or, perhaps, it is, if you think about the absolute bottom tier of slasher flicks. You know the ones, where there's no characterization, no plot to speak of, nothing but a bunch of cardboard cutouts waiting for someone to come butcher them. (Read: any horror movie starring Paris Hilton.) Except, in this case, despite the movie being pre-code it failes to bring even the tiniest drop of blood to the party. Does have a few laughs going for it, but honestly, if you never see this movie, you won't have missed a thing. * ½

A musical history of the 1940s? Oh really? How is it even possible to make a musical history from The 1940s without mentioning one of the leading film- and radiostars of that time, Miss Dorothy Lamour???

Machete Danny's performance in Desperado was more "down to earth" and entertaining than his role in Machete.  Yes, action, violence, and gratuity sex are in this film; however, the director makes Danny take the action to beyond earth heights and far into fantasy. Attempts to suspend disbelief does nothing to regard Danny's knife scenes beyond comical or at best on a par with the wonderous flying martial arts actors who blithly skip on water in Chinese films.  Danny is a solid character actor who deserves a better director. The film will make one question their blood lust motives.

The critics were right I've seen The Wire series recently, if you wonder where I'm coming from.  Outside of being very one dimensional and boring, the film leaves too many questions without answering.  For example, why could't Cage at least give his wife some HINTS about the kind of case he was involved in?  Or why when he found the diary in the toilet didn't he just hand it to the mother?  Or why, when Cage parked his car in a really rasty area with lots of grubby and suspicious characters nearby, why didn't he lock his car? I'm from that part of California, and I certainly would have.  Or how did Machine know Cage was after him in the house? Cage seemed quiet to me. And where was the mother during all the action? And how did Machine hide in the house so he could restart the record?  The movie depends heavily on characters who are evil without real motive. There may be people like that, but they are quite rare. They aren't rare in cliche hack movies like this one, though.

Rip off I tried to like this movie, but couldn't.  I like movies like dance movies like: Chicago, Nine, Cabaret... movies that have some interesting characters and great dance numbers.  This movie attempted to take something from movies like those, but come across more like Showgirls.  At least, Showgirls was funny, but this was just boring and filled with characters you don't care about.  Hot bodies abound and there's sex, but the bodies have heads that can't act and dance moves that seem like they've all come out of MTV Videos from the 80's.  The characters and plot are all contrived and feel like we've seen it all before.  Unfortunately, Cher is wasted in this role.  Her role could have been great and fun to play, but she comes across like a grumpy has-been with a big chip on her shoulder.  Stanley Tucci, who I think is a great actor, is wasted in this movie.  Everyone seems as though they were thrown in to boost interest in the film, but this film needs more than a few good names to make it interesting.  Christine Aguleria is sexy and attractive, but her acting and her singing fall flat and seem totally uninspired.  Eric Dane seems like he wondered into the film by accident.  Everyone in the movie acts like they have a cloud hanging over their heads or a dark secret in their closet.  It's the writing -- the writing drags this movie down because it does not have any truth to it.  The writing of this movie makes you wonder why anyone would sign on to be in it.  All this movie does is rip off other better movies and old dance videos.  Cher's comeback movie?  Cher has done a lot of good work over the years.  She shouldn't have come back for this.  If you watch this movie and you're familiar with older, better dance musicals, you'll see this movie is nothing, but a rip off of everything that has come before.

It'  was ok. I bought the DVD of Where Love Has Gone in 2011 after reading the book which I found at an estate sale. If I recall the ending of the book and the movie are completrly different. I'll have to look at the book to be sure.  The music score at times drowned out much of the audio. The scene at the airport in the beginning of the movie is barely audible due to the background noise of the plane...The DVD wouldn't switch from the opening credit chapter one to chapter two. I had to start again two different times on Chapter 2 to finally get it to play through.  The main reason I bought it isI never saw it on cable and I'm a big Mike (Joe Mannix) Connors fan. Betty Davis' performance is excellent. There are no scenes of Susan Hayward's affair with the man her daughter (Joey Heatherton) is accused of killing. He isn't even shown.  The movie leaves alot up to the viewer's own imaginations and for this the movie seems full of holes. This movie was not worth the price Amazon is selling it for. A better price would be in the $5.99 to $9.99 price range.  Amazon said shipping would be close to 8-9 weeks delivery, then a week later I got an e-mail saying the movie should be shipped out within a week - I guess they found a copy somewhere..

Horrible but I couldn't ****STOP WATCHING**** It was awful, I really wanted to see how it all ended so I put up with the smooth, light jazz/soft porn Muzak intertwined with some bad grrl tunes, the horrid acting and the cheesy lines and goofy computer FX to see the payoff and now I feel so ashamed, ripped off and dirty.  Halle did look gorgeous, for sure she's one of the loveliest women in H-Wood, but B. Bratt is absolutely awful. I don't like him anyhow. Sharon Stone is Sharon Stone & there's nothing to be done about that.  I'm gonna go fester in my guilt now.

Natural Born Killers Disappointing. Oliver stone ruined this movie. Classic Tarantino story line but without his direction and overall vision. Wasted genius when Ms Lewis' character recollects about her father and the viewers find themselves lost in a corny 1970's sitcom. The murder scenes lacked weight, after the scene you were left wanting more but you never got more, you got less and less. The murders were focused on the murderers, instead of the people being murdered. This took the emotion and the pain away from the victim and put the spotlight straight on Ms Lewis and Mr. Harrelson. I would not recommend this movie to anyone, unless you want to see a movie come miles short of its great potential.

Hangover Sophmoric humor. Will appeal to men in the under 35 age. Way too much use of the "F" word. Bought this with Bridesmaids and Hangover part 2.

Could have been way better... First off I would like to say that I am a big fan of Donnie Yen.  I think he is a great martial artist/actor; but what is up with his movies?  I love the first two Ip Man's, then I saw the preview to this one (The Legend of the Fist), it looked good so I bought it.  The begining was great, but it soon died down, it got boring and the pliot was confusing.  There was too much talking and not enough action.    Another thing is that why do all the martial artist actors keep doing Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury.  Jet Li did his version of it and now Donnie Yen.  I'd say if you wanted to pay tribute to Lee, why not redo/finish the Game of Death.  It was never finished because Lee passed away, I think if someone did that movie, that'll be a nice tribute to Lee instead doing his Fist of Fury, enough is enough, we've seen it already come up with something else.  If you're a fan of Yen as I am then you'd probably keep this in your collection.  If you're just starting out with Yen I'd watch Ip Man first before buying this movie, it wasn't that good.  I'm afraid to get any other Donnie Yen movies because I fear that they won't be good.  I've seen Killzone and Flashpoint and those 2 movies weren't good neither.  I hope he comes out with better movies, because lately I haven't been feeling his movies.

DVD Let's get lost The DVD Chet Baker, Let's get lost, may be good however, I received the european version(region 1) so I could not view it. I didn't read the fine print.  I am hoping that Amazon will alert me when the American version (region 2) becomes available.

Poor Storyline: Skip It, Save Time The cast is good, but the story is very weak, a teenager could have written it. Often cheesy as well. Moreover, it's hard to believe DSS will retain such an employee who is going through serious personal issues. One can't blame the technicians if the design itself is crappy. This is a crappy movie, despite the top tier cast, simply because the story was not properly set.

C'MON MAN Amy Nash (Briana Evigan) works at the St. Martin Animal House, but not in the part that has animals with cancer or mange, but the wing that only has cute Hollywood bunnies and kitties. Her husband David (Sean Faris) has just bought them a beautiful home. The electricity is not turned on except for the security system, outdoor lights, basement lights, and electronic doors and walls...they all seem to have their own power supply. Like Ed Wood would say, "Who will notice?" To make the evening more romantic they leave their cell phones in the car!!!!!  The film digresses into a combination home abduction/ "Home Alone" film. It turns out the house has drugs stashed in it and the owners want it back...but it is not that simple. They also want the witnesses dead and there is something else in the house they want...but what? And how does this tie into the opening scene where a Colombian scatters his gray matter all over the inside of a confessional? Dolph Lundgren and Jon Huertas play the bad guys.  Most of the film is a cat and mouse game being played between the two sides with David being the punching bag for any stray bullet. The dialouge was boring and having Dolph recite lines that are already the pits, doesn't raise the "thriller" level. At one point David, learning over a dead body shouts at Dolph, "C'mon man!" That was my MST moment which highlighted the poor writing of this thriller. The overall plot idea was decent, the execution is not gripping. This would be the third feature at the drive-in.  No-f-bombs that I recall, no nudity, brief "Natalie Portman" style sex scene (bra stays on). C'mon man!

Retro Flix DVD Not A Great Quality Resolution Don't expect the same quality found on the 1999 IMAGE DVD of this same film.  Retro Flix must have mastered this from a second generation video tape.  Not worth the cost!

"Glory" in the skies of World War II Combining the themes of "Glory" with "Memphis Belle", this film tells, what is now, the well-known and still inspiring story of the 332nd Fighter Group, the famed Tuskegee Airmen. Although fighting in a segregated armed forces and judged inferior by the racism of the era, the Airmen compiled one of the more enviable fighting records of the USAAF. Although most of their missions involved the un-sexy work of providing cover for heavy bomber raids, only 25 bombers were lost during the hundreds of missions during which they were stewarded by the 332nd.  The film itself must be judged in two categories, the acting and the action scenes. The latter win out as the aerial battle scenes at times take your breath away and look realistic enough to make you feel like a wingman. Anyone who loves WWII aircraft will thrill to see the Me-262, the first operational jet fighter, mixing it up with the P-51's of the Red Tails. And, as a point of interest, the Red Tails DID destroy a German warship as depicted in the film.  Unfortunately, the movie deserves the blasting it has gotten over the wooden acting and rote screenplay. Everyone is a tad too heroic (Cuba Gooding Jr. looks ready to break his teeth by the way he clamps his pipe) and the white airmen are a bit too solicitous for the realities of the 1940's. Despite his billing, Bryan Cranston is virtually non-existent, although David Oyelowo projects some fine stage presence. There are enough cast members present from "The Wire" (Andre Royo, Tristan Wilds) to make you wish that Omar Little would appear, in his own plane (with its own markings) and possibly shooting both Americans and Germans out of the sky in his unique anarchic way.  Speaking of Germans, the Messerschmitts are led by a stereotypically evil Nazi who just before his demise, utters (so help me, god) "DIE, YOU FOOLISH AFRICAN!" one of the strangest lines ever put to celluloid. Go see "Red Tails" with profoundly low expectations and you won't be disappointed. At least, you'll see some cool flying scenes.

Seniors acting like college kids in a coed dorm. Friends recommended this movie, so we saw it.  I was disappointed.  Not funny.  The setting was a retirement community in a formerly luxurious hotel in India.  The script had the aging characters cavorting with one another like college kids in a dorm with horny oldsters bed-hopping like the "hook-up" generation.  Stupid fantasy.

Not for me Not even sure why I decided to give this movie a shot, maybe I wanted to see one more story of cinderella being butchered by Disney and teenagers. I am not sure what I was expecting but this came even lower than my expectations. This is like cinderella meets step up, with dancing (I actually liked once of the dance scenes and that is why I am giving it a 2 stars)  Overall a pretty bad movie.

Jack and Jill DVD Movie - very disappointing.... I am sorry that I wasted my money purchasing this item.  It seemed like it would be a great movie, but I did not enjoy it at all.  Sorry guys....

The quality of service is not what I expected. The video quality was a little low grade looking. It was almost as if I was watching it off a VHS. The description of this video could have been more clear and straight to the point by specifying that it was being streamed off of the website and NOT downloaded to your computer. I DO NOT like having no choice but to be on-line to watch or play anything that I paid for. If I am in an area that does not have internet, I want to be able to access it! This instant video thing is a bad Idea! That was a bit too much money to pay for something that I can't fully download. Needless to say I am disappointed!  However, it's great to be able to watch the Tiny Toons videos again. Anyone that is a big fan of the series will love this one. I would just suggest buying the DVD set over streaming it. You do have to pay a little bit more money, but it is worth it in the end because you can watch it anywhere.

WTF? I would have to agree with Mick McAllister's review on this movie. I watched the PBS special on the Donner Party and have read several accounts of this chilling part of pioneer history. Quite an amazing American story that would make a weighty movie, indeed, if done well. Academy award stuff. I've also read some articles on those who dispute some of the findings of the historians and who question the accuracies of the diaries written along with challenging actual witness testimony, and some who feel the cannibalism was exaggerated, so on and so forth. All thought provoking reading that highlight and enlighten, bringing more life to the story.  So with all the information out there about this historical journey, why did the movie focus on this one particular part of their journey, with no lead up? The movie just opens up with these few selected characters, in which the movie seems to stir them all up into a stew of the moviemaker's own creation. And in only targeting this particular moment in time when these selected few decide to go further west to get help, when SO MUCH had gone on BEFORE that got these people to this point, was completely deleted from the movie's narrative, makes the film lack context.  When you have accurate and real compelling history available to you that is far more powerful than anything Hollywood can come up with, why would you resort to poetic license? Why would you distort events and misrepresent people? There's no reason for it and yet Hollywood distorts history all the time. I don't get it? It's a WTF moment. This is why Hollywood is so bankrupt. It has a gift handed to them in this historical event and they screw it up.  Granted it would be too costly to make a more intricate movie dealing with all that went on, as there were so many people on the trail, each with their own stories, and it would need more than one movie, I suppose, to make a more comprehensive film. But this attempt, I am sorry to say, left me very much wanting -- wanting for something more substantial. The Donner Party deserves a better telling to their experience than this. This was a very disappointing film about a very important part of human history.

Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengance As a fan of this comic, I was dissapointed with this movie. Seems like Nick Cage is trying to hang on too hard. Could have done without the narrative..movie was a bit campy despite the good cast. Better luck next time?

Overdone I'm just not used to these types of shows I guess.  So much hype, so many interruptions and repetitions of hackneyed phrases between the snippets of real personality.  Please don't use this to compare to other (mostly bad) cable shows.  This rating is just "absolute".

Big Bang, fifth season I own the DVD sets for all five seasons. This series continues to be somewhat entertaining but the humor continues to more and more for a Junior High level audience. As an "older" viewer, I emjoy smart television and movies along with those containing a generous amount of slapstick comedy. And as a Computer and A/V tech, I can relate to people just like the characters in the show; but I do not, never have and never will find bathroom humor amusing in any form. Each and every show has at least one and usually more than one reference to bodily functions that I find unfunny and tedious. Wake up Hollywood, teenagers don't have money, we do. I would give this season two out of five stars.

Irresponsible, nationalistic BS mars good fight scenes I'm a bit stunned that folks rate this so highly. I'm not talking about its merits as a set of fight scenes, which are mostly great. But you can't just ignore all the irresponsible crap that surrounds these scenes. I'm talking about the fact that Ip Man is just another in a recent string of shameless big-budget propaganda-like films coming out of China ("Hero" is another example, though Ip Man is much more blatant and troubling).  Look, normally I would be the last person to overanalyze a kung fu flick, let alone chastise filmmakers for taking on historical atrocities. But this movie sees itself as much more than just a kung fu flick, and that's the problem. I realize that what the Japanese did to the Chinese before/during WWII was horrific. And I also understand that U.S. studios are just as capable of putting out pugilistic propaganda as the Chinese (Rocky IV, anyone?). But there are important differences that make Ip Man truly shameless and worthy of criticism, from its blatant hypocrisy (the autocratic Chinese lecturing the Japanese about being "civilized" when they massacre their own people in Tiananmen Square and are consistently ranked among the world's top oppressors by numerous human-rights organizations? You've GOT to be kidding me!) to near-delusional historical revisionism (at the end of the movie, the narrator proudly declares that the Chinese forced the Japanese surrender in 1945!) to implicit racism (the movie doesn't just criticize past Japanese imperialism; it also tries to make a case for intrinsic Chinese superiority, then and now). The fact that top-shelf actors and martial artists lent their talents to such an enterprise, and that many reviewers are praising them for doing so, is truly disturbing to me.  So for those of you who love good kung fu, I recommend just looking up the good fight scenes individually on YTube instead of sitting through all the propaganda BS. And for those of you wanting to see a thoughtful examination of the Japanese occupation of China, for the love of god look elsewhere!

Inaccuracies I saw this movie because I am interested in leading a healthier lifestyle.  The film posits several scientific studies/examples which purport to show that veganism is the correct diet/lifestyle choice.  One example intrigued me.  Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, one of the main subjects of the film, furnished a graph depicting a dramatic decrease in deaths from heart-related diseases in Norway during World War II.  On the graph, the drop-off during the war was astounding.  Before the war, the rate of circulatory-based deaths was increasing.  During the war, it dropped sharply.  After the war, it went back up again.  Clearly, it seemed, some factor was at work during the war.  The narrator of the movie posits that this is attributable to Nazi confiscation of domesticated animals during the occupation of Norway:  "In World War II the Germans occupied Norway.  Among the first things they did was confiscate all the livestock and farm animals to provide supplies for their own troops.  So the Norwegians were forced to eat mainly plant-based foods."  After some commentary, Dr. Esselstyn subsequently states:  "With the cessation of hostilities in 1945, back comes the meat, back comes the dairy, back comes the strokes and heart attacks.  Such an absolute powerful lesson, but, we didn't get it."  I thought this was amazing and decided to research it.  Unfortunately, however, I came to find that this historical depiction is not accurate.  The graph used in the movie was reproduced from an article in the "Lancet" medical journal.  "Mortality from Circulatory Diseases in Norway 1940-1945."  By Dr. Axel Strom and Dr. R. Adelsten Jensen, published in 1951.  This is not a scientific study--its contents are not open to varying interpretations.  It is a 4-page historical survey of diet during the war years in Norway.  The article cites a more detailed study published by Dr. Strom in 1948:  "Examination Into the Diet of Norwegian Families During the War-Years 1942-45."  It is in a supplement of "Acta Medica Scandinavia."  While red meat consumption decreased (due to rationing--I personally could not find evidence of Nazi confiscation, although, I did not research this heavily)--the consumption of fish increased significantly during the war.  Long story short, fish consumption nearly tripled among Norwegians during the war (Norwegian sardines are famous--and fish cannot be confiscated).  Consumption of herring, mackerel, and small, oily fish increased from an average of 99 to 292g per day.  "The highest value ever found by any dietary investigation in Norway," Strom notes.  At the same time, the fat intake among working families decreased from an average of 159 to 71g per day.  Daily caloric intake was also reduced from 3,470 calories per man in 1937-38 to 2,850 calories 1942-45.  Strom's 1948 study goes on to state, "Consumption of milk of all sorts averaged 404 grs. per man value per day."  And subsequently, "The average daily consumption of butcher's meal was 32.3 grs. per man value."  Clearly, Norwegians had access to ample fish, rationed quantities of red meat, and moderate supplies of milk.  None of these facts are congruent with how this historical situation was articulated in the film.  I am not a scientist, I just want to lead a healthier lifestyle.  Many of the examples adduced in the movie as proofs for veganism I am unable to vet for myself.  However, I am able to understand this example.  The use of this example in the movie is either based upon intentional falsehood, or simplistic oversight.  Simply, Norwegians weren't eating "mainly plant-based foods."  Moreover, the journal articles are not very robust, they are not scientific studies.  I am not sure they can inform us at all about healthy eating--perhaps during WWII Norwegians walked more and smoked less.  The articles are historically interesting, but they're not really on-par with today's scientific studies.  Because of this, I feel I am unable to trust other things in this movie (the studies I am unable to evaluate), and from other research, have decided to not be a vegan.  If such a simple, straight-forward journal article could be misunderstood, misconstrued, or obfuscated, it would be much easier to misrepresent the other examples in the movie which rely on a firmer understanding of science.  The use of this Norwegian example demonstrates either extreme deficiency in research ability (it is a straight-forward, 4-page article, after all), or intentional falsehood.  Neither of which are factors which engender credibility in any research field, which requires intellectual rigor and honesty.  However, I am happy to have gone through this process of studying nutrition.  "Forks Over Knives" spurred me to do that.  It also taught me a lot about truth, honesty, and the nature of humanity.  Because of the lessons learned in the course of my research, I have come to more fully respect and value the truth.  I endeavor to always be intellectually honest, admit when I do not know something or where there are nuances in what the truth is, and never compromise in communicating just the truth.  I do not want to waste my life by lying--against myself, against the truth, and especially to others, when their health, well-being, and conception of the truth is at stake.  I hope this benefits others.

Redford is more concerned with US govt 'injustice' than actual guilt of Lincoln Assassination Conspirator *** This review may contain spoilers ***  I was very much looking forward to seeing 'The Conspirator' and even went out and purchased an audio book, 'The Assassin's Accomplice' , which I listened to before seeing the film. As a history buff, I find books about such memorable historical events as the Lincoln assassination quite fascinating. Unfortunately, due to budgetary constraints, Director Robert Redford and his creative team were unable to focus on the meat and potatoes of the story: that is, the events leading up to the actual assassination itself. Instead, Redford has offered up a quickie montage of the conspirators' machinations, with the bulk of the film concentrating on the aftermath of President Lincoln's tragic demise--specifically the trial and execution of the principal actors in the assassination plot.  What's missing in this by-the-numbers history is a sense of who the conspirators were--their personalities and the context of the times they lived in. Instead, the main protagonist is a defense attorney, Frederick Aiken, who defended Mary Surratt, a principal conspirator in the Lincoln assassination who also happened to be the first woman ever executed by the US government. Most of the film focuses on Aiken's anguish over his perception that Mary Surratt was not treated fairly by the government, especially in regards to the fact that she was tried in front of a military commission and not a civilian jury. Redford obviously wants us to draw a parallel between the events that occurred in 1865 and today's recent controversy over whether the 9/11 conspirators (and Gitmo detainees) should be classified as enemy combatants and tried before military tribunals. In Redford's analysis, the post-Civil War government (and particularly the military) are the bad guys. What Redford conveniently fails to point out, is that perhaps the greatest usurper of the Constitution at that time was Abraham Lincoln himself (as the President suspended Habeas corpus for the entire duration of the Civil War--abrogating the right of the courts to determine if the custodian of persons in detention has the lawful authority to keep said detainees behind bars).  After the montage of the events leading up to the assassination, we get a few flashbacks during the trial dramatizing what went on before and after President Lincoln's murder. It was well established during the trial that Mary Surratt met with John Wilkes Booth on numerous occasions at her boarding house in Washington, D.C., and in the hands of a professional screenwriter, that relationship could have been fleshed out. But instead, we catch only fleeting glimpses of Booth and find out virtually nothing about him. By failing to show Booth's relationship with both Mary Surratt and her son, John, one gets the wrong impression that Mary was an innocent victim in this whole affair. The fact remains that the conspirators promoted the beliefs of the Confederacy, a cause infused with racism. Is it possible that Redford sugar coats Mary Surratt and her co-conspirators so that we don't come away with the impression that they are racists? (For example, Lewis Payne, the conspirator who almost stabbed Secretary of State Seward to death on the night of Lincoln's assassination, was arrested in Baltimore a few weeks before the assassination--Payne almost beat an African-American cleaning woman to death because, in his mind, she was getting 'too uppity'-why leave something like that out?)  I have no objection to screenwriters playing fast and loose with history in order to enhance dramatic events. One such example in 'The Conspirator' is that Mary Surratt is shown during the film without the black veil which she wore at the trial, completely covering her face. Historically, Surratt only lifted the veil during the trial when called upon to identify herself before the Court. Dramatically it would not have worked in the film had her face remained covered , so I had no problem with the films' scenarists depicting Mary without her face covered. But I did have a big problem with the scene in which Mary admits to Aiken that she was aware of Booth's kidnapping plot (Booth's initial plan was to kidnap Lincoln and hold him for ransom). The fact is that Mary Surratt made no such admissions--she provided no explanations whatsoever as to her conduct before and after the assassination. Because she failed to provide any plausible explanation for her conduct and continuously denied any culpability, her attorneys were unable to mount a serious defense. By falsely suggesting that Mary Surratt admitted to an awareness of the Booth kidnapping plot, Redford can conveniently imply that she took some responsibility for her involvement with the conspirators, without having to admit any knowledge of or involvement in the actual assassination.  Perhaps it would would have been a much better film had the films' scenarists made Louis Weichmann the protagonist, not Aiken. Weichmann, a Federal employee, was friends with Mary and John Surratt and was living at the boardinghouse at the time of the assassination. After the trial, and for the rest of his life, he was forced to defend himself from both southern sympathizers who held him responsible for Mary Surratt's death due to his testimony against her at the trial and those northerners who suspected he was part of the conspiracy with John Surratt.  'The Conspirator' is not a complete lost cause. For one who wants to learn about the basics surrounding the Lincoln Assassination and the conspirator's trial, the film does a fair job in highlighting the principal events. What's more, there are some excellent performances here--especially Robin Wright as Mary, Tom Wilkinson as Reverdy Johnson (Mary's chief attorney) and Kevin Kline, who has a brief part as Lincoln's Secretary of War.  Was she or wasn't she guilty? That's a question 'The Conspirator' manages to skirt almost entirely. The evidence suggests a strong circumstantial case against Mary Surratt. Her death sentence is another issue. But for Robert Redford, Surratt is a victim of government injustice and thus her actual guilt is of little concern.

No comic included....lies Movie itself is amazing. I got this collectors edition because it was supposed to come with a comic book (I'm a sucker for comics) and a different special feature than the original. No comic came with the book and I am extremely disappointed.

Amazing Panda Adventure The preview and promotion was somewhat misleading. I found the story suitable for children up to 10. A young boy going off alone in an area totally unfamiliar to him, escaping the kidnappers or in this case, 'panda nappers' who had guns, carrying the panda cub and miraculously being found by his father, a great story for boys especially.

wasn't a funny at all the trailer suggested it was going to be really funny but i laughed more on the trailer then the actual movie was not impressed

Silly fun This SciFi Channel version of the Robin Hood tale is silly and cheesy, but fun nonetheless.  My first thought while watching this movie was "Why?" However, I found myself stuck to the end.  True blue to it's TV fantasy, B movie genre, the effects are cheesy, the dialogue is fluff and the story is utterly unbelievable.  If you are looking for an evening of quality entertainment walk away, but for a mindless guilty pleasure, look no further.  Shh I won't tell.

Optimistic but boring I wanted to like this DVD, but was annoyed by the Summer and her sister-in-law, they chat the entire time. It is distracting for me. In addition, I thought the moves were repetitive and boring. They do have three different programs for the trimesters, but it's too prosaic for me to sit through them all.

zzz I've tried to watch this several times and fallen asleep every time.  I don't know, I guess flashy, meaningless fight scenes are my lullaby or something.  There's a lot of those, and some are pretty neat looking, but this movie is all flash and glam with nothing else going on.  The plot is really basic, about people turned into vampires fighting for the right to survive, the twist at the end is silly, and the characters are all cardboard cutouts.  The only thing it's got going are the special effects and fights, but they get so repetitive that, as I said, they put me to sleep.  I'm not kidding about that.  Right to sleep.

CALIGARI Two star rating indicates I didn't, particularly, enjoy film, which isn't entirely true --it was hysterical!  (still laughing) Dark eyeliner rules.  Acting was mediocre at best (intense)..... Fun, Creepy movie to immerse yourself in -- on a late weekend night.  Psychological thriller, macabre, nightmarish.  Did "not" view the original version.

Gwen could sing more This has all the makings of a great musical drama something like Coal Miners Daughter but alas a weak scripts destroys a good show. But kudo the stars can sing.

A Typical King Horror Flick This was a sadly typical horror flick; in all fairness I don't like horror flicks and at first didn't realize this was one of them. It didn't take long for the movie to clearly identify itself as a movie devoted to blood and gore.  If you're really into horror movies you may enjoy this one; for those of us who don't, this is a great one to skip!

Not Too Poorly Done, But Depressing And "Out There." I can't say the movie is too poorly directed. Nor can I say that the acting is terrible.  However, the movie just seems to loose track of itself in some way. It increasingly becomes just kind of "out there." Meanwhile, the movie's depressing vibe and cumbersome storyline serve to simultaneously confuse you and bum you out.  And, yeah, Tom Cruise is in it. Enough said.

a bit weak................. well i gave it 2 stars cuz i actually finished watching it....it wasnt super horrible but it was weak...definitely not as good as the first one....the 2 lead guys in it were fine but the other actors were not so strong.....the acting was a bit remedial at times.....and the writing was a bit off.....sometimes it just didnt fit the scene..many awkward lines.....as for the gore...well not so much but for the low budget they had they made it work.......i did appreciate the twist at the end but due to the weakness of the movie it didnt come off that strong........had potential but just didnt get there....i would say wait & stream it for free

movie is great, but 3D DVD wouldn't play, 2 different ones! The film content is great, my 3 y/o loves it and wants to watch it every weekend if possible.  However, the actual 3D DVD does not play correctly, I returned my original purchase for another one, and the new one did the exact same thing.  I have more than 20 3D bluray discs at this point, so I am pretty confident it is not my player.  The regular blu-ray disc wouldn't play at all in the first one I purchased, the second one at least the regular blu ray disc plays.  The 3D stops, skips, then repeats throughout the whole movie.  I returned the original one to the Disney store and they were kind enough to replace it, but the new one they gave me (different store from original purchase) did the same thing with the 3D disc.  So, there is at least one bas batch of 3D discs that were produced.  My advice, if you buy it, keep your receipt and watch it immediately (try all the discs) to make sure what happened to me, doesn't happen to you.  Good luck with it, I have several other Disney 3D discs and none of them have this problem.

A tepid love triangle, contrived plot devices, and an unsympathetic set of characters When your entire plot hinges on a single instance that happened in the midst of a forest a decade ago, and may or may not have been witnessed by the person who needs to have seen it, you should really rethink your story. Too bad the makers of "Red Riding Hood" didn't think of that. A werewolf take on the fairytale has the potential to be very interesting. As it was, the central mystery in this film was executed well, and was intriguing. Unfortunately, the characters were rigid and lifeless; the romantic conflict was tepid and forced; and the story segments were obvious and uninspired. Far too often, this film felt like a brief overview of character-types or personality types rather than people; we didn't get to know the people, we only saw that they behaved, rather unconvincingly, in some way. This was true for most characters - including the two male love interests, both of whom came across as fill-ins for character types rather than actual characters - as well as most of the human interactions. What we saw of Red Riding Hood and Peter's romance seemed an effort to convince us by how cutsie they were that they were in love. Character development, too, followed in this vein of showing rather than becoming. The boys pouted; Red Riding Hood's eyes widened; the witch hunter glared; etc. Perhaps the best actors were the supporting actors, the villagers and the witch hunter's companions, who seemed to be rather than just pretend to be who they were. Factor in that the mysterious identity hinges on (spoiler) someone witnessing the death of a rabbit a decade ago (end spoiler), and we really reach the final nail in the coffin of this film's potential. There's a lot of could have, should have, possibly would have about this movie...unfortunately, there is little right that was done with the film.  2/5 for this stinker ... because I'm in a generous mood

Better than the third film Remember Jaws 3D when both of the Brody brothers were working together to build Sea World in Florida?  The oldest Brody boy was a welder and married to a blond marine biologist.  The Brody boy knew a lot about welding but not much about fish.  In this film, both Brody boys are back, except that they are played by different actors, have different occupations, and different personalities for instance, the main Brody boy no longer welds, but is now a marine biologist, that's OK though, because his wife is now a welder.  Their mother is the same actor from the first two films, and the photo of their dad looks the same, he's not actually in the film as he apparently was scared to death of great white sharks sometime after the second film.  I'm not joking about that.  That's how they explain Roy Scheider's absence.  He had a heart attack because he was scarred of sharks.  Really.  Really this is a story of a feud between two families as a member of the Jaws family is upset that the Brody's keep killing his or her relatives and plots revenge against the family.  First he or she kills Sheriff Brody's youngest son who is no longer a theme-park-building-cowboy but a New England cop like his dad, then swims super-fast to get to the Bahamas around the same time Mrs. Brody and her family get there.  Keep in mind that Brody's don't swim from New England to the Bahamas but instead take a plane.  That is one fast shark.  Maybe I'm being too sarcastic.  Perhaps it's a different shark than the one in Amity Island.  Maybe the one in the Bahamas is a member of a Miami shark cartel and was paid by the shark in New England.  Oh, and why did Mrs. Brody leave her home in Maine?  Because it was on a body of land surrounded by water; in other words, an island, and she was getting kind of freaked out by sharks.  So she wisely moves to South Dakota where there are no sharks.  No, just kidding, she moves to The Bahamas, which isn't just one island, it's like seven-hundred islands.  See, much better.  The shark in this film looks a little long in the tooth.  Some of the shots of it feature a broken dorsal fin that's barely connected; it just kind of flops back and forth.  Maybe it's the same model from the previous films.  If so, maybe this belies some deeper subplot to the franchise.  Perhaps the previous sharks didn't explode but have been somehow secretly replacing the fine Brody family members they normally serve here with different people.  Maybe that's what was really bothering Sheriff Brody.Later in the film the dorsal fin got better.  Anyway, the dialog is a little better than the third film, which was really bad, but the lack of plot required the director to have lots of scenes that go on and on and on but that don't add anything to the story.  It's sort of like the movie is made out of nothing more than deleted scenes.  Also, just as a side point, most of the film takes place in the Bahamas, in the sun, yet nobody wears sunglasses.  Nobody.  Well, there was this one guy, but he wore the flip up kind and always had them in flip up mode.  I found this harder to swallow than many of the other inconsistencies that are a constant feature of this movie.  And why do great white sharks blow up when you shoot them.  And knowing that all you have to do is shoot them, why not shoot them earlier in the film?  On a positive note, it's one of the best looking Jaws films in that the print looks mostly good and is bright and colorful; everything looks as if it was filmed last year.  Also, Michael Cain is in it.  That's good.

To paraphrase the old Alka-Seltzer TV commercial, "I can't beleive I watched the whole thing" *Warning - spoiler alert*  And I actually watched the whole thing, too!  This movie is actually tough to assign stars.  I mean, the effects were cheesy, but the acting was bad.  It's actually so bad that it's kind of good.  The screen writing and dialog is way down there (but it's not loaded with lots of swearing that I can recall, and that's good), but the props and sets were quite forgetable.  Yes, it's the stuff that cult classics are made of...either that or fodder for <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0013527KC">Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (Widescreen)</a>.  Either way is good.  To continue...the story line was incredibly predictable for the most part, though the skin-tight, jump-suit clad Nia Peeples (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000714BX">North Shore</a>) leaping off of the top of a building and bringing down an alien space craft with her samurai sword wasn't on my radar.  The soldiers were incredibly good at giving orders and incredibly bad at following them, and fairly type-cast.  It's amazing anyone survived!  There is also a largely unexplained space-time conundrum involving a WWII era pilot, space aliens whose ship settles menacingly over downtown LA and sends out hoards of small fighter ships (sound familiar?...think <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005V9IK">Independence Day (Single Disc Widescreen Edition)</a>), and some kind of top secret agency who employs a sword wielding agent/operative.  And, lastly, the alien monster had a head that was a cross between a hagfish, a lamprey, the worm from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007PAMR4">Dune (Extended Edition)</a> and the body of the kraken from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000I0RQVI">Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest (Widescreen Edition)</a>.  Still, this movie was all in good fun.  It's got to watched as a mocu-action-sci-fi-adventure to be properly appreciated.  In the end, I can't bring myself to award more than 2 stars for this offering.  So why did I watch the whole thing if it was so bad?  I guess it's like watching something like a train wreck.  Part of you doesn't want to watch it at all, but another part of you just can't look away.  Can I recommend this movie?  Um, perhaps to the dedicated sci-fi fan, but moreso to the dedicated Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan!  They'd eat it up.  2 stars.  Give it a try.  I'll bet you can't look away either!  Enjoy!

fair, but not enough to keep me awake I watched this because I like Hoffman - he was okay (not great) and the rest of the cast were boring.  Its one of those movies, I just couldn't get interested in

Disappointed.. I expect much more from a futurist sci fi movie these days. I initially reviewed it with 3 stars but after thinking about how little sense the movie made, I am downgrading it to two.

two stars for the trailer This movie started out good but somewhere in the middle it just lost steam and got boring.  They tried to wrap in a flimsy plot but it just fell flat.  I dont even think it was really all that crude or vulgar just not funny.  I do not recommend it, the trailer has all the good parts in it.  I wish i could get a time refund.

average at best The positive reviews here for Meskada are sort of puzzling to me.  Not only does the movie not show the actual murder in the beginning (which is crucial by the way since showing the murder makes those who are guilty more enticing to watch) but the characters never really interact with any excitement either.  Basically a few guys have committed a horrible crime- they killed someone and try to play it cool by not saying anything about it to anyone.  Eventually the investigation team adds up all the clues and, well, you can guess what happens.  The point is, everything that *leads* to the predictable conclusion is uninteresting.  These guys have regular conversations you'd expect from a group of smalltown country boys, go about their lives normally and only when the cops ask questions and raise more suspicion do the murderers ever get concerned.  I was actually bored watching such cliched writing.  Flat out bored.  Very little happens for the first hour in fact.  Oh and the worst part?  When suddenly all the clues just happened to be put together magically, which was done for convenience sake on the part of the movie writers.  I HATE when the clues are suddenly put together without a convincing explanation because it just screams laziness thanks to terrible and perhaps unfocused/undeveloped writing.  It's insulting too.  I wasted an hour of boredom just for *that?*  Basically a cop out (no pun intended).  It's just not very interesting from a storyline perspective.  I guess there are a few moments that save the film from disaster.  One, we're never really sure which one of the boys committed the murder until later, and two, the action DOES pick up near the end (when the one female cop takes a beating for example).  Other than that, nothing special about Meskada at all.

Gettin' Klowny Wit It Klown Kamp Massacre is a pretty disappointing slasher movie. There is some awesomeness contained within, but it's mostly just stoopid. And the ending is just wetarded.

Terrible Horrible acting and dumb sound effects make this film completely unwatchable. The movie is full of crude humor and tired cliches. I've seen worse, but I cannot recommend this unless you are a die hard BD Wong fan (he does look good in a speedo, hence the extra star) or Bronson Pinchot fan and are adding this to your collection of their work. Otherwise, do not waste your time with this utter trash.

Two hours lost forever Very disappointing.  Luckily I just rented it. Looks like it may have been over edited after it was made, but what you get makes no sense and therefore makes you not care what happens to anyone. Spend your money on something else.

Not Sure If I'll Finish This I'm halfway through, and paused to consider whether I'll finish this.  Not very thrilled with it at all.  Acting is totally bad, and scriptwriting - even worse.  This blonde actress is annoying.  And tired of the bad bad Americans theme spewed throughout as I get that every day with the liberal media.  I doubt I'll waste any more of my time on a poorly-made film.

bummed out by the packaging This is a review of the actual DVD I purchased - not the show itself, because last time I checked Amazon had nothing to do with that... Anyway, the selling picture CLEARLY shows the puffy little "jacket" that the DVD comes in but when it arrived it was not in a jacket - just the DVD in its' cardboard case.

this is a drug movie not a real zomedy. Like many drug comedies, the main purpose is to have dorky people get high and do dumb things. In them everyone does drugs even hospital workers openly (drug addiction does cause alot of PROBLEMS in hospitals though) , it's a not a bad habit it's part of the whole scene.  The purpose of this movie is less a teen movie than a drugout scene, drugs may be part of teen lives but this is about drugs first , then teens , then zombies. It would have been different if drugs weren't the central theme though , drug usage is part of lots of horror flicks and comedies. but the drug comedy has a certain aspect to it , the aspect that drugs are totally acceptable and used by almost everyone and not going to destroy most users lives eventually. This is even different than cheech and chong , where you could see that it was part of a scene and not acceptable out of the scene , like teachers doing it for instance. But such is this movie, a drug comedy in which dorks die because of dope , then don't even mind being dead , or brain dead? personally I know many drug users that are zombies really. shells remain of their lives , but these zombies are played so lightly that think being dead is sorta cool.  hmmmn.  oh well, it's a german movie by the way, with lots of deleted scenes. It has a good picture and the dvd looks sharp, but if you like drug comedies then this is for you maybe, if not avoid this one.  It's less horror spoof than you think.

Sorry, I just found this to be boring propaganda This film was obviously much appreciated by a great many people but I found it very boring.  I usually enjoy foreign films and I enjoy thought-provoking films not action films. I loved "To Live" and enjoyed "Ermo" but I found this film dull as can be.  The premise of the film is that a young woman's husband is kicked in the crotch by the local village chief for a perceived insult. The young wife protests that the chief was in the wrong and takes this grievance to higher and higher levels of Chinese bureaucracy.  Personally, I feel the message of this film is that the Chinese government is very caring and is concerned about the lot of its most vulnerable people and that, moreover, the government is composed of very wise and uncorruptible men. I personally am rather skeptical!  The only reason I didn't give this film one star is that it does have some presentation of life in a rural chinese village.

b-hawks We were disappointed in this purchase. The video content was uninspiring and rather flat considering the exciting year that the Blackhawks had. Would not recommend. Buy the book instead.

Not Noir, But Gray Way overlong (more than two hours), inept attempt at film noir. The usually reliable Elias Koteas shamefully overacts - many scenes come off as parodies of de Niro in Taxi Driver - as much the fault of director Steven Shainberg and writer Denis Johnson (via a Jim Thompson novel), as it is of the actor: someone needs to tell them that that internal dialogue in a novel does not translate well into overly dramatic and exaggerated gestures and talking to oneself out loud in films. Here we have the often-visited noir take of a not-so-smart guy becoming involved with a "mysterious" woman and ending up involved in a crime. The "twists" will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the genre. The main problem is that the characters too often act in a way that is illogical, given their development up to that point - they seem to do things simply to advance the plot to the next stage, rather than acting true to their character. There certainly have been successful adaptations of Jim Thompson's novels - After Dark My Sweet, and especially The Grifters - but this one (adapted from A Swell-Looking Babe) just doesn't work.

2 1/2 stars: A good performance by Orlando Bloom can't save this creepy drama Orlando Bloom stars as Dr. Martin Blake, a first year resident under the supervision of Chief Resident Waylans (Rob Morrow).  Blake is loner who has a hard time mixing with the staffers.  He has no friends and lives in a stark but kind-of-cool apartment.  An 18 year old girl comes under his care with a treatable urinary infection.  Diane (Riley Keough) has a boyfriend but when they appear to be breaking up, confides in Dr. Blake.  He is smitten with young Diane.  When she is released, her family invites Blake over for dinner.  Their motives appear to be one of thanks but to also prompt a romance between Blake and Diane's older sister who is on the make.  Certainly a doctor will do just fine.  Blake has other ideas.  He's only interested in Diane.  Upon a return visit to pick up a gift basket they had prepared (way too many coincidences in this film) he excuses himself to the bathroom where he alters Diane's medication which lands her back in the hospital.  Through a series of inexplicably easy access to medication and IV bags, Blake manages to keep Diane hospitalized, to what end I don't know.  I guess the guy is just crazy.  Playing against type, Bloom gives a creepy good performance.  His character has obvious moral conflicts.  What he's doing seems acceptable to him but the filmmakers never explain why.  At the same time, he's outraged when one of the orderlies makes crude sexual advances toward the staff and patients.  The orderly (Michael Pena) is also a pretty obvious drug user.  I don't know where this hospital is but I sure never want to go there.  Evidently they have no security, no cameras and lax supervision.  The film also stars award winning actors Taraji P. Henson as the head nurse and J. K. Simmons as a police detective.  Unfortunately neither is given much to do.  Certainly the film had an opportunity to be something more, but when it ends I don't know what it was all supposed to mean.  Fortunately it's only 90 minutes long.

A classic, but didn't make it for me After going to the Hurst Castle, which was Hurst's home in California, we wanted to see his life.  Hurst's castle is amazing, with the most eclectic collection of art, antiqity, he just bought everything he could in Europe and had it built into his home.  The museum treats Hurst as a very special man.  I know that he had a yellow journalistic and political side.  While there is no movie called Hurst Citizen Kane is about Hurst, thinly disguised.  In spite of my motivation I just could not get into it.  It really did not tell his story.  I don't know why it's such a classic.  I viewed it downstreaming from Amazon, a great service.

Brutal and Dark Dark, brutal, strange.  You have to wonder what the author experienced or has warped day dreams about. Why am I being forced to write 20 words about something. That is silly.

overacted.  good story, poor acting The storyline was good but was "overacted".  i expected more from a movie with Michelle Pfeifer. The director dragged the movie at times as if he was running out of material.  The movie could have been completed in 30 minutes.  I wonder how many pages the original book is; probably no more than 50 pages.

Just eh Spoiler warning.  The leads are charming, but the story lacks depth and is totally predictable. And worst of all, flash mob on movies simply doesn't work, let alone twice. Flash mob is cool in real life, but in movies it's just a cliche, because in movies people burst into songs and dances all the time, been done a thousand times before.

No, not another spartacus movie! All said, seeing Kirk Douglas in the most famous version of Spartacus, can make you puke to see all the versions made since then. This movie really is not that bad though. The actor is actually physically more in shape for this role than Kirk Douglas was, however the sets were just really not that convincing for me. It's too bad there has not been a remake of this movie that has done better than the original.

One of the worst movies I've ever seen I actually bought this movie on a whim because it looked cool at Wal-Mart. The story sounds pretty interesting so what did I have to lose, right?  This movie is complete and utter boredom at it's worst. Now, imagine a few teenagers reading lines in the woods and running around pretending to kill things. THAT would have been more interesting than this was. Don't get me wrong; I think they had a decent story to work with but the execution is just horrible.  Do yourself a service - save your money and your time. You will have more fun picking individual fleas from your pet's fur.  My copy currently resides in a landfill somewhere. I'm giving it two stars but that's probably nicer than I should be. However, they took the time to film it right?

Saved by Hit Girl! Kick Ass is an ok movie. Everything about it is just average. Too many "timely" references like MySpace to make the movie hip I suppose? The real star of the movie is Hit Girl. Chloe Moretz is fantastic and her story is far more interesting then Kick Ass's story. A Hit Girl movie would be fun, and I think it shows a sidekick can work in a superhero film.

Ajnabee I usually try to do a thorough review but this movie was just annoying and slimey more than any one thing  that I hated. I've watched and read plenty of spicy to even wild plot movies and just couldn't dig this one. For believability factor I just couldn't buy that Deol would forgive Akshay just because he saved Akshay's  life later. He would of beat the stew out of him and then dragged Priya away from the slime ball because at no time was she even suggested as being unfaithful. She was being stalked by the other creepy couple and I just can't see him saying oh what the heck it's all water under the bridge that you said you wanted to sleep with my wife. Let's shake and pretend it never happened...If they were all French maybe they wouldn't kill each other but they still wouldn't be friends again...2 thumbs down.

3D I like very much this movie,but unfortunetly the 3D was a little disapointing,some effect in some scene but in general the 3D is very flat,if you buy this set for the blu ray 3D may be you will have regrets.

Toy story trilogy The blu ray and dvd's in this collection were fine, but the digital copies were worthless.  Would not work because they had been used.  Didn't say that in the description.  Quite disappointed because this was the reason I purchased the trilogy.

NOT a religious movie! I rented this only because I thought it was religious - what a mistake.  4 totally secular people, getting to know each other and hiking - that is essentially it.  Lots of eating, drinking, talking, walking, but not one of them seems to have thoughts of anything spiritual.  It was a great disappointment.  The scenery was gorgeous and Martin Sheen is a fine actor, but even on a technical movie level, it was long and boring.  For anyone who wants to see a really powerful religious movie, see "Octpob", "The Island".

High hopes...unfortunately Underwhelming I was excited about a new revamp of an exciting character. New technology that is cutting edge. New way of approaching film. I got a dull, predictable plot that at many points made no effort to connect the story/plot point together. It is as if they were so focuse on the technology that they assumed the story would make itself. You are left with the feeling that the director thought, "it's a cartoon so it doesn't need to make sense." And, it didn't.

Too much bar scenes, inappropriate discussions for children I was interested in Logan Bartholomew, since he was in some of the Love Come Softly series.  This movie started out on the wrong foot in the very beginning, when Blake (Logan's character) asked Kerry (Sanders) how her sex life was.  He explained that he has never met a pure girl before.  She was attempting an interview with him for a magazine article.  When Kerry meets Blake's buddies later that same day in the bar, for the first time, they tell her that he has many girls.  Whenever Kerry meets Logan, it is frequently in a bar.  As they got to know each other, they met other places.  The behavior of Logan's buddies was quite wild in the first bar scene, like they were trying to show off to Kerry and her two friends.  I liked Sanders and Bartholomew very much, but the storyline was weak and seemed to try to attract a college age audience.  Christians would not meet non-Christians in a bar, if they had a choice of meeting places, it would have been at a coffee shop or a restaurant.  The explanation of how science and the Bible agree and differ was quite drawn out, not to say it wasn't interesting.  Kerry speaks out in class when her science teacher tries to explain everything with evolution and this witnessing-type of responses that she gives the teacher seems to annoy him and the guidance counselor.  The professor turns off her comments with humor, trying to show that she's always defending that creation is correct and evolution is not.  Her guidance counselor has a lengthy chat with Kerry trying aggressively persuade her to abandon her Christian beliefs, especially her belief that God created the world.  The guidance counselor makes a visit to Kerry's dad (a minister)at his church office.  He brings up a perverse subject that I would never mention with my children or to anyone for that matter, I found this quite offensive.  Why in the world would the producers of this movie think that that subject ought to be mentioned, did they think children would not watch this film?  I didn't want my children asking me what that topic was.  The movie went in the trash and I wasted my money.  I did like the main characters.  I found it interesting that Kerry's science professor and her dad were good friends, despite their differences in beliefs.  That was cool!  Overall, I'd say the movie was weakened with too many bar scenes, sexual references, and a huge inappropriate discussion.  Why would Kerry have anything to do further with a guy who asked her how her sex life was?  Why didn't Kerry stand up to her guidance counselor, when the woman was really over-asserting her position as an evolutionist, anti-creationist.  Kerry was quite passive with the guidance counselor.  I found myself saying, "Say something!  Defend your Christian belief in creation!"  Kerry just sat there.  The movie ends with Kerry and Bartholomew falling for each other, but that's farfetched.  Blake was a very immoral guy, Kerry a Christian.  It should have taken several years in real life to build trust between them and for her to see a changed character in him, before she could accept him as a boyfriend to be a potential husband someday.  I thought it was unrealistic in that sense.  In Blake's defense, he does come to a deeper understanding of God and how He is powerful and answers prayer, but that wouldn't convince me that he had suddenly become a moral person and would stop using alchol.  I'd look at another movie.  The inappropriate content in this movie is why it was rated PG.  I should have not bought it anyway.

Glad I didn't pay for it... This movie is not unwatchable...it's just not very good.  From a "movie/storytelling" standpoint, it has flat characters that aren't worth caring about, terrible dialogue (lots of swearing to appeal to 14 year old boys, I guess?), and kind of crummy animation.  I feel like there is a trend for American movie makers to use "anime" style artwork as a sort of gimmick, but to loss of good storytelling ("Batman: Gotham Knight", most of "The Animatrix", some others I cannot think of). From a video game fan standpoint, the movie suffers from a lack of relation to the game, and a failure to develop characters we learn about but never meet in-game.  Where is Security Officer Temple?  That guy was awesome in the audio logs!  And Dr Mercer?  Surely we could have learned more about him.  I could go on, but you get the idea.  Don't bother watching this.  Just play the game (as my friend told me) "with the lights off, in your underwear, to make you feel vulnerable".

Submarine DVD This DVD did not work for me straight away because Submarine has not actually come out in Australia which meant the area code was not right .So I had to change the area code on my laptop to US code to actually play the DVD.But Submarine is an extraordinary film.

Boring Fell asleep watching it! Was nothing new in the film. All passages from the bible. Offered nothing new, and no real insight into the future!

SERIAL CODE DOESN'T WORK I was going to use the USB and watch the video on my computer and it asked me for a SERIAL CODE  i tried the one on the product and it did not work . It's frustrating that i couldn't watch the video , i just got a normal usb with a fancy cover That's it!

Doesn't quite fit the "Grindhouse" tag "Hobo With a Shotgun" is basically being marketed as a spin-off of the Tarantino/Rodriguez "Grindhouse" semi-franchise (which currently consists on "Planet Terror," "Death Proof," and "Machete").  That's not exactly true.  Instead of a tribute to 1970s exploitation, it's a tribute to 1980s Troma flicks.  There's a difference: exploitation movies are a lovely combination of shocks and sleazy taboos; Troma movies are just intentionally bad, in the vein of vintage John Waters.  Hobo's director clearly grew up on Toxic Avenger movies, not blaxploitation and zombie films.  What makes this better than the typical Troma release is the presence of Rutger Hauer, an actual actor (as opposed to the talentless wannabes who populate Troma movies).  On the Troma level, it's a gem; on the Grindhouse level, it's more of a miss than a hit (better than the painfully boring "Death Proof," not nearly as good as "Machete").

Should be called "Bad Movie Island" I don't understand why this movie has received so many positive reviews. "Shutter Island" has the makings of a good thriller but never gets off the ground. The plot is good, the cast is great, and the cinematography is super cool. But everything else is just downright stupid: not scary, not creepy, and super obvious. I felt like Scorsese was dumbing down to his audience the whole time. The trailers for this film were much better than the actual movie. Skip this one.

Repetitious, repetitious, etc. I liked the first part of the movie.  I thought it was funny and clever.  When the first part was repeated, with variations, I was a little disappointed.  When it was repeated a third time, I got bored.  I kept thinking, is this all there is?  I loved the clips of the women talking to the therapist.  Pretty realistic.  I gave the film two stars because Ashleigh Sumner did a great job of playing Lola.  She was the only one who didn't seem to be acting.  Ashleigh has a cute smile, and good thing she can run.

too dark I have just finished watching, and I am soooo disgusted. With all the money this series has made, you would think they could have some lighting on the set!! The scenes were so dark, I felt like I was squinting through 95% of the movie to see what was happening. I know the story line is "dark", but that's no excuse to not be able to see what's happening.

You Must Watch This Terrible Film Those reviewers who thought this was a great film, have a Medical Marijuana Card, or are from Texas and voted for both Bushes.  On every level, this film is a disaster -- acting, directing, story, cinematography.  But you must see it just to appreciate how bad it is.  First:  Elizabeth Taylor can recite dialog with the best of them.  But . . . OMG, who thought super short Elizabeth Taylor would look good next to super tall Rock Hudson? (Next to Alan Ladd, yes.)  And the director shoots their scenes full body so you dramatically see that she is about 5'2" and Hudson is 6'4".  She even wears 3" or 4" heels and it doesn't help.  The only time he holds her is during close-ups -- she is standing on a box so her head hits his chest.  In reality, her head would be just a little higher than his belt buckle.  Also, Taylor just had a baby in real life, and was chubby through this film.  The director could have shot her at angles to make her look thinner, but all the shots of her accentuate her weight.  (Skinny Audrey Hepburn was originally considered for the role, but she turned it down.  Maybe the director didn't get the memo and used the original camera angles for a skinny actress.)  Yeah, this DVD is worth the price just to see how Elisabeth Taylor looked in real life.  (Richard Burton once described her as a short, fat bitch, with big tits.  Then he married her.)  By far one of the worst scenes in the film is when Taylor and Hudson are standing at a window with their backs to us.  He has his arm around her.  His sister has died because Elizabeth's horse threw her.  The horse was Elizabeth's favorite, which Rock bought from her family for breeding.  She loves that horse -- only she can ride it.  Elizabeth, with Rock's arm around her, asks him about her horse.  Without pause or sympathy, Rock replies "I shot him."  Elizabeth does not flinch.  Then Rock says that he had to put the horse down because he had a broken leg.  George Stevens should have had Elizabeth immediately push Rock away and say "You did what?!"  He can then hug her and tell her the horse was in pain, and it was he humane thing to do.  As the scene stands, her non-reaction is entirely inappropriate.  Second: Rock Hudson cannot recite dialog with the best of them.  Often, his face does not match the words he is speaking.  Even when he is silent and tries to "emote", his face loses the scene (e.g. the opening dinner table scene at Elizabeth's house.  He looks goofy.)  Hudson is best in a farce like "Pillow Talk", and not a drama.  He was truly miscast in this film.  Third: Poor James Dean.  His last movie and it had to be a real stinker.  His problem was that he trusted the director George Stevens.  "Keep your hat down over your eyes, and stand in the dark shadows Jimmy, no one wants to see your face, or what you're thinking" his director probably told him.  "We only want the audience to see your face on rare occasions."  And he has Dean go from under-acting a scene, to over-acting a scene (e.g. when he tells Rock he hit oil -- he's way over the edge).  Dean should have followed Marilyn Monroe's advice and refused to come out of his trailer until he was allowed to follow his own instincts and direct himself.  Fourth: As part of the plot, all three leads are racists (e.g. Elizabeth Taylor's father has black servants that are treated kindly, but they are servants and know their place, and Rock Hudson treats the Mexicans like his cattle. And James Dean -- although poor -- distances himself from "those wet backs".  For the benefit of his fans and prosperity, Dean should have demanded that his character be sympathetic to the plight of the poor Mexicans.  It would have made a better story.  Especially when he strikes it rich -- he could have helped the Mexicans.  There was much of this 201 minute film that was unnecessary and could have been reduced to 100 minutes at the most, and still carried the major plot.  George Stevens was the director and had absolute control of all aspects of this film.  He cast the wrong actors. Rock Hudson does not walk or talk like he owns the second largest cattle ranch in Texas -- he simply talks loud to express authority, nor is he convincing in his love for Taylor.  Taylor looks short and fat and out of place in all of her scenes.  James Dean is either manic or mumbles his way through his scenes.  Different actors were definitely needed.  (Think of Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, and Paul Newman.)  And Stevens should have had the balls to tear several pages out of the script.  Hell, Gone With The Wind (a truly great film) did not try to film every page of the book.  Stevens also supervised the photography.  With the exception of one shot -- James Dean in the expensive car with his feet up, which has become iconic -- there is not one scene in the entire 1956 film that ranks with Alan Ladd looking at Jack Palance (immediately before the shoot-out) in Steven's 1953 film, Shane.  And all of the shots of Taylor should have been from the waist up, and every scene with Hudson should have been behind a table, fence, divan, etc. so she could stand on a box.  She does, in some scenes, wear a bullet bra to make her chest look bigger and her waist smaller, but then photographing her bare arms only served to emphasize her chubbiness.  Also, in the death scene of the gay incestuous sister, note how James Dean walks into the parlor.  He does a super exaggerated John Wayne, bow legged stride.  It's like he's on a boat with his shoulders tipping way to the right, then way to the left.  It's comical in a non-funny way.  And with his hat covering his face he steps into the shadows of the hall way, tilts his head, and only one eye can be seen -- like something out of a horror movie. Good grief!  Stevens knows better.  And Dean knows better.  Dean should have said "George, WTF!  You want me to walk stupid like that -- which I don't do in any other scene of the movie -- and you are not even going to light me?"  That walk is not part of Dean's character in the film -- why do it in this scene?  And obviously, neither Taylor or Hudson watched the dailies of this film -- or they would not have come out of their trailers either.  No, this is not a great film.  It is not even a mediocre film.  It is a terrible film.  Enjoy the disaster.  For you Texans: Okay, the broad open expanses of dry dusty Texas with the tumble weeds and illegals are photographed well.  George did that right.

Witness Katrina It was quite informative but the language on part of it caused me not to show the class. Also the inappropriate drinking and bar scene I found disturbing. Therefore not useful for a classroom setting.

meh- seen it before and better Very predictable which made the movie extremely boring.  With the exception of the opening chase scene and the main fight at the end, its a wooden script with even more dead-eyed acting.

Really!?! Shallow, manipulative, and uninspired retelling of a true story. Frank Langella was excellent.  Dunst was beautiful.  Otherwise . . . not worth the time.

NOT WIDESCREEN VERSION <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000PNCETC">Close Encounters Of The Third Kind</a>Review of instant video,This is the croped version of the collectors edition. And the quality of the video is poor. I regret the 10 dollars I spent on this. Found the Directors Cut on a competitor site,in widescreen and dvd quality video, for the same price.So shop around. The Competitor site starts with a "V" and ends with "U". I've been happy with all my other purchases but this one was a disapointment.

Worth watching...once I bought this DVD for 10 bucks a couple of years ago, watched it once and never picked it up again.  Do yourself a favor and watch it on youtube before you pay what they are asking for it.  A lot of people wrote some great reviews and delved deep into the inner meaning of the movie more so than I think the makers of the film did.  Im glad I watched it but wish I had put my money elsewhere.

The Devil IS Prada Meaningless tripe about the fashion world. Oh sure, our young heroine decides in the end that the high pressure life of top flight fashion power mongering she's tried to get involved in isn't for her, but nowhere is there any indictment of that "world" itself, and for sure the crossroads of celebrities and fashion design needs to be taken down a few rungs (more now than ever). Besides the paltry lesson of staying true to yourself and the friends you had before climbing the ladder to success, about th only major point hit home by the filmmakers is that those glossy fashion mags give hope to those sad boys who'd rather be sewing than palling around with the other fellows who like sports. Oh brother! Film doesn't work as just a light romantic comedy either, so it's a total failure.

Great movie, false advertising One of the truly great movies by John Huston and the first to give you a real feel for the old wooden ships of the era not equaled until Master and Commander by Peter Weir. Unfortunately Amazon falsely advertised this disk as a wide screen 1:78 ratio presentation. It is instead a 1:33 ratio, pan and scan with relatively poor video quality. At the moment it is the only disk of this film available. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005AUKA">Moby Dick</a>

Slow burn character study of a bad cop. This movie just didn't click for me the whole thing was a little off as the camera work, I like Woody and all but this one is slow and lackluster and did I say slow? If not for Woody in the lead it would be 2 stars. If you must? Rent it. I will always tell it like I see it..... Good or bad. Scott M

Good movie, terrible quality I really enjoyed the movie, but unfortunately the quality was terrible.  I have a high speed internet connection and watched it through my Sony Bravia smart tv.  The quality was not just far from HD, it was far from regular quality.  It was pixelated and hard to view.  Oh well, won't be using Amazon Instant View anymore.

Fair B-Horror Two movies-in-one here. Evil Maker 1 and 2 gives us a hodge podge of ebb and flow; the fist one is about a group of friends (all girls) that go on a road trip and end up at a house where evil dwells (oops, that's a title to a different movie); the movie bogs down with the obligatory last-act-of-the-movie-first scenario that tells us...nothing...and the movie is about thirty minutes too long at getting to the conclusion, which involves a confusing plot twist and an equally confusion murderous response. eh...okay b-horror with pizza and beer.  The sequel sort of rearranges the storyline from the first film and becomes even more confusing...or maybe it's just confused all on its own...than ever. The sequel is not even good b-horror, but after a few beers you won't care.

Not up to par I agree with the reviewer who said the A&E 2001 version of this story is much better. While the actors in this version are better known, there was no chemistry at all between Clive Owen and the female lead. Also, the way the "romance" was handled created no dramatic tension. In fact, the pacing seemed off for the entire movie. What should have been adventurous and daring ended up flat, boring, and slightly confusing. I don't think it was the brevity of the film itself--I found myself waiting for it to end--but rather that the elements that make up good story telling were markedly absent. I was glad I had gotten this out of the library and neither rented nor bought it.

Not worth your time, even for a cheap horror flick My expectations going into this film were not particularly high--I knew it had been labeled as "torture porn" by some, and that it was't a particularly high-brow movie. But with Quentin Tarantino as producer, I thought maybe this would be slightly a cut above, or at least on par with movies like "Saw". Boy was I wrong...  Before we even get to any real action, the viewer must sit through a 45-minute introduction in which Eli Roth tries to insult his audience's intelligence in every possible way. Almost every single character is a cardboard cut-out stereotype--no imagination is used in building them up as characters. Our focus is on two Americans and one Icelandic tourist, who represent in every way an extreme example of ignorant, obnoxious Americanized tourists. Their only goals in Europe seem to be getting laid and pissing off locals for no reason (this behavior is presented as normal, and in fact the one character who is hesitant to sleep with prostitutes in Amsterdam is later presumed gay by another character). In this introductory part of the movie, the audience also has tits thrown at them at a rate far faster than even the American Pie series, leading one to wonder if Roth thought sex appeal would ultimately save this worthless project. But this only seems to make things worse--every single female in the story is shown either in the middle of drunken sex or desperately begging to have some. This representation of women almost makes the first half of the movie read like the script of some frustrated schoolboy's fantasy, and does nothing to advance the characters or the plot.  We then change settings to Slovakia, where the stereotyping of Eastern Europeans is even more appalling than that of Americans and women. Roth paints us a picture of a dark, uncivilized world inhabited by toothless backwater locals, insanely corrupt officials, and children who roam the streets in gangs and are willing to literally kill people over candy. This movie received a big backlash in Slovakia for its portrayal of the Slovak people, and I can see why. A movie shouldn't have to depend on such aggressive stereotyping in order to get its point across.  Anyway, once the real action gets going, the movie improves slightly. The American characters become a bit more human (although one of them is lured away from the town to his doom in a manner that is unbelievably stupid, even by horror flick standards), and some moderate suspense is successfully built up. In these scenes, we finally get to see some gore (which is, after all, what we were looking for all along, right?), and the script starts to rely a bit less on the aforementioned stereotypes.  So did I enjoy certain parts of the movie? Yes, some of the later scenes were more fun, just the type of low-brow thrill that I was expecting. But ultimately it wasn't worth the tedious opening, the horrible portrayals of Americans, women, and Slovaks, and the fact that it was impossible to sympathize with the main characters, due to how pointlessly obnoxious they were. If this is what the first installment was like, I can only imagine how vapid and pointless the sequels were. If you're looking for cheap horror thrills, go watch Saw or even go back to the classic 80s slasher films--don't bother with this one.

cheesy storyline... sexy character chemistry 2 1/2 stars Peyton's striking sexiness really livens up this dang-near dud... and once you watch Elena for a while she gets more and more appealing. Together, these two are really intriguing together. There is some definite chemistry here.  Moreover, if you're feeling nostalgic over that hot, lonely housewife you once had an affair with and want to re-visit the passion you shared... you'll find the essence of that here... this time with a happy ending (turn on your suspend disbelief bigtime).  The whole guru and twin flame element made this movie ridiculous and I thought it was unnecessary. All those little asides of "twin flame" couples giving testimony to soulmates and interrupting the only couple you care about in this movie... just felt like boring and badly acted infomercials. Um, I think they were trying to be funny... that didn't quite register. These elements pretty much ruined a film that had something good between these two.  If you edit this movie down to the love scenes... well, those are about the only scenes that won't make you cringe. I had hoped this kind of quality/writing/acting would have gone out with the 80s-90s. I've seen low budget films do far better.... it IS possible. But Nicole Conn's (director) style and quality hasn't really evolved since 1992's Claire of the Moon. And if you thought Claire of the Moon was a divine effort (and tend to be blinded by hot leading characters)... you'll vehemently disagree with me on this one.  For those who expect more, I suggest you rent it via Amazon if you must see it... before you consider dishing out $20+ for your lez library collection based on these over-inflated reviews alone. It's a guilty pleasure... but overall, it's far below average.

whens the sequel? This move is not one of the best adam sandler movies....... Happy gilmore or Billy madison could be a close runner up, and the wedding singer is topps.  BUT, it does have some laughs and it is sweet... U remember when you were a kind kind of movie... two stars, its a rent, not a buy.

Strange waste of time Weird film about a weird man. Great acting, great show. Utterly ruined by the fact that  a moral viewpoint is totally lacking. A triumph of modern moral relativism. This makes the film pointless and a complete waste of time. I was bored out of my wits.

Not bad First time I watch this movie was with my husband. It was ok. I wasn't that into it. I just finished watching it and this time it was better. Very interesting...

A bit of good....the rest ...blah Loved the cameo from the original cast Like Gary Oldman's version of Dr Smith..a few good lines....not enough Wont even discuss the actress playing Penny...UG....waste of time The new Robot is a piece of junk...the rebuilted Robot...had some character. The rest...Don ...John and Maureen.....not bad....could be better. Lots of effects..CGI...lots of sets....but script is a little lame. Irwin Allen....we miss your stuff. Good for a view...every 5 years....

Derivative but interesting except the ending was a total fail! First, I see a lot of people comparing this to Saw and other movies within the last 5-10 years.  I'm going to show my age and compare it to Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None or Ten Little Indians, which is where Saw comes from IMO.  But since I knew going in that this was a new version of an old story, that didn't bug me too much.  It was an interesting story up to a point, putting the woman who couldn't speak English in was silly to me, how can she participate to save her life when she can't understand anyone and no one can understand her?  Despite that, I have to admit that the story did keep me interested, but the ending IMO totally sucked, i.e. the last 30 seconds or so.  Up until that point, I thought the movie derivative but decent.

Way, way, way  too many F bombs I watch this movie expecting to like it.  Good cast and a great tv show that has become a movie.  I am not one that normally complains about language in a movie, but in the first 20 minutes of the movie I bet they don't go 90 seconds with out someone saying the F word or worse. The story week and most of the humor wasn't what I think is funny.  A few good spots here and there but overall BAD.  I haven't seen a movie this bad in years.  Maybe 22 Jump Street will be better.

Beware: NO Digital Copy. Misleading. I bought this product for the digital copy, but when we opened it, there's a piece of paper that says the digital copy was only available through July of 2010.  That was nowhere in the description or on the outside of the box.  Now I can't return it because it's opened and I feel cheated. " + Digital Copy" is misleading and should be removed from the description.

Bridesmaids This was a have to have on my list due to my friends recommendation. They were wrong. Maybe I have seen too many times Kristen on SNL. My husband and I both didn't think it was funny. We kept waiting for the funny parts. I know I am in the minority on this movie, but I ended up giving the movie to a friend that loves it!

Not great This is not worth the $70 price tag. It's a decent ab workout but that's it- and it's grows boring very quickly.

Worst movie ever... don't miss it This is probably the worst movie I have ever seen.  "Why didn't she turn it off?" you might ask.  It was so bad that I thought it couldn't possibly get any worse, so I kept watching it.  An aging Farrah Faucet, jumping around in a fountain, does not make good movie fodder.  The ending was so ridiculous as to be funny.  If you watch this movie with tongue in cheek, you might enjoy it.

NOT a comedy I wasn't interested in watching 50/50 when it came out in theaters, but after hearing many people talk about it, I thought "maybe my gut was wrong." No, it wasn't. Very much what I knew it was going to be. Decent acting, but it's NOT a comedy. and for this movie to be under "comedy" section just cuz the Seth Rogan is in it, is insane. This movie had 2 maybe 3 CHUCKLE worthy moments that, let's face it, EVERY movie has 2-3 of those. We get it.... Cancer... beats it. NOT funny.

Disappointing The title on the video should be a clue... disappointing.  The movie is overly drawn out.  I couldn't wait for it to finally get to a good ending.

mis-titled the quality of the acting was good, but the title did not fit with the content of the movie - misleading........

Not amazing, but not utter crap either THE GOOD: As many other reviews have already mentioned, the message is there. Yes, the acting is hammy. Yes, some of the plot points are ridiculous. (There's a particularly grating plot hole regarding a video camera near the end; I won't spoil it.) But the idea is important. I won't say the movie is suitable for teenagers as a way of reaffirming the "be safe on the Internet" message, as they could be put off by either the ending or the terrible acting. But it's good for what it is; it gets the point across, and it does so effectively.  THE BAD: The decision to film everything in a "found footage" style is distracting, and takes away from the rest. With other movies (Cloverfield, The Blair Witch Project, REC [NOT Quarantine], etc.), the premise works; it covers a very brief period of time, in a continuous motion (if that makes sense). But Megan Is Missing attempts to cover a longer period of time, using very short snippets of footage. The constant jumps are frustrating, especially when some scenes are only a few minutes before cutting to black. If this were filmed using a wider variety of sources (the way District 9 combined found footage, interviews, and "normal" cinematography), I feel like it would have been much more effective.  THE TERRIBLE: Jesus Christ, the last 20 minutes. I understand getting a point across, but depicting it in such a brutal and graphic way is completely unnecessary. I found myself fast-forwarding through most of it. It's not excessively gory, but it is disturbing.  There is one other incredibly frustrating aspect about the movie. Twice in the movie, there are cheap "shock" scares. Think those ridiculous screamer videos, where a disturbing images flashes abruptly on screen. Using cheap scares like this detracts from the rest of the movie, on top of ruining the pacing. This movie doesn't feel like a "traditional" horror movie at all. There's no reason why these kinds of scares need to be there.  FINAL VERDICT: It's on Netflix right now, so if you have a subscription, might as well watch it. But don't expect mindless entertainment; although it shares many qualities with B-movies, unintentional comedy is not one of them. It's not exactly deep either, as the characters are portrayed in a very cliche way. And the final 20 minutes are a very jarring contrast to the rest of the movie.

Too bad the audio sucks Do not buy this DVD. The audio quality is horrible. It is not surround sound nor  even what I would consider stereo of this classic concert of the idol at the height of his vocal powers. The video quality is only slightly better than the pirate DVD's of his older concerts that Wal Mart sells in the discount bin. But, at least they were only 3.99 a piece. Want a VF DVD with great audio and HD video ? Buy "Primera Fila".

I almost hated it This is a poorly written movie. The preacher fills up way to much time with nonsense. It's like Kevin had a bunch of ideas and crammed them in to this movie, but they were not exactly put together in an intelligent way. I hope Kevin's wife paddles hims for making this.

Wasn't the right fit for me This was the first prenatal yoga dvd I purchased. Prior to pregnancy, Ashtanga was my preferred practice. I was excited that this dvd was Vinyasa with short forms making it flexible for anyone's schedule. I had high hopes given the amount of reviews and average star rating.  I did this dvd about once a week for my entire first trimester. I kept thinking eventually I'd like it- until one morning I decided I had enough! I find the studio that this dvd was filmed in to be depressing and I really dislike some of the facial features the instructor would make. I didn't find the poses in this dvd to be challenging or relaxing but definitely redundant. Just wasn't the right dvd for me!

Never go to Belize without a tour guide handy... from the mad mind of MARK ATKINS.  Kind of a cool `Predator homage' in the found footage genre of Faux-Docs.  There is real suspense in capture scenes and female lead comes off as a honest person wanting knowledge for her documentary.  Some of the camera work is new,Atkins is known more as a Director-Of-Photography for most of ASYLUM films and he always films out of country .  GREAT poster too.

Scorsese pays homage to Scorsese yuk Time Waster!!! This movie was slow, boring and dull. And the worst part is, all I could hear in the back of my mind was Scor.... saying to himself "look how great I am" . The book experience is way better.

OK Drama with some worthless filler The drama is ok, but as with the typical television drama series of late I find the "filler" storyline threads worthless and at times irritating. The primary thread has some very interesting twists and turns, enough to actually keep you interested, however they keep sidelining to the lead actors personal life and the trials and tribulations of raising a teenage daughter...that just blew it for me. I won't bother with a second episode.

This film could have been called BAD anything, because it was just a BAD movie I love raunchy movies as much as the next guy. But this movie is far from that, it's just mean spirited. Cameron Diaz plays one of the most hate-able characters I've ever seen as the main leading role. Not someone that you love to hate (ex. Sue Sylvester, Simon Cowell), but instead someone you want to hate, and wish the worst possible outcome for. She is a home wrecker, a liar, and a blackmailer.  Her pessimism towards a little boy is particularly unsettling. She shatters the hopes and dreams of one of her 6th grade students by telling him that he will never be able to get a girl to like him, because he isn't good enough. And she also ruins the life and career of another, very like-able teacher.  The overall "moral" of the movie is that it does not matter matter if you have big boobs or not. You can get everything you want by being a nasty, manipulating, gold-digging whore.  There is no way possible way to spoil anything because the movie spoils itself within the first ten minutes. It is saturated with negativity, and tasteless humor. The film has the most unrealistic, hard to imagine plot.  I'm giving it two stars because there are some lol moments in the film, but it gives off an overall bad vibe, and sends a horrible message. If you are looking for a just desserts film where the underdog triumphs, and the bad teacher learns from her mistakes, you wont find it here. And as far as the "unrated version" goes, there is ZERO nudity in this film. Just a whole bunch of overused profanities.  And newsflash, a teacher smoking pot is not funny.

No Bones About It: This Movie Kind Of Sucks I really had high expectations for The Boneyard because I watched the trailer online, and it made it appear as if it were a hilarious horror-comedy. Looks can be deceiving. The Boneyard is only remotely funny when Phyllis Diller is onscreen, which is about ten minutes. The rest of the time, The Boneyard is just too serious to be fun. And the zombies don't even look good. Disappointing.

This is the best of? Each show on the DVD had real possibilities.  During the credits that run at the end of each show, you get an idea of what you missed. So many of the musical numbers that Dean did with guests were left out, while comedy sketches that didn't quite work were left in. It's great to see the stars, and perhaps leaving so much material out helps sell other products. But based on the choices of what is left out, I'd be leery of buying anything else from these folks.

Love Lauren...If only the DVD weren't defective...twice! I purchased Lauren's first kettlebell DVD and love love love it!  I was so excited for the 2nd one.  Sadly, the killer abs section was defective and kept freezing.  I sent it back for an exchange.  I received the replacement and the whole DVD is frozen!  I guess it wasn't meant to be, Lauren :-(

WHERE'S THE ACTION? Way too slow for an action film. I watched it for about a half hour and this felt more like a character piece from the 70s when it was okay to have a very slow opening. I like Gosling in most films but not this one. WHEN WATCHED: early February 2012; OVERALL GRADE: C minus.

HD? The movie was great but when downloaded to watch it, it was not in full HD, it's more like regular dvd. The tech person I've hired says I have the latest and explained it just the way it was recieved. I rather buy the disc and/or watch it in non HD and save cost in the future.

French Texas Chainsaw Massacre....done half ass This wasnt how it was suppossed to be.....I was suppossed to enjoy this movie. It was suppossed to live up to the hype. But it sucked. It flat out sucked. The only notworthy thing was the gore, which there wasnt tooooo much of.....lame. And the set pieces, meaning some of the scenery was cool, but couldve been cooler in a better version of this movie. The sub plot (which I wont spoil if you ARE going to watch this) is pretty schweet. But the Schweetness ends there. Rent it if youve watched everyother good horror movie in history. I mean, its not the worst, but I dont consider "High Tension" and these other frenchy french horrors to be very original, scary or captivating at all... This movie in particular steals heavily from all versions of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and a little from the Decent, and many MANY more horror movies. Its like a bunch of other peoples ideas thrown together and executed crappily. Lastly, there are GIGANTIC plot holes thrown all over the place......

Interesting technology in this one but not paranormal Beautiful scenery but nothing paranormal in this one either. Just like my other two reviews, this is boring!! I would like to see this technology used with a real paranormal group not backyard ghost hunters. There is a definite connection with this group, cemetery's. It is interesting how the orbs only light up in front not all around like a self lighting orb should. I give this one two stars because of the interesting technology but nothing paranormal about this one either.

Peeping Tom goes Midieval I bought the Blu Ray version of Game of Thrones, having seen Jaason Momoa in Conan, and I wanted to see more barbarian warrior type action. The characters are very interesting, and the range of character viewpoints hold your attention.  You find yourself rooting (barracking for any Aussies reading this) for the Starks as the good guys, and apart from Tyron Lannister, I found myself roundly detesting the Lannister family.  Queen Cersei was the queen you loved to hate.  It is sort of like the War of the Roses meats Robert E. Howard, plenty to enjoy for those who like fantasy stories, and period pieces.  But knowing this was HBO, having bought Rome and having to fast forward through all the bawdy fleshy scenes, I was expecting some pornographic parts to look away from; but I was very dissappinted to the vast amount of time spent on the bedroom scenes.  Then there was the ridiculous amount of swearing and references to women's and men's private parts.  Did these men in the great houses talk about anything else?  So any comparisons between George R. R. Martin and the late J. R. Tolkein are very absurd.  Then we were treated to nutty Lady Arryn breast feeding her neurotic son in the throne room in full view of the whole court.  Not very believable.  Jamie Lannister being interrupted in the midst of incestous adultrey, and then shoving Bran Stark out of a castle window was disturbing, and on and on it went.  The only love making that showed any true tenderness was between Deaenerys Targaryen and Khal Drogo; but very upsetting they killed off Khal Drogo with a small flesh wound that somehow became fatally infected.  Not very convincing at all.  I hate it when my favourites get killed off.  We could have had huge battle scenes of Khal Drogo and his Dothraki hordes invading Westros, but instead we get more smut, more cursing, and more intreague, and very little real battles.  Mostly after effects of battles.  The sex scenes between Tyron Lannister and various prostitutes seemed ridiculous given their size difference.  But what really bugged me was all the interesting characters being killed off and all the slimy morally challenged person's getting off without a scratch.  Among the most evil in the sesries is Peter Baelish, or littlefinger.  If ever some back stabber deserved to get run thourh it was him.  But instead we have the best character in the show Eddard Stark getting his head chopped off.  By the third book the Starks have a huge plate of misfortune served up to them.  So overall, I won't be buying the future DVDs of other seasons, given that the smutty component gets worse and worse, and the fact that all the good guys get killed off and you are left with nobody with morals to root for.  I would give this only 2 stars out of five, thumbs down on any sequel.  The whole story would have been more interesting with some changes to who lives and who dies, and we could have done without the swearing and smutty sex scenes, usually 2-3 at least in every episode.  HBO needs to get out of the gutter and do some real dramatic mini=series like Hollywood did at one time.  Without the constant swearing, and bedroom scenes (give us a hint, not give us a camera angle like peeping Toms), and references to men's and women's private parts; this could have been something you could have watched with your older teenagers and had some great discussions about moral choices.  But don't expect much morals from this show, nice guys finishi last is the lesson you take away from this HBO series that drags the fantasy genre through the gutter, and leaves the end product very tarnished.

BAD 3D The story itself was ok, but the technical quality of the 3D production drove me nuts!  A lot of ghosting and parallax .  The day scenes were alright but most of the movie are night scenes which is to be expected, and this is where the problem lies.  Many scenes with white outlines around actors, double shadows etc.  If you want to enjoy this movie it must be watched in 2D.  Save your money on this one.  I have seen old style anaglyph look better.

Nicholas and Alexandra I am very disappointed in my purchase from this seller because it is a DVD formatted for the U.K.(region 2) and won't play on a standard American DVD player.  I feel ripped off.  What recourse do I have?

Nooo! This is a terrible movie, and a terrible adaption of the comic. I thought I'd give it another try because I saw it when it first came out, and thought it was stupid. I thought I might have been distracted or something. Wrong, I was right the first time. The "director's cut" is supposedly better, but that's not saying much. It fails on all levels, and I fell asleep halfway through the second time I watched it. Even though I collect comic book movies, I regret buying this.

Bad Casting This film has got to be the worst casting film I have ever seen.The lead role played by Bill Oberst Jr. is one of the worst actor's by far.Not only is he the most fuglyest actor but in the movie his wife is played by Courtney Abbiati witch is a little hard to believe.I just could not believe they could cast this lead role to such a bad actor as Bill Oberst Jr.The movie itself is good,but if I had to watch this guy in any other movie's I would want my money back

"20 Percent Chance Of Frostbite, And 100 Percent Chance Of Death!" "Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman" is a film that definitely needs to be viewed in the spirit in which it was intended to achieve any kind of satisfaction for audience members. Let's get this out of the way first: it's not a horror film as much as it's an attempt at comedy, though the comedy is often meager and the production values are terrible. The concept is weaker than the original, and the acting and script are frequently poor. This is a film that, if it is to be enjoyed at all, must be viewed through the lens of the bad movie aficionado, preferably in the company of other B-movie lovers. Even then, though, this film can be a tough slog at times.  With subplots about talking carrots, fanged snowballs, shape-shifting water beings, and ice creatures that can't melt in the tropics, it's clear that this is shaky material, but it really falls down in the execution: the script is not funny, and the one-liners from the evil sentient snowman are less amusing than corny this time around. Director (and writer) Michael Cooney exploits water in all its forms (talking ice cubes, falling ice anvils, snowball waffles, etc.) to the maximum effect, but underlying the alleged hilarity is a concept that does not succeed on many levels. Here Christopher Allport is Sheriff Sam Tiler, haunted by his previous encounter with Jack Frost. In an attempt to escape his demons he takes his wife Anne (Eileen Seeley) and friends on a tropical vacation where evil talking snowmen couldn't possibly exist. Of course, you know that all is possible in B-movie comedy-dramas, and after some introductory experimentation, the melt-proof Jack Frost shows up to haunt the island. The rest of the movie revolves around defeating this indefatigable snowman (laser sighted super soakers full of antifreeze no longer hack it) and his evil snowball spawn. (The less said about the special effects, the better: the talking snowballs in particular are very challenging to take seriously as a threat, but this is comedy remember.) After much drama including the throwing of frying pans (really?) and vacuum cleaner theatrics, the CGI and puppet menace is vanquished (unless there is a "Jack Frost 3.")  This film looks relentlessly cheap, and the video quality is terrible; the net effect is tedium interspersed with a rare giggle. The packaging is nice, but don't be deceived: you can't judge a book by its cover and neither can you gauge a film by its DVD case. Perhaps some fans of the first movie will enjoy the sequel, but from concept to final production, this is strictly enjoyable only for camp value, and even that is pretty limited.

Fake This performer is very talented and puts on a good show, but I am of the belief that it is realy a man posing as a woman. Perhaps Lady GaGa is a transvestite and we are all being deceived. I have seen pictures on the internet of what looked like male parts. I'm positive if the pictures are on the internet they must be true, :-) .  An operation would account for the missing parts of recent pictures, but when I look at the face I can't help to think it's really a man, i.e. "Dude GaGa", LOL.

HP Order of the Phoenix ultimate edition I have the 1-4 ultimate editions and in the Special Features disc there were interactive games and puzzles. Not in 5 and 6! What you get is an advertisement urging you to buy a disc with interactive games at your nearest DVD store. $40 bucks for the movie and "Creating the World" episode that I can watch on cable. The greed never ends.

The Phantom Just like the first one I ordered this one will also not load and play.  So now I have a movie I can't watch.

Poor script, old cast I love star trek and this movie lacks the excitement of the Star Trek franchise.  The movie itself is single-minded and the actors are showing their age.

nice looking copy scarred by low quality compression nice looking copy scarred by low quality compression:  Concerning Alpha studios Raiders of Ghost city, the first reviewer has a point about a poor transfer.  The picture quality is composed of small blocks and chapters 1-5 reoccurring picture blocking (the parts of picture block up), which means that Alpha used a low quality compression.  This does not mean that is unwatchable, but that the reoccurring picture blocking in chapters 1-5 may be annoying.  It looks better that some of Alpha's other serials.  It could have been a very nice transfer.  I think Alpha's hillbilly monster did the quality control on this one. Buy Alpha's copy cheap or Contact serial sellers about their copies, perhaps for a few more dollars one can get a better copy with out the defects.  the serial has a balance of action and story.  Each chapter is short so one does not get bored with the story line with much talking.

A VERY TEDIOUS AFFAIR After seeing the long running stage show I  was looking forward to seeing the film version. What a huge disappointment it was. It  was very slow moving and I was expecting some shocks in this ghost story. There were none. Beautifully photographed and acted. The mood was there but  it was missing any scenes that  should have make me  jump in my seat. One thing puzzled me is that when the leading character decides to spend a very long  day and night at the haunted mansion,all he takes is a little food that he is gven and  (it appears) nothing to drink.  You know there is no  drinkable water in the  deserted mansion. Also a dog is left to keep him company but no food or  water is provided for the dog. There was nothing  in this film at all that was original or scary.

"Lordy! Puny dinosaurs!" Against all odds, the "Prehysteria" series were some of the more genuinely popular movies in the video store that weren't released by Disney, and are certainly the commercial centerpiece of Moonbeam Entertainment's three-year run. Disappointingly, they're also inconsistent when it comes to their quality, with the third installment here losing the edge that <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6303220339">the second</a> had gained over <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6302768047">the original</a>. "Prehysteria 3" is a tolerable family outing for younger kids and folks who value nostalgia, but as a viewer approaching it for the first time to complete the trilogy, it's far from great.  The story: apparently taking place immediately after the last adventure, the quintet of pygmy dinosaurs escape their ride home and find themselves on a defunct miniature golf course, where a young girl (Whitney Anderson, who'd grow up to do <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001DSNEKQ">Zombie Strippers</a>) is trying to protect the property of her father (Fred Willard, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0013FSL3E">Wall-E</a>) from the scheme of her unscrupulous uncle (Hal Weitz, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BOH8YG">Hill Street Blues</a>).  The movie is a product of longtime low-budget horror & sleaze chef David DeCoteau (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003YCL0TG">Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge</a>), who I'm pretty sure was signed to direct only with the promise of doing a dinosaur movie, unaware that it would be a family film, because he really doesn't show any kind of flair or enthusiasm. Any cleverness or style that the last two films may have had are slowly drained from this one as it panders to the lowest common denominator whenever it can: dumb gags are further weighed down by stupid sound effects and forced setups (e.g. the "heat master" scene), and in the absence of these we have outright laziness in the form of food-throwing and unfunny pratfalls. The villains are overzealous rich snobs who will definitely get on your nerves but otherwise had me wishing for the comparatively brilliant antagonism of the creepy curator and overbearing housekeeper from the last two films.  This is definitely a personal low for the dinosaurs, whose novelty has run thin both in the story and out of it. Human characters show astonishingly little surprise at their presence, to the point that the dinosaurs can hang out in plain sight on the golf course (I shouldn't complain, since this is one of the few times the dinoes are featured in the same shot as the people interacting with them). Worse yet, they're not very active at all, mostly just eating food, standing around, and occasionally biting someone or redirecting a golf ball. Up close, the at least a couple of them have started looking remarkably fake. With that said, the human cast isn't all bad: while most players are notable only for how hammy of a performance they give, Whitney Anderson has great enthusiasm. I like the angle of her character wanting to retain her Scottish heritage by wearing kilts and speaking with an accent; it's kind of cute. Additionally, there is some fun to be had by how over-the-top the antics are: the movie treats golf with the same maniacal importance as <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002848WQ">No Retreat, No Surrender</a> treated martial arts, and it leads to some memorable buffoonery like the swordfight with golf clubs.  As overall disappointing as this one was, it's kind of a shame that the series had to end with Moonbeam Entertainment's existence. I can only figure that the studio just wasn't cutting the mustard anymore and couldn't produce, as indicated by the fact that this is the only one of the three films to not feature behind-the-scenes features at the end of the tape. I wish the dinoes could've gone out with a bit more style, but oh well - fans will still enjoy this one, but newcomers should watch the other two first.

Oh what this could have been... A special effects marvel, `Spawn' is still an impressive feat in CGI even today.  The way that this film uses its strengths to propel this violent superhero epic is simply arresting.  I remember when Spawn was a popular superhero.  He was this bloody, demonic anti-hero who became the obsession of countless pre-teens who needed yet another way in which to show minor acts of rebellion.  We flocked to this film in droves (it was originally released in a PG-13 version) and then wet our pants when the director's cut was unleashed on us.  This movie is all sorts of terrible.  It is funny how things look in retrospect.  I have nothing but fond memories of this film, but watching it recently only brought frustration to my face.  Like I said, I'm still heavily impressed with some of the visual work.  For the time in which this was filmed, it is ridiculously impressive.  The makeup department also had a field day making this film a macabre delight.  Sadly, the buck stops there.  The film itself lacks so much depth, and this is sad when you consider the depth given within the comics to this character.  I'm not saying he's profound or anything, but there is a lot of work given to fleshing out his backstory in the largely successful comic book series (which is now somewhat forgotten) and so it is sad to see that sort of wasted on a poorly construction barrage of violence.  I wonder what Christopher Nolan could have done with this?  Shouldn't he direct ALL superhero movies?  I mean, this could have been SOOOOOOOOOOOOO great and yet it just lays there, flat and flaccid and void of all real impact.  Oh, and the cast is a semi-mess with Leguizamo failing to do what he thinks he's doing; be twisted and witty.

Enough With Partial Seasons CN!!! The final episode of the second season of Regular Show aired over a year ago, and the show is now into it's fourth season. At this rate DVD will be an obsolete format by the time they release full seasons. Same crap with Adventure Time. It's not like these discs are packed with extras. And where are the Hi Def versions? It's 2012, not 2002. Get with the program and stop milking the fans for every last dime. They have two great shows on their hands, and the demand is there. Imagine if other networks did this with their shows and released half seasons of LOST, Breaking Bad, etc?

Could Have Been Better 2 1/2 stars.  This could have been a lot better. I read the book before I saw the movie, and although I don't think the book is a great piece of literature, it was still entertaining enough and should have had a worthy adaptation. Now, if you haven't read the book, you'll probably end up liking the movie more than if you had, because if you've read the book, then you'll see all the places they got it wrong in the movie.  For one, they should have kept Uncle Al. I get it, though. You can only pack so much into a two-hour movie. Things must be altered. A lot of things were different. They got to some of the same plot points by different means than in the book, which lessened the impact. I wish they had been more faithful.  The cast, for the most part, was good. Christoph Waltz was the real star. He was the one my eyes were glued to. He's definitely the best actor in this.  Reese Witherspoon surprised me, but in a good way. I like her as an actress, but I thought she was miscast, which she certainly is. Marlena is supposed to be around 21-years-old with light brown hair, and instead we get 35-year-old Reese with a platinum blonde wig stuck to her head. But it mostly worked. I actually liked her enough in the part. Plus, she and Christoph worked well together. I still think they should have gone for a younger actress who fit the part instead of casting someone for their star-power.  Then there's Robert Pattinson. *Sighs, shakes head* I'd love to say he impressed me, but he didn't. For some reason, this surprised me. I guess I was expecting more, but again, he was likely cast because he is uber-famous right now, and that often trumps talent in terms of casting choice. The only movies I've previously seen him in are Harry Potter (I barely remember him in it, to be honest) and How To Be, which was a dud.  As it is, he is one of the worst things about this film. He spends a good part of the movie either smiling like an idiot or staring like an idiot, and when he's not doing that he's still not proving his acting chops, especially next to skilled actors like Christoph Waltz. His chemistry with Reese is almost completely nil, although that's not their faults. The lack of sizzle between them doesn't make the movie a disaster, but it takes it down another notch. But Pattinson's performance brings it down even more.  Hal Holbrook is old Jacob. He's barely in it, though. He should have at least been the narrator throughout the film instead of Pattinson, who lacks a compelling voice and whose American accent is somehow wrong.  In the end, it's an okay film. There are definitely some beautiful moments, the animals are lovely, the scenery is good, and at times it creates a nice, nostalgic feeling, but with a mediocre lead actor and a lot of cut corners, it fails to leave an impact.  It's worth watching for the animals and Christoph Waltz, who I'm getting a little crush on, but the movie as a whole could have been much more.

Great actors, mid-grade plot. I purchased this movie based on actors involved. Not one of their best by any means. I love independent films but this was just mediocre.

Nice to see once I liked the first part better, although this here also is some old school horror. But you've seen it all before. Not a must-see.

Commentary on the dvd Commentary Kristen Stewart and Rob Pattinson have a commentary on the dvd that I was really looking forward to since they didn't do one for the New Moon dvd.  Maybe my expectations were too high, but it was a very disappointing.  At the very beginning of the commentary, Rob says something like: "I'm in LA and Kristen is in Montreal, so this is probably going to be very awkward and annoying and we'll have nothing to say after 3 minutes."  He was right!  Scenes were passing by and there was no commentary, only Silence.  The pauses were so long, I thought the commentary on my dvd player had shut itself off.  Also, I had to watch the commentary with subtitles because I couldn't understand what they were talking about, and then even with the subtitles, I couldn't understand Kristen half the time.  She said things like (and this is word for word): "I don't know.  I mean, maybe it's just like, I mean, maybe it fits with the, you know, us us humans are really fragile and like the main character is a girl and all of that and the fact that she's willing to subject herself to something like so sexually overpowering is like something that's actually it's not just it's not just like, it's not just like cool and scary, it's actually sort of like not not the smartest thing.  Maybe that's, you know what I mean, maybe they're reminding you that this girl or whoever like these like they're actually really sensitive so yeah I don't know, whatever."  Or "She was yeah she was getting like really yeah every time she was getting close I mean I'm kidding she totally could have done whatever, but."  Really great scenes were passing by and there's no commentary!  Just silence.  For example, in the scene where Bella leans against Jacob in wolf form, that would have been a great opportunity to talk about how they did that.  All's Kristen says is something like, "his little suit."  What?  What's that mean?  Was that an actual wolf suit?  When I saw the behind the scenes takes, I realized that Taylor Lautner was actually dressed in this gray scuba-like suit for that scene.  He leans down and she pats his head just like he does in wolf form.  That would have been something interesting to talk about, but no.  Also, Kristen tells Rob to "shut up" or "shhh" about 30 times which was kind of annoying.  Half way through, Rob says, "People are going to watch this and be like, really, that's all you have to say?"  At least he was aware of it!  One high point is Rob's sense of humor.  I was laughing out loud during some parts of his commentary.  And seeing his real personality and accent, it made me appreciate him as an actor since he is really nothing like Edward.  Aside from the commentary, I know this movie could make me cry if there was another actress playing the role of Bella.  Kristen Stewart is a good actress, in other movies.  For some reason, I can't relate to her.  My heart won't soften when she's on the screen.  With Edward and Jacob, my heart starts to break, and then she shows up and it stops.  There's no chemistry with her.  She's not vulnerable enough or something.  And she never smiles.  She's got the right look but that's all.  It's kind of a shame, imho.  Stephenie Meyer and one of the producers also do a commentary, and that one is excellent.  No long awkward pauses.  They're focused and give you lots of behind the scenes info.

Great special effects and concept, actors and storyline....not so much The movie looked like it would be pretty impressive when I saw the previews but this is the first movie that I can honestly say I would never have any desire to watch again. The story line had ups and downs. Some parts were pretty good while some parts left me thinking ".......what?"  Like everyone else said they combined the elements of a lot of other movies and jumbled them all together so much that I really didn't know what to think.  Some of the fight scenes are pretty impressive but the actor roles could have been so much better. I know it's a movie but I can't imagine anyone using actors in their late 20s-early 30s to portray the gods, especially Zeus and Poseidon. Also along the "I know it's a movie but" lines. Making the titans look like human sized parkour practitioners fell very short of what I would like to see.

A Total Dud Very low budget with terrible acting and a plot that goes nowhere.  I thought this film sounded promising, but it was boring and badly done.  Very forgettable.

On a par with Bloodthirst 2: Revenge of the Chupacabras (2005) It has a cooler yet very pathetic story that was not well put together and this film lacks the funny scenes that the original had and instead they use really stupid actions from very dumbfounded characters! The special effects and the way people die are just so stupid and farfetched! But the film did have a few things going for it such as a returning character (Jennifer Ritchkoff), some gorier scenes that have part one shedding a tear, and a better killer clown mask... but most of it was worn down by its bad dialogue!  Plot: After the grisly events from part one of the Camp Blood Trilogy a film director approaches the survivor of the whole ordeal and wants her to be executive producer and to let the actors know how she felt when the killings started and ended (Which she does a terrible job doing because she doesn't ever do anything except recall flashbacks)! She sees it as a way to leave the asylum that she was admitted to and accepts the offer. Now with his so called $130 million budget he meets the cast with his two man crew (one who is an alcoholic and the other is a pot head) and they begin to make the movie. But the killings never ended instead they grew! Now the team soon realizes that they are being chased and slaughtered by a killer that isn't clowning around! Can Tricia (Jennifer Ritchkoff) save what is left of the team or even try to stop this new killer that wants only revenge!  Review: Phew that plot stinks and it reeks of bad story build up and just dreaded story in general! Now that I have got that out of my system I must say that this did feel more like a slasher flick than the fist mainly due to the bloodier and a more frequent towards the end kind of body count! The first two victims don't even make sense though, because they are never explored or even mentioned in the rest of the movie and even one of the deaths they person dies from having his hand chopped off... I know that if no medical attention was acquired for this poor soul then he would eventually die but this person dies in like 10-15 seconds and the individual barley even screams!!! I do like though how they did more with this movie and how the killer "gets rid of the competition" to be apart of this massacre or should I say cause this massacre. They really knew what they wanted to do with this sequel especially considering it was made in a little less than half a year! This movie is especially a good watch because it has a helluvalot of entertainment and cheap thrills that give us a lot of bloody bodies to help boost the interest of the viewer even if the deaths are incredibly unrealistic!  Acting: This is ridiculous... the first one tried acting all serious but failed and this time it tries to be stupid-funny and fails yet again! The worst set up I believe that the one of the characters endured was when the "Director" (whom was played by Garret Clancy) was all attracted and in love with the girl (mostly because of her breasts) that got the part to play Jennifer Ritchkoff role and then the next day when she didn't show he acted like he never even heard of the actresses name! It had ridiculous acting and overall dreaded dialogue.... especially when the people portraying the original victims for the movie acted that's when I thought I couldn't take anymore!  Gore: an off-screen slit throat is what starts up the movie and then the machete through the stomach to kick off the last death until the 40-50 minute mark! After that we get the dreaded hand chopped off with a machete scene, a guy is sliced and diced like crazy with a machete, a woman gets a machete impaled through her face and out her head (because... where else would it go... I'm kidding and using very bad sarcasm to go along with it, were was I, oh yeah) that death actually looked good and I was quite surprised, we also get a machete sliced into ones head (with smoke, yes I said it smoke coming out of his head... along with a lot of blood, he must've been very aggravated because that was the scene when everyone left the set and the director was getting very angry and then *Spoiler Alert* gets his steaming demise *End Spoiler*), a cool looking throat slashing, a piece of shard glass from a bottle is shoved into a mans eyes, a burnt face, a machete sliced into a victims neck and more... there is a very hilarious scene where the alcoholic (Shemp, I wonder where they got that name from *Hint* Evil Dead *End Hint*) punches a girl because he was confused and drunk and she was screaming and I guess it just pissed him off to much!  Bottom Line: Director Brad Sykes is very talented in doing what he does and with what he has. There was another dislike I had about this movie and it was that pretty much all the character names from part one were used in part two for totally different characters.... one other thing I liked how ever was the whole revenge theme that unfolds at the end.. .it was very well played out and that's what made it feel more like a true and serious slasher flick!  Suggested MPAA: Rated: R for strong violence and gore, some sexuality/nudity, and language  Is it worth the Buy on a scale of 1-10: 1 For the Movie itself on a scale of 1-5: 2

A Wartime Biography With Selective Memory "Jack London" is a 1943 film devoted to the life of the famous novelist. The film stars Michael O'Shea as London. O'Shea does a decent job with the role, although the script is full of inaccuracies and is nothing but a caricature of London's life. Costarring Susan Hayward as London's second wife Charmian (his first marriage and children are totally ignored) the film starts off with a liberty ship bearing his name being commissioned to go fight the Japanese. The irony of the US Navy naming a ship after ardent socialist London is something to make one marvel as much now as then, but the film makes the connection by showing London's early experiences as a sailor and oyster fisherman.  The account of his education at Berkley is likewise inaccurate, but it does act as a springboard to introduce his writing and journalism careers. Not everything here is incorrect, but much of it is misleading due to what's omitted. Besides the somewhat errant wartime value of extolling London as a rugged individualist (that may have been true early in his life) and all-American hero, the film falls short on a number of levels and is extremely choppy. Jack goes to the Yukon looking for gold, then visits England to cover the Boer War! Finally, see him accused of being a Russian spy, an act requiring decisive Presidential intervention! There's all this and much, much more though the script is more like several Hardy Boys stories stitched together than an accurate biographical accounting.  Based on the merits of O'Shea's and Louise Beavers' performances, the film is worth two stars. If you are searching for anything remotely like a nonfiction docudrama, don't look here. If you are simply fascinated by all things London, feel free to enjoy with the obvious caveats.

Depressing with too little upside I had somewhat high hopes for this movie.  I didn't expect it to be a comedy - or even somewhat funny.  I expected it though, to be quirkier and with more upside than down.  Unfortunately, it was just too depressing.  The best part of the movie was the character "Kenny" played by a young African American actor.  Loved him and loved his character.  Will Ferrell gave a solid, understated performance, but the material was just way too depressing.

Good information, but does not play on regular DVD players. There's alot of good information here, but I had to install 2 programs from the CD-disk to get it to work on my computer.  There are 4 lectures on the disk, each about a half hour long.  However, the 2 programs that were on the CD to make the disk play....they don't have a pause, FF or rewind function. You start it up and hope you don't get interrupted. If you have to stop it for any reason, you have to restart the CD from the beginning of each lecture.  I find it terribly misleading to call this a DVD and then on the back of the DVD have a place that gives you a minimum operating and computer system requirement.  It will not play on ANY of the DVD players I have in my house. It will not play on my X-Box or Playstation platforms either. I find that to be really off-putting and probably would not have purchashed it had I known ahead of time.

Attack of the Killer Mutated Piranha People! If you enjoy watching genetic alteration of people turning into els and eventually growing into a Giant Piranha with arms and legs, than this movie is for you. The story has been done alot before and those movies were better made (The Fly, The Thing, etc) You get to see the creature in the last 10 minutes which is a disapointment because its not even that well done and too many quick shots, hardly ever get a good look at it. I think the part with the sharks trying to attack them and Peter Weller punching out Meg Foster at the very end of the movie was more entertaining than the rest of the movie itself.

poor quality or eraser, the quality is good and sound good in French.  For contrre collateral damage is of poor quality and the soundtrack is Fr Quebecers.  I have more discharge of e8.90 euros customs tax which brings the price of blu ray transport and taxes at a price much higher than what it costs.

Disappointing Thought there would be resolve. No resolve to this story line as it's more about imagery and the creator than it is the viewer.

Another Non Anamorphic Widescreen. I only have this DVD as a place holder until a better transfer is made. This is what I call BAD widescreen. Meaning that they have encoded the black bars on the actual DVD itself. There is not a lot of room left for the picture. Not that I expect it would look stellar, but it would be far better than what's on this DVD. Hammer films was going in the toilet at this point. Schlock is schlock however and this DVD should not be overlooked.  Pray to the Digital God that a decent transfer is made available in anamorphic widescreen. I doubt there is an original negative of this film left.

waiting for Dublin Not at all what I expected. I was very disappointed this movie was more of a chick flick than a war movie.

foul language Too much foul language.  It put me off following the plot.  I have never known people to speak like that.  Have a friend that worked on a GM assembly line, speaks real English.

It's time has clearly passed When I was a young kid, I was creeped out by Dark Shadows. In hindsight, it had more to do  with forbidden subject matter to a young child and the occasional flashing of fangs rather than the quality of the show. I remember seeing this film version of the show and enjoyed it  because there were more fangs, blood, action and suspense. More monster movie and less daytime soap opera. That was then, this is now.  Viewing this film 40 something years later, this stuff has not held up at all. Barnabas Collins is hardly a threatening character (Van Helsing/Buffy/Blade would have iced this wimpy vampire immediately), the acting is so corny and the story is preposterous.  Universal and Hammer studios monsters are timelessly endearing but this is just a curious and nostalgic relic from the past.

Shaw's play does not translate well There have been many films about Joan of Arc starting as early as 1899 by pioneer film inventor George Melies and including the silent film "The Passion of Joan of Arc" (1928) by the great Danish film director Carl Theodor Dreyer, and the Ingrid Bergman 1948 film "Joan of Arc". "Saint Joan" (1957) followed, and then "The Trail of Joan of Arc" (1962), Luc Besson's "The Messenger" (1999), and a 1999 TV movie.  This film was based on George Bernard Shaw's 1924 play of the same name, inspired by the Catholic Church's canonization of Joan as a Saint. Jeanne d'Arc (1412-31) was a peasant girl who claimed divine guidance and led the French army to several victories in the 100 Years War, then was burned at the stake as a witch.  Jean Seberg (1938-79) plays Joan in this film. Joan has been played by action star Milla Jovovich (1999), Helen Hunt lookalike Leelee Sobieski (1999), and Ingrid Bergman (1948). Bergman was 33 years old when she played the 17 year old maid. Jovovich was 24 and Leelee Sobieski was only 17. Seberg was 19.  This was Seberg's film debut. She followed it with "Bonjour Tristesse" (1958) and "Breathless" (1960) and went on to make almost 40 films, the most famous of which was "Paint Your Wagon" (1969).  Rugged Richard Widmark (1914-2008) was an excellent actor, nominated for an Oscar and winner of a Golden Globe for his debut film ("Kiss of Death", 1947) and also nominated for an Emmy for "Vanished" (1971). Widmark appeared in more than 50 films, initially as a villain but increasing as a hero. He was a staple in Westerns - "The Last Wagon" (1956), "Warlock" (1959), "Two Rode Together" (1961), "Cheyenne Autumn" (1964), "Death of a Gunfighter" (1969), and "Once Upon a Texas Train" (1988). In this film he takes on a completely different persona as The Dauphin, and does quite well.  John Gielgud (1904-2000) is one of the finest British actors and one of the few actors to win an Oscar ("Arthur", 1918), Emmy ("Ages of Man", 1966), Grammy ("Ages of Man", 1979), and Tony ("Importance of Being Earnest", 1948). Gielgud plays the Earl of Warwick.  Handsome Richard Todd (1919-2009) was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for "The Hasty Heart" (1949) but he's probably better known for his roles as Robin Hood (1952) and Rob Roy (1953). He plays the Bastard of Orleans.  The ever popular Harry Andrews (1911-89) appeared in more than 100 films often playing a British role. He's best remembered for his role opposite Sean Connery in "The Hill" (1965) that earned him a BAFTA Best Actor nomination, but he also gave us great performances as Bramante in "The Agony and the Ecstasy" (1965), the 13th Earl in "The Ruling Class" (1972), and Mackintosh in "The MacKintosh Man" (1973). Andrews plays a priest.  The film was directed by Otto Preminger (1905-86). In a 5 decade career he made 41 films, was nominated for an Oscar 3 times ("Laura", "Anatomy of a Murder", "The Cardinal") and a Palme d'Or 3 times ("Carmen Jones", "Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon", "Advise and Consent").  Graham Greene (1904-91) was an English author who specialized in Catholic themes in films like "Brighton Rock" and "The Power and the Glory". His screenplays include "The Third Man" (1949), "Our Man in Havana" (1959), and "The Comedians" (1967). The film is based on his work.  The top grossing films in 1957 were "Bridge on the River Kwai", "Peyton Place", "Sayonara", "Old Yeller", and "Raintree County". The big Oscar winners were "Kwai" (Picture, Director, Actor) and "Sayonara" (Actor, Supporting Actress). Other notable films released that year include "Three Faces of Eve", "Pal Joey", "Funny Face", and "Witness for the Prosecution".  The NY Times called it a "largely placid and undramatic theatrical exercise". This is due in large part to trimming the 3+ hour Shaw play down to half its length. But it's also caused by the fact that plays do not necessarily translate that well to the big screen, and this is particularly true when we expect battle scenes. Moreover, the film is shot more like as TV movie than a film, with lots of heads shots and 2 shots and focus on talking heads.  FWIW - the burning scene at the end of the film went awry and Seberg actually got burned. So what you see here is not acting. Needless to say this is her best scene.  There really isn't much to see here unless you're a big fan of Shaw's plays, or unless the idea of seeing Richard Widmark as a faltering half wit intrigues you.

Not half as much fun as it sounds A movie as bonkers as Roland Emmerich's 10,000 B.C. really ought to be a lot more fun than this actually is. Partially inspired by some of Graham Hancock's less daffy theories of a lost higher civilisation in the Stone Age who really built the pyramids, this sees Steven Strait's hunter-gatherer setting off after the slavers who took the love of his life and the village's other hunters to build the pyramids (with a little bit of help from mammoths, of course). The title promises enjoyable nonsense along the lines of the Harryhausen One Million Years B.C., and with a sabre-tooth tiger and some Terror Birds thrown into the mix the elements are certainly there for good old fashioned brain-off entertainment, but at times it feels almost as long a slog as the one that takes its hero from the barren mountains of New Zealand across Namibia to the plains of Giza. Certainly the first half is pretty dull, with even the scene with Terror Birds (think big turkeys with big teeth, which is at least appropriate for Christmas) picking off slaves and slavers alike in long grass playing like a considerably less effective version of the velociraptor attack from Spielberg's The Lost World with a bit of Mysterious Island thrown in for bad measure.  Things do finally pick up a bit when they finally reach `the mountains of the Gods,' but not really enough. It may be the most spectacular part of the picture but at times it feels like an early rejected draft of Stargate - oh look, another evil godlike villain who may be an alien or from Atlantis, and what's this, revolting slaves led by a white man from a far-off land? Clich&eacute;s like this really need more panache than they're given here to come off, and the casting doesn't exactly help you overlook the film's shortcomings. Steven Strait isn't exactly blessed with much charisma as the reluctant hero, coming over a bit like Colin Farrell's well meaning younger brother, Camilla Belle is awful pretty but it's hard to tell if she can actually act when she doesn't have much to do except look confused, the ever-erratic Cliff Curtis is pretty awful here and Omar Sharif manages the almost impressive feat of both underplaying and overacting his narration that seems intended to paper over the gaps and add a bit of emotion to the proceedings (the deletion of his cameo in the original ending spared audiences the worst of his performance, though it can be found on the DVD and all-region BluRay along with 10 deleted scenes and a couple of brief featurettes). Matters aren't helped by co-writer/co-producer/co-composer (with Thomas Wander, ne Wanker) Harold Kloser's score which constantly turns into Hans Zimmer's main theme from King Arthur with such monotonous regularity that you start expecting Maire Brennan to start singing. Even with low expectations this is disappointing stuff.

No Chemistry I didn't see any chemistry between these two actors.  I was very disappointed in this movie.  Definitely not a classic.

They sent me the French DVD! I ordered this as a present for my Edward Cullen loving wife. It arrived and I was surprised to see it was the French version of the DVD. Great language but I would prefer English on the DVD menus and in the film. Nowhere on the description does it tell you they are sending the French DVD.

Scary Boring I was expecting a quality horror movie but I got was snooze fest. Both actors in this movie are terrible, they have no acting skill and the plot is big enough to drive a truck through. I can't believe i paid $10 for this movie. The reason i gave two stars is for the ending. Most of five star reviews are from family and friends of cast and crew who had no prior reviews.

Atlas Shrugged DVD Version <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005N4DMMG">Atlas Shrugged: Part One [Blu-ray</a>]]I was very disappointed that the DVD left out one of the most touching episodes that I saw in the original movie.  I saw this movie when it came out on April 15, 2011 and liked it well enough to order the DVD.  The episode was the first trip on the railroad opened to the Colorado Mines.  Dagny had told the railroad union representative that she would run the trip to Colorado if she had to be the engineer herself.  There was a long line of engineers volunteering to drive the train for its first trip.  Then on the first trip there were people lined up all along the tracks cheering this maiden run on the Rearden Metal tracks and bridge also constructed from Rearden Metal.  The movie itself was entertaining if not great.  It is indeed a very hard story  to do as a movie but at least they tried.  Even though this movie was not great I look forward to the second installment.  I truly loved the book.

Half fiction, porn, action A lot of the film is Hollywood dream.  It's based on the facts of an astounding British victory, distorted for entertainment's sake.  The real life minister at whose station the battle took place, was nothing like the psycho in the movie, with a noble, attractive daughter; who actually was two years old at the time, and no where near the battle.  Early in the film there is a long scene of massed Zulus dancing, nearly naked, males and females; accurate, but porn.  The scenes of Zulus and Red Coats battling were good.  The actual facts are easily obtainable by Googling the battle of Rorke's Drift.

Yoga for Beginners This DVD was my first yoga DVD.  I am a beginner.  I found the instruction to be quite thorough but very, very slow.  Too slow for me.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows It seems like I waited forever to get this item, even though when I was tracking it, it had been in my home town for 3 days, just didn't show up at my house until a few hours ago. As I watching this DVD, it started skipping, just a little at first and then so badly that I had to skip entire scenes... I'm very upset that after I spent money on this DVD and waited for it to arrive, all I got was a DVD that skipped. I could barely watch it. I would not recommend this DVD to anybody. Go buy it at the store, which is what I now have to do...

Great Show! Terrible product! I bought this as a gift for my boyfriend who is a huge fan of the show. The show is split in two discs, which is all cool, but the second disc is not bluray. How does this work out?? I would've given five stars (cause everything was great), but if I spend extra for bluray, I expect the whole product to be bluray.

getting worse That acid-trip dance scene inside the tent was the most awkward and worthless 5 minutes of cinema ever created.  The rest of the movie was tolerable, but not as entertaining as previous movies of this series.  Disappointed.

Cardboard Forest This movie should have worked.  The story of Robin Hood has been effectively retold in countless films.  I expected a raw, more historically accurate portrayal than I'd seen in previous efforts.  The film presented 2 great actors at the top of their games: Crowe, Blanchette. The action came heavy and often.  The scenery was beautiful.  How could they mess this up?... Well, they did... It just didn't click.  I'm reluctant to criticize the length of a film.  I've watched many 3-hour movies and wished they were longer.  But, this film stretched a 90 minute story into 150 minutes.  It REALLY dragged.  There was zero chemistry between Robin and Marion.  Both actors seemed far more interested in posing than they did in each other.  Bit characters play a significant role in story.  I don't enjoy films that portray one-dimensional parts around the main stars.  Other than Robin and Marion, every character was a cardboard cutout.  Compared to great period-pieces like 'Braveheart' (I could have watched full films on the bit players) I felt no connection to anyone in this movie.  Perhaps a fast forward button will make this film more bearable, but I doubt it.

Some neat ideas, but cheap The problem with this movie is that the plot is so close to a "Harry Potter"-y movie that you keep comparing it to it. But where "Harry Potter" has a great cast of actors in every role, "Vampire's Assistant" feels like they got a bunch of third and fourth choices for it. I love John C. Reilly in everything but thought he wasn't right here. The special effects were also pretty bad. You are so accustomed to even terrible movies like "Golden Compass" or "Voyage of the Dawn Treader" having big "Avatar"-y effects that when you're doing the same kind of story and it looks like TV, it makes me LOL.

A missed oppurtunity For about the first thirty-five minutes or so, this movie did a pretty good job building atmosphere and (seemingly) leading up to some serious chills. It deals with Helen, a college student and newspaper editor and the protagonist of the story, interviewing those who have information about the legend of the murderous Candyman. I couldnt wait to see where it went next.    But part of the movie's problem is it hardly does go anywhere. Our first encounter with the Candyman lasts about a minute, and is a letdown. Helen sees him calling to her in a parking lot, blacks out, and wakes up in a heap of blood next to a beheaded dog and the dog's owner (whom Helen interviewed earlier) screaming that her baby has been taken. And thats where the movie starts to go downhill. There's a misguided plot twist that puts Helen in a mental institution for seeing things and acting psychotic, since she can see the Candyman but no one else can. However, it would have been much scarier if he was real and wasn't a figment of her imagination that only becomes real when he decides to kill people. There's a strange climax at a bonfire that makes little sense and is not satisfying when linked to the rest of the movie. And then theres the actual Candyman, who shows up at random times and mumbles things to Helen that make little sense. All in all, Candyman is not only dull but disappointing for not living up to the first half hour of itself.

Some dragons, not many dungeons I feel sorry for Dungeons and Dragons fans. I really do.  These poor souls have suffered through some of the worst adaptations in movie history, namely the "Dungeons and Dragons" movie -- nonsensical, horribly produced, and filled with abysmal acting and writing. In fact, it's so bad that the SyFy sequel "Dungeons and Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God" was a huge step up.  In "Dungeons and Dragons," the evil mage Profion (Jeremy Irons) wants to overthrow the pure-hearted Empress (Thora Birch), and her only chance is to get the Rod of Savrille (it's French?) which controls red dragons. But the secret location of the Rod has fallen into the hands of an apprentice mage, a pair of idiot thieves, a drunken dwarf and a snotty elf.  Honestly, that movie is so bad that it makes you want to impale yourself on a barbecue fork -- it's actually watchable only in a MST3K way. With that in mind, the sequel literally cannot get any worse... and it doesn't.  In "Dungeons and Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God," the dragon god Falazure is waking in his mountain prison, because a hammy baddie from the first movie has captured a magical orb with his power. Ex-knight Berek (Mark Dymond) assembles the usual crew -- an elf wizard, a thief, a barbarian warrior, and a cleric -- and sets out to capture the orb before the world is destroyed (and his wife turns into a zombie... don't ask).  Anyone who has heard of THE WORST fantasy movies in existence will hear of the original "Dungeons and Dragons," right alongside such gems as Eragon and In the Name of the King - A Dungeon Siege Tale. And honestly, it deserves all the scorn heaped upon it -- exactly ten seconds into this movie, you can see the despairing look in Jeremy Irons' eyes right before he gives up even trying.  There is NOTHING that works in this movie. Leaden direction, silly action scenes (how many times can Marina club someone with a torch?!), goofy CGI, silly costumes (shoulderpads of DOOM!) and a story that meanders along with random side-trips (Ridley has to run through a ridiculously easy maze), and dialogue that makes you want to set your own brain on fire (the Empress' "rousing" speech to the Council).  As for the actors, they have exactly two decent actors in this movie -- Thora Birch and Jeremy Irons -- both of whom are obviously not trying. The other actors are dismal at best, and Marlon Wayans plays a borderline racist character whom even the WRITERS got tired of.  So is "Wrath of the Dragon God" any better? Yes! It was obviously written and made with real affection, and it's kind of likable in its earnest attempt to, if not make an epic classic fantasy movie, then at least make a movie worth watching. Sadly it's still a mess, mainly because of the weird pacing, thin plot, and a literal deus ex machina.  But the characters are much better than in the original movie, mainly because they TRY SO HARD -- especially the wonderfully dry-witted Stern and the wholehearted woman-warrior Chidzey, who sadly gets some of the worst dialogue ("Come, villainy. Death awaits you"). The problem is that one dead guy and two critically-injured people are... just forgotten at the end of the movie. Weird.  "Dungeons & Dragons 2-Movie Collection" is distinctive mainly for having one of the worst movies to never get roasted by MST3K, and a lackluster BUT TRYING REALLY HARD sequel.

Journey 2 boredom Oh dear God. This takes 3 books with islands (Gulliver's Travels, Treaure Island & Mysterious Island) bastardizes them, makes up things as it goes along and is just so awful I can't begin to describe it. Totally unbelievable. Probably okay for 8 years olds but doubful they'll get the references to the great books this molests. But maybe they'll read them?

Bad The film is really boring, and the acting is so bad!  Do not waste your time or money with this movie!!!

I Love Trouble This movie was suppose to be the 'widescreen' version, but it's not.  I would not have bought it otherwise.  The product description needs to be changed so that you know what you are getting.

Great movie! Poor transfer I love the movie but the quality of the transfer was very depressing at times.  There were numerous points in the movie where the grainy speckled image looked like a copy from a video tape and not what you would expect to get from a Blu-ray presentation.  The whole movie was not grainy, some of the scenes where quite good, but some left me wondering if all the footage was transferred from the same source.  Still a great movie!

Boring This movie has none of the elements that made Full Metal Alchemist great. It has no philosophical depth, shallow characters and the plot is nowhere near as interesting as the TV series and reveals nothing new about the story. The CGI is impressive at times and there are some surprising plot twists but the ending is underwhelming. I bought every Full Metal Alchemist DVD/Blu-Ray made but I am not buying this one.

ppppth Great cast, poor movie.  Extremely slow paced.  I have not read the books but might after reading other reviews.  I can imagine that this dud of a movie might have begun its life as a good book...But seriously, this movie has nothing to recommend it.

Provincial There's so much to say about what's dumb about this movie, but it has one thing going for it: pretty colors flickering fast. A great movie when you want to give your brain a rest. Best viewed on mute.

I expected more from Tarsem Singh One year after Clash of the Titans and Hollywood is at full throttle cranking out action movies set in mythological Greece and before.  2011 saw the release of a remake of Conan, and this film by Indian director Tarsem Singh.  The movie follows the life of Theseus, a mortal man favored by the gods, as he leads the resistance against evil king Hyperion who is intent on freeing the Titans upon Earth.  First of, this movie bears no resemblance to the Greek myths surrounding the main character.  For those who don't know, the mythical Theseus was known for slaying the Minotaur.  No Minotaur in this movie.  However, there is a lot of bloody, gory action with swords, pikes, arrows and other weapons of hand-to-hand combat.  Some of it looks authentic but most of it looks overly choreographed.  Like just about every other Hollywood creation about ancient times, most of the key characters are played by actors and actresses from former colonies of Britain.  Is it too much to ask for Greek actors and actresses to play some of the roles?  Maybe it is.  The redeeming feature of the movie was its incredible use of colors to create an environment that looked both mythical yet fantastic at the same time.  Whether it was the grayish titans fighting the white-clothed gods amongst the brownish interior of Mount Tartarus, or the dresses of the Oracles, Tarsem Singh always delivers a visual spectacle regardless of what is happening on-screen.  For sure the cinematography looked much more realistic and plausible than in the film 300.  In my final judgement, this movie is OK to watch at home, though not really worth the purchase price of either the DVD or Blu-Ray.

Not so good as the two previous seasons! Sadly for me and for my husband, this season has been disappointing, and so much so that I wonder about purchasing the 4th season.  Maybe not.  It has become preachy telling us things that we would get from just watching the actions.  That means to me that the writers are not doing their job.  I don't like the 'women's equality' ...two .. yes TWO episodes!  As if we needed that now in this year of our lord...2012!  I find the missing people I've come to love rather annoying.  Some episodes have only the Candleford folk which eliminates a lot of the cast I love.  I'm tired of Twister who always seems to have some money though he doesn't work... odd and stupid scenes.  Laura has become more and more prudish as the series has gone on.  This last one I watched about the unions was really really annoying.  I want some human interaction.. not parables.  I might as well be reading Aesops Fables....only with them telling me exactly what they mean.  Over all I've loved this series and am very disappointed.

One for the Money The story line was pretty good though the acting left a lot to be desired. The relationships of some of the characters were not realistic. The movie was overall mediocre!

Cop Out I think we might like it but we were unable watch all of it because halfway into the movie the sound does not match up with the person talking, drove us crazy.

Worth max $10 (including shipping) I was disappointed with the content. I have other related DVD's as well, but this is the first one in which I was getting bored and waited for the end. I also get the smell that Gardiner try to make the assumption that "Christianity" is also a secret society. Watching this one did not really broaden my knowledge.  The first one I got was completely faulty and Wholesale DVD America have send me another one free of charge. I wonder if the reproduction are really professional.

Terrible adaptation What a horrible adaptation.  Bland acting.  Terrible action scenes!  The actions scenes were supposed to be wars, but only had like 5 people in them...ridiculous!  I thought the whole thing was just a fiasco.  Redgrave was the movie's only saving grace...she is always amazing.  Otherwise, a terrible waste of my time.  Watch the BBC movie from the 1970s.

(2.5 STARS) Final Chapter, A Huge Letdown [This review contains minor spoilers concerning the storyline.]  Two Thai action stars Tony Jaa and Dan Chupong are in one film. This should be a great action flick, you might think. Wrong. "Ong Bak 3" is not. Stunts themselves are not bad, but there are so many things gone wrong in the second sequel of "Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior," which put Jaa's name on the map, that I don't know where to start.  First, the story. The story of "Ong Bak 3" picks up where the predecessor left off - that's fine - but instead of furthering it to a crowd-pleasing climax, it gets just muddled. The serviceable (if not great) plot of the original "Ong Bak" with a simple "good guys vs. bad guys" format is gone, replaced by a more philosophical (and tedious) storyline that only slows down the entire film.  Next, the action. There are a couple of nice action set-pieces (one about the captive hero fighting desperately, and the other at the end using elephants with huge tusks). Watch the trailers and you will see Tony Jaa delivering gravity-defying kicks. His eye-popping stunts are amazing as ever, but they lack something - emotional impact, perhaps.  In "Ong Bak 3" Jaa plays the hero named Tien, but (sorry if I missed it) I don't know for what he is fighting, and this makes it hard for us to identify with his character. Also, Tien apparently dies, but is brought back to life by a Buddhist monk, who helps him to recuperate from his wounds. This means you have to wait for Jaa's bone-crunching martial arts action scenes quite long. The incoherent subplots do not help, with supernatural elements that are only doing harm to the already confusing story of the film.  By the time we finally get what we want - the battle between Tien and a crow-like baddie played by Dan Chupong - the film is almost over, and the climactic fight sequences are damaged by one narrative gimmick that is simply unnecessary. After all, like the second and third "Pirates of the Caribbean" installments, they made two sequels when we only need one.

BORED OUT OF MY MIND I followed this one for about 15 minutes but the acting was below par.  Not horrible, just below par and why should I put up with that because people are promising it will be some engaging horror later?  If the acting sucks try to make it campy at least but this was trying to be serious and it just wasn't working.  WHEN WATCHED: end of April 2011; MY GRADE: C minus.

What A Shame What a shame. I just watched this and felt very disapointed. Dont get me wrong this film could and should have been a great horror film. Unfortunatly the shaky camera ruins the whole film. I dont mean Blair witch shaky, I mean for the first time watching a film, I felt motion sickness. Some people have complained about how dark the film was but I belive that the darkness of the film would not have been as big a problem if they held the camera still. I really dont get it there was not even a reason for that kind of shonky camera work. most of the films that do this sort of thing are filmed in a first person perspective, justifying the shaky camera. However this film was not shot that way, so why shake the camera so much? maybe just to frustrate the audiance? good move guys.  however the film is not a complete waste the first twenty minutes or so are really good and spooky,on the streangth of those twenty minutes you keep watching even when the movie falls of the rails. had it not been for the shaky camera I would have given this film five stars. What a shame.

Not what I expected Bought this at a bookstore and paid too much. Then plug it in and see that it is a guy doing the workouts in a bland and boring studio with bland and boring speaking in the background. There are way better beginner workouts out there and even many free ones on your cable stations.

Against a Crooked Transfer I purchased this DVD because I remember enjoying the movie on it's television broadcast in the late '70's. I guess I was younger and my tastes are more discerning now. First, the transfer was terrible, with much of the colors faded, washed out or "burnt" out. Also, images were usually soft, sometimes out of focus. I am sure this was the fault of the transfer process, not the filmmakers. This is the 2010 Echo Bridge Home Entertainment version and it is really a poor transfer. The DVD looks like a bootleg transfer from a bootleg VHS copy. The front of the package states WIDESCREEN across the bottom, but it is neither letter boxed nor a correct ratio as often the images from the left side of the screen are clearly clipped off.  From a film critique point of view, the acting is stiff, and either wooden or over the top, depending on the actor in any given scene. The camera work may have been OK, the transfer kills any hope of seeing good photography. I think the story is very good and could have been so much better. This is one of the few times I would like to see a re-make, as I think the story had much potential. The final "Race Against Crooked Sky" should have been an edge of the seat nail biter. It wasn't. The characters motivations lack depth or commitment. You feel as if the characters are motivated only because that is what the script told them to do or say. Richard Boone is somewhat entertaining, doing a somewhat of a "Rooster Cogburn" type character.  Last note, this particular transfer is the edited version, definitely PG, as the brief nudity discussed in other reviews is not present in this transfer.

Not Very Good I bought this movie like many others because I love Alexis Bledel.  It was very disappointing and I think I could have found something else better to spend $5 on.  15 minutes in I was completely bored and wondered where Alexis was and when she will appear.  Then the whole it being a movie in a movie was just weird.  I did not care for it and now it will sit on my shelf collecting dust.  I wanted him to end up with Kate not Jill and the whole way they broke up before the wedding was strange and I just did not care for any of it.  A normal love story would have worked just fine.

Boring If you have never heard of Gulliver, perhaps this movie might be interesting.  But who haven't heard of Gulliver?  There was nothing unexpected, everybody did their job just fine.  That is it!  Everybody go home now.

Freeman & Lee All I can say is the three best things about this flim is actors = Morgen Freeman  Jason Lee & Timothy Olyphant-<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000AMRUM">Dreamcatcher (Widescreen Edition)</a> If anyone thinks something else oh well, to each His/Her own.

Ho, ho? I thought that this would be one of those hilarious over the top B-films like the ones that Ed Wood made in the dark days of Hollywood.  Well, it wasn't very funny at all.  It attempted to be 'racy' with some love scenes, but they are so wholesome as to not fit into the purported theme of the movie.  Overall, it was a crowning disappointment.

an appalling example of terminal cuteness... Almost all motion pictures are made to please the audience. A film needn't have a happy ending to be pleasing; people are looking for some form of emotional connection, and this can include (for example) a hero who dies in the process of achieving something worthwhile.  But it's rare to see a film that so obviously panders to the audience's desire for the superficially appealing as does "Short Circuit". It's coldly calculated to push all the right buttons.  In terms of acting, directing, & production values, "Short Circuit" is in no way a bad film. The two-star rating is for the way it so blatantly sucks up to the audience's desire for cheaply obtained emotional reactions.  "Short Circuit" is strictly a kiddie film, with little of any real interest to adults.  The running commentary (by the director and writers) is one of those rarities -- a generally interesting narrative that largely avoids the self-congratulatory smugness and pointless anecdotes that mar too many commentaries.  Technical Stuff... The image quality is generally good, though a bit softer than one gets from the very best BDs. There are one or two white specks here and there, but that's about it. The transfer, however, is at 1080i/30, rather than the preferred 1080p/24. This is hardly surprising, as Image Entertainment is the publisher.

is $ the ultimate control of destinies This film is about power. A strong willed wealthy man who manipulates everything and those who love him and wish to be in line with his dominance. We wait to see if $ will win . Claustrophobic. Mr Mads plays it close to the chest. There is not one but two men who are wired to protect the security of others particularly one woman. Basically that is the premise. A soapy drama based on these tight social 'taking care of'  themes. The ending is supposed to look somewhat happy but feels dismal. The king of manipulation has played everyone. No one shines in this in fact everyone is equally suppressed. Natural look to the lighting(just mentioning). I suppose the nastiness of the financial element in combination with a family plot makes for a very medieval story. Think marriage to maintain political security between territories. Overly tight social guilt and weak personalities make the film grim. Different category from something like American Beauty which springs to mind similar in the introversion & obsessive motives and somewhat dislikable personalities of the characters. Where American Beauty shines with art however After the Wedding feels artless. They both are depressing but somehow this one is simply mean spirited.

Completely Unrealistic This film has a variety of scenes which are completely far-fetched and unrealistic. I can't believe that a human being could be capable of throwing tanks to-and-fro. I can't get into a movie which I can't believe in. Overall: C+.

where are the current events - or has this phenomenon ended? Perhaps one of the most interesting points of this DVD is the closing remarks where it is said that a lot of the information of this film could not be authenticated therefore it is left to viewer's discretion.  People are tired of character and reputation damaging ridicule, scorn, and of being dismissed as idiots and wanna-be fakers of allegedly trying to make possible for ourselves the big time benefits of fame, fortune, and being remembered for something unique and individual about ourselves.  Who is qualified to decide whether or not somebody deserves the positive reward they seek?  Community, family, social assemblies, academic pursuits, career environments, religious participation, private and/or public situations are all frontiers of human experience where each of us having subjected ourselves to them in one way or another, formulate anticipated return analysis so that we can be objective about our perspective and decide at what level we wish to continue submitting ourselves in that area of self-compromise.  Therefore, we tend to add disclaimers, loopholes, and escape clauses whenever we reduce our thoughts to writing so that our dreams don't end up replaced by regrets and so we are not incarcerated as those who need cleansed from society by permanent capital purging.  Nobody wants to commit themselves to culpability, responsibility, and/or expose themselves to the negative consequences of society's decision as to right or wrong these days; and given the ease of ability for research and the inherent reality that there is no end to "experts" on either side of any debate, many of us hesitate to offer any suggestion of any kind - to anybody.  Physically, spiritually, mentally, emotionally, financially, and esoterically, we all aspire to being given recognition, validation, significance, and to sense our own above average worth through tangible compensation of some type.  We all wish to be given (even if merely articulated) accolades of reward for performance, achievement, skills, experience, creativity, education, talent, motivation, integrity, honesty, ambition, and other arenas of excellence - real or imagined.  In fact, it is later in life many of us realize we will never be afforded opportunities, breaks, given a chance, or even have dumb luck let us fall into a position of fate providing us the better life and greater happiness that seems to elude us; unless we become convinced overwhelmingly that we can only achieve these vicariously.  It has been said that to find success you must have several connections and networks with people who WANT you to succeed, without which no amount of human effort can remove the foot of power off of the back of our neck.  Some people turn to chemical addiction, some to perversions and vice, and others turn to worship of some other thing or individual they consider higher than themselves - some other individual that has achieved what they themselves cannot (an example are extreme spectator level fans of professional sports, another example is the followings amassed by televangelists who bilk the multitudes out of life savings so that religious icon can live as though they were a peer to senators and congressional representatives who want us to believe they are public servants).  "Out Of The Blue" is a documentary for those of us who have come to realize we need something beyond above mentioned individually achieved independent routes for escape from our otherwise meaningless lives, and who look for that escape through any and all possible resources that lack legal consequences of the negative variety.  I doubt seriously if alien abduction would end up quite like most of us hope for, and unfortunately the genre of Sci-Fi fuels the nostalgic sentimentalization of what potential there is for wonderful and beautiful experiences beyond this earthly existence otherwise referred to as the "rat race" of working a thankless job and striving toward keeping your children out of prison or off of death row for being unable to adhere to irresistibly imposed requirements for social conduct and tolerance at the individual level (not found in larger society, groups, or committees).  If you believe that sitting in a chair for 40 years all by itself without further aggregate contribution gives you seniority rights of rank, privilege, and honor that negate any less senior peer regardless of the latter's education, performance, achievement, skills, experience, talent, motivation, honesty, creativity, ambition, integrity, honesty, or other allegedly superior characteristics, then you will criticize "Out Of The Blue" as being nothing but crap.  If you're not one of the cronies reaping benefits of being pandered to, then you might enjoy the potential this DVD suggests as frontiers for alternative human experience than what we've been exposed to so far.  If you are among those who fear a bit of metaphoric chlorine in the gene pool, then you won't be interested either.  "Out Of The Blue" held my attention for 2 hours and 35 minutes, and I would comment that they offer above average information on the subject of extraterrestrial life as being at least possible, especially since it is presented as being a documentary.  Released 2004, Hannover House studios, directed by James Fox, and narrated by Peter Coyote.  I like the presentation style, I like the sincerity of presentation, and I like how it doesn't keep repeating itself to fill up an allotted time requirement to justify being a documentary.  But there are more up-to-date films, photos, and interviews available.  I felt like this was presented by people who only consider the previous fifty or sixty years of information as viable, without regard to what has been happening in the last five years.  I was disappointed that all we got was whatever has been declassified due to the age of the information.  It is like waiting for the Vatican to release archeological discoveries that have information which challenges modern day thinking.  If I am to believe in UFO's and extra-terrestrial life, I don't want the history without the present.  Beam me up Scotty, or whoever that is standing at today's control console for the teleporter.

Rubber Kills! For many years, I thought that rubber was supposed to be used for good. I thought that using rubber was a good way to keep from getting STD's. Now, after seeing the movie Rubber, I see that rubber can also be very bad. Rubber is an original film. However, being original doesn't always mean it's entertaining. Whenever someones head isn't exploding onscreen, Rubber is excruciatingly boring. The story and the script are both pretty bad, as are a lot of the characters. Oh, but Rubber does have gore. If 1981's Scanners was the Citizen Cane of head explosion movies, then Rubber is the Gone With The Wind of head explosion movies. There is also a fairly cool and scary aftermath scene that shows a bunch of headless corpses strewn out on the streets, in stores, and houses. If only Rubber would have had more scenes like that. If only.

Very, Very Generic I'm really surprised by all of the high praise in these other reviews.  I didn't find anything at all unique about this movie.  I've already seen Texas Chainsaw, Frotiere(s), Hostel, and any other movie where someone is tied to a chair and tortured for someone's amusement until the end when they escape.  This one just incorporated a prom theme.  They could have at least hinted at explaining why she was so crazy and murderous and why her dad would help facilitate her psycho desires.  What happened to the mother?  What happened to create this couple?  They'd been doing it for a long time.  And what was with the sub-plot with the dorky kid and the goth chick?  I think their purpose was just to make this movie longer.  If you like torture porn, this is another great one.  If you're looking for something special or unique, you won't find it here.

Cinematic Fast Food How does a script like this get made?  A pathological liar abandons his middle class family to con his way into an executive job to steal from the corporation and set up his gay lover of the moment in luxury.  Later in prison he does much the same.  The actors, cinematographer, and set designers do their best but the characters are neither likeable nor memorable in any way.

From a GL fan - stories were very light As a Green Lantern reader and fan of DC and Marvel animated movies, I really wanted to like this.  This was a collection of snippets of famous character back stories, and then a battle with Krona.  Action and art were pretty good, but for me there were 3 big flaws:  1) The various aliens' voices didn't sound very alien.  For example, I thought Kilowog sounded like any regular ol' Joe  - his voice could have just as easily been my accountant neighbor, the IT guy at work, etc, but not an enormous, tough-as-nails, drill sergeant alien.  Unfortunately, a big, deep voice was really needed to sell his character.  To me, this mismatch between the characters and their voice acting took away from the atmosphere of the stories.  2) The stories were very simplistic.  There were some impressive looking battles, but not much in the way of plot twists, character development (these were more like character back story fragments), or other interesting plot devices.  In that way, these short stories didn't compare well with the excellent animated Batman, Spider-Man, and X-Men cartoons of the 90's.  3) These stories didn't contribute much to the overall GL story.  To put it another way, if these had been done as one-shot comics instead of an animated feature, I wouldn't have had any reason to buy them.  Kilowog's mentor didn't strike me as particularly interesting.  Laira fights her relatives and it's actually a close fight...  I know some folks who really liked the Laira fight, but I just couldn't buy that some guys wielding swords could be anything close to a match for a Green Lantern armed with comparatively unlimited power.  Same with Abin Sur and Sinestro's fight with Atrocitus - there was no obvious reason why Abin shouldn't have easily beaten him.  Also, Atrocitus' prophecy wasn't accurate to the comics, which I didn't like.  Mogo Doesn't Socialize was just a light re-telling.  The end battle with Krona was nothing special - it didn't tie together any of the previous stories, and it came off somewhat anti-climactic.  The Green Lantern comics have outstanding atmosphere, great plot development, and a feeling of suspense as you wait to see what happens next.  I didn't get that from these short stories.  I did get some impressive looking fights, but I was hoping for more.  Perhaps they would have been better if they had been tied together with some common threads or themes, and woven together into something greater.

Horable story of mans inhumanity to man This is a story that needs to be told.  Unfortunately in the movie the statistics are slim, photographs are foggy (an having been to Dachau and Auschwitz I know there are better pictures. Anyone with a heart will know what was done was totally inhuman, but the movies hinted and quoted the doctors who felt it "WAS NECESSARY WORK". I was also surprised that the movie pointed out that "we in the USA and some 22 states were the inspiration" for both the sterilization and even some euthanasia back in the 20's and up to the 40's. This story needs to be done BIG BUDGET and showing the actual but horrible picture of the atrocities.  THE MOVIE FELL SHORT showing only a few of the medical "experiments" and only talked about a few others  understating what was actually done.

The Battle of Neretva The movie itself was poor in sound and filming. There were lots of good action. Over all the movie was OK.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004Y72Y7W">The Battle of Neretva</a>

But I hate you Beth Cooper. . . . No, I wasn't foolish enough to buy this movie.  It was on "free" TV, and I forgot to change the channel.  So in the backgound I had to endure this stuff.  I always wonder:  Didn't writers or directors ever go to high school?  'Cause if they had, they would know that all of these movies - well, at least most of them - are so fake and unlikely that those writers and directors would cringe themselves if they knew the truth.  Let's see; what's the template for these movies?. . . .  Geek dude meets hot chick; hot chick warms up to geek dude; a contrived scenario ensues allowing hot chick to realize geek dude is actually a good guy; geek dude ends up with hot chick.  OK; so maybe the dude doesn't always end up with the hot chick, but he has a chance.  (And no.  This is not a spoiler because you've seen this film before a thousand times, even if you haven't seen it even once.)  And why do people like films such as these?  Well, I don't like them, but some people must because they keep getting made.  But I have a theory:  guys want to at least dream that they can trade up to a babe; and women want to feel better about themselves - precariously through the female lead - feeling as if they actually have a heart, and actually are willing to look past weaknesses that guys have, and might be willing to go out with them.  In real life, they might even marry them!  Yeah.  Happens all the time.  Not.  Phooey.  Should we go one star here?

Fails to live up to its potential For a film called Unspoken, there sure is a heck of a lot of dialogue in the script.  In fact, that dialogue is basically the whole film.  "Some things are better left unsaid" (the movie's tagline), but these characters say everything they want - and do not want - to say before this story finally winds down.  I cannot say I enjoyed the experience.  In fact, the film seemed interminably long, and the three main characters can be quite annoying.  Watching Unspoken was like being trapped in a small room with three people I really didn't like.  I didn't care what happened in the end; I just wanted to be free of these of these characters who were sapping my own will to live as they roiled in their own personal Armageddon.  I also found the film itself to be pretentious.  It opens and closes with a montage of images and a narrator posing deep philosophical questions about the meaning of life, but the story answers no questions and clears no philosophical hurdles.  Unless the whole point of this film is that existence is futile and meaningless, in which case mission accomplished.  Even the film's origins work against it.  Writer/director Marc Clebanoff made this film as a stepping-stone, with the purpose of showing potential investors for a film he really wanted to make that he was capable of making a feature film.  I actually thought this would be an interesting movie, what with five people stuck in a room together as they prepare to commit suicide.  Who are these people?  How did they come to be here?  Interesting questions, and they remain questions because the film offers little in the way of answers.  All we know is that something really bad has happened to the rest of the world.  Our characters apparently can't or won't leave the two rooms in which they have holed up - yet, they aren't exactly hiding out either, as they routinely make a lot of noise yelling at each other.  What they can do is put an end to their suffering, and that is what Brandon (Justin Allen), his girlfriend Katie (Ashley Jensen), and Brandon's brother Guy (Matthew Siegan) decide to do.  The guys' father and younger brother are also there, but they are somewhat peripheral (although not unimportant) to the main story.  Before they take their little red pills, though, Guy and Katie want to get some things off their chests.  Of course, since "some things are better left unsaid," this leads to confrontation, deep emotional conflict, and increased misery (especially for the hapless viewer).  I had no idea what was going on outside in the world, but I kept hoping that whatever it was would force its way into this room and put me out of my misery by killing these characters - or, at the very least, shutting them up.  They are certainly in no hurry to commit suicide, even after they make that decision.  They just go on and on and on and on.  To make the whole experience even more exasperating, I could never understand the final line of dialogue in the film, and there were no subtitles to help me out.  Maybe I'm being a little hard on Unspoken, as it certainly represents a committed effort to show what the end of the world might be like for a small group of people powerless to overcome their fate.  The problem is that it just isn't a very compelling or enjoyable film to watch.

Poorly done Mainly the movie is, see wolf, run like hell. But you can't outrun a wolf. No attempt to make weapons from the downed plane wreckage, no attempt at defense. Complaining about food? Then why run and sap yourself even more? Food sources were right there all along. The wolves.  No character development. No survival tactics at all. You couldn't have a worse bunch of "survivors".  Do yourself a favor and avoid this travesty.

A SAD REHASH I was so upset when Winnie opened the same day as Harry Potter,  so I was anxiously looking forward to the DVD release.  For us "older" Pooh fans this will be a real disappointment.  Most of the story lines we've heard before and there wasn't much effort put into what was there.  We've seen some fabulous Pooh adventures in the past but this was pitiful.  For very young watchers who only know the one dimension Pooh of the Disney channel,  this will be entertaining.  But if you expect this to hold the attention of all ages like some of the others,  don't waste your money.  Just when I thought I might get into it,  it was over.  I too "hated" some of the new voices esp.  eeyore. I'm glad Disney hasnt forgotten Pooh,  but surely they can do better than this.

No German Verson on DVD, but to see at TV! Hello, i loved this Film. I saw it on ARTE TV in Germany in German. Yes i love it and i need it. Because some People i Know MUST see it an understand me more! Okay maybe i not Authistic. But that not Important! Then i want buy a DVD in Germany and Amazon (germany) don't have it. Hier Amazon .com only in English and Spanish.  Why i could see it on TV for Free and not Buy.  what internet are for?

Horror!!! HORROR!!! Pero no horror de cine, horror de que no se que rayos me poseyo para querer comprar esta pelicula del 1987. Aunque me gustan las peliculas de vampiros, esta no es para nada una que recomiende. Pobre actuacion, efectos especiales de television de los '70 y no de cine, de hecho ni tengo idea si alguna vez la extrenaron en el cine. Espero que no, mucha gente debe haber perdido su dinero. Tiene actores que son muy buenos hoy en dia, pero parece que en aquel entonces, solo estaban aprendiendo. Mi recomendacion es que no se dejen llevar por la retocada caratula para hacerla lucir interesante y moderna, ni por su bien escrita sinopsis Realmente, no vale la pena la perdida de tiempo y dinero por esta pelicula. Espero que les haya servido mi rese&ntilde;a.

UNEVENTFUL!!!!! I actually rate this as 1-1/2 stars because it was UNEVENTFUL!!!!! I bought this based on the EDITORIAL REVIEWS from AMAZON.COM along with THE PRODUCT DESCRIPTION.  I probably will never watch it again. The ending is like they ran over budget, so they just quit filming. Don't BUY it till you RENT it first!!!!!

Awful! No matter how I tried, I could NOT like this movie.  It was too weird!  Sorry but I prefer ORIGINAL movies!  Why can't Hollywood have a creative idea of their own instead of ruining other movies by remaking them?  Total waste of time!

a very poorly written "Re-imagining" of Fright Night This is one of those remakes where they basically could have given it a different name and 3/4's of the people watching wouldn't have even realized they were *watching* a remake.  This was very poorly written, there was no suspense as they rushed into the action as soon as possible.  part of what made the original great was the disbelief that there was even a vampire in the first place, it was a great source of tension and suspense in the movie.  That doesn't exist in the remake, I barely had my popcorn ready as my wife and I sat down to a horror movie night when the fact that there was a vampire and everyone accepted that fact and decided to kill it was revealed.  Everything seemed so unnecessarily rushed just to get to the action scenes that it took away from the story. I'm not against remakes or re-imagings but I left this movie thinking that it would have been so so so much better if they had just stuck to the original script.  The acting was good and the special effects were......well, they actually weren't that great, but they were good enough. It seems to me right now, after seeing some movies like this lately, that movies are either poorly written these days or I'm past the age where a hot chick and a car chase are enough to do it for me.

Expected Better Quite simply, I expected a better documentary based on the other reviews for this DVD; I expected better production quality and something at least worthwhile with regard to UFOlogy.  I didn't see it in this DVD.  First of all, the naration is terrible... the guy continues to repeat himself.  It sounds like it was written by Seventh Grader trying to make sure his term paper has the requisite amount of words.  The video is mostly stock video... and most of that isn't even from images in the 1970s.  There are no re-enactments; a few drawings and a video of one abuctee speaking at some type of forum (this was the only thing that did make this worth watching).  There is another DVD available here on Amazon about the various UFO incidents in 1973... I plan to purchase that one and compare the two... but for now, I'm feeling like I shouldn't have wasted my money on this one.

2 1/2 stars for a lame sequel Following the footsteps of "Romancing the Stone" which I thoroughly enjoyed, it's easy to understand why the series stopped here.  In the previous film, lightweight though it may be, there is no question that the chemistry between Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner helps make it fun to watch.  Not so here.  This is essentially a lame attempt at comedy with some ludicrous adventure thrown in. Poorly written it doesn't work very well.  I can't totally dismiss it, because of Douglas and Turner but come on.

Groundhog Day Everything in this movie is a rehash of the first.  It is like retelling a joke but changing one word and thinking it will be equally funny the second time around.  Yes the actors are great and funny people, so the movie isn't terrible.  But sadly the writers didn't bother producing an original script the second time around.

In comparison to the DVD and the SACD: Now 2 stars not 5. Sadly Gorecki died last year, November 12th 2010.  I originally wrote: "Ok, so I actually don't own this Blu-Ray and normally I'd be the first to criticize people who give 5 star reviews to something they don't own or have no experience of , but I do own the SACD and the DVD and they are rare enough. Based on that I would therefore like to share with you my experience of those two formats and believe it provides just a little justification for my review. The DVD quality is superb as is the Dolby 5.1 sound. Frankly Dolby at its best I would say. So based on this I am sure the Blu-Ray must be just as good and no doubt better considering the Blu-Ray surround is 8.0 24/96 and it's 2.0 is 24/192 I have no doubt the sound will be Studio Master quality. The hybrid multi-channel SACD is based on a 24/96 source and is just beautiful."  Well talk about eating your own words. I should have waited for this to arrive before writing my review.  Sound is superb as I suspected and on the same par as the SACD. 24/96 7.1 (8.0) surround, 24/48 and 24/192 Stereo. 5 STARS! BUT Video on this Blu-Ray is in BLACK AND WHITE. WHY? Compaired with the DVD it removes all the warmth and beauty out of the original film which was set in the beautiful all-wooden Holy Cross Church in Gorecki hometown of Zakopane. The original film (on DVD) obviously makes use of the stunning setting, with many of the camera angles and shots utilising the beautiful surroundings making it a very engaging film. Now, well it might as well have been filmed in the local MacDonalds, IMHO. Hey, maybe some will say Black and White is chic, adds to the mood and I'm completely missing the point. Who knows. But at least they could have included the colour version. Even the interview with Gorecki, talking about the 3 sorrowful songs and his love of Chopin, has been reduced to Black and White. SHAME! ( - 2 stars) I haven't managed to figure out what the actual resolution is either. The film has been updated with occasional shots of the music score.  Perhaps Lipinski should provide more of this detail on their website. The shots on the web page are in colour which frankly is misleading.  The accompaning booklet has various black and white shots of Gorecki and various concert scenes that look like they were scraped from the video tape rather unprofessionaly.  At $85 a shout? Ouch! Not value for money. ( - 1 stars)  If you can get them I would thoroughly recommend the DVD and the SACD, distributed originally by Polish Radio.  This is one of the most famous classical music masterpieces ever written and it is conducted by Gorecki himself during his 70th birthday gala concert. It is the only recording I know of were Gorecki actually conducts so this is a very important historical piece. I recon this release is for die-hard fans only though, or those who wish to get hold of the 24/192 stereo studio master for their DS player.

Painful This movie was dull and painful. At times, the quieter scenes seemed to last forever, and I swore I could feel myself aging. Would have been better probably in Chinese with subtitles. Sophomoric and undercooked. I give it two stars because the woman could fight, and that was awesome for a whole 2 minutes.

Not really what was expected I didn't realize that these were not set routines, but rather series of poses, with breaks in between each pose. Therefore, it is up to you to make your own transitions. I wish that I had known that prior to purchasing. I figured that I would be a little advanced for these dvd's in terms of yoga knowledge, but right on par in terms of strength and flexibility.Unfortunately I was right on the first account and wrong on the second. It's still waaaay to easy. Most of the inflexible DVD uses a chair for balance, making it totally useless to me, as being of average flexibility and in my 20's, I can touch my toes with no problems. I think a more appropriate name for this DVD set would be yoga for elderly or less mobile people as those are the types of modifications it provides. Overall, I would not purchase or recommend.

Ehh... This movie started out with a LOT of promise. The premise of Jumpers and what they can do is pretty cool, so I was geared for a fun sci-fi film. Jumpers are the only people with special abilities (at least, as far as the movie showed) - no other abilities such as making fire or telekinesis or anything.  What made me give this movie such a low rating was this... rivalry between Jumpers and Paladins (people who hunt down and destroy Jumpers) Why? The Paladins are supposed to be these religious nutjobs who think that Jumpers are abominations against God. This has been going on since the Middle Ages.  Wait, what? Today, they can capture Jumpers by shocking them with electricity because that interferes with a Jumper's ability to Jump, but in the Middle Ages, they had no such devices. Infact, the origin and history of Jumpers and Paladins are never really explained. It's not explained how Paladins were able to kill Jumpers back then. So honestly, the whole story really makes no sense, and this movie would have been a lot better if taken in a different direction.  The protagonist's mom left when he was five. He finds her again and what? Mom's a Paladin and that's why she left? Really? Jeez, that was SO cliche.

Shelly, Sellers, Song: ANNOYING!!! captivated by how 1962 could adequately portray a sensitive pedophile with competition from a menacing one...  Sue is perfect in her powerful role to seize the day via male manipulation.... if Stanley had his way, one wonders what scenes he envisioned, even by todays standards this is one of the creepiest attempts to evoke sympathy for a social deviant with limited consequences... even Quilty is laughing at his own demise, surprised he didn't impersonate a 12yo for Humbait... plot did leave me hanging with the vehicle stalking that was a different model than the one at the gas station and the unexpected U Turn, not sure I recommend this for anyone, Sellers is more appropriately showcased in Strangelove, Winters in Poseidon or Anne Frank, as for Mason, ANYTHING but this drivel....

Documentary for Class? The reviews explain what the movie is about etc.. However, I wish I knew that this was not a big picture 'movie' in the full sense of the term .. I would place this piece under parental guidance or High school training.. Although I like the actors and the predators are a serious problem in society, I would still cautious the viewers. The only reason I gave it a 2 stars rating is for the actors, not the story. There is no story....

LOOKS PRETTY GOOD FOR A GIRL WITH A HUMP This is a slow moving neo-noir modern western.  Mickey Rourke plays Nate Poole, a jazz player has-been who has been caught with a mobster's wife. He is taken out into the desert to be shot when suddenly a group of Native Americans, dressed in white, shoot his killer. Nate walks until he reaches a sideshow carnival, complete with a woman with huge angel wings (Meagan Fox) named Lily Luster (short for Lilith, a fallen angel?). As the carnies are ready to kill Poole, Lily rescues him.  Rhys Ifans plays Sam Adamo (another Biblical reference as Lilith in mythology was Adam's first wife). He is the head carny and Lily's caretaker. Nate plans to exploit Meagan by going back to the mobster Happy Shannon (Bill Murray) who is anything but happy, as he is a "recent widower."  Nate is aided by Harriet (Kelly Lynch) who runs the "Dream Lounge" in case you thought we were running out of symbols/metaphors. Oh yes, Happy's real name is "Michael" like the angel.  Poole seems to ruin his chance for redemption when he decides to exploit "angel." The movie contains tons of slow, seemingly useless, endless dialouge. The Sartre ending was expected as soon as the first shot was fired. This is more of an "indie" style movie or perhaps an "art" film. I think everybody will find something boring in this film in spite of the haphazard use of metaphors.  F-bombs, one dimly lit sex scene, nudity (not Meagan).

Boring but not terrible Boring movie. Plain and simple. Too slow - everything was as expected with no interesting side plots to carry my attention. Not worth watching.

The worst Blu-Ray transfer of all time I love this movie, and couldn't wait for it to be released on Blu-Ray.  The transfer is sadly horrible - the framing of the movie chops off more heads (or whatever is at the top of the frame) than the Load High Executioner (yes, I checked to make sure I wasn't accidentally setting the TV picture size to an artificial wide-screen size), and the images are grainier then a "normal" DVD, and just ridiculously un-sharp for Blu-Ray.  If it weren't for the packaging, I'd swear this was a cheap rip-off bootleg.

Disappointed I wish I could say I enjoyed this movie and was worth paying to watch, but I honestly cannot.  In drama there is a phrase regarding the viewer having a "willful suspense of disbelief."  I never found that possible due to poor chemistry between Nicholson and Freeman in this disjointed, predictable storyline.  I really think the topic is decent, it does not have to be so scary one cannot find their own humor in it, but as a viewer I felt as though it (and I) were disrespected and dumbed down.  Seriously, both of these older gentlemen have BRAIN surgery and recover in no time perfectly with all brain function intact?  They have none of the ongoing issues of Cancer patients with fatigue, etc.?  How realistic is it Freeman receives the call at work that he has Cancer, especially when his wife is a nurse?  One scene Nicholson tears up the bucket list and in another scene they are writing on it again!  I found myself terribly distracted by these odd moments.  I love a good heartwarming story, especially those with a solid message you can take with you, where you see a lives transformed (like Shawshank Redemption or The Blind Side).  This is not one of those movies.  I cannot recommend this movie, there are far better stories out there to watch than this one.

Pointless I believe that this movie was just pointless... There were very few action/horror scenes(compared with the previous movies) and the story line pretty much went nowhere. I have been a fan of the Underworld movies since the beginning but this movie was VERY diappointing! I was literally yawning throughout the movie!

Slow and Boring My better half tells me that the author of this series is very good, and the book this series is based on is excellent.  But she agrees with me that this is the worst Swedish film we've seen recently.  This same review will be applied to the other four films in series 1, save your money.

No, no, a thousand times no. A visually engaging, pretentious, overwrought piece of junk.  Aronofsky's other work is great, but this thing stinks.  Seriously.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 I love Harry Potter but I was really disappointed with this one.  The entire movie was at night and to me it did not live up to the story lines of all of the previous movies. Maybe it will all come together after Part 2.

Frenzy DVD I was very disappointed with this specific DVD.  This version has been edited and is missing several crucial scenes.  This is still a good movie, but just make sure to watch the complete (un-edited version).

Meh **Warning: This review contains spoilers.**  "In Time" is an action film for pretty boys.  Justin Timberlake stars as Will Salas, one of many who live in a futuristic world where physical aging stops at the age of 25.  However, this is also the point where the LED clock on your arm starts to tick down to zero, at which point the rest of your life is spent chasing after minutes to keep yourself alive to, essentially, chase after more minutes, which can be gained through metal devices designed for the purpose or in small amounts from those generous enough to share.  Time is either treated as currency or a drug, the next fix always being slightly out of reach.  There are many moments in this film in which I became consciously aware that I wasn't buying what they were trying to sell me.  Straight out of the gate, we are supposed to believe that Olivia Wilde is Timberlake's mom.  I was squirming in my seat during their first scene together, imagining that some sordid episode between the two would eventually result.  Cut to Salas hanging out in a bar that introduces us to both of the television stars of the film. Johnny Galecki of "Big Bang Theory" is Salas' best friend, a drunken loser whose wife is raising the kids while he indulges in his nightly binges.  Serendipitously, Timberlake and Galecki are in the bar the same night as Henry Hamilton (Matt Bomer of "White Collar") who "has a lot of time on his hands".  That is to say, he's rich.  The "minutemen" (thugs) have tracked him down to this very bar to fight him for his wealth.  (To clarify, "fighting" consists of limp-wristed arm-wrestling where those involved press their clocks together to make time run down.  The victor walks away, still in possession of his own time, with the added bonus of the other party's time.  To "time out" is to die.)  What happens next, and for the remainder of the film, are a series of thoroughly formulaic events.  Salas saves Hamilton's life.  He takes him back to a warehouse where they have a long discussion, Bomer's lines believably delivered, Timberlake's not so much.  They sleep and in the morning, Hamilton gifts Salas with all of his time, save for enough to get him to the nearest bridge so that he can plummet from it when his clock times out.  Since this is not a suicide per se, the only explanation for his chosen location that I could come up with is to get the police involved.  Enter "timekeeper" Raymond Leon (Cillian Murphy) who, of course, is going to now investigate where all that "time" went, which will undoubtedly lead him into a series of less-than-satisfying encounters with Salas.  Yet "ironically", no sooner does Salas receive this "gift of time", that his mom "times out" on the first of many long-distance and stiletto-heeled runs that were apparently prerequisites for women who wanted to star in this film.  I laughed at how quickly her clock ran down.  No other passage of time is treated with such a quick cut as this one was.  I grimaced as Timberlake proved my anticipation correct - that he would hold his mother's lifeless body in his arms and scream "Nooooooo!" at no one in particular.  From here, Salas vows to take revenge on the rich folks who live in a different "time zone" who have absolutely nothing to do with his mother's death, but are driving up the prices on everyday needs that will eventually kill everyone when they "time out" in order to live (more "irony").  He meets Phillippe Weis (Vincent Kartheiser), another character with an ill-conceived moniker, and his daughter, Sylvia (Amanda Seyfried), the obvious love interest.  Another awful clich&eacute; is enacted when Salas half-heartedly attempts to teach Sylvia how to live her life on the edge by taking her for a swim in the ocean of her backyard.  (That's not a joke.)  Of course, Leon tracks Salas down to this location and, to no one's surprise, Timberlake breaks free.  He grabs Sylvia by the arm and they embark on the well-known pursuit of police cat with criminal mice, with a dash of minute men here and there and a weak car chase thrown in for good measure.  What is the purpose of these minutemen anyway?  Do they exist solely to prove that time isn't the only threat to mankind?  Wait, no - that is thrown in for exposition two thirds of the way through the film.  Of course, Salas meets up with these men and fights them, but the end result is yawn-worthy.  The film ends on a Robin Hood meets Bonnie and Clyde note, and we are surprised when we realize just how many times we zoned out during the past two hours.  Murphy was finally afforded more screen time in his role as Leon.  This was a relief, considering how a majority of his past roles, like Dr. Crane/Scarecrow in Batman Begins or even his starring roles, like that of Jackson Rippner in Red Eye, have generally cut him short when he has the chops to hold his own.  Bomer, Seyfried and Kartheiser are believable as well, although Kartheiser seems to give us more of his Pete Campbell from Mad Men.  Timberlake is outshone here when matched up against these veterans, and the veterans seem to be appearing either in type-casted roles or are phoning in their performances.  There are enough time-related puns in this film to sink a ship.  And there is one sequence in which a car tumbles down a hill where the CGI's obviousness is laughable.  The concept is interesting enough, but the idea is stretched so thin that it's transparent.  The script, with its trite and lackluster dialogue, appears to be a first attempt by a recent film school graduate.  If you think you are headed out to see an action film, then you will be as misled as I was by the trailer.  This is more of a heist film than an action film, and it's not a very good one.

Only plays in DVD will not play on your computer The film quality is decent.  However, the discs will not play on my computer.  This is a huge negative for me.  If you just want a bunch of films for a low price and only plan on watching them on your DVD player then this collection is for you.  However, there are more expensive DVD versions of these films here on amazon.

Poor quality product I have not even finished the second season and have had to borrow the separate seasons from a friend twice in order to watch the series so far. One of the discs was unreadable and another had issues playing one of the episodes. The law of averages tells me that I will probably have at least 4 more bad discs or episodes before I am through watching the series. I guess you get what you pay for. Do yourself a favor and find a better quality set if they make one. If not, buy the seasons separately.

disappointing double vision i received two 1968 versions of the movie and no 1999 version.  tried contacting the vendor but got no response.  slightly sad.

Not a great movie I was really disappointed in this latest edition to this series.  It was just a so, so movie and at times actually seemed kind of boring.  I have all the previous movies and liked each one of them, but this one is bad.  Because of this movie, I don't think that I would waste my money to purchase the next part when it comes out.  Save yourself some money on this and don't buy.  I highly DO NOT recommend this one.

Well Made But.... One person gave this film 5 stars because he said it was so faithful to the book. Another gave it 1 star because he said the film left the book "short changed." I gave it 2 stars because though the movie was well-made & well-acted it is socially insignificant & philosophically bereft of meaning. Kurt Vonnegut apparently feels that life is nothing more than a series of random moments strung together. He could not be more wrong, as I'm sure he's aware of now in his afterlife.The Bible has the correct answers about life.

Mediocre Effort The animation in this movie is fairly solid. The voice work is also fairly solid. The writing, pacing, etc., is mediocre. At 46 minutes, this movie feels both slowly paced and rushed at the same time. The story has virtually no excitement and has none of the trademark "Looney Tunes" zany humor. Even the moments which are supposed to be "touching" fall flat because the viewer has no connection with the characters or storyline. You are dropped into the world of Daffy Duck, greedy store owner, without much logic or explanation. Bugs Bunny pays Daffy a visit and says, "You know that bad things happen to people that hate Christmas!" Bugs then warns Daffy that ghosts could be paying him a visit soon. No other details are given about why ghosts are visiting Daffy. The ghosts visit Daffy for about five minutes each. Daffy is quickly repentant and treats his employees better. The whole premise feels pretty half-baked because Daffy is never shown doing anything that harsh to his employees. When the ghosts come to him and he repents, he says calmly, "I would like a second chance." In the original story, Scrooge is absolutely at the breaking point before he repents and turns from his greedy ways. With Daffy, you have a feeling he is simply inconvenienced by the ghosts bothering him, and would just like to get a good night's sleep. Daffy doesn't do that much to redeem himself after he reforms, and still doesn't seem to be that benevolent at the end. So we are left with a "Christmas Carol" that misses virtually every opportunity for an emotional connection with the audience (which is what this story usually does best). This movie had a lot of potential but the execution was mediocre at best.

Not worst movie ever, but not very good. I don't think its the worst ever as someone else wrote, but its not very good at all. not worst the couple of bucks. Beware

Not at all a good movie If you find it for rent for $1.99, go for it. Any more? Pass it by. Been done many times before in a better fashion. The acting is poor, the plot....well its been overdone by too many. I cannot recommend this movie unless you cant find anything at all else. Why doesnt Amazon add to its "free" movie offerings? I renewed my prime membership yet again but the new additions are few and far between. Amazon, if you are listening, provide some new "free for Prime Members" movies for goodness sake. You are making money hand over fist, pass on some of your profits to your best customers PLEASE!

Not up to Disney Standards My daughter loves Disney princesses, she watches all of the movies and sing- alongs but this didn't hold her attention for more than ten minutes. It is not good quality in my opinion, not what you would expect from Disney.

I CAN'T UNDERSTAND HOW... MST-3000 missed this film. The basic story line: Klaus Kinski draws a circle in chalk and prays for an angel to visit him and give him the secret of life. A space ship flies over the community. The villagers think it is a dragon and a tax revolt erupts until the dragon is slain. Meanwhile, the dowdy Princess Alba is bored and decides to sneak out of the castle. She does encounter the Green Knight which gives us some comedic moments as does the town crier, but nothing to fall out of your chair over. Once she gets to a lake, the princess decides to doff all her clothes and go skinny dipping by herself. Why? Because if she didn't they would have never put the word "nudity" on the box and we would have never seen the film. The nudity is all underwater and certainly not a reason to get this film. While swimming she is captured by the "dragon" and mute man in a space suit. The princess falls in love and returns during her funeral. Now the question becomes, what to do about the "dragon?"  I don't think there is a scene in the movie which looks like the cover. You won't reveal the surprise ending because chances are you won't make it that far. Move over Italy, Spain is making movies.

Cool previews horrible effects The previews to this movie really outlined the awesome and disturbing scenes of the movie but when you actually start to watch the movie, you notice instantly that the attacks are so fake and the action is obviously fake. It's like trying to watch a sixties flick and botice the guy missed the girl with the knife yet she spray blood and acts like she"s dying. It was f Pretty bad. Oh and if your English. Don't bother with the language, it's really bad

A let down On its own, this is an OK musical.  It isn't something I would stand in line for hours for to get tickets as is its predecessor.  There are some great haunting melodies, but where Phantom was a departure from a "typical" Andrew Lloyd-Webber musical, Love Never Dies stays right in the center of the mix.  I understand why, on paper, having the Phantom go to Coney Island would be an interesting setting, but after watching this, and then going back and watching Phatom, it truly cheapens the entire story and its characters.  I found it predictable and boring.  I think it would have been much more interesting to increase focus on the child, and let the side stories (Meg, her mother, drunken Raoul, and even Christine)take a back seat or even eliminate them.  It has moments of promise, but much more let-down and the finale was a mess.  Throughout, there was too much exposition which led to over explaining the obvious.  If you are a huge fan of the original, you will be disappointed.  This really is a story that was better left to our imaginations, and untold.  Video quality was great, and I thought that this Australian cast would have been MUCH better suited for the 25 Year Anniversary concert.  This Christine sounded like Sarah Brightman, and this Phantom, sounded remarkably close to the mighty Michael Crawford.

Manipulation So basically I can sum this flick up in one word, manipulation. Instead of being 'jerks' these two guys are tugging at this girls heartstrings playing the other side of the 'jerk' mentality. Giving her what she wants, using her desires against her to get her with themselves. As far as I can tell she isn't doing any better with the two guys trying to get in her pants. The only difference is these guys are desperate enough to stay!  The movie isn't what I would call a romantic or a comedy, it's more depressing really and drags on and on with pointless directions that really don't add much to the story at all. I'm not sure why the movie had to go the additional mile after she decided who she wanted to be with.

Subtitled Amazon really needs to put it in the description when a movie is subtitled. Not only was it not in the description of this movie but the trailer, as far as I noticed, didn't show subtitles or anyone speaking anything other than English. Yes there are good movies with subtitles but sometimes I'm just too tired to spend an hour reading them and it detracts from my enjoyment. When there's disclosure of subtitles that's one thing. When there isn't I end up feeling like I've been taken. Amazon I keep asking you to include in the description when a movie isn't in the language of the target country and/or is subtitled. Please do it.

Completely BIASED and MYOPIC, agenda based disaster This series is watchable if you love baseball, but unless you are a Yankees fan, a Boston Red Sox fan or you want to hear about how hard it was for blacks to get into baseball for 18 and a half hours then don't even bother to watch this agenda-minded, biased and myopic look at our American pastime.  This series starts out ok, going back to the history of baseball in the mid 1800's, but then it quickly closes in and focuses on the Yankees, and the Red Sox.  The series is extremely irritating in that it CONSTANTLY brings up the "black man's struggle" in the MLB and they just keep throwing that in your face - A LOT.  Practically every episode goes into a 20 minute rant on how bad everything was for the black players.  BOO frigging HOO, they ended up making hundreds of thousands (and now millions) of dollars so quit whining about it.  Ken Burns drags this point up constantly throughout the series and it is just ridiculous.  The series also only focuses on a handful of teams, COMPLETELY leaving out important teams like the 1979  - 1985 Kansas City Royals and George Brett, one of the greatest players in the history of baseball.  They just skip right over 1979 - 1985 and go straight on to 1986.  This is a completely biased account of baseball, and although still fun to watch, the preaching about the hardship of the poor millionaire black man and the constant focus on the Yankees and the Red Sox just gets old.  2 stars Ken Burns, that's all this piece of trash gets.  More info at[...]

Fell asleep while watching and woke up the day after. Thankfully I didn't sleep until the day after tomorrow.  I watched - or tried to watch anyway - this big budget piece of environmentalist propaganda because it had reached the "everyone has seen it but me" kind of critical mass so that I was compelled to see it just so I can say I had.  I loved the opening scene when the driller guy is standing there while a huge crack formes in an ice shelf and ends up separating him from his colleagues.  This was just like an "Ice Age" movie, but with a human and his ice cores rather than a squirrel and an acorn.  But it was downhill from there on.  The problem wasn't that I'm a bit skeptical of the whole global warming thing (at least the part where humans did it and humans can fix it) but rather that I found the characters so dull.  Spectacular effects cannot make up for boring characters, at least not for me.  So, I'll be returning this movie to where I rented it from today, not the day after tomorrow.

Interesting movie but.....sexist as all.... I get that it is difficult to raise a child in a same sex inviroment. What I don't get from this is that it seems as if the message is that "evil heterosexual sperm donor dad is evil". Seriously, wtf? They cast the guy as a "male slut" or something because he is having consensual sex with a black woman.... "he's a slut but at least he is not rascist???" Most retarded premise ever..... ever! Then a biological child finds out that they are his donation (world's worst sperm bank ever) and the guy steps up as a dad (like super fast). But I don't want to ruin the rest of this sexist movie.... oh wait, I do! So dad ( who happens to be a seriously awesome guy) finds out that he is a dad and he falls into love/emotion with one of the "mothers" and has nom noms with her. Well let me tell you the moral that I got from this. If you are a somewhat decent guy who is kinda of successful and you find out that you have kids that looked you up because of a sperm bank that (sereiously needs to be sued) let them know and then you go out of your way to be a great person to them but it causes problems in a relationship between a gay couple (it is the premise, so back off haters) and fall in love with one of the {mom's), said so called "father" is a horrible person who should be thrown away and ignored. Honestly, the most sexist movie I have EVER seen.

Boring - good only for little kids Boring, involving, short story.  Small children might enjoy it, but I would be surprised if adults actually enjoyed it.  If you don't have kids, I would advise renting it rather than buying it.  Blu-ray looked good, but that is the only think=g it had going for it.

COLOR PURPLE DVD THE DVD I PURCHASED SEEMED HOME MADE.  IT HAD NO LABEL AND HALFWAY THROUGH THE MOVIE IT STOPPED AND A MESSAGE APPEARED TO FLIP OVER DVD TO CONTINUE.  THE QUALITY WAS OK BUT, THE DVD SEEMED LIKE A PIRATED COPY. AS A HUGE FAN OF THIS MOVIE I WAS DISAPPOINTED IN THE DVD.

History got snubbed w/ this 1 Purchased it w/ playstation on discount ~ Unless Ur download was completely "screwd" or U ordered the wrong format Sony is reluctant 2 cut ya a break :( w/ a wallet refund  If the movie wasn't sooo heavy handed w/ it's attitude w/ catholics (which I am not) just enjoy sound history :) If a movie insists upon pushin' this issue  I don't believe the catholic church has ever been the equivalent of 1984 or the soviet empire or 3rd reich ~ come on now ~ Cory Goodman ~ pick on the muslims ~ c how that goes :)  However ~ if it playd more like a jedi order vs vamps ~ campy yes ~ improvement @ least :)  Personally ~ I thought ass~asins creed did a bettr job w/ the issue ~ Even though it's pro-jihad-ists attitude ~ isn't exactly praise-worthy :-P  As for vamp films ~ I recommend the blade series to this sneaky ~ pop-corn ~ propagandist film :)

Good not one of his best but good Not a great moive but it was good this is not one of his best movies but it was ok to watch

Misleading It won't play in a regular DVD player, Didn't see where a multi-region DVD player and specific tv was required. Grandson disappointed!-(

Upset When I purchased the three disc set of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1, I was looking forward to down loading the digital copy of the movie, When I down loaded the movie, Warner Bros.(WB) only gave me 50% of the movie for my personnel computer. I tried to contact WB about the problem and have yet to hear from them. I will not be purchasing any three disc movies set in the future. I would be wasting my money.  angry and upset

Lamhaa has very few interesting moments Lamhaa is a film about Kashmir and in trying to create an unbiased film the director Dholakhia almost succeeds but fails in execution and narration. The underlying theme is, there will no peace in Kashmir because no one wants peace. It is the time of elections in Kashmir and the Army suspects that some militants are going to create some sort of disturbance. So they hire an undercover expert Sanjay Dutt to investigate. During his investigation he bumps in to a host of characters such as Bipasha Basu (Aziza) in a deglamorised appearance, an honest young politician who truly wants to make a difference -Kunal Kapoor, a leader Anupham Kher whose intentions are suspects and a variety of other sleazy sorts. The film is interesting at times but the filmmaker tries to pack a lot of things during the run and this becomes messy. The film succeeds because it is an unbiased look at the current situation, accurate or not and stumbles because the narration is very choppy. The music of the film by Mithoon, which I thought was superb has been used ineffectively and at inappropriate times. James Fowlds the director of cinematography has done a fantastic job in making the valley look beautiful. However the movie was just as messy as Kashmir is today. Two stars. 1/16/11

OK But Questionable Footage Some parts of this documentary on Waverly Hills were good, yes, and quite creepy. But when I see a credibility issue I cannot enjoy the rest of it. For one thing, a 15 year old is interviewed and listed as a "historian." I don't really care about some imagined experience of a teenager, and if they've read a few books it still doesn't make them a historian. A band named after a haunted room number is here, screeching and howling their "music." Again, their opinion doesn't mean much. What gave us fits though was when they were talking about the body chute, a tunnel where dead bodies were removed so patients didn't see them. A person was talking about all the bodies that passed through the chute, and footage was shown. NOT footage of the chute in it's day, but footage of concentration camp victims! This was film recognizable to any, um, actual historian, and was shot by US soldiers when they liberated the camps in Germany. That's where they lost us. Another chuckle comes from a guy with an EMF monitor who freaks as his monitor goes off. On the wall near him is a big electrical outlet or fuse box, not sure what it was. Stick to Ghost Hunters. They are more professional, no shock value or awful music, and they don't jump when they hear a noise. They try to rule out everything before labeling anything paranormal (not necessarily a haunting). They don't have silly psychics running around giving their unscientific "feelings," nor do they yell like schoolgirls when a noise is heard.

2 stars is being generous Dan Fogler is an overweight stoner in this 2007 film, who plays ping pong and is a total loser in life otherwise.  The redeeming part of this film is the performances given by Christopher Walken, Cathy Shim, George Lopez, Maggie Q, James Hong, Terry Crews, Robert Patrick, Aisha Tyler, Jason Scott Lee, Toby Huss, David Koechner, Kerri Kenney, La Na Shi (the Dragon), Brandon Molale, Kiralee Hayashi, Nancy Davis, Emily Wang, and Elmira Zainabudinova; all of which carry the film in spite of Dan Fogler.  It would probably help if you were drunk or stoned while you watch this film I'm guessing.  Pretty much if you seen the trailers on TV advertising this film, you've seen the best of it.  Too bad it's PG-13, Cathy Shim is captivating but only a little because of the PG-13 limitations.  There are some decent special effects and interesting pretend world talent, as well as some legitimate ping pong playing talent.  The humor is low brow, without being completely lewd.

The definition of "Sequalitis" "Iron Man 2" could have been a great movie.  This is the frustrating fact of the mostly-failed effort of "Iron Man 2."  It is not a complete loss, but it is dying of a cancer, a malaise if you will.  It suffers from a malaise that is seeping all over Hollywood over any good franchise.  We all have seen this malaise, felt its effects and lamented its continued presence.  It has brought down titans and peons in the movie industry alike.  The problem is, it is insidious, tempting and truly the devil's fare.  It has gone by many names, but I dub it "Sequalitis."  Sequalitis infects any movie that has even the potential to become a franchise.  It has been there since day 1 and will be with us till the day we die since studio executives rate somewhere between dimwits and rutabegas on the intelligence meters. We have been warned since childhood with fables such as the golden goose to stay away, but studio executives must try to kill all that is good in the universe.  They are not responsible for innovation, but they sure can kill it.  Okay, so what is sequalitis, you may ask?  Simple.  It is the mistaken notion that the next installment of a successful movie must have everything the first one did and more.  It must be bigger, more thrills, more chills, more stars and more oomph.  The notion of trying to recreate a formula that worked so well, usually because it was so unique.  Once that uniqueness is attempted again, though, it is no longer unique and therefore loses its magic.  And we can place the blame squarely in the stupid studio executives' grubby little hands.  It is greed unboound.  It is the triumph of commerce over art.  It is...some other metaphor for Goliath beating David.  Movies cost SO much to make anymore, between special effects cost, marketing, talent and executive avarice, union rates and a whole host of other costs that go into the production of a high-profile movie.  Combine that with the slavish devotion to the pre-release focus group feedback and the studios all but strip out any kind of magic or originality into a production until we are left with a bland, flaccid and vanilla avatar of what could have once been something interesting and, yes, fun.  This is the problem with "Iron Man 2."  "Iron Man 2" has approximately 6 good movies in it.  If the producers would have picked 2, they would have had a great movie.  I loved Stark's alcholism, losing his company, a rival nipping at his heels, his assistant taking over, his friend starting a new Iron Man, a wronged villain enacting revenge, a government agent spying on him, a new covert government agency working at cross purposes with him and ---gasp!--- the Avengers initiative.  All of these are interesting plotlines.  But because fanboys want to see War Machine or Black Widow or Whiplash or whatever, the producers tried to put in everything while doing justice to nothing.  It becomes a ham-handed attempt to make a tentpole movie delivered with all the subtlety and finesse of a sledgehammer to the side of the head.  Add to that a stupid, cartoon villain (the rival contractor), frenetic MTV-style editing that ensures you can't figure out what just happened, never mind what will happen, and a story-telling device that makes you think you dropped into a 10-episode show at the 3rd for 4th show.  The executives forgot what made the original "Iron Man" so good, which was about a very flawed man who has a life-changing experience and tries to make good on his past sins.  The iron suit is merely incidental.  The STORY is what is important here, not the trappings.  "Iron Man" is fantastic until the last 20 minutes when it becomes the battle of the iron men.  This sequalitis makes me cringe for what is in store with the upcoming "Avengers" movie next year.  When they throw all of these last 5 or 6 movies into the soup, I fear we will get a confused mess, not a worthy story-line.  Bottom-line, don't think too much about "Iron Man 2."  It is like a Victoria's Secret model.  It looks beautiful, but in the end is vapid and devoid of any depth or intelligence.  You want to look, you will have a good time.  You want anything deeper, stand in line just like everybody else and lament the "pretty but dumbness" of the movie.  It is all sound and thunder, but no rain.  Nothing substantial.  But really awesome to look at.

Dissapointing to say the least Swedish television has just showned this serie, and after seeing all episodes I feel that the people behind it needs to learn much more about metal/ hardrock. Here's some examples why  In the episode with 70's hardrock they not once mentioned some of the bigger bands of that era, such as Thin Lizzy, Uriah Heep, Ufo just to mention 3.  And when they talked about heavy metal albums from 1980 not a word was said about Ace Of Spades, and apart from some smaller interwievs nut much has been said about Motorhead.  And spending a whole program trying to find a connection between grunge and metal? Hadn't it been enough with just 5 minutes?  And including Nickelback in another episode who is as much metal as Justin Bieber makes you wonder if these guys know wwhat metal is.  So I would'n recommend anyone buying this DVD. Spend your money on something better such as the Thin Lizzy box or some other great bands records.

Tried to like it The kids like this OK, but it is not my favorite.  I think the problem is that I really don't like EB.  He is annoying in a not funny way.  It is a shame, because I like the other characters--the cast is great and the idea is funny.  Music is good, but we don't watch it very often.  It is not one the kids ask for, like Despicable Me--the kids want to watch that one again and again.

Yeah, let's get to the action already. LAME The movie had potential as it was a different outlook on alien movies, but fell flat on its face as it turned into a drama/romance between the two main characters. The beginning was slow, but I figured it'd pick up...It didn't. The middle had a few things in it though mainly provided us with insight that the two characters were beginning to like each other...Really? After watching the ending, I was sorely disappointed and rather happy it was over. If this is your idea of a good movie, you are certainly impressed by anything. The CGI octopi monsters were pretty lame, just sounding like a whale whenever a noise from them was made. If you must see it, just rent so you don't waste a larger amount of money, but your not missing anything at all people. I'm done reviewing now, hope I've been helpful..  -Cam

Good, but short. Picked this DVD up at the Monster Jam Show in Worcester MA this weekend, got it home to find out it's only 71 minutes long across 2 DVD's, while the content was fantastic, seriously, 30 beans for just over an hour? you'd figure the way they are hyping the 30 year anniversary, there would be more content, more video of the Grave Digger trucks Racing, more something.  the main documentary felt more like a bonus feature for another DVD, with a quick glossing over of the Legend and Red Mud Gravedigger moving onto the spooky paint job.  Showing how the Paint job for the 30th anniversary truck was done was pretty awesome, but on the whole, the DVD Felt lacking.  My advice, Skip for now, until the price drops, this DVD should have been in the $15 dollar range, short with very little content to keep my son occupied.

Well I was going to purchase this film But since the dude jacked it up to $50.00 forget it! It's just VHS!!! Not some HD Blue ray DVD.  Sure, I understand that since Obam-bam doesn't know one thing about management or dealing with a debt crisis. (Like cutting obligations), And you're pobably thinking I could use an extra $50.00 when intrest rates go out of controll to buy about 1/4 tank of fuel right?? But 50.00 bucks for a VHS is crazy!

Great match.  Awful video transfer. I consider this the best tennis match in history.  However, this DVD is pretty much unwatchable on HDTVs due to the poor video transfer.  Standard resolution and lots of flicker.  I had to switch to a small computer monitor to watch beyond Fed's opening service game.  I will keep but only because I accidentally deleted the "live" HD version that I recorded on my PCTV.  [note:  I wish it were a tv or blu ray player calibration issue, but it is not]

Something Boring Ginnifer Goodwin is one of the more likable young actresses in movies and tv today, yet whenever she gets a chance to headline a film, it's in a predictable romantic comedy like Something Borrowed. She plays Rachael a lawyer who is struggling to find happiness and meaning in her life as she enters her 30's.  Kate Hudson who hasn't made a good film since Almost Famous plays Darcy, Rachael's lifelong best friend who is engaged to her law school friend Dex played by Colin Egglesfield.  John Krasinski plays Ethan, Rachael & Darcy's childhood friend.  The film focuses on Rachael & Dex finally realizing they were meant for each, having an affair and ending up together in the end.  Ms. Hudson is absolutely dreadful as Darcy.  The character is supposed to be extremely self-centered, but she plays her so over the top that you can't understand why her Rachael have remained friends their whole lives. Mr. Egglesfield is pretty wooden as Dex.  He is supposed to be the smart, sensitive type.  Based on what his character is supposed to be, you again can't understand why he would ever want to marry Darcy or be best friends with a shallow womanizer Marcus (Steve Howey) who uses a variation on an injured chipmunk story to bed women.  The scenes between Mr. Krasinski and Ms. Goodwin are the only reasons to watch this film.  They work great together and add a touch of heart to the film.  I'd love to see them act together again because they had some really good chemistry.

Borning !!! I was kind of excited to watch this movie because of the reviews I was reading on the movie, but once I got the movie and watched it, it honestly sucked !!, couldn't get into the story, plus I didn't like the ending, I wish it had a nice ending but I guess not all movies end good.

Too violent The movie has a noble enough plot and story; however, the characters are so cruel and the brutality so harsh, I couldn't get through the first half.

"The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" Here is a junky, TV-style version of the new millenium recession.  It has all the hypocrisy and schmaltzy platitudes of a Disney Newseum, person-of-week report.  There is Tommy Lee Jones as a saintly executive who is canned but starts his own business and saves all his old cronies from the poor house.  (Happens all the time!)  There is laid-off hotshot Ben Affleck, whose family loves him so much they even like living with the in-laws.  (Downsizing is great for family values!)  There is a really disturbing scene where Affleck chooses to work for his brother-in-law, Kevin Costner, instead of robbing a bank.  (Pathetic!)  There is one convincing character who manages to make it clear that suicide really is painless, but, in the end, it is just more pandering crap from the writer-director who gave us THE WEST WING.

passable movie yet the inplausible situations cannot be ignored This movie is slightly digestible yet, for having "A list" actors and an acclaimed director, I have to review it tougher than usual.  This movie is about a police officer that crosses the line. He steals, rapes, pillages and partners up with his adverseries. It's marginally entertaining but completely unbelievable...and that is the probem that I had with the flick. Nicolas Cage's character seems like he would have been extinguished right when he started acting like a nut.  In a crime drama, there must be some semblance of reality of which this had none.  The ending was terrible in this entertaining yet totally unbelievable movie.  Werner Herzog is excellent with man-eating bears, obessessed opera lovers, cool nature flick and POW escape plots but, he was out of his element on this one.

Disappointing. I have to say that I expected this one to be kind of good. But whatever. The visuals were absolutely awesome, that is a given. But overall, I just felt disappointed. The thing is, for a franchise that is ostensibly based on toy robots that turn into and from vehicles, Transformer has a great deal of serious dramatic potential. There are great characters to work with, and interesting philosophical questions to ponder. It was not that I thought that the plot of Dark of the Moon was not any good; it was just rushed, blitzed and obscured by the writing (oh, dialog), editing, and directing style. The one scene that I LOVED was when the Autobots were standing on the launching pad at Cape Canaveral in the sunlight, dwarfed by the starship towering above them. It was a quiet, slow, and sadly, emotionally poignant moment. They do not need rapid-fire, sensory overload battle sequences to be compelling characters. I wish that there had been more moments like that. So anyway, I guess that I was hoping for something different. Was this better than Revenge of the Fallen? I am not sure...I did find myself missing Megan Fox. But Josh Duhamel is always great in his role.

Blu ray picture a let down ! If Universal would of got their act together and removed the specks and dust pops then this picture would of been great! This is nothing more then laziness on their part. I will say that this is still worth getting for the 'Terror in the Aisles' documentary never before released on dvd. It's pretty sad that the Halloween 2 dvd never had these dust scratches but the blu ray does! How is blu ray suppose to stay on top with all the mediocre releases they have put out. If I just bought blu ray and saw this picture next to the blu ray of Christmas Vacation I would of said I was ripped off to no end! Both these pictures are examples of releases to worth buying as picture quality especially in High Def! Disappointing Universal... without Terror in the Aisles I would want my money back!

ehh, it was okay This was filmed in the 19th century and is so old school!  Its very outdated and filming is poor quality.  my son still likes it but its annoying to listen to in the background as a parent.  I'd find something else.

An Arty And Contemplative Drama Makes The Last Day On Earth As Mundane As Any Other What would you do on the eve of the planet's destruction? That is the question posited by Abel Ferrara's "4:44 Last Day On Earth." The answer, it would seem, is to live it much like any other. I'm a fan of Ferrara as a filmmaker, I find him refreshingly unpredictable. I'm not sure, however, that "4:44 Last Day On Earth" conveyed and/or made the most of its intriguing premise. While I appreciate that not every apocalyptic endeavor has to be big, bold, and melodramatic--at times this felt so underplayed as to be virtually non-existent. While the concept and images advertising the movie may make it seem like a thriller (the word suspenseful is used in the description), this is a slow burn contemplation in which not much happens. Luckily, Ferrera had the wherewithal to cast Willem Dafoe as his central protagonist. Dafoe, as usual, makes for interesting viewing. This seems like an incredibly personal work for Ferrera and the intimacy that Dafoe brings to his performance is never less than fascinating.  The inconvenient truth of the situation is that Al Gore and his contemporaries were correct about their dire environmental predictions. Catastrophe, however, is way ahead of schedule and the end of the world has been pinpointed with precision. How? Don't ask. Despite the fact that it is supposedly the last day on earth (not everyone believes it, even though news broadcasts have ended due to the imminent game changer), nothing seems too drastically different in Dafoe's neighborhood. Traffic and pedestrians seem normal, stores and bars are open, you can order Chinese food. There is never a real sense of doom. Most of the movie is spent in one apartment with Dafoe and his girlfriend (Shanyn Leigh) dancing, using Skype, painting, making love, or just hanging out independently. Ferrera's point, perhaps, is that life goes on even if there isn't much of it left. While an interesting notion from an intellectual perspective, it doesn't necessarily make riveting entertainment.  I do give "4:44 Last Day On Earth" a marginal recommendation (mostly for the performances) for the arthouse crowd, I'm not sure the film will have a universal appeal. At a mere 82 minutes, I kept wishing 4:44 in the morning would arrive sooner. The film has a pleasing grittiness and rawness, and I appreciated the use of actual news footage (constantly playing in the background) to make the apocalypse seem tangible. Once again, don't think this is a thriller! It is a stagnant character piece with minimal dialogue. I'm not sure what I'd do on my last night on earth, I can only hope it would be more interesting than what is presented here. Ferrera's vision is filled with shopping, Chinese take-out, and karaoke. An interesting approach, to be sure, but not as compelling as I hoped. Watched it with a friend, he bailed at the 30 minute mark. KGHarris, 7/12.

My copy is NOT subtitled I have a profound hearing loss and only purchase DVDs that are close captioned or subtitled.  I have this film in front of me and have tried to run it all 4 of my DVD players... there are no CCs or subtitles on this film.  I can look at the pictures but not having dialog takes just a tad off John Mills performance.  I tried to amend the product discription but Amazon wants proof other than my having spent money on a film I can't watch.  I could return it but it's not worth the hassle.  So I'll just let other know here.

Yeesh.  What a disappointment. ---------------------------------------- "Cars 2: The Big Bomb" (Pixar, 2011) ----------------------------------------  Let me start by saying that I am a huge, huge Pixar fan -- Monsters, Inc., Toy Story, Wall-E: Love 'em! But I just saw this film in the theater with my family and I HATED IT. Indeed, I would rank it among my all-time least favorite movies, alongside "Jade," "Showgirls," "Poetic Justice" and "The Adventures Of Milo And Otis." (I actually walked out on three of this five: "Cars 2" and "Milo And Otis" I had to suffer through because I was with my kid...)  So what's wrong with "Cars 2"?  The short answer is that it's just not a very good movie.  It's loud, frenetic, full of an unstoppable avalanche of leaden exposition and endless yammering, the plot is simultaneously predictable and hard to follow and -- most importantly -- it lacks the genuine emotional core that makes most Pixar films so great. The first Cars movie had a similar problem - can we really care about anthropomorphic automobiles? - and while the original film made a decent effort at building believable characters, this sequel completely fails. It's all about the action, and the strained attempts at humor or clever dialog simply fall flat: I never laughed at anything or cared about any of the characters. On the plus side, the graphic design is impressive: the visuals of London, Paris and Monte Carlo (as well as the desert landscape of the original film) are stunningly rendered.  But without a good script, who cares? Eye candy isn't enough to make a good movie; also the 3D effects weren't very impressive: regular old 2D would be enough.  Of course there are lots of car chases and racing scenes, and if you're really into cars -- NASCAR, Hot Wheels and that sort of thing -- I suppose you'd dig this film. But I thought it was a dud.  One of Pixar's few bum notes. Oh, well.  I liked the trailer for their next flick, "Brave."  Let's hope for the best. (Axton)

Too implausible This movie is pretty mild after having seen Hostel and its horrid sequel. It is also a much better movie. I hated the gore in Hostel. Taken was much more serious. Unfortunately, despite the good message it could have had, it was full of too many impossible situations. But in any case, I am glad I didn't see any of these three movies before going to Europe on my own at the age of 22.  The father (the former spy) is concerned about his daughter going to Paris. Understandable. He seemed a little over-protective. But he was totally balanced out by the mother who was completely unconcerned about anything and went so far as to help the daughter lie about her plans! "She just couldn't tell him the truth," the poor girl. So museums aren't for everybody. Personally I find sculptures and ancient relics much more interesting than paintings. But I must ask: why would ANYONE travel to a foreign country just to pick up the first hot guy they see and follow a rock band around and go to parties and do other things they could just do at home? Oh yeah, ditzy teenagers.  Well, lo and behold, the daughter gets kidnapped, just like the father feared. And she happened to be on the phone with her father at the time. How lucky that he could record the incident! The movie wasn't bad up until this point but shortly afterward all the unbelievable things started to happen. Suspension of disbelief is one thing. But the guy was a former spy, not Superman.  *SPOILER ALERT* The father goes to two different places where they are holding girls to turn into sex slaves. Naturally his daughter is not in either. He kills everyone he comes across and never gets one little scratch. Then he starts attacking everyone in his path just to get by them. He shoots this one guy's innocent wife just to get him to talk. He goes on this crazy car chase down the wrong side of the highway. Yeah, risk the lives of another innocent 50 people just to save one. Sorry, that's just wrong. Finally he finds his daughter. She wasn't at the other places because she was one of the special ones who was being sold to an individual buyer. Not just that, but they were "saving the best for last." Gee, what are the odds? Why, exactly? Well, she's American, and speaks English and French. Come on, she wasn't even that pretty. I think he didn't find her until the third place he looked because they needed to make the movie longer. Anyway, they capture the father. But even with his hands tied up, he manages to kill another ten bad guys. Yep, a Superman. So a little more drama, and then they come home, and all of a sudden he has his arm in a cast, even though he killed like 60 people without ever getting a scratch. This could have been a much more interesting story, if only it had been better executed. Or if it had been a superhero movie.

Was a bit concerned when I saw Vince Vaughn was in it ... When we first learned of this movie, were were interested in seeing it .........  Directed by Ron Howard (that is good ) Kevin James  we love his comical approach from KING OF QUEENS) Winona Ryder and Jennifer Connelly are also always good.  Our one hesitation was Vince Vaughn, we have never really understood how he made it in Hollywood.  But with a promising plot premise, we rented THE DILEMMA.  If you have read all the other 1-2 star reviews, there is nothing I can add. Everything they said is accurate. Pretty bad.  Despite the individual great talents involved in this movie, it was not interesting, not funny, and was an effort to sit thru.  Maybe it's like ingredients in a kitchen .....  Cayenne pepper is great Cocoa is great Curry is great Tomato paste is great Lemon juice in great  But combine them together, and it doesn't work.  Perhaps one problem here is I don't really see a DILEMMA in this film , which is what the whole conflict and tension of the film is supposed to be based upon ------------------  You learn your best friends wife is cheating on him. Of course you tell him -- and I would hope he would do the same for me. Unpleasant to deal with ? YES But ignorance is not bliss. Always live true and honest and you don't have "dilemmas" in life.  So I don't feel the "dilemma" was really a strong enough premise to build a movie upon.  So what we end up with is an aggravating movie where a guy messes his life up simply as the result of a bunch of ridiculous slap-stick kind of actions that would not happen if the guy would have simply spent 30 seconds to tell his friend what he saw and be done with it.  Too preposterous to appreciate or relate to.

pits couple funny parts but for how good the idea was the movie just doesn't deliver.  It's like the film can't decide if it's serious and heartfelt or just trying to be over the top funny.  Ends up being neither,  Ending is dumb, some of the most repeated jokes aren't even funny.

It's the History Channel so of course it has a conservative slant. Definitely a top down 'Great Man Theory' production without any real information on how normal, average people like you or me lived. After all, it is 'The Story of US', right? Or supposed to be. In short, expect more bland stories about Lincoln etc. fitting for an elementary school aged child than any real meaty discussion of 'The Story of Us'.   This kind of streamlined storyline that accentuates the leaders seems oddly conservative to me.  Maybe not.

...and Yaleburton takes a nap. Philip Seymour Hoffman takes his stab at directing  -- and what we get is the "quirky yet casual" storytelling that typifies indie movies these days. Cheesy shot selection, ironic editing, and poor direction of actors all scream out "hipster" with each scene. Pretty painful. One extra star because it does not feature Miley Cyrus.

wrong movie There is more than one movie named Shattered.  I made sure what I was ordering. And it was not the one you see in the photo here , Shattered was from the early 90's, I got a hold of the sender. They said they knew that movie was not avaliable , so they sent a different one .   Guess I cant trust ordering from Amazon anymore !

Supergirl ruins it Its called "Batman/Superman" but it feels like the only point of this was to stick Kara into the movie plotline. Its incredibly hard to enjoy because her voice acting is so horrible. I absolutely love Susan, Kevin and Tim doing their JL characters voices. And they're VERY good so it just makes the bad voice acting stick out even worse. Hell, shoulda had Edward (granny goodness) do Kara and i woulda liked it a lot more.  Even Batman's greatest scene with Darkseid is ruined by the lousy voice of mr Omega-spammer.  The cheapened Doomsday clones seemed like nothing more than an attempt at flashbacking to the Death of Super Man flick (though ironically enough the horrible voice acting is all i really remembered from that POS anyways)  Fight scene between the super cousins and Darkseid were so-so. The Omega Beams didnt have a brutal effect as they were intended to. The animation looked like it was just spraying pink water from a super soaker on Kara and Clark. Not brutally seering their flesh or "reducing them to ashes". I thoroughly thought the furies vs Barda and Wonder Women had MUCH more thought into the fight sequence.  Should be renamed "The diaries of Kara, Clark has chick eyelashes, and Batman doesnt appear for the last half of the damn movie"

Too negative to be enjoyable -- Payton Place of the 1930s I enjoyed some of the performances, particularly by Billie Burke and the Barrymores.  The acting was superb in this movie -- I have no complaint about the acting ability of anyone in the cast, including the bit parts.  May Robson as the cook, although she had only a small part, was very good, as were all of the leads.  Some reviewers here indicate the story is tiring and I cannot but agree.  Practically every leading man in this film is either a philandering husband (who could not be faithful if he tried) or a tyrant and sometimes both.  While the acting was good, this part of the storyline got really old, almost to the point of being too stereotypical.  The burnt-out actor and actress roles were portrayed as such caricatures that it was hard for me as a viewer to relate to them.  This movie reminds me of typical biography movies of the 90s and 2000s decades, where famous people are portrayed as having awful, sordid lives, despite their apparent fame and success. These kind of "biographical" movies where the famous person has an awful life all basically have the same plot and that is what makes them tedious.  As a viewer, we are somehow supposed to relate to every man being an unfaithful husband and every wife as adoring her creepy husband.  Although Jean Harlow does portray a disgruntled wife, her character is so out of place in this kind of "rich and famous" movie, the storyline trashes her as simply a low-class former chorus girl.  After portrayals of too many negative roles, a viewer longs for some kind of respite from the downtrodden, negative story.  Someone mentioned this movie is supposed to have some comedy in it, but I did not find anything comedic about this film.  The attempted humor in some of the lines fell flat.  I cannot really get too excited about this film because the storyline was too negative in its outlook.  The fine performances did not make up for the plodding storyline.  I feel the storyline needed something more in order to give it a smidgen of entertainment value.  Without this, it was just a travelogue about the downtrodden rich and famous and why we should not care about them.  I could never sit through this movie a second time.  It is not a classic by any means.  For film buffs who enjoy "rich and famous" soap opera-type movies, I would recommend "The Razor's Edge" with Gene Tierney, Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb and Herbert Marshall.  That movie is much more interesting than "Dinner at Eight" is.

Not what i orderded. I ordered 30 year anniversary dvd with extra footage. They shipped original edition of dvd. I allready own this edition. Not what i expected to happen. The pic and description said 30 year edition of dvd.

Not that enthralling at all So I was eagerly awaiting this movie as i remembered seeing the trailer in the theatre.. After watching the film, unfortunately the movie did not live up to the hype. So here are the pro's and con's  Pro's All star cast!! Some suspense at times kept me thinking  Con's Weak acting It was of the movie was developed on a shoestring budget Cheezy music Just did not keep me on the edge of my seat  Would I recommend someone renting this movie?  If you have some time and don't mind spending several bucks sure..  But be warned you will be watching a B movie with A actors....

Prometheus If you like another "Alien" movie you might like this.  Follows similar story line Lot of action good visual effects

jade warrior this movie had some good scenes in it, but the title & the content of this movie is misleading. wouldnt have bought it if had preview the actual movie.

Alien Armageddon:  Alien Invasion Movie Mashup Alien Armageddon combined features of a couple of well-know television programs.  First in the line up is the alien in the stomach that can take over the control of your brain--courtesy of the Stargate series, then there is the case of an alien who decides she likes the emotions and feelings that come with the human body--hey, wasn't that done in Star Trek?  What stood out in this film was what the director chose to include in this film--the scenes of explosive diarrhea and vomiting.  We even get to watch the heroine using the toilet.  That's just peachy--if you're into that sort of thing!  And what exactly they were doing to the women in the "birthing rooms"  and how exactly that worked with the eating and the mutating and the experimenting--that never was quite clear to me. The way the aliens integrated with humans seemed to be following along several different lines--it was rather like the plot wasn't quite worked out well enough before they started filming, or four different story lines were combined that would have been better if done separately.  We had the plot with the man who murdered his son (and then some), a plot with a young woman who was the daughter of a government official, the plot with the store owner and/or employee (the woman with an accent) who is trying to get back to find her daughter; and, finally, the plot with the scientist.  Each one of these people could have been followed from start to finish and it would have made for a much more satisfying film. Instead, we have an extremely hazy, confusing overall picture because the story was much too big for what the time constraints allowed.  However, that said, had the director left off some of the eating and the pooping and the coughing and the gagging and the eating of slop and the drinking and the washing and the insertion of slop buckets into the holding cells and the covering up of observation cameras and the long awkward pauses in some scenes as the actors stare at each other as if wondering how they should react or what they should say next--maybe not.

Not very good And wow, David Hartman is truly a terrible actor, yikes!  I like the airship, and the airship captain.  The rich dude is okay too, the rest of the acting and writing is not very good though.  The dog is cute.

"A Must See!".......What?!? I don't know what quality and content those who rated this movie a "must see" are used to, but this movie drags on and on, without resolving any of the irritating frustrations it develops in its own plot.  By the end of the movie, absolutely nothing, except for a very precious relationship, is resolved.  I don't know where all the surprise twists and three steps for one are that have been mentioned, but I definitely didn't see them in this movie. There was one surprise card in the whole movie, and they played it twice!!!! The film quality was fine, and there are some real emotions strung throughout the movie, but they aren't developed enough.  Scenes cut right when emotions surge and everyone is going in different directions throughout the whole movie. The subject matter is without a doubt vital, but this movie doesn't do it real justice for the way a young girl would truly feel immediately after going through a circumstance like this. Very drug out

Painfully tedious In this film there is walking, walking, walking, and more walking as the viewer follows escapees from a Soviet Siberian prison camp during WWII to India with several dying off along the journey. The landscapes in this movie are quite striking but can't overcome the tediously thin plot.  Director Peter Weir based this film loosely on The Long Walk by former Polish Army lieutenant, Slavomir Rawicz. Investigations have raised serious doubts whether Rawicz actually made the 4000 mile trek from Siberia to India as he claimed.  The only upside to The Way Back is it does focus attention on the little-known deportation of Poles (1.7 million) to the Gulag by the Soviets during the Second World War. Those interested might want to check out a personal account of the deportation, "When God Looked the Other Way: An Odyssey of War, Exile, and Redemption," by Wesley Adamczyk.  It was interesting to see actor Ed Harris in this film. You may remember Harris defiantly sat on his hands in protest when director Elia Kazan received an honorary Oscar in 1999. Kazan had quit the American Communist Party in 1936 and subsequently named names in front of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) in 1952, becoming forever the scorn of liberals. I wonder if Harris feels the same way about Kazan after participating in a film which exposes some of the horrific excesses of Stalinism?

took forever and 3d doesn't work I ordered this video on 9/30 and it didn't arrive until 10/25 or so. This was within the designated time frame advertised, but I received notice that it could arrive as soon as 10/9. When it got here, the 2D works fine, but the 3D doesn't work on the specific scenes that look best in 3D. Very disappointing.

That's what I am after watching this movie. If it wasn't for the hot naked chicks there would not be much of a reason to watch this flick. Just wish the church lady would have got drilled at some point.

shame I am a huge fan of the show Chuck but the price for this box set is ridiculous. Shows like All in the Family, The Wire, Homicide:Life on the Street are great and each have a box set of the complete series that cost half as much as this one. First it seemed like NBC didn't want to catch the last season of this show and now with the pricing it feels as if the powers that be want to make it difficult to purchase this fantastic collection.

THis is Review of VCI Nostalgia Film Factory version. PLEASE READ CAREFULLY This will be a short and - I hope - helpful review. Amazon does some really strange things by grouping ALL reviews of a title by the same Studio - i.e. all releaves over the years of a Disney classic. Thin this case I'm reviewing the September 18, 2012 release of this film by VCI under their "Nostalgia Film Factory" header. If you came to this titled through Amazon and found the 2012 VCI release, please sort all reviews by "DATE". I say that because this release - in it's released format has not been reviewed before. Sure the "Star is Born" 1937 (which I'm sure is now Public Domain) has been reviewed for the story. But be aware that this is not a recently restored print and should not be confused with the release from Kino.  VCI does some nice restorations - and I've reviewed many - but this is not one of them. It's a "budget release". Also there are lots of BONUS features to make it seem like "A Night at the Movies" - a trend Warners Started in the 1970s.  In addition to the 150 minute film, there is a 9-minute newsreel (including America Earhart getting lost) from Castle Films, A 3-minute "Grampy" cartoon and a 24-minute chapter of the serial "Radio Patrol". None of the prints is great. (Actually the Newsreel is best) and the Star Is Born print is dark throughout.  So, as a budget release, it okay but there are much better prints out there of this film.  And ALWAYS sort reviews on Amazon by DATE and compare year of review to the DVD release date so you are reading the review of the title you are looking to buy.  Steve Ramm "Anything Phonographic"

I wanted to like it, but... ***Includes spoilers***  Well, let me just say I'm glad I rented this.  I liked Valentine's Day (and like that film, I was excited at the prospect of seeing so many talents in one film).  I thought this would be just as cute, but it's pretty forgettable, and unrealistic to boot.  All these people could never fly around NYC on New Year's Eve and never get caught in a traffic jam.  Michelle Pfeiffer's character does all those things in one day? How does Sarah Jessica Parker's character change her clothes so fast right after the ball drops...did Clark Kent loan her his telephone booth?????  I couldn't really get invested in any of the characters (especially Katherine Heigl's chef, and Ashton Kutcher's bitter illustrator), except perhaps Halle Berry's. It was a nice surprise to see her get all dolled up after her shift as a nurse, to go sit in front of her computer and Skype with her husband who is serving in the Armed Forces.  There were some nice moments...one of the pregnant couples finally seeing the big picture after the birth of their son...the daughter helping her father get his dying wish...Josh Duhamel doing a "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" impression to go see a woman he'd met a year ago, whose name he doesn't even know.  Alas, I wanted to like it, but it's already slipping from my memory banks.  It wasn't total garbage, like some other reviewers stated, but to me it's pretty clear that the actors were just phoning it in.  Two stars.

Not for me Although I generally enjoy the "10 Minute" series, this one just wasn't for me.  I  have bad knees, and there are too many twisting moves in these routines that could cause me injury.  I noted that the days after doing this workout, my knees would ache. I finally put two and two together and started substituting for those moves, but that kind of defeats the purpose.  I also found I never worked up much of a sweat with this one and did not hit my target heart rate.  This is likely due to the fact I could never quite pull off the moves, what with my knees, my carpeted floor, and the fact that I am not coordinated enough to get the upper and lower body moves to mesh well.  Not only was this workout a disappointment physically, I didn't seem to have as much fun doing these moves as I do some of my other workouts.  The dances just didn't flow for me.  I seem to do much better with my other 10 Minute mixes.  There is nothing wrong with the instructor. She is enthusiastic and fresh (if a bit fast paced), but this was just not the right DVD for me.  If you recognize yourself in my description, you might want to steer clear.

Ridley Scott Shot This Film Out of A Dead Spaceship MOVIE REVIEW #37: " Prometheus "  Director and Producer Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Blade Runner) is back and unfortunately (or apparently) he didn't read this script very closely. I am a big fan of ALL of Ridley Scott's projects and even his weakest films (1942, Kingdom of Heaven) have had something of value in them in regards either their characters or story - but Prometheus - wow...I was a severe disappointment.  Let me tell you what's good about it - It does have two really great performances by the creepy and mysterious Android David played amazingly and hauntingly by Michael Fassbinder (300, X-Men First Class) - and - the spaceships main scientist (Elizabeth Shaw) played by intensely and passionately by Noomi Rapace (Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo). These were some of the most dramatic highlights/scenes of the film.  The story written by first time writer John Spaihts and Damon Lindeloff -(Cowboys & Aliens, Lost) - takes a giant leap from the original Alien four films and is trying to be a prequel to the entire franchise. The story is full of holes, the logistics of some of the action had the audience rolling their eyes in `you gotta be kidding' style. The theatrical trailer made me excited and eager to see this film - coupled with the fact it was directed by the `former' master of modern-day suspense Ridley Scott.  I was so disappointed. Yes it has Aliens - different in style, face-huggers that now look like octopuses and the incubation process is completely different - involving worms in the eyeballs! Need I say more?  The Prometheus crew is assigned on a two-year long term mission to investigate a serious of pictographs found in various Earth cultures over centuries of time which leads them to the race of super tall beings (great CG effects here) that actually `seeded' Earth millennium's ago. Turns out - they - made a mistake - we don't know why - but apparently they create a biological weapon (i.e. the Aliens) to destroy their mistakes all over the universe - apparently.  The special effects, the score by Marc Steitenfeld  (Gladiator, Black Hawk Down) and the cinematography by Dariusz Wolski (Pirates of the Caribbean, Sweeny Todd) are state-of-the-art, extremely realistic, very enchanting and incredibly imaginative. Using the production design that reminded my of the first two Alien films in a more cleaner and sleeker design. But this film lacked the story, realistic actions and the heart that the first two Alien films had and it was extremely unbelievable to me.  Charlize Theron as the daughter of the mission financier (Snow White and the Huntsmen, Monster), Idris Elba as the Captain of the Prometheus (Thor, 28 Weeks Later) and a mission specialist Logan Marshal-Green (Across the Universe, Devil) all gave some not-so-impressive performances that made me appreciate the Android David (Fassbinder) and the Chief Scientist Elizabeth Shaw (Rapace) that much more.  I wish it was better. I was hoping it would have been better. But this is a direct to video/DVD or Netflix film. Not worth $12 to $16! Not a lot of substance. Just a lot of special effects!

The real mystery is not the fountain of youth, but why this movie was even made Firstly, I did not buy the blu-ray version of this movie. I don't know what you get for it, but I did see this in theatres. I feel obligated to share my thoughts. To put it bluntly, this movie is not even close in quality to any of the previous films. The loss of Will an Elizabeth is unnoticed. The best character was Jack Sparrow and everyone knew it, but should a whole movie be based off one character? His quirky mannerisms and quick witted humor were great in the other three movies, but it starts to feel stale in this one. A little goes along way. I found that those Jack quick witted mini lectures and jokes got a bit silly when that is all you hear for two hours. Unfortunately, the supporting cast is dull. A lot of the characters from the first three are back including barbossa and Jacks first mate (that one guy who I cant remember his name, the one who has those two lacky screw ups, you know the one). They add nothing here. They never have and were always decent fill in characters. This time Jack gets a lady counterpart, Penelope Cruz. Cruz is ridiculous. She is not necessarily bad, but just boring. She is there to look cute and make pouty faces. She is supposed to be the female Jack Sparrow. However, during her fight scenes, I never believed it for an instant. It just looked silly as did the rest of the action which takes place somewhere between the quick cuts in the editing room. In the first action scene, Jack escapes the King. He scurries up the wall and dives out the window, hopping on top of carriages. He lands on a sign in front of a bar. He falls down. UH OH!!! There is a bad guy. BOOM. What? Why it is Jacks father....conveniently there to kill the bad guy. They have a quick discussion in the bar. Jack turns and...........his father is gone. What? ok......Jack learns of someone of importance that is in the other room. OH NO! Its a Jack imposter. 6 minutes later....oh, its Penelepe Cruz pretending to be Jack. Where am I going with all of this? I dont know and I wish the movie did to. The film is a disjointed mess all the way to the fountain of youth which is accessed by a ceiling pool. Yes, a ceiling pool. You have to go through the ceiling. Again, yes. They must have felt foolish because the Spaniards were in there to except they didnt have to climb through the ceiling water. Weird.

What Happened To The Ridley Scott We Know And Love? Director Ridley Scott has again caused a stir among his fans with the spring 2012 release of "Prometheus", a science fiction/horror film which is ultimately a loose, muddled prequel to a much superior series of films: "Alien", "Aliens", "Alien 3" and "Alien Resurrection". Scott also directed "Alien" which was released in 1979 and is now considered one of the great triumphs of the science fiction genre. The primary question seems to be whether this film ought to be judged against its predecessors or merited on its own. Ridley Scott situates himself among the greatest science fiction directors of all time: Stanley Kubrick (2001), Steven Spielberg (Close Encounters of the Third Kind), George Lucas (Star Wars) and John Carpenter (The Thing). My favorite film of Scott's is "Bladerunner"; a Philip K. Dick adapted futuristic dystopia focusing on a grim and dark Los Angeles governed by detached corporation magnates. Scott put a tremendous amount of time and effort into this film. His potential for another great science fiction film is clear, and I suggest that it is quite relevant to measure a long-awaited prequel in relationship to Scott's earlier cinematic achievements. Consequently, I make no reservations that this response draws consistent parallels to Scott's earlier films.  The cast is assembled with all of the hot new talent - Noomi Rapace as Elizabeth Shaw, the intrepid archeologist; her lover and fellow scientist, Charlie Holloway, played by Logan Marshall-Green; Michael Fassbender as David (the synthetic); and Charlize Theron as Meredith Vickers, the cold yet pragmatic corporate supervisor whose focus never diverges from the interests of the Weyland Corporation. The very talented Guy Pearce pops up at the end as Peter Wayland himself, an odd casting decision that I think Scott should have taken more consideration of. The actors are all excellent and this ensemble really could have made the film work. In a science fiction movie of this scale, the cast's chemistry is crucial to the story, especially when we are thrilled at their every next move, either individual or collective. I found it hard to care or have compassion for any of the characters which is odd because these are A-list actors.  The film lacks character development which is essential because we are instantly thrown into the idiosyncratic worlds of our heroes and are meant to experience their on-screen, scary situations just as they do. In "Prometheus" we are taken right into the action before we have a chance to get to know and to develop interest in the main characters. What makes "Alien" and "Aliens" so special is the introduction of what would become an iconic action/sci-fi/horror hero in Sigourney Weaver. We are poised at her every move. She has energy, courage and resolve unmatched by any previous science fiction film protagonist. "Ripley" is truly what made the "Alien" series so special. Sigourney Weaver recast the role of women in not only science fiction movies, but across film genres. Noomi Rapace as Shaw simply lacks a main character's energy and enthusiasm. I yearned for a heroine that may if even in a small way match the magic of Ridley Scott's "Ripley." This was really disappointing. Following the Homer literary tradition, our hero must be strong and ready for any challenge!  I was really looking forward to watching Guy Pearce in action. He is a phenomenal actor. He is sidelined and given very little on-screen time. Although Pearce is quite good as a morally-bankrupt mogul - the authority behind the whole mission - the question I kept asking myself is why not select an actor closer to Weyland's age. He is an old man. The makeup-job is poor and the plot trajectory does not allow for an interesting foray into Weyland's own story. Michael Fassbender is very good as Weyland's right hand and works in a sinister manner to try and help him achieve his goal of immortality.  Reviewers are almost unanimously praising the movie's special effects. Yes. They are impressive. The world Scott creates here is rivaled only by the meticulous mind of James Cameron in his own recent creation: "Avatar." Special effects are commonplace among top films today and are often accepted as a compromise to an intelligent story, interesting characters and a smart script - screenplay. There has never been an occasion that Ridley Scott has not wowed us with his magnificent cinematography, complex sets and rich color palettes. "Prometheus' " special effects and visuals do not save the rest of its aspects which are lacking, and this is predictably so with most movies today.  The film is also being praised for a so-called "philosophical" premise. What is this - that the film's awkward series of events will lead us to an ultimate conclusion regarding the beginnings of life on Earth? This intrigued me at first, but failed in the end. The films existential questions are at best inconspicuous. The second half of "Prometheus" moves us away from the answers and substitutes yet another typical formulaic ending - a failed mission, an anarchic crew, a last-minute take-off and a hero left unscathed. What is the relationship of the "Humanoids" to the "Xenomorphs"? Why is there not even the smallest ounce of camaraderie among the crew? There are opposing agendas among all of the characters. If this was developed in much more detail the film may have really worked. The tenuous relationships between the characters should have been set up more carefully.  As did many of my science fiction peers, I left the movie theater disillusioned with many questions and concerns. Some suggest that this is a good thing because it will enable us to revisit our curiosities when we see the next installment - Perhaps. But I find that when a first-of-a-series movie disappoints in so many ways it is always very difficult to redeem it in subsequent attempts. I wish Ridley Scott the best of luck. To his credit, the film has interested me enough to see if he succeeds next time.

dissappointed The disk was clean, playable, and unscratched.  But the case was a clear plastic generic with a photocopied cover.  It does not even have a label on the binding.  Not at all what is being pictured.

Great idea but disappointing film This is no Hunger Games. The idea behind the film may be new at the time the film was shot, but I found the movie thoroughly boring and a complete drag.  Many scenes were typically B-movie slash n gore. The actors can't act and the soundtrack is horrendous.  Well, at least you can get a good laugh reading the English subtitles. Not a keeper; especially not on bluray.

Violently forgettable Weak acting, weak script, weak plot, seen it all before, and done far far better.  Plus, the mindless killing of all those guys during the heist kind of makes the celebration at the end rather sick. So it's fine if dozens of people die so a few crooks can get rich? Nice. Marky Mark needs to stick with his fawning talentless entourage and leave the dime store philosophy to someone who actually cares about more than just WINNING! Charlie Sheen would have fit in well here, actually.  Not worth your time. Well, mine at least.

Not the same anymore. Pity. After watching the first 10 minutes there is at least two dozens deaths (animated deaths but deaths none the less) and it just shocked me how can a movie like this be rated G. Which demographic are this people aiming to? A 1960's based spy movie? Are they serious? Of course people are going to say "Get a life. There's death and violence in the real world, kids should be prepared to accept death as natural part of life, blah blah blah". But what's the message in this movie? Bad people lose, good looking people win? That's the Disney motto, not Pixar's. This sequel does not compare to the Toy Story sequels if you're going to name other sequels made by Pixar.  The original plot was about character development, friendship, being humble, recognizing ones faults and growing up.  This movie is just an action movie not a family movie. I was disappointed to see that John Lasseter contributed to the story of this movie and it is a shame since this movie differs so much from the first one that one can only think that he was ordered to produce a sequel. Mr Lasseter, if you're not on the Board you just are an employee; forget whatever title they give.  If the movie does not sell you'll be held accountable and fired a second time from the same company. Seems that the winning streak of Pixar has ended. Better luck next time.  P.S.  "Planes?" How original. Another marketing tool.

Uncomfortable to watch I love Shatner, but I could only watch the first 20 minutes of this.  His interviewing skills are terrible and he keeps interupting those he talks with questions that don't make any sense.  I know he is the writer and producer of this, but it wasn't very well planned out.  I hoped for something better from Shatner.

Jusst highlights? *sigh* I just wish they could just get the music licensing issues handled so that they could release the series in it's entirety. All the highlights and commentary can't express the impact of actually seeing the full programs.  I'll skip this and wait for the real thing.

Shrill and tiresome, but its heart is in the right place If non-stop, shrieking fake Southern accents, garish stereotypes, and humor as subtle as being hit in the head with a cast iron frying pan send you rolling in the aisles, then you will probably love this movie. I was raised in a subtler, less obnoxious South than the one celebrated here, and I am too happy being gay to relate to this hysteria, so I hated it.  But any gay movie that celebrates being gay deserves some support, so I gave it two stars just for having its heart in the right place. God bless it, its makers, and anybody who can enjoy it.

Poor Transfer to Blu-Ray Good:  Sound OK:  Prefer the theatrical version, but there is not that much different Poor:  Video transfer.  Dark scenes are horrible you can see the ghosting of the transfer and overall the picture quality is not up to par with many other movies.  Fox security update.  Chances are before you watch this you will have to update your Blu-ray player before you can watch this.  Fox likes to do this often, I have no idea why because the new copy protection created for this film was cracked 2 days prior to its Blu-ray release.  Which make this whole process a mess.

This is not a daisy After reading the wonderful book "Doc" for book club, my husband and I watched "Tombstone" a few days ago, and "Wyatt Earp" last night, in preparation for next week's book club meeting. To all those who say there is some controversy about which movie is better, I can put the controversy to rest: "Tombstone" is better.  Watching "Wyatt Earp" felt like watching creaky community theater (no offense to community theater) from the opening scenes with Wyatt (Kevin Costner, with his trademark anachronistic shag/mullet hairdo) drinking a cup of coffee that is steaming like a witch's cauldron, as if the stagehands just put a lump of dry ice in the cup. With the exception of the fine Gene Hackman as the Earp father, the male leads' acting is either goofy cartoonish, or melodramatic, or wooden, or amazingly, all three at the same time. Having just watched Kurt Russell's tightly controlled and uber-masculine portrayal of Wyatt Earp in "Tombstone," Kevin Costner's take on the same character reminded me a little of Forrest Gump, no offense to Forrest Gump, crossed with Costner's character from "Dances With Wolves" (same hairdo).  I love Dennis Quaid, but having watched Val Kilmer's definitive portrayal of Doc Holliday in "Tombstone" just a few days before seeing Quaid's version in "Wyatt Earp" was probably completely unfair to Dennis Quaid and his cool little sunglasses, who just didn't even come close for me.  I LOVE Westerns, but this cliche ridden movie--tight shot of bottle right before a bullet explodes it, anyone?--made me roll my eyes. To sweeten the deal, it is over three hours long!  Recommendation: Watch "Tombstone" instead.

so dear to my heart unfortunatley this dvd was unable to be played on any dvd player we own. It would of been nice if i had known that in advance! A waste of money.

Same Cover, Different Release Date and Company I purchased this digitally remastered version of Penny Serenade.  Although the picture quality of this one was very good(same cover, but mine states it was released by Platinum, 2003), the movie is most definitely cut.  Penny Serenade on this DVD did not contain the portion where Cary Grant masterfully pleads to the judge to adopt the child, despite his lack of employment.  Grant was nominated for an academy award for that particular performance, which was not included in this version.  For that very important reason, I reject this one, good picture quality or not.

Indicative of the quality of the Line Star two-reelers. &lt;strong>The Man from Utah&lt;/strong> (Robert N. Bradbury, 1935)  One of the many, many two-reel westerns Robert N. Bradbury directed for Lone Star Pictures featuring a young John Wayne, a young Yakima Canutt, and Gabby Hayes, who was never young. I've watched quite a few of these over the past few years, and I often refrain from reviewing them (I review all features, but very few shorts, and my personal line for that division is sixty minutes), but this one being of average quality, I figured I'd use it as an indicator for much of the batch (and for the pictures Wayne and various other members of this band of merry men were also making for Republic Pictures at the same time).  The plot is pretty generic, as far as John Wayne Lone Star westerns are concerned: Wayne plays John Weston, a rodeo star sent underocver by the U. S. Marshals (bet you can't guess what state he's from!) to investigate corruption in the annual rodeo in a small Arizona town. Seems every time someone from out of town looks like they're about to win the top prize, they end up dead, and the Marshals want to know why. Things get more complex when a pair of outlaws rob the safe containing the prize money, and Weston, having discovered the crime, is walked in on and immediately assumed to be the thief.  Nothing here out of the ordinary--Wayne gets a chance to show off some of his trick riding skills (though obvious body doubles are used for some shots for both Wayne and Canutt), the criminals are dunderheads, the good guy wins in the end. If you're a fan of the genre, this will work for you. If you're not, it won't. Simple. **

Chinese knock-off copy This is not a good, legal transfer of Lair of the White Worm. It is a cheap, low-quality Chinese knock-off with a bad transfer and terribad subtitles. I would like to have been informed before buying it that it isn't an original transfer by the people who own the movie rights so I'm writing this review to warn other potential buyers. Caveat Emptor!

BORING I found Caligula (unrated version) to be boring.  Historically accurate or not, the sex scenes seem inserted just to have sex scenes.  Maybe that was the intention.  Maybe Guccione was trying to "gross people out."  I don't think I'm being prudish by pointing this fact out.  Overall, I found it difficult to focus on the acting or any other redeeming quality.  The movie, as another reviewer said, drags on and on.  About one-quarter of the way into the film, I wanted it to end.  I am amazed that any viewer could rate this movie any higher than three stars . . . for any reason.  Don't waste your money.

NC in WY I purchased EA Sports Active to add to my workout options.  Those options being:  Leslie Sansone dvds and Wii Fit.  I purchased EA Sports Active 3 weeks ago and have used every day since then.  Positives:  I like the fact that with EA Sports Active I can select the exercises I want to do.  This is important as I have back problems that make it so I can not do all of the exercises in the pre-programmed portion of EA Sports Active.  I enjoy the tennis, but wish there was a 'random' feature that would allow for the option of the ball to come towards you for either backhand or forehand rather than set patterns.  It would make it an even better workout with the tennis.  The upper and lower body exercises also allow me to set up my own workouts to strengthen legs and arms more so than Wii Fit does.  Negatives:  I quickly replaced the resistance band it comes with and use one with more resistance.  I already had some from my Leslie Sansone dvds.  It would be nice if it came with say 3 resistance bands:  light (like it comes with), medium, and high resistance.  As others have mentioned...the system has glitches.  The biggest one for me being that while I do not feel I'm holding the nunchuk and remote wrong I get the message that I am or that I am not standing still.  This can last for seconds, to minutes, and sometimes requires restarting the software.  I could also do without the 'awards' the makers of this type of software feel necessary to put in.  I simply want to workout.  I am competitive enough though that with those there I want to achieve them, but with my back problems there are some that I simply will not be able to achieve.  I have given 2 stars to EA Sports Active because it really has helped tone my legs and arms, but do not feel it's worth more than $15-$20 with the glitches it has.  I purchased it for far less than the almost $50 listed here.  So, for the price I paid and the results I've gotten from it, I feel I got my money's worth.  I will continue to use it - my own way.

A lot of promise, waisted. Started great, but eventually lost the thread and the plot fell apart and there wasn't much to keep it going...surprised we finished the movie, hah.

Black Swan/The Wrestler, the same thing? 99% of this movie is made to creep the hell out of you. It really has nothing to do with the Black Swan. They could have summed it up in 5 minutes that she lost her mind and became the black swan and gotten on with the movie. After about 5 minutes of watching her run away from hallucinations you put your head in your hands and find yourself wondering when the sex scene is coming.  It also is a complete replica of Darren's other movie, "The Wrestler," where Micky Rourke plays a drugged out, crazy wrestler. As he had a heart attack previously in the ring, people are telling him to give up his passion, but he keeps pushing and pays the final price in the end, (DOUBLE SPOILER ALERT) jumping to his death in the end, just like "Black Swan." Darren said that they actually were meant to be the same movie about a wrestler falling for a ballerina, but he decided it was too complicated.  Overall, if you subtract the 1 hour and 25 minutes of dead time in this movie, you have 17 minutes of mediocre dancing and some horrifying drug trance.

Never Watched This dvd was a gift for a friend of mine and so I can't make a comment about it, Tyrone Power is a good actor and should be a show worth watching

Ambitious follow up falls flat I watched Innocence in theaters when it originally came out. I recall finding the film frustratingly dense in spite of its gorgeous visuals. As a fan of the franchise, I picked up the blu-ray a while ago thinking that a few years of maturity and a deeper understanding of the original manga might help me appreciate this film more. Alas, this was not the case.  Innocence is an ambitious film that tries desperately to repeat the successes of the first Ghost in the Shell film. It is a classic case of a work of art trying too hard. Where the film does not explicitly copy its predecessor (the opening montage, the festival scene, etc.) it awkwardly strives to achieve the same gravity of effect in its visuals and dialogue. Innocence is somewhat successful in the former area and deficient in the latter.  The film's greatest strength is its lush, exquisite imagery. There are numerous moments in the film where one could pause the disk and have a work of art on one's TV screen. In spite of a few jarring moments of badly mixed cell animation and CGI, the film is a visual feast on par with the original.  Unfortunately, the images lack the power they had in the earlier film because they are not tied to a coherent narrative. The actual plot - the sequence of events that occur in the film - is quite simple; a group of female sex doll cyborgs malfunction, two section 9 detectives investigate, they go to where the cyborgs are manufactured to learn the truth, and then the film ends. Like Solid State Society, the film takes some of its inspiration from Shirow's original manga.  However the contrived, pretentious dialogue combined with the plodding pace (40% of the film's runtime is comprised of slow walking, scenery shots, and close-ups of basset hounds) makes the story feel vastly longer and more complex than it really is.  The basic problem with the writing can be summed up in one word: Quotes. Half of the dialogue is a quote. Does Batou have an opinion about one of the antagonists? Confucius quote. Does Togusa want to express his anxiety? Time for some 'Paradise Lost'. The film is saturated with dozens of quotes, from all manner of writers and philosophers. This over-reliance on canned smartness creates two huge flaws for the film.  For one it hurts the characters. The film does little to further characterize the members of section 9 (aside from a bit of development for Batou and Togusa's relationship). Having Aramaki and Ishikawa spout quotes instead of finding their own words does not allow us to get to know them as well as characters, as the quotes are clearly just sentiments Oshii (the director) wanted to express. The dialogue feels like a vehicle for Oshii's navel-gazing and not an expression of real people interacting.  Secondly, copious quote usage cheapens the effect of using quotes at all. The viewer finds that once the film is over, he can't remember any particular quote among the dozens he heard. The earlier film only used a handful, and as a result, its dialogue is much more memorable (I still recall the major's quote at the end, Corinthians 13:11). But in Innocence, with so many quotes from so many different sources, it is hard to know which to care about and why.  Bad pacing and dialogue are not the only problems with Innocence's story. There are a handful of exasperating scenes. In particular, the virtual experience maze I found to be needlessly tedious. It is only partly comprehensible because Batou is made to explain how he bested Kim's trap. What's more, the scene near the end where Batou scolds the little girl for not worrying about sex dolls is bizarre to me. In the original manga, it was bad enough for Batou to blame the girls and not their captors for the "innocents" (people who use a product premised on child murder are not terribly innocent in my view) who suffered from the sex doll malfunctions. Here, for Batou to worry about the dolls is beyond callous, and Motoko's concurrence ("If dolls could talk they would say 'I don't want to be human!'") is both asinine and damaging to her and Batou's characters.  The last couple of frames of the film suggest that Oshii thought he was saying something profound about humans and their need to recreate themselves via dolls and cyborgs. Unfortunately, the film wasn't really concerned with making this or any other particular idea comprehensible. In fact I think many viewers will come away from Innocence with the feeling that the movie wasn't really speaking to them, but rather to itself. It is a shame, because Ghost in the Shell is a powerful franchise that has always managed to be entertaining, exciting, and thought-provoking all at once. The further it removed itself from Shirow's somewhat campy original manga, the more consequential it became, first as the film, then as the brilliant Stand Alone Complex series and film. Innocence is a step in the wrong direction both in terms of style and substance.

Meh... I was really excited about this as I grew up playing FF7 on the original PlayStation when it came out.  Unfortunately like a lot of Anime this suffers from a complete separation from the game besides character names.  The art was ok but I expected better, and the story is disjointed and doesn't make a lot of sense, and the characters are rather undefined.  I've spent my life playing FF games so I expect the disjointedness between FF games but this was billed as FF VII so I expected it to tie in a lot better instead I felt completely let down by this.

I Like the Previous Ones Better For me, this was an odd movie.  First, it was dark.  Almost every scene was either dark blue or dark brown, with only glimpses of sun.  I realize this is thematic, and symbolizes the dark, almost impossible predicament, the three principals (Harry, Hermione, Ron) are in.  Second, it almost entirely lacked the interesting subordinate characters that made the previous Harry Potters so lively: Snape, Voldemort, Dumbledore, Luna, the Malfoys, the rest of the Weasleys, etc., etc. do appear, but briefly--then they are gone.  Also thematic, I realize: the isolation and loneliness are deliberately claustrophobic, and intensify the fears and hopelessness of the Big 3.  Still, these give the film a closed-in, deprived feel, that, however thematic, make it seem thin and strained.  Third, the wedding is given short shrift, while the jealousy-theme goes on interminably.  Also thematic, I know: this is the story of growing up, and all the melodrama and angst of being a teenager.  Still, all this indicates that the Epic Good-vs.-Evil conflict has taken over the movie, at the expense of everything else.  The whimsy, the craziness, the unexpected twists, the fun settings (like Hogwarts and even Harry's horrible foster-family),and the humor are all gone.  I suppose this was all deliberate, but it makes for grim watching.

it has funny elements. but, kind of a drag movie. I thought it was alright, but it dragged on too much. didn't like it as much! pretty cool Kristin interviewed him afterwards. she's so sexy.

Disturbing Movie I may not be "artsy" enough to grasp some intended higher message and I am not sure if this film was intended to make you feel disgust at what the daughter goes through with righteous indignation or not but I hope everyone who watched this film felt righteous indignation. One reviewer or commentor mentioned maybe it was the author of the books intention to point out what white South African's are allowing themeselves to go through is basically out of control but that's not the impression I had after watching the movie. I came out with a sense that it was portrayed as it's ok for a young white female to be gang raped by 3 black south african youth's and mistreated and have her father set on fire and to just cave in and accept it as "the way things are". The entire time I watched this movie I was hoping to see retribution by the father of the young woman as one would expect a loving father to do but alas, the father and daughter accept there mistreatment at the hands of their black African neighbors. I don't know if the author of the book/movie director was trying to say "hey, these evil white oppressors deserve this" or "Hey, stand up for yourself as it's as much your country (whites) as theirs (blacks)" but I'll leave that debate to others. Either way, all in all the movie gets a C- and I think there are too many great movies out there to waste your time with a C- minus movie but I will see concede this movie will stir a lot of emotions in you and make you think so on that aspect alone it has SOME redeeming qualities.

Bad writing and too many one liners Not worth the time or money. Writing was poor, story line predictable. Reminded me of a bad horror film from the 80's.

Disappointing I looked forward to seeing this movie for months, however I was disappointed in the end.  For the most part, this was an excellent movie, the cinematography was fantastic, the story was great, the supporting actors were fabulous (Charlize Theron as the Queen was just perfect).  However the leading role was very poorly played.  The actress showed virtually no emotive skills.  I just could not sympathize or identify with Snow White, because the role was played so incredibly poorly.  It's a shame.  This could have been a great movie.

Not as good as hyped up to be! Disappointing!  With all the hype this movie got, we thought this would be an awesome movie.  It was a dud, just didn't live up to the hype for us.

Easy to Watch but NOT funny..... observational take on dating, sex, etc. Choppy "plot" meanders about aimlessly looking for opportunities to create funny "skits". Fails miserably. I want those 2 hours of my life back.

horrible. Bad editing! Very bad. Its choppy. In all the performances its the track singing! I would have loved to hear her live voice!! Very disappointed. Its great to see her though that's why I gave 2 stars.

ONE CALL, THAT'S ALL ***PLOT SPOILER REVIEW***  The film starts out as an excellent thriller/mystery in spite of the lead being Shane West. Shane stars as Max "glass jaw" Peterson a man who installs programs in computers to prevent hackers. Max gets a strange phone that sends him text messages which saves his life and gives him money. We also know the government is after this device and other people have received such a phone and have died from following its instructions. At this point the film is an excellent thriller/mystery.  There are few suspects and clues in this production and then we find out whose the culprit and the film becomes boring. Max saves the day from a stunt he saw in "War Games" or if you prefer, the Star Trek episode "The Changeling." At this point I groaned. Perhaps if you have never seen either of those two productions, this might seem pretty darn good. As for me, I got bored when I realized you could kill the "bad guy" by tripping over the plug.  Ving Rhames always does a good character job. Outside of that, the film lacked. Might work as a rental. Better than most of the "Red Box" action.  PARENTAL GUIDE: F-bombs, no nudity, brief love scene.

Just Okay This movie was just okay.  The visual effects looked fake.  It did not keep my childs interest for long.  The acting was subpar.

Gratuitously violent I don't usually say that, either.  This movie is just too much.  There are people who can handle violence in films and then there are those who cannot. This is an example of the latter.

bull crap I recently bought this movie because it wasn't on the prime instant video. Paid 9.99 for it. 2 weeks later it was free..wtf thanks for making me pay for it wont be buying any more movies from them

Bad Quality Video for BD !!! Texas Killing Fields is not a bad film. I rent it in Blu-ray yesterday here in Brasil and I want to ask WHAT is the industry doing with this tecnology? This movie  has  a  BAD quality video. It looks like a DVD and far from the good ones DVDs!!! The dark scenes are terrible !!! I use an Infocus 1080p and have watched excellent BD with great quality video. Texas K F  is a shame to the BD tecnology !!!

Least favorite by far What didn't I like about this movie?  Where do I begin?  Yes, there was plenty of action.  But it seemed shallow and lacked the depth of the previous POTC.  It wasn't fun and it also seemed absent of the light-heartedness of the the earlier ones. Maybe I missed Orlando Bloom and Kiera Knightly.  After it was over...I just thought "Meh" and "Glad that was a Rebox movie and I didn't actually purchase it" -- I was thoroughly disappointed.  But on the other hand, my husband enjoyed it.  I didn't particularly like Penelope Cruz in it, either.  Anyway, I could ramble on, but the bottom line was, I've always enjoyed the previous three.  We own them.  I will NOT be purchasing this one.

Isn't the Title Redundant? Ninja Assassin starts out with a bunch of Asian yakuza who inexplicably speak English getting slaughtered by an identityless ninja assassin (!). The sequence contains a pseudo dangling cause/ foreshadowing of an old mans heart in the wrong side of his body along with plenty of computer generated and obnoxiously unrealistic violence. The sequence is never explained or brought up again. What is the point of it? Actually, the point is a very true look at what's in store for the viewer. It's exactly what the rest of the film is going to be like, and it works as a sample to help you decide if you want to continue watching. If you do watch, you'll get more undeveloped and boring characters, more rarely funny humor, more bad acting, and more CG gore.  Raizo, played by pop sensation Rain (not the Mortal Kombat character), is the same exact cookie cutter silent and deadly protagonist any viewer of martial arts films is likely to recognize. The only difference with him is...... his weapon, I guess. He uses the same techniques he learned from "the bad guys" against them. His experience with learning "the bad guys" technique is shown to us with multiple cliche flashbacks. I refer to the ninjas as "the bad guys" since that's all we ever really learn about them. They are bad. I've always felt it should be the bad guy who has the most interesting character. When they don't have any character at all, the film becomes much less engaging. Along with the main Raizo vs "the bad guys" plot there are also two small subplots. One concerns a Berlin agent Mika (who also inexplicably speaks English ...) that only really acts as a way for the film to add more exposition and plot devices. The other is a romance subplot between Raizo and fellow clan member Kiriko. It acts as yet another overused plot devise for revenge, but it also introduces a pretty large plot hole in the process. How the hell did Kiriko manage to last as long as she did in the clan and still remain so sweet? She must have been put through the same grueling, disgusting, and identity erasing process as everyone else, so how is she still so innocent? Just saying "because" isn't a good enough answer.  The one thing Ninja Assassins does do right is the action scenes, all of which are pretty well choreographed and fun to watch. Of course, the ultimate outcome of each fight is easy to assume (Spoiler: the good guy wins) and sometimes the film will cheat in order to accomplish this, but the fights are still enjoyable. It is not, however, worth sitting through a 99 minute film that feels twice as long to see the handful of well done fights.

I Prefer Davis's Remake, A PERFECT MURDER "Dial M for Murder," (1954), is a rather early film by the celebrated, greatly talented Anglo-American director of mysteries and thrillers, Alfred Hitchcock (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0783226055">Vertigo (Collector's Edition)</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JJX8">To Catch a Thief</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0790749815">North by Northwest</a>).  DIAL M clocks in at a brisk 105 minutes, and is considered a classic psychological thriller by most.  It's in full-color, set in the London of the 1950s, and was initially filmed in 3D.  It was based on a stage play by Frederick Knott, who also wrote the screenplay. It stars Ray Milland (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000549B1">The Lost Weekend</a>), as former tennis champ Tony Wendice, who has retired from the court and gotten a job to placate his rich wife, who complained of being lonely, as his competition in tournaments kept him constantly on the road.  He now concocts a plan to kill his rich but unfaithful wife Margot Mary Wendice, played by Grace Kelly, (TO CATCH A THIEF).  She is involved in a liaison with American writer Mark  Halliday, played by Robert Cummings(<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EXDSAC">Moon Over Miami</a>). When Tony's schemes come a cropper, he improvises a brilliant second plan, framing his wife for murder, but the entire bloody affair turns out to be far more fraught than he expected. The sly Scotland Yard inspector, Chief Inspector Hubbard, is played by John Williams.  Charles Alexander Swann AKA Captain Lesgate, who was at Oxford with Wendice, and gets involved in the latter man's scheme to his own cost, is played by Anthony Dawson.  Hitchcock, of course, knows how to create suspense, and the plots he comes up with are satisfyingly complex.  Ray Milland inhabits the role of the Machiavellian and cynical Tony Wendice with total believability; Grace Kelly is beautiful in the role of a 1950s wife; and John Williams is consistently entertaining in the role of the efficient, fussy Chief Inspector Hubbard.  But I did have some major problems with the film.  We're told that the Wendices live on the money of Margot, the wife: but they live in rather a dinky little flat in London, which would hardly have done for the wealthy at that time and place; and the film gives no hint that they have servants, which also would hardly have done for the wealthy at that time and place.  Furthermore, the characterization of Margot strikes me as all wrong, though I don't know who to blame for this -screenwriter Knott or director Hitchcock.  She is portrayed as a timid, subservient woman, almost afraid to leave the house on her own, who darns her own stockings.  Not like any rich woman I have ever known or heard of, and not at all like the Grace Kelly we came to know in her later films - and life.  Then I have problems with the casting of Bob Cummings as Mark Halliday, the man with whom Margot has supposedly had an affair.  Cummings had a nice, relaxed, guy next door vibe, but I strongly doubt that he was ever so attractive to any woman as to cause her to risk her marriage to a glamorous figure such as Milland plays. In fact, in 1998, Andrew Davis remade this movie as <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6305128928">A Perfect Murder</a>, with Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow and Viggo Mortensen.  Paltrow does not portray the wife as a mousy creature this time.  And most women would jump at the chance of a relationship with Mortensen.  Look at how high Diane Lane, who was supposedly married to Liev  Schreiber, who certainly isn't chopped liver, jumped for Mortensen in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000K31T">A Walk on the Moon</a>.  Altogether, I wasn't crazy about Davis's remake when first I saw it, but, upon reflection, it held together somewhat better than this original Hitchcock version.  Frankly, much as I admire Hitchcock's great later thrillers, on re-watching this one, it irritated me.  A lot.

This Movie Sucked in a Sucky Way! After stumbling across the unforgettable "Oh God, oh man!" YouTube sensation of a clip, I bought this movie hoping for a delightfully awful movie a la "Troll 2" or "The Room."  No such luck!  Sure, the acting was terrible and there are some undoubtedly clunky lines, but overall, this movie wasn't awesomely bad, just DOWNRIGHT bad. Luckily, I only paid $3.50 for it, and was able to score back another $2 at the used bookstore. The only reason I gave it two stars instead of one was because of the "Oh God, oh man" scene, so kickassedly inept it warrants a star on its own.  Bottom line? Awesomely bad movie fans will likely be disappointed by this one. Stick to YouTube for your "Tough Guys" clip fix--at least it's free!

Movie OK but ON DEMAND gets D Grade Good movie for the kids, but the "On Demand" video quality on was poor:  D rating, for the low resolution picture on 50" HDTV since Amazon broadcast compressed file size (to save on capacity or to lure you to upgrade to HD quality).

The Series Runs On The Girl Who Played with Fire, 2010 film  The film starts with a nude woman living in a large house in the country. How can she afford it? She searches for "Legal Services". Tattoo removal? A man meets her lawyer Bjurman. "I'll be in touch." Lisbeth watches an apartment. She finds blank reports, and a revolver. 'Millennium' editor Mikael has a new story about the sex trade in Sweden. This crime has low priority in the Justice Ministry. [Could there be a payoff?] Lisbeth has been away for a year, traveling abroad. She offers her apartment to a girl friend. They are close friends. One source about the sex trade story has disappeared. Can he be tracked with a free cell phone? The report is about ready to be published now. Mikael goes to get the photographs, and finds these two reporters won't talk. "It sounded like gunshots" he was told. [Nobody called the police?] The police investigate. Who has a motive? Should they reveal their sources?  A man searches a rural cabin for something. The murder weapon was legal, registered to Bjurman. It has two fingerprints from Lisbeth! Her apartment is empty. Bjurman, the gun owner, is also dead! "Trippel Mord" says the headlines. Mikael believes Lisbeth is not guilty. Can anyone break into another person's computer and copy files? [Yes. Was it designed that way?] Miss Wu isn't reporter-friendly. "Incompetent clowns"? Can fingerprints alone be proof of guilt? [They show a person was there, but not the time. Mikael visits a man. "Is this a prank?" Mikael offers him a chance to explain. Lisbeth attacks a man, he hangs around to answer her questions. He admits to smuggling amphetamines from Talinn. Then his teen-age daughter returns home. There is another man who believes in Lisbeth's innocence: her boxing trainer. [Weight class?]  A big blond man kidnaps Miss Wu (skills do not equalize weight class). A car chase for action. [No calls on the cell phone.] There is a fight in the shed. Will a fire destroy the evidence? No, they escape. The blond man had boxing training and felt no pain. One man talks to Mikael to keep his name secret. Zala was a gold mine of information. But he couldn't have done the murders. Elsewhere that big blond man makes a delivery. Two bikers ride to the Bjurman cabin just as Lisbeth is leaving. There is more action that makes the news. An old man tells Mikael a secret about Lisbeth. Can you believe it? A twelve-year old Lisbeth played with fire and was sent to a hospital.  The news on TV tells about the case, but leaves out some facts. Does Lisbeth's constant smoking symbolize self-destructive behavior? Lisbeth visits the car rental agency on business to learn about a license plate number. Lisbeth's house has the latest in security. Sending a letter to a Post Office box can identify the receiver. [Is he following too closely?] Mikael finds the records of Bjurman and the DVD. Can he help Lisbeth? Will Lisbeth get into deep trouble? Does she have an unknown relative? Is this all too unbelievable? Can help arrive to save Lisbeth? Will we see more ghastly action to shock the audience? The ending is ambiguous, another movie continues this story.  This is like a continuing series or soap opera. If Sweden is an "anything goes" society where is the scandal? If the sex trade profiteers from prostitution and pornography reported their income there shouldn't be a tax problem. This wasn't as shocking as the first movie. Isn't a large city a better hiding place than a country farm?

Woe An uninspired, unimpressive start to a short-lived franchise. It took just a few minutes into the movie for it to become evident why this was such a major fizzle.  The dialog is corny, delivered by people trying too hard or not hard enough to be hip and funny.  It didn't help that the characters/actors were either extremely obnoxious (Chris Evans) or deadly dull (Ioan Gruffudd).  The relationships were dubious at best (did they hate each other on sight or because of some mysterious history or did they just love to bicker?).  The special effects are hohum, seen them all before.  The story was all about establishing the characters and if, like myself, you didn't like the characters/actors, what was there left to watch? And as for that lame GQ villain!  He couldn't even muster up a credible snarl.  As villains go he was all costume. I was left with acute disappointment, wondering why I bought the darn DVD in the first place. Now, 6 years after my initial viewing, rewatching it again, everything I thought about it in the first place still held true.  It didn't age well at all.

Ordered new DVD; recieved USED one; BEWARE! There's nothing more disappointing than paying for one thing and recieveng another.  I paid for a new DVD and the one I rec'd was definitely USED!  The packaging was warped all over as if it had been dropped in water or got too hot somewhere!  It's the ugliest DVD in my collection...ugh!  The movie was great; that's why I ordered it. This was my 1st and last DVD from Amazon.......so disappointed!!  I doubt this will get posted!!!!!  BEWARE!

Terrible Picture Quality/Mixing The Digital Copy is practically unwatchable with all the macroblocking.  The voices are totally lost in the mix so you'll deafen yourself turning the volume up to hear it.  The DVD is no better.  I seriously can't believe that WB felt like this was an appropriate way to handle their cash cow.

Yuck! Just a quick comment. Went to see this with my son and girlfriend because we had to be out of the house between 1 and 3 for the cleaners. Well there was only one movie that was timed perfectly for us. Unfortunately it was this bomb.  I normally like Jack Black, but in this terribly written and played out bomb, there wasn't much he could do. This will probably be the worst movie I see this year and it's only January. My girlfriend and son, who is fourteen, also agree.

*SNORE* If there's one movie that captures the essence of snobby Euro "art" films, this is it. From the man who brought us 'Funny Games' I was expecting something very exceptional or disturbing, but nothing happened. Nothing at all. Oh sure there was some whiteman's guilt message about xenophobia, but there's other ways to show it rather than watching a house for eight boring minutes. It's not Hitchcockian when there's 0 threat developed or explained.  Every single shot was filmed at a flat monotone angle where you can watch a couple arguing for two hours through flat boring camerawork. That same sterile camerawork worked for me in Funny Games because it was a stark contrast to the truly vile acts going on. Here, well, paint dries. Oh sorry, I mean you watch people eat food, argue, and worry, all under pretentious small talk.  If you like this "movie" chances are you're thought process is similar to RT's 'top critic' Amy Biancolli, who had this to say about Cache: "Haneke's patient, tip-toed assault turns Cache from a little bourgeois media personalities into a sneaky and effective expose on the artifice of film". *fart* *SNIFFFFFF* *SNIFFFFFFFFF* mmmmmmm that's good stuff.  So Amy sums up the type of pseudo-intellectual a****** who can watch deadpan scenes with nothing going on for 2 hours straight and call it a masterpiece. And while I'd rather watch things going on, this film does gets two stars for helping my insomnia, no joke.

Extremely Boring Recently watched this movie, easily the worst flick I have viewed in several years.  Except for a few decent action scenes, I would have rated it one star.  I had fairly high expectations of this movie based on the opinions of some friends, but ended up falling asleep a couple times during the latter part of the film due to sheer boredom and finally just stopped it about fifteen minutes from the end.  By that time I had no interest in how it ended and just watched something else instead.  Good thing I only wasted $5 on this turkey, but lost over an hour of my life.

Less than stellar This is effectively two different shows on one DVD.  The second builds on the first, but includes some of the same material already covered in the first, so if you are watching both it is tedious.  The format did not cover the material as coherently as I had hoped for; the presentation jumped around a good bit, so at times the order things happened in wasn't as clear as it could have been.  I was also disappointed in the lack of depth in the material.  While it did cover the Ghent Altarpiece, that was not what most of the time was spent on; it was almost a second thought.  Overall the lack of cohesion was a serious problem.  Sections were quite good, but overall it was most disappointing.

Slick, pretentious, heavy-handed and plodding This is a very slickly produced, very pretentious, heavy-handed and plodding movie that presumes to be about teen suicide... or something - I'm really not sure what it was supposed to be. Maybe you have to be heavily into video games and Japanese cartoons - or a suicidal teenager - to appreciate it. All the technological glitz to me was just a huge, actually an insurmountable distraction. I tried to pick out what was happening to Dominik through all that crap, but it was hard work.  Evidently he was a rich, spoiled, whiny, self-centered baby in a man's body, throwing fits in public whenever he felt put upon. That's what most of us are like at that age: some get over it and grow up, some get older but never grow up, and evidently some go off into a weird techno-nightmare and either stay there or kill themselves.  The movie has a note at the beginning giving a hotline number for suicidal teens to call - if this movie brings comfort to any suffering kids, thank God for it; but as a movie, as entertainment, it's a plodding, heavy, glitzy, pretentious failure.

Not this time. Every once in a while they get it right. Not this time. With so many added and unnecessary scenes it is hard to figure out if they even had a screen play or if they were just winging it on the set. While it is not all bad there is enough to make you shake your head and wish they had called you up and asked for your advice. FX cannot save this film any more than a good guitar player cannot save a bad drummer. When it is bad at a deeper level it stays bad. This franchise has always had a problem with hit and miss films. This one is off target in the plot, consistency of characters, confusing and inconsistent motivation of characters and sometimes it comes down to just adding things because they think we expect certain scenes. No, we want to be wondering what will happen, not predict it as we go along. If you have not seen it you are one of the lucky ones.

You Have Seen This Movie Before Whether you realize it or not you have seen this movie before. You say you haven't? I beg to differ. If you have seen anything like Lakeview Terrace,Fear, Unlawful Entry, Pacific Heights,The Crush, or any other number of movies that fall into the same genre then you have seen The Resident. The Resident does not bring anything new into the genre either. It follows the same boring and trite formula. Even the good performances by Hillary Swank and Jeffrey Dean Morgan are not enough to save this movie from being mediocre at best. Keep your money in your pocket and skip this one.

Batman Forever: Loud and Flashy You know you're in trouble when Alfred asks Batman: "Can I persuade you to take a sandwich with you, sir?" and Batman rasps: "I'll get drive-through." After the first two Batman films directed by Tim Burton, something was lost.  The first had Jack Nicholson and Jack Palance for the heavies and Michael Keaton and Kim Basinger weren't at all bad.  You really became involved with Nicholson's characterization of the Joker due undeniably to his great screen presence.  The second film, which many disliked for being dark and nihilistic was, I thought, quite funny thanks to Danny DeVito's great delivery.  As long as you don't take anything seriously in it, it's a pretty good picture.  The problem with "Batman Forever" is that it is forever over the top.  Too much color, too much noise, too much of Jim Carrey's teeth.  Carrey's character becomes tiring in the first ten minutes and Tommy Lee Jones' face makeup appears to made out of candy.  The character of Robin (Chris O'Donnell) is introduced who, after an heroic feat of saving a circus tent full of spectators, becomes bratty and brooding.  Alright, so he  lost his entire family in the circus scene -- he seems to be able to forget it quickly enough.  Val Kilmer, as Batman, keeps Robin from leaving by luring him into his mansion to show him his collection of motorcycles.  This and the repeated references to being "partners" make somewhat pointed implications.  One of Robin's lines later in the picture tries to get a laugh by making a reference to the old Batman television program: "Holy rusted metal, Batman!" But it falls flat as does most of the picture.  The plot of the thing is contrived beyond belief and one's curiosity for the outcome fades by half-time.  The city-scapes and buildings look more than ever like miniatures when seen in the unforgiving clarity of Blu-ray.  Missing also is Danny Elfman's superb scoring, which brought a great deal to the first two films.

I didn't know what to think..... I watched this film on Netflix the other day and decided to see what people at Amazon thought. Luckily, I had realized before I started watching it that its original language was French. That said, I found the whole film bizarre and a bit perplexing. The music, while classical, sounded like it was being performed by an orchestra playing kazoos and combs wrapped in tissue paper. At one point an additional character, a piano-playing monkey, joined Puss and his owner. I couldn't figure out where the monkey came from or how they had met him. I suspect that many of the problems with this film stem from the dubbing. In many instances the English was a bit stilted, as though someone had tried to do a word-for-word translation from the original French. At times the voice over artists didn't seem to know what intonation to use. As a result I began to suspect that the original French version probably got a better review. I was right. I popped over to Amazon.fr and looked at what people were saying there. With 23 reviews, it had gained 3 and 1/2 stars, with 10 of the reviewers giving it 5 stars! But I think they agree with the American audience that the queen is a drunk. One French-speaking reviewer wrote "The characters' voices are a bit bizarre (especially the queen's: you would say she had drunk too much)" my translation. Speaking of which, I had had quite a bit to drink myself even before I started watching it. Perhaps I would have ranked it even lower had I been sober.

Suspense replaced with gore and profanity If you liked this movie, I respect that. It was very original, well made, and had a humorous self-mocking awareness to it. It had some great actors in it. But they took the cheap way out - instead of creating suspense, they just substituted gore. They were obviously going for over-the-top how much blood and disturbing imagery can we throw in? Also be warned that if planning to watch this with young, tasteful, or sensitive folks, the f-word is the most commonly used word in the movie - no less than 100 times.  So, while I applaud its originality, it is definitely a movie born of the horror video game era, and not of the masters of suspense that came before. It does not make a good date movie, family movie, or suspense move - it's just a creative, but disturbing, slasher pic. I expected more from Joss.

Unpleasant thriller Nina (Natalie Portman) is a troubled, young ballerina who lives her life in an endless and hopeless pursuit of perfection.  When the company's lecherous director gives her the star role of the Swan Queen,  he expects her to put out and be more like the sensuous Black Swan character and less like the demure White Swan.  Her deeply conflicted psyche creates a world of illusion, chaos, and terror as she gives in to her dark side.  We know early on that Nina has a loose grip on reality and that nothing we see is real.  Given the dark storyline, one would expect an exciting movie, but I actually found it predictable.  Portman gives a one-note performance, always frightened and helpless but never showing a range of emotions until the very end.  There are several violent and sexual scenes intended to show her fragile state of mind, but they are often over-the-top and downright gross.  While rail-thin Portman does convince us she's a ballerina and the dance sequences are lovely, the other characters are unlikable and rather stereotypical.  Barbara Hershey is repellant as Nina's disturbed mother and sassy Mila Kunis, as Nina's rival, is also fairly loathsome.  This psychological thriller is more off-putting than entertaining and frankly, I was glad when it was over.

read the book, skip the movie Watched this movie because I enjoyed the book (basically a graphic novel) VERY much.  The movie is overly long, boring and tedious.  Scorsese playing Spielberg.

"You're not MY manager" Ok I "get" the movie and what it was about and the twist and all, but I still think it could've been executed in a better way. Love Heather Graham and it was nice to see Jake and Linda, but I gotta be honest and say that I was a lot bored with most of the film. Sorry I can't quite put my finger on it as to what I think would've made the film better for me, but I can say this...if you're a Heather Graham fan then you should check it out.  Does it suck that my favorite part of the movie is when the boyfriend tells the diner manager, "...You're not MY manager....", haha ohhh man that killed me!

Nonsensical, even for a kids movie I was disappointed in this movie.  This is one of those movies that is so sloppily done that it leaves nothing except randomly animated slapstick humor.  Your kids may enjoy it well enough, but this isn't a movie that mom and dad and the kids will all get something out of.

Poor Quality and Ill Humor Having enjoyed most of Tyler Perry's films and plays, I was not pleased this play. Though some parts were funny, I regret to say that I do not recommend this film for viewing. However, if you should decide to purchase it be sure to have on hand a set of ear plugs.

Makes no sense There is no rhyme or reason for why anyone does anything in this movie. A prime example: the daughter of the movie's hero suddenly gets all cuddly with the vert cop who, through his own stupidity, almost got her and her father killed. How much stupider can movies get, you tell me.

so-so Disappointing film from very good Chinese action director. Story is odd mixture of implausible actions and motivations, sentimentality, and moments of strong violence.

PHONEY AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MOVIE Nerd Score Sleazy would like everybody to think he actually grew up tough in NYC----though this allegedly autobiographical junk was written by somebody else AND rips off scenes from lots of other movies.  Keitel with his hand over the fire was ripped off from "Lawrence of Arabia," for one thing.  And, Deniro is annoying----a lot of Deniro performances in 70s movies are annoying, which is why he only really became known to a mass audience with his later comedies.  Deniro getting shot at the end is the best part---cause Deniro and his character are so annoying he deserved getting shot in the movie.  This movie was a big influence on Hong Kong action movies, and Hong Kong action movies aren't exactly known for their realism.

WoW. Loved the "Dragon" but not this one. Wow! Loved "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" but this one......(1)Voices used in English dub and really terrible. Flat, no emotional range, distracting. Why didn't someone spend a few extra dollars and get better voice actors?? (2) Some of the dialogue in the screenplay is just terrible. Even the actors didn't like some of the words they had to speak. Honestly, why didn't the director see or rather hear this?? (3) The plot is not audience involving. We are not given enough to let us engage in solving the mystery. We are simply spoon feed details as they unfold. Not good story telling. Overall, a real disappointment compared to the first of the 3. Sure hoping the 3rd is better than this train wreck. This is not recommended.

Bootleg! The dvd set I received is a counterfeit! None of the disclaimers appear when the disc is played, the Starz and series logo appear on the screen during play and the tv announcer is heard during the credits! The box art doesn't even match the legitimate version! Where are the special features?! There are supposed to be special features but there aren't any! Someone copied these episodes straight from the tv and I WANT MY MONEY BACK!!

Not new I ordered this DVD thinking it was new. It is not. Disc 1 is completely scratched all over. The movie skips periodically throughout the movie. Will not purchase from this seller again!

not so much... This film generally put a frown on my face. I was not the least bit entertained. Finger drum finger drum...

Movie-Sized Junk Food For the Masses I feel like I've eaten a bag of Doritos after watching Shrek 2. It makes you sick to your stomach and wishing you'd had a regular dinner instead. I watched this only to please a friend who assured me that "the sequel is great entertainment."  Nothing about this film is original. Eddie Murphy as the donkey is almost as annoying as Jar Jar Blinks in the Phantom Menace movies. The soundtrack is nothing but recycled, overplayed pop songs that I've heard on the radio for decades (i.e.,"Funkytown", "Ain't Stopping Us Now", "Hero"). The animation is decent but the storyline is as stale as a day-old Starbucks biscuit. We all know from the opening sequence that Shrek and Fiona will end up back together, no matter what happens. The only interesting character is Puss in Boots, thanks to the inflections of Antonio Bandaras (again, not original. That French literary character has been around in literature for 200 years).  There is something very depressing about how many people unquestioningly love this movie-sized piece of junk food. Give them recycled music, recycled characters, a cute cat, and they'll stampede to the box office. On the surface, parts of the movie satirize mass consumerism - all the shop signs in the Kingdom are twisted re-creations of the ones you'd see in a local mall - but it's really subversive. It forces viewers to recognize brand names in order to get the joke -"Burger Prince - oh, I get it! It's Burger King!" etc. A marketer's dream - promote mindless mall crap like Old Navy or Gap by making people think it's a game! Brillant!  In the same vein, endless references to transient pop culture (Justin Timberlake, American Idol, Mission Impossible) is played for laughs but also for brand recognition. Again, you have to recognize the brand to get the joke. It's a sign of American decline that people are so terrified of watching anything NEW, anything without a BRAND NAME, that filmmakers can get away with promoting processed junk like this.  Maybe I'm being paranoid, but I feel the character of Fiona practically promotes obesity. There's something about her tubbiness (more so than Shrek, who is big overall, like a football player) that makes me think the film is aimed toward young teletubbies munching Doritos and happy to have a stomach just like hers. Again, familiarity breeds dollars.  In 20 years, this film will be simply unwatchable because a younger generation of viewers won't have any cultural references to "get the joke" and by that time Starbucks and other stores of that ilk will be out of business. Fortunately, the classic, commerical-free Disney films from the 1930-60s will still be well-preserved enough to entertain them.

great movie terrible print. i am writing to confirm the views of other contributors that this is a very disappointing release.Its supposed to be a collectors edition ,but no true collector would want it,the movie has not been restored ,the colour is washed out,and the picture is fuzzy.one of the main attractions of this film is the beauty of its irish setting and of course miss ohara.However the quality is so bad you will be spending most of your time adjusting the picture.Such a shame and an insult to release a classic beautifully filmed movie in  this condition.

Awful, Hyped I see a lot of movies, and many deal with the darker aspects of human existence.  I've certainly learned by now that just because a film and its maker choose to deal with an unpleasant and ugly issue, that doesn't inherently give the film quality or significant meaning.  I thought that this was badly made.  It's generally more squalid than it needs to be, and it's hard to take seriously.

WARNING! Terrible blu-ray This is a review of the PRODUCT. NOT the movie. I give the movie itself 5 stars but I cannot give anything more than 2 stars overall. 2 stars because, for an older movie, it LOOKS amazing on blu-ray.  I purchased this from amazon almost 3 years ago. I received it and I watched it immediately on my PS3...NO problems at all. It worked perfectly, the picture and audio were amazing.  I haven't watched it since...until today. I no longer have the PS3, I have a stand alone Sony blu-ray player. The picture is still as amazing as it was before, but the audio is HORRIBLE. The worst I have ever heard on a blu-ray or even a DVD. You hear some sort of white noise or static all the way through the movie. It's extremely hard to ignore making it basically unwatchable. There is some sort of issue with the audio, it's a flawed blu-ray, there are several reviews here on amazon saying so. Unfortunately, when I purchased it, there were none.  I don't have a TON of knowledge about these things but the only audio option on the blu-ray is 7.1 DTS. Perhaps this isn't supported by all blu-ray players? I really don't know. What I do know is I'm highly disappointed. I hope there's a re-release soon!

Just okay...I guess. I purchased this for the public library I work at because a lot of our patrons really liked Food Inc., but this one really falls short for me.  It blabbers on about how America eats too much meat with music that sounds like the Dragnet theme playing in the background.  Much of the info is repeated.  Forks Over Knives was not what we ecpected, but to the shelves it goes.  I guess the patrons will let us know what they think.

Not good....It made me want to gag This movie might be good for teens who are too immature to realize that this movie is full of predictable plots and characters. It was sappy and lacked depth. I rolled my eyes throughout most of it. If you like Miley Cyrus than this might be OK but if you are looking for a deep and moving movie.....look elsewhere.

Don't judge a story by its cover... Although I bought this DVD at a retail store, I felt compelled to leave a comment here as I felt somewhat disappointed with the outcome.  The title of the DVD is "A Royal Romance: William and Kate"...so that leads me to believe that the story will be about BOTH of them...how they met, a brief history of their childhood and the events that led up to their engagement. When the "tribute" started, it showed the title "Destiny: An Unauthorized Story on William".  That's weird...wrong title.  I even stopped the DVD and took it out of the machine to make sure I had the right DVD and sure enough, it still showed "A Royal Romance: William and Kate" on the label.  Hmmm....  This story primarily focused on William's upbringing, his role in the various charities he is a patron of, his military education, his parent's trials & tribulations, and of course, a bit of history on the Royal Family.  It only had maybe 5 minutes of primarily Kate (and that 5 minutes consisted of how the paparazzi stalked her outside her apartment).  It had an occasional still photograph of Kate and maybe a little video of her, but no actual video of her talking with William, a history of her family and childhood, etc.  I think I saw more of Prince Harry, Charles & Diana then I did of Kate.  The reason I am rating this DVD 2 stars is that, yes, I genuinely liked the story on William.  It is one of the only ones that I have been able to find on DVD here in the U.S.  But if you are going to market a DVD to the consumers, market it correctly by putting the correct title on the case and on the DVD and don't lead consumers to believe they are purchasing something else.  If it had showcased more of Kate and their actual "Royal Romance"...I would like to think that I would have given it at least 4 stars.

It's Ok The premise is quirky & neat, but doesn't do enough to carry the lackluster plot, and dull scenes.  The stories are just ok, the relationships have cute moments, but ultimately the dialogues begin to feel repetitious very quickly.

Sleazy, camp Eurotrash interpretation - doesn't quite work This Eurotrash production of the Contes d'Hoffmann almost, but not quite, pulls it off.  As one would expect, the decor is ugly - lots of naked light bulbs, rotating scaffolding, man in dirty raincoats, women in stockings.  The singing and music are reasonably good, but not great.  But Offenbach's music is so charming that it's probably hard to destroy a score like this.  Perhaps this production aimed at a genuinely sleazy, realistic interpretation of the dark side of Hoffmann, but it seems to me to have fallen short.  Instead, one ends up with a rather camp production, half-way between a British Carry-On film and an am-dram play.  Worth watching as an addition to better versions of Hoffmann, but don't expect too much.

It had A LOT of potential, but.... I slightly enjoyed Hostel and Hostel: Part 2, so I was somewhat excited to see Hostel: Part 3. It's basically the same story as the original two, but this one changes the environment to Las Vegas and adds betting into the equation of the Elite Hunting organization. Changing the formula seemed like a great idea, but it ultimately fails in every other department.  What did I like? Some of the kills were original and innovative. The Vegas environment was also a somewhat welcomed change. It had some tense scenes.  What didn't I like? Hostel: Part 3 has some very weak effects which hurt the overall tone of the film; for example, the roach scene looked promising but actually sucked due to the effects. Also, although I enjoyed the Vegas setting, I feel like it took away from the fear of backpacking across a foreign country and getting abducted while doing so. The acting was weak from some characters, and I didn't like the ending. It wasn't as scary or tense as I expected, either. Also, for an unrated, straight-to-DVD film, you'd expect it to push the boundaries or try something new, but it doesn't  Do I recommend this movie? No, I was disappointed and I'm not even a big fan of the series. The movie fails more than it succeeds. If you must watch this, it is available on Netflix streaming as of 6/25/12 and I recommend you check it out there instead of paying full price for it.

A Lousy Movie With Little To Offer. Well, tonight's bargain rack movie was "Assault on Precinct 13." The movie was difficult for me to understand. The dialogue was in the F-bomb dialect of the English language (that's where the F-word is used as a noun, verb, adjective and adverb, sometimes all in the same sentence, plus F-bombs were liberally dropped just as all-purpose expletives and ersatz punctuation marks) such that those of us not so well versed in that particular dialect should have been offered subtitles to help us comprehend the movie. I've often noticed that when this particular language problem occurs, the movie itself doesn't seem to have much to offer and I've thought that perhaps the language barrier might be interfering with my understanding.  In any case,  the cast and the plot were also a bit confusing. There were a lot of good guys (cops) and some bad guys (criminals), at least in the beginning. Well, some of the good guys had to take the bad guys to a prison on a bleak snowy night and they couldn't make it because of the storm so they holed up in an old police station known as Precinct 13 to spend the night and wait for the end of the storm. One of the bad guys being transported was really, really bad and was referred to as Bishop. Well, then the precinct suddenly came under assault by a platoon of good guys (cops) who were really actually bad guys (yes, cops) and the bad good guys were trying to get the really bad guy away from the good good guys because he had the goods on them, or something like that. Anyway, it was the good cops (plus the original bad guys who were converted to good guys to help withstand the assault ) against the bad cops (originally good guys) in a fight to the finish and the casualty rate on both sides was very high, not to mention the property damage. Well, I've probably got this all screwed up, but it really doesn't matter. Let's just say it was a lousy movie with little to offer except a lot of bad language and violence..  Gary Peterson

Bizarre But Boring I have tried to watch this movie several times but, I just lose interest every time and turn it off. The main character, Raoul, as played by Johnny Depp comes off as an annoying little twerp. The story seems to go nowhere. The scene where Raoul is checking in to the Vegas hotel while tripping is well done. The creatures moving in the carpet is a good representation of acid visual distortion. I liked Where the Buffalo Roam more.

INTERESTING PREMISE, BUT VERY INCONSISTENT! 'After. Life' is a decent film with an interesting premise and a good cast. I love Neeson and Ricci(...and Long in comedies), but the film seems to not know what it wants to be. Is it about after life? or a murdering funeral director?, or a drama about someone mistakenly taken for dead after an accident? I know this was probably done on purpose(to throw us off the trail), but in the end it just makes for a confusing mess that leaves you less than satisfied.  Is the film worth seeing? I think so, at least for me. I thought the actors did a decent job and I certainly didn't mind looking at Ricci naked for the majority of the film, but instead of leaving me thinking about an intriguing subject, it made me feel like I had been had!

Tron 3D Review Not alot of really good 3D technology associated with this release. Shouldn't have been sold as such with the poor quality and very few scenes that had any 3D in them

Review for "Rockin' Rydell" edition I love the movie, so my rating is not based on my opinion of the film.  My biggest problem is with this edition: the "Rockin' Rydell" edition. They have made all the songs sound all echo-ey. It's distracting and does not fit well with the film. It really bothers me. I'm probably going to sell the DVD somewhere and stick with my VHS.  If you don't want to watch this movie for the music, go ahead and buy it. But if you like the music, don't buy it.

terrible manneristic acting The story is fine but I find the acting terrible. Sean Penn has just one facial expression throughout: a solemn wrinkled forehead and dead pan. Kidman keeps forever getting her hair to cover her right eye. These mannerisms drive me nuts.

Should Have Known Better But Hoped... Really wanted this to be a nice, action, set-in-space,flick BUT what I got was a poor version of "Escape from NY". Do not recommend.

Here we go again I am a big older Harry Potter fan.  I am very disappointed in WB.  I love Ultima 1 and 2 because they were extended editions, but now we have another Star War and Lord of the Ring were you have to go through a director cut ... etc. before you get the extended version some years down the line.

The Red Shoes meets Angel Heart *** This review may contain spoilers ***  Who knew? Rather than a profession peopled with a crew of dedicated professionals, the ballet world, according to director Darren Aronofsky, really consists of a bunch of back-stabbing bitches, self-mutilating neurotics, sleazy artistic directors and a 'Stage Mom' from hell.  Black Swan has all the subtlety of a sledgehammer in this one-note tale of a dancer's quest to come out on top as she pursues the lead role in Swan Lake for a prominent (unnamed) NYC ballet company. The film is really supposed to be a cautionary tale about people who will stop at nothing to further their careers. Ironically, Natalie Portman (as the protagonist, Nina Sayers) worked herself out like a dog in order to replicate the look of a full-time ballet dancer; many internet posters have commented how unhealthy she looks on screen and seems to be just as guilty as the character she plays (where Nina will stop at nothing to become the so-called 'Swan Queen', Ms. Portman has worked herself to the bone in the quest for Oscar Gold!).  Vincent Cassell plays the sleazy artistic director of the company, Thomas Leroy. Leroy has no qualms about throwing the over-the-hill principal dancer, Beth Macintrye (played by a way over the top Winona Ryder) under the bus after deciding that the younger Nina must now carry the torch. His decision is not immediate as he has reservations about whether Nina can actually play the darker 'Black Swan' part. He senses that things aren't right with Nina as she is unable to 'let herself go'. The consummate professional that he is, Leroy instructs Nina to go home and masturbate which will help her to get in touch with her more spontaneous self. When he gives her pointers on the dance floor, he says things like, "Use each finger, your face, your tits, everything. Entice me!" Nina finally gets the role when Leroy tests her by attempting to kiss her while they're alone--in response, Nina bites him on the lip (that proves to Leroy, believe it or not, that Nina has what it takes!).  Also in the mix is Nina's pushy mother, Erica, who she lives with in a small, unattractive apartment. The mother wanted to be a ballet dancer but never made it and ended up pushing Nina to become the driven artiste she has become. It's clear that Erica is unconsciously jealous of her daughter's success but I can't agree with others who have suggested there is an incestuous sub-text here. If anything, Nina's mother is extremely upset over the evidence that Nina has been self-mutilating and is now trying to get her to slow down and take care of herself.  Finally, there's Lily, Nina's rival from San Francisco who Leroy names as alternate in the Swan Lake production. Lily sports a bunch of tattoos and has a mouth like one of the performers you might find on 'Jersey Shore'. Nina hallucinates having a steamy sexual encounter with Lily but soon finds out that it was all in her mind.  Throughout 'Black Swan', Nina keeps imagining seeing her double which unnerves her no end. Aronofsky deceptively leads us to believe that Nina harbors murderous impulses. Prior to the climax, Nina fights with her double who morphs into Lily. It then appears that Nina stabs Lily to death just prior to the opening night performance. But during intermission, Lily knocks on Nina's dressing room door making it quite clear that Lily's murder was just another one of Nina's hallucinations. It turns out that Lily is not a murderer at all--rather, the murderous impulses were simply a reflection of Nina's own self-hatred. She ends up stabbing herself prior to going back out for the second act and presumably is found bleeding to death as the curtain descends and the oblivious audience roars their approval.  Nina's last words regarding her performance was that "it was perfect". The irony of course is that although achieving her goal of mastering the role of the 'Black Swan', she sacrifices her life. In real life, those who give up a piece of themselves for their ambition, don't usually kill themselves. Rather, they end up with a feeling of a self-satisfaction and achievement of their goals. It's of course for others to judge them whether their rise to the top was conducted with a modicum of moral integrity.  In the end, there are few surprises here as Nina's self-destructive internal arc is played out as if someone kept hitting the repeat button on a video monitor. All those scratch marks and peeling toenails become tedious after awhile and the potential tempting plot that Nina's actions might lead to a murder investigation turns out to be nothing more than a big tease on the part of director Aronofsky.  Some may feel that Nina is the epitome of a tragic heroine--she accomplishes her goal of mastering a difficult dramatic part but throws away her life at the same time. If you are going to have a heroine who is self-destructive, why not model your character on Tennessee Wiliam's Blanche Dubois? Her back story is a real one as opposed to the one-note Nina, molded by a stereotyped Stage Mother from hell.  The frenetic pacing of the Black Swan narrative will hold your interest to the end but the ride is decisively creepy. Has Aronofsky created a true cautionary tale on the dangers of careerism? Or does he revel in the excesses that he is supposedly criticizing? Somehow, all the gory goings on in The Black Swan don't seem to be a very appropriate venue for the dignified world of ballet. Better to catch a young Mickey Rourke in 'Angel Heart' if you desire a blood-fest that's a tad bit more creative.

actors looking for a plot More of an acting exercise than anything else. If the audience were stoned they might be happier at the end.

Not among Salva's best. I wanted to like this movie, but it felt pointless. It had a few creepy moments, but in the end it just didn't make any sense. I won't give away the ending, but instead of being creeped out, I felt confused. The whole movie was full of characters who didn't matter, with moments that felt thrown in just because Salva didn't know what else to do. The movie has no focus whatsoever. I can't imagine Salva being overtly proud of this mess.  The only thing I liked about the movie was the atmospheric neighborhood. I love that hill and the wonderful camera angles used to capture it. It reminds me of the neighborhood in which I grew up. That's about it, though.

Worthwhile and thoughtful, but extremely slow-moving Worthwhile and thoughtful, but extremely slow-moving. . .  The subject is important but the movie is stretched out to make a full-length movie. It should be reduced to half its present length.

Silly and Stupid I knew there was a reason I had always avoided seeing this movie. Jamie Lee Curtis is the only entertaining actor in this very mediocre movie. It's just too ridiculous to keep your attention from the very beginning in my opinion.  It has a very poor plot and really centers around Jamie Lee Curtis' character using her body to get her way and men who drop 50 IQ points around her.  I hated it, but obviously at 4.5 stars, a lot of people love silly movies that go nowhere. To each their own. If you are a fan of the actors in the movie, most likely, you will like it.

Good thing I read the book first! I am totally amazed that anyone would give this movie 5 stars. I did not see the movie in the theater, rather I waited for the DVD so I could watch it closer to the release of part 2.  If a person watched it without reading the book, they'd have no idea what half the plotlines were about.  The whole "searching for the wand Voldy flashbacks", and the addition of more than one wand maker, was very confusing for the members of my family who hadn't read the books but had seen all the previous movies. Personally this movie needed either more dialog or a narrator IMO. It was ok, but I prefer the earlier movies when more of the book was included. To me, the later books (5,6,7) aren't really "movie material" without a narrator.  Look at LOR, they did a great job on those movies by having a narrator introduce the complicated plot lines at the beginning, so a viewer had a guide as they watched (and a clue). For readers of the books, this movie was OK. For people who just wanted to continue the series on screen and haven't read the books, not so good.

What was so special about this edition? I loved the books, and I really like the movies, but I can not believe the stuff that was missing from this release.  No deleted scenes, a handful of interviews with the actors that we have all already seen on various interviews already released.  Yes, I enjoyed the making of documentary, but felt very cheated that that was all!  I will really feel ripped off if they release a bunch of deleted scenes and stuff with a boxed set when all the movies are released to DVD.  I can understand holding some stuff back.....but none, come on!

FREAK DOG PLOT SPOILER REVIEW  Kevin is a creepy morgue attendant and outcast who is shy and stutters. He has made a video of med students appropriating some party pharmaceuticals. They invite him to drink and party with him under the guise that if he participates, he won't tell. Turns out Kevin is a bit epileptic and ends up in a coma as the kids dump him off at the hospital and run.  Catherine (Arielle Kebbel) the girl Kevin had a crush on feels guilty and attempts to revive him with an experimental drug...one that stimulates the brain which happens to be the part of the brain which gives people out of body experiences. Soon people in the cliche are brutally murdered.  Okay, the killer is a guy in a coma. He apparently enters people's brains, takes control and has them kill for him. It was a bit of a yawner. For some reason the film lacked intensity.  F-bombs, brief sex?, brief corpse nudity, Arielle Kebbel,Sarah Boyd-Wilson bra/panties

Mixed Opinion Disappointing, considering the acting talent.  I'd say the plot was the stinker.  Of the greatest value was Mr. Nicholson's performance.  The hardest thing to account for was why would an athlete with so much going for her (played by Witherspoon) connect with anyone as shallow (and stupid) as the male athlete lead.  Too implausible.  And we should think the other male has a chance?  He's such a weird looser.  Looser gets some backbone with his father, but that doesn't seem to have much of any impact on his relationship with Withersppon.  Seems like it's a movie of how to choose between losers.

Nothing Earth Shaking You have to love TPB to like this special.  No new ground is broken and the tried and true jokes now seem stale.  Buy this to complete a collection only unless you just have a need to be moderately entertained for less than ab hour.

Warning The film included here is not the classic "Scarecrow," with Al Pacino and Gene Hackman, but the horror movie "Scarecrows."

Relentlessly offensive comedy for sitcom-bred straight people and self-loathing gays Once again we have a movie for straight people classified as "gay" because it has a gay character in it. This one even has a gay/straight theme, but if it was made by or for gay people they must be self-loathing gay people.  Who thinks it's funny to see a straight man turn gay? straight women. Who thinks it's funny to see a gay man turn straight? straight men. I guess there are also people who think magical role-reversal movies like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003QSLBFG">Freaky Friday</a> are hilarious and don't care what roles are being exchanged; and people who guffaw at extremely obvious lowbrow sitcom humor no matter what the subject is. As a gay man who outgrew adolescent squirming a long time ago, I find this kind of garbage annoying. I don't see how even straight people can find this relentlessly offensive and mean-spirited "humor" entertaining (the vicious ridicule of a desperate straight fat girl is especially appalling).  Being gay is wonderful. If changing sexual orientation were possible (and it's not), I wouldn't turn straight if you gave me a billion dollars, and I really mean it. Any gay man who thinks being gay is something that should make a straight man squirm and pee in his pants - who thinks switching sexual orientation is funny - either is an idiot or secretly (or not so secretly) wishes he weren't gay. This movie is pretty well done for its inherently offensive kind, but if a single cent of gay money went into making it, the ones who invested that money should rethink their priorities.

Insulting to the memory of such an historic event. I gave it two stars for the content of the historical accuracy of the events. (There is some disagreement but this is the Cival War after all). I would have given it a zero otherwise! First let me say that Hollywood could afford some beards that don't look like cheap side show minstrels! It was laughable. And casting Sheen for Lee?? Sheen looked like a circus clown scuffling around in a baggy uniform that didn't fit.  Lee's appearance in most photos is tall and regal. The beautifil 19th century language is murdered, and the theatrics during battle, via Hollywood, didn't match any real time accounts I have read. The title should be "Gettysburg, what Little Round Top would have been if fought in Culver City 1980"!  When are reinactors going to learn that clean pristene uniforms did not exist in battles such as Gettysburg! I am always wary about movies on history but since I have seen this movie in the visitors center and reviews were pretty good, I thought maybe, just maybe, someone other than hypewood produced this.  Good thing it's so cheap, I don't feel so bad. But if you are pondering this as a representation of Gettysburg, wait until it comes to your local grocer next to the gossip mags. Gettysburg desserves better than this. Yor better off with Burns who at least seems to get the solemn nature of the event.

I Won't Buy This - Spoilers, if You Care, Which You Shouldn't "The Shining" is a horrible film, just in terms of pure cinema, and in its interpretation of the novel. Nicholson is already crazy from the first frame, so there is no emotional investment by the audience as he sinks even further into madness. And I hate the substitution of an axe instead of a croquet mallet as the weapon at the end. But the most objectionable aspect of "The Shining" is its exuberant and calculated racism. The frequent gratuitous use of the "N" word, and the fact that the Scatman Crothers character, who is a hero in the book, is killed in the movie, is beyond insulting. It's as if Kubrick couldn't stomach an African-American hero, and it renders his character as completely superfluous. The other films in this set are good to great, and I will be buying most of them separately. I refuse to spend one cent on "The Shining", a great book turned into a disasterous film.

Disappointed I expected a lot more from this movie. The information was rather general and superficial. There wasn't even any mention of how probiotics produce vitamin K or synthesize folic acid. I came out knowing exactly as much as what I already knew, or rather, I already knew more than what the movie taught me. For the general public, this movie might be interesting, but then they might as well go to a health food store and find out from an employee about the benefits of probiotics - immunity, digestion etc. But HOW does it work?? This is what the movie did not address at all, nor did it talk about any specific strains for specific purposes. The movie almost seemed like an upgraded commercial for dairy products. The chapters seemed randomly chosen, some only 2 minutes max long without much connection of what the chapter title was (f. e. "What's in your breakfast" and later on "Probiotics in food") and what was talked about in that segment. No information on delivery systems, only hints here and there, just like the entire movie seemed to be hinting at the real depth of the topic without ever going into it.

Poor 3D Quality This program is both 2D and 3D capable.  Product comes with 4 pairs of paper 3D glasses of red/blue lens which is of horrible quality.  Instructions state to use the 3D glasses that comes with your BD or TV if available, but my Samsung glasses does not recognize this BD media.  With the included glasses on, the picture on the TV is in 3D, but there is a red glare on the screen.  The CGI in this BD feature is of high quality, but should have been made for 2D.  I love 3D programming, but would not recommend this.

Full Of Hot Air The overrated George C. Scott heads a cast of wooden actors through a thin plot built around the famed zeppelin. A laborious and meaningless flight has the audience waiting for the historic climax that could otherwise be seen acurately at your local library.  Wait for a film with a thoughtful and proper leaning perspective on this unique airship.

disappointing The good: - great cinematography - an honest and unpretentious story  The bad: -less than 1 hour long -little underwater footage -feels very amateurish at times  As a short I think this movie is a success, especially considering the $25,000 budget. However I found the move ultimately disappointing because it is more a story about a struggling athlete  than it is about freediving.

Pretty bad Really, the only reason I gave this film two stars is because Mike Ditka was pretty funny.  The movie was pretty lame and not funny otherwise.

Annoying showcase of stars This movie seemed like just an excuse to get a lot of stars together to lure people in. It was pretty pointless with a typical and completely predictable plot line.

DISAPPOINTING I am a huge fan of Laura Linney who can light up the screen with just a look.  Liam Neeson usually adds a touch of elegance to his roles.  And Antonio Banderas makes a great Puss-in-Boots. Alas they can't rescue this truly drab soap opera.  Even Lifetime's cookie-cutter TV movies are more involving.  Add dull direction and a ridiculous script, you get a sadly disappointing clunker.

cheesy scripts, over acting on some parts I thought this movie was very cheesy in the script, and some of the characters over acted their parts. Overall my impression was of an amateur production. The story line was good, just not delivered well.

Designer problems for designer lifestyles Meryl Streep acting her age - wonderful. Alec Baldwin playing himself - wonderful.  Otherwise, it's hard to believe or feel sorry for people in the world portrayed. Designer houses. Designer clothes. Designer children. Meyers has a certain amount of nerve, asking us to sympathize with a woman's empty nest syndrome when her nest is a multi-million-dollar estate in Santa Barbara. Which is still too small for a single senior citizen, apparently, so she hires an oddly orange Steve Martin to build an extension which will be costlier and larger itself than many people's homes.  Between all the perfect teeth, perfect food, perfect weather, perfect hotel suites and perfect background songs, this felt like Sex and the City III. There's even the gang of three caucasian friends hooting and cackling about sex. I came away wondering "How complicated is it, really?"

Venice and Jolie's lips under knife The beautiful city of Venice and the plump lips of Jolie under the knife of the bad guy were the only good things in this movie.  I just could not believe that these two amazing stars made such an unimportant movie.  Such shallow dialogue and such unrealistic characters.  Especially the main bad guy.  The choking scene was just unbelievable.  Literally.  I can not help but think that this movie was only good for adding another 20 or so million dollars to Depp's and Jolie's bank accounts.

Close, But No Cigar I was slightly offended that the product discription said that it is uncertain whether or not Mormons participated in the massacre at Mountain Meadows. Modern historians do not have any doubt whether or not Mormons participated, there are documented confessions and witness accounts from some of the surviving children. The real standing question is just how aware and supporting was Brigham Young of the massacre. For more information, look up the work done on the subject by Will Bagley or Juanita Brooks  I was really excited that someone was willing to address the massacre at mountain meadows in a movie, but unfortunately this one is not historically accurate. I mean, come on! You could at least have John D. Lee as one of the main characters! This movie fell short of my expectations, though I think the subject is powerful.

Is this movie a fan fiction? It sure seems like it. Wow. This was such a disappointing movie. Actually, disappointing doesn't even begin to describe it. It was just plain awful. I'll admit that I was a little bit skeptical when I was going to see it in the theater, but I tried my best in keeping an open mind. I thought it wouldn't be great, but it wouldn't be bad either. I'm a big fan of the original trilogy, and I watch those movies over and over again and never get tired of them. This movie doesn't even remotely compare to the original trilogy. I personally don't believe it should be a part of the Indiana Jones franchise. To me, it just seems like a poorly plotted out piece of fan fiction. I didn't find myself caring for the story or any of the new characters at all, although it was the ending that really killed it for me. While it's not the worst movie I've ever seen, it certainly will never stand up to the other amazing Indie films. This one is definitely not going into my DVD collection.

Bad bad bad !!! A master medium (with a map clearly showing a fingerprint) with an image "type film" ... The compression is almost invisible black and pretty good overall (sometimes a bit noisy), however the lack of any homogeneity in contrast and definition (sometimes the image is too sweet and sometimes too clear: I suspect the use of "edge enhancement") and the color palette appears often fade in short, even if the pleasure is there , we expect much better!

Too cheesy Way to cheesy for my taste.  Couldn't tell if it was trying to be comedic or a vampire movie.

Add to do not call list The premise is interesting - a modern-day woman receives a phone call from someone who says that they are alive in the past (1970's).  Sounds cool, right?  Well, what follows is not.  This movie was slow-moving, boring, and predictable.  It starts with the classic strange entity makes contact in an odd, yet non-threatening way.  Entity gets creepy.  Person tries to break contact.  Entity doesn't like this and plays rough.  Person pushes back.  Entity reveals true malevolent self.  Person is backed into a corner and makes a desperate play to win it all.  We've seen this storyline a million times already (and done much better).  Adding a domineering and abusive ex-husband as a second creepy entity did nothing for the film.  Stick to the main storyline.  My suggestion is that if there is bad weather and cable, satellite, and streaming are not available, and you can't rent a video somewhere, consider watching this.  Better yet, call someone instead.  Your phone conversation will be better than the dialogue in this movie.

Super 8 rental The movie had all the childhood charm of most typical Stephen king movies but the actual plot was a little far fetched and lacked a good story. Not one of his best performances by far but worth watching at least once in life. Any more than that I wouldn't reccomend.

I Second That...Buyer Beware The movie was very good, I highly recommend watching it......just beware of this copy of it.  Very grainy.  Looks like a VCR transfer onto DVD.

Blue Hawaii Elvis is fabulous and this movie is  really nicely done.  However, the sound is not good, especially when Elvis sings the recording breaks up.  It is a shame when we have such a beautiful movie on DVD to enjoy at home.

"Director's Cut" means R-rated Looking for some musically inspiring, historical entertainment, I was disappointed to discover that the added scenes did not afford clothing. This is NOT family friendly. Its a mix of period realism and distracting porn. It would be more interesting and enjoyable with an operatic narrative approach by references the salacious details of the story rather than cheap and easy nudity.  The realism begins in initial scenes at the beginning are somewhat violent as Salieri attempts suicide. As the camera winds through the mental sanitarium the camera captures what is likely an accurate depiction of depravity with various male tenants moaning and wandering nude, partially clothed. As I skipped ahead to the interview between the priest and Salieri, there was an odd contrast in his quarters...clean, quiet, spacious, dignified...didn't even seem like the same movie.  Later, I lost confidence in the show when Amadeus' wife came back to solicit Salieri to help Amadeus gain a post for employment. She began to undress... I don't know if there are other similar scenes, but I didn't bother to finish the movie.  2 stars for some good acting and great sets and period clothing and some nice Mozart musical performances. Missed a higher rating for not being family friendly, particularly the scenes of nude exhibitionism.

Good movie, not an extended cut After the extended cuts presented in volumes 1 and 2 of the ultimate edition releases (which are indeed the only reasons I began collecting the ultimate editions), volumes three to six are incredibly disappointing. If you do not own the films, or do not own them on blu-ray, the ultimate editions may be worth purchasing and for this I am giving it an extra star beyond the first. However, the precedent set in the first 2 releases leaves this one so incredibly disappointing that I feel I was cheated out of my money when I ordered volumes 3-6 to watch before the DH2 premiere.

Bambi DVD The Bambi DVD did not work on all DVD players. We gave it as a gift and it wouldn't work on their player. I sent an E-Mail to try and contact the supplier to return product. So far I have not received a response.

Sentimental Reboot Of 'Over The Top' From the cloying inspirational soundtrack to the Kinkaide-inspired amber sunsets; to the big eyed precocious kid who is so much more smarter than the adults around him, to the sentimental beautiful girlfriend who hopes her would-be boyfriend grows up. The only thing this movie was missing was a scruffy dog. And 'Atom The Robot' comes awfully close to that.  I wasn't looking for some kind of hardened combat-to-the-death flick, but this static predictable sugarfest had me wistful for a dose of German avant-garde experimental film - and I detest German avant-garde experimental film.  Would've been much more enjoyable had the filmmakers taken a slightly darker edge, placed the characters in a slightly more challenging plot. And importantly, hired a less adorable, less smarmy adult-sounding kid. Every time he uttered, "I got this", I wanted to puke.  No point in really doing an in-depth review - how hard is it to figure this one out?  As it stands, it's the robot reboot of the 1987 Sylvester Stallone flick "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007TKNKG">Over the Top</a>". And that movie was terrible. And speaking of Sly - he ought to sue the producers for ripping his <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002M9WW30">boxing franchise</a> off. Cinematographic plagiarism at its worst.  Want robots and a really fun ride? Rewatch one of 'The Transformers'. I know I will.  Movie Note: One plothole that had me confused - how does "underground" robot fighting work? I mean, the open public competition already has them destroying/killing one another. So what exactly would be the dark side of this sport? Getting sodomized by the winning robot?  Actually, that would've made this movie more interesting. Talk about an incentive to win. &lt;g>

This is no allstar workout.... I am a big fan of the allstar workouts on FitTv. I purchased this dvd thinking I was gonna get the same kind of instruction and cardio workout from MaDonna Grimes. And instead, this video was some hip hop dancers displaying their talents. The music was bad and the dance routine was not repeated enough to get a good cardio workout. Very disappointing.

It would have been good if... I pre-ordered this documentary months ago just because I was curious how a production company called "Citizens United" would handle the subject of the Occupy movement, what I discovered were a lot of lies mixed in with some truths. It was interesting that they failed to give any background on those who were "outing" the occupiers. They fail to mention and flesh out the movement's anarchist roots while claiming it to have been started by communists which isn't true; I think they just figured too many people didn't know enough about anarchism but a lot of people fear communism enough to highlight it as a major factor (which it isn't). Then the major lie is insinuating that somehow the Occupy movement is linked to Obama when they actually disapprove the the two party system, republicans and democrats alike. The movement is largely made up of progressives and progressives gave up on Obama a long time ago. If they had been fair they could have easily found ample reasons to criticize the movement without hyping outright lies and misrepresentations but the purpose wasn't to be fair, highlighting the good and bad, really digging into how Occupy began, the predominant ideology of the movement, how its structured, how it grew and who it drew to its camps.  In short this is just a well produced smear campaign.

Pretty damn awful... Is it any good?  Snow White and the Huntsman is the latest to be adapted into a live action, but this time with quite a big twist. The film takes on a Lord of the Rings feel, bringing it a dark style, but ultimately one we've seen many times before. Kristen Stewart as Snow White is predictably wooden in her performance, making the fact that she is highest paid actress in the world completely absurd. Chris Hemsworth is adequate, with the script and style doing nothing for him besides giving him a pay check. By far the star of the film is Charlize Theron, owning the role of The Queen with her performance. However, the whole film screamed of mediocre, taking the `best bits' from other similar films. Even though I was watching the film in Gold Class with unlimited popcorn and wine, it didn't make watching the film any more enjoyable. Unfortunately, the film is likely to remembered more for the affair between Stewart and Sanders than the film itself. Casting couch anyone?  Best bit?  The climatic fight is pretty decent, I guess.  Did you know?  The Dwarves in the Huntsman were played by actors who had their faces digitally transmuted onto small bodies. This caused a protest from the Little People of America.

Missing Extra Footage WTH?! Ok, as far as a review I have to agree that this movie didn't have the best acting or character development (CD) but honestly...I am not watching Aliens, Predator, or AvP films for deep discussion or CD. I'm watching them for their guilty pleasure action value. This film has that in spades and it is failthful to both genres (A and P) with the portayal of the 'beasts' down to looks and sound effects.  I bought this fancy version of the film looking forward to the additional footage. I knew what to expect considering the reviews I have read and also having seen the additional footage at a friend's house on his disc. However, when I got my Blu-ray and watched the unrated version, the scene where Jessie is bisected by the predator's disc has been changed so that it's the same scene in both versions of the film! She gets pinned to the wall and that's it. Her lower half DOES NOT fall off/separate from her upper half in the theater or unrated versions of the film on my disc.  I know that I saw this with my own eyes previously at my friend's house because it jumped off the screen at me as a big change to the scene and made the kid's rage even more understandable...considering he was crushing on her...HARD. Anyway, I have also read about that scene in countless reviews so I know I didn't dream it up. Will someone please help me unravel this mystery?!  Because this disc is defective or worse...edited by some conservative anti-violence censor I have to rate this low as I bought this special version soley to have the option to watch the theatrical release and the longer...more hard-core unrated version which I saw at a friend's house. Why is this scene altered? I don't feel like I got my money's worth. What gives here?!?!?!

only for semionova Polina Semionova is one of the greatest ballerinas in the world, and so this production has one thing going for it. Otherwise, it is boring and sterile, danced on a bare (and sometimes darkish) stage, with a reduced number of swans.  Inexplicably, the evil magician Rothbart is also a friend of the Prince's and is present in most of the court scenes as well as lakeside. The choreography is merely competent.  Semionova deserves better and so do we.

LOVE THIS MOVIE but hate the closed captioning This is one of my favorite movies of all time. Finally broke down and bought it. Except the Closed Captioning is on during the entire movie and you can't turn it off. It really sucks. :( Probabaly gonna go to Walmart or Target and get another copy of this and maybe sell this one in a yard sale or something. Gonna have to watch what I buy from this webcite.

Save Your Money!!! -- Boring and Shaky! The trailer looked good and scary, but I thought the movie was a let-down.  Let me begin by saying that some of it was so shaky, I actually started feeling sick on the stomach.  I was expecting to like it, but . . .  On October 30, 1989, Maria Rossi called the police to tell them she just killed 3 people.  They were actually 2 priests and a nun, trying to perform an exorcism on Maria.  They were, obviously, unsuccessful.  Maria was subsequently found not guilty due to insanity and later transferred to an asylum. Although the archdiocese stated they did not authorize Maria's exorcism, they somehow got involved and had her transferred to their facility in Italy.  Daughter Isabella later states that Mom started changing when Isabella was age 6.  It is now December 2009 and Isabella is in her early 20s.  She sets off to the Vatican's school for exorcism, to learn more about the subject, and intends to stop by and see mom at the Centrino Mental Hospital.  Isabella also meets some guys who perform exorcisms for the church, but also perform some "unauthorized" ones on the side.  It seems the church only authorizes exorcisms where there is proof of possession, but the proof often is not displayed until an exorcism is performed.  These individuals (priests, I think), try to help the poor possessed folks the church turns down.  Like I said, the jerkiness of the film made it real hard to watch.  I do not recommend it.  It was entirely too distracting.  If you really have to see it, I suggest you rent it from one of those $1 booths.

Poor fuzzy picture quality. The movie plot was excellent. . . 5 stars, but the video quality made it not worth watching for us.

Terrible packaging, defective discs Arrived promptly from Amazon, shrink-wrapped. Discs are just shoved into cardboard slots. All five discs from Season Two are unusable. Talked it over with Abdul in India. Would not let me send back only bad discs for replacement. Had to RMA the whole set of 23 for replacement. Instead, they just refunded my Goldbox price. Great HBO series; terrible HBO manufacturing; disappointing service.

tried to like it but just couldnt Im a big horror/thriller buff and not just the blood and gore but the trully scary, whats around the corner stuff. Was I dissapointed, YES! I did my very best to give it a serious chance but midway through what started as promising continued to slide downhill. It had a couple early moments that looked promising but it really quits midway through the movie and goes very stale and predictable. It fizzles at the end and I know the director would probably say he wanted to be thought provoking and let the watcher decide for themselves what it all meant. At least thats my guess as it means zilch. Sorry people but even the most ernest of bump in the night fans will more than likely find themselves frustrated and confused...Good Luck...PS 2 stars cuz of a couple early on scenes which had some creepy value

The Curious case of Benjamin Button - DVD or Hardcover I wanted to buy the hardcover book but wrongly clicked the DVD version. Big mistake. The website does not allow you to change or correct your order...

Blu-ray Import Doesn't Include extras Please note that the Amazon listing for the Blu-ray import indicates it contains the same bonus materials as the old DVD, but this is not the case. The imported Blu-ray actually doesn't include any bonus material. Now if Universal would get with it and release a proper American version all this confusion could be avoided.

...Kazan's only Bomb.. ..Tracy's  alcholism was a major problem on the set..He did'nt want to do the film but Hepburn (who carries the film, to no avail) cajoled him into making it.Kazan told everyone he knew to avoid seeing this disaster..Kazan got his wish.!..By the way this movies original running time according to Maltins movie guide is 131 minutes..Warner Bros..where's the missing 8..Hello..?..And how many times are they going to use Tom & Jerrys "Cat Concerto" (4-26-47) as a filler.?.A.Award or not it's a bore now.!

Misleading!! I am set up with a 3d TV and ps3.  I own a few Blu Ray 3d titles and did  Blu Ray 3d search.  This came up with a preorder release date.  IT IS NOT a 3d Blu Ray.  It is a normal Blu ray and a regular dvd with the cheezy blue and red glasses.  Gave 2 stars because Amazon return process was great.  Full refund with shipping paid by them.

House Of Fury After seeing Stephen Fung in Gen X Cops,I decided to see this movie.I thought it would be good since it was produced by Jackie Chan but it was not so.It was boring,the characters weren't that intresting and they had some ridiculous scenes like floating/flying from the top of one building to the next.It also has an unitentionally funny scene at the end involving the bad guy in the wheelchair.The fight scenes were also unrealistic and if this movie was supposed to have some comedic elements in it,I missed it.I'm also not a fan of that wuxia martial arts.Maybe if your a teenage boy or younger you might like this movie otherwise I say skip it.

Disappointed Wow.  Sorely disappointed and yet such high expectations from James McAvoy & Robert Redford. The pace, especially in the beginning, is s l o w, and some of the dialog was wince-inducing.  Wish I had my 2 bucks and 2 hours back.

4 stars is too many Noticing the movie was given an overall 4 star rating by other Amazon reviewers we purchased and watched this movie. I had no knowledge of the movie other than what I've seen here, on Amazon. Kevin Spacey and John Cusack are first rate actors..... when they're in a movie with some substance. Midnight in Garden of Good & Evil is not a movie with substance. The overall plot was disjointed and difficult to follow. A writer is engaged by a magazine to write about a society party in Savannah. That's about the only "normal" event of the movie. The people of Savannah are made to appear like fools. There's an underlying homosexual agenda that is unwanted. There's a "voodoo" priestess slipping in and out of scenes for no apparent reason. Her character is not well defined nor is the reason for her occasionally popping up. The movie is poorly written with most scenes leaving the viewer wondering what they're talking about or trying to figure out why the actors are doing what they're doing. The actors are inconsistent with the characters they portray because of poor writing. The one kinda bright spot in the movie is Lady Chablis as Chablis Deveau. Great role, great acting here and the only reason I give the movie 2 stars instead of 1.

Don't buy this, you won't be happy with it Really Poor Graphics and really cheap presentation.  Felt Cheap all around.  Didn't hold my interest, so I fast forwarded to all the dinosaur scenes, but even they were so cartoony feeling, that I really can't recommend this to anyone.

Don't look back?  Even Lot's wife would stare straight ahead. While this sequel fills in some of the holes presented in the timeline and story of the original Rest Stop movie, it is nonetheless unfulfilling horror with a deserted California rest stop and bathroom as a set.  Following the disappearance of the morons from the first movies, Tom (Tillman) is home on leave from the Army and looking for his missing brother.  Immediately I knew he was an idiot because he had on PFC rank but called himself a corporal.  Along for the ride is his alcoholic girlfriend Marilyn (Ward) - who probably would have acted better if actually drunk - and a complete train-wreck of a best friend named Jared (Norris).  Animosity between the two sidekicks leads to this being a two car journey from Texas to California, and the dork is driving a beater that smokes more than a Memphis rib joint.  First stupid decision of many.  Upon arrival in California, the ginger best friend gets isolated in a port-a-potty because of his IBS, and it gets tipped over by the killer from the first movie.  Awash in symbolism, that kid is.  Something about this movie and its locations reminds me of bowel movements.  Regardless, the killer is a flannel shirt wearing hillbilly that is slightly less scary than the Brawny man.  Maybe the Scrawny Brawny Man?  At least he had ample supplies to clean up all the blood after he did some handy work with a drill.  Do I smell a marketing opportunity here?  Anyway, this dude is terrorizing innocents at this rest stop and torturing them in a refurbished school bus because a family of circus freaks and religious fanatics in a Winnebago (because that hasn't been done before) had a bloody run-in with him a few years back.  Because that makes sense.  Once the group makes it to the actual rest stop, there is some mumbo-jumbo explanation that eye saw right through, a few flashbacks, and a foreshadowed conclusion.  The thing that gets me, though, is judging by the phonebook-sized collection of missing person flyers at the rest stop, it's apparent that the equivalent of Des Moines, IA is missing; yet, there is little police involvement.  Go figure.  The positive of this film is that it the majority of the film doesn't follow an incontinent schizophrenic in and out of a feces and blood covered bathroom.  Also there is no Joey Lawrence - the poor man's Keanu Reeves.  Whoa!  Rent it...if you are related to one of the actors.  Otherwise, skip it.  Jason Elin

missed opportunity for a true thriller Red Sands fails in numerous areas. For one thing, for a supposed horror, why in the world did the entire atmosphere feel more like a typical war movie with army buddies carrying on conversations pertaining to their normal lives? Why did so much of the storyline revolve around that one army leader bossing around the rest of his soldiers while increasingly becoming obnoxious?  These are elements you normally find in a war film, so Red Sands is basically an exaggerated, fictional approach to the real war going on in Afghanistan and nothing remotely qualifying as horror.  Red Sands doesn't even become scary until the final 20 minutes. Until then, you experience army buddies initially acting like typical teenagers basically partying and talking about sex all the time. You experience numerous failed jokes as well, since nobody is particularly good in their acting roles and therefore, nobody made me laugh.  Eventually they stumble upon an Afghan woman and we soon learn she's no ordinary woman, and it's only a matter of time until the rest of the army figures it out (the HARD way).  Red Sands didn't really make much of an impression on me. However, the final 20 minutes does actually make up for *some* of the ordinary boredom I had to put up with for a good portion of the movie. The one scene that involves an Exorcist-like creature creeping around through hallways and rooms... YES! That was definitely good stuff!! I wish more segments were devoted to those kind of shockers.  Bad acting and a failed attempt at a horror atmosphere so it basically feels like just another day roaming the dusty grounds of Afghanistan combine to create one mediocre film.

Ed Wood, Jr., move over This film might quite possibly be the ne plus ultra of bad filmmaking, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6305760403">Ed Wood, Jr.</a> notwithstanding. And I almost missed it. The first scene, a thoroughly quotidian scene in which the film's dashing young hero enters a restaurant and is shown to a booth, was so bad that I nearly stopped the movie after that single minute. But something, perhaps that apparently inborn trait that draws us, like moths to bug zappers, to the grotesque in life--traffic accidents, open wounds, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0027CHPD4">Lindsay Lohan</a>--or maybe just the laziness that comes with a Y chromosome and keeps me from extending the energy to push the remote, made me keep watching. And to think what I would have missed!  Birdemic is astonishingly inept. The coverage, for instance, during any of the conversations in the film is embarrassingly bad with the result that there are unnatural pauses interspersed throughout any conversation (the flaw that nearly prevented me from watching the film). Or perhaps it's the editing that truly sucks. A few shots should have ended long before they actually did. At any rate, the film moves along ineptly for a good 15 or 20 minutes until it achieves its true glory, something hinted at in a few scenes but never fully realized until the middle of the film. I'm talking about the special effects.  There is a scene early in the film in which the aforementioned dashing hero and the fetching heroine are on a date. Those who have seen the date montage for Leslie Nielsen and Priscilla Presley from, I think, the first <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0792166469">Naked Gun</a> film will understand the true beauty of this scene. The young soon-to-be lovers pause to admire three birds hovering near a tree. The problem is that the birds look less real than the atomic octopus sans motor in Ed Wood's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00003XAMP">Bride of the Monster</a>. Technology has given us amazing CGI, but true auteurs, like James Nguyen, whose mess Birdemic is, have an ineptitude that transcends the march of progress. So we find out when the birds attack.  For those who are not familiar with avian martial strategy, it is, I gather much the same the world over. The birds make sounds like WWII airplanes and then dive bomb their targets. Upon reaching these targets, they explode. Bird boom pow. At this point in the film, I was a bit confused. I had not known that birds explode, but later, a scientist appears a la <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0792838467">War Games's</a> Falken (albeit without the fun video) and explains that global warming is to blame and that, apparently, one of the well-known effects of the death of krill in the oceans is exploding birds. I may have missed some of the technical points of this tendentious character's bloviating, but I think I got the gist.

Disappointing David Lynch Experience. Viewed: 9/11 Rate: 3  9/11: Yeah, that was a David Lynch experience, and that was really a bad one. Lost Highway seemed to have all the right elements for a David Lynch picture, but it fell apart when I asked myself this simple question, "What's the point?" Also, it was too long to sit through, leaving me uneasy and hoping for a quicker finish. I wish about forty-five minutes would have been cut out plus some rationality thrown in. The plot wasn't all that interesting: just your common film noir where the guy has lost his self-control for a woman by letting her to decide his fate. If not for David Lynch's touches, Lost Highway is easily a `1' picture. Familiar with his two films, it's apparent that Lost Highway derives some of the elements from Blue Velvet and sets up new elements that would later be improved on in Mulholland Drive, both much, much more superiorly directed pictures. It didn't help matters any when Lost Highway started off too slow in the first thirty minutes; it was just not going anywhere. Then, all of a sudden, it's a new film. About the end, it was getting obvious that there was a couple of threads, linking two films into one. Yet, it was 135 minutes of waiting for nothing but total abstractness, not an enjoyable experience to sit through. Of the film, Robert Loggia is still the man, and after seeing Robert Blake, I wish that he is serving life in prison to this day. All in all, I am not sure if I would change a thing about Lost Highway because it was really a David Lynch picture.

Yeah, right. I only watched half of it.  I tried, but this is a boring excercise in trying to figure out what's going on in a story that starts at the end and brings you back to "what happened" by taking back to the beginning scene by scene in reverse order.  If those scenes had been intereting in themselves maybe I'd have stuck it out, but for the hour that I sat through, this movie was a big yawner.

GUS VAN SANT, OPUS 16 Someone out there stole <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000IYU9HW">Love Story</a>'s screenplay and was stupid enough to believe that no one would notice it. Already forgotten.

gangster chronicles I got suckered in for this dvd, thinkingI was goiing to get the TV seires and got a doc.  dan

Oh Crunch. Le sigh. I'll be honest, I have not even tried this workout. It looked cheesy when I watched the preview here on Amazon, but I bought it anyway because I love Jennifer Galardi so much. I own almost all her DVDs and I've loved all of them. I don't know what it is about Crunch, but they somehow managed to make me want to strangle her.  Whenever I get a new workout DVD, I preview it before I try it to get a feel for what's coming. With this, I could barely stand to fast forward through it. Everything about Crunch is just big and corny and somehow Jennifer sucked that energy in too and I couldn't even stand listening to her. The dance moves looked like the would have given my big butt a good workout, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I threw it back in the box and put on Jennifer's Sweating Sexy.  I don't know what it is with me and Crunch, but we just don't click.

Two Thumbs Down This movie had very few funny moments but overall not very funny. Al Pacino was interesting and very odd in this movie.

Not at All Good for Me I've liked a lot of Woody's movies, but not this one.  It's the worst one I've ever seen him in.  (That's the required twenty words, isn't it?)

If you're a 14 year old girl, you'll love this movie If you're in a safe place, you know you are being traced and you don't want to get caught...why in the world would you pick up the phone to call your uncle to tell him you're not dead? Why?  If you're the bad guy and you are in train station line with your victim (Taylor), why not follow the victim to their cabin to get what you want?  If you're the bad guy and can tap into any computer, video surveillance camera or electronic device...why in the world can't you tap into a cell phone to get the code that you need?  Other questions...Why isn't there any blood on the shoot victims? Why was there a tear come out of Taylor's eye but have not emotion on his face? Why was the movie called abduction? Who was abducted? Was the cell phone the abducted? How did Taylor remember the name of the apartment address and the people he was supposed to be on his side, without writing them down?  I believe one of the Amazon reviewer summed this movie up for me... "Me and my 14 year old daughter watch this movie, and she absolutely loved it! I felt that at the beginning when I saw a little too much drinking and that it was over the line. But by the end, not too much violence, cussing, nudity or sex! So this movie was great!" So if your a 14 year old girl and do not like violence, cussing, nudity or sex...this movie is for you!

Sappy. The Last Song is just a sappy and a depressing film from beginning to end. Greg Kinnear is the standout performance in this film, he is a great and a solid actor but I can't say the same for teen star Miley Cyrus! Cyrus has absolutely no range or depth to take on such a serious role. The way she says her lines are completely lifeless and monotone. She puts no effort or feeling into her screen time, she brings nothing magical to The Last Song so bascially what I'm trying to say is...she ruined this drama for me!

Not very good...disappointed! I am NOT a fan of Sci-Fi, I only rented it because Noomi Rapace, the girl from the original Swedish "Dragon Tattoo" movies was in it. I thought she was great in the Tattoo series; she's pretty bad in this movie though. I fully understand that one must suspend any disbelief in order to enjoy a Sci-Fi movie, so my problem is in the terrible screenplay and the poor acting.

Not For Me I had a very hard time sticking with this film.  There was absolutely nothing I enjoyed about it.  Nothing.  That's about all she wrote.

Not really enjoyable I ordered this video while looking for some Christmas concert, but I'm sorry to say I don't like this one. I think it may be appealing to those who are nostalgic of a bygone period, but to me it's a bit weak and tacky.

Short review of the bfi (UK) DVD Always nice to have lots of reviews attached to a DVD when all of them in fact review a completely different DVD :-)  So here's a very short review of the bfi DVD (UK, PAL): The image quality is fine, but the English subtitles are burnt into the picture, which is a no-go. So it's impossible to recommend this DVD; better get the Criterion one instead.

A good sleeping pill Wow.  This is one slow movie.  Flashbacks, flash forwards, horrible photography, low-key soundtrack, and mostly off-screen violence make for one dull serial killer flick.  Actors are actually pretty good, but they are so soft-spoken and almost dazed half the time.  This is a very slow ride and will require a lot of patience if you want to make it to the end, which is ridiculous and fairly predictable. Nothing scary here, folks.  I would have welcomed an occasional scream, chase or exagerated musical note to wake me from my coma.

Disappointing I was very diaappointed in this Blu-ray version. The video is very dark and grainy due to low lighting in the original recording. Audio was less than stellar on a surround sound processor. All sounds are delivered up front where crowd noises could have been handle on rear speakers. This Blu-ray version should have had enhannced visual and audio presentations; the technology is available.

Skip This One This film is at least one hour too long.  It is slow and tedious and frequently painful to watch.  Marlon Brando, as was his wont, interpreted his character in a way that no one had before, but it just didn't work in this film.  Try one of the other versions of this classic story.

Let me be clear, I loved the first three... ...but this new film doesn't hold a candle to those movies.  I remember watching the first Paranormal Activity back in 2009 in a crowded theater in San Antonio. Up until that time I'd never truly been scared by a movie before, except for with The Exorcist and even that wasn't all that scary. Paranormal Activity was the first movie to truly frighten me and cause me to lose sleep. The second film was much the same except much, much scarier. The third film, although it went in a different direction then the first, managed to breathe new life into the franchise and give us some unique and innovative techniques in order to deliver scares in a different manner than its predecessors.  With the fourth installment of what is otherwise a great horror franchise the creators seem to have taken all the criticism from the first three movies to heart, specifically that there isn't enough action, it's too slow, and nothing really happens until the end. To compensate for all the haters, they decide for this film to go all in from the very beginning. No longer are we straining our eyes for multiple nights simply to see a door movie a LITTLE bit, or a shadow cross over the camera lens, or for the pool robot to climb out of the pool inexplicably. The agonizingly slow build up and extreme tension that made the first three films so great (for those of us that actually enjoyed them, that is) is replaced with a more upbeat, fast pace scare more reminiscent of mainstream horror films then its independent roots. Even for its two hour running time (approximately) the film seems rushed as it tries to cram in as many creepy scares as possible, all at the expense (in my opinion) of pacing and tension. I thought the first and second movie especially were extremely good for the very fact that they gave us so little to work with; a bump in the night, a squeaky door, a chandelier swaying ever so slightly or a pan falling from its rack. I'm not going to give away the scares in this movie, but I will say they aren't nearly as subtle as before.  Another thing that somewhat lessened the scares in this movie was that it relied a lot on the people in the film to deliver the scares and not the "entity" from the first three. Sure, it makes its appearances and does its usual "activities" but to a much greater degree than in the first three it uses mere mortals to do its dirty work. I don't know about you, but no matter how scary you make someone's face look, it's not NEARLY as scary as some paranormal entity. That's not to say that "Toby" doesn't do his share, just to say that he goes to the bench way too often instead of stealing the show for himself. At the same time there was very little innovation with this film. The first movie took the POV angle and ran with it, the second film expanded it with more cameras, and the third gave us that great rotating camera work. Besides a nifty little trick with an Xbox Kinect there isn't really any innovation to speak of here. It's pretty much the second movie with computer camera's taking the place of security camera's, and a Kinect. Nothing special, nothing new, and nothing worth speaking of.  This far into the franchise one would normally expect the series to be wrapped up by now, or at least to have some of the major questions answered. Unfortunately this film doesn't wrap up anything, instead it merely sets the stage for ANOTHER movie that will no doubt be coming out sometime next year. More questions (and really baffling ones at that) are raised by this movie then answered. Don't expect to find out what this coven is up to, what kind of deal they made, WHY exactly this entity wants Hunter and what it intends to do with him, or anything. Practically nothing is explained while more and more mystery is piled on us in order to make us watch the next movie. I don't want to be spoon fed answers like horror movies are want to do, but a little clarification would be nice. Just a LITTLE bit, no?  On the plus side, the last ten to fifteen minutes of the movie are, as usual, very scary. Not AS scary as the finals for one, two, or three, but still scary. The characters aren't really all that great except for the two leads (Ben and Alex) were decently acted. The parents were nobodies throughout the entire movie, barely putting in any face time and only serving as cannon fodder for the entity and his minions. They seemed to merely fill in roles instead of playing actual characters. They might as well have been props.  In conclusion I must say that this movie was a major letdown. I loved the first three films, with the second being my favorite, but the series has lost steam. If you're a Paranormal fan like myself then its worth a watch when it comes out on video, but definitely not anything worth speaking of. Sorry guys, it just wasn't that great.  Replay value; low.

waste of time This movie is a waste of time.  Go see any other zombie movie. Not worth it at all. Low budget and plain bad.

Crap of the Titans - By the Gods, this is bad! A bombastic, 3-D fantasy sequel like this can normally be expected to have a throwaway script favoring computer animation and motion-capture creatures, but this takes lifeless moviemaking to new lows.  Did the first movie even generate enough boxoffice to greenlight this kind of rehash project?  The single-daddy demigod bit is laughable from the get go, but there's plenty of body-slamming action and noise pollution to keep you from nodding off.  Worthington hasn't the presence to carry a peplum potboiler like this, while Neeson, Fiennes and Nighy are compellingly wasted.  The muzak sounds like judgement day.

Impressive animation marred by screenplay's dopey slapstick humor *** This review may contain spoilers ***  When Kung Fu Panda was released in China, it was praised not only for the production values but its faithfulness to Chinese culture. Suddenly people in China were asking, how can an American production company outdo their Chinese counterparts in creating an animated film that sends such a positive message about China and gets everything right? It's akin to the Russians who launched the first man into space, only to see the American overtake them, eventually landing a man on the moon. For many Chinese critics, Kung Fu Panda is the American 'first lunar landing' of animated martial arts movies.  But if the Chinese critics only had a bit of critical acumen, they could easily see there's nothing to be jealous about here. Sure there's a great amount of respect for Chinese culture seen throughout the film (down to the last Chinese character in the credits) as well as some sensational animation including the opening anime 'dream' sequence as well as that incredibly difficult feat of having tons of realistic looking confetti pour down at the Kung Fu tournament where the Kung Fu Panda, Po, is crowned Dragon Warrior. But how is Chinese culture honored by turning Chinese people into a bunch of goofy, self-effacing anthropomorphic animals? Surely kids under eight will dig it, but adults? I hardly think so.  While the directors of 'Panda' are firmly ensconced in the world of martial arts and action adventure films, they are neophytes when it comes to comedy. It all comes down to one silly slapstick scene after another emphasizing Po as a good natured, bumbling fool with a decided inferiority complex. Whether he fails getting up the steps into the arena for the Kung Fu tournament, or shoots himself high into the air strapped to a bunch of fireworks and then unceremoniously falling straight down and landing inside the arena, only to be crowned Dragon Warrior, the idea that we should fall in love with his lovable loser is spelled out from the beginning and repeated ad infinitum. How many times do we have to see Po chucked around like an inflatable doll whether it's by Master Shifu, Villain Tai Lung or when he finds himself caught inside the mechanical torture chamber, a device that Shifu's Dragon Warrior candidates, 'The Furious Five', in contrast, have mastered.  I do confess that Master Shifu's 'epiphany' in realizing that he has to train Po in a different way so that he can succeed as the dragon warrior, might have been the most clever moment in the comic arc of the film. And certainly Po's transformation from self-effacing masochist to gleeful aggressor as he embraces his 'appetite', is a welcome plot twist after being subjected to the one joke idea of Po as a bumbling clown. Yes, there's finally a method to Po's madness, as Tai Lung is unable to harness Po's new found manic energy. It's sort of like a dominant major league batter unable to master the completely unpredictable path of a knuckle ball.  But if we view Po as representing a grownup who still acts like a kid with the particularly bad habit of overeating, then the message 'be yourself', should fall on deaf ears. In this day where smart educators are trying to control the epidemic of childhood obesity, Po's unbridled enthusiasm for that extra cupcake, would not lead to his triumph as dragon warrior. It's a wishful conceit on the part of the directors that Po would end up victorious in his confrontation with the evil Tai Lung. The filmmakers' message to kids here is be happy even if you don't treat yourself well. And things will turn out alright even if you've made no effort to change yourself.  As for the action adventure aspect of 'Panda', I can't help it if it seems that the 'holy trinity' of Shifu, Oogway and Tai Lung, are pilfered straight out of the Star Wars play book. Shifu appears to be a Yoda stand-in with the wise, all-knowing tortoise Oogway, reprising the Obi-Wan Kenobi role (Oogway appears to employ his own version of 'The Force' as he is responsible for turning the slight Red Panda Master Shifu into a powerhouse). Finally, Tai Lung can go toe to toe with Darth Vadar any day as both have no problems mixing erudition with brute force.  A good deal of 'Panda' is taken up by one Kung Fu sequence after another and you really have to be a martial arts fan to be enamored with all those repetitious action sequences. Less bothersome (but still silly) was the decision to make Po's father, Mr. Ping, a goose. There's also the Wuxi Finger Hold that leads to Tai Lung's destruction (at first it seems like a nuclear explosion but it really is a clearing out of 'bad energy' or 'bad karma'). Finally, The 'Furious Five' are not distinct enough as characters despite the conscription of such luminaries as Angelina Jolie and Jackie Chan to perform the voice overs.  I think 'Kung Fu Panda' would have been a better film had the films' scenarists decided from the outset not to make Po into such a hapless buffoon. That would have also probably meant that the sentimental Mr. Ping and his love for noodles had to go too. In its present incarnation, Kung Fu Panda is certainly suitable for kids (although Tai Lung's antics might be too strong a draught for children under eight). As for adults, ignore the dopey screenplay and concentrate on the visuals and the music, which certainly deserve the accolades already garnered throughout the film community since the film's release in 2008.

Deceptive advertising Item advertised a digital disk as well as Blu-ray.  The disk that comes with it had an unlock code that expired over a year ago.  Might as well just buy the item with the 1 disk, the rest was worthless.

I can't say that I was surprised I have followed Jean Claude Van Damme in a lot of his films. I was a big fan from the era of "No Retreat, No Surrender", "Lionheart", "Double Impact" and also "Hard Target". He was the best during the era of the 90's for split kicks and the most perfect roundhouses you could see. The Universal Soldier franchise wasn't that bad. But, the character has not only aged, but he's forgotten that he had a 13 year old daughter in Universal Soldier: The Return! He was aging properly in this installment and wanted to live the rest of his days as a father, but now the story has completely changed and he's been living in a institute where the good doctor is trying to help him cope with his issues of not being a UNISOL. Then we bring back another original; Dolph Lungren, and his character is the only one that is exactly as the orignal story placed him - he just wasn't cutting off ears and wanting to keep them as personal gifts. But, his mental issues were still there.  So, I have to sum it up by saying that I wasn't surprised at all. A trilogy works on great titles [Mission Impossible, Terminator, etc] . Even a film that goes on to make four movies (with all the same actors) can do well [Lethal Weapon, Die Hard]. But, this one should have stopped at The Return! They don't even like to talk about the Universal Soldier 2 Brothers In Arms, and they are also in post production of a Universal Soldier: A New Dimension! Van Damme and Lundgren are rumored to be in it. No disrespect, but there's a time to call it quits and then there's a time to just burn it down.

Great movie bad copy Terrible copy of a great movie , had to watch it on my computer wouldn't play on my BluRay worse than and old VHS tape.

Zuccotti Park vs. One Percenters in microcosm *** This review may contain spoilers ***    If you haven't already discovered it, Oliver Stone is a preacher. His movies always boil down to the proverbial 'us vs. them'. Back in 1987, with the release of the first 'Wall Street', there was some ambiguity in Gordon Gekko's famous phrase, "Greed is Good." Although Gekko was a bad guy, there was something charming about him, so one could still feel sorry for the rapacious financier even though he's being sent away to prison. In his later days, Stone's sense of subtlety has waned. While he still holds a great attraction to the world of wealth and privilege (after all, he is a very well off in real life), it would not be politically expedient for Stone to identify himself with the 1% crowd. Thus, the heroes of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps are (in terms of today's nomenclature) the 99 per centers, who completely reject the "greed is good" mantra.    'Money Never Sleeps' is set in 2008, the year of the Wall Street financial meltdown. If it were today, Stone might have had Jake, his proprietary trader protagonist, hanging out for a few hours in Zuccotti Park each day. Even though Jake professes his love for the 'green', he'll only invest in progressive companies that promote alternative energy. And his girlfriend, Winnie, who also happens to be Gordon Gekko's estranged daughter, runs a small website designed to expose one percenter shenanigans. Jake's mentor at his firm, Keller Zabel Investments, is Louis Zabel, another "word is my bond" good guy amongst the wolves, who can't take the heat when the firm loses 30% of its value at the beginning of the 2008 crisis. His solution is to jump in front of a subway train after one percenter bad guy Bretton James (Josh Brolin), CEO of Keller Zabel's rival, blocks a bailout for the troubled firm .    Enter Gordon Gekko, ex-con, who wants to re-establish a bond with his daughter. He conscripts Jake by making a deal with him: if Jake can help him reconcile with Winnie then he'll provide information that can sink Brett. Jake uses information that causes Brett's' firm to lose $120 million but Brett inexplicably offers Jake a job. Jake's plan is to take revenge on the evil Brett who he holds responsible for his mentor's suicide. There is some hint that although Jake intends to undermine Brett from the beginning he's seduced by the wily CEO after Brett promises to steer a Chinese company toward investing in the fusion energy company Jake's been touting. When the economic crisis affects the firm, Brett plays it safe by promoting bunk solar panels and fossil fuels to the Chinese. Jake throws a fit when all bets are off for his fusion energy company; his 'dark moment of the soul' occurs when he blows his cover by cursing out Brett and getting himself fired.    The solution is that Gekko reveals to Jake that he's had $100 million stashed away in a Swiss bank account all along and needs for his daughter to sign the money over to Jake who will in turn hand it over to Gekko who promises to invest it all in the fusion energy company Jake's trying to save. At first, Gekko appears to be returning to form when he disappears with the $100 million and the fusion company appears to be sinking like the Titanic.    Jake's revenge plot against Brett turns wimpy when he merely gives Winnie some information that she publishes in her blog, leading to Brett's downfall. If you can believe that the unsubstantiated rumors in a small left-wing newspaper can destroy this powerful CEO, then perhaps I can sell you the Brooklyn Bridge. Whatever the case, Jake's passing of information to his girlfriend, is hardly the stuff of exciting denouements.    The ultimate wimp-out of course is Gekko's decision to join the 99 percenters by returning the $100 million to the now reconciled couple and get to see his grandchild a year later. The good guy crowd wins the day by shouting the new 2008 mantra: 'Greed is bad'. Had 'Money Never Sleeps' been filmed during the time of OWS, Stone would have had Gekko along with Jake, Winnie (and a photo of the deceased Zabel) snuggle up together inside one of the newly minted pup tents in Zuccotti Park.    Shia LaBeouf is really perfectly cast to play Jake. The actor who usually plays hotheads (and is a hothead in real life) shows himself to be more comfortable in a place like Zuccotti than inside an investment bank. In 'Money never sleeps', his rebellion takes the form of some wild riding on a motorcycle and well as cuddling with his 'greed is bad' significant other.. Carey Mulligan has little to do as liberal blogger Winnie but Josh Brolin is more enjoyable as a sinister over the top head honcho. Frank Langella is stuck in the role of the kindly mentor Louis Zabel and is too idealistic a character to be believable. Michael Douglas manages to pull off some real acting, particularly in the emotionally powerful scene when he first makes a real attempt to reconcile with Winnie. But the absurdity of Gekko suddenly reversing course at the film's climax, undermines all the good acting Douglas had done beforehand.    'Money Never Sleeps' is Oliver Stone's attempt to be accepted by his middle-class audience. There is no chance anymore that Gordon Gekko can exist as both good and bad at the same time. Gekko can now only be good in the present. The bad guy of today, the Brett's of this world, the one percenters, must be thrown under the proverbial bus. In reality, however, none of the 'villains' of the 2008 economic crisis were called to the bar of justice. Quite the contrary, they made out like bandits! Thus, Stone's comeuppance of the one percenter crowd, rings as false as the idealized crowd of do-gooders he creates, that are depicted going to battle with them!

A Bloated Western On A Fake Blue Ray I am a great admirer of westerns and Clint Eastwood. I have a fond memory of watching the film in the theater when it was first released.  40 odd years on, watching this film again is a completely different experience. This film has now become a long rambling aimless western with a very weak story line.  The main character of the film is not the Good/Man with No Name (Clint Eastwood) but the Ugly (Eli Wallah) who did a laborious and commendable job. Eastwood and Van Cleef did not more than a walk-on/walk-off job in this 161 min. film.  Frankly watching this film again on this Blue Ray disc borders on a boring experience.  Then again, Is this a real Blue Ray?  The quality is not even up to a decent quality DVD. This disc is without a single moment of pristine picture quality that one normally finds in most of the Blue Ray discs. Even many of the close-up shots were out-of-focus. The 5.1 DTS-HD sound didn't sound a bit like 5.1 DTS-HD.  The disc I bought from Amazon.com is a single disc version with only the commentary as a supplement without the rest of the Special Features listed on the disc cover including Leone's West: Making of Documentary; The Leone Style; The Man Who Lost Civil War; Reconstructing The Good The Bad & The Ugly; Il Maestro: Ennio Morricone, etc.  Amazon.com, please take note.  For Sergio Leone's western, watch "Once Upon A Time In The West".  Stay away from this Blue Ray disc.

OK I HOPE PART 2 IS BETTER THEN THIS CRAP. TO MANY BAD WORDS COULD HAVE BEEN 3 STARS BUT NOT. I GIVE IT TO STARS. CAN:T WAIT FOE PART 2 LOL

Sitter movie the video was great movie was stupid Save your money.Not funny not funny not funny save your money rent another video

Scooby Doo, "Where's My Mummy" There is no way to tell if this DVD is any good or not because it skipped constantly and there was no way to follow what was going on in the movie.

Gag me with a spoon This show is hideous....the one episode worth seeing is the one about cocaine otherwise....buyer beware, come to think of it Rod SErling and the Twilight Zone reaches the depths of this crap in many of the episodes.....

Dragged on The acting was great but the movie felt like it was dragging on.  The drug use took away from character development and the plot was lacking.  With such a great cast, I was expecting something better.  The sound track was good though.

Tried this video for a 2 year old it was terrible We bought this video along with the Elmo Potty video and hands down the Elmo one was more engaging and interesting than this video. As we were playing this we both looked at each other and said, this is terrible. Maybe this would be better for older kids 4-5 who are still having problems, our 2 year old was totally not interested in watching this video, we were able to do away with diapers in one weekend mainly with the Elmo video, I would not recommend to anyone, the Elmo however I would recommend.

so-so whn Mark Harmon is the best thing in a movie, i think that says a lot, as Taylor seems to be going through the motions, zaftig in a caftan, kind of seems like her marriage to John Warner. Rip Torn, as per his name, tears up the scenery and Valerie Perrine has a most unfortunate hairdo as the town slut. there seems to be a young Annette Bening getting an impromptu massage from Harmon which was fun to watch, she even overacted that. Mostly it seems a TV movie on DVD so expect not too much. I watched it before i saw Diane Lane in the play and glad i did.

Machine Gun Preacher  -  didn't fulfill With a name like this and after watching some trailers, we tried this movie. Now, I like movies with happy endings and this flick didn't even win there. Slow at times and a frustrated end.

Disappointing sequel This is NOT the same movie really.  First off, the actors are different and then the storys just isn't near as good.  I am very disappointed and wouldn't have gotten this product had I known.

Disappointing BBC coverage was the best; however, too much was deleted causing hiccups in the sound especially during wedding ceremony--very disappointed.

Movie was a Terrible Idea- Just Read the Book I'm a capitalist and an Ayn Rand fan. But there's a reality out there that many do not want to accept: certain novels just don't work and can't work on the big screen. This is not the first Ayn Rand novel to be made into a movie.  The first one was "The Fountainhead."  The hero of that novel gives a speech which reads:    "Thousands of years ago, the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burned at the stake he had taught his brothers to light.    "Centuries later, the first man invented the wheel. He was probably torn on the rack he had taught his brothers to build. He was considered a transgressor who ventured into forbidden terrritory. But thereafter, men could travel past any horizon. He had left them a gift they had not conceived and he had opened the roads of the world."  And it goes on like that for many more paragraphs.  It makes for powerful prose in a novel.  Delivered by a character onscreen, it's sounds and looks ridiculous.  I'm sorry, it just does.  Atlas Shrugged shrugged encounters then same problem.  A typical exchange in the film goes like this:  MYSTERIOUS STRANGER: "Midas Mulligan?"  MM: "Who are you?"  STRANGER: "Someone who works for himself and not let others feed off the profits of his energy."  Once again, riveting prose in a novel, ludicrous dialog onscreen.  Simply put, Atlas Shrugged the novel is more of a philosophy handbook than a novel. Turning such a tome into a screenplay is a near-impossible task.  Powerful ideas can't be easily condensed into sound bytes, and no one should try.  But the other problem with the film is that it takes place in the 21st century, whereas the novel was written in the 1950s. Railroads were a great innovation back then maybe. This is the age of the passenger jet, the iphone, and the electric car. A movie about railroad companies is by itself a dated concept.  Read the novel.  It's great and this movie seems just like a cheap way to make a buck that failed.

Captains log - I've...gotta get out of here... No matter what I do now, all I see when Wiliam Shattner comes on the TV is this movie. What a pisser! I think I pulled some chest muscles laughing. Wow - with the best ending of all time no less! It wasn't a half bad plot and the acting was only half bad too. Definitely worthy of sitting on my B grade DVD shelf.

Mishmash of nothing I remember watching the old TV show and miniseries back in the 80's so was kinda bummed to hear they were going to redo it. Well, like most remakes and reboots, they had the idea to run with from the original and build on. One Problem, this show was Big letdown. Bad writing, annoying characters and clumsy plotting. And in Season 2, the Producers, who knew they were hanging on to renewal by a thread, brought back the best thing about the original, Diana and unfortunately squandered her storyline. When on the screen, she stole the scenes, but they never let her out of the dungeon for the entire season. People had to go visit her. So, she finally gets out on the last episode and...well, you will see. I knew after that, I would not be back if they renewed it and they didn't so I don't think many people were upset, except for a small group on Facebook bugging all the studios to get a 3rd season on some other network. It never happened. Like Heroes, or The Event or Flashforward, not to mention Terra Nova. They have the idea but can't find show runners that are competent to run a show with a long story arc.

older movies this seems like a just a normal dvd, no really features. blu ray not worth the blu ray title. however if you can get it cheap, or a fan of Kim Basinger or Alec Baldwin, only reason to buy blu ray, better stick to regular DVD.

Not so much still as over-killed! So much of what I wanted to say has already been written here in the two stars and one star categories, so I'll take a different approach . Perhaps the best comment was one that came from the friend I watched this with when he said about ten minutes into it (ignoring the ice sequence), ...."They've already made this too big!" Which they had indeed, thus leaving them nowhere to go after that.  There are WAY too many helicopters, FAR too many explosions, car chases, CGI's and all the paraphernalia that now seems obligatory to enrapture the fourteen year old boys movies all seem aimed at nowadays.  There is also THE most irritating, unnecessary and totally unlikeable multi-racial fashion accessory whining muppet-wigged child whose single complete eradication from the human DNA bank alone would have saved the world and convinced Klatu that the human race WAS now on the right track for redemption!  The "Jesus" analogy is worked to death too. Klatu has come to save the world, he heals people at will, raises people from the dead, performs miracles, ...and just when you think they couldn't possibly push the biblical analogy any further, ....they manage to contrive two red stigmata on his palms as he smites the Amalek....er, sorry, it was the whole human race this time. Even the "world standing still" of the title is reduced to the final freeze, ....with no public message delivered, as in the FAR superior in every way older version.  Keanu Reeves is given little to do in convincing mankind to change. He very early on takes a quick perusal, decides it's a hopeless case and proceeds with Operation Noah's Ark,(memories of "Silent Running" perhaps?),... and then lets loose the Apocalypse, ..or is it Armageddon? Please consult your bibles on this.  I remain totally amazed that with ALL the many tricks and advancements in film making, not to mention the astronomical budgets, they still cannot come up with as good a presentation of an idea, or tell a story as well as was done far cheaper and FAR better back when....

Hamhanded, bad directing, bad acting, and just plain bad The reason this movie isn't good isn't because it has a bad message. It has a general message that basically amounts to "Yes, even minorities can be racist, and we should stop that."  This is a good moral, I won't lie. That doesn't mean this is a good movie. It's not.  Terrible, TERRIBLE acting all around. There was one point where a Muslim mother was waving goodbye at her daughter through a glass door, and I honestly couldn't tell if she was glaring at her daughter's friend, or just mildly staring at the window. Other moments had me literally want to look around and see if these actors were reading their lines off of a giant cue card, they were delivered so poorly.  Subtly? What's that? I know some of you want to excuse it with a "sometimes racism is blatant" but you know what? Not to this extent. Within the first half hour of the movie, you have two, maybe THREE actors say right to the screen, "BUT HOW WOULD MY PEOPLE RESPOND TO ME DATING [insert either black or chaldean/arabic race here]? YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT". Within thirty minutes this happens. That's not "real life" that's called "very, very bad writing". Racism is blatant at times, yes. But there's a limit. And the fact that no one can go five minutes without mentioning race or religion (I think back to how every parent couldn't compliment a child of their race without adding religion into it, like "She's a good CHRISTIAN girl,"...with the director oh so subtly "implying with your you in the face with "unlike those filthy MUSLIMS, god I hate them") is...silly, to say the least. These people can't go get some ice cream without reminding the viewer that the their fudge bar reminds them of those disgusting black people. And the lack of subtly doesn't just go for racism either. You know the rule 'show, don't tell'? It exists for a reason. Do not TELL me your feelings. I am not an idiot. I can read expressions. I can read people. "You know the only reason I hang out with [person] is because he's black/Arab and that pisses my dad off, right?" That is an actual line in this movie. Roll that around in your noggin. I lost count of the number of times characters just flat out said who and what they were ("I'm Chaldean, Catholic, and from the east," a girl said with no prompting whatsoever...just like every single other character would do). People do not do this. People ACT on how they feel, not spout their actions and motives as they are happening. If I'm angry at my father because he said he was going to take me to the movies and then decided not to, I'm not going to tell a friend talking about buying a TV, "By the way, I'm pissed at my father because he lied and take me to the movies like he promised. That's why I'm hanging out with Arabs now. Just so you know."  I'm really surprised by the number of people defending this movie. It's most definitely not deserving of five stars, even as a TV movie.  The overall hamfisted-ness of this movie is almost charming, really. The director clearly has no idea what he's doing, the actors are almost cringe-inducing. At one point my brother came in to watch this movie with me and he and I had a ball laughing at the shoddiness of it all. My brother is 14, with some of the worst taste in movies you can imagine, and he could see this movie for what it was: Entertaining for all the wrong reasons crap.  There's a good movie in this premise, there really is. The idea is that racism affects everyone, regardless of social class, religion, and skin color. That we should try to learn about others and their culture, rather than making assumptions based off of the media and one experience you had before. It is something a bit Michigan specific (shout out to my fellow Michiganders), The movie means well. It just didn't turn out into a great product. I give it an extra star because I had a good time listening to it in the background and laughing at some of the blandest delivery of what was intended to be emotionally charged lines.

Talent is going down the toilet I finished watching the DVD except for the Disc 2 morning session. First, I hardly recognize the drummers on these discs. I did recognize Hernandez since he has already appeared on past modern drummer sessions. It seemed the group he brought in played forever. They should have named this the Hernandez Modern Drummer Festival. It must be getting harder to find drummers to play at these events based on this years crop. The only player I enjoyed was Watts. He truly has mastered the art of making drums sound like a musically instrument. The morning session on DVD 1 was not very good. I thought the lesson was kind of too basic to be put on a DVD. Unlike in previous years there was bascally no discussions on technique. Just a bunch of drummers playing mostly to pre-recorded tracks. I haven't looked at the PDF's yet. If they are good maybe it is worth getting.

Needs better character development I bought this just because it was a cartoon featuring wolves as a major plot device. If you're thinking about buying this set for the same reason, then think again. It was interesting for about 2 or 3 episodes, until the show just started to hit my "annoyed" meter.  The animation quality isn't the best, but that's not what bothered me. There are several cartoons out there with lower animation quality, but they're still great. (Hanna Barbera anyone?) So that fact shouldn't even be worth mentioning.  What really bothered me was how stale the characters were. After a while, I just couldn't stand them anymore. The show has its few interesting characters: White Fang and his pack and the cool Native American mystic guy. Unfortunately that's about it. The other characters are more like cardboard cutouts that can talk. They're so bland that it makes caring about them or what happens to them in the stories harder than sitting there watching paint dry.  If the show was more about White Fang and the other non-cardboard characters, or just had much better characterization, then it would be pretty decent.  If you grew up watching this show, then it will might be much more tolerable. I grew up in the era that this show was made in and it just doesn't sit well with me. I'd rather watch something else.

Yabba, yabba, yabba I guess these two are likeable enough but the film is so talky that 23 minutes in, I had to shut it off. Boring. Talk. Talk. Not a guy's movie at all. On the other hand my wife enjoyed it, so that just shows you.

"What if" No proof, no facts, just wishing thinking and "what if".  Alarmist nonsense.  Save your money.  Seriously, this will not convince you unless you are already convinced.  Placebo.

Could of been better, fell on its face a few times. I was expecting alot more out of this movie. There were four or five good scares besides that this movie fell flat on its face. I thought the ending could of been better to, it is almost like they ripped off the ending of rosemarys baby, which by the way is 10 times better than this movie.

An attempt to make Jesus more palatable Jesus smiles after just about everything he says - even when talking about hell and when rebuking the Pharisees! It seem the producers of this movie were uncomfortable with a Jesus who often made rather harsh statements. Instead of acting in concert with the text, the actor playing Jesus seeks to uphold an extra-biblical perception of Jesus that looks nothing like what a natural reading of Matthew would suggest.

Don't pet the alien First, I have no idea why Charlize Theron was even in the movie.  Her character was pointless.  The 3D cinematic was captivating at times but not enough to wow me. The movie had potential.  It was on the verge of being smart and philosophical but it did not fully deliver.  Alien and Aliens are far superior because they were unique, the action was better, and the story was not as cheesy.  Case and point (*this is sort of a SPOILER ALERT); don't assume a brand new species, or race, on a foreign planet is friendly.

Just Okay The movie starts off well, but clearly begins to lag as Kristen Stewart becomes the focal point.  The scenes with Charlize as the Queen are the most intriguing part of the movie and she clearly steals the film.  In the middle where she is absent for large gaps, the movie drags.

Bad, Bad, Bad... SPOILER ALERT:  Evil guy kills boy's father.  Boy grows up and kills evil guy.  That's it in a nutshell.  Even at $0.99 for rental, it felt like a rip-off.  Horrible acting and dialogue (cliche ad absurdum).  If you have nothing else in the movie queue, are longing for "Lord of Rings" type of graphics and you feel "plant-like" then go ahead and rent it.

Great music, poor storyline I have been looking forward to seeing this play for several years now, and was sadly disappointed by it. Andrew Lloyd Webber does not disappoint with his music, but the storyline leaves a lot to be desired. I will not spoil anything, but I find the story inconsistent with the original, which really bugged me because I love the original play so much. I also didn't care for half the characters (the actors in the cast were terrific--it was the characters themselves who were rather boring). If I could make this purchase again, I'd skip getting the DVD and just buy the soundtrack.

Jolie can't act, and Depp won't Well, Venice is gorgeous here, as ever and always. But the film has in general a predictable, seen-it-before feel (the big surprise ending was obvious 15 minutes in), and talk about mailed-in performances; Depp looks like he wants to be anywhere but with Jolie in most of their scenes. Watch his eyes during their kisses: I'd swear he looks rather hammered, as if he had to quaff three or six before going near Jolie. Their chemistry, such as it isn't, is much like the rest of this movie, lackluster at best.  It all looks good on blu-ray, but even Venice sometimes looks a little staged, and you can almost feel all the extras trying not to look at the camera. All the ingredients are here but The Tourist is both half-baked and overdone while trying to be every sort of film and being none very successfully. Except fluff. But even then, Jolie's wooden presence and increasingly alienoid look make everything that much more plastic, and Depp seems to have decided early on in the shoot to just take the money and sleepwalk through.  All in all, worth watching for the Venice eye candy, but that's about it.

Don't Do "Dawn" Miserable Blu Ray release of a great movie. The picture is cropped from its original aspect ratio, the sound is sub-par, and the picture quality is all over the map. There are moments when the picture is stellar, especially during the beginning moments of the film in the outdoors. Colors pop and the picture is crisp and clear, but then it will suddenly change to something comparable to VHS.  Extras? Forget it! Nothing...zero...zilch.  It's a shame that one of Miramax's best titles wound up in the hands of this company, who produced such a horribly shoddy transfer of this film. Skip it and stick with your DVD.

What happened? I'll give this two stars because I thought it was well filmed and enjoyed the actors...but you still need a decent story.  This story is a novel adaptation and, as expected, there a a bunch of changes and for some things to be left out - but even if you don't read the book, you feel like things are left out.  As a viewer, here's some things that make little sense:  Why does the FBI send 50 people to arrest this one guy? What's the point of the polygraph. One scene they are saying it is inadmissible and the next scene he's taking it. Someone (the lawyer) threatens a high ranking officer so he gets the case thrown out...that was an abrupt ending that leaves me wondering why I bothered watching the movie.  And for the things that make sense...far too predictable.

The Heartbreak Kid I hate to start by saying `The Heartbreak Kid' is an extremely weak film and a huge disappointment. From the trailer this looks to be a typical funny Ben Stiller film, but you quickly realise that the best scenes are shown in the trailer and furthermore they are less funny when in the context of the film! There are unnecessarily crass moments in this film and rather than making you laugh, they make you double take and question how appropriate they are. There is also use of the `C' word which was completely out of place, out of keeping with the feel of the film and completely inappropriate. Generally I have no problem with crass jokes, or even use of the `C' word, but only in context and particular genres of film, these elements were out of step with what is marketed as a light hearted comedy. Sadly to say, after seeing Stiller in other funny films, this film has very little to offer and although it raises a chuckle in places it left me bored by the end and waiting for it's conclusion. Worth a look if you're a HUGE fan of Ben Stiller, otherwise you can give it a miss and not lose any sleep.  Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.

Not that courageous... I know that this isn't the most popular of opinions, but I found this film far too clich&eacute;d and predictable to be anything remotely memorable.  I know I'm coming into this a few years late, but my adoration for Meg Ryan and my sidelined respect for Denzel Washington made my anticipation for this film high.  Sadly, it just didn't really work for me in any way, except for that surprisingly brilliant turn by Matt Damon.  The plot is a little too contrived to be anything memorable.  The idea is nice, but it is poorly realized, with far too many predictable twists that take away from the films apparent poignancy (or need to be so).  The film centers on a haunted solider (are there any other kinds?), Serling, who is currently overseeing a Medal of Honor candidate who died in the line of duty.  Battling his own memories of causing the death of a fellow solider and friend, Serling finds some inconsistencies in interviewing those related to the loss of Captain Walden.  When he finds out that Walden was a woman it makes it all the more pertinent to `do this right', a way that Serling can make personal amends for his own errors.  But what he finds out is more than he bargained for.  Honestly, this film thinks that it is deeper and more shocking than it really is.  You can smell the dishonesty in certain aspects of the plot that foretell events too clearly for the audience, and the ending revelations are just not that impending (unless you count the brilliant facial expression carried by Matt Damon when the revelation is revealed).  Outside of Damon though, this film is burdened by unfulfilled performances that take this film down a bad road.  That may be the biggest drawback, because some stellar performances could have elevated the material and sold the film for something more than it was.  Instead, the lack of drive in these performances only highlighted the films `other' flaws.  Much has been said about Meg Ryan's performance in the `praise' category, but I must say that I thought she was nearly awful, and I LOVE her.  She has handled drama before and delivered rather wonderfully (her Oscar snub for `When a Man Loves a Woman' still pisses me off) but this was just a mess.  Her accent was terrible and her character arc was unbelievable.  She tried so hard to play tough and it just didn't work.  Lou Diamond Philips was so stereotypical it was pathetic and Denzel Washington still doesn't really know how to balance out his emotions.  So much is made of him as an actor, but his ability to really nail a performance is sketchy.  Yes, I love him in certain films (Malcolm X, He Got Game) but unless he has a character with some edge or bite he tends to play his characters on the dull side.  He makes Serling a total bore.  Maybe that's how I feel about the film as a whole; a total bore.

VHS dubbed? I was very excited to find this movie on DVD, but very disappointed by the quality of the picture.  It looks as if they recorded it from an old VHS copy.  The picture has fuzz and dirt that flashes on the picture and it's a little jumpy.  Was very disappointed for it being a DVD.

2 1/2 stars Just some thoughts...  Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) is an example of Hammer Productions taking their whole Dracula series of movies a little too far.  Here we have a Dracula movie that takes place in 1972.  Hammer took the Dracula character and inserted him into a modern setting.  In my opinion, this just doesn't work very well.  The fact that Hammer wanted to branch out and make sequels to their first Dracula movie, Horror Of Dracula (1958) is one thing, but these sequels and especially this 1972 movie in particular have nothing to do with Bram Stoker's novel.  Basically they invented sequels to Stoker's novel.  I give Hammer credit for their imagination and putting their own spin on things, but to me Dracula should only belong in a movie based on Stoker's novel.  I think Hammer's intention was to make Dracula A.D. 1972 fun and entertaining, and for it not to be taken that seriously.  It starts out lighthearted and fun, but then the second half of the movie slows down considerably.  I think that if the movie's mood and atmosphere would have been more consistent, I'd give it a full 3 stars, maybe 3 1/2 stars.  The acting in this movie is pretty good.  The hippies are passable.  The movie is very cheesy, but Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee perform well in their respective roles as Van Helsing and Dracula.  All in all, a very different kind of Dracula movie, to say the least.  If you like camp and a unique spin on things, then give this one a try.

Siskel & Ebert gave it two thumbs up!? **THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS**  If, like me, you grew up in the 80s and 90s, then you'll remember that Siskel & Ebert were the ultimate film authority. Whenever they liked a movie, you would hear the above phrase in all the movie previews on TV and radio.Having seen this movie several times, I'm surprised by their review and even more so by the fact that it was well received by audiences everywhere. On the plus side, the soundtrack is amazing; Whitney was definitely one of the greatest singers of all time and, in my opinion, the most beautiful and stylish female celebrity of the last 25 years. Also, she did a good job in this movie, given the script she had to work with. Kevin Costner gives a solid performance and is easy on the eyes. The supporting cast is O.K., and the locations are stunning. However, that's about all this movie has going for it. The major problem is, of course, the script which needed major revisions.  Now, the story of a celebrity falling for her handsome bodyguard is plausible, given the fact that there have been such cases in real life, e.g. Princess Stephanie of Monaco. Other than that, the story is weakened by so many plot holes that it seems unbelievable that the writers and the director let them slide. First of all, why didn't Rachel(Whitney) have a proper intercom system and cameras in her mansion and on the grounds? Frank(Kevin)has to literally start from scratch when he installs all the security features.True, people like her don't like to have too many restrictions in their lives, but you would think that they would at least take basic precautions. The scene where Frank first drives up to the mansion and talks to the man on the intercom is laughable. I mean it was much harder to get through to the superintendent's office via intercom when I lived in a high-rise, and here it is one of the most expensive homes in the U.S. Obviously, break-ins can occur even in the most secure of places, but not as it's shown here.  Other plot inconsistencies: -Why was Frank's former colleague at the Secret Service (the one to whom he showed the letters)jealous of him making a lot of money? It seems that he had an executive-level job. I looked up the salary for employees in that sector and they make anywhere from high five to low six figures. Plus, they have tons of benefits, bonuses, relocation allowances and, above all, job security and seniority. Now, even if Frank was making more and even if you take into account income adjustment rates (after all , the story took place 20 years ago), it still doesn't make sense that he would be so envious. -What was the point in Rachel having Tony as her bodyguard? He's the stereotypical nice heavy-set guy that seems intimidating at first, but actually can't even punch properly and knows nothing about the security industry. -Doesn't Rachel asking Frank out on a date constitute sexual harassment? O.K., in a way she has a point that she can't really date anybody because she would have to be escorted by him everywhere. Still, if it were a male celebrity making a move on one of his female employees, many would be outraged at the depiction of such behavior in pop culture. Just look at the expression of Frank's face as she suggests they go out, he's really embarrassed. -Why would Frank take Rachel and her family to his father's home in the mountains after spending so much time barricading her mansion? Yes, it's in a remote location and, given Frank's line of work, probably has all the latest security features installed.Still, it's easily accessible as it's not gated and surrounded by a forest. After all, the killer had no trouble penetrating the house. Also, going there meant that they were just temporarily fleeing from danger. They would have to go back to the real world eventually. -How come Rachel was able to cancel her performances leading up to the Oscars (after Miami)? Wouldn't she have obligations to her record company/promoters? -Why would the hitman choose to kill her at the Academy Awards? Even if, like one of the reviewers suggested,he put a silencer in the gun, it would still be easy to figure out who it was, as there are dozens of cameras in the auditorium.  In conclusion, these major plot holes prevent from making this movie even mildly enjoyable. It's a shame since the premise is pretty good. Feel free to criticize this review.

Not as good as I'd heard I had heard a lot about this movie, and was quite excited when I saw it go on sale, so I picked it up, and wish I hadn't. The special effects are beautiful (hence not giving it a 1 star rating) but the plot is so boring. Acting is great, and really everything about the movie was fine, but I found myself having a difficult time staying focused on the movie, and my family, with whom I was watching with, felt the same way. None of us had seen the original film from the '80s, but we were told it wasn't necessary and that we'd "Catch right on." There must've been something in the original we needed to know, because now we have another blu-ray sitting on the shelf that will never be watched again. At least I purchased it on sale...

Wrath of Watching the Titans The bottomline is that if you want some background noise while you are relaxing for the day, this is the movie. If you want something that will keep your attention and produce riveting action--don't spend money on this.  I have to admit that this was pretty bad...but this is indicative of many 21st Century movies I have seen at this point--no distinguished plot, actors (despite fame), and leaves you unfufilled when seeking a great flick. This movie can best be likened to a bad hangover morning-you kinda sleep it out. It took me 2 nights to watch this movie and I fell asleep before the first hour of it. I think maybe it was due to the immense amount of near-whisper lines that the characters had.  To it's credit, the graphics are pretty decent CGI animation, but you can tell that the intense details of a great CGI just aren't there-maybe it was budget constraints after wasting money on great actors so that they could fall out of glory from this movie.  In regards to 'sticking to the story of greek mythology', well that's a whopping F...but then again people are making movies like Abe Lincoln: Vampire Slayer (or whatever the movie is), so I do not think the departure from its source is a travesty given the current garbage floating around.

disc2 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003L77GK6">Sons of Anarchy: Season Three</a> Item arrived in good time, and was given as a gift. The recipient of it could ot get disc 2 to work...citing faulty disc.

predictable and not engaging I was really disappointed in this film and expected more.  It is very predictable and the acting is also.  I skipped through it.  I love Morgan Freeman but this was not the best role for him and the supporting actors lacked a lot as well.  It wasn't majic for me but everyone has their own opinion.  It's not the worst film I have seen but it failed to keep me interested. I can see why it was put out early, not sure it will make it at the box office.

Where are the other versions? I purchased this "Deluxe Unrated Edition" with its promise of three versions of the film. Nothing of the sort. There is ONE version. That's it. No other extended cuts. What is "Deluxe" about this? I like the film, but I would not have purchased the special edition without the "promise" of more. I feel cheated.

unsure I am unsure about this movie as when we put it in the dvd player to watch the other sides of it for some reason it wouldn't play or it wasn't there. So I can't give a good review on this one...

King Klunk THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND(2006)    Starring Forest Whittaker and Gillian Anderson.    The story of a fictional Scotman who, in 1970, journeys to Uganda and eventually becomes physician to murderous dictator Idi Amin. At first enthusiastic---and taking the opportunity to get some Black female tail---the Scotman eventually realizes that Africa is no place for whitey and wants to go home. Amin hangs him from a pair of meathooks instead.    A vanity piece designed to get Whittaker an Oscar for playing Amin, the film is one of those White man goes to someplace third world and learns a lesson movies---usually that white people should not go or get involved with non-white countries. These can work as a ploy to use the character as a device to tell the history of that country---but this only works if the film places the character where he can see things---so the audience can see them and that the character is both likable and has a moral center. The film flounders in that the Scotsman is usually never where he should be and consequently the viewer never learns just what is going on. Unless one is cognizant of Ugandan history, the viewer cannot expect to come away from the film with anything but the most basic idea that Amin overthrew a Communist govt(NO!!!), killed many people and was possibly insane. The Entebbe ending will be inexplicable to anyone who does not know the Entebbe story. Way too much time is expended on the Scotsman having sex with Blacks and not enough with Amin. While Whittaker is very good APPEARING as Amin, he never actually PLAYS Amin. His scenes feel like a series of cameos where a main character will encounter a historical personage for a scene or two and then move on. Amin never develops as a person. We know he has personality and went bad but we never learn why. He just is always as the Scotsman finds him. The film ends during the middle of the Entebbe affair so we never even get to the end of Amins dictatorship. The film just stops. The second flaw is that the Scotsman is a potty mouthed over sexed dim bulb twit who, as, at least, two character observe rightly, really has no reason to live. So the film has no moral center at all. There is nothing there to engage or hold the viewers interest. Whittaker would have been better served by doing a straight forward biography of Amin and dumping the fictional Scotman.    Anderson--with a great British accent and looking like sex served up on a plate--gives a solid performance------in a nothing part that could easily should/could have been cut. She seems only to be there for the scene where she walks away from the Scotsman--and the viewer--so we can get a look at that fine jiggly thing she has down there.    But is that something we should be concerned with in a film about a homocidal maniac who murdered over 300,000 of his countryman and was allied with MUslem barbarians??    Not a bad film. Worth seeing but mostly forgettable. The definative Amin film still waits to be made.

Long movie short rental time I was enjoying this movie but since it is pretty long I couldn't watch it all at once. The 24 hour rental is impractical. I probably won't rent from amazon again.

There must be like a million better things to do in one and a half hours This is what I think of it: Bad movie, bad acting. Boring story. Sometimes it is even ridiculous and not because they try.

creaky soap opera Maybe Vincent Minnelli could have helped this movie.  At least he would have given the movie some style, and energy.  The first half of the movie is similar to GREAT EXPECTATIONS, though David Lean's movie is a lot better. The first half drags; the second half is a bit better.  The cast, especially Ronald Reagan, seems even more out of place than James Cagney in THE OKLAHOMA KID.  The acting brings to mind the deliberately bad acting for the silent movie scenes in SINGING IN THE RAIN.  And then there's the same bit of music played through out the movie.  And  the characters  give high minded speeches or talk in flowery nonsense, or say "get a hold of yourself, kid" for victorian times.  william cameron menzies worked on this and GONE WITH THE WIND---a couple minutes of exteriors in the first half seem like GONE WITH THE WIND shots.  It's nice that small town, olde time, america is shown as a sham, but it's not enough to make this movie work.

Dark and Deadly It's obvious that this is only the first part of a two part story. It's entirely a buildup to the final chapter, which will, hopefully, be more exciting to watch. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1" is 2 1/2 hours of a dark lit, hard to see road picture. Very little of the enchantment, humor and wondrous effects are present. For the time spent, not much happens. It consists of Harry, Ron & Hermione walking from one point to the next, looking for and destroying one Horcrux while camping out in a tent. It could all have been condensed into a movie less than 1/2 the time. Of course then the makers of it would have made less money than they did by stretching one movie's worth of story into two movies. After spending time at the edge of my seat being thrilled by the previous 6 movies which seemed almost too short, this one is shockingly dull and had me looking at my watch wondering if it would never end. I recommend you ask someone who's seen it to update you what happens in this one - it should take about one minute to describe the important facts, instead of wasting 2 1/2 hours you can't get back. Then wait for the last part to come out, and see that.

Not really This movie portrays backyard wrestling in horrid light, and is not an accurate representation. Not all BYW is about bleeding and crap. Some of the cats in the backyard are trained professionals who just have not found a promotion to join.

Really???? Ok so the movie itself was good and everyone in this movie was good except for Kristan Stewart for some reason I don't know if its just me but she only has one facial expression and its the one that looks like she's always in excruciating pain she is a horrible actress and anyone who hires here is stupid she only has one facial expression really come on!!!!

Not what I expected VERY demonistic I was SO excited when this movie came out. I was equally disappointed with it. It has adorable story line in a sense of the main character and her family and her dreams. I think there is more to Louisiana then voodoo though, Maybe I am wrong but I know if I lived there I would want to be better represented. They have a dark sense about in this movie,, There is the evil guy who is into voodoo and witchcraft, he sings a song about "having friends on the other side" what other side? hmmm. Also there is dancing voodoo dolls and spirits that go after the princess frog and prince frog. Really dark I feel.. It is too bad, they could have done more for such an anticipated film. I wont be buying this one. I know all Disney movies have some form of magic, I understand that but this particular one took it way beyond and back.

Dr. Martin Harris awakes . . . I fell asleep I rented this movie for $1.99, thinking it was a bargain. Honestly, it was a dollar too much. The plot was predictable and stale. It is a resurrection of many action movies we have seen before. I could honestly sit down and put together the puzzle by making correlations between this movie's scenes and other films I have already watched. I fell asleep before it ended and next morning asked my husband if it was good and he told me I had missed nothing, and the plot's ending was actually what I thought would happen. Truly disappointing film, led by an actor whose previous work I have admired.

Ugh. Too bad I had really high hopes for this one. The previews looked hilarious. Unfortunately, the comedians did not get so much more than a giggle out of me for the first 45 minutes. After that, I simply shut it off. It was boring for all the same reasons that I typically find most female comedians boring. They fell back on these concepts, which just aren't funny to me: putting themselves down, over exaggeration, and catty humor. Sadly, this is why I find most female comedians aren't funny. And I'm a woman, so I'm not being a sexist pig or anything.  Concept was good. Timing off. Better luck next time.

2 1/2 stars for a film that is not quite awful Following the filmmakers school formula, a group of thrill-seekers explore "the last undiscovered place on Earth".  That being a cave in the South Pacific.  Our adventurers are trying to figure out how all the rainwater that comes in through a giant hole in the ground makes its way to the ocean.  Couldn't all this energy and money be better spent on finding a cure for cancer or a better way to avoid traffic?  Why would anyone care about rain finding its way through a cave?  The thrill is the journey, I guess.  We start out with the grizzled expert played by Richard Roxburgh ("Moulin Rouge"), his teen-age son, his financier (Ioan Gruffudd) and his girlfriend, and an assortment of guides and long time companions.  We know that a tropical storm is approaching, but since it's a day or two away, what the hell, let's go diving!  Now we know based on the filmmaker playbook only one or two will make it out alive.  Sure enough, the storm comes quicker than expected - nice communication - and the flooding begins, cutting off the explorers escape route.  We can pretty much pick off the casualty order although it is more difficult with this film because of the unknown Aussie cast.  So then we have to watch for each cast member to do something stupid that will effectively cause his or her doom.  The script is full of clich&eacute;s and we have a lot of yelling.  The movie does have its moments however.  When the actors manage to shut up, there are some pretty tense scenes squeezing through small openings, getting tangled, getting lost and getting frustrated.  The film also contains some beautiful photography.  Some is underwater and some in real and artificial caves.  The film is rated "R" because of a few too many "F" bombs.  I suspect it might have done better in theaters with a PG-13.  At least with the "R" they could have gone forward with the wet suit changing scene between one of the dead female divers and the hot live one (Alice Parkinson).  Unfortunately they fumbled that opportunity as well.  The movie isn't totally awful, but it pushes the envelope.

Don't waist your money I watched this movie the other night. And the only time I jumped is when the dog jumped out from the truck when she open the door. Wow, I will have to say this movie sucked badly. She was the tall man it wasn't a really good story line. This movie could have been 10 times better a waist of my time and money.

Ambitious, but uninspired comedy "What to Expect When You're Expecting"  takes its title from a popular manual, consulted by millions of soon-to-be parents, that covers every facet of the pregnancy process. The ensemble piece follows the adventures of several couples about to have a baby.  TV fitness guru Jules (Cameron Diaz) and dance-show star Evan (Matthew Morrison) find that their fast-paced celebrity lives don't stand a chance against the surprise demands of pregnancy.  Baby-crazy author and advocate Wendy (Elizabeth Banks) gets a taste of her own militant-mom advice when pregnancy hormones ravage her body, while her husband, Gary ( Ben Falcone), struggles not to be outdone by his competitive alpha-Dad (Dennis Quaid), who is expecting twins with his much younger trophy wife, Skyler (Brooklyn Decker).  Photographer Holly (Jennifer Lopez) is prepared to travel the globe to adopt a child, but her husband, Alex (Rodrigo Santoro), isn't so sure, and tries to ease his panic by attending a "dudes" support group, where new fathers get to tell it like it really is.  And rival food truck chefs Rosie (Anna Kendrtick) and Marco's (Chance Crawford) surprise hook-up results in an unexpected quandary.  Though each of the characters has a good scene of two, there are far too many charascters to contend with.  The movie seems overstuffed and we only get brief glimpses of each couple with little in the way of depth or back story.  The film is pleasant enough and the actors nice to look at, but this romantic comedy falls into the realm of predictable syrupiness.  This is strictly tepid TV sitcom caliber.  Extras on this release, available on both Blu-ray and DVD, include two featurettes and deleted scenes.

the man who would be king I was very disappointed with this movie.  It only went to chapter 21 and then I got all kinds of garbage, Humphrey bogart and all kinds of nonsense flashing on.  I am not a happy Camper.

I wanted more from the filmakers I watched this film for the first time 40 years after it was released and it left me unsatisfied. Maybe it is because Steve Martin's underated ficticious film "Leap of Faith" told the story much better. Maybe because so many evangelists have been exposed as frauds it is barely noteworthy anymore. Mostly it is because I wanted to hear the filmmakers ask Marjoe some more probing questions. When the film ends all we know is he felt kind of bad for duping people and decided to stop doing it. Did he even believe in God? Does he think his actions will eventually be punished? Does he owe any restitution? We will never know unless an updated version of this film is released with commentary by Gortner. There are several scenes here where Gortner rightly whines that he was used and abused by his parents and pushed into this life of deceit. He never sees that he is practicing the same thing on his audiences. Another odd thing is that Gortner is seen laughing about the deceit he is practicing and the film crew cackles along with him. Did anyone feel any remorse about this? On the other hand the crowds that came to see Gortner probably deserved it, but that is another story. This is a 2 DVD set that includes another academy award winning documentary short called "Thoth". It is pretty interesting about a guy who creates his own pagan mythology and then sings one man operas about it in various places around New York City. The thing is if you happen to come across one of these performances you would be probably be blown away by this incredibly unique person. As he tells his most of his life story here, it kills his mystique, which was his real attraction in the first place. It is worth seeing and more interesting than "Marjoe".

Just not very funny! This movie just isn't very funny and there's not much to the plot either. Animation is just OK. The lemur and penquin characters are relatively funny, but all the main characters just aren't. The movie fails to hold my 2 year old's attention for more than a few minutes, while he'll watch Finding Nemo and Toy Story in their entirety over and over. There are far better animated films out there for little ones and adults.

More historical trash with Ridley Scott behind it. I just finished watching The Pillars of the Earth, having not read the original Follett novel.  I am well-studied in the reign of King Stephen (1135-1154) which scholars used to unanimously call the "Anarchy" (though this tag is outdated).  To be concise:  PROS: This series does an excellent job at capturing the "feel" of an early 12th century setting: costumes, sets, politics, dialogue.  A lot of effort in that department; the only bit lacking was that the series failed to truly capture the ins and outs of monastic life (replacing it with a rather 2-dimensional travesty).  Also, many elements of a rather obscure period are brought to light (with many notable exceptions).  The sinking of the White Ship, the ascendancy of Henry II, the outcomes and locations of various battles.  CONS: The series is riddled with historical inaccuracies. Though I am a historian, I am actually okay with a little tweaking as long as it "puts the ring in the fire" (obligatory LotR).  However, the elements that were simply made up piled higher and higher as the series progressed, that the story evolved into a completely alien world.  The assassination plots, evil bishops, royal deaths in battle, whole towns- all fabricated.  This is fairly typical for historical films, and isn't always bad, but this series typically failed to use their modifications for good.  The "assassination" of Henry I by poison, for example, was thrown in, completely contrived, for additional intrigue and was barely dealt with again besides a little extra blackmailing by the evil bishop.  If I had to bet, I'd say that bit probably wasn't in the bestselling novel, because bestselling authors know better than to randomly have elderly kings poisoned for no good reason.  And don't get me started on the "every advance in medieval architecture was invented by the same chap" bit.  Another con is this series' dire need to give the masses "what they want" on screen repeatedly...and apparently what they want is 1) Old people having sex, 2) Other old people having sex with their own grown-up children, 3) A 20-something frat boy prince raping a 13 year-old a few times, and 4) A half-dozen sex scenes involving the same character with various men (one a rape), who happens to be a main character whom we have to look in the eye for the rest of the series.  Now I don't think I'm the only one who finds all these things a little bit excessive.  With fewer of the writers' personal fetishes on display, the series could have been a lot more enjoyable.  The final con of this series is about its message.  Its message is the same tired old "medieval movies" message that typically has Ridley Scott's name behind it if you look hard enough (Kingdom of Heaven, Robin Hood, 1492: Conquest of Paradise): "Everyone was doing just fine until Christianity came along, and suddenly everyone started killing each other.  In fact, the whole world would be better off if that Jesus hadn't decided to start a religion by dying on the cross.  It's belief in anything or anyone except "mankind" (whatever that actually means) or possibly "love" (just...you know, in general!  Something something love!) that has led to all the world's problems.  Now can we get past these Dark Ages and get back to glorifying Empiricism and Science please?"  I'm sorry, Mr. Scott.  Historians disagree with you...free thinkers disagree with you.  Some of us find plenty to be proud of in our heritage.  Some of us are open-minded enough to find valuable ideas from periods not our own.  If the only plot you can come up with for a medieval film is "the evil CHURCH is responsible for all the sweet, precious babies dying!" then I'd rather watch Mel Gibson butcher history in Braveheart or Apocalypto than any of your films.  At least when he does it, I don't have to spend the rest of my weekend weeping for our generation.

Less than I expected After seeing the early video of Taylor during his karate competition, I expected some kind of... expression... from him in a real action flick. It is almost as if his costar in Twilight drained all the emotional range from him, leaving him now unable to summon more passion or expression than a block of wood. Calling him wooden is an insult to carpenters everywhere. Some other famous actors helped, but Taylor's monotone "acting" ruined it all.  And wtf is up with the girlfriend's EYEBROWS?!?  It is as if she had one huge monobrow, and the makeup department just shaved a path down the bridge of her nose and called it good.  Overall the movie sucked.

An unoriginal variation of a theme Obviously, this movie and its story bears no resemblence whatsoever to the original children's story. It's more like a lame werewolf story done in the style of Twilight Saga... the character of Peter - Red Riding Hood's lover - even looks like Edward from Twilight. Then, there's all the weird and pointless details; like the twenty foot long cape Red Riding Hood drags behind her, or the severed hand she carries around in her basket, or the fact that her father turns out to be the werewolf. (Oops... did I give away the ending?)  The movie is full of story cliches and over-used camera tricks. The story is choppy and uninteresting. The dialog is drab and uninspired. The acting is only marginal - though Gary Oldmam does his best... unfortunately in a role unworthy of his talent. I give it two stars for fairly good cinematography and wolf effects. But, that's the best I could offer. This movie is a stinker... albeit highly stylized and technically artsy, but a stinker, nonetheless.

EFFORT DOWN THE DRAIN - GLIDING ALL OVER (THE TOILET) All these years of superb work seem to go down the drain on Breaking Bad - season 05/ episode 08 - "Gliding all over".  The first thing that stood out - in an unflattering manner - was that there were way too many editing effects revisiting the past and making some chain connection between scenes. It was totally unnecessary to show Hank having a flashback of his entire "W.W." conversation with Walt. What happened to the non-verbal, not obvious writing in the series? Editing came out not only being an anti-climax tool, but also inconsistent with its entire narrative throughout the years.  Also, there is a major drawback - Ted's touch and go condition that would have been going on for over three months by then. Has he become paralyzed? Who is paying for the medical bills since Beneke went bankrupt? Ted did tell Skyler earlier this season that he wouldn't talk to the police and that his only concern was his kids. Since Mrs. White has blood on her hands, a lot to hide and a pile of money to launder, why not put it to good use? She had already paid for Hank's treatment and Ted's tax issues... It woudn't take a genius to figure out that the Whites had much more than poker under the table. Having used thug services, Skyler would have sent a message about organized crime - not directly drugs, but definitely tying herself and her family to illegal activities that run deeper than only making money off of gambling.  Going back to the final part of "Gliding all over", how come that Gail present ended up in a magazine pile in the bathroom? How could a book that was given to Walt as a gift when he was estranged from his wife and not living in the family's home pop up there? It's just "muy f&aacute;cil!" Since Walt hadn't even moved all his things from the apartment he bought following Skyler's discovery of him being a meth cook (like seen on season 4, when he was still using his alternate address), the idea of Hank picking up the book was absolutely ludicrous. Had Hank stopped by the White's bookshelf or something would have made a lot more sense. Again, that "W.W." conversation Hank and Walt once had would have made brilliant Walter worry at least a bit about having that book among his personal belongings, right?  Ok, suppose he had forgotten all about Gail's note on the book, but having it lying around the bathroom would be as ridiculous as our anti-heroes puffing on the ricin hidden in the cigarette butt without taking a closer look... It made Walter look stupid; even worse, it made the writers look as if they could not hurt each other's feelings - as a lot of opportunities for directing episodes seem to have been given to a number of people in the crew - by letting each other know that the ending was  pathetic.  My last effort to try and understand the damning book in plain sight: has Walt become a serial killer who collects souvenirs from his victims? (Sorry, that show would be Dexter!) Does he want to get caught despite all the killings to avoid prison? (SVU's worn-out psychology, anyone?)  Let's be honest: the incredible yet believable story of mild-mannered chemistry teacher turned hardened criminal would have to come to an end, but writers had a year round to come up with more of the stuff that made a bunch of people addicted to the show. What I get now is withdrawal syndrome from being deprived of the "99.1%" pure genius of the show after being left with a "60%" - if lucky - decent episode.  Quite frankly, the only message between the lines was that of Hank on the toilet seat - "number 2" stinks and so does the finale - part I. That was the real "end times". Please don't get this wrong as BB is arguably one of the best programmes on TV nowadays, but those amazing cliffhangers have been apparently flushed down the toilet.

False Advertising, Pure and Simple In a nutshell- Sony advertises this DVD on the back covers of its various releases as a widescreen film; but the disc is in fullscreen. I've contacted them and am returning my copy to them and they will send me a WS replacement only when they actually check the disc beforehand. If all of you who ended up with the Fullscreen version would do the same maybe Sony will get the message! I don't have their number here but it is for Sony Home Entertainment. I must add that the gal I spoke to was probably the nicest Customer Rep for a company I've dealt with in a long time!

FROST SERIES 1 i have already reviewed this but just incase the fiollowing applies. The first disc was very poor quality and it froze then jammed the DVD maxhine for about 3 minutes.the second discs kept jumping. The quality was a little better but not good. This was a used disc, I have one episoe on Disc 2 to view, it makes me jubious about buying used products, but maybe I was unlucky. The poor quality distracted from what is a good series.

War Horse The online service provided by Amazon was excellent. The movie had potential but seemed to drag in the plot.  It seemed more like a made for TV movie, not a true relection of history.

Movie is GREAT....Blu Ray is okay.... This review will be short and to the point.  If you are a studio and you have a wonderful movie like "Phenomenon" in your catalog, why not release it with some EXTRAS!!!???  There are ZERO extras on this disc.  It is a BLU RAY.  It can hold tons of information.  How about releasing Thomas Newman's SCORE on CD?  The only CD available is the Soundtrack of the songs during the film and ONE of Newman's songs.  The soundtrack is worthless.  I love this film, but I am not happy with a blu ray release that is only there to take more money out of my pocket while giving me the same thing I had on the DVD which is JUST the movie.

Ramblin' Rose I did not enjoy watching this DVD, because the actors talked so fast I had to glue my eyes and ears to the TV trying to follow the dialogue.  I understood why they talked so fast, because in R. Russell's book LIFE IS A BANQUET, she told how she had hired someone to add extra "smart-aleck" lines to the screenplay to add interest.  In my opinion, it ruined the movie! That style of dialogue was not unusual for the era in which the movie was made, I realize.

Too much material crowded in 48 minutes This DVD (originally issued by Cromwell in 1998) is the last in a series of four covering the Eastern front from June 1941 to May 1945.  As with the preceding three, it is valuable for the interview of Professor Erickson, and only for that.  It covers almost two years of conflict on the Russian front, from the Kursk battle in July 1943 to the Berlin battle in April 1945, with sidelines to operations in Sicily (July 1943), Italy (September 1943) and Normandy (June 1944).  Such an amount of material is difficult to cover properly in a short video: - Those familiar with the subject matter will be disappointed by the lack of details: for example, the battle of Berlin is quickly glanced over and Konev with his 1st Ukrainian Front (the southern pincer to Zhukov's 1st Belorussian Front) is not even mentioned; - Those using this video as an introduction to a summary of the Eastern front will likely be overwhelmed by the numerous details which are not properly coordinated (Kursk, Orel, Belgorod, Kharkov, Smolensk, Dniepr, Leningrad, Warsaw, Finland, Courland, Balkans, Oder, Neisse, etc) because of a lack of maps.  The video concludes with interesting statistics about the cost of the war to the Soviets, but does not analyze the cost to the Germans, which I found one-sided.  The treks of refugees from East Prussia, Pomerania and Warthegau are not mentioned, nor are the reprisals of the Red Army on the German civil population (see Kershaw <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594203148">The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945</a>, Beevor <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0142002801">The Fall of Berlin 1945</a>).  As with the other DVDs in this series, the interviews with Professor Erickson (author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0304365416">The Road to Stalingrad (Cassell Military Paperbacks)</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0304365408">The Road to Berlin (Stalin's War with Germany Volume II) (Cassell Military Paperbacks)</a>) are not properly synchronized with the narration of the video: Erickson discusses 1944 when the video narrates 1943.

Man on the Eiffel Tower The film was too old to appreciate, missing one of the most suspenseful moments in film: when Franchot Tone and Charles Laughton are in a restaurant. Many  candles, are burning so you are aware of fire, the violins are playing the Rumanian Rhapsody and Tone is downing shots of vodka- all building up to the climb on the Eiffel Tower. Such a shame.

*Yawn* Another Resident Evil movie, just what we need.  And wouldn't you know it, but writer/producer and director of the first film Paul W.S. Anderson has returned to the director's chair to continue Alice's (Milla Jovovich) quest against the Umbrella Corporation, amid armies of zombies, evil beasts, and other assorted nasties.  The proceedings are pretty predictable, with Ali Larter returning as well as Claire Redfield, and her brother Chris finally makes his film debut, played by Prison Break's Wentworth Miller.  Utilizing top notch 3-D technology, Anderson fills the film with so many slow-motion effects and bullet time moments that you'll find yourself falling asleep.  Why is that you ask?  Because we've all seen this done so many times before, and we've seen it done much better as well.  As a whole, Resident Evil: Afterlife is actually kind of boring, which is really disappointing considering that the previous film, Resident Evil: Extinction, was a surprisingly good installment of this otherwise stale series.  Still, the ending offers some intriguing promise for the futre, so we shall see what comes next, whether we want to or not.

why so much bickering Very disappointed. SOooo much bickering and fighting and not enough skating. It's worst than a reality shows. Why there cannot be movie about a sport (Especially figure skating) that my daughter can watch and people are actually nice to each other.

Most of the discs skip Love this show and love how all the episodes are packaged in the Book of Shadows. However, about 3/4 the way into season 1, the dvd started skipping and getting stuck on one scene. Made it impossible to watch any of season 2. Really disappointed. I ended up just watching the show on Netflix. Definitively not worth the money to purchase this set.

Get to work. . . Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) hears voices in his cornfield, "Build it, and they will come". Are there voices in his head, or voices in his corn field?  Much like, 'Roy', a family man who 'sees' UFOs in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind (which to his relief, turn out to be real UFOs) The voices Farmer Ray hears turn out to be real too -er the voices of ghosts. At least other people begin to hear them too.  "Build it, and they will come".  "Build it" apparently being a baseball field on his farm in Iowa. Now - Ray is having problems paying the mortgage on his farm and apparently he needs all the farmland he can get. Straight out of the story 'Jack and the Beanstalk' Ray builds a magic ballpark on his farm instead of growing corn. This decision ends up causing him to lose the farm later in the movie (tho the magic ballpark looks only big enough to displace, what? a couple hundred dollars worth of corn?).  Ghosts of great baseball players of the past do appear, playing in his magic ballpark before sundown each night.  Ray, his family, and the summer-farm look wonderful. Costner looks at ease. There's no violence or sex in the movie (unless you count Ray's marriage to mean Ray has every guy's dream of sex whenever). Come to think of it, his marriage pretty much explains why there's no violence, either. The problem is, what's fun about watching baseball? That's what we are asked to do in 'Field of Dreams'. Watching ghosts play baseball doesn't seem very meaningful, or believable, or fun. Playing baseball is fun. When you're 12 years old and pile into a wagon for a trip to dairy queen after a win, that's fun. It's something, just belonging to a team, and, sheer joy running the bases. I don't remember losing being that bad either. Perhaps it is dangerous. It hurts if the ball hits you, even if the pitcher's 12 years old. And a bit dangerous too, when you put that mitt over your face to make the catch on a long fly ball. And your feelings could get hurt if you don't perform. Actually, would we even play baseball if there were no audience?  Ray's told to visit Terry Mann in Philadelphia, an old baseball writer and bring him out to the magic park. Mann (James Earl Jones) turns out to be the noble, infinitely wise black man. Whether Mann is here to assure us, it's OK we're liking this movie, or whether he's here to tell us, this movie is important and, we really should be liking it, I'm not sure. Well, I really wasn't feeling-it up to this point, so I'm guessing the later.  Mann travels with Ray back to the farm and is amazed to watch the old players. Is this baseball heaven? The players don't say much and don't seem to know themselves if this is baseball heaven. They do seem content.  Ray actually meets his dad, a player who died when Ray was very young. Ray is older than his dad. Ray, has become the dad, in a sense, watching the game.  Writer Terry Mann is quite old actually, and the ghosts encourage him to walk across the magic park into the cornfield, to  cross over to the other side. This is the most touching moment in the story. Mann walks happily with the old players into the corn field and his body slowly fades into mist. This is a touching moment, and, I was trying to believe he was going to baseball heaven, but just a tiny part of my mind, just a tiny part, was waiting for aliens to come out, or demons to reach up and grab him or something. It's a cornfield in twilight. And to tell the truth, we don't get to see where they are taking Mann, and the ghosts never really do truly explain what they are.  This isn't the climax of the movie, tho. Ray's friend, who's been begging Ray to come to his senses and sell the farm, has a change of heart when he sees the Ghosts too. He says, "whatever you do Ray, don't sell this farm". Even this isn't the climax of the movie. The climax, is when they see headlights of distant cars driving to the farm. Cars filled with people magically drawn to the magic park, "if you build it, they will come". Cars filled with people willing apparently to pay money to watch baseball. Money enough to save Ray's family and his farm.  We've come to the movies message: It's OK to have Hollywood inspired dreams, but you have to find a way to feed yourself and your family. So get off your rear and get to work. Or get busy with your hustle, whatever it is you do.  I don't need Hollywood to tell me to get up and get to work. I've already got a boss who does that.

C-Grade Movie for B-List Superhero Martin Campbell knows how to deliver the action-adventure goods, but 2011's "Green Lantern" remains among his lesser efforts. Simply put, it's hard to get worked up about a B-list superhero. Apart from some impressive visuals, the filmmakers display little enthusiasm for the uninspired material. Several fine actors and millions of dollars go to waste. Perhaps Warner Bros. can spend its money on a stronger DC character such as The Spectre.

Not worth the price Christian Bale did the best he could with this script. The direction was plodding. The movie went on far too long. Technically the film was flawed. They mentioned USS Ranger as the carrier in the movie. They shot the exteriors on a modern amphibious warfare ship. They were using the wrong helo's in the film. I believe I spotted, during the hanger bay scences, a sailor wearing an Enlisted Surface Warfare pin. That award had not been created until the late 70's.  Watch the original documentary. It is much better.

Not worth it I am a guy who loves horror movies, the more scary or disturbing the better. I thought this looked pretty good and scary but it really was not ... more of a thriller than a horror.

See No Movie Somehow, the creative minds (and I use the term "creative" lightly) behind the WWF decided that their "talented" wrestlers could take some time away from their poorly choreographed, manly soap operas in the ring and pin down the "reel" world.  See No Evil was the first in this line with Kane landing the role of Jacob Goodnight, the film's hook and chain wielding psychopath with a huge ax to grind.  Kane is actually really good here and is really the film's best aspect.  The rest of it is strictly by the books slasher flick straight out of the eighties.    The story is that, as a boy, Goodnight was horribly abused by his religious fanatic mother. Beaten and forced to sleep in a chick cage, Goodnight grew up into a hulking psycho with a twisted view of religion. He was take his victims and gauge out the eyeballs before dispatching them in one gruesome way after another.  One day, two cops respond to a report of screaming and when they break inside, they find a woman with both eyes torn out. Goodnight attacks and kills one of the officers while the other one shoots him.    Fast forward fifteen years later and the surviving officer is now in charge of a juvie work release program and the first cleanup assignment is at a run down hotel slated to be demolished. Unfortunately for the teens and their ward, Jacob Goodnight is alive and well, taking up residence in the very same hotel where they are stayingand is itching to start up his mission once again.    This movie is pretty bad. First off, the characters are all one-dimensional stereotypes who are so reprehensible that you not only want them to die and you don't care when they do. Secondly, the kills are telegraphed way before hand, robbing the viewer of any suspense and have all been done to death in better movies.  I also found my self wondering exactly who put this work release crew together. These kids are supposedly the "worse of the worse" yet they are sent to this massive old hotel with only two guards to watch over them?  Someone obviously did not think this idea thoroughly.  Also, while the idea of forcing a cell phone down a girl's throat may have look good on paper, the SFX execution did it no justice.    I watched some of the Fan Reactions in the special features section on the DVD and found myself laughing at all the grown men saying that this was the scariest movie they had ever seen. What cave do they find these types of losers?  Watch Night of the Living Dead, Halloween, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, or The Strangers for a scary movie. This one isn't scary at all. The only reason I'm giving it two stars is because Kane was great and the eyeball collection is really gruesome.

If Rated, This Would be NC-17. CAUTION:This is NC-17 Equivalent. Uses the F-word continuously and has hard core porn in it. And all this was in the first 7 minutes - I stopped watching after that long.

Wish I could say better things... This type of video is right down my alley however I had to give this one a low rating. Not because of the content - it was very interesting - but because of the video quality. I understand that in the '60s we did not have all the HD equipment available today however I feel the quality is bad even for that time period. I don't regret buying or watching the video but I also would not recommend it to anyone who is not very interested in the subject. Just saying this so you are aware of what you are getting before you lay out the cash.

Another waste of time We were four adults when the movie started and after 30 minutes I was the only one who kept watching it. The perfect example of a movie that is a waste of time. Adam Sandler plays the SAME role as usual. The type of movie that you just keep checking the time to see how much time has left before it ends. Not good.

Most over-rated movie of all time! This movie for some reason always ends up on the best 100 list. Why? I have no idea. Every character comes across as being caricatures. Difficult to treat this movie seriously.

Still Clueless After All These Years Is the Boynton Beach Club really the way people my age in Florida retirement communities live? Ironically, my siblings live in just such a community, but I've never been to visit. I never had much in common with my sister, 3 years older, or my brother, 5 years younger, and this movie was in some ways illuminating. It presents people of 60-plus as boring, un-adventurous, inexperienced, and clueless. What were they doing with their lives up until now that taught them so little? Were they just keeping house and mowing the lawn? By the tidy appearance of the community it's clear they're well versed in that department! But as far as real life....A 62-year old man is shocked by a woman's vibrator collection. Men don't know how to cook, and women don't know how to balance checkbooks. The only music these people, who lived through the 60s, seem to listen to is doo-wop and Dean Martin. In fact, they have more in common with my parents' generation than with mine. I couldn't help judging them, yet I also felt isolated and depressed--until it dawned on me that I felt just as isolated and depressed back in the day. Nothing's changed.  Except for this: I've managed, over the years, to find more people like me, people too busy fighting the good fight or making art or changing their little corners of the world to be doing the kind of empty, structured socializing they do in places like Boynton Beach. So I don't feel quite so isolated and freakish anymore....just enough so I can hold my head high, and be glad I don't live there.

Not much here I was disappointed in this movie, I did not expect a classic film here, but the quality of the DVD was  terrible almost unwatchable. The storyline was not that good either. I am a big fan of Fred Williamson' movies, but not this one.

in the words of LSP... What the LUMP is going on around here(insert valley girl accent)?? Can we please stop messing around and just come out with the entire seasons already?? For people that are just curious of all the low ratings it has zero to do with the show its self which is a 5 out of 5 all day its the "random episode" thing that cartoon network is doing here.

Poor quality Crappy quality. Fires of Kuwait was blurry and couldn't read any of the credits. Big disappointment. Returned it pretty quick.

depressing! I was really disappointed with this movie.  I like the Japanese tale much better.  This movie was not about loyalty, it was about not being able to let go or move on.  Ten years later the wife comes back to the same small town to visit, and she looks like hell,  still as depressed as the day her husband died.  Why hadn't she tried to move forward in her life?  The dog got older and more beaten down as the years passed him by.  Loyalty is one thing, but living in the past is another.  Could have been so much more.

Slow down! Unsuccessful attempt at farce.  Farce is one of the most difficult forms of comedy to pull off, and this one doesn't manage to do so.  The plot is suitably outrageous:  Three gay roommates are looking for a fourth to help them with the rent.  They advertise and meet a handsome young man, Lucas .Each of the three falls madly in love with him and sets about trying to win his affection.  But then Lucas winds up with a kitchen-full of knives planted in him.  The boys realize that they will be prime suspects and frantically try to pin the blame on one another. Toss in their surly housekeeper, a police detective prone to throwing up, who just happens to be Lucas' ex-lover, and her dippy assistant, called to duty while on her way to a friend's wedding.  The three roomies are little more than gay stereotypes, but that's all right. Farce was never known for in-depth characterizations.  The best performance is given by Mar&iacute;a Pujalte as the detective's assistant, trying to conduct an investigation while dressed for an evening of dancing.  There are some very funny moments, the best of which is the succession of scenes in which the boys interview a parade of bizarre potential roommates.  But the movie tries too hard to be zany and much of the humor falls flat.  Even worse, the pace is so frenetic that it becomes difficult to follow the plot.  Dialogue is fired off so rapidly that those dependent on the English subtitles have little time to do anything but read the words flashing by on the screen.  This is one of those rare cases where it would have helped to lengthen the movie so that things could have been slowed down just a tad.  This one had a lot of potential, but unfortunately the directors never quite make it work.

A Weak Moral Premise Limits This Charming Comedic Animation This film would have attained greatness if the main character had actually earned his victory at the climax of the story. Instead, the narrative unconvincingly depicts a central character that evolves into his own kind of deus ex machina, accidentally and artificially able to defeat the incredibly proficient kung-fu villain. The essence of the focal character's arc involves the discovery of great kung-fu prowess via unconscious instincts, namely a relentlessly gluttonous pursuit of food. There is a very brief hint that he transcends this animal drive and turns it into conscious volition, but it is too brief, and thus undeveloped and unconvincing. The final coup-de-grace he delivers to the villain is a grandmaster-level move he executes from out of nowhere; his training in this move is not depicted, and he literally declares he "just figured it out" (a herculean effort that would have required conscious, volitional training and mastery spanning much more time than what was depicted in the film, and that could not have been attained by the instinct-driven, 'carrot-on-the-stick' training that he received). The apparent virtues of the story are supposed to be of the 'believe in yourself' variety; because of the way the Act III culmination is handled, however, gluttony and sloth appear to be the messages right under the surface. All in all, the logical and emotional culmination of the film was not what it should have been. It manages to get a passing grade, but only because it fulfills second-half Act II and Act III story-structure requirements in a basic way.

Don't waste your money This DVD shows basic stretching excercises for sitting, standing and laying down. What this video shows can be retrieved by a Google search on 'stretching' for free. Though yoga incorporates stretching methods into yogo routines, (to me) this DVD is not yoga. I've taken yoga classes before and they were much more robust than this DVD. The DVD spends little time on breathing techniques, which is a big part of yoga. Save your money and do the Google search...

No Short Feature This may not matter to anyone else but I wanted to point out this DVD does not contain the short feature "Gone Nutty" from the beginning as the full length video does.  I have Ice Age on VHS and have shown that feature many times to my Children's Sunday School class to illustrate the story of storing up treasures in heaven where moths and rust can't destroy.  I wanted to upgrade and buy it on DVD (finally) and was disappointed when I got the DVD to find the short feature was not included in this DVD.  The DVD was in good shape, good price, and if all you want is Ice Age (which most people probaby do) then this is a good buy.  If you are looking for the short feature then don't buy this Single Disc Edition DVD.

HUH? I sat down to watch this film late one night, finding myself repulsed by the movies's description but intrigued by the actors who took on roles within it.  What could possibly have drawn them into this, I thought?  What would attract good, established actors to such a repulsive project?  That's when I realized the director was William Friedkin, and it all made sense.  Well, some sense...for what Hollywood actor would give up the chance to work with a (once) great Hollywood director, even if things haven't gone well for him over the last three decades?  He still is capable of great things.  Sure...he hasn't had a hit since 1974.  But admit it: the man had directed two powerhouse smash hits in the early 70s, "The French Connection" and "The Exorcist," then took a couple years off and came back later that same decade with another strong film called "The Sorceror."  Smart move, huh?  Follow "The Exorcist" -- which scared the pants off everybody -- with another great satanic film.  What could go wrong?  Well, for one thing, it had NOTHING to do Satan.  It was a slow, thoughtful film about men who were down on their luck, and eventually had to drive trucks full of nitroglycerin through a horrid jungle.  The film tanked, as did a couple more that followed, and a terrific director was relegated to the odd films that popped up here and there.  Like "Bug."  Well, I watched it, and I can't say it wasn't mesmerizing.  But I can't  say I liked it, either.  I will say this: it's the kind of film I could only recommend to a small circle of oddball friends..the ones who might sit up late at night and talk about the strangest film they've ever seen.  OK, I guess it was interesting, but only in the sense of having your car break down in the middle lane of traffic in the midst of NY City morning commute.  I know it must have been compelling to work with Friedkin, but wasn't there something else in the till?  Did THIS have to be the project that brought these talents together?  Face it: "Bug" is a repulsive film.  The best characters within it are down-on-their-luck dead enders who face their problems with booze and drugs.  The character who has the greatest chance of saving one or even both of the key characters at the end of the movie is a disgusting wife beater who just got out of jail.  Everyone is untrustworthy, and no one is even likable.  All right, I get it: that's kind of the point of the film.  But why watch it?  What is the message?  That no one is credible?  That everything you've watched is a lie?  That the government may or may not have bad motivations?  That it's dangerous to use drugs?  That there are crazy people out there?  That even Hollywood stars can be really ugly when they're naked?  See "Bugs" if you really want to.  Just don't say I didn't warn you.

hopelessly hopeless Had high hopes with Oliva and Gregory but after 15 minutes had to turn it off..it was just plain silly with substandard acting and /or directing

I didn't totally hate it... Shy boy, Blaine, meets hot nice guy, Zander, online. A couple of guys who who actually want romance instead of just sex. They seem perfect for each other. Then comes the mix-up. His roommate, Cameron, by accident, put his own picture on Blaine's profile. Ergo Zander (horrible fake-southern accent btw) thinks this wonderful guy, Blaine is stereo-typically hot. (Blaine isn't exactly ugly, kinda cute actually, just not gay-porn-star hot)  Then, as anyone would expect, they are going to meet in person. Blah, blah, blah...  But seriously, Zander couldn't tell right away by Cameron's voice, diction, and overall shallow attitude that he wasn't the same guy on the phone? Plus, Zander actually meets Blaine at the same time and talks to him... Is Zander stupid, hard of hearing, or just really oblivious?  We all sound a bit different on the phone, but come on writers, few people are that stupid. It seriously bugged me throughout the movie and I am one to forgive some things where gay cinema is concerned. (Really good "gay" cinema is almost non-existent frankly.)  Also, Blaine's best female buddy sucked. I wasn't even sure why they were friends, she was about as supportive as a stranger. Hell, even his shallow roommate had more compassion and sense than her (don't remember her name...no wonder). If your're bored and want something to pass the time, rent this, stream it, whatever, just don't expect much. With a bit more filming money, a few script and direction tweaks it would have been much better.

xstmom (Seminole, FL) I saw and recorded by VCR "The Gathering Part 1 & 2" when they were televised in the 70's. The quality wasn't that good since technology wasn't that good back in the 70's but at least I had a decent copy. I looked for the DVD version before and bought one from another source.  That one seemed like it was a copy of the VCR version, too dark and a really bad picture! So, when I saw another DVD version on Amazon and sold by Amazon, I thought I'd take a chance (since I have had other successes in this area on Amazon). When I received it, I right away popped it into my DVD player. The only thing that showed on the screen with both DVD's was the copy warning. So, I tried it on my laptop and it played fine. By reading the fine print on the back of the box, I found the following message (which was not noted in the description of the DVD on the purchase window): "THIS DISC IS EXPECTED TO PLAY BACK IN DVD VIDEO "PLAY ONLY" DEVICES, AND MAY NOT PLAY BACK IN OTHER DVD DEVICES INCLUDING RECORDERS AND PC DRIVES."   My DVD player is recordable so that is probably why it didn't work. My laptop DVD drive is also recordable but it still played on it. Go Figure! At lease I still have one source to be able to play and enjoy it without totally being out the purchase price. If Amazon is going to sell a product and stand behind it, they should at least note in the desciption of the product any warnings the product may have.

regret this purchase I was really looking forward to writing a great review on this product, but after a week i am extremely bored with the workout selection. There is really only three workouts you get to do on any given day.. And the workouts are quite "dancy" I spend more time figuring out the next step than actually working out. i like the toning workout; its very structured and easy to focus on form. (Which is what is most important when exercising). I loved the wokouts the first week.. But am now regreting this 80 dollar mistake. . :(  - Disappointed customer

Stallone's "Other" Movie icon Character This is another predictable action adventure by Stallone's other movie icon, John Rambo. Genre afficienados will eat it up, but casual movie fans may find it a little tedious to anyone but action enthusiasts. Stick with Rocky...

Beware: Incorrect aspect ratio! The technical description and the DVD case itself both say this is 16:9 anamorphic widescreen, but this is not the case. The videos are 1.33:1 or widescreen footage embedded within a 1.33:1 screen.  As for the music videos themselves, they are excellent.

5 stars for LIFE... 0 for DA I am showing this Blue Ray version to my Biology high school students, whose faces of awe are worth watching. The filming is just above any expectations, and in blueray just awesome.  But I hesitate to understand why replacing Oprah Winfrey with Sir D.Attenborough. Sir A's voice is way past his prime, sometimes difficult to understand, and an irritating to the ear (it was so in previous installments of these magnificent BBC productions). Ms. Winfrey, on the other hand, communicates so well the marvels, with clarity and gusto. I am definitely not supporting this over Winfrey's original. And I would prefer any other voice used (e.g., Sigourney Weaver) than DA's.

OK movie, doesn't compare to the original Movie was 'dry', not much to it, acting ok. The original wasn't that exciting, but it had more 'feel' and atmosphere to it than this does. They would have done better to just try and do an exact remake of the original.  This is a 1 time watch rental and nothing more.

A missed opportunity.... Unfortunately, I must give this one 2 stars (it's really between a 2 and a 3, for me)...  It was a missed opportunity to better popularize this great story. Several details/problems struck me:  1) the terrain is clearly NOT the Phillipines. They could've picked a better location to film the approaches to the camp - a large part of it looked like it was filmed in autumn woodlands in southeastern USA. I will say however, the camp itself looked fairly accurate based on old photos I've seen.  2) As others have pointed out, the "nurse" and the Manila hospital scenes did not occur. The "nurse" who is involved in the resistance organization (smuggling medicine to the camp) was in fact a lady who operated an enterainment club/bordello. Too mcuh license was taken with that.  3) The POWs are over-dressed. Most of the prisoners were reduced to wearing only shorts or loincloths and perhaps some kind of homemade sandals by the time of the Raid. In that heat, most were NOT wearing long pants and long-sleeved shirts after 3 yrs! I suspect the producers may've done that in an attempt to avoid needing characters who looked truly starved, which was the true state of the prisoners. Ah well.  4) The movie shows the Japs bringing in fuel drums, presumably to repeat the executions (murders) as had occurred at Palawan. But by the time of the Raid, the Japanese were so critically low on fuel they were resorting to all sorts of ersatz fuel such as coconut oil (read the book Ghost Soldiers to verify this). No way they would've wasted precious fuel in this way.  5) As to the movie itself, there were far too many subplots and tangents. It took away from the historical story, if you will. This could've been an accurate drama that told the historical story without an attempt to include a "love interest" (which was weakly portrayed anyway).  There were other problems w/ the film, but I'll stop here... Good opportunity lost, in my opinion. But perhaps at least it may have served to renew interest in this little known feat of WW2...

Subtitle too small and fast. The movie was probably better but you had too focus so much on the tiny subtitles you missed it I had to rewind a few times too watch scenes I missed because of the subtitles they were small and went by too fast, I watch movies all the time with subtitles and this was a terrible job .

Boring I don't remember ever having fallen asleep during a film.  There's always a first time, and this one put me out.  Very boring plot with bad acting, I was surprised that the script wasn't that bad.  Liked nothing about this film.

I liked this movie better when it was called 'Perfect Blue' While I love most of Natalie Portman's films and was excited to see Black Swan I noticed almost immediately that it borrows heavily (at some points practically copies frame by frame) the brilliant Satoshi Kon film Perfect Blue. The only problem is that Perfect Blue didn't need feux erotic drama and pretty ballet scenes to deliver the same message that Black Swan tries to make. It seems that many American filmmakers are taking storylines from Kon as Inception admittedly 'borrowed' the plot of Paprika. Too bad Inception made a better homage than Black Swan does.

this movie was clown shoes if i had to describe this movie with one word id have to say depressing. depressing as f@(%. i saw a movie with will smith that made me feel similar. i want to slit my wrists and jump out of a window from a forty story building and land in a pit of molten lava. in short this is the best will ferrel movie i have ever seen. almost as good as anchor man. no im kidding it really really sucked horribly and i seriously want to die now. i mean what the hell! this movie had the most god awful ending. my friends are being dic5s right now about punctuation and grammer and all i want to do is take a bullet to my head from having paid for this movie. i was waiting for like will ferrel to flip out and kill someone or like start beating the kid but no...nothing, nothing at all that was interesting. if you are suicidal...do not rent this movie...buy it! watch it over and over agin till you end your sad life.

made by a subversive coconut? The premise was to take the ugliest dumbest fattest worst stereotype of a black woman to give us all hope for out own failings ; a sort of reverse scape-goating that promotes positive feeling in fantasy and potential..We all need to do this and the unconscionable option that people do do is pick on the weak or find stupid reasons to hate in order to feel more superior. So in all there are many understandable reasons to like the film. After this feel good premise the dead-paness of Clarissa means all kinds of axioms can be infered  for good acting which not sure was the case . Also it is fictional unto cuckoo-land that any one abused since 3yrs would ever turn out to be strong and warm and steady as a rock as she is portrayed. Possible if she'd been raised by granny but she grew up with her parents. Improbability makes for Heroine none the less and a whole lot of audience sucking it up as cause for black pride no doubt. In this way I think this film insults the intelligence. Let alone black people's intelligence.  Other wishful thinking is one of those beautiful black women mimicking white beauty aka Halley Berry (see Monster Ball) as the super special needs teacher. I just wish the movie industry would promote beautiful black women in their own right. I would have been over the moon if they'd cast a Michele Obama look-a-like sort of in this role and additionally show us what a true strong black female can look like. It was a howler to see the teacher put her up in her very own home when Clarissa was homeless. Don't yah all know these educated professionals treat these cases with tweezers when it comes to the distinction between private personal life versus public professional despite the empathy to chose it as a career. Any  professional worth their salt does in any practice.  I was also puzzled why her class-mates needed one on one. Seemed smart enough to me. Again an axiom that even if Clarissa didn't look smart she was and peers to prove it. Then again it defeats purpose of the class in first place.Abuse- it impairs cognitive mind so why is she a genius at maths ??J Just  say she's artistic to process her pain is far more plausible. This film gets carried away with itself.  Portrayal of the mother was good acting even though not being American makesme hazy about what the worst stereotype of a welfare queen is. Since it was a Danish production I wish they had been more sensitive that if the viewer is  neither black nor/and from New York, sub-titles were needed since Clarissa had a tendency to mumble and the cinchers in many scenes were delivered fast off the cuff and therefore indeciferable. I had to back-track too often in order to follow this film comfortably  Top marks that Clarissa indicates towards end of the film that she doesn't need to eat so much now she's been redeemed and does not endorse the 'obesity is fun and beautiful'  denial expounded in the States. It was a surprise with role models like Aretha Franklin leading the way with a God given right to stuff her face because life is good ( let alone food addiction because life is bad). L  Low marks that Granny cant continue to help out with child care so Clarissa can finish getting her education. Then she could get a well paid job as a nurse not a home health aid. True self love is getting it from her own self and not from a dependent ESPECIALLY since more money and less hours a treat for Kongo and Abdul X. But the super one on one teacher lets it slide and granny ,that nice enough looking lady 'glimpsed earlier ,and the only one who seems capable of genuine care, what happened to the granny?  Surely mongoloid kids can be more work. Its all very doubtful Clarissa will ever bother or be encouraged to finish GED.It made me wonder if this film is only masquarading as black pride but in fact made by a subversive coconut director.

The End. Bruce Willis plays a river boat cop descended from a long line of river boat cops in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, the home of three rivers stadium. I like action movies but didn't really like this one. I'm not usually a fan or follower of the big name action films, I'm picky. It's a matter of not wanting to waste my time watching something dumb, I tell myself. Or again, thinking I'm smart or something, wanting to savor the movie experience and not wanting to wear it out. I like action movies, but not That much. I can resist them. I usually do, actually.  One day while sitting around the house here, subjected to one of these action movies playing on TV and not wanting to watch it, I said something like, 'come on, you know whats going to happen at the end'. 'The good guy and the bad guy are going to have a shoot-out, both of them will lose their guns, then the good guy is going to punch the bad guy out' - inspiration strikes me at times, especially when a show isn't looking too good on television and I don't want to watch (I've noticed if the film is on Lifetime network, some combination of the mother, children, and ex-husband are going to punch out the obsessed stalker at the end).  Striking Distance was surely intended to be a comedy on the part of the filmmakers. Maybe intended as an inside joke. Not sure whats more ridiculous/funny. That Pittsburgh Pennsylvania has riverboat cops, who have been working their beat for decades, or the fact that Bruce Willis can chase down a bad guy in a river boat while wearing handcuffs, then fall into the water after their boats crash, and then, still wearing handcuffs, in the water, punch out the bad guy.  The end.  But no, false ending. The bad guy still has some life in him. Surely Bruce Willis can punch him out one more time?  How about wearing a straight-jacket, in a bed of quicksand?

Blue Ray-Single Disc Edition The low rating is for the Blu-Ray, single disc edition: Very grainy image on about 60% of the movie, particularly on the dark scenes.  Other than that the movie is quite enjoyable: great cast, good to great acting, very convincing setting, exciting and very well filmed battle scenes, and a solemn message (in my opinion) about the unpredictability of the outcomes of war. It is about a real historical operation (the Market Garden operation) which seemed well crafted and promising, but which proved to be a failure due to the many uncertain factors surrounding it (favorable weather conditions, low German morale, efficient radio communications, etc).  The movie is quite long but extremely enjoyable, if you can ignore those grainy scenes. I especially love that it does not present the Germans as soulless monsters, but instead it fairly portraits them as patriots doing their best to fight a lost cause in the most chivalrous and less villainous way possible. One of the most humane and balanced war movies I have ever seen. Second only to Full Metal Jacket in its effectiveness to transport the viewer into a major military conflict.  Buy it on regular DVD, unless this single Blu-Ray edition is priced below $10.  Note: There is a two disc Blu-Ray edition, but I have not read comments on its image quality (or lack of it).

Boring Having visited Salton Sea, and lived nearby for a brief period of time, I was eager to see this film.  There are a number of things that would have made it interesting; namely, information and lure about the sea.  Some of the challenges it's faced throughout the years (stunk to high heaven for a period of time), etc.  This was a very boring and insipid coverage of an interesting area.  En route there, one can find petroglyphs on some of the large nearby rocks.  It's a very strange, but charming, area in a way.

Weakest of the trilogy for sure. A movie like this should appeal to both fans of the comics and folks whom have never read the comics, and only know the x-men from the previous movies.  I believe it fails both of these audience segments.  Fans of the comics will be let down by the casual treatment of Scott's death, which then effects the lack of tension between Logan, Jean, and Scott.  Fans of the comics will be let down by the casual treatment of Professor Xavier's death.  Fans of the comics will be let down by the casual treatment of rogue taking the cure.  Non-comics fans will be like, "why the hell does Jean just stand there all the time?  Where did all the really important characters from the previous movies go?  Why does a man that just moved an entire bridge ever lose any battles?  If I was this let down, how must the comic book fans feel?"

Julia Roberts's teeth travel the globe Alright, I know this is a total chick flick and I was hoping at least the parts where Julia Roberts's teeth showed up would be good enough. Yet not even her enormous mouth can save this mess.  You can fast-forward the first 29 minutes or so as it's all slow back story. I did not and now I'll never get those 29 minutes of my life back.  Now once Ms. Roberts lands in Italy the movie starts to come to life. The friends she makes in Italy and the scenarios involving food, gestures, joining soccer fans in Napoli and exploring Rome make for a fantastic movie. That movie I wanted to see.  Sadly, as soon as that gets started it's over and off to India. Landing in India we get that helter skelter taxi cab ride through the bizarre culture shock that is the Asian subcontinent. Then the movie reverts back to slow as molasses boredom in an ashram. Sorry, I just cannot handle navel-gazing hippy nonsense. That whole section of the flick I did fast-forward.  Then onto Bali where the story of Julia's journey actually started in the "fillum." There it's pretty much hit and more miss as Javier No Country and her start a romance that is fine for what it is but involves way too much neurosis on Julia's part.  So I'd say overall Eat is excellent, Pray is hideous and Love is just mediocre. Personally, I would have liked to have dumped Julia and stayed in Rome to follow her close friends--the Swedish woman and her Italian boyfriend. Now they were an infinitely more interesting couple than No Country for Bali and Erin Bali-no-vich.  DVD has a director's cut and a making of extra with the director going on and on about how wonderful this tale was. Whatever, sell the movie to the converted who love the book but as one who did not read the book, this is not a good movie on its own. At least the scenery is most of the places was good to look at.

noting close to 300 The storyline was too simple, no surprises and not engrossing. The fight scenes were too short and did not show any real heroism. U just didnt fall in love with  Thesaeus, although Cavil's  acting was pretty good. There should have beeen more scenes to showcase the power of the bow. The gods are too weak, they got their butt kicked by the titans and have to run in the end.  300 with Gerard butler screaming " THIS IS SPARTA" still reigns as the one with the better plot. picture and action. Rent this movie to watch  but dont buy it...

thanks to the good folks at mountain dew... Circle of Eight (2009), a suspense thriller that originally appeared as a multi part "movie" on MySpace, is a very oddly paced, surrealistic journey that makes almost no logical sense.  Set in a gloomy apartment building (actually a former hospital), the film features some weird and creepy characters that initially may raise your curiosity, but as the story progresses, they tend to become increasingly irritating, as you get the uneasy feeling that the movie will not end very well.  Sponsored by Mountain Dew, the production also includes some interesting product placement.   It's New Years Eve, and Jennifer (Austin Highsmith) is moving into an apartment building called the Dante located somewhere in LA's art district.  She arrives in reasonably good spirits, but that soon changes when she meets Ed (John Bishop) the building's creepy manager, who operates from a desk located inside a freight elevator, and cryptically warns Jessica not to enter the file room.  Jennifer enters her eighth floor apartment, and almost immediately begins receiving visits from what seems to be nearly every resident of the building.  The parade includes Randall (D.J. Quails) is a nerdy type, who walks around with a video camera, because he is filming a documentary of the building.  India (Natashia Williams) a model, and her boyfriend Damon (Jesse Johnson), drop by to invite Jennifer to a party that will be held on the roof later that night.  Bale (Josh Kelly) and Elaine (Katie Lowes), a married couple who are expecting a child, also stop by to say hi.  And rounding out the group of eight is Evan (Ryan Doom) an artist who finds Jennifer in the bath, after entering her apartment unannounced, and seems overly concerned that Jessica understands that she can trust him.  There is tragedy in Jennifer's past.  As events unfold, almost nothing she does makes any logical sense, as she sees the dead bodies of her neighbors, which then mysteriously disappear.  She visits Evan's apartment, and is so impressed by his unusual artwork, that she finds herself flat on her back on his light table, with Evan on top of her, when he abruptly changes his mind about making love.  While visiting the off limits supply room, Jessica discovers a clue to what may be happening.  With increasing frequency, Evan shows up wherever she turns.  All this madness builds up to not one, but two endings to the film.  Listening to the awful dialog twice, and experiencing some terrible acting is an ordeal, but at least there is a resolution to the story, although it may be unsatisfying.  Circle of Eight is a curiosity that veers away from reality early, and never attempts to get back.  Little that happens inside the Dante makes sense, and the film generates more feelings of frustration and exasperation, rather than scares.  With a cast of eclectic and often irritating characters, this film will probably be a major disappointment to those looking for straight horror or suspense.  The issues lie squarely with the writing, rather than the actors.  The plot gets maddeningly repetitious at the close, as Evan appears again and again, sprouting the most insane dialog.  Although the actors may have had a blast playing such goofy characters, the result is not as enjoyable for the viewer who is presented with a weak story, and insubstantial characters that you have little reason to care about.  Production values are decent, contributing to a rating of 2.5 stars.

TRULY DISTURBING When I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE was initially released it was one of the most talked about films of its time. First you had Ebert & Siskel on their weekly show discuss how terrible and disgusting the movie was. Then, once released in England on video, the film became notorious for being one of the original "video nasties" there (if you haven't heard of them google them. They make for an interesting mix of films). So was there a reason for controversy? Was the movie truly that disturbing? Having just watched the blu-ray release of the film I can only say yes, a feeling I had when watching it for the first time years ago.  I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (originally released as DAY OF THE WOMAN) was one of those films that you heard so much about that you had to find it and watch it. Controversial movies have always had that effect on the viewing public. It doesn't matter if the movie is good or bad, you find yourself drawn to it because of the word of mouth surrounding it. What surprised me this time around was that after over 30 years since its first release (1978-80 depending on where you look), the film still has that punch in the gut effect that it had the first time around.  The story revolves around a young woman, Jennifer Hill (Camille Keaton) who leaves New York City for a month in the country to relax and write her first novel. She stops to get gas at the local station and meets the station owner, Johnny, and his group of friends. It's a casual meeting with no names exchanged and little happens. Later on she meets Matthew, a dim witted young man who delivers groceries, not knowing that he's friends with Johnny and his group.  When Johnny and his friends get together, they begin talking about how attractive Jennifer was. After talking long enough, they decided that they want her and will indeed take her. The next day while she's in her boat on the lake, they grab the rope on hers and speed off with her in tow. Once they land, the group savagely takes turns raping her with the exception of Matthew.  Jennifer leaves them behind, bruised, scraped and bleeding. As she makes her way through the woods, they find her again and brutalize her once more. They leave her behind here and she makes her way home only to find the group waiting for her. Matthew now among them, they convince him to follow their lead and he rapes her as well. Rarely has the violent act of rape been so convincingly played. This is brutal and animalistic. There is no chance that someone would find this erotic, unless they find something nice in rape. And it's these scenes that are the most brutal and disturbing of all.  Matthew is sent in to kill Jennifer but can't bring himself to do so. Surviving the ordeal, Jennifer is now a changed woman. No long content to sit back and be taken advantage of, she plots her revenge on each of the group. Matthew is the first, seduced by the lake and then left hanging from a tree.  While it's weird to say this, Johnny gets the most deserving act of revenge and one that will stick with you long after watching the film. ***SPOILER ALERT*** Jennifer seduces Johnny back to her place and while sharing a bath with him, reaches out, takes a butcher knife and cuts off his...well think of John Bobbit and you'll know what she does. With little or no special effects save for a well placed sound effect, this scene will make you cringe just like the rape sequence. Jennifer does indeed finish her revenge and the movie ends.  As with films like HOSTEL I tend to find no pleasure in watching what is commonly known these days as torture porn. Anyone easily disturbed will find this movie incredibly hard to watch. Yes, the victim in the movie does have her revenge, but the fact that we're watching this forcible rape time and time again doesn't offer entertainment at all but leaves one feeling the need for a shower.  Is it worth watching at least once? Perhaps. If you can stomach the scenes described above then sure, especially if you want to see it as a piece of film history. Amazingly the film, while made on a low budget, does offer some decent photography and is well acted for being made with unknowns. The transfer makes this movie the best looking version that's ever been released.  As I said, I'm not a fan of the genre. But as I watched I found that while disturbing it offered a better story than I first remembered. For a low budget film it was quite well made, written and directed. But it still leaves you with that unwashed feeling.  I know many people think that movies have to push the envelope now and then, to go further than they did before. That may be true at times. Then again sometimes pushing the envelope doesn't add anything to our way of life. And to call it art to me just denigrates art. You can probably tell I'm betwixt and between on this movie. Its one that you have to witness and make your own mind up about.

The Big Lebowski Muchly overrated. Could have been produced on one hour. Some of the scenes were pure "silliness" and did not add at all to the story of the movie.

poor writing - directing I rented this movie so my wife and I could enjoy a comedy instead of the "Hallmark" channel. Well, should have let her watch the Hallmark channel. After reading reviews, it seem to receive a gamut of reviews. Now, concise to state I am not a prude, but the language was coarse. My wife is quite sensitive to street language and I am often chastised for such. We did not finish the movie. Southern traditions are hard to overcome.

Ok......but.... Didn't realize that this was a DVD. I enjoy her written work, but the DVD tends to be a bit raw for some tastes in a room...Gave it to some others who might enjoy, but this was to be a gift for someone who might have found it offensive. I only realized it was a DVD after I purchased it, but the other Rivers books were enjoyed.

Disapointed I was excited when I first made the purchase, but was disapointed with the quality. It looked like it was videotaped from a TV screen instead of being a reproduction converted to a disc.

It should have been a short film The film starts out promisingly: as the millennium approaches, a young man, posing as the editor of a bogus magazine, conducts interviews with various media personalities (actors, stand-up comics, models, rock bands). However, these all turn out to be confrontational meetings to expose the superficiality of modern "culture." These short bits are satirically on the mark and sustain the film for the first 15-20 minutes. Unfortunately, once this premise is established the film has nowhere to go. If this had been a short film it would have been brilliant, but stretched out to feature length, interest peters out quickly.

Great movie, but disk doesn't work Edward Scissorhands is one of my all time favorites, especially because of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp who are both amazing. I ordered this blu-ray disk from Amazon in March, but didn't try to watch it until this summer (after the return date). I discovered that the audio worked only partially. Sounds such as background music and sound effects were played, but things like voices did not. I checked all the disk settings and nothing would fix it. No other DVDs or Blu-Rays had this problem in my blu-ray player. I don't own any other players that support blu-ray, so I couldn't test it out. I contacted customer service about the problem and they told me to try it in another player, but I told them that's not an option. They were very helpful and I ended up getting a new disk with a discount, but the new disk had the same problem. I'm not sure what went wrong, but I am very disappointed. I spent all this money and time, and I still can't watch my movie.

ad nauseum One fellow is an economist and another fellow is a journalist. They act as if they are the modernistic Einstein and Gershwin of economics and journalism.  They fool-heartedly dumb-down the documentary to a third grade level to serve the unread masses. I could not believe how much air time they devoted to a child's first name...pointless. Although, I really enjoyed the sumo wrestling gambling segment...worth the price of admission:)

Russian (aka post Soviet) propaganda machine still at work Great, thrilling movie. Short on real Orthodox Christian monastic reality. Has little to do with real prayer or asceticism, or clairevoyent elder(ship). Like the utterly fabricated Fr. Arseny novel (fic-bioraphy) the agenda coming out of Moscow and Sretensky Monastery  (Abbott Tikhon) is pure Soviet propoganda. All is well in the NEW HOLY RUSSIA INC.  Trouble is it's just too pat, too prepared, and not really warm with the truth of Christ's holy Truth or Historical Martyric Orthodoxy.

Poor Film Good story line, but the actors have to be related to one of the investors, cause they were really hard to relate to. I give it two stars because they had some really great music and a couple of good supporting cast. Do yourself a favor and pay 2.99 and watch it on line. Merry Christmas

Did not meet expectations I like Rickey Smiley, so my expectations for "Open Casket Sharp" were high especially after watching the clips on the commercial.  Turns out the only funny parts of the entire show were on the commercial clips and Steve Harvey who introduced Rickey at the beginning of the show. Very disappointing.

Boring and well... boring I am a big fan of super-heroes but did not know much about DC's Watchmen.  I finally bought the movie because it was on sale and was excited to finally get to see it.  It was a bit of a disappointment, however.  The first hour nearly had me ready to turn it off, it was so boring.  I managed to make it to the ninety minute mark before giving up and honestly, I am unsure if I will try it again.  Life is too short.  Maybe fans of the comic will appreciate it more but it just wasn't for me.

Unknown Gas Sometimes while watching a moronic piece of sophistry like UNKNOWN you just feel like throwing your hands into the air and asking the heavens why you wasted upteen moments of your life that you will never, ever, get back.  And when said question is answered by a scene between Bruno Ganz and Frank Langella that borders somewhere between mind-numbing incredulity and unabashed vaudeville it becomes apparent that even the metaphysical realm recognizes the utter futility of your interrogative.  Which handsomely summarizes UNKNOWN, an alleged mystery/thriller that tries to be clever but can never get out of its own half-baked way.  Liam Neeson looks as confused and bewildered as the viewer playing humble scientist Dr. Martin Harris (or, is he really Martin Harris, pray tell?).  Involved in an auto accident causing a head injury further causing amnesia, Martin only has fleeting recollections of his past, and--gasp!--his own wife doesn't recognize him, and what's more--triple gasp!--someone else is pretending to be him!  Accordingly Martin goes about tearing up Germany as he attempts to get to the bottom of this diabolical dilemma, accompanied by an unwilling cab driver (Diane Kruger).  So we have contrived, melodramatic, and zany moments, culminating in Martin fully recovering his memory when it's time to kick some serious arse.  UNKNOWN had a brief window to be extraordinarily clever and original, but missed it by a country kilometer.  At least I got a little exercise throwing my hands in the air. --D. Mikels, Esq.

CHICK FLICK NOT A CAT FLICK The cat in the movie brings bad luck, and isn't seen much.  This is more like SEX AND THE CITY, though without the sex, since it is Korean.  Nice Korean locations, and movie is stylish without being too annoyingly arty.  The story could take place anywhere, and it seems like the director was influenced by European and American movies, with a running down a hallway scene that recalls JULES AND JIM, and a plot akin to the Demi Moore movie, NOW AND THEN.  No great shakes, but it's watchable.

Marginally entertaining Predictable and reinforces my dislike for JLo and Diaz as actresses. Dennis Quaid, Brooklyn Decker, Elizabeth Banks, and the british girl are funny in it. Sad to see what's become of Chris Rock.

Average... 2.5 stars I was looking forward to this movie, because when I read the premise, it held a lot of promise- however it was just very average. There is little intensity in this, it's just sort of bland. This is basically a nice love story, but there's nothing outstanding about it, nothing that grips or hooks the viewer. I didn't care about any of the characters. The ending is also anti-climatic. Overall, if you're in the mood for a nice average movie, then this is the movie for you. I found it forgettable.

Failed remake of a classic. Rent, Don't Buy If you are a fan of the real Conan The Barbarian with Arnie in his youth, then this movie falls very short!!! It is Conan by name only. My opinion of this movie solely on its own merits still isn't pleasant! It's crappyness is equal to that of "The Beastmaster". Plot is weak, acting is sup-par, and all in all it feels like "The Scorpion King" without the Rock! There was no empathy for any of the characters, it does little to explain who the title character is or how he got to be where he is. I know it is supposed to be a mindlessly entertaining movie - not an Oscar contender - and it does get the mindless part down. It the entertaining part that is missing! Do yourself a favor: Red Box or rent this before you consider buying it.

Wow, major disappointment Being a sci-fi fan, I knew going into this movie that I was risking my money. At first all was good. Okay story, nice actors, and pretty cool visuals and aliens. Then the story just became more and more stupid with an ending unworthy of a trash heap. Talk about potential wasted.

A Masterpiece? - NOT I should have known.  Only one review for this DVD and they called it a 'masterpiece'.  What was I thinking??  This was boring.  The film is terrible to look at, cheaply made, terrible actors, and not scary.  I want my money back!  Never trust a film that has only one review with five stars.  Wait until you read more reviews from sane people about what they think of it.  I would have given it one star, but it was well researched, so I'm giving it two stars.  But skip it anyway.  Believe me, I was born in Wisconsin, there ain't nothing going on up there worth making a DVD about.  Except for Ed Gein, but even that was 40 years ago.  This film did put me to sleep, so I'm grateful for that.  Guaranteed to give you a good night's rest.  Maybe I should have given it three stars for that?

Didn't like it I was surprised by the ending but the movie itself was so slow moving and hard to stay interested. I've seen way better.

Watchable, but only just The best thing about this chopped-up TV series is the attractive cast. As I began watching this almost 4-hour epic, I was almost instantly disappointed with the quality of the directing and the martial arts, and the awful pinkness of the costumes (very well represented on the DVD cover!). Is this a production for a mainly young female audience? After having watched for about an hour or so, I actually became caught up in the story, and thought that this might not be so bad after all. Unfortunately, the second disc proved overlong and confusing, featuring a very uneven plotline with shredded threads. The ending also is marked by nonsense and disappointment. It's not a complete loss, but I felt that many elements of this version were rather incompetently made. Not much to be impressed with here.  Except one thing: In this version we hear a lot of extra details that were left out of the Ang Lee movie. As I recall, in Ang Lee's movie Jen (Lung) steals the Green Destiny sword and then soon after brings it back, but we don't hear what she wanted it for in the first place. In this version we hear that the sword is supposed to be able to cut through anything if you apply the right stances to it, and this is what Lung is interested in testing.  Also, Lung's boyfriend Dark Cloud has a vastly bigger role here. Shu Lien herself, however, while easy on the eyes, seems not to have much to do in this New version. She's one of the main characters, but she's just sort of there. She doesn't train Lung, and she doesn't have much of a relationship with Li Mu Bai, and her kung fu skills don't really feature very prominently. It's interesting to have seen this version, but if I had seen it beforehand I probably would not have shelled out for the DVD. Overall, I'd have to say I find it of below average quality.  The Ang Lee movie, however, is a heck of a masterpiece.

Happiness is a Warm Blanket I normally love everything relating to the Peanuts comic strip as well as the various animated productions that have been presented.  This DVD was simply gross disappointment......RWS

Silly British Comedy This is a lightweight British comedy about the victims of blackmail and their attempts to do something about it.  Although the cast does fairly well, the plot hardly is worth bothering with.  The picture is dark in many places and the dialogue can be a bit hard for a non-British audience.

This item was a christmas gift. I gave this item as a gift so I never heard anything about it after. I received it in brand new condition.

beautiful case  poor quality dvds this set of season shows for sex in the city is beautifully packaged and in a very user friendly - keep it organized - package --unfortunately almost every disc has an episode - or several - that will not play properly ie - sound stops, video stops, wont play at all - it is so sad and frustrating :(  cleaned dvds- even tho they are new - checked dvd player - it works great..... gave up - not through all the seasons yet - but it just keeps happening..

Preachy and derivative, I turned it off I've been digging a lot of vegetarian documentaries lately, and I though this would be another good one that discusses the virtues of plant based diets from a nutritional angle, but it descended into cheeky, sanctimonious, and trite college campus style fringe vegan social theory rather quickly.  I suffered through this coming of age crap because I thought the premise, improving the health of skeptics with a vegetable diet, was interesting. But in the first week of their "experiment," virtually the first thing the subjects did was go to a supermarket and start fawning over all their animal-free, supposedly "vegan" junk food options like Oreos, and the protagonist made no effort to derail this gluttonous senselessness. At this point, I deleted the movie from my Tivo and turned on the Washington Nationals. It was about 10 minutes in. Watch Forks Over Knives instead, or Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead.

No English Dubs, just Subs I Just got the movie today and the movie is just in its original language. There is no English Dub on the copy that I have.....

Disappointing Visually,In Audio & In Missing Scenes. I received my Blu-ray copy of "The Man Who Would Be King" during the week & have just finished watching it.My first disappointment was on discovering that it had a Mono only soundtrack.This is not good enough on Blu-ray.The picture quality while being superior to my DVD copy,was not what I had been expecting on Blu-ray.The next disappointment was on discovering that at least two scenes that I can remember from seeing it at the movies in its original release had been cut.One was the vision of Sean Connery's character falling into the abyss.On the blu-ray,he falls of the bridge & then you see Michael Caine's character talking to Rudyard Kipling.I also remember the tribesmen playing polo with Sean Connery's head as the ball,in the original theatrical release.That scene was also missing from the Blu-ray.I would have thought that if a studio is going to the trouble of releasing a movie on Blu-ray,it does a proper job with the audio and also restores the missing scenes.In other words,be fair dinkum about it,or don't bother.  Dennis Moore,7th Sept.,2011,Australia.

Scratched Only a few of the dvd are working.  A lot of them skip during the workout and the rest of them are so scratched that it refuses to play.  The product came in time and was wrapped up and everything but I don't know why the alot of the dvds are scratched up.

Yuck! If you want to watch something satisfying and pleasant before bed... this is NOT the show to watch. I don't know how a premise that is so disgusting can be entertaining to ANYONE.  This is about a serial killer who kills serial killers = P.

Predictable The acting, if you can call it that, was poor from most of the main characters. The story was predictable but with a weak ending. Just couldn't get into this movie and will sell it at my next yard sale!

NOT A GOOD DIGITAL TRANSFER TO BLU-RAY!! (specific to blu-ray version) I pretty much said everything in the tag, i was pretty disappointed with the quality of the video. it had several very noticeable instances of lowered resolution in the beginning of the film and in other brief segments throughout. the audio sounds good and crisp but there is no major difference in richness when i compare it to the dvd edition i already had; and i don't think allot of work went into remastering the audio either. that being said i am not criticizing the original. Edward Scissorhands is my favorite tim burton film and i would gladly pay double what i did for a high quality blu-ray transfer, but it just wasn't worth it for this release.

The [insert adjective here] Spider-Man! I teach 8th graders in South Korea. During an end-of-term party, we watched <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6305428239">Rushmore</a>. Many of the kids liked the film, but a lot of them complained about it. "What didn't you like about it?" I asked them. "It's old," they responded. "Old? How do you know how old it is?" I asked. They replied, "None of the kids have cell phones" or, my favorite, "It just FEELS old." "Trust me," I told them. "If you still feel this way about old things in ten to twenty years, you're going to end up just like Herman Blume from the movie: hating yourself."  I only relate this story because it seems like that attitude -- if something is from ten to fifteen years old then it is automatically worthless -- was what prompted this absolutely unnecessary and inferior reboot of the Spiderman franchise.  It is nearly impossible to review this film without also referring to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UR9T82">Raimi's trilogy</a> of 9-4 years ago. I'm not here to say Raimi's films were flawless, but in spite of their various problems, they were certainly iconic for awhile, and the second film arguably set the benchmark for superhero movies at the time. Even if you hated all three of them, it would be very hard to argue for the existence of this film, since it adds very little (if anything at all) to the Spiderman story or its telling. Actually, if you hated Raimi's films, you are very much not likely to enjoy this film, since it glistens and zips around with a lot of the same high-sheen verve that you could find in Raimi's films.  But let's not compare, as tantalizing an option as that is. As is, does this film hold up?  Not really. First of all, the movie tinkers with Spiderman's origins. I'm not some kind of purist who cares all that much about staying true to the source material, but the original story did have a readily identifiable moral structure and some pretty solid symbolic aspects that propelled the rest of Peter Parker's tale. In this case, Uncle Ben, rather than a mostly benign voice of reason and responsibility, is a thick-headed and annoying do-gooder. Originally, it is Parker's selfish carelessness that puts Uncle Ben in harms way. This time, Uncle Ben voluntarily puts himself in harms way in an act of do-goodery that is absolutely senseless and bound to fail. The film mutates its moral center from "with great power comes great responsibility" to "crazy old men shouldn't wander around the streets picking fights with armed thugs."  Let's ignore that, though. It's only about ten minutes of the film. The rest of the flick follows Parker as he stumbles ludicrously into his powers. The chain of events that lead to this scene stretch credulity, since they seem to exist in a world where common sense is no longer common. Just as one example: Parker illegally gains access to a massive, top secret, and highly dangerous scientific facility by pretending to be an intern. When the real intern shows up, he is dragged kicking and screaming out of the door in a scene that hopes it is so funny that audiences will not wonder why no one in this highly classified building ever asks for I.D.  There is so much more. Parker's classmate, Gwen, is played by the 23 year-old Emma Stone, who is a young cutie but nowhere near convincing as a high schooler, especially when she is leading tours in the aforementioned high-tech lab. Andrew Garfield is far more believable as our titular character, and although he's a lot nicer to look at and more fun to watch than Tobey Maguire ever was, his character is so inconsistent that it gets jarring. By the time he started ordering and making his very own wrist-strapped-web-slingers (this new Spiderman can't make his own webs), I wondered why he ever stayed in school with his amazing ability to craft unheard of machinery using unheard of chemicals. And how did he even get access to this stuff? Oh, wait. I forgot. This world never asks for I.D.  It's silly. It's pointless. It's even kind of demeaning (more than once, the movie uses news report voice overs to remind the audience of what happened in the scene that they JUST watched). There are some fun moments when Spiderman is whipping around the city, and Parker gets a few amusing quips in here and there, but the whole thing is so schlocky and rote that it feels like the over-eager, under-talented younger brother of the first Raimi film. Perhaps if they'd decided to completely revamp the whole thing from top to bottom, including the origins, the setting, and the characters, there would be something here to talk about. Unfortunately, though, it's just a pale imitation of what's already come before, adding nothing that doesn't slow it down or make it ridiculous. For kids who hate "old stuff" and who've never heard of Kirsten Dunst or Bruce Campbell, maybe this movie has some value. For everyone else, you're just wasting your time.

Boring This movie seemed like it was a made for television flick filmed in the 80's. The plot just dragged along, the characters were fairly unapproachable in my opinion, and really, i just felt bored through most of it. The billing with the SNL cast and such was a bit misleading, since instead of being a comedy, it was a depressing drama. I literally walked away for a while to make dinner, came back, and found I really had not missed anything. There were a few good moments, but overall, i felt this movie was really just a waste of my time personally. Maybe if I felt some deep seeded depression about life and relationships I would feel different? Dont know, but I do know this movie wasnt for me.

ok movie I liked the music, the nature was amazing - love watching the nature in these western movies John Wayne's a great actor but the attitude he stands for is spoiled. George W Bush ruining of the cowboy image was one of the damages he made and Wayne characterizing the obstinate bully mentality that Bush took was not pleasant to see. I always liked Wayne but having seen this movie I see that while he's still a good guy and I like him, the cowboy mentality as exhibited by Bush is bankrupt. Also I didn't like the spirit of the movie which constantly had conflict as part of it - obviously all these characters were  in conflict w/ themselves else they'd know a more peaceful way of relating (not talking about komancho vs white but just between and within whites too)

"GoodFellas in Vegas" The first hour of "Casino" (1995) represents Martin Scorsese at his best - a mini-masterpiece of cinematic bravado depicting the inner workings of a Las Vegas pleasure palace. Unfortunately, once you get past the dazzling semi-documentary introduction, the remaining two hours become a tired self-parody of the director's earlier crime films. Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Sharon Stone cannot redeem a disappointingly melodramatic script by Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi. In the end, the ambitious yet overlong "Casino" fails to pay off.

awful movie based on a book I've always said I'd read someday I was really looking forward to this film, considering i loved the adaptation of The Fountainhead. But i just couldn't finish watching this. Poor acting. Poor directing. Poor storytelling. It definitely makes me want to finally pick up the book.

Needs a  better transfer This is a very good story with good characters and actors.  It is a great pity that the dvd plays very dark and one loses the scenes and facial expressions due to an alost black screen far too often.  Disappointing to say the least.

BORING, PREDICTABLE, UNORIGINAL Shame on Ryan Reynolds and Denzel Washington signing on to do this movie... It was a predictable bore fest that had no entertainment value to speak of. I tried watching it a 2nd time and it was even worse. I think the Studio knew this and that's why they put it out 2 weeks early (but only to buy.) Denzel and Ryan are 2 of my favorite actors in all of hollywood, but they both deserve blame for giving half-assed efforts on a terrible script.

"Rumor Has It" Perpetuates A Gender Double Standard Asking You to Embrace A Character That You Would Loathe If It Were A Man I know that the critical reception to "Rumor Has It" was very chilly, but something about the idea of the film really appealed to me. The concept, the plot conceit, is a genuinely clever notion. Being a fan of "The Graduate," I was interested to see how well they would integrate the characters of that film with the real life counterpoints in this film. I mean, come on, Shirley MacLaine representing Mrs. Robinson and Kevin Costner as Ben Braddock--seems like a great idea! But, alas, when all is said and done--an amusing and well conceived setup did not equal a satisfying movie experience, for me.  Jennifer Aniston returns to her Pasadena homestead with her new fiance, played by Mark Ruffalo. Plagued with doubts about her engagement, and seemingly disengaged from any real affection for her own family, she hears a rumor that leads her to suspect that the book and film of "The Graduate" were based on her deceased mother's experiences. Confirming that her grandmother (MacLaine) was indeed the Mrs. Robinson character, she deduces that her mother had a fling prior to marrying her father. Thus, with the notion that she might be the daughter of this man--she sets off to find the truth. Encountering Costner, as the potential daddy and Ben Braddock character, she discovers truths about herself and her family.  All of this plays out very routinely, but the supporting actors are engaging and comfortable. It's always great to see MacLaine, but she offers nothing new or inventive in this performance--it's the standard brassy MacLaine persona we've come to expect. Costner continues to embrace his middle-aged status and has, thus, developed into a far more interesting actor than he used to be. (But for a more nuanced and astute role, check him out in "The Upside of Anger" with the luminous Joan Allen.) And Mark Ruffalo, a great serious actor, continues to play lightly as a romantic leading man. Recently cast with Witherspoon, Garner, and now Aniston in lightweight fluff--I do miss the more challenging roles he used to take on.  But it is Aniston's character, to me, that is a despicable movie creation--one that I've seen all too frequently, but this one is supposed to be endearing. Born into a life of privilege, she has accomplished nothing in her 30+ years and has become a self-involved and unpleasant Woman-child. She floats through her sister's wedding as if it's all some great inconvenience. She doesn't think twice about mistreating a man who loves her. She never acts on anything that doesn't blatantly promote her own self-interest. I'm just so tired of it--it's not charming. Don't get me wrong--there are plenty of Man-child movies too (more so, even) about men who still act as if they were adolescent. But, think about those movies--the Man-child is an object of scorn and ridicule, we laugh at him. But "Rumor Has It" doesn't ask you to laugh at Aniston's social ineptitude and selfishness--far from it--we're supposed to embrace it and identify with her as a real person. Well, frankly, I wished everyone in Aniston's life would abandon her because of her behavior so that she'd learn to grow up. But, of course, this is wish fulfillment--and she learns about life while retaining everything of value--there is never any consequence to being a nasty person.  This gender double standard really bothers me, and the fact that I genuinely disliked the central character--obviously, I didn't care for this film. Otherwise it would have been a fairly generic picture, but these two things caused me to feel strongly and negatively. I am giving it an extra star for a good idea, but unfortunately, it didn't pan out for me. KGHarris, 01/07.

great dvd Great season.  Quality of dvd great.  Plays fine no issues.  I am pleased with dvd itself.  Just will never reorder from amazon again.  Almost took full year 2 get this dvd from them.  I could have gone to walmart and not only.purchased cheaper but gotten month's sooner.

Lead actor is awful! Hard to like the movie because the lead actor must be a stage actor because it's as if he is standing on a Broadway stage. He's movements and speaking is so over the top that you can't enjoy the movie. Farrow and Walken are great..but, the lead actor who plays the character Abe is really bad. I don't know why Soldhonz would cast him...did he not give him a screen test?

Painful to the very end! I'm not quite sure what I expected when I rented this movie but I sure am glad I didn't buy it before giving it a test drive. I had asked several friends how it compared with Tombstone, the western that I hold in highest regard. Several friends had told me it wasn't quite as good as Tombstone.... Really??? What movie were you watching? Because the movie I just watched was about as interesting as an infomercial at 4am. An absolute disappointment as I was truly looking forward to this movie's release. My best advice to you if you are thinking of renting/buying this movie is to go dust off that copy of Tombstone and watch it again in all its glory. This review is coming from a true movie fan having 2 home theater 7.1 systems in my house with my basement containing a system to rival most movie venues. Rarely do I disapprove of a movie that was deemed good but I find myself asking if we watched the same movie. I cannot find anything redeeming about this movie. Don't believe me watch it for yourself and please let me know what all the fuss was about because I just didn't see it.

Pretty pointless Romantic comedies aren't the greatest of movies to start off with, but this one is even worse than most. It's not clear why anybody ever produced it. It seems really sloppily done. The acting is horrible - even Jennifer Love Hewitt, who's not half bad. The filming screams "made-for-TV". The script and plot seem like they were phoned in by a teenage writer. There's no character or humor. The only part that made me laughed was the postcard from the African orphan. Still, I gave this movie 2 instead of 1 stars because we get to see Jennifer Love Hewitt in bikinis and she still looks good.

Learning to dance by reading.  Really? I confess, I bought this book.  To be fair, I only bought it in a last ditch effort to save my order.  I had cancelled one book from my order and had to find something else to replace it immediately or else lose entire order, per Amazon customer service.  So here I am.  This book opens with a chapter about how zumba came about, then follows with an explanation / history of merengue, salsa, cumbia, etc.  Next comes a how-to section on doing the moves and lists of music and steps that correspond to do with time markers. Finally, a chapter about fat fighting foods and recipes.  In an orange envelope at the back of the book is a DVD.  Is it a DVD that will open you up to the mysteries of Zumba footwork?  Well, no.  It will barely scratch the surface.  It will only teach you a few steps.  Then the screen goes gray, with a big timer in the corner.  You, my dear reader, open your book to the section with the song list and steps corresponding to time markers.  Then you match up the song and the steps to the timer of the particular song you have chosen.  Too bad there isn't an instructional sheet that tells you a) how to carry said book and read it, while b) glancing at TV screen to make sure you are doing the steps at the right time as the timer on the screen and c) how to do salsa/merengue/cumbia/whathave you while holding book and reading.  If you, as I do, go to Zumba class already, then the above reading/dancing/timing thing isn't so impossible but have an answer prepared for the inevitable question from your significant other, "what the hell are you doing?"  If you, my dear Zumba-deprived friend, do not already take a Zumba class and think you can learn to dance by reading, I say to you, "Really?"  and then I'm going to encourage you to leave your home and take a Zumba class.  Or buy the videos.  Or the Zumba for Nintendo Wii.  All of which are better than this book.

Gere with Grace - good grief! You need to get out more if a cardboard, cut-out thriller like this impresses you.  This made-in-Michigan espionage potboiler plays like a crappy, cable-TV action show.  Gere is anemic and Grace once again proves he's nothing but a mannequin; Sheen is barely there.  It doesn't even offer the exploitive charms that lots of cheap action flicks generally deliver.

Humorous yet boring One of those comedians who is humorous, but not funny. If you grew up Amish and have never seen standup before, this is the funniest thing ever, but otherwise it's really not.

Not an absolute fail Found myself keeping casual conversation while a lot of talking was going on. I didn't care that I missed dialog. Everything that wasn't confrontation seemed drawn out as if in the sequel we are now to discover a deeper meaning for what we already know to be the storyline. I would not have walked out on it as I have with some other movies, but I am very glad to see it through Amazon which doesn't cost as much as a movie or Dvd.

The prequel (yes, prequel) to the series about how the Hillbilly Cannibals get free. Very bloody, better then 3rd. I say C- "We are not alone here...They are gonna kill us all." When three "special" boys who are brought to an insane asylum escape the reign on terror from the "Hillbilly Cannibals" begins. I will start by saying that this was much better then the third one. This movie further supports my argument that Hollywood is out of ideas and is stuck on prequels/sequels, re-makes and comic book movies only. If you don't believe me, ask yourself how long you have been saying..."I wish they made a prequel to 'Wrong Turn', the saga doesn't feel complete." That's what I thought. This movie is just a lot of screaming, blood and decapitations. Oh yeah, and cannibalism. If you are into that sort of thing this is the movie you have been waiting for. Overall, much better then the third, my favorite was the second...but again I don't think a prequel to this series was needed. I give it a C-.  *Also try - Maneater & Wrong Turn 1-3

disappointed It felt like some of the footage was from Blue Planet/Planet Earth so I was a little disappointed. It is still great to see but I still prefer the Planet Earth collection.

Weak and Tedious Bud and Lou were an acquired taste, one that I must confess I never acquired...although I do have most of their movies on DVD. The prize of the collection, as both fans and enemies will agree, was ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN. But once you've seen Lou run through his limited catalog of fright takes, there's little else to recommend this movie. Craig Stevens as the hero is wooden. Helen Westcott as the heroine is somewhat more flexible. Boris Karloff as Dr. Jekyll, as always, gives it everything he's got. He and Bela Lugosi had that in common: no matter what the surroundings, they never phoned in their performances. An interesting bit of trivia is that Mr. Hyde was played by stuntman Eddie Parker, who, 10 years previously, played most of the scenes involving the Frankenstein Monster, who was Bela Lugosi in the closeups. Thus he doubled for both Bela and Boris, 10 years apart. This film is nowhere near the masterpiece that A&C MEET FRANKENSTEIN turned out to be, but it is a cut above A&C MEET THE MUMMY, a pathetic swan song for the ...MEET THE... series.

Waste of time I had time to kill so thought this movie would help.  It was a waste of time.  The actors tried to hard to be funny.

I want my hour an half back I wish I could go back in time and slap myself for ordering this movie. He had a few funny moments, but the rest was a snooze fest. Curly was the only character that was good.

Boring... I agree with the one star reviewer - I do not understand how this movie received so many 5 star reviews.  It was boring, typical heavy-handed Tyler Perry mush with a totally unbelievable storyline. Gabrielle Union was wasted in this film, and Thandie Newton must be desperate.  And Tyler Perry needs to leave the acting to Madea. The only saving grace for this movie was Phylicia Rashad, and she looked like she'd rather be somewhere else.  I am glad I rented the DVD from Redbox instead of wasting my money in the theater.

Less drama than "Let's Make a Deal" Less drama than "Let's Make a Deal"...that's the first thing my husband said when this movie was over, and I'm strongly inclined to agree. I was never on the edge of my seat wondering what would happen next. This was a thriller with no suspense. None whatsoever. The plot is extremely predictable, even the ending was easy to see coming. For a professionally-made movie, everything about it came off as amateurish.  No real character development to speak of, which is the real tragedy of this movie. It has a stellar cast, all of whom deserved better than the weak storytelling. I never saw the original, but '13' never had me invested in any of the characters. And not even really in the protagonist, whose actions at times really defy logic.  I'm all for shoot-em-ups with no plot, but this movie didn't even achieve that level. A big disappointment.

defective dvd As a warning: the bluray is defective that I bought. It stops midway through the film.  The picture quality is awful. Don't think that just because it is a bluray, that it will hidef -it is no better than a standard dvd. Very dissappointing. Hope this helps. As for the film, well, very slow.  Not sure the point of this, long pauses in dialog.  Otherwise, interesting pornographic look at jealousy and it's effects.

Good, but completely leaving Laird's name out of this is unforgivable. Having seen Step into Liquid, Endless Summer II, and Riding Giants, I was intrigued when I saw a book coming out called Ghost Wave, about the history of Cortes Bank, by Chris Dixon.  That book referenced Susan Casey's book, The Wave, which I read soon thereafter. Leading me back to the videos of the big waves, and one which I had not seen, called Billabong Odyssey. Needless to say, those books are excellent, and for a former merchant marine officer and avid body surfer, the notion that the oceans are getting deeper and wilder due to global warming and that bigger waves are sinking several ships a month (and no one is talking about it) was stunning. And, of course, the size of the waves for big wave surfers is only going to increase, and the science available to them is allowing them to find, access, and surf the prime spots at the perfect times.  Having read that Laird and his Strapped crew did not believe in Billabong offering a huge prize for riding the biggest wave of the year (feeling it would encourage too many nuts to try something they were not qualified to do, and crowd-up the breaks) I kind of went into this expecting to see Mike Parsons, Brad Gerlach, etc., riding the waves and figured it would be more big wave history and footage to absorb and get stoked over. I also figured there would probably not be many mentions of Laird and his crew.  SO... I loved watching the surfing, and the training the riders did to prepare, but WAS ABSOLUTELY OFFENDED by the fact that the film makes no mention at all that the Strapped crew invented Tow-In Surfing, Foil Surfing, and are basically are the reason this whole film exists. It would have been so cool if they gave credit where credit was due, and then explained why Laird did not want to participate. By not mentioning a word about them, to me, the movie was ruined. Revisionist history is never cool and in this case was highly offensive. It was like talking about flying and not mentioning the Wright Brothers.  Still, I like many of the surfers involved and the quality of some of the rides, the various locales, and the detail in the filming was stunning at times.  Blame Laird, but this was Billa-WRONG.

Missed Opportunity In the second late night wars of 2010 it was easy to side with Conan O'Brien over Jay Leno. Conan was the upstart, the underdog, who pushed his craft in order to create a unique brand of humor that owed plenty to early Saturday Night Live as well as David Letterman, but still refused to be shackled by his influences. He was also, unlike Jay Leno, funny. If you have choice between a comedian who makes you laugh and one who doesn't, then it's not much of a choice is it? So the documentary, Conan O'Brien Can't Stop, which follows Conan on the live tour he assembled following his departure from NBC, has plenty of material to work with. The movie should have been an easy win. And yet, the documentary ends up being an unfocused piece of work that can't pick a single narrative strain to follow, or even to competently present the few moments of insight it manages to stumble across.  For some it might be a little shocking to see Conan O'Brien outside of his "Conan O'Brien" persona. Any performer on stage or screen is acting, even if that actor happens to be playing his or herself. Conan has fashioned a great character over the years. He plays himself as an anxious bundle of nerves who is at times naïve, geeky, lascivious, and flummoxed. Certainly the "real" Conan is in there somewhere, but when we tune in every night we're watching a performance, not the Conan O'Brien who sits on his couch to kill a Sunday morning. But in Conan O'Brien Can't Stop, the person behind the persona can be funny, kind, cutting, vain, and somewhat bitchy. If the only version of Conan you want in your mind is the one who shows up on weeknights to tell jokes, then I would recommend skipping this film altogether. I'm sure plenty of people don't need to watch Conan O'Brien complain that his assistant fetched him food with too much butter, because he is, after all, watching his weight.  But for those who don't mind seeing the man behind the curtain, the film has some passing moments of insight, even if they mostly go unfulfilled. At one point Conan explains that he has a habit of telling "jokes" to his staff that are in actuality critiques of their work. There's an unspoken bargain struck between Conan and those working for him where he undercuts his complaints with humor but they understand that he does in fact want them to step up their game. These tense exchanges make sense. After all, Conan and his writers have been responsible for putting on a show five times a night for most of the year. That sort of output requires discipline, and you cannot fault Conan for applying pressure on his writers and himself. But even if we receive a few insights into Conan's process, the film never follows up on it. He is never asked who his major influences are, how he came to comedy, how performing late night differs from writing for others.  This complete lack of curiosity on the part of the filmmakers makes some sense, since the film is following Conan on his The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour. Besides, Conan's actual life seems rather run of the mill, a fact he plays on during his tour by telling his life story in the form of a Southern Blues song of hardship and pain before finally admitting to the audience that he was born to well to do parents in the affluent Boston suburb of Brookline. But the tour winds up being little more than an afterthought. The movie is less about Conan the artist than it is about this specific moment in Conan's life. For some reason the filmmakers felt that whatever is going on back stage was much more interesting than the pyrotechnics on stage, a tragic decision. There are several moments where we get to see Conan interact with guest stars who have joined him on stage in several cities, such as John Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Jim Carrey. But we don't actually get to see Conan perform with these people. It's as if the director thought to himself, sure, I could show a clip of Conan and Jim Carrey singing a duet, but the audience probably just wants to see the two of them complimenting each other backstage.  And this is the most frustrating aspect of Conan O'Brien Can't Stop. We spend maybe twenty percent of the film watching footage from the tour (which is, admittedly, really funny) and about eighty percent of the film watching Conan and his entourage snap at each other as the pressures of constant touring increasingly weigh on them. The movie at times resembles a concert film, but with the percentage of music to interview is completely flipped. In another, fairer, universe, Conan O'Brien Can't Stop is the comedy equivalent of The Last Waltz, but here in our dull little world it's nothing more than a missed opportunity.

Disappointed I fell asleep watching this video. The Cambrian explosion must be interesting to biologists and paleontologists but for a layman like myself I was hoping for a more dynamic presentation. I was truly disappointed.

the dark knight fails i read the books. this video dose not compare. 2 books were stuffed into 1 hour. half of the story is missing. the time of day is wrong. the chronology is mixed up. example: joker wakes up early in the story and is the reason for the timer on the bombs. you missout on batman/bruces naration wich is a story all its own. a big fail for bruce tim i am sorry to say. read the book. it is far better.

Hard to learn the dance moves I bought this DVD at costco cause I had started a new diet and thought this would be a fun addition. I should have researched this video before just buying it. It is very hard to follow. I thought it was me at first, but my sister tried to do it with me and she could not follow it either. They dont really teach you the moves and it progresses too fast for you to really get the moves down packed.  I haven't tried other workout DVDs so I cant really compare. However, I know from my first experience that this workout DVD is not that great and there has got to be better videos out there.

Why so many Ultraviolet Digital Copy in Warner movies? How many Ultraviolet copies I will have in my blu ray collection? Why give this digital copy in so many different Warner movies? This strategie is failed, just look at the thousands of customers feedback.

Long, Slow, and Boring The movie did not live up to the write-up.  So much potential, but they missed the mark.  Too long and too boring. I'd guess that most of the high ratings for this film are from teenage boys that liked the numerous boob-shots and 30-second scene with two girls getting intimate.  There are so many better action flicks out there.  Maybe if this was less than 90 minutes it would have been OK, but even then only 3 stars at best.

poor quality The Koch video print is very poor quality, not even normal DVD level. Looks like SD off a TV channel. I doubt the Alpha version is any better, judging from dozens of their discs that I have seen. The movie is not a tenth as sexy as the still photos that were published in Playboy (in which you can see why they probably did opt to release it in B&W), and whenever the girls actually start to strip, the film abruptly cuts away. However, European films of this era were frequently censored for US release and this is probably an intact version of an American print. It's a cheap film, but interesting for the number of real talents seen early in their careers. If you want to see why Jayne Mansfield was provocative (in her non-studio films), better to get Promises, Promises, the stills for which got even Playboy in trouble (and the stills are mostly from the film, which isn't true in THTH).

A wasted opportunity I wanted to like this movie but found it to be an almost complete waste of time.  I watch very nearly every religious documentary I can get my hands on and this one had the least substance of them all.  I mean obviously with a name like "Religulous" I wasn't exactly expecting a carefully reasoned academic discussion, but I was expecting more than this.  With all the discrepancies and paradoxes tied to belief in a mainstream religion, Bill Maher had no dearth of material to work with.  But rather than attempt to be in any way persuasive, or to add anything new to the discussion, it's like he assumes that his audience is just as shallow as he is and drives around pointing his finger and laughing.  The essence of the movie can be boiled down to, "Look at all those churches!  People are so stupid.  That's funny!"  The faithful come across as better people because they're willing to have a patient, dispassionate discussion with him.  Imagine that.  Some guy randomly pulls into their church, walks in with a camera crew, and delves into his thinly veiled attempt to mock their religion.  What do they do?  They pause to gather their thoughts, then try to explain why it is they believe what they believe.  Maher, of course, throws away the opportunity with his trademark smugness.  There is one part where a Christian explains that since he believes in God, he believes in miracles.  Maher smirks and says, "Really?"  And then again, "Really?"  And that's it.  Clearly Maher walks away believing he delivered a knockout punch.  I just hope this isn't what passes as persuasive argument these days.  This documentary ends up being the worst kind of divisive us-vs-them garbage.  It's like Maher wanted to jump into the atheism fray but forget to bring any thoughts with him.  If you prefer more substance in your atheism, I recommend watching <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00175GAIS">The Atheism Tapes</a>.

3d effect is disappointing, movie was ok. First of all I'm not a fan of the series, I just bought this movie because it is one of the first ones to come out in bluray 3d format and I wanted to test my 3d compatible laptop.  My review is based on the 3d experience that I got out of this movie. This is not the first 3d movie I've played on my computer so I have other experiences that I can compare this one to. Now I gave it 2 stars because it seems like there is something wrong with the movie, it stutters. Not all the time, but in almost all the scenes when there is a camera (or angle) change, then I can notice like a flicker or a 1 sec lag (during the transition) and it is really annoying. Like I said I have tested other 3d movies (Alice in wonderland 3d, Imax Grand Canyon adventure) already and this is the only one that I have experienced this issue with. The 3d effect is not very impressive either, not a lot of pop out effect and even in some scenes not much depth effect.  Good thing is that you can play this title in 3d bluray, normal bluray, dvd and it also comes with access to an online digital version.  If you're a fan of the series you might definitely want to pick this one up (add it to your collection) and watch it in any of the preferred formats provided. If you're looking at it only for the 3d effect (like I was) then I would recommend skipping it and look for another one with better reviews (as far as the 3d effect goes).

annoying I dislike this show and find the dog to be too mean. In order to enjoy watching a show I need to like some of the characters but there aren't any. My twenty-something year old niece loves it and finds it hilarious. There are some funny parts but I can't get past  the dog who doesn't fit my image of what  a dog's personality is like.

Non US region coding There is no mention of the region coding in the product description for this particular version of the DVD.  I didn not think about it being shipped from the UK that it would not be compatible with my US DVD player.  Most other product descriptions specify the region coding and this description needs to be updated.

Unrealistic emotions for men This movie deals with a very good subject and area of the Second World War in the South Pacific Islands, but the focus of the movie is on unrealistic emotions of soldiers. The "men" are acting out emotions that are more feminine than masculine. In real life situations, most men, especially when in a close nit group such as that created by men in combat, do not act so feminine. I see this in the native village scenes, the main character acts like he is on drugs. Movies like Platoon are far more realistic, this movie is too "artistic" and whimsical. I lost interest very early in the movie, and could not finish watching it.

leaves a bad taste in your mouth The premise of this movie is pretty strange,and if nothing else,it is definitely unique.I wouldn't really call it scary or a horror film,but it is horrifying for characters no doubt. A crazy doctor abducts unsuspecting tourists and want to create his masterpiece experiment using them as his test subjects.The movie claims to be 100% medically accurate,but I had trouble believing it was really possible.  While the idea behind the movie is grotesque,there is actually little gore. If you can't stomach it,then I would avoid the sequel which is quite the opposite and even less believable.

Okay movie, pales next to the book... I recently read Anne Rice's famous book, and enjoyed it immensely; then I rented this movie version, and enjoyed it ... not so much.  The trouble is that "Interview with the Vampire" is a very cerebral book that deals with tough topics like existential dread, our right (or lack thereof) to kill, the nature of "good" and "evil," and the existence (or lack thereof) of God. Unfortunately, mainstream Hollywood has never been very good at addressing such tough topics, particularly not in blockbuster movies like this one. Mainstream Hollywood also isn't that good at doing sex scenes, which is another big problem when you're adapting a sexy book.  With most of the novel's philosophy hacked out, and the sensuality toned down, "Interview with the Vampire" ends up being a movie with not much to say, and not much reason to exist. Sure, the movie makes a few short forays into philosophical territory, but I think it's fair to say that 90-95% of the book's thoughtful content is absent. Also missing are a couple of my favorite sequences from the book - namely, Louis' attempt to confess to a priest, and the creepy Eastern Europe segment with the revenant.  But even if I hadn't read the (far) superior book, I still think I would've disliked this movie. At least half of the cast is all wrong, for example. Brad Pitt gives an awful, lethargic performance as Louis (no, introspective characters don't have to be so dull), and Antonio Banderas is positively cheesy as Armand. Fortunately, Kirsten Dunst and the not-at-all-miscast Tom Cruise lend considerable energy to the film, capturing the essence of their characters far more successfully than Pitt.  On the plus side, the film is very lavish, with beautiful sets and costumes and a suitably eerie music score. The makeup is also awesome, and there is a refreshing lack of stupid digital effects (which, of course, have completely taken over all contemporary "event" movies). With all the impressive attention to detail on display, I'm surprised that the filmmakers got so much of the substance wrong.  Honestly, I'm also surprised to see so many positive reviews of this film, particularly coming from fans of Rice. If you think that "Interview with the Vampire" is only about *depressed vampires*, then this is the movie adaptation for you. But, as I said above, I think the novel is really about the search for morality and meaning in human life ... the bored vampires are just window-dressing for Rice's exploration of big philosophical issues. In the absence of those issues, all this movie can provide is shot after shot of vampires in frilly shirts biting ladies' wrists...

PURCHASE JLA (Book 7): Tower of Babel by Mark Waid INSTEAD Just finished streaming Justice League: Doom. Trust me on this. Purchase the trade paperback JLA Book 7; read the comics. Rent it or stream it if you are so inclined but don't buy the DVD. The movie is loosely based on Mark Waid's well-received 'Tower of Babel' storyline. It's dramatic, gripping and thought provoking. I don't want to spoil the story because I can not compare the DVD to the comic book without revealing too many details from both. However there are quite a few changes & alterations from the original source material which appear to be done just to coincide with the reboot of DC's Justice League comic book series. For $10 dollars you can purchase the complete Tower of Babel story which this DVD is based on. This is a great read. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/156389727X">JLA (Book 7): Tower of Babel</a> Justice League: Doom is a so-so film.

Out with a thud In the closer to this series it is very anti-climatic.  I understood what they were trying to do, but they failed horribly.  As most movie series go, usually the movie squels they make the quality goes down, which was what happened in this case.  It would be a good watch and purchase if you want the entire collection, but don't expect anything great.  Saddened.

Where the old actors go to die Same old same ole.  Nothing original here, watching the old stars move around was painful.  If you want a blast from the past, ie. first blood, etc. only with senior citizens you will love this one.

Plot Holes and Gaps SPOILER ALERT My wife and I recently finished the first season of Game of Thrones on DVD. We both enjoyed it as a sort of bloody, sex-filled, As the World Turns-type show. Beyond the hacking, slashing, and whoring what we both noticed was that there were a lot of holes in the show which diminished our enjoyment. Some examples SPOILER ALERT:  - In one of the first episodes a boy is hurt while his father is out traveling with the king. Almost immediately after he is hurt, the father appears at the boy's side. We have no way of knowing how his father received word of the injury; he's just suddenly there which feels like a cinematic mistake.  - When the main character arrives in his new post as "King's Hand" he is asked to make a decision on whether or not a tournament will be held. After quick analysis, he determines it is a waste of money and it should not happen. But then in the following episode or two the tournament is apparently happening. There's no explanation for the sudden change from "its not going to happen," to the tournament actually happening.  - The the main character is executed he has hold of essential information about the death of the king and the rise to the thrown of a child who is not actually the heir. I find it odd that upon finding out that he is going to be beheaded, the main characters does not divulge any of this information to the people in attendance and seemingly lets this HUGE secret die with him. Ultimately this makes the main character look like an idiot.  There are numerous more holes, unexplained items and so on, that ultimately made Game of Thrones Season 1 less like a fantasy epic and more like a poorly written fantasy daytime soap opera (which can be fun in its own right, but surely not to be taken seriously in the way, of say, Lord of the Rings).

Whites lines Stripped of the author's light, spicy prose, and left with just the thin story and some arch dialogue, Jay McInerney's go-go 80's New York novelette falls flat.  Michael J. Fox is earnest but miscast as an irresponsible fact-checker for a version of The New Yorker, and director James Bridges tackled coked-up yuppie disillusion with infinitely more heft in his film "Mike's Murder" four years earlier.  "Lights" has aged better than "St. Elmo's Fire" or "About Last Night..." But it's worth noting Fox's character decides to stop having fun in the film's last scene, a half-assed happy ending in which the protagonist gazes optimistically at the World Trade Center towers in the distance.

Missing "Romance on the High Seas" My wife grew up watching these movies with her Grandmother.  I purchased this DVD set for her, particularly for "Romance on the High Seas".  Wouldn't you know it?  Inside the DVD case was one of the other movies.  We've watched all of them, and we definitely have two of the same disc.  Just thought I'd come back and add that "caveat emptor".

The truth Lets face it the comic movie adaptions have their winners and losers.  I'm a diehard superhero fan and have watched almost every movie series, tv series and more.  All Star Superman sorry folks, is a loser.  The voice overs ARE monotone and really just done seem to fit the animation or characters.  I feel like I am listening to the voices in a muffled office cubicle more than characters in a movie setting.  Doesn't compare close to the the Tim Daly/Kevin Conroy/Clancy Brown voices that have grown the franchise and become icons.  The premise itself is weak.  The story flow disjointed and the pace vague.  I was hoping for some hero hoopla with this movie.  I quietly turned it off halfway through.  The finest, recent, Superman movie is without question Superman/Batman Public Enemies. Hard hitting story line, unprecedented hero action with a compelling pace that keeps your undivided attention.  It's hero action (numerous heros I might add) at its finest when we want our momentary fix of capes, powers, gizmos and battles.  In any superhero movie the only limits should be the writer's imagination.  Not a Lois Lane that looks like she just walked out of a dance club and takes a "magic potion" to instantly become a superwoman.

It was ok Wasnt what I thought it was.  The ending was terrible in my opionion. I have an over active imagination and had more of a better idea.  with the previews it made me think of the idea of living threw time and still remembering the first love and those that past but it was more about sybolism than really a point or a learning or really anything that had a great point of view.  disappointing.

too complicated I gave up on this one after 20 minutes of trying to learn guzillion new moves every 3 minutes! Plus, it's way too fast!  Maybe once you do it often enough it gets more fun and you can follow the moves well but for me it was horrible! I love mixing things up and I love a challenge, I love changing my workouts and try new things every day but I don't want to spend weeks learning the moves cause I get bored doing same workout anyway.  Hated it.

Old fashined feel All in all this movie was not really funny except when there was a mix up with the mail order bride.  The rest of it was not so interesting or funny.  There was something missing from either the acting or the script, but I am not sure what.

Hollywood vs CIA I know this is hard to believe, but Hollywood had made yet another anti-CIA movie. Let's see, evil VP who uses the CIA for personal hits, hmmmmm Cheney?? Dryfus, an oozing mass of Liberalism, hmmm he's in it too. Ok, Hollywood, we get it, the CIA and FBI are Evil! Lets dismantle them so our enemies can waltz in unencumbered. Hundreds may die but at least no ones civil rights will be violated.

Such unfulfilled promise Seemingly a commentary on consumerism, this offbeat film only occasionally hits its mark.  Not biting enough to offer any new insight or angle, it makes you long for the movie it could have been.  The people-matter-more-than-things moral of the story is heavy handed and the ending seems illogical and tacked-on.  Good to see Demi back, though, and Amber Heard once again shows why she's always working - and "this close" to being a household name.

What a load of shist... This movie..wow. The book by Verne was nice, and so was the beginning to this movie. I immediately got a horrible taste in my mouth when I saw them on this silly adventure in the railway cart. It was then that I knew that this movie was not a real adaption or a serious one but rather a spoof either intentional or not.  Rather than going on about how much of a Disney movie it turned out to be with a good beginning, let me go over a few problems I had.  1) When they were going out the water blast at the end, are you seriously telling me that they were perfectly aimed at the top to where they didn't clip the side and go tumbling up? 2) The kid stored a prehistoric bird in his bag and it didn't die of either cramped space or something similar? You hide a bird in the small pocket of a bag and you tell me what happens. 3) The graphics are worse than a movie made about 12 years before in Jurassic Park. Really?  There are many more complaints. The 2 stars are for the beginning of the movie and the beautiful actress who, in real life, would NOT have fallen for the main character in such a short amount of time.  Really, if you are a kid then maybe this movie might suffice. If you are an adult then no, this movie won't do. It feels rushed and we as viewers should demand better. How is it that Jurassic Park had better graphics than this movie? That just bites me in negative places..  John McAdam: Author of Enoch and the Extraterrestrials Areoth Westh: Sun Thieves (An Areoth adventure)

Read the book, skip the movie. If you want to see the movie, watch it first, then read the book.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345468260">Timeline</a>  It is soooo much better. I am biased because I read the book a few weeks ago. I'm sure I would have liked it more if I hadn't read the book. The Punk & I watched it and the whole time he told me to hush.  Apparently, I was saying, "That didn't happen in the book" too much. The book gets into the quantum mechanics of probable time travel, while the movie skipped over it. In the book, the characters are well written. You don't have to know a lot about them to like them.  They are very empty in the movie because all they do is run away from soldiers.  My biggest peeve was that three of Micheal Crichton's characters were female in the book and the screenwriter had them grow penises for the movie.  The only character to keep true to the book is Marek (Gerard Butler). Even the setting of the war was changed!  All the espionage with Lady Claire is gone.  Oh wait, she's still Lady Claire, only completely different. In the book she is a conniving widow. In the movie she is an innocent spy and romantic interest for Marek.  As for the copy I received off Amazon.  It was from a third party.  It stopped three times. The first time, it would not move ahead at the 24 mark.  We had to chapter ahead and "rewind" nine minutes back.

Takes forever to load This is a graet movie. I only wish it would load and play on my LG BD640 Blue-ray player. Any help would be appreciated. LG has tried but no luck so far!

I don't see it I don't see where the 5 star rating comes into play, I am so disappointed in this film. I am mad at myself for spending 5 bucks on this.  Not one I would waste my time watching twice that's for sure.

Moby Dick DVD You are never too old to learn something new.  I was not aware there were DVD regions - this one was Region 2 - for Europe.  It would not run on either of my DVD players (a Sony and a Toshiba), but it did run using my computer.  Except for the region issue, everything else was great. I enjoyed the movie, the delivery came as promised, but I don't think I will be buying any more European DVDs.

Not save as DVD version I had seen the unused pilot in the DVD complete series collection & it was in color.  This version is not for some reason.  Needless to say, I am disappointed.  I wish the fact that both epesodes were in black & white had been part of the listing at the time.

No where near hand drawn titles of the past Boy I am a sucker. After hearing this was finally a Disney title that equals past efforts I was shocked to find I had to shut it off after 30mins. Four completely boring songs, generic CG animation and story, characters I just didnt care about. Princess and The Frog steam rolls this 20 times over. Apologists like to the pull nostalgia card but I can honestly say we have back stepped greatly since the days of traditional animation or how they dealt with story and songs.

Big let down i bought this because the trailers for the movies made it look like it was gonna be wourth watching plus i figured since jay and silent bob was in the movie it was gonna be hilarious  boy was i wrong i bout feel asleep watching this i had to make myself finish the movie this movie isn't worth buying in bluray format either jumps straight to the title screen and has just as much extras as a normal dvd

Pointless Nothing new happens in this movie. It has plenty of action, mostly in the form of explosions, but nothing in the movie actually moves the Terminator story line forward. The viewer goes out where he came in.  Equally frustrating is that the movie insults the viewer's intelligence with lazy plot devices. For example, there are scenes involving the movement of massive, clanking machines, yet characters aren't even aware of the machines until the machines are on top of them. Or consider that barrels of oil or gasoline, or tubes of molten metal or liquid nitrogen are conveniently ubiquitous so characters can shoot them when needed to make an explosion or melt some machine.  The movie is riddled with such devices. They play out, one after another, for about two hours. Nothing else happens. We learn nothing new.  My recommendation is to skip this awful addition to the T series.

You might not be dissapointed, but then again... Honestly, there were a lot of things right about this movie. Sadly, there were too many things that were wrong. Kirsten's character was a horribly self-centered, heartless, selfish girl. The only person she cared about was her, even in the end. However, the acting was done very well especially by Charlotte Gainsbourg. Honestly the ridiculous wedding antics shouldn't have happened. It made no sense to me why they would show a girl who could presumably see the future, be so cruel to a man who really loved her. And then show her torturing her poor sister afterwards (the same family that cared for her and paid for her lavish wedding). I can't decide if it's worth watching or I wasted my time.

Circus Big Top Clowns Two tarnished stars for this dog. One star for the bad acting and script, and the other because it was like watching a terrible car crash in action. You just had to see what happened next and how freak-showish it could possibly get. An anthropologist who studies weird tribal customs might like it. I watched it with four friends and they booed and tossed popcorn at the screen. I had to clean the mess up, following this mess of a movie.

Truly Amazing. And not in a good way.  I was really looking forward to seeing this movie. After all, I'm a pilot; I love good flying movies; and the trailers for this flick looked like it would be right up my alley. Hey, c'mon! P-51s? I'm so there.  But what was really amazing about this movie was that I'd never before in my life watched a movie that was such a complete collection of clich&eacute;s all put together in one place.  Here are the source materials I recognized for this movie, in no particular order:  Hart's War - A Soldier's Story - 12 O'Clock High - Top Gun - Stalag 17 - The Great Escape - Flyboys - The Blue Max - Command Decision - The Bridges at Toko-Ri -  Lucas's own Star Wars series for some of the flying maneuvers and camera angles - and there are probably a couple more that escape me at the moment.  Gotta hand it to Lucas and Company: when they steal, they steal from the best. The problem is, just stringing together a bunch of scenes taken from a bunch of OTHER flicks does not an entertaining movie make.  I will say, the actual flying scenes were pretty interesting. Interesting... not really EXCITING. But I did marvel at the CGI skills on display. As a pilot, it was among the best representations of the flight environment I can recall. That's what earned this the second star, because otherwise it was pretty hopeless. Unengaging, to say the least. Even at that, the flying scenes in Top Gun were better by orders of magnitude.  Don't bother. Really. Unless you're a fan of old movies, and want to see some of their best scenes strung together and played by different actors or something.  Or maybe you can make it a drinking game. "Name that scene!" The others who didn't spot it have to down one. Last guy standing's the winner. Something like that.

He's a shredder, not a teacher Alexi is a great guitar player but he wouldn't have a clue how to teach you to replicate any of what he does. He shows you the notes he plays, then plays them himself at full speed ... nothing you couldn't get from a Guitar Pro file! Plus he seems grumpy as all heck in this video, so it isn't even pleasant to watch him talking about what he's doing. Wouldn't buy it again if I had the chance.

Should have been a 30 minute audio-book. Talk, talk, uninteresting talk ... First 30 minutes has decent dialog, but then it becomes tedious.  New Rule: If can't afford action, pay the best writers to have witty dialog with at least some words that give a great visual. You don't have to watch this movie, all you have to do is listen, as there is nothing to see and not that much to visualize.  Oh well ....

Worst Sandler Movie Ever! I down right love Adam Sandler Movies all movies before this one I loved! This movie is down right not funny! I guess for a non budget movie I can't realy complain but if you are an Adam Sandler Movie fan like me you're better off renting this one or better yet don't see this one unless you want to see him at his worst!

Funny and irritating Everything is perfect about this movie but I couldn't like it.  The characters are sharp and realistic, every detail is taken care of, the story flows, and it's a harsh comedy on those stuck in the past.  This movie's flaw is that watching it was like hanging out with any of several people that I used to know and don't like much.  I got some laughs but I rather would have been doing something else.

Not as Funny as Hoped - "Death at a Funeral" has a top notch cast, including Chris Rock, Luke Wilson, Danny Glover and Martin Lawrence to name just a few.  However, it ends up being a dumb movie with people doing dumb things.  The story revolves around a patriarch's funeral, which turns into a chaotic whirl of people doing dumb things.  The situations are outrageous, from the wrong person being in the casket to main characters taking LSD and acting like the movie is actually funny.  There is a British version of the same movie and it is not much better.  So even if you sprinkle the movie with top notch stars, the script still matters.  It is not funny, everyone is yelling, angry, or tuned out on drugs.

Typical Woody Allen Fare Woody Allen's 2010 film You Will Meet a Tall, Dark Stranger is comic, touching, cynical and smart ... but what else is new?  Allen's been making films like this for decades, and although he has evolved as an artist, especially in these last ten or so years (most notably with the somber, sexy thriller Match Point and the rollicking, evocative romance of Vicki Christy Barcelona), this latest work is not a great film ... it's just good enough.  For me, Woody Allen has become a sort of thinking man's John Grisham ... You go into the theater with a clear idea of what to expect, and you walk away more or less satisfied.  He has a film formula that he's rarely wavered from for forty plus years: 2 plus 2, divided by divorce or what have you, equals enough box office success to add the next one to the oeuvre.  At some point though, one must wonder how many films about upper class neurosis can one man possibly make.  The tag line that opens and closes the film is a quote from Shakespeare's Macbeth, famously declaring that life is all "sound and fury; signifying nothing."  Although your typical filmgoer will take issue with the sense of irresolution that surrounds the film's denouement, I personally have no problem with the "signifying nothing," but would have liked a little more sound and fury.  The central problem with this movie (and several other 21st century Allen works) is its dispassion and distance from its characters.  We care what happens to them, just not that much.  Perhaps one of the most interesting plot twists concerns a writer, Roy (played subtly and convincingly by Josh Brolin), who has stolen the manuscript of a supposedly deceased friend, who turns out to be merely in a coma and expected to recover.  I could not help extrapolating from this fiction that perhaps Woody himself, in his obsessive compulsive proliferation of films, has begun stealing his new movies from his old ones, excavating narratives and characters from the graveyard of his former ingenuity.  Sometimes this works: as Match Point works as a re-tooled Crimes and Misdemeanors.  But this latest film is not bold enough-- lacks the necessary sound and fury-- to be anything better than another good enough Woody Allen film.

Not what I expected This video highlights the year but not very well and don't expect to see the final game. In fact the final game barely shows for more than a few seconds. It is hard to follow at times, they don't label but the most important games. The video jumps around a lot too. Not worth it unless you just have to have all things Kentucky. Sorry I wasted my money.

This movie is terrible Don't waste your time unless there's nothing else out there to watch. Ron Pearlman cannot act, he's horrible in this movie...yah he's good in SOA, but whatever.  Remember: Watch only if time does not matter to you.

Not bad...mediocre While it's not a rehash of the Tuskegee airmen where Laurence Fishburne and ALSO Cuba Gooding Jr. act. It's not better than that. For the not famous portion of the cast the acting could have used some polishing because the capacity of the people involved is there, you just don't see them doing their best, except for maybe Ne-Yo as the comic relief. The dialog is clumsy and somewhat C movie quality as is specially noticeable in the first scene. Special effects are o.k. the top shots of the base leave something to be desired.  All in all this movie requires two things to become actually good.  1: Better direction and demand on its actors. 2: Better edition.

Almost interesting Starts off intriguingly, with Hanna being trained by her father. It's still interesting when she is captured and tries to carry out her mission. But it soon degenerates. It's hard to root for her or Erik when they're killing poor working shmucks like lab techs and policemen.  What's good: seeing Hanna react and adjust to the outside world - meeting electricity and other people and showers. I'd wager the lesbian-toned kiss between her and another teen is what earned all the critical acclaim, because the script is Luc Besson material (think Fifth Element, not Taken). Some "symbolism" in filming in Wilhelm Grimm's house, bad wolf, wicked witch, etc., but somewhat blunt.  The climax is a letdown - for all their training, the promise of Hanna's training is feebly realized, and some main characters are taken down like rank amateurs. There is no intelligence to their final encounters, no smarts, no skill, no payoff for all that training. A superior movie in this regard would be Die Hard. There we see the hero and villains actually use their brains. As such, this movie is kind of a missed mess of genres.  If I'd rented this for a dollar from Redbox, I'd still say it stank. But I rented it for $6 On Demand due to the high praise from idiot critics and I wouldn't recommend others watch it within the rental period - better to waste my money than their time. Watch it if you're desperate. You have been warned.

I did not like this viedo I did not like the video. The video was very bad. I could not understand what she was saying. Bad video

Decent at Best I had high hopes for this movie. I did not get to see it in the movie theaters when it came out in Dec 2012. The reviews were great and I did like the 3rd movie that was made in 2006. But with all the positive reviews this movie got I expected this to be the best one but it was NOT. I like Tom Cruise and love a lot of his films. When he had that whole backlash thing I thought people were being dumb. But I was BORED. And even if I felt some action scenes were good and creative I kind of felt that I have seen this all before. I would say the only reason to see this is if you liked the other movies and do not care if you are seeing the same old thing again and again.  I think this should be the last Mission Impossible film but with it's big box office I do not think it will be.

Nine or Nein? The movie is titled after the 9th creation of a scientist who tries to find a way for life to live on after being completely destroyed save for both the good and the bad beings he creates, which results in the end of the world.  But I wondered as I watched it if there might be some phonetic play with these words. In fact, the German word for nine is neun, which sound fairly similar to nine. Also, the German word for no is nein. Was the character nine meant to say no to one, who said questions should not be asked about their origin? There's also the fact that the war presented here is largely based on World War 2, which was against... guess who? There are also other ways this word could be manipulated into having more meanings that I won't go into here.  But the sad thing is, I doubt there was that much thought put into things. Sadly, this movie is devoid of thinking, original, at least. I hate to knock it, because the creator seems to believe in what he's presented. But that's not enough to say that something is better than it is.  As stated, nothing in this movie is original. The idea of transfering your thoughts into another being has been done many times and has been done much better in some cases. We get yet another movie with references to World War 2. How many times can Hollywood focus on this war?  Then there's the typical "technology is bad" storyline. Well, let's see, how was this movie made? With the technology of film, with the technology that comes from CG animation made via the technology of computers, etc. It's not technology that's the problem in general, it's the kind of technology and how it's used.  9 is also the typical character who is bewildered by something that is simple to understand but yet, somehow capable of figuring out complex solutions to things the next moment, only to do something utterly idiotic the next, and so on. Think of all those shows where an alien doesn't understand what tears are, but then they know everything else about human behavior.  We also have beasts that are nothing but direct copies of other movies, such as War of The Worlds and a few other movies. I don't want to say too much in fear of spoiling it. But, then again, there's not much to spoil.  I think it's finely animated and the actors do a good bit of voice acting, but there's just not enough here, whether it's in telling an original story or at least telling one that's more than mildly interesting, or even one that makes you feel something; in order to give it a better review. Even the extras are as lacking as the movie itself is.

Bad casting, writing, and acting. I cannot imagine a movie where N. Kidman and N. Cage blend seamlessly to create a believable world for our entertainment. That being said, this was not only poorly conceived; the acting was lazy and boring. I attempted to look to the set or costume design, or maybe the special effects or story subtext that might give the movie hope, sadly there was nothing. I would like to see this movie executed properly. Clean up the plot slop and give the ending a face lift and of course, some 'better' actors that appear committed to the film.  THEN, maybe this could make it worth a Wednesday night rental. Nicole Kidman has the talent to pull off any role she sets her mind to. Ive seen some dynamic and genuinely moving work from her! What happened? Nicolas Cage is PERFECT if the action and story line can carry his 10 lines throughout the film. He just cant carry a film in any context. Watch some PBS and safe yourself a wasted night!

drinking solves all your problems in this movie! What I learned from this movie. Cuss as much as you can f*** f*** F***. Drinking will make you new friends and solve all problems! The movie actually encourages the characters to drink to solve their problems! The story is very very poor.  Not realistic and slow broken story.

Remember the horror movie nudity rule. There is a rule in horror moves: The more nudity that you see in the movie the weaker the horror movie will be.  Sadly this remake of a b movie does not break from this rule. Set during Spring Break on an inland lake, with several of main charters involved in the shooting of a Girls Gone Wild type video the amount of nudity in the first half of movie is high. This could be forgiven as a way of catching the audiences attention or as a plot tool if the script was not so predictable.  To the point you know who will die as soon as they appear on screen.  The obnoxious jocks who bully the main teen character, the women involved in the girls gone wild video.  The characters are cardboard stereotypes. The original Piranha was a B movie, nobody could ever of called it a film great.  However, this remake is sadly lacking against the original. Relying more on gore and nudity than trying to create tension or anything new. It strikes me as the target audience is in their teens to early 20's and male. With that in mind if you do buy this movie to see some bare boobs the best scene is about 25 - 26 minutes into the movie.  2 women swimming nude underwater while classic music plays.  Both artistic and erotic.  And makes you wonder was this the best this movie could come up with.

Very dated and not too exciting I bought this movie because it was Natalie Woods' last movie and it sounded interesting. However, the movie itself is kind of stale and the exciting parts are not too exciting.

This is Neil Young's entire legacy? I guess you have to measure the final product against your expectations, so given that I expected something closer to actual history, Heart of Gold was a miss for me.  Plainly, Young wants to be remembered as a writer of Important Songs and as an Iconic Country Artist, which is only part of what he's been.  He's also been a totally sincere arrow-through-the-heart rock & roller, and that truth has been ignored here in favor of a more flattering legacy.  This is more or less a church service for 2 hours, understandably because he had a brain operation coming right up.  So there are a lot of hymns, pious sentiments, family and friendships on display, plus some gorgeous vocals (from HIM of all people!) and excellent musicianship.  He's all cleaned up, wearing a nice suit with a good haircut--no cocaine boogers or hey hey hi hi in evidence.  That's a relief, sure, but the music is overly polite and in one or two cases downright soporific.  I know he had to tailor his program to a Nashville audience, but just one bust-loose moment would have improved this snore-a-thon enormously.  Or at the very least, it would have adhered to the truth a little closer.  Neil Young has always been the crazy man who made sense despite his excesses.  And now that he's deliberately un-crazied himself he's lost the dangerous edge that made him unique.  I'm glad for his sake that he's done so, but I really miss the guy who wrote Cinnamon Girl.

Meh. Not worth it, some potential danger, inadequate in many areas Pros:  1. Shaun T is motivational, and doesn't come across as arrogant as Tony Horton. P90X and P90X2 are much better programs, but I think I'd probably break the screen if I had to listen to Tony for 90 days. I tolerate him only in very limited quantities, maybe once a week or so. ShaunT is OK, although yelling Yo! and talking about himself in third person (Even ShaunT needs a break) is mildly annoying sometimes.  2. It does improve cardiovascular fitness.  3. I suppose if you have weight to lose, it would contribute to wait loss. Can't tell from personal experience since I am on maintenance diet and do not wish to lose weight.  4. Eye candy. There are several guys with nice bodies. Women however in most cases do not have much of a muscle definition and have really puny arms. That should have given me a clue that this one is not really for me.  Cons:  1. Insignificant upper body work. I've added upper body training twice a week and additional yoga once a week, but that is just enough not to experience deterioration, I am not making any more progress with my pullups and advanced pushups (backclap for example, or hands on medicine ball, feet of stability ball pushups).  2. Workout is rather imbalanced, can result in too strong quads and consequently tight calfs, hamstrings, and IT band. I am adding additional exercises to correct this, additional stretches and also some foam roller work.  3. Risk of injury - so far haven't injured myself, but I've been doing plyometrics moves in other workouts for years. However, a friend who just started injured himself on Day 1, fit test. Knee injury, it will take weeks to recover.  4. Stretching is inadequate. Shaun T is obviously not flexible enough, and stretches are too easy and incomplete. I normally add my own stretching.  5. If you are already fit starting this, you can't expect big progress, except maybe in exercises you don;t do that often. My first fit test was: switch kicks 123, power jacks 60, power knees 75, power jumps 69, globe jumps 12, suicide jumps 21, push up jacks 36, low plank obliques 76. My second fit test was:  Switch kicks 108, power jacks 53, power knees 91, power jumps 82, globe jumps 11, suicide jumps 23, pushup jacks 40, low plank oblique 86.  6. Squats are too shallow. Even in recovery workout, when you are supposed to do "slow deep squats" they are not slow and you do not go below the position of thighs parallel to the floor. Insufficient challenge for gluteus muscles. Same applies to those leg lifts and kicks in plank position - I normally do these with added ankle weights, doing it bodyweight doesn't do anything for me. If you want a strength workout for legs and core, Butts&guts from Cathe works great.  7. Not enough variety with pushups. Too simple, no advanced pushups.  8. Core exercises not challenging enough. If you can do swimmers pushup with 2 medicine balls in P90X2,or pushups on 3-4 medicine balls, anything you encounter in Insanity will simply not be enough. Also I normally do twists with my feet up entire time + 6 to 9 kg resistance (depends how many reps), so bodyweight twists just do nothing for me. Ab Ripper from P90X and P90X2 is much better, and so is STS Abs od Cathe. There should be also something added for low back. Supermens for example.  9. Price is just not worth it. Especially considering that there are so many good programs which are free, for example www.lovingfit.com.

Felt like a rehash This movie, while well produced, feels like a rehash of all the other Underworld movies. You could almost interchange some of the scenes with the last two Underworld movies and it wouldn't show. Perhaps the director for the next installment can just piece together moments from all the movies and call it "Underworld Recollections."

Sad After watching the newest Stepford Wives, we wanted to see the original. I'm still not sure, but I don't think that this is the original. The new one had pictures of the original at the beginning and this isn't it. This one was a real dissappointment after watching the newewst one. It moved very slowly. I'm still hunting for the original it looked more upbeat.

An Anime Classic for all the wrong reasons The Premise is typical of anime. Kids are elected to fight aliens. BUT one of these girls is a cry baby, not just a cry baby but she's so weak she makes Bella from Twilight look strong. In short Alien Nine is Frustrating I found myself screaming at the TV for Yuri (the main character) To just DO something all she did was cry and let her protector helmet do all the work.  The Election process for the Anime's "Alien Club" is never fully explained but why kids would choose somebody so timid and weak to protect them does not speak well for said process and the end is a mess, just some whale like alien and more crying.  The Art, Premise and theme song are all good but I have never seen an anime where I hated a character so much because of their own weaknesses.  Shinji from Evangelion was braver than Yuri YEAH!.  If you are curious check the show out, if you are easily frustrated or have a background in Psychology look elsewhere.

urban loneliness remake When I watched Ghost Dog some time ago, I was confused but also very embarassed as I thought obviously either the protagonist or the writer didn't understand anything about the Way of the Samurai.  But having seen Melville's film Le Samourai, I can now explain Ghost Dog.  Le Samourai is a non-sequitur in which the title of the film has essentially nothing to do with the plot (assassination) or theme (solitude) of the film.  Ghost Dog is an homage re-make of Le Samourai that says "let's try to make the title relate to the plot."  It's that simple, and that's why the film fails.  The idea of a overweight, out of shape inner-city contract killer who derives some lifestyle from reading Hagakure and swinging around a samurai sword is ridiculous and not even clever or fun if you actually know anything about Japanese history, martial arts culture, or, especially, the actual contents of Hagakure.  Like Le Samourai, Ghost Dog depends entirely on fashion and film history for any success.

How do you say WTF in French??? Sometimes I wonder why directors and producers choose to commit certain action to celluloid. This is one of those films. All I can ask is WTF?!?! I guess I'm not artsy enough because reading the blurbs on the case would lead you to believe that this is a masterwork of cinematography with a message that transcends the human experience. I'll tell ya, I didn't get it. I wouldn't compare this even remotely to "The Road". A vague, unexplained catastrophe occurs that leaves society in a shambles, though there's no visual evidence of destruction or cause. It's more of a morality play on how people react to calamity though there's no plot, sparse dialogue and no real resolution. The movie starts, stuff happens and then it ends with nothing compelling in the interim to make you even care about any of the characters after the first few minutes. Maybe if I spoke, understood or thought in French (the films native language) I might find some understanding to the films purpose. It's not SciFi, barely qualifies as good dystopian or post apocalyptic genre and the events could have taken place after a tour bus full of people broke down on the side of the road in some remote area and their reactions while waiting for the tow truck (food and water running out and tempers flairing). Honestly, I want my money back. Don't waste yours.

Not happy DVD only works first 5 minutes, movie scratched. Movie continues to not work even after out threw cleaning machine. Waste of money!

Missed the science mark While I do agree wholeheartedly with the basic, positive message of this movie (we need to be more compassionate and loving toward eachother and nature), I feel Tom Shadyac could have made a much stronger case for his premise had he interviewed actual scientists to talk about the science. Instead he interviewed (for the most part) journalists, authors, and "science writers"...not scientists. BTW, I am actually a scientist (geology and oceanography degrees). Having a journalist try to explain the inner workings of quantum physics is like having a ballerina describe how a rocket is put into orbit.  The concerns I had while watching the movie really come back to promoting psuedo-science as real science and spouting half-truths and misleading ideas about science and nature:  -The notion that pre-contact Native Americans (or other pre-contact Native peoples) had some kind of Utopian, peace-filled, love-driven society is utter hogwash. Unfortunately this nonsense is mentioned a few times in the movie. Perhaps some of these Native societies were peaceful and love-filled, but by no means was this the norm across all groups. Territorial conflicts abounded. Check your history. Native Americans killed eachother in battle, some took war slaves and stole eachother's property. We have a few instances of cannibalism (backed by forensic evidence from an archaeological site). We know the Aztecs were anything but peaceful...just look at their murals of battles and human sacrifices.  -The yogurt "experiment" was a joke at best, more likely a fraud. At no point are we really told what units the little device was measuring. To me it appeared that it might actually be measuring sound vibrations as it seemed to react in only one direction and only as someone spoke toward the petri dish of yogurt. If it was really reacting to emotional "energy" it should have been reacting to the energy of everyone in the room at all times. Curiously enough, though, it only reacted when Tom spoke. In no way did they prove that Tom's "emotional vibes" or "heart energy" were causing the needle to react.  -Science isn't out to "prove" that the nature is orderly and follows specific rules previously discovered (as the first journalist interviewed claimed)...modern science is devoted to figuring out the WHY and HOW of nature and natural processes...whatever those processes are. Perhaps pre-Newtonian "western science" was trying to do this but certainly not modern science (especially the last 150 years).  -We do this by questioning, investigating, experimenting, and publishing our results for others to review and tear apart. We also want other scientists to attempt to duplicate our experiments to either verify our results or refute them. This process is very rigorous but helps us to find out if we, as scientists, have introduced some kind of error or bias into the experiment, or if our experiment was done correctly and the results are reliable. Results that can be reproduced by other researchers are the only ones to truly withstand peer scrutiny.  -The explanations of quantum physics in the movie were very weak. He pulled a few parts of Quantum Theory out of context that appeared to prove his point but didn't give the viewer enough real information. In reality, it doesn't prove his point (nor does it disprove it). He really should have interviewed someone like Brian Greene (physicists at Cornell Univ) to beef up this part of the "documentary."  -Noetic "scientists" are not real scientists...this is actually a branch of metaphysical philosophy. Labeling these folks as scientists is a tad misleading. Once other, real experimental scientists are able to replicate noetic experiments and come up with the same results then perhaps we can start to consider them scientists. Right now they're a fringe element.  -Same goes for the Heartmath folks.  Parts of this movie seemed a tad bit self-congratulatory and some was full of outright ego-stroking. It's obviously Shadyac's movie and he can do whatever he wants, but these parts seemed strangely at-odds with the premise of the movie (love, compassion, cooperation, humility).  I do applaud Shadyac for (eventually) explaining that Darwin did not promote or popularize this "survival of the fittest" spiel that we tend to lay at his feet. Darwin didn't understand the underlying mechanisms of evolution back then, but he did see that it was influenced by nature and referred to it as "evolution by means of natural selection."  I think Shadyac's heart was in the right place, but the line of evidence he used to justify his point was weak and misleading.

Boring I'm sorry but I found the movie dull. The music was kind of dull and repetitive, most of the musicians, although clearly extremely talented, were past their prime (Would you go see an athlete who was in his 80s) and Ry Cooder comes off as alternately condescending and hero-worshiping.

disapointed im giving two star for the begginning of the movie. as i started to get interested in the movie, it ended. very dissapointing..

boring fights.... ufc 119 was by far one of the worst ppv i have seen. the fights were boring and it was over hyped

Over three hours? - I'd like at least one back please I was unfamiliar with "The Watchmen" graphic novel, and had wanted to see the movie when it was in theaters.  I saw this on my home theater via Amazon's streaming video.  First, the good: The story line has some interesting components - an homage to comic book characters of the past, some interesting twists in the relationships of the characters, and the compelling "back story" of some of the super heroes - especially Rorschach.  I can see how it would work well as a graphic novel.  There were very good performances by Jeffrey Dean Morgan as "The Comedian", Stephen McHattie as Hollis Mason, Carla Gugino as "Silk Spectre", and especially Jackie Earle Haley as "Rorschach".  The art direction of the movie is very good.  The visuals of the dark world of the super heroes are excellent, and the vision of Mars was beautiful.  The main problem is, in the end, these are comic book heroes.  There's just not enough story to support a three hour run time.  At some point, even the best fight sequences become tiresome if it's the sixth or seventh time a fight breaks out on screen.  A second problem is the uneven quality of the acting.  After that, the acting is sometimes there, sometimes not, and when it's not, you start looking at your watch, wishing the scene would end already.  For me, the biggest problem is the run time.  If the movie was around 100 minutes, I probably would have rated it very highly; at two hours, pretty good, but at three hours it's not a good return on the time investment.  I recognize that a director's cut is likely to be a bit self-indulgent, but 187 minutes is a lot to ask from someone when most of it rises to little more than a darker and technically more sophisticated version of the Batman TV series from the 1960's.

Don't Believe the Two Critics' Reviews This movie was lame. Nothing you haven't seen 100 times before in other gangster movies, only this movie just repeats those cliches. The violence is formulaic - yes, there are lots of explosions. Realistic, I suppose, but the beatings were not. Almost comic book-like. A waste of time.

T-3 Another in the Terminator series ruined by the foul language of it's characters, both male and female. If not for the opening scene and the cursing, T-3 would have been a good movie. The scene with the motorized crane tearing up the street and adjacent buildings with the Terminator hanging on while chasing John Connor is still one of the finest special effects productions I've ever seen. Too bad the language of the movie couldn't match it.

Not what I thought All the reviews were great for this DVD but if you've ever been to an actual barre class, this is nothing like it.  There's way too much cardio to be called a Barre DVD.  I prefer the Bar Method Dancer's Body Advanced workout.

Mediocre, Confusing I met Jennifer Galardi on Exercise.Tv , and I really liked her short, 10-minute standing abs routine. Unfortunately, her instruction on this DVD is forced and cheesy. She says aggravating things that really detract from the workout in her attempt to be "hip".  There are three dance portions, which are all different lengths and have no clear beginning or end until the cut-screen comes. I enjoy most of the moves, and it will get your heart rate up, but Galardi seems to lose track sometimes and randomly begin a new movement with no warning.  This is a fun occasional workout, but there are better available.

Stunning Animation but a Lackluster Story Forcing a young woman into marriage when she is not ready does not make her happy and is generally agreed upon, outside a few uber-religious communities, as not the right thing to do.  The latest Disney heroine to take on the concept is Merida, protagonist of "Brave," a rebellious redhead with a prowess in archery as a result of a gift bestowed upon her by a boisterous but loving father.  This is much to the dismay of her mother who wishes her to take on what many today regard as an antiquated feminine role of passivity and elegance.  The process with which she must choose her husband involves a competition among her suitors in an activity of her choice, which turns out to be--you guessed it--archery.  Needless to say, Merida, in a toast to girl power, shows up her three mediocre, socially-inept suitors with her own archery skills and proceeds to address her overall marital issue through a spell that changes the one forcing the marriage issue, her mother, into a bear.  This provides for some intense moments as Merida is forced to defend and care for her mother in light of her father who is determined to avenge a lost limb by killing the bear.  The problems with this story are twofold:  First, fighting forced marriage is bit like fighting the Holy Roman Empire.  It is a noble fight but the enemy really doesn't exist anymore, outside a few cloistered segments of society, with whom most of the audience probably doesn't associate anyways.  Plus, Jasmine and Mulan already fought that battle, succeeded, and had presumably brought even the most obstinate detractors onboard.  Second, it is unclear exactly how showing up her suitors or turning her mother into a bear helped to win her case.  She proved that she had better aim than her suitors, but so what?  Many a successful husband has been landed without the foggiest notion on how to operate a bow-and-arrow.  Then, the bear bit showed that she could take care of her mother in spite of an army of adversaries led by none other than her father.  But again, so what?  If the mother's motivation for a forced marriage was the security of the kingdom, would such an antic really eliminate that notion?  The final product feels like a rush job, where several individuals of varying interests were summoned to assemble a product to meet various business objectives, with the story secondary.  The product should be the first Pixar to feature a female lead to tap into the young, soccer-playing girls who find it gratifying to show up their male counterparts.  Check.  It should have some fights so that the young male audience doesn't perceive it as a "girl's movie" and avoid it.  Check.  It should showcase Pixar's animation to be a cut above anything produced elsewhere.  Check.  It should include some magic or witchcraft so that it does not come across as an animated version of a Jane Austen novel.  Check.  In spite of its splendid animation, the movie ultimately fails not because of its female protagonist or its magic.  It fails because of a flawed story concerning an overused adversary.

Cannot view in 3-D? I was able to watch it in 2-D but not 3-D.  I have a Samsung 9000 series 3-D HDTV and a Samsung 3-D player. Oddly the Menu is in 3-D but the "you need a 3-D capable TV and player" message keeps popping up no matter what I put the settings on.  Very Frustrating to say the least.

Not as good as the others Although 3rd in the series, and it picks up where the 2nd one left off, it has a pretty weak story line, and jumps around too much. Didn't care for it as much as the 2nd one. Excellent fight scenes!  just a weak story....

Not wholesome family entertainment The disregard for the lives of animals in this film was shocking.  From shooting wolves to abandoning a pet to die (though later resolved), this is not wholesome family entertainment.  The most interesting parts are simply the documentary clips of nomadic life.

Wes Is the Master of Suck. Viewed: 9/11 Rate: 3  9/11: All right, more crap spewed out by Wes Craven...this time, it is The People Under the Stairs, a sadistic film made only for sadists. Well, explain this to me: when a guy shoots his shotgun repeatedly like..100 times in a day, aren't there any people around the neighborhood to hear it loud enough and call the cops? Let's talk about the house for a second. Going inside the walls and seeing how everybody had so much room to roam around, it must be the Louvre, yes? It's obvious from the looks of the picture, Wes Craven got inspired by stories of families locking up children inside of the houses and never letting them out, sort of like Flowers in the Attic. What went wrong in The People Under the Stairs was that Wes decided to add more and more elements into the mix until it got out of hand. Then, it became a ridiculous picture shortly after Ving Rhames' character got killed about half hour mark. At that point, the movie was no longer interesting to watch. In a way, the film became manipulative, racist, stupid, over-the-top, and cartoonish. All in all, Wes is still the Master of Suck, a title that he will never lose.

Definitely NOT the best Disney Princess Movie I consider this movie to be the "dumb blonde" of the Disney princess saga: pretty to look at but lacking real substance. This movie had 90% positive reviews on Rottentomatoes.com, so it peaked my interest. I was sadly disappointed. This movie is what I like to call "overrated animated". I even took my 15-year old sister to see this movie, and even she hated it.  The movie isn't SO bad that it should be missed, but it's a pretty standard movie. If it were anything else, it would be tolerable, but this is a DISNEY PRINCESS movie. This isn't just a pedigree; it's a genre of its own. Disney has always been the biggest name in princess movies because they have offered us many of the best. It's not just that they are prolific but also crafted. Tangled was just playing it safe and thus offered nothing new to the experience. In fact, one could say that it is a rehash of other Disney princess movies.  The love interest is a thief, not a prince (Aladdin). The princess is taken away from her family at a young age not knowing she's a princess (Sleeping Beauty). The male and female leads hate each other first but wind up falling in love (Beauty and the Beast and any other romance). The story is incredibly cliche and predictable. You have a crucial misunderstanding that leads to "the potential split". You have thugs that "don't dream of being mean", much like in Shrek the Third. The one cliche that really ticked me off (as well as my sister) is the magical tear. I won't tell you who gets it, but you can guess. This deus ex machina has been done to death, and it's always silly and trite.  Because this is a Disney princess movie, the filmmakers saw it fitting to write new songs for it. Every song is forgettable and unnecessary. There is no cardinal rule that EVERY DISNEY PRINCESS MOVIE NEEDS A SONG, but at least those that do have at least one memorable song. In fact, it doesn't contribute anything new to the princess genre. Let's look back: Snow White ate a poison apple. Cinderella had the glass slipper say she was the one. Sleeping Beauty had the spinning wheel put her to sleep. All had princes save them. Then came the Disney Renaissance. Aladdin had no prince. In fact, the movie may have made fun of it with the whole "Prince Ali" schtick. The Little Mermaid had a princess who is a mermaid falling in love with a human. Beauty and the Beast: the prince was an actual beast who falls in love with a village girl. Hell, the Princess and the Frog had the prince and princess turn into frogs and becoming human after marrying and kissing. What does Tangled offer? the hair? It's not symbolic enough.  However, as I have said, Tangled isn't so bad that it should be missed. Despite its massive faults, it does have some positive qualities. The animation was pretty and creative. Disney knows how to mix and match the colors and make some really nice scenes. The scenes where Rapunzel and Flynn go to the kingdom look really good. The voice acting is pretty good despite the songs. Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, and Donna Murphy all match their voices with their characters. There are a number of entertaining scenes, especially with the horse Maximus. That horse single-handedly (or hoovedly) stole the show every time it was on screen. If only it was on screen in every scene.  Bottom line: Tangled isn't awful, but it doesn't help that everything good about it is offset by something bad. The voice acting is good, but the songs are forgettable. The animation is pretty, but the story is ungodly formulaic and cliche. There are a number of entertaining moments, but there aren't enough to make this movie entertaining on the whole. The fact that Disney focused more on making a successful princess movie and less on making a good one is really annoying. Tangled offers nothing that the other Disney princess movies haven't. It's not one of those Disney movies that will be remembered.

for whom  the bell tolls movie too much minutiae....the intent from the outset is to blow up a bridge and it finally happens as the movie ends...the actual event is drawn out to make it exciting and it seems phony....great actors though...

Dead Heroine Makes A Comeback...How, Excactly? The main protagonist of The Descent, Sarah, does not make it out alive in the first movie. Yet, somehow, she is alive for this sequel. The film isn't bad on it's own, but it comes with a back story that renders this one impossible. Had Sarah survived the first film, it would not have been even half as poignant. If she survives in some alternate "get me a sequel" corporate boardroom universe, there is a lucrative sequel. Hollywood has stooped to new lows here and, at the same time, made a pretty entertaining flick. Confusing.

HOAKY Saw this movie at the theater when it was released. I was about 13 years old at the time and thought it was the second best movie I had ever seen (Around The World In 80 Days being number 1). Since then I have owned it on Laser Disc but will not add it to my Bluray collection because of the HOAKY ARTIFICIAL SOUNDS. When they remake it and put in some REAL music, I will buy (but I'm not holding my breath).

couldn't finish put me to sleep... was surprised I didn't wake up enough for all the contrived unecessary character confrontations and violence... I found Diane Lane the shining moment of the film and Dennis Miller a fish out of water but a welcome respite in the midst of a convoluted aimless plot.. Snipes is such a great talent, sorry he had to work up some lather for this stinker...

Cover Art A Bit Deceptive The old addage "dont judge a book by its cover" applies to the DVD. Most of the images on the DVD case are not even from this film. The shots of Niven and Moore are from a film they did togehter, "Escape to Athena". And the modern sub on the back is not in this film......

"Death--the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening." - Walter Scott Not what I was expecting - too bad.  The first part of the movie and large portions after that were in French.  I really didn't expect a subtitled movie (even though I use closed captioning).  A very "artsy" movie,not at all what I expected from a Clint Eastwood directed movie.  There was a foreign flavor to the whole thing.  I guess I expected more of Matt Damon's character as the psychic, rather than little flowery vignettes randomly scattered over more than two hours.  The first part of the movie I enjoyed and I got my hopes up but then sheer ennui.

Oh Sir Walter Hard to know why this got so many good ratings, it is really awful.  The only good thing are the jousts, which are fun.  Everyone else overacts, and the whole thing is totally implausible.  Antony Andrews is a cold fish, and Lysette Anthony is absurd, a painted doll with bad hair.  Of course the main fault is with Sir Walter Scott, the whole plot is such a crazy quilt.  James Mason and Olivia Hussey (So that's what happened to her) with ridiculous accents.  It is hard to say this, but the Robert Taylor version is better. Of course Elizabeth Taylor was the most beautiful Jewess in history.  Somebody, someday may point out to someone that synthetic colours were invented in the 19th century.

Unforgivable (Tony Scott's edit, that is) I love this movie.  I've seen it, on conservative estimate, thirty times.  While not flawless, it was always a perinneal favorite of mine, and I think captures something unique that I have never been able to put my finger on.  Maybe it's the underlying themes of chicken-or-the-egg revenge, the Tony Todesco soundtrack, the panoramic shots of the Mexican vistas, the pretty strong acting by some great famous, soon-to-be-famous, or character actors, the muted, hazy cinematography...there's a lot to love.  So, I hunkered down with the Bluray, excited to watch one of my Top 10 movies in high-def for the first time, and frankly the best I'd ever seen it (missed it in the theater, lots of times on VHS, and many more on 480p DVD).  Additional excitement; perhaps more scenes, hand selected by Tony Scott that would enrich the story and make a favorite even more so.  Damn, I was disappointed. Almost immediately, I noticed GOOD dialogue and scenes missing.  Not extraneous, fluff stuff, but parts of the movie that foreshadowed and frankly enriched the characters and storyline.  There are actually parts that now make LESS sense with the edit than before.  The tension between Costner and Stowe was palatable in the theatrical version, but with so much of their initial story gone, it seemed overly rushed, and hard to understand how things progressed so quickly between them.  Tibby Mendez goes from jovial buddy of Costner to killer almost between takes, with the scene of him and the dog/leather jacket removed.  I could go on (and believe me, I did to everyone else watching it with me) but others here have included the complete list.  I almost turned it off and popped in the standard-def theatrical version, it was that bad.  The only reason I give it a generous two stars is the picture quality is amazing.  The clarity of the cinematography is brilliant, and they didnt rob any of the hazy-Tony-Scott-look from it, only sharpened and enhanced it.  The sound is fantastic as well, and despite there being a Dolby 5.1 track on the standard def Director Cut DVD (which I never watched), this is the best I've heard it.  The opening scenes in the desert with the jets came through in ways I had never experienced.  This is exploitation all the way - cut major parts of the movie out to add in a bunch of soft-core porn and unnecessary extra violence and still hit the 100 minute mark.  Everything perfect about the theatrical version has been changed, and one cannot always assume that the Director's vision is overall superior to the collective edit.  I'm not saying this is always the case, but I've seen it before (Donnie Darko Director's Cut comes to mind).  I'm not saying the movie is ruined, but ironically, the best way to see it (high def) is not the best way to see it.

Paging Rod Serling SPOILER ALERT! I found this film riveting, in tone, performances, right up until the ending, which I felt was a betrayal of everything that went before. It's basically a high toned, naturalistic Twilight Zone episode complete with a "gotcha!" finale. I would have been happier with a more ambiguous finish.

2 Stars for the Plant, 1 for the Movie The only reason I'm giving this movie 2 stars instead of 1 was because of one scene. When the two characters, George and Lisa, are coming out of the hospital, my wife pointed out how there was a potted plant just randomly sitting on the floor of the revolving door. Somehow, just seeing this one lone plant go around and around in a circle struck us both very funny and we laughed, about the only time in that whole movie that we did laugh. The movie left so many things unfinished, and by the time it was over neither of us cared who ended up with who.

Ok so I thought I'd try it Ok OK, why did I watch this? I gave the last 2 previous films 1 star each (wanted to give half a star to both to be honest).  I must say, I was pleased to find out they weren't carrying on with the 'Fairy Secret' storyline, which was a sequel to 'Fashion Fairytale'. This is not the same girl, or is it?! The Fashion Fairytale Barbie said she 'acted' in all the Barbie films...confusing really!  Upon first seeing the cover of this DVD, I was yet again disgusted, "Another 'Plastic' and superficial tale" I thought. I was also angry they were keeping at the stories with these superficial plots and also Barbie's new look and voice judging by the glamourous DVD art. But I gave it a shot anyway.  Upon the first few minutes I was pleasantly surprised, it wasn't as bad as I thought. Yeah, I did not like the tacky 'Princess School' idea. But at least It didn't seem totally fashion related. Boy oh boy..was I wrong! It wasn't too long into the story that it suddenly got plastic. It happened so fast I couldn't keep up! One second you see the girl in her house, next second you see her whisked off to 'Princess School' on a carriage and you see the area where she lives...graffiti and all, looks like a very run-down area. Then it gets plastic, the annoying fairies are back again too! This time they do sneaky deeds to bad characters and also help out with outfits which instantly disappointed me.  Overall the story WAS Better than the previous 2. I don't know if Mattel were trying, but it was better. But still not good enough. I did like how they told Barbie 'No one can make you inferior but yourself'. Which was good for children, but they did not incorporate it in a nice enough way as there was still so much nastiness and bullying towards Barbie as they told her this and even after they said it. Which didn't make that moral stand out. I think the film had too much bullying and cattiness.  I also did not like how Barbie was so willing to just go to this 'Charm School' when her adopted mother appeared sick and Barbie seemed to be the only income supporting the family. It was really unrealistic and just upsetting. It didn't seem so safe either, considering it looks like they live in an area of crime judging by the look of the area they live in.  I give the film 2 stars as at least it wasn't completely fashion related as the previous 2 and the fairies weren't so prominent in this film. But still not enough heart and morals to give it any higher sadly.  As an adult, I will always remember and treasure the original tales I felt taught children good lessons. It was not about how to do things 'properly' and being 'perfect' like the messages come across in this film, but about standing up yourself, being brave, kind, caring and doing things for friends.  I could tolerate the new look, new voice and just overall 'NEW' Barbie they are marketing if they made her role model material and not 'marketing' material for money. I really miss Kelly Sheridan, she made the stories more 'Magic'. But even adding her voice to the last 3 films won't do anything to these I'm afraid.  I'd personally suggest the original stories up to The Diamond Castle (I don't think Thumbelina, Mermaid Tale or the 3 Musketeers were very good). They taught great morals for girls I think!

Yikes The acting in this movie is terrible. The only mentionable performance is by Terrence Howard and he's not in much of the movie anyway. Andre 3000 does okay, but the rest of the characters are just awful and hard to identify with. The first half of the movie drags but there is some decent action later on if you can stay awake long enough. I just can't think of anything that I really enjoyed about this one.

"You stink of despair!" This is the second time I've watched Zardoz since its initial release in 1974.  All I could remember of it was the startling image of a giant floating stone head. No doubt about it, I've got to start keeping a list of movies I definitely don't want to watch again!  This movie would rank high on that list. How would I go about describing this movie to someone who hasn't seen it before...it's 106 minutes of pretentious twaddle masquerading as something more intellectual.  That, and Sean Connery in a red diaper.  Yes, the floating head was easily the coolest thing in this farcical mess.  Especially when it intones "the gun is good" and coughs up a ton of weapons and ammo.  But what passes for futuristic is oddly old fashioned: hippies in a commune zapping people with their minds when they aren't baking bread.  They also like to punish people by aging them.  They sport dinging-pinging rings that chatter incessantly while the plodding plot drudges so slow I kept losing sight of the "message" this film purported to espouse: "conformity is bad."  Or.  "Agree with them or die."  Either prospect was unappealing and didn't require 106 minutes to tell.  As for the title and its impact on the sheltered mind of Zed (Sean Connery), one can only suppose he was easily shocked because I don't recall The Wizard of Oz giving me such a bombastic reaction.  There's a perfectly good reason why this movie bombed in 1974 and has since slipped into obscurity.  It's simply not a very good movie.

The realistic truth When everyone heard about the Mean Girls sequel, our minds went to the worst possibilities. We expected it to be a cheesy knock-off of the first movie. Our thoughts were correct. It is unrepresentative of the classic that Mean Girl fans know and love.  Unfortunately, that's the biggest issue with the movie: being unrelentlessly compared to the original. If we saw this movie as a completely different movie, it would be much better. But,it's impossible to not compare the Original and sequel. Our preconceived notions of what a Mean Girls movie needs makes us compare the movie to the original. Mean Girls 2 is an average movie that probably could have found its niche with a teenage audience, but it's instead forced into the "bad sequel" group. Whoever's idea it was to make this movie and add the MG2 title to make more money clearly didn't realize how bad of an idea it was.

Creepy creepers! A handful of attractive american students in peril while on vacation in the wilderness. Sound familiar? That's because this is. There's nothing new here, sadly, and I struggled to take the movie at all seriously. I've always had a problem with killer plant life, and the concept is no less comical here, despite the goriness. The characters are uninteresting, the plot almost non-existent, and the pay-off a huge letdown. It just about holds the attention for the 90 minutes it's on the screen but will be gone from your memory in about 90 seconds once it's ended.

Sub-titles That Cannot Be Turned Off I have seen this movie several times and really like it.  However, this may not be the version of the DVD you want.  This DVD is in English AND English subtitles.  There is no way to stop the subtitles I could find with my equipment.  Very distracting.

Inaccurate order This was supposed to be a 2-disc set that includes the director's cut. But instead I received 2 if the feature presentation (2 of Disc 1). I was pretty frustrated

In the jungle no one can hear you yawn... As one can see from the other reviews here this is not a movie that is in any danger of upstaging Predator (or the recent very impressive sequel, Predators). It's sort of like Predator meets the B movie genre, but even that insults B movies since this one struggles to be a C movie if there even is such a thing. Or, if you can remember back that far, the Six Million Dollar Man meets Predator.  The shell of a plot idea (secret group of military scientists in a jungle somewhere developing a cybernetic super-soldier goes missing ) wouldn't be so bad if the execution weren't so ridiculous. The supposedly elite special ops team looks more like a rag-tag bunch of guys recruited from the local sports bar who just had enough beef cake to carry an M16 and a backpack around for a while. One guy even totes a canvas bag full of guns which he switches out from scene to scene. It's more like rhumba than Rambo.  At least Predator and Predators were movies with decent scripts, good acting, and nice special effects, which this movie lacks in spades. Kevin Sorbo in the lead role is certainly a competent actor when given good material but he just seemed bored through most of the movie, and I can't blame him. I kept hoping Johnny Weismuller would do his Tarzan yell and come swinging down from the tree tops right into the middle of one of the poorly staged firefights, kick some serious butt, and add a little class to this water buffalo's derriere of a jungle flick. No such luck, though. This is one jungle movie that just died on the vine.

John Wayne, The Star John Wayne and The Cowboys proved to be an interesting movie, even within the canon of John Wayne western films.  The main ingredients of a Wayne movie are justice, honor, and responsibility, albeit, through action and violence.  Throughout his film career, this proved to be a winning formula for John Wayne.  The more the villains get theirs, or get put in their place by him, the better.  One would ask: why fight against type?  I know I wouldn't.  But in this film, The Cowboys, deviate away from that "sacred" path.  Justice and honor have fallen into ambivalence while the act of responsibility is suspect.  The film's theme appeared quite clear: step up above childhood and turn boys into men, by way of a cattle drive.   There are couple of crucial spots where the film set it's self up.  One is at the schoolhouse where Wayne recruit the boys to help him herd his cattle to market after all his ranch hands have deserted him to the gold fields. On a regular note, Wayne would have round up cowboys for his trail drive either from saloons or other ranches, instead of corralling them from a classroom. This is serious.  Cattle drives are dangerous, even for adults. Now you got child labor thrown into this mix?  Does anyone in the audience see or sense anything out of the ordinary?  Heck, no.  This is a cattle drive, a John Wayne movie, and about kids who don't know one end of a steer from another in pushing them to market (except for one kid, a Mexican, who is up to speed in cow punching).  Oh, yeah, that Mexican kid, is seen as a bad apple. So what else is new in a Wayne movie.   Anyway, Wayne put these kids through a cattle drive boot camp.  They all managed to pass.  Cow punching and camaraderie among the boys achieved.  Mission accomplished on Phase One, at least from the audience's expectations.  Another serious note on this movie is that the parents of these boys gave Wayne their blessings of having their children go off on the drive.  Do the parents truly believe a cattle drive is the proper "rites of passage" for their sons, especially the very young?  As the movies moves on, you'll be the judge.  Now comes the very tenet of this genre, not that the movie lives up to the action hype, but the very stable of a John Wayne movie: honor and responsibility.  From  that perspective--and mine--the movie gets an F.   One of the boys gets killed on the drive.  Whether by accident or not, a child is dead.  This is very serious.  This mean that the Wayne character, once the cattle drive is finished, he has to explain to the dead boy's parents, specifically the mother, why junior is buried somewhere within a hundred miles in an unmarked grave.  This should kill any exciting theme of any John Wayne movie.  But Wayne--and the movie--is spared from this.  Both brilliant and insidious in story telling, the dead boy is quickly forgotten and Wayne comes off as the hero once again.  A Christ-like hero at that.   The lead bad guy, portrayed by Bruce Dern, and his men, intercepted the cattle drive. True to form, Wayne defied the rustlers, but is handicapped because of the children in his care.  This is his Achilles's Heel, and the bad guys, especially Dern, know it and takes advantage of it.  It is at this point the movie shifts into a critical phase. Wayne is savagely beaten, but in a Wayne tradition, he weathers it, and stand tall, defiant to the end.  Dern, who also received a beating from Wayne, picks up the tone, as the cowardly rotten snake he is.  He takes a gun from one of his henchmen.  Slowly, sickeningly, Dern carefully weigh each bullet as he pump them into Wayne, in the back, of course.  Like Christ, Wayne takes it all in.   As the rustlers rounded up the cattle, the boys gather around the fallen Wayne, comforting him as he laid dying.  By sunrise, just before he dies, Wayne instructed the boys how to safely get back home.  Of course, the boys chose a difference path: revenge!  Instantly, they all become killers, and apt killers at that, out doing the more seasoned and experienced killers.  They captured Bruce Dern, saving him for a very special finish, which they did.  Dispatching the cattle rustlers by the boys provided a uproarious ending to the movie.  But at the same time, the boy who was killed earlier in the movie, is forgotten.  In fact, everyone in the audience have forgotten about him; who comfortably believe all the boys in Wayne's care are returning home, subconsciously, of course.  In that lays the mastery of the film.  Wayne, and the studio heads, feared that the boy, who died earlier, will be brought up, conjuring up his error in judgment, bringing children into a cattle drive; lack of responsibility for the boy's safety; and evading accountability for his negligence. Thus, he obfuscated that inconvenient falsity with his own brutal death in exchange, coming out as the glorious--and redeeming--hero, as the dead boy in question, quickly fades from memory.   Once this parasitic symbiosis was accomplish, the movie was made, John Wayne was made.  Accolades for everyone.  Trumpets and cheers, except for a waiting and forgotten mother who will not see her son ever again.  This is the status quo of mind, using human lives as cannon fodder in order to achieve or to accomplish any aims or goals it feels its destine to do so.  Does the Vietnam and Iraq wars come to mind?  Wars and violence, in particularly, has become a very salable commodity of Hollywood, and a means to an end to the status quo.  Thus, the movie, John Wayne and the Cowboys, succeed in canceling out an innocent life for the "greater good," and, in it's place, elevated the leading actor--John Wayne, The Star--once again.

Gore Classic horror plot, but once I managed to watch this entire film...years ago when I bought this. But now I cannot even keep my attention on it to complete the entire film. It's just one scene set up to get to the next scene of pointless gore, wax people melting, eyes being gouged or eaten by spiders, zombies whatever...just a exploration into cheap gore film exploitation. I suppose if you are in the right mood for just some weird gross out film then this might work.

Boring My four-year old daughter is the Barbie fan in the house, and she was excitedly anticipating the release of this movie after seeing a preview for it on A Fashion Fairytale.  I actually loved the Merliah movie, and the Fashion Fairytale was pretty cute.  I was shocked this movie was so much less than the previous two, and it seriously underwhelmed me.  It reminded me of something put together quickly to fit a few key words, something maybe executives thought would appeal to little girls-"fairies!, Barbie!, Ken!"  The last two Barbie movies released have featured "Barbie" as the star of different movies, and that's how they tie it into the older Barbie movies.  Barbie only "played" Merliah (the mermaid in the movie before Fashion Fairytale).  Of course you aren't looking for plot and character development on a Barbie movie, but this one just shouldn't have been released.  I doubt my daughter will want to watch it again.  Her favorite parts all involved Ken.  He had some funny lines, and his tiny wings were funny when they were buzzing like a house fly.  I wasn't pleased with some of the behavior, and even though everyone makes up in the end and become friends, it seemed to forget its target audience.  The message seemed forced.  And my daughter didn't like how they had changed Barbie's voice, and altered Ken's face from the Fashion Fairytale.  Just poor all around.

First one was better The first Sherlock Holmes was MUCH better than the second.  The second one just seemed like too much action and not enough real plot.  The download from Amazon worked just fine though, never have issues with that.

Promising Idea Ruined by Lack of Editing and Sloppy Plot (SPOILERS) I saw this film for free, fortunately, which may have influenced my decision to give it two stars. If I had paid good money for it I wouldn't have felt so generous. I wanted to like it, but the crazy quilt storyline made it impossible. You know you have a problem when you stop the movie and back it up to see where you missed any foreshadowing whatsoever for certain dialog (I did this twice). Like another reviewer here, I was surprised when the main character (Sydney) first reveals how she feels toward her neighbor (Jane). I said (out loud, actually), "Wait a minute. Where did that come from?" I don't know if it was bad writing or bad editing or both, but after backing the movie up and looking for some inkling, I can safely say it came completely out of left field. This was not the lone example of dialog or plot that made no sense in the context of the film. There was far too much of it, so much I couldn't take the relationship seriously, which detracted quite a bit from the intended emotional effect of the ending (which also made no sense).  The actors seemed to try their best, but all of them overacted, with the exception of Rachel Owens (Jane). She played free spirit, bohemian Jane without all the angst and bizarre emotional outbursts that characterized the rest of the characters. The children were there as props more than anything else. They didn't really react much to what was being said and done, and certainly not as real children would have reacted under the circumstances. I have to chalk up the over the top style of acting to bad direction, since they all seemed to do it.  I found myself feeling bad for poor Corey, Sydney's husband. He suffers from a distinct lack of a sense of humor, but otherwise he seems like a man trying to provide for his family, while his wife nags him constantly about not spending enough time with her. And what was up with that? She wants him to spend more time with her, but when he's with her, she doesn't want him to touch her, and seems bored to tears with him. If I was Kathleen Benner (Rachel) I would get the impression my character was bipolar, not stricken with cancer.  Speaking of the diagnosis, the doctor was almost comically cold and insensitive in revealing the details of her condition to Sydney, as soon as he found out she didn't have any insurance. When she told him, I'm literally going, "Wait a minute. Isn't Corey a retired Marine? I mean, they made a point of showing us his bumper sticker. (I pay attention to those kind of details, but the writer, director, and producer apparently did not. Hint to them: do a search for military health benefits next time.) Why not take Sydney to a VA hospital? They have one conveniently located in Prescott, AZ. You'd think the doctor would know that, and would also question why Corey has no health benefits, like I did. I stopped taking the script very seriously at that point.  Toss in your stereotypical token butch (the writer attempts to make her less stereotypical by making her a stereotypical born again right-wing Christian), a stereotypical evangelical preacher, and several odd plot points that made no sense (like the scene where a "good samaritan" stops and saves Sydney's life with mouth to mouth resuscitation in the pouring rain, and then conveniently and inexplicably disappears, only to reappear later to confuse the viewer).  There was a decent movie hidden in this mess, and some actors who I think could have pulled it off. The problem is, it was too well hidden behind mediocre to bad dialog, bad direction, sloppy editing, and extraneous characters and plot twists. Not worth the two hours.

A very over-rated movie Don't believe the reviews here. The reviews have to be a scam to get you to watch because this movie is awful. Over-acted and over-wrought!  The movie's first half-hour showed promise but then the movie quickly fell apart once the mother and her sister visited a gay club.  The plot stalled and the story became predictable and dull. Once the sister gets made over in a bathroom by 2 drag queens, (while the mother inexplicably doesn't even seem fazed by her sister's prolonged absence in an unfamiliar place), I stopped watching. I have to comment on a glaring inconsistency.  In the beginning, there is a parade of different girls invited over to dinner, representing all the times that the mother and the aunt had tried in vain to do some match-making for the son (who was secretly gay). The clothing for the mother, aunt and the different girls always changes from one attempt to another. With each attempt, they show the son and his boyfriend seated at the table. However, in error, their clothing never changes. It should have. Speaking of changes, this film needed a much, much better production team!

"Flesh will be torn. Minds will bleed." Gantz is about A sexually desperate jerk named Kei Kurono and his morally stable friend named Kato who die while trying to save a homeless man on subway tracks. The two are teleported to a room where groups of already dead(?) people are sent to hunt down and kill aliens for points. A black sphere called Gantz (which houses a naked man with an oxygen mask and cords going into his head) sets the mission and provides suits and weapons for everybody. 100 points and a person can be free of the game. A clich&eacute; plot that is thin and little more than Battle Royale meets Yu Yu Hakusho.  The pace is REALLY slow. Even though Gantz sets a 1 to 1 1/2 hour time limit for each mission, you watch every single second of it, and in some cases, even longer. But that wouldnt nessessarily be a bad thing as long as these missions moved along nicely. They don't. Hilariously, but not intentionally, characters argue and contemplate entire speeches at a time, often while a vicious killer monster stands still and waits patiently for the 10 minute bicker-fest to end!  Another big tick is the amount of time it spends on bullies and biker gangs and Kei's unfathomable horniness. The perversion is not only pointless to the story, but its also not funny. Well, its not funny to me anymore... because I watch enough anime, to where i'm at the point of rolling my eyes at it every time, because pervert humor is sooooooo generic in anime. Gimme a break...  The good thing about this show is that the art is really cool, even most of the CG actually manages to look decent (there are a few exceptions, though). The voice acting is great and used with some pretty choice dialouge. The mass killing and extreme violence actually helps make these battles quite intense... at times it had me frozen in place by how hard it slaps the viewer in the face. This can be a good and a bad thing, depending on your personality. And if you have a gore complex, Gantz delivers. If you can wait-out all the bitching and indecision, then strap yourself in. This makes Elfen Lied look like a mosquito bite.  *****WARNING!! THIS PARAGRAPH CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS.***** There is problems with inconsistancy in Gantz. Like when Kato came so close to bleeding to death after at the end of the first battle before being teleported and revived immediately after the last target had been eliminated. But for some reason, the Gantz delays teleportation at the endings of the final two battles, just to squeeze in one more character death at the last second! WTF was THAT for!? It also never really explains if the participants are actually dead or not. Characters contemplate it, opinions differ, but there is zero elaboration. There is a repeated theme throuout the second half of the series: "No labyrinth is inescapable." This implication leads the viewer into intreague, wondering if the characters would find a way to escape the battle and defeat the Gantz itself. This got my hopes up real high, as I started to expect this series to have a great ending, But what to we get instead? Another massive onslaught of character death, followed by an ultra-vague ending that answers no questions whatsoever about the Gantz, and leaves you to wonder if Kei is hallucinating, of if he actually got his 100 points (which is hard to believe, because he only had 52 points at the start of the finale). One last complaint: Kishimoto's death is so stupid that it had me LAUGHING, despite how serious they tried to make it look and sound. When Kato is about to be splashed by flesh-melting acid, she plays the heroine and bravely... hugs him for 3 whole friggin minutes instread of tackling him out of the path of the acid! Creaters of this anime, let the forehead slapping begin!! *****END OF SPOILERS*****  In conclusion, Gantz is packed with flaws. This is a turn-off-your-brain-and-watch-violence anime if I'v ever seen one. If only the show would have answered the interesting questions it put out, and diddn't waste so much time, Gantz would have been alot less of a disappointment.

Wasted opportunity. Due Date was a movie that had so much going for it and it just could not succeed.  The acting was top notch.  Both Robert Downey Jr. and Zack G. were excellent.  There were some one off jokes that were just hysterical. But sadly the entire story is very weak.  Some of the humor is forced and with such an uneven script the story is very weak.  The movie does have some black humor and if they allowed the characters to be themselves then it would have been much funnier.  As it is, Due Date is weak and so unfocused as to not be funny.  Missing this would not be a tragedy.

Case broken When I received this movie it was cracked all along the back spine ... Not a great addition to my collection overall !

What a waste Here you have two of the most beautiful and awesome places on the planet, and the people responsible for this Blu-ray go out of their way to make the least of it all. Rather than show viewers just how spectacular Zion and Bryce are with loving, lingering shots of the natural wonders, they litter frame after frame with gaudily garbed tourists rock climbing, tubing, biking, mule riding and stuffing their faces. To make matters still worse, the cameraman is enamored of fast pans and zooms which, aside from making the subject matter difficult to appreciate, also accentuate lens distortion. Then the editor, possibly inspired by Jason Bourne fight sequences, jumps from scene to scene as if she has something to hide.  As far as the narration goes, the writing is hackneyed bordering on inane and the delivery breathless and gushing with insincerity. The score is adequate.  Such is their pride in this film, the production team doesn't bother listing their individual names on either the packaging or in any opening credits. However, I believe certain key people deserve to be recognized for this lamentable under-achievement: the writers are Janet Russo and Lex Gillespie, the DOP is Greg Gricus, the editor Eve Saxon, and David Michael Gee does the narration.  Bonus Program: Secrets of the Southwest Thanks to dropping one writer and changing the DOP and editor, this historical segment ain't half bad. Subjects featured along Route 66 and the Grand Circle include Monument Valley, Gallup, Winslow, the Grand Canyon, Lake Powell, the Goosenecks, a Navajo reservation (Canyon de Chelly and Hubbell Trading Post), the Painted Desert/Petrified Forest, El Malpais Lava Field, Rock Art Ranch, llamas, Santa Fe, Georgia O'Keeffe/Ghost Ranch, Loretto Chapel and Chimayo. (Blu-ray is a waste.)

Star Trek: Motion Picture Trilogy [Blu-ray] Nice the have all three not nice Paramount doesn't give you the option of the directors cut. GIVE THE FANS OPTIONS!!!! I know some fans out there love the Theatrical Release.BUT the one time i actually want a directors cut and they don't release it.Ill be give this to a friend i have the DVD version WITH BOTH OPTIONS!!!  Maybe Paramount should talk George Lucas in bringing out his theatrical Versions.... Not gonna happen (Glad i got Used worth every penny)

Heavy-handed & lacking delicacy I really enjoyed the Japanese original and expected this would at least be fun but... Richard Gere doesn't strike anyone as an anonymous cube dwelling workaholic (ok - PLEASE - enough of the product placements in their big expensive McMansion, right?). And... that was Jennifer Lopez? I don't know what I expected, honestly. Perhaps the part wasn't really well written. Stanley Tucci put in the best performance in the entire movie. Even the dance bits weren't that exciting or inspiring... blah. Stick to the original!

A slow moving movie about getting what you want, and regretting it.  First half slow, second half better.  Just OK.  I say C- Is beauty truly only skin deep?  A man (Sturgess) born with a large birthmark on his face has spent his life dealing with stares.  After a strange attack the birthmark dissapears.  With a new found confidence he lives his life like he's always wanted.  His life changes again when he is visited by a stranger.  The first half of this movie is very very slow and I had to struggle to get through it.  It picked up somewhat, and actually parts of it are really good, but it is very drawn out.  The ending has a neat twist to it, but it's a struggle to get there.  The second half made up a little for the beginning, but this is not what I expected.  I wasn't paying that much attention to this movie because it wasn't holding my interest the entire time, but the last half is actually pretty good.  I give it a C-.  Would I watch again? - No, I barely made it through the first time.

This is the only CORRECT review!  PLEASE read! I'm not sure what's wrong with Amazon, but somehow the reviews for Street Fighter: Soul Powers are those of the Street Fighter live-action film.  Street Fighter: Soul Powers is the second of two DVD sets compiling the entire Street Fighter Saturday morning cartoon (the first set is called Street Fighter: Code of Honor), originally aired on USA network. The wikipedia article of the TV series can be found here:[...]. To reiterate, this is NOT the Jean-Claude Van Damme movie.  Essentially, the Street Fighter American animated series is a cartoon made for children based on the popular Street Fighter videogame franchise. It's not a good show, but the series can be of value to fans of the Street Fighter videogames. Its script and stories are so terrible to the point of being unintentionally humorous, some of which have become internet memes: [...] The animation can sometimes be decent, but the artwork is usually poor and inconsistent. If you're a Street Fighter fan and want a good animated production, you have two great options among a handful:  1. Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie. Arguably the most faithful and interesting movie or TV show based on SF. The fights are entertaining, and the story is simple enough to allow the characters to play their one-dimensional personalities. 100% recommended. If you're in the US, make sure to get the latest DVD release, which is uncut. Additionally, watch it in English. Surprisingly, this is one of the few anime that benefits from a changed soundtrack.  2. Street Fighter II V: This is a 29-episode anime series that closely follows the friendship of young adults Ryu and Ken. Since it's a show, characters are allowed more time to develop, and the fight scenes do not disappoint. Manga Video has already released a compact box set containing all four discs in the US.  There are other SF animated productions out there, but in my view these two are the best ones.

Not what WE are expecting! Oh, C'mon! We don't deserve this. We don't need a simple transfer for BD. Barry Lyndon is one of of the few films you really feel experiencing being in the past. There must be lots of material of the production and design of the film. This is THE Stanley Kubrick film that deserves the better treatment. A TWO-DISC SPECIAL EDITION! DVD or BD. I think I am speaking for the whole Kubrick's Lot.

Really?  You liked it? I'm really not sure, by reading the wordy, four and five star reviews if someone wasn't paid to write them.  While I am sure that there are people who like poor writing, limited acting ability and a formulaic "all's well that ends well" endings, I find it hard to believe people are gushing over this film.  The one-dimensional portrayal of the "couples with kids" as out of control, inept women who are only successful if they're dating, insecure and self-conscious.  Had this been a less traditional movie, he would have begged her, no vice-versa.  A waste of Maya Rudolph, Kristin Wiig and Jon Hamm.  Of course Westfeldt was the star - when you write your own vehicle, you make yourself shine.  Problem is, she really doesn't act well, nor does her plasticized face show any real emotion.  This was truly a long, boring movie, with a couple of good scenes too far into the movie.  In the end, you just felt like everyone had an "meh" life and nothing special ever happens to anyone.  Depressing outlook on life, huh?

Bad movie Completely forgettable. I didn't care about the characters or their motivations. I can't take Kristen Stewart seriously either. It was hard not to laugh during her motivational speech.

Not in "Plan 9" league In my opinion, this film doesn't reach the "so bad it's good" level that Plan 9 from Outer Space does. In reference to an earlier reviewer: anybody who says Tori Spelling CAN act is nuts. "You'll find yourself laughing at the absurd, over-the-top acting of all characters involved. Tori Spelling's bad acting is to be expected, but it's an extra terrible masterpiece in Mother, May I Sleep with Danger. Her canoe paddling scene will have you in stitches as you watch her struggle to use the paddles. Ivan Sergei is laughable as the crazy boyfriend with a penchant for danger. Her mother (you know, the one she's asking if it's okay to sleep with danger) is awkward and annoying." Though planned to be released in theaters, it couldn't find a distributor willing to show it and had to be shown on TV. That should tell you something.

Not good for rear projection it seems I purchased a 73 inch Mitsubishi (WD73640) and bought this disk with the idea of calibrating it myself. The first 3 calibrations didn't work very well as the instructions said to increase/decrease the setting until something appeared/disappeared. Well, this thing wasn't there at any setting, so could not tell.  Going to try the advanced calibrations, but not holding my breath.

slick action but not filling enough. depressing after first 8 minutes I've never played the RE video games but watched this out of simple curiosity. The first 8 minutes was completely riveting and stylish. But after Alice left Tokyo the plot and cinematography bored me to death. I just kept waiting for something to really happen but was sorely disappointed. The ending was a let-down and I can't recommend this at all.

Put the money towards a National Parks pass, and go see the real thing. Bought this at Costco before going to tour some of the parks. It plays like a cross between EWTN and that euthanasia video from "Soylent Green".

Insipid & Boring I've always thought Julia Roberts to be boring, talentless, and a product of clever marketing.  Usually cast in the "aren't I cute" roles, I think she is anything but.  The plot and dialog are awful, and his flat mate is so annoying.  I do sometimes enjoy Hugh Grant, but he wasn't enough to save this film from being a waste of time.

Don't run to this Hard to follow and somethimes figure out what the heck is going on. Entertaining at times, but not a great movie.

The Blair Witch Project Goes To Space This movie left me feeling like I'd been conned out of the cost of an Amazoid rental. While watching, I had feelings of "bad-movie-deja-vu"...like I'd felt this compulsion before. It was an irrepressible impulse to grab the remote and permanently pause this bit of filmic three-card Monte. Then it hit me---this was basically the Blair Witch Project on the moon! Meh...I hated the Blair Witch Project.

Couldn't finish it I think we didn't finish this movie.  It just didn't capture our attention which is unfortunate because it is a good story.  I definitely like the 15 minute storybook better... sometimes stretching out a story doesn't work so well.

not for little kids My son is 18 months and LOVES Little Bear.  This movie is not like the little bear episodes that he normally watches.  There is a lost bear that is kind of mean at first and there are some other bad scary characters in it.  My nephew, who is 3, got really scared when he saw this movie.  Don't recommend.

NOT THE BARGAIN IT SEEMS I bought this set because I thought I would be getting PANDORA AND THE DUTCHMAN at a bargain price. Not so. This set does not contained the "RESTORED" PANDORA, but a ridiculously dark print with far too many jump cuts with lost dialogue. I should have opted for the Restored version. And THE BLUE ANGEL is the English version only. In other words, this set is not a "bargain" for serious collectors. On the other hand - if you're not picky and only want to see these two films for their storylines, this set may be all you need.

really....? I actually own this DVD as I think it gives valuable insight into who Michael Jackson was, particularly before his death.  There are a few things I found to be a BIT illuminating, given the idea we have of who he was. The movie was made after his death... however, the film starts with an endorsement for Obama - something that clearly was not possible. We have no idea if Michael would have endorsed Obama - and I find it disrespectful that the ad is in there in the first place.  (And it is a rather lengthy ad.) The other thing, if you are truly a fan of Michael Jackson's work - you're not going to find much good work here.  He was a perfectionist, as is obvious by all his other work... I suspect he would not have liked to have his rehearsals shown.  Rehearsal is exactly that - re herse. Having said that, I've watched it a few times.  Clearly there were those he truly loved working right along side him - and that's a lovely thing to see.  He also looks fragile and weak, disoriented at times - and like there is no way he could have withstood the pressures of the actual production had it gone that far.  I didn't know angels could be so humanely fragile and damaged,yet powerful, at the same time.

Not To Stirring "Stir of Echoes 2" seems like a movie that had been sitting around and they didn't know what to do with it, so they slapped on title and hoped for the best. "Stir of Echoes 2" has virtually nothing to do with the original which was a subtle, tense, build up that drew you into the story. The only thing "Echoes 2" has in common with the original except the main character becomes haunted by a dead girl, but has none of the subtly of the original.  Rob Lowe plays Ted Cogan a vet returning from the invasion of Iraq, where in the "fog of war" he inadvertently kills a family including a young girl. Upon his return home he becomes increasingly haunted by visions of the Iraqi dead and the young girl, until it carries over into his life and starts affecting his family.  The most expensive thing in "Stir of Echoes 2" seems to be Rob Lowe, who they expected to bring the same star draw that Kevin Bacon brought to the original, but Lowe out acts the rest of the cast and seems the only believable characterization.  The special features includes a commentary with the director, Ernie Barbarash, and a behind the scenes documentary, and deleted scenes but once you get that far you don't care enough about the movie or the characters to be interested.

I didn't like it I didn't like it.  I'm not saying it's horrible, because obviously by the other reviews some people really liked it.  but just for me, I couldn't handle that there was hardly any dialog.  Or that the dialog wasn't in English.  I personally don't like reading subtitles.  It was kinda pornographic in the sex department.  Could be a good or bad thing depending on what you like. I don't like that.

If you are expecting another HANGOVER style comedy then THIS IS NOT IT` I was told that this is a "HANGOVER" style comedy and boy was I told wrong. Well ok, it MIGHT be a "HANGOVER" style comedy for those individuals who watch WAM and LIFETIME movie network.  Otherwise NOPE! If you don't set your expectations beyond a mid range comedy then it's ok but if you rent it with hopes to be as entertained as while watching "Hangover" then this is not even close.  If you are looking for Hangover like comedy watch TOMCATS. This is written from late 20's male perspective.

Great show, insulting Blu-Ray. Before this Blu-Ray will allow you to get to the (very good) TV series you purchased, you will be forced to sit through... what? A half-dozen advertisements? More? These cannot be skipped, the "Menu" button was locked down. The most you can do is fast-forward... you know, as though we still lived in the days of VHS.  This may be a 4 or 5-star cartoon, but it's a 1 or 2-star Blu-Ray release. You're buying a lot of advertising. I recommend passing on this purchase; Lionsgate shouldn't be rewarded for this kind of customer abuse.

WHY? I gave this movie another chance after seeing it on cable television and I must say "I wasted my time." The Predator Alien Franchise has to be embarassed by this Crap Show of a movie. The acting was mediocre, the special effects used and misused, the plot left me guessing WHY? No connection to the first at all.  I just hope that if there is an AVP3 that it is not done by the Brothers Strause PLEASE!!!!!

Mediocre super hero This was an ok movie strictly for kids. There were too many dark scenes where I couldn't even see what was going on. The villian was one of the silliest comic book villian concepts I've ever seen. Angela Bassett must have badly needed the money to take on the do nothing hardly say anything role that she played.

The preview got me! So yeah, saw the preview and of course James Cameron's (Alien's, the Abyss, and Terminator 2) name attached to it and felt pretty confident this would be a well done thriller. Well, looks were deceiving in this case. First off, this is one of the worst blu ray transfers I have ever seen. Most of the visuals were still amazing, but it was disappointing that they were grainy. Second, the acting and writing here is extremely poor. It's hard to care about any of the characters or believe they are actually in peril when you're constantly cringing. Third, the story never reaches its potential...it doesn't do enough to hold an audience for more than five minutes at a time. I understand that the intent was to make a realistic movie, but come on, even if they had thrown in some cheesy cave monster or some tribe of underground cavemen at least the movie have been interesting. I'm not saying that this movie necessarily needed a major plot change...it's just that I kept waiting and waiting for something to happen that would make me care, it never did. I am relieved that I picked up a used blu ray copy rather than spending over $20 for a new copy I will probably end up giving away.  The blu ray extras where nothing to get excited about. There is a short documentary featuring the actors and of course James Cameron talking about the making of the film. Most of which centers around the actors talking about their experience working with green screen/CGI technology and whining about how difficult the stunts were.  In the end this is a movie you can feel free to skip. If you really want to see a movie about people trapped in caves then considers the movie "The Descent".

This movie is fundamentally flawed I saw this movie years and years ago.  After reading and loving the novel I was excited to find out there was a movie version of it.  I ran out and rented it and loved DeNiro in this film.  I believe it was one of his very first movies and he is great in it.  However, what nobody mentions in the reviews is that this movie was made in the 70's and the portrayal looks dated, not very true to the time it is supposed to be portraying.  Also, in my mind it has a fatal flaw.  The SOUTHPAW is played by someone who is not only the most non-athletic person I've seen, but a RIGHT - HANDER.  I have a hard time imagining that for a baseball movie, where this stuff matters, they couldn't find a good actor who is left handed to play Author.  As a baseball fan in kindof ruined the movie for me, although I continue to love the book.  On another note, I keep seeing that this team was based on the Yankees, but I thought it was the New York Giants.  Wasn't 51 the year they won the pennant?  I had also always read that Dutch was based on the Giants manager Leo Durocher.

A one actor movie in a car trunk. All the other actors appear in the last few minutes of the movie. I guess if you are a Stephen Dorff fan and enjoy looking up his nostrils for over an hour then this is the movie for you. Tom Berenger is the size of a whale and can't find a tie long enough to reach to his belt. A copy of "Buried" and less interesting. An IFC Film so look for it on Netflix in the next 3 months or so.

I wanted to like it, but... I was so disappointed with this movie.  I love the cast, but this movie made me hate most of them.  It was very much a stereotype of married people with kids.  The couples that hate each other and only yell and nit pick.  You could tell about half way through the movie you were supposed to be rooting for the two main characters, but the father character was such a d-bag that I could not root for him.  Very disappointed with the ending.

Waiting for the scary part.... I watched after reading the reviews that indicated that this was a truly scary movie. I guess I must have missed something because this film was not scary. Creepy at times, sure. Decent story line, maybe. But I can't go much further than that. Was it a bad movie, not really. But scary, no. If this movie had gone more the Hitchcock route it might have stood a chance since it had that older film flare.

WARNING: Does NOT contain digital copy Despite clearly stating "+ Digital Copy" in the title description, the digital copy was for a limited time and has since expired. I bought this version specifically for the digital copy because HP6 is not available on iTunes. I didn't discover this until I opened the package and tried to download the digital copy. I hope Amazon will let me return it opened.  I gave it 2 stars instead of 1 because the movie is actually good. However, this product is not.

'What?! You can still fight when yerrrrrrrr drunk!' I give this movie 1 star for the horrible dub and excessive editing (about 40 min worth) from the original film Macross: Do You Remember Love (Ai Oboete Imasuka) from 1984.  I also give this version 1 additional star for the dub being so horribly bad that the dialogue is now timeless and classic in a campy sense.

HEY HO HUM... RAMONES RAW: Second RAMONES beatkeeper MARKY RAMONE's disorienting hodge-podge of home movies from the road, rapid fire live clips, and kitschy TV appearances pales compared to the more cohesive, definitive documentary END OF THE CENTURY. RAW provides no insight into the band's humble climb to punk rock immortality or messy non-speaking relationship between JOEY and JOHNNY; however, numerous foreign fan riots and shots of various band members on the toilet prevail. Peak period concert footage of a 1980 Italian soundcheck and tongue in cheek guest shots the group made on SPACE GHOST: COAST TO COAST and THE UNCLE FLOYD SHOW make up the majority of redeeming footage. The choppy hotel clips and "sloth" jokes are repetitious and seemingly endless. The so-called "guest shots"...DREW BARRYMORE, AL "GRANDPA MUNSTER" LEWIS, THE DOORS' ROBBY KREIGER...are brief and superficial, while UP ALL NIGHT's host GILBERT GODFRIED (as "the fifth RAMONE") does his usual unfunny "look at how incredibly annoying I am" schtick. In spite of the proclaimed "five hours of rare material" in RAW's liner notes, less than 60 minutes is worth a gander. Entertaining, short 'n sweet, like the band's classic ditties, should have been the rule here. Hey Ho Hum...  RATING: TWO ZIPPERS

Meh Low budget, bad acting, and preposterous plot.  Preposterous even for a zombie/living dead flick.  The government (sigh) develops a virus intended for use to make "super soldiers" (stop me if you've heard this before).  What's more, they decide to test it on a town in Maryland.  Like I said, preposterous.  For die-hard zombie fans only.

so-so A depressing little slasher-film with an underdeveloped philosophical question fortunately dressed-up with fine  british actors obviously earning their money.

LOOKS PRETTY GOOD FOR A GIRL WITH A HUMP This is a slow moving neo-noir western. Mickey Rourke plays Nate Poole, a jazz player has-been who was caught with a mobster's wife. He is taken out into the desert to be shot when suddenly a group of Native Americans, dressed in white, shoot his killer. Nate walks until he reaches a sideshow carnival, complete with a woman with huge angel wings (Meagan Fox) named Lily Luster (short for Lilith, a fallen angel?). As the carnies are ready to kill Poole, Lily rescues him.  Rhys Ifans plays Sam Adamo (another Biblical reference as Lilith in mythology was Adam's first wife). He is the head carny and Lily's caretaker. Nate plans to exploit Meagan by going back to the mobster Happy Shannon (Bill Murray) who is anything but happy, as he is a "recent widower." Nate is aided by Harriet (Kelly Lynch) who runs the "Dream Lounge" in case you thought we were running out of symbols/metaphors. Oh yes, Happy's real name is "Michael" like the angel.  Poole seems to ruin his chance for redemption when he decides to exploit "angel." The movie contains tons of slow, seemingly useless, endless dialouge. The Sartre ending was expected as soon as the first shot was fired. This is more of an "indie" style movie or perhaps an "art" film. I think everybody will find something boring in this film in spite of the haphazard use of metaphors.  PARENTAL GUIDE: F-bombs, one dimly lit sex scene, nudity (not Meagan).

Lurking envious foes will smile "The word pariah came into English from Tamil paraiyar, the plural of paraiyan, which literally means 'drummer' and comes from the word parai, the name of a drum used at certain festivals... Its use in English and its extension in meaning probably owe much to the long period of British rule in India." -American Heritage Dictionary  Russell Brand is the voice of the Easter Bunny's teenage son, who decides to travel to Hollywood to become a drummer in a rock band instead of succeeding his father on Easter Island. He also poops jelly beans, as many reviewers have already noted.

Jennifer's, uh, body...or something. I guess I was expecting "Jennifer's body" to have something to do with the story. But no, Jennifer isn't even the main character here. The protagonist is actually Amanda Seyfried's character, you know the actress given second billing. Marketing I guess.  Jennifer/Megan Fox and her body would sell more I suppose was the thinking.  Anyway, Seyfried and Fox are supposed to be BBF's I guess. We know this because we are told they share "sandbox love", whatever the hell that is. Apparently "sandbox love" involves children sucking blood from each others cuts which leads to a psychic link. Yeah. This is supposed to explain why Seyfried's alleged nerd status (ala Hollywood's idea that any girl with glasses is automatically a "nerd") and Fox being the most popular cheerleader/slut in high school, allows them to be best friends.  So this unlikely pair of stereotypes head off to a bar to see a boy band called Low Shoulder. These boys are looking for a virgin it seems and  for reasons beyond comprehension they decide that Fox is the most likely candidate. Apparently Seyfried used her psychic powers of  "sandbox love" to hear this plan being discussed from across the room in a crowded noisy bar. Despite this, the members of Low Shoulder will whisk Fox away anyway.  At this point the bar burns down and the two girls narrowly escape the fire that kills several of their classmates. Fox is then taken away by the boy band, we assume for sex. But Fox returns later, covered in blood and puking up black goop. But that's ok, she's fine the next day. This is where the "mystery" is supposed to start.  Then the film goes off on a watered down detour through Heathers country as the high school students go through grief counseling. Seyfried suspects something is wrong with her friend now. I suppose it's because Fox is slightly more callous/manipulative/shallow than she used to be. Turns out Fox is some sort of demon/vampire/werewolf/succubus/whatever the hell she is thing now and she eats the Stereotypical Dumb Jock.  Next on Fox's hit list is Stereotypical Goth Emo Kid. Seyfried has shown an interest in this Goth kid despite already having a nebbish boyfriend under her thumb. Apparently Seyfried has a thing for weak, easily controlled men. At any rate Seyfried gets some psychic impressions of the killing while she and her boyfriend are having sex.  At this point Fox decides to tell Seyfried all about her transformation "cause they are BBF's". The boy band tried to sacrifice her to Satan in exchange for fame and wealth but since she was not a virgin, she became this weird monster. (but the band gets famous anyway) End of "mystery". Yeah, what mystery. There is no reason this could not have been shown to us right away as it being withheld has no bearing on the plot. Seyfried is horrified but this does not stop the two of them from having an inexplicable lesbian makeout session in the middle of this revelation. (???) Maybe Fox has hypnotic powers or something. Whatever.  Now Seyfried breaks up with her bf  "to protect him". But what do you know, this all leads to Fox getting her mitts on him. Psychic Impressions to the rescue though as Seyfried senses this and rushes to save the dude in distress. (Isn't all this subversion of the genre clever?! No? Yeah, not really)  Seyfried finally figures out what we knew all along: that Fox has never really been a good friend/person. (Yes, the women in this film are only marginally less completely stupid than the men. Is this supposed to be empowering?)  Not before Fox kills Seyfried's worthless boy-possession though. He "was dead before she got there....but Seyfried's voice brought him back just long enough to say goodbye..." and impale Fox with a metal pole. Which prompts Fox to ask if Seyfried has any tampons.  No, really. Of course the boyfriend  missed Fox's heart (the only way to kill her apparently) and she just runs off.  Time for the big showdown. This involves lots of lame callback dialogue quips, Seyfried getting bitten, and breaking Fox's BBF chain necklace which seems to render her powerless enough for Seyfried to stab her in the heart. Unfortunately Fox's mother bursts in and Seyfried is shipped off to the mental institution, where she becomes known as "the kicker", you know cause she now kicks people's teeth out for making harmless comments in her direction. You see, the bite Fox gave her has transferred demonic powers to Seyfried, who breaks out and goes on a quest to destroy that evil boy band that caused this whole mess. Cut to end credits sequence showing her decimation of the band. I guess Satan wins? I'm not really sure. But that Seyfried sure can kick a lot of butt so...whatever, dude. Awesome and stuff.  Boo.  I hope teens don't actually use the witless slang that is peppered throughout this film. It's so uncreative and direct that it comes across like bad puns. "Groovy" may not be a great word, but it's better than "you give me such a wettie" or "You need to move on...dot.org." That doesn't even SORT of make any sense. Seriously, please tell me actual teens are more imaginative than this.  It's ridiculous how many songs are shoehorned into this movie's soundtrack. I lost count. Some songs don't get more than a few seconds worth of play before another one kicks in, one after another. I assume it's suppose to seem "artistic", but it plays more like they couldn't decide what song to play over a scene so they just used them all.  The film is good on a technical level. They know how to work cameras and such. But basically its just a dumb teen slasher/monster movie with some "genre subversion" involving role reversal. Which isn't really anything new in slasher films. Woman as heroine is basically a staple in this sort of film. I'm told the woman who wrote this thing won an Oscar for Juno so, she must be at least competent. Are these people just ignorant?  It's as if they assume people who might like a horror film are dumb, so their idea of elevating the genre is to just feed them the same generic crap with a some "clever hipster dialogue" and "genre subversion". Just to get the kids thinking...subliminally...about...uh, something. It's sort of condescending.  Or maybe their agenda was no more than "horror movies tend to be cheap to produce and make money".  Either way, this movie is just awful.

Just for the history This movie is worth watching only if interested in some facts and history. The world's rotten politics is amazing. The politicians and analyst are worse. The acting is not worth mentioning. This is not a recommended movie

Not good enough. I had already read the reviews about how bad this movie was before I even watched it. I didn't have my expectations set that high. Like a lot of you I also love both seasons that were on. Without going into great detail here is what I didn't like about this movie.  I knew right off the bat I wasn't going to care for the direction of the movie with the comic book feel which is totally wrong for "DLM" Where's the original music? Would "Cheers" or "The X-Files" be the same without their tradmark songs? I think not, same here with "DLM".  Where's Rube? I hated his replacement. The new Daisy? UUGH!!! They burned down the waffle house? Der Waffle House??? How dare they?....Blasphemer's!!! Big slap right there. Happy Time was also apparenty remodeled to the point of being unrecognizable. The George the the world saw was also a different actress. Hated that too. I just didn't care for the story at all. Sorry but George and her sister shouldn't be interacting. That ruined the whole thing for me right there. George's dad wasn't in the film either. Rule # 1, if you can't get the original cast back for a reunion show, THEN DON'T BOTHER!  What did I like? I liked the fact that the characters aged as they would in real life. It was interesting to see where George's family was after all this time. A lot of the emotional impact of the show was intact. The story itself was...blah.  Really, the only way they could redeem this whole thing is to come out with a new movie and have this whole scenario be some kind of test from Rube and none of it happened for real.  I also read that an option for a third tv season was left open after making this movie. I really, and I mean REALLY hope they go in this direction. Even if it's only one more season to close all the loose ends for our reapers. I'd love to see the show end on a proper note with all of them seeing their lights and the hows and whys they were left behind as reapers in the first place.  In reality you could continue this series forever with different casts of reapers. Oh well...we can only wait. Either do another movie and do it right or just bring back the show. I'm going to recommend this movie for die hard fans and die hard fans only. Go watch season 1 and 2 insted, they're brilliant.

good for its time its a good movie for 1979 but not for modern day i still enjoyed the movie but it doesnt have the same magic as it did when i watched back in 1979

Satisfied Excellent update except for The Terminator. I guess the original film is not good enough to enhance the movie detail as it did for the other two movies in this combo package. The sound for The Terminator is not enhanced and makes me wish I had passed on this Blu-ray disc.

Oliver The movie is great - a classic I grew up with, however, the one I purchased was missing the first half of the movie.  The CD was a copy and started with the intermission of the second half.  I sent back to the distributor - waisting more money with hopes that a new and complete movie will come back to me.  My son was so excited to see the movie so we were all dissapointed that it was a defective DVD.

Very disappointed Absolutely loved the book.  Very disapointed that Lisa See would approve yet alone produce this film.  Would have been much better if she would have stuck to the book version and not adapt anything years later...nothing like the book.  What a disappointment.  No wonder the film never came to the Toledo area.

Schlock Corridor Where to begin with this lurid, overheated mess from writer-director Samuel Fuller? The storyline is risibly improbable, the characters are pathetically one-dimensional, and the speechifying, which aspires to hard-boiled poetry, is stultifyingly dull. The actors playing mental patients are symbols of racial hatred and the brutality of war and a tumultuous zeitgeist rather than human beings. Those who portray doctors are required to throw around fictional medical diagnoses and supposedly scientific terminology that none of them understands. The film's stereotypes of mental illness were ludicrous even in the Sixties. Fuller can't even get a quote from "Medea" right: "Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad" becomes "Whom God wishes to destroy, He first turns mad," transforming Euripides into a monotheist.  I could present an outline of the preposterous plot (an ambitious reporter has himself committed to a mental hospital to uncover a murderer and loses his mind to "erotic dementia"), but you can get more detailed descriptions elsewhere. I'd rather explain why this "psycho" drama is a bad one. Let's begin with the fact that each of the three gibbering, delusional murder witnesses our protagonist interviews -- a soldier who thinks he's fighting the Civil War, a black man who thinks he's a Ku Klux Klan member, and a nuclear scientist who thinks he's six years old -- conveniently returns to a kind of sanity in order to explain why he's in the loony bin (it's always society's fault) and give a clue as to the killer's identity. And the journalist, who is apparently driven mad by electroshock therapy, remains lucid just long enough to write a Pulitzer-Prize-winning article before succumbing to lunacy.  Let's add a few more artless, distracting touches: constant expositional voiceovers do more to annoy than to explain; the journalist's girlfriend is a burlesque dancer who, apropos of nothing, performs a clumsy striptease; the journalist walks through the wrong door and is mauled by a band of nymphomaniacal crazies; and despite this being a black and white film, the incarcerated witnesses hallucinate in color (Fuller apparently had some stock footage of Japanese tourist attractions and native Amazonian dancers he wanted to use). I could offer many more embarrassing examples.  I admit that I was at times amused by the campy ineptness of it all, and the fevered acting of the inmates is occasionally affecting, but "Shock Corridor" is simply not a well-made film. It was a pulpy B-movie when it came out; it's now at C-level and sinking fast, the cinematic equivalent of a cheap, poorly-written, sensationalistic tabloid newspaper. Like many of Fuller's lesser films, it attempts to dramatize a blindingly obvious message while crudely titillating the audience. It's a shame the director worked for producer Darryl Zanuck rather than Samuel Goldwyn. One of Goldwyn's famous maxims is "If you want to send a message, call Western Union."  So why does this DVD have a relatively high rating? "Shock Corridor" is honored primarily because Fuller has champions in the fans of exploitation cinema, and especially in fellow auteur directors Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, and Jim Jarmusch. All three appear in an hour-long documentary, "The Typewriter, the Rifle, and the Movie Camera," an extra on the 2011 Criterion Collection release. This nonfiction feature is superior to the main film, giving us a view of Fuller's journalistic and military background as well as an understanding of his cantankerous personality and eccentric style.  Fuller made better movies earlier and later in his career: "Steel Helmet" (the first Korean War film) and "Pickup on South Street" (a film noir classic) in the 1950s and "The Big Red One" (based on his infantry experience in World War II) and "White Dog" (his final US picture, a controversial meditation on racism) in the 1980s. Unfortunately, most of his voluminous output, including the movie on this disc, was rubbish. If you're curious, you can rent it or check it out from the library, as I did, but you really don't need it in your collection.

Expected So Much More... This film is a lame attempt to capitalize on the immensely popular, and sizzling, Romancing the Stone.  This time around, however the new screenwriter (that took over the reins from RTS' original screenwriter, Diane Thomas, who was now busy helping Steven Spielberg develop his romantic epic, Always) went for more of a core relationship between the two leads, Jack T. Colton (Michael Douglas) and Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner), with dismal consequences.  The romance that brought them together in RTS is largely gone, replaced now by a kind of boredom and disdain.  Jack still very much loves Joan, and, in male-establishment '80s form, wants her to follow his every lead as he sails around the world, but Joan, in feminist '80s form, wants out.  We'd see this kind of relationship, with equal disdain, later from our two leads when they played a husband and wife in The War of the Roses, but this is not the way I, and undoubtedly much of the public, wants to see them!  They're Tracy and Hepburn!  We like it when they were enchanted with each other, and in chasing the object of the quest.  Frankly, they're SEXIER in RTS.  Here, they bicker like an old married couple.  Guess this is what happens with extended cohabitation.  The transfer is fine, but the story doesn't quite work this time around for me.

Buffy is amazing, DVD quality is amazingly bad! I have not made it through the 2nd season of Buffy yet and have already encountered three episodes that won't play (they get about 90% through the episode and then it crashes and jumps back to the DVD's main menu).  All of season two is having issues with layering so it sounds like an electronic hiccup or something every few minutes.  Very distracting!  I love this series and I feel taken advantage of that Amazon would sell such a shoddy product.  BUYER BEWARE!!!

Boring, unfunny and painful to watch This film is loaded with zero percent comedy, bad acting, bad writing and zero charm, heart and soul. Skip this movie, there's nothing good in it and it hardly qualifies as a good Robin Williams movie. While "Bicential Man" and "Man of the year" both sucked, they had heart soul and a few funny parts unlike this movie which has the except opposite. -2/10

Well, duh It may well be the most proportionate cinematic blend of stupidity and fun yet shot. Were it any more asinine, it would be nigh-unwatchable; a picture of better diversion would surely necessitate superior craftsmanship or some inspiration.  Whilst aping clich&eacute;d cues of televised fare, Harry Manfredi's ludicrous score also sounds purloined B. Herrmann cues and directly plagiarizes Wendy Carlos' score for The Shining. How did this dodge the attention of that most litigious of all composers?

Not Great At All Creepshow 2 was made on a budget that was less than half of its predecessor's, and it shows. There are only three stories compared to the first film's five.  As a result, the pacing is slowed considerably in each tale and you get the sense that the movie is just killing time.  The budget shortfalls really show in the film's main antagonists. The original creepshow featured  scary Zombies, a human plant, and a ferocious looking ape-like beast who jumps out of a crate and eats people.  The best that Creepshow 2 can come up with is a floating tarpaulin in a lake that melts peoples' skin off their bones.  The creep is no longer a three-dimensional animatronic creation.  He is sometimes a cartoon, and other times he's a guy walking around in a funny looking prosthetic mask.

zzzzz See <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0053TWVA0">House II: The Second Story</a>for a more entertaining story about a crystal skull. Kingdom of the Crystal Skull isn't exciting and the plot is a failure of the imagination that did not connect with audiences. Yet again people were let down by mastermind of the Star Wars prequels. And Indiana is an old dog now. Old Baby Boomers like Lucas know how it is not having the energy for adventure and risk taking like they did 40 years ago. Time to settle down professor. So they marry him off to one of his former conquests and make him take care of his basterd, Mutt, played by the undeservedly big role landing Lebuff or however he spells it. Next Indiana will be in a retirement home and sort of rip-off the plot from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001LQJMQ">Bubba Ho-Tep (Limited Collector's Edition)</a> and doing commercials like Dennis Hopper before he finally left the spotlight. Harrison Ford looks soo tired. Actually Spielberg had much more to do with the creation of Indiana Jones and of course with the style and creation of the classic first film, Raiders of the Lost Arc, which made Indiana Jones a household name and movie icon. So Lucas gets unfair credit for Indiana Jones. Instead, when thinking of Lucas think <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001MWUWU8">Howard the Duck</a>. A resentful but filthy rich Lucas told Spielberg that people will call them a word that begins with the letter "a" and hate the movie... Now having the ability to predict his own future through his use of the Force the prophecy mostly came to pass.  Some indulgent comments: I recall Quintin Tarantino saying directors do not improve with age and you have to think there is something to that. But no, this doesn't apply to the creator of Indiana Jones*. I'm not sure George Luca$ ever had much talent in the first place at this point. He was lucky! Imagine if they'd given him more money and he had better "special effects" technology... those movies weren't the movies Lucas wanted to make and he has repeatedly said so. And his least favorite is...The Empire Strikes Back. And Spielberg..well has he gotten better? I look forward to Spielberg's biopic of Lincoln with the great Daniel Day Lewis playing the part..

The Worst Bond Movie Ever.... On Her Majesty's Secret Service  is by far the weakest of all the James Bond movies.  It is at best mediocre in writing, directing, action, and acting.  While I enjoy the Bond movies in general and would rate the others as either 4 or 5 star productions, this one just does not cut it.  George Lazenby is awkward if not clumsy and his fight scenes are reminiscent of a bad Spaghetti Western with his punches thrown with a stiff arm using only the shoulder muscles.  Such a punch of course has no real power at all yet the bad guys go spiraling down in a heap from them.  LOL.  The person(s) responsible for casting Lazenby as Bond should be ashamed.  His occasional attempts at humor all fall flat and just appear bizarre.  He is totally unbelievable as an international super spy, but might be believable if cast as a drum major leading a parade through the streets of San Francisco.  He did look rather stylish in the Scottish kilt.  Diana Rigg is a cute hangover from a British spoof The Avengers, but was given a character that can't decide if she is suffering from deep depression and is suicidal, if she has Dissociative Identity Disorder, or if she is just a spoiled brat that is angry with Daddy's lack of attention.  (Daddy's idea of tough love is to punch his daughter out with the only believable punch thrown in the movie, a blow that could easily kill or do permanent damage to any woman!)  Of course one night with Her Majesty's Secret Service's very best drum major corrects all of Ms Rigg's mental problems and makes her marriage material instead of a candidate for the loony bin.  An aging Telley Savalas' best days were on TV with a tootsie roll pop in his mouth.  He does not make a very threatening villain and the unbelievable threat that he poses is one that could easily be dealt with by any decent swat team rather than  wasting the time of  Her Majesty's Secret Service's very best drum major.  No nation would dream of giving into such a weak threat from a ball headed tootsie roll pop sucker.  If you just have to have all the Bond DVDs then buy it, other wise this is one you can and should skip.  The movie does have some beautiful women and some very nice scenery in it.

Ugh...this movie... I bought this movie so I would have the complete set. Apparently, my OCD was greater than my desire to keep my money. Of course, I still bought the blu ray set when I came out. Though, at least I could say I did for the few good parts of this franchise and for how great it looked on blu ray. Looking back on it, I have no good excuse for this movie.

After all the great reviews I was disappointed After reading all the great reviews about this movie I was disappointed to see what I saw. Don't take me wrong. I love chick flicks, but this one in particular just does not seem to be right. Although the problems (like the racism and the domestic abuse) touched upon in this movie are real, their depiction in the movie is weak and forced and somehow lifeless. I understood that the creators of this movie wanted to say but they did not persuade me. Maybe this movie just did not age gracefully.

Frustrating This movie was so frustrating. I felt like there were major plots that were totally ignored. It seemed like he had some PTSD which was not even addressed. I also wondered how he got off the pain meds since it did appear to be addicted. I was very uncomfortable with him playing with the guns. I don't see how a wife could just sit next to him 'playing' with guns. It just seems like the issue of mental health of our soldiers was completely glossed over yet again.

Way overrated except for cinematogrphy Except for cinematography by Vittorio Storaro, this film is way over rated. It is totally homophobic. The entire premise of the reason the protagonist was a Fascist murderer is because he thought he accidentally shot and killed a man who molested, or at least tried to molest him once when he was 13. The man was 6-10 years older. So he became a murderer for Mussolini. WTF? What about all those dozen adult men and women who are shown standing two feet away while a dozen kids his age have his pants pulled down and are molesting him en masse, for who knows how many times. No, that would not make him a murderer. The guy who molested him was not a homosexual. He was a child molester, because the boy was prepubescent, presumably. Later in the film, we see the "homosexual" trying to pick up a much older male prostitute. I don't think child molesters evolve to like older people as sexual partners, so this is not true to life. He is also shown to be a total wimp, a stereotype. The protagonist's new wife confesses to having been raped for 6 years by a man 50 years older and says she enjoyed it. She seems as normal as anybody in the film. Talk about a double standard! The director should have followed the golden rule of filmmaking: Make films about things you know about. The dialogue, dubbed or not is ridiculous. It's so baldly dubbed, they could have said intelligent things that people might actually say. added bonus, gratuitous exploitation of the star actresses tits. You can see the blue gel wrapping the dance room moving in the wind. The only person not dancing was the Fascist murderer and his assistant. How inconspicuous. Brutally grotesque murder scene tops it off. Francis Ford Coppola, Sidney Lumet, and other filmmaker wrote a letter to talk an American distributor into distributing the film. Perhaps they first should have consulted with their gay friends to see how they felt about being stereotyped in film or on TV as child molesters, too typical of the time the film was made, 1970.

Hellzapoppin Copy of this film made from a terrible print. Some innovative technical tricks ahead of it's time  but humor (1941) does not hold up at all.

Not What I Expected !!!!! The Movie doesn't deliver the chill through your spine as of what the first part did..... Second part was ok too but this was nutt even close.  I just hope they make the 4th one worth watching and make u jump of ur seat.  There were not many parts except 1 or 2 where you gonna have eerie kinda feeling and thinking that somehing gonna happen now. Even the ending wasn't up to the mark.  Just an Average movie to kill some time if you have nutt to watch.

A Beautiful, Delicate Film Ruined By A DVD Edition That Destroys Much Of The Subtlety And Nuance I hate it when movie directors revisit their old films and "improve" them (see: Star Wars) with new SFX and soundtracks.  I hate it even more when they make these new versions the only ones commercially available on home video (again: Star Wars - and non-anamorphic laserdisc transfers don't count, Lucasfilm).  As it turns out, George Lucas is not the only director to do this - even old low budget cult films are getting this treatment.  Hence, the "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes 25th Anniversary DVD."  I'm not going to talk too much about the movie itself.  Other reviewers have summed up this screen gem better than I am able to.  In its original form it is an uproariously hilarious spoof of old monster movies as well as a wicked satire of just about everybody: politicians, the military, advertising executives, the press, even teen idol singers (who could forget "Puberty Love?").  Plus it has the slowest car chase in the history of cinema!  That has to count for something.  The movie itself is great - in fact, it has been one of my favorites since I was a kid.  The problem I have with this DVD is that it contains the aforementioned "new" version of "Killer Tomatoes," and only the new version.  Sometimes when directors redo old movies they only change an effect here and a sound there; nothing that huge (although still annoying).  For "Killer Tomatoes" they have gone back and added so much stuff and taken out so much stuff that I spent my first time watching this DVD spotting all of the changes made from the original theatrical cut that I had watched on VHS over and over for so many years, instead of simply enjoying the film.  I am not going to list every single change (that would take hours) but I will try to hit the highlights (or lowlights, as the case may be):  (If you have not seen this movie yet then this section is irrelevant, in fact you may want to skip this section as there are possible spoilers)  -You can tell right away that something is up when ominous music is played over the opening scroll (it was silent originally).  Also, the opening credits now have splat sounds played as tomatoes hit the camera.  -There are numerous background overdubs added to the movie.  Sometimes it's really insipid - for example, someone will be being eaten off-camera and a person will be dubbed also offscreen saying something like, "Oh my god!  He's being eaten by a tomato!"  Because otherwise the audience would have no idea what was going on, right?  Also, some lines have been redubbed and no longer have the same punch ("When you're feeling sad and blue, tomatoes end it all for you!").  -In a similar vein, some of the films jokes are punctuated with insert shots that do nothing but interrupt the flow of the comedy and remind you that they were inserted much later.  The most egregious example I can think of is the part in the beginning when the Japanese scientist knocks a picture of the USS Arizona off the wall.  In the original it just gets knocked onto the floor and you hear a crashing sound.  In the redo you see an insert where it lands in a fishtank.  Trying to improve on jokes twenty five years after the fact is pretty lame, guys.  -The shot of the giant tomato chasing the lady with the shopping cart has been framed differently so that now you can't see the wheels underneath that it's riding on.  Come on guys, this is a low budget b-movie spoof... why bother going back to fix the FX?  The cheapness is part of its charm!  -Some lines and even whole jokes are removed.  The conversation between the President and Press Secretary about Air Force One ("Broken? The whole plane broken?" "Well, sir, you remember where the Washington Monument-") and Air Force Two ("Hasn't he returned that YET?") has been deleted, for example.  -Whole scenes have been removed.  The biggest is the dressing down of the reporter Lois by her newspaper boss ("You didn't get the story... you ARE the story!").  The next biggest is the scene at the receptionists desk where it is remarked upon that plants respond to music (FORESHADOWING ALERT!).  These exclusions puzzle me.  So, is there an upside to this DVD edition?  Yes, and that is that it is (of course) much better looking than the old VHS edition.  Colors are more vivid, dark scenes are more visible.  For a really cheap ($90,000 budget!) 30+ year old movie this looks great.  "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" is presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1 (again, it was a low budget movie from the 70s... what do you expect?).  There are no extras except the original theatrical trailer.  + Great video quality, funny movie...  - ...That's been tampered with, killing some of the humor.  Almost no extra features.  Conclusion - If you have never seen "Killer Tomatoes" you might want to pick this up and have a chuckle; enough of the humor still shines through that you might enjoy it.  For those who have seen this though you will probably want to just hang on to your old VHS copy.  Until Criterion releases the original theatrical version of course.  Ha!

You can't go home I thought this series was pretty neat when viewed through the eyes of an 11 year old in 1955. Unfortunately, when viewed as an adult, spoiled by more modern productions, it comes off as "Abbott&Costello Meets Sherlock Holmes." The stories are either very loosly adapted from Doyle or completely fabricated episodes made to fit a 30 minute time frame. The plots were pretty pathetic,the actors were wooden, and the theme music became irritating after the first episode. Ronald Howard&Marion Crawford would have made a credable Holmes&Watson if they had been given decent scripts. If nothing else, this series did plant the seed of a lifelong interest in Holmes. It also pointed out (painfully)how primitive early TV was, how little it took to entertain us, and how far we have come.

Great special effects, butchered story, nice Blu-ray transfer "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" is, for quite a few fans (including myself), the best book of the series. Considering the switching of studios from Disney to 20th Century Fox, expectations were a bit higher than for "Prince Caspian" in the hopes that the series would return to its roots. Unfortunately, the attempt to move a fantasy series with lots of underlying Christian elements into the secular community did not fare well, and "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" is so far the worst addition to the film series.  To avoid rehashing what many other reviewers have already said about this film, I will simply say that the script chosen for it includes a lot of unnecessary elements that bog down what an incredible adventure story. Apparently, a mere adventure in search of the unknown is not exciting enough, so a plot involving seven magic swords and a sentient green mist was added, plus some battle sequences and side-plots that were not there in the first place. Much of the characters' development occurred in the previous films and novels, and "Dawn Treader" was originally the story of Eustace and, in a way, Reepicheep. The film also digs up a lot of unnecessary character elements, such as Edmund's continued issues with the White Witch when it was all taken care of long ago.  Story elements aside, the special effects are fantastic - the dragon looks almost real, with a nice emphasis on its bright blue eyes to communicate its thoughts and emotions, and the sea serpent (the battle against which was, in spite of not being in this form in the book, a highlight of the film) is terribly ugly and wonderfully worthy of destruction. Aslan continues to look better with each successive film, and now he looks as though he has real weight - a real creature in the same realm as the live-action characters. The minotaur, fauns, the mist, the water, and the Dark Island all look wonderful, and the high-definition Blu-ray transfer makes everything look crystal-clear and quite realistic.  Without a doubt, the film looks best on Blu-ray, without the diminished quality or clarity of DVD resolution. The Dawn Treader ship itself and the surrounding ocean, as well the vivid greens of Coriakin's Island, the treasure of Deathweater Island, and the bleached, tropical tones of the Lone Islands, all look best in high-definition video - a simply beautiful transfer that makes the film worth watching in spite of its failures.  For the three-disc edition, it is safe to say that the packaging and special features are sub-par. The Blu-ray disc is partially glued in to prevent it sliding out if the case is jostled, so be sure to clean this off before watching or you may experience a freeze somewhere in the film. The extras present on the disc are not really worth looking at - vignettes about the different islands and creatures, the standard fare of "making of" clips and at least one theatrical trailer - and seem to exist merely to take up more space on the disc. The DVD has no real special features to speak of other than a commentary and deleted scenes, though the scenes are worth watching for the sake of completionism. The packaging itself and the screens on the discs are very well done, and if handled properly will not cause much problem.  Overall, for the sake of clarity and full appreciation of the visual effects, the Blu-ray is well worth having, though a stripped-down single-disc version, if it existed, is preferable to the three-disc monster available now, though in spite of the presence of the Digital Copy disc, there is not much difference in price between the editions. For those with Blu-ray players or PlayStation 3 consoles, you would be best off buying the Blu-ray-only edition.

Doesn't meet expectations for a Barbie movie We have seen every Barbie movie (I have three girls ages 3-10)and own our favorites.  This has got the be the worst one I have seen in terms of quality.  The music and singing is awful.  The younger girls are not even singing on pitch and the older girls singing voices are below average.  My older girls even said that the singing is really bad and they should bring back the old Barbie speaking and singing voice.  The actual plot is ok, but not great.  At least it does encourage a pro-family message at Christmas.  My 3 yr old has watched it twice and then told me to take it back.  You dropped the ball on this one, Barbie!

Overrated borefest now "Bound" might've been hot stuff back in 1996, and I think this movie is still riding on that, but now it's just dated, mundane "been there, done that."  I caught this on cable a few days ago, and it's a snoozefest.  Maybe all the movies since this was released had rendered the femme fatale genre not a big deal anymore, and thus this movie is not a big deal anymore.  It's just another DVD you'd be wasting your money on.

Alice doesnt live here anymore. Documentary style horror movies are a hit or miss. Blair Witch was the beginning of this trend and its gone both high budget (cloverfield) and low budget (this movie) with mixed results.  This movie does a good job at setting us up, introducing us to this family who has lost their daughter Alice to a tragic drowning. It has the interview parts, the flashbacks, the footage of home movies, photographs. It follows the well known formula of a documentary. We are led to believe this is about a haunting, an "unexplained" series of events. Then it stumbles on itself. Its a ghost...no wait. Its a ghost....no wait. We are pushed back and forth. The horror element or even anything thrilling about it gets confusing and therefore loses its edge. Even in the end when there is some big secret unveiled and we are supposed to be scared, it was not to be taken seriously because the movie cried wolf way to many times.  I cannot even recommend this for some middle school/high school slumber party film, because of the unnecessary sex scene.

The name contradicts the movie. WWII/Nazi based movies/shows almost always interest me and keep my attention (Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, The Pianist to name a few) "Good", however, wasn't so 'good'. Don't get me wrong, Viggo is a great actor. It jumps around too much, and didn't explain enough for me, causing me to lose interest very fast. Everyone spoke too quietly, and it was kind of hard to understand them even with the volume up. The whole movie seemed to drag on a little too long, and didn't really pick up probably until he finally puts the Nazi uniform on, which is pretty close to the end. Just when I thought it was getting better and caught my interest, it cut off to an awful, confusing ending leaving me scratching my head asking "what was that?!" I wish I read reviews before buying it. I thought it would be good, since these types of movies usually are, but I wasn't satisfied. Unless your a die-hard Viggo fan, I wouldn't really recommend it.

Weak - SPOILERS Kudos to those of you who haven't read the book and were still able to follow this story! I read Deathly Hallows when it first came out but didn't remember much of it, and the movie did little to refresh my memory.  Unfortunately, I rented it online, so there were no subtitles that would have helped me at least follow the fast, oftentimes whispered, mumbled or hissed dialogue. But even with subtitles, I doubt that the story would have been less confusing or more interesting.  The flashback scenes (or whatever they were) were so fast and so short that most of them didn't make sense to me.  The "guards" (or whatever they were) at the Ministry of Magic wore uniforms that were clearly inspired by the SS. Everybody else seemed to be in Muggle clothes. Why was nobody wearing robes? Wouldn't that have been part of Voldemort's cultural purification program?  Why were Harry, Hermione and Ron Apparating around the country? What were they trying to accomplish? Did they think they would stumble across a Horcrux in the middle of a forest?  What was up with that Bathilda Bagshot character at Godric's Hollow? Did she talk to Harry in Parseltongue? Shouldn't that have raised a red flag? Why was there no discussion between Harry and Hermione after Mrs. Bagshot turned into Nagini?  I'm assuming the locket they were trying to destroy was Salazar Slytherin's, but was it ever explained in the movie?  Why did Gryffindor's sword appear at the bottom of a lake, of all places? In the middle of winter, at that!  What was the deal with the shining doe that led Harry to the sword? Who (or what) was it and where did it come from?  Why did the friends not Apparate to safety when they were pursued by the bad guys (no idea who they were) in the forest?  On a general note: 99% of the movie took place in poorly lit locations or at night, and I found the perpetual gloom annoying.  The online video quality is not very good. We tried to watch it on our plasma TV but the picture was blurry and blotchy, and we couldn't figure out how to improve the resolution. It looked okay on my computer monitor, though.

Not worth the 3 month wait 3D is all about pop outs gimmicks which is all missing here there is depth but average not that great. The movie & audio both are great but everybody was anticipating one of the best 3d blurays which is not the case. There are many other movies like Resident evil Final destination 4 & 5 and many others which have awesome 3d effects. If you have already bought the 2d version do not regret.

I expected more from this I expected more from this DVD. By more I mean more details, more tips, more explanations. I also expected s section on jumps and drops, after all it says "freeride" in the title, but no. It's all Urban riding.

"I've about had a gut full of you Kahannaas!" Diamond Head started life as a Clark Gable project and it probably should have died with him. At heart there's an interesting enough dilemma - what happens when Charlton Heston's outwardly liberal and benign business `King' of his part of Hawaii (quite what business he's King of is never made clear) is faced with the prospect of sister Yvette Mimieux marrying Hawaiian James Darren? - but quickly descends into TV movie soap opera bathos as scandal threatens to destroy his political ambitions and his family. By the time it's drawing to a close, a laughably Freudian dream scene makes it clear that his problem isn't so much that she wants to marry a native but that she isn't marrying him...  There are surprisingly strong supporting performances from George Chakiris, Aline MacMahon and France Nuyen as Heston's lover (he'll happily sleep with her, but he'll be damned if he'll accept their illegitimate half-caste son as his heir) and in the early stages the film does at least acknowledge that racism exists on both sides, but in director Guy Green's hands it's dreary, passionless stuff. He can't even generate any excitement in a hypothetically inflammatory dance scene between Mimieux and Darren that's supposed to set Chucky thinking dark thoughts but actually looks like the kind of thing you might see in a badly choreographed elementary school play performed by two pupils who've only just met and were threatened with detention if they didn't do it. Definitely soft-soap all round.  No extras on Sony's Region 1 NTSC DVD, which has an unexceptional 2.35:1 widescren transfer.

BLAHAHAHAHA So, here's another movie about demonic possession that features a demon who loves to taunt the characters while laughing maniacally and features at least one instance of the heroes saying, "The power of Christ COMPELS you!"  First off, if you're basing your desire to see this off the awesome cover, don't.  The creepy looking chick on the cover is NOT in the movie, at all.  Damn, there's been so many horrible horror movies lately that feature really good cover art.  That creepy demon girl is the one who made me want to see this movie.  Instead, it's a dude who is the vessel for this otherwise unseen demon.  The movie features teenagers going to a morgue to film a girl performing a seance there.  I'm not sure why, but I'm sure it doesn't matter.  Anyway, of course there's a demon there and it infiltrates the body of the resident douche bag, who promptly rips his shirt off to provide eye candy for the female audience, I guess.  The rest of the movie features the two main girls keeping him tied down and trying to exorcise the spirit.  This is where the movie gets rather humorous as the demon constantly injures the girls during their exorcism attempts and they keep going back to the same room to regroup and try again.  The film is shot decently and the actors aren't that bad.  The villain clearly hams it up playing the demon, but it's a fun performance regardless.  There are some decent set pieces and it's nice that the film references Christianity a lot, for those who are religious like myself.  The dialogue is the highlight of the movie; it is so bad it elevates this from boring trash to slightly entertaining trash.  See it if you must, but pay no more than a dollar to do so.  Oh, and if you hate rats, avoid this film like the plague.

A Blu-ray that doesn't play like one..... I was REALLY thrilled to see that a BLU-RAY exists of one my favorite Vincent Price films , WITCHFINDER GENERAL ! But what was not thrilling is that this particular one , in A , B & C Region , will NOT PLAY the extra features on my player ! Yet it plays the MOVIE excellent , but will not allow my player to access all the special features ! WHAT A RIP-OFF and HOW DARE AMAZON.COM , with all their silly rules and regulations pertaining to sellers , allow THIS ONE to be swept under the rug ! SHAME ON AMAZON.COM . I would return it to the seller , but at least I can watch the movie and it's just not worth MY TIME , MONEY & TROUBLE . Now , how many of you " REGION A ,B or C " buyers had the same trouble I did ?

A dog of a movie the first movie was an amusing little film with a nice story line... This one was boring, plotless and a classic 'do it again' that didn't work....  I am glad I rented it and didn't buy....

BAD DVD TRANSFER Even though I've never been much of a fan of Mr. Seagal I remember having enjoyed this movie when it first came out on the theaters. And since Amazon had a good price on the Blue-Ray version of it, I decided to purchase the disc. What a disappointment! The movie starts out fine but very soon the picture becomes extremely grainy and full of noisy artifacts, to a point of distraction. It was difficult to enjoy the movie with so many annoying snowy picture. If I could I'd return it, but it's not worth the trouble. The only thing I can do about it is to vent my frustration at the people responsible for putting this turkey out, and to warn the potential buyers at what they are getting into when the buy this Blu-Ray version of Under Siege. Thanks! Rudasi

Will not play on US Blu-ray players. I love DAFT PUNK: INTERSTELLA 5555 and took a shot with the Blu-ray even though I was aware of other reviewers' concerns. It would not play on my new Sony Blu-ray players. However, it did play on my Region free Blu-ray player but was not HD impressive. The case says the disc is 1080i25; a format I am unfamiliar with. My processor read that it was 1080p50. I noticed a lot of artifacts, even after processing to 1080p60, and am disappointed with the disc as a Blu-ray. I hope that a better Blu-ray release for Region 1 in 1080p24 will someday materialize.

Works, but DVD Scratched, Doesn't snap into case Got this on the cheap and used, so I wasn't expecting perfection. But while the DVD works, it is more scratched than I've ever seen a DVD be. May be due to the fact that when it came, it wasn't even secured inside the box. (Not snapped in.) I think this is due to the fact that the DVD doesn't fit into the box for some reason. Odd, I know, but it will not snap in and stay secure.  Overall, DVD works okay, but really scratched up and I don't even put it in the box anymore.

brainless This movie is so lame and dumb that I felt stupid for renting this. ROFL to those who said this is a thought-provoking or smart movie.

Just Awful "The Missing" is one of those meandering existential westerns where the characters who deserve to live die and the characters who deserve to die live.  Cate Blanchett -- whose visage not only looks like it should mark the prow of a Nordic herring boat but is about as animated -- heads up the cast as a frontier healer whose deadbeat dad (Tommy Lee Jones) comes to visit just in time for her oldest nitwit daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) to get kidnapped by a group of renegade Apaches.  We've seen the story before if not quite so heartless; think "The Searchers" if it were imagined by someone in a biker gang, only in this case, it's Opie (Ron Howard) at the reins.  There's some grim fates for many characters and a few action sequences, but none of it has much forward momentum given that the plot is so determined to be unlikable.  Jones gives one of his standard wounded performances, and he is good, as is Jenna Boyd as Dot, the other daughter, but with so little of value to work with, even they are unable to resurrect what amounts finally to an exercise in masochism.  You'll be saddened to see that Eric Schweig, so effective as Uncas in "The Last of the Mohicans," looks as though he's had one too many turns at the buffet table.  Squint and you'll see Val Kilmer turn up as yet another incompetent Army officer.

Working to solve a diplomatic issue This movie continues the Romance of King Edward and Queen Paige in as they uncover a sad princess who is promised in marriage to someone she doesn't like or love.  When the royal couple are due a gift of their choosing for bringing the sacred elephant back to the King, the would be groom is found out to be a cruel man who takes advantage of the country's people.  The King cancels his daughter's wedding and she is allowed to wed the man she loves.

I wasn't expecting all the foul language. Okay, you may say it is an Eddie Murphy movie.  Well, in the last decade he seem to go to family friendly movies and so I started to enjoy him.  I honestly don't know if he has done some of his traditional movies in the last 5 years because I don't follow many movies or actors.  The only Ben Stiller movies I have seen have been pretty clean too as far as language goes...maybe a word or two.  This movie was actually good to me except foul language KILLS a movie for me, especially the gd word. I think foul language is offensive and just sounds ugly.  I really thought this was going to be a cleaner movie.

dances with wolves, special addition I received the wrong one. the one i wanted was the one on this page, showing. it is in the diary cover (like the diary he kept in the movie. i had it at one time, but has been miss-placed. so i wasnt to happy with it. i sent a mesaage to Lilly books, and they said it could of been amazons fault posting the wrong dvd cover

Limited Edition Keepsake Beware!!!!  If you are a 'Dirty Dancing' fan you will realize this edition has some scenes that are missing from the original movie.  I'm extremely disappointed in this DVD.  I tried to find the edition that had all the scenes, knowing there was one like this out there.  No one stated in the reviews that the movie had been edited.  I watch this one anyway just because I don't want to take a chance on ordering another one and have the same thing happen again.  I would gladly pay the money for a complete movie, but no one seems to state this in the reviews. Order a different version!!!

N-Secure While this was an ok film with a common run of the mill storyline; it could have been a whole lot better and entertaining had they allowed, maybe, Robi Reed to cast it for them as far as males in the film. Had the lead been Blair Underwood, who has the background for this part and would have made the lead character a more difficult, as well as interesting study...given HANDSOME, SOPHISTICATED, and wealthy; I would have watched it time and time again (a personal preference). Also the wardrobe of the male friend was not up to the standard of the overall attaire of the cast. It was tacky and unsophisticated and just did not fit. Will I watch it again, when someone who hasn't seen it might want to watch it......and to see if they agree with me. I probably would have waited to get it at a reduced price, had I known what I know now. I would give it 2 and 1/1 stars.LOL

Terrible. Not funny. Not funny. The plot was senseless and the characters all seemed too old to be typically considered bride and bridesmaids. The lead character was so unlikable that I can't even remember her name. None of the female characters were likable, actually. The only reason I gave this two stars is because I liked the cop. I have no idea what he was supposed to have found charming and lovable about the selfish, trashy, drunken, 'maid' of honor. Oh, except at some point he apparently had bought cakes in a shop she'd owned, and thought she was a great baker.

A Mess of a Movie On the way to school, Travis (Michael Angarano) notices members of the Five Points Church, led by Abin Cooper (Michael Parks) protesting the funeral of a local gay teenager who was found murdered. During Travis' first class, his teacher talks about how Cooper and his church had their town ridiculed for his actions and beliefs. Later, Jared (Kyle Gallner), a friend of Travis, reveals he received an invitation from a woman he met on a sex site for group sex with himself, Travis and Billy Ray (Nicholas Braun). They borrow Travis' parent's car and travel out into the country to meet with the woman.  Along the way, they accidentally sideswipe the vehicle of Sheriff Wynan (Stephen Root), while he was engaged in a homosexual affair in his car. Afraid, the boys drive off. Sheriff Wynan returns to the station and tells his deputy Pete (Matt L. Jones) to go and look for the vehicle. Meanwhile, the boys arrive at the trailer of the woman who sent out the invitation, Sarah Cooper (Melissa Leo). She encourages them to drink, and after being drugged by the beer, they pass out while undressing. Jared wakes up while being moved in a covered cage. He realizes he is in the sanctuary at Five Points after he identifies Cooper. Cooper begins a long, hate-filled sermon before identifying another captive, a homosexual they lured in through an internet chat room. They bind him to a cross using saran wrap, violently execute him with a revolver and drop him into a small crawl space where Travis and Billy Ray are bound together.  Cooper then begins binding Jared to the cross, but stops when he notices Pete driving up to the church. Travis and Billy Ray use a protruding bone from the corpse to cut themselves free, which is heard by Caleb (Ralph Garman). He lifts up the trap door just in time to see Billy Ray escape and begins after him. Billy Ray is not able to help Travis out of his tight saran wrap cuffs and leaves him for dead. Caleb chases Billy Ray while passing Travis into a room stocked with weapons, where the two end up shooting and killing each other. Pete hears the gunshots and calls Wynan for back-up, but is shot and killed by Mordechai (James Parks). Cooper then blackmails Wynan, telling him to stay away or he will reveal Wynan's homosexuality to his wife. In despair, Wynan calls ATF Agent Joseph Keenan (John Goodman), who begins setting up outside of the church.  While the family mourn Caleb, Travis (who had broken free and feigned death alongside Billy Ray's corpse) arms himself and makes a run for it, eventually making it outside where he is shot and killed by Wynan, who mistook him for a member of the congregation. Keenan tries to reason with the family but a shoot-out erupts instead after one Keenan's men is shot in the head. In the midst of the shooting, Agent Keenan receives a call from ATF higher-ups ordering him to start a full raid of the complex to ensure that no witnesses remain of the operation, and no one can tell of their mess up. Another tactical agent named "Harry" (Kevin Alejandro) struggles with this decision and argues with Keenan in private against doing this. Keenan coldly dismisses Harry's protests for personal reasons -- rationalizing his decision based on personal gain and the reputation of the ATF -- and Harry storms off in disgust. During the shoot-out, Cheyenne (Kerry Bish&eacute;) unbinds Jared, begging him to help her hide the children.  Jared coldly refuses due to the fact that the church is evil and had killed both his best friends, and the arguement turns into a fight. Sarah notices them and attacks Jared. Cheyenne tries to break up the fight and accidentally shoots Sarah in the process, killing her. Jared, realizing no matter what he does he will end up dead, helps Cheyenne hide the children. They run outside to plead with Keenan to spare the children but are brutally shot and murdered by Tactical Agent Harry, who has come around to accepting Keenan's rationales, though Keenan is now visibly disturbed the reality of this outcome and Harry's actions. The shoot-out is then suddenly interrupted when a mysterious loud trumpet ominously blast echos across the sky.  If "Red State" proves one thing it is that Kevin Smith is a much better writer than he is a director. In the comedy genre, direction only matters so much. If the jokes aren't there, what can a director do? He can't make "nothing" funny. In the horror genre, the role of the director is key. He is responsible for the scares, the pacing, the thrills, and the overall tone of the movie. "Red State" works as written but the film as directed is a bit of a mess. Far too many characters, a limp, lackluster editing, and too many "Kevin Smith type" characters. I kept thinking how a movie like this would be directed in the hands of a more accomplished filmmaker who could get a hold of the subject matter such as Rob Zombie. I appreciate the effort here and the performances are all uniformally good but it all adds up to very little.

Flawed First Film, Needs Better Script & Actors Imagine "I Am Legend" being remade for roughly $50,000 and you have this movie's flavor. Zombie-esque vampire plague destroys most of America, leaving a few enclave towns (oddly) untouched and most of the nation a wasteland. "Mister" an alleged tough vampire killer wanders the ruined nation with his apprentice Martin, who is our narrator. The two eventually run afoul of a Christian cult that worships the vampires and much strife ensues.  This film is surprisingly good in some ways considering it is a low budget first time effort. The set design and cinematography set a nice bleak mood, suiting the theme. The action sequences are filmed pretty well. The special effects and gore all appear to be "real", i.e. no CGI. (Take note, George Romero, who uses little else but lame CGI in what passes for his recent zombie films...) The director does have some promise.  However, the plot is pretty non-existent and feels both episodic and sluggish. More importantly, the characters are extremely bland and its hard to care about even the leads. Mister is a single note sounded over and over again, Martin is as bland and dull as a post office clerk, and the other characters are even less interesting. The cult leader is about as threatening as a stuffed animal, and the entire Christian vamp cult thing gets too much screen time considering how uninteresting it is in both theory and execution. Someone obviously thought that was a way cool idea, but the viewer may disagree.  Some plot elements are fairly half-baked as well. The odd ability of the cult to track the heroes over long distances is not well explained. The existence of the enclave towns also is hard to explain as the vamps are supposedly unstoppable killing machines whom only trained hunters like Mister can deal with, yet a fairly large town seems to be very secure on the basis of a roadblock manned by yokels with shotguns. Just more evidence of a fairly undeveloped script.  I really wish there was more going on here with both plot and characters, as the existing mix does not mesh well with the directors technical skill. Hopefully next time, he'll be paired with a better script and actors. As it is the movie feels very long subjectively, as the utter lack of viewer engagement with the protagonists and their adventures pretty much ruins the fllm. Scariest thing in here is the Kelly McGillis cameo; what happened to her? She looks like Camille Paglia now, and her acting is, if anything, even worse than it was in her screen icon days...

Low grade trite play I saw this after "Whatever she wants" with Vivica Fox, so I thought it would be worth my while to watch. Boy, was I wrong. The plot is very scattered, including bringing in random characters that were not properly introduced into the setting. What made me really upset is the part when she dressed like some 50 cent peep show into her job and acted as if the way she dressed would get a fair reaction from her chavinistic boss. (Shakes head). Plus, some singing was not necessary and the way it ended was just not right, certainly a cliffhanger. Do not waste your money on buying this because it is not worth the money or possibly your time.

Passport to Pimlico this is not remastered, it is a sloppy copy DVD from an unknown source in a cheap box, with broken lugs, and a cheap sleeve - worst thing to come from Amazon or an associate.  Have not watched it yet too busy.

Not scary In this video, a single narrator recounts ghost stories from the Cotswolds region.  No first-person accounts, no photographic or video evidence...just a rather pleasant-sounding woman telling us we should be frightened by what she's about to say.  If you like ghost stories that make you sleep with the lights on, save your money.  This video will have you sleeping like a baby.

Better than expected, but still not worth watching. PRIMEVAL is a movie about a giant man-eating crocodile stalking the people who live along an African river who also cleverly eludes the journalists and scientists trying to capture him.  A movie with that basic description is not going to be credible or even particularly good.  And it is not good...make no mistake.  But amazingly, it is far more ambitious that I would ever have suspected it might be, with many m ore positives that I might have expected.  One of the biggest plusses is the setting (or scenery).  Set in modern day Africa, in the country of Burundi...it is expansively filmed and truly showcases the harsh yet starkly beautiful landscapes.  I'm not sure where the movie was filmed and whether the topography bears any relation to Burundi...but it was very nice to look at.  The cinematographer has processed his work in such a way that the colors are super-saturated (which helps give the landscapes a rich look too).  The brown tones of the stark landscape really pop out in a gripping way that makes the air seem hot.  I expected the movie to have a cursory, uninspired look, but it was really a high point.  Plot-wise, the movie is ambitious as well.  We have American journalists coming to the country in the hopes of capturing on film the infamous Gustav, a giant croc that has killed hundreds of natives.  Gustav is suddenly world renowned because he killed a white forensic scientist.  Racial tensions are a key theme of the whole movie...as is the fact that this is a war-torn country (similar to the more infamous Rwanda or Darfur), and the vicious warlords rule things outside of the city and away from the prying eyes of civilization.  The journalists and the hunter they hire are not only endangered by the croc, but by the very socio-political milieu they have been dropped in.  The film takes some obvious shots at the way the west ignored the troubles in Africa...but who expected a movie about a killer reptile to make any political points, however unsubtle?  In fact, many of the more effective scenes feature the frightening warlords and no crocodile.  For a slasher-type film...and that's what this is, only substituting a crocodile for Michael Myers...the cast is slightly better than usual.  Rather than a bunch of generic attractive teenagers, we've got known faces such as PRISON BREAK star Dominic Purcell, comic actor Orlando Jones and even DAS BOOT star Jurgen Prochnow.  This is not to say that the script gives them much to do or that they provide Oscar-winning performances...but it's nice to see people who aren't 30 year-olds pretending to be teens.  The performances, all cardboard characters, are solid but thoroughly unexceptional.  So this all sounds pretty decent right?  Decent acting, nice cinematography, more brains than usual and a man-eating croc on the rampage.  What could be better?  Well, sad to say, the movie is boring.  Despite all the elements thrown in to spice things up...the set up to the action seems to take forever, and involves a lot of utterly trite dialogue.  Once the croc begins to become a real presence in the film, most of his appearances are devoid of tension.  And the effects that render the beast are pretty sub-par.  So you've got a movie where everyone is playing it quite straight and serious...but action sequences that are cheesy enough to fit right in to PIRANHAS.  But mostly the film just drags and drags.  In the final 10 minutes or so, the action finally kicks into high gear...but by then we are well past caring in the least.  It's a 90 minute movie that feels like a full 2 hour slog.  A film like this, even with serious overtones, demands to be brisk, fast-paced and action-focused.  Instead, it is turgid.  So, I was sure this would be a one-star debacle.  Instead, it is a 2 star waste of time.  Better than expected, but still not worth anyone's time.

whoa--predictable This movie didn't hold my interest.  Finding the message in the bottle was exciting, fun, romantic.  But when Theresa went to find the mystery man and conveniently started a relationship with him without telling him the truth of why she was there (checking out the mysterious message in a bottle writer), I knew exactly what was going to happen in the movie, and I was right.  There were lots of other predictable situations as well, creating melodrama and way too many tears without grabbing my sentiments. She was supposed to be a serious journalist but spent her time at the Outer Banks as if she were on vacation.  Thumbs down.

Cute but dull Nothing here rings remotely realistic. This is pure chick flick fantasy. Break out the Hershy bars. Guys may be bored. I know I was. The star is very small and cute, though. Women watch. Guys beware.

BRITISH TWITS New Yorker Stanley Kubrick tying to get into the good graces of the British media by making a British costume drama---though the British media never took to him anyhow.  This is still another sloooow Kubrick movie, ripping off  Michalangelo Antonioni's slooow style once again----and this time with Jess Franco zooms.  The Jess Franco zooms really seem out of place in such a costume drama.  Lots of goofy narration, mostly bland actors, and some actors you might have seen from other british movies, like ALFIE and DEMENTIA 13.  Most of the movie takes place in cheap countrysides, with no expensive city scenes.  And, like costume dramas made decades earlier, there's no horse crap anywhere, though everybody is riding horses.  Has the major contrivence of Lyndon thinking he killed somebody in a duel----though there's no blood, despite the "victim" being shot in the chest!  The "death" was faked to get Lyndon to leave for Dublin (though he never reaches Dublin---be too expensive to show Dublin.)  Lots of Hammer horror movies set in olde tymes are more fun to watch.

Could have been better This movie did not entertain me at all. If there is nothing else on t.v., then by all means, watch this if you're really, really bored. I'm a fan of Steve Harvey but not this movie. Kevin Hart was not that funny in the movie. Don't waste your money renting this movie, just wait until it is shown on tv. JMO

How do you know when you need to sit back and reassess your career? It's surprising to me to think that a name as big and as well-known as James L. Brooks can only be associated with (as far as directorial works are concerned) to six films.  Of those six, I've seen five.  Of those five, this is the worst (I'm in that rare group that considers `Spanglish' to be better than the Oscar winning `As Good As It Gets').  I won't say that I'm a real fan of his work.  In fact, of the five that I've seen, the only one I really adore is `Broadcast News'.  I find `As Good As It Gets' to be highly overrated and a tad too one-dimensional (despite firmly standing behind Hunt's Oscar win, which was glorious).  I find `Terms of Endearment' to be wonderfully nostalgic and beautifully composed, if a tad pretentious and manipulative.  `Spanglish' is overreaching, sure, but I applaud its ambitious nature despite being sloppy in parts and unashamed in its own unevenness.  One thing that all of the aforementioned films contain that `How Do You Know' does not is heart.  Even a film as sharply conflicting in tone as `Spanglish' was bursting with real heart.  `How Do You Know' just feels awkward; and not in a `haha funny' way.  The film centers around a young woman who is reaching an age that forces her, as a woman, out of her `life'.  She is a female baseball player who winds up being thrown out because she's thirty-one.  She is in a relationship with a dim-witted male baseball player who is a serious womanizer and a tad too self-absorbed.  She meets a businessman in serious legal trouble thanks to his careless father and the two start to bond while he plays `shoulder to cry on' while she dukes things out with her boyfriend.  The problem with `How Do You Know' is that I just didn't care about anyone.  I mean, even in Brooks less successful offerings (anything not made in the 80's) he brought a good deal of heart to his characters.  You couldn't help but sincerely love Hunt's character in `As Good As It Gets', and even when Tea Leoni was confessing her adulterous behavior your heart was breaking for her because she was so `real'.  Nothing about `How Do You Know' can begin to feel `real' and so it just doesn't work.  I can understand the approach to certain conversations and sequences having that `awkward/real' feel to them, but they don't always work in films, especially of this nature.  This is a comedy that isn't all that funny (accept Owen Wilson's character who is the only real standout here and made me laugh out loud a lot) and so the awkward moments don't work because they don't feel anything but awkward.  They don't even get a smile.  They just feel ill conceived.  Reese Witherspoon used to be so awesome (the late 90's, early aughts were her stomping ground) but ever since her Oscar win she has plummeted and she feels limited in range and her past onscreen charisma feels nonexistent.  Paul Rudd is still adorable and manages to make the most of his character, but he isn't memorable here (or at least his character isn't).  Jack Nicholson yells a lot and chokes and is kind of gross and boring (I still love you Jack, but seriously...try a little!) and Kathryn Hahn is just obnoxious.  UGH, and don't get me started on that proposal scene that just felt so...wrong.  The film is a mess, which is a shame because I really expected more out of Brooks and his cast; especially Rudd.  I mean, I've never considered Brooks the greatest director or anything (even though the rest of the world seems to, and I acknowledge and semi-understand that) but I did expect him to try a little here.

Corney plot. Alien space ships are rediculous. It took 6 hours to download this movie to my TiVo. I couldnt watch it when I wanted to and the movie had an amateurish plot. The alien spaceships are some combination of snake and alligator that jump through water like a dog trying to swim.

tape issues I love this movie and was very excited to find it. The tape came wrapped as if it were new, but the first time I put it in my VCR (which I still use frequently), the tape got stuck and jammed the VCR> I was able to save the tape but now have to manually rewind it so it will not go all the way to the beginning, or it will jam again. Too bad.

It's like a feature-length 80's music video I have to say, this movie was really bad. The music was wonderful, and the opening credits were imaginative. But the plot was extremely weak - smart kid works at a video store post-graduation, wants impress his high-school crush at a big Labor Day party. Aside from our main character and the girl he's after, there's the main character's twin sister, who is torn between settling down with her dopey boyfriend (who is also the one hosting the party) or pursuing her dreams as a writer, and the main character's friend, who loses his job at a car shop and retaliates by stealing one of their best cars. The friend is pretty much intoxicated the entire movie, alternating between doing coke and drinking, or chatting with a goth chick at the party.  The problem is you just don't really care about the characters. We aren't given a lot of backstory, and about 20 minutes in they're already all at the party. The main character lies a lot to his crush in order to get her to like him, and you know he's going to get burned for it. The plot is predictable, and not really that funny. (And rather unbelievable. I absolutely hated the scene with the cops. It was so over the top and ended ridiculously, and not in a humorous way.) I enjoyed the music, and there was a lot of it. It seemed every few minutes was a music montage. But overall there was nothing solid that tied the whole thing together. They tried, with the callback to the whales card the main character received in the beginning of the movie, but the rest of the plot is so muddled it just doesn't work.  Anyway, I'd recommend this movie for the music, but nothing else.

DVD Quality I watched this movie about 15 yrs. ago and was so excited that Amazon had it available.  The only bad thing is that the DVD's quality is horrible!  And this is suppose to be a remastered edition?  I paid the extra money because I thought it would be digitally enhanced / dolby digital, etc......... It looks like someone was watching this movie on their own TV and they recorded it with a video camera.  I love Amazon but I have noticed a lot of unhappy customers with this one.

So much wasted talent... Convoluted & overwritten is what would best describe this fourth installment in the Pirate's series. There are four or five partial stories in this movie, yet not one stirs any real emotional resonance or captures that "adventurous spirit" these films are known for. Meanwhile, all of the various plot threads align perfectly when the action sequences need connecting. It was nearly impossible for me to "feel" anything for any of these characters because I couldn't grasp any of their motives. C'mon, I know it's a Summer Blockbuster, but you have to like the characters a little bit, right? Johnny Depp is so gifted, and Penelope Cruz is awesome, too! In fact, I'm sure most of the people involved with this project are extremely talented. That's what makes it so difficult to accept that they horribly misfired here. Rob Marshall's direction seems ill fitted, and too superficial. No suspense! But the two main turds here are the writers. I don't write movies. I have no clue how to do that, and yet I got an hour into this movie and started to imagine what it would have been like to focus on any one of the many subplots racing across the screen...or to focus on any one of the umpteenth relationships that were set up, and thusly tossed aside later on. My 9 year old son was bored with this film...even he had more interesting ways to get Jack Sparrow, Hector Barbossa, and Blackbeard tangled up with the infamous Fountain of Youth. How can such accomplished artists, writers, actors, and film makers, sit in an editing room, finish watching this, and then say, "Okay...that's it! This movie is a winner!"????? It simply blows my mind. This is how my nine year old felt about Pirates-4: "It's too complex. I liked most of it a little, but none of it a lot. Plus...they kept saying 'the fountain of youth' every five seconds. Oh...and shouldn't that Blackbeard guy have been WAY scarier?" Yep. That about sums it up.

How could this possibly be rated G??? My family and 4 year old enjoyed the first CARS movie so it was natural that we would want to see CARS2. What a dissapointment. There was way too much violence for young children. I take my child to less than 5 movies per year and only G rated. I'm sorry I wasted our time and money on this one. I had to continually explain the storyline to my child (bad guys vs good guys) due to the shooting/violence. This movie should be rated PG. As far as adult enjoyment, weak storyline. there is so much they could have done to develop characters based on the good foundation from the original CARS movie. This one is an utter failure.

Was the original better?  Hope so... Tom Welling and Maggie Grace did the best they could, but the story just isn't that interesting and it is a very predictable and familiar tale of revenge from people who were wrongly killed by greedy folks in the past.

Started interesting It certainly doesn't lack a twist, but to say it's a clever one would be false. It really is entirely social commentary just after the middle of the movie, but not really social commentary that has any basis in reality or even political affiliation...it's a dreamer sentiment that implies adversity is wrong and elitist paths are the only way...that's not really what I thought I was getting into when I started a movie called "Tall Man" involving a creepy figure and child abductions. It's not to say I was hoping it wouldn't be intelligent, I'm saying it isn't intelligent. I gave two stars for the fact that it was an unpredictable twist, though a silly one.

I missed the point I'm only giving it 2 stars because the cinematography is really good.  Plus I like the world of imagination that the writers were going for.  Sometimes you'd experience really bizarre and yet, totally fascinating creatures floating around at the most unusual of moments.  The movie really does a nice job incorporating the dream-like fantasy elements.  However, if there'a any kind of coherence in the storyline I seriously couldn't find it.  In fact, if there's a storyline *itself* I couldn't find it.  I found absolutely nothing intelligible about the entire film.  It makes me wonder if the entire purpose of the movie was to just show off the latest technology in movie making.  What I gathered is that there's apparently this group of people consisting of a man and a woman, they like to dress up as part of a stage show and perform for people by dancing and acting.  They tend to perform in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of the night, in front of nobody.  It's true!  I really have no idea what kind of audience such a pointless display of weirdness is supposed to attract (in both the movie *and* in real life, hehe) but there you have it.  Sometimes an old man and a midget would appear on screen, and neither of these two characters did anything as far as character development or providing any kind of entertainment for the viewers.  Perhaps there's an element of humor implemented that I wasn't able to grasp, but if that's the case, well, you can't really combine humor with a disjointed storyline concerning a fantasy world can you?  Because now the majority of the audience is left sitting there totally confused.  Perhaps I simply didn't get it.  No wait- scratch that.  I *really* didn't get it.

"Who's the meathead now?!" I'm a pro wrestling mark, but I have to admit that films starring our favorite superstars are a dime a dozen these days. Films *directed* by wrestlers are another matter, but while I'm glad that <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GB5M92">David DeFalco</a> seems to be distancing himself from the exploitation torture porn business, his contribution here means very little. Even with two of the business' biggest stars in tow, "Wrong Side of Town" is a forgettable little action-thriller much in the same vein as a lot of the other dreck I've recently reviewed. Absolutely nothing special.  The plot: when ex-Navy SEAL Bobby Kalinowsky (Rob Van Dam) kills the brother of a sadistic gangster (Jerry Katz, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003YGC7JY">Knucklehead</a>), he and his family must fear retaliation in the form of a $100,000 price placed on his head.  The film is the victim of false advertising. Get David Bautista and Ja Rule off the cover, Sony - they have a combined screentime of less than fifteen minutes. Beyond that, the movie does okay as far as production is concerned: sometimes the camerawork looks cheap and a few voiceovers are evident, but considering that the film was shot for under $2 million, I can forgive these deficiencies. There are a few go-nowhere scenes, but the writing isn't awful otherwise. (SPOILER) Heck, I took unexpected pleasure in the scene wherein Bautista's character shoots Ja Rule in the head. This is all fine and good...but what then? With a story that doesn't really intrigue by itself, "Wrong Side of Town" was banking on some solid action scenes to support it, but these just aren't there.  Through his successful incorporation of martial arts into his in-ring performances, Van Dam secured both popularity in the wrestling world and a handful of roles in legitimate action flicks wherein he received the honor of being the only pro wrestler to have been directed and/or choreographed by both <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000034DDT">Tony Leung</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000077VQA">Yuen Woo-Ping</a> (only one other wrestler has matched the strength of these credits: Nathan Jones has been wrangled by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000K2UW06">Woo-Ping</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000I0RNWU">Panna Rittakrai</a>). I had really been hoping that some of their style and flair would carry over to his first starring vehicle, but by and large his three fight scenes - all against multiple opponents - are as poorly-shot as any brawl of these days featuring the other Van Damme. The only encounter of any interest is between Bautista and newcomer Marrese Crump, who's set to appear in Tony Jaa's "Tom Yum Goong 2" and gets to show off a few promising kicks before the two of them draw knives and proceed to have a veritable pattycake fight worthy of Steven Seagal's lower quality work.  I wish I had more to say about this one, seeing as I had respectable hopes for it, but I can't help but think that I'll have forgotten the movie by tomorrow, so why waste words? Stick to watching Impact, guys.

Hokey...Sappy...And Disappointing What could be better than a romantic ghost story? GHOST begins as a humorous romantic fantasy about "Sam" (Patrick Swayze) and his sweetheart, Molly, played by the attractive Demi Moore. Sam is shot and killed during a robbery gone bad and finds himself unable to part mortality. Things become more interesting when Sam's best friend Carl [Tony Goldwyn] is revealed to be a swindling good-for-nothing crook who becomes a threat to Molly. To make things worse, Sam learns his good buddy was the one who arranged for the robbery in which he was killed. Although no harm was supposed to come to him, Sam had proprietary business information that was valuable to his buddy. As a newbe to the ghost community, Sam finds that he can't touch or move anything in the mortal world, nor can he communicate, except through a medium played by Whoopi Goldberg. Eventually, he finds another ghost (on a subway) who teaches him how to move and throw things. At this point the movie bogs down as Sam begins some first class haunting. Part of the paranormal world of spirits rests on subtly, which flies right out the window. Finally Sam manages to fight and beat up Carl, who has a fatal accident. The hounds of hell appear and whisk him off after he mumbles, "Sam?" and turns to see his body lying in the window. After that, Sam appears as a luminous being who says goodbye and walks into the light.  The writers of this film would have done well to study "after death" experiences chronicled by Raymond Moody, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and George G. Ritchie, not to mention many "paranormal" accounts, many of which suggest that spirits are under certain restrictions in how they can act. As far as I know, there are no "fights" between spirits and mortals, and the writers of GHOST could have brought this to a much better close. I would have personally liked to have seen Carl hauled away in handcuffs, as Sam kept his distance as a spirit.  GHOST had a great beginning, but soon digressed into a maudlin series of unlikely events that ruined the movie. (Some may say the whole thing was unlikely, and that life after death was particularly unlikely, but that's for each person to say.)

Header misleads Why is this entitled FRIGHT NIGHT 3? Its an older movie about zombies...good, but the header is misleading. i think in the Fright Nights there were only 2-unless this is a general description like Elvira's Fright Night...zombie

Average Woody Allen Offering - A Contrarian View I offer a contrarian opinion about this film.  I did not like it.  It was a waste of my time.  There, I said it. Reason?  - It just did not make me laugh more than one or two times, and when a film has "Comedy" in the title, I expect to find it funny, witty, and perhaps laugh out loud occasionally.  I did not have one (loud) LOL moment.  While the casting is terrific, and the acting is equally wonderful, I believe the script (by Allen) is just not that funny.  Allen is certainly a brilliant writer, director, and actor, but this film flops for me.  I believe Allen's intent is to poke fun about our obsession with sex, who is doing it, why we are doing it, why we aren't doing it, etc.  While I get the point of it all, I thought the process should be funny, and unfortunately, in this film there is far too much running around trying to have a tryst, rather than have witty funny dialogue.  Allen's usual self-depreciating humor, his witty dialogue, and his cynicism are all missing here.  My (contrarian) advice is to skip this film. I know many will disagree with me, but check out Rotten Tomatoes and read what others have to say about this film before deciding to purchase it.  kone

not good I was impressed by Waglberg's previous movies like shooter, fighter etc But this one is poor story line, unwanted drama, total time waste , bad buy for me. 2 * just for his acting.

Bad Quality I bought this DVD two weeks ago in Amazon, but unfortunately it didn't meet my expectations. First, I realized it was made in Mexico, and the disc quality was very bad, too fragile, and it seems like it was a pirate copy because everything, including the print in the DVD seems fake. Next, the quality of the movie was bad also, when I saw this movie in cable TV a few months ago, I thought the quality of the movie was very good, but in this DVD is very bad; it has bad resolution. Finally, in the characteristics of the product, it says it was in English with subtitles in Spanish and English, but that is not true.  It comes in English, French, and Spanish with subtitles in the same languages.  Now I understand why the price was lowered. Definitively, I would take more care, when I buy something at Amazon.

dvd defective watched first 1/2 hour - was nice and interesting - but then DVD proved defective and wasted a lot of time - both dvd's were defective.

Will Disney ever stop releasing "New & Improved!" versions of my favorite childhood films? I'm really disgusted by Disney's 2-disc Platinum Edition DVDs, a line in which they manage to butcher every last one of my favorite classic Disney films with all sorts of unnecessary "improvements" that, quite frankly, give me the urge to run into every department store I can find and start tearing them off the shelves to make a bonfire in the parking lot out of protest.  First, I had to cancel and return two orders of The Lion King because I found out they featured a really stupid deleted song called "The Morning Report" that made my soul die when I first heard it, and now they have JESSICA SIMPSON AND NICK LACHEY singing "A Whole New World" with another precious deleted song they just HAD to put in sung by Clay Aiken?!  I'm sorry. I don't want "new and improved", I want the classic versions of the films I grew up with. Why is that too much to ask for?  Disney has a huge stick up their behinds when it comes to the matter of making their classic animated films available on DVD. It's not enough that they practice moratorium, oh no. When we get lucky enough that they actually do release them, they have to make all these stupid cringe-worthy "improvements" that leave a really bad taste in your mouth.  Wise up, Disney! WE WANT THE CLASSICS, not your improved products! I finally was able to purchase a 1-disc DVD edition of The Lion King recently that actually (holy crap!) had the full movie in beautiful clarity WITHOUT any glaring changes!!  The bad thing? Even THAT is limited edition, so get it while you can!  Disney disgusts me more and more as time goes on. My suggestion is to do some research and read through a lot of reviews before purchasing this product, because 9 times out of 10, it is NOT the original.  Unless the little things don't bother you as much as they bother me, STAY AWAY FROM DISNEY'S 2-DISC PLATINUM LINE!!

Disapointed This DVD should have been digitally remastered.Poor quality picture and sound. I hope someday The life and times of Grizzly Adams comes digitally remastered.

Hypnosis DVD This is definately NOT worth the price. Bought expecting high quality filming. Not even close. It looks like the guy filmed it using a home camera . He even lists things written on poster paper. Also is voice I found annoying and could not relax. Would not recommend.

Makes a great trailer So the best part of this movie was probably the trailer. Usually I'm decently entertained by a movie but this one for some reason made me wish it was over. I can't put my finger on it, and I was a bit disappointed by the end of the movie.  Great visuals, that is about all. I really wish I could say this movie was awesome, but I can't. I'll probably never watch it again, I may watch parts of it though

No Sir, I don't like it! I bought this workout because of the rave reviews. Seeing it in various magazines also nudged me into buying this workout and putting it to the test.  I could not bring myself to do this video more than three times. I just don't like Tracy's "style" and found the video very unenjoyable.  The two stars are for the arm workout, which you will feel working immediately. After doing the video a few times, my arms definitely look better.  As a former belly dancer, I understood the concept of "standing abs", but Tracy's moves are so spastic that someone who is a beginner could injure themselves.  There is nothing in this video to give your inner thighs a workout at all. Your butt will feel the leg lifts, but I have shorter and more effective workouts (Core Fusion) that I enjoy more for that area.  If you like wondering "Am I doing it right?" due to Tracy's lack of cuing, this is the workout for you!

Seems to Be a Copy This is a great movie...one of my Christmas favorites.  I would not recommending buying from this seller.  The video quality is poor, grainy, and it has black spots as it plays.  It looks like someone took a video camera to the movie theatre and then burned their own copy.  Not sure what the problem is, but I have not seen such poor video quality since VHS.

Bizarre, confusing, too lengthy This film reminded me of another Norwegian film, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EGZ7WG">Hawaii, Oslo</a>, and I discovered the director, Eric Poppe, is the same.  Although I did not care for Hawaii Oslo, my feelings lightened up for Troubled Water.  But both films were too long, too bizarre, and structured in a confusing manner.  The film is structured in two parts, rather two voices; and if you don't pay strict attention, you may get confused.  A young man, Jan, spent time in prison for the alleged murder of a young boy.  The story begins after the prison release, where Jan, gets a job as a church organist.  Then, we learn what happened to this young boy in a stroller, taken from where a woman left him outside while she cleaned up inside a restroom.  First of all, why is this kid, about 5 years old in a baby stroller?  Looks too big for that.  Then, this "baby" in a stroller jumps and runs into the river....little cheesy here!  Then, the film shifts to the view of the mother whose kid was stolen and murdered.  When she discovers Jan was at her home talking with her husband, she goes ballistic trying to prevent Jan from doing so to another child and her neurosis triggers and she attempts to confront or expose him.  In the same meantime, her view of how the murder happened is revealed.  Confused enough?  It's like a story after the story of the story.  What made this film confusing is the split structure.  First half is Jan's story, next is the mother's story.  But with the present intertwined with the past, it can get confusing.  The film is about prison reform, atonement, forgiveness, there are too many unanswered questions.  Like I said, Director's other film, Hawaii Oslo is worse.  ....Rizzo

A Movie With Such Accolades and Yet So Average After reading the reviews I wonder if I watched the same movie as many others. :-)  I like the director Darren Aronofsky as I think he is a very creative director, but for this movie therein lies the problem. I kept seeing ads for how great a performance Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis gave, not to mention the psychological twist that was evident and promoted in the trailer. But what a downer of a movie. One word sums it up: obsession. So if you want to watch an almost 2hr movie about obsession, it might be your cup of tea. Portman and Kunis DID give excellent performances deserving of the accolades, but the movie failed on numerous levels and there wasn't a likable character at all or any that the viewer could really identify with. And without spoiling too much, the movie got to where you didn't know what was real or what was a dream very quick and I think this works with a less is more approach, but on this one Aronofsky, himself, I think got confused and the movie really falls apart at the seams in the last 3rd. With that said, it IS an interesting and disturbing movie and has some graphic girl on girl sex scenes (which seemed out of place and gratuitous--you'll understand when you see it). If these scenes have a point, great but it was like they were thrown in to keep the husband's (who got dragged to see it) attention. So it's hard to rate. As a movie, maybe 6/10, slightly above average. Yet the performance of at least Portman was easily a 8 or 9/10 and was the best I've ever seen from her. Just wish it had been in a better movie!

No point I normally begin these reviews with a question. My only question for this film, the fourth in the series, why?    All our favorite sex-obsessed high-school students are now 13 years older and experiencing varied levels of disappointment with the current state of their lives. Jim Levenstein (played by Jason Biggs) is married to the same girl he's loved since high school and they have a two-year old son. They are completely out of synch romantically. Jim's (Biggs') sex life revolves around his laptop and Michelle, his wife, (played by Alyson Hannigan) is dependant on mechanical devices. Chris "Oz" Ostreicher (played by Chris Klein) is a TV sports anchor living with a supermodel. I said he was unhappy with his life, I didn't say I could explain why. Kevin (played by Thomas Ian Nicholas) is a married architect who works from home in addition to running the household. Lastly, Steven Stifler (played by Seann William Scott) is still carrying an attitude big enough to fill most rooms and some buildings despite working as a poorly-paid office temp and living at home with his mother. Even though they missed the ten-year mark by three years, Kevin, Oz, and Jim decide to plan a reunion and "forget" to invite Stifler. But, somehow, he shows up anyway.    I didn't catch any of the spin-off films, e.g. American Pie presents The Naked Mile, Beta House, or The Book of Love. I did see Band Camp, and will regret it till the day I die. Having seen the original film and both the canonical sequels, I can say unequivocally that there's nothing new here. Embarrassment, obscenity, and nudity from people who really have no business being naked anywhere, let alone onscreen.

Its Sanctum shall be the previously viewed clearance bin The only reason it got 2 stars was because the the picture and audio quality were superb.  The movie itself is boring and annoying in a Aussie accent in a informercial type of way.  The 'Cave' genre is a pretty niche market.  Only one movie to really watch in this category and The Descent is the benchmark for claustrophobes and horror fiends.

Should be in scope Chinatown is one of the absolute best films of the 1970s, a neo-noir that is as dark and thrilling as they get. But according to the description, this edition is being released in the aspect ratio of 1.85:1. It was released in Panavision, which has a ratio of 2.40:1. This means that the sides of the image will be cropped out of the picture on both sides, reducing the image by about 25%. Sort of an anti-restoration. I wouldn't recommend buying this edition until the aspect ratio is restored to its original size.

Pretty lame Kind of exciting, but how in the world can a married couple not no that the other person in the marriage is a spy.  How lame.

Predictable Nothing to see here that hasn't been done elsewhere before.  Bland.  Other movies have done the same thing better, most notably 'Escape from New York'.

M. Night Shymalan...ugh. I stayed far away during its theatrical run because M. Night Shyamalan's name was attached. And the last good movie he made was Unbreakable ten years ago. I decided to give it a rent anyway and it wasn't even worth the $3 I spent. The twist wasn't even a shock because I wasn't invested in the characters or the story. I was just bored. I'm glad it was only a little over an hour long (hour and fifteen minutes to be exact).

WTF? Seriously I can't even understand this. There is such a thing as trying too hard to be artistic. What else can I say?

The Vampire Curse Problem with this episode is that its just a compilation of various scenes from the original episodes and leaves out much of the details of how you get from one point in the story line to the next.  It is very disappointing.  Having seen the tv version and then watching this rendition of the tv series.  I would have to agree with the previous review that the "Dark Shadows: The Vampire Curse" is not worth your money.  Do not buy it as you will be disappointed if you have seen the original series as this rendition has been butchered so badly that it leaves big holes in the story line.

Underworld Awakinging. A bit disappointing compared to the original movie. It was very fragmented, and at times almost incoherent. There's too much reliance on computer generated special affects rather than plot and characters. Wished they focused more on the central characters, and less on the "wow" factor.

Very Suspenseful, did not like the ending This movie was suspenseful and seemed to keep my attention on it but the ending just did not seem to fit well.  Since in my opinion an ending can make or break a movie, it in my opinion it really broke this movie.  I believe the extra features contain an alternative ending but it did not differ much from the original.  I am not a big Anthony Hopkins fan but really played his role well here.  Maybe a more appropriate ending could have made this movie really good.  If you like movies with suspense then check-it out since some people might find the ending ok.  Peter J. Miller

Looks pretty no substance You've seen this movie before.  It looks pretty but the story is kind of dumb unless you're into religious idolatry and talking wolves.  If you like this twilight teenage stuff you'll probably like this movie, if you have at least moderate movie taste probably not.  It's not like hollywood will actually dig up a new story to slap on the screen so it has to be based on something like a fairy tale, old movie, history, etc, because people don't want to watch something new and fresh unless it involves creepy looking garbage eating aliens.

Great movie, poor dvd!!!!!!!!! My review is for the 2010 Echo Bridge release of Trancers. Trancers is a great 80's sci-fi classic about a cop from the future, Jack Deth being transported back to the 1980's to stop Whistler from wipping out the members of the counsel (from Deth & Whistler's own time). Whistler uses the body to one of his ancestors to "trance" people to do his bidding. Trancers themselves have a yellowish zombie type look. Trancers is just a fun campy 80's flick. I give the movie itself 5 stars, but the dvd version stinks! The picture itself if blurry, as if it was out of focus, and of the course the famous bar scene where the picture goes black for a few seconds. If you still have a vcr I'd suggest purchasing this on a vhs tape until a decent dvd release appears, that's what I did.

Good start but missing a few key elements This documentary was absolutely riveting and a must see for anyone considering a career in comedy.  Highlights were Phyllis Diller and Larry Miller. They were genuinely delightful. I found myself yearning for more footage of them and a little less of the others who seemed less funny than self involved.  One of the worst elements of this film was Carlos Mencia who came off as maniacal and frightening in his horrifying and utterly profane rant about stealing material from other comics. He was so unhinged that he seemed less like a comic and closer to serial killer. Why give him a platform and not one to his detractors...that was not right.  A profoundly galling omission from I Am Comic was Joan Rivers whose legacy was totally ignored, an obscene and careless breach given her astonishing body of work and contributions to the genre.  On that note I will that there was a strange "whippersnapper" element to this film that gave me the impression that the comedians of today have totally forgotten all those who came before them. The narrator says at one point that "the stand up comedy of today can be traced back to the 1970's" This absurd statement was juxtaposed with a flash of gratuitous photos of George Carlin and Richord Pryor. It was surprising and disheartening because it gave the producers a cheap excuse to get around mentioning the contributions of pre 70's legendary stand up performers such as JEAN CARROLL, Redd Foxx, Lenny Bruce, Uncle Milty, Mort Sahl, Lord Buckley, Dick Gregory, Bob Newhart, Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Fred Allen and even Frank Fay who originated the 20th century version of stand up comedy at The Palace Theater in the 1920's.  This documentary is really good and you should see it...I just wish that the producers would have been more respectful and reverent to the early stand up comedians whose sacrifices and passion are the very foundation for comics of today

Disappointing..... I was so looking forward to this movie.  A  big disappointment.  Paltrow was her nasally self and looked and sounded exactly as she always does in every movie I've seen her in even though she was supposed to be sick, and in one scene, dead (sorry, fans).  Kate Winslet was absolutely believable as a physician and flu victim.  This movie was a big waste of her time and talent.  There wasn't a crumb of suspense or information about what was going on you couldn't learn from Henry the Hand.  Matt Damon should deny any involvement and sue for use of his image.  I truly didn't get the point of this movie...Zero plot, zero thrill, zero info, zero everything.

What's To Like? Not having seen all of Mamet's film's it would be unfair to say he's made only two good ones:  "House of Games" and, especially, "The Winslow Boy".  We just watched an intermittently interesting but ultimately mediocre Mamet effort, "Heist", so I went to Amazon.com to read some reviewers' opinions.  The awarding of stars was more evenly divided than any set of reviews for any film I've checked.  More interesting than that, however, was the fact that so many reviewers of "Heist" mentioned "The Spanish Prisoner" as an example of Mamet's better work. We have seen "The Spanish Prisoner" twice, the second time to try to find something that we might have missed the first time.  Still don't get it.  It is surface only, and an uninteresting surface at that. There's no apparent involvement on the part of the players/characters and little or no reason for the viewer to become involved either. The one extra star above the minimum merely means it wasn't offensive enough to hate.

Poor quality The movie is amazing like always, but the quality on the copy I ended up with was very poor. It looked less like a major movie and more like a low budget reality show as far as the the way it looked.

Ok as a standalone diversion, but unnecessary, inferior and a weak link in an otherwise great summer movie season. . . Considering this film both as a standalone and in comparison to the previous series, I kept asking the same question many others disappointed by it are asking - why? The entire production screamed mediocre, despite another sprawling budget. I kept trying to consider performances both on their own and inevitably in comparison to the other films - since, after all, they were just released a few years ago. I felt virtually every actor and actress lead in the first film was stronger. I love much of Sally Field's work, but she felt completely miscast in this movie. Andrew Garfield was fine as Spiderman, but in my opinion not nearly as engaging or interesting as Tobey Maguire. Martin Sheen is hard to beat, but frankly I would probably still argue Uncle Ben was better played by Cliff Robertson.  The storyline itself (and its minor changes) felt thrown together. Another reviewer discussed the main villain in this film as being a sort of homogenized version of previous villains. I thought numerous aspects of this film felt like they were designed to directly compete with the previous series - which also undermines uncritical fans who keep claiming comparisons aren't fair. In my opinion this film often felt like it was trying to compete with the earlier series. For example. . .  (Minor spoilers ahead)  Before the closing credits there are extended scenes of Spiderman web slinging around the city, moving between buildings, etc. We saw this sort of thing in the previous series . . .however in this one the tricks and stunts he performs are pushed to the extreme and just looked, in my opinion, ridiculous. . .and the CGI doesn't keep up. Those scenes and some of the fighting have that "speeded up" CGI look - I suspect you know what I mean. Think back to Spiderman 3 - I felt it suffered from it as well. Too much is going on and it starts to look like old 1950s stop motion. Some of the fight scenes just did not look convincing. Compare this film's CGI to the climatic scenes in "The Avengers" - the quality is, in my opinion, very different.  I was also left a little perplexed as to why the Lizard was chosen as the main villain. Granted, they were trying to do a few things differently (far too few, in my opinion), but the Lizard? I do not read comic books anymore, but I do not recall the Lizard being a key villain while I was growing up. . .even the Beetle might have been a better choice. That's just a personal opinion - I think the larger issue was the manner in which the character was developed in the script. Rhys Ifans does what he can with the material and he is clearly a competent actor, but I found little interesting about the overall portrayal of the villain of this film. I was never quite sure I understood why he was executing his dastardly plan, and frankly didn't care. This movie eventually just lost me..  I watch a lot of movies, but I have zero loyalty to the first Spiderman series. I evaluated this film first on its own merits, and then in comparison to the other films - which are both inevitable things to do. If the previous films had never been made, this film would still feel like a very weak link in what has been a surprisingly good 2012 summer movie season. There was little that was "amazing" - though overall it isn't terrible. . .ultimately it just felt like a pure Hollywood money grab. It reminds me of some of Roland Emmerich's films, which I always wanted to love but ultimately felt a bit betrayed by. Granted, every mainstream film is ultimately about making money, but are the highest paid writers in Hollywood this incapable of either originality or improvement? Jeez the Marvel, DC and assorted other comic universes are huge. Please, at least pick something original to the screen and write a script worth watching.

Largely known as "One and a Half" Paul Mazursky's classic film comedy "Alex in Wonderland" has a cult following that should have kept remembering the overall consensus of critics that in all its homage to Fellini the film should only muster the nickname, "1-1/2."  It is not very entertaining to the point of being slow, occasionally funny and only sometimes insightful, it is more so merely pretentious.  It has not aged well as I can understand why its reputation has grown through the years as it was not available, but it can now be seen and to watch it intoxicated as audiences probably were expected to in 1970 may dull the senses enough to find it to be more enjoyable than it really is.

ok? the movie wasn't as good as i though it was going to be. the movie to me was to dull.no excitement in it.

Dewy-eyed hero worship "Review after review of Atlas Shrugged viciously attempted to discredit her and her work." That quote is emblematic of this film, which stands as a definition and epitome of the word "paean". There is never the slightest attempt at even-handedness or balance. In the opinion of this film, no one can simply disagree with Rand, criticize her writing or dispute her philosophy. Her critics (none of them ever named or quoted) can only "viciously attempt [the word 'attempt' helpfully bringing our attention to their inevitable failure] to discredit her." There's a lot of interesting information in this documentary, and I give it 2 stars for that. But it was clearly produced by the most breathless and fawning of admirers of Rand; a fanatical fan in whose eyes the Great Woman can have no flaws, and with whom no rational person could ever conceivably disagree.  Ayn Rand was a profound thinker and remains an important figure in contemporary philosophy. She deserves to have her life and work documented in a serious film. This childish piece of breathless, dewy-eyed hero-worship is infinitely far from being that film.

Very small for price I was very disappointed with the size of these figures for the price.  They are probably only 8-9 inches tall and I thought that they would be more like 12" tall based on the description but the 12" must refer to the packaging.  I saw similarly sized figures at Target that included Buzz, Woody, and about 3 other characters that was only $53 so that would have been a much better deal.

Mediocre production A mediocre movie.  The production values are poor, the lighting looks like a TV soap opera, Sean Connery phones in a flat performance, Barbara Carrera is laughable, the story jumps around, barely hanging together.  I give Kim Basinger credit for delivering a fairly dignified performance in the midst of disaster; Edward Fox, who is capable of a good dramatic performance, and whom I typically like, plays M as a clown.  I'm content to own a copy, because it was the only Bond I didn't already have, but I don't know whether I'll ever bother to watch it again.

Slow unoriginal Italian Landscape Simply boring. If you need to watch another movie and have already seen the others, then this will do. OR...if you want to see a beautiful young woman having sexual ecstacy and walking in the nude then this might serve. She gets 5 stars, but the movie not so much. Actually, maybe Solaris is a little better, but I remember it as being very slow as well. The Italian landscape and village areas are very nice...it's like an easychair visit to Italy so on a large screen it's very nice to see.

Boring A artistic film, but seriously boring.  At times, it went so slow or switched gears so much (awkwardly) that it seemed that the only point was to be artistic, not to stick to a them or type of story at all.  I can't recommend to anyone.

disappointing I was disappointed with the content. I expected to see actual volcanoes, since that is what the title indicated. An example would be the volcano off the coast of Hawai'i that is building a new island on the sea floor. Other than that, it was OK for what it showed.

NOT my cup of tea I was expecting to have fun watching this, but instead... I found myself actually a bit irritated and put off. Definitely not my cup of tea as far as fanciful comedy, or however you want to catagorize this. Very disappointed.

LOW QUALITY TRANSFER First I can confirm that this U.S. purchased Bluray does work on a Zone B (Australia) Bluray player.  Unfortunately the quality of this "high definition" product is appalling.  Granted the films themselves are 10-20 years old, but that is no excuse (just watch the recent Bluray transfer of Jaws to see that it doesn't matter hold old the film is. If the time/money is put into it, a dated film can be re-mastered to look spectacular).  Obviously this 'cheap' Bluray purchase was NOT re-mastered in any way, shape or form.  Practical Magic was almost as bad as watching a VHS copy, instead of at least a standard definition DVD quality. Witches of Eastwick (the older of the two films) wasn't as bad, but was still only standard def.  You might say "what do you expect for under 8 bucks". Well considering there are many re-mastered and definitely High Definition Blurays released that you can purchase for under $8, you do kinda expect better.  This is my opinion, and I do NOT expect it to be agreed upon by all.  Cheers Dave O Brisbane, Australia

Confusing This was a confusing picture.  The way it was shot and the way the story was told had me watching 2 times to understand it.  Only after I saw the deleted scenes, then I understood the movies.  Some imformation was left out of the movie that should have been left in it.  Then this would have been a great movie.

From a Loving Fan of the Stage Production Now to be fair, I had high expectations. This is my favorite musical of all time and from the Royal Albert Hall in London! I've seen Phantom at least three times in Portland, twice in Eugene, and once on Broadway. I say at least because I'm pretty sure I've seen it a few more times that I just can't pinpoint. I used to dream of playing Carlotta. I memorized all the parts in "Prima Donna". I even watched the travesty of the movie in theatres! To me there is no musical that better embodies everything that a stage production can be. This production took almost everything I loved about the musical and threw it back in my face.  Now I've rarely seen a musical performed with a perfect cast (exceptions must be made for the Rent Farewell Tour and the Aida Pre-Premier Show on Broadway) but this was pathetic. I didn't expect the Phantom to be on Michael Crawford's level, but it would have been nice if he could have expressed any emotions other than apathy and rage and maybe held a pitch. That would have been nice. Speaking of not holding pitch, Christine had the ear-splitting problem of constantly singing sharp while Carlotta sang perfectly except in rare and clearly purposefully screeching occasions. Carlotta and Piangi were actually the highlights of the show vocally. Andre and Firmin were excellent as well. For those less familiar with Phantom of the Opera, that's like saying that Harry and Voldemort were both terrible but Crab and Goyle were marvelous! I've seen productions where the Phantom or Christine are sub-par before but it takes special talent for both to be incapable of holding a note for more than a beat.  Let's set aside the cast then. Other than the casting director apparently being tone-deaf surely the play must have been excellent. This was, after all, the Royal Albert Hall. They must have made the most of such a grand stage. Sure they did, by covering it in giant low-resolution television screens that move instead of using all the amazingly intricate stage effects normally employed in the show. The mirror in Christine's dressing room that the Phantom appears in and leads Christine to his lair through? Nope! Giant TV instead. Candles that rise out of the fog-covered stage? TV screen. Phantom appears out of nowhere during the masquerade then disappears in a puff of smoke? Just move that TV screen. Not to mention that all the sets and the curtains rising and falling were just images on the screens. It also would have been nice if the screens weren't such bad quality that every pixel was the size of a ping pong ball or if the candles on the TVs weren't the size of small children. The moving center screen glitched occasionally too just adding to the list of reasons they were a bad idea.  Okay. So they messed around with the staging but otherwise the play was the same, right? Even if you ignore that they cut the Christine-in-a-wedding-dress dummy so Christine randomly faints for no reason and is wearing a wedding dress that apparently came from nowhere in the final scene I think we can all agree that Raoul giving Christine a ring is pretty important especially with the Phantom's line, "Your chains are still mine". Not to mention a tiny plot point of the chandelier. That's right, the chandelier. Instead of it falling it shorts out... or something. It flickered a bunch and sparks flew from it. I guess that can be counted as "a disaster beyond imagination" since the chandelier wasn't electric. It wouldn't have been quite so awkward if they hadn't kept talking about the "new chandelier" and the "shattered chandelier". Guys, you blew a few light-bulbs. Just replace them. I saw another production where the chandelier didn't fall. It sucked then too.  Now you'd think at this point there would be nothing left to screw up. You'd be wrong. On top of everything else there were all these little choreography problems. Christine pulls off the Phantom's mask in the "I Remember ... / Stranger Than You Dreamt It ..." scene the Phantom is turned to much towards the audience giving a clear view of his hideously deformed face for a moment before he covers it with his hand, the lasso around Raoul's neck in the "Down Once More ... / Track Down This Murderer ..." scene was hanging loose so Raoul literally had to hold it up, and when the Phantom went to free Raoul he turned on the candle that he uses to burn the rope before touching it to the other candle to "light" it there's a loud enough click to the button that you can clearly hear it and the giant black button is turned toward the audience. The giant black button was so ridiculous the audience in the theatre I was in started laughing. Really? Isn't it in stage 101 to not hold the candle so the giant button is showing?  Then there was the horribly disappointing after-show where Sarah Brightman sang, to my horror but not surprise, while wearing the most unflattering dress she could have dug out of her closet. She was joined by several men who had played the Phantom; Colm Wilkinson, Antony Warlow, John Owen-Jones, Peter Joback, and Ramin Karimloo. Notice who's missing? Michael Crawford was in attendance but topped off my disappointment by not singing.  So was there anything worthwhile in this concert? I'll be honest. I'm going to buy the Blu-ray. It will be nice to have a full recording of the play including dialogue and lyrics that don't appear in the soundtracks or movie and to have beautiful detail shots of the costumes and it's nice to see the masquerade played out without the use of mannequins but those are the only redeeming points to this performance. I can honestly say that I have never seen Phantom put on so badly. My only explanation is that Sir Andrew Lloyd Weber is losing his mind in his old age. Between this and "Love Never Dies" he couldn't do the Phantom more disservice. At this point he ought to take "By Jeeves" back to the drawing board for a third try. He can't do worse.

Blah Movies. Viewed: 1/09 Rate: 2  1/09: Act of Violence shows off a very linear plot that is mostly devoid of any thrills, suspense, or interest. After finding out the real story behind the chase, I didn't care anymore because the main character's problems didn't resonate with me well. In fact, he is better off dead, and that's how it happened. So, it was no surprise to me. Still, Robert Ryan's character could have saved the time and trouble by having his superior court-martialed for war crimes and conduct unbecoming of an officer. That would have saved all that trouble, and to follow that is to avoid being mixed up in a murder case. It gets real tiresome when seeing the ex-officer's wife defending her husband, and that's pretty usual for somebody who didn't see it happen or wasn't even there. Had she, yeah...that's a different story, sure. After the closing credits came, the director of Act of Violence was Fred Zinnemann. That does not surprise me at all since I consider him a very bland director. Speaking of bland, the performances of the cast were uninspiring too. Did I remember from The Great Escape that it was the duty of every Allied POW to escape from any building of confinement? All in all, Act of Violence is blah.  Viewed: 1/09 Rate: 4  1/09: Mystery Street is a rare film for me when it comes to hating all of the characters but really like everything else most especially the forensic science part. Speaking of that, Mystery Street is probably the earliest known film to touch that area before it has come to be the standard of today's crime solving procedure. Of course, I felt some of the scientific breakthroughs that I saw in Mystery Street to be too good to be true and had to suspend some of my disbelief, most notably during the discovery of the bullet in the car in a record-breaking time. If that did occur, I am surprised none of the two characters marveled at the genius of their detective work. Surely that was a missed cinematic moment. Otherwise, I liked the story and the unfolding of the plot if not too predictable because of the already revealed identity of the killer. While at that, I couldn't care less if the wrong guy got prosecuted and imprisoned; he got what he deserved because the dork didn't tell the truth to the detective. I hated Ricardo Montalban in this one; when the girl got bumped off way, way early in the movie, that helped a lot. Again, I didn't care for her either. The characters of Mystery Street are unbelievably stupid; what kind of a person would ransack a person's desk and leave the office with a loaded gun? And for what? What a stupid woman. I am pretty sure at that moment the evidence linking to the murder would have been seriously compromised and gotten the killer's case thrown out of court. All in all, I thought Mystery Street to be a very good picture at least from the forensic science side, but...no thanks to the rest.

Wonderful qualities that sink....just like a brick Film noir has to be one of my favorite genres in the realm of story weaving. As a mixture of crime drama, mystery, German expressionism, thriller, melodrama and even a few drops of horror film noir has had a presence in cinema since the 1940s.  I do not proclaim myself a film noir expert per se, but I have seen plenty of films in this category to be a fair judge of what is good and what is not.  The best analogy I have for this film is being on a date with a woman who is beautiful and dripping with sex appeal yet has no depth or substance whatsoever.  The 2005 film "Brick" would be considered a "neo-noir" film, mainly being a modern film noir omitting the "black and white" and some of the day old norms of the 1940s and 1950s. The plot revolves around Brendan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a high school student who is trying to solve the disappearance/murder of his estranged girlfriend Emily.  Brendan jumps down an interesting "rabbit hole" and uncovers many layers in his quest to resolve this conundrum. The grapples or "layers" Brendan tackles consist, but are not limited to, drug dealers, police, murder, fights and the proverbial femme fatal.  These all seem like prolific standards for a noir film, yet I found this film to be rather lacking in cohesiveness and believability. The movie is about high school students, not one single scene involves a classroom.  In addition, these high school students in many ways act more like adults.  Another odd aspect about these "high school" students is their dialect is a hybrid of adolescent jargon and an anachronistic tongue of an era long gone. I do appreciate the ode to classic noir by having our "anti-hero" calling a girl; excuse me dame "angel" but it seems odd to have a high school student doing this.  To piggy back this notion; there is a scene where "The Pin", a drug czar played by Lukas Haas, is having a meeting with his peers while his mother is serving snacks and drinks.  Perhaps this is black comedy but I found it totally preposterous.  Another problem area with this film is the opening scene. Technically, the framing and cinematography are breathtaking, as is the score.  Brendan is standing in front of a storm drain looking at Emily, who appears to be dead.  Then the scene cuts stating "two days prior", I had the assumption that the opening of the film would also serve as the climax.  Sadly we the viewers are brought back to the storm drain scene within twenty minutes of the motion picture.  A perfect story set up ruined for the next ninety minutes seem bloated and expedited at the same time.  Furthermore, there were way too many characters in this movie and the cant and code names made it difficult at times to keep up with the story. Perhaps I felt this way because a vast majority of the dialogue was mumbled in this movie. Once the climax came and we the viewers figure out "who was behind it all" I felt somewhat let down.  It was as if the ending was too standard for a film noir.  On a positive note, the acting was very good. Joseph Gordon-Levitt did a really fine job as our anti-hero; with the material he was given, as did Nora Zehetner.  The mood was also very stark and bare, great for a film noir. .  The lighting and cinematography was also on point.  As for the score, well let's just say I purchased it as soon as the end credits were rolling.  The problem with this movie was the direction of the story.  The story was not bad but the execution was very lazy and lacked focus, which translated to a very elongated viewing. I personally feel that if the high school angle was omitted and/or reworked, the story became a bit more simplified and the ending wasn't quite so trite this film could have been the standard all neo-noirs should live up to.

Very little "rite" about this one... I'm the type of viewer who can generally accept just about any initial premise for a film as long as one basic rule is followed: no matter how outrageous or silly the idea, do NOT try to explain it unless you can actually convince me - in other words, I'm willing to watch and enjoy things that can't happen so as long as you don't give me a terrible explanation of why the thing that can't happen can (a good explanation, of course, is even better, but not needed).  The Rite failed that test. (Spoilers) The film follows a young man, Michael Kovak,  (Colin O'Donoghue) who is studying to become a priest, despite his absence of faith. He is sent by his mentor to exorcism school at the Vatican, in the hopes of rekindling that faith. When he starts making too much sense there - providing logical replies to everything the priest claims - he is sent to shadow a real-life exorcist, Father Lucas (Anthony Hopkins). Like the exorcism teacher, Hopkins cannot rationally challenge anything his student can offer. Perhaps the most memorable line of the film is O'Donaghue's ... "It's gets complicated when no proof of the devil is somehow proof of the devil." At any rate, there are various encounters with people who are presumably possessed - or in need of mental health checkups - ending with the death of a young, pregnant woman. By now, Kovak is convinced that the devil is not real, and the exorcism business is a crock. Until the devil takes issue with his disbelief and decides to prove to him that he is in fact real (despite his ultimate goal being to stay hidden). Thus begins the possession of Father Lucas; and the eventual "redemption" of Kovak and defeat of the devil.  The shining star of this film was the acting - all involved did a wonderful job. The script (aside from the plot) was good, as was most else...except for the story. That was laughable. Again, the premise - whether it's that demonic possession is a reality, or anything else - is fine; but offer me a ridiculous explanation, and you've lost anything you had going for you. Explaining the cure to demonic possession as the belief of and handiwork of a mortal who follows a god who is (obviously) too weak to rid the possessed of the devil himself is absurd. So too is the idea that demonic possession is the product of a lapse in belief in an all powerful, merciful god who relies on mortals to do his dirty work - a god who leaves the helpless to their fate, should a mortal man whose been to exorcism school not be around. In fact, the very idea of this all powerful and yet pathetically weak and useless god who relies on humankind to fight his battles for him is at the same time contradictory and idiotic. It is unfortunate that the film came to such a ridiculous conclusion...because, up until that point, it was decent enough. As it is, though, The Rite (especially with its claim to be based on true events) basically concludes that reason is irrelevant in the face of medieval superstition, and explains away the unbelievable by invoking religion. Bad explanation == bad movie. 2 /5 stars ... great acting, lousy story

Another straight to video flic For Steven Segal fans, there are really only three groups of films - the good early ones, the military ones, and the other ones. The good ones are his early films, as Nico Toscani in "Above the Law" (1988), Mason Storm in "Hard to Kill" (1990), and my all time Segal fave Detective Gino Felino from "Out for Justice" (1991). His "Under Siege" (1992, 1995) films were a slight departure from the earlier films, but only in so far as it moved the setting from streets to military. I won't include "Executive Decision" (1995) in this discussion because you barely got through your popcorn before he disappeared. Starting in 1997 with "Fire Down Below" the story started to get in the way of the action, and the action started to recede into the background. Segal started shooting more than shoving, and his double began doing more of the moves. There are a couple of exceptions (e.g., "Exit Wounds") but generally speaking the films from the mid 90s onwards are a lot of talking and a lot of gesturing and not much else. A big drag.  Don't get me wrong. Segal has as much right to preach as anyone and I mostly agree with most of his sentiments. If he was giving a lecture I'd attend. But I go to see his films for the action - specifically for the non-traditional ways in which he combats his foes. Sure, throw in some Buddhist stuff and be respectful and meek and all that. But when the action is supposed to take over, let it flow.  "Out of Reach" comes in 2004 in the middle of dozens of "straight to video" Segal films that fall into the third group - the ho hum other ones.  Segal (sans pony tail) plays an owner of a wildlife refugee who corresponds with a 13 year old girl in a Polish orphanage. She gets involved in human trafficking and Segal goes to her rescue, teaming up with a local policewoman. We get a few scenes of close-up hand-to-hand combat between Segal and 3 or 4 thugs, a few of the famous Segal pushes, and a climactic sword duel with Matt Schulze. You'll recognize Schulze from his roles as a villain in "Blade" (1998) and "Transporter" (2001) and their sequels.  The action is slightly better than average for one of Segal's ho hum films. Rapid Segal fans will want to see this film, but most of the rest of us will want to savor the good early ones.

Holiday bummer This was not a keeper for me.  Some may enjoy it,it is a typical Lifetime movie.  Not a bad film, just shallow.

if you approve if you approve of cheating, adultery, dishonesty and things of that nature this movie will be right up your alley. I was terribly bored with this movie. I couldn't relate to any of the characters because they were such awful people. I only gave it two stars because i did laugh a couple times.

King Adaption This is adapted from a Stephen King novel about a killer dog. King is the most popular name in horror. As a straight horror film I thought it was depraved. A mother and son are pursued in a car by the dog for several minutes. Contains dog on man violence.

Dull A fire breathing dragon terrorizes the British sountryside. A sorceror dies in the process. I thought this was a waste outside of a couple dragon scenes and would probably not want to see it again. Contains one scene of brief nudity.

A Sleeper Hit, but not in a good way. This movie seemed promising.  I love the Golden Era history.  Dillinger was a character I honestly had interest in.  Heck, I even enjoy Johnny Depp as an actor. This movie however missed on all fronts.  The primary downfall of this movie was the directing.  There is not one interesting shot in the movie.  I kept falling asleep because each time the film cuts to a different angle it is the same medium shot as all of the rest.  There are no real close ups, or far ways... just standard medium shots through out.  The acting overall is sub par.  It seems like this movie was made over the course of a few weeks.  There is even a scene which has a modern day jeep in the background.  No one really seemed to put any effort into this movie.  One thing I can't understand are the great reviews for this movie.  I was actually excited to see it, but was soooooooo let down that I had to turn it off before I even finished it.  I don't normally take naps in the middle of the day, but this movie sure put me in the mood.

DEBBIE GIBSON SAVES PLANET!!! The title should say, "Don't expect much." I expected a bad script, bad acting, bad science, and bad special effects. In that regard I wasn't disappointed. If you decide to turn it off after a giant shark jumps out of the water and takes a jet out of the sky, wait. We later find out they can travel 500 knots, but have trouble catching a nuclear sub doing less than say, 40 knots. No wait. These nuclear subs have something called "emergency turbos" so maybe they can go faster. Sailors on nuclear subs don't carry handguns. Really. Who would they shoot underwater? At one point they flash the locations of the recent attacks. Nearly all were in the Pacific ocean as expected. There were 3 in the Atlantic. As Sarah Palin might tweet, "WTF?" These creatures for some unexplained reason are impervious to conventional weapons so the military led by our secret government kidnaps three scientists to employ them for information on how to kill them. They get right on the task by mixing water tainted with various vegetable dies. We discover red water added to blue water makes purple water and that blonds love Japanese men who try to act like Sulu as much as Orientals love blonds. After a romp in a closet, they figure out they can lure the creatures into certain ports (San Francisco and Tokoyo) which have a natural shelf and then trap them. The idea being they can get in, but somehow they can't get out, unless they catch a ride with a plane flying overhead. They then manufacture a phermone of an extinct animal for which they would normally have no idea where to start. We know they are successful because when they mix two liquids together it turns florescent green and Debbie Gibson smiles.  At one point Japanese and American subs are in the same area. All the American subs are destroyed but one. The Japanese civilian scientist asks, which one is it, as Debbie or now Deborah Gibson is on one of them. The captain says, "No way of telling." After making subs (this film and Moby Dick) do all kinds of things beyond any smidgeon of realism, they claim they "can't tell." Really they can tell. Each sub has its own unique underwater signature.  The creatures look very artificial. But what did you expect? If you enjoy getting stoned and watching "Lost in Space" episodes, give this one 5 stars.  Movie drops f-bomb once, no nudity, no sex scenes.

Lead to boredom The movie could have been much more but instead became a boring. I waited to see if the plot would escalate but it plateaued early and made it difficult to keep interested.

Single Disc Edition problem The single disc, NTSC Dual Layer DVD edition didn't work for us when I tried to playback on the Sony PS3.  These manufacturers and these movie studios could be a bit more accommodating, and not make it so difficult or complicated in order to play back movies that are purchased.  While they're at it, the movie studios should also do away with region codes.

This is not romance. This was a good love story, a tear jerker, but it was not romantic. A real romance is not one where you have to go back and forth from one guy to another because you don't even know what you want. In a real romance, you just KNOW. Allie was portrayed as spoiled and wishy washy. I'm not even complaining of her infidelity, because I'm glad she made the right choice and chose Noah. But to think she could just sleep w/Noah and then go back to her fiance....thats just made me want to smack her. The older Noah and Allie were cute, but I just fell asleep when they came on.  In the end, the only thing that held this "love" story together was the deep love Noah had for Allie, which was beautiful. Everything else was pretty dumb.  I just hope young people don't watch this and think this is as good as it gets, cause it can be so much better.

Pretty terrible This is just what you'd expect, only not nearly as exciting as you'd hope. It's so obviously staged from start to finish that it's really not that entertaining.

Defective and overall not worth the money The DVD was defective so almost half way through my workout I had to stop and start the DVD all over again.  The music is decent so I gave this two stars. However, the view is not great at all.  This was definitely not recorded by a professional so what should have been scenic views were mainly patches of dark gray/black views with bright colors coming from the cyclists gear.  Don't waste your money.

This hitman is after everyone looking for him. Rated "R". Running Time: 92 mins.   Based upon the Hitman Video Game series.  A man, Agent 47 (Timothy Olyphant), who is shaved bald and tattooed with a barcode on the back of his head, is a hitman. He is after the very people who are after him. He wants answers as to why they are after him in St. Petersberg, Russia. The only person he can trust is Nika (Olga Kurylenko), a woman with a dragon tattoo by her eye and runs down to her cheek.   Ever get the idea Timothy Olyphant should do the old Clint eastwood "Dirty Harry" movies?   I can see why Olga Kurylenko was chosen for her role in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001PPLIFU">Quantum of Solace [Blu-ray</a>] (2008).   Option of Language: English, Spanish.  Option of Subtitles: English, Spanish, French.   Video Game Series:   <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004RFBE">Hitman: Codename 47</a> (2000). <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000069BCR">Hitman 2:  Silent Assassin</a> (2002). <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001AVSH8">Hitman Contracts</a> (2004). <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000AVD4NO">Hitman: Blood Money for PC</a> (2006). <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002I0H2G0">Hitman Absolution</a> (2012).

A few unfunny bloopers.... No bleeps.  No bodyslams to remember.  And the bloopers consist of Gorilla Monsoon messing up his lines maybe ten different times.  Not saying something by accident instead of something else, but more him just messing up on the telepromter.  The matches stink too.  SKIP!!!!

Boo I fell into all the hype and expected to see a horror movie like none I've seen. I was disappointed. Does anyone know of a true horror/ porn movie? I think this gives many ideas for adult viewers.

Are you kidding me? I gave 3 stars instead of 1 because I really like this movie - Will Smith did an exceptional job, along with the rest of the cast.  Usually with remakes, I prefer the original but not in this case; and I really like Charlton Heston movies (referring to "Omega Man").  This remake did so much better with regard to action; what someone might go through mentally with the loss of family, let alone being the only person left on earth; and some reality with what you see in the background of the film.  So the film does well mixing some good drama and action enough to keep you from hitting the stop button because the science fiction part is so unrealistic.  However, this "alternate" ending sucked, to put it mildly.  I'm not going to give it away, but puh-leeze.  Okay, this movie IS science fiction, but this alternate ending kind of put it over the top as far as stupidity is concerned.  I liked the original ending better, although sad it left me with a feeling of hope better than this version did.

Impossible to Take Seriously Usually when a film is slandered, I try to weigh out against the popular consensus, as rarely is a movie such a failure that it has no redeeming qualities. I will not do that here, however. While not quite on the level of Titanic: The Legend Continues (the worst animated film ever made), Batman & Robin is easily the worst Batman film ever. Even though I'm no fan of Christopher Nolan's over-realistic portrayal of Gotham, Schumacher's offering is definitely way too far on the other end of the scale. Batman & Robin fails on practically every front.  To start with, the title doesn't make sense. If anything, Batman Forever should've been called Baman & Robin, as that film was actually about Robin's inclusion into Batman's life.  The story and script is a convoluted mess. Mr Freeze and Poison Ivy are the worst pair of villains you could ever pair up. Are we supposed to believe that they have similar interests? Sure, they both want to take over the world (a commendable goal for a super-villain but not for them), but Freeze's plan is to freeze the Earth and Poison Ivy wants to fill it with plants. Are they trying to take over two different planets? Robin, a conflicted but likeable character in Batman Forever, now acts like a snotty kid who complains all the time and has no sense of reason. There are so many one-liners that the story's actual expositions are drowned in all the silliness. Bane isn't even necessary at all, basically a rabid gorilla on steroids.  The cast is practically all A-list, yet all turn in the worst performances of their careers. George Clooney doesn't even attempt to act like Batman OR Bruce Wayne; he smiles and jokes his way throughout the movie. Uma Thurman and Arnold Schwarzenegger are held back by the terrible dialogue they are slumped with, which is basically all-puns and monologueing. Mr Freeze fares the worse out of the two, as basically everything he says has something to do with his cold condition (that, by the way, sounds very much like one of his puns in the movie). Lines like "You're not sending me to the cooler," "Tonight's forecast: a freeze is coming" and "Let's kick some ICE!" are bad as it is, but include every possible variation on that and the character's credibility has evaporated within two minutes of him on-screen. Even when I was 10, the constant puns (overkill even by Schwarzenegger's standards) came across as stupid. Alicia Silverstone doesn't even attempt to sound English and even Chris O'Donnell is much more annoying this time around. But Jason, Pamela Isly's boss, takes the cake as one of the most obnoxious supporting characters ever, hamming up every line more than Jim Carrey did in Batman Forever. I blame the terrible dialogue, dialogue even Meryl Streep would struggle to make creditable.  The film wants us to shut off our brains. There are so many things that make no sense in any sort of logical mindframe, no matter the setting. How would diamonds go about making anything colder? How does a human being, any human being, survive a fall of hundreds of feet even if there is water at the bottom? How could a human being possibly survive being frozen solid (unless it weren't really ice, but an instant cocoon). Why would Freeze choose an ice cream factory as his hideout and have it clearly marked with spotlights? And why, in a city protected by Batman, is the highest rate of crime in any city in the world, with the only people out in the streets being street gangs?  One scene in particular showcases everything that's wrong about this movie, where Batman draws out a Bat Card, complete with the Batman logo on it (expiration date: "Forever" and I wish I were kidding). Nothing about that even attempts to make sense in any sort of way. It works in a Freakazoid! episode but not here.  The film looks great, with set pieces and costumes that are high-standard, but the constant flashing of neon lights (on a level that was campy back in the 90s) from practically everything gets really tiring on the eyes very quickly. The music is very good, especially Elliot Goldenthal's "One More Diamond/The Ball", which stands out for me as the highlight of the film. There are some welcome subplots about Albert's illness and Mr Freeze's wife, but everything else seems determined not to be taken seriously. Just as another example, I could state that Poison Ivy arrives at a ball dressed as a purple gorilla and dances before the audience. Because, why wouldn't she?  Schumacher pulled off Batman Forever with reasonable flair and created a fun, memorable movie. So what went wrong with Batman & Robin? What with a terrible script, bad performances, an overbarrage of puns and unbeliavably stupid moments like Mr Freeze commanding his underlings to sing along to Jack Frost's "I'm Mister White Christmas", Batman & Robin is not even worth a view for the curiosity of it. At the end of the day, I'm giving it a 1.5, because no film that at least looks like some work went into it (however ill-conceived) deserves a 1. Still, Batman & Robin is seriously pushing it. Watch it for a laugh.

This is the uncut version and I cannot believe what I just watched!! This is garbage at its greatest! I don't know where to begin. I knew from reading reviews that I needed to "witness" the uncut 104 minute version of this 'film'. Honestly, I wished I had gotten the 45 minute version. I have seen many graphic horror films (even snuff films) and this IS the grossest piece of crap that exists in this world today (at least from what I have seen). This DVD/movie needs to burned and boycotted. I am VERY open minded and can tolerate a lot of sick stuff, but this went waaay over the edge! I don't know if I will ever get this movie out of my head. This really messed me up! That is how gross it is. Repulsive is too mild of a word for this trash. I have never felt so dirty, filthy, and bummed out from a movie before. Like I said, I have watch gross movies before...but nothing like this!! At first, I wasn't going to write a review. But after reading people praising this movie, I had to wonder what sick world we live in. This is NOT entertainment, people!!! It promotes the lowest of lows in filmmaking. The sickest part of all this: I couldn't stop watching it! Just for what it is, it will be (if not already) a cult classic. As perverted a person I am, I had trouble getting through this one. It's not the pornography that got me, it's all the taboos that were displayed. Stuff in this movie is illegal here in the US. I wonder what makes us enjoy junk like this? I am sure I am going to hear from fans of this movie, so bring it. I had to give my thought on this movie. And to think, I was looking forward to seeing it. I will never be the same after witnessing this.

BLU RAY Takes forever to load. I tried to play this on my blu ray player first, and it would either eject it immediately or just load endlessly for a couple minutes. I said, forget it, ill try my ps3, same thing, without the ejecting. Just stared at a black screen for a few minutes, while on my computer writing a wish for refund to the sender. Then the "universal" logo shows up after five minutes of nothing. Other than the obvious frustration this causes, this movie is the best comedy of all time, so I can't be too mad.

Bad I have to agree with VRegina, this looks like a highschool film project...at best.  I wish I could get the 1.5 hours of my life back that I spent watching this farce.  It even claimed to be the "Director's Cut" but it seems any director worth his paycheck never would have participated.  It is a self-indulgent, low-budet hack job.

HBO version of Mildred Pierce in DVD We bought this TV retelling of  Mildred Pierce from Amazon. We have seen the excellent movie with Joan Crawford many times over the years, and it never fails to hold our interest.  In our opinion, the revised version (which may, or may not, be closer to the novel. I really don't know) is not as compelling.  It's much too slow moving.  As a matter of fact we haven't even bothered to look at the whole thing losng interest by the end of part two.  I'd rather look at my DVD of the Joan Crawford film again.

ugh, terrible! Hideaway really stinks.  Not even the beautiful Alicia Silverstone can save it.  It's about Alicia's character having to endure a car accident when her father carelessly hits a truck late at night, and the car spins off the road and off the side of a cliff.  From here Alicia barely escapes, but forced to stand around and witness her parents go off the cliff and supposedly watch her father die before her eyes, however the next day he wakes up in a hospital and apparently is perfectly fine.  His wife is especially surprised by this because she strongly believed that she JUST watched him die.  Anyway, the father becomes the main character of the movie as he gradually starts having dreams and visions of terrible events involving Alicia and another young daughter of his that died tragically when her bike accidentally drove in front of a moving car one horrible sunny day.  This incident has been haunting the father ever since it occurred.  It turns out a devil worshipper (or the devil himself- I never was sure) is the one responsible for the father having these terrible visions.  The devil doesn't like light either.  Hey that makes two of us!  Close the blinds and shut off the lamp!  The problem is that nothing suspenseful really happens.  I mean the father has these terrible visions and then runs around trying to make sure they don't become a reality by urgently realizing that he needs to protect his wife and kid but... he does nothing BUT run around, constantly!  If this is what's supposed to be considered suspense, then count me out- it doesn't work.  When the devil worshipper satanist weirdo and the father eventually meet... well this doesn't occur until the end of the movie.  Needless to say it's an exaggerated, unsatisfying way to wrap up a mediocre storyline.  The only time I'm ever really enticed by the story is when the father bleeds and cuts himself under unusual circumstances.  Reasons that nobody understands because the father himself apparently doesn't remember or understand it either.  It's all very confusing but when, for example, in one scene he's holding and squeezing a razor blade over the bathroom sink, this was by far the creepiest segment in the film.  It's also weird how the cuts are never very deep, giving way to the only suspense I can possibly discover through this pointless hogwash of a movie.  Overall, with no suspense, interesting plotline, or anything interesting at *all* occurring, it's hard to recommend it.  Only people who can't get enough of Alicia Silverstone would find something appealing about this, but you must be warned- she gradually falls out of the storyline as the film rolls along.  The father is clearly the main character here.

Phil Collins not at its best Sadly Phil Collins doesn't play drums anymore, but vocals are definitively not his strongpoint. Picture quality, as well as audio quality is very good, though.

Never one of my favorites The drunken pink elephant sequence went on WAY too long.  And how about those black crows? Disney will release this, but NOT release Song of the South?  Doesn't make sense!

Another mockbuster not worth your time. Paranormal Entity (Shane van Dyke, 2009)  The Asylum strikes again. Take a recently-released (and by "recently" I mean "a couple of months ago or less") theatrical flick that made it big, rip it off, slap a very close name on it, and release it direct to video. This is becoming a common-enough occurrence at The Asylum (a company founded by disenfranchised folks who left Village Roadshow Pictures back in the late nineties) that Rolf Potts, writing in The New York Times in 2007, dubbed many of Asylum's releases "mockbusters". Transformers becomes Transmorphers (and the sequel, of course: Transmorphers: Fall of Man), Pirates of the Caribbean becomes Pirates of Treasure Island. Paranormal Activity becomes Paranormal Entity, though in this unsurprisingly crappy ripoff by Shane van Dyke (Transmorphers: Fall of Man, and Dick van Dyke's grandson), he at least added an interesting twist: instead of being a straight rip-off of Paranormal Activity, Paranormal Entity splices the two films referenced in its title, Paranormal Activity and The Entity. And, actually, if you want to take this really, really far, crosses the result with The Poughkeepsie Tapes, John Erick Dowdle (Quarantine)'s second feature. Don't get me wrong, it's still unmitigated crap, but at least it's more amusing to play spot-the-influence here than it is in most Asylum flicks.  In case you missed the movies this is ripped off from, a quick synopsis: this is supposed to be actual footage documented by Thomas Finley (van Dyke) at the request of paranormal investigator Edgar Lauren (Inception's Norman Saleet, much better known as a songwriter than an actor) of a haunting. We're told at the beginning of the movie that Thomas Finley has been charged with the murder of Edgar Lauren and the rape and murder of his sister Samantha (Abbey of Thelema's Erin Marie Hogan), so there's no real mystery about who the final girl--umm, boy--is here. Other than Thomas and Samantha's mom Ellen (Shut Up and Kiss Me's Fia Perera), these are the only characters in the film. Aside, of course, from the title creature.  Once I realized that there was a strong Entity subtext here (and it took me about five minutes after they mention Thomas is charged with "the rape and murder" of Samantha for that to happen), I had some hopes for the movie's special effects budget. Who that has seen The Entity will ever forget the ghost pawing at Barbara Hershey's breasts? (Not only because it's so prurient, but thirty years ago it was also cutting-edge stuff.) No such luck here, unfortunately; van Dyke is nowhere near as capable a director as Sidney J. Furie, not that that should surprise anyone, and "cutting-edge" is not a term anywhere in his vocabulary. This plays out exactly as you think it will, with a bit of nudity that Paranormal Activity was lacking, but otherwise there's nothing at all original to be found here. Do yourself a favor and ignore its existence. * ½

not worth it If you want pretty lights and big self-promotion then you will watch the New York "entertainment" with its constant repeat stale matches and over-hyped, over priced pay per views.I am been a wrestling fan for over 30 years and TNA is wrestling!!I have seen moves and matches in TNA that have "wowed" me and never expect to see from New York.

not in english I was disappointed in finding this trilogy was not in English.  NO where did I see that it was stated that it was only in Swedish.  They need to add that detail to their  description of the product, so others wont be disappointed like I was.  I was really looking forward to seeing this trilogy as I have read the books.  Sub titles just dont do it for me. THanks

Virtually unwatchable Perhaps my expectations were to high, or perhaps its it that I do not see things from a purely western perspective. I felt the film was great if you adhere to the western version of heaven and hell, redemption and being "saved". It appears to me that those who feel they are "saved" want to "see" what the ever after might be like for them. This film appears to give you a glimpse of what it MIGHT be like. Therefore, for those already in that mind set this might be a good film. It definitely was not my cup of tea.

Poor acting The acting is poor compared to other Haley Mills movies. I enjoy the older movies but sure notice the differance in technology.

LIZ IS A LITTLE "BLUE" WOW!IS THIS PICTURE A REAL DOG...AND LIZZIE DOES DO SOME STRANGE "BLUE"THINGS HERE.BUT IT'S WORTH THE PRICE AS A COLLECTORS ITEM OF BAD FILMS MADE BY GOOD ARTIST.THIS IS ONE OF THE BARELY KNOWN EUROPEAN FILMS LIZ DID AND PROBABLY NOT SHOWN IN THE US.[THANK GOD!]THE PRIMUS IS A WOMAN ON THE VERGE OF MADNESS FOR WHO KNOWS WHAT REASON..PMS?SHE SEARCHES FOR THE "RIGHT"MAN WHO IS WILLING TO MURDER HER [?]TO HAVE SEX[?]ONE IS NOT SURE AND WHAT'S WITH THE PEANUT GUY?AND WILL LIZZE REALLY GIVE A B---J--?SHE'S NOT LOOKING HEALTHY HERE TOO...DRINKING IS BAD ON THE FACE.AND WHY IS ANDY WHARHOL IN THIS MESS TOO?WHAT'S THE POINT BUT TO HAVE AS A COLLECTOR'S PIECE.HMMMM.

The Ultimate Wave 3D Viewed on Sony 60NX810 Okay (so-so), educational, some oomph, but where is the ultimate wave? Was a waste of Kelly Slater (world champion surfer?) as you would have expected the producers/directors to capture something dramatic/sensational. I have seen far better wave tunnel surfing on TV and in the movies, but certainly not here. Not much of Tahiti is captured, kinda gives a feeling of being a deserted place of untold beauty. Advice: Rent rather than buy, that way if you like it you can buy it.

Started off well, then fizzled out to an undignified and gruesome death... I was looking forward to seeing this movie. My mom and I went and saw it in the theatre, unsure of what to think of it. About the first 45 minutes were awesome; very beautifully filmed, with good action and decent acting. Once Snow White and the Huntsman had been traveling together for about ten minutes, however, my mind started to throb with agonizing boredom. The story moved incredibly slow, with bad acting--loved Hemsworth as THOR, & he was good in this role, though the script fairly SUCKED, and Stewart is the most horrible actress I've ever seen, being the top-paid one in Hollywood for one (ugly) expression--though Theron was good, even if most of her monologues turned into meaningless rambling.  When are we ever going to get a STRONG HEROINE???? (Buffy, please come back!!!) Snow White spends most of the movie running around w/ the Huntsman through the woods, and getting scared at trees and vines. When we meet the dwarves (some of the most entertaining characters in the movie) we keep getting told that Snow White is special, and the one to end the war, yaddy-yaddy-yadda. The aforementioned war took forever to get around to actually happening. In between, there was a TERRIBLE attempt at romance--bad love triangles follow Stewart around everywhere--and it was never even solved, even if the Huntsman's kiss brought Snow back to life after eating the apple. Once we got to the war, Snow White dressed in armor and carried a sword--since when did she learn how to wield one?--and runs into the castle while all the men fight behind her & tries to kill the Queen. When she finally does, she tells her blandly that she can't have her heart (apparently the Queen needed it to keep herself young & beautiful... Not that Snow is prettier than her, something I think just about EVERYONE noticed)... and then she sits down and starts CRYING. She seems to feel SORRY for the Queen. The woman who would have killed her without a second thought, stole her childhood & stuffed her up in a tower for most of her life... Snow CRIES over her. And, being the bad actress that she is, Kristen Stewart didn't even cry believably.  However, I can't be ALL mean. Most of the time, the filming was beautiful, and the action scenes were reasonably good, if pointless. The glass soldiers were cool.  I don't want to be mean to the actors either. Kristen Stewart could probably do well in SOMETHING, if only she'd be in a movie with a good script, and start to be more expressive.  I usually don't like to be this critical. But this movie was sooooooooooooooo slow-moving and mind-numbingly boring... And it could've been so much better.

dont, just dont If i were one of the people THIS was dedicated to i would've changed my name out of shame(even if i were The Great One.)

A lot of home movies, behind the scenes and not enough concert Believe it or not, I'm a Katy Perry fan, but not nearly enough to see this in theaters. This is pretty dull with a lot of home movie, some concert footage and behind the scenes. It documents her year long tour... but doesn't have full song performances. It shows the behind the scenes and even brief moments of her new ex husband. But sprinkled in there is the real biography of this documentary / film. It shows her growing up, where she came from, her budding music career, why she's so awesome and would make it big one day.  Personally, this was a chore for 2 Katy Perry fans to get through. I think a concert DVD would have been better, but perhaps there are mega Katy fans that will think this is the best movie ever because it brings you into Katy Perry's life and how she's always been fun and weird from the start.  It is more than a biography, but it is still a biography with concert footage and behind the scenes. If you like watching home movies about someone you idolize, this is for you. If not, skip it, because you'll be bored. I can think of something 1,000x more entertaining... listening to one of Katy's 2 CDs. They're amazingly better than this.

This has already had a studio DVD release. "I Come In Peace" I have the original DVD release of this from the studio. It is OOP. The correct name is "I Come In Peace". I also saw this during it's original theatrical run. Decent Lundgren movie.

Best Trailer Ever, but 13 yo boys filmed it. :( After seeing the amazing trailer for this, I was hyped to see it. It looked like it would be the freakiest, scariest film ever. Unfortunately, I soon discovered it was a mess. The first and last films were pretty decent, though I could've done without the nudity in the first one (it was skating a fine line between horror and porn, mostly on the porn side). You don't need to show tits to make a horror movie, really, you don't. The one about the Skype convos was OK, it had some freaky parts, and a unique way of presenting the story. The 2nd honeymoon was a waste of film and time - completely worthless. The one in the woods was likewise worth skipping. The last film was pretty freaky though, and interesting. This could've been so much more with better filmmakers. Disappointing.

Is this really acting? I purchased this item thinking and hoping it would really tell the story of the battle. Instead this movie poorly portrayed the Italian army as a legimate military force.

I wasn't thunderstruck We went to see this one in the theater and I was pretty underwhelmed. I had two main problems with it:  1) The romance with Natalie Portman was totally superfluous. It was only there because the focus groups say you have to have a romance. I know that's status quo but I'm getting tired of it.  2) I hated the treatment of the Norse myth. Admittedly I should have expected that from Marvel, but the actual Norse legends are so much more...alive than what we get in this movie. It reduced archetypal gods to cardboard cutout aliens with the same names. Loki wasn't even a shadow of his namesake.  The special effects were pretty good. It wasn't a terrible movie by any means, just a let down.

"You're no George Bush" The story: when Joshua McCord (Chuck Norris, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0030Y12AU">Walker, Texas Ranger</a>), the "president's man" - a solitary machine who undertakes terrorist assignments too sensitive for the nation to handle publicly - seeks a replacement to take up his dangerous mantel, he finds one in Deke Slater (Dylan Neal, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00344EAG4">Blood Ties</a>), a military hero unjustly sent to prison. In learning from the master, Deke will need to prove himself through a series of missions culminating with the rescue of a top governmental engineer from the clutches of a sadistic chemical runner (Soon-Tek Oh, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000K3U4">Beverly Hills Ninja</a>).  During the last few years of his cinematic career, Chuck Norris was big on presenting himself as a guide or teacher to others, and this is one of the movies where it actually works well enough. Chuck Norris is still obviously *Chuck Norris* but he's got enough of a wizened air about him to pull off the part; someone else could have played the role better, but Chuck does alright. Dylan Neal as his prot&eacute;g&eacute; has some good physical moves but will take a while to grow on you, if at all, seeing as he begins the movie as a sour-faced jerk. He and Norris make an okay team, but their chemistry is unexceptional and, seeing as Norris is a martial arts instructor in real life and used to teaching, their mentor/pupil relationship could have been explored a lot more. The perpetually under-appreciated Soon-Tek Oh has only a handful of scenes and doesn't speak for half of them.  There's a decent amount of action in the film, but it's not great. Dylan Neal's training scenes (wherein he throws knives at a revolving poster, runs an aerobics course, and spars with Jennifer Tung of "Masked Rider" fame) are decent, but if you have your heart set on real hand-to-hand stuff, you're going to be disappointed. There are enough flashes of physical competence from both of the main stars to keep you watching, but - with the exception of the pretty good showdown between Norris and Soon-Tek's stunt double - most of the fights are choreographed and shot in boring made-for-TV fashion with way too many close-ups and shots from the back.  It bothers me a bit that the movie goes back in time ten years from when it was made in being a pro-America advertisement at the expense of non-Americans: most of the missions in the film are simply Chuck Norris saving rich white Americans from evil brown-skinned people. However, it's difficult to be upset by the movie because everything it presents is so very dull and run-of-the-mill. This is television B-movery at its most formulaic, from the get-it-done filming of its action scenes to the script's by-the-numbers clich&eacute;s. It's odd that a film as bland as this would be one of the few that Chuck followed up with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00025I6ZY">a sequel</a>, but then again, it was probably done as a favor to his son/director Eric. In a good mood, I'd give this movie three stars for its overall competence, but since I'm not feeling generous, it'll have to endure two for its insipidness. Chuck Norris fans might as well check it out, but that's about it.

disc broken The second disc doesnt work at all. Disc one and three work perfectly, im not satisfied though. I think the disc cracked just a little when the manufacturer placed it in the box.

David White David White plays a street character(s), which threw me off during the whole movie.  I couldn't get into this, preferring a more Christian theme. The language wasn't raw, guess that makes it a family film. I cannot show mercy for this street movie -- too far of a stretch from anything that could occur in reality. Maybe I didn't understand the message; I'll try watching it again, just for the sake of David White.  (smile)

Rating several series from best to worst This review rates the following (in order): Entourage Rome Californication Spartacus Weeds Sex and the City The Tudors True Blood Big Love  My wife and I have found that we enjoy these series better than watching individual movies.  I believe that we also would rank them in the same order, so this is a male/female friendly review.  As with all MoonDonkey reviews, it goes without saying that this is gospel.  I've tried to do this without including spoilers.  #1 Entourage (5 stars) How could anything else be #1?  Entourage follows the career of movie star Vincent Chase and his group of friends.  This is the gold standard by which all other series are measured.  Plus, Entourage has the best one-liners of any series.  Unfortunately, I cannot include them in this review due to their graphic nature.  #2 Rome (5 stars) Rome follows the exploits of two Roman soldiers - Verenus (the smarts) and Pullo (the brute).  Very well done.  For a historical drama, the sets are very well designed and believable.  In Rome, the idea is that you see the Roman Empire through the eyes of two soldiers as they experience the ups and downs of life.  My wife and I enjoyed this one a lot.  #3 Californication (5 stars) Frankly, I wasn't sure I wanted to watch this at first.  I pegged David Duchovny as an X-Files guy and wasn't sure what to make of him in this role.  Also, I wasn't sure what Californication was about anyway.  Well, I was pleasantly surprised.  In Californication, we follow the life and career of author Frank Moody - a chaotic and perhaps self-destructive individual who has a way with women.  Unfortunately for him, he is trying to balance the chaos of his life on one side with his teenage daughter and her mother (his love interest) on the other side.  The dude is a train-wreck and it makes for a great series.  #4 Spartacus (4 stars) Spartacus is about a man who is captured and made a gladiator slave in the Roman Empire.  There is just of a bit of a drop off from the 5 star series to 4 star Spartacus.  Why?  Well, there just isn't as much of Spartacus.  Basically one season followed by a "prequel" season.  I believe that is because the original Spartacus actor died of cancer.  I'm not sure if there are future plans for the series or not.  Also, the effects take some getting used to.  There is definitely a CGI feel to some of the scenery.  The blood effects are similar to 300.  Regardless of those issues, Spartacus was highly enjoyable.  Even my wife, who was like "what the heck" after the first episode, came around and really enjoyed the series.  Maybe because they show sausage.  Some of the gladiator "locker room" scenes are like staring at a pack of Johnsonville brats.  There is a lot of blood and nudity in this one - as there should be given that this is a brutal depiction of life as a slave gladiator.  #5 Weeds (3 stars) Weeds gets a golf-clap 3 star ranking.  Why?  Because the plot just doesn't make sense sometimes.  There are points in this series where you feel like it is going one way and then - boom - the plot takes a 90 degree turn towards something else.  It's not like it makes sense thought.  Rather, it feels more like a different writer came in to write a different episode or something.  It is very strange and it happens a number of times.  Weeds follows the life of a suburban mom who sells pot to make money after her husband dies.  The decision to become a dealer impacts her two sons and her husband's brother - who comes to live with her.  The series starts out with sort of a realistic "how would this play in the suburbs" feel, but then progresses down some more eccentric paths.  We have enjoyed the series, but this is not one that we were waiting at the mailbox for the next video to arrive.  It qualifies as a "we will watch it when we get around to it" series.  #6 Sex and the City (3 stars) Sex and the City explores the lives of 4 single women and their quest for happiness and men in New York.  Why 3 stars?  This is the only series that my wife and I would disagree on the ranking.  I suspect she would give it 4 stars and I would give it two.  Frankly, it is too much of a "chic flick" for me... and I would guess most men feel the same way.  Wait you say - what about Entourage?  Isn't that basically the same thing with a group of guys?  In a word... no.  It isn't.  For some reason, Entourage just plays better that Sex and the City.  Also, the last couple seasons of Sex and the City really fell off a cliff.  It had the distinct feeling that they were just looking to wrap it up.  Also, speaking as a guy, this series became too "cultish" for me.  Do you know how many women started drinking cosmos because of this series?  For that matter, do you know how many "Rabbits" sold because of this series?  Sex and the City became sort of a female cultural event.  Guys - that really tells you everything you need to know, doesn't it?  #7 The Tudors (3 stars) This is a tough one.  The Tudors is a story about the life of Henry V of England and his many wives.  It is good, but I think many people just won't get into this series.  It doesn't have the craziness of Entourage or Californication, nor the blood and guts of Rome and Spartacus.  The Tudors is more of a historical drama.  Consider The Tudors a 3 star teetering on the edge of a 2 star.  I prefer Weeds to The Tudors.  However, I think my wife would maybe rank this a bit higher.  If you choose to watch this series, I strongly recommend committing to watching the first 3-4 episodes at least.  If you just watch one or two, you probably won't stick with it.  I tell you what though - one of the most interesting things about The Tudors is all of the torture.  Watching The Tudors makes any modern "torture" techniques look laughable.  Water-boarding?  Bah, that's for sissies!  Give me the rack!  #8 True Blood (2 stars) True Blood is about life in a small town after vampires have come out of the closet and try to live normal lives with humans... or at least that is what it starts out to be.  Look - I'd love to rate True Blood higher, but the series just gets weirder and weirder as it goes on.  It is like the writers got bored with the standard vampire-human conflict thing so they had to take it in several other directions... and I do mean several.  Suddenly we have werewolves, witches, shape-shifters, fairies, etc, etc.  It gets to the point where you are asking yourself, really?  Really? I'd give the first season alone 4 stars, but it drops of to 3 stars and then to 2 stars after that.  #9 Big Love (1 star) Big Love is about a mormon family practicing polygamy.  The story follows the life of one man and his many wives.  My wife liked this a bit more than I did, but it just didn't do it for me.  There really wasn't anything about the show that I found interesting.  I think my wife enjoyed some of the relationship drama, but she stopped watching the series and hasn't expressed an interest in continuing it.  This one was a burn-out.  I think it is because Big Love is maybe too serious - if it had a Californication element to it, I bet it would have been pretty entertaining.  So there you have it my friends.  I may continue to update this list as we watch more series.  The nutshell is that HBO appears to be focusing on more high-end "production" type series and Showtime is focusing on lower cost dramas.

Poor Digital Quality On One Of The Disks The show - Excellent.  The quality of manufacturing on the disks - Poor.  Disk 2 catches and stalls on a number of episodes.  I thought it might be my DVD Player so I put it in the computer...same problem.  I think there was a problem when they were encoding the disks (BTW these were fresh out of the wraper - no scratches).

Great show but Poor packaging and Scratched Discs I bought this set as I loved this show when I was 20 years old.. As a lover of Classic animation this show is one of Nicks finest shows to date.. I love Mr Dink as he is one to get into some kind of a bind when he buys the latest or very expensive thing that may backfire on him.. Patti Mayonase and Roger Klotz are just some of Doug's pals on this show. I love all the stories that he talks about in his journal.. Quailman is a hero he draws and writes about when he has to figure out how to deal with Roger bothering Patti..  Art Nice BUT The quality of the discs and packaging is not as sturdy as it looks.. Both Season one's that I have arrived with a broken DVD holder and scratched Discs.. I took them fresh out of the wrapper and inspected the discs... The bottom of the discs looked like they had deep scratches in them... The Second Season one was in worse shape as the Center Disc holder Bottom bracket had snapped off thus making the case useless.. Disc 1 and 2 had scratches on it and I called Amazon right away and voiced my concerns...  For those who ordered these and other sets.. Check your discs for any deep scratches... I hope amazon works out the problem and maybe I can try again to get this and other shows if and when they look into how they make and send the packages..

CAMP CRYSTAL LAKE (done over again ... and again ... and) Typical 80s rehashing of the Camp(fill in the blank) mass murderer. If you've seen one, you've seen them all. If you like those movies, you'll enjoy this one. Not terrible, but just the same ol thing.

British Humor Just not my cup of tea. Maybe when I watch it again I'll get into the mood and follow it more closely. An early work of Dame Maggie Smith. The theme is about how to raise yourself to a higher standing in a community and do it through the escapades of finding and cooking a pig.  Whatever, I just expected more hilarity. How very American of me!

Very confusing Some might say that movies with little dialogue are interesting and artistic but I disagree. I was confused almost right from the get-go. I had no idea what was going on and I couldn't even figure out who the main characters were. The movie is kind of slow moving and a lot goes on but very little is explained. I wouldn't really suggest this movie unless you are one of those people who have laser-focused attention. I do not, especially when I'm at home. I do have to give props though, as the story is a very good idea.

Subject matter is sooooooooooo depressing!!! I was so disappointed in this film. It was so depressing due to the subject matter. I really believed this movie was going to be some kind of action yarn with an upbeat storyline. Instead it  had some very dark twists to it. The special effects were good, but I couldn't really get into it because of the plot was so depressing to me.I probably went into this movie with very high expectations due to the trailer I watched.I can only give this movie two stars.

Typical formula "anti-conformist" comedy This is a template, one-dimensional liberal comedy attacking conservative Ivy League culture, with the same tired leukophobic stereotypes (professors talking like British aristocrats, privileged but cowardly jocks, etc.) as every other example of this overplayed McDonald's genre.  The outsiders are the good guys, and, of course, the Ivy League women prefer them, blah, blah, blah.  The nerdy outsider gets the girl.  The vapid, inbred leukophobes in Hollywood crank out at least ten of these a year, and there's nothing to distinguish this one from any of the others, save the limited 80's flashback nostalgia factor.

Red Flags in Red Tails I'm giving one star for good action scenes and another star for some of the history. The Tuskegee Airmen were real, they did serve with distinction, and there was discrimination and segregation.  However, George Lucas unnecessarily dumbed down the story - ostensibly for dramatic effect? - to a degree that I found extremely annoying. I might have forgiven the clich&eacute;d and one-dimensional depiction of the German fighters as not merely racist but also evil. The Americans may have been racist, but they were not evil. :-) But I can't forgive the depiction of the white American fighters as unrepentant glory seekers who abandon their bomber squadrons - time and time again - in order to pursue a few decoy German fighters. This film implies that the only reason the all-black 332nd Fighter Group was given the opportunity to escort a bomber squadron was because white escorts were not reliable. The film also implies that when bomber squadrons had white escorts there were far more casualties, but with the 332nd there were very few or none. Indeed, there was one scene showing how surprised the bomber pilots were that the black fighters were not going to abandon them as the white fighters would.  Now, if there is ANY truth to this, that white fighters were not reliable and often abandoned the bomber squadrons they were supposed to protect, then I will apologize and revise my review. But I see this as a huge red flag that history is not just being dramatized, or revised, but mangled. By stooping so low, Lucas isn't honoring the distinguished Tuskegee Airmen.  P.S. I wonder if the folks who are giving me negative votes could tell me why in the comments section? I'm curious. Do you disagree with the substance of my criticism, that this movie inaccurately portrays white fighter pilots as unreliable?

Blue ray of 2 part collection is defective Blue ray aspect of the DVD/Blue ray Harry Potter Deathly Hallows part 1 had issues and acts like its scratched skipping etc.  but no scratch appears to be there. Disappointed as I know the Blue ray aspect of my player works with all my other blue rays.  This is the 3rd time I have ordered a blue ray from Amazon with problems.

Absurd, Odd and Terrifying, Dorothy's Return is a Real Head-Scratcher Director Walter Murch claims he never intended for this to be a direct sequel to The Wizard of Oz, which sounds to me like a weak excuse for an underachieving film. If I were to release Return to Casablanca, set in an east African nightspot, with Rick Blaine pining over the girl he chased away, I can claim it's unrelated all I like but the comparisons will still be made. Dorothy's return to the world of her imagination is similar in subject matter, with constant references to the MGM classic and cameos by all of the original characters, but feels much more twisted and sinister in tone. Not that the first Oz was lacking in terrifying material - the flying monkeys alone must have fueled millions of nightmares - but those moments were balanced by an optimistic, sing-songy spirit and bright outlook on life. This is more like something from the depths of Tim Burton's catalog, minus the off-kilter conscience. Strange, dark and eerie, it compensates for the lack of a clear purpose by overloading the audience with weirdness.

Life when it's boring I really wanted to like this movie. I mean I really wanted to like it. I can't even remember the character's names that's how bad it was. I was expecting a romantic comedy but in the end I got neither. I can't say it was romantic because I saw no chemistry what so ever between the two main characters. You would expect they would but no fire. And I only got a handful of chuckles none that would want me to watch over and over again, like in so many other romantic comedies I've watched in the past. The whole thing was very uncomfortable to watch. I mean I went to the movie theater and I could hear crunching off the popcorn when something was meant to be funny.  The trailer told the story in one nut shell. Two people who hate each other, raise the baby together, and eventually fall in love. I was ready for this movie to end. But then again I paid ten dollars to go see it, so I had to finish watching it. I mean I expected the film to medicore but things shock me, like Love and Other drugs it shocked me. I'd recommend the movie.  Not really much of a spoiler but theres a part in the movie that so cliche I shook my head while watching it. Katherine H. character goes to the airport to catch Josh D. character before he gets on the plane.  To sum it up if you don't take my advice by not seeing it. If you do decide make sure you watch it for free or for two dollars at some movie that's still playing it. I wouldn't want anyone to be dissapointed. But if you just came to watch Josh D. More power to you.

Change in franchise overt for newcomer As a relative newcomer to the James Bond franchise (since 1996) and a lover of the later films, I read all the very high reviews of this movie as ordered it without hesitation. However, it is very jarringly different than the last 15 years's worth. I found myself laughing at the outdated special effects, the western-style gunfights and the glimmer instead of glamor. It actually felt campy! WIth no offense to the legion of people saying this is one of the best Bonds of all time, for most people born after 1980, this is a skip.

2d is fine but 3d is horrible This blu ray looks amazing in 2d.  The problem is with the 3d version.  Terrible ghosting throughout the whole movie.  It makes it challenging to sit through more than 15 minutes.  If you are buying this for the 3d, DON'T!  The regular version is cheaper and has better special features.  The 3d is a waste of money and aspirin.

A Hint When A Movie Isn't Good So I was watching this movie, the trailer gave me high hopes because the whole general idea of using time as the future currency is actually interesting because as we all know it, time is money. So this movie is an interpretation of that phrase. Now the two main actors of the movie shown in the cover art (Justin Timberlake) as Will Salas and (Amanda Seyfield) as Sylvia Weis are decent actors, but that's about as far as it'll go. Just enough to move the movie along but nothing beyond that.  Anyhow, I'll just go straight to the point. The movie was interesting, but throughout the movie, there was a lingering sensation of regret. One of the biggest hint of a failing movie that I seem to be getting more and more often which signifies a decaying American movie industry is the ever nagging thought "this had so much potential" , "this movie could have been really great if..." , "what a waste of such an interesting subject for a movie...".  To me, if the viewer, in this case myself, feels this way throughout the movie, it just means the movie is lacking. Enough for me to not consider a rewatch ever again. The cleverness of time is money and money is time ends right where the period ends this sentence. The acting wasn't great, the movie felt a bit rushed, the story was weak and felt emotionless. So much potential in drama and action, but cut severely short, crippling the movie. This is an OK watch, but not worth the theater ticket price.  1-10, I give this a 5.6 It's not a HORRIFIC movie since there's no unsubtle movie crippling flaws. It's entertaining, but only if you have nothing of higher quality to watch.

Mistaken Idenitity; not a movie, was Broadway show. The seller was great about returning it and his communication was great; thanks for all.  I should have read the ad better.  I thought it was the movie and it was a recorded broadway show.

25th anniversary blu-ray is not a good copy This review is for the 25th anniversary blu-ray/dvd combo.  I give it two stars because several times on the blu-ray the voice track falls out of sync with the action on the screen.  Very annoying.  DVD side didn't do this.

Too dark and dreary I haven't seen as many versions as others here, but I really didn't care for this one. It was dark and dreary and the sound of the wind, at times, nearly overtook the dialog to the point that I missed some of what was said. I realize they were trying to portray the mood, but watching this was almost uncomfortable. I'll look at some of the other versions available but this DVD will most likely just gather dust on the shelf.

Too much message, too few songs In thel latter days of Pink Floyd, Roger Waters turned his attention from proper songwriting to delivering his own political and ethical messages. In short, writing decent, cohesive SONGS was set aside. Which is a shame. Radio KAOS doesn't suffer from this as much as Amused To Death, but still lacks memorable melodies, catchy choruses and punctual playing. Instead, we get an album's worth of political and sociological commentary & criticism. Which is fine, but not on a rock record. Unless you want to delve deep into this modern-age protest songmanship, this record is a disappointment.

Simplistic and essentializes minority cultures Don't get me wrong, this movie is inspirational, uplifting, visually enticing, and utterly appropriate for a feel good movie. It is also simplistic, predictable, stereotyping, and contains one dimensional characters.  First of all, the main character Vianne, is totally unrealistic. She travels from village to village and sets up a chocolate shop each time. How and where does she get the ingredients, not to mention, the ability to lug all her equipment is not explained. Throughout the movie, she constantly gives truffles and hot chocolates to the villagers in order to win their favor. Of course people want to be your friend if you give them free chocolate, but that is not a very sustainable way of running a business. And in a town where people have a moral bias against eating chocolate, it seems like you wouldn't have that much wiggle room to be buying pearl necklaces from gypsies, wearing nice clothes all the time, and serving four course meals to half the village for a friend's birthday. Realistically her part could only have been fulfilled by a rich woman selling chocolates as a hobby instead of an independent entrepreneur.  I was also disturbed by the essentialization of Mayan culture in the movie. The story of the movie is that of injecting primitive, passionate, spicy, sexual, natural pre-Columbian culture (by way of chocolate) into sensually deprived Christian European culture. This is hardly the truth about either culture and in a movie about tolerance and overcoming stereotypes, the movie's portrayal of these cultures reinforces conventional stereotypes. Even in the most conservative christian societies, countercultures of promiscuity, drunkenness, revelry, and alternative spirituality flourished and were often an accepted part of daily life. Western cultures for centuries have exoticized Asian, African, native American and pre-columbian peoples as noble savages that live in an Edenic state. The movie merely reinforces these traditional stereotypes.  My  third criticism of this movie is its simplistic message that indulging the senses solves Christian society's ills. If only people ate more chocolate then they would all be friends, have great sex, and become tolerant of outsiders. Especially in an age of rampant materialism and over stimulation of the senses, this is too simple a message for our times. Today, sugar is easy to come by. Over consumption of rich foods have led to obesity, short attention spans, and every kind of health problem out there. Young people  especially are motivated by sex, instant gratification, and stimulation of the senses as a way of filling the vacuum left by the absence of religion or spiritual meaning in their lives. A century ago, a dose of sensual gratification may have been remedy for our uptight grandparents, but today we see what a lives devoted to the fulfillment of instant sensual indulgence does for individual health, societies and the environment. At least an acknowledgment of this dichotomy would have made this film more than what it is, a simplistic, corn syrupy feel good movie that reinforces our preconceptions.

Not enough action, No writing. This movie has about 15 minutes of good driving action an hour into the movie.  To get there you have to wade through an hour of wooden romantic narrative and lots of Ryan Gosling's stares.  They can be intense, or fond, but that's about the limit of his acting. Christina Hendricks is only there for about 10 minutes.  There was no character development, lousy music, and no motivation.  Looked like a film school project by somebody important's girlfriend.

Seller Excellent but 3D quality of Movie Poor Seller was excellent...received item on time and company great to work with with order from GreyWhale again in a heart beat.  I really like this movie but you can hardly tell any difference between the 2D and 3D version...which is DAD because this movie would have been great if filmed/shot in real 3D versus converted from 2D.  No depth to the 3D in this movie.  Don't waste your monie buy a used 2D DVD version for about $5 including shipping.

Its better if you haven't read the book I know that everytime a book is made into a movie things have to be cut and or changed but this is ridiculous. They cut out Jesse's side of the story (well they had a little but not much). The ending made me a little mad. Kate was NOT supposed to die, Anna was supposed to die in a car accident. After the accident the family then took everything Kate would possibly need from Anna and Kate survived. This was an ok movie but it would seem better if you hadnt read the book. Otherwise if they stayed true to the book it would have been a great movie.

Staring, Mumling, Incoherent Trash Like many movies of the 21st century, this one is unwatchable.  I agree with the reviewer who said he/she kept looking at the clock to see how much more of this junk would be shown.  The actors spend large segments of time just staring at each other, supposedly with meaningful expressions, but really rather expressionless.  Their faces usually show vacuity instead of emotion (which is supposed to be imagined and supplied by teeny watchers).  When they actually speak a few words, they mumble in low, almost inaudible sounds.  The grandfather's accent my be unintelligible, but the other actors speak as if no one is supposed to hear them.  Like TV, Hollywood's movies have fallen to the lowest common denominator.

No Silent 10 commandments I was lead to believe somewhere in the 480 customer reviews of this that included in this package was the silent version of the 10 commandments. This was the ONLY reason I bought this version. I have no interest in "Chuck" Heston's version of it. I'd return it but I've already opened it not believing the back cover which does not list the silent version on disk 2. It must be there! I though. But...... well you know the rest.

Disappointing Not a very realistic story line. I'm not a wolf expert but I think it highly unlikely wolves would venture into an open prarie and attack a group of men around a very large plane.  I think the wolf stuff was way over done.   It would be foolish to leave the plane and not await rescue.  The odds of walking out would be way less. (this turned out to be true in the story). Also they apparently had no destination and, since they couldn't be sure of where they were in the first place, where were they walking to?  Sadness and meaninglessness everywhere, in the end he (the principle character is angry against God, so in some sense he admits his existence) very bad ending leaves the audience hanging. In the face of annihilation by the wolves the wallets (representing the best of human relationships) would never be found and  become meaningless too. Very tragic, very existential,  but in reality we can't live that way, and fortunately, we don't. We need hope for the future in a positive way. In the end it turns out that his wife had died also, the letter he had wrote was for her.  For these people death is the end and that is all, very sad way to view life.  This moive was all about death, and hopelessness, nothing more.

what the heck! What has come of this world are we all 2 years old!  This movie was a joke what a stupid movie i feel dirty just by watching this crap!

No Closed Captions! If you're deaf/hard of hearing, or you're thinking of getting this for someone who is, be aware that Time Life chose to ignore up to 40% of the likely demographic for this series and not provide Closed Captions.  I'm glad I wrote them and asked before ordering!

2bottles of wine and a secerate herb It would have been better if the sound effects on the movie werent louder then the music in some parts. I cant imagine that someone who doesnt already like the cd would like this as a movie But if you already  are aquainted with the music this is a nice addition-some partys may be unable to enjoy this at all- that is thier way- I hope they enjoy it- some people kinda get it and to them -all the best. some pepole thinks it means alot- some alot to much. Im somewhere in there. Its really worth the $.When you listen to the cd you can paint your own-this suggests certain things happen in certain epoides- which may or may not be a reflection of reality where you live- but then again it may be. On the level of someone who has heard the cd (ookk album) hundereds of times I enjoy this as a new and different way to experiance the music. Which to some mean nothing- to others means all. Im finding it throughly enjoyable. Ive listened to them for 30 yers Its like jumping jack flash-Its a gas  and I dont have much gas left- but Im gonna spend some of it watching this. Oh year the STAR system- I gave it 2 stars becasue that was the lest populated area.

Didn't get past the first 15 minutes I really wanted to watch this movie, given the outstanding reviews.  I just could not take the relentless profanity.  I realize it's depicting a seamy environment, and I get that, but when 90% of every sentence in the bar scene is a string of filthy words, it just becomes a distraction.  No movie needs that much profanity to make its point.  Despite Affleck's other directing chops, I regard the overuse of profanity as a weakness.  I would try to watch this again if it came on on TV, where they bleep out all the distracting words, because the characters are strong and the plot is compelling.

Boooo. A low for Jonah Hill. It was incredibly disappointing, and it made very little sense. I understand it is supposed to be a comedy, but look to The Hangover, or I Love You, Man. These movie's humor makes sense, and the characters make sense. The movie is not the worse thing I've ever seen, but it surely is a disappointment.

Humdrum And Ho-hum Every now and then, an artist will burst out of nowhere and become an overnight sensation celebrated by critics and audiences alike. The album will top charts and sweep awards. Following this, total obscurity. It'll be interesting to see if Adele can sustain her audience.  I did a double take when Adele appeared. It was hard to believe that this matronly figure is in her early twenties. Adele resembled a frumpy forty something.  Don't get me wrong, there are some decent songs. But on the whole this concert reminds me of those singers who talk a lot to fill up a show. My eyes wandered from the TV screen during her nasal banter. Her inane cackle was absolutely grating and at one point I wished she would just shut up and do her songs.  The audio disk was a lot better as it cuts out 30 minutes of sometimes littered with obscenities irritating chatter, thus allowing you to focus on and appreciate her music.  This DVD was heavily advertised on TV and aggressively pushed by the shops. One chain overstocked and slashed prices, so curiosity prompted me to get a copy.  Adele Live At The Royal Albert Hall was just passable for me. I won't pick adjectives like brilliant or fantastic. This one is strictly for hardcore fans. Casual listeners can give this a miss. I foresee this item going to the used DVD store soon.

Dont Buy I wish I would have just watched this on tv or even rented it, not worth money or adding to my dvd collection. Movies like this are exactly why I don't purchase alot anymore.

Daughter hates it! I understand the methods used in this DVD, but it is very simple and boring in my opinion.  The biggest problem I have is my daughter just gets spooked out with the women in the DVD.  She crys EVERY time she sees the women in some certain scenes.  I do not mean to be rude or disrespectful to the women in this DVD.  I am simply saying they scare my daughter.  At first she started screaming when the one women appeared like a ghost out of nowhere with a black back ground on the screen making a weird humming noice.  I ran into the room and played back what she had seen and could understand why. It was creepy in my opinion. I then put something else on and she was fine.  One hour later is when I ran the test to see if the DVD is truly frightening her.  Yes, they just spook her out.  This is just not for my daughter.  Again, no disrespect to the makers.

movie house this movie was not at all like i thought i can't say it was bad i just thought from the parts they showed on tv that this movie was going to be better.  yes i would watch it again but not my best watch.  thanks movie house

WEIRD PREMISE Any character who is as socially dysfunctional as the one Phillip Seymour Hoffman plays in this film would not be able to work as a limo driver. The film's premise is off-putting right from the start. And then it goes downhill from there. It doesn't establish a tone - is it a comedy, is it serious, what is it? It's kind of creepy, actually, and I had better things to do with an hour and half of my time.

It stinks but has it's moments! Long ago in Romania, there lived demons and vampires who would terroize villagers and city folks. A circus freak who is both sexy and vibrant named Rayne (Kristinna Lokken) who's half-human half-vampire escapes from a Serbian carnival armed with two blades on her arms for protection. She gets a fortune about her past including how the still alive and powerful vampire lord Kagen (Ben Kingsley) is her father as she goes on a quest to destroy him with the help Vladmire (Michael Madsen) and Sabastian (Matt Davis).  A poorly done mess of a movie! Infamous filmmaker Uwe Boll has struck again with an adaptation of a great video game gone to waste. After two clunkers like "House of the Dead" and "Alone in The Dark", you think he would be finished then he made "Bloodrayne" which feels like a parody of the games than being a true adaptation. What is bad is the acting is pitiful but Lokken was quite sexy for the title role, some of the action is weak as hell including some of the camera movements and the writing is pathetic but on the bright side there is some brutal scenes of gore but it can't help this stinkburger.  This DVD has the unrated cut with extras like making of the film, dinner with uwe boll featurette, storyboards, commentary, trailer and a bonus game but i wouldn't recommend this movie.

tldr; It's boring Acting seemed fine, plot was medium, characters were boring.  The only way this movie is interesting is if you A) enjoy watching two guys just punch each other in repetitive back and forth punching sequences or B) just freaking love hockey.  The female love lead (Alison Pill) was such a bad choice it was almost unbelievable. To be fair, it may have been true to reality, but she was an entirely unlikable character. This would not have been such a problem except the main character (Seann William Scott) was so unbelievably 1 dimensional that your only hope was that another character would pop him out of his mold. No other character did. He was as boring and unchanging at the beginning of the movie as he was at the end. This was actually kind of amazing in its own way. We have the main character, who is so boring that I almost don't want him on scene, and the female secondary character, who is so screwed up that you don't like her in any scenes. Almost, as if to add insult to injury, we have the rival (Liev Schreiber), who actually seems interesting and... well... charactered, but he has like 5 minutes in the entire movie. Mind blown.  Supposedly this movie is funny. That is what I am told. I won't say I never laughed, but its comedic value takes about 2 minutes of a 90 minute movie. Watching someone mumbly mispronounce words is not that funny. Profanity or vulgar language are sometimes funny as they are said, but do not make an entire scene funny.  The only consistent thought I had through this movie was, "If the character was this dumb before ever getting on the ice,  imagine what he will be like after a few years of playing." I admit, not the most intelligent thought, but in the context of this movie, it was an Einstein.

Not what it could have been While I do own this movie, I do agree with a previous reviewer. That this movie shows why the odd numbered Movies are bad, now Nemoy can say what he wants. But he has been on record saying that he didn't want to come back and play Spock after "Wrath Of Kahn", but after seeing the success of Star Trek II. He decided to come back, and direct it. Problem is, Spock died at the end of II. But wait, he downloaded his "Cotra" into Mcoy's mind. That's not really the bad part of the movie, He had to put Klingons into the movie. Now having recently watched this movie, one thing I noticed. They weren't necessary to the story, they could've had Kirk after escaping space dock. Encounter the other ship at Genesis, instead of having the Klingons. Kirk could actually take on the federation, to get Spock's body back. But then you wouldn't have the death of his son, but honestly that character didn't really do anything in the movie, same with Saavick. This movie is sloooooooow, and even when you get to the end. The scene of Mccoy, and Spock on two different slabs, so they can transfere spock's mind back into his body to bring him back to life, is incredibley long. It's full of different angle shots of the priestess, raising and lowereing her head. Final word on the movie, not the worst. But it's not that good either, it's slow and tries to put too much into it.

Here we go again! Well, it seems to be my mission in life to deliver the bad, bad news about your favorite films.  Don Quixote tilted at windmills, but I have no such lofty ambitions, nor illusions.  Just calling a spade a spade over here.  This is a lousy film, that could have been a marvelous film.  The cinematography is certainly admirable, though marred by excessive and pointless cutting.  The concept, though I personally found it stomach- churning, rather than piquant, has merit as a trope, if your taste runs to such empty, maudlin ideologies as helpless' supposedly silent heavenly "witnesses" who can't freakin' shut up.  Look, folks, there was no script.  That's not just bad, it's a bad sign of bad things to come.  If you start with an original premise, such that you have a nicely bleak landscape (loved it)' filled with emotionally unfullfilled and existentially restless population (thumbs up there, too!) and you ruin it with all this pretentious, second-rate pseudo-intellectualizing, you can't call that a masterpiece.  That's like taking a great cut of steak and making hamburger out of it, then undercooking and under seasoning it.  Which is actually a perfect metaphore to sum up the cinematic buffet we have in "Wings of Desire".  If only Wim had left his movie silent...let the powerful images tell his story, such as it is.  There is no character development, no opportunity to really meaningfully engage with the characters.  For all their pretentions of depth, they are as one dimentional as cardboard cut-outs.  The final aesthetic insult for me was the dreadful sound editing in the "thought bubble" portions of the movie.  It's as bad or worse than one of those old reg 8 home movies...tinny, no depth, over-miked.  Yikes!  Wow.  What was he thinking?  Probably "I'm the best movie-maker. Ever.  I'm soooo deep and poetic.". Um, nope.  For good black and white films with true depth in a similar existential vein with actual plot and character development, check out Seventh Seal, wild strawberries and, for great silent films with the sweep and visual depth that this film was trying for, check out anything by Sergei Isenstein.  Only semi-educated, intellectually-pretentious, bourgeois saps(read:Americans) would find this movie to be valid or worthwhile.  Sorry, but those conditions are cureable, you know!  Stop being intellectually lazy and wallowing in sentiment for its own sake and you'll be on your way.  And, yes, it will ruin a lot of your favorite movies for you, but you'll discover others that are far less empty and much more challenging and you will learn why they  are good!  Bad art is bad for the soul, the equivalent of gourmet junk-food.  Don't be seduced or fooled by films like this.  Look for the real thing.  It's worth it, I promise!

High action sequel, bare-bones story This sequel is really closer to 2.5 stars, but of course that's depending on one's own point of view.  While the movie is visually stunning, there is ALOT (and I mean alot) of violence in the form of explosions, threats, death-defying suspense, etc.  There are also scenes featuring the cars drinking martinis and pub lagers and lots of low-brow potty humor. The plots concerning Mater feeling out of the loop and about "big oil" can be very confusing to little children - obviously, this is meant to appeal to older kids and adults. I really don't understand how Disney/Pixar got away with a G rating when the content in this movie is obviously more for a PG film.  Other Pixar movies such as 'Up' (not to mention the Dreamworks animated films) have made great profits with PG ratings... what made Cars 2 exempt?  In regard to the dvd itself, there are very few frills included - you have to upgrade to the blu-ray and 3D blu-ray to get the majority of the extra features.  Very frustrating for those not wanting to expand into a blu-ray collection.  Shame on Disney for this shady practice!  If you absolutely must purchase Cars 2, I suggest using an online coupon, or just purchasing this used!

Ugh! By the looks of the cover you would think Bautista is the main character...WRONG...the acting in this film is absolutely horrific!! I had such high hopes for this movie. Within the first 5 mins I knew I shouldn't have even wasted the money...the acting is that bad. Although we laughed a lot because it was so predictable and bad. I wouldn't waste the time or money.

If You Ever Want/Need A Reason To Hate Ballet... After creating flawed but relate-able characters in "The Wrestler", what else could DA do but go right back to creating movies that make you hate all of humanity.  Seriously...the guy is a great director, and he seems like a jolly sort of fellow, so why does he have an inner need to keep kicking us in the crotch with his movies?  What did we ever do to him?  I didn't seriously begin to hate the movie until the last 30-45 minutes or so, when I realized there was no hope for anybody involved in this turkey.  When will NP start shining in a manner that earned her an AcAw for Best A-tress?  She never did.  All she did was channel the mannequin demeanor she displayed in Phantom Menace only this time, Mit Bailando!  Makes me wonder if Jake Lloyd had stuck it out if he wouldn't be the new Ed Norton by now.  Okay, so the idea seemed to be that since the same ballerina dances the white and black swans, what if that drove her all crazy and stuff and everything?  And to help justify it we'll make her uber-repressed and still living at home with a kookoolamanza obsessed madre - shades of Carrie.  Ooo, wouldn't that have been great if they'd had psychokinetic powers with a final battle and all.  But I digress.  There's your idea - now go make a movie outta it.  The "Problem", and it's a big one, is that we've seen descents into madness before and before and before.  It's not arty - it's not deep.  It's an excuse to go all K-razee and make the viewers doubt what is real and what is an ill-OOOOOOOO-shun.  BOOOORRRRRINGGGG!  So DA decides to regain the snob cred he might have endangered by telling a straight-forward story (aka The Wrestler) and just throw things that are supPOSED to be disturbing at you.  Trouble is, I actually wanted to see all these people stabbed in the face with nail files by that point.  If ONLY she had gotten around to severely damaging the French prickly then maybe I could add a star.  So there's pop and there's plop as the show goes on and backstage and forestage and on stage and yeah and yee and yo until at the end we are supposed to think that &lt;SPOILER> she stabbed herself and didn't start bleeding until the end of the show&lt;/SPOILER> or that even that didn't happen MAYBE because it needs to be open to interpretation by those who enjoy such activity until you can digress into MAYBE she was never there at all and MAYBE she didn't exist and was just a projection of the mother's failed life and MAYBE even I don't exist because by the end of Black Swan I'm starting to wish I didn't.

bad quality of Instant Video transfer I just wanted to note that the quality of the Instant Video version is fairly bad. The screen size of the video is about half normal, the image is blurry and the the subtitles are hard to read due to that same blurriness and how small they are.

Not the same as the original... Having been born in 1994, I literally grew up with this film. It was my favorite movie and will always hold a special place in my heart. To date, I still lug out my monstrous VHS player in order to play my original 1994 copy, handed down to me from my father. So, I jumped at the chance of buying a DVD copy of this fantastic film. However, upon viewing, I found it was definitely not the same. In the DVD version I received, the sound effects had been drastically changed. Arguably the best part of this film is the music. Thomas Dolby is a freaking genius. But in the DVD copy I got, the sound effects often drowned out the music. This new version had added tons of spacey sound effects that had either been far quieter or not present whatsoever. This really frustrated me. I really want a copy that is just like the original release, but it costs like, 30 bucks to transfer a VHS to DVD. Oh well, at least the DVD was cheap...

Not the worst of the bunch, but could've been better... Area 407 is a found-footage horror film. A plane crashes in a mysterious area; the survivors are then stalked and attacked by a mysterious predator. The whole situation is documented by two sisters and a fellow journalists (two cameras). I enjoyed the intro and felt it was done well. We meet the characters through some decent dialogue and witness a frightening plane crash (at least for those of us scared to fly). Sadly, the movie goes downhill from here. It uses some very generic found-footage scenes like the shouting exchange found in most: "Please stop recording! Now is not the time! STOP!" (then hit the camera and cut out, recording restarts in a new scene). Also, I felt a lot of it was illogical, more than your average horror film. They take an hour to get the first-aid kit after the crash, the U.S. Air Marshall doesn't identify herself for hours after the crash, and the flight attendant and the Air Marshall don't really know what they're doing (aren't there emergency procedures for this instead of sitting around?) For a horror movie, I wasn't really scared, maybe once or twice. It had some tense moments, though. Acting ranged from good to bad. The ending was also decent, but not enough to complete redeem the film completely. It's a time-killer, though.  Overall, it's not the worst found-footage film, but it's far from the best. If you're still interested, this film is available on Netflix Streaming as of 9/2/12, I can't recommend paying directly for this film.  Area 407 has strong violence and blood (most of the violence is off-screen), no sex or nudity.

Dated Well shot, this 70's sci-fi is okay for what it is, and entertains for what it is, but like all films trying to portray what the future might be like, it has a hard time staying ahead of the curve when viewed by a 21st century audience.  Robots and programming thereof work a little differently than portrayed in the film.  The film presents a kind of Cape Kennedy control center for the audience, as we see a massive effort to entertain which, by 1960's and 70's logic, could only be done with a massive number of scientists and engineers controlling the whole thing.  Reality is a little more prosaic, and the techno-references give a smirk here and there as the exposition of the story unfolds.  But, the story itself is about technology gone wrong, and is a parable about the dangers of creating something that can think for itself without experiencing that which makes living organisms what they are.  I hadn't seen the entire film until recently, and, based on what I saw, I can't say I'm glad I didn't see it, nor am I put out by anything in the film.  It's a sci-fi western with few SFX shots that presents a possible world to adults of the 1970s.  In essence you're seeing a real world Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game that takes a few missteps.  Not a bad watch, and innovative at select points, but it is a product of its era.

Wasn't For Me I don't have any time or patience for numerous paragraphs of reviews - I leave that to the people who get paid to do it. And I usually start losing interest if it's just not brief and to the point upon reading. Anyway, I am an average consumer who loves horror and sci-fi. There are of course several horror and sci-fi movies that I, or others may not like - and this is one I did not like. Two stars for good acting and ok story otherwise it would have been one star. Yes, I watched the entire movie and followed it and got the picture. The interaction between man and machine was interesting and the story was deep. It unfortunately bored me after the first thirty minutes or so but I was determined to follow through with the movie. Then again, similar happened for me with the 2001 Space Odyssey movie. Yes, I think the movie appeared to be put together fairly well and I can understand how it grasped the attention of many. I am not here to critique people for what they like or do not like in movies. I am only here to share MY OPINION OF THE MOVIE and not to bash those who I may not have the same opinion with. People can read all of the many reviews here and other places and decide for themselves if they wish to see this movie based on the diversity of opinions.

Not very good.. The movie was lacking on real character development, over-dramatized and just plain boring. Didn't like it all. My wife on the other hand thought it was okay - but wasn't thrilled either (proving it's not just gender-bias!)

Fairly boring I was really looking forward to seeing this movie - but I have to say I was disappointed.  I was expecting much more excitement, but there was very little of that.  Helen Mirren's character is fairly dull and reserved and even boring.  I'm not sure if it's the story or the acting/directing that fell thru the cracks here, but the movie overall just didn't cut it.  I would not recommend this.  [I even watched it a 2nd time to see if perhaps I didn't like it the first because I had too high of expectations for it...but it was still borderline boring with a few tense scenes - just not worth it]

An Incomplete Picture of Dyslexia Journey into Dyslexia is a documentary film highlighting the success stories of adult dyslexics, most of which continue to struggle with reading and written language. It is important to remember that most dyslexics are creative, innovative thinkers and with adequate motivation, they can do amazing things. However, this film leaves the viewer with the impression that the dyslexic will not correct his dyslexia and he must work around it. This is not true. The film shows two examples of students being taught 'to read' using a method that is commonly used in schools and tutoring sessions and it is clearly not helping the students. If a method does not produce gains, then that is an indication that it is time to move on to another method. The filmmakers chose to interview experts and schools that only use this method but they did not clearly disclose this fact. There are other methods that bring about true correction, grade level reading ability and make accommodations unnecessary.  Why didn't they include such information? If you want to learn about other methods, read The Gift of Dyslexia, by Ronald D. Davis.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399535667">The Gift of Dyslexia, Revised and Expanded: Why Some of the Smartest People Can't Read...and How They Can Learn</a>

Really No Surprise This Series Wasn't Renewed After The Fourth Season While overall I found the series to be mostly entertaining there were a few characters who really grated me with their apparent lack of importance to the series story or their characters personalities in the show itself, mostly with the apparent uselessness of Claire and the conniving mother of the Petrelli brothers who you really wished the character Sylar would kill ruthlessly but which never happened. This season like with the third tried to give us a new foil to match the villain Sylar with dubious results but much better then the third season second villain who at the end was pathetically killed off easily,  the fourth season new villain could have been better written but all in all wasn't truly horrible.  If you have the seasons 1-3 I would actually say just stick with those as while you can add on the fourth overall the episodes were pretty bland and though you'll get some more heroes episodes to watch you'll still probably feel a little cheated regardless.

Beware before buying !! Of course Doug is a wonderful cartoon, but these DVD's are not so wonderful.  You CANNOT play them on your computer!!  I realize the problems with piracy,  but this is a totally idiotic thing to do since many people don't have a DVD player and rely on their computer for all TV/VIDEO video viewing.  After fiddling with all three DVD's for a time and getting a cryptic folder with a red "negative" sign, I read the fine print at the back of the package and it says: "These discs are expected to play in DVD Video "play-only" devices and may not play in other DVD devices, including recorders and PC drives."  Just know this before buying these DVD's  Come on people...find another way to protect your product.

Excruciatingly Slow Movie This was kind of a cheesy Hallmark card movie. The story was interesting, but there was no feeling in it. Cheesy narration and endless repetitive piano loops made it difficult for me to watch. I almost turned it off a few times but I found the forgery process and identification to be semi-interesting.

Flat "Guys and Dolls," about as light-hearted a show as one can imagine, should make a fun movie. I cringed when I saw the usually plodding Joseph L. Mankiewicz's name in the opening credits as director, but tried to keep an open mind. Maybe the fun of seeing Marlon Brando in a musical with the able Frank Sinatra as his sidekick would bring the movie to life. The musical numbers were staged by someone else, so maybe they would be lively. There are a few bright spots, but I'm sorry to say that overall I found this film about as bubbly and sparkly as a bottle of champagne that someone left open on the counter for a couple of days.  Good points: Sinatra handles Nathan Detroit's songs pretty well. Vivian Blaine, who originated the role on Broadway, does well as Nathan's long-suffering fiance Miss Adelaide, but it's definitely a theatrical performance. Unfortunately, when contrasted with the relatively low-key acting of Brando, Sinatra and Jean Simmons, she seems as though someone accidentally turned her knob up to 11. Jean Simmons sings much better than I expected and handles her role of missionary doll Sarah Brown well. Loved the dance sequence in the sewer.  Brando in a musical: Well, it's OK. Usually Brando's wonderful or awful but never boring. Here, he was just OK. He sings OK for a non-signer, he dances OK for a non-dancer. I didn't feel any spark between him and Jean Simmons. While I've seen him handle comedy well, I looked high and low and found nothing to laugh at here.  The stylized dialogue and the bits with the supporting gamblers and missionaries should be funny, but they just . . . aren't. The scene in Havana should be romantic and sexy and instead it's slow and creepy. I have to lay the blame at the feet of director Mankiewicz. While he can pull out an occasional brilliant bit of wit or sarcasm (Bette Davis's "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night" in "All About Eve" for example), he really does not have the light touch needed for musical comedy and he shows no aptitude for helping actors with their comic timing. His ultra-still camera work does nothing to enliven the proceedings. Only in a few of the dance sequences is there a sense of motion.  I really wanted to like this movie, but just couldn't. Sorry.

It was ok... I thought this movie looked interesting, but i honestly felt like the movie was lacking.  After about an hour I was thinking, is this over almost...but it still had an hour left.  It got better towards the end but it wasn't what I had hoped for.

quite a boring and dull movie I bought this thinking  it might be better than The Exorcist-The beginning but oh boy it wasnt, it was plain dull. ugh  i think 'The Beginning' was quite  tepid and flashy and modern  but this was plain boring.  i don't recommend it or really recommend the other one either. i don't think the exorcist need a prequel.  prequels generally suck.  the exorcist doesn't need a prequel .  forget both movie and just watch Freidkin's movie. from 73.  better than  what they can come up with now with flashy  editing and camera work and jump scare nonsense.  neither of these prequels  has the atmosphere of freidkin's exorcist movie. ignore this mediocre crap.

A Trio of Strong Actresses Wasted in a Predictable Pile of Family Value Clich&eacute;s It does seem a shame to cast three generations of compelling actresses as a dysfunctional family and then let them drown in a sea of tired character clich&eacute;s and pop psychology babble. But that's exactly what happens in director Bruce Beresford's 2012 dramedy, a touchy-feely, throwaway vehicle for Jane Fonda, Catherine Keener, and Elizabeth Olsen (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007BLDFWG">Martha Marcy May Marlene</a>), who all try hard to rise above the broad brushstrokes that mark the superficial script by first-time screenwriters Joseph Muszynski and Christina Mengert. There isn't a single surprise that would make anyone reconsider the trite nature of the cross-generational conflict on display here, and Beresford doesn't help matters by the film's odd pacing where the basic set-up is presented in the first three minutes at which point the principal characters go through the most formulaic transformations in an expeditious manner similar in depth to a Lifetime TV-movie.  The story begins as Diane, an uptight Manhattan lawyer, is suddenly informed by her husband that he wants a divorce. Instead of discussing the matter, she packs up her two teenaged children - self-righteous vegan daughter Zoe and aspiring filmmaker son Jake - and visits her mother Grace up in Woodstock even though they haven't spoken in twenty years. Of course, Grace is Diane's exact opposite, a free spirit hippie artist, a political rabble-rouser and a successful pot dealer, so naturally conflict ensues immediately. While the perennially glum Diane glares judgmentally at Grace, both Diane and Zoe, of course, find love with local men who are their polar opposites - Diane with a laid-back carpenter and singer named Jude, Zoe with a sensitive butcher named Cole. In the meantime, Jake annoyingly videotapes life in Woodstock while crushing on a girl who works in a local coffee shop.  All the while, grandma Grace espouses spiritually uplifting bromides to everyone about how they need to live their lives to the fullest much like a self-help motivational speaker promoting her latest book. Regardless, it's a pleasure to see the 74-year-old Fonda look fit and loose-limbed as Grace even though I was getting the nagging sense she should be doing a lot more than play this dotty caricature. Playing against type, Keener seems particularly one-note as the mostly dour Diane, and some of her natural looseness as an actress would have helped bring more dimension to the role. Current indie "it girl" Olsen shows welcome moments of vulnerability that are severely blunted by Zoe's generally insufferable nature. Jeffrey Dean Morgan (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00190OHD6">P.S. I Love You</a>) appears to be specializing in idealized rebound love interests, and he plays the emotionally accessible Jude with roguish easy charm.  Chace Crawford (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000W6ZUUC">Gossip Girl</a>) seems to be playing a younger version of the same male stereotype as Cole inexplicably entranced by Zoe. Nat Wolff (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000W8OM6I">The Naked Brothers Band</a>) provides mostly comic relief as hopelessly naïve Jake. I'm not sure why Rosanna Arquette is in the film since she's given next to nothing to do. The cinematography by Andre Fleuren nicely captures the bucolic landscape of upstate New York, but I found the original music by Spencer David Hutchings more intrusive than evocative. For his part, Beresford looks to be resuscitating key moments from Fonda's own film of parental alienation, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000JBALO">On Golden Pond</a>, but a better story model would have been Lisa Cholodenko's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0046UGSNS">The Kids Are All Right</a> which lent layers of emotional complexity to a family unit challenged by a lack of forgiveness. After all, outside of this formulaic film, life just isn't as groovy as Grace would have you believe.

"Do You Feel The Call Of God Joan?" ~ Ecclesial Apocrypha, Medieval History Or Euro-Trash? The 1972 release `Pope Joan' is an odd mixture of style, sound and content. The cinematic form is what has come to be affectingly referred to as euro-trash, accompanied by a melancholy Maurice Jarre (Doctor Zhivago) soundtrack which is all centered on a lurid, almost perverse tale concerning a ill-fated medieval girl who became the Pope of the Catholic Church.  I was expecting a rather tepid storyline, or maybe something moderately inspirational in nature. I must say I was quite surprised. Remaining true to the euro-trash genre the story of Pope Joan contains a lot of violence, most of it sexual in nature; rape, murder and dismemberment await the unwary viewer. Even during the quiet, reflective moments of the film one cannot help but be aware of, and a little offended by the overt sexual tension exhibited between Joan (Liv Ullmann) and love interest Louis (Franco Nero). This is definitely not a film to be enjoyed by children.  It is unfortunate this release by Platinum Disc is a cut version containing only 112 of the original 132 minutes. Twenty minutes is an extremely significant difference and it shows. I still probably wouldn't have enjoyed this film more if the additional minutes had been included, but I prefer to see things in their entirety and then make up my mind.

Review: Game Of Thrones, First Season I purchased this DVD based on the highly favorable reviews. I wish I could be as favorable in my review. The story is very slow moving and drawn out to the point of near boredom. The sound quality is poor with the many low volume personal conversations requiring higher volume to be understood which yields uncomfortable level for most scenes. The all very British language is often difficult to understand.

A leap of faith This was one weird movie.  Piper is in some crazy stuff, but this took the cake.  A future with frog people and women that need to have children by a man that is not effected by radiation was bad enough, but they put a chasity belt on him and take him to the women while they also wanted him was weird.  Then the frog woman also wanted him.  The acting was really bad in this movie and the story could have been a lot better.  This should be a do over.

"...We're Gonna Rock'n'Roll Ourselves To Death Baby!" *** THIS REVIEW IS FOR THE 2011 "BLU RAY" REISSUE ***  George Lucas' "American Graffiti" is remembered (and quite rightly so) with great affection - a five-star masterpiece that's almost unique in its vision of growing up in 1962 America listening to music on the radio in your car, getting up to no good and generally enjoying the sheer blast of a 'boss' Saturday night on the town. It also has one of the most atmospheric and brilliantly woven-in soundtracks 'ever' - an MCA 2LP set released with the movie in August 1973 that the public adored and kept on buying for decades after (it peaked at Number 10). It's also forgotten now, but "American Graffiti" virtually kick-started the massive Rock'n'Roll revival of the early Seventies that saw every major label reissue R'n'B, Doo Wop and R'n'R LPs to beat the band - much to the delight of music fans. And who among us wouldn't have wanted to spend the night in the company of the awesome Wolfman Jack (dialogue above).  I say all of this as a preamble, because I have no beef with the movie or what surrounds it. BUT - I have very real misgivings about the quality of the print on this 2011 BLU RAY reissue (hence the 2-star rating). It's not great at all, and in places, it's truly awful.  The opening Universal Logo looks ancient and scratched to bits, but as the movie credits begin to roll the picture-quality looks more promising if not a little blurry. You also see that we're in the early part of an evening still bathed in fading daylight, but as the movie quickly progresses, every shot becomes a night time scene - and the blocking and terrible grain of the original print just gets worse and worse. It's infuriating, because one moment the print quality is lovely - full of colour and depth - the next it's like a bad videotape - grainy to a point where the fuzzy picture is 'all' you see. The real bad news is that as the movie progresses to the Harrison Ford/Paul Le Mat car race showdown - there are scenes where the print is appalling - as bad as "The French Connection" (and anyone who has bought that turkey of a Blu Ray will know what I mean).  This is how Lucas filmed it I know - but the point is that this BLU RAY affords you a better picture only in 'certain' places - but for the majority of the time it gives you an accentuated version of wildly haphazard cinematography - and it makes for a very disappointing watch indeed. The DVD was always 'good' rather than great, but this 2011 BLU RAY is not a 'full on' upgrade as some have suggested - nor does it have the beautifully cleaned-up and restored stills that are suddenly peppering the net at the time of release. Anybody claiming this is a GLORIOUS transfer is talking absolute knob.  Fans may be unable to resist replacing their beloved DVD with this - fair enough - but anyone else considering buying it - I would advise a rental first to 'see' what I mean.  I hate doing negative reviews, but sometimes you need to. I wish someone had told me how bad this looked 'before' I wasted my money on it and had to sit through one of my favourite Seventies movies looking worse rather than better.  Credits: VIDEO: 1080p High Definition Widescreen, 2.35:1 Aspect AUDIO: English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0, French, Italian, German, Spanish DTS 2.0 Mono, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese DTS 2.0 Stereo SUBTITLES: English SDH, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Cantonese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Icelandic, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish and Traditional Mandarin  EXTRAS: PIP Commentary with Director George Lucas U-Control: The Music Of American Graffiti Screen Tests The Making Of American Graffiti Theatrical Trailer

Sratches on DVD The movie played most of the way through but there were several spots that it skipped.  Kind of disappointed since it said that the DVD was in good shape.

Stiff And Forgettable 2 stars. The amazon crowd has got it right. This is clearly a hastily made money flick. I was surprised to read about great acting and "gritty" feel. There is no grit whatsoever in Contraband. In fact I abandoned the movie about 15 min before the end, exactly because there was no engagement or grit. There are few things which are working against calling this a good movie:  1. Boring dialogs. I guess nobody read the script or what? 50% of all dialogs are different characters asking Wahlberg how he is going to pull off his smuggling. He always responds something like "have faith in me". The other 50% is Wahlberg invariably asking for more time when on the phone with his accomplices.  2. No attention to details. This is the primary reason why this movie has zero grit. They are pulling their stunts in hot and humid Panama City. Yet nobody is even break a sweat.  Overall, instead of spending money on relatively expensive aerial shots, producers would have been better off spending on better script and actually waking up Mark Wahlberg. Because Mark looks very stiff in this movie. This is a borderline flick which could have gone straight to DVD release bypassing big screen.

Low Budget film with some good and a portion of bad You have a film here with some B list actors and a C list script. The costumes are decent and the actors are good enough but with a script with that's predictable, well worn plot twists and an unrealistic story you can only expect so much. The fights scenes are well executed but the C.G.I. blood splatter is unneeded and distracting besides being unrealistic. It's a good 100 min distraction if you have Amazon prime. It sucks if you have to pay for it.

Failed Direction, poor story and bad casting. I have never liked films that try to find an alignment between dream and reality. Science of sleep shows the hapless Stefan trying to disentangle various obstacles in his way to try to reach his neighbor stefani. The fact that he doesn't speak fluent French hardly works for him because when he is around her he says the most silly of things that no one who has ever had a girlfriend would say to a girl they dig. The director tries to give the cemtral character an alter  ego in which he is guarded about sexual talk when he is in conversation  with his voracious natured co employee,Guy. This is contradictory of course, he tries to be cute by inventing  things which don't exist in real life and it's almost creepy how he tries to stalk his neighbor. All this while a parallel tv show showing the science of sleep goes on his mind, I found this particularly stressing and anything but arty. The film does try to weigh in viewers with art but I doubt it won any favors with me in this discourse.  When science of sleep was just trying to be a simple film about a shy guy who is helping his neighbor move a piano it was good but somehow it ends in its own fate of sleep, awake disturbia which hardly proved to be charming or cute.  I blame Gabriel Garcia bernal also for the failure of this film, he wasn't cast aptly. He is a man to do well in Mexican cinema not complicated plots such as this one. He hardly seems like an intriguing hip inventor with a half French background. As far as Charolette is concerned she has done some terrible films like Antichrist and melancholia. I cannot name an actor with a more ungainly affliction to failure than hers.  There were a few good scenes in the film yes but there is no excuse for the brain hemorrhage it causes the viewer by combining comic art,depression in an ultimately pretentious sleepy affair. I like sadness but this film is like that repeated dream which fever gives you,

Get the Bootleg Do yourself a favour and track down a copy of the bootleg Pro Shot video taken for camera angles of this production. Same camera quality, same technical values, same cast but with the important exception of Hoff's understudy Rob Evan as J/H. He's got a legit lyric baritone, and the improved acting and singing in the central role(s) lift the whole performance to a higher level. By this point, the producers were resorting to stunt casting to sell tickets. While that is understandable and inevitable in this business, the casting and creative teams must have known that this material was just beyond Hoff's abilities and I am certainly surprised that this is the actor they chose to preserve their show for posterity. But then, I'm sure that decision was driven by $$ as well. (Really, though who buys these films of the stage productions other than musical theatre fans? Did they really believe that fans of "Bay Watch" and "Knight Rider", or perhaps Hoff's international music, were going to drive sales for this dvd into numbers significantly greater than they would have gotten with a stronger but lesser known performer like Evan in the lead? Sounds like the marketing/sales department made this decision. can't believe that Wildhorn, Clemmons, etc. really believe that Hoff is a patch on Evan.)

Not a comedy This movie has the set up of a classic sitcom. Divorce guy meets attractive woman who takes care of almost 30 year old, son, who acts like a teenager. A classic recipe for comedy. The trailer of the movie shows the movie to be a fun comedy like Step brothers. If you think that this is the case: You are wrong. The movie actually tries to be a drama with some funny scenes in it. The work of every actor in it, is actually pretty good but the story is weak. The choice to make this a drama really hurts the movie. If this movie was a 100% comedy I think it would've work. But unfortunately the p.r. people prefer to entrap the audience with a deceitful trailer. My recommendation is to rent and not buy, unless you are a hardcore fan of any of the people involve in the movie.

great story, bad filming this was such a waste of a terrific movie!  I was unable to really watch it and keep focus on it because the charachters would either be so loud that I would have to turnthe volume down on my TV or it would suddenly be so quiet that I found myself tuning the volume up nearly full capacity.  This was not once or twice.  This was constant!  And very annoying!  A waste of my money and a waste of what really looked to be a good film because I won't attempt to play it again!  Somebody messed up bad here!

Erin Brockovich This movie turned out to be uncompatible with my equipment. Tried passing it on to my friend who tends to own more variety but no luck for her either, gave it to charity and re-purchased another. Not the fault of seller.

Perhaps better in 3D It's been a long time since I watched the original Alice in Wonderland and I was never all too partial to it so I went into this not biased against a remake. I didn't see this in the theaters and didn't see this in 3D (just did the Instant Video just now) and I found it rather boring.  I didn't particularly care what was happening to Alice. It was visually stunning but it wasn't enough to keep my interest. In fact, I kept wondering about the real world and how Alice was going to answer Hamish and deal with her cheating brother-in-law more than I cared about her killing the Jabberwocky. I mean, it's obvious she would become the real Alice at the end, and take up the mantle of the Champion so of course she was going to kill the damned monster. There was no urgency to the story since it was so predictable. And that made it quite boring in my mind.  But maybe the 3D effects would have made up for the lackluster plot, like it did with Avatar. But since I didn't see it with them, I came out of this movie supremely underwhelmed. And I wish I had spent my money (not to mention my time!) on something else.

Little House of the Prairie-The Pilot Came in new condition.  The movie itself is not very good quality.  I would not recommend getting this movie.  If you have the entire set the scenes are in the first set and much better quality.

Ok as Comedies go The jokes were too few for a 2 hour movie and you have to wait until the end for the funniest scene where the names of the cities are painted on the bombs.  Going on a stealth operation into German occupied territory under cover of darkness carrying a shiny shield with the American flag painted on it was hilarious too.  Most of the movie repeated the same jokes over again.  Not recommended .. what do you mean; it wasn't meant to be a comedy!!!

Farmer John is Stuck in the Dirt The Real Dirt on Farmer John concerns a middle-aged farmer, John Peterson, who lives on land that has been handed down in his family since the 1930s. John's tragic story is typical of what has befallen so many family farms in the U.S. over the past hundred years - times are tough. Eventually, John decided to try organic farming to save his farm.  The twist in the story is that John is a bohemian. He attended Beloit College in Wisconsin and enjoyed everything that the counterculture had to offer. But when John tried to bring the counterculture's ideals to his farm, the neighbors weren't very happy.  The two paragraphs above provide a broad overview of the film - otherwise, nothing much happens. In this narcissistic film, the viewer is forced to watch Peterson: -  eat dirt from his farm, -  walk around the farm in unique clothing (such as a bee costume), and - Go on periodic trips to Mexico when things on the farm get to be too much.  Peterson also filmed his mother when she was near death from brain cancer. She is barely responsive and I wondered if she was able to consent to being filmed - at the very least the scene is uncomfortable to watch.  John portrays himself as something of a martyr when discussing neighbors' disapproval of him. He claims that the neighbors burned down a building on his property, but offers no definitive proof. In the end, the only certain thing is that people in John's small town don't care for people who are different - which will come as no surprise to anyone who has ever lived in a small town.  To be fair, there are some strong aspects of the film. One thing that I liked was the cinematography - the film looks nice on the screen. Also, the local sheriff - a man John claims has tormented him - appears and offers unintentional comedic relief as he admits that he kept close tabs on John. At one point the sheriff allows that it was OK if John had a devil worship cult at the farm - but the sheriff says that he was upset when John's alleged Satanic activities disturbed the cattle in the area.  Perhaps "back-to-the-earth" folks will enjoy The Real Dirt on Farmer John. Its charms were lost on me.

There's a reason this was only on TV The original Patton motion picture is a masterpiece and one of my favorite movies.  George C. Scott is a genius and one of my favorite actors.  I was happy to find this movie on Amazon on Demand, but was disappointed with the movie itself.  -Looks like a low-budget made for TV movie which it is. -Casting was poor.  Outside of George C. Scott these were a bunch of B or C actors.  Richard Dysart as Eisenhower was particularly bad. -As noted in many other reviews, the video quality was poor. -Way too long and way too depressing.  I was hoping this movie would cover more of the postwar Patton and less of George C. Scott lying in a hospital bed.  If they cut off the last third of the movie, it might be four stars.  I recommend you pass on this movie, at the very least stop watching after the accident.  He suffers paralyzed in a hospital bed and dies.  There is nothing useful after that point and there is a LOT of overacting.

Ouch! My son and I have both read the entire Percy Jackson series, plus the Kane Chronicles and the Heroes of Olympus (that last series to date; we are at yet another cliff-hanger in the series at the moment); thus, I had high hopes when I found this DVD at the library. We were both filled with shock at the liberties that the movie was taking with the book, and we were taking turns in pointing out things that were wrong, wrong, wrong. Still quite early in the movie, I made a rule: we were to forget about the book and just sit back and try to enjoy the movie as just a movie. We then took it in turns to call out "forget the book" when the other one of us couldn't contain ourselves any more.  So as a film of the book, this movie was a disaster. But was it a good movie in its own right? If so, maybe that could excuse the terrible adaptation of the book. I had to sit back and give myself time to think about this. Forget the book, forget the book, forget the book.... Nah! It was a pretty bad movie independent of the poor adaptation issue. It also required some background knowledge from the book to know what on earth was going on.  What was the point of making the movie? Who is it for? It is not for fans of the book because any fan of the book is going to come away from this movie frothing at the mouth. The movie is so poor that if you are not a fan of the book, you wouldn't want to waste you time on it. The only reason that I am giving this two stars rather than one star is that I saw an adaptation of "A Wrinkle in Time" the same week as this, and - trust me - that would have been negative stars if I could make it happen.

disc stopped working I was so excited to get this because I became hooked on the show...I got 3 episodes into the 2nd disc before it stopped working. the last few episodes on there either play with a black screen or don't play at all. very annoying and disappointing.

not great, but there's nothing else if you're a johnny winter fan, you should have this.  i have been a fan of johnny winter since the late 60's.  he was awesome.  the last time i saw him was a couple years ago sitting in a chair playing so wonderfully.  this video is the best there is i guess.  on some songs the quality of the video is good, but the music just isn't great.  on others it's a great song, but the quality of the video and the audio sucks.  mediochre videos.  i'd like to have a video of him today with a good backing band but a high quality video.  if you're a johnny winter fan, you should have this.  but don't expect too much.

Nonsense I just don't understand how the director of "The Pianist" could possibly have directed this.  First, it's pure nonsense to have James Bond in an intellectual dual with Obi-Wan Kenobi.  There are other bits of nonsense in this book.  Americans don't care about Brits, and certainly don't care about the Hague -- so the idea of an ex British PM indicted for war crimes and that causing a media firestorm within America is absolutely ridiculous.  Also, America doesn't need to insert a CIA spy within the British administration to tell the Brits what to do -- the Brits are more than happy to follow the Americans anyway.  Then there's the ghost writer -- ghost writers are so because they have no thoughts of their own -- otherwise they would just be writers!  Roman -- seriously?  I know you don't like the Americans, but this movie is just drivel.

weak All around weak, like a watered down decaf coffee. They try some good special effects but doesnt make up for horrible character development and characters in general.

sympathise with murders. . . . no. To start, I completely enjoyed the first part of this series. I mean if I had to rate the first 13/16 episodes it would be a 9 out of 10. But this isn't a series you can really  break into parts, you have to watch the whole thing.  The animation is phenomenal,very  well animated. A lot of frames, rich colors and a maybe, questionable, art style. Characters are a mixed bag. There's so many you can't really root for any particular one and a lot of people end up dyeing. Or turning into vampires. Its really up to the viewer to decide if you like the characters or not, many being either annoying or in the case of the monk, pathetic.  The crux of my problem with this series came near the end, as the show tries to be what people call "deep". Not really. They start trying to get you to sympathize  for the shiki, vampires, very, very forcibly. As it didn't come across naturally but rather felt very forced, I kept feeling, this is exactly what the writers want me to feel and came across just feeling weak. How exactly am I suppose to feel bad for murders, shiki, monsters that kill just to sustain there undead life. That is the most selfish thing one could ever do and as such I can't feel anything but disgust for the shiki, I mean really, feel bad, or even question which side is right. Umm, yeahhh, OK. That wouldn't be a problem if the writers didn't completely force you to try and feel bad for them, but playing sad music and, hey, look how very barbaric those evil humans are, killing undead monsters, why they should let them kill the rest of there families and friends. And the little shiki girl, give me a break, she's just a little innocent girl. . . . .  Who's actually not little and has killed countless  people, but I'm suppose to feel bad if she dies because she's little. . . . No. I had to start fast forwarding  because the forced "poor shiki" parts just dragged on. Shiki kill people for the first 15 episodes. And I'm suppose to feel bad when they start dieing. If it where better written maybe, deep, no, unless you can justify murder. What could have been and should have been phenomenal was squandered away on weak, poorly written and forced ideology.

Great movie...but not mine I love this movie. I ordered it and watched about two thirds, and it started skipping so bad that it was unwatchable. It makes me think that it's a bad idea to order movies online. This was wrapped, never opened. Maybe people leave these in hot garages for a while before they send them.

Don't pay much to watch this please.. I know short reviews usually get unhelpful votes, but there's not much I can say without ruining the movie. Three people end up trapped in an ATM room because of a psycho in a hooded coat. He more or less wants to play a game with them, than outright murder the trio. I can't recommend watching this movie unless you only pay a dollar for it at the redbox. Please don't pay more than that to watch this movie.

Somebody Lied To Me! I loved season 1 and 2, but with this season I would say the show has officially jumped the shark. Roth's character in season 3 was waaayyy over the top. Let's look at this from a realistic point of view (I know, I know, you say "movies are for entertainment; escapism, etc"...and I agree, but everything has a point of absurdity)  and then from a Hollywood POV.  If this were in the real world the Cal character would have been killed very early in this season, because he "gets in your face", but he has nobody to back him up and he is not an imposing man, so some of these criminals he confronted would have killed him without a second thought. And a lot of these people would not submit to his "interrogations" because he has no authority to detain them, arrest them, or whatever it was he was doing when he hauled them down to his glass booth. Lastly, his business would not last long because he has no professionalism at all.  Hollywood POV: As an actor, his mannerisms and posture left a lot to be desired. As one reviewer said, he was just plain obnoxious, and I honestly don't know if that was the character or the actor, but it got old real quick, and it was a turn off. I don't know if the writers and directors changed this season but I could see and feel the difference in the show. And what happened to the "science of face reading"...seems like it took a back seat to all the other shinanigans written into the show.

What Were They Thinking? I really wanted to love this Blu-ray. I had waited for years for a really good, clean, crisp version of Fiddler On The Roof to come out. It is one of the best movie  musicals of all time.  I was so disappointed I just wanted to kill myself. This Blu-ray technically is exactly what the folks at the movie company wanted it to be. Unfortunately, it isn't what the movie buying public and consumers of Blu-ray products wanted. When we bought our Blu-ray players we wanted clean.  We wanted crisp. We wanted a sharp picture, with vivid colors. Then the restoration technicians produce something like this. How can people just completely and thoroughly miss the point?  First let's talk about the good things. There are some nice extra features on this Blu-ray. I love the discussion with John Williams about adapting the movie music for the big screen. It was also good reminiscing with the daughters.  Another one of the good features is the sound quality. If you shut your eyes, and don't try to listen and watch at the same time, the soundtrack and the quality of what you're listening to is pretty astonishing considering the age of the material. It would have been nice if they could have synched the audio soundtrack to the video but apparently that was a little too much to ask for in this version. Amazing. They can take the Sound of Music, or something as bad as the movie version of South Pacific, and make you feel like you're watching a movie that was released two weeks ago. Then they take a movie as important as Fiddler On The Roof and can't even sync the sound and the picture consistently throughout the film. For all of the discussion about preserving the original intent of the director, I'm sure Norman Jewison really intended to have the sound and the picture sync together no matter how many nylon stockings he put over the camera lenses.  Now, let's talk about the video quality. The colors are actually pretty good. Nice saturation...nothing too faded, no color shift, etc. So what the heck is all this garbage about soft focus, nylons, trying to give the overall feel of a flesh tone? But on the whole, the Blu-ray version is actually worse video quality than the DVD version that was done five or six years ago. The bottom line is, in all honesty, they just messed up and messed up badly. The DVD version issued with this release is easier on the eyes than the Blu-ray. They should have just made Fiddler look as good as The Sound of Music or any of the other recent restorations of movie musicals from the 60s and 70s, instead of trying to do an artsy historical restoration that added nothing to the film. This restoration actually degraded the quality of the film, and I hope is not the last revision of one of the finest movie musicals ever made.  This, unfortunately, maybe one of those movies that just doesn't make the jump to Blu-ray. If that's the case here, that's okay. But in the future I wish they would put some kind of warning on the label to alert the consumer that they're buying a blurry version of an old movie who's audio is out of sync with the video.  Funny. I buy a steam iron and I expect it to be perfect. I buy a car and I expect it to be perfect. And for it to have the features that I paid for at the dealership. Why can't the movie studios the same thing for its consumers? It's one thing not to like a movie after you leave the movie theater. We sort of expect that sometimes. But for an established movie, and a Blu-ray release to fall this short... Somebody really should get beat with a lamp cord. If it is available, buy the DVD version contained in this release. Skip the Blu-ray.  And for those who already purchased the Blu-Ray...there is hope.  No you haven't had a stroke.  It's made that way.

This movie sucks! Vampire's suck?More like this movie sucks.The jokes were lame.Not very funny.The only good thing about this movie is the actress that played Becca.I thought she did a fairly good job at spoofing Bella.Not a very good parody movie.

I think that was Ong-Bak....fast forwarding.....yeah, I think this is it. I have been a fan of the original Ong-Bak for some time. I imported the original before a US release and find it to be one of my favorite martial arts movies period. I was very excited for this movie to come out even though Ong-Bak 2 was a major departure from the original. The fight scenes were great and entertaining but they definitely lacked the raw feel of the original. Some of the stuff done here cannot be faked and that's it what I loved about the original.  The big downfall to me is that the cultural differences between Thai and the US are dramatic in this movie. I was so confused by things that were going on and did not understand how certain scenes related to the movie. I found myself fast forwarding to skip through long drawn out scenes. I can't really say that I would watch this movie all the way through again. I may show some people some of the fight scenes though.

Throw It In the Grand Canal The shallow merits of The Tourist do little to remedy its paper-thin characterization, forgettable score, mismatched actors, and chronic identity crisis.  It is appropriately titled, however, in that the plot was no doubt contrived on a $14 coffee coaster in San Marco while the cast 'toured' Venice.  Meanwhile, the director incorporated a few mildly humorous segments of (PJ clad) Depp braving the Hotel Deniali rooftop, and runway model Jolie slaloming Venetian 'campos' like an Energizer powered Barbie doll.  The drum and French poodle were all that was missing.  Furthermore, the unremarkable script was saturated with clich&eacute;s and predictable eventualities, which conspired to poison the already non-existent chemistry between Depp and Jolie.  Even worse, the attempted blend of comedy, espionage, and Summertime(esque) romance only cannibalized its individual components and added to the confusion.  The effect was glitz and kitsch, not glamour and thrill.  The film also failed to showcase those subtle elements that make Venice the most awe-inspiringly romantic city in the world.  The result is a "cinematic experience" that utilized for its backgrounds shop-bought Venetian postcards.  To be fair, there were a few witty lines like the "ravenous/ravishing" pre-dinner exchange.  Good stuff.  Had they been faithful to this lighthearted, comedic prescription and axed the absurd spy vs. spy subplot, the movie would have been more memorable.  Ironically, Timothy Dalton's minor role--owing to his ageless appearance and former work as 007--seemed to steal the show.  If you're in the mood for a believable romance that truly captures the essence/charm of Venice, go rent David Lean's Summertime, starring Katherine Hepburn and Rossano Brazzi.

the bridges at toko-ri The dvd ordered (the bridges at toko-ri) would not play in region 1.  It would only play in region 2. Another country. I had to pay for the shipping both ways when sending it back. I would have liked for them to send me one that would play in region 1 but they would not. Have no idea where to order this dvd from. Timothy Orn

dissatisfied. I received the order, but found the case broken. Although I ordered a new one, I have a feeling I received a used one. However, I have decided to keep it because it is not worth returning.

Skip it. I like Hitchcock and I like dark humor. I think you can get away with the absurd if it's believable within the world you created.  Just my opinion, but this is a dumb movie with a weak, implausible script. The most noteworthy thing in the film is Bernard Herrmann's score.

Blu-ray Review: 'The Iron Lady' There are some historical films that work and others that don't. I'm not going to go into whether or not they're completely accurate to the facts and what really happened; I'm judging from an entertainment standpoint here. "J. Edgar" was interesting. "JFK" kept you on the edge of your seat mentally. "My Week With Marilyn" was a classy little film.  Unfortunately, things didn't go so well for Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady." What could have been an intriguing jaunt through the life of Britain's first and only female prime minister somehow became a cluttered mess of selected snapshots randomly thrown together with no apparent rhyme or reason.  The one thing that I can't pick apart is Meryl Streep's performance. She is excellent as the driven woman who stood against all opposition to rise above and do her duty.  It's hard to gauge "The Iron Lady" (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy). I found the movie itself to be a cinematic mess as far as pacing and structure. On the other hand, all of the actors performed marvelously and it looks beautiful. There are special features, but they're rather short for the most part. The movie received mixed reviews, so this truly is the sort of film that is based on personal tastes.

Just fair I like the quality of this movie, I couldn't expect more for what a paid for. Next time I am gonna get a HD movie

History gets a boring and predictably mediocre reimagining from Disney... There are highs and lows to almost all Disney fare, especially more recent ones.  The early days of Disney animation as easier to forgive because of the general majesty that came from the grand depictions of these fairy tales.  More recent entries in the Disney archives to feel more stilted and generic than they used to.  They aren't as sinister as some of the early films (`Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' is still rather chilling today) and yet they almost lack any real bite to the point where they can become somewhat predictably boring.  `Tangled' was a refreshing rebirth so-to-speak; but can they really follow that up?  I'm still wondering.  So that leaves us with `Pocahontas', the 1995 retelling of the European settlers' first meeting with the Indians.  First of all, historically this is rather ignorant and it should not be used to help young ones understand the truth about our founding fathers.  This is given the glossy treatment most Disney movies are given and treated more like a Shakespeare play than anything else.  John Smith is Romeo, obviously, and Pocahontas is Juliet.  Sadly, Disney doesn't understand how to change things up.  Pocahontas doesn't feel like her own character.  She isn't any different than Ariel or Mulan or whoever else you want to name out of the Disney Princess archive.  She is a free spirit who has a formulistic father and a dead mother.  She follows her heart to a man or a path or a whatever that is against all logic and proves to be wiser than everyone else and thus there is that `ah-ha' moment and everyone realizes they should have listened to her all along.  Bah.  The singing, outside of that `Colors in the Wind' song is rather atrocious.  The actors here just can't sing.  The color palate for the film is a tad drab and doesn't have the usual grandeur that we have grown accustom to with Disney films.  Sure, those two little creatures (I'm referring to the dog and the raccoon) are cute, but they aren't the stars of the this movie; and quite frankly, Pocahontas and John Smith make a boring couple.

Awe-inspiring concept. Crap execution. &lt;strong>Unholy&lt;/strong> (Daryl Goldberg, 2007)  I wanted to like this movie a great deal more than I did; the concept is amazing, and the acting is, in general, up to that standard. Unfortunately, it takes a few wrong turns in the script, and the farther on we go, the more lost we become, until there is a point towards the end of the movie where you know you're never going to find your way back to that luminous path of potential on which you started out.  Plot: Martha (Adrienne Barbeau) is a distraught mother. She has just (in the movie's opening sequence) unsuccessfully attempted to talk her daughter, Hope (&lt;em>Thralls&lt;/em>' Siri Baruc), out of suicide. Her other child, Lucas (&lt;em>Pinata: Survival Island&lt;/em>'s Nicholas Brendon), comes home to help her cope, and the two of them start looking for answers. The more they dig, the weirder things get.  Saying &lt;em>what&lt;/em> they start finding, even close to the beginning, would be plunging deep into spoiler territory, so I'll just say that while it's nothing you haven't seen before, scriptwriter Sam Freeman takes a number of disparate things you've seen and attempts to put them together in such a way as to be, if not wholly original, at least well on the way. And from what we can see of the big picture by the time we get to the end, he was really on to something. Too bad he doesn't seem to have spent a great deal of time thinking about internal consistency in his conceit, which leads to some moments where the viewer is shaking his head and wondering why no one thought to question this or that angle. Unfortunately, if you're working in this sort of speculative vein, the sort of internal consistency we don't get is exactly what the script needs to carry everything off. Which turns this from a movie advertising endless possibilities into something of a slog.  Worth checking out for the concept, but don't expect to enjoy it much. **

Even the totally insane Gary Busey couldn't carry this piece past 2 stars As part of an agreement between the brothers Sid, the original blu-ray edition of Universal Soldier goes to headquarters South while the VHS sequel goes to headquarters North. Now this was just fine because no matter how you slice it B is B. In fact we in the North were pretty pumped up by the thought of doing the sequel, especially knowing that the giant toothed legend Garey Busey was on the bill. In an unfortunate development turns out the sequel blows big time. Even with screen legend and Sid beloved Gary Busey on the scene the films horrible plot couldn't be brought to a place of enjoyment.  This one apparently picks up where the first one left off, just minus the budget, actors, and plot. The universal soldiers are now being created by Gary Busey to use them to help smuggle diamonds to foreign buyers. Honestly Sid was roughly 16 at the time this came out and is pretty confident we could have come up with a better plot. Really? This is what Gary Busey is choosing to use these cyborg soldiers for? Anyway Luc Deveroux from the first movie survived the original incident and teams up with some news reporter to stop the breeding of these soldiers for the wrong reason. Yeah it's pretty much even worse then it sounds.  Now one might ask why the two star rating if the movie was that bad? Well it's simple; 1 star is automatic just because Gary Busey was cast in the film and the second come from Busey getting smashed across the face with a pool stick, sending him crashing through a glass window to ultimately die from the fall. The fact that that replayed the pool stick smack in three different camera angles back to back didn't hurt either. It's really ashame being that they made a bunch of these Universal Soldier movies, but it won't deter us. Sid South will be taking care of the original and it's very likely we'll be doing the others in the franchise.

Where's the HD Audio?! The movie/concert is great. I am sure the video is great on this Blu-Ray disc. However, the sound track is the same 'ol Dolby Digital that is found on the DVD. This is a concert film. The soundtrack is more important than the picture. I expect better from a band like U2.

Not Aerobic and Not Very Rhythmic Either! I bought this DVD to use during my 16-plus weeks of being wheelchair-bound with a broken foot.  Until my accident, which occurred 7 weeks ago, I was a super active 50-year old with many years of step aerobics, competitive swimming, hiking, and (most recently) Zumba behind me.  I was not expecting too much from this workout, knowing that it would not give me the kind of workout I am used to.  BUt I was pretty disappointed anyway.  First of all, the production quality is not good -- especially the sound.  The music is horrible (sounds like Muzak) and it is too loud!  It's not easy to hear the instructor, and I wish I could just turn off the music at times.  To make matters worse, the instructor does not have a very strong sense of rhythm or metric pulse!  She is often out of sync with the music, something that drives me (a professional musician) crazy!  The movements are pretty unimaginative and don't even come close to getting my heart rate into an aerobic range.  Nevertheless I did use this DVD every day for about 5 weeks, feeling like it was better than nothing.  However, 2 weeks ago I discovered the DVDs by Jodi Stolove -- Chair Dancing Through the Decades is my favorite.  The music is still bad, but the choreography is so much better, the cueing is great, and the workout gets your whole body moving.  I have now abandoned my Wheechair Workout in favor of the Chair Dancing ones.

Disappointing Rehash of Already Available Footage Bad news for Patti Page fans - this dvd IN CONCERT SERIES: PATTI PAGE is actually the still available dvd PATTI PAGE SINGS THE HITS cut down from 15 songs to ten, from the same company no less, Passport.  The dvd sleeve claims the dvd is "approximately 50 min" - same length as the older dvd with 50 percent more music! The songs on this dvd are:  1 On a Wonderful Day Like Today 2 Born to Lose 3 Unchained Meldoy 4 What Now My Love 5 Love Come Back to Me 6 This is My Song 7 The First Time We Went Waltzing 8 Lady Be Good 9 Lazy River 10 Ballin' the Jack  These tracks are all in B&W and from 1950's tv appearances, print quality is very mediocre but then a lot of tv footage from that era only survives in this form. The best footage from the previous release does not even make it on to this collection: a greatest hits melody by Patti and a performance of standards accompanied by Liberace.  Only the "bonus features" are new and they are quite short, two interview excerpts of Patti apparently from some 1980's tv appearance and a trailer to the infamously bad 1960 film DONDI in which Patti costarred with David Janssen.  Only a Patti Page completist might be interested in this set given it's the exact same price as the longer edition and even they might think twice given the back cover blurb "This DVD is not endorsed by Patti Page".

The Laughs Are Few and Far Between Remember when the Farrelly Brothers made funny films? Remember "There's Something About Mary"? Their new film "Hall Pass" desperately wants you to remember this connection. "Mary" seems to be the watershed moment in the Brothers' career and raised our expectations too high, I guess they hope we will be fooled into believing "Hall Pass" is as good... Is any good...  The new film is funny, at times, and contains the required necessary Farrelly gross out gags (which are also funny), but you expect more from the Brothers; many, many jokes don't work, the film stars Owen Wilson who is spectacularly miscast and the film looks like it was made at an old shopping mall. The film is a wash, a mess and a trial to sit through..  Rick (Wilson), a realtor, is married to Maggie (Jenna Fischer, TV's "The Office") and is best friends with Fred (Jason Sudeikis, "Saturday Night Live"), an insurance salesman, who is married to Grace (Christina Applegate). Both men are adults who act as mature as the horny teenagers they wish they still were. Rick watches an attractive young woman walk by while he is with his wife, upsetting her. The two women talk with their friend, Dr. Lucy (Joy Behar, WTF?) who mentions that she gave her husband a 'hall pass' many years ago. He didn't use it, but the idea of it reinvigorated their marriage.  After much discussion, Maggie and Grace decide to give it a try. Rick and Fred are ecstatic and their circle of buddies, Gary (Stephen Merchant, Ricky Gervais' producing partner), Hog-Head (Larry Joe Campbell) and Flats (J. B. Smoove) want ringside seats for the week of debauchery.  There are a few laughs in "Hall Pass", but these seem few and very far between. When you are sitting in a theater, watching a comedy, and you sit for long periods of time without laughing, what happens? The film seems very long. Worse, when you do find yourself laughing at the silly, stupid humor and the gross out gags, you remember back to "There's Something About Mary". These filmmakers once made a film that was so funny I had to watch it again to catch all of the jokes I missed the first time. "Hall Pass" doesn't suffer the same fate. What happened between the two films? Did they forget how to make us laugh?  When we first meet Rick and Fred, there seem to be a lot of opportunities for laughs. But these opportunities seem to evaporate in thin air. I think a lot of the problem arises from the casting, Owen Wilson is miscast. Rick is supposed to be the moral center of the film. Yes, he jumps at the chance to use his hall pass, but he also seems the most conflicted about it. Wilson usually plays the schemer, the mover and shaker, the liar and this provides him with something to so, no matter how annoying it may be. In "Hall Pass", he doesn't have this and it makes him seem boring. He can't do anything with the character to make him seem interesting and worth watching. He simply whines through most of the film.  I haven't really liked a lot of Owen Wilson's work in the past few years, have I? Yet, I keep going to his films. He seems to continue getting work with filmmakers I admire or hope to enjoy, yet he is often the worst thing about the film. In "Hall Pass", he isn't the worst thing, but he doesn't add enough to redeem it either.  Jason Sudeikis plays Fred who, unlike Rick, doesn't seem to have a moral compass. Or at least he doesn't seem to care as much about cheating on his wife. And he relishes the outlandish things Rick does. And these antics provide most of the laughs in the film.  Jenna Fischer and Cristina Applegate play the wives. I'm not sure if these roles are supposed to be completely humorless, but they are. The two women realize that if there husbands get a hall pass, they should get the same. So they head to the shore. There, they meet two guys who start to pour on the charm. The husbands are cheating, why can't they?  There are two or three gross out gags providing the most memorable moments in the entire film. But that's a bit of a double-edged sword. I'm thankful the gags are there, but it is disappointing they are the best and most memorable bits of the film. In a better film, they would only be an accent. But that would be in a better film.  A lot of the little story lines and some of the characters seem to go nowehere. Rick is attracted to a beautiful, younger Australian woman who works at the coffee shop he frequents. Her co-worker, a nerdy guy who looks like he would be at home at an open mike poetry night, takes offense and an instant dislike to Rick. He sees him oogling his co-worker. Every time Rick comes in, the male barista tries to stand in his way. Again, an amusing idea but it doesn't go anywhere. The filmmakers are only interested in getting Rick and the young woman together. And this seems to take forever.  The Greek Chorus surrounding Rick and Fred are a mixed bag, It is an amusing concept; three nerdy, equally childish men trying to live vicariously through their 'heroes'. But nothing really develops and they disappear for at least half of the film. Stephen Merchant is the most memorable and has a funny moment during the credits. Honestly, if the entire film were of the same quality as these last few moments, we would have another "There's Something About Mary".  Richard Jenkins plays Coakler, a man both men revere for his skills with the women. Fred and Rick refer to him many times throughout, their circle of friends also seem to revere him. But when he makes an appearance, very late in the story, he is completely forgettable. It wasn't worth waiting for him and the anticipation only serves to highlight how disappointing this usually very talented actor's participation is.  Joy Behar pops up as a published author. I guess she is supposed to be modeled on Dr. Laura, and friend of Maggie and Grace, Why Joy Behar is in this film is beyond me, way beyond me, a space galaxy beyond me. She isn't funny and doesn't seen as though she is supposed to.  Perhaps the most perplexing thing is how cheap the film looks. It seems like the entire film was shot in a shopping mall because every scene seems lit incorrectly, it appears harsh, fake and the light washes out all detail giving everything a flat look. I don't normally comment on such things unless it is really noticeable or really bad. In "Hall Pass" it is both.  "Hall Pass" is a big misfire. The few jokes don't make up for the interminable amount of time spent waiting for them to happen. The Farrelly Brothers' next film is "The Three Stooges". Originally, Jim Carrey and Sean Penn were going to star. That would be interesting. But both dropped out. Now Andy Samburg is the big headliner. Should we take a cue from Carrey and Penn and get a "Hall Pass" for the Farrelly Brothers' next film?

I can't believe it!!! I can't believe that it actually says that it is the most horrifying film since the exorcist...please...this movie couldn't hold a candle nowhere near the exorcist...the exorcist is the best creepiest horror movie ever made and i doubt anyone will ever be able to make a better horror movie than the exorcist...this movie is worth a viewing or two because it does have it's moments but it's such a disgrace from whoever put that it was the most horrifying film since the best horror movie of all time and if you think this, i know everyone has a right to their own opinion, but watch the exorcist first then watch this right after and see which one is more horrifying to you!!!

Wooden to the core Had high hopes that this would be a quality action flick. Taylor Lautner and the female lead are both one-dimensional actors whose romance is tissue paper thin. The action sequences are over-dramatized and non-engaging. You never have any doubt about the resolution of the movie.

MIT, Vegas, and Nerds, Oh MY! great commercial to remind you how to enjoy life in Vegas, one of the most exciting cities I have experienced in my life, at least when the economy was rolling, especially when hangin with a high roller, getting the penthouse suite and spending winnings, very very addicting.... OK that about sums up the film for reality check, the rest is too bogus to expend energy itemizing....  just how inane that MIT students would conspicuously cheat and dang dude get a safe or lock box!!! enuff said, nada redeeming, lessons learned, glad those guys won the 209!!! peace

Over hyped by the critics A disapointment.  Not without some merit, but not close to the Ridley Scott's greatest works.  No Blade Runner, or even Alien, here.

Not as good as I thought I was expecting a better movie. The plot was a little thin and the movie was boring. The movie is definitely geared to an adult audience.

Disappointed I agree with the other guy on the amazon service.  "Great show, but almost ruined by poor quality viewer and audio - and no it wasn't my laptop that was at fault.  I'll never use this viewer again and will recommend those I know to avoid Amazon on demand videos like the waste of time / money / credits they are. "  As for the season, it lacks the depth of the characters and the social analysis of the previous seasons.  It is degenerating into just another alcoholic soap opera and it is easy to predict exactly what will happen to particular characters with respect to the war and the cultural transformation of the coming years-in a cliche manner that has been done to death.

waste of time This movie is nothing more than a prolonged episode of UFC Primetime. It's just a bunch of clips of Silva training and some behind the scene stuff of him at press conferences etc. No real story and you learn nothing about him or MMA. A documentary is suppose to enlighten this is just more of the same type of thing I've seen a 100x except I had to pay for it. Boring.

I should have avoided this one The Dirty Dozen does start kind of slowly and the premise is pretty silly, but things do pick up towards the end when the Dirty Dozen lock a bunch of partygoers in a cellar, douse them with gasoline, and kill them with hand grenades. Definitely recommended if you like that kind of stuff.  Some reviewers have commented that this movie is making a point about the violence of war, but I don't buy it. You can't make 2 hours of frat-boy war movie then switch gears in the last 30 minutes and claim to be making a profound observation about brutality. There are plenty of good war movies that do have something to say -- Patton, Black Hawk Down, Das Boot, Apocalypse Now, Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, and Generation Kill come to mind. The Dirty Dozen does not belong on that list.

Jane Eyre I have to admit, I was very disappointed in this version.  I love the book and have watched most of the movie versions from the last 20 years or more and was so looking forward to this one.  Unfortunately, it does not follow the story as accurately as the Timothy Dalton version and is so disjointed and anti-climactic that is was not really enjoyable for me.  I don't think you can follow the story from this movie unless you have read the book and if you have read the book you will probably not feel that it does justice to the story.

this was a waste of time i should of listen to my gut,this was the worst ripp off i seen this year...thank god it was 2.00 bucks...

So-so film I didn't know much about this movie except what the description stated; that it was written by the guys who did Superbad & Pineapple Express, and that it had Seann William Scott in it. I thought this would be a funny movie, but it turned out being weird indie like film, that didn't really amount to anything except for one big fight seen.  Seann William Scott played a quite, serious character that was dumb and liked to fight which coincided with hockey. He met a girl and fell instantly in love. Which is fine, but he didn't portray the character very well.  The character wasn't someone that you particularly liked or could get into. I kept waiting for him to be a dirty wise cracken prankster but instead he was just quite. Here is one of his pick up lines after he punched a guy he said excited and nervously; you have a pretty name...and and a pretty face...The girl just smiled.  There a was a good love story played by Alison Pill and the plot was actually decent believe or not, up until the ending. But the movie was predictable and didn't develop the characters or much of the friendships. Seann William Scott was not a believable shy hockey player. If you are looking for something like Superbad & Pineapple Express then this is nothing like those movies. That's why I am giving this 2 stars, if I had it to do over again I would not waste my time.

RIP Green Hornet While the Green Hornet might have made it out alive by the skin of his teeth in this movie...in this viewer's world he died a horrible lingering death. The Green Hornet could have been an awesome movie if the characters had been given some respect. This was suppose to be a movie about a hero. Yet, not a single heroic action occurred in this film. Even Kato who was the highlight of this feature turned out to be no more than Rogen's glorified babysitter. And what the heck was Diaz doing in there?!!! The fact that they had an age reference for her "twilight" years just made it even worse. Loved the car, the costumes, and Kato - other than that this movie packs about as many bombs as the car itself!

Falls short of a good potenital If you're into 3D, you're in for a big disappointment. The story was lame, the 3D effect WOW factor hardly reached a 3 (ranging from 1 to 10, 10 being best). I didn't see any eye-popping candy at all. The movie had such high potential, but failed due to lack of story line and the blain attitude of the movie.  In my opinion, rent or wait for late night TV to watch. I am disappointed in this movie because I am a strong advocate for today's 3D version and the movie and the 3D effects should be a lot better than it is.  Overall rate: 2/5 3D WOW factor: 1/5 Eye-popping candy: 1/5 Audio: 3/5 Story line: 2/5 Acting: 2/5  This movie has so much potential, but falls short of delivering the goods.  In my opinion, one should think about renting before buying. At least you can test the waters before buying the pool.  I bought the 3D blu ray because I am a strong advocate for the 3D technology. I experienced this movie in 3D first hand on a high-end 3D system with a 7.1 channel sound system. In my opinion, it is best to watch from a friend's house or renting it before buying.

WWE Just needed to make a DVD this week. The managers they cover are great. As far as their reviews here, they could have done better. This DVD is almost like they didnt feel like making a DVD, but had to anyway. Not one of their better efforts.

Hard To Watch This movie should have been titled "Hard To Watch"(name stolen from 30 rock episode).  And yet, I watched. Maybe I'll "get it" if I watch it again, but I absolutely will not.

Well, It was Better than Oliver Stone's Crapfest. Viewed: 3/09 Rate: 4  3/09: Alexander the Great, although much better than Oliver Stone's version, is a very flat picture with neither the imagination nor the excitement of Braveheart. Save a few elements, it doesn't even compare with Ben-Hur or The Ten Commandments. Richard Burton holds on his own very well, but I am disappointed that he had to work with inferior material. The cast is good, but stale performances abound. I hadn't recognized Peter Cushing as Memnon until the ending credits, and I did like his hair. As for the film, the rivalry between Alexander and Philip is interesting but too unconvincing. The best parts of Alexander the Great, aside from Richard Burton, are the costumes and the backgrounds including the architecture. They really looked great. I wish I could say the same of the battle scenes; they looked pitifully bad and mediocre, lacking realism. The biggest advantage of Alexander the Great has over Alexander is that the former is never loquacious. That was the reason how I survived the film where Alexander just put me to dead sleep within minutes. However, the dialogues of Alexander the Great need more sharpening in terms of wit, relevance, and power. All in all, I've thought about giving a `5' for Alexander the Great with occasional thinking of `6', but the last twenty minutes of the movie firmly sealed my opinion due to the increasingly boredom. Upon reading the trivia page of IMDB, Charlton Heston, turning down Richard Burton's role, makes a great point by saying, "Alexander is the easiest kind of picture to make badly." Too bad that Oliver Stone did not heed this sage advice.

Frustrating I found this movie most frustrating and irritating like Groundhog Day - that must be the most awful way to go on and on and on and on... in a bizarre way the movie makers accomplished the task of getting the point across! Not a bad movie, just not my cup of tea!

Once again, Hollywood tried too hard. As a kid I loved the 3 Musketeers and the young witty teenager who became the fourth.  In this version there was good, bad and UGLY...  The good. Action, sword fights scenes, acting and logistics (the set, the colors, the cloths and scenery were first class.  The bad. The plot started-out well enough and then CGI computer effects, writing shortcuts and flying boats made a promising movie just plane lame and stupid. As a Syfy nut myself, I can leave reality at the door, but I cannot suspend it to a point of total stupidity, and you can not fix stupid.  The ugly. About 30 minutes before the movie ended, I could not help but think the writers wrote this movie into a corner. Instead of thinking a witty and/or plausible way to tie up all the loose ends they made, the writers figured the average person is a dolt (idiot) and if they threw a bunch of CGI and lame excuses and bizarre explanations that people would become confused and forget how bad and implausible the story became. What I am really disappointed in is with a movie with as many good to excellent actors, that none of them went, "You got to be kidding me!" and forced the writers into fixing this honorably story line. Well I guess I can now assume all parties involved in this flop were only too happy to cash their pay check versus delivering a real memorable and classic film.

Missed opportunities The sound track of Milltown Pride is lovely, and the cinematography is outstanding. In fact, it ranks among Unusual Films' best work in these ways. The historic contextual detail is remarkable and admirable. However, apart from these things, this movie is a real disappointment. The script is simplistic, at times contrived and too predictable, and the characters are shallow and uni-dimensional (e.g: "Well, she's a hugger..." the main character's best attempt to describe his mother). Beyond that, it contains such a watered down version of the gospel that it barely counts as an attempt to actually express it. The excerpt of the Billy Sunday sermon (along with Homer Rodeheaver's song leading), while delightfully well executed and realistic, comes closest to dealing with the subject, but mostly focuses on Sunday's personal testimony rather than a real telling of the gospel story and what it means to be born again.  BJU has never shied away from having a strongly stated, clear-cut message of salvation in its productions in the past, so I have no good explanation for why the Dean of the School of Fine Arts allowed it to go forward into production, let alone act in it and produce it. I expected better, and am so disappointed after having bought the DVD and watched it for myself, that I wouldn't even consider showing it to my lost family members. It would absolutely fail as an evangelistic device.  There were so many opportunities missed, so many scenes that could have been more than they were, and that could have had a substantial spiritual impact; yet every single time the script writer finds a way to escape sending a spiritual message. I am baffled at why there were so many of these lost opportunities in a film that runs well over two hours, but they were numerous.  Furthermore, as I interpret its conclusion, the moral of the story is you can get saved, sort of apologize to your parents for wronging them, give up  your vices, and God will let you do whatever you really want to with your life as long as you fit Him into your spare time. The final frames are a graphic that presents John 3:16--their one clear, unequivocal presentation of biblical truth. I'm guessing they knew the weak testimony the film presented and were trying to redeem it a bit in the end with something of substance. Ineffectual, unsubstantial, and deeply disappointing--these are words I never expected to be saying about something from Unusual Films, but here they are nonetheless.

No Subtitles I got this as a sampler after a friend told me how much he enjoyed the series and found the level of slapstick to be a little over the top.  I enjoyed the characters who answered "No,no,no..." but found the lack of any subtitles to defeat of the purposes of buying  programs on DVD.  The bit of telling a joke after the credits was a good thing too.  I guess it was just not meant to match up with my taste but it could still be good for others.

Didn't stick to the books The movie doesn't stick to the books! It muddles two very important story lines, and doesn't leave room to fix it.

ok not a great movie at all - just worth practicing guitar along. Has some good moments and a happy ending and predictable lines but that's about all.

This is an interview with Susan - it runs abt 15 minutes. This recording consists of an interview with Susan, running about 15 minutes in all.  That's it.  The interview is nicely filmed and sprinkled with brief snippets from her famous audition (the one we all saw on YouTube), some recording sessions, and her travels.  The interview is preceded by a one-minute introduction of hideous visual quality and featuring background music from Carmina Burana.  I paid $2.00 for my copy (used), and that's about what it's worth, assuming that you really like Susan.

Not for everyone... Certainly not for me, or most people who enjoy stories with an actual point. (btw worst first date movie EVER...seriously, don't do it...)  Sex and violence is the game of this movie, and honestly, the over the top action scenes got to be a little too much. I can only watch so many guns going off before getting bored. What little romance there was was ridiculously fake and half left me confused.  However, if you're in to massive gratuitous amounts of violence, constant action, guns, and death by carrots, go for it. I give it two stars because it's worth watching if you like that sort of thing, and as some other reviewers have pointed out, it is SUPPOSED to be over the top. However, if you're looking for some deep meaning worthwhile movie to watch, look elsewhere.

CGI The dialogue in this movie is horrible.  Guys taunting each other during combat, pilots saying "they're just toying" with a German fighter shooting at him from behind, and and a bunch of other nonsese make this such an unrealistic story.  The old style WWII movies that use actual airplanes and fotage are gone.  What we have now are computerized versions. In this movie, when the B 17's begin drop their bombs, they hold steady altitude.  That's because they're computerized.  In WWII, when bombers dropped their bombs, they would suddenly gain altitude after losing the weight of the bombs (look at any old actual fotage to see for yourself).  I was glad to see another movie based on airplane combat about WWII made.  But these days, movies are so unrealistic and Hollywood garbage.  Compare the part in this movie where the Tuskegee airmen attack a German airbase and the scene where the Japanese attack an American airbase in Pearl Harbor in the movie Tora, Tora, Tora! and tell me we're going backwards or forward in movie quality with action scenes.  Nowadays, large explosions are what make for action scenes.  At least the Tuskege airmen were honored, and remembered.

Pretty dated Elizabeth Taylor won an Oscar for this overheated drama about a call girl wanting to go straight and find love. To me, the movie was terribly dated. The awful incidental music, complete at one point with a fully-orchestrated fugue in four parts, was intrusive and the dialogue was stilted. Taylor's acting was OK -- she was sexy in a kind of lush, overheated way. But the rest of the acting was so-so at best. Eddie Fisher demonstrated why this was one of only a couple of movies he appeared in and Laurence Harvey's hair was his most expressive feature.

Swiss schmaltz? Yuck.  The story in which the animation is embedded is schmaltzy, and the acting is clunky.  And-- this very Russian tale is set in *Switzerland*?!  If you know Peter and the Wolf, you know it teaches you that the cat is an oboe, the duck a clarinet, etc.  Not here.  Wiped clean of such old-fashioned detail.  Dumbed down.  Not worthy.  The Emmy award?  They must have thought endorsing Prokofiev would make them look sophisticated.  Stick with an audio-recording.

Doesn't live up to the documentary Although the actor is very good this movie does not live up to the true documentary.  TOO much 'hollywood' and not enough genuine story.  See the documentary and then dis-regard this movie unless you enjoy the hype of Hollywood.

Mock-tastic Vampire Melodrama This movie was wonderfully awful, which made for awesome B-Movie night fare.  We sort of dared ourselves to watch it, and only wanted to turn it off a couple times. We persevered and watched it all the way through, though!  The plot in a nutshell: Good guy vampire sees bad guy vampire stalking pianist.  Good guy vampire decides for some reason to take her under his wing.  Bad guy vampire lures her into his lair.  The siren call of $1000.00(!) is too sweet for her to ignore, and she goes willingly into his trap (Mwuahahahaha!).  Good guy vampire must save her from the evil clutches of bad guy vampire!  Sword fight!  Hilarity and hijinx ensue!  Good triumphs over evil - or does it?  The end.  This movie has got it all!  - Zach (Good Guy Vampire) had two expressions - confused or perplexed.  His range was impressive. - Ash (Bad Guy Vampire) resembled a washed-up hair band frontman.  Think of John Lovitz' "Master Thespian" SNL character, and put fangs and a bad wig on him.  "ACTING! Thank You!" - Sofia (the naive, pure, yet incredibly talented pianist) had an amazing 'silent scream' expression, of which we get copious amounts.  Her breathy, arm-flailing antics really helped convey the intensity of being a vampire's feed-bag. - Gratuitous nudity (13 year old boys rejoice!).  Vampirism is sooo sexxy. Rowr. - Special effects galore!  Flying shadows!  Spurting blood!  Talking heads! CGI vampire vaporization!  What's not to love? - Action!  Creepy vampire chick puts the hurt on a microphone stand with her sword! - Intrigue!  Do not plot against your master!  Speaking of plots, the plot here was thin at best, and we spent our time with this movie giving it the MST3K treatment.  The movie was certainly entertaining, although not in the way it was probably intended to be. I have just a little bit less self-respect for having seen it.  I'm going to go wash my eyeballs now.

very disappointing I concur with the guy from Portland, I had so looked forward to the American release of this film, what a disappointment. This brilliant artist deserved a more insightful reflection.  This is a pompous piece of film making, where the makers were more interested in the 'tech tricks' then the subject.  So then I went to the 'extras', where I was excited to see if there was new show footage of Bill's shows I had not seen.  There was, in frustrating tiny snippets--- it was a cruel tease.  The idea of Bill having any female relationships was completely ignored.  Interesting editorial choice, as women were a central theme to his life.  The interviews with the other Houston comics, and especially with Kevin Booth-- Bill's musical/artistic collaborator, were in fact interesting.  And then I got to the 'bonus' where Steve Booth was in Abbey Roads studio remixing Bill's music, I wanted to throw up.  How arrogant, he never worked on music with Bill, I really got the feeling this family was cashing in on Bill's wonderful legacy.  How pathetic.  IF YOU ARE REALLY interested in finding out more about Bill, I highly recommend the dvd "Bill Hicks Live". It includes 3 great performances, and the documentary "Just a Ride".  I also highly recommend Kevin Booth's biography "Bill Hicks, Agent of Evolution", it is a very interesting read and provides real insight into this complex artist.

Not as good as the earlier ones The earlier ones in the series were funny and original, this brings back the old characters but doesn't really add much and ends up being crude without being as funny. If you're a die hard fan of the series, you may enjoy it.

Nothing Amazing about this Reboot Did I see a different movie than everybody else? Yes the third Spiderman was actrocious, but it was at least a little more coherent than this. Yes Garfield was a good Parker/Spiderman and the effects were good. But that's it! The plot was all over the place,the costume sucked, and character development for the villians was non-existent. Also the new "reboot" barely followed the source material. And worst of all the lesson of Spider-Man wasn't even mentioned "WIth great powers comes great respondsibility." Please bring back Raimi until then make mine DC. Nuff said.

What to Expect When You're Expecting Now Kirk Jones does a Freaky Friday body switch, becoming director Garry Marshall with the still-born What To Expect When You're Expecting, an all-star dud that could be easily confused with Marshall's Valentine's Day and New Year's Eve, except for the absence of Ashton Kutcher. Based on Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel's best-selling 1984 pregnancy manual, but only in the sense that book and film share the same title, What-When hustles its five main expectant couples to the starting gate, saddles them with clich&eacute;s, and whips the fire out of them.  And we're off: Fitness guru Cameron Diaz pairs off with her TV dancing partner Matthew Morrison. Baby photographer Jennifer Lopez, who can't conceive, plans an Ethiopian adoption with hubby Rodrigo Santoro. Anna Kendrick and Chace Crawford operate dueling food trucks before they, um, operate on each other. Maternity expert Elizabeth Banks and her chubby hubby Ben Falcone struggle to conceive while his race car driver daddy, Dennis Quaid, knocks up trophy wife Brooklyn Decker almost instantly. If What-When rises slightly above Marshall's sinkhole level, thank Chris Rock as the leader of a dads group. Rock actually earns his laughs. With one child strapped to his chest, Rock advises the other dads not to contemplate the cost of college. Before choosing denial, he says, "I cried in my car for hour." Rock is the one bonus in a movie that works best only if you dramatically drop your expectations. I appreciated Kendrick and Chase for staying low-key. The rest of the cast takes the opposite tack. Morning sickness afflicts most of the potential mommies. For me, the movie itself triggered the vomiting.

Pretty mediocre despite the glowing critical reviews... When Criterion announced this title, I was intrigued.  The film generated some good buzz at Sundance (or SXSW), and Lena Dunham has a show on HBO now.  After seeing this film, Criterion should rethink their criteria after this film because this film doesn't belong in the same catalog as masterworks of Fellini, Kurosawa, Antonioni, Visconti, Ford, etc., etc..  It doesn't even come close, and it's an insult to every serious film goer on the planet.  I don't think this film is the worst thing I've ever seen, but it is not a very good film, either.  It's barely a mediocre one.  It becomes more and more boring as it progresses, and aside from a few funny lines and good widescreen framing, it's an immensely dull exercise.  Most of the acting borders on grating, and many of the characters are just dull and very uninteresting.  The characters may be aimless, but the filmmaking is also aimless as well.  It's shapeless and formless, and feels like a student film more than anything.  Some people have called it a glorified home movie, and in some ways, they're right.  Lena Dunham's cast consist of her sister and mother (her mother is a famous photographer in NYC, which may explain why Lena is getting a lot of breaks in her career after one mediocre film).  Trendy critics who are praising this film to the hilt should really reconsider their opinions next time.  It is more important to look at a film objectively and criticise it on its merits than being part of the next hip, trendy thing.  While Tiny Furniture is not as amateurish as other films of its type (Tiny Furniture in in some ways a "mumblecore" genre, and it's more professionally polished than most of those films are), it is by no means a great film, and should not be praised as one.  Always remember.  Just because a film is an indie film doesn't automatically make it a work of genius or even a decent film.  There are some shorts on the DVD as well, and one of them, Pressure, has to be one of the worst shorts I've ever seen.  Criterion received a lot of criticism for including this film in their collection, and they deserved it in my opinion.  They should not worry about trying to reach the "hip" audience and worry about releasing high quality works on their label.

Belly This movies picture was right, however it didn't come in its original format. The part in the beginning where they narrate is meeting and at a certain part of the movie the subscripts come on in French and don't go away no matter how you change the settings on the dvd. Movie is good period. I'm just disappointed with the seller not giving me an absolute original new copy that I was promised.

Flawed Ford Film Wagon Master is a 1950 John Ford western starring Ben Johnson, Ward Bond, Joanne Dru and Harry Carey Jr. with Ford's brother Francis, Jane Darwell, and Hank Worden.  Ben Johnson (1918-96) was the consummate cowboy. He appeared in nearly 100 films, mostly westerns. In addition to his 9 films with John Ford, Johnson appeared in such classics as "Shane" (1953), "Hang `em High" (1968), "Dillinger" (1973), and "Bite the Bullet" (1975). He was a favorite of Sam Peckinpah who used him in "Major Dundee" (1965), "The Wild Bunch" (1969), "Junior Bonner" (1972), and "The Getaway" (1972). He won the Oscar and a Golden Globe in 1972 for "The Last Picture Show" and a Western Heritage award for "Bite the Bullet" (1975). He appears as a horse trader who joins a wagon train. BTW - Johnson does all his own stunts in the film.  Harry Carey Jr. (1921 - ) was the son of Harry Carey, a great silent film western star and one of Ford's longtime friends with whom he did 27 films. The son did 9 films with Ford, including the cavalry trilogy, "The Searchers" (1956) and "Two Rode Together" (1961). Though he specialized in westerns, he also appeared in "Mr. Roberts" (1955) and "The Long Grey Line" (1955). Carey plays Johnson's sidekick.  Ward Bond (1903-1960) was a USC football player with friend  John Wayne, and together they appeared in nearly a dozen films including "They Were Expendable" (1945), "Fort Apache" (1948), "The Searchers" (1956), "Wings of Eagles" (1957), and "Rio Bravo" (1959). Without Wayne, Bond was also a staple in Ford's stock company and appeared in  "Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)", "My Darling Clementine" (1946), and "The Grapes of Wrath (1940) among the 25 films they made together. He's probably best remembered for his role as Major Seth Adams on the TV series "Wagon Train" (1957 - 1961), based on this film. Bond was in more Top 100 AFI films (7) than any other actor, and appeared in 11 films that were nominated as Best Picture. He appears as the Elder of the Mormons who headed West.  Joanne Dru (1922-96) was a big hit in two westerns - "Red River" (1947) and "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" (1949) - so she got this role and following another great performance, she was typecast, although she did manage several non-westerns the most notably of which was "The Pride of St. Louis" (1952). She transitioned to TV in the mid 50s where she had a more varied career, but still did the occasional western, including "Wagon Train". She plays a woman of questionable values who is romanced by Johnson.  Alan Mowbray (1896-1969) reprises his role as the snake oil salesman from "My Darling Clementine" (1946). Mowbray appeared in over 100 films, often as a pompous blowhard with names like Throckmorton ("Mary of Scotland"), Pennypepper E. Pennypepper ("There Goes My Heart"), and Granville Thorndike ("My Darling Clementine"). He transitioned to TV in the 50s.  Jane Darwell (1879-1967) made 7 films with John Ford, and she gave one of the finest screen performances in history, winning the Oscar for "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940). She was much in demand and made more than 200 films between 1913 and 1964. She appears as part of the wagon train.  Russell Simpson (1880-1959) put his hawked nose and beady eyes in over 200 films between 1914 and 1959. He was a favorite of Ford who used him in films like "The Horse Soldiers" (1959), "Tobacco Road" (1941), "They Were Expendable" (1945), and "My Darling Clementine" (1946). I liked him best as The Preacher from "The Last Command" (1955). Simpson plays a Mormon elder.  Charles Kemper (1900-1950) plays Uncle Shiloh, leader of a ruthless gang of bank robbers and murderers. Although a veteran of more than 30 films, most of them westerns, Kemper didn't have the gravitas to be a serious villain. Ford films offered strong villains - Lee Marvin in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962), Walter Brennan in "My Darling Clementine" (1946), Henry Brandon (War Chief Scar) in "The Searchers" (1956) - and Kemper just doesn't stack up.  Hank Worden (1901-1992) is probably best remembered for playing ol' Mose in "The Searchers" (1956). Worden made over 100 films, 12 with Ford and 17 with John Wayne, starting with "Stagecoach" in 1939. Like Ben Johnson, Worden was a cowboy turned actor. Uncharacteristically he plays a member of the outlaw gang.  Look for James Arness  (1923 - ) as another gang member. Arness was Marshall Dillon on TV's "Gunsmoke" from 1955 to 1975 and subsequently has returned every so often for various Gunsmoke TV movies. Before he put on the star for Dodge City, Arness was a film actor who got his big break from John Wayne who cast him in four films in the early 50s. In fact, the original role as Marshall Dillon was offered to Wayne who turned it down and suggested Arness. BTW - if you think Arness is lumbering a bit too much, perhaps he is rehearsing for his role the next year as "The Thing" (1951).  Francis Ford (1881-1953) was John's older brother. He was a writer and a director and also an actor, appearing in more than 400 films including several films directed by his younger brother. It was Francis (when he worked at Universal) who introduced John to directing and also introduced him to Harry Carey. It's said that John included Frances in his films so that he could boss him around. Usually Frances had minor roles and rarely spoke, as he does in this film, though he does bang the drum a lot.  John Ford (1894-1073) directs. This was Ford's 115th film (including 61 silent films). He had already won 3 Oscars - "How Green was My Valley" (1941), "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940), and "The Informer"(1935) - and made such memorable films as "Stagecoach" in 1939 (Oscar nominated but not a winner) and "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" in 1949. Ford worked on nearly 150 films and he listed this film as among his top 3. Not coincidently, it is one of the few he helped write and produced through his own company, Argosy.  Bert Glennon (1893-1967) handles the camera. He lensed more than 100 films and was three times nominated for an Oscar; he had the distinction of being nominated for an Oscar for color ("Drums Along the Mohawk") and black and white ("Stagecoach") in the same year. Ford used him in many of his films ("Young Mr. Lincoln", "Rio Grande", Sergeant Rutledge"), although in this film the camera is even more static than usual, at times creating the illusion that we are watching a documentary rather than a film.  The film is shot in Monument Valley Utah which was one of Ford's favorite locations. Other films shot there include "Cheyenne Autumn" (1964), "How the West was Won" (1962), "Sergeant Rutledge" (1960), "The Searchers" (1956), "Rio Grande" (1950), "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" (1949),  "Fort Apache" (1948), "My Darling Clementine" (1946), and "Stagecoach" (1939).  1950 was a good year for films with Oscars for "The African Queen", "A Place in the Sun", "Streetcar named Desire", and "An American in Paris". The top grosser included "Cinderella", "King Solomon's Mines", "Annie Get Your Gun" and "Sunset Boulevard". Westerns were popular with films like "Ambush", "Broken Arrow", "The Gunfighter" and "Winchester 73".  "Wagon Master" has several problems as a film. It did relatively poorly at the box office, and received no awards. While the film features Ward Bond, Jane Darwell, Francis Ford, Hank Worden, Alan Mowbray, and Russell  Simpson, missing are such staples as Mildred Natwick, Barry Fitzgerald, Ken Curtis, Willis Bouchey , Anna Lee, Olive Carry, John Qualen, Victor McLaglen, Maureen O'Hara,  Andy Devine, and, of course, The Duke.  The usual Ford western has nearly a dozen or more of these actors, but not here.  In addition, the best Ford films have a hero who abandons long held principles to attain a higher purpose - Boxer Sean Thornton gives up his vow not to fight in order to win his love Maureen O'Hara in "The Quiet Man", Uncle Ethan gives up his plan to kill Natalie Wood in "The Searchers",  Captain Brittles foregoes "one last mission" and accept his age in "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon". In this film the principal actors abandon no ideals, and without the sacrifice, there is no intensity to the film.  We're also missing the dynamic rivalry between the male leads - John Wayne and Jeffrey Hunter in "The Searchers" battle over what to do with Natalie Wood, John Wayne and Henry Fonda in "Fort Apache" argue over the attitude toward the Indians, John Wayne and William Holden bicker about the role of the physician in war in "The Horse Soldiers", John Wayne and Victor McLaglen have a terrific fist fight over Maureen O'Hara in "The Quiet Man." Instead, there is more of a buddy relationship between Johnson, Carey, and Bond and no real rivalries. This is not unlike the relationship between James Stewart and Richard Widmark in "Two Rode Together", another Ford film that fails to match his usual high standards.  On top of this, Wagon Master has the additional problem of lacking a strong male lead. Which is not meant to demean the acting talents of Bond, Johnson, and Carey, but the usual Ford film had a major male star, and more often, two major stars.  Finally, there is some questionable editing with this film, particularly at the end. Ford was normally a master with the shot and the editing, so the glaring lapses in continuity and quick jumps are very noticeable in a Ford film.  Ford fans will want to see this film just because it is so different from his other (and better) films, but for other people there really isn't very much to recommend it.

All is boring on the Spanish Riviera... Earnest Hemingway penned the novel that inspired this rather pointlessly dull film about four men infatuated with one woman, wasting away in 1920's Paris.  Despite being beautifully shot and effectively acted, especially by an intoxicated Errol Flynn and his screen buddy Eddie Albert, this film is just slow and redundant and offers very little point.  The character interactions meander on vapid and the way the film is constructed bogs down the viewer with boredom and nonsensical character development.  Tyrone Power and Ava Gardner phone this one in, delivering emotionally restrained performances that don't say as much as they think they do, and Mel Ferrer gives an atrocious performance as the unstable and somewhat thick-headed Robert Cohn.  I wanted to punch him square in the face throughout most of the film.  Still, it is sensationally lit and offers some beautiful cinematography, and the underlying storyline of a wounded war vet (emotionally and physically) and his love for a woman who he could never please is compelling, just not conveyed in the most effective way.  And my lord, I never thought that bull fighting could appear so dull, but those scenes were awfully un-thrilling and sleep inducing; and I watched this in the middle of the day!

not as rigorous I was a little disappointed in the intensity of the cardio workout with this DVD.  The pilates is pretty good.

Disappointed I saw this movie in the theater and won't buy the 3d version. The acting is above average. However, the plot is simple, so there are many unnecessary scenes and dialogue. I had a hard time sitting through the whole movie.

Same great film, same rotten transfer I just bought this DVD and wish I'd paid more attention to the reviews...from 10 years ago.  As I already own the Frankenstein 75th Anniversary set and wasn't interested in the other films, this seemed like the way to go.  It's still the same wonderful film from every angle: writing, acting, cinematography, music, etc., a true masterpiece.  But the video transfer still totally sucks.  I don't know how some recent reviewers can compliment the video.  And I know my DVD was manufactured recently, since it shipped in an eco box.  As those old reviews state, the picture is grainy and the framing is off in many scenes, perhaps throughout the entire film, but my biggest complaint is the contrast.  Watch any really dark scene and you'll find yourself getting eyestrain as you attempt to make sense of various black blobs moving through the image.  I just taped this movie off TV (currently running on the "This" channel) to VHS, and my homemade tape looks 10x better!  The Frankenstein Legacy collection was released in 2004, giving Universal roughly 7 years to swap this transfer for the better one.  It couldn't have cost them much, but they chose to do nothing.  If Universal would buy this DVD back from me, I would take the offer instantly.  The film itself gets five stars, but I cannot give this DVD more than two.  If you want to own The Bride of Frankenstein, please buy the Frankenstein Legacy Collection instead.  If you're really bent on owning the film separately and own a region-free DVD player, maybe the region 2 DVD is better?

Not for Me I liked nothing about this film, so it's hard to review.  Seemed very choppy with no real plot continuity.  I had no connection with the characters.  Overall, it was boring.

I got the wrong film I also made the same mistake. I typed in the search for Tom Shadyac's film and I thought this was it. I hate returning things so I watched it. Oh well.

Fast Five Movie was absolutely good. But I was very disappointed to find out it was a rental and it did not permit me enjoy the extras (features or bonus). I will surely read betternext time. I felt cheated.

I ain't gonna lie... The movie had it funny parts but it all revolved around potty and/or body humor. I have to say that Adam Sandlers girl character seemed to be funnier than his boy character in this movie, it almost seemed like Adam Sandler himself did not want to be in this movie as a guy. There are numerous cameos from a lot of movie and sports people. I also have to admit to falling asleep during the last 15 minutes or so (we rented the DVD) so the movie isn't engaging enough to keep you awake (strike 1). Not much else to say about this one, I am pretty sure there is no sequel in the future.

Fairly All-Around Awful Val Kilmer is on screen for about 15 minutes and is never seen again.  Christian Slater is on screen for about 30 minutes and is never seen again.  This allows the movie producers to claim two big-name stars are in the movie, while in reality the movie is full of amateurs.  That saves a bundle of money.  Other than misrepresenting the acting talent, this is not an FBI cop movie, either.  It is just another variation on the haunted house or house of horrors movie, filled with all sorts of tricky ways to hack and slash and dismember people.  It is pretty sick in that regard.  Can you guess who is killing all these totally unconvincing FBI agents?  Can you guess who is next to die?  Can you guess who the real killer is?  Duh, who cares?  Most of us gave up playing "Clue" when we were little kids at summer camp.  And of course we have the required stock of politically correct diversity characters: one white female, one Hispanic female, one black male, a couple white males, and just for good measure one paraplegic in a wheelchair who apparently has a speech impediment.  If you have been waiting for Hollywood to cast a movie with characters that reflect real life situations, forget this movie.

Not the usual magic from Wes Anderson... I love Wes Anderson films. The Royal Tenenbaums is possibly my favorite film (if not, it is in the top three). I think he is a fantastic and meticulous director who creates works of art.  But I just don't think his genius is appropriate for a film ostensibly for children. I appreciate his commentaries on modern ennui and depression and money never being a solution to your problem in his other work--yet I just don't think that I would want to show this film to anyone. For children, it is too depressing. For adults, it caters to them with plenty of clever jokes and wit and charming hand crafted animation (which I loved) yet it falls short of really having heart.  I rented this from Netflix due to reading varied reviews, and I for one am glad I did not buy it. It has a great cast, a great director and great craftsmanship. But for me, as I watched it--it has no heart. It felt like Anderson wanted to make a story he loved as a child into a film, but he is ill-equipped to make a children's movie. I think he should stick to what he knows and does wonderfully--black comedy adult films that examine the spiritual and actual problems of well-off people in America. I know a lot of people loved this film, and I wanted to too. But I just don't.

Disappointment from Marvel This Marvel production has one of the most disappointing scenes and story line I've seen that were written by Marvel.  Too many corny scenes that tend to make the story weak and unrealistic.  How does a person who gets shot at least five times, gets blown up, and thrown in the ocean, still survive?

A great disappointment. The beginning of the movie was slow. The film has too many flashbacks. I couldn't tell whether we were in the present or the past. Diane Kruger and Josh Hartnett acted very well as well as Rose Byrne. Jessica Pare didn't have much scope in the film and that's what I didn't like. The story is based on how a crafty friend spoils the relationship between the two lovers. I wasn't convinced that tiny bits of lies spread by other people can make lovers hate each other. The  camera picks up some nice spots in Chicago, my beloved city. 'The Drake Hotel' reminded my stay there. The wind of the windy city, the familiar skyscrapers, the snow and fogging breaths of the people. All shown very nicely. The music score is good. But the story and the flashbacks confused me. It became too stressful to find a meaning in the story,made me yawn several times. I saw it only because IMDB rating was 6.9. I can't agree with that rating. I'd probably give only 4.0 I've to see some great movie today to compensate for the loss of time yesterday.

A Mess I've just come back from a train wreck. The cause seems to have been that there were two different trains moving in diametrically opposed directions at very high speeds. The result is this terrible, animated mess of a film.  Now, Anastasia is often remembered by most as a successful 1990's member of the in-illustrious Don Bluth canon of quasi-Disney disasters that have managed to accomplish the following: introducing horrible nightmares into the minds of countless children with their inexplicably morbid images and flashy sequences, causing mass confusion over which popular animated films are (or are not) from the Disney corporation, and (it is speculated) helping to trigger the so-called "Disney Renaissance" that gave birth to such classics as Aladdin and the Lion King (and, it should be noted, such duds as Pocahontas and The Hunchback) by providing the only viable competition in the industry.  What is however not usually recognized about this film (or the Bluth canon) is that it is not just the product of Don Bluth but rather Don Bluth and Gary Goldman, Bluth's longtime friend and collaborator. Typically Goldman has played the role of "supporting man" to Bluth's creative engine, doing work as a co-producer or co-animator, but in a significant number of Bluth's films he also co-directed. It is noteworthy that these particular films are some of Bluth's absolute worst.  The reason I mention this relationship is that it is apparent from watching this film that the dual-headed nature of this film's production is a good explanation for what may have gone wrong with it, since watching it is such an jarring and disjointed experience. In the end, it is an aesthetically pretty mess that was shoddily strung together and prematurely delivered to market and there is this odd unfinished feel to the movie throughout, in-spite of the detailed, awkward animation which itself appears to be more than complete.  This is an ahistorical tale about princess Anastasia, daughter of the last Czar of Imperial Russia, Nicholas II, who was alleged to have inexplicably disappeared sometime between the time her family was massacred by the Bolsheviks, with her included it now turns out, and the time in which someone outside of this event bothered to take a head-count. One theory, now discredited, which is explored by this movie, was that the princess had escaped the fate of her family members only to finally remerge publicly many years later. Many people decry this film for abusing and even grossly distorting the historicity of these events but I am not concerned with that here. I see no reason why we couldn't just pretend that this is fantasy and enjoy the film on other merits, but in fact those other merits wound up being impossible for me to enjoy.  What really irks me about this movie is how the narrative unfolds in such as way as to make you feel crazy. One moment Anastasia is characterized as a naive, sweet peasant girl, fulfilling stock Disney princess traits "borrowed" from Disney classics like Snow White or Cinderella. The next moment, however, she's become, without proper instigation, a sarcastic harpy clawing away at the film's male love interest and then, quite suddenly, transforming back again without explanation. As if this more subtle disjointed characterization were not sufficient, in early scenes Anastasia is shown with short brown hair under a Muscovite hat only to emerge later with long reddish hair that, again, clearly "borrows" it's look from Disney's Ariel of the Little Mermaid.  Other characters fair no better. The annoying Disney-esque familiar to our villain, Rasputan, is an obnoxious little white bat (which channels Iago from Aladdin) who inexplicably moves from being a sinister and vindictive side-kick to an unwilling and disinterested participant to his master's evil scheme. While I am all for a villain having some kind of moral conversion in the course of a story I would at least like to have a reason given for such a change. But there are no reasons given and it is as if there were two different people working on this film with two different ideas about what the finished product ought to look and feel like. Personalities change, physical appearances change, sequences seem like they were out of place or even done as possible, mutually exclusive alternatives and then just thrown into the final mix anyway and so on. There are countless continuity errors, non-sequiturs, garbled quick fixes and implausible conveniences smattered all over the face of this production and it is jarring to viewer.  At first I sort of liked this movie. I like the subject matter, I like the look of the film, the soundtrack (which is oddly good for a Don Bluth movie) and I even like the voice acting for the most part. But in the end I found myself getting ripped away from what I was watching by the constant distraction of absurdity and inconsistency that made me recognize all the more that I was really just watching a shoddy, overly ambitious mess.  Perhaps if there were only one captain of the ship then this movie would have been more even handed and some of the big decisions about what was to result could have been made so as to produce something more coherent and polished. As is typical with Don Bluth, there was a lot wasted potential in this film.  It's not as bad as a Troll in Central Park (what is?) but this is no Secret of Nihm either.

Great movie, audio is terrible I love this movie.  I used to own it on VHS and it was great.  Something is wrong with the audio when Republic Pictures transferred it to DVD.  Sometimes, the dialog is so soft it can barely be heard through the TV. If I turn the volume up to max on my TV, I can then hear the quiet scenes.  Then the I get blasted when the next scene starts.  It is a very difficult and frustrating version to watch.  As a caveat, I only used my TV speakers to watch the video.  It is possible that a good home theater system with surround will play fine.

great dvd GREAT DVD  content  but the problem is it skips and have not heard back from the company yet when I complained

Product good...service poor When I did a direct e-mail about the order not arriving, them wanted a group more info and couldn't tell the order date.  It arrived after 1 1/2 months...speedy!

Not Love Story It's Drama! Sorry! The actors in this movie they're great, but the movie is sorry and about drug dealing on the street in this story. Sorry! I hate the end of this movie, People save your money.

Somebody please kill Axel! I absolutely hate this movie. I was hoping that Tom would butcher Axel. Axel is kind of an annoying jack a$$! From the start of the film, he was being a jerk about Tom for no reason. What a stupid and borish plot!

A HORSE CAN'T DISAPPEAR The film opens with two families going through their morning ritual. Tim Dingman (Ben Stiller) is married to Debbie (Rachel Weisz). He commutes to work with his neighbor Nick Vanderpark (Jack Black) who is married to Natalie (Amy Poehler). All this is done while listening to Leon Redbone. The film had actors and a musician who I love, yet I wasn't grabbed by the action.  Nick is a dreamer who doesn't focus. He is thinking of inventions all the time. Tim is the conservative of the two and appears to be in a more senior position at work. Nick gets an ideal of a spray that will make dog poo disappear so people don't have to pick it up. He offers Tim a chance to go 50-50 into his idea. Tim doesn't think will work.  The ideal takes off and about 15 minutes into the film, the action begins with the characters not yet established. The "envy" aspect builds way too fast.  Christopher Walken enters the film as "The J-Man" and attempts to relate Tim's microcosm dilemma to the overall workings of society, something the script does rather poorly...or poo-ly. The film moves to a low point of envy in the nude (waist up on camera) men hot tub scene.  Like the rest of the script, the expected ending comes at you rather quickly and not too well developed or funny.  Parental Guide: 1 f-bomb, no nudity, no sex.

Kidnapped, not a good movie From begining to end, this movie did not have more than 2 stars. Acting was not good for starters. Scenario was bad too. I mean, it did not follow any real life logic at all. People do not act like that if it happen. Now, some B movies that are really bad, they use skin, nudity, good looking females to get the people buy or watch their movie. Or they include graphic violance, lots of blood etc. this movie had neither. Watching it will be waste of your time.

Cyberpunk Batman Think: retiree Batman. But with mutants wearing visors, mohawks, and using...jive turkey slang? Don't get me wrong - Gordon, and Bruce are portrayed incredibly. Their old man dates with scotch, and war stories are extremely engaging character moments. But Peter Pan Robin, and the Cyberpunk thing is so clich&eacute;, and cheesy -- it takes me out of it. I haven't read the graphic, nor do I intend to after seeing this.

A Perfect Example of How a Good Cast Can Fall Flat I wanted to like Burning Palms. I've been a fan of TV shows starring Dylan McDermott, Lake Bell,  Shannen Doherty, and Nick Stahl but none of that seemed to matter past the film's first 5 minutes. It is clear that shock value was going to be the driving force behind this film from the start because there really wasn't anything else of merit going on.  The writing is really where the problem lies. It is just truly terrible. Most of the dialogue seems forced and even  when it doesn't it seems unnatural. None of the characters that share scenes appear to have a genuine relationship with each other and it just all seems fake. I blame this on the writing because I've seen the cast in other films and they haven't been this bad.  Burning palms advertises itself as Crash for perverted people. Instead I think it's just Crash for dumb people. This movie is not entertaining, it goes for laughs the same way films like Meet the Spartans and Vampires Suck due and I personally am not a fan of that kind of humor.  This movie could've been good. The stories aren't so outlandish it disgusting that they wouldn't have worked if somebody intelligent had been behind-the-scenes. But  that was the problem. I don't recommend this film for anyone. Aside from maybe Shannen Doherty, none of these actors are likely to have a cult following. Therefore there's really no excuse see this movie. Maybe in a couple years and it's on premium cable you might want to watch it but I can't think of any other reason to.

Offensive as hell, stupid and full of stereotypes While the animation is nice and some parts are charming, some of the jokes are funny but they are mostly few and far between. This anime is full of racism and stereotypes, the episodes are 5 minutes long, there's prejudice against Italians in this anime as it portrays them as weak and stupid. I highly despise this anime. 2.5/10

Couldn't hold my attention I think the title of my review says it all. The first story had me interested for a while but in the end it just failed to make any sense to me at all. After that the following stories only served to put me to sleep.

KINO version is the best available. Let's set the record straight. This version from KINO is from a 35mm positive release print of the Astor re-issue. It does NOT have opening titles from a 16mm print as some people have stated. The entire print is from a 35mm transfer. Some folks have been spoiled with computer "restoration" which is a joke. I do have one complaint. The transfer is done at a speed of 1.4 which is about 26 frames per second. This does not affect the film, but it does affect the running time. Deuces runs 69 minutes, however the KINO version is only 65 minutes. Why would they do that?

Not His Best Work - 'Robin Hood' is basically boring, overloaded with stretched efforts for cheap jokes that fall flat. Instead of watching this, go back are watch 'Blazing Saddles' again.

"Let me show you how to REALLY bend somebody over!" I'm really getting fed up with you, Don Wilson. So far, I've seen fifteen of your movies, and the payoff hasn't been all that great. Yet you keep convincing me to come back, because of this spark of potential I see in you. "Terminal Rush" here has that spark, as it was one of the few films of yours that I didn't buy on a whim and was actually excited about beforehand. I should have known that you were likely to let me down again with this humorless <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000O77SRC">Die Hard</a> knockoff that makes the works of Jean-Claude Van Damme seem stellar by comparison. When will I ever learn?  The story: when the Hoover Dam is overtaken by hostage-holding terrorists (led by Michael Anderson Jr. of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002BO05S">The Greatest Story Ever Told</a> and Roddy Piper of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000AOX0F">They Live</a>), it's up to troubled Native American policeman Jacob Harper (Wilson, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/630582469X">Bloodfist</a> series) to infiltrate the monument and disarm the criminals.  Considering that Wilson's own ethnicity is a complete non-factor in most of his movies, it's kind of cool to see him branch out and play a character of a different race...even though said character is as bland as sofkee. The real attractions here are Michael Anderson and Roddy Piper, though their appeal is likewise limited: at the best, they echo Gary Busey and Tommy Lee Jones in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0790732238">Under Siege</a>, but particularly Piper isn't given much room to play with his character, and neither of their deeds are quite nefarious enough to make them stand out. The entire film's like that: the premise is interesting enough to warrant a look, but in the end, the movie is played and directed so lifelessly (and yet so seriously) that it's going to take a very specific fan to really get interested in it.  The same goes for the action, but with ol' Don, I've come to expect that. "Terminal Rush" actually has fewer fight scenes and generally less action than the average Wilson flick: there's a bit of kicking and punching and at least one shootout throughout, but only three outright hand-to-hand fights. The movie presents Don with two ready opponents - henchman/karateka Michael Bernardo (who attained slightly better results as a villain in Wilson's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6305473463">Virtual Combat</a>) and pro wrestler/judoka Roddy Piper - but though one showdown is marginally better than the other, they're both basically crud, proving that Don doesn't need Art Camacho working on his movies to deliver substandard fight choreography.  Of the cumulative fifteen Don Wilson films I've watched, this one ranks low, because it's just no fun to watch. Even the other movies had a greater appeal based on silly scripts, but "Terminal Rush" just acts as a sleeping pill for me. At the twelve-minute mark, I was already bored with the movie, and if I had known that it wasn't going to get any better, I would've stopped watching then. Don, no doubt I'll end up watching a few more of your features (again, you've got that spark), but if we ever meet in real life, I might just demand my money back.

Poorly Paced and Edited Having attended the tribute concert that was barelly mentioned in this film, I was so excited to finally see Still Bill. I'm sorry to say, though I am a fan of Withers and was completely knocked out by the tremendous concert, I feel very let down by this film. I thought it was poorly paced and edited. Though we see Withers in past clips and present events like his high school reunion, a reunion with the guys he served with in the Navy and the concert I mentioned, none of these events last more than a minute, all are cut away from awkwardly and fail to inform us about the man. The musicians who performed at the tribute briefly appear making some comment on his work, but it is so random and unclear, it has little effect. A visit to his home town and other later events, which I will let the viewer see, do begin to reveal Withers, but not enough for me. I was disappointed.

Learn How to Edit The basis of the story was good, but the editing was awful. it should have been in chronological order so we didn't have to see every scene 4 times, and if they didn't have a commercial every 8 min, then maybe it wouldn't have been 4 parts. it could have been a winner.

Meh Expected more from these talented people, very disappointing movie. Sorry I paid for the rental, better than a root canal, silver lining.

Didn't live up to the hype First of all, I'm a big superhero, comic book movie fan.  I love Batman and Superman.  I also like X-Men and Iron Man.  I really thought this movie would be awesome, but the plot is thin.  The action scenes become exhausting to watch and seem to make up the bulk of the movie.  It also doesn't tie into modern day until the very end, which made it that much less interesting.  I watched Thor after this and thought it was a way better movie.

Movie Pundits right Movie pundits are right. While I enjoyed the movie this was rather lack lustre. I would have liked Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza, from Broadway, to have starred in the movie, but then maybe the less than glowing movie was a reult of director's work.

Questionable content may be inappropriate for young children It pains me to write a negative review about one of Sesame Street's shows, but parents should understand that this box set contains the DVD "Families, Mail and Bath Time!", in which children are exposed to homosexual families where two dads are raising a baby.  This content was not appropriate for my young viewers and so we are unable to enjoy the rest of the Elmo DVD.

"Has a Few Belly Laughs" This film is much too cutesy, improbable and slow to develope.  The characters themselves are continuously smiling or laughing and they are basically stereotyped cutouts.  Although there are a few pretty good belly laughs to be had, you might want to skip this one if you are expecting a modern day comedy that is at least somewhat believable.

This is not actual 3d Movie Hi,  This is not looks like 3D Movie, Its looks like normal DVD.  I have 3d LED tv,I am not feeling the effect while watching the Movie.  Thanks, Shiva

More missing than there There is little historical rigor.  The presentation is done by politicians, celebrities, actors, etc, and not by historians.  It glosses over so much history that it's quite distracting.  It's only informative if you don't know much of the history to begin with.  Definitely made more for entertainment and glossy production values than for true education.  It could've been titled "Yay, us!"

Disappointed. Nowhere that I could find in the description of "Waterworld" did it say that there would be subtitles in Chinese.  Very distracting when watching the film. and I cannot remove them.  Unfortunately I did not retain the paper work as I would like to return this item and hope to find one without the Chinese subtitles. What do you suggest? Eileen

Referred movie... This may have been epic when it came out, it's just old and needs to be remade. Story is well suited for a love story. The intensity of the sport is A class. As always I am a big fan of school wrestling. But most likely would not recommend to purchase.

Not as food as all the reviews say We saw lots of rave reviews of this series, so we purchased it to see what it was. It was interesting, but not actually worth buying to watch.

Eh In general I'm not into these kind of movies and should have trusted my gut instinct, I'm sure this movie will probably play well to its core audience for the test of us though not much here

From an adult's point of view now When I was deemed old enough to watch it at 14 y/o, I liked it. It was interesting to see where the characters went, and other people/creatures they met. I didn't care for the overdone sexual inneundo, though. Now some nine years later, I cannot enjoy it as an adult. I guess as a teen, I took in the little romantic story and the occasionally funny joke. Laroquette's character is the typical fumbling dad, who complains about his job. Four fairy tale creatures come into NY via a mirror, God only knows why the mirror exists. The three most annoying characters are the trolls, who yell "Suckin' elf!" every five minutes. It wasn't even funny the first time. The main character, Virginia, accidentally goes to the fairy tale kingdom with her father and the fairy tale characters because of a hackneyed series of events. Most of the story then is trying to find the last mirror so Virginia and her dad can get back to NY, and Virginia's werewolf love interest trying to keep himself from eating her and/or having sex with her. There is no content, only silly, slapstick jokes. Stay away from this. Oh yeah, and for the last time, THIS IS NOT INTENDED AS A KID'S MOVIE (see parents' angry reviews).

WHAT WOULD YOU DO FOR A REALLY NICE APARTMENT? The movie reminded me a little of "Paranormal Activity" in that it has some hand held camera shots as well as using things like "DAY NINE." It reminded me of the classic "House" as there was a huge hole in the closet that apparently "things" were coming through.  Danny Hill's grandmother dies in the opening scene. Danny (Van Hansis) becomes a squatter in her apartment on the advice of Joe, the Doorman (Thorsten Kaye) and Joe's lawyer friend. He wants the apartment for the same rent control price his grandmother had it. The landlord wants Danny out so he can rent the 3500 square foot, downtown NYC apartment for big bucks. Joe gets Danny everything he needs to stay there, unfortunately there are weird things going on in the apartment and Danny quickly develops cabin fever.  The movie doesn't have a lot of characters and is practically a one man play. The movie plays you along to the end.  F-bomb, brief night time sex, no nudity. 2 1/2 stars at best.

The Asylum Strikes Again Battle OF Los Angeles is of course the Asylum studio's attempt to cash in on the name recognition of "Battle: Los Angeles". Standard operation for the Asylum as they try to put out these one-offs when big action/sci-fi movies are released. The film itself is without question bad. The debate over such fare is whether it is a "good" bad movie. For an Asylum feature, this one has decent effects which are on par with a Movie of the Week on the SyFy channel. The location shots, while not actually Los Angeles give it the presentation of a real movie. The story such that it is makes little sense but this is actually an upgrade from the majority of the Asylum's releases. The acting is as good as the script allows it to be as the characters are shallow and unrelatable (a problem with movies like Battle of Los Angeles that should have a grand scale is the small number of extras. An alien attack on a mostly deserted military base loses its audience) To be fair to the movie it should be judged against its peers, those low to no budget movies that reach for the sky but really have more ambition than they can fulfill.

It It Just Me, or does this movie really stink? This movie stank. The acting was okay, but nothing great. The plot was pitiful. Since no one would be interested in a poorly written sceenplay about two nice guys meeting in LA, they threw in a very poor twist involving switched on-line identities. This one went into my give away pile immediately after viewing. Watch Auntie Mame instead.

Les Miserables... with Nick Jonas????? It should have been an amazing show. Everything was going exceptionally well and everyone was giving amazing performances.  Untill..... Nick Jonas arrives at the stage.  Who in their right mind casts Nick Jonas for such a show? This was a DISGRACE. I even felt sorry for the guy, trying to sing along with his amazing talented colleagues.  I was so disapointed with his performance I did not even had the stomach to finish the Blu-Ray.  I can't give more than a 2 Star rating because of this and I am sorry to say I will never recommend this to anyone.  Buy the 10 Year aniversary DVD instead. That one is worth it.  Don't buy this one. I'm sorry I did.

All the funny parts from first two are replaced by High School Musical-like singing and dancing. I say C- "How you gonna hide swag as big as this?"  After Malcom's (Lawrence) aspiring rapper step son Trent (Jackson) sees a murder it's up to Malcolm to hide Trent and find the evidence he needs to put the murderer in jail.  There is only one way to complete this...become Big Momma again.  After watching the first two I was actually kind of looking forward to this one. The first one was a good movie, but I thought the second one was funnier.  This one took all that was funny about the first two and replaced it with "High School Musical" aspects.  A lot of choreographed dance sequences and a lot of singing, not what I expected to see in this movie.  Although there were a few funny parts, the movie was a re-hash of the same jokes from the first two, but not as funny.  This is a perfect example of Hollywood running out of ideas and only doing re-makes, turning TV shows into movies, prequels and sequals that don't need to be made.  After a five year break another sequal to Big Momma didn't seem to be needed, and after watching this it only made that fact more clear.  Overall this movie does for the Big Momma series what "Batman & Robin" did to the "Batman" series, or what "Rocky 5" did to the "Rocky" series.  Makes you think...why didn't they stop at the last one? I give it a C-.  Would I watch again? - No way, but like the other series I mentioned I would watch the others before this one if they were on TV.  *Also try - Big Mommas House 1 & 2

Young Guns III...with vampires My Tivo has a sense of humor.  I know this because Tivo will sometimes recommend movies with a straight face without sharing any of the relevant details, like "you like vampire movies so you'll like Vampires: Los Muertos."  It just left out one little detail...  It took me awhile to realize who the lead actor was.  I thought that the film was made in the 80s at first, with the bad lighting, the bad acting, and the bad hair.  And then I said to myself, "Self, the lead kind of looks like Bon Jovi." And then it hit me like a freight train.  I was watching JON BON JOVI STAKE VAMPIRES.  As a committed reviewer, I feel it necessary to explain that this is a terrible movie.  And yet, for fans of vampire movies, it is also historic.  I mean, this is the guy who received multiple awards for his 1991 hit, Blaze of Glory! And this is the same Bon Jovi who had a brief, uncredited role as "long haired corpse in coffin" in Young Guns II.  So in a sense Vampires: Los Muertos is a sequel to Young Guns II, which makes it...Young Guns III.  With vampires.  Bon Jovi (do I just call him Jovi? Doesn't seem right) is Derek Bliss, doing what he does best - staking vampires. In a tenuous connection to the first movie, Father Adam Guiteau (Tim Guinee, earning his SAG rate) dies while creating a team that can...hunt more vampires, I guess.  Bliss assembles a cast of stereotypes: rocker pretending he's an actor (Jovi.  See? Doesn't look right), substitute priest Father Rodrigo (Cristian de la Fuente), cute redhead Zoey (Natasha Gregson Wagner), spunky sidekick Sancho (Diego Luna), and quippy tough guy Ray Collins (Darius McCrary). Each of them has their own secrets, starting with Zoey, who is half-vampire but "takes pills" to avoid completing the transformation.  Does anyone think that this will turn up as a major plot point later?  Anyone?  Anyone?  Right.  So the vampires, who are not ever content to just be vampires, have a new master plan, which is the same old master plan in every other vampire movie: they want to walk around in daylight.  Vampire princess Una (Arly Jover) wants the legendary Berziers Cross, the same cross that the vampires wanted in the first film, which through a black mass will make the vampires invulnerable to sunlight.  So listen, vampires.  Can we talk?  Look, I know you're really bummed about sleeping during the day, but in exchange for your super powers you get to be all pouty and goth. If you really wanted to walk around in the day, we have a race that can do that already - it's called humans.  If you wanted to walk around in daylight so badly, maybe we should think about the poor choices that led you to becoming a vampire, hmm?  We have a name for undead creatures walking around in daylight thirsting for human blood: zombies.  And nobody wants to be a zombie.  The plot is full of twists about every character. The acting between the two leads is as wooden as the stakes they wield.  The sole redeeming feature of this film is that it works hard to show how supernaturally fast and deadly vampires are and succeeds once or twice.  And Jovi.  Bon Jovi.  Jon Bon Jovi.  Whatever.  He adds an additional star, because he is one.

Disappointing I found this inferior to Machine Girl, Tokyo Gore police, and Vampire Girl. The budget is obviously much smaller than those three and there is almost no story to speak of. It basically a sequence of five fight scenes. For hardcore fans of this genre only.

Too much lag time A good movie, BUT the amazonprime instant video version was terrible.  There was big gaps in the visual and audio playback that made it difficult, frustrating, and annoying to watch.  I am sure a dvd version of this movie would be fabulous.  I hope amazon does something to fix this GLITCH.

no tin holder I ordered this product, but when it arrived . Their was no silver holder and case was falling apart. I felt that it should havebeen specified. I was also missing the index and the comic book

Disapointing I was very disappointed in this movie. Unimpressive cast including Johnny Depp. It was like he was just walking through the part to just collect a pay check. Maybe I was just expecting too much based on my memories of the original series. Another issue I had was with the quality of download. It kept freezing up and going to a blank screen. I would have to start the movie from the beginning, running it forward and then having to reload again. Over all it was very annoying, a waste of money and a waste of time.

Fun to watch but totally meaningless rubbish The movie has a terrible story line and setting, which does not any creativity like of Mr. Robert Rodriguez's films, which are almost all of them are just crab. Throughout the film, Machete just goes crazy with revenge, and kill everyone gets in his way. The movie seems politically motivated but in a really crappy way, which some meaning to the story. But all Robert Rodriguez' movies are just violent without any meaning.

Great movie, horrible DVD release. As for this classic you can't go wrong. Frank Capra could not have had a better cast for this fun comic look at the 40's. If only this DVD release had been done by the major studios or DVD manufacturer. The quality of the TGG Direct is poor at best, as the second TGG movie I have in my collection I would never buy their products again. The price reflects the quality as well, the Silvering on my DVD is already starting to show signs of delaminating from the plastic. Suggestion, buy this movie, but from another manufacturer!!!!

DOUG LIMAN, OPUS 7 ** 1/2 I really don't know what differentiates Fair Game from a good TV movie. Naomi Watts, Sean Penn and Sam Shepard maybe. Otherwise, one may rejoice that a democracy like the U.S.A. can still produce movies about its administration's hiccups. Now that everyone is happy and has a good conscience, why not regret a time, not so distant after all, that allowed such directors as Alan J. Pakula, Sydney Pollack or John Frankenheimer to direct much more powerful films ? This one is already forgotten. Unfortunately.

A Distant Second I will not waste your time exalting the merits of this particular drama series. After the exit of most of the cast from season one, the second year pales in comparison. The elegance and panache disappeared along with the presence of David Benzali and Patricia Clarkson who brought an element of human, family interest to the show. Stanley Tucci was impressive and totally believable as the X factor of the series.Donna Murphy, Dylan Baker and John Fleck were the engines that propelled this vehicle with class and provocative out front, edge of your seat watchability. As ahead of it's time this series was, it's sad that there has been little to equal it. In the second season, the leftover cast from year one was relegated to smaller, stiff, unfeeling roles and I must say that Mr. LaPaglia was merely triple A league compared to Benzali. The storylines were a major stretch and the resolution of each case were equally as hard to digest. I don't know what killed this series, but I believe what I saw presented in season two, had a lot to do with it. The excitement, anticipation and drama was missing as well as the heart of the show, it's great cast and the audience who missed them.

Not much meat . . . There is nothing to support the actor's opinion that this is alien technology from another world or us from the future.  In fact, very few actual witnesses are interviewed, the death metal sound track is sickening and the wreckage looks man made.  The pieces of the "craft" look like something the army would make a lightweight drone out of.  After viewing this I'm absolutely certain that the craft is of current earthly origin.  Nothing was proved otherwise.  Poorly filmed, below average in just about every way.  Can't recommend it.  It is my personal belief that any advanced alien craft capable of making the journey from hundreds of light years away (including navigating black holes) don't crash when they get to gentle benign earth.

Long and Dreary, But Artsy. I like a good movie for late night entertainment. As one of my sources of movies, I shop at Ross. Yes, I know it's a clothing store, but they have all sorts of things and one of them is a bargain basement DVD rack. It can have up to a hundred or more movies on it and the movies typically are under four dollars, sometimes much less. Well, in order to shop successfully in such an environment, you have to know a bit about movies and my knowledge is minimal. So, I make a guess and some of my big successes include "Rock and Roll High School" (funny, I've now watched it three times), "Milk" (excellent!), "Motorama" (weird, but fascinating), "Mamma Mia" (wonderful!), "Steel Magnolias" (excellent), "We are Marshall" (wonderful movie) and a variety of Clint Eastwood movies (all good). Of course, now and then there's a clinker.  One of my latest acquisitions was "In the Cut" (R-rated edition). I'd never heard of the movie. However, in looking over the DVD case, I discovered that the director was Jane Campion, the director of "The Piano," a truly outstanding movie. That little fact got me to purchase.  Well, I lost on this one, folks. "In The Cut" is a dreadful movie and I had a hard time sitting through it. The local for the movie was New York City, and everything bad about NYC was amplified tenfold. The noise and the trash and the crowded conditions and the decrepit buildings were just overwhelming. I suppose this was intended, but I go to movies for entertainment not to look over somebody's absolutely dreary living conditions. Oh, and I didn't even mention the language. Do you like hearing the F-word used as a noun, verb, pronoun, adjective and adverb? Or there's loads of other dubious words. What's the purpose? Or is it just a way of creating a really dreary setting? Did I mention the meaningless sexual encounters?  Well, the story had to do with multiple murders of women who were then dismembered and cast about and two sleazebag NYC cops who were in charge of the investigation to capture the perpetrator. In the investigation, sleazebag one (Mark Ruffalo) meets up with Meg Ryan and the two have a sick affair as the investigation goes on. Doesn't it figure? Is the story exciting? Yaawwwnnnn! How can stuff like this get so acclaimed? The cinema was just awful, but I suspect that was intended, in which case they did a wonderful job of it and deserve an award. The sound was atrocious and I kept having to turn it up to get over the NYC background noise. The visual landscape was cluttered, to say the least. Yet, look over and read the reviews and you'll find some five-star awards. I have no quibble with that. It's artsy. Some people like to view artsy movies and the more dreary they are the better they are. Thanks, but no thanks.  Gary Peterson

I'm sooo disappointed! I was really excited to finally get this video and it's completely fake. I feel like I got gyped. I realize this video has been out quite a while but I guess I've been living under a rock and didn't know it was fake. The Banned From TV Uncensored videos are much better!

Missing Movies Why is this release incomplete? There is a European/French version with all 12 of Kubrick's film on DVD, plus you can get the Stanley Kubrick Archive (by Taschen) as part of the release... and it's put out by Warner Brothers, so... it must be U.S Rights issues as to why there isn't a complete Kubrick box set...

Mediocre, though not Balaguero's worst work. &lt;strong>Los Sin Nombre&lt;/strong> (Jaume Balaguero, 1999)  Despite not knowing whether Balaguero is going to bring his A (&lt;em>[REC]&lt;/em>) or F (&lt;em>Darkness&lt;/em>) game to the table when I see one of his movies, I'm usually willing to give him a chance. &lt;em>Los Sin Nombre&lt;/em>, released in English-speaking countries as &lt;em>The Nameless&lt;/em>, sits right in the middle of the two extremes of Balaguero's output, which makes it not all that hot a movie, but nowhere near as awful as &lt;em>Darkness&lt;/em>, at least.  Plot: Claudia (&lt;em>Para Que no Me Olvides&lt;/em>' Emma Vilarasau) has what seems to be the perfect life, with a loving husband (&lt;em>Dagon&lt;/em>'s Brendan Price) and a lovely daughter, Angela (Judith Torto in her only screen role to date). Everything changes, however, when Angela is murdered. Fast-forward five years. Claudia and Marc have split up. Marc has attempted to go on with his life, but Claudia seems incapable. And then the unthinkable happens: she receives a phone call from a terrified young girl claiming to be Angela, saying she's been held captive all this time and offering what clues she can as to her surroundings. Claudia calls in some favors from a journalist friend, Massera (&lt;em>Timecrimes&lt;/em>' Karra Elejalde), and together, the two of them, with occasional help from Marc, try to track down Angela--or the prankster pretending to be Angela.  Based on an early (1981) novel by one of England's masters of horror fiction, Ramsey Campbell, and cleaving surprisingly faithfully to its source material (which puts paid to the speculations that the ending is 'tacked on' or was redone because of bad test audience reaction), &lt;em>The Nameless&lt;/em> should have, quite simply, been a better movie than it is. That said, perhaps there's a reason that such a well-respected author has had so few of his novels adapted for film. (The only other Campbell adaptation I know of--also a Spanish production, directed by Balaguero's pal Paco Plaza--is &lt;em>El Segundo Nombre&lt;/em> from 2002, based on &lt;em>The Pact of the Fathers&lt;/em>.) And maybe I'm giving it too much flak because I'm expecting something based on a Ramsey Campbell novel to be &lt;em>great&lt;/em>, dammit (I have this same problem with James Herbert film adaptations). After all, there's some good acting here, there's more than enough suspense to go round, and the people who thought the ending was a cop-out just don't get it (that the actions taken by one character in the final scene do exactly what was intended was missed by, judging by the IMDB boards, a large number of viewers). All of which balances out the seemingly incontrovertible fact that Jaume Balaguero can't direct his way out of a paper bag; my long-held belief that Paco Plaza was responsible for the bulk of the directorial work on the two &lt;em>[REC]&lt;/em> films gains more steam with every Balaguero movie I see. &lt;em>To Let&lt;/em> is sitting in my queue, I think it may be Balaguero's last chance with me. **

Not that great I've tried to watch "Tombstone" many times but have been unable to watch it all the way through because it's just plain SILLY.  On the other hand I've watched "Wyatt Earp," the Kevin Costner movie a dozen times, and will probably watch it a dozen more.  It fascinates me.

Great archive footage, HORRIBLE production. We were so excited to see this movie.  My wife is writing a book on vintage amusement parks, so we thought this would a lot of fun. OK. So, we'll start with the good stuff. There truly is some great footage.  Wonderful vintage Disneyland, Coney Island, and the World's Fair of 1964, and then a bunch of parks in Florida.  Apparently that's all that was available. Well, that's it for the good stuff. The new footage is fine, I'm guessing filmed for the video program itself, although some strange shots that don't feel like they add to the park. And then we come to the editing.  Sometimes it feels like there is some sort of a narrative going on--starting early in the morning, the rides are empty, the park is just starting up, then the crowds come in, everyone's having fun, and then the evening arrives, the lights turn on and eventually everyone goes home happy and the park goes to sleep once again.  And that would be nice, except the editing doesn't stick to that formula.  I'm not talking about from park to park (which sometimes is just a tour of the area, ride by ride) no, I mean that "Day in the Park" theme is broken several times in the same park.  The editing is horribly smashed together.  Sometimes an attempt to break up the shots in some artistic way, that doesn't really make sense, others are long static shots that go on and on and don't make sense either. There is a little audio included, but it's only from the original "promo" of the park.  Otherwise, there are some fairly interesting trivia notes provided by way of white subtitles. Problem #1: many of the trivia postings do not remain on the screen long enough for anyone to read them in their entirity.  Even Evelyn Woods herself would be continually pausing the cd to catch up. Problem #2: when you have white subtitles on a light blue sky from old movies, it's near impossible to read.  The lovely production team thought to include a drop shadow to help with that, only the shadow is very light and distanced too far from the words to highlight them in any beneficial way. Problem #3: There really aren't nearly enough trivia and information included.  True there is some really neat stuff explained and revealed, some of which we all went, "Oh, that's cool." but then there were long stretches of interesting rides and locations that we wanted to know more about, and there was nothing. Problem #4: spelling and grammatical errors.  Which might not have been so much of a problem if it weren't for everything else horribly wrong.  And then there's the music. Oh, the music.  Sadly, because there was a little bit of narrative somewhere in the early part and in the middle, we were tricked into leaving the audio on all the time instead of muting it.  (If you get this, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE listen only to the audio on I think the second park "Freedomland" and then for the love of Pete, shut off the sound.  Or better yet, use your own music. Really, there are over 10,000 possible alternatives to choose from.  Think about it, vintage amusement parks, many showing footage from the 50s and 60s, and even into the 70s and 80s.  Amusement parks, right?  So right off the bat, just think of what music you would like to pair with that, and then GO BUY IT so you'll have something to play while watching this. The only thing I can guess is that one of the producers had a friend who had a cd of leftover 80s instrumental heavy metal space rock that even the 80s didn't accept.  The 80s!!! And there was some serious crappy music in the 80s.  This music makes that crappy music seem like a Mozart symphony. There is also ABSOLUTELY no attention to the music placement.  It just ends whenever the song ends, and the next one begins, no matter what's happening with the video portion.  Truly, it's like the editors just tossed all the video into the air and pieced it all together in whatever order they fell (thankfully keeping the parks separate) and then pushed PLAY on the cd that "The Artist formally known as Doug" created in his basement with a TS-2000 synthesizer and then they put a couple cool pictures on it and charged money for it. I'm all for the little guy, and I'm all for people making their own buck, and I'm usually very supportive and forgiving, but this is tragic.  The only reason it gets two stars (cause I can't do negative stars, right?  Right?  I mean, can I?  If I can, then I'll change my rating) is because there truly is some wonderful footage from magical places of long ago.  If you're a great fan of the amusement era, there is some great rare stuff, but know what you're getting.

A cartoonish action flick with political overtones Angelina Jolie plays the lead character in "Salt" ss a steroidal-driven CIA agent that mimics a Russian double agent intent on starting World War III. It takes a while to figure this out and you get to see Angelina go through scores of physical gyrations and stunts unlike anything her other cartoon character, Laura Kroft, ever achieved. For instance, at various times in this chase-filled film, Jolie:  -- Scales skinny window sills of a high rise D.C. apartment building with her dog in the backpack -- in her bare feet. -- Escapes capture by jumping from a freeway overpass onto a semi truck moving at freeway speed. -- Jumps from that semi to a similarly haulin' gasoline tanker with a skinny grated deck. -- Jumps to another vehicle moving at highway speed and hangs onto the edge by one hand before righting herself.  All this without a scratch or without mussing her makeup or hair. Later on:  -- She takes on at least 50 CIA agents in several combat scenes, without nary a scratch. -- In purusit of the U.S. president, she repeatedly jumps downward in an elevator shaft, 3-4 floors at a time, always landing perfectly on little triangular steel ledges. -- She survives and walks away from a car crash when the vehicle goes off the edge of a freeway, plummets 20-30 feet, and lands atop a bunch of other vehicles.  She walks away from all this without a scratch. Oh yes, one time she cut herself. Later on, she destroys the funeral of the vice-president to the chagrin of 500 security agents and, to top that, saves the world from nuclear annihilation. If none of this is enough for you, in the final scene she takes a dive from a moving helicopter into a freezing ocean without a parachute or even her shirt, makes it to shore, then runs off into a fade to black screen, apparently setting the scene for "Salt II: The Return of Wonder Woman."  To say this film defeats the concept of suspended disbelief is like saying the Hindenburg had a little accident. Whatever the merits of the film's story, acting, scenery and script, nothing can overcome its excessive, ridiculous and utterly laughable action sequences. No one can possibly believe, for one moment, that anything in this very high budget film could ever really have taken place.

Should have listened to the negative reviews!! I was all set to love this movie, but as it turned out I couldn't wait for it to be over.  I love to watch movies where they go back and look at their past, but this one was so disjointed.  It kept going from past to present so often that you really couldn't enjoy watching either one.  What I thought would be a love story from her past and them reunited and still in love in the present turned out to be completely different. I don't think she really loved either one of the men in her life all that much, what she was looking for was security, which made her an unsympathic to me.  Also, I could have done without the crazy solider popping in and out of the movie.  It just made it even more confusing.

Luke Warm The movie was only fair in my opinion. Thats because the writer could have done so much more with this concept. Only worth watching because of the job the actors do in it. Storyline borders on boring.

Plenty of tricks, few treats A typical Hollywood version of a metalhead is bullied. He writes to his favorite singer telling him about it, like he would really care. The guy even went to the same high school. The singer burns in a hotel fire and he is crushed. He was given a tape that when played backwards, tells him how to kill. The movie had a few good speical effects but other then that, this was a lame throw away 80's horror movie. I can remember seeing it at Wal Mart for the longest time in the five dollar bins. Dont let Gene Simmons and Ozzy fool you, they have brief parts. I wouldnt recommend this to anyone.

Crude and short on true humor I rented this movie because I thought the trailer was funny.  Turns out, the humor was very crude and in my opinion, even over the line.  I ended up turning it off half way through the film, and I honestly can't remember the last time I did that.  I have never written a movie review, but found this film to be so disappointing in its lack of substance that I feel compelled to tell others.

disappointing I stumbled across this movie while searching for some other DVD's for my 7 yr old son's birthday.  I had never even heard of the film, but because of the rave reviews here on Amazon, I decided to give it a try.  "How to Train Your Dragon" is a favorite at our house, so I guess I was expecting something more like that movie.  I was really disappointed.  The plot didn't really hold the interest of either the kids or the adults in our house.  Very few scenes actually featured dragons.  The story itself seemed a little dark to me, and I just didn't care for the way the violent scenes were depicted.  I also didn't care for a lot of the language; not that there was any profanity, but I prefer that my kids don't learn to call each other "stupid," or walk around talking about "butts."  At least I didn't pay a lot for it.

Meh I wasn't too impressed with the novel, but decided to give the movie a chance. Final verdict? As lackluster as the book was, the literary version is definitely better. This movie is rather predictable in some ways, and some parts are rather different from the book.

I'm about to commit heresy If I were to tell you that I just saw a basic cops and robbers movie with not-all-that-hidden conspiracies, intertwining plot threads that aren't really brought together in a meaningful way, and a shootout that ends with all the good guys alive and all the bad guys dead, I don't think too many people would complain or vote this review down for an average movie.  But for LA Confidential, I'm sure that I'll get one or two percent helpful votes.  Having now seen this movie twice, I can honestly say that I just don't get what the appeal of this "classic" really is.  When I saw this movie back in 1997, I thought it took way too long to get interesting, and had far too many scenes just thrown in for the sole purpose of waking up the audience (see Guy Pearce sex scene, which came out of nowhere).  As I watch this movie again on Blu-Ray, trying vainly to figure out what it is that I missed, I can see a little bit of reason to like it, but not a whole lot.  In a film that is as star-studded as this was, it's easy to get lost in the fold if you're not up to par with the rest of the cast.  While Kevin Spacey's storyline is probably the most interesting of all the cops, his performance was too laid back, and I'd never imagine him as the cocky, starry-eyed consultant for the most popular TV show on the network which we're told he is.  Danny DeVito, who is usually phenomenal, plays the most light-hearted, happy-go-lucky scumbag reporter I've ever seen on screen.  And Kim Basinger won an award for this?  My memory is foggy, but 1997 must have been a severely down year for the ladies out there.  The plot is...simpler than it seems.  From the opening scene, we're basically taken hand-in-hand through a basic cops and robbers story with twists that are sometimes so convoluted that they have to be spelled out through long dialog lines before we get that they mesh.  Spacey's character pulls out a business card for a porn studio, and cannot get anyone on the line when he calls them up.  Guy Pearce's character wins an award for solving a mass-murder and gets a tidbit that suggests that a rape victim was lying to him about timing.  One interview later where they learn very little, and that's really all it takes for these two characters to decide that their cases must be intertwined, and by the end of the movie, it's all about drugs and a conspiracy.  There's a lot going on in this movie, which is probably what led most people to think that it was complicated and intriguing.  I don't think that's the right word - convoluted and messy fit better for me.  It's interesting to watch certain elements come together (at least the ones that work), and the character development on the side of most of the cops is pretty good.  The final shootout is completely unbelievable, as Crowe and Pearce take about about 30 cops and make it out alive, but it is exciting.  I think Pearce and Crowe do a fantastic job in their roles, as does James Cromwell.  I would tend to think that David Strathairn does a good job of playing a millionaire covering up a dirty secret, but I think he might have been as oblivious as I am about what his role in the story was supposed to be.  For all that they did right in this film, I think this is a movie worth seeing, but to call it a "modern day classic" goes much to far.  This is, in my opinion, one of the more overrated movies of the 90's.

Falls flat of expectations. I liked the book and HATE the movie... I say hate because I am currently in the middle of it on demand and had to stop because it was so painful to watch. They made to many changes that I didn't agree with and then parts that I would have expected to see... the visions of home, the story of why they are after them in the first place, none of it was really there.  The biggest complaint I have is the relationship between Henri and John is NOTHING like the book. In the book the part I LOVED was the loving honest relationship between them and in the movie hes just a brat kid who wont do what hes told. Not to mention that they only look to be about a 10 year age difference in the characters. In the beginning when I first saw Henri I was like really?...who would think thats his dad?  (Spoiler Alert) Then the way they portray Sam, like a kid that ONLY SOMETIMES has a problem with his fathers alien abductors... He knows John is an alien and yet just texts him and says "Hey come on over I know what you are" and they talk??? In the book Sam is scared out of his mind and with good reason... he just found out that his friend is an ALIEN... as far as he knows could be the ones who abduct his father. (Spoiler over)  Geeze very disappointing so far.  I hope to be able to change my review but so far this is a total waste of money and time.

The kids are annoying and worthless One question - tell me what the alien looks like.  Seriously - what does it look like?  Draw a picture.  I can tell you what ET looks like.  I can tell you what Predator looks like.  I can tell you what the Alien from Aliens looks like.  Sooo... what the heck does this thing look like?  You can't.  We never get a good enough look at it to figure it out.  For that reason alone this movie sucks.  Period.  End of story.  However, it sucks for many other reasons as well.  What the heck is this movie anyway - some sort of mutant offspring of ET, Close Encounters, Cloverfield, and the Goonies?  Oh - except in the Goonies we actually had a group of kids that were likeable.  Not so here.  We get the chunky kid who is directing a Super 8 film - but he is rude, annoying, and entirely unlikeable.  We also have a thin crazy kid who likes fireworks.  He just comes off as a nut who is off his meds.  We also have a couple other young boys, none of which contribute anything to the film other than taking up space.  That leaves us with the young male protagonist (I forgot his name) and the young female protagonist (I forgot her name) and their puppy love story - except that we don't get anything from that either.  At least in Goonies there was a kiss.  This film follows the adventures of this worthless band of kids while an alien is loose somewhere in their town.  The dumb thing is that the kids really have no impact or relevance to anything that is happening.  What do they accomplish?  Do they help the alien?  No.  Do they hinder the alien?  No.  Do they do anything at all that impacts what the alien is doing?  No.  They have no purpose whatsoever.  What is the alien up to?  Well, that is hard to say exactly.  The alien digs himself (?) a cavern under the town's water tower and uses a bunch of local machinery to turn the tower into some sort of giant electro-magnet or something.  Apparently, the point of this exercise was to attract thousands of tiny "alien looking" cubes (about the size of Rubik's cubes).  You see - the alien ship was made out of a fancy alien alloy that converts into these little cubes.  One minute the ship has form, the next minute it becomes thousands of little cubes.  The how and why isn't important... just go with it.  Ok - so I can live with that.  However, how the cubes are handled must be one of the dumbest moves in the history of alien containment programs.  When the government decides to move the alien cross country in a train, they put all the cubes into crates on the same train.  Why?  Then, at the end of the film when the alien is using the magnetic water tower to collect metal and such, where are the cubes?  Parked in a series of trucks across the street!  Wow... it's like the most convenient plot twist in the history of film.  What is the range of the magnetic water tower?  Guess that doesn't matter because the government parked the cubes right across the street!  Lucky break for the alien because then the cubes all fly up into the air and re-create the alien ship - which then takes off like something from The Last Starfighter.  To add to my list of gripes - what was the alien trying to accomplish anyway?  If the little cubes had not been parked right across the street from the water tower, what would have been the point?  Let's say that the government had actually done something intelligent and had these cubes in a secret base somewhere for research.  What then?  What was the tower going to accomplish then?  In fact, I'd argue that the only way the plot makes any sense at all is if the alien knew the cubes would be within the range of the tower in the first place.  Otherwise, what is the alien doing except wasting time?  So the end result of this fiasco is that we have a bunch of kids that we don't care about chasing around an alien that we don't care about.  This is mixed in with some parents that we don't care about and some military leaders that we don't care about.  Super 8 only gets up to 2 stars because I didn't turn it off.  1 star is reserved for movies that are total garbage and unwatchable.

not that into it My husband watched this movie when he was a kid. He enjoys watching it till this day. He introduce me to this movie. I watch it with him, but I really don't care for it. It is interesting in the beginning. Some parts of the middle of the movie is ok. But when they get to the ship I think it get's boring.

Not worth Your Time It starts out interesting but soon turns to a sleeper. If you need to take out the trash, move your car or walk the dog, you'd be spending your time more wisely than watching this movie.

The times they are a changing..... When Spawn hit the video shelves in 1997, it quickly became the top rental film amongst teenagers in our town. It was the coolest movie. You HAD to see it. Viewing it fifteen years later, I've come to learn a few things. Firstly, Spawn is a rather uninteresting, bland film. Secondly, I was quite gullible as a teenager.  Today, Spawn's special effects range from average to really, really bad. The actors are of a B-movie quality, especially Martin Sheen, who should do us all a favour and stick to TV acting. I was frustrated, watching this film again after so many years, hoping it would improve as nostalgic memories came flooding back of happy times with friends, watching Spawn, gulping down buckets of popcorn and liters of soda while being very impressed with this cool new film!  Are teenagers really that impressionable? I guess I was.  Nothing interesting happens in this film; the script moves predictably from one violent scene to the next. Character development is poor, or non-existing. The film is utterly devoid of humour. I can't recommend this movie. Perhaps, as a Spawn comic book fan, you might want to view this to see how it has  translated to the big screen. Don't expect greatness. The director of this film hasn't done anything noteworthy in the past fifteen years, which should tell you something.

cheap! <span class="tiny"> Length:: 0:35 Mins  </span>Cheap for the price it cost!  "Slim Buzz" In front it looks good, but is thin and not a good quality toy.  The box who contain the discs is not good at all, the push center of it to put the discs out is hard and can dammage the discs.  Not recommand it.

Could have been so much more This movie is a disappointment.  Never fully explains itself or the universe it is set in leaving the viewer wondering what the hell the movie is about for the very beginning.  The actions scenes look good but again you are never really understand the context or why they are happening besides chasing down the heroine in the story.  The movie introduces plot points and characters and then  never finishes the plot or explains who a character is.  The look of the movie is good but the script and plot are terrible.

Update 4/2/2012 This is an update to my original review. After purchasing a new DVD player, found that the HD DVD version of this set STILL will not play. Had to return the set and was then only given partial credit as per the return policy even though everything was returned in excellent condition. Buyer beware: order the correct version of this set!

Look at me I'm "EDGY"... I'm having difficulties putting my finger on just what exactly about this movie I despise... Lets see, could it be that the male lead has the mannerisms of a neurotic Napoleon Dynamite? Or maybe how the "Oh so hot!" female lead is so "EDGY" and has a cool name like Galaxy, and awesome fake tattoos which she feels the need to show off by rolling up her sleeve? I'm pretty sure everyone in this production was so enamored with this girl, they forgot she was way to clean to be a geocacher or a Carnie...oh wait she's not a carnie, she's a Splinter head...way edgier, a hustler, a scam artist...a thief...hmm...  But i digress, Maybe, it was that for a movie clearly made to entertain college kids, the only likeable characters were the adults? WAIT! I think we may have hit on something here... Could it be that it's because all the young people in this film save for the male lead and his admittedly funny best friend "MMM...this sandwhiches are sooo tasty!" all are insufferable ******bags whom can only communicate with each other through thick sarcasm and insulting quips? For example, at a certain point in the film the male lead is called to do something he has clearly never done before and is understandably apprehensive. A nearby pair of "oh so edgy" girls, never having met him or seen him before, feel the need to spout emasculating insults at him. Completely oblivious that they are in optimal position to have their heads soccer kicked into broken necks...  I've also noticed that other low score reviews complaining about the lame profanity have been down voted...hmm I wonder by who? EDGY fans of this movie maybe?  so why 2 stars? well there are a few physical gags that actually work. Or you could always watch the movie for The Amazing steve, whom amazingly is well... actually pretty amazing.

Average at best I wanted to like this film. I saw the first classic movie when it was new back when I was only 7 years old at the movies in 1977 but I hadn't seen it since the early 80s. So recently I was at a yardsale and they had on VHS Smokey I and II. I had never seen part 2 but I figured I would watch them in order. So I put in part I and by the time it was over I figured I would order it on DVD soon. However, part 2 came across as such a corny "Jump the shark" rehash of the first one that I considered turning it off half way through. Sally Fields looked great and Jerry Reed still had his natural good ol boy charm. That being said, the characters of Bandit and Smokey were really forced and came off as weak and clearly trying too hard to recapture their original humor. As a Steelers fan, seeing Bradshaw and Joe Greene was the highlight.

BE HONORABLE - AT LEAST READ IT BEFORE YOU MARK IT AS UNHELPFUL I have to say, I stand by what I have written here. I ALWAYS read reviews before I mark them helpful or unhelpful. I have ALSO given a "yes" vote for those I don't agree with just because the review is top notch. How many of you can say the same. GET OFF OF HERE if you are down rating it before you read it. This place isn't for you. I think Amazon should police these reviews better....  I waited for months for Prometheus to be released to the public via DVD or streaming. I am a huge Ridley Scott fan and loved the original Alien series as an unabashed fan girl. I just finished watching Prometheus and am still in shock at how absolutely awful this movie is.  For once, I am almost at a loss for words, which some of you who have read my reviews knows is not something to take lightly. I said ALMOST - you don't get off that easy. Because I must make my case why you should not waste even a minute of your life watching a movie, which is a shameful piece of so-called "science fiction," my absolutely favorite genre. But perhaps therein lies the reason I know this movie is so bad.  Prometheus opens grandly with a gorgeous scene of canyon walls and a river with rapids that end up in a beautiful water fall. A man walks out to the edge of the falls, he is obviously alien (and CGI, which was disappointing considering we find out early on he is supposedly our "maker." I should have know then - lazy film work at opening of movie isn't a good sign. Note to self). He does some sort of odd (and simple - another "tell"), ceremony of drinking something, immediately his body rips apart, he vaults into the water falls, we watch as his body rips apart, down to his DNA and this DNA turns brown, crumbles, but somehow manages to put itself back together again and we see it begin to multiply in it's earliest stages of some sort of being.  Fade to black. Which is pretty much how the rest of the movie looked. To me. Pardon me, but I am used to the brilliance, humor, excitement, and intelligence of such wonderful sci fi as pretty much ANY Star Trek, Star Gate, Eureka, X-Files, (my ever mourned) Firefly, FRINGE, Battlestar Galactica and a few others that, while not quite up to par with these series, still made me a complete sci fi geek. Just to warn you, there will be some SPOILERS, but don't worry, this movie is so bad, just read this, you can say you saw it and save the other hour for something way more fun to do.  Also? Just something for you to think about before you push that "no" button. IF YOU DON'T STAND UP TO HOLLYWOOD AND DEMAND BETTER SCI FI, WE WILL CONTINUE TO GET CRAP LIKE THIS. We deserve better than this. The Alien series deserved better than this. If you don't, can't or won't see that, I can't help you. But don't think I am writing this out of hatred for sci fi, or to be flip about the Alien series. THIS SERIES DESERVED A BETTER TREATMENT OF A PREQUEL THAN THIS MESS OF A MOVIE. And, just also FYI, unless you see the "add-ons," you don't even SEE the part about the scary monster alien in the Alien series comes out of the alien in THIS movie meshing with the "baby" from Elizabeth. THAT part is cut from the original and left on the floor and only added as an afterthought for scenes that SHOULD have been included. NOT A GOOD MOVIE. PERIOD.  Where shall I start? So, the stars Noomi Rapace as Elizabeth Shaw, scientist, Guy Pierce as Peter, her partner and scientist, Charlize Theron as someone who really has not much to do in this movie, Idris Elba, the Captain of Prometheus, and Michael Fassbender as David, the Android. Such a wonderful cast for such an awful movie. A series of pictures are found all over the world in caves and such, with a man pointing toward a bunch of circles in what Elizabeth and Peter figure are obviously our makers pointing toward the star system in which they are from. For no apparent reason, they figure our makers in the pictures want us to find them (really? I can suspend belief pretty easily, but that jump was even a bit much for me). Four years later, a trillion dollar space ship (nice round figure, I guess) is built to take these scientists to the star system where they are sure our makers live.  1. After about a billion years or so, who in their right mind would think a race of people whose DNA possibly created humanity would still be living on the same planet in the same system? Has Mr. Scott NEVER seen any sci fi before? Does he even know the simplest of scientific facts even we, at our lowest point of space exploration today, have knowledge of?  2. On the two years and some months trip to this unnamed star system, David, the android, watches over the humans as they sleep away their time in suspended animation. For reasons we never really get to know (a theme in this movie), he finds it interesting to stalk Elizabeth's dreams.  3. They arrive at the appointed solar system, find the right planet and without any apparent research or foreknowledge know exactly where to land Prometheus right next to the alien building! It was an amazing, fairly unbelievable bit of luck!  4. They all jump into their space suits, into their vehicles and drive quickly to the alien outpost. They enter it and when they find the air suddenly and inexplicably breathable, all remove their helmets with only meager protests that, HEY - THERE MIGHT BE SOME FOREIGN AND DEADLY BACTERIA FLOATING AROUND THAT MIGHT KILL US. If I'd been there, I'd have kept my helmet on, but that's just me, what do I know?  5. They find an alien head!! Bring it back to Prometheus and without even a moment's hesitation, or, say, contamination field, or visors or even gloves, start poking around it, even though it is covered in what appears to be some sort of creepy looking mold. Then, they start poking it with electricity because Elizabeth decides she might get some reaction out of it if they poke it with electricity! Too much and the eyeballs and mouth flap around, too little and it all stops (and by now, I'd be at the other end of the ship!! Do they NOT watch ANY sci fi at all?). Surprisingly, it starts to get out of control so they quickly push it back into a glass enclosed "contamination" field (just saying - where it should have been the whole time) and it explodes whereupon green junk coats the glass. Nothing to worry about here!!  6. David, the Android, has sneakily brought back stuff from the alien place (for no reason we can figure), and takes a bit of slop he found on it and drops it into Peter's drink and insists he drink it, which Peter does, then has sex with Elizabeth. He is later found staring at himself in a mirror, his eyes looking "funny." But, they all go back to the alien place again, anyway, as Peter keeps this bit of information to himself.  7. During the night before, two of Peter's engineers inexplicably stay behind. They end up in the DNA experimentation room (I think - we are never sure what the room is - but I think it was where the aliens experimented with DNA for reasons we, once again, never know) and are ready to bed down for the night (why they are bedding down in a room full of odd closed vases that are drooling black stuff, the walls dripping stuff, is beyond me. I'd find a dry, warm corner as far from the yuck as possible, but again, just me). They are chatting when this strange looking creature pops up out of a pool of water. Now me? I'd be running as fast as my legs would take me, but these guys start talking to it like it's some cute little Hummingbird or something. It's NOT cute. It looks like a snake that fans out into a cobra and for the THIRD TIME, these humans which if I were the aliens who'd made me, I would kill simply because they are dumb as rocks, STILL talk to it like it's a kitten or something. Of course, they both get killed and the thing slips down the throat of one of the idiots. Not scary at all. Completely anticipated!  8. Our group finds the two guys, the dead one and the one with the alien somewhere inside of him (but they don't know it, of course) and take the alien-packed guy back to Prometheus, along with Peter who now is showing signs of total alien takeover. Now, perhaps here is where Charlize Theron's character is most useful. She wants to kill both David and the engineer they are carrying thinking (perhaps the only person thinking in this story) they might infect the rest of the crew (as if everybody around them with their helmets off aren't already infected - needless to say, she would have been smart to have killed the entire bunch of them right then and there, marched up to the bridge and headed back to earth immediately - but I didn't write this story, now did I?).  9. There really are so many other dumb things that go on in this movie, but I'm thinking this review is probably more entertaining for you than the movie would be so I'll continue, even though just reliving it might put me in therapy for a few days. So, David does a scan of Elizabeth since she had been with the goo-doused Peter the night before and had sex. OMGOSH!!! Elizabeth spent a few quiet moments of this movie with Peter that night, whining about not being able to get pregnant, is PREGNANT! Thank the Lord they figure this can't be good (for my own mental health), but David decides not to show Elizabeth any pictures of her three month pregnancy and gives her a sedative to knock her out and shut her up. And disappears. Next, we see two unnamed people in white coats looking her over as she is sleeping. BUT, NOT SLEEPING!! Just pretending! She knocks both of these people out and leaves, bent over in terrifying pain for reasons we know only because it is science fiction and it is probably some terrible alien growing inside of her quickly and hurting her. Somehow, she manages to make her way to some sort of surgery chamber where she manages to get it to take out the alien thing, get out of the chamber, and after full abdominal surgery, go put on a tight wet suit, err, space suit. All of this and not ONE person found her. I mean, how lucky is she??  10. And this is where even I, with all my cultish, geeky, comic-con knowledge of the sci fi genre, got sort of lost. Everybody, including Charlize, except the flight crew and the white coats, meets and goes BACK to the alien structure because David has discovered that one of the aliens is still alive in one of the suspended animation pods and they all want to talk to their creator for various reasons. Everybody gathers in the big room where about six pods surround this round thing in the middle, David sits at the console where, without finding any sort of security measures taken (another theme in this movie) manages to immediately open the pod.  11. Our alien maker sits up. David, of course, speaks his language and tries to tell him that they came in peace to meet their maker. More apt words were never spoken in a movie. The alien first takes off David's head and throws it to the floor and throws everybody else around the room like rag dolls. Only our Elizabeth escapes, just having had major abdominal surgery, running down hallways injecting herself with what we can only surmise is pain killers (which would drop most of us to the floor, but not the ever strong and steely Elizabeth!). We don't know why, but for some reason, Elizabeth has figured out that the makers never wanted to meet us, but want to kill us (OK, if I'd created these people and found out how completely stupid they were, I'd want to go and find the planet they lived on and annihilate it, too, I just have to admit it here).  12. So, here we are. This great movie! A race of people "make" us. We find out they "made" us and for some strange reason we figure they want us to go and find them. We do. Only now, after building a space ship that, if I were to put it up against our U.S. deficit, would figure it cost at least a couple of trillion dollars, but no, just a trillion. There are no discernible safety protocols built into any of the doors or equipment (maybe where they saved a trillion or two?), so people can come and go as they please and pretty much get into any equipment, any time they want - even the aliens have done this!! Must have something to do with genetics! We think an alien in a dark, dank cave is cute, we have an evil android running around performing odd experiments and we never quite figure out why, there are some rudimentary mentions of God and I guess what Mr. Scott thinks is a religious discussion but really isn't, no obvious fear of contamination except by Charlize, who we are still uncertain her character is all about, and suddenly it dawns on Elizabeth that not only did the makers not want us to find them, but now she is certain they are going to head to earth and destroy it. All of this, I swear to you, is just about right. Except what I have written is far more entertaining than watching it.  13. SPOILER ALERT - and like I said, don't watch this movie because this review is more entertaining, but that's up to you. Now, Elizabeth has gotten out of the alien building and yells to the flight crew of the Prometheus that the alien is on his way to destroy earth and they need to stop him from taking off in the space ship they have discovered is within the alien building. She is running as the ship is churning under her feet, getting ready to fly off to destroy earth. REALLY?????? There is NO indication in any way, shape or form that this alien is not headed home to see his long lost family. No, Elizabeth just knows he is headed to destroy earth because.....because.... we don't know why. He just is. As I said before, I wouldn't blame him considering how moronic his creation truly is, but getting redundant again. Without barely a moment's hesitation, the whole crew - ALL THREE OF THEM!!!! Seriously - three crew members on a ship the size of the Prometheus. You won't see it, but trust me, the thing makes Star Treks Enterprise NCC 1701-E look like a mini-cooper. But, OK, three flight crew. They all nearly immediately decide that death to the flight crew (and alien) is the way to go, they separate somehow from the rest of the ship so only a fairly small section (sort of like the enterprise's disc set-up, maybe?) heads toward the very HUGE alien space ship as it heads up toward the sky and rams into it killing said crew (shameful thing to do to my wonderful Idris Elba, but I digress) and bringing down the whole mess (this is NOT an analogy of the movie, I swear!!). I'm thinking since Charlize is running away from the ship that she, once again being the only one with brains, never went on to begin with, but I might have missed her in the complex negotiations going on after they woke up the alien. Never the less, it comes down on top of her and kills her too. Elizabeth doesn't get away scott-free, either (notice the play on words here?). Oh, it comes down on top of her, but sort of like the surgery unit, she manages to wiggle out from under it and continue running toward the main section of Prometheus still standing. I'm thinking those pain killers must have kicked in.  14. She enters the Prometheus JUST as her oxygen is running out, when David tells her (somehow, because her helmet was off - suspending reality again but now my head was pounding) that the alien is just behind her and is going to kill her. But Elizabeth is smart, right? She hides until the alien is right near the door of the room where her surgery was performed and even though she released what I thought was some sort of poisonous gas into the surgery unit before she left it, closed it off and killed the little beast just taken out of her, she runs to it and lo and behold, the alien follows her and is captured by the monster that not only did not die, but is now about the size of the entire room. The tentacles surround the alien pulling him in and (we guess) kills him.  15. Which, Thank God, leads us to the last scene. Where is Elizabeth going to go? Everybody is dead (except perhaps a few of the white-coated people, who I am still a bit worried about, I must add here). David asks her (somehow, we still aren't sure what he's talking to her through) to come and get him. He tells her he knows there are "issues" between them, but he can somehow find one of the many ships that evidently are lying around the place (WHAT???) and fly her home. ISSUES???? OK, that's enough. Oh wait. Not yet. She tells him that she doesn't want to go home, she wants to find the alien planet (I thought that WAS the alien planet, but it's the end and I seriously need Ibuprofen now), to find out why they don't like us. The End. No wait, one more thing. I am an alien. I want to wipe out a race of people I find are morons and I am embarrassed to leave them wandering the universe showing my alien buddies just how dumb my progeny are. Instead of making huge bombs and then taking out the entire planet safely, I decide I am going to play around with seriously dangerous DNA, then drop off what I THINK might be something monstrous, and hope it not only wipes out my idiot children, but doesn't get loose and wipe ME out, too. Perhaps, once again, there is something in the DNA that causes this form of thinking? Just asking...  If you still want to watch this movie after you have read this review, please do. And maybe you can write to me and explain all these things to me. And to Mr Ridley Scott! Shame on you! I waited six months to watch this movie. I did NOT read the reviews (really regretting THAT now) because I could not believe you, of all the brilliant Hollywood people, would ever make a loser like this one. And a sci fi loser at that! And Amazon.com, you owe me SOMEthing for the time I put into this review. Trust me, it is far more entertaining than this movie was and at least if people read it, maybe they'll move on and buy your new Kindle Pad or something way more useful than watching this movie!  To finish (praise the Lord) - one star because I can't give it NO stars or minus stars and another star because I just love Michael Fassbender and despite all the stupid things he was forced into doing and saying in this movie, he still was the best part of it. And Idris Elba - just because he is the sexiest, best actor in the world. And he actually had the only slightly funny scene in the movie between him and Charlize Theron. I'm heading out for some Ibuprofen and a cold wash cloth for my head now. Between the movie and this review, six hours of my life I'll never get back! Well, the movie was a total waste of two hours. The review is how I have fun getting back at the movie that took my valuable time away! Alas, Prometheus. You could have and should have been SO MUCH BETTER!

Burtons ego gets in the way. I hated this film. Alice upgraded to angsty teen to be more commercially appealing, allowing her to have some kind of flirty relationship with the Hatter. Hatter turned into a pseudo heroic figure to accomodate Depp's image. Ending with a battle between good and evil. Ho hum. Burton had a chance here to make the greatest ever version of the greatest ever children's story. Instead it's a rampant tribute to his own ego. He seems to be under the illusion that his imagination and inventiveness are equal to Carrolls. It ain't. if the film had been called Tim Burton's Alice, I might have worn it. As it is, it is a huge disappointment that it is not the original story. A golden opportunity thrown away by the arrogance of a grossly over rated director.

Great Concept, but poor performance by Owen. The concept was a novel idea as I can relate being in love with the WWII era here in the states in contrast to Gil's (Owen Daniel)fascination with the 1920's in Paris, France; however, there was no substantial development in the psyche and desire for this infatuation. It was not believable, mainly due to a poor performance by Owen who should stick to the more traditional comedies and by the way this was at no point a comedy and should not be regarded as such.  If another actor pick any in lieu of Owen would have been chosen for this role the movie would stand a better chance.

Elvis Costello & the Brodsky Quartet I have not received this item. I got a message that the state of this product was too bad and that it would not been send to me. I wasn't offered another possibility of this item.

Expected better I've never read the book but have wanted to see this movie for some time. I watched it today on tv. It ran 2 hours with no commercials so I don't know if anything was edited out. I watched The Tudors tv series and subsequently have read quite a bit about that era. I know the Tudors was somewhat inaccurate - especially with the portrayal of Henry as a young viril man well into his 40s- but it was far superior to this movie. Of course, it is easier to develop characters, plots and timelines over the course of a 4 year series than in a 2 hour movie. However, the major events of the story are barely touched upon in TOBG. The timeline is wrong. It has Henry hating Anne almost on their wedding day, when actually his disappointment in her didn't occur until after Elizabeth was born. And at the end, Mary takes Elizabeth to raise. Elizabeth is portrayed as an infant when we know that she was 3 when Anne died. Plus, there is nothing I've read to indicate that Mary actually raised Elizabeth. Many other reviews have already pointed out the many other historical inaccuracies so I will not repeat. Just let it be said that this movie was a major disappointment.

It still worked... ... Although I pulled it out of its case all scratched up and looking like it had sat in water for days

great movie but DVD has truly dismal video quality Everything about this DVD movie of Michael Crichton's The Great Train Robbery is marvelous except for the truly abysmal, grainy low resolution quality of the video itself. I don't know what the source of the problem is, but the result is one of the worst DVD's I've ever viewed when it comes to the actual video quality of the product. Virtually every scene is grainy and out of focus. It's a shame such great sets, great acting, great costumes, and great plot are all marred by the genuinely bad video quality. In sum, if you value video quality, do not buy this DVD. And, just to be clear, I'm not judging this DVD against a blu-ray. I have seen VHS tapes with as good and even better video quality than this DVD has. Someone should make a new transfer/copy/version of this, or even better, make a good quality blu-ray. I wish I had read the reviews more carefully as I probably would not have purchased this had I known how bad the video really is.

A little neon & black-lighting doth not a good film, make... I see why this film tanked in the theaters. It's a very empty vessel. It's worth the $1.99 I paid for a 48hr rental, but not more. Hollywood screws up another potentially great sequel w/the cheapo approach. I'm not surprised.

Legend of Hawaiian Slammers review The intro basically showed the whole pilot for you. The rules of the Slammers universe are vague and often contradicted themselves. The lead kid is bland and forgettable. Not to mention, "The Shining" thing was too much. You get a feel for Shadow Slammer and Sun Slammer but the rest are rushed. The Animation is pretty good. The action is pretty good but it's also cluttered and rushed too. The Villains are bland and phoned in a mile away.  Overall, A so-so at best. I give this cartoon a 2 out of 10.

Would not see Avatar Can't stand blue people. Not even the chick from Farscape. These Titans had no individual personalities. That removes a whole star easily. What I consider a weak story with poor continuity-it seemed to almost go in reverse at times- kills another star. Zeus was an idiot and I couldn't care about any of the characters. That takes care of another star. The visuals were entertaining, but, I preferred 300 over-all. But, you go ahead and enjoy.

Loved the Book, Did not like the movie I really loved the book, but the characters in the movie were nothing like the characters I imagined in my mind while reading the book. The Heroine in the book was a very strong person.  It the movie the make her appear very weak and reliant on a man to do something.  I normally like the Nora Roberts movies, but this is the worst one I have seen to date.

I don't "get" it. Let me be clear by this proclamation. I am a true-blue dyed in the wool science fiction fan, and Alphaville is among many top 100 lists as the best in this genre. The annals of Sci-Fi have decreed this movie a classic and pretty much required viewing for us SF fans. I get that this is a film steeped heavily into the 1960's New Wave movement in French cinema.I get this is a Godard film. I get the film's allegory, imagery, impressionism, underlying message and I even get some of the literal and cinematic references peppered in the film. However in my eyes, in the way I see and enjoy films, Alphaville is pretty weak.  This movie is more of an avantgarde art house film instead of a science fiction movie. Now please understand I am not speaking for the art house enthusiasts or cinema intellectual who can appreciate this film for many, many underlying themes and subtle undertones. I am speaking for the general science fiction genre fan and am writing this review for you. The first thing you need to consider is Jean-Luc Godard is not your standard film director. His films were all about defying the convention of his day. Many of his films focused on the existentialism of social issues. Alphaville follows the same agenda. Only this time using a classic noir theme placed in a futuristic setting. For a Fci-Fi literalist (if you accept such a thing) like me these things aren't enough and must be combined with something more. This is where I feel Alphaville lacks.  When I say the film is futuristic this only refers in the very basic of levels. Alphaville has no futuristic sets or settings and has hardly any discernible futuristic technology. The city of Alphaville is simply Paris and all the devices are modern day items of the era. Our hero Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) goes around taking pictures with an Instamatic camera and fights with a Colt automatic pistol. Vehicles and events of the time are called out by name as if they are part of the future with no explanation. On this level the whole movie has this vibe like the adults are pretending it's the future when it's not. Like kids would do in a neighborhood outing pretending to be space cadets. Much of the film's dialog was improvised, as is Godard's standard practice. This also lends to that feel of the actors pretending to be in Alphaville. All of this pretense of course is intentional as Godard was only using the veil of a futuristic society as a means to illustrate his social commentary on today's society. However for a sci-fi fan like me it's a bit grating to see such an utter lack of consistency with the world Godard claims to create.  The next limitation to me is the story itself. Dystopic societies abound in science fiction, and while Godard's example is quite interesting on paper the execution feels heavy handed. Alphaville is a society controlled by a master computer that criminalizes concepts of individuality, and in turn art, poetry and emotion. The inhabitants are practically brainwashed. Lemmy is tasked to find the creator of that computer and later incapacitate said computer. Later it is learned that brainwashed individuals leave for other civilizations to incite revolts discourse. Lemmy ends up stopping the computer using it's own logic against it (sorry for the spoiler). All this sounds pretty cool until you see how it's executed. Most of the information I just said comes from what feels like casual dialog. This applies to both major plot points and and tertiary dialog throughout the film that is intended to give you a taste of the world of Alphaville.  The way the movie moves doesn't help either. Many scenes change with the pacing of someone moving from one room to the next. At least that's what it feels like. You're just placed in a scene with very little setup. Then there are the odd little instances that seem to just come out. Lemmy would get attacked out of nowhere and as quick as the attack comes he shoots them dead and then walks off casually as if the dead guys just asked him for a cigarette. There is the execution scene where people give their last proclamation while standing on a diving board, get killed via firing squad, then have synchronized swimmers collect the body. Then there is what I call the Eternity perfume commercial scene where Lemmy and his love interest Natacha (Anna Karina) wax poetic on existentialism. You get scenes like these that not only break what little flow the film has, but do so with little rhyme or reason other than to be one of Godard's cinematic "gotchas" defying convention and linking underlying metaphor (even at the bemusement of a coherent script).  Continuity also irks me in Alphaville. Since we are talking about actors "pretending" it's the future apparently going from one galaxy to another means getting in your car and driving the expressway. There is even a driving scene where, according to the events of the film, there should be no other cars out. I can forgive this movie's filming mistakes like seeing film crew in full view of the camera, but Godard could have at least tried to make his environment consistent with his script.  Music is the connection a film makes to your emotions. A good score will enhance the feeling and vibe of a scene to such a degree that makes the movie all the more memorable. You don't get that here. Instead composer Paul Misraki opted for capitalizing on a single musical effect that was used in detective noir and thrillers as a means to inspire suspense. Only Misraki uses this effect all the freakin' time. It's essentially the only music you hear in the entire film. I am assuming this is intentional as a means to go over the top musically. Intentional or not it's as much boring as it is annoying.  Now in all of this criticism I cannot deny some of the interesting cinematography I find in some of the scenes like the extended camera shot in the beginning of the film. Nor can I deny the excellent use of shading and composition in one of the scenes I previously ridiculed. I also will not deny being intrigued by so many literary references planted in the film. These things are also Godard's trademarks and he does them well. Unfortunately this is not enough for me to call this good science fiction.  This Criterion release looks as good as I would bet you could find anywhere for this film. I do notice visually the film doesn't look pristine, but I am assuming this is due to the source material and not Criterion's efforts. Audio is in French with English subtitles and for a monophonic track is clear with very little distortion. I would have liked to have experienced an English dub on this film and wonder if the translated track may have helped the flow of some of that dialog. There isn't any extra features on this disk, but there are liner notes that give you a good deal more than your standard insert.  Interestingly enough I will bet many of you would chide me regarding my remarks reminding me Alphaville wasn't intended to be good science fiction, and that much of the heavy handedness, pseudo Sci-Fi and awkward scenes I mentioned were all intentional and should be regarded as a quality instead of a shortcoming. But keep in mind this review is based on viewing this film from the standpoint of viewing science fiction cinema, as it is represented an accepted as such. As a fan of Sci-Fi to other fans of Sci-Fi I have to say watch this movie with a hefty grain of salt. Also you need to go into this film with a very open mind and look beyond the aesthetics and even story to get what many critics and lovers of this film find in it. Even then you will not find a very good Sci-Fi film.

Not for me, and I'm a patient viewer I don't mind slow-moving movies, or quiet, static stories (I was enthralled throughout by MY DINNER WITH ANDRE, for instance), but Babette's Feast did not stir me.  I know that good acting may consist only of a silent glance, a raised eyebrow, a frozen gesture; but for me even these were lacking. Perhaps the author and director intended only for us to watch the isolated, inward, emotionally repressed community, and to reflect on its warning; but the movie did not imply or hint this.  I'm sorry that I did not draw more from it.

Oops!  They forgot the fun. ZZZZZZ....zzzzz  50 movies for a low price sounds great....but that's only a bargain if the movies are watchable and entertaining.  I expected low budget, no problem.  Well, they did bring the low budget, that's for sure.  However, 90% of the movies in this set are as dull as dirt and terribly terribly boring.  Not entertaining at all.  The fact that so many people in these reviews were clamoring for movies like "Deadtime Stories" should tell the good people at Mill Creek what their audience is. I knew sadly, that Deadtime was not on the list of movies anymore, but I thought this collection would contain more movies in that vein.  However the movies they did include are mostly unwatchable, because they are not fun at all.  I doubt if any of the people responsible for picking the movies for this set knew anything about their intended audience.  It's like they said "Hey. this movie has Robert Englund in it!".  It's dull, insipid and has nothing to do with horror and suspense but we'll put it on there anyways..."  This set would have done better to include less movies, with higher fun factor.  Like Bad Taste and Gothic, both included in the set and very very fun.  Many people have complained about the production values and transfers.  That didn't bother me, because the bad quality lends a certain charm to public domain movies.  Skip it.

Citizen Inane Maybe its just me, but i found this to be only mildly interesting, neither insightful nor emotionally engaging, a well-paced but empty rehash of Citizen Kane. I'm not a big fan of Facebook and don't see it as a revolutionary advance, and so that could be part of why I don't get the hype about it. What's next, a movie about the inventor of Redbox, a love and status starved nerd convinced of his own brilliance, who, after boasting about his SAT scores and being rejected by a cashier at his local Blockbuster, stole the idea from a buddy who loads candy in vending machines...

Unbelievably disjointed The storytelling in this movie was a mess. It felt like a screenwriter's first attempt. The timelines were difficult to discern (did one day pass, or 1 year?), the dialog was stilted, and the story melodramatic. The only redeeming quality of this movie was the beautiful cinematography.

Interesting but.... Interesting, but overly emphasizes more fringe/exotic things and presents it as the soul of India.  Also, kind of annoying that it's presented so much from an outsider's point of view - but I can see how that is useful to outsiders, also!  He's such a tourist though - a tourist off the beaten path, but still such a tourist.  I greatly preferred "The Story of India", which I think gives a better idea of the soul of India, and you can tell that filmmaker has spent enough time in India to truly love it and "get" it - he's not so touristy anymore.

Preaching to the Choir This is hardly more than a too-little-too-late cheerleading exercise for poker.  It just could have been so much more.  I might be biased, though.  As this movie lionizes a certain guy as a top poker player instead of the (IMHO) lucky stiff who tripped over $2.5 million while wandering in the dark in Las Vegas in 2003. But, as Vic tells Charlie in the movie The Ice Harvest, perhaps I'm being unkind.  The DVD is not terrible.  It's just a piece of fluff.

Too Much Effing Language I read some reviews and thought I would give this movie a shot.  I mean it starred Morgan Freeman and Ed Harris.  The story line was actually pretty intriguing.  But I just got tired of hearing the eff word in every other line.  I guess the one positive point of this movies was giving me gratitude that I don't move in the same circles as the people being portrayed.  I'm sorry I wasted the $10.  But it could have been worse.  I could have wasted more.

Theron almost pulls it off Unfortunately, even Charlize Theron can't pull off the entire movie without much better acting from the Snow White character.  We finally started  listening for the times when Stewart would let the British accent would slip and just wait until we could see the menacing Queen in all her glory again.  Everyone else was "fine", Charlize was glorious, Stewart oh so overacting.  Sorry, even with Charlize, I can't recommend this.

Don't Waste Your Time! This movie was absolutely repulsive, and the acting was terrible...even for being a B grade film.  I know it was meant to look like a 70s flick or something, but it was terrible even for that.  This movie could have been so much cooler than it was, even for a B grade movie.  The gore was way overdone, and it was sadistic & morbid.  At one point, the baddies in this movie even torch a school bus full of kids.  WTF!?  That's pretty messed up.  Watch this if you really want to, but if you want my honest advice...steer clear!  What was Rutger thinking?  He's much better than this.

The lone bright spot in the movie is Molly Parker Judge Dawn Hunt, DVD Verdict-- The type of by-the-numbers kidnapping plot is not what's wrong with Gone. Instead the problem I have is with the characters; specifically this movie is inhabited by characters who act in ways completely against what they've been set up to do. The choices made are in direct contrast to what they should be. Our heroine is suffering some type of PTSD from a violent attack three years earlier. She's on medication and is in therapy but still has blackouts and flashbacks which render her incapacitated until they pass. Yet once she makes the choice to follow the kidnapper's demands and track down her daughter she also chooses to skip her medication with no ill effects.  I'm all for someone becoming empowered, but in order for this character to get past the earlier violence committed against her she must now be thrust into an even more violent situation? What does that say?!  And the evil mastermind behind this whole plot? He gets a call which tips him off that the plan is not going to come to fruition. Instead of killing Emily, getting out of town, any logical step at all...he apparently turns off his phone. This ensures that all the players end up in the same place for the final confrontation.  There is not a character in Gone who does not act in a contrary way. Yet in a sense it doesn't even matter because you know how this whole thing is going to end up from the moment we learn about the kidnapping. Everything that happens from then on is simply another mile marker on the road to the predictable end.  The lone bright spot in the movie is Molly Parker. She portrays a woman struggling to cope with the aftermath of a brutal attack quite convincingly. Even though I didn't agree with the choices her character made I always believed she was a mom who wanted her daughter back. Unfortunately her light did not shine bright enough to overshadow the movie's flaws.  Gone started with a flashback sequence during which they employed a weird halo effect around the character. This effect had blown out white levels which thankfully did not carry for the rest of the movie. In fact I'd say the video was more than serviceable, holding the black levels very well during the key nighttime scenes. The audio too did a good job blending in to the scenery in a much more believable way than the typical Lifetime film. There were no extras on this disc. -Full review at dvdverdict.com

Too drawn out While the film had an interesting premise and was well acted, there just wasn't enough material to fill out a 90 minute movie.  This is probably why the filmmakers used endless repetition to draw out what should have been a 45 minute short into a feature length film.  If you choose to watch it, I recommend viewing the film up to the point where it reaches the present day at 23:00.  Then skip to 39:00 and watch to 53:10.  Skip again to 58:00 and watch to the end.  You will still see plenty of repetitious and unneeded material.  But you will get everything you need out of the film, and have 20 minutes of your life back.

Not much to recommend... Wow.  They got all the cliches in the romance montage.  The playing in the rain, the watching him play with kids (aw, he'll be a great dad), the playing in the fountain...  Yep not a hack "We're so in love" scene left out.  The logical ending point wasn't actually the end.  It just kept going.  I'm not sure why either, not to improve it.  Not a great movie.

How could this be so boring? So many things I wanted to like. It looked like a wonderful adventure movie. But it was so boring. Hardly any adventure. All the actors can do better. AUGH! However, quite a beautiful movie. But, if you like these arabic/persian movies, stick to classics like Thief of Bagdad or Disney's Aladdin or 7th Voyage of Sinbad. Sorry to mention those great movies in this review but you need an alternative!!

Decent story, but poorly done. I was curious so I had to watch this movie.  I did not understand any of this movie other than it seemed like Nicole's character expressed concerns about their sex life and then Tom's character explores an explicit sex realm.  It's like a couple hour hardcore porn with a story is how I saw it.  I honestly did not like this movie as I saw no point to it.  It's good for in-depth thinkers but terrible as entertainment!!

A mystery that slowly reveals that it makes no sense There seems to be no theory that can explain what happens in this movie that fits all the facts portrayed.  It reminds me of the later episodes of "Twin Peaks" or "Lost" - the story starts to go off the rails, and you realize it has gone beyond anything the writer can do to justify the previously revealed facts. SPOILER ALERT:  The first half of the movie shows two characters who have just met each other; halfway in, there is a scene where the characters pretend to be married, and then the second half of the movie shows the same two characters, but now they have been married for 15 years.  It's interesting in a way, but you'll be disappointed if you expect it to come together in the end and make any sense.

an original idea by Luc Besson?  yeah, Hey Luc I have an "original" idea to graft escape from NY, virtuosity, fortress, the death star and whatever cgi space footage is laying around, and call it "block out" because you'll want to block out most of it.  I had low low expectations, and this film didn't quite live up to them. Its was a patched together predictable mess with cardboard cut out set pieces. While it does somehow manage to make the main stupidest idea in the movie(a prison in space where the prisoners are in suspended animation) seem logical, the rest is full of holes.  Other than a couple of snarky comments by the star it has nothing new to offer in the realm of action or sci fi and has no signature Besson moments. Another mean spirited romp down the road of bad ideas and increasingly crass characters with no time for cinematography editing or filmatic scope.  you can actually feel your brain dying while watching the movie. Kind of like hal in 2001, "my brain is going Dave, I can feel it, i can feel it"

Disappointing (Includes Spoilers) I fell in love with 90210 during Season One but Season Two was a huge step down and Season Three was definitely a big improvement from the second season. Rebecca Sinclair's departure has not done the show any good. Once again, the show revolved around Naomi and her ridiculous romances from Max to Austin to PJ. Max and Naomi as a couple were watchable but watching her and PJ was just repulsive. She just met the guy and fell in love and is getting married Come on, so unbelievable. Her rivalry with Holly was funny and at the same time, extremely kiddish. I thought this season they'll make the characters a little more mature but no, the same old drama continues. Jen returns and fights Naomi for PJ and suddenly gives up and leaves. Once again, out of character. Moving on, Sliver and Navid's relationship was tested when Navid's annoying sister moves in with them. Once again, stupid decision and they just forget about her after a few episodes. Continuity has never been 90210's forte but this just got ridiculous. To top it all, Navid's "evil" uncle wreaks havoc in his life and he has to break up with Silver who quickly moves on to a TEACHER at CU, Greg but they break up too and then she sleeps with Liam. Silver has officially slept with every guy on the show, Ethan, Dixon, Teddy, Navid and Liam. Her character is ruined. She was a very likable character but now she has become a promiscuous woman/girl. I thought they were going in a good direction with the breast cancer angle and they dropped the ball on it. The whole, Silver/Liam/Navid triangle wasn't very exciting. Seen it all before. Speaking of Liam, how dumb can a character get? I mean, what the hell! Vanessa was an interesting character but her manipulation was too obvious, even a five year old would have seen it coming. Liam is not a gullible character and in addition to Silver, the writers destroyed Liam's character as well. Annie, just don't wanna say anything. She might as well be gone. An escort really? Shenae Grimes herself trashed her storyline this season. Her mother lives in Paris, they had a huge house in Beverly Hills, she's not exactly broke. She falls for one of her "clients". Another pathetic angle. I spoke too soon, her falling for a priest made me want to just turn off the TV. I mean, can't poor Annie ever find a sane and normal guy. Dixon and Adrianna hooked up. The only convincing couple on the show. Dixon's drug addiction arc was just a recycled version of Ade's addiction storyline. Ade's scene with her daughter was cute but in order to redeem herself, Ade became boring. She used to bring the drama but now it just seems like she is a useless character like Ivy. Really hope she does something interesting next season, if Dixon's car crash kills him, it'll be an interesting storyline to see how Ade copes, a hook-up with Austin, maybe? Ivy finally bid adieu to 90210 and thank God for that, she was only interesting when she was with Raj, other than that she put me to sleep every time she was on. Hopefully, her departure means Teddy's re-entry on the show. His exit seemed a little bit forced mid-season. It'll be nice to see him with a new guy and have a gay relationship on the show did the show good last season. The finale definitely left the door open for Teddy's return. Overall, recycled and unnatural story arcs made this season a huge disappointment. The show should focus less on fancy guest stars and more on character development. The show needs stable and mature relationships rather than everyone sleeping with each other. Ivy and presumably Dixon's departure can pave the way for introducing a new character. An Ethan return could be good.

It's hard to follow MaDonna Grimes. MaDonna Grimes is hard to follow. It is very fast paced and there is not enough time alowed to get used to the moves.

starts well starts well but after he doesnt find his car the story goes in a total other direction...people from space starts to show up and everything, i say it's wack

Disappointed in Quality I received the Superman CDs in a timely manner and was happy about the price which was $10.00 for 5 disks.  The set was advertised as "new" and it was packaged as so.  When we played the first disk, the first three episodes were fine but the last 2 got hung up and did not play.  The second tape was just as bad and the 3rd tape seemed fine with just minor stopping and starting.  We have not played the last 2 yet, but I am expecting the same.  I am disappointed in the quality but as my husband told me:  you just get what you pay for.  There was another set like this one selling for $30.00.  Guess I should have paid the higher price and hopefully would have received a better quality product.

What's not to like? Well, the answer is...a lot. Judge Bill Gibron, DVD Verdict--A movie like Monogamy is irritating for a lot of reasons. First, it follows the typical new age mantra that men are pampered pigs, prepared to piss away years of hard interpersonal work for a glimpse of panty and the promise of something scandalous. Theo may drone on and on about his love for Nat, but give him a mystery masturbator and all future nuptial bets are off. Even worse, he wants to drag his poor guitar-strumming gal along for a midlife crisis that's arriving 15 years too early. At this point, the movie starts to meander, inferring something more sinister with Theo's film stock femme fatale. Then it bogs down in more "do you love me" monologues. All the while, Shapiro shakes the lens like he's suffering from some kind of seizure, hoping the handheld dynamic will bring some fresh immediacy to the mix. It doesn't. While Messina and Jones are more than capable, this is an idea--and an approach--that constantly suffers by comparison. Monogamy wants to be Blue Valentine or Two Lovers. Truth is, it can barely stand on its own.  As for the DVD specs, Oscilloscope does a decent job here. The 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen image is excellent--that is, when Shapiro settles down and lets us see what's going on. The colors are rich and vibrant, the exteriors balanced well with the much darker and more compact interiors. There is also a Dolby Digital 5.1 mix which allows for some decent atmospherics among the back channels. Since this is an incredibly talky film, the front speakers keep the conversations clear and easy to understand. By the way, there are songs here, and many of them will try your indie shoe-gazer patience, no matter the sonic presentation (there is also a 2.0 track available). Finally, added content consists of a music video, some deleted (and unnecessary) scenes, outtakes, and a trailer.  It's never easy to switch genres, especially when your first foray was so well received and respected. Murderball took a standard story--someone overcoming a handicap to excel at their chosen field--and instilled it with a sense of wonder. Monogamy can't match that movie--narratively, emotionally, artistically. From its slow pace to lackluster payoff, it underwhelms and underachieves. Full review at dvdverdict.com

Not a complete waste of time Starts off pretty bad but gets better.  The audio mixing was poor so dialog from the center channel is hard to hear over the racket from the other speakers.  Some annoying editing (chopped up action scenes)at times but also some interesting camera work in some scenes. Lots of over the top violence in this unrated version.  Some of the action scenes were suspenseful and others were unrealistic.  I would give the movie two and a half stars if I could but three would be too generous.  It falls well short of similar movies like Resident Evil or I Am Legend.

blu ray looks flat sorta The original day of the dead is a horror classic. It's not for everyone though with it's story being limited mainly to bunkers underground. Still it has alot of good points to it. If this were a effort that had nothing to do with that movie I would have said average three star  low budget zombie flick! But this one was made in probably Romania or someplace and it has zombies that mutate into cieling crawling things and explode when on fire. In other words it has it's own zombie mythos. It shouid have been called 'jumping zombies' in fact this is similiar to planet terror in that it's funny in a way but this one wasn't trying to be, with it's jumping zombies. It's ok though with decent acting from the main actors who have all been around for years. Mena S. deserves to be in a better horror moive than this though, she's got real acting chops.  IN fact you can't fault any actor for this movie. Most horror movies are low budget and well you can't even use the same rating system that regular movies get probably.  This one though has a flat looking blu ray transfer that you usually see on older movies from the 80's. they would have to restore those to make them look better, and this is a newer movie!  The effects are low budget and that's ok though because this is a low budger flick. But alot higher than many zombie flicks out there that I enjoy! It's just saying it's inspired by Romero that pulls this down. However it's watchable for zombie fans and lets face it , it's not as bad as lots of other even lower budget zombie fests out there.  I would say it's a average zombie flick and leave it at that. the transfer is just the dvd one stuck on blu ray though which is wrong. it will still look better but common.

Worse than expected Unfortunately, this movie missed the mark more than I had envisioned, even considering the poor reviews. The characters and the decisions they make are fairly unrealistic given the scenario at hand. There are MANY technical mistakes. The ending and key moments leading up to it are extremely predictable (e.g. the story leaves much to be desired). There are a number of "cheesy horror" moments that serve no purpose except to be slavish to the genre. At least the camera work was mildly interesting, though.  In short, if you want to see a cheesy horror film in the vein of The Blair Witch project, and you don't mind turning off your brain, you might partially enjoy this film. I did not.

Sad remake of a classic Overall a pretty disappointing movie. Turned Arnies portrayal into sub performing joke of a great character.  1. Conan was not only a giant among men in character but a large barbarian in stature as well.  2. His story is a sad story and one that left him a brooding man who disdained magic and never trusted most wizards. This Conan was neither brooding nor afraid of magic he acted more like a teenage D&D wanna-be  3. terrible editing, a few scenes were so chopped you can easily tell when the cameras started rolling, and the story was not smooth in transition  Personally this needed to be an epic film. Instead it turned the quiet brooding barbarian into a serial blabbering made for TV child film with no mystery. Doyle must be rolling in his grave at the slandering and maiming of one of his best characters. Perhaps an insightful director and producer can yet salvage and create a masterpiece if they really understand the character and his story.  Will never recommend this movie to anyone and thankfully I got to see it for free because it is not even worth $5.00 in a Walmart bin

Bewilderingly bad treatment of an interesting story Right from the start this film hits all the wrong notes and never really recovers. Rather mystifyingly, director Steven Soderbergh decides to treat the story of whistle blower Mark Whitacre as a 1960s comedy and as a result he strips out all the tension. Whitacre, who despite his faults must have gone through 17 versions of merry hell, carried an FBI wire for two and a half years to reveal how his employer (massive U.S. corporation ADM) was fixing the prices of substances used in foods around the world. The potential for a gritty industrial espionage story is there -- will he be caught? will he crack under the strain? -- and yet Soderbergh throws it away with wacky 1960s style upbeat music and psychedelic 1960s types fonts for the purple words that appear on the screen to let us know where the scenes are taking place. Here's the first problem -- the film is set in the first half of the 1990s.    Damon puts in an admirable performance when faced with what is a poor script. None of the characters escapes from the realm of cliches and the further we go into the film, the more confusing it becomes. We slowly learn that Whitacre was himself up to no good and at the same time he was carrying an FBI wire, he managed to steal $9 million in the form of backhanders and bribes. But that isn't funny and Soderbergh botches the job of trying to keep us laughing while letting us see that our "hero" isn't necessarily all that heroic. What is the story about? Are we supposed to be amused by a funny film where the wacky yet loveable main character has a few "personal flaws" or are we supposed to be sympathising with a man way out of his depth who is clearly deluded and slowly losing his grip on reality? The director wants to have it both ways and of course fails on both scores, so the audience is left bemused. The viewer is not helped by some frankly incoherent script writing. In one scene an FBI official seems to suggest Whitacre had been caught up in an infamous Nigerian style begging letter scam and was stealing the $9 million to cover his losses elsewhere. But we never return to the topic and it becomes one of the many loose strings that devil this movie.    This could have been an interesting film. Instead, it's a bewilderingly bad mess.

No kids, please The Immortals was an interesting look at Greek mythology.  Unfortunately, the gratuitous violence and the grotesque battle scenes made the movie much less enjoyable.

Doesn't measure up to potential You see this a lot. A sci-fi movie (or rather direct to video release) comes along with a very compelling premise and even an interesting plot, but in the end fails to meet the expectations set by what makes the idea so great in the first place. I watch Screamers and I see a fascinating idea from the events unfolding in the movie. However by the time the movie ends I have to ask myself, "there has to be a way to do this better... much better." This is pretty much where Screamers sits. Good stuff mired in not so good stuff.  What's good about Screamers? It's based on the short story, Second Variety by Philip K Dick, which itself has been named a very influencial and critically acclaimed writing. So the background story is this: A corporation and their previous employees wage war on each other on a planet based on disputes over how to reclaim some valuable resources. The ex-workers, who named themselves The Alliance, created intuative robots to help in the fights. Eventually the robots end up wiping out both sides until there is hardly anybody left. Not a bad start. The film is essentially about a group of Alliance soldiers making their way to a company outpost to hammer out a truce, but those pesky robots (called Screamers) have their own plans. Most of the major plot points from that premise are rock solid on paper, and would make for some really cool scenes. However...  ...on to the bad about Screamers. As good an idea as the plot if you can't take the viewer there and get them to really absorb what's going on then your film will fall flat. This is what happens. We get to a rather interesting and major plot twist that wraps up pretty much what the movie is about, but you wouldn't know it by seeing those scenes. It just moves with the kind of pacing you would expect from a scene with little importance to the plot. That how most of the scenes feel. Just a little exposition or action that doesn't feel tied to the story. Characters come up as one dimensional with rather pointless traits that don't lead anywhere. Some twists seem to come out to build suspense but really feel like they were dropped into the story with very little to allow them to make any sense. So a great idea is held back by poor planning in both the script and direction.  As far as the technical side of the film is concerned I really have little to complain about considering this is likely a low budget release. The sets range from impressive to quite believeable. The post apocalyptic look is consistent. The special effects are serviceable too. I liked the stop motion animation work they used and was impressed by how well it blended with the rest of the film. The violence end of the special efffects work pretty well without getting into the gory side of things. Acting... well I can't complain. Good actors do good and some actors overact, but sometimes I have to defer that to how the director leads them.  The DVD is pretty bare bones with just a movie trailer and language options as your extras. The picture was clean, but I have an issue with the 5.1 dolby digial audio. It just seems the dialog took a major back seat to the surround audio effects and explosions. More than once I had to turn up the volume just to hear the mumblings of the actors only to turn it down again because some robot is screaming (guess why the movie is titled such?) or some other audio queue comes blaring out much louder than normal. As low a rating I give to this film I still think die hard sci-fi fans should at least give it a rental so they can at least ponder what the movie was trying to accomplish. The rest you may want to go ahead and give this one a pass. It's not scary or gory enough for horror and suspense fans. It's not intense enough for action junkies.

As the first SF film that tried to be good, it's worth watching, but judged on its own, it's stiff, shallow and SLOW. I tried to watch this and couldn't. Anne's legs kept distracting me from the mind deadening godawful dialog---and her legs weren't even that good. Despite the scenery, effects and main idea, it's still not worth watching as a film. Want a great SF film? Watch Fifth Element or Aliens

AS beautiful as a painting--and just as slow moving I often enjoy art house movies, admire the slower pace of foreign films and dislike Hollywood action blockbusters, but this film felt like I could have walked the Oregon Trail in less time than the film took.  There are many beautiful shots--but virtually nothing happens; many scenes were shot at night and are difficult to see; there is a lot of mumbled, inaudible dialogue;--and it does not end--it just stops.  I also dislike movies which con you by claiming to be based on a true story and using real people's names--but then tell a wholly fictional story.  The film is about people walking in circles--and that is what the director did as well.  It is fashionable in certain elitist circles to snobbily denounce those who favor films with a clear beginning, middle and end as requiring spoonfeeding, etc. Nonetheless, this film could have been just as beautiful and far better, if if it had an end, instead of taking a very long time to just wander aroudn the middle.  It is not that a viewer wanting a clear ending is seeking an easy answer; it is that a director who does not provide an ending--after spending an hour on the simple question of which of 2 guides to follow--is taking the easy way out, as well as cheating the audience.

WHY the ending change? Although the original book was great, the movie had a totally different ending. WHY do authors allow their books to be mutilated for the big screen? One thing WAS good about the movie: the mom was shown to be a horrible, controlling, rage-filled monster. The way she treats her youngest daughter, Anna, as a donor for Kate is just disgusting. One gets the feeling that she'd like to put Anna into a drug-induced coma and just carve her up for parts. It's chilling. In reality, Anna would have severed all ties to her mother as soon as she could do it -- they wouldn't have had any relationship left. Jason Patric was excellent as the long-suffering dad, torn between his evil wife and his youngest child.

Tired sequel Entertaining enough in certain parts, but most of it felt self-referential, canned, and scripted.  Hope the cast were paid well.

Hard to watch. I suppose if I'd seen this movie before I saw The Philadelphia Story, I would have liked it but such was not the case.  I'd seen The Philadelphia Story many many times before seeing High Society, so that made it hard to enjoy.  Some of the dialogue in the original movie was ad-libbed which added to its charm.  But to hear Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra quoting them was kind of like nails on a chalk board.  I'm not saying it wasn't a good movie, but for the die-hard Cary Grant fans, it may not go down easy.  But watch it for yourself, don't let me influence you.

Sloppy work While I was as eager as anyone else to enjoy the unusual premise of the movie and hope for retribution for the killer, there were two glaring flaws that turned me off. Didn't the police take fingerprints in the hidey hole? There were certainly enough objects the killer handled there. The other was the heavy safe that took two men to roll ponderously over the ground to the dump. How did the killer get it up (or down for that matter into the underground hole) from the hole, onto his truck in the first place? Where were the brains behind these scenes which were so obviously illogical?  Other than those serious glitches, I applaud Stanley Tucci for his performance. Tucci has played disparate roles in the past as Julia Childs' fond husband, the wardrobe master for Meryl Streep, and was superb in each.  Did anyone else notice these two points I set out?

Ok, nothing more This movie was not great by any stretch of the imagination.  I'm sorry, but Katherine Heigl is just not likeable in anything I've ever seen her in.  She always plays the uptight, wrapped up in herself career girl and this movie is no exception.  I can't even begin to feel sorry for her situation because she is so unlikeable.  Josh Duhamel is okay for a leading man, but there was just no chemistry there at all between the two.  Overall, a pretty blah movie.

just ok This video is just ok, it is very short and does not have a lot on it.  We also have Kids Favorite Songs Two which my daughter loves and thought she would like this too, but not so much.  Really it is just a bunch of older Sesame Street songs from various episodes put together.  Get the 2nd one instead.

John Wayne Oat Burner Here's your chance to see John Wayne when he was a B movie maker, churning out 5 to 10 forgettable films a year with titles like "Born Reckless" (1930), "Arizona" (1931), "Texas Cyclone" (1932), etc. Then in 1939 he made "Stagecoach" with John Ford, and his new career as a major star began.  Stagecoach earned 5 Oscars including Best Picture. Wayne followed up with  "Dark Command" (1940) directed by Raoul Walsh, and  then a series of war movies (e.g.,  "Flying Tigers" in 1942, "The Fighting Seabees"  in 1944, "Back to Bataan" and "They Were Expendable" in 1945) and his classic westerns including "3 Godfathers" (1948),  "Fort Apache" (1948), "Red River" (1948), "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" (1949, "Rio Bravo" (1959), and "The Alamo" (1960) . Wayne was nominated for Best Actor for "Sands of Iwo Jima" (1949) and he would finally earn an Oscar for "True Grit" (1969).  This was the 5th of 16 films Wayne made with Monogram/Lone Star Pictures. Monogram churned out films by the month, with little attention to detail or character development. Wayne said - "For any actor trying to get on in the business, working at Monogram was not a good career move. Most of the contract players there may have had regular work, but they generally didn't move up from there into the major studios - they went down and that's the direction I thought I was headed."  In this film Wayne plays an undercover U.S. Marshall trying to arrest "the Polka Dot Bandit" (I'm not making this stuff up!).  In 1934 alone, when this film was made, Wayne made 9 films, all of them westerns. All but one included George "Gabby" Hayes" who was Wayne's sidekick in dozens of films from 1933 ("Riders of Destiny") to 1935 ("Rainbow Valley") when Hayes moved on to partner with Hopalong Cassidy and later with Roy Rogers and then Gene Autry.  Hayes (1885-1969) made nearly 200 films between 1929 and 1950.  In this film, Hayes plays a local Sheriff.  The "Polka Dot Bandit"  in this film is Wayne's long time mentor, stunt man, double, and good friend, Yakima Canutt (1895-1986). They first worked together on "The Shadow of the Eagle" (1932) and made dozens of films together. As Canutt became more hobbled from injuries, he turned to directing and had a successful career as a second unit director handling action scenes.  Wayne gave him his first chance in "Dark Command" (1940). He went on to work on films such as "Ivanhoe", "Spartacus" "El Cid" and "Ben Hur".  Wayne's female co-star is Eleanor Hunt (1910-1981). She made two dozen films between 1930 and 1940, and this was her only film with the Duke.  Look for Earl Dwire as one of the hunchmen. Dwire (1883-1940) played a bad guy in this film and most of the Wayne Lone Star films. He ultimately made more than 150 films between 1921 and 1940.  The film was directed by Robert Bradbury (1886-1949), who was the father of another 30s western star, Bob Steele (1907-1988), who was a good friend of Wayne from their USC days (Wayne and Steel appeared in 6 films together between 1953 and 1970). Bradbury's other son, Bob's twin, dubbed the songs Wayne sung in the Monogram films (and he used the money he made to pay for medical school). Bradbury made more than 100 films between and 1918 and 1941.  FWIW - Bradbury's 1926 silent film "Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo" was Wayne's inspiration for his own 1960 Alamo film which he directed and in which he starred.  1934 was an OK year for films. The top box office slots went to "Viva Villa", "Cleopatra" and "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" and "It Happened One Night" was the big Oscar winner. That year "The Thin Man" series began, Karloff and Lugosi appeared in "The Black Cat", Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers danced in "The Gay Divorcee", Laurel and Hardy laughed it up in "Babes in Toyland", and Howard Hawks' "Twentieth Century" came out. There were no real major league westerns apart from the oat burners produced by Lone Star, but westerns were popular in serials, such as "The Red Rider" starring Buck Jones and "The Law of the Wild" starring Rin Tin Tin.  There's not much to see here except for historians of the western film and for people curious enough to wonder how "Gabby" Hayes looked without a beard. Of course, stunts by Canutt in his young days are always good to see, and personally I never get tired of the young John Wayne.

Lackluster sequel The first movie was incredible. This one, not so much. This movie would have done better to explore more of the Creeper's backstory so we could see how he came to be, but the story mainly focuses on a schoolbus full of teens and their attempts to stay alive when the Creeper sets his sights on them. Don't get me wrong, there's some fun action and thriller sequences, but when it comes to story and depth, this move is lacking.

not a lot there The mathematics is phony window dressing. Wood is utterly miscast. The acting in the supporting roles is mediocre. The movie is full of bizarre stuff like a film of Wittgenstein at the front doing philosophy with bullets whizzing around him and a mathematical wierdo who shoots a nail in his head in frenzied self-experimentation. Lusting twenty-something women throwing themselves at Elijah Wood at first sight. Pseudo-philosophical drivel.etc. etc.  Well, I sat through it. It wasn't bad enough to cut my losses and go to bed. Must be a 2 star movie.

Starts Well, But Disintegrates In the 2nd Half Demon King Daimao is a true disappointment. It has likeable characters, an interesting world and starts off with a great premise in an alternate world of technology and magic. But it totally falls apart in its 2nd half, trying to fit waaaaay too much story into the last 6 episodes, getting away from what was fun about this series. It also suffers on the sub track from dubious translation and localization.  Sai Akuto, abandoned as a child at a church, is transfering to the Constant Magick Academy, the world's foremost magic school, when, following a misunderstanding, which gets us a nice panty shot, he meets fellow freshman, Junko Hattori, a girl as driven to justice as she is pretty (her family is a ninja clan, in service to the deity Suhara). Junko is impressed by the good-hearted Sai, and the two decide to become friends with the goal of improving the world. Junko doesn't take such vows lightly, and if the vow is broken, the other must kill the offender. However, Sai's dream of becoming a high priest dedicated to helping the world comes to a crashing stop when he goes for his entrance health exam with the school nurse, who also turns out to be his homeroom teacher. See, this being a magical world, it's a magical health exam by a prophetic crow which also tells you your future job profession, and has never been wrong. Sai's future career: Demon King. Naturally, everyone freaks. The last demon king 100 years ago, caused a terrible war. Needless to say, Junko, who turns out to be in his new class, isn't happy, and afterwards, just about everything Sai says is taken the wrong way, with everyone assuming and misinterpreting the worst everything Sai says or does. An enraged Junko tries to kill him, but he is helped by a flying girl, another classmate, Kena Soga, a bubbly airhead who is a sweet-natured girl (with an obsessive love of rice) who can also turn her body invisible, though not her clothing, which she has to remove to be untrackable. Entering into this mix is Korone, a female android sent to observe him from the government, and Fujiko Eto, a seemingly good girl who's actually a black mage who wants to control the future Demon King, and who keeps company with the talking head of her dead brother. Throw in the Student Council President and the 3 other girls who are on the Student Council, homeroom teacher/nurse Mitsuko Tori who keeps hoping Sai will get killed so that she can turn him into a zombie to fully examine his nature, and "helpful" classmate Hiroshi Miwa, whose eagerness to help the future Demon King lead to further misunderstandings, and we've got a large cast to fit into a 12 episode series, but a fun universe to explore.  Oh, the cover? Left to Right, that's green-haired Korone, red-haired Kena and blue-haired Junko.  Lot's of fun to be had here, plus fun fan service from a girl who has to get naked to be invisible, an android with a dry sense of humor, the embarassment of good and noble Junko as she's caught up in all this, plus twisted fun from "bad" girl Fujiko, all while exploring a great alternate universe.  And then it all collapses after about the 6th episode. Instead of concentrating on the fun aspects, they throw in a whole bunch of incomprehensible storyline about someone trying to control the gods, someone trying to destroy the gods, the gods want to destroy the Demon King, no, they created the Demon King to destroy humanity, no, humanity created the concept of the gods, blah, blah, blah. Add into the mix a murderous time traveller, another girl, this one a truly bad girl, magical ninja clan loyalties, Junko's kid sister (a ninja girl who's a media idol), Hiroshi's town's prophecy of a hero to face the Demon King, and it just is an absolute mess. The story contradicates itself, showing a young Sai declaring there's no such thing as god, compared to him wanting to be a high priest when we first met him. It's not helped by what seems to be a poorly subtitled show. For instance, it refers to omiai as being an arranged marriage, when it's actually an interview for people who are seeking an arranged marriage. Sloppy work here.  But the main problem with this show is that it first gets away from what works, harem fun in a great alternate universe, and tries to cram about 18 episodes worth of story into the last 5 episodes. You can almost see the writers and production staff saying, "Screw re-writing this for a proper story to be told in 12 episodes, lets just pull random plot points out of our posterior for the last half of the show!" Plot point after plot point is introduced in the last 5 episodes without any foundation whatsoever, and the show collapses under the weight of all this nonsense.  Which is a shame, since there are some fun characters here, and this was a great premise. Through the first 6 episodes I'd give it 4 stars, the last half of the series gets 1 star if I'm feeling overly generous. 2 stars doesn't begin to reveal what a mess the 2nd half of this show is. Despite some nice fan service (yes, we have bare booty and boobies, with nipples, on the gals), there are plenty of better fan service shows out there. This show is an enourmous waste of potential and a waste of some good and fun characters.

Misleading There was a great VHS movie called the Tango Bar (starring Raul Julia), in which there was lots of tango dancing. Don't be mistaken by this title. This movie is a musical starring Carlos Gardel.

" Its your standard piece of escapism and not much more then that." Godsend's premise is somewhat interesting but its execution is far to predictable and mundane ultimately its your standard piece of escapism and not much more then that. The only real noteworthy scene in the film is when Robert De Niro goes crazy in the church at the end of the film granted its not terrible but its not good either I would say its a tolerable film but its not really worth investing time into it.

Unable To Give As A Gift When I purchased this DVD it was for a gift and therefore I paid extra to buy a 'new' one.  When it arrived there was a hole punched in the DVD packaging and the celephane was 'raggedy' on both ends.  Also there was a WALMART sticker on the front of it.  It could NOT be given as a gift so I had to go purchase another copy that would be presentable.  I can say that it arrived in a timely fashion.

TERRIBLE! The only reason it gets 2 stars is for the special effects.  What a dark and terrible story, extreme DOWNER!

Great Games Poor Video Quality in 4:3 Format Yes these are 5 great consecutive Giants games from 2007-2008, each with compelling game play.  The commercials and much of the non-productive time are edited out. The condensed material keeps things moving along at a nice pace.  A big plus is the inclusion of a separate audio track by Michael Strahan which was mostly recorded in a studio after the game but there are audio snippets that give you a sense of what it was like on the sidelines- especially during the last drive of the SB. The television announcers (IMHO) favored the opposing teams in each game which became annoying.  However, in my opinion, NFL Films (Vivendi Entertainment) have completely dropped the ball on this set- given that the games were broadcast in wide screen 1080i format. The 4:3 screen format coupled with SD video quality dramatically reduces the entertainment value of the set. When up-converting to a current 42" Sony Bravia 1080 set or watching on a 26" PC monitor at 720i the video is very pixelated. As a previous reviewer mentioned- no post game interviews or photo stills provided.  Dah???  Frustrating that the Road to Superbowl sets that follow are available in 16:9 Blu-Ray. It's doubtful NFL Films will update the 2007-2008 Giants Road set in 16:9 Blu-Ray format.  I expect that a 16:9 Blu-Ray set for the 2011 season will be produced based on subsequent annual releases. Amazon already lists a 16:9 Blu-Ray for SB 46 (available in March). Let's hope the NFL film producers see the value in at least providing a Blu-Ray set with SB's 42 and 46 (Giants vs. Pats). Given the historical significance to die-hard Giants fans and the set's current price, this collection is a worthwhile addition to your video library.  Shame it could have been SO much better given the current state of digital video technology.

World's shortest DVD I expected this to be a 45 minute production or at least a 30 minute show. Instead it is like 5 minutes long. Can you call 5 minutes of flat video, shot locked down on sticks, a "documentary?" No awards pending here!  I've never felt ripped off before because a DVD as to short! I certainly did when I played this - the world's shortest DVD production. The shots are fine for the duration of the 5 minutes, but there's nothing new here you couldn't find on the internet for free. Burn me once, shame on me! Perhaps it's time for someone to do a serious show on Cymatics. It is -- apparently -- an open market (no competition from this product).  Cymatics is an incredibly important subject as it verifies the existence of the aether in a simple mechanical manner. This is topic in need of a serious documentary show. This is not it.

hard to return when disk 3 of 3 does't work roots was good.  but after watching 2 of 3 disc disc 3 of 3 did not work.  it is hard to return.

Don't expect something light like Sesame Street This video isn't quite what we were expecting from a box aimed at kids and featuring Muppets. The stories are all very heavy-handed and quite depressing. Yes, I know that the subject mattter (deforestation, endangered animals, pollution, etc.)is nothing to laugh at, but I guess I wasn't expecting to see little Fraggles choking to death.

I would call it, Battles**t "Battleship" is a crappy film, coated with pretty frosting and sprinkles of special effects.  The ONLY good thing about the film is the special effects/action scenes.  The first 40 mins have NO aliens...just lame/boring character development. Battleship looks/feels exactly like a Michael Bay film.  When the aliens do attack, the rest of the film is practically, non-stop action, with dumb plot-points and cliched characters. And there is a stupid plot-point where veterans are asked to help command the Missouri.  The aliens themselves...well, their suits are kind of neat (kinda like a cross between, Master Chief and a scuba-diver), but the creatures look like rednecks from space.  Liam Neeson is in the film, but does nothing. Rhianna is pretty, but her character is bland.  I still dont understand why the aliens throw people around, when they should just try killing them with weapons.  Another thing im confused about is why an alien doesnt kill one of the humans, because the human is wearing glasses...  And yes, there is a grid sequence, similiar to the boardgame.  While Battleship is nice to look at, the story/characters are just stupid.  Watch it, if youre bored, but thats all i can recommend.  Battleship sinks with 2 stars

the ultimate degenerate The movie was pretty good to watch. if you would like to see what happens to the women, who are raped and have to go through gang bangs to live. all three titles show women having sex, later are raped.

would'nt play I recieved this movie fast, but there so many scraches on it it would not play very well.Take notice when it says there are scraches on a disc.

Mediocre All in all a bit dull. I didn't like the ending and they wasted hiring a fine actress in Leslea Fisher and giving her virtually no lines in the film. What a waste of talent.

Shark Tale I was reluctant to even watch this movie.  That said, I was able to sit through the entire movie, but it wasn't without its challenges.  This movie was extremely hard to pay attention to.  It was moderately funny and exciting for a children's movie, but offered little in the sense of buy in.  Shark Tale is a typical poorly written movie that uses star power for ratings instead of good writing.

It was bad Ok, I get the moral of the story. Horrible little boy learns about just how horrible he has been and goes home to eat cake. I just wish the main character, the boy, was at all likable. I hated him. He wasn't cute. He wasn't funny. He was obnoxious. From start to finish. You really have to turn your brain off while watching this movie. Or be under the influence of something. Some may think this is a deep, emotional, thought provoking movie but they're wrong. If you know someone with a horribly obnoxious child, ask yourself, would you want to watch a movie about them?  I give it 2 stars because of the good special effects and decent but dull acting of the monsters. Also, when the mom threw her son on the floor after he bit her. I liked that part. I liked seeing him cry.

The Ten Commandments Good state in general, but the low side presents any damages in the box. (Sunked and wrinkled box). The packing did not have interior protection.

Disappointed in movie I was really looking forward to seeing this movie. When I watched it I was REALLY disappointed. Michelle Williams performance was outstanding. It took so long to lay the foundation for the movie, I found it boringggggggg.

New Yorkers Need a Hug (or a Psychiatrist) What is it about New Yorkers (for that matter any northeast city dwellers) and their obsession with dysfunctional relationship rom-com genre movies? Is this a chicken or egg syndrome? Do they become that way because of the environment or are they attracted, like moths to a flame, to that already existing environment?  Negatives: (1.) "I Love (heart icon) NY" sponsorship logo. That in itself says something about the mature character of it's people (especially the logo T-shirt, walking billboards, inhabitants/visitors). (2.) About 250 special thanks/acknowledgements (a new movie record); an indication of typical NY self-serving attention seekers. Twenty five songs to maintain viewer interest - borderline over-the-top cheap filler. (3.) First five minutes (half of that time was credits) there were 13 references with the word "sex"; the act; or some related genitalia part. Not even up to pre-teen level enticing. (4.) Most (75%) of the film is adults being screaming nasty or kids just screaming. The usual alcohol scenes to indicate adult membership. (5.) Predictable ending to make the isolated from reality NY'ers feel warm and fuzzy inside.  Positives: (1.) About 10% of the film had some, somewhat, chuckle-funnies. (2.) As for the other 15% - I dunno, existential loss or bad math on my part.

SLOW AS HELL I REALLY HAD A HARD TIME FOLLOWING THIS MOVIE BECAUSE IT WAS SO SLOW AND BORING. THE MAIN CHARACTER'S AUNT HAD DIED AND THEY HAD BEEN REALLY CLOSE. SO THE MOVIE IS BASICALLY ABOUT HER THINKING ABOUT OLD DAYS AS SHE CLEANED OUT HER AUNTS HOUSE. IN THE MIDST OF HER PACKING UP THINGS HER AUNTS DAUGHTER COMES THROUGH AND SPEAKS HER MIND ABOUT HOW SHE FELT ABOUT THEIR RELATIONSHIP AND THE MAIN CHARACTER'S EX BOYFRIEND SHOWS UP ALSO. I WOULD SAVE MY MONEY...THAT IS TEN THAT COULD GO ON GAS...

Unintentionally Funny How can a movie in which the Troy Donahue character uses the word, "Supercilious," not be funny?  Also, how about this line - when one character tells another, "I love you,"  the male character replies, "Me too you."  Who wrote this script?  The plot was so convoluted and ridiculous that it was downright funny.  In the end, did all your reviewers who gave this "masterpiece" of unintended fun 3 stars and above realize that a brother married his sister and vice versa (well, yes, they are step-brother and step-sister). Still, that's funny!  If you like overacting, bad dialogue, terrible plotting, over the top melodrama, you will love this movie.  I simply laughed the whole way through, and as I said, where else can you find a character actually spewing the word, "Supercilious?"  The unintended fun brought this movie up from one star to two!

William Wallace: Prince of Thieves Where to begin?  Hmm, the positive, as there's so little: there are some amusing action sequences and one-liners.  Sean Connery.  Marian's servant. And... not too much else.   Kevin Costner is Kevin Costner and talks in the most monotone voice that you just are begging for him to die already.  (It's not good when you're cheering for Robin Hood to die.)  He has a completely unnecessary (and supposedly body-doubled) nude scene which makes the romance between him and Marian that much more unappealing.   Maid Marian almost deserves Kevin, though.  Her character is horribly uneven.  Why does she give up all Ninja skills when she meets Robin Hood?  They should have had someone (the priest, the witch, the sheriff) knock her out to spare us her uselessness in the last fight.   Speaking of uselessness: Azeem- a pointless character.  I like Morgan Freeman, but his character was written with an agenda, to show the Christians are infidels and he is godly.  I get the point, but it was very heavy-handed (and one-sided) and out of place in this movie.  How many times does he have to say that he doesn't drink?  Did we really need the rivalry between him and the friar?  No.  Did we need him at all?  No- because the witch, who gives him purpose (as he has to kill her) is unnecessary.  On a side-note, why does he have to kill the witch twice?  How does she suddenly appear (un-stabbed) in the room?  How is Azeem magically healed at the wedding?  But let's not get bogged down with these trivialities. The script suffers from so many convolutions and complications, none of which add anything to the story.  How many Darth Vaderesque scenes are we supposed to endure?  "George, I am your mother!" "NOOOOOOOO!"  "Robin, I am your half-brother!" "I have a brother." &lt;--Actual line, delivered in that same monotone voice; I had to laugh and cringe.  Yes, you have a brother, but it's Christian Slater, sorry! Alan Rickman's sheriff is so over-the-top and adds yet another tone to this cacophony.  The directors (there must have been more than one, right?) have conflicting ideas about what this movie's supposed to be and where it's going.  It ends up being Braveheart (but without the brave and without the heart) and going nowhere.  [Just tell me Kevin Costner doesn't look like William Wallace in this movie.  Especially when he's giving all these speeches about freedom.] ------------ Bottom line: -Buy The Adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn). -Buy Disney's Robin Hood. --Buy ANY Robin Hood! (except for perhaps the new Russell Crowe version which might suffer from trying to portray this light-hearted tale with realism and heaviness)  Just avoid buying this movie.

Be aware of what this is before you buy it I was disappointed by the content of this collection. Granted, I should have done more research into what was actually contained in the DVDs. I was looking for a recap of every goal, both in the group stage an in the playoffs (or, at least, a bit of every match). Instead, this series, for the most part, shows only highlights of the main games of each world cup. Team celebrations, arrivals at the airport, bus rides, fans partying, locker room talks, and, in some DVDs, even the personal stories of stadium workers are heavily covered in these documentaries. Nothing wrong with that if you are interested in the "behind the scenes" aspects of what goes on in these torunaments. In that case, you may find these DVDs interesting. If, like me, you want to see the goals and summaries of the matches, you probably do not want to purchase this product.

I am extremely p#$$&d o%% at this company I would've given this dvd five stars. The guy really knows what he's doing and the music and content is great. I have nothing against Steve Trovato, he's great. HOWEVER, lickLIBRARY is unbelievably CHEAP! They DON'T supply TAB and the DVD plays on my computer, which I use to practice on, WITHOUT a menu button in the player. I've tried several players and they are all the same. HOW CHEAP CAN YOU POSSIBLY BE! Without the tab I have to strain my eyes and constantly stop and replay the DVD to see what his fingers are actually doing. He says what he's doing on the DVD but tab notation would make it SOOOOO MUCH EASIER! AND DON'T LOOK FOR IT ON THEIR WEBSITE EITHER. IT'S NOT THERE! At least as of this posting. Sorry lickLIBRARY, I had high hopes for you guys, but you blew it. I'll look for Steve Trovato at other publishers. You guys stink.

Hmmm Predictable. Unfortunately the movie felt like an after school special.  The acting is really good, I just wish the storyline was better...

How to lose it all while trying to tie the loose ends This is probably the greatest disappointment of the year, if not the decade. Building up hype is a risky game. When you fall; you fall from a really high place. Ridley Scott, the legendary director; the man who gave us the Alien in the first place has done just that. He failed miserably. I do not want to ruin anybody's experience so there are no spoilers here. I just want to share why I am so unhappy with it. Prometheus tries to be too many things and fails at everything it tries to do. Visually it is truly stunning and beautiful. But that's all. Even Avatar had a better and more coherent story. At least it had some characters that were not one-dimensional. Unfortunately, it is not possible to isolate Prometheus from the Alien series and treat it as a stand-alone movie as some are advising us to do. (not that it would save it from being a mediocre film at best). There are too many references to the Alien franchise from the beginning till the end (oh, the horrible horrible end). Prometheus is meant to be a prequel whatever people may say. First of all, with its glorious target of tying everything together, this movie should have been much longer. Diffeent stories and ideas fly from every direction and are simply left there lying untouched as they crash and burn. Mr. Scott, who had shown great mastery in the Alien by not giving too much information and keeping the details to the minimum necessity level has done the opposite here. And this is one of the basic reasons the film fails. There are too many things happening and you don't have the time to absorb them. You never feel immersed. You never feel you are there with the crew. You are not scared. You don't even care when they die. One could have left the movie theater feeling a bit satisfied if at least a few things had made sense. But that, unfortunately, does not happen either. There are movies, where I leave my brain outside so that my intelligence is not insulted. But then, Prometheus claims not to be this kind of a movie. It asks the grandest of questions: Where do we come from? Why? So, is it an intelligent movie? No. Alien was almost philosophical. It was slow. It had this sinister atmosphere which started with the opening scene and the haunting music. And it ended with the same note. There is no suspense, no claustrophobia in Prometheus. No atmosphere at all. With Aliens, we had more action than brains. And we chose not to see the plot holes because the action was so good. I still think Aliens is the best action movie ever. Prometheus doesn't even come close to Aliens. So, where does this leave us? If another director had tackled these questions without trying to tie all the loose ends with one single knot to one of the greatest movies of all time, I could have said: Good effort but mediocre result. When Ridley Scott kills off such a good idea and almost ruins Alien for me; then I say this is unacceptable. Extended review 11/06/2012: Please be warned, there be SPOILERS FROM THIS POINT ONWARDS. Having gone through reading more of the positive reviews (and being rather disturbed by the one who called anyone with a negative review as retarded) I thought may be I should share my problems with the movie more openly. If there is anyone who can make some explanation about the below problems I would be most indebted. 1. Why would an intelligent humanoid extraterrestrial decide to destroy himself to create life on Earth? Is there no better way? And the Earth looks quite developed at that time. Are all Earthlings their children or is it only us? 2. Why would there be a map on Earth for a military base that was meant to destroy Earth? If it was not meant for us why did so many civilizations know about it? 3. When you go exploring a planet that may hold the key to one of the greatest questions ever asked do you only take a ragtag band of few scientists? 4. How does a geologist who has "dogs" that can map an entire structure, get lost in the same structure? 5. How does an android know the language of an advanced civilization without prior contact with that civilization? 6. Why would there be a 3D recording of what happened to the "soldiers" 2000 years ago? How did David know which sequence would start the recording? 7. Having seen there is (or was)  something deadly in the structure that killed members of  a more advanced civilization - how can scientists be so ignorant to open doors or touch anything in that structure before thoroughly testing everything? 8. Following the same line of thought, how could a biologist be stupid enough to try touching a new life form that has suddenly appeared out of the blue? 9. How can a ship's captain be so uncaring about his crew when they are stuck inside an unkown structure with a potential reading from an undetermined lifeform? 10. Why would a very advanced race create deadly creatures that need other creatures' wombs to reproduce, as weapons of mass destruction? Wouldn't a specific virus be a better solution? Who would be cleaning up those pests after the attack? Obviously even the Engineers have a problem with controlling these "weapons". And yet they keep thousands of cylinders ready to be deployed on their ships. 11. We know the xenomorph has an accelerated growth rate and we know it grew to a considerable size quickly in Alien (I always assumed it ate a lot of rats). However, the one that Shaw got out of her body had no food available to it. Yet it was enormous within a few hours. How? 12. For me one of the worst scenes was the ending where we see a proto-xenomorph being born. There we see a reference to the horrible AVP: Requiem. It would appear that the xenomorph evolves by taking genes from its host and by creating something else. If so, why didn't we observe the same behavior with human hosts? The proto-xenomorph is born from the body of the Engineer, having obviously evolved further from the white octpussy thingy that grew in Shaw's womb. Yet in all Alien movies humans have been used as hosts but we see no such result (except on Alien 4 where Ripley herself is a genetic mashup of human and xenomorph).  I may have made wrong observations or may have reached wrong conclusions. After all, I watched Prometheus only once. I have watched Alien and Aliens may be 20 times each. But these points bugged me and caused me to dislike this movie (and I did want to love it). Am I the only one?

Loved the first 2. This one... not so much. I am a long time Robot Chicken fan and a hardcore Star Wars nerd so I pretty much love anything SW related. I own the first to "episodes" of Robot Chicken Star Wars, and really enjoyed them. This one was a disappointment. The jokes weren't that funny. It was edited poorly. It will remain in my collection of SW crap but I will probably never put it in my DVD player again.

"Teacher says, every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings." Two-star rating is for technical quality, not the merit of this classic Frank Capra holiday film. (DIAMOND ENTERTAINMENT videotapes are dubbed at sub-standard speeds. Caveat emptor.)  Although now a perennial holiday favorite, in first run "Wonderful Life" failed to earn back its $3.7 million cost.  Shortly after its release, the FBI cited this movie's anti-banker plotline as a common ploy used by Communists. There may be some truth here, for the story was partly scripted by Dalton Trumbo, playwright Clifford Odets and poet/critic Dorothy Parker. All three were investigated for possible Communist activities. Trumbo and Parker were both blacklisted. Odets avoided the same fate by cooperatively naming his "fellow travelers."  SYNOPSIS-- After a large sum of his customers' money is inadvertantly lost, businessman George Bailey (Stewart) attempts suicide by jumping off a bridge into an icy river. He's rescued by an angel named Clarence (Travers). In a clever variation of Dickens' Christmas spirits visiting Scrooge, Clarence shows the despairing man how the townspeople of Bedford Falls would be far worse off if George Bailey never existed.  "It's a Wonderful Life" is also available on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VDDDVO">DVD</a>. (Includes the colorized version.)  Related item: A year after this picture, Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven starred in THE BISHOP'S WIFE. Here, Grant is angel Dudley, come to help Bishop Brougham and his wife Julia. Unlike Capra's often dark tale, this one's consistently light and charming. One of Cary Grant's best movies.  (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004XMSN">VHS</a>)  (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000056HE9">DVD</a>)  Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 imdb viewer poll rating.  (8.7) It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - James Stewart/Donna Reed/Lionel Barrymore/Thomas Mitchell/Beulah Bondi/Frank Faylen/Ward Bond/Gloria Grahame/H.B. Warner/Frank Albertson/Todd Karns/Samuel S. Hinds/Sarah Edwards/Sheldon Leonard (uncredited: Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer/Meade 'Lux' Lewis/Lane Chandler)

Way overrated like a 20-minute Led Zeppelin solo I finally saw this movie and for the life of me can't understand why it is so highly thought of.  When you strip everything away it's just a stoner movie with an awesome soundtrack - the problem is, the film's not's very funny or interesting.  There's the meandering storylines (since everyone is either drunk or stoned through most of the movie I guess we don't need a real plot), the glut of way too many characters whose names you can't even remember at the end of the movie, the weird obsession of the male jocks to pound the butts of younger boys with paddles, the female hazing rituals that sexualize the young freshman girls in uncomfortable ways, and perhaps most importantly, the creation of a false 1976 reality that no one actually experienced. In this world, the students roam free in the high school (with hardly a teacher around), pot and beer are freely available to any underage person who wants them, and hardly anyone in the whole town seems to have a curfew.  As another reviewer noted, Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a far superior coming of age film with a lot more believable situations and sympathetic characters.

Murder in a Mansion The Mystery of Mr. Wong, 1939 film  The movie starts with a view of a foggy bay. A man throws a package from a ship, another man in a boat retrieves it and then lands on a dock. He goes to a mansion and commands the maid. Does the maid have a secret? There is conflict in this house. That jewel has a curse on it. There is a party that night, Mr. Wong arrives. The owner was threatened with death! They play a game of charades. A man fires a gun, another man falls. But this is not play acting, Brendan is dead! The police are called, but they received the call twenty minutes before! Who tampered with the gun? The detective questions Harrison about his quarrel with Edwards. He won't talk. That letter in the safe is gone! Mr. Wong tests that letter, it has an unusual paper. The fatal bullet did not come from Harrison's pistol. It is a murder not an accident. Edwards was changing his will to disinherit his wife.  Detective Street questions the people while they are in a group. [Not realistic?] Wong questions the lawyer. Does Sing know something? A man and a woman talk in the garden. Will the maid send a letter to Wong? Smoking isn't healthy for one person. Who put a ladder by a window? Wong borrows a cigarette. The killer is in the house! Sing can't talk to Wong. Wong talks to Detective Street, who goes to the Edwards home. Where is that letter? Mrs. Edwards goes to see Wong, so does Harrison. Wong knows the facts about Stroganoff. Wong questions the gathered people and names the murderer. Was it the result of family revenge? Detective Street arrives to arrest the guilty. [Note the handshake with Wong.] "Goodnight Mr. Wong!" Then Wong explains how he solved the crime.  Can a stolen national treasure be returned to its rightful owner? This story follows the convention where a powerful and crooked or nasty man ends up as the murder victim. [An argument for good manners?] Followers of the "Mr. Wong" series will want to see this, but its not the best of the series.

INCOMPLETE SET - Be Forewarned! As much as I enjoyed this series, I really bought it for two very brilliant episodes: the one on Stealth and the one on the Chinese Animal Styles. However, neither of those episodes are on this DVD and that is why I'm returning it. There are only 3....THREE...episodes on this disc out of the total 8 episodes. National Geographic is saying that they couldn't work out a deal with the producers of Fight Science to release more than 3 episodes. Really?! Then why bother releasing it at all when it's so incomplete?! Strangely, some portions of those other episodes are on NG's site for viewing but they're not allowed to be on the DVD? I have never heard of a TV series releasing a DVD with less than half the episodes on it. Can you imagine getting the first season of "Lost" and not only getting half the season's episodes but they're not even in order? Boggles the mind.  I can't believe I paid $16 for 3 episodes. You're better off watching portions of all 8 episodes on National Geographics' site for free.

Wes Craven at his worst, the SCREAM series at it's lowest. For those of you who don't want to read a lengthy over view of SCREAM 4, I'll sum up my thoughts on the movie in one single word.  "Atrocious."  If that's all you needed to hear (and it's good enough for you, weather you agree with me or not) then reading the rest of my review isn't necessary.  There's a lot I can say about the series as a whole.  I remember watching the original SCREAM in theaters with my Brother.  Back in 1996, it was considered a breath of fresh air because it added mystery and suspense back into Slasher films again.  Not to mention it had a "edgy" comedic sense of self awareness, poking fun at itself and the genre it hails from.  In a lot of ways, SCREAM was the new "Giallo" Horror series for the 90's generation.  Big on the whole "who dunnit" type of mystery, leaving the killer unknown until the final scenes of the movie, and getting things (realistically speaking) back to the basics.  Some of these elements were a mortal antagonist (unlike the undying psychos from the Slasher films in the 1980's), who would use just a simple knife for their murders, while being physically vulnerable much like the protagonist.  When just speaking about the movie SCREAM itself, I considered it to be an enjoyable little diversion from the rest of the usual Horror fare.  Or at least what was considered "usual" for Slasher movies in the mid 90's.  The expected SCREAM 2 didn't surprise anybody when it came out after the success of the original film.  Everybody was talking about SCREAM and for a long while it was one of the most popular modern Horror movies of the 90's.  Everybody was expecting a sequel and SCREAM 2 is what we got.  This time around, the film was taking even more of a nod from Giallo Horror movies by opening the film with a theatre sequence, much like the italian Horror film DEMONS did.  These two scenes aren't exactly alike (things happen differently), but you do get the impression that Wes Craven is a fan of the "Giallo" genre.  SCREAM 2 wasn't as good as the original SCREAM (The killer was the woman from the show ROSEANNE!?!  Really!?!) but it did have some interesting twists and decent kill sequences.  Still, audiences everywhere (Horror fans or not) loved the sequel!  In a lot of ways it was like the first SCREAM but on steroids.  By the time SCREAM 3 came about, the series was starting to show it's age.  It was the year 2000 and the world of Horror was over bloated with SCREAM like movie clones.  I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER came riding into the scene on the coat tails of SCREAM's success, while more or less winning over audiences.  URBAN LEGEND was a bottom of the barrel "who dunnit" clone, barely squeaking by with some nice cameos from Robert Englund, Brad Dourif and Danielle Harris.  On top of all the SCREAM clones, most Horror films at the time were adopting the whole "mystery" angle to their own movies.  THE FACULTY is a good example of a different genre (Science Fiction for that film) using the new formula in it's execution.  Back in the mid 90's, it seemed like you couldn't make a Horror movie unless you went for the whole "who dunnit" aspect.  Which is part of the reason (if you ask me) why SCREAM 3 failed miserably with fans and critics.  Horror audiences (myself included) became sick of SCREAM's mystery angle and all the clones that followed in it's wake.  In a lot of ways, SCREAM 3 marked the end of a Horror era.  Slasher films were in a strange place after the SCREAM series came to an end.  It seemed like directors didn't know how to handle the genre anymore, and a whole bunch of awkward Horror movies came out in the early 2000's.  VALENTINE was a Slasher film that tried to bring back the "holiday" Horror movie theme but failed.  Mainly because it fell back on tired SCREAM like mystery cliches, and didn't bring anything new to the table.  To make matters worse for the Slasher genre, films like SCARY MOVIE were starting to parody movies like SCREAM, which gained it's popularity for being ahead of the curve in the mid 90's.  The SCREAM series, all of it's clones and parodies, had fizzled out faster than the 1980's Slasher film craze.  The world of Horror needed to be shaken up again.  The only way to do that was to bring things back to the basics.  We'll touch on that topic later.  Growing up with 1980's Slasher movies in my childhood, I was never a huge fan of the SCREAM films (or their clones) to begin with.  Some of those movies from that era were okay (THE FACULTY was enjoyable, not to metion Robert Rodriguez directed it) but that whole mid 90's mystery angle came late in the game if you ask me.  I was already a Horror fan to begin with.  Perfectly happy with the movies from my youth.  While everyone was watching these new "hip" SCREAM clones in the mid 90's, I was still popping in my old VHS copy of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET or FRIDAY THE 13TH.  To this very day I'm still into the "old school" Slasher movies (and their high sequel count) from the 1980's.  In other words, the very films SCREAM seemed to be so negatively opinionated about.  Sorry guys but "Ghostface" just doesn't hold a candle to the classics such as "Leatherface", Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger or "Pinhead."  So eleven years later brings us another sequel to the SCREAM series and not much has changed.  The tag line for the latest movie is "New Decade, New Rules", which just makes obvious the fact that people like to watch these films because of their sneering perspective on Horror movies in general.  It's almost as if Wes Craven himself and Kevin Williamson (the producer) are saying they've got a "leg up" on the rest of the modern Horror world.  So much in fact that the film itself becomes messy and over bloated with odd placed humor, egotistical writing and long winded scenes of lame dialogue.  Oh' yeah' Craven, you've got a leg up alright.  Does anybody have an umbrella?  I think it's starting to rain.  Somewhere in the rubble of this sequel is an actual Horror movie waiting to be set loose on it's own, but never goes anywhere.  The plot itself bearly has room to breathe with all the in film parodies and egotistical dialogue sequences.  SCREAM 4 (or spelled SCRE4M, as if they're trying to hide the fact it's a sequel) has two ridiculously silly false intro sequences that ruin any mood of Horror it might have had.  Not only is it really obnoxious and confusing at first, but then we get to meet the equally unlikeable cast of characters in the "real" movie.  Which doesn't make a difference because it all runs together if you ask me.  It's hard to take any of SCREAM 4 seriously at this point because it seems like there is no central message going on here.  Just "hip" young people (who look like they don't know a single thing about real Horror) spouting off negative comments about anything modern.  You guys ever notice that about todays generation?  They're always bashing something (weather it's "old school" Horror or "new school" Horror) despite the fact that most of these kids never even seen SUSPIRIA, ZOMBIE or THE BEYOND?  Let alone something filmed in black & white, like NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD or Bela Lugosi's DRACULA.  SCREAM 4 is truly a movie for todays A.D.D. generation.  Hyper and unbalanced.  "New Decade, New Rules."  More like "Same Movie, Same Problem."  You know, for a series that is so "against the grain", it sure does borrow it's fair share of cliches.  Even during the supposed "edgy" scenes, it becomes painfully paint by the numbers.  SCREAM 4 is basically a class reunion for the older cast members, while *plunk!* the new hip teens are dropped off in the middle of the story.  Here's the low down.  Sidney Prescott, the survivor of the previous films, is coming back to Woodsboro for a local book signing on the 15th anniversary of the killings.  Suddenly a new rash of murders crop up, forcing the police to start up an investigation looking for the new "Ghostface" killer.  Everybody seems to be a suspect (it is a SCREAM movie after all), even Sidney herself.  Wes Craven tackles the sense of mystery with a subtlety that's on the level of a bull in a china shop.  Everybody is filmed in creepy low light, with a lot of shadows, just to keep the audience guessing who the killer might be.  After a while, it becomes tiresome and you begin to remember why this mid 90's Horror genre fizzled out back in the day.  As the movie progresses, the line between satire and comedy becomes distorted.  Sometimes you think that SCREAM 4 is trying to be all out comedy or parody.  Other times it becomes over stuffed and bloated with it's own opinionated agenda, cramming it's point of view down the audience's throat.  Five minutes into the film and two characters are senselessly bashing another Horror movie, SAW IV.  Kinda' ironic considering this is also the fourth SCREAM in the series!  I mean, what are we supposed to take away from those comments?  Agree with them!?!  It's kinda' like the film makers are saying, "Yeah', we know it's SCREAM 4, but at least we're better than SAW IV."  Gimmie' a break!  If anything, new Horror movies beat the living tar out of the ones from the 90's!  I'm not talking about the remakes (although some of them are kinda' good) but the real brutal and effective ones like HOSTEL, MARTYRS, HIGH TENSION and THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE.  Heck, even the remake of THE HILLS HAVE EYES (originally a Wes Craven film) was actually produced by Wes Craven himself!  Not to mention he wrote the screen play for it's less successful sequel.  Do I even have to bring up the fact that he also produced the remake of THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT!?!  So what the heck are the writers talking about in SCREAM 4?  Wes Craven pumps out awful movies like CURSED or MY SOUL TO TAKE, and we're supposed to believe he's the "master" of Horror just because of a few ironic twists in the SCREAM films?  Sorry guys, I don't buy it.  Even the ending lacks.  When the killer is finally revealed, you're so bored and irritated by that point you just don't care anymore.  Without saying too much, I thought the killer's revealing was weak at best.  Something the original SCREAM had to it's advantage was the great ending!  Back then, I sure as heck didn't see it coming!  In terms of SCREAM 4, I didn't buy the killer's whole "psycho" act.  Their reason for killing all those people was extremely lame too.  Very modern and with the times.  In a lot of ways, despite the third SCREAM wasn't all that great, at least it wrapped the series up as a trilogy.  Now with the new fourth one, it feels like the odd duck out.  Just kinda' unnecessary if you ask me.  Normally I'm all for a high sequel count in a Slasher series, but not when the movie is as obnoxious and disrespectful as SCREAM 4 is.  Gore Hounds?  'Eh.  It's got blood, it's got guts.  That's about all it's got.  Actually, the death scenes are one of the better aspects to this latest SCREAM sequel.  Some of the murder sequences rip off italian Giallo Horror movies like Argento's PHENOMENA or DEEP RED and that's disappointing.  Outside of that, most of the deaths are brutal stabbings and slashings!  These moments are like a breath of fresh air in an otherwise rehashed and stinking film script.  Gore Hounds, if you're looking for just some good 'ol slashing, SCREAM 4 might has something for you.  If you're an "old school" Horror fan, sitting through this mess just for the inventive kills might be too much of a chore.  It's hard thinking back on these moments because even the death scenes seem to have something obnoxious to say.  Over all I thought this was a very sloppy sequel that nobody asked for.  On top of annoying characters, egotistical dialogue and misplaced comedy, it becomes a pain in the neck to sit through.  There was a time back in the late 80's and early 90's where Horror movies were a special thing for the fans.  FANGORIA magazine ruled the news stands and each movie (or it's sequel) was a gift to their loyal followers.  These days, everybody has access to everything they want online.  It makes viewing cinema very impersonal and easier for audiences to brush something off as garbage without giving it a second thought.  What was once just a thing for Horror fans is now something that is passed around aimlessly.  It's easy to bash the latest SAW or remake Horror movie because everybody knows that "old school" is better.  Right "newbies?"  The fact of the matter is that new Horror films are indeed a throw back to Horror movies of the 70's and 80's.  These people who bash them don't know what they're talking about.  People wanted that extra "bite" in Horror again because we all grew sick of SCREAM and the clones that followed it.  SAW and HOSTEL aren't just gross out "Torture Porn" films.  They're whats been lacking from Horror since SCREAM started in the mid 90's!  Even the remake of THE HILLS HAVE EYES has tons of wonderful "old school" Horror elements that were lacking from the late 90's Slasher movies.  Hopefully Horror stays this way for a little while longer.  I would hate to see films revert back to the SCREAM era.  If you readers have any doubts, try this.  Watch HIGH TENSION and SCREAM 4 back to back one day.  It's no contest who's the winner there.  If your gripe with that argument is that HIGH TENSION is an original and SCREAM 4 is a sequel, then try watching HOSTEL 2 and SCREAM 4 back to back.  Without a doubt, HOSTEL 2 comes out on top.  I've said my bit.  Over and out.

Disappointed $29 is way too much money for this video. It's possible that my copy is different because I bought it used and it had previously been a library copy. Do libraries get different copies? One reviewer said they like to skip the "review" sections to keep on with the story. My video doesn't have "review" sections. Was that reviewer reviewing the wrong video, or is my video lacking some things?  To start with, you should know that this "animated" video is not actually animated. It is pictures of cartoon pages that change to a new picture every now and then. It's more like a storybook in that regard.  There is also no English in this video. It just jumps right in with full Chinese conversation that we try to figure out. This wouldn't be so bad, either, if the video had subtitles, like the other Language Tree video we have. It doesn't have english subtitles or pin-yin subtitles. This means we not only can't translate it to english, but we can't verify pronounciation of the chinese words either. It has a booklet to follow along with, but that's not a convenient tool when watching a video. It is definitely not a "teaching" video. It's good for those who have already learned quite a bit and want something to try and understand with the vocabulary they've learned. I'm not sure what "level 2" is supposed to mean, but I would say that classification is too low.  I'm not sure how much this matters to people, but this video teaches a Taiwanese dialect of Chinese. Most of the language is the same, but some things are different. For example, on mainland China they say, "Zao shao hao" for good morning. In Taiwan, they say, "Zao an". I'm not familiar enough with the language to know what other Taiwanese conventions are taught in this video, but when I heard "Zao an" I knew we might be learning the wrong dialect. I have nothing against Taiwan, but I want my daughter to learn the mainland dialect.  One of the first scenes is of the kids painting a picture. They have three groups of trees painted in the background. Going from left to right, one tree is by itself, then there's a group of three trees, followed by a group of two trees. When the characters count the groups of trees, they say "yi, er, san" while emphasizing the groups of trees from left to right. But the trees are not in that order. They SHOULD be saying "yi, san, er", instead.

2.5 stars - I liked it, but can't quite get it to three The gleefully bad Lockout is determined to have a retro look and feel. The film aspires to be a politically incorrect and formulaic B-movie. There is no need to rack your brain over its plot holes. The simple story takes place in the future, when almost everything is dimly lit. While by no means a good film, Lockout is still somewhat entertaining.  While investigating the conditions of a space prison (yes, a prison in space), the president's daughter Emilie (Maggie Grace) finds herself in the middle of a breakout. Officials send "Snow" (Guy Pearce), who is on his way to jail or worse after being framed for murder. At least one convict (Joseph Gilgun, clearly having a good time) is inexplicably obsessed with Emilie after spending a few minutes talking to her. Vincent Regan adds a little gravitas as the criminal ringleader Alex, but he, like the rest of these characters, is undeveloped.  Predictably, Snow and Emilie clash. Snow is sarcastic and tough as nails, as well as disrespectful and whiny. He is not particularly likable, but he is funny and has an edge. In the face of certain death, Emilie finds it strangely necessary to try to get to know him. Her character doesn't make sense, but at least she shows a little gumption and compassion. (Grace's expressions are somewhat puzzling, though, since she looks as though she's trying not to laugh through most of the film. Or perhaps she's just unable to hide her attraction to Snow?)  Snow treats her pretty roughly in the name of getting in and out, but their tension is one of the best things about the movie. Much of the acting is quite bad, including Peter Stormare's as the man who insists Snow's guilty. Lennie James is decent as a coworker supposedly on Snow's side, though he, along with everyone else, doesn't really seem to care about the potential deaths of hundreds. The end appears to be a half-baked afterthought, but a lot here is. Sitll, if you want to watch a movie late at night that doesn't take itself too seriously, Lockout isn't necessarily a bad choice.

Not ReMastered I just received this DVD. This is the first time that I have seen this film all the way through. I enjoyed the film very much, and would recommend the film itself too anyone. It is of the Film Noir Genre. Ida Lupino was a very talented Woman, both, as an Actress and a Director. As for the Non Quality of the DVD itself, it is terrible. The product is advertised on the site by the Seller and Amazon as being ReMastered. This is Bull, it is false advertising. This version of this film is in No Way ReMastered. I Do Not recommend that anyone purchase this version.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009RS0CY">The Bigamist (1953) [Remastered Edition</a>]

A scy/fy channel like movie that was actually not that bad. Not offensive or that good just OK. Ending was awful. I say C+ "We're gonna need a bigger hole."  Ray (Rooker) and his family are together again for another ice fishing trip. While they are out on the ice enjoying themselves another father and son show up and quickly start to annoy Ray and family. When they notice something "as big as a sturgeon" they come up with a plan to catch it. When it starts to attack them the plan changes and saving lives are the priority. I  am a fan of the cheesy sci/fy channel movies, the over the top acting and bad effects make them fun to watch, going in I was expecting that level of film making from this one. I have to say this was in most cases better then that level. The acting wasn't good but wasn't awful either. I can actually say that about most of the movie. While the movie isn't "good" it doesn't really do anything to annoy or make you want to stop watching. The movie seemed to know what it was and didn't try to do too much, which is a rare thing lately. The only exception to that was the last two minutes, without trying to give anything a way it was a HUGE cop-out ending and the horrible beast was pretty much a dude in a swamp thing costume you can find at Walmart...other then the ending though this wasn't terrible. Overall, not as bad as I expected and if you are into cheesy movies this one will do. I give it a C+.

Untitled.  Film is not worth a title You know there's a problem when you root for the bad guys in a movie like this.  I was actually cheering on leatherface when he caught them and made the kills.  I didn't like any of the 20somethings.  They seemed superficial and expendable.  As for the actual movie itself, the original is so much more realistic and gory.  This was a poor re-make.

Very short It was written for children under 3 to 30 months. I wouldn't recommend it. Our 4 year old has slow speech, and saying ta pa da a e i o and u up and down.... isn't what i was expecting. It is clearly for kids under 1 year old.

Fascinating story made into a rather ordinary war movie The sweeping story of the black experience in the Civil War was ably told in the film "Glory".  I was hoping for a movie of that quality about the Tuskegee Airmen, but was disappointed. I guess they tried, but ended up making a heroic story a rather ordinary war movie with all of the stock war movie characters:  the rebellious hot-shot who doesn't like to follow orders, the straight-as-an-arrow flight leader dealing with his own inner demons, the baby-faced youngster, and the strummin' jokester who seemed to be a jarring racial stereotype.  Don't even get me started on that lame love story.  This story cries out for treatment like HBO's "Band of Brothers" mini-series.  That said, the CGI is the most amazing I have ever seen.  For WW2 aviation buffs, that makes it worth the price of admission.   Any movie that gets this story out and encourages people to delve more into the history of the Tuskegee Airmen should be applauded, though.

good but cd is damaged i always have enjoyed exercisetv work-outs, and this set is included. unfortunately, the cd is scratched and skips at least once during each individual work-out.

Too Unrealistic Maybe I am too much of a realist, or am spoiled by contemporary movies, but there were things about this film that were just too illogical. To begin with, what was the point of faking Edgar Brodie's (John Gielgud) death so he could be sent out as a spy for England? Supposedly his death was faked because he was well known. After his funeral, he was given a fake name and passport and sent off on his mission. Why not just simply give him the fake name and passport without the fake death? There was no point to it. Furthermore, would British intelligence really send out someone like the character Madeleine Carroll played (Else) to do a dangerous spy mission? (She had no stomach for the dark arts of espionage, and even questioned that the German spy was a spy because he was so "nice.") Would British Intelligence really send out the fake couple Mr. and Mrs. Ashenden (Gielgud and Carroll) without any training? And as for the ending, Peter Lorre putting down the gun next to Robert Young was just too stupid.

Tried To Be The Next Generation Of Indiana Jones But Becomes The Next Generation Of Boredom At first the movie really feels promising but just after ten minutes through the movie you can see how it's copied past movies so much it's just becomes boring and monotonous lacking anything to keep you from watching the end of the movie.  I felt we would see a new character treasure hunting adventurer seeking a lost treasure,  divining mythical historical puzzles,  or at least having decent historical knowledge but this character has almost next to nothing on any of this.  Another subplot put into the movie is the humanitarian female lead trying to save something or someone played by Penelope Cruz whose own lack luster acting made a boring movie even worse to watch,  I mean for all the hype that was given to her while the movie was made her emotional acting in it was atrocious.  Also how can we have a movie like this without the humorous sidekick Steve Zahn which again the actor picked just made you turn the movie off instead of having to watch this garbage through to the end.  If you're looking for a good treasure hunting action movie try out the Indiana Jones or National Treasures movies those at least give you the characters you will enjoy and a storyplot that will keep you entertained unlike this sad mistake that was made and which I truly wish I had not force myself to watch and can hopefully forget about soon...

boring This was presented as a war movie with Robert Taylor.It was a documentry and not a very good one.Unless you like documentries I would not give a thumbs up.

Ok There were a few funny parts here but for the most part the movie was not that good.  If looking for a lmao movie, this is not it!

You tube this first -Jult Warfell This series is way bettern the first. But it was to painful to watch. Funny though it was. The story was excruciatingly hard to follow. But I dont regret owning this. But if I can get rid of it I will in a heartbeat. -Jult Warfell

(2.5 STARS) Good Mindless Fun Nicholas Cage and Ron Perlman are Behman and Felson, 14th-century ex-Crusaders tired of the bloody battles, who must deliver a "witch" (so they are told) from a plague-infested village to a faraway monastery. As you know, their journey with four travelers - a priest, a knight, a small-time crook serving as a guide and an altar boy who wants to be a knight - is fraught with danger, some of which is of a supernatural nature. Besides, the young woman they have to transport (Claire Foy, "Little Dorrit" of the 2008 BBC mini-series), is, as it turns out, no ordinary girl.  After the shaky and lengthy introductory chapters, the film's story really gets started when The Cardinal in his deathbed (cameo played by Christopher Lee, hardly recognizable) asks Behman and Felson to escort the young girl accused of witchcraft to a trial that will be held in a remote monastery. The premise is contrived, but good enough for a decent grade B action adventure movie, which "Season of the Witch" is trying to be.  Sadly director Dominic Sena (a 2000 film "Gone in 60 Seconds" starring Nicholas Cage) fails to deliver anything new into the film's weak storyline. Action set-pieces including a rope bridge and sword fight are clich&eacute;d; characters are flat and uninteresting; and though production designs are decent, special effects in the film's denouement leaves much to be desired.  Some critics (including Roger Ebert) point out that "Season of the Witch" is strongly influenced by "The Seventh Seal" (1957). Is it? I don't know, not having seen the Ingmar Bergman's classic yet, but to me the new film looks more like a modest-budget adaptation of some video game.  "Season of the Witch" offers some good mindless, but forgettable, fun.

Golden Christmas is better!! <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005GP7EYE">Golden Christmas 2: The Second Tail</a>  I fell asleep a couple of times during the movie. The first one rocked! I wanted to see Andrea Roth, and Nicholas Brendon in part two. I was so disappointed! I figured the director would create a wedding, and a story revolving around them instead of the parents moving to Florida. Perhaps, another sequel will come out with the entire family included. The Golden Retriever was the best part of the movie, and Chasity Dotson is a poor actress in my opinion.

Really?  Really??  Waste of time... The documentary authors do not understand theories and the patent process...  This is a travesty.  It peddles in BS for over 90 minutes.  Look, we have an oil problem, we need newer fuels and better fuel economy.  But get over the conspiracy theory crap!  Absolutely absurd.  The first part of the movie tries to convince the viewer that the technology has existed for a 100MPG+ vehicle in the 1940.  Terrible, this move is sensationalism at it's finest.  Other parts of this movie about the economics of oil are much closer to reality and offer a good view.  It is, however, hard to stomach the movie to get to this more informative part.  Lame.

Not for Me I tried to stick with this as long as I could, but didn't make it past the first half hour.  There was nothing that hooked me into staying longer.  Sorry, this one is off my radar as of now.

Excelente telenovela! TERRIBLE edici&oacute;n! "Cuando me Enamoro" ha sido una de las mejores novelas de Televisa en los &uacute;ltimos tiempos. Logr&oacute; mantenerme en la expectativa de lo que pasar&iacute;a. Tuvo un grandioso elenco y una calidad de producci&oacute;n de LUJO. Pero, el DVD de esta telenovela fue p&eacute;simo. Los primeros 3 discos est&aacute;n m&aacute;s o menos bien editados, pero de momento el disco 4, suceden cosas que hacen que uno se pregunte lo que acaba de pasar. Me decepcion&oacute; que la mayor&iacute;a de las escenas de Fina en la &uacute;ltima etapa de la telenovela NO salen. Cortaron much&iacute;simo!! Entiendo que la novela dur&oacute; 8 meses, etc. pero al menos hubieran a&ntilde;adido un 5to disco. Si la viste en TV completa, y quieres tener un recuerdo, entonces c&oacute;mprala porque la mayor&iacute;a de las escenas buenas est&aacute;n, pero si la piensas ver por primera vez, mejor espera que la repitan por Telefutura o Univision tlnovelas.

Be warned! Only watchable for one reason.... Have long been a huge fan of the Twilight books and the first Twilight film! I had hoped dearly to continue to love them, but then I watched New Moon. And it is terrible! The acting from the three leads (Stewart, Pattinson and Lautner) is uninspired and not a patch on the excellent performances in the first film. The rest of the Cullen family has far too little screen time and are practically overlooked completely. There's only one reason why I decided to comment on this truly dissapointing sequel, which happens to be the same reason why I actually gave it two stars (as opposed to the one it would otherwise deserve) and that reason is.... Michael Sheen. This actor, who portrays Aro, is on screen for five minutes , towards the end of the film, and manages to blow away all the other performances and give an acting masterclass. He is perhaps the only reason to watch this awful film. His sinister performance is both quietly terrifying and HUGELY ENTERTAINING. It manages to make this reviewer wish that the entire Twilight franchise was based around Aro and The Volturi, rather than Edward, Bella and Jacob!!!

Okay This is for beginners, she doesn't give enough time and goes on... has 5 different 10 min routines. Best one is the flexibility work out.  I use this DVD as a warm up to get onto serious work out.

Something has been misplaced. Season 1 was very entertaining, Season 2 was pretty good, but Season 3 demonstrates that Warehouse 13 has lost an indefinable something. Something has changed in the running/writing of the show that has lost some kind of synergy. Save your money, Amazon will have this on sale for 20 bucks soon enough.

WARNING: DVD doesn't play in many players Very good movie, with great animation and a good cast. That is, if you can get the DVD version to play; seems it won't in some DVD players. Tried two separate copies in our Toshiba and Philips players, which handle anything else.

Michael Douglas returns to old stomping grounds with the absurd "The Game" The "Michael Douglas in peril" era of the late 80s/early 90s is revisted with "The Game," the only difference here is that he's not a nice guy.  But the rest is here, as Douglas is again pursued by a formidable/irrational foe (this time in the form of company called CRS, which plays endless practical jokes on clients), and yes, she's here too, the obligatory femme fatale that's also a staple of these types of Douglas movies, played by Deborah Unger.  The movie works okay as a thrilling little Twilight Zone-like piece, but the plot is ridiculous in that some of the jokes that CRS plays on Douglas are ridiculous, some actually criminal, and some having to rely on the company being able to read Douglas' mind in order to work.  And Sean Penn (who plays Douglas' brother and arranged the whole thing with CRS) comes off as more unintentionally comical than serious, I laughed at Penn's delivery of "I hired the company too, I now they won't stop!!"  And the ending is ludicrous (spoiler ahead) -- yeah, Douglas is going to be all smiles and want to take to dinner the woman (Unger) who drugged him and arranged for his kidnapping to Mexico, and even agrees to pay the company the bill for all this after they never even told him that his initial application was ever accepted -- Douglas should've secretly called the cops at the end of the movie and had them all arrested.  But not a bad little average thriller for a quick rental, but nothing more.

Changes of Heart (TSUBASA WO KUDASAI??) Its hard to not give this DVD a 1 star. While I've never taken myself for an uptight purest when it comes to anime (other than DBZ), I have to say this realease was bad.  The voice acting was actually pretty damn good in my opinion. However, I feel that most of them end up sounding alike as you keep watching. Makes it tough to identify them as individuals. I feel they have more character in Japanese, because their voices are simply more unique and different from another. In this only Yui's voice is drastically different. Mio, Ritsu and Mugi all sound good, but nothing really unique.. especially between Mio and Mugi. I feel they were going too hard for a "soft" voice cast.  All in all the dub is good and not my gripe. My gripe, is that in the first episode while performing for Yui to convince her to join K-on, Bandai changed the song. The original was Tsubasa Wo Kudasai cover, a legendary song all around the world. I understand it may have to do with license issues, but I'm sure they could've kept it if they were anything less than "lazy" in this production. I understand cutting such corners helps the wallet, and most English speakers may not be familiar with the song, but its a pretty big scene for fans of the series.  Not to mention, other studios have had the song in their releases, no problems whatsoever. Like Evangelion 2.22, which has the song cover by Megumi as the final battle's theme.  Honestly speaking, the Tsubasa wo Kudsasai cover in the first epsidoe is one of my favorite K-on moments, if not my favorite altogether. and it was the moment I was most looking forward to watching when I bought the DVD. Then it began, and I was shocked. The replacing song is not even attempting to sound similar either.. they could have at least took the original song and changed some notes to give you a familiar vibe.  Although when Yui says "you guys aren't that good", the line feels much more fitting now that they put that terrible replacement song insert.

Mean-spirited movie This movie had potential but it's tone took the life out of this one. This is a low budget movie so I give a pass for the bad acting, editing, direction and sets. That's par for the course.  "Deadgirl" has an interesting premise...Two, ostracized high schoolers stumble upon a deadgirl/zombie chained in the basement of an abandoned building. With their stereotypical pre-occupation about sex, which is totally unattainable to them, they now have a girl that they can control rather than a girl controlling them. Of course one kid has a conscience and the other becomes corrupted by the scenario. The moral issues  and disintegrating relationship beteen the two made for proper entertainment. This is where the movie should have maintained the focus.  The problem with the movie is that it portrayed all males as raping pigs and females as concubines. The tone of the film was extremely misgynistic therefore making the film devoid of any morality or conscience. The title of the movie should have been "who wants to rape the dead girl?" because that's all the movie was really about.  The director didn't know where to go with the plot so as the movie progressed, it waned.

Great Series Terrible Ending I loved the series but was very dissapointed towards the end.  It started great but just got weird and not fun to watch anymore.

backdraft review I enjoyed the movie, except for the fact that it wasn't full screen on my computer. If i had know this, i wouldn't have bought it. Sorry

price to high Why is season 3 still over 30 dollars i bought season 1 an 2 at 27 dollars.season 6 is out now ,season 3 should be less then 25 dollars now,.although amazon ls all over the place with there priceing.if stores change there prices like amazon does,there would be customer outrage.

Fantasy is the right term... A huge budget, spectacular visual effects, amazing computer generated people and environments, a story about trying to prevent the end of the world from a ruthless military guy and some spirit alien things. This would make for a great video game, sadly as a movie "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within" is rather blah, its pretty to look at and the voice over actors do a decent job, the cast includes Donald Sutherland, Ving Rhames, Ming Na, Steve Buscemi, Alec Baldwin, James Woods, Keith David and others. The problem is the story is very typical, not a lot of twists and well the dialogue is quite stagnant, again the visuals are very well done but its a simple concept that is really just dressed up with a lot of pretty images.  I do get why people either praise or slam this flick, it does look good but and maybe this is because I didn't care about the characters but I felt no real attachment or any empathy for anyone that died in it. It tends to limp along a lot of the time and the action sequences are boring but not nearly as boring as the talky scenes where again I didn't feel drawn into the story or any interest in the characters.  I won't say don't watch it but as far as being like Final Fantasy, at least up to the point this movie was made it was Final Fantasy in name only. So the pretty pictures are the only selling points of this movie, everything else is pretty blah. *1/2 out of 4 stars.

Jump!?? My little girl LOVES Elmo!  But this was as much an excercise/movement video as any Sesame Street episode.  I was hoping for a video that demonstrated some movements that my daughter could mimic.  The only movement was jumping.  We watched Elmo watch Grover jump.  We watched Grover learn how to jump.  We watched a commercial about jumping.  We watched someone sing a song about jumping.... ... are you seeing a pattern?  We did a lot of WATCHING.  I wanted a little more DOING.  My daughter can do more than jump.  Even though she is only 20 months old, she is capable of more.  But she did enjoy WATCHING this DVD.

Boring There was nothing about this film that I liked.  Nothing.  Very disappointed, since it had so many great reviews and I looked forward to enjoying the humor.  Fell very flat.  Frank Oz needs to stick with Miss Piggy.

Why do they do stupid !?@^$% like this? The video quality stinks, and it was apparently done on purpose.  The DVD company reduced the image rate, removing half the video data in a headache-inducing attempt to simulate the look of movie film (instead of the original videotape look).  It's hard on the eyes as well as inauthentic and ahistorical. I bought this as a replacement for the old laserdisc release, but I'll be keeping those laserdiscs because they look and sound much better.  What is the point of deliberately degrading the quality of perfectly good source material?

The long-awaited battle between Freddy and Jason was epic the rest of the movie was not: **1/2 A new drug enables the kids of Springwood to sleep without the fear of being killed in their dreams by the murderous Freddy Krueger [Robert Englund]. Angered, Freddy locates Jason and convinces him to come back to kill the kids of Springwood but as Freddy regains his ability to kill, Jason will not stop killing which eventually leads to a clash between the two killers. I must admit, The battle scene between Freddy and Jason near the end of this was very well filmed and staged but the events leading up to it are routine and the only difference here is that Freddy and Jason exist in the same film. This was a long-awaited film for many slasher fans and when it came out, it was a huge success. I'm much more of a Freddy fan than a Jason fan so i mainly watched this film for Freddy and i guess for a spin-off, this is halfway decent. There are some cool murders throughout and Robert Englund is still appealing as the haunting Freddy Krueger. This could've been a better film if given a better script but oh well, at least they did get the battle right [which is the main motivation for this film anyway]. This is Robert Englund's final appearance as Freddy

Dont Get me wrong I like the show Dont get me wrong I loved season 4 of Supernatural however, its not the quality of the show that I give the the low rating for. I give a low rating based soley upon the packaging. Somehow dont ask me how but every disk for Season 4 had its very own case. I found that to be number one just flat out weird number two just inconvient. Listen I liked season 4 with Dean returning from Hell the Dvd quality was good I got it shipped to me very quickly it just getting seperate cases for each disk that was annoying to me.

Not as Good as I Remembered It I loved this movie when I saw it in college, but that was about 40 years ago. This time around, I did not care for it as much. The basic weakness in the movie is the lack of clarity in the boy's motivations and the ending.  Spoilers...  I felt confused about why the boy killed himself. Having also read the book, I know that he took his own life in the written story; it seems like the movie decided that was the best way to end as well. But while the book is very clear why the boy chose to die, the movie is not.  I had previously assumed that the boy chose to end it because the girl rejected his romantic advances. But that did not seem so clear when I watched it this time.  The boy becomes depressed the day before when he sees some white hunters killing buffalo. It's not really clear why this affected him so much. Was it the use of a rifle to do the killing? Why should that matter?  After becoming depressed, the boy spends the night in an animal graveyard and awakens the next morning with his skin painted up as a skeleton. Then he returns to the where the children are camping and performs his dance.  Most people seem to think this is a courtship dance, but, if so, it left me very confused. Do you do a courtship dance when you are depressed and disguised as a skeleton? It looked more like a death dance to me. Maybe it was his way of exhausting himself so that he would be able to die quickly by hanging in the tree.  I also couldn't avoid wondering if a young aboriginal man would acutally have any interest in the white girl. Beauty is basically a set of cultural attitudes, and primitive cultures usually have strict traditions of kinship and other considerations when looking for a mate. Would a hunter/gatherer in a harsh wildnerness choose a mate who was completely helpless and unable to contribute to survival?  Basically, this whole romance theme seemed out of place to me. The part that still worked for me was the contrast between the boy's basic good nature and generosity with the various civilized white people:  the crazy dad, the perverse bunch of losers at the weather balloon station, and the watchman at the settlement where the children end up..."Don't touch that, don't touch anything. This is private property, it's all private property."  Still a movie worth watching, but I no longer consider it a masterpiece.  Chaz

3 of 5 A TV addict gets sucked into the world of television. It's an ironic concept with a lot of creative potential. But placing the couch potato protagonist; in this case, a pumbing salesman named Roy; and his wife on the set of popular TV shows could cause legal trouble in the way of copyright infringement. So it's all done in parody; which, in the US, is generally exempt from the law; but with a Hellish slant. And, as black comedy, it works, at-least in theory. The spoofs are consistently funny. This is a movie packed with clever satire. Some of it is downright brilliant. It's the actual plotting, which gets the couple's kids involved in trying to save them; &agrave; la Poltergeist; that could use some work.  marcellee.com

ok Video not clear at times. A lot of buffering during play of the movie. Not the highest quality of video.

McCarthy-era Melodrama In the aftermath of the second world war, paranonia became one of the major features of American culture. There were conspiracies everywhere. While the politics of paranoia are usually associated with anti-communism, it did exist in many other forms at the time. The Stranger is one example of that paranoia.  Rather than seeing communists under every bed and in every closet, there were some like Orson Wells who saw fascists. What is most remarkable is how similar the mindset and the logic is. There is always the unseen enemy within. There is always the idea of innocent american values being corrupted. There is always the idea of the foreign threat to the all-american ideal. And the idea of the secret conspiracy that aims to overthrow civilization itself. The ultimate observation being that the paranoid mindset was pervasive across American culture of that era.  The film is basically a old fashioned melodrama with archtype characters. We have the ideal New England town full of ideal Americans. But in its midst is an evil foreign looking european clock tower. The symbolism isn't exactly subtile. Nothing in the film is very subtile.  Our villian here is a teacher (corrupting the virtuous American young) who is marrying the pure innocent daughter (corrupting the virtues of our innocent American women) whose father is the local judge (the corruption reaches into the law and the upper class).  A group of nazi-hunters tracks a low-level nazi hoping they will lead them to a upper-level nazi. The upper-level nazi turns out to be our villian living in New England. We then get to the real melodrama. Welles chews the scenery and twirls his non-existent mustache. He tries so hard to be evil that he ends up going way over the top. The low point has him poisoning a dog to cover his tracks.  The film has logic problems all over the place. Welles is supposed to have been a high-ranking nazi. But yet we are told that even after having found him, there is simply no way to identify him or do anything about him. This justifies a further roll down the paranoia path. Rather than just arresting the exposed nazi criminal (which the film claims is impossible), the people around him have to be "turned". Its a very HUAC/McCarthy kind of logic that has little to do with the pursuit of nazi war criminals.  The anti-communist hunters had similar problems. They could track down suspected communists. But only through the confessions of others before the committee could they positively identify them publically as communists. The logic of the film anticipates the logic of the House Unamerican Activities committee a few years later.  The film also unfortunately moves into Welles' other preoccupation of that time seen sometimes in his newspaper columns. That the occupation regime in Germany in the immediate postwar period was nowhere near harsh enough. That Germans as a whole had some basic drive toward world conquest and that fascism had some ethnic component to it leading all germans inevitably toward a revival of nazism. In seeing fascism in these terms, he significantly undermines the anti-fascist message of his works and specifically undermines "the stranger". Seeing fascism as an ethnic disease rather than a political idea seems very naive and very foolish today.  The film moves on to a sort of conclusion. WASP womanhood turns against nazism and saves the day only after discovering that the nazi plans to kill her as well. We get a good action sequence in the clock tower to wrap things up. But the path taken to get there is rather contrived and silly.  It would have been a better film if it had stuck to a no-nonsense story of tracking down a war criminal. The whole theme of corruption, the conspiracy and the hidden enemy within doesn't add anything good. It would have also been better if (for example) Loretta Young had turned against him because he was a war criminal rather than because he was going to kill her.  In terms of the other aspects of the film, it was another step down from Welles' previous work. The music is a step down. The camera work is a step down. Judged by the standards of the average second rate studio melodramas of the era, its a good film. As a work that aspires higher than that, it has lots of issues.

no spanish sub titles The product description states Spanish subtitles but  there are not available.  Since I purchase the movies for my mom who speaks better spanish, it was a big let down.  But movie is worth watching and received in less than a day!

The Real Story is Better!! I was eager to look at the newly mastered version of the Ten Commandments.  I admire the way it was done for the time, but I thought there were just too many intrigues and subterfuges and romantic tangles added.  I like the real story better!  The story doesn't really need enhancing.  I understand that the producer was filling in the years we don't know about, but I think it was too far-fetched. It reminded me why I don't like Biblical epics!

There Will be Blood As is all-too-often the case, this movie ended rather too abruptly. We need to see a thoroughly evil person like this get his just deserts!

Not good but not bad This was my first 3D movie. It was awesome to watch. There was plenty of action from start to finish. Milla and Al are hot. Wentworth Miller had an interesting role, I guess it will be fully developed in Resident Evil 5. Not enough Boris kudjoe, he had a great presence. Where is this film or series of films leading to? Very confusing at times

Fortress The computer animation was impressive.  The animation made the flying sequences seem real. The acting was OK, but they had a handicap with awful dialogue.

DVD The item arrived in the specified time and was exactly what I wanted.  I am very happy with this purchase.

Bruce Springsteen matures the rock documentary from V.H. 1 to H.B.O. I thought these "making of the album" television specials belonged on the V.H. 1 channel.  I also thought they were reserved for a watershed title, for example, John Lennon's JOHN LENNON/PLASTIC ONO BAND.  Yet it is H.B.O., television's premiere network, that gives us THE PROMISE: THE MAKING OF DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN, documenting the 1979 Bruce Springsteen album DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN.  That's right, this film is not about BORN TO RUN or BORN IN THE U.S.A., the jewels of Springsteen's career.  It's about DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN, perhaps not even the third or fourth biggest L.P. in the singer-songwriter's catalog!  THE RIVER and TUNNEL OF LOVE were more successful, weren't they?  Maybe that's the point of THE PROMISE: THE MAKING OF DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN.  Despite it being an era when recording artists released an album a year, for ethical reasons Bruce Springsteen postpones following up on his 1975 breakthrough BORN TO RUN for more than three years, the overdue work being DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN.  But starting with that un-catchy title, the DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN album proves more a watershed career moment for Bruce Springsteen than a bubblegum smash that gets teenyboppers dancing at the sock hop, THE PROMISE shows us.  DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN is what Springsteen the artist has to make, a result of his past success and a stepping stone to the greatest commercial achievements he would have in the 1980s with THE RIVER, BORN IN THE U.S.A., and TUNNEL OF LOVE.  If it sounds as though I'm knocking the DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN album please know if it is possible to rate art, DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN is my favorite of the ten or so Bruce Springsteen titles I own.  See THE PROMISE: THE MAKING OF DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN.

Kid's video This is a 10 minute video about wool production aimed at school children  kindergarten through 4th. grade, one of their 15-part "Farm to Market" series.

good movie for us baby boomers Not jack nicholson's best movie but it's OK. If you are not over 40 you probably won't like this flick.

needs some edting. Fine acting makes this a must see. But some judicious editing could eliminate a half hour and make a tighter, more dynamic film.

Good Movie I enjoyed this movie. A lot of people say it's bad compared to the book, but I've never read the book so I could care less about that.  It's a decent movie and something fun to watch on a relaxing Sunday afternoon. It's not something that's completely overboard with action and violence, and yet not something that I would fall asleep watching. I rented this movie from the library and I'm watching today and enjoying my Sunday just relaxing. I plan to buy this movie and possibly the book (to see how they match up) from Amazon as soon as I can afford it.  Overall, it's something different and fun to watch. It gets away from the typical Hollywood style movies you see now days. Like it or not, they are all the same. It's nice to have a movie like this once in a while.

An Ambitious Undertaking I used to be a huge Tim Burton fan, but like many directors and writers he lost his edge somewhere along the way. In the late 80s and early 90s he was responsible for some of the most creative, visually stunning and most interesting films I had ever seen; now he is often at the helm of some of the most boring. Tim Burton has oftentimes had success creating bleak and somewhat depressing tales for children that also appeal to adults and he usually drags Johnn Depp (and in recent years Helena Bonham Carter) along for the ride, so it was really no surprise when I found out he was doing Alice and that it would star who it did, but based on other recent collaborations between the three of them I remained skeptical of what the end result would be. Here is my main thing: When CGI is done properly it is a thing of wonder and when it is done poorly it can ruin an otherwise acceptable film. The CG in this movie is overwhelming and more-often-than-not, overwhelmingly bad. I am a little confused by why they didn't just make this an animated film, because they chose to animate just about everything. Even things there was no reason to CG! Like the knight's horse. There is no reason on Earth why they couldn't stick a man on a real horse for a few galloping and rearing scenes. Instead they chose to stick him on a horribly unrealistic looking CG horse whose leg movements do not even attempt to mimic those of a natural horse. Same with the bloodhound. and the CGI work on Helena Bonham Carter's character is so poor I'm not even going to get into it in detail in this review. However, I can't complain about all the CGI. The backgrounds and landscape of Wonderland are, for the most part, beautifully done and embodies the artistry and imagination that made Tim Burton so exciting in the first place. The scenery made me want to explore Wonderland. Another thing I didn't like was the over-the-top changes in the basic structure of the story of Alice in Wonderland. I think that the original story was interesting enough and, in my opinion, a lot of the "depth" he tried to bring into it ended up detracting instead. But I know most others disagree with me there. That said I really loved the tea party scene. Even though it was a much darker take on the original, it filled me with nostalgia because the tea party has always, to me, been the creepiest and most unnerving part of the book and I think Tim Burton perfectly recreated the way I always sort of envisioned it as a child. Depp, of course, saves this movie. While I don't like some aspects of his costume (make-up, etc.) his performance is the strongest of everyone. He really throws himself into every role he does and while I might not like every film he's in, no matter what role he's in he always manages to truly become that character. He always looks like he's genuinely having fun and The Mad Hatter is no different. It's nearly impossible to avoid getting sucked in by his enthusiasm for being the Mad Hatter and I enjoyed that quite a bit. That said, I do find his accent(s) to be somewhat confusing. He seems to randomly slip in and out of a Scottish accent and I can't tell if that's purposeful for some reason or an accident. But that's a minor point. Bottom line: Like much of Burton's recent work this movie is interesting to watch and it has a lot of imagination, but poorly executed CGI makes it feel cheap and shoddy. In some places I feel like he tried to be weird just because he is Tim Burton and he knows people expect it, so at times the movie felt forced and tired. Danny Elfman's soundtrack compliments the film and is beautiful, as always, but is also pretty typical of the work he usually does for Burton and in that respect can be a little stale at times. Is this a bad movie? No. Would I watch it again? Probably not for a very, very long time.

Sweet but Lacks "Pizzazz" Fairy-tales are no longer child's play. Now, they are evolving into compelling stories that seem to put adults under their own kind of unique spell. Coming off the enormous success of the fantasy lover's paradise in 'Once Upon a Time,' the "teen network," CW created a new spin on the Beauty and the Beast storybook that may or may not be worth a look.  Nine years ago, Catherine Chandler (Kristin Kreuk) lost someone very dear to her - her mother was killed in what appeared a random act of violence. Cat blames herself since she was the reason her mother was out as a result of Cat's car not starting. When the killers set their sights on Cat that same dark night, a flash comes out of the trees and kills the two men, saving Cat from them. She later describes her savior to police as a "beast." Now, Catherine is a no-nonsense, NYC police detective who is in the middle of being dumped by her jerk boyfriend whom she has arrested for possession of drugs - it's her way of getting back at him, but her attentions shift to the new case she is working with her partner (Nina Lisandrello), their victim was just promoted to fashion editor at her work. Catching a lucky break, they pick up prints of a man, one who is in the system but died while enlisted. Baffled, Cat's questions lead her to Vincent Keller's former roommate, J.T (Austin Basis), a physics teacher who seems jumpy being questioned about his former roommate.  Once a doctor, Vincent Keller (Jay Ryan) enlisted in the Marine Corps following 9/11 and the deaths of his two brothers. Numb and without much care what happens to him so long as he defends his country, Vincent agrees to be a part of an experiments of super soldiers - a drug that makes the soldier stronger, faster, and invincible but he asks no questions of it. When the program spirals out of control, the order is given to kill every one of the participants. The sole survivor is Vincent but he lives like he is dead, believing it better. When Cat finds him, she has dozens of questions about her mother's murder but what she didn't expect was to encounter someone who wasn't a beast but a man - one who warns her against ever seeing him again because of the danger it would put both of them in.  You all know that I love anything with a fairy-tale component. When realism and fantasy mixes, it's sorta magical and that it what Once Upon a Time captures so brilliantly. This re-make of the 80's cult classic of the same name doesn't have the same spark that some of its competitors do but there is a excellent mix of reality and fairy-tale that isn't really "pretend" because writer's give us a human being for a leading man, not a werewolf or supernatural creature - although in anger, his face does contort into a mash of explosive "monster," which is what Vincent has dubbed himself. In its back-story of Vincent, we have a bit of a Bourne Identity vibe going but I enjoyed the interaction between Cat and he since I wasn't sure if writers would pair them together or be a series of near misses, leaving a trail for the determined Cat to follow. From my perspective, I am glad it turned out that way.  Pulling inspiration from the dozens of other crime shows that are on air seemed the unspoken rule for `Beast' to capitalize on. There's a heroine who is desperate to unlock the truth of her mother's murder (sound familiar!?) and a brooding hero who only needs the love of a good woman to change him both in form (or that is the assumption) and in his attitude. Being the feet-firmly-planted-on-the-ground kind of romantic that I am, I loved the touches of over-dramatized romanticism (note Vincent, looking all brood-ishly handsome and super heroic crouching on the edge of a rooftop watching over Cat) and the two times that Vincent rescues Cat - never fear for those of you looking for a heroine who can kick butt, Cat has that covered also when she royally beats up two would-be assassins. For younger viewers, their imagination is best left satisfied with the Disney version of this story but the pilot wasn't a bad start though admittedly - judging just by the first hour, I thought the motion picture, 'Beastly' had a better spin on what it takes to make this timeless story stand apart.  © Copyright 2011-2012 Dreaming Under the Same Moon / Scribbles, Scripts and Such

Not high art, not grand statement, but not totally bad either Watched Prometheus again a few nights ago (spoilers ahead): it sucked much less than the first time when I watched it in the theater, mainly because of the existence of a deleted scene where the Engineer actually has a brief conversation with old Weyland before commencing to violence. I really hate that Scott felt the need to delete this from the theatrical release in order to, I presume, just make the whole thing more cryptic and mysterious - or rather, just far less comprehensible and enjoyable. Another deleted scene drew out the suspense (otherwise non-existent) of the Engineer looking for the last remaining crew member near the end. No idea why that one was deleted either, as it established a much more deliberate, less haphazard pacing at the end of the film.  Plotholes still abound, and the romantic chemistry (or rather the complete and utter lack thereof) between the two lead scientists was thrown into even starker contrast this go-around, particularly when the gruesome death of one and the consequent hysterical reaction of the other as she witnessed it utterly failed to evince any sympathetic emotion whatsoever. I recall thinking "I *want* to care, I really do."  But certain other scenes such as that gargantuan fiery ship falling out of the sky in a slow majestic roll somehow go some way toward making up for the emotional and narrative lacunae. It's just a sci-fi movie after all, not high art nor some grand statement on Life, the Universe and Everything as the "engineered" hype would have it. Scott said in an interview prior to release "This movie is all about everything. I come from the All About Everything school." Feel free to get over yourself, Sir Ridley! And just let us enjoy your work for what it is.  I should also state that, though my connection could easily have supported 1080 or 720p (I bought an instant rental), for some reason it streamed at a far more degraded resolution. And I could find no way to fix that, as Amazon automatically determines the best resolution for your connection speed (or so they say). Phooey.

should've wrapped it up 20 minutes sooner It was good, true to the original But just plain too long and dragged at the End I wish they would have finished earlier

Sad movie We have recently suffered a loss in our family and went to see 'We Bought a Zoo' for  diversion and entertainment.  It was not the right time for us to see this movie.  Although the movie is about a family who buys a zoo, it's also about a family dealing with the recent death of their wife and mother.  The father, played by Matt Damon, also tries to cope with his 14 year old son, who gets expelled from school.  There are flashbacks throughout the movie as Matt Damon remembers his wife.  Could be very sad for some people...

Christmas gift This is a xmas gift so a review would have to come from him and that won't be for at least 4 months

Animated I guess I missed something in the description because I didn't know it was animated. The animation was pretty good and the gory details were well represented but I missed the reality feel of regular film.

Could have been so much better First of all, I will say that the cast of this film is a pretty impressive one. Kevin Spacey gets top billing, but most of the characters are portrayed by folks with lengthy lists of acting credits, oftentimes pretty high profile. I found it interesting that they would all be drawn to a film like this that isn't super high profile. Demi Moore plays the one female character of note.  So as not to spoil things for those who intend on watching the film, I'll just say the plot is basically one where a major financial firm finds itself in a bad spot in terms of mortgage security holdings and has to work its way out of it. Actually, the story is that simple and straightforward. No major plot twists. There also isn't too much in the way of high level quant stuff aside from a VAR reference, though there could easily have been (for better or worse, depending on your point of view). There did seem to be a reference to the so-called formula that killed Wall Street, but only in passing.  I was tempted to call this movie a morality tale, but that's not really a good description. The story's major tension is one of character perspective and turmoil between the idea of doing what needs to be done for the sake of the firm (at least as they see it) and the impact that could/would have in the broader scope. There is no real attempt to provide a "right" answer, though. It ends up being more a question of characters working through their own issues.  Overall, I found the film a bit plodding and lacking in the kind of tension and drama that pulls the viewer through to the conclusion of movies like Wall Street (the original, not the sequel) and Dealers. This one ends with a bit of a whimper.

Gorgeous presentation of an excellent film, but the Blu-Ray has a fatal flaw... I love Hayao Miyazaki's films, and up until now I've sung the praises of Disney's releases of said films, but this release is a bit of a stumble.  Firstly: the film. Among Miyazaki's canon Castle in the Sky stands as a more traditional 'boys adventure' (think the same genre as something like Treasure Island). This isn't a complaint, far from it, his riff on this slightly more conventional genre is excellent, a wonderful fantasy world inhabited by a bunch of likeable protagonists and the slimy machinations of one of Miyazaki's few clear-cut villains. This film contains some of the Miyazaki's greatest visuals, the most iconic being his wonderful, retro-designed robots.  This picture quality in this HD release is excellent. It's great to see such beautiful film in the best possible visual presentation. There are some behind the scenes bits that were very welcome, giving some context behind the film.  But there is a fatal flaw in this release: the English subtitles. If you intend to watch the film in Japanese with a straightforward translation of the dialog via subtitles then you'll want to keep your 2003 DVD release. This version uses 'dubtitles,' meaning, they're just a transcript of the English dubbed version. Even that wouldn't be much of a problem for other Disney/Miyazaki releases, as they typical hew very close to the Japanese originals and are well written and acted - I even prefer the English dub of Howl's Moving Castle to the Japanese (and that's pretty big praise from a traditionalist like me!). The bad news is that Castle in the Sky features the weakest Americanization by Disney, with a script that seems simplified for kiddies and adds a lot of goofy humor that's rather jarring. Then there's the fact that there are masked characters in the film who are speaking at different moments in the American and Japanese versions (since there's no need to lip-synch), so for someone wanting to watch in the original Japanese the subtitles aren't just very inaccurate, but often seem drastically out-of-synch!  Hopefully Disney fixes this problem in a further edition. I would gladly re-buy.

This has nothing to do with the games! When I first heard that they were going to make a movie based of of one of my favorite video game franchises of all time I couldn't even begin to tell you the level of excitement I felt. I began climbing the walls with impatience and counting down the days until the films release. However after I viewed the movie I felt something completely different. Confusion and dissapointment, I couldn't believe that the film makers actually had the audacity to call this 'Resident Evil'. This movie goes against everything from the first resident evil game, and even finds new ways to annoy avid fans of the once great series of resident evil games.  Instead of this movie following the Raccoon City S.T.A.R.S. team an a mansion located in the Arklay mountains we instead follow a Spec Ops team hired by or created by Umbrella (I wonder why they don't just use the U.B.C.S.) a security operative, and environmentalist, and an Umbrella employee. So we are off to a pretty sad spot to begin with. This film feature zero, that is right, ZERO characters from the first resident evil game and doesn't even come close to even getting the basic premise correct. Instead of this taking place in a mansion, we are in an underground lab, instead of Jill or any other cool resident evil characters we get these, somewhat interesting, set of characters, we only get to see two B.O.W.s, and I really can't believe they did this but, they had the nerve to change the way the virus spread to Raccoon City. In the game William Burkin had just finished his work on the G-Virus when Umbrella sent mercenaries to retrieve the sample from him, morally wounding him in the process. With William's last breath he injects the g-virus into his system and attacks the mercs and destroys all viles of the g and t-virus. Some sewer rats start drinking and gnawing on the capsules and then spread the virus throughout the city. In this movie the idiot scientist decide "hey lets jut re-open the lab that we know is filled with dangerous monsters and walkers so we can find out what happened instead of downloading the security footage from a secure location." Surprise surprise the virus runs rampant throughout the city.  Now if the writers actually played the game, or even cared about the fans they wouldn't have had the movie end that way, but I'm getting ahead of myself.  As we journey throughout the new location (that being the underground lab) we get some really interesting scenery as we get to see locations of manufactured B.O.W.s' and even locations where they tested the T-virus and designed it. I was actually curious about where this road was taking us in terms of story, so as the Special Ops team is sent in to deactivate the lab's A.I. system they have to cut the power, which releases all of the walkers that were contained in the offices and testing room, and the group is forced to do battle. Here is where the movie actually becomes pretty interesting, sure this movie is a stab in the back to all fans of the games, however, there are still some entertaining moments of the film and this is certainly one of them. The group begin fighting the undead but are curious as to why they keep getting up no matter how many times they are shot in the torso.  *Me personally, if I shot an attacker 7 times in the chest and they just shrug it off I'm going to aim for the head. To bad these characters would rather waste ammo than use their brains.  Our survivors are then forced to fall back, but due to heavy zombie presence, are separated as the writers thankfully bring some parts of the resident evil games into this movie. What I mean by that is we get a licker, who shows up at the end of the movie, and zombie dogs. This is where I was very excited to see how authentic these B.O.W.'s would be, and they are very authentic and in fact very scary to see in a live action film.  Alice wonders into a dog kennel and when I was watching this for the first time I said to myself "Oh please, please don't be a tease" and this anything but. It is here that we get an immensely satisfying battle between Alice and the zombie dogs as she takes on the entire kennel and even kills that last one with a pretty cool air kick to the face.  Alice manages to regroup with Matthew and the others as they try and find a way out of the facility before they become trapped and left to die. They discover a way out through the maintenance tunnels only to get swarmed by walkers. They just barely make it out alive, but two of the remaining spec ops team members (Rain and Kaplan suffer bites and are now both infected) This is even worse for Rain as she was bitten earlier in the movie and now the infection is spreading even faster now. As they attempt to escape their current predicament one of the pipes breaks causing Kaplan to fall the zombie bit below, he survives his encounter and tells the group to leave him behind as they don't have nearly enough ammunition to kill the walkers and he is too far away for there to be any probable rescue. He unloads his revolver and realizes that he only has one bullet left, which he uses to dispose of a walker before crawling away.  It is here that the remaining members of the group (Alice,Matthew,Spence, and a very much infected Rain) journey through the labs where the virus was being tested and manufactured, it is also here that Alice remembers exactly where the cure was located as well. When they arrive to this location she discovers the cure to be missing and we find out who is responsible (it is Spence big surprise there) as he locks the group in the room after he receives a bite from a walker. He makes his way to the train where he had the cure and virus the entire time, only to die from a very hungry licker.  *I was very excited to finally see this thing actually have some significance in the movie, for the most part it just wonders around the facility teasing the fans with its presence. Though I suppose they were ultimately building up suspense for the creatures inevitable battle with the few remaining survivors.  Kaplan rejoins the group as they make their way to the train, retrieve the cure and begin administering it to the infected members of the group (Rain and Kaplan).Only to have their happy moment interrupted by a still very hungry licker. Now we get, what I have to admit is a pretty cool battle. There is almost no stopping this beast, Alice even takes Rains .45 pistol and shoots three rounds point blank into its face and all that does is piss it off. But I have to complain about this part as well. In resident evil 2 you can discover a file that describes just how dangerous this monster is. The file says how its tongue cut a man apart, yet Alice gets hit right in the face with it and all that happens is she falls on her back.  After defeating this monster the only survivors are Alice and Matthew, they make their way up to the mansion and are greeted by Umbrella scientists. Alice and Matthew are again separated and Alice regains consciousness in a hospital. She discovers that the city has been overrun and her battle is far from over.  My god this movie was disappointing, there is almost nothing recognizable about this movie. I find it highly insulting to even call this a 'resident evil'movie when so much is changed. They changed the story,characters,location, virtually everything is different. With all that has been aid I have to confess that I actually kind of like this movie. I know how it sounds but it is actually enjoyable, even with all of the flaws. I just don't understand why they call it resident evil when so much is different.

For me it was just OK I love Downton Abbey so after seeing a interview with Jullian Fellows I thought I'd give the much talked about Gosford Park a shot. First, I know Jullian Fellows has his favorite actors but are there not more British actors for the minor rules? I love Maggie Smith and I'd watch her in just about anything but the minor roles are always filled by the same actors who are pretty much playing in the same period piece so it's getting boring.  It was good but it's wasn't good enough to make me want to watch it again.

very very used! It was very very used with water damage to the case.  I don't know which company sent me the dvd?

Pirates 4 was okay but Pirates 4 was okay and it is always nice to see Depp as Jack Sparrow.  My problem is with the variety of versions to purchase.  Why no digital copy with the Blue-ray/DVD?  Is it a way to make people who have no 3D buy the movie in 3D?  Or just buy the package with the 3D?  I didn't see the movie in 3D in the theater.  Unless it is a special movie I find 3D distracting and painful.  Seems just another way to eek more bucks out of people who like extras.  Liked the chart though.  I don't have to guess about what is included.

Predictable I just viewed this film last night and found it OK. I kept seeing this DVD advertised in CBD (Christian Book Distributors) sales catalog. To be honest, I often find things I want from that catalog and can often find the same item at Amazon for less. Anyway, although I am not a big DVD collector, I do occasionally buy films and either keep them or give them to my friends to watch as well. Honestly, I had a hard time following some of the dialog from the main character (the lighthouse keeper who is played by Richard Dreyfuss. I have always liked Dreyfuss since that old film Mr. Holland's Opus. Dreyfuss plays a crusty old gent that walked out on his wife and now is in the "woman's hater club." As the story unfolds, as luck would have it, his wife comes to the lighthouse on Cape Cod, and well, the rest is what makes up the film. I found the film slow moving, I had problems understanding some of the dialog from the way it was enunciated, and the ending was all too predictable. Although rated PG, I really can't say why it was not rated G except for one "damn" and maybe the discussion of a suicide. This certainly was not one of Dreyfuss' better movies but all-in-all, it was OK for a couple of hours respite.

meh... OK movie. Wasn't great, wasn't bad. For the price I paid for it at the time...I do not regret owning this movie.

Fun For What It Is Paul W.S. Anderson will never be mistaken for a true auteur. His filmography is littered with good-looking, albeit brainless, genre flicks like "Resident Evil" and "Event Horizon". Still, Anderson knows how to construct a stylish looking genre flick, and his B-movie expertise makes him perfect for ALIEN VS. PREDATOR, an enjoyable B-movie mash-up of the Alien and Predator franchises which isn't -- obviously -- on the level of Scott and Cameron's classics, but isn't but for what it is.  Granted, Anderson's film IS ridiculous, but after two tepid "Alien" sequels that each nearly ended that series -- not to mention a disappointing sequel that put a near- permanent hold on the "Predator" franchise -- the dumb comic-book action of "Alien Vs. Predator" comes as a somewhat refreshing surprise.  Not that the movie's routine first half will have you on the edge of your seat, however. Anderson and Shane Salerno's premise follows a group of present day archeologists and scientists -- hired by wealthy industrialist Charles Weyland (Lance Henriksen, playing the human forefather to Bishop) -- into the Antarctic where an ancient temple has been found beneath the ice. The group, which includes environmental expert Sanaa Lathan, uncovers a strange chamber where humans were used as ritual sacrifices for...well, without divulging all of the plot, let's just say that Aliens and Predators were somehow involved in the development of human civilization and big game hunting simultaneously.  "Alien Vs. Predator" is not nearly as ambitious as "Alien 3" or "Alien: Resurrection," yet it's more entertaining than both of those misguided flops (not to mention "Predator 2"), particularly once the film hits its midway point. When the Predators and Aliens finally meet, Anderson's movie delivers the outlandish action and effects you'd anticipate coming from the premise, and rolls its way to the finish line surprisingly well.  Up until that point, the dialogue isn't especially interesting nor the scenario full of twists, yet I enjoyed the movie's visual design and special effects. Unlike the freakish make-up seen in "Resurrection" and the overall garish look of "Alien 3," Anderson seems to have gone back to the drawing board and utilized the design of the creatures from James Cameron's superlative "Aliens," in addition to H.R. Giger's original "Alien" conceptions, in establishing the look of the movie. There are also a few fleeting nods to those initial "Alien" movies (something that ought to please fans), but for the most part, "Alien Vs. Predator" stands on its own as an efficient, if unremarkable, late summer genre offering. The special effects are excellent and the final climactic battle between the Alien Queen, the Predator, and the last human standing is good, old-fashioned fun, well-edited and choreographed, and easily the best set piece of the "Alien" series since the conclusion of Cameron's 1986 hit.  Early in the film, one of the "Wolf Man" films is seen playing on a background TV. It's a telling reference, since "Alien Vs. Predator" is not a film with much on its mind other than providing its audience with an entertainment that couples two well-established monster franchises. In its own way, it's not all that different from "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man" or any of the later Universal Monster team-ups from the mid '40s. It's a modern-day B-movie that knows what it is and provides a reasonably entertaining time for viewers who can approach it from the mind set that the material requires. (Now, if only Anderson had known when to quit and not tossed in that last groaner of a final shot!).  Fox's Blu-Ray is pretty solid for an early format release. The transfer holds up decently, and BOTH cuts (unrated and PG13) of the film are included along with two commentaries and a trivia track.

Badly written and badly acted I rate this movie 3 stars because it's a Hitchcock film and any Hitchcock film bears the hallmark of the master's obsession with detail and cinematography.  But frankly, this film needs tremendous sript editing and re-write (not to mention better acting, but the actors don't have a lot to work with).   The characters just stand there and give little stock speechs.  "I am X character revealing y about myself.  I will now give a speech to demonstrate that."  Uncle Charlie is supposed to be a charming psychopath whom no one would suspect is actually a serial murderer.  Then he sits at the dinner table  -- not even laughing or saying it in a way that suggests a joke -- with a dark murderous look on his face saying "widows are fat pigs who spend all their dead husband's money and you know what we do with fat pigs."  WTF??  Why not just say "I'm the merry widow murderer"??  How does this fit with a "growing and menacing" suspicion that he's not who he appears to be?  There's supposed to be a "shadow of a doubt" that something is wrong with this guy-- not a sledgehammer hit on the head.  Same with all the other characters.  Furthermore, you couldn't just drive a truck through the plot holes of this movie -- you could fly a fleet of 747s.  Why does Uncle Charlie, who is so afraid he'll be recognized as the "merry widow" murderer that he destroys a newspaper so the family won't see a story about the murders -- hand out as presents expensive objects that belonged to the women he killed -- including a fabulous emerald ring with the dead woman's initials engraved on it!!! (which he has to explain away).  Then the niece goes out on a date with the detective who is stalking her uncle and  he never seems to notice that this ordinary middle-class girl (they make the point that the family is "average" and middle-class continually,  the detective himself says it) is wearing what looks like a $50,000 emerald ring!  If he had asked to look at the ring the whole case would have been solved instantly.  And we know that it's immediately identifiable as real because a waitress in a different scene notices the ring at first sight (clearly a whole lot sharper than the detective!) and comments that she can ialways tell that something like that is real.  It goes and on and on.  They're just about to catch Uncle Charlie via the identification of a photograph, then they hear that another possible suspect has been killed while fleeing the police so clearly the other guy must be the murderer (why???) and they just drop the whole identification thing.  And of course, at the very end, the detective, who has introduced himself to the family as someone taking a survey in order to weasel out information about Uncle Charlie, is obviously going to marry the niece.  Since the whole point of the story is that the the girls mother (the murderer's sister) must be protected from any knowledge of her brother's crimes ("it would kill her") how is that they're going to explain that this guy who has been hanging around the house for weeks posing as a survey taker is actually a detective?  None of this horrible script or pile of plot holes is necessary to the movie.  About an hour's good re-write could have cleaned up everything.  Have no idea why it wasn't done but it detracts so badly from the movie that at some point you are just laughing.

Not meant to be historically accurate This film was amusing enough, it was straightforward story-telling, somewhat predictable, not meant to be historical fact, nor that realistic. However, Heath Ledger did a good job and was convincing as the knight/thatcher. The pairing of rock'n'roll music to the film was somewhat strange, I wasn't sure whether it was distracting - drawing my attention away from the plot since the music was so outrageously incompatible, or did it serve to wake me up every once in awhile with it's outlandishness? (Just be prepared for that).  Either way, my favorite quote from the movie and the one which resonates the most: "Can a man change his stars?"

Truly terrible, but kind of fun As far as a movie goes, this really should get 1 star. There are all sorts of problems, from overacting, underacting, special effects, writing... But this is SHARKTOPUS! It's supposed to be horrible! As long as it's fun, horrible is OK. Sometimes horrible is great, like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0046YK3NU">Piranha [Blu-ray</a>], which knows it's supposed to be a horrible and is gleeful about it. That movie is more of an homage to grade Z creature features, and it's a well done homage.  Sharktopus? Well my one real problem with it is that it seems to be a little slow. Everything that happens is just a beat too late. This movie should be gleefully terrible, but it doesn't move along fast enough to hint at that evil grin and diabolical laughter coming from the director's chair between takes. For a movie like this, almost everything can tank, but the editing needs to be spot on.  So it gets three stars - it's so bad, it's watchable.

Some powerful moments offset by others which suffer the heavy hand of polemics Fine performances and gorgeous cinematography. Some powerful moments offset by others in which the heavy hand of polemics destroys the credibility of the scene. Illustrated the casual generosity of people sharing hard times contrasted with the casual cruelty and brutality of those in positions of authority - with an apparent fear of losing their precarious stability and relative prosperity driving much of the cruelty and brutality.  It's a beautiful film to watch with especially strong performances especially from John Carradine, Jane Darwell, and Henry Fonda.

check out the extras There are moments in this comedy where you chuckle but no outright laughs-a-go-go. The title character's name is hilarious and the fact he patrols a mall on a Segway gets a few laughs. The reliance on many American comedies to add some sort of violent criminal act as the basis of comedy high jinx I still find bizarre.  Given that throughout the movie I could not figure out why the criminals were jumping around like circus acrobats, riding skateboards and BMX bikes in the mall. It just seemed nonsensical. That is until you get the extras. There are 49 minutes of extras on the DVD and at first, you scratch your head as to why a B movie comedy would have that length of extras. Then you watch and see that the criminals are all basically "pro" skateboarders/BMX riders hence all the fancy moves. Plus you'll be totally enthralled by parkour and free running (for the uninformed, Wiki both). Honestly, a documentary on that would be worth five stars.  That's what is so bizarre about this movie. They obviously hired topnotch "stunt" people and a name actor. Sadly, the script is lacking in any consistent comedic touches. I'll add it's an Adam Sandler project who has not done a decent movie in about eight years.

A documentary in the style of Michael Moore 'Religulous' has comedian Bill Maher making a documentary in the style of Michael Moore about religious belief, though he does not quite achieve Moore's deft humor, artful storytelling, or emotional resonance. Maher expresses his lack of belief, talks to various believers, presents some historical information, and interviews a few experts. The doc primarily contains jokes, but Maher does seem sincere in his efforts to better understand religion. It is entertaining and informative, but it's not quite up to Moore's level of documentary filmmaking. I think "Monty Python's Life of Brian" does a better job of humorously critiquing religious belief. Reviewed 3/29/2009 after watching on DVD.

Treadmill Entertainment I rented this movie to keep myself distracted while I did a treadmill workout of 9 miles, which usually takes me about 90 minutes.  Even though the movie started slow, but by the last 30 minutes, it was action packed.  That was helpful for my sprints at the end.  While it was not the best movie, it was not the worst movie.  It is worth renting.

5 stars for the acting but only 3 for the movie There is no question that Meryl Streep is a truly great actress. Her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher was masterful and the movie is worth seeing for her performance alone. Although the movie shows some earlier parts of her life through flash backs, I would have liked to see more about her time in office. There's a little about her as she's growing up and just getting into politics but not nearly enough scenes showing her as Prime Minister which I think would have been fascinating. Too much time, in my opinion, was spent on the part of her life that is the least interesting - the onset of her dementia from Alzheimers. Jim Broadbent was fantastic as usual and the rest of the supporting cast did an excellent job. In spite of what I personally would have preferred to see, I still recommend seeing the movie.

Only in Hollywood Enjoyable are the actors, setting, subject, USN aircraft, ships and operations circa 1954. The plot is B grade at best. Flag officers do not become emotionally involved with Lt's.  Lt carrier aviators don't need the emotional support. If they do - wrong profession. Jets didn't haul the mail USN Korea. The Spads were the heavy haulers followed by Corsairs. Close to the ground, down a valley into a heavy AAA defense? Spads are made for the vertical dive. Jets similar, in first with frags for the gunners. The real story of the movie ending: [...]

Meh What a great trailer this movie had!  Too bad it didn't live up to the hype.  There wasn't much by way of building tension and the plotting was evident to a blind person.  All in all, a disappointment (except for the person who conceived the trailer.  That one deserves a raise.)

Roman Holiday - Yawn. PARIS WHEN IT SIZZLES. . . I knew when I ordered, that this was an oldie, so I did not expect an outstanding story. I have always admired both Audrey Hepburn and Bill Holden. (What ever happened to his career.?)As expected the story was somewhat improbable, but still enjoyable if you didn't try to analyze the script.   This is another one which I will dust off after another five years. Worth keeping in the collection simply to remember what movies were like in the 60's.

A very funny dark comedy about a very dysfunctional family that will make yours seem normal. Very much worth watching. I say B "I bet we're the first family ever to be fired by their therapist" After the mother (Davis) of a severely dysfunctional family has an accident and hits her head she wakes up with memory loss. She learns what she was like and what her family life was like and the entire family gets a chance to change. This is very very funny dark comedy. By very dark I mean it opens with someone accidentally hanging himself spying on the mother in bed. From there it gets darker and more and more strange. For those that like edgy humor seen in "Death To Smoochy" or newer movies like "Peep World" and "Super" then this one is for you. If you are easily offended I would stay away from this one. I however thought it was very funny. The only problem was that it got a little repetitive toward the end. Overall, a very funny movie that is not for everyone. I give it a B.  *Also try - Peep World

SUPERHERO ACTION, SUB-HERO EDITING There is a lot of Superhero action in this movie. The who-dun-it aspect is simple to figure out. What really bogs the movie down is the stiff acting by everyone and the ever constant heavy themes of blurring good and evil. I ask you, can the Watchmen really be good guys if they allow Nixon to become president 5 terms and disco music to survive?  The movie does a poor job of introducing the characters. You are fed a pseudo history of the US with Watchmen during the opening credits. Once Bob Dylan is done playing, the movie starts and you are confused who the characters are. The relationship of the characters and their past deeds are relayed through flashback scenes, which in many cases were more interesting than the rest of the movie. The lack of character introduction wasn't as bad as "Final Fantasy VII" movie, but it is worse than what Tolkien did to us.  The Superheros, a vigilante group who murder women and children for their country (an early good/evil blur) are semi-retired as wearing masks became outlawed. Someone is killing off the Superheros and superhero Rorschach is the most determined to find out.  Dr. Manhattan (big blue guy, clothes optional)can't see into his future and has assumed we have annihilated each other. Meanwhile, Nixon and Kissinger are in the war room, in a scene which reminds us of Dr. Strangelove. They are debating a first strike.  If you like your superhero action mixed in with pseudo history, political statements, blurred good/evil themes/ atheist statements (The watch has no watch maker), and the slinky Silk Spectre being zipped out of her costume (some nudity) then this movie is for you.  If you like good acting, a well written chronological story, good dialogue, and a need to know the characters, and film editors past the third grade- go elsewhere.

Blackhawk Down in alien invaded LA My title basically sums up what I think this movie is. Mind you, it is great fun. It is fast paced at certain times. Visually it is very good. And I finally found a movie where I liked Aaron Eckhart! Michelle Rodriguez happens to be my favorite action lady. What more could I ask? Well, if the director had not decided to unnecessarily introduce silly emotional moments that stretched far too long with lots of tears and brotherly love it could have deserved a 4 star rating easily. That and the fact that the aliens were consistently undestructible till the end would have made it perfect. At the beginning of the movie it takes a whole platoon to take out one single alien. In the final battle, a few bullets are enough to kill them. C'mon I know our dear Aaron found a soft spot but how could it be so easy?? May be I am asking for too much but Battle: LA appears to be an aspiring movie. It wants to be something remembered (like District 9). You don't become iconic with this type of approach. All in all, it could have been great but it isn't. Is it a waste of time? Hell, no. Put aside the grey matter just a little and you will enjoy the movie.

Chill out "Dance Flick" is the latest in a long line of "Airplane"-spawned movie parodies, this one a product of the formidable spoof-industry mavens, the Wayans Brothers.  Like most such films, "Dance Flick" is a goofy, genial and instantly forgettable comedy that takes on such recent hits as "Step Up 2 the Streets" and "Hairspray" as well as more dated works such as "Flashdance" and even "Singin' in the Rain."  As with all these scattershot send-ups, the movie defies the rules of logic and physics as it pokes fun at the accoutrements and style of hip hop music and culture.  Damon Wayans, Jr. plays the not-so-streetwise hood who falls for Shoshana Bush, a lame-assed white chick from the suburbs who wants to make it to Julliard but has to overcome the trauma of losing her mother in a car crash on the day of her audition.  The amusing Essence Atkins costars as Shoshana's sassy best friend, Charity, with Shawn Wayans appearing as Charity's baby daddy.  It would be easy to feel superior to a film like "Dance Flick" - as most viewers and critics apparently do - but a good part of it is actually pretty funny.

Rock & roll, nostalgia and chaos! The year was 1966.  Although the sounds of rock & roll, R&B , folk and soul were exploding all over the countryside the staid BBC continued to program only the news, interview programs and the same old dreary music.  The writer/director of "Pirate Radio" Richard Curtis recalled in a recent interview with Rob Lowman of the Los Angeles Daily News that "In my dad's generation they literally had eight records.  They had "The Unforgettable Nat King Cole",  two versions of My Fair Lady"--the stage and the movie one--"Hello, Dolly" by Louis Armstrong and one called "Mantovani:  Song Hits from Theaterland"."  Hmm.  Sounds almost exactly like the music collection my own parents had!  Meanwhile, bubbling just beneath the surface was this cornucopia of new and exciting sounds that was resonating with hundreds of thousands of British teens and young adults.  The void would be filled by some enterprising entrepreneurs who decided there was lots of money to be made.  So they set up radio stations on old merchant ships and broadcast from just a few miles off the coast just out of reach of the long arm of the British government.  The idea was an instant smash!  Teenagers loved the music while British officials absolutely hated  the idea.  "Pirate Radio" tells the story of one such ficticious station broadcasting from the bowels of an old tanker in the North Sea dubbed Radio Rock.  I was 15 years old in 1966 so I am keenly aware of what the excitement was all about.  It certainly was a great time to be a teen!  As you might expect "Pirate Radio" features a rowdy group of seafaring DJ's including Rhys Ifans, Chris O'Dowd, Nick Frost and the effervescent Philip Seymour Hoffman among others all under the dubious direction of the station's owner Quentin (Bill Nighy).  During the week these guys live for the music, their growing legion of fans and for each other.  But on Saturdays they are allowed a few hours of much needed female companionship and all hell seems to break loose.  Also on board for a visit is Quentin's godson, a naive teen named Carl (Tom Sturridge).  This is a coming of age experience for young Carl who gets to sew some wild oats while at the same time experiencing all of the madcap antics and personalities that surround him.  But wait!  Back in London plans are underway to put a stop to it all.  Sir Alistair (Kenneth Branagh) has vowed to silence these "outlaw" stations once for all and he will use every legal trick in his arsenal to make that happen.  Seems like it is only a matter of time before the government will catch up with them. Deep down inside everyone on board Radio Rock seems to understand that and they are just enjoying the ride for as long as it will last.  At the end of the day there is lots to like about "Pirate Radio".  Since this is more or less an ensemble cast the chemistry between these kooky charactors is quite apparent.  Then there's the music!  You will hear snippets of sensational tunes from groups like The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, The Who, and The Supremes to name but a few.  It's no wonder why people who grew up in the 1960's have such a hard time letting go of this music. I also read where most of this film is shot with a hand-held camera that gives "Pirate Radio" a certain authenticity you won't find in other movies.  So enjoy the music and enjoy the hijinx!  Recommended!

Fantastic Movie, Poor Resolution This is one of the best movies of all time, but this encoding is pretty lame and low resolution. We tried watching it on the computer but it was super disappointing. It works okay on the Kindle, but it's still pretty lame. Spend a few extra bucks and buy a higher res version if you can.

Definitely entertaining This movie is fun to watch - especially if you're into ghost flicks. Despite this, I thought it dragged on for the last 1/2 hour. Also, way too much happened in the last 5 minutes -- as compared to the perfect pace of the first hour. Despite these observations, it is entertaining.

Its an OK movie Only purchased it because Miriam McDonald is in the movie, Movie couldve been a lot better. Ending is pretty much predictable.

Henry Lee Lucas & Otis Toole This is a fictional account of the lives of two serial killers Henry Lee Lucas and Otis Toole, the later the alledged murder of the son(Adam Walsh) of the host of Americas Most Wanted. This film touches briefly on Henry's life at the time he meets Otis Toole while in Chicago, if that is even true. I read a book about these two losers,cowards,low life scum and the movie just barely comes close to what these two did. They both died in prison( the movie takes a differant view) where they were serving life sentences for murders they confessed to. A lot of these were to get attention. This is not a horror movie but a movie of what happens when two low life loosers are raised by monsters. By watching the news I am convinced there are a lot of Henry's and Otis's still around.

Also a review of No Strings Attached The friend I was staying with this weekend, who I shall call R, encourages my worst pop culture impulses. Or perhaps I encourage hers. Either way, we decided we needed to view a double billing of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004RC8NUQ">No Strings Attached</a> and Friends with Benefits.  All four lead actors (Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis, Justin Timberlake) were charming. Portman's Emma was my favorite character. She's brilliant, driven, and the movie doesn't make her sacrifice her career for true love. Justin Timberlake's Dylan was probably my least favorite, for reasons explained later. Therefore, No Strings Attached wins the leads.  Both films have terrific supporting casts. I loved the side characters in No Strings Attached - Emma's neurotic med student roommates, Adam's friends with bad advice, coworker Lucy, and Kevin Kline as one of the worst parents ever. Then Friends with Benefits's came along with Woody Harrelson as a manly, openly gay coworker and Richard Jenkins as Dylan's father with Alzheimer's. Plus, there's tons of brilliant cameos. Friends with Benefits wins secondary characters.  Final category: story. In No Strings Attached, Emma and Adam have been casual acquaintances for years. After beginning a casual sex relationship, Adam clearly wants something more while Emma isn't ready to make an emotional commitment. While both of them come close to screwing things up, neither makes a truly awful mistake. Friends with Benefits's Dylan and Jaime become friends first, then decide to sleep together. They obviously become something more, but Dylan isn't ready to admit it - which causes him to say some very hurtful things about Jaime. She, of course, overhears them. That scene felt cliche and made me dislike Dylan, but overall Friends with Benefits was funnier, more realistic, and had a truer emotional core. Thus, Friends with Benefits wins, by a hair, the better storyline.  I slightly preferred No Strings Attached and R felt the same about Friends with Benefits. But both of us agree that if you're going to watch a 2011 romantic comedy, it should be <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003Y5H574">Crazy, Stupid, Love (+ UltraViolet Digital Copy)</a>. Also, Thor had a terrific trailer. (It played before No Strings Attached.)

Hopeless Acting was fantastic.  But the character of the protagonist was so gross that there was nothing you could do with the movie to make it likeable.  A totally empty individual who loved pain and loved to inflict pain and never redeams himself is worthless.  The warden that appears at the end of the movie knew what and who he was dealing with.  He did a great job in the short amount of time to tag Charlie. I liked it well enough to stick through it, unfortunately I thought he might gain insight into why he created his own chaos.  He didn't, nor did he try.  Sad through and through.

Butter not better! It was rather an inane movie.  I really didn't enjoy the comedy at all.  It did have a point, I think?  Characters not believable and the plot just wasn't entertaing.

Hit and Miss Final Season This is the only season of ER that I didn't snatch up as soon as it became available on DVD. Now it's a few months after my purchase and I still haven't watched the DVDs. The final season of ER had some highlights, but just never really hit the mark for me. Guest appearances by former cast members seemed too contrived, but a few other character arcs felt  just right. Most of all, I still don't see why it was necessary to kill off Dr. Pratt. All in all, it's still my favorite television show (tied with Breaking Bad).

Wonder what the sequel to the prequel will be called Star for visuals, star for the "theme" of movie, and a star for fassbender being the only person that I liked in this movie.  If you like Alien, don't expect this to be an actual....."Alien" film? Half of the movie is about our creation, the other half is about how a xenomorph is made....kinda.....  I can't really tell what this movie is either, its a...scifi....action....horror.....slasher???  It's really good looking, but has some really deep plot holes that just make it silly at parts.  I'm pretty sure Scott didn't write this so I guess it's not all his fault?  GONNA RUIN SOME SH*T FOR YOU SO STOP READING  The movie sets up for well....another movie and I'm not sure how I feel about a sequel to a prequel it just seems sort silly. Now after a little bit of research apparently the "creator" homeworld is suppose to be some super geiger landscape which would be cool to see but.....man the first movie is hard to digest.  It's not the subject of the movie that is hard to understand so much as delivery of said subject material. Too many elements that really didn't hold any signifigance to the story or further the actual plot in any way.  I could not STAND Noomi Rapace in this movie. She was obnoxious to me and I didn't understand why her character lived through....well any of the stuff that happened to her. She survives the storm, the infection (she was exposed to the black goo via her husbands penis), the squid baby, the falling ship, the creator, and not to mention the bounding leaps that she is able to make after having a c section minutes ago. I guess I was expecting to see more from Charlize Theron because I liked her character but then she just get's killed which makes her character pointless.  That being said, it's interesting to watch but it could of been WAY better.

Okay, not great (and Amazon needs new in-house reviewers) I normally would never watch a film where the ending was so obvious from the trailers and plotline alone, you didn't even have to watch it.  But I AM a Zac Efron fan, and my sister raved about this one enough ... I just finished watching it.  The film itself is totally predictable, down to the "put a child in jeopardy to elicit sympathy" end conflict and the uber-obvious ending.  Zac Efron, who has grown SO much as an actor, regressed a bit here, his Logan bland and one-dimensional - virtually a clone, in tone and personality, to his Charlie St. Cloud character in the film of the same name.  I don't write many reviews, and this so-so film is only the exception because of the Amazon reviewer who posted for this film, Kathleen C. Fennessy - who really should actually pay attention to the films she supposedly watches more.  She talks about how Efron's Logan character "sets out for North Carolina (it's never clear how he figures that out as a destination)", when in actuality the character sets out for Louisiana, and DOES SO because he tracks down the lighthouse in the background of Beth's photo, heading directly to where it's located.  THAT was plain annoying; even I was barely emotionally invested in the film by that point, but paid enough attention to know this plot point.  If you're going to do the snack or bathroom break, Ms. Fennessy, please PAUSE the film; don't let it run so that you miss stuff!  That said, 'The Lucky One' is very typical of its genre, and should please many who love that genre.  Not bad, not great; just sort of ... there.  Zac, you HAVE the talent, please choose better roles!  =0)

More than just a Samurai movie. It's easy to miss the significance of this movie. It's not just a samurai movie; it's a comment on abuse of power, particularly the hypocrisy of WWII, where bushido values were used hypocritically to advance interests that weren't honorable.  In the stereotypical Japanese movie, everyone dies at the end; in this case, the villain doesn't. He invents a cover story that protects his interests. That's one of the twists that makes this film a comment on WWII. It's a pacifist statement of post-war Japan, set in medieval times. It also makes the point that defiance of custom is sometimes justified; for the Japanese, this was a significant cultural development, still going on in "Bleach," where it's a central theme.  Yes, it's talky, stagy and starts slow, but, if you can get over your American bias for action every two seconds, you can enjoy this movie for its mental combat and social statement as well as its swordplay.

The Twilight Saga:  Breaking Dawn Part 1 This was a bit of a downer compared to the first 3 in the Twilight series.  I was prepared for more warm and fuzzy feelings, and wondering how does a girl get so lucky to be in Bella's situation.  (seriously)  I just knew the honeymoon would be the best yet, but not so much.  But for sure, as did the others, you will anxisouly await the next in the series to see what happens.  (I still think she should have gone with Jacob...not that I'm into hairy men, but there is something to be said for a warm (rippling) body on a cold night.)

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0016Q2D5M">Journey to the Center of the Earth</a> was truly fun and more of a little scary adventure with beautiful graphics.  This is a bit less fun with duller graphics, and more of a small kids comedy adventure story.  I was really looking forward to this since my wife and I both enjoyed the first one with Brendan Frasier, and I really have enjoyed most the movies Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has made.  My wife and I both thought this was not up to his past movies partly due to the script, and partly due do to the less than enthusiastic acting.  Be sure to catch the first one if you haven't, and if you have try the original <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006JDRG">Mysterious Island (Widescreen)</a> for more of a true old style adventure.  CA Luster

It was ok There were parts of this movie that were good, but it didn't really do much for me.  I liked Thor and Captain America much more than this movie.  The acting and stories were better in both of those movies with Thor being my favorite for this year.  The actors in Thor really fit their parts.  Green Lantern seemed juvenille.

Okay movie The movie was okay.  It was entertaining.  The ending could have been a lot better.  Seems like they just gave up at the end.

Beautiful Sets & Costumes - Lacking Depth I really wanted to like this movie. It was beautifully filmed, with sumptuous costumes (though a lot of the Venice scenes were obviously on sets -- the water was so clean!). Overall, I felt that the movie lacked real depth - and I imagine the book was a lot better.  It was your basic enjoyable happy ending Hollywood produced historical costume drama. A pleasant way to spend an evening, a few laughs over bad overacting, some titillating nudity (naked bodies, female breasts but no male genitalia and nothing more than PG-13). It could have been so much more!

Not For Beginners This is definitely not a basic yoga instruction.  If you've never tried Yoga you might find a lot of what the instructors do in this video a bit difficult.  However, all yoga is supposed to be comfortable, so you can strive to get as close as you can to what you see on the screen and in a few short weeks you'll find yourself getting even closer to what it looks like on your television.  Just be warned that you should never push yourself, you can wind up stretching out your muscles to the point where it's painful to move, or worse, tearing something.  With that in mind it's still a good instructional video that uses a good set of repetition to make the work out interesting and engaging.

Thier Eyes Were Watching God Movie starts where it ends, reflecting back to how she got to where she was. Has the judgement of other people that keeps you wondering if they are right or wrong in thier thinking. I would consider it a love story, one with hardship along the way. I would watch it again but not one of those movies you can watch over and over.

Nice, but for fans only The image quality on the new DVD is GREAT! Much better than I'd hoped for considering the age and the recordings of it to date. However, make no mistake, this one is for fans ONLY! It took my several attempts before I could even make it through the whole thing without cringing. This is essentially a home movie that the Beatles made the mistake of broadcasting. - The commentary track from Paul is good and there is a nice 'making of' segment, but I think they could have done a little better with the extras since they know the movie itself is not that good. They also hid a few cookies on the main menu, which I think should have been just listed in the extras to make it easier for everyone.

The fixer-upper Really first-rate supernatural horror movies are rarer than you'd suspect; but when a film in this genre gets even part way there, you're pretty grateful (given how many truly lousy examples there are). THE AMITYVILLE HORROR is never as good a movie as you'd like it to be, but it was a huge success, in part because so many of the elements of a really topnotch horror film are in it. There's the haunted house concept updated for the contemporary era (so as to include serial killings as well as demons haunting the house), the director Stuart Rosenberg's fine sense of pace, some absolutely fine acting moments from James Brolin and (particularly) Margot Kidder, and most of all the house itself, which although not the actual Amityville house where the DeFeo and Lutz families lived, is a Tom's River, NJ doppelganger that visually approximates the creepy jack-o'-lantern appearance of the original. (Rosenberg wisely allows multiple startling establishing shots of the house--often in colored filters--to emphasize its importance as, in many ways, the main character of the film.)  On the other hand, neither Kidder nor Brolin are consistently at their best (as Brolin himself admits in the excellent short feature, "For God's Sake, Get Out!," his performance is not consistent with itself, and at some moments approximates camp), and Rod Steiger gives a completely over-the-top performance as Kathy Lutz's confessor-adviser priest that involves howling, shrieking, and other hysterics. The story is sometimes very jerky (especially at the big climax), and much material seems left out establishing the backstory of the Lutzes, who move into the Long Island mansion where the DeFeo family murders once took place, supposedly on the site (naturally) of a Native American burial ground. But moments in the film still seem to linger: the house vocally insisting Steiger leave it, the red eyes of a demon staring in through a window at a terrified Kidder, Brolin maniacally sharpening and re-sharpening his double-bladed axe, and the image of the house itself glowering balefully in the dark night all seem to have entered to some degree or another our shared horror lexicon.

2 1/2 stars are for Streep, herself "The Iron Lady" is, for want of a better term, simply the wrong movie.  Imagine this: You are making the first major film about Al Capone who, no matter what else, led a fascinating life until he died of syphillis. What would be your thrust?  If you said you'd devote the major emphasis of your film to an in-depth study of syphilis, this is the film for you.  Margaret Thatcher, whether you loved her or hated her, was easily one of the most fascinating human beings of the latter half of the 20th century.  She is, at this writing, in the final stages of Alzheimer's.  At some point in time, we might REALLY want to know about the effects of the disease on her and her family. It would certainly be interesting.  But first, shouldn't we be given the story of her life? Shouldn't THAT be the thrust of the first major film about her?  It isn't.  Yes, we see her "in action"; yes, we see some of the high points of her career... in brief.  But the main thrust of the film is her (sadly, losing) battle with the disease.  Add to that, the same flaccid directorial touch that Phyllida Lloyd brought to "Mamma Mia" (ABBA may be kitsch, but you have to work hard to make ABBA dull), and you have the makings of a very dreary movie with (yes, it's required to say) Meryl Streep's (usual) brilliant performance as its only saving grace.  The really sad thing is, this could have been one of the great bios.  All that was needed was to jack up Streep and put another script and director under her.

swinging romance, Swedish style... Bob Hope is a father trying to keep his daughter from growing up too fast, in I'll Take Sweden (1965) a romantic comedy that explores both the sexual morality of different generations, as well as different cultures.  Single parent, and oil company exec Bob Holcomb (Hope), returns home from a business trip and discovers that his daughter JoJo (Tuesday Weld) intends to marry Kenny Klinger (Frankie Avalon), a guy who lives in a trailer, and who's primary talents appear to be singing, and riding a motorcycle.  Looking to put an end to the romance, Holcomb takes an assignment in Sweden, and brings his daughter along.  JoJo's depressed spirits are lifted when she meets Erik Stenson (Jeremy Slate), a handsome playboy type who works at her father's firm.  While Holcomb was looking to cool things in the romance department, the liberal atmosphere in Sweden seems to have the opposite effect on both daughter and father, as Bob finds himself smitten with Karin Grandstedt (Dina Merrill), an interior designer who is redecorating Holcomb's residence.  Morality has a double standard, in this sex comedy directed by Fred DeCordova (The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson).  We observe that love is not very predictable, no matter how much a father meddles.  Upset that Erik plans to take JoJo away on a tryst, Bob has Kenny hop on a Lufthansa Air flight to Sweden, so he can try to win JoJo back.  But this does not go as planned either.  After forbidding his daughter from running off, Bob and Karin slip away to a resort, the same place that Erik and JoJo have also sneaked off to, setting the stage for the film's comedic conclusion.  I'll Take Sweden is mostly a light fun romp that has an agitated Holcomb trying hard, but not succeeding in managing the situation.  Tuesday Weld (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6300216853">Looking for Mr. Goodbar [VHS</a>], <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000G6BLY2">Pretty Poison</a>) is very solid, as is Jeremy Slate as the amorous Swede.  Dina Merrill is a good match with Hope, though her Swedish accent isn't always convincing.  Frankie Avalon provides a teen appeal, but his musical numbers while certainly energetic, do not have the greatest lyrics.  The film is included in the Bob Hope MGM Movie Legends Collection, providing an alternate way to acquire the film.

Imaginative Adventure for a Family with Children This is an adventure written for children and featuring children in the lead roles. The story is mostly fantasy with overtones of sci-fi blended in occasionally. It is well paced and keeps moving along at an acceptable pace; children should not get bored. It is not formulaic and introduces some imaginative characters and situations. The CGI is usually adequate to the job and does not interfere with the storyline.  This movie is suitable for children and promotes desirable family values such as loyalty, bravery, perseverance and love of family. Adults who appreciate fantasy will probably enjoy it too.

Worth a watching if you're a fan of Javier Bardem and want to see some early works Javier Bardem's excellent career can be divided into two parts: pre-Before Night Falls and post-Before Night Falls.  [Or, maybe more accurately, pre-Julian Schnabel and post-Schnabel.]  Pre-BNF, Bardem was a nice actor known only to Spaniards.  Post-BNF after his stunning breakout as Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas, he's one of the world's biggest stars.  Look at the recent <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041KKYF6">Biutiful</a>: he carried that heavy thing on his back for well past two hours.  If you're a ardent Bardem fan like me, you dip occasionally into the pre-BNF days to see what the younger version looked like.  That's a hit or miss proposition.  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000088UZ5">Second Skin</a> with the equally talented Jordi Moll&agrave; was a good catch.  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6304326297">Jamon Jamon [VHS</a>] - once you get over the shock of a very young Pen&eacute;lope Cruz and Bardem teamed together - is a film that hasn't aged well.  'Boca a Boca' is right in the middle.  Neither excruciating nor sublime, it features some of the crazy plot twists and long, increasingly uncomfortable scenes of a sexual nature that mark Almod&oacute;var films of that era (Bardem was in two: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6302530148">High Heels [VHS</a>] and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000059H9E">Live Flesh</a>).  Manuel G&oacute;mez Pereira isn't Almod&oacute;var, but he does a nice job here with the story and his star: Bardem is likable and winning as always.  And it was a treat to see Aitana S&aacute;nchez-Gij&oacute;n as 'Amanda' (cough, cough).  This Italian-born Spaniard has stuck in my mind for a long time after 2003's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002RQ320">I'm Not Scared</a>, one of my all-time favorite movies.

I love Stephen Chow, but... There really isn't much Stephen Chow in 'CJ7', so don't bother watching it for his appearances. Most of the screen time is taken up following a young boy who's poor father (Chow) works very hard to send to a private school. The boy does not fit in with the affluent and aggressive students, and his problems become complicated by the arrival of an alien pet his father finds in the dump.  Fans of Chow's films may greatly enjoy the scenes where the young boy dreams of the miraculous things his new pet might accomplish for him at his school. One of these scenes features a hilarious homage to 'Kung Fu Hustle' that was worth the price of the movie for me, but which would be lost on someone unfamiliar with that film.  Overall: the plot is painfully predictable, the peril the alien pet is placed in is too intense for very young viewers, the romantic sub-plot is underdeveloped, and there is just too little Stephen Chow. If you are a fan of Chow's films, you will want to see it for completeness. Otherwise, pass.

MY GRADE: C plus U.S. Marshall, Carrie Stetko (played by Kate Beckinsdale), stumbles upon a murder in Antarctica. After reading the graphic novel I had to admit that some of the fun of the tale was taken away for me, especially as I felt the the latter captured the setting better than the movie. All said, it's a decent story for those who don't wish to track down the graphic novel.  I found the investigation and presentation uneven and certain scenes which should have been milked more were rushed. Ever watch a movie and feel the pacing was just off? This is one of those movies. By the way on the Amazon DVD cover it looks more like Jennifer Aniston than Beckinsdale.  Tom Skerritt costars as the doctor of the graphic novel, "Whiteout volume 1".  The budget for this was $35M but it only made a bit over $17M at the Box Office.  CHARACTERS/DIALOGUE: B minus; STORY/PLOTTING/EDITING: C to C plus; INVESTIGATION: C to C plus; CINEMATOGRAPHY: B minus; WHEN WATCHED: mid July 2012; OVERALL GRADE: C plus.  SPOILERS: They changed certain parts of the graphic novel. For starters where was the cool part where she was chasing one of the pilots and lost him and he was hiding in the plane? What about the Russian ally who helped her? They kept the guy with the pickaxe trying to kill Stetko and the run along the lines which is almost expected as that was one of the best panels of the graphic novel.

This generation's Fargo We meet Ryan as a wheelman (getaway driver) for some thieves.The toughest part of this movie is not getting to see what is going on inside. Somehow somebody knows what he is driving so the police are after him, he pulls into the Staples Center at the end of a basketball game. Uh, I think the gates would all be for out-bound traffic, oh well.  Next we see he is a Hollywood stunt car driver, oh, he wears a police uniform, ironic? He goes home where he has...nothing.  He meets his next door neighbor lady who has a son, ahhh. They all spend a nice day together, he drives a 1973 Chevelle, does not appear to be an SS.  Then, the lady's husband returns from prison, ahh, turmoil.  Turns out guys from prison want the recently released guy to rob a...pawn shop (?) for the protection he got in prison.  So, to protect them Ryan will drive, ahh.  Well, shoot out, car chase it all goes wrong, they get followed and Ryan alone ends up with 1 million $, turns out there was mob $ there.  Ron Perlman channels Al Pachino of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ID37SQ">Scarface (1983)</a> spouting the word for no reason and racial terms when he can. He and Albert Brooks were going to sponsor Ryan as a racecar driver, he ALSO works as a mechanic, busy guy, where does his money go?  A bloody second half along with the required trip to a strip-club, perhaps the most worthless use of naked women as they sit around topless like wallpaper as Ryan punches out a guy.  In the end almost everybody is dead. Perhaps check out <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007ZEOC8">The Driver</a> if you wish to see this type of entertainment. Leave this in the Red Box bin.

Hollywood's Frothy Generic Musical Ingredients:  1 Mary Sue female protagonist.  Preferred traits: American (from a small town), white, young, sexy but not in a flagrant "slutty" way, hugely talented, determined, befriends/bewitches all she meets, bends the rules but never gets into any real trouble from it, gets a job by simply picking up a tray and starting to wait tables, can learn dance moves in a few weeks during her work as a waitress in Club, earns grudging respect from "enemies", able to resolve conflicts in a single bound, best if played by a former pop starlet who has decent acting talents  1 actor/singer in a comeback role.  Best if actor/singer was greatly loved and drawn out of retirement for this role.  Several decent actors and actresses thrown at cliched or underused roles to taste.  1 drunken/high rival who succumbs to the Power of the Mary Sue.  Choose a mild rival, one that doesn't do anything too mean and "rival-y".  Several mildly sexual dance numbers with Mary Sue, but do not recreate anything as risque as an actual Burlesque show.  1 song number with comeback singer/actor that is thrown awkwardly into the plot.  Optional: Make the song one about "overcoming" some undefined "obstacle".  2 Love Interests.  Love Interest A (may or may not be the first guy Mary Sue meets) must be sweet, romantic and witty.  Love Interest B must be a super wealthy businessman wanting to buy the Club, who will drop the Chekov's Gun so Mary Sue can solve the problem and will disappear from the movie when True LoveTM conquers all.  1 discreet sex scene with Love Interest A.  Best if this scene is intercut with a melodic ballad about True LoveTM sung while Mary Sue is dressed in a classy evening gown at the Club.  5+ plot lines.  One must be the Romantic Triangle.  Please choose remaining from the following: drunken Rival, Divorced Club Owners working together, Gay Best Friend who can't have a decent relationship, the Club is closing because the Owners need X dollars in Y months (X MUST BE much, much greater than Y), Club Owner and one of the dancers has a falling out wherein dancer says she slept with Club Owner's husband, Love Interest A is a Songwriter, Love Interest A is engaged but will let his sexy "Friend" stay with him for an indeterminate amount of time, Love Interest B was never Rival's "boyfriend"  Gather ingredients in a large, flashy location (Los Angeles works if New York City is not available).  Toss indiscriminantly for two hours; Serve immediately.  Now, despite all that I've written above...the movie actually isn't half bad.  Yes, it's cliched, yes, Christina's character is a glaring Mary Sue, yes, the characters are one dimensional.  But if you expect that going in (like I did), there is a lot you can enjoy.  Christina Aguilera isn't a half bad actress.  The only reason she doesn't get higher marks in my book is because her character is so painfully cliched, and Christina never tried to add any depth to that portrayal.  But she does sing well (for those that like her brand of singing), and her dancing is WOW!  Cher is amazing.  She lit up the screen every time she was on, and I thought her portrayal of a club owner about to go under was one of the most convincing I've ever seen.  I loved her musical numbers as well and wished she had sung more.  Stanley Tucci was stunning.  Sure, he is yet again Gay Best Friend, but he does it well without coming off too cliched.  And his chemistry against Cher was pure joy.  Some of the musical numbers were bland (another version of "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend"?), but others were really great (the last number was really catchy).  So, if you are a Cher or Christina Aguilera fan, you will probably love this.  If you love musicals, you will probably also like this (maybe not as much, since it is cliched).  It's not the most original movie out there, but it isn't the worst I've ever seen.  Brought to you by: *C.S. Light*

Great material, atrocious video quality Apparently, there are several versions of this production of Jane Eyre available: the original five-and-a-half-hour version, a five-hour (?) version, and a four-hour version.  I bought my copy last year, and it's the full version.  The problem is the video quality: Almost six hours of material is crammed onto one double-sided DVD!  As a result, the picture has the quality of streaming video: choppy with poor resolution.  So, my three-star rating reflects how cheaply this DVD is produced.  The program, however, is probably the definitive production of Jane Eyre.

Lackluster penultimate season I hate to write this review, as I'm a big fan of the series but let's be honest, Season 6, was the weakest of the lot.  Some folks feel that the failure of the season rests squarely on the shoulders of Julia Duffy and/or the character of Allison but I feel that the blame was exclusively the writers who penned some of the biggest clunkers in the history of DW, including, but not limited to, Picking A Winner, Julia and Mary Jo Get Stuck Under a Bed, Payne Comes Home, L.A. Story, A Scene From a Mall and Driving My Mama Back Home.  In my opinion the biggest offenders were the impossibly boring, The Strange Case of Clarence and Anita, Real, Scary Men and Just Say Doe.  The show was seriously jumping the shark with these D.O.A. episodes and the mojo that made it so special for so long was seriously lacking.  Of the Season 6 episodes, Shade of Vanessa ranks highest on my list, followed by Toe in the Water, Carlene's Apartment, Last Tango in Atlanta, Mamed, Tales Out of School, All About Odes to Atlanta, Dwayne's World and Julia and Rusty Sittin' in a Tree.  However, of the 23 episodes, I would venture to state that just about half are highly forgettable.  Luckily, the show picked up some steam again in its 7th and final season with Judith Ivey in the role of B.J. Poteet but the damage was already done and the series never recovered.  Furthermore, I feel that the producers seriously underestimated the enormous appeal of both Delta Burke and Jean Smart.  It was certainly not the same without them.

For Facebook fans, "Looky Loos", or those interested in business I fall into the latter. I am not on FB and have no interest in being on it. I don't consider The Social Network a movie. It was more like a documentary without being a documentary (of course it couldn't be because some of the info/characters are made up, and I think it is horrible that the makers did that). If you admit you are intellectually shallow and need to watch cars blowing up, sex scenes, or hot women/men, to keep you interested, then this is not the film for you. It's a film with lots of dialogue, a lot of talking, and no action. I enjoyed it from the aspect of business. How the seeds of it came about out of a man being embarassed and depressed (business lesson: turn your heartache into a business), how deals were made, how you can get screwed over, there was also a story about the man who founded Victoria's Secret, why he did it, that I did not know, e.t.c. These are the things I enjoyed about the movie. We all know that most of the portrayal of Zuckerburg is true. He really is a cowardly, cunning, and very computer-smart thief. The twins brought the idea to him, he took it, yet out of all the money he was making and becoming "cool" he still seemed very unhappy. Right up to the end of the movie. And I did not like how the film ended. It seemed "unfinished." Timberlake is good in his portrayal of one of the most annoying, disgusting, rude characters I've ever seen (looked up Sean Parker and breathed a sigh of relief that he said his portrayal is completely fake; he's actually friends with Eduardo). This is an interesting film about business and extreme greed but only needs to be watched once. Personal opinion: I don't see why Zuckerberg was named Time's Person of the Year and gets all this attention. He honed someone else's idea about a site for people to connect with each other. He has not saved lives. I'm not knocking his achievement, so I say a Nickelodeon award or something like that is appropriate, but Time? Sorry but Cesar Milan should receive that for saving the lives of millions of dogs. Lack of knowledge has caused the deaths of many of them. He's highly underrated in my opinion and FB is nice, but highly overrated.

A Dark and Atmospheric Action Film To be perfectly honest I didn't expect to like TRON: Legacy, but as I sat watching it unfold before my eyes, I realized that something was happening that rarely happens to me.  I was seeing something I had never seen before.  The world of TRON: Legacy, although it resembles vaguely the world of the first film, is a much darker, moodier, and more beautiful world.  The story is familiar, but I found myself totally immersed in it, watching with delight the entirely original realm of the digital world.  In short: I loved TRON: Legacy.  The film begins in 1989, about seven years after the end of the first film with a digitally de-aged Jeff Bridges reprising his role as Kevin Flynn, a computer programmer and now head of a giant computer company called Encom, telling his son Sam about his adventures in the digital world and how he invented the video game "TRON".  Sam listens in amazement to what his dad has to say, and Flynn even promises to take him to the "Grid" one day.  Then suddenly, Kevin disappears, leaving his son an orphan and his company in ruins.  Twenty-one years later, Sam (Garrett Hedlund) finds the portal to the digital world his father created, to find not only his father, but also the system in ruins.  All of this takes about twenty minutes of screen time, which seems to me, in light of the subject matter, to be a bit of a long intro.  This film takes itself a little more seriously than the original, and as a result, can get away with a lot more generic story plots.  But the faults in the screenplay are hardly noticeable since we are so immersed in the visuals.  Seriously, this is one good lookin' film.  It is dark and atmospheric, and the CGI is used not just to dazzle us, but really as a kind of story devise, something rare in modern Hollywood films.  To all of the fans of the original TRON, take heart, because all of the iconic images from that film have been either transferred over to or improved upon in this one.  One of the best action scenes in the movie is a light-cycle battle much like the chase scene from film one, but instead of taking place on just one, two-dimensional coordinate plane, it now takes place on a multi-leveled grid which allows for some of the most fascinating and exciting shots of this past year.  Honestly, it's one of the best visual production designs in recent years.  The picture is so dark and cold looking, it's tranquil and peaceful and quiet despite the war going on around.  Where the first movie looked bizarre, electric, and colorful, this movie is the exact opposite.  As I said earlier, I've never seen anything like it.  I'll forgive the plot inaccuracies and contrivances just because of the visual style of the film.  It's really quite stunning, like something you might dream of.  Not anything like the first film.  There's something to be said for pure wonder and spectacle in a film, and I was bedazzled by TRON: Legacy.  I think my only serious problem with TRON: Legacy was its length.  At two hours and five minutes, it seemed way too long for this kind of film.  I think cutting about a half of an hour would have made it a much more acceptable running time.  By the time the credits rolled, despite my involvement in the motion picture, I found myself jumping out of my seat to get going.  It's way too long, a rather big problem in an otherwise wonderful film.  It's no masterpiece, but it's a whole heck of a lot better than TRON and for that matter, better than most of the recently released Disney sequels.  I hope that other such visually striking films will be married to a better screenplay, and then we'd have a rare sci-fi masterpiece.  I was suspicious of the ending, which seemed to leave room for TRON 3, a film I would greatly discourage.  A concept like that of the TRON films is a complex and interesting one that could probably be open to a lot of real philosophical debate.  If perhaps the film had been a little more understandable, and a little more thought provoking, it would have gone beyond a good sci-fi picture and could have been, well, great.    -Cole Webb Harter  read the full review at: [...]

Quest for the Mighty Sword For the last of the Marvel Animation's movie line with Lionsgate, it was decided to do a story of the younger days of the Thunder God during his awkward teenage years. Slightly based on the Thor: Son Of Asgard comic book mini-series, this was originally supposed to come out around Fall 2009, but instead Lionsgate held onto it for a 1 1/2 years to coincide with the Thor live-action movie. The wait really shows though as the animation could've use a little glossing over as compared to the previous Marvel animated movies like Planet Hulk.  Set possibly a few centuries ago, Thor realizes that all the matches he's has against the Asgardian honor guard were all rigged. Hoping to regain some bit of his street cred, Thor convinces his "brother" Loki to go with him and search for the fabled Sword of Surtur, which was used to defeat the Ice Giants in a war with the Dark Elves. The brothers stowaway on the flying ship of the Warriors Three, but instead of going to the realm of Jotunheim where the trio brag they've been too, they instead end up in a boarding house bar, where they all get into a fight with several other dieties. The presence of the Greek gods here was especially here. The five of them then sail to Jotunheim, and actually manage to find the Sword. It uncontrollably destroys two Ice Giant soldiers, and the heroes are on the run from the rest of the colossal fridges. They go to Thor's wouldbe girlfriend Sif who is training with the Valkyries, in an attempt to get some winged horses back to Asgard. All of them are captured by the misandric Brunhilde and her warrior women, but the Ice Giants interrupt them, which allows Thor and the others to escape with Sif. They encounter their ally Algrim, who was the last of the Dark Elves that was befriended by Thor's father Odin. Algrim takes the Sword, and unexpectedly betrays Thor. Algrim goes back to Asgard with the Sword, and confronts Odin, who he blames for not stopping the war between the Dark Elves and the Ice Giants, which lead to the destructionof his kind. Thor shows up back in Asgard, and stops Algrim, but Loki uses the Sword to barbecue Algrim, revealing a more darker edge to him. Thor then hands the Sword over to the Ice Giants in order to keep the peace between Jotunheim and Asgard.  This movie was somewhat lacking in some of the more dynamic-styled animation of the earlier Marvel animated made-for-video movies. There is some reasonable action in this, although considering that it has viking, valkyries, giants, and werewolves, you'd expect a little more on the level of a Conan kind of flick. Director, Sam Liu, who also did some of the other Marvel and DC animated movies, put together a fair production, although a better Thor story was done in the Hulk Vs. double-feature.

An OK DVD The DVD is ok. The animation is colorful but too dark at times. I am showing it to my Wednesday night children's Bible study class, we have learned about Moses up to the first Passover. The movie does a good job of covering the first Passover but it skips over details about the 2 - 8th plague. I wish they had shown some scenes of Pharoah first saying that the Israelites could go, and then changing his mind after the plagues were lifted by God. The 9th plague is portrayed fairly well also. I am not sure if the Pharoah was raised as Moses' brother, it doesn't make that too plain in the Bible. That could've been the case which makes the story more interesting. Although I do feel if that had been the case, then the Bible would've mentioned the irony of it. But it's still an excellent lesson of God's people and how God worked with them and through them. Thanks Amazon.com for getting the movie to me so quickly!

Twelve O'clock High I liked it but I would have liked the edition where he received orders at the last minute to go to B29 Wing as I severed in the Wing (315th) Armstrong Commanded on Guam. How come nobody ever made as a follow up.  Sgt. Spring, Richard P 315th Bomb Wing VH 502nd Bomb Group 411th Sqd.  Did you that the Piolt of B17 jut in another 25 mission flying B29 to Japan

Doom and gloom and implausibility Note to NASA: if and when we ever get around to that long-overdue manned Mars mission, make sure you send an engineer who isn't a complete jerk who reacts to any problem by proclaiming that everyone is doomed to die a most horrible death.  I would go so far as to recommend anyone looking like Rasputin be automatically disqualified from consideration.  You might also want to make someone with some strong leadership ability second in command in case the landing vehicle crash lands and the captain (particularly if he's well past his prime) is killed on impact.  I hate to say it, but you can tell this isn't an American-made movie because Americans would have figured out some way to survive against impossible odds - or at least died trying their utmost until the very end.  The crew of the spaceship Aries just ignore the one guy trying to come up with ideas and jump on Dr. Doom's bandwagon.  In the golden age of science fiction, many a good film was made about Mars.  Over the last decade or so, though - for reasons I certainly can't explain - you can pretty much count on any Mars-related movie being mind-numbingly boring and greatly disappointing.  Stranded doesn't really fit any well-worn mold, but I would be lying if I said it was exciting or seemed to have any real purpose behind it.  This Spanish film features a multi-national crew preparing to land the first human beings on the Red Planet.  Alas, something goes wrong during the descent and the vehicle crashes way off target on the Martian surface.  Luckily, there's a doctor onboard to verify that the obviously dead captain is in fact dead, leaving the six remaining crew members free to begin debating their options.  This consists predominantly of one fellow offering ideas for extending their energy and oxygen supplies, our surly engineer Luka arguing that there's no use trying anything because they're all doomed, and the rest just sitting there like uninterested spectators.  The final decision is quickly made, leaving the doomed (I mean "brave" "volunteers") to spend their last hours walking and filming the Red Planet, hoping to reach a puzzling anomalous area (dare I say plot point) before they take their last breaths.  On the one hand, what you have here is a fairly boring movie with an implausible and rather open-ended conclusion.  On another level, though, I feel an odd attraction to this film.  For one thing, it is not - on the whole - your typical science fiction faire.  These characters confront the deadly risks of space travel in a way rarely seen in the science fiction genre.  In addition to that, you can't help but care what happens simply because you hate the engineer so much.  Furthermore, given the low budget, the filmmakers do an excellent job of simulating the Martian surface.  In the end, I'm forced to conclude that this film actually works well for what it is - the question is whether or not the viewer will like it for what it is.  Like most foreign films, Stranded would have been much better served by the use of subtitles than dubbing.  I had a lot of problems with the character of Susannah, the new captain by default and probably the central figure in the entire story, largely because the English dubbing of her part was just horrible.  It's not that she's a terrible actress - the dubbing just makes her look like a terrible actress.  I don't think I've ever disliked a character so much solely on the basis of the dubbing.

It was, musically, a let down In the heavenly realm, this may be OK, but as a musical adventure it was very disjointed, the flow was not explained, singular voices made ordinary, and like this run on sentence, it mostly consisted of variations of 2 songs, one with the established Hillsong artists, and whoosh, with the new almost "punk rock" Hillsong band. Based on the joy I have received over the years I am happy to support the Hillsong team by purchasing this. I think next year I will wait and watch some YouTubes before purchase.

Warning: This Review Has Been Banned in 31 Countries!!! As a fan of exploitation films, specifically violent and gore films, I was kinda eager to view this one. Its one of one those movies, much like Cannibal Holocaust, that has an infamous reputation for being banned in several countries. And though the claim to this film was that it had been banned in 31 countries, I'm not sure if its reaches the same level of sheer brutality and shock value that Cannibal Holocaust did. Perhaps this film shouldn't be so strongly compared to Cannibal Holocaust, but there's too many similarities not to mention it. Both have real animal killings (a death of a turtle being in both films), a couple of the same actors are used, both include a castration scene, and the way the "civilized" people are depicted as being perhaps the more cruel race, are just a few of the similarities. As far as production and acting, its what one would expect from any Italian film of the genre, complete with mediocre (but not terrible) acting and generic repetitive soundtrack. The plot involves a couple of different storylines, one involving drug dealers searching for coca plants and emeralds, and the other about students going into the rainforest researching, well cannibalism of course. The plot isn't that bad, and the violence/gore is pretty good. Of course, the animal killings are real. And that's what turns most people away from this film. And I can understand that. So if for some reason you're reading about this film and still don't know what exactly you're getting into here, then let me be the first to warn you. Don't watch this if animal cruelty or extreme violence bothers you!! Anyway, despite these being real animal killings, I feel they weren't show as in such brutal and extensive fashion as in Cannibal Holocaust. As a standalone film in the genre, it isn't that bad of a film really. Of course you have to have a required taste when it comes to films like these. However, I can't get too generous here because I do feel this film does borrow from Cannibal Holocaust a decent amount. So if you're into this type of stuff, its definitely worth checking out. If not, then stay far far away.

It was good, but not great they could have looked further.... It felt like something was missing however it was worth the watch... But in this day and age most people are waking up, while other still sleep walk through life... This video may not be the wake up call, but its a good watch.

Quoth the raven: Wait for the DVD "The Raven", a fictional horror thriller featuring the non-fictional literary figure Edgar Allan Poe, was well crafted and never less than adequately watchable, but I really expected more.  While calling the film cartoony and childish would be way too critical, I thought there was a broadness and simplicity to the proceedings that made the movie veer away from some potentially very interesting waters.  I'm just thinking aloud here, but I would have loved to see a fictional Poe film set in the months prior to his death in 1849, one that made a genuine attempt at showing viewers what Poe was like, what demons bedeviled him, that sort of thing.  The device of the fictional detective story involving Poe could have illuminated the non-fictional aspects of his life, aspects that contributed to his tragic, premature death.  But, no, here we get a sanitized, generally likable Poe with only the barest nods to the man's excesses, depression, and hardships. To be fair here, the film at least mentions that Poe lost his young wife to tuberculosis and that the tragedy still haunted him. But not all that much, according to this movie.  There also isn't much grittiness or realism in the depiction of Baltimore in 1849, even though numerous crime scenes in bad parts of town are depicted.  There was more moody darkness in the Robert Downey Jr. "Sherlock Holmes" movies.  Finally, worse than the broadness evident in the depictions of characters and locations, the movie didn't even give poor Poe the dignity of his inherent flaws when it came to his death.  In other words, flattering or not, Poe's demons and weaknesses were part of who he was and why he died, and that should have been shown in the movie.  But, no, here we are given a contraption-like plot development (I won't get more specific in case you're planning to see the film) that's responsible for Poe dying.  I don't care that the plot contrivance paints Poe and his demise in a better light (to the point of making him downright heroic, in fact). In the end, the revisionist history seemed disrespectful.  Let the poor man have his demons and weaknesses.  Plusses?  The movie's production design was lavish; the death traps built by the mysterious killer were suitably creepy; there's generous discussion and quoting of Poe's work (especially his poetry); John cusack did a good job (given the limitations of the script's approach to Poe's character); and I strangely admired the film's willingness to present no-holds-barred gore and violence.  On that last point, the ads were selling an adult-oriented horror thriller and we were given an adult-oriented horror thriller.  I appreciated that.  I just wish the adult approach extended beyond the violent, intense aspects of the production.  "The Raven" is an okay movie that could have been so much more.

Okay but not great, could have been better !!! <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005G7WGFO">Destroy All Monsters [Blu-ray</a>]  Well the Blu-ray Case was the sturdier kind with the Embossed Logo on top that is not colored silver or white and left uncolored. They screwed up the beginning again by inserting the End Credits Sequence into the Starting where XY-3 takes off. The AIP English Dub sounded really Degraded with Static and Noise Echo Interruptions.I only listened to the beginning before I switched to the Japanese 5.1 Audio. So I'm not sure if this Major Problem persists throughout the rest of the Movie. When the XY-3 has the Countdown before it launches, I hear 6 then static and it resumes at 2 then 1 then launch. I even switched to a portable Blu-ray Player to make sure it wasn't my TV Speakers. Same result. For the Record. There are 5 Audio Options.English 2.0 ( The Anniversary Dub or the AIP Dub),Japanese 2.0 or 5.1 , Commentary from Steve Ryfle & Ed Godziszewski ( I never watch with Commentary so I can't say whether they did a good job). You can access through your Remote's Audio Button or the On Screen Menu & Special Features ( For Commentary). The Picture Resolution was 1080p but I compared it to my two Japanese Edition Laserdiscs of Destroy All Monsters ( One a Toho Champion Matsuri Special Edition from the Death Battle Chronicles Set). The Picture Quality was about the same with the Blu-ray version slightly more cleaned up in certain scenes but the same immaculate quality in other scenes. Media Blasters could ( should )have included the AIP US Movie Option like they did with the Rodan /War of the Gargantuas Double Feature Set. Where they had the Japanese Edition & The US Edition instead of having the Same Japanese Version with 5 Different Audio Options. MB could have also included Deleted Scenes like when Godzilla and Manda are attacking Tokyo and the Good Guys jam the signal then they fight each other. The Special Features had stuff that I have seen before from the Japanese Laserdiscs and others that I have not. All in All it was Okay but could have been much better. Oh and the Subtitles reflect today's Slang like saying " This Sucks to run away and not fight" as well as others that had me roll my eyes. Hopefully a better Future Edition comes along that will be well worth it. This was a letdown.

Disappointed after hearing the hype This movie totally disappointed me.  All of the foreshadowing was for not. The movie could have been so much better had they spent more of the film on the character reactions to freaky happening in the house. The loss of characters was rushed, and there was just not enough character development at all so you didn't care when they did kill them off. There was not enough explanation of the ritual or the seriousness of the sacrifice.  By having the clinical staff laughing and betting, it makes the purpose behind the whole thing seem outrageous. I wish I had not bought this movie for $14.99, but waited and rented it for 2.99 or better yet waited until it was free on Amazon Prime.

Would be better without P Diddy I really liked this series....except for many of the guests they had interspersed throughout.  Some were appropriate but others, like Sheryl Crow and P Diddy?  I supposed they are trying to make the series interesting for some people.  I found it really odd to have these people on there talking about history.  Still to the experts, please.

VHS I have the old school VHS version of this amazing series and am so saddened to see it here on dvd for $250 with a dubbed "cleaned" version. C'mon folks! Put this series out on dvd as it was originally intended to be seen!

Revenge of the Prolonged Night in Utter Terror! This movie had a lot going for it and a lot to offer but it felt a bit rushed in some scenes.  Plot: One year after that terrible night, Jamie Lloyd (Danielle Harris) is in a hospital on a disability and can't talk or even more importantly scream! But after they took down Michael and shot him into a well he found help from a homeless man and he has been in another comma for that year! But now he has awakened and he wants revenge!  Review: With it's $3 million budget Dominique Othenin-Girad (Director) Michael Jacobs (Writer) and Shem Bitterman (Writer) create a  hostel yet more sympathetic character of Michael that lasts for a very little bit before he turns back to his Bad-Ass self from part four!  I must say that I loved a lot about this movie... this one had a more rock `n roll soundtrack, more adult themes and a high body count with gorier deaths than part four will ever have! But on the other hand it created an atmosphere that was a bit on the cheesy yet perfect side but it lacked some of the scenes to back it up. The car chase was great even though when Michael crashed it was quite obvious that he would come back. And another thing, I have reason to believe that Michael is now an undead killing machine... not mortal man can survive those kinds of shotgun blasts! a really big problem I had with this movie is the fact that Michael shows sympathy towards Jamie in one scene and that is unforgivable because we all know that he is a merciless killing machine!  Acting: I do believe that Danielle Harris improved her acting a Helluvalot since part four but Donald Pleasance was made out to be crazy but he was still a good actor just a bit psycho!  Gore: Pitchfork impalement, a scythe slice, a garden rake stab, some gory dead bodies (including a dog's), and some violent stabbings, slicing and dicing and there is more!  Bottom Line: Even though this is the least successful at the box office pulling in $11 million yet still making it a success off of it's $3 million budget it isn't the worst one of the series and I'm not mentioning any of the names *Cough* Halloween *Cough, Cough* Resurrection *Cough* It could've been a lot better and I am definitely saying this one is worse than part four but it is still an entertaining ride and I do think it is more watchable that part four but just not as good!  Suggested MPAA: Rated: R for strong horror violence, some language, and brief sexuality  Is it worth the Buy on a scale of 1-10: 7 For the Movie itself on a scale of 1-5: 3

Never Received! This item has never been received. I emailed the seller but no response yet as I just sent it this week.

Lots of Action, Lots of Implausibility 3.5 stars  CIA agent Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) is accused of being a Russian spy by a Russian spy named Orlov.  Salt denies being a Russian spy, but her counter intelligence colleagues are divided about whether or not this is true.  She makes a break for it, escaping from her colleagues.  The movie follows Salt as she uncovers the truth behind Orlov's accusation, all while dodging pursuit from numerous, heavily armed U. S. agents.  The action is intense, and plentiful.  I think all aspects of Jolie's portrayal of Salt are believable, and well done.  The film does fail in some points.  Part of the plot near the end of the theatrical release is sketchy.  A witness is left alive, one whose testimony would be fatal to their attacker.  This is addressed in the director's cut.  U. S. agents shooting at Salt in situations crowded with civilians, and in traffic, stretches credibility for me.  Next, there are too many happy (for Salt) coincidences during Salt's escape from the U. S. agents.  Four different vehicles -- perfect for her needs -- just happen by, at just the right time, for Salt to use.  The result is an incredible action sequence that's tainted by too many unbelievable coincidences.  Salt so effectively evades those searching for her, I don't think she could have done a better job of avoiding detection if she wore a cloak of invisibility.  The biggest problem I have with the film is that Salt seems to have suprahuman healing abilities.  She takes on some physical damage that would result in a mere mortal having an extended hospital stay, if they even survived.  Yet, Salt walks away from such events, usually with only a bit of a limp, a grimace, and a sideways glance.  At times, Salt comes across like the X-Men's Wolverine, due to her amazing recuperative powers.  The story does a nice job handling the truth about whether or not Salt is a Russian spy.  Jolie is the standout, as her portrayal shows Salt as being complex.  From being vulnerable and gentle towards those Salt cares about, to being chillingly efficient when attacking an adversary.  Overall, I think the movie is a worth viewing.

Worth Watch Movie However no matter how much it reminded me of a few other films you'll not see a film quite like it, and personally it's usually well worth watching unique films from the Golden Age.

A Little Better Than The First Unlike the first Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie, the filmmakers were a little more brave this time around and strayed further away from the book. My main problem with the first movie was that EVERY joke and scene was from the book, and they often wern't exectued as well as they should have been. Rodrick Rules improves, but it still needs work. This time around, Greg is trying to impress Holly Hills and sometimes the movie turns a bit absurd. For instance, the party scene from the book goes WAY too far in the movie. I also thought the church scene was way too unrealistic. It's okay, though, and the story can be described as "heartwarming". Not a bad rental for families.

good pretty funny movie i think it may be mainly for kids but i am no kid any more and liked it

Good, But Not Without Its Share of Flaws The Spirit's unique visual style and story sequences are not what you would expect, but in the end, it still has a charm and personality all its own. Behind the beautiful visuals is a story filled with sub-par characterization and humorous dialogue that does its best to keep you interested, but even that still feels a little unpolished. Its essentially a live action comic book and while it might rub some people the wrong way, like just about every professional critic, I still found this to be an entertaining film, but... "its just dame weird."

Not the first choice Hi, Well,I do not deny the fact that the film has a super quality production and declare its made very well,but...... Despite the fact the film can satisfy gore/torture fans but the story and the idea are shallow and weak,you can put in that way,superb film using a simple idea,also the dialog is weak too and does not add much to the film,in general you might enjoy the brutal scenes only. Thats why I prefer 70s and 80s European films because they are too comprehensive and their makers are interested in making all film's factors perfect,not only good scenes,watch Dario Argento's films as an example.

Strike Back I bought this DVD set Because my cable Company Doesn't carry Cinmax what fun if you miss 24 then this is a Great replacement lots of Military type shooting and different locations great fun

It is what it is I figured I would give Sylvester another go after hearing good things about this movie.  All I can say is, it is what it is.  The Expendables is meant to be a pure action movie.  There is a plot, though you really can't figure out what it is.  Some of the scenes are as awkward as that moment when you can't decide to either shake hands or hug and at times the script seems forced.  But if you want a typical shoot em up tough guy movie then this is spot on.  Ladies be warned, if enough of us men get together and watch this the testosterone alone is going to destory the house.  When people told me this movie was low budget, I had really expected worse.  I must say that I was surprised with how it all turned out.  Sure it wasn't the best, but 90% of the scenes were extremely well done and most of the action was maxed out.  A bit of a slow start but once it gets to rolling it doesn't stop.  I was disappointed in the star-studded cast.  The meeting between Bruce Willis, Stallone and Schwarzenegger seems to be more of an empty gesture to fans.  Expendables could have existed fine without this scene and it is confusing, seems to be a space filler, and just an opprotunity to give Willis and the Governator a few seconds of time. Statham did his usual five star job, Jet Li was the kind of character you just have to love, and Rourke was off the chain entertaining as a tattoo artist bad a** named Tool.  Steve Austin?  Awesome actor, baaaaaaad character.  The rest of the line up seem to be supporting cast.  If you want something that will blow your windows out when it comes through your surround sound, something that men can get together and eat beef jerky while watching and then go out and shoot up the neighborhood road side trash cans then this is it.  Gotta be in the right company to enjoy.  Personally I would give it 4 stars but I'm going by this: Can just anyone pick this up and truly be entertained?  I don't think so.

Ugly duckling more than Swan lake The incredible amount of hype about this movie means that most of us will inevitably see it just to see what's going on and that's exactly why I did.   To simplify the movie is very average and even a bit boring. I've heard the view that if you don't like it you don't get it, but I far from agree. It's nearly impossible not to get it and that's the real problem, it's so heavy handed and obvious that your exhausted from being beat over the head with the obvious symbolism, which is one of the two major flaws this movie has along with it's ability to bore you for stretches.   Natalie Portman is very good, and I enjoyed Mila Kunis as well, acting is definitely not the problem here which is why I gave it 3 stars. This is obviously a film aimed more towards woman, VERY obvious and don't let anyone tell you different even the scenes of sexuality seemed to be aimed towards a woman's sensibilities so in the end I suppose it wasn't meant for me.   To bottom line it for you the symbolism of the Swan Queen (Black swan/White swan) and the story that is being told would have benefited from the saying less is more, it was way too obvious what the movie was trying to say and leading to in the end. The movie was very boring for stretches and seemed to be aimed at women to the exclusion of men completely right down to the fact that there is only one male character in the movie and his role is also obvious. Lastly the acting was very good, and I wouldn't expect less from Ms Portman or Mila Kunis. If you plan on seeing it don't go in with high expectations or you will be sorely disappointed.

Series great.  Transfer iffy. The series itself is great, even with 1990s effects.  But the transfer to DVD was fairly poor at times.

Only one good movie out of 4.... The only movie I thought was good was 'Song For The Season' and I wouldn't buy this set again. I think it was overpriced, but Amazon always provides great service and super fast shipping.

male bond As understood, post-WWII Japan was under the U.S. occupation filled with prosperity to move from "feudalistic" to the Western way of living as film's major characters, a TB-stricken yakuza-man and a sober GP exemplified.  Upon decades seen, any-epoch-contemporary viewers can decide a degree these inspirations have been released in Japan-of-their-timings.

A Halloween title not related to the previous 2, but still worth a look Halloween 3 Season of the witch is one of those sequels that have been argued about countless times by horror fans as to whether is is an underrated classic, or a piece of crap. I happen to be in that majority that feels the latter, that it is a much underappreciated horror film that, while not up to snuff with the previous Halloween movies, is still a frightening and provocative little picture in and of itself. The story, to avoid giving any spoilers, involves killer halloween masks. This premise angered and repelled fans of the first 2 during its initial release.  But the thing is, the writers of Halloween originally wanted to adapt an anthology format to this series. They wanted Michael Myers to die in part 2, and for each subsequent Halloween picture to be revolving around some different type of Halloween-related indica: masks, etc. Imagine the possibilities! But no, the fans only wanted Michael Myers back, so the film bombed at the box office as well as with fans and critics.  It's only recently started to get a bit of a cult fan base. So here is your warning: this movie has NOTHING to do with Michael Myers.  If you are expecting that, you'll hate this movie. However, if you go into it with an open mind like I did, you might enjoy it. All I can say is, see for yourself.

Moneyball I thought it moved slowly in the beginning. This movie was ok, but I was expecting much more since I'm a big sports fan.

kinetic sculpture The filming of George Rickey's moving sculptures is quite wonderful with nice background music.  It was quite disappointing not to have some narrative telling something about Rickey himself, his background, life and thought process.  He seems as fascinating as his kinetic sculptures.

Boil That Dust-Speck In the 1970 TV adaptation of Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who, the Wickersham Brothers sang, "Rot! Rot! Rot! Rot! It's a plot! Plot! Plot! Plot!" A plot indeed. The directors of the 2008 "re-do" (not "re-make"; but I'll get to that in a minute) decided to remove most of the TV series' original music (and accompanying political undertones). Those dastardly, ghastardly, schnastardly schnooks!  I mean, some of the most impressionable moments from the TV series were created by or during the music. But alas, freshmen Directors Steve Martino and Jimmy Hayward went with a more...what would one call it?..."a safe"...version of the 2008 re-do.  The main story from the book (and TV series) is still fully intact in the 2008 movie. The story that has Horton the Elephant hearing voices from a dust-speck. Horton's point of view is that "a person's a person...no matter how small". But nay-sayers won't have their beliefs poisoned by the notion that there could be another society other than their own. So Horton finds himself an outcast.  The new film seems to completely avoid the original book's 1954 political message, which was a mockery of McCarthyism and communist witch hunts of the time period. But in doing so, some of the enchantment of the TV movie was lost. Not enough so that viewers unfamiliar with the TV show--especially kids--won't enjoy the 2008 movie, but enough so that the 2008 re-do was pointless because it added nothing new to what was already solidly in place.  Yes...I said "re-do" as opposed to "re-make". A re-make is when a director takes an old film, sometimes even a classic, and makes it *better*. A re-do is when a director takes a film and adds nothing to the original. The 2008 version of Horton is a re-do. Look, I'm not a big preservationist that thinks remaking good original movies should be taboo. I just think that a re-make should indeed be that...a re-make...not a re-do.  People will remember the 2008 version of Horton for its rendition of REO Speedwagon's Can't Fight This Feeling. The essence of the movie was better surmised in 1970 when Thurl Ravenscroft sang "The Wickersham Brothers Song" (you might know Ravenscroft's voice better as the one that sang "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch" in 1966's How The Grinch Stole Christmas).  So clearly, my recommendation is to stick with the original TV Horton. In fact, Amazon has a DVD package that not only gives you the original Horton, but also How The Grinch Stole Christmas (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004VVP9">How the Grinch Stole Christmas!/Horton Hears a Who</a>).  And remember, "it's not the size of the ship"...er...um...oops...wrong quote. I mean, remember, "a person's a person...no matter how small."

Too touching Ryan is astonishing. The movie is very deep and delicate. Maybe too touching for some days you are vulnerable. Very very good. But got me a lil depressed

Wasn't a bad movie, but the end was disappointing I saw this movie in theatres and am debating on purchase of the DVD or Bluray.  The plot is VERY cutesy... to a fault.  It had enjoyable moments, mainly centering around the comical horse.  The horse carried the movie.  Without that character, I may not have made it through to the end.  At the end (MINOR SPOILERS), I was actually pretty proud of Disney for ending it like that... and then they completely reversed it, making the moral of the story a bit meaningless.  Honestly, had they made the Princess more confident and intelligent and stuck with a non-traditional Disney ending, the movie would have been way better.  As it stands, it is a funny but forgettable movie.  I'm waiting until the price drops.  I'd definitely pick it up for $10-15.

Second Class Quality To be honest I doubt my grandson really notices or cares.  For me, even though I saw previous reviewers comment negatively on the quality, I was still disappointed.  To be fair, my grandson does stay glued to it when it is on.  It is however easily forgettable.

2.75 Stars: Better Than Expected, But Still a Weak "Reimaging" of a Classic Film. Most of the reviews I've read about this film are very similar to what I feel, but I thought I would at least put my two cents in as well. Much like other reviews, I'm a big fan of the original Planet of the Apes. Since this film's release, I've heard bad things about it, and I chose to stay away from it until recently. After finally watching it for the first time, I can't say it was as bad I thought it would be. However, its definitely not on the level of the original film at all. For me, the biggest problem is differences in the story that just doesn't make sense when compared to the original film(s). For example, how are the humans able to speak? Or can only some of them? Besides the Leo character, I believe there was only 4 humans speaking in the film. The rest kinda stood around blankly. Yet, they apparently could understand what was being said. For some or all humans to be able to understand and speak, it takes away the uniqueness of the Leo character (Wahlberg)that should have made him special. That was a very important plot device in the original film. Also there seems to be some weird attempt to have some sort of sexual tension between Leo and the ape Ari. It's just odd, and thankfully it didn't develop further in the film. As for the "surprise" ending that has gotten a lot of criticism, maybe it doesn't make a lot of sense. There are theories out there by fans that do attempt to explain it. However, I read that Tim Burton himself said it wasn't supposed to make sense, so who knows. I realize the whole story arc of the Planet of the Apes films can be confusing, and any storytelling involving time travel is a recipe for confusion. But I think this was just the movie trying to be too clever and knowing that the original had a surprise ending (one of the best endings in any film I've seen, by the way), it was just a weak attempt to match it. The the effects and make-up were probably the best thing about the film. All the apes looked very good, except for the few female apes, which looked ridiculous to me! Not that the make-up was bad, but it was the way it was designed. Why did the female apes have modern human hairstyles? And I felt the make-up was too human looking to start with. You could see too much of the actress' features through the make-up. Were they trying to make the female apes more attractive? Was that the reason behind the vague love connection between Ari and Leo? I hate to say it, but honestly, Ari kinda reminded me of Michael Jackson! The acting was pretty good as well. The supporting cast includes Paul Giamatti, David Warner, Michael Clarke Duncan, and Kris Kristofferson. And even includes a cameo by Charlton Heston as an ape, which I thought was pretty cool. Mark Wahlberg was okay as the main protagonist, but of course it wasn't nothing compared to the performance of Charlton Heston in the original. Probably the best performance in the film goes to Tim Roth as the nasty General Thade. Though perhaps the character was a little too over the edge at times. In fact, I thought the depiction of the apes overall was a bit too harsh, primitive, and tyrannical. I felt that the apes had a bit more of civilized manner about them in the original. But most of them in this film seem to have an overly negative and aggressive attitude. Some people have complained about this film being too long or too boring. I didn't necessarily get bored or feel that the film was too lengthy (around 2 hours), and I thought the film was interesting and entertaining enough. However it isn't as dramatic, clever, or entertaining as the original whatsoever. I'm sure there's a lot more of other complaints I've overlooked that someone that's more familiar with the original series can, and probably have, pointed out. But for me, this film wasn't as bad as I expected, and its actually a decently made film. But when there's an attempt to remake or "re-image" a classic image, 99% of the time you're fighting a losing battle. That's probably why soon after the movie's release,  Tim Burton was quoted as saying "he'd rather jump out a window" than direct a follow-up. I'm kinda of thankful that they chose not to continue with this story, and went backward in the story arc with Rise of the Planet Apes, which is a much better film. But that's another review for another day.

Not enough depth Sanctum is about extreme adventure gone all wrong. This extreme adventure team is led by Frank Mcguire ( Richard Roxburgh) a pioneer explorer and joined by his son Josh ( Rhys Wakefiled) As with all parent son relationship this one is downright uneasy, however the movie gives them a chance to settle their differences. The rest of the team also has issues with friction and the caves give them a lot of opportunity to settle their scores and air their differences. The film has been beautifully photographed but the script has been poorly written and thus did not hold my attention. I was primarily drawn to this movie because of production duties helmed by a certain James Cameroon but needless to say.... a pretty boring and average film. 2 stars 7/16/2011

Revenge flick meets art film Like a typical first-time director's project, Harry Brown wants to be taken seriously and is replete with glum cinematography, ironic social commentary, a symbolic ending and shots of dripping water faucets. But revenge films are always cartoons of sorts and this is no exception. First there's the plot which comes straight out of a grindhouse movie  trailer. Then there are the bad guys who are not just bad, but dope-growing, heroin-injecting, bystander-murdering, expletive-spewing, graffiti-spraying, gun-selling, girlfriend-prostituting bad. Harry Brown is a bit like Taken, another old-guy-takes-revenge film in which a respected actor adds needed gravitas to a production. But Harry Brown wants to gloss over its extravagances while Taken celebrates them elevating the film to a guilty pleasure. Still, you have to admire Harry Brown for its ambition, its acting and tonal richness even as you have to forgive its lugubrious moments for taking (a lot) more screen time than scenes of Michael Caine kicking ass.

Boring There were glimmers of greatness in this movie but ultimately the entire series fell flat. The best feature of the production are the acting performances specificly of Hopkins, who was wonderful to watch especially as the early Peire. The actors playing Natasha, Countess and Count Rostove, and Princess Maria and her father were also very good. There were some performances I didn't care for, namely Andri, who I suspect is supposed to be some brave heroic character, but whom I found to be a whinney jerk.  I had two overriding problems with this production. The editing for the war scense was aimed at creating a specific tone, the problem is that it was obvious that they were trying to coax an emotional reaction, and fell flat. What I mean is before and after every war scene we'd get shot after shot after shot of soldiers sitting around looking sad, soldiers laying around, soldiers hurt, fire, horses, marching, blah blah blah, the first two shots evoked the thought I was supposed to have the next five made me roll my eyes. The extras first of all were not convincing in their suffering so showing it over and over again just made it obvious of what they were trying to do. So much time was devoted to these types of scenes and the war scense themselves were so poorly shot that all the scenes that dealt with the war and battle were just boring. If they'd condenced the war scenes and just shown the battle and the principal cast's reaction to it we could have cut about two hours out of the movie.  The second issue was Nepolean. I get that this is a British production, I get that the Russian's didn't speak like British people, but for the sake of enjoying hte film I accepted the fact that these people had British accents and used British phrases. What I can't accept is that the French also had British accents, specificly Neapolean. There needs to be a way to differentite between Russian and French, and with few exceptions there really wasn't. Also when Neapolean walks on stage he is so completely British taht I found it ridicouls.

Little scary for toddlers but enjoyable Hades can be pretty scary for pre-school age children so I wouldn't recommend this movie for that age group.  However, it is a cute movie that both boys and girls can enjoy.  Keep it to the 5 and up though.

3 1/2 stars, but not worthy of 4 As a person who's got his own sense of humor, I found it to be more funny than appalling. Ted was hilarious! Just straight up jerking it outside of a girls window. Their are times in the movie where he does something and gets away without drawing any suspicion. I'll list 2 examples.  1. The part where he carry s a body wrapped in a tarp or something like it out of the girls house and into his car. Well in the scene there are people walking by and you can clearly tell what's wrapped inside simply by the shape. Perhaps the director was going for the illusion that it was to dark for those people to notice.  2. He says suspicious stuff that makes it seem obvious he's the killer like - " Oh no! They're waaaay dead!"  As I said, I found it more funny than shocking. It does have its moments, but I felt like they could have made it more graphic and dramatic. After all what happened to these women was far from funny.

Max Lucado's "A Bug Collection" DVD set A Bug Collection ~ Vol. 3 is a boxed set containing 3 DVDs from the Max Lucado Hermie & Friends Series. The DVDs are beautifully animated with memorable characters that are consistent on each DVD. Each DVD is a story with a biblical message that children can relate to.  The three topics addressed in this set are Prayer, in "Milo the Manis Who Wouldn't Pray;" Behaving, in "Buzby and the Grumble Bees;" and Getting Along, in "Hailey and Bailey's Silly Fight."  Each story begins and ends with Max Lucado and Hermie the catepillar having a discussion about the problem/theme in the upcoming story.  I think the animated portion of the DVD would hold a child's attention, but younger children may get restless during the initial exchange between Lucado and Hermie on repeated viewings.  Each DVD also contain bonus materials including a read-a-long story book, games, sing-a-longs, information of the making of the movie, trailers, ect. and additional materials like games, coloring pages, wallpaper, and screensavers that can be accessed on a computer.  Though children will like these characters and parents will find the message of the videos appropriate, I was a little disappointed with all the "talking" between Max Lucado and Hermie.  The games on the computer portion of the DVD  were trial versions without much instruction and once again long introductions diminishing my desire to try to play them. Overall, this DVD set was good, but did not overwhelm me.  I received a complementary copy of this DVD set free from the publisher through the BookSneeze.com book review blogger program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255 : "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising."

A mediocre film for great musicians It is interesting because everything in Kronos is interesting, but the DVD itself is uninspired; there is no concept, no editing, no project, no idea. But it is what we got, and I enjoyed seeing my favorite group.

"Final Exam" Passes the Slasher Test...But Just Barely "Final Exam" begins with two college students (Carol Capka and Shannon Norfleet) busy making out in a parked convertible. Ignoring the girl's frequent objections, her boyfriend pushes on. Watching this scene I couldn't help but think of Slasher Studios' own "Popularity Killer." Crazy how slasher minds tend to think alike as I had never seen this slasher before writing own film. Well, wouldn't you know it, there is a sound outside...a shadowy madman jumps on top of the car, slicing his way through the fabric roof. Reaching inside, the lunatic grabs the young man and pulls him up and out onto the car's hood. Brandishing a blade, the killer stabs the poor man to death. Cue opening credits and we are off to a decent start to a decent slasher that you will forget about ten minutes after you are done watching it.  Sleepy Lanier College is nearing the end of Final Exam week, a frenzied semester cap time of grades, goodbyes and pranks. As the students prepare for their tests as well as the coming vacation break, little do they suspect a psycho in a black van is stalking them one by one. Plain but amiable Courtney (Cecile Bagdadi) is completing her exams and studying hard. Averse to hitting the books, her roommate Lisa (DeAnna Robbins) is busy packing and getting back to the city.  Meanwhile, Gamma Delta fraternity pledge Gary (Terry W. Farren) has pinned his girlfriend Janet (Sherry Willis-Birch)...and paid for it by being treed by his brothers, stripped to his briefs, awash in shaving cream and ice cubes shoved down his underwear. As night falls on Lanier, a freezing Gary hopes his beloved Janet will free him from his humiliation. Untied from the tree by an unknown figure, Gary breathes a sigh of relief...and is then stabbed to death on quadrangle lawn. The fun has now begun!  The problem with "Final Exam" is that the last thirty minutes of this film are pretty damn good: suspenseful, fun, and very entertaining. The deaths are mainly bloodless but the suspense is plentiful. Unfortunately it takes an HOUR of lame college hijinks to get the fun stuff. I love character development in horror movies but the little we get to know about these characters in this hour could have easily been covered in twenty minutes tops. That's not to say this isn't worth a watch. The acting is pretty solid all the way around and the film is never truly boring. Nonetheless, there is a great slasher here just waiting to be unleashed. This is a film that I would kill to see a remake of. As is, this movie is fairly run-of-the-mill. Nothing special, nothing great, but nothing all too terrible either.

Adventures in BoogaBooga Land The DVD Adventures in Boogabooga Land follows the adventures of Marty the monkey and Gerard the giraffe in three episodes that present the parables of Jesus (The workers in the vineyard Matt.20, The Wise and foolish builders Matt. 7, The lamp under the bowl Matt. 5). The voices, songs, and animation are of low-average quality. At times the voices of the characters are hard to understand and the enunciations of the words are not clear or distinct. While the stories are meant to depict a parable from the book of Matthew they are loose representations and Jesus or God were never mentioned. It did not feel like the stories really focused on Biblical character building like other movies from Thomas Nelson typically do. While the stories are clean and family friendly they are not of the style or quality that my children typically like. I received this book free from the publisher through the [...] [...] book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255 [...]: "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising."

Safe It was a well made movie, but got too complicated when every criminal from different countries started chasing a little math wizard girl. It was still interesting to watch though!

Overkill in a charger. Well well well, what can I say. It is over the top, it`s cast have werry foul mouths and it gets a bit dumb at times. But here is the thing; the movie is verry entertaining even though it is over the top. Piper (Amber Heard) is the coolest and most kick-as carecter I`ve seen in years, and becouse of that I`m a fan of Amber now, and the funny thing is that she is the most normal one of them all. Mason (Nic Cage) is a verry bad man who have died and gone to Hell. Enough said. Now Nic, he delivers a good preformance as allways. The other carecters don`t stand out much. I had funn and I have seen the movie 10 times allreddy.

"Up the Creek" may not be one of the better "college romp" films from the '80s... The 1980's, a decade known for its many "college romp" films.  Some good, some bad, but if their was one thing they all had in common...all were sexual comedies with plenty of nudity.  And in 1984, one of those films that many people would catch on cable was "Up the Creek", a film directed by Robert Butler (best known for directing TV series episodes such as "Reminton Steele" and "Hill Street Blues") and an earlier film written by Jim Kouf ("Rush Hour", "National Treasure" films, "Grimm" and "Ghost Whisperer" TV series).  The film would star Tim Matheson ("Van Wilder", "Animal House", "Fletch"), Jennifer Runyon ("Ghostbusters", "Charles in Charge", "Carnosaur"), Stephen Furst ("Animal House", "Babylon 5'), Dan Monohan ("Porkys" films) Sandy Helberg ("Mortal Kombat", "This is Spinal Tap", "Spaceballs"), Jeff East ("Superman", "The Day After") and James Sikking ("Hill Street Blues", "General Hospital", "Doogie Howser, M.D.").  "Up the Creek" features four friends Bob (played by Tim Matheson), Max (played by Don Monahan), Irwin (played by Sandy Helberg) and Gonzer (played by Stephen Furst) who attend Lepetomane University (aka Lobotomy U), the worst university in the area , and each happen to be the worst students on campus.  They are forcefully recruited by Dean Burch (played by John Hillerman) to compete in the collegiate raft race and bring some recognition to the university.  In return, if they win, he will offer them degrees in the major of their choice.  So, the four friends along with their dog Chuck (voiced by Frank Welker) head to the collegiate raft race.  But the team that is heavily favored to win are the Ivy University prep schoolers who have the support of Ivy alumnus Dr. Roland Tozer, who wants to ensure that the group cheats their way to the #1 spot.  Also competing are the military squad known as Washington Military Institute who's leader Captain Braverman (played by Blaine Novak), wants revenge against Bob because he continually thwarts the group's plan of sabotage.  Also, entered are the co-eds, which include Heather Merriweather (played by Jennifer Runyon) who has had enough of her boyfriend (a member of the Ivy University) messing around with other women, so she starts to show interest in Bob.  With Ivy University trying to cheat their way to the top, do the underachieving students of Lepetomane University have a chance of winning the competition?  MOD PLAYABILITY:  Part of the worry of viewers who had bad experiences with MOD DVD's is its manufacturing. Granted, those problems were a long time ago but so far, I have not had any problems with MGM's Limited Edition Collection.  With "The Magnetic Monster", its printed quite well with printing on top of the DVD, it's not a plain silver disc with letters. If you didn't know it was MOD, you would think it was an actual DVD release.  As for playability, I played "The Magnetic Monster" on my Blu-ray player and DVD player with no problems. I then played it on my Mac and PC, no problems whatsoever.  VIDEO AND AUDIO:  "Up the Creek" is presented in color (1:85:1 full frame). As far as picture quality goes, you can see a bit of black specks throughout the film but they are small and probably will not be noticed by most people. There is a fine layer of grain and for the most part, for an '80s film, the movie looks very good for its age.  There is some softness but considering its age, "Up the Creek" looks good on DVD.  As for audio, audio is presented in Dolby Digital.  But the film is notable for its soundtrack featuring Cheap Trick, Heart and The Beach Boys.  SPECIAL FEATURES:  "Up the Creek" comes with a theatrical trailer.  JUDGMENT CALL:  As a person who grew up with late '70s and '80s college romp films such as "Animal House", "Porky's", "Private School", "Back to School", "Revenge of the Nerds" are among the titles that people tend to remember.  Comedies that feature a lot of beer, a lot of women and a lot of sex...and of course, the main attraction to a lot of guys back then...nudity.  "Up the Creek" is a film I remember watching on cable back when I was in high school and remember wanting to watching this film primarily for actress Jennifer Runyon.  This was her first film that she had starred in before he appearance on "Ghostbusters" and becoming part of the cast of "Charles in Charge", but as a teenager, I was big fan and watched this film just for her.  So, here we are nearly 30-years-later since the film made its debut in theaters and watching "Up the Creek" once again.  Needless to say, the film is kitschy.  The whole premise of four bad students of one of the worst universities academically and the four being offered free diplomas if they win a rafting contest is ridiculous.  But still, '80s "college romps" were never meant to be deep films, they were films about characters partying, having fun and getting laid and these films were indeed the sign of the times.  And of course, there is the banality of the underdogs going against the athletes or tough guys (in this case of this film, it's the "preps") and one of the underdogs hooking up with the hot girl that dated a prep.  "Up the Creek" is a film which one knows how it's going to end, but you just wonder how crazy or how much sex will be in this film.  In terms of craziness, well...aside from the character of Gonzer wanting to eat all the time and the main character Bob, having a dog named Chuck (who seems to be smarter than most of the guys on the Lepetomane team), you have a military school trying to sabotage the competition and preppies who try to cheat their way to the top.  So, in terms of overall craziness, "Up the Creek" was a little weak in that regard.  As for nudity, sure you see a lot of topless girls but when you watched films such as "Porky's", "Private School" and "Animal House", even the nudity is a bit subdued for this film.  While "Up the Creek" may be nostalgic for some... for those wondering if this was one of the good "college romp" films of the '80s, my answer would be "no".  Granted, I can imagine my teenage self saying "yes, watch it for Jennifer Runyon", watching it today, I felt that "Up the Creek" was too subdued in comedy and hijinks for an '80s "college romp".  Recommended only if you are a fan of the film, otherwise, you can find better "college romp" films out there!

Marilyn in a Serious Role This is a well-done action/adventure film. The river sequences are excellent, and Monroe is surprisingly effective in this dramatic role.

I agree with Bad Johnny No reason to reiterate everything he said, just read his review.  Decent 3 star movie, although kinda long and I'd like to see someone count the number of times they used the word 'c*%t' - as after the first billion, we get the idea, they are foul mouth bad boys.

This is an action movie. The action-drama TV series is much better. This is a movie about young people playing a sport under high expectations. The primary focus of the movie is the on-field performance, so it's an action movie with a dramatic twist. Artistically, the highest achievement of the movie was the instrumental soundtrack by the Texas band Explosions in the Sky (even if it's not original music from them; it was recycled from existing albums).  This movie could have been so much more.  (1) Wasted acresses: In the TV show, we find out that Connie Britton (who plays the coach's wife in both the TV show and this movie) is an exceptionally talented actress, but we only get a peek at her talent in the movie during the scene where she talks about escaping to Alaska. Similarly, Amber Heard (who was in this movie for about 1 minute as the topless girl on the couch) is now a leading female actress with serious talent.  (2) Not enough focus on high school social life: We play high school sports in large part for the girls. But other than the party scene near the beginning, we learn nothing about the challenges of high school relationships; the girlfriends have almost no impact on these guys' lives. The TV show turns the girlfriends, played by accomplished actresses Minka Kelly and Adrianne Palicki, into main characters and thoughtfully explores their impact on the game of football.  There are other things missing, but I understand that you can only cover so much ground in 2-hours. If the movie had traded some action scenes for drama scenes involving actresses, it would have been a much better film, instead of just an action movie.

Plan 9 from outer space Things may be flying around on the end of string, but who cares? The techo-nuts out there wouldn't know how to make a good movie today if they didn't have all the computers and special effects to do the work for them. Back in those days the film and TV industry used what they had: nothing. I could name 20 movies made today that, if it wasn't for special effects and computer graphics, they would be just bits of film on the editors' floor.  It is a typical movie where aliens meet humans, and the arrogant humans who think they are superior, try to shoot them down because they are suddenly scared of the unknown: aliens.  The back-drop for the outer space scenes looked a bit silly and I'm sure they could have painted it much better. Some of the night scenes looked to me as daylight, but I'm not sure as I had my hand over my eyes. If I didn't know better I would have thought that the aliens were more human than me as I've been told many times that I live on another planet.  I like inspector Clay as he is a 200 year younger than "The Addams Family" version of uncle Fester while he was still on steroids, but his grave that the policeman got into didn't look like any grave I've seen. It was more like plaster cast to me.  The uniforms the aliens wore were more like a "come as you please" day at the office, but everyone forgot. The purple satin top over pants are real stylish (get some imagination for heaven's sake).  This movie is no different from a lot of films, TV and live shows from the '50s and '60s. The sets were put together with cardboard, glue and chewing gum. Amateurish at best, but what wasn't back then.  There are a lot worse out there than this one and I have reviewed one of them (not this one). There are a million and one nit-picking faults with this film, but if anyone did that they would have to condemn most of the movies ever made, as there are lots just as bad or worse.  I am glad that there were plans 1-8 in the "Special Features" as it gave me a standard for Plan 9, and I'm glad they all failed.  I gave the movie 5 stars because it is just another film from the 1950s and came nowhere near the title of "the worst film of all time", and hope a lot of people enjoy it. As with everything that is at the forefront of a developing industry, there is the beginning, the middle, and what I call the techno-advance. In films it is great graphics, million dollar crappy acting, and over-the-top special effects. Give me the old stuff any day.

Just Okay I enjoyed the lead actor a lot, but the movie left me up in the air with its plot and some unanswered questions.  Not as entertaining as I thought it would be, it film was a lot darker than expected.  Overall, not a film I'll long remember.

Executive Decision Review Disc wasn't cracked or broken and played okay on my disc player so I guess I would say no initial problems were found with it.

It's OK This sequel, like so many before it, does not live up to the first movie.  The story is OK but doesn't have the punch of the first one.  It doesn't draw you in like The Note did.

WHY THE HIGH PRICE??? VERY HAPPY TO SEE CHEYENNE'S SECOND SEASON IS FINALLY AVAILABLE. HOWEVER THE PRICE IS A BIT PROHIBITIVE . I'LL WAIT AND SEE IF THE PRICE DROPS .

Snoozer Although it was visually attractive, it did not hold my interest.  The music kept making me doze off and I could never get into the plot.

Captain America: The First Avenger Captain America put the finishing touches on a triumphant summer for Marvel that included hits Thor and X-Men: First Class and successfully bridged the gap to next summer's much anticipated Avengers movie. Directed by Joe Johnston and starring a surprisingly heroic Chris Evans in the title role, Captain America plays out the origin story of Steve Rogers, a scrawny but determined military recruit who signs up for a secret super-soldier program, only to be faced by the threat of the evil HYDRA organization and its leader Red Skull, another recipient of the super-soldier treatment. Though I was initially a bit unsure what exactly to expect from the film, I enjoyed it. It's solidly old-fashioned blockbuster entertainment with pulpy action, a retro vibe, and some fine acting performances. Even if Captain America wasn't your favorite comic hero, chances are you'll have a pretty good time with this movie.

Not bad I don't think the movie is all that great. It has its funny points. Specially when they go into the abandoned hospital and Sherman screams. That is the one part that my husband and I rewind and watch over and over. But besides that this movie is kind of dumb. But don't take my word for it. Just make sure if you watch it you have the remote in your hand to rewind the screaming part over and over again..... That is just funny!!!!

Tough I was a little disappointed when I started the DVD and they immediately began with stating that this is for people who are already in great shape. I was in decent shape before I got pregnant, but have totally fallen off the wagon in the last 5-6 months. I'm now almost 9 months pregnant and found this dvd quite difficult. Their variations are helpful, though, and I was able to get through a good portion, modifying where I needed to.  One thing I found very odd, though, was the 3rd trimester person continually doing downward dog over and over after almost every pose. This is a normal part of the workout on this dvd, but in your third trimester, the whole goal is to get the baby down into your pelvis, not stand inverted with your butt in the air. I did a few downward dogs and then stopped because it just felt really wrong to be doing such a counterintuitive position at almost 37 weeks pregnant. I then Googled whether that position is safe for 3rd trimester folks, and sure enough, tons of threads came up mentioning that this isn't a great idea, particularly if your baby is breach. I also found helpful alternatives to the traditional downward dog position, such as placing  your hands on a wall instead of the floor. Jennifer Wolfe seems more than qualified to be teaching in this DVD, being a doula herself, so it was strange to me that this pose was not only included for the third trimester, but that you were encouraged to do it over and over again.

So so Birelli Lagrene, Steve Grossman, Sarah Lazarus and Philippe Catherine are the pullers for me (having bought many great Dreyfuss recordings), and while they deliver quite well, the overall DVD is a disappointing performance. The selection of songs is ok, but it is of rather a "spotty" enjoyment value. Sound and video quality is excellent. Not especially recommended, alas.

Sound problems I debated whether to give this two or three stars.  The poor sound quality really detracts from its value, but it is an interesting historical record of the Patrick Moraz era of Yes.  I'm not sure there is any other DVD that has all of the Relayer album played in concert.  For guitar players, there are good shots of Steve Howe playing The Clap and Mood For A Day.  The latter song is not listed as one of the tracks, but is played instead of the second part of I've Seen All Good People.

A Charles Bronson movie but with Jodie Foster "A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge." That's the tag line by the film company about this movie.  We watched it first at the movies and even though one should not feel that way, we felt rooting for her as she is getting her revenge. If people would really react to violence the way the protagonist does in this movie, we would all live in chaos. After half an hour into the movie, we decided to see it as what it is, a kind of a remake of one of the old Charles Bronson revenge movies. The main character feels no remorse about even the most unbelievable things done by her. Jodie Foster plays the wounded woman very believable, as well as the revengeful one in the second part of the film. The film takes itself maybe a little too serious and could have attracted more viewers, if it would be even trashier, than it is. If you want to watch a "shoot them all up" movie, you are in the right theater. If you expect a masterpiece like 'silence of the lambs' or 'little man tate' go to see something else..

Great movie This arrived at my house on the date that it said. I was a cute movie and I am glad I bought it. Reasonable price.

a pretty good movie that has been overdone by 2012 First of all this movie is probably one of the originals of the stale temptation of the man of the cloth plots we have been bombarded with over the years. But it has a few things keeping it fresh . . . at least for me. This was the era where you had to watch a movie and listen to what people said. They were actually saying something to you in their looks and their words whereas today plots are told to you as you watch people going through motions of sex or car cashes or being shot at. Montgomery Clift gave a good performance and carried his movie, even though I have heard nothing but how weak an actor he was. He wasn't here. The supporting actors helped to make this movie something you continued to watch to actually see what was going to happen. Was he going to be a martyr or was God going to intervene to make things right? Anyway the last thing that made this movie something unique was its physical setting--Quebec Canada. Not too many movies I have seen have that as a back drop. So while I wouldn't recommend this be your first choice if you just want to watch something but not favorites to choose from this would be a good choice.

Moog the movie Not long before his passing, Moog synthesizer co-inventor Robert Moog appeared in a documentary.  This is worthwhile to most anyone interested in electronic music.  ''Moog'' (2004) shows him as a really nice guy, sort of an old 60s guy in a way, who raises his own vegetables, lectures,  and journeys the world to visit some of the illuminant exemplars (Herb Deutsch, Rick Wakeman, Keith Emerson and others) of the original synthesizer era he forged.  A native New Yorker, Moog began building and selling Theremin kits in high school - the Theremin became ''a thread'' in his life story - before heading out for a degree in electrical engineering at Columbia. In the 60s he came up with the synthesizer, in the process creating a ton of phase-lock loops, voltage controlled oscillators and other groundbreaking musical circuits.  The film doesn't dwell on these parts, but there is a lot of good gorpy and greasy feedback sound scattered in the plot.  He recalls the fear of the electronic sound that was rampant in some circles back in the 60s. The electronic sound, knock on wood, was alien and scary. It worked in commercials, however. Moog's modus recalls Ed Sanders who saw the potential for the 60s and 70s electronic synthesizers to naturally extend human poetic expression. ''Why do you feel as one with your musical instrument?'' he asks Socratic-ly at one point in ''Moog.'' Sanders similar to Moog to in his emphasis on performance. Robert Moog's quest was not about shacking up in a recording studio with electronics. It was about people creating music that people would hear in performance.

Love Nick Cage - Not So Much The Movie! I liked it but I think it lacked something. I much enjoyed watching Drive Angry more so than Season of the Witch.

Style over substance Brian de Palma's 1978 film makes almost no sense whatsoever, but its series of virtuoso sequences is so terrific it's still worth seeing anyway. Andrew Stevens and Amy Irving are two young mutants with heightened psychic powers: telepathy, telekinesis, precognition, postcognition... and they can cause people in their vicinity to hemorrhage violently. The government gets wind of their abilities, and since this is a Seventies Hollywood film that necessarily involves conspiracies and a sinister secret institute. Whatever the plot seemed to be about gets lost almost entirely: John Cassevetes is around sneaking Stevens and Irving into his Chicago institute to test what sort of weapons they might be for the government, while Stevens's father Kirk Douglas (at his most ridiculous, his eyeballs intensely popping as he overacts out of synch with everyone else in the cast) searches madly for his son. Some of De Palma's most technically accomplished sequences (Irving having an involuntary postcognitive vision on a staircase; Douglas evading Cassevetes's goons in a fogbound construction site; and, most thrilling of all, Carrie Snodgress's attempt to help Irving escape from the Institute that goes completely awry) are embedded in what follows, but often even the sequences are undermined by the berserkly underexplained plot. Why, for example, should a group of Arab businessmen (of all people) be out for a lark on a funfair ride when Stevens (crazed by his manipulative captors to the point of jealous insanity) causes the ride to go berserk? The beautiful score is by John Williams, and Darryl Hannah, in her film debut, may be glimpsed in the early scenes of teenage girls being hilariously nasty to each other (shades of CARRIE, De Palma's previous film!) at Irving's swanky girls' school.

The Market is CURSED..... I'm starting to get the feeling that Asian Horror is getting old. Ringu, Ju-on: The Grudge, The Shutter, and Gin Gwai were top-notch. Kairo: Pulse and One Missed Call had flaws, but they still had very good moments. After that, things started to go downhill. Movies like Apartment 1303 didn't have an enduring effect on me. Maybe it's because I don't believe in ghosts, or I've grown annoyed by the cliches which are now more noticeable. But whatever the reason, it feel as if Asian horror films are turning into self-parodies. There was one (I can't remember the title) that featured a Japanese pop group that ventured into a haunted school. It wasn't scary at all, and the mainstream pop music became a constant pain to the ears.  While more recent horror films are lacking the edginess and atmospheric eeriness that Ringu and The Shutter have been known for, there are a few that have at least some effort put into it. Cursed is one example. Despite its flaws, it has its moments. There are several scenes that are genuinely creepy, and the lack of loud music in some scenes adds to the tension. However, there are also some silly moments. For example, the striped shirts that the managers of the market are amusing to look at. The bright green/white colors don't fit a film like this at all. Also, the plot can be easily figured out if you've seen various other horror films.  Cursed is basically an average Asian horror film. It's not great, but it's not terrible, either. It'll be good for a rental to those who have seen numerous horror films, but if you're specifically a diehard J-Horror fan, then you might as well buy this one.  Grade: 5.9 out of 10

SCHOOL DAZE BAD TEACHER is not a bad movie; it's just not that good.  Cameron Diaz plays a teacher whose dedication to her job is hardly admirable.  She merely teaches to raise money for a boob job--she's self-centered, amoral, foul-mouthed--a parent's worst nightmare...but in spite of this she's somehow likeable--almost. The movie does expose the oftentimes hypocritical side of education albeit stretching it to extremes. In spite of some funny moments, the movie ultimately isn't truly funny, winding up a bitter experience. Diaz is effective in her unlikeable role and other cast members give good support.  Justin Timberlake offers a humorous turn as a dimwitted love interest; Lucy Punch is on target as the uberteacher and Cameron's rival; Jason Segel and Phyllis Smith round out the cast. BAD TEACHER avoids many of this genre's cliches.  There are no redemptive moments or sudden enlightening revelations.  The tone is consistent to say the least! All in all, BAD TEACHER is somewhat guilty pleasure but doesn't inspire a lot of educational appreciation.

Is Gaberil a hypocrite...? This movie was o.k. I gave 3 stars because it was just o.k. But in this movie the preacher Gaberil was more of hypocrite than anyone. And I believe they were playing with the Holyghost. He is not to be played with.

Kenny starts to realize he's naked. I enjoyed Season Two of "Eastbound and Down" maybe because I surrendered to the horrible ego of the Kenny Powers character.  I was relieved to see him finally get off his brother's couch and apparently stand on his own feet.  WRONG.  He's still mooching off others but we don't find out how much until further into the seven new episodes.  He's started playing ball in Mexico, all the while doing his tired old `my ego rules' number on everyone in sight.  It became even more pathetic because it was clear sad Kenny was the only one who was falling for his routine.  A stadium was booing his antics and he obliviously continued them.  Though he still has one sycophantic hanger on Kenny has to answer for some of his misdeeds.  I started seeing some humor in this second season.  3.5/5

I Am Legend I did not enjoy this movie very much. Will smith is a good actor, but this movie is not one of his best. It is rather boring and does not keep you interested. If you are looking for a movie to give to someone, or for something interesting to watch, then I would advise you not to get this.

different.... I saw an early release of this and immediately liked it.  It was in a similar vein with that of Camp Scare and Abracadabra Scooby Doo.  Very funny and witty scenes and then...the gang break out into SEVERAL showtunes.  The first song was clever and I thought as a one shot, it was cool and different.  But that's just it...the rest of the video is little bits of plot with lots and lots of showtunes.  My 3 year old didn't care for it and he watches everything with scooby.  I'll let you decide your opinion.

seems ok The order arrived quicker than i expected,but,i saw very little difference between the DVD and the BLUE RAY. I think the older the movie the more dramatic effect you will see in video quality. I also purchased an older movie called "Patton" on blue ray and was very impressed with the quality of the video.

Could've Would've Should've Here is a unique example of a talent-heavy film that is ultimately and regrettably let down by the material.  There are four - count'em FOUR- screen legends on tap to deliver and I believe they do the best they can with the less-than-good material they're given.  It's sad to think that either these actresses were so desperate for work that they took this (they all deserve much, much better) or that none of them had the werewithal to say that the script was simply not good enough.  The fact that it comes close at times, only makes it worse.

Nothing Special The short story "Steel" upon which this film is based is done a great disservice by this film adaptation.  The Twilight Zone episode starring the great Lee Marvin was much more serious and dark in tone.  The B&W presentation also enhanced this story by making that future world look even more bleak.  While I am a Hugh Jackman fan, I did not care much for his effort in this weak movie.  Hugh is not the type of actor that can carry a film on his own.  He needs a decent script and direction.  This movie has neither.  This film is a fluff piece of CGI that is worth a single viewing and then forgotten.  It's not a waste of your life, but its not an enhancement of much value either.

A Study in Human Sadisim I don't know how I stumbled onto The Human Centipede, but I'm having mixed emotions about doing so. This is so unlike any film I would've anticipated seeing in my life. It's so vile, so repugnant, so difficult to watch, yet I can't stop thinking about it, about what may drive a (ficitonal) person to commit such atrocities and the unimaginable suffering on his victim's parts. It seems like the mad doctor does this. . .just to prove to himself he can more than anything. Even more disturbing is that he chose a person who does not even speak english as the "front piece" of the "centipede," leaving the American girls on the back, perhaps so he does not have to listen to their unspeakable terror and humiliation while he so sadistically inflicts it.  The mad doctor, Dr. Heiter (portrayed to personal perfection by German actor Deiter Laser), that makes up the antagonist is as vile and sadistic as any horror movie can get, maybe even more so. He ties his victims to hospital beds and uses graphic visuals as part of a preview of what he plans to do to them, he sticks them in front of a mirror to look at themselves post-surgery, he keeps them locked in a cage at night and grumpily scolds them for waking him at ungodly hours of the night with their screams of unfathomable terror. He breaks his victims, that's what the doc really does. He breaks his victims' very spirits. And that, in the broad spectrum of things, is far worse than being pumped full of holes, decapitated, or sliced up for dinner, as would any other horror movie villain surely would have done. Consider more classic villains like Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Leatherface, and the like the "merciful" ones. Even Dr. Lecter seems like a humanitarian by comparison. Dr. Heiter, however, I am convinced, is the son of Satan.  In creating The Human Centipede, amateur filmmaker Tom Six has done something that I would've never thought possible before now: I was left. . .dumfounded. There were several instances, while I was watching this macabre on my laptop, where I wished I could bring myself to close the window. . .but I couldn't. I cannot explain it. I felt compelled to keep myself watching, watching the atrocities before me unfold, unfolding the horrific climax, all the way up to the depressing end. I seriously felt sorry for the final victim by the end, trapped, alone, unable to call for help, hopeless, devoid of anything even resembling faith, defeated, crushed, reduced to. . .broken, perhaps beyond repair. Who would be after enduring something as dreadful as. . .that. Redemption does not exist in this universe.  This. . .is. . .by far. . .the most disturbing piece of cinema, of any genera, I have ever seen and probably will ever see. I am the kind of person who has seen Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre several times. That, in my opinion, is a fine example of classic horror (though I cannot pinpoint the exact I last watched it). The Human Centipede, however, is something so much more than that, something that crosses a line very few people as much as consider crossing. I'm not even sure I can handle more than one viewing of it. Never in my life have I stumbled across a film that has induced the complex emotions as this one has. I'll never forget it.  The Human Centipede is definitely NOT a film that is fit for anyone to view. I can easily imagine there are a large number of adults, even ones with a long history of horror film-related adventures, that will have a hard time stomaching all of the hideous yet beautifully crafted details. In fact, I think it makes The Texas Chainsaw Massacre look like a Disney movie. You even have to enter with a certain mindset before popping it in your DVD or Blue-Ray player, or uploading on your computer. Contrary to what many may say, The Human Centipede is not any film you can just go out and watch just because of the hype it no doubts gets for being so gruesome (and in such ways you would've never imagine otherwise).  But those that can make it through the entire film will find themselves living with a cinematic experience that even after just one viewing will stick with them for the rest of their days. The Human Centipede is one of those rare films that I shall reserve a place for in only the deepest, darkest, most secret part of my heart.

Dark, disturbing and genuinely compelling On the heels of Season of the Witch (as inaccurate a vision of this era as I have seen), Black Death manages to be everything that its predecessor  was not. A group of knights are traveling to a village which has reportedly not been impacted by the plague AT ALL, to determine whether or not it is "protected" by a necromancer. If so, they are to return same to the bishop who commissioned them for judgement and execution. Along the way, they pick up a young monk who knows the area to guide them, discover one of their men shows signs of having contracted the plague, and run afoul of thieves who are obviously robbing any and all travelers for whatever they can get. Ultimately, they reach their destination and discover that the rumors appear to be, in fact, quite true. What is unknown is the identity of the necromancer and how the few soldiers should proceed against so many villagers.  I won't reveal certain twists and I won't give away any more of the plot than I already have. What I will say is that this is one good "tale". The kind The Brothers Grimm would be impressed with; and that any who watch it would do well to remember that a really good tale is neither about leaving, arrival or SPECIAL EFFECTS, it is about the journey. How men are changed by their journeys and about how not all of those changes are honorable or even life-affirming.  The Black Death, The Little Ice Age and The Inquisition were known as the dark ages and there is a reason for that name. This is a movie that is dark, cold, bleak and disturbing... just as it should be.  It is also well shot, well acted, well scripted, costumed and lit. Furthermore, it does not pander to the audience nor assume that we are, or are not, historians. In the end; it's just a well put-together film, one that is well worth seeing.

Die Hard fan--but I am a big fan of the Die Hard series. But not the profanity that's really the main character. I would like to have known that the f-bomb is hurled just about every two seconds before I purchased it. Other than that, the action and plot are great. I rate it 3 stars because of that.

It's Not That Bad... The first thing I will say about this movie is that it is by no means a bad movie, just because it's a Disney sequel. True, it does have some flaws, though. First of all, the voice acting will get annoying for purists. The actor they got to play Baloo doesn't match with Phil Harris at all. But on the plus side, Haley Joel Osment does a great job as Mowgli, and the character, while being intensely annoying in the original, has become more mature, and is a more likeable character. The film also has the addition of Shanti, the girl that lured Mowgli into the village and Ranjan, a little kid who looks up to Mowgli. It's overall a pretty good but pointless film. Worth maybe one or two watches, and kids will definitely not mind it. It's not really boring, it's just not needed after the first movie.

there are two beast within movies. The first has some really great acting and a good story and it's from the early 80's , this one whose review should be seperated from the other one is a low budget plague flick from denmark or such.  (amazon refuses to seperated reviews often, we get vhs reviews with blu rays! please email them and ask them to stop this , I did) anyways this one is from the last decade the 00's and it's a very low budget affair but it's got a few good moments. The film is dubbed into english from it's native language. The story is about a doctor who unleashes a bird flu that makes people go nuts and get growths on them. They are not zombies though , even though some of them take a number of bullets to kill them, but that's what happens to people on meth, or pcp so that's plausible all the way. The story features some young people at this laboratory and then the birds attack the town , the people then become infected and mindless killing machines who spew out a white mist. It could be mucous, so this story is one that is closer to reality than most zombie flicks. IT's  a very low budget film and to be fair if you put this on a scale with normal movies most people would give it one star. Do to the lack of experience of the actors.  But it's a average very low budget movie. Don't blame me if you are not a fan of such movies and then say 'this is bad! sure it is  like most low budget movies with new actors, still I like these movies so it's a average type of this movie, but it's a two star in comparison to many other horror films that have more money and were done by some sort of studio.

5 stars go to the soundtrack... Unfortunately the soundtrack is the only part of the movie that gets 5 stars. The story, far too reminiscent of The Matrix (without the gritty violence and a squeaky clean backdrop), also has a major religious context that just weighs down the entire movie in 2 star pretentiousness. And the 5 star soundtrack? Weakened by "family friendly" violence that just seems nowhere near as epic as the music backing it. The overall most solid way to enjoy the movie is for the visuals, and even there we have some major cases of blue screen disbelief, and Clu's mouth (someone knows what I'm talking about!).  Buy the soundtrack. It's the best part of the experience.

Eh There were some funny bits in this film, but honestly, if you grew up liking Alvin and the Chipmunks, you definitely want to stick with the original 80's cartoon, this 'reboot' (why are there so many reboots lately?) is rather disappointing, with a lot of lame jokes in it.

An average film Well, I've just finished watching it, and let me start by saying, that this movie is not a Horror, it is more of a Thriller, and i'm more of Thrillers fan anyways, so that is a good thing.  Unfortunately, not all Thrillers are good, and this movie, is not that good to be honest. the Plot in short, involves a group of teens in a small town in Texas, who become interested in a widowed and mysterious local mortician " played by Quaid ", they start to nose around his house and discover a deadly secret that might cause them their lives. Does not sound original, does it ? think Fright night ! or Disturbia ! Not only is the plot not original, but the acting is nothing special from the actors supporting Quaid. Quaid himself is very good, though he does seem uncomfortable playing a mysterious evil guy. but those new comer actors did not impress at all. I know, I know..who cares about acting in this, its not like its an Oscar nominated film !!  true, but other elements of the movie did not stand out too. as I mentioned earlier, nothing original about the plot, the fact is its very similar to the two movies i mentioned earlier.  the Film is rated R, yet it lacked any gory scenes or even sex scenes for that matter, it did seem like a PG 13 film to me. Not that im a big fan of Nudity or Sex scenes but come on, spice it up a little !  One of the main reasons I watched this, obviously, was Quaid, I like the guy, and i enjoy watching his films, but i'm really not sure why he agreed to star in this on a budget average thriller ?!?!  I say 2.5 stars, just about your average thriller film, still watchable  moebardi.blogspot.com

A Disappointment The product itself came in good condition but this turned out to be a compilation of six episodes from the series... 3 from each season. I thought I was getting a movie or a set of different episodes.

Good for losing weight, hard too I have both videos. The first is good for muscle mass, but you can only do it once every three days.  This one is good for losing weight. Also excellent for cadiovascular health. Getting stronger, I'm not too sure. The excercises are harder and require more weight.

Worth watching but not objective its clear from watching this that the producers really sympathized with the defendant brother. In fact they skip so much evidence against him that it undermines the film's objectivity, credibility, and much else.  We don't get the whole story--too much left out.

The "Big Twist" is a big disappointment This series had a LOT going for it.  It was fun and exciting and on the whole one of the best of the RVB series; EXCEPT for the big "revelation."  I won't ruin it for you, but we discover a critical piece of information about the RVB universe that supposedly explains everything that happened in the Blood Gulch Chronicles.  Some of the new information does make sense mind you, but the big "mind-blowing" secret that is revealed leaves even more holes in the plot than it fills.  While this season is more serious than any previous series, it is still very, very funny.  You NEED to see it if you are a RVB fan, and the extra stuff on the DVD is awesome too.  But be prepared for disappointment here and there, and remember to suspend your disbelief.  Even by RVB standards, this season's plot is hard to swallow.

After a great kickoff.. diminishing returns Ingmar Bergman meets Kill Bill in "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo", the first installment of the three films based on Stieg Larsson's posthumously published book trilogy. A brooding, atmospheric Swedish thriller, directed by Niels Arden Oplev, it's an intriguing mash-up of serial killer mystery and political conspiracy yarn. An investigative journalist (Michael Nyqvist) is looking into the decades-old cold case of a young woman (possibly murdered) who disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The family involved has powerful political connections and a dubious history (something that frequently goes hand-in-hand). An elusive, enigmatic young computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) with her own tortured, secretive past (and a dragon tattoo) is also looking to investigate the family for personal reasons, and offers to help. Lisbeth's mission to expose the evil and corruption of the rich and powerful, and consequential travails have gained an interesting real world parallel with the ongoing Julian Assange caper. Well, so much for the good news. Unfortunately, something went horribly wrong with the two sequels, and I suspect the fault lies with director Daniel Alfredson, who took over for "The Girl Who Played with Fire" and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest". Despite the fact that Ms. Rapace's undeniable screen charisma remains intact throughout the trilogy, it cannot cover up the poor pacing, sloppy direction, and pedestrian writing that plagues the second and third parts. Normally, I abhor American remakes of European art house hits, but now I am intrigued to see David Fincher's revamp (the first installment is due out in 2011), because in this case, there is room for improvement.

The Incredible Hulk Okay this was better then the T.V. show and the last "Movie" attempt with the HULK. A good story line but as for the casting of the villain (Tim Roth) it is just not believable! It's like pitting Rocky against Woody Allen, instead of Dolf Lundgren, who is much more imposing and believable! I know your saying "Believable?" this is a comic book movie!(example; Micky Rourke in Ironman) And I have to say that William Hurt is William HURT! in this, with is bland monotone flat line performance he kills his character. So ONE STAR for the writing. ONE STAR for Ed Norton and Liv Tyler and ONE STAR for the FX's!

Popcorn fun If your gonna watch this for intellectual reasons, then you have picked the wrong movie. Shut your brain off and just enjoy the action, the characters and the special effects. Grab some popcorn and have fun.

it is ok Personally expected more, but that just me, others may enjoy this dvd more than I did. Short , brief but it brings the main points out.

unh I think Bette only made this movie to have a job. And then to top it off she was only in it in the beginning then Barbara Carrera takes over. In a sense it is really stupid. Bette is a witch who share the body of  a cat with Barbara. Only one can be out at a time. Both of them are bad witches. As a old woman witch, Bette marries men to make them rich & then shrinks them to get the money. I had to buy it because Bette was in in, not for the movie itself.

What about Blu-Ray? Just watched the DVD at a friend's house. Even after all these years the Wilson sisters can still out-rock most of the current crop. On top of that, they deserve to call themselves Heart because they have plenty of it. Wonderful live renditions of many of my favorite tracks. Cool looking venue, nice energy and good sound. Unfortunately the standard def DVD looks soft on a big screen TV. I logged onto Amazon to order a Blu-Ray Hi-Def version but no love. Come on Sony, you run around touting your HD savvy in all those ads...

a bit heavy on the syrup I suspect the David Copperfield (significantly a bed time read in the orphanage) 'growth of a soul' of the novel will convince in a better way and you can't get away from the intention to tug heartstrings in a Dickensian fashion with various scenes of people slipping away and children all pretty undamaged despite their emotional traumas. Toby MacGuire is well-cast as Toby MacGuire and Caine is good as are the supports. The music gives the intention away, I think with its insistent 'this is a sentimental moment' artiness. It's a weepie really and well-done of its type but are the Cider House Rules really 'what it's about'?

rihanna concert dvd Love Rihanna but was a bit disappointed with this concert dvd.  It was actually rather boring.  I ordered Beyonce along with this dvd and watched Beyonce first which was awesome.  That probably made Rihanna concert seem boring.

Good basic walks, terrible cool down/stretches I've been doing Leslie Sansone videos for years, so I found this to be similar to her routines, although not as enjoyable.  But it is nice to have a change of instructors & casts, and I enjoyed the fact that you can customize your workout by choosing which and how many miles to do.  However, there really is NO cooldown, you just stop and go right into stretches, which I do not like.  The stretches were also very brief & somewhat awkward for me, so I am not a fan of that portion of the workout.  I don't watch the show, so that doesn't affect me one way or the other.  Overall, a decent workout DVD.

different A different film than we may be used to, but for fans, can be a single viewing dvd. Not great, not horrible, just different

Pleasant summer shoot-em-up with aliens and burritos.  Enjoyable but forgettable. Taylor Kitsch was in two huge tentpole movies this summer--John Carter and Battleship. For a number of reasons, John Carter did relatively poorly at the box-office in relation to its cost.  It was, however, a really enjoyable film.  Battleship kinda tanked at the box office also, and so I thought that maybe I'd give it a try also--perhaps two Taylor Kitsch starring blockbusters would be similarly fun.  Well, John Carter started with a killer source--a classic of sci-fi pulp by Edgar Rice Burroughs.  Battleship started with a Hasbro game.  It is a fun game, mind you, but not much of a plot.  The movie makers completely embraced the concept of the game for this film--all the things that make Battleship a really fun game are here.  Two naval powers (one alien in this case) locked in a battle where neither can see the other and both need to bomb the heck out of the other.  That makes a great game, but kind of a thin plot as produced here.  The script tried to inject a little human drama in: the main character and his brother have a nice relationship, but it doesn't grow much.  Alexander Skaarsgard does a great job as the responsible older brother, but it would have been nice to see their relatinoship mature somewhat.  There is a very pleasant romance with an extremely beautiful woman who likes chicken burritos, a fact which fuels the best scene in the entire movie.  Sadly, that scene happens in the first 10 minutes.  Rihanna is another bright spot--true, she wasn't required to do much, but she had lots of screen time and she did a great job.  The special effects are, of course, excellent in quality.  Unfortunately, they are lacking in originality.  There is nothing wrong with the space ships--they look cool, but they look and behave like transformers.  The spinning ball saws are also very cool, but also look like transformers.  The aliens themselves are a little laughable, but get points for their creepy hands.  There are so many plot holes and contrivances that it gets a little wearisome in the middle, but in spite of it all, the movie comes to a satisfactory close as a popcorn movie should.  My pre-teen boys all thought it was great; I enjoyed it inspite of everything but will likely not need to see it again.  I probably should have waited for this to come out on HBO or something instead of buying the blu-ray, but i bet my kids will watch it enough to justify the purchase.  And if you haven't seen John Carter---give it a try.  It's much better popcorn fun.

The Man Called Flintstone Product was new and in very good condition. Bought item as a sentimental journey to my childhood to remember how simple films were. Enjoyed movie again, this time from a different perspective. Recommend only to those who want to recapture old memories from the 60's.

Extremely childish, but very well-done (for children) The story is very, very simple and cute, but it's fitted to children, not for adults. It's another fairy tale, with princess, princesses and so on and so forth. What I don't understand is some people judging this movie here as if it was made for adults.

Seemed to Have Potential, however was simply a Disappointment I had all my friends over one night to watch this movie and we all were very disappointed. Even with the perfect cast, it lacked the intensity and realism that I was expecting. I do understand this is not anything like a Bourne movie and I was not expecting anything like that, however I was still disappointed by the plot and simple dialogue.  The PQ was very bland as well as the AQ. Over-all the presentation was dull and lifeless.  We did watch the movie throughout, however it is not one that I ever plan on watching again. It was all over the place and difficult to watch.  Not recommended to buy, maybe a rent on a boring evening.

Product detail that amazon didn't knew A few months ago I contacted Amazon to give more info about this title, I'm from Mexico and I wasn't sure if this title had the 3D version and the 2D version...well amazon only told me that it was only the 3D, but I found out that this title comes with the 2 versions, (and it also comes with spanish subtitles).  This comment is for us the costumers to tell amazon that they should put all of the product details that comes in the back of the case in DVD's and Bluray's.

didn't read the fine print I didn't realize I was getting a recycled 90's step routine.  Of course, it's a great Kathy Smith workout, & I had been looking for an updated step workout, as my old ones are on VHS & I can't use them anymore.  I got the 2 DVDs from the new "ageless" series, and like them a lot.  So I thought this was going to be in the same category - an updated Kathy Smith step workout which have been so effective in the past, but updated to incorporate new training techniques.  Nope, an old 90's workout, complete with bad leotards & guys in short shorts.  And the body sculpting and conditioning routines are outdated.  Sorry Kathy - love your workouts, but I think it would be better if you took your "favorite and most effective workouts from the past" and brought them to the new millennium.

Enjoyable film. Previous readings of the film depict Catherine as a sort of proto-feminist, but I didn't see that at all. Rather, I saw a self-absorbed, crazy woman with no regard for the feeling of Jules, Jim, and even sadder, her daughter Sabine. Still, there was something humanistic about the film, as is true with all the Truffaut films I have watched. His films linger emotionally. I can't recall specific scenes from his films, just a general feeling. This is in contrast to his counter-part, friend and foe, Jean-Luc Godard. I don't find anything inherently humanistic about his films, but damn if his imagery doesn't linger long after the film ends (that Raoul Coutard was his cinematographer throughout may be another reason why). While I found "Contempt" to be a bore and a slog, I'll be damned if the image of Piccolo walking up the steps of the seaside village, knowing he has a gun but not what to do with it, doesn't form in my head at unexpected times. Truffaut's imagery has really made no impression on me; as I stated, his films create a general feeling that stays. "Shoot the Piano Player"'s tragically whimsical feel is conjured whenever I think of the film. Again, different from Godard. I know their friendship and acrimony has been expounded upon endlessly. But there is something there to those tired explorations.

Not as good as one by a longshot, but..... I like this movie. On it's own it's a pretty decent flick but since it's compared to the first which is a masterpiece in horror movie making it gets a bad rap. Now one thing most everyone can agree on out of the 3 stories (what happend to 5 stories???) the raft is the stand out here. It's worth the price of admission alone and worth a 4 star if it wasn't for the other 2. And that's not to say the first and third story are bad. They're really good stories honestly, just not executed well. I mean the actors they had in them were good but they have a sort of a take one, good, now print feeling. Basically just a little sloppy and rushed to make a quick buck off the popularity of the first movie.  This is a really great popcorn flick. Why it gets a hard time I don't know, it's a fun movie to watch now as it was back when I was a kid seeing this for the first time. Just remember this isn't Titanic. Gather around the tube, have a few brews with friends and throw your own MST3K comments at this flick and have fun. This is what this movie is all about. But then again isn't all horror just a dark comedy? This movie just makes it a little more obvious!

Not too memorable I've been a Tim Burton fan since Pee Wee's Big Adventure but I'm now starting to see that half the time he just thinks you absolutely need to end a film with an action sequence, even....Alice in Wonderland. Dark Shadows is no different. The film has a fantastic cast but Johnny Depp as a man cursed to be a vampire and Eva Green (Casino Royale) as the witch that cursed him are the only ones that don't seem bored.   I always found the Addams Family film to be fun despite a thin plot and with Dark Shadows the plot is much thinner and not as near as enjoyable. I only give it a positive review since Burton at least handles the 70's setting well even if he could have done more with it. While Depp is of course ingenious in the lead role. Still, as a Burton film it's his weakest since Planet of the Apes and it would be nice if we got more of the Burton who did greats like BeetleJuice, EdWood, Sleepy Hollow, Big Fish and Sweeny Todd.

Yup, it's the real deal The DVD arrived promptly and in the condition promised. I would buy from this vendor again.  The movie is just as good as I remember it -- which means it is just as bad as I remember it. The two people who make this movie work are Gene Wilder (Willy Wonka) and Julie Dawn Cole (Veruca Salt). Their performances are outstanding!  The first half of the movie is boring. (It was in the movies, when the film was released, too.)  The second half of the movie is entertaining.  The ending of the movie... is missing. This is not a fault in the DVD... it is a fault in the movie. The film has no meaningful ending: no redemption, no closure. Unlike "Wizard of Oz" which sees Dorothy realizing that "home is where the heart is", "Willy Wonka" leaves us hanging in air along with the wonka-vator.  But don't blame the DVD. It is showing the movie as it was made.

Poor DVD quality ruins 2 good ole' Oaters!! I completely agree with the previous writers that both of these movies are bad copies of a not so good VHS copy.  Not only is the picture quality atrocious, in general, the sound is badly muffled in places on "A Man Called Noon" and the colour is all washed out in "Hondo".  Both are shown full screen.  And as one reviewer said, halfway through Noon, the DVD quits.  in Hondo, another viewer tells us 13 min. of film are missing.  No wonder there appears to be Grand Canyon gaps in the story, especially between Robert Taylor's character and his new found son.  I have a VHS copy of Noon and I think it is actually cleaner with better sound. "A Man Called Noon" is one of Louis l'Amour's finer novels and the movie benefits from Richard Crenna as Noon, but even more from Stephen Boyd's (Massala in Ben Hur) character JP Rimes.  This movie was shot in either Spain, Mexico, or Italy and has a typical spaghetti western flavour....windy vistas, creaky ghost towns, Serge Leone close-ups and the dead give-away Spanish steam engine made to look like an American engine pulling a Spanish train made to look American.  Stephen Boyd, I think, has always been an under-rated actor and it is so obvious in Ben-Hur after Massala dies, Heston has a hard time carrying the last third of the picture.  Same here.  Although Crenna does well, it is the scenes with Boyd that steal the show.  Overall I would rate it 3.5 stars, mainly because of the crummy DVD presentation ruins a respectable production. Hondo and the Apaches is an MGM production filmed in the US and although a lot of fun to watch, suffers from a lousy DVD presentation, 13 minutes of film missing, and most seriously from none of the Apaches being Apaches.  Veteran Italian actors stand in for tough, hard nosed Apache chiefs.  In fact, Hondo looks more Apache than all of them.  While not even close to John Wayne's portrayal, this one does have its merits...Noah Beery Jr.and Ralph Taegar both give admirable performances as does Kathy Browne, despite the 60s hairstyle....and Robert Taylor's character Gallagher is solid. I give this one 3 stars.  Both of these old oaters deserve a good presentation in original widescreen formats with all the film included.

Good as a supplement This is a good product overall if you already know the alphabet, as the previous reviewer said. It also helps to know basic words so that stringing them together is easier. I would recommend this video only as a supplement to other basic materials because there are several typos throughout. I have found misspellings that are obvious if you're playing close attention and some other mistakes where the wrong word appears on the screen, though the pronunciation is correct. So be careful not to base your Russian on this product alone! Having said that, I borrowed it from my local library and don't regret it.

OK but not haunted At least it was low cost. Kind of OK, but certainly not great or scary. I appeared to be a documentary, but after a while it became boring

I want to like it I purchased this wanting to really like this movie, in part due to Tarantino, but mostly due to the absurd Japanese ultra-violence and clever cinematography that I have grown to love.  The saturated colors and wild stunts had me happy from the beginning.  Unfortunately, this movie needs some serious editing.  There is likely 20 minutes that need to be trimmed.  One character in particular needed to be cut or at least rewritten (the sherriff doing a Smeagle routine of dueling split personalities).  The story and visuals are worth watching.  Some elements just don't work for US tastes... such as the two rape scenes.  It could have been implied or just mentioned for purpose of story without acting it out.  And my fanboy appreciation of Tarantino can't stop me from saying his whole role should have been cut.  I have watched the movie a few times and am happier if I skip his parts.  But I still do like the movie.  Just not as much as I thought I would.  Good photography, fight choreography, and audio.  Good to decent acting for most of the actors.  Insufficient editing.  Bad Tarantino.

Oh, how I wanted to like Piranha! I knew going into this movie that it was going to try to be a blockbuster "B" movie, but I had hoped that it would do so in grand fashion.  Sadly, this wasn't the case.  Piranha seemed to be rushed together, the acting was sub-par, the special effects seemed aged, and you ultimately cared little for any of the characters.  In other words, this was a classic B-movie.  Except it's a B-movie attempt at a B-movie, which I'd have to grade as a C.  Which is why I'm giving it 3 stars.  Pros(?):  There is no shortage of blood, boobs, and blowing things up. Cons:  This movie felt like it should have gone straight to video.

A bit disappointed Being somewhat new to the 3D experience, I was expecting to be blown away but I wasn't.  At all.  The movie is on the level of an elementary school science class.  If you will be showing it to young people, great.  If you're looking for something way beyond that save your money. I gave it 3 stars because it obviously wasn't what I wanted but I can't critcize the content for its intended audience.

narrates only one part of the race It should be titled "The voyage of Donald Crowhurst". The golden globe race was not a "disastrous" race: There was a winner, a poetic character, though men that got beaten by the sea, and Donald Crowhurst, peace to his soul, that got beaten by his own haste. But besides the spoiler, if you are looking for a commentary on the first golden globe race, this is not the right movie. There are, yes, maybe 10 minutes of material from the other sailors, but this movie is mostly telling the story of Crowhurst. The race was definitely more than that. The movie is rather well done, and it will tell you "something" about the race, and that's why I gave it three stars. Read "A voyage for madmen" by Peter Nichols, and you will have a better figure of what happened.

Not All That Based on the glowing reviews here at Amazon, I was expecting much more from this psychological horror film.  Ultimately I felt that the pieces of the story don't quite fit together.  Nevertheless the film does offer one compelling reason to view it: the behind-the-scenes look at the now demolished Danvers State Hospital in Massachusetts, home of the notorious prefrontal lobotomy and quite a remarkable piece of architecture.  Those interested in mental health, history, and architecture may find this location alone worthy of attention.  Those seeking a superior psychological thriller, however, can find much better examples than this film.

"Hating is a subject I know a little something about. You got to be careful it don't bite you back." METACOM was a minor VHS company that specialized in operatic and ballet performances. They also had a small catalog of public domain motion pictures.  In THE DEADLY COMPANIONS, a would-be bank robber (Keith) accidentally shoots a dance hall girl's (O'Hara) child. To bury the boy alongside a father he never met, she's determined to travel alone across hostile Apache territory. The guilt-ridden killer and his two robber cohorts tag along.  Author Sid Fleishman adapted his own novel for director Sam Peckinpah's big screen debut, which is elevated by superior cinematography and an unorthodox music score that includes Miss O'Hara's alto warbling of the film's theme.  . Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 imdb viewer poll rating.  (6.2) The Deadly Companions (1961) - Maureen O'Hara/Brian Keith/Steve Cochran/Chill Wills/Strother Martin

Poltergeist I remembered this movie when I watched it as a kid and thought my daughter would enjoy it since she is into thriller type of movies right now. However, I remember it being a lot more scarier when I was younger.

Billy Elliott CD version I have a copy of the original Billy Elliott in VHS Tape and loved it. I ordered the compact disk over a year ago and didn't watch it due to a move. I was shocked when I watched the CD recently as it has been edited and ruined in my estimation. Some of the raw street language is removed, which showed the contrast between the hardworking rough side of Billy's background and his love of dance.  The relationship between Billy's neighborhood friend was edited making it a very minor friendship which was not in the original.  All along the film I noticed minor changes that took the strong appealing part of the story away.  At the end when Billy's old friend from the neighborhood shows up at Billy's ballet debut dressed in "drag" with his obviously homosexual partner was completely omitted.  I thought it removed an important statement that Billy, who was ridiculed by family and some friends, as being effeminate just because he loved dancing, yet his macho friend from the neighbor turned out to be gay.  It ruined the whole story for me that I feel were important parts of the story and I think whoever is responsible made a really good story into a bland flop.

lol It's not the best movie, but it certainly isn't the worst, and is your typical 'stepparent/boyfriend tries to bond with stepchild/future stepchild' story. I can't say it's Chevy Chase's best effort, he does much better in the Lampoon movies, but he does have his funny moments in this film.

Corbin Bernson was the best part of the film The overall premise was good, but the story line and characters were not well developed.  There was not enough development to enable the viewer to become involved with the story or the characters. Disappointed.

scared my 2 year old My daughter is 2 & loves Sesame Street Dvds. This one scares her when Big Bird is kidnapped & gets lost. She was crying. I would recommend it to older children who can be talked to through it to explain it will all be ok. We tried to reassure my daughter, but she cried through part of it.

Mostly good performances; story ending seems abrupt I will not comment on how much of this is historically accurate since I do not know the facts.  Otherwise, the performances are mostly very good, though Knightley is a bit irritating at times, overdoing the grimaces and the odd accent.  Fassbender and Mortensen are very solid by contrast. Somehow, this film left me wanting a bit more.  Did Jung have any sort of relationship with his kids?  Why did his wife stay with him?  Surely she knew he was getting around with the other women and patients.  How did Sabina's childhood abuse lead to the screaming fits and attacks that she suffered?  How many other patients benefited, or didn't, at the clinic?

Decent fun... This was a fun movie... not specifically a 'good' movie, but quite fun. It's basically the story of a group of friends who go on a road trip to steal a copy of Star Wars Episode 1 from George Lucas before it's released. I didn't find myself laughing out loud too much throughout movie... but I did have a smile on my face through most of it. There's a lot of cool cameos, and of course as would be expected in a movie like this a ton of geeky Star Wars (and Star Trek) jokes and references.  I think the reason this one never elevates itself above an average comedy, is that there are way too many overused and cliche plot devices and comedic elements... to the point where it feels a little disingenuous at times. But let's be honest... I'm probably being a little too critical of a movie that wasn't meant to be analyzed, its meant to turn your brain off and enjoy; and that being said I'd say it did its job in that respect. Worth a watch, especially for any of you big time Star Wars fans out there. 3/5 stars.

Oh brother... I'm going to admit to liking this movie, but only in the company of strangers.  Ha, well, it's not that bad.  It's highly entertaining in parts, and it certainly goes the extra mile in pushing the envelope with off-color yet properly presented stereotypes that could be viewed as highly racist, and would be had this consisted of a predominantly white cast.  Instead, this Blaxploitation spoof enlists funny-man Eddie Griffin to play Undercover Brother, a spy of sorts who is recruited by the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. to help fight the fight against `The Man' (a white guy, obviously).  The biggest problem with `Undercover Brother' is not the fact that it is unfunny, because it certainly is funny.  It isn't the fact that the joke pool is shallow, because it has a wide arsenal of jokes, and most of them hit rather hard.  The problem with `Undercover Brother' is that it is, well, shallow.  The film has the jokes, but they are all narrowed down to attack the same shallow concept (that white people are nerdy and evil, all except hot white chicks who want to sleep with black men, regardless of their apparent funny looks) and so the film overall, while kind of hilarious, is just plain stupid.  I wish that the fervor with which these comedians attack the material had been directed towards a more diversified and intelligent script.  Still, the Griffin/Kattan faceoff to Michael Jackson's `Beat It' was rather inspired and continues to be utterly hilarious!

The Fantasticks - a delightful coming of age story The movie wasn't as enjoyable as I'd expected.  However I've seen this performed live by school theatre departments and I absolutely loved those performances.  Very surprisingly I saw a traveling broadway performance staring (the gorgeous)Robert Goulet, and I didn't enjoy his performance nearly as much as the high school performances.  What can I say?  :)

Visually outstanding, but wearisome story This 2010 version of "The Wolfman" reminds me a lot of 1992's "Bram Stoker's Dracula." Both feature a classic monster, both take place in Great Britain during the Victorian era, both are stylistically similar, and both feature Anthony Hopkins in a major role.  Each is visually striking but, story-wise, "Dracula" wins the prize, which isn't to say that "The Wolfman" isn't worth watching. Hopkins, Benicio Del Toro (in the title role) and Emily Blunt are all fine in their roles, it's just that somehow the story and characters aren't all that engrossing. Maybe it's because Hopkins plays a distant eccentric patriarch and Del Toro plays his brooding loner son who hides behind Shakespearean characters. It's hard to relate to them or like them. Emily Blunt is likable enough, but she's never sufficiently fleshed out and her deep love for a certain character seems a bit unlikely and forced.  But, again, the film looks incredible and is worth viewing or owning for this reason alone. You get foggy moors, mysterious woods, gloomy estates, gypsy camps, dungeons and old London streets, all with werewolf attacks. Speaking of which, there's quite a bit of action and extreme gore interspersed throughout to keep things interesting. The music's good too.  The DVD features both the theatrical and unrated Director's cut, the latter of which is close to 20 minutes longer, which is the version I viewed.  GRADE: C+ or B- (although, visually, it's A+ all the way)

Made Worth It by Nude Knife Fight Expected a bit more from this film, despite its having Naomi Watts in it. But I would say it was worth it if only for Viggo Mortenson's nude knife fight in the Turkish bath. Wholly original, that one. The villainry were largely cliches.

Either I watched an abridged version, or trailer and teasers were misleading You know how you can feel irrationally disappointed in something that was good, but not what you expected? I had seen snippets of this movie as well as its trailer - mainly Tom Hiddleston and Rachel Weicz's characters screaming at one another - and I was surprised and dismayed when those scenes were not in the movie. While that explains my rating, and I'll describe the scenes that were not in the movie below with a spoiler alert, let me emphasize that this is a good movie that is merely too low-key for my taste. All of the actors are stellar, at once subtle and overwhelmingly emotional. The cinematography is creative and effective and the score is dramatic - however, I find that the crescendo that is used to accentuate dramatic moments in the film reminds me of a cartoon soundtrack immediately after the villain reveals his dastardly plans (DUNNNNN!!!!!), which made some parts of the movie inappropriately comic for me. Overall, it's a great adaptation of what I hear is a celebrated play.  Spoilers! I should also mention that I rented rather than purchased the movie. As far as the plot goes, I think that the character of Freddie was poorly developed. I didn't have a strong sense of his motivation or turmoil, which I think is because the movie I watched was missing at least one scene that I've seen elsewhere. The film particularly suffered from the omission of the "I can't always be bloody Romeo" scene - Freddie's rage and, most of all, his admission that he doesn't love Hester the way she loves him really complete the movie. Hester's helplessness in that scene cements her dilemma as well; it's absolutely, heartbreakingly pathetic to watch her beg Freddie to come home, to promise not to even speak if he doesn't want her to. For some reason, in the film I rented, they barely speak after Freddie reads Hester's note. Without the aforementioned omitted scene, their relationship merely fizzles out and the viewer (or maybe just me) is left taking Hester's word that Freddie doesn't love her rather than witnessing it. Right up until the last minute of the movie, I expected a screaming match - Weicz and Hiddleston had what I thought were expressions of bridled rage at the end, and you could cut the tension of their final scene with a knife - and I felt letdown when it never happened. That may well be the sign of a great movie, provoking a strong response with the audience and toying with the audience's expectations, but I wasn't a happy-go-lucky customer. I can't figure out why the movie I saw was incomplete - does renting get you an abridged movie? Did anyone else have this problem?  Well, at least we got naked Tom. Helluva booty.

Didn't Quite Rattle My Chains Chain Letter is a slasher movie whose plot is very reminiscent to late 90's slashers like Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Urban Legend. Only it's not as good as those, because it doesn't seem to realize that it's a teen slasher movie and takes itself way too seriously. There are a few fun death sequences in this thing, but most of them are more torture porn than teen slasher. Also, Chain Letter can be too preachy with its "technology is evil" message. And the ending is pretty disappointing. Still, I was never too bored while watching Chain Letter. The acting is very good, I will say. But how could the acting not be good when you have a cast that includes veterans like Keith David (who gets a lot of screen time), Brad Dourif, and Betsy Russell.

almost Kirby-esque... too much sci-fi I am 58 and was a huge fan of the Jack Kirby Thor comics. Kirby captured the feeling of Asgaard perfectly for me. As with all of the Marvel superhero movies, we realize that most of the bulk of the comics was filled with fighting. That's why I liked Kirby... he made the fight scenes artistic, so I didn't actually realize they were violent. They were visual ballets, artistically designed sparring matches. This never really happens in the films... so far. I could criticize this film by imagining how it could have been better... i.e. The Asgaardian scenes could have been more Michelangelo-ish, incredibly posed figures, dramatic and dynamic compositions, lyrical sunlit interludes, trolls and monsters and sparring matches, blah, blah, blah. But I realize that the director is only human, he is dealing with actors, and there is a budget... and... the film has to look like a Marvel film. That said... this is a pretty good film. I found myself caring for Thor when he is mortal, wishing he would kiss the girl, thrilled when he got his hammer/power back.   I will note another movie-making problem here. Remember when they made Spiderman? and the CGI people had to make Doc Oc's arms realistically walk? I read that they had trouble because Steve Ditko had drawn great artwork that worked 2 dimensionally as still shots, but that the in-between action was very hard to visualize. Something like that is going on in the Thor movie. Kirby drew great sets, but we never actually saw the Gods transport anywhere, there was not an actual explanation of how they went anywhere and where that anywhere was. So in the movie we get this kind of science fiction universe, with a giant matter transporter and a rainbow bridge/wormhole. I suppose it sort-of works, and it had to be done somehow... but it all felt kind of forced.   Now on to my dislikes. I never liked the frost giants in the comics. Kirby could never figure out how to draw them adequately, so I never liked them. In the movie, they are dark and black&blue, and their world is dark and black&blue. They look like bad guys, or like those Borg in Star Trek. They almost spoiled the movie for me. And then on top of that, they are main characters! They have their own realm where they just stand around stiffly being cold!   And the OdinSleep! It is not explained at all. And it seems forced and unnecessary... it's a plot device.   And Thor's friends from the comic book are there. But they are not as interesting and they don't do much. Volstagg is not as fat and not as funny. Sif is not as elegant and cool. Fandral is not as dashing. The other guy is now oriental, I don't remember that from the comic, but it's been a long time.   Asgaard should have been more over-the-top hugely dramatic. With more eloquent speeches.   Loki has been transformed from a God of mischief into a troubled son of dubious parents who is misguided and then really bad and then violent and then devious. He is confusing. He should have been much more melodramatic. He should have been a scene-stealer. The real star of the film.   Thor is ok. Just ok. He looks pretty good. They altered Kirby's original outfit a little... it's darker ( what isn't anymore) He should have been more childish, fun-loving, braggadoshilicious, God-like.   Most of my comments are based on my fond memories of Jack Kirby's Tales of Asgaard, Tales to Astonish, The Mighty Thor. That was a long time ago and I'm sure the Thor comic changed a lot over the years since then. I remember a long series of stories involving Hercules and spaceships and aliens and lots and lots of fun, fun, fun and imagination.   There are a lot of funny, tongue-in-cheek moments in this movie. And I appreciated them. Stan Lee driving the pickup that tries to pull Thor's hammer out of the crater, The guy from  SHIELD, when confronted with the Destroyer, says to no one " it's probably one of Tony Stark's, he never tells me anything" These kind of moments harken back to the good ole days of Marvel.   Oh, the Destroyer. One of my favorite Kirby designs,,, the empty suit of armor with a death beam. Seems kind of silly nowadays. In the movie it is taller and skinnier, but still scary.   Again, the worst part of the film is the too dark Frost Giants and their realm. Anything else would have been better. Loki was too evil and confused. Odin was OK, should have been more massive. Asgaard should have been more dramatic. The scientists are pretty good. Nice ensemble group. Better than Thor's friends.   Worth seeing, not great.

Humorous - Sometimes Funny If you are police Captain Block of the 53rd precinct, you've got your hands full with your district's ragtag company of policemen, but none gives you more pause - when it comes to assigning an important job - than patrolmen Toody and Muldoon.  While Muldoon is level headed, he is as tough as a marshmallow.  And Toody, when he starts spouting, "Ooh! Ooh!" you just know he has come up with some halfcocked idea.  In the best episode, "Put It in the Bank!", Muldoon appoints Toody treasurer of the Brotherhood Club over the objection of the men.  His first task is to put the club's money in the bank, but gets the idea to gamble it in the stock market.  For those of you interested in the stock market, this is a good episode to learn why stock values are so fuzzy. . . .  Each episode opens with Toody and Muldoon on patrol while the theme song plays.  Apparently Captain Block had never seen them behind the wheel of car 54, otherwise, he would have placed them on foot-patrol.  Talk about your distracted drivers, in one opening sequence they are driving while playing checkers!  Overall:  I can see the humor in these shows, but seldom were they funny enough to prompt a laugh from me.  Packaging:  On opening the box for the first time, 3 discs fell out; disc 4 was still in its mount.  For this box type, the discs are held in place by projecting lips of plastic and two small plastic spring arms.  Luckily, the discs were not scratched, probably because there is no central mounting hub to scrape against and no room for the discs to move around.  Picture (DVD): 3 to 3.5, in a few dark scenes there is noticeable speckling.  Subtitles, Languages, Special Features: none.

aspect ratio This movie is at the same time one of the greatest and one of the most disappointing of all time. The story line couldn't be better, the foresight of the producers couldn't be worse. This movie can only be enjoyed in a theater with a special screen designed for that aspect ratio. This is how I saw it in 1959 in Hollywood. In 1959 there was huge fear with the hollywood  "mucky-mucks" that nobody would go to theaters because of TV. So instead of all getting together and planning a different aspect ratio other than TV's 4:3, which was adopted because of all the old movies it could purchase, Hollywood producers went on an "ego-trip" and developed a numerous amount of different aspect ratios to identify their work from other producers. This is how "black bars" on your TV screen were born. Ben-Hur is among the worst. The total amount of picture on a 16:9 TV,that all of us have, is less than 50%. In the 20's hollywood moguls,owners of studios like Louie B Mayer and others, got together an decided to have "one" aspect ratio in part so that the theaters at the time could show everybody's movies from everybody's studios. If the same thing was done in the 50's that way we would all be better off now. I have a LG Blu-Ray player which allows me to get rid of the black bars but at a sacrifice. I lose 30% of the picture on both sides. When the Chariot scene comes on I switch back to normal. The rest of the movie can be watched without bars reasonably well. I have 3 Blu-ray players from 3 different companies but only the LG can do this.

Entertaining, but... I really couldn't get past a particular scene where the female protagonist makes her way out of a disastrous predicament and finds her way, covered in blood, to her shipmates and they don't really seem to react to her appearance, and she doesn't scream to the hills about what just happened to her(??????). It would have been a crucial plot revelation but it just came and went. I'm a sucker for ancient alien  theories, so I would have seen this regardless of reviews, but I must say I was a bit disappointed by the film.

Rarity in gay cinema First and foremost I must admit that "Dakan" was not my piece of cake and I in my opinion it deserves two stars. But, since it the first and only (I guess) gay theme film coming from Africa, I decided to add the third star. It tells a story of two students, one coming from very rich family, the second being poor. They enjoy a secret relationship until they both decide to come out to their parents. Things get complicated and these two get seperated. One is made to work in his father's company, the second is sent to a tiny village to heal "his sickness"... Somewhere in between a white girl appears and falls in love with the latter boy. Well, it's very obvious that filmmakers didn't have a huge budget. But it didn't bother me as much as the time gaps hard to catch. I had to read very carefully the subtitles to find out that the action was moved one year forward. There are as well moments of total silence which last way too long and make the film boring at some moments. Moreover, the ending is quite disturbing. The scene in the hut, with crying baby. No spoken word and very dark atmosphere...Odd.  I am happy I saw this very rare picture, but I would never buy it.

Comments on Legends of Flight After reading other reviews, I debated on whether to purchase the DVD. I however enjoy flying and have an engineering background so it still interested me. I found it entertaining and informative but have to agree that the computer generated wire-frame images were a bit hooky. I've seen more interesting programs on the Discovery channel on the building of some of Boeing's latest models.  Overall I would have to say that the title of the DVD is not representative of what's show so if you're looking for true Legends you should look elsewhere. The 3D flying sequences were good but very limited.

Fell asleep Not appropriate for little kids with all that voodoo stuff.  The prince annoyed me...no character at all.  Music was good...what I remember of it...I ended up falling asleep.

Not the series I thought this was a collection of the full episodes of the TV series, but instead it seems to be two long movies patched together from the episodes.  Funny, but not as good.

"Parents Smile As Bodies Pile" Shameless! At least, that's sort of how I envision a trailer for this flick - a throwback to the days where scene clips were overprinted with salacious and titillating titles. &lt;g>  Talk about old school. Charles Bronson must be smiling somewhere as 70's and 80's anti-hero crime fighters have made a comeback of sorts.  Funny thing is, when these low-budget monstrosities were new and headlining theaters, I hated them. Pointless bloody messes whose moronic plots screamed "Exploitation!" with a capital 'E' and exclamation slammer. But now I see them for what they always were: Silly, ridiculous and staged for laughs - essentially live action versions of 'Itchy & Scratchy'.  Interestingly, this retro groove has found a new life in amongst the studio processed glop of the 21st century, pushing it's way back into the mainstream pipeline.  'Hobo' encapsulates the very best of these elements and blasts them across modern digital screens. From the opening credits clunky font and electro disco-esque soundtrack, to the all-important cherry red blood sputtering scenes. All the while making sure to sidestep morality or any sense of reality - this is supposed to be fun.  While I still don't quite 'get' the entire genre that was once dominated by B-movie specialist actors like the late Robert Ginty, schlock movie actor-producer Andrew Stevens,  and the crew from Tromaville - there's something fascinating about any culture that revels in such cheap indulgent entertainment. In fact, almost the entirety of Bollywood is made up of this kind of vapid throwaway flick.  Not interested in a cultural debate, so I'll say that if you've ever harbored the desire to take up vigilantism against a streaming horde of rotten unholy nogoodnicks - then this is your flick. &lt;g>  Again, I still do not enjoy these kinds of productions, but I greatly appreciate the intentional artistry and clever stylistic revamp. It's not easy doing a period piece, even if that period was full of crap.  Ultimately, I'm happy for my man Rutger Hauer. Always pleased he gets the nod from producers as I know he'll get a nice payday.  Movie Notes:  - Directors/producers of these kinds of blood-n-gore productions are accurately portrayed by Steve Martin in the sublime 1991 film "Grand Canyon". Watch it and you'll get a peek into the business of filming these kinds of flicks.  - If you enjoy the modern grindhouse, I highly recommend catching "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004EPYZOO">Drive Angry</a>" with Nick Cage. Awesome flick!

Slow to Unfold A dramatic slice of life in modern day rural Russia, characterized by exceptional child-acting.  The plot, itself, however, is rather thin and slow to unfold; it is clearly overshadowed by majestic scenes of natural beauty on land and sea. Filmed with English subtitles.

Only generaly funny I thought this movie would be more funny than it was based off of the trailer.  It was still a good watch, but glad I waited for the video/dvd.  Decent overall, but the characters were predictable.

Way too complicated I couldn't say how many 100's of hours I have logged in step aerobics, and yet the routines in this video are still too complicated.  She starts out right out of the gate in multi-step routines I've never heard of with no introduction and no training.  Yes, there is a section of the video where you can "preview" some of the steps, but not all of them.  If you catch on to dance routines quickly, this may be right for you, and it looks like it would probably be fun if it hadn't left me staring at the tv thinking, "Um.  What?"  Big disappointment.  I wish I'd spent my workout dollars (and time) on something else.

Disappointed with the digital copy Overall a good purchase.  However I'm rather disappointed with the fact that Sony made the Digital copy for the PSP and Playstation only.. It also seems that most of the special features are on BD-Live (ugh..). Though not as bad as "Despicable Me" which streams advertisements on the main menu (calling it new ticker, it's still adverts).

Scratched DVD Other than one significant scratch on the outer rim of the disc that makes the movie skip and pause in the middle of the film, this DVD is fine.

i wasn't in a frenzy over this one. gotta love alfred to be a fan!!!! love him. made in early 70's not his best and no suprises. i don't know if i like to know who the killer is so early on. no suspense.

Slick, Smooth All-Star Cast Never Seems to Risk Failure George Clooney, Brad Pitt and dozens of their elite Hollywood buddies get together to remake and rejuvenate this rat pack classic from forty years prior. The end result is a slick, mildly overproduced adventure that's smart and suave, though not quite so much as it seems to think it is. Much of the movie is blown on excessive, "look what we can afford to do" antics that are, admittedly, fun to watch but ultimately do little to endear the cast to their audience. Rather than a case of pillaging the rich to fill the coffers of the poor and desperate, this first installment of the Ocean's franchise feels more like a case of the filthy rich reaching into the cookie jars of the filthier. The heist genre loses a bit of its inherent suspense when a film's protagonists have access to a garage full of police paraphernalia, server racks spilling over with imaginary "future tech" computer equipment, Italian sports cars, cushy upper deck hotel rooms and access to all the blueprints they'll ever need. Clooney's charisma does buy him a degree of invulnerability to this phenomenon, which makes him an ideal centerpiece, but after the first viewing most of the team's close calls seem far too easily resolved. With these resources, Beavis & Butt-Head could have a pretty good shot at making off with a casino's millions. Good for a few action spots, at least.

Singin in the Rain 60th Anniversary (2012) 2 disc DVD released October, 2012 The product details for the "Singin in the Rain 60th Anniversary (2012)" 2 disc DVD released in October, 2012 is not helpful, there isn't even a picture of the cover. Does this edition have any other extras that are not listed, like a commentary? Would you recommend this 60th ann. edition?

Walt Phillips 4 Dvd Box Set Im So Used To Watching Bruce Brown Surf Films So It Was Nice To Switch It Up And See What Other Independent Surf Directors Where Doing, The Walt Phillips Collection Was A Good Pick, Lot's Of Classic Surf Footage From The Early Days! As You Would Expect When Purchasing Late 50s Early 60's Surf Films! My Favorite Of The 4 Films Is "Psych Out" Because About 40 Out Of The 50 Minutes Of The Movie Is The Original Narration And Includes Some Great Instrumental Surf/Pre Surf Music! The Other Films Are Good With The Newer Narrations, But I Prefer To Hear It As It Was Originally Done, And The Music On The Other Films Is Really Bad! All In All, A Good Purchase If You've Got A Craving For The Original Surf Films!

Not too bad I really didn't know what to expect with this movie because i had not heard of it. It was a good story and the acting was good. It wasn't a crazy spectacular movie but very good.

A sound basis for a video game This movie starts out with a strong premise; outlanders crashing to Earth from outer space but without the benefit of an explanation as to how that may have happened. It quickly became obvious this was the founding idea for the FPS video game of the same name. To me, it simply came across as a potential FPS with many of the FPS trappings i.e., it could go on and on forever with no "winner" or end in sight and the main character could "buy" his armor (which he willingly gives up with no explanation early in the movie) and his "lost" weapon. For the most part, it was a good storyline as a basis for a FPS video game but it was lacking in the dialog and acting departments. Some may enjoy it.

Creative suspense yarn falls flat in development and tech problems. Failed, emotionally-depressed actor Grady (Ross Beschler) moves to the mountains of North Carolina to open a resort lodge, which isn't exactly welcomed by his neighbors.  He looks forward to visits from his friends, including former agent Karen (Claire Bowerman) and his long-distance boyfriend Andy (Michael Montgomery), and intends to ask Andy to move up there with him. A local young man, Beetle (David J. Bonner) is helping out at the resort temporarily, but his sweet, innocent Southern boy charm hides the reality of his bad intentions.  It's a suspenseful, well-acted and directed story, very different from the usual gay festival fare, though a bit simplistic and predictable for a film of this genre.  Unfortunately, there are technical issues (sound so low it can barely be heard at maximum volume, and a "screener" warning across the picture that appears about an hour in - even though I bought my copy at retail!) that significantly reduces the ability to enjoy the film.  Not reflected in the rating, but FYI: There is really no gay content, other than two gay characters.  DVD extras include only a photo gallery, a music video and trailer.  I give it three stars out of five.

"Prometheus" Pros and Cons Summary "Prometheus" engineers/humanoid aliens and their spacecraft, alien planet landscapes synchronized to the original "Alien" film  in plot and special effects! That was the pros and the following are the cons... I was confused with the finale related to the "Alien" franchise of the mutated predecessor of the "bipedal, back pipes" alien bursting from the "engineer/humanoid's" chest origins! The 2092 A.D. era date of "Prometheus" contradict the early 21st century era date of the "AVP or Alien vs. Predator" franchise in which the "bipedal, back pipes" aliens already existed in the human/Earth present and there ancient history! "Prometheus" was a 3 out of 5 stars movie rating to me because of the era dates contradiction of the "bipedal, back pipes" alien's origin (no historical background continuity) between all the varied film's franchise!

Lukewarm Oliver Stone Viewers expect many things from an Oliver Stone film, not the least of which is controversy. So it is quite surprising that what we have here is a very bland film. Perhaps that is because so much is known about Bush's life - his wilder days in college, his mediocre performance as a student, his often troubled relationship with his father, his post-born-again days, when he focused more on his "calling" to a political career, and, of course, his well-documented eight years as president, especially the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The script simply provides no new insights into the man or the administration, which is a shame because the acting (with, perhaps, the exception of Thandie Newton's caricature of Condolezza Rice) is uniformly good: Josh Brolin's George W., James Cromwell's elder Bush, Richard Dreyfus' Dick Cheyney, Scott Glenn's Donald Rumsfeld, Jeffrey Wright's Colin Powell, and Toby Jones' Karl Rove. It's worth renting, but just don't go into the film with great expectations.

Nothing beats the original. Honestly I have to say that nothing beats the original, but this was a pretty good remake. I am not usually one for remakes nor am I one for sequals but kudos to the writer and director of this movie.

Pretty Standard I was stuck  between a 3 and a 4 so I decided to round down.  I'll go workout by workout for clarity's sake.  Surprisingly, the 1 mile workout, I feel, was the best one. It was 15 minutes long and begins with a moderately-paced warm-up with one of my all-time favorite Leslie Sansone songs. Even in this warm-up, she has on 1-lb hand weights. A little more than 4  minutes in, it speeds up to another common song that she uses in the first mile of her 5-mile Fat-Burning walk. She uses the basic combination of side-steps (no doubles in this one), kicks and knee-lifts. The last 5 minutes ends with another song from the 4th mile of her 5-mile Fat-Burning walk that is a tad quicker and at that point, Leslie adds in a pair of 2-lb. wrist weights to make a total of 3-lbs. on each arm. The cool-down goes back to the mellow song that the walk starts with and it is only about a minute-and-a-half. Leslie does a very quick stretch (literally a few seconds) and the workout ends. Leslie is less chatty than normal on this one.  The reason that I call this mile the best one is because it follows a format that I wish Leslie would follow in all her videos. Instead of slowing down before the mile is complete (like she usually does), she carries out the fast pace through the end of the mile and then slower cool-down pace doesn't come in until the mile is complete.  On to the 2 mile workout...the warm-up stars with Leslie using the 2-lb hand weights. She goes over the basic steps and lets us know that this mile is going to offer a 15 minute mile pace. After that, Leslie speeds up with another song from the 5-mile Fat-Burning workout and almost immediately integrates the weights with overhead presses. Throughout the rest of the 1st mile, she does moves like kickbacks with a bicep curl and knee-lift series (single and double), double side-steps and "power kicks". She repeats that you can always put the weights down if they are too much.  The second mile begins with a song she uses in other videos to do boosted walking, although she does not boost on this workout. She presents other moves like "tap-outs" and bicep curls that extend into triceps kickbacks. She also notes that it is okay to slide the weights onto the forearms to give the hands a break from gripping. At the second song (my second all-time LS favorite), she takes off the 2-lb. weights and switches to 1-lb weights but notes that you can totally eradicate the use of the weights at the point if you wish. She introduces the grapevine into this section. She ends the workout with a much slower song, taking the weights away but pretty much keeping with the standard moves. She also takes the time to let the audience know that if they're fat, not to feel bad because technology helped facilitate it and to not skip meals. A little more chatty in this one. A two minute extra slow pace officially ends the 2-mile walk at around 32 minutes and then she walks a little more before the stretch.  I feel the disadvantage to this workout is the fact that it slows down so noticeably before the 2 mile mark is reached.  Lastly, the 3-mile walk...this one started out okay. She started with the 1-lb weights throughout the warm-up and lets us know the weights won't be used throughout the whole thing because it's a long workout and she wants to avoid overuse. Again, this begins with the standard at-home walking moves. She again speeds it up with a few songs from her 5-mile Fat-Burning walk (my third all-time LS favorite is the third song of the first mile) and uses moves such as the traveling side-steps and kickbacks with overhead press. The first mile is about 15:30 (although it doesn't seem like it).  In the second mile, she switches to 2-lb hand weights. The music is more brisk. She continues with the standard overhead press and kickback/bicep curl combo. Then a gospel-type song plays that is very brisk and kind of delightful. Unfortunately, that was the climax of this workout. After that, she turns to her "boosted" walking song from the 5-mile Fat-Burning walk. She does do a move where she is walking while doing chest presses and eventually boosts for a few seconds.  The last mile, she appears with 3-lbs. worth of hand weights on each arm. The music gets so slow, it's intolerable. Then, after about a minute-and-a-half, it speeds up to that dreadful "Everybody" song from 4 Fast Miles. As an aside, I can't stand that song. But, if that wasn't bad enough, every minute-and-a-half the song changes and it is a total motivation killer. I think her aim was to alternate slower songs with not as slow songs but it totally bored me to no end. I was at the point where I was wondering when it would end. This cycle goes on for about 6 or 7 songs and then she finally drifts on into the cool down. At least she ends this workout with my first all-time favorite LS song.  I felt this workout was unfortunate because up through the gospel-style song, she was on track for a good workout. Even the boosted walking song was okay but that stunt she pulled in the last mile with the bipolar DJ mix was where she went wrong for me. She does do a more substantial stretch in this one than the other two.  A plus to this overall DVD is that all workouts have a music-only option. I would probably recommend doing a hybrid of all three workouts to get the most bang for your buck. Start out with the one mile, before the cool down switch to the second mile of the three mile walk and finish with the last mile of the two mile walk.

Whoa, Lopakhin! One assumes that Henry (Keanu Reeves) has some kind of inner life. He seems to be a likable, easy-going fellow; it's just that he's a bit...inscrutable. Maybe it's his job. Working the graveyard shift night after night at a N.Y. Thruway tollbooth would put anybody in semi-comatose state. Nothing fazes the agreeable yet impassive Henry, one way or the other-although he does display a slight twitch when, one morning at breakfast, his wife (Judy Greer) broaches the subject of the couple having a child. Suddenly, we get the impression that Henry would prefer to be anywhere else but there, at that moment, having that particular conversation. What's going on? Is this a troubled marriage? Does he love his wife? Is this cipher of a man internally harboring primal doubts about life itself? Or...is he suffering in silence from a sudden attack of gas? There's really no way of discerning.  We never get a chance to find out exactly what Henry is contemplating, because that is precisely the moment that Fate intervenes. An old high school chum named Eddie Vibes (Fisher Stevens) unexpectedly shows up on his doorstep, with a drunken cohort in tow. Both men are dubiously outfitted for a game of baseball. Eddie wants to know if Henry can give them a ride to their "game". Nothing about this questionable early-morning scenario seems to raise any red flags for the ever-malleable Henry. Even Eddie's request to stop at the bank "on the way"-and to park the car out front and wait while his passengers go inside-fails to elicit the tiniest raised eyebrow from Henry. Needless to say, the heist goes awry, Henry's car stalls, his "friends" flee...and guess who ends up in stir?  Although he owes them squat, Henry doesn't rat out the real culprits and takes the fall, while his demeanor remains unchanged. At this point, one might surmise that Henry is either some kind of transcendent Zen master...or a clueless moron (not unlike the protagonist of "Forrest Gump" or Chance the gardener in "Being There"). Ah, but our little wooden boy is about to meet his Geppetto. Max (James Caan) is a veteran con man. He's one of those oddball convicts who actually "likes" prison-which is why he has been sabotaging his own parole hearings and enabling himself to continue living on the state's dime. He becomes a mentor/father figure to Henry, who takes it to heart when Max advises him that he needs to find a Dream, and then pursue it. So what is Henry's resultant epiphany? Since he's already done the time, he might as well now do the crime. Classic heist caper tropes ensue, with a love interest tossed in for good measure(Vera Farmiga).  There's a little d&eacute;j&agrave; vu running through this film (the second effort from "44 Inch Chest" director Malcolm Venville). Sacha Gervasi and David White's script may have been "inspired" by some vintage heist flicks; specifically, Alexander Mackendrick's 1955 comedy "The Ladykillers", and Lloyd Bacon's "Larceny, Inc." from 1942 (essentially remade by Woody Allen as "Small Time Crooks"). I thought that James Caan was recycling his "Mr. Henry" persona from Wes Anderson's "Bottle Rocket" a wee bit. While the film has classic screwball tropes, it lacks the kinetic pace of Lubitsch or Sturges. That being said, I still found Venville's film to be quite engaging and entertaining-within its own unique universe (yes, even the somnambulant-as-usual Keanu). I was reminded of Vincent Gallo's criminally underappreciated "Buffalo '66"; in addition the fact that it also was filmed in and around the Buffalo area, it's another one of those low-key comedies with oddly endearing characters that "sneaks up" on you, especially once you realize how genuinely touching and sweet it really is at its core. And there's no crime in that, is there?

it had some positive effects This movie is very saccharine. Some of the visuals are nice to look at. This is a VERY, VERY comforting and totalizing view of life/death/morality. Robin Williams dramas tend to be...heavy-handed.  But I went to sleep before the film ended the last time I watched it. I was woken up by my wife kissing and hugging me, asking me "are you my soul mate?"  "Yes!"  So it made for a nice moment between us. For that, I'll give the film three stars.

The Book Version is Much Better. The Movie Version just like all other Movies skips the Good parts of the original Book Version of Water For Elephants.    Read the book version instead for it is Much better than the Movie Version anytime.

2 & 1/2 Stars: THE RED HOUSE Could've Used More Color For reasons I've never really been able to quantify, I've never been much of an Edward G. Robinson's work.  It isn't that I haven't seen him as gifted or as relevant as others who came from his era of filmmaking; rather, it's just that I'd long only seen him in many of the same roles - one after the other - so I thought he'd made a career out of playing the same stock character in a long list of films.  THE RED HOUSE - recently released with a digital restoration in High Definition - and THE STRANGER have caused me to rethink my position, as both films gave Robinson a chance to genuinely flex some acting muscles in roles perhaps a touch less `heavy' and maybe even a bit `noble.'  Meg (played like a teen urchin by the lovely Allene Roberts) has been raised by `adoptive' parents, an old farmer named Pete (Robinson) and his sister Ellen (Judith Anderson).  Now that she's blossoming in adulthood, she begins wondering about her past and what happened to her real parents - she's long been told that her parents left her in order to go off and start a life all on their own in the land of opportunity.  Could it be that there real fate is somehow tied to the secrets long tucked away in a nearby forest where old Pete warns against the screams in the night?  Are the woods haunted, or is the secret something much more treacherous?  Based on a book of the same name, THE RED HOUSE was written and directed by Delmer Dawes (3:10 TO YUMA and DESTINATION TOKYO).  It's essentially a pot-boiler style mystery - Pete's haunted by the bloody events of his past, but he's bound and determined to keep young Meg from discovering them - and, measured against the today's standards, it's fairly tame, but I have no doubt that Robinson's performances probably shocked and scared a few folks in the audience back in the day.  His performance here runs the gamut from a kindly old father to a crazed and vastly troubled soul.  You can see an empty, gnawing heartache in his eyes when he begins mistaking Meg as her mother, and you get a sense of his character's remorse as he slowly reveals the events haunting `the red house' more in his mind than it is in reality.  Though the film has an impressive reputation with fans of noir and classic films, I don't feel that it held up all that well today.  The pacing is a bit lethargic, and I'm not sure that the shooting script couldn't have benefitted from another draft or two.  For example, events from the beginning of the film - specifically, Lon McCallister plays Nath Storm, a high school chum and eventually boyfriend to Meg, and it's his first venture into the forest that shows audiences that it's `haunted' - seem illogical and really feel out of place when compared against the history revealed in the conclusion.  Perhaps Dawes as director was a bit too close to his own adaptation to see the possible flaws in his draft.  At best, he musters an average film that benefits from Robinson's big-star involvement more than it deserves.  The film was made by Sol Lesser Productions (as Thalia Productions, Inc.) and distributed theatrically by United Artists in 1947.  The disc comes from HD Cinema Classics, and it looks and sounds perfectly fine with the digital restoration (transferred from the original 35mm elements) provided on this Blu-ray.  The movie's trailer is also available.  The disc comes with a brief featurette on the restoration process, and there's an audio commentary provided by William Hare, a noted expert of early film noir.  The Blu-ray is a combo-pack so there's both a standard issue and HD release available, and the package contains a nifty little reproduction of the original movie poster contained.  RECOMMENDED only for fans of noir who want to see something completely different.  It's good but far from great.  THE RED HOUSE bares some strong, respectable similarities to great noir from the era, but the film's pacing and too many squeaky-clean, black-and-white characters really spoil the mood of this chiller that probably chilled more people half-a-decade ago than it ever will today's jaded viewers.  In the interests of fairness, I'm pleased to disclose that the fine folks at HD Cinema Classics provided me with a DVD screener copy of THE RED HOUSE by request for the expressed purposes of completing this review.

Silly If you like these types of movies, this is the perfect movie for you. I could not decide on 3 or 4 stars, as I have seen better parody movies than this. The sport spoofed in this is Ping Pong. There are some funny scenes in this film, but it is not the best movie, and I would recommend that you watch this movie or rent before you buy, as it is not for everyone.

;0) it wasnt good and it wasnt bad. Lisa's character in the film that chick is crazy and delusional. Beyonce did alright-ish and i love Idris Elba

Not scary or all that interesting. A young man travels to a small town set in the 1890's, where young children have been dying. He begins seeing images of a deceased woman and looks for a connection with the deaths. The movie contains certain predictable elements of the horror genre, like faces in the window, doors slamming, creepy music, and a rocking chair with no one in it. The late 1800's setting is effective, but this attempt at a combination of a horror film and a murder mystery falls a bit flat as the film is just not very frightening and the investigation into the deaths is only mildly interesting.

Don't Judge Me By This The kids are definitely all right. But the story is just a little off as far as lesbian love is being played out. That is why <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0790741822">Boys on the Side</a> will always be top 5 on my list of lesbian love films. When did they become a regular family with all the inequalities of the male-female rules? I understand nobody has got this life thing figured out but love can be in any form and diffirent for anyone. It does not have to be the same pattern for everyone especially marriage which at the current time is the "ultimate" expression of LOVE.  The film as an art form is very enjoyable in terms of acting and cinematography. I most definitely love the outdoor shots and scenes. I would urge people to see this for Julianne Moore.

Overall happy Only 4 out of the 5 discs work for us - one of the discs has a region lock on it and even though our DVD / Blu-ray player has had the region lock removed, we can't play it.  The printed covers on a couple of the discs look a bit dodgy - like they are copies someone has done on their home printer.  Overall, we're pretty happy - 4 out of 5 for the price isn't bad and the sleeves don't matter to us.

Low Resolution in 1977 version The theatrical version of the movie (1977) has a very low resolution. How low? Well I made some test... it is noticeable but bearable in a 26" hdtv, it is almost unbearable in a 55" hdtv and it is a sad torture on the 106" image produced by my Full HD 1080p projector. So I do not recommend this unless you have quite small a tv set.

Not the best I saw this DVD in a store but did not buy it.  It was bothering me so I finally got it, but it was not @ all what I thought it was going to be.  There are many strange/stupid parts to the movie.  It had a good concept, but was not put together with enough seriousness to it @ all.

Solid script but a flawed film. I had the opportunity to read the screenplay for this movie well before it was produced and the script was wonderful. A great, fun, tense read...unfortunately, due to some bad casting, and some bad direction, the movie didn't end being so good. But it's still worth your time to see Amanda Seyfried pull off a decent performance.

Great movie, lackluster release Depending on what you've heard, Frontier(s) is either A.) a bloody masterpiece of French horror or B.) a derivative hodgepodge of cliches lifted from other horror films. I'm in the middle--no, it's not original or groundbreaking, and yes, it does borrow from a number of past films (although it doesn't attempt to hide its influences) in the genre but it is a blast and much better than most American horror films made today. At the end of the day, it's a well-made horror film with some great performances, a decent plot, some political subtext and extra helping of gore.  The film takes place in a possible future in France, in which an extreme right-wing government has taken control and riots take place in the street. Those familiar with current French politics will get more out of it than those who don't, as the film was made in response to riots that have taken place in the country recently. A group of thieves attempt to take advantage of the political climate, but things go wrong and they find themselves heading off to an inn for shelter... an inn that just happens to be run by Neo-Nazi cannibals. Needless to say, things get messy.  Frontier(s) isn't a deep film by any stretch of the imagination, but it works. All the actors are great in their respective roles and they take the film seriously as opposed to for camp. There really isn't a single bad performance in the film. The cannibalistic family is fantastic as well--there's a nice range of characters here, from some who are actually quite sympathetic to those who are nothing short of despicable. While I don't see this becoming a "franchise", I wouldn't mind seeing these characters and their histories explored elsewhere.  The film is pretty bloody but at the same time it's not unwatchable in its goriness. Nor is it particularly 'upsetting', like other French films in the genre. It's more of an intense, visceral thrill ride than anything that will leave you depressed. It's a pretty bleak film but it's not soul-crushing.  Unfortunately, the DVD presentation is... not so good. For starters, there are no special features whatsoever. The international release is apparently stacked with features, and LionsGate couldn't port over a commentary, a featurette and maybe some deleted scenes? It's frustrating that so many American releases of foreign films drop the ball in this area.  Even worse are the subtitles. It's like someone just ran the script through Google translate and didn't bother to actually consider how well it sounded to English readers. Example: One character calls another "trash", the subtitles read "garbage can". At another point, a character asks "What are doing!" For what it's worth, the film is still watchable and you'll still enjoy it, but there's still no excuse for this kind of sloppiness. Unfortunately, there are no real alternatives unless you own a Region-free DVD player. If you speak French fluently, there's a Blu-ray release in France that has no subtitles. I guess the best I can say is that at least this DVD gives you the option to turn off subtitles. Something you'd take for granted, but even that isn't guaranteed nowadays (see the Region 1 DVD of Thirst). Overall, the impression is that LionsGate just didn't give a damn, which is a shame. I'm guessing they thought that since it's a foreign film they didn't need to put any effort onto it and put out the cheapest possible disc possible.  I still give this disc my recommendation, albeit with some serious caveats. Take it as you will.

no more than competent "The Stepfather" is a competent - though somewhat superfluous - remake of the relatively well-received horror flick of the same name (I mean, is it really necessary to be doing-over films from the `80s already?). As in the previous venture, the main character (Dylan Walsh) is a serial killer who woos unsuspecting young women (in this case, Sela Ward) with children into letting him move in as a apart of the family, then coldly dispatches them in a gruesome display of bloodletting and violence.  The major difference between this version and the previous one is that the oldest child (Penn Badgley), who becomes convinced of the stepfather's true identity over time, has been changed from a daughter in the original to a son here, just as the daughter's psychiatrist has been converted into a lesbian aunt (Paige Turco) for this version.  Otherwise, the premise and the execution are virtually the same.  As written by J.S. Caldone and directed by Nelson McCormick, "The Stepfather" is a relatively straightforward, conventional and restrained horror movie, heavier on the plot mechanics than on the blood.  There are times when the characters are almost absurdly naïve and get themselves into predicaments that a few moments of cautious forethought might have helped them to avoid.  Heck, even the killer himself is prone to some pretty dumb moves at times, especially for a man who has ostensibly been plotting out his every move for years now.  That being said, "The Stepfather" can't really help but pull you in, even with a somewhat lackluster climactic scene.

Not really a Christmas moive My son loves watching Dora so I wanted to get him a Dora Christmas movie for him to enjoy over the holidays.  However there is only one short Christmas episode, about 15 minutes long, and the rest is just normal Dora episodes.  The Dora episodes are fine, I just wouldn't really call this a Christmas film.  It has one short Christmas episode.

Overpriced for 3D! It is definitely overpriced for a 50-some minute documentary. As far as the 3D gimmick, it is just okay and nothing extra-ordinary. Probably have to wait another few years till the 3D technology for home gets better and its accessories become reasonably priced.

20YO in High School??? trying to figure out the math in this one, he goes bak 20yrs to his g/f being pregnant... hmmmm, well, who cares, you can't pay too much attention to the details in this flick b/c the comedy gems are rare but my first review of Zac is actually most impressive...  the courtroom speech sealed the deal, very convincing and guess since I have yet to see an actor who can even hold a candle to Leonard Whiting, this is as close as it gets, I'll take it.... kinda inappropriate sexual situations that are too close for comfort.... didn't like when Perry comes back to the wife, maybe 3pc suit and haircut and keep Zac! lol  the 19 face slaps were the most inane, but enjoyed the elvish!

Sequel Kinda Sucked... i'm sorry but i felt like this movie was all about Ashley Tisdale and Zac Efron. ashley's character was real annoying in this film and her corny songs didn't help the film at all. i was so tempted to turning the channel when i watched it on disney channel. to me, this movie was kinda corny and i really wish they just stopped at the first film.

It's exciting but stupid It's like James Bond, all these things happen and most of them are impossible.  It's fast paced and exciting.  It's also very dark emotionally and not kid friendly at all, even young teens.  But I just get burned out on movies that show things are are ridiculous and this one is completely full of those.  3 stars for Cruise doing many of his own stunts, at least a lot of the action stuff.  He obviously worked hard on this.

no pun intended This is a documentary. not a film of stand up comedy. it gives you a true perspective of the craft of comedy. How it is on the road, how the industry treats you and the struggle to make a name for yourself.

Amazon disappoints me... After I preordered this blu ray and waited over a month, it finally ships, then I see the price drops 33% the day after it ships out. Pretty shady, or did I just learn an amazon buying lesson the hard way? No more preordering on my part, thanks amazon.

Great show, poor DVD quality. The show itself is fascinating, but the DVDs are of quite poor quality.  The picture continually pixillates, which is annoying and distracting.  The sound is average at best.  Probably the poorest quality DVDs I have ever purchased.

OK This movie along with all other kung fu movies from this time are great.  However, because they were made such a long time ago, I see no benefit in purchasing the Bluray version of it (not crystal clear like a currently made movie).  I recommend that if the movie is cheaper in regular DVD format then that is the way to go.

its decent its decent.  its lacking the spark of the earlier films.  it had humor. its not as predictable as it appears to be. courtney cox is awesome. you really feel for sid in this one because everyones blaming her for ghostfaces reappearance like its her fault that shes being stalked.  there a new girl in the movie that really reminds me of the old gayle weathers and gayle cant stand her.  its too funny. Blood, lots of blood. Buckets. theres a room after a girl gets gutted and you would never believe that much blood would even be realistic. for real, like the whole room is red. everything is red. never been so much blood since sweeney todd.  It seems me to me by the gag reel that they actually used computer effects to do the blood because people are getting stabbed in the neck and fountains of blood comes spewing out.  *SPOILER ALERT*  If your watching this movie because of anna paquin theres really no need to bother. she plays a character in one of the stab movies and she gets killed in like one minuet or less. she was actually one of my main reasons for seeing this.  Rory Culkin is in the whole movie though.

Lucky Me - the movie This is not a noteworthy musical. Indeed, it is saved only by the singing and dancing of Doris Day. Phil Silvers is on hand with his loud and zany humour. Robert Cummings is his suave sophisticated self. But the plot, such as it is, about a theatrical group stranded in Miami, is feeble and the only real entertainment here are the songs: 'Lucky me', and the 'Superstition song' which opens the film, the jolly comedy dance number 'Bluebells of Broadway',the lovely 'I speak to the stars', and several others, rather less memorable. They were composed by Sammy Fain (music) and Paul Francis Webster (lyrics). This is one for DD fans only.

Technically terrific Before David Lean made all those epics of the 1950's, he made this little film based on Noel Coward's play "Still Life".  Coward is also the producer of the movie.  Set in the London area post WW II, 2 strangers and seemingly happily married people meet in a train station, each heading in opposite directions.  He is a doctor (Trevor Howard) who comes to the area once a week to work in a hospital.  She is a mother (Celia Johnson) who goes once a week to shop and take in a movie.  One thing leads to another and boom, they're in love.  Chaste love, but love all the same.  I guess this movie caused quite a stir at the time and was banned in Ireland for its adulterous theme.  By today's standards this is pretty tame stuff.  The movie isn't all that great, but the art of filming is.  Lean and cinema photographer Robert Krasker open with great shots of speeding trains coming and going through the station with heavy steam blasting from their smoke stacks.  The filmmakers make great use of their sets with interesting angles and the use of shadows.  This is a technically terrific movie but at the same time an artifact of the era.

Good old movie Since this movie was made in the 70's it is a little corny now days but still entertaining and the sound track alone is with the price.

Monsters, tramps in distress, and a hairy-chested good-guy swamp marshall Set in the Florida swamps - "near Cape Canaveral, where there's radiation" - some pretty scary things are going on, i.e. sweaty drunk hillbillies are disappearing faster than the sheriff can count 'em.  Though it takes him a while to admit the need to kill wildlife, the swamp marshall (probably a federal employee, hence at odds with local poachers and old-boy law enforcement) mounts an investigation.  He finds 'em.  As a kid, I only saw images from this in my Famous Monsters of Filmland mag, and always wanted to see this.  Even though they are men in rubber suits, this is pretty fun, starting with Yvette Vickers, the Playboy pinup who went on to cult status as the attacking 50-foot woman.  Yep, she is the tramp, trapped in the lair of the radioactive leeches and submitting to their attentions while screaming.  OK, I don't think Ill watch again anytime soon, but hey, you gotta fulfill at least some of your childhood dreams, eh?

Footnote on the subtitling Those with large-screen HDTVs have something of a dilemma here. The Blu-ray version is sharper and more beautiful to look at than the DVD, but it is marred by excessively large and intrusive subtitling for the hearing-impaired. Subtitling is a necessary evil for those of us who do not have a fluent understanding of French, but those of us with hearing do not need to have every sound effect explicated, nor English subtitles for those bits of this film that are spoken in English. Although the subtitling is larger than it needs to be, I would still recommend the Blu-ray version for those who are not bothered by what amounts to closed-captioning rather than standard subtitling. You're also in luck if you can read Spanish, for which standard subtitles are available.  My aggravation with the Blu-ray subtitling led me to do some research, including the reviews here at Amazon; and I found contradictory and ambiguous remarks regarding the subtitling available on the DVD, which is entirely understandable because the DVD itself is confusing in this regard. To resolve the matter, I rented a copy of the DVD; and the following are my findings, which I hope will clear this up for customers:  If you simply play the movie on DVD without going through subtitle setup, you will see normal English subtitles; however, if you go through setup, you will see only a choice between Spanish and English SDH (or "Off"); and if you choose English SDH, you are stuck with the extraneous and distracting information on screen. The main reason that I am writing this footnote of a review is to say that, in spite of the labeling on the package, and in spite of the explicit choices on the Setup Menu, there are--on the DVD only--*four* subtitle options; to access them you simply have to use the subtitle button on your remote control while the disc is playing. There you will find that you can choose "English," "Spanish," "English," or "Off." That's right: there are two labeled "English" without differentiation, except for one being numbered (on my player, anyway) #1, and the other #3. On my player #1 was English SDH; and #3 was standard English subtitles.  Please understand that I have nothing against providing English for the Hearing Impaired, and the DVD shows that this can be done without rattling the rest of us; I do not know what the constraints were on the Blu-ray that prevented this sensible approach, nor why First Look Pictures chose to hide the standard-English option on the DVD.  One of the things that was unclear to me in going through the reviews was whether or not one needed to buy the special 2-disc edition in order to get the standard English subtitles. Based upon the fact that my rental disc does not say Disc 1 on it, I assume that it is not from the 2-disc set; furthermore, some of the reviews here and elsewhere have indicated that Disc 1 of the 2-disc set is identical to the single-disc edition. I cannot speak for the Steelbook edition, but I would be surprised if the standard-English-subtitle feature had been removed, which I assume would have been extra effort for Steelbook. Thus, I believe that only the Blu-ray edition suffers from this particular flaw, leaving prospective buyers with the choice of a clearer but more cluttered image on Blu-ray, or a fuzzier but less distracting image on the DVD.  Oh, yes, the movie: I found this collection of short films charming, often whimsical, and sometimes wise; and the Paris scenery ain't bad, either. If I were reviewing the DVD, I would give it four stars, but have docked the Blu-ray a star for its clumsy production.

The Test of Time I didn't see this upon its original release but I'm guessing this was a product of its time. Released in 1985, I guess you'd call it an espionage thriller but it's not very smart and not very thrilling. These movies have gotten so good over the years that this seems really naive.  Here's the scoop. Anthony Edwards is a college student in California and the only son in a rich family. He's a nerdy virgin who plays an ongoing game of paintball assassination on campus. He heads off to Europe on Spring Break with a buddy, falls for Linda Fiorentino who plays him like a fiddle as she gets him involved in an espionage scheme. Now he's running for his life.  The plot is no where near clever enough for this sort of thing. It wouldn't even float on TV in this day and age. Anthony Edwards was already 10 years into his career, and though he's likeable enough, his acting skills were not as well honed as they would become later on. Linda Fiorentino is Okay but nothing to write home about. Alex Rocco is Alex Rocco. He has his own gravity and it's no different here. But, again, the plot just isn't there and the directing is hack level. A couple of times during the flick Linda tells Anthony something that should have raised red flags all over the place and he doesn't so much as raise an eyebrow or ask a question. Dumb. And correct me if I'm wrong, but If I were a Russian spy and I lost my prey, would I follow him all the way back to the U.S. and shoot at him out in the open in broad daylight? Or would I phone ahead and have someone else do it in more discreet fashion. Dumb stuff like this happens throughout. And the music stinks as well. Bill Conti, a renown music composer, penned some really cheesy notes for this one.  Unless you're a real fan of second tier 80s flicks, I'd give this a pass.

HANGOVER REINCARNATION Ok so, I see a lot of people that are either saying Hangover Part 2 is either really good, or really bad. Just to be fair; I would rate this movie as Ok. If you loved the first movie, you will only like this one; however, if you only liked the first movie, don't waste your time with this movie. As most people correctly stated, Part 2 is a rehash of the first Hangover. - Same story; same jokes, same characters; different locale. I thought this movie could have been better if it released maybe in  2013 - the audience still remembered all the jokes, and the catch phrases of the first movie. I feel like they could have done a lot with this movie, and although some parts were hilarious, some parts were extremely boring. I would only recommend watching this once, and only buy the DVD if you want to show off to your friends stating that you have both "Hangovers" on DVD.

THE ORIGINAL GIANT ROBOT. Gigantor as us americans know him stars in his own feature film.A japanese creation known as Tetsujin 28 this film brings me back to the days when the trans-lux cartoon played on UHF stations and I would bearly get reception.It's a cool flick and the cg work holds up,I only wish there was more robot battles.The Black Ox an evil robot is Tetsujin's nemises who appeared in the cartoon series.Worth a peek especially if your a fan of the Gigantor series.The dvd is in japanese with english subtitles.

poor packaging My dvd arrived promptly, but the packaging was badly damaged. I shook it and thought the dvd was broken because it was not fixed firmly in place. When opened, the dvd seemed scratched, but upon playing it, I found it was okay. I rated this purchase okay, because I feel it should have been packaged more securely.

This is what you get - as of April 2012 The following updated / or current review of this item is for what Amazon sold me in April 2012, listed as:  Ice Age: The Meltdown (Triple Play) [Blu-ray] (2006, reissued 2011) Rated: PG | Format: Blu-ray Format: Animated, Color Language: English Region: Region A/1 Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Number of discs: 3 Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: Fox Home Entertainment DVD Release Date: October 11, 2011 Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars ASIN: B005KG4E8S  Barcode: 02454375484880.  -------  Disc 1 = Blu-ray: Video is MPEG 2 @ 18 MBPS - 25 GB single layer - Aspect 1:85:1 (Widescreen 16x9) - Audio is 5.1 DTS HD Master. (The 5.1 Dolby option is spanish and french only.)  Keep in mind that 18 MBPS video rate is fine for smaller screens. Larger screens will see the pixel trails during motion.  The added animated short (No Time For Nuts) is on both Blu-ray and DVD discs.  Outer rim of disc appears OK.  Disc 2 = DVD: Video (Dual Layer) Widescreen 16x9 enhanced - Audio is 5.1. Dolby (with spanish and french surround). It appears to be the same as the original DVD release.  Loaded with 2006 movie trailers / promos. Outer rim of disc suggests disc rot has begun however I can't state that as a fact yet.  Why Amazon has an aspect ratio of 1:33:1 under product details is beyond me, but it is incorrect for both discs.  Disc 3 = Digital Copy.  I refuse to review and don't care about director's tracks or comment tracks - it's all (blah! blah! blah!) to me. If I wanted (blah! blah! blah!) - I'd read 99% of the reviews on Amazon (especially from these so-called top reviewers). I just typed information minus the blah! blah! blah!.  In my opinion, this was a cheap low Blu-ray video bit rate release for the price you pay. I suspect the price drop is to clear out old product.

Takes a while to get moving ... ... but it is worth the wait.  Like an M. Night Shyamalan movie, the true value is in the twist at the end where all the things that you noticed all along fit together to make sense.

Harrison Ford Makes A So-So Movie Interesting Tom Clancy's novel about what the Iran/Contra scandal would have been like if he had scripted it. First of all, Jack Ryan is a whole lot more lovable than Ollie North, especially when played by Harrison Ford. I've had a bad case of the hots for Harrison Ford since the original Star Wars. Come to think of it, James Earl Jones was in that one, too . . . though not as Ford's boss, as in this case.  OK, for those two or three people who have not read the story: James Earl Jones plays Admiral Greer, deputy director of the CIA and Jack Ryan's boss. Jack is an analyst who keeps getting treated like a covert op, mostly due to circumstances. But now Greer gets sick and has asked Ryan to take over his spot. Just the right time for a potentially messy scandal to erupt, right? The Coast Guard picks up a boat which was apparently known to be involved in the cocaine trade and finds that several people were killed aboard it. Problem is, these people were President Bennett's (Donald Moffat) good friend since school days and his family.  Investigating the Good Old Boy and his relationship to the drug trade, we discover that he has some $650 million stashed away in various banks and real estate holdings around the world. The president assumes it is our money (i.e., the federal government's), Ernesto Escobedo, the Columbian drug lord who had him killed, figures it's his money. That is, money Good Old Boy stole from him.  If you love fast action movies with lots of things that blow up, you'll enjoy this one. If you love stories about corrupt politicians and the crooked things they do, you'll love it. If you just enjoy seeing attractive, athletically fit men push themselves to the limit, you'll love Harrison Ford and the rest of the attractive, athletically fit men in this one. My favorite in that regard is Willem Dafoe as "Clark," a mercenary hired by various American interests to clean up the mess, first one way and then another. I must not tell you what he does, to whom, or in whose pay without ruining the story. But with a guy like that, hardly anything is what it seems.

Stevie was great, but the cinematographer was not I have always loved Stevie Nicks and this concert was great in spite of the fact that she was still using cocaine at the time. Her drug use influenced her performance at Red Rocks, but not in a bad way. However, it could have been shot better...the super imposed images seemed like they were added after the fact and that was what was bothersome. There was nothing at all wrong with Stevie's performance. The concert is amazing. Stevie and her band delivered. In spite of the flaws in the cinematography, this video is worth checking out.

Big Contrast With Original Play I was one ov thousands who saw the production ov Bullshot Crummond in San Phrancisco back in 1978 at the now extinct Hippodrome.  And I anxiously awaited the philm version, and even more so because it was being produced by George Harrison's Handmade Philm company.  A bit dissapointed, I must say.  The play was screamingly phunny, the movie was not.  About the only thing that peaked my interest was Ray Cooper and Larry Legs Smith, both ov whom are connected with Harrison, and Connolly, who I think is one ov comedy's genius's.  And the inclusion ov the Henley Armada.  Otherwise, because the movie strayed so phar away phrom the play, and the phact that the movie was written by the same people, makes one ponder why.

fair First of all let me mention something before discussing the movie.  My first ever nightmare happened when I was only 5 years old back in 1986.  In the dream I was walking outside my school alongside the parking lot, it was nighttime, and I remember a cool, yet intimidating breeze was blowing.  I go to walk down the parking lot some more, feeling uneasy and anticipating something horrific to appear at any moment, and upon glancing in the distance at the sidewalk beside the school building where I used to walk every morning before school, stood Freddy with his sharp claws looking directly at me!  Let me tell ya- THAT was truly a terrifying ordeal!  I woke up praying it wasn't a reality, or that I haven't actually slipped into the unavoidable nightmare world, aha.  I mention this because some of the events in the movie really match up with the dream, such as the playground scene which hit a little TOO close to home for my liking.  My biggest problem with this new updated version of Nightmare on Elm Street is that it's not NEARLY as frightening as the original series.  Also, the guy portraying the Freddy Krueger character is absolutely horrible.  For one thing, his voice is too monotone which means he's not the least bit scary whenever the teenagers enter the nightmare world.  It's like he's simply carrying normal conversations with the teens while in the nightmare environment instead of making an impact and actually *scaring* them.  At least he's fairly violent.  In fact, he's perhaps *more* violent compared to the original Freddy Krueger.  There's a ton of surprisingly bloody moments that really were gruesome and exciting to watch.  There's a *somewhat* frightening atmosphere taking place for the most part, however it's not nearly as impactful as it was back in the 80's.  It just feels a bit corny.  Perhaps it's because I'm an adult and can't appreciate such an atmosphere anymore, or perhaps I've finally gotten used to the entire horror genre so it can't strike me on a more personal level anymore.  Or perhaps the directors and producers just didn't offer enough suspense.  Either the storyline has been completely revamped or I can't quite remember what it was like back in the day.  Without spoiling anything, let's just say Freddy has an interesting history.  I actually enjoyed the storyline, but I can't argue with those who believe it doesn't (or shouldn't) stand in the same league as the original series.  This storyline does tend to lean more towards a detective/mystery.  Overall it's alright, but please, give more respect to the original series which is honestly better.

.could have been better I had high hopes for this movie, especially given the actors involved.  However, it was without much of a plot - very predictable.  Not much depth.

Well, I'm Still Going to Watch Them....But I had been told Eclipse was the best Twilight movie. If by the best, those who hold that opinion, mean more half-naked Jacob, more intense staring deeply into one-another's eyes, more vampire action and kick-butt battle scenes, then they are correct.  I found Eclipse to be the darkest and creepiest of the Twilight series. Edward's obsessiveness over Bella is a trait that many a concerned mother has warned her daughter about. And I guess this puts me on Team Jacob by default, but then I'm still left wondering why Bella is such a prize.  I will, of course, continue to watch the movies. The story is definitely a compelling one. But girls, Edward's behavior is not exactly a healthy sign to be looking for in a guy.

Youth comedy with heart. Poor video transfer. OK story and acting. Brings back fond memories of good times with friends when you had temp jobs before your career got off the ground. Youthful comedy with a little raunch, but also some heart. Be aware that it claims to be widescreen but has just been blown up from a full screen, like some TV channels do with old programming. This means that the top of everyone's head is missing during close-ups, giving it an annoying claustrophobic feel. But then again, it was only $5.00.

New DVDs Missing Companion Guid and Certificate of Authenticity I ordered a new Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Four-Disc Extended Edition). The DVD box was a little dinged up, but was within shrink wrap, but when I opened it, I found it was missing the Collectible 10-page companion guide and the Certificate of authenticity. The discs were in good condition otherwise. Amazon has authorized a return with full refund and recommended I make a new order. I'll see how the new order is, whether anything is missing from within that one.

Meh! So I bought this for my brother who's in his late 20's and loves Anime. Apparently Evangelion is a really big deal as far as Anime goes. We even visited a small Museum in Japan that was entirely dedicated to the show. He had already seen the movie but wanted it on blue ray anyways. I'm personally not into anime that much but felt the movie was about decent. I did however get tired of the main character very quickly. He's suppose to be the hero of the story but wines and cries like a little girl way too much. Bottom line, even though this is a highly rated anime, I've seen better.

Gentle Family Drama "Hum Saath-Saath Hain" is reminiscent of some of the other family-centered Hindi dramas of the 1990s, such as "Hum Aapke Hain Kaun", and it preceded the very popular "Khabi Khushi Khabhie Gham", which deals with similar themes.  These themes are family unity; obedience to parents; loyalty to siblings; and the potential for family erosion when doubt and suspicion creep in.  The family at the core of this film is comprised of mother, father, and three sons who all live happily together and work for the prosperous family business (there's also a daughter, but she's already married and therefore lives with her husband's family).  The family functions according to a strict but loving hierarchy, in which the eldest son Vivek (Mohnish Behl) marries first and is set to inherit the top position in the family firm; the second son Prem (Salman Khan) is sent abroad to study so that he can also join the company; and the youngest son Vinod (Saif Ali Khan) is mischievous but always looks up to his elder brothers.  The first two hours of this three hour film are without any major family strife or drama - the focus is on the daily functioning of the family and the pairing off of each brother with his respective sweetheart.  Vivek, Prem and Vinod all get engaged in turn as the couples sing, dance, and bat their eyelashes at each other over the course of two hours.  When Preeti bakes sweets for Prem (his favorite sweets, of course!), that counts as high drama.  If the intricacies of life in an extended family hold no interest for you, then you will likely be bored to tears. If, however, you enjoy delicate flirtations and the visual feast that is Hindi cinema, then it will be a pleasant two hours.  The twist doesn't come until the final hour.  When the daughter of the family experiences some difficulties in her husband's home, the mother becomes paranoid that a similar schism will occur in her own family, carefully balanced as it is between three brothers and their three wives-to-be. In a moment of doubt, the mother causes the very schism she's afraid of, but under the pretense of protecting her two younger sons from the power of the elder (who's also only their half-brother).  I'm not giving away anything shocking when I say that all will be resolved in the end, since the very foundation of this film is the idea that family bonds should never be broken, and this family in particular is unbreakable.  All of the actors turn in fine performances; surprisingly, no one actor is the star over any other.  Salman Khan plays the shy, gentle brother and as such his performance is more subdued than usual. Mohnish Behl is great as the always-responsible, noble elder brother and Saif Ali Khan is credible as the playful, responsibility-dodging youngest brother.  The three women (Tabu, Sonali Bendre, and Karishma Kapoor) are lovely, but they don't have much scope for nuance in their roles; they are all dutiful, loving women who act appropriately and obediently.  Not much room for drama in such idealized characterizations.  In summary: watch this film if you enjoy family-centered Hindi dramas with delicate romance and lots of agonizing over the social rules of family life.

Great action but basic story It's been called "the best action movie of the year." It's been the #1 movie in the country two weeks in a row! So it must be really good, right? Well, it's actually a pretty basic action flick. The plot is uncomplicated and straight-to-the-point. For some, that sounds great to them. For others, the simplicity is a little too simple and that subtracts from the film's overall quality.  Stallone directs and co-writes the screenplay for this ultimate action star flick, and he does really well. The ensemble of Stallone, Statham, Rourke, Couture, Lundgren, Li, Crews, Roberts, and Austin (plus cameos by Willis and Schwarzenegger) do a wonderful job with the acting and blowing up body parts of bad guys. However, the story was written merely for an action purpose. There is an unbelievable part to the film near the end between partners-in-crime, the General (David Zayas) and baddie James Munroe (Roberts); I won't get specific so as not to spoil it. But, it's just not believable. Of course, the action is unrealistic but that's expected in any action flick. But this interaction with the General and Munroe makes the film -- particularly the ending -- a bit hard to swallow.  Overall, "The Expendables" is a good film. I enjoyed it and liked all the action. The characters were well played and I am looking forward to the sequel that I heard is already in the works. However, I enjoyed <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002ZG994U">The A-Team</a> a lot more! Maybe it's because of my sense of nostalgia, or maybe it's 'cause I think Liam Neeson rocks. Either way, I enjoyed it better. But, again, "The Expendables" is no pushover (Stallone does a great job both in front of the camera and behind it), and I would recommend any action fan to see this as soon as possible.

Too loud! The movie quality was good, but the music was MUCH louder than the voices, and had to be turned down each time only the music was on.

good movie, terrible transfer I and my family just finished watching the latest HP movie. The movie itself is very good.  However we must warn others that transfer is absolutely terrible, with several scenes unwatchable due to screen being completely black.  We are quite disappointed that Amazon would sell this product at all, much less at a premium price.  I am assuming the copy Amazon sells is the same software as what is found on a DVD, so the problem would likely be found on the discs as well.

Completely Bizarre True Story Very possibly the craziest true story you will ever see. Linda is young and very beautiful. Burt is not very handsome but pretty darn rich. OK, this happens a lot. It's just not your average love story by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, I'm not going to tell you anything about it to save the surprises toward the end of the film. Just sit there and wonder, like I did, why they are both still alive to tell their stories.

Meh Not my favorite Harry Potter movie, but I guess if I wanted it to be just as good as the book it would would be about 6 hours long.

Decent Movie, Bad Character Flaws This is going to sound weird but Strangers was in one hand interesting and in the other disappointing. It started out as I expected. We follow Eyal first as he arrives in Germany and travels to his ex-girlfriend's house whom he made a pact with years ago. They promised each other they would go to the World Cup together no matter what, even if they broke up. Well keeping his end of the promise, he shows up at her house only for her not to answer his phone calls or answer the door. As he searches for a place to sleep for the night, he meets Rana on the subway. They accidentally switch bags which later results in them meeting back up. This leads to them spending time together, going to the World Cup together, and sharing a place to sleep for the remainder of their stay. Basically they do a lot of talking, drinking, love making, and cigarette smoking (which I am fine with up until later).  Things start getting interesting once Rana receives a mysterious phone call and tells Eyal she has to go back to Paris. As she is about to board the plane, she tells him to not call her, basically to forget about their little affair. I figured maybe she had a husband waiting back at home, or maybe family that would completely freak out at the thought of her being with an Israeli man. Of course Eyal is a total romantic (as shown in the beginning when he keeps his promise to his ex) and decides to fly to Paris to surprise Rana with a visit.  Once in Paris, Eyal gets settled in at a hotel and starts searching for Rana. After getting some info from a cafe that she frequents, he surprises her on the subway. Of course, she tells him he shouldn't have come. He gives her a card from the hotel he is staying at just in case she wants to talk to him.  The twist is *SPOILER ALERT* Rana has a little boy that has serious asthmatic health issues to the point where he must use a machine. One night she wakes up to him having trouble breathing and takes him to the hospital. While filling out paperwork, it is revealed that Rana is staying in Paris illegally and the nurse calls immigration. She has no family in Paris, so the only person she can call to watch over her son while she is locked up is Eyal.  Okay so up until this point I was hooked. Did I think the beginning was a little slow and boring? Yes. But once she left Berlin to go back to Paris and Eyal follows her, things really started to heat up. Being able to see that she is a single mom, struggling to make ends meet and to provide the best kind of care to her little boy who is sick, definitely touched a chord in my heart. And obviously I was curious to see Eyal's reaction to not only finding out that Rana has a child, but that he literally has to take care of him until further notice.  Here is where things go down hill and unrealistic for me. The first thing that confused the heck out of me is when Rana gets released. The people from immigration gave her such a hard time and from what is said in the movie, they had proof that her papers had been expired for awhile. How and why was she released??? It is never mentioned. I have watched movies before dealing with immigration and they never just release you 24 hours later. I guess maybe if there had been some sort of explanation I would have been okay. But what was the point of adding that plot device if they weren't going to further explore it?  The second problem I had with this movie was actually Rana's character. I think by the end of the film I was annoyed with her. Here is why. Once I found out she not only had a child, but one that obviously is very sick and frequently, I started questioning her motherhood skills. She takes off for Berlin at the beginning of the movie and it is never explained why. I mean, did she just decide she wanted a vacation? If so, I think she took one hell of a risk to fly to Berlin and leave her kid with a neighbor/friend, especially being in Paris illegally. I guess once I put that all together, it started bothering me. What mother would just up and leave the country for a few days of booze and a hot love affair? Yes, yes, I know she didn't PLAN on meeting and sleeping with Eyal, but come on!  Okay so here is the biggest thing that annoyed the crap out of me about Rana. Her son is an asthmatic. I mean a serious asthmatic that is on medication and sometimes needs a breathing machine. Why in the hell would she be smoking cigarettes around her kid??? Once she gets out of immigration and she invites Eyal back to her place, all they do is smoke cigarettes in that little tiny apartment while her son is sleeping! WTF!!!!!!!!! It just makes no sense! He JUST got out of the hospital from a SERIOUS asthma attack and she is sitting there smoking away! Okay, I need to calm down! But seriously??? The other thing that further annoyed me was later when you see her and Eyal at a club, drinking and getting drunk. Where is the kid??? When they get back to the apartment you see him laying on the bed I think. What, did they just leave him there while they went out partying?  Yup, that is where I pretty much gave up on the movie. I was appalled at her unmotherly, teenage behavior. It kind of spoiled the ending for me which actually wasn't that bad. I guess I just stopped feeling sympathetic for her. As for Eyal...I think he had a little more common sense but hey, I had to fault him too because he was smoking right up in there with her and went out partying with her instead of staying home with the kid. Overall, Strangers wasn't a bad movie, but the writer(s) of the film should have thought things through a little better if they wanted people to feel more sympathetic towards the main characters.

Disappointed Did not like this one as much as the first. Can't put my finger on any one thing. Just didn't do it for me.

Mostly Fun I remember getting home from school and watching at least part of the soap opera, Dark Shadows, as a kid. I always thought it was kind of campy and if I remember correctly it was live and you could frequently see the mistakes made by the actors or the crew. This movie starring Johnny Depp was a fun movie to watch. I think Depp did a very good job with this character and the laughs came pretty easy the first two thirds of the movie. But then, towards the end, it seemed it wanted to become a scary/serious movie. That is why it has a rating from me of three stars. If it would have stayed on track I think the movie night have been better. But once it strayed from comedy, I kind of became disappointed. All in all it was a good/fun movie and I can recommend it as something to watch.

Le roi est mort The previous three seasons of THE TUDORS left viewers with even the slightest bit of historical sense wondering why the producers refused to age or fatten Jonathan Rhys Meyers in the central role of Henry VIII, pretending instead that the aging Tudor king looked like a surly dreamboat with washboard abs even past his fourth marriage. Here, in the series' final season, we have the best indirect explanation why, since without Rhys Meyers's shirtless body on display, and his beautiful face covered by bad aging makeup, he has only his inadequate acting upon which to fall back. Trying to evoke the Tudor lion in his winter, Rhys Meyers evokes a harsher and harsher rattle to his voice that sounds like a bad imitation of the elderly Richard Harris. Rhys Meyers is, at least, rarely boring, which is always one of the best things about the series itself: even if its subsidiary actors have not been up to the level set by Maria Doyle Kennedy, Jeremy Northam and Henry Czerny the first two seasons, at least the thing moves along at quite a clip (and the costumes are even more spectacular than ever). The best performances in this fourth season are from Joss White as Henry's intensely likeable fourth wife Anne of Cleves (still around after her annulment and treated largely as a beloved family figure to the King), and Joely Richardson, well cast for once in her life, as the intelligent sixth wife Katharine Parr who tries to push the king's Protestant leanings too far. Tamzin Merchant features in the first several episodes as the unlucky Catherine Howard, whom she plays as a simpering dingaling; Henry Cavill sticks around with little interesting to do as the Duke of Suffolk; David O'Hara plays Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, like a stevedore who has mistakenly wandered onto the sets. There are more than enough elaborate torture and execution scenes to satisfy the bloodiest of teenage boys; that and the spectacular production values are the series's stocks in trade.

Ong-Bak I cannot really give a review on this as it was purchased as a gift for someone who had the 2nd one and wanted the 1st. He liked the 2nd so much he decided he'd like to find the 1st. I don't think I'd be able to give a fair rating since I haven't seen any of the movies.

EVERYONE loves the Muppets, but movie falls short EVERYONE loves the muppets. Comedy star Jason Segal had a passion for this movie, wrote it and starred in it. Amy Adams is the beautiful and innocent love interest. Rotten Tomatoes gave the movie a 97% movie critic positive rating.  So, what happened? Why did this movie fail at the box office. Did it have anything to do with the Fox News controversy about the bad guy being an oil tycoon. Absolutely not. This movie failed at the box office because it really doesn't have a heart. All of the muppets are there, and there is singing and dancing. Funny jokes and quality writing abound, but I never found one moment to latch on to, one moment that felt real.  I may be wrong on why this movie didn't win over the public, but you can't deny that something is missing. Maybe, the movie didn't take itself seriously enough. There are a few times when Segal or the muppets talk directly to the audience about major plot points or the movie budget.  Bottom line, this is an enjoyable movie. But it isn't the blockbuster critics thought it would be. I wanted this to be a great movie my kids would beg me to buy on video, but in the end, they liked it, then immedietely forgot about it. The muppets will remain part of television history to them.

Watch it for laughs Dont take this movie too serious. its all in good fun. The reason I gave it 3 stars is that theres some great dialogue referencing 90s teen television .

Somewhat disappointed I loved the picture quality but you have to put the sound all the way up to Max to hear it.  Why couldn't they re-master the sound?

Is pretty enough? This movie is visually very attractive.  There is some of the best depictions of fae I've seen in a long time and the forest is beautiful.  Chris Hemsworth does a great job considering how thinly written his character is. Charlize Theron is fantastic at depicting the witch as irredeemably evil and extremely broken.  Kristen Stewart is, well, pretty. Too bad she portrays the main character.

Fairly typical schlocky horror This is basically a well acted fairly gory drama/horror movie.  It's not bad, but you've seen these types of movies before.  It's watchable you just will end up tuning out after a while.  Remake doesn't really matter in this case because the original is fairly obscure; this one has no real troma tone (it's not funny at all).  I don't know why he did it, the principal (bousman) has done better and more original stuff before.  This is just a lump of bison patty; sure the plants will like it but you've smelled it before and you aren't going to want to sit there and watch it.

Not terrible First, I never saw the original so I am not comparing it to anything. Standing alone, the movie is just o.k. The story is slow and the dialogue is rather strained. I like Jeff Bridges, though, so it wasn't a total bust.  Not bad but not recommended.

Not the best movie... I agree that this is not the best Harry Potter movie and that neither of the movies compare with the books. This movie was actually a disappointment.

Now feels like an extended SNL skit Ah yes memories...and how they fade.  John Landis directed this farce about three silent film actors who are fired for demanding more money based on a series of hit movies with the "Three Amigos" tag.  Unemployed, they accept a job in Mexico, thinking that they will perform a fake shoot-em-up for the townsfolk led by the infamous El Guapo.  The three, Lucky (Steve Martin), Dusty (Chevy Chase) and Ned (Martin Short) think infamous means "more than just famous," that is, more famous.  Now these guys are not quite as dim as the Three Stooges but they sometimes come close.  Although there are a number of humorous gags, the film really isn't well written.  At least for adults.  Even with three very funny men in the lead, it comes up short.  Still it's worth a smile or two, especially for the younger set.

Happy Feet (Full Screen Edition) Happy Feet (Full Screen Edition) is an OK animated movied. The story line is about mumble a penguin that dances but can not sing. In penguin society everything is based on how you sing. Because of this he is seen as different and an outcast. The message to accept others is a good one. However, then the move starts with an overtly political message about evil humans and good animals. A children's movie should not deal with politics. The voice acting is great and Elijah Wood is great as Mumble. Still an OK movie. 3/5.

not complete most of the films work perfectly but there are a few discs on the first season that do not work at all, ive tried on several different dvd players and still nothing, it just says there is a disc error, my friend who has the season, he bought it at frys, and all of the discs work on my dvd player but for some reason these ones dont

Slow but oddly interesting This was mis sold in the UK, pretending to be a Viking epic and has recieved harsh criticism for it. At least in the US it has been more honest, so is it any good really?  It is an unusual film a sort of Ingmar Bergman meets Derek Jarman only with a better camera. It is supposed to be a fantasy and as such it is hard to work out what the actual plot is. Starring Mads Mikkelsen as a one eyed sort of prize fighter, he is treated like an animal only let out for fight to the death. He apparently is owned by Barde(I got that from the cover), who is a wealthy Scotsman who obtained him for his fighting skills. If he is such a lethal fighting machine, how was he ever caught?  Any way he escapes; killing everyone except a young lad who comes along and appears to be able to understand the mute `One Eye'. I thought it was going to be a Christian versus Pagan type thing as Christianity is a thread throughout the film. The old sort of Christianity mind, crusading and killing; not the modern sort of caring and turning the other cheek etc. They meet up with some would be crusaders and then go off on a strange voyage to either the Holy Land of to establish a New Jerusalem.  This is a slow, often claustrophobic, stylish and atmospheric film. Writer and director Nicholas Winding Refn clearly knew what he wanted to create; the studio I think had different ideas. He uses music and imagery to drive the narrative forward and whilst it works, the swift and violent changes in pace -there are snippets of violent flask backs and/or premonitions- actually break your concentration. It is like being hooked and somehow getting off the line. It is only 86 minutes long, but does seem a whole lot longer and it leaves so much unanswered that I was left undecided as to whether this is an excellent art house film, that I was unable to get; or slightly disjointed and possibly overly self indulgent. A sort of triumph of style over substance. In the end I think it is somewhere between the two, hence the three stars. Please don't get me wrong I do not think this is a bad film and I shall want to see it again, but that I cannot say that I `loved it' and that is great because I am pretty sure that is not the emotion the makers were aiming for.

Typical Just wanted to see the movie with Rumer Willis was starring in. It was the typical scream fest. But you know that.

Entertaining but just not enough. This movie was entertaining but had no soul. I didn't really feel for the characters like in other animated movies. Also the beginning and ending felt rushed, I would have liked to see them elaborate a bit more in those areas. Kids might like this movie but for an adult who likes animated movies like I do, it was worth the rent but I won't be adding it to my collection.

Science fiction meets identity theft This science fiction film was poorly received when it came out, but in retrospect was rather underrated.  It is adapted from a story by the late Philip K. Dick, whose work also provided the basis for the more successful films Blade Runner and Total Recall.  The plot is concerned with the malleability of human identities.  In a future society under martial law, an executive who is loyal to the regime suddenly finds himself arrested by the secret police, accused of being an enemy infiltrator, and facing summary execution.  Most of the film is concerned with his miraculous escape and desperate fight for survival, until there is a surprising twist that adds a sinister new significance to the events.

Ghost House Returns 30 Days of Night: Dark Days is not only a reasonably faithful adaptation of the Dark Days comic book, with only a few changes taking place, but it is also an adequate and surprisingly well produced sequel to the original Ghost House Pictures production of 30 Days of Night. While one can never be sure what they'll get when it comes to low budget direct-to-DVD sequels, in this particular case Ghost House, Steve Niles and Ben Ketai have actually crafted something worth checking out.  The production values were high; I had no problems with the cinematography, acting or score so on the technical tip everything here was satisfactory. Whether you enjoy Ghost House's films or not, one can rarely knock the quality of their productions. I do think some will probably take issue with new actors filling the roles of Stella, originally played by Melissa George, but native Chicagoan Kiele Sanchez held her own quite well, even managing to outshine both veteran actress Mia Kirschner ("The L Word") and Rhys Coiro ("Entourage").  Concerning the story itself, I wasn't bowled over by anything I saw as it just plows right through, ignoring sub-plots and much-needed exposition, toward the final inevitable showdown. I was a bit disappointed that we didn't learn more about Dane and his ability to retain some semblance of humanity, his history with Lilith, the history of Lilith, the vampires and their connection with the Bug-Eaters. Genre fans familiar with the characters of Knock (Nesferatu) and Renfield (Dracula) will immediately understand what "Bug-Eater" means but it would have helped had it been explained a bit more.  Good? Sure, not bad at all but still disappointing in a non-offensive way. I wouldn't purchase this for my collection, as I wasn't the biggest fan of the first film, but it wouldn't hurt to check it out as a rental.

Cowboys Take Care of their Horses First, their women Second. The film, [ASIN:B001LUYN5Q The Outlaw]] gives an interesting historical account on the lives of Doc Holiday and Billy the Kid with a couple of scintillating scenes with Jane Russell.  I was unfamiliar with these actors, I hope they didn't quit their day jobs. The storyline was weak, script was poorly written and delivered, it seemed the main purpose of the movie was to highlight Miss Russell's headlights and speculate on the relationship between these two infamous outlaws. It's interesting how these film makers tried to capitalized using Miss Russell's voluptuous body(she obviously had no formal training)in a racy movie about men who regarded women as a commodity, valuing them less than their horses.

consinual review The movie was ok, the storyline just a bit unbelievable. I wouldnt really recommend buying this one, but I guess it would be worth renting

For the Experience Only As the title of this review states, Battle Royale is only for the videophile who wants to add to their range of viewed movies. The plot, while barely plausible, provides the energy for this film while the characters are limited to comic book portrayals. Another reason for viewing this film is its similarity to The Hunger Games. Towards the end of the film my main desire was to have the movie end.

Twilight Zone - The Complete Collection I was able to get the series through an outside vendor for Amazon as that appered to be the only source. The set came in a shrink wrap plastic. I noticed the individual chapters seemed to be out of order, ie: instead of reading left to right 1-5, they were arranged as 5-1. I asked the vendor about it and was told it was a new set and they would correct if there was any problem. I agree the packaging of the discs could be better for their protection. The biggest fault I find with the set is that there are "hang-ups" on the first episode: "Where is Everybody". I note that Image Entertainment has a disclaimer on the back of each pack: "Dual Layer Format: Layer transition may trigger a slight pause". It's more than a slight pause. The picture freezes and you have to use your DVD remote to continue to make it play. This happened two or three time in this one episode. So far I have not found any "hang-ups" on other episodes, but I haven't watched them all.Still,the series is great fun and something to pass on to a younger generation.  I'd be interested to know if other fans have had the same problem with the "hang-ups". Has anyone returned a set due to the "hang-ups" or other problems.

Like Watching Only 10 Of The "Thirteen Days Of Glory" (Five stars for "The Magnificent Seven and one star for the edited "Alamo" averages out to three stars, for the combination)  Two great Western movies here, but when, OH WHEN, is the entire, unedited, theatrical release of "the Alamo" going to be released on DVD? I have the two tape set on VHS, so I know that it does exist (though I've heard that there was actually an even longer edition at one time, now supposedly lost forever). In a time when "Director's Cuts," "Unedited/Extended Versions," and "Unrated Versions" are available for everything from "Avatar" to the "X Men," why can't we get the extended version of John Wayne's labor of love, "The Alamo?"

Disappointed it wasn't really science fiction This was basically a war movie that happened to have aliens as the enemy.  And considering they were aliens with the technology to bring all those weapons across interstellar space, *extremely* far fetched notion that their weapons would be so similar to ours.  If you picture the aliens as Russians or whatever, then you have a pretty standard war movie with a lot of special effects.  Not nearly as much sci-fi as I would have hoped for, and way too much sentimental drama.  Tons and tons of non-stop shooting action if that's what you're looking for.  I guess I was hoping for something closer to War of the Worlds, and this is a world apart from that movie.

HAD ITS MOMTENTS I won't go into the plot of this film as that has already been done. So I will just say that while I wouldn't buy it (I rented it), it wasn't that bad. Like I said it had its moments, and some of those moments were seriously creepy. I watched it at night on my own which obviously added a little something extra to the viewing. Still I thought 'this is good'...until the end. Okay I know not all movies have to have a happy ending, especially those of the horror genre. But come on!! And to be honest the first thought that came to mind at the end was the old,'gosh this reminds me of something'. And that something was The Wicker Man/Hot Fuzz. And I don't mean by the later film that it was funny. I think you get where I'm going with this. It wasn't exactly scene for scene of coarse, but you see it and its been done. I'm sorry I just think they could have wrapped it up differently than the way they did. It was just all too familiar. But hey, it still managed to give me the heebies. And forget about checking under the bed...check the top of the wardrobe!!

Very interesting and very campy There have been many movie versions of the Bram Stoker classic Dracula. Frances Ford Coppola turned it into a love story that found fulfillment centuries after the love began. The story is not about Dracula's search for women, but for a single woman. The film is interesting, but is very campy in how the actors act and how they look.   The story starts in 1462 when a secret order of Dragons (from which, according to Coppola, the name Dracula is derived) goes out to fight against the Moslem invasion. The count kisses his wife goodbye and thanks God for having her. He is successful, but the Moslems take revenge. They order an archer to shoot an arrow into the wife's room telling her that the count was killed. Grief stricken, she commits suicide. When the count returns, the priests tell him that since she committed suicide she is damned forever. He becomes furious, curses the priests, drives a sword through the church cross, and is punished by God by being turned into a vampire.   Four centuries later, in 1897, Dracula travels to England and discovers that his wife has been resurrected as Mina, the fianc&eacute;e of a man called Harker. He is determined to be reunited with her. He drinks the blood of Mina's friend and makes her his slave. He enchants Mina who little by little begins to recall her earlier life with the count. She drinks Dracula's blood and, although she had married Harker, insists that she wants to be with the count forever.  Anthony Hopkins plays Van Helsing, the doctor who is summoned to help Mina. He also overacts and is campy. Coppola, in a commentary that is part of the DVD, says he wanted to be as close to the original tale as possible, but he chose to put lots of the surreal in his version, and admits that he may have gone to an extreme. Readers of this review may be interested in reading my review of Bela Lugosi's Dracula, a collection of several Dracula films.

Poor Video Quality The program is great, very funny with a great cast. The video playback quality is absolutely horrible. The images are blurry and the video skips. It is for all intents and purposed worthless.

Kids movie The filming is terrific. Some of the action scenes are very well done even in 2D they were very good. I expect in 3D they are even better.  The story however is pretty ordinary as is the acting. I am not that keen on Brendan Fraser.  I would suggest if you are going to see it, see it with the kids.  They will like it. Make sure it is blue ray

But who's guiding your heart? I saw this movie on life time and agree with other reviewers that it is one of the most decent love stories except for the daughter giving the mother the finger and teaching her how to drink but that's pretty clean for Hollywood these days. It does have a anti-parent feel to it that wants to make you believe you  can do better without them but let me warn you about getting your messages about life from Hollywood you can  only go as high as humans can go in their presentation. Just human love, sucess, and music is not enough to live by especially when facing death you certainly need something higher than yourself in both cases. Besides that the movie does give you a better understanding of what it means to be deaf both the good and bad situations it carries with it

Leo is the man! You know, I'm not sure that I really liked the story of this movie all that much, but it is worth watching just for Leo's performance alone!

1 Van Damme isn't enough. Twins aren't always alike. This movie proves it. It's how and where the're raised. In Double Impact, Van Damme plays twin brother raised in to very different environments. One a Hollywood Pretty Boy, the other a Hong Kong Tug. When they finally meet, it's a serious culture class. When they team up, a whole lot of people get their asses kicked. Don't expect alot of art or deep thinking in a movie like this. However, if your into action movies, this one is for you.

You get what you pay for... The movie probably deserves restoration, and Artisan implies that this is restored, but the print is very poor and obviously not restored. Amazon's list of features does not include the commentary track by O'Hara. There are three audio tracks, one of which is a commentary.  This is the best version currently available and the making of documentary is worth having, but we aren't going to see a Blu-ray version until the print is restored. This version does not deserve the Collector's Edition title but is worthwhile just for the commentary.

The thing I love this movie.  I both this movie because i had heard they were doing a remake on this one I thought I should see this one agian before the new one comes out

Snow White & the Huntsman I really liked this whole new take on the Snow White story.  This was definitely very action-packed (guys would actually like it) but for us girls, a little more romance would have been nice.  The end was a little frustrating because it just left you hanging but I hear there may be a sequel.  If so, then I am definitely looking forward to this story continuing.

Cat Snuff film Graphically it looks amazing. The story however... let's just you spend most of the movie watching things that may or will kill the cats. Oh look they lost 2 kittens to hyenas, now a storm rolls in, NOW A LION ATTACKS, NOW CHEETAHS ATTACK.  Seriously, it's a very pretty well narrated cat snuff film. If you like kittens that survive more then 30mins in the movie, skip it. Don't let your kids watch it if they love cats. I swear though the 4th time the cello's started to play and they showed grass waving in the wind I was like I'm done, another main cat is dead.

Good chessy fun! This is a good low budget straight to video Zombie pic. It takes a new twist on the genre by using a plane as the setting, is it is scary and at the same time funny. A science experiment goes bad and soon the the passengers on the plane are exposed and are trapped thousands of feet in the air, chased by zombies. You have to see the scene when you have an old woman that becomes a zombie, but has no teeth so her bite is harmless and one passenger that becomes zombiefied is stuck in his seat the whole movie and tries in vain to reach people. Nice entertaining film.

Watch with a grain of Salt Before you dismiss this video (before or after watching) I think it's important to point out that there is a lot of factual evidence in this video.  I'm actually going to give this 3.5 stars... It is apparent that the filmmaker is using skewed documentary techniques and that on occasion they fail to reference where/how they obtained information (and they do it in a very sneaky way), the redemptive quality of this film is that the film maker HAS taken a lot of steps to obtain factual information about Obama's career in Chicago, his education, and it points out in this video where there are obvious holes in Obama's history-bucket.  If nothing else Obama should be held accountable for his Chicago style politics and audiences should walk away from this video with the understanding that Obama's campaign style DID change from when he was a senator to the president--it changed from rallying the support of lower class blacks to his "hope and change" campaign which was little more than a rhetorical ploy.

Chaos in the 9th Company Havbing worked for the US Army for forty years my review concerns the lack of disapline in the Russian Army.  The company seemed to be in constant confusion and in the final attack they seemed lost on what to do.

The Female of the Species Jacopetti and Prosperi came back a year later with Women of the world a "mondo" film that attempted to show the bizarre rites and rituals of the female of the species. This film is essentially compiled extra footage taken from Mondo Cane.  Like Mondo Cane this film looks better than it has in many years. Blue Underground has done a great job on this restoration. This is also a film of purely historical interest so not much really needs to be said concerning its content. The materail is bizarre but quite tame by today's standards.  The dic features trailers for the film and is presented in its original Italian or English soundtracks. Of some interest is the witty commentary by Peter Ustinov that accompanies the film which was written by Jacopetti.  Worth seeing if you have an interest but better as a rental than as a purchase

All action, all the time! "The Expendables" is an action film that's less about the action and more about the 80s retread cast.  Where else can Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) and Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren) face off once more? Or watch Jet Li face off against Lundgren? Or witness Jason Statham compete in a knife throwing contest with Stallone? Or watch Mickey Rourke lecture Stallone? Or listen to Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Stallone quip wise in a church? Nowhere else!  Depending on whether or not you find these kinds of face-offs intriguing will determine your level of interest in this film.  That's it.  The characters' names and back stories mean less to the film than the actors themselves, whose legendary oeuvre make it impossible to see them as anything else. This is not a film where Jet Li plays the demolitions expert and Stallone is the martial artist.  Everyone fits comfortably back into their own roles like a well-worn glove and embraces it with gusto as they take on the actor known for arch-villainy across all of Syfy-dom, Eric Roberts.  Our motley team of mercenaries belongs to a biker gang known as The Expendables, based in New Orleans. There's the leader Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone), stabby guy Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), martial artist Yin Yang (Jet Li), sniper Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren), heavy weapons guy Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) and blow-things-up guy Toll Road (Randy Couture). Their workaday rhythm of blasting bad guys goes south when Jensen loses it during a mission and Christmas discovers his girlfriend (Charisma Carpenter) has left him for another man. That's what passes for character development.  In an aging warrior dialogue reminiscent of Frank Miller's "The Dark Knight Returns," Ross wears his military mantle with a heavy brow.  He no longer fights for anything - it's part of being a mercenary after all - and without family to speak of he longs to be passionate about something, lest he turn into a raving psychopath like Jensen. The film reaches its spiritual apex in a dialogue between Ross and Tool (Mickey Rourke), who does more acting in five minutes than the entire crew manages in the rest of the movie. Can our hero find redemption?  Ross finds hope in spunky Sandra (Gisele Itie) who ferociously resists dictator General Garza (David Zayas, subdued here) in the South American island nation of Vilena. Of course, there's always an evil American behind all this, and unrepentant ex-CIA officer James Monroe (Eric Roberts) pulls the puppet strings. Even with Paine (Steve Austin) and the Brit (Gary Daniels) amongst his troops, Monroe doesn't have a chance.  If you can't guess how this is going to end then you haven't seen many action movies. Suffice it to say that dictators are overthrown, buildings are blown up, and souls are saved. Along the way villains are shot, sliced, stabbed, crushed, and burned alive.  The dialogue is occasionally funny (Yang complaining about how he has to get paid more because he works harder due to his small stature really cracked me up), the violence always intense, and the pace never, ever slows down.  "The Expendables" doesn't aim very high but hits the bulls-eye anyway as an action flick that's all action.

Way too many coincidences I came at this unburdened by having read the book, so the movie stood on its own. I found far too many easy coincidences, such as the ridiculous number of preserved photo negatives from a 1966 parade in a nowhere town in Sweden that allow the disgraced journo and his punk g-friend to solve a 40-year-old murder. And the convenient stacks of 1960s Vander Co. business records, containing just the right clues, were another absurdity for me. I appreciated the hint at such a multi-layered mystery, but in the end I was not convinced by the reality. This could not have happened in real life, so I was not transported. It's also hard to see how someone could disappear to Australia and never be found until just the right moment. The leading man here is not much of an actor, either. He is semi-expressionless throughout, as is the girl of the title. Others find her performance great. I just thought it was one-dimensional. All the computer hocus-pocus seems unreal as well. not to mention the get-even finale which also depends on an absurd amount of written records all coming together thanks to the "genius" girl researcher. This is still entertaining, but deeply flawed.

Good Childrens Movie This is surly a move for children, ages 6 to 14 and adults should not consider it.

NOT OUTSTANDING BOUGHT IT BECAUSE D.B. SWEENEY WAS IN IT, BE COMPARED TO HIS PERFORMANCE IN THE CUTTING EDGE. HE WAS TERIBLE

very good This was a very good purchase for the price,especially if you're an Underworld fan. I was not a fan,but am one now.

Just OK For some reason this movie bored me and I restlessly waited for it to end. It's not like the acting was really bad or anything, I just didn't get in to it.

movie Somewhat disappointed. Same story over and over with different endings. Acting was fine it was just the story. Hard to find good lesbian movies.

So-so For a description of the plot, etc., read other reviews.  I just want to give my thoughts on this movie...  I'm a big Hitchcock fan.  Nearly all of his movies are great.  In my opinion, he's the greatest director of all time.  Second place would have to go to Spielberg.  Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) is a so-called "screwball comedy" that stars Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery.  I would instead classify it as a "romantic comedy".  To me, this movie is rather flat.  The humor fell a little flat with me.  There were some funny moments, but they didn't have me laughing out loud.  The movie seems inconsistent throughout and somewhat predictable.  This comedy movie was an experiment by Hitchcock.  He only did one other comedy - The Trouble With Harry (1955), and that was a "black comedy".  I think Hitchcock was a funny guy generally speaking, but I think his humor works a lot better when it is used sparingly in his movies.  Every Hitchcock movie has a couple of light moments sprinkled in.  It's designed to let the audience breathe a little.  Even some of Hitchcock's cameo appearances are humorous, for example his appearances in North By Northwest (1959), To Catch A Thief (1955), and Stage Fright (1950).  Some of his trailers are humorous as well, the best example being Frenzy (1972).  But I think doing straight up comedies wasn't Hitchcock's thing, for the most part.  Mr. & Mrs. Smith doesn't feel like a typical Hitchcock movie.  The trademark suspense is largely absent.  The trademark Hitchcock darkness is absent as well.  For me, the biggest reason to watch this movie is Carole Lombard.  Overall, this is a so-so Hitchcock movie that I can't give a full recommendation for.  You might like it more than I do.

Decent but not for everyone I have a hard time deciding whether or not to recommend "Drive" to most people. To anyone who shies away from graphic violence which is realistic, I would say this movie isn't for you. While there aren't a lot of violent scenes here, the ones the movie has are rather brutal. I can't exactly say those looking for great chase scenes will love this either - it has about three fairly short chase scenes, though they were each striking in different ways. The opening scene where we first learn that the driver makes some money as a getaway driver isn't fast-paced but is very unique; it was my favorite scene in the movie because it's not the type of chase you normally see. The driver manages to elude capture using some intelligent techniques.  The dialog in the movie left something to be desired. The driver (his character has no name) says little more than a word here and there for half the movie; then he suddenly has a whole lot to say to the people threatening him. The female neighbor he becomes protective of says even less. What I did appreciate about the movie was its direction and style. The director did some interesting things with light which caught my eye at times. I enjoyed the music used and it was integrated well into the story. A few scenes used slow-motion, a technique which gets on my nerves when not done well; however, the director utilized it successfully here. In the end, I liked the style of the movie more than the substance. I felt the dialog needed improvement and the characters needed a little more development.

Kind of on the disappointing side - average To read the cast of this movie is like a roll call of some of the best comedy talent of the last twenty years... Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd, Steve Carrell - yet the movie itself is just average.  Ferrell has rounded up a posse of idiots in Champ, a loud-motuhed drunk with a country hat, Brick, who is very weird (and funny) indeed and the guy with the moustache, Fantana, all led by Rob Burgundy, who you wouldn't want to have reading the news, which is most exciting when reporting on cat beauty contests and panda bears giving birth.  Sure, the movie is funny, but it's just not a great movie - The ending is so bland, with the rival reporter kissing him, and the idea aren't coming; Ferrell and his posse just act silly and clown around, but they ideas just aren't there. It's worth around 2 1/2 - alright for a viewing experience, a few laughs, but not much else. By the way, I thought Steve Carell was the funniest in the movie as  the character Brick.

An O.K. movie This movie wasnt exactly what i expected it to be some parts were cheezy but overall it was an alright movie. Honestly on a scale of 1-10 id give it a seven only becouse it featerd Paris Hilton,the good thing is that she didnt sing much throughout the movie becouse even with the help of computer programsshe's still terrible at it. But overall it was an alright movie the setting was cool and the story was good if i remember it correctly, i wouldve gave it a 4 star review if they would've used a different actress in part of Paris Hilton. but the movie was ok i guess.

Squeamishly uproarious even though it's predictable This is a great movie for laugh out lout situations. Is a pregnancy really so tumultuous? There were plenty of scenes I felt squeamish about. I had to fast forward through a lot of them! They did, however, provide the element of surprise to what was a predictable plot. The other surprise was Hawaii 5-0 star playing the leading man. I'd watch this movie again with some of my girl friends just so we could all laugh.  :)

Live Free & Die Well! You really have to leave your brain at the door to enjoy The Scorpion King, a prequel to the second Mummy movie, to better explain the origins of the Scorpion King.  The original Scorpion King was not The Rock, but another guy who with fast reflexes is hard to kill.  He can catch arrows in his bare hands and can deflect weapons with his sword.  He's the best swordsman ever and he's also ruthless.  Plots:  I did enjoy the themes of revenge and a thirst for power and how power corrupts.  Not so good was the martial arts fighting - I doubt there were martial arts fighing in pre-Biblical times!  The casual mentions of Biblical cities, such as Sodom & Gomorrah, was interesting as well.  The fast action was great, with Dwayne Cooke's crazy arrow scenes (where an arrow can hit you and has enough momentum to punch you out of a bar!), the pause as the beautiful sorceress he has been hired to kill falls in love with him, and the bad old King who finally loses his kingdom.  Bottom Line:  Making one's own destiny is a lot of work, and the Rock does so out the top!  Kelly Hu as the sorceress is well worth the price of admission.  If you like non-stop action and some scenes that make absolutely no sense but are fun to watch, then rent this film.  The Mummy Trilogy is better:  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000IEVW6E">The Mummy (1999)</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000IEZP8K">The Mummy Returns</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001R02W4Y">The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor</a>

over rated i thought 50 cent would play a good role. was totally disappointed with this DVD should have listen to the other reviews and kept my money, Gave it 3 stars for the violent.

NC-17 ? I don't think so !! This DVD was purchased as a gift for someone who would rate it with 5 Stars. I watched it with this person, and it was well made...cast,filming,etc. BUT! I would not have watched it if the preview description had revealed how extremely explicit it was.I did not think the extended,graphicly portrayed sex scenes were necessary to convey the idea that the girl was psychologically enslaved by her captor. I expected more from Ang Lee; he managed to tell a heartbreaking story of another kind of "forbidden" love in Brokeback Mountain without resorting to soft porn. My 3 Stars was for the cinematography and casting only.

INCOMING! Dolph plays Granger, a marshal arts instructor and ex-military man who is transported back in time to fulfill a prophecy about defeating evil. If the accent and bad acting of Lochlyn Munro as King/Raven doesn't make you laugh, stay tuned as the acting gets worse. The king's sorceress (Natalia Guslistaya) who transport Dolph dies, but her spirit sticks around a few scenes to help Dolph. Michaela Mann plays a bad actress who Dolph is too tired to have sex with.  After a little bit of wine, Dolph goes from telling the king to "stick his prophecy..." to "let me at the B...." He must kill the Holy Mother (Christina Jastrzembska) most likely due to her rejected Renaissance performance. Natassia Malthe (Bloodrayne: Deliverance)is the King's doctor who will accompany Dolph on his quest after he takes her virginity. She reminds me of a horrendous medieval Mila Kunis. Meanwhile the king will work on attempting to fully grow out his beard.  Dolph realizes things aren't the way he is being told and the water isn't purified. This sets us up for the twist...and a dragon.  No f-bombs, sex, or nudity. Some minor Pg-13 words and sexual innuendos. With the bad acting, simplistic plot, and language it would appear the movie was designed for a tween to early teen crowd, but due to the violence got an R rating, placing it in the worse of both worlds. For serious movie watchers, 1 to 2 stars. For young teens about 4 stars. Might do well during an MST marathon.

Eve Black is the Docs FAV??? perhaps a ploy for cooperation was so surprised the Doc went out of his way to confirm his decision, guess men do like the wild ones???  Joanne was unbelievalbe in creating 3 distinct personalities on screen in seconds, better than Jim Carey!! was even more surprised that the traumatizing event only addressed a funeral and wondered why they did not show a more substantial event so as to demonstrate the power of more complex situations to present as escapism through denial and repression... how fortunate this woman was to find a compassionate and intelligent series of doctors who attempted to understand a very rare disorder, though bipolar disorder is based in trauma is more prevalent than I would ever want to experience...  hope this woman is doing well and with reminders to all with these disorders to have faith in recovery....

wild west Can't beat the price and the quality, as a John Wayne nut of recent I especially enjoyed Chisum. All of TCM's movie have been great

3 Girls + 1 Guy Do you like furries? Actually that may not be the right question...  Format: Hybrid (Both Eng/Jap audio/subs)  Length: 12 Episodes + OVA (if you browse online for figures you'll see a familiar looking figure of our catgirl on the cover)  Special Features: Special Episode Previews 1-12, "The End," "Ichika Special!!!!," Episode 1 Commentary, Episode 9 Commentary, Textkess Opening Song, Textless Closing Songs.  Art/Animation: 4/5 With bluray/720p the color is vivid and tropical (literally) and is refreshing as a pina colada.  humor: 3.2/5 I admit that there's some nice areaes where there is humor but its more of a fanservice humor than slapjoke humor. its just there for you to enjoy than to laugh at, and I know that many western anime fans tend to...laugh at every single thing they see....  story: 2-3/5 There's no story. If you think there is, you're just kidding with yourself. Infinite Stratos isn't any different either. Another typical harem genre. BUT!  fanservice: 4/5 Now, these catians are very fun and sadly, they probably censored the nudity in the OVA..........Anyways, there's lots of fanservice and plenty of 'innocent' sexual innuendos and we've had cats in heat in this series.  Overall: 3.3-5/5. The show is definitely enjoyable, but nothing that great. But it still passes on my list, it has a nice mix of comedy/romance in it with two girls with guns and a bit of drama going on. Other than that, its just another typical love triangle anime (3 girls + 1 guy doesn't really count as a harem in my opinion, its more of a love triangle really mostly cuz the catian isn't exactly that aggressive or passive about getting the guy.  The price for this package is a bit expensive but what many people don't understand, or rather, many western fans underestimate the tastes and popularity in certain genres and titles. The figures for the robots and for the Cat-ian(s) have been sold out for a while. This series definitely has gained much popularity in Japan and many popular titles in Japan tend to also be expensive in America (ie Fate/Zero Bluray Limited Edition Box or Puella Madoka Magica)  Normally I would say the base price for any series would be from 30-40. 20 USD is like a discount. The anime industry has to make money because many people download. So do your part at the very least and support the producers and the anime industry. Other than that, say you pay 30-40 USD for the dvd box set and the dvd/bluray combo normally costs 3-10 USD more.  Considering the popularity of this series, 41.99 seems like a very affordable and cheap price. I underestimated the popularity of Zero no Tsukaima/Tora Dora/Shakugan no Shana and they are all sold out or out of print.  However, this dvd box at least has a couple commentaries. I feel this one might actually be in Japanese. I bought Infinite Stratos and luckily the commentary was in Japanese so I don't have to watch or listen to commentaries with 3-5 second awkward silence. I dunno, English commentaries are not very satisfying as compared to Japanese commentaries. But I digress.  Never underestimate the popularity of certain titles. This one will definitely be big, and I somewhat prefer this over Rosario because Rosario Vampire feels a bit jumbled up and trips over the story compared to the manga.  With Asobi Iku Yo (Let's Play/Let's go play, which is horribly translated to Cat Planet Cuties, not sure what the difference is even if both are inappropriate if you think about it hard enough), you really have to get this box or else it'll slip away and you will risk it being sold in very few copies in the future so don't expect it to drop in price too soon, or ever for that matter. I know a good/will-be-expensive title when I see one when I see it.  Similar titles that easily sell at 40 or above (reasonable price considering their popularity) would be: The World God Only Knows/Ore no imouto konna ni kawaii wake ga nai or My Sister Can't be this cute in english, k-on!/k-on!!, clannad, clannad after story, etc.  This show somewhat forces the audience to accept a girl barging and free loading in the house. Not much story goes on until the last few eps. The middle is mostly conflict between the two human girls over the male protag.

Were they really that young? Wow, this is really an oldie. I forgot how camp some of these old ones were. Really nice to see it again.

Movie is great, DVD was not What a great movie, the kids loved it. However, I didn't see anything special about "full screen special edition" -- it looked the same as any other DVD on my HDTV and DVD player. I probably could have saved a couple of $$ on another version. Furthermore, the CD arrived with a cut through the UPC symbol. When I used to buy LP's, that was an indication that it was returned, or resold, or used or something like that. Was this not new then? Also due to that, when I peeled off the outside wrapper, the plastic case tore. The DVD was not damaged, so all in all, I decided not to return it.

strike Strike(7-10 Split) 2007NR93 minutes Realizing that his chances of becoming a movie star are increasingly slim, aspiring actor Ross Vegas (Ross Patterson) turns his focus to bowling, and before long he's anointed as the PBA's newest rising star. Tommy Reid directs this quirky, low-budget comedy that also stars Tara Reid as Ross's girlfriend, Lindsay, Clayne Crawford as his wisecracking best friend, Mike, and Vinnie Jones (Snatch) as bowling tour bad boy Roddy.  Cast:Ross Patterson, Tara Reid, Clayne Crawford, Ray Wise, Vinnie Jones, Robyn Lively, Rachel Hunter, John Di Maggio, Rob Huebel, Vincent Pastore, Sarah Ann Schultz, Robert Carradine, Irina Voronina, Ricky Trammell, Katie Lohmann Director:Tommy Reid Genres:Comedies, Independent Movies, Sports Movies, Sports Comedies, Independent Comedies This movie is:Goofy, Feel-goodAvailability:Streaming and DVD movie ok very slow

the more I thought about it, the less I liked it In a future where genetic manipulation has reached the point that most sicknesses and defects can be eliminated at conception, one man (whose parents didn't opt for this procedure) faces discrimination from more "perfect" people. He finds a way to pose as a genetically perfect person so he can pursue his dream of being an astronaut, but a murder investigation stands the chance of exposing him...  Although competently made, the film suffers from being overly-preachy -- based (intentionally?) on a misunderstanding of eugenics -- and in itself has a couple of gaping plot holes. Add to that Uma Thurmon's utterly lifeless performance and lack of chemistry with the rest of the cast, and you have a film that has a hint of potential that it fails to live up to.  I *tried* to like this film, too. I'm surprised there is such a "cult" following for it. At best it is worth watching once.

A coming of age tale for a young jerk "Submarine" has, at least to my reading, been compared to 1998's classic, "Rushmore."  Both movies reek of the indie spirit and feature struggling prep-school quasi-outcasts whose delusions of self-worth fall dizzyingly short of reality.  But where "Rushmore" was saved by the innate goodness of its hero and the movie's charmingly whimsical tone, "Submarine" fails to rise to the heights of the Wes Anderson film.  Oliver Tate is our hero in "Submarine," a struggling teenager in the mid-1980s. A victim of a cruel hoax by the love of his young life, Oliver surprisingly finds himself in the catbird seat.  What ensues as Oliver confronts increasingly melodramatic plto points is an exercise in Oliver's complete lack of social skills and genuine empathy for his fellow man.  It's not that Oliver doesn't consider other people's feelings - it's that he thinks about them and almost invariably draws the wrong conclusion.  While many have found the movie to be both poignant and on the mark, too many key points seemed too contrived to sustain my interest.  I can suspend disbelief and will even believe the ridiculous in the context of a good movie, but "Submarine" is too clever and shocking by half.  There are far worse coming of age tales out there, but there are many that are superior.

Great for horror fans I watched this movie on the Kindle Fire. It was free since I have Amazon Prime. The movie streamed well and looked great on the Kindle Fire. I have seen this movie several times and it was nice to be able to revisit the movie again. The plot is simple but the imagery and imagination of Clive Barker is exquisite. Love it!

Not bad! I love both of the main characters in the movie but it was just a basic movie with a simple story line.

Decent The film was alright. The names of the owls were kind of confusing. The film was a little boring at the beginning, but it got better towards the end. A straightforward, not too complicated, decent adventure. I enjoyed learning about the storyline.

Tim Burton vs. Dan Curtis This is a Tim Burton movie!  That should have already told me that this is not going to be anything like the original Dark Shadow.  Sometimes, I got the impression that Tim Burton could not make up his mind.  Is this a comedy or a horror show?  All this tragedy, all this suffering, came about because a young Barnabas spurned the love of the family maid, Angelique.  Unfortunately for Barnabas, Angelique is unlike most women.  Most women who get spurned simply just suck it up, get depressed, and write poetry about it.  But not Angelique.  She curses Barnabas, turning him into a vampire.  Cursed to suck the life blood from humans, Barnabas eventually gets imprisoned and buried away.  Now, fast forward two hundred years into the future, to the year 1972.  Construction workers accidentally releases Barnabas from his coffin.  Barnabas introduces himself to the now dysfunctional Collins family and vows to bring back prosperity to the clan. Angelique is still alive, naturally.  And now owns the biggest business in town.  To complicate matters, Barnabas must now learn to adapt to the modern world.  This is actually a pretty good movie.  I'm just not a big fan of Tim Burton's ideas.  I much prefer the Dark Shadows revival of the early 1990s.  Anyway, I do agree with the comedic and light-hearted treatment of the material.  With all of the vampire movies out there (Twilight, True Blood, Underworld, Blade), the last thing Hollywood needed was another stereotypical vampire flick.  So, perhaps this may not have been the right moment to bring out another vampire film.  And if you must do so, you have to be a little different.  And this one certainly is.  Vampires are a dime a dozen in cinema today.  Perhaps Dan Curtis' vision would have been met with lukewarm reception, given the number of vampire exposure on both the big screen and television.  Tim Burton probably felt like he needed to take his movie in another direction.  Johnny Depp is actually very good as Barnabas.  Eva Green and Michelle Pfeifer were pretty good in their respective roles.  In my view, Chloe Grace Moretz should have been given better material to work with.  She was wasted in this film.  Jack Earle Haley is fine as Willie, but I would have much preferred Steve Buscemi for the role.

Excellent NYC Depiction. Awful Monsters. Preposterous Script. Last night's bargain-rack movie was "I Am Legend" starring Will Smith. I got it at Wal-Mart off the five-dollar rack. First of all, I was unaware of the movie or the book on which it was based. Second, my feelings for the movie are extremely mixed. First, my reaction to the discovery of a cancer cure which morphs into a rabies-like virus and wipes out the Manhattan population is skeptical, to say the least. Well, I know this is unadulterated fiction, so I'll try to give it some slack. But secondly, the depiction of Manhattan as a devastated city is exceptionally good and I'm left wondering how in the world did they ever do it? The streets are cluttered with cars as if everything was just abandoned after the sounding of an alarm. After three years, all the streets are overgrown with mature-sized weeds growing from cracks in the pavement wherever Smith might go, and he covers a lot of territory. The city looks completely abandoned and in bad decay. Well Done! Whoever put this together ought to get an award of some type. And, alas, from this as a start, I would expect a really good movie to follow.  Well, this well-crafted scene just doesn't hold up. Smith has an office-laboratory where he labors to save the world and it is fully electrified. Full lighted. All the machines work. It even has a working TV. And the computer works, including the internet. And his car works fine as he motors about the city, never getting low on gas, although he's been there three years. And he sends a broadcast out over the airwaves of the city ever day trying to find out if anyone else might be there. Huh? How could this be? It just doesn't wash. All of a sudden I find myself involved in a story I couldn't possibly believe. At about this point, there's the appearance of human-like monsters and monster dogs which are infected with a rabies-like virus and are insanely violent and after his hide. I'm sorry folks, the story just lost me totally and I just couldn't bear the last half.  The movie had promise. Too bad the last half wasn't up to the first half. As it is, I'd have to congratulate some of the special effects people (the NYC scene)  and let the others know what an awful job they did (the monsters). What an incongruent mix! Who's responsible for this mess anyway?. Well, I'd have to say that Smith's acting was fairly good. My condolences to him for being stuck in such a preposterous script.  Gary Peterson

Where's Corey Haim? I watched this because I loved the first one and I heard the two Coreys were in it.  Well, Feldman did a good job playing Edgar Frog again, but I totally missed Corey Haim.  His part is only a few seconds long and it's after the end credits.  Too bad, I was looking forward to seeing more Haim. The story line is good and at least you get to know what happend with Sam and Edgar from the first film.  Just be aware that this movie has a A LOT of blood, gore, slime and body parts.  It's totally gross! And that ruined it for me, but if you like that stuff you'll probably enjoy this.

Good Movie - Poor Extras Thias isn't a review of the movie itself but a warning about the second disk (Explorer Pack) of the two disk set.  The difference in price here at Amazon is $4.00 more between the two disk DVD set and the one disk DVD set.  Four bucks isn't much but but it really is too much for this one.  I am a fan of the extra features and almost always buy them but save your money on this one.

Good movie. Recommended. A snake discovers the power to transform itself into a human being, then goes searching for love in this 2003 Bollywood production.  It was an excellent movie of the 2003. this would not be a movie that one wants to keep in the library and watch again. The viewing satisfaction of the first time will not repeat itself.

few pages and an inappropriate place to place the disk. few pages and an inappropriate place to place the disk. the product arrived wrinkled because it was not placed in appropriate container, which was already in a book.

All the right ingredients but.... I usually like musical movies, Grease, Selena, Purple Rain and The Five Heartbeats, just to name a few.  This movie also seemed to have all the right ingredients, yet I found myself checking my watch several times.  I think maybe the many heavy full length (non-contemporary) song and dance numbers overpowered the thin storyline. The acting was good; however I found Cher's face as distracting as Melanie Griffiths and Meg Ryan's.

Not so hot I ordered this because I'm into things Celtic and Christopher Lambert. I didn't realize that Vercingetorix is just the French version of Druids. The history wasn't too off the mark but the acting and actor's attire was kinda hokey. The biggest disappointment was no English subtitles and my French is a bit rusty. So I just bought Druids and watched them back to back. It's a shame that this was obviously such a low budget film, because Vercingetorix had a powerful influence on the future of the Celts. Maybe a remake could be done...

So many gaps! Is this really Scorsese? The documentary has so many gaps, I wouldn't know which I should start with. The most blatant are George's music and some people in his life.  Re the missing music: there is nothing that George recorded between Dark Horse and The Traveling Wilburys. No 33 & 1/3, no All Those Years Ago, not even Cloud Nine (including the great videos of these records). Also: nothing from the pro-shot 1991 Japanese tour with Eric, from the Prince's Trust Concert, and neither from the Carl Perkins TV special.  It's true the documentary is 3 and a half hours long, but had it to be a one-piece film? George wanted an Anthology, like the Beatles' one, so why didn't they make a series of 7 or 8 episodes? They had plenty of material.  The other big absence is Patty's. In this respect, Olivia did quite a nasty job. Patty, the woman who shared the most significant part of George's life, the one who introduced him to the Indian spirituality, is reduced to some discussions about her infidelity with Eric. As for her presence in the film, there is a fragment of an old footage (quite insignificant) where she was a bit angry with the other three Beatles, and a paragraph from her (audio)book. Isn't that a shame...  How ironic this must be for Patty: after being forced to deal with the fans' nastiness in the 60's (and she was constantly physically and verbally abused), with all the humiliations coming from George (mainly his many infidelities inclusively with Ringo's first wife), as well as with George's public statement that Something was not about her (he could be a perfect gentleman sometimes, George), now she is refused her own past and history. By Olivia. But how could the great Scorsese have no say in this matter and accept this flagrant gap? Go figure.  The movie has some highlights, hence the three stars: Ringo, Astrid, Klaus and (even) Paul give some emotional insights full of sincerity.

Rental It's what I expected from a rental.  The sign up process was smooth and painless. I recommend to anyone with a wireless tv.

Historically interesting Definetely from a different era but enjoyable from a historical aspect.  THe BATJAC and filming extras included were informative.  Audio and visual quality were good.  Not overly exciting.

Wait till its $5 at walmart or part of a 4 pack! I did like how it tried to bring something new and attempt to not be such a cliche part 4 sadly its  not accomplished. Nice kills, played out plot with very brief hints of originality. So in conclusion dont pay full price for this one redbox it or netflix.

A good warmovie Premiere: 1949 Directed by: William A. Wellman Genre: warmovie > historical movie  Battleground is o.k. It is the same theme as the serial Band of Brothers without the scenes before war. For the time of the production after World War II this is a very respectable US-warmovie, because Wellman shows realistic fear, mud, cold, misery and poor equipement of the american soldiers. The performances of Van Johnson, John Hodiak, James Whitmore and Marshall Thompson are very good. Ricardo Montalban, Richard Jaeckel, or James Arness are well. A little bit negative is the stereotypic action in the snowwoods with the small skirmishes. I think the real war was more dirty, danger, dramatical and desperate for the individual soldier. However, Wellman made a good movie. The best charakter is the good, old James Whitmore.

Cute and funny Cute, funny, and okay for the rental price. I wouldn't rate it as strongly as many of the other reviews, but it's definitely better than so many cheesy romantic comedies.

Amazing graphic! First of all, I must say that my son and I were very, very impressed with the art work in this.  Considering this movie was made in the 1940's and how they did the annimated features back then, it took a lot of hard work, dedication, and talent for all involved to do this.  I was amazed!!!  My favorite scene is the Nutcracker piece.  My second favorite was mickey mouse :-)  We didn't really care for the others (though the Soundtrack part was pretty cute.  We skipped about three chapters simply because we were not interested...

Is There A Mobster? I was caught up in the film as the conclusion approached. It built up to the BIG FIGHT as (almost) all fight movies do. Of course, I'm not going to tell you how it ends; about the only reason I watched the whole film was because I did not know the ending.  But as the credits rolled and I began to think about writing this review it occurred to me that this film is just too "cluttered." That is, there are too many elements coming together. I know it's based upon a true story, but even excellent documentaries try to streamline.  The people who made this film, however, tried to cover "all the bases" (mixed metaphor), and the film lost its effectiveness, as far as I'm concerned. There's the domineering mother, the girlfriend that the family won't accept, the eccentric (but adorable) family, the older sibling who missed his big chance, the failing boxer furiously training for glory, and the hometown hero. Was there a "plain" woman who falls for the pugilist? What about crack addiction? How about a mobster who has his claws sunk into the hero? Is there a "movie within a movie" element?  You'll have to watch it and see.

Good movie but not based on the actual book The production value, cast, acting, storyline, etc. of this were good and entertaining. The problem is the movie is more UNLIKE the book than it is like the book.  If you want to watch a movie of the book itself, you will want to look at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001OSGR68">The Count of Monte Cristo</a>

Not the same episodes as Dora's Easter Adventure DVD There are 3 episodes with this instant video.  The first one is Dora's Easter Adventure, which is the same as the DVD.  It's a cute episode which my girls loved.  The other two episodes differ from the DVD version, however. The instant video version included episodes where Dora goes to school and Dora going on an egg hunt.  The DVD version includes Dora's Easter Adventure and episodes about a troll wedding and a trip to troll land.  Hoping this review will help someone else not make the same mistake, if the item description continues not to reflect these differences in the future.  Rated 3 stars due to my daughters loving Dora's Easter Adventure, but would have bought the DVD instead if I would have known that there was a difference.

disappointed the closed captioning did NOT include English. What's up with that. It had Spanish and French..duh. I think the description listed closed captioning, but this DVD didn't have English. I had to sell this since I am hearing impaired. I have this problem with some rentals, but not with a regular DVD.

This blu ray version has all the buck, but none of the bang. Alright, this review is on the extras and look in and of the movie on blu ray.  I would give the movie a 5 out of 5.  The movie is about a guy who lies all the time.  To his wife, to his kid and to everyone else.  He even lies for his job.  He is a lawyer.  On day, his son wishes that he could no longer lie.  If only for one day.  So, it happens!  The man finds out that no matter what or how he tries, he can not lie.  This is especially hard when he is at work on a case trying to help a lady get more from her husband who she is divorcing.  The man knows he has to stretch the truth to win the case, but can not.  The movie is very funny and can be watched over and over again.  I still have the stubs from when my dad, brother and I saw it in the theater.  Now I know what your asking yourself.  If he likes the movie so much, why the 3 out of 5?  I will tell you why.  First, this movie definitely looks less than 100% on blu ray.  I actually looks like you are watching it on a VHS tape.  I am sure the DVD version looks the same when played on a blu ray player, so it is what it is.  The other thing is this, there are no special features at all on this copy of the film.  On the DVD you have things likes out takes, deleted scenes, trailer, commentary and more, but on the blu ray there is none of that.  Also, the menu is quite odd.  There is no writing telling you what is what.  Just symbols.  Maybe this is how things in the UK are.  This is the first DVD I have ever gotten that was from the UK, and I am not saying anything bad about it.  Just that it is odd.  So, the movie is great.  It can be watched again and again.  But if you want to own the movie, I would go with the standard DVD.  For the fact of the special features and the fact that the movie does not look any better.  I hope they release a U.S. version!

querky commedy I like this movie. I would say it's a little retro. You can watch it with older family members, too. There's more drug use than actual nudity and sex, so you decide. It's about getting your big chance, taking that ride downhill and getting back up. The storyline is good, not overly complicated. It's a pretty good find.

Youth Angst and Life's Reality "Adventureland" is about summer jobs and finding your way in today's world.  The recent economic downturn is featured in family cut-backs and youth downsizing their dreams.  The main character is James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg) who is somewhat shocked and disappointed when his father loses his job.  He had plans to go on a European vacation he dreamed of, and also plans to move to New York and go to a good college and make something of his life.  He has to take a poorly paying summer job at a local amusement park.  The movie has character studies of the amusement park workers and the dynamics.  They all share the same dopey job, wearing special T-shirts ("Games" or "Rides").  There are some laughs in the dead-end jobs, and actually some preparation excercises for the real world.  The future of these kids did not seem that great, and a sad feeling came over me as I realized how many college-educated kids are out there looking for scarce well-paying jobs.  These kids just got high on weed or denial about futures.  The film is upbeat, but an underlying dread permeates this comedy/drama.  Boredom and no good-paying job opportunities are there for them and their parents.  The kids are touching and a bit of hope and love comes through at the end, but I look at the current financial mess the country is in and feel sorry for the characters.  "Adventureland" is a film focused on youth, and made for them.  It is also an interesting peek into the changing times and the 21st Century youth culture for the empathetic older viewer.

;0/ People stop please put us out of our misery. Sometimes somethings should be just left alone. I just watch lost boys the thirst and lost boys the tribe back to back, basically it felt like i was killing time. These movies aren't that bad but at the same time it could be wayyyyyyyyyyyyy better

Don't buy from this guy This is a great movie, but I would not pay that much for it. Like I have seen posted previously, wait til it is available wider. Don't throw away your money. This isn't ebay.

Very Strange DVD-doesn't show 'play movie' I tried over and over to watch this movie, but there is no initial screen with the words 'play movie' or anywhere to pick out how to start the movie...  After a LOT of fiddling around with my computer and the dvd drive, I finally was able to get the movie to start, and not watch a 'silent movie'.  I am pretty sure those went out many, many years ago.  It is the same movie I always loved...just has no intro to begin watching.  Very annoying!

Wrecked -- or the joys of drug addiction "Wrecked" is a story about an ill-fated relationship that takes place in a somewhat decadent background. Shumanski's film, however, cannot be fully understood if one forgets Jacques Lacan's notion of jouissance.  Jouissance can be translated as joy. And according to Lacanian theory, joy is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is a discharge of tension while joy is the building up of a tension. Joy is also the painful pleasure; joy presupposes an eventual and belated pleasure, but quite often it remains as joy and thus blockades the real possibility of pleasure.  Ryan is a young boy struggling to become a theater actor. Daniel is Ryan's ex-boyfriend who one day shows up in his apartment and reinserts himself into Ryan's life. It's made clear for the viewers that this relationship will end up badly. Unbeknownst to the viewer, though, is how badly it could actually end.  Narrative strategy relies upon addiction and its effects on people. One could say that Ryan becomes too dependent on Daniel's presence. But what is undoubtedly a fact is that Daniel is a drug addict that will eventually bring down Ryan.  In the past drug addiction was seen as perfidious attack on morality and the parental authority. It wasn't long before drug addiction was considered a disease, and as a disease it had to be treated in a most clinical way (rehabilitation clinics, pills, etc.). Lacan, however, adds an extra layer by defining drug addiction as yet another manifestation of the jouissance. One of the typical characteristics of joy is that the individual is rarely aware of it, most of the time the individual is trapped in some sort of vicious circle of joy. The woman who is constantly beaten up by his husband is, in fact, enjoying it, id est, she is suffering, she is building up tension, she is expecting a reward after experiencing all this pain, her commitment with the violent situation is so strong that she can't simply step out of it. The same happens with drugs. Drugs can be seen as joy but never pleasure; the risks of an overdose usually don't scare drug users, one might say that this risk only entices them.  Much can be said about the differences between joy and pleasure. Nonetheless "Wrecked" has been clearly inscribed into a Lacanian narrative of jouissance. And as such, it's no surprise to observe the inevitability of a dreadful outcome.

Good date movie Assuming you don't hate Jake Gyllenhaal or Anne Hathaway, this is a very cute romance with quirky characters and snappy dialogue. It has the occasional truly funny moment and an overall enjoyable storyline. Viagra salesman Jamie meets Parkinson's patient Maggie: both are into sport sex only and both refuse to fall in love. Naturally, things don't go quite the way they expect. Within the parameters of Hollywood romance, nothing is particularly surprising but the stops along the way to the inevitable conclusion are entertaining, sometimes hilarious. Jamie's brother, played by Josh Gad, is an especially fantastic bit of character work that gives Jamie's character perspective in the best of ways. The acting is very good from all the cast, the basic story is fairly fresh and new and the handling of Hathaway's character's illness is done right on the line of being realistic enough to have some weight and still be light enough for a fluffy romantic film (ie she's sick but she never looks unattractive even at the worst of it). There are many sex scenes, some quite explicit, but with two such beautiful actors, this is what makes it a good date night movie. They even make the attempt to be honest about Parkinson's, again while staying within the lines of a light comic romance. Worth a watch.

Element: prenatal yoga I like the actual yoga part - it leaves me feeling stretched and relaxed, which is what I'm looking for. I'm currently at 11 weeks, started this around 8 weeks and hope to continue through the end.  I DON'T like some of the talking. "Fill your right lung." I don't know how to fill one lung and not the other, and I don't think anyone does. "Lift your body luminously." What does that even mean? And lots of talk about connecting to and honoring my baby... including bowing to my baby. I'm sorry, I love this kid, but bowing?  So ... great as far as exercise, but I wish she'd just stick to telling me how to do the poses.

movie This movie was really good I enjoyed my purchase very much. Looking forward to farther further video purchases I am I buy more movies on amazon thank you very much it was in new condition.

A Certified Spinning Instructor's Opinion...Poor If you know what you're doing and know what to look for, then you can reasonably conclude the ride on this DVD is a bit of a mess. The Spinning Programme is basically heart rate training using cadence and resistance on an indoor (Spinning) bike. There are 5 different energy zones in Spinning: Interval, Endurance, Strength, Recovery and Race Day. Having completed the ride on this DVD, I'm really not sure which energy zone it is. The ride is basically a progressive hill spent mostly in the saddle, gradually adding resistance and reducing cadence. It's not a bad ride or a horrible workout, it's just not readily identifiable as a core part of Spinning. If, like me, you've quit going to the gym because their so-called 'indoor cycling instructors' simply don't know what they're doing, it's disappointing to buy an official Spinning DVD and then NOT get a definitive energy zone ride. Oh well.  It gets worse.  Josh Taylor is a Master Spinning Instructor and I absolutely respect what it takes to train and dedicate yourself to achieve that status. However, people looking for correct instruction on this DVD will be let down. Firstly, Josh takes BOTH his hands off the handle bars several times which is inherently dangerous, especially for beginners. This is especially true at the end after the ride. He instructs the class to sit upright, take both hands off the handle bars, close the eyes and breathe deeply. For someone new to Spinning trying that after a hard ride is just asking to fall off the bike and break your ankles in the process. Strike #1! The very best Spinning instructors are great at visualization. We all know we're on a stationary bike, but to have someone help you feel you're out on the open road is a rare talent. Josh, on this showing at least, doesn't have it. I really didn't get all his clock face and numbers nonsense. Strike #2! The final strike is something I could not believe I saw on an official Spinning DVD. Josh instructing his class to stretch ON THE BIKE! That is a HUGE no-no again for safety reasons. I was taught by a Master Spinning Instructor (hi Raquel) and I lost count of the number of times she lectured us about not doing this. It's in the Spinning Instructor Manual too. What was Josh thinking?  Overall, this DVD could have been a whole lot better. Apart from the things I've already mentioned, the warm down was way too brief, no attention was given to correct form, scant attention to breathing and correct hand position and no help or guidance for people NOT using a Spinning Computer. I do train with a heart rate monitor and a Spinning Computer, but Josh SHOULD have explained perceived exertion and how to check your own cadence. Tut-tut! The DVD extras are OK. There are chapters on bike setup and safety, the Spinner bike, how to use a heart rate monitor and even a short piece about becoming a Certified Spinning Instructor.  This is the second Spinning DVD I've used. The other one, Ride On - Endurance Energy Zone, is much better. I'll write a review of that when I get a chance. Hope this all helps.

An Implausible Action Story Die Hard, 1988 film  The story begins with an airplane landing. One passenger carries a concealed weapon. He lights a cigarette. [That dates this story.] A woman makes a call to her home. The limo driver plays Christmas music. Mclane visits his wife in a tall office building. She has a new Rolex watch. A large truck enters a parking garage. Two criminals surprise the desk clerk. That truck is a "Trojan Horse"! Gates drop to lock entrances, elevators are disabled, telephone cables are cut. The gang has submachine guns, and gathers the party. The gang leader tells of his plans. He wants the head of the corporation. The gang leader demands the $640 million in bearer bonds from the safe. "Who said we were terrorists?" The gang leader is ruthless. Can they break the code to access the safe? Can a fire alarm bring help? Not if it is cancelled. "We are in charge." Then the elevator arrives with a passenger.  Can a CB radio broadcast a Mayday on channel 9? Will they send a police car to investigate? There is a gunfight on the roof, three against one. Can the hero escape through an air duct? Yes. "Thanks for the advice." There is an event that warns the policeman, and he calls for assistance. Inconvenient timing? The gang leader gets bad news. Mclane sends news to the cops. A TV truck arrives to cover the news of the terrorists. There is subtle humor from the plans to invade. "They'll be coming." There are lights to show the building. "Send in the car." Can an anti-tank weapon stop it? Mclane drops a bomb in the elevator shaft. "It's him." Will one of the hostages betray Mclane? They want the detonators, Ellis says. A deal? No. Deputy Chief Dwayne Robinson speaks to Hans Gruber. "Hello." "Who cares?" An author speaks about the "Helsinki Syndrome". A fantasy? "Not any more."  Hans is a clever actor! Mclane runs a check. [This is too cute to be believed.] They shoot their guns as if their ammo was free. "Only John can drive somebody that crazy." Broken glass can cut bare feet. What will happen when they cut off power to that building? Will the government agents agree to the gang's demands? Will Mclane make a mistake? Will a TV reporter exploit two children? Helicopters arrive at the building. [The action builds towards the climax.] There is a terrific fight scene. The roof explodes! There is a final meeting between John and Hans. "Happy Trails." The ending is what you would expect from this action movie. [Are those the bearer bonds floating through the air?] Will a terrorist pop up for a dramatic ending? "He's with me." Holly answers that TV reporter.  Can you see how this story was carefully crafted to appeal to a wide range of customers? Note how the story jabs at some authority figures in a crude way. The story has a failure in the over-elaborate plan to rob a safe. Too many hostages can identify the robbers. Being trapped in a tall building is a poor plan for any robber who wants to get away with the loot. [Did they issue untraceable bearer bonds in that era?] This story is "too clever by half", but worth watching once. The story about one man winning against great odds echoes "Red Harvest". The story of a gang taking over a business goes back to "The Painted Desert".

the owls are not as they seem cannot go wrong with a david lynch film. the movie is a prequel to the fantastic tv series twin peaks and the tv series is far superior but this film is enjoyable and weird and gives a bit of insight into the twin peaks world before things go down. any david lynch fan will thoroughly enjoy this. the owls are not what they seem.

Nacho Libe I bought this movie for my daughter she had misplace the first one. She always like the movie and so now her son is watching and prtending to do everything they are doing in the movie

You're time is up This movie, wow. I really wanted to, and still do want to try to like this movie. There were three major stories going on this movie, as well as the little side plot with the o'conells son wearing the bracelet of anubis. Now one question, If Evey is Nefertiti reincarnated. Why wasn't that even mentioned slightly in the first movie, I did like the involvement of the Scorpion king. And actually wished he had been the main bad guy of this movie, instead we get imhotep again. Now Arnold Vosloo did an incredible job as Imhotep in the first one, but you stripped him of his powers and shoved him the "pool" and buried him beneath humanaptra. Basically killing him off, but nooooooooooooo, lets bring back his reincarnated girlfriend. She digs him up, but wait, evey's been having strange dreams. Oh I forgot the 4th major story, Rick is a Madji. That's right, he's a warrior for God, as said by Ardeth Bay. Yep, we get a fight at the end between the scorpion king Imhotep, and Rick. Wait... evey's been killed but Her son brings her back to life, with the help of Johnathan, in a replica scene of the ending to the first movie. Well never fear, Rick does kill the scorpion king. Sending him to hell along with Anubis's army, Oh. Halfway through the movie, Ardeth Bay tells rick. That he is a madji, and to prove it, Tells Evey that she's Nefertiti reincarnated, and that Rick is a Reincarnated protector of sorts. Yeeeeeeeeeah, they should've just stuck with the Scorpion King. They still could have had the Mummy pygmies which are hilarious, and Rick could've battled the Scorpion King and won. Too much going on, with villains that should have been left dead. A decent movie, yes I own it, but only for the collections sake. Could've been better.

Fun, but ham-fisted message I've never seen a George A. Romero film before this one.  Of course I knew it was to "different" from his usual fare, given that it starts with a new zombie thing happening, rather than continuing on with the one established in the previous movie.  Be wary of spoilers.  I was surprisingly pleased by the fact that, while obviously presented like a documentary filmed by these bunches of students, the protagonist girl whose name I forgot, in the very beginning, describes everything that they've done, filming what has happened, as well as openly admitting that, for the sake of drama, she has added music to certain portions, and edited together footage from other video cameras and security camera footage.  This gave it a sense of legitimacy even in the face of dramatic musical cues.  While the characters fall in to the obvious stereotypes of "the pretty one", "the smart one", "the dumb guy", "the nerd", "the jock", etcetera, they were believable enough in their actions and dialogue, well acted enough.  It does make sense for the protagonist boy to film everything, but the protagonist girl's heated reaction, from pointing a camera at him and repeating dialogue he'd done earlier, to replicating how she screamed when encountering a zombie for the camera, is believable and sympathetic.  There are a few moments which seem rather stupid, not quite believable, such as when the bunch are exiting the hospital, and suddenly a zombie staggers out in front of the camera guy, and bites on the guy in front of him.  I found it disorienting as to how the camera guy did not hear/see/smell/in some way sense that a zombie was following them, and how the zombie just bumped past the cameraguy to bite the guy in front of him, and then even more frustrated that NOBODY BOTHERED TO POUNCE ON THE ZOMBIE except for the nerd, who very DANGEROUSLY fought and killed the zombie with a metal stick they put the IV fluid bag on.  Considering how he kept stabbing the zombie, and the zombie would try to keep moving into it to get closer, I found it unbelievable that no one would do anything to try to help him or stop him from putting himself in such close danger.  Encounters like the all-black militia force was rather comical, with the leader almost pleased with his predicament, claiming that they have the power now.  It's not unrealistic, but it was funny, and they were nice, especially compared to the band of militants supposedly National Guard who loot from the protagonists.  Going towards the end, the usual stereotypes end up dying off, and the survivors lock themselves in a panic room, with the protagonist girl ending the picture off a clip of video that the protagonist boy last downloaded; a gang of hooligans tying up zombies and using them for target practice.  This leads into probably the only direct attempt by the movie to ask "Are we worth saving?"  This message, given the context of the movie itself, seemingly comes out of nowhere, and is totally abrupt and curious.  And then the movie just ends on that.  EDIT:  The Amish guy was real fun.

A bit too much drama and too little story for my liking A total computer geek at heart, I really thought this was going to end up being one of my favorite movies. I love these kinds of films, but somehow this one just missed the mark for me. I feel this movie could have had so much more story or history to it, but it focused mainly on portraying the two main characters as flawed, cold hearted, greedy souls, willing to use those closest to them and step on anyone to get to the top. Portraying one as an inept alcoholic and the other as a heartless druggie, the movie makes it seem that neither character did anything but use everyone who came into their path to make their way through life, all while being drunk or stoned.  After watching the movie, I didn't really feel like I had watched a film, but instead just listened to someones gossip, telling me every horrible thing these two men had ever done in their life. Nothing good is ever mentioned it seems, in an attempt to make all that has been accomplished in their company names seem like a big scam. I found myself wishing there was more reasons given in the movie for their actions. Whether looking at this film as fiction or fact, either way, it just seemed like it was a story about 2 "bad guys" who do mean things and use those they love and anyone else. It starts out that way and ends that way, with no other real story in between other than that from the perspective of those they hurt along the way.

Liberals and Muslim Terrorist sympathizers HATE this film.  So obviously decent people should see it now. DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR(1987) Directed by Terry Leonard.  Starring Fred Dryer, Joanna Pacula, Paul Winfield and Brian Keith.   A group of Marines- a Colonel, his Sergent and several new recruits-- are assigned to a US Embassy in the Middle Eastern country of "Jamal" to provide security and act as advisors to our Ally. However a group of Muslim Terrorists have targeted the Embassy with the intent of driving the US out of the country. The Muslim Barbarians have "advisors" of their own...a pair of European "leftists" aka communist agents of the Soviet Union and a news photographer more than eager to act as the propaganda arm of the group.   After a nasty skirmish between the group and Marine Sergent Burns during a theft of American Weapons intended for our ally, the terrorists retaliate with a sustained campaign of kidnapping, murder and brutal torture culminating in a suicide attack. The ambassador decides that, in the face of such barbarism, the United States can do little but evacuate the country abandoning our allies and our men still held captive.   Unfortunately Sergent Burns misses the plane and with nothing better to do while waiting for the next flight, decides he might as well go shoot a couple or forty Muslim Barbarians.   From the halls of Montezuma Baby!!!!!   This film, in the immediate aftermath of Sept 11, 2001, was used as Exhibit A by the Muslim Barbarians and their Allies in Hollywood in the book and documentary REEL BAD ARABS as proof that Hollywood is racist against Arabs. Therefore Hollywood could not POSSIBLY continue with such racism by making any Patriotic Anti Terrorists films(and therefore support the Troops and the country) and, to make amends for DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR, Hollywood must make a slew of Anti-American Proterrorist films(conveniently undercutting the troops and smearing the country).   Yeah yeah yeah.........and Mao Zse Tung was an Agrarian reformer, Alger Hiss was framed and Indochina became a paradise once the Reds took over.   In the meantime, we have poor old DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR...made over twenty years ago in the wake of the success of RAMBO 2.....getting all this baggage heaped upon its B movie shoulders.   First off the film is not Anti-Arab since the film makes a point of showing the US allied with an Arab country and the Marines interacting with and fighting with that country's soldiers........whom presumably are Arab unless Middle Eastern countries are now hiring Swiss Mercanaries. The Terrorists' main goals is to disrupt that alliance and drive the US out of the country so their supporter within the govt(presumably a Red puppet) can then take over. This, historically speaking, would be a bad thing for the common folk aka Arabs since those Muslim Terrorists and their Commie friends DO tend toward repression and genocide do they not??   Ah but REEL BAD ARABS never quite mentions that do they. According to the RBA and this film's detractors, the only reel good Arab is one that hates and wants to kill Americans and Jews(here called "zionists").   Secondly what the film IS against is very plainly stated. 1) Muslim terrorists. 2) Their European Communist handlers and 3) Media types who are blatant shills for A and B. The film also has issues with the torture of American prisoners by Muslim Terrorists and with suicide bombing.   Third. The film IS supportive of Israel and generally disapproves of people who like to kill Jews. It also identifies a European "radical" as being a pedophile.........which must have driven the Liberals insane since so much of their idealogy hinges on their dreams of being manly chick magnets.   And THAT is what REALLY drives the film's critics crazy. Everything else is just smoke and mirrors to hide their Party Line and not incidentally their seething anti-Americanism and Anti-semitism.   Now having gotten that out of the way. This is another film where the comrades would do well to just shut up about and stop attracting attention to it. More than likely the film will not ever have a cult following and, as it ages, it is doubtful that our modern film viewer would ever deign to watch something without CGI and that is so oooooooooolllld. So just keep yer yap shut Libs. As it is, I only discovered this film by reading REEL BAD ARABS and deciding that since the Libs did not want me to see it, I had better run out and buy it immediately since it must be pretty good.   Is it??   Yeah. It is not bad. It is not GUNGA DIN but it is generally a pleasing viewing experience that actually has grown in resonance and catharsis potential due to the War on Terror that it may not have had in the 80s.   Is the film especially well directed?? Competently is more like it. Better during the action sequences than during the dramatic moments. The film has that vaguely cheap feel technically and actingwise that so many 80s films seemed to have. The language and gore are about average for the decade as well. The cast is between poor and average. The script---which to its credit actually surprised me twice!!--- is more interesting for what is under the surface than in the admittedly at times thunderfooted dialogue. As with many films in the 80s made with Israeli money behind it, this film has a great deal of historical subtext adding drive and power to its fictional narrative. The country of Jamal is obviously a cross between Lebanon and Jordan. The Arab Terrorists are probably meant to be, at least, partially Palestinian---though their leader has the very interesting name of Jihad indicating that there is something else going on perhaps. The political plot sounds like something that was attempted against King Hussein of Jordan at one time. A terrorist assault in Cyprus also struck this viewer as familiar. The male/female team of European "radicals" are obviously based on the hyjackers from the Entebbe business. And the suicide attack/American withdrawal is based on the Marine Barracks attack of 1983.   As such, though the film does have its...as stated clunky and awkward moments, it also has real historical thrust and solid action sequences. As such it is one of those films that..though fictional...is actually a more insightful and honest examination of the history it touches upon than most other Hollywood films on the subject that claim to be "accurate.". Leaving one with an interesting question. What is better? A big budget polished piece of genocidal poisonous propaganda like THE KILLING FIELDS or REDS? Or a hamfisted, rough around the edges morally and historically correct B film......that is fun watching to boot?   No masterpiece but very likable.

When was the last time you saw an orgy on public television? Empire was a six-installment miniseries that premiered on ABC midsummer of 2005, and is one of their most ambitious projects, filming on location in Rome.  Newly returned from the battlefield, Julius Caesar (Colm Feore) is not pleased to find that so little has been accomplished in his absence. The senate continues to quarrel like petulant children, and his nephew Octavius (Santiago Cabrera) is known more for his love of beautiful women than his influence and wit. When the success of a mighty gladiator known as Tyrannus (Jonathan Cake) strikes his interest, Caesar approaches the slave with a proposition: if he will swear loyalty to the House of Caesar, and work as a protector of Octavius, he will be given his freedom. Tyrannus accepts, but on the day he is to escort Caesar to the senate, his child is kidnapped.  Tracking down and recovering his son means that he is not present when Caesar is betrayed by the senators, who kill him in cold blood. His vicious murder enrages the citizens of Rome and the fury of Caesar's loyal second-in-command, Marc Anthony (Vincent Regan). Senator Cassius (Michael Maloney) knows the public will tear them apart if the truth is known, and seeks to use Caesar's sister to calm the mob. Tyrannus was present to hear the dying words of Caesar, that he passed his legacy and armies on to Octavius. Certain that the young man's life now lies in peril, Tyrannus pleads with him to flee from Rome. In the meanwhile, Caesar's will has been given into the keeping of Camane (Emily Blunt), one of the Vestal Virgins in the Temple. Her loyalty is to the goddess she serves, but her patriotism stands for the good of Rome.  One of the most brilliantly-written epics I have seen in a long time, Empire is full of rich characters and dramatic situations, from the return of Caesar to the joy of a screaming crowd to the blood on the final battlefield. The first disk in the series (which contains the first three episodes) is fantastic, and manages to keep semi-accurate to history, but the second disk was much more of a disappointment. Strong acting carries through, but most of its incidents are impractical fables that don't present historical characters in a very true or good light. I have never been a fan of Marc Anthony, but this series makes him out to be a diabolical, self-serving villain. That may very well be true, but has historians screaming in outrage. I also found it difficult to believe that a series could involve him so much and yet never make any mention of his pursuit of Cleopatra.  The sets, costumes, and cinematography are amazing. It is a realistic depiction of life in Ancient Rome, from the gritty underground tunnels to the magnificence of the senatorial room where Caesar was betrayed and murdered by the men he trusted. Names like Brutus, Agrippa, and even Cicero are present, accompanied by a beautiful musical score and surprisingly emotional performances. Maloney is despicable, and Regan is a surprisingly dark and multi-layered Marc, but the entire miniseries belongs to Jonathan Cake. He has the most expressive eyes I have ever seen in an entertainer, and some of his scenes will have you shed more than a few tears on his behalf. I also very much liked Blunt's presence as a priestess who thinks more of the empire than she does her celestial duties.  However... in the second half, the sexual content becomes extreme, with one of the most revolting and exploitive orgy scenes I have ever seen on public television. If there HAD to be an orgy, there were better ways of implying one that were not so offensive; and everyone knows Marc was a notorious womanizer; we don't need to graphically see it. Still, if you can tolerate script writers playing fast and hard with historical events, you'll no doubt be seduced by the emotional impact and dramatic emphasis of Empire.

Set Up If you are going to watch part one, you need to rent or buy part two at the same time, I think it's wrong to make a two parter and leave it as it did in part one, but as we can tell the writers just made this slow moving thing to get kids to pay to watch part two. I can't believe I paid real money to watch this crap.

A Director's Return To Youth Watch the movie first but make sure to watch the featurette with Bernardo Bertolucci that follows.  You will see the ache of an older man who misses an exciting time in history and in his youth. The movie uses the closing of the Cinematheque Francaise, the firing of its director, Henri Langlois, and the student riots that ensued in 1968 as its background.  As the social upheaval of the times explodes in the streets of Paris, three young people detach themselves from its reality in order to engage in sexual daring and fantasy.  A young American in Paris to study French meets a young woman protesting at the gate of the Cinematheque at the beginning of the unrest.  After that, however, she and her brother retreat with the American to their parents' comfortable' Paris flat in search of something far different from freedom for cinematic art. Their use of cinematic knowledge is far more foreplay than study; more carnal than academic.  The parents leave for the country and the young people rarely venture out after that. Exploring their sensuality within the flat outweighs the more nebulous  social upheaval taking place outside their windows on the streets of Paris.  Their private exploration is very sexually explicit and not for an 'R'-rated mindset.  The twin brother, Theo, and the American, Matthew, become the objects of Isabelle's sexual experimentation. In a daring role for a future Bond girl,  Eva Grant, leaves nothing hidden.  Matthew has her graphically. Theo has his sister in a secretly incestous way-maybe. Each viewer will need to decide that on their own.  It is never really clear.  What seems to begin as a tribute to a fight for the freedom of the art of the cinema becomes a graphic attempt at sexuall liberatiion in that time. It is both exhilarating and at times a confusing experience for the three protaganists. Bertolucci leaves the judgment of their failure or success to his audience. That is the European way in cinema.

Nice to catch up with an old favorite I remember "Where Have All The People Gone?" (WHATPG) from way back when and enjoyed seeing it again.  Was there ever a time when Peter Graves didn't have gray hair? He is convincing and sympathetic in the lead role. Apart from that, it was good to see stalwart performances from a solid supporting cast. Particularly striking are the very young Kathleen Quinlan and actor Noble Willingham, whom I had otherwise only seen in "The Royale", a rather good episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation".  The story is pretty routine, but absorbing enough for all that. The music is adequate.  "The Embryo", on the other hand, was new to me and most of it still is. I turned it off after only 20 minutes or so. Rock Hudson looks embarrassed and the story is just plain silly.  So, three stars for this disc then - all of them for WHATPG.

Nice looking, but... Had all the elements of a great movie, but it still came across as mostly surface acting to me. Maybe on a different day with less expectation it might seem better. Did not buy this movie, watched it on my Blu-Ray player over Amazon Instant Video. Should have given this review under the HD version.

Not bad for what it is! Most people say this movie sucks, and it's the worst one ever! Well, how about Zombie Diaries that was a total waste of time, there was nothing to that movie at all, just mindless blabber! I'm well aware it's no Dawn Of The Dead, but for a low budget movie, it wasn't too bad! The bluray picture and the sound are both very good, thanks!

Promising Beginning, Tapered Off In Middle, Surrealistic  Ending. Last night's bargain-rack movie was the "Inside Man" DVD starring Denzel Washington, Clive Owen and Jodie Foster and directed by Spike Lee. I found it in the five-dollar bin at Wal-Mart. It was billed on the DVD cover as "A heist thriller like you've never seen." Well, there's a certain truth in that statement. The movie depicted a small, but very well-equipped group of men who invaded a bank and quickly took over and locked everybody in. There might nave been 40 or 50 employees and customers in the bank and they became instant hostages. Of course, the NYC police, with Denzel Washington in the lead role, responded quickly and moved a small army around the bank. Of course, there were  thousands of spectators and the area was crawling with news media people. Then the negotiations began. Of course, the gang wanted a whole list of things including an airplane to carry them away. Nothing seemed to work out and there was a threat to get this thing going or two dead hostages would be thrown out every hour. At this point the movie seemed like a somewhat more serious replay of "Dog Day Afternoon."  But wait! A secondary plot was slowly developing in negotiations between the bank president, the Mayor of NYC and Jody Foster. It seemed that the whole bank robbery thing wasn't a robbery at all. No money was taken. No one was killed. A few people were roughed up. That was it. It was the bank president's way of retrieving an incriminating document from his own safe deposit box, the only one that was touched. It seemed that the document indicated that the bank president had dealt with the defeated German government during the ending days of WWII in order to get the money to establish the bank in the first place.  Well, the whole movie just seemed to fitter away into nothingness. It had a real promising beginning, tapered off in the middle and then just went into this surrealistic Hollywood plot in the end and turned into a real flop, in my opinion. It became very disappointing as the movie progressed and the movie itself seemed to become longer and longer. I guess you might say that it was a high action movie in which the brakes had been applied and it ground to a boring ending. Too bad. The acting was good. The cinema and production values were excellent.  Gary Peterson

Poor quality Never should be called a bluray Picture was very grainey audio was 2.0, Could have bought this on VCR Been just as good... Story was interesting, Quality was not bluray.

Moving at times, humor falls flat at others The easiest way to describe this film is by saying it's about a group of British old people making a fool of themselves in India. That's essentially the film in one sentence, but also doesn't really seem fair in the long run.  Seven retirees from Britain all decide to travel to India for different reasons. Muriel (Maggie Smith) is having hip surgery, Douglas (Bill Nighy) and Jean (Penelope Wilton)'s daughter invested their life savings into a get rich quick scheme that still hasn't paid off, Evelyn (Judi Dench) is looking for a change in scenery after her husband has passed, Graham (Tom Wilkinson) grew up in India and is looking forward to returning there, Madge (Celia Imrie) is looking for a rich suitor who can make her feel like a desirable woman again, and Norman (Ronald Pickup) is just lonely and looking for that particular someone to make the last few years of his life worth living. With the low cost and exotic scenery of India enticing them, they all decide to stay at the newly restored Marigold Hotel. Unfortunately things aren't as advertised and the hotel is still undergoing massive renovations when they arrive. While the trip they wind up taking doesn't end up being the one they planned, it evolves into something they never could have counted on and are forever affected by their stay there.  The most unique thing about The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is that everyone has different personalities. Everybody seems to be so different from one another on the surface, but are much more alike underneath than they could have ever imagined. Muriel is the most surprising, especially if you've only seen Maggie Smith in the Harry Potter franchise. Her ignorant racist comments result in some of the most memorable scenes in the film. Douglas felt like the character I related to the most (I'm sure it'll probably be different for everyone). His tendency to stay quiet the majority of the time, but then blow everyone away with his sarcastic wit reminded me quite a bit of myself. Graham seemed very private at first, but the film immediately becomes more sentimental once he reveals why he actually came back to India. Evelyn's journey is the most emotional. You also spend the most time with her, but seeing her life transform from the beginning of the film to its conclusion is pretty spectacular.  The only character I couldn't stand was Jean. She was so hypocritical and close-minded. Then to top it off, she threw several hissy fits because she didn't get her way and because "India is hot." Those types of people get on my last nerve and I couldn't wait to see the last of her. Sonny's (Dev Patel) blind optimism is a little irritating especially since everything is going so terribly for him, but his enthusiasm causes him to be the comedic relief in nearly every scene he's in.  When asked what I thought after the movie ended, my big joke was, "I think I was about 40 years too young for that." In all honesty though, it isn't quite that bad. While I don't necessarily fall into the demographic it's aimed towards, there are still things to enjoy and appreciate along the way. The humor featured in the film did seem to fall flat more often than not, but I found things were at their strongest whenever somebody told a story about their past. That's when things would become the most emotional, genuine, and absorbing. The heartfelt moments were greater than the attempts at humor. The message the film gives is also easy to relate to as everyone wants to reach the top of that mountain and life is always taking turns we don't expect. At the end of the day, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is similar to Albert Nobbs in the sense that it's not necessarily a bad film but just isn't really the type of film that speaks to me the way that it should.

A change of pace... "Aaaaah!  Zombies!" ---------------------------------- Note: mild spoilers below ---------------------------------- "Shaun Of The Dead" will remain the gold standard of zomb-comedies (although some might argue that the entire genre is comedic...) but "Aaaaah!  Zombies!" provides a few good guffaws. The premise is great: the protagonists, a group of self-involved twenty-somethings have been infected with a government-created zombie virus but they are unaware that they have become zombies. Their perceptions alter so that, in their slow, shambling forms, they now see normal humans as hyperactive weirdos with high, squeaky voices.  Although they can talk among themselves and have rational conversations, all humans is rahhh!!! grunt! argh! and it takes the zombie kids a while to catch on to their true predicament.  It's a funny concept, deliberately framed as a goofy, super-cheapo midnight movie, packed with -- indeed, entirely constructed out of --  irony-laden, relentlessly cliched dialogue and crass, broad, see-it-coming-a-mile-away humor. Some of it's effective, but the film could have used a little more punch, and perhaps slightly crisper, more vigorous editing. Of course, I was not stoned or intoxicated while watching it, and doubtless that would help with the viewing experience.  Not great, but worth checking out if you're a zombie flick fanatic. (Axton)

Watching your Sensations This film talks about sensations and the fact that these sensations can stop us from moving beyond a certain point in our life. The concept itself is good, although there are some flaws in it and I don't agree with everything that was said in this film. However, the core concept is true. When we think a thought that thought generally evokes an emotion, and if we can learn to control our thoughts we will be able to control our emotions. Its a shame that they didn't say it in the film (not in so many words at least). Overall it was a good watch, I'll read the book.

WATCH OUT THIS DVD WAS NOT FORMATTED FOR THIS REGION-SO IT WOULDN'T PLAY ON MY PLAYER- HAD TO SEND IT BACK. SO BEWARE WHEN YOU ORDER A DVD THAT IT WILL WORK IN YOUR REGION. I KNEW AND STILL ENDED UP WITH WRONG ITEM.

valley of the dolls i ordered 2 dvds one was in excellent condition the other the inside of the case that holds the dvd in place was broken

i suppose this was inevitable...let's just get it over with i've seen so many romeos sometimes i think i AM romeo, and i probably could be in a hs production.  YOU probably could be in a fairly well directed hs production.  not much to say.  the inevitable dicaprio/romeo is finally behind us, in what is probably bill's most overstaged play after hamlet.  i have one slight caveat...juliet happens to be 13...that's what i said (could be worse, lolita was 11, and you are NOT going to find that in the james mason flick), check it out...first of all, what was william thinking to cast a 13 years girl as a lover (and evidently of marriageable age), and what is MUCH more fun...when is anyone going to be mad enough to cast an 8th grader as juliet...step right up boys...no need to crowd.

When the Running Man Meets Gladiator... You know the formula. David Lord (Kellan Lutz), a fire fighter who has recently lost his wife, is abducted in Mexico and is forced to enter "The Deathgames," an illegal online game run by one Logan (Samuel L. Jackson), where participants fight each other in a modern gladiatorial arena.  First-time director Jonah Loop knows what he is doing. The fast-paced action thriller (written by Tony Giglio, writer of "Death Race 2") provides exactly what you expect from a direct-to-video actioner. "Arena" refuses to be taken seriously with references to such classics as "Cool Hand Luke" and "The Silence of the Lambs," and over-the-top Samuel L. Jackson, who seems enjoying playing the role of the mastermind.  Surprisingly, production designs are pretty decent, but the rest of the film shows its low-budget origin. The gladiatorial fight scenes (one by fighters in the samurai costumes) are aptly violent and gory, but clearly needs better choreography. I know this is a low-budget film and not asking for a Ridley Scott-like grand action sequences, but the film's live-or-die battle scenes lack thrills and power essential to close combat fights.  After all, there are lots of films with similar settings ("The Running Man," for instance), but the hero of "Arena" doesn't have the charisma and humor of Arnold Schwarzenegger. "Arena" is an action film that is fairly entertaining but instantly forgettable.

Bad quality video, great movie This film is beautifully shot and one of my favorite movies of all time. The DVD picture quality is very poor and ruins the experience. I am talking about the non-directors cut version. I think my old VHS gold box version is better than this run. Wait for an "original feature" with remastered video because you will be disappointed by this one. *Edit* This review is on the DVD, not the movie. This is a major 5 star movie that endures the test of time.

Gandhi awesome!!!! "No man's life can be encompassed in one telling. There is no way to give each year its allotted weight, to include each event, each person who helped to shape a lifetime. What can be done is to be faithful in spirit to the record and to try to find one's way to the heart of the man..." The Film of Gandhi is one that was very inspirational to all though who believe in true peace. Gandhi was a man of virtue and loved everyone, and believed everyone should do the same. Gandhi begins in a public scene where a man with an evil look on his face approaches and shoots Gandhi three times and kills him. Gandhi's death was a tragic event and thousands of people mourned over him. The film flashes back to a scene where Gandhi is an attorney and he is riding a train and because of his status they try to make him ride third class when he had a first class ticket. He refuses and is thrown off the train. Gandhi takes these attempts of discrimination as inspiration to his cause Gandhi does not give up any time soon. He encourages people to burn passes in defiance of the law, and Gandhi is then beat by police. Gandhi gives a speech to a packed hall calling for non-violent actions against the passed laws. Next, Gandhi calls for a miners strike and is soon imprisoned with thousands of other protestors and the mines still remain closed. General Smuts creates a deal with Gandhi and protestors are freed. Gandhi is jailed repeatedly and grows frustrated with the violence he witnesses. He decides to go on a hunger strike when he hears about a mass murder in India. Chinese and East Asian gunmen shoot and kill thousands of Indian children and mothers; the scene shown by the producer shows the cruelness of the leaders in these countries. This event and the sadness of Gandhi creates a turning point in the film. Gandhi tries to show the importance of non-violent actions and how powerful they really can be. Gandhi finds a away to be meaningful and get his point across in a away that is not forcing anything on anyone. The Hindu people are a very religiously tolerant group of individuals and that usually why people are so drawn to Hinduism. Gandhi is a perfect example of perfect peace and he idea of been completely drawn to uniting with his lord.

Arrived Damaged The product came packaged in a padded envelope, upon opening the DVD case up it was broken on the inside 2 of the dvd's had come out of their holders and little bits of plastic had scratched the surface of them. Thankfully it hasn't made the cd's skip but I certainly hope after the continual wear and tear from watching the awesome dvd over and over again it doesn't affect it!

Good movie but nothing special. I like all of Stephen King's novels and movies.  I like this movie but it is not one of the better ones, still I don't think this movie is a waste of money.  If you like Stephen King this movie will still be a good one to add to the collection, because the idea is still original and typical Stephen King.

Okay vehicle I kept trying to work out if there was any real chemistry between Gable and Day and I came to the conclusion that there wasn't really very much going on. He turns in a credible late career performance though there were one or two moments that suggested that he was just going through the motions and she, sporting an awful and completely UNsexy hairdo, is brisk and workmanlike. I don't know if that's largely due to the character she's playing or not..in any case there's not a lot of warmth there. The supporting cast are pleasant enough and it was nice hanging out with Mamie Van Doren, briefly. Gig Young's hangover act becomes aggravating pretty quickly. An amiable but slightly strained romcom.

A Cotton Candy Queen, "Marie" Is A Light And Airy Treat That Is Ultimately Less Than Satisfying I still vividly recall the abundant trailers and promos that accompanied Sofia Coppola's "Marie Antoinette" upon its theatrical release. From the gorgeous visuals, the eye popping color palette, and the anachronistic rock soundtrack--it seemed, to me, that "Marie" could be an adventurous and bold success or a complete disaster. And, in truth, as I survey the hundreds of previously submitted reviews--it does appear that people fall on one side of this spectrum or the other. So is Coppola's film a daring masterpiece or pretentious drivel? I can see a rational explanation for both points of view. However, in my case, I'll say that "Marie Antoinette" first exceeded my expectations and then let me down. holla  I will preface my next remarks by saying that, in no way, did I go into "Marie Antoinette" anticipating a traditional historical biography. Anyone entering the film expecting great insight into Antoinette's real life or even French history is likely to be disappointed. But, seen as a bit of fiction, there are simple pleasures to be had from the film.  The film is not nearly as radical as one might suspect. The lovely first hour tells the relatively straightforward story of Marie (Kirsten Dunst) as she leaves her home, moves to France, and takes her place as the future Queen. Seen through Marie's inexperienced eyes, the court is a place of wondrous beauty and baffling protocol. Trying to connect with her new husband Louis and maintain the spirit of her youth, Marie is an oddity that people come to accept and admire. I really enjoyed this first hour of "Marie Antoinette." Aside from the gorgeous sets and costumes, there is much charm and humor in the small details of the film's setup. However, just as I was completely captivated, the film lost all momentum. When Marie has a child, the narrative just seems to stop for a while--idling in the countryside that Marie so enjoys. And, then, as things turn more serious, the film lost me entirely. Every real issue is presented in only the vaguest of terms. Here is where a bit of valid historical context would have aided the movie tremendously. As the couple fall out of favor, I know there are dozens of significant reasons--but the film isn't at all concerned about the facts of the matter. And if the film doesn't care, why should I?  Dunst does a nice job with Antoinette, especially in the more innocent times at court. Jason Schwartzman seems an unlikely match as husband Louis. He begins as a bit of a cartoon but has a compelling sweetness that won me over--although the "real" Louis remains a complete enigma to me. Rip Torn and Judy Davis class up the film to great affect. While both offer moments of sheer delight, I wished they were utilized even further. So while the performances are nice, the technical merits noteworthy, and the visual pleasures abundant--the screenplay ultimately loses the battle of style over substance. It's unfortunate, though, the potential for greatness was here--but, for me, "Marie Antoinette" ends up missing the mark. KGHarris, 11/07.

A less creepy co-quel Definitely not a sequel in the conventional sense of the term and not quite a prequel either (since not all of the action in this film takes place before the action in "Paranormal Activity"), "Paranormal Activity 2" is kind of a co-quel to the original. The story here focuses on Kristi and Daniel, a married couple who with a newborn baby, Hunter, and Daniel's daughter from another marriage, Ali. The link between this film and the first does not become apparent until Kristi's sister Katie and her husband Micah (the main characters from the first film) arrive for a visit. When Micah first appears, a graphic on the screen informs us that we are seeing him 60 days before his death--and the puzzle pieces begin coming together. Since there's a small child and a dog involved in this story, the terror potential is a bit higher than it was in the first film, but it seems to take an unbearably long time (and a seemingly infinite number of surveillance camera shots--of the same household scenes) before anything happens. The home video/documentary style narrative still works and affords us just enough information to co-construct the narrative, but this film delivers fewer spine-tingling and genuinely creepy moments than the original. When the action does happen, it is abrupt. And even though this film fills in some of the gaps in the original narrative by providing some additional information about the demonic power that's terrorizing Katie and Kristi and their families, it also ends with a scene that appends some information to the conclusion of the original and ultimately points the way to the third film in the series. Despite some inevitable disappointment, fans of the original will probably enjoy this one as well--but not as much.

ok...it was more for my husband than me this movie was okay...my husband liked it, but hes really into the band so it was probably better for him than me.

Harry Potter Sequel/Social Network Scenes???? seeing the formal 'cafeteria' requirements for the robes, long tables close together and food scenes reminded me of the first Harry Potter film, wth?, all the professors full of themselves in grandeur of the ancient campus etc., and the race between Harvard and Oxford was highlighted in the Social Network but the Harvard guys wore the Oxford jackets, go fig...  Rob Lowe, a Dego, hmmmm, blue eyes, aqualine nose, thin lips, don't think so...and who thought that baby blue/pink striped scarf was hot looking???  impressed with his welding abilities and the blowtorch he packed from Vegas to repair the sportscar lol, and was surprised to know that some of the scenes were actually filmed at Oxford... really kewl perspective of campus life, dorms, countryside, etc., love 80s films and want to see this one again, and glean other gems of higher learning from this quirky script.

TOO KIND FOR THE OFFENDERS I have just watchted "An American Crime"(the movie) Although some of the back ground was correct, with respect to the street scenes(although they never actually showed the house where the atrocity took place).It was torn down a few years ago. What actually happened at that address, to Sylvia Likens, should be recourced. My childhood was not so different, except nobody killed anyone. I've talked to my mother, and I've tried to talk to other people,but no-one seems to want to acknoledge there upbringing. I grew-up in Indiana, in New Palestine Indiana. The day that Sylvia Likens was found dead was my brother's(16th) birthday. Only a few days from my own b-day. Sorry Pete

movie As a kid I really loved this movie, but I watched it again as an adult and it was a little disappointing. Some things are just better seen as children.

Could have been epic if finished This is one of the darkest, most disturbing anime's I have seen as far as a TV series goes. Death Frenzy is an apt title for this. We are taken back nearly 400 years in Japan to a brutal time where life is cheap, and samurai are the enforcers of the land. Make no mistake, these are not heros doing great deeds to save the people. They are ruthless cold blooded killers to be feared, and practice their lethal sword art to dispatch anyone that dishonors them or challenges them in the most ruthless & efficient of ways.  This was done by studio Madhouse (one of the best), and has great visual mixes of style. We often see collages of images - sometimes going between very artfull stills, color animation, pencil drawings, etc to keep your eyes happy. Scenes of bloody graphic violence between fighters, and rather depraved treatment towards women is prevelant, so it is not for the faint of heart.  The big knock for people to be aware of is this is just part of the story, and just ends abruptly as if it were planned to keep going. The story is introduced with a tournament between two legendary but severely damaged samurai who are obviously bitter rivals, then jumps back in time to tell the story of how this all developed right before the match starts. However, after 13 episodes it ends and you realize they still have quite a ways to go to tell the story completely. I did not know this before watching, so was very disappointed at the end of episode 13 after getting rather hooked on this story. I read later that the anime only tells the first chapter of the manga it is based on.

Good but Dated: First let me say, I liked the movie. That said, after seeing the new version with Jeff Briges, this one feels a little dated. I also liked the ending on the 2010 version much better. For those who haven't seen both versions, it is a totally different ending.

Blu-Nay Doctor Who Season 5 Review  Once again, this isn't specifically a review of the individual shows on this box set, or of the program itself, but more of a review as to the faults and ignorant oversights as to what it doesn't offer, compared to previous box sets from seasons 1-4.  If you need to know the specifics of this product, content, and episode by episode break down, there are plenty of web sites out there just for that. And if that is all you're looking for from this review, then I humbly suggest that you skip this and continue to read anything from elsewhere.  And now for those who care for something more insightful...  For starters, I payed for this, and as such, I don't want to be inundated with commercials!  After you get through all the legal stuff, and the 2|entertain and BBC logos, there are commercials for various programs on most of the discs, and for BBC America.  Personally, I feel that since I am PAYING for this program, I should be able to watch said program without having to watch any commercials.  And this shouldn't apply only to this release, but to all future releases no matter what the show or show or movie is.  Getting past that initial irritation, you should know that there is one major feature, or lack thereof, and that being there is no "Select Episode" option, only "Play All."  But after some time, and I admit, by accident, I discovered that if you use the "Select Scene" option, you can watch individual episodes.  But for anyone to not include a "Select Episode" option on the main menu is either lazy or incompetent.  Also, there is no 3-D trailer, and I know for a fact that one was made.  You can watch it on YouTube.  So why not include it?  The one on YouTube requires the green and red glasses, but nonetheless, they should at least make it an option for those who care to get those specs and enjoy that trailer.  And since I'm on the subject of trailers, if all that was lacking isn't enough, the "Coming Next" trailer at the end of each episode has been eliminated from the original broadcast.  Now to be honest, I always skipped past this, but for the purists out there, since it was part of the show then, it should be included now.  If the BBC doesn't want to do the "Coming Next" clip at the end of the episodes for season six, then fine, at least we won't be missing anything that didn't already air.  Just don't pull a George Lucas or Steven Spielberg by continually changing that which has already been broadcast.  As for the, behind the scenes, geeks like me, there are only In Vision commentaries for select episodes.  I remember the good old days, about, oh, two years ago, when there used to be commentaries for all episodes in previous seasons, either In Vision or standard audio.  Adding insult to injury, said same commentaries for this season are in many aspects an ego boost for Moffat, and are filmed as a straight forward shot of those participating, which sort of looks like a police line up.  And even worse than that, those participating, quite frankly, look bored.  And if you didn't think it could get any worse, (hello wound, would you care for some salt?) the two parters only have a commentary for one of the two parts!  Seriously, can't you people finish what you start, or in some cases, start what you finish?  And while it's unfortunate that Matt Smith didn't participate in any of the commentaries, Karen (Amy) and (Arthur) Rory, were in the last one with the director, and that was really the only one that was enjoyable to listen to as well as watch, while they reacted to the episode.  Now for the worst part.  On the technical aspect, the damn thing gets jack up during the In Vision commentaries unless the screen resolution is manually reset to a specific setting.  It was only after reading another customers' review did I learn that some players need to be manually set to a specific screen resolution in order to avoid this problem.  (1080i)  This is all due to the fact that the Blu-Ray version wasn't remastered for players outside the UK, and so, there is a chance that, even with updating your Blu-Ray player, you may not be able to enjoy everything that this box set has to offer.  Again, this is all due to laziness on behalf of those the pressed these and allowed their distribution.  Finally, there is the last disc which contains the Confidentials...  They are not listed as being cut, but you can bet the tin dog that they are just that.  While the originals averaged roughly 43 minutes in length, those presented on the Blu-Ray are averaging 12 minutes!  One would think that since Blu-Ray discs hold considerably more data than DVDs, they should have been presented if not wholly, then at least more complete than these whittled down thumbnails.  So in conclusion, while I profess to still be an avid fan of Doctor Who, I loath the ad infused, content diluted product, which I payed for.  The DVD set is cheaper, and has no fewer features than the Blu-ray, so I would regard that as a better buy.  Or, if all you wish to do is watch the bare bones of each episode, then purchase the individual shows through On Demand, or Amazon, or anything, and save even more money, since you won't be getting much of anything elsewhere.

Harriet S. Harris shines!  Low budget, kind hearts, quality music. Harriet Sansom Harris really shines in this movie.  Her supporting role helps to define the leading man's motivation for his behavior.  Her role also quietly reinforces the theme that everyone wants affection, including average looking men and women. Harris gives an excellent performance in every scene including the one in which she sings.  After seeing her in this movie I am looking for other DVDs in which she acts.  While some reviewers pan the movie for its apparent low budget (revealed in simple scenes and wardrobe) I believe the simplicity helps focus the audience more on the characters.  The simplicity adds a quality of realism as everyday life is simple both in the offices where we work and the bars we visit. Amy Adams's character could not afford elegant clothing anyway so simple was the way to go. This is a simple movie with solidly realistic performances by actors and musicians. The kind hearts are demonstrated by those interacting with the leading man.  His focus is on flaws and potential failures so he does not see the kindness of those around him. Thanks to the director, the audience may see the kindness- but only if they choose as it is realistically understated.  The music is high quality and is reason alone to see the movie.  The musical director and the musicians deserve a lot of credit for their efforts. Amy Adam's performance as Chloe is intentionally not glamorous or perky.  It is realistic and thus well done. Her innate charm and beauty is downplayed which means the viewer gets to see quality acting. Thus, if you are an Amy Adams fan you should own this DVD as it is a great example of her acting ability. Harriet Sansom Harris fans also should own this DVD.  This is a romance movie so it has a happy ending.

very lightly colored  :( Unfortunately, the coloring is so lightly done that it does not look like a color version, but almost like sepia and pastel at times.

Tajomaru: Avenging Blade The story line was good as well as the fight scenes.  The actors played their roles very well and the scenery was superb.

Far Superior to the First Blu-Ray Release To coincide with the release of the 2012 remake, "Total Recall" has been resurrected on Blu-Ray from Lionsgate in the form of a "Mind Bending" Special Edition re-issue. The studio's original Blu-Ray was a poor, early-format effort, and this new AVC encoded 1080p transfer is a huge upgrade by comparison, even though the film itself doesn't appear flawless (with all the optical effects, it's no surprise that there's something of a slightly "dirty" aspect to the entire transfer). That said, the lack of DNR is quite welcome and the overall look hugely satisfying, with the transfer closely resembling Studio Canal's superior European Blu-Ray releases of the film (in fact it seems to be a new encoding of that older master). The DTS MA audio nicely represents Goldsmith's score, while extras - none of which were contained on the prior Blu-Ray - are rounded up from Lionsgate's old DVD releases.  These include a chatty Verhoeven-Schwarzenegger commentary, which is wide-ranging and most interesting when it divulges the rocky development of the film, particularly the Bruce Beresford-directed version that was days away from shooting with star Patrick Swayze before DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group went under. There's also talk about the proposed "Total Recall 2" sequel that was supposed to adapt "Minority Report," while an interview with Verhoeven, 2001 "Imaging `Total Recall'" and special effects documentaries, the trailer, a photo gallery, and a restoration comparison round out a fine budget-priced Blu-Ray that's unquestionably better than the release that preceded it.

Well Intentioned Farce Falls Flat The subject of "Hysteria" is the peculiar relationship that Victorians had with their bodies.  As the film reveals, only a hundred fifty years ago, medical professionals were divided as to whether diseases were created by germs, poor sanitation, or perhaps, "bad air".  Phrenology (reading health by the shape of bumps on the head) was in vogue.  Hysteria was a diagnosis given to women, so-called because it was thought to be seated in the womb.  Hypochondria was a separate condition originating in the solar plexus.  Now, in 2011 we had two movies with titles relating to Victorian maladies, this one and "Melancholia".  Neither movie succeeded particularly well.  "Hysteria" reminded me quite a lot of "The Road to Wellville" (T. Coraghessan Boyle's creation), which was set in a spa run by the namesake of the Kellogg's Cereal dynasty.  Like "Road...", "Hysteria" is a farcical look at body functions and social mores.  "Hysteria" suffers from a believability deficit.  The movie asks you to believe that crowds of Victorian women would queue up to have themselves fondled intimately by their doctor.  Then it asks you to believe that an earnest young doctor would tear himself away from a hospital in order to give himself carpal tunnel syndrome as a partner in a 'fondling saloon'.  I couldn't bring myself to accept that Victorians (particularly Victorian women) were anywhere close to being either so liberated or so frivolous.  The serious elements of the story, concerning Maggie Gyllenhaal's character and her crusades on behalf of the powerless, and her budding romance with the young doctor, were very arresting.  In fact, Gyllenhaal's performance as a sort of Florence Nightengale, (echoing similar roles played by Emma Thompson), nearly saved the movie.  But at the end of viewing it, my only thought was that the actual story of the invention of the vibrator, unburdened by the silliness, might have been far more interesting than "Hysteria".  Maybe next they can do a comedy about the 1950's, Wilhelm Reich and the "orgone box".

Only phonies like it... Is what Bogart supposedly said about this movie.  I've been thinking about that for a few days after watching the movie and think I understand what he means.  The original story was about how imperialism was exploiting Africa.  The movie version makes imperialism into a farce.  I suppose that could be done right, but the part that really bothered me was the African interlude where the bunch of ill-assorted crooks land on the shore of an African country where the main bad guy Peterson (Robert Morley) sold the natives some rotten guns.  The ruler, Ahmed, displays all the stereotypes attributed to Third World rulers: he's bloodthirsty (firing squads in the distance), effeminate (he sure seems to like Bogart a lot later on) and fatally attracted to white women (Rita Hayworth in particular).  Of course it's played for laughs, but I'm capable of deciding when to laugh. There's a sense here of trying to have it both ways - to expose imperialism and to use the old racist stereotypes for a laugh as well.  So why did I give it three stars?  Because Bogart is in it and does a great job of acting.

Intelligent Design Dilemma It's good to have Charles Darwin Evolution challenged.  This how good science is done.  The Cambrian Explosion has needed a good explanation since it discovery.  However, Charles Darwin did mentioned that he's work was not complete and he predicted that observing fossils in this period that an older fossils would needed to be found that would be much simpler in form. How about the 3 billion year old cyanobacteria that formed those mound-producing stromatolites.  You also,  mentioned  in your documentary a time period called Ediacaran (635-542 mya), these are definitely more simpler in form than the Cambrian creatures.  I'm afraid, Charlie was right.  Could it be that the fossil record is void of very early life do to plate tectonics, erosion and/or single cell creatures do not fossilize, except those that formed colonies.   The continuos transitional forms as describe in your documentary that should be shown in the fossil record with gradual changes from parent species to offspring species is not possible in the majority of cases.  I'm not geologists, but what geology that I have learned, indicates that the fossil record is no where near complete and is very sparse compared the number of fossils found and the age of the earth.  Has anybody heard about Un-Conformity?  The Grand Canyon was eroded by the Colorado River that exposed geological rock formations going back to about 1.8 billion years.  As these rock formations were study by geologists, they discovered, what they called the Un-Conformity are geological rock formations which are missing. How can we have a complete fossil record?  The missing rock formations were either caused by plate tectonics, glaciation or simply eroded away.  If we had these rock formations, I believe the fossil record would be more complete, but not entirely.   My understanding of a theory should be based on the most workable philosophy of science. That it will explain a wide range of phenomena on the basis of a few postulates that can be tested and make definite predictions.  If the theory passes the tests and the predictions are true, the theory survive's.  How does Evolution theory (Evo) and Intelligent Design (ID) stand up to this definition?  Is ID based on a workable philosophy of science?  I don't think so, because the philosophy is to study natural phenomena through their natural process excluding intelligence within the process.  By this definition, ID fails, since it is not natural, but artificial.  Of course Evo makes the grade since it's trying to explain life only through a natural process.  Now I don't know if the proponents of ID are using it as a theory?  If so, again it fails, since there are no postulates that describes how it works, it can't be tested nor make predictions.  This answer is a dead end street that goes against by ideas on how scientific concepts operate.  "A good scientific concept will not only describe natural events, but can be used to seek further answers to other related questions." For example, Plate Tectonics is a new science that was developed in the 1960's.  Prior to this science, very little was known how the earth functions such as mountain building, carving of great canyons, fossils of marine life on top of mountains, etc.  Afterwards, all these mysteries went away.  How do we use ID to further scientific knowledge?  Can it be used to combat diseases that become resistant to our medicines?  How about controlling pests that ravage our crops?  The answer to these questions are NO.  Can we use Evo to answer these questions and the answer is YES, because developing resistance is a natural cause and Evo is used by medical scientists and entomologists to combat these diseases.  Why do you think you need a flu shot every year, that's because Evo is on the job.  In conclusion of these comments, I'm reiterate my prior questions.  Where is your book on "Origins by Intelligent Design"  At least Charles Darwin book explain's all the postulates along with the mechanism that makes it work.  Where are ID postulates?  What is ID mechanism?  How does ID work? What makes ID function?  With no answer to these questions, ID has no value and is mean less in science.  I believe we left behind 1200 years of Dark Ages with the beginning of the Age of Enlightenment.  All ID will do, is put us back into another Dark Age.

how brutal it could be It's a good movie in general, but a simple story with too much details about violences one after another. Even the romance part is shot in uncomfortable background and darkness. I would expect it to be told differently, in a more normal daily life way, and it could make the argument more powerful regarding a girl wanting to be a boy ending up in death. it seems all the other charactors besides Teena are already troubled souls (simple mothers, fights in the bars, getting theirselves in trouble all the time, making silly decisions etc). This makes me wondering if this is really the case in the middle America which I know little about (would appreciate if someone tells me).  If this is the case, brutal crimes would be there with or without Teena.  Hillary performed perfect. This is not a mainstream story and I guess Acadamy would not give her a recognition for this role.

You will know if this is your type of movie in 5 minutes It wasn't my type of movie. It is kind of a Mel Brooks kind of humor, with crude jokes, that some people like, but others hate. You can tell in 5 minutes if you like it or not. I gave it 3 stars for potential. If you love 80s horror movies you may love it.

I smiled a lot. People said they howled through this thing. I was just amused. If you don't take it seriously; If you suspend reasonable belief; If you don't let details get in the way OR are in college - this is the film for you.  The scene where the guys are being used for taser targets is the best.  Okay, you're getting married and you let your two best buds and your future brother-in-law take you to Vegas for one last night with the boys as a free man. Throw in heavy drinking, rohipnol (roofies) and Vegas and you'll get a night you will never remember.  A tiger in the bathroom, chickens in the suite, a missing tooth, a baby in the closet, the future groom is missing and the very expensive Mercedes future Daddy-in-law let you borrow for the trip has been traded for a police car.  You now have 9 hours to unravel the mystery of where the hell's the groom and who's kid is this or you'll never make it to the church on time. Saw the unrated version. Don't know if it was different from the theatrical one.  Pass the popcorn.

Basic basketball classic Glory road is one of my favourite sports movies. Based on a true story the story is of a Texas college basketball team that recruits coloured Americans in a time when that was not the `done thing'. The boys face all sorts of racism, until the town eventually comes around and accepts them. Josh Lucas stars as the coach of this team, and does a great job in an exciting movie about the successes of the underdog.

A great horse deserved a much better movie When watching Secretariat, I couldn't help but think it was not so much about one of the greatest horses who ever graced the race track, but more of a film that tries to take the film Seabiscuit and simply transport it 30+ years later.  The movie tries to make Secretariat seem like an underdog when all along the horse was seen as a champion.  No one in this film struggled for money.  The training of Secretariat would have made for a good film but only horse race champions would have been interested.  The horse racing scenes are amazing, but all in all this is a film you don't need to see.  There are better movies out there!

A shadow of the past... I've been a huge fan of this band since the 1970's.  I own all of their albums as well as their other incarnations (Asia, 3, EL Powell).  I've seen them in various configurations many times.  Die hard fans will appreciate the show but this band's legacy should NOT be defined by this gig.  It's obvious that 2 of the original members are not up to par; Keith Emerson's medical (hands) issues have limited the once virtuosic and simply amazing performer to a shadow of himself and Greg Lake is simply now..... the BIGGEST front man in progressive rock.  He could play "Pizza the Hut" in a "Spaceballs" remake.  Carl Palmer's timing is a bit off too; apparently due to the short rehearsal time given to this gig and also because he's used to touring with two young kids in his own band who perform this material up to original speed and in that setting, he's fantastic (see his band if you can, and the venues are usually small so you get the up close and personal viewing treat of an all time great!).  The HD video is nice but the sound man at this gig should have been fired.  What a cluster eff given the money and people involved.  Basically, you get a small taste of what this act used to be but are slapped in the face by the reality of the aging process, the medical issues of Keith and the self induced sloth of Greg.  If you want to understand what this music used to be all about, you have several options.  (1) Listen to the records.  They set the standard of musicianship during that time period.  (2) Put up with the mediocre sound quality of their Montreal "orchestra" tour DVD and/or Cal Jam video, or (3) see Carl's live band currently while it (hopefully) still exists.  He keeps the shirt on and the music is TOP notch!  Other than that?  C'est la vie.

Bom! O filme &eacute; &oacute;timo e cheio de extras. Mas tem um detalhe: esta versão &eacute; a Award-Winning Collection e não Two-Disc Collectors Edition. Atenção na hora de comprar!!!

Fun movie but bad acting/directing This is a great family flick but the acting/directing are sub-par.  The special effects are decent considering this movie was made in the early 80's.  Definitely worth seeing at least once...if you have kids who can watch it with you.

The Darkest Hour A movie that had lots of potential, but somehow went wrong.  Looking at the reviews, I thought this was going to be another good movie that gets nothing but troll reviews saying how bad it was, when in reality it's an awesome movie.  This time, I was wrong.  The first twenty minutes are okay, especially right after people start dieing.  Then, everything gets boring.  There's a couple interesting scenes, and the special effects are really good, but it's just not a movie I could see anyone really getting into.  I'm not going to call this the worst move ever, but I will say it's not worth buying, or watching more than once.  If you wish to see this, rent it first.  I watched the whole movie and just could not enjoy it.

This Moon is Made Of Cheese "Apollo 18" takes the 'found foootage' horror methodology (think "Blair Witch" or "Paranormal Activity") and takes it off world. You thought Apollo 17 was our last lunar mission? You think the Russians never landed on the moon? Got news for you conspiracy minded types out there; neither of these is true. Sent up under the guise of a National Security/Department of Defense kind of Top Secret mission, our three astronauts board the Liberty and Freedom vehicles for one more investigation of what's really up there. It ain't the Sea of Tranquility, that's for sure.  Before you know it, something is making creepy noises outside the Lunar Module. Samples are suddenly not where the explorers originally left them. And them dastardly things ripped up the USA flag! Not only are these critters scary, they're downright UnAmerican! Then again, they weren't too nice to the Ruskie that landed there before Apollo 18, and the unlucky astronauts realize that their government may not have told them everything about their journey or its intended mission. The handheld cameras soon begin jerking and spinning, the automatic cameras are going static, and the humans just might be losing their minds.  "Apollo 18" mixes just enough "now-you-see-it" spookiness to add some real scare jolts, but mostly, it's dopey space B-Movie fun. The Metal Munching Moon Mice from the old Bullwinkle cartoons were about as believable as the space bug monsters wreaking havoc on our helpless heroes, and some of the effects are laughably bad. There's plenty of stock footage in use to help make the original bits work chronologically, however, as a horror movie is concerned, the green cheese that is "Apollo 18"? It certainly isn't rocket science.

KEEP YOUR EYE TO THE SKY After reading fellow reviewers' comments, I had high expectations for SyFy's ROADKILL.  While I concur with many of these comments, I found some of the movie a little clich&eacute; and repetitious.  Kudos for the unexpected order of slayings and the Irish scenery. Once again, a group of friends go off on a sightseeing trip and run into a clan of gypsies instead of hillbillies.  After stealing a strange medallion from the head klansman (an excellent Ned Dennehy) they accidentally run over the village oracle who puts a curse on them regarding the fabled simuroc--a big bad hungry bird. ROADKILL is one of the better films in the "Maneater" series.  I admit if I heard "Dude" one more time, I might have used the DVD for a frisbee.  Most of the performances are adequate, although Stephen Rea is ill-used in a basically cameo appearance.  The bird effects are decent with only a couple of minor flaws.  Overall, ROADKILL is entertaining; just expected more.

DVD info is incorrect I purchased this version because it indicated that it was the original 103 minute version and not the 99 minute version shown on cable and released in Canada/US back in the 2005 range.  This one was identical and the info is wrong.  I also purchased the PAL version and it too is the edited version and not the original shown at the Berlin Film Festival in 2003 when the movie was first released.

Handi-capable acts of heroism! being blind in an NYC basement appt is scary enough, but to tackle bad guys using ingenious tactics to get the upperhand was truly impressive and unexpected, Audrey is convincing as a warrior instinct survivor and does well to maintain and extend the suspense beyond typical fearful life threatening scenes, was thinking her screams may possibly have been heard given she seems normal, has local friends in the building but no mention of callousness of neighbors to help another... more likely in dense woods, deserted highway etc.  all the hullabaloo for some minute contraband imho, geez, some operation... nonetheless great to see the empowerment of a disabled woman and save her family from the evildoers of NYC!

Good for a lowbudget sci-fi flick First, before watching this movie you have to put it into context. This isn't some big budget sci-fi movie with crazy visuals and things like that. Most of the locale's in the movie look like they were filmed in old abandoned places. Everything looks low budget. If you went into this movie expecting to be a multi-million dollar production, you're deluding yourself.  A lot of people compare this movie or others like it to "The Blair Witch Project". It's more of a documentary than it is a found footage film. The movie takes in several conspiracy theory and sci-fi elements: time travel, Area 51, moon men, immortality, multiple dimensions, and other things you'd hear on Coast to Coast AM.  I thought the beginning was good, but towards the end the movie fell short of where I thought it was going. The ending seemed rushed in resolution, but things came full circle in the end. All in all, I thought it was a good movie for being put together on a small budget. Some effects looked cheesy, but there were some parts where I felt pretty engaged with what I was watching.  If you liked this, you'll probably like Primer or Time Crimes a lot better. I think they should have kept it a lot simpler and not try to rush in every conspiracy theory and sci-fi element into one movie.

A very good true story about Kate Davis during the Nazi seige on Leningrad in WWII.  Powerful but slow. I say B- "Is it true that the Fuhrer's new plan is not to take Leningrad, but to wipe it from the face of the Earth?" During WWII the Nazis planned to take Leningrad on their march to take over Russia and the world. They are met with resistance and the battle begins. Kate Davis (Sorvino) is a foreign journalist and is on her way to be evacuated with everyone else when she is hit. Thinking she is dead the plane leaves without her. This movie opens with a spectacular war scene that while not that graphic it is still very powerful and memorable. Then the movie shifts to the dramatic side and follows Kate from her life of safety to struggling to stay alive. This movie shows the power of the human spirit and how in times of need you find who and what you need to make it through. A pretty movie true story. The main problem is that it tends to drag in a few parts and is a little too long. I don't mind long movies but if there are parts that are not needed they can be taken out to make the movie's pace a little better. Other then that I recommend this movie. Overall, a good yet slow account of Kate's struggle for life in a country ravaged by war. Much like the movie "Winter In Wartime". Which I though was better then this one. I give it a B-.  Would I watch again? - I don't think so.  *Also try - Enemy At The Gates & Winter In Wartime

Not as good as I'd hoped The original Fantasia is my favorite movie of all time. I had high hopes for this sequel, but although it is good, it lacks the magic and, surprisingly, the inventiveness of the original.  Several of the pieces are clearly follow-ups to the first 'Fantasia'. There is another Beethoven symphony, another Stravinsky piece and the dancing ostriches are replaced by flamingos. Where an attempt is made to be creative, by using flying whales to represent Respighi's 'Pines of Rome', it doesn't really work; I was left scratching my head and wondering what that was all about. The only piece, as far as I am concerned, that lived up to its illustrious predecessor was Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue', which married the music and the images perfectly. That piece was also, incidentally, the least similar to the original in style, showing the kind of creativity I'd hoped would be present throughout.  Other than that, it's telling that the segment I enjoyed most was 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice', reprised from the first movie with some extra business at the end, even though in the original that was perhaps my least favorite piece.  However, the music is excellent and the idea is still a good one. Possibly this movie would have seemed better if it didn't have to bear comparison with the wonderful original. Three stars, but if you haven't seen the first 'Fantasia' yet, do so.

Waiting for the art world to die WAITING FOR HOCKNEY (2008) is a fascinating documentary, not about what constitutes art, but what constitutes whether the art world is going to perceive an artist or a dumb slob who likes to make pictures. That's what the art world does - and it will revolt you to see how they do it.  Billy Pappas, a very self-insulated and autistic young man with a fine talent for draftsmanship, worked just over 8 years on a microscopically realistic (we call it "hyperrealistic") portrait of Marilyn Monroe. Somehow he got the wacky notion that famous artist David Hockney was a kindred spirit and could validate the work - Billy knowing that he'd conquered an unconquered level of portraiture-with-a-pencil, Billy knowing that only Hockney could realize what he'd done and proclaim Billy's genius.  Things don't work out that way. While I found this documentary format tiresome (dopey, whiny college-station music and lingering shots of Billy's eyes), I found his drawing to be a technical marvel. We artists all know technical marvels get you nowhere. That is where Billy got. Even after he landed a meeting with Hockney at Hockney's California home. Poor guy.  While Hockney remained notoriously silent about the whole thing, his 'entourage' praised Billy to the skies. When interviewed, they changed their tune, actually mocking him and his drawing. It's the art world! Did the poor guy really think he was getting somewhere? When Hockney forgot all about him (probably about an hour after Billy left Hockney's residence), Billy turned to Bill Gates, hoping for God knows what.  Billy was rewarded with a terse email saying Bill Gates "doesn't do this sort of thing" and ordering Billy to stop pursuing Gates. So much for the patrons and the philanthropists!  This documentary is heartbreaking but I think all aspiring artists ought to see it, and more importantly, feel it. Watching this brought to mind another two art documentary films I reviewed, WHO THE F*** IS JACKSON POLLOCK, and THE ART OF THE STEAL. All films share one simple fact: the art world stinks like nothing else in the known universe, and is populated by precisely the kind of creatures you'd imagine would give off that stink.  As far as I know, Billy is still working as a waiter in some dive - and doing his art projects at home. The documentary is rather lax in follow-up, and just flops to an ignoble end. Perhaps they meant to show us the true fate of Billy's dream.

Not Feeling It These capable actors are stuck in habit and routine.  I defy anyone to watch "Margot At The Wedding" and deny this wife has 99.9% identical phrasings and mannerisms.  The commentary says they could only find 2 days of rehearsal and then depended on the energy of first takes.  Big big mistake.  Obviously they had barely enough time to learn the lines and marks and literally none to find distinct personalities for these 2 characters.

Furballs from space with a major appetite I remember watching this movie years ago when I was only like around 12 or 13 years old.  At the time it was a little creepy movie with those man eating hairballs from outer space but at the same time I found them to be comical at some points throughout the movie.  Though I think that this movie is not so much horror though mostly Sci Fi with some comedy well put into the movie and the Critters (aka Crites), would probably freak out some people but not everyone.  While the story may seem a little cheesy now but I guess it's just one of those movies that may have inbetween aged well and not aged well.  Overall I give Critters 3.5 stars out of 5.

Ehhh.. It was not ask good as the first. No kids choice award for Larry the Cable Guy. Maybe he should stick to stand up comedy only.

Ride with Nick Cage "Drive Angry" stars Nicholas Cage as one "Milton" hell-bent on revenge, trying to retrieve his granddaughter from a cult religious leader Jonah King (Billy Burke), who abducted her after murdering Milton's daughter. But don't take the film's subject matter too seriously as a grindhouse-type action movie is full of tongue-in-cheek moments, like our hero's ridiculously over-the-top dialogues and borderline silly shootouts. In a motel room Milton is seen gunning down the henchmen - while having a sex with a lady.  It's a bad taste, and "Drive Angry" is supposed to be that way. The story doesn't make much sense - we don't exactly know how Milton (John?) escaped from the hell, or why an "FBI" agent (actually "The Accountant") played by scenery-chewing, scene-stealing William Fichtner has to chase him. It's all about guns, gores and cars, especially muscle cars. Director Patrick Lussier's use of 3D techniques is also old-fashioned. You don't get the subtlety of the visual world of "Avatar." In "Drive Angry" objects will be flying at you even when they don't need to.  Patrick Lussier (following his "My Bloody Valentine 3D") knows what he is doing, but compared with other recent examples of films inspired by the campy 1970s exploitation movies (like "Machete"), the level of violence seems tame, for better or worse. Also, the film stars Amber Heard and David Morse, but Morse's role is disappointingly small. Perhaps directors like Rodriguez or Tarantino would have given him more to do.  "Drive Angry" is a throwback to the trashy 70s style B-action film, updated with the modern (but not best kind of) special effects and the star Nicholas Cage. It's pretty silly, but not bad.

Remember the drive in? This was the type of film you saw, with the very LURID exploitation adverts in the paper - and it lives up to the hype as to nudity and the Euro style of horror, and the cheese to go with it.  If you remember going to the drive in each weekend to see these import films and running to the snack bar in between features - this will appeal, but for persons looking for a serious demon possession type film, nope -- Euro explotaiton at its top notch, just not more than that.

The Goodies I used to watch this show and while these 3 episodes are ok, I would not have picked them as the best.

As corny as your popcorn, but as delicious too If you come home after a hard day's work and need to be greatly entertained, this should do the trick. Once you get past that this is in no way like the iconic "Catwoman" you know, you'll love it for what it is. You'll be laughing and shaking your head at how ridiculous it is. It's a very unique and different take on Catwoman. This story is more a Peter Parker scenario of a meek artist, who stumbles onto a secret at her job, she's chased by the bad lackeys and dies, but a cat kisses her and breathes life back into her, and she returns to get revenge on those that killed her, etc, etc. Corny as hell? Yes! Unbelievable? Yes! Entertaining? Yes! This is one of those so-bad-it's-good movies. In the first few scenes of Halle as Catwoman I cringed: her acting came off very fake and trying too hard. But after a few more scenes of her purring one liners, I completely loved the way she acted. This is a very camp movie, with even a black singer belting out while Halle struts her stuff. Benjamin Bratt is adequate as the cop who falls for Berry (why is he always a cop? He also played one in that movie I like, Abandon) and is sweet eye candy, as usual. Sharon Stone is below adequate and doesn't play her role with much interest, which is understandable. I almost felt like she was snickering at the silliness of the movie. Should also mention that Halle is stunning with the long, curly hair; didn't like how she looked with the choppy hair. I began, hating this movie, and was about to change it, but by the end I was rooting for Catwoman. It makes you laugh, so it makes you feel good. I look forward to the sequel!

Great movie, picture quality eh I love this movie and enjoyed watching it. However, the picture quality was a bit spotty. The video skipped too many times. I would have preferred a smoother playback.

Sour Grapes Doomed this "Popeye Projeckt" ***This review may contain spoilers**  Paradoxically, many people pan movies because of what they are not rather than what they are.  When Robert Altman's "Popeye" was announced back in the late '70s/early '80s, I imagine many people (and many kids) thought, "Oh, boy, we're gonna get a Popeye adventure like "Popeye Meets Sinbad the Sailor" or "Popeye Meets Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves". He'll punch out monsters, eat spinach, fight the villain, save Olive (and sometimes Wimpy).  It's gonna be lots of fun." Therefore, when Altman's "Popeye" hit the screen, there was a collective "Whaaa? Is this a joke?  Where are the freaks and monsters? Where's the escalating Popeye/Bluto rivalry?  Where's the action?  This sucks!"  Altman and his "Popeye" version don't quite roll that way.  Instead, the late director of ensemble family drama reached back before the '60s/'70s Popeye cartoons to the Thimble Theatre comic strips, brought THAT Popeye and his grotesque contemporaries to life, and decided to make a choreographed family musical drama revolving around Popeye's (Robin Williams's) search for his peregrinating papa.  His search brings him to the ramshackle seaside village of Sweethaven, where the wacky populace is too distracted to pay too much attention to him.  He takes lodging with the Oyl family, whose gaunt, shrill, ungainly Olive (Shelly Duval) has been betrothed to the imposing village enforcer Bluto (Paul Smith).  Somehow Popeye and Olive cross paths and confide in each other, with Olive confessing she has cold feet about her impending marriage.  They also stumble upon an abandoned baby; the adoring Popeye decides to name him Swee'pea (Wesley Ivan Hurt).  Bluto, along with the nervous townsfolk, await Olive.  When Popeye and Olive return to her home with Swee'pea, the infuriated Bluto sees them together and, misunderstanding, smashes Popeye through a dock and demolishes the Oyl home.  To raise money to restore their home, Olive's chubby brother Castor (Donovan Scott) hesitantly agrees to box the mountainous Oxblood Oxheart (Peter Bray) for the cash prize.  The Oyl family, with Popeye, witness the "illegal" fight and Castor's beating. Popeye leaps into the ring, takes care of the bruiser and wins the prize - and the beginning of Olive's affections.  When Popeye shoves the insufferable taxman (Donald Moffat) into the harbor, he wins the whole town's gratitude and Olive's fickle heart at last.  Everything's not hunky-dory yet.  Swee'pea has prognostication skills and can see the future.  Wimpy (Paul Dooley) kidnaps him to help him bet on the horse races.  At length, Bluto hears of the child prodigy and appropriates Swee'pea to bring to the mysterious, reclusive Commodore (Ray Walston), the true village leader.  Incensed at the kidnapping, Popeye follows the trail to the Commodore's boat and happily discovers that the Commodore is Poopdeck Pappy, his long-lost father.  Poopdeck is less than thrilled to see his son, whom he considers a sissy especially since - gasp! - he hates spinach, the vegetable that has kept his family strong for so long.  However, their differences must be set aside as Bluto, along with Swee'pea, absconds with Olive and Poopdeck and sets sail for the open sea, with Popeye in pursuit.  An underwater octopus seizes Olive and allows Popeye to catch up.  After Popeye and Bluto tangle and Bluto force-feeds Popeye the yucky spinach, Popeye knocks out both the octopus and Bluto, with Bluto turning yellow and swimming away for dear life.  Popeye rescues Swee'pea, Olive, and Poopdeck, everyone sings the "Popeye the Sailor Man" theme song, and the movie ends.  I, too, must admit that Altman's "Popeye" confounded my expectations, too.  But I gradually appreciated the movie's purpose - to provide a mixture of comedy and drama, some musical interludes, some rousing but exaggerated fight scenes, some of William's risque, ad-libbed mutterings for the sailor man, some of Olive's clumsy, willful motivations, and the overall depiction of an outlandish cartoon community come to life.  Is the movie successful?  To a considerable but not complete degree yes, though it has its inert spots and that unforgivable revelation that Popeye hates spinach.  Superman might as well be invulnerable to Kryptonite.  Nevertheless, Altman and Williams should not have disowned their "Popeye".  It showcases the sailor man well, especially when it shows that the pugnacious Popeye, through Swee'pea and the search for his father, still has a kind, just, caring heart.  3.5 stars out of 5.

WHERE?! I WAS TOLD THIS FILM HAD CAPTIONS OF THE LOCATIONS. BE INTERESTING TO KNOW WHERE! So someone please tell me where I can find the other version. I'll buy it again.

The Beat Goes On: A Fascinating Subject Gets A Hit-Or-Miss Treatment I've long been fascinated by the Beat Generation and the colorful assortment of artists that became its collective. Therefore, I was very intrigued to see Alan Govenar's documentary feature "The Beat Hotel." Promising an incredible subject matter, fascinating new stories, and insight into the inhabitants that collected in this Paris establishment--the film seemed like a can't miss proposition. And certainly "The Beat Hotel" is pleasant enough, it just isn't particularly enlightening. I'm confused by who the intended audience is for the movie. It presupposes that its viewers know all about the individuals profiled. So if you aren't conversant in Beat History, the film will have little to no impact on you. If, like me, you are already knowledgeable about the subject--I'm not sure that this coverage offers much new. It's a shame, really, as the Beat Hotel is a vital and essential location that brought together the greats at a pivotal moment in their artistic history.  The primary sources for "The Beat Hotel" are two individuals that spent some time in residence there--photographer Harold Chapman and artist Elliot Rudie. The movie spends quite a bit of time with each as they reminisce (mostly about themselves) and even visit a few others that spent time with the Beats. As a profile of Chapman and Rudie, "The Beat Hotel" succeeds as a biography of these two individuals. They are nice enough hosts, but if you're hoping for more in depth insight into the bigger names (such as Ginsberg, Orlovsky, Corso, and Burroughs), most of what is detailed is quite superficial. Of the four, only Burroughs comes alive (or gets much time) as a true eccentric and most of these stories occur when he was becoming separated from the principle group. Even the Beat Hotel, itself, is not really profiled. In many ways, the documentary seems to lack a central theme. The true focus is never really the Beat Hotel.  Maybe I'm being unduly critical. Although I liked Chapman and Rudie, the documentary seemed to have the potential to dig deeper into the Beat phenomenon or even to introduce it to a new generation. It doesn't particularly do either, even if the movie itself is entertaining enough. And though the hotel itself gets plenty of mention, it never particularly comes alive. Overall, I'd recommend "The Beat Hotel" to those interested in the time frame and the movement. It's not a definitive analysis, but it does have its moments. About 3 1/2 stars, for me. I would presume I was in the intended audience for this picture, and it felt mostly like missed opportunities to me. KGHarris, 7/12.

DVD of White Christmas from Amazon The movie is a classic.  I have always watched it on TV and decided I wanted a copy for myself.  It is nice to watch whenever I want to.  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002MU4NN6">White Christmas (Anniversary Edition)</a>

Almost-Classic Disney Film. Great Animation, Terrific Voice Cast And Excellent Writing, But... Walt Disney Pictures' 49th animated feature "The Princess And The Frog" is almost in the vein of classic Disney films (including the 2010 release "Tangled"), as it has everything going for it, from a fairy tale as source material, beautiful songs written by Academy Award winner Alan Menken, excellent animation, terrific voice casting and pitch-perfect comic moments. But there is one thing that prevents it from joining the ranks of "The Little Mermaid," "Beauty And The Beast," "Aladdin," "The Lion King," "Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs," etc. as a classic: the voodoo. I understand that Disney was being historically and culturally correct, as the story is set in New Orleans, but that element was way too heavy for a children's film. Bear that in mind when viewing this film. Rated G, but a PG rating would have been more appropriate, due to the voodoo.

Overcooked Man, Knew Way Too Much I'm a big fan and observer of Hitchcock film canon yet I can't see the improvement of this '56 version that he himself and other critics claim over his '34 original.  In fact, I think the original holds up as one of his masterpieces, hardly the "amateurish" effort he attributes to it while calling this one the work of a professional. Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day (Day especially believable) are troopers and all, no problem with the protagonist cast but you can't beat Peter Lorre as the bad guy in the B&W.  At issue with much of the modern update are the overlong and tedious scenes where brevity could have served, particlarly in the shooting scene and in the howling "Que Sera Sera" performance at the embassy.  The Master overcooks the suspense here in my opinion.

Good Service/ So So movie The service was great. I got the movie sooner than expected and it was in great condition. My only complaint was that the movie wasnt that good for a Harry Potter movie.

Not my cup of tea but maybe yours. I didn't like the adult humor nor the violent scenes. But the story is ok. It is more of a guy movie.

Camille I ordered this film because I am trying to see all of James Franco's work....I think he rules as an actor and student and etc.....This movie is not good....LOVE James and stars like Scott Glenn and others....Sienna Miller, eh?.....But if you like indie movies and James Franco's great acting.....It is a worthy buy....Patty

The Return of Norman Bates Psycho II, 1983 film  The movie begins with a lit neon sign: "Bates Motel  Vacancy". Inside a woman strips nude for a shower. [A repeat from the 1959 movie.] We see that Second Empire mansion from the 1959 movie. [Note how small it is.] A courtroom scene where Norman Bates is restored to sanity. [how does that work? "I'm sane and I have a certificate to prove it."] A psychiatrist advises Norman to call if he needs help. [There is a mysterious scene.] Norman is the new assistant cook at a diner. A waitress has boyfriend trouble. Norman offers her a free motel room. [Do you have a bad feeling about this?] Mr. Toomey tells Norman how things are. "You're fired." Toomey is upset. Mary the waitress hears bad news. "Do you have a knife?" [Note the old soap products.] The conversation is clever. "I'd rather you didn't." Mary wants to live in town. [Anybody recognize those video game sounds?]  Toomey creates a disturbance at the diner. That night Mary returns to the Bates Motel. A shower at night? Warren Toomey returns to pack his suitcase. Who meets him? The psychiatrist visits Norman, then the Sheriff. Who is at the second floor window? Norman goes up to the attic. A teenage couple climb into the basement. What is that noise? "Lookout behind you!" Sheriff Hunt arrives for a visit, a scared girl talked to them. They check the fruit cellar - its clean. "Its starting again." Lila Lumus sees the Sheriff. Norman has an alibi, there is no body. Mary explains her actions to her mother. We learn about a conspiracy. Back at the house there is a plumbing problem! Is there another person in the house? Mary with her pistol is prepared for trouble. Her scream brings Norman, who hears his dead mother talking to him. "What are you doing, Norman?" Norman is afraid of going back to the Institution. Mary comforts him.  The psychiatrist returns to see Norman and tells him about Lila Lumus and her daughter Mary. They want to destabilize Norman, this explains their actions. Lila Lumus asks Mary to continue her acting. Doctor Raymond proves the facts to Norman. Norman returns home. Who is on the telephone? His real mother? The Sheriff wants to see him at the swamp. They found Toomey's suitcase. The Sheriff tells Mary to leave town. Lila visits the old mansion and finds trouble in the cellar. Doctor Raymond also visits the mansion. There is a car in the swamp. Norman seems to be regressing. Doctor Raymond surprises Mary and gets a shock! So does Norman. Then the police arrive for the ending. The Sheriff explains the murders to the reporters. Norman returns home to the cellar. At night a visitor arrives in the kitchen. Mrs. Pool takes tea and explains past history. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. And the story ends. [But we know there is more to this story.]  This was a good sequel, but I didn't like the surprise ending since it seemed tacked on for shock value. You can also question some of the other scenes.

Left Behind I purchased this thinking it was something different than it was. I think it was part of a series or something, I was looking for something different.

A good family film from the 90s One of the movies I grew up watching back in the day.  First time I seen the movie since I can't remember when and it's just like I remember when I watched it when I was a kid during the 90s.  For those who haven't seen this movie or maybe don't remember it well, it's about a kid who moved to a new town just around the time that summer starts then has to try to make friends before the next school year starts.  While it's a baseball theme based family film, at least of that of what it was like during the 1960s and all that.  Eight kids play baseball at a little 'sandlot' and finally get a ninth person to have a whole team on field anyways, but whenever one hits a homerun into where what is known as 'The Beast' the day is done.  That is until one time one is brave enough to go over there. This was one of the few baseball movies that I know I could go about watching without much of a problem since I don't go about watching movies about the sport that much.  When it comes to writing at the time for a family film I think it's about good for its time I give it that and the acting is on par with other family films of the early 90s.  Overall I give The Sandlot 3.5 stars out of 5

technologically flawed This was looking like a very interesting film and really enjoyable with great interviews until the copy I had stopped playing. I was very disappointed that I could see the whole film. I highly recommend the film makers to improve their quality control. Take note: I get better quality pirated films in Asia. So if the Asians can do it on a home computer why can't you do it on your big machines, eh? Too damn lazy?

Sensory overload The original Alien was a ground breaking science fiction that relied on mood and atmosphere to achieve its scares. Ridley Scott was smart not to show too much of the Alien, instead leaving its menace up to the viewer's imagination. The alien spacecraft is a masterful piece of design concocted by H. R. Giger, and looks appropriately otherworldly lurking in the ominous background of the alien landscape.  However, James Cameron took a different approach with the sequel Aliens. Like its predecessor the film is a triumph of industry design and technology. However, Cameron unlike Scott seems to be more fascinated in action and military hardware. This does not say that they are scares or thrills in the sequel, but as the movie moves along there is a lot of gunplay between the soldiers and the aliens. The film starts to look like one of those shooting games you play on the internet. Initially when you see the first alien it is quite a shock, but after hundreds have been blown away it gets monotonous. Many of today's action fantasies owe a lot to the pacing of aliens.  The most impressive thing about Aliens is the confrontation Ripley has with the queen alien. It is one of the last full sized mechanized monsters shown well before the CGI revolution. Its movements are impressive considering it was probably moved with electric motors. The final battle is impressively mounted and the Alien is dispatched.  To be fair maybe one should look at Alien and Aliens as two different films done by directors with contrasting styles. I prefer the more subtle approach of Scott, than Cameron's more action orientated direction. That said, it looks as if both films are already classics.

Missed opportunity A fun and watchable action flick, but it would have been so much better as straight science fiction. A good cast and a great concept for the first stretch of the movie are let down by a belabored series of set pieces in the second half, many of them utterly ludicrous (as a bit character even points out).

Kept my dad quiet I bought my dad a D.V.D for christmas as i live in the south and he lives up north i got it delivered via Amazon. To my amazement when i went for a visit shortly after New Year. The D.V.D was on my parents table in the box. The cheeky Bugger said "i dont think i will enjoy that film can you get me spiderman 3" I was livid as i had bought him a present and the gratitude is that..... Anyway he already had spiderman 3 but not on blue ray so i took his home with me returned the other film and sent him a replacement. Anyway he is much happier. Not sure how he will feel this year as he is getting nowt from me the ungratefull swine.  Hope you all enjoy the film as much as my Dad does. I watched the normal version and its a top film....... Im gonna get the Bluray version next time im up north ha ha ha

Horrible ending This DVD featured a good story and very good acting.  The generous use of four-letter words did nothing to advance the plot or the quality of the story.  The ending was tragic and depressing, causing me to dispose of the DVD.  I did not want to keep it in my collection.  Clint Eastwood has made some great movies, but I never want to see this one again.

Look for the meaning..... As someone who read, and loved, Lisa See's Book i understand why so many are grumbling. They have taken too many artistic liberties with the film and you lose the some of the richness. People who havent read the book  may like it but those of us who have, feel the loss of the depth of the characters. STILL the movie has a good message and im glad i watched it. Snow Flower and the secret fan is my favorite book of Lisa See's and i wish she wouldve demanded they do more with the script. It felt like we just skimmed the surface of the lives of these women.

Doctor Who I chose this movie for my niece since she likes San Francisco.  The Doctor has to save the world from The Master in San Francisco on New Year's Eve at the turn of the Millenium.

Amazon Video Experience Great, Movie Bland I was impressed with the ease and quality of Amazon's Instant Video system. The movie, on the other hand was totally dull.

Good noir film, so-so transfer Being a huge booster of Blu-Ray as the ideal (so far) medium for improving the sight and sound of older movies I was fairly disappointed with this and HD Cinema's concurrent release, "Kansas City Confidential".  While Blu-Ray transfers typically make details sharper, shadows blacker and faces more detailed, these two films' details seem softer and less focused despite the BD transfers.  Ironically, this can be proven by watching the short side-by-side comparison each disc offers as an extra feature.  The non-Blu-Ray half of the screen looks sharper with more relief.  First time I've seen that.

Ok In the beginning, i didnt know what was going on. Then i saw what happened later on. A bit confusing at first. Then you can see what happens later. Usually when i see David White, i look for more of a Christ witness. this was different. i expected more of the bible and stirring toward Jesus. this was sibling rivalry more that about Jesus. even though the preacher  did things for his brother, I just wish he would have trusted God more than do what he did. Vengence is mine, i will repay saith the Lord. i expected more from David White though. Hes halarious and me and my son laugh at him alot. But, i just wanted more Jesus. Good if you like to figure stuff out.

watchable but not great Thriller/detective movie - (I like that genre) - dealing with the occult/devil (good so far) - the movie is ok, nothing special. If you watch this expecting to see a good movie, you will be disappointed.  Its not terrible, and if you have low expectations it will be fine.  The bad guys are pretty pathetic, they kind of remind me of B movie characters from the 60's. I liked the concept of the 3 sets of diagrams in 3 books.

A blow below the belt Let me begin by saying that I am one of millions that agree too much was cut from the book when the movie was made. To me, it's completely idiotic to take the longest book of the series and make it into the shortest of all 8 movies. Especially considering how horrible a job they did with HP & the Deathly Hallows Pt 1 & 2. And they spilt the movie into two parts! There was so much they could've done with this movie. One of the long standing arguements has always been there's no way they could have put out a 3-4 hour movie. BS! Show me one HP fan who would not have willingly sat through a four hour HP movie! LOL. That said, here are my vies on the movie. I've broken them down into different sections.  CASTING: Overall, I've almost always agreed with the casting for the characters for the movies, not just this one. Umbridge/Imelda Staunton= Brilliant! I actually had to remind myself it was the character I detested and not Staunton herself, she played the character so well. Luna/Evanna Lynch= One of the best casting choices in all eight movies! Lynch IS Luna! Sirius/Gary Oldman= I'll just come out and say it. Everything Gary is involved in turns to gold. Actors like Gary Oldman only come around once in a lifetime. Snape/Alan Rickman= The reason this man is a magnificent actor, one of the best in history, in the world, is because he's a camilleon. No two roles he plays are the same. Rickman drowned himself in the character of Snape. So well, he played it perfectly. Some of my other choices for great casting were: McGonagall/Maggie Smith, Dumbledore/Michael Gambon, Trelawney/Emma Tompson, Voldemort/Ralph Fiennes, Kingsley/George Harris, Lucius Malfoy/Jason Isaacs, Hagrid/Robbie Coltrane. AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, perhaps the best casting choice, Bellatrix Lestrange/Helena Bonham Carter! She was outstanding! As for the poor choices, or the ones that I think could have been played a bit differently, not necessarily a different actor. Harry's parents, the Dursley Family, Tonks and Remus, Fred and George Weasley, Draco, Neville and Molly Weasley.  CG: Let's face it, the jury is not out on this. All the animated scenes, such as the Ministry of Magic with the globes, the flying scenes, Grawp, when the centaurs run off with Unbridge, exc.  CUT SCENES: Lets face it, they butchered the book. This was a book where everything changed, a pivotal book. The movie was in essence a slap in the face to all HP fans. The cutting of certain scenes were very poor choices. Such as: Hermione's attempt at freeing all house elves, quidditch, the St Mungo's scenes, the Occlumency scenes between Snape and Harry, everything that is Grimmauld Place and the Department of Mysteries, Dumbledore's escape when accused by Fudge and Umbridge of forming the D.A., and so on. But the worst of all, is the simple dismissing of Sirius. In the book it's a truly heartbreaking scene. But in the movie? His death barely gets acknowledged, you can't hear Harry's anguished screaming, using the Avada Kedavra curse on Bellatrix, Lupin's attempt at calming Harry.  In all, the book got a 6 out of 5 stars. The movie got a 3 out of 5 stars.

Not McQueen's best role An old man recalls the halcyon days of his youth and the four days that changed his life forever.  The time is 1905, and 11-year old Lucius (Mitch Vogel) lives with his rich grandfather in a sleepy Mississippi town.  His wild and no-account pals, Boon (Steve McQueen) and Ned (Rupert Crosse), talk him into a wild adventure involving his grandfather's shiny, new automobile, some shady ladies, and a horse race.  As a Steve McQueen fan, I expected to love this movie, but, although he's charming as always, he seems more of a secondary character here.  The story focuses on Mitch Vogel's character and he's a good, but not great child actor; his eyes are expressive and thoughtful, but he sounds like he's reading his lines. Will Geer (who plays the grandfather) and Sharon Farrell have the best scenes.  The story was clearly meant to be a rollicking good time but it didn't make me smile.  It's big on nostalgia and family values but this is definitely not a child-friendly movie.  I liked the period recreation, sets, and costumes, but the story just missed the mark for me; it didn't hold my interest with McQueen playing a rather helpless fool.  Just an okay film.

good sequel ... but a far cry better than Basket Case 3.  Henelotter has a great imagination and wonky sense of humor.  I originally saw thes out of order, but the trilogy viewed sequentially looks better structured on re viewing.

Could be better Having seen snippets of 3D underwater shots available for free on my tv, I was hoping for something more spectacular from an IMAX movie. Here and there during the movie there are some brilliant colors and good 3D effects, but there's too much of the movie that's like a standard ocean documentary. If you're going to film in IMAX 3D, film things that take advantage of that! Take the camera right through groups of fish, let large fish/mammals swim right past the camera, bubbles always look cool as they seem to really come out into the room, get objects in the foreground as you film your subject, etc... When this far too short a movie finished (it's only 40 min), I was left feeling like a had watched a cheap knock-off of an IMAX. It's definitely not worth $30. If it gets down to $10-15, I might recommend it.

Are the entrances in this WWE Satan's Prison DVD set in their ENTIRETY?!! It doesn't hurt to be careful because the W.E. (World Entertainment) has an ANNOYING nack of cheaply dubbing over their entrances on DVD sets if they include the entrances at all.    Plus I WOULD appreciate it if the reviews for ALL of WWE's dvds/dvd sets here on amazon.com would list SPECIFICALLY what is, and what is NOT included.

Fun This was a fun movie.  Not super intelligent but very entertaining. Popcorn,  twizzlers and nothing to do this is your ticket.

DVD Quality less than up to Par! The DVD picture quality was bad and the DVD skips at multiple parts through the movie. I guess you get what you pay for...

Terrible Movie...Great Demo Disc Don't buy it for the plot or acting, buy this for the spectacular visuals and a 7.1 soundtrack that will push your system to the limits.

Jonah Hex Jonah Hex was a pretty good movie not really D.C Comic or Superhero comic book classic but it was alright.

Disappointing sequel to an awesome 1st run I rented this last night, excited about finally getting to see it.  I found myself wondering when it would end. I absolutely love the dynamic between RDJ and Jude Law, but this movie falls flat everywhere else. I don't think Moriarty was at all interesting.  He's supposed to be an evil genius, right? He had none of the villainous intrigue that Mark Strong had in the first movie. Overall, I would rent it if you loved the first one, but definitely wait for it to be on special.

Okay 80s Horror - Keeps You Guessing The 80s were when everyone and their mother were trying to cash in on the slasher obsession of movie-goers. Anyone with a few bucks to spare and women willing to take their tops off were in business. As such, you've got to expect that there's a whole lot of slasher garbage out there. Graduation Day could have fallen into the trap of being completely irredeemable, but is actually a decent film.  The film starts off with the sudden death of a high school track star. From there, it quickly sets up a cast of characters - almost all of whom seem suspect. While the acting, murders, and general story might leave something to be desired, Graduation Day still holds itself together.  The best thing about the movie is the fact that so many characters are set up as being the possible killer. It's fun to try and formulate reasons for one being the real killer. This would be amplified if you watch it with a group of friends; each trying to guess the right one!

Scotts review This movie is one of the jesse stone series and with every movie it just get's better the caractor of jesse stone has really got good and tom selleck has really developed him really good. The movie it's self was ok I still think that the first one stone cold and the third one death in paradise were better. Bu don't get me wrong the movie was pretty good for what they were going with. I just hope the make more.

Not too bad... Ok, for starters... if you're buying this Blu-ray for McCLintock! save your money. This DVD has just about the worst copy of this movie I have ever seen, I mean EVER!! Same thing with the so called documentary feature "John Wayne: American Hero of the Movies". As far as the others are concerned, The Dawn Rider, Texas Terror, The Trail Beyond, The Star Packer and The Hurricane Express, I've seen much worse. They don't appear to be restored in any way, digitally or otherwise, but the picture isn't too bad at all. In fact they appear to be a little clearer and much brighter than I'm used to seeing. And the sound is about the best I've heard from these old movies, very clear. The music appears to be the original, as opposed to all the other copies I've seen. Usually these old Star Packer films have a terrible title and soundtrack music added to them. Hey, I only paid 9 bucks delivered so I can't complain too loud. It would be nice if the time was taken to digitally restore these old b-movies though. On the other hand, perhaps they would lose character.

Meh Yeah, so I bought this based on some reviews that the 3D is one to beat for releases in 2012. Well... I didn't really feel all that wowed by any of it. Plus, what it comes down to, unless you're a junkie, drug user type, who thinks that all humor about drug use is funny, yeah, you'll love it. But I'm not. Not a saint either, but have never done most recreational drugs used in this series. I do however, love White Castle hamburgers. Always will. So I am glad they had an appearance in this. Plus, NPH is pretty funny. I did find it odd that the 2D blu ray version and the DVD were melded into a single disc. That was an accomplishment. Never understood why I need to purchase every disc medium that's available when all I want is the 3D movie. So I often wonder... is the cost of the 3D titles high because it's 3d, or because they include 3-4 discs in each offering? Stop. I don't want them. It would also avoid doubling up on titles I've already purchased the 2D versions of. Uggg.

Worth watching twice I think this film conveys effectively the essence of the story told in the book, and portrays convincingly the "look and feel" of the period.  James Garner, playing the central character, F. Ross Johnson, turns in a sparkling performance that makes this film entertaining enough to watch more than once.  I also applaud actor Tom Aldredge for his artful performance in a supporting role, playing board chairman Charles Hugel.  The DVD presentation lacks luster: adequate picture and sound; adequate menu; a few dull text biographies; cardboard snap case.  Look for an inexpensive used copy.

captured by a native tribe, a visitor to Thailand discovers a whole new world... Umberto Lenzi's The Man From Deep River (aka Sacrifice, Deep River Savages)(1972) takes you on a journey deep into the jungles of Thailand, where a British citizen falls into the hands of a tribe of natives.  More of a drama than an action movie, the film explores the assimilation of an outsider into an indigenous group.  With a brief incident of cannibalism, the film is generally regarded as one of the first entries in the cannibal genre.  In Bangkok, photographer John Bradley (Ivan Rassimov) hires a boat to take him deep up river.  There in the rain forest, far from civilization, his guide is killed, and Bradley falls into the hands of a native tribe.  He is kept a prisoner, until the chief's daughter Maraya (Me Me Lai) takes a fancy to him, and he becomes her property.  Through a series of events and a number of trials, Bradley is accepted into the tribe and becomes Maraya's husband.  Life is fairly peaceful, and the couple is happily expecting the birth of a child, when tragedy strikes, as Maraya mysteriously loses her eyesight.  Believing that her only hope is medical treatment back in civilization, Bradley plans to make his escape.  Shot on location, Lenzi's film has pretty good production values.  While not completely convincing, the acting is perhaps better than you might expect.  The dialog is limited, but Maraya's ability to speak some English, helps things move a little more smoothly.  Although somewhat light in the action department, with instances of cruelty, torture, rape, and cannibalism, The Man From Deep River has a history of being banned in various countries.  The level of realism may be is open to discussion, but the movie is an interesting watch that explored some new cinematic ground at the time.  Delving deeper into the cannibal genre, Lenzi would follow up with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006FDBO">Eaten Alive!</a> (1980), and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000HXDWNM">Cannibal Ferox</a> (1981).

Faster Though the movie is true to Dwayne Johnson's form of acting. It ends on rather a sour note by not completing what he had set out to do which to kill everyone associated to killing of his bother. And like so many other movies of this sort,it ends on a question mark. Just once I'd like to see a movie end with a conclusion of what does the person do after completing their intended mission. Do they: Get caught and return to prison,or escape to a secluded place start to live out the rest of their lives,or go on the run as a fugitive,or discover love and become passive never to kill again.What happened to his girlfriend,the one that ratted them out in the first place. Did she die of an overdose,what about the detectives son,what happen to him,was he awarded to the state,did he just up and run off. There's too many holes in this movie,though Dwayne Johnson is a good actor for these type of movies,he should read the scripts a little closer and demand changes.

Not for US devices Classic movie, and I enjoyed it as much as I did when I watched it as a kid.  However, this DVD is not formatted for US devices, and this is not specified when you order it.

Glad I kept my quality video of this I once put this movie out in a high quality VHS, from a SVHS master of an original 16mm film transfer. The picture and sound were five stars. Glad I kept it, because who wants to settle for an Alpha video dupe from an inferior copy.

One of the WWE's better movies AJ (Triple H) has just been released from prison and all he wants to do is...make pickles. But,Jack (Michael Rapaport), AJ's screw up friend that stole his girlfriend Claire (Parker Posey) when he was in prison, gets them in a whole lot of trouble.   Jack accidentally kills a man during a simple job for his father Dr. Vic (Bruce Dern) and steals the money in a briefcase that was left behind. Now, AJ finds himself stuck in the middle and has to choose a side between father and son when, again he just wants to....make pickles.   Triple H is surprisingly good even though WWE wrestlers are so gigantic that they often look awkward on film and Triple is no exception. But when everyone else in the movie isn't that easy to like, you find yourself rooting for AJ. Michael Rapaport is a likable actor but his character is just so careless and immature that I didn't care if he winded up in a ditch somewhere.

The Devil Inside....... The Devil Iniside, as most of you already know, a documentary-style film about a woman who becomes involved in a series of exorcisms during her quest to determine what happened to her mother(who murdered three people as a result of being possessed by a demon) and why she was sent to Rome for treatment. Despite how the majority feels about this movie, I thought it was a pretty good movie. I found it to be alot more interesting than The Last Exorcism. What amazes me is that The Last Exorcism recieved positive reviews from the media(I assume because it was the first found footage movie concerning Exorcism). Heck, I liked this movie even more than the third Paranormal Activity(and I love those movies).  I've seen quite a few 'found footage' movies since Blair Witch Project came out years ago and, believe me, I've seen far far worse movies. I'll admit, I didn't like how the movie ended either but, given thought about it, that was a worthy conclusion to the story. I suppose viewers would've wanted to see someone else become possessed with their eyes rolling back in their head and then the camera fading to black or something to that effect(leaving things open for a second movie) or actually seeing the demon appear itself? Still, It was an entertaining movie to me. It held my interest through til the end and that's all that really matters. I'd recommend it but I guess it all really depends on your taste in movies. If you love movies of this type, you'll really like it. If not, you'll hate it. As for me, I loved it. Great movie.

Good movie, but not nearly as good as the book. Good movie, and I love Rachel McAdams, but to me it seemed to have an overall dark feeling to it and wasn't nearly as good as the book.

Wait For A Collection That Takes Care of the Discs Inside... Truth be told, I had a really, really bad experience with this set.  So much so, that I actually decided to have Amazon give me money back for it.  I'll get back to that in a bit, but let's cover the positive stuff first:  This is a gorgeous looking set - The outer cardboard shell is sturdy, and the book that slides into it is nothing short of breathtaking.  Inside the book is a massive amount of information and tons of great pics from the series, and as the book folds out there's a timeline that details everything that happens throughout the saga.  Obviously, this boxed set houses all five original Planet of the Apes feature films. Are all the films perfect?  No, they're not.  The original is a masterpiece.  The second was severely misguided and really dismantled the vision of what a planet of apes would be like... but its bleak tone and its dark ending actually leaves me with a lot of respect for it.  The third film was a wonderful return to form, whereas the fourth continued down a path of dark paralelling to our own world.  The fifth film was a nice effort on paper, but its cheap execution was rather poor.  That being said, although there's some issues throughout the series, the positives FAR outweight the negatives.  So, what's the issue with this set then?  The packaging.  The discs are in the book, but on rubber hubs and no protective backing.  I went through TWO of these sets... and each had scratched discs.  Furthermore, the rubber hubs made it very difficult to try and put the discs back in place.  If only a little extra money was spent in developing these sets with plastic hubs instead, this would have been the set for me.  So, I got my money back, and went to FoxConnect.com and bought their exclusive 'while supplies last' Planet of the Apes - Evolution Collecton on Blu-ray... and that set DOES house all the films in plastic hubs with protective backing.  Also, that set ALSO includes Tim Burton's remake, as well as the Rise of the Planet of the Apes reboot film.  In conclusion, this 40th Anniversary Collection is great as long as you get discs that haven't been ruined by the packaging... but for anyone who is really concerned about gimmicky packaging such as this, you may want to hold out for something more sturdy such as I did.

Chamelion Heart Throb This little made-for-TV movie is based upon a true crime story. It held my interest enough for me to do a little research to learn the progress of post movie criminal case against the protagonist.

The Invasion `Invasion' is a modern take on `Invasion of the Body Snatchers' and sadly for me ended up being a huge disappointment. This is all the more so because I was on the edge of my seat and filled with the right amounts of tension the whole way through, only to be left aghast at the weak and `cop-out' ending that fizzled out without any impact. Following Nicole Kidman (who acts remarkably well in this film) and her family as they deal with the impact of an alien invasion that leaves the populations as hosts to the alien parasites, this film has excellent apocalyptic themes. You are nervous whenever she encounters an afflicted person and flinch every time she nearly gets infected and this never lets up for the duration. The story is well written and you are gripped the whole way through and then the end arrives and you are left angry and disappointed wondering what happened. At 90 minutes this isn't that long and they could have easily added an extra 15 minutes to tie things up more neatly. The effects are pretty good, everyone acts well and the direction is good as well. Overall this would get 4/5 stars for the first 80 minutes and then 1/2 for the last 10 minutes. Such a shame, but worth a look never the less.  Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.

No features of any kind Very disappointed that a terrific movie like this comes with absolutely nothing as far as any kind of bonus material, commentary....nothing. Great movie but the DVD contains nothing I couldn't get waiting for it to air on HBO, etc

Not Jack Black's best work With some humorous lines, this lacks from Jack Black's normal shenanigans.  Not enough heart or laughter for me to give it more stars.

Cut key parts of movie This was not the movie I saw on the big screen. Danny Devito's role is completely edited out. Marsha's disappointment when she finds her prince charming hooked her up with a nerd. Classic moment in the movie gone. But why? They should have the director's cut on VHS also.

Not for my 4 year old I grew up watching Charlie Brown.  The videos are great. However, my 4 year old now copies the language that Lucy and others use.  He is constantly say the words "stupid" and "hate".  Things could be worse, but it just doesn't sound nice when your kid is saying that all the time in front of others.  It is embarrassing.  I never realized how negative these shows were.  I am not a helicopter mom, but even I am taken back by the good old days being so rough around the edges.  I don't recommend this for kids under 5.

Yours, Mine and Ours What can be said about this movie.  A classic in it's own right.  Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda do a superb performance.  This is hilariously funny.  You can't help but wonder how cocktails will turn out when everyone that walks by adds a little something to the drinks.  And who says family life has to be boring?  Today we have dysfunctional families.  What would we have called this one in today's society?  Watch it and laugh.  No comparison to the remake.

If it weren't for the movie itself... Invasion of the Body Snatchers has so many great memories for me; watching it on our old 12" B&W, getting creeped out time and time again. The sweaty close-up of Kevin McCarthy when he realizes that Becky has changed...great B-movie cinema. Fast forward almost 60 years. Digital age, 7.1 dolby stereo, etc. Olive Films has reissued the film in Blu-ray format and THAT'S IT! No commentary, no subtitles, nothing extra. Indeed the film doesn't strike me as being all that better in terms of contrast and picture clarity. As a matter of fact, there are no "inky" blacks at all. It's ironic to make this comment on a Black and White film. In comparison, Twilight Time's reissue of The Big Heat <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0081GLD0G">The Big Heat [Blu-ray</a>] is far and away superior with regards to picture quality. Still, there's the movie itself; fun and very entertaining; great memories of Friday Late Night Ghoulardi or whatever local TV station fright character. I am not sure that replacing your old DVD or VHS is worth it. If you've got a "Jackson" lying around and are hot to upgrade, go for it, but don't expect to be blown away. Too bad.

Alien Contamination (1982) brief synopsis:  A cargo ship from South America drifts into New York City harbor and the police board the vessel to discover what happened to the crew.  They find the crew dead, apparently from their internal organs bursting out of their bodies.

A pretty good movie Received sympathy today and i watched it immediately have to say i thought it was a very good film although i had never heard nor seen it before i found i really liked this movie especially the end shot with Christopher Thornton wheeling down the street.My thanks to all the reviewers who told me a little something about the film prior to my purchase without your so-called *spoilers* i never would have purchased this film but after reading what the film was about i was more than sure i would like it and i did so i owe all of you a big THANK YOU!!!Also being a huge Orlando Bloom fan i have to say it was very refreshing to see him portray a totally different character complete with his beautiful British accent.I do not know much about Christopher Thornton but i think his acting was excellent and i will be looking for more movies in which he is in. Lastly i loved the song played at the end of the movie.The only reason why i gave it only 3 stars instead of 5 is because although i did enjoy this movie it moved at a slower pace than i generally like my movies to go also the ending did not seem exactly realistic to me what did they forget about one convict?Nevertheless in my opinion this is a movie worth seeing even if you only watch it once.

modern day fairytale This is a feel good light hearted movie. It isn't big drama, or a twisting plot, it is just a sweet romance story about indecision and very believable. I think it portrays that the "rules" can get in the way. Annie Potts is hilarious as the mom, and Lucy did a great job with her character.

Those martians were worth a visit! Well, that wasn't half bad at all! Sure, it's B-grade and low budget and could have easily been really bad, but actually it's really funny.  Randy Quaid is good as this eccentric music score maker, who inadvertently brings stand-up comic martians to Earth. The supporting characters and actors are also good.  The best parts are the running banter of the two main martian men and Quaids' characters' hilarious over-reaction to their heckling.  The plot is a little convoluted; one minute the martians start a truth crusade, as if they had come to Earth in a heroic mission to uncover people's dirty secrets and exposing con-men and con-women. But before you know it their watching people during intimate moments... which kind of confuses their purpose; are they a force for good or evil?  Then there's execution errors. Sometimes the music is so loud, and yet the dialogue so quiet, you've kind of got your hand on the volume control going up and down all the way through. You turn it way up to hear some quiet dialogue, then, BOOOM, this loud music.  So for those few 'execution errors' and theoretical oversights I'd rate this movie about three stars, though definitely room for maybe half a star more.

Great and not so great I went into this movie not expecting much. Most recent Disney movies have sucked. I was very surprised by the quality of the animation in this film. They put some serious effort into the background scenery, the water flowing, the lighting, ect. Many of those shots are worthy of framing. I did not like the character style, however. It reminded me of my daughter's Barbie movies and was very un-Disneylike when compared to the classics. Not bad, but not what I have grown to love.  The story moved along fairly well with nothing terribly unexpected happening. My biggest disappointment was the music. A great Disney movie uses the music to set the theme for the movie and the music moves the story along. With a few notes you can pick out the theme songs of Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, or even the Rescuers. I can't remember a single song from this forgettable score and I just saw it yesterday. I got the impression the songs were stuck in there because all animated Disney  movies have songs, and not because they actually cared what the songs were.  In the end, my daughter loved this movie and my wife enjoyed it. So it is better than the component parts. I will probably buy it, which is more than I can say for most Disney movies of the last few years, but it will not be a favorite.

a classic, of course Video quality and sound quality were great. Really appreciated having the ability to stream it to our computer instantly, because our son needed to watch it (twice) for a film making class. I only wish that the rental period was longer. The movie is 5-star, the rental period is what brings down this review.

Swiss Family Robinson The movie arrived promptly. There was a rattling in the package that turned out to be a broken flange of the hinge for the double discs. So the mount for the first disc was loose in the package. Otherwise, the disc worked fine and the film was enjoyed.

Oh Those Kidz And Their Krazy Hijinks This 2008 zero-budget video documentary is Example 147a of a project that should have maxed out at sixty minutes but aspired to be something more (betterer)substantial. 924 Gilman Street opens with an attempt at structure by driving the highways and streets leading to the club, with voiceovers circling the raison d'etre for the space. Then there's bits about how the club came to be, but soon it falls into the cycle of foggy live clips and interview snippets that say a lot of words but don't add to much beyond how great and cool and necessary and fortunate and enriching and whatever else Gilman Street represents to all its miscreant children.  I read the book 924 Gilman Street so even if it isn't I viewed this as a companion piece. The book is more honest (even if by accident) about the ugly truths hidden behind the utopian rhetoric of the project, but at least they allow Jesse Michaels of Operation Ivy to comment on the sometimes unwanted influence of hardline socialists and their demands for physical labor and political purity. The dvd is a fundraiser for the club, distributed by Alternative Tentacles (Virus 381) with the pre-emptive strike of stating "So have some class and pay for it".  It's best to dedicate 60 minutes tops to this dvd, so after the first ten minutes forward to anywhere and see how long you can last. Go back randomly and do the same. Pick another point and... you get the point. If you're really into the importance of really important things maybe you'll want to watch all of it AND the extras, more of the same but where else do you have to be anyway?  Maybe my problem is that I don't yearn to belong or to build, or to destroy the system and replace it with whatever it is I learned in kindergarten about sharing, respect, and responsibility. If someone made a film about my fondest musical years (78-82) I surely wouldn't want it sugarcoated with BS like this one does fairly harmlessly. I don't want the arse of my nostalgia kissed. A much more honest film would be about how the club has survived in spite of all that's gone wrong or doesn't come close to being true in terms of stated goals vs. reality.

The Johnson County War Heaven's Gate, 1980 film  The movie starts with a view of a tower, a man runs down a street to join a parade. They enter an auditorium. A minister makes a speech. Couples dance in a courtyard. Men struggle in a courtyard celebration.  Years later this man travels by train to the West. One man is ordered to leave a cow. Another man objects to this, but he also leaves. We see people walking with their baggage. [Believable?] A man visits a house. "Cash or cattle?" A train stops and travelers get off from a flatbed rail car. [This was during the worst economic depression of the 19th century.] There is a conflict in the street. Rich men talk about the danger from paupers. Juries won't convict. They hired fifty gunmen to invade Johnson County (Wyoming), kill the marshal, and 125 of the settlers. The Governor, Congressmen, and US President are in their pocket. [Are things different today?] "Everything can be done."  Marshal Averell tells them to stay out of his county. Men gamble on a cockfight in a tavern. Averell tells of the death list of the Cattlemen's Association. Later Kate is happy to see him. There is a small village with settlers (who speak a Slavic language). People roller-skate on a wooden floor. [Believable?] We see many scenes that pad out this story. Averell advises Kate to leave the state before the war. The Stockgrower's Association offers a bounty of $50 for each dead man. Nate asks Kate to quit her business. Averell reads the names on the death list. We see men dragging cut timber. Averell warns the people about the planned murders of 125 men. A train carries the gunmen and their horses to Johnson County. [They were told they were hired to enforce arrest warrants.] Men attack Kate, Averell rescues her. He warns her of worse events to come. "I'll miss you." Citizens call on Averell for help. The gunmen surround a cabin and shoot at the inhabitants, who shoot back. A fire wagon is pushed against the cabin, Nate writes a farewell note. He is shot dead when he leaves the cabin.  The men of the town gather to discuss the situation. The Cattlemen want to steal the lands and cattle of the small ranchers and homesteaders. [A modern form of feudalism, like eminent domain.] The citizens must organize to defend themselves. Armed, they ride out to attack the terrorist gunmen of the Cattlemen's Association. Averell recommends an attack using wooden shields on wheels. There is more shooting, wounded men fall. The terrorists are surrounded. But the US Cavalry rides to their rescue! [This violates US law by using the military to enforce civil law.] Later there is an attack on Ella and Jim, Ella die. Jim reminisces years later. [In history the lynching of "Cattle Kate" occurred in the beginning.]  The value of this movie is its story about the infamous Johnson County War, the big corporations against the small ranchers and farmers. This event inspired many of the Western films of the 1930s and 1940s. A big rancher, who was in cahoots with the crooked mayor and sheriff, tried to steal the lands of ordinary citizens (until they could unite against their oppressors). This movie is overlong, it needed a better a better scriptwriter. It is not accurate in small details (except the murder of Nate Champion). The actions of the hired gunmen were far worse than shown in this movie. Asa Mercer was a journalist and eyewitness who wrote "The Banditti of the Plains". There is another book by a historian about "The Johnson County War".

Imagine Bond As GI Joe As a Bond fan, I was dismayed when I heard Daniel Craig was going to be assuming the role, Daniel Craig as Bond in this film is about a subtle as a hammer through a window. There's no mystery here, only an endless body count and a rare bout of sex. Bond is little more than child in this role who successfully allows his vendetta to run its course by destroying just about everything in his path save Vesper's lover. It only gets more hard to follow when you throw in 'Bolivia Intelligence' former or not, into the mix. The question also begs to be asked, MI6 has cutting edge technology but you can't give an agent a bulletproof vehicle or any serious heavy duty firepower? Sigh) I'd give anything for someone to walk in and give Bond a brain along with a mystery to solve. There's no detective work, it's just Bond killing bad guys who presently themselves all too conveniently. Welcome to the new Bond - GI Joe in a suit and tie in & out of the bedroom.

Collectors Edition???? While the this is not the "Glory Days" of the Simpsons era it still has plenty of solid epiodes and memorable sceens.  If you are a Simpsons fan you'll be adding it to your collection.  Have they gone away from the Special Collectors Edition Boxes though.  I have got the whole set of them so far and it was one of the main insentives to pre-ordering the box set.  Plenty of great classic characters left to choose from for them too.

A Boring Nostalgia Trip. Viewed: 5/08, 8/11 Rate: 6  5/08: Much better than I anticipated and even exceeded my expectations, I thought Rocky Balboa was going to be the worst Rocky movie in the series, even worse than Rocky V (it's still a painful to think about it). Lo and below, Rocky Balboa is back and charms his way throughout the picture. I've not had so much fun, and I love the whole package. What Sylvester Stallone brought to Rocky Balboa is the old memories and characters. At the same time, he merges his past with the present, showing no hard feelings or bitterness about how things are different and/or changed. He just has a different perspective on them, and interestingly, Rocky Balboa is old school meets new school, just a real nice fresh change for a turn. The editing work is unlike the crap I see nowadays with an interesting back-and-forth of the natural, part of the film and the fight show. I like that. Sylvester Stallone (whose best acting bit is when he gives the speech to his son before he goes back in the restaurant) is phenomenal playing Rocky again, and it's the role that he was born to play. Everybody else is great also. It's too bad not seeing Talia Shire again, but actually her death contributes a great deal to the story and makes Rocky Balboa to work. A real good asset indeed. Another thing I like about the story of Rocky Balboa is how Stallone combines the juvenile mentality of ESPN (you know, the crap about who is the best and the fictional versus thing that dominates the show instead of showing some real sports) and the need for Rocky to come back and actually fight. It makes total sense, and the fight is awesome. The best part...well, there is so many of them in the movie, but the best part is how Rocky Balboa ended. It shows how much we know that Rocky didn't care about the fight result but the actual result of winning the true fight. That display shows what is more important, and Sylvester Stallone does that admirably well. That's why I loved the movie. The feeling that I get out of Rocky Balboa is more jubilant, emotional, and refreshing than I've felt for a long time. I always think of a movie that could be made in sort of "back to the old times again" in a "where are they now?" And Sylvester Stallone does just exactly that. Mike Tyson trashing-talking with the current champion is hilarious, reminding me of the press news conference post-melee where Iron Mike yells at Lennox Lewis, "You scared coward. You ain't a man enough to **** with me." All in all, Rocky Balboa is a great, inspiring feel-good movie that is almost (I'm wincing over that rap song for Mason Dixon's entrance) completely free of anything that's improper and brings back the memories again to the point that I feel like I want to watch the whole series all over again and relive that "Gonna Fly Now" scene atop of the steps in front of the Philadelphia Art Museum (now moved back to below next to the steps). This film deserves a `10'.  8/11: I am going to lower my rating of Rocky Balboa from `10' to `6'. To be honest with you, it's just not a very good film. Of course, it is filled with memories, but we can always watch first five pictures to relive them. So, what is the point? It is hard to for me to stomach Robert Balboa, a whelping that needs to be beaten up by Rocky to set his priorities straight. Also, it gets pretty tiresome to see Paulie making the same, usual complaints. If he is going to be like that, why should I bother to care? Then, Rocky goes into several different directions at once, letting the film to have no real clarity what the message intends to be. In short, not much really happens in the film. The most atrocious aspect of it is the camera work. Does the cameraman suffer from a bad case of arthritis? At least the fight at the end is the best part of Rocky Balboa. All in all, time for the Rocky series to die for once and all.

Entertaining, but not a veritable classic For myself, growing up in the 1990s, the quintessential film simpleton is Forrest Gump, but before him there was Peter Sellers in the 1979 film BEING THERE. Sellers plays Chance, a dim-witted gardener who, after the death of his employer, finds himself cast into Washington D.C. society. Unable to offer more to a conversation than a few remarks about gardening, Chance ends up being a rising political star, as his interlocutors (and eventually the American public) treat him as the mirror of their own opinions.  All in all, I found BEING THERE an enjoyable film but no unmissable classic. The cinematography isn't memorable, and there are two exceedingly lame scenes of sexual humour. Sellers' performance as this man-child is solid, though one wishes for more of the variety of other roles. Sadly, the film's message -- that in American politics people latch on to vacuous soundbites instead of seeking competent leaders -- is still as timely as it was several decades ago.

Late retrieval of DVD Finally recieved these 3 DVDs on July 22, 2011. A week late but arrived at last from Persius Products.  gary masch

Mahabharata Poor quality VHS.  Topic is superb, acting was excellent and the overall production was terrific.  Just the quality of the video wasn't up to my expectations.

WTF? POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT!!  I liked the movie all the way through but the end? WTF? Did they run out of film? I don't understand, what was the point, whats the score here, what comes next? I mean I liked every bit of it but when the credits rolled I was left like a deer in the headlights, Almost as if someone cut out the last 5 minutes of the film from my mind so thats how the movie seemed to me, like it was missing an ending. Maybe thats just me, but whatever.

Fairly early Busby Burkeley makes it worth watching For a musical, it actually has a plot.  Except for the last section done in blackface the movie holds up.  The image quality is fine, the sound reasonable.  Lots of implied sex, which was soon to disappear in movies until the 60s.  An interesting movie.  It is worth watching, particularly if you like dance in musicals

Another fine Ingmar Bergman film This review is for the Criterion Collection DVD edition of the film.  The Magician, or Ansiktet (The Face), as it is known in Sweden is a film starring Max von Sydow as a traveling magician who visits a town of skeptics who try to expose his tricks.  It isn't as well known as some of Bergman's other films, but has international star Max von Sydow in the lead role. It is slow paced compared to many other films and I really enjoyed watching it.  The supplements include a 1990 English language interview with Ingmar Bergman, a 1967 Swedish language interview with Bergman, and a video essay by film scholar Peter Cowie.

Defective CDs This was an extremely disapointing experience - not because of the quality of the acting, but rather nbecuase two of the fur CDs were defective! A waste of money

A Dark and Raunchy Ride Considering this film is based on a true story does confirm that fact is stranger than fiction. Culkin ang Green deliver stellar performances leaving you in awe of the NY party sceen through 3 decades. DJ Keoki, played by Fes (foreign exchange student from That 70's Show) also plays a key role in the film. Having seen him live and hearing about his DJ start and career really hits home with the lavish lifestyles of 24/7 party fiends. Somewhat comparable to Studio 54, this film will leave you in question of how much is too much and where that fine line is crossed from having a good time to doing whatever it takes to be the ultimate Party Monster.

3 1/2 stars for Hitchcock's American debut In cooperation with producing icon David O. Selznick, director Alfred Hitchcock made his American debut with this Oscar winning classic.  Ironically enough the story opens in Monte Carlo where a young woman (Joan Fontaine) is a companion for a rich American matron (Florence Bates).  She meets a wealthy Englishman (Laurence Olivier) whose wife, Rebecca, died in a boating accident a year earlier.  One thing leads to another and the young American falls for Maxim.  In an interesting aside, Fontaine's character is never addressed by her first name, while Rebecca's name is used in just about every scene at least once...or so it seems.  Although we are never sure about Max's commitment or feelings for the young woman, he offers to marry her.  More like a business transaction than a result of unbinding love.  She accepts and they get married in Monte Carlo before heading back to the giant "Manderlay" castle that waits on the English coast.  The new Mrs. De Winter is out of her element and way over her head as the person in charge of the dozens of household employees.  The head of the staff is sinister Mrs. Danvers (an eerie Judith Anderson).  She resents the new wife that will never be "the real Mrs. De Winter" who was loved by everyone and seemingly still by Max.  The many reminders of Rebecca constantly pop up and begin to challenge the new Mrs. De Winter's state of mind.  Frankly, her character annoyed the hell out of me.  I kept waiting for her to become strong and in charge but it doesn't happen even when it looks like it might.  During a storm, a ship runs aground and in the process becomes entangled with a sailboat and wouldn't you know it, it is the one lost at sea containing Rebecca.  But wait, Max had already identified Rebecca who was interned in the family plot.  Yeah, now it's getting interesting.  I much enjoyed the story when the plot changes to a mystery about Rebecca's death.  I've read where Selznick's influence changed Hitchcock's direction as to what he wanted to deliver.  The ponderous middle section of the film feels much different than the conclusion.  The Blu ray disc retains the original 1.37:1 aspect ratio and is in 1080p.  The audio is DTS-HD MA 2.0.  The video and the audio are fine, especially given the limitations of a 70 year old film.  You can see a few scratchs here and there and I noticed a brief shimmer toward the end of the movie, but overall it looks pretty darn good.  Ditto the sound.  Crisp and clear mono out of 2 channels.

A Little better this one was a little better than the last three. it still was okay however i did enjoy the character Puddleglum the actor who played him was awesome. all in all the movie was okay i know the disney version will blow this out of the water

This one is really a fake old timie movie. They shot it with a new fangled digital camera and used proprietary software to give it that old time patina of black and white with all the lines and scratches of time. They went out of their way to use not so steady framing and placed obscure cuts to give the feeling that it was spliced one too many times.  The film its self was made on a very budget over a very long time. They filmed in all the correct vantage sci-fi locations and had to sneak in as they did not get permits.  It may have been a tad campy but it had a better message than "the day the earth stood still.

A nice look back but it skips so much. When you pick up "The Very Best of WCW Monday Nitro", you know that you haven't necessarily bought the typical 3-disc set where the first disc gives a documentary to explain the timeline and back stories of the matches you will see in the set. So it gets a bit confusing to have Diamond Dallas Page give monologues throughout the set about the history of the show as opposed to what a documentary can offer with many points of view over a chronological timeline.  I don't want to complain about the match choices too much, but it feels like if you are explaining the very best of Monday Nitro, the first thing you will notice is the omission of the "surprise" appearance of Lex Luger on the debut show, which I felt could have replaced Hulk Hogan v. Big Bubba.  I actually liked seeing the unique moments that happened in Monday Nitro history over the match choices.  If the DVD set meant to be "The Very Best of Monday Nitro", then it could have included more moments and fewer matches. Even as someone who started watching NWA/WCW in 1990, I had trouble getting into some of the match choices in the set.  The content is good enough, but I would recommend The Rise and Fall of WCW over The Very Best of Monday Nitro.

Good anime, however, fight scenes lacking? So, I just finished the whole series.  Storyline and artwork was great.  However, my main problem with this particular series was, in every episode, the fight scene either had to cut away, or would end in 15-30 seconds.  It's like the artists got lazy on fight scenes and worked around it. Don't get me wrong, I love a good story line.  But I'm pretty sure a lot of the anime fans out there love the fight scenes even more.  And that's what really bugged me about this purchase.  Potentially this anime could have been great.  Having played Devil May Cry, easily gives you an idea on how intense fight scenes should have gone in this anime.  Sadly, the fight scenes are pretty disappointing.  Disappointing enough for me to actually make a review about it.  Everything else was good though.

play all feature I recently purchased this dvd to introduce my children to ALF and aside from being the short  edited versions the dvd does not include a play all, feature i found this to be very bothersome restarting every 22 mins i have purchased many series lately and this is the only one that does not offer that option ,WHY NOT ?

"O" DVD Great story just go's to show you how schools and coaches push sports and great athelets over education and other kids. I love all the actors in this move.

Annoying yet interesting So this is a DVD that is a clear example of an American trying to turn another culture into a mini-America. The creator of Everybody Loves Raymond goes to Russia to make a Russian version of the show. What he is really trying to do is make an American version of the show with Russian actors and in the Russian language. He fusses and whines as the director and the writers (all Russian nationals) try to make the show more Russian and not as American.  The main character, the creator of the show, was annoying and unlikable. Having spent some time in Western Europe and the Balkans I can say that if you want to do something over there, you have to do it their way (as is the same in any other country as well). It is their country and their culture. Imagine a hit Middle Eastern sitcom coming to America and the American version is more Middle Eastern than American. It would not work!  Another thing that bothers me is how originality is dead. America is exporting our sitcoms while importing movies. What happened to creativity and innovation?  Worth watching if you are interested in Russian culture and the exporting of American culture around the world.  By the way, I am not a fan of Everybody Loves Raymond and probably not watched a full episode from start to finish.

More of a "horse" film than a "war" film Firstly, I think it might be appropriate to share what "War Horse" is not.  It is not "Saving Private Ryan in World War I".  The realism and horror of war shown in Private Ryan, and for that matter Schindler's List, is not evident here.  No, the Great War of this film harkens further back into Spielberg's past, perhaps most closely akin to "Empire of the Sun".  Like the prison camp of Empire, this WWI is ... I'm not sure of the right word. Sanitized? Idealized?  No man's land is full of mud, but not of rats and body parts, and there's no incessant noise from shelling.  When an artillery shell does hit a trench full of men, bodies are thrown about whole.  Even in the much-talked about scene (minor spoiler!) of the horse trapped in the razor wire, there is very little blood, especially not on the face, and the horse doesn't "scream" in terror, a sound often mentioned in war memoirs as being the most horrifying sound on a battlefield.  It will sound like a criticism to start a review this way, but that was not my intention.  I think Spielberg deliberately toned down the horror of war (and by all accounts, the WWI trenches were more horrifying than the Normandy beaches) because those horrors would not necessarily register with a horse.  Would a horse recognize a disembodied arm?  Would it care about rats crawling in No Man's Land?  Unlikely.  Therefore, this really is the story of the titular War Horse (named, innocently, Joey).  We are meant to watch Joey.  We are meant to see things through Joey's eyes.  In one telling scene (another minor spoiler!) of a cavalry charge, we see large numbers of horses go careening through the enemy lines without their riders, who have been shot off.  Only briefly do we see any dead horses, and then they look like they might be sleeping.  In fact, all parts of the film are almost stereotyped - the cast seem almost to a man (and woman) to overact just a little.  This is clearly a deliberate choice of the director, if only because Emily Watson is unimpeachable in her talents, and she's just as bad (or good!) as the rest.  Now consider the cinematography - Janusz Kaminsky's pastoral settings of rural England and France (behind the lines) are bold over-saturated colours of yellows, browns, and greens.  Presumably this represents the ideal setting for Joey.  In contrast the war scenes, where Joey is forced to pull artillery, surrounded by death and destruction, the palate is completely washed out grey.  There is none of the usual Kaminsky subtlety here, again a deliberate use of colour to emphasize mood more in keeping with a simple horse's point of view than that of an Oscar-winning DP.  Even John Williams's score is often too bold, with brassy, upbeat rythms that are compulsively musical, not what you'd expect for a Great War film.  The film is skillfully made.  But is it a "good" film?  I suspect opinions will vary widely.  At one end, the horse's "acting" is a truly astonishing achievement.  Even so, for a Spielberg film, for me it falls somewhere behind his true classics (from Jaws through Raiders of the Lost Ark to Saving Private Ryan).  I don't think it ever really pulled me in completely.  This might partly be because of its episodic nature - Joey is the only constant, he moves from owner-to-owner right up to the last 15 minutes of the film.  In that last 15 minutes there are some reappearances of former owners (I will not say which ones!), but it's not enough.  True, the very end (the last 2 minutes, say) are emotionally moving and even uplifting, but with a cloying sentimentality - surely a deliberate choice - that seems manipulative in hindsight.  Again, perhaps like Empire of the Sun, this film hovers at the boundry of adult fare and "family" fare - not wanting to go too far into realism, but too much for the kids to enjoy.  Overall it's a good film, but not one that I would compulsively watch if it came on TV late at night.  Perhaps I'm just too much a product of the "cynical era" to be able to totally enjoy a thickly troweled sentiment, no matter how skillfully made it is (and "thickly troweled" is rather cynical of me, isn't it?). In a rating system of 5 stars, I find it falls in the middle of the 3-star and 4-star range.  So why did I go with 3/5?  Because of the Blu-ray extras.  There are very few here.  A roundtable with a few of the actors and producers, a 3-minute short on the extras, and that's it.  I, for one, would love to have seen how the movie was created - especially the scenes of the horses at the front.  Was it a combination of computer graphics and live-action?  If so, it was totally seamless.  If it was all live action, how could you possibly get a horse to do what they did and still have healthy, living horses at the end of the shoot?

Ok, but nothing special. It wasn't what I thought would be. It started off good but slowed and became tiresome. I would have like it better if it were a tale of a winner but instead just left an empty feeling. Nothing special.

Good for the first half... *** Spoilers Immediate **** ***************************  It's too bad, because I was getting into this movie. In fact, it was just starting to remove the bad taste of The Cave, when the vines became suddenly sentient and started actively attacking the two girls, after it was discovered the vines' flowers were producing the mysterious ring of a cell phone. First, CG is always a bad idea, and in a movie like this, it should be completely unnecessary. Second, the idea of a sentient, malevolent plant that moves impossibly fast and responds intelligently and can magically adapt to mimic different sounds is pretty ludicrous. Lots of things I could nit-pick and really, I'm not being critical just to be critical -- this aspect of the film is what ruined it (haha) for me. If they had stuck with the vines moving very slowly, growing over night, and if the 'sound' being produced was limited to the ringing and a very nebulous ringing, then I probably would have been able to accept it. The idea that the plant could make a sound to lure them was pretty creepy and a good idea -- I just think it was way overdone from what was necessary.  The plant slowly growing overnight toward them, in the manner of vines, was just fine and more than scary enough. A faint, distorted ring, would have been much creepier than so accurately reproducing the cell phone ring, not to mention their voices... like a talking parrot. They really took it beyond reasonable limits with the voice mimicking.  Oh and the vine grabbing the torches... that were burning with oil-soaked rags (alcohol, whatever) ... wouldn't a plant, especially a 'smart' plant (not that I'm in any way condoning it) draw back, away from fire? How did the fire go out, without setting the entire vine patch aflame? While we're on this line of thought, why didn't they try burning the vine to begin with, as soon as they found out it was after them? This too, did not make any sense.  Other than these quibbles, the film was actually quite good and somewhat better than I was expecting. There's a brief topless scene (getting dressed), and a fair amount of skin shown, but nothing too crazy. I'm on the fence as to whether this is worth owning, but there's definitely much worse out there.

The Anime it self is great! As the title says the anime is great. If I was just judging the anime it would get 5 stars! however, I'm not sure if this happened because there was no padding in the box or because it was already damaged. But the case arrived with cracks in it. I'm a little bit of a perfectionist and this just annoyed me!

Sequel fails to live up to the original Unfortunately, this sequel to the wonderful "Black Stallion" doesn't hold a candle to the great original as is often the case.  Kelly Reno returns as a teenager living at home with his mom (Terri Garr on screen for about 10 seconds!)  His "Black" is stolen by nefarious Arab types and shipped back to Morocco (shot in Algeria).  Alec (Reno) manages to stowaway on a Casablanca bound Pan Am Clipper and ends up in the middle of the desert, still looking for the Black.  None of this would ever happen of course but never mind.  The big plus here is the photography.  Beautifully shot.  The movie does seem to hold interest at times especially for younger viewers I suspect, but that's another problem.  The PG rating holds the film back when it shouldn't.  Oh, and I'm pretty sure stallions are male horses, but you wouldn't know that from this movie.  Are we so concerned about propriety that we show great stallions without proper equipment?

A Review by Bleah Briann I found this movie to have an interesting plot... it was an all together lovely movie. The problem however was the lack of quality. It fell in line with every other faith based movie: slightly cheesy, bad acting, and poor quality. But if the film would have been sponsered better, it might have been a much better movie.

Quentin Tarantino Knock-Off, and not all bad The director of Catch .44 really, really, really wants this to be the next Pulp Fiction.  Not only does he not get the same performance from Willis, the film itself suffers from a "been-there-done-that" vibe.  What's good here, though, is that the film does solicit strong performances from some very underrated actresses.  Forrest Whitaker and Bruce Willis spend the film chewing scenery, though.  All-and-all, it's an average (perhaps an above average) film when compared to what else is out there.

Could be better The quality of the video could be better, other than that it is an OK box set, nothing really special about it that stands out.

Get The Gringo In a way I liked this movie but I was disappointed that Mel Gibson  played in it I hope he gets his act back like it was.I have almost all of his movies.But this one was not like him.I would have liked the story if some no name played it but I still have it and will show it to who ever wants to watch it.

Mediocre at best. The funniest characters are barely in the movie. There are some funny parts but as a whole its just not that funny. If you need to kill some time and have nothing to watch give it a shot but dont expect much. Its not terrible but its mediocre at best.

Good footage but lacking The impression I received from the title was that this film was going to be about the architecture of Jerusalem's holy sites or largely undiscussed history therein.  This instead became largely based upon Jerusalem from three points of view, once from each major religion in Jerusalem.  The idea is that the viewer should get a better understanding the sites themselves by having the sites presented by those who revere them the most.  This works best for the case of the Catholic priest who is located at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.  He is an engrossing character presenting an extraordinary historical and religious site.  The Muslim family starts to bring a political twist, since they have been separated by the violence in the area.  Certainly political differences and violence characterize the area, and these struggles center around the holy buildings.  But, the Muslim family's and a Muslim restoration official's complaints are largely left without a Jewish rebuttal in the film which creates a lopsided axis to the film.  The section on the Dome of the Rock, which the family visits, is very interesting, and the shots of the inside are presented well.  The Jewish police officer seems like a interesting character for this exploration, but his whole purpose in the film was a drawn out visit to the Wailing Wall with little, as before-mentioned, emotional story.  I like the footage of the architecture.  The political and religious overtones mixed into the film are necessary considering the nature of the city, but the Jewish footage was not as strong as the other sections.

Importance of Being Oscar 'The Importance of Being Earnest' is one of my favorite plays and I have watched several stage versions over the years. I attended a  badly acted and mediocre stage version a few weeks ago and decided that I needed to watch the film version.  I could not find the Anthony Asquith 1952 version so I watched this one. The 2002 version is not a bad film though it is a reinterpretation. It is definitely much better then the staged version I attended. However it lacks the panache that makes Oscar Wilde's original such a joy to read and see on stage. Under Oliver Parker's direction, the original play has been transformed into a very well made visual adaptation with much of the original words of the play intact. I did not mind very much the many changes the director made to visually hint at the lifestyle that Wilde was satirizing with words.  Some changes, particularly at the very end of the film, might even be seen by some as an improvement. However the changes, visual and eye-catching as they are, seem out of place at times in a play known for delightful wordplay. The addition of such things such as a hot air ballon, a motorcar, and the extravagent  opulence of the rich in Victorian England is overdone and not in keeping with Oscar Wilde's intentions in the stage play. I understand that the intent of this version was to adapt the rigid stage-bound play to the openness of modern film. The original play was set in 3 scenes in 3 acts. Oliver Parker moves the play outside and to various indoor locations to capture the essense of Victorian England. He does this very well.  Visual clues are substituted for much of Wilde's dialogue. In my opinion a bit too much. On a more positive note, the visual interpretation might inspire viewers to read the play or see an original staged version. This is not a bad film. It has the look of a good TV movie and is worth viewing. I suggest that people interst in Oscar Wilde read the play first, then see a good stage production or get the 1952 Anthony Asquith version, then see this film. Decide for yourself which interpretation you prefer.

Falsely Advertised as Another Bourne-esque Espionage Thriller I think this movie got a pretty a bad rap from people who didn't know what they were walking into. Let's be fair, it is a Focus Feature. They're not really known for action now, are they? I agree that the trailers were very misleading, but that does not take away from what the actual product is. It's a quiet, slow paced homage to Italian cinema, and a character study of a lonely assassin. As a suspense thriller, it has its moments, but I wouldn't say they were great. George Clooney was pretty good as Jack. Not his best performance, but it didn't require much from him to begin with. I have to say, Violante Placido is a reason for any male to sit through this somber film more than once. She seems too beautiful an actress to be so willing to show it all so much, but there it was, and was, and was...Rental.

Enjoyable ride but cliched. The good - chase and heist scenes are superbly done, acting is fine, the late Peter Posltethwaite is fantastic in basically a cameo role and the movie is the right length (I haven't seen the extended version)and it will hold your attention from beginning to end.  The bad - there are far too many cliches and implausible moments. For example: 1. Armed bank robber who really has a heart of gold and tries to control his ultra violent friend to whom he owes a favour. 2. Guy wants to escape his life of crime but his friends and boss won't let him go. 3. Girl falls for wrong guy, finds out and rejects him only to help him later when he is in need. 4. Guy betrayed by girl he rejects for another. 5. The ending is silly but predictable and leaves room for a sequel.  See what I mean. If you've never seen "Heat" or "Ronin" I suggest you do so and see what can be done in this genre.  That said if you like crime movies, car chases and heist scenes this will be a 90 minutes well spent.

Mildly Amusing. Fairly Well Produced. Some Really Bad Driving. The bargain-rack movie for last night was "48 Hours" starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy. I found it in the five-dollar bin at Wal-Mart. Alas, it was not one of my better picks. Nolte played one of those "tough guy" cops, you know, one of those guys who doesn't look like a cop, has a really foul mouth, doesn't follow any of the rules and proceedures and doesn't seem to answer to anyone. I guess he was supposed to be some type of Dirty Harry, but he's nowhere nearly as good. Anyway, Nolte had need to find some really bad dude and the only way was to enlist a former bad-dude associate (Murphy), now serving a prison sentence. Nolte got Murphy released for 48 hours in order to carry out their search, and the two formed an uneasy alliance (one a cop, one a convict) in order to accomplish the task. It's mildly amusing, especially the part played by Murphy, as you might expect. In general, it's poor acting, a weak script, outrageously poor driving (but a bit funny) and lots of action. Yaawwwnnnn!  "48 Hours" was fairly well produced and moved along at a brisk pace through a range of interesting San Francisco environments. Some of the underground music was quite enjoyable. Nothing about the story seemed believable, but I'd guess it was meant to be more of a comedy than a meaningful story, so it's off the hook on that one. But, if it was a comedy, it wasn't a very good one. It's just ho-hum, a two hour filler for someone that has nothing better to do. No doubt, someone will think it's the best movie he or she has ever seen.  Gary Peterson

Substitutes Shock for Substance Nobody can deny that Darren Aranofsky can use the camera, but in Black Swan, he substitutes shock and style for substance.  Using a narrative framework that is as old as the movies itself (backstage melodrama) and cliche characters in thinly-veiled pseudo-Freudian roles (the self-doubting ingenue, the dictatorial stage mother, the worldly free-spirit), Aranofsky uses the camera not to disclose but to shock with David Lynch-like surrealism and suspense more derivative of Brian De Palma than Alfred Hitchcock.  Natalie Portman's physical preparation for her role was heroic, but her performance is unidimensional (insecure anxiety). Aranofsky has done some brilliant work before (Requiem for a Dream, most notably), but this lacks depth and subtlety. To paraphrase a former senator, "I know David Lynch films.  I am a fan of David Lynch films.  And, you, Mr. Aranofsky, are no David Lynch."

Fun movie You thought the pseudo cockroaches from the first Mimic were all dead? Well, if there's a sequel, that simply cannot be true, right? The Judas beetles that survived have only further evolved, and one of them wants a mate. Yup.  This unsuspecting mate, Remy is a teacher at a school and knows about bugs. The school becomes infested, and she and a couple of kids become trapped in there. At first she thinks the 'mimic' wants to kill her, and eventually finds out his true purpose. Given the ending of the movie, I cannot help but feel disappointed and give this movie only a 3. In seemingly every movie, the monster loses his mate, so I wish this movie had the monster being triumphant and being able to have his mate instead of getting killed. It'd have been interesting to see how things turned out if Remy hadn't killed him. Y'know, just for a change of pace in this genre...

Pretty Good Set Not a bad three dvd set of the 70TH anniversary tribute to Casablanca.Being a Bogart buff I wasnt too unhappy with it. The first two DVDs are blue ray,the third with the classic film is regular DVD playable on all DVD players.The salute to Dir Mike Curtiz(Now Voyager,Adventures Of Robin Hood,Dodge City,and Elvis Presleys King Creole,among others)is well worth seeing(Its on the same disc as the film) The other extras include 4 Casablanca coasters,an informitive Casablanca hard covered book and a fancy case to house it all.

Could be better Not bad, but the premise was more exciting than the actual movie. It's on the premium channels from time to time - if you have these channels, watch it there, don't buy it outright. I didn't hate it, it just wasn't a movie I'd watch twice. Not good enough for that.

SO SCARY FOR KIDS As with many of these movies, they aren't really made with kids in mind. But this one is especially creepy and scary. I was scared and anxious during most of the movie and my kids were wide-eyed and confused. They watched it 'till the end (they're 3 and 6) because they insisted on it and they haven't had nightmares for now but I really wish I hadn't bought it. It's much too dark and crazy and deformed...

Poseidon Adventure - VHS I had seen this movie when it first came out and wanted to see it again.  After the second viewing some of the dialogue does not seem right.

not  history at all but it's fun.... It's not history but it's fun and has a great cast.  The dvd could be alot better though.  The story is about custer and others chasing down John Brown, who tried to start the civil war on his own to free the slaves. And he's a hero for it in my opinion but that's not the message here. It's a action flick really and a western buddy flick. It's a likeable movie and that's enough for a good viewing. Errol Flynn is excellent of course and he was a very good actor. Raymond massey was a great one and he is just a great John Brown. The movie does need to be remastered though , A favorite film on tv channels for many decades , most kids would have seen this some saturday afternoon. This is worth owning but don't expect a great picture on this dvd that's why I only gave it three stars. It should have cleaned up more.

Battleship Potempkin This 1925 silent film by Sergei Eisenstein is a masterpiece to say the least.  The film works around a series of five episodes. The most memorable episode is without question the protest of having to eat rotten meat. The way in which the camera revolves around the meat, the maggots, the faces are disturbing. Being a propaganda film, one cannot help but view this film with an emotional and stirring response. The plot and structure are rather simple, allowing easy understanding for the audience. This film needs to be in the category of art film, for there are countless memorable shots, angles, takes, and scenes that stay with the viewer. The film is shocking, to this day, which only highlights its worth when it was made in the early part of the 20th Century. Some memorable shots worth looking at again are the in-sync boots of the soldiers marching, the scary image of a baby falling down stairs, and the massive chaos on the ship with soldiers running about. These scenes work exceptionally well in Eisenstein's work in montage. I would recommend this film to any one, really. I think people who are interested in sci-fi and action films would really enjoy this film. Eisenstein's genius is captured in this film. This film gets great response from audiences. Eisenstein has such an impact on the film industry and this film cannot be missed. This film interprets and comments on the idea of revolution and the ugly side of revolution. Especially worth noting is the fact that this is a silent film and yet the ugly, disturbing, emotional, and thought provoking images don't need a single word. This is a masterpiece film. If you enjoy film, get this one in your library.

interesting but not great i agree with some things and dont agree on others.  i watched about 2 hours of it.  it is basically a lecture....(dont mean that in a bad way).

As expected This movie was made like in the 90's..so I know, you really can make something shot not in high def and  transfer it to bluray and expect it to be in high def..it's not possible..I knew that! I just bought it in bluray disc because it's supposed to be anti scratch disc. And besides, I like funny horror film.

What happened to the free Prime version? Well what I saw of it was good. It was on the Prime free list and I watched most of it then I tried to resume it the next day and it was not anymore? Kinda hate that I paid $79 for a deal that would not let me finish the movie I had already started! Won't be renewing Prime!

Entertaining, but not much else. I was skeptical, prior to watching the film, that it would stand up to the hype and acclaim heaped upon it by both critics and the Academy. Seeing how both have lavished acclaim on films that did not deserve it, I was hoping this was a rare case of Hollywood delivering. From the get go, I found the plot to be fairly predictable. I am not certain if this is due to more recent fare lifting ideas from the film, or if the film follows a typical by-the-numbers structure; surprisingly, this did not deter me from stopping the film. I was very much intrigued by Jodie Foster's performance. Like Dr. Lecter, I, too, wanted to know more about Clarice's background. I found Hopkins' performance tolerable; it was his constant snake-hissing that lent his character a cartoony feel and was thus difficult to take seriously at times. Overall, the film was entertaining. However, I would not revisit it or seek any greater meaning or subplot in it. Quick little note: has anyone noticed that the soundtrack consists of a track by the Fall and another by Colin Newman of Wire fame? I thought that was the best thing about this film, actually.

Good topic, rather clinical treatment Plagues will be with us for a while, medicine has a long ways to go. So kudos for making a movie on the topic, kudos for covering most of the bases, kudos for using good actors and getting them to deliver largely very good performances.  As other reviewers have pointed out, the movie has a bit of a documentary feel; it is just a bit like reading a spreadsheet with some human touches added. It is an interesting approach to give views from different perspectives, but as a story it is a bit sterile.  Compare with the original Night of the Living Dead: information about the plague is still conveyed, via radio broadcasts and humans telling stories; but the view is very much from people who don't know what is going on, and have No Way Out. That central inescapable fear is sadly missing from this otherwise very competent movie.

Mildly interesting, but could have done much more Bear in mind that I didn't find out about this film until 5 years after it was released, and over 2 years after Bush left office, so I'm bringing a different perspective to it than many of the reviews here. The concept is a good one, since Bush was certainly the most hate-inspiring President to come along since Nixon in many people's eyes. This film could have been provocative in its time and then become a classic "what if?", alternative-history story in later years. However, I think this film is destined to be forgotten. Given the film's title, there's little mystery in what's about to happen, and Bush's assassination doesn't even take place until halfway through the film. Up to that point, the film does little more than go through the motions, and we see the actors playing fictional members of Bush's staff talking about what led up to the event. I found it all rather slow and boring. Perhaps in the far future, people will need to be reminded that Bush was widely despised and protested, but those of us here today already know that. On top of this, we are treated to just about every cliche in the book that you've heard from actual documentaries about assassinations, with the characters reminiscing about what a great guy Bush was. When the assassination and its immediate aftermath are shown, some glimmers of interest began to appear for me, although even here there's not much that's original, and the film quickly enters a police procedural mode. (SPOILERS AHEAD) But it was the last part, depicting the events that follow the assassination, that was the biggest letdown. The assassination of any President, and Bush in particular, would have had an enormous impact, both domestically and internationally, most especially if a Muslim had been the prime suspect as shown here. However, except for a brief mention of now-President Cheney's unsuccessful attempt to link the assassination to Syria, we see none of this, and the filmmakers instead turn the remainder of the film into a sermon on the evils of racial profiling. I knew, as soon as a Muslim suspect was uncovered, that the filmmakers would never allow a Muslim to be the actual culprit - too un-PC. (And, in a coincidence too big for me to swallow, it turns out that the Muslim suspect had spent time at an Al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan, but then, being horrified by the experience, decided to return to the U.S. and pretend that nothing had happened. What are the odds that such a man would just happen to be in an office overlooking a Presidential assassination?) Instead, we learn that the actual assassin was a Black veteran of the first Gulf War who had lost a son in the second, which is enough to make you groan in its cheap attempt to play on liberal heartstrings. I'm sure there is a good story in the idea of a successful Bush assassination - but this film isn't it.

A mixed bag for repeat viewing The fast forward button has to be used here as there are several parts that need to be avoided. In particular they are all the spoken introductions, the Farandole and the Arirang item.  The other items are well-played and recorded but rarely rise to the inspiring. The impassive faces in front of the orchestra can hardly have been encouraging but the effort did seem to be appreciated at the end. Or perhaps it was just the relief that it had all come to a conclusion and everyone could go home - or to a meeting!  There are now better performances of the Dvorak 9 to be had on Blu-ray. The ones by Abbado and Dausgard spring readily to mind.  Nevertheless I do intend to watch this again for the Gershwin. I shall just keep my finger on that ff button though.

What's This? I was extremely disappointed by the Jurassic Park blu ray set. I had the trilogy on dvd and was looking forward to this for a long time. The quality of the picture in comparison with the dvd was not that different. My disappointment peaked when I popped in JP III - which, being the most recent of the films, should have been as clear as anything just released - I watched the first three minutes - took out the blu-ray and watched the same three minutes on dvd - there was very little difference in the quality of the picture. (Which was grainy and dark in spots.)  If I thought I could get my money back from Universal I would! If you don't have the JP trilogy and you own a blu-ray player - by all means get it on blu-ray - But if you already own the trilogy on dvd don't waste your money! Spielberg should be embarrassed by this release....

Too Much Violence I am fluent in Hebrew and know some Arabic, and have lived in the Middle East for 5 years.  Ajami got rave reviews in Israel when it was released and, after watching it last night, I couldn't understand what all of the hype was about.  If I had to describe this film in one sentence, it would be:  "Two hours of a series of men being killed."  The real Jaffa is nowhere nearly as violent or gritty as was depicted in the film.  There were some poignant and truthful moments in the film, like the tension between Christian/Muslim friendships while forbidding romantic relationships between the two groups; the cycle of retributions involving Bedouin tribes; and the use of Hebrew-spiced Arabic among Israeli Arabs (like:  "Mar Haba, Ma Inyanim?" and using "beseder" and "al hapanim").  But much else in the film was pure violent fabrication.  This film is not representative of Jewish, Muslim, or Christian societies in Israel and it takes a strong stomach to watch two hours of pointless killings.

Great Movie Just keep in mind that the digital copy included expired in July of 2010...I bought this for the digital copy to put on my PSP... :/

Co-starring the Gingerdead Man The third entry in the Gingerdead Man series is really a roller disco comedy with occasional cameo appearances by the Gingerdead Man. He's far from the main character or main focus of the film, which primarily concerns a roller queen contest and a roller rink that might have to shut down because of unpaid taxes. The Gingerdead Man himself is just a weird sidebar in his own movie.  The CGI is terrible, and the Gingerdead Man looks different from the previous films. The lame-o puppetry was one of the things that made parts 1 and 2 so "great," so I didn't care for his new look. I would have much rather seen little puppet legs walking around than this poorly animated CGI action.  Worth watching if you're into the series, but I think the second film was the best of the three, despite having some seriously annoying characters.

The Frank Butler Review Pretty Much Nails It Not a particularly bad film, just not particularly good either.  It's a bit like watching The Sopranos.  You can start counting the bad decisions made by the criminals from the moment the first frame hits the screen, so the film has something of the appeal of a train wreck being screened in slow motion.  Unfortunately, this film lacks The Sopranos' gallows humor.  The criminal "mastermind" of the robbery states early on that he doesn't like working with people he doesn't know, and yet he includes McQueen's character in the job anyway, even though that character has apparently never been to prison, has apparently never even committed a crime previously, and has a fairly difficult time just trying to steal a license plate from a parked car.  Then it turns out that the McQueen character's former girlfriend lives right there in town.  I expected that she would be the seed leading to the ruination of the robbery and the destruction of everyone involved, and the main surprise of the film is that she is not.  She is the unwitting key to the fate of McQueen's character, but otherwise does not affect the overall outcome.  I'd have to say that this is a film for real die-hard fans of Steven McQueen, and black and white movies, and caper films.  Kansas City Confidential, from 1952, while only a caper film in part, is far more entertaining.  So is the original D.O.A. with Edmund O'Brien.

Have to give this film a mixed/negative review. I'm either a racist, or an intelligent, racially aware, with-it white guy (you decide). For me, the enduring image this film brings to mind is that of white patients being lorded over by their caretakers: women and people of color. I'm Ok with this bit of film making. I have to give this film a negative review however.  One Flew Over the Cookoo's Next is an influential film. The film (and the book) helped change our views of mental illness or at least provided some window dressing for that change of beliefs.  A key point is made early in the film when the rarely seen doctor/administrator reveals he believes patient McMurphy is faking his mental illness. 'I believe you're a malingerer' he says. Later in the film McMurphy is subjected to shock treatment and then finally lobotomozed. This is done simply as a means to punish, and as a means to control the subject. Something about this seemed very real and believable - perhaps too much television watching on my part. It is a scary idea, though, and this kind of thing probably is all too often a scary reality. I'm not sure McMurphy's lobotomy in the film is meant to be an allusion to something else. . . but a reviewer on my friends list claims the American public has been subjected to a kind of self inflicted lobotomy. Perhaps it is a fitting image.  Nurse Ratched is definitely the villain in this film. And no doubt she is a villain. I just think the good qualities in real individuals like nurse Ratched were twisted around in the making of this film in order to send out an anti-establishment and anti-reality message. From personal experience, I knew a land lady like nurse Ratched. The lady I knew was many times worse or more strict than nurse Ratched is portrayed here (but she wasn't evil). The inmates or tenants rather, of the rooming house I lived in loved this lady. In public they spoke against her but they secretly loved her, and as she would say 'they'd never leave her for another rooming house'. They understood her keeping a tight ship protected them. She was also selective in who she would rent to. In the film One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest McMurphy takes the other patients money gambling, which big nurse forbids.  I just think this film, with it's anti-establishemnt, and I would say anti-reality, message, did a disservice, tho perhaps it is a movie for it's time. And to say add whatever, I think people had a better understanding of mental illness back during the bad evil times than we do today. Then again, I did mention a lobotomy?

Half of a great movie... I found myself wanting to fast-forward through all the modern day parts so that I could watch Meryl Streep's brilliant performance.  Amy Adams is a solid actress, but the character is incredibly difficult to like.  She is written in as a whiny, narcissistic bitch.  When contrasted with Streep's warm, humanizing interpretation of Child, you end up hating the one and loving the other.

GOOD MOVIE BUT COULD BE BATTER ! GOOD MOVIE BUT COULD BE BATTER !  I THINK YOU MITE WATCH THE FILM FIRST BEFORE PURCHASE IT , AND THEN YOU DECIDE FOR YOURSELF IF YOU LIKE IT OR NOT !  THANKS

Marvel Max Fairly true to the Max version comic. Not for the faint of heart. Blood and guts. More true to form than previous Thomas Jane version.

This version not fully functional This review is of the Caligula [Blu-ray + DVD] [1979]. My complaint is that the Special Features on the Blu-ray disc did not function. Other than that, it was acceptable.

A cute ghost story. This is a nice litte ghost story with M. Caine, J.Spader and Maggie Smith. It's not a scary story. Something to rest your mind.

Blu-ray made by Ais (that's Alliance in Canada) ...and if you've purchased Alliance products before, you already know what I'm about to say. I guess we should feel blessed that New Line didn't produce these like they did the DVD-Video issue. And I guess I should also feel blessed that I knew I was buying this Ais / Alliance issue when I purchased it, and not have it swapped out by an Amazon seller when I would be thinking I'm buying MGM or CBS or Paramount products, which is also becoming typical behavior (especially with Twilight: New Moon and Twilight: Eclipse these days. Video: AVC (but low, averaging approx 18 Mbps). Audio: 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio 5.1 is here but the disc defaults to 5.1 Dolby when loaded and played. Subtitles / Closed Captioning: NONE - No English, French, Spanish... nothing. So, typical half-assed release by Alliance - or is it Ais (to hide the name Alliance these days)?

Decent entertainment Liked the movie - was a good way to spend 2 hours - not the best horror movie I've seen, mostly predictible, but enjoyed the actors and we live in the Detroit area so that was fun for us as well.  I'd recommend it for a good entertaining evening - not too scary but you do jump on a couple of occassions and go 'eeewwwh!'.  Liked the resolution and Jeri Ryan was very enjoyable.  You know how the people always go down into the dark & creepy basement when they KNOW they shouldn't?  Didn't happen so much in this film - they seemed to react more like I'd think real people would - protecting their kids but not being silly.  We had a problem with the first dvd that we ordered and Amazon fixed our problem for us even though it was after the 30 days time frame to return it.  THANK YOU Amazon!!!! Super service as always!!!

Halloween resurrection i have my likes and dislikes with this movie.i do know that halloween h20 was suppose to end the series,while this movie was just a easy way to make $.this film is very entertaining.i do not regret my purchace and it was the only halloween i didnt own until now.

Futuristic Medical Sci-Fi low budget movie with a happy? ending! I really don't know how to rate this movie.  It was a futuristic Medical Sci-Fi low budget movie. It had it's gory sequences and a few tender moments.  How Jude Law (Remy in the movie) was such a cold blooded murderer reprocessing over priced body parts to be resold is hard to believe (till his switch is explained in the last 5 minutes).  I thought perhaps his wife's righteous indignation drove him to accept that what he was doing was wrong, but there are a couple of distracters that send you away from the REAL WORLD activity and the double surprise ending.Tey did "foreshaddow" what would justify the ending, but I did not catch it.  Rent it and maybe buy it. I enjoyed it for the Budget movie that it was, and co-staring one of my other favorite starts Forest Whitaker as Jake the true friend to the end.

The movie was ok The movie was ok.  A lot of people said that main actor was kinda creepy while others said he was just really deep feeling.  To me it was a little of both.  I personally would think that the guy was stalking me.  I don't know what kind of woman would just let someone into their home that quickly to sleep over.  Although, I'm sure there are women out there like that who would let a guy in their home after knowing him for only hours.  I admittedly get emotional during movies, especially during really touching scenes.  This movie was not that kind of movie for me.  I didn't laugh uncontrollably, I didn't get emotional, and I wasn't on the edge of my seat wondering what would happen next.  It was just a middle of the road kind of movie for me.  It was ok to watch, but I wouldn't go out of my way to see it again.

Above average old school martial arts film Above average old school martial arts film. Clever in setting up the necessity of our hero's learning a lighter feminine style of Kung Fu in order to triumph.

Funny show but poor story really Steve Martin is one of my all time favorites & Queen Latifa did a good job as well, but this show had a sorry story line.  Therefore, I really can't recommend this show.  It definately has you laughing at times with some great one-liners, but I really never got into the movie to be honest.  This movie is at best a one watcher.

Pukichin from Florida I was expecting this DVD with a lot of anxiety. but when I watch it, it left a lot to be desired.  Mind me, the music/orchestra espectacular, but the choosing of some of the main "chracters" wasn't the best. My scale from 1-10 is as follows: Valjean? 8, Cossette? 9, Javert? 10+, the children? 10, the Inkeepers? 8, the Monk? 8+, and Marius? 0. This one was the mistake of the whole production. Can't believe Producers chose this weak/non expressive person to represent such a magnificet character.  What a waste! In conclusion; I have this DVD just to have the collection complete, otherwise I wouldn't even consider buying it.  The big problem here is the original version (Wilkinson) who was totally in a different league;the whole cast (face expressions, voices, demeanor). Lea Salonga (espectacular), and the rest of the production.  I'm very thankful to Amazon, for offering these products at such a reasonable price.  Always classy, giving the public the best to choose, prompt deliveries, well packaged.  I love Amazon!!!!!

GREAT Workout - NOT fun I have most of Bob and Jillians workout DVD's.  This is by far the most difficult.  I feel that it is an hour well spent and feel like I have literally "climbed a mountain".  I workout 5 days a week and consider myself intermediale/advanced.  I do not have 1 hour every day to work out so therefore I will only do it once or twice at most a week.  Also, please be careful with the amount of weight used on the kettle type swings.  Start out slow, as I injured myself the first time and had to not do it for a couple of weeks.  I agree with another review - It is not fun and very repetitive so that may also be another reason I will only do it once or twice a week.  I try to do different workouts every day so this will be one of my long days.  I recommed it with a Please be careful warning.

A Good Inspirational Movie The film narrates the events prior to the shark attack, the shark attack, and Bethany's struggle to return to the surfing world. We also get to see Bethany visiting a poor Asian country where she discovered that she had more to give to the world, and that there was no reason to give her dream of being a top woman surfer. Stressing on Bethany's trials and seeing her family support her makes it a good inspirational movie for all ages. No doubt that kids of her age may see in it a movie with an optimistic and necessary message. One thing that I liked about it was that in spite of being inspirational, it didn't rely on sentimental tear-jerking scenes. We never feel sorry for her, even when she's struggling to get to the beach after the shark attacks her. On the contrary, we get to see in film the whole process of her pain, her family's pain, eventual emotional recovery, and finally, success.  I confess, however, that I liked the book better because it gives you a lot of details about Bethany's parents and her relationship with her brothers, which have a great influence on her courageous nature. Bethany had a lot to say. But maybe I'm being ungenerous considering that films have greater limitations in time than the book form. In spite of it all, the film is Ok for content, message, and good actors who played her and her family.

Elton John DVD This was Elton John's 60th birthday celebration.  Some of the entertainers & accolades were flat.  Elton was probably doing a good job, BUT the DVD was "scheechy" when the sound pitch elevated.  It was very distracting to have such a poor audio.  Basically, it was a disgrace for such a marvelous performer to have a production entity do such a horrible job with the audio.  Would not recommend it to anyone who wants to ACTUALLY WANTS TO HEAR THE MUSIC.

fair attempt at a comedy I really wanted to like this film. It had some of my favorite actors in it and I really expected it to be good.  Costumes were well done and and I liked most of the characters.  The little bit of drama in this comedy didn't quite work.  The scene going into the mirror didn't work for me.  The prince didn't seem very smart and his acting like a dog looked too much like "The 10th Kingdom"

1950 Hollywood version of racism - squeaky clean! Jackie Robinson is one of my heroes.  His courage and integrity and, of course, his talent as an athlete, is very inspirational.  But this movie is pure Hollywood.  It came out in 1950 when Robinson would have been 31.  While I was glad to see the REAL Jackie Robinson (all the others were actors), I was sad to see him with a potbelly playing his college-age self.  I DO admire the people for making this movie about a black man (remember, the Civil Rights Movement didn't even started until 1955!), but it was so sugarcoated that I had hard time swallowing it.  I suppose that was necessary to appeal to the majority of the Americans at the time.  I would recommend this movie to the kids of any age or race.  They can witness racism behind the rose-colored glasses and still know that it's wrong.  I watched the dvd in a colored version (released in 2005), but you have the option to see it in the original black & white, along with the trailer.  A portion of proceeds goes to the Jackie Robinson Foundation.

Hellbound: Hellraiser 2 HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER 2 is one of those sequels I like most as it picks up the narrative of the previous movie, and continues on. Unrelated sequels always leave me feeling less invested as I'm dealing with a whole new set of characters and oftentimes an entirely different situation (see LEPRECHAUN). But HELLBOUND did it right by opening with a very brief recap of the last few moments of the previous film then picking up there.  In this case "there" is with Kirsty Cotton having been brought to a mental institution in the wake of her father's death and the destruction that ensued in his house. Kirsty unravels a tale for the police and her doctor, Dr. Channard, about demons and puzzles and her uncle Frank returning from the dead. The police scoff, of course, and Dr. Channard gives her the "hmm, that's very interesting," face. But Dr. Channard knows more than he's letting on and he has the blood-soaked mattress from the Cotton home, the one Julia had been chained to at the end of HELLRAISER, brought to his own house where he brings a mental patient from the institute over and lets the man kill himself, spilling tons of blood and allowing the hellbound Julia to return from that realm.  With the good doctor's help, Julia drains the blood of half a dozen victims before agreeing to then help Dr. Channard with his quest: opening the box and enjoying all the pleasures of Hell. To this end, he brings in Tiffany, a "semi-catatonic" girl with a penchant for puzzles, to help him open the doorway.  Unbeknownst to Dr. Channard, however, an intern, Dr. Kyle MacRae had snuck into his house and witnessed Julia's return. Kyle broke Kirsty out of the institute and together they returned to Channard's house where Kirsty hopes to use one of the many puzzle boxes the doctor has on display to get back into Hell and free her father.  Channard's plan goes off without a hitch except that once they get into Hell and Julia takes him to meet her god, a giant floating "lozenge-shaped" object she calls Leviathan, a doublecross is revealed and Julia, that harridan, gives Channard over to become a Cenobite.  Kirsty, meanwhile, is searching Hell for her father, with Tiffany in tow so that when they get out she can close the box. Instead of her father, however, Kirsty runs into Uncle Frank, then Julia, before she and Tiffany flee again into the maze of Hell. But just when they think they've escaped they realize Hell has begun leaking over into their world and the Dr. Channard cenobite is coming for them.  Kirsty finds allies in a strange place thanks to her own kleptomaniacal tendencies and her quick thinking and in the end "Pinhead" and his soldiers make a very brief but ineffective stand against their new enemy.  As sequels go, HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER 2 is a success. But as a movie in an of itself . . . well, let's just say it's a pretty good sequel and leave it at that.  There are questions from the first movie that go unaddressed in the sequel, questions I'd hope would be answered--like what was with the derelict and why did he turn into a giant dragon-skeleton at the end--plus there's the matter of the transition from one to the next. See, at the end of HELLRAISER Kirsty and her dorky boyfriend toss the box into the fire, but at the beginning of the next movie, Kirsty is in the hospital and her boyfriend has already talked to the police and been let go, never to be seen again. So, how did they get from the fire to the hospital, what meltdown, what arrest, what voluntary surrender did we miss?  And for me the biggest question I had going from one movie to the next was where the hell are we? In HELLRAISER, American Larry Cotton tells his very British wife Julia she should be happy to be back on her "old stomping grounds", which we assume means London. And while the weather seemed to bear this out, Julia seemed to be about the only Brit who came to the Cotton house. But I figured well, Larry knows a lot of Americans living abroad. However in HELLBOUND, the cop who talks to Kirsty is American. Kyle MacRae is American. Tiffany (played by an English actress) speaks with an American accent. Only Dr. Channard, Julia, and the lead cenobite have British accents (is this a subtle hint that Americans are good and trustworthy while Brits just want to send you to Hell? Well, we did relieve them of their colonies; may some wounds just never heal). The movie was filmed in England, but that doesn't mean anything. So I'm left confused as to just where of this is supposed to be taking place because I thought I had a grasp on it from HELLRAISER, but HELLBOUND makes me think otherwise. In the end it may seem like a small detail and one viewers might not have picked up on a year later.  HELLRAISER was written and directed by Clive Barker, author of the original novella "The Hellbound Heart", but for the sequel he's handed scripting duties over to Peter Atkins while Tony Randel directs. Randel, who worked as editor on HELLRAISER, would make little name for himself as a director while Atkins would drive the HELLRAISER franchise even further into the ground with HELLRAISER 3, but in 1988 I want to give them the benefit of the doubt and say they were really trying their best. Like I said, as a sequel, HELLBOUND succeeds where most part 2's fail. It continues the original story, even builds on it to add more layers to the mythology, and opens up so many interesting possibilities for future stories. But as a separate entity, there are problems galore with this production.  Ashley Laurence's acting hasn't improved much from one movie to the next--in fact, a lot of her reactions seem a bit over the top like when Kyle is taking her out of the hospital and tells her to get dressed. She goes to the closet in her room but finds her clothes are gone and responds with a pretty harsh "SHT!" Jeez, calm down, I highly doubt some missing acid washed jeans merit the overkill, but she said it like she'd just found out her winning lottery ticket was in fact off by one number. And for the most part, this is how Laurence made her way through the movie. I know she is the human face of this franchise, that no matter how many sequels with how many different lead actresses, Ashley Laurence's Kirsty Cotton is the Nancy Thompson of the Hellraiser universe. But being the poster child doesn't excuse bad acting.  And once again we have to mention the effects. HELLBOUND obviously had a bigger budget, and I wish to God that meant the effects would have been better, but I detected in the Channard cenobite, in 19frigging88, was that . . . CLAYMATION??? I think it was. And stop-motion claymation in 1988 horror movie is not a good thing for anyone involved. It didn't work in EVIL DEAD and it's not going to work in HELLBOUND. I don't care what your budgetary constraints are, do not use claymation.  I felt the pace could have been picked up just a bit as well. At 94 minutes, it's nearly 50 minutes in before the cenobites make their first appearance, and isn't that really what we came to see?  There's mood and atmosphere to spare in HELLBOUND, and that's good; the production definitely has its own unique look, not just sticking to that of the original, but building on it and going even darker. Although the script is weak, the plot is strong.  I don't think HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER 2 is ever going to be a strong movie on its own, no one watching it is going to say wow that was awesome, but I think if seen immediately after the first movie, the focus may be more on the overall narrative arc, which pays off in the end here, I think.  So what have we learned? Despite many flaws that weaken the movie as it is, HELLBOUND stands up to many other sequels by virtue of its close ties to the source material, and, much like the Wonder Twins, when paired with HELLRAISER, it's a much stronger movie. If only the ones to follow had stuck to this formula...

cheesy but Ok. i got to say this was like watching power rangers, it was humor filled action movie, cheesy special effects but not that bad,story was ok and the acting is another story, all in all like the other reviews have i would really recommend the SEQUEL GUYVER 2 DARK HERO.

not bad wife loved this movie. i thought it highly original, but flawed. acting is terrific.  plot a little odd, part of the charm i guess. important for the wife - this movie is NOT about fishing.

Decent story; annoying camera moves This is a decent story of two brothers, their mother, her lover, and a few other people they deal with.  It would have been better, however, without the sudden tight shots/rapid close-ups that make it look and feel like a documentary and take your attention away from the story.

Enough with the activity, already This time we go back to the late 80s to witness the origin of the demon possession that plagues the ill-fated sisters of this series.  This installment has some good scenes and a genuinely creepy ending, but it also comes off as more than a little silly at times when characters in mortal danger and stark terror are apparently taking great care to make sure that the camera is running.  The found footage genre can be very effective when done well, but I think the inherent eeriness of bumps in the night and vulnerable people sleeping in darkened bedrooms has just about been exhausted at this point.  It's time to move on.

Well Done! In "Pursuit of Honor" Don Johnson does a very credible job as an aging army sergeant, Sgt Libby, in the US cavalry in the mid-1930s, a time when the nation was changing over the cavalry to tanks.  Though the movie purports to be based on real events, the only real event is that the US Army did indeed destroy its horses.  This story is just one of those ideas about "what might have happened..."  Johnson is convincing as a rough-and-tumble character with an excellent cast around him.  He shows no sign of his Miami Vice good looks.  See the movie more for what it shows honor to really mean, rather than any of the pretty good action it shows.  Honor has a price and Sgt Libby and his fellow soldiers are willing to pay it.

CHEMISTRY HELP THE VIDEO WAS OKAY, I FELT IT COULD'VE GONE JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE IN DEPTH.  IT SKIMMED THROUGH EACH TOPIC WITHOUT GIVING EXAMPLES ON HOW TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM.  IT'S LIKE BEING IN CLASS, AND THE PROFESSOR IS EXPLAINING THE TOPIC, BUT STILL, IT'S NOT WELL EXPLAINED.

Bigger not Better I was a little disappointed with Wrath of the Titans.  The first film was by no means perfect, but it was entertaining and you got a sense of Perseus as a real hero.  Even though the production values, special effects, amount of action scenes and creatures have all been ramped up significantly for the sequel (this film is GORGEOUS on Blu Ray by the way) the film just seemed sort of "empty" to me.  There's wasn't really much for Perseus to do here and I find that disappointing.  It should have been his movie and it wasn't.  Wrath of the Titans is still a marvel of a movie to look at and certainly has its moments, I just wish they would have kept the emphasis on Perseus and his heroism instead of taking that away from him in order to center the film around bickering and fickle gods who's affairs were much less interesting.

Unfortunate " S C " watermark throughout print. This is a crisp, clear full screen print.  No complaints there.  Unfortunately, Sinister Cinema has chosen to watermark their release with the letters " S C " in the bottom right hand corner.  Completely unnecessary and it says a lot about little Sinister Cinema values the viewing experience of their releases.  Great release marred by Sinister Cinema's need to brand this print.

Better for European Audience We Americans are so used to a fast pace and a bow tied around a closed package at the end. It's not what you'll find here. I admire Clooney for taking chances; sometimes they achieve more than imagined, sometimes less than intended. This film, unhappily, falls into the latter category, even for this reviewer who has spent much time in both France and Italy and knows her way around European cinema. The entire film has an underlying tone of existential angst with a pinch of Antonioni and, though not sung, the lilting ennui of Demy's Umbrella's of Cherbourg, which worked brilliantly 50 years ago. The ambiance is retro but today just doesn't hit a resonant chord. Cloony is always easy on the eyes, and his love interest is pure whipped cream. The Abruzzo hill town is a feast for eyes. And the music is good. Whatever you might expect from the film, however, it's not what you'll get.

Sterile Basically "Sucker Punch" is an $80+ Million laser light show; projected laser beams set to music (in this case nicely produced by Marius De Vries and Tyler Bates).  This type of entertainment was quite popular in the theaters during the 1970's (see "Freaks and Geeks") as a psychedelic entertainment (Pink Floyd, ELO, Blue Oyster Cult).  Laser light was useful in entertainment because the coherent nature of laser light allows a narrow beam to be produced, so optical scanning can draw patterns and images on walls, ceilings or other surfaces. Reflected beams can be bounced to targeted positions with mirrors to create laser sculptures.  Focused minds are held spellbound by the focused and concentrated light rays.  With the advent of computer generated special effects, recreational drugs like ecstasy, and polysubstance use (kitty flipping anyone?); the light show has evolved into a feature film form.  "Sucker Punch" being one of the most ambitious.  One segment of the audience connects with this experience and another one does not, then both get on the internet and lament their disbelief that others are showing so much hate (or love) toward the film.  Few find a middle ground as illustrated by the paucity of three star ratings.  In the case of "Sucker Punch",  far more were disappointed than were impressed.  Much the same reaction occurred with Tim Burton's 2010 laser light show titled "Alice In Wonderland".  So if you hated that film you would be wise to avoid "Sucker Punch".  Although liking Burton's film is no guarantee that you will like "Sucker Punch", as Burton is a skilled acting for the camera director and there was simply no indication that such a skill set was present during the production phase of "Sucker Punch".  At about the 25 minute mark of "Sucker Punch" I was beginning to believe that it was something special.  In just 25 minutes the film had taken its main character (nicely underplayed by Emily Browning) through three stages of madness.  I was expecting this progression (or descent) into madness to continue in the manner of a high budget and surreal homage to Polanski's "Repulsion" (1965).  That is as a hellbound train that never looks back; with it's heroine's point of view fracturing in a steady progression of more bizarre realities.  Unfortunately, "Sucker Punch's" train spent itself in those early minutes and spends the remainder of the film disappointingly vacillating between the 2nd and 3rd stages of madness, before mercifully bookending itself with a return to the 1st stage.  The problem is that by its nature a laser light show lacks or struggles with certain cinematic elements; like audience to character identification, sensuality, suspense, and challenge to the imagination (there is nothing to imagine when the fundamental construct is one of visual illustration).  Which is fine if you connect with what it brings (in place of these missing elements) to its audience; like off-kilter production design, dazzling special effects, eye-popping action. But it is important for a viewer to be aware of the nature and limitations of this type of entertainment if they are to avoid frustration and disappointment.  Then again, what do I know?  I'm only a child.

Incorrect Information on Amazon - No Subtitles This DVD does not have English subtitles, and is not closed-captioned.  Thus Amazon information is misleading. If this feature is important to you, avoid this item.

The Limits Of Patience Honestly, love Jim Jarmusch, but this will be very difficult to watch for someone without a great amount of patience for art. Part Ghost Dog, Part Dead Man; the assassin has a curious lack of charisma and plays a case-hardened quiet type rather than Whittaker's wise sage, however, and is not bungling like Depp in Dead Man. I would love to see the script for this movie, since the guy really doesn't even ever speak. This gets a little old, the acting is superb actually, but the scenes could've been trimmed here and there because, well, WE GET THE POINT. Between Tai Chi sessions, meeting with less superior contacts, and generally trying to avoid Juliette Lewis (it's hard, because she's naked in EVERY scene, even the one she's DEAD in), our anti-hero navigates some southern european/north african paradise in search of trouble.  What is wonderful about this movie is that every scene is like a moving still photo. The cinematography is SO beautiful, SO well done, that you kind of forget about the movie. The colors, the angles the scenes are shot from, all the way down to the textiles of the clothes of the actors is all delicately chosen to defy any specific period and gives the movie a feel of timelessness. There is a lot to look at while waiting around to find out just what exactly the limits of control are...  I give this a "if you have a huge TV, and a party going on, and you want to put this on in the background to impress your artsy friends, or are walking around home alone naked and would like a quiet thriller, this is the right movie" out of 10.

Kid liked it but adults were bored Teens/kids movie for sure. We the adults were pretty bored with boring dialogues and story lines. It was long and we were waiting and hoping for some interesting twists or fabulous action scenes but it never happened.

The Director's Cut, Special Editions, and Extinction of Original Versions. Amadeus the original release version is superior. It won Best Picture the year it came out, and was a big hit. It also happened to PG, not un-rated with an exploitative nude scene reinserted which messes with the fine dramatic balance of the award winning big screen version. I much prefer the original cut released in the theater. It's not a matter of being a prude, but rather the original is superior in it's pacing and story telling.  That the Hollywood corporations release special editions, and director's cuts is fine, but please keep the originals available. George Lucas infamous mucking with Star Wars; Enter the Dragon adding some fortune cookie wisdom, with Bruce Lee looking oh so uncool, and goofy as he pauses and looks to the ceiling remembering in corny voice over insert his Master's advice; and the PG-13 version of The King's Speech editing out the story based profanity necessary to make a point about the King's therapy. These are on the short list of video versions inferior to the original films seen in the theaters.  In short Director's cuts, and special editions often suck. Not only that the originals tend to disappear. That these classics suffer with tinkering is a dis-service to some great classic films, and the movie lovers who would like to purchase them.

Great 90's movie If you haven't seen Chasing Amy, it's definitely worth your money, and time. Fast paced, and tackles subjects that are often too taboo to talk about. If you are an open minded person you'll appreciate this film.

It wasn't terrible... But it could have been so much better.  The strongest part of the story, for me, was at the very beginning during the set up for the rest of the movie. Russell Wong and Michelle Yeoh had such wonderful chemistry together and they were only on screen for the first five or so minutes. I really wish it could have been longer.  Brendan Fraser turned in another solid outing as Rick O'Connell, but John Hannah's Jonathan lacked heart; he was almost a caricature. The grown up Alex with an American accent and the non-Brit Maria Bello portraying Evie, using a very uneven British accent, were the weakest parts in this movie.  I wish the screen writers had let Alex age naturally, using Freddie Boath again and written a script that wouldn't have forced Rachel Weisz to back out.  All in all the movie was worth two stars, but Russell Wong and Michelle Yeoh's chemistry earned it a third.  I would strongly suggest renting this movie first, not buying, so you can decide for yourself if it's worth owning.

Short of a Miracle Although this movie has a lot of big name actors, and they are normally pretty good in other films/shows, their acting was not up to par in this one. There wasn't a flow to it, they weren't convincingly portraying their charactes and they didn't mesh with each other.  This movie really felt like they were trying too hard to make it a good movie.  The movie was middle of the road in both storyline and acting.  The story went in many directions and often left some things out that might have contributed to the flow of the story.  The plot is pretty easily figured out quite early along in the movie.  The overall theme is taking life slowly and enjoying the moment and what you have.  The main couple are having a hard and disappointing time getting pregnant.  They each blame themselves, and sometimes each other, until they are at the breaking point.  They take a vacation during which along the way they break down and never reach their final destination.  However, it is the time they spend in this sleepy little town that brings them closer together in the end.  The title "Expecting a Miracle" comes from the yearly celebration of the St. who grants miracles and the little boy who thinks it is his turn to receive that miracle.  The movie didnt really impress me.  Cheech was not cast as a funny comedian, but in a more serious role this time. The story took forever to unfold and there were too  many unrealistic and obvious things happening which detracted from the storyline.  The movie dabbles with infertility, pregnancy, getting pregnant, having children, adoption, etc.  There is also discussion of miracles taking place and a child relying on a miracle of his own so that he can walk normal again.  As far as having a clean movie to watch without the language and sex, this one will fit the bill.

THE GOSPEL OF JOHN....OK Overall, I think it was pretty good and true to the bible.  There were some scenes where the acting was lacking but not on the part of Henry Cusick (who played Jesus).  He was very good.

A simple and easy watch. One thing that stands out about this film, and it's probably why it has scored so low, is that it cuts out a lot of the usual formula, or at least downplays it a lot: characters that develop through their need to acomplish something and a romance between the leads being the most obvious. Outside of this though the film is remarkably easy to understand, the plot doesn't get all tied up in complexities like so much does now. This makes it a very easy, and quick watch. The fact that there is no romance between the leads for me was a refreshing, and welcome change. That would've turned it into another typical angst ridden thing that we get to see everywhere. The special effects are nowhere near as prevailant as others have stated, and the movie does not rely on them at all. It might sound like a bad thing that there is no character development, and usually that would be true, but here I didnt think it mattered so much. I think it just freed it up from the usual Hollywood tripe that bogs things down. In the end this is a very simple and easy to watch movie, but without so much of the formulaic elements that film makers today seem to follow like a colour by numbers painting. You often get the impression that they are litteraly following a blueprint and just putting things in because it's part of the "Success recipe" Where emotions are concerned this can make a film particularly tripe. The fact that it has to live along side the original which, over time, has become almost something of an art house classic makes it all the more difficult. If you watch it don't expect to be challenged.

Likes / Dislikes / NCIS: Seasons 1-7 purchased at Amazon Season 2-5 were great.  No problems.  Season 1 & 6 has a few spots were the screen froze which also made the words freeze and sound blurred.  Season 7 was terrible.  The whole season kept freezing.  There was one or two discs where a whole scene was repeated.  The disks did not appear original.  I believe they were copies.  The coverings were different than the rest.  I sent two different e-mails to the seller and was completely ignored.  I do not like writing reviews like this, which is why it has taken me so long to write.  I am in the process of reviewing the cd's again, and am on season 7. (very disappointed & discouraged with the quality) Of all, that is one of my favorite seasons.  I would not buy from this seller again.  I do not believe it is good practice to ignore a customer or to slip a bad season in with the others.  The seller either did not watch what he was selling or did not care.  Either way - I have a bad season 7 that I need to replace.

Decent Movie I thought this was an okay movie.  The movie didn't live up to my expectations.  I just thought the story was lacking and the ending seemed rather short.  However, I think the actors did good job playing high schoolers, they even helped bring back memories of my high school days.  I would recommend watching this movie because I did enjoy most of it.  Its just hard to get into.

Too good to be true? I am always looking to buy the best product for my money.  In this case i was excited to find a triple pack of these great films being about under $15 each. My hesitation was that it was a mixed region collection and i was worried that they would not play on my Bluray player.  So when i was finally got them i was eager to test them. Everything turned out good except the disc region notes telling me that the disc's may take longer during chapter sequences to load depending on the Bluray player models.  Kill Bill vol.One had a "skip" like problem during the beginning of the movie but other than that all three disc's where good.  It did worry me so i felt like that was the chance i had taken being this a mixed U.S/Canadian region combo pack.

A sub par alien invasion movie To sum up this movie... five people visiting Moscow are left stranded when invisible electrical aliens land and start vaporizing everyone. The special effects stand out, but the premise doesn't. It seems far less grand than most alien action movies that pull in the entire planet if not the entire country. There is a very narrow scope that focuses on these five people trying to find a way out of Moscow. If a bigger movie director did this, it would incorporate families seperated, whitehouses and monuments blowing up, presidents and armies fighting the menace and other big budget fluff. Instead this is five people going through empty streets.  The aliens are invisible for the most part and vaporize people for the first 60 minutes of the movie, before they can teather people with an electrical lightning like arm that pulls them in. That change seemed jarring. The movie really dragged in the middle which is saying a lot for a 89 minute movie.  This could have been done on SyFy Network.

There's something rotten in the state of Denmark... Two Elizabethan gentlemen find themselves summoned to Elsinore by Claudius to attend their friend Hamlet, who is transformed and neither his exterior nor the inward man resembles that it was. However, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern perceive that perhaps all is not what it seems. The laws of physics, probability and time have been suspended...  Well - I tried very hard with this. It seems to me that this one of those plays that one is expected to see before you die and as I'm unlikely to see it at the theatre in the near future (not because of an impending early demise, I hope), Stoppard's film adaptation of his own play ought to be the next best thing. Never having seen it on stage (nor indeed have I seen any Shakespeare) perhaps puts me at a disadvantage...  If I'm honest it WAS a struggle, but I think that you can enjoy this on several levels.  First of course is the story itself, which is dense and fast moving (or at least the dialogue certainly is, and sub-titles helped immeasurably here). As far as I can tell, Stoppard is exploring a rather convoluted and existential concept, akin to Magritte's "Ceci n'est pas un pipe". Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (or is it Guildenstern and Rosencrantz?) know themselves to be "real" people (rather than simply actors playing those parts) but they also come to realise that they are operating within - and owe their existence to - a fiction. From their perspective then, is what is happening around them real or not? Their experiences >feel&lt; genuine enough to them (witness Rosencrantz's near discovery of Newton's Laws, gravitation, the steam engine, powered flight and, strangely, the Big Mac) and so they are compelled to go along with events. The arrival of a band of travelling tragedians adds a new layer of (un)reality to the story: a play within a play within a play and the conundrum is compounded yet further as Lead Player takes on the task of unpicking the riddle for R & G - an exponent of fiction, peddling reality! That much is clear to me (I think, but who can really say?). Beyond that, and struggling manfully to keep up with the rapidly delivered and archaic Shakespearean dialogue, I foundered, left wondering precisely what was Stoppard trying to prove? Perhaps (no, certainly) I'm not clever enough to divine that and I do suspect that a better appreciation of the real play "Hamlet" might have helped me. Next stop is the script for R&C which I have on Kindle.  On an entirely different level, however, the performance is easy enough to enjoy. Roth and Oldman are, as always, excellent value and they are hugely entertaining. The glorious nuances of their expression and delivery contrast very nicely with their Laurel and Hardy-esque interpretation of the two characters. One (Oldman) innocently dim and the other (Roth) in charge but in no way in control; the sparks they strike of one another are a joy to watch. Dreyfuss hams it up (with a somewhat variable accent, bless him) as the Player and Ian Glen overacts suitably as the raving Prince of Denmark.  In the end, I didn't know quite what to make of this. I am pretty sure I missed something fundamentally important but I enjoyed in nonetheless.  Rosencrantz: (tossing a coin) Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads! Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads! Heads. Guildenstern: Consider. One, probability is a factor which operates *within* natural forces. Two, probability is *not* operating as a factor. Three, we are now held within un-, sub- or super-natural forces. Discuss. Rosencrantz: (baffled) What?

Good DVD The quality of DVD looks acceptable. Not a very sharp quality DVD. It seems like we are still watching this movie on a cassette. The price was good but quality ok.

Final shrek While the characters were the same, the magic of the first three just wasn't there this time! Glad the series is over - it was good while it lasted.

Pleasantly surprised This is superb comedy & timing based movie directed by Partho Ghosh. Overall, definitely worth a watch for the comedy and of course, Shamiksha.

La Otra [DVD] (2005) Jose Baviera; Dolores Del Rio; Manuel Donde; Victor Junco Image is not accurate for the item represented by the correct product details. Actors shown on the image are not the ones on the DVD.

good, bad (the movie, not what just what it's about..) a friend recommended this. so...i watched 'night watch' first, so i would 'understand' day watch.  either way, understanding is not essential. much of both films feels like the story is made up as it goes along...that's it strength AND weakness. in places, it's fun; at other times, you're rolling your eyes. there are occasional great visual moments. and the old story of good-versus-evil comes thru...albeit with a ton of distraction, loose ends, and artifacts thrown in out of nowhere.  if you don't try to make sense of it, and take it as entertainment...it's fairly entertaining. but it's no 'matrix'...it's not even 'southland tales'.  now to give my poor brain and eyes a rest. then back to the real world. and if this review is somewhat understandable, and somewhat not...then i've done my job well.

Not bad once it gets going; some unresolved issues At least 12 minutes go by before anyone really says anything.  Johnny, an actor, amuses himself with pole dancers in L.A. when not doing press events.  His ex-wife brings their lovely daughter, Cleo, to him and the two end up spending more time together than they normally do.  Things get more complicated when the mother takes off with no word as to when or if she will come back.  That is when the girl needs her dad more than she ever has.  If you do not like slow-paced movies and large sections with no dialogue or action, you will not like this one. However, for others the performances are quite good.  The ending  remains a mystery, and you are left to speculate as to the future for the dad and his girl.

Lots of Laughs Movie was so funny!  Watched it a few times. Quality of the CD was good.  No pauses or anything that messed up the screening of it.

See the 2010 version with original score The new Kino release of the "complete" Metropolis...All but 6-8 minutes anyway is now available with the original Huppertz score.  Definitely superior to all previous versions and the score is excellent, really helping to set the film's tone.  You'll be pleased to see the Thin Man in action and Freder and Josaphat getting to do some real daring-do in the Workers City.

Wasted potential? On some levels, yes. Seth Rogen's Green Hornet portrayal was really bad. He constantly whined like an immature 10 year old kid, couldn't fight without getting beat up himself, and mostly screwed up on pretty much everything he did. I mean, I like Seth Rogen, he's a great comedian. But he fails when taking on the role of the Green Hornet. The original Green Hornet never whined about anything, was an awesome fighter, and knew how to handle things perfectly alone. Seth Rogen's Hornet is the complete opposite of that. But they did a good job in getting Kato's character right. The movie has a good sense of humor, like the scene where the Green Hornet & Kato get in a fight. That scene had me cracking up. Some of it is funny, but some of it isn't. I'd recommend this to anyone who has no history with the Green Hornet and/or loves anything with Seth Rogen in it. Hornet fans are going to HATE this and they should really avoid this at all costs. If you're a fan, you should go watch the 10 minute Green Hornet short film made in France, The 10 minute short does everything right that the movie failed to do. To Seth Rogen fans, I'd say it's worth watching but keep your expectations low. This movie ain't no Pineapple Express.

Good old shooter Fun movie to watch, predictable pilot, cheese graphics, but still holds true to the classic shooter movie. O an I wouldn't expect awesome acting either.

Kazan exposes anti-Semitism Gentleman's Agreement (20th Century Fox, 1947) was director Elia Kazan's fourth film.  Journalist Phil Green (Gregory Peck) moves to New York with his young son, Tommy (Dean Stockwell), and mother (Anne Revere) to write an expose on anti-Semitism. Green racks his brain trying to come up with a story angle, eventually deciding to pose as a Jew. His new girlfriend, Kathy Lacey (Dorothy McGuire), is privy to the scheme, but tensions arise when she insists on letting her friends and family know her boyfriend isn't really Jewish. Green discovers prejudice everywhere, even at the office.  His friend, discharged serviceman, Dave (John Garfield), an actual Jew, moves in looking for a job and a home and also encounters intolerance. Green's expose is finally published, Kathy faces her own lack of bravery in confronting bigotry, and the two live happily ever after.  Gentleman's Agreement won Best Picture for 20th Century Fox mogul, Darryl F. Zanuck, Best Director for Elia Kazan, and Best Supporting Actress for Celeste Holme.  Wooden Indian Peck plays one note throughout as the over-earnest writer. Lovely Dorothy McGuire is actually quite good as the high society-conscious girlfriend but Kathy's constant tifts with Green over his faux Jewish identity are grating. Ann Revere's new world liberal soapbox soliloquy is embarrassing. Dean Stockwell is convincing as Tommy. June Havoc does a wonderful job in the role of Green's Jewish secretary, Elaine Wales. Romance-starved Gal Friday, Anne Dettry (Celeste Holm) follows Green around like she's in heat. Garfield shines in his role. Peck, McGuire, and Revere were nominated for Oscars.  Gentleman's Agreement was another of Zanuck's many social crusades. Hollywood's Jewish moguls tried to convince him not to make the movie fearing a backlash. Kazan was highly critical of the film in later writings and interviews. While it might have been a candy-coated look at bigotry, as was his next film, Pinky, it was brave and cutting edge cinema for its day. The scene where Green attempts to book a room as a Jew at a restricted hotel is riveting. Due to its liberal message several of those associated with the film were called before the House Un-American Committee including Kazan, Zanuck, Revere, and Garfield.  The DVD has a fairly informative commentary by film critic, Richard Shickel,  with additional comments from Celeste Holm and June Havoc.

BEWARE Of Simon Tang! Don't Buy From This Vendor. First of all, Planet Earth is awesome. I wish I could say the same for "Life" but I couldn't watch it!!  The Disc didn't work in my Sony Blu Ray Player. I contacted the seller, Simon Tang, and he said he'd ship me a replacement.  The replacement never came.  I contacted him and he said there must have been a mix up and he just shipped it out and I should have it in a week.  Again, 3 weeks later, still no replacement. Now it's way past the 30 day return policy and I got scammed out of half my purchase because the seller, Simon Tang screwed me.  BEWARE OF Simon Tang. Buy from some other reputable vendor.

No Excuses. Apocalypse Now is a film about a soldier who's sent to the Vietnam war to find a Colonel who is stopped adhering to the instructions of the US ARMY and is acting with free will. The entire film is a journey witnessed from first person played by the said soldier. During the course of the film, he learns more and more about the Vietnam war and the Colonel who he is supposed to terminate.  The war is shocking as the encounters occur and eventually after 80% of the film is over he finally finds what he came for but by then the film takes a completely different turn leaving the viewer feeling a little out of it. Considering this was made in 1979, I must commend the director for such an epic visual journey, some scenes were deranged and completely out of proportion. While the film has good action over a slow paced film, it left me feeling a little uneasy because it scratched the surface of a subject I am very unaware of. Perhaps when It came out, it was a big deal and the topic was relevant but the film does not come easy without seeming a little self indulgent. Is it a must watch though? Maybe. A little pretentious too because the script could have been a little more self aware.

A black comedy that is not really entertaining A black comedy that is not really entertaining. . .  The special effects are very good--e.g., a woman with a huge gunshot opening through her stomach. Other than that, I find the movie grotesque without being really entertaining.

Scratched disc in set Arrived quickly and packaged well.  One of the set's disc is scratched and doesn't play well, but it only effects one episode.

Nice thrills, suspense, but a little thin on some plot elements. First things first, after watching this movie I went to sleep and awoke with a fright from a nightmare which involved a ferocious canine snarling in my face, ready to attack. Glad I woke up. At that moment I said to myself, "Damn, that movie had an effect." Then I got up and made coffee.  It's a fairly typical storyline with a common descriptive snippet, which reads like so many others I've read lately:  "A group of (insert number here) friends (or college kids) venture off to a remote (island, wilderness cabin, lodge) and soon find that they (are not alone, must match wits with, or fall victim to) some (wild beast, monster, insane killer, demonic entity, or other life threatening scenario they are scarcely equipped to handle)."  But hey, that's a horror movie.  That said, it was a watchable film with some good tension, suspense, action and thrills, and also some nice bikini scenes. The editing was great, nice cuts, good timing, and creative dissolves, and the dog handlers had their hands busy. Great canine cast and excellent interaction and combat moments between human and dog. Truly some impressive stunts and action involving the dogs and people. That stuff can't be easy to just pull off so kudos to the crew for that.  Character development is a little poor, I didn't find them all too convincing, but for the most part it worked well enough. Sometimes you just have to put aside such details and enjoy the films other good qualities.  Wes Craven's name is on it but in my opinion it doesn't live up to the reputation of some of his classics.  As a whole the film works okay, I'd probably watch it again and pick up on some things I may have missed, but it didn't peak my meter as far as horror films are concerned. As I mentioned the suspense is there -- although maybe short lived at times since the attacks and shocks are almost predictable -- but the horror is lacking a bit.  You would expect a pack of marauding dogs to be a bit more persistent and savage, but maybe that is one plot point the writers are trying make... it is hinted that the dogs have a higher than average canine intelligence.  There is a hint at possible clandestine research on the dogs, possibly performed at a facility located on the island, officially known for training seeing-eye dogs, but maybe something more sinister was going on behind the scenes. The place is now deserted and the dogs are running wild, so who knows. We're not given enough information or clues.  We're also kind of led to believe that perhaps some mutated rabies virus has infected the dogs and was passed along to a couple of the humans because they begin exhibiting strange symptoms, almost sympathetic with the dogs.  Those sub plots are lightly glanced over. They could have made for a more interesting film, but it is obvious the filmmakers were only focusing on the horror and suspense of people pitted against wild dogs, regardless of however those dogs may have became that way.  Generally speaking it's a good film, well made, decent acting, directing, great camera work, editing, and great special effects too, but it seems to me that the loose ends remaining, with all the what if and what of, could have been tied together better to completely satisfy the audience.  Worth the watch though, there are enough satisfying moments, suspense and thrills that make this a very entertaining film.

This is a Cut Copy From Disney!!!! FYI...This a cut copy and Disney for some absurd reason will not Restore the original version. I Have seen the original back in the early sixties when I was just a kid, They cut the whole scene out where he ditches school and they start singing the song..."If you don't go to school you'll grow up to be a mule like all the monkey's in the zoo. Also They cut the whole scene out where Geppetto goes to look for Pinocchio and goes out to sea and gets swallowed by the whale. They just show you the scene where he's already inside the belly of the whale.  They really just butchered the whole film. I've been told by other people that Disney did it to shorten the film because it was too long. However, In the corporate World the mentally is to get you to buy this version and then later on down the road they'll come out with a statement like...Newly found footage and now for the first time ever the complete newly restored version of Pinocchio. It's quite possible that it's all about money again. How Sad.  "You can fool some of the people some of the time, But you can't fool all of the people all of the time."  We who love The old Disney films will have to wait a long time for "Song of The South" Disney says it too Racial and the people here in America can't handle it, But they released it on Laser Disc back in the late seventies early eighties in Japan. They can handle it over in Japan but we here in America can not. Let's face it Japan's more advanced then we are or maybe they paid Disney a good chunk of Monies for it? Absurd. This another film I had seen when it first came out and was one of my favorite of Disney films, There really was some good Philosophy in it. "Yesumm There's a whole lot to be learning about the behind feet of a mule."  Disney needs to wake up and see what their shoveling!!! "IAM" Jaime Galati

OK movie pretty much makes no damn sense really like alot of scifi these days.  the girl from Roswell is the best thing.  she's likeable and the rest are bland as hell  some of the actors are from episodes of Charmed  when playing demons.  ugh  by god that show had the dumbest rubbish happening.

Another action-disaster movie. It is diverting enough, but I wouldn't watch it a second time. It is one of many films that were designed to show case Stallone in a hero role.

Humerous but not realistic The acting and the theme of the movie are alright, but the back drop could have been done in any occupation; police, doctor, soldier, etc. Being a former firefighter and air tanker base manager, the film does not do justice to forest firefighters. In fact it is really insulting to the profession and unrealistic.

Has It's Moments If you were in high school in 1987 there will be scenes you forget it's a movie and swear you're just back in 1987.  Everyone else can probably skip this movie.  Bored hot girls at a minimum wage job are looking to momentarily amuse themselves with certain guys, give the finger to others, or both.  It captures the "in and out of love" roller coaster that was so common in girls of that era.  They just happen to find our nerdy hero the least repulsive among a variety of repulsive dudes.

SURPRISINGLY GOOD This is actually an above-average B-movie. Troma fans should love it, the script is actually quite good. A fun and funny movie.

Interesting film The first half-hour is very disjointed, alittle hard to follow. But it becomes more captivating as the movie develops. We actually jumped out of our seats at one point. Although most of the so-called footage is unviewable, the audio is intriguing and what footage is visible really is disturbing. One thing I found strange is that some of the actual people look really strange..which is a bit suspect. Conspiracy fans will certainly love this one...i feel it may deserve a second viewing. I was left with an unanswered question though....why did the man shoot himself?

nice sci fi movie i didnt think this movie was as bad as some as the reviews.........i thought it was a solid nice sci fi movie......the idea was eerie & maybe it was some  kind of a re boot of society idea type of movie......i did find it odd the animals were able to survive the dark shadows....hmmm maybe cuz the animals are pure & didnt need re-booting & unlike humans who have been so jaded & corrupted etc they needed a fresh start.............maybe thats why the ending was the way it was.........the people left were the "purest" choice.......my only complaint was it was so dark for most of the watch but i still enjoyed it................

Decent Sci-Fi Film Done In By Ludicrous Ending "Splice" for the majority of the film's running time is an intelligent riveting sci-fi thriller.  Then the preposterous ending lands like a giant thud and undoes what good will the film engendered for 95 percent of it's running time.  Not to give away the farm the scriptwriters were probably going for a "Demon Seed" ending instead it's more reminiscent of "Humanoids From the Deep".  That would be okay except the latter film was deliberately campy.  I'm not going to throw the baby out with the bathwater and give the film a one star review.  Those unsuspecting be forewarned that the film's ending negates what could have been a really great film.

Good Film, but... (SPOILER) I really enjoyed this film.  Well, MOST of this film.  I seem to feel this way about a lot of Hollywood films and thought I wouldn't have the same problem with Sarah's Key, but I did.  Film had me, I was engaged, engrossed, and then it happened.  The ridiculous end.  I honestly felt they ran out of time and money.  Yes, I know films aren't shot in sequence, but whenever the ending was shot, they botched it and botched it royally.  The reveal was horribly acted, the camera was stuck on one shot for the longest time.  It felt like the director took lunch while they were shooting it and editing it.  I recommend the film for the first three quarters and then just shut it off.  Not knowing the end or seeing the end will be better for you than watching all the way through.

American Bandstand? Not! I was in the same boat as other reviewers. I thought this was about excerpts from the show, but all but one of the clips is from the Saturday Night Beech-nut show in New York. If that's what you want, fine. But it's a little deceiving to label the video as "American Bandstand".

The Bourne Identity. This movie turned out fine. The movie arrived on time and had the extended features that were described in the product description.

George at his usual,mediocre A movie that includes stewardship of the land, marriage infidelity and last but not least parenting of teens.Tried to cover all bases was called out at first.

Not as good as the first two I was very disappointed in this movie. I guess I had very high expectations after thoroughly loving the first two movies. I really thought there was no way they could ruin this one. I saw this movie in the theatre in 3D. In my area there was no way not  to see it in 3D. So I had to pay extra for 3D. Personally I didn't see the point of watching this movie in 3D and I felt the same way after watching. The jokes in the movie were not as a funny as the previous movies. The jokes also seemed child like or for family audiences. I'm more used the jokes that were in the first two which were at the adult level. Overall the movie was ok but I regret watching it in the theatre and paying extra for it.

extremely predictable with few funny bits I guess it is nothing more or less than what you would expect from such a title. Some parts are relatable but mostly mundane and blah. ok for for dvd rental

Not bad. It was definitely time they got back to a place where Freddy was trying to be scary again, but I think where this movie falls short is there lack of imagination when it came to thinking of scary dream sequences. Not terrible. Would recommend, even to a veteran of the series. But with caution. Characters had good chemistry, to where you believed they were all friends. Story was good. I guess final thoughts are not a bad movie, nothing groundbreaking though.

Accurate details, but typically 'Made for TV'. Sums up the development of the SS very well, and the SS uniforms and insignia are absolutely spot on  -changing as the years progress.  So uniform enthusiasts should be pleased!  The way the story is told is typical 'made for TV drama':  it follows the career of a basically-decent young man who is persuaded to join the SD, the intelligence section of the SS, and finds himself getting drawn deeper and deeper into to a nightmare from which there is no escape, and having to do more and more things which are clearly wicked.  Be aware that the 'girlfriend' (Lucy Gutteridge) is a night club singer with an absolutely DREADFUL singing voice  -turn the sound down whenever she starts a song!!!!

Not Terrible but not great. Acting and plot are pretty lame. Police in Detroit are looking for a stolen revolver used in a murder a few years ago.  Rich (Jackson) and Angel (Kilmer) are crime partners involved with the distribution of arms.  Overall better then I expected it to be, (50 Cent wrote it).  We find out pretty early that Rich is the one with the revolver and from then on it gets pretty predictable.  For the type of movie it is, I will give it a 6 out of 10, but don't let that deceive you, it's better then Streets of Blood (the last Jackson and Kilmer movie) but thats not saying a whole lot.  If you are looking for a top notch, exciting action flic I'd go with A-Team over this one.  I will say that this is Kilmer's best movie in awhile, which again isn't saying a whole lot.  I give it a C+.

This movie did come out in 1989!!! OK,i have to clear up a big matter regarding this movie.First of all i know when this movie came out this is a total 80's flick.I use to watch this over and over again back in the early 90's where i taped it off of cable TV.This was aired over and over again in the early 90's.This movie did indeed come out in 1989,not 1998.Get the story straight.Look how young Tracy Lords was at the time.She is 43 years old as of today which would of made her 30 in 1998.No way she could of looked that young at the age of 30.She was 20 years old when she did this movie back in 1989.I think the DVD may of came out in 1998 since that was the year DVDs became popular.I did a search on Tracy lords and the movie does state that it did come out in 1989.Go to Google and search Tracy lords and you will see in the Wikipedia that the movie did come out in 1989.I know that there isn't allot of information on the movie but make sure you are researching in the right places.I grew up with the 80's movies and can tell you that this is an 80's movie.I do remember taping this movie off of cable Tv in the early 90's and know for a fact that this came out in 1989.I do not know where you all got your info from,but they are wrong! Wrong ! wrong!Tracy lords was a very young woman in 1989,where she had a body of a model,now she is still looking good,but can tell she has aged.So Amazon has the date right,it was 1989 when this movie came out.

Hollywood loves reboots too much The Movie was pretty interesting but seriously, Hollywood, we need to have a talk.  I know the success of the recent Batman, James Bond, and Lambchop movies have taught you that gritty reboots are the way to go.  But comon, this has nothing to do with the original story of Snow Dogs, and you totally cut Cuba Gooding Jr out!  I bet he was available to star in this movie.  I don't think it even takes place in the north, did you save anything from the original?  Taken by itself the movie is interesting and intense, but I cannot get past the total disregard for the source material.  What is next?  A gritty reboot of Boat Trip on whaling ship crewed by ex-cons that kill each other after cutting off their ears while "Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band" plays in the background?

The Title Is Pronounced Dubbya -- Yeah, That Guy I bet you cannot watch this movie without asking yourself, "How much of this is true?" Not just what's verified and what is speculation, but how accurate do you suppose the guesses are? It's very spooky, this movie. Holding a mirror up to what we have just lived through, and at a time when we did not yet know whether Obama would win and change things, or McCain would win and continue the basic plan.  For one thing, most of the people who play well-known figures look quite like their roles, even Richard Dreyfuss as Darth Cheney. In fact, Josh Brolin as W. and James Cromwell as H.W. are the only two who are not particularly look-alikes, in that both actors are rather more lean and angular than the presidents were. Thandie Newton is positively spooky as Condi Rice. Toby Jones is a little smaller than Karl Rove, but just as slimy. Jeffrey Wright does not at first look all that much like Colin Powell, but he grows into the role -- or his makeup does.  The early part of W's life is the only part we have not seen before, although we certainly heard about it. We see his fraternity initiation, but not his Skull and Bones one. We see him chatting up a Texas gal and persuading her that he's going to marry her, and then later hear that his father had to "take care of her" when she came up pregnant. He's in jail for reckless driving, and his father bails him out. But in his job in the oil fields, his try at Wall Street, and especially his lack of focus more generally, H.W. is deeply disappointed, and says so. In real life and in W.'s nightmares.  We are also "treated" to his drying-out from alcohol, his born-again experience, his belief that God was calling him to run for president. Still, there seems to be more of the whiff of brimstone than the odor of sanctity about the man, especially ending every cabinet meeting with a silent prayer. If it was not phony, I almost wish it had been.  The decision to invade Iraq, the Cheney power hunger, the way everyone in that cabinet room could go along with Cheney's plan to take over the entire middle east by surrounding and then conquering Iran; it's all so spooky that I simply cannot help asking myself: how much of this is the truth?  It's a well-made movie about a very unsettling topic, and I would have preferred if the two men who portrayed the Bush presidents looked a little more like the real Bushes. Can't have everything. I would also have like more about some topics and less about others, but on the whole, the story hangs together as the biography of a man who never should have been elected to any office, let alone the presidency.

American Pickers Volume 2 This is a great show but it would have been nice if it would have been the whole season and not just a few of the shows. So beware if you think you are getting the entire 2nd season like the first season, cause you are not so save your money unless you like just a few shows. Still not worth $15.99.

A little flat The premise for this movie is interesting, but it's short on delivery.  Cuba is a little flat and stiff in his role, though that might have been the intention of the director.  Lots of action, so it is entertaining.

Great movie packed with action and comedy. To my opinion this was a hugely exciting movie with just one or two unrealistic scene. Ajay Devgan in a serious role does a great performance. The movie has a good script about a Hospital with a few corrupt Doctors led by the man in charge Suresh Oberoi, who kills the poorer people and takes out their organs and sells them for the richer customers. Suhaag does have some breath taking amazing scenes which include Dalip Tahil using a Chain saw on Ajay Devgan and Ajay and Akshay using Dalips corpse as a witness in court. Sounds daft but has been executed tremondously. All in all Suhaag is a true blue everything-but-the-kitchen-sink BW romp through comedy, danger, violence, horror, I-love-Mom, prison & court room drama, and romance.

classic worth rewatching Worth rewatching, if only to hear Clint Eastwood's one liners. PQ not that much of a step up in Bluray, AQ also so-so. Worth buying if u dont't have it in DVD. A bit corny though, watching it after all these years.

The scene with Bill Murray and Steve Martin makes the rest of the film worth a watch My 7-year boy did not like this film because he did not like the female lead (sorry, Ellen Greene).  Of course, his response is based on her annoying speaking voice.  When he is older, and learns to truly appreciate cleavage, he will perhaps change his mind.  I on the other hand, appreciate the film's attempts at comedy and as a metaphor for the corrupting, ravenous effects of the human desires for power, wealth, and fame.  The scene between a sadistic dentist (Steve Martin) and his new masochistic patient (Bill Murray) is an under-watched classic.  I'd link the clip here, but Amazon doesn't like it when I do that.

Good movies; HORRIBLE QUALITY I bought this because it was $18 for a blu-ray trilogy, which is pretty crazy.  I had actually never seen all the movies.  I was sure the third would be the worst, but that is actually my favorite, and that was the one I'd never seen before.  So the movies are great; I really enjoy them.  EXCEPT for the quality.  People aren't kidding when they say this is the worst blu-ray movie quality they've ever seen.  I don't know what the DVDs look like, but they might look about the same as this.  But if you think about it, $18 is still an ok price for 3 DVDs.  The third movie is definitely the best quality.  Some scenes have some pretty impressive Vegas scenery.  So bottom line, I still think the price is worth it, if you're paying around $18.  Under no circumstances should anyone pay over $20 for this.  It's just not good enough quality to warrant that.

Cool concept, okay execution This movie was just meh,okay.  I like the idea, but beside two characters, no one else in the cast seemed tough enough to pull off guerilla warfare.  This flick is fine for sitting around with absolutely nothing else to do, but I (in retrospect)  definitely wouldn't put this on my must-see list.  There are some cool scenes, but overall it ain't great.  Final word: you probably won't regret spending a couple dollars on this, but you won't be glad you did either.

Digital Copy Bull**** SCAM IF YOU HAVE AN APPLE PRODUCT AND WISH TO VIEW THE MOVIE ON SUCH DEVICE, GOOD LUCK!!!! DO NOT PURCHASE THIS COMBO PACK. i tired effortlessly before reading the reviews to get this movie to sync to my iPad or hell just to get it to my itunes library. the whole reason i shelled out the extra $6; which is truely not a lot, was to be able to watch it wherever i take my iPad, will be returning mine tomorrow and getting just the regular blu-ray. will never again trust any packaging that says  Ultra Violet Digital Copy!!!!

Great while it lasted, but abrupt ending My wife and I really enjoyed this video-- as far as it went. Which, alas, was not far enough. We have studied the life and work of St. Hildegard for almost fifteen years, so were familiar with her biography. This is very nicely presented here: the scenery is beautiful; the music (though not enough of it) was lovely; the acting is excellent. There is much to recommend this film, certainly. But it draws to a close much too quickly: We are barely introduced to the emperor, Frederick Barbarossa, when Hildegard is off on her preaching tour across Europe. We hear nothing more of her relationship with the emperor, or of the pope whom she [persuaded to return to Rome. There are no references to the illustrations of her visions, magnificent in their own right. Indeed, her works (including Scivias) are touched upon quite briefly, some of them (like her work in medicine and the natural sciences) barely at all. Indeed, the entire last twenty years of her life is completely missing-- details of her tours and correspondence, her moving of her convent to Eibingen, the interdict which she managed successfully to have overturned-- all not mentioned at all. Instead, the film seems to dwell too long on her relationship with her dear Richardis, an interesting topic, but hardly as pivotal as it is presented here. In the desire for "narrative" (that is, soap opera) many aspects of her fascinating history are ingored or paid short shrift. We were very disappointed when the ending came so suddenly, with Hildegard rising from her sick bed, hitting the road, and literally riding off into the sunset-- a full twenty years too early! There is a great need for a sequel to finish off the story of the remaining 20 years of this fascinating woman's life.

Not a bad flick...and I don't like Shelley Long! I purchased Troop Beverly Hills after my wife, who is a Girl Scout leader, noted having fond memories of this film growing up. I was quite skeptical, to be honest, but was pleasantly surprised. You see, I am NOT a Shelley Long fan. Shelley's performance was actually appropriate (only as over-the-top as the character required) and the film was mostly cute family fare (with one exception - see next paragraph). The movie follows Shelley Long's character's quest to become a better parent by becoming a leader of what are clearly Girl Scouts in all but name. She does this in order to re-connect with her estranged husband who during the film is in the process of divorcing her. She comes up against a drill-sargent type zealot whom she must defeat in several ways. The plot is predictable and the outcome never in doubt - but that ends up being part of the fun.  LANGUAGE WARNING - I was surprised with the PG rating (as opposed to PG-13) to hear the "S" word probably a dozen or more times during the movie, along with with a smaller number of "B" words which rhyme with witch. There are also some references to someone "boffing" another and at one point a young character suggests to her romance-writing mother that she use the phrase "swelling manhood" which her mother modifies to "swelling pulsating manhood." To be honest, these moments really feel out of place in this movie and could have easily been left out without any impact on it. In fact, the rest of the movie is much more tame than those enjoyed by teens (even back in the day when I was a teen in the 80s) and the foul language does not change that overall feel. I suspect the producers included it intentionally to avoid the dreaded "G" rating which would have reduced the audience considerably when it was released. You might want to keep all this in mind for younger viewers. We "had some 'splainin to do" to our kids as we watched. Come to think of it, PG-13 might not have been invented at the time when this movie was rated. In any case, be forewarned.  Please don't interpret my 3 star rating as a negative - I took off one star for language and another since this isn't, after all, Citizen Kane or Gone With the Wind - but then again my kids would never sit through either of those pictures at this age (they are 6 and 8). Take away the language and for kids this is a 5 star film!

not the oiginal brand is good in this remake but his supportiing cast is lacking and this ruins what could have been a decent remake my take stick to the original and you cant lose

With a bang or a whimper? "Nobody gets to be a cowboy forever"  There are no more Indians to fight and no more towns to build. The Iron Horse swallowed up the wagon trains and the accountants from back East ate up the small ranchers. The day of the cowboy is coming to an end. Monte Walsh and his comrades see the setting of the sun, but where can they go? How will the west end? With a bang or a whimper? In "the Wild Bunch" (1969) the men decide to go out in a blaze of glory. This is their solution to the end of the west. The 1970 film "Monte Walsh" offers a different solution.  Monte Walsh stars Lee Marvin, Jeanne Moreau and Jack Palance and was based on the Jack Schaefer ("Shane") novel of the same name.  Lee Marvin (1924-87) gave us 4 decades of tough guys, from "The Big Heat" (1953) and "The Wild One" (1953) to "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962) and "The Killers" (1964) to "The Dirty Dozen" (1967) and "Hell in the Pacific" (1968) to "The Big Red One" (1980) and his final film "Delta Force" (1986). Along the way he picked up an Oscar for "Cat Ballou" (1965). Most of Marvin's films were westerns, so he was a great choice about the end of the west.  Jack Palance (1919-2006) was everybody's favorite bad guy, with riveting performances in like "Shane" (1952), "Sudden Fear" (1952) and "The Silver Chalice" (1954). In 1957 he won an Emmy for "Requiem for a Heavyweight" and in 1992 he won an Oscar for "City Slickers". Palance plays Marvin's long time friend.  French star Jeanne Moreau (1928 - ) appears as Walsh's love interest. One of France's leading actresses, she appeared in more than 100 films, the most notable of which are "Jules and Jim" (1962) and "The Lovers" (1958).  Jim Davis (1909-1981) had such a distinctive deep and throaty voice. He's probably best known for his years on the TV series "Dallas" although he appeared on dozens of other TV shows and more than 50 films, most of them westerns. Just prior to this film he had been a regular on "Daniel Boone" and "Death Valley Days". Davis plays a small rancher who has been forced to manage a horse ranch for an Eastern company.  G.D. Spradlin (1920 - ) could easily play a President ("The Long Kiss Goodnight"), a Preacher ("Ed Wood"), a General ("The Lords of Discipline") or a Senator ("Godfather Part 2"). His sharp voice and chiseled features were appealing on TV and in films. Spradlin plays one of the cowboys  Bo Hopkins (1942 - ) was a favorite of Sam Peckinpah in films like "The Wild Bunch" (1969), "The Killer Elite" and "The Getaway" where he played psychopathic killers. In 1995 he won a Golden Boot for his contributions to western films. Hopkins plays a cowboy.  Michael Conrad (1925-83) is best known for his Emmy winning performances on "Hill Street Blues" (1981-3). He was primarily a TV actor, but made a dozen films including "They Shoot Horses Don't They?" (1969) and his most famous role as the coach in "the Longest Yard" (1974). Conrad plays a cowboy.  William Fraker (1923-2010) directs. Fraker was primarily a cinematographer for which he received 5 Oscar nominations ("Looking for Mr. Goodbar", "Heaven can Wait", "1941", "War Games", Murphy's Romance") although I think his camera work on Steve McQueen's "Bullitt" (1968) was his best film. This was Fraker's first film as a director. He had worked with Marvin as a cinematographer in "Paint Your Wagon"  1970 was an average year for films. The top box office went to "Love Story", "Airport", "MASH", "Patton", and "The Aristocrats." The big Oscar winner was "Patton" (Picture, Director, Actor). Other notable films from that year were "Woodstock", "Little Big Man", "Tora, Tora, Tora", "Five Easy Pieces", "Diary of a Mad Housewife",  "The Boys in the Band", and "Husbands". Several westerns came out in 1970 - Howard Hawks'  "Rio Lobo", Sam Peckinpah's "The Ballad of Cable Hogue",  "The Cheyenne Social Club" with Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda, "Chisum" with John Wayne, "A Man Called Horse" with Richard Harris, "Soldier Blue" with Candice Bergen, and Don Siegel's "Two Mules for Sister Sara".  Reviews were mixed. Roger Ebert called it "lovely" and said "the performances are extraordinary". Vincent Canby, on the other hand, said it was "not a very good movie, but one that is often appealing in its individual parts" and praised Palance and Moreau. Toni Mastroianni (Cleveland Press) called it "Will Penny without the class ".  The film was remade in 2003 with Tom Selleck as Monte Walsh and Keith Carradine in the Jack Palance part. Isabella Rossellini plays the Jeanne Moreau part.  Whether or not you'll enjoy Monet Walsh is probably a function of how you want to see the era of the comboy. Fans of "The Wild Bunch" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", both of which deal with this issue, will probably not find much to enjoy in Monte Walsh. Fans of "Will Penny", "Lonely Are the Brave",  and "The Ballad of Cable Hogue" will probably enjoy this slice of life.

Some strong elements, but ultimately nothing too special There is MUCH to admire about THE DEAD. Howard & Jonathan Ford, the brothers who wrote and directed the movie, took what is obviously a limited budget and still managed to give the film an expansive feel.  The scenery is lovely and appropriately bleak.  There are plenty of decent zombie kills and a couple of gory zombie attacks.  But it's a film with 75 minutes of story stretched too tight over a 105 minutes.  It's frequently repetitive.  And the acting is, at best, adequate.  THE DEAD tells the story of the zombie apocalypse as it has occured in very poor, rural African nation near the coast.  American mercenary/engineer Brian Murphy (Rob Freeman) is trying to escape on an overpacked airplane, but it crashes near the coast line, and a couple of zombie attacks later, he is the only survivor.  He begins to work his way north, where there is rumored to be a military station which offers some security.  He is soon joined on his journey by African soldier Daniel Dembele (Prince David Oseia), who has deserted his troupe in order to find his son after the boy's mother has been killed.  The two are an uneasy, wary pair.  They have motivations that force them to work together, but they never grow comfortable with each other.  They approach things differently.  This is not a "buddy movie"...thank goodness.  The two men, in a VERY rickety pickup, with almost no food or water or ammo, must pick their way across a minefield.  Only this minefield is populated with flesh-eating zombies not metallic landmines.  The African landscape looks lovely and adds a lot to the movie...if nothing else, the location of this zombie movie is unique.  But the scenes of travel, sprinkled with brief zombie encounters, grow tiresome.  And of course, the important question is:  how are the zombies?  They are pretty good.  These are of the slow moving variety, but they are also VERY quiet.  No groaning.  They emerge slowly but suddenly from the tall bushes.  And when they corner someone, they literally fall upon them with mouths wide open.  Ready to bite immediately.  The movie has an appropriate level of gore, but never to the point of being laughable.  The movie also lacks, unfortunately, any truly memorable zombie kill scenes.  Most great zombie movies have at least one or two gruesome moments, either of a zombie killing someone or being killed.  And many also have that great scene where large groups of humans are overrun by an even larger group of zombies (such as the zombies finally breaking into the mall in DAWN OF THE DEAD).  I think the budget of THE DEAD prevented this.  This could be forgive, but the scenes with NO zombies, featuring just humans, are generally fairly flatly performed.  We get lots of scenes of Freeman standing and staring at his surroundings.  Many scenes are shot in slow motion.  Effective when sparingly used, in THE DEAD, they are pace-killing.  Freeman and Oseia are the clearest sign that THE DEAD is very low budget.  It is just too hard not to be aware of how average they are.  If, by some wild chance, THE DEAD had two more dynamic stars...I think the length would have been more tolerable and the emotional impact greater.  But, it's still a decent zombie movie...and if you like zombie movies, that's often good enough.  3 stars.

its ok but no way a fantastic film THE FIRST 17 MIN ARE AWESOME BUT THE REST OF THE FILM IS OK...ITS A GOOD FILM IF U R BORED AND JUST WANT SOMETHING TO WATCH TO PASS TIME....BUT IM A HUGE HALLOWEEN FAN IVE SEEN ALL THE FILMS 10000 TIMES A PIECE AND THE WAY THEY KILLED LAURIE STRODE WAS DISRESPECTFUL TO THE CHARACTER AND THE HARD CARE HALLOWEEN FANS...BUT IF U R A COLLECTOR...BUY THIS FILM JUST FOR THE FIRST 17 MIN

aint the same movie but was ok I love this movie but this version of the movie is totlly different.theres some added scenes in the first half of the movie and they where good but the last 20 or 30 mins of the movie is totlly different,which I didnt like that much,wish this blu ray had both versions on it and wish the blu ray transfer of the picture was better,

Halo effect The acting is so over-the-top that it obscures the average facets of the movie. It's difficult to single out any of the actors. They are all stellar in this work.  From there, it falls off. The dialog is okay but it's also the entire movie. A series of conversations strung together is more suitable for a book than this medium. The plot is prosaic.  If you enjoy great acting, give it a whirl.

How the West Was Won (Widescreen Edition) [VHS] Tape July 2,2011 Disappointing edition; Contains 2-vertical lines at third-points, as though 3-photographs are side-by side, with the center portion a different hue. I saw this movie at a Cinerama theater in 1964. After only 1 hour of viewing, the content of this classic is still good. I do not know if scenes have been omitted by corporate America. The movie and music industries need to leave the originals alone. See the following link to see photos of this new version. [...]

Good as the hype? Super 8(released June/11)gives us the one two punch of Steven Spielberg and Hollywood's flavour of the moment,J.J.Abrams.The hype would certainly lead one to believe this is an instant classic,a truly unforgettable cinematic experience,a movie you will see again and again,et al.Well,if you've been around movies along as I have,the hype becomes just that,alot of words/hot air to inflate something up,that may or may not have a pay day in the end.And the hype today is pretty much the same stuff they've been dishing out since the 20s.Does Super 8 have a long half life?Let's see. The plot gives us a group of kids who love to make movies.Each character has their own raison d'etre,as Spielberg and company make each a stand out in their own right,translation:makes them like us ordinary folks.One is a wanna be movie director with a weight problem,one loves to play with matches and explosives,one likes to act but can't,one has a cop for a father and whose mother just passed away,and into this mix is thrown a young girl whose father doesn't get along with the aforesaid cop. One evening finds the group out at a railroad station filming.A train approaches which will make a fine backdrop for their scene,but something startling will happen.One of them notices a pick up come onto the tracks ahead of the train and deliberately run into it.This causes the train to derail,but the train cars start flying through the air like footballs.By now they have abandoned their camera which has fallen sideways onto the platform but continues to film.In the aftermath they look around at the devastation not believing what just happened,let alone the fact they are all still alive.Suddenly the military approach-ith and the kids ski-doo. The kids have all agreed not to discuss their experience,as the military has the crash scene sewn up.Slowly but surely strange things are a-happening.Dogs,people and equipment are disappearing in the town at an alarming rate,with no apparent explanation.One evening the girl of the group gets snatched up and taken away by a large creature.The boys stumble onto some notes a school professor had accrued over a long period of time,which has a direct bearing on what is happening now.The military interrupts their gathering and takes them all by bus back for interrogation.Along the way the creature attacks and tips the bus over.It kills the military men,but the kids escape.  In the meantime the military has set a deliberate fire which threatens to engulf the entire town.They evacuate its citizens so they can go on the hunt and recapture this alien.It seems they captured it and its' spaceship years before,but the alien has wanted to go home ever since,and now that it is free this is what it intends to do.The remainders of the group drive back to town in an attempt at rescuing the girl,who has been taken down to an underground cavern.Underground,they indeed find the girl and return to the surface.They are just in time to witness the water tower turn into a giant magnet,drawing objects big and small onto it.The creature goes inside the tower,which immediately converts into an alien craft and away he/she/it goes. Does this film live up to its 'classic' hype?.....not by a million light years.I found this film to be quite a boring time,frankly.The only thing classic about this film are the Spielberg touches,such as the attention to detail in the characterizations I mentioned earlier,getting the experiences of youth/young love,etc.from their perspective,feeling the ultimate empathy for the alien,one man,er boy,standing bravely up to and connecting with said alien,and finally no Spielberg picture would be complete without a resolution of the parent/child conflict at the beginning of the film,at the end,coupled with a tender reunion to enhance it all.Ahhhh.Trouble is,by the time this film wraps up I couldn't have cared less who made up with who or that the creature made it safely away,or any of the touchy feely moments Spielberg tried to engender.And speaking of the wrap up,I was actually surprised the ending,WAS the ending.I was expecting more footage of...I don't know what....anything,I guess.The film also takes its sweet time meandering its way through its somewhat cumbersome plot,introducing us all to its characters and locations which must engender within us that"Oh yeah,I remember that time",or the old chestnut"Hey Bob,I used to have a house and car just like that".Yep,that's a Spielberg moment,if ever there was one.Except,this is NOT E.T.,and I mean that in the sense that it doesn't come anywhere close to the quality of that film.And you know while we're on the subject and have Mr Spielberg's attention(he always reads my reviews!),I have just about had it with the portrayal of kids of that age who would NEVER in a million years have talked to each other,let alone their parents,in the fashion they do,without dying a million deaths.He can get the clothes right,the music down pretty good but the precociousness that most of his young characters exhibit,has just got to go,OK Steven? Technically speaking the film is clear and crisp and in its w/s format.There is commentary and two featurettes on the making of the film. All in all a HUGE disappointment.I try not to let the hype into my reviews and/or influence me in any way.In fact I find the more I know,the more skeptical I am about what is to come.I get to a point and become a Missourian..."Show Me".The hype couldn't save this stinker.The pace and the meandering script are way off the beam and all the tricks Spielberg can muster cannot even save the day here.It's another War of the Worlds(2005).Give it a pass.2 1/2-3 stars.

OK if you're 15....... This was kind of interesting.  I'm not 15, or even 30, but the idea of a vampire falling in love interests me.

Funny Thing Is..... I find it funny that most of the people giving this movie 1 or 2 stars make a point of bad mouthing those who are drawn to this type of movie.  Fans of the genre, and yes, there is a genre, will appreciate this movie for what it is.  It's shock value alone is good for a few laughs.  The most important thing to remember is that IT'S NOT REAL!!!!  To those reviewers that wonder how anyone could watch this movie, I have only one thing to say.  You watched it, didn't you?  If you didn't, then why are you reviewing it?  If you don't like these types of movies, don't watch them.  While it wasn't the best movie, it certainly wasn't the worst.  I think movies like Titanic, Gone with the Wind and any remake suck eggs, but that's just my opinion.

Good, just not Great Robert Redford and Brad Pitt are working for the CIA and are also good friends. We never see them together on stage, except through the use of flashbacks. Eventually the flashbacks tell the story, told as "slices of life", as opposed to a plotted theme.  Brad Pitt is captured by the Chinese, tortured, and sent to the same prison where his girl friend was jailed. Robert Redford knows he has only 24 hours to make a deal with his captors, but the political conditions in Washington favor doing nothing. So, Redford takes the initiative and personally arranges for his freedom.  After all was said and done, I think that Pitt allowed himself to be captured to be with his girl friend and knew that his very good friend Redford would find a way to get them out.

Disappointing I have always enjoyed Jillian's videos. They're always hard and I always sweat a lot with them. However, this video wasn't so great. I don't know if I didn't read the reviews as well as I should have, but I didn't like the workout. It seems like there's a lot of yoga moves, which is fine, but I prefer more active moves. I also have issues with my shoulders and there's a lot of floor exercises with planks which I have a difficult time doing. I hate it when I get a video and it doesn't work me as hard as I was expecting or there's moves that I can't do because I'm not flexible. And, what's the point of having a video if you can't do all the exercises? I think the name of this video is a little misleading, it's not extreme shed & shred. Don't get me wrong you will sweat, but I was expecting more.

It's ok I saw part of it on TV and wanted to watch the whole thing. Parts of it are interesting but some is really not believable and just inaccurate. If you like Lifetime movies I'm sure you'll enjoy this.

Lacking in sparkle and wit I waited a long time to get this movie on DVD because it was a family favorite of ours when I was growing up.  We all loved it then.  I remembered it as very clever and in a genre with Breakfast at Tiffany's, Barefoot in the Park, The Apartment.... as a 60s era cool comedy film.  Unfortunately, as with many of these memories from childhood, what was great at 9 years old is just OK now.  I love Burl Ives of course, and while the special effects were exciting for the time (like Mary Poppins when Uncle Albert flies around the room), now it's just kind of nostalgic.  The film lacks great writing.  Probably still good for a group of pre-teens on a Saturday afternoon.

Eh Detention was an okay movie in the "so stupid it's funny" kind of way. I gotta say I just watched it because Josh Hutcherson was in it, if he was the main character I would've liked it better, but that's just me. I wouldn't rent it again though.

Okay Sci-Fi Camp Given the high-powered cast, a healthy budget and top-notch director,this should have been the sci-fi send-up to end all send-ups. Alas, the film becomes mired in its own self-conscious approach. Nonetheless, there are some very funny moments, and Nicholson (in the character of the casino 'mogul'), Pierce Brosnan as the smug science advisor to the President (also played by Nicholson) and Martin Short as the president's press secretary contribute a lot towards the inanity and goin's on in the film. Sarah Jessica Parker's role as the dull-witted TV personality also shines. If you're looking for a chuckle or two then you'll probably like this okay comedy.

Bad movie, though entertaining. Horrible special effects and bad writing, it really should be a movie I'd hate. Maybe it's so bad it's good. There were several plot holes and it really disappointed my expectations. It was pretty much all over the place. One minute the characters are leaving the diner they are trapped in and the next their back in, and everything is pretty hectic. And yet I still found myself enjoying it.  The best thing about it was the guns. Seriously. BADASS!

Not Necessary, but can be Nice This is a great DVD, however it is hard to follow the story until you have read the manga.Five episodes is not enough to cover several mangas'. So it is a bit frustrating to watch because if you haven't read the manga yet you have no idea what is going on. Plus, you only get five episodes out of this DVD, and I'd expect at least 12 episodes, especially because of the cost. They didn't hit all of the cool key points either that are in the manga. So, yes, I love this anime. But I would only buy the first two seasons, then the rest of the manga books from the point it left off.

A little To Bible Belt for Me The movie had good action. However, the characters cause was a bit over the top for me. Reminded me of Jim Bakker of the 1980's.

Enjoyable popcorn movie I really enjoyed this movie.  I liked the fast pace and constant suspense.  I even enjoyed the two lead actors arguing with each other.   One scene really bothered me, watching it the second time.  This is not a spoiler, and I don't want to spoil it for others. But in the middle of the movie, when they put a locomotive in front of the train to try to slow it down, why couldn't they have had a second man hop from the one locomotive to the other, and shut it down?  That seems a lot more safe to me than all of their other attempts to board the runaway train, like trying to jump on it from a helicopter, or from a pickup truck.  Of course that would have ended the movie at that point.  I give it 3.5 stars.  Any movie that employs shaky camera work, automatically loses points with me.  It is an annoying little fad in hollywood movies these days, that I hope will soon fall out of favor.  These producers and directors are not being as realistic as they think.  The next time you see someone riding a bike down a rough road, notice how stable their head is, as their body and bike absorbs most of the shocks.  The only thing a movie accomplishes by shaking the camera, is to make half the audience sick.

Not as impressive as I'd have hoped Having just purchased a 3D television and a 3D Blu-ray player, I needed some material to see just how cool this new technology was.  I bought this video primarily based on the reviews I found here on Amazon and because I wanted to see something -real- that was filmed in 3D, not a cartoon that is, on some level, bound to be unrealistic.  The 3D here was somewhat cool but very artificial looking.  Rather than having fleshed-out dimensionality it looked like a few layers of 2D cutouts presented front-to-back.  Yes, there was depth between objects but the objects themselves had no substance.  I disappointed with the results and thought that perhaps this is a natural limitation of the technology - until I watched the underwater feature of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004SYOYHO">IMAX 3D Triple Feature: Galapagos, Into the Deep, Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs (Blu-ray 3D)</a>, which was just stunning.  Now I realize that the 3D effect just wasn't very natural looking on this disc.  The material is certainly interesting, if not a bit dated.  It's fascinating to see just how -large- the inside of the ISS is and watching people float along with real left-right perspective gives a good sense of scale.  It does seem that the filmmakers overdid the parallax for most of the shots which gives the 3D stage a rather hokey look.  While the subject material is interesting, this wasn't the "3D Demonstration Disc" that I was hoping it would be.

Good movie, flawed dvd. This movie is a classic. However the dvd has two main flaws. The image has been changed to a different ratio...making for a slightly altered image. But overall it is very watchable. The next flaw has to do with the running time. The movie actually runs about 112 minutes (I still have my vhs copy).The dvd runs 5 minutes shorter. The problem I see is from the mastering of the sound. Seems to run a little faster than normal. Both Ali McGraw's and Burt Ward's voices sound a little higher than in the original. If you can look past that, then this is an ok deal. Will just have to wait til someone actually remasters this properly.

The Doctor is in! From the producers of the Final Destination movies comes Autopsy that was released to theaters as part of the 8 Films to Die For during the After Dark Horrorfest III. A group of friends hit a man with their car while they are on their way back from  Mardi Gras. An ambulance soon arrives taking the victim and the group to a strange hospital. To find out, Dr. Benway (played by Robert Patrick) is experimenting with humans at the hospital in an attempt to save his dying wife.  The movie starts out a little slow with average acting for a horror movie. The movie is a splatter-fest with blood and gore around every corner. The doctor isn't afraid to split your stomach open or drill into your skull. I give the director credit for not using CGI special effects. The movie isn't perfect, but it is better than the majority of other torture porn that is out on DVD.

A collection of 3 short B rate horror movies that could have been worse.  Pretty cheesy. I say C "Now I lay me down to rest, but there's a goblin upon my chest.  He's gray and ugly and very gory, and he wants to tell me a deadtime story."  This is a collection of three short horror films.  These are not movies by George Romero, but rather films picked by him for this collection.  One is about Jungle Cannibals, one is about a killer mermaid, and the last one is about a mother who thinks her son is a vampire.  None of these are great, but are good enough to sit through.  If you are expecting the caliber of Romero's movies you will be dissapointed.  They are more along the lines of the "Masters of Horror" or "After Dark" series then anything.  If you are a horror-phile and can't get enough of them then this will be right up your alley.  If your like me and watch them, but find one in about ten good, then I should tell you this is not the one.  Overall, could have been worse, but unless you love horror movies this one is just OK.  Would I watch again? - I don't think I will.  *Also try - The Fangoria Frightfest Series

Denzel D&eacute;j&agrave; Vu Either a major coincidence has occurred every time Denzel was cast for his last 20-something movies where each director successively said to him, "Could you just play the same character you played in your last movie?" or Denzel has just found a character comfort zone that he knows the audience will love every time. And indeed the Denzel character works. The last time I saw Denzel not playing the same character that he was playing in Safe House was all the way back in 1992's Malcolm X (he played Malcolm X).  But still...I was certainly entertained by Safe House. As the story goes, Ryan Reynolds is a green CIA agent house-sitting an empty CIA Safe House in South Africa. But the Safe House isn't empty for long; some agents show up with Denzel in tow as their prisoner, and the action begins when powerful forces show up to make sure that the Safe House is the last place that Denzel ever sees.  All in all, Safe House was a good movie. In a predictable, redundant Hollywood portrayal, the CIA brass are either crooked or idiots. And the movie seemed to run a bit long at almost a full 2 hours. But Safe House is definitely a thriller worthy of your rental queue...at minimum check it out when it comes out on cable or satellite.

READ THIS!!!!  You will like this movie...even if it is unbelievable... You can't give this movie 5 stars...you just can't. It is far from perfect, also it is cliche'.  Oiled up muscle bound guys looking straight out of the gym, hot ladies in slim bikini's, racial jokes, stereotypes, people walking in slow motion while explosions disperse behind them and they are unaffected in their motivational attitude, impossible survival scenes that would kill you 100% of the time, etc.  BUT...if that stuff is what you are looking for or doesn't bother you, this movie is very enjoyable.  There were parts of this movie as a cynic I was like "hey wait a minute".  But after my girlfriend was like "It's just a movie".."just watch it"  I sat back in the theater and thought well then to heck with it and it was very enjoyable.  Like an adult cartoon.  Sure characters:  how they got this and that, where they came from, how they knew this or that and how two cars can drag a few ton safe down the road at speeds other than 3 miles an hour suspend you belief a little too much, its still fun to watch.  Lin is a fantastic director.  Not cookie cuttering a movie together that gives you a headache with repetitive violence and zero interesting story (see he horrid Transformers movie).  He splices the scenes together without using the same rehashed pans and cliche shots and sounds that everyone else uses.  Vin Diesel who honestly is a horrible actor...seriously he is just plan awful has about as much personality and as a stapler and his acting consists of looking like he has to go to the bathroom and flexing in a tank top.  But for this movie that is all that is required.  He is as usual the bad boy with a heart of gold that never loses or gets frustrated when things go wrong and people die.  He shows about as much depth as possible when he sinks his head and in one scene seems to be looking at his biceps while he tries to pass gas.  Such vulnerability, its a wonder he never got past these movies.  The Rock Johnson, is the new addition and does the usual dual bad boy generating a hint of humor with a stone face that has made him likable in any scenario of action or anger.  The Rock has the biggest arms on screen of any of the muscle men in the movie...of course they are oiled up in every shot but its The Rock, who cares.  He also is always sweating, who would have thought a Samoan couldn't take Rio heat.  His character however suffered because he was the more interesting of the angles in the movie but wasn't explored in a manner that would have made this movie a little better.  There is one gap that he is missing from frame for almost 30 something minutes to where you almost forget he is in movie.  Like I said the chicks are hot, the Asian guy eats some kind of bagged item, Luda and Ty make black jokes and impossible things happen which is per order of the movie.  My favorite being how they infiltrated the police station.  After causing a septic problem in the bathroom two good goons pretend to be plumbers and carve a huge part of the cement wall so they can cut into the security mainframe...how did they patch this hole to where it would be undetectable is unknown.  It wasn't even close to the toilets.  Another is the fight between Rock and Vin, busted up faces and bruises vanish as soon as the scene changes to 5 minutes later going down the road in the squad car.  REGENERATION POKEMON!!!  Still I found this movie filmed well and very enjoyable.  It never stalls or drags and never has overkill.  I recommend you get this.

Don't Mess With Tarzan the Wonder Horse! A memorable introduction to Ken Maynard and his famous palomino. One of the cowboy star's best efforts, "Come On, Tarzan" (1932) benefits from an offbeat storyline and Ken's expert riding. Alan James directs in rustic, no-nonsense fashion. Co-star Merna Kennedy was Charlie Chaplin's leading lady in "The Circus" (1928).

Wicker Man gets medieval I watched Black Death and Season of the Witch a week apart, which gives some perspective on what goes right and what goes terribly wrong in both films.  They both share a similar plot: during the Black Plague, holy knights (in both movies, Teutonic Knightss judging from their attire) are sent to retrieve a witch who is to be put on trial for her crimes, a crime tied to the plague.  In Black Death it's a town that avoids the plague and is rumored to bring the dead back to life; in Season of the Witch it's a witch who is believed to have caused the plague. Black Death features Sean Bean as Teutonic Knight Ulric, responsible for marching to the village to bring back the necromancer.  In need of a guide, Ulric drafts novitiate monk Osmund (Eddie Redmayne) into service.  Osmund is in love with Averill (Kimberley Nixon) but has sent her away for fear that she will contract the plague - he joins the quest in the hope of reuniting with her.  Ulric's ratag band of warriors includes Wolfstan (John Lynch), Wolfstan's friend Griff (Jamie Ballard), Dalywag the torturer (Andy Nyman), Mold (Johnny Harris), the mute Ivo (Tygo Gernandt), and chatty Swire (Emun Elliott).  This is one of those Seven Samurai-style films where the audience has to connect with the warriors quickly, so they are each given a signature weapon, combat style, or personality tic.  This is important because they're probably not going to all survive.  Also, it features Sean Bean, so they're all screwed.  SPOILER BEAN: It's become an ironic trope that every character Sean Bean plays is a flawed figure that dies heroically to atone for his sins (see Lord of the Rings, Equilibrium, Games of Thrones).  The village, it turns out, is in fact untouched by the plague.  Hob (Tim McInnerny) seems like the leader, but Langiva (Clarice van Houten) lurks in the background with her modern ideas and her clean hair and makeup. Something else is going on here: Langiva belongs to a tradition predating Christianity.  Black Death is far more interested in testing its protagonist's souls than it is in telling a compelling tale.  As TV Tropes put it, the film pivots on an "idiot ball" - a moment where the character's stupidity fuels the entire plot. The assembled suspicious, hardened warriors do something really stupid that lands them in hot water.  They get what they deserve.  What happens next is either a startling revelation or very predictable. Black Death has a lot in common with The Wicker Man in that it features torture, reversed gender roles, and a test of faith in the face of pagan practices. What Black Death brings to the genre is the strengths and weaknesses of the men as they are slowly picked off one by one.  This is not an uplifting film.  It's also surprisingly cerebral, discounting one gory combat scene. If you're a fan of Sean Bean (or maybe if you aren't) Black Death is worth watching.  Just don't expect to feel good about it later.

Lush and lacking At the end of an epic movie like this, I should be smiling wide enough to split my cheeks. I wasn't.  Charlize Theron is beautiful and poisonous as the queen. Chris Hemsworth is strong and rugged and handsome as the huntsman, although he was a little light on the emotion. The photography was lush and wonderful and perfect for a story like this. The lack is Kristin Stewart.  Kristin Stewart is pretty, but she should never wear her hair slicked back from her face. It makes her look like she has jug ears. That aside, her acting is limited and she made me feel nothing for her. Her wonder was pitiful, her anger forced, her rousing speech pretty lame in delivery, and otherwise, she was just . . . lacking. What this movie needed was a Snow White that would do justice to the rest of the cast and the photography. Kristin Stewart just doesn't have it. I should have been cheering the end of the Queen. Instead, I felt more oh, well, that's over. It was all right. Lukewarm is not what I want from an epic movie and one of my favorite fairy tales.

a viral outbreak produces a variety of monsters... Told in a non-linear manner, featuring video footage of events supposedly shot in real time, The Zombie Diaries (2005) attempts to convey a sense of realism, as it focuses on the adventures of various individuals during some kind of viral outbreak.  More than most movies, viewer expectations may play a greater factor in how much you appreciate the film, which seems quite realistic in some aspects, and totally ridiculous in others.  Those seeking a frenetic heated battle with a vicious hoard of the undead, will be severely disappointed, but if you stick with it to the end, the film may leave you with something more to think about than you typical zombie movie.  Set in Britain, The Zombie Diaries has three segments.  The first, features a film crew shooting a documentary in a small village, lays the foundation for what is to come, as a worldwide outbreak of a virus that reanimates the dead into zombielike creatures, has taken place and has apparently reached Britain.  Segment Two follows a husband and wife, who are travelling in their car, with a hitchhiker.  Cruising through rural areas, armed with a gun, they attempt to scavenge what they can from the surrounding towns.  Segment Three concerns a group of survivors living on a farm.  They are organized and armed, and conduct daily sweeps to kill any zombies in the area.  Unfortunately the danger is not confined to external sources.  This segment ties up some loose ends, and sets up thing for the sequel, The Zombie Diaries 2.  An entire film consisting of live action video is something of a double edged sword.  Image quality often isn't the greatest, and the shaky images become a drag after a while.  On the plus side, the story itself has a certain edge of realism, as there aren't the traditional camera cuts, and the action is often happening in a continuous take, and the acting flows along in real time.  The results are kind of a mixed bag, with some seeming real and natural, and others not so much.  While the live video aspect is very realistic in terms of capturing actual events, there are times, such as when danger arises, where the premise that someone would still be shooting video at that time, isn't very credible.  The movie is also realistic in regards to how people might really behave in such a crisis, as humans are not always cooperative or benevolent.  People are certainly capable of noble and heroic behavior, but when the force of law no longer exists, there are certainly those whose dark side will emerge in order to survive.  The Zombie Diaries is scary for its depiction of the undead, but that's nothing new.  What is perhaps the more shocking and memorable element of the film, is that the most horrible creatures, the ones committing the most heinous depraved acts, are in fact human.  This is not very pleasant to contemplate, and may be why the film is not very well regarded.  However, it is because The Zombie Diaries may give rise to some thought, that it may resonate so profoundly with some.

I love Vera Farigma She's a really good actress. Not featured a lot in this movie but she steals the scenes she is in. This movie was pretty entertaining.

Strictly for Glee fans, but has some very nice fan interviews It's important to understand up front that Glee: The 3D Concert Movie is really just for fans of the TV show. Anyone else will either find it just mildly entertaining or else be left wondering what the fuss is all about. A good example of this can be seen in interviews with various fans waiting to get into the concert. A number of them are wearing white T-shirts with different words and phrases printed on them in block letters. Anyone who hasn't seen the "Born This Way" episode of the TV show isn't going to get the context. Particularly of the shirts bearing the word "Lebanese".  The best parts of the show are in fact the ones dealing with the fans, both in the brief interviews with the fans waiting to get into the concert and with the in-depth interviews of four fans in particular: Janae, a high school cheerleader who's also a "little person"; Trenton, a gay teen who was outed in the 8th grade; Josey, a girl who's the ultimate Glee fan who also has mild Asperger's; and Kellen Sarmiento, a pint-sized 5-year-old Filipino boy in a Warbler uniform who mimics Blaine's music moves. All of these people are fascinating to listen to, or in the case of "the Mini-Warbler" as he's now generally referred to, cute to watch.  But this is a concert film, and I'm afraid here even fans of the show may be somewhat disappointed. As my wife remarked afterwards, most of the numbers in the concert weren't done as well as they were in the TV show. The actual music numbers are a mixed bag. Most, like "Don't Stop Believin'", "The Safety Dance" and "Somebody to Love", are ones already familiar to fans from the TV show, but unfortunately not done as well as they were in the TV show (which admittedly is always a challenge in a concert film where you can't do multiple takes). A few numbers do stand out though. Brittany (Heather Morris) definitely turns up the heat a notch in "I'm a Slave 4 U", and Puck (Mark Salling) really revs up the crowd with his guitar-accompanied rendition of "Fat Bottomed Girls". I'm sure everyone will have their own favorites - already had one comment from a Santana (Naya Rivera) fan who really liked Santana's "Valerie" - but these were the ones that stood out for me.  Mercedes (Amber Riley) comes through with her usual gusto and clarity but her numbers unfortunately aren't that memorable. The same for Rachel (Lea Michele) who almost makes it with her rendition of "Don't Rain on my Parade" but the arrangement fails to make the best use of her marvelous voice. She did however have one of the funnier backstage bits where, before she goes on, someone tells her that Barbra Streisand is in the audience and she proceeds to panic and gush about how she always knew this day would come! Mike Chang (Harry Shum, Jr) has a nice bit where he does his "Robot Chang" routine, but otherwise it's clear that he's really a dancer (a really good dancer, to be fair) and not a singer.  The rest of the cast are there and most have numbers but don't really make much of an impact. Artie (Kevin McHale) spends a lot of his backstage time apparently trying to do a Justin Bieber impression. The Warblers numbers seemed uninspired and went on way too long. But the biggest (and strangest) disappointment was Kurt (Chris Colfer) who seemed more comfortable in the background singing back-up than when he was doing a duet or solo number, where he seemed almost detached and lacking his usual flamboyance and panache. He also seemed to have the least to say in the parts where the camera goes backstage. I've been told though that the DVD/Blu-ray release will include a couple of numbers and scenes with him that were left out of the movie itself as extras.  I think the key problem is that what Glee fans love about the TV show are the characters, and most of the songs in the TV show take on a special meaning because of the context they appear in, relating to the events in each episode's storyline and the lives and feelings of the characters we have gotten to know. But in the concert, all of that context is largely missing. There's no real story (other than the conceit that we're seeing the characters in concert and not the actors who play them) and little if any interaction between the characters, and so the songs lose the context they had in the TV episodes.  As for the 3D part, as it is with most 3D movies of the last few years, there was _no_ reason to make this a 3D movie. The only part of the film where the 3D has anything to offer is during the credits when the screen is bombarded with CGI slushies. It's definitely a nice touch, but doesn't justify the use of 3D for the entire film.  Strangely, Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch), who can be seen snarling in a couple of remarkably funny bits in the movie trailers, was not in the concert film itself. She will however be showing up on the DVD/Blu-ray when it comes out. Also strangely, occasional substitute teacher Holly Holiday (Gwyneth Paltrow) makes an appearance in the film but series regular Will Shuester (Matthew Morrison) does not. I particularly missed Mr. Shue as Morrison puts enormous energy and feeling into his performances in the TV show and is just a lot of fun to watch.  Recommended mainly for for Glee fans, particularly those who like to hear other Glee fans tell their stories, and for fans of Brittany and Puck in particular for their stand-out numbers.

Not bad This movie was a little different then the first From Dusk Till Dawn. I enjoyed it, I think the ending was weird. The first From Dusk Till Dawn is much better.

Not Quiet On the Blu-Ray Front But Still Better Than the Standard DVD! This is one of my favourite films of all time and it is certainly one of the best anti-meaningless war films ever.  If ever a film makes a strong case for war only as a very last resort, this one certainly ranks very highly indeed.  I had this on standard dvd and both the picture and sound qualities were terrible but I was able to forgive that at the time considering that it was released only 3 years after the very first talkie "The Jazz Singer" was released.  And so you can imagine my anticipation when I learned that a remastered version on 1080p Blu ray was going to be released and so I couldn't wait to pop the blu ray disc into my player when I first got this.  Overall, this release is a mixed bag for me.  I like the digibook which is something I have always liked about blu rays and helps me to decide to double dip but I don't like the redundant standard dvd which makes the package unnecessarily bulky and is a waste as since I've upgraded to a Blu ray player, why the heck would I want a dvd?  The picture quality is a vast improvement over my previous standard dvd version but the sound quality is extremely noisy with tons of hiss which does distract a lot.  The BD-Live is useless because it really is just a vehicle for the studios to show you trailers of other films and this feature clearly has a lot of potential yet to be exploited.  The silent version of the film is a nice bonus.  Too bad the DTS 2 Channel Mono MA is so hissy during the spoken scenes and is certainly an area to be addressed before the inevitable next release.  Still, on the strength of the vastly improved picture quality and the silent film bonus, this is probably the best version of the film that is currently out there.  Don't expect much from the spoken dialogue parts though.

Godzilla Gets His Green Card! 3 1/2 Stars = Very Good  "Godzilla" could do with out the corny love sub-story, & a few other corny things, but I really liked it. All the Japanese "Godzilla's" except the first & by far the best, had corny love stories & a multitude of idiotic film making, but I loved them!  "Godzilla" is my favorite monster. I think the main reason so many hated the US remake was it was more of a remodel than a remake. It had little in common with the Japanese films, & that made all the true green scaled "Godzilla" lovers tempers go radioactive!  So be it.

Living in Harmony with Nature Bird of Paradise, 1932 film  A sailing ship approaches a harbor with a shallow passage. The natives paddle their canoes to investigate. They seem friendly. Then a shark arrives! A man is pulled overboard, but he is saved when a woman cut the rope from his ankle. The Medecine Man feeds the volcano to keep it from erupting. [Others believe a certain level of unemployment is needed for prosperity.] The visitors eat poi and pulpo. There is a dance and music for entertainment. Did a sailor break a taboo? They return to the ship. There are scenes of underwater swimming. [A technical advance?] Johnny decided to stay on the island, they will pick him up when they return. Johnny has an outboard motor on his boat. The arrival of flying fish creates a festival.  Johnny and Luanna go into the bushes and are caught. "Happy carefree people?" Can Johnny capture a pig? There is a parade in the village. Luanna is given a cup to drink and then taken away. Johnny is tied to a tree and left behind. Freed, he trades for a canoe. The natives dance. Luanna dances in a circle of fire. An intruder disturbs their ritual! Johnny and Luanna are on an island. [Food and shelter?] They communicate. Johnny climbs a coconut tree. They build a house. Fish are speared for food. They have a goat. Luanna tells about the volcano and P&eacute;l&eacute; [the god of fire]. One day the volcano smokes. Can it be appeased with a sacrifice? The natives beat a drum to send a message. Johnny captures a sea turtle, then returns to find Luanna gone! Johnny follows. There is a threat from a whirlpool, but Johnny escapes. Hot lava flows to the sea. Johnny is captured by the natives and tied up next to Luanna. What will their fate be? Sacrificed to P&eacute;l&eacute;?  They kiss goodbye. The people carry them away. Suddenly there is a shot! Then another! This is strange magic! The pair are rescued by the return of that ship. But the Chief calls for the return of Luanna, and she agrees to follow the rules she was taught. She says goodbye to Johnny to return to her people. The flaming volcano foretells her fate.  This movie was followed by numerous parodies, like that Abbott & Costello movie, and radio programs in the 1940s. Is it barbaric to sacrifice people in order the appease the gods and restore prosperity to society? Does this only happen with primitive people? Christian missionaries may have ended the practice of human sacrifice in some places.

WARNING: This movie will make you complicit in a very guilty viewing pleasure. Have you ever marvelled at a Meatball Machine, fallen in love with a Robo-Geisha, cheered for the Mutant Girls Squad or even watched slack jawed at the political incorrectness of Vampire Girl Vs Frankenstein Girl? If you answered yes to any of this, then it's just the movie for you.  With AV Superstar Sasa Handa leading the cast (I was unsure what AV Superstar meant exactly but 30 minutes in it became pretty clear) this movie prides itself on the amount of exploitation it manages to wrench from its unbeatable comination of a Girls Swim Team + Sasa Handa + Zombies . With a smaller budget than the likes of Meatball Machine or Mutant Girls Squad it does share the same level of unhinged imagination and the burning desire to entertain through an outlandish story told in the most excessive way possible with extra ketchup.

Charming A charming and appealing film with a theatrical feel. I think lots of tweens will relate to the three girls who have dreams that they strive for and have to learn how to achieve them when messy life gets in the way. This movie reminds me of the American Girl stories. I'm impressed with the young actress Yasmin Paige as Petrova; she shows remarkable talent. I found myself bored even though the pacing moved at a remarkable speed. Basically, I was entertained for an hour and twenty minutes but it's a forgettable film.

The Dictator. There are only two or three lines which will make you laugh. Stupidly offensive humor. See this only if you like wasting money.

Know this... This creature's name is Zilla, and was featured in Godzilla the Final Wars. The real Godzilla beat the mississippi out of Zilla and fried him like a turkey with his hot breath. Just so you know... he was beat up by the Original. Beats me why producers decided to go with this version of computer generated monster- but the story was okay so I gave it 3stars. I own it, it completes my collection.

Twilight so far... I bought this for my teenager who loved these books. She has lost alot of interest along the way if that says anything.

3.5 stars Open Window looks like a made-for-television film,but it tackles a traumatic event with relative nuance. Soon after a professor Peter (Joel Edgerton) proposes to his photographer girlfriend Izzy (Robin Tunney), she is raped by an intruder. Izzy slips into depression and gradually exposes the truth to friends and family. The movie is unusual in that it tracks the reactions of those around her, showing that they, too, are in a kind of shock. Even the best friends misread the situation or don't know what to say.  The script is also ambitious in its exploration of how a violation can bring up past griefs. We see both Izzy's and Peter's strained relationships with their parents and catch glimpses of their professional lives. Robin Tunney is very believable, and Joel Edgerton gives a relatively sensitive performance. Unfortunately, Izzy's obnoxious mother (Cybill Shepherd) comes across as a caricature, though she eventually reveals hidden layers. Izzy's father (Elliott Gould) is more kindhearted but rather lackluster. Several awkwardly acted scenes are further dulled by the bland cinematography. I won't even ask how the young couple can afford such remarkable housing.  The film might have an air of mediocrity, and it doesn't exactly punch you in the gut. Nonetheless, it is an improvement over, for example, David Schwimmer's supposedly true to life film Trust (2010) which busts myths about sexual assault with remarkable heavy-handedness. Open Window is an unexpectedly subtle and realistic portrayal of the complicated recovery after a terrifying attack.

where's the 5.1 i just viewed That Thing You Do expecting a 5.1 or dts sountrack but to my surprise there was neither. all it had was a dolby 5.0. it sounded allright but the reason i bought this version was for the dts sound track. the info on the back of case i have stated dolby 5.0 not the dolby 5.1 and dts as stated on the That Thing You DO Amazon web page information on contents of the dvd. i feel i've been lied to. i refer to this alot when buying my movies. what i want to know, is there a copy out there with a 5.1 and dts soundtrack or do i have a different copy of the same movie. This refers to the new Tom Hank's extended cut

Great pilot, boring season This first season was boring as heck. I can't understand why it would go into a second or third season... unless a whole bunch of rednecks made it. Oh, I guess it's on FOX, so that makes sense. The pilot episode was awesome, but every episode since then has been pretty stupid - not as much gunplay as you'd hope for and a lot of old cliche romance BS that always ruins a good man show. It's entertaining enough that I don't fall asleep in my recliner, but I wish I would have spent the $20 on something a tad more exciting.  I also think this show has a political agenda, and since it's on FOX, that shouldn't surprise anyone. Here's the picture it paints: It's cool to be a redneck. The Confederate flag is cool. It's cool to drink alcohol all the time. It's cool to talk like you're from Dixie. And, it's cool to treat women like objects. I don't know about you, but I'm hoping a whole lot of people don't start talking like rednecks and wearing cowboy hats because of this show.  Sure, the show has its one token black female deputy marshal, so its creators can say they're not racist, but who do they think they're fooling?  And, one last thing: You would think that a major network like FOX could afford to shoot a TV action/drama in real settings, right? Then, why is almost every interior car scene obviously done using CGI and a green screen? Every background scene you see in this show, of the traffic and trees whizzing by during an interior car scene is fake. It's a well-done fake, but you can still tell it's fake, and that just feels cheap.

Decent I admit that I was tense and on the edge of my seat during this movie. I think it helps that I never read the novel or watched the movies that this story is based on. The computer effects of the Dark Seekers and the animals are not lifelike which annoys me. I liked the beginning when Robert is just trying to survive with his dog, Sam. Will Smith did a good job showing his desperation during his three-year isolation. All in all, the movie is predictable. The extras are subtitled.

Well, the Music is Terrific, and Paris is Pretty You could never get away with making a movie like this today, more's the pity. The blue-noses would be shouting about child molesters and who knows what all. But it was set in Paris, and that was adequate excuse in 1958. We all know the French are different.  Leslie Caron plays Gigi, a girl of perhaps sixteen. Her age is never made clear, but she's treated as a schoolgirl. Maurice Chevalier sets the tone at the outset by singing "Thank Heaven for Little Girls," a song which has since been taken as rather disgusting, a dirty old man admitting that he enjoys watching little girls. We never see Gigi's mother at all, only her grandmother and her aunt, both apparently never married and much loved when they were young. Mother was apparently never married, either, but all we know of her is her voice, practicing light opera in her bedroom.  Grandmama (Hermione Gingold) was once in love with Chevalier. They sing the charming song, "I Remember It Well," long before the term Alzeimer's Disease was invented. But Chevalier has a permanent place in my heart for another song for us old folk, "I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore." If I could meet a gentleman that charming, I'd be glad, too.  This movie was made back in the days when girls did often marry quite young, so the tension in the story was whether she would become Louis Jourdan's mistress (who wouldn't?) or his wife. The French really are different, after all. It's a Catholic country, so marriage is a much bigger deal than in a country like the US, where divorce is almost taken for granted.  Well, the outcome isn't much of a surprise. A remake might have the grandmother and aunt sound at least a little ashamed of so aggressively promoting the idea of Gigi being a mistress rather than a wife. But then, as I have said, you couldn't make this movie today. I'm sorry I can only give this movie three stars.

Predictable and stereotypical but an ok watch if you are not expecting something deep Well, I will start with the good and then cover the bad.  The plot is good. The film starts with Sara Matthews (Minka Kelly)  arriving at her new university, going to her new room and awaiting the arrival of her new roommate. Sara makes friends quickly with a few party girls and gets invited to a frat party where she catches the eye of Stephen (Cam Gigandet), a frat boy and drummer in a band. When she returns to her room, her roommate Rebecca (Leighton Meester) has arrived. Rebecca appears to be a social misfit and does not seem to want to become friends with anyone other than Sara, who she quickly becomes possessive of and obsessed about. Gradually she begins to harm anyone else in Sara's life who appears to be either getting in the way of Rebecca's friendship with her or upsetting Sara. These include Stephen, who has very quickly become Sara's boyfriend, Sara's party-girl friend Tracy (Alyson Michalka), her gay and somewhat promiscuous fashion mentor, Irene (Danneel Harris), and her lecherous design professor (Billy Zane). Oh, and Cuddles the kitten.  Sara starts to become suspicious of Rebecca's behaviour after she meets Rebecca's parents who are concerned about and frightened by Rebecca. More people get hurt and eventually, Sara and Rebecca confront.  So the plot is good. The suspense is also good. Yes the film is predictable but it is not too gory, certainly not the least bit difficult to understand, and makes sense for the most part. The acting of the two lead characters, Sara and Rebecca, is also quite good and believable.  The bad: the film seems to rush along faster than it makes sense. A little bit more lead in to the roommate's obsession with Sara would be more believable. The other characters are boring and stereotyped; the boyfriend spends most of his time squinting and trying to look cool, the friends Irene and Tracy seem to have nothing to their characters. I liked Billy Zane and would have liked to see a bigger part for him. Even the part where Tracy seduces him to damage his reputation is not believable because the film rushes through that. The portrayal of college life was also completely stereotypical.  I agree with another reviewer's statements: If you're looking to kill some time with a fun movie..this is for you! If you are looking for something with substance, depth, originality, plot, and a storyline that keeps you enthralled to the bitter end...keep it moving this isn't your cup of tea!  I was just looking to kill time with an ok movie so it achieved that purpose. But I wouldn't watch it again.

Fun Wisconsin Culture I enjoyed the movie, which takes place in Door County Wisconsin.  I am from nearby Illinois and vacation frequently in Wisconsin. It is a different culture and it was fun to see it portrayed in the movie.  There were a couple of scenarios that I thought were a bit unlikely and silly, but overall it was an OK Rom-com.

Entertaining Beautiful to watch, but a little boring.  I was entertained, but didn't go 'wow that was good' at the end.

Leaves You hanging This movie really gives you the prospective from the "illegal's" view.  I enjoyed the movie but the movie just ends!  No closure whatsoever.  Does make you think on a new level.  The ending is especially unsettling due to the turmoil currently going on in Syria.  Makes you really question the characters' wellbeing.

Light, Romantic Fare Anastacia (Elizabeth Taylor) is a successful dance teacher who ventures to the city for a dance conference. Her mother (Josephine Hutchinson) hurts her ankle and cannot go, so Anastacia is free to do as she pleases. When she meets Jud Parker (Larry Parks), her thoughts aren't on dance lessons, and she skips the conference to be romanced. When the week is over, she expects the relationship will continue, but Jud lets her know that he had a great time while it lasted, but he is in no mood for marriage.  Heartbroken and ashamed, Anastacia enlists her father's help to trap Jud into marriage, and he slowly succumbs to her charms.  A pleasant, although not entirely memorable movie, Love is Better Than Ever features a very good cast in a mediocre story, but who is complaining when Elizabeth Taylor is on the screen for an hour and a half?

Little long for a cool story I liked the movie alot and thought over all it was very well done. I did however find it a bit long and drawn out and thought it could have been either shorter or had a bit more action.

It put a spell on me Have seen worse westerns with a twist...not sorry I watched/rented it, but don't think it will end up in my library. Overall 3 stars, mostly for the cast as Mr. Hex seemed to be a perfect fit for the role.

Sharon Stone's Performance Highlights Good but Flawed Film. "Casino" is an interesting film in many respects but it has several weaknesses. Let's start with the good: the portrait of 1970's Las Vegas is fascinating and Director Martin Scorsese  has the details perfected - right down to the clothes, home decor, and music. Scorsese and Nicolas Pileggi introduce an interesting array of characters, from Casino Director Ace (Robert Deniro), Mob Hit Guy Nicky (Joe Pesci), Vegas hooker Ginger (Sharon Stone), and sleazy pimp Lester (James Woods), among others. A stone-faced Don Rickles plays the Casino manager. This is a standard Scorsese film of excess, greed, and downfall -  and that's the problem. "Casino" seems like a film we've seen before, notably "Goodfellas," with enough head-bashing and F-bombs to more than fill the near 3-hour running time. At times, the story plods along until some bit of drama shakes things up. There are too many secondary characters that are not developed and seem insignificant. The performances are mixed: DeNiro plays Ace Rothstein as something of a victim, which is not what he does best. Pesci, in a bad wig, does a retread of his "Goodfellas" role and his grating voice and obnoxious mannerisms are not an asset. Stone gives the best performance of the film - and of her career. She is spot-on as an addict in denial headed for a dead end. This, and some interesting details, make this a good but not great film.

for the Blu-ray - five stars for the film.  This is a disappointing blu-ray release from the normally exemplary Criterion.  What we have here is the 1959 reconstruction of the film conservatively cleaned up.  But the fact is, the 1959 reconstruction is in need of some very up to date digital restoration.  This would be a major job and Criterion has not attempted it. One obvious example:  the 1959 reconstruction was assembled from multiple prints, since the original camera negative was apparently destroyed.  So there are many variations in brightness and contrast.  These could be evened out with a digital restoration.  Although this blu-ray is certainly the best version available at present for home viewing, a side by side comparison on a 42" monitor showed barely perceptible differences from the 2004 Criterion issue.  An upgrade to the blu-ray is recommended only if you have a 60"+ HDTV or a DLP projector.  Let's hope some financing can be found soon for a true, state of the art digital restoration.

What might have been This is by no means a bad film. The settings and photography are great, the acting, especially that of Anthony Hopkins, is decent and the story isn't bad; there are some nice touches of humor and a clever little twist just before the end.  The only trouble is that everything the movie has to say could be easily said in 100 minutes. Instead it drags on for three hours, with long periods where nothing much happens. This is really self-indulgence on the part of the director. I'm guessing he was aiming at 'art' instead of the nice little story it should have been.  It's better to watch on DVD than it was in the theater, because you can fast forward through the tedious bits. No doubt that is why it has been a bigger success as home entertainment than it was in release. Watch it, but keep that remote handy.

"Love is thin ice" During the second wind of her film career after the huge scandal of the Johnny Stompanato stabbing, Lana Turner made a series of very glossy, very odd melodramas: IMITATION OF LIFE, PORTRAIT IN BLACK, BY LOVE POSSESSED, MADAME X, and this very strange film about wealthy American women and their gigolos in Acapulco. One of the gigolos washes up dead on the beach, and because he wears a gold bracelet (with the engraved inscription from my review title) from his former lover/keeper Turner, the attention of both the police and the gigolo's wholesome Michigan girlfriend (Stefanie Powers) focuses on Turner. The suggestion that murder might be involved makes the film seem initially much more interesting than it actually turns out to be: mostly it's just lots of anguish and misery being paraded before our eyes along with the beefcake and swimsuits. While Turner's wealthy socialite character is supposed to be the most miserable among the wealthy and suntanned (thanks to her inability to bear children or be loved), Cliff Robertson, as her former kept boy promoted to her husband, acts the most glum. Only Hugh O'Brian, as a cheerfully mercenary "beach boy," seems to be having any fun at all, and so he commands all attention whenever he's onscreen.  Besides him, the only reason to see the film are Turner's fabulous mid-century Acapulco hacienda and her magnificent constantly changing wardrobe from Edith Head, which mostly involves swimsuits with gauzy capes and color-coordinated jewelry. As for La Turner herself, she's there to be gazed upon in all her wooden majesty, and though as always she can be quite stunning when at her most iconic (such as in the terrific opening sequence near the beginning, when she unemotionally hears the news of her ex-lover's death while sprawled out on a lavender lounge-chair on her yacht's deck), she shows her usual touching inadequacy in her "heavy" acting scenes. The strangest/best part of the movie involves Turner and Powers switching into bizarre vaquero outfits (with jaunty wide-brimmed hats) to watch the bullfights before someone (you'll of course guess who) winds up gored multiple times in the film's heavy-handed climax.

Sorry, I tried, But Just Could Not Get Into it The voices are impeccable.  I actually bought it for Adam Pascal because I am a huge fan.  Even though it was great to see and hear him on the DVD, still, the story is bland, the music is so-so, and no matter how I tried to get into it, I just could not.  The first time, I made it to an hour and had to turn it off.  The second time, I made it all the way through, but had to stop it several times, go do other stuff, and return to it.  It just did not keep me focused or interested.  I don't know what the hub-bub was about this show, but it's one I would not pay to see in the theatre.  I suppose, also, it's because the actual game of chess bores me so.  I played it with my brother when I was a kid and lost interest quickly.  So, the story of two competitive chess players is just, well, boring to me.  But I have friends who loved the show.  Who knows.  Maybe in a few years when I watch it again, it may blow me away.  It happened with several other plays and musicals.  This one could be on the "how could I have not liked this one?" list.

Attractive Shell - Hollow Interior I had to see Lana Turner with Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. or the other way around. It was a curiosity - superstar with very moderate actor. No doubt, Zimbalist has the GQ looks and a wonderful speaking voice, but very limited acting range.. He was at the peak of the popularity of "77 Sunset Strip" at this time. In that, he mainly had to be cool with a certain superior air. There were some lively characters about him to offset. Then, in the middle of his FBI series (sober, taciturn type there), he co-starred in "Wait Until Dark" with Audrey Hepburn. Same as here - just basically filled the suit. Saw he did some stage work early on and worked steadily through the decades, while others with his level of talent faded away. He was fortunate in his TV projects.  But this is a typical melodrama, popular during this era, especially with Turner. Everyone was at some stage of pathetic. That would except the Thomas Mitchell character, who was a breath of fresh air. They could have called this "All Fall Down and Can't Get Up."  It really needed to go through several rinse cycles to clear out all the suds. The visuals were the stars:  stately homes, well appointed rooms, rich paneling, beautiful fall trees,. One reviewer trying to make the best of it commented that at least these drab folks had colorful backdrops.  There have been other films with the same deficits as this one that have managed to come across. Sometimes the higher caliber actors can pull it out, and there were some of those here. Unfortunately, it didn't happen.  Someone must have called for flat line, and they all adhered. The simultaneous reconciliations at the end were so low on the meter, they hardly registered. This one lacked a pulse from beginning to dead end.

A Classic Film,Cropped To Fit Your TV This is a classic film,which deserves a five star rating.But anyone interested in seeing it as it was originally filmed may want to hold onto their older DVD copy.As Amazon notes here,Bullitt was shot in the 2.40 to 1 aspect ratio,which means there should still be the usual black bars on a 16x9 set.Instead,Warner Video cropped the ends off to fill the screen.It's still a fantastic film,and the image quality is fine,but... If I had known,I probably would not have bought it.

Another Animated Movie So the first animated Resident Evil movie was good, this was not quite there, but thoroughly enjoyable.  I recommend this to any other Resident Evil fans!

Yawn Vampires and Witches. Enough said.  I expected lots of Supernatural scares, but it boils down to Vampires and Witches.  Could be better.

4 for the movie, 2 for the Blu-Ray Ugh.  So the only good things I can say about the Blu-Ray version of "Annie" is that it's widescreen and has better picture quality than the previous version of the DVD, and it's not expensive.  I bought this one because our daughter loves the movie, but the DVD version looks so bad on a HD HDMI TV. The DVD picture is god-awful really.  I was hoping the Blu-Ray would solve that. Well it doesn't really. While the video is now 16:9, the quality is just still not up to Blu-Ray standards. You know when you've gotten a classic, and they go back to the film and remaster it and it looks awesome on Blu-Ray? Well they didn't do that here. But to be fair it is much, much better than the DVD version.  And for a "30th Anniversary Edition!" they added 2 things- "Sing-Along with Annie" which consists of, you guessed it, the portion of the movie with the song with subtitles. Lame. And the Ultraviolet version.  Other than that, you still get the Aileen Quinn look-back from the regular DVD, as well as the laughably terrible "Hard-Knock Life" remake by "Play". Terrible.  So, if you want widescreen and better picture quality, then buy it, but if you're expecting the stops pulled out, especially in light of the Broadway revival, don't.

The Searchers This was a great movie, although it was suppose to be the story of Cynthia Ann Parker's re-capture, it did not cover the entire story as I was told it would.

Could of included more WCW matches THE BIG SHOW - A GIANT'S WORLD DOCUMENTARY  - MEET THE PARENTS  - "YOU'RE THE BIG SHOW"  - THE ROCK IS FIRST CLASS  - SMACKDOWN - OCTOBER 28 1999 BIG SHOW VS. THE DUMPSTER  - SMACKDOWN - NOVEMBER 11 1999 DEARLY DEPARTED  - RAW - APRIL 3 2000 BIG SHOW THE ENTERTAINER  - THE BIG FATHER  - SMACKDOWN - APRIL 15 2004 BIG SHOW VS. TORRIE WILSON'S CAR  - SMACKDOWN - MARCH 24 2005 BIG SHOW VS. THE JEEP  - TRIPLE H ROASTS BIG SHOW  - KENNY IN KNUCKLEHEAD  - LIFESTYLE CHANGE  - BIG SHOW VS. EVERYONE  - HALLOWEEN HAVOC - OCTOBER 29 1995 THE GIANT VS. HULK HOGAN - MONSTER TRUCK SUMO MATCH  - HALLOWEEN HAVOC - OCTOBER 29 1995 THE GIANT VS. HULK HOGAN - WCW WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH  - NITRO - APRIL 29 1996 THE GIANT VS. RIC FLAIR - WCW WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH  - SLAMBOREE - MAY 19 1996 THE GIANT VS. STING - WCW WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH  - GREAT AMERICAN BASH - JUNE 16 1996 THE GIANT VS. LEX LUGER - WCW WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH  - RAW - MARCH 22 1999 BIG SHOW VS. "STONE COLD" STEVE AUSTIN  - RAW - JUNE 7 1999 BIG SHOW VS. THE UNDERTAKER - WWE CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH  - SURVIVOR SERIES - NOVEMBER 14 1999 BIG SHOW VS. TRIPLE H VS. THE ROCK - TRIPLE THREAT MATCH FOR THE WWE CHAMPIONSHIP  - BACKLASH - APRIL 30 2000 BIG SHOW VS. KURT ANGLE  - SURVIVOR SERIES - NOVEMBER 17 2002 BIG SHOW VS. BROCK LESNAR WWE CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH  - BACKLASH - APRIL 27 2003 BIG SHOW VS. REY MYSTERIO  - NO MERCY - OCTOBER 19 2003 BIG SHOW VS. EDDIE GUERRERO - UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH  - SMACKDOWN - SEPTEMBER 9 2004 BIG SHOW RETURNS  - NO MERCY - OCTOBER 3 2004 BIG SHOW VS. KURT ANGLE  - TABOO TUESDAY - NOVEMBER 1 2005 BIG SHOW & KANE VS. LANCE CADE & TREVOR MURDOCH - WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH  - NEW YEAR'S REVOLUTION - JANUARY 8 2006 BIG SHOW VS. TRIPLE H  - ECW - JULY 4 2006 BIG SHOW VS. ROB VAN DAM - ECW CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH  - SUMMERSLAM - AUGUST 20 2006 BIG SHOW VS. SABU - ECW CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH  - RAW - MARCH 10 2008 THE OFFICIAL WEIGH-IN FOR WRESTLEMANIA XXIV  - WRESTLEMANIA XXIV - MARCH 30 2008 BIG SHOW VS. FLOYD MAYWEATHER - NO DISQUALIFICATION MATCH  - SMACKDOWN - APRIL 10 2009 BIG SHOW VS. KO FI KINGSTON  - RAW - APRIL 20 2009 BIG SHOW VS. REY MYSTERIO  - HELL IN A CELL - OCTOBER 4 2009 BIG SHOW & CHRIS JERICHO VS. BATISTA & REY MYSTERIO - UNIFIED WWE TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH  - RAW - FEBRUARY 8 2010 TRIPLE THREAT ELIMINATION MATCH FOR THE UNIFIED WWE TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP - BIG SHOW & THE MIZ VS. TRIPLE H & SHAWN MICHAELS VS. CM PUNK & LUKE GALLOWS  - SUMMERSLAM - AUGUST 15 2010 BIG SHOW VS. CM PUNK, LUKE GALLOWS & JOSEPH MERCURY - 3-ON-1 HANDICAP MATCH  - EASTER EGG: THE END OF JERISHOW

amusing, and all fiction This movie, and the book it came from, will never be shown in Thailand, as it is very much at variance with how the Thais recall things.  OK, this is charming, it's just not real.  The author, Anna, was a tutor in Thailand, but seems to have fantasized a good part of her story.  Good Hollywood fare, and of course Hollywoodized into fiction.

Disppointing movie with an anti-climatic punchline I had high hopes for this movie, particular given the acting talent involved.  I kept waiting for the pace to pick up, but it just kind of plods along.  Some great ideas but poor execution.  Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie manage to keep the viewers interest despite the pedestrian pacing.  I think if lesser actors were involved, this thing could have been unwatchable. Angelina Jolie in particular looks amazing in every scene.  I liked the movie just because of her and because it is set mostly in Venice. Could have been so much better.

It's a Kevin Smith movie As is the title to this review if you know Kevin Smith you know what your getting with this movie. In saying this it has foul language,sexual innuendos, drug references, and drug imagry. As I have said in many other reviews of Kevin Smith movies, if you enjoy his stuff then this movie is hilarious. This is pure adult comedy that harkens back to Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy. Anyone who rates this movie bad just really didn't understand what they were going to watch or what type of movies Kevin Smith makes.

Kaurism&auml;ki's sparsest and most overtly political film Aki Kaurismaki's 1990 film TULITIKKUTEHTAAN TYTT&Ouml; (The Match Factory Girl) caps a loose trilogy where the Finnish auteur explored the tribulations of lower-class lonely hearts. This Amazon listing describes a standalone DVD, but you can now get this film along with the other instalments of the "Proletariat Trilogy" in a Criterion Collection <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001BEK8F6">box set</a>.  The protagonist of TULITIKKUTEHTAAN TYTT&Ouml; is Iris (Kati Outinen), a taciturn 20-something who still lives with, and financially supports, her layabout parents (Elina Salo, Esko Nikkari). Iris has no real social life to speak of, being ignored by co-workers and, at her nightly excursions to dance halls, by men. After meeting wealthy businessman Aarne (Vesa Vierikko), she thinks she has found happiness, but is cruelly abandoned by him and then her parents. Though she doesn't visibly snap, the pressures take their toll, and she gets her revenge on those who have done her wrong...  As the film progresses, radio and television in the background report the news of Chinese government forces suppressing the protest in Tiananmen Square. That overt political focus is something rather unusual for Kaurism&auml;ki. He has usually included some criticism of state bureaucracy in his films, but here the film is entirely a metaphor for what might happen if the people are held down too hard and too long. Kati Outinen has one of the quirkiest faces in cinema, but here makeup and lighting accentuate those looks and she becomes the very image of misery.  TULITIKKUTEHTAAN TYTT&Ouml; fits with Kaurism&auml;ki's general aesthetic in that the film features d&eacute;cor and music from the 1950s, although it is ostensibly set in the present day. His penchant for minimal dialogue here is taken even further than usual. What sets this film apart from the rest of his output, however, is that it lacks his characteristic deadpan humour. Even when he focuses on the underdogs staying under, there's usually some chuckles in his work. Consequently, I found TULITIKKUTEHTAAN TYTT&Ouml; often unpleasantly bleak, less enjoyable than his other films. Nonetheless, the streamlined script and careful cinematography make this a film worth seeing at least once.  (Verified purchase as part of the Criterion box set.)

Outstanding MGM pre code thriller What a rare delight is "Penthouse", an MGM whodunnit from 1933. The film is a precursor to the detective thriller which became the staple of William Powell and other fine actors in the thirties. This one has Warner Baxter in the lead as a lawyer who works for the underworld, thereby jeopardising his career with a prestigious law firm. His fiancee, the unusual Martha Sleeper, walks out on him for the same reason. Nat Pendleton, the gangland boss Baxter keeps from the electric chair, offers lifelong protection to Baxter who is investigating a murder. There are lots of confusing complications until the satisfactory and surprising resolution.  The outstanding qualities of "Penthouse" start with a really fine script that allows the actors to create 3 dimensional characters.  Warner Baxter is superb, not unlike William Powell, but less frivolous. He makes his character deeply likeable. This was an important film for Myrna Loy, one of the first where her true talents were encouraged and she also is superb as a high class call girl. She has some great pre-code lines which she delivers with her customary warmth and wit. Mae Clarke appears briefly but jumps off the screen as the jilted girlfriend of Phillip Holmes, the classy guy who is accused of her murder. The biggest surprise is Nat Pendleton, far removed from the dim-witted thug he usually plays. Finally, the director is Woody Van Dyke, the one who really saw Myrna Loy's potential. He keeps "Penthouse" moving at a fast clip.  Being made at MGM, the production values are superb but the print, issued in the Warners Archive collection, is unrestored. The contrast is dark and sometimes the film looks murky. The soundtrack has deteriorated too and sometimes there is some distracting background noise. The DVD is expensive. The only extra is the original trailer in poor condition.

30 Minutes Scattered in 2 Hours Wow... incredible they made MI3 after watching this one.  A bare shell of MI1.  30 minutes of entertaining action and film (which does not include Cruise playing Chuck Norse) scattered into 2 hours and 4 minutes.  Cruise and the others must have been getting paid by the minute. Don't be afraid to use the fast forward when watching this one.  I gave the film an extra star because when there is good action and film its worth watching.

Good - but Hasselhoff?! David Hasselhoff's rendition of "This is the Moment" is probably the worst piece of music I have heard in my life.  Someone shut him up. Please. Fast.  Anyway, I hadn't seen the show, and the filming and editing gives you a good idea of what it must have been at the theatre...I guess..

Original sounds? Missing a scene that plays on TV movie version I've watched this movie so much on tv, dvd, etc. I remember a dvd version of this movie was remastered with different sounds from the movie. I'm currently watching it right now on blu-ray and hearing different sounds for the car, squeeling tires, and the sound of the semi.  Also, there's a scene that's missing in this version...The scene that happens between Snowman digging Fred out of the pond and when Bandit pulled into the 76 station for fuel.......Bandit: Son, pull the hammer back. Smokey's coming at you in a plain white wrapper..Carrie: That's your policeman in your basic white car....Bandit: Very good...Snowman, c'mon back. I'm talkin' to you son....by this time Snowman comes back to the truck...Snowman: Alright c'mon what is it?..Bandit: When you get that d..n dog in the truck, you can put the hammer down because that smokey will have gone by you..Snowman: How'd he know that.  There, that's the scene that's missing.

Land of Opportunists Michael Moore is one of the most cynical individuals in one of the most cynical of businesses:  entertainment.  In "Capitalism:  A Love Story," Moore self-righteously attacks the American kleptocracy, while doing the very best that he can (with his pot-belly, lackadaisical demeanor, and scruffy clothes) to help us ignore the fact that he's one of the world's most famous filmmakers, and thus a certified member of the 1%.  Moore does make some good points in the film, but there are many more times when his credibility is questioned.  I've done quite a bit of reading, and I've never once heard that the rich were taxed 90% during the gilded age (quite frankly, there was no income tax before World War I), and that this money was used to build up America's middle-class through public expenditures in education and health care.  I've never heard about FDR's second Bill of Rights, one that guaranteed economic security to America's middle-class (wouldn't that make America socialist?).  Of course, hypocrisy and credibility issues have always shadowed Moore's career.  Unfortunately, this film is also boring.  It's entirely predictable and monotonous, and it seems like a rushed product to take advantage of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

CARPENTER GOES CRAZY What made John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN such a classic was his ability to draw on our basic fear of the dark and the boogeyman.  On a shoestring budget, Carpenter used that innate fear without loads of gore or campy special effects. THE WARD is Carpenter's first film since the disastrous GHOST OF MARS, and it does have some of Carpenter's finesse and style.  The film has a creepy and ominous setting, and Carpenter uses this setting effectively.  Going into the plot might include spoilers, so I'll just admit I didn't see the plot twist coming. The acting is quite good:  Amber Heard as our heroine Kristen gives a strong, controlled performance; Mammie Gummer (Meryl Streep's daughter) and Danielle Pannabaker give strong support and Jared Harris is very good as the resolute doctor. THE WARD is not Carpenter's best but it proves he still has the talent to create good thrillers.  Let's hope he finds the right script to use his expertise.

At Least It's SO FAKE It Won't Scare Your Kids! I debated about choosing this one for my son to watch. he is a Jaws fan and loves anything sharky. My concerns were with any blood & gore etc but turns out it was not a problem. The graphics are so cartoon like that even my 8 year old was aware it was all fake and computer animated. Actually he was dissappointed by it, and complained the entire time that it was so fake and not real.

If you're expecting a non-stop,action-packed, gory-epic...prepare to be disappointed. For many years, Tarantino had this film partly written, but never could think of way to finish it, as well as finding time to fit it into his schedule of projects. There were rumors of Sly Stallone and Arnold playing characters, before production, but Quentin shot those down.  People were hoping "Inglorious Basterds" would be something on the scale of  "Saving Private Ryan", but sadly, that is not what this film is. In fact, this film is not historically, accurate. It follows a group of Jewish-American soldiers hunting Nazi's and ultimately, plotting a massive explosion in a cinema premiere, which has all the high-ranking German officers (including, Hitler). There is another story being told in the film of a young Jewish woman, who runs the cinema and plots her own revenge on the Nazis that killed her family.  There many great actors and performances in the film, all elevated by Tarantio's witty dialouge and skilled direction. Christopher Waltz is fantastic (and deserved that Oscar), as well as Brad Pitt and Diane Kruger. Unfortunately, like many of Tarantino's films, there is A LOT of dialogue scenes, with small graphic violence thrown, in between. Not just dialogue, but subtitles all over the place. Expect a lot of reading, which is a shame, because this is a beautiful film to look at.  There are some great moments in the film, especially, the intense opening scene, involving Christopher Waltz invading a farmhouse, as well as the bar shoot-out scene with Michael Fassbender.  But like I warned, this a dialogue-heavy film. If you've seen Tarantino's other films, don't expect the pacing of "Kill Bill vol. 1", but more of "Kill Bill vol. 2". The pacing of "Basterds" feels slow. It's not as tedius, as "Death Proof" or "Jackie Brown", but at times, it almost feels that way.  Tarantino has certainly, grown as a filmmaker, in the way he constructs and shoots scenes. The colors and the compositions he uses in his imagery have quite the impact.  I'm a big fan of "Pulp Fiction" and the Kill Bill films and enjoyed, "Resevior Dogs" and there's no question that Quentin can write and direct, however he should be careful to not be so engrossed with his ability to do so. His love and knowledge of film, as well as his dialogue skills, are kind of impeding on story-telling. Also, there is a lack of balance of dialogue\action, which hurts the pacing.  Yes, this is not the grand, WWII epic we thought Tarantino was going to make. What he did make, is still entertaining and worth watching, for the performances, alone.

Overrated I usually check several movie sites for reviews before watching a movie. This one has an amazingly high rating. I guess my expectations were set too high.  This is an "OK" movie and I don't regret that I spent time watching it. The cast is good, but the plot is just falling apart. The police looked quite stupid (I mean, they couldn't tell the difference between a dialog and a monolog, and didn't check what exactly the criminals were giving them, "not a bomb" was good enough...) and most of the time the main investigator simply didn't do anything. Do they really start planning an attack at the last moment, not as soon as the hostages are taken? Can someone come into the building with hostages and remain totally unnoticed, like Madeline did? Where did all the journalists go? Looked the other way at that moment? And so on...  When I see a crime thriller with good reviews and high ratings, I expect an exceptionally good plot. But this one was, well, an exception.

Not a bad action film I wish I could give this 3.5 stars, but I can't give it 4.  I love Kevin Cosner in this movie, but many of the actors didn't really do to great. I actually liked the story line about a group of guys dressed like Elvis who rob a casino with some awesome shoot 'em out sceens.  The movie was very bloody so it's definatally not a movie I would let my kids watch, but for most adults this would be worth the watch.  I would recommend this show as a good ONE TIME WATCH.

Disappointing I really wanted to like this movie, but...meh.  I felt like every scene contained stilted, unrealistic, proverb-like dialogue; people just don't talk to each other like that.  I couldn't see any real connections between the various characters, and most felt completely one-dimensional - despite valiant attempts to inject some life into the roles (particularly by John Malkovich).  And I had a very difficult time rustling up any compassion for Tweedy, who seemed to abandon her children completely to follow her own desires.

Prancer The quality of the Dvd is not the greatest. pauses in several spots.I am disappointed and will probably not order videos from Amazon again.

Little Bit of Heaven It was an ok movie.  I may or may not watch it again.  I usually like Kate Hudson movies, but this one did nothing for me.

A good film with significant flaws Despite a number of problem areas, this R rated film is pretty good. The movie moves rather slowly during the first half. The plot line, the fooling and taking advantage of a doctor and lawyer, is not new, and this film is not strikingly different than many others. The ancients had a problem ending plays, so they resorted to deus ex machina, which means that a god descended in a machine, for the actor playing god could not fly, and the deity resolved the complex matter simply. Many modern movies build up complex plots, which would take hours to resolve, and solve them in a near deus ex machina manner. I don't want to reveal the film's ending, but viewers will see this happening here and, for that matter, in lots of films. However, the acting is good and it is entertaining to see the well-worn plot revised.

Beautiful women, poor print. The print quality is just as bad as the previous reviewer stated. But the women are stunning, especially Joanna Cassidy (she did the snake dance in "Blade Runner.") Other than that, there's not much else to say. But does anyone know who played Rebecca? She appears all too briefly at 9:10 of the DVD. Even IMDb couldn't identify her. This DVD has no listing telling us who played which character, which is typical of this cheapo product. Also noteworthy is Cathee Shirriff as Kate, a lady who likes ladies. She makes her first appearance at 20:51.

Good movie - bad version Many of us have seen this move close to 100 times.  I was shocked and disapointed to watch the movie and see that the music had changed. It was surpristing how much it changed the movie to me.  If you've never seen the movie before than you'd probablly love it still, but I'm pretty sure those of you who saw the original you probablly wont like it.  This version is even missing several of the original sceenes.  What were they thinking?  Any way, as most of you know Sixteen Candles takes place over the course of a day when a family forgets the sweet sixteenth birthday of a girl while making preparations for the oldest daughter's wedding. The sixteen year old girl is Molly Ringwald who runs through a large range of emotions including loneliness.  It is a funny view of the life of a teenager in the '80's that seems to be spot on. Normally I would recommend this movie, but not this version.

A rom-com that isn't quite rom-commy enough to be a rom-com. &lt;strong>Sukkar Banat&lt;/strong> (Nadine Labaki, 2007)  The world of the rom-com is one fraught with danger these days. When a rom-com bills itself as a rom-com and then actually does what it tells us it's going to do--provide us with shallow, lightweight entertainment--they usually end up being gabs of fun. Where things get nasty is when a rom-com tries to be something it's not, be that a deep, serious examination of [insert issue of the day here] or a work of filmic importance-with-a-capital-I. I grant you, it &lt;em>is&lt;/em> possible for the rom-com to enter the hallowed halls of the canon, but I'm pretty sure that Howard Hawks never thought "I'm making one for the ages!" on the set of &lt;em>Bringing Up Baby&lt;/em>, nor Billy Wilder during the filming of &lt;em>The Apartment&lt;/em>. In other words, kids, if you're going to make a rom-com, make a rom-com.  As a good example, take &lt;em>Sukkar Banat&lt;/em>, released in English-speaking countries as &lt;em>Caramel&lt;/em>. (For the record: I had no idea that people actually waxed with real honest-to-goodness caramel. I can't imagine wanting to do anything with it but eat it.) When &lt;em>Caramel&lt;/em> is doing its rom-com thing, drawing in equal parts from Hollywood (the obvious comparison here is to &lt;em>Barbershop&lt;/em>) and Bollywood, it's a gas, funny and bitchy in that Sex-and-the-City sense, poking fun at everything from its main character Layale (played by director Labaki)'s torrid affair with Rabih (a man we never meet) to the oppressive religious atmosphere hanging over Beirut like a never-dispersing mushroom cloud. It is pointed without being heavy-handed, and while one can't ever accuse it of subtlety, it's still charming enough that one can't help but love it. The best part of this ensemble plotline, for my money, is a burgeoning relationship between salon worker Rima (Joanna Moukarzel, who has never been on a screen again--that needs to change) and repeat customer Siham (Fatmeh Safa, another non-actor who should be getting regular work). It's the most understated thing in the movie, and given that oppressive religious atmosphere mentioned before, it's also the most shocking. That plotline alone--however minor it may be--makes this movie worth a wholehearted recommendation.  The problem arises when the movie tries to move into deeper territory without bringing along the sassy attitude, which it does with a few of the stories here. You know the drill, when the music swells... it's odd, because obviously Labaki knows how to adapt the rom-com attitude to serious subjects (again, I will harp on how the movie treats religion here; the montage of Layale trying to get a hotel room for an anniversary celebration with Rabih is golden), but every once in a while, the movie heads for territory where it's obvious Labaki is less comfortable with the style, and I could never quite figure out why.  In other words, not a perfect movie, but a good one, and worth watching; it has more strong points than weak ones. ***

50 CENT DOING BETTER 50 Cent plays Deon, a college football star running back headed for the NFL and life on Easy Street. He has everything, fame, parties, girls etc. His kid brother, Sean rejects 50 cents lifestyle. He is the more studious type I gathered from the stereotypical glasses that he wears. Mom is Deon's main cheerleader, and dad, who has been there, wants Deon to be a more aggressive ball hog and less of a team player in order to attract the pro scouts. Even at home, Sean (Cedric Sanders) plays second fiddle to the football star. Deon can have any girl he wants, including the girl dating his brother.  However...Thing Fall Apart. Deon has the big "C" growing in his chest.  Ray Liotta plays the doctor. While the family is in a waiting room, Ray comes in with an x-ray and shows the family the giant tumor in Deon's chest. Radiation and chemo. Dad, concerned about Deon's draft pick, wants to keep a lid on this in order to deceive the NFL. Mom is not crazy about the idea.  As Deon's life whittles away, he finds doors that were once opened to him have closed and life without being a football star is hard. Curtis' acting ability has improved since the last time I saw him, although it still leaves much to be desired. Strong performances by the supporting cast (not Ray Liotta of course.) There were some minor plot issues. Cedric Sanders made the movie more than 50 Cent.  F-bomb, sex, sex talk, no nudity

A Little Agony,  a Bit of Ecstasy Seeing this film on DVD forty-six years after it was first released, I was left decidedly ambivalent as to its quality, but with rather more disappointment than delight.  Though I'd heard that as drama it was tepid fare, the pacing seemed even more lackadaisical than I'd anticipated. Such dramatic tension as exists can be reduced to the question "Will Michaelangelo ever finish painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?"  And since there can be few viewers over the age of, say, twelve who are in doubt as to the answer, the suspense is minimal. As for dramatic confrontation, we can enjoy the battle of wills between the artist and the pope, Julius II, who commissioned the frescoes, but when such pedestrian dialogue as we find here is uttered by two familiar stars of the 50s and 60s, Charlton Heston and Rex Harrison, the verbal jousting seldom rises above the banter associated with most Hollywood costume dramas of that era. And though not exactly boring, this movie, with its 138 minute running time, doesn't exactly fly by. We can be grateful that the film comes with an intermission, since otherwise some of us would create (at least) one, using our remotes. So much for the admittedly minor agony of watching a long, often ponderous movie.  On the other hand, the film does have some wonderful treats, mostly for the eye. Costumes and set design are sumptuous. The location scenes in Italy do well in evoking the early 16th Century in Italy. And best of all, there is a mini-documentary at the very beginning of the movie that surveys  Michaelangelo's various works of sculpture in all their virtuosic glory. Viewers who stop the DVD when this is over, before the actual film has begun, should certainly be forgiven. Arguably, they have seen the best of what The Agony and the Ecstasy has to offer.  If they do watch until the end, as I did, they might well enjoy the portrayal of one or both of the two main characters. My preference is for Harrison's wily and willful Julius over Heston's stubborn and visionary Michaelangelo. The image of the creative genius as presented in this movie, passionate, obsessive and a bit wild-eyed, is sort of standard fare for biographical films of this kind; not many variations on that theme here. More unusual is the depiction of a pope who was (historically as well as  cinematically) both a military as well as a religious leader. It's instructive to be reminded that the  the Papal States were a temporal, no less than a spiritual, power during the Renaissance, and that the titular head of Christendom would sometimes ride into battle, clad in armor, against the Christian kings who, in theory at least, bowed to his religious authority. Harrison, as he did portraying Julius Caesar in the 1963 Cleopatra, is adept at suggesting a robust warrior, but one no less capable in an intellectual or artistic environment.  Still, as he did with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in the earlier film, Rex Harrison tends to overshadow his co-star in The Agony and the Ecstasy, so that when Heston's artist is deprived of his papal sparring partner, the film loses what little claim to ecstasy it may be said to possess, aside from the artwork, of course.

THIS IS BAD MEDICINE The movie opens with a silly close range blood squirting shoot out. Mortimer (David A. Lockhart) is a bounty hunter. After collecting his bounty he opts to go after an Indian (Rick Mora) wanted for raping a "white virgin." (I don't write this stuff.) Others have tried and died. He lives in the woods. Mortimer buys Rhiannon (Camille Montgomery) a reluctant woman to come with him to use as bait.  Meanwhile there is a subplot of a meteor being found in a farmer's field with fluorescent green stuff and no Steven King. The farmer has a daughter (Heather Montanez) who does take a bath...and like any good circus, the big top is worth the price of admission. The meteor turns the town's folk into the fast moving zombies as opposed to the raise from the dead variety.  I liked the metal soundtrack. We've seen worse acting. Many are first time actors. The special effects or make-up was very stiff. The dialouge wasn't great. The buttons on the women's blouses never seemed to work either.  No f-bombs, no sex, nudity (Camille Montgomery, Mandy Pauline, Heather Montanez) 2 star film normally, plus one for wardrobe malfunctions

Good for a low budget movie This was surprisingly good to me. The main guys were very real and authentic. It's about 2 gang bangers who are in love with each other and trying to find a way to be together while living such a dangerous life at the same time.  I just wanted to knock some sense into them so they would get out of the gangster way of life, but they just get even deeper into it. I don't like the ending but I'm impressed with what they did with such a small budget.

Remake me baby ! Of all the movies out there that never needed to be remade, here is one crying out for a big budget remake.  Funky leads, interesting twists (that could be seriously upgraded and CG'd), a sexy snake dance, motorcycles and US surplus trucks. Terrifying the locals. Fires and druid priests.  Mix well with Night of the Minotaur, and remake !  Got this on VHS to check it out, and the print is pretty bad, but don't think it is worth buying the DVD unless you are a writer. This looks like another movie made by the stunt guys !

Cold Sweat- Bronson Have seen this movie in 70s and Bronson was a rage then. Seeing this after so many years, felt that this was dated. Didn't excite me as much, though of course have seen some scene copied in some Hindi films

Denzel Brilliant in a Fun Hollywood Fiction Film! Denzel Washington did a marvelous job portraying Frankie Lucas as a debonair gentleman and entrepreneur who takes care of his family when the real life Lucas is uneducated, illiterate, vicious, mean spirited--in other words, the on-screen Lucas is the exact opposite of the real life Frankie Lucas.  Lucas is a drug dealer who deals in premium quality drug known as "Blue Magic"--which is 100% pure heroin. He sells it at a much cheaper price because he gets his supplies from a Vietnamese drug kingpin introduced to him by his cousin Nate, a soldier who is serving in Vietnam. This aggravates rival gangs and even corrupt police officers who sell their stuff more watered down than Blue Magic at a much higher cost. Obviously, if junkies need their fix they will go to Lucas and not to other competitors. This effectively puts them out of business so he made a lot of enemies throughout his career as a businessman.  But American Gangster wants us to sympathize with Frankie Lucas who is sincere in getting his family out of poverty in the Deep South and moving them into his expensive mansion and using his connections to get his nephew a once-in-a-lifetime chance into major league baseball. What a guy!  On his tail is Richie Roberts a New Jersey police officer who is battling a child custody case with his estranged wife Laurie. The truth, however, is the real life Richie Roberts never had a son. In the movie, we are led to believe that Richie single handedly, against all odds, with corrupt NYPD police officers and a partner who himself is a junkie was able to apprehend the biggest drug kingpin in the business with a small ragtag group of dedicated officers whose only objective is following the law. Roberts is portrayed as the ultimate boyscout who wouldn't even take $987,000 in stolen drug money recovered.  Although much of the story in American Gangster has proven to be false, it still makes for entertaining viewing. Another outstanding Denzel Washington performance which I would rank up there with his performance in "Hurricane" as another "based on a true story" movie which has turned out to be mostly fiction.

Not a great movie Angelina Jolie stars as Elise, an alluring and mysterious woman whose every move is being watched by Interpol. Knowing that, she boards a train for Venice and picks up an unsuspecting tourist (Johnny Depp) who quickly falls in love, is arrested, and has to run for his life.  I liked the beginning of this movie, thanks to Johnny Depp's' sweet portrayal of a mousey math teacher who naively speaks Spanish to Italians and can't believe his luck in meeting the glamorous and desirable Elise. Jolie seems less an actress than a model, posing with pouty lips and strutting around in designer clothes. She exhibits little emotion and is completely unconvincing as a Brit. The photography of Venice is so lovely, though, that it almost makes up for Angelina's miscasting. The movie starts off as a clever and fast-paced spy story but becomes muddled and even a bit boring later on; the twist-ending didn't seem to fit.  All in all, this is a pretty but silly movie full of plot holes that doesn't seem to know if it's a comedy, romance, or thriller.

Mayb-e Definitely Definitely, Maybe starring Ryan Reynolds and Ilsa Fisher makes you want to squeeze this film so hard that some of the magic spills out onto you. The basics of the dating scene are covered in this delightful view of learning to trust and love someone new again with the twist of being a single parent. Ryan and Ilsa do not disapoint with plenty of emotional highs and lows that will keep you wondering if this new love will be definitely or maybe.

Star studded dull movie Don't get huffy over the three stars.  I would give most movies produced in the last four decades a one star. Written by Arthur Miller, one of Monroe's husbands...  If you went to school before the teach to the test paradigm, you were forced to read "Death of a Salesman."  This is another two hours and five minutes of your life you will never get back.  But, consider viewing this film an educational experience, such as reading "Ivanhoe," something you will only do once.  Bad behavior and alcoholism may have mirrored, at least in part the lives of the stars.  The black and white choice actually adds to the film's credibility. The viewing and audio quality of the DVD was quite acceptable.

Comedy Movie Well, I would say you make the best of it, and create a blockbuster. The story altogether has many possibilities: two women are forced to get married if they want to inherit their father's money and estate, two girls are forced to get married after having made a mess of every introduction to possible candidates, and two guys on the run for pretty much the same reasons.  The "gay-issue" plays a part in this movie, although you have to read between the lines at times, and not assume that the writer only used it to create funny moments. Nevertheless, what happens is that the bad sound, the terrible translation for the English subtitles, and especially the bad acting of several of the actors make this a disaster.  And that is really a pity, cause the story has much potential. Let's hope someone takes the same story for a better make-over some day

So bad it's good. It's just mindless fun. Great to see the roles Dennis Quaid and Shelly Long took in 1981. The effects are atrocious, but that's what makes it so great. Rubber dinosaurs and farting is just part of it. We also learn that a "zillion" years ago women were already being chosen based on breast size. A simple fun movie that I'd say is good for any age.

movie good NO SPECIAL FEATURES!! I got the Bluray version of this movie because 1 I thought it would be a better video quality and 2 because I expected some cool extra features like any normal blueray. Put it simply; THERE IS NO SPECIAL FEATURES and the video quality is not any better than the dvd version. The End

(2.5 STARS) Waiting Long for One Great Martial Arts Fight Sequence Set in 1997, just before the return of Hong Kong to China, "Flash Point" follows the story of a crime-fighting police detective Ma Jun (Donnie Yen) and his fellow detective Wilson (Louis Koo), both trying to bring down a crime syndicate led by three brothers Archer (Ray Lui), Tony (Collin Chou, "Seraph" of the two "Matrix" sequels) and Tiger `Xing Yu). Not a very original idea, you may think.  The threadbare story is barely serviceable for an 88-minute action movie, but what really matters here is action, which is a mixed bag. While "Flash Point" offers one gripping action sequence in the climax, there are not many action sequences worth mentioning in the first half of the film. You get just a few brief fight scenes, and nothing more.  The film wraps up with a long and exciting martial arts fight sequence. There we are finally allowed to see what a real professional like Donnie Yen can do, bone-crunching, visceral combat. The amazing fight sequence alone is worth your money. It is a pity that you have to wait for that very long, and when you get it, the film is almost over.  "Flash Point" is unique in employing a combination of various fighting style including kung-fu, boxing, wrestling and Muay Thai. With Donnie Yen's great skills as martial artist that is seen in the film's climactic fight sequence, "Flash Point" should have been a much better action movie.  This is the third collaboration of the star Donnie Yen and director Wilson Yip (after "Kill Zone" and "Dragon Tiger Gate"). They went on to make "Yip Man," which is a must for action film fans.  As to supporting players, Kent Cheng is nice as a supervising officer and Fan Bingbing is charming as Wilson's girlfriend, but they are not given much to do in the film's underdeveloped screenplay.  See "Flash Point" for one great martial arts combat sequence.

The usual PD stuff plus one nice addition! I'm probably being generous with the three stars. This 2-disc set contains another of the endless releases of "Africa Screams" plus three Colgate Comedy Hour shows.Also "Jack And The Beanstalk in another so-so print with the added insult of not even being in color! So why the three stars? Well the two-disc set is very affordable (I snagged it for 5 bucks!). Also, an added bonus feature is an episode of "This Is Your Life" saluting Lou Costello! If you haven't picked up the "This Is Your Life" box set, here's another chance to get this extremely touching episode.Lou Costello will tug at your heart strings! Forget the rest of this set. Just get it for this wonderful piece of TV history.

It's a very long, very slow ride to a fulfilling end I think I was expecting a lot more action in this movie because I ended up being rather disappointed during most of it. And a little annoyed by Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and how she behaved. Maybe that's a testament to her acting ability that she was so easily able to irk me. Or I just don't like her, but I've liked her in other movies so it's probably not that.  I hate whispery dialog and this movie is full of it so maybe I missed something important that might have explained some things that didn't make sense. A lot didn't make sense but at least you know going in how it's going to end so there's something to look forward to. In the beginning I was rooting for the big sha-bang at the end, because the first half of movie just drags and it's just unfortunate it takes so long to get there. And if the first half is too slow, too whispery, and too long for you too, getting to the end takes f-o-r-e-v-e-r.  I read another review about this movie that said it helps knowing the character Justine suffers from melancholia, and maybe it would have but I guess we're supposed to know one of them does considering the name of the movie but Melancholia is also the name of the planet coming towards Earth, so on the flip side maybe not. It might have helped to see previews too, though we know previews show only the best parts usually.  About three quarters of the way through I started to feel this anxious feeling. Because until the last few minutes or so you really don't know for sure if the end (that you read in the movie description) will come. It's really easy to believe Claire's (Charlotte Gainsbourg) husband (Kiefer Sutherland, especially if you're a 24 fan!) when he assures her that Melancholia will do a fly by and not hit earth.  Too easy.  But soon you know. And then the end is coming and maybe you feel what they feel, and what seemed like a bad movie initially (for the first hour, really) has an ending that redeems itself somewhat.  Only somewhat.  Visually it was beautiful, no denying that. But too dark --and I don't mean the context, I mean the lighting in the movie in many scenes was so dark you couldn't really see anything. Implications aside, a little light is better than "hey guess what that is" in most cases. Especially when combined with the whispery dialog and scenes that don't seem to make sense while you're watching them.  When this movie ended I thought "ugh stupid movie!" but, having thought about it some more, whatever the point was supposed to be, (over my head or not) it's still with me. The visuals, the characters, the idea of a planet on a possible collision course with Earth.  So for the less high brow crowd that won't likely dissect and explain every nuance and angle, maybe that was the point. To make a statement. (any statement, like look at me! watch my movie! remember me!!)  OK, point taken.  Just know, for those who haven't seen it, this is not your average movie. It's slow, quiet, dark, and the big sha-bang you read about in the description and reviews --- well you'll have see it --- but you have a long way to go to get there, and, maybe like me, you'll give in a little, get into it some, and feel that slow build of the end coming.

Too sentimental and unbelievable Like many Spielberg movies, "War Horse" is extremely sentimental - from the John Williams soundtrack to the writing. Sentimental movies can be very good; however, this movie failed to really get me to care too much for the characters, which is essential for a sentimental movie to work. Yes, it was nice how Albert bonded with the horse Joey and they defied the odds when it came to plowing a field. But Albert still didn't feel three-dimensional to me and he was the one character besides Joey which the movie spent the most time on.  I went in with the feeling that everything would work out just fine, so despite the setting being World War I, I never had a sense of danger. I expected a lot of sorta crazy things to happen if the two were to somehow get through the war together; however, there were too many unbelievable moments, not just mere coincidences. My favorite scenes were the grandfather and little girl in France who found the horse in their windmill. But how in the world did they not hear the regiment of German troops over the hill when he sent her off riding up the hill? The scene where a British soldier and a German soldier work together to save the horse in no man's land was almost laughable to me, when I'm sure it was meant to be touching. Overall, it felt like the movie was trying too hard but still not succeeding in pulling at the heart strings.

Cute movie I watched this movie as research, as I costumed a stage production of it at a local school. It's a cute movie, though I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have selected it as a film I would want to personally watch just for fun.

OK. It was an excellent series. But it irritating, because it kept getting ready to go to commercial sound, then no commercial. The original Star Trek series played straight through like a movie.

Sometimes, blu is better.... This is one of my favorite Stephen King adaptations, never failing to creep the poop out of me. I remember when I saw it in the theater...when I left, I had an unsettled feeling that I had just watched something that I shouldn't have. It's hard to explain, but even to this day, after seeing the movie dozens of times, it still unsettles me and makes me feel that I've just watched something...evil...LOL.  Anyway, I've had the movie on various formats...VHS, laserdisc, DVD and now blu ray. I will say that the picture quality is a BIT better than the DVD, especially in the daytime scenes (those are very bright, colorful and vivid). The night time scenes are still an improvement, but not excellent. However, with this being a basically low budget film from the 80s, this is probably the best it will look. I don't remember it looking completely fantastic in the theater when it was new, anyway. The sound is an improvement, much more than the video.  The supplements are a disappointment, as there is nothing new at all added...same features from the special edition DVD from a few years back. I was hoping the trailer would have been added, if nothing else new...I'm a sucker for trailers.  Worth an upgrade from the DVD, if you can catch it on sale. The only real negative is that now you have to see and hear that horribly annoying little girl (Ellie) in HD, incessant whining and all. :)

Highlander DC version Good movie, horrible sound quality. This is nothing that people haven't said before, but just to elaborate a bit more. The sound cuts in and out. Half the time, you can't make out what the actors are saying and there is no cc for English. The other half, the music and fighting is so loud that you have to turn the volume down. It's cheap to buy, but go for a better copy even if it's a bit more.

Just the tip of the iceberg in a great career I've been a huge fan of Jake Roberts since the early 1980's. I first saw him in Georgia, as part of Paul Ellering's "Legion of Doom" along with The Road Warriors, The Spoiler, and King Kong Bundy. I grew up in Tulsa, OK., and every Sunday night I was within the first 10 rows of the usually sold-out Assembly Center, surrounded by 8,000 other Mid-South (later UWF) wrestling fanatics. It was here that Roberts really developed into the megastar he'd become under the WWF banner. At first, he was hated by most fans (not me, a life-long heel fan, however) for his bloody feuds with Terry Taylor and Butch Reed. But when he and his fellow heel partner The Barbarian (John Nord) began a program with the truly reviled tandem of Ted Dibiase & Steve 'Dr Death' Williams (as heel champs, STILL my favorite tag team of all time). Soon, Roberts and Dibiase were having classic matches all over the territory, and the, er, slow-to-come-around hillbill..I mean FANS, began chanting 'DDT! DDT!'. In fact, this marked the first occasion of actual merchandising in pro wrestling i ever saw, as territory owner Bill Watts began selling 'DDT' T-shirts at the shows. As a babyface, Jake lost none of the macabre qualities that had endeared him to people-his interviews remained must-listens, and since this was before the years of excess had taken their toll, he always delivered a great match. A long, intense, and incredibly entertaining feud with Dick Slater was his final Mid-South program; by early 1986, he was with Vince McMahon's group up North. I wish I could rate this higher. Everything included, from the matches to the recent interviews to the classic promos, deserve the highest marks. But the problem is that there's SO much missing; and while many of the matches included are certainly classics, it's unfathomable to me that WWE didn't include some of his great brawls from the World Class and Georgia territories. (The Mid-South/UWF library is practically the only defunct organization that refused to sell it's library to Vince McMahon; the Watts family still owns all of their incredible history and sell DVD's on their own site, so that's why that entire, crucial section of Jake's career is omitted) The DVD also could have included some of his matches in Japan, as well as the Florida territory. So, in summation, if you're a Jake fan, or if you've just heard about him and you're curious, please-BUY THIS DVD! Despite it's minimilistic approach, it sadly remains the only (legal) Jake Roberts career anthology ever produced. The release itself is riddled with flaws, but what IS included is like the finest cut diamond-Flawless.

A Heart Touching Story Roshni(Sridevi) is a popular singer who has got a fan in Jaggu (Sanjay Dutt) who is mad about her. And what does Jaggu do ? He is a black ticketer. Roshni lives with her mother played by Reema Lagoo. Roshni in one of her programmes meets Rahul (Rahul Roy) who feels Roshni can become a better singer and he helps her become a household name soon. Both of them fall for each other. Though Jaggu is madly in love with him, she ignores him all the while. Rahul takes her in a trip to Mauritius where she was supposed to perform. Before the trip started, Rahul hides some drugs in her wallet in order to smuggle them outside. The drugs were caught by police and before Roshni realizes Rahul vanishes from the scene. Now Roshni is in big trouble as she is arrested by police on possession of drugs. Jaggu then comes to her help with a lawyer, but then they are unable to do much as Roshni is caught red-handed. As per the law of the country, the sentence for the same crime is death.  Then there is another story of Roshni about her absconding father who she feels stays in Mauritius. Will she found her? Will she get out of the Jail at last? Will she found the love of her life?

Fun and Interesting, Just Not Emotional First, keep this in mind: NONE of these Classics--"Casablanca," "Gone With the Wind," etc.--can ever live up to the praise that has been heaped onto them over the decades.  So to say that "The Maltese Falcon" was not as good as I was hoping it would be is really nothing against the movie.  When watching any of these old classics, you just have to banish all thoughts of its "epic greatness" from your mind and just watch and judge it like any other movie.  Overall, this movie is good fun, but the more serious scenes don't hold up so well.  By now, all of its plot twists have been used in so many mystery stories that they probably won't affect you.  You know from the start that the beautiful women is more dangerous than she seems, that the detective will outsmart the villains, and that someone is going to be murdered.  But what remains original about this movie are its characters, played by actors who no one can replace.  Anyone who is a fan of Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, or Syndney Greenstreet MUST see this movie.  I'll focus on the bad news first; like I said, the serious aspects of the movie fall short, at least for a modern audience.  Not only is the story predictable to us, but a lot of the serious parts just aren't written or played well.  The movie never shows us anything positive about Mary Astor's character Brigid, so the love story between her and Sam Spade (Bogart) comes out of the blue, and makes no sense.  Astor's acting is so over-the-top for most of the movie, that the romance also comes off more often as cheesey and annoying, then emotional.  This does change at the end of the movie, as her character suddenly begins to be honest with Spade, and you realize that she was hamming it up earlier because her *character* was hamming it up. But still, she could have played things a bit better, earlier in the movie.  Another thing that falls short is the villain, Gutman (Greenstreet). We're never shown what it is that is supposed to make him so threatening; you never see him hurt anyone, or even pick up a gun to threaten anybody.  All he does is sit there and talk.  Bogart plays a great protagonist, but with such a weak antagonist and love interest, he might as well be directing his wit and toughness at a wall.  Most of the best characters are the minor ones.  Peter Lorre is priceless as the ambiguously gay Joel Cairo.  Elisha Cook Jr.'s emotionless assassin is a good character.  And Sam Spade's loyal secretary Effie (Lee Patrick) is a much more relatable and impressive heroine than his love interest Brigid.  While the more serious scenes aren't so good, the humorous scenes hold up wonderfully, thanks mostly to these three characters and actors, and Bogart. Pretty much any scene in which Spade is interacting with Cairo, Wilmer (Elisha Cook Jr.), or Effie is fun to watch.  I think a modern audience might find sympathy where the movie didn't originally intend for us to.  While the scenes between Brigid and Sam didn't affect me (or some other viewers, from the sound of these other reviews), I had a lot more sympathy for Joel Cairo, Wilmer, and Effie, due to their social disadvantages.  I couldn't help but wonder how a gay man and a socially challenged man wound up as criminals, in a society that probably wasn't too kind to them.  Seeing Effie trying to warn Spade and do all she could to help him, in her limited position as a woman in the 40s, I could feel her frustration.  These things might actually make the movie more interesting for a modern audience, even if it probably wasn't what the director intended.  Overall, "The Maltese Falcon" is fun and interesting.  Just don't go in expecting to be emotionally blown away, like with "Casablanca."

just ok "Jack Goes Boating", is film that is  full of symbolism about facing fears. I thought it was just OK, but not the best of films it left me lost. It trailed off in many ways.  Rent of buy at your own risk, and remember it is not for children.

Movie is okay, but a few priceless moments There are a few funny moments in this movie. Betty White is a always a pleasure to watch.  Watch for Sean Wing in a supporting role. He is good, and we will see more of him.

"I heard you hunt black belts..." "High-Kick Girl!" is the directorial debut project for both filmmaker Fuyuhiko Nishi and leading (little) lady Rina Takeda. It's also the first Japanese low-budget picture I've seen of its kind, so I cannot judge it against anything else, but judged completely by itself, the movie is an interesting project with as many high points (and kicks!) as it has low points. Ultimately, it's noteworthy but not a must-see for anyone besides fans of Takeda, who definitely has the potential to become a major martial arts star.  The story: a physically prodigious high school girl (Takeda) is obsessed with earning her black belt in karate, but when her inability to master the forms of the art hold back her advancement, she "hunts" legitimate black belt holders, beating them up and taking their belts as prizes. This gains her the attention of a crime conglomerate called the Destroyers, who will use her to get at her mysterious master (Tatsuya Naka, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001F0TT2O">Black Belt</a>).  Plot-wise, the movie is unbalanced: about half of the film focuses on Takeda's character before abruptly turning into an entirely different, more conventional vehicle for Tatsuya Naka as his character attempts to physically and spiritually save his young prot&eacute;g&eacute;. The ambiguity with which his relationship to the bad guys is handled is disappointing, but complaints aside, I actually really like the essence of this story. Rina starts off as more of a villain than anything else, but it's nevertheless a lot of fun watching her physically bully guys who underestimate her for her size and brown belt status; she's such an entertaining brat. More significant is the overlying theme of the picture, which examines the "technique vs. power" and "tradition vs. practicality" arguments of modern martial arts. Though she seeks her own black belt, Takeda's character can't make sense of the traditional forms she's expected to learn and is therefore held back despite her skill as a fighter, whereas Naka's character laments her lack of discipline despite acknowledging that she's his most powerful student. In the end, the argument gets a bit one-sided, but it continues to give the film some substance that would've otherwise been lacking.  "High-Kick Girl!" was advertised as a 100% legitimate martial arts film produced without stunt doubles, and I'm pretty sure this is indeed the case...for better or worse. There is no denying that almost every performer you see here is a physical specimen, whether it's the jump-kickers and tricksters or the grounded participants...but sometimes, it seems like they just don't know how to hit eachother. Rather, they do but you can see that they're trying not to legitimately hurt eachother. Stuntmen who are used to selling blows would have taken care of this problem, but this isn't as annoying the issue posed by the film's tendency to continually replay sequences of the fights in slow motion. Let me elaborate: these are not money shots that the film is replaying for dramatic effect, but entire lengthy exchanges that it replays in slow motion immediately after they've happened, even if the slow motion reveals unsteadiness in the choreography. With that said, I still give the fight content an overall passing grade, thanks to a few exceptionally painful-looking kicks - including a windmill kick through a table and a skull-breaking dropkick - and the ultimately exceptional randori staged by Tatsuya Naka's character near the end of the movie, bringing the legitimate lethalness of traditional karate to the forefront.  The relentless handheld camerawork makes it clear how ultimately cheap of a movie this is, but I don't mind since it's done well. I wish the individual members of the Destroyers were a bit more diverse as characters, but that's just me. Overall, the movie is several steps above passable, and if nothing else has done its duty in getting young Rina into <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0076YFJGS">bigger and better-looking movies</a>. "High-Kick Girl!" isn't a pink movie, so don't expect any nudity. Interested martial arts fans should take a peek.

Fun little creature feature. The Dark (Craig Pryce, 1993)  I am willing to follow wherever Stephen McHattie takes me. This is not a blanket approval rating for his whole career; I am all too well aware that for every Pontypool he turns in a 300, for every All Hat a Summer's Blood. But, still, I see Stephen McHattie's name on a movie and that's a guarantee I will eventually watch it. And thus I found myself picking up The Dark, a 1993 Craig Pryce flick, whilst looking for The Dark, a 2005 John Fawcett movie based on a Simon Maginn novel. I knew nothing about Pryce's other than that Stephen McHattie was in it, and that was enough for me. I didn't know that Pryce would direct (as of this writing) only two feature films, and soon after The Dark became a much-sought-after TV director for family fare (Goosebumps, I Was a Sixth-Grade Alien, Life with Derek, etc.), or that screenwriter Robert C. Cooper would go on to be the scion of one of Sci-Fi Channel's most successful shows, Stargate: SG-1. Nor that Bladerunner's Brion James was in it, or that it was the feature-film debut of a young actress named Neve Campbell. All these things came as surprises to me, some of them pleasant, some of them not, when I sat down to watch this. As for the movie itself, well, it's a pretty standard early-nineties creaturefest; I've seen better, but lord knows I've also seen much worse.  McHattie plays Gary Henderson, aka Hunter, a scientist with some pretty amazing abilities who's tracking said creature, which is living under a cemetery in Smalltown USA (excuse me, Smalltown Canada). It seems the creature's... something (we're never told what)... promotes amazingly fast healing, to the point where Hunter gets shot one day and is very close to better the next. After an altercation in a diner, he finds himself teamed up with Tracy (The Dream Team's Cynthia Belliveau), a waitress there who was being harassed by some bikers Hunter took care of. He explains his mission, cautioning her that there's also a crazy ex-FBI agent (James) looking to kill the beast out of revenge. (Betcha can't guess why he's so mad at it. Betcha can't. Oh, wait, you did, first try.) Hunter and Tracy cross paths with the local constabulary, try to evade the FBI, track down the creature, etc. Typical day in the life of a creature hunter.  It's pretty simple: if you like monster movies with silly animatronic monster, you'll get a kick out of this movie. If you don't, you won't. It's well-done, but not overly original or distinctive; the cast are competent, but not out of the ordinary; the script... oh, you get the idea. You already knew whether you wanted to see it or not when you read the product description, and you will get no surprises here. ** ½

Let down by my expectations... I'm new to the Millennium trilogy, both the books and Swedish film adaptations. So many people raved about the first book, in particular, that I was very much looking forward to watching the video.  As the header to this review says I believe those expectations let me down.  But let's look at the positives. Rooney Mara is outstanding in her role as Lisbeth. Daniel Craig once again shows that he is far more than just James Bond and does a good job. The cinematography was excellent. It was great seeing the move set in Sweden and it was very well shot.  The beginning titles are superb but also reveal the strong evil undercurrent that pervades the movie. And it's that evil that I struggled with the most. The rape scenes are terrible and I wasn't at all prepared for those. It took me back to days of watching horror movies hiding behind the couch.  The first third of the movie is quite slow and doesn't really get moving nor all that interesting until the two main characters get working together. At that point it moves along at good pace. It's a dialogue-rich movie that requires attention to track the investigation for a serial killer.  It's not something I'd watch again and I'm not sure I will watch the second instalment except that I'm curious to know how it joins up with the first as there appeared to be closure at the end.

It's Still Shrek But........ I don't know of too many movies that can capture the creativity and originality of the first Shrek, including the second one as well. That being said, we have been Shrek fans since the day we saw the first one in the theaters, and haven't missed one since.  The plot is that of a usual Shrek plot, where Shrek is caught in a dilemma that he has to find a way to get out of. His dilemma in particular is that he in no way shape or form wants to take over as King when Fiona's frog---dad passes on. This embarks Shrek on mission to find next of kin, which happens to be a high school kid named Arthur (Justin Timberlake). Shrek sets off on a mission to find Arthur, but runs into problems when Arthur refuses to go with him. Meanwhile, back at Far Far Away, Fiona and gang have their hands full as Prince Charming and his entourage of bitter and vengeful fairy tale character attempt a take-over.  The ending, of course, is a happy one, and without giving too much of the plot away, Shrek, Fiona and the rest of the "good" gang end up getting what they want.  Overall, this is a decent movie for Shrek fans. It is definitely not the best in my opinion, but fans will appreciate the silly humor and references that are so common in Shrek movies. However, if you haven't seen this movie yet (as most Shrek fans probably have), just keep in mind that you probably won't come away thinking this is as good as the first one. For Shrek lovers though, it's worth the watch.

Good Action flick I enjoyed this movie, it had lots of good action and it actually had some good messages that were subtly communicated through the movie.

Pretty Good... Could be better Ok so this anime is alright, being pretty straight-forward and easy to follow. Normally with these types of anime, it walks a thin line between anime and hentai and at points the line blures to a point that it should just go full on hentai but doesn't. That said the first few seasons are great when all you want is a good fight between chicks like Hakafu and Kan-u. Recently I lost the bulk of my anime collection and have begun rebuilding it. Ikki Tousen, Dragon Destiny and Great Guardians are on the list and i do recommend these series but don't expect the greatest anime ever. it's just ok. beyond that i wouldn't bother because is pulls a little too far away from fighting for my taste

Final Destination 1-4 Pack First I just would like to think that if its your time to leave this Earth than maybe its just the time. Its like if you want to go back in time, if you mess with something you make the future different. And in the sense of the movies if you are gonna mess with Death and try to cheat it, its just going to come back in full circle and get you eventually. Don't mess with Karma, Death, Life, Destiny, Faith whatever else goes in that category.  Two what i thought of the movies: Final Destination: For sure is my favorite out of the four. I have always been a fan of Devon Sawa. I felt like the effects were done just right. It kept me guessing through the whole movie and the ending was great, made me so excited to see the next one.  Final Destination 2: I was having trouble playing this one in my DVD. It wouldn't bring me to the menu to play the movie. It would just get stuck after the animation of the logo. I tried it on my laptop and it went past the animation and to the previews to the main menu. So put it back in my DVD player and just somehow got it to go to the end where its the extra features are and than just went to the menu and playing it from there...it annoyed me so much. But the movie itself wasn't a bad add on to the first movie I thought it went well just going on with the story from where it left off. effects were good as well.  Final Destination 3: This is where I don't know if they should have stopped these after this one or before. I'm already not a fan of roller coasters or tanning beds and this one really makes me want to stay away from those two things for sure! The story was pretty good but at this point I was thinking this is stupid...not the story. By itself it handled its own but for as the whole package, you tend to know whats coming or think yea i seen this before, you people are funny thinking you could stop this. I liked how they used the pictures as on who's next on the list..that was pretty cool. I think they could have stopped after the second one and have this one as a totally different movie and named it something else actually.  The Final Destination aka (4): UGH this is the one i enjoyed the least. I liked the things he saw and how they did that but the effects at the beginning with the race and them getting crashed by the ceiling it was like yea that was definitely made by a computer. The part I dug was the mechanic getting slammed against the fence so hard that it cut him all the way through and the diamond shaped chunk of body falls off! I felt like the acting was definitely worse of the four, i wanted to smack every one of them for their "stupidity" thats how their acting felt like they had no talent and didn't convince me of anything.  Three im annoyed that there is a fifth one. You say final but yet you change your darn mind and make another (GRR!) Not going to lie I will probably watch it, but I'm pretty sure everyone already knows what's going to happen and just like all other sagas it just keeps getting worse and worse as the number of movie gets higher. Only movies that I havent felt a saga sucking after the first two is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002R3G912">SAW Complete Horror Collection DVD BOX 1.2.3.4.5 Unrated, Uncut I-V</a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00303GT3Q">Saw VI (Rated Full Screen Edition)</a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003Q6D27S">Saw: The Final Chapter</a>...I love Saw &lt;3! But anyway as a whole of the final destinations...Im in the middle..I like them but I do want them to end. why? Like I said at the beginning: to mess with stuff like that, if its supposed to happen, it will.

The good, the bad and the awful episodes of the Outer Limits. I was very excited when I purchased this old classic show. I knew I had seen some good and bad episodes years ago. I figured I would get into the series as it went along. Unfortunately I found that I often fell asleep in many of the espisodes. Some stories are pretty decent while others are simply dreadful relying on stupid monsters or some hokey dimension monster or some energy creature etc. I have the first five seasons of the New Outer Limits and it is by far the better product. It seems the problem with the original series was simply the weak sci-fi writing. The writers simply didn't know where they were going with a lot of the original stories. They didn't seem to know how to flesh out the ideas. So for the classic episodes that are in this collection I will give the show three stars but I can give only three stars because many episodes are simply tedious and dreadful.

Watch it for the music but don't expect a whole lot from the story I saw this movie in the theater with some girl friends and I was looking forward to seeing this movie because I loved Kristen Bell in Reefer Madness. I also think Christina Aguilera has an incredible voice.  Cons:  Kristen Bell is way under used in this movie. She can sing very well and they should have had her do at least a duet with Aguilera or Cher. I couldn't tell if she sang a song with her own voice or not. I know she was lip syncing to "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" but I thought there was one other song which she sang but it's not on the soundtrack.  Christina Aguilera isn't a very good actress. Nice try for a first major role but the director should have had her working with an acting coach.  Cher's face is so tight from the botox and plastic surgery, it affects the way she talks.  Story line is what you'd expect. Typical small town girl with big talents wins over everyone and saves the day.  Pros  The singing is fantastic. Christina is so emotional when she sings I was literally getting chills. Unfortunately, her acting isn't as emotional and it seems to stand out even more when you compare Christina the singer vs. Christina the actress.  The music and dance numbers are a lot of fun. I was blown away when they added the tag to "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend". I'm almost afraid of being disappointed if I watch it on my home t.v. It thrilled me to see/hear it on the big screen. I understand why they didn't put it on the soundtrack (they don't want to pay royalties on someone else's song) but I would love to have the audio for this cranked to 11.  Music, Music, Music. I really enjoyed the music. I don't buy soundtracks too often but I had to get it. I'm not even a huge fan of current pop music. I noticed right away that the end credits song (Beautiful People) was sampling Marilyn Manson's Beautiful People. Seriously, not usually my genre of music but I was impressed with Christina's voice post Disney.  All in all, Burlesque is fun and entertaining with a couple of cringe worthy acting from Christina at certain moments. I will never make my husband watch this but I may get a group of girls to come over and watch this.

Hasn't aged well. I remember this show as my favorite for Friday nights in the 70's, now I watch an episode and it doesn't seem as good as I remember. Maybe season 2 was better?

A slightly new direction under Moffat (still quite good, but a step down) (Note for purposes of discussion, this review does contain some very minor information about series 1-4 of Doctor Who. I wouldn't call them spoilers, but those who absolutely want to remain completely unspoiled as to 1-4 may wish to avoid this review.)  There is a very noticeable change in tone in the fifth series of the new Doctor Who. Some might attribute this to Matt Smith, but the blame or credit (depending upon your perspective), I suspect is more due to Steven Moffat taking over from Russell Davies as the man in charge.  Lest anyone get the wrong idea, this iteration of the Doctor is still fun, but at times, I missed the passion found in series 1-4. Matt Smith is delightfully quirky as the new Doctor, but he's working with what is being written for him (and he's upstaged by Karen Gillan as Amy Pond in a number of episodes...not necessarily a bad thing, but sometimes it does feel more like "The Amy Pond Show"). Aside from the episodes "Vincent and the Doctor" and the series finale (season finale, in American vernacular), it's rare to see this incarnation of the Doctor express sheer joy in the workings of the universe, humanity itself, or simple happenstance.  Personally, I found Eccleston and Tennant most engaging when at the extremes of emotion. There isn't much here that compares with Eccleston nearly breaking into tears of joy and exclaiming "Just this once, everybody lives!"  or Tennant's farewell in his final episode (to name just two of many). That isn't to say that series 5 is devoid of emotion, but it does seem to play less a part on average.  The writing too, has taken something of a hit. This was a bit of a surprise to me, as I greatly enjoyed Moffat's work (writing and/or producing) on Coupling, Sherlock, and past series of Doctor Who. It's not bad by any means, but at times it seems to lack the attention to detail we've come to expect from series 1-4. Most notably, the finale has a giant gaping plothole which is never addressed. Of course, that's not a first for Doctor Who, but at least Moffat himself (or at least he was credited with it) gave a wink and nod to the paradox he wrote himself into in "Blink" with the "big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff" line in series 3.  Nonetheless, good series and recommended to fans of series 1-4. I look forward eagerly to series 6.  --Also, I might add that the soundtrack here is one of the best of any of the Doctor who series.

Watch with lowered expectations I don't mind this film so much but what nearly ruined it for me was Will Smith. His constant asinine comments throughout the film. He finds an alien, punches him once, says 'welcome to Earth' and then has a cigar? Are you kidding? And he has these kinds of scenes throughout the film. It makes an otherwise entertaining film kinda disappointing. And the ending is, of course, ridiculous. Even the tv mini-series V had a more realistic approach to dealing with the aliens than this film. So, if you have a rainy day, want to just veg out on the couch and let your mind take a break from thinking, this film is for you.

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Had to watch it for a class, still funny but also kinda sad. Gary Grobowski (Vince Vaughn) and Brooke Meyers (Jennifer Aniston) meet at a baseball game by a pushy (no surprise) Gary Grobowski. The movie goes fast forward past the mushy phase of the relationship and we find that Gary and Brooke are living together in sin and they are having issues. Gary is selfish and immature and Brooke is passive aggressive and a horrible communicator. They essentially go thru a mini "War of the Roses" and finally split the condo they bought together. Gary grows up a bit and Brooke is happy. Solid performances by Jon Favreau and Jason Bateman. The End.

A great gift got this as a gift for my father he enjoyed it but once you see his stuff alot is the same..but i got it quickly it was in great condition this seller is a great seller

Notting Hill meets Beverly Hills Beverly Hills resident and mega movie star Anna Scott (Julia Roberts), lives in the spotlight with fame, fortune and gossip following her wherever she goes.  Notting Hill resident William Thacker (Hugh Grant), in contrast, leads a low-key life in a cramped condo with a kooky roommate named Spike.  One day these two worlds meet when Anna pays a visit to William's travel bookstore.  A romance ensues, but because of her fame, things are a lot more complicated than a regular romance.  There were aspects of this story that I liked as well as disliked.  Here's what I liked:  I liked how this movie humanizes celebrities.  When we peek into Anna's world, we see it's not as glamorous as  expected .  If she's not vigilant about what she reveals to people, that information  could  get  leaked into the tabloids .  And even when she is vigilant, bad decisions from her past still get leaked out.  When  her heart gets broken, the public views it as entertainment.  And the more she ages, the  more danger she is of being cast out in this youth-centered profession.  So,  I liked how this movie shows that while celebrities might appear larger than life, they're still human beings with feelings.  And like Anna  says towards the end, they're just  people  looking for love like everyone else.   I also liked the humor in this movie .  It's that witty, dry British humor that I love.  Some funny moments include the Horses and Hounds interview, the scenes with the bookstore customers, and the scenes with Spike. However, the scene where William is wearing swim goggles at the theatres was a little corny.  Here's what I disliked:  I disliked that William says he "loves" Anna only after 2 dates.  That seems premature to me and a little shallow.  I got the feeling he was just drawn to what he couldn't have. For example, after they break up, he dates a woman who's emotionally available and whom he admits is perfect, but dismisses her because he doesn't feel "love" for her.  I think it's because she was too available and he didn't have to chase her.  However, while I remained unconvinced that William and Anna's love was the real deal, I did see the woman in the wheelchair and her husband's love as the real deal.  I actually found their love story more compelling than William and Anna's and would've loved to hear more about it.  Another problem I had with William's and Anna's romance is that they're both too passive.  Anna passively withholds important information from William (like having a boyfriend) and William passively lets her get away with it.  Because these two are so passive in handling problems, I don't think either would make good long-term partners for anyone.   Another problem with this movie is the slow pace.  It starts out laugh-out-loud funny, but then midway through, starts to lose steam.  Hugh Grant is witty, but he also takes a long time to spit out his  lines,  which can be frustrating  sometimes.  The movie ends  feeling like  everything will be idealic and peaceful from here on out, but that ending clashed with  Anna's hectic life earlier with her avoiding the  paparrazzi.  Did the paparazzi just  suddenly  forget  about Anna and  decide  to leave her  alone?  The ending doesn't clear that up.  Overall, a pretty good movie that could've been better with stronger characters.

Great movie, still region locked. I loved the movie, although, this is region locked to the US. Blu-Ray players or PS3 systems bought outside the USA will not play this movie. I made that mistake. Oh well! Free gift to someone.

Product details about Blu-rays I would like to add another issue about mixing information about DVDs and Blu-rays.  I also want to know how the extra features on Blu-rays and DVDs differ.  This will help me decide whether to order the Blu-ray as I don't wan't to buy it if it doesn't have all the extra features that I have on my DVD for a particular movie.  This is really annoying!

Maybe if you like SYFY channel creature films This film might appeal to people who watch a lot of those CGI creature films on the SYFY channel.  It has some good gore scenes, but a film like this would've been better if it was gorier; it's only gory in some parts.  It also would've been better if they threw in some nudity but there's none.  It's a silly film about a giant monster pinata that kills off a group of people on an Island that are playing some underwear hunting game.  It's from the same director as TRANSYLMANIA, so that might give you an idea of what you're buying.  It's pretty bad but I thought it was kind of fun at times.

Where's The Magic ? For entertainment I would give this move a "C" grade,  maybe even a "C-".  I know it was an independent low budget film,  but,  whomever crafted the plot and story line ought to be ashamed.  The acting was professional with some reconizable names. The dialogue was a whole lot less than clever.  And the author never did tie up a couple of key elements.  The whole story line revolved around the death of a magician's assistant and her daughter seeking answers or revenge.  Unfortunately the answer to the quest for answers was a clear as Mud.  I came back to the description looking for someone to explain it to me..  So future reviewers,  Please feel free to enlighten me.  If you are getting this Movie because your hoping it will feature Bai Ling features... forget about it !  She is just eye candy.. magician's assistant... with loads of mascara and skimpy costumes.

Not as good as the other 4 - still, I liked it I actually bought (at first) the 1940 one(to see what my parents were like as young folks) -- then got the 50's one since I was a late 50's brat, then the 60's for my early teens and then the 70's for my high school days, and ended up with the 80's for my college daze.  The narration, content and music were all impresive in how they were done and they stuck with issues relevant to the social development in a way - that was at NO time, boring.  And I'm such a Retro Hound - that this was a real treat.  The extra features are great and for over 4 hours of extras PLUS the long documentary ---for the price, there is just no way you can lose out on having these if you are a retro lover or, just curious.  Now - I just wish they'd do a 1910 - 1920 - 1930 series, too.

Stupid funny The title says it all (STUPID FUNNY). Written, directed and starring the director of the Ace Ventura movies. This was a great concept; Take an obscure 1970s Hong Konk kung fu movie, cut it up, re-organize it to meet your new plot, add yourself into the movie, change the dialogue, music and sound effects and make fun of yourself and everything else.

Once Upon a wheel The Opening song really is awful,the racing sequences are never too long and smacked and edited together but there is some "Superbirds" Cars from The Stock Car/"AeroWars",there is some silly smelly hippie music,No Corvettes!(WTF?!) not enough Can-Am Action,More Open Wheel and Stock Car Stuff than any,But there is Snowmobiles!ATC'S,OffRoad(No Trucks),And even no wheels!(a Speedboat!). For someone not growing up or even being born around the time this came out it is entertaining but I have seen and I have myself better Racing footage than this.

One of the less inventive Dr seuss offerings In the past I have always enjoyed Dr Seuss cartoons converted to video offerings but the Lorax was slightly dissapointing and less inventive than other films have been. Storyline was mundane and characters shallow loosing all interest for adults. Probably  OK for kids though.

Not the best, but not the worst I didn't see this movie when it was first released because each subsequent season of TNG after 5 got worse and worse, then the TNG movies got worse, so I expected this to follow the trend.  Happily it did not, and was better than Insurrection.  Even having improved upon the previous movie, it wasn't good enough to keep the TNG machine going.  No fault of the actors, the writers and producers had a weak idea right from the beginning, but at least in this case, unlike Insurrection, it was well executed.

not the best. this wasnt what i expected,its pretty boring,and you dont really follow it unless you pay very close attention,some of the typical metro movies in the 30's were a bit boring and hard to follow but since its joan crawford,i enjy it anyway. though this doesnt come close to "Sadie mckee" or even "The last of mrs. Cheyney"

New Freddy just ain't the cut up Old Freddy was. This is an o.k. movie. If you've seen all the Freddy movies you might as well see this one too. Save yourself some time and just go to the final scene and watch the killer CGI effect! That's a nice way to end a movie and it might make you want to go back and watch the rest of it.  New Freddy looks way more like a burn victim than old Freddy and he really lacks a sense of humor. He could have used some shoulder pads to give him more of a threatening look. He doesn't wear the hat like Robert Englund. It's the Nighmare man that makes the clothes. Not the other way around.  The overall story is easier to understand than the original as you see Freddy back when he was human and before he got burnt. Freddy's deep voice comes off like someone is on a microphone with the bass turned to 11. It's so deep and booming it takes away from the film and doesn't feel real. The intent of that could have been just to do something different.  If they make a sequel to this one they really should have old Freddy and new Freddy fight it out just like Freddy vs. Jason. That would draw way more interest than any Freddy sequel they could make at this point.  I waited to get this one on DVD because I knew it wouldn't be worth paying the price to get in the theater despite being A Nightmare on Elm Street fan. It's worth around five-bucks on DVD. You can always use the disc as a coaster while watching your original Nightmare collection.

Bluray not as good as Expected Bluray quality transfer not good...too bad because I thought this new release 25th Anniv would tighten it up from the latest one.  This is no different than watching a standard DVD....at least it comes with a digital copy but not a great bluray transfer....

love the one with mork my favorite episode is on season 5. robin williams as mork i think was the funniest thing he was in. mork and mindy was not a funny show but mork on happy days was hilarious.im waiting for season 5 so i can get that episode.

kateland Although this documentary has been filmed in Bucharest, ROMANIA. I have been surrounded with street children for years. Where i come from, homeless children often live in abandon buildings. Some rarely venture out, others will group up and hang about the streets. And there are others who are all alone and frightend. Often i have tryed to make conversation with the lonely ones, they dont reply, instead they will just nod their head, and then run off.  Many have finished up this way, because their Mother has taken another partner. But he dosent want the kid too. And their Mother has gone and taken the boyfriends side, maybe through fear of loseing him. And the poor child has found himself or herself out on the street. Some of the street children have gone bad. They have Raped and Murdered. The street children in ROMANIA have FREEDOM and to be FREE is not a bad thing. But they look so dirty, there must be water around somewhere, so that they can wash themselves. And if the public would give them a few coins, they would not be hungry. {As long as the money goes on food} These children are haveing a life of some kind. They seem to be able to board the trains, and take a ride to a different place, then come back again later in the day. The sad thing is they have got themselves into sniffing paint, and drugs, ect. I also know of adult homeless people. And discoverd a long time ago, that many are out there sleeping rough because they have chosen to be homeless. They are a breed of people. THEY ARE THE STREET PEOPLE.

Short and Sweet, But Left Loose-Ends.... Though many feel that 60 minutes was enough for this film, I beg to differ. The concept was great, and story-line very unique. However, the ending somewhat leaves you warm, but hanging at the same time. If this movie was a simple "love story" then it achieved that goal, but as a thrilling zombie film, it fell a little short. We still don't know what caused the crisis, and we sure as hell don't know where the epidemic is heading. I do recommend this film for viewing, but I suggest you do so without paying a rental-fee. This movie would be perfect as a Top-Film on Amazon Prime.

All right film For me, this movie was neither great or awful. It had a decent storyline and nice special effects, but the first one was definitely better, at least for me. I would advise that you rent this film before you decide to buy it for your collection.

You're Not My Mummy! After the first two Mummy movies, this one just doesn't exactly feel like it belongs entirely. Not only because it is set thousands of years ago, but it just feels much more mundane. In the Mummy movies, the villain had some quite fantastic powers. In comparison, this one feels like there's barely any mysticism in it at all.  Going in, you'd think the movie would largely feature the event shown in The Mummy Returns where the Scorpion King makes his deal with the devil, so to speak. But that doesn't come into play at all. It's much more of a run-of-the-mill action movie set in ancient Egypt.  The performance from Dwayne Johnson is weak (see the Rundown for something where he actually does a much better job) but it's not necessarily terrible.  All in all, the movie simply ends up being a bit of a let-down.

Movie 5 stars, 3D -- only about a 2.5 I own a quite a few 3D movies, so perhaps my expectations were too high, but despite some stellar reviews on the 3D on this product by some other reviewers, I have to tell you the quality is FAR less than made-for-3D movies such as Despicable Me.  Do you remember those "3D" games/cartoons where the "3D" effect as you were supposedly either walking, or in a car, going along the road was the part closest to you moved slow, then there was a part in the middle that moved a bit faster, and then the part near the top of the screen moved the fastest?  This is only a step above that.  It is more like layered 2D images than true 3D. Yes, there are a few parts where true 3D is apparent, but those are few and far between.  Sorry, I can't help but think that some of the people have either let their love of the movie color their perception of what good 3D looks like, or they simply do not have many 3D movies to compare to.  I actually found the 2D blu-ray disc, or even the regular dvd more appealing, or at least less distracting.  One thing I noticed in all three versions that I didn't notice before was that the grass in the movie doesn't move when the animals walk through it. Although I didn't pick up on this when I saw the movie when it first came out, it was one of the things that was painfully apparent in the 3D, and far less apparent in the 2D versions.  And, yes, I know there are people that will disagree with me and mark my review as "not helpful", but I have to call it as I see it.

a great anime with honerable intentions If you want to see a guy getting the crap kicked out of him CONSTANTLY then this is for you. By the 2nd DVD i was so shocked as to how casually the male lead in the movie is beaten and abused. If the roles were reversed and a female was being beaten like this the series would have been condemed.  But... it kind of grows on you the more you watch it. i think the girls are way too butch and the guy it such a noob, that it it does get a laugh or two along the way.  the ending makes up for the 15 episodes, but just barely.

Good product, bad package I got this as a gift for my mother on Mother's Day, and while the product itself was great. (She loved all of the various extras it came with - books, music box, music soundtrack, etc.) the actual blue velvet box it came in was badly damaged upon arrival. Since I had ordered this just over a month ago and didn't open it (since it was a gift for someone else), the return window had already closed, and Amazon will not let me exchange the item for an undamaged one. It's not amazon's fault that the box was damaged as their shipping box was in good condition, but the damaged interior product made for a lackluster presentation of a gift to my mom on Mother's Day. So just be careful when ordering this product. (Otherwise it's a great gift for anyone who is a fan of The Sound of Music.)

Great This is a great movie.  We got it for our son and he has really enjoyed it.  We had just gotten it in time for Christmas

Great extra content, but only with the cinematic version of the movie I kept putting off purchasing Years 3 & 4 of the Ultimate edition after having read multiple reviews, reporting that WB did not include the extended versions of the films, which existed in Years 1 & 2. I too still have the WB's commercial, where they promise that each Ultimate edition set will contain extended versions. I have therefore felt cheated. I have since decided to buy these two sets, but only for the following reasons: I've been patiently waiting for the Ultimate editions ever since Year 1 was filmed way back then (2001). I never bought neither the DVDs, HD-DVDs nor BluRays of the films so as to avoid double- or even tripple-paying once the maxed out box sets become available (as many people knew they would). Thus these Ultimate editions will be my first purchase of every HP film. I'd also like to keep the continuity in the boxes, collectables and the excellent extra materials from Years 1 & 2 box-stes. Finally, if the WB later audaciously decides to produce the extended versions of Years 3 & 4 and put them on sale without a swap-in option for the existing Ultimate edition box-set owners, I would feel forced to download them from some file-sharing service as I am already paying for them with this Ultimate box-set, as advertised, but not delivered by WB. My only hope is that WB will not botch the final three Years and that Years 3 & 4 will be the only dark spots in they reputation.

Dunham Christmas Video This Jeff Dunham's Christmas Video(DVD) wasn't the best of his work,I've seen...It's ok...I wouldn't recommend it...But that is my thought..Somebody out there might enjoy it very much..I ordered another DVD I hope it better..

Disappointing ending "The Last Exorcism" begins promisingly enough--this mock documentary purports to chronicle the final exorcism performed by a charlatan minister who admits that his career as an exorcist has been a complete sham. The film crew rides along with him as he journeys to the backwoods of Louisiana to "exorcise" a teenage girl who's been victimized by demonic possession, which has led to the nightly slaughter of much of her family's livestock. Upon arrival, the exorcist finds a distraught father, a surly, skeptical brother, and Nell--the sweet, innocent possessed. After performing a staged exorcism (complete with a smoke-emitting crucifix and prerecorded demonic voices), the minister and his crew leave the farm--only to find themselves drawn back by a series of inexplicable and troubling events. The mounting tension is handled deftly--allegations of alcoholism, an unexpected pregnancy and insinuations of incest complicate the plot. The climax, however, devolves into a "Blair Witch Project"/"Rosemary's Baby" hybrid cop-out, leaving this film with an ending that does not live up to the film's well-done plotting.

defective product This product was received in the "shape" as promised; however, when I viewed the movie, it paused, froze up and upon review of the item when I removed it from my dvd player it appeared to have some scratches.  The product was new I removed all the protective coverings myself; however, the product was defective.

Not A Great Movie By Any Standard This movie was Ok. The Acting Was Good, But The Storyline Was A little Hard To Believe. It Was Just Ok in my opinion. Nothing Great.

Not dubbed, not bad, not great So let me set the record straight about this version of the movie from Amazon's Instant Video. It is the original Aussie soundtrack, not an English dubbed version. Between all the different DVDs and downloads, if you are interested in downloading this one, be assured that it is not dubbed. It is however, pan and scan. What that means for those of you who have never watched movies on VHS tape is that the screen is formatted for a squarish cathode ray television with a 4:3 aspect ratio, instead of the standard 16:9 ratio for widescreen HDTVs. So when you watch this, you're going to get the black bars on both sides of the screen. Yes, at first it is "widescreen" for a few seconds, but then it changes for the rest of the movie. In my opinion, this doesn't hurt the presentation.  The movie itself is a victim of the storytelling of the late 70s and obvious budgetary constraints. That's not to say that this is a bad film, but it doesn't really hold up today, even against your typical B-movie actioner. Some of the acting is way over the top to the point of being ridiculous. I'm thinking of the barechested police chief in the black leather pants and black silk scarf smoking a cigar and watering his plants and yelling at Max down the stairs while still holding his orange watering can. But I guess in Australia in the  late 70s, this was pretty normal. I will say that the climax of the movie shows admirable restraint and I thought it was well-executed. The real draws here are Mel Gibson and the fact that this is the movie that sets the stage for The Road Warrior. That the Road Warrior came out of this movie is amazing. The quality of filmmaking rose proportional to the budget and what comes out of it is nothing less than a masterpiece. This movie, at the very least, has really awesome box art.

Some good scenes but, Despite the feeling that you have a great cast looking for a film throughout much of the running time, Catch .44 does have some genuinely tense moments.  The dialogue feels forced especially at the beginning as do the licensed tunes that are clearly intended to kick the picture off and instead just play over scenes instead of every being part of them.  The women in the cast all do good work and Bruce Willis is fine in his small role.  The movie only has a couple riveting scenes and they both involve Forest Whitaker's character.  I felt myself grimacing as this is a very derivative film in many respects, I wouldn't even call it homage.  The cast does a good job of rising above the material especially Woll and Whitaker.

Surprising Crawford Role What a treat to see a film from this era that chose to depict the stirrings of the Civil War with a beautiful woman in the midst.  Have become so tired of the typical musical format and the attempt to unfold the struggles of the presidency and the political firestorm over states rights was a welcome treat.  I found the costumes, sets, dialogue, and exposition of then current trends (i.e. bundling?) to be most impressive.  Highly recommend for Taylor, Crawford, Barrymore, Douglas, Stewart fans, now that's a cast!

Decent Sci-fi film I am not a big fan of Science Fiction movies but the Predator is fairly entertaining. It must be around the top of ground breaking films when it comes to the sci-fi library and industry. By the late 80's to early 90's more science fiction movies were being made as technology became more advanced. My favorite sci-fi move to date is T-2, which is a much more well rounded movie than this in my opinion.  Overall if you are a fan of these types of films or one of Schwarzenegger, then think you could enjoy it but for the more casual sci-fi fan look towards some more recent releases for a more well rounded experience.  Peter J. Miller

Inside Pink Floyd: A Critical Review 1975-1996 Good experts interviews and opinions, but there isn't any original band member interview, nor any person related with the band inteview. Package says clearly "independent" and ther's nothing of a trick there anyway. It's a good integration of old and recent pieces of information.

for all the ones left behind this is more of a made for TV family channel experience made for all those left behind in the wake of a terrible war. I did enjoy it, seemed a lot of death though, The girls parents, then her brother and ben's uncle. then keith the boy's father bites it in end?! Then logan, beth and ben live happily ever after. just sayin', far from excellent cinema.

"Wild" not at "dated" as many state - threat of nihilism still relevant - Wild in the Streets - I first became aware of this cult-classic in the early 70's from a late-night television broadcast as a kid.  It was somewhat amusing and, at the same time, troubling to a kid at a pre-adolescent age.  But the movie haunted me for its implications into adulthood, and I at least in part, attribute to it some of the influence in developing a conservative worldview.  Though the film is a parody in many ways, the truth is often told in jest.  A young Max Flatow, Jr. is born to a controlling shrew of a demanding, unwilling mother (Shelley Winters) and a henpecked father during the early 50's post-World War II crop of affluent baby boomers, and grows up an only child in the quintessential white, middle-class suburbia of the era.  The dawn of radical cultural revolution is beginning to emerge in society in the mid- to late 60's when Max, Jr. reaches early adulthood, and he becomes its biggest victim, embracing the drug and music culture wholeheartedly.  The scene of a young Max producing LSD in his own basement lab, openly unconcerned about his oblivious parents' knowledge, as well as constructing a bomb, which he says will be used to blow up his father's new car, reveals the absolute anarchist mentality of this character early in life.  Running away from home early in life to strike out primarily in a career as a rock music idol, Max (now going by the name Max Frost) makes it big in several endeavors - it's never described what these other industries are, but a ticker tape machine becomes a fixture at his residence.  His charismatic appeal among the youth makes him a formidable force in shaping the cultural landscape, and he capitalizes on this mega-star status to push some of his ulterior intentions that are suggested early on: he performs his own song, "Fifty-two Percent," to hammer home the fact that the youth population in America has attained critical mass.  The popularity of Max is noticed by a liberal senate candidate from California, Johnny Fergus, who seeks to further his own political career by hitching his wagon to this youth cult phenomenon.  One of Fergus's main campaign promises is lowering the voting age to 18.  He arranges for Max to perform at one of this campaign speeches to clinch the vote of the young.  But, unknown to Fergus, Max has his own plans which include utilizing Fergus's campaign for his own political ends, which culminates quickly into the death spiral of the remainder of the movie.  A major weakness of this film is not explaining how a proven terrorist (Max follows through with bombing his father's car) and illicit drug producer/pusher could evade the law unscathed and eventually make it big politically.  But, ignoring these fatal flaws, the movie, for all its outlandish scenarios, makes a cogent point.  I believe the theme of this film is contained near the end in one of Max's major political speeches: "...some of us have changed this for ourselves already, but now we're going to change it for everyone."  How can this be allowed to happen in a free America?  But in case the viewer questions the extent of these "changes," they are laid out painstakingly in the ensuing speech.  And the mechanism for these changes is also articulated: "You give me the tools, you give me the laws, give me the power!"  By the end, an unrecognizable America results, one fundamentally remade (where have we heard that before?) with a megalomaniac at the helm.  The film mockingly presents this new American society as one of unprecedented peace and prosperity, but juxtaposes that image with the concentration-camp-style oppression of those who would stand in the way.  Its images were shocking, especially for a late 60's production, showing in graphic detail the militant oppression of a totalitarian regime (reallocation of children taken from those too old) and the grotesque image of a self-hanged Senator Fergus before his drug-numbed wife.  Even homosexuality is suggested as an emerging part of this new "movement of youth freedom" that is sweeping the nation, with Max's right hand man an admitted homosexual with the "hots" for Senator Fergus.  The film's implications may have been unthinkable at the time, but many of the abominations presented have been prophetically realized.   - Gas-s-s-s - I made it through this disaster, but can't comment much on this movie other than calling it an extended episode of The Monkeys 60's television show.  The extreme, pointless histrionics that are so characteristic of the flower-power hippie culture is on full display here (see the "Billy Jack" sagas and "Easy Rider" for other examples); a couple of minutes is more than enough.  The film is more a showcase of the radical music of the era and the "peacenik" mindset that pervaded the 60's anti-war movement.  It was kind of fun seeing a young Cindy Williams (of "Lavern and Shirley" fame) and Ben Vereen in prominent roles, but other than that, the film had no real appeal on any level.

Amelia Great performance by Hilary Swank.  Very good story about the life and mystery of Amerlia Earheart.  A tiny bit boring, at times, but overall, enjoyable.

The Stand This DVD is the made for TV mini series of The Stand as adapted by Stephen King. Generally this is faithful to the book, but unfortunately some aspects of the story aren't explored as fully as they could be and other storylines are adapted or removed altogether. Considering how detailed the book is and how it would need to be altered for screen this is understandable. The reason I gave this three stars is that with the exception of Gary Sinise, and a few other minor characters, the acting is extremely wooden. The sets and overall style are a touch dated as well, but it tends not to detract from the story or your enjoyment too much. If you like the book then this mini-series is well worth a try and if the book's length daunts you then this is a great way to get to know the story without spending hours reading. Although I must add that the time spent reading this epic masterpiece will not be wasted. A great film, an OK cast, dodgy sets and 6 hours to relive a brilliant epic story.  Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.

Double Impact dvd artwork? I don't understand why MGM could not use the original theatrical poster with both Van Damme brothers side to side as the  movie artwork?

"Dead fly!" "Dead fly!"  That's how this version begins, introducing us to an imperious Aunt Polly (who has all the charm of a prison matron); a joyless soul.  Unfortunately, she set the tone for most of this film.  I wasn't impressed.  All right, maybe if I wasn't so partial to the Disney version I might have begrudgingly liked this one more than I did.  But, I did see the Disney version first (and many times), so this one really didn't stand a chance in comparison.  Still, even on its own, as likable as it was at times, it still lacked a certain cohesiveness.  Episode after episode lazily played out, slowly making way for the next scene.  It was all matter of fact, oh by the way....  There was no impact; characters never stayed around long enough to settle into hearts and minds.  I immediately disliked Amanda Burton (as Aunt Polly) and couldn't stop even after her transformation, which didn't seem all that heartfelt.  As for Georgina Terry as Pollyanna, instead of being the glad girl she just came off as slightly daffy. I too read the book (21 years ago) and liked it.  This was not the book. I didn't hate it.  I'm glad I saw it.  But I didn't keep it for future viewings (as I have with the Disney version).

"...Woodsteeeein!!" BLU-RAY review  Did the media change since "Watergate"? This is what journalist Linda Ellerbee had to say:  "The media today, much of it, is heavily into self-censorship. They do not pursue stories that they do not believe will be popular with the readers or viewers, particular television. Television is about offending the fewest because it's about filling the seats. In television it's important to remember that the product is not the program. The product is the audience and the consumer is the advertiser."  quoted from: "Telling the Truth about Lies", (BD-bonus feature)  Film: 8/10 Picture quality: 7.5/10 Aspect ratio: 1.78:1 (Orig.: 1.85:1) Runtime (24fps): 2 18'21" Audio: English ST: English Chpt.: 33 Extras: all in SD - Audio commentary by Robert Redford - "Telling the Truth about Lies"; 28' - "Woodward and Bernstein - Lighting the Fire"; 18' - "Out of the Shadows - The Man Who was Deep Throat"; 16' - "Pressure on the Press"; 10' - Talkshow "Dinah!" feat. Jason Robards, 1976; 7'10" ASIN: B001SARO9Q Studio: Warner  BD has wrong aspect ratio: !.78:1 instead of original 1.85:1. Contrast is a bit weak, rather dark on some shots. Although this might have been intentional, (DP: Gordon Willis, aka 'Prince of Darkness' (P. Biskind) "The Godfather", "Klute") to accentuate contrast between political DC ("dark") and neon-lit Washington Post office rooms ("enlightenment"??) Sharpness varies from satisfactory (e.g. TC 00:13:52, 00:30:52, 01:12:53 (close ups) and 01:37:19-33 (long shots) to more DVD-like levels (e.g. TC 00:08:42, 00:12:22, 00:23:26, 00:41:40, 01:12:19 (medium long shot). Probably picture was zoomed in to fit 16:9 full-screen?

I want more! After seeing I cant think Straight (4 Stars!) and the world unseen (3 Stars!) I have to say I love the actresses and their struggles. Love the director. As far as LGBT movies I cant think straight is in my top 10 for sure. Only down side is it definately leaves you with an extreme desire for more. More story line, more sex, more of anything! But hey we cant have it all can we.

Love the show, but this review is for the DVD quality The quality of the DVDs are poor.  Disc 1 and Disc 4 skip badly during play...close inspection reveals underlying scratches and dimples.  Also, on Disc 1 and 3, unable to watch the Deleted Scenes part.

Only 3 stars for Spider Man 3 Even though Spider Man 3 has way too much going on, it feels like you get two movies in one. There are many flaws and contrivances throughout, but still mildly entertaining and seems like a fitting way to end this trilogy.

THE ONLY THING SPOOKY IS THE POORLY WRITTEN SCRIPT Somehow I got lured into really wanting Spooky Buddies for myself (although I'm not a kid and I watched it with another adult).  Perhaps my love of dogs drew me in, but I ended up buying it.  I'm sorry to say that Spooky Buddies is basically as flat as a 2 liter of Coke left out on the table for days with no cap on.  First of all, the dialogue is just really awful.  It's as if no one knows what to say and the talking dogs in costume (that's scary enough)don't have much to bring to the table.  Worst of all is B-dog who goes around spouting tired slang throwing in a "yo yo" when he has nothing clever to say which is most of the movie.  The overuse of the word "dude" seems like a bunch of hungover people got together and wrote the script in about half an hour because they needed something to present to their bosses.  I guess the "buddies" are supposed to be stereotypes but they aren't funny and they don't work well - for instance you have the fat one, the brainy one, the resident girl, etc etc.  The kids don't really have that many lines and you soon forget them all together.  The basic idea of the whole movie is that in 1937, four puppies from the same bloodline have their souls taken from the Halloween Hound and a warlock bent on casting a spell to set demons upon the Earth.  They need five puppies, but Pip, the last one, gets away mid-ritual and is turned into a little, Casper-like ghost.  Modern day, the hound and the warlock are released on Halloween and seek five more puppy souls ala the buddies to complete the unfinished spell.  Most of the movie is a lacksidasical romp trying to find the buddies and take their little furry souls with Pip trying to help the buddies out when he can.  One thing I did find funny was that the warlock and the hound mistook trick-or-treaters for "demons" already unleashed on the Earth by some other force greater than them (as if someone had gotten to it first) - that made me chuckle.  I also enjoyed the band playing the Halloween Brew Ha Ha at the adults Halloween party.  There are some other funny little nuances such as one kid's Mom goes out and buys him a bunny costume for Halloween (is that a nod to A Christmas Story?) because she gets "hip hop" confused with "hippity hoppity".  Or the wizard who surfs on a staff rather than a witch who flies on a broom.  The Frankendude character is quite entertaining (although overplayed)but the fact that he's already kind of brainless like Frankenstein is really funny (I think the warlock? says he wish he'd turned someone smarter into his assistant).  And bascially one fart saves the day, which is cute (if you watch it you'll see what I mean).  There's a running joke that anyone born in 1937 is pretty ancient which is kind of funny (seeing that my Mom was born October of that year).  Anyway, there are some moments, but it's too bad that the script couldn't be a do over.  The talking dogs are lame and I think at some point kids might get kind of tired of this movie when the cute factor wears off.  There are definitely better kid-oriented Halloween movies that I'd watch a thousand times, but this is not one of them.  Sorry Buddies, the only thing spooky is the script.

Interesting BUT... Lots of action and beautiful girls but story is kinda lacking.  I did not leave the theater thinking wow great movie.  It was ok and would make a decent rental.

Doesn't quite hold up I saw this movie with my kids when it first came out in 1984 and loved it. I remember feeling like it stirred the imagination and might prompt children to explore the wonderful world of books. I particularly liked the Rock Monster and his lament about how his "good, strong hands" no longer did the job. Viewing it now as a senior in 2012, the movie seems dated and a little clumsy. Some of the magic wore off, maybe from me. It's still a good story, but not quite in the category I want for DVD's that I buy: something that will be enjoyable in repeated viewings. "E.T." belongs in that category, but "The Sandlot" (which I also loved when it first came out) and "The NeverEnding Story" don't quite measure up. Also, this DVD has no video special features, just some written notes.

Gods & Generals If you're a fan of Gettysburg and/or a civil war buff, this is a good addition to your collection. I like this pre-quill because it takes you back, right before the war kicked off. Faily accurate, it's showing how the confederates started off strong and the union was taking a beating (like Fredericksburg, etc.). The few things I don't like about this is the actor changes. Some came back to do this one, but you'll get used to it. I also feel that's it's drawn out a little too long. There's some spots I just want to ffwd to the next scene. Over all though, I enjoyed the movie. Bottom line, If ya own Gettysburg, ya gotta get this one!!

Ok but...... This was already released from the Disney Movie Club I already got it on a pre order while i won't give actual movie spoilers like plot or anything like that other then what was cut (See Below) I will say this, the set is only worth getting if you want to have both movies on a blu-ray disc or if you want to get a value for both movies since this is a valuted Disney movie. The biggest gripe that i have about this is back in 2005 when they made the 10th anniversary release of the first film they added back the cut song "If i never knew you" seamlessly into the film where pocahontas goes to meet up with the prisoner John Smith which really added the magic of Disney into the movie and in the end where they finished it quite nicely i might add to give the movie that great classic feel to it. Don't expect to see that in this version of the film its only an extra on the Bluray and not even an option on the dvd and its only the one song that is mentioned above not the final clip of the film.  On a slightly better note the remaster of the music and crisp look of the animation in full 1080p is a nice touch and having both movies is another since i don't belive that they really bothered with the second movie for dvd (I could be wrong on that one).  All in all its a good price but unless you really want to get the new format personally go and get the 10th anniveresary edition on DVD. Why Disney decided to cut the extras out like they did with the Lion King ReReRelease after going through all the extra work to make the additions is a mystery but who knows. personally i rate it a 3 1/2 stars only due to the value of getting both movies when the DVD's are out of print but if you already have both unless you really need that Blu-ray copy its not the greatest of investments.

OK I bought this on sale over the holidays.  It was decent, but I guess I was expecting more out of it in terms of telling the story of "This Is It" and I expected more performances to listen to on my home theater sound system.  It's just OK in my opinion.

These girls are NO Shaun T (Hip Hop Abs)! I recently started an after school girls fitness group, 10 weeks of various exercise techniques to teach young women to feel good about themselves & their bodies & to learn that EVERYBODY can find a type of exercise that they like! As a former yoga/group exercise instructor & personal trainer, I started the girls out with basic pilates techniques, then some yoga, walking, we tried HIP HOP ABS & (at the girls request) ENVY GIRLS...they orginally wanted to try Flirty Girl Fitness, but not only did I not want a pole erected in my classroom, but the reviews on Amazon kept me from that purchase & steered me to ENVY GIRLS. We popped the disc in,  excited to try something new, but were quickly disappointed. The warm-up's sound was poor & provided very few technical cues, even my teenage students were not all that impressed with the ENVY GIRLS themselves as we proceeded through all 4 workouts (a little like Barbies doing squats & tricep extensions complete with a "smile & pose" with each repetition), the routines were tough (which I appreciated) but poorly executed & GIRLS provided no motivation through the workout, in fact they barely count out the VERY repetitive reps...all of this being said, my girls group & I would suggest you go with Shaun T & his HIP HOP ABS series (a little cheesy sometimes, but TONS of fun & YES, you'll feel the burn, but you won't even care because time flies with this video)! Shaun T's technique is true, his prompts effective, sound & studio are top-notch & he really offers a workout EVERYONE would return to time & time again!

pretty much the same, with dinos and swashbuckling weasels thrown in My kids love these films.  They have good characters and slapsticky jokes, complicated plots (OK formulas), and plenty of opportunites for bonding.  After seeing them once or twice, they pretty much become background noise for us parents, but that is fine.  Recommended as throwaway entertainment with good themes about teamwork amidst diversity.

3.5 stars. Some good, most blah. Worth checking out. Do not approach this as a musical experience. It _is_ a movie, or, at best, a multi-media performance piece. This is so because, first, it is the visuals that give the feel to the whole piece, and, second, because the purely musical part is not always first class (yes, despite the known names and the orchestra involved). So, real quick:  Good: 1. The flying whales segment (Pini di Roma) is cool (solid 4 stars) 2. The final piece (Stravinski, Firebird) is real good. Very inventive and evocative, affecting, beautiful, solid 5 stars.  Bad: 1. Pomp and circumstance: poorly played! Wrong tempo and out of balance. 2. Live insertions: ANNOYING. What was the point anyway? The film would gain is they were dropped.  Indifferent: the rest, including most of the animation. It feels a bit crude, I must say, kinda a like a bunch of pre-manufactured bodies from Poser moving around. Underelaborated; smells of computer animation. These days far better visuals are achievable -- at least for an outfit like Disney. Either make it more hand-drawn sorta thing, more painterly; or, if you rely on software, make it really detailed and textured. Low-resolution, quick-rendered stuff doesn't cut it anymore.  Bottomline: recommended, for the sakes of the two pieces I mentioned. Feel free to skip the rest. Worth having, especially if you can get a copy at a discount.

dang This movie is so awesome (so is the short story by Chris Crutcher).  I don't have the DVD yet, but do own the VHS.  It's too good not to have the DVD, but now I read from the reviews that it's poorly done.  Why???  Please oh please release a good version!

Disappointed. I hesitate to write what I really think of this movie as it seems to be so popular, but I do want to give my opinion.  This film starts off unbelievable from the very start.  I was shocked at the horrible dialog of the B-17 crews.  Were they reading it off of cue cards?  No emotion.  No fear.  It's like the makers of this film had never seen "12 O'Clock High", "The War Lover", "Battle of Britain", "Memphis Belle" or even the short but emotional fighter scenes from "Pearl Harbor".  Did anyone else notice these pilots NEVER used their goggles?  Even the pilot who had fuel pouring into his cockpit didn't use his goggles.  Ridiculous!  Then the CG.  If I'm not mistaken, I think the jeeps in the film were real, and a plane here and there.  The CG was overused and too obvious.  The music score, IMO, was just weird.  I don't think it flowed at all.  The acting was just ok.  There were some good action sequences.  Personally, I think that German pilot did his part better than anyone.  Lastly, I was actually expecting a cameo appearance by Bruce Willis and Steve McQueen.  Could they have come any closer to copying the POW scenes from "Hart's War" and "The Great Escape"?  Can no one in Hollywood have an original thought these days?  Overall, a fair war movie.  Better acting would have made a major improvement.

Aronofsky tries , unsuccessfully , to be Cronenberg Only David Cronenberg can BE Cronenberg . Fine and interesting premise . Great cast . 2/3rds Aronofsky , 1/3rd Dave Cronenberg is a BAD and STUPID blend . What was the WRESTLER'S director thinking ? He wasn't . See it for the actors . Cassel is a wonder ,  as he was in the far better EASTERN PROMISES . Directed , curiously , by DAVID CRONENBERG . WOW . Some sort of new Scriptures style cinema ? You tell me ? Downer as well . Out.....Blimjo

Charlie Sheene Fail This is certainly an action packed movie, showing the conflict between enemies and US soldiers.  But Charlie Sheene simply cannot act. His performance is weak because he is only good for comedy, not drama.  Otherwise it shows the horrors of the Vietnam war if that is what you want to see.

BEEN THERE DONE THAT. The people trapped inside of building having to escape by figuring out puzzles has become overdone. Frankly I am a bit burned out by it all, I stopped watching Saw movies at IV because it got so bad and so far from the original, although not as bad as Halloween 3, which had nothing to do with the first two movies other than the fact it was Halloween.  What is different about this movie which made it tolerable to watch was that it concentrated on the technicians who were operating the cube rather than the blood and guts aspect of people getting killed in imaginative fashion, although it does have some of that.  The bad guy with the fake eye was almost cartoonish. If you sat through the other two movies and liked them, you know you are going to watch this one anyway, so why are you reading the reviews?  No sex or nudity.

Wonderful story This wads wonderful movie about true friends and true love. Anne Hathaway was wonderful with her British accent.  The movie was different and surprising. Get your tissues, because you will need them.

Eh, it's a saw movie I had to watch this just to finish out the "Saw" movies. The last few have been a bit slow & predictable (so & so survives & keeps killing, etc).  So I wanted to see how the franchise finished out. There were some twists which I didn't see coming but also glad to see the ultimate twist in the end.  Glad the movies are finally over & now I can stop trying to test out my 'yuck' factor.

Some good, some bad. While I agree with some of the other reviewers citing the use of footage from Superman 1, there are some good things about Richard Donner's version of the film. It is less campy than the Lester version, and as another reviewer stated, it treats the audience like adults. It does not stoop to making Superman's (the man who is more powerful than a locomotive) alter ego into a bumbling fool so that Lois can discover his secret identity; rather, it focuses on Lois Lane's astuteness as a reporter and her ability to 'fill in the blanks', so to speak. There are no cheesy comments during the street fight, no cop-out in the fortress of solitude involving Superman's mother, and no campy scene of small-town America (complete with children with English accents). Zod, Non and Ursa are given more screen-time, and instead of one-dimensional villains, we get to see more of their personalities, which is great. Had the Salkinds showed some humility and kept Donner on the project, we would not have had to wait thirty years for this footage, not to mention being treated to more campy sequels. At any rate, this film does not stand well on its own, but does very well as an historical document.

S-l-o-w! This movie could have worked.  Hackman and Freeman are brilliant actors  with the ability to make you want to watch them even when they aren't doing anything.  Monica Belucci is so beautiful you can't take your eyes off her.  The plot isn't fabulous, and the twist at the end is so old it creaks, but they might have worked.  Except that the movie is so slow it wears you out.  All those long takes of the stars' faces, such wonderful faces, do not advance the story.  By the end of the 110 minutes, you're either asleep or ready to scream in frustration.  At a tight, terse 80 minutes, this might have been an exciting film.  As it is, though, it simply is not.

Early Hitchcock An interesting look at Hitchcocks's early work, you can defiantly see some of the tropes that would become common in his later career. There are some great uses of sound (most uniquely the transition of the train whistle) and POV. 39 Steps also has an interesting (if not entirely realistic) story that generates the suspense Alfred is known for.  Where the film drops the ball is the characters and the acting. At no point was I the least concerned with the fate of Hanney. This could be because the character never stays consistent. At one moment he is the everyman put in a wild position trying to be just ahead of his pursuers to stay alive, the next he's a super genius who gayly bounces witty banter back and forth with Pamela. It's enjoyable, but it also lessens the suspense. What isn't enjoyable is Pamela, who as a character is both annoying and entirely forgettable.  39 steps isn't a terrible film by any stretch, but it also isn't a great one.

Think like a man The funniest part of the film was the relationship between the guys. And what they had to say to each other. The rest of the film wasn't all that . .

Bought this DVD because of actors comments I'm not a fan of TW saga but I'm a huge fan of Kristen Stewart (favorite moview - Cake Eaters, The Runaways, Welcome To The Rilyes). I bought this DVD to listen humorous comments of both Kristen and Robert and wasn't disappointed. They are both very intelligent with great sense of humor young actor. As for movie - I would consider it much much better than the previous - New Moon. I would prefer they would add more backend stories for Cullen family - only Rosalie's and Jasper are covered, while the most interesting, in my opinion, - Carlisle's is not there. I'm owning all movies because of my daughter and actively invloved into discussion of both - books and movies. It worth owning because every movie of TW saga has it's own great moments and scenes, and you don't have to watch the whole one - just skipping to scenes you love (of course after watching the whole movie first).

better than most I like Westerns and thought that this was average.  It was made for TV, so the story seems too drawn out in parts.

Good video footage, but are the sources credible fact or opinions? This video has alot of information, but it is opinionated. If you were working on the rig or spill, lets hear what you saw or know.

Diiferent time...dofferent place And things have changed. It was just odd to see them back...but the story was very....standard.  From the X-Files series, the stories, at least in the first 2/3 of the series, were very original.  But then this comes along, and our heroes are in a pretty standard movie. Nothing really exciting, nothing really different. It was good to see Mulder and Scully together again, but the spark has dulled.  And what happened to Scully's hair! It used to be Lucy red...now it's a long, straight dull mess.

Wyatt Earp's Revenge Based on the "true story" of the murder of Dora Hand (Fannie Keenan) by James "Spike" Kenedy.  Spike was the son of a wealthy Texas rancher Captain Mifflin Kenedy who, with Richard King, had founded the King Ranch, one of the largest sources of income for Dodge City and the rest of the territory.  The story is told to a newspaper reporter who has a special interest in hearing the story, from the perspective of Wyatt Earp in 1907.  This special interest is revealed at the end.  Finding opposition from Judge Hinkle to issue arrest warrants Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson and Charlie Bassett turn in their badges to go after the Kenedy Brothers. Along the way they pick up Bill Tilghman which creates one of the most famous posses of the Old West.  Spike Kenedy left a trail of bodies in his path as he headed home.  There were no redeeming qualities presented about this man--he was ruthless and took what he wanted.  Murder was a game to him.  Along the way they meet Doctor John Henry Holiday.  Wilson Bethel of Hart of Dixie plays the infamous dentist and lunger, who would become Wyatt Earp's best friend, with a certain finesse.  His character was the only one in the film that seemed gleefully happy.  The other actors were very stoic men.  Val Kilmer plays the laconic, aging legend in 1907 who gives a low-key but powerful performance as he relates the story from 1878.  There is a sadness about Wyatt which is given proper attention.  Diana DeGarmo of American Idol fame plays Dora Hand, the young actress who fell in love with Wyatt.  Wyatt's duty and his desire for a normal life are contrasted in his relationship with Dora.  This is a well-crafted film with good plot, story, cinematography and music.  It's enjoyable if you like this type of film. This would be a fine film to add to any Wyatt Earp collection if you are a fan.  Please keep in mind the "true story" element is stretched and rewritten.  Now for some criticisms and historical facts:  The DVD cover says, "Based on the true story of a lawman gone renegade".  As history accounts record this incident, they did not give up their badges.  Spike Kenedy was in love with Dora Hand. Spike was granted acquittal for the murder, but he never fully recovered from his wounds and died December 29, 1884 at the age of 29.  It is reported that Spike's father paid over $25,000 for this acquittal.  There is no historical evidence that Wyatt Earp and Dora Hand had a relationship.  Dora was a beautiful woman and had many men who appreciated her.

Decent movie I originally bought this movie for someone else but I am glad I decided to watch it too.  I have seen better Michele Williams acting but she did OK.  This movie is about a terrorist act which I don't care for which is why I only gave the movie 3 stars.  I don't think Michele Williams was guilty of bad acting, I just don't think she should have ever been cast in this role.

"For a few to be immortal, many must die." - Justin Timberlake tries to beat the clock Tempus fugit, bro. The movie title is lame but the premise is nifty and thought-provoking. I had to double check to make sure that Philip K. Dick didn't write this. But, no, Andrew Niccol penned the story and then shrugged and directed it, as well. Sometime in the near future, some messed up genius has figured out a way to genetically engineer the human body to halt the aging process once it attains 25 years. The catch is that once you reach 25, you're left with only a year to live. A digital clock activates on your forearm, begins to count down your last year of living. Except that there's a method by which you can add time to your body clock. In a world in which time has become currency, you can work for it, get paid in increments of  time. You can choose to barter an hour of your life for ten minutes of heaven with a lady of the evening. A call on a pay phone costs one minute, a bus ride an hour. In this reality, "Tempus fugit" has a horrific connotation.  One way to ascertain class status is by how leisurely or frantically someone is going about their business. In the ghetto district inhabited by Will Salas (Timberlake), people frequently eye their built-in clocks, frequently run during their errands. In the ghetto, people don't have time to kill, but they will murder for time. If you get caught napping, thieves can literally steal time from you. When the puzzled heiress wonders how people in the ghetto live like this, Will remarks, "People don't much sleep in." Phrases such as "Don't waste my time" or "Do you have a minute?" take on whole new breadths of meaning.  In this new world order, the gulf dividing the haves and have-nots has expanded exponentially. The rich can simply amass centuries' worth of time and, in essence, become immortal whereas the poverty-stricken desperately scramble to earn enough time to make it thru the day, sometimes thru the next hour. Will Salas is 28 years old (or "25 + 3"). When a mysterious man (Matt Bomer) bequeathes Will Salas his century of life and then promptly commits suicide - in the parlance of the day, he "times out" - Will is suspected of murdering his benefactor. Because who would give away a century of life? Enter Cillian Murphy as the relentless head Timekeeper, the near future's version of law enforcement.  What do you do when you suddenly have a hundred years' worth of time? You skedaddle from the ghetto and crash New Greenwich, where the influential and the deep pockets dwell, is what. We track Will Salas' arc as he goes from ghetto factory worker to determined outlaw, fighting to effect a change. A key component to his transformation is his brush with Sylvia Weis (Amanda Seyfried), the sheltered 27-year-old ("25 + 2") daughter of New Greenwich's wealthiest business mogul. (There's an even more crucial development which fuels Will's anti-establishment rage, but that might really be spoilering it - but you'll see it coming.) Sylvia Weis is one of them idle rich kids what has bodyguards trailing her, and she suffers from sheer ennui brought about by a lifetime bout of entitlement. You can imagine that spark of interest when she set eyes on Will, someone trying to blend - but not quite making it - into her rarified universe. The story applies an age-old plot device to throw Will and Sylvia together. Throw in the Timekeepers, and Will's decision to go down that dark road, and things suddenly take a Bonnie & Clyde turn but with a Robin Hood twist.  Carpe tempus, or something. Will's crusade to parcel out time to those in need has unintended consequences. He didn't plan on the lowlifes to start preying on those what just got free time handed to them. And, to play devil's advocate, it turns out, there's a checks and balances system in play. With immortality achievable, overpopulation is stringently kept at bay by the government's continuous price hikes and the taxes reflect this. Places like the ghettos are heavily impacted; the death toll evens the scales. So how righteous is Will's cause, really? His mantra is "Is it stealing if it's already stolen?" But maybe it sounds a bit too self-serving.  In this one Justin Timberlake isn't as locked in as he was in THE SOCIAL NETWORK, but he still has that big presence. IN TIME is a high concept sci-fi thriller, except that it knows that it's high concept. The metaphors fly thick and obvious. The allegory is transparent. The story is approached in a heavy-handed way. Timberlake and Seyfried are good together, but this is in spite of some laborious dialogue. So part of the film dragged for me. But there came a time when Amanda Seyfried's character was finally allowed to step out of her bored shell. Timberlake, scalp and jawline stubbled like all good action heroes should, does pretty well with the action sequences. All these nice good elements convince me to rate this sucker a better than average 3 out of 5 stars. It'd be higher but for those slow bits to slog thru and that whiff of stuffiness and that there isn't one truly knock-it-out-of-the-park moment in the film (although Timberlake and Pettyfer's time duel in the swanky hotel room comes close). So go. Carpe Fandango, or something.

copied dvd not in case i wish i knew this wasnt the real platinum adition that you can buy in stores. instead its a copied dvd not in original case.

Good--Not Great Hmm, I wanted to like this film a lot more than I did by the time the credits rolled. The story of a talented marathon runner who is also a cold blooded, unfeeling bank robber/killer. As a runner with nowhere near the talent of the 'anti hero' of the film played by Andreas Lust, the scenes of him running throughout look better than any I can ever recall in a movie. As the film opens Andreas gets out of prison for bank robbery and immediately returns to the only two things he lives for--running and crime. Its unclear why he does either activity as neither one seems to bring him pleasure or meaning in his life any more than the beautiful girlfriend he resumes living with upon release. In fact the 'why' of what is driving Andreas in his life is never explored or revealed in this film. He's gifted athletically; his Parole Agent & others bend over backwards to help him; and yet he seems to be a complete, unfeeling, 'zombie' hurtling towards self destruction. 'The Robber' seems to be driven by the theme of nihilism to its quiet, near wordless conclusion. Be aware this is not a 'satisfactory ending', 'it all makes sense now'film, but it is compelling & well done.

50/50 Movie Review Interesting film about friendship. Has funny and poignant moments. The actors suck you into the story. Worth watching and was very easy to download from Amazon.

New characters and elements are introduced that make this series differ from the original Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Part Two is a two-disc set that contains episodes fourteen through twenty-six of the series.  It's been very fascinating to see how much the story in this series has changed in comparison to the original Fullmetal Alchemist anime series.  In these episodes, we are introduced to several new characters who did not appear in the original anime series (May Chang, Lin Yao, and Lan Fan), who all come from the land of Xing.  We are also introduced to the ruins of Xerxes, and how they are important to the story of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.  While some of the elements from the original anime are still here, there are different twists and details for these elements.  There are some changes that I liked and that I thought were interesting, while I felt others worked better in the original Fullmetal Alchemist.  However, it should be noted that Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is intended to be a more accurate representation of the story from the Fullmetal Alchemist manga series.  On the main menu of the discs, you can choose to watch all of the episodes, choose which episode you want to see, set your audio and subtitles preferences, and see the extras.  The only extra on the first disc is commentary for episode fourteen ("Those Who Lurk Underground").  There are four extras included on the second disc.  The first extra is commentary for episode twenty-three ("Girl on the Battlefield").  The next feature is labeled as "Textless Opening Song."  This feature has the new opening credits that were introduced on this set.  The next feature is labeled as "Textless Closing Song," and it features the new ending credits that were introduced on this set.  The final extra on the disc is trailers.  On this disc are trailers for: The Slayers, Initial D, Nabari no Ou, Soul Eater, Kaze no Stigma, Dragon Ball Z, and Full Metal Panic!  If you're familiar with the original Fullmetal Alchemist anime series when you watch this set, you'll have a feeling by the end of the set that, while you know most of these characters, it feels like you're watching an entirely different series.  However, that's not to say that this is a bad thing.  Personally, I'm really looking forward to seeing how Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood continues on with the next DVD set.  If you're a fan of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, this release is worth picking up and adding to your DVD library.  If you're a fan of Fullmetal Alchemist that must own everything related to the series, this is also worth adding to your collection.  If you're a fan of Fullmetal Alchemist who also enjoys Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, then this set is also worth purchasing.  I wrote a review of this DVD set after checking out a copy through the King County Library System.

Same Film different title This is the same stock picture as any modern spy film . . . CIA bad, burned spy wanting to blow a whistle on everything, the young impressionable agent caught in the mix.  What makes this movie entertaining is the setting of South Africa, which is a unique location, and the acting is better than most spy films.  It's worth a rental, but it certainly isn't anything original or mind-blowing.  The ending is so commonplace, I figured it out half-way through.  I've seen this movie before, under a different title and with different actors.  I wish they'd give us an original spy film.  But overall, it's a fun film that was beautifully shot and wonderfully acted.  It even adds little bit of South African soccer to it.

Why such a chaotic ratios for each movie? Is not fair! I must complain about this STANLEY KUBRICK ESSENTIAL COLLECTION. The package itself is all right, but the cover LIES about the ratios. It begins with BARRY LYNDON and says "Widescreen Version presented in a format preserving the aspect ratio of its original camera negative". Well, the ratio is 4x3 and NOT AT ALL a widescreen version. First lie. About LOLITA, DR. STRANGELOVE and FULL METAL JACKET, the whole three presented in 4x3, the cover informs, once more erroneously, "Widescreen version presented in a 'matted' widescreen format preserving the aspect ratio of their original theatrical exhibitions enhanced for widescreen TVS". Second lie. Nothing is true. Only A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, THE SHINING and EYES WIDE SHUT are correctly presented in 16x9 ratio as it should be for all the others. Come on! At least since 1955 no pictures were made in the 4x3 ratio, but some in 1.66 and more of the times 1.85. How could somebody make a picture in the 4x3 ratio (or 1.33) knowing that all movie theatres around the world would not respect it and surely would chop the frame to 1.66 or 1.85? The third lie is the worst. SPARTACUS and 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, the only two of the lot filmed in 2.35 do not receive the same treatment. While 2001 is well presented in the correct aspect, SPARTACUS is a poor letterboxed version that ruins the scope and spectacle of this celebrated blockbuster. Absurd. How can we trust in the information of a DVD cover with such unaccuracies? I'll be much careful the next time. I love Kubrick's work, but I don't want to be cheated anymore!!!!

OK "Submarine with Craig Roberts, and Yasmin Paige"; Submarine, is a story of a boy coming of age. He has two of objectives before he turns 16: the first is to lose his virginity before his birthday and second is to break up his mother and an ex lover who has suddenly appeared in her life, which concerns him as she may be cheating on his father. "  This film that is rated R makes some very weird twists and turns. I can honestly say that I was confused at times in what it was trying to actually say! I can honestly say that I have seen other movies that were very good and funny that were of the same subject that did the job much better than this one had done.  I will admit that I did giggle in a few areas of this film, but I really cannot recommend purchasing this video unless you have extra money to waste. I would recommend renting it if you're curious to see it.  I hope this review is helpful so you know if this might be something of your interest.

Mucked about a bit too much? Part of the problem of watching any movie based on a book is what's left on the cutting room floor.  In the case of Terry Pratchett's Going Postal, it seems to be a good 60% of the humor.  Likewise, They do quite a bit to damage the continuity of any potential sequel in regards to Sgt. Angua (who never appeared as such in Going Postal, but was a nice addition nonetheless.).  Losing much of the wit and charm of the novel, and adding several sequences that more or less grind salt in the wounds, the movie adaptation comes across as a far harsher story than it need be.  Still, overall production is rather nice, visually appealing, and well acted.  I'd love to see this cast return for a hopefully closer adaptation of the equally witty Making Money.

Six Characters In search of an Author The play has much more potentials than this performance. Although it has been written about a century ago, the play's style is more advance than it time. This advancement of the style must be preserved in any modern production of the play. I would take the play into an open space and bring out the characters from the "street" crowd.

Decent movie, ending a little lame Decent movie with a lot of quality acting.  I felt it flowed pretty well until the end.  It as a surprise ending, I liked that part, but the surprise part was too short, and they could have been a bit more imaginitive.

A Somewhat Satisfying Russell Crowe Movie I came into the movie thinking that it was going to be about one thing but it turned out to be slightly different. The previews seem to indicate that this was a movie about a man (Russel Crowe) who breaks his wife out of jail after she committed a horrible crime.  Without giving away the details of the movie to all of you potential viewers that is not exactly how it goes down. Yes Crowe helps his wife escape but it is not exactly a jail-break scenario.  I thought the movie was ok but not great. There was definitely a fair bit of action that kept me entranced and made the flight go much faster but overall the plot was dull, it was fairly predictable, and in the end you really were not sure if she did or did not do it.

Eehhhhh Although my children enjoyed this film quite a bit, I was less than pleased with this Disney' movie.  I found the story line kind of depressing and not very engaging.  Doug was the most delightful part of the entire film.

Fear Hurricane or THAT SHAVE!!! never saw a guy shred a cigar like Eddie!! amazing performance throughout, consistent persona, anchor of plot, sentiment, and emotion... not very good PR for the Keys given the penchant for REALLy bad weather, gangster hideouts, lack of resort hotels, and those Indians we can never seem to help...  for all the political fallout, found the statement concerning a hoodlum becoming president the most prescient and saw how we may have won the war against Hitler, prohibition level gangsters, but was the tip of the iceberg for their replacements in MORE, MORE, MORE!!! Found the B slapping hilarious, as well as that agonizing close shave, OUCH! perhaps someday I will have acquired enough film knowledge as provided in several of these reviews to assess the directing abilities, but only heard that Huston, Bogart, Barrymore were drinking heavily off set but not a drop on...  if accurate then extremely fine finished product.. Lauren was sublimely beautiful and only demoed acting chops during her tirade against Bogey for lack of heroism... recommend this one for Robinson fans and on how not to protect glassware in a major storm...

The smartest of the &#34;dumb&#34; combenies. This movie is highly recommended for anyone and everyone who do not like dumb combeny movies. Also for those who prefer smart combeny moves.

I have trouble with the whole Arthurian concept of governing I have to admit, this idea that King Arthur ruled what is now known as England because he was chosen by the Lady of the Lake to wield Excalibur is a bit farfetched.  I mean, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. Seriously, you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you. I mean, if I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away.

Streep brings Thatcher to life One of the finest actress ( Streep)of our times brings life to one of the most remarkable figures of the 20th century. Whether or not you embrace conservatism, you have to agree that Margaret Thatcher was not just a important political figure but an extremely important one. Told in a series of flashbacks, and through many imaginary conversations that Thatcher keeps on having with her husband, Dennis Thatcher or DT, this film is filmed after her tenure as the British PM. It traces her roots- small grocer's family, her entry into politics and finally her act as the British PM. We simply get a glimpse of her rise but only superficially. The movie does not reveal her relations with her children or friends. I realize that such an endeavor is impossible in the hour and 45 minute run time. However, to get a fleeting glimpse on the British PM, this film is great. Nothing more was expected and the film delivered just that . Three stars. 7/15/2012

Ol' Fletchy Fletch... It's Chevy, so you know it's gonna be pretty good. The Fletch movies aren't his best work, but they are good for some laughs.  While you won't say either movie is a blockbuster, you won't be disappointed either.

Little bit oild one It is a little bit old one. The quality of video looks old one. This video is not a region free format. However this video does not said about the region.

Too hard While the cover of the DVD is definitely a little intimidating, I bought it anyway because the reviews were so amazing. The woman is a professional acrobat and is incredibly fit. I did enjoy listening to her and I thought the exercises were pretty well thought out with LOTS of repetitions, which is nice when you're just learning a routine the first few times. However, this was way too hard for me. I ran semi-regularly before I got pregnant (completed a 7.6 mile race in the first trimester) but was in no way in super great shape. As my pregnancy progressed I became more and more sedentery and I thought this DVD would jump start my fitness regime. Bad idea. I do want to try this video again as I think it's a great workout and something to aspire to. Unfortunately it's so difficult that I'm having a hard time getting motivated to try it again.

Frankenstein Returns! Directed by Netherlander Roel Rein&eacute; and scripted by Tony Giglio, with a story by Paul W.S. Anderson, Death Race 2 serves as a prequel rather than a sequel, despite the "2 designation. Not only does this installment introduce viewers to the beginnings of the Death Race but also the origin of one of Roger Corman's coolest characters, Frankenstein. Originally played by David Carradine in '75s Death Race 2000 and Jason Statham in the `o8 remake, Luke Goss delivers a fun, though entirely too short, sequence or two as the legendary bad ass. His primary character Carl Lucas on the other hand was a lackluster anti-hero with a great face but very little charisma. Surrounded by the likes of cult actor Danny Trejo, Ving Rhames and Sean Bean though, one barely takes notice of any shortcomings Goss (or the script) might have had.  Death Race 2 offers a bit more than the average direct-to-DVD sequel, delivering massive explosions, bloody violence, beautiful women, colorful villains and, naturally, a thrilling race. Surprisingly entertaining, this prequel disguised as a sequel comes clean with everything you see on the DVD cover plus a few shocking extras to boot.

Through The Belly Button... Spoilers Spoilers Spoilers    A Demonic parasitic entity has survived several hundred years and is again lose upon a small town taking over bodies in an attempt to reproduce itself, entering through the victims bellybutton where the victim somehow doesn't even know that it has happened.    The movie itself is really just a step above the sci-fi channel movies.  In that is is good for what it is, just don't expect a a Hollywood blockbuster.  The film has its blood and guts moments but throws in some comedy as well, proving that the movie never take itself very seriously.  From the burping and farting of the victims to the doughnut eating policeman feeding the parasite in his belly while rolling on a police chase.  A horror comedy that doesn't excel at either genre that well.  Just don't expect a masterpiece of a motion picture, and you will be satisfied.  If you like sci-fi channel quality movies this will be right up your alley.  i

Good DVD For DX Fans My son liked this DVD...he is a WWE GX fan.  Of course, GX no longer exists because Shawn Michaels retired.

Oh, it's on it's way???  Thank you so VERY FREAKING MUCH!!!! Friends,    Talk about some FOOT-DRAGGING on the part of a studio!!!  They neglected to release this puppy even in a crappy pan&scan edition on DVD, and now they are going STRAIGHT TO BLU-RAY!!!  Well, I guess that means we'll get to see it with all of it's flaws ENHANCED for our HD WIDESCREENS!!!!  I'm glad I didn't spend money for that burn on demand version the company has available on the CHEAP.  I'm actually very thrilled to see this is coming.  Hopefully it will get a much bigger than expected reception, and maybe we can get a re-imagining made.  I'm waiting for it to happen.  By the way, Universal has plenty of great entertainment from the 70's locked up in it's vaults.  Maybe they are starting to understand that there is a market out here that needs satisfaction.  Uh, Universal???  You there?  Now start releasing boxed sets of your made for t.v. thriller movies as well (Hello, "When Michael calls" anyone?!?!!?!?). CKB

Not a big Tim Burton Fan.... but not too bad. I've never been a fan of Tim Burton.  I've liked very few of his movies.  I thought the Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, along with Johnny Depp could possibly turn things around for me, and it did, in a way... the movie wasn't great, but it also wasn't bad.  It's sort of an in-between movie.  There were flashes of brilliance, such as the over the top Oompa Loompa songs (especially the one following Augustus Gloop getting sucked up into the vacuum -- brilliant!), and I also like how this movie went more into detail about why Willy Wonka is the way he is, and why he's obsessed with chocolate.  That was something the original movie completely neglected, and I thought Burton did a great job implementing into the movie.  There were also some epic fails, such as the Oompa Loompa's themselves.  Every single Oompa Loompa was the same actor, just CGI'd into a hundred different ones.  The original movie had a bunch of "Little People" playing the part, which I thought was a much better way of going about it.  I also didn't care for some of the obscure Tim Burton oddities, such as the crooked, Sleepy Hollow looking house Charlie's family lived in, amongst other things.  Johnny Depp delivered a pretty solid performance as Willy Wonka, but he didn't even come close to Gene Wilder's portrayal.  Depp in comparison was like comparing a minor leaguer to an All-Star professional.  The characters in the movie were excellent. I thought they did a great job with the casting, and the the kids all did great jobs.  I especially liked the new Charlie.  I liked him even better than the original Charlie.  I didn't care for the new Grandpa Joe, however.  Tim Burton, in his typical fashion, picked just about the ugliest man you'll ever see in your life as Grandpa Joe.  He was an eyesore throughout the film.  In in all, it was an "ok" movie. It certainly had its moments, and I have watched it 4 or 5 times since it's been released.  I own the DVD, and I can certainly say that it's entertaining to watch.  I just don't think it holds a candle to the original one, which was a masterpiece.  I just think this one fell a bit short.  If it weren't for amazon's flawed ratings system, I'd give this movie 3.5 stars, but it's certainly not a 4 star movie, which is why I gave it 3.

Change Needed The movements are excellent; however, they need to convert it into a 50 minute workout so that a student can mimic the performer.  For this you need a different camera POV.  The performer faces a mirror. You see the performer from behind and the side while also seeing the mirror reflection which shows the performer's front.  All done on a 36" x 78" mat so the routine can be done in a small room - which is what most people will have.  This would be very similar to Dr. Yang's Flying Crane Qigong contained in the Shaolin White Crane Hard and Soft Qigong DVD, which I practice three times a week.

Better than the second one I went to see this one earlier in the week with a buddy of mine.  After finally getting caught up with some of the writing, I took a couple days to see Keith Birdsong and hung out in Muskogee, Oklahoma.  It was his birthday and he wanted to go see Transformers 3.  I have to admit that I wasn't looking forward to seeing the movie.  The second movie was too long, too loud, and too confusing.  I didn't enjoy it at all.  Sadly, this movie hit me the same way.  Some of the graphics were really awesome, some of the gags were incredibly funny, and I really enjoyed hearing Leonard Nimoy as a character.  I still maintain that Shia LeBeouf is an immensely watchable star and will be a remarkable leading man in a few more years.  Despite LeBeouf's acting, there's just not much of a story for him to work with.  His role throughout this film kept getting minimized and maximized, and I was never really sure if he was going to matter during the resolution.  As it turned out, not much.  John Tuturro won my heart with several lines and with his scenery-chewing acting.  He didn't mind going over the top with his character or making fun of it at the same time.  I think I'd love to see a movie that focuses on this character tracking down some government conspiracy.  It would be a lot of fun.  One of the things that really bothered me about this movie as well was a separation between Witwicki (LeBeouf) and Bumblebee.  I think they should have been together more.  That relationship was one of the things that really work for me in the first movie, which I did enjoy.  The graphic designs and effects were absolutely amazing though.  I loved seeing all the computer graphic action on the screen, as well as how the Transformers changed shape throughout.  So much of the story seemed to be add-ons.  Witwicky's scenes with his parents, the whole episode with John Malkovich, and even the subplot with the romantic triangle could have been dropped.  However, that would have left Witwicky off the screen.  They should have just made him part of the team and involved with the situation from the beginning.  That lay there wouldn't have been so much time lost looping in all of these other elements so that Witwicky would have had the screen time he did.  A quick look at the box office indicates that this film scored another high success in movie dollars, even though it didn't score so high with moviegoers.  I would suspect there will be a Transformers 4 coming.

Late Alterations Damage a Well-Intentioned Adaptation As with almost any literary adaptation, fans of the source material in search of a literal interpretation will probably find a lot to fault in this Will Smith vehicle, particularly in its neutered take on the story's conclusion. All of the original's deeper underlying meanings are still there, buried in the actions and expressions of the transfigured creatures Smith does his best to avoid, but without a big reveal to lay all the cards on the table they're too easily shrugged off or overlooked altogether. That positions this as, basically, a hybrid summer blockbuster / suspense-laden monster movie with a better than usual premise. In this role it fares well - Smith portrays the terrifying isolation of the last sane man on Earth with passion and depth, leaving memories of his less-inspired earlier work far in the past. He's come a long way from Independence Day or even Hancock, and surprisingly little of that has the more stern-faced, serious script to thank. Legend's computer effects are a different story: while exceptional at rendering an overgrown, deserted NYC skyline, they feel excessive and overwhelming when it come to the creatures themselves. Though it may not live up to the lofty expectations of its namesake, this is hardly a complete write-off. In fact, as mass market action pictures go it's unusually smart, expertly paced and generally contemplative. A pity it didn't have the balls to stick with that original ending, though, as I think it would have been much more universally appreciated.

All right I cannot help but notice that in so many movies, Tom Allen does an okay job. He is funny in Home Improvement, but when it comes to movies, many of them aren't quite suited for him, and this is no exception. It is by no means an awful movie, but the storyline is rather predictable and you can pretty much guess what's going to happen within the first ten minutes of the movie.

Nice surprise This is a fun movie, it is not a waste of time. Get your pop corn, cola and what ever else you need and get entertained and if your not check your pulse.

Below average for a Steve Martin film Steve Martin has done so well in his original roles, I have to wonder why he felt the need to "cover" the Peter Sellers performances of Inspector Jacques Clouseau. There is no question that there is always a risk associated with following up on the performance of an iconic character and series of movies. I haven't kept up with Martin's box office, but perhaps his numbers were slipping and he felt taking this chance was justified in the hopes he would hit a home run. After all, many of Martin's roles bear a great similarity to many of Sellers' roles, so there is a foundation upon which to justify this attempt.  I want to preface the remainder of the review by noting that I've been a Steve Martin fan for decades now. Martin was a comedy writer for the Smothers Brothers show all the way back in the late sixties, although he came to national prominence more in his own right ten years later on Saturday Night Live. He went from there to sold out "comedy concerts", and of course a string of movie hits that are always amusing, and more often than not brilliantly funny ("The Jerk", "Roxanne", "All of Me", and more). So I'm predisposed to like anything he appears in. I found this movie a bit bland, despite the HUGE benefit of the doubt Martin is going to get from a long time fan like me.  In the original Pink Panthers movies (at least after the first, in which Clouseau was a supporting character that took off), the mystery to be solved is not really the most important element of the story, as would be the case with most mysteries. The mystery is just a framework upon which to hang a continuing series of scenes in which Peter Sellers cracks you up, again and again. This movie shares that philosophy. In the long run, you'll probably have trouble remembering much about the plot, as the movie banks on the ability of Steve Martin to keep you laughing. It works in spots, but in others the pacing just doesn't seem correct. Sellers could take on a scene with a slow boil to a laugh and keep pulling you in. In similar style scenes in this movie, it just looks like comedy in slow motion, and those scenes are a little painful to watch. Some reviewers have said that they don't think Martin was trying to recreate the Sellers' performances. I'm not sure I agree with that. The jokes and slapstick were clearly meant to follow up on the Sellers' films. If Martin was not trying to mimic Sellers, at least the character was written in a very similar style, forcing him to look like he might have been mimicking Sellers.  All is not lost, as there are some very funny bits in this film, they are just fewer and farther between than I was hoping they would be. The much promo'd scene where Clouseau is trying to drop his French accent, and the overuse of the word "'ambuger" is indeed a pretty funny sequence, to my mind. There are indeed other slapstick and situational sequences that are funny. However, it is not as funny as Sellers' Clouseau when Sellers was in "the zone".  I recommend this as a Netflix queue selection, or catching it on TV, rather than a purchase. I think only a minority of viewers will want to watch this again and again. There are Steve Martin movies I've watched a dozen or more times, but I have a hard time working up enthusiasm to see this one even a second time. And why should I, when I can fire up "Roxanne" and watch him do the 20 very amusing nose jokes (actually about 23, if I remember my count LOL).

The too-long-a-triangle. Great for a while. The time loop was played too far and the ending is ridiculous. With patience it is entertaining.

See The Whole Series in Order by Date Made Interesting that each film seems to have been written with the idea that it would be the last one, but this one is referred to as "an action-packed finale", although we know there is one more. Perhaps they mean climax.  At one point in the "Escape from" movie, an explanation for how things got so terribly turned around between humans and apes was offered. A plague killed off the dogs and cats, and humans needed pets. So they made pets of monkeys. But when they found how smart they were, and how easy to train, they soon turned them into servants and then slaves, bought and sold just like in the antebellum south. And just like in those days, abused due to their similarity to humans.  Remember Milo, the baby Zira and Cornelius left in the care of the circus owner played by Ricardo Montalban? Through an unfortunate set of circumstances, he was sold to the governor who allowed him to choose his own name out of a book in a tradition he says started with his wife. Milo put his finger on the name Caesar.  So this is the story of the revolution led by Caesar, still the only ape that can speak and read and write, but by no means the only one that can understand. In fact, Ape Control has disturbing reports of (1) higher intelligence tests in apes all the time, and (2) deliberate acts of disobedience. Once the apes have won, and vengeance seems inevitable, Caesar persuades the mob that they will rule by kindness and understanding, and show themselves to be better than their former masters.  Of course, it's not hard to be better than brutes who are so obviously over-drawn characters that they were SS-like black uniforms and jack-boots. I was expecting them to do a stiff-armed salute any minute.  It is an interesting link in the chain that circles round to the original movie, but I'm looking forward to the last one the most: that's the only one I have not seen before. Up next.

No Disney ending This is a film like Independence Day, with a touch of the War of the Worlds in that the aliens use the humans that they capture, or more precisely, their brains.  It's very bleak. It ends before giving a happy ending but hints that something might, just might turn out okay.  Elaine (Scottie Thompson - who had a tiny scene as a hologram image of Nero's wife in Star Trek) and her partner Jarrod (Eric Balfour) are in Los Angeles one night as strange blue lights descend throughout the city. For some strange reason the film then jumps back a day to show th couple as they're whisked from their home to Los Angeles to meet with friends. For some reason this was included and was totally pointless back-story.  A further pointless backstory is where we find Jarrod's friend and host Terry (Scrubs'Donald Faison) and his wife Candice (Brittany Daniel) aren't happy in their relationship because Terry's getting on with his assistant Denise (Crystal Reed)  These small plot excursions detract from a fairly good, and novel approach to alien invasion films.

Yet another terrorist hunting movie. Slow moving but had an interesting aspect to it. OK but nothing to rush and see. I say C "I'm gonna find everyone of them and send them to the death they prey for." When the government gets word of suicide bomber ready to strike they send a secret service agent named Ewan (Bean) to stop him and the cell. Doing everything he can to stop the attack Ewan is also stuck wondering who he is really working for. I have to start by saying that while this is 80% the same as every other terrorist hunting movie lately the one thing this has that helps it is that besides the focus on the agent you also see how and why the bomber turned out the way he did. That aspect was interesting, however the movie was so slow moving that I found it very hard to stay interested in. There were a few twists, but again because of the pace of the movie they didn't have the impact they were intended to (to me anyway). This is not a terrible movie but for me it needed to move quicker to keep me wondering what will happen next. Overall, a slow moving movie that had an interesting aspect to the un-original idea. I give it a C.

Oh my God! This is a rough one. This anime is very rough and gritty. Definitely not for the faint of heart. It's full of violence and perversion. The story is also very dark as well. The plot, however, is well written. It has a very carefully crafted story, and interesting characters. The violence is way extreme, but realistic. As far as quality goes it's great. I'm just not that fond of stories that are as dark a this one. It can put you in a dark frame of mind. If that doesn't bother you, then you'll probably get a lot of satisfaction out of Shigurui. The animation quality and voice acting are very well done. It's a gamble I think, but some gambles pay off.

Stiller's modern day misanthrope is a hard draught to take *** This review may contain spoilers ***  Screenwriter Noah Baumbach has served up a tale of a modern day misanthrope, Greenberg, convincingly played by Ben Stiller. We've all probably met characters like Greenberg in our lives and found them to be both fascinating and contemptuous. The question here is whether a screenwriter like Baumbach should place such misanthropic characters under the microscope and devote an entire feature length film towards exploring their many foibles.  Even if you can't stand the character of Roger Greenberg precisely because he is so unlikeable, I think that it's safe to say that Ben Stiller has done an excellent job in portraying this particular character type. He's actually a real person opposed to the dumb caricatures Stiller offered up in such sorry spectacles as 'Night at the Smithsonian' and 'Tropic Thunder'.  The plot begins when former musician turned part-time carpenter, Roger Greenberg, has just been released from a psychiatric hospital on the east coast after a 'nervous breakdown' and basically is invited to house sit his brother's plush Los Angeles home, while the family is away on a vacation in Vietnam. Indie newcomer Greta Gerwig plays the family housekeeper, Florence, who has been instructed to be at Roger's beck and call, in case he needs help around the house.  Florence turns out to be just as quirky as Roger and has no qualms about having sex with him despite having just broken up with a boyfriend. The sex between Roger and Florence is a bust, characterized by what one might term 'cunnilingus interrupt-us'. Somehow, Florence is willing to give Roger multiple chances since she sees in him a free spirit. Eventually, Roger makes it quite clear that he's not interested in any kind of emotional intimacy whatsoever and launches another one of his angry rants towards Florence, who finally realizes that she's been wasting her time trying to get involved with him. However, when Roger's brother dog, Mahler, gets sick, Florence is forced to spend time with Roger as they must go from one vet to another, attempting to find the right treatment for the stricken canine.  If Roger's concern about Mahler shows he's capable of some kind of empathy and he's also capable of displaying great contempt (as in the case of his rejection of Florence who craves intimacy), the relationship with his former band mate, Ivan, is more nuanced. It seems that Ivan still blames Roger for the breakup of their band twenty years earlier; Roger argues that the record label they were about to sign with wanted complete creative control which would have led to the dilution of their aesthetic vision. The point about these misanthropic characters is sometimes their societal critiques are spot-on. Yes, it's possible Greenberg could have been completely right about not signing with the record label. On the other hand, because they are so contemptuous of intimacy and relationships, Roger is completely intolerant of the idea that Ivan may be considering getting back together to his wife who he recently separated from.  Roger's cruelty is manifested in even higher relief when he looks up his old girlfriend, Beth, who has been trying to cope emotionally after a divorce. Instead of lending a sympathetic ear, Roger boorishly tries to put the moves on her just as they meet for lunch; it takes Beth only a scant few seconds to extricate herself from Roger's clutches after his crude come-on.  When Ivan and Florence have a bunch of waiters sing 'happy birthday' at a restaurant for Roger, he can't stand the idea of their thoughtfulness and storms out. Both Ivan and Florence are completely turned off by Roger's behavior and at this point, one wonders if most of the film audience have also become too alienated to care about Roger and his destructive misanthropy.  While Florence is in the hospital having an abortion, Roger returns to form as he ridicules his niece's college chums who have gathered at his brother's house for a drunken orgy featuring loads of alcohol and cocaine. Roger has a final falling out with Ivan who he basically accuses of selling out to middle class respectability. Ivan retorts that Roger's guilty of the ultimate insensitivity--disrespecting him after failing to ever visit his young son, while staying out in California.  Roger finally has an epiphany of sorts when he realizes that he's been insensitive to those who care about him and now must make amends. This takes the form of a mea culpa on Florence's voice mail and a visit to her after her release from the hospital.  I'm still wondering if Greenberg's tale was worth telling. Yes, I acknowledge that Mr. Baumbach's wry observations about the life of a modern day misanthrope are well taken, especially in depicting the character's wit. As a character portrait, Greenberg is true to life but is there really much conflict here? Except for the final showdown with Ivan at the film's climax, all the characters in opposition to Greenberg, end up slinking away from him due to his crass insensitivity. It's a hard draught to take when your main character's shtick is basic, non-stop hostility.  At a certain point, the novelty of a character like Greenberg wears off. This would be true in real life if you were to meet someone like Greenberg--despite the initial attraction, he'd end up insulting you and you'd end up disliking him intensely. And that's why Greenberg's redemption at the film's end doesn't ring quite true--real life Greenbergs always remain narcissistic as they equate intimacy and sensitivity with humiliation.

Just Okay I usually don't like Kidman, but she did a good job in this film.  Overall, I wasn't turned off by the sadness as I knew what to expect going in.  However, I felt it was very slow.  But well-developed.  Not a total dud, but not stellar either.

Constant alcohol at every turn. Super-sentimentality. This is a family drama in the tradition of Leave It to Beaver, The Brady Bunch or the '50s' The Ruggles. With a murder to solve at the start of each episode. By the second season all four family members, Police Commissioner, detective, Assistant D.A., and rookie cop younger brother frequently engage  in murder-solving all at the same time.  In every dinner (every night with the whole family in attendance) red wine is served. In the Commissioner's office a bottle of Scotch sits and he partakes whenever he's had a stressful exerience, and is ready to share a drink with any friend and friendly colleague. Alcohol is assumed, even as cops are busting others for marijuana on the street. The way alcohol is background for virtually every social and work transaction mimics perfectly descriptions of the ways alcoholics organize their lives around alcohol, keeping a bottle within arm's reach, dependently. I saw no one choose a glass of juice, water or 7-up. Most important when thinking about the influence this approach to alcohol may have on viewers is that NO ONE, EVER, SHOWS ANY EFFECTS OF THEIR DRINKING ON THEIR GAIT, THEIR SPEECH, THEIR HEALTH OR THEIR JUDGMENT.  Alcoholics, former alcoholics, may find watching this alcohol-replete show challenging. Or even wagon-falling.  I watch this show idly, as a pastime, but not with any eagerness or great interest. The values are inflated, unlikely, conservative 'family values'. Conservative figures' names are dropped without context (as, with a quote from Donald Rumsfeld), not to mention the name picked for this good family as the 'Reagans'. Nonetheless I ordered the second season, while I waited for my favorites, 'Mad Men' and 'Justified' to decide to release themselves. The actors are mostly good, the best being the detective older brother, his woman partner, and his wife. The younger brother is also good. The polce commissioner, Tom Selleck, has less room to move, acting choice speaking. He, or his director, or writer, has boxed himself in, leaving little room for other than jowly, harrumphy humbleness and good-guy ness. It is he who is at the center of and instigates most of the almost-teeth-on-edge soppy, 'awww' scenes, of which there are many.

B rated Movie I don't know if it is just me, but I thought the movie was too boring and hard to keep track of.  HOWEVER, my husband thought it was very good (ergo, the three stars) so somewhere I must have missed something.  It did not keep my interest at all, yet my husband didn't take his eyes off the movie.  Not Oscar material.

Amazing fight scenes....or should I say scene... I had been following the making of this film for some time and after the set up that Ong Bak 2 gave and the initial ideas for the film I was expecting something really pushing the envelope.  That didn't exactly happen...I had read that Tony Jaa would be fighting in a manner that it would seem as if he was boneless but it turned out he danced for the last 2/3 of the movie...I get using traditional dance and making it lethal while using the beauty of the dance but yeah that wasn't what I wanted. The epic fight that I was waiting for between him and the crow was not impressive at all.  Decent movie but not as awesome as I would have hoped...the original movie was still a whole lot better...  Fight scene with the elephants was the most jaw dropping...but you have to wait until almost the end of the movie...

Enjoyable, dont trust the critics This rom-com caper has been needlessly derided maybe because people just have too many expectations from a Tom Cruise movie. I personally thought that the movie was not that bad. The chemistry between Cruise and Diaz is poor but the action scenes and the exotic locations somehow compensate. The storyline is ordinary but the pace is quite brisk to endure the film which has a runtime of one hour and forty nine minutes. 2/711

Drops the ball a bit... I'm one of those people who thought (and still think) that the original `Scary Movie' is hilarious despite its stupidity.  I'd watch it any day of the week with no hesitations.  The second venture in the series is certainly better than the third (a total abomination) yet, it shows major weakness in the concept behind the spoof.  Branching out within the horror genre to encompass the supernatural, `Scary Movie 2' takes on the haunted house idea with the same gross-out approach it took on the `teen slasher film'.  The opening sequence, with regard to `The Exorcist', is above and beyond the best scene in the film.  It is just hilarious, even though it is beyond disgusting in many parts.  It just works, and sets a tone that the film doesn't always follow.  Some of the more outlandish gags fall very short, especially whenever the film shifts the focus of its humor.  When they aren't spoofing the horror movies they claim to be, they wind up coming across just plain stupid (I mean, basketball...really?), but there are still many laughs to be found here so don't be ashamed to indulge in this guilty pleasure.  I just wish certain film series knew when to call it quits.  Greed is a powerful force that degrades the integrity (if there is any to be found in a film series that pokes fun at baby wieners) of anything good, and so with each sequel the original loses some of its likability.  Again, at least this is better than the atrocious third entry.

Too much wrath, and too much death... ** SPOILER ALERT **  Being a fan of the first Clash of the Titans movie starring Sam Worthington, I had high hopes for this installment.  It's full of hate and betrayal, which you get immediately.  Zeus, Neptune and Aries try to meet with Hades in the Underworld, and he betrays them and makes a deal with his father, Kronos.  After that, the movie becomes very depressing.  The only thing I can say about the rest of the movie is that almost everybody dies except for Perseus and Andromeda.  If you want to be depressed, this is the movie for you!  The acting is very good, but is hampered by a weak and disjointed storyline.

Funny Movie I enjoyed The Marriage Chronicles. The characters were interesting. Many people need marriage counseling. The actor who was supposed to be religious was miscast because he usually plays a pervert.I recommend the film to anyone who is married or thinking about getting married. The moral of the story is that if a couple truly loves one another and they are committed to each other, they can have a healthy marriage.This film may be rated R for mature themes. There was no graphic sex or nudity. There was one F word at the end. This is a clean film save for one brief seduction scene featuring a very ugly woman walking around in her lingerie. Recommended for fans of romantic dramas.

Silly, and could they please look better next time? The script is silly, and I have not seen either Depp or Jolie look this bad in a movie before. Depp is a total frump and Jolie is frighteningly skinny and badly made up, with hair that looks like it needs washing and is probably not her own. The premise is hard to believe. It's not a thriller. It's a watered-down Hollywood confection. But, there is Venice and stereotyped Italian cops -- where is Giancarlo Giannini when you need him? As one reviewer pointed out, it starts slowly. It just doesn't really go anywhere.

All the infections that the sun sucks up from bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him by inch-meal a disease! It's the same old story: A young mother with the unusual name of  Prospera who has a four-year-old child is cheated of her inheritance when her husband dies and her greedy brother forces her to leave, penniless, into the rough world. She grows strong, self-reliant and determined. As she thinks about her fate, sulphurous resentment bubbles even as she bends her new life to her will. Yet she raises her daughter gently and with love. Then after 12 years, Prospera learns that those responsible for her disinheritance unknowingly have wandered close.  Will Prospera find only stale and bitter crackers upon which to munch as the days pass and she considers a hearty broth of vengeance...or will she learn...hmmm, what exactly?  Will her daughter, Miranda, all of 16, beautiful and innocent and who has never seen a man, become pregnant by the handsome young fellow she soon will meet?  And will this story, like many a well-known Hollywood potboiler starring the likes of Claudette Colbert and Lana Turner, end with self-sacrifice, with murder, or with...?  Folks, this isn't Fanny Hurst. It's William Shakespeare. In Shakespeare's words The Tempest isn't just a tale of vengeful comeuppance. It's a marvelously written story of humanity and the gaining of wisdom. It is one of Shakespeare's greatest plays. In my much younger days I loved Richard III and Henry V. Then I fell for Macbeth, Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream. In my increasingly feeble old age, it's The Tempest for me. Can any grownup not hear or read "We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep" and sigh?   In Julie Taymor's hands The Tempest becomes spectacle, and about as shallow as a plate. There's little quiet time or reflection when it comes to Taymor. Her movie of Titus was great fun because of her excesses and originality of vision. Titus the play is grotesque with all those beheadings, betrayals, rapes and bombast. The meals alone will make you regurgitate. Taymor's film matched the play with its bedeviling, wonderful visuals and clever updating.  Here with The Tempest we have some fine actors who know how to speak the speech. Helen Mirren as Prospera dominates the movie just as Prospero does. She can hate and roar and fulminate powerfully. She can also be tender, introspective and tentative. She is utterly believable. Just as importantly, Mirren is understandable. She makes Shakespeare's verse clear. She is, unfortunately, enclouded in Traymor's vision and effects. (If you'd like to see a very young Mirren deal with Shakespeare, try to find a copy of Peter Hall's version of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968). Mirren at 23 plays Hermia. She's lithe, sexy and could speak Shakespeare clearly even then.)  Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books was a moving set of lush, eccentric dreams, all floating on John Gielgud's mellow voice. We could understand him, too. Greenaway wanted dreams and he succeeded in blending together his vision with Shakespeare's play. Greenaway and Gielgud place us in a lush, odd world, but regret, humanity and wisdom is there.  Taymore's Tempest, in my view, lacks a soul. At least she has Mirren. As A. O. Scott wrote in the New York Times, "Messing around with Shakespeare is the bedeviling vice of directors. Saving him from their excesses is the great and noble duty of actors."

Not as bad as what others say. 2 steps below "Interview with a Vampire" First off, people have to remember that this film was made in the '90's as apparent with the camera shots and music.  For me, the movie was worth watching just for the location choices alone. They all tied in together and the decision to shoot at them added to the gothic mystique.  My biggest complaint with the movie is that there was too much 1st person narrative.  As to the others complaint that there was no plot, that is not true. It is written as a character-driven plot. The audience is taken into the world of a master-vampire (the antagonist) and his servants. I wish that there was no first person narrative. In fact that main character seems almost minor to how much screen time the antagonist is given. As far as the script writing is concerned, the plot seems sidetracked. If we believe the narrative, the main plot is rescuing the damsel in distress. However, the movie instead focuses more around the lives of this secret group of vampires. The "transformation" of a vampire and his duty to his master is the subplot. The whole script could have been strengthened if the writer dug a little deeper and showed more of the story instead of expositioning it with monologues.  As for the look--it reminded me of "Interview with a Vampire". Long haired vampires, good setting choices.

You could call it: Legend of the Overbreast This is an okay series if you can stand the confusion.  The Good: well, it's an X-men cartoon.  The Bad: it's an X-men cartoon made for adults. Poor, simplified animation. Silly writing outside the X-men cannon. Incoherent plot ideas. Stylistic ideas borrowed from horror Anime like "Legend of the Overfiend".  The Ugly: An obsession with breast-size that makes you want to sing, "thanks for the mammaries."  The first thing that strikes you about X-men Anime series season 1 is its garishness.  It is visually loud. Big things spend a lot of time on fire, or thrown great distances, or getting zapped into oblivion in simplified animation. That is bad, but it's only the beginning.  Before long, you notice that the model-sheets don't really know what to do with the characters, or that they are doing all the wrong things, Wolverine looks like a midget wrestler with claws longer than his forearms; Scott Summer's eye-beams are like a flamethrower. Those things would be bad enough, but then, the makers of the series turn their attention to women and things take a freudian turn involving a bevy of beauties with big-honkin' boobies.  Seriously, watch an episode of this series with your friends and you can play a game where every time Storm or The White Queen speaks, you say, "my breasts and I think..."  Once you get over the model-skinny girls with beachballs on their chests, you have to contend with the animation.  Our brethren in Japan, are amazing animators, no one even approaches them, but with so many different styles to choose from, you wonder why the people who put this together chose to use motifs and ideas borrowed from Japanese erotic horror anime. With few exceptions, everything is dark.  People go out of their way to find themselves in places that look like caves so that the light casts strange shadows on their faces that are only dispelled when something leaps out and attacks them. The antechamber to the cavern that houses, cerebro, Professor Xavier's mutant detector, looks as if he was too focused on task to bother paying the electric bill.  In fact it seems that everyone they meet, including people they meet only accidentally (great writing!), has access to a dimly-lit, lair-of-horror, multibillion-dollar, underground facility (who *builds* these things? How do you get them to keep their mouths shut?)--and when they're not already stocked with mutated monstrosities waiting to attack at random, hospitality and courtesy makes the villains cook one up for them.  The series is certainly "action-packed" in the sense that ten minutes can't go by without having stuff blow up, but a lot of art is simplified to a degree that is annoying. Sure, there are motorcycles with lasers and arching micro-missles; sure there are light-sword-swinging cyborgs and slavering, mutated mutant monsters, but when you realize that DC's Justice League unlimited TV-series, or their direct-to-video-movies like, "Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths," have more motion in them in their fight-scenes, (none of it supported by "atmosphere") you come to wish the makers of this X-stuff had gone in directions different from the ones they had taken.  The bottom line.  The bottom line is, if you're a young adult starved for X-men themes, this will work for you. It's not nourishing but it's something. Crack a beer and watch it with your friends for laughs.  If there are children around, banish them, or be prepared to talk them down from nightmares involving teeth and tentacles after you explain what Wolverine means when he says, "take a dump".

Not the worst blu ray transfer but............ I have just started to watch my copy of the Greatest Story ever told and after watching the Ten Commandments and King of Kings I am a little disappointed..........it isn't the worst transfer I have seen on blu ray, Django holds that dubious honour and is now an over priced coaster.  ten Commandments and King of Kings show how older films can look on HD, The transfer hasn't put me off watching this lovely film, but please be aware the upgrade from DVD isn't that great, please please do not let once upon a time in the west or Ben Hur when they come out be a disappointment.  I have given this release 3 stars for the movie and not the quality of the Blu Ray, I am still glad I have this movie but after watching King of Kings.......it feels like a wasted opportunity.  As we will probably never get these biblical releases over here in the UK I am still happy with my purchase.

Editing Mr. Bean Kills This Collection A&E strikes again my editing the classic episodes. Why? I would gladly pay extra for the additional DVD's if I could get the unedited versions. Not recommended.

A little weak There's more than a little whiff of tv movie in this stereotyped tale of the young man torn between good and evil on the mean streets of Jersey. The trouble is nothing seems all that mean, though the top mafioso - Joe Chunks - does veer into weirdness in one of the final scenes. This movie has its bright spots, but there's a basic lack of believability that the pawn shop owner could possibly generate $2500 a week to pay off his mob debts. A small movie that is not terrible, just not anywhere near top notch.

Mirror Mirror The trailer had all the good part.  I am glad I did not spend money at a theater.  Definitely not what I expected.

lesser Nolan I love Christopher Nolan and the filmmaking is first-rate even in this more formulaic type of movie. Basically, it's a thriller but the setting in Alaska in the always daylight summertime there makes the movie what it is.  Now I'm not a big fan at all of Hillary Swank (sorry, those gigantic teeth and her being Steve Sanders' annoying girlfriend at one point on "Beverley Hills, 90210" just can never be erased from my brain) or Robin Williams on the big screen but I at least found them tolerable and believable in this. Meaning they must be good actors for me to overcome my completely prejudiced views of their whole body of work.  Anyway, in no way shape or form is this anywhere near as great as Inception, Memento or Following which both contain the same sort of themes of playing with time and people's perceptions of time as well as using the location as really a major part of the film. Throw in the whole Nolan obsession with the human mind and that's where Insomnia is at. Problem is it's at its base level this is still a murder mystery of which way too much gets revealed at the start when Al Pacino shoots his fellow cop accidentally on purpose early in the movie. Don't worry it's not a spoiler as the audience sees and knows this on screen very early in the flick.  I would say it is worth watching but I think it suffers mainly in comparison to Nolan's other majestically brilliant work. Taken on its own, it's a decent almost film noir in some ways and well worth seeing even if it doesn't stack up to Nolan's other films.

bluray so so movie. disappointed with the cell after loving tarsem's the fall. the bluray transfer isn't that great and there are holes in the plot. j-lo, vince vaughn, and the rest of the cast do a pretty good job, the script needed some work though.

The Road Warrior's Escape From New York Ugh, the shame of potential pissed down the drain. I believe that Doomsday could have been a decent, to pretty good, post-apocalyptic action/suspense film had every good thing about not been done before. In fact, I'd even say I enjoyed it, but there's a difference between paying homage to previous works (e.g. Road Warrior and Mad Max, the Alien and Resident Evil series, 28 Days Later, and most of all, the Carpenter classic, Escape from New York), and copying because you lack the creativity to do something new. Sad to say Neil Marshall's Doomsday is the latter. The rookie director's third film is pretty much like all of his others, and depending on what side of the aisle you sit on, that could either be a good thing, or a bad thing. I happen to fall on the side of the naysayers.  I'm not a fan of his work, but I can tolerate it. I like movies with dark settings, tons of gratuitous gore (which is plentiful in the Unrated cut), and strong female leads. Not to mention, I didn't list a single film in the previous paragraph that I didn't enjoy, so this movie was right up my alley. The performances are dare I say, pretty good. Rhona Mitra is always fairly deadpan, but she's okay. The best work came from the supporting actors who survived the longest (without spoiling anything). Malcolm McDowell wasn't a standout, but he was a nice sight in a film where there are only a couple of recognizable B-level actors.I just wish it had not been so laden with genre cliches that it never had a chance to be its own movie. Even with all that being said, I'll revisit Doomsday in the future because it was a hell of a fun time. It didn't fail to accomplish its primary goal: entertain. I say rent it.

Good for what it is........ Sure, there are better movies out there on this subject, but for this release i found the acting, the action and everything else worthy of a view. And because of what the main character did,,, he brought sweeden peace for years. Good, and ill watch it again.

A curious complement to Paranormal Activity Poor Asylum.  The studio is the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) master of the movie industry, making a living out of creating low-budget movies that are reminiscent of bigger franchises in name-only - mockbusters.  So the guys at Asylum must have been gnashing their teeth when Paranormal Activity, an ultra-low-budget horror film, became a runaway smash hit.  Surely, Asylum could make a movie at least as good - after all, it's what they do, right?  And so we have Paranormal Entity. You can see that Entity "corrects" all the issues raised about Paranormal Activity: it wasn't violent enough, the attacks happened off screen, and there wasn't enough nudity.  If you felt that way about Paranormal Activity, then Paranormal Entity is for you.  The Finley family consists of distraught mother Ellen (Fia Perera), her son Thomas (Shane Van Dyke) and hottie daughter Samantha (Erin Marie Hogan).  With the death of the patriarch David, Ellen is overjoyed when she writes to her deceased husband and gets a response.  That response turns to dread when it becomes clear that it's not the ghost of David but something far more sinister stalking the Finleys.  Where Activity preferred to keep the dialogue between its young couple, Entity has three to work with.  Where Activity stays primarily in the house, Activity has its characters do the logical thing and move out - until they realize the entity just follows them. When Activity uses time-lapsed footage to reinforce the creepiness of possession, Entity films it all in real time. When a paranormal expert shows up in Activity but then flees for his life, in Entity he actually sticks around to do combat with the demon. The ending, while predictable, is considerably more graphic but lacks the visceral terror of Activity.  Paranormal Entity gleefully embraces its low-budget roots by simply fading to black and jumping to the next plot point.  Depending on your perspective on faux documentaries, this is a lazy way to make a film or a realistic means of propelling the plot. Paranormal Entity will fool precisely no one into thinking that it's real, but then it's unlikely Paranormal Activity fooled anybody either.  In short, Paranormal Entity scratches the itch of a lot of folks who were frustrated with Paranormal Activity. Of course, being a mockbuster, it's unlikely any of those viewers saw both movies - you really have to be a fan of one to watch the other.

Mediocre.. I found this film to be very average. I guess Hollywood can make money anytime they put a few A-listers together in a cast.

Alvin And The Chipmunks It kept starting and stopping so it was not so enjoyable to watch, I have not order another movie to view and see if the problem still happens..

Good action bad writing Great action movie and an interesting story. Travolta is good as usual but the dialogue is contrived. The action and Travolta make it entertaining enough to watch.

hotel for dogs This is a cute little movie for kids. it is definitely contrived and unrealistic but it has a cute ending. For once there is a movie made that the whole family can enjoy. It's sweet. refreshing, heart warming and just a feel good movie.

"Not Bad, But Original is Better!" Colin Farrell and Anton Yelchin star in this 2011 horror remake of the 1985 film. A teen discovers that his new neighbor is a vampire. This isn't bad, but the original is better and Colin did ok as Jerry, but Chris Sarandon defined the role. This dvd has nice picture and sound plus a couple neat extras. I still recommend this.

ONE Episode? Okay, let me say that I got this for my cousin for Christmas. Last night, she agreed to let me borrow it. The episode was sorta funny and my favorite part was the part with Stewie and Pool Play. The downside is its the ONLY episode in this dvd. May not be worth buying to keep for yourself but worth lending. Figure that one out. It should've had the 2 episodes involving Stewie vs Bertum. What a pity.

a so-so transfer of a well-known movie When this film was made it was interesting and amusing. The set-up has aged somewhat with three movies in this franchise, plus its imitators. I wasn't as entertained watching it now, and Eddie Murphy's foul mouth isn't the surprise it was then this film was new. Still, this is the best of the series, and it has been given a reasonable transfer to Bluray. I have seen much better transfers, even for significantly older films, but this one is good enough.

Rob Roy on Blu Ray I have owned and watched this great movie on Standard Def DVD many times and thought I would buy the Blu Ray version.  I am not one to provide book report summaries of plots or my opinions on acting.  A review of the quality of the transfer to Blu Ray is what I will provide..  The video transfer is good, a touch soft but still good.  There is a scene early on where Rob is sitting against a rock while his wife straddles him.  You can see great detail in the rock itself and I saw no grain or artifacting.  On the video transfer, I give this 5 star movie a 4.  The audio transfer to DTSHD 5.1 is pathetic.  It is a fine example of either not bothering to remaster or just lazy audio editing.  While there are a great number of scenes where discreet use of the audio channels would have been appropriate,  the Blu Ray version provides almost none. There certainly is no surround sound on the Blu Ray.  It was more like listening to a mono track and stereo only kicked in when the music score came on.  I am very disappointed that they didn't remaster this audio as it is a quality movie that deserves so much more.  The audio deserves 1 star, two at most.  There are no extras of any kind and the menu is only a cover shot with settings for audio, scene # and play.  Bottom line, if you already have Rob Roy on Standard DVD, I would not recommend its purchase on blu ray. Hopefully, this review has been of help, and if so, please click on the 'helpful' button so I know I am on the right track with these. Thank you.

ACDC Camera Symphony!!! ACDC is my favorite band so I had to go get this Blu-Ray today. The Concert venue is Awesome and the emense crowd is all Jacked Up to say the least for this show. Visually as well as the sound are very good for an outdoor show so big.  The use of multple cameras is nice to have,but if you have seen U2 360 then you know where I'm going with this.Every 3 or 4 seconds your wisked away to another shot of a band member,the group,the audience as a whole or section,or a tatoo on someone's arm of ACDC...etc (To the Editors of the disk.)Can you please stop long enough to take in the perspective of feeling your at the show as a person instead of a 100 cameras blinking. Way to many audience shots mixed into the show every few seconds. Whoever edits these concerts and press's the button to cut to camera 2, back to camera 30, now to camera 16 thru the numders of cameras every 10 seconds or so,split screens,3 split screens. Come on,the guys that do this need to relax and lay off the coffee."It IS way Overdone! Worse of all someone,the Band has to aprove this,seriously?  Anywho if you can overcome the camera symphony its a great show could of done some different songs this tour with the older stuff.Song set selection is similiar to No Bull and Donnington with 4 new songs off Black Ice mixed in.  Let There Be Rock "the Movie" I seen in Theatres long ago will make up for it with less camera vollying and the pre Johnson set list.  If you dont aprove of this kind of camera work in your concert DVDs let them know here,somewhere please. Its borderline unprofessional! 2 Stars lost from cameraitis.

Hammer Studios is back in business....sort of. No one could be more excited when the news that Hammer Studios was rolling back into existance and already had two feature films in the pipelines for release in 2010!  While my excitement has wained since, but still there, and for good reason.  Frist is The Resident, a stalker thriller that got a very limited theatrical release despite the fact that Oscar Winner Hillary Swank is the star.  Their second release was a remake, EEEEEKKKK, of a brilliant film called Let the Right One In, the remake being called Let Me In.  A remake and a standard stalker thriller?  Interesting choices, but where's the gothic horror I yearn for?  I guess I'll have to wait for Tim Burton's and Johnny Depp's collaboration on the feature film version Dark Shadows.  Okay, now this film has so many good things in it it's hard to knock it too hard.  The acting is all top notch.  Swank is convincing as a surgeon and as her stalker's unaware victim.  Unfortunately, her character is only defined by her job and the fact that the love of her life has cheated on her, and forced her to move out and find a place to be on her own.  Yeah, there's not much of a character written here.  Luckily, Swank is a charismatic enough presence to fool you into thinking you're watching a fully developed human being.  She's quite likeable and instantly garners the viewer's sympathy.  Then we have the stalker, played here by Jeffrey Dean Morgan(The Comedian in Watchmen).  He is good, but again is short shrifted by the screenplay.  His character's past is given to us.  A past of abuse at the hands of his grandfather, played by Christopher Lee, in a far too small and wasted role.  He just has to play charming and then switch into stalker and eventually into the motor of a conventional slasher movie cliche.  He's good, but not totally as menacing as you would need in the last moments when the film really starts to heat up.  The film is beautifully shot by Guillermo Navarro(a frequent collaborator of the brilliant Guillermo Del Toro).  It's just nice to look at, in that lived in and aunthentic way.  The production design feels mostly natural.  I mean, Swank's new place is huge and almost creepily gothic, but that's just something one has to expect in a film like this.  I would like to see the creepy apartment thriller film where the apartment complex is as ordinary as the characters, but I digress.  It's fast paced and edited well.  It's visually stimulating, but that's it.  All surface.  Not really that disturbing.  Not that surprising.  The only thing that really intrigued me with this this film is the first two acts' structure.  Without hint or preview the point of view of the film shifts from Swank's unknowing stalked to that of the stalker. Not completely Roshimon style, but the film suddenly decides to tell us, like we didn't know already, that the Jeffrey Dean Morgan character has been stalking and been in scenes featuring just Swank, like a steamy bath.  He peeps through holes.  He hides under beds.  He creeps through her apartment in the middle of the night, in through secret passageways....yeah, you've seen this all before.  I do give credit to one other moment that is played mostly off of Swank's face in the third act as she is looking at her home security footage to find Morgan molesting her.  It's a dynamic and horrifying scene well performed by Swank and truly disturbing.  The only really disturbing scene in the whole film.  Yes, it's predicatable but not insulting.  It's not original, but not too common of a genre that it's totally tired.  The acting is top notch and it's visually appealing and manipulative like all good thrillers/horror films should be.  So, give it a rent and check it out.  Finally, the blu ray itself is totally bare-bones.  Not even a trailer makes an appearance.  The film and Navarro's brilliant cinematography looks great on blu ray, but I would've liked some interviews or behind the scenes stuff, or even a featurette about the return of Hammer horror.  Oh well.  At least they got the sound and picture right.  PS: Is it just me or does anyone else out there in la-la land think Hillary Swank's sexy?  I don't hear it often and I must admit that I never really thought about it, but I really think she is.  Maybe it's all the masculine roles she has become famous for, but I'm noticing her now and think she has a truly unique beauty.

This movie was "nasty" Comment: This movie was nasty. It was crude, violent and without any social redeeming qualities. It shows the worst of a society that has no regard for human morality. If this is the way of the criminal future... which it appears it is becoming, and worse (2011) then we are headed down that slippery slope of kill or be killed... do unto others before they do unto you... and everyone else be damned. With these attitudes and the steadily declining economy, drugs alcohol and crime are finding a fertile breeding ground worldwide. So much for families, God and "peace on earth". Of corse there are some of you that have no idea what i'm on about.

An Earnest Effort: This Urban Drama Has Its Heart In The Right Place, But Never Fully Rings True There is a confident matter-of-factness that serves the understated appeal of Mark Harris' "Black Butterfly" quite well.  In its quiet moments, the film does a good job establishing a believable and supportive middle class family.  The story revolves around Mahogany Monae as a promising high school swimmer with dreams of Olympic glory.  She is a good student, an ideal daughter, a loving influence on her disabled brother, and a loyal girlfriend.  The early sequences in the film really get you to appreciate Monae as a character and her interactions with those around her stand in a very positive light.  In many ways, you know that this idyllic world must be headed for a speed bump.  Soon, the girl's entire existence is going to be shattered by a random act of violence and this event will have long range repercussions on all that love her.  The set-up of "Black Butterfly" is both simple and effective.  While the dialogue and performances do have moments where they come across as stilted, it is easy to forgive such things in this low budget endeavor.  When tragedy strikes, the initial reactions to it are handled well and Monae does a good job juggling the conflict.  Also of note, the actor that plays her father maintains a nice balance.  They handle the difficult material with quite a bit of sensitivity, and that is a great thing.  But the movie makes a few glaring missteps that all but derail the subtle effectiveness of its strong points.  From the small (Monae is never a convincing swimmer and the Olympic side plot feels poorly conceived) to the large (the villain is drawn in such aggressively broad strokes, he is more caricature than human), the movie made it impossible to fully connect with the emotional core.  It doesn't help matters, though, as the film veers into complete melodrama for its final act.  With a mysterious death and vengeance plots a plenty, the final scene comes close to being ridiculous.  What should have been the emotional climax devolves into silly suspense.  Yet despite it failings, I still wanted to root for "Black Butterfly" and its heroine that slowly starts to rebuild her life.  The film is filled with good intentions, and has talent behind it, it just falters occasionally in the execution.  I'd be interested to check out Harris' next project, though, if he continues to refine his storytelling abilities--he may be one to watch.  KGHarris, 4/12.

Careless compulsions An interesting multi-layered film focusing on the private lives of promiscuous urban city dwellers. Sexual curiosities yield erotic investigation for one gay man room-mating with a lesbian, both of whom are friends with a dominatrix, whose social circle is haunted by a serial killer in their midst, unbeknownst to them, until finally revealed in the end, who also suffers an unexpected fate.  In one remarkable and disturbing scene, he takes a "job" with her, in which he plays the part of a 'white knight' type of 'good' cowboy dressed in white, rescuing the girl in apparent distress, while the client plays the role of the villain cowboy reminiscent of a spaghetti western, who is thereby admonished to quite literally lick the boots of the 'good' cowboy, to his disgust and dismay.  Another scenario relates the burgeoning sexuality of a young man who harbors a crush on him, pursuing his curiosity until finally submitting to a request that he pull down his pants, bend over a pool table, leaving him in a vulnerable, potentially humiliating position, but which only seems to prod him further with his curiosities.  Remembering the previous evening's travails through a miasma of distorted recollection, he inquires as to who it was that  brought him to climax the previous night, wherein he was given a dose of heroin, promptly delivering him into an unconscious stupor.  In the end, all are embroiled in a mishmash of dependency upon a serial killer who turns out to be the ex-boyfriend, who proclaimed his love while plunging backwards to his death.  A fascinating plot throughout, eventually revealing one of the characters contracting the dreaded HIV virus.  Overall, the film displays a circle of acquaintances who partook in rather compulsive behavior, demonstrating the cause & effect results of irresponsibility & compulsion. Partake in the pleasures of the flesh as you will, but just remember that the key to responsible indulgence is the application of epicurean selection. '

Aside From Its Commanding Performances, Somewhat Dated "Room at the Top," (1959) is considered a classic British film by many.  It's a taut 115 minute black and white dramatic romance that is sometimes described as a kitchen sink drama; other times as an angry young man drama.  It stars Laurence Harvey as Joe Lampton, an ambitious young accountant of working class origins, scheming to marry the daughter, Susan Brown, of the wealthiest, most influential local factory owner.  Unfortunately, Lampton falls in love with the wife of another influential local man, Alice Aisgill, played by Simone Signoret in a deservedly Oscar-winning performance, only the second given to a Frenchwoman since one was given to Claudette Colbert in 1934. The film was based on the novel of the same name by author/screenwriter John Braine,<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0848809211">Room at the Top</a>.  It was directed by Jack Clayton, who replaced Peter Glenville.  Many people consider this the best performance of the normally dour Harvey (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00020X88Y">The Manchurian Candidate (Special Edition)</a>), although he lost out Oscar-wise to Charlton Heston in BEN HUR.  (And it was a year in which every male actor nominated was a heavyweight.)  But there's never been any question that Signoret (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006HC0GY">Casque d'Or (The Criterion Collection)</a>,<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004NWPY1Q">Diabolique (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray</a>]), whose face and eyes speak volumes, is the heart of the movie, playing a part not written for a Frenchwoman, first offered to Vivian Leigh.  In fact, in an article entitled "In Praise of Older Women," "Time Magazine" once remarked that Simone Signoret was "everywoman's Bogart, in a trench coat, dangling a cigarette, in `Room at the Top.'"  Stalwart British supporting players Donald Wolfit, Allan Cuthbertson and Raymond Huntley provide strong performances as well. As does Hermione Baddeley, (also up for an Oscar, for the shortest performance ever nominated, at two minutes, 32 seconds, as Alice's friend Elspeth). Ian Hendry makes his film debut here.  The film was made in 1958, and its women are in the styles of 1958, confusingly enough to current viewers.  But ROOM is actually set in 1947, as, knew audiences upon its release, was the novel it is based upon, and as we are told in a briefly-glimpsed letter.  Therefore, Lampton is a 25 year old World War II veteran, who got his accountancy certificate during a three-year imprisonment as a prisoner of war.  On the strength of that certificate, he's left his downtrodden, down market hometown of Dufton, for Warnley, apparently a much pleasanter, better-off town.  (The movie was filmed in Bradford, West Yorkshire.)  Lampton quickly sets his sights on naïve young Susan, and joins the local theatrical club to meet her, but inadvertently meets, has an affair with, and falls in love with sexy married, older woman Alice.  This film features the first open reference to the sex act in a British picture, and was therefore given an X certificate by the British Board of Film Classification.  So no British cinema chain would touch it.  Eventually the ABC chain took a chance and got a huge critical and commercial hit for its pains.  Sex always sells, we know.  Aside from its commanding performances, I find the movie somewhat dated.  Women have made loveless marriages to acquire wealth, power and status since time immemorial.  Men have, less frequently, done the same.  Extra-marital relationships are not unknown.  It all hardly seems a tragedy to me.

So, So...... Well.. the cover was dented in when I recieved it... wasn't very impressed since I was looking forward to recieving this dvd.. dvd works fine though so besides the massive dent in the cover its good. It was cheap so I guess it boils down to you pay for what you get..

it was okay..... It was okay. Its differ from the original fright night made in the 1980s with the two Coreys. The vampire from the original played a small part in this one. Also, this one has less comedy. Again, just ok.

Regarding the Beast From the outset of Le Pacte de Loups, we know that the central beast of the movie is no ordinary wolf. Regarding its identification, however - a point that is never truly elucidated whether you've seen the film or not - there remains debate. My initial and superseding question is, no matter how the beast appears, what makes it impossible to believe in the beast's specificity as a common French wolf? This fact is unmistakable to my intuitions. Many of you might not know French, but I looked it up and "loup" is actually French for "wolf" - not "beast," like many appear to think. First point, the movie title states this so-called mysterious answer from the outset. If the beast was a hyena, the French would be referring to "hy&egrave;nes," and were it a lion, it would actually be called "lion" (the two languages share this word).  If you need more evidence, there is no lack in the film. Our beast is often seen running with its pack, howling at the moon, and killing people. While Gr&eacute;goire attempts to denounce the belief in human murders by wolf, one of the final scenes of the movie clearly depicts wolves doing just that: an obvious statement to disaffirm his slander. If you listen to the revealing narrative at the end of the film, it is stated that while visiting Africa Jean-François found the beast and raised her offspring, selecting the largest and strongest to take back with him to France and training it to be more ferocious and cruel than the average wolf.  ***WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD. Earlier we learn that this character has been savaged by a lion, which resulted in the loss of his right forelimb. Would you take the same animal that disfigured you and raise it as your own? Neither would Jean-François.

Does not say Anniversary Edition on the box DVD is okay but I ordered it as a surprise for my husband because it was an anniversary edition.  I returned the first one I received because it did not say anniversary edition on the box like it does in the picture of the item.  I reordered and got the same thing.  I kept the second one because I needed it for Christmas.  A bit of a disappointment but if you don't care about the box then you should be happy with the DVD.

Mixed Influences Make Darker Recall "Total Recall" with Colin Farrell is more a remake of the 1990 Arnold Schwarnegger version than the Philip K. Dick short story, "We Can Remember it for you Wholesale," and from there, there are a mixture of influences, the world in this "Recall" is clearly the "Blade Runner" world of Ridley Scott and weirdly enough there seem to be influences of "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith."  This Recall focuses more on action, which has a scene in which Farrell and Beckinsale jump several floors of space, crash through numerous windows and land on what looks like very hard concrete slabs all without breaking any arms, legs or ribs. There are also car chases and elevator chases (the Star Wars influence as well as the very disposable synthetic police force).  Both movies share with the story "We Can Remember it for you Wholesale" what they share with the story is that disgruntled factory worker drudge Douglas Quade longs for a more meaningful, adventure laden life and he is offered the chance to live out his dreams at Total Rekall, a sort of travel agency that will let you live out those fantasies and you will experience them as real and happening to you. After Quade is hooked up to the dream machine something goes drastically wrong when it's discovered Quade really was a spy, that's about where Philip K. Dick left it, from there on in the Schwarzenegger version takes over and everybody is trying to kill Quade, who as time goes on is remembering more about who he was and who he is. Both movies mess with your head with challenging Quade's sense of reality and what is really real and depending on who you believe in the movie(s) Quade is either a spy that was turned to the rebel's cause, or it was all an elaborate plan to let the resistance think Quade had turned in able to track down the resistance leader Matthias and expose and kill him.  It's good to see Colin Farrell seeming to make a full revival of his career after the brief part in "Crazy Heart" in 2009 he seems back in full strength in "Total Recall" as Quade, he's easily a better actor than Schwarzenegger and in the few scenes where he acts (as opposed to being chased or shot at) they are very satisfying moments and you believe his angst at not knowing who he really is. Kate Beckinsale plays Quade's wife, Lori, and is a lot more predatory and persistent than Sharon Stone was in the same role in the 1990 version. Bryan Cranston as Cohaagen is good at channeling his dark side playing a ruthless politician manipulating everyone, especially the public in order to justify an invasion. And Jessica Biel as Melina, Quade's true love that showed him the truth of the resistance, doesn't seem to generate any real heat or chemistry in her relationship with Quade.  The 1990 version of "Total Recall" messes with your head more, while this version the special effects far outshine what was possible in 1990. Which did I like better? It's a coin flip but I lean more towards the 1990 version, but still if you want to have a pleasant evening of watching the movie on DVD or Blu-Ray you'll enjoy it and maybe they'll put some cool behind the scenes features on the DVD/Blu-Ray version. Because this "Total Recall" follows the 1990 version so closely I'm left with the same conclusion as Roger Ebert, that while this was an entertaining, enjoyable movie, was it really necessary to remake it?

Actually my favorite version....BUT..... This is without a doubt my favorite version.  The three star rating is for every streaming source I've come across.  Do yourself a favor and BUY THE DVD.  Don't watch it via streaming or you're getting some badly butchured material.  I have that butchured version on VHS and I enjoyed it ohsomuch until I rented the DVD one day and saw how complete it really was unedited.  Streaming only offers the butchured version.  You are missing far too much of the movie this way; huge chunks, hours, are not available.  Please rent the DVD and watch the most faithful rendition of Francis Burnett's classic come to life!

Do not expect this to be like the first x-men movies! First class is a lot different than what I expected. The film has less action and more slow parts instead. Now when I refer to slow parts I would like to tell you it is story, but it is actually lots of your time wasted by them trying to tell a story about shallow characters. You sit through a 132 minute movie which should have been an hour and twenty minutes because the rest is a waste of time and boring. Yes, I know that movies like x-men are not supposed to have a best picture of the year type of story, but if you are going to have a shallow story do not waste my time prolonging it just give me action instead that is better than nothing. The movie in better than "The Last Stand" and is worth watching a second time I would say but no more than that. It does have decent characters (Magneto and Xavier and Kevin Bacon) but the other ones are pretty bland and than other characters are introduced in the beginning like the woman from the CIA, but than her character is completely forgotten in the rest of the film after her

"Manhattan Baby" -- I wasn't quite sure how to react upon reading the title. "Manhattan Baby", despite the inclusion of a very small amount of gore near the end, managed to out-bore even the dull "The Black Cat". If you have to buy one of the Fulci releases from Anchor Bay, your best bet would be "House by the Cemetery". "Manhattan Baby" isn't enthusiastically recommended as a film, but given its very respectable presentation on DVD, this disc should fit nicely alongside other Fulci releases on your DVD rack.

301..."meh" This movie is exactly what you would expect, "301". Has the same feel and look as 300 did. Does have some pretty sweet shots that make this movie entertaining enough to overlook the producers' crass take on Greek mythology.

Life Is Sound And Fury Signifying Nothing I usually enjoy Woody Allen films and for the first ninety minutes of this ninety-nine minute film I did. Then something happened, it ended with no resolution of the stories, no nothing but looking back perhaps that was the point. As Shakespeare once sais life is all sound and fury signifying nothing. So too is You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger.  It is a family story, and a tale of marriages unraveling. When the film begins, Helena (Gemma Jones) and Alfie (Anthony Hopkins) have recently divorced, their 40-year union unable to withstand his late-life crisis and her bouts of anxiety. He finds solace in a sports car and workout regiment; she ends up spending the lion's share of her time seeking the advice of a rather shady psychic, and making frequent (and unannounced) visits to their only offspring, Sally (Naomi Watts). But Sally's marriage to Roy (Josh Brolin) is in its own trouble; he's a novelist who hasn't been able to live up to the promise of his first book, and isn't doing much in the way of providing for their future, so she ends up going back into the workforce as the assistant to Greg (Antonio Banderas), a handsome gallery owner. Sally's attracted to her boss, while Roy is drawn to the lovely Dia (Freida Pinto), whose apartment window faces his office.  There are twistsand turns aplenty from Allen's fine cast and the movie moves along quite well. The feeling is of real people relating to and with each other. Both Watts and Hopkins are a joy to watch. The entire ensemble cast holds its own quite well. The problem is that I wish there were more of the story. One becomes invested in the characters only to get no real sense of resolution/  The film I screened was a standard definition DVD which presented great picture and clear sound. As usual with an Allen film it was a pretty bare bones affair with only a trailer as a bonus feature.  Maybe life is in fact all sound and fury signifying nothing. In Allen's world this may in fact be the point of the experience.  Worth it but with reservations.

The Bond Movie Everybody (Even Roger Moore!) Hates, But It's Not All Bad Roger Moore's final performance as James Bond is memorable mostly for the wrong reasons.  Tanya Roberts' poor performance (Which earned her a second consecutive Golden Raspberry Award, AKA Razzie, nomination.) and lack of chemistry with her co-star and a number of action scenes that just did not work so hurt this movie to a serious degree.  It does not come even close to classics like "You Only Live Twice" and "The Spy Who Loved Me."  However there are some elements that do make "A View to a Kill" appealing and quite entertaining.  For example the movie has an excellent pre-credit sequence.  I have watched it many times and enjoy it tremendously.  Duran Duran's excellent theme song is another thing that adds to the movie's entertainment value.  I also enjoyed the sequence right after the opening credits of Q's briefing which sets up Bond's mission.  Such sequences are always enjoyable in all Bond films.  I look forward to them just as much as the action sequences.  Roger Moore has never given a bad performance as Bond and even this movie is no exception in my opinion.  He certainly helps carry the movie and makes it watchable.  I must not forget Christopher Walken who is quite good as villain Max Zorin (A role rejected by both David Bowie and Sting.).  He is quite menacing as the mad industrialist hell bent on destroying Silicon Valley.  He is terrific here.  Almost as good as Christopher Lee ("The Man With the Golden Gun".) and the late Curt Jurgens ("The Spy Who Loved Me".) who rank among the great Bond villains.  In the end, it's easy to see why this movie is so reviled by critics and fans alike.  However it does have it's moments that make it worth seeing.

Acting I've seen all three seasons of The Last Airbender and loved them. The characters in the cartoon series were lively, funny and refreshingly entertaining. The movie was a poor representation of the show.  As I watched this film, it felt like I was watching actors performed, rather than a performance by actors. I just couldn't get "into" the movie. I was more waiting for it to end than anything. It was like a moment in a movie, when you suddenly notice a flaw in a low-level actor and it reminds you that the movie isn't real, only that "moment" extended from beginning to end. Awful.  The good points are the graphics as they were great, and Zorro's uncle was definitely believable as were the siblings' grandmother and the water-bender trainer in the North. That's it.  -Characters-  To keep it simple, the characters were almost backwards from what they were in the TV series. Sokka, Katara and Aang all acted like they pulled coal out of their Christmas stocking. Sokka was nowhere near as comical as he was in the series, Katara not as kind, and Aang...well I don't want to offend anyone but he seriously looked like a depressed kid on meth.  I think that the acting wasn't as believable because the actors could not replicate what the original characters' personalities are.  The issue, I believe, is the distinct difference in style of performance. The show was consistent with Asian anime, which makes the original characters so loveable. Actually it is anime. Now while the voice-overs for the English version of the TV show did a good job, these actors were a poor mismatch; Epic fail.  In any case, I could have done with the change of characteristics had the acting been sufficient and the characters believable. Unfortunately, it wasn't and they weren't.  That's all I got. This review has been updated since it's initial entry....by alot.

Not too good Not one who usually bashes movies. But people were right about the plot and character development being weak. The fights were ok not the greatest but pretty good considering it was a low budget movie.

Bought it as a gift Bought it as a surprise gift since the person is watching the current season. She said its not as exciting but since I havent seen it, I cant say for sure.

Comes gallumphing back. Wait, what does "gallumphing" mean again? I rented this on the name alone, having taken a shine to the monster since the 1985 TV movie implanted in me a false memory of "Through the Looking Glass" ending with a showdown between the beast and Alice. You might then label "Jabberwocky" a victim of my admittedly strange expectations. If, though, if you start your movie with an attack by the beast in question and the king of the realm declaring a bounty on the beast's head and your hero setting off from his humble origins to Prove His Worth, then your audience has no right to expect anything but an epic quest to defeat the monster.  Instead, you get more of a comedy following the hero's scattered misadventures in a European city in the Dark Ages, and while this isn't wrong, exactly, you're waiting and waiting for the meat of the movie to arrive, for the main plot to resurface, and you'll be waiting until ten minutes before the credits. The pacing is so very dreary, with several minutes of staging before a short spurt of jokes - a particular liability considering the film's pedigree as a product of many of the minds behind "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" and its rapid-fire humor. An unfortunate waste of some notably accurate and unsentimentalized medieval set work and a sweetly winning performance by Michael Palin, a sort of continuation of his Galahad role.

New Footloose I like that the new version was updated.  I was surprised that I would enjoy the movie as much as I did. Both the old and new version are in my opinion "B" movies and equally fun. What I didn't like was how the dance sequences were filmed, the camera cut around too much and you only caught glimpses of them dancing. You're going to enjoy the movie and kick up your heels to the music!

A Dire Film at Best Don't let the cover fool you. It isn't a mega-huge, CGI cross between a dinosaur and a wolf. If it had been, such a great title wouldn't have been wasted. No new plot twists here. No spoilers really possible in this all too predictable made for DVD monster flick. Basically, it's a genetically engineered werewolf type monster that can run around in daylight. Lower shooting cost, no doubt. The daylight does hurt the suspense factor. The kills are numerous and messy. The acting is a bit better than average. Over all it's your standard monster movie fair. No nudity. But enough gore to please the average teenage fan-boy. I like monster movies. So,it's no classic,but it works for me!

Not what I had expected. Dazzling special effects, mediocre acting, predictable plot -- what's not to like? I didn't expect very much more than a mindless distraction and that's what I got. I don't think anyone will be taking any awards for this production, but it was mildly entertaining.

not bad A slow melting letdown that lacked immagination but still managed to be grose enough for me to finish watching.  It was kinda funny in a sick twisted way.

Welles's Most Traditional Film: Easy to Devour, But Not Filling Enough for a Full Meal The rare Orson Welles film to turn a profit during its theatrical run, this is also his least favorite work due to constant studio meddling. The Stranger is more mainstream and digestible than most of his films, with a short running time and direct, hand-holding plot that leaves nothing for interpretation. In many ways that's refreshing, as Welles was often a candidate for getting caught up in himself and indulging in long, dry elaborations on non-central themes. Here we get just a taste of that, in one fantastic dinner table diatribe on the mentality of a Nazi, which benefits from both its brevity and special status as the flick's only real soapbox moment. The plot would have been greatly improved with a bit more ambiguity, though, as it spells everything out in the first act and sits back to watch the pieces fall naturally into place. That left me with a bland taste in my mouth and a starved imagination, dancing with visions of blown potential. Orson never shot an ugly picture, and this is no exception: it's a gorgeous example of extreme noir contrast and creative cinematography. A pity the base, predictable plot doesn't live up to the expectations.

Death in Love (DVD) ~ Jacqueline Bisset I got this DVD because of Jacqueline Bisset. It wasn't a great movie but it was to see Jacqueline Bisset in a movie.

Ageless? I bought this DVD believing it would be challenging, but not more difficult than I could handle.  While I could do most of the exercises, the video didn't seem to flow really well and I would not recommend it, especially for anyone over 55 who needs to modify their workout.

For fans of this genre an absolute must-see. For me it looked very good and fight scenes were neat. Not my type though. I say B "Stand your ground! Fight for order! Fight for the man beside you!  Fight for your children! Fight for your future! Fight! For immortality!" When King Hyperion's (Rourke) quest to find the ultimate weapon threatens to destroy both man and gods the gods look for a warrior to lead the charge against the King. The gods pick a young villager named Theseus (Cavill) who soon becomes the true leader they were hoping for.  I have never really been a big fan of the huge epics like this one. I have liked "The Eagle" but not "Clash Of The Titans" or "Conan". I say that so those of you that loved those movies can stop reading this now.  To me the best part about it was the way that it looked. It may have helped that it was the blu-ray but visualy it looked great. The battle scenes were good and all but the movie to me was hard to stay interested in. Again though with all that said if you like this type of genre then this is a must-see.  Overall, a great movie for fans of the genre. I give it a B.

Charlie Chan takes a pay cut After 20th Century Fox finally dropped the Charlie Chan series after closing down their B-movie unit in 1942, they took the unusual step of letting star Sidney Toler shop the rights around other studios to continue the series. With the war effort in full swing and Asian detectives - even Chinese ones - considered bad for business it took him two years before finally poverty row studio Monogram committed to a new series. Gone were the slick production values that Fox gave the films even when they moved from A-pictures to Bs, along with the quality casting, behind the screens talent and scripts in favour of a more cheap and cheerful approach that kept the series chugging along pleasantly enough even if its glory days were behind it. MGM/UA's Chanthology ofers the first six of these Monogram releases in an extras-free set that offers decent albeit not outstanding copies that are more than acceptable considering how poor the public domain copies floating around for years have been  Not that it got off to a good start with Charlie Chan in the Secret Service, which has all the hallmarks of a picture the studio had no confidence in and just churned out as a fast and cheaply as possible to see if there was any life left in the old dog without risking too much. Most of the film plays out on just one location aside from a now infamous sequence of Toler walking through a hotel lobby and hailing a cab that drives him slowly to the murder scene while insistent dramatic music blares on the soundtrack: it's the closest thing the film has to n action sequence, but it's all too typical of the kind of padding Monogram threw into their cheapies to get them up to feature running time. Worse is to come when Chan arrives and delivers some of the most horribly unsubtle on the nose dialogue crudely setting up character background to the cop on the case you're likely to hear outside of a home movie or un film de Robbie Moffatt.  Thankfully once Chan is on the case, things pick up, but this is still weak stuff thanks to poor writing, a lack of any real introduction to most of the suspects and a less than compellingly constructed mystery. Chan's been slightly reinvented, or at least reassigned as a Secret Service agent just to reassure the more xenophobic audience members that he's on the right side, with his remit to investigate cases with national security implications, in this case the murder of a scientist and the disappearance of the blueprints for his latest potentially war-winning invention. This time he's assisted by Number Three Son Tommy Chan (a stilted Benson Fong, nicknamed Confucius Junior here) and Number One Daughter Iris Chan (Marianne Quon), as well as - most controversially - Mantan Moreland's Birmingham Brown. A brilliant nightclub comedian, here he's cast as a cowardly servant in the murdered man's house, and it's a role that would see him criticised as an Uncle Tom figure playing a racial stereotype that would make work increasingly hard to find n the 60s. Yet for all the criticism, he's no Stepinfetchit caricature, his screen persona owing more to a Bob Hope-style comic relief cracking wise to hide his fear. Despite a couple of unfortunate gags involving a tribal mask and blackface here, his part could just as easily be played by a white actor, and - as a valued star of no-budget films on the Monogram lot - even after he went to work for Chan on a regular basis in later entries he's never treated as racially inferior.  There are a few aphorisms along the way ("If man places self in way of finger of suspicion, must not be surprised when receives poke in the eye"), but some of them are incredibly heavy handed and overwritten: "Suspicion like rain - fall upon just and unjust" is fine until the writers have Charlie go on with "You protect self with umbrella of innocence. But at moment your umbrella have big leak." It doesn't help that Toler's health problems are occasionally apparent, not least in his substantial weight loss. Thankfully, while things would never be as good as the Fox days, the series did show significant improvement in his follow-ups.  Sidney Toler's second Monogram Charlie Chan film, The Chinese Cat, is a huge improvement over his first, with a noticeably bigger budget that gets the action out of the house and into various locations, and a much better plot that zips along very pleasingly to a fairly satisfying conclusion. Along the way many of the classic ingredients are thrown into the mix: an unsolved locked room murder, a challenge from a rival criminologist, a looming 48 hour deadline to solve the case, secret passages, hidden compartments, fun houses, an ever increasing body count and the obligatory attempt on Charlie's life in a case the detective can, and does, solve with his hands tied behind his back, all put together with much more pace and wit than Charlie Chan in the Secret service could muster. Unfortunately he's assisted by Number Three Son Tommy Chan, played again with the grace of an alternately bored and overexcited chimpanzee by Benson Fong, the weak limb to which no family tree may point with ride who's largely there to give his father someone to amiably insult ("Your assistance about as welcome as water in a leaking ship"), though he does stand up to torture surprisingly well. A more welcome return is Mantan Moreland's Birmingham Brown, now employed as a cabby reluctantly ferrying the Chans from corpse to corpse and no longer required to stand in front of African tribal masks. There's even a marked improvement in the quality of aphorisms ("Expert is merely man who makes quick decision and is sometimes right"), which were in noticeably short supply last time round. The budget doesn't quite stretch to making the funhouse finale work too well, but there's more than enough to enjoy along the way to make this perhaps the best of Toler's Monogram Chans.  "Shadey business do not make for sunny life."  As the obligatory baffled cop on the case says, Meeting at Midnight aka Black Magic is dime novel stuff involving hypnotism, s&eacute;ances, mindbending drugs and murder from beyond the grave. The lazy writing makes itself apparent in the lack of interest it shows in the mundane business of uncovering clues. In one climactic confrontation Charlie describes the motives of everyone at a s&eacute;ance, but the film gives us no clue as to how he found them out: they're simply dropped in as clumsy exposition, but too late to have the desired effect. For much of the film one person's guess is as good as another's when it comes to who could have dunnit. Yet for all that it's an enjoyable enough entry, perhaps not as much fun as its reputation among fans of the more supernaturally inclined mysteries implies, but more than good enough to pass muster as a programmer.  At times Toler seems to be doing his best to hide his physical discomfort, his face flushed in some scenes even when sitting down, at others he seems to be genuinely having fun with a more playful performance. This time he's assisted by both Birmingham Brown (who, with his usual run of bad luck, has just started a job in the house the murder takes place) and Charlie's cheerful Number Two Daughter Frances Chan, played by one Frances Chan, who probably had the part as soon as they saw her name in the casting directory (although she'd already played Warner Oland's youngest daughter in the now-lost 1933 Charlie Chan's Greatest Case). Though she's not much more capable than her brothers, without the usual exasperated putdowns his various sons endured there's a much more easygoing chemistry this time round that makes a pleasing change from the formula that sadly wasn't repeated.  "My boy, if silence is golden, you are bankrupt."  The Jade Mask sees Charlie trying to find who murdered a scientist loathed by all who met him - he even made his own family work as his servants - to get their hands on his latest formula in a case involving sealed rooms, poison darts, ventriloquists' dummies, poison gases and life masks. This time he's aided by Number Four Son Eddie (Edwin Luke), a very expensively educated bookworm with less common sense than his elder brothers ("Every time you open your mouth, you put in more feet than centipede"), with Birmingham Brown tagging along even though he has next to nothing to do until a silly sight gag after the even sillier revelation to a mystery that sees corpses walk and anyone who knows the identity of the murderer conveniently waiting to get killed rather than telling Chan. If Eddie and Brown are just along for ballast, Al Bridge makes more of an impression as the bucolic local sheriff on the case ("Seems to me when folks asked me to run for sheriff, I missed a fine chance to keep quiet") and it's a pleasing enough Monogram entry in the series even if the solution is particularly outlandish.  "You're stupid thinking these people would murder anyone. They're too busy murdering the English language."  The Scarlet Clue may well be the best of Sidney Toler's Monogram Chan films, seeing him on the trail of a gang of murderous foreign agents after secret radar plans who are operating from a radio and TV station located in the same office building being used for radar tests and where murder victims fall eight stories up. It benefits from a novel location, though not one greatly different from the radio stations used in other 40s films like Abbott and Costello's Who Done It?, and a decent list of suspects including a blackmailing actress who sees knowing the killer's identity as a ticket to better roles (no prizes for guessing how that turns out), a theatrical ham called Horace Karklos, a Svedish janitoress and a crabby sponsor. We know who the underlings are early on, but the mastermind who communicates only by teletype and who probably taught Ernst Stavro Blofeld everything he knew about dealing with employees who fail to reach their performance targets remains veiled in mystery until the final unmasking. Benson Fong's Number Three Son is much less irritating this time round, though still the but of Charlie's retorts ("I had an idea, but it's gone now." "Possibly could not stand solitary confinement.") and Mantan Moreland gets the chance to do two great but brief routines with is nightclub partner Ben Carter that are terrific bits of wordplay.  Unlike the previous entries, which used US prints complete with wartime savings bond tags, this title is sourced from a UK print with some scratches, but nothing too distracting.  "Cannot sell bearskin before shooting bear."  Unfortunately, The Shanghai Cobra is a step down. At it's heart there's a decent yarn about a suspect who escaped custody during the bombing of Shanghai that left him in dire need of plastic surgery who might just be involved in a series of murders involving cobra venom that are related to a plot to steal radium from an American bank. Unfortunately the plotting is overly complicated enough to make you lose track of who is doing what to who and the execution pedestrian enough for you to not care that much. It feels like it's been rushed before the cameras while it's still being written in another room, the romantic subplot being given a bit more screentime than the usual take-it-for-granted attitude of other entries to pad out the running time - you even get to see that thrilling footage of Charlie hailing a taxi from Charlie Chan in the Secret Service again. Surprisingly Mantan Moreland and Benson Fong are given little to do this time round: they're just hanging around the sidelines waiting for someone to give them something to do, but no-one seems to know quite what to do with them aside from one clumsily executed u-turn/you turn gag. There are a few memorable images thrown up, not least a bizarre jukebox setup which is linked to room where the customers can be spied on by a giant television screen, but like so much else it's never very clear how this is supposed to work. There is one nice in-joke where Charlie finds the hidden mechanism to open the door to a badly hidden room and things pick up a bit for the explosive raid itself, but it's all too scrappily put together to work that well.

Misguided remake of the 1937 screwball classic The Awful Truth After a marital misunderstanding, a musical comedy composer (Ray Milland) and his wife (Jane Wyman) file for a divorce even though they still love each other. When she gets a new beau (Aldo Ray) and he gets a new girlfriend (Karin Booth), they each try to break up the other's relationship. In the 1950s, Columbia decided to add Technicolor and remake several of their classic screwball comedies into semi-musicals. Thus IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT became YOU CAN'T RUN AWAY FROM IT, TOO MANY HUSBANDS became THREE FOR THE SHOW and the Oscar winning THE AWFUL TRUTH ended up as LET'S DO IT AGAIN. They needn't have bothered. The songs are a dull lot, the sparkle is gone and while both Milland and Wyman have displayed comedic gifts in the past, they're on auto pilot here. Oddly, some of the best bits from the 1937 film have been eliminated and nothing worthwhile put in their place. The casting of Aldo Ray in the Ralph Bellamy role backfires. Who wouldn't choose Cary Grant over Bellamy but Milland comes off as smarmy next to the Aldo Ray's likable, hunky doofus. Directed by Alexander Hall (MY SISTER EILEEN). With Leon Ames, Tom Helmore, Kathryn Givney and the dancer Valerie Bettis, who has the one good number in the film.  The Sony MOD DVD-r is a bright colorful transfer.

Challenge of Change Was a bit disappointed in the product.  It was filmed live when doing a seminar for a product.  His comments were directed to the company.  I would of liked it to be not so long (15-20).  Too pricey for what I got.

Scratches I got a used movie from them, but it said the movie was in very good condition. When I opened the case there were scratch marks all over the front that were really deep. Although it did not affect the actual movie, it was very unappealing. I think it was really in good condition instead of very good. Besides that I'm very pleased. It arrived on time.

good but not great It was good in the sense that it was thrilling and kept the audience guessing but it would have been great had the ending been tweaked a little. I felt that it fell short with what Foxx's character came to realize. Yes not to make deals with murderers but to recognize that the whole system was flawed. Had the ending left off with Foxx being in a seat of power and having to choose between what the current system is and changing it for the better, that would have been a step in the right direction. Still a good movie and one that can provoke deeper conversations among the audience.

Just Ok. The serial itself is typical of this type of entertainment and its a fun watch. The sound and print quality was good for the most part but did have a few flawed places. My main complaint other than the annoying "child star" is the over the top advertising of Platinum. Before each chapter they made sure to let you know who produced it as well as a blurb appearing in the bottom right corner of the screen from time to time proclaiming it a Platinum production. The pros to this attempt are the price and the fact that Lon Chaney Jr. was included in the cast,although in a minor role. For the low price its worth a look for those enjoying this type of entertainment, just dont expect Flash Gordon quality.

Decent - Warts and All Reviewer Rex Marksmanson "HEYO!" sums it up pretty well. Worth a read.  Catch the movie on pay-per-view if you don't want to buy the DVD, but see it, if only for the solid, heartfelt performance by Wood Harris.  RIP Jimi.

the old neighborhood not a bad movie...saw it when it orginally came out...enjoyed seeing shots from around boston and places i knew as a kid....

A fun action chick flick. True, De Mornay cannot act.  It's forgiveable because the comedy timing of Mary Gross makes up for it.  It's kinda like watching a Laverne and Shirley rerun only with guns and self-defense thrown in.

Autobots vs. Decepticons Equals Awesome The Review:  Transformers: Dark of the Moon is the latest and final installment of the film series based on the 1980s line of Hasbro toys that spawned the popular cartoon series and cult animated film. Michael Bay is in full effect here, surpassing the prior live action films in terms of storytelling and explosions--lots and lots of explosions. The first Transformers film was decent, but the follow-up, Revenge of the Fallen was an awful mess. Fortunately, Dark of the Moon makes up for its predecessor with better pacing, excellent fan service, some comic relief, a very clever set up and amazing action sequences.  Shia LaBeouf reprises his role, but Megan Foxx is nowhere to be found, replaced by the equally arresting Rosie Huntington-Whitely.  But more importantly, Optimus Prime, voiced by Peter Cullen, is back. Let's face it; every human is a bit player standing next to a 20 foot tall robot, who looms even larger in the minds of those of us who watched the cartoons in the 80s.  The Autobots and Decepticons are examples of computer generated actors that routinely upstage their human costars thanks to the wizardry of Industrial Light and Magic. Serious fans of Transformers that recall the original animated movie will recognize the voice talent of Leonard Nimoy, who is the voice of Galvatron from the original animated movie. Look out for the clever reference to another Nimoy character early in the film that foreshadows one of Dark of the Moon's awesome twists.  The premise of Dark of the Moon is that the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union was a cover to retrieve autobot technology that crash-landed on the moon. Control of that technology will determine not only the victor in the ongoing war between the Autobots and Decepticons, but the fate of mankind as well. Corny? Perhaps, but if I didn't know better, the production values of Dark of the Moon suggest Michael Bay rented the Space Shuttle Columbia and sent a film crew to film huge chunks of the movie in space. The FX are impeccably done with only one scene early on that looks (forgivably) fake.  At the end of the day, Dark of the Moon is a bombastic action film that is competently written. It succeeds primarily on the strength of its special effects and benefits from favorable comparison to the inferior Revenge of the Fallen which preceded it. The movie is for the most part lighthearted, but in the final act it shifts tone and becomes much darker. It becomes surprisingly violent and pushes the boundaries of its PG-13 rating. Oddly, robot on robot violence seems to give the film makers license to amp up the carnage. The robots are so lifelike that there's an eerie human quality to their very violent clashes that I found a bit jarring. The violence was also in stark contrast to the films earlier, often comedic moments. If you enjoyed the two prior films then you will enjoy Dark of the Moon which does homage to the spirit of the Transformers in explosive Michael Bay fashion.  FTC Advisory: We purchased our own tickets.

3 1/2 stars for this Blu ray transfer of an ugly chapter in World history Rachel Weisz has become one of my favorite actresses these days with a smattering of terrific performances.  She doesn't disappoint here playing Kathy Bolkovac a real life Nebraska police officer.  Her personal life has been complicated by a recent divorce.  She has a teenage daughter but her ex has been given custody.  He lives in Georgia.  We don't get any back-story on why this unlikely arrangement was granted but the movie is based on real events.  Unable to get a transfer to be closer to her daughter, Bolkovac signs on for a 6 month gig in Bosnia as part of the police keeping force following the Bosnian civil war that ended in the mid-1990's.  When she arrives, she discovers that teenage girls are being used as sex slaves and trafficked to various bidders.  What is even more shocking is that the trade is supported by local police, UN peacekeepers including Americans and others.  While gathering evidence, Bolkovac is stymied by her superiors and is ultimately removed from the force.  This is a depressing and morally repugnant film involving brutal rapes and the revolting behavior of men charged with rebuilding the nation.  As an attractive lone wolf, Bolkovac's own safety is often exposed.  Unfortunately the events lead to an eventual exposure of the criminal activity but few, if any of the key players were ever brought to justice.  An underlying theme revolves around the fact that most of the American's were private contractors, immune from prosecution.  Director Larysa Kondracki's film is far from perfect.  It seems to move along in herky jerky fashion.  Supporting actors Vanessa Redgrave and David Strathhairn add some heft but make no mistake, this is Rachel Weisz's film.  The Blu ray transfer is in 1080p with a 2.35:1 aspect ratio.  The film is purposefully dark and grim as is the color palet, or lack of.  The picture is clear but with expected grain.  In some of the darkest scenes, detail is iffy but I suspect this was intended.  Likewise the DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack is pretty straight forward with most of the dialog centered movie up front.  Surrounds are used mostly for background chatter and noisy scenes.  In one case I did have to raise the volume to understand a character who spoke in a strong Serbian accent.  Overall, both sound and picture are very good.

Cain And Abel Circa 1980 Complete With Ninja Pillow Fight "The Octagon" is a peculiar martial arts movie from Chuck Norris' early career. Despite the praises heaped on it in the documentary features that are included, it has a cheesy early 1980s feel that makes it both fun and fun to laugh along with. Don't get me wrong, I think Chuck Norris is a great guy, and he does a good job with the role, but some of the film is more amusing than it is scary (especially the frequently incomprehensible internal mental monologue fed through an echoplex.) The good news is that Chuck does get to use his amazing fighting skills in a truly stunning climax, but the bad news is that it takes a long time to get even the remotest clue what on earth is going on: pacing early in the film is a bit tortuous at times.  Chuck plays Scott James, a former exhibition fighter trained in martial arts from a young age. He is haunted by the accidental death of a competitor, and despite being the best there is adamantly refuses to use force, even when offered exorbitant prices for his services. The film opens with very annoying voiceover work explaining the opaque backstory and scenes of a budget terrorist training camp where stabbing cantaloupes is high on the curriculum. Chuck promptly gets involved with Nancy Bell (Kim Lankford,) a dancer who used to be a courier for terrorists, which is somehow connected to the assassination of a French diplomat. Nancy is quickly dispatched by terrorists, and it's a good thing for the plot too, because Chuck quickly moves on to another woman with even more problems. This introduces one of the chief problems with the film: there are absolutely tons of characters and subplots that go nowhere or are alternately connected only by the most amazingly tenuous and unbelievable coincidences imaginable. Some movies are intellectually challenging and make you think. That's a good thing. "The Octagon" on the other hand frequently just annoys with pointless characters and obscure plotpoints that don't further the story or make the movie more interesting.  Bearing in mind the opening murders of the French diplomat and the dancer, and grasping this is a movie pitting Norris against ninja terrorists, he naturally has to turn to his old chum McCarn (Lee Van Cleef, who is simply stunning in his threatening ascot.) McCarn is the leader of an elite group of bodyguards, though this takes a while to sort out. Soon, both James and McCarn are involved with a beautiful blonde media heiress, Justine (Karen Carlson,) who feeds them the most cockamamie story ever about how her father the publisher was killed, and how she was being threatened by terrorists for her editorial policy. As if this wasn't a ludicrous enough premise it does not help that Carlson is one of the worst actresses in movie history. She turns in a simply appalling over-the-top scenery-chewing performance that is both annoying and amusing (in a B-movie guilty pleasure sort of way.)  It turns out that Seikura (Tadashi Yamashita) is a ninja terrorist leader who has targeted Justine, and who now heads a training camp for the least disciplined ninjas ever (please enjoy the utterly pointless lunch line fight.) Eventually James agrees to infiltrate the terrorist training camp, but this being "The Octagon" there is more to the story. It turns out that Seikura is James' adoptive brother, and both trained together as children until a petulant teenage ninja training incident made them sworn enemies for life. Meanwhile A. J. (Art Hindle,) yet another of James' old chums gets involved after much wistful romantic smarminess. James interviews for a job as a mercenary in a very uncomfortable scene after a brief square dance class (featuring noted square dance caller Fenton Jones) but quickly falls out with this group, which is headed by the repulsive Doggo (Kurt Grayson...just what we needed...more characters.) Doggo's purpose is to supply recruits to Seikura, who runs the advanced terrorist training camp. Not everyone makes it through the curriculum, and Doggo falls out of favor quickly. Mercifully Justine is killed with a blowgun dart to the neck, and the average quality of the acting in the film rises exponentially from that point on. Before he can invade Seikura's compound, the Octagon (a very impressive set,) James must first entangle himself with amoral furrier Tibor (Larry Mann) who introduces an unseemly subplot about fur trading. Before it's over there's an unexpected ninja pillow fight, McCarn appears out of nowhere and slinks back in to the woodwork just as surreptitiously, and finally kitchen utensils are brandished as the junior ninjas mutiny in a ninja versus mercenary brawl that is a bit difficult to comprehend.  After much pandemonium the two brothers have the good versus evil fight you knew was coming. It's an amazing fight scene: James brought his sword; Seikura brought his hooks. While all this is going on, the third female lead in the movie, a repentant former terrorist (yes another new character,) Aura (Carol Bagdasarian, a much better actress than the two earlier leading ladies) torches the Octagon in a fiery conclusion. The action in the last twenty minutes of the movie is the payoff for the plodding pace of the first hour or so of the film. Norris fans will definitely not be disappointed.  The film is impenetrable for the first half: new characters come and go and keeping up with it, especially given that many subplots lead nowhere, is a frequently unpleasant chore. I am still unclear on why the characters of A. J. and McCarn were even needed in the film, though their disjointed stories do pad the running time immensely. The acting in the film is inconsistent: Norris is good as is Yamashita, but none of the three female leads is great, though Bagdasarian acquits herself adequately. For me without question the worst element of the film was the use of the echoplex to distort James' inner monologues. The sound quality of the film isn't great to begin with, and this induced distortion is not only annoying, but frequently makes the words indecipherable. In the "Making of 'The Octagon'" director Eric Karson claims the effect "works well." On that issue I must strongly disagree. Among many praiseworthy elements of the production, though, Dann Cahn's editing is top notch, and the cinematography and color are beautiful.  Speaking of extras, there are a surprising number of them. There are the standard trailer and television clips, cast and crew biographies, a very nicely done 40 minute long "Making of" documentary, and a 28 minute film called "How American Cinema Changed Hollywood Forever," which was more interesting that I expected. I was especially interested in the interview segments with Karson, who is a fascinating guy. His explanations of Norris' character and the general discussion of Norris as the "reluctant American" are excellent. Also noteworthy are the interview clips with actor and brilliant martial artist Richard Norton (who appears as both Seikura's Enforcer and Long Legs in Doggo's camp.) His recollections are very interesting, and his discussion of the amazing and incredibly lengthy fight scene he did with Norris in the Octagon is astonishing.  "The Octagon" did well at the box office, and Chuck Norris did well in his role. Though the film has numerous unfortunate distractions, it's an interesting action film that makes you think (though not always in a good way.) I particularly recommend it for Norris fans.

You're So Cupid, cute but not great I watched this movie because I was looking for something without a lot of drama or violence.  The premise of Cupid's daughters seemed interesting, but the writing could have been better.  It started off OK, but then in the middle I just seemed to lose interest.  The ending was as expected, but a little too standard Hollywood for my taste.  The movie was an OK distraction for me, but I think the 4-star rating it had prior to my watching it was a little too high.

DVD was fine but took 31 days to receive. This DvD was new and in fine condition, however it took 31 days to receive it. So if you wanted to get a quick gift this wouldn't be the place to get it. Otherwise I have no complaint.

More Like "Filthy Water" The Good -- This remake is more of a dramatic ghost story, than a straight-up horror movie. There are no cliched jump scares, just a snowballing chilling effect that sets this apart from other recent Asian Horror remakes and horror movies in general.  The cast's acting is above average. John C. Reilly, as usual, stands out, acts rings around a sometimes, but not often, lost Jennifer Connelly. Good acting really can make a pedestrian movie better.  The Bad -- Enough with the water! The director repeatedly beats the viewer in the head with water images that by the sixth or seventh time, it becomes tired and trite.  There's no reason why this movie needed to run longer than 90 minutes. All the characters and situations are established early on; there are no real character arcs. Perhaps if the editing was more tight, then the lack of any character development could have been ignored and the water motifs and general suspense would have been more effective.  The Ugly -- The final resolution to the haunting. First, it's preceded by a false resolution similar to The Ring. Second, it comes out of nowhere, being neither shocking nor logical. The only evidence that foretells the resolution is circumstantial. We're told the ending, in a way, not shown it.  Nothing really stands out in this movie. While the acting is good and certain scenes are chilling, neither of these attributes can help this movie from being nothing more than mediocre.

this is modern but without a soul The original 'clash of the titans' is a fanstastic movie story wise. Some dumb people today might criticize the old style effects which were fading away quickly but were a artform in themselves: stop motion animation that is, in fact by the time I met a effects guy from hollywood,  who was dying of lung cancer in 1995, and who had worked on lots of these movies going back to the 50's, it was gone even from the lowest budget movies. This one has the modern cgi effects that were undreamed of in the originals 1980 movie, but it has no soul, it's like a mindless movie without any characterization or depth. The first one has characters that matter though. THis is still enjoyable in that we watch these greek heroes battle fierce mythological creatures with fantastic modern effects. Which are not as true a artform s the stop motion stuff but still looks more realistic. It's just that they didn't understand what made the first one a hit was the acting and characters. You had alot of great actors in the first one and a fun telling , here it's little talking and lots of action , this is a b movie with a higher budget and that's ok though. Still I remember the classic and can't give it more than three stars.  the blu ray looks awesome though!  Blu ray is usually the only way to go and that's true here for certain.

Nothing Special Having previously read about the case on which the movie was based, I "went into it" with a pretty good familiarity with the "storyline". While the movie stayed fairly consistent with the actual case facts,  there was nothing special about the movie's presentation of these facts. The "play" was actually rather mediocre - and overly long.  As far as the actors, unlike many of the other reviewers on this site,I was UNimpressed with Gosling's "wooden" portrayal of the mad, cross-dressing murderer; I normally like Gosling - but in this movie, he just didn't deliver a believable character - unlike his costars,Dunst & Langella, both of whom provided credible performances.  I have rated the movie overall as a "3"- viewing it contextually (since I didn't pay anything to watch it as comparable to a "TV movie". Had I been required to pay for its viewing, however, I probably would have rated it a "2".

Could've Been Better Being a Vince Vaughn fan I was going to buy this movie without seeing it first. Boy am I glad I didn't! I thought this was going to be funnier than it was, and I was left disappointed. I thought Wedding Crashers and Four Christmases were hilarious but this one didn't even come close. I'm glad I saved my money!

Picture quality was on par with DVD, not really sharp like Blu Picture quality was on par with DVD, not really sharp like Blu-ray.  I was kind of frustrated because I expected more, but it is better than DVD, so go ahead and upgrade if you get it cheap.  Definitely don't pay more than $10 for it, though...and don't expect it to compare to other Blu-ray titles in the picture quality.  Great, great film, though!

Wish they had extended cuts I don't have the set yet but I must write about the lack of extended episodes in the release. These episodes were made for the DVD release but they apparently don't have the original film. I understand why they can't create true high definition but upconvert it and put it in anyway. Make it an option atleast for those of us that are used to these extended cuts. I am not sure how many episodes are "extended" but they can't just cut all that content. I will buy the set simply because I love the series and want to see it in better quality I just wish that they had the extended episodes with HD stock and upconverted sections of missing film. I guess I'll have to keep the dvd set handy. I wish I never would have seen the extended episodes because I hate realizing that a line is missing like when you watch it in syndication.

An Opportunity Lost for Sound Quality But Great Picture Quality on Blu-Ray! As a true classic should be, this movie is so good that you actually look forward to viewing it again and again just so you can be sure you didn't miss anything the last time you viewed it. The cast is excellent, the acting sublime, the soundtrack is inspired and the screenplay is also exquisite. Special mention should be made for actors like Peter Lorre, Sidney Greenstreet and Claude Rains who are excellent here just as they were in other film classics such as "The Maltese Falcon" and "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington". Although this is not Bogart's best performance (for that you'll need to see "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"), he still puts in an excellent performance here.  Unfortunately, this Blu-ray version is a mixed bag especially so for the sound quality which is only slightly better than the dvd release. The volume levels are very soft for some scenes so that you can scarcely hear the dialogue while for others the levels inexplicably increase.  Unlike the great work they did with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0020MMRC0">The Maltese Falcon [Blu-ray</a>] where they used DTS HD MA for the sound here they used just Dolby Digital which just didn't cut it and so overall is a disappointment and an opportunity lost in doing justice to a great film.  After waiting so long for the Blu-Ray release it is an anti-climax that we get this mixed bag release with very good picture but poor sound quality albeit both are better than in the dvd release.

Murder!  Hitchcock Hones His Craft This is actually a play mostly written by his wife Anna Revile.  A young woman is put on trial for the death of another young woman in a rooming house.  The case seems cut and dried except the woman doesn't confess, she says that she doesn't remember it.  So is it a temporary insanity or intentional?  The questions bother a juror in the case, a wealthy man who eventually is able to prove the young woman...  For an early sound film, the ability to film all that Hitchcock did when sound microphones made actors static and the camera barely able to move.  Hitchcock does quite a bit with the film and shows as many locales as he can to liven up what is essentially a filmed play.  The story is a bit dampened by lack of suspense and intrigue that would make many of his later films classics.  This is a learning curve film and it shows.  The story is too long and needed to be cut and the infatuation with sound at the time made conversations go on a bit too long.  Still an important film in the Hitchcock repertoire and I'm so glad that Studio Canal was willing to reissue the film and take it out of the public domain.  When I was younger, it was impossible to see these films and I was able only to read about them in Hitchcock fan books.

Classic Campy Disney After reading some of the reviews slaughtering this campy flick I had to comment. First it has such a great cast I had to see it. Sigourney Weaver's acting was the best. Jamie Lee Curtis who is normally amazing was a bit overboard but that's probably the fault of the some of the writing. Nevertheless, my young tween and teen and I had fun watching it. It speaks to the pressures of being popular and getting your self worth trampled by your peers. And, it does a decent job treating revenge, repentance and forgiveness. It was often funny and the ending scene was hilarious. It's just the sort of movie Disney used to churn out in the 60's and 70's.

world war two  pacific although the tape and story were good, four of the six tapes had areas of pauses and hesitations which were very annoying

;0) Not scary , but not too bad either and I don't care for the ending. Tamara was bullied a lot she practices witch craft, something happens she got kill comes back and all kind of stuff happen.

Mel man Probably not on the top 100 of all time, but Conspiracy Theory is a good combination of suspense, plot, action and stellar acting that both Mel and Julia fans can appreciate.

Surprisingly Disappointing I'm a fan of top-of-the-line cartooning, and happily recognize that Disney is among the masters (the relatively little-known "Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad" is one of my favorites).  True, recent ones haven't been up to par -- too treacly, preachy, or, worst of all, politically correct.  But 1951's "Alice in Wonderland" has all the artistry, charm, and magic one expects from Disney's Golden Age.  That being said, and despite some terrific moments and scenes, I was dismayed by the lack of thought and effort that went into this interpretation of the Lewis Carroll classic.  In addition to some unexpected tedium, the plot was disjointed, and never really built on itself or went anywhere.  Worst of all was the ending, which was abrupt and unsatisfying.  All in all, a very flat production that I regretfully can't recommend.

A mind-screw IF you like movies that mess with your head, then this is a movie for you. Personally, I don't, so I didn't find the movie that great. However, it WAS really interesting to see how it all fit together, and to see the loop going round and round. I did wish for a more concrete ending, but that's just me. This is almost one of those movies you have to watch twice, once to get the plot, and the second time to see how it all fits together--kind of like the Sixth Sense in that manner. I suppose it wasn't too bad of a movie, just not my style. Good acting, but a few loose ends that never got properly tied up...

Predictable Typical Hong Kong old style production. The acting is OK,the storyline is shallow and predictable. nothing memorable. Well, at least it is not boring and low budget. Worth watching ONE time.

Not bad, but some flaws If anything it is a little too close to the source material. A little bit more trimming of the script would have been preferable, well animated and voiced though.  The Truth of the matter is that some of the worst parts of the original story (like the off camera fight with Captain Marvel and Hawkman) are kept in, and some of the best parts (like Captain Atom being the one to die saving the day) are taken out.  It stays true to form, but often times in the wrong direction, leaving in bad story telling elements, but taking out a lot of the supporting character pathos that was evident n the original tale.  All that being said, on its own merits it is alright.  Nothing special but worth watching as it is fun, well voiced, and very well animated.

CSI Miami Season 1 The product showed up but not as stated, it had scratches on the cd which skipped a few times but it still plays.

It was ok Heard a lot of comparisons to "300". The movie falls well short of that. I understand it did quite well at the box office so perhaps my feelings are mine alone. I will be trading the movie for something else in the very near future however or perhaps re-gift it soon.

interesting info 2012 I liked this video on 2012.  So many articles and "scare" tactics.  I was looking for information on 2012 that was consice, clear and in depth.  The material was well covered and included the effect of astrological impact on the date.  I would recommend this video for the curious, like me.

Decent video but a little outdated looking I bought this video to show my physical science class. The material it self was helpful but the feel of the video was outdated.  My students were less interested because they felt the video was ancient (for them more than 5 years old) even though it was produced in 2007.  At times the video also seemed for a younger age group than what was stated. The content is good and it relates the scienctific method to real world problems which helps students understand but I wouldn't use it for anyone over grade 5 as it is too juvenile.

Herschell Gordon Lewis' bloody return to filmmaking after 30 years... A pioneer in the comedy/horror genre for his "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0053TWVWI">Blood Trilogy</a>", Herschel Gordon Lewis is regarded by some as the "godfather of gore".  Splattery affairs with a dark tone, the trilogy included <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004KDET">Color Me Blood Red</a> (1965), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004KDES">Two Thousand Maniacs!</a> (1964), and the seminal <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004KDER">Blood Feast</a> (1963), which featured a murderous caterer named Fuad Ramses.  The belated follow up to the movie that launched his career in horror, Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat (2002) is Gordon Lewis' first movie in almost three decades.  Borrowing a few key elements from the original Blood Feast, Blood Feast 2 serves up the gore, while playing mostly as a dark, albeit rather unsophisticated comedy.  Fuad Ramses III (J.P. Delahoussaye) arrives in town to reopen the catering business of his grandfather Fuad Ramses.  The young Ramses is visited by police detective Myers (Mark McLachlan) and warned that if any young women turn up missing, he will be the prime suspect.  Ramses lands a big job catering a wedding, and it's not long before he falls under the influence of evil, and begins to murder young women, and use their body parts as the main ingredient in his various culinary creations.  Similar in the spirit of the original Blood trilogy, Blood Feast 2 is simply meant to be exploitative and over the top, and not to be taken seriously.  Herschell Gordon Lewis retains his demented sensibilities, which apparently provided the motivation for him to return to filmmaking at age 72.  Although this 2.5 star film appears to have rather modest aspirations, Blood trilogy and comedy/horror fans may want to give it a watch.  Blood Feast 2 is also part of the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000W7Y6EW">Cannibal Lunch Box</a> triple feature.

For what there is available on this subject via documentary..it is "alright"..but still not very good the biggest complaint i have is that each episode looks , sounds the same..and each is too "Generic". Plus it is usual history channel style of narration and just irritating and "movie like" to listen to and many of the American commentators just seem arrogant and superficial understanding. (nothing against Americans in general..but the education style and system is really not up to par with British and European. )

Extended version only, no theatrical cut I can't review this disc technically, as I don't have a good enough home theater to take advantage of a Blu-Ray's picture or sound quality. But you should know that the Blu-Ray only has the extended cut, not the original theatrical release. If you prefer the 1978 version, you're better off hanging onto your four-disc DVD set with more extras, AND both versions of the movie.

"The Darkest Hour" is a popcorn alien infestation film with uninteresting characters, spotty acting and lackadaisical pacing. The United States is known for creating their fair share of alien invasion films but this time around, with producer and filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov ("Wanted", "Night Watch", "Day Watch", "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter") involved, his goal was to create a Russian alien invasion film through a perspective by Russians.  But to make it a global film and with only a budget of $30 million, Bekmabetov would enlist Chris Gorak (art director for films such as "Minority Report", "Fight Club", "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas") to direct and Scott Kevan ("Underworld: Awakening", "The Losers", "Fame") as cinematographer and the film woud utilize Bekmabetov's studio and filming would take place in Moscow.  The film would star American talent Emile Hirsch ("Milk", "Into the Wild", "Speed Racer"), Olivia Thirlby ("The Wackness", "Juno", "No Strings Attached"), Max Minghella ("The Social Network", "The Ides of March"), Rachael Taylor ("Transformers", "Shutter", "Bottle Shock"), Joel Kinnaman ("The Killing", "Easy Money", "Safe House") and Russian talents Veronika Ozerova and Dato Bakhtadze ("Wanted", "Crash").  "The Darkest Hour" would earn $64 million in the box office and is now available on 3D Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD.  VIDEO:  "The Darkest Hour" is presented in 1080p High Definition (2:40:1).  The cinematography definitely showcases the beautiful structures of Moscow, there is a good amount of detail when it comes to structures, clothing and because of the CG extra-terrestrials emitting this glowing orange, there are times of beautiful vibrant colors and for the most part, a good balance of digital cinematography with CG effects.  Black levels are nice and deep, skin tones look natural and I did not detect any banding or artifacts during my viewing of the film.  AUDIO & SUBTITLES:  "The Darkest Hour" is presented in English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio and Espanol Dolby Digital 5.1.  When it comes to audio, although this is not directed by Timur Bekmambetov, because it was produced by him, you expect a lot of action scenes and immersive audio.  The film utilizes the surround channels and LFE throughout the film, may it be the music and its bass, the sounds of disintegration courtesy of the aliens or even the many machine guns or shots at the aliens to the collapse of structures, the biggest positive of this film will be its lossless audio track.  Subtitles are presented in English SDH and Espanol.  SPECIAL FEATURES  "The Darkest Hour" comes with the following special features:    Survivors - (8:10) A short film showcasing survivors from different countries using radio broadcasts from Tokyo in destroying the aliens.   The Darkest Hour: Visualizing an Invasion - (12:09) A featurette about the visual effects of "The Darkest Hour".   Deleted and Extended Scenes - (4:48) Six deleted and extended scenes with optional commentary by director Chris Gorak.   Audio Commentary - Director Chris Gorak talks about the cast, shooting in Moscow, using CG the challenges involved in the making of the film due to the Russian Wildfires of 2010.  EXTRAS:  "The Darkest Hour: Special Edition" comes with a slipcover.  JUDGMENT CALL:  As a sci-fi fan, especially fan of alien infestation films, there have been films that captures the horror of an alien infestation, may it be the 1996 film "Independence Day" or the 2011 film "Battle: Los Angeles", part of the reason why these films succeed is the use of star power and a large budget dedicated to the films visual effects.  While there are alien infestation films that have been shot in a low budget and without star power such as the exciting 2011 UK film "Attack the Block", at least the pacing of the film was consistent, it was funny and it was going somewhere.  Unfortunately, "The Darkest Hour" doesn't seem to be going anywhere and the characters don't grab you at all.  Part of the challenge that filmmaker Chris Gorak and Timur Bekmambelov had when making this film were scheduling delays (due to the Russian Wildfires), a budget of $30 million and the lack of major star power.  While Emile Hirsch has received attention for his roles in "Milk" and "Into the Wild", unlike American alien infestation films with American bravado, this Russian film focused on survival of weak Americans who survived thanks to the Russian people.  The film is supposed to be a Russian perspective, a Russian version of an alien infestation film and while I didn't mind the weakness and whining of the American characters, the film had forced dialogue that made things seem too unnatural and thus produced spotty acting.  But where the screenplay fails the viewer is that the storyline and its characters are not really going anywhere.  It's a survival film that seems more like "Cloverfield"-Lite and because the characters are not so captivating, you just wonder to yourself of "how they will die?".  There are also some problematic issues such as a blast that throws Sean and Natalie, who were standing next to each other, could have kept everyone within the same vicinity but for Natalie, somehow she has ended a half mile away.  There are scenes that showcase the relationship between Natalie and Anne and why they went to Moscow.  There are times you think the two are hiding something but yet nothing is ever mentioned.  Where the film does work well in a Russian perspective is showcasing the beautiful structures of Moscow, showing the CG devastation of Moscow, showing Russian heroes who will do what the can to help these Americans get to safety. If anything, the Russian characters seem to be much more intriguing and personally, "The Darkest Hour" could have been a much more enticing film if it was a full-on Russian alien infestation film utilizing an all Russian cast.  It's one of the things that I have loved about Timur Bekmambetov's "Night Watch" and "Day Watch" films, it's Russian sci-fi with Russian talent.  It seemed more plausible, much more exciting.  But I can understand the producers wanting to make their money back by making this film more International by using an American cast with English dialogue.  As for the Blu-ray release, "The Darkest Hour" no doubt looks wonderful on Blu-ray and the lossless soundtrack is fantastic!  There are a few special features including the short story "The Darkest Hour: Survivors", showcasing people of other countries fighting against the aliens.  Overall, "The Darkest Hour" is a popcorn alien infestation film with uninteresting characters, spotty acting and lackadaisical pacing.  There was too much sacrifice into making this film set in Russia to appeal to an American or International audience that the film would have been best being an all Russian film, as the characters and the us vs. them storyline would seem much more plausible and exciting.  While I can recommend this film to those who love alien infestation films, it's simply not one of the better alien infestation films to be released in the U.S.

I like my chocolate... warm. You? Do you still have any beloved object from your childhood? Maybe a memory?  OK, take that object or memory, stick it in front of a green screen, amplify the color, jazz up the songs, get big name actors to play everyone, add a dark neo-gothy bend to it, make the jokes snarky, and make it REAL slick. Then I want to you to agree with everyone who was born in the last fifteen years that the new one is WAYYYY better than that old fashioned object or memory that you held dear.  They do that to everything these days and they've done it here. If I'd never seen the original as a child I'm sure I would think this is 'cool', but should Wonka be 'cool'? Can't he be warm, endearing, mysterious, and not so threatening? That's probably my largest contention with this work. Depp's portrayal is so cold and callous that it seems as though his character hates children. If all Wonka's work is just to spite his father then perhaps he does, and that's an interesting side to the story but it doesn't make me feel closer to the character- it feels more like seeing a dangerous animal in a glass jar. This Wonka reminds me of a Gothic Praying mantis. Do I really want to buy chocolate from this man?  It's apparent Burton is a fan of the original (why remake anything unless you love the original?), but he is such a creative guy that I have to ask why he chose to tackle this project? Why not write his own classic? Was this a studio decision? I like many Burton projects but this one just seems an unnecessary one.  This version isn't the worst thing ever to come out of Hollywood (I think that credit might go to "Made of Honor" with "27 Dresses" running a close second), but it's just not my taste. I prefer the original.

What is ultimate? I purchased this package in hopes that it would contain deleted scenes (a la LOTR "extended" editions).  So sad, too bad, it doesn't.  So if you already have the movie, this is not worth the money to purchase.  If you want to have "extras" that are really not that integral, then go for it.

Not a classic, but above the pack "Bullets or Ballots" (1936) stars a bevy of Warner Bros. biggest stars of the 30s -Edward G Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Joan Blondell, and Frank McHugh.  Even before "Little Caesar" (1931), Edward G. Robinson made a name for himself in early gangster films like "The Hole in the Wall" (1929), "Night Ride" (1930) and "Outside the Law" (1930), and on Broadway  played a Capone-like gangster in "The Racket". With "Little Caesar" he became Warners' biggest star and Robinson would go on to play in 30 gangster films in a career that included 89 feature films (only Bogart exceeded him with 32 out of 79).  This film along with "Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse" (1938) and "Brother Orchid" (1940) starred Robinson with Bogart as the bad guy. All 3 films involved transformation - "Ballots" had a detective become a criminal, "Orchid" has the gangster turn into a monk and "Clitterhouse" has the good doctor turn into a gangster.  In a way, all 3 films were a reaction by Robinson to having done too many gangster films, and this was his way of showing his versatility. Robinson was such an important star at Warners that the brothers were happy to accommodate him.  FWIW - notice that Robinson the detective smokes a pipe while Robinson the gangster smokes a cigar. Robinson often used a pipe when he was playing non-gangster roles.  "Ballots" comes in the middle of Robinson's gangster era for Warners. The 1940s would see him expand with films like "The Sea Wolf" (1941), "Double Indemnity" (1944), "The Woman in the Window" (1945), "Scarlet Street" (1946) and "House of Strangers" (1949) and later he would do such notable films as "The Ten Commandments" (1956), "Hole in the Head" (1959), "The Cincinnati Kid" (1965), and "Soylent Green" (1973). He did one last gangster film in 1948, "Key Largo", in which Bogart was now the big star and, for a change, Robinson gets killed by Bogie.  This was the first teaming of Robinson and Bogart, who would play second fiddle to both Robinson ("Kid Galahad", "Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse") and Cagney ("The Roaring Twenties", "The Oklahoma Kid", "Angels with Dirty Faces", "Dead End"), but in 1941 Bogart starred in "High Sierra" and "The Maltese Falcon" and from that point onward, Bogart became a big name star, eventually surpassing Cagney and Robinson in 1943 on the tail of his performance in "Casablanca". Here he is still under the radar as the cheap hoodlum billed fourth (behind Barton MacLane), although this same year he released his breakout film "The Petrified Forest".  Other cast members include Barton MacLane (1902-69) playing a heavy (what else is new?), Frank McHugh for comic relief, and Joan Blondell (1906-79) as a love interest.  MacLane is best remembered as the General from "I Dream of Jeannie" (1965-70). McHugh's chubby face appeared in more than 100 films including "The Roaring Twenties" (1939), "Virginia City" (1940), "Mighty Joe Young" (1949). In the 50s he turned to TV where he appeared in dozens of shows. Joan Blondell usually  portrayed a wise cracking sex symbol ("Maggie the Magnificent", "Public Enemy", "Blonde Crazy"), but she was capable of more serious roles in films like "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" (1945) and "The Blue Veil" (1951) for which she was nominated for an Oscar. She was also nominated twice for an Emmy and twice for a Golden Globe.  The film is a little different from the run-of-the-mill gangster flick. There is an emphasis on the economic costs of crime and discussions of how crime spreads into new businesses (the numbers game in Harlem, penny arcade games next to schools). Also, this film focuses on "the big boys" who turn out to be bankers - the power behind the street criminals.  In 1936 Jean Harlow had 3 films in the top 20 - "Libeled Lady" (Spencer Tracy, William Powell, and Myrna Loy), "Wife vs. Secretary" (Gable and Loy),  and "Suzy" (Cary Grant). The other big money winners were "San Francisco" (Gable), "The Great Ziegfeld" (Powell and Loy), "Modern Times" (Chaplin), and "Charge of the Light Brigade" (Flynn and de Havilland). The big Oscar winner was "The Great Ziegfeld" (Picture, Best Actress). Other notable films from that year were "The Petrified Forest" (Bogart), "Romeo and Juliette" (Shearer and Howard), "Dodsworth" (Walter Huston) and Fritz Lang's "Fury".  Bottom line - This certainly isn't one of the classic gangster films of the 30s ("Public Enemy", "Dead End", "Little Caesar", "The Roaring Twenties", "Angels with Dirty Faces", I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang", "Scarface") but it's a well made film and stands out from the rest of the pack.

Good story, but the end doesn't hold up This is a suspenseful tale with good acting and many twists and turns. Hackman and Freemen are excellent. The plot was sound for most of the film, and it held together...until the end. The problem is that the movie (which is to say, the screen play writer) violated a cardinal rule @ endings--one must provide the viewer with an ending that is satisfactory/coherent/makes sense. This movie leaves that out. I'm not saying that an ending cannot be ambiguous--but it at least has to say something.  Here, we get a twist at the end that is not explained, then the movie ends.  Also, there's just too mush in here that is unbelievable--Hackman's a lawyer in the film, yet allows himself to be questioned for hours without consel?  If he is the killer, why did he report the 2nd body to the cops?  And Freeman's sidekick detective is totally unrealistic and shoul dhave been written out of the story altogether.

A pretend-heist movie that violates the first rule of a good heist movie - but the cast nearly saves it, anyway An inconsistent film that ends up being more enjoyable that it deserves to be owing to an enjoyable cast who bring their considerable skill to bear on a movie that doesn't deserve them. The "heist" is poorly constructed, seemingly skipping over anything that hasn't been worked out to pick up later without explaining what took place between the segments shared with us. A good heist movie, though, relies on those details. The audience buy-in is purchased with step-by-step detail by a storyteller who doesn't look away or wave his hands about to distract from the gaps. There are a lot of gaps and hand waving in this story. The cast members do their jobs, though, and regain our interest after each gap. Unfortunately, they don't get the opportunity to win us back after the movie limps to it's conclusion.  Still, I had fun much of the time.

Sterling performance, tarnished premise My response to this movie is similar to many that have already been posted.  Although Meryl Streep  stunningly transforms herself into an aged, confused and alienated woman, I am not convinced that it was an honest portrayal of the truth of  her character or the politics of her time.  After watching Iron Lady, I felt as confused and alienated as Margaret Thatcher must have felt both while in office and afterwards.  I came away from the movie disliking her, her family and the people that she was elected to serve, while at the same time feeling compassion for the hopes and disappointments that they all experienced.  This is also a movie that has stayed with me, if for no other reason than to try to understand why anyone thought that it would humanize someone by focusing so heavily on their mental decline. Maybe if I had personally experienced the woman and her policies, it would make more sense.  Margaret Thatcher evoked strong feelings, both positive and negative, and like her or not, she was a significant influence on the direction that Britain took in the future and should be given a bit more respect than this movie offered.

Cool Runnings Cool Runnings is pretty epic, but the DVD would not play in a regular DVD player or an xbox...we had to put it in a computer and change regional settings Which sucked. But eventually it played.

Time to Scream again Making a sequel to a horror franchise more than 10 years later is often not a good thing. Sequels are usually criticized and besides, was a fourth Scream really necessary ten years later? Wasn't  Scream 3 a fitting ending to the Scream Franchise? Did Scream 4 really have to show up its face and ruin the "perfect" ending? A fourth Scream was not necessary after Scream 3 which concluded the franchise pretty well but it's enjoyable and entertaining nonetheless. Wes Craven returns as director and executive producer and some actors make a return to the series as well, Neve Campbell as Sydney, Courtney Cox as Gail and David Arquette as Dewey. There are plenty of new faces of course, but just about everyone in Scream has previous roles to their acting credit and this film isn't their debut. I won't say that the actors were all amazing and talented but they were definitely above what you would normally expect from horror movie quality acting.  The storyline is quite simple: It's the fifteenth anniversary of the Woodsboro massacre and Sydney Prescott makes a return to Woodsboro in an effort to promote her book (of course it talks of her experience with the previous killings with her being a survivor). From there things pick up as (surprise!) a new killer makes its presence known. Maybe not the best storyline but as far as horror movies go it makes sense, allows things to slowly but progressively build things up and it makes as much sense as possibly for a sequel that's made ten years later which is a good thing.  The funny thing is that Scream 4 is mocking Saw and horror movies in general for the amount of sequels they had and other aspects, it's almost exactly what it's making fun of. For instance the horror movies "Stab" that are often mentioned in the movie involve killings by stabbing based on the Scream franchise and the idea of many sequels is also laughed at but this is the fourth Scream (and there could possibly be more, the door is open. Maybe we'll see a new trilogy, who knows? Depending on the reactions and the success it gets). There is definitely humor but at least Scream 4 is still a slasher film and it has some intense moments and behind the humor, the thrill is still there.  Without revealing anything I'll say that the kills in Scream 4 were not as brutal or gory as in the first three Scream films, here in terms of killings there wasn't anything terribly creative or anything special. I also found the killer's motive to be a bit weak this time, although I have to admit that I was surprised with the identity of Ghostface. Part of the fun for me was always trying to find out who the killer was in the Scream movies and try to figure out the motives before the end and although I was very surprised, I was also a bit disappointed at the killer and the motives this time. I thought they could have done a better job by instead having a different killer but that's just my opinion. For a horror movie sequel I consider Scream 4 to be very good and somewhat above average, fans of the franchise will definitely want to see this third sequel and I think some will be pleasantly surprised.  Scream 4 is not as good as the original but it's still a good effort and it can be proud to be a good sequel. I got to give them credit, it's been more than 10 years since the last Scream and with this sudden revival they managed to keep things interesting and did a good job of not screwing up what was established. As much as some viewers are having mixed feeling, the people making this fourth Scream made a good sequel and I can't fault them for that. 3.5/5, in no way perfect but it managed to deliver a good, interesting and somewhat worthy sequel that I liked more than I thought I would.

good This movie is good starts out great , and kind of fizzles. But all in all if you like wherwolves this is great movie. I love Ginger Snaps Unleashed better. Its more modern of course. But i also love the olden days. But its not the greates movies. Actually lately i dont know what is .?Lol.

One actress' film And this actress is called Mindy Cohn. If it wasn't for her, I would have given this film max.2 stars. Why? It's full of cliches for example a gay couple: if one is a blond, the other one MUST BE a brunette,both look as if they were cut out of a fashion magazine. Are gay gays always so womanish? Are they also so egoistic that they would do everything just to keep their fag hag? And so on and so on. Even if I didn't fall for this movie completely, I can recommend it to everybody. It has its flows, but also a few good moments (check for example the cat-fight in the office) and as I wrote before -  Mindy Cohn is the best here.

Color Of Night An ok sexual suspense thriller .The film does have its moments and there is a good twist towards the end. The film is a bit long being over 2 hours and is at times a bit slow. I thought Bruce Willis was very good as the psychologist who takes over the therapy group when his Colleague Bob is murdered. The sex scenes in the film are good. There are some good scenes with a snake and some car chase scenes.

Surprisingly good I'm not a TV person. Except for an odd hour here and there or the occasional James Bond festival, I've missed pretty much everything on TV since about 1975. So, when my wife invited me to watch it on netflix, my response was "Yes dear. Let me get something to read."  So, I was very surprised at enjoying this, even a little. Lack of commercials did a lot for my mood. And, as a borderline nerd pride activist, so does the overall theme of people being friendly, having wide interests, and being smarter than me in every direction. Smart people are fun. (The truly smart people I mean, not the poseurs with one odd knack.)  Well, I keep reading while I watch it, but I do that with almost everything that doesn't have subtitles. It's good, though, as commodity entertainment goes, and shows that nerds aren't just the hygiene-challenged stereotype we've come to tolerate. I'll come back for more. The "Andy of Mayberry" vibe, with the single-father sheriff and whistled theme music, adds a retro kind of appeal that clashes pleasantly with the SF backdrop.  But it's still just TV.  -- wiredweird

Fast and Furious Tokoyo Drift This movie okay. I think it is the worst of the Fast and Furious series. I had never seen it before. None of the original people were in this film until the very end.

Bought this for my daughter. My husband and I saw this in the theatre.  Neither of us found it "side splitting."  I rewatched it with a friend to see what I had missed since everyone was claiming how funny it was.  Still didn't find it that humorous.  However, Bradley Cooper is just as hot as ever:-)

Fun to watch, but don't think too hard about it The thing about plot-driven movies is that they have to have a tight plot, which this doesn't.  It's fun to watch. It does a very good job of being very matter-of-fact about the lead character's gayness.  The movie isn't about "being gay", but it is central to the story, which is nice if you like gay flicks.  The editing is fun and creative, and the characters are fun to watch. Pretty boys, pretty girls, fun accents, good actors, nice lighting. Music was OK, but not particularly wonderful, and sometimes it was intrusive or not quite right.  It seemed pensive sometimes - think piano bar and violin - and this wasn't a pensive movie.  This might be a spoiler alert here:  But the key part of the story is this cell phone, and everybody's looking for it, but the thing is, this movie is about constant surveillance, but no one thinks to triangulate on the cell phone?  And the ending twister makes the whole movie totally stupid.  At the end, what was the point? I totally didn't get it.  And why did they try to "warn him" with a near-miss, if all they needed to do was ask him for the cell phone?  It's not like they didn't know he had it, or where he was?!?  There is a real movie to be made about living in a pan-opticon society, but this isn't it.  If you like watching pretty people running and emoting, this is an OK movie.

FINE WORKOUT During the last months I have bought all "The Biggest Loser" Dvds, and I have enjoyed doing this like others, but I prefer the ones where Jillian Michaels and Bob Harper are the trainers. In this dvd, the winner contestants, from different seasons of the programm, are the trainers and I think these workouts are too easy. Maybe it is because they are not professional certified trainers, I do not know. Anyway I will do this exercise dvd on these days when I need a softer exercise, because I feel sore or maybe I am not in the mood.

Dietrich's first American film Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper were 28 years old when they filmed "Morocco" (1930) and they look so young you can hardly recognize them. Their co-star, Adolph Menjou, was 11 years older and more or less resembles the actor we all know, down to the tailored suits and the distinctive mustache.  "Morocco" was a major release for Paramount. Cooper was the studio's new leading man and this was Dietrich's first American film after a much publicized career in Europe, especially the success of "Blue Angel" (1930). She brought her director, Josef von Sternberg, who had a distinguished career in silent films in the U.S. (e.g., "Salvation Hunters", "The Last Command", "Docks of New York") before moving to Germany.  Gary Cooper (1901-61) is a film icon, ranked #11 in AFI's list of 100 top male stars.  Nominated 5 times for an Oscar, he won twice ("Sergeant York" and "High Noon"). His films were in the top 10 box office 18 times between 1936 and 1957, a record surpassed only by John Wayne. By 1930 Cooper had already appeared in 34 films, mostly silent. His "breakthrough" film was "The Virginian" (1929). Cooper plays a womanizing Legionnaire attracted to a new cabaret singer, played by Dietrich.  FWIW - this may be the first film in which Cooper voices his now famous "Yup" responding to a question.  Marlene Dietrich (1901-92) appeared in more than a dozen films, some as early as 1919, before she had her "breakthrough" in "The Blue Angel" (1929), her first film with von Sternberg. They would make 6 more films together (e.g., "Morocco", "The Scarlett Empress", "The Devil is a Woman") and Dietrich would be nominated for an Oscar ("Morocco" in 1930) and a Golden Globe ("Witness for the Prosecution" in 1957 - my personal Dietrich favorite).  Her performance as "Frenchy" in "Destry Rides Again" (1939) has been parodied in many films.  Cooper hated working with von Sternberg, but enjoyed working with Dietrich and they formed a long standing friendship. They worked again in 1936 on "Desire" with Frank Borzage directing (Cooper refused to work with von Sternberg). When he was dying in 1961 Dietrich flew in from Europe to be with him.  Adolphe Menjou (1890-1963) brought an air of distinction to more than 100 films between 1914 and 1960. He was nominated for an Oscar for "The Front Page" (1931) and for a Golden Laurel for "Paths of Glory" (1957). He developed his suave persona during the silent years. Following "Morocco" he went from Paramount to MGM where he enjoyed a long career as the second male lead. Menjou plays the third leg of the love triangle - an ardent suitor for Dietrich. Famed director William Wellman said of him - "There has never been anyone like Menjou...Brilliant, opinionated, smart as a whip, lovable, and a character."  Josef von Sternberg (1894-1969) directs. Born in Vienna, he grew up in New York and moved to Germany in 1929. His credo was "To know what to reveal and what to conceal and in what degree to do this is all there is to art." He claimed "I care nothing about the story, only how it is photographed." You can see this philosophy in the film - many of the scenes have photographic beauty but don't necessarily advance the plot or serve the story.  Following his Oscar nomination for this film, he was nominated again for "Shanghai Express" (1931), that also starred Dietrich.  The film is famous for an early scene in which Dietrich appears on stage in a man's tuxedo and in the course of her song, kisses a woman on the lips. Both the tuxedo and the kiss were scandalous for the times. Fans of Dietrich will note that her voice had not yet developed the deep sultry tones we remember so well.  Morocco received Oscar nominations for Actress, Director, Cinematography, and Art Direction. The winners in 1930 were "Cimarron" (Picture), Marie Dressler  in "Min and Bill"(Actress), Norman Taurog for "Skippy"(Director), Floyd Crosby for "Tabu" (Cinematography), and Max Ree for Cimarron ("Art Direction).  Despite the critical acclaim, "Morocco" was not among the top grossing films of 1930, although Paramount did well with "Animal Crackers" (#4), "Feet First" (#5), and "The Vagabond King" (#10). Films with a European feel were not particularly popular with 1930s audiences, although English based films were extremely popular. In 1931, however, Garbo's "Mata Hari" was the third highest grossing film and Dietrich would jump to #1 in 1932 with "Shanghai Express".  To a modern audience Morocco may seem melodramatic. Some of the acting styles from the silent film era seep onto the screen, especially with Cooper and Dietrich. Nonetheless this is an early view of two of the greatest actors of the mid 20th century, and deserves a look.

A classic? I have never understood the reputation enjoyed by this film. Looked on by most everyone as Universal's answer to THE GHOST BREAKERS, this picture is scattershot and scatterbrained. A & C MEET DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE has a cohesiveness and natural sense of humor that something this bloated cannot touch. I don't believe that remembering MR. HYDE in theaters but being too young for this film is tainting my viewpoint. This is good art direction without soul. It is a Universal assembly line product that doesn't come up for air and is all the more stilted because of it. The previous and later films have never seemed this affected. This is only another mis-use of Glenn Strange, who proved he could act in The Bowery Boys MASTERMINDS, a funnier and more intelligent picture than this. And no, I'm not kidding.

MOVIE REVIEW NOT ACCURATE OF THE ACTUAL EVENTS OF THE WAR. IT WAS SOMEBODYS FANTASY OF WHAT HE WOULD HAVE LIKED TO HAVE  SEEN. THE GERMAN THAT PLAYED THE JEW HUNTER, WAS A DASTARDLY VILLAN.

topical entertainment luckily Ms Theron planted the anchor for an other wise mis-cast, weakly written version of this timeless classic. A heavy reliance upon CGI and DI was most likely pitched to compensate for weaknesses in story. What's most unfortunate is that because of the convenience of visual animation and the economy of filmless production, we're left with lazy filmaking. Regardless of the negatives, the perspective is fresh in trying to keep with traditional versions and I'll still keep it in my library along with the other variations. If it's any consolation, it was well shot, visually pleasing and the effects were pleasant. I killed a bowl of ramen noodlez and a PB&J sandwich, so it wasn't a total loss. A formulaic guilty pleasure indeed.

I tried but kept falling asleep I tried to watch this movie 3 times and kept falling asleep.  It was too slow moving in the beginning for me, I guess.  Maybe at another time I will try it again.

Can't Fast Forward Through Commercials There are a few commercials at the beginning of this that takes 4 minutes and there's no way to fast forward or skip them. It's really frustrating. I don't want to do this DVD sometimes because, as a mother of two small children, every minute counts. The workout itself is okay, though kind of dull.

Great! until..... Okay so I don't have this, but I do own the first 3 seasons. And thats all I'm willing to get. The first 3 seasons will really make you just crazy about the show. But when the 4th season started the show began to go down hill. I suggest to only get the first 3 seasons and pretend the rest never happened and pretend everyone lived happily ever after. Because the ending of the series was a joke and could have ended it better. But if you feel the need to collect them all go ahead, but I just watch the bad seasons on netflix and see if they are worth it.

Stylish, but pointless remake Stylish, if somewhat plodding remake of the iconic 1951 sci-fi classic. This time it's not the atom bomb that threatens the survival of humanity; in this retelling, humanity itself threatens the continued survival of planet Earth and some rather annoyed aliens have decided that we need to be anihilated for the greater good. This is something of a well-worn trope in recent "pop environmentalism," and the film plays it up quite effectively, at least to a point. Taken on its own merits this movie is basic merely-OK 3-star fare and worth a look. However, comparisons with the original are inevitable, and that's where things get complicated. While this new version certainly dazzles with its sweeping cinematography and gaudy special effects, it lacks the intimacy and sweetness--the big chewy sentimental center--and, yes, the humanity of the original. In 1951, Michael Rennie's Klaatu (a blatantly obvious Christ figure) was convinced of mankind's innate "nice-ness" by observing the species at its workaday nurturing extended-family best. In 2008 the extended family is pretty much extinct; we don't look out for each other any more and kids are paranoid smart-mouthed uncourteous little brats weaned on violent video games. Needless to say, Keanu Reeves' flat, unsympathetic Klaatu is a heck of a lot harder to convince; and what finally wins him over seems rather trite and abrupt, especially given the film's "Independence Day"-like fascination with technology and military hardware. Good (not great) performances from Jennifer Connely and Kathy Bates. The all too brief cameo by John Cleese in an unexpectedly serious role may be the best thing about this.

Welcome to the Uncanny Valley... CLU. The special FX, prod. design, cinematography, and cast bring the world of TRON to life - but can't rise above an obtuse, convoluted, script and the uncanny valley.  TRON has a real legacy in the cultures of Hollywood, Cyberpunk, and Special Effects. Critics didn't quite get it, or thought it too simplistic. Years later, TRON is appreciated. I don't think that will happen here.  The script spends more time explaining fringe digital technology and connecting creatively stale action scenes instead of building empathy in the characters. It begins themes (information should be free! we work as a team!) without developing those themes adequately in the characters. The light cycles are back - on multiple floors! Light Flyers do the same thing... in the air! The discs are back... as Aerodisks! And some programs have TWO! It's all more, more, more. And why should we care?  A film is such a difficult thing to produce, and even harder to make timeless. The producers of this film didn't carve the niche they could have. In the original, bikes could turn 90º on a dime without inertia... because you're in a computer. That was something very unique about the original world of TRON that no other movie has quite exploited (except the Matrix). After a while, you actually forget they're in a computer; they might just as well be in a futuristic city.  That's a negative for me.  The villain CLU is a failed digital performance. If you think about how it's done on screen, the effects guys, IMO have not done their job. Everytime I saw CLU, I thought, "he moves weird" not "he's a computer program".  A friend of mine wisely observed that they should have stylized his look rather than go for the photo-realistic.

Big fat movie star. This is a tough nut to crack.  Is it a great film?  Is it a classic?  Is it horrendous?  Is it an embarassment for two Oscar winners?  It's all of the above.  It's ghastly.  It's marvelous.  It's grand fun yet sadly opens the door for tarnishing the reputation of both actresses, as after this neither Davis or Crawford ever made it back to the top.  But here they are, crawling over each other in a vain attempt to do so.  I'M A STAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  And they'll upstage each other all over the place to prove it to you.  I'm sure it didn't begin this way, but that's how it ended.  This film has gone down in camp history but as what?  A slatternly and drunken Davis and a tied-up Crawford, being served dead birds and rats.  This isn't acting, but a well crafted train wreck.  And Davis and Crawford willingly and happily tied themselves to the tracks.  And here comes the train.  And there they go.  It's not a great film, but a fun one.  Both were financially hungry and so both decided that this was some sort of comeback.  It's an amazing film, to watch two actresses, three Oscars between them, succumb to the Grade B flack that they had fought for years to avoid.  And here they are, in all their glory.  Ruined and wrecked and who would buy a ticket to see this?  All of us.  It earned a fortune.  And the new ladies of horror cashed in on it for the next fifteen years.  Crawford didn't stand a chance, as her reputation was not one of "great actress" and wound up in worse than this; she kind of fell by the wayside.  For Davis, it took at least a decade to put this calamity behind her, and even then, she was cast a loon or a horrifying woman. No one took her acting abilities seriously after this anymore.  Shame.  It's a disturbing film.  Odd and brilliant and stunning.  But the scenes are too odd, too brilliant, and too stunning. Almost like being human but not quite.  Wild. Like a storm you have no enjoyment of being a part of.

So bad it's . . . still bad. If it is so bad, why did I give it 3 stars? Because I didn't hate it. The image is very poor quality, the script and acting laughable at times. But, that being said, this is a movie I watched on TV as a kid, so nostalgia reigns. One interesting thing about this picture is it stars Sandra Knight. She was married to Jack Nicholson and they have a daughter together. Frankenstein's Daughter was made in 1958, the same year as several other movies in the same horror vein: She Demons, The Crawling Eye, Attack of the Puppet People, Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, Queen of Outer Space.

Seems like half a movie This movie ended too soon and without enough happening. There are movies that have sequels that end and leave you with a sense of gotten enough of a movie to feel satisfied and eager in anticipation for the next part. In my opinion, this movie needed a more complete plot; so far, all we have is "powerful aliens attack stranded humans. credits roll." Yes, I'd like to know what happens next (good), but I am left feeling like I've only seen half of a full movie (aww). Maybe had it been this + the sequel combined, I'd say 4 stars.  BTW, I rented this for only a buck. Didn't buy it. Didn't pay movie theater price.

Female martial art actress of near-recent times This movie is from the mid-1990's and unknown to me, so bought the recently released DVD out of curiosity, pretty sure it would be enjoyable. Though it wasn't that outstanding a film frankly, still enjoyed it because the agile Maria Ford stars in it. I'd not seen her before. She knocked me for six dishing it out to the bad guys drilling plenty with lead (if she ain't karate-chopping them - at one stage near-naked - great stuff!). Her well-executed action scenes alone made it worth watching, and there are quite a few. She looks great in a policewoman-type blue shirt too. (UK customer).

A witty way to enjoy (almost) ALL of Paul Newman. This treasured treat stuck in my memory because of its witty dialogue, e.g., "And what was SHE wearing?" "Oh, sort of an off-the-shoulder smile." Newman is a heavy-drinking author about to win the Nobel Prize. To everyone's chagrin, since writing his prize-winning literature, he has been supporting himself by writing pulp detective novels. When he suspects Edward G. Robinson isn't the same Edward G. Robinson he met the night before, he stumbles into international espionage in scenic Stockholm. His frantic dash into a nudist camp is one for the books! I only wish it had Closed Captions. I'm sure the Amazon.com listing shows that lack, but I forgot to check.

Worth watching at least once.... After years of postponing watching this movie, I finally took the plunge after a friend of mine insisted that I see it.  He didn't love it, but he said it's better than its reputation of being one of the worst films ever made.  It is a good film.  The Postman was maligned like hell when it was released, mostly for its length (just under 3 hours), and general hokiness.  Some called it an ego trip for Costner (who stars in it, co-produced it, and directed it).  Honestly, it's what one would call a "noble failure".  I haven't read the book it is based on (which is supposed to be great), but I liked a lot in the film.  The first 30 minutes are the best with Costner's character (he's never actually named in the movie) roaming the wasteland as a performer with his donkey, going to settlements along the way performing for food.  He gets captured by General Bethlehem's army (the general is played by Will Patton in the film's most outlandish, over the top performance), and is forced to serve.  He escapes, and finds an abandoned postal truck.  He puts on the postman's clothes and says he's been given a directive by the new US government to deliver the mail again.  He's lying, but people believe him, and he ends up starting something that he never dreamed of.  The good stuff is the film has great cinematography and a fascinating premise.  Unfortunately, the acting is over the top and too melodramatic, the music score is WAY over the top (it ends up being unintentionally funny), and there are some really cutesy passages of dialogue that make one grimace (and they feel like Costner improvised them).  But there are still powerful, surprising moments in the film, and the film isn't boring, despite a 3 hour running time.  The length isn't the problem; in fact, if it was longer, it might have been even better.  It feels like Costner tried to get too much in, and the film ends up being rushed, hokey, and corny, especially at the end.  The film could have been a lot better, but it's not the worst film ever made.  It's not a lost masterpiece, but it's worth watching at least once.

Poor Quality DVD ! The quality of picture on this NEW DVD is poor !  I agree with all other reviews but no one mentioned quality of picture !

COULD NOT PLAY THE DVD This DVD is a region 2 DVD.  I am not able to watch this on my player.  I tried another player and it would not play.  I didn't realize DVD's have different regions. Not the seller's fault. Came quickly and brand new!!!

Interesting Video But... I  do like that my favorite actors Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Justin Timberlake, and others are in it. However, I found the movie kind of confusing, corny, and irritating. I could not wait for it to end.

The Vector File Not as dull as some would have you believe. A few critics are overzealous in their underrating of what is a perfectly acceptable action/drama. When a geological surveyor is sent secret highly sensitive medical document from a brief acquaitance while at a seminar in Russia, it is accidentally intercepted by his daughter printing a horse picture. Unfortunately for his friends, family, and even a female from the Russian Undercover Police, the Russian mafia will kill anyone that may interfere with their pursuit of this biological weapon. At least here we can believe there is a weapon of mass destruction and not some fairytale to invade a country so we can control it's oil. If you enjoyed this movie, take a look at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00274SIUG">Echelon Conspiracy</a>. Dos vidanya!  CA Luster

BUY THE BOOKS! These movies have all been some what of a let down for me. The books are so addicting you can not help but want to watch the movies. This one is the worst yet, or maybe it was the hype leading up to it's release. So many things are left out and then breaking it into two parts released so far apart makes you think its detailed...it is not. During the whole movie I waited for it to pick up speed, and it never did, then it ends abruptly. You don't get intangled in the characters lives, and while you are waiting for it to "get good" you blink its just over..The overall picture and quality is much better than previous parts of the series but thats it. I have come this far in the series and am sure to watch the last, but I am no longer eagerly waiting for its release.

Visually stunning; script/acting... not so much If not for the visuals, this would be laughable.  It is sad to think that a backward-looking film; devoted to honoring a flim pioneer, would be so poorly done.  Ben Kinsley saves the movie when he is in it.  The boy child actor was a poor choice.  The female child actor was excellent.  The script was a hash-mash and not only hard to follow at times, but left me not really having empathy for almost anyone in the story.  It is a shame.  Such fine art design, the sets, the costumes, the digital work; how infuriating it must be to spend so much on such an undeservingly thin storyline.  I watched it to the end, but cannot recommend it to anyone really.

Must like English subtitles... Firstly, I saw nothing that said the movie had English subtitles and I'm not at all fond of reading movies, but that being said this movie does have a mesmerizing quality.  Antonio Banderas is intense, charming, and brutal.  I do agree that it is best to go into this movie knowing nothing about it, but I didn't find it as shocking as a few other reviewers, nor did I find the plot twists all that surprising.  Maybe because from early on I felt this was much like a fantasy - like Edward Scissorhands without the comedy.  In fact, Johnny Depp could have played this role with the same charming intensity.  Now don't read further because the rest will contain spoilers that I found so completely absurd.  So absurd, in fact, that it really should have been pushed further and been made a dark comedy.  ******************************************************************************************************************  Adam's apple, cleft chin, hips??  All without hormones?  Nose job, lip enhancement, permanent lip dye??  Higher, softer voice??  Oh, please!  And why was she ever bald?  Giving someone a vagina does not make them a woman any more then me having Ben-wah balls makes me a man.  Is this one of these 'You had to read the book' - then if I would have read the book I would've thought the movie was a total dud and angry I spent even a nickle on it?  Anyway, as I said, would have been much better pushed a bit further into the dark comedy genre.  As for the 'thought provoking' the only thought I'm entertaining is how nice it would be to have skin that repelled bugs.

Fargo meets Wrong Turn A lawyer who looks like Will Ferrell goes hunting an finds, what can only be described as, a woman who was raised in the wild and he decides to capture her (because this happens every day in 2012). What goes on from that point until the credits roll, will only leave you wondering what the heck you just watched. Don't get me wrong, I watch just about every off the wall movie I can because you never know when you're going to find a diamond in the rough. This however, is more like a cubic zirconia in the lint. The problem is that story is so unbelievable and the characters are so odd that most of the time you are just scratching your head and feeling uncomfortable because of it. I gave it 3 stars because the cinematography was well done and the acting was pretty good.

It's OK There's a lot of awkward scences that makes you feel embarassed for the characters. Bits and pieces of good laughs here and there, but not much. Typical cheesy comedy romance storyline.

a bit mixed Wow. I'm rather taken aback by so many positive reviews of Eternal Summer here on Amazon.  I will readily agree that there are some wonderful aspects to this film.  The cinematography is quite good and the acting by the three main leads is excellent.  But there are problems that bear mentioning. The story definitely follows a common Chinese convention of melodrama, which seems odd and unreal given the realistic portrayal of settings and even facial expressions, done with exacting detail. On top of this, the movie is ponderously slow in places, which actually took away some of the rich texture and tone of the movie.  Worst of all was the soundtrack.  It is pure "lifetime television" type of music, and grossly overplayed in so many scenes (to help establish emotional content)as to become downright annoying. In effect, the music tells us what we're supposed to be feeling.  Done to the extent as in this movie, it is a poor excuse for the lack of emotions that should be coming from the acting and the story itself.  Finally, the name, "Eternal Summer". What's it mean?  How does it tie into the plot? the setting? or anything else for that matter?! I haven't a clue.  Did I like this movie. Well, yes, actually.  But the deep sentimentality evoked isn't enough to cover or excuse some of its other (obvious) flaws. I give it 2 1/2 stars.

an entertaining cross country adventure from Disney... It would take a cold heart indeed, not to be touched by a story involving pets braving the wilderness to reunite with their owners.  It is a theme that Disney has explored many times through the years, and it is handed with typical Disney style in Homeward Bound (1993), which features some impressive performances by its animal performers.  Bob Seaver (Robert Hays) and Laura (Kim Greist) have just married, and are embarking on a new life together.  Bob works at college in San Francisco, and Laura plans to relocate to his home there, along with her three children, Jamie (Kevin Chevalia), Peter (Benj Thall), and Hope (Veronica Lauren).  Each of the kids has their own pet, but unfortunately the animals will not be making the move to the city by the bay.  Instead, Shadow (voiced by Don Ameche) a golden retriever, Chance (voiced by Michael J. Fox) a bulldog, and Sassy (voiced by Sally Field) a Himalayan cat, are turned over to Kate (Jean Smart), a friend who owns a ranch out in the country.  With heavy hearts, the new family drives off headed to a new life.  The kids obviously miss their animal friends, but how they feel about their new stepfather Bob isn't really explored until later, as the focus is on the animals, who decide to leave the ranch, and somehow find their owners.  Homeward Bound features voiceovers from each of the three animals, running above the action on the screen.  The tone and dialog are targeted at a younger audience.  The elder dog Shadow is the voice of experience, and at times stubborn overconfidence.  Chance is the exuberant pup who has a lot to learn, while Sassy is a classy lady who is tough enough to hang with the boys.  As you might expect, some of the best parts are the scenes in the wilderness.  Getting one animal to perform is tough, but working with three is even more of a challenge, particularly when one of the animals is a cat.  There is an impressive scene featuring an encounter with a cougar, which ends with it taking a flying leap into a river.  When Sassy falls into the river a gets swept over a waterfall, the worst is feared, but with the help of a kind stranger, miraculously the trio is soon reunited.  The animals find and comfort a little lost girl in the woods, and then help her to be discovered by a rescue party.  Thanks to flyers that Bob has distributed, the authorities recognize the missing pets and take them to animal shelter.  In the most humorous incident in the film, the animals manage to escape from the well intentioned staff at the shelter, as Sassy gets a chance to show what she can do.  The Seaver family is heartbroken, after expecting to be reunited with their loved ones, but the film finishes on an emotional high, with the pets somehow making their way to the Seaver's new home.  Intended for youngsters, Homeward Bound is not one of Disney's finest, but it is certainly another fine example of the kind of solid family entertainment that Disney has been producing for decades.  Image quality is just average, with a lack of sharpness, and the colors seem to off a bit.  The movie is subtitled, but there are no extra features besides some trailers.  Veteran actor Don Ameche does a marvelous job as the wise old timer Shadow.  See if your heart doesn't drop, when Shadow takes an unexpected fall.  Michael J. Fox as Chance, lays it on a bit thick, but you get used to him after a while.  Sally Field puts some maturity into her voice, as the wisecracking cat who lives up to her name.  The real stars of course are the animal performers and their trainers who make fun films like this possible.

Mr Popper Thought it was a good family movie. I am sure children would like it. Reccomend it for a good evening at home movie!

APOLLO 18 'Breaks Ground' Mildly As A Guilty Pleasure APOLLO 18:  As I've said elsewhere, I think it's hard not to enjoy a quality conspiracy, and mankind's only manned off-world moon missions have been the subject of quite a few.  First, there's the one that claims that the United States never went to moon, that it was all faked, shot on a soundstage somewhere in California, Arizona, or New Mexico.  Then, there's the one that claims the Apollo missions were actually the cover story; what really happened was that we went to moon to discover who had been there before.  Of course, there's another one - related and similar - that claims the photography from the moon has been censored or edited to remove evidence of the moon's original colonization by a master race.  Then, there's the fact that the moon is hollow.  And then there's this other one ...  I think you get the point.  For ever story about the moon, there are probably dozens of others, and they all point to some grand conspiracy relating to NASA's cover-up of either (A) life out there or (B) things are not what they seem.  What APOLLO 18 does it does reasonably well, and that's basically to present a classic conspiracy story.  It takes the significant elements of several of these conspiracies - that some Apollo missions were done in secret, that mankind did in fact find life on that presumed lifeless rock - and stirs them all up into one hefty mix.  The makers presume that the footage from one of these secret missions was somehow miraculously returned to Earth, leaked onto the internet, and spliced together into a complete whole.  As is the case in these "found footage" films, it has a tendency to be all `herky' and `jerky' cam coverage, and APOLLO 18 is no exception to that rule.  If you look too closely, you may see the strings being pulled behind the curtains, but, out front, it's just your basic "boy-meets-monster" story.  There's nothing wrong with it on that level; don't ask too many questions, and you're bound to be entertained, if only mildly.  The disc includes a good handful of alternate endings which, sadly, gives the sense that the creators weren't entirely sure which way they wanted to go with the yarn they were spinning.  While I found that a bit of a disappointment, I also shrug it off because, minimally, I admire them for their creativity.  There are also a handful of deleted and/or extended scenes worth viewing; while they don't add much to the basic premise, there are a few that flesh out these characters (or "victims", if you prefer) quite well.  There's also a commentary, but I'll freely admit I haven't listened to that yet.  Recommended mostly as a guilty pleasure.  One time viewing, at least, for the novelty of it all.

The Box There are very mixed reviews for this film and to be honest whist it isn't outstanding, it isn't that bad either. This is set during the seventies and follows a young couple who receive a box and are told that if they push the button inside someone they don't know will die and they will receive one million dollars. They agonize over the decision and then the consequences of what they finally decide start to become apparent as the film unfolds. The original premise is great and you start to wonder what you would do in the same situation; you also start to question certain events as the film progresses and this quickly becomes quite a tense sci-fi thriller. The acting is ok (although a little wooden at times) from most of the actors, but Frank Langella is particularly good and note worthy. The story is engrossing and fairly original and whilst this ends without any real conclusion (which detracts from the film slightly), it does manage to keep you entertained throughout. Overall this is a good film and although slightly aimless and kooky in places, it is still worth a watch at some point.  Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.

Funny but not that great I used my amazon video credit to watch this on amazon video and thank god i did. This a good dvd but its not THAT funny. There are only like 2 out the 5 or 6 comedians in this video that actually are funny. I wouldn't pay for this but it was kind of entertaining.  I would watch this on amazon video instead of ordering the DVD, like i originally was going to.  Btw check out youtube for some previews of the dvd (most of the funny videos are on youtube anyways)

Gremlins video on blue ray This wasn't my favorite movie but the rest of my family loved it.  In the first half it was all cute and seemed like a good family movie but in the last half there was violence and gore.

so so Not as i expected. Picture quality was not that good. I would not purchase this movie. I would want more out a company.

pretty good soy thriller The acting was average, the dialog was cheesy at times, and the story was ok. All that gets it a watchable 3 stars.

"Why are they doing this? Why are they doing this? They said when you got here, the whole thing started." Alfred Hitchcock approached the screenwriter of PSYCHO (1960), Joseph Stefano, about scripting THE BIRDS, but Stefano was gearing up for his own project, a one-hour TV series called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0016MOWNM">THE OUTER LIMITS</a>. Instead, Evan Hunter (aka Ed McBain) was hired to adapt Daphne du Maurier's short story.  "The Birds" is a movie that has no music track and intentionally concludes without definite resolution: the usual "THE END" doesn't appear. In it, flocks of killer avians inexplicably follow a woman wherever she goes. Scenes of ominously perched tweetys precede fakey-looking "attacks." (In an interview, the picture's star, Rod Taylor claimed that seagulls were unable to fly away because they were high on wheat soaked in whiskey.)  Were folks really scared by these handpuppets and mechanical birdies in '63? In hindsight, a then super-heated Cold War seems a darn sight more frightening, so maybe their terror was displaced.  . Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 imdb viewer poll rating.  (7.9) The Birds (1963) - Rod Taylor/Jessica Tandy/Suzanne Pleshette/'Tippi' Hedren/Veronica Cartwright/Doodles Weaver/Richard Deacon

:|  Good plot, sad graphics. I've seen computer games from this era with better graphics, and it was quite distracting towards the end.  Enjoyed the beginning part of this film, where she's trying to adapt to a strange new world.  Did have some weird kink to it.  I would have liked it more if I was a bit less sober.

Loved the animation. I really loved the beautifully animated characters, but the story seemed choppy and slow.  I don't think kids would really like this movie.

Tucker Max.. Tucker Max is a pretty funny guy, but I feel like the movie was kind of lacking. It didn't really have a story line. The good news is that it the DVD arrived in great condition and quickly. We've watched it once and probably won't watch it again.

The different paths of Stanton and Anthony Very informational.  The DVD focused not only on the women's suffrage movement but also Anthony and Stanton's friendship.  The documentary also showed how as Anthony got older she became more focused on one outcome (the votes of women) while Stanton became focused on many woman's rights issues.  It shows some hard decisions that the two had to make separately regarding the missions they have given their lives to and staying true to their friendship.  Susan B. Anthony wholeheartedly gave her life, her breath, her everything to making the women's vote possible.  This was a well done documentary.

get angry These guys should be in jail. The actors humanize them. But they came close to destroying the system. And they are still playing the game.

no brainer time pass Seriously, how many times have we come across a story of two people who hate each other and then fall in love eventually. Of course, one of the two is tragically messed up and the other falls in love. Its an age old story in a new pot. But if you want a no brainer, a lovely romantic comedy and some very nice acting, then you are up for a treat.

not that into it I am a Twilight fan. I have the first two Twilight movies on DVD along with this movie. And I have the fourth Twilight movie on Blu Ray. I remember leaving the theater when I went to go see this movie, Twilight Saga: Eclipse, not liking it. I didn't remember why till just now.  I enjoy the love story Twilight has going on, but I'm not crazy about Bella being a little hore in this movie. One minute she is in love with Edward. Who is a great guy. Then the next minute she is in love with Jake. Another great guy. She is fulling with Jake's heart. Well actually with both of their hearts. I remember back in my high school years I would have guys after me. And ya I would play them for fools. But I just don't find it fun to watch in this movie.  I also think it is dumb that she want's to be a vampire, but she wont marry Edward. He has to talk her into it. That is so stupid. I also think the story the movie is playing out is boring. I enjoy all of the other Twilight movies, but this movie isn't doing it for me.

well.... 3 of the dvds i have seen on tv so it was disapointing. the dvd on the crusie line is old and not up to date. they could have done a much better job on thos box set. I could not wait for this to come in the mail then when i watched it i was a little upset. but i did enjoy watching cause I LOVE Disney!!

Violent...but riveting and unusual I liked this movie b/c it is not the norm...Hispanic female in an unconventional role and she kicks...__________!!!! It was like Girl w/ Dragon Tattoo (Norway) , Bourne, MI, and others of this genre all meshed together, but the unique twist of the female protagonist. I liked it. Not for those opposed to violence, so be warned.

pleasant surprise An ok movie, I went in expecting a horrible shaky cam nightmare but they found a way to make it work. Other then that the story is ok nothing special though. So thanks to some good camera work the movie is ok and not horrible.

IT'S A PLAY First I will say it is unfair for me to review this film as a white male who watched 20-30 minutes and turned it off. The movie is a play with your basic overhead shot. It also shows characters with ear/mouth pieces hooked to boxes. There is music and comedy with some sexual references. Our main character has a hunk of a bf which she uses for sex, but the guy is a lot of talk. Her family fixes her up with a man who has wealth, but he may not be the legal businessman he pretends to be. It was at this point I couldn't watch any more. The fact that it was done on a stage for a theater distracted me from the film as well as the severe lack of action. Worse than Sister Act 2 in my book. I am sure there is a niche for this type of stage drama-musical-comedy, but it was not my cup of tea.

Not what I expected! When I recieved thie movie, I was expecting a normal sized DVD case.  That is NOT what I recieved!  I would appriciate, in the future, if sellers would describe the case type as well!

Funny for a bad movie night. Predictable, cheesy, interesting physics. Good for a bad movie night, we had some laughs. I like Patrick Swayze, but the script and characters are laughable.

Fun for what it is. Disappointing for what it could have been. Much better than I expected based on the trailers.  At times very funny and clever. At other times confusing vulgar with funny.  At times making clever references to the oeuvre of Spielberg (with additional nods to Lucas and a few non-Lucas/Spielberg films). At other time way too on-the-nose provoking a "Yes, I recognize it already." response rather than an "Oh, I get it - cool" response.  Fun for what it is. Disappointing for what it could have been.

just like old times i remember when i first saw this movie i loved it. so me and my sister decided to purchase it for old time sakes.

Barely deserves 3 stars, but ultimately dishes out enough entertainment. Decent acting, coupled with a stronger first half of movie, which later begins to crumble with a chopped-up, non-believable plot, ultimately dishes out just enough entertainment to be worthy of a watch.  Horrible director decisions with how to take this story as the movie travels on, to where near the final 30 minutes is basically a joke.  Couple that with again, an overall horrible decision to have it that the Dr. and wife BOTH decide to try to fight back to some degree, basically increasing the chances of their own daughter getting murdered was/is simply a total failure on behalf of the director.  But, again, some semi-strong performances by the lead actors, along with an already biased stance on Kevin Bacon (who i actually like) barely squeezes out this 3 star rating.  Definitely not on the level of a "Ransom", with Mel Gibson, in any capacity, however.

The Letter Factory held my kids' attention better My kindergartener, who already knew how to put sounds together, enjoyed this movie; but my three year old, who doesn't know these concepts, wasn't really interested.

I like the other one better I know this one is closer to the book, but I still like the other movie version better. I like the actors that played the characters better and the story, while not perfectly true to the book, was wonderful. I was disappointed with Hugh Grant as Frederick. He was too simpering for my taste. Looked stiff in his cravat.

This is it?? THE 400 BLOWS (originally LES QUATRE CENTS COUPS, 1959) is always hailed as a tour-de-force by Francois Truffaut. Even though I don't see it that way, because I think it is pretty boring and lousy compared to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007TKNHE">Blackboard Jungle</a> (1955), it has its merits.  Young Antoine (Jean-Pierre L&eacute;aud) is an adolescent who seems drawn to a life of petty crime and general mischief-making. His seemingly worthless parents send him into juvie after he steals a typewriter, and from thence he escapes. End of plot, story arc and everything. Some classic! I can't even discover what the damned title is supposed to mean, though according to another reviewer it is a French expression that means something like "paint the town red". In other words, go out and have fun.  The thing has a quiet, meditative air - not surprising because young Antoine is rather sweet for a hoodlum. The jaunty Mexican-Cuban style dance music (music like that which I heard growing up) adds a sort of innocent air to the activities of Antoine and his pal. Guy Decomble is particularly hilarious as their frustrated teacher, and I wish there had been more of that before moving on to the juvenile hall scenes.  Since I believe this film actually set the tone for the films of the 1960s, it is certainly worth watching just to say you have watched it. The whole thing struck me as funny because I just read something the other day about the worthlessness of those who haven't seen this - yet there is this notion that film does not begin or end with this, either.  My personal slant: this film is highly overrated. Can someone tell me why it seems rated above the closest thing I can find to it, THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE? Why it ranks above Kurosawa's work of the period, especially <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005B1ZL">The Hidden Fortress (The Criterion Collection)</a> (1958) or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0780022513">Yojimbo (The Criterion Collection)</a> (1961)? It seems like any other French film to me - and it is not even meant for kids. It is about a kid - big difference.  Oh well. Even though John Ford did relatively little during this specific period, so I cannot find anything of his except <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001QJUX24">The Searchers</a> (see my review), I'm glad I finally saw it, but I don't think I care to see it again ....

Good But Unoriginal The best part of "Whip It" is the cast. I loved Drew Barrymore and Juliette Lewis in this. Actually, there wasn't anyone who I didn't like. Ellen Page is always...well, Ellen Page-y, but I like her enough. She has a presence and a cuteness about her.  The basic problem is that "Whip It" is filled with cliches and even some stupidity (the scene in the pool? Give me a break). It still works well enough, thanks to a great cast and a fun atmosphere, but the lack of originality brings it down a notch.  But hey, it's fun enough, even though it is flawed. Not great, but good.

Who knew Megan Fox would be the deal breaker. The special effects were excellent.  The story was easy to follow and the writers did a wonderful job.  As usual the talented Shia LeBeouf carried this movie and made it look effortless.  Again.  Was so glad to see the return of Tyrese and Josh as the fearless fighting forces.  Looks like Michael B got the best out of all his actors....that is exept for the female lead.  Never thought I'd say this but...I missed Megan Fox.  What were the casting directors thinking?  I'm going to buy the movie but I actually had to stop and think about it...not something I do if I really liked the film.  If they make another Transformers here's a hint...if you have to beg Megan to come back?  Do. It.

Needs 3 things to make it epic Charlize Theron was awesome as the evil queen.  Gave me chills each time she was in a scene.  You could almost feel the evil oozing out of her.  Still, her character could have been better with 2 things. Chris Hemsworth as the drunken, washed-up huntsman was also believable.  Still we could have had a bit more back-story to show us about losing his wife and why he turned drunken and washed-up. Kristen Stewart...enough said about her already and I agree with all the negative reviews of her performance. The 3 things needed to improve this film? 1. Get a better actress to play Snow White.  You know, someone who can actually act instead of someone who looks like a constipated person trying to have a bowel movement.  Someone who can deliver a rallying speech that is actually coherent and makes you feel motivated.  No, I'm not a Kristen Stewart hater.  In fact, I've seen her in a couple of movies where she was very good.  Of course, that was before she became a "star" and was when she was playing a supporting role.  She was a very good actress in those movies. 2. Get better writers.  Again, the rallying speech.  I had to back up and listen to it again.  Yep, it's still random words strung together that make little or no sense.  And the evil queen could have been so much better if she'd had REAL dialog to work with.  Heck, every character could have been epic with proper dialog and a less strung-out story.  The story scattered after Snow White escapes.  Who are the scarred women?  How did they manage to build their village and survive?  Who knows, because the writers obviously didn't think we would need to know mundane things like that.  And what was up with the troll scene?  Where exactly does this fit into the story?  Because it certainly didn't go anywhere or add to the movie in any way. 3. Get a better director.  And once again with the rallying speech.  Can someone honestly say the director saw that scene and said, "Yes, that's what I want!"  Because if he actually thought that was great acting, he needs to get a new job.  Maybe as a dog-walker.  I normally don't pay attention to directing.  Then again, I've never seen anything this badly directed before.  There was no consistency in this movie.  One scene would be delivered with breath-taking beauty and spell-binding acting and the next would come up like a club and smack you in the head with it's wooden-ness.  As I said, if the director looked at his finished product and felt proud, he really needs to get another job. All in all, I don't feel I wasted my money buying the movie.  The few good points are so spectacular they make up for the glaringly bad points.

Not Bad At All Take a little of "The Blair Witch Project" and "The Last Exorcism", throw in any number of 'prolonged stay in a haunted house' movies, a scene from "Silence of the Lambs" and probably scenes from other movies I can't bring to mind and you get "My Little Eye."  Here's the scoop. Five people answer an ad to be part of a reality pod cast where they need to spend 6 months in a remote house in the northeast (Delaware?) and they collect one million bucks. But it's all or nothing. If one person walks, they all forfeit the dough. Of course, near the end of their stay, things start going south and all are in peril.  The writing is decent though some of the key scenes could have been more heated. The actors all have a serious number of TV credits under their belts. I've seen Kris Lemche in other projects and Brad Cooper is becoming a household name, but they all do a decent job. The cinematography is interesting. Some shots are from the pod caster's cameras (some of those are in night vision mode) while others are straight up like a regular movie. Some scenes have a genuinely creepy look/feel to them. The scenes unfold at an accelerating pace. Clues are divulged and tension builds. Then more and more and faster and faster until things are ready to pop. Not too much attention is paid to the house itself which is a shame as it looks really cool from the outside. All the other production values are competent.  The point of its nature being highly derivative certainly detracts some from its credibility. One can see the producers trying to derive a formula from the various sources to come up with this amalgam, but the results are, at the very least watchable. I did find myself trying to figure out where things were going and how they would be played. It held my interest and, at the end of the day, that counts for something. With a running time of 1 hour and 39 minutes it stays just long enough to not wear out its welcome.  If you're into this sort of mystery thriller, you could do a lot worse. Order up a pizza, crack open a beer and have at it.

Region 2 The movie itself is good enough.  What I didn't understand was that Region 2 means that it's from another country and cannot play on my DVD player, but it can play on my computer after I adjust the settings.

Below good sub movie I bought this here on amazon from subvendor. It came in great shape it was used and came fast. The movie is good. It does a good job of any WWII movie out there. The thing is it was advertised as a scary moive. Well it is not that scary at all. It is a good thriller about conflict on a submarine. Overall I give it a three and if you can get it below $6.00 buy it but not a $5.00.

Very good zombie film, mixed bag CG Degeneration is a more or less standalone story set in the universe of the Resident Evil/Biohazard video games (as opposed to the Milla Jovovich films). Series standbys Leon and Claire must escape from an airport that becomes overrun from the walking dead, then investigate the larger conspiracy surrounding the zombie attack. There are some subplots involving expendable army mooks and a highly suspect senator, but this is secondary to the hardcore zombie mayhem, which ranges from the predictable (oh no a zombie ambushed the soldier who just finished shooting up all the zombies) to the awesome (plane crash where the plane releases hordes of the walking dead; a collapsing mad science fortress full of monsters). Fans of the games will enjoy some inside jokes- Claire sets off to battle zombies with an umbrella corporation promotional umbrella, and a frustrated Leon channels many gamers' frustration when he delivers a lecture about the importance of saving ammunition.  The real weak point of this movie is the CG. Structures and machinery look quite good, and the special effects such as smoke and fire are well realized, but the characters look cartoony in a way that doesn't fit the realism of the rest of the film, and their motion is jerky and unrealistic, probably as a result of only partial motion capture. The end result looks less like a movie, and more like a speedrun of an unreleased Resident Evil game, albeit one with a great lighting engine.  PROS -Above average zombie thriller plot that meshes nicely with the games -Some good action setpieces -Stuff that isn't people looks pretty good  CONS -Wacky looking characters make this film look cheaper than it probably was -Some voice acting is pretty flat  STUFF TO WATCH FOR -Everyone bitten by a zombie in this film becomes a zombie themselves. If that's how the T virus works, I'm not sure how I made it through the first 3 games as a human being. -During the flashback to the events of the early games, Leon and Clare turn in place without moving their legs at all while fighting zombies (like in the games). I don't know if this is intentional.

ZOMBIES, i don't see no stinking zombies WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH NAZI ZOMBIES? Please stop the insanity and just make "zombie" movies! And now that that is out of the way... Outpost is NOT a "zombie" movie! I don't think the movie was marketed as a "zombie" movie, but I have seen it listed in MANY zombie movie lists... and how clever that they have the un-trademarked Romero zombie hand rising out of the ground, on the back cover of the movie case!  Even the worst, low budget piece of crap zombie / living dead movies that I have had to suffer watching (Horrid, Zombie Diaries and Deadlands; the Rising) played by the "rules" of zombiedom in that the zombies all had a hankering for human flesh and they didn't just poof, appear out of thin air ... like GHOSTS / POLTERGEISTS, which is just what they did in Outpost. Outpost had a good budget, good acting and a decent script... and could have been a decent "zombie" movie had they actually had zombies, even if they were former Nazi soldiers.  And I guess it is a decent supernatural horror movie, if you like movies that deal with Nazis. I just think there are more pressing evils (like greedy Republican Politicians and talent less reality show celebrities) that need their 15 minutes to be demonized!

fairly entertaining If you're looking for a decent film on obsession, this might entertain you. It is by no means the best and I have seen better, but this is a decent effort which will hold your attention once.  The acting is a bit over the top especially from the stalker, but if you're looking for a story that's a bit contrived and you actually like that kind of thing, then this should be enjoyable for you. Basically it's about a white woman who becomes obsessed with a successful, good-looking black man. One thing - he's already married. Does that stop the white chick? No.  At first, his association with her seems harmless. He is flattered by her attention and praise, but then soon enough he realizes that it's not the innocent admiration of a fangirl and has to deal with her ever-increasing threats against him and particularly his wife. Ali Larter does a nice job as the crazy stalker, but this movie made me laugh out loud a couple of times without meaning to. at 3/5 stars, this movie is worth watching once - depending on your tastes.

Mildly entertaining romcom I guess the problem with this romcom is the usual premise that we've seen a million times.  I would also argue that the most fun would have been better byplay between Diane Keaton and Harrison Ford.  Keaton really tries, but Ford's boorish news "legend" is too one dimensional, not to mention unlikeable.  Becky (Rachel McAdams, good) is a hyperactive morning show producer that occasionally borders on annoying and her new crush, Patrick Wilson, is just female eye candy playing the role usually reserved for women.  The movie isn't a total loss however.  Jeff Goldblum is underused but effective as the programming director.  I really like this guy.  His humor is infectious.  He should be used in more films.  There is a sequence when Becky changes the direction of the show, putting the shows "personalities" in more reality based stories.  It's a hoot.  For that reason alone, the film's worth a look.

not what i expected.. The buy was great and service. But they don't have the Right information on the reviews. I bought it because it had english and Spanish language And it didn't...

Not really about Banksy If you are hoping for a film solely about Banksy and his work, this is not it. Banksy has only a small role in the documentary about another man that once followed Banksy around. It was still a good film.. just not what I was hoping for.

Sound As A Stand-Alone Movie But not much originality. Having the human race wiped out by a virus of their own making to which Apes are immune .. Ok, it's been done, but I'll buy it again. To have the same virus make apes super intelligent .. hmm stretching things a bit far.  What is more likely to happen is that the human race will be wiped out and the Apes will gradually evolve to become the dominant race. That seems more likely the scenario that ties in with other POTA movies. Having intelligent apes inherit human technology and the intelligence to go with it doesn't fit the future stories.  Oh well, seeing apes evolve over a million years or so was probably to complicated for your average film maker these days.  Anyway, as a standalone movie about apes being treated badly and getting their revenge - it's actually ok. The first hour or more is about human and ape interactions, and is done pretty well. The last 20 minutes or so is all out action to satisfy those people that found the 1st hour boring. Unfortunately, it is the last 20 minutes that is boring as the graphic-action scenes become all-too predictable.  The movie also includes the all-too familiar 'bad-guy', (yep, the same one you've seen 100 times before), played by the guy you all want to die, who has crap lines to read, but that's ok because they match his acting and will satisfy your want in the last minutes of the film (why do the baddies always die in the penultimate scene)!  Could have been an intelligent film, until the mindless action graphics took over.

wait for the price drop I have been a huge fan of family guy since it came on. I make sure to buy next volume whenever its released on DVD so I can have all the episodes available to me. It's always great to have episodes nobody has seen before so you can watch them together. Every year it seems like they put less episodes on the DVD release, and now are behind putting volumes out. (We all know that they are) They do it on purpose. instead of putting episodes on the volume, they pack it full of unnecessary bonus features nobody (Even die hard fans) care to watch, put 3 episodes on each disc to make the box bigger, and they jack up the price and expect you to pay more for it. They stopped caring about making people laugh, and decided to get greedy. I'm getting tired of spending the extra money for old episodes left over from 2 seasons ago. Dont waste your money, wait for the price to drop, or buy it used. I'm not a very big Family guy fan anymore. It's not even anywhere near as funny as it used to be. You can tell they are running out of ideas. I'm surprised the show hasn't been cancelled again. I have turned my attention to American Dad and the Cleveland Show. Don't buy these unless you're OCD like me and can't stand an unfinished collection.

Reality TV? Doubtful. It's hard to believe these guys are finding rare collectibles and valuable antiques within abandoned storage units so often. I know plenty of storage unit renters. Broken Ataris and E.T on Beta are the closest things they have to antiques. The lockers  are probably being stuffed for entertainment purposes. So why 3 stars when I have little faith in Storage Wars' credibility? Because I view it the same way I view a sitcom. Quirky characters with silly catch phrases; some like each other, some don't; and the outcomes are often hard to believe. Barry Weiss, the laid back jokester, is the most entertaining cast member. Those who prefer villains will vote for Dave Hester. The way Darryl and Dave overvalue their winning units for resale can be annoying. They'd price a bucket of urine at $50. This show might be the reason it's no longer easy to find cheap stuff at yard sales. The days of coming home with a $20 love seat from a tag sale are long gone. I've seen second-hand bedroom sets sell for $300 over retail just because some miser slaps a "vintage" label on it. Thanks Storage Wars, for making the inflation problem worse and encouraging everyone to overprice their junk.

Better than part 2, but too long Sam Witwicky (Shia Lebouf) now working as a mail deliverer in an office building, but he thinks he deserves better since he saved the world 2 times "yet, he leaves out that his giant robot friends helped...or did most the work".  Sam has also replaced the other hot girl who was just there for eye candy, with Carly Miller (Rosie Huntington) who's also just here for eye candy.   While the Decepticons are back and Dylan (Patrick Dempsey), a rich playboy is working for them and wants to use Sam to get information from the Autobots. The Decepticons also want to bring there planet to Earth and wipe out mankind, yet Dylan thinks he'll be spared of course. You also have Optimus Prime having to go up against his former mentor, Sentinal Prime who's helping the Decepticons.   Transformers: Dark of the Moon is about as loud as part 2 with non-stop action that involves Transformers clunking together and ripping each other apart , but it's more fun with a better story "what there is of one." While there's some nice visuals, like when the soldiers are gliding through the air through the city on hang-gliders. When Witwicky and friends are hanging from a falling building is also a pretty well done disaster sequence.   However, Michael Bay needs to stop thinking that he's making Gone with the Wind, when he's just making a Transformer movie, lol. What I mean, is that these films are too long and there's not enough story for them to be so long and then just give us a similar ending with Optimus Prime giving another corny speech. Megatron is also wasted as the villain yet again and always seems to just be there, so he can eventually be ripped apart by Optimus, yet again. If Michael Bay doesn't come back for part 4 and is replaced by someone more talented, I won't shed a tear.

Rip-off Cinema Done Right Antonio Margheriti's Alien from the Deep is a gonzo Aliens rip-off, to be sure, and one not to be missed by fans of Margheriti's work as well as Italian exploitation cinema! Any film featuring Charles Napier as the tough-talking, no-nonsense, get-it-done military type is worth checking out but only Aliens from the Deep features Luciano Pigozzi doing his best impression of Lucio Fulci and an alien so outrageous, so comedic, that you will never look at crustacean meals the same way again. There's no denying that Alien from the Deep is an uneven film, it starts out as an action adventure film with cheesy B-movie potential and then steadily declines into an unintentionally hilarious sci-fi horror film featuring a massive crab's claw swinging back and forth.  This is one of those films that you shouldn't over-think, it is what it is and you just have to kick back and enjoy the ride. For me two things really stood out in this production and that was the forehead-slappingly bad creature and the painful dialogue. The minute you see the alien tooling about like a remote control car, wildly swinging its claw and, eventually, standing up to reveal its Rickets-riddled legs, you'll fall in love with this film. Before you get to the "good stuff" though you'll be forced to suffer through the dialogue which mainly consists of the actors each getting a turn saying, "Balls!" Carpi must have had a rough time writing this gem!  From beginning to end, I enjoyed this film. No need to polish a turd, my review is pretty clear. You're either going to be entertained or you won't be.

Reviewed as a stand-alone (for those not familiar/interested in the video game) (This review is mostly for people who are curious about this animated sci-fi horror-survival movie and not familiar or interested in the video games)  After watching <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0047S4USO">Dead Space: Aftermath</a> I was curious enough to go back and watch the first movie in the series, partly because of B5's Bruce Boxleitner voice-acting in it. If you haven't seen either one, start with "Downfall" and then watch "Aftermath", although both can be watched stand alone.  This animated movie is centered around the discovery of an alien artifact on another planet and the spaceship involved in the recovery of this artifact. As the genre suggests, this is a horror/gore/survival type of a movie, but because it is animated, the gore is not as stomach turning as it would have been if it was a live-action movie. It is a relatively interesting and watchable movie, action-packed. Just like Aftermath, they are more along the lines of the Syfy Original Movies than 2001 or Battlestar Galactica.  In terms of production and such, Downfall is not as polished as Aftermath, but then again, Aftermath came out 2+ years later, which in the world of computers/animation is a longer time than in might sound.  Because this is intended as an introduction to the game, it does not need to have the stereotypical plot flow and conclusion, which (intentionally or not) is a plus since I am sure a lot of us are tired of predictable formulaic movie endings.  My opinion if you are not a fan of the game or a Boxleitner die-hard must-have everything fan: watch the movie first (rental, cable, etc) and then decide whether you want to make the DVD/BluRay purchase.

Racy comedy I can't say this was one of my favorite Patrick Swayze movies.  I definitely loved him in this, but didn't like the moral vibes in the movie.  Just a bit of a gutter ride.

Boring Beginning, Entertaining Middle and End If I could give this movie a "pretty good" 3.5 stars I would. I'm a fan of Cameron, Justin, and Jason and the previews made this one of those movies that I felt I absolutely HAD to see. The first half of the movie was honestly very disappointing. It was boring and the scenes were so choppy. It was like...here is scene 1. Now scene 2. Now scene 3 and none of the scenes flowed or came together. I barely laughed in the first half. The Christmas scene and onward is when things picked up and I began to enjoy the movie. There was much more humor and it was fun seeing what the bad teacher would do next. Nothing was off limits for her. For me, the awful beginning and awesome ending cancels out so it's an "okay" movie at worst and "good" at best.

This One Not Worth Rekindling This mini-series falls far too short of being a sequel and is more like a re-make of the original 1984 film. Which might be okay if it was done better and had a satisfying ending, but in this case, this movie goes pear-shaped in the last 20 minutes so that your jaw drops and all you can say is "Huh!?" as Charlie inexplicably goes over to the Dark side in an act that is as pointless as it is brutal. And to what end? Well, not much...  This movie is worth watching for the special effects, and the talented actors, but that's all. If you expect a satisfying resolution to the story of Charlie McGee, this is not quite it. But if all you want is a way to harmlessly kill a few hours, this is mostly painless. Get this movie only if it comes in a cheaper package deal with the original movie; but don't buy it if you are a Stephen King fan hoping to see how little Charlie McGee turns out as this would be a disappointment and a let-down.

Disappointed! Just watched it was okay! I guess i expected more out of Hilary Swank. This just wasn't her quality or type of movie i would expect from her. Just your average tension filled movie at the end of the film!

Like Fear and Loathing plus cowboys Parts of this movie reminded me a great deal of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and those where the parts that appealed to me most. Everything else varied between weak, under explained, and "good." For example, the choice of making the major female character a lizard and then sticking her in a wig bugged me the entire movie. What's wrong with a lizard being bald? Still, a good movie, though I question how much a child could get out of it that isn't pure fluff.

Not the best I had previously bought some of Jillian's other DVD's (The 2 30-Day videos, and 2 of here High Metabolism and Toning ones) and I do prefer the 2 Metabolism and toning dvds to anything else. I have ever tried.   I had how she does not explain how to properly do the moves, no demonstrations, unlike her other DVD's. I often find myself confused about what to do at first, but eventually I fall into rhythm. I prefer when she discusses proper form, and what muscles I am working. She does a bit here, but she goes into more details in other DVDs   The biggest loser contestants throw me off, I prefer the athletic fit girls in her other videos, they are in sync, and don't mess up moves. They are not lazy with moves either.  I like to watch one person and since the contestants are out of sync and I am not explained the moves, it throws me for a loop.   You just need some basic weights and thats great, I am too cheap to buy weights so I just use any water bottles around me I like that she doesn't give breaks, everything is quick quick quick and that does not allow me to get too bored.   Only with Jillian I know I am getting a good workout. I used to do some DVDs in high school, but her videos are the best. Make sure you have a great internet, mine is a little slow and stops CONSTANTLY, it irritates me! I also have a Mac and cant download the stupid thing. So beware!   I feel like her other 2 Dvds I prefer were more challenging. I barely made through those videos, stopping every minute to catch my breath. And it's not like I am overweight too, I just weight slightly less than 140 and I am 5ft 2in tall. This DVD made me sweat, but not like her other videos.  I feel that Jillian is more mean here her other DVDs she is harsh but encouraging, I prefer her non-Biggest Loser videos.

This J & H Doesn't Finish in the Money Not a bad movie; just not a very good one. This serving girl  centered version of the Jekyll and Hyde version just doesn't make it. When you have a tradition which includes Barrymore, March and Tracy, to mention only the best known of the genre, you have class acts to live up to: this one doesn't make out. Its a pallid reorientation from J&H to the maid servant and it just doesn't work very well. Much of the time, Julia Roberts, the maid servant does what no maid servant would do and doesn't do what most maid servants would do. Much of the time, also, she is made so unglamorous, that it is difficult to  understand just why both J & H fall for her. As to the lead role, little horror, little disgust and fear, are generated by the quite unmonsterlike Hyde. All-in- all, a decent but not enticing film.

Mork-A-Thon I wish that they still kept Conrad Janis and Elizabeth Kerr in the whole run of the show. Have DaVinci Deli as another hangout place (outside of the record store & Mindy's Apartment). Bring out the 4th Season and final season. Have some extra stuff with it (i.e. bloopers, interviews with the people who are still living actors, Garry Marshall etc.). Could bring out the animated series also.

good movie but gets tiring toward the end Good movie but after a while it gets tiring.There is alot of mf language{ which is typical considering where its comming from} Shooting,explosions bi racial sex scenes which turns people on others throw up. While i watched this i found it entertaining but not academy material.ENJOY  but don't expect too much.

Be Careful what You Wish for!! I read about this rare film in the "Gorefest" many years ago.  It sounded kind of interesting and I wanted to see it but could never find a copy anywhere.  Well, thanks to Apprehensive films  it is now available.  It was made in 1975  and it is a pretty good little flick!  Charlie hears about all these women at a "swingers party" and tells his wife Amy they should try it. Big mistake for Charlie as it does not work out so well for him.  However his "hot wife" Amy seems like a natural once she goes to bed with another man. Charlie is frustrated and now wants no part of the "swingers" scene but Amy is now into this and wants to go party!!  Its not much of a massacre but I don't want to give away the ending. However, this movie has a good plot and is worth a watch.  There is no gore in this film but there is a little nudity. "Hats off" to Apprehensive films for releasing alot of these old rare films that the major studios would take a pass on!

Is this release cropped 39% to 1.77:1? I have seen this film in 3-strip Cinerama projection in 1962 at the Cooper Cinerama theatre in Saint Louis Park, MN, and most recently, in 2008 at the Hollywood Cinerama Dome.  While I reccommend the film; I will not add to the already abundant editorial reviews of this film here.  This 3-Strip Cinerama film was originally released in a 2:89:1 Aspect Ratio.  I notice the reported technical specs say this 2011 Blu-Ray release is in a 1.77:1 Aspect Ratio.  Even the 2008 Re-Mastered release is in a 2.55:1 ratio.  Has 39% of the wide screen been cropped in this 2011 release?  I subtract 2-stars for cropping so much of the image.

It's no P90X If you are looking for the next level of P90X, this isn't it.  It involves a lot more balancing moves, and most of it is new, but it just doesn't live up to the first set of DVDs.  My first week through the videos, I barely had any muscle soreness, and this hasn't changed at all over the length of the program.  P90X2 requires ALOT more equipment, and if you can afford to purchase it all, it's a workout in itself setting it all out for each workout.  The majority of each workout is Tony talking, warm-up, and cool-down.  These videos are missing all of the simplicity of the first set.  Save your money and go to the gym... You'll get a better workout and won't spend upwards of $200 in equipment.

I like it but... I saw a preview of it on my new Black Butler DVD, and I plan to buy it when it comes out, but is it just me, or does anyone who saw the preview think the plotline of the movie looks a little too much like one of the old Digimon movies? It's the one where that super digimon virus took over the internet, and the digidestined all teamed up with their digimon to enter digital internet space to stop the virus before it caused worldwide catastrophe while everyone around the digimon universe world with a computer watched the battle online and on tv? *lol*

Needed more Bernie Mac.... The movie would have been a lot better if Bernie Mac was in it more.  The story is okay, but could have been better.  It is a fine movie for a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Becoming too formulaic Maybe i am getting too old for these kind of movies, but the originality of Bridesmaid and Finding Sarah Marshall is tried here, and it just doesn't quite make it.  Good acting, some funny parts, but the over the top stuff is not that funny and appears too staged rather than potentially possible.

They didnt come to get me I have to give this movie its due, good special effects, the creepy factor, and the suspense works. The thing that left me disappointed was the ending, it felt rushed, and poorly thought out, like oops out of budget. Over all a disappointing movie, sorry I bought it.

Interesting Follow-up Re-wathed the original Tron before watching the "Legacy" will help. I found it entertaining but not great. If you were a fan of the original you should like this one too.

Teeny-bop Science Fiction Adolescent hijinks are the prime highlight of this contrived chronicle.  It's the old story of teen angst and telekinesis (explored much more brilliantly in Brian DePalma's CARRIE), here told tritely in you-tube video fashion for the cellphone generation.  Attempts at human interest are of the cable-tv variety (sick mommy, abusive daddy, requisite bullying, etc.), and the chatter lacks the desired sense of spontaneity necessary for it to have any impact.  Visually interesting for the PG-13 crowd, and the thrills don't come off cheaply, but it's a movie of weak imagination and substance.

Eh, it was ok Was ok.  Got it when the price dropped.  Laughed a few times, cringed a few others.  Definitely not for the kids.  Overall, expected better from the two main actors, but I did laugh a few times.

Hasn't aged well I seem to remember liking this movie when I first saw it in the 80's. DeNiro and Walken are fantastic as always and fans of either should see this film just for their scenes together. Otherwise, the movie is a rambling mess with an hour spent on the wedding scene and no time at all spent on their initial training and unit assignments. One day they're hunting. The next they're in Vietnam. Then they're in an NVA prison camp without showing how they were caught. They seem to have been there a long time because they're already coming unglued. The audience is left to fill in the blanks.  I get the feeling the director doesn't really know all that much about the military since he doesn't spend much time or effort on these scenes. I'm guessing by DeNiro's class A uniform that he is a super solider who is both an Army Ranger, a Green Beret, has served for about 15 years judging by the number of service stripes on his sleeve, and is such a badass that no one can tell him to shave or get a military haircut. There is simply too much implausible stuff going on here to take this movie seriously anymore and frankly I'm wondering what I or anyone else ever saw in the disjointed mess of a movie for it to be so critically acclaimed.

Sporadically funny but if only I knew what to make of it. Jim Carrey was the singular reason I watched this film. The problem with this movie is that its not really a comedy, its not really a con-artist movie, its not really about gay relationships. It does all of these 3 things in somewhat equal measure and then loses out overall. I liked bits and pieces of it but too many times lost interest and was left with the feeling that if the director had focused on making a good con-artist movie, Jim Carrey could have turned it into something spectacular.

I was expecting extended edition... So this is a review of the Ultimate Edition Blu-Ray and I'll admit, I've only gotten around to purchasing Chamber of Secrets in Ultimate Edition prior to this.  However, with the start of the Ultimate Editions, they were released as extended director's cuts of the movies that included the deleted scenes.  That was the main draw for me.  The other bonus content is nice and all, but what real incentive is there to buy yet another bluray edition of what I already have?  The main reason I got OOTP in this edition was that I was hoping to see the scene from Malfoy Manor that we all know they cut out of the film because we've seen the pictures of Lucius looking all swank with his two deer hounds by his side. In a fan video from back when the movie came out Jason Isaacs said that he thought it would be in the deleted scenes for the DVD.  Was it?  Nope.  And did I get to see the scene here?  Nope.  Just the theatrical release yet again.  So yeah...if I had this to buy all over again would I?  Maybe...but just to complete the set.  I certainly wouldn't have gone out of my way to buy it before I'd had the other movies in the series.  And if you've already got the blu-ray and don't care about some random special features, I'd suggest a pass.

An excellent film with problematic implications The Exorcist is one of the most infamous and well known horror films ever made. It tells the story of Regan, a girl who suddenly exhibits strange and violent behavior. Medicine and psychiatry fail to cure her of her odd behavior after she endures test after test. Then supernatural occurrences surround Regan, including objects moving by themselves. Her mother, in desperation, asks Catholic priests for help. They believe she is possessed by the devil and decide to perform an exorcism to free her. The question is if it will actually get exorcise the demon and if so, how many of them will be alive by the end.  Regan is a 12 year old girl, on the cusp of womanhood. She's portrayed at first as a normal, innocent girl. After she is possessed, obscenities spew from her mouth as freely as her infamous green vomit and she is shown is obscenely sexual. If she had been much younger, I would have figured it was simply meant to disturb the audience by oversexualizing her in a disturbing manner and thought nothing more of it. Her age leads me to believe that Regan's budding sexuality is being repressed through this story of possession. Even her mother suspected her new behavior had something to do with puberty. When possessed, the language she uses and her attitude towards religion and society is subversive and rebellious. Regan's behavior is extreme, but teenagers are typically rebellious and push boundaries. Her sexuality is also grotesquely portrayed, directed at taboo targets, such as her own mother and the adult men who try to save her (namely doctors and priests). She maims her own body in a horrible parody of masturbation and continually hurts herself physically in other ways. This shows that her natural sexuality is something horrific and harmful for herself and everyone around her. The goal of the film is to transform Regan back into her pure, virginal state to reinstate the status quo. The patriarchal society sees female sexuality as threatening and dangerous, something to be suppressed.  Even Regan's mother, who seems strong and successful, is undermined through the course of the film. At the beginning of the film, she is a world famous actress who successful raised her child on her own. However, she falls to pieces in the end, powerless to save her daughter. She turns to the Catholic Church, an institution that only imbues men with power, despite being an atheist. Despite her role as a powerful woman, she can do absolutely nothing to help her daughter.  Despite my misogynistic interpretation of the film, I did enjoy the film. The acting is impeccable from the entire cast, but especially in Linda Blair as Regan. I don't think anyone who watches the film can sit undisturbed as her condition worsens and she appears as evil as the demon inside her. The effects are amazing and don't lose much of their effect even today. The makeup on Regan is incredibly creepy even though relatively small changes are made to her face. The director and actors went to great lengths and were even injured on the set in order to create real emotional responses and realistic supernatural effects. The musical score is made up of eerie modern classical music by Penderecki and portions of George Crumb's string quartet Black Angels. This music has a way of getting under your skin and enhancing the unease the film already elicits.  The Exorcist could be seen just as a good vs. evil, demonic possession film or one about forcing women to suppress their sexuality in favor of a domineering religious patriarchy. Either way, it's a very well-known and often times feared film that will live on in infamy.

Powerful story I was anxious to watch this movie, thinking it would be the ideal movie to donate to my daughter's class. Such great actresses portraying important, intriguing historical characters. Hilary Swank and company was fabulous! My problem with the film? The director should have never filmed one scene. It was totally inappropriate. The story is about a strong-willed, intelligent woman who simply believed that all women should have an equal right to vote for those who represent them in the government of a country that was built on freedom and liberty. She was willing to stake her life on that belief. This is a woman that everyone should be proud of. Her strength and integrity was remarkable!  So, why did HBO and the director decide to degrade her? I'm really having a tough time understanding why it was necessary to show a scene of her bathing and masturbating? REALLY?? This woman was a Quaker. She was educated. She was young. She was single. She was fighting for her beliefs. The sexual nature of her being was her private business. The movie was not about her love life. This movie could have been fantastic. It could have been used a learning tool for all young people, showing them the importance of a single vote. Instead the director chose to degrade her character.  I am extrememly disappointed in the movie for not cutting that one scene.

Worth a Look, Though Hardly a Must "FALLEN IDOL," (1948).  This black and white, 95 minute British thriller is the second of the collaborations of Graham Greene, noted author/screenwriter, and director Sir Carol Reed, the other two being <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003ULW74S">The Third Man [Blu-ray</a>], and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001LMAK6A">Our Man in Havana</a>.  Here, Greene wrote the screen adaptation of his own story, THE BASEMENT ROOM.  The picture makes for interesting comparisons with the pair's THIRD MAN.  In FALLEN IDOL, Philippe (Bobby Henrey), a diplomat's 7 or 8 year old son, worships the household butler at London's French embassy, Baines (Ralph Richardson, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ERVJQ8">The White Countess</a>), who's regaled the boy with tales of his life's adventures. So, when Baines becomes implicated in a possible murder -- his shrewish wife has fallen to her death --Philippe will stop at nothing to protect his idol. This despite his own suspicions about the servant's guilt.  Screenwriter's and director's reflections on moral ambiguity were well-received at the film's release in 1948, and earned Reed an Oscar nod for Best Director, and Greene one for best screen adaptation.  Other notables in the cast include the beautiful French Michele Morgan (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00026L74U">Port of Shadows (The Criterion Collection)</a>) as Julie, Baines' love interest, and Dandy Nichols.  Jack Hawkins and Bernard Lee do well as investigating cops.  Graham Greene (1904-1991) was one of the most illustrious British writers of the 20th century. He enjoyed a very long life, most of the century, and a very long, prolific writing career.  I've read somewhere that 56% of Greene's works were made into notable films. The writer was also one of the better-known Catholic converts of his time; many of his thrillers, as this one, deal with Catholic themes of guilt and redemption. He created vivid characters with internal lives on the most fraught of the world's stages; his characters faced struggles and doubt. Sometimes his characters despaired, or suffered world-weary cynicism - they were always self-aware. But Greene always created a tight thriller, in a lean, realistic style that boasted almost cinematic visuals.  FALLEN IDOL is suspenseful, understated, and well-shot, giving us an accurate picture of London at the time.  It certainly can be compared to the work of Alfred Hitchcock, noted Anglo-American director of thrillers (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0783225849">Psycho (Collector's Edition)</a>,<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002W7J3SO">North By Northwest</a>).  Acting's good, though it's hard to believe Richardson and Morgan as a couple.  The picture boasts some excellent suspenseful scenes, such as the Baineses' fight at the head of the embassy staircase, or the flight through the embassy of a paper airplane made of a critical document.  The theme of a young child, usually foreign, left alone in a big house to be looked after by servants, has been a popular one in British fiction, going back at least as far as Charlotte Bronte's  JANE EYRE; Henry James also used it in THE TURN OF THE SCREW.  This doesn't seem to be a story that screamed for a movie version, but it's worth a look, though hardly a must.

"Proof is for judges and good whiskey." That quote is worth at least three stars.  This film about a small-time Irish debt collector (enforcer) turned hero in a David v Goliath battle against corrupt land developers is okay, if predictable. The forced intimacy with love interest Alison Doody is probably the worst thing going; the statuesque blonde is something to look at but she was rubbish acting in this. Nice local scenes of Ireland in the late 1980s. Mostly you will be watching Pierce Brosnan, fresh off <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00096S45S">Remington Steele</a> but still some years away from his second career apex. I found it interesting to see a pre-Bond Brosnan in a gritty role, as I appreciated when the 007 franchise finally moved in that direction with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0042C1BP0">Daniel Craig</a>.  Caught this on cable, so cannot speak to the merits of the fairly ancient (2000) DVD release.

Hugh Grant short changed I just finished reading the book and watching both this movie and the latest Masterpiece Theater... The book does not spend much time with Edward played by Grant.  He is hesitant and shy but it is implied that he opens up and becomes deeply engaged with Elinor- on a one to one with someone you are comfortable with, shyness largely disappates.  Well, except for the end in which he is charming, he portrays Edward as stuttering and almost buffoonish- and NOT someone attractive.  All they had to do was show them interacting and conversing and having intelligent interaction as couples who like one another do.  Edward had to be ultimately likeable and attractive for the story to work so this was extremely dumb and happened no doubt because the book has to be read carefully to infer the type of person that Austen intended for the story to make sense.  I would like to add that Dr. House- Hugh Laurie is brilliant as Mr. Palmer... brilliant comic relief!

Direct-to-video polarity! I don't know that I've ever encountered an action film with this long a list of both assets and liabilities.  So much to simultaneously revere and revile.  I'll try and keep my comments lean but I could describe factors from either category at great length.  The important thing to remember is that for a DTV release it's got some decent fights and looks pretty slick.  So if one doesn't enter this with high expectations a fun time should be had.  A young man named Casey (Scott Adkins, "El Gringo") has spent most of his life training in a Ninjutsu dojo after he was orphaned in Japan since adolescence.  His Sensei (Togo Igawa, "The Last Samurai") has picked him and fellow student Masazuka (Tsuyoshi Ihara, "Letters From Iwo Jima") as his two best pupils and one will be given the title of the Sensei's rightful successor to protect and maintain some ancient Ninja weapons and carry on the school's tradition.  While Masazuka is a born native of Japan and the more advanced student, the Sensei senses anger, pride and ambition in him, whereas Casey is deeply dedicated and possesses the preferred humble demeanor.  During competition for the promotion, Masazuka tries to kill Casey, prompting the Sensei to permanently kick him out of the dojo, adding to Masazuka's painful emotional tapestry with feelings of resentment and abandonment.  Later, when the Sensei learns of Masazuka's new job as an assassin for hire (GREAT dental plan), he sends Casey and his daughter, Namiko (Mika Hijii), to New York City to hide the weapons from Masazuka.  As a fan of martial arts films, I had not looked forward to this as a Ninja flick so much as I had another collabortation between director Isaac Florentine and actor Scott Adkins.  Their "Undisputed 2" is one of the best DTV martial-arts films I've ever seen.  Luckily for me, I had heard several groans of disappointment from many a member of the fu-community before I finally got my hands on it.  Taking their complaints to heart I ended up enjoying it quite a bit.  While still pretty good, the fights could've been WAY better and have some awkward problems.  The biggest being that until the last 20 minutes of the movie, Casey seems inexplicably restrained.  He eventually goes through an entire building of the same goons he can barely handle 2 or 3 of in earlier confrontations.  Also, Namiko, the daughter of the Sensei and a lifelong ninja-practitioner, has great difficulty handling herself in several scuffles.  On the plus side, Tsuyoshi Ihara does a fine job as Masazuka in all required ways.  The Ninja sub-genre has never been my favorite (though I've seen plenty) so perhaps I'm not qualified to comment on the actual Ninjutsu but I thought that the scenes of him sneaking around wasting dudes was pretty sweet.  Nice mix of old and new weapons, too.  Mika Hijii as Namiko is sweet and cute and, despite her character's flaws, is a considerable step-up as the feminine 3rd wheel in an action flick.  There are also some interesting little visual nods to films like "Sin City" and the anime-favorite "Ninja Scroll".  The DVD has good widescreen picture quality and no special features.  Oh, well. I have seen this now several times and still like it a lot but to recommend it creates some hesitation.  It avoids some cliches and dives head-first into others and if it still interests you after all of that it's probably for you, assuming you can handle when members of a global-level "secret" society wear matching jackets.  3.5/5  2009

confused A book would have been easier to review while traveling and show to a friend. The DVD is good for instruction.

OK, I'll make this simple... I'll make this simple folks.  I haven't seen the film, but I'm sure it rocks, as I even enjoyed TF2.  But here's the deal.  This is a bare bones release.  Standard 2D BD and DVD copy.  That's it.  If you're fine with that, go ahead and buy this cheaper version.  But if you're any at all interested in extra features and 3D (&lt;~ which I'm not, btw), then wait for the Deluxe Editions coming out in Q4.  In fact, this title was originally supposed to come out in Q4, but Bay decided to release this bare bones version for those who couldn't wait and aren't all that concerned with special features.  I don't go to the theaters anymore myself, so waiting years for film is nothing for me, so another couple months for the BD is no biggy for me.

Could have been great... The Dalai Lama is dear to my heart. I wish this great story could have been told without Brad Pitt. His acting, accent, and glam shots detracted from the experience for me.  I do, however, honor Brad for his many philanthropic endeavors.

Wasn't expecting that! This movie is okay for a low budget film. It has some hot/sultty girls for ghost hunters. It's 2 out of 3 star movie. I give it that rating because the girls do start showing nudity for people.  Minor spoiler:  I kind like how, the ghost was supposed to be a guy that molested young boys and then killed them. Well, I wasn't expecting this, but in the movie there is a young guy in the group of ghost hunters. He actually dare the ghost to get him and said "if he is here, I'm a young boy and I know that's what you like". Well, at the end of the movie, you see him being held up and his pants just come ripping off!!! Then, he is dragged to somewhere to the back of house by his legs. It looked really funny because he is on his belly and he is screaming for help, while his hands are on the ground forward and his legs are being dragged up backwards. This really seemed like some kind of ghost man prison raped scene to me. lol  Afterwards, the ghost seemed to kill the man and other ghost hunters. But, one person lived, but is missing. We don't know where that person is now. Then, the movie just ends.  I loved the comedy at the end. So, I wasn't expecting that at all.

Okay, but that's all This movie was okay for killing time when tv sucks, but I would not recommend it to anyone who is intolerant of long stretches where not much happens. It's pretty to look at, but the few "action" sequences turn out to be dreams and the plot little more than dull fantasy. It's not terrible, it's just....empty.

Bel Ami It was playfully created and had some funny parts to it. I love how the male has to learn his lesson after using all these women for his financial gain. There was only one who stood by him no matter what because she loved him and he broke her heart too. But in the end, he gets what he deserves and that is why I enjoy the ending so much.

World War 2 film about Russian resistance "Days of Glory" belongs to that unfortunate set of films (e.g., "The North Star", "Our Russian Front", "The Battle of Russia", "The Boy from Stalingrad", "Mission to Moscow", "Song of Russia") that glorified the Russian struggle against the Nazis in World War 2, and then got caught in the political winds of change during the Cold War, and quickly disappeared.  The film takes place in 1941 outside the Russian city of Tula where a group of Russian guerillas prepares for the counterattack against the Nazis. It was based on a story by Melchior Lengyel whose work formed the basis for "Ninotcha" (1939) and "To Be or Not to Be" (1942).  This was the film debut of Gregory Peck (1912-2003) who went on to become a film icon, ranked #12 on the AFI list of Greatest Male Actors. He won an Oscar for "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962) and was nominated 4 more times ("Twelve O'clock High", "Gentleman's Agreement", "The Yearling", "The Keys of the Kingdom"). He was nominated for an Emmy in 1998 for the TV film "Moby Dick" for which he won the Golden Globe. He had two other Golden Globe nominations ("The Boys from Brazil", "Macarthur").  FWIW - despite all his war films, Peck never served in the military, being classified 4F due to a spinal injury.  This was also the film debut of Russian ballet dancer Tamara Toumanova (1919-96) who plays (guess what?) a Russian ballerina. She made only 7 films including "Torn Curtain" in which she played a Russian ballerina. She married Casey Robinson, the producer on this film.  Husky Alan Reed (1907-77) also made his film debut, as one of the partisans. He's best known as the voice of Fred Flintstone, but he was a busy actor, best known for playing Pancho Villa in "Viva Zapata" (1952).  This was the first film as a producer/writer for Casey Robinson (1903-1979) whose main claim to fame was his 1935 Oscar nomination as the writer of "Captain Blood".  Director Jacques Tourneur (1904-77) is best known for his work on films with Val Lewton, like "Cat People" (1942), "I Walked with a Zombie" (1942), and "The Leopard Man" (1943). In the 50s he transitioned to TV. This was his first big budget film for RKO.  1944 was not a strong year for films. "Going my Way" was the big multiple Oscar winner.  "Gaslight" did well at the box office and won Ingrid Bergman an Oscar. Other notable films were Judy Garland's "Meet me in St Louis", "Double Indemnity", "Arsenic and Old Lace". War films were popular - "Lifeboat", "Since You Went Away", "To Have and Have Not", "Hollywood Canteen", "The Fighting Seabees", "Ministry of Fear", "Passage to Marseille", and "The Fighting Sullivans".  The NY Times called the film "artful but daring" and "grim and relentless" but disliked the heavy emphasis on dialogue rather than action, and called Peck's acting "stiff." Indeed Peck himself didn't like his performance and refused to watch the film.  Not only is the action sparse, the special effects are pretty meager. The film is clearly shot on a sound stage and there are very few on location shots.  Bottom line - an OK war film, but if you want to see a better film about the Russian struggle against the Nazis, try "The North Star".

Symbolism is all this movie is about regardless of what you think about conspiracy theories this move is full of it, Kubrick was definably sending a message in this movie, could never bring myself to purchase it, but now it is streaming free on amazon had to watch it and do a full once over on it, cocked full, Symbolism is all over the place.. if you cannot see this is built off a secret sociability sub culture based on power, then you should go back to watching reruns of romper room.

... I thought this movie was supposed to be scary! HA this movie cracked me up more than anything. I wasnt scared once, nothing made me jump. All I did was laugh. Worst one of them all!!

Poor Frankie Just do it! A mixture of shorts about Frankie. High camp although it could have been edited a little better. Still I enjoy watching it.

Not what I hoped for Is a principle worth the sacrifice of the greater good? What if the agent of that change is not who you thought they were? Questions regularly posed in politically-themed dramatic efforts and so posed in this latest offering from long-time Hollywood favorite George Clooney and the recent favorite of movie-goers Ryan Gosling.    Stephen Meyers (played by Gosling) is a veteran of numerous political campaigns and a revered media maestro. He's in a bitter contest seeking the Democratic Party nomination for his candidate. That being Mike Morris, the governor of Pennsylvania (played by George Clooney). Because of peculiar voting rules, his is most likely going to be defeated by Republican voters who are voting in their opponents' primary in hopes of seeing a weaker candidate that they could trounce in a general election. With another upcoming primary that, if won, could clinch the nomination. To win the latter contest, however, they would need to strike the kind of deal that the candidate refuses to make on moral grounds. All this is merely the foreground while the background is replete with backstabbing and illicit affairs.    I am not one of those who only recently heard of Gosling thanks to much-lauded efforts such as Blue Valentine, Drive, and Crazy, Stupid, Love. I have known of him since the independent 2001 film The Believer. And he is true-to-form here as a man who's greatest weakness is his faith in his leaders and purpose. Everyone, Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, are doing superior jobs in compelling roles. That said, my tastes run more toward films that show American politics closer to what we wish it was, not what it actually is. Dave, The American President, and The Contender to name three. This isn't that.

2nd Tier MGM Musical The idea of Brigadoon is lushly romantic; it's a shame the movie lacks the magic & romance of an emotionally engaging movie. Part of the magic is lost because, apparently due to budget limitations, the movie is filmed on a soundstage. This makes the film small...in every sense of the word. With the Scottish Highlands being as important a " character" as any of the people, it is a shame that the lush beauty of this land is diminished to a sound stage with obviously painted backdrops. So often while watching the film, I felt jarred by the fakeness of the sets. It prevents some viewers, like myself, from becoming immersed in the magical story. And, for a fantasy to work, one needs to be transported to that imaginary world. This simply doesn't happen here. Another reason that I was unable to connect emotionally to the movie is the lack of any character development. This is especially critical with the Gene Kelley-Cyd Charisse couple. It's hard to see the reason for an intense love occurring; plus, unfortunately, there is a lack of romantic chemistry between these two. Also jarring is the extremely bitter & cynical Van Johnson. With the exception of the marvelously whimsical soft-shoe duet that he performs with Kelley, this character seems to be too harsh a counterpoint to the sweetness of the townsfolk. And that's another problem, too: this supposedly magical place felt saccharine and one- dimensional. Finally, with the exception of "It's Almost Like Falling in Love," none of the songs are all that compelling. The dances fail to captivate, too: there's nothing like Fred Astaire's scorching firecracker number in "Holiday Inn," or the breathtaking Astaire-Rogers final duet in "Follow the Fleet." This lack spells trouble for any musical. You've got to have good singing and dancing in a musical. Otherwise, what's the point. There is, however, enough good to partially redeem some of the film's weaknesses. Some of the ensemble dancing is quite good; the schoolmaster is believably warm & wise, giving the story behind the miracle of Brigadoon credibility, the costumes are stunningly colorful and well- designed; and the inimitable Cyd Charisse graces the movie. Others have commented how little like a Scottish lass she appears. But the elegance and purity of her dancing more than overcomes this potential problem. On whole, then, this movie has some enjoyable moments. It simply lacks being one of MGM's finest.

A horrible twist ruins an otherwise flawless film *** This review contains spoilers. ***  Marie and Alex are college friends and go to Alex's family's country home to study for the weekend. After getting settled in and Alex and her family go to bed, Marie sees an old truck drive up the house. A person rings the doorbell and Alex's father is greeted with violence. The man kills Alex's whole family and takes Alex prisoner, while Marie struggles to keep the killer unaware of her and to find a way to free her friend. Will Marie save Alex or will she just become one of the killer's victims?  High Tension is a wonderful, fast paced, exciting horror film up until the twist ending. So right now, I'm going to pretend the ending doesn't exist. Marie is a very strong, resourceful woman, who subverts all the horror movie stereotypes about women. She doesn't run upstairs when she should run out the front door; she doesn't freeze with fear or turn into a blubbering idiot. The fact that she's a lesbian is even more impressive because they are rarely seen in horror except to include gratuitous scenes of nudity and girls kissing for the enjoyment of the stereotypically male audience. For most of the film, she avoids detection and tries admirably to free Alex from the Killer clutches and get help with stealth, speed, and intelligence. She is one tough heroine and a formidable match for the Killer, even though she's half his size. The Killer is insane and horribly disgusting. In his first seen, he throws a decapitated head out the of the window of his car after pleasuring himself with it. His sexuality is warped and taboo, deriving pleasure and humor from mayhem and murder. It becomes apparent that Alex is one in a series of victims that he's kidnap and killed, among other unimaginable things. His kills are creative, sadistic, brutal, and very bloody. His cat and mouse game with Marie is intense to watch, more than living up to the title of the film. When they finally come face to face, the fight is violent and desperate, then very confusing when the twist comes into play.  You might expect this film to be a strong woman triumphing over a grotesque male killer, but you would be wrong.  The M. Night Shyamalan-esque twist reveals that Marie and the killer are one and the same. The film is told through  her fractured mind and obviously most of it isn't real. After the twist occurs, this otherwise awesome film is reduced to a misogynistic and homophobic one that suggests that Marie is a serial killer because of her unrequited love for Alex. She removes anyone with any connection to her so they will never be separated. The killer's grotesque sexuality is now equated with her sapphic feelings. I would argue that fellating oneself with a severed head isn't equal to a woman's romantic feelings for another woman, but the film's message is clear. Not only does this complicate things conceptually, but it opens huge plot holes throughout the film, like where the truck came from, how Marie sustained the injuries she got from the car crash and the fight with the killer, and the list goes on and on.  High Tension is mostly a great horror film. Marie's crazy mind is a great story teller and I loved the film up to the twist ending. I'm so frustrated that the ending effectively ruins the entire film, but there you have it. I would recommend people to watch it with a disclaimer that I hate the ending.

FRED ZINNEMANN, OPUS 17 The Nun's Story lost 8 to 0 against William Wyler's Ben Hur during the 1959 Academy awards ceremony. No problemo, God was the winner after all. Curious how In both films, we also have a long scene with lepers but, in the Nun's Story, our Lord didn't make a miracle and allowed a devoted doctor to catch the disease. That's the whole difference between a blockbuster doomed to meet the larger possible audience and a film directed by an auteur (I didn't say that William Wyler wasn't an auteur). Recommended.

What's all the fuss? So a socially inept guy; screwed his friends for ambition. This is worth awards? It gets three stars because of camera, set design, editing and music. The story was passion-less along with the acting.

Minor Cult Classic of the "So Bad It's Good" Variety The 1940 THE DEVIL BAT was among the first and highest grossing films released by Producers Releasing Corporation, a "poverty row" studio created from the bankrupt Producers Distrubuting Corporation.  It would set a trend for the studio, which thereafter tended toward quick, cheap horror films levened with comedy.  But while THE DEVIL BAT wasn't nearly as bad as some of Bela Lugosi's films, neither was it anything to write home about.  Dr. Carruthers (Bela Lugosi) has been employed by the Heath family to create a line of cosmetics and such, and the product has been very popular.  Unfortunately, Carruthers did not buy into the business itself, and now he blames the Heath famly for his relative poverty and he despises their great wealth.  In order to exact revenge, he grows a giant bat and trains it to attack anyone wearing a special cologne he has developed.  Soon the members of the Heath family are being killed off one by one, and newspaper reporter Henry Layden (Dave O'Brien) and his photographer "One Shot" McGuire (Donald Kerr) are dispatched to get the story.  In theory, Lugosi supplies the horror and O'Brien and Kerr provide the comedy, but with the exception of Lugosi the cast is not greatly memorably and the Devil Bat looks something like a flayed turkey.  Even so ...  Most bad movies are simply that, bad, but now and then you encounter one that has an odd appeal, and such is the case with THE DEVIL BAT.  It would be another decade before Lugosi fell into the hands of Ed Wood, but the film has an Ed Wood quality about it, and it is goofy and awful and strangely endearing all at the same time.  THE DEVIL BAT fell into public domain a good many years ago, and there are numerous DVD prints of it--including one that has been restored and has a commentary by Lugosi Jr.  I can't speak to that one, for I've not seen it, but where this movie is concerned it is very much "buyer beware"--some prints are excellent, some are terrible, and you'll probably have to sort through several if you're after a really good copy.  GFT, Amazon Reviewer In Memory of Benny Surratt

Could be better If you want a good clean form of entertainment with no cursing, nudity, or violence then this qualifies. I appreciate this film for those reasons and will keep it in my collection.  However, the acting is terrible. I know this was a low budget film but couldn't they have hired people who can act? I can deal with the soundtrack, the sets, and the quality of the filming...BUT please hire people who can act!  I know people are upset with negative reviews but please let's be real. I didn't see this movie thinking it was going to have some life altering message. I just wanted to be entertained without being offended. On the basis of just being entertained this movie needed some work. I wasn't offended...well maybe I was offended by the acting... look the movie needs some improvements. So, stop thinking that anyone who gives it a bad review must be a pagan. People just know bad acting when they see it.

Disappointed , grainny picture quality I ordered this reg.B bd thought it for best picture quality, but instead below my expectation now I preferred dvd hopefully better pict. than this bd reg.B disappointed .

What A Shame... This seems to be happening a lot these days. Use to be when I saw that Robert Deniro was in a film it was guaranteed to be a great movie. Unfortunately that's not the case anymore. The concept of the film was great but the writers or director dropped the ball on this. I hate to see a great concept not follow through on screen. Without giving away too much. The first scene looked like it was going to be fun but all of a sudden the investigators just leave without exposing anyone. Too bad a great scene turned dud. Robert Deniro's acting was great but they didnt give him much to work with. Again bad writing and directing. Siggy was stellar.But what happened to her is stupid. I'd like to go into details but dont want to ruin the movie for those who want to watch it. Mr. Deniro, you need to stop taking roles in inferior written scripts. You were known for only taking part in great scripts, There are several movies you have been doing that are tarnishing your reputation. Anyway, I'd wait until the price drops on this dvd if your planning to buy it. What a shame a really good idea. I could have made this movie 100x better. Oh they put a part in this movie involving a man brought out on stage in a stretcher. Very bad idea. The thing Deniro did to the patient was actually done by an indian mystic years ago and he was exposed as a fraud and they showed everyone how the scam went. So by Deniro doing this I immediatley recognized it as a trick.

good movie. BUT... great movie, watched it a couple times before and i decided to buy it for my own home. problem- i bought this delighted thinking it had subtitles in Spanish as it says above in the description. nope. nothing. NADA. please correct the description. now im stuck with a movie my family finds boring because they dont understand, when i would have liked them to view and take in the important aspects the movie brings to the table.

Okay for those who don't want much action There are many long stretches of this movie in which nothing much happens besides trekking across the wilderness totally lost.  This would stop some viewers from watching the rest.  The basic plot is that three families are trying to migrate somewhere and their leader has gotten them lost.  They capture a Native  American who may or may not know where there is water, which they are running out of quickly.  What becomes of them is not totally clear. The ending is ambiguous at best.  It's more about mood and feeling than about action and plot.

Had potential I tend to be more forgiving of movies that many folks.  So, I was not worried about some of the negative reviews since I've enjoyed some mindless fare in the past. This one, I'm afraid was a bit lacking, as others have said.  The audience watching the tire didn't seem to add much.  The explanation at the beginning that some of the best things to happen in cinema have 'no reason' was fine for explaining 'why does a tire come alive?' but not for explaining what the point of the movie was.  The only point I could find was that the film makers wanted to see if a) they could make a tire seem alive, b) they could shoot any good camera angles, c) they could actually sell this piece of homework.  The Good: They did a great job in making the tire seem alive and not just rolled into frame.  This is why I say it could have been so much better if the story had been better or made any real sense.

Cars 2 ok, Cars 1 better! We enjoyed Cars 2, but comparing it with the first one, definitely enjoyed #1 for our kids. We thought the amount of bullets, missiles, fighting was a bit much for our son (4).  The pace of the first cars was definitely more his speed.

Fantastic Animation Remember when Gore Verbbinsky and Johnny Depp first got together and made Pirates of the Caribbean?  The first movie was so good, the second movie seemed like they started filming without finishing the script, and by the third film, it seemed like the camera was just rolling and nobody bothered at all.  Rango feels like the two of them were talking and said, "you know what we should do?  An animated film!"  and the other one said, "Yeah, let's make it a western. that will be cool."  But then, they never really got any further than that story wise.  To be fair, it's a bit more story than Pirates three, but not one that needed to be told.  There is a really odd scene where the entire town becomes zombie-like and starts a creepy line dance and no explanation is given as to why they acted that way.  Just more in-cohesiveness.  On the other hand, the animation is by none other than ILM and it's the best I've seen from anyone.  So, see it if you really like animation or if you really, really like Johnny Depp.  So it's not awful, but it's just not compelling either.

Great music, ghastly production I agree with the previous reviewer.  Some more details:  Gennaro, Lucrezia's hidden son, is very young, young enough to hop about while talking to Lucrezia, the beautiful lady he admires... in other words he is a restless innocent 14-year old.  But the role is played by Pavol Breslik, a fully grown man probably in his late thirties or early forties, as can be seen when he takes off his white shirt to wipe the blood from his scraped knee (being motherless, Gennaro cannot be expected to have a clean handkerchief in his pocket).  Result: he looks like an idiot!  Lucrezia has red hair, most of the time.  Toward the end of the opera, she suddenly appears in a long-haired white wig; she removes it during the scene (her red hair remains in place), then puts it back, for no apparent reason.  I assume there is a deep psychological or philosophical meaning to it... But no footnotes to explain.  At Princess Negroni's party, we see a girl sitting on a chair, staring in front of her.  She doesn't move; she doesn't sing.  She just sits.  The staging is DO IT YOURSELF! If a character is supposed to sit at a table, the singer appears carrying his own table, with a lesser character carrying the chair!  WARNING:  The booklet informs you that the same director, Christof Loy, is responsible for the staging of Roberto Devereux, also with Edita Gruberova.  That is another one I shall avoid, sight unseen!  I would also avoid her Norma:  there is no way a 65-year old woman can pretend to be the mother of "due pargoletti", two children under 10.  CDs are one thing, but DVDs and Blu-Ray discs should strive to look believable!  "Suspension of disbelief" applies to the plot, not to pretending that grandmothers have babies!

20+ year Love affair with movie hits stumbling block. I Love this movie.  I own the original VHS (when it was called "Warriors of the Wind") as well as the 'restored' DVD with new voice actors and added content (which cleared up the story a bit).  AND, on top of it, I also own the Manga series, so believe me when I say that I REALLY love this movie, and I'm an enormous fan of Miyazaki's.  Now the bad news... The 3 stars I am giving are NOT for the movie, but for the BluRay release.  I'm seeing a disappointing trend in BluRay titles regarding older titles.  I may be expecting too much, but if you're going to do something, do it right.  I was hoping the technical issues that were glaring on the DVD release (frame jitter, soundtrack dropout, etc..) would have been fixed or at least reduced in the BluRay version.  Or, as I said before, my expectation level is unrealistic and a complete restore is impossible.  I hope the latter is true, as I would hate to think that other great movies wouldn't get the effort they deserve when transfered to BluRay.  However, I do NOT regret purchasing this BluRay, and highly recommend fans of the movie to do so as well.  Why?  I want to see more of this genre on BluRay (at least the quality films), and lend my support when I can.  That being said, I hope 'Grave of the Fireflies' is next on the list.

Royal Whiners~ shallow, FLUFF~ a new cult classic no doubt~ PLOT: Lifetime FAST throw together tale~  that attempts to show the romance of William Prince of Wales and Kate Middleton.  Nico Evers Swindee~(PRINCE WILLIAM) vaguely looks like him~ who starts his college years at Saint Andrews in Scotland. the girls toss themselves at William his first days at the college where everyone signs privacy decree to maintain Williams privacy. There is humor here in the BORING art class where the main "draw" is the prince. At Christmas William is seen whining to Prince Charles (BEN CROSS) how "miserable" he is and how he misses the city. A friendship builds between Camilla Luddington (KATE MIDDLETON)~ and Willam and a group of FRIENDS get a large aparment together. After a FASHION show where a sexy skimpy outfit has William seeing the sexy side of Kate. Soon the couple are sneaking in and out of each others bedrooms. When Kate is invite to a "Royal Event" and ignored by William the first crack in their relationship. Kate is soon mingling with the Royals. Williams serinade to Kate in a very off key voice is more sad than romantic. Kate is suddenly in a media frenzy as Williams new "girlfriend". This goes the whole way with the UPS and downs of the romance including catty friends. the first mention of Love is when William and Kate share a cottage their last year at Saint Andrews. this moves along fast to gloss over the nearly 10 years of relationship. The Press stalk Kate ruthlessly. Charles comes across as cold and unfeeling as he turns down Williams request for bodyguards for Kate. the ONLY real english accent comes from VICTORIA TENNANT~ who shows Kate "royal protical"~. William pushes Kate away and they officially break up. time apart makes William reflect on what he has lost. when he finally gets around to call Kate she is "busy"~ (LOL!) "best ACTED scene" in the entire movie is Charles and William discussing the life of Diana his mother~ too bad they waited to ADD a GREAT scene in the last 10 minutes.The ending is worth the watch as William finally tracks down Kate to show how much he missed her and loves her.  and finally the "surpise" proposal in Africa.  this was filmed entirely in Los Angles. the FAST project was packaged and ready in under 3 months. Nico Evers Swindee is very likeable as William. Ben Cross has Prince Charles voice down "perfect" and gives him a cold image in this film. Camilla Luddington is lovely.  All the Royals are portrayed as shallow and sometimes whiners. I LIKED IT. WORTH WATCHING ONCE~ I GIVE IT THREE OUT OF FIVE. WRITTEN LIKE A TELL ALL BOOK~ AT TIMES SO BAD IT IS GOOD~ no doubt a modern cult classic.

Liz Plays a Wicked Witch--and It's Boring Warner Archive brings us another of Elizabeth Montgomery's CBS TV-Movies in a Manufacture-on-Demand DVD-R with 1993's "The Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story".  The fullscreen print looks great but this is a rather lacklustre production. Liz's character is a middle-aged, lower-middle-class Southern widow who has become bored with her boyfriend and slowly begins poisoning him so she can profit from his death and take up with the new minister in town. It's not long before her cycle of murder starts all over again.  I'm a big "Bewitched" fan and my favorite Liz movie is "The Legend of Lizzie Borden" but by this time the novelty of her playing wicked characters has worn off, and the script is rather dull. We just have one scene after another; there's no real suspense here or investment in any of the characters. The best moments occur when Liz confronts her boss at a discount store about his sexual harrassment of her co-worker and when she sits at the bedside of a terminally ill friend played by Grace Zabriskie.  For completists who want to see and own every film she's ever done. The more casual Liz fans should skip this one; it's nothing special and not a very satisfying watch. If you still want it, check the price at the Warner Archive site first; I got mine for much less than what's being charged here.

Was it necessary? Not that the movie wasn't enjoyable, but it was almost like watching a motion-comic. The dialog, and animation was basically the same as the original comic, which I'm sure many will appreciate. But I don't mind a little different interpretation in movies like these. It's fun to see someone's take on a literary masterpiece like Bat-Man Year 1. I don't think there's any real need for a movie that follows the comic in every exact detail, but if you prefer to watch a book opposed to reading it you'll enjoy this movie.

LAKE PLACID THIS FILM WAS ENTERTAINING BUT NOT SERIOUS ENOUGH TO BE CALLED A HORROR FILM EXAMPLE; LIKE JAWS. BUT TO UNDERSTAND THE TWO SEQUELS YOU NEED TO VIEW OR PURCHASE THIS ONE TO MAKE THE PIECES FALL TOGETHER AND MAKE SENSE. I REALLY ENJOYED THIS FILM BECAUSE I LIKE ANY HORROR FILM THAT COULD HAPPEN OR HAS HAPPENED IN REAL LIFE. THE FILM WAS CONVINCEING AND NOT TO GRAPHIC. SO IF PURCHASED IT IS NOT A TOTAL WASTE OF MONEY. "ENJOY"

3 1/2 stars for a technically well made film While there's not much new here in terms of a story (pretty much just two warring tribes), it is told with great visual and aural effect.  In particular the movie was made for 3-D which I didn't see unfortunately.  There is plenty going on in the subwoofers and surround speakers which is also nice.  Set in a fantasy world where air space is controlled by 2 sets of owls.  The bad guy owls aka, "the pure ones" are Nazi-like, capturing young owls, then brainwashing them into doing their evil deeds.  The good guy owls have dealt with this band before.  Thanks to two young owls who escape, the two sides re-engage with warfare.  The battle scenes are very good, although with a PG rating we don't see much of the good stuff.  Watch it for the technical aspects and some excellent voice work.

More information please reviewers. Please , when reviewing a movie , how about stating which studio made the disc.There are 2 different versions of this dvd and it would be nice to know which one is the more worthwhile buying.

The Basis of the Movie (Possible spoilers ahead.) I loved the Broken Trail movie and I read the book to learn more about the characters. The book explains Print Ritter's past and his thoughts and dreams. Author Alan Geoffrion says much less about Tom Harte, the bachelor cowhand who was disinherited in his mother's will. Tom does more in the movie than in the book, but the book has more information about his relationship with Number Three, Sun Foy. Henry "Heck" Gilpin, the fiddle-playing Virginian, is from Pennsylvania in the book. He plays a larger role in the movie.  Geoffrion also wrote the movie screenplay, and sometimes the book seems like an early draft of the screenplay. Much of the movie dialogue is in the book, but many events and some characters and their fates were changed for the movie. In the movie, "Big Rump Kate" Becker hires horse thief Big Ears Bywaters to bring back the young Chinese women. In the book, however, Big Ears and Kate do not know each other, nor does Big Ears know Nola Johns.  I disliked Geoffrion's use of phonetic spelling, e.g., "I got this idea ta take horses back to Wyoming." He has said that he is working on a prequel and a sequel. They will be worth checking out.

Sometimes "Aw Shucks" Cute Is Not Enough Babies unreels the first year of life of four new members of the homo sapiens tribe.  From Namibia to Mongolia to Japan to the USA, the babies are adorable, naturally, and fun to watch as they begin to develop their personalities,  which remain remarkably consistent three years later when, in a bonus feature on the DVD, the film maker visits the four families three years later.  They poop, throw small tantrums, get into slightly dangerous fixes, and learn to stand and, in some cases, walk.  But, for me, Babies relies too much on gorgeous exterior shots of Mongolian open space and feels awfully long despite being under 80 minutes.  Think of it as a home movie times four that proud parents sit their guests down to over after-dinner coffee.

Somewhat butchered Check the Internet Movie Database where these episodes are listed as lasting 120 minutes.  PBS has chopped them down to 90 minutes although some sources claim ONLY 10 minutes has been hacked off.  It was particularly noticeable in Fearful Symmetries where the episode seemed so badly edited that it was at that point that I decided to see if it had originally been longer.  Yes, it had. It is a pity that the original is not available. Very disappointing. Amazon Prime only gives the 90-minute version. PBS and Amazon both ought to do better.

Twisted It's a weekend movie, for sure not a full price ticket. It's somewhat original and it will keep you entertained but overall it fills like the old and predictable.

Glad they made it.... Was happy to see the gang back together...even if they are getting older. Movie is interesting, and we do learn something on agent K. The younger version of K acted by Josh...is very entertaining....good acting...lots of fun. I already have the first 2 and this one completes the collection.

little value added First positives:  the meeting of private Zoller and Mme Mimieux is a masterpiece, as well as the lunch with Goebels.  I saw these scenes umpteen times courtesy of incessant replying at dish network and I firmly stay behind saying it's outstanding on all levels.  Also, the long first chapter, entirely owned by Waltz who has clearly been brilliant all along, comes across very well first few times.  Everything else is highly dubious, that is 75% of the movie.  Tarantino enjoys in engaging dialogues and stories that connect various roles in the movie but here this all comes mostly disjointed with some absurdly stupid developments at the end of the movie.  Pitt is completely lost in his role because it is so hopelessly written, nothing to do with him.  Tarantino's propensity for violence is worrying on a medical level, nothing to do with art, some of the scenes are not far from products of a troubled mind.  Overall, this picture enjoys such fame and attention mostly due to being made by QT - otherwise, I guess the critique would be a great deal harsher.  Way behind his best works.

Gore filled! For those complaining about the first one not having enough, watch this one! This was just so distasteful. It was a good movie if you plan on being a stalker/killer. The ending has many questions to it, but I guess we will find out in the third movie. As they say for the sickest movie ever, for me yes, but I doubt that it is the sickest ever.

good movie...so-so DVD quality. If you love Italian comedy, this is a must see. Edwige Fenech was stunning in this movie. The only problem is the DVD quality not very sharp but acceptable. It's much better than lots of products transfered from VHS.

Just okay My son and I had just watched the first Iron Man movie a few weeks ago and we both really liked it. I've never been a fan of Downey, but he really fits the character.  We tried this second installment and neither my 10 year old or I were really impressed. Mickey Rourke, although quite creepy even outside of the film, was a great bad guy. But Don Cheadle was not very impressive and the dynamic just wasn't there, in my opinion. Even the story seemed a little phoned in compared to the first movie.  The special effects were cool and the simulated technologies in the movie were also amazing. That said, we felt the movie started to wear on us about half way through and can only give it 3 stars.

Could have been more This movie started out with a lot of potential. You have a group of kids that are unfairly victimized by various bullies - for example, Emily is bullied by the popular girls while a few of the guys are being picked on by the jocks and preppies. These kids get together and decide to plan revenge on all the kids who are mean to them. And believe me, some of the bullies are MEAN - they go so far as to destroy one of their victim's cameras just because they can.  So the victims decide to host a party. The ending is foreshadowed at the beginning with a short clip of what happens after the party (centering on one of the former bullies) before going back to the events before the party, where one teacher is giving a history lecture on how the Han Dynasty would sometimes punish its opponents not with death but with disfigurement - something that the bullies' victims take to heart.  I gave this story 3 stars because while it was tight in some parts, it started to unravel in some other parts. I felt extremely disappointed when the Indian kid was turned onto by his friends simply because he tried to help one of the others escape (he was not invited to the party because he was to be 'spared', but showed up nonetheless) That to me just did not work in this story. However, this is still a story worth watching. You cannot help but feel that the bullies are getting what is coming to them, especially if you yourself have been a victim of bullying in your life, and some of the punishments (especially to the really mean, tough jock) are rather fitting for their offenses.  The movie is very dark, even for the victims themselves, but is still an interesting one to watch. It would be nice if we had more movies about bullying victims taking revenge rather than movies about serial killers who torture innocent people, because if someone has to get hurt, then I'd like to see them deserve it.

returned This product was only returned because my son felt that it may be too beginner for what he was looking for.

Wanders Around and Mildly Entertains This movie seemed like it was longer than its 123 minutes runtime; it seemed just to go on and on and not get anywhere. We watched it all the way through but I checked it a couple of times just to see how much was left to watch.  I'm fond of both leads, Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst both had some strong moments but these were too few and too far between to carry the movie. The role of the mother, played by Susan Sarandon, was overdone and extreme and really didn't make an appreciable contribution to the progress of the story.  This is one to rent first to see if you like it; some of the reviews were very enthusiastic and I'm happy for them. We'll likely never watch this one again.

Enjoyable Movie: Should I call it tragic or comic? I was thinking about giving it 4 stars, but somehow did not feel like it--mostly because it missed few opportunities to be profound. The acting was good, and despite slapstick comedies and graphic, raw violence, the movie was successful enough to show brutality, absurdity, and paradox of war, where in reality nobody is actually a victor. what I find most praiseworthy how the producer was able to shift between comedy/tragedy and action. You don't have to watch it though. Enjoyable? Yes. Highly recommend? Probably not.:-)

Sacketts, Conagher, Catlow This Louis L'Amour Collection was a Christmas gift for my husband.  We watched the movies and were pleased with The Sacketts and Conagher.  We did not care for Catlow.  For such good movies as The Sacketts and Conagher,the collection deserves a better third movie.  Usually Yul Brenner movies are pretty good, but we were disappointed with Catlow.

Truncated version! Nobody seems to have mentioned it here, but this Criterion edition is the 'international' version.  at 160 minutes (Amazon has listed the wrong running time as usual) it is missing a staggering 22 minutes of footage.  The original Japanese version can be found if you do the research. The Region 2 dvd from "Masters of Cinema" is the full-length version, and it is even a better transfer!  When buying films like this I always do my research, as many Asian films have shorter versions for international films.  Very disappointed in Criterion; they are usually great, but they really dropped the ball for this title.

so so ok if u like alien movie, didnt really hold our attention, no a realy big rating from us, sorry i bought it

Not the best movie A very interesting movie, with a lot of symbolism. I had to see it at least 3 times in order to find the meaning of many scenes. It etertains you, but can be boring for the people who doesn't love cult o art movies.

shame on the History Channel The main problem I have with this documentary is the following:  I believe the History Channel should be ashamed of themselves for portraying George Washington as an ambitious, calculating and even incompetent man.  Where much documentation exists of people testifying to Washington's humility and general desire to be a Virginian farmer as opposed to a politician, they dismiss this... even insinuate that his "pretended" sense of duty was some great plan for military and political ambition.  They mentioned nothing of his connection to "Providence"... how he prayed regularly- and was seen so doing- nor how he insisted that his men prayed also.  They've taken a humble, great man and tried to turn him into something completely different.  If you'd like a true picture of this wonderful, God-inspired man, please read the following book:  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0880800143">The Real George Washington (American Classic Series)</a>.  Secondly, the discs have a tendency to freeze; so they are not of the highest quality.

Despite a Stellar Trio of Stars, Brooks Sags This Time Around with a Meandering Triangle Yarn Somewhere hidden in this overlong, often exasperating 2010 comedy is a small-scale independent film about flawed characters trying to take charge of their lives when they really never had the control to begin with. That more intimate movie is the one I wanted to see, but veteran director/screenwriter James L. Brooks (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001IXXYC4">Terms of Endearment</a>) appears focused on showing the messiness of their lives by adding incidental characters and overinvolved subplots that do little to enrich the romantic triangle at the story's heart. This approach could have worked better as a TV series where you would have a reason to come back every episode, but I think Brooks makes a fundamental mistake in thinking that such an approach works over a two-hour running time because the emotional payoff feels marginal. That's not to say the movie isn't smart, insightful, and funny in its scattershot way, but it's just too unwieldy to love.  Similar to the structure of Brooks' <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0047P5FVS">Broadcast News</a>, the meandering plot focuses on 31-year-old Lisa Jorgenson, a popular career softball player who suddenly gets cut from the Team USA roster. Cast adrift from her one passion in life, she starts dating Matty Reynolds, a self-indulgent A-Rod-type pro baseball player with a classic case of Peter Pan Syndrome. In this tenuous situation comes George Madison, a financial executive who first alienates Lisa by giving her a courtesy call just to tell her he is seeing someone else. However, his world comes crashing down when he becomes the target of a criminal investigation for corporate malfeasance at a company run by his conniving tycoon father Charles Madison. George's shallow girlfriend dumps him, so he calls Lisa for what turns out to be a disastrous blind date. At the same time, they haphazardly bond over their respective misfortunes just as Matty tries to acquit himself of his selfish, womanizing ways. The romantic triangle is set up for further complications until the eventual resolution.  The stars perform admirably under the circumstances. In Lisa, Reese Witherspoon finds a role that accommodates her likeable steeliness with a gently probing vulnerability. Playing Matty, Owen Wilson comes across more predictably amusing as the supreme man-boy so proud of his glimmers of maturity that he has to announce them out loud to Lisa. Paul Rudd probably fares the best of the trio as George simply because he has that schlubby everyman demeanor down to an art, and there is a flattering hint of Jack Lemmon circa 1960 in his performance. Jack Nicholson returns in his fourth role in a Brooks film, this time playing the subsidiary role of Charles with his mastery of sleaze intact. Kathryn Hahn portrays George's loyal and very pregnant assistant Annie in a little too broad a manner for the company she keeps here, but my guess is that Brooks encouraged her to play it that way in order to provide a striking contrast with the introspective workings of the principal characters.  Considering the film's disappointing box office returns, the 2011 DVD offers a surprisingly abundant set of extras - a decent audio commentary by Brooks and cinematographer Janusz Kaminski plus a select scenes commentary with Brooks and Wilson obviously focusing on the actor's scenes as Matty; four deleted scenes; a quick blooper reel; and a fifteen-minute making-of featurette. The Blu-Ray adds an interactive script gallery; a conversation with Brooks and composer Hans Zimmer; more deleted scenes with more Brooks commentary, and another featurette focused on Rudd's character.

Different than the previous movies, but still good Finally got around to watching this movie.  It's more violent than the previous trilogy and feels darker - not because of the plot events, since a lot of bad things also happened to the characters in the first trilogy; but the fantasy element is diminished in this one, so I found the dark stuff more disturbing.  It was really interesting to see Wolverine's past in such detail, and it explains a lot about how he came to be the character he is in the trilogy.  The acting ability of the kids in this movie leave something to be desired, but the story almost makes up for it.  I really liked seeing Scott as a high schooler.  Gambit was cool, though I wish the story had involved him more; his personality also seemed a bit off from how I've seen him in the comics - the film version didn't have a cheeky sense of humor.  [SPOILER (if you don't know much about the X-Men comics)] I _really_ liked Wade and was therefore absolutely HORRIFIED at what they did to him to turn him into Deadpool. I did some research afterward (I'm pretty new to the X-Men universe) and discovered that the way they portrayed Deadpool in this movie is barely even similar to how he's supposed to be in the comics, and that they're working on a version of Deadpool for future movies where he's more like he's supposed to be and not some poor tortured Frankenstein monster.  That was a relief. [END SPOILER]  Anyway, my overall thought is that even though this movie is a bit too dark and violent for my taste, I still enjoyed it.  Some (though not all) audiences will like it better than the original trilogy.

Nothing new here I have really enjoyed Liz Curtis Higgs' Scottish historical series, so thought I'd give one of her earlier, non-fiction books a try.  I don't know exactly what I was expecting -- some new insight into Mary Magdalene, I suppose -- but overall I was disappointed.  Although Higgs doesn't lack for writing skill, it was the tone of the book that put me off more than anything.  The first two-thirds of the book is called "The Story", where she translates the story of Mary Magdalene into a modern-day setting (even translating the Biblical characters' names into modern versions).  It was a good idea -- Mary is a severely depressed woman driven to near madness by loneliness and grief over her divorce and her daughter's suicide, who exhibits many of the traits we typically connect with the mentally deranged:  poor hygiene, filthy living conditions including numerous cats, etc.  And there were some passages, namely those dealing with the inner thoughts and feelings of Mary and Jake (her pastor who is the modern-day version of Jesus) when each is alone, that were thoughtful and well-done.  However, the majority of "The Story" dealt with Jake and the members of his fledgling inner-city church, and was comprised of their interactions and conversations, and these were the parts that rankled.  Every conversation was filled with teasing and wisecracks -- one of Jake's congregants even talks back to him while he's preaching.  And one old man, who doesn't feel Mary belongs in their church (and who was obviously supposed to be a modern-day embodiment of the Biblical Pharisees), is so openly hostile that I found it overdone to the point of ridiculousness.  The whole thing didn't feel the least bit realistic to me, but rather reminded me of the exaggerated conversations and interactions that you see on a television sitcom (or, at least, what I remember of TV sitcoms, since it's been over 25 years since I've watched one).  After about 60 pages I'd had enough and skipped to the last part of the book, "The Study."  This is the part where Higgs expounds on the Biblical account of Mary M. and, unfortunately, here too I was disappointed.  First of all, because unless you are brand-new to the Bible I don't think there's going to be anything here you don't already know.  In a nutshell, it is this:  1) there are three Biblical women (Mary Magdalene, Mary of Bethany, and the unnamed sinner woman who anointed Jesus' feet with her alabaster box of ointment) whose stories are typically all lumped together as Mary Magdalene's.  However, they are three separate and distinct women, and the only thing that we definitely know about Mary M. is that Jesus cast seven demons out of her; 2) Mary M. became a devout follower of Jesus, a female disciple as it were, who almost never left his side until after his death on the cross; 3) given her prominence in Scripture it is likely she was a woman of influence and means; 4) she did NOT have sexual relations with Jesus.  Aside from the disappointment at not learning anything new about Mary, in the second part of the book I was also put off by Higgs' tone.  While others may like the constant use of "girlfriend, " "honey," "babe" and "sister," I am totally turned off by it.  It doesn't make me feel one bit more connected to the writer, but rather felt like I was being talked to by a sassy, bleach-blonde, gum-chewing truck stop waitress.  All a writer has to do to connect with me is to probe beneath the surface and touch my heart; sassy epithets are not necessary.  I have one more of Higgs' "Bad Girls" books to try; if I am not more satisfied with it, I will give up on her non-fiction and stick to her Scottish fiction.  She does really well with that, and has another one coming out soon (I hope!).

Chrystal blue persuasion This is a Standard disaster formula story with the standard disaster formula characters and the obligatory premise introduction. Yep we destroyed the ozone it was the only thing protecting us from the coldest place on earth (fifty to a hundred kilometers above), well maybe with the exceptions of Jack's wife (Alexandra Davies) and Jack's brat (Indiana Evans.) Now toss in an eclipse and only Jack Tate (Michael Shanks) sees the "hole" problem and hopefully the solution.  In the end will they listen to jack's solution? In the end will they learn to work with Mother Nature? In the end will Jack's cutie co-worker, Zoe (Saskia Hampele) get Jack or be left out in the cold? Will we ever get tired of these mediocre disaster movies? (Not me)

Beter movies To whom it may coner,    It was a good funny movie. But it wasnoting abot the boy in the movie like it said.  Thnk you  Peter

Improved Quality Overall Disk itself Poor Quality I bought this for a parent who enjoyed the original and also watched it on a VCR. I thought I'd get this version because the colors and pictures would be improved from any other version as this was Blu-Ray. I did note that the disk was especially lite in weight when I opened the case, but it went right in and started playing. The colors were much better than the VCR version, but the sound not so much. It was difficult to understand the conversations on the river. Then it happened, the picture froze, and I tried all the usual ways to move it along. It would not restart. At that point I experienced a computer type freezing problem, the player (LD)would not turn off. I could not get the disk out. I had to pull the plug and let it rest. Even when I started it up 24 hours later, it was trying to work with the disk and made noises. This time though I got it to eject. I tried another movie in the player and it was perfect.  I believe it was the poor quality of this disk, it could have just been my disk; I'm glad I got it at a "deal" price but would think twice about ordering any other title from these folks.

Don't listen to your son-in-law I am a Val Kilmer fan and my son-in-law told me what a good movie this was so I bought it. Actually, it was very juvenile, but I still enjoyed Val.

Like Somebody Forced Gaspar Noe to Make Something For Troma. I watched this movie last night after hearing all the hype and reading 1 star review after 1 star review. Sure, the core message parallels that of "Natural Born Killers": Western society/culture is destroying itself via the media & mass entertainment outlets. Thing is, the shocks are pretty much the only reason to watch it because the quality of everything but the prop, make-up, & art departments suffers due to a laughable script, so-so acting, a conventional music score & sound by the sound department (a few of the "gross-out" sounds worked though), and the lighting department did a so-so job. I'm a film buff/elitist, whatever you want to call it; I notice flaws and they bug me--that's just my taste & opinion.  I know lots of people go for these types of horror flicks that are more concerned with the shock factor than the little things that add up to a well-made film; to each her/his own. Funny thing is, after the 1st few shocks I became desensitized towards the barrage of sickness, enough so that I began to find the film funny, like a blacker-than-black black comedy. The edge of realism they tried for turned into surrealism. That surrealistic feel surrounding the gore works against what (I believe)was the film-maker's goal: to have the movie as a whole be like a slice-of-life gone terribly wrong. Instead of making me feel genuine emotion towards the characters and their situations, that surrealistic edge gave me enough SAFE distance from them that I could step back from what I was seeing and think critically. If they could have found ways to remove that safety blanket between the gore scenes, so that I was tethered to the story enough to be unable to step back for a breather, I would've been deeply repulsed for the movies full duration instead of chuckling and shaking my head.  The film-makers were obviously attempting to create a meaningful, realistic film with an important message, but due to the over-all lack of professionalism (exceptions to all involved in the amazing work with the gore)the movie goes from being a potentially important and artistic statement to falling flat as another typical shock flick that, while upping the ante on the limitations of pervasive gore, stays grounded as just another movie in the Netflix "Horror" genre because it, surprisingly enough, didn't take technical chances in how it was made to match the chances it took with the limits of gore. The script could've been helped greatly by running it through maybe 3-4 more drafts.  All-in-all, "A Serbian Film" should be called "A Serbian Movie" or "A Serbian Horror Flick", because, unfortunately, those involved in its creation obviously placed all of the emphasis of their talents on the shock factor of the gore alone, versus putting in the time and effort to make the other aspects of the film stand tall with the blood & guts. A tripod falls down every time if it only has one leg fully telescoped. HOWEVER--if you get past the technical misfirings (if that sort of thing even bothers you at all)you'll probably appreciate this movie for the risks the people involved took (everybody whose name is attached to this movie will find their reputations forever changed, for better or worse);or, like me, you'll end up enjoying it as something outlandishly gross to watch a few times (don't see myself watching it more than once more on my own--too many better films to digest),or a "shock token" to show friends or bring to parties to witness the certain gross-out reactions. Hey, I can admit that it's FUN at least!

Post-apocalyptic western vampire hunting "Priest" is a post-apocalyptic western, in the vein of movies like "Mad Max" and "The Book of Eli" and video games like Fallout and Borderlands. Only it has vampires instead of mutants, motorbikes instead of horses, and the Catholic church instead of the law. In a time when vampires sparkle and Western movies are rare, Priest's premise has an uphill battle to win audiences over.  The story begins with a flashback to Priest (Paul Bettany) recruited by sheriff Hicks (Cam Gigandet).  Priest's brother Owen (Stephen Moyer) was mortally wounded in a vampire attack.  The brothers' relationship is complicated -- they shared a love interest in Shannon (Madchen Amick), Priest's former lover and Owen's wife, who died in the attack.  Only Priest's niece, Lucy (Lily Collins), survived.  In the "Priest" universe vampires are skittering, drooling, faceless monstrosities -- just jaws and fangs.  They turn humans into subservient "familiars" to guard their hives.  These vampires are more like "Aliens'" xenomorphs, complete with a queen and hive guardians.  The Priests are the equivalent of Dungeons & Dragons-style paladins, deadly monastic warriors capable of laying waste to vampires.  Priest cannot simply act on his own but mask for permission from the Clergy, who deny his request. Priest goes against the wishes of Monsignor Orelas (Christopher Plummer) to track down Lucy, Orelas sends Priests to track down Priest. The Priests are led by Priestess (the delectable Maggie Q, subdued here). Whew, that's a lot of Priests. Get all that?  The villain turns out to be a guy called Black Hat (Karl Urban).  That's it.  That's his name.  Black Hat.  He's a familiar who was once a Priest.  Secrets about Lucy and Black Hat are revealed, vampires are killed in slow-mo 3D, and it all culminates on a battle atop a moving train.  As a post-apocalyptic setting, "Priest" is a little too bland to distinguish itself.  The vampires come across as animals incapable of plotting anything so sinister as to be a threat to the Church hierarchy and since we never see them communicate we have to take Black Hat's word for it.  Black Hat is a typical vampire sans sunburn, which sets him apart in the "Priest" universe but not in the vampire genre.  Artistically, this is probably the closest the monolithic hierarchy of Warhammer 40,000 will ever be seen on the big screen. "Priest's" comic roots are clear in the design of everything from the sprawling metropolises to the tattooed cross on each Priest's face.  As an engaging film, "Priest" is far too interested in balletic shots of people getting shot.  Seeing the film at home is disappointing because it's obvious the movie was meant for 3D and a good 30 percent of what happens on screen is meant to be viewed in that fashion.  Without those special effects, "Priest" falls flat.  As a Western, "Priest" hits all the right notes.  From the aforementioned train battle to riders using lariats to take each other down to good old fashioned shootouts, "Priest" wears its dusty heritage on its sleeve.  This was likely lost on the audience looking for vampire fights.  Still, "Priest's" setting, it's fatalistic mood, and a man on a bloody quest for vengeance will be appealing to those who enjoy post-apocalyptic westerns.  All three of us.

Ocean's Eleven on Steroids One of the better of the F&F series, but it's like watching Ocean's Eleven (2001) on steroids. Plenty of action, but more shoot 'em up than the rest of the series. I guess you got to have lots of shooting with "The Rock" in a movie. Probably in his contract. Anyhow it's fast and bloody, so it will be a big hit. Look forward to the next one, since the ending shows a tease about who comes back from the dead next time.  Nothing else to say that already hasn't been said. Good movie, but not fantastic.

Pretty Funny! This was an ok movie! But it was not nearly as funny as I thought it would be! The Hangover all though not related to this movie, as everyone thinks. Was alot better and had alot more laughs!! And the classics like Plains Trains And Automobiles, The Great Outdoors, The Great Race. They will never be outdone by these newer comedy's. It was worth watching just to say you have seen it. But if you need a really good laugh. Don't expect this flick to make your eyes tear up and your sides hurt!!!

IMAGE DVD!!!!! The print on this Image DVD is quite good.  But they really screwed up big time by not including the color footage for the ending of the film.  Look for the hidden trailers.

Great movie - beware download restricted This is a great movie. Beware however that the digital copy can only be downloaded in the USA or Canada. If you do not live in one of these countries you will not be able to download the digital copy, so just buy the regular DVD instead.

Great Potential The setting has such promise, unfortunately I could get little sense of the story line since it seemed to be tangled in all the action. I will watch the first bits, but if Copper doesn't have substance it will end up in the 'Oh well' can.

A great series - does The Complete Collection do it justice? Everyone has said everything that can be said about LOST. A great television series and that's that. I want to talk about the features of the Complete Collection.  Lost: The Complete Collection comes with an assortment of neat little collector items, albeit, not in very high quality. The Senet game pieces are ordinary rocks and plastic pieces. The Ankh doesn't look anything like what is pictured, although it pulls apart to reveal a secret message. The Blu-ray guide is very high quality. Judging from the image of the "Island replica," one could expect the replica to have some degree of 3D contours of the Island's surface - it doesn't. A blacklight was included, but I haven't had a chance to investigate the contents of the Complete Collection with it just yet.  The case for the discs is larger than normal. It will stand out in your Blu-Ray collection. To some people, that doesn't matter - to others (like me) it does. The texture of the case is grainy and calls up the impression of limestone ruins. Each of the individual seasons pulls out of the case in a single sleeve. The discs are secured in a paper fold of the season sleeve, cut to fit each disc. This is the biggest and most glaring drawback- the disc storage is abominable, but still better than the storage used for version one of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001993Y2C">Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series (with Collectible Cylon) [Blu-ray</a>]. The disc rests on paper, with no plastic rings to elevate the disc and secure the read surface from damage.  LOST is a fantastic show. The three-star review does not reflect the quality of the show, rather, the quality of the product. The average-ness of extras such as the Senet game, the Ankh, or the black light are meh, and whatever, I can get over that. I bought The Complete Collection for the show. The discs for the show are stored in such a terrible and haphazard manner that it seems like too much thought went into designing a cool-looking box.  Over all, I'd say I'm content with my purchase, but I'm also pretty disappointed as well.

City of the Living Plot Holes The plot was pretty wild, a priest hangs himself and it opens up a portal to hell on Halloween.  Not the kind of tradition zombies (Romero style) you might see. They were zombies far too powerful. They were super strong, like crush your skull with one hand strong. They could also give you a stare and make you vomit out your guts. They could also...teleport! WAY t0o powerful.  One large problem was the zombie rules varied on the given situation. One of the leads was confronted with a zombie, closed his eyes hard, and it just disappeared. If this was an effective way to defeat the zombies, why didn't he do so again when confronted by other zombies? Inconsistent plot elements litter this film.  The acting was pretty good though, as was the dubbing (it's an italian film).  2.5 stars, based on plot holes as described above, and my personal preference for Romero zombies.

Depends on what you're looking for... This is ok to watch..if you want to see a pretty naked female who is silent the entire film doing yoga poses.  What it's not, is an instructional yoga video.  It announces the pose before the scene, but does not verbally instruct or say anything.  You will fall asleep if you actually try to watch the entire dvd(at least 1 hour), and the lighting is not done very well.  The sunlight is way too bright on many of the poses.  It is shot in a Japanese-like garden setting with a little brook and some plants all around.  Each pose lasts a long 5-7 minutes, and repeats camera angles going slowly up and down the yoga model.  It is moderately exciting to see in certain poses, but it's not a graphic porn-you will only see at most some shaved labia. Besides, I doubt anyone could actually watch this in it's entirety more than once.  If you are extremely curious about this, I suggest renting it.

A young man's view of what it's like to grow old -- is eternal life really worth everything? Ron Howard's COCOON (1985), while an entertaining and charming film on many levels, is really a young man's view of what it's like to grow old.  The story revolves around a group of senior citizens living in a Florida retirement community who discover that their neighbor's indoor swimming pool doubles as a Fountain of Youth.  Wilford Brimley, Don Amici, and Hume Cronyn are the three friends who first discover the magic water, to the delight of their wives and girlfriends (Maureen Stapleton, Gwen Verdon, and Jessica Tandy).  There are a lot of funny scenes about renewed libido, break dancing, and suddenly being able to read the bottom line on the eye chart at Motor Vehicles.  And it's fun watching these old timers getting a new lease on life.  The parellel story is about aliens, who have returned to Earth to collect their friends who have been hibernating for ten thousand years in rock-like cocoons at the bottom of the ocean.  Brian Dennehy plays the head alien, Tahnee Welch plays his gorgeous lieutenant, and Steve Guttenberg plays the human boat captain who helps them retrieve the cocoons.  The aliens have been storing these cocoons in the above-mentioned swimming pool, and using their alien super powers to charge the water with life-restoring energy.  This is why the senior citizens are suddenly running around like college kids with all the energy in the world.  All this works, and it's a cute film with plenty of screen time for some older actors who deserve to play center stage.  What doesn't work, however, is the film's final act.  [***SPOILERS AHEAD*** PLEASE STOP HERE IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE FILM]  Brian Dennehy offers Brimley and his friends the chance to return with them to outer space, where they will be productive again and will live virtually forever.  But the price of such longevity will be never seeing their families again.  That means Brimley and Stapleton will never see their daughter again, or the little grandson who has been so much a part of their lives.  There is a horrible scene where Brimley takes his grandson fishing and tells him he'll be going away to a place where he'll never get sick and he'll never die, but he'll never see the boy again.  There's also a scene where Brimley and Stapleton are discussing Dennehy's offer.  Brimley asks her, "Are you having second thoughts?"  She admits she is, and that she doesn't want to leave her daughter and grandson.  Brimley then ignores that little problem and wonders if what she really objects to is "cheating nature."  He says, "The way nature has been treating us lately, I don't mind cheating her a little."  But the problem with all this isn't that it's cheating nature.  It's that living forever just the sake of living forever doesn't make sense.  Hume Cronyn gets it right when he tells his wife (who leaves him briefly when she realizes he's returned to his womanizing ways), "I don't want to live forever if you're not with me."  Well, he's absolutely right, but it's not just about husbands and wives being together.  I'm old enough to know that living forever would be painful without my sons, their future children, and the rest of the people who have been so important in my life.  I can't imagine anyone willingly giving up their children and grandchildren for eternal life without them.  What would be the point?  I say this is a young man's view of what it's like to grow old because it's all focused on fear of death.  It's not death that frightens us older adults, it's loss.  And there would be no greater loss than that of my children and grandchildren.  It's all very wonderful that Amici can break dance, and Brimley gets a "boner," and Cronyn's cancer goes into remission.  But it makes no sense that any of them would walk away from everything they know and love just to live forever in an alien universe.  A young man - Howard was 30 when he made this film - might think the chance to live forever would trump everything else.  But I don't think many older people would.  I still like a lot of things about this film (thus the three stars), but it irritates me every time I watch it.  And I always cry when Brimley tells his grandson he's leaving him.  Think about that for a minute - what he's telling this little boy is that he'd rather live forever without him than ten or twenty more years with him.  What does that say about the value of this child?  And what does it say about Brimley?  It creates a depressing ending to what could have been a very uplifting film.

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance Review My big question is how did Johnny Blaze wind up in Eastern Europe? Just a thought: Don't they know there is plenty of evil right here in the good old USA? I would have thought he realized that he can run all he wants but he cannot hide. Apparently not, huh? Anyway, I would have liked to see more Ghost Rider action sequesnces and less convulsing by Johnny Blaze. A pretty good action flick but quite frankly I could probably get more excitement out of reading the comic book.

Meh. Not half as good as the first one. I'm a huge Underworld fan, but this one didn't really cut it. I enjoyed it and found it hilarious because everyone around me so obviously hated every minute of it. It's cheesy, does nothing to advance the series' mythology, and changes the dynamic of the series enough to irritate some fans. Decent enough action though.

This Is For The 24 Hour Digital Rental Version Where's the ending bathroom climax with the shooting?? It has been left out!! Other than that, it's a very good movie that is well-paced and with developed characters.

Cathy Rigby is not Mary Martin! Some roles are "owned" by the stars. Mary Martin IS Peter pan. Although it is a valiant effort, Cathy Rigby is not Mary Martin.  Also, Cyril Richard is a far-better (and funnier) Capt. Hook than in this new version, where the Capt. is quite scary (for the little ones) and sinister. All this aside, the performance was quite good for a revival, as the acrobatics (flying) and technical staging is far superior to the NBC-1960 version by Mary Martin, which, sadly, is not currently "in-print" except for a few "bootleg" versions out there.  Cathy sings and performs very well and the audience seemed to be enjoying themselves. Not for very young children under age 5--see Capt. Hook comments. However, Ms. Rigby is "so much more older than 20" and appears quite "haggard" and old-looking in her video camera close ups. She should have make this when she was younger.  Be sure that you get a good copy. My DVD copy "froze" during the last 10 minutes of the program and had to be returned as defective. In 10 years, I have only had 2 actually "bad" DVD's that refused to play and/or couldn't be cleaned, etc. (I own about 100 DVD's and several playback units.)

Some missing information here First off, let me apologize because this isn't a proper review.  But I didn't see any other way to pose these questions.  The editorial review above states there are 8 films in this collection, including at least one featuring Boris Karloff.  But there are only SIX movies listed on the cover, and Karloff isn't in any of them.  This page needs to be revised to reflect an accurate list of what's in this set.  For the record, my 3-star rating isn't just arbitrary.  I have seen two of the films listed here, and they were quite entertaining.  THE SMILING GHOST is a terrific haunted house comedy, and SH! THE OCTOPUS is a silly but breezy little mystery film with some mild horror elements.  I'll be glad to remove or revise my review once I have more accurate information to let me decide whether or not to pick it up.  If anyone else has it already, please post a review or some comments here.

loved the story, hated the geography If the geography had been right, I would've given it four stars. It was an interesting story and I was really happy that the story was about the two people taking the journey and the monsters and not about bad guys vs. our heroes kind of crap -- I fully expected the guerrillas to pull some bad stuff and was relieved they were humanized and not turned into comic book villains.  But, having been to Mexico (which is not Central America, btw), Costa Rica, and Belize, I was thrown way off by the geography itself. There is no ruin you can sit at the top of (in a jungle no less) and view the US border. And what river was that? Where was it? How did they get across the Rio Grande? For the sea in the background, it had to be east of Matamoros, but it's pretty desolate there (and not jungle on the Mexican side).  But I did like the story, and the monsters.

Nothing great With so many well known actors, I was expecting something a little funnier. The plot was very slow moving and predictable. There were quite a few funny parts but there were also some parts that were not so great. I wondered why the movie was not popular or well known, especially with the cast, and after watching it I know why. It gives you something to watch and entertain yourself, but it's nothing special.

A Real Stinkeroo This movie was just plain bad; from the lousy acting to the poor scriptwriting, I took a pass on the rest of it about halfway through.

Ugh... I was really hoping this was the movie 2 help lautner out of the twilight saga but sadly it wasn't. First off, it's a movie we've seen before and done WAY better. His co star really makes me angry because she's just horrible. The script could've been worked on just a bit more. Some parts were good (when he wasn't with lily Collins) and scene with his parents. And the most impotant part is: WHO GOT ABDUCTED?! Talk about misleading. I love Taylor 2 bits but if he wants 2 have a working production company and acting career, he has 2 look @ what he's getting into. I hope his next non twilight movies won't disappoint. Looking for action scenes only this might be your movie.

Post-Impressionist Painting 101 "Lust for Life" and "The Agony And The Ecstasy" were two of the first artist films that I ever saw. Its taken a while to find them but I'm very happy to have them in my permanent collection.  Along with "Frida", "Pollock", "Girl With A Pearl Earring" (Vermeer), "Goya's Ghost", "Carrington", "Camille Claudel" (Claudel and Rodin), "Georgia O'keeffe", "Superstar" (Warhol) and "Crumb". "Lust for Life" is mainly about Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin's friendship and collaberation, while "The Agony And The Ecstasy" delves into Michelangelo and Pope Julius II's rocky patronage.  These films may not be completely historically accurate but they are all artistically done, Oscar caliber and catnip for the serious fine arts lover.

Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage Based on a true story about the artist Thomas Kinkade it tells us about one Christmas he had at home while attending college. An interesting look into the artist's life, it gives some insight into his family life and how he developed his painting style. As a fan of his art I wanted to see this movie and find out more about him. It is capably done with good acting, scenery, sets, music, and directing. The cast has several well known actors including Peter O'Toole. Each of them donates a key piece to the movies recognition of self.  When Kinkade goes home for Christmas he finds that his mother is about to lose the cottage that he and his brother grew up in. The two brothers both look for work to pay the bills. As they try to scrape together the money they begin to really see a side to their mother they never knew. Although she has been hit with many challenges she strives to take care of her two sons and to help her town in any way that she can. Unfortunately for her about anything that can go wrong, goes wrong. We find out she has been doing what she can since she was laid off. Fortunately the town pitches in to fix up her home so that she may sell it instead of lose it.  CA Luster

Not What You Might Expect Being a god used to come with a certain amount of clout, but now the human race Zeus (Liam Neeson) created with such love has turned against him. They are no longer interested in believing in him, in bowing to his commands, or in sending up the prayers he requires in order to remain strong. His retaliation against one mortal king that stands against him results in the birth of a child, who is set adrift on the high seas and adopted by an unsuspecting fisherman and his wife. Perseus (Sam Worthington) grows up with no knowledge of his parentage or the circumstances surrounding his existence. He lives in a world fraught with peril as mortals and gods engage in massive combat. And there is nothing he can do but watch in horror as Hades (Ralph Fiennes), god of the underworld, murders his family in one of his rampages in retaliation for the continued defiance of the people of Argos.  As punishment for their arrogance, Hades threatens to unleash the mighty Kraken on Athos during the next eclipse, and warns them that there is only one way they can obtain salvation from the beast -- a human sacrifice in the form of Princess Andromeda (Alexa Davalos). Perseus wants nothing to do with it until a mysterious immortal named Io (Gemma Arterton) reveals to him that he is a demigod, the illegitimate son of Zeus and only he can defeat the Kraken. But first he must journey to the far corners of the world, consult the witches on how to bring it about, pass through the underworld, and do battle with Medusa -- before the eclipse unleashes the wrath of the heavens. When Zeus learns of his existence, he desires to give his son the tools required to carry out his mission, but Perseus desires to have nothing to do with the governing forces that have brought about so much unhappiness -- and his resistance to accepting his destiny might bring about his defeat.  One of the first things audiences should know heading into this blockbuster is that it is nothing like the original mythology, something that might disappoint scholars and fans of Greek literature. It is actually a more modern take on a popular movie from many years ago and as such carries the same faults, with a few new ones. I went with my brother, who is a student of mythology, and he was disappointed that so many changes were made to the legends, and that Poseidon is entirely absent, apart from one line of dialogue and limited screen time. I understand their reasons for limiting his presence in terms of budget and keeping the focus on his brothers, but at the same time I would have liked to have seen the god of the seas in action. That point aside, I enjoyed it. There are times when the battle sequences feel a little drawn-out but the magnificent computer effects and exquisite creatures and panoramas more than make up for it. It has an enormous budget and makes the most of it, casting some terrific talent while at the same time not skimping on first-class special effects. Medusa and her head of snakes, the Kraken, the winged horse Pegasus, gnarled and truly hideous witches -- this movie has it all and then some. True, it is a film that wants to carry its audience from one fight to another and so there is not much down time (and as such, not a huge amount of character development) but I expected nothing less.  Clash of the Titans may not be epic in terms of being remembered for all time, but it is epic and that at times has to be good enough.

A Bit Disappointing - Not What I Was Expecting As is usually the case I listened to all the hype and the critic reviews and just purchased this movie. I do have all the original Planet of the Apes movies and thoroughly enjoy them and thought I would add this to the collection. It wasn't a dreadful movie but it didn't hook me creating that I want to know what will happen next feeling.  The story line of how the apes became intelligent was interesting.  Franco wasn't interesting or convincing as a scientist. The time lines in the story made no sense.  For instance Franco takes Cesar home and then it is 3 to 5 years later! In that time there is no mention or updates original formula? What has he been working on at the lab? He has been doing a lot of work but at home but is never seen at the lab doing a thing. He meets a girl and bam they are what living together, married and doing what for those 3 to 5 years. Franco has an Ape and is living next door to a family with children. The family doesn't contact anyone when there are incidents of the Ape escaping and getting into their yard and around their kids!  It seems the story could have been better mapped out and the characters more endearing but then this movie would have needed to be four hours long.

Fun movie This movie was fun and had a lot of shooting.  The book had more intrigue, but they came close for hollywood.  The only thing that disappointed me about the movie is that in the book Shalako is from my home town in Texas - the movie doesn't mention this.

Lotsa Cartoons Yep, it is lotsa cartoons.  Great for when you are stuck sick in bed.  Or if you just want to drive the wife crazy!

Derivative but Enjoyable 3.5 stars.  Luckily, before viewing this movie, all I heard from a few friends about "Insidious" was that it was entertaining and creepy. I wasn't told it was great or extremely frightening or awesome. Sometimes feedback about a movie can leave us expecting something brilliant. This film was fun but not great. It is not original; you've seen most of this before in other scary films... but it was entertaining, especially the first part (before the seance people entered the picture).  Watching this film unfold gives you the thrilling feeling that you have no idea what might happen next, or what you might see next. It gives the audience an unsettling vibe that is a vital ingredient that many horror films are sorely lacking. The first half of the movie has a deliberately slow and sinister pace and tone. It works very well. You are off guard, unsure of what to look at or what's going on.  But once the pace quickens, once they start showing more than hinting at, it changes the whole mood of the thing, and that's what leaves me disappointed. Once in a while a horror film comes along with tons of potential in its start, but then things don't quite live up to the build-up. I'm reminded of another horror movie, "Jeepers Creepers" (2001), which  begins with such promise but then rapidly sinks into typical and predictable horror territory.  "Insidious" strikes me as a fairly effective spookshow, warts and all (some of the demons are cheesy, some of the comic relief fails). It's above average compared to most modern horror cinema offerings, but it could have succeeded even moreso for me had it maintained its initial ominous and unpredictable flavor. I guess it's a case where I find myself asking for the moon when I have the stars.

When Great Dialogue Meets a Bad Concept? The witty dialogue in Easy A is it's most redeeming quality, but I'm afraid it ends there. The story's Antagonist a judgmental Christian set on destroying people with her Puritanical values; that is a stereotypical cliche that just won't die, thanks in part to movies like this.  If you can look past the subtle bigotry of it's message, it's not a bad movie. That is, if you're already inclined to overlook bigotries, and you happen to share them.

Godzilla: Amazing and Awful It is what it is.  The special effects, circa 1998, have held up well and deserve 5 stars.  The story line, the acting and especially the dialogue, are uniformly awful and deserving of 1 star.  Thus, I've split the difference.  The only way to enjoy Godzilla, in my view, is on a large screen, with a really good surround sound system, and with low expectations.

Great film, bad DVD This is one of the better adaptations of Huckleberry Finn I've seen.  As a teacher, I have been using clips from the film with our study of the book.  It doesn't match perfectly, but it is better than most. The main problem is the quality of the DVD.  I have never seen a DVD with less features.  There is no menu screen, no scene selection screen, and the chapters are divided in strange places - often in the middle of a scene or even in the middle of a speech!  Four hours is an awful lot to fast forward through, and that's usually what I needed to do until I was familiar enough with the film to know where the scenes I needed were

Too Expensive for a Children's Film! Look, Ramona and Beezus is a great film for kids and family but it's too expensive here. There's not even special features like the making of the movie to justify the high cost. It's a g-rated film based on the famous children's novels by Beverly Cleary. Now while I enjoyed the movie, I do find it suitable for all audiences. I find the cost here to be ridiculously high in order to receive it.  The film is okay nothing spectacular. It's a family film with Ramona played perfectly by Joey King and Selena Gomez plays her sister, Beatrice nicknamed Beezus by Ramona. John Corbett and Bridget Monahan are fine as her parents. Ginnifer Goodwin is great as Aunt Beatrice and Sandra Oh is great as Ramona's teacher. The film has some humorous moments but nothing vulgar or profane. It's a family film and I would highly recommend this film in elementary schools too.

Could have been better, but interesting film I was insulted by the beginning subtle insinuation that 9/11 was an inside job.  "We might never know what happened on that day."  What?  From there it improves, but eventually delves into the energy grid needlessly, which is not particularly relevant to the liquid fuel market and dilutes (nice pun, I might add) their message and argument.  Too much of the film relates to self-interested green companies, expensive & esoteric proprietary properties, and future technologies that aren't yet developed or are rather ridiculous to believe they could be afforded.  I half-expected biofuel personal jetpacks to be thrown in there somewhere.  My suspicion is this film was allowed to be made and released (and not just an internet-only release) because its opinions are not a present threat to the petroleum industry and the elites that currently control the world.  Fuel has hip concepts that are not all economically feasible on a wide scale, relies on an absurdly complex and diverse collection of policy recommendations, has bought into the myth of energy independence, is unfortunately focused on supply-side market manipulation (mandates at the pump, subsidies, etc.), and is backed by mostly profiteering green company CEOs and famous entertainment personalities.  Too much of it is either small-time & local-only or is far-flung & fanciful.  The one area it takes on outside of this is biodiesel, which is the main focus throughout the film and popular with Hollywood, but on a large-scale is chiefly tied to GMO soybeans controlled by just a few mega-corporations involved with various domestic & international shenanigans.  Regardless, it's also about 25% more expensive than regular diesel, which is a hurdle to mass changeover in spite of its lower toxicity and the fact that all diesel engines can already use it.  I think Anne Korin, Robert Zubrin, James Woolsey, and Nobel Laureate George Olah have a more concise, cogent, economically-feasible, and market-sound idea that better addresses national security and could be immediately implemented with the Open Fuel Standards Act making its way through Congress.  We need a simple policy that will reform not just us, but China, India, and Africa, and also simultaneously defang OPEC.  It begins with a demand-side flex-fuel mandate that requires all new gasoline cars also be capable of burning alcohols (a cheap feature), including methanol, and the elimination of alcohol and sugar import tariffs and quota limits.  While not required, it would also help to stop subsidizing corn and undercutting third-world farmers, many of whom sneak into the USA looking for work.  From there, the market will have an incentive for the mass production of methanol from plentiful natural gas, even prior to more exotic types of biofuels.  And by the way, the highest-grade diesel is made from alcohols.  All plastics can also be made from alcohols.  Gas would drop in price overnight.  If you disregard the hints of Truther fringe, hippy vegan & Gaia sentiments, and the green marketing slogans, Fuel is a valid look at the history that got us into this mess and various long-term solutions.  But it has little chance of making timely worldwide impact with such a convoluted message, not to mention lower chance of success in the short-term.  Nonetheless, it is certainly an improved message over the status quo and offers interesting information that much of the public would still benefit being exposed to.

great movie, bad disc A fine Disney sequel to an animated classic. But the disc condition wasn't as advertised (like new). Multiple major scratches that I had to get refinished.

Mission: Interminable When as a child growing up in the Bay Area he was told by his father that the notorious serial killer the Zodiac had announced he was targeting children on school buses, David Fincher says he discovered the ultimate boogeyman for his childhood. His haunting by the case inspired his first movie ever about serial killers, the beautiful and memorably cruel SE7EN, and then later resulted in this extremely elaborate recreation of the Zodiac's murders and the attempts by three men (a cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle, his reporter colleague, and a local detective) in solving the killer's identity (which to this day remains officially unsolved, though the film makes clear who the three men think committed the murders). By focusing on the puzzle-solvers rather than on the committing of the crimes themselves (which are disposed of nearly completely in the film's first half) or the victims, Fincher is truer to his interests but makes a duller and less engaging movie than he might have otherwise. He seems to care very little about the Zodiac's victims or their families or the survivors of his crimes. The murders are re-staged with painstaking scrupulousness to detail, but except for a lovely beginning sequence of two of the most famous of the Zodiac's victims meeting to drive to a lover's lane amidst a trippy Independence Day evening celebration in a local neighborhood, there's no sense of the victims really as people at all. The stakes of the film are thus not very high: all you care about in the end is seeing the puzzle solved for its own sake.  Exacerbating the problem is the thinness of the three central protagonists. Although Jake Gyllenhaal brings his beautiful haunted eyes to the role of the cartoonist, he doesn't really flesh out the part beyond the descriptors of "obsessed" and "former Eagle Scout." Robert Downey Jr. relies on tricks he uses far too often playing yet another loveable mouthy screw-up with substance abuse problems; only Mark Ruffalo, as his darkest and most intense, seems to generate much heat as the grouchy detective. There are beautiful sequences in the film, mostly at what would be its most difficult junctures, i.e. to show the considerable passing of time: one involves a beautiful CGI re-creation of the building of the Transamerica Pyramid (via simulated time-lapse photography). Fincher is marvelous as solving technical problems but fails to solve the larger problem of making the story involving for audiences not as obsessed with the Zodiac case as he himself already is. The film is much longer than it needed to be, and much less exciting. The two-disc director's cut is worth seeing for two excellent appended documentaries, one about the case against Arthur Leigh Allen, the prime suspect in the case, and the other (of particular beauty and elegance) about the four certain murderous attacks of the Zodiac killer, which involves interviews with the detectives and policemen originally on the cases and the two survivors of the attacks.

Just Ok... Neither great or terrible. I enjoyed watching it but I agree with another reviewer that it played on a LOT of sterio type jokes for a laugh. I can say, I could have lived with out seeing this movie. It wasn't life changing nor did I laugh til my side hurt.  If you want an ok Chick flick, this is it. Otherwise save your money for something else.

The American -- a spaghetti western. I liked it.  However, it is definitely not a chick flick.  This is a spaghetti western.  There is even a visual reference to Henry Fonda's bad guy role in "Once Upon a Time in the West".  Combine "A Fist Full of Dollars" with"The Day of the Jackal" and then stir in minimal dialog together with a love interest in the form of Emile Zola's "Nana".  Finally, add George Clooney and voil&agrave;, you have The American.

Hank Williams, Jr A combination of his personal life and music.  Mostly personal life.  Would have liked it better, if there was more music.

Dawson's Creek I was overall satisfied with the purchase.  I wish the cd's would have been individually protected, they are all together and could get easily scratched.  I am most disappointed with the fact that the main song (Sarah McLachlan) isn't on this.  The music has been taken off.

found cheaper elsewhere First of all I got It's a Wonderful Life on Amazon thinking it would be the cheapest place, however, I was wrong. Second of all, I am disappointed that the movie did not come with an inlet inside that shows the movie's chapters and all.

Disappointed!! I purchased this video with high expectations and am very disappointed with this video.  The price of $37+ is is too high.  A better price would be $19.95.  The biggest problem with this video is the camera shots.  You see more of Bill Fretz's fingers than the piece he is working on.  At one point, when he held up the finished piece he was so far away from the camera that you couldn't see any detail at all.  There are some valuable tips in the video such as "puffing up" the soldered seam so that it is easy to file.  However,  when he makes an inner lining for the gemstone, he doesn't show you how to remove the excess metal at the bottom of the bezel.  This was consistent throughout the video and we are left to our own devices to do this.  He also doesn't tell you how he soldered the inner lining into place . . . sweat solder?  solder on top?  . . . who knows -- because he never showed us.  I could go on but I think you get the point.  I wish I could get a refund.  If you buy this video, you have been fore warned!

this has a double aspect in it for me.. While I liked the storyline and those acting in it, for me there is very much a feeling of "yes" and "no" as that wouldnt happen. It was quite moving in the "reality" aspect, but when I thought about some aspects, I felt that it lost its credibility. However, all in all I did enjoy it,and as I said to one of my friends, it is after all only a "story". Also with such a great story line, I was hoping for some great humour which didnt eventuate.

Absolutely not "Mr. Brooks" but OK for a boring night Let me comment on the comparisons of this movie to "Mr. Brooks" or "Henry."  This one is absolutely NOT in the same league as those very well-done films, particularly "Mr. Brooks".  Unlike "Mr. Brooks," this one gives no more insight to the mind of a serial killer (or even to the interaction of other people with the killer) than an average "48 Hours" episode would. In my opinion, the characters here are flat or, at best, two-dimensional, while "Mr. Brooks" is amazingly written to provide real character depth. So if you're looking for a psychological thriller that *could* be real life, go rent "Mr. Brooks" instead, because you won't find that here.  But if you've already seen "Mr. Brooks" and have nothing better to do, AND you can watch this for free, then it's entertaining for a night. I especially enjoyed the last 1/2 hour or so, and it is there that this film finally becomes somewhat worthwhile.  On a whole, I was pleasantly surprised by some of the interaction and a few surprises. But caveat emptor -- if you are a fan of depth of character and intelligent, probing writing and acting, don't expect this to be the 5-star movie some reviewers here seem to think it is.

Read the Book Some stories make good movies, but Cormac M's writing can't be captured on film.  Nevertheless, I found this movie an interesting companion to the book, but not as a stand-alone.  Not sure BB Thornton is a great director, but I'm no expert.  Someone else might have done it better.

falls short ***Spoiler Alert***  This remake of the classic version from 1972 with Charles Bronson had some things right, but overall it really falls short of even competing with the original, let alone besting it.  The 1972 film had a sort of detached coolness and a more visceral grittiness. These were professionals who did not get emotionally involved with the assignment. Jan-Michael Vincent's "Steve" wanted to prove he had what it took to be at, what he perceived, an elite level. Also there was a late 60s, early 70s counter-culture subtext to his motivation. And that was really interesting. Whereas the analog in this remake comes off more as a listless wanderer who has no clear idea what he wants to do, but he thinks it would be cool to kill people and he is emotionally overcome by the revenge aspect.  Another fault I found was in the actual killings themselves. There was no detachment and precision. It was just raw death by torture in many cases. Sloppily fighting with the target, or shooting your way out of after a botched hit. Too much of the tired, formulaic "Hollywood modern action" was written and you lose all the nuance, the art of the kills which these mechanics would care about (even perhaps more than the monetary reward).  Hollywood films these days tend to assume the average movie viewer is a moron, so they try to connect as many dots for us as possible. This is patronizing and downright offensive. The match up between the old and new Bishop illustrates this glaringly. Bronson's Bishop was about control, he was in supreme control and his downfall was letting his emotion hinder that control. Everything he did was calculated. And this was no brute, he was a cultured assassin. I felt that the writers tried to convey this with Statham's Bishop but it came across very hammy (the numerous shots of his record player) and forced. Also time and again in this remake we saw a Bishop that seemed to be driven by almost pure emotion, a reactive Bishop who was never in control except marginally in the opening hit.  This remake emphasized over and over the revenge motif and I think it was a mistake having Bishop go after the Company. This was never even a possibility in the original film and I like that because it established a boundary that even Bishop had to recognize. It's the cheesy desire in Hollywood action films for the main character(s) to always get retributive justice by their own hands. I see this time and again these days and it gets very tiresome.  This remake shows that a vastly bigger budget does not equate with better film making.  Regarding pacing the remake seemed a bit too fast, however that wasn't surprising.  I am torn regarding the ending. On one hand I like the fact that Bishop bested Steve and lived to see another day in this remake. However philosophically I must give a slight edge to the original film in which both of them die because the narrative is stark: in this business of death there is no clear winner. I think even the first film should have explored some of the moral issues a bit deeper and may even had a redemptive dynamic, but that would be clearly a different sort of film.  So to sum up, this remake was enjoyable as a modern action film, but if you want a bit more depth and nuance see the original!

Eh, fuhgeddaboudit Written and directed by one of the Jerky Boys, Brutal is far better than that might herald, but far weaker than it could have been with some loose ends tied up more neatly.  There are some quite good things here---most of the acting, most of the script---but the negatives really drag it down. Specifically the astonishingly bad looping: there's lots of it, and sometimes it's literally high school film project bad. Four guys sitting in a car talking and they all sound two inches from their individual mics? Then the exact same sound quality when they're walking down the street? It just kills the sense of reality the film tries so hard to achieve in other ways.  Still, if you like this genre you'll find stuff to enjoy in Brutal. Some of the standard mob actors are here, at least one Soprano vet (as is now mandated by The Union in all wiseguy flicks), and there's way less Hollywood cheese vibe than many mob movies; this one feels quite NYC real at its best moments. The leads all feel mostly right, and Greene is typically sleaze deeluxe.  But besides the sound issues and scenes that don't move the plot or characters one inch forward, there are more than a few glaring plot holes, like when one major character gets whacked while playing cards with his boys and not one of them pulls a gun to protect him or themselves while the shooter slowly reloads his shotgun. Come on. Plus various other pretty glaring no-way-could-that-ever-happens. That's the problem with going for total real-feel: when you miss, it stands out twice as much.  In short, if you like mob/heist flicks, and nasty people---there's not one character here really worth feeling much for---you'll dig this. But I'd watch Goodfellas and GF 1 and 2 etc again instead if you want the real deal.

Great Movie, OK Bluray This Bluray was obviously meant as a part of a set, given the fact that includes parts 3 and 4 of a Batman documentary.  Video quality is good, not great, and sound is about the same.  Only upgrade from DVD if you love the movie.

I wish I had realized it was an ULTRAVIOLET download Ordered this for Father's Day. Hubby loves it. Would have NEVER bought this version ii I realized I couldn't download the film from the disc.  Never again will I buy a film with an Ultraviolet download.

i wanna love it so badly...i do i do.... the only Friday i have never seen, mainly because it was in 3-d and i knew that there was no way to recreate that at home. so it was probably just best to forget about it.  BUT given that this is the first time that Jason finds his hockey mask made it a impossible purchase for me to refuse. i mean...Jason finding his hockey mask. question answered right there.  bought the box set which has this version but only in 2-d which looks weird...decided to plop down the money for the version here with the glasses.  got them. movie in great shape. two pairs of glasses. but gotta say its extremely misleading. i have a fairly decent plasma and did everything your supposed to do....low lights, brightness on tv up higher, etc....everything....the 'effect' was awful and no way i could sit through more than ten minutes of it.  so the review is for the actual 3-d transfer itself and not the movie.  could of been much much better but i had low expectations.  on the other hand...a MUST for a collector and its pretty cheap so hey...try it out.

I want to love it, but it never really drew me in On a scale of 1 to 10, I give it a 6.9. Here's the breakdown: (All of my reviews are also on [...] if you want to see it with pictures.)  Screenplay 9.0  The screenplay for this movie is excellent. I think Clint Eastwood's greatest strength as a director is his ability to create lifelike characters, and this movie is no exception. I love the way that he makes the viewer feel distant from Marcus' foster family and pretty much everyone in Marie and George's lives. Eastwood makes the viewer care about the characters and feel their loneliness and isolation. The characters feel so rich and human; they are anything but shallow or one-dimensional.  The first half of this movie focuses mostly on character development. It felt rather slow and tedious when I first watched it, however it ultimately pays off. Each of the story lines is independent until the end of the movie, and the way the filmmakers bring together three compelling story lines is really elegant.  Hereafter is a very well written movie. The dialogue feels natural; it never feels forced.  There are tons of one-liners that are poetic and wise.  Acting 9.0  I was worried about the acting quality of this movie at one point. One of the twins (Jason) definitely showed some weak acting at a few times. Luckily, they kill him off pretty early on on the movie, and his twin brother was a superb actor. I swear, the quality of child actors seems to be getting better and better lately.  Matt Damon delivers a stellar performance. He is great at playing people with unique abilities and head injuries. (Borne series) Damon brings those same skills to the table here. The actress who plays Marie does a very good job of delivering both her English lines and her French lines. (about a quarter of her lines are in English and the rest are in French) Marcus' mom plays the part of a heroin addict perfectly.  Despite my initial concerns, the acting quality in Hereafter ended up being one of the movie's greatest strengths.  Style 8.5  I liked the style of this movie a lot. The three story lines take place in England, France, and San Fransisco. Eastwood gave the scenes a strong local vibe and the result is a movie with a very international ambiance.  The special effect that is used during the near death scenes and psychic connection scenes is beautiful. When George goes into a psychic state, there are many figures in an open area. The colors seem almost inverted and ethereal.  When he is focused on one person, they appear detailed and vibrant; the other spirits are shadowy and vague.  The computer generated tsunami looked fantastic. Few movies can match the realistic appearance and motion of the water in this scene. The destruction of the tsunami is very intense. You see bodies, cars, boats, and even buildings being swept up by the water and carried inland. People are caught in downed power lines and electrocuted. The whole tsunami scene is very intense and jarring.  Genre Comparison 5.5  I don't know whether I would consider the genre of this movie to be a Clint Eastwood movie or, to be a drama about the afterlife. Either way, this movie shines. Clint Eastwood makes fantastic dramas dealing with the subject of death. The bar has already been set high, and this movie doesn't make the cut. This is mainly because it doesn't leave you with a clear message; just with some things to think about.  Originality 6.5  Hereafter is mostly original. I haven't seen many other movies that looked at near death experiences from the same angle as this movie. The view of death portrayed in this movie is pretty standard. I'm mean, its not a Judeo-Christian perspective, but its fairly mainstream in the way it shows psychics and death. For example, for the near death experience, they showed bright lights and dead relatives. The psychic reading scenes had the typical "I'm getting a strong signal related to the month June. Does June mean anything to you?." Very John Edwards-esque.  I thought the structure of the plot was pretty original though.  Message 1.0  This is where Hereafter fell flat. The message of this movie was very vague. The resolution to the conflict basically did nothing to portray a meaningful message, unless of course you are a psychic. It mostly just left you with a few things to think about and, as I mentioned before, those few things are basically mainstream metaphysical ideas. Maybe I was a little harsh in scoring this section, but it really is a glaring omission.  Huevos Factor 5.0  This was a tough one to grade. It was well written and the acting was good. I want to love it, but it never really drew me in. In many ways its a quality movie, but it's missing some things. Overall, its not bad, but it's not a movie I'd watch again and again.  Hereafter comes out on DVD and Blu-ray on March 15.  Breakdown: Screenplay 9.0 Acting 9.0 Style 8.5 Genre Comparison 5.5 Originality 6.5 Message 1.0 Huevos Factor 5.0  Overall 6.9

Another great movie, bad choice for Captain America! Here goes Hollywood putting there spin on the movie not following the original Comic story-line but in this case it actually worked but for one problem...........choosing Fantastic Four's Johnny Storm to be Steve Rogers.  The extra muscle he gained looked unnatural where Steve Rogers had a natural muscular built to him and too much humor was brought to the role just like in that other pathetic movie....Green Lantern.  Hollywood needs to take their time in finding the right person for the role like they did in  Thor.  But it will never happen!!

Not so super... Apart from Brandon Routh I haven't noticed anything super in this movie.  I think he was perfect as Superman but can't say the same thing about Lois.  I'm not saying "Let's get Angelina" but they could have done better.  Kevin Spacey is always great but supernatural villain would have been nice, like Doomsday, or Brainiac.  Superman Returns is not as bad as Tim Burtons Batmans, but clearly not even close to Nolan's Batmans.  I think DC should cut the nostalgic ties with the old movies and make some serious Superman movies.  I hope that's what they'll do in the new movie "Man of Steel" which is scheduled for 2013.

Rating several series from best to worst This review rates the following (in order): Entourage Rome Californication Spartacus Weeds Sex and the City The Tudors True Blood Big Love  My wife and I have found that we enjoy these series better than watching individual movies.  I believe that we also would rank them in the same order, so this is a male/female friendly review.  As with all MoonDonkey reviews, it goes without saying that this is gospel.  I've tried to do this without including spoilers.  #1 Entourage (5 stars) How could anything else be #1?  Entourage follows the career of movie star Vincent Chase and his group of friends.  This is the gold standard by which all other series are measured.  Plus, Entourage has the best one-liners of any series.  Unfortunately, I cannot include them in this review due to their graphic nature.  #2 Rome (5 stars) Rome follows the exploits of two Roman soldiers - Verenus (the smarts) and Pullo (the brute).  Very well done.  For a historical drama, the sets are very well designed and believable.  In Rome, the idea is that you see the Roman Empire through the eyes of two soldiers as they experience the ups and downs of life.  My wife and I enjoyed this one a lot.  #3 Californication (5 stars) Frankly, I wasn't sure I wanted to watch this at first.  I pegged David Duchovny as an X-Files guy and wasn't sure what to make of him in this role.  Also, I wasn't sure what Californication was about anyway.  Well, I was pleasantly surprised.  In Californication, we follow the life and career of author Frank Moody - a chaotic and perhaps self-destructive individual who has a way with women.  Unfortunately for him, he is trying to balance the chaos of his life on one side with his teenage daughter and her mother (his love interest) on the other side.  The dude is a train-wreck and it makes for a great series.  #4 Spartacus (4 stars) Spartacus is about a man who is captured and made a gladiator slave in the Roman Empire.  There is just of a bit of a drop off from the 5 star series to 4 star Spartacus.  Why?  Well, there just isn't as much of Spartacus.  Basically one season followed by a "prequel" season.  I believe that is because the original Spartacus actor died of cancer.  I'm not sure if there are future plans for the series or not.  Also, the effects take some getting used to.  There is definitely a CGI feel to some of the scenery.  The blood effects are similar to 300.  Regardless of those issues, Spartacus was highly enjoyable.  Even my wife, who was like "what the heck" after the first episode, came around and really enjoyed the series.  Maybe because they show sausage.  Some of the gladiator "locker room" scenes are like staring at a pack of Johnsonville brats.  There is a lot of blood and nudity in this one - as there should be given that this is a brutal depiction of life as a slave gladiator.  #5 Weeds (3 stars) Weeds gets a golf-clap 3 star ranking.  Why?  Because the plot just doesn't make sense sometimes.  There are points in this series where you feel like it is going one way and then - boom - the plot takes a 90 degree turn towards something else.  It's not like it makes sense thought.  Rather, it feels more like a different writer came in to write a different episode or something.  It is very strange and it happens a number of times.  Weeds follows the life of a suburban mom who sells pot to make money after her husband dies.  The decision to become a dealer impacts her two sons and her husband's brother - who comes to live with her.  The series starts out with sort of a realistic "how would this play in the suburbs" feel, but then progresses down some more eccentric paths.  We have enjoyed the series, but this is not one that we were waiting at the mailbox for the next video to arrive.  It qualifies as a "we will watch it when we get around to it" series.  #6 Sex and the City (3 stars) Sex and the City explores the lives of 4 single women and their quest for happiness and men in New York.  Why 3 stars?  This is the only series that my wife and I would disagree on the ranking.  I suspect she would give it 4 stars and I would give it two.  Frankly, it is too much of a "chic flick" for me... and I would guess most men feel the same way.  Wait you say - what about Entourage?  Isn't that basically the same thing with a group of guys?  In a word... no.  It isn't.  For some reason, Entourage just plays better that Sex and the City.  Also, the last couple seasons of Sex and the City really fell off a cliff.  It had the distinct feeling that they were just looking to wrap it up.  Also, speaking as a guy, this series became too "cultish" for me.  Do you know how many women started drinking cosmos because of this series?  For that matter, do you know how many "Rabbits" sold because of this series?  Sex and the City became sort of a female cultural event.  Guys - that really tells you everything you need to know, doesn't it?  #7 The Tudors (3 stars) This is a tough one.  The Tudors is a story about the life of Henry V of England and his many wives.  It is good, but I think many people just won't get into this series.  It doesn't have the craziness of Entourage or Californication, nor the blood and guts of Rome and Spartacus.  The Tudors is more of a historical drama.  Consider The Tudors a 3 star teetering on the edge of a 2 star.  I prefer Weeds to The Tudors.  However, I think my wife would maybe rank this a bit higher.  If you choose to watch this series, I strongly recommend committing to watching the first 3-4 episodes at least.  If you just watch one or two, you probably won't stick with it.  I tell you what though - one of the most interesting things about The Tudors is all of the torture.  Watching The Tudors makes any modern "torture" techniques look laughable.  Water-boarding?  Bah, that's for sissies!  Give me the rack!  #8 True Blood (2 stars) True Blood is about life in a small town after vampires have come out of the closet and try to live normal lives with humans... or at least that is what it starts out to be.  Look - I'd love to rate True Blood higher, but the series just gets weirder and weirder as it goes on.  It is like the writers got bored with the standard vampire-human conflict thing so they had to take it in several other directions... and I do mean several.  Suddenly we have werewolves, witches, shape-shifters, fairies, etc, etc.  It gets to the point where you are asking yourself, really?  Really? I'd give the first season alone 4 stars, but it drops of to 3 stars and then to 2 stars after that.  #9 Big Love (1 star) Big Love is about a mormon family practicing polygamy.  The story follows the life of one man and his many wives.  My wife liked this a bit more than I did, but it just didn't do it for me.  There really wasn't anything about the show that I found interesting.  I think my wife enjoyed some of the relationship drama, but she stopped watching the series and hasn't expressed an interest in continuing it.  This one was a burn-out.  I think it is because Big Love is maybe too serious - if it had a Californication element to it, I bet it would have been pretty entertaining.  So there you have it my friends.  I may continue to update this list as we watch more series.  The nutshell is that HBO appears to be focusing on more high-end "production" type series and Showtime is focusing on lower cost dramas.  UPDATE 12/2/2011 - I was advised that I accidently referred to Henry the VIII as Henry V.  Sweet!  I'm not changing it!  I published the same review numerous times so the error will serve as flypaper for intellectuals to showcase their brillance in the comments section by advising me of the error.

A decent workout. I actually purchased this dvd because I found the express workout on my Warner Cable "On Demand" health channel.  I enjoyed that the express workout was 32 minutes.  Though Patricia Moreno makes a mistake w left and right foot forward, once you do it regularly, you will get with the program and correct her error.  I found the music overshadows her voice and is higher volume.  I work out at 4:30am and found I had to raise the volume too high so, after several workouts, I can now lower the volume and not have to worry about the neighbors complaining.  I do enjoy the workout but her "smile" comments when I hanging on for dear life doing the side hold is a distraction. haha  I do laugh and am proud that I can actually do it despite telling her to shut up in my head!!!  I paid, but a few dollars and found it well worth the purchase.

volkerball review I purchased this live dvd but was informed that these were all region 0 versions which means they will play anywhere. When I got them they wouldn't play on any of my main dvd players but it would play on my xbox 360.

Bangs And Whimpers I just finished watching The Bang Bang Club and find it difficult to convey my opinion of it.  Even though I never felt I knew enough about what was motivating the main character, I remained engaged with the movie all the way through.  However, I'm sure I'll never have the desire to see it again, nor would I necessarily recommend it to others.  I gave it three stars, but it's a low three.  The film was obviously a labor of love, made by people deeply committed to the subject matter and there were some very good scenes throughout.  Still, when the end credits rolled, I felt that it didn't add up to much.  I had seen a country in hellish turmoil. I had seen the men who went out daily, armed only with cameras, to document heart-wrenching violence.  I  had seen a well-made movie that didn't really tell me much of anything either about the struggle or its photographers.  It was just OK.  Honestly, one of the biggest reasons I rented the film had to do with its marketing.  I encourage the trend of releasing films to theaters and making them available for home viewing at the same time.  When I saw the trailer for The Bang Bang Club, I thought, 'This might be good...but I'd never take the trouble to go to a theater to see it.'  Well, bingo: I didn't have to.  I could download it and watch it at home for less than the price of a movie ticket...never mind the cost of the gas to get to the theater and the price of parking the car.  So I took a chance that cost me about six and half bucks.  Fair enough.  I didn't see a great movie but I don't feel foolish for having spent the money, nor do I feel that watching it was a waste of my time.  Like I said (and in some cases this is the saddest thing you can say about about a labor of love),  it was OK.

Curious Was curious about this movie of Daniel Radcliff's after being known as Harry Potter for so long.  He is a good actor and hope to see him in something a little more modern.

The market place is not bad Your hearts in the right place but I think the world already tried this. Create a classless, moneyless, and stateless social order structured upon common ownership of the means of production, as well as a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of this social order. It has failed failed and failed again. Love the Dad and his response was correct (Founded St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Wow that's inspiring).  We get paid for bringing value to the market place. It takes time to bring value to the market place. However we do not get paid for time. Mistakenly a man says "I make $20.00 an hour", not true. If that was true he can just stay home and have his employer send him his money. We don't get paid for time; we get paid for value brought to the market place. Is it possible to become twice as valuable to the market place and make twice as much money in the same amount of time? The answer is yes. Can you become three times, four times or a hundred times more valuable to the market place? Yes! Our culture is unique; it's a ladder to climb. It starts at $7.25 or so and it keeps going up. This was a heck of an idea and it's why so many people have been trying to come to this country. People haven't plotted and schemed for 60yrs saying "If I could only get to Cuba everything will be right". Everyone wanted to come here because this is the best system man has come up with in 6500 yrs. All one has to do is understand the market place then bring your value to it. Question? Why would the market place pay someone $7.25? Answer: They are not very valuable to the market place. Notice I highlighted market place. This person is no doubt a valuable member of his family, his church and society as a whole. A valuable life to God? No doubt, we are all of equal value to God. But if you're not valuable to the market place you don't get that much money. That may seem harsh but there's something great about this system, you don't have to stay at the bottom of the ladder. Take out the trash and the market place gives you $7.25/hr, whistle while you take out the trash and the market places gives you $9.00/hr Why would the market place pay someone $50.00/hr? Evidently they must be more valuable to the market place. If you used your imagination and talent to make a company $1 billion would the market place pay you $80 Million? Sure it would because you brought value to the market place. That's why it's so exciting, because it's possible for all of us no matter where we start. The secret to climb this ladder as high as you would like is simple. All you have to do is work harder on yourself than you do on your job. Instead of waiting around for people to help me, if I work on my skills, if I became better than I was last year. If I grew in competence then I would be more attractive to the market place.  We don't have to change what's going on in the external world. We need to change what's going on inside ourselves. I'm all for helping people especially by giving them skills to help themselves but I find it hard to get on board with this idea that having too big of a house or too many cars is morally wrong and at odds with the universe.  If living in a Mansion makes you feel uncomfortable about your life that's fine. Give everything away and walk the earth like Cain from kungFu with a staff and a pair of diapers like Gandhi. If that makes you happy that's great.

movie Too long to sit and watch fell sleep. hard to keep track as to who is who they all look the same owls.

Scratching My Head... I liked the first movie better than this. This second movie as if there is no plot at all. The action is good, the effects are good but I can't find any resolution why they made another movie that doesn't even have a good story line. In my opinion, this is like a prequel of the first movie, why? it's a total setback. I gave 3 stars because, for effects, for action and for the new partner in producing this movie. Anything besides that, it's all up to your guess.

Wow, Renny Harlin is still capable of making a decent movie! &lt;strong>Cleaner&lt;/strong> (Renny Harlin, 2007)  The fact that Renny Harlin has made some of the worst movies in recent memory (&lt;em>Exorcist: The Beginning&lt;/em>, &lt;em>Cliffhanger&lt;/em>, &lt;em>Deep Blue Sea&lt;/em>, and &lt;em>A Nightmare on Elm St. 4&lt;/em> were all Harlin projects) tends to obscure the fact that sometimes he puts out a serviceable, if forgettable, thriller. &lt;em>Cleaner&lt;/em> is one of those, and if it's muddled, overly complex, and kind of silly, at least it's not &lt;em>The Adventures of Ford Fairlane&lt;/em>. Yes, Harlin was responsible for that, as well.  Tom Cutler (Samuel L. Jackson) is a police detective who got out of the life and started a crime-scene cleanup business. Everything is going along just fine. Well, okay, "fine" is not the word. His employees are having problems dealing with the messes they're being asked to clean up, he's a single parent with a rebellious teenager, and his hot secretary hits him with two jobs that need done while he's the only guy in the office: an old woman with forty-five cats who died of natural causes and a run-of-the-mill homicide. He takes the latter. (That the former is never mentioned again is the movie's single biggest failing.) Everything goes as scheduled until the next day, when he realizes he's forgotten to leave the keys, so he goes back to the house to return them... and Ann Norcut (Eva Mendes), the homeowner, knows nothing about a cleaning company being retained to sanitize a crime scene. Cue web of deceit.  The biggest draw here is that you've got four actors with proven track records (along with Jackson and Mendes are Ed Harris as Tom's ex-partner and Luis Guzm&aacute;n as a detective investigating departmental corruption), and all four of them deliver good performances. A number of other solid actors turn up in smaller roles; the Robert Forster cameo is worth the price of admission by itself.  Balancing that out is, well, Harlin's direction, which is about as lackluster as it usually is when he's not in stuff-blows-up mode, and Matthew Aldrich's script, which doesn't do quite enough in the way of jacking up the suspense or hiding the predictability. It's got some really nice touches (the movie's opening scene is fantastic; if Aldrich and Harlin had been able to keep up that level of humor/gore mix, they'd have had a hit on their hands), but the longer we go, the more the movie fails at keeping the viewer guessing, despite the actors doing the best they can with the material given.  Short answer: Harlin's best movie since &lt;em>Die Hard 2&lt;/em> seventeen years previous... but not as good as &lt;em>Die Hard 2&lt;/em>, which wasn't great in the first place. ** ½

(2.5 STARS) Mildly Entertaining Not to spoil the film's rather convoluted storyline, let me just tell you that "Man on a Ledge" is a light-hearted action thriller. Sam Worthington ("Avatar") is Nick Cassidy, a "Man on a Ledge" of Roosevelt Hotel, New York City, threatening to end his life. A former police detective and escaped convict, Nick insists that he will only talk to a police negotiator Lydia Mercer (Elizabeth Banks).  In the opening flashback scene it is also shown that Nick, arrested for stealing a 40 million-dollar diamond, has a younger brother Joey (Jamie Bell). Genesis Rodriguez plays Angie, Joey's girlfriend; Anthony Mackie is Mike, a police officer who once worked with Nick; Ed Burns is a cynical police officer Jack; and Ed Harris is the hotel owner David Englander. Kyra Sedgwick and William Sadler also appear as a TV reporter and a valet respectively.  Despite the decent production design of the hotel building, "Man on a Ledge" just fails to interest us, revealing its hand too early. The film lacks the tension of "The Negotiator," in which Samuel L. Jackson's character looked really serious about what he is doing. "Man on a Ledge" also suffers from an unfocused narrative. For the most part the film's actions take place in more than one place, but none of them is really interesting, due to director Asger Leth's (his feature debut) ineffectively employed cross-cutting storytelling.  "Man on a Ledge" is a mildly entertaining but forgettable action thriller.

Bad But Watchable "Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies" is an Asylum attempt to cash in on the big budget <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005LAIHZE">Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter [Blu-ray</a>], but it is actually a notch above most Asylum releases. I love zombie movies and am a bit of a Civil War buff as well, so perhaps I was a little more predispositioned to like this than other viewers.  No plot spoilers from me: The movie follows the exploits of President Lincoln as he confronts a threat even greater than the on going Civil War. The plot was weak at best but serviceable for a zombie movie and the acting was mostly amateurish, with the notable exception of Bill Oberst Jr. as Abe Lincoln. Oberst actually carried most scenes and made the movie watchable. There were many liberties taken with the placement of famous people and history in general, but that can be forgiven in this movie. The special effects ranged from laughable to fairly good but the repeating, never empty muzzle-loading rifles were almost unforgivable. I actually like the ending and thought it was cleverly handled.  This is not a movie that I'll likely go out of my way to see again, but it does work as a campy zombie flick.  CFH

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Early "talking" western Specialists in niche market material such as vintage programmers and TV shows, Pennsylvania-based ALPHA VIDEO is owned by Jerry Greene, founder of Collectable Records. Quality of their unrestored movie transfers varies from fair to good, based on condition of source material stock (often old 16mm broadcast prints). The only extras provided are a catalog insert and DVD-accessible title list.  Total time on their edition of ROGUE OF THE RIO GRANDE is one-hour. This includes a spoof trailer for a non-existent film entitled "Then Came the Yawn," and a clip of a vaudevillian who makes music with his hands.  "Rogue..." was directed by Spencer Gordon Bennett, a prolific specialist in 'B' unit western, sci-fi and high seas programmers. He also directed the two most popular movie serials of all time, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000I8OM94">SUPERMAN (1948) and ATOM MAN VS. SUPERMAN (1950)</a>.  In Myrna Loy's first talkie, the bandito El Malo (Bohr), a sort of Mexican Robin Hood, is annoyed by a WANTED poster that skews his handsome face and offers only 1K for his capture. Plans for revenge on the town's sheriff (Miller) are set aside when El Malo visits a local cantina and sees his old flame, Carmita (Loy) is a dancer there. Their renewed friendship upsets Carmita's dance partner/current boyfriend (Burt), who is mortified when El Malo cuts in on their tango.  The spurned boyfriend waits for a chance to make the outlaw pay...with his life. An opportunity to strike comes when El Malo witnesses from afar a stagecoach robbery and discovers that one of the three men responsible is the town's mayor, Seth Landport (Morgan). El Malo tells Landport to meet him later that night at the cantina. This is when the still-angry boyfriend makes his move...  Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 IMDb viewer poll rating.  (4.3) Rogue of the Rio Grande (1930)- Myrna Loy/Jos&eacute; Bohr/Walter Miller/Carmelita Geraghty/Gene Morgan/Raymond Hatton/Florence Dudley/William P. Burt

Above average dramedy The Breakup could have been another run of the mill chick flick. Outside of the standard images that depict dejected men as able to get vuluptuous women into their apartment on call while "sulking", it refreshingly had believable guy/girl arguments. The final argument that causes the breakup was done with such good acting that it caused me to wish for equal material throughout the movie.    The scene at the concert when Jennifer Aniston gets stood up was also one of the most effective empathy grabbers I've seen in a while. I felt so bad for her that I genuinely wanted all this bad blood between the two of them to quickly end. As she cried in her bedroom, I knew this was the best acting I've ever seen Aniston do. Vince Vaughn played off her distress convincingly. Although annoyingly exaggerated at times, Vaughn captured many a man's words with enough accuracy to summon up my own personal regrets.    At the art gallery, the actress Judy Davis who plays Aniston's boss stood out and handled what could have been a yawner with deft and charm. Some detraction lies in the usual attempts by directors to be so super-comedic that a film can lose realism. That hand unfortunately got played one too many times. This caused an otherwise smooth film to occasionally revert back to a clunky dime-a-dozen "romantic comedy."    The original ending was natural. You get zinged with a sorrowful regret feeling that many of us have felt at one time or another. How do I get back what once was, and no longer is?  Overall, the Breakup is as good as this kind of film gets. A better than average mix of chuckles and heartache.

Follow-up movie.... I didn't see the first movie so missed some of the back story.  Exceptional acting here and very touching performance by Janet Jackson.  Good values and practical information for marrieds.  Tyler Perry is a master at what he does - all different things - and this is one of the best.

Michael Flatley Returns It was just fair, I have 3 others that where made by Flatley and this was all backround effect, it got to the point where you could not see them dancing. Feet of Flames & the first Lord of the Dance where simpler & better.

Good movie I am not a big fan of the "found footage" kind of movie. This one was better than others I have seen. I remember the Moon landing of 1969. This is a good movie of what could have happened if a moon landing had gone horribly wrong. It is kind of Blair Witch Project meets Capricorn One. Worth a look.

o.k. high lights Could have and should have been better. Not enough Nolan Ryan. Worth if bought for under $15. They should have had more interviews with past player stars.

At least it's widescreen Poor transfer. Kind of equivilent of broadcast TV pre-digital age.  But it is in widescreen, which makes it worth the $12.  Fascinating movie with the great Ben Johnson.

Leran to sew a shirt or blouse I felt this is a very complicated instuction.  This item is not for a beginner which I am not, however I feel it could be done with much more user frinedly.

Editted from the original version. I remember seeing this movie when it first came out or shortly after.  The scene were Vic Morrow was killed has been cut in half.  It originally contained partially the scene with the children, the Vietnamese village and the helicopter with part of the crash, but obviously none of the footage of the accident. For the DVD release of the movie that whole scene with the kids was CUT OUT, probably because they figured it would be more respectful.  The scene eerily ends with Vic's character yelling "help me" from a Nazi truck.  That in itself makes the scene even eerie than it was before.  No other reviewers have noticed this as far as I can tell.  Not sure if the original VHS version contains those cut scenes but I am going to find out!  To the movie companies:  Do us a favor dont edit out movies for content from their original release.

Movie could have been reduced to 30 minutes. OK, first off let me say that I own all of the SAW movies, and have seen them in the theaters; needless to say, I'm a big fan. I knew going in to this movie that it was going to be slim on the revelations factor seeing as how this is SAW 7 and we've pretty much figured out absolutely every thing there is to figure out in this saga. Of course, the only thing left was the issue with Dr. Gordon... Did he make it out? Was he alive? etc...  In the first 5 minutes of the film, that's answered. Then a ridiculous set of traps begin which really have no purpose in the film except to fill the time. Honestly, the movie could have been trimmed down to about 30 minutes. Really this movie was just milking the franchise for another couple million.

Nothing like the book This movie was absolutely nothing like the book its based on. If you want some REAL action, read the book. Freestanding, it isn't bad (so long as you ignore the idiotic romance tale). But if you're looking for Hornblower, you won't find him.

timmy the tooth in spooky tooth  a cute movie for kids huy kids today its the first movie review im doing timmy the tooth spooky tooth  in this episodie timmy and brushbrush are ready for a party but bubbles calls them  for a spooky adventure witch they see a spider and a mummy but there not scary there nice to them and other stuff happens too so i give this probbaly 3 stars because its mostly for kids but i still like it so get it for your kids because they will enjoy it mabey the parents will enjoy it  too

Great action movie but falls short in many ways I went to the movies to watch the Green Lantern and it gave me mixed results because to me this could have been a great story to start to introduce more characters of the DC Comic Universe to the movies, for the last couple of decades only Superman and Batman have been turned into movies but seems like they are trying to catch up with Marvel since they are already building up the team for the Avengers while DC needs to speed things up if they really want to make a movie with the Justice League in this decade.  First, same as many superhero movies coming from the comics you get almost 30 minutes of establishment so everybody will understand the concept of the movie from where the power comes from, the alliance of guardians and how the ring itself select the right person for the job. This way works because it saves you from reading a pile of comics to get the whole idea. Has been done recently with Iron Man, Thor and Capitan America. But this time even though it does show the audience there Hal Jordan comes from, what he does for living and his behavior, it falls short when comes to really establish the relationship with the love interest (Blake Lively) and the evil Hector Hammond never really gave a real fight to our hero and seems like the writers developed a great villain but after he got stronger enough to put up a real fight they just toss it to the garbage by making a magic entrance of the main evil character Parallax into the hangar they are in and that's just sad and flat out stupid. All of this gives us a messy first act with loads of holes to begin with.  When Hal Jordan is taken by the ring to its home planet Oa, here comes a ton of CGI that besides giving the audience a Ryan Reynolds in a spandex suit and some hollow "training" scenes, never really provides more than an obscure world full of aliens of all over the universe with a big green lantern alien that wants to kick Jordan's ass and a red skinned leader that has not trust in the newest addition to the Green Lantern Corps.  I think the problems begin with the narration that tell us everything from the very first minute that never ends, instead the director should have shown us everything giving a richer experience skipping the documentary style. The script only slightly touches the romantic relationship between Hal Jordan and Carol Ferris, which could have been a great audience grabber building up empathy the same way Superman and Lois Lane does it, maybe putting her in real danger later on and making us all want the Green Lantern to succeed saving the girl and the end of the movie.  When Hal Jordan starts believing and truly learns how to properly use the ring powers the movie is really awesome, Reynolds has a charm that really fits into the character. From that point on is totally worth it and the action scenes even though they are all CGI are well done.  But for the teenage boys and young adult demographic for which this movie is intended is going to totally satisfy them since they are not really looking more than a action-filled movie with action sequences and powerful heroes.  Rating 6.5/10 Because even though is not a masterpiece, it does its job by entertain the audience with action/humor.

Shameless USA ..LIP= Phineas and Ferb? Is it me or does the actor who plays LIP from the show SHAMELESS looks like that little cartoon character PHINEAS. isnt he suppose to be the ladies man of the show and the tough guy? hard to believe everytime i see him.. lol. Also whats with his pants that he is wearing this season ..looks like something out of westside story. As for fionna,, they made her slutty in this US version, Dont get me wrong... any time to see emmy rossum getting down and dirty is ok in my book. 3 stars for emmy nude!

I, Claudius After the assassination of Caligula, this movie places Claudius at the scene for the Praetorian Guard to declare him Emperor. The truth of the matter is Claudius left the scene moments before the assassination.  Fun fact: The actor portraying Claudius bears a strong resemblance to Don Vito of the TV show _Viva_La_Bam_.

Invest in A Box of Kleenex Before Watching! This was quite a tear jerker that's for sure.  Although I was a bit skeptical in the beginning with very poor acting and dialogue, it did pick up and get better along the way.  The acting was just not there in my opinion.  Katey Segal is usually spot on with her characters, but it took a while for her to embrace this one and flow into it.  Her emotions were quite bland in the beginning when she is reminiscing about her childhood, and then when she finds out she is going to have a pre-term baby there was no emotion at all. She lays quietly on the gurney and stares at the ceiling. Doesn't cry at all. Having been in the position of a pre-term baby I could not understand why her character wasn't devastated or shocked at the thought.  I couldn't understand why her character didn't get emotional at two major life changing instances. 1)She has Cancer~AGAIN, 2)She is going to have to deliver her baby at 23 weeks.  Knowing either one of these were going to happen to me I would be a bit more emotional.  Katey Segal behaves as if she has never had a baby in her life.  There was no convincing dialogue when it came to her pregnancy, or the reality that she was going to have a baby so early it may not even survive. At one point she casually tells her husband to get up she's bleeding. And when she goes to the bathroom it was monotone "oh no. I'm bleeding." Just matter of fact, no urgency, no emotion. She was not in touch with the pregnant part of her character at all.  However, when her character is in pain from the cancer, walking with a walker, then weak and confined to bed, she really takes off and gets it.  It is at this moment when you need to reach for the tissue box.  When she is coming to terms with the reality of never seeing her family, husband, baby, etc. again, she is most convincing and it really hits home and pulls at your heart.  The movie basically rolls along slowly as you follow this woman through her daily routine of having a premature baby.  Taking care of this baby in the hospital for months. Her cancer diagnosis. Her plan of attack on the cancer. Her acceptance of death and planning for it.  She is not forced into giving her husband to her nurse, the nurse and her family just happened to have formed a close bond while caring for her premature baby for so long in the hospital in which the nurse works.  So they truly see the nurse everyday and build a relationship together with her.  It is when she is diagnosed with cancer and told to prepare for her death that she starts thinking of the possible future her husband could have with the caring and nurturing nurse. She sees that the nurse cares for her daughter as much as she does, and could easily replace her as a mother. Her main concern is giving a mother to her daughter.  Finding a woman who can give her husband what he needs as well is a bonus to the situation.  At times the film is awkwardly written and it lags quite a bit.  The story isn't really that great, it is just a touching and sensitive subject that stirs your emotions.  It is a depressing movie that can bring you down, and I cannot imagine watching it very often for pleasure since it is so emotionally draining. It does say it is based on a true story, but they don't give you any history or follow up at the end that would connect you to the story better.  I like knowing more about the family the movie is based on when they say it is based on a true story.  I like the connection and the association between the real person and the character the actor is portraying.  It would be a nice addition to the dvd extras area.  Brian Young who portrays the husband has his moments of good acting, but then a majority of the time he is just not with it convincingly enough. The same goes for Annabeth Gish.  She is good at times, but the three actors together do not have a cohesive bond or the convincing comradery that you would like to see and feel.  It just always felt like something was missing.  Overall it isn't a movie for kids since they would be extremely bored and possibly confused over the cancer and death topic of the story. It is older and a bit dated.  I think if it was on TV it would be a good one to grab for the night.

Blu-ray is not much better than regualr DVD The Blu-ray is a poor HD transfer, excessive motion artifacts with poor contrast range. Your are money ahead NOT to purchse this Blu-ray version. The audio sounds identical to the regular DVD, I was realllly looking forward to a great DTS audio experience..no dice.

I watch this movie but for free LOL MI-III is a great movie i love all mission Impposibles and 007s they are classics but I watch it free [...]

good, bad and ugly another found footage/exorcism flick...  good-i enjoy both the style and genre of this film. i love the found footage approach and i especially love exorcism films. bad-not as scary as i was hoping. there was one scene that sicks out even as i type this review. it did however surpass "the last exorcism" ugly-the ending, what the hell kind of ending was that! im watchin the flick and all of a sudd......  final verdict: bad-this isnt the best found footage/exorcism flick, but its not the worst. in my opinion, honestly, blair witch still maintains the found footage throne.

Good for the beginning exerciser Welldone video for the most part although the music and exercise sequences occasioanlly seemed a bit out of sync. very upbeat, pleasant gentle workout that would be best duited for the beginning exerciser

NOT as good as the X-Files I watched two thirds of the episodes on this and then gave up.  I simply couldn't watch any more because the series is a pale imitation at best of THE X-FILES. This show also lacks a sense of humor which the X-Files never did.  I remember, for example, one episode where a bunch of clowns with a circus were evaluating what a normal person was like and picked Mulder as their example!  It was hilarious.  Also this series does not have any shows about separate events pertaining to alternate power or abilities in an alternate world. The X-Files had separate episodes about characters with a bizarre set of circumstances.  Scully and Mulder had to help them.  DARK SKIES, by contrast, is always struggling with the same old story line: aliens who showed up at Roswell in 1947 who wanted us to surrender to them.  The government, with an agency called Majestic, has struggled with the aliens every since.  The chief government person is played by the late JT Walsh.  Although I liked him as an actor, this role was about as well rounded as the Smoking Man's in THE X-FILES.  It grew extremely tiresome and I just groaned whenever he appeared.  One difference between this show and the X-FILES is that this show is set in the 1960s, not present day.  That was interesting for awhile but as the same old plot and characters were trotted before us again and again, not even that could save it.

Michael Bay's investment yields huge dividends... Producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer (Beverly Hills Cop, Days Of Thunder, Top Gun), known for a slick over the top approach to action, are behind Bad Boys (1995), a big and loud extravaganza teaming Martin Lawrence and Will Smith, as Miami police detectives on the trail of millions in stolen cash and drugs.  Michael Bay (The Rock, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Transformers) makes his directorial debut, in this action/comedy, that sort of delivers in the action department, but not so much when it comes to laughs.  A gang led by a criminal named Fouchet (Tcheky Karyo), engineers the audacious robbery of millions of dollars of confiscated drugs from the police evidence vault.  During the robbery, one of the team takes a bag of drugs for personal use, and arranges to party with a couple of women in a hotel.  Fouchet arrives, and eliminates his greedy collaborator and one of the ladies, but Julie Mott (Tea Leoni) manages to escape a hail of bullets, by jumping from a roof into a swimming pool.  Rich playboy Mike Lowery (Smith), and dedicated family man Marcus Burnett (Lawrence) are Miami police detectives assigned to work on this most crucial of cases.  Lowery isn't in the office when Julie calls police headquarters, so Burnett impersonates him, and arranges to meet her.  Fouchet's men are close behind, shooting up Julie's apartment, as she and Burnett barely escape to safety with her two pet dogs.  Mott refuses to enter protective custody, so Burnett stashes her at his partner's apartment.  Burnett's boss Captain Howard (Joe Pantoliano), noisily orders him continue to impersonate Lowery, and get vital information from Julie.  Burnett moves into Lowery's bachelor pad, while Lowery takes up residence in Burnett's home with his wife Theresa (Theresa Randle) and two kids.  Much of the remainder of the film is centered on keeping Julie believing that Burnett is actually his free-wheeling partner.  It's a fairly ridiculous situation, as Julie is certainly intelligent enough to handle the truth.  The elaborate charade provides some rather forced and predictable, low level humor.  Lawrence has fairly good chemistry with Smith, who mostly plays the straight man to Lawrence's goofing.  Bad Boys tries hard to be funny, but isn't very successful, despite Lawrence being an accomplished ad libber.  Tea Leoni, as the sharp tongued Julie, seems too bright to be involved in most of the goofiness, and at times seems out of place with her co-stars.  The DVD commentary by Michael Bay is highly informative, though sporadic at points.  The director repeatedly states that the studio did not believe in the film, and that he was working under extreme pressure, on a very limited budget, with his directorial future at stake.  Bay says that he even paid the studio out of his own pocket, to shoot a particular scene.  Bay also relates some interesting anecdotes about stars Lawrence and Smith.  Of particular interest is the amount of improvisation that was apparently done, as apparently there were some big problems with the script.  Bay often focuses on the pressure of meeting shooting schedules, and budgetary concerns, but his investment and efforts certainly did pay off.  Bad Boys went on to make over 100 million dollars in profits, and Michael Bay has become one of Hollywood's most in demand directors.  A fast paced film with good production values and a cartoonish plot, Bad Boys largely delivers what you might expect from a Simpson/Bruckheimer production.  With Smith and Lawrence trading barbs, this surprise performer at the box office helped launch Will Smith's movie career.  It would be followed by the more explosive and exciting, Bad Boys II in 2003.

3 of 5 A Robocop; a police officer that's part man and part machine; isn't a bad idea. Even given the malfunctions that are bound to happen, it has many advantages over a regular person in a uniform. There's a point here in which a man; a potential rapist; is holding a woman at knife-point. A regular cop would have to hold fire to avoid the risk of shooting the victim by mistake. But even with the woman struggling about in panic, Robocop is able to aim between her legs and shoot the man in the groin without hitting her. It's a risky move that takes the careful calculation of a sophisticated robot mind.  He also has super-human strength. He's able to bend the barrel of a gun with his bare hand. So the violent criminals of Detroit don't stand a chance while Robocop is on the force. The problem is the psychological baggage from the part of him that's human. He used to be a normal cop until he was gunned down by a notorious street gang. Now he's essentially dead; a man with a loving wife and kid replaced by a set of computer codes, prime directives and a dry corny sense of humor. But he still has memories, and emotions, and that, along with an open mouth area, makes him somewhat vulnerable.  marcellee.com

Jewel in a movie role , about The American Civil War For a start I did not let the title put me off . I bought this DVD because Jewel was in it , plus a good story line of American history , "American Civil War" So with that in mind , it was a interesting movie to watch . Once I started it I had to watch the movie to the end . Then I went to the bonus section of the DVD , AND , I really enjoyed the Jewel Music Video "What's Simple Is True".

"Bollywood meets Merchant Ivory" Bollywood meets Merchant Ivory in this reasonably pleasant film which, perhaps, is more successful as a travelogue of modern day India as opposed to an intense dramatic experience. It revolves around many quirky and eccentric characters with the intent of providing some moral uplift and inspirational feel. Political correctness abounds. Yet, I have no trouble recommending it as a rental for a quiet evening at home.

The Colony Season Two I was disappointed to find the online videos of the behind the scenes interviews were not added to the DVD. Instead, deleted scenes, which are often cut b/c they are useless time wasting scenes, are added as the bonus. This season offered more practical survival lessons, yet some were not shown, but are available online only. I am glad to own it, despite being able to watch it, whenever a WiFi signal is available... but I was hoping to see more of Tick's behind the scenes.

Good movie Not a great movie, but a good one. I remember the very mixed and negative reviews when it came out. I don't think many of these were very fair.

Kinowelt release is DVD-R As a rule I'm not a big fan of trucker/chase movies, but I am an admirer of Peckinpah's body of work and 'Convoy' is probably the most artistically realized example of the genre, such as it is, so I wanted to own a nice clean copy.  Yes, Cheezy Flicks' two versions-- as discussed roundly here-- are second-rate in terms of video and audio quality, and Kinowelt does offer a somewhat sharper picture (though still grainy and a bit dark) with the aspect ratio corrected, but be aware that the latter's disc is DVD-R format, which generally is considered inferior for repeated viewings and may not work at all in some players.  Film earns 3 stars, presentation 2 1/2.

Would make more sense if story were coherent The actors do a powerful job of conveying the insanity, terror, and desperation of Molly, her new husband, and her sister.  The old house is perfectly creepy too.  What's hard to understand is the constant footage--who was running that camera anyway, and why?  And what is the deal with Molly's dad and the horse pictures?  Some elements just do not come together and this weakens the overall effect.

Fundamental misunderstandings I love the Year One comic.  It's my favorite Batman story.  If someone were to ask me the best part about it, I would say, "The internal monologue."  That's the storytelling device Frank Miller chose, and it's the spine, skull, and bones of the creature that is Year One.  That's what made the comic so great: Whether it was fear, determination, or courage, the thoughts inside Batman and Gordon's noggin were very engaging.  So, I was a little surprised when I found that it seems the Year One movie-makers didn't seem to "get" this.  There are two problems with how this plays out:  1. Bruce's voice sounds bored the whole time.  All of his reflections, all of his convictions, sound, well... sleepy.  When he punches and kicks a hard tree stump while deciding whether or not he can be the Batman, and he says, "I'm not ready... not yet," the comic had him gritting his teeth like he's a furnace of pent-up rage.  But in the movie, he sounds passive, bored, and like he's about to yawn.  This is a voice-acting role for someone to BRING IT.  Year One's Batman voice needed to be someone who could growl out his fierce lines through clenched teeth.  Brian Cranston brings a good gravelly tone to Gordon, but Batman sounds like the guy who makes your sandwich at Subway.  He's just... there.  In the comic, he keeps a cool exterior, but his internal monologue is so, so... motivated.  Committed.  Angry.  Brave.  He stares at people without flinching but in his mind and heart, there is a lot of interesting stuff going on.  Here, they kill it.  It's like Batman's having trouble paying attention to the whole "Batman" thing and is thinking about whether to get tacos or pizza on the way home from crime figthing.  2. There is not enough internal monologue.  Again, this is the major story-telling tool, so it is surprising to find that they SKIP a lot of it.  I get that the characters are sometimes doing boring stuff in the comic (like walking down a rainy street) but the reader never got bored because you could read as fast as you wanted:  You didn't finish a word balloon and then sit there staring at the same frame before going forward.  There are a lot of scenes in the movie where boring things are happening and INTERNAL MONOLOGUE WAS WRITTEN IN THE COMIC but the movie inexplicably skips it and has someone silently walking along.  These problems combine to make a great story ultimately boring.  I bought this and regret it.  It's a rental... sorry bat-fans.

2010 So CORNY. The guilt of modernity, the so-called shame of international discord.  Crap.  Yet, the leathery faced Scheider guides.  No idea why this movie was made.  -r.c.

The Other Early Ridley Scott Film After debuting with "Duellists," and following it with the legendary SF classics "Alien" and "Blade Runner," Ridley Scott's fourth feature film was the curiosity known as "Legend." In the US, it kinda flopped; in Europe, it got vaguely noticed, maybe even popular. The movie had a curious afterlife for the rest of the century on premium, then regular cable, though it's hard to gauge whether it gained any fans. I remember running into this movie often while channel-surfing; I only ever saw portions of it for a long time.  Three years before "Willow" and other movies moved the CGI revolution's first phase into high gear, "Legend" is therefore one of the last fantasy films with traditional non-CGI effects, some of which are actually quite good. Some nice visuals, decent sound design.  As for the quality of the story and the characters, that's debatable. Tis standard-issue good vs evil fairy-tale stuff, though leaning towards the dark. After or before (?) the infamous dream sequence of certain versions of "Blade Runner", Scott brings unicorns to the forefront of this film, the driving plot point and MacGuffin. (But whale song? What- really!?!)  Although in some respects it doesn't quite gel, "Legend" has its moments and its nice ideas, and it is here presented to its full potential. The Blu-Ray has two versions: the truncated US version scored by Tangerine Dream, and the longer European version with a traditional and old-fashioned (for him) Jerry Goldsmith score. (There are nice soundtrack albums for both, by the way.)  Extras are fairly plentiful: galleries, a commentary, a few interesting deleted/alternate/planned scenes, a set of trailers (oddly using snippets of "Alien" score), and a really nice and fairly thorough behind-the-scenes documentary (although Tom Cruise is absent.... was he too busy or what?). With a movie like this, that seemed not to have lived up to its full potential, it's really nice to have two versions of it to watch and listen to.

Gives you hope but no specific information This 26-minute video is about 5 kids who recovered autism using biomedical approaches. It doesn't really tell you what the parents exactly did with the help of DAN! doctors. For those kids, its not very clear where they were on the spectrum at the time of diagnosis, apart from the fact that they showed few classic autistic symptoms. Its interesting to watch, gives you hope that autism is treatable but there is not much information that you can use from this video.  I wouldn't spend 20 bucks for this video. Try to find it in a local library.

Good movie, terrible video copy I loved this movie back in 1997 on VHS, so I bought the DVD, but it looks as if they just copied the VHS straight onto a DVD. There are small black boxes flickering around on the screen and white pixels flickering in other spots. Maybe this just can't be viewed on a 60" hdtv.

...Odd, for a musical... Carousel seems to have been one of the least successful of the great 1950s film musicals.  When I saw it for the first time recently, although I had no preconceived judgments about it, my response to it was not very positive.  Even though it contains some fine and famous songs, such as "You'll Never Walk Alone" and "If I Loved You," I felt only minimal enthusiasm for it as a musical and I found the dance sequences very  forgettable except for Louise's "carousel dance."  As some other Amazon reviewers have pointed out, the story is on "the dark side" for a musical.  My thought was that at the end, even though Billy's spirit was given a chance to come down to earth from Heaven  in order to make up for some lack-love mistakes in his life, and although I was moved by the love he expressed in his "spiritual form," I never felt he was a very sympathetic character.  For me, he most approached being lovable when he was singing the song in which he looked forward to interacting with his unborn child, "Billy," whom he imagined would be a copy of himself whom he would love.  I never felt that he ever really loved the girl he got involved with, even though he married her.  Although I wasn't particularly turned off by the character played by Shirley Jones, I just felt a disappointment in her character too--maybe a lack of depth there.  Since the themes in the story were serious and tragic, I think that the female lead should have been just a hint deeper as a character and less saccharine in appearance.  At the end of the film, my thought was "This is a very odd musical."  Perhaps other viewers react differently to Billy.  Certainly, there are many rave notices from viewers who found Carousel to be a great, satisfying experience.  I don't wish I'd never seen it.  I AM GLAD THAT I SAW this film of the musical, mainly because it caused me to ponder about why I did not find it successful.  (I had the same reaction after viewing Brigadoon.  Before I saw it, I had really liked the idea of a village that could disappear and reappear in "time," and I thought I'd really enjoy Brigadoon.  Except for liking very much the ever-genius dancing of Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse in it, I still simply can't figure out why Brigadoon just did not come across well on the whole either!)

not so good i expected more of this dvd because it is just like a documental of their life with no much music

Needed more of John Krasinski Formula movie that I actually liked -- but couldn't understand why Jennifer Goodwin's character was best friends with Kate Hudson's character. The person Kate Hudson plays is so immensely unlikable I can't understand why these characters are drawn to her. Besides that point, Jennifer Goodwin does an excellent job with her role and John Krasinski steals the movie. I would have liked to seen more of him. No great message here but John Krasinski and Jennifer Goodwin are worth watching.

Not "Getting" the Gringo Get The Gringo is a Mexican noir that tries to skate along in a Tarrantino fashion with whimsical violence and quirky one-liners, but clashes with elements of serious drama that hinder the pacing of an otherwise enjoyable film.

Don't worry, it has a lesbian kiss, check Truthfully, you won't miss much by skipping his movie. It's better than, say, Avatar (less idiotic plot, less cartoony characters), but not as good as, say, The Hangover, Due Date, 21 Jump Street (which was surprisingly hilarious and smart, though somewhat raunchy). Yes, they crashed a Porsche, but there's just too many coincidences. Although Jeff lives by Mel Gibson's "Signs", looking for how things in life fit together, it lacks the metaphysical framework which made Gibson's movie work (even if you hated it). Here, there's no higher power orchestrating those coincidences, so it all feels contrived to lead us along the different points to be checked off along the way.  Your enjoyment of this movie may be tempered by the token lesbian kiss. Yes, that's right, this film is now officially "edgy" and "relevant". But it may also be a criticism of how selfish and thoughtless a particular character is - plus inconsiderate of the safety and property of others - destroying thousands of dollars of other people's stuff for a "romantic" scene.  You do feel for the characters in their predicaments and longings, but the answers are too flip and simpleminded. The ending, likewise, ties everything neatly together. Watch for the red cars. Wow, really deep.  It was cute, somewhat contrived, and, of course, someone's shouting in a megaphone in your ear about lifestyles. Worth perhaps a $1 rental.

(2.5 STARS) Guilty Pleasure Two Oscar winners Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker are in this suspense movie about the "experiment," in which ordinary people selected by some "researchers" have to live in a small mock prison for two weeks. Of the twenty-six applicants who passed the test (watching some video) and the interview, five men (including Whitaker's character Barris) are to play the "guards" while the remaining twenty-one (including Brody's character Travis) become the "prisoners."  Before the experiment begins, the participants are informed about the rules for the experiment. One important thing is that the "prisoners" must obey the "guards," even in this mock prison. The experiment begins and soon confrontations arise, with some of the "guards" who take their roles very seriously.  This is supposed to be a psychological thriller, but not many actions of the characters are really convincing. The premise is interesting, but what ensues looks mostly contrived or predictable. One of the "prisoners" becomes sick; one "guard" turns out very sadistic; and so on. Acting of the leads is just OK, though overacting Forest Whitaker repeating "Toilet!" with grimace is unintentionally funny. Supporting players including Clifton Collins Jr. and Maggie Grace (as Travis' girlfriend) did decent jobs, though most of the characters they play are underwritten, even unnecessary.  "The Experiment," an American remake of a 2001 German thriller "Das Experiment" is, not surprisingly, directed by the "Prison Break" creator Paul Scheuring. As you know, the original German version directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel is inspired by Stanford Prison Experiment, which I believe did not end in this way.  Interestingly, for the remake Paul Scheuring has added a new idea to the original storyline: "a red lamp" that shows the termination of the experiment. I see the point the filmmakers are trying to make (obedience to the authorities, abuse of power, etc.), but the presence (or absence) of the red light in the film only lessens the credibility of the story, making the whole situation unbelievable.  With 'guilty pleasure' written all over it, "The Experience" is yet another unnecessary remake. It is watchable, but not as good as the original.

It was ok, Gerard Butler's appearance just made it Better I would not have liked this movie so much if Gerard Butler had not been in it. As usual he made this movie watchable with his charm and talent. It was an 'alright movie'. I only bought it because I am collecting Gerard Butler's movies. But he was not in it as much as I would've liked.

AN UPDATE OF A CLASSIC There have been numerous filmed versions of Alexandre Dumas' swashbuckling tale THE THREE MUSKETEERS over the years, my favorite of which remains that starring Gene Kelly and June Allyson. Some have been good, some have been bad and many have been so-so. But it's been a while since one was made so I guess it was inevitable that we have a new one thus we have this latest version from director Paul W. S. Anderson, the director behind the RESIDENT EVIL series of films as well as 2 ALIEN sequels.  Right off the bat we notice a change as the original story has portions tossed aside and new more modern items included. The original 3 Musketeers - Athos (Matthew McFayden), Aramis (Luke Evans) and Porthos (Ray Stevenson) - are aided by Milady de Winter (Milla Javovich) in finding their way into the secret archives of the Vatican in hopes of stealing plans draw by da Vinci for a flying ship. The archives are protected by all sorts of traps that seem more along the lines of things we'd create these days than then. Once they take hold of the plans, they are betrayed by de Winter as she drugs them and hands the plans off to the Duke of Buckingham (Orlando Bloom).  Several years pass and things change. A young man named D'Artagnan (Logan Lerman) leaves his family home in the hopes of joining the legendary Musketeers where his father once served. Along the way he has a losing fight with Rochefort (Mads Mikkelson), a high placed official in the government run by Cardinal Richelieu (Christopher Waltz) but is saved by de Winter. When he arrives in Paris the brash youngster soon finds himself involved in not one but three duels with various men he bumps into not realizing that these are the legendary 3 Musketeers.  Before they can fight, they are set upon by Richlieu's guard and a sword fight ensues where D'Artagnan proves his mettle with the legends. Upon finishing they are called before the king to be chastised. Except the king rewards them instead while haphazardly telling them to behave. Thus the group of four are united and their loyalty to the crown and not to Richlieu, who hopes to take over control, demonstrated.  With the exception of the opening the movie thus far sticks to the original storyline. It continues with a necklace belonging to the Queen in the hands of the Duke of Buckingham but instead of her having gifted it to him here we have de Winter stealing it. That gives us more of an opportunity for Javovich to have a larger role than in the book as well as a chance for her to display the fighting/action techniques she's displayed in other roles, perhaps because he husband is the director. You think?  A dance is planned and Richlieu plants in the mind of the King that the Queen could prove her loyalty to him by wearing the necklace since he was the one responsible for de Winter stealing it. With only days to save the Queen the Musketeers are sent forth to retrieve the necklace and save the day. Along the way they come across various plans to stop them as well as numerous steam punk modernistic weaponry, including the flying airships. I have to assume that the makers of this film felt that today's youthful crowd would be hard pressed to accept anything less than a video game mentality when it came to weapons and fighting sequences.  All of these minor quibbles aside the film is an enjoyable piece of entertainment. The action sequences are well filmed and the effects are dazzling. The acting is far above what one would expect for something like this and the characters well though out and performed. Perhaps the only thing that seems odd is the number of various accents displayed when all characters involved are supposed to be French.  Anyone renting this will have a fun time at the movies so much so that it might even be worth adding to your collection should you be a swashbuckler or Musketeers fan. It will definitely offer you an evening of entertainment. My only major gripe comes at the end when a set up for a sequel is clearly put forth in the most unsubtle manner. Other than that, it's all fun.

A Horrible Way to Film a Movie *Dramamine NOT Included* Usually, at least in theory, photography doesn't make a film or make it great... but it sure as hell can ruin it.  First things first though.  I went into A Horrible Way to Die thinking it was going to be another torture porn film with enough blood and guts to make John Carpenter blush and Uwe Boll actually retire knowing he couldn't sink any lower.  Let's face it, it's next to impossible for horror filmmakers to create anything truly unique anymore as almost every horror film seems to give direct homage, whether intentional or not, to a predecessor or two.  Director Adam Wingard, with unforgettable(??) titles like Home Sick and Pop Skull, attempts something new by portraying an escaped serial killer tracking down his ex-girlfriend... who is also a recovering alcoholic.  Wingard depicts the serial killer sympathetically as even the character seems haunted and remorseful of his actions but... keeps on doing it anyway (Mr. Brooks, anyone?).  An interesting idea given we're force-fed nothing but over-the-top torture porn with no reason other than to satisfy a disgusting appetite for grotesque imagery.  In fact, the film seems to go out of its way to keep things pretty tame and power to Wingard for it.  You also get a certain sense of connection to the couple being trailed by the killer and hope nothing bad comes to them.  However, despite my praise to the story and screenplay, going back to the camerawork... it just ruined everything.  I have never felt so seasick in my life as the camerawork was so shakey that I literally had to ingest some Dramamine to keep my balance.  Realistic shots, like those from Paranormal Activity or Black Hawk Down are a nice touch, but too much can confuse the viewer if not make them sick.  The plot would literally pass me by because I was nauseated by the camera jumping about like a pinball.  The cameras were also constantly out of focus if not downright blurry.  Perhaps this was intention to keep the gore and violence level tame, but all it did was make an already nauseous audience more confused and sick.  It's almost as if the film took the bold move of NOT including the audience.  It ruined the movie.  All in all, Horrible Way to Die had great potential but was lost on really shoddy camerawork, whether intentional or not.  How the film festivals gave the film awards is beyond me.

Thing Bluray I would have given this a higher rating but the HD/DVD not only is a better transfer but has more extras. I was very disappointed that the Bluray was lacking the extras my DVD had. The movie is a great transfer but most Blurays are still not up to HD/DVD quality. It is a testament to which was really the better format.

(3.5 STARS) Excellent Steve Carell and Tina Fey in the Otherwise Average Comedy Phil and Claire Foster have been married for many years, peacefully living in New Jersey with two kids. However, this weekend they want something new and fresh for their "date night" that has become routine, so the couple go to a fancy New York restaurant, where they "take somebody else's reservation" on a whim. To their great surprise, the "somebody else" happens to have been involved with some strangers with a gun looking for something.  "Date Night" is an entertaining comedy about mistaken identity and middle-aged husband and wife. There are some action sequences including car chase, but what keeps the film afloat is the two leads Steve Carell and Tina Fey as Phil and Claire. Both players are charming and delightful, fleshing out their characters through amusing banter. "Date Night" keeps us entertained as long as they are on screen, and thankfully, they stay there for the most of the film.  Sadly, the same cannot be said for the rest of the cast. The list itself is quite impressive, including James Franco, Ray Liotta, Mark Ruffalo, Kristen Wiig and Mark Wahlberg. Shawn Levy's ("The Pink Panther" "Night at the Museum" and its sequel) perfunctory direction doesn't do the film any favor, as apparently he doesn't know what to do with the great supporting cast. You can spot many scenes that could have been much funnier - shirtless playboy by Mark Wahlberg, for example - but the film misses every chance to do so.  Then it was very lucky for the filmmakers that they were able to have Steve Carell and Tina Fey. Their excellent performances as the funny and likable married couple raise the otherwise ordinary action comedy one notch higher, almost.

The New Normal Bobby (Ben Affleck) is your typical white collar success story. He has a great job at a conglomerate company, a pretty neat boss, Gene (Tommy Lee Jones), a good wife and two kids in a fabulous New England home. Then the crash of 2008 occurs and Bobby's job, despite twelve years at GTX (a transportation company of some sort), wasn't so valuable after all. Soon he has to figure out what his measure of a man truly is, and it's not pretty. "The Comapny Men" focuses mostly on Bobby's struggle, but it is an ensemble film with strong support from Chris Cooper, who struggles with the realization that a man pushing 60 in this job market is paddling upstream against younger and cheaper help, Kevin Costner, a contractor who is (IMHO) written into a cliched part, Craig T Nelson, the CEO making 22 million as he downsized left and right, and Mario Bello as the HR director who begins to doubt her ethics.  This is not an easy movie to watch, as it probably cuts a bit too close to the bone in a country facing 9% unemployment. Bobby and Phil (Cooper) soon finding that there are sacrifices both intentional and unintentional that have to be made for the sake of survival. There's also underlying messages about being prepared for the future and just how much we've thrown away for "kids working for a dollar a day" (as Costner's character unsubtly jibes Bobby incessantly). People are losing their cars, homes, families and lives in reality; "The Company Men" holds up an unflinching camera to this world. It's a good movie, just don't expect a feel-good wrap at the end.

Straightforward, not Philip K Dick style at all I adore Philip K Dick stories, so I was thrilled to see another movie was coming out based on a story he had written. This one was "The Adjustment Bureau" based on "Adjustment Team". I had high hopes.  The storyline is intriguing. Angels, using iPad style devices, are tracking humanity and keeping them "adjusted" on their proper paths. If someone veers from the path that is set for them, they are nudged back on path. Little changes don't matter, but if someone does a large change, they are fixed.  Matt Damon is a man running for New York Senate. He's on a great track for success. However, he gets distracted by an offbeat, funny dancer - played by Emily Blunt. The Adjustment Bureau is Not Happy. They need to get him back on track.  SPOILER ALERT  Normally I like Philip K Dick stories because of the twists and turns in them - but this one lays out almost predictably as a romantic comedy. Guy meets girl. Guy loses girl. Guy meets girl again. Hurdles appear. Guy and girl surmount them and live happily ever after.  Even worse, though, it seems really forced. They meet once and kiss, maybe 10 minutes together total. Three years later they meet again on a bus for maybe 10 minutes and separate.  Then I think a year or so later they meet, have a quick lunch, and sleep together. And then he abandons her.  So she also has this great guy, Adrian, who adores her. He stands by her. He takes her back after she breaks their engagement. After all of this, David pops back into her life and POOF she runs off with him again and abandons her loyal guy. All because she has a "feeling" that they were meant to be together.  That disturbs me a lot. With all the studies about how those feelings often ride on things like eye dilation and time-of-the-month hormones and so on, do we really want to be telling people to abandon loyal, trusting boyfriends because they have an urge to kiss a guy they've never seen before?  Plus, it doesn't feel like a Philip K Dick story at all. There are no real twists. Things don't always make sense. Why would an angel break all the rules to help them? Why do plans just suddenly 'change'? The ending message felt extremely forced.  So I was disappointed.

Just ok.... Not one of the better movies I've seen.  Quirky....then again, so perhaps was J. Edgar. For the price paid to download on one of Amazon's special deals, can't complain -- but cannot recommend this as one of Leo's better films.

So, So... I thought this would give me some insight to the Maui vacation weeks away. This DVD was really light on information. Just a glance over of the major highlights of each island. I feel I learned more from the Fodor's travel book I also read. I bought the used version because I couldn't find it for rent. I paid $10 but feel it's only worth $5.

was okay Storyline wasn't very clear and fight scenes were a bit slow as were the chase scenes on foot and in car Gina carano did good for her first movie but as an mma star I expected a little more she trains in muy thai and the choreographer did not show that side of her... overall I thought the movie was okay

Not "Great" I finally got around to watching this.  Sadly, I have to agree with most of the other reviews on here.  The content of the film is quite dreary and depressing . . . . and not to mention lacking in ORIGINALITY.  If anyone has ever seen the 1977 film "Julia" with Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, and Maximillian Schell, they would see quite a few similarities in the storyline.  Almost every scene dealing with the underground war effort in Europe is almost identical to those in "Julia."  Anne's relationship with Garrison is almost a mirror image of what was portrayed between Lilian Hellman and Julia.  Anne's perky and vibrant personality seems to be lost in this film, even without the distressing war scenes.  Although I found it interesting enough to watch, I doubt whether It'll be one of those "favorites" that I watch once per year.

Arouses emotions; needs summary and follow up to build upon information presented Good detail of many events leading up to financial failures.  This will get people interested.  There is an opportunity to build on this data by first of all, summarizing the key points (a summary is lost due to the large amount of data given) and there is a real opportunity to develop more detailed proposals to carry on from where we are now.  For example; its easy to say we 'need more regulations' but that leaves the participant 'cold'.  A follow up to this video would identify specific things to do to counter the negatives already identified.  Its one thing to find fault, its another to offer real solutionsl to pursue.  This is real hard work, I realize.

Bulge and D Day barely a mention???? I caught this on netflix, what a gem.  I was really, really looking forward to seeing how this documentary covered "D day" and the grand finale "battle of the bulge" The more I watched I couldnt wait to get to the D Day invasion.  I was kinda expecting saving private ryan etc.  but was sorely dissapointed on both accounts.  Unless I missed something D Day was barley mentioned, and covered for less than 2 mins out of a whole 10 hour series??  And that was just to show bombers comming in ahead of the troops.  That was it then they covered the hedge rows for a bit?!?!?!!!  Battle of the bulge was given a little more coverage but not nearly enough.  Where they did spend the most time was in the Japanese campaings, which they followed in depth island by island.  This did spread new light on that aspect of the war which is usually not covered much in other programs.  All in all this was A+ work. I was bummed they pretty much diminished D DAY and BATTLE of the BUlge to almost insignificant parts of the war efforts.

Good for readers I am thrilled GIRL is being released again in an American-produced movie because this one doesn't do the book any favor. YES, for all of us who read the book this version is great but that's because WE KNOW AND CAN FOLLOW THE STORY! The movement here is fast, the scene cuts are quick and unexpected, and I simply do not see how someone who has not read the book can follow this one. for thos of us who have, it's well done but I sure wish they'd put another 45 minutes into the film to flesh out some of the more critical scenes better.

WRONG TITTLE FOR MOVIE The movie's real tittle is the "Royal Kill" which is a better tittle. The movie really has nothing to do with Ninjas. It is more about a skitsofrantic serial killer with a few cool martial arts moves. The characters are supposed to be from a country near Tibet but they speak Pashto which is a language in Afghanistan and Pakistan not really in Tibet.  The tittle of DVD really misleads you. Don't waste your money unless you like serial killer movies with a big twist.

CUTE The only words to describe this movie is cute and funny and entertaining for a lighthearted romantic comedy. I would recommend this for teens and young adults. The british vocabulary was fun to listen to.

Astaire and Rogers Classic It's an Astaire and Rogers movie, what is there to say?  Guy meets girl, they break up, guy gets girl back.  Singing and Dancing ensue.  Alright, whatever, I'll review it.  Swing Time is the 1936 Astaire and Rogers film that pairs the two together for the sixth time, and they dance!  Christ, what else can you really say about it?  The plot serves only to link the dancing numbers, and I suppose the comedy is funny at times.  You either like films about two people dancing or you don't.  The musical numbers are well put together and the film is enjoyable to watch.  I wish I could say more about it, but it gets very samey.  In my mind, it's just a blur of dances and songs.  Is it bad?  No, not at all.  If you enjoy dancing movies, it's great!  If they don't, they don't!  That's really all I can say about Swing Time.

Decent film hijacked by poor acting "Jumping the Broom" follows the tried and true formula of wedding/family conflict romantic comedies -- two people, one from a rich background, the other from a poor one -- fall in love, and are set to find "happily ever after"...except that their families hate each other. Have we seen it before? Only a thousand times or so. Can it be funny? Absolutely, if well done.  On that score, "Jumping the Broom" didn't exactly succeed, but it didn't crash and burn either. Much of this was just too happily-ever-after unrealistic (like the snobby girl who falls for the cook subplot), but it is a romantic comedy, so I didn't expect realism. The worst part of this film was by far the acting. To be fair, some of the cast were quite good -- the lead's "mother" and "father", for example, were very good in their roles. Others, however, were mediocre at best, and so overshadowed the good performances. The lead and her soon-to-be mother-in-law are examples of the latter: their acting was, initially, quite dreadful, although it did seem to improve considerably as the film progressed. It was very distracting, though, and threw off the mood of the film. The story itself, unrealistic parts aside, was not bad -- predictable and average for this type of film, but not bad. The characters (acting excluded) all seemed more or less real, which helped considerably.  All in all, this was a decent film, brought low by less than decent acting. 2.5/5 stars -- not a bad production, even with mediocre actors and actresses

Watched through Roku This was a movie we rented through Amazon/Roku because Netflix didn't have it.  Interesting to have movie Felix Unger (Jack Lemmon) in scenes with TV Oscar Madison (Jack Klugman) where Felix is the drunk and Oscar is the voice of sobriety.  Not great (a little Alcoholics Anonymous preachy and the characters aren't terribly likable), but a nice cheap evening.

not the original but still ok you know whats strange is that after reading the reviews on this, i expected it to be almost painful to watch. but i was pleasantly surprised. by no means was a great, especially the the beginning. there was unnecessary gore to open the movie and one other part. and they swear weirdly, like how middle schoolers do. but the guy who played shane reminded me of the original lost boys. the rest of his little group suxed. but it was ok. and i lved the return of the frog brother. and i lve the remix of "cry little sister."

Could have been better I think this movie could have been so much better if it waren't for the main leads. The opening scenes of the movie are quite terrible and soap-operish. Kimberly Elise is really weak as the female protagonist. Instead of coming across as the sympathetic victim she comes across as almost inviting the ill treatment. If I were her husband, I probably would have treated her the way he did too. She's pathetic and a completely one dimensional character. I wasn't convinced by her sudden bursts of anger and rage later on in the movie either- the acting wasn't great. The same applies to the man who plays her husband. He gives a very flat and one dimensional portrayal of his character. I felt bored just watching him.  That said, the saving grace of the movie is Madea (she's a scene-stealer) and the other characters- including Shemar Moore, who unlike Kimberly Elise is convincing as his character. I LOVE the romance between these two. Tyler Perry really knows how to get into a woman's head and create a feel-good movie. The story line was also interesting and with better leads, the movie could have made a stronger statement. Madea's Family Reunion, which was made after this one is definately an improvement.

3 1/2 stars Just some thoughts...  Some spoilers ahead.  I like John Carpenter films.  They all seem to have a very unique "feel" to them.  The eerie atmosphere, the simplicity of the plots, the synthesized musical scores composed by Carpenter himself - all make his movies one-of-a-kind, just as Hitchcock films and Hammer films have a certain "feel" to them.  The Prince Of Darkness (1987) has that classic John Carpenter feel to it.  The plot, however, is quite bizarre.  It actually is NOT simple.  I don't mean that in a bad way.  Carpenter did his homework researching what he needed to learn for laying out the bizarre plot.  This is really a psychological horror movie that is slow moving in the beginning and finishes strong.  This movie stars Donald Pleasence, Jameson Parker, Victor Wong, and Lisa Blount.  The plot is basically that Satan is in the form of a green swirling liquid that has been trapped inside a jar in an old abandoned church basement in Los Angeles for centuries.  The liquid Satan escapes the jar and enters the bodies of some graduate students studying physics who have been doing scientific research on the substance.  It turns out that Satan is actually the son of an Anti-God.  This Anti-God had put Satan in the jar in liquid form with the goal of having Satan sleep for centuries until the appropriate time came to wake up and escape the jar and bring his father back from the realm of the "dark side", which he had been thrown into.  The goal is for Satan and his father to roam the Earth once more and spread evil.  In a nutshell, the people exposed to the liquid become possessed and become zombies.  This is a movie where science and religion clash.  The movie has its share of blood, gore, creepy bugs, and other bizarre things.  The acting is pretty good.  The best acting was by Donald Pleasence.  Alice Cooper is in this movie as well.  The zombie scenes are a little cheesy, something that is un-Carpenter-like.  At times this movie sort of feels like a Carpenter film and a Hammer film mixed.  I mean that in a good way.  Overall, this is not John Carpenter's best film, but it certainly isn't his worst.  If you are one of the few remaining people on Earth who actually has patience for a mostly slow-paced psychological horror film, give this movie a try.

Forefather to Grindhouse, Stepchild to Natural Born Killers The way I see it, there are two distinct ways to see this movie. You can bemoan it for robbing you of a full Tarantino movie, delivered in his prime, by saddling the plot with an unexpected swerve into Robert Rodriguez exploitation. Or, you can sit back and enjoy it for the utterly unpredictable, bewildering, guns-blazing, "I can't believe that just happened," speed boat that it is. I fall into the latter camp, and while both directors have undeniably made more intelligent, deep, well-rounded pictures, there's no denying From Dusk Till Dawn has a certain unusual charm that's tough to nail down. Tarantino's script elaborates loosely on a lot of the social observations he'd originally made in Natural Born Killers, while the film's semi-serious, tongue-in-cheek attitude is an obvious precursor to the superduo's collaborations on Grindhouse, marking it as an evolutionary milestone of sorts for both men. George Clooney steals most every scene as a take-no-crap heistmeister who's desperate to cross the Mexican border, Harvey Keitel seems unusually understated as the soft-spoken jaded preacher, and Tarantino himself breaks out his C-level acting chops in an appropriately stiff, detached performance as Clooney's creepy, sexual predator brother. Wasn't quite the joyride I'd remembered it as, but still provided a few laughs and a barrel full of blood.

the brids hi .this is gary cullen and iam happy to say the birds landed okay. this movie takes me back a while .these movies are hard to beat. i like the older movies and will be after more over the coming months .iam happy with the service and will buy more from amazon  .   thank you gary cullen.

It is what it is As far as rom-coms go, this one is pretty good. The interactions between Kunis and Timberlake are interesting and believable and I found myself really enjoying it until the cliched rom-com plot devices kicked in.  You know how this is going to end before it starts. By halfway through you know how it is going to come about. There's nothing new here. That said, it's a rom-com. It is what it is. Don't watch it if you're expecting something 'new' or 'different' but if you're looking for a classic rom-com, this is a good one to try.

A classic What do you say, about this movie? It's a Classic! I just bought it to have it. I know I will watch it some day just to refresh my memory.

Click Click Boom! I mean Gas Gas Vroom!! Click Click Boom! Does this story make me get excited and giddy, well the answer is nah the only film worse then this with Paul Walker is "In to the Deep" but that's another story. What really excites me about his film is that it's a sequel to one of my favorite films of all time. This movie is defintely cheesy and very very unbelievable. But hey I still enjoy it, it's refreshing seeing Paul Walker still young not like in the 4th movie and now 5th movie that's about to be released. Overall it's a fun cheesy film. Enjoy!

Love the movie, but the transfer was less spectacular. I've always loved the Goonies movie, and I'll save the review of the movies to the countless others that have done so before me. instead, I prefer to focus on the transfer itself. The video "was good enough for me" (rim-shot), but the audio was poor to say the least. It was flat and lacked depth. Very disappointing. If your watching it through a TVs speakers, you might not even notice, but those with high-end Home Theatre systems will come away wanting more from the audio mix.

Iron Man 2 Oh, man, is Johansson smokin'.  Does she just get more impeccable as time goes on?  Wait, what am I talking about again...?  So, moving on, then.  Ahem.  Favreau's take on the Iron Man franchise is quickly becoming a bit like an encompassment of the industry's greatest success stories.  All wrapped up in one lucrative, intelligent, and supremely entertaining package, we have the irreplaceable Robert Downey Jr., still riding on what is arguably the greatest career rejuvenation ever accomplished in recent memory; the indelible Mickey Rourke, frontrunner for one the best performances of the last decade when he caught the industry's attention again with his role in "The Wrestler"; we have the undefinable Sam Rockwell, an eccentricity of a man who has skillfully challenged himself to become an undoubted favorite among cult enthusiasts and mainstream critics alike;  and, of course, there is director Favreau himself, a charming actor/director who's talent had been overlooked for far too long before his superhero breakout hit.  For the life of me, I cannot think of a cast and crew more deserving of recognition than this fine group responsible for the new Iron Man pandemonium that still has us in its clutches.  It's all very inspiring and heartwarming to see them enjoy such success.  All of this isn't just for article fluff; I'm encouraging you to appreciate just how big of an impact this cast is having on the project.  Without the chemistry that Favreau and Downey, especially, exude seemingly at will for their supporters to feed off of, this film and, indeed, the series itself, would suffer a subpar fate.  Being brutally honest, the script is manic and lacks rhythm, and there's really no excuse for so many protagonists and antagonists to intertwine with one another so freely in a single film.  It's all enough for a more conservative crew to have made three films out of, all clad with their own plot, action sequences, and character progression.  Iron Man 2 is dense, and it's clearly a bit of a mess, in retrospect.  But you just cannot deny the charm of everyone it features, and their combined effort more than makes up for it.  With Favreau clearly over his head, he turns to Downey's veteran expertise and ability to turn films in his favor when things are going south.  As a result, this is the actor's film to own, and he's certainly up to the challenge.  When things get noisy, Downey's there to keep some clarity.  When things get dull, Downey dances on a dime to improvise a comic crowd pleaser that brings us all back in.  Iron Man owes its new success to Robert, and vice versa.  It's as impeccable a fit as there ever was one in cinema history.  Inevitably, it begs the question if other members of the cast are ready to uphold their own responsibilities in keeping this frantic, bucking bull of a film at bay.  The film visibly suffers when Downey's off the screen, certainly, but not as much as you'd expect.  This is, in no small part, due to Rourke and Rockwell, who's villainous duo give-and-take system serves as evidence that, yes, a comic book movie not named "The Dark Knight" can have more than one villain and still be respectable.  The two, in fact, do more than enough to nearly steal the show, but then reality sets back in as Downey returns to drop a dry one-liner that has us in stitches.  As far as pandemonium goes, Favreau does about as well as any director could to keep control of things.  I wont hide my concern for the inevitable sequel, should the team choose to one-up themselves in all the wrong places, but my faith benefits from Downey's ability to seemingly do just about everything right and, in turn, encourage others around him to do the same.

WORST ENDING EVER i never read the novel so icant say how it compares, but whatching this film i was enthralled and loving it untill the ending....it seemed like it was rushed and slamned together. and i was soooooo disappoointed how it ended with the characters. alot of people love it great but for me i was left with utter disappointment i will never watch this movie again.

Not horrible, worth a watch You have to be a hellraiser fan to watch this movie most people are going to crap on it but hey, that's how it is i went into this movie thinking wow why am i throwing away my time but it was not as bad as i thought, i liked the second half of the film & the ending plot didn't like the first half it kind of dragged or pinhead or the lack of hell in the movie So it evens out & was a decent film considering how it was made wait for the price to drop until a couple bucks used then buy :)

A bit of a dull Arthurian retelling In short, Camelot feels like someone saw how popular HBO series like True Blood are and thought, "Hey!  Let's do that to the King Arthur legend!"  Camelot is a sexed up, melodramatic retelling of the Arthurian legends, and while it isn't particularly bad, it's not exactly great either.  The good stuff: The casting is very good, and the actors all do a really nice job with the material they're working with.  Jamie Campbell Bower is pretty good as Arthur-as-a-young-man, playing the character as both intelligent and naive.  He wants to do the right thing for his kingdom, but he's still just a kid trying to figure out what on earth just happened to him.  Eva Green starts off as a wonderful Morgan, a woman who is vengeful and power-hungry (a stereotype that I'm admittedly pretty tired of), though the character takes a turn for the cartoonish toward the end of the series.  Joseph Fiennes is great as Merlin, playing the character much more morally ambiguously than many Merlins before him, and I'm actually sad that we didn't have more Merlin in this series.  Fiennes was one of the strongest actors involved.  The other supporting characters are also well-played, from Arthur's knights to Sinead Cusack as a Machiavellian nun.  The costuming and set design are both lovely if occasionally anachronistic.  I really loved the costumes, and they do look appropriately medieval as long as you don't try to figure out exactly when the series is set.  The cinematography is also very nice, although the CGI leaves something to be desired.  The not-so-good stuff: No matter how good the actors are, they just couldn't save the show for me.  The writing isn't great and the pacing is atrocious.  I spent half of the series bored to death, even though I'm sure I was supposed to be riveted based on all of the lying and obfuscation and magic going on.  The entire season's plot felt like it should have been the story for four episodes at most, and if they had condensed some of the more painful elements (the betrayal/romance storyline between Arthur and Guinevere, for example), the show would have been much more enjoyable.  The writers did try to turn some of the most familiar elements of Arthurian legend on their heads, but it just wasn't enough.  The big surprises in the plot are laughably predictable, and in the season finale, I spent half of my time saying "I told you that would happen" to my fiance as we watched.  On top of the pacing issues, I felt like the sex and nudity was just thrown in for titillation.  Nothing wrong with a little tittilation, I think, but after about the fifth time we had lingering shots of the women's breasts (and very little in the way of male nudity; come on now, Starz), I was over it.  I like Arthurian legend and I like seeing what new adaptations people come up with.  Even though Camelot treaded a lot of new ground, it just didn't tread it gracefully enough for me to really like it.  It's an okay series, but just that: okay.  And since the series hasn't been picked up for a second season, you won't get much closure at all in season one.  Unless you're a big fan of the actors involved, I can't really recommend this show.

...of course we're not very discriminating; idiots, screw-ups and homos.... we'll be frieends with aanybody. a good li'l low budget comedy; rent it, don't buy it! i need some more words in this part, so the woman that Tim Blake Nelson likes in this movie is lovely!

Funny, Corny and Low-Budget Anything associated with Master P is gonna be either corny, low-budget or both!  Katt was very disappointing in this movie, thank goodness for Michael Blackson.

Unintentionally hilarious If you start watching this film expecting to be scared or horrified in any way then you're going to be disappointed!  In itself the plot isn't too bad and stretches reality no more than any other sci-fi film has done before it - leeches drink the blood of steroid-using athletes and end up mutating into something gruesome - which is no more bizarre than aliens with acid for blood, or humans gaining super powers after being bombarded by radiation.  The problem is that the special effects just don't support the script!  I know that not all films can have a blockbuster budget and utilise the latest CGI techniques, but surely someone could have splashed out on something a bit more terrifying than a green glove puppet!?!  One by one, these poor teenagers are brutally killed by a slime-covered Kermit!!!  And when you see these 'monsters' for the first time, no amount of dramatic background music will stop you from laughing yourself off your seat - they look so ridiculous!!  It's not the actors' fault, they put in a reasonable performance - they actually deserve extra credit for being able to keep a straight face during the 'tense' moments before each glove attack!  I think this film was probably intended to be erotic rather than scary, judging by the number of scantily-clad frat boys/girls in the cast, and to be fair it is in places, but overall it's much more enjoyable to watch as a comedic Muppet/90210 hybrid.

Cool Flick and Decent Transfer I greatly enjoyed the first 2 Crow films. Since it seems to be quite difficult to find a region free version of The Crow, I thought I would start with The Crow: City of Angles. As far as the actual movie goes it is not as good as the first. However it does have a decent story which keeps you interested. The ending is a bit of a let down in my opinion, however still a great flick which I am happy to have in my collection.  The PQ and AQ are nothing amazing however the PQ was much better than I expected based off of some of the reviews I had been hearing. I was quite impressed with the clarity of such a low budget older film. The detail isn't enough to blow you away, however there are some great closeups of the characters faces which look great.  Over-all it is well worth the $10 and fans of the films should not hesitate for a second.

western winter steam This was a gift.  was received as promised.  Thought it would be more of a train excursion instead of just camera views.  It's very nicely done, just not what we were hoping for.

List all the facts!!! I find the movie very informative but extremely one-sided. I am sorry for their loss but at the same time it seems like they only tell you what they want you to hear and not all the facts. One Soldier states he never saw/heard anyone else engaging them while another says different. I know for a fact that there were others injured by enemy fire but that was never brought up. It seems like they try to persuade the viewer into believing that there was never any enemy engagement to begin with.

Charlie Brown Holidays love all of Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Peanuts. when I first ordered this, it was advertised as 4 dvds. arrived and it was 3. to resolve this order, and what it really is, took lots of time. they had to correct how it was advertised, many phone calls, time used, and finally taken care. happy with outcome glad I have it. I expect the description to be what it says, and though it was disappointing, everything was done to correct it. though it took awhile, I finally have it, and what it really is, though would've been helpful to not have this whole problem satisfied with resolution. ultimately, very securely wrapped, and quicker than normal, after right one was sent.

Entrance - Confused I am reading the review above and not sure I know how the viewer found out the killer is someone from Suziey's past. I didn't know if he was a random stalker; the boyfriend of her room-mate...I didn't understand WHO he was?!?!?!? Did I miss something? I thought the movie was ok...very slow burn until the final 20 minutes but it managed to make me feel uneasy through the first hour. Something was just uncomfortable for me and the characters in this movie. The friendship between Suziey and her roomie seemed forced/cold but I thought the actress who played Suziey was wonderful. I understand the goal of the film-makers is to show monotony in Suziey's life and the fact she is so bored and unhappy, which they do well. This, to me, made the end of the movie much more effective (dramatic contrast). The shaky camera made me sick though...I just can't handle this style of filming (yes, I am a whimp).

Life is Beautiful I have seen this over 10 years ago in the theater and was so in love with the movie's uplifting spirit that I bought this BD. The plot is great, the scenery fresh and inviting, but somehow the actor, Roberto Benigni, has lost his magic with me this time around. The guy overacts, talks took much, but the message is forever young: "Don't take life so seriously, even when life suddenly foreclosed on you: your family is now being taken to the Nazi concentration camp and your little boy, the product of your fairy tale love with your ideal woman. The boy is so adorable and his acting memorable and so is his mother's (Nicoletta Braschi) enchanted affection for her crazy,high-strung eccentric jester. If you have young school-age children,this movie would be perfect, let them see it, I'm sure the strange twist and turn and the father's crazy antics will delight them. Setting in beautiful Italy before the onset and during WWII. (Please choose the original Italian spoken script and the English subtitle but not the English spoken language and the English subtitle together, they don't jive!)

Beware of Plants Best plant movie since Invation of the Body Snatchers.  Good PG entertainment with Steve Martin adding his own brand of comedy.  Enjoyable family entertainment and music.

Defective discs As the previous reviewer stated, I was also able to scan through the previews on this sixth season dvd set but the video quality is substandard and fuzzy.  Ive had problems with the picture locking up, skipping, and I cant get the third disc to play at all!  Its not my player as it works fine with other discs, Im just so frustrated with this set?  As for the program, Im also a bit let down with this season.  Seems that with the "Nebraska" show, the writers were just throwing out material to fill up empty space.  It seems the whole season lacks the quality Ive gotten used to with "Dexter" up to now.  Im half way finished with it so far, not even sure if I will attempt to finish it with the trouble Im having with the poor quality discs...

john wayne again typical John Wayne movie..fights, scenery, girls, macho talk. But, for a Wayne fan, it has everything that one would want in a movie. Fabian is miscast as is Ernie Kovaks, who is terrible. Plot weak, filming great but...where is the snow in Alaska?  Flawless in period-setting sets.

2 hours of good information played out in 5 hours. The Celts has a lot of really interesting information that seems to be stretched out for as long and slowly as possible.  The droning voice of a British narrator soothes you to sleep as gentle Celtic music plays between tidbits of information and the scene slowly pans across an artifact that brilliantly shines in stage-like lighting.  An American Professor's enlightening observation makes the point to a mostly American audience that one notable woman-chief was only.... 120(or so) centimeters tall.  How many of you are ready to do metric-to-standard conversions as you watch a DVD???  If you are looking for a terribly academic film (or are looking for a cure to insomnia) this is a winner!!! Otherwise, check this one out from the library and surf the web on your computer while it plays.

Teens and Killers Not a very new twist on an old theme, a group of college kids and their teacher go to this resort in the middle of nowhere for whatever reason, they meet a crazy who tells them they are going to die and beware of the druids, People are killed, first just the ones who enter the stay out zones and them the killer goes to the house where they are staying. Jenna jameson is sexy but not impressive as an actress.  The best scene is watching Ginger Lynn kick the crap out of the monster/killer while screaming and running away. This movie is so bad its good. Not strong on plot but the action gradually builds to the climax.

As if you needed a review for a film called "Sharktopus" At one point, after incredulously reading a warning that a half-shark-half-octopus is on the loose, a radio host says of the possibility that it's a movie, "Oh yeah, I can see that now. A former Navy SEAL slash oceanographer is tracking down this abomination before it takes any more lives." Responds his bikini-clad cohost: "I'd watch it." The host: "Yeah, I know you would, Stephanie. That's because you're easily amused." That pretty much sums up the movie.  In a nutshell, that exchange sums up the movie. As if the title alone were not enough to tip you off that this is not <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000YV1Q30">Jean-Luc Godard</a> here, the film itself spells it out. But this is Roger Corman (producer, not director), and Corman knows quite a bit about low-budget films like this. There's a limit, for example, to the absurdity of the plot. A hybrid sharktopus is right at that line, and the filmmakers know that. So the film is light, focuses on silliness at times, features a likeable cast (especially Eric Roberts, who seems to have a great deal of fun chewing the scenery), and does include reasonably good (if not thoroughly convincing) computer graphics effects. So if the title strikes you as fun, the film itself probably won't disappoint.

Moon The movie moon was an ok take on a sci fi psycho drama. The effects were average, the music was adequate and the acting was good

An better than ok film that is not faithful to the Medea legend This 110 minutes Italian adaptation of the famed play by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides with English subtitles is touted as "full of eccentric imagination and passion," and indeed it is. It stars the singer Maria Callas in her only dramatic film role. It has sparse dialogue, and Callas hardly speaks and never sings. In many ways it is like the old silent movies, but it is as dramatic as modern films.   The movie is interesting to watch, but viewers who expect to see the story as told by Euripides will be disappointed because the plot is rewritten in many ways. (See my review of the Euripides play.) Unlike the play, for example, the film spends its first half depicting a human sacrifice without dialogue and shows with many variations from the classical tale, why Jason went in search of the "golden fleece." It tells also how he stole it, again a different version. Also, in the film, Medea catches a brief glance of Jason, falls in love with him, and surprises him by bringing him the fleece.   Contrary to the ancient play, Medea is not angered over Jason's abandonment of her and his desire to marry the princess of Corinth, the land where the two settled. Instead, she is unable to accommodate herself to the new land and she talks Jason into marrying the princess.

New or not? I thought it was the one being talked about but it's an old movie. It's okay I guess. The other one must be a remakr then. -Alex

Yes this is a Spy movie..... If the opening scene is not a dead give away (Things blowing up and suddenly he is being chased by bad guys on ski's) this is a spy movie although it dose go more into the "Action" of the film.  This is your typical spy movie and your typical Arnold Scwarzenegger film, The rest of the cast makes this film fun (Tom Arnold and his typical humor).  Over all this is a fun film but it is a typical movie in several ways this film is enjoyable to watch and it is fun but be warned it is typical.

Entertaining but not amazing. I thought that this movie was entertaining and certainly kept my attention and produced a few chuckles.  At times, it was also very predictable.  It was not worth the price of a movie ticket but it definitely was a good Instant Video selection!

Digital download copy review for star gate .... Amazon makes it easy to watch a great movie like star gate .... Good pick for any sifi lover !! the quality depends on your tv setup but its still a easy deal then going out and buying the dvd or blueray, when you just wanna grab a movie for dinner with out leaving the house sit back order a pizza and watch Star Gate ...

What is described is not what you receive I purchased the Two-Disc Special Edition of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.  It was an awesome movie, that's not the reason for my "it's ok" 3 stars.  The description says it has subtitles in Spanish, French and English.  Nope, that couldn't be further from the truth.  It's only the French edition.  Subtitles only in French.  Yeah, that isn't going to do me a bit of good.

good is not great After reading the blizzard of strong reviews for this movie, and with lots of enthusiasm for the cast and interest in the premise, I was eager to see Bridesmaids but underwhelmed when I did. The movie gets billed as groundbreaking and unusual and is widely described as edgy and beyond the usual bounds of the rom-com+grossout genre that has been being mined for decades now. But it's standard fare in all respects, from the writing (you've seen this plot tens of times) and skit-type situations to the characters and underlying ideas and themes. You know how the stories will resolve; you know how the characters will develop. Many of the performances are fantastic -- Wiig, Rudolph, and Byrne are amazing -- but other characters are only halfway there and the actresses who play them are wasted. I did not find the film "hilarious" (as so many claim); it was generally funny, sometimes very funny, but as with every aspect of the film, even the comedy underperformed. I think the responsibility goes directly to director Feig, as the material, premise, and cast are full of promise but hardly used to best advantage. Example: When Maya Rudolph, who is an amazing performer of both characters and physical comedy, has her character pooping in the street underneath the wedding dress she is trying on, it's funny and gross, as it's meant to be, but that incident is shot abnd edited so poorly that what could have been a blizzard of images of a great comic actress in a spectacularly funny/gross incident is most just shown from mid-distance. You get the idea, you sort of laugh, but what could and should have been a larger scene providing an infinitely greater number of "hilarious" shots never gets beyond a "Porky's"-style sequence. Sure, I liked it, but I can't help feeling that the material and cast could have been treated with a whole lot more effect by the director. I wanted and expected to love this movie, and while I enjoyed it, I thought there was a lot less here than there could have been.

Some scenes impress, some scenes not It's too clean.  But some scenes are impressive. The English dubbing is poor in my opinion so I choose the Japanese with English subtitles.  MONGOL is better in many ways although it is meant as the first of 3 films about Genghis Khan.

Great Concept, Flawed Execution, Beautiful Cinematography. The concept of the film is an exciting one: a 16-year-old assassin, &agrave; la Mathila from THE PROFESSIONAL (but intensified), is on the run from government agents, namely a slick CIA woman for as-of-yet unclear reasons. The visuals are sleek and even poetic, which sets this particular film apart from other thrillers.  The set-up of the film raises an intriguing question. Will Hanna Heller (played by the magnificently sensitive Saoirse Ronan) decide to leave the nest of the forest in Finland in order to discover the world outside, in spite of the dangers that she is almost certain to encounter? This is a question encountered by many "normal" people on some level, and it is a particularly pertinent question, given this day and age (and economy).  The main problem stems from the tone of the film. It is part LA FEMME NIKITA, part THE PROFESSIONAL, part RUN LOLA RUN, part THE BOURNE IDENTITY, part...HOME ALONE?  The Grimms fairy tales are so important to the overall meaning of the film that it is set up in the first couple minutes, and Hanna even recites multiple times throughout that she has to meet her father (Eric Bana) at Wilhelm Grimm's house in Berlin. Unfortunately, the film's connection to the Grimms tales seems superficial at best, and it appears that the Brothers Grimm are mentioned purely so that there is an interesting-looking location for the climax (big fairy tale bed, faux candy, brightly-colored set decor in the aforementioned house).  It seems incongruous that Hanna, who has been trained to the extent that even her father ambushes her in the middle of the night to test her (in fact to drill into her head that she is never safe, even while sleeping), would later freely confess her planned meeting place to her new friend Sophie. This, of course, could be attributed to Hanna's humanization, her opening up to the very first friend in her life, but given the caution shown beforehand to mold her into a callous fighting machine, this seems sloppy and lazy--just an easy means to allow the antagonists to find her in order to get to the climax.  The minions Marissa Wiegler (Cate Blanchett) employs to help find Hanna and her father are ludicrous and contribute largely to the film's downfall. Isaacs (Tom Hollander) is the main henchman, and he has a bad blond dye-job and dresses in different bright-colored jogging suits with his two dome-headed accomplices. One accomplice, by the way, is a tall wiry man who wears acid-wash skinny jeans with knee-high boots and a cropped nylon jacket.  Yeah. Acid. Wash. Skinny. Jeans.  There you go. They provide comic relief, but juxtapose any scenes with these henchmen with one of the most exciting scenes of the film: Hanna under surveillance by the CIA in a clinically sparse holding cell, reminiscent of something out of MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE or SALT. So, these henchman are what Hanna, with all her back-breaking training and ability to beat up a team of grown men without blinking, is matched up against? They mirror the bad guys in HOME ALONE--Harry, the mastermind who is slightly less stupid than his partner and therefore leader, and of course Marv, the moron. In both these films, the idiotic antagonists are outsmarted by a fast kid. Except HOME ALONE is marketed as a comedy, so that works. One wonders why Wiegler, with all her purported acuity and resources at the CIA, couldn't come up with better henchmen than ones she picks up at a bar.  Wiegler is simultaneously amazing and disappointing. With her sharply-tailored dress suits, cropped red hair, stark make-up, and expensive designer heels, Wiegler cuts an impressive figure as she gives orders at the CIA. She is clearly a powerful woman in charge, not afraid to screw on a silencer on a gun in order to kill--well, as it turns out, anybody. Though she appears as robotic as Hanna in the beginning, she reveals some concessions she has had to make in order to get to the top of the totem poll. When asked if she ever had children, Wiegler somberly responds, "I made certain choices." She is not simply the Evil Queen of the fairy tale, but had the film explored this aspect of her character a bit more, the ending (as it is, ridden with simple mistakes) would have been more satisfying.  The family Hanna shacks up with is a touching bedrock of the film, particularly when Hanna witnesses the family bonding and kidding around in a way that she never got a chance to experience. Unfortunately, her friend Sophie's dialogue is comically stilted and extremely unrealistic (this works in a lot of films, but not this one). The highlight of the family is the young Aldo Maland, who plays Sophie's younger brother Miles. Though he's not in many scenes, he steals the ones he is in with his hilarious facial expressions and reactions to the actions of the confusing adult world around him.  In the end, the climax of the film doesn't feel earned, simply because the story hasn't woven the Grimms allegory deep enough in order to justify the silly antagonists and out-of-the-ordinary tidbits. The setting screams, "LOOK AT THE COOL ABANDONED AMUSEMENT PARK WITH THE BROKEN ELEPHANT! AND THE COOL GRIMM HOUSE! ISN'T THIS GIANT BED COOL? SEE? IT'S THE GRIMMS, YOU SEE...JUST LIKE IN THE BOOK HANNA READS WITH HER DAD!"  Despite its flaws, the film is, however, worth watching just to see Saoirse Ronan handle a rare role like this. It is not every day that a filmmaker attempts to portray a 16-year-old character in such a complex and philosophical way. Ronan seems to handle every possible state director Joe Wright throws at her with ease--confusion, happiness, nervousness, anger, and freedom. Oh, and she kicks major ass, too, holding her own against men more than twice her age and size.

A fun movie This early James Garner movie with Natalie Wood cannot be looked at in anyway but in fun. The romance is done with humor and lightness. I enjoyed it. Dean Jagger plays Natlie's dad with his usual believable touch. I enjoyed this light comedy.

Stupidly OK If you accept from the beginning that this movie is going to have horrible acting, stereotypes, and a confusing story, then maybe you'll be able to semi-enjoy this.  Just like the first movie, the special effects are awesome (except I still find the robots to be way too busy.)  Shia what's-his-face did a pretty decent job, but the rest of the acting was subpar at best.  The entire college thing was dumb.  Huge over-the-top frat parties and tricked-out dorm rooms?  Seriously?  Lower your standards and if you understand that this is a dumb movie with lots of explosions, then you might appreciate it.

Good I love this movie and was happy with this price, but when I watch about 2/3 of the movie, it stops. There are no scratches or marks on the DVD but for some reason it just stops working.....

Minor Tim Burton -- But Still Fun, With a Great Depp Performance Maybe it's because I knew this remake of the old Dan Curtis TV series was "Tim Burton on auto-pilot" that I dialed my expectations down accordingly. Whatever the case may be, the 2012 "Dark Shadows" is an imperfect but -- surprisingly -- intermittently charming film that reaffirms how good an actor Johnny Depp can be.  The star's performance as Barnabas Collins - a Maine vampire who awakens in the early `70s after having slept for over 200 years, only to find his ancestors on the downturn and his hated rival (a witch played by Eva Green) having overtaken their place in the community - absolutely anchors a sometimes chaotic and under-written (or is it over-written?) Seth Grahame-Smith screenplay that has too many supporting players running around to little or no effect. Yes, Depp's Barnabas is still "quirky" yet the actor retains enough of his aristocratic origins to make the part not just a rehash of the "colorful" characters the actor has been essaying of late; he's fascinating, alternately sinister and sympathetic, and the fish-out-of-water material, while not as dominant as the movie's advertising campaign suggested, provides some of the film's more entertaining aspects.  The movie does fumble countless dramatic possibilities -- so much of it seems overstuffed and yet undercooked, between Barnabas' weakly drawn relationship with the younger Collins clan (Chloe Grace Moretz's part is close to a throwaway; after prominently establishing her early on, Bella Heathcote's role as the reincarnation of Barnabas' lost love disappears almost completely, resurfacing just in time for the climax), to his confrontation with Green, who turns in an unsatisfying performance (her affected American accent sounds more like she's from Texas as opposed to a witch who's lived in Maine for over two centuries). Michelle Pfeiffer, Jackie Earle Haley, and, of course, Helena Bonham Carter also appear in roles that never seem to serve the dramatic purpose that they should have.  It seems evident here that Burton didn't apply himself as much to his craft as usual -- despite using familiar personnel like production designer Rick Henrichs and costume designer Colleen Atwood, the picture has a glossy, "digitized" appearance unlike his past works -- and even Danny Elfman's score often takes a backseat to a parade of familiar, effectively utilized period pop tunes. Yet there's just something infectious about "Dark Shadows" when it does score -- particularly in several amusing moments of offbeat humor (Barnabas pounding his head against an electric organ; Alice Cooper showing up to perform at a Collins family party) and through Depp's winning performance. Though still one of Burton's weaker outings all told, it's at least livelier than the moribund "Alice in Wonderland" and should find a receptive genre audience this Halloween season on video.  Warner's Blu-Ray/DVD/Ultraviolet combo pack offers a clear 1080p transfer, with Bruno Delbonnel's cinematography utilizing a striking pallet of colors throughout. The DTS MA soundtrack is effective and extras include just five minutes of deleted scenes (mostly involving Barnabas' relationship with the modern Collins family - material that there should've been more of in the final cut) and "Maximum Movie Mode" behind-the-scenes "focus points."

Visually Arresting, Pointedly Feminist Tale I have mixed feelings about this film.  It's visually stunning, with great art direction and cinematography plus some beautifully haunting soundtrack music.  Yet the "all men are pigs" (or in this case wolves) message, thinly disguised as a fairy story, bothered me.  If there were some balance here I'd give it a better rating, but the only counter-point to the general premise is when the mother tells the daughter that "women have a dark side as well", one brief line in an otherwise decidedly anti-male sentiment.  The symbolism (for those who don't get it) was pretty clear to me:  you see a male, then immediately a cut to a snake, or a frog, or a wolf, etc. (as when the young boy is pursuing the girl) and it's not hard to decipher the intention here.

Mind-blowingly fast paced This video was way too intense for me. My real complaint, however, is she jumps right in and continues just jumping right into each move (all of them combo moves) without any warning. By the time I processed that we were doing jump lunges with side step lunges that ended in a clap, suddenly we were throwing our arms left, right, up and down while jumping and kicking, with no heads up. And as the cherry on top, the video is at a rapid fire pace. I'm 50 lbs overweight and very out of shape. However, fitness used to be a priority to me, so many strength training moves and the idea  "pushing through the burn" isn't new to me. But ten minutes of straggling behind left me with an almost palpable sense of defeat and an ache that will last for days. It will be months before I am ready to follow along to this video...but the fault isn't entirely my own. When I'm ready for it, though, and after several reviews of the video, it will most definitely be one kick butt cardio session.

"Black Death" + Spiced Rum and an ice cream sandwich. MUCH better than "Season of the Witch" + tequila and tacos (read my review of "Season of the Witch" + Tequila and Tacos). Cinematography: 5 stars. Raw and evocative. I felt like I was there. Sean Bean: he's Sean Bean and he is fabulous smothered in awesome sauce. If I had boobs, I'd let him feel em. (Still Sharpe baby!!) But God dammit, is it really so hard to do 10 min of research on Wikipedia and put people in historically accurate armor for the period? Seriously. I mean, this is NOT 13th Warrior. The very first scene says 1348!! IF you're going to state the year of the event in the first 10 seconds of the movie, the least you can do is be historically accurate on the damn armor. Its riveted chainmaile for crying out loud. The fantasy wardrobe failed against the believable settings and was one of the two glaring issues that made me stop enjoying the film and want to watch anything with Ryan Seacrest (I hate Ryan Seacrest, though I'm not sure why). Anyway, I recommend this film as it's really a well done piece of cinema, with actors who don't suck a lot. Too bad Dario Polonzi and Christopher Smith were so stuck on the whole  "Christians are bad" thing (study some history you tools), it kept it from being a really great flick and made me ask "what is the point?". Now I want to punch Zephyr Films in the junk. I'd almost buy this on DVD, but, NOT. So close!!! I'll watch "Legion" again instead.

2 1/2 stars for another quirky collaboration from Depp & Burton May contain spoilers.  Director Tim Burton and actor Johnny Depp team up again for yet another version of their quirkiness.  OK, we get it.  While I never watched the "Dark Shadows" soap opera, I understand it was not supposed to be humorous.  So when transplanted to the screen should it have been more serious?  Eh, maybe not.  But at least make up your mind.  The movie begins with something similar to Coppala's version of "Dracula" (1992) where Barnabas Collins (Depp) is cursed by a witch around 1776 for spurning her love for another.  He becomes a vampire but is soon captured and buried in a silver chained coffin.  Nearly 200 years later the coffin is uncovered at a construction site and Barnabas is set free.  He finds his old homestead is in a poor state and that his fishing enterprise has floundered and replaced by a witchy descendent of Angelique (Eva Green).  Spoiler alert:  The witch is the same person, but has aged well.  Barnabas confides in the current head of the household Elizabeth (a still stunning Michelle Pfeiffer) of his secret but doesn't "come out" to the others until later.  The house is filled with off kilter children (Chloe Moretz and Gulliver McGrath) and even weirder adult staffers (Jackie Earle Haley, Helena Bonham Carter and Ray Shirley).  Then of course there is the beautiful Bella Heathcote as Victoria, the reincarnation of Barnabas original love from 1776 who was offed by an Angelique spell.  The film is full of some excellent photography and well used CGI but it continually bogs down.  Full of fits and starts, it can't make up its mind what kind of movie it is supposed to be.  I did think the scene where Barnabas can't resist the amorous advances of Angelique to be pretty good.  And we do learn with certainty that when a vampire has sex, bedrooms are destroyed (see "True Blood" and "Twilight: Breaking Dawn" for further proof).  Although the ending includes an opening for a sequel, I wouldn't bet on it happening.

Gift I bought this as a gift for my girlfriend, as she is a huge fan of The Doors. She enjoyed the film but said it's not all that she hoped it would be. She feels, from what she already knows about the group and the main dude, that a lot of information about him and the rest of the band was omitted to capture a certain image. In other words, she felt it wasn't really realistic, but enjoyed watching it anyway.

Not what you're expecting, and that's a good thing Already Dead (Joe Otting, 2007)  Joe Chapelle got his start in Hollywood directing crappy sequels to existing franchises (Hellraiser: Bloodline, Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers) before finding his way in television, where he has been successful, and effective, behind the camera on shows like Fringe and The Wire. The one place he never really seemed to get a foothold in the industry was in screenwriting. He wrote the first film he directed, Thieves Quartet, back in 1993, and then nothing until 2007, when he turned up with a screenplay for a film called Already Dead, adapted from a story by Robert Archer Lynn and David Alford (of whom you've never heard before; they usually helm their own stuff, with Lynn directing and Alford starring). Oddly, Chapelle didn't direct, instead handing it over to a promising shorts director, Joe Otting; this would be his first feature. And while it's not a great film by any means, I have to say I was pleasantly surprised wen it turned out to be not at all what I expected.  Thomas Archer (ER's Ron Eldard) is a successful businessman, or was. The same night he was lauded for a big business breakthrough, his family was attacked, resulting in the death of his son and a seemingly irreparable chasm between Thomas and his wife Sarah (Super Troopers' Marisa Coughlan). Thomas has been going to counseling with Dr. Heller (Christopher Plummer), who recommends a rather extreme course of treatment: he can arrange for the man who attacked his family to be brought to a specific location and restrained, on one condition: after Archer is through getting his revenge, the perpetrator must be dead. Archer agrees, and is brought to a room in a long-abandoned warehouse where he meets the man who destroyed his life (Inglorious Basterds' Til Schwieger). And thus, Thomas Archer picks up a mallet...  ...and you think you're about to watch yet another torture porn flick, and given the last few torture porn flicks I watched, had it continued down that path, I guarantee you you wouldn't be reading a two-and-a-half-star review right now. But the script hits us with a twist (which you can probably guess by now, though I tried to keep it under wraps) and the movie becomes a standard, but fun, action thriller. From there, you know exactly what's going to happen, but that's the nature of this sort of action thriller; there are never any surprises in Arnold Schwarzenegger movies, but that doesn't make Predator any less fun every time I see it. ** ½

Popcorn NEW YEAR'S EVE falls into that class of films best labelled 'cute'.  Lots of stories, most of little consequence, an attempt to pull everything together with the premise that new Year's Eve gives everyone a chance to make things different in the following year (the New Year's Resolution carried to the extreme), some funny jokes pushed over the edge toward silly, and a script full of holes.  But the bouncing around from micro story to micro story works OK because it gives the actors involved a chance to come on set for a day or two of work and leave unstressed and financially healthy.  Katherine Fugate wrote the stewed ingredient stories for Garry Marshall to stir, and the list of actors involved is staggering: Michelle Pfeiffer, Zac Efron,  Robert De Niro, Halle Berry, Cary Elwes, Jessica Biel, Seth Meyers , Sarah Paulson, Til Schweiger, Carla Gugino, Katherine Heigl, Jon Bon Jovi, Sof&iacute;a Vergara, Ashton Kutcher, Lea Michele, Sarah Jessica Parker, Abigail Breslin, Josh Duhamel, Larry Miller, Penny Marshall, Cherry Jones, Hilary Swank, Ludacris, Hector Elizondo, Ryan Seacrest, Matthew Broderick, John Lithgow and more.  This is a razzle dazzle movie with some good moments, improbable though they mostly are, and a nice mindless evening to enjoy popcorn.  Enter with low expectations and take it for what it is - entertainment. Grady Harp, May12

Beowulf and Orignal Story I give the movie Beowulf a 3 star rating.  I give the movie this rating because it did have many of the characteristics of the original story, but there were many major differences throughout it as well.  At the beginning, the movie was not unlike the original story.  There was a strong sense of Anglo-Saxon culture in the movie as shown with the scene in the mead hall.  Grendal was the monster in both the story and the movie. Grendal also did attack Herot, but left the king, Hrothgar, alive.  Beowulf, was also very similar to what the story lead us to believe of him.  He was very proud of himself and wanted to be known as a hero.  Beowulf also did fight Grendal in the movie and tore off Grendal's arm.  Although all was going well, the movie started to change dramatically.  Grendal's mom in the movie killed all of Beowulf's men instead of taking Hrothgars closest advisor.  Also a major difference was when Beowulf fought Grendal's mother.  Grendal's mom in the movie was Angelina Jolie to begin with.  In the movie there was no major battle between Grendal's mom and Beowulf.  Instead Beowulf had an "affair" with Grendal's mom and ended up never killing her.  Grendal's mom in the movie cut off Grendal's head instead of Beowulf cutting off his head.  Years after Beowulf "slayed" Grendal's mom, he became king of Herot and later had to fight a dragon.  Although in the movie, the dragon was in fact Beowulf's son.  The dragon did kill Beowulf in both the story and the movie.  The end of the movie was also very different than that of the original story.  Grendal's mom in the end of the movie tried to sway Wiglow into liking her like Beolwulf did.  Although with all of these changes put into play, I still enjoyed the movie very much.

Not bad, could have been better. The movie starts off kind of slow but gets a little better as time goes. It does give you a grim prospective at what the Soviets went thru during their time in Afganistan and how they cope with the situations brought on by a hostile enviroment with equally hostile enemy. Not a bad movie to add to your collection but could have been produced a little better.

genocyber this is cool cartoons and its in asian language with english sub titles wish they would put that on the heading instead of making you hunt and read everything you can find to read so you dont miss anyting

Ah My Goddess Vol 1-6 anime series This one is meant for kids. It's cute at first, but a little too much for someone over the age of 15 I would think. This isn't an artistic Ghibli film, that's for sure. The anime is a little flat, which doesn't stand out, but the storylines are so typical, though a little funny at times. This one, for some reason, was an early anime series I saw, that I wouldn't want to see again. It's ok, but way over the top. Though very successful with many spinoffs that followed the original. There are some types of anime or any storytelling form, that is a question of taste. Either you like it or you do not. This, IMO, is too juvenile for adults. It's not my type, I'll just leave it at that.

Young Lady Chatterley 2 I alaways like those sensual dramas from the 1980 and 90's that seem more natural in comparison to the mayority of todays creations that are more in aming to the bizzard an in making the expresion sex sells the standard so they can sell anything.

an odd film, much to like but not a success overall This is an unusual film, a lightly plotted rendition of the end of a marriage. The cinematography is interesting, lots of very long takes and surprising camera angles. The wedding vows, for example, are shown from the point of view of the rabbi, and we see the couple's faces in closeup throughout. Some of the scenes are true to life, touching, and better than similar scenes in other films. The childbirth sequences, for example, have no peer I can think of. There are a few funny scenes as well, especially one in which Meryl Streep describes a (fake) embarrassment pertaining to romantic rival to a gossipy friend (excellently played by Catherine O'Hara).  The film has problems, though, chief among them that the story is overly simplistic. Streep's character marries a guy who cheats on her. We are given no reason why he cheats. She splits with him, gets back together, and he cheats again, worse even than the first time. No reason is given; Streep's character (a stand-in for author Nora Ephron) is basically a saint. I can see where writing this might have been therapeutic for Ephron, but it's not dramatically interesting.  Also, the couple buys a rundown house in Washington DC upon getting married. There is some failed humor as they fix it up, and all looks cleaned up and good before Streep realizes her husband's infidelity. Then, in step with the decay in their marriage, we see the house falling apart too -- rain comes in through the ceiling, and in a late scene we are shown open channels for electrical cables in the walls. Symbolically, the house was never as good as we had thought. Maybe for some this would be smart, but I thought it was too heavy handed.  Decent acting by all the main characters; the problem was the script, not the performances.  p.s. watch for an amusing early appearance by Kevin Spacey as an urban criminal.

Graphics are cool This movie is kinda dull.  When the main girl dances, she dreams of fighting things.  Those are the sceens you really look forward to watching because the graphics are cool.  The only thing about these sences is that the posse of girlfriends kill everything with the greatest of ease.  Because of that you kinda already know that not much will happen to the girls.

Great movie, problems w. streaming quality Really liked the movie, must agree that it's the best MI ever. One thing I liked is that the team is forced to improvise - a lot of things don't go quite according to plan, and the high-tech gadgets are failing right and left. Which brings me to the point of this review...  This was my first time using Amazon Prime. I have a Netflix account and occasionally rent a movie through my AppleTV.  With both of those services, I have never experienced any problems with the quality of HD streaming, unless they were directly related to issues on my home network. Yesterday, my internet connection was rock solid and at full speed (20mb down / 5mb up), and my local network was up and running smoothly. In spite of that, connection to the Amazon server dropped app. 5 mins. into the movie. This was fixed by restarting the Amazon application on the PS3; the movie continued where it had left off, and in HD quality. However, throughout the 2+hrs. of the film, I noticed that the picture appeared to be frequently and annoyingly stuttering, especially in rapid action scenes. My very nice 50" Bravia runs at 120hz, and I have thus far not experienced a stuttering picture from any other stream or local source.  So at this point, I'm not too sure about the quality of the Amazon streaming service. I'll probably rent a few more movies to see how it goes, and if the problems recur, I'll just stick with iTunes.

Neither as Good as I'd Hoped Nor as Bad as I'd Feared As an on-again, off-again follower of the Vertigo comic this is based upon, I was all geared up to hate it mightily before it had even spun up in the DVD player. With that said, it fares somewhat better than I'd expected. It isn't a raging success story, but it's not a tragic insult to the rich, lengthy source material either. Keanu Reeves is a horrible choice for the lead, no doubt about that - where the funny book Constantine is a complex, witty, bitter but charismatic subculture hero, Keanu's interpretation is as nuanced as a bag of bricks. I don't know how much I can fault the actor for that - after all, he's been playing dress-up with the same character for two decades now - but regardless of where the blame lies, he lacks the unspoken authenticity that role needs to get off the ground. Fortunately, the blow is softened somewhat by a dynamite intro sequence that may as well have been ripped straight from the pages of the comic and a decent, if indulgent, central storyline. With a full-blown war between heaven and hell at its core, it would've been very easy to get overly adventurous with the film's scope, but it wisely maintains a short focal range and that keeps things mostly grounded. It won't be finding a home on anyone's top ten list, and it's not easy to look past Keanu being Keanu (with Shia freaking LaBeouf crammed in as a throwaway sidekick), but the tone is right and the special effects work is a grand success. Not nearly what it could've been, but also not what I feared it would become.

Animated Spokescreature for Ecology "Dr. Seuss" The Lorax"  is the animated adaptation of a 1971 children's book that underscored the importance of preserving and valuing nature.  Young Ted (voiced by Zac Efron) lives in the prefabricated town of Thneedville, where the landscape is composed of plastic houses and inflatable hedges and trees, and fresh air is sold in water cooler-sized bottles. Things have come about this way because years ago, the reclusive Once-ler (Ed Helms) cut down all the real trees in order to obtain the soft tufts of the truffala trees necessary in the manufacture of his invention, an all-purpose garment.  The character of The Lorax (Danny De Vito) is an orange-maned, yellow-mustached, mystical character who acts as a spokesperson and conscience for nature. Directors Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda present this cautionary but insubstantial tale in an explosion of color.  The screenplay, expanded from the book, seems padded even though it clocks in at a modest hour and a half.  A few forgettable songs are tossed in more as filler than to move the story forward.  The by-now familiar computer-generated animation gives the characters a rubbery, weightless look.  The artistry here falls far short of the superior Disney Pixar features, which boast stronger scripts.  The two-disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack contains several mini-movies, audio commentary, deleted scenes, three kids' games, a sing-along, and "Seuss to Screen," a brief look at how "The Lorax" was adapted for the screen.  "The Lorax" is also available in a three-disc Combo Pack (with 3D Blu-ray version) and a single-disc DVD.

Great Movie, until the end. For the most part the movie was pretty good. It was suspenseful and kept my attention and kept me guessing but I was just so disappointed in the ending. It's just so far fetched that it doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the film. I won't explain why as I don't want to give too much away for those that haven't seen it but for those that had seen it and didn't like it maybe they will agree with my alternate ending.   I think they could have ended it on the roof with him holding the woman at gunpoint right as the others bust through the door. All we get to see is the door open, and then a bewildered look on Michael Douglas' face, and then credits...  That would make plenty mad I'm sure, but I think it's alot better than what we got.

A bad way to send out house! First off I am a hudge house fan and hugh laurie fan so when I found out this season would be the last it was like loosin a family member . This show has been on sense 04 and for 8 years I expected this season to be one of the best. Boy was I wrong. Ok first NO CUDDY I was reallu dissaponted by that, house has a whole new team most of the orignal cast isent even there anymore. No cammeron just awfull the story lines are not as exciting ang from the looks of it willsons gonna die or cancer the one rae of sunshine I had left in this show. Idk I jus think david shore could of sent this show off in a way better fashion espically with all the love and support fans have given the show. Still gonna buy this dvd to add to my house collextion but def not one of my favorite.seasons :(

BLC This sequel was pretty good, but not as good as the original. I felt the movie was kind of predictable. I am glad I did not pay full price to see this sequel in theaters.

Watch out for the penguin Billy Madison is a must for all Adam Sandler fans. You'll never look at a penguin the same again. It's a simple comedy but the solid casting makes it a success. I think it's a good film for kids and adults alike. It appeals to the same funny bone in 'me that the Simpsons appeals to. I laugh more each time I watch this DVD.

False Advertising The problem was not the movie - which is great - but that I ordered the colorized version. The cover is colorized, but even on the back of the movie it says "Black and White." I watched it this way, but can't figure out how to write to anyone at Amazon to complain without sending it back, unopened. I've gotten lots of good stuff from Amazon, but this is the second classic movie I've gotten that had issues.

He really never recovered after losing Ava Gardner.  Sure, he kept on in there, swinging and recording, making personal appearances and concerts, and making movies.  Like this one.  A musical version of "The Philadelphia Story".  Gone are Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart and black-and-white.  Here, are the untalented Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby (Sinatra's idol in the early days), and Frank Sinatra.  The songs suck.  "What A Swell Party This Is" gives Crosby and Sinatra a chance to let loose, and they are great to watch, but the atrocious "True Love" is awful.  I know that it was a big hit, and people still love it today, but it's a lame number.  Grace Kelly isn't Katharine Hepburn, and Crosby and Sinatra are a bit too long in the tooth for the gents who spar over her (but hey, they needed the money and so why not?).  It's not a great musical.  And Grace Kelly in a musical?????  She's the Norma Shearer of the early 1950's.  Pleasant enough, but what is she doing here?  Money may have been spent on this, but careers were not reborn with this.  Kelly went off to Monaco, Crosby hit television, and Sinatra took his act on the road.  I'll give him this: Sinatra is game, even in this second-rate show, but the emotion he obviously felt about losing Ava is still evident in a few scenes.  I don't even think that Cole Porter fans (he wrote the score) could really enjoy this one.

a mildly creepy tale that doesn't quite satisfy... Featuring a strange supernatural threat, The New Daughter (2009) is a slow burning thriller that provides a few creepy moments, as Kevin Costner's performance as a confused father is strong and pretty realistic, but in the end, the story just doesn't quite manage to pull all the threads together in a very satisfying way.  Costner is John James, a newly divorced author, who has just moved to a new town in South Carolina, with his 14 year old daughter Louisa (Ivana Baquero), and young son Sam (Gattlin Griffith).  The family is living in a house in the country, where unknown to James, strange events have taken place.  On the property is a large burial mound, that becomes Louisa's favorite place to hang out.  Exactly what happens there isn't revealed, but Louisa begins to behave strangely, and have problems at school, which brings teacher Cassandra Parker (Samantha Mathis) into the picture.  James discovers that the previous owner of his house was a woman who mysteriously disappeared, and whose daughter later died in a fire.  James hires a babysitter for the children, and heads off to a nearby town to investigate further.  While is he away, the babysitter vanishes, and James is taken into custody by the police.  While on his way home, strange creatures from the mound strike, putting James into a panic, as he attempts to save his family.  The film does a good job of exploring the dynamics of the family, as well as the relationship between James and the eager to help Cassandra.  It's obvious that something bad has happened to Louisa, and this holds your interest for a time, but although the atmosphere is a little ominous and creepy, not much really happens until the very end, where things get a bit extreme.  The many deleted scenes, indicate how the story could have been fleshed out further, however with a couple of exceptions, the additions may not have improved the overall flow of the film too much.  The premise is workable and kind of interesting, but with the limitations of a PG13 rating, the creatures do little that is graphic or nasty onscreen.  Costner's performance is credible and enjoyable, although it seems odd that James doesn't try to call for help, instead of attempting to be a hero.  Ivana Baquero (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JPA6">Pan's Labyrinth)</a>) gives a nice low key performance, and Gattlin Griffith (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001NFNFNA">The Changeling</a>]) is pretty good, as a kind of annoying kid who seems to be scared of everything.  Samantha Mathis (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000K7VHGO">Broken Arrow</a>]) is very solid, although the choice of her hair color might not have been ideal.  Well-known for being the writer of the Rec and Quarantine films, Luiso Berdejo competently directs his first American production.  With some pieces that don't quite fit, The New Daughter doesn't play out as smoothly as it might, and an ambiguous ending just puts a topper on what is not an entirely satisfying experience.  The emphasis on the family setting, kind of gives the production a cable TV vibe, and the movie will probably have more of an appeal to that kind of audience, rather than those looking for a more action heavy creature feature.

Average This movie does not live up to the hype. Since when can a god be killed? How exactly does that work? The unrealism was too much and did not match the level of violence. The premise was good, but awful execution.

Oh, Wow! I really wanted to see this DVD - and when it came FREE with my Amazon Prime account - I couldn't wait! It left a LOT to be desired1  I was wanting a more in depth documentary than what I found!  It opened my eyes to a lot of things - but failed in really being able to deliver the "HUMPH" in WHY we shouldn't be eating WHAT we are eating!   3 Stars because I expected a lot more "bang for the buck" due to the reviews - but didn't find the depth of what I was searching for.

Good film but nothing new for old-time fans Saw this movie at a special screening at a local theater in Sept-2011. As a true metal fan of nearly 30 years with a more than passing knowledge of Ozzy and Black Sabbath I found it rather boring. The movie, although well made and informative [to new fans], brings NOTHING new to the story of Ozzy and Sabbath. I realize it's not a documentary [which I would have preferred], but a study of the man behind the music. Unfortunately all the anecdotes and intimate moments the movie makers share with us are rehashes of things we've seen on The Osbournes TV show, Behind The Music specials, and 'behind the scene' spots from various Ozzy concert DVDs throughout the years. If you're new to metal and want to learn how Ozzy became the man he is now, this movie is for you, but for real fans who knew of Ozzy before his TV show, you can skip it.

Action plus... I loved it... lots of stupid idiots busting their buns for my entertainment..... don't let your kids watch it unless you want them to try being stupid on their motorcycles.

3 stars for the soft-core side of Black Shampoo - 0 for the rest! I am also collecting the black movies of the 70's - in this case Black Shampoo.  I will give the condensed review; Good nudity (check out the 2 PAWG in the pool scene) and sexual innuendo, bad everything else.  I knew it was bad going in but I figured it would at least have some over the top acting and comedic elements - the good news is, it had both.  The bad news is, the over the top acting and comedic elements were terrible (even if by design).  Get if for your collection if you so desire but be warned Black Shampoo needs a perm (and that's a good line compared to what you get in this lame excuse for a blaxploitation film).

Well Done Movie-Making, Rob Zombie! Although I've long since stopped enjoying "slasher flicks," I have found that Rob Zombie's story telling and movie making abilties appeal to me over and over again. My guess is because we may be of same age range and have "gone through some things" in life! As was mentioned by previous reviews, William Forsythe nearly steals the show with his performance. This film (and his role)is the exact definition and outcome of an ages old saying and warning directed toward "crusaders". It's a statement for "those who fight the monsters of the world", and I paraphrase; "Beware, he who fights monsters! For the whole time you're looking into the abyss...the abyss is looking back into you." This film is an unrepentant massacre ride of outrage against innocent victims of the Firefly family, combination of Ed Gein (the grandfather of nuts in the world), Hannibal Lechter, Ted Bundy, et.al. William Forsythe is the Texas sheriff who is after them, becoming more and more incensed (as the viewing audience, no doubt) at finding all these crime victims murdered in gory detail.   What follows are events that we all can relate to as far as "doing to them" what they've done, and can we possibly outdo them in such? The film is craftily and artfully done while subjecting us to such gruesome, unacceptable occurrences. And Rob Zombie does manage to accomplish the seemingly impossible, and actually causes a reluctant "Well, gee they deserve it, but..."! type of response in his audience. Not an easy conclusion to draw, yet this is genius stroke in story-telling ability. For an uneasy (like looking a car accident)roller coaster ride of horror, and a lesson in vigilante desire/justice and it's consequences, this is a film for uh - some!

Fun for kids, so-so for adults Based on the novel by Darren Shan, "Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant" is a lively, though decidedly minor, addition to the bloodsucker-mania that's been sweeping through pop culture these past several years.  As the title suggests, the story is about an all-American small town boy (Chris Massoglia) who is turned into a vampire - and then a vampire's assistant - when a mysterious circus freak show comes to town.  The tone of the film is upbeat and sunny despite the inherent darkness of the material, making it an ideal diversion for the teen and pre-teen crowd.  For adults, there are some fun performances by John C. Reilly, Willem Dafoe, Salma Hayek, and Jane Krakowski ("30 Rock") to make the work at least watchable and palatable, if not exactly a riveting experience or required viewing.

Not a great Vampire move way over hyped. This is another one that was hyped up in previews so much you really expected more.  The story line has little or nothing to do with the title and is ended making the hero's look stupid.  It was okay but not someting I could recommend.

A DVD review, not a movie review With all due respect to all of the film critics within these electronic pages, and their recommendations or warnings, many people BUY DVDs of movies & TV shows that they've already seen and want to watch again.  What is LACKING here are reviews of the DVDs themselves.  That said, I wish to point out that I purchased this DVD from an Amazon Marketplace seller, purchase fulfilled by Amazon via this product link for "IMPOSTOR (The Director's Cut)".  I was sent the Canadian release (which I was not expecting), that appears to be identical to the U.S. release in that the specs are the same as are the extras:  * The Impostor Files - Original Featurette, * Original IMPOSTOR short film, * Theatrical trailer.  This is not always the case.  I once purchased a copy of David Cronenberg's CRASH, only to discover that the Canadian version I received (again which I was not expecting) did not have any extras on it, unlike the U.S. release. Conversely, I had sought out the Canadian version of Cronenberg's EXISTENZ because it did have extras on it that the U.S. release lacked.  If you care about these things, send an email to the seller before you buy and ask the questions, because they rarely offer that kind of information on their Amazon listings.  OK, want a movie review?  Here ya go:  I saw IMPOSTOR in a theatre.  I was disappointed.  WHY?  I had to be at the theatre for THEIR showtime, leave the comfort of my home and fork over some cash for just the one viewing. For that, when I see a film as David Lynch recommends ("In a big, dark room with other people"), I expect it to engage me moreso than when I pop it into my DVD player with the conveniences of the remote control, a kitchen 20 feet away and a bathroom 10 feet away.  So, I watch it on DVD at home years after I'd first seen it and I think it's great.  It is this difference in perspective that I wish to point out to critic and "reviewee" alike as to how your opinion may be shaped one way or the other based on things that have nothing to do with the movie itself.  Bigger sometimes seems better.  I'm sure that if I saw IMPOSTOR in the old 70mm format or on IMAX, I'd be blown away, until I thought about it later.  The format can sometimes improve your view of something mediocre, as can the opposite with the convenience of home video.  I'm a fan of the source material's author, Philip K Dick, so I enjoy all the film versions of his stuff to one degree or another, but sometimes the theme of "what makes one human" can get old.

Painfully predictable The obvious parts from the trailer are creepy but its like come on already come on already the whole movie.

The most action since The Incredibles Most critics argue that Cars 2 lacks the gravitas (someone else's word, not mine) of previous efforts. While I think that going into a cartoon expecting a deeply moving experience is silly for an adult, I'll grant that Pixar injects some sentiment into their movies, but it's often a tad cloying. As for the original Cars, what was the big teary epiphany? That you need to take a break from the rat race and smell the desert roses once in a while? That you shouldn't judge people too harshly at first? Are these serious lessons any more so than the one from Cars 2 that dealt with being yourself? I don't think so. They're both fortune cookie fodder. The reason I enjoy Pixar movies is because they're entertaining, funny, and visually appealing. The harder you try to focus on some larger commentary, the less I like the movie (I'm thinking of Up and Toy Story 3 at this point).  You're making a cartoon. Stick with the entertainment and spare me the maudlin manipulation. Although it can be argued that Cars 2 tries too hard to make a point about alternative fuels, how in the world is this bad unless you are affiliated with a major oil corporation?  As for the fact that most of the original cast is marginalized, I applaud taking the concept in a totally different direction. Most sequels fail because they try to replicate the original movie. In Cars 2, they left it all behind and went on a global espionage thrill-ride packed with new characters and plenty of wink-wink nods to foreign culture, spy movies, and the Pixar cannon. It's the most action-packed Pixar movie since The Incredibles and since the sequel to that movie -the best one in Pixar's history - is stalled, I'll take what I can get.  While Cars 2 is not going to end up on my shelf because it's too long, has too many annoying self-references (including the aforementioned Incredibles and a pathetic one for director John Lasseter), and the grating Larry the Cable Guy has far too big a role, at least I don't feel like I wasted my time with it like I did with both Toy Story 3 and Up.

Had to return the disc Careful.. I have a Vizio VBR 100 with the latest firmware update, and this is the only blu ray disc that will not play on it. It loads to about 80% and then stalls completely. I even talked to Vizio's tech team and they cannot find issue. Sony has some technology on it, and prevents from reading on some players. I've played Star Trek and Avatar special editions with no issues.  I saw the movie in the theater and it was great, so I have to at least give Angelina Jolie a few stars. My disappointment is with the technology.

Under your skin Bone Snatcher, thankfully, is nothing like Bone Eater or Skeleton Man.  Bone Snatcher is essentially The Thing meets Pitch Black in the Nambi Desert.  Clive (Sean Higgs), Paul (Langley Kirkwood) and Harvey (Jan Ellis) begin the film as diamond prospectors who encounter the Esikulu AKA The Bone Snatcher.  They'll be back later in the film with considerably less flesh on their bones.  The movie shifts to Vancouver, where systems analyst Dr. Zack Straker (Scott Bairstow), tasked with doing field work in the desert.  Since Eland Mining owns the rights to the area, Straker tags along with a security team looking for the three prospectors.  There's hot chick Mikki (Rachel Shelly), Karl (Warrick Grier), Titus (Patrick Shai), Kurt (Andre Weiman) and tough gal Magda (Adrienne Pierce).  In between long shots of the desert, the truckload of victims' truck breaks down.  And you know what that means...cue the shooting and the screaming! The remaining survivors must figure out the creature's biology (hint: it involves chemical scents) and then track the queen to its lair so that it can never threaten humanity again.  Unless of course the obligatory ending leaves it open for a sequel, in which case it may well threaten humanity again.  Bone Snatcher reveals its hand early with a monster that looks like a guy loping around in a rubber suit...until you realize that's intentional.  On the surface Bone Snatcher doesn't look like much, but it gets under your skin.  Once the true nature of the thing is revealed it becomes clear that shooting at the thing isn't going to do much. The CGI effects are competent enough to convey that this thing only mimics the shape of a man...  Bone Snatcher's not going to win any awards in the acting department, but what it lacks in charm it makes up for with creativity.  Unforgiving terrain, plenty of testosterone, and an interesting beast make for a fun monster movie.

Just Get the Two Disc Bought this as a gift for my mother who love love loves this movie.  We had it for a long time on VHS.  I thought the one disc version would be fine.  It includes the updated restored black and white version of the film.  Although I would never watch this movie in color I would suggest just going for the 2 disc edition anyways.  In the 2 disc edition you can watch the un-restored black and white version of the film which I am told .  Summary:  Just shell out a couple bucks more for the 2 disc edition and it will be worth it.

Happily surprised by this movie I was happily surprised by this movie as I had no idea how it would play out. I think it must have been pretty over the top for it's time with cat eye's being eaten and girl on girl cat fighting but maybe this was par for the course. The film is about reanimation of the dead and a big cover up that go's bad. All the acting is very bad which makes it that much more fun. I like the story  with it's demons and devils, but they look like the must of come from another movie altogether and are just thrown in here for effect. I almost dropped the remote when I saw breast being shown a couple of times as I have never seen such a thing in one of these old black and white flicks. I do like the way cats are a big part of this tail of madness but did not care for how badly they are treated and talked about in the film. I know there are some pretty harsh reviews of Maniac but I for one thought it to be a fun look into an old grade Z horror movie.

Mansfield Park I just finished watching the movie Mansfield Park which debuted in 1999 and was directed by Patricia Rozema, and I am seeing for the first time; and it struck me for a couple of reasons, with some of the scenes sending my mind spinning. Although my review here is from a very narrow prism, I think it valid all the same and I am not willing to give it a pass. You may ask yourself how I can be so narrow, well, I do not look at movies just be to fun-entertained, I am very concerned with the message and construction of the story being told. For this review my focus is only going to deal with the issue of slavery and how it has been sanitized and trivialized in this movie.  Set in 1806 England, and although, one never actually see's any slaves, or a black person at all for that matter; they are the very foundation of the Bertram family's wealth. A family that is rich enough so that they can afford to take in a very poor 10 year old relation. Which brings me to the start of the movie and the first mention of slaves, as the coach is carrying the 10 year old girl Fanny Price to her rich relative's mansion.  They pass along a coast where a ship is anchored and the coachman stops to tend to the horses and Fanny leans out the window and asks, "Do you hear that? It was the sound of wailing, the coachman explains to her that it was coming from the anchored ship in which slaves were confined. It struck me that the scene seemed to touch on a serious topic in a fairly casual manner. My immediate thought was, is this the new way the subject of slavery is going to be dealt with in films now?   Then further along in this story, we come to find out how much the business of slaveholding and dealing in Antigua has aided and given this family respectability and standing in English society. The daughters and sons have all been given the best education; they are full of all the right social graces and good and witty converse. They have been introduced to polite society at the right moment, and have every expectation to aspire to the best financial matches for their future matrimonies, which will increase their fortunes, all thanks to the poor slaves being held in Antigua.  The next mention of the slaves in Antigua is when the Patriarch has to travel to Antigua to go over his holdings. Upon his return from Antigua there is a scene where the family is in the sitting room, and the Patriarch is talking about the physical attributes of the slaves he holds and how there is a girl he plans on bringing to England to work in the house, and Fanny Price mentions that she has read that if you bring a slave to England they would have to be granted freedom. Then, the Patriarch makes an ignorant comment about how two mulattoes could not have offspring, to which statement one of his son's who is studying to become a clergyman objects.  The fourth mention I noted is when Fanny Price who was accustomed to reading books in the great library of the mansion finds a book of sketches of slaves, and the daily tribulations they suffer, she is so overcome that she begins to cry as she turns the pages and finds one sketch after another more gruesome than the last. The patriarch walks up on her, and is angered that she has uncovered his book of "slaveography", after rudely sending her out of the library he is seen to be overcome with feelings of shame and starts to tear each page from the sketch book and throws it into the lit fireplace. Then he is seen to be in a state of remorse and guilt as the camera pans away from him sitting alone in the library.  The last scene to trivialize the unfortunate slaves in Antigua was towards the end, when Fanny Price is neatly putting in place the end of each character in the film for the sake of the viewer. She is telling how each one ended up, when she casually mentions that the Patriarch has now divested himself of the business of slave holding and trading and had found a new lucrative business concern which was tobacco, another slave related business!  "Djonga (Slavery)", a song by Salifu Keita which shows up at the end as the credits are running is one of the brighter spots of this film.

Definitely a rental This movie suffers from poor editing and a soundtrack that is too loud for the (mostly mumbled)conversations going on. This is basically a good story and the actors are very good. The cinematography is excellent. However, anyone not knowing what the story is all about will be lost. Try this as a rental first.

Not worth the money The ultimate edition is sadly not worth the money. I was sorely disappointed. The two disk version is better. However, that does not have the deleted scenes, some of which were definitely worth deleting but others which added to the movie, such as the deleted scene with the Malfoys in the black magic shop near the beginning, and which should have been left in. I was disappointed in the last two disks in the ultimate edition, with the added features such as commentary by the author, commentary by some of the actors on their characters, and so on. I found them very boring as they repeated stuff that was in the two disk versions of the various movies. The screen test of the three main characters was not nearly as interesting to watch as I thought it would be. The book was only a small book of pictures of scenes from the various HP movies, and there were two character cards. There is also a fifth disk, a downloadable copy, but it is expired already. That should have had no expiration date. It would have been nicer to have bought just a two disk version and bought separately a larger picture book, a set of character cards, and the Harry Potter Kids Bio DVD for some background on how the main actors were chosen. Personally, I prefer the two disk versions of the movies in widescreen over the ultimate editions. There are a great many HP accessories one can buy that I think one would be better off purchasing than these.

Crooked Law Enforement Typical bad cops doing bad things and one cuts a deal and turns from the dark side on a journey to the light...

Blu-ray transfer is problematic The film is what it is and other reviewers have done an excellent job in reviewing why this story is worth telling. I bought the blu-ray version hoping that it would give new life to the 1980 film, which I saw in the theater when it was originally released. But blu-ray cannot make the print more than the print. The graininess is played up by blu-ray enough that it is distracting. The print that Criterion worked from shows its limitations.  No need to get the blu-ray, if HD quality is the goal. Given the quality of the film print, the DVD transfer is sufficient.  I wish it were otherwise.

HIT OR MISS Cars is back except this time the story isn't as layered and the special effects have gone up a few notches. In fact, if you're a car guy/gal then there's a lot to appreciate with all the inside jokes and background setups. At its heart this is a tale about friendship and forgiveness but some of the scenes might be too much for younger kids, I suspect. Mater had some of the best lines. As an adult it was a hit or miss picture for me. I think they tried too hard to get the adults on board for this picture and lost a lot of the younger kids. That said, it still did really well financially. The budget was $200M and the Worldwide Box Office was over $559M. HUMOR: C plus to B minus; STORY/PLOTTING: B minus to B; CHARACTER/DIALOGUE B minus: SPECIAL EFFECTS: B to B plus; WHEN WATCHED: November 2011; OVERALL GRADE: B minus to B.

Dissapointed! the movie is great, the packaging is great, and the edition is real great, just for my collection... but im dissapointed with amazon, because in the specifications it says "Spanish Subtitles"... and it has not, that subs, and i talked 2 month ago with a customer from amazon, and he told me that they would change the details just for another people read before purchase, and i look now and its the same, keep saying this : Language: English Subtitles: English, French, Spanish  Anyway thank you for the box set

Provocative Consideration of This World and the Next I had a lot of trouble with the imagery and cinematography of this film which often distracts from and competes with the story and the profound philosophical and spiritual issues the story explores.  Nevertheless the views on love, the afterlife and the transcendence of love explored in the film invite ongoing reflection.  It has an ongoing subliminal influence that overcomes the gimmicky and sometimes off putting images.  Anyone who has suffered loss of a loved one to suicide or to a tragic accident will find a lot of comfort here, I think.  I love the idea that here on earth and in our afterlife, we are responsible for our own destiny and I love the idea that we can continue to help and celebrate our loved ones

If you can suffer through...the end is worth it This was actually a good STORY and Bruce turns in a fantastic performance - however in order to realize this was a good story and it was worth watching, you have to do some suffering.  Bruce is a used up cop - lost in the bottle, putting in time basically. He is given an "easy" assignment of escorting a paroled convict to court. Enter 1st thing you have to "suffer" - the convict has the most nasal horrible voice and he just won't shut up through the whole movie. VERY very annoying.  Turns out this convict is going to court to testify against at least 6 other bad cops - going high up - and they aren't about to let him make his court date. Bruce sees this and determines to get that guy safely to the court on time, though it seems to be a lost cause at every turn.  The 2nd thing you have to "suffer" while watching this movie is that the main "bad" cop (David Morse) is constantly chewing a small piece of gum throughout this movie (which I think may be a habit of his since I've noticed this in other movies he was in) and while I've seen much more obnoxious gum chewing, I still found this extremely annoying - and between the nasal non-stop voice and the gum chewing I almost walked away from this movie.  No kidding.  If you can ignore/tolerate those 2 things, then this movie will be a good one for you. Bruce's character (as always) is constantly in danger and finding himself in no-win situations - but (as always) he always manages to squeek out them by using his smarts his courage.  For me, even with the "suffering" the last 15 minutes of this movie made it all worthwhile and made me want to recommend this movie.  If however, you think those 2 things might also annoy the heck out of you - there are many more Bruce Willis movies for you to enjoy.  I would recommend any of the DIE HARD movies, and RED for you.

Bitter/Sweet I thought this movie was only so-so. I thought the script could have been better. The cinamatography was ok; but the most I could give this film is 3 stars.

Another classic from the early eighties This is another one of those films that came out when I was in the Air Force at Hickam AFB, Hawaii.  To me, all the very best movies were released in the eighties because  we finally got past all that cheesiness of the campyness of the seventies, and this was before computer animation and CGI started to reduce the integrity of special effects that made more recently films look so cartoonish.  What really gives me the chills about this film is, although I came from some pretty frightening, nightmarish neighborhoods of Detroit, while I was in Hawaii, I started to see the beauty of the modern day home design and construction, and when I finally got stationed in Northern California, this development of Cueste Verde looks a lot like the neighborhoods of Vacaville, California (about 50 miles from San Francisco), so watching this film again since I've been in California, has given this film a whole new sense of terror to me.  The classic "haunted house" of film's past usually look more like some hundred year old house.  But this film makes the modern day house look like it can be haunted too.  Whenever I drive through Vacaville, I am reminded of this film.  It is also amazing that even though this film is only 30 years old, it's interesting how so many of the actors and actresses in this film are already dead and gone.  Even Heather O'Rourke (who played 4 year old Carol Anne), is dead and gone.  Yeah, I'll have to say that this film has some stronger means of terrifying me more than just being a haunted house film.  I feel like this can happen even in my own neighborhood.  Thank you Steven Spielberg for putting classic horror in a modern day reality setting.  But, because this film came out in the early eighties, it remains one of my favorites to remind me of my wonderful military days.  When I think of "Poltergeist", I think of Hickam Air Force Base, and the black haired beauty I took to the theatre with me when I first saw this movie.

Good series for history buffs I remember when this series came out on TV.  I was very excited that they were showing American Indians in a pretty good light.  I was disappointed that the series ended after only a few episodes.  I'm not an expert on the French and Indian War, but it seems fairly accurate to me.  I'm not sure if I agree with the Indians torturing their captive, but most else is good.  Costumes are okay.  Acting is pretty good.  Some humor.  The quality of the filming is pretty good for such an old tape.  I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of the episodes.

Green Lantern 2011 - A CGI Video Game Disguised as a Watchable Movie For over thirty years, since first seeing the Hal Jordan / Green Lantern character on the animated "Challenge of the Super Friends," I had waited with anticipation for Green Lantern to receive a well-deserved big screen, live-action adaptation.  In the summer of 2011, it finally happened, though the "Green Lantern" actor I had envisioned (Harrison Ford circa 1980's "The Empire Strikes Back") was not around; audiences instead must settle for Ryan Reynolds.  Of available young actors, yes, either he or Chris Pine were arguably the best options.  Yet, Reynolds' lackluster performance in an estimated 300 million dollar film (when you factor in the $100 million plus in marketing costs) is frankly a big disappointment, as he isn't supported by other two major components: a crummy script and gaudy, unconvincing CGI special effects that give the film the aura of a big-screen video game.  One would think that director Martin Campbell (the "Zorro" franchise; "Goldeneye," and "Casino Royale") was the logical choice to helm Green Lantern's first live-action motion picture.  Campbell normally has a knack of capturing sleek, inspired performances by his actors.  This time, I strongly suspect the heavy computer-generated imagery (CGI) component must have overwhelmed Campbell, because the flat, one-dimensional performances by Reynolds; a badly miscast Blake Lively as Carol Ferris (Eva Green from "Casino Royale" would have been much better); Angela Bassett as a much more svelte Amanda Waller; and Tim Robbins as Senator Hammond, etc. are excellent for a cartoon, but a shade short of watchable for a live-action film.  So-so entertaining performances aside, the efforts of Reynolds, Lively, and the supporting cast are just not even close to the same league as what directors Richard Donner and Christopher Nolan inspired in the "Superman" and "Batman" franchises.  I am not going over-analyze "Green Lantern" to death, but, as I said, this movie is really just a video game in disguise.  Hence, the target audience here is really for undemanding viewers in the 12-25 crowd.  Further, the script immediately makes a major mistake with a "Battlestar Galactica"-like voice-over prologue (which, I think, is Geoffrey Rush's voice but it eerily sounds almost exactly like Patrick Macnee's voice from "Galactica") that explains too much too soon.  In my assessment, without giving away crucial spoilers, the filmmakers should have saved the revelations of planet Oa's existence and the Green Lantern Corps (including even future arch-enemy Sinestro) for a proposed sequel.  There wasn't enough screen time to coherently develop Parallax, Hector Hammond, and Sinestro as villains all in one film.  Focusing solely on Hector Hammond and Parallax would have allowed more of a build-up to an awesome Green Lantern vs. Sinestro feud in the sequel, much like what director Christopher Nolan did by showcasing the Joker for "The Dark Knight" rather than in "Batman Begins."  This film's updated origin of Hal Jordan as Green Lantern is simply underwhelming; if they had instead focused on a raw, mysterious origin (where, say, Hal believes he is the only Green Lantern), the film would have greatly benefited, especially if Sinestro had been given some sort of ominous cameo appearance.  Still, the inclusion of familiar franchise characters like Carol Ferris, Carl Ferris, and the Jordan family was well-conceived and generally a major plus for the movie, as are supporting (and nearly unrecognizable) parts for veteran actors Michael Clarke Duncan, Geoffrey Rush, Clancy Brown, Angela Bassett, Jay O. Sanders, Jon Tenney, and Tim Robbins.  The other major problem is the extensive over-reliance on CGI.  If you watch the first ten minutes (even before Reynolds' first appearance), you will see what I mean.  The galaxy or the planetary scenes don't appear even remotely realistic.  Also, one can tell the movie is in deep trouble when even the fighter planes Hal and Carol are soon flying in the desert are also obviously just CGI effects.  Borrowing some stock footage of real jets from "Top Gun" might have been a better idea if the filmmakers can't even fool audiences with believable, down-to-earth jet planes using CGI.  From that point on, viewers are clearly watching actors going through the motions on blue screen and green screen, so it becomes a waste of a very expensive series of illusions especially when Reynolds and Lively aren't effectively selling their characters as ace test pilots.  However, if "Green Lantern" is generously viewed by adults as a cartoon or video game, the special effects are visually fantastic, so take from the movie what you will on this issue.  Overall, I wasn't as disappointed as I expected to be (based upon the dismal reviews I had read).  If you like video game-style movies, then I would definitely recommend "Green Lantern."  Before seeing the film, I heard that there were rumors of a scaled-down sequel in the works.  Now, considering the massive amount of money Warner Bros likely lost (since the film probably didn't break even), the idea seemed laughable.  Upon seeing the film, however, I can grasp why a sequel might have  potential for three reasons if: 1. The actors are guided into high-caliber performances (or Hal and Carol are recast into, say, Chris Pine and Eva Green); 2. Hire a compatible director (someone who understands why Hal Jordan is Green Lantern); and 3. Far more time and effort is actually spent on an awe-inspiring script rather than simply investing it all on CGI and then just roll the dice on the end result.  Despite my reservations, yes, I bought the blu-ray at a reasonable sale price to enjoy with my young son, so we can both be kids gleefully watching my favorite childhood super-hero together.  I just wish "Green Lantern" had been better.  Rating: 6/10 (There are two violent scenes inside a secret laboratory in the film's second half that I would suggest not letting children see -- parents will know when they watch the film, as it is pretty obvious).

An impossible story of robotic fighting dead soldiers In 1953, the US government made robotic-like soldiers out of dead soldiers by resurrecting them by genetic means. The recycled soldiers have no memory of their past life and no set of values other than to obey. If shot, stabbed, or the like, they can be rejuvenated by spraying a substance on the wound. When the program is revealed, the government terminated the program. Most of the "universal soldiers," as they were called, were destroyed. But a rogue element in the CIA is keeping the program alive, surreptitiously.   A reporter is in love with GR44, one of the soldiers. When GR44 is ordered by his controllers to return, he has no will of his own and complies. She follows him. She discovers GR44's brother who had been killed more than a decade ago, had been resurrected, but not made into a universal soldier. She tries to rescue him, but the two are captured. While being taken, they pass GR44 who regains some of his memory when he sees his bother.   Will GR44 and his brother be saved, or only one of them? Will GR44 be able to become normal, or will he remain somewhat robotic? Can the reporter have a meaningful relationship with him?

Good Solid John Wayne Western John Wayne is John Elder, the oldest. Dean Martin is Tom, the next oldest. Earl Holliman is Matt, and Michael Anderson, Jr., is Bud, the youngest. We never see Katie: the movie opens with her funeral. Getting off the train that John was expected to take was not John, but a hired killer. In fact, he was hired by the gunsmith who now owns the ranch the boys grew up on.  John had stayed away because he is a gun fighter, and Katie didn't approve. Tom was a compulsive gambler, and cheated. He was also a con artist. There's a great scene where he raffles off his glass eye in a saloon, then buys it back. When the guy who won it and sold it back asks "Aren't you going to put it back in?" Tom raises his eye patch and reveals a perfectly good eye and says, "Well, it would be pretty crowded in there, don't you think?"  Matt runs a store somewhere a good distance away from Katie's place, but he had been to visit about three years earlier. But Bud says that was because he wanted to borrow money off her.  Bud had been away at school, at his mother's insistence. So the brothers all decide Bud must go back to college and make something of himself, "as a memorial to Katie." But he wants to go with John and be a gun fighter, too.  First, they need to settle up Katie's estate. That's when they discover that she had not sold the ranch they grew up in, but instead their father had been cheated out of it in a card game, and was shot in the back the same night. They figure maybe there's a connection. So they go to see the gunsmith who owns it now, a genuine SOB.  That's just the beginning. The sheriff knows John isn't wanted for anything, and in fact is a very decent sort. But his deputy is a hot-headed youngster who seems to want to make a name for himself by bringing down John Elder, famous gun fighter. So the sheriff is stuck with trying to reign in his deputy and keep things cool until John leaves town.  Then the sheriff is shot in the back in front of Katie's place, and things get seriously complicated.  It's a good story, well told, and has enough plot twists to keep it from being "just another western."

Charlie Chaplin in the Middle ages...? Some people liked this film just because it was made by Pasolini. Well, besides being irreverent and critical of "the church and the bourgeoisie", much of the ambience ranges from wrong (there are buildings of an architecture perhaps 400 years off) to ridiculous (Charlie Chaplin? Really?), the "medieval" clothes sometimes are plainly grotesque (the men-at-arms, looking like a cross between Darth Vader and the Persians in the 300) and the acting sometimes is simply abysmal. On the other hand, sometimes everything is appropriate, seems to be well researched and properly medieval. Many of Chaucer's stories are nicely rendered in the film. Overall the movie is very uneven, with great parts and others that are simply a disgrace. The much celebrated last scene probably was inspired on Hieronymus Bosch and it may be slightly shocking if you are sort of squeamish. I was expecting much more from this movie, being a film by Pasolini and all.  Chaucer probably would have liked it though.

Blu-ray is a big disappointment The Blu-ray doesn't look much better to me than previous DVD releases I've seen, which isn't saying much, and is a shame.  Its been transferred from an available print, but not "restored", just cleaned up somewhat. I'm not particularly a fan of this dark and artificial film, but I'm a HUGE fan of Technicolor restorations on Blu-ray which can sometimes be jaw-dropping; this isn't one of them. Its possible that there isn't any better source-material extant and nothing better will ever be available; the original Technicolor materials are often long-gone, especially for the earliest pictures like this one.

The Terminator Great movie.  Beautiful Blu-ray picture.  But the sound was not so good.  Explosions were muffled, gun fire was too quiet and the music did not boom through.  The disc was priced well enough, but I would have paid more for a great sound track.

"THERE'S A CAT ABOUT TOWN AND SHE'S NOT HAPPY." - THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (2012, SPOILERS) "The Dark Knight Rises" is still fresh in my mind and thus opinion is subject to change with the course of time. That aside, it was an alright movie. Performances were strong, with the exception of one or two, and action sequences were exciting. I also love the fact that its connects more with "Batman Begins" than it does "The Dark Knight" in regards to its overall narrative.  One of the biggest trouble spots for me was the film's score. I kept wondering why it felt relatively unbalanced or unlike the previous two and lo-and-behold, now I know why. James Newton Howard's contributions was missing from it (I think the only theme I liked in the film was Catwoman's; it was exactly the kind of music you'd imagine to play in the background while a cat is slinking around). It was all Hans Zimmer.  It took a while to realize why Bruce was walking around with a cane, let alone a recluse in his own house. The general disconnect between this film and the Dark Knight was pretty big outside of knowing where it was coming from --- Harvey Dent's death and it's repercussions. I like the fact that his physical deterioration may have stemmed from that fall he suffered from TDK or the general abuse his body underwent before he decided to up and quit. However, in regards to this plot, I'm not sure why they decided to go with the downtrodden recluse instead of having Batman continue to fight the "good fight" as a wanted vigilante (I seriously expected them to handle this in the same way did in "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001P5S6FU">Batman: Mask of Phantasm</a>"); its literally the impression "The Dark Knight" gives you with its finale. What made him give up, what made him (or Gordon) think the death of Harvey Dent would have such an impact on the people that it would force the city to pull itself off its own ass and do something about the crime?  Which brings me to another one of the biggest things that bugged me about this film: the "Harvey Dent Day" and the "Dent Act" just reeked of a narrative gloss-over. There's telling your audience that the death of a man driven mad has done some kind of good for the city, then there's what they did. The eight year gap didn't help matters either. There was all this talk how the "Dent Act" helped clean up the streets, gave the police "teeth" (because that's always a good idea) and how Gotham City was in sitting idle in a time of peace, but honestly there was nothing to even speak of this in the film outside of all the mention it gets. All it reminded me of were scenes from the previous films wherein criminals weren't attacking or stealing in order to showcase Batman's beat-em-up style. But then, "Batman Begins" did a better job of showcasing a corrupt and troubled Gotham streets than the efforts TDK and TDKR did combined. "Harvey Dent Day" (its silly name aside) just made me feel a little ill inside, primarily because, I as a viewer knew the truth about what happened and it just seemed incredibly wrong that they were idolizing Harvey Dent like the second-coming for Gotham city. Especially as a means to maintain morale within the city which later, as one character points out when the ruse is revealed, doesn't count for much in the end.  The movie doesn't really deliver on the hand-to-hand fight choreography like I hoped. It's the same close-up-cut-quick-paced editing that is clearly meant to hide and not illuminate the action sequence your watching unfold before your eyes. I thought it was the sloppiest with Catwoman when she faced multiple opponents. The chase sequences, however, at least never failed to be on point with the choreographed delivery and flow of vehicular and armament slaughter. I've always been of the mind that chase sequences involving vehicles has been Nolan's strongest point in regard to action sequences.  Anne Hathaway's performance as Selina Kyle is something of a hit and miss. On one half she captured the ferocity and unapologetic side of Kyle nicely (she kinda reminded me of Eliza Dushku's performance in "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005CSYQ2S">Batman Year One</a>"), even if she jarred me with how quickly she switched between dominant and whatever submissive role she was playing to worm her way through particular situations. (And, yes, there was undoubtedly the part of me that was looking for that aged and silky Selina Kyle from "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00023E894">Batman: The Animated Series</a>" who played with her cat, Isis.) And yes, her costume works better in motion than it does frozen in a picture. I also love that her goggles play on the cat ears, that was a nice touch. On the other, you had Anne portraying what was basically a unrealized character playing second fiddle to Batman and complicating things for him plot-wise when necessary. She was intriguing, but there was nothing about her that made me even think for one second "why should I care about her?" And this, I think, is a pattern you see a lot in Nolan's female characters in his Batman films.  All of them serve a particular character archetype, but none of them ever actually become fully realized as characters or personalities (either because of their short-lived lives or misrecasting). It was largely the same with Marion Cotillard's Miranda Tate/Talia al Ghul. Instead of giving you a reason to care about her in the same way they did with "Henri Ducard", she was a brief love interest for Bruce Wayne (a relationship that is defined by nothing and ends as nothing) and a woman he once did with business with for the sake of a Greener tomorrow. Her entire backstory is the definition of "sacrificed for the surprise" even if I knew who she was from the get go. Juno Temple was just a waste of screentime and talent. Why was she even there when her role could've been filled by any old character actor, especially since the character is not even named Holly Robinson?  Tom Hardy as "Bane" was another weak point in the film. This guy did not embody anything that I even found remotely interesting or compelling about Bane (either in the comics, the DCAU or even Young Justice). He had none of his gravitas, personality or physical presence. He was big white thug who liked to tug on his lapels and turned out to be Talia's "gentle giant" friend from her childhood days in the metaphorical embodiment of the Lazarus Pit. I had no problems understanding him, but whenever he spoke all I heard was a mixture of Sam the Eagle and Master Roshi. I could never take him seriously at all. The his part in the "Knightfall" aspect of this film was disappointingly weak when it didn't concern Blake and that was more of a nod-and-a-wink than anything.  I love the that the story decided to focus more on Bruce as a character outside of Batman and how he muddled through his non-life in a "post-retirement" era. Christian Bale gives a great performance here as a aimless and heartbroken man, but the biggest problem was that he was competing with the likes of Officer John Blake. While I sympathized with Bruce's plight, I found myself wanting to go back to Blake and his escapades more than I wanted to see Batman pull himself out of retirement, injury and deal the repercussions of his personal life crumbling down around him (thanks to a thief and the truth about Rachel finally revealed by Alfred). He almost seemed to become unnecessary in his own film, everything happening around him or being told to him was decidedly more interesting.  John Blake does indeed come off as a mixture of the three prominent Robins (Grayson, Todd and Drake), but struck me more as a Nightwing/Dick Grayson persona, especially given the that the character is a bloody cop in almost the same position as Dick was during the 1998-2000 run of "Nightwing". The explanation behind as to why/how he knew Bruce was Batman was a little sloppy, especially since the film seemed to give me the impression almost everyone who mattered seemed to know that Bruce = Batman (heck, I thought, with the way Blake was talking, Gordon already knew before the end of the film). Nonetheless, I could buy it given his and Bruce's circumstances. Blake almost has nothing to do besides chase vapor trails left behind by the villains or Batman, but I love the fact that he was probably one of the few proactive protagonists in the film besides Bruce himself. (While Gary Oldman gives the usual great performance, Commissioner Gordon is criminally underused and almost forgotten about until the semi-end of the film.) The only thing that bugged me was the fact that he had to put on a suit to play detective. All I could think of was "Inception" when I saw him the threads. I seriously preferred him wearing the Blue Uniform, but it hardly prevents Levitt from excelling with a really great performance.  Other strong performances stem from Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine as the wizened Lucius Fox and Alfred Pennyworth, with the latter's only detraction being that he was crying or tearing up in every other scene. I get that he's supposed to be convey his heartbreak and concern for Bruce, the boy he's raised for God-knows-how-long, but I dunno. I kinda expected him to use the same steady emotion he did in "Begins" and "Dark Knight", but I guess this was just was the character's breaking point and man did I want to hug him at the end.  Overall, "The Dark Knight Rises" was a enjoyable film. It does its best to conclude up storylines that began in the first or second film and the end, I think, wraps up things up nicely even if was telegraphed from a mile away. I like the idea of a Bruce Wayne being able to pull himself away from the shadow of Batman, even if he is ultimately burdening the shoulders of another (no matter how willing they may be to carry it in the end). That, I think, was the only "Knightfall" element they got right and did it in a way that respected both Bruce and "Robin". Narratively, I appreciate the fact that it acknowledges and hinges itself more on "Batman Begins" instead of relying entirely on "The Dark Knight" like I would expect a threequel to do. If it weren't for the Harvey Dent storyline, I believe you could watch the first film and jump straight into the third without trouble. However, it makes the mistake of repeating the same climax in its finale (where it worked in the first film, it's just makes me wish they'd done something different with it's finale). The sacrifice of Selina, Talia and Bane's characters leaves me extremely disappointed as well.

A good directorial debut from Madonna Let's get the title out of the way.  Wallis (The "W.") Simpson (an excellent Andrea Riseborough, "Never Let Me Go") was the married American who King Edward (The "E.") gave up the British throne for.  This film deals with their trials and tribulations but primarily from the perspective of Simpson.  We see this played out in numerous time jumps between the 1930's and the late 1990's as another Wally (Abbie Cornish, "Limitless") envisions the pair 6 decades earlier.  Wally has just married a successful clinical psychiatrist, but the marriage isn't going well.  She wants a child; her husband appears to want to just fool around on the side.  An auction at Sotheby's provides additional interest for Wally (named after Ms. Simpson) as many of the royal couple's personal belongings are being auctioned off.  There she meets one of the firm's security personnel played by Oscar Isaac ("Drive").  This meeting will have consequences down the line.  I believe this is Madonna's first time as a director of a feature film and I do think she has promise.  She also co-wrote this film which is the biggest problem.  At times the movie plays like a Zalman King soft porn film but without the soft porn.  The soundtrack, while pretty, puts the scenes to sleep on occasion not to mention the audience.  But there are also some nice bits, mostly with Ms. Riseborough.  In one scene, she dances with a black woman at a party in France.  While not risqu&eacute;, it was attention getting.  In another dance sequence she does Chubby Checker's "The Twist" for her dying husband in 1972.  The film has a nice look to it, both in the modern and flashback sequences.  This isn't a great movie, but isn't terrible either.  It would have likely gotten better press if not for Madonna's name being attached.  There is certainly nothing to complain about with the 1080p Blu ray transfer.  Shot with a 2.40:1 aspect ratio, the film is beautiful.  Some great close ups show the female leads facial expressions and teardrops clearly.  The audio is equally good with a DTS-HD MA 5.1 delivery.  Everything is clear and opens up during the musical numbers.

War Horse A little slow going. It was difficult for me keep my interest up the first40 minutes. Picks up a little speed after that. The main characters were hard for me to get emotionally involved with them. Very realistic war scenes especially the horse scene at the end.

Half a loaf rising. Half a loaf rising.  The first two installments of the Dark Knight series - "Batman Begins" and "The Dark Knight" - provided plenty of cerebral fodder to chew on when not regaling us with vertiginous fist fights, wild villains and novel weapons. "The Dark Knight Rises" has ditched the brain food for an occasionally dreary pate of mass boxing, an obnoxiously booming soundtrack and smaller-than life heroes. Not that this is a bad movie. It is plenty entertaining. But it fails to complete the brains-and-brawn arc drawn by the first two installments.  Telling the entire story would spoil the plot twists in this film. Suffice it to say that after his long-ago encounter with the Joker, Bruce Wayne has hung up his cape and cowl and retreated into self-pity and isolation. The Wayne empire, source of his wealth and philanthropy, has been ignored and is on the verge of collapse. Wayne needs a major kick in the cape to propel him out of the doldrums and back into the fray. The kick comes in the form of a nasty bad guy - Bain - a brawny psychopath who wears a Darth-Vader-ish mouthpiece. Bain and his henchmen have focused their attention on Gotham City, and plan the beginning of some global-sized hijinks.  What the film lacks in depth, it gains in length. At two and three-quarters hours long, no viewer can say they didn't get their money's worth. The film's pace, just a hair above languid, gives the director plenty of time to spin out his series-ending plot. It's hardly a spoiler to tell that the League of Shadows, the bud guys from Batman Begins, have not taken their sights off Gotham City. Like avenging angels with a fixation on sin, the League still wants to destroy Gotham for its crimes. The convoluted plot involves boardroom attempts to save the Wayne empire, stories from a mysterious Middle Eastern prison, a distraught Alfred, a talented cat burglar and Bruce Wayne's battered and aging frame.  My criticism is that the film only hinted at themes that could have made it a killer film. The bad guys are given a ridiculously long time to harry Gotham, giving their enemies plenty of time to regroup. Good thing, because Bruce Wayne is aging, depressed and out of shape. A doctor confirms that his knees have no remaining cartilage. But a few pushups, pull-ups (and in one case, a punch in the spine) later, and all is well, infirmities forgotten. An inexplicable conflict with Alfred manages only to be mawkish and embarrassing. The fight scenes, especially one in which Batman and a few thousand cops engage in a ridiculous and dull street brawl with the bad guys, make Batman look small. And, people, we must never, never see Batman *walk* anywhere! The bat drops in unexpectedly or is silhouetted against the moon - not taking an evening stroll in that goofy getup.  Sure, there are plenty of explosions, peril, close calls and coolish gadgets in the film. But how cool are they when an extraneous character jumps on the Bat bike for the first time and rides it as well as  Batman? How neat is the Batmobile when a police chopper shadows it without difficulty? How bad is a boss when a mere fistfight can take him out. How deep can a movie be when it cheats the audience of a challenging ending? A weird, disappointing movie, full of plot holes where its brains should have been.

Entertaining Nonsense. I've always liked movies and try to see as many as I could. I remember in the early 70s a movie called "Planet of the Apes" came out and was highly regarded by some critics. Well, the whole premise was just nonsense any way you looked at it. But it seemed to get high marks and even won an Oscar. Well, who knows what will win an Oscar. In any case, it was a highly acclaimed science fiction movie and had a lot of followup movies. Go figure.  Well, I spotted "Planet of the Apes" on the 5-dollar Wal-Mart bargain rack and dropped it into the cart. Last night I viewed it. Just as I figured in the early 70s, this thing was just pure nonsense in every way. The setting didn't look like another planet at all. It looked like the Colorado Plateau and the "lake" was one of the large reservoirs. Trust me.The story was more of a comedy than serious science fiction. Well, I'm probably too critical and it was rather entertaining viewing. Nonsense, but entertaining nonsense I suppose you might say.  Gary Peterson

Very general overview of Steve I have just finished reading Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson and watched this movie. This movie is good for general public or for the newer generation who does not know too much about Steve. However, I feel this film is too simple and does miss a lot of topics. It will be great to dig in more and talk about Steve's complex personality, especially his 'Reality distortion'. Steve is very smart person. However, he is crazy as well and sometimes time acts like a jerk. He does treat people bad and use them when he needs them. The film makes Steve and Bill Gate looks like friend. However, if you read Walter's book, Steve still talks about nasty thing about Bill. Don't get me wrong. I love Steve. I just wish this film can be more objective. So, audience has the full view of Steve as a person. The world does evolve and change for better because of Steve's idea. He pushes his team to the limit in order to make things world. He wants his team to work only with A players. He once layoff most Lisa's team because he said the Lisa's team is consists of B players..and does not fit in to Apple's culture. This can be seen as mean. On the other hand, however, he brings Discipline to Apple's culture. He is a master in reading and using people. He walks with you like a best friend (if he needs you). But he can ignore and let you die if he does not see your value.

A decent fantasy/adventure, but not the best of the series Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) is back and now looking for the fountain of youth. Sparrow isn't alone on that journey though, because Black Beard (Ian McShane) and Barbosa (Geoffrey Rush) are also looking for the fountain. Jack finds himself, a prisoner of Black Beard and the former love of his life Angelica Malon (Penelope Cruz), who just might be Black Beard's long lost daughter.   Depp has already signed on for more sequels, that's how much he loves playing Jack Sparrow, but before he puts on the eye liner again, he needs a script that's worthy to him and the character. The last 2 sequels would have been better if they were a lot shorter and if the stories weren't so confusing with too many double crosses.   On Stranger Tides has a story you can wrap your brain around and makes a good adventure/fantasy due to having zombies and dangerous mermaids and etc, but Jack Sparrow is too heroic this time around, which is pretty out of character. Despite being the main star, Sparrow also feels as if he's just on the outside looking in through a lot of the film as well. While Ian McShane, is well cast as Black Beard but is the weakest villain of the films due to being pretty under-used and not as threatening as Davy Jones or Barbosa.   While the film would have felt more alive and memorable if the original director, Gore Verbinski came back. Rob Mashall tried hard with this film, but Verbinksi's films were at least great to look at with well shot sword fights and ship battles. After the first film blew me away, I never felt as if any of the sequels lived up to their potential though and On Stranger Tides is no exception. It kind of just floats along until it's time to get to the fountain of youth, so thank god it wasn't almost 3 hours. I really hope, they at least try harder to give us a film as good as the first with part 5.

This review section is sooo confusing it isn't funny <span class="tiny"> Length:: 2:11 Mins  </span>Bad Boys, Bad Boys II???  Amazon has for some reason they have combined 2 completely different films into the review section.  I am surprised that Amazon has not rectified this problem.  For a long time Amazon has been putting movie reviews for all formats from VHS tapes to Blu-ray discs into a single review section.  There have been complaints in the review sections of 100's of movie reviews.  Complaints about one release for example, a DVD bare bones release vs. a 2 disc Limited Edition in the same section will cause reviews that will make no sense.  If a customer is looking through the reviews to help them decide whether to buy the Limited Edition of a movie and they read review after review complaining about the bare bones DVD release being horrible can cause a person to not buy the Limited Edition or Blu-ray because they are see all of the old stale reviews.  Separate the reviews NOW!!

Adventure Time Episodes To Watch Over and Over The 411 by Maria and Goddess (6)- Adventure time stars Finn the human and Jake the Dog. Goddess loves their friend Marceline "She is my favorite because she has long hair and is a vampire" (Goddess wants to inform you).  While I can see the die hard fans wanting a compilation of a whole season, this is a great asset to a collection as well.  We like the show because it is funny. It is something I used to change because after being spoiled by vivid colorful, digitized cartoons I thought that the kids would find it boring. Goddess would tell me to leave it on whenever it was on. She liked it. Eventually when she didn't need help searching through the channels she would select it herself. One day while dusting her room with her a few months ago, I watched with her. It is a funny show. The characters are hysterical and the jokes are so smart that they are shared on two levels. Kids find it funny and adults can laugh too on the jokes that are wittingly over the kids heads.  Kids like it because there are tons of "fart" jokes and is really bizarre. There is nothing like this on now. We can't stop singing "Daddy why'd you eat my fries?" With knife storms and colorful characters like Lady Unicorn, Princess Bubble Gum and Lumpy, you know you are in for a ride.  While the cartoon is meant for an older child, demographics of maybe tweens. Kids and parents will love it too.

ambitious failure This is Julie Taymor's second attempt at a Shakespeare film. "Titus" was an obscure work that she performed visual wonders with. But she could not make up for the bad story of the play itself. This time she goes after "The Tempest" which has the opposite problem. Its a great piece of writing, but its difficult (if not impossible) to successfully adapt it to film.  Its not that its bad. Its "ok" in the same way that previous adaptations have been ok. Its not a work that lends itself to Taymor's particular skills and she seems too respectful of the play to take real chances with it. And she was probably right in the reaction to her taking chances with it would have been extremely negative from most.  She changed the gender of Prospero (now Prospera). But thats nothing special. Vanessa Redgrave did it over a decade ago and did it better. Whatever Helen Mirren's strengths as an actress, she isn't really suited to the part in my opinion. She could work as Queen Lear, but Prospera just doesn't fit to me. Djimon Hounsou as Caliban is a disaster. He doesn't have the acting experience to pull off what is a very critical part. Russell Brand works but only because he is doing a limited supporting character suited to his skills.  The acting in the film is rather disjointed. There is no unifying style or vision to it from a dramatic point of view. I would suspect (but can't know) that the director let the actors go their own way for the most part.  The music wasn't bad. The visuals were ok for the most part but not up to whats expected of Taymor. I give her credit for taking on (again) a difficult Shakespeare work that many would shy away from. Credit where it is due, by the low standards of Tempest adaptations, she has done very well.  My initial reaction was one star but during the course of writing the review I changed my mind (twice!) finally giving it three stars. In the end, its flaws to me are more the various limitations of the people involved in creating it and that of great ambition.

Lackluster movie, one great performance I keep thinking there's something wrong with me and my all-too-American tastes, because the genteel, veddy-veddy-British sensibilities of well-reviewed films like "Howard's End" and "Remains of the Day" and even "Sense and Sensibility" barely hold my interest. Sadly, "The Iron Lady" almost falls into the same category. Yes, Meryl Streep's performance is worthy of her Best Actress Oscar, but the writing and directing lack punch and focus. Without the gimmick of Thatcher's dead husband continually surfacing as an hallucination, the film would have little going for it beyond Streep's remarkable acting. Not to quibble (who am I kidding, it is a quibble), Streep's accent occasionally sounds like her Julia Childs impersonation. This is a film worth watching once, but perhaps not a keeper for your collection. And I KNOW the British can make dynamic, compelling, watchable films. See "Love, Actually," any in the Harry Potter series, "The King's Speech" and "Shakespeare in Love."

Scratches Surface Of Lynch Mob Injustice All in all not a bad movie to watch given it was made in 1950.  The beginning has a great film-noir style setup with dark themes and scenes.  But then actor Ronald Reagan enters as a wannabe tough guy in the role of detective/prosecutor and the hitchcock type magic is lost.  It was like watching a mediocre magician's act, where you know the outcome of the trick but you watch anyway hoping this time the magician surprises you with a new twist on the outcome.  Good acting by Ginger Rogers probably saved this movie from being a complete flop.  Though the movie attempted to expose and belittle the white supremacist ku klux klan organization and its hold on a small town, the main focus was on Rogers as a concerned sister reluctant to indict her sister's husband (a klan member) for a crime she witnessed him commit. Yes, its a crime detective story where you know who did it and why before the detective does.  This movie might've been ahead of its time in dealing with a serious american terrorist issue, but by depicting the root of this klan klavern as a few crazed and corrupt individuals, it gives the dangerously misleading perception of civic and community innocence when it came to klan activity.  But give hollywood credit, their history of pulling a rabbit out of a hat and convincing viewers that its real has stood the test of time.  "Storm Warning" would've made a better book.  I'm currently reading "Blood Justice" by Howard Smead. Its the true story of the 1959 Lynching of Mack CHarles Parker in Mississippi. It doesn't appear there will be any rabbit popping out of a hat in this tell all book.  Real mob justice engulfs with rage and fear the entire town it proposes to protect and defend.

Ah - that explains it As I was watching this I was really disappointed with Marius. Not just the singing, but the lack of affect in performance. The actor/singer doesn't respond to the others in any way.  Then I read the other reviews that it was Nick Jonas. Clearly the producers went with flashy casting instead getting a solid anchor.  Bummer. I wish I could insert a younger Michael Ball in the role. He was outstanding in the 10th anniversary version.  However, this Cosette is miles better than the 10th anniversary one.  In general, this cast is more age-appropriate than the 10th anniversary, though I think the vocal talent was generally better in the 10th.  So, 3 stars. Good, but not great.

What happened I ordered two of these dvds.  One was stolen by either the UPS man or the person who picked it up and gave it to me (co-worker).  Haven't found out who but in the future please wrap the envelope/package in packing tape so it will not be easy for someone to take the dvds out and re-seal them to look like it wasn't touched. The dvd played well which was a gift but I wanted one also.  The thief stole mine!

Good Ben-Hur is one of those sword and sandal epics that, like The Ten Commandments or Spartacus, is a good film, well acted, well directed, but ultimately, is just a good excuse to eat junk food, for there's nothing of any real depth to it. In many ways, it is sort of Part Two of Charlton Heston's three part `religious epic', which started with The Ten Commandments and ended with El Cid (a bit better of a film than the two others).  The difference is that this is the least religious of the trio, despite its subtitle being A Story Of The Christ.    The film has a few standout scenes, excluding the justly famed chariot sequence (which includes the accidental flip of Hur over the chariot- done by a stuntman, of course), including the two exchanges of water between Christ and Hur, and the dialogue between Hur and Arrius, before their connection is formed, wherein both men counter-taunt each other with words; Heston seeming to make a career over ironic taunts, which would reach its apogee in The Planet Of The Apes. But, mostly, Ben-Hur is good old fashioned moviemaking; an epic that has few weaknesses and a number of strengths, even if it is barren of anything of depth. Believe me, there are many worse ways to spend an afternoon than watching Charlton Heston kick ass on the past.

Religulous guilty of its own biased beliefs and doomsday prophesizing Since people like to qualify their reviews of this with religious affiliation, I will start by saying I am agnostic-atheist.  I can say a lot of what's already been said in this review, but feel that is redundant.  It is a funny mockumentary film, but doesn't really bring any of the strong rational arguments against religion, instead appealing to the emotional.  Worse, Bill Maher, in trying to present rational arguments at one point, argues something that is factually very questionable. IE: the comparisons between Horus and Jesus; the description of Horus in Budge's translation of the Book of the Dead does not say half of what is claimed by Bill Maher.  For Bill to claim the religious overlook the facts and then make poorly grounded claims in the film only makes it easier for people to refute his whole argument.  In Bill's defense, the claim was originally made by someone else in a published work, but how hard is it to check your facts when Budge's translation of the book of the dead is available in electronic form for free and can easily be searched using text find.  I will not recommend this to friends and family on this basis alone.  The second problem the film has an ending that I can't really figure if it is serious or meant as a mocking of agnostics/atheists as well.  He presents his own doomsday prophecy that even I as an atheist find alarmist.  I just had to ask "Are you serious?" because he mocks the religious for their doomsday beliefs then asserts that their beliefs will cause a doomsday.  Like saying "Repent ye believers for the end is nigh."  What???  I honestly can't see how Bill Maher got the reputation as an intellectual when he is willing to do such intellectually dishonest things. There are reasons religious beliefs are harmful, and aside from the very obvious example of religious extremists, Bill misses these entirely.  If you are agnostic or atheist or on the fence about your own religion, you may get a chuckle from this film, but if you want material that addresses the real problems of religion get something from Shermer or Dawkins.

Interesting, but lacking lots of details In ways, it tells the life of Chaplin, but not in retrospective as diligently as I would like. Chaplin does not look old when he was about 60, it was pretty ridiculous watching a 25 year old playing 60 with just white hair in the movie. He had many kids and many wives I get it, and what else, a mom that was nuts, well who cares? They should have shown more about his techniques of how he did film, but all in all they did a fair job. I would like to see a re-release with deeper context of this genius.

An unfortunately average, yet commendable attempt. In "Company Business", writer/director Nicholas Meyer makes a commendable effort to create a tightly plotted, top-of-the-line Hollywood thriller, but the whole affair unfortunately falls flat.  Plagued with the need for constant re-writes (due to the changing political scene in Russia at the time) and a rather uncooperative lead by Gene Hackman (who wanted to bow out of production a mere two weeks before principle photography began), Meyer was left with a screenplay that only sort of makes sense and a film that only sort of works.  Some sequences are a hit (e.g. the opening caper sequence and a tense exchange in the Berlin subway), while others... not so much.  I still enjoyed "Company Business", it's just sad to know how much better it could've been.

Okay, but not fantastic The first Superman/Batman movie was great: funny, clever, and at times, mind-blowing. The second?  Not so much. This film lacks some connection with its audience: I don't feel sorry for Supergirl's plights, nor do I really care about her as a character in this film. In the Justice League and affiliated TV series, her character was fleshed out and well-developed. Here, she just seems paper-thin, and the entire movie suffers because of it.

Murder on the Orient Express Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing were "the best of screen enemies" (to quote Lee). So it's entertaining to see them in a different kind of movie, such as "Horror Express," a somewhat hokey horror movie that is made up for by some excellent performances and pervasive creepiness. You'll never look at a fossil quite the same way again.  Professor Saxton (Christopher Lee) uncovers a frozen ape-man in northern China, and has it crated and loaded on the Trans-Siberian Express. But after his colleague Dr. Wells (Peter Cushing) bribes the baggage man to peek inside, the baggage man is found dead, with bloody white eyes -- and the fossil is gone. More people fall prey to the creature before it's fatally shot by a Russian police officer.  But it soon becomes apparent that the creature may be dead -- but whatever was inside it has just moved on to its next host. Wells and Saxton try to puzzle out what they are dealing with, while a mad monk (Alberto de Mendoza) tries to help the possessed officer, believing him to be Satan. To top things off, a force of Cossack soldiers have arrived to deal with the threat...  "Horror Express" is one of those movies that would normally be B-grade all around -- capable, but nothing really memorable. The plot about a bodysnatching, memory-sucking alien is kinda hokey. But it's the presentation that makes it really interesting, with Lee and Cushing as a pair of scientists, and a sense of mystery around what the creature really is.  And it all takes place in the confines of a train, which gives the movie a claustrophobic feeling, as well as making it seem a bit like a horror version of "Murder on the Orient Express." The dialogue ranges from silly ("There's a stink of hell on this train!") to slyly satirical ("But what if one of you is the monster?" "Monster? We're BRITISH, you know!").  Lee and Cushing are the bright spots in here, as the uptight, scientific-minded Saxton and the friendly Wells, who keeps rubbing Saxton the wrong way. It's interesting to see them as allies ("friends" would be pushing it), and the the two actors give plenty of little details to their strong performances. Dracula and Van Helsing, they ain't. And Telly Savalas shows up briefly as a swaggering, likable Cossack captain.  So from what I've been able to work out, this set is a dual blu-ray/DVD which is hi-def 1.66:1, and has a director interview, an interview about Telly Savalas, an audio interview with Cushing, a new introduction, the trailer, an Easter egg and... an interview about the McCarthy era. HUH?  "Horror Express" is basically a B-movie with the usual weak and solid moments, but some grade-A talent making it worthwhile. Enjoyably spooky.

Learning Guitar This provides basic information, which for the beginner is good. I guess I was expecting more in the way of songs/music to practic, but learning the notes, terms and practicing moving the fingers is worth it.

Hayden Elevates Agreeable "B" Western Filmed in Glorious Cinecolor, "Kansas Pacific" (1953) benefits from Sterling Hayden's solid presence and decent production values. A memorable "B" Western cast includes Barton MacLane (in a rare sympathetic role), Harry Shannon, Reed Hadley and Clayton Moore. Plenty of explosions and gunfights to keep things lively during the 73-minute running time. Better than average for Allied Artists.

Not very interesting or informative. Dissapointing DVD.  Watched it with 2 adults and 5 children and evern though it's relatively short a few of us dozed off.  The 3D is fair at best.  Didn't learn too much and it wasn't very entertaining.

Very Good Study Anthology This is a good collection of early cinema for the movie-history buff to study.  It presents some of Griffith's best shorts in contrast to the then current knockabout comedies, and to the "cinema of spectacle" that was going out of style at this time.  It is very interesting to compare these films to what Georges M&egrave;li&eacute;s was still putting out up to 1912, and to see what kind of movies audiences were beginning to favor in the early 1910s.  Now I must admit that I have never been fond of silent dramas.  They move way too slowly for me unless there are special uses of cinema to help develop character and story (as in "Sunrise"); sad stories and tragedies NEVER appeal to me; and I find it difficult to become engaged in movie-stories to begin with (why should I care about some hack-writer's contrived melodrama?).  It has taken me weeks to get through this collection because I can't get beyond some of the stupid and depressing narratives, so I could only watch one or two movies every few days, then wait for the residual bad taste to dissolve a bit.  However, although I had to force myself through a number of these films, such as "The Mothering Heart" and "Enoch Arden", some of the more upbeat movies in this collection were not only interesting from a study point-of-view, but truly entertained me.  I did think "A Corner in Wheat" was quite good, except the one scene at the stock exchange, which was, to quote another reviewer, "a mess" in the old style of directing; and "The New York Hat" was not only historically important but also engaging.  "The Musketeers of Pig Alley" was even better, and "The Sunbeam" was especially heartwarming, which I appreciated.  "The Battle at Elderbush Gulch" really shows how far cinematic storytelling had come by 1913, being entirely modern in most every sense of the word except CGI.  The films have not been thoroughly restored and still have fair number of splice-lines and crud, and flecks of dirt, but given a little sympathy almost all of them are comfortably watchable, and they are complete, with no missing sections or even more than a very, very few missing frames as far as I could see.  They also have very good musical accompaniments.  As far as minor irritations go: I like dvd menus with the least amount of fuss, and I do wish that video companies would either stop putting sound on the menus at all, or at least turn the sound to the same level as the actual movie soundtracks, which would be helpful for adjusting the volume before the film starts.

Light weight, but entertaining. Certainly not Oscar quality, but the acting was good and the story line was heart warming. So if you are in the mood for a feel-good movie, watch this one.

Not your DVD Directors cut version As you would expect BR video quality is quite superb, with excellent detail throughout. However, I was very disappointed to discover that numerous scenes were cut from the movie including an entire subplot. The DVD Directors cut include a subplot of the boy becoming deathly sick. This entire plot was deleted. Also noticed a scene of the Alien craft in the hanger deck, where Jeff Goldblum was given a tour of the inside of the craft when they first arrived at Area 51. This scene was cut as well.  If you already have the DVD Directors cut then keep it as a backup. The BR video / audio quality is superior but the Directors cut version makes the movie seem complete.

"I love the 80's" edition This review is not about the movie itself, of which there are plenty of reviews already (and I haven't even watched it yet), but rather the "I love the 80's" edition.  The reason I ordered the "I love the 80's" edition was because it was labeled as 2 discs, and I assumed that Disc 2 would be a whole bunch of extras that couldn't fit on Disc 1. Well, as it turns out, Disc 2 is a CD (not a DVD) containing 4 (and only 4) songs from the 1980's; and apparently, all of the "I love the 80's" 2-disc sets (of various movies) have the same CD, with the same 4 songs.  Also, as it turns out, Disc 1 (the DVD of the movie itself) is the same exact disc as the 2001 edition of the DVD (the one with the yellow bar across the top of the case with the words "Widescreen Collection" in it), with the same, limited extras.  So, if you're like me, and prefer to watch commentaries and other extras, don't get this 2-disc edition and instead get the "Hollywood Royalty/Special Collector's Edition". If, on the other hand, all you watch is the movie, then by all means get the cheapest DVD available (currently, new or used, the "Hollywood Royalty" edition; but that may change at any time), or just get it via streaming.

left me wanting more. the movie was alright but not all that.  don't expect a nacho libre type of movie. i wanted more funny jack black/maclaine antics.

Time Has Not Been Kind to This Joke. Viewed: 7/12 Rate: 6  7/12: I have to say that there is an unintentional homosexual feel about The Adventures of Robin Hood which explains why I prefer Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. The latter provide an edge to the action while the other has a lot of *poof* about it. In fact, I like the cartoon better too.  Nonetheless, The Adventures of Robin Hood is a good film, and Errol Flynn, although he laughs too much and the rest of others too, does well in the acting department. But I prefer Kevin Costner to he, Alan Rickman to Claude Rains, and Michael Wincott to Basil Rathbone. I think there is a great deal of animal killing in the film, even more than I expected. Speaking of killing, Robin Hood got out of that rather too easy. Just kill him when he is taken in possession, forego the public ceremony of it. All in all, I can see why there is a spoof version of The Adventures of Robin Hood through Men in Tights, an awful comedy.

The original 'Gone in 60 seconds' I purchased this as a gift for my husband who kept seeing the new one on tv but never the old one.He enjoyed watching it again and said that the old cars were the best part.

Not Brilliant, But Fun I love a good adrenaline-packed thriller as much as the next person. "12 Rounds" is nothing spectacular and has even been accused of having the same plot as the third "Die Hard" film, with minor changes. That may be true, but it is also tremendously entertaining.  Miles Jackson (Aidan Gillen) is one of the most desirable international terrorists in the market. Ruthless and almost untraceable due to his extensive intelligence and unlimited resources, he runs amuck of local authorities while attempting to evade federal custody. In the chaos that follows, his lover is killed and as he is taken away, he warns the officer indirectly responsible that he will pay for his actions. Haunted by this, Detective Danny Fisher (John Cena) attempts to resume his normal life but a year later, Jackson escapes from prison. Planting a bomb in the detective's house and snatching his girlfriend, he informs Fisher that they are going to play a little game... he must complete twelve rounds in order to save his girlfriend's life.  This film follows a familiar formula but there is also some originality in how the characters are played. Cena is not a professional actor but isn't awful; Aidan Gillen is actually what drew me to the project and delivers a sneering, ruthless villain that you have fun rooting against. But the decisions on the part of the director to use a shaky cam totally destroys the experience. There are such extreme close-ups and movement in some of the key action sequences that it's difficult to see what is happening. It actually made one person I saw it with motion sick. It isn't an especially intelligent film but it was a lot of fun.  Parental Concerns: lots of violence (a woman being hit by a car, policeman are shot, two men are stabbed, a fist fight) but no blood; some profanities and abuses of deity.

Okay Film Adaptation Of The Excellent Harlan Ellison Story If you were giving a symposium on how a lousy final line can screw up an otherwise good film, Exhibit A could very easily be L.Q. Jones' 1975 movie A BOY AND HIS DOG. Up until then, the film is quite good, a faithful and funny adaptation of the excellent Harlan Ellison short story (which can be found in the 1987 collection <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002ONMZKE">The Essential Ellison: A 35-Year Retrospective</a>, amongst other places), until that final bit of dialogue makes the film seem much more mean-spirited and misogynistic than it otherwise would. Worth a look if you're a fan of post-apocalyptic science fiction, but by all means read the story first.  PS I was a bit confused as to why everyone in the underground city was wearing make-up - perhaps someone would be kind enough to explain it to me in the comments section of this review.

Shaken Baby Syndrome This movie was alright, mostly over the top, but watchable. Really the entire movie consisted of me thinking to myself, "That poor baby!" and watching Clive Owen slip, slide and jump around while shooting at bad guys. This is definitely rental/one-time-watch.

A Family Affair? Come on, you 1 & 2 Star guys--it wasn't that bad. If you saw the 1984 version of THE BAD SEED, now THAT was B-A-D! This is Oscar-worthy in comparison.  It's almost always a big risk when you have a child as the center of attention in a scrpt--particularly an evil child. The little girl in the remake was really terrible because she had a single level of performace. In comparison I thought Patty McCormack (who played the role on Broadway along with her "Mother" Nancy Kelly) was pretty darn good. I liked it when the little girl's rage & explosive behavior got the best of her & she displayed her carefully concealed aggressive & psychotic streak.  There were other valid points made in the script: The girl's history of playing with matches (usually a boy thing), her inability to socialize with her peers, sadistic tendencies, extreme selfish & narcissistic behavior--and a need to control everyone & everything in her environment. Yes, she is a very bad little girl, but was this film (or the play version) mainly about the daughter--or was the center REALLY the Mother?  There's a few observations about Nancy Kelly's portrayal of the loving mother I'd like to share. Number one, her awful hairdo. There's a feeling of constriction about it--with one rather sinister looking forelock hanging right at the center. It's like she's tried so hard to unconciously surpress her dark side, that it sneaks out in her coiffure. It reminded me of the Satanic Nanny in THE OMEN. Then to support this theory--when you see the film--watch the way Kelly engages in self-injurious behavior whenever she gets frustrated. She starts hitting either herself or the furniture. In the original script (and original ending) the Mother's role at the center makes sense. I mean in the future who's more dangerous, a little girl discovered to be a monster, or a mother who pretends even to herself that she'e not one too? After all, this appears to be (a genetic) family affair.  I think this script was poorly adapted from the play--and the direction not much better. It's all very box set stagey with too little use of the exteriors/outdoors. The characters are stock types. The interaction between the Grandfather & an edlderly crime story buff is just embarrassing with it's feeble dialogue & acting--and, good god, how many drinks does the Grandfather need? His daughter keeps shoving drinks down him like he just walked in from the Sahra Desert.  Obviously time was of the essence in going from Broadway to the Silver Screen. This could have been a really first class movie, but isn't.  It's not that bad either.

Disappointed (spoilers) I was excited to see The Grey.  The premise of the movie sounded awesome and I waited a couple weeks for it to arrive on iTunes as a rental.  When it finally arrived I happily rented it.  The movie was pretty formulaic from start to finish and the actions of the wolves seemed a bit exaggerated to me, not realistic, which took away from the film.  The way each person gets picked off one by one and all of them had or acquired injuries that made them easy kills, it was just too cliche in my opinion.  The movie should've been called "Bad luck strikes repeatedly, then wolves attack."  It's basically a horror movie in the snow.  You can't even get away from the cheap scare cliche with this movie.  Other items that just made it worse...  When you spend 5-10 minutes in freezing water, you're dead.  Instead of immediately building a fire when he got out of the water, Ottway just sat down.  In the next scene he's dry.  The watch with the beacon only seemed to beep when it was given attention by a character (I can't stand the momentary beeping timer/countdown/beacon cliche, it drives me insane).  The movie was predictable from beginning to end and was chock full of cliches.  After muddling through the whole film (plodding through cliche land) and getting to the end, we're left to decide who won, the alpha wolf or Ottway.  How frustrating is that?!  I had high hopes, but I thought it was terrible.  You've seen it before many times, just in a new package.  One positive note... Liam is a great actor and makes you believe in the character.  The rest is forgettable.

A Pretentious Look at a Pretentious Man Certainly well worth watching for any Dean fan (as amply noted in other reviews), but the endless comments about Dean's internal feelings, ideas and intentions strains credibility and becomes t-e-d-i-o-u-s beyond belief. The sequence 22-25 minutes into the film illustrates that rather well.  One of the reasons for Dean's popularity was (and is) that he was a blank screen on which one could project their own angst (as did Altman in making the film).  Someone who gives minimal dialogue and plenty glowering or surly looks has to incite that or there's nothing.  What is amazing is that misunderstood media rebels of the mid 20th century were portrayed as if they were the only ones before or since who had suffered a tortured coming of age.  Gracious, my mother (an 86 year old) grew up in poverty during the Depression; they didn't have indoor plumbing or electricity until WWII when she was in high school, and HER mother was forced into an arranged marriage with an abusive, considerably older man who was believed to be a catch.  People like my mom and grandma had a lot more to cry about and they did it with considerable stoicism.

Super8 Good special effects with a so-so story.  Fair overall.  It's not the usual quality you'd expect for a Spielberg production.

Butch and Sundance This was an ok movie.  It was not up to the hype I heard about it.  I was a little disappointed, I don't think it was worth the rental price.  The best part of the movie was Ted Cassidy.

good, but degenerates from a nightmare of loneliness into a botched action film This film starts out with great promise, with WS as a lone man in a world of chaos.  He is hunting, through the streets of Manhattan, for food and uninfected humans, all the while working on a vaccine for the bio-engineered virus that has more of less destroyed humanity.  WS is convincing as an anguished, intelligent man, who is struggling with his isolation, though his dog is a vital companion.  With flashbacks and preserved video cuts, past history becomes clear:  WS was an army scientist who is the only person to understand the vaccine, which is what makes him immune to the disease of the savages who come out at night.  He has lost his family, understands what has happened to the world and what needs to be done, and has a charismatic strength of character.  So far so good.  You see WS suffer and think as well as act with the decisiveness you would expect from a hero.  There are many excellent details, such as the relationship with his dog or his golfing off the wing of a grounded jet fighter.  It is vivid and beautiful, completely believable.  However, once the night bad guys come to the fore, the film begins to falter.  First, the night baddies are simply not well executed technically:  they don't look real, so you can't believe in them; as one reviewer noted, they look too much like video game characters.  We expect better in computer animation, I'm sorry.  Second, from an introspective survivor film, you get grotesquely violent action.  Not only is the plot unrealistic - the baddies have not discovered him until the night he is rescued by an immune woman and then they come in force - but the action is kind of ridiculous:  the baddies seem invulnerable, though they have lost their human intelligence as they transformed into hairless half-dogs and behave as if they have rabies.  They are seeking human flesh and seem to have some kind of hive mind, like an insect society, but none of the promising threads are developed into plot and theme.  There is not even enough to enable the thoughtful viewer to connect the dots, which is another indispensable component to great scifi.  That being said, I am quite a sucker for these end-of-humanity films.  This one got me to believe, at least for the first half.  It is a mistake to have made it into an action film in the end, though WS is a good action hero.  WS' role is more dramatic than his usual roles, more complex as a character and not at all happygolucky as we expect of the fresh prince.  He is a good actor and did well here, but the script and direction  take it over the top.  Recommended, but not with much enthusiasm.

Great cast, good story idea, little flat. With the cast this movie had so much potential just never got on a consistant roll. I After an attack at home Frank Moses (Willis) recruits his old CIA buddies for help in revenge.  Using all the tricks he knows Moses hunts down the person responsible for the attack while trying to avoid a tenacious CIA agent trying to stop him.  This is another movie that falls into a common trap.  Assemble an All-Star cast, realize everyone will watch for cast, slack off on rest.  To me it feels like the bigger the stars put together the bigger the dissapointment.  I'm not saying this is a bad movie, it's just very average.  With the cast assembled (and the Golden Globe nomination for Best Picture) I was expecting hilarious.  It had funny parts, but a little flat in some areas.  It sounds like I'm bashing it but it was a good movie.  I was just expecting more.  You will definately have a good time watching, just don't get your hopes too high. The best part of the movie hands down is John Malkovich, watch for him if nothing else.  I give it a B.  Would I watch again? - If it came on TV

American History X I heard some good things about this movie that built my expectations, that were left unmet. The story to me was largely unbelievable. The acting by many was weak including Edward Norton. There are much better movies about the dangers of racism and extremism.

Not that good! I was looking for material for a voice class I will be teaching this fall.  This was one of the pieces of literature I was reviewing.  It was not what I needed.  It was more for church  or spiritual music.  I know it said worship in the title but sometimes that means little if the info is presented well.  This was not something I would use.  I was looking for texts for high school.

Trip thru the wine country down nihilistic lane... There is good acting - Virginia Madsen was great - and a couple of funny scenes but Jack and Miles lack any semblance of values and are basically a depressing duo. As Jack says: "All I know is that I'm an actor. All I have is my instinct. You're asking me to go against it." His idea of instinct is living any lie that fits the moment. Miles is supposedly more, being an author, but I certainly would not have any interest in reading his book.

Interesting Try Alright kiddies; sit down because you ain't gonna' believe this review!  I HATED the first Laid to Rest installment.  I found it predictable, unscary, shoddy-looking, and just another tired excuse for a slasher film.  I rented Laid to Rest 2, and boy was I pleasantly surprised.  Now, don't get me wrong, this isn't a Gone With the Wind caliber movie, BUT for its genre, it's really not too bad.  Shot and made on a shoestring budget, what it does provide are some very creepy moments and some kills that are just brutal.  Part 2 picks up where Part 1 stopped.  But, Chromeskull is taken to an "underground" hospital and revived.  It seems that Chromeskull is a creation of some sort of organization.  Why he has been created is not answered, nor is why he does what does.  That's too bad, because I think that would have given a little more "oomph" to the overall story.  Brian Austin Green plays Chromeskull's biggest, most ardent fan--cleaning up his messes he leaves behind.  Trouble is, he also wants to BE Chromeskull and, well, there's only room enough for one of them.  Danielle Harris, usually the screaming victim-to-be in the Halloween series, plays nursemaid to Chromeskull.  There is a scene between the two of them--and it has not one drop of blood--that was the most disturbing scene I've seen in a long time.  The girl who plays Chromeskull's unintended victim reminded me of Marilyn Burns, who played the only survivor of the original "Texas Chainsaw Massacre."  Her nuances in playing an almost-blind, terrified out of her mind victim was very real.  As with Burns' character, I just wanted her to stop screaming!!  This movie is UR and lasts 93 minutes.  It was directed by Robert Hall.  For all you gorehounds out there, let me just say this:  there are two kills in this movie that actually made me wince!  So, go enjoy yourself.  I don't think you'll be disappointed!

It's ok, though I didn't realize it was JUST for kids Working in a museum myself, I really couldn't tell you why it took me so long to finally sit down and watch this movie. I suppose it might have been because, despite the interesting subject matter, I tend to throw Ben Stiller flicks into the "seen one, seen `em all" category, which didn't exactly put me in a big rush. Eventually I caved, and while Night at the Museum was by no means an awful movie, my feelings towards it never really elevated above lukewarm level, and I was actually very surprised at just how much this movie was geared towards children specifically.  Obviously I don't need lowbrow potty humor to be incorporated into everything I watch, but knowing this film was written by Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant of Reno 911 fame, I was looking forward to a certain underlying, adult-oriented cleverness that was completely missing. Not that I can't also appreciate a good family movie when I see one, a la Hotel For Dogs or SpongeBob, but it also seemed fairly watered down by those standards as well. I will say that the CG special effects were VERY well done and the general cinematography was fantastic, but story-wise there wasn't much to go on and any conflicts or plot twists were forced or without much consequence to begin with. (The museum possibly closing down was mentioned, what, once in passing? And the bad guy "reveal" felt tacked on post-production.) It was really just random hijinks for the sake of random hijnks without any purpose, which is fine if you're under 6, but there were few genuine laugh-out-loud moments for anybody else. Aside from looking pretty, nothing was really explored thematically to tie it all together which I thought was strange.  I realize I shouldn't be docking points based on what I expected or wanted it to be versus what it actually was, but even taken on its own merits, it still could have been so much more. It was entertaining enough in the moment and I don't necessarily regret buying it blindly, but for as much praise as I had heard beforehand, I was prepared for one of those "something for everyone" type of films and was slightly let down on all counts.

Hard to see past the stars, the effects, and the fights to Sherlock Spoiler Alert!  Spoiler Alert!  I love Sherlock Holmes, the original Doyle stories, the many pastiches, and the many movies and TV versions.  But this one was hard to love because there was so much in the way of the actual Sherlock Holmes story.  I never saw Holmes or Watson, only these famous movie stars about whom I know far too much personal stuff.  I watched them acting, not the characters.  Irene Adler was misplayed as a cute ingenue rather than as somebody very serious.  How about Sharon Stone or Cate Blanchett?  Watson's Mary Morston had the too-smooth face of a Barbie doll, and supposedly Holmes hadn't met her before, when she actually had met them both on a case.  At least she wasn't perky like their Irene Adler.  The secondary cast seemed like the usual suspects from various Masterpiece Theaters.  The too-many fight scenes went on and on and on.  Holmes definitely preferred to outwit his actual opponents, not beat up the same minor thugs repeatedly.  If we were going to watch fights with the giant repeatedly, couldn't we have given him a real role and character?  The special effects were definitely snazzy, and called so much attention to themselves that they distracted from the story and the characters.  The shipyard scene was almost funny, as was the scene on the bridge.  The magic mumbo jumbo and the science mumbo jumbo were similarly tedious and overstressed, and the usual evil-taking-over-the-world plot is so hackneyed.  If you want to make Sherlock Holmes a superhero, fine, but remember that his superpower is *deduction* of some complicated and subtle murder.  The extras were pretty humdrum -- the usual self-congratulatory chat with the director (oooh, Madonna's former husband!), production people, and the major stars.  So why did I give it three stars?  Downey and Law are lovely to look at, their London is beautiful and gritty, even though much of it looks fake, and I just adore even the suggestion of Sherlock Holmes.

A Super Writing Hampered by Inspector-Gadget Level Animation As much as I love the story line and the script, the animation level is unforgivably low. In fact, it is so low, that the movie opens with Kent and Lois commenting on the poor animation of a Superman animation, kind of a joke-within-a-joke. The intention of this may have been to get the audience to look past the animation quality, rather it calls even more attention to it.  While I agree story comes first and matters most, in an animated movie the quality of its animation matters! In short, if the question is "Which is a better animated movie, strong writing and weak animation or weak writing and strong animation?" the only true answer is "STRONG WRITING & STRONG ANIMATION."  Your time is too precious to accept compromises. Rather than seeing this I'd suggest <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007EMP94Y">DCU Justice League: Doom</a> instead.

Battle in Outer Space is great for Godzilla fans. From the makers of Godzilla comes "Battle in Outer Space", where flying saucers try to conquer Earth! This Toho movie has the classic Godzilla director, composer, and special effects team. There are a lot of models and miniatures that look great. We get to see flying saucers, Earth space ships, the moon, and a lot of ray guns. As a 1950's alien invasion movie, "Battle in Outer Space" has a lot of cool special effects and action. It's not 80 minutes of military men and politicians talking in offices about what to do, like a number of low budget American science fiction movies at that time. The DVD is widescreen, color, and stereo, with both the original Japanese version and a dubbed English version. I watched the Japanese version, and the picture is very clean, clear, and sharp. It's all too easy to spot the wires on the models, but I tried not to look. The only special feature is commentary from a few historians, which sounded pretty good. I recommend this for fans of Godzilla or 1950's science fiction movies. For similar titles, see my list "From the Makers of Godzilla". Review 8/19/2009 after watching on DVD.

It's okay. My kids enjoy this movie but I don't. I wish they had left it as hand-drawn animation. I am not a fan of the computer animated stuff.

Better than I expected Since so many people consider the original CONAN with Arnold to be a classic (even with some of the cheesy and campy scenes),  you know the makers of this film were fighting an uphill battle to have the film be accepted.  I was not really expecting much, but we rented it any way.  I was surprised.  It was much better than I expected.  They tried to maintain a darker tone that was more consistent with the Howard books.  I am sure most people will still regard the Arnold version of Conan to be a classic and this film will probably be forgotten quickly ........... which is kind of a shame, because is really is better than the harsher critics proclaim.

Movie Cute But BluRay/DVD Disc Strange I saw New years Eve in the theatres and thought it was cute. It wasn't great, but it wasn't horrible. I bought the bluray/dvd and ultraviolet combo because I was going to give the dvd to a friend because she loved the movie. Well I didn't notice when I ordered it but the bluray and dvd are on one disc. One side is blu/ray and the other is the dvd. I was a little annoyed at myself for not paying attention, because I could have just gotton the single bluray version cheaper by itself. I then started thinking that hey this is a cheap way to do a combo pack, but then I started to think that this was strange. Why if you have a bluray player would you need the dvd on the other side? You would play the bluray right? By the way there is a difference in how the picture looks when you look at both sides like I did. Who does the dvd side benefit? If you have a dvd player yeah you could play it, but it would be cheaper to buy the dvd version of the movie. A lot cheaper.

Too many premises--not enough pay-off Some movies fall flat because of premises that are too thin to begin with. Others start with one really good idea and either don't have a clue how to develop and run with it, or simply lose focus before the end. "Babylon AD" has something like four or five potentially brilliant ideas going in, but the writers apparently couldn't prioritize or focus on any one of them within the alloted time frame; the end result being something of a slickly-produced mess. What the film does have is atmosphere, vividly portraying the disconnect between the gritty dystopian hellhole inhabited by the have-nots, and the sterile soulless hi-tech high-rise world of the haves. Unfortunately, this has been done before more than once, usually far more effectively. I was constantly being reminded of similarly-premised, often much better films; Alfonso Cuaron's masterful "Children of Men" came immediately to mind; as did "Nightwatch" and "Daywatch," "Wanted," "Jumpers," "Ballistic: Eccs vs. Sever" and even the pungently bleak remake of "Rollerball" from a few years back; sometimes it felt like I was watching trailers from all of those films at the same time. Bottom line; by the end of "Babylon AD" we're left with five or six very frustrating unanswered questions. Unfortunately none of them are the kind of questions that leave us jonesing for a sequel. While I didn't think this movie was quite as bad as some other reviewers suggest here, I'd have to say it was a pleasantly diverting disappointment. Oh, this could have been so much better. Alas!

Great allegory about slavery I saw this movie on a premium cable channel several years ago and decided I needed to own a copy.  Black aliens escape to Earth, fleeing slavery on some distant planet.  They are able to blend in and find a better existence in New York City.  When white alien "slave catchers" attempt to retrieve one particular fugitive slave, other fugitives eventually come together to defeat them.  This was the first movie appearance for actor Joe Morton (as The Brother), and there are other familiar faces in the movie as well.  Serio-comic and thought provoking.  It also addresses drugs and blight in NYC.

Enemy at the Gates While this film has much entertainment value I think it is a dissapoitment for history buffs  9 like myself)especially if you have read the book. The movie centers around the Russian sniper played by Jude Law and his rival German sniper (Ed Harris)The opening of the movie is good especially where it shows every other Russian soldier receiving a rifle due to short supply and his "partner" is to pick it up when the other is killed. I expected the movie to be a little closer to the book.

Lost In Mail? Don't know about this film. Ordered it, paid for it, have yet to ever receive it, and that's been over a month ago! So You tell me. Probably the last thing I'll ever order here.

Movie Review Haywire (2011) main: Gina Carano Okay, okay I admit I did a bad thing by missing this movie when it was in theaters. I've watched Gina Carano in many Mixed Martial Arts events and always thought she would translate well in a movie as a kick-ass agent of destruction. We were teased by her cameo appearance in 2009's B-classic Blood and Bone as a street fighter. Tell me when she gave Isaiah Bone (main: Michael Jai White) her number- you weren't hoping she'd be seen again.  And so, when a trailer emerges that shows Gina Carano doing the CIA-MMA combat style, you have to get amped. The trailer also showed Michael Douglas so you felt that the good acting was going to be handled by an able veteran. Add Ewan McGregor and Antonio Banderas and you have a can't-miss bundle. Well it has just arrived on rental and DVD so now I'm getting my chance to see Gina in action.  Plot Ploddings  At about the 36 minute mark I realized I had no idea what was going on, why and who any of the characters were. I had to check myself to see if I had checked out and stopped paying attention and missed some clues. No, it's one of those movies where they leave it blurry and bring it into focus at the very end, which doesn't quite make sense since the overall plot is as simple as it seemed in the trailer: super agent is double-crossed and sets out on a mission to find out why and at the same time - seek revenge. It doesn't work to keep us in the dark about something we already knew walking in.  Cut to the chase Let's get to the action and choreography since that's supposed to be the meat of this flick.  In true fanboy service, you will get to see Gina Carano as freelance agent Mallory Kane pull off several bread and butter MMA moves- including the triangle, Muay Thai leg kicks and the superman punch. The only problem is; all the best moments are pretty much shown in the trailers. The early scenes are well edited and frenetic enough to warrant the name haywire, but later they begin to feel like set ups. It's as if the director looked at the clock and figured it was time for a mini-fight scene and placed the characters in, oh just enough peril to have a quick fight. By the time the climatic confrontation (Which you won't know is going down until the credits roll) occurs you'll be hoping you can see something different. Unfortunately the action plays out the same as the first fight and only the quick jump-cuts make the fight seem any different.  Sometimes it feels like I've slipped from watching an action movie to watching an action reel meant to prove Gina Carano is a great action-hero fit. We have long shots of her running (for almost no damn reason), which proves she can run and look cool [like James Bond] and we have her in several outfits showing off her curves. She is also allowed to play it sexy, aloof and cool in a few quiet moments. Her action-acting resume is accepted. In much the same style as Hanna (2011 main: Saoirse Ronan) there are several scenes set to music as if we are watching a music video. And that's another bothersome point. It feels as if director Steven Soderbergh (Ocean's Eleven, Traffic, Erin Brockovich and Solaris +) was more concerned with getting a cool shot and placing the camera in an interesting place than following any kind of logical course of action for our heroine to take. To his credit, he may be a saving factor because removing those cool camera angles might have left some scenes looking very boring and plain. I mean, she's jumping over roof tops, but with no real sense of danger and no discernable reason to be doing so. She's not exactly trapped and the pursuing baddies aren't even sure where she is. So what's she doing besides looking awesome?  In the end, I feel the whole is not equal to the sum of its parts. You have many underutilized, bankable actors, a great physical actress and a plot as simple as it gets. Sure there are scenes with creative camera work. Sure there are moments when MMA-lovers can cheer at the screen and call out the techniques being used, but overall this movie represents a first step in what I hope is the budding film career of Gina Carano. I can easily see her as a Bond villainess or arch nemesis in the next Charlie's Angels. Although our heroine says early in the film that she doesn't like loose ends, this movie leaves us with a lot of loose ends. Hopefully, action superstar Gina Carano gets a chance to tie them up in her next movie role. Worth renting, not owning. I'm not a movie critic; I'm simply critiquing a movie.

A Comedy about World Politics The Mouse That Roared, 1959 film  The Grand Duchy of Fenwick is a tiny country in the French Alps (so small it can't be found on a map). It was founded by an Englishman in the 15th century and is the only English speaking country in Europe. The longbow is the national weapon. Their chief export is their wine. The loss of sales due to a cheap competitor in California brought an economic depression. [Do many of the actors look similar?] Their solution is to declare war on the United States, and lose. This will bring an occupation by the US with economic aid and prosperity. [Is there a flaw in this plan?] And so a Field Marshal and twenty men dressed in chain mail leave on foot for the invasion. They board a ship in Marseilles to sail to America. An air raid drill leaves New York depopulated. The Fenwick army is opposed. Germ warfare?  They locate a scientific center where a scientist works on a super-bomb. Dr. Kokintz has a working model. "Let's hope it will never be used." The sight of the Fenwick army leads to rumors among the people hiding in the subway system. "Men from Mars!" The Pentagon is informed. "Is this some kind of a joke?" The Fenwickians capture the Q-bomb! Field Marshal Tully also captures the US Army General in charge of New York. "We won!" Is something funny going on? They sail back to Europe. The signs carried in Fenwick tell about these times. Enjoy the music. The Fenwick army returns with their prisoners. "I showed them" says the General. This event becomes World News. The BBC announced the NY Yankees beat the Milwaukee Brave "in the American version of football".  The Pentagon discusses what to do. European countries want to help Grand Fenwick now. What should they do? The opposition wants to return the bomb and the prisoners to America. Foreign automobiles arrive at Grand Fenwick. Tully looks for Helen. The diplomats play "Diplomacy", a board game (like "Monopoly"). There is a car chase that looks like something from a Mack Sennett comedy. That bomb gets tossed around like a football. Prime Minister Tully signs a peace treaty for its commercial advantage. One item will allow small countries to possess the bomb. Her Highness offers greetings to the President "and Mrs. Coolidge too". The last scene jokes about that dangerous bomb. "Only we know." And so there is a happy ending.  That Q-bomb was shaped like a Rugby football, a sport popular in Britain and France. Leonard Wibberley wrote this comic novel and other books. It is a satire about life in the 1950s. There were other comedies from Shepperton Studios in the 1950s, some were funnier.

Some will love it, others will find it a bit slow and tedious I saw this movie shortly after it came out and I remember being somewhat bored with the slow pacing.  I suspect the more familiar you are with the world of Gilbert and Sullivan the more you will enjoy the movie, but for others it might not be that accessible.  The movie does contain some good performances and characterizations, and the relationship between G&S is nicely portrayed, but if you don't have an innate interest in the world of opera it all feels a bit predictable. Obviously some love this movie, but others will be a little letdown.  Perhaps a rental first is in order.

An interesting study in Intelligent Design propaganda In some ways this is a very thought provoking movie that has very little to do with the evidence for or against evolution. Ben Stein has succeeded in creating a conspiracy movie about mainstream science's suppression of the "truth" of intelligent design. He elevates the viewers passion against evolution by connecting darwinism and Nazism (with plenty of Third Reich clips and a visit to a WWII era euthanasia hospital). Very little is said about ID or Darwin's theory of evolution. Instead the focus is on the stories of academics who were purportedly denied tenure or career advancements because of their interest in ID. I blame some of the scientists allowing Ben Stein to quote them in a way that confuses the whole argument for evolution (Dawkins especially). The truth is that intelligent design is not a scientific theory in the way that Darwin's theory of evolution. Evolution is useful for explaining the relationships between all life on Earth whereas ID has nothing to say.

Great Movie! Sound level poor. The movie was great as usual but the low rating is due to the sound level. I had to bump up the volume 4 times the reg level.

No Closed Caption This is a new movie and all new movies usually have Closed Caption but this one did not. I was really disappointed. I am hard of hearing and in order to keep from bothering other family members and turning my television to loud I always use close caption but I couldn't with this movie. Must of been a cheaper addition I like the movie but I was not happy about the lack of closed caption.

Eh, just another formulatic film What's there to say about this movie? Nothing really... It wasn't great but it wasn't horrible either. Just kinda blah... The story isn't original, the performances aren't spectacular. I really think that this film was just made in the hopes that all of Zac Efron's fans would flock to the theaters.  I think Zac is a likable actor who's got talent but this movie was just okay. I kinda felt like this movie was trying very hard to be the 2012 version of The Notebook but it failed miserably.  If you wanna kill an afternoon and you literally have no other options then I'd say watch it. You probably won't ever want to watch it again and you probably wouldn't recommend it to a friend but it wasn't the worst movie I've seen.

ho-hum I haven't read the book, but probably will now that i've seen the 3 Swedish originals  twice and the American theatrical release.  So I can't yet comment on the relative accuracy.  This one is OK, but I can't see any reason to recommend it over the originals (assuming you can read subtitles).  Besides, Noomi would kick Roony's you-know-what any day of the week! (I found Roony's performance relatively vacant and unconvincing).  And I could have done without the graphic mutilated cat scene of the American version (even though I assume that must have been in the book).  I'm not saying to stay away, but watch the originals first!

Audio Issues The product was shipped quickly, as advertised, and arrived in excellent condition, so there was no problem at all with the purchase itself. I was looking forward, however, to a high quality blu-ray remastering of a great movie, but became highly dissapointed in the performance of the audio. The video is acceptable, but not as spectacular as I had come to expect from the remastering of such classics as Scarface. The audio, though, when rendered through a 5.1 surround system, was poor to the point of being an annoying distraction. It would appear that whoever transferred this to blu-ray was just going through the motions. The two stars off were soley for the port to blu-ray. I still had to give this classic at least three stars and highly reccommend it to anyone who has not seen it yet.

S'okay Really, this movie is more of a comedy than an action movie.  The main character is cracking jokes and doing one-liners all through the film.  Most of it's actually pretty funny.  Still, I kinda felt like he was lacking any real charisma.  The impression he gave me was, "Tony Stark's annoying little brother."  But like I said, he was funny most of the time, so I really can't complain.  Then, there's the bad guy's brother who's pretty entertaining just cause he's so effing crazy.  This movie goes way overboard on the CGI at times.  I don't have a problem with CGI, but dude, there's a limit.  Some scenes look like real people walking around in a PS2 game.  There's one part where they're diving down to Earth in these space suits, and I'm thinking, "How are they going to get through the atmosphere without blowing up?"  Their suits spark up a bit, then the flames die out and they keep falling.  So the atmosphere was pretty much like a firecracker that didn't quite go off.  I was like, "Dude, what the hell was that?!"  Really, there's just not enough meat to the story.  It's basically "save the president's daughter in space."  Some characters do some stuff and then the movie ends.  The bottom line is, it's an okay movie, but nothing to get excited about.  It's alright to rent if you just like to rent movies.  There's nothing really wrong with it, it's just that there's better movies out there.  That said, it's perfectly harmless fun.  If you're into these kinda movies and you're looking for something to watch over the weekend with some friends, this is something to consider.

good and bad This movie is visually stunning, but does not have a happy ending, A lot of Bollywoods don't. Just be warned, if you like happy endings, maybe you should try Khabi Kushi Khabi Gaum.

Creepier than I expected. Oasis of the Zombies is a 1981 film by cult director Jess Franco.  The plot is basic.  Somewhere in the desert lay buried a a fortune in Nazi gold protected by dead soldiers.  Chronicled is the journeys and misfortunes of those that seek it.  (No other story points need be mentioned as the details make no difference, here.  Remove the undead from this movie and there's nothing left of any real value.  It's flat.)  Still, I didn't think the movie was that bad.  I expected worse.  The zombies were put together fairly well; they had a unique look to them.  I'd compare a few of them to Grandpa Sawyer, if you'll allow the reference.  There were others with odd eye designs that I was digging on, too.  The zombie variables were individualized and fun to pick out.  My favorite was a man with bulbous fake eyes protruding from a damaged face; he looked startled every time he came limping onto screen.  My point here is that the film's proprietors clearly put some pride into their work.  It's appreciated.  Aside from that, there's not much to say.  The kill scenes are sporadic.  Some are gory, some are clean.  There's bits of nudity, (full), and the cursing is kept to a minimum.  It's your basic low-budget zombie flick without the heavy screaming and overacting that you sometimes get from the genre.  If anything, I'd say the performances were a maybe too melancholy for my taste?  I've never had my thigh chewed on by an undead soldier, so I suppose I'm in no position to judge, but I think I'd be a little more excited than this crew.  At the most, they peaked out at, "alarmed".  And there it is.  My review of, "Oasis of the Zombies".  But before I go, I'd like to throw in my three favorite parts of the movie:  1.  In the beginning, two women come across piles of Nazi military equipment and start messing around in them.  One gets scared, decides she'd better leave, and when they zoom in on her face, we find she has a slight mustache.  Win.  2.  While recovering from battle, a captain falls in love with, Ayesha, a sheik's daughter.  In one scene we find her posing while he draws her.  The sketch is horribly executed.  The man has no business drawing people.  He gave her a Colin Hay eye.  Double Win.  3.  In the final battle, when the zombies are closing in on the young protagonist and his friends, they decide to attack with fire.  During the melee, one of them yells, "LET'S GET SOME BOTTLES AND MAKE MOLOTOV COCKTAILS!  LIKE IN SCHOOL!"  Nice.  You may want to rent this one first before taking the big plunge.

A bit slow This DVD was on a very important topic, but like many documentaries, it was a bit slow. I would still recommend that Americans see it to understand some of what was done in our names. Shameful and still happening.

Great Talents Converge on a Mediocre Film I'd heard that Shutter Island wasn't that great but I was really surprised at just how weak it really is. Leonardo DiCaprio plays a U.S. Marshall in the 1940's sent to `Shutter Island', a facility that houses the most unmanageable of the criminally insane. His objective is to investigate a patient who's gone missing. DiCaprio's character brings along a tremendous amount of baggage being haunted by his witnessing first hand the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp and the subsequent slaughter of the guards as well as the death of his wife from a pyromaniac. The main problem with the film is its total lack of subtlety. DiCaprio is driven up to the prison gate to blaring strings as if it were the climax of the film and the movie rarely lets up. When DiCaprio has one of his nightmares featuring either memories of the concentration camp or his dead wife or some woman who killed her three kids it's all handled in such a ham handed way that it's more laughable than shocking. When DiCaprio is stricken with a headache Dr. Cawley (Ben Kingsley) describes a migraine to DiCaprio's partner as being akin to having your head cut open, filled with razor blades and then rattled around. As someone who's suffered migraines even I think that's way over the top and why would he need to describe a migraine. It's a rare person who's never had or known someone who has migraines.  As I was watching the movie I kept thinking that the problems were clearly the fault of the director. The pacing was off, the scenes failed to deliver what they were trying to convey and the suspense felt overly forced. It had the feel of an inexperienced director trying way too hard. As I watched the closing credits there appeared the name of Martin Scorsese. I totally forgot that Scorsese was the director and by and large I've enjoyed sometimes loved his movies. I have no idea what happened but I know that I am not the only one who thought this movie failed. In one scene DiCaprio is interviewing patients about the disappearance of the inmate and sets off one by continually scratching his pencil on a notepad. The guy goes absolutely ape[you know what] for no apparent reason. It wasn't THAT annoying. It's like Scorsese wanted DiCaprio to come off as a master of manipulation but to me he just lucked out and found a guy who was extraordinarily sensitive to pencil scratching.  One place where the movie succeeds is in casting. The thing about Leonardo DiCaprio is that he has such a high likeability factor that it's easy to become emotionally invested in his characters. When you care about the character it becomes much more compelling when he's in danger even if the movie is silly. Ben Kingsley is excellent as Dr. John Cawley and Mark Ruffalo did a great job as DiCaprio's partner in the U.S. Marshall's. Max von Sydow and Jackie Earle Haley had small but well acted roles. The movie also has a high quality look to it although the sinister prison for the mentally insane with possible dubious rehab methods seems eerily similar to other films I've seen but I guess as the old saying goes "there's nothing new under the sun".  What kept me watching the movie was the mystery but the ending telegraphs itself about half way through and the conclusion makes the rest of the movie seem highly unlikely. I would not call this a terrible movie but I'd call it a poorly executed movie. I'll bet a lot of people enjoyed this movie but it just didn't work for me. One last aside; I like Leonardo DiCaprio as an actor but he really needs to quit trying to grow facial hair. It's just not working.

A bit too tough for me but YMMV I am 57, an avid Atkins follower, and do a daily 45 min run on my Xtrainer every day, 6 days a week. This lost me 17 kilos and made me happier and healthier. But as I couldn't shed the last 10 kilos to reach my target weight, I bought two dvds by Jillian. Here's the deal from my very personal point of view.  When you watch it, it seems easy enough. But if you join in and are - like me - older and with a heart condition, it's just too tough. Too fast paced, and too intensive. After one week, I still have trouble making it to the end of the warming up set, before I give in, gasping for breath.  So, if you are a bit older you may want to find a training schedule which is less exhaustive. I know it's only 10 dollars so try it, your mileage may vary, without you being left to poverty. They absolutely look like good trainig videos, it's just that I can only complete 10 out of 30 minutes without a heart attack. I'll keep trying, of course.  All other things aside, I found it VERY annoying that the dvds do not allow you to jump to the main menu without first tediously going through ALL Jillian's commercials. "You can not do that with this disk at this time". Americans may be perhaps used to that, but for me it's an insult to my intelligence.

Are you kidding me? I'm sorry but this show needs to be brought down in ratings and fast!  I bought part 1 at odd lots for three dollars and part 2 on rightstuf for 8, so I paid a total of 11 dollars. I had read reviews before, so I had low expectations going into this.  First thing I've got to admit is that after watching every episode, this show grew on me. But so did skim milk. When I drink 2 percent, I realize how much skim sucks. I'd give it a lower rating if it hadn't grown on me.  This is the most cliched anime I've ever seen. That's a big statement, since anime is almost nothing but cliches now, but its true. But forget cliches. Let's talk being unrealistic, and just plain rediculous. There's a dude that wears a soccer uniform 24/7 and has flame kicks. Isn't this a mecha show? How does he randomly have this mystic power? Nobody else has this ability, or any like it. He's not even the main character.Also, Aquarion's abilities are as impossible as Gurren Lagann. The difference being that Aquarion expects you to take it seriously. There's also a random girl in a wheel-chair who happens to be a vampire? Vampires are never mentioned in the entire series, and they never mention it after that.So why?  The main character is Apollo. He's likable enough, but his name might as well be Naruto. There's a cliche love interest. A cliche rival. There are cliche combining mecha, and when they combine, these kids have orgasms. Yep. It is especially disturbing when three dudes combine and have orgasms together. Talk about a sausage-fest.  The villains are shadow angels. They cry. Oh and smell flowers. Watch out!  Look, I should just review this show, and not mention others, but lets address the pink elephant. This show rips off Neon Genesis Evangelion. Badly. I'm not even gonna tell you why. Just watch any other anime instead, and say you saw this show, b/c in a way, you have.  The animation, art, music, all of that's great.  I'm not saying this is the worst anime ever, I'm saying, watch something else. This show is over the top and takes itself too seriously. If you like over the top fun. Watch Gurren Lagann. If you like weird mecha shows, watch Eva.

Better than "1 star" As I stated in my review for the first volume of this series, maybe this isn't a 5-star production but it DEFINITELY doesn't deserve all the 1-star ratings that are on here and several reviews aren't even accurate descriptions of the product. Apparently people were expecting some big budget production on par with Disney's big screen counterparts and that's not the case, nor was it intended that way. This is a THEME DVD intended for CHILDREN focused on the importance of friendship, however I do feel it does a poor job in this regard. Many of those posting the negative reviews even admit that their children enjoy the stories. I also don't understand all the harsh comments regarding the quality. Some have pointed out that the two fully-animated stories are from TV shows and that's the kind of quality you get which isn't terrible. Disney has been reissuing TV episodes on DVD for years and still does. Again, this DVD features stories focused on a central theme targeted to elementary-aged children.  The first "chapter" is fully animated and portrays how Jasmine and the gang overcome the bad behaviours of some mischievious sprites. Unfortunately, as others have correctly pointed out, Jasmine isn't really featured here and doesn't play a major role which is disappointing based on the series' princess theme. It is not scary or inappropriate as some have stated.  The second chapter is presented in an anmimated read-along story book format but the words are not highlighted as they are spoken as in the first volume. Again, I don't see a major connection to the friendship theme here as it is mainly about Snow White making dinner for the dwarves. There are some interactive moments where you can use your remote to make a choice but the story will continue if you do nothing.  The third story is fully animated and shows how Ariel stops the evil Sea Witch from destroying and/or taking over her father's kingdom. It starts out with Ariel and her friend Gabriella but then Gabriella is essentially non-existant and I saw very little "friendship" moments during the show. The Sea Witch does create some "scary" situations but nothing I would view as being traumatizing for young children.  The bonus features include a music video, princess game and a craft activity.  Bottom line is, yes the quality is mediocre though it is made for younger children so it was not made to be spectacular in the eyes of an adult film critic. The friendship theme is really lost here but the stories can still be entertaining for younger children. The first volume is definitely better but this Volume 2 isn't terrible either.

It's ok I thought this would be a better movie then it actually was. I'm glad I got it on sale, otherwise I would have waited for my cable co. To run it

Flashy appearance + Some good shooting scenes = 3 stars. - The bad guys in this movie look flashy with their expensive suites. They look more like successfully businessmen.  - There are a couple of exciting shooting scenes.  - The acting looks pretentious to me.  - There's nothing new about the plot.  In short, it's worth watching once.

FAST Talking Bible Although I am pleased to have the Old and New Testament version of this "Talking Bible" at all, the commentator reads it much too fast.  One cannot follow and absorb it as one might like -- and needs to. Also, the other voice inserts for quoted sentences are very distracting.  It would have been better if the same person had read the entire text him/herself.  The Psalms should also have been included in a "complete" Bible such as this. I wish Johnny Cash were still here to record the Old Testament and Psalms for us too. His DVD of the New Testament is read at a proper speed and is superior to this version.

Sentimental Romantisized View of the Holocaust I typically love movies about the holocaust.  However, this tale about a wealthy childless industrialist who buys his extended family out of the death Camps will not be a favorite.  The scenary and props were accurate and well done, but the characters were one dimensional and not realistic.  The movie was suspense filled and exciting, but the characters were too romantisized. The movie highlights the conflict between Himmler and Eichman of which I was unaware.  However, there are better dramas about the holocaust.  I am surprised an actor as esteemed as Martin Landau would star in such a weak film. Find domething else.

Disney classic I grew up with I grew up watching this movie and was so excited to see it on here.  Having said that, I realized while watching it that I loved it so much because I was a child and it's a good, clean adventure story.  As an actual movie it's not all that great but if you have kids they will probably love it :)

Chair Yoga with Anne Pringle Burnell This was the most expensive workout I purchased and was the one I was most interested in.  I was also the most disappointed in this purchase.  I attend the Silver Sneakers Yoga Stretch at the YMCA  twice a week and I really felt that I should be following through at home doing the chair yoga more often.  I really wish each Yoga move was held longer.  I felt like I was rushed through each move especially when Jim did his section.  Anne's moves were given more time.  Jim's sections were rushed.  I also was very disappointed that most of the program was done in the chair.  Once the section started on standing, it was very very short.  I did not time it but there was only 3 or 4 moves.  Standing is so important for the legs and opening the back.  My yoga instructor at the YMCA spends 25 minutes in chair and 25 standing then 5 minutes relaxing/meditation beginning and ending (with water breaks).  I wish that they made the video longer instead of making the moves so rushed.  Yoga is suppose to relax you not rush you.  My class in the YMCA is 1 hour this workout was only 52 minutes (two separate beginner and full workout not sure how long each is).  Why so short???  With proper directions and completing the move time needs to be included!!  She did not even give any breaks for water.  There should be time added for this because it is very important.  I even watched some youtube video of Ann Pringle and these were brief also so I guess I should of known.  I just figured this was a youtube so she could not do as much in this media.  Maybe after I do the video more often I will be happier.  Next time, I will try to complete the beginner and the full program to see if this is more satisfying.  I am sure after repeating the video I will also know the moves better and hopefully they will not feel so rushed:))))

OK, but not great The movie is disappointing and disconnected.  I had not read the book - so I had no preconceptions though the premise is obviously a bit outlandlish - Boy from Archangel indeed.  There are too many jumps and improbable situations.  Craig is pretty good throughout with just a touch of James Bond - but the tension is never sustained and scarcey built at any point.  It does provide a modern day parallel to Stalin as a murderous sociopath - though again it is fleeting and confusing.

Dvd available screen archives entertainment ...that said let us review the film itself.While certainly filled with witty dialouge the whole"drop out' philosophy of the film stinks..Having lived through both the '50s,alledgedly the ultimate in boring conformity,and the'60s,when hippies were seen as the new norm and"tune in turn on drop out" was the absurd slogan influencing a whole generation of children determined NOT to be anything like thier parents i'll opt for the'50s anyday,conformity and all... Martin Balsam's mealey mouthed"why I conform" speech may well have earned him the oscar he got but it did so in a field that had few major performances against which to compare..As for the fact thatHollywood included this film in its oscar short list one cannot forget that at that time both Hollywood and its members were rapidly going from staid"boring" conservative choices to those influenced by the"youth "culture of the day...The fact that Hollywood has,from that time onward,ignored,for the most part,popular acceptance or rejection of both performances and script content in favor of its own jaded tastes has repeatedly been demonstrated at oscar time..."little" films and/or films that have often done poorly at the box office are awarded oscars while films and performances that appeal to the public at large are ignored...While it may be nice to claim that "art" trumps popularity Hollywood still depends on ticket sales and not artsy-fartsy notions in order to stay afloat..This year,like all others in the past 2 decades,has shown the further decline of popular interest in the awarding of oscars,as the average number of viewers to that awards program has fallen to a new low... Which brings me back to "A thousandclowns"...The"rebellious"youth of that day has grown up to become the"me generation" and all to the detriment of the community and the nation.."Boring" conservative,conformist thinking is now back in vogue and the whole premise of the play-turned-into-a-film now does indeed seem"dated",in that its values,such as they were,for the most part have proven to be a empty as the conclusions displayed in the film... ..but for those interested the DVD will soon be available in a "limited" run by the same company that brought out anoter "dated" film,John Houston's "The Kremlin Letter"

Once was enough... Would be 2 stars except it was based on a true story from a small Texas town and there are a few good quotes like 'Bernie was light in the loafers' from the local people used in the film.  But still, once was enough for this film... will be a long time before I want to watch again... if ever.

La serie de mi ni&ntilde;es Muy contento por tener algunos cap&iacute;tulos de esta gran serie de hace muchos a&ntilde;os, por fin vi la g&eacute;nesis del Llanero Solitario (lone Ranger). Buena imagen, sonido y por supuesto historia que muestra que el bien siempre debe triunfar sobre el mal, sin que el h&eacute;roe tenga que matar a los malos. Lamento que esta serie (y ninguna del mismo personaje hasta donde yo se) no tenga subt&iacute;tulos en espa&ntilde;ol. &iquest;Cu&aacute;ndo se le ocurrir&aacute; a alguien producir esta serie y otras m&aacute;s pensando en el p&uacute;blico de habla hispana?

Jet li in one of the best fighting movies. This movie has a lot of things going for it. screenplay by Luc Besson the guy who directed fifth element and leon.  the story is simple but well made, fights are AMAZING and so good.  acting is superb, the villen is great and so is jet li here. if you love action films, this one is for you.  Jet li is super good in this film, evem his english just makes him sound and look bad ass here. he is brutal in his fights, and there are a lot of fights!  fun to watch indeed!

When Suspense is Not Enough I was determined to like this film. I love the idea of a Soviet setting in winter time; respect Michael Apted; enjoy Lee Marvin; and found Hurt intriguing in Body Heat. I wanted to like it to prove all the critics wrong who complained the film doesn't gel, and was not put off by the widely reported absence of tension as I'm not into suspense and love a good Largo. Having at long last seen the film I have to admit the critics had a point. I've learned that certain kinds of stories are sustained or defeated by the mood directors create or fail to create.  The show begins intriguingly enough with the night-time discovery of corpses buried in the snow, but fails to build on the sense of mystery. Time and again Gorky Park falls flat, as if Apted was determined not to exploit the requirements of the genera (momentum and a sense of high stakes). Is there a clearer indication of a thriller's failure than not to keep the audience guessing? Keeping them confused just isn't the same thing.  Gorky Park's pacing/editing is rudimentary. I'm all for minimalism in films, eshewing the frenetically paced cinema verite fare popular these days. But a stately cadence is not the same as a narration that slackens at every turn. As Melville's astounding Army of Shadows demonstrates, it's quite possible to reconcile suspense with a measured, deliberate pace. Achieving that seems to be one of the things that sets the master filmmaker apart from his epigoni and apprentices. If for nothing else, Gorky Park is worth watching for what it fails to achieve; as an object lesson in the unthrilling thriller.  Jame Horner's score is a mix of the jarring and the schmaltzy. The first quality, rather than increasing the tension, is as annoying as the schmaltz is cloying. Compare Army of Shadows, where the entire film is haunted by a few chords heard only at the very beginning. Chords that remain in memory as pregnantly as the film itself and seem to distill its very essence.  I place the blame squarely on the shoulders of Apted and his editor. Apted may very well simply lack the aptitude for drama, being of a more analytical, humanistic temperament. But William Hurt, inhabiting an affective void and evincing none of the easy charisma of his turn in Body Heat, also lets us down. He never seems to get inside his character in a way that draws us in. His darkened hair and blanched face make him look like a silent film star, an artificiality that compounds the sense of distance and inauthenticity. Whatever the professional relationship between the two, their artistic collaboration failed to make sparks.  Lee Marvin for his part is, well--Lee Marvin. When you have a personality as over-sized as his you can afford to deliver lines without thinking too much about who you're supposed to be channeling. But the discrepancy between his personality and the slightness of Hurt's was glaring and further underscored the sense of things not melding. To meld is to add up to a magnitude that seems irreducible to the parts of the totality.  A certain gratuitousness haunts the entire film. The scene where the remains of a defaced skull are being picked clean by worms and one of obligatory sex both impressed me as unnecessary concessions. Add-ons rather than integral.  On the plus side, the DVD transfer is very good. I'm pretty particular about sharpness and have not complaints in that department. I just wish the film itself were more compelling.

No big deal The short stories that make up this movie kept me interested and the actors did a great job, but overall, this movie is no big deal. Also, I didn't think they "messed me up for life" as the cover claims. This is not a movie I would watch over and over again. I'd say, don't buy it if you can rent it.

why oh why Happy with the season 8 of the office..just why is it that every new season I buy there's one disk that's brand new that won't play??!! Quality control is a thing of the past..as long as they get your money there happy...

Great Action, Weak Plot This was a fun and exciting movie, the action is entertaining and the plot is good enough that it doesn't get in the way of what the movie really offers: violence. Anyone who likes action, especially martial arts, will probably want to see this movie. Whether you rent/borrow or buy depends a bit on you and I will offer my opinion on which you should do.  Plot/realism are a big deal to you: don't buy this movie. If you're going to spend the whole time stressing over the plot then it will probably spoil it for you. You should probably rent it and who knows, if you really like it you can still easily buy it and you're only one dollar down.  Uncomfortable around violence: if broken bones, explosions, knife wounds, and s excessive bleeding make you queasy you should probably pass on this film. It's pretty gory.  Looking for 100 minutes of action and suspense: this movie is for you. Definitely watch it, and if you like martial arts you should probably just buy it.  Can't read your native language and don't speak Indonesian (or whatever this language is): This is a foreign film, so obviously it's in a foreign language. I watched this movie with subtitles, I'm sure there is an English dubbed version but I'm unsure if it's on this DVD or not. To me the subtitles were just fine and I hardly thought about the fact that I was reading the words. I this bothers you, dont watch this movie.  Cons: Basically the acting is good enough (hard to tell when they're speaking a different language) but there are a few places where it's a bit rough. the plot is just OK (but really weak if you think about it). I was misled when I went into this movie, I read it was about "elite" cops doing a raid. You find out right away they are a rookie squad. This confused me and disappointed me just a little but it wasn't a huge deal.  Pros: this movie is really rather simple, but it does a lot of simple things really well. The music is great, really fits the moods. The martial arts choreography is exciting and fun to watch. The suspense is well done and the bad guy is really great.  Overall the movie is worth a watch.

Disappointing Quality Blu-Ray One of my favourite films so I was eager to see in all it's Blu-Ray glory.  However, as reported by others, picture is grainy, funny contrast levels and in some scenes you can see a herringbone effect.  DTS-MA Stereo sound is pretty good.  Only extras are the theatrical trailer and scene selection.

could've been better this movie was pretty good.. but they could've done a lot better with the script.. i was expecting it to be a movie i could cuddle up on the couch with my fianc&eacute;e and watch but, it just wasn't that scary

Barely worth the time <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005BGBPBG">Something Borrowed</a>Yes, most romantic comedies have a frustrating side, but this film overdid on the total frustration.  And truly, even the ending was frustrating...so if you like frustration with little to no laughs, this is the film for you.

Where's Wu-Tang? A friend of mine gave me this movie since he found it on the streets. I know the band Wu-tang clan and I appreciate kung fu movies, so I was delighted to see that some rap band had something to do with a random Hong Kong action movie. The fights where fantastic, and i learned afterwards that jackie chan was the choreographer of all those very long lasting scenes. Everything seems to be like a comic dance.

Not as good as the 1st Ok but daughter liked the 1st movie better, would not purchase as I do not think the kids will watch it a 2nd time.  Rental only.

;0) This movie wasn't so bad it was suppose to be a thriller but I kept laughing and the acting was not so good, make up was bad and I don't know if this is possible but the blood sometimes look orange and the gore was bad and I don't mean in a scary way I've seen worst movies so it is what it is.

Not the clearest picture Since I like all kinds of movies, I thought I would pick this up, on the cheap, since cable television used to show these all the time. I was a little disappointed by the DVD print that came my way with these three films, as they are somewhat blurry on all three of the films. I don't think I would by a multi-package of films again, due to the blur factor.  Unless you've lived under a rock for the last 20 years, you already know what you are going to get with Jean-Claude, which is not such a bad thing. Cyborg I would probably only watch once, Double Impact & Death Warrant many, many, more times.  Van Dammagisty, indeed.

Worth Watching Once for its Incredible Photography, Sound & Action FILM RATING:  2.5 stars  Unstoppable (2010) is director Tony Scott's latest attempt at creating another engaging, smart, techie, action/thriller/drama movie like Top Gun (1986), Days Of Thunder (1990), Crimson Tide (1995), Enemy of the State (1998), and Deja Vu (2006). Unfortunately, Scott doesn't quite get there with this one. While Unstoppable isn't quite unwatchable, it's probably not all that re-watchable. Once you've seen it, there's little to go back for. Even at 98 minutes, the movie dragged on for me. Scott has all of the technical cinematic ingredients, as he always seems to have in his movies. But once again, after failed attempts with The Taking Of Pelham 1-2-3 (2009) and Spy Game (2001), Scott just didn't have a really good story and script to work from. At least that's my excuse for him. I know he can put together incredible movies like the five I listed above, all of which are favorites of mine. But like every great movie, it all starts with the script, and screenwriter Mark Bomback just didn't come through here. It's not a bad story. It's even written well in terms of dialogue. But there's just no emotional core to the characters. They're very one-dimensional...and even the great Denzel Washington can't get his character Frank into my psyche or my heart like so many of his other great characters.  Chris Pine and Rosario Dawson give solid performances and round out a solid cast. But they seem to have nothing really to act for. A runaway train with no one at the helm just doesn't make for much of an engaging plot here. I kept wishing Dennis Hopper would show up and give this Speed (1994) wannabe a bad guy that I could hate. I kept thinking that Unstoppable was basically a remake of Speed with a train instead of a bus. And haven't we had enough Speed remakes already? And to be honest, didn't Scott just work with Denzel Washington and trains in The Taking Of Pelham 1-2-3...the year before? Hopefully Scott finds his way back to a good script soon because I definitely love his style of filmmaking when paired with good material.  On the positive side, Unstoppable looks and sounds absolutely spectacular on blu-ray, which is the format I saw it in this week. As always, Scott brings on board a great director of photography (Ben Seresin) who provides simply awesome cinematography. When it comes to shooting planes, trains, and automobiles...and submarines, motorcycles, helicopters and any other possible moving piece of machinery, director Tony Scott is about as good as it gets. I'm sure the coordination necessary to bring all of these various moving metal objects together into one camera frame requires a whole team of assistant directors, producers, and various crew. But it's those scenes, when all of these various moving metal objects are actually moving around with each other, that kept me involved in the movie. The multiple helicopters, trains, and automobiles are just incredible to see together.  No one seems to bring all of the technical action and stunts together in the editing room like Scott. Of course credit should be given to film editors Robert Duffy and Chris Lebenzon, who did a good job keeping the film moving along with their final cut. But Scott's filmmaking style is definitely stamped on the cut as well.  Reinforcing the incredible action in this film is top notch sound design and editing by sound supervisor Mark P. Stoeckinger, with his accompanying 28 other sound department crew members. Unstoppable was nominated for the Best Sound Editing Oscar last year, and you can definitely hear why when watching this film! Rounding out the technical praise for Unstoppable, is good production design by Chris Seagers and his enormous team. Every little detail shines through in the sets, locations and with all of the trains, cars, and helicopters. The textures, colors, and materials used throughout the film give it a modern feel that works nicely on film.  I was a bit torn between giving Unstoppable 3 stars or 2.5 stars, but I settled on 2.5 because I think the likelihood of me watching this movie again anytime soon is really slim. There's just nothing in the story to go back to. No emotion to feel again. No thoughts to think again. No riddles to unravel. And no character tension to try and release. Unstoppable is a first class production, as director Tony Scott is well known for. But in the annals of filmdom, Unstoppable didn't make much of a mark. It just rolled on through at 70 mph, leaving the tracks empty for the next film to come along and replace it.

From "Blu-ray Review" -- guess I'll keep my Criterion edition "Spartacus has had an interesting, if at times questionably spotty, release on various home video media. I defer to the man I consider to be the definitive source on what Spartacus "should" look like, the film's 1991 restorer Robert Harris, who told me that he considers the Criterion SD-DVD "color and density correct." So let's leave the previous Universal SD-DVD and certainly the troublesome HD-DVD aside and address how this new AVC encoded 1080p Blu-ray stacks up to the Criterion. I did a side by side test and came to a few conclusions. The film is undeniably cleaner in the Blu-ray presentation, with that digitally scrubbed look which argues to DNR. The good news is we're not at the extreme plastic levels of Patton (which is not saying much), but the bad news is those with humongous projection sets will be missing some detail, and even smaller sets will reveal the smooth, textureless façade of DNR that wipes away a lot of the filmic look of the feature. On a 46" LCD flatscreen, I found the DNR to be relatively minimal by modern (often hyperbolic) standards, perhaps a backhanded compliment. Despite the smoother texture, there are still occasional flecks and specks to be seen fleeting through the film, though evidently nothing at the level of the HD-DVD (at least according to the reviews I read--I never saw that version). This may be more than odd, in fact a misperception, as Harris avers that all recent releases come from the same interpositive source elements. The color timing on this Blu is a more interesting phenomenon, at least to my eyes. It is certainly much more densely saturated on the Blu than the Criterion, and it appears quite acceptable taken by itself. When compared to the Criterion however, I personally feel there's a clear, albeit slight, tilt toward the red-yellow side of the spectrum, perhaps the result of an anxious telecine operator's knob. There's nothing here that is going to make an average viewer avert their eyes in horror, but these are very subtle, interesting differences that will probably entice more as an intellectual exercise than any deciding factor in your enjoyment of this presentation. The third element is edge enhancement, which, while not as egregious as in some recent releases, is still quite evident. In fact, you'll see it in some of the screencaps included in this review. Pay attention, for example, to the ringing around the assembled multitudes on horseback. My gut feeling about all of this is if you haven't seen the Criterion SD-DVD, you're probably going to be OK with this Blu--it certainly doesn't devolve to the level of, say, Patton or, more recently, Out of Africa. Those with a history with this film may find this a more troublesome release, perhaps not as bad as the HD-DVD evidently was, but bringing its own nettlesome worries into the fray. The sad part is the Criterion release presented the film as close to Kubrick's original vision as we're ever likely to get. It could have been used as a reference for this Blu, but it certainly doesn't seem like it was. "

Nostalgists only. &lt;strong>The Sentinel&lt;/strong> (Michael Winner, 1977)  I have, on occasion, gone back and watched beloved films from my childhood and youth to see if they have stood the test of time. It's been a sporadic thing to date, but I decided that this year I want to make a regular thing of it, and browsed Netflix until I found one I hadn't seen in at least twenty years: Michael Winner's &lt;em>The Sentinel&lt;/em>. I still have Jeffrey Konvitz' novel on the bookshelf, and I haven't read &lt;em>that&lt;/em> in easily thirty years, so some of what I have to say about the comparisons will be... hazy at best. (I will try and make sure the language reflects such when necessary.) But the bottom line is that when I first saw the movie, I had read the book &lt;em>very&lt;/em> recently, and I think that may have affected my judgment. Because &lt;em>The Sentinel&lt;/em> is a shallow, gratuitous film that is best remembered these days for having such a high-powered cast that Jeff Goldblum, Ron McLarty (in his first screen appearance), Tom Berenger (in his first feature appearance), and Nana Visitor (in HER first feature appearance) didn't manage to rate in either the main titles' A list OR B list, both of which contained over a dozen names. And let's not forget that both Richard Dreyfuss and Vicki Michelle make uncredited cameos. Is there ANYONE in this movie who wasn't on the A list at some point?  Plot: Alison Parker (&lt;em>Nashville&lt;/em>'s Cristina Raines) wants some time away from her long-term boyfriend, high-powered attorney Michael Lerman (&lt;em>Fright Night&lt;/em>'s Chris Sarandon), so she gets a place on her own. In a Brooklyn Heights brownstone. Fully furnished. For four hundred dollars a month. That was wacko even in the seventies. Still, the estate agent, Miss Logan (the great Ava Gardner in one of her final big-screen appearances), is just as enthusiastic about the place as Alison is, it's got an amazing view, and what more could you possibly want? She takes it, and soon meets most of her crazy neighbors. There's Charles Chazen, who looks and sounds an awful lot like Burgess Meredith. As much as I love Burgess Meredith, he never could play anyone but Burgess Meredith. Then there's the creepy couple downstairs, Gerde (&lt;em>Midnight Cowboy&lt;/em>'s Sylvia Miles) and her paramour Sandra (Beverly D'Angelo, best-known these days for the National Lampoon's Vacation franchise). In fact, the only one she hasn't met is the blind priest in 5A, Father Halliran (John Carradine), but then, he's a recluse. Not long after moving in, Alison begins to have fainting spells, problems with her concentration (you wouldn't think that would be a problem for a model, but as one memorable scene with Goldblum and Jerry Orbach points out, it can be absolutely horrifying!), that sort of thing. Michael is understandably concerned, and he enlists Alison's best friend, Jennifer (&lt;em>God Told Me To&lt;/em>'s Deborah Raffin), a local expert in dead languages (&lt;em>Psycho&lt;/em>'s Martin Balsam), and even the Diocese of New York (represented here by Arthur Kennedy and Jose Ferrer). But that's not all... a couple of cops, Gatz and Rizzo (Eli Wallach and Christopher Walken), are convinced that Michael has something to do with Alison's problems, and that it all ties into Michael's previous wife's suicide, which may not have been a suicide at all...  Phew. Plot synopsis? It's hard to cram all the A-listers in and get the relationships set up in less than five hundred words. And to be fair, there &lt;em>is&lt;/em> a plot to this mess, though I can't really tell you what it is since very little of it is revealed until the climax, and every major revelation leading up to it would also be a spoiler. But it all does have a point. Well, most of it has a point. The movie's major problem is that Winner jettisons most of what ties the more prurient scenes (including one featuring Ms. D'Angelo that her fans will want to watch the movie for, and a dream/hallucination sequence that may feature the most explicit gore scenes shown in a theatrically-released American feature film up to that time) to the plot, but leaves them in as shock set-pieces. They're memorable, but since they're not tied to anything, they feel somewhat anemic.  As I said, I haven't read the book (or its sequel, &lt;em>The Guardian&lt;/em>, which was even more ludicrous) in dog's years, so maybe I'm misremembering it completely, but if I'm right about my initial reaction to the film all those years ago, my having read the book not long before seeing it allowed me to fit some pieces in place that would have otherwise made little sense had I come into the film cold. You might want to give the book a shot before watching this. ** ½

It was better than expected Actually I did enjoyed the movie, the story of Loki was my favorite part. I like the characters and the actor for THOR did a good job, it was very decent. Only comment, I see no chemistry between Chris and Natalie Portman. I just didn't like her in that role, there was nothing on her that was that appealing for Thor to remember her, even her cry when he was supposedly dead was just so awfully act.

Birthmark is making this kids life a living hell. Birthmark is making this kids life a living hell. People stare and mock Jamie for his birth mark and never seem to accept him for who he is. Jamie's passion is for photography and he spends his spare time shooting his dark and depressing world, that's when he captures the image of what seems to be a demon and his life is changed for ever. The acting is good and the film making is on par with that it is the story that had me wanting more something just did not pull me all the way into this movie. Maybe my problem with this whole film is the English accents, as they are hard for me to get through. All and all this is a good movie that is worth a look so give it a chance for at lest not having any sparkling vampires or having some one strapped to a chair having something chopped off or mutilated.

An average entry for the movie debut of Doris Day Romance on the High Seas(released June/48)is an average film with an above average cast,that should have been much better than it was.Much of the failure has to do with the less than stellar script,but one cannot say the cast didn't give it the old college try.We have on tap Warner's great cast of character actors such as Jack Carson,S.Z.Sakall(one of my all time faves),Franklin Pangborn and the wonderful Eric Blore(the foil in many of the Astaire/Rogers films at RKO).Also on hand is pianist supremo Oscar Levant,in an uncredited role as a ships radioman Grady Sutton and of course we have singer,now actress,in her first movie role,Doris Day.And she acquits herself admirably. The first 30 minutes of the film starts out promisingly as we find suspicious and jealous Janet Paige marrying her beau,a just as suspicious and jealous Don Defore.S.Z.Sakall runs a hugely successful drug company and Defore helps him run it.Three years pass without the two going on any sort of anniversary trip,but Paige is determined they finally do.Paige books a trip to South America but Defore again is forced to cancel.Paige says she is going,but instead sends local club singer Day in her place as her,while Paige stays behind to see what Defore does when she is "away".But Defore,also suspicious,hires private eye Carson to spy on her.The story devolves into the usual line of Carson falling in love with Day,but not being able to do anything about it as she is "married".Eventually Day's boyfriend back in New York,Levant,shows up on board part way through the voyage to throw a monkey wrench into things.Then to top this,due to the "reports"Carson is sending back to Defore,Defore decides to go to Rio too,along with Sakall.The usual mix ups and misunderstandings result until it is all resolved in the end. While watching Day I couldn't help thinking that Betty Hutton would have been perfect in Day's part and when the scene changed to Rio,I was expecting Carmen Miranda to appear any second.At least SHE would have livened up the considerably dull proceedings(by this time)immensely.Day however did do a good job in her first role,even though her debut song was the forgettable "I Love you,I love you,I love you".One has to wait until almost half way through to hear the gem of the movie,her real life hit "It's Magic". Technically the print is a very good one.There are a few seconds however when the ships doctor is examining Day,when the colour begins to bleed from both actors bodies.It comes and goes but I don't know whether it was just a film flaw the digital process couldn't quite handle or a momentary failure of the digital process itself.Otherwise the film is crisp and clear.Extras include a wonderful short featuring an audience sing a long with older and newer songs,the trailer and the classic Warner's cartoon "I taw a Putty tat". All in all just an average film vehicle for Day's first film.She is more than ably supported by a wonderful cast,however the plot is such that it inevitably takes the movie down like the Titanic.Day's hit song "It's Magic" is heard to great effect,it is just too bad the script didn't have any.

Game Over When I heard this would be the last film in the series. I was very very skeptical. Many classic horror movies have had a "final movie" and then have many more after it. I thought this would end but with a maybe. But it didnt, it ended all the loose ends.  The gore didnt disapoint. The real stars were the death traps. They didnt hold back on making us cringe.  Now the plot was ehh at best. The 3D wasnt impressive...well I saw it in 2D but I could tell 3d wasnt good. Now Scream Queens 2 winner's role she won...was only for less then a minute. At least season 1 winner was in the opener and another scene in the last movie and makes an appearance in this. Another big issue was the main trap story:  A man who made a fortune lying goes through the latest game, trying to save his girlfriend and others in different kinds of traps.  Dont get me wrong, its good...except its been done in 3 of the other 6 movies. They could've came up with something more original.  In the end, this is a solid rent.  Pros: -The Gore -The traps -Great way to end the series...or is it?  Cons: -Plot was mediocre -3D wasnt good -They made a girl go through a whole reality show to earn only less a minute of screen time. -The main trap story has been done 50% of the other movies.

Lukewarm plot but somewhat entertaining. This movie is sporadically engaging.  I think what I like about this movie is the representation of Buddhist principles of peace, non-violence and a pacifist code of conduct.  While the plot is anything but novel, the scenery and cinematography are excellent. The spirit of Buddhism is very well portrayed.  On another note, While the movie has a strong component of Buddhist philosophy, which advocates respect for all living things, I did notice that a lot of horses were used in stunts.  I am hoping that the Hong Kong/ Chinese movie industry is a believer in protecting animal rights and in ensuring the safety of animals.  I am hopeful but am not too sure that this is the case.

Before I bought this box set I didn't believe that these box sets were bootlegs I am willing to admit, that after seeing the quality of the Season 1 box set, despite numerous people on the internet saying that these are bootlegs, I just couldn't bring myself to believing them, but after buying the Season 2 box set I believe without any doubt. I tested all the discs and they all work, at the very least. I haven't watched all of the episodes yet on the discs, instead I just watched a few minutes of randomly selected episodes on each disc.  The sound quality seemed pretty bad for most of the episodes--my VHS copy of the first episodes have better sound quality than these discs do--but it seems that there are a few episodes in this box set that seem to have normal quality audio. What I really don't understand is that if they have the theme song playing at such a high quality on the discs' home menus, why couldn't they use that music in the episodes' theme songs? Speaking of the theme song, they really dropped the ball on this box set's opening. I am fine with the English opening, I am fine with the Japanese opening (even though I think it gives away too much of the story), but what they gave us was some butchered version of both. They take the English music, start it all in the middle of the Japanese opening, at the scene that the English opening starts at, and just plays the opening from there with the Japanese video but the English music leaving an unsatisfying mess that leaves you extremely confused and annoyed. What's even more annoying is that scenes were missing from the Japanese video, which means that they took the time to go through this video and thoroughly doctor up this monster when they could have just taken that time and used the original English opening, like they did for the Season 1 box set.  The Season 1 box set was far superior in nearly every way. I say "nearly" because despite the audio quality I must admit that the episode selection screen was just amazing.  Since I am a HUGE Digimon fan, and Season 2 is my favorite season I am extremely disappointed, but I will make do with this set of discs, despite the sound quality, because I now own every episode of Digimon Season 2 and I can watch them whenever I want! So bottom line, if you are a huge Digimon fan, you will probably be able to get over the poor audio--and maybe even the monstrosity of an opening--otherwise you may as well just find the episodes on the internet because they will probably be better quality anyway.

Lockout Just watched Lockout and I thought it was quite enjoyable. Don't get me wrong this is not Academy award winning material but if you like action movies...this movie does the trick. Guy Pearce really delivers some great one liners.He(Guy Pearce) reminded me of Bruce Willis and Kurt Russel in Die Hard and Escape from New York respectively. So, if you are ready to suspend your beliefs and take a leap, it is what it is an action movie with some laughs thrown in for good measure. The only issue that I had was the chase scene near the beginning of the movie. The special effects were very "fake" looking. The Blu-ray looked and sounded great and with Amazon's fast delivery it was worth the purchase. Don't lockout yourself of a little fun on a rainy night...watch Lockout.  Esteve

JOHN HUSTON, OPUS 37 Good parody of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00003CXAA">The Godfather Collection (The Godfather / The Godfather: Part II / The Godfather: Part III)</a> kind of film. Huston adheres to the law of the genre by presenting one-dimensional characters like Don -Nosferatu- Corrado Prizzi, Charley -romantic- Partanna or Maerose -Lady Macbeth-Prizzi for instance but, by introducing in this frozen family Irene Walker's character, whom nobody manages to completely understand because Irene never does what she's expected to do, John Huston goes beyond the bounds of the parodic genre. Recommended.

Great show, poor manufacturing This is one of my favorite shows. I plan to get all seasons, eventually. The low rating is for the poor quality of some episodes. When you pay this kind of money, you expect to be able to watch all the episodes. The last three episodes would not play at all. I returned the set and ordered another. On this set, the last episode would not play at all and the two previous were very troublesome, starting and stopping the whole way through. So, it looks like this is a problem with the dvd producer. So just beware if you buy. I have just started season 2, by Shout Factory and the quality is much better.

afterlife bought this book for my sister and she hasn't read it yet so i can't tell you if it is any good.

Annabella and Niven in nicely-paced murder/mystery SINISTER CINEMA is an Oregon-based DVD-R mfr. that specializes in obscure 'B' unit movies. They offer no bonus features such as commentary or deleted scenes. Dubs are from unrestored film stock, thus quality varies with condition of their antique celluloid. None are pristine, yet none are so degraded as to be unviewable. Some of their transfers are in fact quite decent.  . DINNER AT THE RITZ is a minor classic of the British murder-mystery genre that concerns the daughter of a supposed suicide who seeks the true story of her banker father's demise. She allies herself with a government agent who's conducting his own investigation along similar lines. Filmed on a yacht and on location in Paris, Monte Carlo and London, this witty motion picture has great sets, elegant costumes and a capable cast. (David Niven's first starring role.) .  This movie is also on a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000HYVJXG">DVD 2-fer</a> pairing with NO, NO, NANETTE (1940), or with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006GANW8">HAPPY GO LOVELY</a> (1951). .  Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 IMDb viewer poll rating.  (5.9) Dinner at the Ritz (UK-1937) - Annabella/David Niven/Paul Lukas/Romney Brent/Francis L. Sullivan/Stewart Rome

Love the message, hate the unnecessary nudity I love the message of this movie- that life is not about becoming the rich bachelor full of himself and yet lonely and empty and having a life of no true value.  There's a value to being a faithful husband and father that is awesome and revolutionary to this world.  But I'm so sad that there are several sexual/nudity scenes which make this unfit for enjoying as a family, nor as a husband/father who is trying to guard his heart from unnecessary temptation.  Cut out those scenes and this movie would get 5 stars for me.

just ok there are so many other movies I would watch first.  The idea of the movie was good it just had too many parts that caused me to fain interest.

Wait till your father gets home This DVD brought me back to the 70's!  The horrible animation, the tepid dialogue, and lackluster jokes, ALL just I had remembered them.  Tom Bosely was the only name I remember, bu,t this series REALLY is the grandAddy of late nite/primetime animation.  See where Family Guy, Simpsons, and South Park all started.  Pretty low priced to boot, it's a must for hardcore animation DVD collectors.

Puss in Boots DVD "Puss in  Boots" was okay and would probably be enjoyed more by children than by adults.  Featuring the Egg as a major character just didn't fit the script and was rather dumb, we thought.  Then making the Egg untrustworthy fit the scenario even less.

The first of the monster sequels "Son of Kong" is the 1933 follow-up to the mega hit "King Kong", highlighting once again the revolutionary special effects of Willis O'Brien. It was the first monster sequel and was rushed into production due to the enormous success of the original, which was the #9 box office hit for 1933.  The film takes up a few months after the original, with Robert Armstrong implicated in a series of lawsuits following Kong's destructive actions. He escapes with ship's captain Frank Reicher and eventually they find themselves once more at Skull Island where they find Kong's son "Kiko" (the name is an abbreviation for his Poppa KIng KOng).  Robert Armstrong (1890-1973) will always be best known for his role as hunter Carl Denham in this film and the original, as well as "Mighty Joe Young" (1949) even though he performed in 160 films including  "Palooka" (1934), "G Men" (1935). "Man of Conquest" (1939) and "Blood on the Sun" (1945).  Frank Reicher (1875-1965) was a stage actor and director and made more than 200 films, although his role as Captain Englehorn is probably his biggest hit. He also appeared in "The Mummy's Tomb" (1942) and "The Mummy's Ghost" (1944) and his last film was "Superman and the Mole Men" (1951).  John Marston (1909-62) plays the villain of the piece. Marston was popular in the early 30s, often in prison and crime films ("Fugitive from a Chain gang", "20,000 Years in Sing Sing", "Mayor of Hell")  Some of the creatures they encounter include a Cave Bear, a Styracosaurus, and a Sea Monster. O'Brien continued to do the stop action, but during production his estranged wife shot and killed their two children and then attempted suicide. O'Brien worked through it, but was reluctant to ever talk about the project once finished.  BTW - Willis O'Brien (1886-1962) perfected the stop action technique for mainstream films. He originally worked for Edison where he started with claymation. His first feature was "The Lost World" (1925) and in addition to the Kong films he worked on "The Last Days of Pompeii" (1935) and "Mighty Joe Young" (1949). Famed stop action creator Ray Harryhausen learned his craft working with O'Brien on the latter.  Director Ernest Schoedsack (1893-1979) returned for the sequel. He made only 15 films, 4 of which involved apes.  Austrian composer Max Steiner (1888-1971) does a great job, and counterpoints Kiko's theme against Marston (the villain). Between 1935 and 1956 he was nominated for an Oscar 19 times, and won for "Since You Went Away" (1944), "Now Voyager" (1942), and "The Informer" (1935). He was so well known that he appeared on a 33 cent stamp (1999) along with Dimitri Tiomkin and Alfred Newman.  Merian Cooper (1893-1973) was the Executive Producer. He was nominated for an Oscar for "The Quiet Man" (1952), one of several films he made with John Wayne (e.g., "The Searchers", "Rio Grande", "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon", "3 Godfathers", "Fort Apache"). His other notable films include, "The Lost Patrol" (1934), and "Wagon Master" (1950). John Ford called Cooper his favorite producer. Among his other talents Cooper was a pioneer in stop motion animation, Technicolor, and Cinerama as well as a war hero, an aviation pioneer, and one of the first real life documentary makers. Many people think that Carl Denham's character is taken from Cooper's own persona.  1933 was a good year for films. Box office hits were Mae West's  "I'm no Angel" and "She Done Him Wrong", the star studded "Dinner at Eight", Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell in "42nd Street",  "King Kong", and Garbo in "Queen Christina". The Oscar winners were "The Private Life of Henry VIII" (Actor), "Morning Glory" (Actress) and "Cavalcade" (Picture). Other notable films released that year included the Marx Brothers' "Duck Soup", Laurel and Hardy's classic "Sons of the Desert", and "The Invisible Man". Fred  Astaire and Ginger Rogers made their film duo debut in "Flying Down to Rio". FWIW - 1933 was the year that Walt Disney referred to the gold statue as an "Oscar" when he won it for "The Three Little Pigs".  If you're a fan of "King Kong" you will definitely be disappointed. The film and the monkey himself are smaller than the original. But it is a chance to visit Skull Island once more and see some of the very first stop action animation from the men who perfected the technique. It's truly amazing how well they did.

Bad value for the money I am a frequent amazon shopper and am usually 100% satisfied with my purchases, but this was a rip-off!!! I subscribe to Netflix & Hulu Plus(Weeds Season 7 currently not available), so this was my only option.  I also have purchased a single movie from Amazon Instant Video in the past, and Amazon's prices are way too high.  They DO NOT reflect Amazon.com's fair pricing & standards & need to be adjusted accordingly...

Not bad This was a good movie, but some parts were a bit annoying. 1. The horse (an animal) played a HUGE role in a movie that quite frankly, wasn't suppose to be about animals. 2. Her memory is a little too good for a baby. 3. Her "powers" are so biased.  Anyway, its an animated movie with a lot of "unbelievable" things so go figure. Its a good movie, just not a memorable one. I tend to enjoy and collect great animated movies, Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo, etc. Sadly, this was a good movie to watch, but not worthy of collecting.

Bridesmaids I did not care for Superbad or KnockedUp or similar comedies and movies,sadly new style comedy isn't doing it for me,Bridesmaids is semi-Funny and geared towards a female audience from a vulgar point of view at times.Maya Rudolph I had to do a double take on her cause' she looked nothing like her former self and Sadly Newer SNL is not funny so I don't really care for actors from the New SNL.I watched it cause it was a freebie and it seemed to fill the time but It wouldn't be something I'd go outta of my way to purchase.

Not bad But not as good as the original. It was interesting to see where they are now, but the story was pretty slow going.

What in the world was THAT!?! "Body Horror" is a sub genre in the Horror scene that usually involves some terrifying alteration to a victim's body.  These type of films have equal measures of psychological and physical trauma.  The undeniable master of this genre is arguably David Cronenberg.  Maybe even some of Brian Yuzna's movies too.  In terms of my rating, BAD BIOLOGY is more like a three and a half star film.  On one hand it's probably the most bizarre, strange and off putting Horror film (can it be called that?) to come out in the past ten or fifteen years.  On the other hand, it might also be one of the most God awful movies to ever be made in the history of cinema.  Which, in a way, is what this movie is striving for in the first place.  Director Frank Henenlotter (BASKET CASE, FRANKENHOOKER and BRAIN DAMAGE) is notorious for his outlandish and over the top movies from the 1980's and early 1990's.  His last film BASKETCASE 3 : THE PROGENY was made in 1992, so that should give you an idea of how long it's been since he directed a Horror movie.  After watching BAD BIOLOGY, I think it's safe to say that he hasn't lost his touch for creating abominations on film.  Which is a good thing.  Back in the day, my Brother and I would watch a multitude of Horror movies, Henenlotter's included.  I wasn't a huge fan of his work but I've always enjoyed the first BASKETCASE and BRAIN DAMAGE.  His other movie FRANKENHOOKER was definitely over the top, but it ended up being really funny.  Henenlotter seems to have a knack for creating interesting and likeable characters.  Which happens to be one of the more stronger aspects of BAD BIOLOGY.  Funny characters and fast paced writing.  First of all, I'm going to say this film isn't for everybody.  Honestly, I don't even know how to go about this review considering the explicit sexual material in the plot.  BAD BIOLOGY is so weird and off putting that even the most hardened of Horror fans will find some scenes uncomfortable to sit through.  This movie isn't for the uninitiated.  So if you haven't at least seen DEAD ALIVE, THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE or any TROMA film for that matter, you're better off starting with something a little less disgusting.  BAD BIOLOGY is about two mutant people (who look otherwise normal with their clothes on) trying to find a perfect mate for their over the top sex drives.  These two individuals have no idea about each other existence but eventually meet.  Jennifer is a young photographer who happens to have a bit of a problem.  She has multiple *ahem* "woman parts" we'll call them (some of which seem to be alive!), and it drives her physically insane.  No guy seems to be able to satisfy her and when she does have sex with someone, Jenn ends up killing them through her violent spasming.  After a couple of hours, she quickly gives birth to a mutant baby, which she heartlessly either leaves behind or throws into the garbage.  Considering what they look like, I can't say that I blame her.  Meanwhile, some guy named "Batz" (is that even a real name?) also has a problem, his being *ahem* rather large in size.  Batz has a crotch with a mind of it's own.  Literally.  His mutant "friend" (which kinda' draws parallels to Henenlotter's BASKETCASE movies) is always bugging him to find a mate, despite the fact this usually leaves his victims in a catatonic, dream like state of never ending (and somewhat painful by the looks of it) ecstasy.  These two freaks of nature go on for the rest of the movie, having sex with people and killing them in awful ways.  Jennifer keeps on squirting out mutant creatures in the process, while Batz purchases animal tranquilizers to keep his problem subdued.  Which doesn't seem to help considering his crotch can detach itself and hunt women on it's own.  Talk about gross and strange.  Eventually their paths cross and it seems like they're a perfect match for one another.  Needless to say, their mating has a grotesque consequence all on it's own.  I won't go into details about it but I will say that it's both disgusting and rediculous all at the same time.  Which can be a good thing depending on how you look at it.  BAD BIOLOGY is truly an original piece of work.  I won't say that it isn't without it's problems (there are some pacing issues and a few subplots are kinda' just left hanging) but it is an enjoyable "Cult" Horror movie.  I really liked how the two main characters seemed very "alien" compared to the people around them.  They were monsters without visually being monsters.  Mentally, they were troubled beyond belief!  Jennifer was indifferent about the human men she killed, where as Batz seemed like the victim of his mutant problem.  These elements are classic aspects of Henenlotter's directing style if you ask me.  One thing I didn't like about the SHRIEK SHOW release of this DVD was how bad the sound quality is.  Sometimes you can bearly hear what the actors are saying, so you crank up the volume, only to lower it again when a crushingly loud scene comes screaming back on the screen.  It's pretty annoying if you ask me.  Nice work, whoever did the sound mixing.  Better luck next time.  Gore Hounds, there's enough death and strange animatronic human appendages to weird out any scrutinizing Horror fan.  It's not the bloodiest movie ever made but it just might be the grossest!  In a lot of ways BAD BIOLOGY reminds me of David Cronenberg's movies (VIDEODROME, RABID and THE FLY) although this is a lot more silly, mixed with a bit of LEGEND OF THE OVERFIEND to boot.  It's a strange combination but if you enjoy this sort of thing, I'm sure you'll love BAD BIOLOGY.  It's the perfect movie to show a group of people (those who can handle offensive subject matter anyways) at a Horror movie party.  So bust out your copy of BAD BIOLOGY, play it on a huge flat screen TV and pass the beers around!  For some people it's going to take a lot of alcohol to get through this one!  For anyone who's seen a TROMA film in their life, you know what to expect.  Either way, it's better than watching the same old junk played time and time again!  For those of you looking for another "old school" classic (HALLOWEEN, FRIDAY THE 13TH, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET) or a serious "throw back", you better look elsewhere!  This is just a strange movie, with a low budget and nothing more.  You either get this kind of stuff or you don't.  I've said my bit.  Over and out.

A hard book to make into a movie Honestly, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and Prince Caspian have interesting and compelling story arch in the books.  The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is not an easy book.  Unfortunately when the screenwriters were taking a stab at it... there was too much that CS Lewis put in the book that was iconic and important to the story that they had to make mention to in the movie or the movie wouldn't make sense. Of the whole Chronicle of Narnia series, The Magicians Nephew, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and The Last Battle are all the most "magical" of the books which means most people won't get them.  So I tip my hat to the movie company for trying.  But they didn't quite get it.  From my arm chair, here are a few suggestions I would have encouraged them to do to make the story more palatable.  First, Eustace's character didn't quite convey the snobbiness or brattiness of that character and how completely out of touch that character was with the realities around him in the book.  So I would have dropped all of the emotional stuff that they tried to do with Edmond's character and made him the straight man to Eustace's emotional story arc.  Also Lucy should have taken more of a supporting role and the story should have focused on Eustace.  Eustace is the main character in Silver Chair, the next book, so this movie should have been more or less a backstory on Eustace, setting him up for Silver Chair.  Next, they should have started the movie explaining to the viewer all about the Lost Isles, the banished Lords, and the "evil" that was taking people.  I mean literally start this movie in Narnia.  Caspian then becomes more of the narrator, explaining to the viewer what has transpired since the last movie and then cut to England and Edmond and Lucy at their cousin's.  Spend a bit more time showing us why Eustace is such a snobby brat, and make Edmond more honorable and respectable.  Honestly, Lucy and Edmond both lived full lives as King and Queen of Narnia in the first movie/book so in essence they are adults in children's bodies.  For goodness sake, the narrative tells us they took spouses in the middle book "A Horse and His Boy" (which btw would make an excellent movie, but nobody makes it cause it doesn't focus on the Pevensie kids or the magical stuff in Narnia... but it is still a good story), so they have had sex and lost their childhood innocence long ago.  They remember all of Narnia and fought in battles and killed people.  So embrace that a bit and make Edmond and Lucy (and Peter and Susan) unique people in Mother Earth in that they have aged experience and wisdom in young bodies.  And drop the White Witch.  They keep bringing her back and I understand CS Lewis also brings her back in one form or another in the books, but really it is just distracting to this story in the movie.  Evil is the enemy, not the White Witch.  She is defeated.  End of story.  Post note: I do realize that they are making these movies in publication order, but CS Lewis laid out the chronological order of the books and it is "Magician's Nephew, LWW, A Horse and his Boy, Caspian, Voyage, Silver Chair, The Last Battle.  I just think chronological order to the movies makes more sense to the story arc of the real main character, which is Narnia, not the Pevensies.

Worth A Watch... Not the best ending I've seen, but the rest of the movie was good.  Pretty gruesome.  I have never seen Samuel Jackson play a character this dark and evil.  Worth a watch...

Eh... I was told this movie was worth watching for the costume design alone.  After watching Mirror, Mirror, I would agree.  The movie was worth watching for the costume design alone.  Otherwise.... eh.

A crash course in more ways than one ASSUME THE POSITION WITH MR. WUHL presents actor Robert Wuhl enlightening students about pages missing from their history books.  It's fun and entertaining with just two drawbacks.  First, ASSUME THE POSITON relies too much on audience shots to edit segments.  It gets distracting seeing smiling student after smiling student.  Second, as this is supposed to be a television series, why are there only two episodes of ASSUME THE POSITION?  But for what it is, I'd rather have ASSUME THE POSITION WITH MR. WUHL than not.  Here's hoping Robert Wuhl does more of these.  Or perhaps there could be ASSUME THE POSITION: THE MOVIE - it would have to be better than SEX AND THE CITY: THE MOVIE.

Lockout is a watchable B-movie OK, as my title states, it is a watchable action movie.  Main actor Guy Pearce called "Snow" in movie, is great. Hope he gets in better movies, he has great potential.  Supporting cast not bad, liked the 2 main bad guys and Snow's handler.  Now for my rant! warning bit of spoiler in it.  Why do they seem to spend ZERO dollars on writers and people with some science and/or physics knowledge?  This movie cost more the $20 million to make, spending $500,000 more to get people to make it more believable would have made this a A movie.  I mean seriously, anyone who's had a high school education, maybe just grade school knows how much BS physics there is in this movie.  Even little things like the "automated defense guns" don't make sense.  First its automatic, next they have to press a button, next it lets ships dock, next its shooting other ships.....HUH?  It has the feel of a 5 year old coming up with parts of the story.  "Well you see their running...and then..and then  a space station crashes into them!!!"  "YAH"  "And then the bad guys get really, really mad...oh and he has a scar..yah and well anyway then....."  So that's what I had narrating to me in the back of my mind.  Future tech kinda sucked as well, didn't these guys watch any sci-fi movies before making this?  Red planet had some cool ideas, better then this.  I guess that's what pisses me off, so much possibility and potential and they piss it away.

Pinnochio DVD.. I purchased this for my little grandsons I purchased this for my little grandsons.. love the movie and the quality .........my main disappointment is the fact there is so much other stuff- new movie reviews before the movie starts it is a real pain..some are too scary  for pre-schoolers and I have to FF to get it set for them to watch.. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001ILFUDC">Pinocchio (Two-Disc 70th Anniversary Platinum Edition)</a> why can't they just make ""THE MOVIE"".. isn't that what we are paying for and buying anyway??

Western countries ARE killing Nigerians in the name of capitalism There is absolutely no chemistry between Matthew M.  and Penelope C. Steve Zahn's character is borderline annoying. W.H. Macy and all the other characters are absolutely one-dimensional. BUT the plot line of the bad guys covering up how the mine activities is KILLING locals is happening RIGHT NOW in Nigeria.  THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN ARE DYING OR BEING PERMANENTLY BLINDED OR DISABLED! [...]  People are dying and it's all just part of the G-20's continuing extraction of wealth from third world countries.

Very average for Disney Fantastic character animation, mostly due to Pixar, and despite the Menken soundtrack, the songs were really forgettable.  I will probably never think of this movie again.  It wasn't bad, but it wasn't good.

Goes downhill Video/story started out unique and interesting but seems to fall apart somewhat near the end.  The imagery of the scenery of Capetown looked picturesque.  At times it is good action but something is missing and not as great as the hype made it out to be expected.  Some of the parts near the end appeared predictable, to include what happens to a top agent near the end, almost like watching a similar Bourne Identity movie but with the let down.  Sure, it is worth a rental but maybe not for top dollar, and doubt I would buy the video for many replays.  Oh yeah, and the French girl friend actress was lovely!

What the Cover Photo is Not Telling You Look at the cover photo, the two women slightly in the background smiling and happy, and Liev looks troubled.  Knowing nothing about this movie, what would you think about it?  Threesome?  Is he trying to choose between the two and can not make his mind up?  This movie is not a comedy, it is not funny, and it is not a fantasy.  Liev Schreiner is married to Helen Hunt, and as a husband(Ned) he has waaay too many problems and issues to deal with, sometimes kind of like in real life.  When he has to work with his co-worker Carla Gugino to complete his script for a TV show, she tries to put some sense into his life, but even that fails.  What good is living, if there isn't any fun in it?  Way at the end of the movie the family finally starts to have some fun by making music, but even that is interrupted by the grandfather dying in the middle of it.  I don't know, maybe that was supposed to be funny?  From where I am standing, most people want to have at least some fun in their lives, and if troubles are piling up and the amount of fun is approaching zero, at some point, it would make perfect sense to make a fresh start and rebalance things in life.  This is a good movie with good acting and a good story line.  It may be depressing for some people.  Don't expect to be entertained by it.

This is not a movie review This is not a movie review.  If you are reading this by now you have already decided whether or not you like this movie.  I am here to write about the product.  In short, I liked the movie but, I didn't like this product.  All that it provides is the move in three different formats; Blu-ray, DVD and download.  The weakness is that that's it.  No extras, no deleted scenes, making-ofs, or interviews just the movie.  The movie looks good in 1080p which does it good service but, at the end I felt a little jipped when I find out that's all I got.  At $20 you get what you paid for but, if you are waiting for the full home viewing experience I'd hold off on this buy and wait for the full set.

Of Historical Interest but Low on Entertainment Value During the 1920s the Russian film industry was in some respects more advanced than those in the west, and many Soviet silent films continue to be watched and studied today. At the time, the 1924 AELITA: QUEEN OF MARS was a major undertaking, and while it was a major popular and critical success in 1924, it has not worn as well over the years as such films as THE BATTLESHIP POTEMPKIM.  The original 1923 novel by Alexei Tolstoy concerned an actual flight to Mars and the hero's effort to save the dying planet by establishing a USSR-style goverment. The 1924 film is only vaguely similar, with a USSR engineer, Los, day dreaming about life on Mars, which he supposes is ruled Aelita, a woman prone to excessive make-up and bizarre hair styles. When his marriage experiences difficulties, Los has fantasies of fleeing to Mars, where he attempts to establish a USSR-style government. Given the way it all turns out, it is fortunate indeed that his fantasies are mere day dreams.  The earth-bound portion of the story takes up most of the film, and we are presented with a confusing series of plots and subplots and hard-to-follow characters--but no one ever went to see AELITA for this part of the movie, they went to see it for its scenes of life on Mars. The costumes, make-up, hairstyles, and most particularly the set designs were startling and extremely influential at the time. Even so, the film is obvious USSR propoganda, and seen today the whole thing seems overlong and a bit foolish. Even fans of silent film are likely to find AELITA a bit of a bore, so it is really best left to students of film history.  GFT, Amazon Reviewer

OK, but like, so what? This isn't a bad film, it's just that it has nothing in particular to recommend it.  I got it for $2 in a used disk place, thinking that the cast was as solid as you could get, from McDowell and Rampling to Owens.  Alas, it is a mood film with no caper to it about horrible, uninteresting losers who are headed towards the worst kind of self destruction.  Aside from Owens, the acting is rather flat, to say the least, completely without sparkle or creativity.  The plot is rather humdrum:  a "reformed" hoodlum comes back to investigate a strange death and is horrified by what he discovers and had to decide what to do.  I'll give you 3 guesses how it ends.  Well, maybe one.  Not recommended.

Jackman is FAB, Ryan's a distraction... I'm a Meg Ryan fan so I was disappointed by her performance in this movie.  She's lovely, luminous, but shrill, petulant, rude, stomps around- for me, didn't evince anything that Jackman would admire or find remotely attractive, much less come to love.  I got the feeling that Meg was trying to act as she thinks high-powered female execs do- but if she behaved that way she'd never have gotten past the copy-room (actually, would've been fired).  What was that all about, her looking for her little pointy thing?  She's a vice-president but doesn't know the word STYLUS?  Not quite as bad as Goldie Hawn in Bird on a Wire, but let's just say that woman-kind wasn't well-served by Ryan's performance.  What was the director looking at?  There's a scene near the end where Ryan walks up to a front door, and without preamble, says "You don't seem to understand, I'm trying to blah blah.." but those are the first words she's said, she hadn't said anything for them TO misunderstand.  No-one noticed this?  I love time travel movies, especially romantic ones, and I do very much like Jackman's performance, dashing and believable, and the central premise, thus, the three stars, and the film is entertaining enough.  But there's so much that's wrong with the script, the direction, the scenes in the hospital detract from the film, for example (who cares?).  Are we not to notice that Meg's dress mysteriously changes (for no particular reason, since it's still not in keeping with the style of the period)?  Plus, I got NO SENSE of chemistry or attraction between the two leads, didn't believe it for a minute.  I recommend Time After Time with Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen, superior in every way (and you could cut the chemistry with a KNIFE, very sexy, they met on the film and married shortly after).  Or, Prelude to a Kiss, in which Meg is wonderful (along with Alec Baldwin), also very romantic and satisfying.

Best of Star Trek: Original Series Intentionally misleading; should LIST which episodes it contains. We did not agree on opinion of "best." "Trouble with Tribbles;" yes, but where was "A Piece of the Action?"

A Marriage Of Seventies Exploitation With Modern Teenage Sensibilities--Solid, If Not Particularly Revelatory, Horror Experience "Savage County" is another in a long line of films highlighting the escapades of a family of backwoods psychos.  I, for one, stay far away from isolated psychopaths--but movie teens seem to be inextricably drawn to their dangerous appeal.  Beginning its life as a web mini-series, "Savage County" became popular enough with fans that this feature film was commissioned and created.  Owing a debt to many stories that preceded it (most notably, Texas Chainsaw Massacre), this film may lack a bit of originality--but for audiences that appreciate the genre, the film still works on its own merits.  The movie's greatest success is marrying the gritty feel of seventies exploitation films with very modern day sensibilities.  It's unusual, in contemporary slasher films of this nature, to have characters so related to cell phones, texts, web broadcasting, etc...It is the realistic flavor of the characters that makes this all a bit more interesting.  The film begins with a terrifically lighthearted introduction to the major players.  The cast of imperiled teenagers embody every high school stereotype imaginable--the star athlete, the misfit girl, the thug, the nerd, the academic, the popular girl.  And before you know it, seven of them are headed out to a desolate lake for a day of relaxation.  Never mind that this crew is so mismatched that they'd never hang out together--it's best not to give it too much thought.  What better way to end such a glorious day?  Why not prank the scary family of psychopaths?  Turns out, this isn't as good an idea as it sounded and results in an accidental death.  So far, so good.  This movie boasts a likable and attractive cast.  In many of these movies, you just hope the idiotic characters die in gruesome ways (Hostel!).  Here, however, you might actually like some of these kids.  They wrestle with the moral implications of their actions and even behave in semi-reasonable ways (always a refreshing and unusual choice).  It's a nice change from the norm.  But when it comes time to face the psychos, things start heading down a familiar path.  The family, itself, is straight out of central casting--the long haired maniac, the disfigured torturer, and the mentally challenged henchman.  If this crew seems a bit familiar, they are!  The seem to have no identifiable plan--only carnage.  But they don't seem to realize that killing eight prominent local teens in one night might cause their under-the-radar existence to be scrutinized.  However, be that as it may, the film still contains a fair amount of tension and scary confrontations.  Again, it is the teens that create all the surprises and you hope for their success--that is remarkable, in and of itself.  Bloody, but not as graphic as some genre entries, I think fans of this type of movie will find much to appreciate.  I just wish the murderous clan offered something new to the lexicon of movie villains.  KGHarris, 5/11.

See this before the live show then you will know how mediocre it is. I think they could have found actors with better voices but big names sell tickets.  Was ok but the Broadway show is 100 times better.

not his best!! Not an advanced workout. Mostly arms with some cardio.  Very little lower body and a few moves that didn't even make sense.  Probably a workout that will be done once a month.

So So This is one of those movies you watch when you want to see something mildly entertaining but not too deep. I thought I would enjoy this much more because of the fantastic ensemble cast but the whole thing was sort of blah. The problem with having so many characters is there isn't adequate time to develop their storylines and allow the audience to get to know who they really are. It was like a whole bunch of little snippets without any background. Why was Michelle Pfeiffer's character so depressed? What caused the rift between Hillary Swank's and Robert DeNeiro's characters? How was it possible that Katherine Heigel was the former girlfriend of a famous rockstar but nobody knew? Can Sofia Vergara possibly play a role where she isn't an oversexed vamp? Can Lea Michelle be the most annoying actress on the planet? I also thought the Sarah Jessica Parker and Josh Duhamel romance was implausible, she looks old enough to be his mother.  I'm glad I rented this instead of spending the money to see it in the theaters.

.... First of all, I don't usually like post-apocalyptic movies, but this one seemed different.  Although this movie does have its share of violence (Denzel is awesome to watch in the fight scenes), the less obvious things about the movie, particularly the ending, is what stays with you.  I did not think this movie was going to be something I though about for days after viewing it, but I did; mainly it was due to the fact that I wasn't sure I got the punchline in the end.  This movie is worth seeing.

Three cheers for Meg Ryan... Thank god for Meg Ryan.  She's possibly the only star able to take a thankless script like this one and make it somewhat palatable.  Well, Hugh Jackman's burly charms work too, but really, isn't Meg Ryan the queen of nonsensical romantic comedies?  Flirting (but not so deeply) with the idea of time travel, much about `Kate and Leopold' makes very little sense (and it all just falls to pieces in the end) but getting there is half the fun, and Ryan and Jackman make sure that a good time is had watching these two stars shine for one another.  Basically it's your typical boy meets girl story, except this boy comes straight out of the 1800's and this girl is your modern day independent woman, searching for love and dating the great-great grandson of her new love interest (yeah, like I said...that ending).  Shuck aside common sense and delve into Meg Ryan's undeniable charm and you'll see why `Kate and Leopold' is a crowd pleaser despite being so, well, stupid.

i loved the 80's hey there!!  i hope this finds you well.  one of the many things i loved about the 1980's was the tv mini-series. i have ordered my of these since they have now been released on dvd. this was one i saw and never forgot.  yes, it's a bit cheesy, but it is still a lovely sunday afternoon movie.  it arrived on time. it plays great in my dvd machine.

Too short Didn't realize this DVD was only about 30 minutes long when I bought it. Still, it is a good word.

Sean Combs Was the Best Part of This Movie Honestly, I love raunchy, campy comedy. I was really excited for this film because Russel Brand cracks me up. I found that they should have just made a movie where Sean Combs runs around because he was the best, and funniest part of this movie. I hope to see him in MORE films.  As far as this movie went, it was hilarious and weird, but I felt the joke went on to long. By the end of the movie I was ready for something else and bored. And I don't usually get bored or feel done with these types of movies.

A Simple Wish for a Simple Mind My children had seen this movie several years ago and remembered liking it.  We purchased it and were surpirsed at how lame it was.  Perhaps it was made for small children because older kids and adults will find the acting bad and the story too silly to enjoy.

Gnome Story Gnomeo and Juliet is a cute movie, and your young kids should love it. Like that <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003YUC2FE">popular story</a> about toys that come to life when no one's looking, Gnomeo and Juliet follows the same concept albeit with garden gnomes. Two rival next-door neighbor gnome factions, Red gnomes versus Blue gnomes, battle for most beautiful garden while the homeowners are out of sight.  The best part of the movie is the cameos. You hear certain voices that "sound like" really famous people, or should I say really famous "voices". You say to yourself, "That really isn't Hulk Hogan, is it?" Or, "Great impression of Dolly Parton." Or, "Hey, Shakespeare sounds like Patrick Stewart." Or, "They're trying to make that one sound like Ozzy!" Only to watch the end credits role and see that they actually got those folks to contribute those bits to the movie.  But the cameos really are the best part of the movie. Don't expect the depth that's common in most of today's PG rated animated features. The movie is as G-rated as it gets, and G ratings are hard to come by these days. I think that the only way to get a G rating today is to keep the content at a 3rd grade or lower level, and Gnomeo and Juliet does exactly that.  So grab this on DVD for your children when it comes out and cuddle up with them for a viewing. This one really was created the kids.

No English subtitles Disc 3!!!!!! Unfortunately I cannot give 4*s but only 3*s since Disc 3 is dysfunctional.  I now have received two replacements from Amazon that still do not work.  Very frustrated.  Would love to see the end of this telenovella.  I have become a telenovella junkie.

a surreal flight into treacherous skies, with a totally clueless group... Five young people, making a routine flight aboard a small plane, end up taking a nightmarish and terrifying journey in Altitude (2010), a suspense thriller with supernatural elements.  Nearly the entire movie takes place inside a small twin engine commuter plane, during a flight that seems to go on forever.  At some point, the film passes from the realm of reality, leaving the viewer "up in the air" about what they are watching, until it appears that the flight is headed deep into Twilight Zone territory.  Largely filmed in the tight quarters of a mock up plane, against a green screen, Altitude heavily relies on special effects.  Once the plane flies into some dark storm clouds, the movie assumes a particular CG look that while consistent, isn't very realistic.  Although the cast appears to have some talent, they don't have the greatest material, as the writing has set its sights at a very low level.  With some major issues with the plot, the film's primary merit may lie in its technical achievements.  The film opens inside a small plane, where a woman is flying with a family aboard.  Something happens, and the plane suddenly goes down.  Flashing forward many years we meet Sara (Jessica Lowndes), the daughter of the pilot who died in the accident.  Sara is also a pilot, and is taking some friends on a flight to see a Coldplay concert.  The passengers are her best friend Mel (Julianne Guill), and her jock boyfriend Sal (Jake Wary), Sara's guitar playing cousin Cory (Ryan Donowho), and Sara's deadhead boyfriend Bruce (Landon Liboiron).  The group takes to the air in reasonably high spirits, but the mood changes when Sara allows Bruce to fly the plane.  After Bruce sends the plane into a dive, things deteriorate into childish bickering, highlighted by an aggravated Sal picking on Bruce, and tearing up his prized comic book.  During a climb, a loose bolt jams up the tail wing ailerons, causing the plane to be locked into a climb, where it soon becomes enveloped in black clouds.  Bruce eventually panics, and Sal uses his wrestling skills to render him unconscious, after which Bruce is tied up to keep him from acting up.  One of the group exits the plane attached to a rope, to try and free the ailerons.  Amazingly this crazy stunt works, but soon turns into a disaster, with Sal claiming that a monster is lurking in the skies.  With reality and time seemingly suspended, this adventure plays like a reworked episode of the Twilight Zone.  The extremely annoying air headed characters, are capable of little but arguing, and posing stupid questions.  The actors aren't totally to blame in this airborne soap opera, as the issues are mostly script and production related.  Jessica Lowndes is amazingly beautiful, but seems completely wrong for the role of Sara.  You might expect a pilot to have poise and be capable of calmly dealing with situations, but not here.  Bruce, who has the personality of a corpse, doesn't seem a match with Sara.  Sal is your stereotypical punk jock, with the mental capacity of a 14 year old.  Mel seems kind of normal, until she proposes the theory that they are in a dream, and never actually took off.  As the one of the least annoying, Cory is of course the first to go.  Writer Paul Birkitt's original dark and abrupt ending was revised to be more ambiguous and hopeful.  While the resolution is somewhat understandable, it's debatable whether those who get a second chance at the expense of those who die, are really deserving.  Altitude meets the technical challenges fairly well, but otherwise is kind of a mess, with pretentious characters, a monster that looks like it escaped from an episode of Voyage From The Bottom Of The Sea, and a silly comic book fantasy element that just isn't that appealing.  The implausible flight lasts for far too long, and the childish behavior, stupid dialog, and mentally challenged characters, tend to make this a rather frustrating viewing experience for those looking for something more substantial.  The film is entertaining, but unfortunately, mostly for the wrong reasons.  It is however, perfect material for the Sy Fy Channel.

Good but... So I just finished going through both DVDs. One is instructional, one is a trio performance. I would recommend this to anyone interested in brush playing because there are only a couple of dvds out there currently and this is still less expensive than a private lesson with a great player, so from that perspective it is a good value. On the instructional DVD Clayton shows a number of different (simple) patterns and ways of keeping time. It is is well paced for sitting there and playing along. There is then a section on "brush rudiments" but he goes through them at speed and doesn't break them down so you have to pay really close attention and figure out what he's doing and even then it is difficult. There is no booklet showing them either. The performance DVD is good, they don't always, but often show 2 views of Clayton so you can see his playing from behind, which is great. My biggest critique however, is that the distance between his examples with the band and the examples in the instructional section are light years apart. He doesn't cover how he moves between the patterns or fits in fills or anything very complicated. So even if you master all his techniques you might still watch him and wonder exactly how he is approaching things in a real musical context. For example the band plays both a waltz and a samba and he discusses neither. I don't know if this was deliberate or just lazy, but once you get up to speed on the basics, you want more. And he really is a phenomenal brush player so it's unfortunate he doesn't provide more insight. There are some real gems - the tap dance influence section is really cool and really shows the connection between tap dancing and jazz drumming. But overall it just seems a little half-assed. IMHO at least.

Enjoyable I was looking for something with Hawaiian music, and there was a good bit of it in the movie. Also wanted to see Betty Grable, as I couldn't remember ever seeing her in a movie. Just a lighthearted musical-comedy.

Unrealistic but  Entertaining The movie was good for its entertainment value such as: beautiful scenes of italy, bali and india, her unique outfits, and just an excuse to be lazy and watch someone else travel. So overall it was nice, just not realistic.  Now for the bad part. Its sooo fake. Its like a fairytale. Here's what they try to make us believe: 1) MONEY IS OPTIONAL She allegedly got divorced and had no money. But yet, she manages to take a trip to 3 countries and stay there for several years?? Not once did she even get a job to support herself. She stayed in pretty nice places for it to be "free". She even had money to take italian classes from a hot tutor.  2) DESIGNER CLOTHES How did she have the money? How did she have the time to go shopping? I didn't see her go shopping. Her wardrobe was very nice despite the fact that she only traveled with "one little bag". Not realistic at all! For a girl to carry such a small bag with  barely any clothes or makeup, they would not look like julia roberts who would wake up freshly made up and with perfect boticelli curls. And we cannot forget how clean she looked while in India and Bali.  3) GIRLS ARE SO NICE AND EASY TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH Not! In real life, girls couldn't care less about other girls. But in this movie, she makes girlfriends easily. And in all the cases, they approached her. She didn't have to do any effort. Its as if they knew she was the celebrity "julia roberts" even though shes "acting" like someone else. I'm sorry but in real life, girls are catty as can be!  4) LIFE IS PERFECT WHEN YOU TRAVEL Nothing annoying or bad happened to her while she traveled. She wasn't mugged. She didn't really have a bad day. Things always worked out for her. That's not realistic. The only time something "bad" happened ended up being "good", like hurting her leg to meet the guy of her dreams.  5) GURUS ARE WAITING AROUND TO HELP WHITE AMERICAN GIRLS FIND THEMSELVES Im not really sure what his intentions were. Exactly how was he benefiting from this relationship? Was he that lonely that she was his only friend? She only brought stress to the guru.  6) GAINING WEIGHT IN THE MOVIE MEANS WEIGHING 125LBS The girl she met in Italy was complaining about gaining weight and she was so skinny. So they set out on a journey to find bigger jeans...whoa thats a great story. If that girl is fat, then I must be obese. I was laughing out loud when they were both in the dressing room trying to close her size 4 jeans on her obviously tiny body. It was sooo ridiculous because the jeans obviously fit her tiny ass. But they kept acting like she was the girl in the movie "Precious".  7) MEN ARE LINING UP For us normal looking folk, men don't just appear the way they appear in this movie. If i  went to a crowded play, i certainly would not catch the eye of the lead character. 1) because its crowded 2) because i don't look like julia roberts This movie is just an insight on what its like to be beautifully attractive.  8) WHAT THE HELL WAS SHE LOOKING FOR? DID SHE EVEN FIND IT? I still don't know what she wanted in the first place. I mean, i just thought she wanted a long vacation. But isn't that what everyone wants? We just don't have the money like she did. She claimed she wanted peace. But how exactly? In the form of a man? I thought the movie would be a little deeper than that. I think she was just bored the whole time.  9) POOR LIZ, HER LIFE WAS SO AWFUL BEFORE THE TRIP! They didn't convince me that her life was so bad before She was in a mansion, friends, her cute husband, what was the problem? Well, they did'nt really show it if there was one. If it was an issue of editing, there were many other parts of the movie that i would have sacrificed so that they could add a scene about why she hated her life so much.  10) LIZ WAS VERY RESPONSIBLE TO LEAVER HER MARRIAGE OF 8 YEARS SO ABRUPTLY I wonder if she even had a heartbeat. She didn't give him a chance to fix it. And she left halfway around the world. I don't think he was that bad. She acted like he abused her or something.  11) SHE'S NOT INDEPENDENT, BUT SHE THINKS SHE IS..... Yeah, she did make the trip halfway around the world, BUT, she only makes decisions based on the guru/medicine healer's opinion. In the end, she has no mind of her own.  12) LACK OF CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT james franco (david), richard and her husband didn't really have good character development. They all just disappear into the void. 13) How did Felipe fall in love with her so fast? They barely just met. I can't figure this one out. Was it because felipes son told his dad that its time he have sex again?  14) POOR & MIDDLE CLASS AMERICANS CAN'T HAVE ENLIGHTENMENT Why? Because we don't have the money to take years off our jobs and go to 3 countries and go on vacation. 15) The guru/medicine healer really needed subtitles. I tried hard to understand a word he said.  16) THE TITLE OF THIS MOVIE SHOULD HAVE BEEN "SELFISH AROUND THE WORLD" Liz is selfish, not because she is trying to find herself but because of the way she is with other people in this movie. She doesn't think of others while she is trying to find herself. They tried to make her seem so nice by giving the house to the family, but that was the only nice gesture. She didn't care about anyone else 's feelings.  HERE'S WHAT THE MOVIE HAS TO OFFER: 1)A scenic break from our mundane lives that last about 2 hours. 2)It will make you think its time to go on vacation. 3)Will make you want to cook or eat italian food 4)Its fun to make fun of this unrealistic movie  But that's all it is. Other than that, it was entertaining and i love julia roberts charisma and charm. But don't expect to find your own enlightenment here.

Not particularly tied to it... I kind of understand both sides of the argument here.  There are some who love this film and some who hate it, and while I can't love it I can't help but like it, sort of.  It isn't wholly convincing or even wholly absorbing and yet there is something about the way that it is all played out that makes me want to watch it even closer, like I'm missing something that I really want to find.  Maybe it's not there, but I kind of don't care.  The film tells the story of Ricky, a released mental patient who obsesses over an actress to the point of kidnapping her with this strange idea that she'll fall in love with him and they'll get married and start a family.  Marina, the actress, doesn't feel the same way.  She is terrified by this young man who has no qualms with smacking her when she puts up a fight or tying her to the bed when he leaves the apartment.  Over the course of a few days, locked away in her neighbor's apartment (her neighbor is away on vacation), Marina gets to know Ricky and through certain events that involve drugs and thugs she falls in love with him.  To say that the overall plot and character development is thin would be an accurate assessment.  The film rides a fine line that dips far too much for its own good.  There is a telenovela quality to the film that deteriorates some of the films impact, which could have been stronger had Almodovar made the film now as opposed to then (he's matured so much as a director).  The campy overtones are too much for me and the horrendous score gives the more serious proceedings a cheapness that doesn't play in its favor.  And yet, the film has some spark that makes it interesting.  Antonio Banderas is actually very good here.  In his America career he's blossomed as a charismatic leading man, but he doesn't show an awful lot of range in his English language ventures.  As Ricky, he finds a depth that wasn't always present in the script.  He played the two sides to Ricky's personality well (the doting wannabe family man and the emotionally unstable kidnapper) and etched away at his soul, delivering a man that we can understand falling in love with, but understandably want to stay away from.  Victoria Abril feels a little forced at times (the style of acting, I know) but she plays her final scene marvelously.  That final scene is one of the reasons why I say that there is `something' about this film that just makes me want to know more.  That car ride and her face within it says so much for her `revelation' that I'm drawn to this film I felt was rather uneven and underdeveloped.  That final scene is so developed that it makes me feel like I missed something elsewhere.  Multiple viewings certainly feel necessary.  In the end I can't say that this is great, but it isn't awful either.  I'm on the fence.  It really won't be until I see this a few more times that I can truly make up my mind, but I can say that Banderas performance trumps Almodovar's direction (in this particular case) and the script is a disservice to the actors involved, who obviously understood how to layer their characters more so that the script warranted.

major disappointment anybody with a decent taste in movies can see that this is like drinking bad tea in expensive china... presentation is nice, but nothing but an extended tv episode of soap opera, a film with no depth and has no replay value

Tea: A pleasant mix with slight dullness Overall a pretty good movie, though it had some slow areas in the story and not much money for Visual Effects. The movie follows a city family, husband and wife and their two young daughters, who recently moves to the country because the husband has a deal to build wind turbines on a piece of land there. Well, out come some skeletons, and alterior motives to why some people want the town to approve the deal for the wind turbines, unknow to the husband. Added to all this, is the story of a little girl who went missing over two hundred years ago. Odd things start to happen, and the wife starts doing some research on the history of the property they're living at, and on the missing little girl, which leads to a pretty dramatic ending. Not a bad story, though it needed a little more development and stronger drama, good acting, cheap looking ghosts and not a lot of money spent on VFX, some nice set design, and interesting shots from the director. I may not buy this for my collection, but I might watch it again.

Post Existentialist. Could not enjoy the movie because my personal experience is much different. It seems much of the stuff on the market in the way of creative thinking ends being some kind of Hindu or One with the world or universe or whatever... I guess after people try to beat each other out of life they begin to seek something out of the ordinary but the issues they have are close to the same. There were some points of focus in the movie that might just make you think....

3.5 Stars for this Drama This movie says its a comedy, but its really not. Unless you find the main character's drunken ramblings and pathetic attempts at seduction funny. The only parts I found funny were short interactions with a certain hotel clerk. That being said this movie was good to see, it certainly was different, then say Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion, but Romy and Michelle was funny and has rewatchability. This movie I would not need to see again, because the drama is just so cringeworthy. Charlize Theron plays this part well, although it just seemed too easy for her to project, maybe she knows what its like to be popular and fawned over for her looks. This movie actually earns an extra star because of Patton Oswalt! Who knew Patton could be so heartbreakingly good, and every part of it was believable, especially the scene where he has to take his shirt off and he crosses his arms. All in all I wouldnt recommend this film for the casual moviegoer, only people who can appreciate subtlety, a dark film, and maybe Patton Oswalt fans (but certainly not for Ratatouille)

Funny! A funny, modern romantic comedy. The plot is pretty predictable but Kunis and Timberlake have enough chemistry together to make the movie enjoyable.

Not too good a movie This whole movie was very unrealistic & contrived.  I enjoyed the voices of Queen Latifa & Dolly Parton, but I was still very disappointed in the movie.

Just did not deliver For a movie that had such a fantastically eerie trailer, and that held such promise because of its familial connection to the Alien/Aliens saga, Prometheus was a disappointment.  The movie was visually breathtaking, yes, and the cast did deliver, but without a compelling script and purposeful build up of suspense, I can't recommend this one.

not so rising This film has actors that  portrait well but their actions are weak.  It could have been much better, but its a flesh film at best.  If Ray is built like a hulk then use those abilities outside of  body shots.

DVD It took over a month for the movie to get to us.  Otherwise the DVD was in great shape.

JUNGLE BOOGIE You gotta admire Adrien Brody...the Oscar winning gent has gone from KING KONG to SPLICE to this sci-fi actioner and he has acquitted himself well.  This film is more like the original than a mere sequel and it has some great action sequences and the cast is overall very good.  Laurence Fishburne's cameo seems a little superfluous and overdone but helps in an expository fashion.  It took a little too long IMO to get to the predators but once there, the film maintains good pacing. Overall, Brody made a good action hero and Topher Grace's surprise "twist" nicely done.  Let's hope the inevitable sequels are as well done.

Great looking film for the kids With nary a mention of his friend "Shrek" Puss (Antonio Banderas) strikes out on his own as he has become an outlaw.  His best friend Humpty Dumpty (Zach Galifianakis) duped him into being an accomplice to a bank robbery.  On the run since, Puss reunites with Hump and his smokin' partner, Kitty Softpaws (Salma Hayek).  Reluctantly Puss joins forces in an effort to steal 3 magical beans that when properly planted will grow a giant bean stalk up to the sky.  There, they will find the goose that lays golden eggs.  Once recovered, they can repay the town and get the law off their tale.  Not to mention, they would be rich.  Well, rich until the overabundance of gold eggs screws up the economic system with hyper inflation.  This film looks and sounds great.  The Blu ray is magnificent in every way.  Unfortunately, the usual salting of inside jokes for the grown-ups is missing for the most part.  The funniest bits are when the felines do their kitty tricks.  You know, the big sad eyes to counter the more ferocious image. I also liked the bit where Puss saunters into a bar, gets a shot of le leche and instead of shooting it back, laps it just like a kitty.  The movie will play well for the kids, less so for the adults.

What matters to you? Im on the fence regarding this release. Yes it has better picture quality than the dvd however as previously reported the aspect ratio is off. The good news is that you dont lose any picture, you actually gain picture. The bad news is that the extra picture is really not what the director wanted. Its not the travesty that everybody is making it out to be but it is annoying if you care about the directors vision. BTW I took a star off my rating for the cover alone. Why they just didn't use the original cover art is beyond me/

Not up to the hype... The Expendables definitely didn't live up to all the hype. I will say it is a striaght-up, pure action flick. I expected to see something at least close to the latest Rambo or even Rocky Balboa, seeing that Stallone also wrote this one; but the story was incredibly weak. Pros: - decent action flick - great cast - explosions galore Cons: - storyline - acting - unrealistic The pros are self explanitory; great action, cast and explosions. The cons tho; I mean Stalone can write and has written a number of great screenplays. This one...not so much. The acting was rediculous; Stallone and Statham were good, but you can't really understand Lundgren's lines; Li, Crewes, and Austin can't act in the first place and Rourke, Arnold and Willis were all cameos. I'm not saying this was a bad movie; which is why it got 3 stars...but I would recommend as a rental since I have no motivation to watch this one again.

Jane Eyre is not suited to be a theatrical movie I just watched this adaptation and I have finally reached the conclusion that this book is not suited to be a 2 hour theatical movie.  The story elements are complex and to fit it into a movie format compresses it so badly that too much is lost.  The compressions in this adaptation are jarring and the real development of the characters and their relationship is rushed and lost.  For instance, the first evening of the house party in this adaptation includes the visit by Mason and subsequently, all the despair Jane feels as the house party goes on is lost.  For those of us who know the book, we fill in the blanks without thinking but it is still not very satisfying.  Rochester is played well, Jane not so much - she is a little too confused for me.  The atmosphere and cinematography are wonderful. The end while intended to be very spiritual, is abrupt.  It really isn't the film makers' fault and it certainly isn't the actors faults.  This book just does not adapt to 2 hours in any of its movie versions.  So far the best I have seen is the Dalton/Clarke version followed by the Stephens/Wilson version.  Both are at least 4 hours and even so have to leave some elements out.  People who think this book in just a love story have missed all the other elements of class, morality, sacrifice, redemption, the faces of adversity, weakness and strength etc. And these elements can not be done justice in a theatrical movie format.  Good adaptation within its limits, but I will not see it again.

Duck! I don't know which movie I liked more? The Temptations or The Five Heartbeats???? But this is a great, fun movie. It's more of a movie with a cult following. I gave it only 3 stars because my favorite movie of all time is the Godfather, and the only two movies who will ever get 5 stars from me are The Godfather and The Godfather II.

Eye Candy and great acting but a TERRIBLE script I had caught part of this on Sky and was eager to watch the full film but I'm a bit disappointed. For starters the breaking down of the fourth wall (the imaginary wall that symbolizes the separation of the audience and the actors), simply did NOT WORK AT ALL. It felt forced, trite and Rush looked non-campy and hideous. We are given so little background as to WHY Sellers was unprepared to deal with his fame and unparalleled talent and almost nothing about his later career which between The Optimists and Being There was his greatest work. This was a man who I have no doubt treated his family and children atrociously yet his talent (easily one of the greatest actors and all around entertainers who ever lived) makes his private life separate unlike all the others (Dali, Polanski, Crosby etc) who's artistry does NOT cancel out their abysmal behaviour. Why he was so gifted, how he honed this talent was never explored. Those are the gripes along with the digital eye candy which wears thin as London in the 60s and the 70s looked like that WITHOUT blue screen. Still, Sonia Aquino was a FANTASTIC Sophia Loren in fact NO ONE should attempt to be recreate her after this film. Theron was great as well as all the actors but they could not save such a generic and truncated bio-pic paint by numbers script.

Gators, Dingoes, and 'Roos?  Oh My! These pelicans have a wingspan of 8 feet.  They have the longest bills of any bird on the planet.  They can eat 4 pounds of fish each day.  Think of the title as an oxymoron.  The work asks why would a bird that lives near water voyage 1000s of miles in the dry, distant outback.  The work keeps you guessing about the answer, but it's easy to hypothesize the reason, really.  To a certain extent, I think this work is meant to be like "The March of the Penguins," or to at least to capture that viewing market.  These pelicans share egg-warming duties.  However, the birds do not mate for life.  Further, the older child pelican often kills its younger, weaker sibling.  You see a few other Australian animales, like crocodiles, kangaroos, and dingoes.  However, I don't recall seeing any koala bears or platypuses.  I think the narrator was British.  In the least, he didn't sound all Crocodile Dundee like the animal researchers interviewed.

not my favorite This was the first DVD from Amy Bentos I have ever ordered and I must say I was very disappointed.  I ordered it because I generally love kick boxing moves AND it was a long workout however I was so frustrated because I couldn't keep up with her.  By the time I finally did get the hang of a sequence, she was on to another and so I don't feel I got the heart pumping I was use to with The FIRM DVD's I have or Jillian.

get a firm grip on the remote because you will need it to turn the volume down when the dramatic music starts here and there throughout the movie and back up when some of the dialogue starts.  This is one of those slow going movies that demands you watch it. You won't see things blowing up . . . . You won't see dramatic fight scenes. You see people acting with bare minimum props. It is almost theatre like.  But it was that era where we were leaving the Greta-Garbo-like movies where people were putting their wrists to their foreheads as if they were going to faint and the men were well painted in the face with makeup to more realistic acting and movie sets. This movie was kinda stuck in the middle of the two opposites. It showed real people and a real setting but the overly dramatic music was over the top. It was annoying.  The ending was annoying. I couldn't tell if they were trying to make this unpredictable or if they just didn't know when to stop. I saw about two endings that would have made this a fine movie. But the actual ending was too contrived and I ended up feeling manipulated.  Also I wouldn't think that this was a Hitchcock movie and I definitely wouldn't think he would choose this one as his favorite.

I was expecting too much! I missed this one and bought it based on the reviews. It was OK but NOT worth the $19 that I paid!

Atmospheric,Taut, but Difficult to Follow I saw this new movie, "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" without having read John le Carre's novel on which it is based or without seeing the previous adaptations of the book. The details of the plot proved difficult to follow, and I was quickly confused. The manner of the presentation, with many flash-backs, did not make understanding any easier.  There are positive things about the film as well. The movie captures the atmosphere and the spirit of palpable tension in the Cold War era of the early 1970's through its portrayal of tough, yet beaureaucratic espionage agents, out of the way hotels and homes, high glamor, and violence. The settings in London, Budapest, and Russia are shown effectively and realistically.  Gary Oldman gives a strong performance of the intelligent, tight-lipped and perceptive George Smiley as the lead character.  The story involves a Soviet mole who is placed in the upper reaches of British intelligence. The movie opens well as a British agent is ordered to Hungary to receive the name of the mole from a high-placed official. The mole, however, leaks the plan to the Soviets and the agent meets his death. George Smiley, who had earlier been fired, is recalled to service to learn the identity of the mole. The film moves well, for its 130 minute duration, and individual scenes are good. But the story, and the manner in which Smiley uncovers the turncoat, eluded me.  My understanding is that the movie greatly compressed and changed le Carre's novel. Even though the movie is lengthy, essential elements of the story were cut. The movie probably will be best appreciated by viewers who have read and enjoyed le Carre's novel because they will have some prior understanding of the story and where it is going. A movie should stand on its own, however, and be intelligible to viewers who have not read the book on which it is based. Although there was a good deal to like in this film, it left me unconvinced and bewildered.  Robin Friedman

Average movie Was intending to share this film with my modern art history class but I don't think I will.  While I love Mondrian's work I thought the film footage was a little outdated.  I still enjoyed the movie and the content but visually I think I'd lose some students if I wanted to show this to a class.

GOOD ENTERTAINMENT Ellen Barkin plays the role of Steve Brooks, after Steve gets killed by three ex-girl friends that he two-timed. But two-timing is how Steve Brooks plays all girl friends. As punishment his body gets stuck in limbo. The devil quickly intervenes and cuts a deal; if Steve can find one girl on planet earth that will say something nice about him, then the devil will allow him to pass into heaven.  And so, the situation is set in place providing lots of fun and laughs.  Eventually, Steve does get to heaven, but you will never guess in a million years who the girl is that says something nice about him. Only Blake Edwards could have contrived-up an outcome like this.  The movie is good and for the price worth a look-see.

Normal Action Movie. Just a regular action packed movie. Definitively 3 stars not more. If you want to enjoy a action movie not expecting to much, see it.

Hard to defend this movie..But I will Alright not the greatest flick however, after reading so many horrible reviews I felt the need to comment.  Why on earth would so many of you look for a "reality concept" here?..It's a horror movie!  The lead character was not an idiot , she was trapped in time...she did not have the luxury of using her brain here. It's about people caught up in a nightmare they can't escape, plain & simple. I'm sure any fan of the genre would agree these types of movies are made to just put a little fear in you & make you think about choices we all make in our lives. Not to mention the consequences we pay for our choices.  While I must restate that I never thought in a million years I would ever defend this movie, but honestly it was not as bad as most would lead you to believe. I have watched so much trash in my lifetime atleast this flick was filmed well and had good sound quality, which is severely lacking in so many of the films put out theses days. If nothing else this movie may just make you think twice about using a Rest Stop or just holding it til you get home...lol.

3D Review by a 3D Connoisseur My ratings are based mainly on the QUALITY OF THE 3D, not the video content.  There are about 12 out of screen effects that extend about 10% of the way, from the screen to the viewer, a pot handle at 15% and the same leaf at 20% 4 times in a brief period.  The in-screen 3D is vivid but pushed to the limits most of the time. Pushing the 3D to the limit for an object at 1 depth seems to have caused MINOR 3D defects at other depths 13 times. Additionally, 10 times there were easily noticeable 3D flaws in the background. Don't get me wrong, this film is a keeper as long as you don't mind the lack of OOS effects. With more (3D) camera time and better stereographing, I expect some awesome 3D from Asylum in their future.  MY 3D RATING = GOOD to VERY GOOD, 3 1/2 stars (poor, fair, good, very good, excellent)  Note: As far as the percentages go, everyone's eyes are different. What I see at 25% you may see at 15% or 35%. To fully realize how far something is out of the screen for you, pause on an effect and direct a partner with an extended finger to the tip of what you are seeing. You may be surprised.  Click on `See all my reviews' for the lowdown on other 3Ds

Interesting.... I oreded this without realizing that it was one that I had already seen. There are others that are better than this one......but for the price....you can't beat it.

Rewrite of Sherlock Holmes This movie has quite a rewrite of Sherlock Holmes. In this he is an action hero,  fighting physically and a joker. As a character quite different than the one expects of Holmes. Much of his performance just seemed so out of character that it ruined the story for me. I confess I did not like it.  The best actor by far who was was Jared Harris who played very well. I thought he did a good job playing Moriarty. Not that I thought that anyone acted badly. They all did their bit.  The filming was good. The action scenes well done  The story itself, I thought was weak, full of holes that made it unrealistic.  I think the script writers for me, let it down.

Mission Impossible - Could Be Better If you like special effects, this is definitely for you. AS for the storyline, in my opinion, it doesn't compare with those of the original. The acting is so-so, but in this particular genre that is almost expected.  I bought it for my husband and both he and the friends he watched it with loved it, so I would say it is definitely more of a man's movie.

Enjoyable if a bit  unfocused. I did like this film and parts of it are really good, but it does seem a bit confused about where it wants to go. Parts of it are very cool and original, other parts are just trying to recapture the original film. Director Zombie really should have gone his own way like he did with the second film. Still its a good watch and much better than most modern horror.

A little underwhelming after all the hype It was interesting to watch but after a while it was too much of the same and literally fell asleep and didn't finish it.

It was okay to watch maybe once, but for a story, it was rather weak Sometimes Criterion will release a very unique gem of a film.  Perhaps they see something tangible in a film that a larger viewing audience may not comprehend or appreciate too much.  To me, this film is one of those.  No major action scenes, no bombs or explosions, very little dialogue, just a hint of tension amidst the interaction of the main characters.  The only thing that I see fabulous about this film, is the cinematography.  It captured the era of the early 1900's quite beautifully.  But, as a story, I thought that "The Grapes of Wrath" offered more of a window to the struggles of the great depression era.  For Blu-ray releases, why do some films (that hardly anyone's ever heard of) get released, but then more popular films are yet to ever see a Blu-Ray release?  For Richard Gere films, I'd rather have "An Officer and a Gentleman", or even "American Gigolo" over this film.  For Brooke Adams, I'd rather see "The Dead Zone" on Blu-Ray.  But, I can see that I am drifting away from this initial review.  So, if you just like films with great cinematography, then, no doubt about it, this film is a work of art.  But, I expected something more, I guess.

Typical and predictable For all the hype it's gotten, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00007E2F5">Sweet Home Alabama</a> is pretty typical and predictable. The plot is the same as hundreds of other romantic comedies with little to make it unique or interesting. Indeed, I had the whole story figured in the first 5 minutes. As always, Reese Witherspoon does a good job with her role, but the rest of the characters are forgettable. Overall, nothing special, but cute for date nights.

Cautions! This movie can be considered a classic, especially for people who are into teaching, etc. However, this particular purchase was "Region Two", which apparently makes it difficult to play on a regular DVD player if you are not in that "Region" - apparently Europe. Many people ordering this are not in Europe, of course. I was able to play it, albeit awkwardly, by playing it on my computer and hooking the computer up to the TV, but not everyone will be able to do that. They'll just think this is a DVD and it'll play in my DVD player. Not so. The companies (probably in an effort to curb piracy problems) has made "region"-specific versions of this DVD, and that's a real problem!! The film itself is GREAT, but it is quite a different story if you can't actually get it up on your screen. You've been warned. - Voltaire777, May 2011

It was okay As it was an interesting watch, at best, this title is by no means something you'd watch more than once. The 3D is decent, but you wouldn't drag your neighbor over to see how amazing it is.  Considering how tight the quarters are (or looked to be) in the space capsule, it's quite a feat that they were able to get an IMAX 3D camera in to film the whole thing.

This is What Its Named "Piranha"! This movie is no better, no worse. It's a Spring break party gone mad with prehistoric piranha. Pretty girls and lots of decent up-to-date gory effects. If you like this kind of movie, get it... if you don't, don't rent or buy.

Good movie but Fabulous Amitabh movie! Keep in mind this is an older movie, so the quality is not going to be blu ray style. It is however good enough considering the time it was made. I bought the dvd copy that had "its a sparks presentation" on the cover and rest assured there are subtitles for the songs in this version.  Edit: As i watch this movie, i realize there is a goood 15 minutes cut out from this movie ( the introduction of shilpa shirodkhar and the part where they introduce drugs into sridevi's car)

After a Slow Start it Picks up Speed This is not the heroic role that one might associate with Denzel Washington but a rather a seedy type of small town sheriff who is skating along the edge of propriety and stumbles in the wrong direction with a little help from an unexpected direction. A relationship with another man's wife develops into a serious problem when the woman disappears and seems to be dead.  The movie is about the sheriff's efforts to extricate himself from the mess as a noose of circumstantial evidence draws tighter around his neck. The first part of the movie focuses on a rather tawdry affair between the sheriff and the woman but when it appears he may have been involved in her death the pace picks up and it gradually turns into a fairly exciting action movie.  I found it hard to relate to the character of the sheriff but Washington did a good job of portraying the poor unfortunate who, thanks to some other friends who really cared, is able to bring resolution to the mystery.  Based on the second half I would give the movie 3.5 stars and suggest you watch before you buy.

Marvel Comics superhero movie Gotta love the real to life comics great special effects very colorful lots of action and not for the little ones to watch unless you want to wake up to a super kill shot to the nuts some morning in your sleep! I was happy to pick my copy up for a very low price [...] very good deal cardboard sleeve though.

Almost good science fiction When I first read the reviews on this series, I feared it would be little more than trashy sci-fi that throws some skin shots at you to make up for the lack of a script. It's definitely not that. It's true that there is bit of flesh peddling going on but it's all very PG-13 and the episodes don't linger on that aspect.  I won't toss in any spoilers, but the basic series is about humans that have been selected for reprogramming using a new technique that implants memories, skills, etc. In that sense, it's very Matrix-like. However, in this situation the reprogramming is commercialized and the "dolls" take on assignments from high paying customers. These assignments generally either involve "entertaining" a client or involve some kind of risky espionage mission. When the jobs are the adult escort type, there is always a larger plot and the escort part is just a backdrop, which comes off a little contrived but it's endurable most of the time.  Some of the actors are quite good, particularly the chief programmer, who can be hilarious at times. Others, like Eliza Dushku (main actress) are a struggle to watch. Even so, the initial episodes were interesting enough to keep me going and wanting to figure out the backstory. At first, it's not at all clear where the dolls come from, how and why they are recruited or what the larger plan is for them. There are also some threats that arise as well and there is an interesting story about the conflicts between controllers and the dolls--which smacks of the old La Femme Nikita series.  I stayed with the series all the way through, mostly hoping it would pull out of the slump that started to appear about halfway through the series. Unfortunately, it never quite finds its way out and about two-thirds of the way through Joss Whedan (series creator) attempts to morph the series into some kind of post-apocalyptic story. This fails miserably and like one of the reasons the series got canned.  Worth watching? If you've seen all the other sci-fi series and you're bored, I'd say yes. But quite frankly, it's kind of mediocre sci-fi. If you haven't seen Firefly yet (same creator) I'd definitely recommend it before this one.

No PLAY-ALL feature While this 50th anniversary collection is fine, and I certainly enjoyed many of the original sponsor spots, the lack of a PLAY-ALL feature means that you can't just turn on the DVD and let it go.  You must start each episode individually.

Harry Potter Walks and Talks (or My Dinner with Harry Potter) Not the strongest of the stories as it is mostly about Harry Potter and the gang hanging out in a Tent / Forest and talking, staring at each other, getting cabin fever and a couple of action scenes. Not that this will stop you from buying it, but compared to the other stories, I would rather just add Part 2 to my collection and just skip this one. Though the acting holds up well, the camera work is excellent. Special Effects are top notch, I am grading on story excitement.

I spit on this movie. First of all Jeff Branson total hunk gorgeous guy in so many ways. Stupid main character although beautiful and the bad guys were sadistic and out there which of course is a duh for this movie. After a girl is left for dead after being raped abused etccc she comes back for revenge against her tormentors and rapists.  Horribly depressing movie and I could not take the violence talk about gag inducing ugh.  Couldnt get through the whole thing and I LOVE horror movies my stomach just cant handle certain kinds of violence thats the problem.  It was interesting suspenseful and intense in certain parts but overall this movie was too slow it took forever for something to happen and when it finally did it didnt matter anymore. The main character did a great job as did the villains but in the end ultimately the victim became just as bad as the villains which in turn left no one too root for.Granted I wanted her to get revenge but WTF she went overboard understandable but still she was just as bad as the villains and I liked her at first.

The British Accent Phenomenon: Why, Oh Why? Fantasy. Allegorical. Classic literary (even if it's not Brit Lit). Directors and actors seem pathologically compelled to use a British accent whenever we're sitting down for a good bit of storytelling. For pete's sake, they went to the trouble of reintroducing many original Grimms' bits, previously all but lost to countless flowery Disney variations on this story. So if you're going to force an accent, why not the original German?  German or Brit, phoney accents add nothing to the quality of the dialog; in fact, it ends up emphasizing weaknesses in the script. And when principals lack either the natural skill or coaching required to pull it off, busted dialects are a huge distraction. Now, adorable rake Chris Hemsworth handled the Scots brogue a bit better than the bizarre British accent he attempted in "Thor." But Kristen Stewart had no idea on which side of the road she was driving (ooh, surprise), and even Theron occasionally struggled with sounding like a high school production of My Fair Lady.  With that said, it was a visual feast. Turn off the sound and watch some really gorgeous camera/lighting work and creative CGI that actually adds to the film rather than being just more shameless lily-gilding. I had to watch the mirror morphing and raven dress splat/reconstituting bits a couple of times. It's a beautiful movie and not entirely without merit. Get the HD/Blu-ray version, pop some corn and enjoy the show. But Hollywood, let's stop with the affected dialog. Meryl Streep's already won every award we'll give out for canned accents.

A descent into madness...of the loss of six dollars Grave Encounters could have been a great horror film. That being said it's not really all that bad, but I expected more. First you will see a standard Blair Witch "this footage was found" speech that segues into a rip-off of Ghost Adventures right down to the taped Xs. Fortunately the lead character is not quite up to Zak Bagans' superhero level of douchebaggery, yet.  From there you will find yourself watching a decent ghost flick until they throw some creatures into the mix. I assume the creatures are some variety of face distorting demon. If you have seen 2005's Constantine you know what I'm talking about. You will also be introduced to a lobotomist that will supply the "plot twist" at the end. If you have seen 2001's Session 9 you have seen the twist. As a matter of fact if you have seen Ghost Adventures, Session 9, and the Korean ghost girl in car video on YouTube you have seen the whole freaking movie. For a lot less than six dollars. I must say I admire the Vicious Brother's total disregard for potential copyright infringement litigation. At multiple points in film you will find yourself thinking "These guys either have the world's greatest attorney or really large gonads."

It' okay After having enjoyed a few of Kevin Hart's shows, this was ok. It was not his usual "I can't stop laughing!" funny. But it was interesting to get a glimpse of his life before fame. And to see his two ADORABLE children.

Fun little horror movie.  Good find. I bought this cause it's not available on Netflix.  Pretty good movie overall.  Didn't have much blood,b ut the end is actually quite creepy.  Once you discover the big "secret" at the end, it really plays with your head.  Acting was good and the music was really unsettling.  Chuck D.

Not what I expected I bought this video looking for a workout.  It was more instructional, I did learn a couple of things.  But, if you are looking for a workout to follow, this is not it.

I dont consider DH4 part of the series DH4 was a piece of rubbish directed by a total hack...the real Die Hard will always be a trilogy to me

Thank God for Fast Forward Film Musicals, especially MGM musicals, were colorful, exciting, and wonderful to watch, and thanks in part, to modern technology, they still are.  The same should have been true for this 1946 bio-epic on the life of the great American composer, Jerome Kern, but it falls far short of expectations, ruined by the painfully slow and boring script, and the poor quality of the video.  It wasn't even close to being accurate, and it challenges even those with good attention spans to try and watch the whole thing from beginning to end.  Sure, the film portrays Kern (Robert Walker) as a very likable fellow whom you want to root for, and details his relationship with his close friend, arranger James Hessler(Van Heflin), but I can't sit through it, its just so darn predictable, and if you are looking for great dramatic moments, its not going to happen.  Like I said...slow and boring.  Thank God for the fast forward button.  The twenty-plus musical numbers have saved this film (almost) from mediocrity.  The productions are top-notch, with colorful costumes and great (but dated) choreography.  It is a smorgasbord of Kern's best songs dished up by some of the greatest talents on MGM's musical star roster at that time.  Standouts include-  June Allyson & Ray McDonald- June Allyson sings and dances with Ray McDonald in "Leave it to Jane/ Cleopatterer".  What a cute number.  It is not hard to see why Allyson was so popular.  There was something about her that seemed to make her very accessible to everyone.  She didn't have the image of an untouchable Hollywood glamour girl.  She was as all-American as a girl could get.  Ray McDonald & June Allyson -  Ray McDonald sings the title tune, "Till The Clouds Roll By", and is joined in the song and dance by June Allyson and a Chorus.  This is probably my favorite number.  This is a rare opportunity for audiences to get familiar with McDonald's talents.  Although he co-starred in hits such as Babes on Broadway, Life Begins for Andy Hardy, and Good News, his career in film went nowhere. McDonald made his final film in 1953, and spent his last few years on the night club circuit.  Sadly,he died tragically at the age of 38.  Judy Garland (as Marilyn Miller) has two numbers; '"Who", and "Look for the Silver Lining".  These segments are fantastic, and were directed by her then husband, Vincente Minelli.  Tony Martin, Kathryn Grayson, Virginia O'Brien, and Lena Horne, star in a beautiful stage presentation of "Show Boat".  Although Horne would lose the part of Julie Laverne in the 1951 version to Ava Gardner, she was wonderful in this version.  However, the amount of makeup that was used to lighten her skin was too excessive.  Van Johnson and Lucille Bremer sing and dance through the song, "I Won't Dance".  Of course, the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers version was the best, but this one is almost just as good.  Van Johnson could really hoof it up...What a treat.  Angela Lansbury-  Most of us in the younger generations, only remember her as a mature lady in the TV series, "Murder She Wrote", but here is a young and beautiful Angela Lansbury singing and dancing the raucous song and dance, "How'd You Like to Spoon with Me" in the London Gaiety..  Dinah Shore- "They Didn't Believe Me", and "The Last Time I Saw Paris".  Frank Sinatra- "Old Man River".  Love Frank, love the song, but I prefer William Warfield's version.  So as much as I don't like the movie, the musical numbers will keep it from gathering too much dust.  I know just where in the film my favorite numbers are, so I can enjoy them as often as I want.  When all is said and done, "Till The Clouds Roll By" will continue to be a guilty pleasure until I wear it out.

Hopeful  but weak and not quite disappointing I saw the film when it first came out in theaters and been shown on TV. I'm a long time fan of fantasy and always see these kinds of films when they are released. I liked the locations, the firemares, the editing and most of the support characters. The leads are attractive people and look good as prince and princess but they had no chemistry. Script was disappointing. Music was fine. Now I'm not picking on the the actors. I think replacing the two leads or talking more time with the leads would of created a better result.

modest but occasionally insightful mid-life crisis drama ***1/2  If indie dramas are to believed, there are essentially two reasons why there is so much unhappiness in the world (at least among the more privileged classes who have the time and resources to think of such things): a) people can't stand the idea of being alone in the world, yet they also can't stand the idea of being with another person for long stretches of time either, and b) it's hard to come to terms with the contrast between what we imagined our life would be like and what it actually turned out to be.  A case in point is "The Good Night," a mid-life-crisis drama with a surrealistic twist.  Gary is a songwriter/musician who used to be part of a band but who has now been reduced to writing commercial jingles and scores for second-rate TV shows.  A somewhat de-glamorized Gwyneth Paltrow plays Gary's nagging long-time girlfriend who's definitely become disenchanted with their relationship, while the ultra-glamorous Penelope Cruz stars as the literal woman of his dreams - until she materializes and becomes a part of his waking world that is.  In fact, a fairly large chunk of the movie's running time is taken up with Gary's dreams, which inevitably feature this alluring figure who stands in obvious counterpoint to Dora's flesh-and-blood imperfections.  And then there's Danny De Vito as the scene-stealing New Age dream-whisperer who attempts to maneuver Gary through his crisis.  The point of the film, written and directed by Jake Paltrow (brother of Gwyneth), seems to be that ideal worlds and ideal relationships exist only in dreams, and that, if you want to survive and maybe even find a little bit of happiness in this life, you had better start accepting some compromises and limitations and not, as Voltaire once opined, make the perfect the enemy of the good.  Even Gary's dream-woman is eventually unmasked as a relatively pedestrian fashion model who definitely does not live up to the dreams and fantasies Gary has about her before he meets her in the actual flesh.  The movie does a nice job transitioning back and forth between the world of reality and the world of dreams, and the actors demonstrate an astute understanding of the roles they are playing.  Some of the conversations and arguments the lovers engage in are almost too painfully realistic at times, with Dora, in particular, unloading her feelings on Gary to withering effect.  It's not exactly a world-shaking human drama, but it offers some insightful observations into those maddeningly messy things we euphemistically call "romantic relationships."

has potential, but... The concept behind this movie has a lot of potential. I love the idea of a time traveler meeting the love of his life in the past. However, this is a made-for-TV movie and it shows. The acting is doesn't convey any emotion at all - a problem for a love story. This is especially damaging because with such a far fetched plot, the emotion needs to be all the more real to convince viewers that the two are in love. However, what really drags this movie down is that it goes by way to quickly. It is about 1 hour 20 minutes, about average length for romantic comedies, but it seems like very little happens during that time. At least very little that's memorable. I guess I shouldn't expect to much. The movie certainly works as a date movie, but for such a cool idea for a romantic comedy it's too bad the director didn't get more out of it.

Entertaining soap opera Kelsey Grammar is great in this show, as is Marin Donovan (Ezra Stone, Kane's chief adviser and my favorite character).  The morally ambiguous and corrupt main character is especially prevalent in television these days (The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Mad Men) but Grammar's cynical, ruthless performance and the intense story line manage to keep it interesting, though some of the plot twists are a little ridiculous and the sex scenes seem tacked on.  Overall, Boss is a fun and entertaining show that is definitely worth the watch but it definitely doesn't strive for cerebral and subtle.

out for a jaunt with a Ukrainian gourmet... Jason Statham returns as wheelman extraordinaire Frank Martin, in The Transporter 3 (2009) the third installment in the high-octane Transporter series.  Written by Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita) and Mark Robert Kamen, the film is directed by Frenchman Olivier Megaton (Red Siren).  Reality is not a major factor in a Transporter film.  The objective is to arrange a situation where the immaculately dressed Martin has to accomplish a task involving driving a car, and let the man do his thing.  There is usually a hot babe involved, and Martin typically makes a few stops along the way, where some wildly stylized fights, choreographed by the expert Corey Yuen take place.  The only one that Martin usually relies on for help is detective inspector Tarconi (Francois Berleand).  This is the basic setup for the film.  After being in Miami for the Transporter 2, Martin has returned to France, and is at home when a car crashes through his house.  The seriously injured driver taken away in an ambulance, but is killed when an explosive bracelet he is wearing, gets too far from his car.  Inside the damaged vehicle is a sullen red-haired Ukrainian woman named Valentina (Natalya Rudakova, in her feature film debut).  Martin and the girl are captured, and taken to a man named Johnson (Robert Knepper), who offers the Transporter a choice between a driving assignment, or a bullet in the brain.  Very shortly Martin is back behind the wheel of his black Audi, with Valentina as a passenger.  Travelling through France bound for some unspecified destination, each has an explosive bracket clamped to their wrist.  Along the way, there are some wild frantic, teeth clenching vehicular maneuvers, spectacularly executed fights, a striptease, and a few fascinating discussions of cuisine.  The script delivers mostly what you expect from a Transporter film, comic book action, crazy stunts, stylized quick cut fight choreography with some unusual weapons, and edgy seat of your pants driving.  Like the previous outings, there's not a lot of reality to the plot, as Martin's car rises from being submerged in the middle of a lake, is still fully functional, and later jumps onto a train, and then between moving sections of the train.  Frank's relationship with his buddy Tarconi, is one of the few things that grounds the series.  The soft spoken wheelman usually doesn't get into deep conversations.  Attempting to do so with Valentina, who's ability to speak English seems to come and go, is a challenge that is almost painful.  Johnson the main baddie, is often just a voice on the phone making threats.  Robert Knepper does what he can with a role that has very little meat.  Fans of the franchise, expecting over the top action to the point of absurdity, will have few issues with the third and perhaps final entry in the series, as Statham's ample physical skills are again put to good use, and his black Audi is again pushed to the limits.  Transporter 3 is not a great film by any means, but it is an entertaining one, although the way the Valentina character is written, is questionable as a real asset to the story.

Alternately funny and heartbreaking Evidently at least some of this was based on real events that took place mainly in Texas.  A con man falls in love with an inmate, springs him, and keeps ending up in jail over and over because he cannot just stay on the straight path with a decent, honest job.  Carrey and MacGregor are very convincing as the couple in this odd comedy that is sometimes very sad.

Interesting Film I think the film did a good job dramatizing the disconnect between men and women and their need for play, adventure, danger, exploration, vitality in their relationships - in short everything that older marriages don't offer to the men and women who inhabit them. Juliette Binoche is always a joy to watch in any film, and the young prostitutes deliver powerful performances as well.

misses and misses by a lot Every once in a while the American public proves it's not so stupid after all. Surprisingly, that's often done by letting poor films fail at the box office, even films that have stars and might have been good. And this film is a good example. The film doesn't work on so many levels that it's almost pointless to mention them. Actually, it is pointless. But: poor writing and casting are what sink it. Unconvincing characters speaking mediocre dialogue.  One mini-positive: I can't think of a single film that has gotten journalists right since All the President's Men. Russell Crowe was awful as a journalist in another film where Americans proved they're not so stupid. (Ben Affleck was awful too, but ...) Jennifer Connelly was entirely unconfincing as a photojournalist in Blood Diamond. It's not a short list. But Streep is pretty good here. She doesn't get everything, but she gets a lot.

3D Review by a 3D Connoisseur POST-PRODUCTION 3D (converted from 2D to 3D)  My ratings are based mainly on the QUALITY OF THE 3D, not the video content.  OOS EFFECTS: There are about 60 out of screen effects that extend about 10% of the way, from the screen to the viewer. Many of them are quick but easily noticeable. An additional 5 effects made it to 20% or more.  IN SCREEN / OBSERVATIONS: The cardboard cutout syndrome is glaringly noticeable early in the movie and in A FEW other scenes throughout the film with only 1, 2 or 3 depths and a flat background. The balance of the scenes converted well and only appeared slightly shallower in depth than normal and the syndrome was negligible.  If you like action type films, it is easy to overlook the shortcomings of a (fake 3D) conversion and enjoy this movie for what it is. The 3D definitely adds to the viewing experience of this film.  ACTIVE GLASSES USERS: In addition to the menu; Crosstalk was evident 6 times but only 1 of them was a major eyesore. (crosstalk varies from system to system)    3  ½ star MY 3D RATING = GOOD to VERY GOOD  (poor, fair, good, very good, excellent)  Note: As far as the percentages go, everyone's eyes are different. What I see at 25% you may see at 15% or 35%. To fully realize how far something is out of the screen for you, pause on an effect and direct a partner with an extended finger to the tip of what you are seeing. You may be surprised.  Click on `See all my reviews' for the lowdown on other 3Ds

Elvis Blu-ray Don't bother buying the Blu-ray.  Whilst it is entertainining, if you have a quality led and sound system, you will not get the full advantage.  Buy the DVD as the blu-ray is in 3:4 ratio and has not been upgraded to 5.1.  Very disappointed Elvis forever fan.  Come one guys, lets get into the next century.  LED Zepplin did it - why can't you???

Boring with a Capital B This from the director of GANDHI ? It's watchable to be sure . It's contains a very good early performance by Robert Downey Jr. That about sums it up . Oh yeah , he liked relations with girl/women ALL his life . Nearly children . Adequate .

Lion King 1 1/2 Grandkids enjoyed it. Certainly not up to the standards of the original but fun. We've had it for quite some time.

A note about the blu-rays/discs themselves I bought this blu-ray pack because I love House and I can't imagine anyone would be on the fence of buying this pack. You're either a House fan or you're not and reading amazon reviews won't change that. However, I wanted to talk about the packaging of the actual discs and the experience I had watching the first couple episodes.  Short version: it's terrible. If you bought House Season 6 or movies such as In Bruges or Quantum or Solace (I think?) you'll be familiar with this god awful freeware that Universal uses in all of their Blu-Rays. Load times are way too long. From putting the disc in to seeing the start of an episode, that process can take upwards of five minutes. You might be thinking "Well it's only five minutes." But you have to imagine situations of when you'd watch House. Probably with some friends or if you're eating dinner and want to watch something.  In five minutes you can lose interest or be half way through your meal. Now add on the fact that you basically have to repeat the process once per episode and in three hours of watching House you've probably spent upwards of 20-30 minutes starring at a black screen. It's ridiculous. Every Blu-Ray I own that has this BD Live set up has the same problem. Other Blu-Rays that have their own system, they work perfectly, load instantly and have no issues. The fact that this Menu setup is still being used is because not enough people are complaining, I'd suggest either buying the regular DVDs if you can do without HD or find a customer contact for the maker of these Blu-Rays and complain, it's really terrible.  I also forgot to add in there that if you pause the show, after about thirty seconds a screen saver of the "Universal" logo shows up. Sounds great except that screen savers are for one purpose: to save your screen from burned-in images. This screen saver is incredibly bright and more importantly you can't resume from the screen saver. You have to hit stop and then press play, which reloads the disc from the beginning. Remember that five minute wait I was talking about? Imagine if that happened in the middle of an episode and you had to do it again, plus added time to get back to your positioning. It's garbage.  ____________________  As for the show itself: I'm a House apologist. I loved seasons 1-4 (minus Tritter and Vogler) I didn't mind the transition of a new cast, it made sense, besides House's Head is the best episode of the series and it wouldn't exist without Season 4. Season 5 and 6 definitely declined in quality but it was more-so individual episodes that were cringe worthy not the series itself (Anything with Foreman and 13 was awful and pretending that Wilson was going to leave the show was a joke).  Despite all that I've stuck with the show because the good episodes are really great. I haven't seen the entirety of Season 7 (I missed the first few episodes) but from what I did see, outside of the very first episode and the very last episode, this is one of the better seasons. I might even rank it in the same category as Season 4. The show has been going for so long they've obviously lost the mystery and excitement of "what crazy thing will happen next" but they've done so much already I can't imagine how they'd escalate it. With that in mind they focus on just interesting individual cases which are medically interesting and I think the drama elements are more toned down overall which is how they should be.  The first episode is pointless at the last episode is frustrating but everything in between is great. Like I said before, the Blu-Rays themselves are garbage but if you can grit your teeth through it or decide to buy the regular DVDs (that don't have the same menus set up) then you should enjoy House Season 7.  P.S. The packaging of the discs themselves is three holders, with discs 1 and 2 stacked on top of each other and discs 3 and 4 stacked on top of each other on the different holder. Disc 5 is by itself. I don't know if this is better or worse than the Season 6 holders since this new version may cause scratches (I think? Not sure) but at least they're trying.

bad one star grade  c movies still I  want more on blu ray like this so the package gets three stars Ok; grade c movies are a like of mine, they are always awkward and not so well done, usually with a certain bit of ineptness. People often call these very small budget movies 'b movies' but they are wrong.  "Amusement' is a b movie , these are c  movies done with lower film stock quality, very inexperienced actors usually, on way lower budgets than a b movie has. Although Jack ELam was a great actor who was in many A movies, he makes the second movie alot better than it would be without him. these are one star movies though. (d movies are some local guy with his camera etc) however a few d's are really good by any standard! And lots of c movies are great imo but these aren't great movies, these are bad c movies and yet I still enjoy them because I collect horror. And thank goodness they are on blu ray , I wish everything was on blu ray ,  even poor film stock looks better on blu ray and you get two c movies here for a cheap price. Major studios are ripping us off by not putting two movies on a blu ray I think. They can charge way less on older titles too and make money and get most of their old catalogs out on blu eventually. Why not? Even poorly made c horror flicks can shine in their badness on blu ray. Back to the movies, I have tons of c and d movie horror movies in my collection so this one was  a welcome addition to my collection. A non c movie horror fan might not want this blu ray but at this price it's worth getting I would say. If you like c movies and just want a few cheapo horror flicks to while away the time,  and collect lots of c movies then this one is for you. If you are not a collector of c movie horror movies and expecting them to be well made and such then you will not be happy with these flicks. However at this price it's worth it nonthelesss.  U I give this set a three star because we get two bad c movies on a blu ray disc.  These are bad movies like most c horror movies so a regular non fan may give these movies a ONE STAR. Three stars for giving me two bad c horror cheapos on one blu ray and two stars for the movies or less maybe! But I dig one star cheapo horror if you don't then, well what did you expect?

Truth or Lie I bought this item twice. I really wanted the lenticular cover but didn't get it the first time. I bought it used and I do not recommend buying an used one. I bought it again new and it came with the lenticular cover that I was supposed to get the first time I bought it.

Good but not thorough enough I was expecting it to be kinda like a "this is how we live the Agrarian life and this is why...." but it's only the why and NOT the how. The family members (adults mainly) talk about how they came to live the Agrarian life and how it's brought them close to God. It just felt kinda empty. it didn't even seem like they spent enough time on each family.  It's only 44 min long and more time than needed spent on the narrator standing there talking. I was disappointed and am so glad that I didn't pay full price for it.  I'd say if they added the "how" and about 10 more min on each family it would have been worth the money. Oh well. I did learn some points and am grateful for that.

I was a little confused by the plot. I love Sci-Fi movies like this and this one was mildly entertaining, but the characters were not fully developed to the point that not only did I not care what happened to them, but sometimes I was confused regarding which character was which. I was confused by the ending also, not really understanding what was happening. The usual ingredients were in this film also: "The sun is going to expode and destroy the earth. We are so smart we can 'fix' the sun, but unfortunately for mankind we sent a bunch of psychopaths and idiots to save the world." In spite of my criticism, I didn't lose interest in the movie--desiring to see how it turned out.

Decent There are certainly some exciting moments, and enlivening concepts here.  Overall the movie's storyline seems to wander loosely.  I suspect the writers were doing their share of LSD at the time.

OK, Not Great. Not as good as MI II or III, but still enjoyable. Haven't tried the digital copy yet, but appreciate that they bundled Blu-Ray, DVD and digital in a single package.

I wish I could only give 2 1/2 stars (AT MOST) Unfortunately,I HAVE to agree with most of the other reviews,what a PIECE!! Man,I was so stoked for this to finally come out,and for WHAT? To me,it seemed SUPER generic compared to the first(which I LOVED btw)I really hope the director(Adam Green)reads some of these reviews,because he really needs to take note.Not sure exactly what went wrong,but wow..what a let down.After all the hype of "we used 500 gallons of blood on this one,compared to only 55 with the first.." Come on,ANYONE can splash some fake blood on a wall or tree..maybe I saw a "cut" version..but to me,there seemed to be not nearly as much gore as the first,and when there was?,it was completely FAKE looking!Better luck next time(and you KNOW there WILL be a next time)Too bad.

Please be kind to Mr. Wells! As stated in my title. Please be kind, the great Orson Wells was at the beginning of his decline as an actor. (As a director he was still at the top of his game). Also this movie was made in the heyday of peplum films.(called such for the short pleated skirts that the well muscled men wore in the films.)  They were made mostly in Italy, by mostly bad Italian directors and written by bad Italian script writers! Orson Wells did the best he could using what material he had. The one bright spot in the film was the actor who played David. a Croatian actor named Ivo Payer. Very handsome and very muscular. a fitting ideal of David. This must have been his first acting role, for his acting was very intense.  Of coarse they omitted any reference to the very close and affectionate relationship between David and Prince Jonathan, King Saul's youngest son. Instead they chose to have David fall in love with Michael, Saul's younger daughter. In the story, David marries Michael to legitimize his accent to the throne of Israel. This happens only after the death of his beloved friend and companion Jonathan. So take this film in consideration for the era in which it was made and for what it is worth in viewing enjoyment.

Paul the (Anti)Apostle Paul was pretty funny at times and exactly what I expected it to be....with one exception.  First of all, you know when you mix <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000WZEZG8">Superbad</a> Director Greg Mottola with Seth Rogen there will be sticky green silliness. Throw in Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and that's silliness icing on the cake. Pegg and Frost play a couple of sci-fi convention geeks that 'encounter' a real alien--that of course being Rogen/Paul--as they travel home from ComicCon. Paul is funny, obnoxious, lovable, gross and he likes his weed. I know, shocking, right? Rogen playing a weed smoking alien....That was as predictable as the rest of the movie.  There are some laughs from a plethora of good comedians throughout the movie, and some of the cameos are well placed and well played. Paul is a fun movie. But I found it odd that Paul Writers Frost and Pegg had such an Atheist message to deliver with the film. I'm fine with a movie that has a message, and I'm neither for nor against a movie with an Atheist message; I was just a little surprised that the movie came on so strong with a "God does not exist" message. This takes a big risk in the entertainment business by potentially offending half or more of your fan base.  So see Paul if you're looking for a few laughs, but if you're a fan of Paul the Apostle you might not like Paul the Alien's opinion on who or what created the universe.

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Privce Very dark movie. Geez, did Hogwarts go "Green" and quit using electricity or something. The whole thing has a dark and ha a despairing atmosphere. Nothing funny or fun about the movie. There is no PigWidgeon the little Owl Sirus had left Ron there is so much missing. As I remember in the book Dumbledore hit Harry with a spell that petrified him when Snape was going to kill him because he knew Harry would come to his aide. Not this time. This time Harry was hiding behind a chair. Did not like the Movie and from the reviews above mine I think I will wait for the Deathly Hallows 1 and 2 to go down to a penny before I ever buy them. If you haven't read the books you will probably like it if you have and are a fan you won't I can guarantee that.

Ummm....well...... Why did they call this Halloween 3? It could have been called Silver Shamrock Murders or something. I mean, don't get me wrong, I like the story line of the movie, but to associate it with the Halloween franchise was ignorant. You'd never see Rob Zombie doing something stupid like this.

its ok Its ok Its definetely not a blockbuster story and film... but the story falls short with the ending leaving a bitter taste to such a tasteful start

Charming but lacking. Beautifully filmed, and with a cracking supporting cast. Emily Watson & Lloyd Owen in particular brought their characters to life very well.  I find Renee Zellweger a little annoying but I thought generally she was OK; her grieving I found very moving. A few too many screwing-up-the-face mannerisms but reasonably easy to overlook.  Ewan McGregor as always is excellent and effortlessly charming.  Bill Paterson and Barbara Flynn are also good support to the main storyline.  Potter's art is beautifully showcased and I rather enjoyed the animated characters in the paintings and drawings - Jemima Puddleduck a particular favourite.  However I somehow felt there was something missing... the love story never really kicked in, not I think through fault of acting but just a lack in on screen chemistry. (I am not convinced by "tremendous chemistry" in Down With Love, I think the film manages to work despite the lack of it!) & although the grief scenes were beautifully done, things were all got over terribly quickly. I think this is partly the fault of trying to fit Potter's life into a film, and thus race through it far too quickly.  On the whole, it's a "nice" movie, but it's not as good as one feels it could have been.  The extras on the disc are also disappointing... overall, not one which I'll be likely to be adding to my collection unless I see it for sale very cheaply.

Just 'OK' But Still Fun Let's be honest, I bought this for the Finn hat.  Unfortunately, the hat runs small--it's probably made for kids not adults haha.  But I was able to get it to fit my head decently because I'm a little smaller.  As for the DVD, it's nice having an assortment of episodes, but I wish it would have been a single season.  I think the value of having a season on DVD would be worth the extra few bucks.

Eh I usually like time-travel movies, but this one obviously didn't take itself seriously or do an adequate amount of research. No wait, I'm sure the writers did some research, but they chose to ignore some of it, since the past that the 'Black Knight' travels to is not entirely historically accurate, and it's clear that this was intended. Martin Lawrence is fairly funny, but this movie definitely could have been better.

A fine performance by Randolph Scott! OK, disclaimer. I have a positive bias toward Randolph Scott's westerns. He always gives a fine performance, some better than others, and I always enjoys his films. He's somewhere between Cary Cooper and John Wayne in the western pantheon -- a rare talent.  Here he shoulders the load of the film doing what he can with the material at hand. It's not a *great* film but it *is* a very enjoyable one, given the limitations of the story. This is one of the early Scott-Brown films and I think they're just getting into stride. It's an interesting story that moves along at a good pace, so break out the popcorn and enjoy!  Three and half stars and recommended. I'm glad to own a DVD of this film and thank Columbia for releasing it!

Eh SO many sequels prove to disappoint, and this one is no exception. The first Blade movie was wonderful, the second one all right, but you can see that this movie was just a way to milk a popular franchise for money, and when this is the intent, the movie inevitably suffers. I would say only watch this if you are a die-hard fan and want to see what happens after the first two films.

There's a reason you'd never heard of this movie... ...before some hipster tried to convince you it was one of the greatest films of all time - it just isn't that great.  Don't get me wrong, it was entertaining and I was engaged from beginning to end, but one of the best film experiences I've ever had it ain't.  You spend the complete 2+ hours with the barely likeable persona of Jack Nicholson's role, only to discover that the character you should've been empathizing with the whole time has barely been developed by the end of movie.  The twist at the end is not nearly enough to support the weight of a movie this long, this film easily could have been 30 minutes shorter.  Sometimes I feel Polanski's ego requires his films to reach that magical 120 min threshold come rain or shine, like he needs viewers to make a "commitment" to watching his films.  I really like most of his films but they do tend to contain lots of dead air.  Also, the so-called connection to the title - Chinatown, is a joke and feels tacked on.  All in all, this is definitely a decent movie that's worth seeing, just enter with an open mind and disregard the associated hype.

Not bad I must admit when I was a little boy my first taste of the Sherlock movies were with Basil Rathbone so no matter who plays the part I always in the back of my mind compare them with that version of Sherlock and to this day he's my favorite actor for that particular role.  I read most of the original Sherlock Holmes books years ago so Robert Downey Jr's version took a lot getting used to.  I think he plays a pretty good version of Holmes in his own way but it took some adjusting with how quickly he explained things throughout the film.

Space Nerd History The Apollo program through the cameras the astronauts took with them, as well as through cameras in the control room at Houston. It's interesting, but in the process of finding a picture of the DVD cover, I came across another I'm going to have to find, called "In the Shadow of the Moon" from 2007 directed by Ron Howard. I suspect (especially from the trailer) that it is going to be better.  This is mostly the raw film, with all its flaws, and you don't always know what you are looking at. Indeed, I spent a good bit of the time while they were on the moon trying to figure where the camera was that was taking the picture. It turns out they have mashed together several trips, and so while there were only two astronauts on the surface in Apollo 8 (or was that 9?), there were more later, and there were cameras on the rover (which trip had the rover and went up to a ridge at a considerable distance from the lander?), and all together this was pretty confusing. Interesting, but confusing.

A Stands For Average The A-Team is a lot like The Expendables, in that it's a recent big-budget action movie that is all style and no substance. It has good action, but little else. I miss the days of Arnold, when you would understand why people were being shot and stabbed and whatever else. In The A-Team, a lot of people get shot but I don't have the faintest idea why. But I'm a college dropout, so what do I know.

Retrieving Stolen Secrets / Safeguarding the Diamond Cartel Bulldog Drummond's Revenge, 1937 film  The film begins with a view of London Bridge and London streets. How to retrieve a small package from a drain hole? We see a view of Scotland Yard (repeated in other films). A visitor tells Colonel Neilson about a plan to steal a secret formula for a new explosive. Sir John Haxton will carry this extremely powerful explosive in his private airplane. Something happens in the airplane to Sir John. A suitcase with a parachute falls from the airplane, then a man. Hugh Drummond visits the crash scene and finds a arm! At home the lights go out, somebody steals that suitcase from the airplane! Will this upset the wedding plans? No, they leave on the Dover train. The villains are on the same train. Hugh and Algy find one of the villains, dead from a gunshot. Suicide?  They smell jasmine perfume. Was that from the lady in the next compartment? Can Algy find the woman who was in the next compartment? "But you promised." Colonel Neilson hurries to Dover. The Dover Ferry will take travelers across the Channel. They suspect Nogais is using a disguise! Neilson tests those crystals, its not the hexanite. They must search the ship for Nogais and the explosive. When they return to their compartment they get a surprise. The return of Algy turns the tables, but there is another surprise! They chase the fleeing Nogais and find him in hiding for the end of the chase. Will the wedding go on as planned?  This adventure series mixed comedy and drama. The on again / off again wedding for Hugh and Phyllis became a running joke. Set in England, filmed in Hollywood, it was produced for a wide audience. "Hexanite" was a more powerful version of TNT that was used for torpedoes and bombs in WW II. Having a man disguised as a woman was unusual for that time, so too the use of a body part.  = = = Bulldog Drummond's Peril, 1938 film  The story begins with cars on a road in London England. There is a notice about a wedding in Switzerland. [Note how Blanche uses that camera.] The gift of a large man-made diamond is a threat to the diamond cartel. Can it be stolen? "No home is complete without one." They find the detective hired to watch the gifts under a table! Would a man of wealth and position stoop to stealing? [How did he gain his wealth?] The ability to manufacture diamonds would destroy the value of real diamonds and the value of their company stock. Will this investigation interfere with the wedding? We see how they hide a diamond in a book. Hugh sends a cablegram to Neilson, who treats it as a joke. Can Hugh, Algy, and Tenny quickly fly to England? But there is zero visibility! Can Hugh land safely?  Sir Raymond Blantyre visits the scientist who manufactured the artificial diamond; he repeats the process. Professor Goodman plans to reveal the process to the public. This will result in a great loss for the diamond industry! [You know where this is going.] They offer a large sum for the exclusive rights to this process, a monopoly patent. But he refuses. Will this put him in great danger? It can affect the British Empire! Blantyre offers first £5,000 then £50,000! Will there be a double-cross? Later Hugh shows up. Tenny sees what happened, and follows the truck. Botulian shows up shows up and is accused of being there earlier. Botulian visits Hugh and gets Goodman's notes. Later Hugh visits Botulian to see Professor Goodman, and is captured. Where are they kept? Hugh's friends search all over. They escape, then Hugh must return to rescue Phyllis. There is a struggle, Hugh wins. Colonel Neilson arrives with the police to sort things out. Sir Raymond is taken into custody to be sent back to Switzerland for questioning. Somehow, the great damage to the diamond cartel will be averted.  Industrial grade diamonds are very important in manufacturing, but few know the details. This story is set in England but filmed in Hollywood. Hugh and Tenny seem derived from Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson. Note how the right to keep and bear arms was respected in Britain until 1946.

Looks Bootleg This is definitely a bootleg DVD version of this movie, but it does the job. Great Christmas movie so I'll give it 3 stars.

I love Richard Gere I love Richard Gere in anything.  This movie was intriguing but a little hard to follow.  I won't spoil the ending for anyone who hasn't seen it, but will say it was a little disappointing.  I'll just say, Thanks Amazon for featuring this movie on line. I'm happy I didn't waste movie money to see it.

A great film ruined Yes, they removed all the original, and classic, music from the film. When I looked it up on the internet - it happened for copyright reasons apparently.  Although the film is still great, the lack of hit music from that period really robs the movie of its charm. This was always a madcap comedy, but it is also a sweet and touching film. The characters are such great fun and it is still sad to see John Belushi at the height of his comedy powers when he was just making his big break.  A classic, that has been tragically mauled for the DVD release.

HAUSER'S MEMORY A young couple loses their son Adam in an auto accident. Robert De Niro and his illegal cloning corporation offer to clone the dead child for the couple. After some debate, they agree and have another son who is like the first one. Of course things don't work out as we adopt some unknown existential theme to make a story. Once Adam II reaches the age of when Adam I died, he starts to see visions of his dead self and believes he is doomed. Pretty scary huh? ...if you're eight and your parents inform you that you were cloned...I guess it could be, not that any of you would do that to your 8 year old. Adam II has some vague memories that manifest as dreams. He has become reckless also, as if he has a death wish. AND he exhibits aberrant behavior, such as spitting in the face of his teacher...Tell me you're not scared now!  Rebecca Romijn provides the only eye candy in this film, and that is a quick interrupted love scene toward the beginning. The terror is light, but if you like possessed kid movies, this one might make do.

lil disapointed the movie was great great quality but i ordered my package and selected 2-3 days and it took almost a week n a half to recieve my package i was going to give it as a gift and had to go and get something else....not very happy about that

British buddy film featuring zombies Shaun of the Dead is a interesting twist in the zombie movie genre.  It stars Simon Pegg, who is easy to cheer for as Shaun, a mild mannered chap in his late twenties who is at a crossroads with his job, girlfriend, and mom and stepdad.  The along come the zombies.  This is a buddy film, with a romantic twist.  There is some vulgarity and pervasive violence, so this is not suitable for children under the age of sixteen.  Overall, the movie moves a little slowly at points, but there is a good bit of dry humor and, again, Shaun is a protagonist that I ended up liking more than I disliked.

Rating for blu-ray...For less than $10 it's worth the upgrade from DVD Be forewarned--The digital copy(second disc) has expired.  To have this movie on blu-ray AND all on ONE SIDE...lol...makes it much more enjoyable..  Two stars off for shipping a blu-ray with an expired digital copy..WOW..So..the listing on here for the blu-ray is correct..2 disks..just that only one works  I have no idea why they never released this on DVD single side on dual layer disk like most movies...Baffling...  Great buy at current price of $9.49 for blu-ray.  Good transfer/audio and good movie

It is good The baby ensten movies are great! This one is a little diffront from the others but they like it. I was great to beable to get it used and in new condition on line. It cost a hole lot less than the ones in the store.

A SURREAL SOMBER GLOOMY EXPERIENCE!! "Jesus' Son" A look into the treacherous desperate life of a drug addict living from one fix to the next, set in the early 70's, We follow FH a man in his twenties wondering from place to place sometimes with other junkie friends, other times with his girlfriend Michelle who is also into drugs, making horrendous awful life choices, and behaving nearly like a gentle kind and naive little kid without any rationalization hanging around with a group of unlikable characters that makes you loose interest in a hurry. Not able to hold a job he's forced into petty theft to make ends meet  "Jesus' Son" Adapted to the Screen from a book of short stories. A Film funny at times but mostly a surreal, somber, gloomy experience about human beings at their lowest, also it's a story of hope, dreams, desire, tragedy and expectation of fulfillment towards the end. FH (Billy Crudup) narrates most of the Movie going back and forth occasionally when he feels he's forgotten something making the Film move at a Comatose Pace, I think that's the intention of the Director to make the audience confused and lost, as Fh does!  Not a Film for everyone...Sex, Graphic Language, Drugs. Although the last forty minutes of the Film made it for me. I could see light at the end of the tunnel as FH almost redeems himself finding employment at an interesting place and discovering himself, as he puts it..."I'M TAKING A NEW APPROACH TO LIFE, UM...I'M NOT STEALING I'M TRYING TO SEE EACH TASK THROUGH TO IT'S END!"

You will love it or hate it (I didn't care much for it myself) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000059HA8">Gummo</a> is a dreary little film. It depicts the day-to-day lives of some teens and adolescents in Midwest America. I hate to think these slackers represent the Youth of America, but well, maybe they do - these kids are messed up. Maybe they're brain-dead from the stultifying life in Ohio. There is at least one potential serial killer in the bunch.  The cast is pretty much unexceptional, with the (ahem) exception of Chloe Sevigny. She obviously went on to bigger and better things, but her ability is totally wasted here. Maybe she needed a job. Maybe she needed a challenge.  The film is documentary-style, with grainy image and natural lighting.  I don't have personal issues with the material presented in the film. It just made me want to puke, thinking this may be an accurate depiction of how kids can grow up.

Anxiously waiting for the chance to REALLY review this!!! I found out about this movie (then just in the making process) from NetFlix about 2 years ago.  It was taking FOREVER to get this movie from NetFlix-started a little investigation personally.  Turns out it's Johnny D. & Hunter S. Thompson hooking up again (ala "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas" )so it's taken a while to really turn this into a movie - that's @ least what I've been able to find out.  Amazon alerted me about the release so I could pre-order, well in advance of the release date.  I really appreciate that kind of service.  I ABHOR SHOPPING!!!!!! Amazon works for me in so many ways.  & get this dandy first kid on the block, pre-order op too!! This movie outta be great - it better be...I know not everyone is really informed on this movie so this may be confusing to you.  I do hate the waiting soo-o-o long for this one, the intrique of the wait - a Hunter Thompson type move perhaps????? or more likely Hunter didn't quite recall.....?????  And Yes, I know Mr. Thompson is dead.

A Serious Charge An interesting if not great film. A 50's teenager movie with a strong plot line. Anthony Quayle is great and Cliff Richard is Cliff so if you are a Cliff fan you will want to see this movie.

just ok The quality of the video was outstanding. The movie itself was entertaining but not a must see by any means. I watched it because I know someone and have been to Carthage, Tx. Still not extremely entertaining though

Pretty good I finished this book. At first I was able to read it really fast. I liked it a lot. But starting from around the end of chapter 7, it felt pretty dry.

Curates egg Season 7 is a real mess to be honest...Carell's departure inevitably overshadowed pretty much the whole season, and it is going to be very interesting to see how the show develops with its central character gone. It's a testament to how far this fantastic show has come from its English parent that the central figure can go and the show can even consider continuing - if David Brent left the English version there would not really have been a show..but the strength in depth in the US version means that there is enough there to work with.  The main problem i have with this season is the complete lack of credibility - i know that you shouldn't judge any shows, particularly sitcoms on their realism, but too many things happen in this season that prompt the reaction "yeah but..." to be forgivable. Things like what does Ryan actually do (surely his story arc burnt out after he lost the job at corporate and was sent to jail?). Likewise what does Gabe do and bring to the show - the characters don't regard him as the boss and the Gabe/Andy/Erin triangle is pretty unfunny - he's not been a good addition and towards the end his whining/nutter stuff is just odd. The whole Sabre thing has been quite poorly done overall - I miss David Wallace and the others at Corporate, although the Sabre storyline addressed the economic climate in Season 7 it seems things are fine and dandy in season 7 - Jim even moans about hitting his commission cap!  The pranking with Jim and Dwight is great fun, and recalls some of the earlier seasons, but at times feels bit deja vu, and you wonder whether the characters have progressed at all. Will "Marmite" Ferrell will divide viewers, personally i don't rate him at all, and felt his sole purpose was to keep a big name in the frame during Carell's exit. In fact the guest stars generally get in the way this season (it's well said that when a sitcom starts dropping in guests regularly alarm bells should start ringing) - Timothy Olyphant is great in his shows and then disappears completely and is therefore another "yeah but" which is distracting, and although i laughed at Ricky Gervais' cameo it felt very indulgent and out of place.  That's not to say that this season is all bad - there are a couple of runs of great episodes about a third through and again near the end which hopefully will lead to greater things- with Michael gone we need a new boss who has an authority figure to bounce off, and more screen time for some of the tier 3 characters like Creed - one of the weaknesses of this season was the focus on the other tier 1 characters other than Michael, but a dumbing down of some of the tier 2 like Kevin (too stupid to be believable) Angela (basically a one joke character) and Erin (cute but stupid, albeit funnier than Kevin is now). Creed and Meredith who usually provide some of the unexpected classic moments (my personal favourite's being creed blog = a word document) barely have a page worth of dialogue between them.  In terms of quality this is probably the worst season after the first (which was utterly dreadful and basically a line-for line reworking of the English version with the names changed at times). It was during seasons 2 and then with the stellar season 3 this show became a classic - Season 6 was a bit off and this is worse again; let's hope a new direction and some tighter and more realistic writing with better arcs will see this show not just limp on but reach the heights of the classic years. Michael's departure doesn't mean the end of the Office by a long chalk...

Previews made this look a lot better than it actually was!! Was excited to get this in the mail before we went on vacation so we would have something to watch in case of a rainy day.  Well we did get the rainy day but were let down when we put the movie in and settled in for a laugh.  Parts here and there were funny but my kids may have watched 10 minutes of the whole movie due to lack of interest.  Would advise people to rent before buying....

Great, but over priced. U2 is one of the greatest bands of all time. This blu-ray is classic U2. One problem, this is that this blu-ray so overpriced it's not even funny. Save your money and by the dvd version. Another issue that I have with this is that there are no deleted scenes. There were a handfull of performances that were left out of this dvd including footage from Boston Garden and Madison Square Garden.

Limitless has it's limits, but highly pushes them. The plot of this movie is simple. A man takes pills that unlocks 80% of his brain that regular humans don't use. To me, it's a very catchy plot, because who doesn't want that? The story picks up right off the bat, and for the first 30 minutes or so, it moves quite nicely. However, it fall into a slump for about 40 minutes, where, to tell the truth, I was bored out of my mind, and was thinking about shutting it off. However, it redeems itself with an entertaining chase through the park, and a house robbery. All in all, it was "OK". 3 stars is good enough for this film

Border Wars? Border Wars? - drugs in every corner , not only in the border , in your city , don't look or will be the next. You don't need turn on your tv on the news to watch the war , because , war are here! Who kill more people in a day : drugs or a F18 ?

first B+ movie Must say was pleasantly surprised, good story, a few unanswered questions. (spoiler alert) I do think that the uncle had gone through it 600x because of the pancake comment in the first scene and last. First time I have enjoyed a B rated movie, with a little better fx (only one or two that were kinda ehh) and a few big names, this couldve been another Independence day hit.

Much maligned attempt to reboot Doctor Who entertaining primarily due to McGann's performance A cat has nine lives Doctor Who has many more and in many more fascinating variations. "Doctor Who: The Movie" was an attempt to revive the BBC TV franchise for both American and British audiences after the series run out of steam in the 1980's. While flawed with a script that tries to do too much (be a pilot for those who don't know the series, Americanize the story/character a bit and craft an entertaining TV movies that long time fans could also enjoy)and features enough plot holes for the Tardis to fly through, "Doctor Who: The Movie" succeeds because of the charming performance of Paul McGann. It's too bad this pilot didn't get picked up because McGann is marvelous (although he has quite a bit different interpretation compared to his predecessors)in the role and I have the feeling the series would have improved.  While transporting the remains of his nemesis The Master, the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) crashes his sabotaged Tardis in San Francisco in 1999. Shot as he leaves the Tardis, The Doctor ends up in the hospital where Dr. Grace Holloway (Daphne Ashbrook)tries to save his life causing the Doctor to regenerate (Paul McGann). The Master takes over the body of a paramedic (Eric Roberts)with a new goal--to take the Doctor's body because that's the only way he can survive.  Watch for a very clever reference to Tom Baker's Doctor.  While not the best Doctor Who movie I've seen, it's far from the worst and a marketed improvement over some of the ones that aired when Sylvester McCoy or Colin Baker "inhabited" the role in the 1980's. That said, you'll either like the film and be willing to over look the flawed script by Matthew Vaughn ("The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones", "The Emperor's New Groove)the direction is fairly solid by Geoffrey Sax ("White Noise")keeping the story moving along at a nice pace. The main flaw here is that the Doctor who does quite a bit of detecting in the show does little here primarily running around.  The digital visual effects look dated but otherwise the production values (particularly for the redesigned interior of the Tardis)look quite nice (the TV film had a budget of $5 million MUCH bigger than anything the original series ever had).  The DVD transfer looks good although it comes with some problems; the darker scenes tend to bury detail in murkiness but colors looks quite good.  Audio sounds terrific with a nice, robust stereo mix.  The special features will wow most fans. We get visual effects reels produced prior, we also get a featurette "The Seven Year Hitch" (titled because of the seven year hiatus until the TV movie)with producer Phillip Seagal detailing his efforts to "regenerate" The Doctor.  "The Doctor's Strange Love" focuses on how the TV movie has caught on with some members of the Who audience. "The Wilderness Years" details the books written that kept the character of The Doctor alive while the show was on hiatus for a decade. We also get "Tomorrow's Times" which focuses on the press coverage when McGann was announced as the new Doctor.  Two commentary tracks one with the director (which has long period of silence)and one featuring actors McCoy and McGann are both interesting--the latter is quite lively. Nicholas Briggs moderates the discussion and trio play well of each other.  Although "Doctor Who: The Movie" isn't perfect it IS entertaining and features a charismatic performance by McGann (who really should have been considered for another chance to play the Doctor or at least a cameo in the rebooted series for a regeneration sequence).  I'd suggest Whovians give it a chance. Is it a great TV movie? No but it IS entertaining and even in its cheesy moments it's fun.

A Lot of Action But Pretty Implausible There was lots of action in this movie but the plot had some pretty implausible parts that made it difficult to suspend disbelief.

Clean cut kids movie but cheesy The acting in this movie is something to be desired-to say the least!  My young kids enjoyed this movie and got a few laughs out of it.  My son says he "liked the movie and thought it was good".  It is about a boy who has to leave his awesome dog behind when he moves.  The dog finds his way to the boys new place where dogs are not allowed.  The boy is then kidnapped and as he is being put in a crate to be shipped to Mexico the police come an rescue him.  The dog is deamed a hero by NYC and everyone is happy.  My husband and I thought it was so cheesey that it was funny.  I gave it an OK rating because the kids truely enjoyed it.

Nothing above average.... Is it just me, or are they just not making any above average movies anymore? I usually like anything dealing with the supernatural, but this movie was just a bit too slow for me, and the plot was such that I really didn't get into any of the characters. If you have the time and nothing else to do, it won't bore you to death, and it does have a couple of really excellent actors in it. I was just hoping for more of a storyline and more intensity with the plot and the roles of the characters in the movie.

Disk quality Love the movie--however the disk quality was not good.  Kept freezing up on me, even after I cleaned the disk.  Didn't have problems with the other dvd's I played so am assuming there is a disk problem

some discs were damaged Love the series and most of the discs were great. Season 4 had a bunch of damaged discs and some from season 5 were improperly coded and some of the episodes would not play.

Standard thriller with good performances Christopher Lee is barely in it, but Jeffery Dean Morgan and Hilary Swank do a fine job as a creepy voyeur who wants to have her after he drugs her wine and she is asleep, and poor Hilary is a doc who cannot even get to work on time because of the drugs in her system that keep her sleeping through her alarm.  Lots of creepiness abounds in the huge apartment she lives in, with the creepy guy nearby all the time.

Solid, but not Spectacular Not a bad film at all, really, but one that I feel was somewhat overrated amidst all the hype and hoopla that it received during the 2010 Oscar push - a fact, I suspect, that was due more to the film's timely topic of unemployment and economic strife than anything else. And yet the script, for all of its timeliness, really doesn't break any new ground plot-wise (it's another middle-age man in crisis set-up) or pry much below the surface of its characters and scenario. But at least the direction is reasonably assured, and the acting is fairly solid. Clooney's performance, while not quite on par with his turn in "Michael Clayton," is another in his increasingly solid body of work. Vera Farmiga is just fine, even if her character is a tad underdeveloped. The real scene-stealer here, however, is Anna Kendrick, who practically walks away with the show as Clooney's young prot&eacute;g&eacute;. Despite my lukewarm reaction to the pic as a whole, there are a few very memorable scenes. The sequence in which a series of employees are fired is pretty dead-on in it awfulness; and another, more muted scene between Clooney and the sisters that he hasn't seen in years is quietly devastating.

A perfectly serviceable little horror flick A perfectly serviceable little horror flick. Great graphic for the posters and DVD covers though, with the red light through the elevator door creating an inverted cross image.

redeemed only by the fact that it is so bad it is funny I vaguely remember seeing this as a kid.  It is about a small band of humans, whose scientific knowledge has allowed them to survive an invasion by a single robotic beast.  The beast falls for the teenage girl, betrays his monsterhood, and gets zapped before the earth is completely destroyed (oh, and there are dinosaurs running about as the ground splits open).  Everything - actors, effects, plot - are so ridiculously bad that this is for anyone's collection of the truly awful yet funny.  I found this on youtube, and would not recommend buying it, but my son and I had some really great laughs watching it together.

Action over substance The first couple Terminator films are easily two of the greatest sci-fi/action flicks in history. The problem with the third one, more than anything else, was that it was largely just more of the same; and you can only recycle the same plot so many times before it gets stale. This explains the filmmaker's decision to set the fouth installment in the post-apocalyptic future where the machine-controlled Skynet is at war with the surviving humans, otherwise known as The Resistance.  A few characters from the previous films are featured: An older John Conner (Christian Bale), his dad -- Kyle Reese (Anton Yelchin) -- who's actually just a teenager here (such are the complexities of time travel) and the T-800 Schwarzenegger Terminator (CGI, of course). Beyond these we get some new characters, the best being Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), followed by Blair Williams (Moon Bloodgood). Also on hand is Conner's babe Kate (Bryce Dallas Howard), a mute girl named Star and Helena Bonham Carter, who's somehow hooked up with Skynet.  On the surface everything is of the highest filmmaking caliber. The problem is there's not enough character development or intriguing respites. So what we end up with is a plot that's merely an excuse to string together a bunch of cool post-apocalyptic action sequences with people who are constantly grim, shouting and killing, people we neither know nor care about. It's like putting on an extreme metal cd that's full of hyper drumming, buzzsaw riffing & screeching/grunting vocals from beginning to end. It's simply too much. There are no valleys to contrast the over-the-top highs and so it cops a samey-sounding, dull vibe. In other words, the very energy and excitement meant to impress & move the consumer backfire due to extreme overkill. That's why they call it "overKILL." It's a curious thing but all too true.  Be that as it may, there are enough worthwhile elements to give the film 3/5 Stars.  - Marcus Wright is an intriguing protagonist who thinks there's no good in him until Blair informs him otherwise. - At about the 45-minute mark there's a good campfire scene in the desert between Marcus and Blair sharing a brief warm moment in a world gone mad. If the film contained more scenes like this it would have been more effective. - There's a decent revelation in the second hour concerning one of the main characters. - Bryce Dallas Howard has a very uniquely beautiful face. She also has better curves now that she's older. (Would I even be mentioning inconsequential stuff like this if the movie were engrossing?) - There are a some interesting ruminations about the nature of being a human and being a machine, or both.  Bottom line: If you love action you'll get it here -- there are motorcycle-bots, fish-bots, giant-bots, flying-bots, Schwarzenegger-bots -- all trying to terminate the protagonists. Yet, strangely, none of the myriad actions sequences rival the ultra-thrilling ones in the previous three films and it's difficult to discern why beyond the reasons already cited.  The first two films successfully captivate the viewer from the get-go and the suspense builds to avalanche proportions. Even the third installment accomplished this to a lesser degree, although the plot was old-hat by that point (2003); still, it was a decent entry. "Terminator Salvation," on the other hand, fails to ever truly captivate and instead opts for wall-to-wall action, creating dull overkill. That's too bad, but it has it's moments; it's thankfully not as bad as "The Mummy Returns" in this regard. Not to mention it'll likely play better on repeat viewings in light of the convoluted plot.  The theatrical release runs 115 minutes and the director's cut 118 minutes. The film was shot in New Mexico.  Here's how I grade each of the Terminator outings:  T1: A+ T2: A+ T3: B+ T4: C

Memories A cool little trip down memory lane. I remember seeing these during the Rocky n Bullwinkle show as a kid so bought them for nostalgic reasons.  They are not as funny or entertaining as I remember... but still a cool little piece for my cartoon collection.  If you have little ones... they would probably get a kick out of them too.

Good Is it a great film? No. Is it a fun film? Yes. Is it worth seeing? Yes. Is Cage good in it? Maybe, because little acting chops are needed. Then, again, that's the point of satire, to show that little effort is needed in mimicking the crap that passes for quality, in most instances. The DVD, put out by First Look Studios, shows the film in a 1.85:1 aspect ratio, and there are only a few DVD features. An audio commentary is not among them. This is a shame, for with a good prompter, Herzog is amongst the best film commentarians going. What we do get are two trailers for the film, photos from the shoot, by Herzog's wife, and a slapped together `Making Of' documentary that is not really a documentary, just captured footage. Peter Zeitlinger's cinematography is as good as it's always been, in these such films. The musical scoring, by Herzog and Mark Isham, is also good, and quite feral and raw. The focus on odd bits, such as breakdancing ghosts of dead mobsters, invisible iguanas on coffee tables, snakes that slither through flooded prisons, and an alligator that eyes its run over and dying mate from its own eye level, are just some of the odd views the film gives. Even the actors, in minor roles, don't really act, they just are, and become as iconographically symbolic as the animals.    Yet, the film has power, because, as Serpico showed, there are few things more `real' in film than cops who abuse their power. Yes, Cage's Terry becomes almost clown-like, but the things he does are done every day, in every major police force, all around the world. The Blue Wall Of Silence protects the scumbags. Terry's is the Type 1 corrupt cop. They are up to 5 % of all cops. Type 2 is the cop who does not commit brazenly illegal acts, but writes false tickets to meet quotas, harasses drivers, and takes bribes (in the form of money or female's phone numbers) to drop charges against them. They are up to 80 % of the police force. Type 3 is the most prevalent corruption, and they are the 99+% of cops who look the other way at Types 1 and 2. (obviously there's overlap between the three types) So, claims that the film is not realistic are wrong; it's merely stylized realism. And, the film it actually shares the most, thematically, with is Curtis Hanson's 1997 masterpiece, L.A. Confidential, which also focuses on corrupt cops and an execution in a home. But Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call: New Orleans really has only one kinship, and that's with the many oddball films in Herzog's own canon. My guess is that fictive masterpieces like he did in the first two decades of his career, are simply beyond Herzog now, and that the best we can get, not unlike Woody Allen, are flashes of brilliance, and the occasional mesmerizing small documentary. Good enough for most filmmakers, but coming from Herzog, it's hard to put aside the notion that his career could have been even more, could have transfigured the medium to an even greater degree. Nonetheless, films like this will suffice, just as they will entertain and dog the viewer with a mind demanding more than just the Hollywood formulae of yore. See it, and move somewards from your self. Watching Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call: New Orleans, is there any reason not to?

Really a very flat and preachy film... overrated. Corruption of the New York City police is actually a subject I'm quite interested in as I lived there for many years and had many unpleasant encounters with the NYPD. It is widely known that  unprofessionalism and lax ethics runs rampant to this day throughout the force, and it is readily apparent in the way they treat ordinary citizens on the street to say nothing about protestors, minorities, or at times even elected officials.  The best parts of Serpico do a fine job of portraying the subtle and not-so-subtle pushing and prodding, the hazing that goes underway with cops. But Pacino chose to play this part as something of the antithesis of Michael Corleone and I actually found his character rather uncompelling. He kind of does this compromised "staring of into the distance" thing with his acting (a man caught in the middle) throughout the film, and then gets annoyed in a couple of scenes. The real Frank Serpico has a nasally, annoying voice and Pacino incorporated this into his character -- but the whole thing comes across as kind of half-baked and even corny -- he's the hepcat hiPpiE cOp. You can tell that everyone at the studio and behind the scenes played up this angle to the extreme. Only it just sits on the surface.  So tonally the film is very preachy and way overlong, shot in a kind of docudrama style that has message written all over it. Although Lumet was known for his "gritty" style, I have always found it workmanlike. I never got the feel for the energy of New York street of the early 70s from Serpico, nor much of the inspiration for the lead character wanting to be a cop in the first place. This is a "man in the middle" film that is so enamored with its theme of urban corruption it just never hits its stride. Serpico does deserve some credit for exposing the despicable behavior of many NYPD cops and its culture, but apparently the book is much better than the film.

AWKWARD and INAPPROPRIATE but yeah, funny. Okay first...opening scene WHAT THE HECK...really gross and horrible and my MOM almost made me shut the whole movie off for that. We even wanted to shut it off after that. But we'd paid for it and it took forever to download so we kept on. BUT REALLY? What the beep were you thinking with that? I boo the director for trying to be all shock value and then for making us unable to even like the main character for just being gross... really... ugh. You are lucky to even be having 3 stars for this one, but some of it was darn funny so we had to give you a little. Also lucky you picked cute messed up kids and yeah...we love the main character... so the bad stars aren't about him or his acting, it's about the REALLY dumb choice the director made on that opening. What else to say. Not a first pick.DEF not ever going to see it twice. BLAH yuk... Close your eyes and ears for the first few minutes and you might like it? Gak... going to rub soap on my eyes again... blah it was worse than 50 Shades of OH NO YOU DID NOT.

"If we don't strike, it's only a matter of time before we both lose" Shoot, I've been having a lot of bad luck in picking up these direct-to-video thrillers, thinking they're action movies. "Chaos Factor" here is the latest one of these mistakes of mine, but by now I've had enough practice to make the most of this kind of flick, and the film kind of helped me out with one or two tidbits that appealed to me personally. It's better than I thought this kind of film could be as a DTV production, but it's still not fantastic. Could've used more action, y'know.  The story: Army Intelligence Officer Jack Pynt (Antonio Sabato, Jr., <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767818024">The Big Hit</a>) seeks to expose murder and war crimes perpetrated by a corrupt officer (Fred Ward, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0783226837">Tremors</a>) during the Vietnam War.  If you like movies filled with righteous indignation, this one's for you. I don't know if there's any factual basis for the story of the film, but the very real history of obsessive soldiers and the proliferation of crimes against humanity during Vietnam doesn't make it hard to believe that setups like this have happened. It sort of feels like an earlier Steven Seagal film in that sense, with a bit less nonsense. The overall soundness of the writing and the acting helps: Antonio Sabato's not a fantastic performer, but Fred Ward's more than acceptable as a villain and he has R. Lee Ermey (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000P0J09C">Full Metal Jacket</a>) helping him out for the first half of the picture, giving the film some legitimate dramatic worth. With that said, the script can't help but indulge in a few unaccounted-for clich&eacute;s, like a from-out-of-nowhere mandatory make-out scene.  One half of the participants of this scene is stuntwoman/lifetime bit-player Susie Park, and the biggest mistake the movie makes is not utilizing her more. Though she dominates the cover of the most recent DVD release, she doesn't make an appearance in the film until after the first 40 minutes and then disappears again for another half-hour. Now, my impression of her might be unbalanced due to the fact that the film doesn't offer up a plethora of martial arts action otherwise, but I was pretty blown away by her initial scene, wherein she - playing a Chinese undercover agent - flees a hospital and takes out half-a-dozen henchmen in the process. Choreographed by Simon Rhee (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002O7XUE">Best of the Best</a>), she's got surprisingly good kicks and is obviously doing all her own stunts, including one where she leaps a landing and lands in a cart. I can't believe she hasn't done any other starring work. There's a couple of decent car chases and a surprisingly tense scene wherein Antonio disarms a mine, but Susie's the highlight of this otherwise thrills-over-action type of movie.  The production quality is pretty good. Impressively, there's even a scene involving fighter jets which doesn't seem to be made of stock footage - pretty unheard of in low-budget movies. Another person could easily rate this movie higher than me, but I guess I'm just missing more of that cool hand-to-hand stuff Susie brought to the picture. Fans of Antonio and post-Vietnam flicks can definitely do worse, but action devotees like me should, overall, look in other places for their kicks.

Not as Bad as I Had Been Led to Believe "Priest" is actually a fun little movie, just make sure your expectations aren't too high. I've heard nothing but bad things about "Priest", so was prepared to bail if I lost interest. "Priest" managed to keep my attention, and I enjoyed it for what it was. I'm not familiar with the source material, so have nothing to compare it to, and fans of the comic seem to be where most of the complaints come from.  The story is set in the distant future after a war between vampires and man have nearly destoryed the planet. With the help of a warrior clan known as "priests", man has defeated the vampires who now must reside on reservations. When a settler family is attacked and their young daughter taken by a rogue vampire, a Priest breaking the current laws, sets out to destory the vampire and save the girl. As the Priest makes his way into the Badlands, he meets up with a sheriff and an exiled priest who will help him on his quest.  While the F/X are CGI heavy, they are done well. The eyeless vampires are definately creepy. And while there are touches of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001RJTFP4">Blade</a>, the Priest doesn't come off as a superhero or invincible, which adds a bit of an edge to the story. I liked the post-apocalyptic setting too, it slmost had a "Dark Tower" feel to it.  "Priest" does tend to drag in parts, and I think a slicker, trimmed up version of the film would've done much better. The storyline almost calls for a faster pace. I think the problem with "Priest" isn't really what it is, but what it could've been.

I love the movie, but no sound.... love the movie like I said but it would have been was sound, I tried everything, changed the menu settings, checked all my plugs... nothing, unless I got the only defective one or all of them are the same, it did give me subtitles, but still no sound... so buy at your own risk... The first Defective product I ever got from Amazon.

&iquest;Y los subt&iacute;tulos en Espa&ntilde;ol? Es una gran pel&iacute;cula que merec&iacute;a ser pasada a Bluray. La inclusi&oacute;n de un libro con fotograf&iacute;as e informaci&oacute;n adicional sobre los actores y el rodaje lo convierte en un material m&aacute;s que necesario para quien disfrute de las pel&iacute;culas b&eacute;licas. Para el consumidor de habla hispana es muy negativo la omisi&oacute;n de los subt&iacute;tulos en espa&ntilde;ol. Si bien est&aacute; doblado al idioma ib&eacute;rico, s&oacute;lo se puede escuchar con sonido estereo 2.0. Para escucharlo en ingl&eacute;s 5.0 s&oacute;lo da la alternativa de subt&iacute;tulos en Ingl&eacute;s o Canton&eacute;s. Un fallo tremendo.

Mixed bag I liked this film even tho hard to follow at times.  Requires a lot of concentration.  It is not always easy to keep track of who is on what side, etc.  Even so, it was interesting and at times riveting.

It's OK but the book is much better! I liked this movie but I loved the book so I was really disappointed with this movie. There was so much left out, mainly the ending, in the book Arya was forced to shatter the Star Sapphire. That helped Eragon defeat Durza (can you tell I love the books?) but it was left out of the movie. It's no wonder there won't be a sequel. I'll just have to read the books again.

NOT FOR A 3 YEAR OLD Took my three year old son to the movies to see this one. It was his first time at a movie theater and wanted to leave half way through. I think he liked the first one better. Cars 2 is pretty much a spy movie and I feel like it's not a movie for a young child. I feel like it is too violent. They have bombs strapped to mater, the cars are shooting at each other and say lines like, I'm gonna kill McQueen at the finish line. I won't be buying is DVD for my son. Surprised at Disney that they would come out with a violent movie.

Not handled with Care. I was shocked when I received the product and found that the case was broken in several places and the disk was smugged and scratched in several places.  Luckily the movie still plays.

Great Movie DISMAL sound mix Imagine scenes where the actors speak in whispers and there is at the same time music playing. The music is loud enough where its impossible to clearly hear the dialog. This happens for MOST of the movie. Its a shame because the bits I could make out made for a good movie. This is the one and ONLY movie I have witnessed where this is occuring through out the movie. I am amazed that this was produced THIS way. Im sure the actors involved were furious with that result in the final product.

the red tails this movie was ok. I wss expecting more action and less documentary. However the movie does provide great insight into one of the annuals of black history

About "women" more than mothers and daughters I have seen this twice.  It is an enjoyable story about women, who happen to have children.  I wouldn't say it is specifically about mothers and daughters....as there are themes of addiction, cheating, and adolescence going on too.  A good chick flick for sure.

sound quality is poor. A good story, fair acting, some good parts, but the sound quality was terrible. Some of it we couldn't even understand. Worth watching once if you can understand the dialogue.

Muppets Take Manhattan "Muppets Take Manhattan" is another entertaining outing for the characters, although not quite as much fun as the first feature. The DVD provides moderately good audio/video, but nothing much in the way of extra features. For the low $19.99 retail, the disc is still worth a look.

A spooky movie based on the story by H.P. Lovecraft Being an old-timy movie (1970) the credits are up front so you know what kind of spooky actors are in the movie such as Sandra Dee.  Looks like it was the movie to be in at the time everyone that was anyone is in this movie some include Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley, and even Sam Jaffe. The film is accompanies by spooky (for 1970) music. Wait for it ... Producer is Roger Corman.  Wilbur Whateley (Dean Stockwell) not quite human has a yen for the Necronomicon and Nancy Wagner (Sandra Dee). PHD. Henry Armitage (Ed Begley) thinks there is something nefarious happening in Dunwich. Some say there is something more on the Whateley property.  Who will be the first to find out? Do not forget that curiosity kill the cat.  This presentation is to quite the Lovecraft's story but a good try.  "Look at me, I'm Sandra Dee, lousy with ..." Lyrics from Grease

Once more the book was soo much better than the show... There is a reason there was only one season of this... the folks who read the books didn't like it as much as the books. (and if I remember right they bounced all over as far as time slots went) I read the books... I loved them they got better as they went. (I never READ the first one... I bought the audio book... now THOSE are awesome... at least the ones produced by buzzy multimedia and read by James Marsters... once they changed narrators I quit spending my money on them)  If I'd found the TV series I probably would have liked it more. I didn't so... it's just okay. I hated the change in bob (though the actor was great) I think they could have still pulled off the spirit thing using an actor... instead of screwing up the whole "What is Bob"  and no Mister... &lt;sigh> Murphy I didn't care for.... all in all a lot of things I didn't like &lt;that I loved in the books> made for a I'll watch it when it's on but I'm not buying the DVD (now that the digital versions are soo cheap I MIGHT get them one day)

Underwhelming The effects are OK (especially that painting at the beginning), the young actors do well, and the characters are easy to like - including that little girl who reminds us that people we like don't have to be the pretty ones. The Eustace character was good, in his priggish and annoying way. We weren't supposed to like him (at first) and he made that easy for us, but he didn't have  that "I just want to slap him" feeling that Draco Malfoy projected so perfectly.  This was definitely aimed at kids, though. The moral lessons about temptation came across in a ham-handed way, and the references to Aslan's Kingdom seemed to mix their messages to the point of confusion.  Nice fantasy/adventure flick, unless your child is especially skittish, but the best kids' movies have a bit more in them for the grownups who buy the tickets.  -- wiredweird, reviewing the release to theaters

Fun movie, but a little dissappointed I love the Lorax as a kid (both the book and the original movie) and was eager to see the remake.  The movie was okay and my son enjoyed it, however it left a lot to be desired.  It just didn't have the magic feel the original did.  Way to much singing and politics.

Cardio rocks! I bought this along with Christi Taylor's Totally Cool Step after reading several reviews.  At first glance Seasun's doesn't seem too strenuous, but, now that I've worked out to both of them for a few weeks now I realize I'm going to have to work my way up to Seasun.  She moves fast and changes moves without much warning so I'm going to have to get in better shape and memorize the combinations before I  can really enjoy this.  I'm glad I bought it.

A great production It is beautiful scenery. Like a Shakespeare drama. Anna was betrayed by her maid. They are both in love with the King Enrico VIII. The king is bored with Anna and wants to get rid of her. Along comes Percy. It is for the king the right opportunity to take action against them. Both are charged of adultery and are imprisoned. In the second part of the opera the maid wants to plead for forgiveness. They sing a beautiful duet. In the end Anna falls in a delusion and thinks of the younger Percy she had known in her youth. The aria of Anna is the best part in the opera. She gets executed with Percy, her brother and Smeton. The opera had beautiful actors. Ildebrando D'Arcangelo plays the king, Anna Netrebko plays the queen, and Elina Garanca plays the maid. The brilliant voice in this opera is Elina Garanca. She had this clear high unique voice you know from her recordings. The other both voices are dominated by a dark voice not so often seen by them. Anna Netrebko had some highlights but Ildebrando D'Arcangelo is very disappointing. His voice is dark like he had a cold.

So-so Agatha Christie "Love From a Stranger" is a seldom seen 1930's thriller based On Agatha Christie' short story "Philomel Cottage".  A young woman (Ann Harding) wins a lottery and impulsively marries a suave, mysterious stranger (Basil Rathbone).  As time passes she becomes convinced that he married her for her money and is planning to kill her.  One interesting aspect of the movie is the presence of a very young Joan Hickson, who went on to play Miss Marple decades later in the series on PBS.  In this one she plays a simpleminded maid.  Somewhat reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock's later film "Suspicion", this is a fairly entertaining movie.  The acting ranges from stilted (Harding and most of the rest of the cast) to outrageously over the top (Rathbone).  The picture quality is very poor, with everything washed out.  Perhaps this is due to the age of the movie or a poor transfer to DVD.  The writing is okay.  The film does achieve a certain amount of suspense toward the end, although it is somewhat lessened by Rathbone's hammy performance.  This is a film I have wanted to see for a long time.  Unfortunately it didn't live up to my expectations.  Still, it's worth a viewing for Agatha Christie fans.

Decent Film I'd say this is a pretty solid, introspective film.  It is NOT the film for someone looking for light sci-fi action or science horror; there are elements of action and horror, but there are also long periods of little movement.  Much of the story is really more of a psychological drama.  It starts off fairly slowly, but picks up radically near the end.  As the description indicates, this is the story of a small group of people on a mission to save the world against odds that are not impossibly, but very high.  Even the smallest error could spell failure, and failure means the extinction of all life on Earth. No pressure.  The storyline picks up right before an unexpected find; the Icarus II locates a beacon from the long-lost Icarus I (and if there is ever a sign that your trip to the sun might not work out all that well, the fact that the name of the ship is the ICARUS would be it; I mean, really?).  Decisions have to be made and things start to fall apart.  What I liked: -The storyline was intriguing and made me think. -The actors were well cast and did a fantastic job, particularly Murphy and Evans. -The special effects of the Icarus itself were great, particularly the long-distance views of Icarus and the sun.  Thinks that were well done, but not to my taste: -The movie maintains a very tense astmosphere the whole time, even before things start to go wrong.  I would have preferred to have some lighter moments, particularly toward the beginning when they were still setting up the story line. Jokes among the crew, them relaxing together, that sort of thing.  Instead, even the 'relaxation' scenes tend to be very heavy and loaded. -The action effects are very flashy.  There is a lot of camera blur and pictures randomly popping up for a fraction of a second, and jumping from one scene to another, and I'm only glad I didn't watch it in the theater because it would have given me a massive headache.  What I didn't like: -The story starts after they've already been on the mission, just 8 people in a relatively small space for 16 months; and yet they come across as mere acquaintances.  16 months with just 8 people.  Come on, friendships should have formed by now, somebody should be having an affair, someone's getting a little too close to Icarus (the AI)--something should be going on other than just a group of acquaintances going about their individual lives.  All I really saw was some mild-to-moderate dislike and equally mild attraction between a few of the characters.  In a setting like this, the relationships between the characters SHOULD have been a major part of the plot, but it only seemed to touch on them lightly. Don't get me wrong, I think the individual characters were well-written; they all had distinct personalities.  I just think the character dynamics were rushed, like important parts of the story were edited out.  It made the story feel cold, even when it should have been hot. -There was a villain (as indicated in the previews), but they introduced him too late in the movie to have much impact, and gave very little of his background.  He was scary, but also very random.  Honestly, I think the movie would have been better if they left him out all together and focused more on the other characters.

My Peacenik Friends Would Disown Me for This I feel kind of guilty for liking this movie. Sure, I'm a John Wayne fan, and a David Janssen, Jack Soo and George Takei fan. And I generally like stories about heroes, even war stories if they're not just "war is hell" stories. But this one has several disturbing aspects, not the least of which was having been warned away from it when it was in the theaters.  John Wayne plays Colonel Tough-As-Nails, his usual role. David Janssen is the skeptical newspaper reporter who goads the Colonel into taking him along to the combat zone by asking if he's afraid he'll see things he shouldn't see out there. What is sees, among other things, is the incredible brutality of the Viet Cong.  OK, so far so good. But there's also the problem of being able to tell your friends from your enemies, especially when they discover that the VC unaccountably know what they are doing all the time.  There's a little orphan boy who is made the mascot of the base, and sleeps in the bunk with his favorite soldier -- sure couldn't do that in a film today.  Also, there's the necessity of stealing supplies from other bases when they need something. Wayne brought along a sergeant who is expert at that for the purpose.  But the most disturbing part of all is an undercover operation, in both senses of the word. Jack Soo plays a Vietnamese colonel who works with Wayne. His sister-in-law is a beautiful singer in Danang. She knows one of the top North Vietnamese generals, who has been trying to get her into bed for a long time. So she agrees to go with him to his country home, setting a trap for him with the Green Berets. Of course she is putting herself in terrible danger in the process. Somehow, the whole operation seems a bit unsporting, you know? Particularly since all the North Vietnamese soldiers who were doing guard duty for the general's love nest are killed. I know, worse things than that can be justified in a war, but it just seemed cold, especially when Soo points out that she will be disgraced when the story gets out.  Oh, yes; and the little boy's favorite soldier just had to be killed. The script utterly required it. Otherwise, he'd have to take the kid home and adopt him.

Reference audio & video, ok story If you have a chance to watch this on a high quality home theater setup I definitely recommend it, because the focus and money for this production clearly went into the visual and audio design. I actually rented this on a whim without really knowing anything about it. It didn't take long for the very striking visual style to start reminding me of The Fall and The Cell, both of which were of course helmed by Tarsem Singh. I thought the movie was totally gorgeous to behold visually; beautiful and precipitous landscapes and other settings abound. Many scenes have a fairly static but impressive background with characters moving through it almost like figures moving through a painting. The sonics are also made for showing off your subwoofer, and if you like to rattle the furniture this movie will do it quite often. From a vicarious thrill standpoint, it's definitely a lot of fun.  The story isn't great but isn't bad, mythological inaccuracies aside. The cast and performances are pretty credible overall. I'd compare it in that way to Avatar, which was just a serviceable story but was so compelling visually that it was still a very worthwhile movie to watch/experience.

Good movie but different enemy, different Jack Ryan, almost a different story. A downed Israeli jet carrying a nuclear bomb creates a suspenseful and catastrophic disaster 29 years later.  The bomb is found damaged but the fissionable material can be reformed into a new weapon.  A radical Neo-Nazi gets his hands on the old bomb and plans to remake the world.  Jack Ryan (Ben Affleck) and William Cabot the CIA Director (Morgan Freeman) are in Russia inspecting the Russian nuclear munitions facilities to assure that the bombs are being decommissioned per the STARK treaty.  Jack thinks it is odd that three Russian scientists are not at the facilities during the inspection.  The ones that are missing are just the guys you would want to have if you wanted to build a nuclear bomb.  Ryan and Cabot are invited to the Kremlin to meet the new president Alexander Nemerov who has taken over after the death of the former president of a heart attack.  The meeting is tense.  The USA is nervous over the new Russian President and his aggressive military policies.  He even allows a chemical attack to be launched against the people in Chechnya.  Meanwhile a stray nuclear bomb in the wrong hands might just provide the catalyst to start a full blown nuclear war.....  I liked this movie for entertainment but I have to say that I am a real fan of Tom Clancy and I did not like how the great and intense story was changed to match the cast selected and the whim of Hollywood to be politically correct.  So much was changed that it could have almost been a different story regarding the antagonist in the book versus the movie.  One of the key aspects that made the movie good was the tremendous performance of Morgan Freeman who was spectacular as the CIA Director.  Ben Affleck also does a good job in the movie but the role he played was a bit over the top in the end of the movie.  Since I expected the movie to be like the book I read and enjoyed I lowered the rating of the movie.  If I hadn't read the book or been such a fan of Tom Clancy, I would have rated the movie higher.  I thought the movie was action filled and intense but it is like when you expect something to happen and it turns out totally different from your expectations.  Different enemy, different Jack Ryan, almost a different story.  If you want to watch a good movie then this one is good, if you want to watch a movie with Jack Ryan like in the book, then they should have kept Harrison Ford in the story and left the storyline like the book.

As much as I wanted to completely hate this movie. I didn't. I feel terrible about myself. But I didn't completely hate this movie. I even cared what happened in the end. Annoying.

Not good enough, despite the strong ratings by others I'm apparently among the minority of viewers who found this movie watchable, but not great.  True, the risk of Donny Brasco getting caught maintained a tension which kept me engaged with the movie.  But otherwise there was very little development of the characters, the circumstances of essentially every character were bleakly depressing with no detectable bright side, and the bits of violence in the movie had a tacked-on quality which doesn't do justice to the brutality of the mafia.  Frankly, I found this movie somewhat boring, despite being a fan of this genre.  If you want to see how it should be done, watch The Sopranos, The Godfather, etc.  By comparison, this was amateurish.  Though I wouldn't say the two hours I spent on this movie were completely wasted, there are certainly many better movies I could have watched ...

You know, this movie isn't as all that terrible as nearly everyone is saying I just recently picked up "The Mummy" Trilogy on Blu-Ray.  I barely remember the first two films but I do remember that I thought that they were pretty good.  And after reading all those negative reviews of the third film, this "Tomb of The Dragon Emperor", I decided to watch it first before I watch the more popular two.  And, I'd have to say that it's not so terrible.  As it's own film, it's just as good as any Indiana Jones film, in fact, I think this one film is better than Indiana Jone's Last Crusade and especially the last Indiana Jones film of "Kingdom of The Crystal Skull" since this theme seems to be rather similar.  So, I'm glad I watched this episode of "The Mummy" first, because I haven't allowed my opinion to be tainted by expecting a plausible extension of the appeal of the first two.  I'll wait a week or so, then I'll watch the first two with unperceived, unbiased, un-predetermined, expectations.

There is too many unanswered "?" in the storyline :( "Close to Leo" should have been titled "Close to Marcel". Then the title would have had more to do with the story. Marcel is the youngest of four brothers. The oldest one, Leo, finds out that he has AIDS. And in that moment appears very first "?" in that storyline. Is it really AIDS or HIV? Leo is 21. It is hard to believe that AIDS managed to develop to such degree that he will die. I tried to understand the reasons behind Leo's actions, but I just wasn't able. There is too many unclear parts in this story. Why did he visit his ex-boyfriend? Why did he throw away the pills? Why didn't he want to start the treatment? And so on. Instead of focusing on Leo's plot, the director decides to set his magnifying glass on the youngest Marcel...Which is not bad, but didn't help the viewer understand the choices that are made by Leo.  The film is well played, for sure. But the storyline didn't meet my expectations.

Dark, Indeed No question that grizzled beaten-up Humphrey Bogart and a young coyly beautiful  Lauren Bacall heated up the 1940s screen, heated it up as much as two people could and keep their clothes on, in their first film pairing, William Faulkner's screenplay adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's To Have Or Have Not (only loosely based on that short novel by the way). They also played together in the Raymond Chandler Phillip Marlowe detective noir classic, The Big Sleep and in Key Largo. In this Dark Passage pairing though, while still in thrall with each other off-screen, the steam is fading, fading fast. But not, perhaps, because of their familiarity to movie-goers as much as the plot line they had to perform under.  Let me explain a little. Vincent Parry (played by Bogart) is in stir up at Quentin for the foul murder of his wife. But, see, like they all say, he didn't do it so he lams out of Q on his own to see if he can get out from under the life sentence he had received. So naturally when the cops are on his trail up shows Irene Jansen (played by Bacall) to help him out. Seems that, for reasons of her own, she followed Vincent's trial closely and is convinced that he might be innocent. So she hid him out at her place for a while until things got too hot. But getting out from under this life sentence is going to be harder than you would think. So while riding in a cab to another hide-out he is picked up by a friendly, very friendly cabbie who just happens to know  a back alley plastic surgeon who will change Vincent's face enough so that he can work without notoriety. Simple right.  Well the long and short of it is that while the facelift might have seemed like the answer to his problems everybody and their brother is on to him in the end. And as finding the  the real murderer. Well she inconveniently falls out the window of her high rise apartment. While Vincent is there trying to talk sense into her. So, knowing he can't win, new face and all, he lams it for parts south, way south.  So you can see what I mean by the awkwardness of the main plot line. And what makes said plot lines even worst is that Irene has a big crush on Vincent, under either old or new face. Except, and here is the real crime, we do not see either face until fairly late in the film and by then any sense of the magic of To Have Or Have Not or The Big Sleep has dissolved into the be-bop 1940s crime noir night. Too bad.

Israel Social Structure While I found this to be an interesting insight to Israel and some of the morays of Jewish life paradigms of which I was not aware, it is so specific in its scope that it excluded any empathy developing.  The religious fanaticism that was he foundation on which this perplexing father/son relationship was hung, made the nuances so specific to the Jewish culture that it excludes a lot of non Jews.  The same movie could have been made about Muslims with little change in the screen play.  I am sure that this movie is very moving to people who live in similar situations but for the rest "Death of a Salesman's" father figure may resonate more.  Good acting, good subject but disappointing theme choice.

Possible audio problem? I had gotten this bluray version for a friend of mine who adored this film.  He was so excited to get it.  When asking him how it looked he told me the picture looked awesome, the audio, to quote, "Left something to be desired.  I had to turn it up quite a bit to hear anything."  Is anyone else experiencing this?

That is an awful big sucker. The story takes place in a Florida swamp near Cape Canaveral where those atomic payloads keep falling. A swamp hunter comes back from the swamp with the tale of a strange creature that took four slugs from his mighty gun to dispatch. However he brings back no proof. That night wayward wife Liz (Yvette Vickers) just happens to be wandering around in the swamp when she spots is very same hunter that appears to have been leehcie- aided. Even though the Hunter really never touched a wayward wife the local authorities don't believe in giant leeches so they attributed his death to misadventure. It is not until several other people seem to be disappearing under the same mysterious circumstances that the authorities are finally starting to get curious.  Fat slob Dave (Bruno VeSota) catches his wife Liz on the very edge of the swamp fooling around with his best friend Cal (Michael Emmet). So Dave scares them off into the swamp with a shotgun. And you guessed it. They too become leehcie- aided.  Against the advice of the local game warden (Ken Clark) the local Doc Greyson (Tyler McVey) decides to use dynamite to sort this out. What will he find?  Mean time through the whole movie Liz Walker (Yvette Vickers) keeps hanging around near the leeches and you just know she needs to be eaten or at least sucked.  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006II54">The Killer Shrews</a>

Illogical and fragmented conflict failed to connect the flow of events Each bundle of the sequences of events was entertaining and capturing of the viewers' imagination. Yet, transitioning along the flow of events was painful as the dialogue that narrates the main conflict was boring and and illogical. Thus the richness of action and variation of scenery failed to convey the sense of comfort in grasping the underling causes of the conflict. On one side, there was a heavenly and unreal world with it characters, rules, and interests that occupies alternating phases of the sequence of events. On the other side, there was the earthly and real world of people and their daily living affairs. Somehow, the story links the two worlds in a vague and boring manner. The Green Lantern chose a man for unforeseen qualities to replace a dying heavenly disciple, one of the few who were designated to protect the universe.  The Green Lantern will endow magical powers on the chosen man. Up to here, I lost any interest in the main conflict yet enjoyed the fragmented animations and scenery. There must have been better ideas than making an object predict the fate of the universe and there must have been a better way to depict a heavenly universe that makes sense other than putting heads of old people on talking lollypops.

not the worst but not the best Although the theatrical version of this film is very creepy and disturbing, it is arguably the worst in the series.  The story has too many plot holes and the idea of Thorn was stupid!  There is by far more gore in this movie than any other Halloween movie(except for the remake.)  Some major plot holes include not telling how Jamie had the baby, and the "Man in Black" having some kind of ceremony for Thorn and then later on in the movie it was practically ignored that he was ever associated with Thorn.  Director Joe Chappelle cut out 90% of Donald Pleasence's scenes which was stupid.  Loomis went from having a half hour's worth of time in the movie to five minutes worth.  The acting is decent.  Paul Rudd is a little over the top at times and Marianne Haigen is good until the chase scenes.  Her screams are just so fake when she is being chased by Michael.  I've seen the producers cut and although it's story is more complete, the theatrical cut is much creepier.  The theatrical cut's kills are much better and the last third of the movie with the operating room in the hospital is far creepier than the cult scenes in the producer's cut.  So, I can understand why Joe Chappelle wanted to reshoot half the movie, but some of the cut scenes are critical to the story.  So, if you're a big time fan of Halloween or horror in general, get this film, but if you only want the best of the best in horror, skip over this one.  It won't affect H20's(Halloween 7)story at all seeing as how this movie's presence was ignored in H20.

It's just alright.. I saw this movie last night.  I was slighty entertained but there wasn't anything really noteworthy about the film. It wasn't scary at all, but I did enjoy seeing Daniel Radcliffe in a different setting.  I thought he did a good job! The atmosphere and scenery were also done well.

Entertaining for diehard Mr Show fans, but everyone else will hate it I was a huge fan of Mr Show before seeing this movie for the first time. Despite my loyalty to the show, I wasn't very impressed with the movie. There are some good laughs, but the movie feels very disjointed and is actually kind of boring at times. Mr Show fans are likely to find the movie mildly entertaining, but I think everyone else will absolutely hate it.

Shaun of the Insects! Mrs B keeps throwing weird, wonderful and downright atrocious horror films at me and the latest in the collection is Infestation. More a horror/black comedy, Infestation takes a group of ordinary people and pitches them against a swarm of giant bugs that work their way through a town effortlessly. It sounds silly and awful but my reservations aside is it any good?  The film opens quickly with lazy office worker Cooper (Chris Marquette) having a meeting with his manager Maureen (Deborah Geffner) and being told he is fired for his poor conduct and lack of work. No sooner has Cooper received the news than a strange noise sounds throughout the office, causing everyone to cover their ears. Cooper wakes to find everyone in the office has been cocooned and giant bugs have taken over the town imprisoning everyone they catch in the same manner. Cooper releases his colleagues and joins with a small group to engage in a slice of survival horror.  It's clear early on that Infestation is not a film to take seriously. Cooper is rather amusing, laidback and maladjusted in the office environment as well as being hopeless at romance. Cooper is joined by his manager's daughter, Sara (Brooke Nevin), and an inevitable romance develops beginning with the traditional arguments before mutual affection begins. Cooper and Sara are joined by Albert (Wesley Thompson), Hugo (E. Quincy Sloan) and Cindy (Kinsey Packard) as they leave the office and make their way through town, fighting off any bugs that attack them.  Not only do these bugs cocoon their victims they also sting them as well causing a transformation into hybrids of people and insects. Watching Infestation it felt a bit like Shaun of the Dead but with insects but that isn't necessarily a bad thing, right? The film gets a lot more amusing when Sara is abducted by the insects and taken to a giant nest, leaving Cooper to lead the rest of the group to his father's house. Ethan (Ray Wise) is better equipped for the insect threat than most people in the town, donning military gear and being hell-bent on neutralising the threat, though when we first meet him he's more concerned about finding the family dog! Eventually we're led to a final showdown in the insects' nest and of course there is a giant queen laying all the eggs though we don't get any explanation as to how this nest started and where these giant insects have come from. It's one of those films where you just have to go along with it and ask few questions.  Infestation is a very silly film and the effects are not the best you'll ever see. In the early stages I didn't think I was going to enjoy it but as it progressed it became more entertaining in its absurdity. As long as you're not expecting a masterpiece and don't want your brain working hard then this is worth considering for a laugh and it boasts an intriguing ending which leaves the story unresolved and surely open to a sequel.  Infestation is a ludicrous but amusing film full of giant bugs and desperate locals who prove very resourceful when faced with threats that can't be dealt with by a can of bug spray. The film's tagline "Global Swarming!" left me rolling my eyes but by the end I felt although Infestation wasn't a classic it also wasn't a bad film and if you want a couple of laughs then this should suit.

Haven't I seen this story before? This movie has more than a few passing resemblances to Disney's Beauty and the Beast. The ending is almost identical. One thing it doesn't share is the music. The songs here are bland and forgettable. And what's with those oversized eyes? They were a bit creepy. Not a horrible movie, but Disney seem to be getting a little lazy with their material.

Too Bad Busby Berkley Was Not the Director Fairly boring big budget MGM biopic............Powell as always is great, and seeing Fanny Brice was very interesting............the musical numbers needed better direction, and the story really dragged.  Hard to believe this won best picture when so many other great films were made that year.

Amazing for a $25,000 indie film In one of the first major indie films to skip a theatrical release and prove that online and video-on-demand (VOD) distribution can work, Actor/Director Edward Burns recently brought us Nice Guy Johnny (2010). Made for $25,000 according to Burns, and with a production crew of three people, Burns being one of them, Nice Guy Johnny is an impressive all-digital effort by one of the brightest young filmmakers to buck the studio system. Ironically enough, Burns made his first feature film The Brothers McMullen (1995) for the exact same amount of money 15 years earlier. It was this film, shot on repackaged 16mm film stock, that started Burns' career. It's exciting to see him go back to his indie roots now that he's made a name for himself. I have enormous respect for Burns as an Actor, a Filmmaker, and a person. Even if I don't always think his work is the best.  Nice Guy Johnny is the story of a young guy, played by newly minted actor Matt Bush, whose been following his dream career as a sports talk radio show host. But he made a promise to his fiance years ago that he would leave that career behind and get a "real" job if it didn't start paying well when he turned 25. Now he's 25, about to get married, and he's still stuck in a middle-of-the-night time slot for his radio show, with little income to show for it. But he absolutely loves his job. And he doesn't really want to leave it behind for a dull job working at a cardboard box manufacturer on the East Coast, provided by his fiance's father. Being the dutiful "nice guy" that Johnny is though, he travels back to the east coast to interview for the job anyways. While he's there, he visits his Uncle Terry, played by Ed Burns, who questions his choice of getting married and quitting his job. Uncle Terry seems to know that Johnny isn't going to "win" by getting married to a woman who doesn't want him to be who he is. Against Johnny's vehement objects, Terry decides to set Johnny up with a girl that will appreciate him for who he is and what he does, seemingly to give Johnny a taste of something else so he has a more balanced outlook on life and his decisions. Kerry Bish&eacute; plays the girl that Johnny is tempted with.  Shot on the Red Digital Cinema camera and edited using Apple's Final Cut Pro, Nice Guy Johnny looks good. I watched the film on DVD through Netflix ironically, instead of by streaming or video on demand. It wasn't as good of a presentation as the High Def trailer looks, but it was still decent. The cinematography in the film is better than average and I felt like Burns and his cameraman did a good job of lighting and shooting the picture. I think the film "suffers" for not having a larger crew to finesse the details of camera work and filmmaking, but when I remind myself that 3 people made this for $25,000, I'm very impressed with the results. What more could be done given those circumstances? I probably shouldn't compare this small indie film to a $30 Million Hollywood studio film. But I think most people just watch a film and compare it to all the other films they watch and make a judgment simply based on what they see and hear and not on what it cost to make or how it was made. Or at least that's the general way I look at movies as a cinephile. I see all films as equal in terms of the possibility for me watching them or loving them. At the end of the day, it's an experience you go for a short ride on, and it works or it doesn't.  Overall, I give Nice Guy Johnny 3 stars out of 5. The story was interesting and told pretty well with the cast of actors that Burns chose. The editing led by Janet Gaynor was solid with good pacing. The movie moved along well and kept me engaged. If this is the future of Indie films, I think there's a bright future ahead! While Nice Guy Johnny isn't landing in my top 5 films of 2010, it was a worthy film experience and I think it sets the foundation for more creative work to come at a similar production level. If more filmmakers can learn how to tell their stories at this level, just imagine how many more possibilities for great films there can be! You could make 80 Nice Guy Johnny's for the cost of one Winter's Bone (2010). Or 1,500 films compared to one The Social Network (2010), a film also shot on the Red camera. Granted...quality always trumps quantity in my mind. But I think you get my point. The more opportunities for work from filmmakers, the more opportunities for great films. Especially films we can watch at home or on the internet instead of in the theater. There's a new demand for a new type of film venue. I can't wait to see what Burns does next!

;0) Good concept but presentation was not wel executed. It's about a guy who loses his girlfriend is already feeling depress, he then gets a package with a virtual game and now he is trapped I. The game and needs to finish the game to come out alive. As I said concept is not bad but graphics and presentation could have been wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy better this was made in 2004 that's no excuse for bad graphics

Cheesy but actually enjoyable Lots of people hate this movie and bemoan how bad the adaptation was. I've played a few Street Fighter games (for the SNES) so I could see the differences, but they didn't really bother me. Maybe it's because I'm not a die-hard SF fan, or maybe because I know that movie adaptations can never be exactly the same as their sources. Raul Julia (Gomez Addams from the Addams Family movies) does a decent job as M. Bison, you can see that he actually enjoyed playing his role. The film is campy and cheesy in parts, but if you don't hold too high expectations and just sit back and relax, you can actually enjoy this film.

Illogical Moving story but illogical. All that gun play and never, not once, a policeman in sight.  Evidently, in Tel-Aviv you can kill people at will and never get caught or even tracked.  No one calls the police; even the airport security is absent.  So, as long as you can accept this, the acting was superb.

Not current, uses nunchuk... I have the three EA programs. The first used a nunchuk and cord and was cumbersome. The second EA2 was much improved with the arm and leg band. No more whipping yourself with the cord as you exercised. I thought the "More Games" was for the most recent. It too, uses the nunchuk and cord... Though I have used it a few times the old technology is a bummer. Also when the batteries fade on the Wii fitness board it offers "replace batteries or de activate board". When you  deactivate you lose the rest of the exercise and it moves to the next one (losing the intended time for your total work out).

Upstairs, Downstairs How is it the 40th anniversary collection of this Masterpiece classic does not have subtitles for the hearing-impaired? This show deserves a 6 star rating, but the subtitles are MISSING.

Get What You Pay For Well, I love this story, its very classic and I was excited about getting it. The movie arrived fast in great condition, but it seems as if someone took it off of the vhs version and put it on DVD. There were no previews, the picture quality was ok. But since this movie was about $6 to $8 what can I expect. I got what I paid for!

Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead This movie is ok. I watched it finally on one of my fifty pack movie collections. The movie has a solid plot and the movie takes a few turns. I knew all along that at the end of the movie The Bat, the killer, would be the police detective. I was surprised that the Vincent Price character, the doctor, was killed in the film. I liked the black gloves that the killer wore which resembled menacing claws. At the end of the movie I wasn't sure if Agnes Moorhead, the writer, was using the incidents that just happened for a book or if perhaps the whole thing had been a book played out on screen the entire time. I don't recall Agnes Moorehead ever sitting down and going into thought or anything. So it seems likely that the murders and the mystery of The Bat really happened. So does this mean that Agnes Moorehead, the movie's mystery writer was stealing from real life at the end of the movie? The movie didn't seem to be as clever as it wanted to be but it wasn't a bad movie at all. If you have nothing better to do than to sit in front of the tube to kill some time then pop this movie in if you happen to have it in a fifty movie, more or less, pack.

Thru a pair of lens darkly I have read and enjoyed all the Potter books. I appreciate the way that Rowling's had the People  grow and mature..I never thought that the films followed the Books that closely..something with the same genesis but a different Exdos.  The latter films are very dark.. both in theme/ execution and in presentation.. i had to turn off the lights and cover over the on light on my player to see some of the scenes!!  It is hard of not impossible to translate some things from books to film.. but given that  the film maker do a good job of presenting a watchable and entertaining film.

Did not fulfill expectations Even though there are a number of spectacular flight scenes, the DVD doe s not really satisfy because it is for large parts making propaganda for other DVD's and their producers

Great dancing, lame storytelling Although the dancing is wonderful, the storytelling of this famous fairy tale leaves much to be desired. In the first act, set onboard a ship, The Poet mourns the loss of his friend, who is getting married, not dying. The Poet falls overboard from the ship into a sea of memories. The Little Mermaid becomes the embodiment of his love for The Friend. Meanwhile, onboard another ship, The Prince hits a golf ball overboard and dives in after it. A storm ensues and The Little Mermaid rescues him. The Poet recognizes his friend in the character of The Prince. The Grandmother agrees to give The Little Mermaid legs, so she can pursue The Prince, but in the end, The Prince marries The Princess and no one lives happily ever after.  It took a full reading of the liner notes and several viewings to figure out the plot. The dancing is the only reason to watch this video. Such a shame John Neumeier chose to weight the story with Hans Christen Anderson's rumored homosexual desires, instead of focusing on the love of The Little Meraid for The Prince. The music by Lera Auerbach is full of melancholy and tends toward the angsty, not anything you would want to listen to without the dancing.

Life Sucks, Change it. Diablo cody had written another fine script after "Juno" supported by the assured direction of Jason Reitman and a superb Charliz Theron.  Using a pass-her-prime former highschool beauty hitting career dud in Mini-Apple, returning to her small home town face-off with her past life as a vehicle, the story tells a lot about life, choices made, destiny and human fragility.  Charliz Theron has firmly established herself as a solid character actor.

Unearthed from where? Another disappointment form the After Dark Horrorfest series.  They're not all bad but this is one of the not so great ones.  I wouldn't even classify this as a horror flick.  Not a keeper.

Too much dependence on a sub par poem. Liam Neeson is a bad ass. But even he can only make a shoddy poem go so far. Wolves and Alaska also make this exciting.

Hybrid crime/prison drama Invisible Stripes is a 1939 Warner Brothers black and white crime drama about the difficulties of going straight after serving time in prison. George Raft stars as the ex-con and Humphrey Bogart is the unrepentant gangster. A young William Holden plays Raft's brother and Jane Bryan plays Holden's girlfriend. The film was based on the novel of the same name by Lewis Lawes (1883-1947), a prison warden and an active proponent of prison reform. Lawes' most famous book was "20,000 Years In Sing Sing".  George Raft (1901-80) is best known for his gangster roles in films like "Scarface" (1932), "Each Dawn I Die" (1939) and "Some Like it Hot" (1959), but he was far more versatile and in many of his films he played a dancer or a musician ("Winner Take All",  "Bolero", "Limehouse Blues") or his role was primarily comedic ("Night after Night", "Every Night at Eight").  Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957) usually played second fiddle to Edward G. Robinson ("Kid Galahad", "Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse") and James Cagney ("The Roaring Twenties", "The Oklahoma Kid", "Angels with Dirty Faces", "Dead End"), and here he gets to play second fiddle to George Raft, listed fourth in the credits. Only two years later, in 1941 he starred in "High Sierra" and "The Maltese Falcon" and he became a big name star, eventually surpassing all other Warner stars in 1943 on the tail of his performance in "Casablanca".  To Bogart's good fortune, George Raft had turned down the leading roles in "High Sierra" and "The Maltese Falcon".  William Holden (1918-81) was a terrific actor, with such memorable performances as writer Joe Gillis in "Sunset Blvd" (1950), Sergeant Sefton in "Stalag 17" (1953), Lt. Brubaker in "The Bridges at Toko-Ri" (1954), Hal Carter in "Picnic" (1955), Shears in "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1967), Max Schumacher in "Network" (1976) and my personal favorite, Bishop Pike in "The Wild Bunch" (1969). He won the Oscar for "Stalag 17" and was nominated for "Network" and "Sunset Blvd". He won an Emmy for "The Blue Knight" (1973) and was nominated for a Golden Laurel every year from 1958 through 1964. Photoplay named him most popular male star in 1954 and 1955. AFI named him the 25th greatest screen legend. Here is 1939 we see him in his second film, and quite frankly, he shows little of the abilities which helped him rise to movie stardom.  Jane Bryan (1918-2009) was another Warner contract player who gave good performances in films like "Kid Galahad" (1937), "A Slight Case of Murder" (1938), and "Each Dawn I Die" (1939). She married millionaire Justin Dart in 1939 and retired from films.  Flora Robson (1902-1984) appears as Raft's mother, even though she was 7 years younger. She appeared in more than 50 films and was nominated for an Oscar for her role in "Saratoga Trunk" (1945).  Robson appeared in regal roles in films like "The Sea Hawk" (1940), "Elizabeth and Essex" (1939) and in "Fire Over England" (1937).  Also look for such gangster film regulars as Paul Kelly, Marc Lawrence and even Leo Gorcey.  Lloyd Bacon (1889-1955) directs. Bacon directed more than 100 films between 1922 and 1954, the most famous of which are "42nd Street" (1933), "A Slight Case of Murder" (1938), "Brother Orchid" (1940), and "Footsteps in the Dark" (1941). He was typically not known for any style, but as a working director who could make a film within budget and time constraints. In this one he moves the action along briskly.  If you like 30s crime dramas, you may be disappointed as there is little of the panache of the major gangster films of the era. If you're a fan of the prison films of the 30s ("Big House", I Was a Fugitive from a Chain Gang", "20,000 Years In Sing Sing") you may also be disappointed as there is not much about prison life per se. This is really a story about the problems an ex con faces trying to adjust, but with Raft and Bogart it is more of a hybrid crime drama.

Criterion Blu-ray for fanatics only - image is less than pristine This review is not about the movie itself, which is a classic and belongs in the library of anyone who loves film.  I'm writing for those who already have one of the Warner Bros editions and are wondering if you should upgrade to this one.  IMO, unless you're an absolute fanatic about the movie and want to explore the plentiful special features, I say no.  Why?  Because it simply doesn't look as good as you'd expect from a remastered Blu-ray edition.  Criterion tells us this transfer is the best they could do with the elements available, and there's no reason to doubt this.  It's just that these elements aren't great.  The film is full of scratches, dirt and a ton of cinch marks at the beginning and end of reels, and there wasn't enough money to spend for the labor and computer time that fixing these aberrations would require.  In many shots, the focus is soft.  So although the Blu-ray looks better than the standard editions, it doesn't look THAT much better.  The best of the remastered Blu-ray classics have set the bar pretty high for what I expect when I purchase them (such as Treasure of the Sierra Madre and The Adventures of Robin Hood), and this one isn't close.  If you're on the fence, rent it before you buy it.  I'm sorry I didn't.  If you do buy it, lower your expectations and you'll certainly enjoy it more than I did.

California Screamin' Battle: LA is about what you would expect from a big action spectacle that wasn't quite good enough (at least to the money hungry studios) to make the summer movie season cut. In some ways it's even better than a handful of the supposed blockbusters of the last couple of years.  From basically the start of the film we are thrown right into the action. Aliens have come to Earth and want our water. Wow, how original. There isn't much time for character development here, but Aaron Eckhart does the best with the limited material. Michelle Rodriguez is underused and given nothing more than a few cheesy lines.  The CGI is far from jaw dropping, but it doesn't look too fake and the less is more approach serves it well. The aliens themselves are a little on the boring side, mainly because their weaponary and fighting styles are almost identical to our own. The shaky cam is once again overused. It would have worked in moderation in order to put the viewer inside the action, but it became increasingly annoying. The dialogue is eye rolling inducing in spots and the emotional parts were on the typical and sometimes corny side, but overall Battle: LA is worth checking out for it's realistic approach.  I saw the terrible Skyline in late 2010, and it is even a more laughably bad Sci-Fi invasion movie when compared to this one. The Syfy channel also released their ultra so bad it's hilarious version, Battle: Los Angelos (can your title be any more similar?) this weekend. At least the latter of the two is intentionally horrid.

Actually better than the first I hated the first High School Musical. It was childish and amateurish. The sequel is actually somewhat better. The plot is a bit more fun and funny. The music is better and more entertaining. The sets and acting are all better. Ashley Tisdale is much better as the leading female character than Gabriella was and brings a lot more emotional intensity to the film. Overall, High School Musical 2 is like the first one, but taken a notch or two up. I'm still not crazy about it, but I'm sure anybody who liked the first one will love this one.

LOVE IS NEVER HAVING TO ROB FENWAY A group of thugs from Charlestown, Boston, Mass. rob a bank. They take the bank manager (Rebecca Hall) along with them. They take her license and leave her by the ocean, only to find out she lives 4 blocks away. Ben Affleck, the brains of the group, stalks her to find out what she knows. He starts to date her and falls in love, or at least a Charlestown version of love, he buys her dinner, they have sex and he gets her a necklace. The relationship was not well developed due to the bad writing of Affleck who was more concerned about his scene shots than giving us a believable script. Ben and his boys rob more places. The FBI knows everyone in the gang who committed the crimes and start to close in to a final climatic scene.  Not Affleck's best role. Never write, direct and star in the same movie. Sex, F-bombs, no nudity. This movie was referenced by the GOP to describe their relationship to the Tea Party with Affleck being the GOP and the Tea Party being his psycho killer friend...and the Tea Party liked the analogy.(Don't shoot me, I'm just the messenger.)

I didn't get this on here, BUT...I should have! It IS the same exact thng, exact package and everything. I just got done watching the first movie. I was very upset! I just bought a blu ray player today and i got this to go along with it so its the VERY FIRST BLU RAY I HAVE EVER SEEN and i was shocked! At first because i was wowed by the clarity and then after 10 minutes in the movie I noticed static/grainy parts. I thought it was a bad connection first but, NOPE. i rewound it to check it was a glitch or something but, NOPE AGAIN! it was the blu ray itself. I was wowed again at HOW CRAPPY the quality had gotten and also made me more pissed was that i paid $45 for this, not the price offered here. Regardless, i like this trilogy and hope that the other 2 discs are flawless and have no grain but i will find THAT out tomorrow. Also, there was no 2nd disc with my "movie set" just the same as everyone is complaining about. (Disc 1 and no disc 2 included) Especially for the price i paid, i knew i had to write a review. I hope my choice to buy a blu ray player is well worth it and I SERIOUSLY HOPE all other movies I watch on blu ray are NOT dissapointments like i experianced today!

Great acting -  too much time on her latter years. I think that the acting was great.  Many of the scenes were difficult to follow.  Too much was made of her latter years to the point that I could not follow the "time machine" dramatics. I am glad that Amazon had this in stock.

Did NOT live up to expectations!!!! When I first heard that there was finally a sequel to the original Boondock Saints I could not have been more excited!! That was one of the most thrilling, fun, humorous, and insightful movies I have ever seen. But the sequel.... The ending to the first gave the impression that they would continue on as the vengeful voice of the people who are fed up with crime bosses getting away with anything. Only to find out in the sequel that they RAN AWAY right after that public spectacle of vigilantism?? It made no sense! There were a LOT of things that just reminded me of the first movie only not as well done (the idiotic side kick, the FBI agent ally, the moronic Boston cops). The only thing I think this movie stayed true to is the relationship between the brothers. Their loyalty and affection for each other above all is remarkable. Also, their constant bickering which causes problems for the characters generally leads to huge laughs for the audience. Another thing I couldn't help but notice was that Sean Patrick Flanery has not aged well. Each time they gave him full face shot I couldn't help but think of the Santa Claus movie where Tim Allen gets puffy cheeks and a beard to become Santa- SPF looked like he was undergoing the same change! Yes, I understand people change as they age but Norman Reedus didn't seem to have the same problem. I do not know the process of how this second Boondock Saints movie came about but I think they could've done without! The first movie was perfect. The sequel kinda ruins the mythology a bit. And although I thought it was very interesting to learn how their family got started on their path I do think they spent WAY too much time on the back story. I will watch my rental one more time to try and like this movie but I sincerely doubt this will ever make it into my movie collection.

Slow, plodding drama about a flawed character Meh... I can't honestly say I found any of this movie gripping. Certainly nothing we haven't seen before... the political apparatus of National Socialism begins to form and our hapless character isn't so much ensnared as he is weakly-willing to participate and enjoy the fruits and benefits. He abandons all around him, friends and family alike and then attempts to somewhat redeem himself towards the end by making a safe, but ultimately half-hearted attempt to undo the damage...  The acting may be well done and Viggo certainly ain't no slouch in this regard, but I didn't get this movie... and when it ended the way it did, I can't say I was terribly surprised. Grateful perhaps that this odd little story was finally over.  In a world where a criminal endeavor on the scale of the 1930's German Nazi movement is even possible, it's good for movies to explore every angle of the human condition. There will always be stories about WWII and they certainly need not all be about action, adventure, daredevil heroes, explosives and the huddled masses. This movie tries to show how an Everyman can be intellectually seduced by such a movement...  ... but for me it ultimately fails because that man is shown here to abandon all that he purports to hold dear, for seemingly no other reason than the lunatics in charge asked him to do so. So he makes the requisite journey from orphan to wanderer to warrior and then martyr... but the middle two stages lack motivation and so make the last stage seem pandering and derivative.

just could have been better Good action, good cgi, but the story was really bad and needed much more to go on rather than just a premise of an alien attack and the old guys save the day.... Bleh

A film that could have been wonderful but ended up a mixed-bag Not having read the novel, I cannot make a comparison of Francis Lawrence's film of Water For Elephants to Sara Gruen's best-selling novel, so any comments I make are solely relating to the film.  This is a film that could have been wonderful. You can see it in moments where it truly transports you to a different place and time, to a different world - the golden age circus - whose very existence was dependent on allure and illusion.  The thing is, they're only moments, and they are just not enough of them to sustain the movie, even with the sweetly evocative score by James Newton Howard.  To first give you the general plot, in Depression-era American of 1931, Jacob (Robert Pattinson) is a student of veterinary medicine whose life is thrown for a loop by family tragedy on the very day of his final exams. Left suddenly adrift, he ends up by a turn of fate getting a job with a traveling circus as a vet for their menagerie of exotic animals.  The circus is owned and run by the charismatic but volatile and abusive August (Christoph Waltz), whose star attraction is his beautiful equestrian/wife Marlena (Reese Witherspoon). A romantic triangle develops which leads to inevitable tragedy.  The two biggest problems, for me, were Francis Lawrence's mechanical direction and Robert Pattinson's one-note acting (and his pointless and emotionless narration that hangs over the film like a suffocating miasma).  Whoever chose Lawrence to direct this film should be shot, particularly given that his prior experience as a director consists of a handful of music videos, the atrociously bad Constantine (2005) and the awful remake of I Am Legend (2007).  His direction is mechanical and consists largely of trying to keep the camera focused on Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon as if desperate to capture even a tiny spark of chemistry between the two, of which there is sadly none. As for Pattinson, the man is passivity personified and his one-facial-expression presence is a leaden drag throughout the film.  And it's made all the worse by the presence of people in the film who actually _can_ act and by contrast only highlight his limitations.  Christoph Waltz, on the other hand, is brilliant as August, the mercurial and tyrannical ringmaster/owner of the circus Pattinson's Jacob falls in with. Waltz almost doesn't even _need_ dialogue; with the slightest shift in his expression, he communicates volumes in an instant.  Reese Witherspoon is sympathetic as his wife and star performer, Marlena, but while she sparkles like a circus spangle in the air, she never quite seems comfortable in her role on the ground, in no small part because most of her scenes are with Pattinson where she has to try and convince the audience that she's attracted to the blandly stupid look he always seems to have on his face.  The supporting cast is quite good, with particularly moving performances by Jim Norton as the aging alcoholic roustabout Camel who befriends Jacob, and Mark Povinelli as the dwarf clown Kinko ("My real name is Walter"), in many ways one of the most intriguing characters in the movie which I suspect must come from having had a greater role in the original novel.  But in many ways the heart of the movie is really Rosie, the elephant that the circus picks up and who becomes the catalyst for the events that drive the story towards its tragic climax.  One scene in particular sticks in my mind that exemplifies both the moments of grace and beauty that make the film soar and the problem that keeps dragging it back down again. In the scene, Rosie is tethered by a chain to a stake in the ground inside a tent, and a short distance away is a pink lemonade vendor's cart. As Jacob watches, Rosie uses her trunk to pull the stake out of the ground, allowing her to walk over to the cart, get herself a trunkful of pink lemonade, and then return to her original tethering spot, replacing the stake back into the ground, then proceding to look completely innocent ("Someone drank the lemonade? Don't look at me. I was staked here the entire time."). Showing in that one instance not only more intelligence and personality but more initiative than Pattinson's excrutiatingly passive Jacob displays in the entire movie.  Another good aspect of the movie are the bits where it immerses you in what circus life was like for the performers and the crews, how they lived, how they worked, the social strata that existed within the circus and the differences in status dictated by the roles you played. One of the best scenes is where the circus arrives in a new town and you watch as it disembarks from the train and townspeople come to watch the crews unloading the gear and assembling the big top in a bare field, a show in and of itself. I also liked the way they showed a matinee performance where the sunlight lit up the canvas inside the tent, something most people never get to see these days when most circuses perform in enclosed stadiums or arenas. The movie also gives you a good feel for the kinds of problems a traveling circus faced, particularly during the Depression, when animals had to be fed and a circus that couldn't get to the next town was finished, its bones left to be scavenged over by other surviving circuses.  Recommended for anyone who loves all things circus and can put up with the parts where Pattinson drags the film down, and anyone who wants to see another mesmerizing performance by Christoph Waltz (if only to erase the memory of his previous one in the truly awful adaptation of The Green Hornet).

Bleh We wanted to like this movie because it's hard to go wrong with zombie action.  This movie went wrong.  Too much talkey, too little shootey.  Also I like my heroes tough and mean, not mean and mean.  Frank was a meanie and I didn't like watching him.  Not an awful movie but not so great.

The Book Was Better I was so super disappointed in this movie - then again I was disappointed with The Da Vinci Code as well. It's not the acting or the directing or anything - in fact it was great to see all of the scenary in Italy. HOWEVER if you are a purest of the book you won't be satisfied with this movie. The plot is changed in so many different ways I was disgusted. I understand that the movie can't incorporate everything the book does -but do we have to change the ending??? My sister says I am too harsh because the movie does as much justice as a book turned movie can - I just expect more I suppose! Enjoy - it is good on alot of levels - the book was just WAY BETTER!

An OK movie <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004B3PBFQ">Case 39</a> This movie is not worth buying for your collection. The preview makes it sounds great, but it's not, rent it or wait until it comes on cable TV to watch it.

Decent If Not Outstanding Film about Adventure and Friendship Inspired by the Roman Ninth Legion's mysterious disappearance in the year 120 AD (which served as a loose basis for Neil Marshall-directed "Centurion" starring Michael Fassbender), "The Eagle" follows the story of a young Roman soldier Marcus Flavius Aquila (Channing Tatum), who intends to restore his family's dignity by recovering the lost golden eagle standard. To do so, Marcus enters deep into the forbidden territories with a British slave Esca (Jamie Bell), whose life he saved.  Based on a Rosemary Sutcliff book "The Eagle of the Ninth" published in 1954, "The Eagle" is a story of war as well as friendship. The action sequences with brutal close combat fighting are expertly handled without relying on computer graphics, and the story of Marcus and Esca is fairly credible. Director Kevin Macdonald ("Last King of Scotland"), however, fails to infuse life into other characters including Guern played by Mark Strong, a talented actor again wasted because of underwritten character.  One good thing about the film is that there is no romantic subplot, a mistake that many historical adventure films have committed. "The Eagle" (shot in Scotland and Hungary) also benefits from the photography of Anthony Dod Mantle ("Slumdog Millionaire") that captures the beauty and harshness of the nature.  Yes, photography is very good, and so is the storyline, but they are still not good enough to completely overwhelm the "been there done that" feeling we occasionally have, and Macdonald's rather uninspired direction in describing the hero's attempt to recover the family's honor.

Like a really intense 'Degrassi' episode I'm always a fan of any movies about gambling, so I was quick to check out 'The Odds.'  I was hoping for something along the lines of 'Rounders' or 'Boiler Room,' or at least that kind of tone.  I knew it wouldn't be of equal quality judging by the trailer, budget, and cast.  However, low-budget elements don't always mean low quality.  The story focuses on teenage gamblers & friends Desson (Tyler Johnston) and Barry (Calum Worthy).  After losing a bet on a shady wrestling match, Barry decides to take out his frustration on the hulking wrestler who threw the match.  Desson steps in to stop the fight, but they end up getting in trouble anyway.  Soon after, Desson discovers the dead body of Barry hanging in his garage.  Refusing to believe it was a suicide, Desson begins to investigate the death, thinking it was a murder connected to the world of illegal gambling they lived in.  The first thing viewers should know before they check out this movie is simple: It's Canadian.  That's not to make you consider its quality or anything, but just know that it's written by Canadians and starring Canadians.  I didn't know that for the first twenty or so minutes of the flick; so, when I saw people writing their money as "20$" and talking about senior year as "grade twelve," I found it a little weird.  Also, there's that level of "purity" that most Canadian movies have versus American ones, even when they're about illegal gambling rings and teenage murder.  Everyone's just about one level nicer than they should be (like calling a guy a "putz" when he insults your breast size, for example).  Regarding the technical aspects, the most important for a film like this is the script.  Specifically, the realism of the gambling.  Why?  Because the most devoted target audience for a film like this will be those who are involved in the world of gambling.  As someone who used to sneak into seedy underground poker games as a teen, I know what the world is really like.  I know how the games go, I know how the people are, etc.  For that, the film isn't too bad.  It's definitely better than some, but it really shows the inexperience and poor decision-making that a lot of young gamblers have.  The one characteristic that really was accurate: Young gamblers often screw up when cute girls are involved.  The true gambler still keeps his head even when there's a woman involved.  Unfortunately, one element of the script that really failed was the dialogue.  There were multiple times that dialogue was repeated awkwardly in the same scene.  Maybe that's how Canadian kids talk, but I've ever heard it like that on Degrassi (my only real experience with Canadian youth).  Other than the writing, the film isn't actually that bad on a technical level.  The acting had some good elements, namely Tyler Johnston as Desson who looked like a nerdy version of a young Tom Cruise, and some bad elements.  Luckily, writer/director Simon Davidson seemed to notice his weaknesses in the cast and the less talented actors had very little screentime.  As an overall film, even with the few benefits it has, it really never rises above mediocre.  Frankly, the main issue is that it doesn't get involved enough with the gambling aspect.  It doesn't really show the stressful situations that that kind of life shows.  While it could have been 'Brick' meets 'Rounders,' it ended up being more just an intense episode of 'Degrassi.'  Final Verdict: 6/10.  -AP3-

I shrugged too. I looked forward to seeing this movie for a long time, and I really wanted to like it.  I expected a movie totally enthralling, engaging, thrilling, etc., but by the end I just shrugged (in my mind at least) and wondered if there was going to be a part two (thankfully it looks like there will be).  Taylor Schilling was a great Dagny, just as I envisioned the Dagny character in the novel to be (OK, I envisioned a brunette and the movie made her a blonde, but that's really not that important.)  But somehow the other characters weren't real to me at all.  There didn't seem to be chemistry, intensity, or something.  I don't even know enough movie critic lingo to describe what didn't work about this movie, but there's a certain "there" that great movies have that wasn't there with this movie (make sense?).  Spoiler alert: To me the most memorable part of the movie was when Henry Reardon gave his wife a bracelet made out of the first pouring of Reardon Metal, and he was ridiculed by his wife and her friends for not giving her something conventional like a diamond.  I really felt for the guy.  So, my advice is to try to see the movie without incuring any additional out-of-pocket expense.  Or maybe wait until 2016 when the entire trilogy is available in the box set with extra features and you can watch the entire story wherever you are hiding after you "go Galt" and decide it's not worth being productive or creative anymore.

Nothing new or worth bragging about I heard some really rave reviews for this movie on Rottentomatoes.com and thought I would check it out on video. I've never cared much for Ben Affleck movies. I guess for Affleck this is a pretty good movie though. It seemed to me like he took the movie 'Heat' and 'The Departed', and rolled them into one. Only the whole is not greater than the sum of its parts.

The Goonies ( 25th Anniversry Edition ) Blu-ray The Packaging very exclusive .. you must own if the prices right dan the lowest. Transfer movie is average  not very good. Feature not much makes dispointed. if The lowest prices may be u can have this edition.

Like most movies the book is better. The story comes to life in the DVDs based on my conception from the book, however the book is better.  Still I'm happy to have watched the DVDs and my do so a second time.

For Kids Oh come on...5 stars???  The special effects were fantastic but it ends there. The script was definitely geared towards little kids, the acting was subpar and they tried too hard to be the hip movie (i.e. the kid dancing with the robot was just too much). I know some will disagree with me, but the kid's character in this movie was annoying.  If I was 10 again I probably would have enjoyed it more, but as an adult I was expecting much more out of it. Rent it first before buying.

Secrets Revealed As someone who knew very little about secret societies, which I guess is a testament to their secretive status, I found this documentary to be quite an eye-opener. If you have ever remotely wondered about secret societies, their place in history, the men who belong to them and the things they do that prompt them to maintain their secrecy and mystery then you will definitely find this film educational. Conspiracy theorists as well will revel in Gardiner's insightful view into the world of secret societies.

Need to be careful if you are a beginner... I danced for 20+ years and weight training was part of my routine.  I'm very surprised that we're supposed to place weights on the back of our necks for Good Mornings.  If you're a beginner or working out alone, this could be dangerous.  She should have modified it to holding the weight close to the chest instead.  She also worked the triceps at the very beginning, and it should be one of the last muscles to be worked on for upper body.  Most of the upper body exercises need the support of the triceps, so if you work it at the beginning, it will not give sufficient support for the other upper body exercises to come and you wind up with fatigue much sooner. Work bigger, then smaller. The other thing is the quad stretching where she pulls the leg in the back to the other side.  Not aligning the knee with the toes and the hips is an absolute no-no.  This is just the first circuit. She also encourages you to work out at least 5 times a week, which is ridiculous, because if you're working with weights, your muscles need 24-48 hours to recover.  I've been trying other dvds--warner, love, harper--as long as they incorporate weights and cardio, you're pretty much good to go. Personality is also part of the whole thing, but I'm just very surprised and somewhat disappointed with her lack of expertise or conscientiousness or whatever, compared to the others.

lighting budget a little low Basically I thought it was a OK Harry Potter movie but was disappointed by the lack of lighting. Much of the movie was filmed in poor dark lighting and it made it very difficult to watch the movie.

Cheesy but enjoyable In Texas somewhere, 2 teens have been reported missing as the local authorities are searching for them even Sheriff Jedd (Fred Graham) and mechanic Chase (Don Sullivan) are trying to find what was behind this until they discover the title beast who is a strange mutant creature of sorts.  An enjoyable in a cheap fashion horror flick that is your typical giant lizard on the run flick. The effects are extremely cheap as it's a rear-projected live Gila Monster at times including a puppet, the acting is corny and the story is kind of inane but there's a charm to it. Despite the slow pacing, this one whips up decent cheese and has became a great candidate as an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 which it deserved to be riffed.  Best seen on MST3K.

This film kinda has that forced, exaggerated, tear-pulling dullness of a love story like that you saw in the "Titanic" It starts off during a modern day moment of some old coot showing up at some currently struggling carnival venue that somehow has captured some young guys interest in where he came from and what kind of "blah-blah-blah" romance he had ages ago.  The scenes all look nice.  I generally love films that capture the past, especially films of the great depression era, but this story had no unique plot.  You have some circus owner who, first of all has a drinking problem, then has debts which makes him overly sinister in his daily intentions to make another buck, and who's married to a beautiful blonde, who meets the very narrator of this whole story, who after 80 years, still reminisces over the love of his past. She died eventually but, oh well.  I'll watch it again tomorrow.  No, actually, not tomorrow either. Hell, I don't think I'd ever watch this one again.  What's more, the "Titanic" bored me too.  It all looked nice, but it just wasn't that great of a story, and I usually like pending romances with cool backdrops and awesome scenery.  But, something's missing here, and I don't know what.

Think Slice & Dice With A Dab Of Psychological Thriller It's my own fault that I expected more from this movie. I chose it in a rush and based on only one review that said Bereavement is a psychological thriller. Had I researched even a little more I would have quickly learned that Bereavement is a slasher flick.  The movie has a scene in which a teacher very briefly touches on the age old nature versus nurture debate. That is about as psychological as the movie gets.  In the opening scene we meet Martin, a little boy abducted from his home at six years old. Flash forward five years and Martin is living with and witnessing the violent acts of a stab happy maniac. Oooohhhhh... Will Martin end up being a product of his genes (nature) or a product of his experiences (nurture)... The fact that this movie is a prequel is a huge clue.  Character development and plot are lacking, but hey, they really are not that important anyway to this movie. We learn enough about the individual characters to establish the reasons for their decisions (many, many stupid decisions). I was very grateful to not see any scenes in which women wearing high heels run from imminent homicide.  However, adolescent boys will be most grateful for the very generous helping of scenes featuring Alexandra Daddario as the beautiful, tight-tank-top wearing, young, busty heroine. Ms. Daddario was every bit as talented in this movie as she was in "Percy Jackson & The Olympians." (For what that's worth.) The other members of the cast were not as easily recognizable to me but performed every bit as well as Ms. Daddario. (Again, for what that's worth.)  If you are a big "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" fan, this movie has many of the same endearing qualities and much higher production values. Personally, I like a lot less blood and gore and more story, but I get that this is a horror film and know that it is right up the alleys of many members of a much younger demographic.  All in all, I didn't hate it.

A hairier film Reporter Jack Whittier (Dean Stockwell, excellent choice) is a favorite with the President (Biff McGuire) and his daughter. Taking a project in Budapest he gets one of those classic bites that never came near his Budapest. The President summons Jack back to become his press agent. Soon Jack sees pentagrams in every hand. He also finds he blacks out. Eventually he comes to realize he has a bad case of the munchies. He tries to confess but no one will listen; remember this is D.C.  You have to add this film to your wolfy collection.  Never know if this will become a classic or cult favorite.  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6305812144">Full Moon High [VHS</a>]

Didn't realize what I was getting I purchased this wanting to add it to my DVD collection, but I didn't realize what I was getting.  I didn't know what it meant when you purchase a DVD created for a region outside of your own country origin.  I live in the United States, which I have now learned is Region 1.  I no longer own an actual DVD player, so I use my computer to play DVDs.  Windows Media Player gives you the option to change your region 4 times, so I changed it in order to watch the DVD, and changed it back so I could continue to watch the rest of my DVDs.  I was a little unhappy when I realized that I can't really watch Mulan again without risking getting kicked out of region 1 so I could no longer view the rest of my DVDs.  Perhaps this is my own fault for not researching what I was getting before I purchased it, but now I know not to purchase DVDs for anything other than region 1.  In addition, it took several weeks for the DVD to ship to me here in the US which was a little annoying.  I think it came from China, but that amount of waiting for something as small as a DVD was a little ridiculous.  Lesson learned.

Suprisingly good Not a Bad film at all. a new and fresh cast was what made all the differnce seeing new faces in the movie scene through Chang and Vir Das. Anoushka sharma as always was a stunner playing her role well as did Shahid kapoor.

it was ok The picture was ok for a dvd but the spoken word was awful and I never have issues with spoken word on my system??????

Ho-hum! I found this sequel to be a bit silly, rather than funny. Mike Epps IS a funny guy, but it wasn't enough to carry the movie. The perfect word for this one is: "corny".

Weird If you want to be entertained by a weird, mind-bending, freakish horror flick that makes very little sense then this is a good film to watch. A waste of acting talent & money.

Good Movie for Family Good entertainment for family - good animation.  It's not the Puss 'n' Boots story that I grew up with, but it's entertaining.

Over-the-top melodramatic fun. &lt;strong>Five Star Final&lt;/strong> (Mervyn LeRoy, 1931)  If you're a fan of Edward G. Robinson's (and if you're not, you should be), you've gotta get your hands on this ridiculously over-the-top melodrama, made very early in Mervyn LeRoy's career and nominated for the best Picture Oscar in 1932 (it lost, and deservedly, to &lt;em>Grand Hotel&lt;/em>). Robinson plays Randall, the newly-installed editor of a New York tabloid who wants to turn the paper in a more traditional direction, so he assigns muckraker Vern Isipod (Boris Karloff) to the society pages. You can see where this could go wrong, and indeed it does, in record time, with Isipod attempting to dig up dirt on a socialite in order to prevent her upcoming society marriage--and in the process causing her family irreparable harm. There is much scenery-chewing from everyone involved, an insipid script delivered with great gusto by the cast, and that still-early-in-the-world-of-talkies overexpression rampant. It's ridiculous fun. ***

Ninth Gate - interesting if you dig deep One has to be a Roman Polanski fan to make this film really work - to be motivated to dig deep for meaning, etc. If not then it's simply a great video to watch on a rainy day in the absence of anything else.

So-so BD transfer I expected a little more from this transfer to BD. I know it's an aging flick, thus a catalog title, but it's also from Sony. Sony has a history of hit & miss BD transfers of catalog titles so this was a gamble. I doubt something like this will see a re-release so if you're switching your library over to BD as I am, you may as well pick this up, it probably won't look much better in the future.

I really wanted to like this movie, but... Summary:  Mary is a workaholic in the city who is drawn to the mountains where she grew up.  During a weekend visit, she rediscovers The Christmas Lodge where she spent many Christmases with her family growing up.  The place has now become run-down, and it is Mary's wish to help restore it to its former glory. In the process, she discovers that God has a very special plan for her life.  This is definitely a faith and family movie.  There should be more of this type genre as it has a willing audience.  I really wanted to like this movie, but I couldn't seem to "get over" some of its glaring faults.  First, Mary's mother is far older than her father, and even, elderly.  In fact, she would be much better paired with the grandfather. Mary's father is only middle-aged.  I couldn't get past that.  It bothered me!  Her mother, along with Mary's brothers and sister, were so underdeveloped that the movie fell flat.  Mary's mother had too little to say in her interactions and seemed unnatural in her role.  The brothers were just "there".  Surely, though, that is the difference between Hollywood actors who are paid millions and a low budget film with more than likely, "volunteer" actors. The lead actors:  Mary, her father, her grandfather, Jack and Charlene performed quite well, but it just wasn't enough to make this a 4 or 5-star movie.  Well, I hope that "they" don't give up.  I am a fan of family movies as well as a nice old-fashioned romance. The story itself was heartwarming and would read well as a novel.

Decent movie I bought this DVD because I'm interested in freediving, and the choices are pretty slim for that genre. The reviews made it sound well worth the risk, but I was a little disappointed. I don't think it's up there with The Big Blue. For one thing, the movie is very short (right about an hour), so it doesn't give it much time to develop. Some of the acting is very poor, and the freediving that is shown in the ocean is very limited. There is a little bit of interesting material on the sport, but I'm not sure that it's worth owning it.

Real life story fictionalised `All good things `is a story which would be a constant fodder for the tabloids and the likes of Nancy Grace. The story is about a rich boy, his problematic childhood and subsequent problems. It is also a murder mystery about the disappearance of his wife, whose whereabouts are still unknown almost thirty years after. Sanford Marks (Frank Langella) is a prominent real estate developer who owns several prime properties in NYC. He has two sons, one of them is David Marks (Ryan Gosling), who is expected to join the fathers business but is not interested in it. Damaged and devastated since he accidently witnessed his mothers' suicide many years ago, he seeks life away from the family wealth and finds it in the arms of Katie Marks (Kirsten Dunst). His father displeased eventually agrees to this match and the newlywed couple settles down in Vermont operating a small home goods store. Circumstances however force David to rejoin his father's business and this begins his downward spiral, resulting in the disappearance of his wife and his eventual life as a fugitive posing as a woman in Galveston, Texas. The movie is inspired from the real life story of Robert Durst and this is the films uniqueness. The real life events have been fictionalized and presented in a lively manner. All the actors are top notch, Ryan Gosling excels in another unconventional role and Frank Langella is the evil dad avatar. Kirsten Dunst is the real revelation as she plays the part of a smart but ultimately gullible woman unable to fit in to a world that she does not belong. She conveys the anguish and the destruction of her dreams with such finesse that you begin to sympathize with her. Hers is the best written role. "All Good Things" is definitely great in parts and is appealing because they have a ring of truth which probably occurred. I liked it mostly because of the well known cast and some great acting. Three stars. 6/6/2011

Just Okay This is a cute movie, but nothing special.  Streep carries the entire thing as the other two are B-listers (in my ever-so-humble opinion).

Could have been more realistic. I remember watching old movies where all Asian characters were played by Caucasian actors, unless they were the villains, extras, or had a mask on. The re-enactments in this series used Caucasian actors to play the Mongols and the Huns. Although the rest of the facts presented were quite credible, I had a hard time imagining those characters as the Mongol or Hun warriors. Granted, no-one really knows how a Hun warrior may have looked like, considering they could have come from Central Asia or the Far East, Mongolians certainly did not resemble Caucasians. I thought we had come a long way since the days when John Wayne was cast to play Genghis Khan in the "Conquerer" in 1956. Obviously we have not. Wouldn't it seem strange if the Vikings were played by an all African cast? What about the Saxons being played by an all Asian cast?

Faerie Tale Theatre Review Although the staging and costuming in the CDs are good, I believe the productions could be too talky for young children.

Performance not Instruction I got this video in the hopes that it would provide for me some instruction into at least one of the dances from one of the time periods. Instead it is a dance troupe performing dances from the different times. Due to costuming and lack of zoom in camera work you are unable to see the women's footwork. If you are interested in only seeing the dances this video will suit well your purpose, but if your desire is to be able to dance to the music that you enjoy of these time periods, in the proper manner... forget it. If I had known it was performance  would not have bought it. Now I will gift it to someone that can appreciate it. I can not.

Good Film director Edgar Ulmer was, in some ways, a pre-Sam Fuller Sam Fuller. Most of his career was spent toiling for B film production companies and producers. Yet, he has a reputation, like Fuller, of producing, if not great films, films that are certainly better than they should be, given the little money spent on them. Case in point is 1944's Bluebeard (a film whose producer Leon Fromkess would later work with Fuller), made by PRC, a `poverty row' studio. As evidence, watch the really well wrought puppet show scene, wherein an engaging opera scene is shown. This 72 minute, black and white film is filled with such moments, including a very good performance by John Carradine, an actor second to only the great Vincent Price in B film excellence in his art form.    Unfortunately, the film also has many moments that truly define it as a B film, in the sense that it is a second rate film- this includes some poor acting from many of the female characters that end up being murdered by Carradine's character. There are also the sort of nonsensical things that make up films not so well thought out. Given that Bluebeard was a character from a classic 17th Century French short story about a wife killer, it makes little sense that the residents of Paris, France (where the film was set) would so self-consciously refer to the killer by that term, since his crimes connect more closely to those of Jack The Ripper (the film is set during the Victorian Era). Also, while the film is ostensibly set in Paris, a poster is put up about town that is written in English, not French.    But, three things, especially, set this film apart from most B films of its day (excepting the terrific Val Lewton produced films of the 1940s). The first is the puppet opera. One has to go almost a quarter century, to Ingmar Bergman's Hour Of The Wolf for a scene of similar power that features puppets. Another, as stated, is Carradine. In a sense, like Vincent Price, he is, at first blush, not an actor of seeming De Niro-like chameleon abilities. But, like Price, his eyes tell all. In a moment, he can veer from contained rage to pathos to humor, than back to a slightly less contained rage. He has a similar angularity that also makes his body seem puppet-like, which makes the depth of his face all the more effective, as it often stands in counterpoint to his body's stiffness. The third excellent element, also mentioned, is Nils Asther as Inspector Lefevre. Aside from his court scene, there is a scene where he is bantering with the two sisters tied to Morell. Asther really walks the line between improper lusting and clever rou&eacute; wit. In another scene, with Lamarte, he plays his art interest even with his detective skills, and shows multiple levels in his character. In looking up the actor, it seems he had a brief career. Too bad, because he has a quality, at least in this role, that few actors exhibit: the ability to both inhabit and transcend a character.    For these three reasons, Bluebeard is a film that, while not great, and, really, not even a classic B film in the sense that schlock like Robot Monster is, is still a film that cineastes should watch, and Edgar Ulmer is a film director whose canon I will definitely be exploring in the future. Join me.

Good film I liked this film but I didn't love it.  I believe they tried to give their characters substance but ran short.  I would rent it instead of buying.  Good for a lazy rainy night at home.

Dead Daze It was ok given the production date.  The zombies were pretty good as well. Unnecessary racial epithets.  They didn't add any value to the movie.  If anything they detracted from it.  Kind of silly kind of stupid as far as the dialog is concerned. I get irritated when characters make ridiculous decisions.  I'm a huge zombie flick fan & if I had to do it again I'd still purchase it.  Go ahead & take a chance. Bonus dvd included.

Innocuous, At Best I don't want to be too hard on those involved in the making of "Therese".  While I recognize that the Church has no shortage of internal enemies, since and as a result of Vatican II, I disagree with those who theorize that the film was produced by wolves in sheep's clothing.  I believe, rather, that the people involved had their hearts in the right place.  And, indeed, the film is anything but execrable.  It is, however, superficial, inept, and misses the mark completely.  Therese of Lisieux is an extraordinary saint, as well as a Doctor of the Church.  Both she and the faithful deserve considerably more than this movie offers.  In addition to the film just not capturing the essence and importance of St. Therese, the acting left a great deal to be desired.  The young actresses (Lindsay Younce in particular) have charm and are appropriately, if somewhat awkwardly, earnest.  Still, the amateurishness is palpable; I had the impression that I was watching a high school production put on by reasonably talented seniors.  There was one scene that I found jarring.  When the young nuns put on a play, they shed their habits for costumes.  Fair enough.  But they all have long hair.  It should have been made clear that they were wearing wigs; a young lady's hair is cut short once she enters a religious order.  This was true in St. Therese's time.  It remains true in our own, assuming that we're referencing a traditional community, such as the Carmelites of Colorado Springs, and not a post-conciliar one (dying out, thank God) where the women dress like 1950s prison matrons.  Still, the movie is wholesome, and I reservedly recommend it.  FYI:  According to the traditional calendar (I pay no attention to the "reformed" one), St. Therese's feast day is October 3.  She's always well worth praying to, but especially on that day.

Operation Petticoat - FYI this disc I'm not sure how I missed it but I did! This disc, has NO SUBTITLES/CAPTIONs, whatsoever. Although this is a fun little movie reproduced here with good production values (the video quality is pretty good, not just for it's age but also for the fact that's it's only standard play) because I've got the beginnings of a hearing issue I have gotten used to turning on the subtitles... just to make sure I'm catching everything that's going on in the flick. But in this case , I just have to wing it; view it, that is, without the help of the captions.

Not the best WM ever I hate being disappointed by the WWE. Especially at Wrestlemania. It's supposed to be their biggest show of the year, and this is what they give us?  Well, it wasn't the worst WM ever, but it wasn't that great either. It was just average, with some bright spots here and there.  I'll update my review later on when the DVD comes out to add info about the extras and Hall Of Fame ceremony as I always do.  For now, here's my view of this disappointing show.  We started off with Keri Hilson singing the national anthem, which I didn't care for, not being American.  Afterwards, The Rock came out and cut a promo. I'm not a fan of The Rock and never have been. I think this wasted time that could have been used on wrestling. After about ten minutes, I was actually saying "can we have a match now?!" as Rock kept on going. He did his usual shtick and I was bored. Sorry, he doesn't do anything for me. The first match didn't start until over 20 minutes into the PPV! Ridiculous.  World Heavyweight Championship Edge (champion) (w/ Christian) vs. Alberto Del Rio (w/ Brodus Clay & Ricardo Rodriguez)  Now that we know Edge is retiring, this match is quite special. It's Edge's final match in the WWE, and what a way to go out! I was surprised this opened the show, especially at WM. But I digress, cos this was a great match. I wasn't sure whether Alberto had the skills to carry a WM level match, but he actually impressed me, even though I don't like him at all. Edge was his usual great self, and I was cheering him all the way. Alberto dominated quite a bit of the match, but Edge got good offence in. Christian, Brodus and Ricardo provided drama at ringside, and it was good that none of them actually interfered in the match, only with each other. I was happy Edge retained as I don't think Alberto is ready for gold yet. The aftermath with Edge and Christian destroying Alberto's car was funny, especially Alberto's reaction - he was almost crying! Great match, one of the best of the night. (4/5)  Cody Rhodes vs Rey Mysterio  For some reason, I was expecting this match to suck. I don't know why I thought that, as it turned out really good. Cody was out for what he thought was revenge (although I don't think Rey actually did anything wrong). I have to say, I like Cody's entrance and of course Rey gets the crowd fired up. His Captain America costume was cool. As for the match itself, it was very good. Cody used his ridiculous mask as a weapon, and Rey showed off his usual bouncy offence. Things got intense as Rey managed to remove Cody's mask, and Cody took off Rey's knee brace. Both were used as weapons and Cody used the brace to win himself the match. I don't like the winner, but the match was good. (3.5/5)  Next was a funny skit backstage with Snoop Dogg and Teddy Long. Snoop is a WWE regular, and he's always been quite good. The skit was Snoop looking for talent to join him on tour, and WWE superstars auditioning. What ensued was funny, especially William Regal and Hornswoggle actually talking - he did a rap!  8-man Tag Team Match Kane, Big Show, Santino Marella & Kofi Kingston vs. The Corre (Wade Barrett, Heath Slater, Justin Gabriel & Ezekiel Jackson)  Now this was just a waste of time and good talent. They had eight men to use here, and what they do? Waste them all on a 90 second match! I swear the match was over that fast, if you walked out of the room and came back in, it was done. The entrances took longer then the match! It's a shame, cos what we did see was really fun! I enjoyed Heath Slater getting the knock out punch and everybody hitting their finishers, but man, what a letdown. If you have a chance, check out the rematch from Smackdown right after WM. It's the same 8 men, but a much longer match! (1/5)  Next another backstage segment. This is the only time The Rock entertained me all night! He was talking to Eve about making a WM moment, and said he'd have a moment with whoever walked up next. Of course, the next person to appear is... Mae Young! I laughed when Rock and Mae exchanged funny lines. Afterwards, Stone Cold Steve Austin appeared and he and Rock had a faceoff. It was like a blast from the past, very cool.  Randy Orton vs CM Punk  This was a good match. Orton had taken out every member of Nexus over the weeks leading up to WM, leaving it just him and Punk one on one. Lots of good moves were used here, and Punk targeted Orton's injured leg. The injury affected Orton to the point where he couldn't use the punt, and Punk had the upper hand until he tried a top rope move, and the Viper struck with a RKO. Very cool ending and satisfying match. (3.5/5)  Next we had an annoying and pointless segment where The Rock tried to be funny and Pee Wee Herman made an appearance. It was stupid but seeing Mean Gene in John Cena's gear was funny.  Following this was the traditional introduction of the Hall Of Fame inductees. It was a nice segment, everybody got cheered. Sunny looked great, I was surprised at how old Drew Carey was looking, and of course, it was fantastic seeing Shawn Michaels get his HOF moment. He looked great and the crowd gave him the ovation he deserves.  Jerry "The King" Lawler vs. Michael Cole (w/ Jack Swagger) Special Guest Referee: Stone Cold Steve Austin  I'm torn on this one. On one hand, it was fun seeing Cole and Swagger get theirs and great having Stone Cold as the ref, but on the other, it went on for way too long and the ending was ridiculous. Cole is a pompous idiot and the crowd were absolutely dying to see him get it. The bit where Jerry shook Cole's hand through the Cole Mine then squished his face up against it was hilarious. But Cole beating up King went on for longer then was necessary. Stone Cold was funny, especially when Swagger interfered. A nice touch was King winning with the ankle lock. The aftermath was stupid though with the Raw GM reversing the decision and giving Cole the win. Way to annoy the fans, WWE! Seriously. I was SO disappointed! And I love Stone Cold, but him stunning Booker T and Josh Mathews was unneeded. Oh, and of course, having the great JR on commentary was fabulous AND he stuck around for the rest of the show! This was fun when Cole got beaten up, but I hated the ending. (2/5)  No Holds Barred Triple H vs The Undertaker  I like Taker's WM matches when there's actually a chance Taker could lose - when it's obvious he'll win, the match isn't as good. Triple H actually proved Taker COULD lose at WM, with this match, my favourite of the night. I predicted as the match began that we'd see multiple finishers and I was right - we saw three Pedigrees, two Tombstones (one from Triple H and one from Taker), a chokeslam, the Last Ride AND Hell's Gate. This was a grueling, intense match that had me on the edge of my seat. The moment when Triple H hit the Tombstone, I genuinely thought it was over and Taker's streak had been broken. I have to admit, I was supporting Triple H and had soured on Taker in recent months, but after the match, I was a Taker fan again. This match went 30 minutes and deserved every single minute of it! Triple H did make some odd decisions during it, there were times he should have gone for a pin, but didn't. But overall, I really, really liked this match. (4.5/5)  6-person Mixed Tag Team Match Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, Trish Stratus & John Morrison vs. Dolph Ziggler, Michelle McCool & Layla (w/ Vickie Guerrero)  The point of this match at this point in the card was to cool down the crowd after the Taker/Trips match. And that it did, it was just a bit of harmless fun. It was great seeing Trish in a WM match once again, Morrison did a great move to Ziggler outside the ring and Snooki actually impressed me. I loved her handspring elbow, it was impressive! I wish the boys had been tagged in, but this match was never going to be a five star classic. A bit of fun it was. (2/5)  WWE Championship The Miz (champion) (w/ Alex Riley) vs. John Cena  What a disappointment. This shouldn't have been the finisher to WM at all. I love John to pieces, he's my favourite wrestler, but I thought he seemed a bit uninspired tonight, like his heart wasn't in it. And I usually love his WM entrances, but this one was silly and a bit preachy. The wrestling was fine, but I am not a Miz fan at all, I don't think he can wrestle at all. At first, I was outraged the match ended on a stupid double count out, but then remembered The Rock. But that just made me even madder, as I knew Rock had it out for John. It was pointless him coming out and restarting the match, cos it ended pretty much the same way. It was just an excuse for Rock to get John. Lame. The end was cheap and made both John and Miz look stupid. Rock was just supposed to be the host, the match wasn't about him, he made the title and the match look insignificant, which is not what you want at WM. (2/5)  I was also very disappointed the US Title match with Sheamus and Daniel Bryan got bumped off to the preshow, cos I was looking forward to it. Then I read it got changed to a battle royal? I usually love those, but man way to cheapen your titles WWE.  I know my review makes it seem I hate WWE and I hated this PPV, but I honestly didn't. I liked some of the matches, but overall this was one of the most disappointing WM's to date. Not the worst, but definitely not the best. 3 stars/

Fair introduction to the Vatican DVD, not Blue Ray.  Fair introduction to the Vatican but lacks pictures of major places one would expect to learn about.  Minimal historical review.  Not bad but not what I was looking for.

review of House of Pleasures This movie reminded me of Louis Malle's Pretty Baby.  They both take place at the end of an era when houses of prostitution were being closed.  It was during World War I in New Orleans in Pretty Baby.  It was around 1900 in House of Pleasures.  As a film, I thought the film moved too slowly.  I was often bored.  I think the use of modern music at various parts of the movie was disconcerting.  That being said, I liked the acting and I thought the often-nude actresses were lovely.  I admired the young prostitute who figured things out and left before the crash.  She looked good, too.

Pretty Good the movie wasn't too bad, it seemed to drag along quite a bit, too much useless detail disclosd, but the ending was good.

I wanted to like this but.... First of all, I think the animation was first class.  There were no shortcuts taken and the artwork was extremely well done.  This movie is a series of short stories that are put together in a larger setting.  Although, the stories are very diverse, the authors manage to tie them together quite well.  The stories are fairly well-executed and fairly well developed. (I won't give you story by story detail since others have done that very well.)  There is an occasional miss: Mogo and Abin Sur have very thin plots.  But the main problem I have with this movie is that all of the good stories are quite banal.  You can even predict whats going to happen beforehand.  There is really no originality to them.  Also, the main story is not very well developed.  The background of the antagonist is only spoken and never shown.  His motivation is also spoken and not visualized. It's like they really didn't care about the main story at all and its only there as a vehicle to unite the other stories.  And as others have noted, the ending is rushed and predictable.  I will give three stars for the excellent artwork and the presence of Nathan Fillion, one of my favorite actors.

Spoilers So, yeah, don't read if you haven't seen it.  The way they won was kind of a cop out in my opinion, because in fact they wouldn't have won if Aslan hadn't teleported Eustace to exactly the right place at the right moment. I don't even know if Edmund would have resisted the White Witch illusion on his own. Is that really how it happened in the book? I can't remember. If it is, my problem is with the book, I guess.  But anyway, I love the actors and the characters in this. I thought the kid who played Eustace was hilarious. And of course the graphics are beautiful. It's fun to watch, but Aslan's god-modding really annoys me, (even though I guess that's his job) and stops this from being an emotionally inspiring movie.

cloudy facts, and hypothesis don't prove truth... Augustine in his City of God based a theology that light emanates from the Eyes and illuminates to create our vision. This is how he based the view that we are greater then our surroundings etc...  Since that time we have learned that Science has proven that the eye only reflects the light creating vision.  Augustine's philosophy created an idea that even scripture, unless proven, was fallible...  So here is the question that I have... is God all powerful, all knowing, and is the scripture which claims to be the 'inerrant and inspired word of God' true?  If so why do we look at it through the lens of Science instead of Science through the lens of scripture?  This movie was well acted, well scripted and played out.  For that I can not fault it. My fault with it is more one of factual, credible and reliable truth. Not even a debate of creation vs. evolution.  Big bang vs. God said it... But this: If Sin and death didn't enter the world until Adam and Eve sinned as scripture states, then how could this proposed theory be true. How could entire species such as dinosaurs have lived and died before Adam and Eve... or even with that, how about the Missing links that would have died...  As a college student with a communications major I was excellent at Debate and impromptu speaking. In fact on one occasion as a high school student, I was visiting the state house in Indiana taking part in a school event. This event had students from all over being given a topic and 10 min's to discuss and come up with their point of view. We were then GIVEN the topic and if we were for or apposed... I was on a very difficult one as I had to argue for the removal of all Handicapped parking spaces on federal and public property. Needless to say, I was chosen as the spokesperson and we won.  I say this to prove a point: Just because we can argue better then another doesn't always mean that we have the right truth.  Check this movie out for yourself and see how you think. don't believe a positive post by some one time reviewer, or a negative post by a seasoned retailer and blogger...

worth $4 In the comfort of your own home. The previews got me hyped for some serious alien interaction that never comes and we know pretty soon exactly how the bitches will be defeated. I wouldn't be surprised if this film got some dosh from the armed forces, it'll make you want to join the marines within the first 19 minutes, if you didn't want to already. I have to note that Eckhart is impressive as a soul-crushed soon-to-be-retired-but-ha!-not-yet commander, and I could never tell if the cold glint in his eyes was CGI or actually, well, acting. But there's great explosions and it's left open for a sequel in which a young Hispanic man leads the rebellion against the ruthless, faceless aliens who killed his sweet dad 10 years earlier. But, y'know, maybe not, especially because that Spielberg pic coming out looks AWESOME. Let's look forward to that, shall we?

Could have been better. This movie could have been much better if Hollywood would have put politics away and used more realistic acting. There is no dought how good those pilots fought back in the days and how hard it was for them to overcome and not to be acknowledged.  Also too much was put in for a short time frame.

Very Good Audio / Video Quality Please describe the audio and video quality of any Blu-Ray you review.  Thanks to those who do this.  I am writing the same review for Scream, Scream 2, and Scream 3.  These movies all have a 2.35:1 (or 2.40:1) aspect ratio.  The video quality of these movies is very good to great. I rate it about 9.3 on a 10.0 scale (I have never rated a Blu-Ray below 4.0).  All 3 movies have DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio, which is adequate to very good.  I thought the movies were okay, but not great.  I don't know if I am going to ever watch them again - I may sell them.

I really wanted to like this movie... Okay so most romantic movies tend to be sappy and predictable.  I expected as much with The Vow but the previews made it look funny and endearing.  I liked the previews far more than I enjoyed the movie.  Often at times I felt as though the lead man should just give up -- move on and find someone else.  I get the situation (and maybe in book form it would be better to read) but the movie was lacking something -- perhaps it's called, charm.

good but . . . this mirrored the Bourne movies too closely . . . agent stuck in the middle of action, woman leader trying to find him, rogue internal agent giving away the secrets. And of course the CIA is the corrupt agency . . . tired of the same old

A bit mature I was surprised by the language in this film. We were going towatch it with our 10-year old daughter, but the language is a bit strong for young children in my opinion.

happy -sort of the movie came in great shape but unfortunately it had no case and since it was a gift I returned it.

Fun Action but not as good as the first/remake The special effects were great, I enjoyed the nod to Bubo the mechanical owl from the Original.  BUt the story wasn't as good as either of the first movies. Decent popcorn flick, but not expect too much.

Not one of the best, but worth a view <span class="tiny"> Length:: 5:00 Mins  </span>I'm partial to Frankenstein, Dracula, and the Mummy from this time period, but "Doctor X" is certainly worth a view. See my video for more info about the picture.

Beautiful, Aging Women Made Fun of - Humorous ... but it's a bit dark and twisted in a negative way. Two aging women, played by gorgeous but aging actresses, make fun of plastic surgery and black magic to the extreme to keep from aging and dying. The problem is, the body still takes all the damage, but it just won't die. Luis and Priscilla (other Amazon reviewers) have given you a great synopsis of the show itself, so I won't get into the plot line.  What I will say is that if you think about this from the Hollywood perspective of aging actresses who aren't aging gracefully vs. those who are, there is even MORE humor to be found in this movie with a bit of political commentary about the aging of gorgeous women in the public eye. I loved that aspect of it.  Meryl Streep does great straight-man comedy in this and Goldie Hawn is no stranger to comedy, and this role fits her well, especially if you keep up with anything in her real life outside of the movies.  Now, before you go and buy or rent this movie to watch, you should know that it's a 'stoopid' movie. That is, it's meant to be silly, outrageous and over the top, so don't be disappointed when that is exactly what happens. It is completely, totally over the top. You'll fail on suspension of disbelief over and over again, but that is exactly how it is supposed to be.  If you want something that is just silly, fun and easy to watch, this is a great show to spend watching on a rainy afternoon when you have nothing better to do. Enjoy it and laugh!

Scary Monsters, Scarier People Not a great film, but enjoyable.  What struck me was the feeling that being stranded south of the border and dealing with the locals was much more frightening than dealing with the monsters.

Eah Im sure this work out is fine for more experienced ball users but just trying to balance on the ball takes up most of my time; so Im not really getting the work out. Also its a little boring to me, but i think ive been spoiled by the 10 min solution, and belly dance and hula workouts.

Decent show BUT.... The show is OK. Acting is great, budget is showing but the plot is..... to naive. Sure, I can believe in a POW who is turned in order to work for the enemy. Sure. But a father of two, who was kept captive for 8 years, had his life almost destroyed, is trying to retaliate because his capturer's son and some civilians were killed? I just don't buy that. If he came back, changed his views on war and was trying to change policies if our government - sure. But sacrificing his own life, damaging lives of his kids and loving wife (can you imagine a shame??) ? I don't buy that. 3 stars

Mildly Entertaining In "One for the Money" Katherine Heigl is Stephanie Plum, a former lingerie buyer-turned-bounty hunter. With her car repossessed, the down-on-her-luck Stephanie takes a job at her cousin Vinnie's bail bonds office, even though she doesn't know how to use a gun. Then Stephanie chases after Joseph Morelli (Jason O'Mara), a disgraced vice cop on the run, with whom she had a relationship in high school.  That "One for the Money" was released after a similar romantic comedy "The Bounty Hunter" (with the main characters' genders reversed) may have something to do with the film's failure at the box office. Even so, with an interesting premise that has potential, "One for the Money" could have been better, something more entertaining like "Midnight Run."  The biggest problem with "One for the Money" is that the movie is so middling. It is half-baked as a comedy, action, romance or anything. Slick and fast-paced as it is, the film always feels like something is missing. The relationship between Stephanie and Ranger (Daniel Sunjata), her charismatic mentor/partner bounty hunter, is not fully explored: neither is her friendship with Lula (scene-stealing Sherri Shepherd). John Leguizamo is wasted in a role that should be bigger, and so is Debbie Reynolds as Grandma Mazur.  "One for the Money" is not bad as some critics might lead you to believe. It is just tame. Tameness is not something we need for the story of a rough and tough bail enforcement agent with a heart of gold.

Not Willis' best but... There are plenty of other great Bruce Willis movies out there; this one falls somewhere in between. Still, the plot is OK and the end will manage to surprise some.

Like the movie but learn the real history This movie is cute, endearing, and funny. I just wish it didn' t overshadow or throw dirt on the innocent people, mostly women and an erderly man who were subjected to cruelty, torture , and one of the worst injustices in history on the say so and connivings of a few brats with the agenda of getting themselves out of trouble with their puritan elders. All I can ask is if you watch this, then also sober yourself by watching The Crucible with Daniel Ray Lewis.

An eco-version remake of the thing This is much like The Thing, although it is updated to include global warming and the possible resulting catastrophes that go along with melting the ice caps and organisms which may be underneath them.  Val Kilmer is not used much here, but the rest of the cast is good enough for the rather simple story.

Mildly entertaining; not much to it The movie was mildly entertaining. It had a couple really hilarious moments, but they were pretty much all featured in the trailer...if you've seen that, you're not going to get a lot more out of this. Acting was very good however, just wish there was more to the movie..

sad sad sad A friend of mine said to me one day, you know most of the movies with gay topic are sad in general. How true. This is the most saddest movie I ever seen about gay relationship. I was so deeply affected by what I have seen that I won't be seeing this movie again. I admired the work of the actress that played the wife in this movie, but the rest of personage was kinda amateur. Don't watch this one if you appreciate your heart in its unbroken state.

Decent Retelling I just bought the original Planet Of The Apes boxed set on Blu-ray, the special 40 Year Evolution so I'm a fan of the series. This was better than I thought it would be having only watched the Amazon instant video version in low quality since my connection is crap slow... so I'll probably enjoy it more when i get the Blu-ray order. The star of the movie are the Apes no doubt, and the CG animations are pretty good... but it's the story and screenplay that makes you interested enough to suspend one's disbelief. Pinto is dead gorgeous and Franco does an adequate job but nothing special. The premise of how the apes acquired accelerated intelligence is something new and leaves me to wonder what's in store for sequels should this film prove lucrative enough to warrant further movies.  Not a bad beginning, but the real challenge will be in creating a great sequel. I feel this film lacked a sic-fi edge, the soundtrack left me wanting for something a lot more mysterious... it plays out like a drama too much rather than sic-fi, I would have preferred something more enigmatic and puzzling in a score relating to this type of fantasy.

Gosh Darn it "Midway" is a historically accurate recreation of one of the three most important battles of World War II. An all-star cast of the 60's and 70's are led by Charleston Heston, Henry Fonda, Hal Holbrook, Robert Mitchum, James Coburn, Robert Wagner, and Glenn Ford. Some of them preen for the camera or contribute to one God-awful script that can give you the chills of embarrassment in the confines of your own living room. With 70's Surround Sound technology, you can here the 5.1 in. Mark II guns go boom-boom as the Japanese attack our carriers.  However, the director and writers saw fit to inflict on us a side story of a young aviator who has fallen in love with a Nisei who is interned with her parents. From the barbed wire, she tells her love, "I don't love you, Tom." He replies, "Say that to my face, Gosh-darn it!" Of course she can't, and I can't--get past the script at that point. It has all the drama of Airport, Airport 75, Airport 77 and The Towering Inferno.  I recommend this movie for the serious military history buff who doesn't mind some bad acting by Pat Morita, preening by Poncho from CHiPs, and bad writing, or for the serious military history buff who does mind some bad acting, preening, and bad writing but has the power of mute, and is satisfied with just watching the pictures. Either way, I recommend that you get up and get a snack when the two lovebirds meet at the barbed wire.

Like popcorn:  satisfying, but only temporarily I'll admit up front that I'm more of a book reviewer and not the greatest movie critic.  I'm not always good at distinguishing good or bad writing from good or bad acting, and I have never been able to figure out what impact the director has.  Furthermore, I know next to nothing about cinematography, so I won't be discussing things like camera angles or lighting design.  That said, in my decidedly inexpert opinion, this is a valiant attempt on the part of some very good actors to breathe life into a rather clich&eacute;d and flat movie.  Ben Affleck plays a 37-year-old rising star salesman, Bobby Walker at a company called GTX which used to build ships, but now doesn't build much of anything.  He strolls confidently into a meeting, both on top of his golf game and on top of his world, only to find that he's greeted as one of the walking dead.  Maybe he shouldn't have blown off Sally Wilson (Maria Bello) from HR.  Bobby is blind-sided by the unexpected blow and the only response he seems capable of is utter denial.  His experience with "outplacement services" should have told him something - the ridiculous orientation exercises wherein participants are told directly, "we are not an employment agency", the cramped and already filled cubicles filled with people who have been there for months.  But Bobby isn't deterred.  He is, after all, a hot commodity.  He's worth $160,000.  He'll have a job in no time.  At least, in his own mind.  His practical (and practically saintly) wife Maggie sees it a bit differently and wants to make some changes.  Put the house on the market, give up the club, maybe sell the Porsche.  But Bobby won't have it.  Bobby is not a likable character - he's full of himself, spoiled, entitled and arrogant.  We're not supposed to like him.  The more he pities himself (when reality finally breaks through at all), the less we do.  But he's a reflection of the young up-and-coming professionals who were, in some ways, hit hardest by the crash of 2008.  They were people who thought that they were on top of the world and untouchable.  They thought the dream would never end, so they never saw a reason to behave as though it would.  Maintaining the image needed to constantly get ahead was more important than saving for a rainy day that would never come.  That is, until it did.  All the characters are basically stereotypes of characters commonly found in the business world:  the ruthless, heartless CEO (Craig T. Nelson) who turns his back on even his closest friend; the caring but largely inert boss (Tommy Lee Jones) who stands helplessly by while workers are cut off by the thousands; Maria Bello, the cold and calculating HR witch; Chris Cooper, the epitome of the "company man" who's given his life to the company and has nothing else left.  As I mentioned, the movie is rather flat and clich&eacute;d throughout, but it becomes moreso the more it attempts to redeem Bobby (and the other characters).  Bobby gradually makes the hard choices and we revel in his fall as he moves in with family, stoops to doing construction work for his brother-in-law.  But Bobby also becomes more human as he finally accepts the reality laid out before him.  He becomes a better husband.  He reconnects with his wife.  He finds time for his troubled son.  And (cue the Hallelujah Chorus here), he finally finds another job.  Sure, it pays about half what he was making, but dear Bobby has learned his lesson and all is right with the world again.  Sigh.  The movie is enjoyable enough to watch.  It does reflect a number of brutal truths of life in the corporate world and especially about the kinds of people who inhabit (and even live for) that world.  The ending, trite though it is, gives a brief if empty uplift.  The actors turned in performances ranging from decent to excellent, especially Tommy Lee Jones.  But, precisely because of the "feel good" nature of the ending, it is ultimately unsatisfying.  It's a fantasy of the way most of us would probably like the world to work, but it's certainly not the world most of us live in.  A more realistic film would have been more depressing to watch but would have the potential to be more rewarding.  It could have pointed the way toward a world beyond the corporate-controlled work-a-day world.  It could have told more truths about human nature, the state of life in this country, and the stark choices we face as a society.

It's Okay I bought this film to use in my high school social studies classes.  I found that I was unable to do so.  The program is very slow and just shows the primary footage.

Not as good as expected Movie was less than expected for such a wonderful actor as Adam Sandler. I expected more out of it. The message was clear and sweet but the movie was a little flat.  Better luck next movie Adam!  Still love ya!

Decent, but the weakest of the 3 films. The MIB have come to be loved by those of us who loved such sci-fi and movies like Ghostbusters etc.. and now the 3rd installment comes along out of nowhere, and after seeing it, I was a little disappointed with it. The general feel of the whole movie didn't feel all that fresh, and it repeated a lot of the same old jokes from the first two. I guess you could argue they are more of a calling card or what not, but I felt like I'd heard them before, especially since now they have been repeated in a re-write 3 times. Will Smith as J didn't seem to be as fun this time around, and K well, he is always the same, except now he has a new guy playing his younger self. As you can tell by the trailer, the plot is about an alien who escapes prison. This alien had his arm shot off by K back in the 60's, so he when he escapes he travels back in time to change history. J wakes up to find K is dead and has been since the 60's. So, without the need of thinking why he even still remembers K, he travels back in time to stop the evil alien from changing history.  A few other things bugged me in the movie, not just the repeat of the same old jokes, but the lack of introducing memorable characters. There isn't even the talking pug in this one, just a poster of him and a reference to what he is up to in the 60's... I dunno why they would not bring him back, but continue to include those annoying little worm aliens. It didn't feel like it was a fun joyride with a clever ending this time... in the last two movies, it was like, the action built on top of the action and kept rising to a final climax... but this one, euhh, it just goes and barely picks up any steam.  I didn't even really laugh much during the film, and when I did, it was a small chuckle, not a burst out laugh. It feels now like the original MIB made new grounds for comedy and the special effects where exciting, but now, it seems like common place and the original feel of excitement has become formula over everything else. I'm not saying it's a bad movie tho, it does explain a few things you may have wondered and ties in a few things... but still, it does remain to keep alot of questions open, so I expect they will be back for MIB4.

What If You Don't Require Top-Notch Prints? Most reviews dismiss these cheap releases because they aren't the best possible. So what? I don't care. These are perfectly watchable and a great way to preview a film you might be curious about, but not sure you want to spend the big bucks on, for the restored, remastered, pristine copies. Don't be intimidated by the geeks, bless their hearts.

This is not my beautiful Porsche In the movie "Boiler Room," Ben Affleck plays a "senior" stockbroker who informs the newbies that, "I'm 27.  I'm a dinosaur.  Luckily, I'm very good at what I do."  A decade later, he plays a thirty something who gets fired from his high powered salesman job and faces a bleak economy, along with colleagues Tommy Lee Jones and Chris Cooper.  Downsizing these days means moving in with your parents, having to dye your hair and quit smoking, and - the ultimate indignity, having your spouse start working more hours in order to make ends meet.  Luckily, for Affleck, he gets a job doing manual labor with his brother-in-law, played by Kevin Costner, who passes along a few Life Lessons, along with instructions on how to put up drywall.  Other movie characters aren't as fortunate.   In eighties' cinema, greed was good, or at least acceptable.  In the nineties, there were a spate of movies about yuppies getting blindsided by trauma and having to reevaluate their priorities.  In "Regarding Henry," Harrison Ford plays a lawyer who becomes a better person by getting shot in the head and suffering brain damage.  He realizes that his colleagues are amoral sleazebags and takes his daughter out of boarding school.  It may have been good that Henry's daughter didn't want to attend in the first place because with Henry's newfound ethics, he probably wouldn't have a job much longer.  But the film didn't explore that.   Nowadays, even movie characters can't afford spontaneous job quitting.  This is a grim movie, with few answers to the current economic crisis.  The cast does a decent job, but you want to watch a film about downsizing liberally laced with black humor, try the remake of "Fun With Dick and Jane" with Jim Carrey and Alec Baldwin.

Unrealistic Expectations There are a lot of negative feelings I'm sure viewers associate with watching "Food Inc." I personally was left with feelings of impotence and hopelessness. The final message, as so many documentaries are wont to do, states that "you" the consumer has the final say and the power to change the market. While this is of course true in theory and in essence, it does not always play out that way. I am more than likely to simply buy the cheapest available version of any product I desire or need. I want my grocery list to feed me for the longest time for the least amount of money, and that is that. As a young person with a small amount of money at my disposal, that is my policy. It is tough to imagine so many other Americans who also only have a small amount of disposable income doing anything other than buying the cheapest product available. This is not to say most Americans equipped with the knowledge supplied by the film wouldn't try and buy organically farmed products, it just means that most will not when it comes to saving money and feeding their families. "Food Inc." is extremely moving. But I can't say there is much I am willing to do to change the market given my current status. If I had more disposable income, as my parents do, I would certainly buy organically, and I believe most other concerned Americans would. If the government subsidized organic produce instead of protecting corporations like Mansanto, this would all be so much different. At the end of the day, Americans want it cheap and fast

Better picture clarity and sharpness than the DVD, but below Blu-ray HD standards These are my picture quality impressions on the Blu-ray version of Die Hard. Picture quality is better than DVD and below Blu-ray. I definitely saw an improvement in picture detail and clarity compared to the DVD version when playing both on my PS3 console outputting to a 46 inch plasma 1080p HDTV.  I can easily read the words on signs in the movie.  Just don't expect it look like a movie shot for HD release.  The color could use improvement.  A worthy upgrade from DVD if you enjoy re-watching this movie like I do.

Fun rehash of the "Paul Is Dead" saga This movie is great late night viewing if you're a Beatles fan or are interested in some of the creepier aspects of rock & roll. But first let me issue a disclaimer before I proceed with this review: I believe Paul McCartney is alive, The Beatles may have left behind some crazy clues on their album covers, back masked some stuff, etc. but in my opinion Paul never died in a car accident on a stormy night in 1966. Furthermore, that is not George Harrison's voice in this film; it's an actor doing a mediocre impression. Lastly, there is no way that Harrison's friend or family would send in a tape to a small film studio to expose the holy grail of rock conspiracies. Don't you think that if they had a big story about Paul being dead they would have sent it in to a major source like Rolling Stone or The New York Times?  Now that that's out of the way - you really shouldn't let this stop you from watching this film. Are there inaccuracies and implausibilites in this film? Of course, but the whole Paul is dead saga is full of  contradictory and even childish stuff that is presented in this film. What this film does really well is break down all of the albums clues in a forensic manner, and you will hear classic backmasked messages such as, "I Buried Paul" or "Turn Me On Deadman." If you're a Beatles nut that alone is worth the price of admission because let's face it many of us have better things to do than play mp3s backwards and study album art for clues, but if you were or are obsessed with the Paul Is Dead conspiracy you may have done this already. Not that there's anything wrong with that! Treat this film in the same way you would treat a mockumentrary like Paranormal Activity and you'll enjoy it. Take it too seriously, and well, you're going to be sorely disappointed. I had fun watching this film and approaching it from a "what If" perspective, it's fascinating, fun, and creepy to think about. I enjoyed this film I'll give it three stars because it makes a good midnight movie.

Stylized, nice to look at, but weak story. First off all let me get a pet peeve about how this movie is presented out of the way. Now this is presented as a western/Martial Arts science fiction film, well there is nothing science fiction about this movie, it seams the term science fiction is slapped on anything a little out of the ordinary these days. Bunraku takes place in a world where guns have been outlawed so everyone fights with swords, knives and fists, this is a interesting premise that set the movie up for some great fight scenes but it do not make it science fiction.  Bunrako is a stylized movie that tried to me a mix of a comic book in movie format and a homage to German Expressionism, now this sounds like a odd mix but it works quite well, the visuals of this movie is stunning and it frames the story very well, or to put it in another way had it not been for the stylized atmosphere and visuals this movie would have been rather dull, as it is however Bunrako takes you on a joyride which is pure goodness for the eyes.  The plot of Bunrako is something like this, two men, a drifter and a Japanese Martial Artist comes to a small town that is terrorized by a gang leader named The Woodcutter and his nine killers. Soon our two heroes join up with a local bartender and go after the Woodcutter and his organization for various personal reasons. The plot of this movie is pretty thin and it really fails to capture much interest for me, however the characters and the nicely choreographed fight scenes more than makes up for it. Now let us be honest, this is not a movie you watch if you want a deep and involving storyline, this is the kind of movie you put on when you just want to be entertained by mindless action and people chopping one another's heads off, and this movie give you moping drifters with a sad past, heroic Martial Artists, pretty women, cookie cutter evil villains and enough action to fill all the needs of a popcorn, pizza and a movie night with your friends.  Now one problem I have with this movie is that at times it try so hard to be edgy that it get silly. I get for example that in a movie like this acting have to be over the top, that is part of the style, however there is a fine line where being stylized end and being annoying stars and this movie is over that line a few times. I do however love the details in this film, everything is focused on making it feel like a comic book come to life, from the subtitles when the characters speaks Japanese looking like comic book text boxes to the characters appearances, and the movie even hits at computer games as well with a chase scene having pinball sounds and the whole taking down the killers ones by one and having them crossed of the list and slowing working towards the Woodcutter as the main boss, Bunrako is one geeky little gift box.  I recommend this movie as a rent, the thin story and the fact that the movie drags on that story for nearly two hours without enough material is a ptoblem and also unless you like the style of the movie it falls flat as that is all it got, for those reasons I recommend rent over buy unless you can get it cheap. I however think Bunrako is worth at least being watched once.

Quite a bad, overrated movie Film fanboys tend to think that just because a director is an unlikable, non-populist whackjob, that somehow, he must be a genius. Drive was just awful. Does the guy have a mental disability? What is going on? Why does he act so abnormal towards other people? If the movie admitted that the guy had some sort of mental disability, this might have been a better movie. I don't quite buy the psychopath angle or whatnot. Despite what the fanboys like to claim, this was not a very complicated, deep movie. It is on par with your average Nick Cage, Vin Diesel Fast and Furious movie, in every way. This is a good rental if you're open-minded. If you are a thick person with a movie IQ of a 10 year old, please avoid it. I thought this was an ok movie, but not the greatest film ever made like what some people think.

...what it wants to be 1950s Lucinda Embry (Lara Robinson) is a psychic with a gift for prophecy.  She inserts her prediction in a time capsule that is opened in modern times by MIT astrophysics professor named John Koestler (Nicholas Cage). Koestler's wife died, sapping him of his faith, and he and his son Caleb (Chandler Canterbury) are adrift without her moral center. Not really believing in anything, Koestler recognizes a pattern in Embry's numbers that presages tragic events. Embroiled in this conspiracy theory is Embry's daughter Diana Wayland (Rose Byrne) and granddaughter Abby (Lara Robinson, playing both parts). It's not long before Abby and Caleb become friends due to their common bond with the Whispering People, SPOILER: AKA the Nordics.  Popular media has mapped out the stars pretty thoroughly in the past few decades since Close Encounters of the Third Kind debuted. Everybody knows about Grays: short, spindly, with big heads, big eyes, and little else.  The reptilians are less well-known but still well-established thanks to the television series "V".  But Nordics are virtually unheard of in Hollywood, if only because their blonde hair, blue eyes, and white skin, seem like a particularly WASPY variant of alien life. Knowing aims to correct that.  Knowing, like Signs, tries to transform a world-spanning event into a deeply personal one with partial success.  Knowing takes the same premise - that something terrible is about to happen and only one person (Nicolas Cage as John Koestler) is smart enough to do something about it.  What Knowing does right is reinforce its premonitions of doom with terrifying personal tragedies like a plane crash. Indeed, that single scene is a horrifying centerpiece that dwarfs the actual Armageddon threatened by Koestler's discovery.  The blessing and curse of Knowing is its inherent selfishness in building an entire plot around one person's interpretation of world-spanning events. It teeters between the leap of faith necessary to believe in prophecy and the objective truths of disaster - the date of a crash, the number of deaths, the GPS coordinates.  All of these numbers are disputable, but Knowing takes them as Gospel.  Once Knowing commits to a narrative framework - aliens or angels, science or faith, the movie either reinforces your world view or utterly contradicts it.  Director Alex Proyas tries to have it both ways, but ends up diluting both messages.  Knowing doesn't always know what it wants, but it takes us for a heck of a ride getting there.

Different, a few chuckles sprinkled though out The story plot was odd, kept a secret during most of the movie.  If you like "different" movies than this just might be for you. We found the movie to be too different for us. There were some funny moments, but the death didn't make much sense. Perhaps if the story unfolded in though a series of dream sequences, flashing back and forth between reality and fantasy.  The most interesting character was the indian "guide" with the white horse.  If you like Mr. Kerby Keyborne buy the DVD while supplies last! I don't think there will be a second run.  Pirates is definitely a low budget, Grade B movie in the spirit of 1950s Grade B movies.

Romantic comedy from the Joseph Losey school of filmmaking... Kino offers up a fine looking blu-ray version of this 1975 flop by ex-patriate American director Joseph Losey.  Based on the book by Thomas Wiseman, the story concerns the link between a writer's paranoid fantasies about the actual discontentment of his spouse.  Wiseman wrote the script, which was finalized by Tom Stoppard, who seems to have added some necessary humor to the art-imitates-life theme explored.  It is hard to accept Caine and Jackson as ever being in love, but it is great to watch their marriage deteriote as the psychosexual gameplan unfolds.  Helmut Berger, as the final member of the menage, does his usual, efficient gigolo bit, but is too humorless to be an effective catalyst.  Still, the film does succeed in merging imagination, memory and reality into an intriguing concept of romantic and sexual tension; best of all is the fresh, mean-spirited attitude the film has towards the bourgeoisie household.  Inspite of being an overall non-success in its time, a sophisticated love story like this is hard to find these days, so this blu-ray is definitely worth checking out.

My review This is a interesting movie, not enough dialog with the characters, and needed more story, there were only a few fight scenes. It could have been so much better. If your into fight movies just for the fighting then this is a decent movie. the fighting was amazing, and if you like to pay attention to acting then this is not the best interest to watch.

Close Encounter With English Geeks -- Not Bad! Some quick thoughts on "Paul":  It's a film that I feel had a chance to do something really funny but fell short of a parody of science fiction and comic book fans.  Two British guys come to the USA and want to see San Diego's Comicon. I've been there and crossing the street should be a major crowd experience, but not this one. A bit unreal. The run-in with the bored attendee who is signing autographs for money was pretty realistic. I could name a couple of celebrities here in this review who seem to care more about money than about their fans, but I won't go there. Let's say that was fairly accurate.  Rather than lampoon the largest comic book convention in North America, we jump into an RV and head out to the Area 51, home of Roswell stories and such - in between gay jokes and a confusion to a Latino man what is meant by "alien."  When Paul is picked up he turns out to be an alien who has escaped abduction. The boys' reactions are not typical and was the source of some fun moments.  The kidnapping of the woman who was a Bible believer was somewhat insulting: the writers' apparent confusion between Evangelicalism and Christian Science was odd as well as their take on people who believe in Creationism are somehow crazy. I don't believe that, but the writer's take on religion was off-putting and not at all what I was expecting - a story of an alien and his boys traveling to The Devil's Tower (thanks Steven Spielberg).  Fun moments with the idea that Spielberg got his ideas for E.T. and Close Encounters through an alien, that we have the Star Wars Cantina music playing in a redneck bar, and poking fun at redneck Arizona cops, but the film was all over the place and really was not that funny.  Recommended for comics and sci-fi fans, but for religious people, not so much.

The Music from He Haw? I recently bought the original 1972 release of this movie, and found it pretty engrossing and a pretty good (not that original however) story line ...the really bad thing about this movie was the silly Hillbilly music that kept playing during the rape/torture scenes ...who's idea was this??? Come on lets make up our minds here...is this Deliverance {in which the music was appropriate for the atmosphere that helped the story line} or is this a warped sense of humor on the directors/producers part??? This movie would have held more credibility and suspense if the music were more along the lines of Black Sabbath or say even Harry Chapin Carpenter...come on give me a break ...maybe they were to busy smoking that wacky weed..

The Descent from Hilarity to Mediocrity The Leprechaun series are classics on line with the best of B horror.  Starting with an original idea, the four films represent a streaming storyline that is original in each movie, but leads from a little creepy to truly cliche.  The horror, however, always plays second fiddle to the humor.  This series will always be good for a MST3K-like watch with friends.

The first and final clash It was on live TV, free to all the wrestling fans, the NWA then WCW brought PPV quality matches and bitter rivalries onto a show called "Clash of the Champions", where stars were made and legends were created. Hosted by Dusty Rhodes, this is a compliation of some of the most classic and star studded matches in the histor of the Clash.  Disc 1  -3/27/88, Clash I, NWA World Heavyweight Championship Match, Ric Flair (Champion) vs. Sting: Its the famous main event that established the Clash as must see TV and of course saw Flair make Sting a big time star. Ric sells to Sting like crazy, Sting is all full of enegery and doesn't quit even after Flair works over the knee to wear down the stronger Sting. It goes the full 45 minute time limit and the judges at ringside are split in their decision so Flair keeps the title as the result of a draw. 10/10.  (Available on Ric Flair: The Definitive Collection)  -3/27/88, Clash I, NWA World Tag Team Championship Match, Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard (Champions) vs. Lex Luger & Barry Windham: Hot starting tag match with Luger going for the Torture Rack early and Windham going for the big forearm, before the Horseman use dirty double tactics but Barry won't stay down. Lex gets tagged and takes it to both men, JJ Dillion uses a chair but it backfires allowing Luger to cover Anderson to win the tag titles. 7/10.  (Available on Ric Flair & The Four Horsemen and Legends of Wrestling: Heatseekers)  -6/8/88, Clash II, NWA World Tag Team Championship Match, Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard (Champions) vs. Sting & Dusty Rhodes: Its charisma and strength vs. technical skill in this good tag team match, Sting works on Anderson's arm, tags Dusty who beats on Tull which brings the crowd to its feet. The Horseman do get the advantage Sting takes a DDT out on the floor, but the edge doesn't last long as Rhodes is tagged and takes out both men. The ref gets knocked down causing a DQ, Windham comes down locking on the claw on Dusty while Flair attacks Sting. 6/10.  (Available on The American Dream: The Dusty Rhodes Story)  -9/7/88, Clash III, Russian Chain Match, Ivan Koloff vs. Ricky Morton: An okay one here with two tag team specialists in singles action and to win you need to touch all four corners in succession. The chain gets used as a weapon, Koloff chokes out Ricky who counters with his speed and works on the left knee of Ivan, but Koloff keeps hammering him down. Morton ends up dragging Ivan to all four corners and touches them to win the match. 4/10. The post match was nice as two masked Russians and Ivan's former manager Paul Jones beat up Ivan.  -11/15/89, Clash IX, I Quit Match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, Ric Flair (Champion) vs. Terry Funk: Great one here as these two had a good build-up leading up to the match, it goes in and out of the ring, each man takes and gives some hard shots. Both men try submission holds like the figure four and the Funk spinning toe hold to make each other submit. Flair keeps working on the knee and locks on the figure four again and finally Terry submits. 9/10. After the match Funk say he promised he would shake Flair's hand if he won and he did.  (Available on Ultimate Ric Flair Collection and Legends of Wrestling: Roddy Piper & Terry Funk)  -2/6/90, Clash X, Mil Mascaras vs. Cactus Jack Manson: Not much of a match here, Mascaras hits a lot of his usual moves, Jack does some comedy tripping over a chair on the outside for some reason. Jack does take a nasty fall hitting the concrete with the back of his head, back in the ring Mascaras hits a top rope splash and covers to win. 3/10.  -6/13/90, Clash XI, NWA World Tag Team Championship Match, The Midnight Express (Champions) w/Jim Cornette vs. The Rock 'n' Roll Express: A very long standing tag team rivalry continues with this good match as both teams countered the others moves, Morton and Gibson use their quickness to throw off Eaton and Lane. Midnight Express takes over working on both Rock 'n' Roll members, but the action breaks down after Lane stops the referee's 3 count so he calls for a DQ. 7/10.  Disc 2  -9/5/90, Clash XII, NWA United States Championship Match, Lex Luger (Champion) vs. Ric Flair: Coming into this match Flair felt if he won this match that he would get to face the World Champion Sting soon after, all he had to do was go through "The Total Package" Lex Luger. Having faced each other before Luger dominated with his power while Flair used his experience and dirty tactics to chop down the big man. The crowd was hot throughout the match, especially when Luger had the advantage and the closing minutes were gold with some close near falls. Suddenly Stan Hansen interferes causing a DQ and he pounds on Lex then leaves the ring. 7/10.  -6/12/91, Clash XV, 6-Man Tag Team Match, The Young Pistols & Z-Man vs. The Fabulous Freebirds: Interesting mix here with a watered down Freebirds and a quick paced trio facing them, the match starts off hot with Z-Man hitting a couple of hip tosses and the Pistols (one a pre-ECW Tracy Smothers) hitting top rope splashes. The Freebirds do target Smothers, but the Pistols and Z-Man hit triple sunset flips and get the three count. 4/10, quick but fun.  -9/5/91, Clash XVI, 15-Man Battle Royal, Participants: El Gigante, "Stunning" Steve Austin, "The Natural" Dustin Rhodes, Oz, One Man Gang, Z-Man, Terry Taylor, P.N. News, Sergant Buddy Lee Parker, Barry Windham, Tracy Smothers, Bobby Eaton, Thomas Rich, Ranger Ross and Big Josh: Really a lot of WCW mid card/jobbers here as it was more a less a match to put over the titanically awful "El Gigante" aka WWE's Giant Gonzales. Part of the cool aspect for older wrestling fans is seeing Austin, Rhodes, Kevin Nash as Oz in the early portion of their careers. Cool also to see Windham and Gang who were two of my favorites from my childhood. The finish is so bad as Oz has to help himself over the top rope since "El Gigante" couldn't accomplish that simple task, so Gigante wins. 5/10.  -11/19/91, Clash XVII, WCW United States Championship Match, Rick Rude vs. Sting (Champion): Coming into this match Sting had been receiving gifts from some guy who had a bounty on him, earlier in this night the guy turned out to be Lex Luger who injured Sting's knee and he went to the hospital. Paul E. is in the ring saying its too bad Sting can't make it, then an ambulance comes up Sting gets out, comes to the ring and takes it to Rude right at the ramp. Sting does have a good showing using some strength but sells his knee a lot, Rick gains the advantage targeting the knee and slamming it into the ring post. Sting is distracted by Paul E., Rude hits the knee then rolls up Sting for three to become the new U.S. champ. 5/10. Side Note: I personally remember this match sticking out in my mind from my youth cause I was a huge Sting fan.  -6/17/93, Clash XXIII, 2 out of 3 Falls Match for the WCW Tag Team Championship, Ric Flair & Arn Anderson vs. The Hollywood Blondes: Due to being under his no complete clause with WWE, this was Flair's first WCW match in about 2 years despite being back on screen for a few months. This had some good build-up to it stemming off the "Flair For the Old" segment the Blondes did to mock the Horseman. Pillman showed a lot of heel tactics to get under Ric and Arn's skin and Austin also had a good showing here. We know what Flair and Anderson can do and when Ric gets in the ring the crowd goes nuts.  It was a classic tag team match with both teams cutting the ring off at various times, despite a bad knee Arn drags Austin to the outside, Ric hits a clothesline on Pillman and covers him to win the first fall. During the second fall Ric gives and takes a beating especially on the outside getting slammed into the guardrail. Arn gets tagged in and works on both, hitting the spinebuster, but Brian clips the knee then the Blondes work on it. Barry Windham runs down and attacks Flair causing the referee to throw out the match. 8/10, would've been 10/10 if not for the finish.  (Available on The Stone Cold Truth)  -11/10/93, Clash XXV, Brian Pillman vs. "Stunning" Steve Austin: This was shortly after they split as the Hollywood Blondes and because they know each other, they played off each other quite well. It started out intense as Pillman took it to Austin and the action spilled to the outside and this stayed pretty hard hitting throughout. After Austin's manager pulled Pillman's legs when he attempted a top rope move, Austin made the cover to win the match. 8/10.  (Available on The Legacy of Stone Cold Steve Austin)  -1/27/94, Clash XXVI, WCW World Television Title Match, Lord Steven Regal (Champion) vs. Dustin Rhodes: Odd commentary team of Bobby Heenan and Gordon Solie here, Regal did some good heel tactics and displayed great technical skill that he's known for. Dustin hit some quick offense and works on the left arm of Steven, however Regal does keep up his own offense and the match stays at a good back and forth pace. The closing minutes are great as Regal keeps stalling for time, Dustin ends up hitting the running bulldog but the 15 minute time limit expires so Regal retains. 7/10.  -1/27/94, Clash XXVI, Elimination Tag Team Match, Sting & Ric Flair vs. Rick Rude & Vader: Rick and Sting renewed their rivalry and Vader was looking for revenge after losing the title at Starrcade and with these four you simply can never go wrong. Sting fights first Rude then Vader who has a good showing, Flair gets tagged and takes it to the monster from Colorado. Back from a commercial break Sting and Rude are at it again, then Ric and Vader go at it with Vader hitting many moves to target to ribs and back including the Vader Bomb and superplex.  Nick Bockwinkel the commish steps in and stops Vader from using a chair and he and Flair (who couldn't continue) are eliminated. Sting and Rick have a good match of their own, with Sting's back being the focus of Rude's attack. Sting does come back reversing a Tombstone piledriver then hitting a top rope splash and covers to win. 7/10.  Disc 3  -6/23/94, Clash XXVII, Championship Unification Match, Sting (International Champion) vs. Ric Flair (WCW Champion):  The backstory here was WCW was breaking away from the NWA hence the title unification stipulation, along with Flair being distracted with the recent signing of Hulk Hogan. Sherri Martel came down before the bell rang and apparently will be in Sting's corner, as for the match its not a bad one as they always worked well together but the side stories do take away a little from it. Sting uses his energy and strength while Ric does the typical dirty tactics and works on the knee for the figure four.  Early on Flair seems quite off his game, Sting just is full of fire throwing the Nature Boy around, Flair keeps up the offense, but Sting sits back up after a nice delayed suplex. He dives over the top rope but he splashes Sherri against the guardrail and Sting seems concerned about her well being. Ric takes advantage rolling up Sting for three and holding the tights to win become the unified champion. 7/10. Sherri is in the ring and her and Ric hug, so it was just an set-up, then they both attack Sting, until Hogan runs down and hits Flair some knocking him to the outside.  (Available on Ultimate Ric Flair Collection)  -8/28/94, Clash XXVIII, WCW United States Championship Match, "Stunning" Steve Austin (Champion) vs. Ricky Steamboat: Good wrestling in this one, Steamboat works on Austin's head and neck with a headlock and they both trade chops and cut a pretty good pace in this one. With about 5 minutes left Ricky gets knocked off the top rope and lands awkwardly which would lead to his retirement soon after due to a back injury. Steamboat turns up the aggression in the closing minutes and ends up getting an inside cradle and pins Austin to win the U.S. title. 8/10.  (Available on The Legacy of Stone Cold Steve Austin)  -1/23/96, Clash XXXII, Hulk Hogan & "Macho Man" Randy Savage vs. Ric Flair & The Giant: Main event talent based match here where there were some on going storylines with all four guys, Savage hits some quick elbows and Flair gets double teamed by both men. Once the Giant is in he throws both Savage and Hogan around, clubs at Hulk's back and slams him. Once Flair is in he hits a nice delayed suplex, Hulk gets slammed by Giant into the safety rail, finally Randy is in and he attacks Flair, Jimmy Hart distracts Savage long enough for Ric to use a foreign object to hit him and cover to win. 5/10. Zodiac and Brian Pillman attack Hogan, NFL star Kevin Greene comes in and they both throw Pillman and Zodiac out.  -8/15/96, Clash XXXIII, Medusa vs. Bull Nakano w/Sonny Onoo: This was a rare women's match in WCW featuring women that could actually wrestle, however it is quite short.  Having faced off before in WWE they knew each other well, Bull throws Medusa around by her hair a few times. Nakano uses some nunchucks behind the refs back, but Medusa doesn't stay down. Medusa hits a splash to the outside onto Sonny, back in the ring he accidentaly kicks Bull, allowing a roll-up for three. 3/10.  -8/15/96, Clash XXXIII, Match for the Battlebowl Ring, Diamond Dallas Page vs. Eddie Guerrero: Weird stipulation where DDP was putting his Battlebowl ring he recently won to get a shot at Eddie, this was during DDP's heel mode and Guerrero was on fire during this match hitting some quick moves but he goes into the ring post shoulder first. Eddie fights out of a sleeper and comes back, trading punches with DDP, he knocks DDP off the top rope, hits the frog splash and covers to win. 5/10. DDP goes to shake his hand, but hits three Diamond Cutters including one from the top.  -8/15/96, Clash XXXIII, Triple Threat Match for the WCW World Tag Team Championship: Harlem Heat (Champions) vs. The Steiner Brothers vs. Lex Luger & Sting: This was a trio of power as six men were strong, Scott hangs up Booker on the top rope and Lex hits a running clothesline knocking him outside the ring. There are some good spots here with each team breaking up pinfalls to avoid losing their chance to become champions. Nice face/off with Scott and Sting, with Steiner hitting and impressive slam but only for two, Lex tries for the Torture Rack but everyone comes in and its bedlam. As Scott has Booker down, the Outsiders interfere on the outside of the ring, referee Nic Patrick calls for a DQ which angers Scott and the fans. 6/10. As it was more about pushing the storyline of Patrick becoming a member of the NWO.  -1/21/97, Clash XXXIV, WCW Cruiserweight Championship Match, Ultimo Dragon (Champion) w/Sonny Onoo vs. Dean Malenko: Two of my favorites here as both are great workers and know some different styles, Dean grounds Dragon with an armbar, Ultimo targets the leg of Malenko. There's some aggression for Dean, slamming Dragon's head into the turnbuckle and slapping on a head scissors on the mat, then working on the left leg with various holds. Great superplex by Malenko, then a roll-up for two, then the pace turns up, with the action going to the outside and Ultimo hits the Asai Moonsault. Sonny Onoo distracts Dean but he still somehow locks on the Texas Cloverleaf and Dragon taps out so we have a new champion. 9/10.  -8/21/97, Clash XXXV, WCW Cruiserweight Championship Match, Chris Jericho (Champion) vs. Eddie Guerrero: Good but short one here with both mixing it up and Eddie was in full heel mode here, Chris hits some nice moves including sending Guerrero into the lights and down to the mat. Nice how Jericho catches Eddie from the top powerbombing him, nice suplex to the outside by Chris. Eddie comes back with a massive superplex for two, after a release german suplex for two, we have some pinfall reversals with Jericho getting the dupe as he covered Eddie for 3 to retain. 8/10, Guerrero attacks Chris laying him out.  -8/21/97, Clash XXXV, WCW Tag Team Championship Match, Diamond Dallas Page & Lex Luger vs. Scott Hall & "Macho Man" Randy Savage (Champions) w/Kevin Nash & Miss Elizabeth: There's a promo by Savage with the NWO as ballons fall from the sky to celebrate the birthday of the NWO, Nash gives Randy the opprotunity to defend his part of the tag titles in this match. There's a lot of balloon popping in the crowd in the opening minutes and it looks like Scott wants to face Luger, they have a lock-up where Lex throws him to the mat. Luger goes to the outside, Nash attacks him from behind but the ref sends him to the back, Savage and Hall beat up Lex some.  DDP gets the tag, hits some moves but is attacked from behind by Savage then both work on DDP's ribcage. Once Luger gets the tag it becomes a warzone, he slaps on the Torture Rack on Hall, Randy throws something in DDP's eyes and he accidentaly hits the Diamond Cutter on Lex. Scott covers to win to the match and retain the titles. 7/10 for the fun. The celebration by the NWO continues as they all come to the ring. Eric Bischoff cuts a promo and offers congrats to some members of the NWO. The mic goes out and the lights start to flicker, Sting is shown in the rafters as a narration is played.  (Best Buy Bonus) 3/27/88, Clash I, NWA United States Tag Team Championship Match, The Midnight Express (Champions) wJim Cornette vs. The Fantastics: Good, fast paced match with the Fantastics hitting the ring and attacking the Express, the crowd is hot througout. Rogers and Fulton are on fire, weapons like chairs and a table are used and its just an out of control brawl for the opening minutes. Finally we have a tag match, where the Express cut the ring off and work on Rogers for a few hitting a nice high/low, they just keep Rogers in their corner and beat him up for a while slamming him on a table on the outside. The ref gets sent over the top rope, another ref is in, Fulton is in, Cornette accidentaly hits Eaton with the tennis racket, the Fantastics hit the Rocket Launcher and cover to win the titles..... until the original refe reverses the decsions for being sent over the top. 8/10, there's also a post match brawl thats nice too.  (Best Buy Bonus) 8/15/96, Clash XXXIII, WCW World Heavyweight Championship Match, Hulk Hogan (Champions) vs. Ric Flair: Not nearly as good as their previous matches, this was about putting over a revenge storyline on Flair's end for what the NWO did to his friend Arn Anderson and also Hogan's reign beginning as a heel champion. There was some early stalling by both men, mainly Hulk though he hits some big power moves and even a few mat wrestling moves. Flair does hit some big chops and a nice double axe handle off the apron knocking Hogan into the guardrail. Shockingly Hogan hulks up, but does miss his legdrop, Ric slaps on the figure four, Hogan throws the ref down, the Outsiders hit the ring to attack Flair then the Horsemen, Luger and Sting come down to the ring. The ref does call for the DQ, so Ric wins but doesn't win the title. 5/10, for the poor finish.  There's some good contests here like the first match between Ric and Sting at the first Clash along with a few other good matches, but this is a mixed bag of good and bad and honestly a lot of the matches are either short or just aren't that exciting. So if you have a few of the sets some of these matches are already on then you have most of the best in your collection, yes the Malenko/Dragon contest is good, great even but its hardly worth getting this set for.

I expected this to be much better This had all the makings of a really entertaining and funny movie but somehow it just missed the mark.  It's not completely awful, but it's just OK when it should have been much better.  The cast is promising.  Kevin Spacey is a great actor and there's also Virginia Madsen and several other familiar actors.  And the premise of an infomercial guru (Robert Axle, played by Kevin Spacey) who lost everything when he went to prison and now is out and wants to start over sounded good.  So I think that leaves the script as the issue.  It seems like the writer/director couldn't started the movie as a spoof on informercials and then decided to throw in a little family reconciliation drama.  With elements of both types in the same movie, it doesn't work very well for either one.  The issues with this movie that keep it merely OK are pretty subtle.  The stuff that was supposed to be funny didn't make me laugh much and the stuff that was supposed to make me care about the characters often just confused me.  There was a scene with Kevin Spacey's character playing at the park with a little boy (that never would have happened given how shady he still looked at the time) that seemed really random.  Now that I think about it, I realize how it was supposed to fit in, but the director never really connected the dots.  A lot of the characters never got beyond cariactures so you don't get any kind of deep feel for them.  And Kevin Spacey's character flip-flopped between understanding how much people hated him and being completely oblivious.  That character wasn't particularly likeable so it was hard to root for him to succeed, either in business or with his relationship with his daughter.  And the angry roommate's character (played by Heather Graham) was all over the place and ended up just confusing me.  But the movie wasn't terrible either.  It just missed good and ended up at OK.  If you want a movie that will make you laugh and also care about the father character when he realizes his striving for professional success has costs to his family, I suggest <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005ILZ3SU">Win Win Win</a>.  That movie has everything this movie is missing.

Um..Well...You Decide I was very excited to purchase graduation day, as I have not seen it in years since I was a kid.  After watching it, well, I guess I never really thought much of the film since it was a slasher film. Now that I'm older, watching the film, I was a bit disappointed. While the film makes a attempt to become a great slasher flick, the technical aspects of the film fall flat on its face. The movie is cheaply made. Yes I know that all early 80s slasher films are this way, but this one is REALLY cheap!  The plot is interesting, but in terms of who would like this film, well thats hard for me to decide. I feel you REALLY have to be an avid 80s slasher collector to enjoy this film.  The general public will find this movie to be a joke!

Ann-Margret's performance makes it worthwile Actress turned director Lee Grant takes the reins in this musty cliche ridden "follow your dreams" film about a dominated, unhappy wife (Ann-Margret) trapped in a loveless marriage who dreams of going to Nashville and getting into the music business. When her sour faced spouse (William Morgan Sheppard) kicks the bucket, she tentatively begins her journey. Every possible overused hackneyed plot device comes into play as regularly as clockwork. Fortunately, Ann-Margret generates a lot of goodwill in the part and it's hard to resist her. George Segal, Brenda Vaccaro, Travis Tritt and Scott Marlowe co-star.  The Echo Bridge DVD is an adequate full screen transfer.

tman The movie was ok, but I thought it would be much better, the acting was ok also maybe some people would really love this movie.  If the movie push the evenlope just a little bit more it would have been a much better movie.  The movie I thought it would be like was Q, and Now and Later. great movie.

Tormented(1960) Tormented(1960) is a decent, unique, supernatural horror film from director Bert I. Gordon. A jazz musician(Richard Carlson) lets his sexy, well-endowed mistress(Juli Reding) die in an accident so he can marry a rich woman. She comes back from the grave as a ghost and she...torments him! Susan Gordon plays a 12 year old girl who suspects the piano player is guilty of something. Juli Reding was ten times sexier than Marilyn Monroe and she never reached stardom! Joel and the Robots from Mystery Science Theater 3000 did poke fun of this movie. Keep in mind that Tormented is also a British horror film made in 2009. Albert Glasser wrote the music score for Tormented(1960); keep in mind, it uses stock music from House on Haunted Hill(1959). Susan Gordon is adorable as 12 year old Sandy. Some people may remember her from a Twilight Zone episode. Some people claim that the international version of Tormented(1960) has alternate scenes of a nude Juli Reding! Tormented is a fun piece of cheese and it's worth watching if you can find it on late night TV or a budget DVD.

ABILENE TOWN YES I THOUGHT IT WAS A REASONABLE STORY TO THE MOVIE I AM A FAN OF RANDOLPH SCOTT AND RHONDA FLEMMING THEY ARE TWO GOOD ACTORS OF THE GOLDEN YEARS OF HOLLYWOOD

5 star book 1, 1 star book 2 5 star book 1, 1 star book 2 Book 1 is superb. Book 2 goes down hill quickly. I couldn't get past the first DVD of book 2.

Get this if you are expecting If you are expecting, there are plenty of movies out there that address that, including some light comedies.  The operative word is 'light'.  Producers have always believed, and still do, that this subject should only be a light motif, a romantic comedy as it were.  Therefore, you normally get the Doris Day-Rock Hudson treatment.  To the credit of this film, they do include some tragedies related to childbirth, which I won't reveal, as well as some of the other events so related.  I recommend this film to those expecting or within a year, plus or minus, of the whole process.  However, my criticism is the word 'light'.  Even when they have a hard subject to present on the screen, it's buried in the hectic action of several couples dealing with expecting.  We never really identify with anyone, so it ends up being a lot of action with no emotional payoff.  Carmen Diaz portrays Cory Everson, statuesque TV fitness beauty, with whom she shares some likeness.  She is gorgeous as always and is the center fulcrum of the movie.  Other couples come and go, each having their own personal drama related to childbirth or things related.  Given a blank canvas, a funnier, sexier, more dramatic film could've been made. Instead, we have the usual 'safe' film with very few risks...

Pocahontas is fantastic. The sequel makes me die a little inside. Pocahontas is magic, but wish the deleted song "If I Never Knew You" was restored into the film like in the 10th anniversary edition. It adds so much to the overall story. Pocahontas II fell into the same trap that the Fox and the Hound II did. Terrible story, terrible supporting characters and terrible music. The songs in the sequel sounded like a child wrote them. The ending was unforgiveable and the main characters weren't themselves. I'll never watch it again.

NOT the final destination . I saw this back in 2009 it was tense fun and funny.I enjoyed every minute of it except a few things.The ACTING was a huge letdown and sure the FD movies have never been known for high caliber acting but still this was a letdown.  The 2 girl characters were extremely grating everytime they talked horrible actors and just flat out annoying.The main character was very good looking but bland not that interesting to say the least.The stereotypical jerk guy was very cute and someone I was rooting to die the whole time.Mikael Williamson I think thats his name anyways was pretty interesting as a former alcoholic who had lost his family due to an accident.Was not pleased with what happened to him that is all I will say.It was cruel extremely fast and just plain cold.  The deaths ranged from meh to pretty good won't say which or whose deaths in case someone has still not seen this movie.  The 3d was awesome for the most part but after a while it got boring with stuff popping out every few minutes. After a while it became predictable.The ending however I did not see coming and thought it was a great twist.Will not give it away but suffice it to say you should never think for one minute that you are SAFE in a FD movie. Overall a good entry to the franchise a great opening sequence at a race track some good acting some horrible and a clever twist at the end I did not see coming.This is not by no means the BEST FD not by a long shot to me the 2nd one was the best so far.I have still not seen the recent one the 5th one in 3d so I can not make an opinion of that as of yet.

Typical Beginners Drawing Video I was hoping that the Gluck Method would be a detailed step by step training on how to draw for my high school daughter.  It was to a point, but the first 10 minutes of the video was spent on how to hold your pencil!  We both got the point after the first 3 minutes.  After yelling at my daughter's hand (all in pure laughter) to hold the pencil lightly, she started to see a vast improvement on the much needed fluidity in natural drawing she was looking for.  It is helpful to purchase a cheap easel and the pencils you will need.  It is also best to practice with small objects first to train your hand to draw with fluidity and then move on to more detail projects.  It beats the ridiculous classroom prices!

Reservoir Dogs 15 th Anniversary Edition i wrong buy it. I think this edition gas can ... because I see picture insert it. But is okey because i don't have it. Nice story but average transfer maybe next someday i will buy blu-ray edition.

Weak story with Awesome Special Effects and Action Sequences I'm a 3D enthusiast and purchase most anything released in 3D. The earlier Clash of the Titans worked well for me and 4 stars for that one. This one really lacked an engaging story and was panned as dreaded awful by many reviewers. Rightfully so as the story is not really there for most any viewer and for the 12 year old crowd, it should have a decent story. Stilted acting is a turnoff for the critics who panned it.  Let's move on to the gorgeous sets and outstanding costumes! This is a VISUAL DELIGHT and the 3D special effects are outstanding as they were in the "Clash of the Titans." For this visually oriented viewer a story is not really that important in order to view more than one time. I do know I'll enjoy it over and over and maybe use the fast forward button for the torture scenes in hell! I imagine kids won't like this part much on any viewing and they did dwell TOO MUCH on those scenes.  This is a creative endeavor for the film makers and the scenes with the maze, like a (mouse through a maze) were engaging and creative. The big ending with the bad god trying to destroy the world was on par with the destruction of Kraken in the other film. If you have a choice, select the "Clash of the Titans 3D" as the better film. Box office figures were down about a third on "Wrath of the Titans," however were substantial. The next one ( if there is one) has got to be better or they can forget the franchise.  This is 2 1/2 stars for me (and less for many viewers).

Not my favorite HP film, but it was ok. The movie was okay. I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it. I watched the DVD five times since its release and I still can't point out any favorite scenes or lines that I like. Overall, the graphics and cinematography were great as always. The Sword of Gryffindor scene was exactly how I pictured it when I read the book, same for the scenes in the Ministry of Magic. The most disappointing scene for me, was the imprisonment at Malfoy manor. It could've been much better in my opinion. But I understand it's still considered a kids film.  I still think they did a good job, but I wasn't as 'hyped' about HP7: Part1, as I was with the other previous films. I do think where they chose to end this film was awesome. The very last scene was good. Can't wait for Part 2 :)

Hondo the character deserves better than "Hondo" the movie Hondo (John Wayne), a half breed who sometimes scouts for the Army, becomes involved with a homesteader woman (Geraldine Page) and her young son (Lee Aaker) during a time when the pressure of the westward expansion is bringing conflict with the local Apaches to the boiling point.  Wayne and Page give good performances, and the character of Hondo, with his unswerving but intensely personal sense of honesty and his antisocial dog, is interesting, but John Farrow's direction is uninspired.  The final battle, which was shot by John Ford, is an improvement.  Characters pay lip service to the nobility of the Apache way of life and the white man's responsibility for the conflict with them, but the filmmakers' sympathies are clearly with the settlers, as the Apaches are a constantly threatening presence, even when they are being magnanimous.

Disappointing audio This is my favorite Los Lobos album. Great performance but sound is disappointing.  1- The center channel is mixed way too low. I have to crank up my center +10db for a reasonable balance.  2- harsh sounding recording with too much of the room mixed in. Poor venue sound-wise or mixer doesn't understand surround.  3- Berlin's sax is mixed way too low, have to strain to hear him even when he solos.  I have a reference system in a well treated room. I have double checked other blurays and they sound fine, so no system issues.  I will keep it thought, music is still worthwhile.

DAVID LEAN FILMS on BLU RAY!!! I want to own EVERY single David Lean film on Blu Ray or HIGHER, those formats will BEST preserve LOA and his other masterpieces!  I hope CRITERION will be involved with that task, I LOVE "For All Mankind" on blu ray!  :D

B movie from the twilight zone Acting gets a C-.  Production a C.  Direction a C.  This could have been an episode of the twilight zone.  The movie is entertaining just keep expectations low.

This is not the original film I've seen the original film and I can clear up the confusion:  this is not quite the original.  There are two key scenes cut out of this version.  The transfer to Blu-ray is great.  However, the film itself is muddled with the two missing key scenes.  If you are looking for the complete uncut film - this is not it.

I like it but I wouldn't recommend it I'm in a difficult position. I like this movie but wouldn't recommend it, not even to those diehard horror fans like me that must watch all horror movies. It's not one of those "it's so bad it's good" type of movies. It's one of those "It's so bad, it's bad. Nevertheless, I like it but I wouldn't recommend it because I know most people wouldn't care for it" type of movies. I wonder if other people have ever been in my position.  I liked the cinematography. It had nice photography and scenery. I didn't like or dislike the characters. But I was interested in their fate. I was also interested in their conflicts with one another. I liked the music as well. Sometimes it grated on my nerves. But most of the time it went well with the movie and satisfied my musical tastes. Personally, I liked the whole atmosphere of the movie and have watched it several times since buying it two days ago.  I wanted to give this a 2.5 rating. My star rating is a 3star system: 1 star=poor; 2stars=far/pretty good; 3stars=good/excellent. I'd give this 2stars. It's possible I could watch it more and my rating will increase :) But I can be a weird guy sometimes.  I couldn't recommend it because there were too many plotholes. Admittedly, I believe I understand the movie better than others, but I still saw a crapload of plotholes. The cover is also misleading. The girl crawling away from the semi gives the impression that this is a killer truck driver movie ala Joy Ride. The killer truck driver doesn't exist at all. The protagonists are the killers of each other. The truck drives them insane enough to kill each other.  All in all, this is a movie where you will see LOTS of unexplained things happening. It's not a movie that will make you think. But it's the type of movie where you have to draw your own conclusions. Sometimes it works in cinema, sometimes it doesn't. Judging by the fact that the majority of reviews for this movie are negative, I'd say this didn't work for most people. For those of you who still want to see this movie, here's what I'd recommend: read the synopsis for this movie on wikipedia or imdb; read the reviews; read the spoilers; watch clips or even the full movie; etc. I would not recommend you buy this movie for more than half minimum wage. I got mine for 99 cents. Maybe that's why I can be so forgiving.

9 Rota - Afganistan, USSR's Vietnam War The film is based on real events. Based! that is and certainly not a true story any more than Full Metal Jacket is a true story but based on the Experience of the Vietnam War. Anyone looking up the real events this film is based upon will be greatly disappointed, it is not a true story but an interpretation of the War the Soviets fought in Afganistan. Good to clear that up!  This film was very popular upon its release in Russia, the culture is changing and as was with Vietnam movies in the US now a generation in Russia is looking for the untold story of Afganistan. In fact these experiences are on par. Full Metal Jacket is also the movie to compare it with for the story unfolds in a like manner, we follow new recruits from the start then through training on to deployment in Afganistan then to combat and finally a last battle.  The first part of the movie I thought was really good, the cast is a mismatched bunch of men turn into soldiers. Not many Hollywood faces and very gritty stories to the side make it very entertaining. One could say brutally funny. The second part at trainig is also impressive (even if you have seen movies like it before), they have the drill sergeant from Hell: Praporshik Dygalo. He pushes them and breaks them down harder than any other drill sergeant but as it turns out because he wants them to survive. The third part, deployment in Afganistan is also good, soldiers life of hurry up and wait, what to do to spend time, alcohol and such. Also the newcomers are nothing to the veterans. And then on to the forth part which is a bit of a let down. Plenty of explosions but not very good battle scenes and it is more reminiscent of old action movies with a lot of silly heroics. And an end that has nothing to do with the events the movie is based upon. As with Star the Russian film industry is just making an entry into modern filmmaking and they have a lot of catching up to do, but I think they will get there fast.  The first 3 parts of the movie are very entertaining and then it lets you down a bit but is still very watchable. Cinematography is here and there excellent and the Russians seem to have access to a considerable amount of military hardware. There is a scene with two Hind Helicopters flying that is very impressive but then you also have battle scenes that have plenty of explosions but bad choreography.  I enjoyed the film but don't consider it a masterpiece. But then I am not of the lost Soviet generation and I can understand why the movie would have a greater impact with them.

An Intriguing Tale Not Up To DCAU's Standards Allow me, for the sake of justifying my complaints about this piece from the onset, to say that I am a subscriber to the theory that the DCAU crew is responsible for the absolute best incarnations of the DC comic characters of all time.  Whenever I begin to burn out on the whole animated comic hero industry, a trip to my Batman the Animated Series collection or through a few Justice League Unlimited episodes are all it takes to remind me of everything that is right about the concept of turning static comic panels into animated life.  That said, I've noticed many of the crew responsible for the aforementioned properties (Bruce Timm, Alan Burnett, the late Dwayne McDuffie and company) have since shifted gears from weekly serial production to animated feature film work exclusively.  While a few of these features have been pretty darn impressive (I enjoyed Batman: Under the Red Hood, Superman/ Batman Public Enemies and Justice League Crisis on Two Earths to mention a few) but All Star Superman is one of the oddest animated films I've encountered, DCAU or otherwise, in quite some time.  All-Star Superman, on which this picture is based, is a twelve-issue comic book series featuring Superman that ran from November 2005 to October 2008. The series was written by Grant Morrison, drawn by Frank Quitely, digitally inked by Jamie Grant and published by DC Comics.  The film incarnation is actually the tenth in the DC Universe Animated Original Movies line released by Warner Premiere and the first in the line that is rated PG (as opposed to the usual PG-13 rating).  The plot goes like this: Dr. Leo Quintum and his P.R.O.J.E.C.T. Team are exploring the Sun when they are sabotaged by a booby-trapped, genetically enhanced Lex Luthor clone. Superman saves the doomed crew, but it turns out that in the process has been overdosed with radiation that, while responsible for increasing his power initially, is actually slowly killing him. Luthor, having orchestrated the death of Superman while under the employment of General Sam Lane, is arrested thanks to Clark Kent's article and sentenced to death.  Playing off the unique angle of the arch nemeses responsible for the inevitable death of the other, there is a lot of potential in this plot structure.  Sadly, I felt as though the delivery of these ideals never manages to live up to the possibilities.  For starters, this 76-minute film suffers from the undeniable feeling of trying to fit entirely too many key moments from the 12-issue book run into a little over an hour's worth of narrative.  As expected, this mash of plot threads often comes off as completely disconnected from one another.  Characters appear frequently, do something completely contrived, then vanish for the duration of the film.  Detours like Superman's encounter with Samson and Atlas and even the Kryptonian scientists will leave even the most diehard fans of the franchise scratching their heads in "what in the world was that?" theatrics.  These threads work out in the books on which this film is based simply because they are given due time to develop.  Perhaps had they been integrated here more subtly earlier on and allowed to play out in the background to the seriousness of the larger issues at hand, they may have worked out here as well.  Instead they come off as unnecessary plot devices.  However, in all fairness there are a few qualities here that prevent this one from sinking like a cinder block.  Among these are the opportunity to witness Frank Quitely's bright crisp art work come to animated life and a modern take on the Lois Lane character.  In all though the end result here is quite a muddled mess.  The story itself is interesting and arguably tragic enough to warrant looking into the mini-series but the film will most certainly under-whelm both fans of the books and of past DCAU efforts alike.

A Few Laughs I thought this movie was going to be hysterical based on all the hoopla I've heard but I was very disappointed.  Granted there was a few laughs here and there, but it was by no means a funny movie.  Should have rented it rather than buying it.

Good Start Great family film with a great message.  Anyone looking for a good family film will be pleased with this. This is the first in a series of Christian films.

True story about an unsolved mystery.  Was expecting better, different role for Kirsten Dunst.  Really just OK. I say B- Is it always good for a son to be like the father?  This is a movie based on real events surrounding the disappearance of Kathie McCormack (Dunst).  Under mysterious circumstances she disappeared and though her husband Robert (Gosling) was suspected no one was ever brought to trial.  The movie opens and we find out that was Robert was seven years old he saw his mom violently die in front of him, and through out the movie we see the effect this had on him.  This is a good, but very slow moving movie.  This is a different role for Kirsten Dunst, who hasn't taken on a part like this since "Virgin Suicides", and she did a good job with it.  The movie's strength is the performance of Ryan Gosling who is excellent at playing a seemingly normal guy with major psychological issues.  It was such a convincing performance that everytime he is on screen you will tense up.  Overall it was a good movie, but I was expecting more.  Acting was really good though.  I give it a B-.  Would I watch again? - I don't think I would

This was a pretty decent remake at least give it a chance. After all this is MUCH better than many remakes these days In Springwood, a group of teens find themselves being violently murdered off in their dreams one by one by Freddy Krueger [Jackie Earle Haley] and it's up to Nancy [Rooney Mara] to somehow stop Freddy before he kills off the entire town's teens. This remake had one STRONG thing going against it before it was even released and that was obviously the fact that Robert Englund was not gonna be Freddy anymore meaning that for the first time ever we would have to see another actor assume the iconic role. And i have to say that although i had very low expectations going into this movie, I found myself able to make it through this movie hell i even thought it was good in some areas! What i found good about this remake is that Freddy's backstory was explained a lot more here than in the 1984 original and Freddy is a much darker and more sadistic character here than he was in ANY of the original films as he's not a child killer but a child molester [which WAS Wes Craven's original idea for the character]. And for the most part, The acting here is pretty good [especially by Haley and Rooney]. However there was obviously some flaws as the actors who played Freddy's second and third victims were no good and they unfortunately took up the first half of the movie which hindered the movie a little bit but after they're both killed off the movie gets a WHOLE LOT better! And the biggest flaw of them all is that Freddy's demise near the end is VERY lackluster [which ultimately causes me not to rate this movie higher]. While not as entertaining as the 1984 original, This remake does offer a few thrills and this is better than many of the sequels that the original film spawned. Plus you have to admit that although Robert Englund is greatly missed as Freddy, Jackie Earle Haley done a good job with playing Freddy here. You definitely won't be laughing at this Freddy!!!!!

Entertaining Entertaining movie. I feel that the actors did a good job. Really liked the music in the movie. But, I feel as if the movie had no real

Movie good format not so much This is probably my husbands favorite move of all time so I was excited to get it for him for christmas. However the format on it is not the most user friendly the scene menu is not organized at all, and you have to flip the disk over halfway through the movie in order to finish it, but again it doesnt line up exactly where it is supposed to with the change over. Overall I am disappointed with the disk and will most likely end up buying him a second copy of this movie.

Ok, Good for Russell Brand This is my first real experience of Russell Brand, other than being Katy Perry's arm candy.  Guy flick in the likeness of Pineapple Express, etc.

Erin Brockovich - The movie This movie has a very interesting and somewhat terrifing tale, and is said to be true!  Basically, its about a water company poisoning people for years and not caring about it.  Julia Roberts was very pretty in this movie, however, she does drop the "F- bomb" ALOT!  I doubt if the lady in real life acted as bitchy, but who knows?  A good story, an eye opener for those who blindly trust companies.

Was Don Cheadle in this movie? During the 80s and 90s Hollywood had a structure.  There were certain genres of film that were guaranteed to please mass audiences and ensure box-office success.  There were movies such as operatic sci-fi features, dismal horror franchises, and the recycled, yet inevitable, buddy-cop comedy.  Defined as a crime film with plots involving two men of very different and conflicting personalities who are forced to work together to solve a crime, this sub-genre of the "buddy films" seemed to have become transparent until the late 2000s when the wave of Apatow buddy comedies (Pineapple Express, Superbad) seemed to saturate the market.  The mismatched Gibson/Glover combination was replaced by crass humor, drug smoking, and over-exaggerated tween underdogs.  Now, the classic genre seems to be returning with such films like Kevin Smith's Cop-Out and Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes, and especially with John Michael McDonagh's 2011 film The Guard.  This film oozes buddy-cop from the beginning, boasting huge talent from the likes of Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, and the overused Mark Strong.  Gleeson plays a small town Irish Garda (cop), who isn't afraid to speak his mind and rule the coop.  From the opening car accident, Gleeson is shown as an officer who realizes crime will happen; his role is to be there to clean it up.  This isn't a story about a corrupt cop, but merely a man understanding Ireland and reacting with the modern crime climate.  Everything has its place, Gleeson is introduced to FBI Agent Everett (played with sheer boredom by Don Cheadle) by way of a faux-occult serial killing.  By a cinematic miracle, the two join together to bring down an international drug smuggling ring, attempt to tell a few jokes, and finally end up causing more confusion than clarity throughout the hour and thirty minute ride.  Praised at Sundance for being funnier than Hot Fuzz and In Bruges combined, The Guard does allow Brendan Gleeson to take a leading comic role.  This is a step away from the stoic historical figures and emotional dramas that viewers typically find on Gleeson's platter.  This feels fresh.  While Hot Fuzz was more unchained pop-culture comedy, Gleeson provides the perfect blend of wit, emotion, and Irish vernacular.  You laugh AT Simon Pegg; but in The Guard you laugh WITH Gleeson.  Listening to him speak lines like, "You're thinking, these men are armed and dangerous, and you being an FBI agent you're more used to shooting at unarmed women and children..." one is introduced to a great taste of the culture and the foreign surroundings.  This is Brendan Gleeson's film.  He controls the scenes, he leads the fight, and he provides the comic relief.  His nomination for a Golden Globe demonstrates his dominance in this film.  The Guard is worth the time merely for Gleeson alone, which leads me to Don Cheadle.  Cheadle's choice Everett's characterization could, and should, have been done by anyone in the movie industry (animal or vegetable).  He was monotonous, he was bland, he was dull, and he provided no value to the overall story or plot structure.  Perhaps Cheadle was overshadowed by Gleeson's Boyle, but the two did not fit the above mentioned definition of "buddy-cop".  There needed to be a driving force behind Cheadle instead of merely lap-dogging around Ireland with Gleeson.  Jokes fell flat with Cheadle, unsure if he felt out of place in Ireland, or it was the writing, but when Cheadle goes door to door searching for evidence (or a witness), we are uncomfortable instead of laughing.  Gleeson throws the jabs and zings, while Cheadle merely absorbs and shuffles his was from scene to scene.  With this undesirable turn, The Guard instantly transforms into a Brendan Gleeson movie, with a lackluster supporting role by Don Cheadle (animal or vegetable).  Admitting, the cinematography was beautiful in this film.  Larry Smith should be praised for taking the stark grey of Ireland and coupling it with some bright neon interiors of each scene.  Alas, despite how beautiful this film looked, the story itself could not keep up.  Written by In Bruges' brother John Michael McDonagh, our story is flawed in the execution.  Small parts do not seem to fit within the frame of the whole.  This should have been a simple drug story, but McDonagh intermits his screenplay with unannounced small twists (i.e. the occult murder) that try to keep us guessing, but instead sends you down winding paths with no end in sight.  We know, early in the film, who our villains are (and if you don't - look for the group of guys [Mark Strong] who are cast as villains in nearly every film), and this reveal should send us on a straight path to the ending.  But, instead of being our guide to the dramatic conclusion, McDonagh's script calls for a child picking up guns in the swamp and conversations on "liquidate" to fill space.  When the ending arrives, the audience is so washed from the experience and mismatched storylines, that no emotion or excitement can be produced for the final seconds.  In this viewer's opinion, McDonagh was attempting to recreate the popularity of his brother's film In Bruges by casting Cheadle in a lead role, but unlike Colin Ferrell and Brendon Gleeson's chemistry, McDonagh doesn't give enough for Cheadle to do, and it becomes a one-man film full of dissapointment.  In the end, The Guard is a fun ride, but not a perfect film.  Watch this movie for Gleeson's comedic talent and Don Cheadle's epic failure.  The pairing is weighted to the wrong side and despite the beauty of each scene, the story's focus is too scattered for the short amount of time.  Too many personalities attempt to fight for screen time forcing Gleeson to the top.  This is a foreign film, and perhaps some of the Irish nuances were lost in translation, but not a film that should have been a bigger money-maker than The Wind that Shakes the Barley.  Good, but nowhere near great.  John Michael McDonagh doesn't quite have the talent behind the camera as his brother Martin has already demonstrated, and recreating the same wheel doesn't showcase your talent for cinematic imagination.

Amazing visuals This is one of the better looking 3D blu rays, but the story just wasn't very captivating. It didn't hold my 4 year old's attention past the first 15 minutes and I had to fight to stay awake later on to finish it. I enjoyed the extras that I did watch. I'm sure that if I had read the source material I would appreciate the movie more, but as it stands it's just an okay movie that's only worth watching for the gorgeous visuals.

Another Chick flick An ok chick flick, but not my favorite. Has an interesting plot but not one that strikes a real chord. Some of the gutter language is required for the plot resolution, but it made me uncomfortable. Definitely not the greatest actors in spite of being big names in Hollywood.

One Great Character Looking for a Better Story Based on a character in a fake trailer in "Grindhouse," "Machete" is essentially one short movie expanded into a feature-length action. Danny Trejo plays a former Mexican Federale hired to assassinate a US senator played by Robert De Niro. Machete is a man of few words, deadly with weapons, and he is also a lady's man. This is the prolific actor's first leading role, and though the film is flawed, Danny Trejo is perfect as the vigilante hero.  Part homage to exploitation movies, "Machete" is one-joke sketch turned into a 105 minute film. While the thin storyline is the film's obvious weakness, its strength lies in the cast including Jessica Alba, Jeff Fahey, Don Johnson, Lindsay Lohan, Cheech Marin, Michelle Rodriguez and Steven Seagal. With a cast of mostly B-list actors (and former A-listers), violent and sexy "Machete" certainly makes it point in its ultra-gory pre-credit 15 minutes, which is the best (or to some, worst) part of the film.  But like most Robert Rodriguez films "Machete" tends to be slack and even dull when it forgets what it sets out to do. We know this is entertainment and we shouldn't take the film seriously, but some actors seem not to see things that way. The subplots about "Sh&eacute;" and Alba's agent (with her not-so-convincing speech) only slow down the film. The confusing climax with so many characters shooting each other is a letdown. The filmmakers need better action choreography.  "Machete" belongs to perfectly cast Danny Trejo. I hope he will come back in "Machete Kills" and "Machete Kills Again," but please, next time with a better script.

Heoric Three Not yet sure if I like this movie or not.  It is in Chinese with english subtitles so you miss a lot of the action just trying to read the lines.  I can either read the lines and miss the action going on or watch the action and not know what they are saying.  I wish all movies in the US would be in English.

It trys to be a good movie but the end falls a little short As far as the quality of the film, the characters and the acting ....... excellent. True Indie type quality where the talents of the actors, cinematographers, director etc are the instruments that make a good film not the money and effects.  *** Spoiler alert ***  The plot revolves around an aging artist, Julius Morlang who, for all his faults, is deeply buried within himself. His wife of 15 years cannot get through to him and eventually has a an affair with a young and upwardly mobile artist named Jansen. To provoke emotion from Julius, she gave him many chances to stop her going to see Jansen. Morlang, chose to let her go.  Morlang follows her to Jansen's studio and sees his wife and Jansen locked in the embrace of pure passion. Morlang's heart now broken and deep in rage at his wife retreats further into himself. Shortly after Morlang's wife is diagnosed with a brain tumor that leaves her but weeks to live. She and Julius agree on a suicide pact. Julius, prepares the potion and, unbeknown to him, his wife makes a Video tape and mails it to Jansen telling Jansen whats going on and that she and Julius have decided to commit suicide together. However, Julius only serves his wife the potion and she dies alone.  Now, the twist, prior to his wife's suicide, Julius had received news that the tumor his wife has could, and, more likely is, benign. He doesn't give this news to his wife but continues to serve her the potion. Jansen receives the tape and decides to stalk and eventually ruin Morlang as, Morlang deceived his wife into taking her own life.  It fell short at the end for me as, I couldn't make the pieces fit well enough to justify Jansen's actions. Had, on the other hand, Jansen known about the good news NOT delivered to Morlang's wife, then his actions would have been justified and more acceptable.  Still, an excellent movie, well acted, well presented and totally believable in the plot but, as mentioned, for me, a little short at the end.

Warning -- this is chopped off Full-Screen format Mediterraneo is a wonderful movie, and I had been wanting a copy for a long time . . . but not this one. It's cut down to narrow screen format, which just ruins the composition. It is set in a remote Greek isle, and part of its charm is the panoramic vistas.

Morons in outer space Whether or not you like this movie seems to boil down to whether or not you can accept that the crew of  a trillion dollar expedition consisting, one would hope, of the future's brightest and best would actually contain so many unlikeable morons who make so many moronic decisions for whatever moronic reasons  and are funded by someone who looks like old Biff in Back To The Future 2! You can chose to believe that the plot holes will be explained in a sequel but that in no way is an excuse for the total absence of sympathetic or believable characters in this particular film. Other reviewers have covered in great detail the obvious weaknesses of the plot. For me, one example of the weakness of the scriptwriting is demonstrated by the three crew members sacrificing themselves to - we can only hope - save humanity near the end of the movie. Their actions would have had a greater impact.... no make that their actions would at least have had an impact if we knew enough about these individuals to care about them! Three stars for the visual elements if you can separate that from the weak script propelled by the moronic actions of the moronic crew members.

You'd Expect More With Such a Talented Cast I've always been somewhat perplexed by the "hilarious" reputation this 1981 hit has garnered. "Stripes" follows Bill Murray and Harold Ramis playing two friends dissatisfied with their lives, so they join the Army. And of course, hilarity ensues - or attempts to ensue, but most of the time the comedy seems rather forced. The best thing about "Stripes" however is unquestionably the chemistry in the tension between Murray's slovenly, irreverent John Winger and Warren Oates' realistic drill instructor Sgt. Hulka. John Larroquette is of course brilliantly funny in his sniveling role, with occasional bright moments from John Candy as Ox and Conrad Dunn as Psycho (but don't call him Francis or he'll kill you). Otherwise, "Stripes" is a bit generic, a letdown made all the more disappointing considering the slew of talented players on board.

Decent DC animated film This was an enjoyable outing. It is not on the same level as "Batman, Under the Red Hood" or "All Star Superman" which I consider to be among the best in the DC animated universe. But it is the best of the Justice League Movies that have come out so far.  Disclaimer: I'll watch anything with superheroes.

Was ground breaking at his time... This talking/singing movie, based from a Opera and songs of the famous Oscar Hammerstein was ground breaking. This is a early musical who's not playing as revue on stages like "Broadway Melody of 1929" or "Hollywood revue of 1929". Also ground breaking it was: the movie was originally filmed in color. But sadly, the color version is lost so we get only this black/white on DVD.  Movie is playing in the WW1 about a troup stationed in africa. Soldier is loving a native girl from there but he's calling to another place.  The movie isn't bad and I would say for movie fans historical interesting.  The picture Quality and sound are ok and watchable.  DVD-R, No chapters.

Strictly for fans of the title song or of Marilyn Miller. When my grandfather died in 1967, he left a box of records that he wanted me to have.  After all, for my 5th birthday, all I wanted was a copy of Benny Goodman's Wang Wang Blues.  One of the records in that box was Who? and the flip side was Sunny.  Ever since my 7th year, I've loved both songs, so it was a no-brainer for me when I found this movie for sale.  That said, I realize that this sort of thing requires a sort of fandom that isn't needed for, say, many other movies of the time.  The sound is fairly good, but apparently so much music was cut from this version that all I heard was part of Who? and a little bit of Sunny.  There's a fabulous dance scene toward the end in which Marilyn does a precursor to the Moon Dance, and anyone who loves Marilyn Miller will want to see that.  So, I had to give it three stars.  Me?  I'd give it 5, but I wouldn't want to mislead anyone.

GRANNY I ORDERED THESE DVD'S FOR MY HUSBAND FOR CHRISTMAS B/C HE SIMPLY LOVES THE NORTH AND SOUTH. HOWEVER, UPON WATCHING THEM, I WAS HIGHLY DISAPPOINTED IN THE VIEWING OF THE DISCS B/C THEY WERE VERY POORLY DOWNLOADED, THEY SKIPPED PRACTICALLY THROUGH THE WHOLE COLLECTION, AND DISC NO. 3 IS NOT EVEN WATCH-A-BLE. ALL IT DOES IS BLIP BLIP BLIP. AND IF THAT WASN'T ENOUGH, PART OF THE SEGMENT IS MISSING OR HAS BEEN TOTALLY OMITTED. I HAVE ORDERED MANY DVD'S THROUGH AMAZON, AND I HAD ABSOLUTELY NO TROUBLE WITH THEM, BUT THIS TIME AMAZON LET ME DOWN.

Great story, but... not well told.  Dialogue was unnecessarily rough and at times uneven.  Brando was, well, not at his best, but wasn't given much.  Interesting premise and some good twists.

Pretty good DVD This is a great yoga DVD for beginners who are unfamiliar with yoga. The instructor takes her time and explains each move and it's benefits. I use this video mostly when I'm feeling extra sluggish and need more relaxation than toning. It has been a great addition to my workout, but for those of you who were already practicing yoga and are looking for something a little more challenging, I would recommend an additional yoga DVD like "Element" which is both relaxing and strength building.

Did Brendan Behan write this? CENTURION (2010, 97 minutes) is a fine endless battle-and-chase-and-battle-and-final-gigantic-showdown-battle Roman-era film. That is, if you like this sort of meaningless tripe action film. Set in 117 A.D., and as always centering on the mysteriously vanished 9th Legion, Michael Fassbender actually gives an unusually riveting performance as Centurion Quintus Dias. That's right, they gave him a Spanish name that probably wasn't even in existence yet, but Romans will be Romans in whatever century they occupy.  Here, north of Hadrian's then-new wall, Dias and only a few others survive horrific, gore-laced battles with the Picts (who amazingly speak modern Irish Gaelic, right down to the Anglicized mispronunciations, instead of speaking Pictish, which language is a mystery to us anyway). I began laughing as they were haunted and hunted by a vicious, supernatural Pictish woman called Etaine ( wrongly credited as "Etain", a Goth makeup nightmare by the name of Olga Kurylenko). Those ladies were tough fighters but they weren't like this. This lady mows down Romans as if they were Legos.  There isn't much for me to add to this. There are just too many other films running along these lines, such as the equally ghastly <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0060CXW3O">King Arthur</a> (2004, see my review), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000V39KDO">300</a> (2006), the excellent family film <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VKL6ZM">The Last Legion</a> (2007, see my review) and the equally excellent and underrated <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0034G4P58">The Eagle</a> (2011, see my review). Of these, THE EAGLE and THE LAST LEGION are by far the finest.  I was very impressed by the beautiful Imogen Poots who plays Arianne, the outcaste Pictish witch. Actually she is a healer who got the bad end of the stick - much like Dias will discover he's getting from the Empire after he gets back home.  One thing I can say I am heartily sick of seeing is the set of common refrains running through these films (I back down from 300 because I have no time for a film like that): you can always count on stupid anachronisms galore, phony Celtic peoples ("Hey, why not make 'em all Irish?"), a Roman on a stupid quest, other colorful foreigners fighting with the Roman on his stupid quest, badly spoken Gaelic or Gobbledygook, Ice Age weather, very bad history overall, vast oceans of blood, violent battles that go on too long and finally, Romans deciding Britain is the pure land and defecting from the Empire.  It is poetic, a little bit of it is occasionally true - for the most part it is a repetitive bore to see that stuff over and over and over ....  My recommendation is you watch the other films I mentioned before you see this one. You may find once you've seen a bit of it that you don't want to waste your time. Then again, you just might develop a bit of a soft spot in your heart for this thing, as I did.

The original is much better Having seen the earlier version of the Lorax, the new one pales in comparison. The original Lorax had some of the best artwork and color palette of any animated film to date. The film was aesthetically pleasing to the core.  The new version is formulaic. The artwork is actually pretty good, but the story and pacing are uninspired and uninteresting. There is also a very serious, realistic tone to the new film (i.e. character mannerisms, music, etc) that ruin it. The old version had an almost "magical" look and feel to it.

VERY SHORT! My daughter and I really enjoyed the Gift of the Night Fury, but it was only 22 minutes!! We expected a full length movie. And the Book of Dragons wasn't even that long. Plus the later wasn't really a story. Very disappointed. Wanted to watch another movie with Toothless, Hiccup and the rest of the Vikings.

Not my style I guess I'm just not a fan of "lost footage" fake documentaries.  This was the closest I've ever come to liking one, which I guess says something in its favor.  This movie purports to be the footage of a college film crew investigating a local disturbance involving a bear poacher.  When they begin following him, they discover that he is not hunting bears, but trolls.  The proceed to follow him around as he goes troll hunting, camera shaking all the way.  And that's pretty much it.  They seem to be going for understated comedy, which they pull off well in many places.  Hans, the troll hunter, is played perfectly.  He treats troll hunting like a boring office job, and casually dresses up in an iron armor suit with a giant syringe to get a troll blood sample, moaning all the while about how he hates his job.  He's almost a cross between Bill Murray in a Wes Anderson film and Marvin the robot from the Hitchhiker's Guide.  The parts about Hans are great.  Unfortunately, lots of the film consists of pointing the camera at random objects, scenery, or other crew members.  They seem to think we care about the film crew, when we actually just want to see more Hans.  And the shaky cam.  Oh god, the shaky cam.  If you don't like shaky cam, look elsewhere, because every time the trolls show up, it's basically watching someone run through the woods with the camera.  You see lots of ground and trees.  I would have liked this movie a lot more if they had went with the mockumentary style using a regular filming method rather than going for the fake documentary angle.  In short, the parts with Hans are great, but are only about a third of the film or so, and the rest isn't very good at all.  Overall, I'd recommend it only if you like the fake documentary style.

HAS THE FEEL OF A 1970s MADE FOR TV DRAMA A fan of the book for some time, I was anxious to see the DVD.  It's not bad.  The leads have a great task and each has his/her moments, although they both become cloying too often.  The film is 'eye filling' and detailed, but it all has the sort of faded look and feel of some 1970s, made for TV movie or mini-series (perhaps it was?), and as I watched it I realized much of this feeling is prompted by the musical soundtrack which intrudes constantly in Dr. Zhivago style.

Not quite the "Battle Los Angeles" I was expecting. When I first heard about this film, I thought it sounded really cool, despite being familiar. But when I saw the final product, I couldn't help but find it to being lower than my expectations. "Battle: Los Angeles" took itself way too seriously, when it should've been fun, exciting, and entertaining. And I'm proud to call myself an Action movie junkie, but I personally expected more and better from this film.  I guess for this generation if I want to see an alien invasion film where the military goes to war with them (particlarly if they're robots, like the one in this film), I'll just have to settle for Michael Bay's "Transformers" film for the time being. Say what you will, but at least "Transformers" never took itself too seriously; and  it was better than this.

it was better than the fourth one... This was an improvement over the fourth one but I still find it lacking without Jigsaw being directly involved.  I just don't care much for the detective caring on his work.  The traps were improved from the last one but still not as interesting as they were in the earlier ones.  It moved along at a pace that seemed slow to me and I was tempted several times just to fast forward to see what new games were instore for victims.  The victims were all related through a business deal that was rather shady and they did indeed figure that out (or at least the remaining ones); but I preferred the earlier ones that weren't so blatantly related like in the first Saw movie.

Time The item came and was in great shape with no complaints, but the process and information requested for tracking was ignored and any information on where the item was in the process was not communicated.  Anything I asked was ignored.  The item took the full 10 business days to arrive, but it was in great and useable condition, but communication did not exist with the seller.

Great Dinosaurs, Tired Story Jurassic Park III should have been an exceptional movie. It had most of the cards in its hands; good actors, great special effects. The story undid it.  The good parts first. Jurassic Park III looks great, that's for certain. The 3D dinosaurs by Industrial Light and Magic are incredibly lifelike and fearsome. The 3D animation is incredible. The Spinosaurus is an amazing, menacing villain with a spine-tingling presence, quickly demonstrated when he disposes of the menacing Tyrannosaurus Rex with relative ease. The cinematography is A+ as well, with sweeping vistas contrasted by lush, claustrophobic greens in the midst of the jungle. Jurassic Park III scores highly in the visual department.  Even though the movie looks great, though, it has absolutely no substance. The central story is very flat and poor. Unlike the other two movies, where science really was at the forefront, here it's rather annoyingly one-dimensional. A kid gets stranded on Isla Sornar AKA Site B on an illegal parasailing trip. How stupid do you have to be to do that? His divorced parents trick Alan Grant into taking them there to save him, where they promptly get stranded and at the mercy of the deadly gang of dinosaurs.  The problem is, it's extremely one-dimensional, and not in the fun way. Sam Neill reprises his role as Alan Grant, but he has very little to work with. Nothing is resolved at the end, either. There is no payoff at all to the depressing setup with Alan's present life, not even partly (and having him broken up with Ellie is very out of character for them both). In spite of bouts of fierce energy, the movie's atmosphere is tired and flat.  The danger to the characters could've been much stronger if the movie'd dared to kill off some more of its characters. The script undermines the Spinosaurus's ferocity every time, making him barely feel like he's trying to catch the heroes. The T-Rex in the previous two movies was a constant threat, and fatalities were just frequent enough (and usually more) to remind us of that. Spinosaurus is very fearsome at the start of the movie but then puts on more of a show than an effort. One moment, we see him smashing through a solid steel fence in a great display of passion for the hunt. The next (literally), he can't even smash through a steel door. That's what I call a cop-out. Spinosaurus, buddy, you were doing so great!  The movie isn't brave enough to be a mindless killfest or polished enough to be a satisfying story, making the dinosaur encounters, thrilling though they are, feel very anticlimatic. There is a particular shot where the characters fall, inside a damaged plane, and all yell while looking directly at the camera. It was akin to something from a full-on comedy, not a survival thriller.  With a better story and script, JP3 could've been the movie it deserved to be.

Truth Hurts, Donut? This was a tough watch. I expected anti-hero dark comedy, but it's far more dark than comedy. Sure, we're given plenty of the 'oblivious beauty queen in state of painfully arrested development.' It was fun watching her attempts to skew reality in the way that best suited her needs; that's the defining trait of the Mean Girls, after all. Then the pity happens. We see that she's seriously broken under there, and we're expected to feel bad for her. Poor, sad drunk pretty girl. And just when she seems to be at the brink of a genuine breakthrough, she hops back into her broken life and drives away.  While I admit that a magical Romey & Michelle redemption for Mavis would have infuriated me, it would've been nice to see that she learned even the slightest bit from her escapade. But the fact is, some people simply don't learn. They peak at 17, then face 60 long years of mediocrity. That's an ugly truth. Some people have their lives utterly ruined at 17 and never quite get over it, and that is also true. So don't expect a quippy, quirky, long overdue hair-pulling for the mean girl 'cause this ain't it.  DO, however, look for brilliant and nuanced performances from both Theron and Oswalt.  They both dig right to the center of these characters and own every bit of their frailty and ugliness and complexity.

Yeah.....but NO I'll keep it short and simple:  The cast is awesome and I love these guys in this flick. It only has a few LOL moments though and the story ain't too bad but EVERY OTHER WORD in this movie is f***!!!!  It gets real old real fast.  Now.........I have a dirty potty mouth like a logger but man this movie got irritating quick when they couldn't have a normal conversation without that word in it! Don't get me wrong, "F" is a great word, I use it on a day to day basis and i love it, but in this movie it's way way over used.  Anyhow - it's worth a watch but not to buy.

Difficult to Believe This script manipulatively sanitizes the two main characters when it turns out they had both been despicable outlaws from day one.  A later prison incident reveals that drugs had been the major factor in their romance.  Perhaps the extended version showed them to be the outlaws they really were.  Good acting; lousy script.

good Good movie, not as good as the book and even left out a main character but hey, the movie is never as good as the book now is it?

Oddly affectless story Student Services dir Emmanuelle Bercot 2010  Oddly affectless story  3*  If I had been led to this film by the included trailer, I might have been tempted to sue for false advertising.  The trailer makes it sound like a sprightly French sex comedy -- "I got," the arch voiceover declares, " ... creative.  The money is great, the work is stimulating.  Now, I'm making pleasure my business, and putting my studies on hold."  Tre bien! Such fun!  In reality (even ignoring that she did not, in point of fact, put her studies on hold but pursued them doggedly), given the topic (schoolgirl prostitution), the scandalous real-life memoir on which it was based ("Mes chere etudes" or "My expensive education" by "Laura D."), and the abundant nudity and sexual situations, this film is dreary and surprisingly bland, as reflected in its muted, dingy tones.  Laura (Deborah Francois) is a university language student in an unspecified city (not Paris -- she eventually moves to Paris), barely squeaking by when her boyfriend/roommate Manu insists that she start sharing the rent.  She responds to an online ad by Joe (Alain Cauchi), a persuasive fifty-something gym teacher, seeking companionship, and thus begins her career as occasional, part time, self-employed call girl.  She leaves Manu and takes up with the dreamy but drifting Benjamin (Mathieu Demy), connects with another (or a few, this networking could have had more screen time) student prostitute, and enjoys the fruits of her new found solvency (new jeans and jacket, dinners out).  After a series of escalating encounters with Joe, increasingly disturbing but with temptingly increasing fees, Laura flees to Paris, where she studies for her exams while working in a restaurant.  The film is sandwiched within Laura's heavily disguised TV appearance as a book author.  Deborah Francois as Laura is rather ordinarily pretty (hardly "stunning" per the jacket copy), a typical young, healthy college girl.but largely affectless, sullen,  and awkward and shy -- or alternately, just bored -- with the clients.  She seems to find little "stimulating" except the money she receives, or the new computer Joe gives her.  The character Laura just seems generally uninteresting, a mopey, withdrawn adolescent.  I also find it odd that she doesn't even pretend to any interest or pleasure with the johns -- isn't that supposed to be part of the deal?  Well, they are mostly too engrossed in their own fantasies to notice.  Far more interesting, indeed, are those johns, in particular the earnestly manipulative Joe.  Cauchi, and the other actors who portrayed them, deserve credit for playing such exposed roles.  The film does have its aspects of interest.  The relation with Joe -- and that with boy toy Benjamin -- has some nuance.  Whether or not it depicts a widespread social problem is the actual scandal surrounding the original memoir.  Not a bad film, but on the whole, it just doesn't click for me, or only on a sort of 'eh' level.  A little too didactic, and the character of Laura did not particularly engage my interest or sympathy (a bit more back story might have helped).  Even the tension of the situation with Joe does not really grab me (how many times can you shout "Don't go down into the basement"?)  So I'll go with 3*'s on this one.

Cute for kids, I fell asleep This was pretty cute and the kids loved it however not as entertaining for adults.  Oh well, I rented it for the kids anyway!

Collection Good item to add to my Comic movie collection so my kids can show there kids and keep the imignation alive. If they still have DVD's by that time

Is Archie Really So Bad? The 1st season of "All in the Family" makes Archie Bunker appear as a bigot. (Or at the very least ultra conservative.) Though with some redeeming value.  This 2nd season takes an interesting turn. Many episodes can make us wonder: "Is Archie really so bad or different from most other people?"  Many people might consider it really disrespectful to come into your house and express a desire to paint your daughter naked. Or in "The Saga of Cousin Oscar," who would want to be stuck with an expensive funeral bill for someone you didn't really get along with or know very well?  In "The Insurance Is Cancelled," who would want to be in the position of having to fire someone?  In "Christmas Day At The Bunkers," who would want to have to explain that you lost your bonus and couldn't afford many Christmas gifts?  People may call Archie a chauvenist. But Maude a feminist is especially annoying. She is rude to Archie in his own house. (Rotten and despicable=Rotten and despicable whether yo are a male chauvenist or a feminist.)  In "The Elevator Story," we see that Archie doesn't think much of the Spanish people in the elevator. But the black man doesn't think much of the Spanish people there either. "Archie and the FBI" portrays realistic reactions to a sudden investigation from the government.  In "Mike's Mysterious Son," Archie is understandably annoyed at a child suddenly being dumped in his house. Maybe Archie Bunker is a bigot. But he's very nice to Sammy Davis Jr. when he visits. (He's also nice to Lionel when he visits.)  I think we miss the point of this show if we don't see that Archie isn't really so different from a lot of other people around him.

I expected more from Kronos... or other Titans to play along First off, the plot of this movie was not good at all. I had trouble understanding who is who in the in the movie and I was expecting a lot more action in the climax of the movie especially when Kronos woke up. It is an okay movie for entertainment and I really liked the graphics played out in this movie. Kronos really looked good and as well as other effects. The director who created Harry Potter, did a great job directing/producing this movie. Since I watch Harry Potter, I noticed little effects like the Satire in the movie that looks like it could come from the Harry Potter Series. Otherwise, I was just was not feeling the plot of the story. I could assume the girl in the movie was Athena, or was she Athena? I mean, what is a good Greek God movie without Athena?  I just wish that the plot was a lot more interesting and not to mention little bit educational so that people can be entertained by whatever story the movie is going to show. This movie seems as though the audience knows who were the Greek gods. Luckily, I did, but others might not. In addition, would it be nice to include other Titans too? It would become a five star movie if it included other Titans such as Gaia, and would actually match up with the movie title, "Wrath of the Titans."

uh oh I'm sorry to be such a Scrooge with Christmas rapidly approaching, but while watching Far From Home- The Adventures of Yellow Dog tonight, it sort of struck me as boring.  I was expecting a family-oriented film that focuses on a teenager and his dog struggling to make it after a terrible boat accident leaves them stranded along the rocky coasts of British Columbia, and the film delivers in that respect but... it just *barely* delivers.  The entire presentation feels really bloated and exaggerated to me which is typical of early to mid 90's adventure films.  A film that certainly LOOKS really good and I imagine a lot of time was devoted to making it, and I remember back in the mid 90's how these type of animal movies won the hearts of everyone who had an affection for them, but as the years pass and technology and filmmaking changes, I find a movie like this just isn't very fun to watch anymore.  I can't remember if this film was produce by Disney but it definitely *feels* like it was.  My biggest problem is that the actual survival story between the teenager and his dog was incredibly shallow.  Yes they collect bugs, kill animals when they get hungry enough, encounter dangerous wildlife animals such as wolves and wild cats, but... it's just not enough.  These segments feel undeveloped and uncreative.  It's just not enough entertainment and doesn't offer a darn thing as far as originality is concerned either.  It's completely missing anything TRULY enticing.  Yes, the parents are worried that their teenage boy is missing.  Interesting though that it never seemed to cross the mind of either those searching for the boy or his parents (with the exception of one scene) that he might be dead.  It was also strange how it was just assumed the boy would make it on land.  I'd be flying planes over the ocean first.  If that was MY son out there missing in the woods, you better believe I'd fear the worst.  Granted, there was one really good emotional segment where the father looks into a mirror and cries his eyes out while his wife comforts him, but eh... that was just one moment of sincerity surrounded by a subtle belief that the boys life was never *truly* in danger.  Not very appealing or accurate storytelling.  The fact the film is barely 75 minutes long is another problem, and even though everyone loves the dramatic and touching ending, I've seen better.  Actually had the entire movie been dramatic and memorable like the ending, it would have been even better.  Personally I feel Homeward Bound is a LOT better because that movie utilizes not just a compelling story of animal survival, but humor as well.  A much better movie than this one.

Content Is Edited Others have done a good job detailing what's on here, but for those wondering, some of the original entrance music and Jesse Ventura's commentary are not included. So, during The Hollywood Blondes vs Ric Flair & Arn Anderson, and Brian Pillman vs. Steve Austin, expect to have a disjointed commentary, since only Tony Schiavone's part of the commentary is included. All in all, not a bad collection of matches, but the edits are annoying.

PA 2 In my opinion, the first Paranormal Activity is one the 5 best horror movies ever (yes, that's right--ever!). I watched it with my girlfriend who was not nearly as freaked out as I was. When I went home the next night and went to bed, I locked my bedroom door!! That's how freaked out I was. So I was VERY interested in the sequel even though, I know, the sequels are rarely as good as the first. This is the case with PA 2. The only time I jumped was when Kristi was in the kitchen and all the cupboard doors opened up. It was interesting to see doors move, shadows, the baby's mobile move, etc. but otherwise this wasn't very scary and very disappointing. Please, don't make PA 3!! I'd recommend it to fans of the first, but don't expect much.

Entertaining for a toddler Bought this dvd for our 4 yr. old grandson who likes pirates, the sea and sharks. He really enjoyed the show.  My granddaughter who is 8 thought it was only okay.

I liked it... I think this actor did a good job playing a young spiderman, the director had all the actors put a lot of emotion into this movie, it just wasn't good guy versus bad guy, there's a lot more to the story. Love that Sally Field and Martin Sheen played the parts of the Aunt and Uncle. I am going to go out on a limb and say this was by far my favorite Spiderman movie.

billy elliot the movie The photography and the acting is wonderful, (the acting that is) if you could understand the dialect.  I swear this film should have been released with subtitles.  The movie mostly was the expression of the actors, occassionally a word I could understand.  I have no problem hearing, I could hear a flea fart.  I would like to have had the sound track cleared up or sub titles.  The premise of the film as best as I could tell is that an artistic boy (child) in a poor working class neighborhood doesnt work well to be exact not at all.  I found one scene in particular really hard to watch.  The scene involves Billy's  gay friend and Billy dancing in the boxing ring.  All of a sudden he is discovered by his father who just looks like he could kill the boy.  Then Billy goes in a wild dance pulling out all the stops, its as if he dancing for his life.  I could have loved this film but with the dialogue I'd have to give it a 3 out of 5

reba series I really dont know about this product being I bought it for a gift,,I know it came in perfect condition,,and I am happy for the Amazon website being so great!

Great tips, but... When you are a new parent and have a collicky baby, this video is a great comfort.  Dr. Karp presents his tips gently and demonstrates repeatedly over the course of the video.  On watching it the first time, I remember thinking - hope!  But...  I thought the video was too short and Dr. Karp could have provided a lot more advice.  Once I get my baby to stop crying while I'm practicing the 5's, how long should I continue to hold her?  My baby has quieted down, but as soon as I put her down to rest she wakes and starts crying again.  How long will this period last?  When our baby cries, should I pick her up immediately?  How do I try to get stuff done while going through this?  Overall, I felt the video was helpful (hence the 3 stars), but other than: swaddle, shh, shake, side, & suck...there's not much here.

Yes, but is it good? I will preface this review with the following: I do not own this particular Blu-Ray release.  With that out of the way, I'm kinda peeved at how impossible it is to learn from these reviews whether or not this Blu-Ray release is any better than the 2007 release by Metrodome. All I'm seeing are gushfests at how great the movie itself is. That's nice, I enjoyed the movie as well when I was a kid and as an adult. But is the product itself GOOD? It's supposed to be 1080p, does it SHOW (That's the whole point of Blu-Rays, to get the full-theater experience)? Does it look BETTER than the 20th Anniversary DVD that Sony put out six years ago? Judging from the product info, it just looks like the 20th Anniversary DVD by Sony but with a Blu-Ray sticker slapped on it. And no one seems willing to elaborate any information other than OMG, I LOVED THIS MOVIE, GALVATRON WAS SO COOL, UNICRON WAS SO....., stop it. I don't care. How good is the film transfer? Can you tell the difference between this and the DVD? Unless you can tell me this, you have no business reviewing products.  Advice for future Amazon reviewers, tell me the highs and lows of the product itself, if the product is worth getting, or if I should stick with something else. Save the fanboyism for the blogs and forums.

Entertaining enough action vehicle Faster doesn't offer much in terms of explanation as it begins, nor does it have to.  After a man only refered to as Driver (Dwayne Johnson) is released from prison, he goes on a vengeance-driven spree with no remorse and little emotion involved.  On his trail are two cops (Billy Bob Thornton and Carla Gugino) and an ego-centric hitman (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), but even they can't derail Driver's mission of revenge.  The more that Faster reveals as its story progresses, the more interesting it gets.  That being said, the more that Faster progresses, the more predictable it gets too.  Still though, Faster delivers in terms of solid action set-pieces, and you can't really ask for much more than that.  Not to mention that it's good to see Dwayne Johnson in an R-rated action movie instead of more family-friendly fodder, even if the film's script squanders most of Johnson's charisma in favor of an emotionless demeanor.

Bee Gees: In Our Own Time [Blu-ray] Quality is great, but I was hoping for more of a concert or greatest hits song videos.  It's more of a documentary of there life.  I didn't quite get that from the description.  It's still good, and very well done.  Give you a lot of behind the scenes information.  But I don't think they play one song in it's entirety.

Nice box set but quality dubious All the accolades on the video quality of this bluray set is deserving but not the "stones" housing the 6 discs  Almost all of the discs in my set were scratched except for one, which managed to stay on the disc holder. One disc was so bad scratched it feels rough to touch. Mind you, it's not a line scratch but circular! The plastic clips of the disc holders were broken and fthus, failed to keep the discs in place. I wonder if bubble wrap would help to cushion impact during course of shipping.  I also suspect my set is a refurbished one.  All the discs were placed (barely) in locations different from what the manufacturer intended. The plastic wrapper for the red book within the boxset was opened/torn. Buyers who experienced the same locally could imagine how bad the condition is when It finally reached me in Singapore!

It is what it is... Sadly, ever since Brian De Palma directed the original `Mission: Impossible' film back in 1996, the franchise has taken a nosedive.  The first film was so inspired and so dark; using subtlety in place of over the top action sequences in order to create a truly grounded and organic film.  Sure, there were moments of extreme peril (who can forget that droplet of sweat) and there were extreme action scenes (that helicopter sequence was staggering) but they didn't feel like gimmicks.  Then we had `Mission: Impossible II', directed by John Woo.  This was a straight up action flick with some superb moments, but overall the film ranks second place to its soundtrack, and that is never a good thing.  When I initially saw the J.J. Abrams helmed third installment, I found it compelling and thought for a brief moment that it balanced the stealth of the original with the action of the second rather well.  It has since faded and became, in my esteem, the worst of the franchise, despite a rather devilish turn by Philip Seymour Hoffman.  So that brings us to Brad Bird's `Ghost Protocol'.  Yes, that Brad Bird, the guy who directs Pixar cartoons.  `Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol' once again feels strained.  The plot itself becomes null and void because it struggles to make sense, and the action scenes are so over the top they can come across bizarre, but what Bird does well here is grapple with the balance of serious and humor that makes the film all the more `fun'.  Maybe this has to do with his grasp of animated fare and the understanding of mood, but I found that this film didn't take itself as seriously as Woo's or Abrams' films and so it felt better on my stomach.  I understand that it is ridiculous, but I embraced it because it wasn't forced down my throat.  The visual effects are amazing, especially that glass building climb sequence, and the sand storm is ravishing (if unnecessary).  The acting is kind of bad, especially Paula Patton who goes all Beyonce at one point and I felt like I was watching `Obsessed', but you aren't watching this for the acting; right?  In the scope of the series, I can't rate this yet.  Initially I'd place it second, but I have a feeling in time it'll fall to third.  The first two films, while wildly different in tone, stick to their strengths.  I want someone to blend the two to perfection, but as of yet that hasn't happened.

Okay condition I was looking for a crappy vhs version of Toxic Avenger and that's kind of what I got, so no complaints. I received the movie very promptly which was very nice because I was in a pickle and I even sent this company an e-mail asking if they could get it to me in time and they responded that day.  The sleeve for the movie was a bit beat up and the movie was half rewound lol.

Hmm This is a fairly entertaining film with several solid actors like Ice Cube, Tracy Morgan, and Katt Williams, but the storyline itself left a bit to be desired. The basic setup is that a pair of guys down on their luck think it'd be a good idea to steal money from a church. However, there's already some people at the church so it develops into a hostage situation.  The ending is somewhat predictable and cliched, but this film is not without its entertaining scenes. There are some funny lines here even if the overall story was a bit weak. There's a theme of forgiveness in here - not surprising, really - as well as a hard-nosed person who does not want to forgive. It's fun for watching once if you're a fan of any of the actors in this film.

Grainy Video, Good Audio I'm not going to review the movie; just the Blu-Ray disc, which is what everyone who's interested in purchasing this movie on Blu-Ray wants to read.  I purchased the 2010 Blu-Ray version of this film.  I can't believe that they can't make a good Blu-Ray disc from a 2005 movie.  There is a lot of grain.  A lot of detail, yes, but a lot of grain.  It is probably better than the DVD.  Just beware.  For a newer movie, I expected exceptional video.  It is not.  The 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio is good (all 5 channels plus sub-woofer).

the satire could be sharper but Clooney saves the day So just who are these men who stare at goats?  They're members of an elite, covert military unit - known officially as the New Earth Army and unofficially as Jedi warriors - trained to use New Age mysticism and psychic powers to defeat the enemy (their staring at the goats is supposed to result in the animals' deaths). Bob Wilton is a newspaper reporter from Ann Arbor, Michigan who becomes personally involved with the unit while serving as a war correspondent in Iraq.  He's drawn in by a retired Special Forces operator by the name of Lyn Cassady who lets Wilton in on some of his most closely guarded secrets.  Based on the book by Jon Ralston, "The Men Who Stare at Goats" claims to be based on fact.  As that rare dark satire that takes on militarism and war as targets, Grant Heslov's "The Men Who Stare at Goats" gets more points for guts and daring than it does for execution.  Its points often lack clarity and focus and the hijinks occasionally feel too much like leftovers from "MASH" and "Catch-22" for total comfort.  Yet, there are enough offbeat and humorous moments to more than compensate for the frequent concept that backfires or the occasional joke that falls flat.  The basic premise of the story seems to be that since war is the province of madmen and fools, who better fit to wage it?  And in the topsy-turvy world of Peter Straughan's screenplay, even the counterculture concept of hippy-dippy pacifism gets co-opted by the military machine.  The acting throughout is first-rate.  George Clooney is so entertaining as the half-brilliant/half-mad Cassady that he makes the movie worth seeing for his performance alone.  Add to that a host of fine performances by Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey and you have a flawed but occasionally compelling work.

Good documentary This is a good film, but I found James Fox's more recent "I Know What I Saw" much better (a 5 star).  Definitely buy "I Know What I Saw" - it's more sophisticated, better made technically, documents the best UFO sightings, very good music, etc.  But having said that, I still like Out of the Blue.  Also, I found "Phoenix Lights" exceptionally good (another 5 star) - on par with I Know What I Saw.  I personally have all 3.

BAD MISTAKE although this may be a collector's dvd for the early era/generation of cliff and the shadows - be aware: THIS DVD IS NOT IN DTS AS CLEARLY ADVETISED. it is not understood how this dvd could have been PROMOTED as DTS - seeing there is nowhere misleading information on the dvd-box. the sound is good BUT ONLY AFTER TURNING THE VOLUME PAST 12 0'CLOCK on the amplifier's volume dial. bad outlet negligence. andre

Don't Make A Habit of It The main issues I have with this film are summarized by the Amazon "editorial" review:  "Habit is a modest, intelligent study of loneliness, addiction, and urban alienation."  Missing from that sentence is the word "vampire," and throughout much of this film, particularly the first half of it, I wondered where the vampire(s) might be, and if she, he, or they would ever make more than a token appearance on camera.  Furthermore, "...this 1997 tale of urban vampirism, overlooked in the wake of two similar productions, Michael Almereyda's Nadja and Abel Ferrara's The Addiction...(is) less precious than the former and less pretentious than the latter..."  Nadja features the superb Elina Lowensohn and actually puts a few things on screen worthy of hyperbole.  The Addiction might seem "pretentious" but only if you see nothing entertaining in the concept of a Christopher Walken portraying a vampire who spouts off like a graduate student in philosophy.  And what the Amazon reviewer fails to acknowledge is that Nadja and The Addiction are both vampire films.  The main point is vampires.  It's all about the vampires.  Habit, by comparison, "...periodically loses itself in side stories..." which have nothing to do with vampires or anything but protagonist Sam's sad, alcoholic life, and frankly if you replaced the vampire with a kinky dominatrix you would have the same film.  And, of course, because Habit is "art," rather than merely a "movie," many of the film's flaws are explained away by the "pretense" of a director (and reviews not my own) playing coy with the audience over the question of whether the vampire is really a vampire, or if the only thing "supernatural" in the film is happening inside Sam's head.  Well, right on the box cover it says, "The most believable VAMPIRE flick I have ever seen -- Chicago Tribune."  Sadly, not enough of a VAMPIRE flick for me.  Also, I would hesitate to describe Habit as "...a compelling paranoid psychodrama..." because the film seems rather to define the problem of a self-indulgent screenplay.

Linda Blair's Boobs Well, I had to title this review something! "Hell Night" is one of those lost horror films from my youth that I have been trying to track down, among many others, to see again, since so many are not available in stores anymore, and showings on T.V. are non-existent. Thank god for Amazon. Now that I have finally gotten my mitts on the movie, how does it fair from what little I remember? Let's get started....  "Hell Night" is about 4 pledges, two guys, two girls, who are trying to get into their respective fraternity/sorority. With only two pledges for each, how good can they be? Anywho, the initiation the four must go through is a doozy. They are taken to Garth Manor, a large, spooky abandoned house/castle. Years ago, Papa Garth murdered his wife and children, but one child, a mutant, was left untouched and is still thought to be dwelling inside the manor. The pledges have to spend the night in the place until sunrise. You know the rest.  Released in 1981, amidst the peak of the slasher movement, "Hell Night" is a decent little thriller. It doesn't re-invent the wheel, but it tries to be something a little different than the typical slashers, and the setting helps with that. One of the main fun parts about these types of movies, especially ones from this era, is the atmosphere. "Hell Night" certainly delivers that aspect of the genre in spades. The house itself is expectedly eerie. The outside, filmed in all the darkness it can, looks like the quintessential horror movie house. The inside, which I believe to be a set, is as equally intimidating. Director Tom De Simone makes real good use of the location, the dark, corners, secret passageways, etc. They really don't make them like this anymore! The movie looks appropriately spooky, and De Simone films some pretty effective "jump scares", one in particular really caught me off guard. The final few minutes of the film, where our villain meets his end, is clever and a lot of fun. Probably my favorite part of the entire movie. There are some decent scares here, and the mood of the film is pretty cool. As far as violence and gore, it would be considered pretty tame nowadays. It's not really dripping with blood, and there is no nudity. Two things that usually define these types of movies. Still, it has enough great atmopshere and scenes that, even if you are there looking for the blood and boobs, you will still be pleasantly surprised.  Cast-wise, the actors are a little more adequate than your typical slasher fare. Granted, no one is going to win an Oscar in one of these things, but this group are a little better in the acting department, and you actually kind of like them. That cast being the one and only Linda Blair, Peter Barton (Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter), and Vincent Van Patten, son of "Eight Is Enough" star Dick Van Patten.  "Hell Night" suffers from slow moments where characters take their time walking around the location, and sometimes it feels like forever, but there is enough good here that the movie delivers for a fun, entertaining night of a throwback cult classic film.

Great movie, awful video quality A classic, very watchable romantic comedy that will really speak to anyone who grew up in the early '90s.  The DVD transfer is awful, however.  It looks like it was recorded from a VHS videotape.  I saw this movie in the theater when it came out, and I remember well the terrific cinematography, unusual for a low-budget film of the time---the gray overcast drabness of Parker Posey's character's daily life in Manhattan contrasted with the bright colors of her carefree nighttime existence.  It would be great to see that again on a proper DVD.

Not too surpricing!! The movie turned out to be somewhat like the first one, it is entertaining if you are looking for some SiFi action.

Good film (but of course, I have to criticize...) YOUNG VICTORIA is a lavishly produced and well-acted production. I loved seeing the accurate period details in this film: the clothing, the sets, carriages, etc.  As mentioned the performances are uniformly well-acted, especially Emily Blunt & Rupert Friend as Victoria and Albert, and Miranda Richardson as the Duchess of Kent.  It's a *lively* film.  By this I mean it's well paced; it does move and breathe, and has some touching moments.  I didn't feel that YOUNG VICTORIA was some blah, pearls-n-fur regurgitation of long-forgotten historical incidents, with upperclass British accents thrown in.  I probably would have given this film 4 or even 5 stars but the thing that's bothering me after seeing it - and certain other historical films - is the, I think unnecessary, ignoring or twisting of facts for dramatic purposes.  Now, I hasten to add, I know that a screenwriter has to make a story move along (and this one, to its credit, really does), and also has to make the story interesting to a general audience - most of whom probably are totally unaware of anything about Queen Victoria's life.  (Actually, however, most viewers of this film probably DO have some knowledge of Victoria's life story, because let's face it, the early life of a 19th century queen wouldn't be interesting to today's reality-show-saturated younger crowd.)  But - personally speaking - I found some of the screenwriter's choices very unusual.  I didn't 'get' the casting of the important role of Lord Melbourne with a youngish, handsomely slim actor (much younger than the real life Melbourne), and the writer's choice to ignore the father-daughter aspect of the real Melbourne's tutoring of Victoria in the art of leadership.  Instead of the older mentor-Melbourne, we're given a power-hungry jackass, who wants to control Victoria just as much as her mother did.  And King Leopold of the Belgians, the uncle of Albert and Victoria, wasn't some infuriated puppetmaster pulling their strings.  In fact, they valued his advice (and Baron Stockmar's, who's portrayed here as a robotic control freak who reads their letters, and forcing Albert to memorize Victoria's likes and dislikes).  In fact the young Queen Victoria looked upon Leopold as a second father, and Stockmar was a trusted mentor and close friend of Prince Albert.  Then there were are these really melodramatic - and untrue - touches, such as Albert's attending Victoria's coronation (sharing a tender look with the Queen after her crowning), and taking a bullet for her during a carriage ride - which tidily resolves their first serious quarrel and is the key to Albert's getting rid of Baroness Lehzen, Victoria's old governess, who was jealous of the Prince.  But in reality (and just as easily and interestingly dramatized), it was after the birth of Victoria's first child that Albert's issues with Baroness Lehzen came to a head.  And it was Queen Victoria who didn't want to marry during the first two years of her reign - she was enjoying herself; enjoying her first taste of freedom and learning the ability to rule.  She wasn't the conflicted young lady of the film; she was actually pretty headstrong and hard to manage.  No persuasion was necessary from Melbourne to prevent her from marrying Albert - it was her own decision to wait a little while, learn her new duties, and enjoy some independence. (She also knew Albert was waiting in the wings.)  But none of this is to say that this is a BAD film.  I can see perfectly why viewers gave it the five or four-star ratings.  I just don't see the point of resorting to sudden melodramatic (and fake) incidents, or ultimately pointless and silly tweaks of characters' motivations, in order to get at the audience's emotions.  Although I never really expect historical accuracy from a film, I'm always pleased when I encounter it through a scriptwriter who's clever enough to make the FACTS live and breathe again.  THAT'S my complaint:  I guess I just want more writers to use facts in the imaginative ways that they use their fictions.  It's just a little disappointing to me (and it's my same complaint regarding the recent film, THE KING'S SPEECH), that what REALLY happened isn't used and re-dramatized with the same compelling pull as the screenwriter's 'fictions'.

Bad Burn! (part 2) Like someone mentioned in a January 2012 review, I also received a bad burn copy. The pixels all over the 2nd half of the movie. Very frustrating. Reading that review made me feel somewhat better knowing that I wasn't the only one out there who got the *one* bad copy. There must be countless bad ones floating around & MGM or whoever makes/distributes the dvds should really look into the problem.  I'd like to buy it again, but I'm avoiding the "Special Edition" version. So should you. Gonna try the "Ultimate" version next.

Great set but some mistakes. I love SATC, I have had the individual seasons for years. I was so excited when I saw they had an updated box set with both movies. The box set is beautiful.. pictures and everything. It's also a very portable.. great if you want to take the whole series with you on vacation or over to a guest's house. My only problem; the episode guides inside and picture quotes are LOADED with typos. Literally every 3 pages you can find one. For example, Season 2. Episode 1 is titled "Take Me To The Ball Game" but in the episode guide it says  "Take Me To The Sall Game".. also on the picture of the girls in Abu Dhabi it says "Four friends embark on the trip of a lifetie"... did anyone else notice this? It slightly downs the set for me, it is beautiful.. but the spelling mistakes are so careless!

All original lyrics. The Future is a 2011 film directed by and starring Miranda July.  It tells the story of Sophie and Jason, a morosely synchronized couple in their mid-30s who have decided to adopt a cat.  The waiting period for the animal is one month and they decide to use this time before the commitment as a rebirth of routine and philosophy.  It's an odd film.  As I'm getting older, I'm finding that I prefer relaxing cinema.  This is what initially attracted me to The Future and I wasn't disappointed.  But it was also cunningly funny and often eerie.  If you're at all familiar with either actor, I'm sure imagining the level of melancholy their fusion would birth isn't too difficult, but there's something else happening here and it's worth your time.  I wish I had the sort of talent that would let me explain this to you without ruining anything, but the delicate twists offered here would be too easily spoiled.  The humor was unexpected and I'd often be startled also by the dark little corners of this project.  And the cast did a great job.  This is my first time seeing Miranda July and I'm enamored with her style.  Blue-eyed and weird, she's a fluid form moving slowly through this film with these random little bursts of muffled energy that I found hypnotic.  (She's like a heavily sedated Zooey Deschanel to me; quirky, a bit strange.)  Hamish Linklater had a similar effect, if not more haggard and sadly worn.  The interaction between these two felt valid.  As for the rest of the cast, they also bowed to the strangeness and contributed beautifully.  Especially the old man.  I think the only nagging problem I had with this movie was the cat.  The cat narrates the film here and there but does so with a haggish voice that grated on my nerves immediately.  I know they were going for something bizarre there but it didn't feel that way to me - it just seemed off.  But this was only slight problem for me as the cat didn't pop up that often.  If you're looking for something different to do for a couple of hours this is a good start.  There's not much in the way of romance but there is something unsettling about the sort of love written for The Future and, although I'd put a ceiling on how much I'd pay for this disc, I thought it was worth the ride.  Thank you for your time.  - t

Positive I have always liked this movie. I do wonder what the outcome would have been if the same actor had done this one as in the first.

Lot of CGI but audio quality was poor Is Liam Neesom the only actor who can play a god anymore and really make you think he could be?  He is the Charlton Heston of our generation...as far as the movie glad I didn't spend the money at the Cineplex, kind of tired of CGI heavy movies that don't have any character and plot development, did like the two torsoed monster things though.

Superb Performance! The acting in this movie is wonderful.  Hugh Dancy's portrayal of Adam is spot-on with what it is like to live with Asperger's Syndrome.  It was so spectacular that it made my girlfriend cry with tears of empathy.  The story ends in a way that you wish it wouldn't, but in the end, it was probably the best way for it to be.  Highly applaudable.

Confused Thinking Having been involved in Intelligence (Army CIC) for several years many years ago I had a certain amount of interest in viewing this film. At the outset I will say that it appears to me this film was made by confused people - confused about the situation they were dealing with in the movie. Perhaps they viewed the journalist & those with her as "good guys" & the government prosecutor & those with him as "bad guys" but I have some questions. Why did the journalist consider it proper to write a story uncovering a CIA operative? Why did the newspaper consider it proper to publish it? Why did the paper's lawyers not see the possible ramifications of the story being published? Why was such a story considered worthy of Pulitzer prize consideration? And when the journalist brought up the issue of her  "integrity" in this matter, I was incredulous. What integrity could poaaibly be involved in compromising the security of the US - which is what was involved in her story. What would be the difference between her having her story published by a US newspaper or selling her information to a foreign government considered an enemy of the US? Or to one of that nation's newspapers? Perhaps the most valid point raised by the movie was the question of whether any person or profession is above the nation's laws. The CIA is as valid & necessary a part of our nation as any other organization, business or whatever that can be named & any citizen who compromises its operation should be held legally accountable. The person who fingered the CIA operative, the journalist who wrote the story, & the paper which published it were all culpable & the imprisonment of the journalist & fining of the newspapaer were justified.

Good Movie, Fun songs This is my first purchase of a Bollywood movie from Amazon. I have purchased them from other places in the past. The price was right and it arrived on time and in good condition. Amazing story of conflict between young love and old pride. SriVin, Minneapolis.

Solid but hardly revelatory 3.4 stars  I enjoyed this film, but as with last year's wrestling flick with Mickey Rourke, I wasn't blown away as so many others were. First off, despite the accompanying making-of doc showing how much Wahlberg trained to be a believable fighter for this, I just don't buy him as a boxer of this calibre. He's too slow and just doesn't feel like a contender. I've watched fights since the early '70s and know a great fighter, or even a reasonable facsimile; Marky Mark ain't one of 'em. Even Will Smith as Ali was more believable.  Second, Bale is good but once again I just couldn't buy him as the crackhead he's supposed to be. I live around a lot of crackheads, watch them walk by my place daily and have seen thousands come and go over the last decade...and Bale just don't pass. He feels like an actor, as does Wahlberg. And this feels like a film. Which is all fine, as they are actors and this is a film, but the cinematic revelation others describe here never happened for me.  All in all, I wouldn't put this anywhere near the pantheon of great fight flicks like The Set-Up, Raging Bull and so many others. It's a good film, though throughly depressing despite the "happy" ending, and my main problem was not the acting or the decent direction, it was that I found none of these characters worth rooting for. They just weren't appealing on almost any level. Maybe that's just me, but in the end I need to like the hero or heroes, and here it wasn't happening.  If you like the actors or boxing, you might like this, but I'd never watch it again.

Rethinking the Fables I want to pan the quality of writing. Like most direct-to-videos, it is not over-the-top. But I keep thinking of G. K. Chesterton's essay "A defense of the penny dreadfuls"(<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1466233206">The Defendant</a>):  "The vast mass of humanity, with their vast mass of idle books and idle words, have never doubted and never will doubt that courage is splendid, that fidelity is noble, that distressed ladies should be rescued, and vanquished enemies spared. There are a large number of cultivated persons who doubt these maxims of daily life, just as there are a large number of persons who believe they are the Prince of Wales; and I am told that both classes of people are entertaining conversationalists. ... The poor--the slaves who really stoop under the burden of life--have often been mad, scatter-brained, and cruel, but never hopeless. That is a class privilege, like cigars. Their drivelling literature will always be a 'blood and thunder' literature, as simple as the thunder of heaven and the blood of men."  Amen!  And that rough-hewn morality of rough-hewn characters is what you get with this DVD. It is really a set of vignettes, a frame story with several highlights into the lives of various ring-slingers, with a bonus tale about the First Lantern. This DVD taps into one of the unique aspects of the Green Lantern. He is a plural hero: there is one Superman, one Wonder Woman, one Batman, but there  are many Green Lanterns. It is the Green Lantern Corps--7,200 in all. More than a Corps, they are seven legions.  All Lanterns, all comrades, and all superheroes with their own amazing tales.  So here we go:  THE FIRST LANTERN: The lesson--and this is WB, not Filmation with the more obvious Aesopry--reminds us that inconsequential people can be of great consequence, and the greatest shifts are mental shifts. Rethinking things, and expanding outside of the box is how we progress.  A word can be said about willpower, too. Will is like faith, both are principles of action and power--mental power. This dangerous lesson is quietly secreted in a DTV cartoon. Sly Green Lanterns!  As C. S. Lewis observed in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0151001855">Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life</a>, "A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere--'Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, 'fine nets and stratagems.' God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous."  KILOWOG: Who is worse? Kilowog's mentor Deegan, hands down. But notice the lesson: some of our mentors are rough and loudmouthed. So we should look for the soft interior in people, and not hastily judge them.  But sometimes mentors aren't soft, like Wolf Larsen (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486411087">The Sea-Wolf (Dover Thrift Editions)</a>). But the friction of such a accuratley rough and rocky mentor can smooth off our burrs and steel us for the hardpan challenges we face. Ra's al Ghul was correct: "Death does not wait for you to be ready! Death is not considerate or fair. And make no mistake: here, you face death."  LAIRA: Possibly the saddest story in set. We learn that our choices to be heroic sometimes alienate our families. Switching parties, switching religions, switching careers can create enemies of our own houses. But Laira was a wise teacher. Instead of being a Mafiosa, and looking the other way to protect "La Casa Nostra," in this case the Gold Dragon, she teaches us to stand up for truth. With such a heart-wrenching crisis, she shows her true colors----green.  MOGO DOESN'T SOCIALIZE: My favorite of the set, with a storyline that reminds me of Thor and Loki's trip to &Uacute;tgarðar (look it up). This lesson is the opposite of the first vignettes: size does matter, and that bigger surprises come in bigger packages. Rowdy Roddy Piper does a wonderful job voicing Bolphunga, and I loved the surprise ending--perfect for casual fans like myself.  (A comment can be made about Bolphunga's conceptual blindness: "most ailing organizations have developed a functional blindness to their own defects. They are not suffering because they cannot resolve their problems but because they cannot see their problems" [<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743287932">The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness</a>], 271].)  ABIN SUR: This is a more philosophical fable. We get a discussion of fate or freedom, with Sinestro arguing free will and Abin Sur arguing fate. It's a crucial discussion (see chapter 5 of Eternal Man). And this adds to the impending suspense. We know that Sinestro will rebel, and that Abin Sur will die. But behind hind it, we get Nietzsche ("the will to power" which leads to "trans-valuation") in a discussion with Calvin (double predestination). You break the deadlock by involving Kierkegaard into the mix--<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140445773">Either/Or: A Fragment of Life (Penguin Classics)</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1461078415">Fear and Trembling</a>.  And there is a message about flaws here, too. The rings have a flaw: they run out of power after 24 hours. The batteries have a flaw, they are vulnerable to yellow. And Abin Sur has a flaw: he neglects to recharge his ring. And in every case, these flaws will overwhelm, and devastate.  EMERALD KNIGHTS: This last one winds up the framing story. The plot works and the solution flows from the premises--Arisia is established as a physics student, Oa is evacuated beforehand, we know who Mogo is. There is no deus ex machina, which is a small miracle in itself, considering how bad writing is nowadays. An ending that is not schmaltzy but does wrap things up--but not too tightly. A great way to end the film.

Do Not Interfere With Black Magic I have been putting this off for a few years (I have had the DVD since 2009) mainly because I thought it was going to be shockfest that outdid The Boxer's Omen in gonzo-style horror. Well it was not even close to The Boxer's Omen which still holds a place deep in the suppressed subconscious of my cranium (actually it is more weird and gross than actually scary). In fact this has to be one of the most overstated and overhyped horror films of Hong Kong though this is not a horrible film.  Chow (Phillip Ko: The Boxer's Omen, Shaolin Intruders) interrupts black magic by inadvertently saving the life of a black magic priest who is being chased down by an angry mob. Because of this the priest says at best he will get very sick and at worst his whole family will die. Since this is a horror film we know which scenario is going to take place. A film with him just being sick would not be as fun. But it is especially hilarious that it seems that the angry mob gets off clean and that he picked up the priest far from where the incantation went awry. I am probably over-thinking this.  Chow's wife Irene has been cheating on him because of his lowly taxi driver job, taxi drivers are a deranged lot (ask Anthony Wong), and his hair (seriously one of the worst wigs I have seen, worse than a Sammo Hung haircut). She is enticed by playboy Anthony Fong Ming (Norman Chu Siu-Keung: Bastard Swordsman) who visits her job of dealing cards and showers her with money, gifts, better hair (to be fair to Phillip check out Norman's perm in Hong Kong Godfather) and affection. One night those two adulterers have a fight and she gets out of the car and goes off by herself. Never good to be alone late at night when ruffians are about. She is confronted by two young hooligans who chase her down, one rapes her and ultimately she gets killed (why she runs into an abandoned house I do not know, why there would be an abandoned house in an abandoned area Hong Kong I also do not know).  When Chow finds out she is dead, he is ultimately a suspect for about 15 seconds. Fong is another suspect and despondent Chow finds out about the affair. He gets bad ideas in his head and wants revenge at all costs for those involved and goes to the black magic priest (still dressed like a shirtless jungle native; I wonder if he goes to the store like that) to seek revenge. This requires that they dig out his wife's corpse and he is warned that his monomaniacal revenge will likely result in his demise as well. The corpse is used quite effectively and it is creepy, the most scary aspect of the film. You can see it on the cover of the DVD and poster.  Fans of horror could do worse by seeking this out. I do not think it is as unique/interesting/gratuitous as Black Magic or The Boxer's Omen out of the Shaw Brothers horror oeuvre and I would suggest seeking those out first. This film overdoes the sleazy exploitation aspect of it, elongates the nudity and the film comes off more as a voyeuristic exercise especially in the beginning which starts to drag on. The slow motion topless running scene becomes almost absurd in its length and its use of the zoom lens. But you do get the benefit of a few fight scenes decently done involving Phillip Ko (still mad about the outcome with Norman Chu) who proves once again that you should not mess with taxi drivers or Phillip Ko. You also get a variety of gross out moments, Taoist priests, scares all done better in a variety of Hong Kong films. However, when the ghost is seeded there are plenty of horror elements, while keeping the exploitation element alive, especially towards the finale that will be of interest to viewers. There you get to witness a creature that seems inspired by John Carpenter's The Thing while a segment from the soundtrack from Alien is played.  I have the R1 Image release and it has English and Spanish subtitles. It comes with the Mandarin mono dub only. The R3 IVL release comes with both the Cantonese and Mandarin dub. At the time of the Hong Kong audience would have heard the Cantonese soundtrack, but most of the transnational audience would have heard it in Mandarin. Since at the time post dubbing was the norm and multiple dialects were often used on set it does not matter as much to me. However, this is a controversial topic where some have to have the "preferred" dub. I personally would like a release from this time period to have both the Cantonese and Mandarin language, but I will take what I can get. There are plenty of the Image released Shaw Brothers trailers (not the original trailers) on this release, but no trailer for the movie.

The next in a long line of teen-sex ("American Pie" rip-off) comedies.  Absolutely nothing new. Have seen worse. I say C "Let's teach these guys a lesson, it's pay back time."  After a group of girls discover a book that the school football team has that lists the schools virgin girls and the player that is supposed to "check them off" they decide its up to them to stop the tradition.  The girls decide not to have sex at all until the season if over, while the boys try everything they can to complete the task.  This movie is nothing new at all.  The typical high school movie where everyone wants to lose thier virginity, complete with the over protective father (Schneider).  If you have kids in high school I would be very leery about watching this one.  It seems that everyone (even the virgins) are obsessed with sex and find it very difficult to hold out for the entire 3 months of the football season.  The thing that always gets me is that they always seem to cast people that are in their early 20's to play the high school students, and the over the top parties and dances are so unrealistic that some kids are dissapointed when they get to an actual high school.  That part aside this type of movie has been done a million times, most funnier then this one so don't expect anything really new.  Overall, I have seen worse movies from this genre.  A few laughs, but pretty much the same jokes that have been in every movie like this (yes, the kid experimenting with food and the surprise in your drink scenes are in this one too). I give it a C.  Would I watch again? - Not this one, but I'm sure that 100 more just like this one will be made.  *Also try - American Pie & The Virginity Hit

Confusing Was this guy a schizophrenic, having delusions of grandeur, emotionally damaged, on a quest for the real God, or trying to become a god himself?  I honestly have no clue.  The quasi religious zeal and fanaticism he expresses throughout the film seem to have no beginning and no end, no goal and no concrete desire.  With such a strange character, the audience needs to be provided with more information to understand him a little better.

Content Good; Disc Format Bad Warner Brothers DVDs have a habit of starting the movie after cycling through the main menu one or two times. This is annoying. This Blu Ray one ups this annoying tendency by making it so there is no main title menu for episode selection.  Each disc starts with whatever the first episode is and plays straight through from one episode to the next.  No returning to the menu between episodes.  To select episodes, other than the first one on the disc, a pop up menu must be used.  Bonus features thankfully do have their own menu.  The disc mastering isn't just lazy and counter intuitive, it's a pain if you don't plan on watching an entire disc in one sitting!  I doubt the DVD version has this same problem. If it doesn't, it may be worth getting the series in lesser quality just to avoid the lack of proper menus.  Content wise, if you enjoy the other Bruce Timm and company Warner Brothers superhero cartoons--Batman: The Animated Series, Superman, Batman Beyond--the odds are you will get a kick out of this series. All of the leads are in someway underpowered, which will be a frustration for comic readers and die hard fans. The quality of animation and story telling is there though. It's more mature than Super Friends and is a good way of introducing non-comic readers to the Justice League. My 3 star rating has nothing to do with the content of the episodes though, otherwise I'd give this 4 stars.

Disney Movie This is not one of my favorite Disney movies.  Kirt Dougles protrays a rowdy, at times hard drinking sailor which is definately not an example I would like my sons to follow.  This movie is more an older teen/ adult type movie.

not bad was an okay movie to watch when my hubby was out of town ~ total chick flick ~ they don't make them like they used to ~

History won't be written by "60 Minutes", thankfully It is hard to tell how much of the interview with agent George Piro was used or cut.  But the interview is no clear refutation of any of the central points about Saddam's WMD programs, his inventories of WMD at the time of the Iraq liberation, or his links and connections with Osama Bin Ladin and Al Qaeda, much less as a sponsor for international terrorism of all varieties.  The theme of the program reveals -- if you accept it on face value -- that Saddam was lying about WMD inventories, to bluff his enemies into treating Iraq with fearful respect.  However, having identified Saddam as a liar, the producers of the program (but not necessarily agent Piro, whose full interview is not shown) push the point that these revelations from Saddam (having now in captivity converted into a truth-teller) refute the claims of the Bush administration, on the reasons for going into Iraq.  This is specious reasoning, as he was known as a liar, thief, and mass-murdering dictator over a long period.  He had and used WMDs against the Kurds and Iranians, had all kinds of large inventories of precursor materials (uranium ores, insecticides) to make WMDs, was continuing the search to obtain more, and also had help from Chinese, North Korean and Russian military for his conventional weaponry and multi-stage rockets, for delivery of the same -- and boasted about all that publicly.  Thankfully, history will not be written by the "hate Bush" ideologues, but rather by those who take a more serious approach to documentation and fact-finding.  For that, I would recommend to visit the regimeofterror (com) website, or similar ones heavy on documentation and short on rhetoric, and search for "Piro", where one finds other materials from the FBI and other sources indicating Saddam was lying when he said he did not consider the USA to be his enemy, and therefore had no connections to Al Qaeda, or wish to attack the USA. The issues are myriad, to include reports by credible sources of the hijacking school frequented by Baluchi operatives for OBL at Salaman Pak in Iraq, the flight of at least one of the 1993 Twin Tower bombers to Iraq, where he was greeted with open arms and given safe haven from international arrest warrants, the transfer of Al Qaeda and Taliban personnel and light-weight WMD materials from Afghanistan into northern Iraq just after the early actions by American forces in Afghanistan, the observed movement of numerous 18-wheel freight trucks across the Syrian border prior to the campaign in Iraq, and many other questions that aren't going away merely because Saddam sang a Song of Innocence after his capture.  But in fact, he also confessed to having full intentions to reconstitute his WMD programs (all of them) when the opportunity presented itself, which was revealing.  How could he do that, unless the plans and capacities were somewhat already at hand?  Mr. Piro of the FBI struck me as a very "nice fellow" but clearly outmatched in his dual of words with one of the most hardened and clever political killers of the Middle East. One might expect Saddam to never admit to any WMD components actively available in 2003, firstly to avoid prosecutions in the USA for possible involvement in 911, and secondly if only to "stick it to Bush", knowing how the left-wing press was out to crucify Bush over that issue.  The interview is but one bit of evidence about Saddam.  Serious individuals will want to dig deeper. Still of value (but ever-denounced by the Saddam apologists) is the Hayes book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00073HH92">The Connection : How al Qaeda's Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America</a>, or the work by Mylorie, about the 1993 WTC bombing in which Iraqi connections were observed <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000C4SNPS">The War Against America: Saddam Hussein and the World Trade Center Attacks: A Study of Revenge</a>.  The Fouda and Fielding book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009YAXGI">Masterminds of Terror: The Truth Behind the Most Devastating Attack The World Has Ever Seen</a>is also of merit, and identifies various Iraqi-Iranian connections.  None of that material has ever been refuted by critics, merely loudly denounced and ignored.  Other more suggestive evidence indicates quite a lot of Middle Eastern Islamic tyrants were "in on the deal" of the 911 attacks, just as over decades they have been cooperatively assaulting Israel and Jewish targets internationally.  I give it three stars only because the idea that Saddam could have been lying on that point, of the WMDs, is basically censored out of the discussion, as a possibility.  Scholars will want the Piro interview for their libraries, in any case.

Too much plot I have close to no recollection of seeing 'The Order of the Phoenix' before, but I'm certainly glad I'd seen the first four movies so recently, or I certainly would have struggled to follow the plot. Harry is a suitably stroppy teenager, in fact really stroppy, and the whole plot seems to be fairly "woe is me"-esque. The students sit their OWL exams and learn amazing magic under Harry's tutelage. Draco's dad asks what everyone watching must have thought: "Did u really think that children could win?" There is finally some real action and magic towards the end of the movie; but the dramas and emotions that the written version impart are probably replaced with a happy/feel good message. My honestest opinion is that they tried to put too much plot in thsi film and it lost some continuity. It felt rushed and over-busy.

Digital Remastering would have been good We are half way through "How the West Was Won". Great actors and movie quality and music is ok except for one thing. I was disappointed that the "Cinerama or Cinemascope" Screening we saw on TV was no different to the DVD we have now got part way through. I had thought that it was quite feasible to re digitise Cinemascope Movies to remove the darkening of the centre of the picture, that occurs because we don't have a "Cinemascope" WIDE SCREEN here in our lounge room.? Were we supposed to have a very large screen on our LCD Flat Screen TV or something to get rid of the "patch in the middle" which as I said is exactly the same as the TV Movie because it is exactly the same production. Good old movie with a great line up of famous actors, just hope one  day they will re produce it without that "danged" patch in the middle.

Black & White & Blue & Red? Dead Man is one of my favorite movies of all time. I was very excited to see that it was getting a release on Blu-ray. I usually wait for reviews, before replacing a movie in a new format, but at the sale price of $7.99, I had to buy this one immediately.  While viewing, I noticed that (about half-way through) the tint of the picture begins to change. Continually, to the end of the film, the black and white takes on tints of blue-green and reddish-orange. It wasn't a total distraction, but definitely noticeable.  I'm often accused of being too sensitive to picture and sound, so I investigated this online, to see if I just got a bad copy. The review on blu-ray.com doesn't mention this problem, and even comments on how beautiful and flawless the transfer is. However, I did see a 5 page discussion, on the blu-ray.com message board, where many others have this same tint problem. Some of them even comment on the blu-ray.com reviewer's mistake of leaving this out.  Regardless, I still gave this product 3 stars based on my absolute love of this film. I just know there are others out there who share with my obsession over small audio and visual imperfections. Let's just hope, one day, this masterpiece gets the Criterion treatment it deserves.

Outrageous and surprisingly decent It seems like Galifianakis is pulling a page out of Jack Black's performance from "Bernie" and Marty Huggins is just as likeable. His family is extremely awkward, which quickly evolves into some easy laughs later on. There's this huge emphasis on secrets at dinner and secrets in general that are just so outlandish and ridiculous that you can't help but chuckle. It's the way Marty Huggins tries to be such a wholesome individual along with his good intentions that make his weird pugs or unfaithful wife a bit funnier than they would be on their own.  Then there's Will Ferrell who portrays the mean spirited and foul-mouthed character you've come to expect from him over the years. He thinks up the absolute worst ideas imaginable, executes them to the fullest, and then throws a tantrum when the consequences are so extreme. That's coming from someone who's a fan of his most elaborate tantrums. His baby punching incident is one of the most memorable scenes in the R-rated comedy. But it's actually the scenes he shares with Zach Galifianakis like the Lord's Prayer scene or the Rainbow Land sequence that are the funniest.  The absolute, hands down, best part of the movie is Karen Maruyama who plays Raymond Huggins' (Brian Cox) maid Mrs. Yao. The way he makes her talk to make an extra $50 every week to "remind him of the good ol' days" is so wrong and yet so humorous. Dylan McDermott as Tim Wattley has some pretty great moments, as well; which mostly involve him appearing out of nowhere, disappearing, and eating.  The unusual aspect of "The Campaign" is that it packs a bit more heart than the usual Will Ferrell movie. This not only has you rooting for the underdog, but also gives a message of good sportsmanship. While it doesn't exactly trigger any sort of emotional breakdown or flare up, it does feel a bit more emotionally developed than you may be expecting.  Even though "The Campaign" is centered on politics, fans of ridiculous humor still have something to be excited about with this comedy. "The Campaign" is overflowing with outrageous humor, eccentric characters, and is a bit more satisfying than you may be expecting for a movie that you know revolves around stupid humor.

not convinced Mise en sc&egrave;ne is weak...Voices aren't that great.  The conductor is the very best for Wagner though...I prefer my Kirten Flagstad...and a traditional mise en sc&egrave;ne.  This is just an opinion...But I love Wagner.  Martin

A Mixed Bag ASSASSINATION OF A HIGH SCHOOL PRESIDENT is a big step above most of the teen movies that focus on potty mouth dialogue and absurd situations just to get laughs.  Writers Tim Calpin and Kevin Jakubowski have come up with a script that is sometimes smart but ultimately full of holes in deciding where it wants to take the original premise of this high school movie.  Director Brett Simon seems to sort of let the movie flow as it develops, preventing a tight telling of a story with potential.  Bobby Funke (Reece Thompson, a promising new talent) is a nerdy newspaper reporter who is never able to finish a story.  Student Body President/basketball star/ladies' man Paul Moore (Patrick Taylor) seems to have everything Bobby wants, including the attention of the school's most beautiful girl Francesca (Mischa Barton).  As fortune would have it a crime happens - the SATs are stolen from the office of Principal Kirkpatrick (Bruce Willis playing Bruce Willis) and Booby is on the investigation and story, a story that points to Paul as the perpetrator.  Bobby's nerdiness is transformed by his attention and by the affections of Francesca, and soon the school collapses under the cloud of the crime.  It is how the 'crime' is inspected and resolved that ends the film. For Bobby Funke it is a matter of 'What price glory'.  The cast is fresh and it is a pleasure to see some new faces with promise.  Whether it is the director's or the sound mixer's fault, much of the dialogue is swallowed by the soundtrack, a problem thankfully solved by turning on the subtitles. This is a movie with promise from all involved and it will be interesting to see if it has an impact on teen flick quality. Grady Harp, April 11

Russians gone amiss I found this film to be a bit redundit despite it's supposed histoical nature. The redundancy I am commenting on is the ' last stand' type of heroism and the buildup is a bit crude and same ol' same ol' cliche' that is used over and over. I suppose this IS the case for combat films but this is lacking in debt. I did enjoy the film but there are far better out there. CA

Good acting, not a likeable movie All in all, I wish there was a 2.5 stars, because I thought the movie was fairly evenly divided between strong and weak points.  On the one hand, the actors played their roles perfectly, IMO.  The problem for me was that the roles/characters just weren't likeable and so I kind of drummed my fingers and fast forwarded through a bit to get to the end.

Didn't Fall for it... I had high hopes for this movie. The synopsis on the back gave me confidence that this was a work of love for the director, and may not be commercial enough for a mainstream audience. These are usually my favorite movies. Unfortunately this movie falls short of spectacular in all aspects.  The plot was bland, confusing and anti-climactic. I ended the film as I had started it, not caring at all about what I saw. It lost any sense of realism when the main characters would narrate over the story and change anything they wanted. I never found myself engrossed in the story at all, just seemed made up with no additional dimensions to support it (i.e. morals, lessons, development).  The acting was good, I enjoyed the little girl's acting, she is very cute. Besides the hospital scenes, the other actors/actresses were over acting and not convincing in their roles. The characters are just forgettable.  The cinematography was beautiful in many scenes but never for extended periods time. Being shot all around the world I expected many different locations, diverse scenery, stunning beauty. While it is beautiful in most scenes, I could not tell that it was shot in so many places around the world, scenery was generally barren and unremarkable. The camera's reference point seemed to me to be right in the middle, what I mean is most of the time the camera is not far enough away to capture surrounding magnificence. At the same time, not close enough to give detailed expressions. Which leaves the viewer somewhere in between, much like the plot.  The audio was also very flat, and never stood out. While there were never any real flaws, it also never captivated or mesmerized me in any way. The picture quality on Blu-Ray was excellent, great colors, no flaws, light unnoticeable grain, nice detail.  Over all, I would recommend renting this video instead of a blind buy.

has some tense moments, but The Card Player is ultimately derailed by goofiness... The Card Player (2004) is a crime thriller, without the supernatural element often found in Dario Argento's films.  With Argento you expect the unconventional, and the story is built upon a gimmick, where a serial killer operating in Rome, taunts the police, challenging them to play video poker, with the lives of his victims at stake.  The kidnapper contacts the police on the internet, transmitting a video feed showing a woman bound and gagged with tape, to the computer of detective Anna Mari (Stefania Rocca).  The "Card Player" invites the police to play video poker for her life.  If they can win three hands, the English tourist will live.  Chicken-hearted police Commissioner Marini (Adalberto Maria Merli) declines to participate, so the killer slashes the hostage's throat, and her body is later found in a river.  Because the victim was English, John Brennan (Liam Cunningham), a policeman from the British embassy, joins the investigative team, and partners up with Detective Mari.  Brennan's forensic expertise provides clues that help him to eventually locate the killer's hideout.  In the meantime, the Card Player continues to abduct young women, and challenge the police.  In response, the police enlist the help of a young poker expert named Remo (Silvio Muccino), to play against the killer.  Initially, Remo is afraid to play, but is later ecstatic, when he manages to defeat the killer, and save the life of Lucia Marini (Fiore Argento, Dario's daughter), the daughter of the Commissioner.  Remo's joy is short lived, as the killer sets his sights on him.  When Brennan goes missing while conducting an investigation, the stage is set for the killer to challenge Anna to one last match.  This final challenge, with the contestants chained to a set of railroad tracks, is more ludicrous than terrifying, as you know exactly how things will end.  It's another example of Argento being overdramatic, rather than sensible.  With the video poker element, The Card Player is on shaky ground from the start, and despite some decent acting performances, it just sinks into a pit of ridiculous goop.  When so few hands are involved, chance plays more of a factor than skill, and it doesn't take a poker expert to win three games.  Poker players are generally quite cool and analytical, but Remo behaves like a scared child, with Anna ridiculously fawning all over him.  The Card Player, has some scary moments, as Argento still has a flair for violence.  The amount of gore is minimal, but the film features some impressive looking fake corpses, which in some instances appear too discolored.  Argento typically looks to wow his audience, but his screenplay isn't very sound, and comes off as being goofy, gimmicky, and overdramatic.  Most of the characters are not well written, particularly Remo and the police commissioner.  After so many years of doing his films in English, Argento's dialog is still weak, and often childish and inappropriate.  Bad dialog has typically been an issue with Italian horror films, often lessening the credibility of the film.  While entertaining at times, The Card Player is also a frustrating watch, and not one of the director's best.  The DVD has some decent extras, including an interview with Dario Argento, and a commentary by author Alan Jones (apparently since Argento's English is not very good).  Jones provides some interesting insights.  The Card Player was apparently originally conceived as a sequel to The Stendhal Syndrome, with Asia Argento set to reprise her role as Anna Manni.  After Asia dropped out, Stefania Rocca was brought on board, along with Asia's half sister Fiore Argento.

Penguins deficating in Your face really isn't that funny Apparently movie audiances of today enjoy gutter humor and seek it out.  My wife rented this film to watch tonight without reading any reviews first.  She knew the book.  I found it mildly funny.  It had a lot of CGI penguin scenes in it.  I'm sure the book is better than the film.  The movie could have been far better if the script hadn't been taylored to Jim Carey.  Instead Jim should have adapted himself to the character.  Carey often goes a little too far in his movies.  This one is no exception.  But as long as the movie audiance will buy a ticket or pay to buy or rent a film, it's the money that drives the industry.  Not the quality of the product.  This movie has a lot of contrived scenes that couldn't possibly happen in real life.  Consider that his upstairs bathroom has become a swimming pool and when the door is opened the apartment is flooded.  But yet no one knows he has penguins in his upscale apartment save but for one neighbor.  So thousands of gallons of water won't flood other apartments downstairs?  Really.  Cute but no cigar.  A little history research on the Tavern on The Green also shows the building is not privately owned but is owned by the city of New York and has always been owned by the city since the Tavern first opened in 1934.  Therefore no one can sell the building to anyone unless the city sells it.  The building is leased as a restaurant but that closed in 2009 and is now an information center and gift shop for the city.  Food vendors sell food outside.  According to what I read the food was never that great there.  The place served too many meals a day and the food quality lacked.  Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be.

uneven update as gangsta rap comedy I bought this for my daughter to nurture her love of Shakespeare.  Unfortunately, though she loves the principal actors in this, we both thought that this version - an update that uses the original language in a weird LA-like city, with organized crime gangs replacing the rival families - was over the top.  It is also absurdist comedy, gender-bending, and full of incomprehensible visual flourishes, none of which adds to the story.  Of course, this is personal, even visceral, as you either get or you don't.  We didn't quite.  For example, when the couple meets on the balcony, they wind up falling into a TV-monitored swimming pool, dodging security guards while floundering in deep water.  Nonetheless, at its best, there are moments that the emotional spirit comes through well.  As truly fine actors, Danes and DiCaprio have good on-screen chemistry.  I may not think that Mercutio was a super-effeminate whatever, but his bipolar energy comes through.  Tybalt's macho, in-the-moment spirit also succeeds, even if he duels with fancy guns.  This is a mixed bag.  If you love Shakespeare and enjoy radical re-interpretations, you might like this.  If you prefer costumes and faithful recreations of a bygone era, stick to the Zeffiretti.

Not great, but not terrible Having to explain to my 4-year old Cars-aholic daughter why bad guy cars were out to "kill" other cars in Cars 2 was a little unsettling and unexpected.  I was very surprised by the amount of automobile "deaths" and threat of "deaths" in the film.  Cars were always out to get other cars.  The spy genre was just not right for a Cars themed movie.  My daughter LOVES the firetruck character Red, but he only appeared, what?  A total of 2 minutes?  I felt so bad for her.  All those familiar and loved characters from the first film were castaways in Cars 2.  With that all said, we still enjoyed the movie.  Finn McMissile became her newest favorite Car.  She even calls him Finn McMiss-Sile, as Michael Caine pronounces it.  We will still buy the BluRay and enjoy it at home.

Almost, but not quite there While the image restoration is really decent (not great though) the sound is no better than the previous BD release. The volume level fluctuation is as bad as on the original BD released only months before this one. Neither one, and for that matter the non Blu ray DVD too, even approach the sound quality of the Criterion Laser Disc from the 80's. If you own the first BD release keep it and don't waste your money.

Fascinating insight into former Jihadists, albeit too liberal This is a documentary about a former jihadist (Abu Jandal), who was a bodyguard for Osama Bin Laden, and his Brother in-Law (Salim Hamdan), who was Bin Laden's driver.  When I started watching it, I was thinking "this is just another bleeding-heart liberal film that portrays terrorists as innocent and the US as the unjust Evil Empire; what a bunch of crap."  HOWEVER, after getting into it, the film's story is obviously a lot more serious and nuanced than  I originally thought, but it's still presented from what I'd call a liberal point of view.  Most of the film follows Jandal around in his taxi in Yemen and interviews him, and documents his interactions with his family, his customers, and younger people that he tries to influence.  The other setting is in Guantanamo Bay at the prison there. Jandal is a Muslim, who reminisces about his days of joining the fight in Bosnia in 1994 as a Jihadist, and then getting recruited by Bin Laden.  He lets on early that younger Jihadists want to kill him, so you wonder what he did to deserve this (answered at the end).  You also see him visiting his Sister and nieces, who are adorable (the nieces that is .... all older women are hidden behind dark burkas... looks like they're in the Middle Ages).  The kid's father, Salim, was taken captive in Afghanistan after 9/11 and the fall of the Taliban.  Jandal has a young son whom he teaches (brainwashes) the way of Islam (like getting up at 4:30 to pray), and I start thinking that I hate the guy when he asks his son whether he wants to be a mechanic or a jihadist when he grows up (he wants to be a jihadist.)  Jandal WAS a "hard core" follower of Bin Laden who took an oath to him.  He claims that his brother-in-law Salim was not a Bin Laden follower but just his driver, that he did not take the oath, and that Salim is being held at Guantanamo for doing nothing.  I'm not so sure about this whitewash of Bin Laden's driver (guess we'll never know).  But Salim Hamdan is portrayed basically as a nice guy who never was involved in the Al Queda "gang," and who just got caught up in the net.  This is the POV taken by the director, who films Salim's trial via interviews with Jandal (who's biased obviously) and Salim's military lawyer at Guantanamo (who's also obviously biased).  Not much balance there -- I would have liked to hear from someone about how Salim the driver couldn't have been innocent because he was right by the Seat of Evil -- Bin Laden -- all the time.  At some point I'm not caring about either of these guys, thinking that Bin Laden killed 2900 people so anybody associated with him can rot in Hell for all I care.  Also, the director DOES have an interview with Bin Laden in there (pre-911), the Devil Himself, in which he promises in his best emotion-less, Hilter-like manner that he's going to do vile unspeakable things to Americans for the sake of Allah.  Chilling.  That interview actually made me feel huge anger and a feeling that I felt like killing him right there.  &lt;Spoilers>  Despite my animosity towards Bin Laden, Abu Jandal and Salim Hamdan (who is never seen in the movie apart from pictures), I started getting to see the latter two character's humanity in the end.  That is because in the end you learn two hugely important developments:  (1) Jandal was not involved with 911, in fact he was in a Yemen prison being "re-educated" out of Jihadi-ism when 911 happenend, and he changed.  He REALLY changed.  He abandoned his oath to Bin Laden.  He gave the FBI 16 days worth of amazing inside knowledge about Al Queda, which helped guide the US-led invasion of Afghanistan.  He was not coerced to give this, but it appears that he was so shocked by what the Terrorists did in 911 that he spilled his guts. (Score one for "nice guy" interrogations.)  It really looks like Abu Jandal wanted to change his life and give up all the Jihadi BS and just care for his family.  (2) The other piece of news is that Salim is convicted in Guantanamo by a military tribunal of giving material support to terrorism, but his role in Al Queda was evidently limited (at least they couldn't prove that he had a deeper role), and he was given a 5 1/2 year sentence.  With time served, he got out 5 months after the trial and went back to Yemen.  The testimony makes the viewer THINK that he was a genuinely good guy that just got caught up with a bad bunch.  I'd like to think that this was true.  Strangely, I thought at the end that justice was served for Salim, in that he went through an ordeal & prison for his role, but his sentence was commesurate with his crime.  He did stand up and thank the jury after his trial, which doesn't sound like a murderer/terrorist/thug to me.  Knowing that the jury was composed of military personnel, makes me think that the system worked about as well as it could under such pressured circumstances.  Abu Jandal is still in Yemen, and is currently a poor man.  (He lost his taxi).  I'm guessing that if Al Queda members watch this film, that he will someday be assassinated.  Salim Hamdan is also living there in a quiet and isolated life after jail.  A fascinating look into people who are caught up in an evil ideology, but also have humanity and children.  Some may think it's too easy on ex-terrorists.  My opinion is that it is.  Bin Laden murdered thousands, and our response was to prosecute a limited war, then litigate, (and finally kill him, which happened after I watched this film BTW).  I think that some of his former followers got off pretty light.  BUT I really think that if this is typical, then military tribunals come out looking fair and just -- maybe TOO fair and just for what they deserve!  Watch it and decide for yourself!  (In Arabic and captioned.)

Grown Ups I found it to be an Okay movie that was worth watching once,It has a good family feel to it and you have the Usual guys employed by Sandler who for some reason they don't pull it off as well in this movie.It seemed dry and Selma Hayek despite her beautiful looks is quite annoying,the movie could have been a lot better and a lot funnier.

nice hollywood formula with a big budget and all stars There is no question that this is a fun film to watch.  You could not get a better cast, the script is intricate, tight and funny, and the production is completely lavish.  However, the soul of it is simply empty, like the formula has completely taken over the series, which plows ahead as inexorably as locomotive rolling down a hill.  This is the case with so many movies from hollywood that I hardly ever feel any excitement watching them.  Instead, with glitzy or not, they become background noise, to be played while the kids are occupied and I can do something else.  The guys get back together because their pal (Gould) has been swindled.  The plan is to get the guy who did it.  Of course, it appears impossible.  And then, in addition to unforeseen complications, there are scams within scams within scams.  One fun thing is the reappearance of several former victims, adding to the fun.  Unfortunately, it fails to add up to much more than what came before, though with truly fine acting.  There are also many details you might want to watch a second time around, I will let the reader guess as to whether they succeed.  This is pass time stuff that doesn't reach a level of quality I would want to own.  But I do.

(2.5 STARS) Weak Story and Flat Characters, Though Entertaining Visually Only two years have passed since "Clash of the Titans." I was not much impressed with the film's dull story and weak acting, except that of Liam Neeson playing Zeus. Visuals were pretty good (I didn't see the film in 3D) though it lacked the imagination of Ray Harryhausen. Now its sequel "Wrath of the Titans" arrives, which is neither better nor worse than "Clash," visually or story-wise.  Sam Worthington is back as demi-god warrior Perseus, now a father of a ten-year-old son Helius (John Bell). This time Perseus, together with Queen Andromeda (Rosamund Pike), sets out to rescue the captive Zeus and save the world from the Titans. I don't know how they could capture the almighty god. Also, sorry if I am wrong, but I think I saw only one Titan. Well, I think you see my point. Storytelling is not the strength of "Wrath of the Titans," just like its predecessor.  For the sequel to "Clash of the Titans," Jonathan Liebesman (whose previous work was an effect-ridden alien invasion action "Battle Los Angeles") takes up the director's helm. "Wrath of the Titans" looks more like a series of computer graphic combat sequences than an adventure tale based on Greek mythology. It feels like a video game, where a hero defeats his opponent(s) and proceeds to the next battle. Veterans like Ralph Fiennes, Danny Huston, Liam Neeson and Bill Nighy appear, but their roles are mostly forgettable.  Perhaps the best part of the film is the dazzling effects of a gigantic lava dripping Titan. The rest of the film is about the uninteresting hero's endless battles.

The Princess and the Frog This is a bias movie that depicts people of color  in a negative light. I bought it to see exactly what was the content as well as the dialog of the story.

Love the movie! But got a cheap version of the DVD! I love this movie! I remember watching this movie since I was a kid. You might ask me why I gave this only three stars? It's because when it finaly arrived at my house, I got a cheep version of this dvd. I was disappointed when Disney Studios took the Platinum Edition dvd of Lady and the Tramp out of print and in to the vault. But I found out that the dvd was being sold here on Amazon, and I was thrilled when I bought it. I waited two weeks for the dvd to come until it finally came. I was happy it came, but when I opened the box, I found out that it was obviously a fake! I looked at the comparisons between the dvd covers, and the colors didn't match at all. Also, the words on the back of it looked all messed up and weird. Even the two dvds inside didn't look right; the colors on the top of the first disk were all funky to. I got even more pissed off when I watch the movie itself, and the movie looked like as if I was watching the movie on a VHS tape. The only good thing about the dvd was the bonus disc, which did have the bonus features, and they had good picture quality as well.  It's not the dvds fault, but it is Amazon's and the seller's fault. The seller must have been (and I'm not trying to be racist, but if I am, I am deeply sorry) someone from the middle east. The dvd looked like as if the dvd cover, companion booklet, and the disks were poorly printed out by the seller. Excuse me for my language, but I think it's BULL! Thankfully, I bough the new dvd version of Lady and the Tramp On March 23. I would have got the Blu-ray version, but I don't have that much money to afford a Blu-ray player and Blu-ray dvds. I gonna try and contact the seller and try and get a refund, or at least a replacement to get the real dvd set. Hopfully it will happen and I might get the real dvd set. I love Lady and the Tramp, and hopefully I'll get a decent dvd of this wonderful movie!

Not a Classic Yet.... I have no problem mixing the Western & Alien genres, and I have no problem with the cast or acting in the film...but something is lacking. There are some slow spots and the action doesn't really pick up until towards the end, but there is some suspense albeit not much. I think Craig and Ford are fantastic in the roles they are assigned, but the film overall reminds me of how audiences viewed Predator when it first appeared in the 80's. The audience was kind of torn between "is is it sci-fi or is it action-adventure?" Of course in time we all grew to love the Predator franchise as a hybrid film. I think Cowboys and Aliens will be more appealing 10 years from now than it does present day, which in a way is a praise. It reminds me of a B movie on steroids and good B movies stand the test of time. If this becomes a cult classic we will have to wait and see, but I think it is setting a stage for future films to mix genres in a modern, appealing way.

Worth watching once Not a terribly hilarious movie as I had anticipated, but it's alright. I still prefer the Police Academy series which were hilarious at their time, and to some extent still are. This one's along the same lines though there are is a trashy feel to it. Worth a watch once for a chuckle, that's about it for me.

I'm bored and there's nothing else to watch This movie is "OK" not he most exciting or glamorous, not he best, but if you're bored with nothing else to watch... this one should work. I was doing my nails and recovering from a long trip overseas... this movie was good for passing time but I would not buy it, and I am am Anthony Hopkins fan... I've seen far better movies of his.

Cheesed to Perfection Guys and ghouls, you'd better sit down...or at least hold onto something because (cough, cough,) I actually enjoyed this movie!  A remake of Dario Argento's circa-1982 production, this Night of the Demons was enjoyable for this viewer.  Now, it's not gonna' win any Academy Awards, but it did entertain, didn't take itself seriously (at all), and still managed to be enjoyable.  The premise is simple enough:  Halloween party at an old mansion in New Orleans is raided by the police, everybody leaves, except for 7 people, and then the fun starts.  Was it scary?  Well, not really--but in spots it was a little creepy.  Cheesy?  Honey, the cheese damned near dripped off the screen, but I like cheese every now and then.  All in all, I was entertained.  This movie didn't necessarily go for the "gross-out" button, but there is one scene (and I won't give anything away) that made me realize I'll NEVER look at another tube of lipstick in the same way.  Creepy, tense, comical, and absurd all rolled into one!  But all in all, this remake is one of the better ones.  Bravo!

I Know It's Considered A Classic... I know the Big Sleep is considered by probably 99% of anyone who has ever seen it a classic. When I purchased it I didn't think there was any chance that I wouldn't give it five stars in my review. However, I have to be honest, it bored me and I never finished it. As you can see from my other reviews, I am a Raymond Chandler fan. Maybe I'm better off just reading the books and not watching the film adaptations.

Great show, not what I ordered though... When I ordered this collection I was expecting to receive the metal cased edition, since I have the metal box cased edition for Band of Brothers. I received instead the cardboard boxed set. I was disappointed, but because it was such a great price, I didn't bother about it. All of the pictures showing the product I was receiving indicated to me that I was going to receive the metal box. Oh well I suppose. Besides that, it shipped quickly and arrived in great shape. The Series is also absolutely fantastic (totally on par with Band of Brothers). Defiantly NOT for children, EVEN with guidance, but great for history buff's like myself who enjoy detailed storytelling and dramatized facts of what REALLY happened. The show gets 5 stars. This order gets 3 because of not getting what I thought I was going to get. It would be nice to let the buyer know if it was the cardboard box set or the metal boxed edition... just saying.

bela's bat... ... or 3.5 stars, Good enough entertainment with the bat flying around enough thru the film doing its deed by bela; good enough videography for today, though a 'lil dark, even though most shots in this film are @ night. ('lil means little, @ means at.)

simply ok I had read pretty awful reviews about this movie, so I wasn't expecting much. I actually thought it was ok.  Ryan Reynolds does as much as he can with a slow, underdeveloped story line.  You'd think that a comic book based movie would have more action to carry it, but alas, in this case, you'd think wrong.

Ounce The second CD (american tour) did not play & the movey track skips, the movey DVD was OK.These were new (not used) CDs

DVD for a friend I should have my friend review this since I bought it for her...she is the Lennon fan.  She said the lead looked and talked like Lennon did.  I watched it and the story line was enjoyable.  I can't say I was riveted, but it made for a good time with a friend.

Fan of native cinema wanted to like it more.. The only reason I wanted to watch this film was because it was done entirely by native americans.  Unfortunately that seems to be about it's main claim to fame.  The movie is not BAD its just about average.  It doesn't really stand out in any way and will probably mostly be of interest to other native americans.  There is some quirky and clever humor but any at least coming of age story should have something like that in there.  I didn't find it exceptionally endearing.  Unlike other native-centric cinema like Windwalker, or Dreamkeeper, there are not layers of subtle humor that 'insiders' (those raised in or deeply involved in native culture, like red road people) will pick up that normal watchers wont get.  It's just what you see is what you get.  If your native it's probably worth a rental.  But there are better movies (like Windwalker or Dreamkeeper) to buy if you don't already have them and are just looking for some native american cinema.

Good, but predictable movie Most of the characters in the movie are random and seem to have been shoe-horned into the story.  It was enjoyable, though.

Enjoyably Bad After the hilariously and hideously bad first film, this second episode actually doesn't look so bad.  Okay, it's still not good, but it's campy, enjoyable fun anyway. Dolph Lundgren is pretty wooden and looking old too, but he's likable and has fun with his silly role. And Natassia Malthe is pretty darn fine. Oh,and there's a dragon! Campy, low-budget fun.

Pleasantly Against the Odds... "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" is a nicely-done British romantic comedy, built around a preposterous premise and the charm of two unlikely people falling in love.  Its very British humor won't appeal to everyone, but a strong cast sells the movie.  When a wealthy Yemeni Sheik (an excellent Amr Waked) decides to build his own salmon fly-fishing stream in his desert homeland, government media expert Paula Maxwell (Kristen Scott Thomas) sees an opportunity for favorable publicity and pushes the project on skeptical Fisheries scientist Dr. Fred Jones (Ewan McGregor).  The reluctant Jones and hyper-efficient business consultant Harriet Chetwode-Tobin (Emily Blunt)begin to put flesh on the whimsical project, which takes on a life of its own, far up a narrow wadi in the Yemeni mountains.  This is a fun movie with several narrative threads.  Maxwell's ruthless and hilarious quest for favorable publicity is one.  A second involves the troubled marriage of Dr. Jones and his careerist wife, and Harriet's stressful quickie wartime romance with a deployed British Army officer.  The main thread is the slow, uneven blossoming of a relationship between Fred and Harriet, as verbal sparring over a seemingly impossible project turns into a shared committment to something that might just work out.  A key scene comes early in the movie, over dinner in a Scottish castle, when the Sheik challenges the scientist's claimed lack of faith, using fishing as a telling metaphor.  The movie has some jarring moments of excitement (the sheik has enemies) and some beautiful location shooting, including London, Scotland and Morocco (a stand-in for war-torn Yemen).  Best of all is the superb acting of McGregor and Blunt, putting their understated best into a touching romance.  "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" is highly recommended as good entertainment for the patient viewer.

A strong adaptation and a great family film! First of all I will say that I have never seen an adaptation of a movie based on a book that followed the original story as closely as this one. Sure there were changes here and there, but it kept to the same basic storyline and totally captured the spirit of C. S. Lewis' masterpiece. Now about the film, It's a great adventure movie full of action and a pretty good Villain, and a great sense of wonder. The acting of the children is amazing and it's so easy to believe they are a family. The action scenes are pretty intense and epic. though the scene where Aslan dies may scare little children. The only problem I can see problem I have with this film is that the plot lags just a little in the middle of the film.

Another fun Rudy Maxa DVD We have enjoyed all of the Rudy Maxa DVD travel series, especially in BluRay. The programs help when viewed prior to travel and are most enjoyable post-travel. Rudy captures and best of every location. He also enjoys food and beverage, which we appreciate in our household.

THERE IS NO ESCAPE! In the small mining town of Silver City, an evil has been unknowingly unleashed on its unsuspecting residents. The old mine has been sealed up and abandoned for over seventy years but now some outsiders are about to make a big discovery and it isn't silver or gold. What unspeakable horror lives in the mine? Is there any way to escape it? What is a Boogen?  The Boogens is a slow paced horror film that relies on its ability to build up the suspense for most of the film and then unleash everything it has on the viewer in the last 20-30 minutes. If you're a horror fan looking for a high body count and plenty of gore and nudity then this film may not be for you. There isn't a high body count, there's very little gore and barely any nudity to speak of. Fans get a brief glimpse of Rebecca Balding's butt in one scene and her breasts in another, that's it. As for the creatures; we never really see them until the last 20-30 minutes of the movie.  Thanks to Olive Films the "Boogens" has finally seen daylight on Blu-ray and DVD. I don't know what type of restoration Olive Films did to the print if any, because the film still suffers from embedded artifacts, speckling and a certain amount of graininess throughout. Don't get me wrong, the video image is clear and definitely viewable.  Aside from the old school non CGI creatures and effects this film also benefits from an eerie music score, so the mono soundtrack provided on this release was a bit of a disappointment for me. The mono sound is clear and crisp but I had hoped for a 5.1 sound option as well. I expected this Blu-ray release would be filled with tons of bonus features and extras, it isn't. The only extra included is an audio commentary from director James L. Conway, screenwriter David O'Malley and actress Rebecca Balding.

Segments Always enjoy 10 minute segment exercises because you can fit them in your schedule / easy to follow instructions / Use it on my alternating days I don't go to the Gym

Bb I had seen this documentary on tv and loved it. Very insightful and thought provoking. Cost a little high,but it was an excellent gift for a fellow history buff.

Love Jeff Dunham The Jeff Dunham parts were good, some of the other parts were the same old dummy talking  Love Walter and Peanut

Galaxy Quest Fun to watch. It has become a classic with our family. This is 3rd copy that we have purchased. We've loaned the others out to friends. We find ourselves quoting dialog from the movie. All in good fun.

what dreams may come The movie was darker than I remembered. It was still very imaginatve and appealing. I bought it for my sister and have not gotten her opinion yet.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00007GZR5">What Dreams May Come</a>

Ec1 Great movie for a great price. With the prime option shippingThis was fast and easy to order an best of all very inexpensively cheap.

A first rate for the movie, not the editing I have to admit I was pretty sour about Batman Beyond at first. It appeared to be little more than an "updated" version of the legend for the ultra ironic post Spumco WB generation. I have the same apprehensions about the upcoming wearisomely anime "Beware the Batman." But its sympathetic treatment of an aging Bruce Wayne and his rocky succession grew on me after a while. I still don't like Terry's costume, but he's a good if very different Batman all the same. I was willing to overlook the improbability of the Joker downloading himself into a microchip to wreck havoc in the future as the weak plot device it was. It's an entertaining, sometimes funny and often touching film, and I recommend it.  Having said that, I join the universal howl of condemnation that has greeted Warner's clumsy last minute censoring of this movie. I had seen the unedited scenes on YouTube and was anxious to get a legal version and see the whole movie (which is what I assume Warner wants, right?) Imagine my surprise when this mess came along. To say nothing of the dishonesty of it all, the drama, pace and even the blocking was lost. In the climactic Joker Death scene, Tim Drake manages to be in two places at once. I wonder what bureaucratic microbe at Warner decreed this bit of fumbling film sanitizing? And what was gained? In what way is hearing the Joker scream off camera less "scary" to a kid?  Despite this, I recommend this film to anyone who likes the DC Animated Universe, which I have come to vastly prefer to the over the top "let's be edgy because it's cool" regular DC continuity. There's a reason I gave up collecting comics twenty years ago.

Punisher I haven't watched it yet, so I don't know the quaility of this product. It was in great packaging, although a few days later than the rest of the order. All in all, no complaints

dont own but want to now rented this movie from redbox last night. it started off kinda slow but then it got better, i thorougly enjoyed this movie so cute and fun a new twist on the fairy tale and i love fairy tale retellings. the song at the end is so very catchy i bought it on itunes. i like how this princess is no damsel in distress she doesnt sit around to b rescued by a prince. yes i though it was good and im 30 years old but i would def recommend it, now i got to save up to buy this dvd

"It's pretty hard to talk to anyone about this country, until they've come over here and seen it..."(John Wayne as Col. Kirby) You may not appreciate the in your face political message, but The Green Berets (1968) is a solid and occasionally brutal film that shocks and entertains, while presenting a fairly consistent point of view.  Controversial and generally unpopular at the time, the Viet Nam conflict was not the subject of many mainstream films during the 1960's.  The Green Berets was a rare exception.  With big time production values, and a solid cast headed by the iconic John Wayne, the film plainly makes the case that with Communist forces seeking to take over the region, America's involvement in Viet Nam was justified and necessary.  Looking back now, it is easy to regard The Green Berets as overly simplistic pro-war propaganda, however the film still remains historically significant.  Media coverage at the time was perhaps lacking, a point that is made clear in the movie.  So for some, The Green Berets may have helped shape and influence their perceptions of the conflict, and served as their introduction to the M16 and punji  stick.  Claims that the film is not historically accurate may be justified, but it is perhaps unfair to hold The Green Berets to a higher standard for realism than your typical World War II adventure.  Even with a heavy handed pro-war slant, The Green Berets is still an engaging often riveting tale, particularly in the first half of this 144 minute epic.  John Wayne stars as Colonel Mike Kirby, who arrives at Fort Bragg to prepare to take a team of Green Beret to Viet Nam.  One of the key elements of the film is the inclusion of journalist George Beckworth (David Janssen), who joints Kirby's team in Da Nang as an observer.  As someone unfamiliar with the nature of the war and the enemy, Beckworth represents the audience.  His exposure to the harsh realities and brutalities of the conflict, mirrors the typical viewer.  In the jungles of Nam, the film is divided between two major operations.  The first involves the team's arrival as reinforcements at a basecamp deep in the jungle, where they immediately begin to make preparations to fortify the camp's defenses and extend the perimeter.  Much happens in the course of their brief stay.  Through interaction with the people, encounters with the enemy, acts of violence, and the cumulative effect of many personal tragedies, we form an impression of the nature and scope of the war, and the cruelty of enemy.  With an officer killed the day before he is to be sent home, and soldiers slain by traitorous Viet Cong within the camp, the writing may be heavy-handed and loaded with clich&eacute;s, the results however are still quite effective, as the story quickly draws you in, and has you there in the camp with the group.  Beckworth gives a young injured girl his pendant, only to get it back the next day, after she is murder by the Viet Cong.  A bright spot occurs when Sergeant Petersen (Jim Hutton), adopts Hamchuck, a young orphan boy, but the good times are short lived.  The group's stay in the village comes to an end, when the enemy is gratuitously annihilated by mini-gun fire from a passing US plane.  The second operation is an undercover mission, working with South Vietnamese Army Colonel Cai (Jack Soo), and using his sister-in-law (Irene Tsu) as bait, to kidnap an enemy general from a safe house deep behind enemy lines.  The operation gives the team a chance to display more of their deadly skills, as after the general has been captured, the team is pursued through the jungle.  Fittingly, just as success seems to be in sight, tragedy strikes, providing a somber ending to the film, which manages to close with a faint note of hope, as a version of former Green Beret Barry Sadler's The Ballad of the Green Berets plays.  The politics that are integral to the film may bother some, but The Green Berets largely features old style WWII filmmaking, applied to a new conflict, one that did not have the same kind of public support.  Shot mainly on location in Georgia, the film serves as a testament to John Wayne's support for America's presence in Viet Nam.  It features standout performances by Jim Hutton and David Janssen, with solid work by George Takai, Aldo Ray, Raymond St. Jacques, Bruce Cabot, Jack Soo, and Irene Tsu.  The Green Berets really does look outstanding in Bluray, though regrettably there is just one extra feature.  Other films about the Viet Nam conflict would eventually follow, but with all its faults, The Green Berets is one of the landmark films about this chapter in America's history.

One of the best OO7's From Russia With Love and On Her Majesty's Secret Service are highly recommended. Also, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice and  Dr No are good.  Skip all the Roger Moore/Timothy Dalton  efforts-not worth the trouble.  Daniel Craig's are also good and a necessary modernization of the franchise. So with seven of these Bond's you've got the best of OO7 for a whole lot less money.

A Hit? This will be short and sweet. I watch the movies because of the books, we all know no movie will compare exactly to the book, so i will not even waste time with that thought. I will say that this was a good movie with good effects. My favorite part was the fight scene. It was also one of my favorite parts of the book, so for me to say that for the movie says a lot to me. There were some things that were a little to fake and i wont spoil any scenes so you will have to watch it for yourself. Overall it was a good movie and i hope that Breaking Dawn will be more like the book since it will be in two movies. I will say that if you are debating on buying the movie you should probably rent it first or borrow it first, then decide if you liked it well enough to buy. If i had not read the books i'm not sure i would have bought the movies, but i always buy movies that i own the books to.

Great Movie, Good SErvice If you haven't already seen this flick, you should. Then again, I am a fan of horror, and comedy ... and this fits the bill. The disc I received was new, so there were no problems there. I received the disc in a timely manner. There is nothing negative to report. Enjoy the flick!!

Iron Man Outstanding PQ & AQ.  A great movie to watch.  Special features are well above average and take you inside the movie.  Recommended.

A Nice Collection This is a very nice and mostly complete collection of the British comedy classic.  It is nicely packaged preventing damage to the discs.  The episodes are in order and annotated.  The live discs are a nice addition.  I personally prefer Benny Hill over MPFC.  But I picked this up at a good price and it is well worth it.

Ironman If you do not have this one in your collection by now. This you should do as so as possible. In due time, if you like this one, I hear there is a third one coming out to the big screen. Then to dvd/bluray. Add today to your collection. You won't have to play catch-up later.

The Lincoln Lawyer - DVD - Review Matthew McConaughey did a great job in this movie. Though nothing was really surprising, it did keep me on the edge of my seat until the very end. Anyone who likes these drama/lawyer driven movies should definitely see this at least once, but I'd make it a rental only!

PEEPING TOM...50 Years Later. This movie went straight to DVD in the U.S and only recently opened in the U.K. Most of the U.S. reviews have ranged from fair to terrible and while I can understand that, I don't agree with it. I think THE RESIDENT has a lot more to offer than it's given credit for. Is the film predictable? Of course, most "women in peril" films usually are from the basic set-up to the inevitable conclusion. Is it suspenseful? Not as much as many thrillers I can name but then I don't think that's the main point of the film. It's more about a portrait of perversion done in the style of the classic M and the (reviled at the time) British horror film PEEPING TOM than standard thrillers like THE ROOMMATE or PACIFIC HEIGHTS. In other words, it's creepy.  The basic scenario is as follows. Single female rents a too good to be true apartment and then has cause to regret it thanks to a psychotic individual who has designs on her. Nothing new here but the way it's handled in THE RESIDENT I found more far more unsettling than in most of the films in this category. THE RESIDENT is extremely well crafted from the editing and the camerawork down to the eerie and effective score. The script doesn't probe deeply into psychological issues but as voiced by Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and the 88 year old Christopher Lee, it kept me engaged. Another plus (or maybe not depending on your POV) is that it has a very high "ewww" factor.  THE RESIDENT also reminded me of some the classic Hammer "mini-Hitchcocks" made during the 1960s and early 70s like DIE DIE MY DARLING and CRESCENDO both of which star Stefanie Powers who Swank bears a superficial resemblance to. Christopher Lee makes the most of his limited scenes, but it is Jeffrey Dean Morgan and his portrait of the disturbed landlord that gives THE RESIDENT its resonance. He starts off like Anthony Perkins in PSYCHO and winds up like Glenn Close in FATAL ATTRACTION. The scene where he brushes his teeth with Swank's toothbrush I found as chilling as anything else in the film. But that's only one of the many disturbing things he does. While the ending is rushed and formulaic, it's to be expected in a glorified B picture which is what THE RESIDENT is.  This is only the third film to be released by the newly revived Hammer Films. LET ME IN, the remake of the Swedish vampire film LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, garnered mostly positive reviews but tanked due to mismarketing and a backlash from fans of the original. WAKE WOOD, a film similar in nature to THE WICKER MAN, has already come out on Region 2 DVD. Although all three carry on the Hammer tradition of quality films on a limted budget, they are having trouble finding American distribution which is what killed the original company in the first place. The remake of THE WOMAN IN BLACK with Daniel Radcliffe which is scheduled for release later this year should not have that problem and will hopefully be the hit that Hammer needs to have.

A Classic Dr Who Fix With so many Patrick Trauton episodes missing it is always a pleasure to watch his performances. Helps to feed the Dr Who junkie inside.

Better than a DVD. The movie is beautiful on Kindle Fire.  The images are crisp and clean and always at your fingertips.  I intend to purchase many more animated movies for our Kindle.

the last legion plays well, with clarity and stars give good preformances, however as with all films that based on facts dives over the cliff at certain facts that were contrived, such as the sword fight scene at Tiberius's palace. P.S. Tiberius was rotten emperor, as most were he was a lecher and a pedofile after abusing young boys he would have them thrown over the cliff so they couldn't tell anyone what he did

FUN BUT NOT AS GOOD AS THE FIRST ONE A good film but nowhere near as good as the first one. There's an attempt to give Po, the main character voiced by Jack Black, more of an inner hero's journey as he tries to seek out his parents and where he came from and while that happens to a certain extent he's more involved with his allies in stopping an evil peacock (voice of Gary Oldman) who is set on eliminating Kung Fu with *gasp* gunpowder. Jeepers! What's going to happen? Adults know what's coming and kids will love it so even though it's predictable in a lot of places it's all in good fun. There are a cast of voices adding their personalities to computer animated characters: Angelina Jolie, Dennis Haysbert, Dustin Hoffman, Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh, Seth Rogen and Lucy Liu. Why, there's even old martial arts somewhat famous actor Jean Claud Van Damme (Damme strong, Damme proud, Damme right!). A predictable ending with a bit of a cliffhanger that opens it up for Kung Fu Panda 3. This film will have a number of spinoffs and the like with three other films in the franchise and a video game that came out in May 2011. The budget was $150M but the Worldwide Box Office yield was a whopping $665M. CHARACTERS/DIALOGUE: B; HUMOR: C plus to B minus; STORY/PLOTTING: B minus to B; HEROIC THEMES: B minus; WHEN WATCHED: mid December 2011; OVERALL GRADE: B minus (higher for kids).

One of the best films of 2010...a real treat in the theater (3.5 stars)! Let me start by saying that The King's Speech (2010) is fun to watch. I really enjoyed going to the theater and sitting with a large crowd to see this film. It's not quite as fresh and funny as The Kids Are All Right (2010), but it's well written, well acted, and nicely crafted. The movie's pacing is a bit slow at times, but with so many great scenes throughout the film, I was able to get through the boring bits. I give it 3.5 stars out of 5, and it's definitely one of my Top 10 movies of 2010. Actor Colin Firth is the star of this historic biopic about King George VI of Britain, and it's another incredible performance by him in a role that will probably get him the Best Actor Oscar next month. Firth was nominated in 2009 for Best Actor in A Single Man (2009), director Tom Ford's absolutely brilliant feature film debut. With these two excellent acting performances back to back, Firth has positioned himself as a real dramatic leading man, of which we seemingly have so few today.  King George VI was a stutterer, suffering with an inability to speak clearly at a time when radio was coming into its golden age as the primary means of mass communication. Set primarily in the 1930s, and leading up to World War II, The King's Speech is a fascinating and enjoyable look into the 20th century British Monarchy from behind-the-scenes. King George VI suffered from a severe speech impediment that initially kept him from ascending to the throne over his brother. But as his brother King Edward VIII, played by Guy Pearce, pursued a "scandalous" relationship with an American woman, George was forced to take over for his brother as King when Edward abdicated the throne. As King, especially during the impending World War II crisis, George was forced to give speeches both in person and over the radio in order to keep his country's citizens united and strengthened. These radio speeches are now historically famous and well documented as crucial in Britain's build-up to fighting Hitler and Germany.  Apparently King George VI struggled to find a speech therapist who could get to the core of his problem: emotional confidence. But George ultimately found the right guy to help him and trust with his wife the Queen's assistance, in the unorthodox and "illegitimate" workings of Lionel Logue, played perfectly by Geoffrey Rush. Rush brings a wacky, intelligent, and heart-warming performance to the screen as Logue, which he's been nominated for as Best Supporting Actor in this year's Oscars. It's right up there with his best work in Shine (1996), Shakespeare In Love (1998), Elizabeth (1998), and the Pirates of the Caribbean films. The best scenes in the film are always between Rush and Firth, their onscreen chemistry is just pitch perfect in The King's Speech. I'm not sure that one could have done it without the other. Helena Bonham Carter is hilarious and wonderful in her role as Queen Elizabeth, wife to Colin Firth's King George. It's her most "restrained" work I've ever seen. Carter usually plays extremely over-the-top characters that you love for their incredible weirdness. But as the Queen, she shows another side of her comedic and dramatic acting talents. It's a brilliant performance that she's been nominated for it in this year's Oscars as Best Supporting Actress.  With an incredible script and cast, British director Tom Hooper has brought his A-game to The King's Speech. After seeing his work on HBO's stunning historical miniseries John Adams (2008), I knew this movie would have a unique look and feel. Hooper is clearly a director who focuses on the details. Every set, every location, every shot has a fascinating detailed look about it. Hooper is a visual storyteller that brings his unique style and point of view to his work and it clearly shines in collaboration with his cast and crew. I also recently watched Hooper's film The Damned United (2009), after seeing The King's Speech, and it's another good film showing Hooper's talent as a filmmaker. I definitely want to catch up with Hooper's work and see HBO's highly regarded short miniseries Elizabeth I (2005).  The production design on The King's Speech by Eve Stewart is spot-on, giving the movie a genuine historic look and feel for every set, location, costume, and prop. Part of what I really love about historical movies is always the incredible attention to detail in the production design. It almost always gives those films something that makes them stand out from the pack. The old radio microphones and technology, combined with Colin Firth's emotional body language, make you feel right in your bones that you are there in the 1930s. That's not an easy feat in today's modern world, but Stewart and her art department team did a top notch job doing it.  Like any great movie, the cinematography either makes the story more engaging for the viewer, or it takes away and distracts the viewer from the story. Director of Photography Danny Cohen brings a great visual look to The King's Speech through his lighting and camera shot choices. There are visuals from this film that still wander around my mind on a daily basis weeks after I've seen the film. And whenever I hear the name "The King's Speech", I immediately remember some of the incredible photographic images from the movie. Cohen definitely deserved his recent Oscar nomination for Best Cinematography for The King's Speech. It's one of the best looking films from 2010.  While music composer Alexandre Desplat's original score for The King's Speech is good solid work that fits the film very nicely, I'm not quite as enamored by it as some critics and music aficionados. I do want to listen to it a few more times on its own, separate from the film, to garner a more full opinion on it. But I Desplat did a great job bringing his musical talents to The King's Speech for what it needed.  Finally, I can't say enough about screenwriter David Seidler's script for The King's Speech. I listened to a great iTunes podcast interview with Seidler by Jeff Goldsmith of Creative Screenwriting Magazine, where they discussed this screenplay and it's own interesting backstory. This movie was decades in the making, since Seidler had to agree to not write the script or make the movie until Queen Elizabeth, wife of King George VI, had passed away. And of course this kind of material and subject matter was not popular in Hollywood regardless, so getting financing for the film was its own struggle. But Seidler's passionate commitment to this story, his writing, and this film really came through. If it weren't for a very competitive original film script field in this year's Oscar nominations, I would probably choose Seidler's script as the best of 2010. But it wouldn't surprise me if Seidler wins the Oscar over my choice of Christopher Nolan for Inception.  The King's Speech is a real treat of a movie, one you can take the whole family to in my opinion. I'm flabbergasted that our MPAA Ratings Board is so archaic in their thinking that just because the F-word is used more than once in this movie that it deserves an 'R' rating. There's no nudity or violence, just a few expletive words in a hilarious speech therapy scene. This is really just a PG-13 film and I'm glad to see that the film's 'R' rating has not made much of a difference at the box office. Go see this film while you still can at the theater...it's worth every dollar you spend on your ticket.

Almost loved it I really liked this movie.Can't say it was scary, but it did make me jump a few times. I wasn't too crazy about the ending but my friend liked it.

The Betsy Most enjoyable and well acted.  Just a bit dated now that Ontario Speedway is history, no computers, cellphones etc.  How refreshing is that?

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Ultimate Edition Blu-ray Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Ultimate Edition Blu-Ray  Year:  2002 Rating:  PG Runtime:  2 HRS 41 MIN (Theatrical), 2 HRS, 54 MIN (Extended)  Directed:  Chris Columbus Starring:  Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Robbie Coltrane, Richard Harris, Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman, and Kenneth Branagh  Film Rating:  3 out of 5 stars Video Rating:  4 out of 5 stars Audio Rating:  4 out of 5 stars Extras:  4 out of 5 stars Overall Rating:  4 out of 5 stars  The Film  As much as I hated Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone upon my first viewing I hated it's follow-up even more.  In the year following my first viewing of Sorcerer's Stone I hadn't bothered to re-watch the film so I went into the sequel with very little recollection of the events of that film.  To say I felt lost was an understatement, I didn't understand how the events in the Sorcerer's Stone tied to the Chamber of Secrets and by the end of this film I swore to never watch another Harry Potter film again.  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets picks up during Harry's summer holiday from Hogwarts.  His neglectful Aunt and Uncle are continuing their quest to try to stifle Harry's magical ability and force him to live a normal life.  Then one night Harry is visited by a strange creature named Dobby (who is a House Elf) who informs Harry he must not return to school or terrible things will happen at Hogwarts.  Harry of course disregards this warning from Doobie (I find it a lot more fun to call him Doobie rather than Dobby, I'm not sure why) and heads back to school anyways.  Of course, terrible things do begin happen at Hogwarts, most of which have something to do with the "Chamber of Secrets". Shockingly enough, our hero and his faithful friends must solve the mystery and of course, save the day.  There's also more Quiddich, a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, and a few new characters are introduced that will play more integral parts in the series later on.  In my review of Harry Potter and Sorcerer's Stone I went into detail about several issues that I thought hindered the film from being great.  Those issues included the film's director Chris Columbus, the child acting being less than amazing, and some shoddy CGI work by 2001 standards.  Chamber of Secrets improves on two out of three of those issues.  Chris Columbus is still in the director's chair for this installment and unfortunately not much has changed concerning his handling of the film.  Chamber of Secrets is bland and lacks the visual flare you'd expect to see from a film on this scale.  Far too often dramatic scenes are followed up with scenes that are filled with juvenile humor that robs the film of any real sense of danger or foreboding.  CGI work is improved on and doesn't show it's age quite as much as Sorcerer's Stone.  If you watch Sorcerer's Stone and Chamber of Secrets back-to-back you'll see a clear difference in the quality of the CGI, a great example comes in the form of the Quiddich match.  The first film's match looked pretty damn lousy whereas Chamber of Secrets looks somewhat decent by comparison. Where the film does clearly outclass its predecessor is in the children's performances.  While they're are still some issues with some of the youth cast, most make at least moderate improvements.  Emma Watson finally learned that she didn't have to over enunciate every other word in the script which made her less annoying over the course of a 2 1/2+ hour runtime.  Overall, most of the kids seem to feel a lot more comfortable in this film and that's important when they're the focus of the film.  The "big" name addition to the cast is Kenneth Branagh (who recently directed Thor) as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher Gilderoy Lockhart.  He replaced Hugh Grant who dropped out due to scheduling conflicts and I'm glad he did because Branagh's performance is often scene stealing and is one of highlights of the film.  Chamber of Secrets also introduces us to a few new adult characters that we'll see a lot more of in future films.  Mark Williams plays the Weasely's muggle obsessed father Arthur and Jason Isaacs plays Lucius Malfoy, the smarmy father of Harry Potter's school rival Draco Malfoy.  Throughout the books and to a lesser extent the films, fatherhood is an important underlying issue and these two characters represent the polar opposites on how to be a dad.  I'd be remiss not to mention the character of Doobie (I know it's Dobby but again, I like Doobie better) who I absolutely despised during my initial viewing of Chamber of Secrets.  After reading the books my feeling changed a bit for the character so if you're anything like me you might find yourself saying "@#$% this movie, Doobie pisses me off."  Go ahead and take a deep breath and say to yourself, "I won't see this character again for quite a few movies" and move on.  He can be a bit much to handle but if you read the books your feeling for Doobie might change some and you might even find yourself liking the little bastard.  Overall, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a better film than Sorcerer's Stone.  It's not leaps and bounds better but I think to those that are still Potter novices this film will be more accessible to them since they've already been exposed to the world of Harry Potter.  As with the first film, Chamber of Secrets stumbles some thanks mostly to it's director Chris Columbus and his wishy-washy direction and pacing.  Hardcore fans will argue that this is the purest film in the franchise due to how closely it follows the novel but what works on the page doesn't always translate well to the screen, so I wish the film would have deviated slightly from the book to make a involving film.  The Blu-Ray  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secret's Ultimate Edition Blu-ray comes in an almost identical case as Sorcerer's Stone.  The main difference between to two aside from the artwork is the color of the cases and the numbering.  Sorcerer's Stone is blue and is labeled Year One and Chamber of Secrets is red and is labeled Year Two.  Inside our sturdy cardboard slipcover you'll find both the theatrical and extended cuts of the film, a second Blu-ray loaded with special features, a standard-def (SD) DVD of special features, a digital copy of the film (theatrical cut only), a collectible book, and two character cards (Rubeus Hagrid & Severus Snape)  Just as in the case of Sorcerer's Stone, Chamber of Secrets features both the theatrical and extended cut of the film.  The extended cut is approximately 13 minutes longer than its theatrical counterpart bringing the film dangerously close to three hours long.  Most of the added footage isn't that exciting and amount to a few small moments of interest or are just extensions of existing scenes.  Book purists will be pleased that these moments have been added back in but if you decide to watch the theatrical cut you won't be missing much.  Chamber of Secrets features the same Hi-Def transfer used for the previous Blu-ray and HD-DVD.  Only a year separates the first and second films but Chamber of Secrets has a better looking transfer than the first film.  Colors pop more, black levels are inkier, and detail is improved and more consistent.  Grain level is always appropriate and thankfully I didn't notice any use of DNR (Digital Noise Reduction) which if applied heavily can make people look like plastic or appear waxy.  Featuring a DTS-HD Master Audio 6.1 track for the theatrical cut of the film and a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track for the extended cut Harry Potter sounds great no matter what version you watch. Dialogue is always crystal clear even when the score or on-screen action picks up.  Large chunks of this film are dialogue driven but when the action kicks into gear you'll notice impressive bass and good activity from the surround speakers.  One scene features hundreds of spiders crawling down from the surrounding trees to attack Harry and Ron and it's an extremely well done moment that made me check over my shoulder to make sure that no creepy-crawlers weren't about to pounce on me either.  Disc one only offers up one special feature which is the PiP (Picture in Picture) commentary track with director Chris Columbus.  Some of what he has to say is interesting and the visual aids are mildly entertaining but there are long gaps in between segments and when the movie is almost three hours long that gets a little tiresome especially if you just watched the film all the way through.  As with the previous Potter Ultimate Edition, the Creating the World of Harry Potter documentary is the premiere special feature in this set.  Part II:  Characters is an 80 minute long installment covering every character of mention in the Harry Potter series, not just those in Chamber of Secrets.  There's a good mix of interviews both new and old that delivers some great insight into not only how the characters have grown but how the actors have as well.  The documentary is filled with lots of behind the scenes footage and candid interviews from both the youth and adult cast.  This documentary series should be reason enough for some die hard fans invest in Ultimate Edition sets, they are right up there with the best documentaries I've seen offered on any Blu-ray or DVD set.  Next up is 12 minutes worth of screen tests of Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint which are presented in HD.  I'm surprised these were not included on the Sorcerer's Stone set but because of the "Characters" documentary, they thought the screen tests were a good companion piece.  Also included in HD are a selection of deleted scenes, most of which are included in the Extended Cut, total runtime of the deleted scenes is 17 minutes.  The last special features on the disc is the teaser (SD), trailer (HD), and 17 TV spots all presented in (SD)... as usual, if it's not in HD I hardly considerate worth watching which brings me to disc three.  The third disc in our set is full of non-HD extras that have been ported over from the old DVD releases and therefore I have once again avoided filling my Blu-ray player with such filth.  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a stronger entry than the Sorcerer's Stone but the franchise still hasn't hit its stride yet.  The kid actors have improved and the CGI is holds up a lot better but the film still suffers from Chris Columbus' overly family friendly style of film making.  If you made it through Sorcerer's Stone and are still interested in knowing what happens next to Harry and his friends then I think you'll enjoy Chamber of Secrets.  If you find yourself struggling through keep in mind that Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is coming up next and that's where the film series takes huge leaps forward.  Conclusion  I highly recommend Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets especially if you're a Potter fanatic.  If you're not interested in the wonderful Creating the World of Harry Potter documentaries or are a little more price consensus you can always pick up the single disc Blu-ray for about $10 and still get great video and audio minus the extended cut and documentary.  Either way you've got less than six weeks till Deathly Hallows Part 2 is released to get up to speed... Get to watching!

He'  l  l raiser review 8/10 So I'm going to review another horror series for this month & I'm going to review them all even the dreddful direct to DVD sequels. So He'  l  l  raiser released in 1987 directed by Clive Barker who wrote the novel. The movie stars Andrew Robinson as Larry Cotten, Claire Higgans as Julia, Sean Chapman as Frank, Doug Bradley as Pinhead & Ashley Laurence as Kirsty Cotten. Story is this guy Frank bought a puzzle box. When he goes & solves it he gets ripped apart by hook chains & then the 1st appearance by PPinhead & The Cenobites. Frank's Brother & his Wife Julia move into the house Frank's no where to be found he believes he's in Prison cause he has a criminal history. Larry's Daughter Kirsty moves in with her bf cause she doesn't like Julia. Larry cuts his hand on a nail when he was moving a Matterss upstairs. The blood drips on the floor which leads to the attic which brings back Frank who is skinless. He needs blood & or g  an  s to look normal. Julia has history she was cheating on Larry with Frank & she decides to help him she picks up other guys & kills them so Frank can regain his skin. Kirsty sees what Julia is doing. Kirsty is confronted by Frank she throws the puzzle box out the window & runs for it & later passes out. She wakes up in a hospital She solves the box & it summons Pinhead & The Cenobites. She's chased by this 1 creature which is a nice practical effect. Kirsty tell Pinhead about Frank. Frank went & killed Larry & he has control of Larry. Kirsty goes home & then she finds out what happend & Frank & Julia try to kill her but he accidentally kills her & then it leads into the attic where Pinhead & The Cenobites tear Frank apart with great FX no CGI nonsense. They still want Kirsty to come intio their realm. She figures out the box & sends them back. I'm sorry it wasn't an in depth review. But this is a pretty solid horror film. Great effects messed up images. Clive Barker does good job directing. Andrew Robinson was great. Doug Bradley does a great job for the few scenes he had. Ashley Laurence was good likeable character. Sean Chapman did a good job. So that my H  e  l  l  raiser review & I'll review the 2nd which is my favorite.

21 Minutes LESS than the regular DVD? I was about to buy this Blu-ray version when I noticed that the regular DVD was 110 minutes long and this Blu-ray is only 89 minutes long according to the specs here on Amazon. $18.99 standard DVD versus $25.49 for the Blu-ray. Can someone please tell me why anyone would pay $6.50 MORE to get 21 Minutes LESS of a movie?

Action Drama With Two of My Favorite Actors Brad Pitt plays Frankie McGuire, who saw his father gunned down before his eyes when he was eight years old, and joined the Irish Republican Army as a result. Harrison Ford plays Tom O'Meara, a New York cop who puts Rory Devaney (the fake ID of Frankie McGuire) up in his basement for awhile as a favor to his friend, a wealthy leader of the Irish-American community in New York. Apparently Tom had no idea his friend was a major supporter of the IRA and knew darn well Rory was really Frankie, who was wanted for murder.  Just in case you believe he was not guilty of the murder, you get to see the bloody shoot-out back in Belfast. He is a cold-blooded killer, no matter what you think about the reasons he became one. He went to New York to arrange for the purchase and transportation of guided missiles for the IRA.  The only problem is, he likes Tom O'Meara and his family, and he's growing a little less cold-hearted all the time. What's that going to do to his commitment to the IRA and to his mission here in New York?

IMAGE EDITION!!!!! The Image edition appears to be the only one worth getting and apparantly full length.  The other editions look to be edited re-issues.  The Image disc is not restored, the volume is low, and has some minor splicing.  It's just outrageous no one has restored this yet.

The Underdog's A great story of the Underdog's at the 'Worlds.'  They knew they were going in as Underdog's but held their head high.  This is very simular to 'On the Day' is some ways, and totally different in others.  It's not about a bunch of great bagpipers, but those who enjoy the music and learning the instrument themselfs.

Legal Evidence Vs Personal Life "Forensic science (often shortened to forensics) is the application of a broad spectrum of sciences to answer questions of interest to a legal system." Wikipedia  I am such a fan of UK series, they dig into the personal and professional lives of the stars, and we actually get to see how that half lives. In this series 'DNA' we get to meet Joe Donovan, played by Tom Conti, who is a retired forensic scientist. Tom Conti has the best head of hair on a man I have seen in a long time, btw. As we meet him he has been writing books about his old cases and has been very successful. His wife, played by Samantha Bond, is a dentist, and they have a son, Seth played by Ryan Cartwright. A happy family on the surface, but as we dig deep, we find more dysfunction than the usual family. Joe suffers from some sort of malady that renders him speechless and unable to remember what he was doing. His wife is so unhappy that she is looking outside the home. Seth, it seems has graduated from school and is doing nohting but sleeping.  Joe has been called back to help his old group when several murders appear to be similar to those that he covered before he was forced to leave his old job. The fact that his old job lets him in, seems to me to be absurd. Howwever, he is there, and he is very good at his job. The depth that forensic scientists go through I had never seen before. These two episodes are fascinating, and it is evident that Joe Donovan is the best there is in his field. At the same time, all havoc is played out within his family. Joes seems oblivious to his family issues, and that is a part of this series I don't uunderstand. No insight at all, or deep deep denial.  In the second series, much of the mystery of forensic science is lost. The cases are not really interesting, and it seems Joe Donovan is walking through his job. He is now in charge of FIU- Forensics Investigative Unit. His colleagiues are not at that interesting. He and his wife come to a parting in the ways, and at this point, it is time, and I really did not care. The only person of much interest is Seth, the son. He comes into his own, and seems to making his way. Unfortuantely, he decides to go into the same profession, and after one semester of Forensic Science classes, is hired as part of Joe's team. None of this makes sense to me. Seth has a life, and we see him getting it on with a colleague at work. Joe also gets it on with a colleague at work. Haven't we all heard that romance in the office is a No No? I couldn't get through the fifth episode it seemed so far fetched.  The first two episodes of this series were quite well done. Joe Donovan's character was so well developed because he is so different than most other characters in series TV. The lack of insight into his own personal issues was far fetched, but he offered no apologies and that was a characteristic that was inviting. If only the rest of the episodes could have lived up to the first two. Forensic Science is an area that is so open for more investigation, we certainly have CSI, but that always seemed so far fetched to me, so out there. I prefer the more down to earth approach.  Recommended. prisrob 02-04-12  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007TKHDO">American Dreamer</a>  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0020PJJHS">Goldeneye</a>

What a pleasant surprise Now I know I'm out of step with current preferences.  The average comedy today seems to consistently feature emotionally immature, narcissistic boy-men, and women who are trying to be tough at work but are insecure and confused about how to have any kind of grown-up relationship.  The characters are virtually interchangeable from one movie to another. Since I'm an avid movie-lover, I'm not that hard to please, but am too often left cold or indifferent.  Then along comes this supposedly "bad" movie, which I finally Netflixed since I like the director. It has characters I DID care about, and I wanted to give it 41/2 stars in contrast to what's out there. Life thas thrown Lisa and George some curve balls (pun intended), but they are BOTH striving to be caring and self-responsible people (how retro!) and figure out how to move on with their lives. I loved the performances of Reese and Paul (just watching their faces change was delicious), and I agree with another reviewer that Owen found a deeper layer too. Jack was Jack. I was particularly taken with the attention paid to supporting characters and the unique friendship George had with pregnant and emotional Annie.  The hospital scene was moving and funny, worth watching the movie to see.  But there were many little treats along the way.  e.g. 1) Lisa's attempts to rise above her pain with post-it-note slogans,like she did in baseball. 2) the power of silence at the restaurant (what, not even text messaging?) etc.  I am buying this movie, and hope they don't give up making little gems like this.  My scales have already tipped to independent and foreign films, so Hollywood is way behind in the battle for my dollar.  And just for the record, I see many movies in theaters and have a collection of THOUSANDS.  And my friends pay attention to my opinions. There's a bigger market out there than 20-year-old males. Are you listening, Hollywood?

Good movie, as expected. Ignore product images: no digital version included The reviews here convey the content of the movie well and I agree enough to give the movie 4 stars. But wanted to add this heads up: This "version" does NOT include the digital version like the images suggest. I should have been more careful and not trusted the pictures. My bad.

Funny I would love to be in this movie. It seems like they had a great time acting in Super Troopers. The most funniest parts are in the beginning and the end of the movie. The three teens are too funny.  The reason I gave this movie four stars instead of five stars is because if it wasn't for the beginning and the ending scenes this movie can get a little sleepy. It was funny threw out the movie. But not that great.

As advertised This review requires at least twenty words, that's the minimum . I could do it in  less. The bottom line,this video is as advertised . Good, crisp, clear DVD of one of the Best westerns ever made.

Solid movie Solid movie based upon the content. Overall, a good insight to embracing the entrpreneurial lifestyle to see a dream come true.  I would recommend this only to those who have dreams of working for self.

Sabrina My first viewing of this movie was on VHS,and Now seeing it on DVD makes it even greater movie. I wiil replay Sabrina many more times, and enjoy this story each time.

Great 3D effects I'm not too much into surfing, but this dvd has some very good 3D effects, very powerful waves, pretty scenic also. I bought this not only for the decent price, but because it's one of the newer releases from IMax theaters. There are great surfers in this movie, kids & adults... this is a unique & different movie in my library, somewhat educational... I recommend.

Can a movie be Sweet Natured and Violent? I love hockey but there aren't too many movies that celebrate the essence of minor league hockey other than the obvious and I think this one might end up being a cult classic in its own right. Normally I dislike the dude who plays the main character because he always plays in dude movies but in this case he is a rather loveable but sweet man who just happens to have fists of iron.The movie is intentionally over the top gory with some creative use of swear words and great physical comedy. Everybody is appropriately clad in flannel. The scenery is more realistic than glam and the individuals characters are funny and obscene. The script cleverly balances a fine line between endorsing stereotypes and sending them up and actually does both. Reccomended for anybody who likes sports movies or who thinks they are usually lame like I do. Somebody else mentioned this has sequel potential and I agree. I am not your typical hockey fan being a woman and all....

Lightweight, but clever and enjoyable Lots of cool twists here make for a lightweight, but pleasant, experience. Johnny Depp and Joli make an odd pairing, but it does seem to work. They have chemistry. It's a little taste of James Bond, updated, yet with the air of thorwback. The violence is never gruesome, thankfully. There's a lot of comedy here, as well.

You know you're getting old! I'm a bus driver. One day on a long trip we were playing movie trivia and I asked who was the Capt. of the Starship Entertprise. All the kids shouted Jean Luc Picard! HUH? I knew I was old. Well weekly I ask folks about the greatest undersea television series based on a great movie by the same name VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA AND i get that 4 letter answer. What?First of all ANYTHING by Irwin Allen is something great to watch. The undersea George Lucas of his day. Now the secret is AVOID SEASON ONE. It's horrible. But seasons 2,3,&4 you've gotta see.I'll bet a lot of folks give up after season 1. Skip it unless you crave black & white and espionage plots. But if you like monsters and action the last 3 seasons are your cup of tea.And hey new generation. You,ve got your own submarine series starting this fall, LAST RESORT. I can't wait.

DVD Serious drama.  Heart felt but a one time view.  Make sure that you get the best price cause you may not want to watch it more than once.

Not as good as the books... If you are trying to get out of reading the books don't bother.  The books are way better and if it wasn't for the books I probably wouldn't think so highly of the movies.  The star though is just so darn cute and she does her dang best playing the part.  For those that have read the books there is just too much detail that couldn't be included, but over all not a bad trilogy.

Enjoyable horror comedy In 1958 in some city in the suburbs, The Lamel family (Randy Quaid, Bryan Madorsky and Mary Beth Hurt) moved in and the son Michael has been acting strange lately especially when he's noticing something funny about the dinner he keeps getting every night. His dad has been delivering unique kinds of meat but who knows where it comes from as both of them cook together and the boy keeps getting odd dreams/nightmares lately as he finds out the truth of what's behind the meat.  Bizarre but amusing dark horror comedy that has been a cult fave since 1989 and one of the most underrated horror comedy mix films ever. This movie gives us a very David Lyncian-esque look at Suburban life in the late 50's with a nice score by Jonathan Elias and Angelo Balantomi (Blue Velvet and City of Lost Children) and very well acted. This movie maybe a bit disturbing and dark to some audiences but this movie is a required taste (lol on the "taste" part), this one relies on psychological themes than being a total gore-fest despite only a few moments of gore in it. I rented this movie when i was 10 and creeped me out but found it enjoyable nevertheless  Also recommended: "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre saga plus 2003 remake and The Beginning", "American Beauty", "Serial Mom", "Blood Diner", "Motel Hell", "Silence of the Lambs", "Hannibal", "Manhunter", "Red Dragon", "Cannibal Apocalypse", "Rabid Grannies", "Dead Alive (aka Braindead)", "Cannibal The Musical", "Ravenous", "The Burbs", "Blue Velvet" and "Wild at Heart".

Well Done Interesting movie. Starts out as a drab, 2nd rate movie, but graduates into  an excellently done  film with camera work as is seen in Orson Welles' films. Well done & well acted & higly recommended. A sleeper.

Megamind! I enjoyed it. The movie was really cute and entertaining. Not really any boring minutes. I admit I was skeptical, but this animation told a cute story and was fun to watch. I recommend. It left me in a good mood.

great buy I was a little scared when I open the box and in was NOT in English. But the quality was great and timing was fast.

Really well done movie I had a blast watching this movie. The pretense of the man on the ledge was of course highly improbable but that must be overlooked because of the high quality of the entire production and the very good acting job turned in by the lead character. I enjoyed every minute of the movie and might eventually watch it again. I have even considered purchasing a used DVD if available so that I can watch it again. I wasn't expecting the movie to be as good as it was and was very pleasantly surprised. I highly recommend this movie to any and everyone.

"MEXI~HORROR AT ITS BEST" I first discovered the "Santos" Movies in the summer of 2010. I am a Vintage Horror Collector and was very amused and captured by just how different these Films are in their interpretation of Horror and Fantasy! I highly recommend this DVD and also "Santos VS. Frankenstein's Daughter" also available on Amazon. It is a unique look at Mexico's 1960's Style of Horror.

Seriously Bizarre Psychodrama Very, very strange movie. This is one of those movies where you hate to tell people anything about it, because almost anything I could say would be a spoiler.  Walter Sparrow is a dog-catcher. But because he had only two minutes left to work on his birthday, February 3 (2/3), he was sent out on assignment at the last minute and his whole life changed. The dog he attempted to capture bit him and got away, and while he was getting the bite taken care of, his wife wandered into a used bookstore and bought a book for him named "The Number 23." It was hand-typed and hand bound, and the pictures were pasted in; it was clearly a one-of-a-kind hand-made book.  I just can't do it. I can't tell you about all the startling things that happen as Walter notices some interesting parallels between his own life and that in the book, nominally a novel. And he starts seeing the number 23 everywhere. He gets into adding numbers together that add up to 23, he consults with a friend who is apparently a shrink, and tells him something of the lore of numerology and how 23 is indeed a significant magical number.  There's a fair amount of sex and violence in this movie, but it's not disgusting. The sex and the violence are both significant to the story, not contrived. But it is one of the strangest movies you will ever see. And one of the most fascinating.

Not As Much Fun As The Remake, But... The original House on Haunted Hill isn't quite as much fun as the ultra-gory remake, but it's still a good spookfest. When the movie is over, you realize that it is quite different from the remake. It's more of a Hitchcockian thriller than a supernatural thriller. It's very clever with it's share of frights. And Vincent Price gives a delicious performance that is probably the best performance I've seen from him. Actually, the whole cast is good. See it if you are a fan of classic horror. I still favor the remake, though, I guess because I saw it first and have seen it many times over the years.

Absolute cheese-fest, but lots of fun anyway This movie is truly a guilty pleasure.  The acting is top-notch and WAY over the top.  Lots of high octane actors (Jeremy Irons, Fanny Ardant, Joan Plowright) chew the scenery like its celery.  Campy fun and well assembled.  An amusing bit of cinematic candy floss.

A Pretty Good Movie Depicting A Public Choice Explanation of Democracy Kevin Costner plays a drunk and negligent father (daughter played by the talented Madeline Carroll) who finds that his vote that was not registered controls the outcome of a presidential election. Well, it was actually his daughter who tried to vote for him, but a mishap caused it to not be recorded.  I won't explain the details of the movie, other than to confirm some of the complaints below that yes, Kevin Costner portrays a drunk and irresponsible father for basically the entire movie. But this portrayal of Bud is essential to the theme of the story. This film exposes the arbitrariness of democracy. It shows how one moron who can't even take care of himself and is totally bereft of the issues, who has no political knowledge or understanding of our republican form of government, and who knows nothing of the checks and balances supposedly built in to our system of self-governance (nor do the presidential candidates played by Kelsey Grammer-R and Dennis Hopper-D), controls the political destiny of the world's richest and most powerful nation. Now, extrapolate this story line so that instead of just one person controlling the political leadership of our country, it includes the median voter. This movie explains why we end up with the government we do. In the end, the median voter is not much different than Bud Johnson. See Bryan Caplan's book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691138737">The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies (New Edition)</a>.  It's not a great movie, and the acting is only so-so (other than the performance by Madeline Carroll), but it accomplishes pretty well what it sets out to do, which is to make the point that electing political leaders through majority rule is arbitrary and may be no more worthy of our respect than drawing names randomly out of a hat.

Very Good! Of all the series of the "underworld" movies I like the first and the second one the best; they keep you interested during the whole show.  The picture quality although they can't compare with some of the new movies, like "Ironman," they are still very good. If you like vampire and werewolf movies, these are the best movies to watch.

Weird Science in the Rockies The Werewolf, 1956 film  The movie begins in a bar. A stranger is passing through. After he leaves, a man tries to rob him; a bad career move. "Only an animal can do that." Get your guns! "Those are wolf tracks." Colby was hurt pretty bad. Will he get the Pasteur treatment for rabies? A murder report must be submitted. That stranger awakes in the morning and puts on his socks and shoes. The people in town are banned from hunting in the woods. The roads are blocked. Reporters are inquisitive. A man shows up at the doctor's house. He has a memory loss. What happened to him? He runs away. The sheriff will search the wood with the townsmen. Can they take him alive? We see Dr. Morgan Chamber's laboratory where he has dogs in a cages. Can people be immunized against radiation? [This provides a skimpy background to this strange story.] Mrs. Helen Marsh drives an early 1950s Oldsmobile; she is searching for her husband Duncan.  The search for the werewolf goes on. Drs. Morgan Chambers and Emery Forrest search for Marsh in the hills. Stress affects Marsh, he turns into a monster and attacks Forrest. Later an attack on a sheep creates a new alarm in the country. Can a bear trap catch the werewolf? They find Duncan Marsh's abandoned car. The werewolf takes the bait and is caught in the bear trap. But he escapes. Chambers and Forrest discuss a cover-up for what they did. "Newspapers are always looking for a sensation." They will search for Marsh again with a new device, a portable voice amplifier. It works! The wolfman is captured alive and put into a jail cell. What caused this to happen? Its quiet in the night. Chambers and Forrest are up to no good again. [Does Chambers' domination of Forrest have a hidden clue?] Their plans go awry! [Poetic justice?] Marsh escapes, the townsmen search in the woods. Torches are thrown at the monster. The chase goes on. The men shoot at him. In the end Marsh changes back to a human form.  This low-budget movie used little-known actors (who look like real people). Its story echoes earlier horror movies. Yet is has value as a morality play for that era. It is worth watching. Some say "horror movies" become popular in a depression or recession, and some parts of a country are more affected. The use of "radiation" by "scientists" who experiment on people without informed consent was all too true. [Read "Journey Into Madness".]  The legends of werewolves often originated after an outbreak of rabies in olden times. Wolves and other wild animals are often carriers of rabies. Anyone bit by a rabid wolf would, as the disease progressed, become violent and attack other people. There was no cure or prevention before Louis Pasteur's discovery. Some compared the legends of werewolves to the economic cycle where a number of good years would be followed by a number of bad years, seemingly beyond human control, like the weather.

Great performance Brad Pitt and his costar did an amazing job.  As an old ball player, this movie really hit home with its adherence to true baseball strategy and how players are so fickle regarding tradition and superstition.

4.5 stars... blowing the mind 3 decades on I had seen the original "Tron" movie in the theatre in the early 80s when I was in my early 20s and I loved that movie. Flash forward to 2010, when I saw "Tron: Legacy" in the theatre with my 24 yr old son, who had been intruiged by the trailer and wanted to see that movie. We both loved it. He had not seen the original "Tron" movie, and we finally corrected that.  So a few days ago my son and I watched "Tron" (96 min.), and what an experience that was. This was the first time for me seeing this movie since its original release in the early 80s, and I must say I am immensely impressed with this movie, now 3 decades later. It was then, snd still remains to this day, ahead of its time. Yes, some of the scenes, particularly the "current" 80s scenes, are now outdated, but once the movie gets into the "inside video game" sequences, I am impressed how well it holds up. Remember, this was done 3 decades ago! But it still feels futuristic. What a great experience to see this movie again after all these years. And to watch it with my son just added to the enjoyment. He was quite impressed by the movie too, even more so that this was made so long ago.  Now having seen the original "Tron" again after all these years, I can tell you that I like this movie better than "Tron: Legacy", which for one thing was way too long, and its story long was way too concocted to make a lot of sense. The original "Tron" has a certain sense of innocense to it that it sadly lacking in "Tron: Legacy".

Think you can kill someone just by pulling the trigger?  Think again. I worked with a Vietnam vet who risked his life fighting the VC for four years.  He killed many people during the Vietnam war.  He had six teeth knocked out because the VC smashed the rifle butt in his face during a hand to hand combat.  He said it is easy to kill somebody but the person becomes part of you.  It is something that you cannot forget.  Most people who has encountered the senseless cruelty of war in person understood the suffering people have to go through.  My Way has some flaws but overall, it is a movie which all war mongers or the US politicians should watch.  We should only get involved in a war when we don't have any other choices.

Good for the right person! The Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead video is very informative for someone thinking about using the juicing program. My spouse decided to try it so, he purchased a juicer and, he's making juice every day.

Fine family drama Sweet, unpretentious film about Antoine (Nicolas Cazale), a bitter young man who grudgingly returns to the hometown he left ten years earlier to help his mother run the family grocery store after his father suffers a heart attack.  Sullen and resentful, he manages to alienate the customers and reopen old family wounds.  But under the influence of his warm-hearted girlfriend Claire (Clotilde Hesme) he begins to mellow, eventually drawing close to the crotchety old folks he serves and reconnecting with his estranged father and brother.  Cazale is superb as the brooding Antoine, and Hesme is terrific as Claire.  Indeed the entire cast is fine.  The lovingly photographed French countryside provides a beautiful backdrop.  This is a quiet, restrained movie.  If you are looking for lots of action you won't find it here.  But if you are interested in a good solid drama about family relationships, this is just the ticket.

Looks good lacks substance It's an action movie not citizen kane so it keeps your attention long enough to get to the action scenes which are very well done.  Story is meh...but you don't watch these movies for the story, you watch them to see a guy use an elephant's tusks as a tilt a whirl to beat up the bad guys.  The dubbing and subtitles aren't great though.

Great Movie This was a good pick for a movie night! I enjoyed watching this romantic movie with my husband. I like that we can rent it straight from Amazon,

Dialogue lovers...rejoice! My Dinner with Andre... wow what a cerebral piece of dialogue based celluloid this was. This one is sure to divide people; you'll either be fascinated by it or be bored to death. The entire movie consists of a conversation over dinner between two old friends. The topic of conversation revolves around various topics that are most of the time very brainy and thought provoking. If this sounds good to you, then you're probably the target audience (like myself), however if the thought of watching two middle aged men talk about life for two hours doesn't intrigue you... then you should know right now, this movie probably isn't for you. This movie is akin to spending some time with a wise well traveled worldly person... you know the type probably... the type of person you might meet by chance and engage in conversation; only to find that they are an endless pit of fascinating stories and fresh viewpoints.  I really enjoyed this film and everything that was discussed in it... really thought provoking and intriguing stuff. I will however say that at two hours, it takes patience... even though I really liked the film I'll admit there were times where the conversation dragged and I found myself checking to see how much time was left in the run time. Additionally as others have mentioned...the transfer/video quality is horrible. Still, this gets a big thumbs up and a recommendation though for fans of dialogue and more contemplative films, all others rent with caution. 3.75/5 stars.

Gentle stretching that focuses on the woman, not the baby This is the second yoga DVD I've ever used, and I like it a lot. The stretches are gentle and easy to follow, and I appreciate that there's always one person who shows the gentler version of each stretch for third trimester or immediately postnatal women. This is not for people looking to sweat. But you do feel more awake and balanced by the end.  My only quibble, which I found with the other DVD I've used, too, is that I'd like the instructor to hold some poses a bit longer. But I guess they're trying to keep to the 30-minute thing. My husband suggested playing this on slow motion... hmmm...  I enjoyed this during my pregnancy, but what I really appreciate is the postnatal part. Sadly, my pregnancy ended early, at 7 months. I want to get back in shape but I was worried it would be hard to find a workout that didn't emphasize -- or even include -- babies. This postnatal yoga sequence focuses on the woman, with only one passing mention of 'pushing a stroller'.  There aren't many resources for women who are post partum with no baby, so I did want to mention it in this review.

This is a TRUE story. Drama as CLOSE TO DOCUMENTARY as it can get. It's Christian. Crisply so. But watch the bonus REAL murderess interview first. It's potent, and will demonstrate who realistic and powerful the film's portrayal truly was. In reality: Karla Faye Tucker was arrested Sep 1983, convicted 1984, and executed Feb 3, 1998. It was the amazing personal reversal of her life inside prison, and the media coverage, that made her case so noteworthy. This DVD depicts what happened as good as any I've seen. She was a religious-witnessing icon, so expect the movie to take that approach.  Overall, Karla (Karen Jezek) is played (and looks) like the real killer. The actress has a Dolly Parton voice and a couple/three scenes seeming a bit hokey, like the arrest flashback, and the prep to the execution. A bit over-the-top; but overall, acting was realistic, as shown by the footage of the real pick-axe murder. A summation KFT quotation: "It's about God, about redemption." She was forgiven and saved but still required to pay the costs of her sin. God is forgiving but also just. This film shows both--unlike many other faith-based movies. In real life, killer KFT truly accepted judgment with God's love, grace, and forgiveness. It made real-life headlines. Speaking of Judge; the film's Judge actress (Pamela Carter) was also producer and make-up. She looked overdone when first shown entering her office, more like a hooker than judge. A prison official actress (Helen Gibson) was more influential to this film as producer, director, and writer. Some of the script was the real KTF's words.  NO SUBTITLES or CC. Bonus: 2 min Dir interview; 30 mins of interview with the real KFT; 70 pix slideshow with music; 5 trailers  You will also hear a Ray Boltz and a Phil Driscoll music performance. Good points. Only 4 stars awarded since there was a few improbable scenes. But yet recommended teens-and-up viewing. This criminal was a beautiful but preachy gal, expect it. I'm trying to help buyers, so if you don't like preachy, don't purchase this DVD.

Gift for mom Sent mom this film for the holidays. She loved that it arrived quickly. John Garfield is a cousin of hers.  Thanks.

Greyfriars I have a special memory of this little film when it first came out.  It was paired with the original "The Parent Trap" starring Hayley Mills.  The movie is a heartwarming depiction of the legendary Scottish dog.  It is delightful for parents and children, alike.

Watch it like a kid REAL STEEL is a clever movie in that it takes a video game concept (though the idea is from a short story by Richard Matheson interpreted by Jeremy Leven, Dan Gilroy and written for the screen by John Gatins), keeps intact the videogame lovers' approach to fantasy and action, and introduces some adult versions of acting out  that make for a solid message.  At first the movie seems trite - a grown man, ex-boxer Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman, buff, surly and in fine acting condition) buys and sells and enters robots who perform in a circus style boxing arena where years earlier real men boxed. We soon discover that this is future-set story where robot boxing is a popular sport and centered on a struggling promoter (Jackman) who thinks he's found a champion in a discarded robot. During his hopeful rise to the top, he also discovers he has an 11-year-old son Max (Dakota Goyo), in the midst of a custody battle with Charlie's deceased wife's sister and husband (Hope Davis and James Rebhorn).  Charlie, ever on the outlook to pay off his debts and find financing for buying new robots to train for boxing matches,  makes a deal with the couple, and agrees to care for Max for a summer while the couple visit Europe.  Max wants to know his father but on his terms.  The two males are aided by the owner of Charlie's training gym - Bailey (Evangeline Lilly) - and it is her intervention that helps the two males join forces and become involved with a discarded robot, Atom, they make a champion by working together.  The tenderness of the film takes a while to settle in, but in the end it is not easy to deny that the story of a reluctant father and a self sufficient son finding that arm platform of relationship, able to endure disappointments as well as triumphs.  Jackman and Goyo are a terrific team and the other cast members, especially  Lilly and Anthony Mackie, are solid. Shawn Levy's direction deserves credit for pulling the whole thing together. This is not just another silly CGI flick: there is a core a beauty to the film that makes it not only entertaining but heartwarming, too.  Grady Harp, January 12

The Most Fantastic Road Trip in History The enduring appeal of the 1969 western/comedy "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" has always been a puzzle. It's not a traditional western and causes bouts of frustration with many critics because of incongruous sidesteps through snapshot montages. It's not a comedy either, with multiple scenes tragic and haunting. The film is wildly uneven, and yet holds together by the thinnest of creative threads. William Goldman's screenplay - which won an Academy Award - has a touch of European vogue and frankly, had this movie been made in France involving 19th century Parisian outlaws, critics would have embraced it as an international classic.  But it's not European, taking place within the magnificent American vistas of Colorado and Utah, where trains chug steam, hooves forge dust and rough men carry gleaming pistols. Okay, it's kind of a western, but one of the most eccentric ever made. What saves "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" is the transcendent presence of two icons in the title roles - Paul Newman, at the peak of unparalleled popularity, and Robert Redford, young, angry and on the verge of superstardom. Their natural give and take, as likable as ever seen, created an outrageously appealing chemistry which audiences across the world loved. It molded the blueprint for the "Buddy Movie" seen to this day (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000HWXEUY">Lethal Weapon [Blu-ray</a>], <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0018PH3L0">Lonesome Dove</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00177YA1K">Men in Black</a>).  Director George Roy Hill, like this film, has also been something of an enigma. He's never been considered more than a good director and yet, this work, his Oscar-winning <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0783225873">The Sting</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0783230508">Slap Shot</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000085OY1">A Little Romance</a> and even his swan song <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0790740044">Funny Farm</a>, have legions of fans who quote every line. I don't know if time will be kind to Hill's erratic career, but he was a good craftsman who took the reins of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" without the slightest intention of making a western. He did however, have an interest in creating characters, perhaps the key to his unique canvases.  The film is slightly based on the true story of Butch and Sundance, two of the final outlaws to roam the shrinking west and the inspiration for the first film in history <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000WN1JA">Great Train Robbery - 100th Anniversay</a> (1903) produced by none other than Thomas Edison. At the turn of the century they discover their way of life is closing fast, ultimately pursued by a Dream Team posse (based on fact) that forces them to flee to South America. They are accompanied on their exotic journey by the mysterious Etta Place, a strikingly beautiful woman known to historians only by a photograph, whose fate to this day is unknown. Well played by the equally lovely Katharine Ross (one of the great professionals of a golden era), she serves as Butch and Sundance's guardian angel, housing them after brushes with the law, in love with both, eventually choosing to leave when it becomes apparent their lives will end in violence.  A Bohemian trio, they make for one of the most picturesque teams in film history adorned in fine clothes while sipping champagne and dancing to period music. The already-mentioned montages serve as bookmarks to tilting chapters of the film, including the famous sequence of Newman and Ross on the bicycle while the great Oscar-winning tune "Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head" plays. Additional montages detail their trip to South America and their renewed criminal interest in Bolivia. The music of Burt Bacharach (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000023X81">Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid - O.S.T.</a>) has received much criticism over the years. An enormously talented composer equal parts avant-garde and pop, his score is about as far removed from Dimitri Tiomkin (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000001PBC">Western Film World of Dimitri Tiomkin</a>) as can possibly be.  The soundtrack works because once again, Hill's not making a western, but a character study of anachronistic free spirits trapped by modern conformity's. The film needs the urban edge. "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" may detail western outlaws, but in Hill's heartbreaking and hilarious 1969 daydream, they are gregarious hippies on the most fantastic road trip in history. That Newman, Redford and Ross evolved into grounded celebrities, shunning the limelight for liberally productive lives, further adds to the appeal of this most novel of American blockbusters. It has such unusual whimsy, almost never equaled.

Solid Movie I have not seen this morning in over 20 years. Worth watching. Interesting plot line and even a little humorous in places with a great twist at the end.

Haunting I saw the American adaptation before I saw the Swedish one which was a mistake because I have to admit I am bit more partial to the American adaptation. The original film is great but the dubs are so terrible that it does take away from the film. Anyhow, I would highly recommend this film. Let Me In is not your typical guts and horror film which is nice, you're actually told a story...and it's a good one!

Suspenseful + Dazzling special effects + No character development + Open ending = 4 stars - This movie is highly suspenseful from the beginning till the end. I felt scared watching people trying to hide and avoid being captured by aliens. I could not figure out what's happening next.  - The special effects are dazzling.  - There is no character development but that does not reduce the suspense.  - The ending is open and hints at a sequel. That has definitely annoyed some viewers. To me it's okay but not satisfactory. In short, it deserves 4 stars.

Touching and funny study of a friendship Very well acted comedy/drama about the friendship (and unspoken love) between two young women in the 1920's south.  Jessica Tandy, Mary Louise Parker and Mary Stuart Masterson are all terrific, and the story is sweet and entertaining.  There's something a little dishonest in the film's resolute refusal to deal with the homoerotic inferences, and a few too many times I could feel the film's conscious intent to push my emotional buttons in the dramatic sections.  But still well worth seeing for the strong acting, and warm sense of time and place.

A bit different In "Small Soldiers", a batch of experimental intelligent toys are accidentally shipped to a small toy store. There are two groups of toys. One is a set of aliens under the premise that they have crashed on Earth and need assistance. The other is a group of soldiers who have been taught the Gorgonites (the aliens) are their enemies.  With top secret military computer chips installed, the toys turn out to be much smarter than anyone planned, and the soldiers group, in their relentless hunt for the Gorgonites, poses some real problems for real people. A teenage boy and the girl next door are put in the position of defending the alien toys, and themselves.  Tommy Lee Jones is in fine form voicing of leader of the soldiers, and Frank Langella gives the Gorgonite leader real feeling and dignity. Other performances are spot on and often funny. A lot of humorous catch phrases are tossed around in clever contexts throughout the film.  The DVD presentation is crisp and well framed, and the sound is excellent.  This is a very different type of story, although in general it reminds me somewhat of Gremlins. An enjoyable watch.

The Little Princess I love old time movies and the Little Princess, It is just as I remembered it as a child from the TV.

torn This is ok but im waiting for part two to come out. i hate the fact that they split it up. i also have mixed feelings about kristin stewart after all the stunts she has pulled lately.

Sucked in from the start! I discovered Primeval while browsing through shows available on Netflix. Even though I'm not a huge Sci-Fi fan (okay, I admit I love the new Doctor Who) I was immediately sucked in to this series. It starts with a great premise- holes opening up in time- and develops this over several season, bringing fresh ideas along the way.  One thing that keeps it fresh is that the show's focus (and characters) change throughout the series, constantly providing new threads and new interests. They're not afraid to kill off a central character if it moves the narrative along. Plots may lag a bit at times, but the characters are so strong and the pacing to well done that I have yet to be disappointed in a show, even after working my way through all but three of the shows currently available. There's also just enough humor to balance out some of the darker moments. I suspect anyone who likes quirky SciFi a la Doctor Who, Firefly, Torchwood, Lexx, or even Red Dwarf will find something to enjoy here. Me, I'm just waiting for the current season to show up on streaming so I can keep enjoying it.

Almost a different film to the theatrical version I feel really bad for Ridley Scott, if only he had been able to bring this version to the cinema then history would look far more favourably on Kingdom of Heaven.  I think I'll clear the air about what I don't like about the film first. That would have to be the first ten minutes of the film. I absolutely love Michael Sheen, he was particularly superb in Frost Vs Nixon, but his performance here is wasted on an unnecessary opening story that is supposed to get the film moving but ultimately causes it some damage.  The first ten minute revenge sequence it the only thing I don't like about this amazing film. After that ten minutes you are in for a long and stellar ride. The story is brilliant and fascinating, the acting (Liam Neeson in particular) is superb, and I felt that Orlando Bloom - although not perfect - was good enough to carry the film.  I can't add much more, as I think everyone else here has praised the film enough. The one thing I love in particular is the portrayal of Muslims, Ridley Scott avoids all the clich&eacute;s and doesn't stereotype - a refreshing change for a Hollywood production.

Effective gangster thriller The vicious Tri-State Gang has been pulling daylight robberies in three states and is hotly pursued by the police. This is an exciting, violent and thoroughly entertaining thriller. Steve Cochran, the sullen-faced psychopathic gang leader, thinks nothing of exterminating the mob's molls who attempt escape from the gang. There are several good suspenseful moments as one girl is ruthlessly stalked and shot down, only to survive and escape a second attempt. The thrilling climax, when Cochran inevitably pays the price for his life of crime, is one of the film's best moments. This DVD-R from the Warner Archive contains a good print of this movie, with excellent picture quality and sound. There are no extras, not even a trailer. The disc is Region free. Recommended for fans of classic gangster movies and film noir. Movie 8/10, Picture quality 8/10, Sound 8/10.

Outstanding racing movie Excellent "Steve McQueen movie."  If you are looking for a lot dialogue, this is not it.  If you want subtle acting, fast cars and a realistic storyline, this ones for you.  It has held up well since being made.  The video and audio are very good.  You will be pleased.

An end to something we will never see again I loved the Matrix trilogy. I think it is a landmark in movie making evolution, and we will never see anything like it again. The last fight between Smith and Neo I'm sure were inspired by Dragonball z, but thats ok because I love Dragonball z. I gave it four stars, because it seemed like by the time they got to the last movie they realized they bit off more than they could chew and just wanted to get it over with, but they wanted to go out with a bang, even if the world thought it would make no sense. But, I love you for the Matrix Wachowski Brothers. I know ya'll are still reaping the benifits from the trilogy, but I for one am interested to see what else is on your mind.

Buena Vista Social Club DVD Great documentary of these wonderful cuban musicians. I would have loved to hear a more extended segments of their songs; what i heard was somewhat choppy. I truly want a DVD with just of their terrific interpretations.

I laughed my you know what off. XD For a Horror/Action/Comedy type movie, it was mostly comedy with some great action. My favorite scene was the Graveyard I'd wager. I love the series. I have all three now. I also watch them repeatedly! Had to get the Limited Edition. It's an excellent buy! Showed up on time and in great condition. Thank you Amazon and GoPeachy for making this available to me! ^w^

A perfectly decent ghost movie, but... Most people who go to see James Watkins' "The Woman in Black" will be perfectly satisfied with it. This lushly filmed ghost story, set in a remote English village in Edwardian times, does precisely what it sets out to do, which is to provide a steady stream of gasp-inducing thrills to its audience. Daniel Radcliffe is a few years too young to play Arthur Kipps--grieving widower, failing lawyer and father to a four-year-old son--who goes to sort out the tangled estate at creepy Eel Marsh House in a last-ditch attempt to save his career. But Radcliffe gives a solid and convincing performance nonetheless, as do Ciaran Hinds and Janet McTeer as a local couple who know more than they're saying about the mysterious title character, who appears in the cemetery next to the house at unexpected moments. The thrills, when they start coming, come pretty much nonstop, and Watkins & Co. deserve credit for remembering a cinematic truth too often forgotten these days: what you don't see is scarier than what you do.  As good as the new "Woman in Black" is, however, I still prefer the old TV version directed twenty-odd years ago by Herbert Wise. The basic story of the two versions is the same, but the details are somewhat different. In particular, the older version is bleaker, more hypnotic, and ultimately more tragic than the newer. The story in the older version builds more slowly, and the shocks are fewer, which many viewers undoubtedly wouldn't like. But the slower buildup allows the story's horror to creep more firmly into your bones, and the shocks--when they come--are the most powerful I can think of in any horror movie.  Unfortunately, the studio that made the new version has withdrawn the old one from distribution, so that it cannot be exhibited or sold anywhere. The old DVDs, when you can find them, fetch $100 or more apiece. Fans, however, are still willing to pay that. It may be that many viewers, seeing both versions, would still prefer the newer. All I hope is that soon the studio will re-release the old version and allow viewers to judge for themselves.

Must see! Awesome movie! I was not expecting it to be what it was. Great action and great acting.  A must buy!

Chill, Fun A chill documentary regarding male grooming. Spurlock gets to interview a whole spectrum of interesting experts, and it can help provide a perspective of male grooming which is comparable to female beautification and struggles. Overall, an interesting, easy watch.

make a thirty year old cry kind of cliche, but kind of not, kind of sappy and sentimental, but just so much fun. The dinner scene was so well done, the walk through the gated park, the ending, so special.....I usually loathe films like this....I LOVED IT, LOVED IT, LOVED IT....  watch it!!!!

Awesome Movie! Fantastic effects, beautiful scenery and exotic places. You didn't have to think as much as you did in the first MI but still it was very entertaining and I'd watch it again.

Yves St. Laurent- Artist A touching film in many respects. It touches on the career highlights of Yves St. Laurent, but mostly as background. The real heart of the story is the 50 year relationship with his partner, and of him letting go after the death of St. Laurent. While he puts up a brave front and is a very dignified man, I suspect that once the camera is off and he is behind closed doors, his emptions come flooding out. I found this to be a touching movie.

Marvel Studios does it again The God of Thunder (Chris Hemsworth) is banished to Earth to live as a powerless human in payment for his arrogance, where he befriends mortals (Natalie Portman, Stellan Skarsgard, and Kat Dennings) and comes to the notice of SHIELD, unaware of the cataclysmic political situation playing itself out back on his homeworld of Asgard.  This is a rousing adventure and a very successful adaptation of the comic book.  Hemsworth has the size, the arrogance, and the charm that his role requires.  Anthony Hopkins is imposing as Odin and Tom Hiddleston makes a surprisingly sympathetic Loki.  The complex relationship between the father and his two sons is one of the film's greatest strengths.  Unfortunately, the earthly segments are the weakest.  Even though the filmmakers had a lot of story to get through, Thor seemed to settle into his exile on Earth a little too quickly.  I also didn't believe his romance with Jane Foster.  I could understand why she might fall for a charismatic god who fell out of a wormhole, but it was harder to see why he would return the feeling when she was really nothing more to him than a kind stranger with a pretty face.  Fortunately, the film moves back to Asgard for its rousing finale.  Viewers with the patience to sit through the lengthy credits will be rewarded with a final scene that teases the Avengers movie.

A more serious Godzilla Preparing to end the first series, the Showa's, Toho brought a more serious tone back to a series that had gone camp and introduced what was the Big Guy's most powerfull foe to date - Mechagodzilla-1 and it's alian masters.  The packaging was well done and it's a clean print.  It's also a bargain for collectors and casual watchers a well, just remember that it has a direct sequel - Terror of Mechagodzilla.

New Orleans Homecoming Live from the Saenger Theatre The opening number in the "New Orleans Homecoming" featured Jake Hess and Terry Blackwood with the Homecoming Friends singing "When the Saints Go Marching In" with the band playing a distinct New Orleans sound between each of the verses.  This strong start continued right through the concert. In addition to the musical numbers, Mark Lowry, Carl Hurley, and Ray Lewis added humor and comedy. The Lewis family added a unique sound in their arrangement of "His Amazing Grace" and "Honey in the Rock." Wintley Phipps gave a touching narrative reading titled "Go Down to Death."  My favorites include: "On the Authority" featuring the Gaither Vocal Band "Yes I AM" with the Hoppers "He'll Deliver Me" featuring Janet Paschal "Teach Me Lord" with Reggie and Ladye Love Smith and Wesley Prichard "Praise the Lord" featuring Russ Taft "Upon this Rock" as sung by Allison Durham Speer  Other numbers include: "Good Bye Blues" featuring Woody Wright with Anthony Burger on the Accordion "Going Away Party" featuring the Easters "He Understands My Tears" sung by the Isaacs "I Love You Lord" featuring the Homecoming Singers with Larry Ford "Precious Lord Take My Hand" with Jeff Easter playing harmonica accompanying Sherman Andrus "Jesus Loves Me" sung by Jackie Harling "There is a Fountain" sung by Vestal Goodman "Through the Fire" featuring the Crabb Family "Go Rest High on the Mountain" featuring Charlotte Richey, Kim Hopper, and Ladye Love Smith  All in all a wonderful evening of entertainment, inspiration, and worship.

Video of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo:  Extended version. I tried to watch this movie before on Netflix but the only version was in Swedish with no subtitles.  I decided to read the trilogy before I watched this first one of the series and while it was extremely good, there were quite a number of things that were left out of the plot which you wouldn't know unless you read the book.  I deliberately chose the extended version because I read the book first.  I would encourage people to watch the extended version for a better movie than the shorter version.

Great movie but digital copy not for android Just adore this movie and bought it with the included digital copy so I could transfer it to my X oom.  Unfortunately digital transfer is not possible for android devices so be aware of this.

Forgotten gem, This was a late entry and star turn by Barbara Steele, and I enjoyed it very much.One of the reasons she is one of the 'classic' scream queens.

A Unexpected Ending A woman gets raped. And gets revenge in a very unexpected way. The WHOLE movie has to be watched to figure this one out. I liked it. Bad acting however.

Impressing I was really impressed with this Blu-ray concert.  Ringo performed really well.  The musicians on stage were very talented and suited Ringo perfectly.

Good but still disappointing DVD package I was looking forward to purchasing this DVD package since I am a Disney fan  I have always enjoyed programming about the theme parks.  It is a good DVD package BUT it is NOT great.  6 discs.  Discs 1, 3, 4 & part of 6 is on Disney World.  Discs 2 & part of 6 on Disneyland.  Disc 5 on the cruise line.  So, YOU HAVE TO ASK, where are the discs for Paris & Tokyo?  Each disc is under an hour long, disc 4 is only 42 minutes.  Disc 1 CLAIMS to last an hour.  Last time I heard an hour is 60 minutes NOT 52 minutes.  Disc 3 "Ultimate Walt Disney World" claims they did NOT have enough time to feature all the attractions.  Dishonest.  Yes you do, make the feature time longer, make another DVD, etc.  You do NOT get to see a lot of detail on all attractions, restaurants, hotels, etc.  It is normal we do a few of them.  SOME are done more than once .  In both the Disneyland & Disney World featured discs "Pirates of the Caribbean" is mentioned.  They mention the refurbishment to input the as I write this 3 films with Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow BUT THEY BARELY SHOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE CHANGES BECAUSE OF THIS.  I WANTED TO SEE THIS.  VERY DISAPPOINTING.  Disney 1 Disney World has a brief extra on changes to "The Haunted Mansion".  We see the "Toy Story" attraction more than once, same as "Mission Space".  BUT other major attractions are not shown at all of briefly seen.  You see how many times how "Soaring" was made, I saw this on 3 of the discs.  As I said above, this is a good collection BUT it is still disappointing.  MORE should have been shown on other attractions, restaurants, hotels, shops, etc.

Mephista The DVD cover claims this is a psycho thriller. Well, well. Let's put it in clearer terms: it is a surreal ghost story about an American in Paris. The details should not be disclosed, not too much, for spoiler reasons. (I have not read the book, so I can't compare.)  Ethan Hawke and Kristin Scott Thomas are good enough to sell us any plot. Here they stumble into a mysterious and overwhelming love story. It is never in doubt who is the boss. KST dictates the terms. EH is mostly confused and unsure. In the end she completes a deal of Mephistophelian characteristics.  Set in France, directed by a Pole, with the main characters supposed to be American, French, Polish, Romanian, Hungarian, Arab... Life as it is in Paris. It is not quite tall enough for 5 stars, but it has charm and mystery enough for 4.

The Ultimate Gift dvd Love the movie, but the dvd case feels a little flimsy in comparison to what I'm used to, but that's just a minor issue

Good Movie This is a good movie that I enjoy watching on occasion. It has some good special effects and is generally an entertaining movie to watch. There are two different endings to the movie. I haven't received the DVD yet so I'm a little unsure which one this has. It says that it offers an option for an additional 28 minutes of footage which I think is the long drawn out version about thwarting an apocalypse which got a bit ridiculous and I did not like at all. I'm hoping the original theatrical version is the one with the shorter and more simple ending.

Love the movie, but.... I grew up watching this movie on an old VHS tape.  Watched just about every night.  I recently dug up that old VHS tape and since i no longer have a VHS player had to buy the DVD.  I was disappointed to find that two of my favorite songs ("I'm gonna Fly" and "soaring") had been switched for what i assume are the original japanese songs.  THis may be good for some, but a real disappointment for me.  And the songs aren't even in the bonus features :( All in all, the video quality is good and the story is fun and entertaining (perhaps a bit dull at times).

A woman scorned... This low budget film should be a lesson to all men- don't lead women on and don't play with their hearts. If you do, you might end up dead. Jealousy can cause us women to do some very crazy things. This interesting horror/thriller may be super low budget, but it has something about it that draws you in and keeps you interested. It is a little slow at times, but the story it tells is worth waiting for.  "The Trinket" is very reminiscent of some of the more resent Asian horror films, like "The Ring" and "The Grudge." Though the living are the ones that turn into angry monsters in this, instead of the dead. Being jilted can make someone do evil things, and losing one's true love can turn them into a murderer. With blood and sexual content, this movie is definitely not made for young viewers.  Watch out for women in wedding dresses seeking revenge... Especially ones wielding knives and crowbars!

"According to the War Department, I AM my wife." This is based on a true story, believe it or not. In postwar Germany, French Army Captain Henri Rochard (Grant) and American WAC Lieutenant Catherine Gates (Ann Sheridan) fiercely don't get along, only they keep getting paired up on missions. Still, no one will be flabbergasted to learn that Henri and Catherine eventually fall in love and decide to marry. We get a hint of what Cary Grant is in for when the happy couple must undergo three marriage ceremonies, one dictated by German civic regs. Back in the day, in an era in which movies culminate in wedding vows, their getting married halfway thru the film was a fresh twist, even subversive.  On her wedding night, when Catherine's new marching orders call for her to report back to American soil, is when the film really puts Grant thru his paces. Seeking a way to pass thru the U.S. border, Henri, a foreigner, finds a loophole in the shape of a Congressional Act called Public Law #271 which regulates the immigration of war brides. Of course, the closed-minded military assumption is that since Henri is the spouse of a U.S. Armed Forces officer, Henri by default must be a woman.  1949's I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE isn't the best Cary Grant screwball comedy, but it does offer plenty of really funny moments and a pace that moves. Never mind that Grant doesn't even try to affect a French accent. Grant owns whatever film he's in, and it's no different here. This iconic guy was celebrated for his patented urbane demeanor and his knack for physical slapstick, for his classic good looks and his distinctive line delivery. But, to me, what made him so awesome were the sublime expressions that crawled across his face as he reacted to whatever zany stuff was going on around him. No one pulled off looking bemused like Cary Grant, at least not in such a way that you break out in hysterical giggles. Director Howard Hawks relished undercutting Grant's dignity, and with great comedic results - for further demonstration, I submit BRINGING UP BABY and HIS GIRL FRIDAY (but stay away from MONKEY BUSINESS). This time around Grant is subjected to ever-deeper humiliations thanks to the obtuseness of military bureaucracy. There's something quite funny about Grant spending much of the film filling out forms and looking really irritated doing it. You'd think that the sequence in which he disconsolately wanders from billet to billet in search of a bed to sleep in would be the lowest experience for our guy. But that's only until the war bride ship won't allow him on board, this then inspiring an off-screen quick change into drag. Oh, Farce, thou art the hair off a horse's bum.  And the love interest? I'm not that familiar with Ann Sheridan, but she nicely fits the mold of the sassy, fast-talking Hawksian heroine. Sheridan matches Grant banter for banter, which is what counts most in a screwball romp. I thought she was great.  This review's drinking game: take a shot each time Grant declares: "I am an alien spouse of female military personnel en route to the United States under Public Law 271 of the Congress." He says that a lot.

Give this movie a chance to scare you...and it WILL!! "Drag Me To Hell" is a huge throwback to the old-time movies in the sense that its horror does not come from repulsive gore a la "Saw" or unprovoked violence, as in "Friday the 13th" or most slasher films. It is a gory and violent film, but it's a slapstick brand of violence which Raimi originally made famous in his "Evil Dead" movies and re-employs here. It's certainly not meant to be taken seriously (note the "anvil on the head" scene), and that's part of what makes this movie so scary: that the REAL horror does not come in those violent moments. In fact, the violent moments are a kind of laughable anti-horror, and that's definitely deliberate on Raimi's part.  This movie is chock-full of horror movie cliches, most notably the overuse of "shock reveals." But Raimi has a way of making these cliches acceptable as opposed to exploitative. Perhaps it's because an attentive audience knows he's just letting us in on a joke. Like "Evil Dead", this movie is clearly a parody/homage of those violent horror movies which DO take themselves seriously (like "Saw") and in the process backfire on themselves.  My favorite scene in this movie is when Christine (the accursed main character) is being tormented by the evil spirit and runs up to her bedroom and locks the door. From there we hear the spirit ascend her steps with VERY heavy footfalls, coming to a stop outside her door. What I love about this scene is that it was shot in the daytime. A lesser director would have opted for the typical "nighttime scene," but Raimi shoots this scene in the day, conveying to his audience that there is no safety net for Christine, and that the spirit who taunts her is totally fearless and unafraid of the soft pastels of the welcoming, mid-morning sun, which would normally scare most boogeymen away. For me, true horror comes not in cliched shock reveals or bloody knife-weilding showdowns, but in the tiny little details like the one I just described.  The scariest line of dialogue in this movie is delivered by the daughter of the gypsy woman, when she says "You deserve everything that's coming to you." This line provides a sense of finality that is just so unsettling, as if there is no way Christine can change her fate. And indeed, the ending of this movie provides the perfect anti-Hollywood anti-climax. The payoff is simple, and deliberately so. I actually give this movie 4.5 stars, not 4. I subtracted half a star for the seance scene with the goat. I know this movie is a parody of itself, but even I draw then line at a cartoon goat with a potty mouth.

an oddly satisfying film-- Initially, "Nine" reminded me so much of other movies about grossly egotistical, gifted men of great talent--particularly <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00003CX8U">All That Jazz</a>. Then I shucked that image and slipped inside the story and saw what it is about....  A man, a user of women, of his own talent in order to create a film, a perfect film to entertain, to remind audiences of their human frailty, triumphs, goodness, and badness. All that time he lives a life writ large, the life of a bohemian of ethics, a breaker of moral codes. All for what? His own satisfaction of needs and addictions which feed his gift.  Then unfortunately, but ultimately beneficially, he reaches his breaking point. Not all humans do. Usually, they continue the path of destruction, wantonness, illicit activities until they die. Guido Contini (played by Daniel Day-Lewis with powerful intensity) is haunted by images of women in song as they reflect/project his internal turmoil.  At the end with losses abounding, Guido withdraws from the film and spends two years pondering his life, past and future. We see how it will go. The intensity has changed focus...  I loved this film. I was surprised. Although the film ends with no movie, the irony is that there IS a movie filled with powerful song and dance numbers by the women in his life. Clever. Kate Hudson is fantastic in the showstopper number: a flirt praising the slickness, the fashion mastery of his films. Judi Dench, his long-time costumer, sings the praises of the Folies Bergere. Stunning! Whoda thought?  Others: Fergie is absolutely a sultry temptress as the prostitute living on the beach in Guido's childhood memory, then dancing with others in a most rousing number! Marion Cotillard is brilliant as his long-suffering, forgiving wife who also reaches her breaking point, although her break is a different kind. Penelope Cruz performs gymnastic moves as a tease of what further she can do to please this director. Even Day-Lewis sings his woes, of course, convincingly.  I normally don't summarize acts in a musical, but wanted this time to call attention to the ones that most signify key aspects of Guido's life (and also entertain). (I cannot emphasize enough how much I enjoyed Hudson's glamorous, glitzy number!)  A play is meant to entertain, inform, educate, and ultimately cause dialogue amongst viewers. What is the meaning of a creative person's life? Is he allowed to hurt others in satisfying what he needs in order to create? What happens when he reaches that proverbial blank wall, writer's block? How long can he play avoidance? "Nine" answers these questions satisfactorily (for this viewer) with the nine "monologues" of the seven significant women in his life and two of his own. In "seeing" their stories, he sees a reflection of himself and--finally--sees himself for what he is.

Pretty Good... I don't know if most people got to watch this for free with an Amazon Prime account, but I did. I've brushed up on H.H. Holmes' profile before (not sure where, but I have his information in my brain somehow) so this documentary inevitably intrigued me.  It's pretty good, not all that. Not very gruesome, so it's bearable. I found it boring at times because of the lack of gore and because the guy who narrates the film is extremely monotone and snooze worthy...but overall it was a very informative chunk of history. I liked it although it seemed to be pretty much G rated. It's more for history buffs and not gore aficionados, if you know what I mean.

Painfully beautiful What to say about Grave of the Fireflies...  The movie is beautiful in almost every way. The characters are absorbing, the animation is gorgeous, and the film itself is very well-detailed in showing the plight of the typical Japanese family during the waning days of World War II. This is a film that is accurate enough from a historical level to be shown in Japanese schools when reviewing World War II.  If the movie is so great, then, why four stars instead of five?  In art, I believe there is something to be said about giving the audience what they want. We want to see our protagonists put through the wringer, and sometimes we even want a depressing ending. But there is a boundary to how much emotional pain we're okay with sitting through, and Grave of the Fireflies pushes right up against that boundary. The story follows along the lives of Seita and his younger sister Setsuko, two orphaned children in the war. Right from the beginning, you know that things are going to end poorly for them. And because the film is so well-executed and the characters are so likable, it really hurts to watch these kids suffer. I don't think Grave of the Fireflies crosses a line that shouldn't be crossed, but it's definitely a film that is going to hit you hard. You might see it once or twice, but it's heavy enough that you won't be looking for a lot of repeat viewings.  Make no mistake about it, though: Grave of the Fireflies is a fantastic movie and one of the best artistic products to ever come out of Japan. I own a copy and I'm glad I do, but it's not something I'm often willing to put on because of how I know it will make me feel. This is definitely a film you should watch at least once. Just be sure to keep a box of tissues nearby, because you're going to need it.

Billy Hits The Road In Pursuit Of Bigger And Badder Beasties For Season Four Remember when Billy Bretherton and the rest of his Louisana clan were actually real exterminators?  I don't mean that as an insult, but "Billy the Exterminator" began its run as a fairly traditional workplace reality show.  The A&E series featured his company Vexcon ridding the south of an assortment of expected (and not so expected) pests, all while highlighting the eccentric family dynamic that popularizes the many shows of this type.  But really, after all the bees, snakes, possums, spiders, and other creepy crawlies--someone must have decided things were getting a bit stale.  And so while keeping the colorful cast of characters intact, Season Four of the popular show shifted focus.  All reality shows cross the line between actual events and those that make for good TV, so to keep things lively--Billy took the show on the road.  The focus of Season Four is on bigger and more unusual challenges and much less on running a successful business.  It's as if TV has taken over as the primary enterprise.  While the workplace drama feels a lot less organic than it once did, that's no reason to abandon Billy.  After all, the show's success squarely rests on its cast.  So if the Bretherton family has amused and entertained you in the past, there's no reason to think they won't continue to do so.  With sass and attitude to spare, we see dangerous new assignments in Arizona, Texas, Florida, North Carolina among other places.  This change in locale makes "Billy the Exterminator" seem more like an adventure series this season than anything resembling real life.  It's still fun, if a bit different.  The two disc DVD set compiles the twelve episodes from Season Four together.  The episodes included are:  (1) When Gators Attack, (2) Desert Destroyers, (3) What Lurks Beneath, (4) Furry Infestation, (5) Aerial Attack, (6) Bobcat Battle, (7) Suck It Up, (8) Dirty Rat, (9) Good Morning Gators, (10) Skunks On A Plane, (11) Hoarder House Rats, and (12) Gators in Waiting.  The set also includes some unaired bonus footage and the special "Best of Billy" which are both fun for fans.  If you like Billy, nothing I say makes a bit of a difference.  So check it out.  Not necessarily my favorite season, but the Brethertons never fail to entertain (sometimes for the right reasons, sometimes for the wrong ones).  KGHarris, 4/12.

Sweet family movie for dog (and/or Richard Gere) lovers We laughed!  We cried!  This delightful tale, based on a true story, is poignant and moving, with a fair dose of Hollywood sap.  Gere gives a convincing wholesome performance though the dog(s) steal the show.  The true story gives it weight and, if you're a dog lover, you'll need a few boxes of kleenex to get through to the end.  I loved it enough to purchse it and add it to my slim collection that includes Fiddler on the Roof and Wall-E.  Great gift for the dog people on your gift list.

A Director's Cut Reformation of Alexander Few films have garnered the criticism as the theatrical release of the much maligned Alexander and that fact always stirs the curiosity cauldron - in this case, so much so that Oliver Stone decided to re-edit and re-compose the original version into this Director's Cut DVD. Now the film can be viewed in the relatively inexpensive milieu of the home and perhaps more folks will give another (or, as in my case, a first) look at what the grumbling is all about.  Alexander is a big film about a big person who did big things. How a story so altered by time, history, myth, and folklore could be translated to the screen strains the imagination - but not Oliver Stone's - a man who loves big events and big issues. And I think he succeeds in drawing us into the atmosphere of the 'civilized world' of Alexander's time. Ptolemy (Anthony Hopkins) relates the history of a man who wished to tie the known world together into one empire and would have us believe that dream was altruistic as well as destined. Through a series of flash forwards and flashbacks the birth to death of Alexander is pieced together: each time a great moment or crisis occurs in Alexander's life, the story backtracks to explain the etiological influences of that particular step in Alexander's march around the globe.  The settings of Alexander's youth in Macedonia are breathtakingly beautiful in the cave painting details of the various gods and heroes and heroines that so deeply influenced the life of Alexander - Medea, Oedipus, Herakles, Zeus, etc. If the entire film had been able to maintain this mystic quality of ambiance, this would have been a powerful work. But once the scenes begin to disperse to Persia, India, Greece, etc the film becomes Hollywoodized and hearkens back to the Cecil B. DeMille view of ancient history, garnished with expensive sets and costumes and endless dancing maidens and overwrought battle sequences.  Where this film (at least this version) is best is when it approaches the passion of Alexander for Hephaistion. Few writers or film makers have dared to enter the arena of homosexual love of heroes of history and this is where Stone takes the chance - and then unfortunately heavily edits the romance from this 'director's cut'. A missed opportunity to examine an important aspect of neglected history is sad.  As for the cast, Colin Farrell does his best with the script he has in making us believe in Alexander, and he is able to connect the chemistry with Jared Leto's Hephaistion well. Angelina Jolie is aptly smarmy as the snake-loving Olympias, Val Kilmer's Philip, grotesquely hidden behind scars of makeup, is suitably evil, but given the tritely written roles of Aristotle (Christopher Plummer) and Roxane (Rosario Dawson) the rest of the cast is forgettable.  But now that the film is available in two forms for less money than a pair of theater tickets perhaps more people will watch, plug in to Oliver Stone's concept, and the air will clear. I, for one, think it is a film worth watching! Grady Harp, April 12

Interesting Chunk of History Body doubles have become part of modern history. Many prominent leaders have employed them, and it seems some secondary figures have done so as well.  Here's the scoop. Saddam Hussein's son Uday is a dirt bag. Drugs, alcohol, an insatiable appetite for women (even underage ones) and murder are all part of his day to day. He figures he needs a double to divert possible assassination attempts from himself. He hires an old buddy, tweeks his looks a bit, and it's off to the races. The problem is that the guy he hires is a genuinely decent guy so the going is rough.  This is a near great movie. Dominic Cooper plays both Uday and his double and does a really sweet job. Ludivine Sagnier plays one of Uday's reluctant girl toys who sees the goodness in his double and works to capitalize on it. I don't know how much they had to 'adjust' the original story for screen purposes, but I'm guessing the broad strokes are true. The whole thing comes to a rousing climax and gives the audience some much needed relief from an overwrought situation. The directing, music, editing and all the other aspects of production are all very professional. But what this has going for it at its core is a good script and great acting. There might have been too much use of the mirror motif but it's a minor quibble compared to the overall quality of the whole project.  I was a bit reluctant to view this. Not because I thought it wouldn't be good but because I wasn't certain the subject matter would appeal to me. That reluctance was swept away in a heartbeat. This is a good movie by any standard and I could recommend it to anyone.

Success The person I bought it for was VERY pleased.  It replaced a old VHS set that had sustained water damage.

typical kids film What would life he like if you were a First Kid? Definitely not normal, that's for sure. We've heard of Chelsea Clinton's trials and tribulations dealing with her family's fame and constant Secret Service detail. Sinbad plays a guard assigned to the boy who is First Kid, and gets a peek at how unhappy the boy is. They don't click at first, but become good friends as he shows the kid some treats of a normal life and let him get away from his position as First Kid for a while. Good movie for kids with some funny bits.

Chords is all you'll learn, but for that it gets the job done. As a Beginner, I was fairly satisfied with this DVD.  The presenter spoke at a slow enough pace for anyone to look down at their hands before playing, with enough time to check back at the screen again and play along with him.  Chords and nothing but Chords---Major / Minor.  This DVD is perfect for touching the surface of accompanying guitar.  In the end though, for the price, there could have been much more...but don't get me wrong, it's quality learning.

Captain America: Pretty Good I should probably start off by mentioning that I have never read any comic books related to Captain America, so I had no prior knowledge about the characters in the movie. I honestly didn't really know whether I'd like the movie or not when I bought it. I usually like watching movies based on comic book superheroes, even if I haven't read the comic books beforehand. I guess I just like the idea of watching comic book characters come to life in these types of movies. Sometimes, I decide to check on this site to see what the average rating is for a movie before buying it. In this case, I decided to get it on a whim instead. After having seen it, I have to say that I definitely enjoyed watching it for the most part. Due to the fact that I hadn't read any Captain America comic books prior to seeing the movie, the ending definitely surprised me more than a little bit. Chris Evans did a pretty good job in his role as Captain America. I remembered him from when he was in the Fantastic Four movies a few years ago. Hugo Weaving was convincing as the evil villain of the movie. When the villain of a movie can get an audience member to want to see them vanquished by the good guy, it means that the actor is doing his job, and doing it well. This movie left me wanting to know what will happen next in the story because of what happened at the end. I don't say that about every movie. Then again, not every movie I watch has an ending to it that leaves room for a sequel. Suffice to say that if you are looking for a good action movie that can hold your attention and doesn't have a huge amount of gore (there is a little, but not very much), look no further than this movie.

Planet of the Apes: The legacy collection There seems to be a lot of truth in the way things unwind. If you're into this stuff you definitely won't be disappointed, especially on DVD. Enjoy!

Not Bad! I have never read this book before, so I don't know any differences between it and the movie, but as far as movies go, this is a pretty good work.  It was a little dark in parts, but the acting and story were both pretty good.  The visionary style used in parts of this movie was very breath taking and awesome too.  If nothing else, this movie is definitely worth at least a watch.  Check it out!

A good beginning but not a necessary one Even though as a grown up man, I still have the disney fever in me, I ended up purchasing this DVD. I've been in love with the Little Mermaid ever since I saw it and still am. However, this is NOT a sequel to Little Mermaid 2 as I thought it was advertised as but rather a prequel to the first movie. As I am not going to spoil about the story I am simply going to tell that it gave us more about Ariels family that we never saw in the first two movies. In this movie for the first time we got to see Ariels sisters as well as her mother "Athena" who we never knew off and why she wasn't in Ariels life in the first movie. The story is good and has some heart to it, but not enough to movie you as the first one did. We also get to see a side of Ariels father King Triton that we never saw. The movie had heart in it but most of the time its all fun and games. Which leads me to my second point. Since its a prequel to the first movie, it goes somewhat against the television series of Little Mermaid that we used to see in the early 90's and has changed some of the story. It gives a completely different spin off of what we saw in the series. My Final point is that it would have been better as a series not a movie. The story doesn't exactly fit the requirements that makes it a movie to watch but rather if it was on the Television series then that would have made more sense. Like I said earlier, the story wasn't good enough for a movie but for a series. Disney shouldn't have made this as a movie and should have brought in something that should have been good rather than making a rather pointless third movie. As a fan of the Little Mermaid I was expecting more however it didn't beat my expectations at all. Now that I've mentioned the bad, the reason why I would give it a four star is because when you have all three movies, and you wanted to show the little mermaid like my 5 and 8 year old cousins or even children, then this version is the one they would enjoy more. The animation is way better than we've seen in a ling time , you can clearly tell that animation has significantly improved. While the first movie was awesome but with todays kids, love stories aren't something they would watch and love the movie, rather they would enjoy this movie better. It brings little children to watch and the little ones would want to watch this over and over again and, its not something a family can't watch. Rather I would recommend this as something families can sit and watch together. The story is good enough to prevent people from forwarding the movie as well. And its good to see Ariel again and who doesn't!! Its a good family movie to watch with kids that what I would tell you.

Get to know Jack Euthanasia is a very explosive issue and it is possible that we have strong opinions against or for it. Jack Kervorkian was a very important figure in this raging debate, a doctor by profession he was known more for his work with assisted suicide earning him the title `Doctor Death', he practiced medicide as he liked to call it instead of medicine. Kervorkian dominated the news in the 90's, right up to his incarceration. In ` You don't know Jack' one gets to know many things about the man behind the persona, his zeal and single minded desire to free people of their pain and the reasons behind it. Then there is the person who was jack, his creation of the Mercitron, the machine used for assisted killings, his love of nature, his poor social skills-one of the reasons that he remained unmarried, that he was a lover of Bach and a painter of ghoulish art, his lack of friends and that the only person that cared for his deeply was his sister  Margo (Brenda Vaccaro). Al Pacino delivers an astounding performance and is unrecognizable as Pacino, I thought this was his best performance in the past few years. He has great supporting cast in John Goodman and Susan Sarandon. The movie has a runtime of 149 minutes but these slip away quickly. I enjoyed this film. Four stars. 2/13/11

Love is a Murderous Thing I wish I would have written that line!  I thoroughly enjoyed this coming of age movie narrated by Cassandra.  After seeing the raving reviews of the book, which I've never read, I suppose I ought to get it. The movie was well acted, kept my interest, and I wish for a castle myself.  As usual, great English story filled with complex characters, fantastic plot, and lines that keep you thinking long after it's over.  "I said I would never fall in love; I said love was a murderous thing; And it is, and I'm floating on air."

Effective Prequel/Short Sequel Let me start by saying that I enjoyed the original Paranormal Activity (PA1) and I enjoyed this film as well.  If you didn't like the first film, I'm not sure why you would like this film, but conversely, if you enjoyed the original, you'll probably enjoy this one as well.  I don't think Paranormal Activity 2 (PA2) is as good as PA1.  I would give the first film five stars while this one only four simply because I don't think PA2 is as frightening as the first film.  The end of PA2 doesn't have the impact of PA1's ending.  There is one place in PA2 where you will probably jump, but it's a startle, not a scare.  A good one, though, nonetheless.  PA2 basically treads the same ground as PA1.  This makes it unoriginal, but it's also helps to make it an effective prequel/sequel.  PA2 is both a prequel and short sequel to PA1.  PA2 starts well before the events of PA1 and ends shortly after PA1 ends.  Without giving away any spoilers, the majority of PA2 is the story of why the events in PA1 happened and then, for a few minutes at the end, PA2 shows how the events of PA1 impacted the characters in PA2.  All in all, for me, PA2 was an effective explanation and short continuation of the original film.  The DVD includes two versions of the film, theactrical and unrated. The DVD is light on extras - just a few deleted scenes that weren't very interesting to me and some trailers.  If you liked the original film, this one will probably be your cup of tea.  If not, rent before you buy.

The title says it all! Because I am a Dolly Parton fan, I pre-ordered this DVD movie and viewed it last night.  For sure, it is Joyful Noise and inspiring. I am one of the few odd balls that is not a Glee fan and so the supporting cast and dialog was lost on me.  The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and 9 to 5 remain to be my Dolly Parton favorites.  And, in one of the Dolly Parton interviews, she admitted that while she was disappointed with the overall public approval rating and lower than expected ticket sales-it was a fun movie to make, she loved working with everyone in the cast, and sometimes her expectations of a big hit are not always fulfilled.  If you like Gospel music, a light-hearted romantic comedy and are a fan of Queen Latifah and/or Dolly Parton, then you will probably enjoy Joyful Noise and should add it to your collection.

Blue rays great, case horrible Theres no doubting the quality of the blue rays themselves and the accompanying books are great. However, the case is miserable. Although this may seem like a minor gripe, it is enough to have me wish I didn't buy the product.  Firstly, the case is way too large to fit in a standard bookshelf. Secondly, the disks do not fit on the clickable ring in the centre of their placeholders. There is a rubber gasket which takes an incredible amount of work and continually fails - meaning the disks fall out of their place and jostle about. Thirdly, the case does not shut/slide into the sleeve with any ease.  When readin other reviews I thought to myself "meh... I'll just put them in a jewel case", but truth is, the book that comes built into their case is good enough that you want to keep it, and won't really fit in a book collection if you decide to separate it. So you're left it's the decision of tossing out the book+case -> wasted money.  Recommend this to PotA fans for the quality of disc, but not for the packaging.

Good Stuff The packaging for this set is fine, though I added labels to each of the four sleeves showing which movies they contain. The movie quality of those I've watched so far is what I expected.

Marmaduke My four year old grandson loves this movie. Its a good family movie. I enjoyed watching it with him.I would recommend this movie for the entire family.

early flawed story gets better as hitler ages. The last part of this movie is great. from the time hitler comes back from the world war onward we see a more realistic portrait of the man. But the first part is well like we are watching a premade monster. A bad kid, a bad man who hits his dog in the war. Who knows how he treated his dogs except the last one 'blondie' who he had killed to test the cyanide capsules he was going to use. there are no records that the dog was abused though. He was extremely brave in the first world war and it's not known if his hideously wrong racist views (he could never accept that there is only one race, the human race and it has different colors , instead his views were of bloodlines and bs. but that was not his creation. so we don't know how much he was into overt racism until his meetings with the fledgling nazi party. It's amazing that he was able to take it over, he had nothing. there is no doubt to me though that the rest of the movie is correct in it's protrayal of Hitler past the war as a rascist bore who was also a evil genious. ( he had a very high I.Q.) That he is one of histories greatest villians is without a doubt. This movie is a good one and it's worth seeing and it's not as bad as the Richard baseheart one in which they depict him as a fruedian mommy complex and a coward. Hitler was never a coward ever but he was heartless , ruthless and evil, this is one of the better hitler movies except for his early years where  you think you are watching the OMEN! Certainly Hitler was a abused child but he was still human.  Anyways, the acting carries this one through and it's worth seeing.  The dvd looks great too.

A fun USN recruiting film in its day Still a  very enjoyable film, if you can ignore Tom Cruise and the lame plot. Great carrier deck footage and music. Brief though it was, another outstanding performance by Meg Ryan. Loved the edgy wardrobe and haircut on Kelly McGillis. With its high-energy beach volleyball and beautiful so. Cal coastal scenes, this film is also a wonderful memento of the legendary NWS in its famous Miramar days. Having moved to the Nevada desert years ago, the school is now out of public view. No more standing near the freeway at NAS Miramar watching those gorgeous jets blasting to and fro.

An excellent continued from Mummmy 1  view (though literized if i may be allowed to use that word) of  Ancient Egypt A perfectly marvelous  continuation of Mummy 1  of ancient Egypt .  The  Graphics and special  effects truly  enhance the story and are not a substitute for a  Story as we see far too often in other movies with second  third  and etc  additional follow up  versions of the original.  Graphics are truly stupendous and  Mr. Fraser  does a  great job in portraying  quite a charachter.  this is one movie  Im  sure youll enjoy as much as the Mummy 1.

A great dvd My kids really enjoy this dvd. It's family fun and clean entertainment. It's nice to have in our dvd library.

Love it! My son bought it for a Christmas present for his dad.  My husband has watched it three times since Christmas.  Per my husband, "Love the animation!  Pixar delivers, as they did in the first one.  Also, love the bonus features."

Great Looking, Good Humored, and Action-Packed. "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol" is  a lot more fun than "Mission Impossible III"s wobbly camera and humorless script. Over-the-top action flicks shouldn't take themselves so seriously. This one hits the right balance between suspense and levity. IMF super-agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is incarcerated in Russia for reasons that are unclear -even to the team who springs him. After agents Jane Carter (Paula Patton) and technical specialist Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) free Hunt, the trio is joined by defense analyst William Brandt (Jeremy Renner). Their mission is to infiltrate the Kremlin in search of the identity of a rogue Swedish nuclear strategist now believed to be a terrorist code-named "Cobalt" (Michael Nyqvist). But the team is in for a big surprise that causes the US to disavow IMF and the Russians to hunt them down, led by security agent Anatoly Sidorov (Vladamir Mashkov).  In today's intimately interconnected world, it's difficult to find palpably exotic locations. "Ghost Protocol" takes us to Mumbai and Dubai, where Ethan Hunt performs death-defying stunts hanging from the famous Khalifa Tower. He crawls up the world's tallest building in the world using sticky gloves -which is kind of funny. And it's meant to be. The filmmakers often poke fun at the ridiculously high-tech equipment that the IMF team uses, as it tends to malfunction or simply be impractical. I was annoyed by Agent Dunn's persistent attempts at humor, but the film does some good-natured mocking of itself. It reminds me of an early James Bond film in its high-tech gadgetry and mad genius supervillain. Dunn is a kind of goofy version of Q. I did not particularly like the IMF team, but Tom Cruise brings an all-American charisma to his role, and the action gets the adrenaline pumping.

Beautiful film, good adaptation & Robert Pattinson America. The Great Depression.  Jacob (Robert Pattinson) sits down to take his final exam, the last step to becoming a vet, when he receives some bad news. Both of his parents were killed in a car accident. Reeling, he flees his small town and follows the train tracks. He hops on the first train and as luck would have it, he has hopped the Banzini Bros. Traveling Circus. Camel (Jim Norton), an aging roustabout, becomes his official guide and guardian, getting him settled in with the circus. The next morning, Jacob gets some work but his eye wanders to Marlena (Reese Witherspoon), the star of the show. When one of her trained horses becomes sick, Jacob offers to help and attracts the attention of Auguste (Christoph Waltz, "Inglourious Basterds", "The Green Hornet"), the owner of Banzini Bros. He is also Marlena's husband. Jacob does some fast talking and quickly becomes the circus vet. But Marlena needs a new act and Auguste finds her a trained elephant. As the vet, the elephant's care and training falls to Jacob. He and Marlena spend a lot of time together and an almost inevitable chemistry grows between them. But Auguste has difficulty dealing with the stress of the circus and his growing jealousy.  "Water for Elephants", based on the bestseller by Sara Gruen, is a very beautiful film with a very old-fashioned narrative and visual style. This isn't a criticism. In fact, this old-fashioned style only seems to allow us the time and energy to focus on the characters and story. And this makes both even more powerful and memorable.  At the end of the film, the first credit was for director Francis Lawrence. I didn't recognize the name at the time, but I was impressed. The second credit was for writer Richard LaGravanese, which didn't surprise me at all. In Hollywood, there are maybe a half dozen screenwriters who are attached to just about every weighty, serious and 'award worthy' film. LaGravanese is one of those writers. He crafts superb screenplays allowing the director and actors to get a jump start on creating a high quality film.  A few days after watching "Elephants", I was going through some old reviews I wrote and a familiar name popped up. Francis Lawrence. As a director, he got his start working on high profile music videos. His first feature film? "Constantine" starring Keanu Reeves as a guy who is fighting the Devil in modern-day Los Angeles. (Aren't we all?) His second film? "I am Legend" starring Will Smith as one of the few survivors of a worldwide pandemic now fighting against vampire-like creatures to stay alive. His third film? "Water for Elephants". I then understood why I didn't recognize the director. His first two films ("Legend" is the better of the two) are so different from his newest. With the exception of a couple of landscapes created with CGI, I would venture to guess that 99% of "Elephants" is special effects free. The opposite is true of "Constantine" and "Legend", both of which are chock-a-block with CGI. In "Elephants", Lawrence doesn't have any special effects to deal with, so he is able to concentrate his time and attention on the characters, creating a rich, interesting, visual film.  The film begins with Old Jacob (Hal Holbrook) wandering into a modern traveling circus. The manager (Paul Schneider, "Bright Star", "Lars and the Real Girl", TV's "Parks and Recreation") invites him in and they start talking about Banzini Bros. and his early life. We enter this exotic world because of Jacob. And it is a good fit, because he is as young and impressionable as we are; he is our guide to this world and we are meant to see and experience what he does.  As Old Jacob begins to tell his story, the narration quickly dissolves to Jacob (Pattinson) narrating. After the death of his parents, Jacob finds he has little left in the world and flees his small town by following the train tracks. Soon, a train approaches and he decides to catch a ride. The next day, Banzine Bros. sets up in a new town and Camel gets him a job shoveling the horse manure. He soon attracts the attention of Auguste, the tyrannical owner and ringmaster of the circus. Auguste orders him thrown off the train. But Jacob quickly convinces him he should have a vet. Ringling Bros. does.  I know why Robert Pattinson was cast in this movie. You know why he was cast in this movie. The filmmakers hope his enormous "Twilight" fan base will help make this movie a hit as well. So far, none of the "Twi-hards" have helped any non-"Twilight" movie starring Kristen Stewart or Pattinson become a hit. So it seems a shame they didn't go with Emile Hirsch or Andrew Garfield, two of the other, better actors who were considered for the role.  That said, as I watched "Elephants", I was in turn, surprised and perplexed by Pattinson. Initially, his portrayal of Jacob looks and feels interesting and complex. When he learns his parents have died, he is naturally upset. Further complications cause him to run away and literally join the circus. Once there, he is awed by the beauty and the spectacle, he is intimidated and frightened by the danger, he is happy to be working with the animals. But as the story continues, these emotions seem to recycle. Worse, his portrayal of these emotions seems to be the same each time. While I was happy to see him going beyond the glowering teen-angst he has perfected for "Twilight", the use of the same three or four facial expressions proves his limited range as an actor.  Reese Witherspoon plays Marlena, Auguste's wife and the star attraction of Banzini Bros. Witherspoon fares much better and portrays a mixture of love and fear of her husband, her stardom and her circus skills. Resembling Jean Harlow, she conveys a mixture of strength and vulnerability any actress in the 30s might have possessed to make them a star. At times, she seems to love Auguste and also to fear his temper. But she has been with him long enough to know how to calm her husband and bring him back to Earth.  The morning after Jacob jumps the train, the circus arrives in a new town and sets up. That afternoon, Jacob gets his first glimpse of Marlena's act as she rides her trained horses. And because we are watching through his eyes, it is our first glimpse as well. It is easy to see why he is won over by her beauty as well as the beauty of her act; it is hard to deny the majesty of trained horses moving in harmony. When something happens to the lead horse, Jacob and Marlena are forced to work closely together. And Marlena seems drawn to Jacob because he is so different from Auguste. Jacob is drawn to Marlena because of her maturity and exotic nature.  Auguste juggles a lot of responsibility but he also knows he has to rule his kingdom with an iron fist. At times, Auguste is extremely charming and at others, dangerous and menacing. It might seem like he is schizophrenic, but we recognize these different sides of his personality appear as needed, in response to a situation. Waltz is perfect as Auguste. He always seems a little troubled, a little pensive, so when he suddenly turns on the charm, he does so with an underlying sense of danger. One side of his personality never disappears in favor of another and this helps his character seem more dangerous and unsettling.  As soon as Jacob enters the picture and convinces Auguste to hire him as the circus vet, Auguste seems a little unsettled, a little less sure of himself. He quickly demonstrates his power by instructing Jacob to do something he doesn't want to do. When Jacob goes against his wishes, his anger surfaces. Later, when Auguste feels Marlena has been threatened, he takes out his aggression on an unsuspecting animal. This is an extremely difficult moment to watch, but it also helps illustrate how dangerous he is. If he is willing to do this to an animal, something that cost him money, and can generate revenue, how will he treat Jacob is he feels threatened by him? Jacob and, for that matter, many of the circus employees, are more expendable than the animals.  It is through Jacob that we also witness the examples of how hard this life is. Auguste frequently has money problems. If he feels his employees are becoming too angry about not being paid, he instructs his henchmen to 'red line' some of the more expendable roustabouts. They are basically thrown off the train, in the middle of the night, while it is still moving. And there aren't a lot of feather beds lining the ground along the tracks. When this happens, news spreads and the protests are usually cut off.  As the relationship between Jacob and Marlena grows, Auguste recognizes he is losing his love. Instead of banishing Jacob, he brings them closer together, insisting Jacob join them for dinner of many occasions. This helps him keep a more watchful eye on them but also causes his jealous nature to surface much more quickly.  Auguste finds an elephant for sale and buys Rosie for Marlena. If she can ride a trained horse, she can ride a trained elephant. And he becomes glassy-eyed at the anticipated revenue. But Jacob and Auguste have different ideas about how to train the new addition and the ringmaster hands the vet a prod with a sharp hook on the end. Auguste is only too willing to demonstrate the tool's use leading Marlena and Jacob to back away in horror.  Hal Holbrook plays Old Jacob and his moments at the beginning and end of the film add poignancy making the story a little more touching.  "Elephants" illustrates the best and worst of circus life, showing the romantic vision of why so many would 'run away and join the circus'. Shortly after Auguste hires Jacob, he leads the young man to the roof of the train and they walk across the top of many cars. Then, Lawrence shows us a wide shot of the train traveling down a curved track through a lush countryside and a small town. A river winds through and the moon shines down. This shot is really beautiful (and no doubt created with CGI) and helps to establish the romantic vision of living such a life.  The attention to detail carries through to the design of the train cars. Auguste and Marlena travel in an opulent, red velvet lined car while others travel according to their importance.  Old-fashioned storytelling, great visual style and some memorable performances all help to make "Water for Elephants" a very good film.

the third  man great movie  nice  picture  but not  as  sharp  as the  criterion  version  still  worth purchase.

Fun movie George Clooney at one of his best roles. I loved it. It also makes you think a bit about life.

3.5 Stars An Era Gone Too Soon I liked Contraband but I didn't care for Libertad. There's a guy at work who thinks the opposite is true. I would rather see Scott with STP. That's my opinion. This released too many years after it was taped and some of the comments by the band seem very dated now. Dated but interesting footnotes to the history of both bands: GNR and STP. The concert tracks are broken up with segments. Either interviews with the band or a weird, scripted interrogation with a pretty blonde that seems to follow the ambiguous military propaganda theme. I don't think these segments (the girl, not the interviews) added anything to this release. The interviews range from the band listening to hundreds of demos in search of a singer to Duff and Scott doing martial arts at a retreat to rehab from drugs. There could have been more songs on here but I think we're fortunate that VR released anything on DVD.

A fine movie and another sharp release from Criterion. The good - the movie looks terrific. It's like watching it again for the first time. I was please to see Criterion pick this up and they did not let me down with the image quality. And despite what another reviewer has commented, this does have subtitles.  The bad - unfortuantely there are not many special features on this disc. I have been a huge fan of the movie for the last decade-plus and was hoping for some great extras, but there wasn't much and what was included was not anything mind blowing. This is why it's getting a 4/5 from me instead of a 5.  The fun - the one feature it does have (which was only available on laserdisc before this) is the alternate ending. I have been wondering about this for years, and my expectations were realized beyond my wildest dreams when the alternate ending revealed that it was, in fact, a dream the entire time! haha, not really...  Worth the $20-25 if you're a fan of the film!

Follows the Book really Closely Written by Jack Ketchum, this would be situated after the events of OffSpring (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002I41KMI">Offspring</a>- and no, these movies are not connected intentionally by directors, but they do share the same main character. It picks up with The woman wandering, alone, her children dead because of the child. She looks for shelter, has a dream of the kid, and begins making herself at home again. then the man enters. He, along with his wife, small child, older daughter and son, take her in to "civilize her." The problem is that the family is not civilized themselves, and the woman is not as weak as the man thinks she is.  First, this is really like the book. There are a few differences at the end, sequence wise, but the book plays out more like Ketchum's work than I thought it would. That says a lot both about the way the source material was written, about the realism, and about the things the actors did. In my mind, they really managed to capture these characters and transfer them to the 102 minute showing.  As far as a story, it can seem flawed in some ways. It simply picks up with a wild woman wandering the woods, and with this man finding her. That's not to say there isn't a lot of detail, but it seems disconnected as a stand alone film. As far as the woman goes, she seems incomplete. That's why I mentioned Offspring. Everything from the wound she has to the motivation she carries sits in that film, and it makes this more than understood. As far as the family goes, it is pretty complete except for one part. I do not want to spoil anything so I will only say the thing with the dogs to anyone who has seen it, noting that this piece just seems like another piece to say the man is not a good guy. I did like the oddity to it, but there was no "who" attached to it.  I'm giving it a 4 out of 5, noting I am a fan of Ketchum and enjoyed this as well. I might not have known it existed otherwise, but knowing and seeing - I'm happy with it. My friends who enjoy horror will enjoy it I'm sure, liking the way the family turns into a character study on a small scale with each of them until the end comes. Sometimes, in that respect, people are creepier than any monster that comes along. The woman is a thing in nature, roaming, doing her part. The man - you really have to ask what he might be.  thanks for your time, I hope this helps

The Departed I see the work that was done in the making of this movie by the director and Leonardo who is one of the two best actors of our time.  I cannot believe that Mark Wahlberg is using Matt Damon instead of Leonardo for the movie about Whitey Bulger. There is not even a single comparison that these two actors have. Matt is a little Boston Irishman, not a strong character actor. Leonardo is a seasoned actor. We, as buyers, have to take what is given to us. I think it is a disgrace that Leonardo does not get that part.

How thin the veneer of civilisation This may be fanciful but I draw a parallel with this film (and its descent into savagery; the loss of civilisation in a remote English village) and that same loss in William Golding's Lord of the Flies (on a remote tropical island). There is a brooding under-current of potential menace almost from the start. The young wife is becoming disillusioned because her husband is wrapped up in his mathematical research work. "I need to be left alone!" he declares. She needs him; his love, his attention. Local men are repairing the roof to the garage. They see her in her mini skirt and bra-less sweater and think their lecherous thoughts. She passes an open window to the bathroom, opposite where the workmen are and can see clearly. She has removed her sweater (in preparation for the bath) and stands for seconds, topless, looking at them. Is she wanting the thrill of `being seen'? She certainly wants attention. Eventually she gets it. Her husband is lured to a day of shooting ducks. While away, one former friend knocks on her door. She offers him a drink. He makes a pass. She asks him to leave. He tries to kiss her. She slaps him. He slaps her back. Her hair is pulled as she is dragged to the sofa, rape ensues, where she protests then takes him for the `attention' she wants. As it ends, another lecher has entered the room and been watching. The sordid business is repeated, this time with no allusion to fleeting tenderness. The rest of the film descends further into simple violence. This was controversial when first released (at a similar time and with a similar reaction to Clockwork Orange). This is not for the faint-hearted. Its serious point however may be to show how thin the veneer of civilisation actually is!  Ian Hunter. Author of `e-Love'.

History Channel for the Holidays This set of DVDs is exactly what I was looking for - a good overview of the History Channel Christmas shows.  Each disc has about 90 minutes of material.  The fourth disc had no appeal to me personally, but at this price, I really don't mind.  The shows included are:  Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas: Just like the title says, this is about the history of the Christmas holiday.  Thorough and comprehensive for a 45 minute show, it covers everything from pagan Yule celebrations up to modern traditions.  If you've ever seen The History of Halloween that's narrated by Harry Smith, this is from the same folks.  Biography: Santa Claus: A good look at the Santa myth and how it has changed across different cultures and times.  In Search of Christmas: 90 minute show in search of the CHRISTIAN Christmas.  Really only about trying to find the historical truth of the Christian Christmas story.  The Real Story of Christmas:  Sharing some of the same subject matter as Christmas Unwrapped, this show delves into the origins of specific Christmas traditions.  Of the shows on these discs, this one has the best production values.  Modern Marvels: Christmas Tech: Lightweight episode of Modern Marvels that focuses on things like high-tech home Xmas lights and transporting the Rockefeller center tree.  Christmas at War / The Christmas Truce:  Two specials centering on Christmas during wartime.  Not my cup of tea, but it might be yours if you're a military buff.  Overall, these were fun to watch over the Christmas season and I'm sure I'll enjoy watching them again next year.  Most of the videos are 4:3 but I wasn't exactly looking for visual pyrotechnics from this set.  Yes, it's a cash-in for THC, but it's also a lot cheaper than getting these shows separately.

Wicked Movie I bought this on a whim. The story line seemed normal enough, but the ending of the story blew me away.  I was not expecting what happended and how things turned out. Best discription of this movie is don't just a book by it's cover.

B-movie gold I know aliens and Nazis sound like a weird mix and that the alien image on the old VHS covers looks a little kooky, but this movie is one of the real gems of B-movie history.  1985 was a banner year for Empire Pictures and its founder, the legendary Charles Band, as the studio rolled out the likes of Re-animator, Ghoulies, Trancers - and Zone Troopers.  This film may not have achieved the same level of success as its cinematic cousins, but it has become something of a cult favorite for fans over the years, especially those who truly appreciate its respectful nods to pulp science fiction.  Writer/director Danny Bilson and his co-writer Paul De Meo showed that a great script and a cast of more than capable actors can make up for the shortcomings of low-budget special effects.  It surely doesn't hurt to treat the audience with some respect, as well.  In this World War II movie, for example, the Germans actually speak German and fire German weapons, while the alien speaks in a truly alien fashion.  In turn, the American soldiers actually use the lingo of their counterparts in the real war.  It is in fact the smart and funny dialogue, characterized by a veritable cornucopia of great zingers, that truly makes Zone Troopers something very special.  Following an ambush, a motley crew of three American soldiers and a well-known war journalist find themselves trapped ten miles or more within enemy lines in 1944 Italy.  Alongside famed war correspondent Charlie Dolan (Biff Maynard) are the Everyman-like Corporal George `Mittens' Mittinsky (Art LaFleur), the young and excitable Joey Verona (Timothy Van Patten), and Sgt. Stone (Tim Thomerson) ,whose ability to walk away from certain death on numerous occasions has earned him the nickname  the Iron Sarge.  As if their situation isn't already tenuous enough, the men soon discover that there are more than just German soldiers surrounding them in the forest - namely, there is a big, hairy, bug-eyed alien whose ship crashed nearby.  That would explain the SS encampment Dolan and Mittens stumble upon.  While pulp magazine fan Joey is giddy over the chance to see one of his science fiction fantasies come to life, Sarge is all about making sure the Germans fail to get what they want.  Can four American GIs hold off a large contingent of elite German soldiers and rescue a bug-eyed alien from their nefarious clutches?  As far as I'm concerned, this film is worth watching solely for Mittens' unexpected meeting with a certain short German dictator, but that's just one magical moment in a film full of great action, sharp dialogue, and memorable moments.  In less capable hands, Zone Troopers could have easily been a cinematic disaster bogged down in a sea of clich&eacute;s.  Thanks to co-writers Bilson and De Meo and the solid acting chops on display from Thomerson and LaFleur in particular, that doesn't happen here.  It doesn't even matter that one of the spaceships looks more like a rocket from a children's playground than an interstellar craft or that Charles Band's brother Richard borrows quite heavily from John Williams' Imperial March from Star Wars for the musical score.  I sift through a lot of low-budget movies in hopes of finding the all-too-rare nuggets of B-movie gold that I know are out there.  Zone Troopers more than validates my quest, easily earning a spot on my list of must-see B-movies.

Exploitation at it's finest. Hobo With A Shotgun is a faux-80's exploitation movie directed by Jason Eisiner and starring Rutger Hauer. It was originally a Canadian-made trailer for the Grindhouse double feature.  The premise of the film is a simple one. The Hobo (as he is referred to many times in the movie, his real name never revealed) only wishes to buy a lawnmower and start his own business. However, everything goes awry from the moment he steps off the train. The opening segment is very nicely done, with it's 80's-like intro (akin to Charles Bronson's Death Wish) to the opening kill (decapitation by manhole cover). Do not go into this movie hoping for a cinematic masterpiece like Casablanca, go into this movie hoping for ultra-violence and witty one-liners from Rutger Hauer.  Oh and I should mention on a side-note that the ending is very predictable about half-way through the film, but, overall this is a great flick and I can't wait to see what Mr. Eisiner has up sleeve for his next movie.

Good Movie The film had Dharmendra, Sunil Dutt, Mithun and a multistarrer was ready The film is an action patriotic film which people liked in the 80's What to say about the film? the title says it all The film is ordinary There are cheesy stunts, like Mithun jumping to kick 1 guy in a swimming pool and landing back straight from where he started LOL The film also has some cheesy comedy scenes.etc Direction is okay Music is okay Amongst actors Mithun does his part as usual, those days he did such roles a lot Sridevi is alright Sunil Dutt is good, Dharmendra is as usual Mousami is likable Ashok Kumar is his usual self Amongst villains Prem Chopra, Kader Khan, Shakti Kapoor are as usual

If you love freaky anthologies and this era of sci-fi, it's pretty enjoyable! Rod Steiger is Carl, "The Illustrated Man", a drifter covered from collar to toe in elaborate tattoos placed upon him by a mysterious and magical woman from the future. When he crosses paths with a young drifter named Willie, he relates to him the story of how he acquired his "illustrations" and how they haunt him and have filled him with hate and anger. It seems that each of his tattoos, described to be "alive" or animated but not really shown to be, tell a story of the future, and three of these stories are shown to us. They are stories taken from the 18 story anthology book of the same name by Ray Bradbury.  The first is "The Veldt", in which a couple grows concerned over their children spending time in a holographic playroom programmed with a violent African Veldt environment. The second is "The Long Rain", in which stranded astronauts are driven to madness by a hard and incessant rain as they attempt to cross an alien landscape in search of one of their luxurious "Sun Dome" shelters. The final story is "The Last Night of the World", in which another pair of futuristic parents are troubled by an impending apocalypse and whether or not to administer suicide pills to their children to prevent their suffering. Along with the three tales is the continuing story of the two drifters that frames the collection.  "The Illustrated Man" is an odd little film. Strange enough is seeing this depression era wraparound story presenting these three far-future tales, but that's just kinda cool, and Rod Steiger's acting is as passionate as always. But, while I don't agree with the many who thought this film was terrible since it was first released, I will admit that it isn't perfect, and this is not a comparison with the source material at all, as I have not read it. My main issue with the film, and it's probably the only real issue I have with it, is that some of the stories, to me, don't feel satisfactorily finished. "The Long Rain", for example, just doesn't have a clever enough ending for me. Perhaps it is the same in the book. The wraparound story of the Illustrated Man himself, especially Willie's side of it, needed something more to it as well, in my opinion, not just at the end but throughout, to be clearer. "The Veldt" and "Last Night of the World" were generally fine, though more fleshing out of their settings/situations would definitely have been appreciated. Overall though, I found this 1969 film very entertaining and enjoyable. Serious sci-fi films from that era often are. The DVD provides a nice, enhanced widescreen presentation with two great bonus features: The theatrical trailer and the vintage featurette, "Tattooed Steiger". There's also, oddly enough, a trailer for the direct to video prequel "Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning". I don't get the connection, but check it out anyway, because that's the hottest Daisy Duke there's ever been.

Cinderella 2 disc special edition The quality of the dvd is great and it got here fast.  My daughter has watched little else since we received it!

Cat's Was a pretty good family movie. Had a good story (don't like to go into detail. Don't want to ruin it for others).  Very good visual affects.I would recommend it to anyone.

One of the funniest films ever The reason I gave the product 4 stars is because it was listed as like new but it was more like good or very good.  The thing that holds the first disc was broken and detatched, and there was a small hole on the cover.  The movie however, is great. Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis make a perfect comedic combination along with the sexy and voluptuous Marilyn Monroe.  It holds up very well for a comedy from 1959.  It just shows no matter how much audiences humor has changed, men dressing up as women will always be funny.  This is not just one of the greatest comedies ever, it is one of the greatest movies ever and deserves 5 stars.

It's a cowboy movie, not shakespeare I like this movie.  John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne and the rest of the cast are good.  It's a cowboy, not Shakespeare.  I enjoyed watching it several times over the course of several years.  I'm not sure why the editorial review calls it "notorious" because it's not that bad.

One notice on playback with vlc I usually use vlc on my mac to play a Blu-ray movie after converting contents. However vlc told me that the program does not have an appropriate codec for a s24l (monaural PCM). The product does not have any responsibility for this, but there might be a problem when you attempt to play the movie with vlc. So, I use "mplayer osx extended" to play the movie, while mplayer has less control than vlc.  Quality The monaural sound is the best, much clearer than the other sources. Focus and contrast are better than the definitive blu-ray edition from Toho (even though Criterion's source was suspected one-generation lower). "Silky rain" scratches remain "much" more than the Toho edition but do not hinder enjoying the movie. You do not have to envy rich Japanese Godzilla fans who can easily buy a Toho edition.

OK BUT DISAPOINTED ENDING The MOVIE WAS GREAT BUT I THINK THERE SHOULD BE A PART 2 AS THE ENDING WAS NOT A COMPLETE END TO MY WAY OF THINKING BUT ON THE HOLE IT'S A GOOD MOVIE

Fun movie! I saw this movie years ago & have always remembered it.  It's just a fun romantic comedy...& I'm a guy!!!  It's a fun movie & almost shameful that it's not avaialable on Blu-Ray.  Take a really inexpensive chance & spend a movie night watching this flick!

A brilliant messy stew with stellar performances Director/writer/producer Paul Thomas Anderson delivered this Christmas present to critics and filmgoers in 1999 with his follow-up to the successful "Boogie Nights."  Many of the same cast members reappear here, in what could be described as a messy stew of mostly unlikable characters.  Anderson's sense of filmmaking tends to mimic some of Robert Altman's best films ("Short Cuts", "Nashville" come to mind) in which an ensemble cast with little connection cross paths in unexpected ways.  Anderson sets the stage at the beginning showing what appear to be newsreel clips of unusual and coincidental events from the 1940's.  In one of the film's story lines, an old man (Jason Robards) lies dying in his home, full of cancer.  His much younger wife (Julianne Moore) who had married him for his money is now prescription drug dependent and remorseful as he nears death.  The man's estranged son (Tom Cruise in an Oscar nominated performance) is a televangelist-like motivational speaker whose pitch is to convince men they can sexually exploit women.  Another pairing is Claudia (Melora Walters) as a cocaine addict who gets a visit from a cop (John C. Reilly) who lacks self-confidence in his personal and professional life.  Phillip Baker Hall is an aging game show host who just learned he is also dying of cancer.  He's also the father of Claudia.  One of the game show contestants is boy of about 12 (Jeremy Blackman), brilliant and controlled by an overbearing father.  A previous contestant who became famous (William H. Macy) is now nearly broke and contemplates robbing his former employer.  The film is full of stellar performances throughout.  Watch Cruise as Frank Mackey when his cocky banter with a female journalist devolves into total silence as she probes his early life.  Check out Robards as the dying TV executive when he confesses to his caretaker (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) his many regrets regarding his family.  The always remarkable Moore stews in a scene where the pharmacists question her need for the strong narcotics she is getting at a drug store.  The film is certainly not without controversy and humor as many of the events seem so random and unlikely, but go back to the opening.  Then there is the final act and the now iconic "rain of frogs."  What does it mean?  Well, I'm not sure.  There is the biblical passage out of Exodus where God speaks of this event if the "slaves" are not allowed to leave with Moses.  Are the "slaves" the children being exploited in the film?  Perhaps the best answer is the closing seen where young Stanley (Blackman) sits in a library during the frog falling and says "This happens.  This is something that happens."  Probably just as much as the cast singing over Aimee Mann's "Save Me" in individual scenes.  Anything might happen on Magnolia Street.

A Great Comedy Series Toody and Muldoon are causing Capt. Block to suffer some more.  This season opens with the seldom seen episode where Toody and Muldoon are recruited to provide security for President Kennedy with quality comedy taking over.  Life with Leo and Sylvia Schauzer and the rest of the men in the 53rd Precinct is a joy to behold.  The perfect companion to the season 1 collection.  One of television's great comedy series.

the future as a malleable beast and the man with the plan If nothing else, if this movie motivates you to look up its short story source by Philip K. Dicl&lt;, then it's already done its part. But there's more to the film adaptation than that. PAYCHECK is a crackling good science-fiction thriller in which serendipity isn't a fortuitous accident as much as it is an engineered stroke of good fortune. In the near future world of Michael Jennings, time travel is impossible, yes, but what about "time viewing"? Michael Jennings (Affleck) is a brilliant reverse engineer. He takes on assignments in which his clients hand over (perhaps a rival company's) new piece of technology, and he then works backwards to figure out its design, maybe even improve on the design. A disclosure agreement dictates that, once a project is done, Michael undergoes a procedure which erases all memory of his time spent working on the job. Michael, a rudderless guy, is cool with this arrangement.  Michael's latest secret project steals away three years of his life. Surfacing from his latest mind wipe he learns that he's forfeited his eight figure paycheck. Instead he's handed over a mysterious manila envelope containing twenty ordinary everyday objects. In the coming hours Michael Jennings will learn that these innocuous objects, one at a time and if employed properly, will transform him into an escape artist. The wild Hitchcockian man-on-the-run theme starts when Michael is taken in by the FBI on charges of treason. He may even be a suspect in the murder of a government physicist toiling in the weapons department.  For me the main hook is in seeing how Michael applies these random items - a book of matches, a paper clip, a crossword puzzle, etc. - to extract himself from one life-threatening scrape after the next. It's fun watching him piece the puzzle together, although, halfway thru the film, the audience is already in on all the cogent beats. But, c'mon, don't tell me there isn't an extra kick in that the figure guiding our guy thru the maze is none other than himself, or himself when he still had his memory and had gotten a peek into the future.  John Woo shallowly explores the theme of hope versus fatalism. Wrap your brain around this: The murdered physicist had been experimenting with laser-enhanced lens so powerful it could see around the curvature of the universe. The physicist had theorized that "if you could see around a curve that went on forever, you would end up back where you started, looking at yourself," er, except you're not looking back at yourself now, you'll be looking at yourself in the future. Sounds like fancy gobbleby-goop to me. Suffice to say, there is now a device - which Michael had helped create - that can peek into the future.  The John Woo aesthetics are in full exhibit. The constantly moving cameras, the kinetic action ballet, the sheer style, the Mexican standoff with guns, that damn bird... The action sequences are dynamically staged (mostly), the stunts are amazing. I love watching John Woo at play. But PAYCHECK is also grounded by a strong love story, which is when Uma Thurman demonstrates her acting chops. Check out her performance in the scene in which her character, biologist Rachel Porter, realizes that the man she's been with for the past three years doesn't at all remember her. It cements her as someone with whom a rudderless gent like Michael would fall in love. Michael would never abandon Rachel. He'd think ahead. But the villains realize this as well.  I thought that Ben Affleck was fairly good. He's certainly got the action hero creds, and he doesn't embarass himself in the dramatic moments. The supporting cast is solid, featuring Paul Giamatti (not enough scenes), Joe Morton, Aaron Eckhart, and Colm Feore who's got one of those faces that just smacks of sinister.  PAYCHECK expands on the source, but isn't as good as. And I do admit that the big climax - consisting of an explosive but dull and dragged out action set - undermines the story. Sucks that Woo would pick the last leg of the film to not deliver on the action. And yet I liked the nod to Hitchcock's NORTH BY NORTHWEST and the sci-fi thriller elements, the plot twists and that Twilight Zone vibe, and I'm thinking of two episodes: "A Most Unusual Camera" and "What's in the Box." It's too bad that them shifty characters in those two episodes weren't near as savvy as our working backwards, thinking ahead engineer. They probably can't stick fight, either.  The DVD's extras: Audio Commentary by director John Woo; Audio Commentary by screenwriter Dean Georgaris; "Designing the Future" - the Making Of the Film featurette (00:18:13 minutes long); "Tempting Fate: The Stunts of PAYCHECK" (00:16:46); and seven extended/deleted scenes, including an alternate and lamer ending.

fun workout I love the 10 minute sections. You can pick and choose or do the whole thing. It is fun and you work up a good sweat.

Journey to Center of the Earth 3D Bought this to view on my new 3D television. There doesn't seem to be a lot of 3D titles out there suitable for family viewing and I wanted something my grandchildren could watch. Movie was good and 3D effects were also good. Some of the stuff was a little unbelievable, like the fall down the hole to the center of the earth, but all things are possible in movies I guess. Kept my grandkids watching for the entire movie, which doesn't happen often.

Three Young Adventurers, Locked Within Their Own Sensual Bubble, Amidst The Chaos Of Turbulent Times!! This film has very european sensibilities, and does a good job at creating a dream-state / erotic experimental atmosphere. Michael Pitt, who is now a big star because of his major role in HBO's Scorcesse-directed mega-hit "Boardwalk Empire", really was a young lion in this film, and turns in a very knaively sexy performance in this Bertulucci vehicle. Basically, he's a young student from America, who comes to Paris to study, as millions have before him. He gets swept up in the intrigue of this mysterious and uncomfortably sexual young Parisian brother-sister pair (Isabelle & Theo), and they become a threesome of sorts: sharing intimacies of all kinds. If full-on nudity & unbridled sexuality turn you off, or is embarasssing to you, then this isn't your kind of film. But there is an innocence to their sexuality which isn't seedy at all. Michael Pitt's character falls madly and passionately in love with Isabelle, but there is also a sexual tension and comfort level he shares with her brother, Theo...who has a smoldering quality to him. Though all three are attractive, the male-female dynamic of this strange liason is played up more between Pitt's character and Isabelle, while the unspoken desire between the two young men is downplayed and hardly touched on except in an awkward wrestling scene on the bed late in the film. Just like in "Brokeback Mountain", the sexuality of the men always has to be played out in a struggle for dominance-type of thing, usually followed by the defeated party being the submissive. In a lot of mainstream cinema, this awkwardness and near rape between two men seems to be the only way that some in Hollywood can depict intimacy between two handsome masculine men. As if the two can't just simply find each other attractive and consent to being together.  I personally felt that the threesome thing should have been explored all the way around!--That would've been even hotter! (-: But this film isn't all about young bohemian college kids exploring themselves.... It takes place amid the turbulent late 60's, (1968 to be exact), which was not only a turbulent time in America, but also in Paris as well. REVOLUTION is all around them, and yet they are encapsulated from it all as well. Finally, as it always does, reality has to come in and destroy their little erotic never-never land dream bubble, and there is the inevitable revelatory moment, which shakes the wide-eyed idealists from their dream.  Overall, I found this film to be good, but the story seemed to get murky in certain places, and like I said, (for my money) I think the whole sexual dynamic should have been explored between the three, since they had already implied incest between Theo & Isabelle anyway, and Pitt's character and Theo defintely had a silent thing too! I think that it would've made it even more interesting. To me, the ending, though I got it, was still kind of weak. Since you can't give 3 1/2 stars on here, I'll go ahead and say an even 4 stars.

One of Bobby Deol's best In my view this is one of Bobby Deol's best. This is different from regular Indian movies, which are usually long, dull, and predictable. Bichhoo is different, and even though it is a copy of Leon the Professional, it is great for an Indian movie. The story doesn't go soft and dry, the songs are not much of a disturbance to the pace, and Bobby Deol is believable as a tough-as-nails, battle-hardened, cold-blooded hero for hire! I didn't like his anti-cursing and anti-smoking attitude though, that was not realistic, not to mention his drinking milk like a good little boy, while he kills people for a living, was a bit out of place, oh well, this is an Indian movie afterall. The opening song with Hansraj Hans was a nice touch.

NO MORE ULTRAVIOLET If I get another worthless ULTRAVIOLET copy!  I love the movie, but was frustrated when I saw it will come with ultraviolet.  Every UltraViolet I've had has been an issue, and if I can pay less without it, GREAT.  I'll pay for digital copy, but hate paying for UltraViolet! But I still really liked Scherlock Holms 2.

a movie i can watch with my mother Yes this is one of the only movies my Mom and I both like.  When I was young, she had me watch Cosmos with Carl Sagan on PBS.  This movie reminds me of that because it is dedicated to Carl Sagan. I knew she had seen it previously and liked it, so I got her the bluray for her new bluray player. Jodi Foster is excellent as usual as a frustrated scientist listening to signals coming to Earth from Space in hopes of possibly finding proof of intelligent life in outerspace. Matthew McConaughey plays a very liberal preacher who isn't such a believer in her work but seems to like her very much. She's all science, he's all religion, so there's friction for a sort of attraction as a subplot. When a signal comes to her crew from outer space, she of course wants to follow the instructions in the message to build a device/portal to take her to the originators of the message. Add in government interference, a rich old eccentric man who supports her, and a crazy religious zealot who opposes science at any cost and you've got a good movie.  It may seem sentimental and slow to some viewers, but they can't all be action movies can they?

Kathleen Turner sizzles Well made film, with a wonderful plot and great performances.  Kathleen Turner's first film, and brother did she come out of the gate with a bang!

Comparing the two versions I purchased the Criterion version as soon as it was released. The Kansas raid has added footage this time, some of it important really to the story. This version includes a previously omitted scene near the beginning at the woman's farmhouse who feeds them that includes her son hiding in the barn, injured fighting for the Confederates. It clearly conveys the disdain the Confederate soldiers had for the bushwackers. When George Clyde and company take the Ruffalo character and three Union soldiers hostage, and they receive no answer to their demand to release some Southern men, Pitt, Clyde and their leader take revenge on the three remaining hostages--omitted from the earlier film.  At the beginning of the film, when Jake and the bushwackers destroy the roadside store which serves Union soldiers, Jake--in the original film--writes Jack Bull's mother. That scene is omitted from this version entirely.  Music is also changed, unfortunately; most notably, the music is omitted in the Criterion version when Dutchie reads the Union letter from a mother to all of the men after Pitt challenges him to do so. Due to omitted music in this version in two or three places, I did later purchase the shorter, original version of this film. Both versions have their plusses and minuses.  And if you want to know from Ang Lee why Dutchie does NOT shoot Pitt at the end, you won't learn it here. Lee leaves that deliberately open to the viewer to decide (although I think his screenwriter DOES give his opinion in the commentary). If you love the film, this version IS worth purchasing.

I love this movie. I am from Brazil. I buy this movei because here we can't find in DVD or Blu-ray.  I love this movie. Bonth actors are very good. In the extras, they talk with actors today (I only don't know whi Jim Carrey don't show yourself in the extras).  I think the blu-ray can have only the subtitle in portuguese, because this movie is soo lovely here in Brazil.

Entertaining This movie had an interesting variation on the traditional western flick.  Even though the movie had plenty of action, it sort of dragged at times.  For example, the ending lasted nearly 10 minutes, with at least three closure scenes.  Overall, I would recommend it.

Much, much better then I was expecting. Great for kids, fun for adults. Fun for all ages. A must see family movie. I say A "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it's not." Ted (Efron) is just like any boy. Rides around on his bike trying to impress the love of his life Audrey (Swift). Her dream is to see a real live tree. The city they live in is made of plastic and air is sold in bottles. When Ted's grandma (White) tells him of a man called the Once-ler (Helms) he risks everything to go and talk to him. I have to admit the only reason I really watched this is because my daughter wanted to see it. I am actually glad she forced me to go because I really enjoyed it. There is enough adult stuff mixed in to make it enjoyable for everyone and not just kids. Danny DeVito being cast as the Lorax is genius and actually makes it funnier. I expected this to be a total "Save the world from humans" type movie but while the message was there it didn't seem preachy and was more funny then anything. If you are looking for a good family movie this is one of the best ones to come out in a while. Overall, much, much better then I expected and one of the best family movies in the last few years. I give it an A, my daughter gives in an A+.

scary movie gave this as a gift to someone who enjoys this kind of movie.  was good quality - satisfied with purchase.

Pretty long, but good overall Despite what a lot of people said, this wasn't so bad. I though the action scenes were awesome, the weird personality change mid movies was cool, and the overall story arc was endearing. I am a sucker for comic book movies, and this one was good. Few cheesy moments, was way too long, but enjoyed it throughly.

Very educational! Even if you choose against going ALL natural I thought my endless google searches had educated me almost as much as I was going to get on the subject!  But this DVD added to my knowledge!  I  left this documentary no longer wanting to enter the field of labor and delivery after graduating nursing school.  I've gained disappointment towards the field to an extent.  The part that affected me most, and hit close to home was the part on pitocin. I've always thought, "I'd love to do home delivery, but what if something scary were to happen like before?!"  See, with each of my two daughters, there was a point when the nurses & respitory techs rushed in to give me oxygen, saying that the baby's heart rate was dropping.  Very scary for me.  Luckily the baby was OK & I delivered with out needing a c section or anything, but I wondered "what if that happened again when delivering naturally?!  This DVD taught me how those scary encounters most likely wouldn't have happened if i delivered naturally.  I was taught by this DVD that pitocin is given to induce labor/contractions (which I knew).  Which caused unnatural and much stronger/longer/closer together contractions.  OK, fine.  But since they're all of the previously described, they're much more painful!  Often resulting in the desire for an epidural earlier.  So the woman gets her pain relief (epidural), yet it slows down labor's progress.  So the medical team provides more pitocin.  This of course brings on and intensifies more of those unnatural stronger/longer/closer together contractions.  So what does this do to the baby meanwhile?  Basically squeeze the **** out of it, causing a lower heart rate & less attainable oxygen. Sometimes it leads to, "the baby's heartrate is dropping too much--we need to do an emergency c section!".  Then after they say, "Thank goodness we were able to perform that c-section so quickly to save your baby!".  This is all of what happened to me (minus the c section fortunately), each time with my deliveries.  And I had no idea what was being done to me until I viewed this powerful DVD. You guys won't believe the other stuff you learn about labor & delivery, and it's history.  It's depressing.  A MUST SEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  EMPOWER AND EDUCATE YOURSELF!!!! I still am giving birth in a hospital for my third, which may seem hypocrtitical, but I still am way more confident and knowing going in this time, and know more so of how to go about some things based on the process.

Early Koontz This film is based on an early book of his.  It has since been updated, revised and re-released in print.  The film does not capture the fear inspired in either book however.  Still, the story of a high IQ computer gone mad is cool and so appropriate into days world I think.  A computer genius's wife has decided to separate from her husband, due to the loss of their daughter and strained marriage.  So he's moving into work while she makes other arrangements.  But his A.I. PC is bored, finds her and decides she's the answer to his problems.  So he traps her and away we go!  This terror tale of technology with a twist is well worth it!

And the geeks shall inherit the earth. My wife caught on to this first and had me start to watch it.  Coming from the geek culture of comic books and sci fi myself it's not a surprise that I find it often funny and you root for these dorks, these geeks, these persons who hold our future in their hands.  The main relationships revolve around roommates Sheldon Cooper (played smashingly by Jim Parsons with holier-than-thou grandiosity and pomposity) and Leonard Hofstadter (played understatedly by Johnny Galecki, the put-upon outside-the-window-looking-in dreamer), two of the comic book loving, sci-fi eschewing braniacs who get entangled with new neighbor Penny (played ditzilly by Kaley Cuoco, all broke dreams and big heart).  Leonard has a hankering for her while Sheldon doesn't phenomenologically understand what a hankering is and Penny?  Well, she's a sleep-around lush truth to tell so you know she's fair game for the usually out-of-everyone's-league Leonard.  Rounding out the cast for this first season are the bromance brothers, Howard Wolowitz (played by Simon Helberg who out-horndogs just about everyone, including Wilt Chamberlain) and Raj Koothrappalli (played by Kunal Nayyar playing up the smart guy from India with the Indian accent angle and who, unlike Howard, freezes up in the presence of pretty women and can't talk to them; the problem with Howard is that he can talk...about how much he would like to introduce each and every one of them to his little Wolowitz), two fellow scientists who have nothinig better to do than play Xbox deathmatches and visit the local comic shop with Leonard and Sheldon.  The clever thing about this series is its mining of both geek and intellectual culture on collision with a more common, popular consumer culture.  The four guys are given their idiosyncracies and (unfortunately) Penny less so, she's more of a hot mess really, but perhaps she develops some in future seasons.  We'll see.

Still a Good Movie Each time I see the film I see it a little bit differently.  From the movie theater, to small tube TVs with over the air service of the past, to a 60" TV on blu-ray.  It is well made and one of the timeless films that will be in reruns for decades into the future.  The blu-ray picture was very good, the sound was fine in surround, the book portion was okay, and for $10 it was a good value.

Agree.  Song replacement is a disaster. I guess it's because Operation Spoilsport is my all-time favorite GAH episode, but the replacement of the song "Eve of Destruction" is horrible.  The actions of the cast parallel the lyrics of the song, and it's one of my favorite parts of that episode.  I guess the producers of this video didn't get the rights to use the song. On the plus side, the picture is clear.  The audio is fine.

Good film, mixed in accuracy Mississippi Burning, or MIBURN, was the FBI's code name for breaking the KKK conspiracy following the Goodman-Cheney-Schwerner murders in Neshoba County, at the beginning of Mississippi's "Freedom Summer" of 1964.  Although it's a well-written production, it glosses over the "old boy" network of FBI field agents with local law enforcement.  There was no independent Mississippi regional FBI office when the investigation started, fieldwork being divided between New Orleans and Memphis (the latter taking the lead, and notorious for agents with a "southern POV.") J. Edgar Hoover had to personally intervene to get the ball rolling, as part of his running political battle with the Kennedys as much as a search for justice.  The families of the victims also raised objections to the brutal portrayal of the FBI investigation in this film, as counter to the non-violent humanism of the three murdered COFO activists.  And in truth, it was less of the ham-fisted theatrics Hackman shows here than old-fashioned bribery of a local informant for 30K that broke the case.  That said, let me play devil's advocate on one point.  The Mississippi White Knights of the KKK operated with such impunity because of their complicity with local law enforcement and the "2nd Amendment mentality."  But since the 2nd Amendment applies to all citizens, what would have been the response if Mississippi blacks had also stood on *those* civil rights, to defend themselves against state tyrants like Sheriff Lawrence Rainey?  If NRA-free market purchase to bear arms had led to the stockpiling and then "defensive use" of them in Mississippi black communities; and Rainey and the White Knights then discovered they, too, could bleed?  This would have been a sure way to instigate Federal intervention in Mississippi without the prolonged procedural delay of investigation and (inconclusive) trial.  Not advocating violence, mind you folks.  Just saying. . . .  ;)

Babies Babies. Some are born into wealthy families, some poor. Some are born with siblings, some alone. Some are raised by their parents, some are raised by extensions of their parents. However babies may come into the world - they constantly fight for our love and affection.  Babies is a documentary style movie that follows the lives of four babies all over the world from the pregnancy to when they're old enough to go to pre-school. It is very educational and moving, some parts will have you saying "Awww..." and others will make you say "Did that just happen?"  By the end of the movie, it should have succeeded in poking at your curiosity about how other cultures raise babies. Thumbs up to the director for ending it before they got to that annoying toddler stage.

Better than most in this genre This type of movie has been done to death with the American Pie, Van Wilder, Superbad, etc, but this was a surprisingly good movie.  I mean, yes it's over the top just like the rest of those movies and there's the obligatory gross out scene just like every one of these types of movies feels it needs to include but this movie felt fresh.  I guess maybe it's because I've never seen any of these actors before.  This is a fun movie and I would definitely recommend it.

Classic Western This is Clint Eastwood at his finest as opposed to talking to a chair at the Republican National Convention.  The movie is exciting, fun, and funny in places with a great sound track.  It's a must see for Western fans.  It's almost as good as Unforgiven.

Everybody's Fine This was a pleasant, but not comedic, look at a dysfunctional family in which the adult, geographically distant children protected their privacy and kept the discovery of self preceived failures in their lives from their widowed father by limiting contact to the very minimum.  The acting was excellent but the script was a bit "by the numbers", although still enjoyable.  A father's unrelenting pursuit of his children while coping with his loneliness, and they with their various crises, reinforced for them his enduring love and support, allaying their fears of being judged for being "imperfect".  The need to reconnect before it was too late, was the emotional incentive.

Not your usual submarine movie I first saw this movie years ago on Laser Disk and it was very good.  The transfer to Blu-ray is great.  The movie probably gives the most accurate portrayal of what it is like to be in a submarine in WWII and when it is under depth charge attack, and a depth charge attack is the worst thing that can happen to a submariner. This movie holds your attention to the end, which is a bummer.

FREAKY PREGNANCY: "THE STRANGER WITHIN" NOTE ON THE DVD: The DVD Case says the Disc may not play in all DVD devices. The DVD did not play in my DVD player; but it played perfectly on my computer.    THE MOVIE: I'm delighted Warner Archive has released this effective "Made For TV" Movie thriller from 1974. When it first aired, the movie scared me so much my mother made me turn the TV off!! While the movie doesn't shock or scare me now,  the performances  and  brisk  pacing (the running time is 74 minutes  hold up extremely well.   Ann (Barbara Eden) is pregnant-- but how can that be? Her husband David (George Grizzard) had a vasectomy three years ago. Tension mounts as David and her best friends (Joyce Van Patten and David Doyle) assume Ann had an affair. Ann reluctantly agrees, twice, to have an abortion. But each time she starts for the hospital, she grows mysteriously sick. And she grows miraculously well again-- just as quickly as she became sick. Ann is now determined to keep her baby--at all costs. And then, Ann starts acting EXTREMELY WEIRD!!! She keeps her house at freezing cold temperatures, drinks pots of scalding hot coffee, pours tons of salt on all her foods, reads lengthy books in a matter of seconds, etc. On top of all this, she starts speaking in a freaky language; and her excellent housekeeping skills go completely to pot!!   The explanation for all this is ridiculous, but the movie still manages to grip and hold your attention. George Grizzard is very good as the increasingly worried husband. Barbara Eden is excellent, especially as Ann's behavior grows increasingly bizarre and violent.

Well done! I like this movie.  Very well done, but very long, as it should be due to its subject matter.  Give the viewer a "you are there" feel to one of the greatest battles.

An Interesting Futuristic Tale. Clever, Well-done Robots. Last night's bargain-rack movie was "I, Robot" staring Will Smith. It was an interesting DVD. The movie was a futuristic tale, but only going ahead to the year 2035 so a lot of Chicago (the movie site) and it's people looked very much like today. A really big difference was the appearance and abundance of human-like robots who performed many, if not most, of the ordinary tasks of day to day life. This was a clever part of the movie, and the robots were very well done. These things looked like humans, talked like humans and moved like humans, but they were clearly not humans dressed up in costumes (as in Star Trek, let's say) for the purpose of the movie. What were they? Well, I don't know, but they were fascinating and they were present in great abundance. It's probably some clever computer animation trick, but the trick is very well done and a lot of credit is due.  The story itself was not as fresh and new. It introduced the idea of life with robots where Will Smith was a human police detective and was one of the few who had a negative view of robots and their place in human culture. It seems that the robots were programed not to harm humans in any way nor could they be controlled to harm humans. Well, you know this isn't going to last or you wouldn't have much of a movie. Sure enough, a programming change was brought about and the robots began behaving more like humans in the negative sense. Thus began a long drawn out battle between Smith and his human colleagues opposing the human-like robots and their controllers. It involved a lot of action and destruction of anything and everything. The high action level will probably keep you watching carefully. All in all, I found the story to not have a particularly interesting plot and I'd rate it as a three-star movie in that sense. However, the sets and animations and high action are so well done, that I'd give it five stars for that part of the production. Okay, we'll average it out to a four star rating. My hope would be that the clever people who put this thing together will be back with a better plot.  Gary Peterson

good but less than great I loved this the first time i saw it but i attempted to watch it again several months later and it felt too dragged out when seeing it a second time. Still worth watching, great visual.

Wonderful Love this movie.  Just though I would buy Ito refresh my memory due to the new one. It's still better!!

Remarkable Themes For Its Time Many of Alfred Hitchcock's films during the 1940s were little more than propaganda flicks that seemed to have more to do with nationalism than truly creative movie-making.  Fortunately, "Shadow of a Doubt" is a much more visceral tale dealing with the loss of innocence and small-town life.  For a basic plot summary, "Shadow of a Doubt" sees Charlie (Joseph Cotten) on the run from the police in New York.  Charlie evades the law by catching a train to the West Coast and hunkering down with his family in California, who know nothing of his shady past and view him as almost a sort of saint.  However, Charlie's namesake niece (Teresa Wright) starts to piece together what Charlie is up to, putting both herself, her family, and the entire town in potential danger.  This film is a better Hitch effort because of its insistent themes.  Though because the time period was one of more restraint when it came to controversial themes at the box office, "Shadow of a Doubt" manages to still create a creepy atmosphere that at times is very uncomfortable.  The idyllic community myth is shattered by the likes of characters like Charlie, who uses lies and manipulation to continue a spree of lawlessness.  These themes could be done much more prominently and grittier in today's Hollywood, but in the early 1940s the hints were likely enough to put viewers in a suspenseful mood.  Overall, then, "Shadow of a Doubt" is a solid Hitchcock flick that easily deserves a watch from fans of Hitch.  I wouldn't consider it to be Hitch's crowning achievement (as he always thought it was), but it is nearer to the top than to the bottom.

Dances with Wolver Two disc 20th Anniversary Blu-ray i love this movie.  three hour-plus epics, both contain action are about a white American soldier and the Indian. this edition have 2 disc .. one for movie and transfer picture very good. and disc two contain feature. With audio DTS HD 7.1 make this edition so special. Most of all feature in a standart defition. I hope this 20 th anniversay edition only and one. and i get this slipcase too .

A great family movie about finding yourself again. Great acting and excellent message. I recommend this. I say A. "It don't happen often but sometimes we do bring out the best in each other." After the death of his wife famous writer Monte Wildhorn (Freeman) stops writing and takes up drinking. He moves into a lake house to escape everyone and relax. After meeting his neighbor Charlotte O'Neil (Madsen) and her daughters he begins to change the way he feels about life. One of the biggest problems I have with movies is that about 70% of them are so predictable that after ten minutes you know how it will end. Sometimes that affects how good a movie is and sometimes it doesn't matter. This movie is the later. After fifteen minutes I could have written the ending myself and it would have been identical to the way this one ended. All that said this is a great movie still and Morgan Freeman is about the only actor who can take a very ornery character and make you like him even at his worst. There are not many non-cartoon movies that are great for the whole family to watch. This is one of them. Rated PG but this is still something that you can put in with your kids and not have to worry about what they are seeing. This is a perfect example of how excellent a movie can be simply by using the best actors you can find and having a great idea. No special effects or nudity or swearing. What a strange idea. Overall, a superb family movie that I highly recommend. I give it an A.

Not that informative Playboy: 50 Years of Playmates is one hour and twelve minutes or if you count the trailers and the Playboy's Photographers segment one hour and forty-six minutes. The main reason I bought this two DVD set is that it came with the Playmates of the Year: The 80's bonus feature. I own the VHS version went looking for a DVD version of it. The main DVD is like a cliff note version of the history of Playboy. I own the Playboy / Playmates: Early Years, which cover the first twenty-five years and that is one hour and twenty-minutes and more informative. 50 Years of Playmates does a few quick snippets of interview with some of the modern Playmates, but none before 1999. Also I notice that some of the information on the 50 Years of Playmates looks like it was copy and pasted from Playboy / Playmates: Early Years. Yes the 50 Years does show nude Playmates throughout the history of Playboy and they do talk to some but not in great length. If they were doing a documentary DVD then they fall short. Playboy: 50 Years of Playmates gets a B-.  DVD FEATURES  Disc 1  Play Feature Scene Selection 1. Introduction 2. Cheers 3. In The Beginning 4. Playmate of the Month 5. Chicago 6. Playmate of the Year 7. The Centerfold Story 8. Age of Aquarius 9. Diversity & Power 10. Playboy After Dark 11. Dreams 12. On The Move 13. The Photographers 14. Innovations 15. My Favorite 16. The 25th Anniversary 17. The `80s 18. Playmates As Stars 19. Evalution 20. The New Millennium 21. Always A Playmate 22. Who Wants To Be A Centerfold? 23. The 50th Anniversary 24. Credits Bonus Features 1. Playmates Centerfolds & Data Sheets 2. Playboy's Photographers a. Arny Freytag b. Richard Fegley c. Pompeo Posar 3. Trailers a. Video Centerfold: 2004 Playmate of the Year Camella DeCesare b. Video Centerfold: 50th Anniversary Playmate Colleen Shannon c. The Ultimate Playmate Search d. 2004 Video Playmate Calendar e. Rita  Disc 2  1. The '80s-54 minutes a. Play Feature b. Scene Selection i. Introducition ii. India Allen-Playboy Playmate of the Month for December 1987 & Playboy Playmate of the Year for 1988 iii. Terri Welles-Playboy Playmate of the Month for September 1983 & Playboy Playmate of the Year for 1981 iv. Barbara Edwards- Playboy Playmate of the Month for September 1983 & Playboy Playmate of the Year for 1984 v. Kathy Shower-Playboy Playmate of the Month for July 2000 & Playboy Playmate of the Year for 1986 vi. Donna Edmondson-Playboy Playmate of the Month for November 1986 & Playboy Playmate of the Year for 1987 vii. Dorothy Stratten-Playboy Playmate of the Month for August 1979 & Playboy Playmate of the Year for 1980 viii. Marianne Gravatte-Playboy Playmate of the Month for October 1982 & Playboy Playmate of the Year for 1983 ix. Shannon Tweed-Playboy Playmate of the Month for November 1981 & Playboy Playmate of the Year for 1982 x. Karen Velez-Playboy Playmate of the Month for December 1984 & Playboy Playmate of the Year for 1985 xi. Kimberly Conrad-Playmate of the Month for January 1988 & Playboy Playmate of the Year for 1989 xii. The Decade In Review xiii. Credits 2. The '90s-1 hour 40 minutes a. Play Feature b. Scene Selection i. Introducition ii. Anna Nicole Smith-Playboy Playmate of the Month for May 1992 & Playboy Playmate of the Year for 1993 iii. Rene&eacute; Tenison-Playboy Playmate of the Month for November 1989 & Playboy Playmate of the Year for 1990 iv. Victoria Silvstedt-Playboy Playmate of the Month for December 1996, Germany's Playmate of the Month for June 1997, & Playboy Playmate of the Year for 1997 v. Corinna Harney-Playboy Playmate of the Month for August 1991 & Playboy Playmate of the Year for 1992 vi. Lisa Matthews-Playboy Playmate of the Month for April 1990 & Playboy Playmate of the Year for 1991 vii. Jenny McCarthy-Playboy Playmate of the Month for October 1993 & Playboy Playmate of the Year for 1994 viii. Julie Lynn Cialini-Playmate of the Month for February 1994 & Playboy Playmate of the Year for 1995 ix. Karen McDougal-Playboy Playmate of the Month for December 1997 & Playboy Playmate of the Year for 1998 x. Stacy Sanches-Playboy Playmate of the Month for March 1995, Playboy Playmate of the Year for 1996 & Germany's Playmate of the Month for Miss June 1996 xi. Heather Kozar-Playboy Playmate of the Month for January 1998 & Playboy Playmate of the Year for 1999 xii. The Decade In Review xiii. Credits

A great slice of imagination I picked a copy up of this recently, and I remember watching it when it was first released. It is such a tragedy that more people have not seen this and that the director has not made more films since.  The biggest problem with Sky Captain is the opening, it is too slow and a little dull. However, once the robots invade and the action cranks a gear - this becomes a brilliant film - mad scientists, crazy robots and flying contraptions, then there are some really great performances.  I say great performances, as all the actors are playing up there characters as a tribute to the bygone day of television science fiction serials. If you're ever had the pleasure of watching the original black and white tv show of the Rocketeer then you will know exactly what the director was aiming for.  I think enough has been said about the effects - they are superb and the techniques have since been used to great effect in many other films. If you enjoyed the style of 300 by Zack Snyder, then you are going to love this film.  The film has a lot of flaws, and we're left wondering when we will see a great steam punk style movie - anyone any reccomendations - after this and also the league of extraordinary gentlemen did not attract a wider audience.

Not A Children's Movie I am a Senior Citizen that loves animated movies and this was not for children. I liked it very much. Beutiful animation. Story of triumph of good over evil. Very well done.

shenandoah I had trouble getting my blue ray to play the movie and couldn't send it back I lost my paper work. Sorry. It just wouldn't pick it up.

Sub Par 3D Compared to how good some post conversion 3D can be, Titanic 3D & Lion King, I was expecting more from Nightmare.  I would recommend saving the money and getting the regular blu-ray.

very good I loved the movie, and the price was right, and the dvd was in very good shape. the movie did not take to long to get to me. I was very pleased with your service.  I will do business with you again soon.

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House If you ever want to see how much things stay the same, this is the move for it.  Buying a house has not changed much, and this satirical look at the whole business is one of my favorites.

Great Sportsman and Showman. I bought this dvd because im a huge fan of boxing! One of the highlights of this dvd for me is the bonus features that include Ali's fight against George Foreman. What a great fight that pits two of the greatest heavyweights of all time against each other. This fight is really mind over matter for both men. Ali took alot of abuse from one of the hardest punchers the ring has ever known to come out on top. Now on to the movie, Alot of highlight clips to Ali's storied career plus all his funny banter and poetry. Just a good entertaining sports show!

decent intro full of nostalgia I remembered this from the multitude of films in my childhood and as a young adult decided to check it out to see how the whole differed from the bits in my memory. I actually saw the movie first then (tried) to read the book. If, for whatever reason, Tolkien's book didn't hold your interest all the way through or if you just want to visualize the story before reading the book (or seeing Jackson's upcoming adaptation), I highly recommend watching this movie. This can be enjoyed by kids and adults alike, especially if you are an adult who enjoyed the movie as a kid. The scenery is amazing and all the characters have that distinct Rankin/ Bass look to them. John Houston and Orson Bean have good voices for this story and one of the most enjoyable scenes (for myself at least) was when Bilbo finally met Smaug the Dragon, which is what the whole thing is leading up to. From what I understand, this is a pretty faithful adaptation of the book, although it does emit some events and characters or rushes through certain parts. A few downfalls would be the dwarves (especially Thorin), who are hard to root for when all they do is let other people do the work then take the spoils for themselves, some of the music can get annoying, and the wood elves might confuse some people based on the way they are drawn and the way they speak. You can tell this was made in the 70s as a TV special for kids, but it's a good way to visually introduce yourself and others to Middle Earth.

different and fun if u like campy (pun intended) but not too campy movies with seriously sick characters or just like seeing that deserve to die die horrifically then watch this w a big old bowl of popcorn and soda.

Postscript Last evening I watched the film. I have read Freud and Jung. Not completely, perhaps before I really understood either, not that I can understand either-but I mean to say I read them in connection to my work in art and my interest in creativity in my twenties. I have read biographies of their lives as well. So -the interest in this content was already there for me. They don't have to sell it-if I could I'd visit all the places of their lives. Learn more, read more. I would like to own The Red Book in reproduction actually. So I've wanted to see this movie since I saw a preview in the theater. It is the story of Jung early in his career, his relationship with Freud and their break, and a woman (Sabina Spielrein) who was Jung's first psychoanalytic patient. She apparently factored in this break in ways I did not know, nor have I ever read or heard of. In a way this was almost deflating-how could I have missed such stuff? (The acting of the three main characters btw was fascinating and unlike what I would have pictured- if pressed to explain I would respond that neither of them (Jung or Freud) had I pictured in this cerebral, refined, rather finished gentle way-and that the actress seemed to struggle almost with Tourette's or some straightjacket the rest of us couldn't see which was I hope both a liberty and a device meant to stand for the distancing mental illness produces-it achieved that effect)  The role of this first psychoanalytic patient in Jung's life trajectory seems immense- as told here- I recall somewhere in my reading someone who was an analysist, perhaps Jung, talking of how that 1st patient is so important and thus so memorable-then I would imagine kept alive in their work rather like I will always recall the first class I taught. Not being in the field I can only relate through my lens of perception. Perhaps I missed that they became sexually involved-he and his 1st patient- in what I have read. That shocked me. I didn't even realize how she went on to be such an incredible contributor in psychoanalysis,was his assistant,then taking psychoanalysis to Russia, and herself by then a psychiatrist. That he lent her such a role in his work-certainly as talking partner- made me think of a mirror-I'm sorry -it just did. And my brief fleeting thought was I bet he had many. It was fascinating to learn of all of this.  I recently have been talking and thinking about the death instinct and the creative life force in male intimacy- reading about it-to so quickly be directed to the root of the formulation of this theory via the person he analyzed and her contribution of this to the work they developed- struck me as quite a coincidence-I began reading him because I wanted to better understand creative drives as well as surviving abuse within creativity, The movie also explores triangulation- actually that as much as anything else-and I have no idea if that is accurately what happened. Triangulation is everywhere in it. Infidelity, love, needs, the nature of repression, rejection, wounds, truth, psychiatry, boundaries, healing, sexuality, historical perspectives, evolution of ideas, science and myth, individuation-a host of themes touched upon.  I think a woman's need for the healing force of two of the greatest psychiatrists that ever lived indicates really the amazing person this girl was-or they were. For basically they both took her seriously and in their own way cared for her.My thought was sexualizing the relationship with Jung-mistake, but at least the movie bears that out false for both of them. Ultimately her fulfillment as a doctor healing her. There are things here I haven't yet worked out, and places where thins get too close to my own stuff for me to work it out easily. And if this plot line isn't the revealing of the nature of triangles what would that be? They are prey to their feelings in this movie, to their actions, to the dominate themes of the time, science versus mysticism for instance is discussed,  they analyze everything, they look at their histories, they explore their dream contents, they adjust the thinking,they deny, they hide truths, they reveal, they are human, they sort through the dynamics of their living-looking at what is driving them. Time figures in the story. It touches on how Freud and Jung were not the same in orientation, how the dynamics between them revealed both of their weaknesses. Especially Jung-who seems seen by Freud. I suppose in the end what struck me was their bravery to face their feelings, continue trying-even when Jung is basically just portrayed here as a coward in his relationship to Sabina- and in his marriage-a coward- that likes the wife's money- still they are present with one another.Imperfections shown. Their importance to one another is presented in what must have been some sticky stuff.   In this way the movie becomes rather like the opening up to discussion in repressive times of what a woman might want, what the effect of the times might breed for such an intelligent woman, to be so desired and yet to move forward and develop not as a subordinate or object alone- and finally it seems to hold her own intellectually-that was interesting. Sabina Spielrein clearly was greatly wounded, a healer herself, and these three great individuals are placed within their times dynamics one hopes accurately, you hope- so we can see the development of their methods in analysis fairly. (She will later be shot with her children,by the Nazi's which was a tragic thing to read in the last brief notes- the men having fuller careers-but all shaped by times foreshadowed here with Jung's apocalyptic dream.) It's a love story, it's a loss story, it's a growth story, it's actually perhaps an intellectual and historical journey as well. (I could have done without the spanking scenes, but I think that's because they seemed so privacy invading, impossible, and suggestive of titillating-and would scandalize about a half of the folks that might happen upon the movie. And I doubt them. I understood them within the context of displaying the unbounded nature of their relationship and exploration of the destructive force of sexuality she had in play from childhood-in the notion of their exploration of taboo subjects-but it came across grossly)  So essentially Jung had an affaire with a patient, with a first patient, and I suppose that's pretty significant to understand in his evolution, that his work was as much about his own insights into self as patients health-as his process. I saw in the movie at times the flashes of their equality, the wounds within him, the strange compartment for his wife, the triangulation over Sabina with Freud, Also with his wife and work,  Sabina's role in their split (Jung/Freud which I have never heard before in anything I've read), (reading later of her fate after the movie)-at least for me a movie abruptly ended....it is all grist for the mill....I think the movie distorts the man-super normalizing him here via a very sweet performance, but...  I never pictured Jung so wealthy either, but I knew that his wife was wealthy, nor him so beautiful and in such magnificently beautiful surroundings, so in the movie this felt false against my inner eye -distant and perfected or idealized-definitely idealized, tribute like- but looking at pictures later I thought perhaps this was carefully considered -certainly the quotes used as dialog throughout the movie were placed in key moments to stay with you directly from the letters.. I revise those images to move him even further from things I can understand-the luxury and station of his life...but surely there would be some quibbling about Carl Jung as seen here. And finally, this was a relationship that their letters revealed and it was a movie based upon them. One of the fantasies or  themes of my life was a wish to have such intimacy with others through writing and experiences, to know such a closeness, to share feelings, insights, the stuff of life with another in that way-clearly these letters were the correspondence of three people that took the time, knew the significance, allowed the relating in this form to connect them. There are several movies that I love in which letters are the basis of the movie. The Anne Bancroft one with the bookseller-The Turtle Diaries among them. It would seem that these movies deeply affect me. They represent something for me- the deep connection in word. Somehow in my fantasy, or my conceptions of love, of the secrets inside us-letters, correspondence, the revealing-it is a piece of why this movie worked for me-perhaps psychologically. How different a movie it might have been had these men simply rejected Sabina Spielrein, denied her importance to them, never written another word to her in their fear of scandal, and simply we were left with none of these records. It would seem they put the thing to pen because they were brave enough to at least on some level face and work through it -that seems such an act of care and love. Interesting movie.

A Glimpse in Time This is a well done stroll through time with one of our former first ladies.  Since she was such a private person in the midst of tragic history, this memoir with her voice, from her perspective is informative and enchanting.  Well worth the purchase - watched it with one of my daughters

Hilarious dialogue + Life-like special effects = 4 stars. I watched this in the theatre and just now on DVD. I tremendously enjoyed it both times.  The dialogue is funny in some scenes. For example, in the motel, Grover held up Medusa's head and said...  The special effects are life like. The snakes on Medusa's head look scary and real. They are much better than the ones in Clash of The Titans 2010.  In short, it's entertaining. It deserves 4 stars.

Positive Thinking This book help me to contain a positive outlook on my thinking and control on my negative outlook on things.

Don't play in the mud. A comedy-horror film from Ireland.   Mr. Hunter (Vinnie Jones) is on the hunt for a man-creature who speaks like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006SFIX">Eegah</a> (1962). Hunter gets him, but their are more. Another man-creature bites his leg, but he cuts his hand off. He gives it back to the man-creature in the bog.   These 2000-year old bodies are usually found in the bogs of Ireland and Denmark.   Two construction men (Michael Collins, Paul Valentine) tell Miss Leary (Shelly Goldstein) that being bog land, the ground is too soft to build her houses on. They just found another mummified bog person. She doesn't care. She wants her land of real estate finished.  Two women, Hannah (Amy Huberman) and Mallory (Olga Wehrly) are lost in the bog land and comes across an isolated house.   Back at the construction site, the bog body begins to rejuvenate and new skin is formed as the body becomes alive. Now a muscular man-creature, (Adam Fogerty), but on the prey to kill. He needs fresh water.   Miss Leary and Deano (Gavin Kelty), the taxi driver get stuck in the bog land and also come across the isolated house.   Saiorse (Nora-Jane Noone) is a curator and David Wallace (Jason Barry) is an archealogist surveying the bog land and trying to find the lost kingdoms. as they are driving, the car hits a cow. Wondering around lost (you guessed it!) they also find the isolated house with the others.   It's too late for any of them to start walking at this time of day, so they decide to stay the night.   Really, thought this movie was silly, however, the film being from Ireland and I am an American who is Scotch-Irish by ancestry, I found the movie intriguing. The Irish have their legends too.   Nice cinematography. Filmed in and around Dublin, Ireland.  Also known as: Assault of Darkness (2009), Bog Body (2009).   I assume the midget circus clown is named "Bobo" and the actor is MJ Junior.   You might also enjoy:  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004W192">The Beast of Yucca Flats</a> (1961). <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000A7Q1UQ">Swamp Thing</a> (1982).  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00007L4NB">The Return of Swamp Thing</a> (1989). <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000WC39P4">Swamp Thing - The Series</a> (1990-91).

It Was Not That Bad. Viewed: 7/07, 11/11 Rate: 7  7/07: The VHS cover has a tagline, and it says, "When a girl has a heart of stone, there's one way to melt it." So, how? "Just add ice." In that case, when the ice melts, what happens? The stone is still there. If you added ice to the stoned heart, would that make the melting harder? If heat is applied, would that kill the heart as well? Otherwise, I suppose that the stone is impossible to melt. Anyway, Cool As Ice starts off nicely with good dance moves and lyrics. Then the story rolls along akin to The Wild One. As a matter of fact, linking Cool As Ice to Rebel Without a Cause, as some people have stated, is incorrect. Having my expectations lowered than usual for this one, I personally found Cool As Ice very enjoyable. Some scenes in the picture are very over-the-top cheesy, not to forget to mention embarrassing, and beside those lame parts, much of Cool As Ice moves along very well with an intriguing plot. I have to say that Kristin Minter held her ground surprisingly well despite the corny scenes. Vanilla Ice aka Robert (Not Rip) Van Winkle gives an impressive debut performance, and I suspect that the director knew how bad the movie looked but decided to ignore all of that. Putting the lameness aside, I feel Cool As Ice had something serious to say with a message in the lines of "No matter how ridiculous this person looks, he is a person." Interestingly, the father fell into that trap and saw himself in error before admitting his poor judgment. Cool As Ice is not exactly a picture to be taken seriously, and, I confess, it's whole a lot better than 75% of the crap I've seen. As humorous as the lettered black jacket looks, Cool As Ice feels like an amusement park, having its ups and downs. The supporting cast is rather weak, but Vanilla Ice and Kristin Minter, and possibly Michael Gross (surprisingly he agreed to this role), carry the film on their shoulders adeptly well. I like the ending very much as it sort of pays a homage to Saturday Night Fever. Another homage paid from Cool As Ice is Easy Rider with the artistically scenery landscape while on a motorcycle ride with the music playing. When I can think of a worse film, I could have seen Cool As Ice as Citizen Kane. Okay...to think back what went on in Cool As Ice. Highlights are Vanilla Ice riding in his yellowy motorcycle and (ramp-less) jumping over the fence to disrupt Minter's horse-riding, the way how Vanilla Ice knocks on the door, the high school dance scene, "drop that zero and get with the hero" line, overlarge Stallone sunglasses, etc. One thing I can safely say is Cool As Ice managed to capture the genteel feel and look of the 30-40's romantic movies extraordinarily well. Am I joking? No. What I look for in a movie is entertainment, and Cool As Ice met my expectations. David Kellogg managed to direct a stylish picture. It's too bad Vanilla Ice never made another lead performance. Looking back at history, Vanilla Ice himself had an interesting persona that set off a craze in the early 90's and still, as of today, remains one of the most memorable figures of that decade. Moreover, he may have been responsible for the next Vanilla Ice, that is, Eminem. Anytime I see or think of the name Vanilla Ice, the only two things that come to my mind are his hair plus the slice-lined eyebrow and, of course, "Ice Ice Baby." It is quite amazing that he was successful for only one year, maybe less, and yet his popularity is enormous to this day. Meanwhile, his fall-out was pretty dramatic, and Vanilla Ice had been the center of deep ridicule. Nevertheless, Cool As Ice is a nice outlet for harmless fun. Actually, I am very impressed with the putting-down of Vanilla Ice's mannerisms when he attempts to display his feelings. This is a very rare thing because many movies do not attempt to play this one. I often am a good observant of people in behavior, and this type of behavior, displayed by Vanilla Ice, is a perfect example of how some introvert people act.  11/11: Not too bad of a film really. I've seen worse. I would have liked to see Vanilla Ice to do a couple more of films.

2011 Blu-ray vs 2002 DVD -- color quality The transfer used for the 2011 blu-ray 30th Anniversary Edition release, while very detailed, clear, and clean, does not compare favorably to the 2002 DVD in terms of color. Played on the same player/hdtv combination, the blu-ray is markedly light, gray-greenish in tone, drained of contrast, all to the point of losing depth of field and surface. This is especially noticeable in faces and architecture. Many of the strong browns, so striking in scenes in Castle Howard and in Oxford on the DVD are weak and thin on the blu-ray. I'd be interested to hear what others have to say who have seen the earlier release too. The series itself is five stars.

FAVORITE HORROR MOVIE ORIGINALLY I WOULD HAVE GIVEN IT FIVE STARS BUT I THOUGHT FOUR WOULD BE  RIGHT.  I REALLY LIKE THIS MOVIE AND THE SPECIAL AFFECTS MAKEUP USED IN THIS FILM, WHEN I FIRST BOUGHT THIS DVD I REMEMBERED I CANT WAIT TO WATCH ANY COMMENTARY BY THE CAST, BUT INSTEAD YOU DONT GET NO COMMENTARY BY ANY OF THE ACTORS OR BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE MOVIE WHICH WAS BAD, AND IN THE MOVIE WHICH WAS PRETTY OBVIOUS WHEN YOU SEE THE BOYS BURYING GUS TO BRING HIM BACK IF YOU LOOK PRETTY CLOSE YULE SEE HIM FLINCH WITH HIS EYES AS THE DIRT GETS THROWN UP BY HIS FACE LOL. THIS MOVIE REALLY MADE NO SINCE TO BRING CLYDE BACK TO KILL THE LEAD BOY WHY NOT BRING DREW AND AMANDA BACK AS THE LIVING DEAD WITH GUS SINCE DREW STARTED THE WHOLE THING. SOME OF THE STORY LINE DIESNT MAKE MUCH SINCE BUT ITS STILL A PRETTY GOOD MOVIE. ENJOY :-)

Good Idea Jamie Kennedy and comic friends explain the psychology of hecklers and their strategies to shut them down.  It drifts into how print media and especially internet movie reviewers have become more bitter (including on-camera confrontations with some.) The sad truth is Jamie is a nice guy but honestly lacks the talent to be a great actor or a comedian.  Perhaps he should work behind the camera?

Great Feel Good Flick America has a new independence day. This is the story that is full of action, some romance, a little comedy and more action.  By the time it concludes you're worn out and proud to be a human.  Have fun and watch this fantasy?.

Perfectly Fine Family Fare: An Introduction To Complex Topics Suitable For Younger Viewers As the first release of the faith based film label Slingshot Pictures, "Alleged" certainly tackles one of the largest subjects imaginable. In 1925, the Scopes "Monkey Trial" (famously depicted in Inherit the Wind) unfolded in a small Tennessee town and debated whether evolution should be allowed to be taught in public schools. A massive confrontation that pitted science against theology and two of the most famed orators/lawyers of the period (Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan) against one another, the case was branded as "The Trial of the Century." I, for one, think it's an inspired idea to revisit the Scopes Trial from a modern vantage point as the play "Inherit the Wind" was written in 1955 and didn't really evoke all of the complexities inherent in the situation. But while "Alleged" does offer some insight into the background of this notorious event, it really doesn't attempt to be a definitive and comprehensive study of it either. The movie really centers on an ambitious local reporter who faces difficult decisions about his values and principles when pressed by an unscrupulous editor.  Likable Nathan West plays our intrepid young reporter, and Ashley Johnson is his equally appealing gal pal. As the Scopes trial is being engineered by local dignitaries to bring tourism and prosperity to the dying town, West also sees it as an opportunity to achieve big city success and notoriety. But at what cost? When Brian Dennehy (as Darrow) and Fred Dalton Thompson (as Jennings Bryan) square off, Colm Meaney (as Baltimore Sun editor H.L. Mencken) pushes him to dish the dirt for maximum provocation. But being enticed to the dark side has its price, and right wills out every time. The film lacks a bit of subtlety as Meaney is practically evil incarnate and the lead actors are too sweet and modernly sensible to be awarded anything but a happy ending. The film throws in a haphazard sideplot about eugenics and forced sterilization that happens to be dramatically and conveniently timed for maximum impact. It is just one of many important topics that take a backseat to the central gentle love story.  "Alleged" is certainly at its most effective when the trial is front and center. Dennehy and Dalton Thompson are a pleasure and their interactions with one another bring a livelihood to the proceedings. This being a family film, however, it paints a rather pretty picture of our past. Although racism is mentioned, no one in this little town seems the least bit prejudiced. Johnson's sister, in fact, is half black and there is relatively no reaction to that whatsoever (except by the evil character). Even though a certain character is slated for sterilization (as was common practice), a last minute injunction saves the day. Whew! Difficult topic over, never to be mentioned again. Few things can be more incendiary or heated than evolutionary debate, but most of the actual townsfolk don't seem to have an opinion one way or another. It's like they're gathering for an ice cream social.  Again, "Alleged" hints at a lot of topics without digging too deep. As an introduction, it's fine--but at 90 minutes (and most of that devoted to young lovers), important issues are given short shrift. The Special Features of the DVD include a Discussion Guide to be utilized in possible church or school settings. So that kind of gears you toward the targeted audience for the film and its intentions. It's all gently likable without being too challenging. I enjoyed the movie, but I still think there is a great film yet to be made that really digs into the Scopes trial in a relevant way. For my taste, the film rates about 3 1/2 stars for pleasantness. A good introduction, but strictly family fare--I'll round up for good intentions. KGHarris, 11/11.

Short read, good read I bought this on my kindle to read at the beach, it's a very short read but very interesting, I def. recommend it!

Finally "You've Got Mail" on Blu-Ray Although the film to digital transfer is very good, the grain visible in the Blu-ray was a little surprising.  I own older films that look cleaner.  All in all I am satisfied with my purchase.  I'd take this movie in any form.

"Great Sci-Fi Sequel!" Jeff Bridges and Garrett Hedlund star in this 2010 sci-fi sequel to the 1982 film. A young man is beamed to a digital world and searches for his long-lost father. It's nice to see Jeff reprise his role as Kevin Flynn, but they waited too long. This dvd has nice picture and sound plus a couple neat featurettes. Get this great sci-fi sequel.

A Classic> I would consider that after all this years, Thelma and Louise has become a classic, it's amazing how Ridley Scott being British captures the feeling of this two American women, the cast is good Brad Pitt's first roll I believe, and Michael Madsen is great, but the greatest performance is delivered by Geena Davies, which makes you think whatever happened to this great actress. Thelma and Louise is a road movie, with many surprises that arise along the road. I definitely recommend this movie!!!

Eclipse I bought the 2-Disc because I love this series almost as much as Harry Potter lol. One thing I didnt like about this though, it has to versions of the movie and the outtakes and extras..but it all in french..That was really weird for me. But other then that everything was fine

3 1/2 stars for the Evil dead remake! Evil Dead 2(released March/87)stars Bruce Campbell,back as Ash in this not so much a sequel film,as a remake(on a much better budget) of the first Evil Dead. This film finds our hero Ash back driving down a country road with his ballerina girlfriend Linda.They come upon the self same deserted cottage as in the first film and decide to stay overnight.In the cabin Ash again discovers a tape recorder(same brand too as in the first)and the Necronomicon.This is how we know this is not a sequel because 1)What would he be doing voluntarily back at the cabin again after what happened the first time around and 2)Ash would KNOW what the tape recorder contains and not play it.But Ash does indeed play it,unleashing the terrible force from the Book of the Dead.His girlfriend is possessed and Ash ends up taking her head off in an adjoining shack with a chainsaw.He buries her out front but becomes possessed by the evil himself,which throws him through the woods.This lasts only until daybreak when he jumps in the car and tears away from the cabin.However,like the first film,the bridge is out and he is going nowhere fast. Thrown into this scenario is the professor(on the tape's)daughter and research partner.They are heading to the cabin but find the bridge out on the other side.A tow truck driver and his girlfriend show up and they accompany them to the cabin.Meanwhile,back at the ranch,Ash has his hands full as the evil has taken over much of the inanimate objects in the cabin and there is a couple of minute sequence where Ash laughs madly along with all the objects.Also,because the head of his girlfriend bit him on the hand,the evil took over that hand and he became forced to sever it,again with the handy-dandy chainsaw.When the outside group finally shows up Ash blasts a hole through the door,thinking it's the spirits.The group ends up subduing him and throwing him in the cellar,thinking he killed the professor and his wife. While in the cellar Ash overhears the group talking about the professors wife and how she became possessed and was also thrown into the cellar.Of course in no time the wife indeed shows up,trying to turn Ash into a deadite.Ash makes it out just in time and finally explains the situation.However one by one the group is taken by the evil.First it's the research assistant,then it's the tow truck drivers girlfriend and next is the tow truck driver himself.To dispel the evil the professors daughter reads from the Necronimcon and a giant swirling portal opens up.Ash's car and then Ash himself get sucked into it.Next thing he knows he is plunked down into Medieval times,along with his car.He happens to arrive as a large group of soldiers are trying to kill a flying deadite.Ash takes out(what was to come to be known as)his boomstick,which sends the deadite back to where it came from.The soldiers believe he is the chosen one come back to save them and the film fades out as he screams in despair. Of course the ending will lead into the third and final installment Army of Darkness.Bruce Campbell is in fine form as Ash and he virtually carries the whole movie.The co stars are mere window dressing,but watch for a cameo by director Sam's little brother Ted as the professors dead wife.This was definitely Evil Dead on a better budget as the film stock is better(35mm this time and widescreen),the S/Fx are better and Jo LoDuca is on hand to score the music;well known for his superb works in Hercules and Xena. Technically speaking both the full frame and original widescreen version are presented here.Both picture and sound(in THX)have been remastered and the picture never looked better.Extras include audio commentary,still galleries,bios,the trailer and a featurette on the films making.The DVD is a one sided disc. All in all a recommended film.It's Evil Dead on a better budget and will please all fans of the series.It's not a GREAT film per se',but it is satisfying none the less.It has a few scare the pants off you moments,along with some funny turns by the Campbell-meister.

A Good comedy movie Govinda is, like always, dependable. Carrying off the role with elan, he proves yet again that there's so much talent that needs to be tapped. However, he needs to experiment with new roles since he has been seen enacting the same stuff over the years. Raveena Tandon performs very well. Johny Lever is fantastic. Shakti Kapoor is just about okay. Kader Khan is competent once again. On the whole, AKHIYON SE GOLI MAARE is an average fare all the way. However, its reasonable price may prove beneficial for its distributors.

Great Arnold Set This is a great Arnold set for the fans!  Eraser is a really fun flick.  Collateral Damage was good, not his best but still very enjoyable.  My set came with 2 blu-ray  discs.  1 for each flick, not a flip disc.  I gave it 4 stars for lack of features but they are really good action flicks.  Eraser had some really cool high tech ideas for its day, many of which ended up in the Perfect Dark games.  Highly recommended for anyone who enjoys classic action flicks or is a fan of Ahnawld.

Living part of history I grew up in Dingess West Virginia which is in Mingo County where this story happened. My grandfater was one of the minors who was in the strike. We forget that not that long ago the mines was a death trap, but the only work available for the people of Kentucky, and West Virginia. Most men had black lung and died before 50 from working in the mines. My grandfather took part in this strike. My family home which is in Dingess is about a Half mile from the big tunnel, which use to be a coal railroad. Above the tunnel is where alot of the miners marched and was met with bullets from the men the coal mines had hired to basicly beat the miners into submission. Today you can still walk the path and find shell casings of the firefight. I do agree that the sound is off in some places of the movie, but this movie is so much apart of history. This is a true story for so many of us who came from the back hills of coal mining counties. I think some times that people forget that it was a struggle to get mining to the standards it is now. I remember my granddaddy once saying that hell was only a quarter mile below ground. Matewan West Virginia is a real place, and these events really happened. We tend to forget I feel sometimes about the struggles that happened to get this country to where it is now. Miners died and went through hell to help make mining safer for today energy needs. There is still a long way to go in safety as you can tell by the recent events in mining accidents. Even with the quality of the movie  being off, and the sound muffled in places, this movie is awesome in showing the events that happened to history that put a small backwoods town of Matewan on the map. It also shows the real life of the miners who risk their lifes even today to provide us with the energy to enjoy your lifes with.

Good, but with reservations I liked this movie for its story and pace.  And I like Angelina Jolie.  But all the contact action was over-edited, probably because the principle combatants and she were so physically mismatched that tight violence had to be inferred rather than simulated.  It is implausible for her to fight so ferociously, scramble so vigorously, leap so high, fly so far, land so hard, bleed so little, and still walk away.  Only Bruce Willis could do all those things and still be in one piece.  I still give it four stars for good entertainment value compared to the loathesome crap on network TV. But I agree with other reviewers that Angelina's too frail for this kind of action.

a creepy monster in a museum movie, with a major contribution from Stan Winston... The Relic (1997) is a big budget creature feature that gets many of the basics right.  Involved with the unraveling of a dark horrific mystery, director/cinematographer Peter Hyam's film grabs and holds your interest.  Leaving behind a trail of blood and severed heads, the dreadful threat is kept nicely hidden in the dark, until near the very end.  When the creature is finally revealed, its exact nature and form are a surprise, rendered with some excellence by Stan Winston's team of special effects wizards.  The majority of the film is set in Chicago, mostly at the Museum of Natural History.  John Whitney an anthropologist with the museum, is exploring in Brazil, and sneaks aboard a ship bound for America, to try and find some crates with artifacts that he intended to send back to the museum.  The crates are not aboard, and are sent to the museum by another route.  Weeks later, Whitney's boat is found floating in Lake Michigan, with no survivors on board.  Police detectives Vincent D'Agosta (Tom Sizemore), and his partner Sergeant Holllingsworth (Clayton Rohner) are assigned to investigate the bizarre murder of the entire ship's crew.  The decapitation of a guard at the museum, brings the police to the scene, and the facility is closed down, just before an important exhibit is about to open.  D'Agosta questions the staff, which includes Dr. Margo Green (Penelope Ann Miller), Dr. Ann Cuthbert (Linda Hunt), Dr. Albert Frock (James Whitmore), and Dr. Greg Lee (Chi Muoi Lo), but no one knows anything.  In the crates Whitney sent back are a stone statue of the devil god "Kothoga", and some leaves with a strange substance attached.  Dr. Green begins an investigation of the unknown substance, which eventually provides some leads to what is happening.  Under pressure from the Mayor, the museum reopens so the grand opening of the new exhibit hall can take place.  It is on this night that the mysterious beast strikes again, creating a disaster of epic proportions, as the facility loses electrical power, and goes into lockdown, trapping people inside, and then soaking them with water from the fire sprinkler system.  Emergency electrical power is limited, leaving the occupants mostly in the dark, as fire rescue and the police attempt to get into the building.  Driven by the quest to find the monster, the film moves at a brisk pace.  With an "all business" approach, it doesn't get involved in the character's personal lives, and romance is not a factor.  Like some major studio productions, the story takes a few outrageous and unbelievable turns, designed to crank up the level of excitement.  While these elements do add to the drama, they also tend to make the movie ridiculous, as The Relic escalates into a bloodfest.  The film's strong points include a unique creature, a suspenseful and creepy atmosphere, and a story based on both science and an intriguing legend.  The vicious Kothoga is surprisingly fast moving, and truly scary.  The suspense is particularly dense, as D'Agosta and his team probe a series of underground tunnels below the museum in the darkness, with search dogs.  The Kothoga has an uncanny ability to appear wherever there are people, so death is almost a constant.  There is no help from the outside, so at the end it mostly comes down to Dr. Green battling the creature, in an overdramatic but well staged final act.  It's ridiculously dumb adventure, but one what is still fun.  On the Bluray edition, Peter Hyams (Outland, 2010, Timecop) provides a rather dry but informative commentary track.  Serving as both director and cinematographer for the film, Hyams offers more of his thoughts on moviemaking a separate interview.

I WANT TO BE ALONE... WITH YOU HERE This is an interesting hit or miss romantic comedy aka "chick flick." Tom (Jason Segel) is a chef in San Francisco who is engaged to Violet (Emily Blunt) a Brit. They meet at a costume New Year Eves party and don't worry if you miss it, they replay it (definite chick flick giveaway).  In a role reversal, he gives up his career so she can do her doctorate studies at the University of Michigan for a couple of years. They put off getting married while Michigan turns Tom into Grizzly Adams. Meanwhile Susan (Alison Brie) who is Violet's sister gets married to the somewhat crude Alex (Chris Pratt) a friend and co-worker of Tom.  The humor moves from clever to awkward to bad. There is a doughnut metaphor that starts in the middle of the film, that has moments of cleverness. The extreme overreaction of the main characters due to minor difficulties is perhaps the downfall of the film. While the film needed to create conflict, it did so in an inane manner that was neither funny nor realistic. Emily Blunt gives us a good performance.  Parental Guide: F-bomb, sex, male rear nudity (Jason Segel...another chick flick giveaway) 3 1/2 stars on the girl's film scale. Pale in comparison to "Bridesmaids."

Great Boxed Set but don't buy the "Frequently Bought Together" items! I purchased the boxed set along with "Battlestar Galactica - Razor (Unrated Extended Edition)" and "Battlestar Galactica: The Plan" as listed in the "Frequently Bought Together" section.  "Battlestar Galactica - Razor (Unrated Extended Edition)" is included in the boxed set so now I will have to return the standalone DVD and pay postage "because the return is not the result of Amazon's error".  This item should not have been included in the "Frequently Bought Together" items.

typical movie/show not being as good as the book I read Pillars of the Earth and immediately was a huge fan. The book was outstanding. When I discovered that there was a show on Starz, I immediately found the DVDs for sale. The show was well done. The show was very well cast and actors did an outstanding job in their roles. Because the book is so long the show had to leave out/modify quite a bit of the story. Overall I was enjoyed the show but I would strongly suggest reading the book.

Wasn't that bad. This movie wasn't that bad. The story was good. It stayed true to the first movie and I really enjoyed that one. Would of gave this one 5 stars if the original cast would of returned.

Enjoyed this Christmas Tyler Perry seems to come up with a Madea Christmas every year. What a pleasure it was to have the drama on Video this year.

Viva Cuba is a wonderful film We showed this film for our Spanish club movie night at our college and it got rave reviews from young adults from age 18 all the way up to the non-traditional older students. It is a touching film about listening to your children and the language is reasonably clean in the show too. Lots of humour and drama. Money well spent! You will not regret getting this film for your own collection or if you teach high school or junior college.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit The DVD's were in great condition. The DVD box was a little beaten up around the edges and there was a little folder in the front of the DVD case that was empty so it looks like something that came with the DVD was missing, but overall the product was great. It's going to make a wonderful nostalgic gift :)

i wasn't blown away,but i did enjoy it, i wasn't blown away by this film,but i did enjoy it.for me,it was well acted,creepy and bizarre. i guess you could classify it a horror/thriller.it might make you cringe in some spots.if you're squeamish,this might not be the best movie for you.but this is also a movie that really makes you think.you never really knew what's real and what's fantasy.Natalie Portman really immerse herself in the role and is very convincing.and the film is never boring.there is always something going on.if you like your movies straight forward with everything laid out neatly,this probably isn't the movie for you.otherwise,i'd say give it shot.for me, The Black Swan is a 4/5

Cute movie! I liked this movie! It was entertaining with an interesting storyline. My 3 year old loves this movie because it has animals in it! He sits though the whole movie!

Haunted house film with a murderous creature. I like this film. I like the cool and dead looking creature, Dr. Freudstein. I also enjoy the dark synth and atmospheric music of Walter Rizzati. Some people may think or thought it was the music of frequent Fulci collaborator,Fabio Frizzi,but it is not.Their music actually sound quite similar in this film, so some may mistake it for Frizzi music.  Picture quality: 4/5  The picture quality was greatly improved from my Anchor Bay DVD. There is problems with DNR and noise like Zombi 2, but not as much problems like Zombi 2. I think Zombi 2 has poorer and more use of DNR than The House by the Cemetery.  The film grain is actually mostly noise mixed with grain. The DNR is noticable, but i have seen worse use of it as i said. The things that are improved compared to the DVD is: black levels, blood & gore effects, colours, details and sharpness.  Audio quality: 3.5/5  The English dub in the DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Dolby Surround remix, is actually a bit disappointing to me. I thought the mix would sound a bit clearer music wise and with more bass. Yes, there is some Stereo effects and such. At least it sounds improved compared to the lossy Dolby Surround 2.0 mix on the DVD.  Film: 4/5 Overall: 4/5

SALT alternate endings I really liked the alternate ending that this DVD offered, EXCEPT it took me forever to figure out how to get to it.  I have always liked the movie - lots of action and Angelina J. is fantastic.  But, I like the alternate ending better than the original.

An entertaining animated Western for the whole family Rango (animation, comedy, adventure) Directed by Gore Verbinski Starring the voices of Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Bill Nighy and Ned Beatty  Paramount Pictures | 2011 | 112 min | Rated PG | Released Jul 15, 2011  Video: Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video resolution: 1080p Aspect ratio: 2.40:1  Audio: English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 French: Dolby Digital 5.1 Portuguese: Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1  Subtitles: English, English SDH, French, Portuguese, Spanish  Discs: 50GB Blu-ray Disc DVD copy (with digital copy)  The Film 4/5  The Blu-ray includes the 107-minute theatrical version and a 112-minute extended version.  Rango (Depp) is an aquatic chameleon who is trying to discover his purpose in life. He lives alone in a tank until the car it is being transported in hits a bump and gives him his freedom in the desert. His journey begins when he discovers an armadillo and is told to visit the nearby town of Dirt if he wants to find water. He's given a ride by Beans (Fisher), who owns land in the valley and drops him off in town.  Rango begins the movie as a liar who is unsure of his capabilities, until dumb luck elevates him in the eyes of the locals and he starts to believe in himself. He represents hope as the townspeople struggle to find the water they need to survive.  The first part of the story is not particularly encouraging. It moves at a frantic pace and initially relies on characters being hurt, and belch or fart jokes for comic relief. But things eventually settle down and the story starts to work. It references many movies from the Western genre, including True Grit and High Noon. Some scenes pay tribute to other movies such as Star Wars.  The story is simple, but the setting and design of the characters is extremely detailed. There's also a wealth of voice talent in the supporting cast, including Ray Winstone, Harry Dean Stanton, Abigail Breslin and Timothy Olyphant, as well as the main cast.  The dialogue isn't typical and a lot of it won't be easily understood by children. The characters mention chromosome pools, paradigm shifts and aquifers. Rango, in particular, is very articulate. It's quite refreshing to see this kind of thing in an animated movie. Maybe some of the kids will ask their parents to explain terms they don't understand. Even though some of the dialogue is complex, the story is easy to follow.  The movie is a mix of fast-paced action, dumb jokes, clever jokes, battle scenes and quiet moments in which Rango contemplates his existence. There are problems to be solved, misunderstandings and traditional themes of good versus evil. One of my favorite elements is the use of a mariachi band, composed of four owls, documenting Rango's tale through the use of various songs.  I won't reveal any more of the plot, but I found Rango to be an enjoyable ride. The first 30 minutes had me worried because of the pacing and the dumb jokes, but things improve significantly in the last hour. I often have problems adjusting to the style of North American animation after seeing one of Hayao Miyazaki's films, and I viewed Spirited Away a few days ago. Once I accepted that Rango was a totally different style; I started to enjoy it more.  It's not perfect, but it's well worth your time.  Video Quality 5/5 If you've ever seen a Pixar movie on Blu-ray, you'll have an idea what to expect from Rango. I couldn't detect a single fault. Colors are striking and detail is exceptional. All of the backgrounds seem properly finished and add depth to the image. When you see Rango's face at the start of the movie, it looks like he's in the room with you. Clothing, skin, scenery and water are all displayed perfectly. This is a presentation that shows off the Blu-ray format wonderfully. Nobody will be disappointed with the look of the movie.  Audio Quality 5/5 The DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track doesn't disappoint either. There's a lot going on throughout the movie and the lossless audio handles everything well. Some of the battle scenes are particularly loud, while other scenes rely on music for maximum effect. The rear speakers are used frequently and I didn't detect any faults in the mix. The image will dazzle you, but you'll be happy with the sound too.  Special Features 4/5  The additional features are all presented in full HD.  Audio Commentary (Extended version only) with Director, Gore Verbinski; Head of Story James Ward Byrkit; Production Designer Mark "Crash" McCreery; Animation Director Hal Hickel; and Visual Effects Supervisor Tim Alexander.  Breaking the Rules: Making Animation History (48:52) - A two-part feature consisting of The Stage is Set and Now we Ride. Learn about how the movie was made and see the evolution of the characters.  Deleted Scenes (8:27) - A brief look at 10 additional scenes which will seem very familiar if you watched the extended version of the movie.  Real Creatures of Dirt (22:15) - Showing real desert creatures such as snakes, scorpions, tarantulas and armadillos.  Storyboard Reel Picture-in-Picture (theatrical version only)  A Field Trip to Dirt - An interactive digital model which allows you to ride through the town and look around.  Theatrical Trailer (2:27)  Credits  Previews  DVD Copy (digital copy on disc)  Rango is a fun way to spend almost two hours. Although some of the dialogue is complex, the movie is suitable for the whole family and has something for everyone. The blend of action and humor works well overall and the animals make interesting and memorable characters. The Blu-ray is just about perfect and Rango immediately ranks among the best presentations the format has to offer.  Overall score 4.5/5

Not as good as the original, but still a great, fun family movie If you like classic family comedies, the original will do much better than the sequel, but this movie still has a certain charm to it that is bound to catch hold of a great number of peoples' hearts.  It is good for quite a few laughs and lessons for everyone, following the typical family formula.  This one isn't the classic that the original was, but it is still worth a look, especially at the prices you can find it at these days.

"Vacancy" isn't that bad "Vacancy" reminds me of "The Strangers", except it's less disturbing and it's not based on a true story, but it still can be an intense and creepy film. It starts pretty slow, with opening credits that last for a couple minutes (but in a cool style), and a long opening car scene, with additional fighting, but once the banging on the door starts, the terror is basically non-stop. I have to say, the scene with the snuff films is the most disturbing scene in the movie. There are a lot of different intense scenes in this movie that make it worthwhile, like the scene where they're crawling in that tunnel and the ending that isn't 100% happy, but it's good enough. "Vacancy" is a pretty good and intense film that's good enough for a couple more views.

I'm a Count not a Saint! Great version of a Classic book & movie! If you like",Get Back," movies this is a must see.  The Counts character starts of as a vindictive person ,when released from his prison,but learns to forgive to save the thing he loves the most.

Spooky Buddies If you enjoy dog movies and just want to be entertained then you will enjoy this movie. The movie is light hearted and is a nice escape from reality.  This is a movie I could enjoy every Halloween season.

Heaven Is In That Breathtaking Danger Zone If you happen to check out most or all of the special features on this deluxe "special collector's edition" of TOP GUN, odds are strong that you will never EVER want to hear Kenny Loggins' "Danger Zone" again in your lifetime.  About the only features included that that tune isn't featured in the background are the videos for the other featured tunes (Berlin's "Take My Breath Away" and Lover Boy's "Heaven Is In Your Eyes").  I've always kinda of liked Kenny L., but the cumulative effect of hearing this  is mind numbing, something that in the eyes of many critics, can be said about the film itself.  But TOP GUN really is one of those critic-proof movies, for a lot of reasons.  It's hard to imagine a movie more emblematic of the 1980s America.  Politics are almost never mentiioned, of course.  Young viewers today will learn little about 1980s history or politics--and Ronald Reagan's name is never even mentioned.  But anti-Soviet sentiment bookends the movie, and there will be those viewers now who will find the symbolic defeat of the Russians at the film's end to be rather prophetic in its way.  I'll say this much, the filmmakers were clever enough to throw in a skirmish that led to fatalities but was subsequently hushed up by both sides.  That would be the only way such an exchange could have conceivably played out in the mid-'80s, at least the only way that would have not have brought us into Stranglove territory.  And that may be the only nod to the political and social realities of the era that you'll find in the entire movie.  Or maybe not.  If there's one thing struck me from the get go was the strutting and preening of nearly ALL the young pilots (their sidekicks and back-ups, the so-called RIOs, on the other hand, are allowed to be a little goofy and almost human).  Tom Cruise's character is nicknamed "Maverick," so it's no surprise that he's a self-styled wild card.  His main competition and dramatic foil (Val Kilmer) has an equally apt moniker "Ice Man" whose piloting is less intuitive than "Mav's" but more controlled and disciplined.  Who wins the coveted number one spot at the Flight Academy?  Well, by this point in cinematic history, I guess I could be allowed a "spoiler" here, but actaully the important point is no matter how you slice it and no matter who gets the trophy, the showdown with the Soviets actually guarantees that actually EVERYBODY wins--and whether you're an "Ice Man" OR a "Maverick," you can achieve true heroism in actual conflict.  Therein lies the formula.  And no, I don't think anyone involved with this project would deny that TOP GUN is formulaic.  In the accompanying documentary, there are some revelatory comments.  Co-producer Jerry Bruckheimer (I'm pretty sure it was) finds that at its core, TG is as much a "sports film" as a "military one."  That's one of the reasons, we're told, the for the locker room scenes (the other, of course, being the opportunity for some beefcake shots).  The viewer is meant to make the connection between athletic prowess and military readiness and to see these pilots as not just masters of machinery but as dyed-in-wool sports heroes.  Director Tony Scott, on the other hand, is of the opinion that his flick is a kind of "rock'n'roll movie," and there's certainly an argument for that assertion that goes beyond the soundtrack.  Well, if you consider that, by the 1980s, much of what constituted actual rock music (and embodied the "rock and roll spirit" for many) was actually pretty tame and corporate, a sort of controlled rebeliousness, as it were, then there's considerable truth to that sentiment.  Tom Cruise's Maverick is has something of a "rock'n'roll heart" and is certainly a loose cannon, but in the heat of a crisis moment, it turns out that this cannon's aim is nonetheless true.  And therein lie elements of classic American myth, in which the rugged individualist winds up serving the common good after all.  What could be more all-American than that?  And he gets the girl too (although in keeping with the spirit of the times,  she's actually a liberated, accmoplished military advisor herself, thank you very much).  Now pass the popcorn.

Funny Movie This movie was meant to be funny in a ridicules way.  You see that in the first scene.  I thought it was great.  I think people that didn't like it just think women are supposed to be sexy all the time and can't make fun of their bodies or be human.  This is VERY tame in comparison to what we apparently like to see coming out of unattractive male actors' mouths (if I may just add).  I fell asleep in the movies watching the Hangover, because it was so incredibly dumb, complete with overacting and recycled humor, but this is what we apparently want to see.  I think Jenny McCarthy is hilarious and this movie shows she's moved on from being a Playboy pin up and wants to show other pretty girls they can not only be beautiful but silly at the same time.  Good Job for making a cool movie that shows girls they don't have to live in this unrealistic box men try to stuff them in.  I love her craziness.

Murder on the Siberian Express Severin films has released Director Eugenio Martin's 'HORROR EXPRESS'-1972 into the Blu-Ray age.  Since the original negative had a murky, grainy look to it when I saw it theatrically, this release resembles an improvement over the Image Entertainment release from over a decade ago but not much of a difference.  The 1.85 transfer looks about the same in the DVD disc included with the Blu-Ray and it seems that these companies believe that if you release any film in that format, it will blow you away.  Not true, proof of that is the Blu-ray release of Director Roger Corman's 'THE TERROR'-1964 ,some of these films negatives cannot improve because they were inferior to begin with. The transfer, however, allows you to enjoy the bantering of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee as they are serious one minute spouting scientific jargon and the next they are flirting with hot babes Helga Line and Silvia Tortosa. You will recognize many Spaghetti Western faces such as Jorge Rigaud and why not, Director Martin gave us many underrated Euro-Oaters.  Enter Telly Savalas into the mix and you have one of the most entertaining hoots in Horror history all taking place on a train which is one of my favorite things. The memorable music score by John Cacavas with its catchy whistle refrain and Photography by Euro cult artiste Alejandro Ulla makes the film gell to the max making the absurd plot easier to swallow.  Recommended to all Horror fans, the Blu-ray format is not necessary to appreciate this cult classic.

An unusual and ambiguous situation The first reviewer thought Jonas was being "bullied", which I think is incorrect, but this movie falls far outside the grammar of popular American film.  The kid is not a bright bulb and makes some very unwise choices -- flunking out of school because he wants to be a professional tennis player.  He's not being cared for properly by his parents.  Probably the most honest advice he gets is a teacher who tells him to enter trade school, but he finds that unacceptable.  It is perhaps one view older people have of the millenial generation, the unrealistic goals, a lack of patience for the hard work it takes to attain success, the bad upbringing by selfish Gen-X parents.  I think that criticism may be the real message.  Three friends take this kid in and help him through this tough situation -- studying for a national exam that will let him avoid flunking out.  But they also develop a sexual interest in the young man, and that's where the film gets strange.  Not strange exactly, but unusual to be portrayed in a film like this.  There's an unspoken bargin, that he is being mentored in exchange for sex.  It's almost like the mentoring relationships in classical antiquity, between older and younger men, but I don't think the film is trying to reference that.  This situation is presented as an unanswered moral question.  The sexual scenes are understated, it's not meant to be an erotic film.  The people care about him, help him, but they are also opportunistic.  Like a lot of euro-art films, the movie is poorly paced, very dull at times.  But it's a curiosity.  I'm giving it 4 stars because it presents such an unusual ambiguous situation that is not entirely ridiculous.

Awfulness of Epic, and Hilarious, Proportions Jersey City Shark Attack is one of those Syfy original movies that was made for a handful of spare change, with CGI special effects that represent the state of the art for the Commodore 64 era. It's also a very, very funny, movie and not just in an ironic way. There is a witty screenplay here, and fun performances from a bunch of unknown actors and b-grade celebrities who are very good sports (Joey Fantone, you are awesome!). It takes a talented cast to play characters this dumb and make it believable. An enjoyable film for a Friday night with some beer and a bunch of friends.

Great official DVD release of a classic kaiju film This is the first release of this film in the US on any format actually endorsed/licensed by the company that created it, Toho Co. Ltd. I highly recommend all fans buy it. The video quality is very good, definitely much better than any other version that's been released in the USA before. Audio is great as well, featuring Japanese 2.0 and 5.1 tracks, and the original English dub in 2.0. There are no extras, but don't let that detract from this DVD, it's still very much worth it for the cheap price. (Minus one star for the no-extras issue.)

Good classically dated adult entertainment I liked it. Didn't love it but it was what I expected therefore - I like it. Classic, bad acting and lots of good ol fashioned nudity and fornicating, yo. FYI: Not much in the "money shot" department, but still ok.

dad likes this Dad is into renewable and green resources.  I think if he likes it then this is good enough. Dad likes solarpower.  Dad likes solar power.

This film really feels like summer While Super 8 is reminiscent of Spielberg's past films, and pays homage to the big 70s or 80s sci-fi hits, it still is a film that stands on its own.  The film's main characters are developed for the most part, and the coming of age theme fits in nicely with the story. The action and sci-fi elements are there, yes, but they don't take precedent over the characters and the spirit of the film.  As others have stated, Super 8 does have a Stand by Me/ Goonies kind of vibe to it, with a bit of teenage crush thrown in.  A group of kids in a rural Ohio town witness a horrific train wreck while they are out filming a scene for a film contest.  One of the boys, Joe, however, notices that a car had also been in on the disaster. The driver of the vehicle, who is badly hurt, has puzzling and ominous warning to the startled children. This message has more meaning as odd supernatural events begin to take place in the area. The military comes in, but there is the sense that all is not right in the small town. Joe's father, Police Chief, begins to look for answers to the odd happenings.  One of the things I liked leading up to this film's opening last year was that the trailers held back on revealing major spoilers, which was kind of refreshing in a day and age when we are given too much during previews. The producers take this a step further by showing the "creature" minimally, the "less is more" approach adding more suspense the plot.  If there is one weakness of Super 8, it is that the ending was a little weak. It got a bit over the top, and sort of felt a bit jumbled, like the film lost steam as it headed to the finish.  Still, Super 8 has that summer blockbuster feel to it that makes it a treat to watch. There are also some standout performances by Elle Fanning (Alice) and Joel Courtney (Joe).  Super 8 is definitely one to check out.

A good hour of entertainment My wife and I are retired, but enjoy watching animated movies.  This was a good one with lots of laughs.  Yes, I agree with some of the other reviews that there was more reference to death than really needed to be.  I think the plot could have been just as rich without killing cars on the screen. This is a whole different adventure than the original, and doesn't expand the characters as well as the first one.  It was, however fast moving and entertaining.

A pleasure to the eyes! The 3D version of Cars 2 is a delight to watch!  The colors, the 3D effects and the sharpness of the animation all come to life in this magnificent version.  Although the plot of the movie focuses more on the the tow truck and has a heavy 'clean-energy' bias, I believe that the quality of the visuals far outweighs the relative weakness of the plot.  Five bright stars for the 3D animation quality, but 3 stars for the plot.

Good movie I enjoyed this one - fastforwarded through parts but overall a good movie. Funny how I knew some of the parts - must have been from watching it as a kid a long time ago (or maybe not). Excellent acting. G.P. is amazing. O.S., and even T.S. were good too. And the babe is nice.

OK MOVIE well this is not the best movie but its not the worst movie Iv'e ever seen. there is not a whole lot I can say that the other 3+ star reviews have not already said will watch it again.

Funny Movie With Some Funny One Liners!!! I watched this movie without knowing what the plot was.  To be honest it only caught my attention because I am from Iowa and it takes place in Cedar Rapids which is about an hour away from where I live.  I have seen a lot of Ed Helms work and enjoy watching everything he is a part of.  I was surprised to see John C. Reilly in this film and feel as though he made this film a classic.  I felt as though the plot line was a little weak but Reilly's charter really made this film excellent.  I would recommend this film to anyone who enjoys comedy that is similar to Reilly's other work (Talladega Nights, Step Brothers).

cute spoof This movie is really a "Roadrunner" cartoon with living actors.  Kirk Douglas was hilarious.  This is obviously one of Arnold's first films.  The long list of stars in cameo roles is impressive.  Overall, a fun flick!

good london crime show from the 90's This series has the excellent john hannah doing lead work for most it except the last episode where Nathanial parker playes doctor gallager taking over for McCallum. But this is one of the few shows where the lead character is no longer in his own show at the end of it!  The stories are hot and steamy and are not for kids, this is a "quincy" type detective show in a way with forensic pathologists getting involved with crime cases. As the one star reviews have pointed out these characters do drink too much but that has happened in all work fields before so it doesn't hurt this show one bit so I disagree with their star levels. THe stories are good and the acting is good and it's prime 1990's gritty crime stories all the way. This is not for kids though. This one was on for 3 years 1995-98 it could have lasted longer if Hannah hadn't quit. Parker couldn't be expected to save the show without the lead character in it , but that episode is a good one still.

I hoped for serious eye candy and at least a halfway decent story, and got both 3.8 stars  The first half hour here had me squirming in mild pain at the general predictability of it all, but then suddenly once we enter TronLand everything ratchets up. The movie becomes not only amazingly gorgeous but actually quite interesting, mainly due to Jeff Bridges' surprisingly affecting performance. The script could have gone much deeper on the issues of cyber/human interface and where that's taking us, but I guess the Mouse doesn't really ever want to get that deep. A missed opportunity, but then you've got to sell your toys first and foremost!  Bridges shows real growth as an actor as compared to the original film; I recall seeing that the weekend it opened with all the other kids eager for New Electronic Graphics! And it delivered, as does its sequel. The light cycle sequences are especially fine and neo-noir glistening, and they make this movie work, along with Bridges. He's easily the highlight, but all the actors are at least decent, and there's less b-movie feel here than I expected.  The blu-ray transfer is also stunningly crisp, one of the best I've yet seen, of hundreds. These effects deserved perfect reproduction, and they got it. I can imagine that this flick would be mighty fun in 3D, and look forward to seeing that one day. But until then, props to Disney for an entertaining film that, while no great work of cinematic art, is certainly a feast for the eyes.  If you're looking for dramatic perfection, it ain't here. But if you want to settle back and let your eyeballs revel for a while, Tron Legacy will do the job nicely.

Sci-Fi Guy Now this is a movie that really show you how important f/x was back than. If for nothing else it at lease open the door to real opportunity for exposure in its true form for that time. It's a really well put together movie for its time, and you gotta give those actors their do for the roles that were given to them to play at that time for something that was made to be beyond they're time. So yes this was a pretty good movie to really enjoy watching with the entire family. Remember don't forget the popcorn!!!!!

Worth watching This isn't a glitzy Hollywood production.  What it is is an up-to-date, chronologically presented, BELIEVABLE analysis of Barack Hussain Obama and the history of the man.  Darn it--it even makes sense.

well worth watching This movie gets off to a boring beginning, you've got to admit.  But after about an hour in, you won't be able to pause it.  The directing is brilliant!  So many adroit decisions.  One thing that marred my enjoyment was that the movie assumes you're familiar with the structure of a public prosecutor's office in Argentina.  I found this confusing.  Wait.  Who's that guy?  How does he have power over them?  What's his job exactly?  Did the guys who release the accused from prison work for some sort of Secret Service?  I thought he was a judge?  Is he a lawyer or a detective?  Etc., etc.

Definitely not for analytical dissection...... Plain and simple type of review.... Mildly Entertaining Escape-ism...Not Bad...Not Great...Just Is.. Mr. Ledger and his amazing talents are unqeustionably sadly missed...

"Hearts of the West" Worth a Look This is a good example of Jeff Bridges' early work. He is still immature as an an actor in this amusing film but gives a solid performance. Andy Griffith does an outstanding supporting role as a cynical Hollywood writer/actor.

Not Bad for a B Movie What makes this just okay story worth watching are the cool werewolves designed by Stan Winston. Wish there was more to say, but just about sums it up.

Odd duck of a movie Based on a Wall Street Journal expose, this weird film never really explodes, but you do want to watch it because Matt Damon is great as an industrial geek who engineers a scheme to get control of his company by faking a price-fixing scandal and involving the FBI. The lies pile up, and we are never really too sure when reality sets in. It's odd material for a Hollywood movie because there's little action. It's mostly a character study of the lead man, whose quirks and foibles are emphasized by his frequent voice-overs, posed as his passing rapid non-sequitor thoughts. Interesting.

Another winner for Barbie Great new spin on classic tale that my little girls can relate to and enjoy.  One even wants to be a musketeer now!  She is 6 years old.  Girls can do it to, and perseverance are the themes which are both positive.  Girls have watched it many times, even wanted the book!

Quirky A delightful movie.  Whimsical.  Hopeful.  It takes its time, so if you like a lot action, skip it.  And you need to like offbeat films.  Killer soundtrack from Gogol Bordello.

some movies were is good visual shape some were not hollywood cantine I really wanted to see, but it looked fuzzy and in such poor shape,  I couldn't watch it at all

It's a great anime and all, but it's a hit or miss depending on who you are. I might as well get into the part where I mention something about the Japanese vs English dubbing before anything else since that seems to be a massive issue. Now, bear in mind that in the English dubs tend to differ greatly in the translation of animation. That said don't expect the dialogue of the English version to be the same as the Japanese version. What seems to be a huge difference between the two dubs is the amount of profanity, which is more prevalent in the English dub in earlier episodes. If you don't like the massive amount of profanity or if you happen to be some otaku fanboy who enjoys being a purist, you might easily be turned away from the English dub. Speaking of otakus I think it should be pointed out that most of the Engrish scenes, like the one in the zombie episode, got a change in the dialogue(which I don't mind, since Engrish sort of bothers me in VA most of the time). On a brighter note on the English dub I think it's safe to say that some of the scenes in English like the "ARE YOU ON A DIET?" scene actually are actually funny if not slightly better than the Japanese dub. Lastly the VA in the English dub is fine for the most part. It's not the best voice acting but it's bearable.  Animation wise, the style of this specific show parodies American animation. As you'd expect, you may find the art style for P&SwG extremely similar to the Powerpuff Girls and may find several references or similarities to certain cartoons or shows you probably watched as a child (Ren & Stimpy, Tex Avery Cartoons, Power Rangers, etc.) as well as a ton of pop culture references. So if you happen to be a fan of American animation you may like this show.  Lastly, the music of this show is priceless. A mixture of different genres in each piece actually work for the show in certain scenes, and it doesn't disappoint.  Overall, Funimation didn't do a perfect job with this one. However it's good enough where it could be a worthwhile watch to several people. Unless you're some Japanese purist otaku who thinks that Americans ruin everything translating everything into English. It's really a hit or miss translation so don't expect it to be a purchase that will be great, but don't expect it to be a buyers remorse ether. You may have quite a bit of fun watching this show.

classic bit of entertainment Adventure movie based on book, pretty much plot for plot. Set in Scotland, very late 60s, very cynical portrayals. And some stock pieces that have stuck in my memory clearly from when I first saw it in 1970. Holds its own, and the Wally Stott music hangs in the memory as well.

A Man Who Breaks Hearts...Even His Own Alex Lippi (Romain Duris) has an odd occupation.  He gets paid to break up relationships.  Assisted by his sister Melanie (Julie Ferrier) and her husband Marc (Francois Damiens).  Together, they construct elaborate schemes aimed toward getting the women to recognize their own doubts about their relationships.  The team employ an intricate strategy, gathering extensive intelligence on their targets before they put their plans into action.  There are also rules.  The team will not break up a happy couple.  This presents a problem when Alex agrees to take up a challenge named Juliette (Vanessa Paradis).  Heavily in debt and faced with a moral dilemma, Alex complicates matters by falling in love with his target.  The film had great dialogue and well developed characters.  The comedy was subtle, but fresh.  While the plot was predictable, I enjoyed watching it develop.  The ridiculous schemes that this team hatches makes for some interesting interactions and sets the foundation for some great situational comedy.  It is a light, fun and unique story.  While it is predictable at times, the situations offer some unique opportunities for fresh humor.  Strong dialogue, good character development and a skilled cast give life to an excellent screenplay.

Best on the Big Screen This is a quite entertaining version of the pulp hero whose voice for Radio was created by Orson Welles and remarkably duplicated by other actors until Radio ceased to  be the center of the American home. In the nature of things, in body and voice, Baldwin could never duplicate the figure Welles' voice conjured up for listeners. Then, again, who could ever capture the visualizations of millions of listeners drawing upon their own experiences for their delineations. On the other hand, there are not too many left alive and going to the movies today (last days of 2011) who can clearly remember the voice though they remember the show.  At any rate, it is clear that this is best seen on a big screen, the bigger, the better, since there are so many camera shots that call for that magnitude. Failing that, the DVD still impresses with its camera work and the script with its unabashed Kitsch as once the intellectuals labelled it. Alec Baldwin does a competent job as The Shadow although he has to yield pride of  place to the incarnations of evil, wackiness, absent-mindedness, scurrility, beauty and the like, who are mostly given carte-blanche to be way out personifications of their stereotypes All-in-all, it is something, as they like to say, for those who can still find pleasure in gratifying those juvenile urges embedded in all of us.

Lives up to the first one A Game of Shadows, in my opinion, does a fine job of living up to the first movie. Sure, there are some silly bits, but that's as it should be. This movie contains more action and less of the cerebral intrigue, but it's still good entertainment.

pretty good Im not really a fan of cops but i rented this for the comedy aspect the movie is quite funny and has a bit of quirkiness which i liked...good movie

Lots of fun! Created by guys who love movies, Supernova brings a quality cast to a story written to show off some very nice and original special effects. Where things like "warp drive" in other movies have become a pretty standard whoosh in, whoosh out sort of thing, Supernova treats it as an arduous task used infrequently and dangerous every time it's done PLUS everyone needs to be naked! Otherwise, it's yet another space alien movie. The DVD ain't bad as far as picture and sound quality on a widescreen with surround sound. Lots of fun!

Princess Charm School Hits and Misses The latest Barbie movie, Princess Charm School, features the story of hard-working Blair, who is adopted as a young child into a poor family. After her sister enters her into a contest, she wins a scholarship to Princess Charm School, where it is hoped she will earn the skills to become a Lady Royal.  I think there are many positives about this movie.  The animation is I think better than any of the other Barbie movies, and we've seen them all. This movie carries over themes we've seen in other Barbie movies where someone who has acted terribly towards Barbie or other characters experiences a change of heart and is able to become friends with Barbie's character and I think that is great.  Having good character is emphasized as being a desirable trait, and this movie makes I think an invaluable point about confidence: Nobody "can make you feel inferior without your consent."  I am however, concerned with the continuing trend of dressing Barbie in skirts that are overly short and that I as an adult would not feel comfortable wearing.  To borrow a phrase Barbie used in "Fairy Secret," they're a little too breezy and certainly not an appropriate model for young children.  The characters in the earlier Barbie movies dressed classier, and in some cases acted in a ways I would feel much more comfortable with my child emulating. I also think some of the "manny and peddy" and materialistic swooniness that has crept into the last several Barbie movies, and does indeed show up in this one too, is not so desirable.  A movie can be modern and relevant without so much of these things.  I am also lukewarm about some of the similarities with the Harry Potter story.  Blair's parents are killed in a car crash when she is 1 and she is left on somebody's doorstep.  She returns later to a castle that has magical elements that is supposed to help her reach her true potential.  I also could see some elements of the Princess Diary movies in here. However, I think that while you can see that these might have been some of the inspiration for the story line, it is not blatant forgery, so I think it still passes as a cute and respectable movie.

The wildest (and probably longest) cab ride of all About all this movie has in common with the 1970's Disney efforts, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001NP8WY2">Escape to Witch Mountain Special Edition</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001NP8WYC">Return from Witch Mountain Special Edition</a>, is the name of the mountain and the presence of two alien youngsters with paranormal powers.  Jack Bruno (Dwayne Johnson), a Las Vegas cabdriver with a dubious past, is trying to go straight, though some of his old associates don't make it easy.  When a pair of teenagers, Sara (AnnaSophia Robb) and Seth (Alexander Ludwig), literally appear in the back seat of his cab and tell him they need to "travel in that direction," he's dubious at first, though the fistful of cash they offer soon quiets his misgivings.  But a big black SUV on their tail--which Jack understandably supposes is those old associates up to their usual unpleasant tricks--is only the first hint that the kids aren't all they seem to be.  When they lead him to a kind of underground garden, entered through a lonely cabin in the desert, and Something in an armored suit attacks them there, Jack begins to realize that he's up to his neck in something he doesn't understand.  But to his credit, even when he learns the truth, he sticks, and even helps Seth and Sara--who are in fact aliens trying to recover their crashed spaceship and return to their home planet in time to revitalize its ruined ecology and save the Earth from possible invasion--to connect with an astrophysicist (Carla Gugino) who believes in the possibility of extraterrestrial life and interstellar travel.  A mysterious government black-ops team led by Henry Burke (Ciaran Hinds) and a persistent and nearly invulnerable hunter (Tom Woodruff, Jr.) from the kids' planet's conquest-focused military keeps the action lively as the quartet--plus an adopted dog--flee from the desert back to Vegas and on to a secret government base in the mountains of California, where Jack and Dr. Friedman must rescue Seth and Sara from the sinister Burke.  This version is definitely for older kids than the originals were: it's more violent, there's more than a hint of conspiracy theory, and the special effects, of course, are about 50 times more mature than was possible at the time the first films were made.  It's fast-moving and suspenseful, Seth and Sara are attractive, and Jack, like Han Solo, is definitely a better man than he thinks he is.  Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann, who played the kids in the first duo, return in a couple of small adult parts (you may have to wait till the credits to see which ones), and there's some hint that a sequel is possible.  The soundtrack <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001UQV26O">Race to Witch Mountain</a> is available on CD.

Doc Martin series I bought the complete series after missing pieces of the story. Definitely not a American show but great for a twist.

The Woman In Black Rated R and rightfully so. Scared the heck out of me and well worth seeing if u LOVE GHOST stories. I love Ghost stories and this was very well done and full of one ghost who put me so much on edge ,I did not sleep after watching the movie. NOT FOR anyone under age 16

Not quite so scary as people has said This is the first time i have watched this film. Not the best film have i seen, but i think the story was interesting. I must also mention of Charles Durning who i think played his role nicely.  I think 2 scenes (i won`t spoil which) which was surprisingly violent and bloody. I was suprised they could show that on tv in the US in 1981 with the very strict censors. It is not that i am complaining, but to the contrary i think it made it more realistic. I will continue to watch it in the coming years now that i know what kind of film it is and what to expect.  Picture quality: 4.5/5  I think this looked great. Nice colours, details and such. I didn`t expect it to look so good. I remember the close ups which had nice details and sharpness.  Audio quality: 4/5  I listened to both audio tracks and compared them. I did find the LPCM 5.1 remix to sound best to my ears. I heard nothing wrong with both.  Film: 3.5/5 Overall: 4/5

Kids like it My kids like all 3 Toy Story movies, however they liked <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0030IIYYS">Toy Story 2</a> the best, followed by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0030IIZ4M">Toy Story</a> and then this one.  If you already have the other two, then definitely get this one. If you don't have them, perhaps get one of the other 2 first. You probably should start out in sequence and go with the first one.  Overall I give this 4 stars. I'm grading this against the other two. The other two set the bar really high!

Dragnet 1968 Season Two - Shoot Outs. Dragnet 1968 Season Two contains the episode "The Shooting Board" with a rare scene in which Sergeant Friday actually fires his gun. Although I was puzzled when Friday says he has only had to shoot a man twice before, as I recall at least three shoot outs in the original black and white Dragnets. Violence in Dragnet was always kept to an absolute minimum as Jack Webb was no doubt aware that real cops are not in shoot outs every week. In fact I remember reading an article which stated that some American police officers go through a whole career up to retirement and have only ever fired their guns on the practice range. However I think the absence of shooting in Dragnet does make a few of the episodes fall a bit flat as you know there will be no final action scene. That said I think what puts Dragnet a cut above other police dramas is the attention to detail, with Friday even telling us what the weather conditions are like in each episode. One of my favourite epiodes in this season is "The Big Neighbour" an unusual and entertaining story which shows Friday and Gannon trying to enjoy a night off, this episode contains some witty dialogue between the pair. Just as a final note does anyone know how many episodes of Dragnet contain shoot outs? There cannot not be that many and I would be interested to find out.

Jack and Jill It is very funny, I like Adam Sandler films, love his work.  I received the product two day later but it was because was a holiday weekend.

Where The Heart Is. I ordered the DVD because I love this movie and wanted my very own copy to see any time I want. It is surely a classic. Or will be. Its funny and sad and sweet and real life. The casting was perfect - everyone seemed to really be friends. Ashley Judd and Natalie Portman are 2 of my favorite actresses and I got them both in the same movie together. WOW!

Classic movie finally on blu-ray Movie came in standard casing and wrapped in plastic..  Only downside was it was just the blu-ray inside no paper insert that's normally with a movie purchase..  Thumbs up for getting a classic movie on blu-ray..

Wonderful Very interesting and enlightening.  Well presented.  I  already have this documentary.  This was bought for a friend.  She truly enjoyed it

"...Come To Mama!" *** THIS REVIEW IS FOR THE BLU RAY VERSION ***  A handsome transfer onto Blu Ray - and it has to be said - you notice it straight away too. But I must emphasize that 'DBS' looked great anyway for the vast majority of the time on my trusty old DVD. It's just that on BR you do notice the clarity far more.  And the audio...wow! It's huge. A packed 5.1 Soundtrack that is much improved over the DVD delivers a mighty surround-sound punch - especially when all hell breaks loose in the corridors of the flooding marine facility (which is often).  But the truth is that you'll be enjoying yourself too much to be looking out for any print difference. "Deep Blue Sea" is a hugely entertaining watch and a very satisfying thriller into the bargain. It mixes great set pieces with characters you route for - and even supplies its genetically modified toothsome frights with genuinely funny moments too. So when the gorgeous Saffron Burrows gets into the water at the end of the chase to lure Mister Big Nasty People-Munching Shark to her side for a chit-chat (dialogue above) - you'll be biting your nails to beat the band...and cancelling that snorkelling holiday...  To sum up - if you're a fan of "Deep Blue Sea" - then the Blu Ray of Renny Harlin's sharks-with-brains caper is definitely worth the upgrade. And even if you're coming to it for the first time, then you're in for a bit of a treat.  Reasonably priced and better than a slap across the kisser with a wet mackerel - treat yourself to this watery wonder film-lovers. And stop feeding your goldfish spinach...ask Samuel L. Jackson...  BLU RAY Specifications: EXTRAS: (a) Commentary by Director Renny Harlin and Samuel L. Jackson (feature length) (b) "When Sharks Attack" featurette (c) "The Sharks Of The Deep Blue Sea" featurette (d) Deleted scenes with optional Director commentary (e) Theatrical Trailer ASPECT: 1080p High Definition 16x9 2.4:1 AUDIO: DTS-HD Master Audio English 5.1, Dolby Digital Castilian Spanish 5.1, French 5.1, German 5.1 SUBTITLES: English, Bulgarian, Castilian Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Korean, Latin Spanish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish

Just fun I saw this movie when I was younger. Not the best Martial Arts movie but still fun to watch. Found it at a good price so I purchased it.

Better late than never, great 'you are there' perspective Not sure what to expect given how long this film took to be released. But it is so much better than expected given the vast quanties of LSD consumed! Felt like on the bus and added great imagery to what I have read. Anyone into how the 60s acid tests came about should get this film.

Very enjoyable At a time when all Hollywood action movies are either sequels or remakes, even an attempt at something slightly new has to be applauded.  It's true that this movie pokes some fun at westerns and science fiction, which is like a stab in the heart for people who take all this very seriously.  But if you pick up from the title that this is a complete fantasy, it's also a lot of fun.  At least I thought so.  There's even a bit of character development with Harrison Ford turning out to not be such a bad guy after all.  My only gripe is that this would seem to appeal to younger viewers as it has less sex than any blockbuster movie I can remember but why is it that sex is so bad while vaporizing dozens of people is fun for the whole family?  I guess I just wanted to see more of the young lady rising from the ceremonial fire.  She says "Man, it got so hot in there I had to strip" and Harrison Ford rushes over with a blanket and quotes Groucho Marx, "I'm protecting your honor, which is more than you ever did!".  That would have make it 5 stars.

Chick flick to be sure! I saw Shirley Valentine when it first came out and loved it.  I have not been able to find it on CD until now - it was just sooo popular.  I highly recommend it to women who have been married for at least five years and who feel like they have lost themselves.  This is definitely a feel good movie that women will enjoy.

Gripping, but...... A young woman is getting married. Her wedding should be a celebration, but simmering beneath the surface is her battle with depression, which mars the day of the wedding. Her sister seems to be the most aware and tries to help her get through the day. The second half of the film focuses on the sister and her fear of a star named Melancholia which may be on a collision course with earth. The first part of the movie was quite good, with the bouts of depression interfering with a well-planned wedding, and the expectation that her condition will make it quite difficult for the marriage to work. The film loses a little something in the second half, because the storyline then veers into another direction, and just doesn't seem consistent with the real-life drama of the first part. This is solid work, but should have stuck with the promise of the first half.

For fans of 24... If you are a fan of 24, buy it for continuity. Especially if you are going to buy season 7.On it's own, I would say 3.5 stars, but it was really very enjoyable. It is pretty cheap, it is pretty good. Good story line, well acted (nice to see Robert Carlyle), and filmed nicely.

Very funny! Rob Schneider films can get a little corny, boring, dumb. But this one really hit it out of the park. It was very funny.

Fun "War, Inc." does indeed follow in the steps of "Grosse Pointe Blank," but it is quite different.  The satire here is broader and at the same time more focused.  In "Gross Pointe," the targets were Gen-X anomie and individual angst.  Here the targets are political and social: pre-emptive war, the privatization of everything, the selling of everything (happiness, sex, youth, glamor, death), corporatization, the emptiness of celebrity-culture.  This movie doesn't have the energy and snap of "Grosse Pointe."  Cusack is jowly and tired.  But "War, Inc." makes a virtue of that very tiredness by making Hauser/Cusack's disenchantment more believable.  There are lots of nice touches.  Ben Kingsley is amazing as the Southern-fried CIA psychopath.  (Kingsley tries to strike it rich with a Roman Empire Themepark, complete with His and Hers Vomitoriums.  It fails in the Real Estate collapse, but the parallel between decadent Rome and equally-decadent U.S.A. is clear.)  Ackroyd does a brief, crude, but spot-on slam at Cheney.  Joan Cusack has turned into a zoned-out control-freak corporate harpy, perfect for the role.  Marisa Tomei is mostly OK as the crusading, frustrated reporter.  (She does have a little trouble keeping a straight face.)  But--amazing!--best of all is Hillary Duff.  Duff is superb.  Who knew she could act?  She does.  She acts circles around everyone, even Kingsley.  She is at her best--even more amazing!--not when playing the vamped-out teen slut but when playing the tormented, lost waif.

Entertaining short stories If you like short stories you have to like this collection thats all about taxi drivers around the world. I would love to see them make another movie using the same format but with new stories.

(3.5 STARS) War Seen From Within Set in June, 1982, the first Lebanon war, Writer-director Samuel Maoz's "Lebanon" follows the four twenty-something soldiers on a tank, sent on a mission to a twon just bombarded by the Israeli Air Force. It was supposed to be a simple mission, which of course, it wasn't, as the four characters - the gunner Shmulik (Yoav Donat), the commander Assi (Itay Tiran), the loader Hertzel (Oshri Cohen) and the driver Yigal (Michael Moshonov) - will soon find out.  "Lebanon" is not about combat itself. It is about "action" inside the tank, or emotions of four young soldiers. The outside of the tank is mostly shown as an image seen through a gunsight. Most events of the film takes place inside the tank. The Golden Lion winner at the 66th Venice International Film sometimes even unfolds like a drama on the stage. The camera frequently employs close-ups of the characters (including those outside the tank).  According to the press kit (you can read it on the official site), "The tank scenes were shot in the studio and the battle scenes at two locations: a banana plantation and an abandoned industrial zone." To me the film's battle scenes are not very convincing, not because of the shortage of explosions or gun shots, but because the film's intention is sometimes a bit too obvious, trying to direct our attention to whatever the director wants us to see. Also, I know the film wants to focus the psychological aspects of the characters (and I am no expert of military technology), but more detailed look of the interiors of the tank would have helped create a more claustrophobic atmosphere.  I have mixed feelings about "Lebanon." I am not sure the narrative device, which itself is surely innovative, is really effectively used here (the hatch will be opened more than once). All in all I was impressed with the film's good acting, and some of the scenes that are intense, but also felt that with a different approach this could have been more so.

Who wouldn't love this movie This movie is like a year 2000 Black Beauty which my son loves! My son has loved the old black beauty movie since he was 1 (he's almost 3) so I thought I couldn't go wrong with this movie. He loves it and we got it in a few days after ordering. It had a couple of little cracks in the plastic center of the DVD but it plays still so it was not a problem. I have the feeling this movie is going to be playing often:)

Captain America I'm not really a big comic book or action film person, but this movie definitely drug me in and kept me captivated. I had low expectations for it and it definitely surpassed anything I might have thought. The acting was well done and I thought the plot and the progression were phenomenal. Definitely would recommend seeing this film. One of the best action films I saw this year.

Extra-ordinary The movie is good,I can't get enough of batman. It's was a good idea to finally cast him as the old man he is, but it's time to totally update. Like the movie, it's time for Bruce Wayne to retire, let a new guy come in, drop the cape, and develop that prototype suite with the awesome capabilities. But before that, make a last mission with the old Batman, and the aging Nightwing. That Nightwing in the story of the Redhood was totally WRONG"

Nice Collection. Not the same as the picture. Bad Packaging. I love the Rambo movies, so I was excited about getting this collection.  I didn't receive the set in the pictures, my set had English and French info on the box and on the discs.  The set I received was thrown into the bottom of a box with other stuff I ordered.  It was not secured or wrapped in bubble wrap, and when I opened the case plastic pieces of the case fell out and the disks fell out.  I am pleased with the movies, but not with the packaging or the version of the product I received.

Adults only Definately not for kids.  I've heard the book is better, but the movie is pretty good.  When they make a movie out of the other book I'll get it too.

Heavenly Kate. A Little Bit of Heaven is a film I never heard of before but I'm a fan of Kate Hudson so I decided to take a chance on this little, surprise gem. This romantic drama is very charming and of course, Kate is a delight like always. Kate gets to stretch her acting chops here, she effortlessy plays Marley...a free-spirit who lives her life by her own rules but then she gets the worse news anyone could ever get, she has colon cancer and the chances of survival are not good. I liked this movie, the supporting cast is great from Kathy Bates to Lucy Punch. A Little Bit of Heaven may seem fluffy and weepy but I think it's one of the most rewarding films I've seen in many years. My only gripe is I thought the guy who's plays Marley's doctor, Julian wasn't very engaging and lacked chemistry with her. But still, it's definitely worth checking out...enjoy!

Predator...... Predator is a 1987 american science fiction action film that tells the story of an special forces team, led by 'Dutch' (Arnold Schwarzenegger), on a mission to rescue hostages from guerrilla territory in Central America. During their mission, though, they are hunted by an extraterrestrial lifeform known as the Predator.  Originally titled Hunter, Predator was met with mixed reactions from movie reviewers and fans of Schwarzenegger. As time wore on, though, people warmed up to the film and is actually considered one of Schwarzenegger's best films in his career. A little known fact that has circulated around the net is that Jean Claude Van-Damme was cast as the Predator in the beginning but, was replaced by Kevin Peter Hall, because of his reservations with the movie.

Great action movie. This was the movie I expected.  Lots of action from the beginning to the end. Would have liked to see this on the big screen. will be watching this again and again.

Insight Into The Personal Life and Love of Jonathan Edwards This is a one-woman play portraying Jonathan Edwards's wife writing to a daughter. The letter covers their courtship, babies, and relationship to the people of the parish. It includes happy events and tragedies, ending in the reason for the letter and the quote from Jonathan Edwards about his marriage, 'An Uncommon Union'.  This is a rather plain, unpolished and inexpensively produced DVD, but it gets the message across effectively and appropriately.  I got the DVD after recently reading a very intensive book about the scholarly work of Pastor Jonathan Edwards. His work doesn't show a personal side. I wanted to know more about the person who wrote so passionately about God, Heaven, and Hell.  I know Jonathan Edwards better now that I have watched this very simple but powerful presentation.

Pretty good movie. Pretty good movie, but a little over the head for the child I got it for. Her mommy loves it though.

Gentle fun Flight of the Conchords is about a New Zealand duo, Brett and Jermaine, trying to make it in the music business in New York, with the aid of their hapless manager. It's gentle fun. The musical pastiches are impressive.

Good Relaxing Workout Scott Cole provides a low impact AM workout that integrates traditional Tai Chi with stretching and meditation to get your day started on the right foot and gather energy to kick off your morning.  The PM workout likelwise is a low impact mix of traditional Tai Chi movements, stretches and meditation designed to ground and relax you.  You aren't geting the Yang Short Form or any of the hardcore Tai Chi instruction. You are getting elements of it designed to enhance the AM or PM daypart.  A good set to have, especially if you suffer joint pain or aren't ready for moderate to high impact exercise but just need to get moving.

Curious subject for a movie As the Soviet Union collapsed in the 90's, everything they had went on sale.  This movie depicts an aspect of murder/psychopathy/sociopathology for a price.  The movie is chilling in it's presentation and casts a light on the darkest side of human activities.  As such, hide this DVD from the children.  The attempt to make money from the subsequent spin-off films had the usual results, namely a waste of time.

good movie it was good not as great as the 1 & 2nd one but over all we liked it.. Still like the Rock better

Excellent! I got this DVD several years ago and have since also purchased Bryan Kest's, Rodney Yee's, and several others for variety.  My husband and I always return to David Swenson!  We find his voice instruction and workout flow the best.  His instruction syncs up perfectly with the workout and I always feel I'm getting a great overall workout in 30 mins.  My husband will do the 15 min. if he's short on time, but we find the 30 min. workout feels the best.  The 45 min is a little too advanced for us so when we want a longer workout we go with Rodney Yee. (we've both been practicing yoga for several years and we find ourselves well past the beginner stage but not anywhere near being able to perform some of the more advanced moves that are awe-inspiring but don't feel doable) True, the production quality of some of the newer DVD's are beautiful but don't be fooled by the shiny covers, David Swenson is the best!  I wish he would put out a newer DVD!

Very Good, Not Excellent, But Very Good The two things I enjoyed most about this new entry is the plot and the characterizations.  There are weak areas but not enough for me to dislike the movie.

This is UNCUT. Just want to make that clear. This is an uncut version of the film. It is the version with the lenticular cover. Picture is very good for all these years later, sound is a bit iffy. I had to really crank the volume up in the film, and then the volume on the menu will deafen you. Retrospective documentary is very good with lots of trivia. A gret film that still has the biggest paradox known to movie making.

Family Stone Ordering this movie was quick and easy.  I already owned it and my disc starting skipping and the movie stopped halfway through.  I enjoyed the movie enough to want a replacement, but not to want to pay for a brand new one from the store.  I decided to try Amazon and I was quite happy with my purchase.  I didn't pay a lot, it came quickly, and I was able to replace this movie with ease.

Greener Lanterns! From a hardcore Justice League fan: This movie rocked! It is way better than the FIRST FLIGHT boring movie that DC released a while back.... they go into heroic detail of the main characters of the Lantern core of how they survived their boot camp from sad to hilarious this movie does not disappoint, in fact you will be going back to see your favorite scenes over and over again.  Buy this movie without a doubt as it is a fun movie to watch.

Good Strategy I had the opportunity to meet the author, Dr. Thomas Phelan, when he spoke at a small school here in St. Louis. I like the idea behind this strategy b/c I really hate yelling and the constant battle you have when you teach 3-5 year old children. That being said, I do find some parts difficult to implement. I have an extremely challenging class, and I have to count them all day and sometimes I even run out of time out chairs. Two of them often refuse to go to time our or start destroying things in the classroom out of anger. So while it has strategies for these extra challenging behaviors, it's not always so easy to implement. I bought the parent book for parents to check out and only one person has done so... would be nice to just have well behaved kids and responsible parents, wouldn't it?

A Harmless and Generic, But Undeniably Charming, Romantic-Comedy Friends with Benefits is the second romantic-comedy of 2011 to cover the topic of the title and is directed and co-written by Will Gluck, whose previous film Easy A was a charming and genuinely funny high-school movie that pushed Emma Stone into the big leagues overnight. Debuting in theatres only six months after the Ivan Reitman's No Strings Attached, both movies deal with the subject of young characters wanting to enjoy a sexual relationship without any emotional attachment or commitment. Comparing and contrasting the two are inevitable. There's no denying that both films are similar and coincidentally the female leads in the separate films are played by Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis, co-stars in last year's Black Swan. The similarities are a forgivable transgression since every rom-com that comes out of Hollywood is essentially cut from the same cloth anyway. So, in case the plot isn't completely obvious from the title, here's the synopsis:  In Los Angeles, Dylan (Justin Timberlake) is dumped by his girlfriend (a brief appearance by Emma Stone) because he's "emotionally unavailable." In New York, Jamie (Mila Kunis) is dumped by her boyfriend (Andy Samberg) because she's "emotionally damaged." Soon after, Dylan is on a flight to New York where Jamie, an Executive Recruiter, has secured a job interview for him at GQ. Dylan accepts the job and quickly becomes friends with Jamie. One night the two launch into a diatribe about how sex is necessary but seemingly impossible without emotional involvement. The two come to a mutual conclusion and make a deal; they will have sex with each other with no commitment, just as friends. You can imagine where the story goes from here. The film boasts an impressive cast that includes Woody Harrelson as Tommy, a gay sports editor for GQ as well as Richard Jenkins, Patricia Clarkson, and Jenna Elfman. There are also cameo appearances by Jason Segel, Rashida Jones, and Shaun White.  Being released in such close proximity with each other, comparisons between this and No Strings Attached are inevitable. Having seen both movies, I give this one the upper hand. Neither makes any profound statements about relationships or sex, neither are great movies, but Friends with Benefits has more going for it than No Strings Attached, beginning with the chemistry between the two leads. Timberlake and Kunis have far more convincing and striking chemistry than Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher possibly due to Gluck working with Timberlake and Kunis to help shape the characters and the script. Putting more work into this kind of film than necessary, this effort does not go unnoticed onscreen. Romantic comedies live and die by the chemistry shared by the two leads and Timberlake and Kunis have chemistry in spades. They are effortlessly charming with one another and skillfully play off each other's comedic strengths. I was immensely impressed by Timberlake's performance in The Social Network, but found myself underwhelmed by his awkward performance in Bad Teacher. He redeems himself here with his boyish charm and wit. It's easy to accept him as the successful, sensitive young man he portrays.  Harrelson's flamboyant and plain-spoken gay character provides some laughs, but the joke is dragged out longer than necessary. Clarkson, a tremendous actress, brings a quirky sense of humor to her part, although the personality of her character isn't too far separated from her character in Easy A. I'd guess that the character was adjusted to suit her simply because Gluck enjoyed working with her previously. Clarkson and Harrelson do not elevate the material, but they do make it a little livelier.  Friends with Benefits doesn't push the romantic comedy genre too far from its comfort zone. The studio allowed it to be rated R and, with this subject matter, I respect the decision to not cop out with a PG-13. Even with the rating, the sex talk is much more graphic than the sex actually portrayed onscreen. If you take any PG-13 Hollywood romantic comedy and add some dry humping, you'll end up with Friends with Benefits. If Gluck really wanted people to differentiate between his film and Reitman's, he could've been a little more fearless in what he chose to show. The most maddening thing about the movie is that characters openly discuss how every romantic-comedy is the same, following the same meet, fall in love, break up, and get back together pattern. They even discuss the way these films use obnoxiously obvious musical cues to illustrate the tone of a particular scene. Despite how self-aware this movie seems to be, it ends up doing the same thing by following the exact same template. Granted, Friends with Benefits does try to get a bit more serious by introducing a dramatic subplot about Dylan's father (Jenkins) suffering from Alzheimer's and with an actor as capable as Jenkins this subplot is more effective than it should be, but it neither adds to the film nor takes away from it. The dramatic, medical disorder angle worked much better in Love and Other Drugs.  It's totally generic, but has enough charm and wit to keep your attention. There are so many movies like this released each year and such light, forgettable fluff can never be criticized too harshly. I admit to having a soft spot for even the most forgettable romantic comedies, so please read my words with caution. Friends with Benefits is neither a great romantic comedy nor a particularly memorable one, but the charisma of the two leads and the existence of real talent in front of and behind the camera make it worth watching to some degree. It's sappy, clich&eacute;d, and far from surprising but it put a big, stupid smile on my face and I couldn't have asked a movie like this for anything more.  GRADE: B

pantera Pantera is amazing but this is NOT a beginner's DVD as my husband mistakenly thought after reading the title "101".

Barbie to the rescue! One of my granddaughter's favorite Barbie movies.  She is not quite 5 years old and loves these movies - and she especially loves mermaids!  Fun and the "bad guys" aren't too scary.

Great Value for Interesting Collection Stanley Kramer had an interesting career, and this collection reflects that. Most interesting for me was "The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T," the only live action movie of a Dr. Seuss story that he allowed in his lifetime. Even though he wrote the story and all the song lyrics, he disowned the film after it was poorly received by critics and audiences. He didn't even mention it in his autobiography - but it's interesting to see nevertheless - the film looks well produced and the colors and sets seem very Dr. Seuss like.

Available on DVD ... But Only Through Disney I want to let those eager to own this Disney CLASSIC on DVD, it IS available but ONLY through the Disney Movie Club as an EXCLUSIVE to members only, and NOT available in Brick and Mortar (physical) stores. Otherwise, if you want this much loved film about courage and freedom inspired by the tale of the only survivor of the 7th Calvary at Custer's Last Stand, you'll have to be willing to pay a lot of cash for the rare video cassette copy here at Amazon. Thankfully for those looking for the VHS, it's here!

Good ol' action flick I will make this short. I watched this movie initially because I am a fan of Sean P. Flannery (back to the Boondock days).  However, I was really impressed with the lead, Johnny Strong. I would watch him in other action flicks for sure. He had more range than I expected to see in this movie. I cared for the characters. Personally, it's pure entertainment; bad guys get their's and tons of gun fire.  Definitely worth it. They could do a second to tie up some of the loose ends, but overall, very enjoyable.

Nice build up for part II, but Hermione and Ron...come on!! I've read all the books and seen all the films a dozen times over. I did like Deathly Hallows part I, but I was disappionted at how Hermione and Ron's relationship was so slow to come together. When Ron left and then finally returned, I just wanted Hermione to run and put her arms around him and be happy he was back. It was so depressing and sad. Just kiss and make up for gosh sakes!! I did make my boys cover their eyes of course when Harry and Hermione were in a semi-naked vision of sorts, made by Voldermort to make Ron jealous. All in all I thought it was a good film. It of course is the build up for part II. I recommend watching part I. It was yet another fun and exciting adventure in Harry Potter.

I love this movie I think this movie is a better than the book and that rarely happens. Only a few minor problems, James Garner isn't nearly as old as Noah is in the book. The ending is different and I don't like it, but I didn't like the book ending either, so it really didn't matter. I love Ryan Gosling in pretty much anything, and Rachel McAdams holds her own. The movie is very sweet. Yes, there is infedelity, which isn't the right thing for anyone to do, no excuses, but it does happen in real life, and so it happened here. The only thing I didn't like was the online streaming from Amazon. The movie stopped every 30 seconds and was very difficult to watch like that. I watch streaming movies and TV all the time on other sites, this was my first time on Amazon. I didn't like it. Probably won't use the service again.

The Tribe: Season 1 part 1  US release I've loved this show for years and was so happy that it is finally being released in Region 1. I highly recommend this series to anyone who likes post-apocalyptic dramas. However, I was disappointed that there were no extras at all on this first set.  The menus are extremely plain and only get you to the episode you want to watch. This first half of season 1 includes episodes 1-26. There aren't even any subtitles available for those who either need them or can't watch with the sound up. If this is the extent of the plans for the US releases then I would recommend that fans invest in a cheap all region DVD player(often a code can turn your DVD player all region) and just purchase the R2 copies for their extras etc. You can pick up the Region 2 FULL season sets for less than they are selling this half of the first season anyway.  I am so disappointed that after such a long wait, this is all there is to show for it.

Simple, yet powerful and entertaining This is why movies should be made. For the simplicity of the story and the realness of the plot. Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy have put in extremely endearing performances. And I love the cars in the movie. :)

You've Got Mail I am a sucker for Tom Hanks and any role he plays. I know that this was a take off of the "Little Shop Around the Corner" (which I liked). Supporting cast was good and Meg Ryan was terrific. A great movie for me when I need a mental pick-p.

Excellent movie for the genre This movie was excellent - for what it was.  It's certainly no masterpiece, but I assume (and hope) no one was expecting that from it.  I rate it so highly because it was not what I typically expect from a romantic comedy (which I rarely watch as a rule).  I thought the acting was good, the stories were amusing, and the ending was in some cases quite surprising (SPOILERS:  I loved the addition of the gay couple, as well as the age range/relationship range of the couples, and in particular the mother/child relationship - I thought it was wonderful that a Valentine's Day movie covered the gamut of love!)  Yes some of it was cliched, but it's a romantic comedy - how far off of the beaten path can you really go with that?  While Taylor Swift's character and her boyfriend were obnoxious, that was kind of the entire point...and I LOVED the line about him being uncomfortable taking his shirt off in public.  I honestly was pretty happy with all of the cast; again, this was not meant to be anyone's best movie, but for what it was I felt it was excellent.  To sum up, if you're looking for a light-hearted romantic comedy you will be happy and probably even pleasantly surprised.  I definitely recommend.  If you're looking for a serious movie filled with A+ acting and plot, look elsewhere.  With this one it your reaction all depends what you are looking for.

Worth watching I enjoyed this film.  It's not the best movie I've ever seen, but it kept my attention and was enjoyable.

As Wonderful As I Remember! The musical was as wonderful as I remember, but the film had too much of a red hue to it.  I know that trying to save these wonderful movies from the original film is not the easiest thing to do because of the way the films have started to decay, and I applaud all of the efforts that are being made to rescue every film possible.  It didn't make everyone look like they were filming in hell...just that they all had bad cases of Rosacia.  The quality of the soundtrack was perfect.  It brought back a lot of fond memories of the first time I saw this when I was a little girl.

Hollywoodized This is a Hollywood version of Vietnam.  There is plenty of violence, not recommended for children.  It is also not realistic; training units do not have ready access to weapons, as this implies, as one example.  Also, snipers are not neutralized so easily as the final scenes imply, either.  The Drill Instructor- DI- is well played.  It is depressing, really.  Corporal punishment no longer happens, in fact basic training/boot camp is a lot softer than it used to be.  In a way, this is Kubrick's version of All Quiet on the Western Front, about the futility of war.  I don't disagree with that point, but Kubrick is usually a lot more careful with detail.  This movie is like Kubrick's other movies; a set art piece, worth seeing.  I found it somewhat depressing, myself, but then again, war is depressing.

Great Sappy Romance If you're looking for a sappy chick flick romance this is for you.  A story about a veteran suffering from ptsd who wonders why he was spared when so many others weren't.  He finds a pic of a woman and when he comes home after trying to fit in at home and not succeeding he sets out on a journey to find the woman in the picture that he feels saved him from dying.  Much drama and romance ensues, but it's a worthy story.  Be sure to have a hanky on hand as there may be a couple of tearful moments.  This is definitely NOT a comedy, so if that's what you're looking for then pass this one by.

Great family movie! I ended up seeing this based on my niece's recommendation. She had gone to see it with her grandfather when it was out in theaters, and she loved it. Honestly, I was a little hesitant about this movie because I remember not being fond of the Dr. Seuss book when I was a kid. However, I'm glad I rented this movie. It was very cute and enjoyable. Definitely a great family movie!

No Country for Old Men I want to start by saying `No Country For Old Men' has one of the most menacing bad guys of the many films that I have seen. He is mostly eerily silent and when he does talk it is quietly and controlled, he is ruthless, unrelenting and with an almost psychopathic element to his nature. This alone would make for compelling viewing before you add in the storyline of the film. From the word go this film has a dark and brooding atmosphere to it and the tension is palpable and only builds as it progresses. Following one man who stumbles across a case full of money, another trying to track him down and the sheriff who is trying to protect and serve, provides the hunter and hunted plot that keeps you fully engrossed. This has amazing performances from all involved, Brolin, Lee-Jones and Bardem are all riveting to watch and this is probably Tommy Lee-Jones' best performance to date. You get the added bonus of Woody Harrelson in a minor role and yet he still manages to deliver another top job as he always does. At just under two hours this film isn't excessively long and I found myself intrigued and on edge the whole time. The ending kind of fizzled out after ratcheting up the tension (hence the four stars) but overall this makes for satisfying viewing. This is one of those films on Amazon that seems to be either loved or hated and it has to be said that it's not your Hollywood, all action blockbuster, but it's all the better for that. If you like well acted, slow burning, beautifully directed and tension filled films, then this is the place to go. Well worth a viewing.  Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.

Not a copycat of your typical serial killer thriller, this film has some nice original twists and turns Review for Blu-ray edition:  Often overshadowed by "The Silence of the Lambs" released In 1991' "Copycat" is a clever thriller with strong performances from Signorney Weaver and Holly Hunter that helps to elevate the material above your average thriller. Like a lot of thrillers released In The wake of " Silence", "Copycat" might of seemed to some critics and viewers to live up to it's title despite the fact that the plot was completely different.  Weaver plays Dr. Helen Hudson a psychologist consultant to the FBI called in to help catch a copycat serial killer (William McNamara); the only problem is that Hudson suffers from agoraphobia (a fear of open spaces) due to an attack by an earierl serial killer (Harry Connick, Jr.). Hudson uses her insight to help detectives M J Monahan (Hunter) and Reuben Goetz (Dermot Mulroney)to track down the copycat killer but her disability increasingly becomes a challenge for both the detectives and Hudson herself.  Directed by Jon Amiel ("<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000K7VHH8">Entrapment [Blu-ray</a>]", "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00007HGIJ">The Singing Detective</a>"<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003MZ63E2">Core Blu-ray</a>")and written by Ann Biderman ("<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001NY4X4G">Primal Fear (Hard Evidence Edition) [Blu-ray</a>]) from the original screenplay by David Madsen, "Copycat" is engaging throughout even if some of its initial impact has been weakened by the "serial killer of the week" stuff that shows up on TV and in movies.  The special features are a bit sparsh--we get Amiel giving us, at turns, a blow-by-blow description of what we're seeing, working with the cast, some of the script changes and long stretches of silence on occasion. When he's discussing working on the project it is a pretty engaging commentary but he certainly could have used a moderator and/or cast members with him to discuss the making of the film.  The blu-ray transfer looks good but not great which is a surprise given that the film isn't that old. There is a lack of depth to the images (improved depth is a hallmark of a good high def transfer)and a fair amount of video noise that crops up now and again. Over all the image quality is decent if a bit inconsistent.  The lossless soundtrack packs punch and the 5.1 mix is particularly good during action sequences.  The original theatrical trailer rounds out the special features. It's a pity we don't get a featurette or two from the writers discussing the origin of the script, changes that occurred between the script being purchased and produced as it would have been interesting to compare some of the changes that occurred.  Although the image quality isn't as good as I would have liked (it appears to me that it might even be an older HD transfer)I'd generally recommended this if you can get it relatively inexpensively.

Wonderful until the final minute. &lt;strong>Antik&ouml;rper&lt;/strong> (Christian Alvart, 2005)  Christian Alvart is another European director Hollywood imported and then destroyed. (viz. the worthless &lt;em>Pandorum&lt;/em>.) There are any number of good things I can say about &lt;em>Antik&ouml;rper&lt;/em>, released in English-speaking countries as &lt;em>Antibodies&lt;/em>, with the understanding--which I will put before you right now--that the final scene of the movie undermines a great deal of it.  Plot: we open with the police raiding the flat of suspected serial killer Gabriel Engel &lt;em>Der Untergang&lt;/em>'s Andr&eacute; Hennicke). He is captured and sent to prison, but refuses to speak to authorities, with one exception: to demand the presence of Michael Martens (&lt;em>Das Experiment&lt;/em>'s Wotan Wilke M&ouml;hring), a small-town cop haunted by a long-unsolved murder. Engel hints that, while he didn't kill the victim in that case, he knows who did, which entices Martens to the big city. Eventually, the two of them begin a cat-and-mouse game that strains Martens' relationship with his family and ultimately forces him to question his own sanity...and that of those around him.  For the majority of its length, this is a fantastic film, the kind of mystery/thriller that begs comparison with &lt;em>The Silence of the Lambs&lt;/em>, &lt;em>Se7en&lt;/em>, and &lt;em>Kyua&lt;/em>. Alvart, who also wrote the script, sets this up as well as the central mystery in any of those (or in any of the first... say, four or five... Prime Suspect episodes, which is what this reminded me of most, for some reason), gives us well-drawn and interesting characters we can care about, paces things brilliantly, comes up with just about the perfect climax...and then comes that final scene, which slaps the taste out your mouth (TM Dr. Dre). It's just downright awful, full of saccharine and syrup and oh my ever-loving haddock. I wanted to throw things at the television, Alvart blew the ending so horribly. And yet still, the first two hours of this two hour and seven minute movie are excellent, and worth watching. Just turn it off when--without giving away spoilers--you hear the helicopter during the final scene and you'll be fine. *** ½

Loved it! But then...that's probably why I bought it. :) The title of my review says it all.  Reminded me of those silly little school-girl crushes I always had...but with a cute little ending. :)

Interesting flick for a few reasons This movie has Boris Karloff and Lionell Barrymore (He's the villian in It's a Wonderfull Life Christmas story staring James Stewart. Barrymore is the other banker)Neat to see these two actors in a silent together.   A bit of a twist I did not expect here and I wont give it away. Do NOT read the jacket or it will spoil the twist. I make it a standing rule to not read the jackets before i watch a movie for this reason. They all too often give away important parts of the movie. This had a sort of  Dostoyevsky (Crime and Punishment) sort of flavour to the movie, though I wont tell you how it got there. Neat movie and had a interesting spiritual end.   glad to have it in my silents collection.

A fairly good movie that is good for an entertainment movie evening with the family! I like movies that involve people with super abilities and supernatural talents.  This movie sort of hit the warm spot in my heart with good entertainment and action at the same time.  It is based on a comic book series but the storyline has been changed and it is based in the late 1800's.  The super heroes are based on the characters developed by H. G. Wells, Bram Stoker, Jules Verne and many more famous authors so you have a combination of super heroes and villains.  It sort of uses an alternate history where the German soldiers are involved in a series of raids on both British and German facilities.  Someone is trying to start a war between Germany and Britain.  Alan Quatermain (Sean Connery) is reluctantly recruited to help find out what is going on and stop a potential war.  A team of super powerful beings are recruited to investigate and solve the mystery.  That is where the real problems begin....  This is a high action movie with a lot of good stars and the story line is that the super heroes are supposed to stop the bad guy from conquering the world.  The special effects are pretty good and some of the actors did a very good job in their roles.  I don't want to ruin the movie for you by giving out too many spoilers so you will just have to watch it and enjoy it.  I liked the movie and it is a good family movie with the popcorn bowl being passed around.

FAST-PACED CRIME NOIR OF REVENGE & JUSTICE From 1952, this taut crime noir with its perfect cast has been widely noted as a prime influence on Quentin Tarantino's RESEVOIR DOGS.  John Payne is Joe Rolfe, he's a reformed ex-con whose florist delivery van matches an identical truck used in a Kansas City bank robbery.  Picked at random (fate is like that, you see) Joe is being framed by Tim Foster (Preston Foster), a bitter ex-cop who's the mastermind of the heist.  Joe tries to clear his name and follows the trail to a Mexican hideaway and a confrontation with Tim's gang of bad guys beautifully played by Jack Elam, Neville Brand and Lee Van Cleef.  Phil Karlson directed from a story and screenplay by a team of writers including George Bruce and Harry Essex.  Don't miss this fast-paced thriller of revenge and justice now in a nice HD transfer.

VERY pleasantly surprised!!! I bought this thinking it would be just another movie about a bunch of ppl in the woods being attacked by a bunch of crazy ppl just because they're crazy. I figured on a rainy day when nothing's on, why not watch another gory movie about what we've all seen a thousand times before just to pass the time. I was actually very surprised at how good this movie actually is.  Finally, we have a decent reason for ppl being out in the woods instead of them just randomly deciding to go there or the usual running out of gas. And finally there's an actual legitimate story behind why the ppl are crazy in the first place. The group is a bunch of young business ppl who go on a paintball retreat for the weekend in what they think is some kind of National Park. The ppl that live in this area are still stuck in some kind of time warp where they believe the government is out to do them harm.  One of the guys walks around with a hat on that says FBI so the ppl that live there think that's who the group is. It's not long before they start their next day to do their paintball thing when they realize strange things happening around them. They soon realize something's not right and decide to leave. That's when everything starts happening.  However, the "backwoods" ppl aren't running around randomly trying to kill everybody just because they can. They don't want to harm the women. There's sort of a 'Mother Earth' figure who leads things and believes the women need to be part of their circle to breed. I won't say much more and give it all away but finally a good backwoods story that has meaning for the ppl being there and meaning for why they're being targets.  It's actually a really good movie, good acting, good storyline, and everything comes together when it should.  I'm glad I added it to my collection.

Worth checking out. Just a good, entertaining movie. Good story and well-acted. Also, the cinema photography was excellent and the natural beauty of Bolivia was amazing.

How to train your dragon Excellent and well done, with humor intertwined in the story, The dragon is sooo cute and has a great personality

Grand Prix 2nd time around This movie was great watching once again. At first I caught myself comparing it to the latest fast action films but then I remembered that way back then the cameras and special effects were not like they are now. James Garner is a wonderful actor and I still love his pictures.

CEOTTK Lots of extras, the stupid scene where he goes in the spaceship put in an earlier edition is out, very good transfer, sound, nice package.

Bambi (Fully Restored 55th Anniversary Limited Edition) We ordered shortly before Christmas for our 2.5 year old, we were surprised that I did not see this was the VHS version, anyways, perfect received promptly our daughter got to use the 'old VCR' and connect to the monitor for viewing as a family movie night. We were impressed with the colorization and animation of this classic. We will convert to DVD and save the package to remind our daughter of the 'good old days'

Great restoration, but still a work in progress Too much has already been written about the film and the found footage restoration so let me just add some general observations (based on the 2010 Blu ray release):  --This is hardly the definitive "restoration".  Methods exist for cleaning up those scratchy found scenes to perfection, It's already been done on many other films including the Beatle's "Help!", so we know it's possible.  When the money is available, this film will be fully realized;  --I consider it an error of aesthetical judgement not to have used the original text font for the "missing" scene descriptions, but it doesn't detract from enjoying the film;  --The included orchestral track is magnificent, don't believe for a minute that you won't enjoy it without purchasing the "Alloy Orchestra" version.

A unique take on the subject matter! If SMB: The Movie hadn't been the first major film based on a video game, it would probably garner more favorable opinions. Think of all the terrible video game movies that came after it! Mario looks far superior in comparison.  Overall, I ask that you put aside your vision of a Mario film and clear your mind of the traditional imagery in the games. You will see that Super Mario Bros. was a very unique take on a property that doesn't lend itself to live action film. I tip my hat to those involved in the actual creation & direction of the movie, since there was a lot of behind the scenes issues.  Hopefully, we'll see an anniversary edition materialize in a year or so.

Nanny McPhee good but I liked the first one better I did like this movie but I preferred the first Nanny McPhee. The movie is a mix of vibrant colors.  I think children of all ages would definitley enjoy.

St. Valentine'd Day Massacre An old classic film (1967) that is fairly accurate account of 1920's Chicago gang war between the Capone/Moran factions.  Good acting by a stellar cast.

A Very Good Romantic Fantasy Cage plays a Wall St. bigshot who has it all, so he thinks. At Christmas a phone message from the girl he left behind 13 years prior arrives. He doesn't return the message, but thinks about her. While stopping in a bodega in NYC he happens upon a man who unwittingly changes his life. He awakens the next morning in the bed with his old flame as if he had married her 13 years ago. Two children also await the hapless Cage. His life is completely opposite from what it had been. The man who thought he had it all, in fact, had nothing. The realization doesn't happen overnight. But, over a few weeks the befuddled Cage finds what is truly important.  There is a very good twist toward & up to the end that puts the finishing touch to the story. Both Nicholas Cage & Tea Leoni turn in very strong performances which only add to the charm of the movie. Chick flick? Nope. Just a nicely done screenplay

The Enemy Within The was a plethora of films made in the 1940s and 1950s, mainly suspense thrillers, on the subject of Nazis who may have escaped the Allied dragnet at the end of World War II (not including those Nazis whom those self-same Allies "turned" as the red scare cold war night descended on the world) and who, by hook or by crook found safe haven outside of Europe. Waiting, waiting patiently or impatiently, or feverishly plotting as the case may be, for the return of the glory days.  The film under review, the Orson Welles-directed The Stranger falls under that former category.  Here Welles himself, as Professor Rankin, is disguised as a small town America college professor with a distinct predilection for clock towers and is one closet Nazi waiting patiently for those big days ahead. Except that his world turned unexpectedly nasty when one doggedly persistent anti-Nazi hunter played by Edward G. Robinson (last seen in this space as Johnny Rico slapping girls and old geezers around in front of Humphrey Bogart, a definite no-no, in Key Largo) is ready to move might and main to hunt him down.  For a future fuerher though the good professor is something of a bumbler and easy prey for any half-bright professional anti-Nazi hunter. The minute he received news from back home via an unstable intermediary he precedes to murder said messenger setting off a series of events that only drag him down ever more quickly. And not just him but almost his trusting new wife (played by Loretta Young) who takes an extraordinary long time to see that the good professor is a wrong gee, a dead wrong gee. But the good professor will get his just desserts in the end, no question. And no self-respecting anti-Nazi will cry a tear over his fate.

Fans of "Juno" will love this movie. Those that haven't seen that yet will like this. Funny, touching & bittersweet. I say A- "Sometimes in order to heal a few people have to get hurt." When Mavis Gary (Theron) receives an e-mail about her high school boyfriends new baby she reads more into it then is there. She decides that he is still in love with her so she goes back to her hometown to win him back. While there she meets another former classmate and begins to re-examine her life. This is a movie that is not for everyone. While it is a comedy it's not really a laugh out loud/pee your pants comedy. I wouldn't quite call it a dark comedy although that is more accurate. This movie is done by the same writer and director of "Juno" so it's that type of comedy. Stuff you shouldn't laugh at and most of the movie you aren't sure if you should laugh or not. All that said I really liked this and the acting was fantastic. Patton Oswalt was great in this and I hope he gets more work like this character. I recommend this, but unless you have seen "Juno" it's hard to describe the comedy. Overall, a really good comedy that makes you laugh but feels weird when you do. I give it an A-.

A Top Notch Thriller! Acting: Above Average - although I would like to have seen more of Val Kilmer's acting skills, but that can't be helped.  Plotting: Exceptional - There are enough twists and turns to keep you guessing.  Atmosphere: Eerie! A team of FBI agents are left "alone" on a deserted island used for training. One by one they are "done-in" by a mysterious serial killer.  This is definitely an above average thrill ride.

Nice prelude to present Clone War series, but why so expensive? I enjoy the microseries very much, as it introduces characters seen in the present Clone Wars.  In my opinion, better than Attack of the Clones, the movie that inspired the series.  My only complaint: Why is this so expensive, as is volume 2, here on Amazon??? Volume I is 40 dollars, Volume II 50 dollars. I bought it at Best Buy for 14.99. Whats with Amazon allowing these guys to overprice products? I also see this in the Star Wars action figures. Something i saw 2 weeks ago @ Toys R Us for $20 is being sold here for $149??? There's something with that.

Short but satisfying sequel ------------------------------------------------------------- "Gift Of The Night Fury/Book Of Dragons" (Dreamworks, 2012) ------------------------------------------------------------- This 2-disc set contains two brief sequels to the Dreamworks animated film "How To Train Your Dragon" (one of the best kids films of the 21st Century!)  Disc One has sort of a Christmas story, using the same graphic style as the original film, with good voice work and decent animation - nothing as spectacular as the first movie, but enough to whet the appetite of fans who are eager to see more of these wonderful characters. The second disc has another short adventure done in a 2-D cartoon style, and introduces us to several new dragon species. Both films are pretty short (not sure why they didn't just put these on one disc, instead of padding it out to two...) and you'll definitely wish they were longer... Still, seeing Toothless & Company, however briefly, will be a thrill, and should keep you happy until Dragon 2 comes out. Not a great bargain, but still pretty fun. (DJ Joe Sixpack, ReadThatAgain children's media reviews)

"Tombstone": A Grand Old-School Western for Modern Audiences Opening on Christmas Day in 1993, Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer's "Tombstone" film enjoyed more than a half-year's head start on rival Kevin Costner's similar (and far more expensive) pet project, "Wyatt Earp." Largely through word of mouth, they easily won the battle of the box office. In terms of pure entertainment, the romanticized "Tombstone" deserved to win, at least at that time because it carefully treaded the line between an adult Western melodrama (hence, the R rating) and often cartoony but vintage Hollywood clich&eacute;s, making it appealing to a very wide range of audiences. Its ominous poster tagline, "Justice is Coming," spells out perfectly the old-school Western that the movie is.  In recent years, star Russell has purportedly admitted to secretly directing "Tombstone" using credited director George Cosmatos as an artistic front after original writer-director Kevin Jarre was dismissed. Assuming that is a fact, it makes sense why "Tombstone" so often resembles a classic Western, since Russell is such an old pro dating back to his childhood working in this genre. Using his expertise, there are several thematic choices that are simplistically brilliant here. The four that most come to mind are: 1. asserting Wyatt Earp as a biblical-like Pale Horseman in which death, hell, and justice will follow in his wake; and 2. assigning trademark red sashes to the villainous Clanton-Curly Bill gang, so viewers can easily distinguish the good guys from the bad. Obviously, no real Old West desperado would have sought that kind of unwanted legal attention, but it works really well for Hollywood's frontier mobsters in this movie who just don't care about anonymity.  The third important choice is focusing the film equally on Wyatt and "Doc" Holliday. Although Russell coolly has more screen time, Kilmer's flamboyant, rakish take on the tubercular Holliday steals the show. Yet, by working together, the two actors effectively balance out each other's performances. The relatively solid all-star ensemble cast, including old hand Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn, Stephen Lang (a dead-on Ike Clanton), and even a cameo from Charlton Heston conveys the ambiance of an old-school Western complete with mustache-twirling villains and reluctant ex-lawmen putting the silver badge on again. The major casting problem lies with Morgan and Virgil's indistinctive blonde wives (who don't have any presence or dialogue) and more so with romantic co-lead Dana Delany. While Delany enjoys some solid chemistry with Russell, she is miscast as a frisky, young Josephine Marcus, since the real Josie Marcus evidently wasn't anything like her.  Lastly, the fourth factor is correctly presenting names and accepted historical events in the right order while heavily embellishing other "facts" about the great Earp & Holliday-Clanton feud that ignited the legendary Gunfight at the OK Corral and its bloody aftermath. "Tombstone" also benefits from a majestic, well-balanced musical score from Bruce Broughton, and the fact that the filmmakers strove to make their Arizona location shooting (in Tucson) as colorful as possible, even with a close recreation of Tombstone itself.  The film clearly stumbles when the various cliches (too many to mention) start piling up so close together that you don't need to know the historical back story to sense what is coming next. Also, because of the huge ensemble cast, many characters (i.e. Jason Priestley's Deputy Sheriff Billy Breckenridge) are under-developed or so one-dimensional that the script treats them like mere after-thoughts. You may also notice some occasional spots where the actors (including Billy Zane's efforts and Russell's wooden last line to Kilmer) sink into stilted melodrama, which erodes their overall performances. As I stated in my review of "Wyatt Earp," I honestly believe that, had these rival productions actually worked together by pooling all their mighty resources, a better and more profitable film would have resulted.  Rating: 7.5/10 (In terms of sheer entertainment value, "Tombstone" trumps the plodding "Wyatt Earp," despite its heavy reliance on traditional Western clich&eacute;s and some weak performances. If they are compared side by side, I would consider the two films as roughly even with an edge to Costner's film for technical merits).  P.S. The impressive blu-ray special features are pretty solid entertainment and quite fun to watch.

Very Interesting documentary that makes the familiar feel fresh This brief documentary skillfully walks the line between making fun of and empathizing with 3 Las Vegas performers who impersonate, respectively, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland as part of a kitschy show called 'Legends in Concert".  These three individuals are very different in temperament, how seriously they take the gig and what they want out of it.  At the center of it all is Johnny Stuart, the fellow who created the show and who takes himself and his creation very seriously - while bouncing around as if he were on uppers,  The film balances laughter at the absurdity of it all - including fans who act like these are the real people (even if they have to be 'coached' by Johnny to scream more), and sadness at what a strange, hermetically sealed world these people have lost themselves in.

Acceptable Movie was great.  it came in a plastic wrap around the actual CD and it wouldn't play in select DVD players.  I used it for a college review in my sociology class and it was a great pick.  Awesome movie.

Mia is Jane Eyre This is a very good version of the movie, although I wish it would have been longer.  Mia Wasikowska is the by far the best actress I have seen in this role.  She is so believable.  I didn't like the abrupt ending of the movie, but it is still one of my favorite versions.

`You are referring to one of my stories. A work of fiction!' For many viewers this film seems to have been expected to be a biography of Edgar Allan Poe's life and it is obviously not that. There are many known facts about the author/poet's life and there are almost as many aspects that are not known. In this cinematic story the writers (Ben Livingston and Hannah Shakespeare) appear to want to explore the concept of murders based on Poe's famous stories and present these mysteries as reenactments during Poe's time - Variations on themes - and when taken with that approach in mind the film works very well (despite some significant flaws in the creation of the film as directed by James McTeigue).  The film captures the flavor of the times and the mixing of the stories between fiction and reality makes for an entertaining outing.  Baltimore, 1849 and we find Poe (John Cusack) as a drunkard trying to get his works published by the local newspaper edited by Maddux (Kevin McNally). His devoted assistant is Ivan (Sam Hazeldine). In the midst of Poe's financial decline a series of murders occur, murders that appear to be copies of Poe's many stories, and the police (Detective Fields - the talented Luke Evans - and Captain Hamilton - Brendan Gleason) decide to engage Poe's help in solving them. As a side story Poe is infatuated with his boss's daughter Emily (Alice Eve) and when Emily goes missing Poe s determined to capture the serial killer, even making it known that he would trade his useless life to save Emily's life.  The remainder of the film is a chase to the finish and along the way we learn the references to many of Poe's great poems and stories.  No, this is not a great film, but suspend reality and it is an entertaining mystery movie.  The cast is solid and the special effects are convincing. If the film dawdles too long over certain features it does have other saving graces. But oddly enough, the graphics and the obnoxious music chosen for the closing credits destroy the mood and make the viewer want to simply turn off the film. Grady Harp, October 12

Gripping I saw this movie when it was first released and was struck by the scale. 20 years or so later, I marveled at the power of the portrayal of such a wide variety of characters and the number of small moments that add up to the whole battle.

Fun but frustrating! The cast is great and the story is a lot of fun, but I just found myself feeling frustrated that the resolution would be really simple.  The "Truth" is not that difficult an alternative. Did I mention that the whole cast is talented and great looking?

A Good Story. Well Done. No Big Deal. Last night's bargain rack movie was the "Forget Paris" DVD starring Billy Crystal and Debra Winger. It was a good movie. Well worth watching.  Crystal plays an NBA referee. Yes, and he does a good job of it! In any case, his father dies and his father's wish was to be buried in France. So Crystal goes to Paris and, you might almost guess this, the airline loses the body. In his exasperating wait for them to find it, he meets Winger, an airline employee. A light-hearted romance follows. Ultimately, they get married and settle in Los Angeles, his home base. Then the normal marital difficulties seem to settle in to where they ultimately separate off and on, and ultimately come back together. It's a good story and well done. No big deal. The acting is good. The story has a good flow to it. It's funny off and on. It's touching here and there. I'd regard it as a good evening's entertainment, but nothing I'm going to remember for long.  Gary Peterson

Hellboy Animated DVDs w/ figurine I purchased the Hellboy Animated DVDs w/ figurine through an Amazon vendor.  I was very happy w/ my purchase:  the DVDs were intact and excellent condition (used) and the figurine made the whole package.  It had interchangeable parts and was in excellent condition as well.  I give the set 4 stars.

Classic Story This version of the story of Jesus of Nazareth is one of the best on all levels- production value, faithfulness to the written word, and moving performances. Olivia Hussey is radiant as Mary.

Well, I Liked It. Viewed: 12/03, 12/05, 7/11 Rate: 7  12/05: Rocky V is a nice resurgence back to the top form of Rocky series. It is mostly due to the reason of John G. Avildsen taking up the helm of directing instead of Sylvester Stallone. One touching scene is shown between Rocky and Mickey in the old gym. The acting is much improved this time with an excellent supporting role of George Washington Duke, a Don King wanna-be, played by Richard Gant. What I like about this fifth part is how Stallone was able to make Rocky to go back to his old roots, act the usual Rocky, and bring some new issues rather than play the same tired formula. The street fight adds a new dimension for the series, making Rocky as a street-fighter. Moreover, John G. Avildsen is able to bring more intensity, not found in the past two movies, in the issues between Rocky and Tommy and at the same time with his family than into the motivation build-up prior to big fights. It is a nice acting job by Tommy Morrison. I really enjoy this movie a lot better than the 3rd and 4th parts, although failing to meet the standards of Rocky II, let alone the very first movie.  7/11: For a while, I've always thought Rocky V to be the black sheep of the series. It just doesn't quite fit in. After seeing it again, I appreciate it more, and it is a nice break from the same cliched plot. A lot of people has noticed the dramatic change in the son, especially in puberty growth, but I actually like Sage much more than the cartoon unrelated boy from previous part. He looks and plays the part well. The best performance among the cast is obviously Richard Gant who plays the Don King clone. One thing to like about the film is the skillful editing. And another was the recapture of the old Rocky acting style by Sylvester Stallone. That is sorely missed in the past two films. He is really good in it. Anyway, I am looking more forward to the final part since it is obviously one of the best films of the series. I am raising the rating of the film from `6' to `7'.

Pretty good Movie was overall good.  I wish they had used the original oracle in it, too, but other than that, pretty decent.

IT'S STILL GOOD... Ok, I admit- I love the genre, so I'm biased a bit. BUT, it wasn;t the best of the series, and it's not as good as Bake Street Hauntings (and yes, BSH technically came first like someone mentioned). Everyone knows adding kids always makes us care more about the characters. Good idea..I think they should move on now to new story. Evil doesn't just haunt one group of people, hehe.

The Magic of Morgan Freeman! If you are a fan of Morgan Freeman and haven't seen Magic of Belle Isle, then you should.  It is a wonderful family movie that weaves a story about a once famous author of Western novels who is a drunk with an attitude in a wheel chair and arrives - not by choice - on Belle Isle for the summer.  He threatens to drink himself to death but puts the mission on hold as he becomes neighborly with his much younger and very attractive next door neighbor who is divorced and has three daughters.  And then the Magic of Belle Isle settles in and great changes are in store for one and all.  The acting is superb, the story is simple and maybe a stretch in some areas but it will make you laugh and maybe shed a few tears.  It was packaged very well and arrived within two days after I placed my order.

P.T.S.D., FRIENDSHIP AND LONG SUFFERING Very interesting film concerning PTSD,friendship,regret,and long suffering.  Colin Farrel and Christopher Lee did very well in this picture together. I am glad I purchased the dvd.  The jerks who gave it bad reviews never have been in the military and just totally incoherent of feelings for others. Negative ratings of this film by others are typical pansy butts who sit at home on their fat asses playing on their computers while others are at war risking their lives, getting killed, wounded, enduring mental and physical anguish  for these low life's.

"If they can't feel, then they have no fear..." Bereavement is a prequel to the painfully average slasher flick Malevolence that improves immeasurably on that predictable and formulaic film and instead follows in the footsteps of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre while adding in deeper character work and psychological themes to create one of the better modern serial killer films.  Horror fans will not want to miss this one as it is indeed a truly nasty piece of work.  That said, there are plenty of more unrelentingly brutal, gory, and disturbing underground horror flicks out there, but this is one that takes the time to work on a storytelling and character level in addition to making you squirm and question the existence of a loving God.  Bereavement opens up with a nightmare right off the top.  A young boy with a condition that makes him unable to feel pain is abducted by a man driving a vehicle so creepy it should have "rape-mobile" painted on the side in blood.  The man is a deranged serial killer working out of his family's abandoned slaughterhouse and seems to take the child's immunity to pain as a sign of divine purity and begins raising him as his successor.  So right away, you can see this won't be a film you'll want to watch on family night.  From there, the narrative splits into sections, expertly following the stories of a young waitress about to have a bad week, the boy and his new surrogate parent, and a city girl moving out to the country to live with her aunt and uncle following the death of her parents.  The stories will converge and you ask yourself once again: who will survive and what will be left of them?  Now, at this point I'd like to point out that for a horror flick, the cast of this film is very strong.  Leading lady Alexandra Daddario...just wow.  Like Megan Fox and  Jessica Biel had an impossible love child destined to be hotter than either of them.  I don't often carry on too much about how gorgeous an actress is in a film review, but I'll make an exception this time.  I really hope to see this girl break out into bigger roles.  Fraternal twins Spencer and Peyton List steal the show performance-wise as the film's two child roles.  Spencer brings the tortured creepiness and Peyton pours on the charm.  Very talented young actors.  Brett Rickaby also plays one hell of a psychopath.  I also seldom praise horror film casts, so consider this a good reason to see the film even if the likes of Leatherface and Jason do little for you.  This is closer in tone to Henry: Portrait of  a Serial Killer meets Wolf Creek in spite of it`s surface resemblance to TCM.  This has none of that film's black comedy.  Okay, bloody death.  It's not an ever-present barrage, but when it happens you feel it like a meat hook through your leg.  Lots of disturbing images to make you gasp and cringe, and rest assured that nobody if off limits to kill or be killed, regardless of age or innocence.  Bereavement forgoes the typical lascivious exploitation present in most slasher films (aside from having the lead actress spend plenty of time in a tank top) in favor of exploring some interesting psychological and social themes as well as explicitly portraying the madness of the film's killer as he continually tries to justify his deeds with contradictory mantras and conversations with imaginary demons.  Disturbing stuff, and very effective in elevating the material a notch above typical slasher/serial killer fare.  Bereavement is a solid horror flick that manages to take the high road in terms of storytelling while still delivering the gore and nastiness we've come to expect from underground horror.  It's not exactly a masterpiece, but it's arguably best TCM-style film since the original classic, so that's something to get excited about.  Seeing Malevolence is not a precursor to enjoying or understanding this film so don't let that stop you. In fact, I recommend skipping Malevolence altogether unless you're on a mission to see every slasher film ever made.  The DVD comes with deleted scenes -some of which were wisely cut and others were actually quite good and creepy in their own right-, but hearing that a lot of the more brutal scenes were cut from the film and not seeing them there was kind of a bummer.  There's also a run-of-the-mill "making-of" and a few other knick-knacks, but none of it really essential.  Do stay after the film credits for a parting bit of creepiness, though.  If you're looking for a decent horror flick to make you cringe and think about the nature/nurture debate at the same time, Bereavement may be your stop.  I find most slasher flicks to be little more than a few formulaic cheap thrills and jump scares worthy of three stars at best, but this is one that may be worth your attention.

A watchable blu-ray of a good movie 2010 has been one of my favorites since it came out in 1984. I think this is a good movie or I would not have purchased the blu-ray so I'll skip over comment on the movie itself.  The blu-ray transfer is not as horrible as many of these reviews would have you believe. If you want to see a BAD transfer, check out the DVD of Outland, another Peter Hyams film from the '80s. Compared to that, this is the best transfer in the universe. Although folks have called it "grainy", to me it appears to be more like digital camera noise you get at a high ISO rating - in any scene where there is sufficient brightness, there is no "noise", even within the same frame. In only one scene (when they are discussing what HAL will do when they ask him to sacrifice himself) is Roy Scheider slightly out of focus, although the rest of the frame is in focus. Bottom line is that the quality of this transfer did not detract from watching the movie. I don't have the DVD, so picking this up was a no brainer - but I have to believe this is better than the DVD.

Fiddler on the roof This is a classic movie! With songs that are remembered a long time.  The music by itzak Perlman, the violin solos are beautiful and will stand the test if time.

3.5 stars for this slight but very charming historical romance Let me first say that I have no idea how historically accurate THE YOUNG VICTORIA is...so I will not comment on that.  As an entertainment, THE YOUNG VICTORIA is satisfying but a little slim.  This is a very slight story, full of charm, nice performances, lovely costumes and art direction...but it doesn't feel urgent or terribly important.  For example, the politics featured in the excellent ELIZABETH with Cate Blanchett were obscure to a 21st century American guy...but they were made to feel urgent and vital.  The story of "Young Elizabeth" was gripping and it felt important.  By contrast, the politics in this film seem somehow muted and simplified.  I appreciated that it was made fairly easy to keep up with where everyone's loyalties lay...but it wasn't pumped full of energy and vigor.  Essentially, we've got the story of how teen aged Victoria was crowned Queen, despite efforts to get her to assign her powers elsewhere, and then the efforts of various advisors to steer her during her first few years of power.  It's all mildly interesting, but that's it.  So what we're left to care about is a sort-of love triangle.  On one point, we've got the soon to be crowned Victoria, not even out of her teens (Emily Blunt).  Her best and most loyal advisor, the Prime Minister of England, the charming and manipulative Lord Melbourne (Paul Bettany) is another point.  Yet Victoria, while deeply devoted to the presence of Melbourne, is clearly smitten with Prince Albert of Germany (Rupert Friend), who is the final point of the triangle.  This prince, initially sent to England to "spy" on Victoria and win her support of German issues...is also smitten with Victoria.  They commence a long-distance and very proper relationship that is really quite sweet and charming.  Victoria is spunky and sure of herself.  She's successfully stared down the machinations of her mother (Miranda Richardson) and consort (Mark Strong).  She has a good instinct for the job, but is prone to peevishness that sometimes runs her afoul of public sentiment.  Albert is the better read of the two, but is somewhat shy and reserved.  Frankly, he might best be described (with his unfortunate haircut and moustache) as a nerd.  But he's a devoted nerd, and one who has Victoria's best interests at heart first and foremost.  The movie never really pretends that Victoria and Albert will not be together, or that they are not meant to be together.  The obstacles in the way of their relationship are fairly easily dispensed with.  But what IS quite refreshing is to see a monarch and her husband actually love each other.  It's not a marriage of convenience or political expedience.  They love each other AND make each other better people.  In many ways, they have an ideal marriage.  Yes, they have a couple of nasty fights.  But there's not much doubt things will work out.  For such a small story to work...one with relatively little in the way of urgent conflict...you'd better have some really nice actors to take you on the journey.  And here, THE YOUNG VICTORIA succeeds quite well.  The supporting cast, including Bettany, Richardson, Strong and a terrific & eccentric Jim Broadbent as King William are all top-notch.  And Emily Blunt and Rupert Friend make a great couple...simple as that.  We ROOT for them throughout the film.  I don't really know Friend's work...but he's quite fun here.  Charming, smart, deferential, shrewd & romantic (he learns to dance for Victoria...and while we see the scene coming from a mile away, it's still simply delightful).  And Blunt is such a fun young actress.  It's very nice to see her in a "costume piece"...doing her own excellent spin on the kind of part Keira Knightley plays so often.  While she may appear a touch "modern" from time-to-time, she can play both strong and vulnerable at the same time.  And her slightly unorthodox looks make her endlessly interesting to watch.  The movie wants to be the kind of Oscar-caliber film that ELIZABETH or THE DUCHESS or PRIDE & PREJUDICE were (and it did win an Oscar for costuming)...but the director hasn't delivered a strong enough piece.  But for all that, THE YOUNG VICTORIA is interesting and full of small pleasures and nice performances.  And when it was over, I was certainly ready for THE MIDDLE-AGED VICTORIA and THE OLD VICTORIA.  That's a pretty good endorsement.

Cute I purchased this movie for my nephew. It's a really cute movie and has some education features in it. He really enjoyed it a lot and I thought it was good as well. I would highly recommend this movie for all ages!

Really Fun Family Movie for Teens Every Saturday night we have family movie night at my house.  That means two teens (16 & 13) and a tween (12) have to be entertained along with my wife and I.  Not an easy task.  I spend a fair amount of time searching for movies that everyone can enjoy (which hopefully means no nudity/sex).  I got this movie because I remembered thinking that I really liked it when it came out and thought the kids would enjoy it.  I was right.  It turned out to be a great family movie.  Geena Davis is very good as a normal housewife with amnesia who has skills that she does not understand living happily in a small town with her husband and children.  But when she gets a bump on her head, she begins to remember small parts of her previous life . . . I won't spoil the plot, but let's just say it is high action and fun for all.  Although this action thriller was released in 1996, it does not look so dated as to compromise your viewing pleasure.

Perfect for beginners I have lost over fifty pounds in the past seven months, mostly through cardio workouts and eating healthier. I was looking for something that would incorporate more strength training exercises, and so I purchased this DVD. It is definitely challenging, especially if you haven't done a lot of lunges, squats, or using weights in your workouts. I liked how the exercises got progressively harder so that I wasn't overwhelmed at first, and would definitely recommend this to someone looking to gain some experience in strength-focused exercises. As far as whether I had a higher weight loss rate using this DVD, I would say no, not really, but I did notice major changes in my appearance pretty much after the first couple of weeks.

Well done in capturing the essence of the books Much - if not most - of the extraneous subplots found in the books were removed from the movie adaptation.  Despite that, each of the movies captured the essence of and was true to the main storyline.  Consequently, this was an extremely well done book-to-movie adaptation.  It also seemed that each of the characters were well acted; however, given that I don't speak Swedish, it's difficult to make such an assessment because the language barrier doesn't allow for a true assessment of the authenticism each actor gives to the respective character through the delivery of the diaologue.  Though each of the movies has omitted much of the story found in the books, they are all over two hours long.  Nevertheless, the time travels quickly because the movies do draw-in viewer.  Overall, the Swedes have done a fine job in the silver screen adaptation.

My copy is OK I received this movie about a week ago but hadn't yet viewed it. After reading the above review I thought it best to check my copy. It is Blu-Ray and it runs perfectly on my Oppo 93.

The Warrior's Way..... Despite it's strange premise, The Warrior's Way was a pretty good spaghetti western action flick. It tells the story of Yang (Jang Dong-gun), "the greatest swordsman in the history of mankind," who's managed to wipe out all his enemies except for one, that being an infant whom he refuses to murder, much to the displeasure of his boss, the leader of a band known as the Sad Flutes. Knowing this, Yang ends up on the run and, somehow, ends up in a worn-down town running the town laundry service. There, he meets a young woman with a past of her own..her family was slaughtered by a local bad guy known as the Colonel. He soon befriends her as well as the rest of the town until the past catches up to him.  After seeing the trailer for this movie, I figured that it would be a straight martial arts flick set in the old west but it ended up being something I wasn't quite expecting. That being said, it did end up pretty good. Heck, it even left the movie open for a part two. Yet, somehow, I feel like we won't see one(as it has recieved poor reviews). Course, I could be wrong. I have been wrong before.  Overall, if you're looking for a lil cheese with your main course, The Warrior's Way will serve it up to you quite nicely. For what the movie's worth, it was a decent flick.

Dibs on the mountain guide. We have seen Brendan Fraser movies at only maintained the title and not the meat of the true story, such as "The Mummy", who does not look a thing like Peter Cushing (1959). Now we are presented with "Journey to the Center of the Earth."  However, this movie does give us a good synopsis of the story.  Moreover, it is very much fun to watch.  Prof. Trevor Anderson (Brendan Fraser) has lost a brother. Professor Anderson's nephew Sean Anderson (Josh Hutcherson) has lost a father. Well circumstances force them to spend some time together.  They realize that they might be able to find the lost Max Anderson and make a trip to Iceland in pursuit.  They are bigger and across the tasty mountain guide Hannah &Aacute;sgeirsson (Anita Briem), who has recently lost her father.  Both Hannah's father, and Trevor's brother had one thing in common; they were Vernians. So all three each bringing their own unique talents, set off to find the lost Max Anderson.  I first watched the 2D version of this movie in Blu-ray high definition.  Some of the scenes were quite beautiful, such as the diamonds that had the lights behind them, so they would glisten in the cave.  The movie did look a little bit like it was cranked out at the last minute with many things not thought out.  However, it was still fun for the time that it lasted.  Now it was time to watch the 3-D version. , I must say that some of the scenes are spectacular.  The trilobite at first may be halved almost at back of the seat.  Other scenes instead of extending out into the viewer's space recessed back and looked like the old stereoscopic slides. Occasionally there looked like a pane of glass with a reflection of what was behind it. I am not sure if this was sloppy manufacturing or beyond the technology even of today.  No matter the problem, it is well worth the viewing and I hope this will catch on as an industry option.

fast-paced, colorful and inventive Gru, a Russian-born inventor and thief, desperate to be known as the number one villain on the planet, comes up with a scheme to steal the moon and hold it for ransom - all with the help of an army of cylinder-shaped minions he made himself.  But Gru's life is eventually turned around after he adopts three adorable tykes whom he initially intends to make unwitting participants in his diabolical plan but who, instead, wind up making him question his own commitment to a life of crime.  Directed by Peter Coffin and Chris Renaud, "Despicable Me" is a colorful, witty and fast-paced animated feature that has just the right amount of humor, sentiment and moral lessons to make it a well-balanced treat for children and oldsters alike.  The frequent and exciting action sequences also make this ideal viewing for those with deficient attention spans (which seems to include just about all of us these days).  The design of the characters is clever and amusing, and the voice work - by Steve Carrell, Will Arnett, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, and a virtually unrecognizable Julie Andrews - is excellent as well.

Liked it I like the duality of the message the movie tried to convey, not the environmental one, but the one where McQueen realizes he shouldn't try to change his friend but also where Mater realizes that his antics are hurtful. Who hasn't known someone who they wish would act differently while in public? As far as the violence it is really not any more prominent than in any other Pixar film, in Nemo the mother and his hundreds of siblings are all murdered in the first ten minutes. No this movie is not UP but it does tell a fun story and it tells it well. Who hasn't imagined cars as people? This movie is Pixar's interpretation of what this world would look like and I personally enjoyed it. To me Pixar is about making a story the creators want to watch and hoping others also want to watch, unfortunately this was not to everyone's taste but I applaud Pixar for continuing the franchise and cannot wait to see Planes when it is released.

Prometheus The only reason I rented this movie is because of the 2012 Prometheus. That movie raised more questions than answers. After I watched this original Alien movie, I clearly see that Prometheus is retelling the Alien story through a different voice. (just like the New Star Trek movie) I wonder why took them so long, when's the sequel ?!

Powerful movie This is a movie that definitely sneaks up on you and hits you from behind.  It was compelling and surprisingly evocative.  The acting was believable and the writing a cut above from the usual 'based on a true story' kind of movie.  I highly recommend it.

Stargate Unuverse Never saw it when it came out. Never saw the original. Don't really care for Atlantis, just me. I like this. A lot of people say it's slow. I am glad I bought it. I like the way the characters and plot develop. Do hope they come out with another season. "Man that guy's a lot of work!"

Love the movie! Product got to the home quick.  Love the movie the Blu-ray is perfect for the home theater system. Did not have a single issue everything was great.

great for a preview of the park!!! I love the view that this video gives of the magic kingdom. Have used it for both of my kids, especially before each of their first trips to Disney. Never fails to rev them up. I just wish they would update it a little. Roger Rabbit is very prominently featured, and these days you don't see him in the parks.

I would like to comment on the fact... ...that Amazon does not provide sufficient information as to the contents of this DVD collection, so I took the liberty of posting this list. I hope it may be useful to others.  EZ Money (2005) 86 min - Family / Comedy - Director: Dan T. Hall - Stars: Lisa Baldwin, Micah Shane Ballinger and Ethel Booth.  Lil' Treasure Hunters a.k.a. The Lil' River Rats and the Adventure of the Lost Treasure (2003) - 80 min - Adventure - Director: Dan T. Hall - Stars: Molly Hall, Caleb Ely and Alex Ruppert.  When Zachary Beaver Came to Town (2003) - 85 min - Comedy / Drama / Family - Director: John Schultz - Stars: Jonathan Lipnicki, Cody Linley and Jesse Pennington.  Bigfoot: The Unforgettable Encounter (1994) - 88 min - Adventure - Director: Corey Michael Eubanks - Stars: JoJo Adams, Brian Avery and Derek Barton.  The Impossible Elephant (2001) - 95 min - Adventure / Family - Director: Martin Wood - Stars: Mia Sara, Nicholas Lea and Mark Rendall.  Bailey's Billions a.k.a. Bailey's Billion$ (2005) - 90 min - Comedy / Family - Director: David Devine - Stars: Dean Cain, Laurie Holden and Jennifer Tilly.  Earth Minus Zero (1996) - 81 min - Comedy / Family / Sci-Fi - Director: Joey Travolta - Stars: Pat Morita, Marcia Strassman and Brock Pierce.  Little Bigfoot 2: The Journey Home (1997) - 93 min - Family - Director: Art Camacho - Stars: Stephen Furst, Taran Noah Smith and Michael Fishman.  The Power Within (Video 1995) - 97 min - Action - Director: Art Camacho - Stars: Ted Jan Roberts, Karen Valentine and Keith Coogan.  The Phoenix and the Carpet (1997) A six episode 28 min TV Mini-Series edited into a 93 min movie - Adventure / Family / Fantasy - Director: Michael Kerrigan - Stars: David Suchet, Nicola Redmond and Miriam Margolyes.

We need more shows like Reaper Reaper is a show was that cut down before it even got a chance to reach its prime. With great characters and excellent writing it baffles me why this show was cancelled. We need more shows like Reaper.

As good as it could be without being a book I love the book and I enjoyed the movie.  The confrontation in the library between Jonathan Pryce's Mr. Dark and Jason Robards' Mr. Holloway is particularly memorable. Pryce makes an ideal Mr. Dark--he contains his fury and hate beneath a brittle courtesy--in other words, he is perfectly Satanic, his smile belying his cold, penetrating stare.  The boys are good enough, and Jason Robards is always a pleasure.  Young viewers will benefit from this introduction to moral ideas: sin, temptation, guilt, forgiveness, and the power of redemptive love, all dressed with the dark fantasy of Bradbury's wild imagination.  The more sophisticated viewer, however, still waits for the definitive version of Bradbury's beautiful and haunting book.

space movie was a little slow but interesting if you are interested in the space program.what more do you want me to say?

Youthful curiosity releases inner corruption, and many new life lessons Risky Business is a Tom Cruise classic film, which has a narrative that focuses on young men looking for thrills, as they approach adulthood. It is a promiscuous desire by Joel Goodson (Cruise) that exposes him to a world where every pleasure can be bought. Goodson at first enjoys all the spoils, but soon finds himself in over his head in a sleazy world, where fair play is an unknown rule. The movie has some memorable scenes, including Cruise's home alone dance to "Old Time Rock and Roll" by Bob Seger.  Nicholas R.W. Henning - Australian Author

good but short Since I've been a fan of Charlton Heston's ever since I was a stary eyed high school student who couldn't believe her good luck when he answered my fan letter in connection with his performance in The President's Lady, I do like this DVD. It's a bit short and could include some examples of his own interviews as well as words from his son Fray Heston. In other words, more of the same would be great.

The Money Pit Has there ever been a bad Tom Hanks movie, but this is not just entertainment value watch this before you do major renovations I could have saved $250,000 had I watched this first. Even as an oldie its still good.

In the Realms of the Unreal "KimJongilia" is a documentary about North Korea produced by Mike Figgis (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005QBBCMI">Leaving Las Vegas</a>,<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005DNPG30">The Browning Version</a>) and while Figgis is more well-known for his movie about an alcoholic Nicolas Cage spending his final days in Las Vegas, this is his hidden masterpiece. "Kimjongilia" is composed of interviews with real heroes- those who have escaped North Korea and are brave in denouncing the tyrannical regime. Forget Superman, Batman, or the Avengers- these people have lived in harrowing circumstances. One survivor was born in the ominously named "Total Control Camp"-another was imprisoned because her friend was a lover of Kim Jong-Il and knew the pillow talk. One survivor found spiritual sustenance in literature like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1613821530">Anna Karenina</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199555761">Resurrection (Oxford World's Classics)</a>, and was inspired by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1613820976">The Count of Monte Cristo</a> to escape. While the interpretive dancing segments are jarring, the overall narrative is powerful. These are stories of true heroism and faith.

A misunderstood and fun film. Not much I can say except that this movie is often riffed on for all the wrong reasons.  Yes, the movie is indeed flawed in many respects. But at the same time, it has a lot of great set pieces, music, good dialogue, good CG and animatronics, and a a scene using Joe Satroni music.  It's just a fun movie, worth riffing on if you hate it, but a fun movie if you appreciate it for exactly what it is supposed to be, a fun ride.

Hugo a great movie and worth seeing. The Hugo movie is for those who like to see technical style parts. Those who enjoy history will also enjoy the movie. The movie moves right into the story from the very beginning and many things to catch all the way through.

cute film Sandra Bullock does a nice job in her role in this film. This movie is of the 'chick flick' variety so is not for everybody. Still, it is a nice film if you're into this genre, romantic, just a bit cheesy.

Truly Everlasting - Independent Movie I am a fan of Brenda Jackson and I have read the book as well as own the DVD of the movie.  This movie stayed very true to the storyline of the book it did not change anything and I for one enjoyed it for that very reason.  You see a while back BET was turning Arabesque novels into movies and they had included another one of Mrs. Jackson's books which happened to be my all time favorite book One Special Moment and they change the storyline which then ruined the movie for me.  It is important that the movie stays true to the book just like Truly Everlasting did.  Good movie and I am looking forward to more by Mrs. Jackson.

One of Hitchcock's Best Murder Mystery Films One of Alfred Hitchcock's best. Guy Haynes is a tennis player with an unfaithful bitch of a wife and a beautiful senator's daughter he intends to marry once his divorce is final. Bruno Anderson is a psychotic, wealthy playboy who hates his father and wants to inherit his estate. He proposes a murder plot when he meets Guy on a train. They will trade murders, and neither one will get caught because there's no motive for either murder, and nobody knows they have ever met. Guy thinks he is crazy, which is true, and brushes him off.  But when his wife decides that she's not going to get a divorce, she wants to go to Washington with Guy when he gets into politics (remember, he is in with a senator), and have the baby she is carrying there. They both know that the baby is not his, but the father ran out on her, and so she's going to saddle Guy with the kid and prevent his marrying the senator's daughter. He has a fight with her in the music store where she works, and stalks out.  But Bruno goes ahead with "his half of the plot," as he describes it, and murders her in a cheap lover's lane setting at an amusement park where she had gone with two men. He strangles her after holding up her husband's lighter so he can see her face (which Guy accidentally left behind on the train) and asking if she was Miriam Haynes. When she says yes, he kills her. Just like that. No emotion.  After the murder, but before Guy has been informed of it, Bruno goes to see Guy and tells him now it's his turn; he must murder Bruno's father. Guy never had any intention of doing so, and says so. But Bruno points out that Guy won't go to the police with what he knows, because then he would be charged as well, for having planned it all.  I won't go into the details about how Guy gets out of this mess, because Hitchcock is so good at surprises. All I will say is watch that merry-go-round! I'm partial to Hitchcock, and as I said before, this is one of his best.

We can only hope for redemption. I love Harry Potter and everything in the world of Harry Potter.  I have read all the books, some several times, I have seen all the movies up to this point and I will own all the DVDs sold.  All the actors in this series are wonderful.  They will always remain favorites of mine. However, I cannot give this movie the five stars it could have been.  The movie ran 2 hours and 26 minutes; Longer than some movies but shorter than other epics such as The Lord of the Rings trilogy.  And for an extra 15 minutes the movie could have stayed more true to the books.  I would have sat there for another hour had it followed the book better.  By taking short cuts, they lost some of the charm that JK Rowling created. Why didn't someone cry foul when this was being filmed?  Or did this happen during editing? We can only hope that the final film will redeem itself and shortcuts will not hack into the true genius that the Harry Potter series is.

Awesome Can you reboot a franchise that once held the record for largest opening weekend in history? Can you create something original using a character who was first introduced to the world in 1962?    Peter Parker, age 4, (played by Max Charles) is playing hide and seek one night when he discovers someone has broken into his father's study. His father, Richard (played by Campbell Scott) sees this and takes some important papers, his wife Mary (played by Embeth Davidtz) and his son to the home of his Aunt May (played by Sally Field) and Uncle Ben (played by Martin Sheen). Peter is left in that home for his own safety and never sees his parents again. At least a decade later, Peter (played as a teenager by Andrew Garfield), is being bullied by an athlete named Flash Thompson (played by Chris Zylka) and has a crush on a student named Gwen Stacey (played by Emma Stone). When Peter returns home at the end of the day, bruised and beaten by Flash, he finds papers in his father's briefcase that show he once worked with a man named Dr. Curt Connors (played by Rhys Ifans). Connors works at a company named Oscorp, so Peter disguises himself as an intern to gain access to the lab and, hopefully, Connors. Little did he know, the tour for new interns was led by Gwen Stacey. She knows immediately that the ID badge that Peter's wearing belongs to someone else, but allows him to continue on the tour regardless. Peter sneaks away from the group and finds a lab filled with genetically-modified spiders that are producing biocable. As is often the case with people who bother animals for no reason, Peter gets bitten. Security eventually finds him and escorts him out of the building. While on the subway, he discovers that he gained far more than knowledge from his visit.    Now, I saw the 2002 Spider-Man film starring Tobey Maguire and the 2004 sequel. I liked it initially, but over time, I grew tired of it. I thought 2004's Daredevil was a much better film, despite mixed reviews from moviegoers and critics. Not to mention, I believe Kirsten Dunst gave a less-than-stellar performance as Parker's love interest, Mary Jane Watson. Not to mention the irony of having blonde Kirsten Dunst dye her hair red to play Mary Jane Watson and then having redhead Emma Stone dye her hair blonde to play Gwen Stacey. Forgetting all that for a second, this was a much better film than the one we got from Sam Raimi. Director Marc Webb and company have created something with a much darker, more serious tone, a better story, and a solid conclusion. I enjoyed this film very much.

Lonegunmen Bought this as a gift for a friend so I can't say much for now other than I was disappointed in the packing.  Item was sent in a plastic mailing envelope which did little to protect the DVD cases from getting damaged during shipment.  As for the discs my friend says they had a minor scratch or two where the discs rubbed against the plastic... guess I shouldn't have expected much since the S&H cost more than the item ($1 for the entire season, $4.00 for S&H)

A Love It Or Hate It Movie. I discovered this film apx 3 years ago on Youtube.  I was trolling around for something animated to watch and decided to give this odd looking film a chance.  Well, I was pleasantly surprised by it.  Let me be clear though, this is NOT for everyone.  Meaning not for: young children, adults who don't watch Anime or animated features, non-lovers of fantasy adventure, non-fans of quirky old films.  These people will not be fans of this.  That being said I will say that even Anime fans may not enjoy this.  It IS dated, suffers from poor editing at times, and story wise could have been better.  This film either strikes you or it doesn't, period.  For those still curious, here is the low down:  **Minor Spoilers Ahead**  The film begins with the Earth exploding into a nuclear war.  A nuclear war started by 5 terrorists detonating bombs the narrator says.  2 Million years go by and some of the planet is inhabitable again.  Quite a length of time...Well anyway, the humans who didn't die of radiation sickness or cancers survived and became Mutants.  As the films states each generation got worse than the last, now these Mutants are so far removed from their original Human descendants that they are hopeless.  With the decline of the Humans and their technology, magical beings start to re-immerge.  Elves, Fairies, Dwarves, etc, all come out of the woodwork and start to repopulate the world.  Enter the Fairy Queen, (whose name slips my mind right now), she is out with the entire Fairy village during a festival and suddenly the sky turns black.  She rushes to her home.  Later the other villagers come to check on her and discover that like the Virgin Mary she has given birth to twins.  The movie never goes into detail why this happens.  Anywho...the twins are polarized, (just like Danny Devito and Arnold from 'Twins), Avatar is on the side of light and goodness, and Black Wolf born a Mutant is on the side of evil and darkness.  This film was made in the 1970's, so they are not stealing the name 'Avatar', if anything, James Cameron is...  The Queen Fairy never seems to recover from her delivery and dies, what seems like decades later, as Avatar has a long beard in the still scene.  I forgot to mention, both twins are wizards and very powerful in the art of magic.  After the Queen dies, Black Wolf, who has despised his mother since birth, comes down on Avatar in battle.  He hopes to claim the land for himself with the Queen dead now.  Avatar and Black Wolf fight and Avatar defeats him, but for some reason spares his life.  Black Wolf retreats to the radioactive ruins of the land of Scorch.  Avatar lives in what I believe is called Mandalay.  It seems like the movie says millions of years go by, and then another scene says thousands of years go by.  As I said this movie suffers from bad editing at times.  The movie then gets into it's sway with Black Wolf dispatching 3 assassins to kill the 3 major rulers of the free lands.  After which he plans to rally his evil demonic armies and overrun the good lands.  **Summing up...**  That's the plot.  As I said, your will either love it or hate it.  This film is disturbing at times.  Black Wolf is like Hitler reborn.  His armies bear the Swatzica on their arms and refer to Black Wolf as the "Fuhrur."  AND he rallies his armies for war by showing them old Nazi films from World War II.  As I said...disturbing.  One scene I just noticed today which I never did before was a scene where the little lizard man comes into the throne room to speak with Black Wolf.  He tells Black Wolf that the 3 rulers are dead, much to Black Wolf's delight.  There is a pig hanging dead with a hook in it's foot from the ceiling.  While Black Wolf is ranting about how it's time for the war to begin, the lizard man goes and rips a big piece of the pig off and eats it.  No big deal...right?  The lizard rips off a 2nd piece and the pig swings around to show it's belly.  What's on it's belly?  THE STAR OF DAVID!!!  WTF!!! INDEED!!!  Is that supposed to be a Jew hanging from there, who knows?  Ralph Bakshi is not racist as far as I know.  Perhaps there is some message there I'm missing.  Who knows.  **In Conclusion**  Dark film, dated in it's presentation, NOT for kids.  BUT...interesting and entertaining, and demands analyzing by some.  If you find yourself part of that few who think this sounds interesting give it a shot.  This film only exists because the fan-boys kept pestering Fox about releasing it.  So there must be a large fanbase out there for it.  Well, thank you fan-boys, without your success I would not have been able to see it and develope a liking for it as well.  Now if only 'Light Years' could ever come to DVD...

In my universe I loved this movie.  Well done to build a story out of the time and music that the Beatles created this music in.  I think the voices and cinematographic were grand.

Very good Discoveries Travel / site-seeing video presentation on the state of Georgia Savanah, Plains, Reed Bingham Park, Colquitt Swamp Gravy stage play, Fitzgerald wild chickens, Helen Bavarian Village, Atlanta (w/out any crap about Michael King, Jr.!) and Hawksville Harness Racing and more are covered in this excellent film. I highly recommend it. From noted Travel and History Reviewer, Rich Salzer, 2011, A.D., HRL.

Raw super hero movie Not one to watch with the kids but was very entertaining.  Seemed like a National Lampoonesque superhero movie.  Very violent scenes were suprising - like Mortal combat almost.  Fun to watch!

El Mariachi/ Desperado Blu-ray Video Review <span class="tiny"> Length:: 4:15 Mins  </span>This is the first time El Mariachi and Desperado was released on Blu-ray. What's included on this set are Desperado and El Mariachi on one disc, Audio Commentates by Robert Rodriguez on both films, 10 Minute Film School, Rodriguez's student film, "Bed Head, a music video with Los Lobos and more. The video quality for El Mariachi is really good, considering the low budget origins of the movie but what really shines on Blu-ray is Desperado. The audio options for El Mariachi are Spanish  original language), English and French 2.0 Stereo DTS-HD MA and for Desperado it's English (original language) and French 5.1 DTS-HD MA and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital. The video review is in Spanish with English subtitles.

A big hit for George Clooney It is a pleasure to add this movie to my personal collection so I can relax and watch it again whenever the mood strikes.  It's a sweet story with a little humor, some emotion and  wonderful Hawaiian scenery.  The actors are perfect in their parts and the fact that they all enjoyed working together  shows in their performances.

Bette Davis in her Glory I've been watching a lot of classic films. They are on my "must see" list even though I might know little or nothing about the plot. I knew Bette Davis had been nominated for an Academy Award for DARK VICTORY, so I had to see it. The title made me think of some eve of WORLD WAR II spy epic and nothing could be further from that. DARK VICTORY is the story of a carefree young heiress Judy Traherne confrontation with mortality. Davis made several movies in this era as a wealthy, spoiled and usually mean-spirited heiress or socialite. But, in DARK VICTORY, Judy Traherne is pampered and spoiled but with a kinder and gentler side. She only takes a nasty turn when she realizes people have deceived her about the seriousness of her illness.  DARK VICTORY is a bittersweet love story as Davis falls in love with her dedicated doctor knowing any day could be her last.  Although, 1939 was also the year of great, immortal films such as GONE WITH THE WIND and THE WIZARD OF OZ, DARK VICTORY was still a huge box-office hit that afforded Davis with much well-deserved acclaim. Yes, that's Ronald Reagan as a her dapper playboy friend. Humphrey Bogart seems a bit miscast as Davis's horse trainer. It seems Bogart may have only gotten the role to gain more exposure. Certainly better things were in the future for both he and Reagan.  Davis never looked so young and vibrant. It's clear to see how she charmed so many people.

The ROAN 3-movies Pre-Code set: "Of Human Bondage" GREAT! "Millie" & "Kept Husbands" NOT worth wasting time on. I'd rate this 3-movies set 5 stars if strictly considering the superb "Of Human Bondage", as well as picture and sound quality of all three digitally remastered films. However, for the $20, plus $2.98 S&H, I paid for this ROAN set, and having not enjoyed or been interested in the dull, tired, annoying "Kept Husbands," or the lame, cheesy, bottom-of-the-barrel "Millie", I feel like I paid $23 just for the one movie, "Of Human Bondage", in the collection I actually want, which feels steep to pay for a movie without actual full restoration (by which I mean extensive removal/cleanup of visual imperfections, more overall consistency balancing, etc.) or any included extras. Still, I've been looking, for quite a while, for the best available DVD release of "Of Human Bondage," to have as a worthy "keeper" that meets my picture-quality and audio standards (having previously owned two different DVD releases of it that I was very disappointed by), and feel like, to date, this is not only fully satisfactory but is THE release to own. Visual clarity and contrast (no cloudiness/murkiness, nor over brightness and rampant washout) is good, audio is clear, and I am pleased to now have this release of "Of Human Bondage" included in my fine, ever-growing and improving/evolving, permanent DVD collection (which is by far heaviest on Silent movies and Pre-Code era films, the 1920s through mid-'30s being my era of particular interest as a vintage films buff). Unless I someday learn that some other label (for example Critereon or Kino) has given "Of Human Bondage" an actual full-scale deluxe restoration, and especially if offering it with extras, this ROAN release has me perfectly contented and not feeling any further need to upgrade.  Incidentally, the exact length of the ROAN release of "Of Human Bondage" is 83 minutes.

We'll bring your wife down here and stick her in the cat room! You get to watch! This DVD is a trilogy of three Stephen King stories.  The stories are titled Quitters Inc., The Ledge and General. Quitters Inc  This tale is about a man who wants to quit smoking and he goes to a company named Quitters Inc.  They are a coaching company to motivate people and the motivation is very strongly applied.  As he fills out the forms another man has his wife come out in tears and with her shoes off.  The wife starts beating her husband with her shoes.  The manager shows Mr. Morrison (James Woods) a cat in a room being shocked on a metal grid floor and the penalties get worse from there....  The Ledge The cat gets free and he moves onto a boat to get into New Jersey.  The cat is the basis of a wager where a casino owner, Mr. Cressner (Kenneth McMillian) bets the cat will make it across a busy street in front of the casino.  He wins as the cat makes it and causes a major wreck in the street he just crossed. Cressner takes the cat home as he just made $2,000 on the bet.  The cat at least deservers some milk.  Cressner's wife is having an affair and he has the man kidnapped and tells him that if he can walk around the ledge of his penthouse apartment then he will divorce his wife.  The trial leads to problems and turnabout is fair play.....  The General The cat gets away again and he rides a train all the way to Wilmington, North Carolina.  There the cat meets a girl, Amanda (Drew Barrymore) who likes him and names him General.  There are other new guests in the home.  The two legged kind about 8 to 12 inches tall with sharp teeth.  The Troll likes the little girl and wants to do her harm and the only thing that can save her is a cat that the mother hates and wants to take to the animal shelter....  This is a good DVD if you like Stephen King's stories.  It is always entertaining to see his imagination come to life on the screen.  I enjoyed the stories but I am a Stephen King freak. If you like that type of genre of movies and books then this is a DVD you should watch.

A drug movie that's really a love story I like this movie. I saw it years ago when it first came out and it really "stayed with me." The thought of having to immerse yourself in the drug culture to do your job, and then finding it so difficult not to succumb to the addiction. Very powerful story. Not a feel good movie, but one that you can definitely get personally involved in!

Final Raw, pretty decent sound, focus on the band not the crowd...this is the blurry to buy!!  Any Who fan should own it.

Ooo! You have to watch it to know what is going on.  I am not one to spoil a movie so you will just have to watch and see.

When Trumpet's Fade I bought this movie after reading several of the reviews and was not disappointed.  I read where it was similar in quality to "Saving Private Ryan", and I would agree with that statement.  When you watch the movie, note the beginning and how it comes full circle to the ending. I won't summarize the movie, as this has been done, but I can say I would let a child as young as 10 watch the movie - but with the warning it does have some bloody scenes with humans being blown apart.  Very realistic and an enjoyable movie to watch!

A Man Flick for Women I am a huge Gabriel Macht fan for alot of reasons.  I normally hate this kind of movie, but honestly, I am addicted to Suits and wanted to see how he performed in another story.  This is definitely a guy movie with all the macho posturing and gun play, but I have watched it three times now and it isn't just because of Macht.  The movie grows on you.  It doesn't hurt that the female leads are strong and interesting...It isn't the best movie I have ever seen, but it is well worth the money and the time.

Moonstruck I like watching this movie especially with the big name talent in this film. Cher was wonderful and a young Nicholas Cage was entertaining as well. The look into old Italian family was nastalgic and comfy, and the music was wonderfuly supportive of the atmosphere. PG 13 easy not bad language, no nude scenes, focus on the story and plot which moved forward at a good pace.

Gone I am not the type of viewer who over analyzes a movie.  I don't critique actors or actresses.  I don't wonder what the director or writer was thinking.  I don't look at action scenes and automatically say I hate the movie because the special effects are not realistic.  I look at a movie for what it is, pure entertainment.  If I am entertained for two hours and the story seemed interesting then I am a fan.  With that being said, I liked the movie Gone.  I thought the story was interesting and the movie kept me entertained.  I would recommend anyone who is interested in a psyhological thriller to watch Gone.  Enjoy it.

Not a film about pretty people I've been hearing about this movie for years. A couple days ago I spent the three dollars on Amazon and watched it. I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. By the way that's the way to go. Avoid the DVD.  The first thing I noticed was that this was not a movie about pretty people living the glamorous life in Los Angeles. Our two protagonists do not live well. Hickey (Bill Cosby) evidently owns two suits, his marriage is a train wreck and ,for reasons never made clear, he is no longer with the L.A.P.D.. Boggs (Robert Culp) is only seen in the same blue suit and he drinks too much. There is also a hint that Boggs might be gay and pays street hustlers for their services. Their vehicles are wrecks - on their last legs. Both men are weary and just grimy. There is even one shot in which we can see the sweat stains on Bogg's shirt.It's apparent that if the movie came with smell Hickey and Boggs would need showers.  One also gets the impression that the movie was filmed when it was hot in L.A. and there was no air conditioning available. Windows are open to catch what breeze there is and the air looks like you could cut it with a knife. There is absolutely no effort to make Southern California or our heroes look clean and neat. Wilted is the word that comes to mind. The city is portrayed as polluted, crowded and loud. Additionally Hickey and Boggs aren't they only ones in need of a shower. The police officers and much of the general public look the same way. There are no perfect, shiny people in this movie.Considering that in the early seventies Southern California was still considered to be the land of milk and honey to many Americans the decision to show the wormy underbelly of the state was daring.  Our heroes are not slick, clever, perfect heroes. Neither are in very good shape, they smoke and drink and evidently live on hot dogs. At one point Boggs breaks into a run, but soon gives it up. They aren't very good shots with their revolvers (a refreshing change of pace actually) and they more or less stumble onto many of the leads in the course of their investigation. Hickey experiences a devastating loss that he might never recover from.  When the story ends they haven't accomplished anything except to kill the three mob soldiers who dog them throughout the movie. They save nobody, the mob remains untouched, and they might very well be looking at time in prison. At best they'll probably lose their private investigator licenses.  It's been said before, but this movie would never get made today. At least not as a mainstream movie. There is no satisfying conclusion. The villains continue to prosper with only a few low level "torpedoes" and a middle level manager dead. The female ,who at first one thinks might need to be helped by our intrepid P.I.'s, soon turns out to be as bad as everyone else.  Jaded and cynical, but I liked this movie. It was smartly written and had a bite to it that one doesn't find anymore. In 2011 movie characters are perfect. Even the villains are perfect. In 1972 there was still room for the ordinary, imperfect people.

One of the few Jerry Lewis movies I would recommend heartily Normally, Jerry Lewis movies go for the slapstick whenever possible, and oftentimes the pratfalls and shennagins are not really that funny now.  However, The Geisha Boy is a movie with humor and heart, possibly more so than any other Lewis film.  There is humanity provided in the first scene where we meet Gilbert Wooley (Lewis), aka The Great Wooley, a not-so-good stage magician.  When he arrives in a taxi at the airport, the fare is 95 cents and he gives a dollar bill to the driver, telling him to keep the change.  When the driver makes a crack, Wooley lets him know with sincerity that is his last dollar, and that he only agreed to entertain the USO on this trip in order to make a little money.  With this one exchange, Lewis gets us on his side right away.  Through mishaps at the airport in Japan, Wooley accidentally makes a fool of an arrogant female movie star, which causes a little Japanse boy (played very touchingly by Robert Kazuyoshi Hirano) to laugh for the first time since his parents were killed in an accident.  The boy's aunt (a radiant Nobu Atsumi McCarthy) brings the boy to Wooley's hotel room to thank him for making the boy smile again, and Wooley starts to lose his heart to both aunt and nephew.  Wooley's adventures in Japan are usually done with respect to Japanese culture, though I did feel a little embarassment when he imitates the language at a baseball game.  Suzanne Pleshette makes her screen debut in this film.  Also appearing are film veterans Barton MacLane and Sessue Hayakawa, the latter who gets to partake in a tribute from Bridge Over the River Kwai.  (It should be noted that Lewis occasionally takes us out of the movie we are watching to give the audience a proverbial wink with some funny business.)  And a star is born with Harry the Hare.  The Blu video is excellent.  It is wonderfully clean and doesn't appear to have been manipulated.  Picture is sharp.  Audio is 2.0 and very clear.  Like other Olive films, there are no extras.  I recommend this movie for its heart and humor.

Good,Fun, movie. Good action movie. A lot of fresh new faces. And a bunch of great one-liners. If you like Stallone you'll like this movie.

Funny, thought-provoking, and underappreciated My six year old son laughed throughout this movie. Tons of song and movie references (everything from Singing in the Rain to Alien) kept the adults interested, too. I was really surprised that a movie rated as having 'minor violence' actually opened with [story-within-a-story] footage of ray guns disintegrating people, but it didn't turn out too violent for us as a whole. I would think twice before showing it to a younger or more sensitive kid, though.  I think this movie is really underappreciated. It didn't have the most spectacular graphics ever, and the love story was admittedly  predictable, but the altered perspective - humans as aliens! - was compelling, and the cultural references made for non-stop amusement. The adorable Rover alone would be enough reason to watch it again.

Visually interesting but repetitive. The animation was impressive, but the overly sexualized women got annoying. Way too many close-ups of Ada's butt and legs and ankles. Once was okay, but the movie does this three or four times, as if it forgot that it had already done it. And there's just so much exposition, especially during the prologue. It's understandable, but I felt after the movie was over that nothing really happened.  I'm giving this four stars mostly because the action, though extremely repetitive, is cool and fun at times. And I love "Resident Evil 4," which this movie closely resembles. Plus, the fight scene between Ada and certain character is awesome.

FRIENDS! (: I love friends and thats why i bought this! The only thing is, i wouldve liked more bloopers and it takes so long to ship!!!! lol but it was worth it, i watch it all the time! It has good quality and is great for any collector.

See The Whole Series in Order by Date Made This is the third in the series, but it jumps back in time by about 2,000 years. Not too surprising when you remember that the last movie ended with the Doomsday Bomb. We did not learn until the start of this movie that Zira (Kim Hunter), Cornelius (Roddy McDowell) and Dr. Milo (Sal Mineo) had retrieved Taylor's space ship from the lake he had originally landed in, repaired it, and escaped just before the planet blew up. They land in the US circa 1973, and of course astonish everyone with their ability to talk, and their civilized ways.  But things are not all just diplomatic receptions and amusements. One doctor, an adviser to the president, gets Zira drunk and gets her talking about their lives in the distant future, and concludes that he must alter the future by not allowing the child that Zira is going to have to survive. This sets up a chase and rescue plot line that leads to a circus run by Ricaldo Montelbaum. Toward the end, Zira mentions that she only learned to trust three people in the time they were there. Presumably these were the two doctors from the zoo to which they were first taken, and Montelbaum.  What's fun about this movie is that it completely reverses the focus of the first two. There, apes were everywhere and only a very few humans could talk. Here, humans are everywhere and only three (two, once Dr. Milo is killed by a gorilla) are able to talk. One of my favorite scenes is watching Cornelius and Zira get outfitted in top fashion clothing, apparently from Rodeo Drive.  Just in case there are two or three people out there who have not seen the whole series, I am not going to tell you the ending, and how it sets up the next film's plot.

Remember me I felt the concept was VERY interesting, the casting was believable, the acting well executed.  The ending caught me off guard and left me thinking... I remember sep 11 and the movie ending really moved me.

Nice family movie, I would rate PG (not G) Nice movie about taking care of rabbits and what family is about.  A little girl in a foster home finds out that family isn't necessarily your birth parents.  She finds friendship in nurturing a rabbit, probably because she missed the nuturing from her own birth mother.  I only gave it 4 stars because they pick the rabbits up by their scruff every time they handle one.  That is NOT the way to pick up a rabbit.  It is mean and unneccesary.

Saxon legends of NWOBHM! Saxon should be mentioned in the same catagory as Metallica and Megadeath and Motorhead and all those bands who brought heavy metal to the public who never heard it before! they reinvented it after Sabbath! but they seem to get lost! They first few albums are classic metal! now the videos on here are kinda cheesy but hey everybody was doing it cause it was new and it helped sell records! this is worth it for the live Innocence tour video! Biff and the boys kick butt they way metal use to be played! the videos take them or leave them but I watch them cause MTV sucked and didn't show them back then! but Saxon deserves to be given credit for what they did for METAL before metallica which I hate! and megadeath! they were superior far as I'm concerned!

Poignant, but a little over the top I really liked this film, it was poignant and funny, but a little over the top. The question to ask oneself, is how many times are we supposed to laugh at Hesher's random violence and nihilistic acts in unexpected situations - the answer to that determines how highly you rate the film.

a quiet little movie with big themes I was seriously dissapointed when this movie wasn't released near me. After watching today and absorbing the gorgeous cinematography, it's even more frustrating I couldn't have enjoyed this on the big screen. Well, the small screen here in my living room left me aching for more visually, but in terms of substance of the plot, it more than made up for it.  I had a general idea of the plot before viewing, but this movie played on so many different levels. It may appear on the surface to be a suspenseful hunting movie, and there certainly is a build-up of suspense as it progresses, but it's main theme is really about the small cast of characters and the influences they all have on each other. It is a rather slow moving story that builds character development throughout, but it held my attention completely. Plus, it builds tension slowly through character conflict as well as through the raw power of nature. It didn't hurt that Defoe was absolutely perfect in this part. He has that rare ability to act non-verbally that speaks volumes and transfixes the viewer. The rest of the cast does a great job, and the two child actors give realistic performances...you believe them completely in their roles.  I won't get into the plot as I wouldn't want to spoil any aspect of this film for others. I will say though that the last 15 minutes or so moved me on a deeply emotional level. It wasn't predictable in my opinion. So, I would certainly highly recommend this to others, but just be ready for a film dealing with realism, not Hollywood flash.

Classical Shuri-Te Karate Kata It's nice to see someone keep the old kata alive and introduce them to the rest of us. Thank you.

Mess with me you're messing with the best Scarface is one of those movies that is known by any movie person out there.  I know I was one of those but never seen the movie 'til in recent years for the first time and I wasn't sure why I missed out on this movie in the first place.  If there's anything that I can say is that sure while this movie the 'F' word is said over 200 times throughout the course of nearly 3 hours of movie, but that shouldn't stop anyone from giving this movie a watch if you haven't already.  I firmly believe that Al Pacino delivered one of his best performances in this movie and makes 'Tony Montana' believable character in any movie that I've seen over the years.  If there's anything I can say is that I never expected a movie about any kind of 'drug lord' would ever interest me in any way like this one has and to this day this one is still the only one that.  The writing is probably one of the best out of the whole 80s.  Scarface although ranks as one of my movies in my Top 10 movies overall and one of the little features that they included was a 'F-Bomb' count so you can keep track of how many times the word is used as well as a 'bullet monitor'.  If anything I know how the movie ended before I watched it but that didn't stop me from watching it to understand what the hype about the movie was all about that I heard so much over the years.  Overall I give this 4.5 stars out of 5.

Enjoyable movie for a bit of a taste of South Africa. We bought this movie because of our ties to South Africa, and this movie having been filmed there. To be perfectly honest, as far as plot and storyline are concerned, we're not surfers, therefore neither was of great interest to us. We watched the movie from the perspective of it being in South Africa. For that reason, we truly did enjoy it.

Better than Shrek 2 and 3 but not close to Shrek 1 Again the reviews led me to great eagerness, but watching it resulted in a slight letdown. It is very good with great animation, script, and, actors. So a strong 4.

Lots going for it. Especially, Catherine Zeta-Jones The Rebound was never released in theaters. It went straight to DVD because of distibution issues. I am a fan of Catherine Zeta-Jones. I have been since The Darling Buds of May period. So, that was my main interest in getting this movie. Catherine is terrific as Sandy. She really carries the movie and helps guide the story all the way through. Her character is strong, interesting, and funny. Sandy is also trying for work her way through the hurt of being cheated on by her husband. She starts a new life with her 2 kids. Justin Bartha is charming and likeable in this movie. He someone manages to find good chemistry with Catherine. Although, I don't think his acting is strong enough to carry on a leading man role in all instances. I personally find him dull and bland at times. But, he still works well in this movie and does an admirable job with Catherine and the 2 kids. There are likeable supporting characters in this movie including his parents (father played by Art Garfunkel) The movie makes an honest attempt at presenting a relationship between a kind young man and an older woman who is trying to pursue a career, raise two kids, but also find love again. Catherine Zeta-Jones displays a great talent for being funny, strong yet vulnerable in these kinds of films. You find yourself really caring about her. The Rebound does have weak spots. And, there are elements of romantic comedy cliches at work. The potty humor, especially early on in the film, is kind of stupid. Sandy's date with the chiropractor(John Schneider) tries too hard to be funny with crude humor and just doesn't work. Plus, I found Sandy's two kids to be something out of a tv sitcom. They annoyed me much of the time. But, they did temper down a bit as the film progressed. But, The Rebound does do a fine job exploring the relationship between the lead couple. And, the movie does have a lot of sweet moments and charm. The ending is kind of odd. But, perhaps, in a good way. The Rebound is an above-average romantic comedy that I will recommend. Not a masterpiece. But, a nice movie to watch. A better recent romantic comedy that Catherine appears in would be 2007's No Reservations. Which, I highly recommend. Or, Intolerable Cruelty with George Clooney from a few years back. But, if you are a Catherine Zeta Jones fan. Or, even a Justin Bartha fan. Or, want to watch a fun romantic comedy with some heart and soul, The Rebound is a good choice.

Decent sequel This movie isn't as good as the first one, but is still fairly amusing, and is set in the Plaza as the kid, again left alone by accident, has to deal with the same two bumbling burglars that tried to rob his family's house in the first movie. Due to the change of setting, it doesn't feel like a boring rehash and has quite a few funny scenes.

Final Countdown Great transfer to Blue Ray.  This is a very good old movie, now even better in Blue Ray format.  If you enjoy SiFi you will surely love this.  Unlike many such movies, ther are no writers tricks that make the characters do unlikely things, and make the viewer cringe.  Grab your popcorn sit back and enjoy.

A good movie The first time I saw this movie was in Spanish class. After I immediately became interested in learning more about Selena. Anyways I thought the movie was really good. It featured some very good actors and acting. I was most impressed with how Edward J Olmos portrayed her father Mr. Abraham Quintanilla Jr. I was also impressed with Jennifer Lopez's portrayal of Selena. I know a lot of people were upset because Jennifer Lopez is Puerto Rican and Selena was Mexican American. Oh and I also loved Constance Marie. The only part that got me was the end because it's so so sad. I cried watching it. Overall a very decent flick. Recommended for any Selena fan who also likes Jennifer Lopez (as do I). *Side note: I knew about JLO way before I knew about Selena or the movie.

Bold and Bloody Pillars of the Earth was one of the finest historical novels I've read--and that's an exhaustive list for most.  The movie depiction is almost as good.  In fact several scenes were so close to how I imagined them as I read that I almost thought I'd seen the movie before. Of course I hadn't.   I like the characters and their development in the movie except for Percy.  He seems a bit weak and almost frail at times. Not quite believable.  That's the only reason for leaving off the 5th star.   As for the setting and the costumes--they couldn't be better,  The fight scene in the muddy water at the qyarry is a great example.  And the blood from the beheading.  Even the shearing of sheep is true to the times, as are the tools.  Great acting.  Great direction.  It's more than worth the money and time.

A very entertaining, exciting and surprisingly good movie with a great cast. Fans of "Sin CIty" will love it. I liked it. I say "Revenge is an act of style." When a man (Hartnett) bent on revenge come to a city he finds what he is looking for. He begins fighting his way through nine very different and very deadly assassins on his way to the one he want. This is another movie that really surprised me as to how good it was. Having never seen a preview or even really heard about it I had no idea what to expect. While the movie is not that original it takes from many different types of movies and blends them together in a very interesting and exciting way. Some aspects have been taken from "Scott Pilgrim vs The World", "Kill Bill" and "Sin City" just to name a few. This is more like "Sin City" then the others in the style that it uses and the "comic-booky" feel that it has. The fighting is great, and is refreshing to see an action movie that doesn't rely on guns to make it fun. The cast is great and the movie is very fun, very much worth your time. The only thing that bothered me is that it didn't need to be two hours long. They could have cut at least 15-20 min out and had it move at a more exciting pace. Other then that I really enjoyed this. Overall, a very entertaining way to spend your time and money. I give it a B.  Would I watch again? - I don't think so *Also try - Sin City & Tekken

great old movie l love si fi and this old movie with actors of first level makes it enjoyable, great story well done.

movie purchase review I had absolutely no problems with this order. The item was exactly what I ordered and I received it within the time frame stipulated. I would purchase from this source again without a doubt!

Starts out rough, but give it a chance At first, you will want to turn this DVD off because of the constant change of camera angles which is annoying to say the least. As the set amps up, the film makers start to chill out then you can enjoy No Doubt at their finest. Gwen's vocals are right on point and she delivers every song perfectly. Worth the money.

Pleasantly surprised I got this for my granddaughter collection. I was pleasantly surprised how enjoyable it was. The animation is very good and the script funny and enjoyable without being sappy. My sixteen-year-old daughter enjoyed it, which is quite an endorsement.

Great Movie. Movie was what I expected. Could have been better but I still very much enjoyed it. Would still recommend it to fans of martial arts and etc.

An Inside Look Into Adoption In Kazakhstan My guess is that if you are considering purchasing this video then you are also considering adopting from Kazakhstan and wanting to see what it is like to travel there and go through a little of the process. This video does a great job at showing some of the emotions, challenges, and ups-and-downs of adopting there. You will see what one of the orphanages is like and also a little bit of the country. The video quality is not professional and I would have liked to have seen more introduction to the couple since I know NOTHING about them. It also doesn't show much about the adopted child's first days in the USA which would have been helpful. Overall, it is an interesting documentary and I recommend it to anyone considering adoption from that part of the world.

Its good I will in the review give my reasons as to why the 2nd season is very good and not worthless in terms of story like most people try to make it out to be. This first part will be a review of the 2nd seasons content and then a product review overall.  The 2nd season follows after the OVA's left off where Hei is now in a stupor as he searches for Yin who was kidnapped, he arrives in Russia working for the CIA where he is sent to capture a boy named Shion.  So the 2nd season of Darker than Black had a lot of hate given to it because of the confusion about what happened to Yin and Hei. Also many didn't like the introduction of a new character a young girl named Suou. This confusion was the result of many people not watching the OVA's between the 1st and 2nd season. This was critical because it explains what happened to Yin. Suou as a character was great or bad she was just along for the ride and this was meant to be because of event that happen in the story with the character Shion.  Another important aspect of where people get confused is the fact that Darker than Black is following the Izanami/Izanagi/Kagutsuchi legend, which helps to explain what the over arching ideas of the story are and how the names correspond to the characters. Most believe that Hei is Izanagi, Yin is definitely Izanami, and the result of their being together would be Kagutsuchi. The last few being speculation by most viewers, but this helps to clarify their story and why Yin is changing from a normal doll to something else  Okay on to the actual product review, this version was perfect for someone who already owns the 1st season if it comes in a single DVD case because the chipboard case leaves room for the 1st season so all of it can be held in one box. Of course the issue being with the set though is if you don't have the first season than you have to keep the placeholder that comes with the box or else you'll have an empty space, but likely if you're buying this product than you already have the 1st season.This box has some great artwork, as well as the Blu rays and DVD have artwork on them that each was distinct and very nice to look at. I checked the quality of the 2nd season on Blu-Ray which looked great and I checked the OVA's on DVD which looked even better than the 1st season. There was no production drop off or budget cuts for this series.  Overall i would give the box set a 5/5 for having a blu-ray and dvd combo, a great chipboard box, and great artwork. The OVA's are 4/5, and the 2nd season a 4/5 because while the show is highly enjoyable, the animation is great, there is the issue of not clarifying everyone's role throughout the series which would require re-watching the series once or twice to catch each important detail and make it clear.

Spanish title on box. Movies are great quality. Amazon listing display image a little misleading. Box I received had title written in English and Spanish. Not happy about that. Other then that, it's all good.

Will they or won't they? Ben (Mark Duplass) and Andrew (Joshua Leonard), two old college friends, decide to create a work of art together--an amateur pornographic film of two straight men having sex.  Director Lynn Shelton and her cast go to a great deal of trouble to make the point that the protagonists are indeed straight and not closeted homosexuals, which makes the premise a little hard to swallow.  However, they make it just about as believable as they possibly could.  In the years since they last saw each other, Ben has become a responsible married man who is trying to have a child with his wife (Alycia Delmore)and, while not unhappy, has nostalgic yearnings for the freedom he once had.  Andrew lives a bohemian life style, but he feels that he has accomplished nothing.  The desire to prove themselves to each other and grasp at something missing from their lives leads them into this bizarre scheme, which culminates in a hotel room meeting that is a ballet of tension, discomfort, and honesty.  The cast and director worked together to improvise their lines.

Not Entirely Unusual A good enough crime saga with some great one-liners and several sharp twists and turns, but not something I'd revere alongside the all-timers. I felt like there was too much reliance on name dropping and intentional complications, which I guess fits in with the big twist at the very end, but that doesn't suddenly make it excusable. Tough to follow at many times, with some interesting storytelling experiments along the way; it's a good-to-very good story that often gets too caught up in itself.

Surprisingly good for something with so many plot gaps This movie is, unquestionably, unrealistic; from the fighting to the plot to the plot gaps, this movie is devoid of almost any realistic elements.  However...it's still quite fun. The pace is fast, the action good, the acting fantastic (Jolie is hardly my favorite actress, but she does a smashing job in this role -- at its most unbelievable parts, you still somehow believe her). The movie doesn't slow down enough to let you think about the plot...so you don't, and it seems to make sense (until it ends). Once its over, it was so much fun to watch that the plot holes give you pause, but don't destroy your sense of enjoyment.  I rate this 3.5 stars out of 5; fun, fast-paced action, with some holes (some of which, I hear, were explained in the extended edition; but I saw, and am rating, the theatrical version). This is the type of movie for those days when you come home from work with a brain that's thought enough already, and just wants to be entertained: Salt will not disappoint.

A great family friendly Christmas film I've enjoyed watching this each Christmas for awhile and was quite happy to find it available on DVD.  It's a charming story of a young widow trying to make ends meet and the banker who arrives just prior to Christmas to foreclose on her home.  The story revolves around him getting stuck at her house in a snowstorm and coming to know her and the children.  She's clueless about finances and he has to learn about caring for others instead of finances.  Okay, it's a corny Christmas movie but it is the kind of story that warms the heart and we can use those stories all through the year.  It's also the kind of movie you can pop in the DVD player with the kids and a bowl of popcorn to enjoy as a family.

Tarantino-lite but FUN I enjoyed this Catch .44 movie but while the fun dialogue and snappy action reminded me of Tarantino a whole bunch, the great cast made me want to keep watching.  Another of my favorite movies is the Big Sleep and when you come down to that story, there are holes in it you could drive a truck through, very much like this but never dull and a fun picture.  The cast is great, full of several established actors and some newer ones that I expect to see more in the future.  The picture looks great and has a great soundtrack,lots of old favorites. There isn't much in the way of extras on the DVD, just an audio commentary track by the Writer/Director & Editor and Spanish soundtrack.  I can see myself watching this again in six months and perhaps the story will make more sense to me on the second viewing.  It's worth checking out and I'm glad I did.

Peanuts I got this as a gift for a friend when her VHS tapes broke.  It is a family tradition to watch them this time  of year.

lord of the dance good sesvice, exelent cd, but it gets a little too long with the same type of dance,a little too repetitive

'To be a great Torero you have to be a little bit in love with death.' Probably of all the matadors of history Manuel Laureano Rodr&iacute;guez S&aacute;nchez (4 July 1917 - 28 August 1947) known as "Manolete" is the most famous. 'He rose to prominence shortly after the Spanish Civil War and is considered by some to be the greatest bullfighter of all time. His style was sober and serious, with few concessions to the gallery, and he excelled at the 'suerte de matar'--the kill. Manolete's contribution to bullfighting included being able to stand very still while passing the bull close to his body and, rather than giving the passes separately, he was able to remain in one spot and link four or five consecutive passes together into compact series. He popularized a pass with the muleta called the "Manoletina," which is normally given just before entering to kill with the sword. In addition to all of the major bullrings of Spain, he had very important triumphs in Plaza Mexico. He died following a goring in the right upper leg as he killed the fifth bull of the day, the Miura bull Islero, an event that left Spain in a state of shock. Manolete received his fatal goring in the town of Linares where he appeared alongside the up-and-coming matador Luis Miguel Domingu&iacute;n, who, after Manolete's death, proclaimed himself to be number one. In response to Manolete's death, General Francisco Franco, then dictator of Spain, ordered three days of "national mourning", during which only funeral dirges were heard on the radio.'  Writer/Director Menno Meyjes ('Max', 'Foreign Student', 'Empire of the Sun', 'The Color Purple', 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade', etc) seems to have taken that fact that all the world knows of Manolete and instead of creating a biographical account of the man's life he instead opted to provide a sensitive meditation about love and obsession and death. For many this film will not work as it is not a recreation of facts, either about Manolete or his lover Lupe Sino or the historical atmosphere of Spain at the time of the story, but for those who appreciate the music and the scents and the passion of Spain, this film will satisfy.  The film begins with the decision of Manolete (Adrien Brody, who looks very much like the character Manolete!) leaving his peasant life to go to learn bullfighting under the tutelage of Pepe Camar&aacute; (Juan Echanove). Despite the fears of those who consider the young man not fit to enter the realm of Toreros, Pepe convinces Manolete to persevere - and to become a Torero he must avoid drugs, alcohol and women. But as Manolete enters the bullrings of Cordova and Madrid and Mexico he gains the status of a star and becomes infatuated with the beautiful Lupe Sino (Pen&eacute;lope Cruz). Despite Pepe's warnings the two become lovers, have moments of profound passion as well as moments of infidelity on the part of Lupe. Manolete is conflicted between the love of his mother and the love of Lupe and Lupe is afraid Manolete flirts with death each time he enters the ring. Finally in Linares in 1947 he competes with Luis Miguel Domingu&iacute;n (Nacho Aldegue), is gored and dies from his wounds. The film ends with the famous march of the pallbearers bearing Manolete beneath a rain of red rose petals as the world mourns the death of a hero - and Lupe disappears into nothingness. No spoilers here because this all is a documented history that everyone knows.  The performance by Adrien Brody is subtle and underplayed adding to the dignity of a memory. Cruz is an exotic if overplayed Lupe. The cinematography by Robert D. Yeoman is breathtakingly beautiful and the mournful music by Gabriel Yared and Dan Jones is pitch perfect for the effect director Meyjes has created. As the credits roll at the end there is a hauntingly beautiful Canto Jundo sung by an unnamed female singer. It is a perfect ending to this meditative remembrance of a hero. Grady Harp, May 11

My preschooler likes it. I am Russian but we only speak English at home.  I bought this thinking it would be a cute way for both my son and my husband to learn some words.  It's a cute little video.  Not something my pre-schooler will watch over and over again, but a fun little change.

Ultimate Collection - Wayne These are early westerns. John Wayne wins and gets the girl. This is probably where Star Trek got its pattern for Capt. Kirk. Compared to today's standards the stunts are mild, filming is more crude, and scripts are weak. But I like the simplicity of the movies. I felt it was a great deal for the money. There are other Wayne films I would like to have so I'll keep looking for them in sets like this. So go get a white cowboy hat (large brim required) and enjoy.

Nude yoga is a must for all who practice Yoga helps us build the mind body connection and it nice to see this Zen garden goddess share her practice. I think this video is well done for what it offers with out being low grade porn.   I gave this 4 out of 5 stars because the boardwalk is too small of a location for a video like this. I can understand that if your are really practicing alone this my be an ideal spot to practice in the nude. As for video filming it is not. I would have loved to follow along with this model and have seen some more wide shots of her as she practices. Part of yoga is getting your body art right through the use of poses and this model does her poses well. It is really wonderful to see this model in her poses. She shows us that she is not just another fly by night out to make a quick buck by taking her clothes off for yet another nude video. Thank you all who made it and keep them coming.

The Last Person In America To Watch The Dude I don't watch many movies anymore. Rarely does anything look interesting enough to me that I can be persuaded into the effort, minimal as it may be, to devote a couple of hours and my attention to a much hyped feature.  For years I have been hearing references to "The Big Lebowski" in various forms without even realizing it. The John Goodman line about "proper nomenclature" struck me right between the eyes as I knew I had innocently been subjected to that reference more than a handful of times.  I really never had any interest in the film when it was released. It sounded fairly idiotic and wasn't heralded as a masterpiece by those that get paid to steer me away from making the tremendous effort required to enjoy a movie.  It wasn't until years after the fact that I began to hear more and more people chastise me subsequent to a period of shock and disbelief when I informed them that I had never seen the film. I didn't want to. The same people that seemed to be enfatuated with "Lebowski" were those same people that reveled in using their pinky finger to mimic Mike Meyers' character in that dreadful "shagalicious" detective bore. Flavor-of-the-month-hipster films with trendy catch phrases and temporarily memorable characters spawned from stereotypes or outlandishness get top billing on my list of "Must Avoid At All Cost" films.  "Lebowski" jumps right into what I feared most and I nearly regretted allocating effort for this endeavor as we meet Goodman's character, an amalgamation of hypocrisy as defined primarily by his apparent "neo-con" delivery. The bizzare pedophilic latino as portrayed by Turturro. The heartless "fat cat" that shares his name with the title character - a man that is diametrically opposite as a fully functioning, but decidedly and intentionally sub-functional, ambitionless, cashless, borderline bum (not proper nomenclature, I know). Other than sitting, walking, taking a bath, drinking, or smoking a joint - Lebowski is rarely seen doing anything himself at any point - he doesn't even bowl in a movie that is set predominately in a bowling alley and is by all accounts, Lebowski's only actual social activity.  Within fifteen minutes, I am already thinking- "Oh grand, another pointless movie posing as satire with a bunch of cartoonish characters that will inevitably leave you trying to figure out what the point of the movie is".  So, every time something happens, a word is spoken, I'm putting meaning to it.  Goodman tells his buddy Donny to "shut the **** up" every time he even tries to simply join the conversation, yet Goodman creates a monumental scene in the cafe about fighting in a war to protect the freedoms of expression and speech and how he won't be stifled. He lectures on "proper nomenclature" for asians, yet can't help but slip into improper nomenclature when his guard is down. He's a jew by marriage, practicing out of convenience, but goes to great lengths to let everyone know how devout his faith is - even if its fundamental tenets take a back seat to bowling.  Lebowski speaks with other characters employing dialogue that he picks up from others in completely different contexts (ala Bush's speech on agression early in the film while viewing TV). His interactions with nearly every character of authority paints him as the ultimate pacifist, a throwback hippy fighting the fascists, yet his whole life-altering debacle that is the substance of the film is born out of a conflict that he chooses to escalate - and does so with misguided direction in search of retribution.  On and on it goes - nuanced interactions that I've already decided must mean something more than what is spoken or what happens, so I had better pay attention if I want to make this effort worth anything at all.  Of course, buried in it all, the depth of stereotypes and embellishments bestowed upon Goodman's character in particular, I miss one crucial component of the character - the eternal search for meaning in everything. He's on the right track, but he's always off-the-mark. Meanwhile, Lebowski seeks to find almost no meaning in anything - he simply wants to exist - preferrably, happily so.  "Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right."  Lebowski is making no effort to understand his predicament, much less resolve it, while Goodman is in overdrive with theories that lead to more chaos. Ultimately, not only is the meaning of his predicament not what it seems, it is debatable if there is any meaning whatsoever. And when the credits rolled, following Sam Elliot's departing monologue, I had felt that I had in some ways been duped into playing the part of Jonh Goodman - one that we all play as mostly good natured studies in hypocrisy and illusions that seek to make ourselves understand things that aren't "learnable" per se - while the solution, the understanding, can be found in the dissimilarly flawed character of Lebowski - there isn't necessarily understanding through defined, sustained effort, simply moments of clarity in life that help you get through it.  Of course, I'm sure that nearly everyone that has watched this film takes away something completely different. When you throw down the gauntlet early and let the audience know that the plot is more or less a set-up to provide the characters room enough to promote subtle messages, you risk losing the war when the audience misses the point or objects to it. When there are either an incalculable number of points, or depending on the perspective, no point at all - and that's the point - well, you're at least trying to make my effort worthwhile.

Jerry Bee Bee Movie presents the daily life and worldview of a bee through the eyes of Jerry Seinfeld. Bee related humor and puns are abundant throughout. The typical day of busy bee life in the hive gets stirred up when Barry (Seinfeld) discovers that people are stealing honey from bees and putting the gold product (of hard work by bees) in jars to sell at the store! As a result, the bees take the humans to court. Celebrities are called to testify including Sting, ha-ha. John Goodman portrays the dramatic lawyer who represents the humans. He gives an over the top performance in the courtroom. Renee Zelwegger is Vanessa, a florist who befriends Barry even though bees are not supposed to talk to humans. Patrick Warburton plays her saccharine appreciative boyfriend who doesn't care for Vanessa being friends with a bee.  The movie is cute and has some take-away lessons. Little things can make a big difference and every job is important in the overall scheme of things. Kids can learn about ecosystems too.

Wonderful film. Wonderful film, and in addition to Audrey Hepburn's magical qualities, Kay Thompson steals every scene she is in. Sleek, bold and brash, she is bursting commanding singing and dancing, and with truly enviable comic timing. She is a master class for every character actor. I wish she made more films. Astaire is too old for Hepburn in this, but he is still a great presence at the top of his form. The cinematography is INCREDIBLE and impressionistic at times. The score is superb, and the orchestrations are some of the best I have ever heard. This is an underrated film, and I am so happy to have it in my collection.

Run time Issue: Read if applies I bought the blu ray last night at target for under 20 bucks. I was a little hesitate at first however because the run time on the back of the case actually says 2 hr. 9 min. Do not be hasty because this is a misprint of some sort. The movie when put in the blu ray player says run time is 2 hr 28 min. just like amazon posts 148 min. Soo long story short, Movie is 148 min regardless of what any blu ray or dvd slips say..Hope i've been helpful..  -Cam

dated but not At first the film appears a little dated with language and current event references but it really isn't the message is still important today.  One to watch.

Great Action Thriller War Movie (Needless "R" rating) This is a great action film. Exciting and fun to watch. Matt Damon seems much more into this character than in the Bourne series.  The needless R rating probably narrowed the market for this film. The producers should have put more effort into removing the R rating.  I give 4 stars simply to agree with many reviewers distracted by the jittery handheld camera shakes...I have never appreciated the impact of this camera technique popularized by NYPD Blue. Hope to see less of this kind of cinematography.  But it is interesting to see mainstream hollywood take on some controversial themes....this movie is part of a whole genre of thought provoking films with the consistent involvement of greatly popular character actors like George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Greg Kinnear, Matt Damon, Leonardo Di Caprio.

Edge of Darkness Mel Gibson's latest acting role keeps you guessing and wanting to find out more in this mystery, action thriller. Its a simple cop versus the world movie where Gibson plays a detective in the Boston police force. As the protagonist, Gibson's character pushes the story slowly through government and classified secrets. I really enjoyed the cinematography it really showed the power Gibson's character had at times and how lonely he was at others. I enjoyed the whole storyline and even the ending was well done; it leaves enough open for imagination and gives just the right amount of information. I give the movie 3 out of 5 stars. It was good enough to rent and watch but I wouldn't go out and buy it. I would recommend to families that are accustomed to violence and language and movies, it is rated R. There aren't any sexual scenes or really any innuendo of any kind. There are actually not many characters in the movie and it is actually mainly male characters throughout the movie.

highly reccomend I truly enjoyed this movie, it is an older movie but the performance of Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt was stellar!

If you are a true fan of Civil War history, tactics, and movies... then you will love this extended version of Gettysburg.  Of course, it is very long - intended as a sweeping epic.  Jeff Daniels is thoroughly excellent as Joshua Chamberlain (which he plays in an understated and respectful manner), and Tom Berenger is adequate as confederate General Longstreet (the accent comes and goes arbitrarily), but I would have liked to have seen Robert Duvall return from Gods and Generals as Robert E. Lee instead of Martin Sheen. Duvall played the part with more gravitas and solemn dignity. Stephen Lang returns as George Pickett after portraying Stonewall Jackson in Gods and Generals, which felt somewhat strange. Fortunately, Lang is an excellent actor who clearly did many hours of actual character research.  Overall, the story narrative follows many details of the battle of Gettysburg correctly, and many spoken lines are taken directly from historical accounts.  It is, of course, possible to quibble with which parts of Gettysburg are shown and which are omitted, but to include all would have necessitated additional hours to an already extended movie.  However, because the battle fought on Little Round Top and the exploits of the 20th Maine are the main thrust of the movie storyline, the only real narrative choice I would venture to take exception to is the complete failure to include the monumental gaffe of Dan Sickles that cost the union many thousands of casualties and the led to the decimation of the 20th Maine.  The Wheat Field is only mentioned cursorily, and the epic speech of Father Corby to the Irish brigade is given a fleeting glimpse. The Northern end of the battlefield is entirely ignored after the events of the first day. But again, realizing that the movie must have a reasonable time frame, these omissions are understandable.  There are lots of small details that history lovers will recognize, such as General Pickett rushing out to observe the fighting from the red farmhouse in the middle of the battlefield, and the narrative of the close friendship between Generals Armistead and Hancock.  Overall, I highly recommend this movie to those who love Civil War history.

Much better than I thought I was pleasantly surprised! When this movie was in the theater, I had no desire to see it. Finally, after several of my friends and coworkers kept telling me how enjoyable it was, I watched it on my tablet while on the train to work one day. I have to admit that I laughed out loud and my eyes started tearing up at one point in the film. It won't win any oscars, but I loved the fact that the movie had a great message and pulled it off without any cursing or sex. That's quite an accomplishment these days! And I always love Loretta Divine - she is a riot. Fortunately though, the director did not let her steal the movie. The other characters and actors do a great job too. And it was great to see Angela Bassett starring in a role that seemed to be tailor-made for her personality. Jumping the Broom is definitely worth a watch.

I really liked it! It's not anything fancy, but some of the information that is covered is dates of the Battle of Puebla, the leaders of the mexican and French armies, terms such as "chicanos", "mariachis" and "mole".  My students stayed interested and enjoyed it.  I thought it was very informative and a good length, not too short, not too long.

movie Product came on time. It was just a DVD of a movie that I wanted to share with my students. and all worked out fine.

Almost Perfect I remember when I was a little kid seeing this movie for the first time in theaters. I loved every moment of it. It was one of those films that really left an imprint on my childhood. Growing up I so wanted to watch it again, but Disney wasn't releasing it on video. It wasn't until 1996 that Disney decided to release this under-appreciated gem.  Having watched it again as an adult, does it hold the same magic. In a sense, yes. The story is a beautiful one, full of charm, inspired by Dicken's classic, Oliver Twist. Instead of using an orphan boy, this movie focuses on an orphan cat named, - you guessed it - Oliver! The story of his friendship with the dogs and the homeless man Fagen, along with the conflict created by being adopted by a new pet-owner, Jenny, creates a fun and touching story. Billy Joel is amazing, full of flare, as the dog Dodger. Cheech Marine does a great job as the yappy Chihuahua Tito. My favorite character in the film is Francis, the English Bulldog who can quote Shakespeare. The villain in this film is one of the scariest villains in a Disney pictures, Sykes, a ruthless loan shark who seems too close to reality for comfort.  So, with great characterization, witty humor and classy songs, why is this movie only four stars instead of five? It's because as an adult, as much as I love it, it left me wanting just a little more. I fell so in love with the gang of dogs, and Oliver, and Fagan that I would have loved more screen time to develop these characters. The transition between Fagan to Jenny happened way too early in the film. I understand that since this movie is geared towards younger children that they had to keep it shorter, but I don't think it would have hurt to have had fifteen more minutes of screen time for developing the above said characters. On the contrary, I think it would have worked wonders.  Still, all in all, this is a fun-filled film, a gem, and an underrated Disney film.

10 Things I learned from watching Dark Passage (spoilers) 1. If you want a plastic surgeon to make you look like Bogart, just jump in a cab and the cabbie will set it all up for a couple hundred bucks. In a week no scars at all (compare this to the film Seconds).  2. If you have evidence that Agnes Moorehead killed your wife and best friend you shouldn't go to the police. You should go visit her and hope she'll willingly sign a confession and won't jump through the window.  3. If you play the villain in a Bogart film you'll end up as the mother-in-law in Bewitched.  4. If you are by far the world's greatest plastic surgeon, the AMA will still take your license.  5. If you escape from San Quentin, just wait at the side of the road until Lauren Bacall who has been following your case and proclaiming your innocence randomly comes by to pick you up.  6. If an escaped convict beats you up, get the license plate number of the lady who picks him up, trace it, spy on them both, and then confront him with a gun to extort $200,000. Works every time.  7. If you go to a diner at 2AM in San Francisco, don't tell the cook you want the race results for Bay Meadows. It's been closed for a month and a cop will overhear you and based on that attempt to take you in.  8. If there is a countrywide manhunt for you just hop in a bus and go to Peru. Don't worry about borders. Even though you will be a fugitive for the rest of your life your girlfriend will come there to live with you.  9. If you don't want your friends to know Vincent Parry is hiding in your bedroom tell them he stopped by to murder you.  10. If you tell Lauren Bacall your wife, best friend, and Agnes Moorehead all just happened to die right after you left them or in your presence, she'll immediately believe you, no questions asked, and will leave the U.S. to live with you in Peru.

movie this movie isn't great, but it is entertaining,the way the defective dvd was handled was excellent,a replacement was sent in a rapid manner and only cost me a 1.00 which really isn't a crisis situation,Amazon was capable

Funny It was funny. It was new. And I recommend. Especially if u are looking for a good laugh from Bateman. He did not let me down

You've Got Mail Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks as costars are always a pleasure to watch but Sleepless In Seattle is a tough act to follow, even for them.

affliction The movie kept me watching as it twisted around in different directions and it ended so unlike I thought it would! I liked it!

This movie is a fun, old-fashioned, roller-coaster ride . . . This movie is a fun, old-fashioned, roller-coaster ride that you can watch more than once.  The leading man, leading lady, and teenage boy were all like-able characters and I enjoyed the romantic chemistry between the leading man and leading lady, even if he actually did not claim "first dibs." ;-)  There were some campy over-the-top action sequences that would normally leave our heroes with shattered vertebra but it all fit in with the type of classic film genre that this movie represented.  The visual effects quality in this film were light and were more TV grade that theatrical film grade but, I'm glad the producers kept the cost of production under control so that this film could by profitable and it looks like, in the world wide box office, it was very profitable.  I also liked how this film had no profanity or gratuitous sex and violence.  This is a very family friendly film that can entertain the kids and their parents.

american graffiti Okay guys here's the deal, I am ( unfortunately ?) old enough to remember what this film looked like during its original theatrical release. It didn't look that much better than this Blu-Ray. I have always loved this period-perfect nostalgia piece & having experienced this era for myself I can attest to its general veracity. I have seen a number of reviews critical of this transfer, but having owned the VHS & DVD versions rest assured that American Graffiti has never looked better. Yes there is slight edge-enhancement if you really look for it & a bit of Black Crush in the darkest scenes & occasional depth-of-field limitations here & there,but the majority,I'm convinced, is due to source limitations. I suppose that a hurculean effort by an entity like Criterion might be able to improve on this transfer,but only marginally. If you love this little gem of a movie like I do, you can buy this with the confidence that it is about as good as this movie is ever likely to look & sound.

Period Drama Features Veteran Cast "Little Lord Fauntleroy"  is the 1936 adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel.  After the death of her husband, the patient Mrs. Errol (Dolores Costello) raises Ceddie (Freddie Bartholomew) in New York with much goodwill, but little money. Unexpectedly, Ceddie is summoned to England to become heir to the fortune of the Earl of Dorincourt (C. Aubrey Smith), his estranged grandfather, and take the title of Lord Fauntleroy. But there are problems: the Earl refuses to allow Mrs. Errol into his home, and then another boy claims to be the true inheritor.  Producer David O Selznick ("Gone With the Wind") has taken great care with the look and casting of the picture. Bartholomew manages to shoulder the film, with the benefit of strong supporting performances by Smith, Costello, Henry Stephenson, character actor Guy Kibbee, and Mickey Rooney as one of Ceddie's Brooklyn pals. There are no bonus extras on the Blu-ray "Little Lord Fauntleroy" release.

So Retarded That It's Awesome! Retardead is a zombie-comedy, and I must say that it is the most entertaining zombie film that I've seen since Zombieland. Sure, it's stupid, uneven, and pretty much has no zombies for the first half of the movie. But the second half of the movie is nearly great, with a ton of gore, lots of zombies, and dumb comedy that's also funny. And I'm baffled by the people who gave this a one star rating. I guess they went into a movie called "Retardead" expecting it to be high-caliber or something.

Very well done! Religion has been prevalent throughout history with the world population divided into many faiths which has often led to many disputes and, sadly, even war. Personally, I believe in an ideal world we should all be allowed to embrace our faiths without coming under question but that's just my viewpoint. In Josh Appignanesi's The Infidel, written by comic David Baddiel, the focus is on both Jews and Muslims but with an interesting dilemma thrown in.  The focal point of the film is Mahmud Nasir (a delightful Omid Djalili), a Muslim who has a strong belief in his faith but doesn't come across as the most devout, enjoying an occasional drink of alcohol and being a fan of the late pop star Gary Page (James Floyd). When Mahmud's son, Rashid (Amit Shah), wishes to marry Uzma (Soraya Radford), the Nasir family face the prospect of a meeting with her cleric father, Arshad Al-Masri (Yigal Naor) whose blessing they will need for the union to go ahead. Mahmud is compelled to portray himself as a devout Muslim but his life is thrown into turmoil when going through the belongings of his recently deceased mother. Mahmud discovers his birth certificate that not only reveals he was adopted but he was born a Jew and his real name is Solly Shimshillewitz! Having previously been intolerant of Jews, particularly his neighbour Lenny (Richard Schiff, previously notable as Toby in The West Wing), Mahmud suddenly feels obliged to embrace the Jewish faith. He reluctantly turns to Lenny for help after discovering his birth father in an old people's home but being denied entrance to his room by a Rabbi (a great cameo by Matt Lucas). Mingling amongst the Jewish community while keeping his origins a secret from his family and friends, Mahmud has to decide where his future faith lies.  When Mrs B proposed watching The Infidel I was interested but also had my reservations. Learning of the plot I felt this was a film that could easily offend many people, particularly in the Muslim and Jewish communities, and though I can't speak with any conviction on their behalf I do think this film should be taken light-heartedly although it does address an important issue at the end. It mostly plays more as a comedy than drama with some frankly hilarious moments. The pairing of Djalili and Schiff is the film's highpoint as Mahmud partakes of some Jewish customs including a Bar Mitzvah where he has to take to the stage to tell a Jewish joke but somehow gets through it and is warmly embraced. After initial difficulties accepting the truth of his origins, Mahmud slowly adapts to the Jewish ways of life but the more involved he becomes the greater the void between his family and the rest of the Muslim community, leaving him somewhat isolated between the two communities. What begins as a somewhat amusing revelation for Mahmud gradually addresses some serious ideas as the film looks at our individual identities especially our rights to choose our faith rather than be told what we must believe.  Mahmud's problems slowly build as his long absences from home, time spent with Lenny, are believed by his wife Saamiya (Archie Panjabi) to be indicative of infidelity. Mahmud is also bound by duty to his son, Rashid, who he is determined to help secure a marriage to Uzma. Mahmud's challenge is winning the approval of her father, Arshad, and he goes a long way to achieving this after being amongst a crowd of Muslims and being inadvertently spotted wearing a kippah which, in desperation, Mahmud throws to the ground and sets on fire only to be caught on film. Though he appeases the Muslim community and impresses Arshad, Mahmud only succeeds in offending the Jews who have no hesitation in turning their backs on him. It's at this point in the film that Mahmud realises he can't veer between the two faiths and that he must decide once and for all where his beliefs rest. The final scene where Mahmud decides his future introduces a thought provoking argument. Though not religious myself it did still make me look at my own beliefs and ask myself do I believe the way I do because I want to or because it's what's expected of me. I'm happy to say my beliefs are purely of my own choosing, even differing from members of my family, but no matter how strongly I feel about my own viewpoint I am not the sort to question others, for I don't think that is the way life should be.  Inevitably The Infidel will likely offend some people but I don't think the Jewish or Muslim communities were portrayed in a negative fashion in the film at any stage. The individuals are the focus here and how they apply their faiths, not the religions themselves. Though funny in places The Infidel cannot help but take on a more serious tone particularly in its depiction of Mahmud who does become very isolated as he considers turning his back on a community he has been a part of all his life to start afresh with a new faith. The film certainly confirmed my previous thoughts that all of us should be allowed to follow our hearts and choose our faiths and be allowed to enjoy them without fear of question or persecution.  The Infidel is a good comedy tackling a delicate subject in divisive religious faiths and one man caught between the two trying to find himself. Although the film may offend some people I would expect the majority to find much to enjoy here with Djalili great in the lead with Schiff completing a memorable double act while the supporting cast are also good as well. Well worth a look.

Out In Red Scare Cold War Night For those who lived in that death red scare cold war 1950s night, or who came of television age then the events depicted in this very well-done black and white documentary-like film, "Good Night, And Good Luck" (the signature sign-off line of Edward R. Murrow on his radio and television shows), should be very familiar. And a cause for reflection for those who howled with the wolves (the McCarthy, Nixon, Robert Welch wolves) calling for the blood of every, well, every speaker against that death night. For those who came after this should be a cautionary tale very appropriate for addressing the madnesses of the political and media howling wolves today.  The story line here is pretty straight-forward, the 1953-54 struggle of Edward R. Murrow, a well-respected and honest radio and television journalist, and the rabid anti-communist monger, the junior Senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy, including actual footage of  his speeches and remarks. In that red scare cold war night few reporters, fewer liberals, and even fewer average American citizens were ready to take on the howling beasts  who, mainly for their own political  purposes, were ready to destroy infinite numbers of lives in order to "stop the red menace" from creeping through the door. As it turned out there were a handful of actual reds (or past reds, mainly) who may have been in the government. For that few these wolves were ready to bring the whole frail democratic experience on the American continent (what Lincoln called "the last, best hope") toppling down.  Some guys, too few guys (or gals), like Murrow (and Fred Friendly played by George Clooney) stood up in their funny way (their cloud puff dreams of an informed, educated citizenry plugged into the world via technological promise of the global village of television seem rather ironic now) to their day's monsters.  And while we, Brother Murrow and I, may have been a million miles away from each other in age, in political and cultural sensibilities, and lifestyle I am always happy to salute a kindred spirit, an honest man seeking the truth.  And I encourage all to see this film.

A YOUNG MEL GIBSON IN AN END OF THE WORLD VISION THAT STILL HOLDS UP. I had not seen this movie for about 30 years. I liked it then and I liked it this time around, as well. This movie is the sequel to MAD MAX and I would suggest you watch that one first so you understand the circumstances that take Max (Mel Gibson) to the "edge of hell" in THE ROAD WARRIOR. The world is DESTROYED and DEGENERATED. The arrid outback of Australia is the scene of this sci/fi action story.

Great set. Many extras. Really needs captions. This review pertains strictly to the DVD megaset, and not the quality of the UFO series itself, which is a matter of taste.  I love the set. I love the extras that are included. I deducted one star for the following reasons:  - Other sets (that have been released previously, overseas) have included some other extras. (I understand that this set includes some extras that aren't in other sets. The thing is that I want them ALL.) This would be the perfect set if it had ALL the extras.  - At times, because there's a lot going on at once, plus background music, it's a bit difficult to make out what someone is saying. Captions would be extremely helpful here. I'm very surprised there aren't any.  So, it's not the PERFECT set. But it is still a GREAT set. The commentary tracks are wonderful.

Moneyball I enjoyed this movie.  It shows how the San Francisco A's got on the winning side of baseball.  I like movies that are actually true events.

Red Tails review Lots of good computer animation action scenes but a little more detail on the history of the squadron should have been included.

thumbs up for Scalene Good story well told. Tragic, yes, but the  engaging characters, high level of suspense, surprising twists and excellent actors kept me glued. Margo Martindale is fun to watch!

Overall a decent documentary Many liberals will probably give this film a bad review because it puts down Michael Moore in the title.  But in reality it shows that the events shown in Michael Moore's documentary "Roger and Me" has not effected everyone in the USA.  In many states across this country there are still jobs available (some even high paying in their area).  Now I know some people may not consider jobs that pay $10.00 an hour as a high paying job, but when you consider that the housing in this area is affordable, Groceries are affordable, and everything else we use in normal life is affordable, it makes a compelling argument.  Overall this well made film illustrates why we should take pride in the USA.

Drama Among Fishermen Beneath the 12-mile Reef, 1953 film  The movie starts by showing boats on an ocean. This is the Gulf of Mexico off the west coast of Florida. Sponge fishermen have a dangerous occupation gathering sponges from the ocean floor. [This explains why natural sponges are so expensive.] Their catch is auctioned off. The best sponges are in dangerous waters. They pay off part of a loan. There is a ceremony in retrieving a cross thrown into the sea. [Some tie a string nowadays to aid in its retrieval.] Sponges are becoming scarce, so they try a new area. They are successful, but meet their competitors and are ordered away without their sponges. They will take care of this by themselves. Will there be trouble? The arrival of the police creates calm. [Note the wearing of knives.] Are there bad feelings between the Conks and the Greeks? There is a fist fight.  Mike will fish the 12-mile reef for sponges. The harvest should be much better. But there was an accident. A too rapid rise from deep water causes "the bends" (nitrogen bubbles in the blood). Ice is used as an emergency treatment Is it too late? "I'm sorry." Will their sponges be stolen? A fire on the boat creates danger and damages their boat. Arnold assumed those sponges were from their area. Another man took most of the sponges. Arnold beats up Tony and tells him to stay away. Gwyneth goes to Tony. Can they get a load of sponges to sell and repair their boat? Tony talks to the money lender about supplies for sponge fishing. Gwyneth goes with Tony out to sea. Beneath the sea Tony harvests sponges. What will the octopus do? Another boat draws near - more trouble again. But Tony shows his good character in saving Arnold. "He's alright."  This is an interesting story about the sponge fisherman on the west coast of Florida. [But why do they all talk like Yankees?] I wonder if this movie was the inspiration for "West Side Story"? Overall, its average but educates you about sponge fishing.

Very entertaining Some people complained about the male genitalia being shown, but it was part of a joke, a disgusting joke, but still women have to see topless girls in almost every film this is our turn to take one for the team. All in all the movie is funny. I'd recommend watching it atleast once. Ending is pretty hilarious and Alexandra Daddario needs more roles, she is stunning.

GINGER SNAPS...  AND DOES SHE! Really neat beginning, very original; good character development, good acting, good directing all add up to far fetched fun, fun, fun! While "GINGER SNAPS" wouldn't win any Academy Awards, it does set itself apart from many other Teen movies. Some reviews already gave away too much, but no matter, this flick is still worth an evening of Popcorn & Soda, or whatever you like...  ---GBJ

Responsibility This is the third film I've seen by Bobcat Golthwait (after "Sleeping Dogs Lie" and "World's Greatest Dad"), and he's really emerged as an interesting filmmaker. So far, all his films seem to have a similar formula: take an outrageous premise, and then use it to explore the human condition in surprisingly nuanced ways.  Frank (Joel Murray, in a sensitive leading performance) has had it. His cold ex-wife has left him for a younger man, and is spoiling their bratty daughter. He's fired from him job for sexual harassment, when all he did was send flowers to a co-worker to cheer her up. And finally, his horrifically indifferent doctor diagnoses him with a terminal brain tumor. Frank is also disgusted with current American culture. He sits in his living room, flipping channels, and is horrified by how dumbed down and mean-spirited everything is. Finally, while watching a show that features a monstrous, entitled girl planning a garish Sweet 16 party, Frank snaps, and decides to track the girl down and murder her.  While committing the murder, Frank meets teenage Roxy, who is thrilled and impressed by the execution. Roxy tracks Frank down at this motel room, right before his planned suicide, and encourages him to turn the incident from a final act of rage to the beginning of a murder spree meant to rid the world of the worst of society. Despite their age difference, Frank and Roxy bond. They're both angry, lonely and disturbed. Their relationship explores the similarities between adolescent disillusionment and middle-aged disillusionment, and discovers they're really not so different. Roxy approaches their crime spree with more excitement and enthusiasm, perhaps, than world-weary Frank, who approaches the whole thing from the perspective of a has-been who has nothing left to lose. But really, they're kindred spirits.  The two then go on a quest to rid society of many of its biggest cultural tumors, and various characters serve as stand-ins for real life institutions such as American Idol, Fox News, and the Westboro Baptist Church. Frank and Roxy also occasionally execute everyday people who are just plain rude and nasty, including people who talk on the phone in the movie theatre, or people who take up two spaces with their car.  It's all very entertaining and darkly funny. Yet often throughout the film, when Frank is glued to the TV in disgust, I find myself asking a question: why can't he just turn it off? Instead of all his reactive ranting, why can't he just go for a hike, or read a book, or listen to an album by someone who actually has talent? So as much as the film justifiably criticizes much of the cultural wasteland, it doesn't let the viewer off the hook either. Why do we continue to watch awful TV shows and movies, listen to awful music, and give attention to vapid, narcissistic people? Why don't we only support artists and products that are worth supporting? And if we're finding our culture has become petty and cruel, why don't we counteract it by treating the people around us with kindness and respect?

Resistance: When All Else Fails WHITE MATERIAL (the term is defined as all things owned by or being 'white' in a black culture) is a strange little film by the highly respected Claire Denis who wrote (with Marie N'Diaye and Lucie Borleteau) and directed this rather timeless, non-specifically placed study of disintegration of family and life somewhere in Africa. Perhaps not giving a time frame or more information about the politics of the place where this film takes place is meant to metaphorical, but for many viewers it will make the story more of a conundrum than is necessary.  Maria Vial (the extraordinary actress Isabelle Huppert) runs a coffee plantation owned by her father-in-law Henri (Michel Subor): the plantation has seen better economic days and Maria's former husband Andr&eacute; (Christophe Lambert) who not only offers no help to the plantation but is trying to sell it before it goes bankrupt: Andr&eacute;s also has taken another woman Lucie (Ad&egrave;le Ado) and has a young son by her. Maria's only child Manuel (Nicolas Duvauchelle) is a tattooed loser and probably his unstable mind is due to drug abuse. So it is Maria by herself that is in charge of the plantation.  There is a political uprising with rebels, led by Boxer (Isaach De Bankol&eacute;), destroying all the white material seen to be the evil of the country. Maria sides with Boxer, protecting him from the ruling corrupt government, and as the people Maria has employed on her plantation flee because of the insurrection, Maria is repeatedly warned to return to France - an idea she finds repugnant and will do anything to save her land. She gathers a few frightened people to harvest her coffee beans, but as she is processing the beans she uncovers a severed goat head in the beans - a sign of doom. Maria must fight to save her home and in the end her choices are altered by a vile deed that shows how far she has fallen in her attempt to change her personal destiny: she has lost her business, her son has gone completely mad, and her former husband and her father-in-law fail to aid her plight. Even giving aid to Boxer, the chief of the rebels, fails to alter her plight.  The film is confusing in that there is not enough history or information about place so that the message seems to be that all of Africa is always in turmoil and that the conflict between blacks and whites is a constant. Real history does not support that act and the reality of the people of that continent deserve better, Isabelle Huppert is always outstanding, but even in this situation her character is a bit monotonous. The musical by Stuart Staples is outstanding, possibly the best aspect of this film that could have been much better. In French with English subtitles. Grady Harp,  April 11

An interesting experiment and a reasonably good movie Hitchcock said "Rope" was an "experiment that didn't work out". Nevertheless, it's an interesting experiment and a reasonably good movie. Certainly worth spending an hour and twenty minutes with.

A Sweet And Utterly Real Domestic Dramedy--Don't Be Put Off By The Silly DVD Marketing Don't be fooled by the rather evocative title of "My Year Without Sex."  While certainly an attention grabber that piqued my initial interest, I almost skipped this film thinking it was some silly teenage comedic romp.  Instead, "My Year Without Sex" is a rather incisive and tender look at a modern Australian family in crisis.  A study of love, fidelity, and loyalty--this episodic journey through a year for an ordinary middle class clan is one of the most realistic and warm films about family that I've seen in some time.  The sex angle may be the hook that lures you in, but ultimately--this is an old fashioned love story between a man and his wife. So despite the title and the saucy double entendre chapter breaks, this is domestic drama with liberal doses of identifiable comedy for an adult audience!  A married couple not having sex, what's so unique about that?  Matt Day and Sacha Horler effectively play the sexless couple in question.  A loving, yet chaotic, home life with their two children is abruptly interrupted when Horler suffers from a brain aneurysm.  Near death's door, she miraculously pulls through and is able to return to the fold.  But her illness has placed the family into some turmoil both economically and emotionally.  There are some things, including sex, that can trigger aneurysms so the couple swear off until Horler experiences a better prognosis.  This, however, is such a small part of "My Life Without Sex."  We see the family deal with financial issues, questions of faith and mortality, as well as trying to rebuild an normalcy within extreme circumstances.  Throughout all the conflict, and the film is structured in vignette format, the realness of their lives is never questionable.  And the familial love is both true and incredibly sweet--even when everyone can be combative.  Horler is terrific and believable while Day is the epitome of charm and patience.  Their children, as well as the extended family, are also well cast.  This is slice-of-life comedy at its most appealing.  I truly was invested in the journey of every character and, really, what more could you want?  So don't be mislead by the rather silly DVD packaging and the tagline "One woman is about to do the unthinkable."  This film is better than its marketing campaign would suggest.  Heartfelt and real, I was really taken by this indie charmer!  KGHarris, 2/11.

Happy I ordered this DVD I recently viewed this on cable.  I was shocked at what time had done to a film I remembered as very entertaining and exciting.  The special effects were the best part of the film, and they had lost all their punch.  I realized it was not being shown in the format it had been filmed in and had been edited to fit the TV screen.  In other words, it was not in letterbox format.  I looked it up on Amazon and found you had a version that appeared to be in the original format, so I ordered it.  It arrived very quickly, and I have to say it turned out to be just as exciting a film as I remembered it to be.  What a difference to see a film the way it was meant to be viewed.  This special edition comes with an additional special features DVD that includes interviews with some the the actors and persons who worked on the film.  I am glad I took a chance and made this purchase.  My only request is that you make it clearer when a DVD you are offering is in the letterbox format.

one of the best titles to be released this year for horror fans This is a brutal film that tells the story of a truly twisted man. Its not a gore fest and it dosnt need to be. This movie has enough raw intensity and emotion to carry the story out proper. Any fan of maniac killer/serial killer movies will rejoice while watching this one. I say for all the horror fans, buy this one for sure. It will not disappoint!

Big, Bloody, Blow-'Em-Up FUN! When Sylvester Stallone dreamt up the original EXPENDABLES film, it was designed to be a throwback to the cheesy 80's shoot-'em-up spectacles that were low on plot and character and high on action and adrenaline and combine many of cinema's greatest (or at least somewhat famous) action stars in one film, and it succeeded in some ways and failed in others. The biggest problem that I had with the original is that there were too many patented Stallone-As-Screenwriter moments when he tried to make the film more serious than it EVER needed to be. But when the action was on, it was really glorious to watch all of the over-the-top silliness explode like a Wile E. Coyote cartoon on crank. Fortunately we're treated to much more of that silliness and much less of the seriousness in the Simon West (CON AIR, LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER) directed EXPENDABLES 2.  As the film opens with a terrific opening set piece of an assault on a fortified bunker, we are reintroduced to our team of Expendables: Barney (Stallone, not losing a step), Lee Christmas (Jason Statham, he of the mighty chin and eternal 5-O'Clock-Shadow), Gunnar (Dolph Lundgren, who's gone from potential villain to one of the good guys again), Yin Yang (Jet Li, still short), Caesar (Terry Crews and his loud auto-shotgun), Toll Road (Randy Couture... who's barely there), and the new kid on the block, Billy (Liam Hemsworth). The whole opening sequence is an orgy of heads and limbs popping off, kung-fu butt-kicking, geysers of digital blood, and big BIG explosions. It also reveals another bit player with a much larger role in this film, and that is the character of Trench, played by none other than the former Governator himself, looking to get back into film in a big (and fun) way. After a brief interlude, Yin Yang departs the film for... really no particular reason, and they're down a man. When they arrive home, Barney in confronted by the mysterious Company man Mr. Church (played with much more relish this time around by Bruce Willis), who orders his merry band to go and intercept a "package" that's been lost in a plane crash in a faraway land. Church also insists that one of his people, Maggie (the lovely and lethal Nan Yu, whose only other "major" Hollywood role was in SPEED RACER), goes along for the ride in order to secure the package. Before you can say "Time for the big villain entrance", it's time for the big villain entrance, and that is in the personage of Vilain (yes, that's his character's name) as portrayed by Jean-Claude Van Damme (clearly having a good time playing the bad guy). Vilain and his crew rather shockingly kill one member of the team, and that leads our Expendables on a path to vengeance. Vilain leads a vicious group of mercenaries and other cut-throat types whose current objective is to steal five tons of old Soviet weapons-grade Plutonium and sell it to the highest bidders. Church, Trench and another player who appears on the board named Booker (Chuck Norris, playing up his "Lone Wolf" image... get it? "Lone Wolf"?) all come together to take down Vilain and his operation and his seeminlgly endless parade of cannon fodder.  Basically everything that was good about the first film is better here. West has a much better and more dynamic style than Stallone does when it comes to having some flair about the action sequences. The film also knows when to lay off the more serious moments to create more forward momentum. Some may find this to be a disservice to the character, but believe me, if this film had gotten bogged down in this death and the reflection/meditation on life and death that the first film had, it would have done the film a greater disservice. The whole cast, particularly the old-timers, seem to be having a really good time here, even if some of them have less to do because of the inclusion of Schwarzenegger, Willis and Norris getting in on the action. The second act does plod on a little, but the film, coming in at a brisk 103 minute run-time, doesn't allow the film to plod for very long.  The other thing that is much more evident in this film is its self-awareness. This film, unlike the first film, is VERY aware that it takes place in "Action Movie/Video Game Land", as opposed to a semi-realistic setting. Just look at the opening sequence; the good guys fire their weapons with unfailing accuracy as they travel at fifty miles per hour while the throngs of bad guys couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. The sea-plane used in the first film has been retrofitted into an airborne tank. In the second act, one man is able to take down a few dozen bad guys AND a tank in a matter of about seven seconds. By the third act, you have our heroes crashing planes into the ground with no real consequences, drilling machines coming out of nowhere, and people RIPPING THE DOORS OFF CARS. This same idea also applies to the character motivations and dialogue: Vilain is evil because he's the villain and he knows it (It's in his name, for God's sakes), and even has the line "No loose ends" at one point. The good guys are super-quipping machines. Willis and Schwarzenegger share a scene where they throw each other's movie catch-phrases in their faces. This film has abandoned all pretense of reality and that makes it work SO much better than the first film. It's also a real thrill for those of us action fans who were coming of age in the 80's to see Sly, Bruce, Ahnuld, and Chuck killing dozens of bad guys together. The only notable absence from the first film is that of Mickey Rourke, who, admittedly wasn't much of an action star anyway, unless you want to count HARLEY DAVIDSON AND THE MARLBORO MAN or the Van Damme/Dennis Rodman action film DOUBLE TEAM. I think those films are better off forgotten, though, don't you?  The best sequels are the ones that learn from the mistakes of the previous films and improve on what made the original entertaining in the first place, and THE EXPENDABLES 2 absolutely does all of that and ends up being one of the more entertaining, if least substantial, films of the summer.  4/5 Stars.

A real remaster of an odd piece of Beatles history Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour 2012 Apple DVD  This Apple version of the television special is a true remaster and the only version worth owning.  Still, it never was the greatest bit of entertainment ever made, in fact, for an hour-long show; some of it is downright boring.  However, it is worth owning for its visual versions of "I am the walrus", "Fool on the hill", "Blue Jay Way", and "Your mother should know".  This DVD has a commentary track by Paul with is nice, but not as informative as one would expect.  There are various re-edits of the songs as bonus bits, but the visuals are mainly pieces of footage that are not an improvement over the original film versions.  The best bonus feature is the inclusion of Traffic's "The Mulberry Bush" (which was left out of the original film).  Seeing this very early version of Traffic is a real treat.  The film (even at its best) is only a 3 1/2 Star film, but its remaster plus the bonus features make this a Four Star DVD.

Entertaining for AYBS? fans Produced to help revive the then-flagging British film industry, the "Are You Being Served?" movie lacks the timing, immediacy, and warm-hearted familiarity of the brilliant TV series, but fans of the show will enjoy seeing the staff of Grace Brothers trying to make the best of a mandatory vacation at a miserable Spanish resort.  Some of the jokes are recycled from the series, and others are humorous new additions to the series' repertoire, though the lack of a live audience affects both the timing of the performance and the overall atmosphere of the film.  The quality of the film on the DVD is excellent, though the disc is, disappointingly, lacking in special features; the only feature included is the original theatrical trailer shown to British cinema audiences (though in obviously worn and deteriorated quality).  The "Are You Being Served?" movie certainly isn't cinematic excellence, but is nonetheless a funny adventure for fans of the TV series to enjoy.

Pretty fun movie I watched this the other night with my Mom and little sister who's in 4th grade. We were laughing like crazy. My mom said it's based on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00013RCAM">an old movie</a> from a long time ago with the same name, so we're watching that soon to compare.

zombies loose on the Irish moors... Written and directed by Conor McMahon, Dead Meat (2004) is a fast-paced, suspenseful, and well executed zombie flick, that builds up to a frenzied finish in a castle turret.  The film is set in the Irish countryside, where cattle affected by mad cows disease, are the cause of the zombie outbreak.  The story follows Helena (Marian Araujo) who is travelling with her boyfriend along a country lane, when their car rams into one of the undead.  Stopping to help the injured man, her boyfriend Martin (David Ryan) is bitten by the zombie, and soon Helena is fleeing across the Irish moors with several zombies on her trail.  She encounters Desmond (David Muyllaert) a gravedigger, who fills her in on current events.  On their way back to Desmond's cottage, they encounter zombies roaming the countryside.  The gravedigger wields his shovel, while Helena employs her high heels, to dispatch the undead.  Together with a young girl (Kathryn Toolan) they rescue, the survivors hook up with coach Cathal Cheunt (Eoin Whelan) and his wife Francie (Amy Redmond), who have a working SUV.  Learning from a radio message that the Government will be picking up survivors at a nearby castle, the group heads over there hoping to be rescued.  Dead Meat features most of your standard zombie clich&eacute;s, although these zombies are mostly silent and don't move at great speed.  There is no shortage of zombies, as lots of extras were employed, including many children.  The undead are mostly dispatched up close and personal, via shovel, wooden bats, or various hand tools.  The film is nicely atmospheric, and moves along at a nice clip, with little surprises along the way that raise the level of excitement, including an unexpected encounter with a very aggressive cow.  Many in the cast may not have much acting experience, but the performances very good.  The characters act and sound like real people, not endlessly arguing about what to do, or getting hysterical.  The finish is a bit over the top, as vastly outnumbered, the survivors battle furiously against a horde of zombies in an ancient castle fort.  The epic struggle goes on much longer than it should, but the carnage is bloody good fun.  The film has subtitles, and unless you are really familiar with Irish vernacular, you may want to turn them on, as Eoin Whelan speaks very fast at times, and barking out his lines, his heavy accent is often hard to understand.  That's about the only distraction in what is a tense horror thriller, with solid production values and decent special effects and gore, despite a low budget.  In pure indie tradition, the film's rousing closing song Dead Meat is written and performed by David Muyllaert.

This is more like it This film is a bit of a Mad Max nuclear wasteland type of film, but it is so much better than the last film. The zombies are far better too, the make up/FX are really good in this film and mark the upgrade of the franchise from low budget to decent budget. Milla looks fab as usual and the action scenes are really fun.  Iain Glen is a worthy villain, and brings some acting chops to the franchise. Highly recommended.

Drugs, cops, and a beautiful babe This 1988 flick works against a backdrop of drug smuggling where the smuggler (Mel Gibson) and the local cop (Kurt Russell) are lifelong friends. Both are interested in the same woman (Michelle Pfeiffer). The already volatile mix is aggravated by Raul Julia who plays a duel role, first as the chief of the Mexican Federal Police working in California.  The quality of the DVD is excellent, the acting outstanding, and the action mostly non-stop.

Great 1080p Transfer of a Modern Classic! I watched the 2012 version of Total Recall and found it thoroughly insipid so I decided to revisit the original and purchased the "mind bending edition" of the 1990 Total Recall. Well, to be honest "mind bending" is a bit of a misnomer coz the extras aren't what I would consider revolutionary. That said, the transfer to HD was reason enough for me to laud this Blu ray. Very nicely done audio and Video. Commentary by Schwarzenegger and Verhoeven was actually rather entertaining and informative.

must see if you are a Trailer Park Boys fan not the greatest but not bad either, we are glad we bought it and seen it finally. A must have for finding out what next happens after the tv series ends

Reservoir Dogs great movie. This movie is really good lots great actors and lots shooting action. And for the used dvd price can't go wrong

"Let them known men did this!" At the risk of not so much swimming against the tide as against a tidal wave, I thought the much-despised 2010 remake of Clash of the Titans was a terrific entertainment that managed to improve on many aspects of the now much-loved but itself initially disparaged Ray Harryhausen version. For a start it's barely a remake, sharing only the title and the subject matter, discarding the love story and family-friendly elements for an altogether grittier and bleaker view that's at least more true to the cruelty of Greek mythology even if the details aren't so well served.  If Sam Worthington's Perseus is a throwback to the typical beefcake hero of 50s peplum, the script at least is smarter than the average mythological adventure. Instead of than fulfilling a divine destiny, this version's demi-god Perseus - half man, half-god, all-Ocker - is raging against it, determined to defy the gods as a man. These gods are cruel and parasitic, dependent on the worship of men to fuel their immortality but unwilling to earn it, their arrogance sparking a war with the mortals who don't want them any more. Rather than taking a Richard Dawkins "there is no god" approach, this is more of a "the gods exist and they're a right bunch of bastards" attack, with the dawning realisation that they can ultimately kill them by denying them their prayers. The film does copout on this with the end used in the film, the Blu-ray offering an alternate but poorly executed original version that saw Liam Neeson's Zeus and Perseus still very much at loggerheads, and by losing the love story between Perseus and Andromeda it does lower the stakes somewhat. Perseus' quest is now fuelled by pride, arrogance and defiance, with an impressively bitter Mads Mikkelsen and his high-testosterone expendable Argonauts all manly men meeting manly deaths at the hands and claws and tentacles of mythological beasts.  The beasts themselves are generally a pretty impressive bunch, the CGi faring much better in the original 2D than in the clumsily converted 3D version released in cinemas. If Ralph Fiennes' Hades is better as a special effect than when overdoing the Uriah Heap routine in more human form, the impressively rendered giant scorpions, multi-tentacled Kraken and the serpent-like Medusa grab the limelight over some of the old favorites from the Harryhausen version: Jason Flemyng's Calibos has less to do this time round while Pegasus simply conveniently appears when needed without needing to be tamed in a rather lazy bit of deux ex machina. But then this is the kind of film where the human cast are mostly sidelined as well, actors like Pete Posthlethwaite, Elizabeth McGovern, Danny Huston and Polly Walker turning up for a minute or two as little more than walk-ons and most of the gods having nothing more to do than stand around a disappointingly designed Olympus whose exteriors are spectacular but whose interiors look like Las Vegas car showroom. But it keeps moving without feeling too chopped up and thankfully there's a minimum of shakeycam or MTV overediting to accompany the overdose of testosterone. Big on spectacle and short on charm, it's a very different animal to Harryhausen's film (there's even an injoke about that version's irritating mechanical owl), but as long as you're expecting that it's one of the better action adventures of recent years.  DVD buyers get short shrift yet again, with nearly all of the extras reserved for the BluRay release - 10 deleted scenes and alternate ending, 11 featurettes and additional picture-in-picture featurettes running throughout the film if you choose `Maximum Movie Mode' - which has a generally excellent transfer.

Not the best portrayal but it's still entertaining. I write this review as a GDI (BGLO speak for well...somebody who isn't a member of a Black Greek Letter Org). I have however aspired to join one after attending my 1st Howard U. parade 12yrs ago. Of course, over the yrs I grew to learn that BGLOs are about much more than stepping, having attended many events & probates hosted by the different orgs. but stepping will always be a part of the history, tradition & culture of Black Greek Life. That being said, I was ecstatic about this movie & made sure that I was one of the 1st in line for a ticket on opening night. I know that Hollywood is all about what's going to entertain and box office statistics but it didn't take long before I realized that it wasn't going to be a amazing portrayal of Black Fraternities and Sororities...not at all. First off, I have never in my life seen two orgs present new members at the same time. Maybe on the same day, at different times that may overlap but that's it. Secondly, it's no secret that some chapters in all 9 orgs still haze but at least they could've offset the negative with a positive like hmmmm I don't know...the vast amount of community involvement and their collective purposes/what they stand for. They did at least pay respect to some of their more notable members such as Maya Angelou and Dr, Martin Luther King Jr. Another thing I just have to mention is that I felt like I was watching "You Got Served" or one of the "Step Up" movies. While there's no doubt Columbus Short is a good dancer and choreographer, there was just TOO much dancing!! Considering that the writers and producers are men of Alpha Phi Alpha, Inc, I was surprised that they didn't push for a more accurate portrayal. All in all, if you want a movie to get you hype about dancing and [somewhat] the art of Stepping, here you go. But if you're using the movie itself to decide whether or not to pursue membership, do some REAL research or you're probably not going to get very far.

Thelma & Louise Get your bowl of popcorn and enjoy the "Evening of Video" full of laughter with the light hearted story of Thelma and Louise.

Some of the four are good, some not so good I bought this 4-pack mostly to watch "They Live," a classic guy movie that I remembered from years before. It turns about memories were better than reality, "They Live" was kind of hacky. The pleasant surprise of the set was "Village of the Damned," which I remembered as hacky but everyone in my household actually loved it on the DVD. If you haven't seen that film it is definitely worth watching.

LOST Season 4 Anytime I can purchase collector items for free of charge I am very satisfied! Use my survey rewrads for Amazon gift cards!!!

American Psycho Wow! Old movies had never been that good. As a avid movie fan, I must say this is one of the best PQ and AQ movie that i've seen. Recommend to buy if u are a avid fan of classy acting, dialog, taste......... No regrets.

Funny, with great wisdom. I am a pastor. In spite of everything I do, I know that the statistics are the same for couples I counsel as ones who elope. The divorce rate is still 50%. Statistics are worse for couples living together before marriage.  In fact, recently a couple I was preparing to marry split up weeks before the date. She was planning a wedding while he was planning to leave her. So I watched this movie to do a little cheering up. As I did so, I gained a lot of perspective and insight.  In this hilarious movie (I do want to emphasize it is for mature audiences), Father Frank works in hilarious ways to wipe the innocence off of the faces of the young couple. While they are seeing hearts and roses, he wants them to see and talk about what is real to them. By creating off the chart stressful situations, he helps them to see past the romance and into the reality.  I am actually considering this movie as required viewing for future couples!  I can make a list of various scenes to discuss.  This will remain in my library!

Exercises for seniors Good instructional video for seniors who wish to start an exercise program.  First segment is fairly easy and can be done by anyone.  The second segment is more challenging and is for those who are comfortable with their progress on the first segment.  Does involve the use of light weights such as dumb bells, soup cans, gallon jugs etc.  I don't care for her politics, but the video is okay.

GOOD MOVIE NOT THAT EVERYONE HASN'T ALREADY HEARD OF THIS MOVIE, BUT IT IS A FUN KIDS MOVIE AND MY BOY LOVES ALL THE CARS.

Cars 2 The movie was good but not as good as the first CARS. It's still a movie worth owning.  My grandchildren are getting the movie for Christmas

A Hard-to-Find Clark Gable Western Westerns starring Clark Gable (or Errol Flynn) are relatively few, but they're always good fun.  This post-Alamo romp through Texas' independence includes Broderick Crawford as the villain with a patriotic soul.  Redemption in the end.  A middle-aged Gable at his grizzley best!

ronin great movie, a little slow during the whole movie. Even the car chase scene which is considered one of the best is too drawn out for me, maybe cause i've seen it a million times, it was great only in the theater.  at home just too slow.  DVD has full screen on one side of disk and wide screen on other, don't like menu effects,takes too long to get there.  but still love the movie.

Entertaining and unfairly slammed family flick "Mars Needs Moms" will never be mistaken for "Apocalpyse Now" much less "Toy Story" but it IS an entertaining diversion. It seems Simon Wells (the great grandson of H.G. Wells) can't escape his past or the subjects of his grandfather's writing; "Mars" makes the second time that Wells has worked on a project that is somehow tied into his great-grandfather's work (he also directed the recent live action version of "The Time Machine").  It seems that good moms are being kidnapped by Martians and young hero Milo (Seth Dusky--motion capture performance by Seth Green)gets whisked away with his mom (Joan Cusack)to the Red Planet and he must figure out a way to get both of them back to Earth. With the assistance of Reagan era secret astronaut Gribble (Dan Fogler) Milo must stop the Martians from doing something evil and wrong to his mom.  "Mars Needs Moms" looks positively stunning in HD. Colors pop and there's a level of detail that the BD disc provides nice resolution for. Audio is presented in 7.1 DTS-HD and sounds terrific as well. It's too bad that the film didn't get a bigger audience but that had more to do with marketing and less with the quality of the film itself.  The special features are quite nice as well. We get a commentary track featuring director Wells, Green and Fogler (clearly recorded before the film premiered because they seem quite optimistic about the future of the film as a Disney franchise).  "Life on Mars" focuses on the motion capture shooting that provided the basis for the animation.  "Martian 101" allows us to find out about the creation of the Martian language and culture for the film.  "Fun with Seth" takes us behind-the-scenes on the set letting us see the cast goof off a bit.  We also get deleted scenes and an alternate beginning in various states of completion with an introduction by director Simon Wells.  It's a pity that "Mars Needs Moms" met with public indifference--if it had been marketed better it might have found it's audience as it's an entertaining film although not quite in the class of the work that Pixar does (although it does have a much darker story element than we would normally see in a Pixar flick).

Pretty good As with all of the Jermy Brett Holmes episodes, I have watched this one repeatedly, and I have grown to appreciate it more. When it first came out, it seemed a bit offputting, for a few reasons. I didn't like the idea of stretching a short story to an almost two-hour film. Previous Holmes episodes (all excellent) were always an hour, and only went longer in the case of novels like "The Sign of Four." Then, the tone of this film seemed somewhat darker than earlier episodes, and it lacked the humorous ending of the original short story, in which Holmes banters with the police about a burglary he has in fact committed himself. But, I have revised my opinion for a few reasons. One, this film isn't half as bad as the terrible ones that came after it, namely "The Last Vampyre" and "The Eligible Bachelor," both also lengthened versions of short stories. Compared to those two, this one is highly enjoyable. Also, I find on repeated viewings that the many plot strands in the script hold together very well, and that the acting is superb. (I would quibble with the official Amazon review about the suggestion that Holmes actually falls in love with the maid... it is pretty clear to me that Holmes is playing a part in order to get information he needs, and he professes emotion only to put her off when she starts asking probing questions that may arouse suspicion. This is subtle and well done, but let the maid be fooled and not the viewer: Holmes is still the same calculating creature we know and love him to be.) As for the ending, it isn't so cheerful, but as is made clear by the cinematographic detail of the ash going out on the Athena bust's forehead, Holmes is not proud of this case because it does not allow much room for his powers of intellect and deduction. This was true of the original story, and it remains true here. So... a tad gloomier than earlier Holmes films, but well worth a look. Jeremy Brett remains the definitive onscreen Holmes to me.

A mixed bag of MGM treats One of those plotless revues whose sole purpose is to showcase MGM stars, "Ziegfeld Follies" (1946) will probably both delight & confound you. Depending on your tastes, there's a nice balance of music & comedy. The wonderful Fred Astaire walks away with the lion's share, as he's featured in not one but three numbers. Some comedy bits hit the target (Red Skelton is typically hilarious in "When Television Comes"; Fanny Brice is terrific as a Yiddish domestic in "The Sweepstakes Ticket"; Keenan Wynn scores with "Number, Please"), while some musical bits (Lena Horne smolders with "Love"; Esther Williams does what she always does best..swims; and the amusing showstopper between dancing greats Astaire & Gene Kelly) might satisfy MGM fans. The headscratchers? The satirical "Interview" number really doesn't get Judy Garland cooking 'til nearly the end of it; and Lucille Ball is sadly underused as a lion tamer in the opening number. Using sound stages with mostly minimalist set designs, it's a typically splashy MGM affair. Not the best I've seen from them, but certainly not the worst!

Nice Addition To The Other Marvel Line up But Nothing To Yell About While I do love that Marvel has finally after so many years of being the underdog in the 90's and mid 2000's to D.C. has gotten the attention they deserve,  but while this movie gives many people and longtime fans of the hero their overdue live action movie it doesn't go beyond a typical action summer flick.  The movie gives for the most part an accurate telling of the story of Steve Rogers from a lanky weak but courageous patriotic American wanting to fight the tyranny of the Third Reich and their villainous ideals but also adds another character for the future line up of the Avengers movie coming out next year.  While the action of the movie is pretty good I wasn't as entertained as much by it as I was with the action in the Iron Man movies or the Thor movie,  again while not bad the movie just feels with its storyline to even up with the Fantastic Four movies though with some better dialogue though and with a much more talented villain for Captain America(Hugo Weaving being a fantastic actor).  Still for what the movie is going for and for any fan of the Marvel universe here's a great deal regardless that no one should pass up...

Good one story could have been better. The good thing  audio and video is reference quality however for my personal taste the story could have been better, it,s hard to explane. After seeing the whole movie i had a slight dissapointed feeling because the story could have been better/stronger.

Well, I liked it I was slightly disappointed in this production, because my previous experiences of the Globe productions were marvellous. I think this exploited the gender bending in a 21st century lascivious way rather than in Shakespeare's comic misidentification gambit. It really would have worked better if the cast had been all male as it was when Will did it - the comedy is blunted by having females play males impersonating females impersonating males (I think that's all of it.)However, it gives a most satisfactory account of the text, much more so than Branagh's (although his is visually far superior) and the acting was superb.

the Night of the Shooting Stars Replacing the old VHS with DVD in my foreign film collection.  WWII is seen through the eyes of the young 8 year old Italian girl and it shows the optimism of the young.  Several scenes make this movie outstanding.  The close up of the ears of the fleeing towns people as they listen for the bombs that are destroying their houses go off at an appointed time. Another scene shows German soldiers pulling a bus full of their fallen comrades with one singing while tears stream down his face.  It is a thoughtful study of human nature during war.

The Chipmunks franchise still has it after 3 movies, but barely Where the first Chipmunks movie was cute, I never really saw it as a multi-film franchise. Lo and behold, we're already at film three. Overall, Chipwrecked shows that there's still some life to the franchise, although probably not enough for a fourth movie. On the one hand, the Chipmunks themselves were as funny as ever. We actually see the characters develop and begin to poke fun at their stereotypes. I particularly loved how Simon went "nuts" and transformed into a French Rambo. The flirtation between Simon and Jeannette was adorable.  The human actors did disappoint. Dave is Dave and was fine for the most part. Ian returns wearing a funny pelican suit. Still, I feel like the writers didn't really squeeze out all of the humor they could have gotten out of that character (although his speech near the end was classic). The big disappointment was Zoey, Zoey is a new character, a castaway stuck on the island where the Chipmunks land. Aside from a few funny references to Tom Hanks' movie Cast Away - including sports balls with eyes and mouths - her character just doesn't add a whole lot to the movie. She seems awkward and out of place at times. At times, I kept wishing she would go away so the camera could focus on the Chipmunks. Fortunately, despite my complaints, she's actually not in too much of the movie, but it still would have been better to either make her do something important, make her funny, or make her go away.  Ultimately, I'm glad we got Chipmunks 3. If there's another one, I think it'll really have to focus on the Chipmunks and their humor, and leave the humans out of it.

This Season is Definitely on Point from the Get Go.... I bought this for my mom, and  she was glad to receive it. I must admit  these particular episodes are really some of the best of the series. Even though it is the beginning  everyone seems to have their character down pretty  well.  The show has a very  authentic feel to it and makes you want to root  for the  characters the whole time. I found myself laughing again and  again from all of the  funny  situations that these characters have to  deal with.  They all seem like someone from  a part of my own family. This set  definitley  provides hours of entertainment for my  whole family. I recommend anyone who is a fan of the show  to  get it on dvd for  themselves.

Good Legal Movie Matthew McC does a very good job as the lead, the best since he played the religious leader in CONTACT. He is a defense attorney, more likely to be defending Hell's Angels than the hoi polloi.  All that changes though when he gets the scion of a Los Angeles real estate family.  This good looking defendant is played by Ryan Phillipe who is fast becoming a pro at playing creeps. He does a good job but I hope he gets another kind of role soon.  My problem with this film is with the women and specifically the mother of the defendant, played by Frances Fisher. Fisher does a fine job.  However, I read the book years ago and I seem to remember that the mother's role is a lot more complex than the way it is presented in the movie. In fact, the mother's role in the book is a doozy.  So I did not like losing that aspect.  I'm not sure how many more of these ex wife type of roles Marisa Tomei can play.  I think she may be reaching the end of the line with these roles and needs to start looking at more mature parts.  Essentially in this film we have a client, Phillipe, taking over the case by taking one step after another to back his attorney into a corner. Worse yet, the lawyer has a small daughter and has to worry about his client using his daughter's safety to control him.  If I had to choose between reading the book and watching the movie, it would be no contest.  I'd pick the book.  However, if you have no intention of reading the book, the movie is well worth watching and Matthew McC does an excellent job as the lead.

Plummer & Mason in an Extraordinary Holmes Story! Foggy London holds its secrets about the serial killer of the 19th century, Jack the Ripper.  "Murder by Decree" poses the question, what if Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle's great detective were put upon to solve this mystery.  The movie is fairly well-paced, with Christopher Plummer playing a somewhat lighthearted Holmes and the great James Mason playing the conservative but far from bungling Dr. Watson.  The film has its dark moments but at times is frustratingly lacking in giving the facts to the viewer.  For example, Holmes finds a Mary Kelly and another woman, Annie, and both keep speaking of "they" and "them" but these sources are not revealed.  Maybe it's my desire to figure out the mystery myself, but the clues given are not sufficient.  The Freemasons were clearly involved and the conspiracy may go beyond the authorities to the English Crown itself.  The cinematography is well done, with the London fog, the prostitutes in the pubs and the charlatans and criminals that surround this story.  Holmes, tear-eyed, really gets emotionally involved with his clients and at one point attempts to strangle the head of the asylum!  Wow!  And I love the first-person camera as the viewer becomes The Ripper -- quite exciting.  And the murderer is found and the chase is on!  Blood & murder, quite intense!  As far as I have read, Plummer only played Holmes one other time.  This film is much less sensationalized as the more recent Robert Downing, Jr. version.

Good movie, but... This was a good movie but, in my opinion, it wasn't as good as the past Harry Potter movies. But still I had to have for my collection.

Adam Sandler can be funny?! Who knew! I had no intention of seeing this film, until it was recommended by a friend whose tastes are generally similar to mine. I had yet to see an Adam Sandler movie that was even tolerable, but, not quite able to fully shake my misgivings, I rented it anyway. And I was glad I did -- this was a good film.  Now, as can be expected of a Sandler film, there is a lot of bathroom humor, crude sexual humor, and stupidity. However, unlike most Sandler films, those instances do not outweigh the actually amusing, well done, and interesting moments. Surprise, right?  The story follows an ugly kid who is engaged to (he thinks) the love of his life; at the last moment, he hears her voicing her true opinion of him (it's not flattering). So, the engagement is off; and off to a bar he heads to drown his sorrows and mope over his ring. Until the image of a lonely married guy draws the attention of a pretty woman. This sets Sandler on a new path in life -- chasing girls while selling all manner of sob stories.  Everything is going well, until he meets someone who is more than just a pretty face and a new conquest...and she finds the fake ring he uses to sell his married life sob stories. This sets him on a roller coaster ride in which he ropes his assistant (Anniston) into playing his soon-to-be-ex wife -- and then her kids, as his kids.  Of course, everything falls apart when he and Anniston start developing feelings for each other -- or, rather, recognizing their feelings for one another.  Predictable? Yes. Improbable? Absolutely. Funny? Heck yeah. There are enough amusing characters, funny scenarios, and ridiculous antics to make this an interesting, fun film...and to outweigh the less than stellar, typical Sandler moments.  If you like typical Sandler films, you might not care for this one; otherwise, you might get a kick out of "Just Go With It".  All in all, I'd give this a 4/5...perhaps more generous than it deserves, but it's such a rare treat to find a decent Sandler movie, why not?

Revealing portrait of Mongolia I don't know why the other reviewers keep talking about orangutans.  This is a DVD about Julia Roberts visiting good horse riders in Mongolia.  The same show can be seen on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000CBY00">this Nature DVD</a>.  This episode with Julia Roberts is a fascinating portrait of life of Mongolian nomads.  The whole point of having Julia Roberts in Mongolia is that while she is a "star," she isn't any better acclimated to life there than any other American.  So we get to see Mongolia through her eyes as we would probably experience it ourselves. I think it's likely that, because the Mongolian horses are only semi-domesticated, Roberts wasn't as fascile with them as expected.  That's okay.  If you have any interest in Mongolia, this a great DVD to own.

Well worth it, This is a great looking complex film that wanders a bit off the tracks but is still a fun ride.  I'd like to have seen the longer cut of it to see if the loose ends that folks have pointed out got tied up, nevertheless I really enjoyed it.

Love Bullwinkle! I got this great deal on this box set on Cyber Monday. My parents grew up watching Bullwinkle and I knew this would be something they would really enjoy. I do enjoy watching Bullwinkle as well. I do look forward to watching this dvd set with them.

Maltese Falcon A visit to the past, It is enjoyable to view a movie without special efects or supernatural themes, A time when men were men and women were mysterious.

Can bad girls learn to be good? 1950 TV converted to spectacular... well watchable movie filled with future technology. The advantage in this film is that you do not have to wait until next week to find out what happens. Two populated moons are about to crash.  One governed by good people.  The other ruled by a devious, tricky, tyrantita Patsy Parsons as "Queen Cleolanta."  Richard Crane as Rocky Jones is in the middle.  The action is a gas.  One of my favorite Rocky Jones Characters is Trinka (Nan Leslie) who stared later with Lois Nettleton in "The Bamboo Saucer" (1968)  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000F29Z">Bamboo Saucer [VHS] ~ Lois Nettleton</a>

Could be more intense...but love the socks!! As an avid follower of Bob I had to get this!  Here is a breakdown of the exercises:  Warm Up  Alternating Lunges Suitcase Swings with Squat Squat with Hop Hold Squat Clean and Press (squat, stand, shoulder press) Front Kicks Overhead Press  Alternating Lunges Split Lunges (jumping lunges) Bicep Curls Front Punches (with weights) Alternating Lunges Split Lunges Wide Bicep Curls Wide Punches (with weights)  High Knees 10 Pushups Step Overs Step Unders High Knees 10 Pushups Step Overs Step Unders  Speed Skaters Alternating Rows Lateral Raises Weighted Squats Weighted Plyo Squats Alternating Shoulder Press Alternating Chest Press Weighted Squats Plyo Squats  Alternating Front Raise Isometric Raise and Hold Ass Burners Sumo Squats Runner's Lunge Pushups Mountain Climbers High Knees Run in Place Runner's Lunge Pushups Plank Mountain Climbers  Tricep Kickbacks Tricep Extensions Single Leg Balance Single Leg Hops Jumps Single Leg Hops Jumps Run in Place Sprint Jumps Prisoner Squats Standing Oblique Crunches  Cooldown and Stretch  Overall a very good cardio/strength workout!  As someone who can do 98% of Bob's "inside out method" with all advanced moves, this Ultimate Cardio Body seemed a little easy (that's why I gave 4 stars).  But Bob keeps it light and fun for us.  And how can you dislike his socks? :D

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie(1969) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie(1969) is a solid coming-of-age comedy-drama. It's based on the novel by Muriel Spark and the play written by Jay Presson Allen. The film stars Maggie Smith, Pamela Franklin, Gordon Jackson, Celia Johnson, and Robert Stephens. Ronald Neame(The Poseidon Adventure, Meteor) directs. Rod McKuen composed the film's underrated "dippy, mellow, tender" music score. A Prime of Miss Jean Brodie TV show aired on Scottish TV in 1978. The film takes place in Edinburgh during the 1930's. Maggie Smith is quite good as Miss Jean Brodie, a teacher who seems nice, but is good at manipulating her students. Pamela Franklin plays Sandy, a student who rebels against Miss Brodie and is willing to criticize her beliefs and values. The play and the 1969 film take some liberties from Spark's novel. The Miss Brodie TV show takes place in an alternate timeline! A young Jane Carr is adorable as the stuttering Mary McGregor.  The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was a big hit at the time. Many people have forgotten about it. Some people have never heard of it. This film earned its PG rating. There's a brief nude scene and adult subject matter. Rod McKuen's music for this film was used as stock music in the kung fu film Drunken Master(1978) during tender/comedic scenes. It was also used in the Drunken Master sequels! The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie portrays its characters as flawed and human instead of good and bad. This is a solid movie. It's a must see for people who like plot and character in a movie.

A fun taco western El Fantastico vs. El Nahual dir Cristopher Luna  Mexico 2010  A fun taco western  4*  This one started off a bit slowly -- or at least it took me  a while to get into the spirit of things -- but along about halfway through it began to get genuinely interesting, as well as simple fun.  There is a level at which it is a modernized spoof of, or maybe homage to, spaghetti westerns and 60's action shows, with dramatic posturing and showdowns, low camera angles and Sergio Leone style music, but there is also serious plot, and a simple good hearted core.  The amiable bear of a man Don Angel and his sidekick the dwarf Chema are living out their retirement from the world of professional wrestling (where Angel was "El Fantastico")  in a small town, showing the  cheesy old action films they starred in to the  local kids at the "Cinema Fantastico," i.e. their living room. It's a pleasant, if minimalist, life, though the town does have its problems, including El Nahual, "an entity of fire"  whose eerie call can be heard at all hours, terrorizing the town people, or at least those not modern enough to scoff at it as Don Angel does.  One day, pretty young Yadira shows up, lugging her suitcases down the dusty road from the bus stop.  Angel and Chema greet her as old friends, but with the sad news that her mother has died while she was absent, the letters telling of her illness taking months to catch up with the  transient.  When her mother's house has been vandalized (which they blame on the police), they ask Yadira to stay with them. But their third roommate is the young Juan who has also recently returned, and the tension between him and Yadira is thick, with hints that something happened between them before they left.  There are also:  the corrupt chief of police Dionisio, beefy and sleazy and after Yadira's virtue; Juan's buddy Julio; and Father Miguel, who supports his church selling charms against El Nahual.  Then Julio is shot (a minor leg wound) while he and Juan are hunting El Nahual, various people vanish into the clutches of the evil fiend, and .... it's time for the resurrection of El Fantastico, complete with cape, mask and spandex!  Let the fun begin.  The film has much of the look and feel of an awkward, low budget indie, with the actors at times hamming it up like the callowest of high school drama students, but there are definite subtleties as well.  The prickly relation between Yadira and Juan is nicely developed (and eventually explicated).  There are at least the following levels of reality:  the unspecified narrator who interjects occasionally (is this supposed to be Chema?), regular old reality, the old movies shown by Angel and Chema, flashbacks, and dreams.  For some reason this film hasn't made it to IMDB.  The listed cast are (with my best guesses as to characters played in parentheses):  Rogelio Guerra (with a long list of credits going back to the 1960's, he must be Don Angel), Ivonne Montero (Yadira), Julio Casado (?Juan?), Roger Arroyo (since he appeared in a Bonanza episode titled "Hoss and the Leprechauns", I'd bet on Chema), Raymundo Pastor, Moises Ivan Mora, and Jose Antonio Coro.  The DVD production, though clean, has no extras beyond subtitles.  The very title of the film is confused:  Per the film itself, it reads "El Fantastico VS El Najual", simple enough and very like the title of one of the films Chema and Don Angel show the kids.  On the DVD jacket, it's shortened to El Nahual, and Amazon further shortens it to Nahual.  The subtitles are adequate and readable, though clearly not by a native English speaker, with numerous spelling errors and other little dissonances.  In particular, I wish Don Angel's stage name, "El Fantastico", had simply been left alone (we English speakers could figure it out, and it resonates very nicely) or been slightly altered to "Mr. Fantastic" instead of just plain "[The] Fantastic".

If She Says Your Behaviour Is Heinous..... "Coriolanus" is far from one of Shakespeare's most popular plays; not least because its story of war, politics, greed, ambition, hubris, simple bloody-mindedness' etc. is one of his most complex and, one assumes even in Shakespeare's time (when the players spoke the same language as the audience) was not the easiest to follow.  Indeed, it may be one of the few of the Bard's plays where the story is a stronger element than the language.  Which may explain why this is the first time it has been committed to film (There was a TV version a number of years ago that few, if any, have seen).  Having said all that, I am NOT damning it with faint praise when I say that I can't imagine a better translation to the screen than Ralph Fiennes masterful production.  Expertly condensed by John Logan, and "set" in modern (war) times, this is both a thrilling piece of cinema acting/direction/production and, on its own merits one of the finest pieces of Shakespeare on film... ever

four for the unusual...and something different Frank Sinatra tried something unusual here and these types of sex comedies and therapies are interesting...but frank has a novel approach! Probably not his but maybe the screenwriter who may know his nature and has fun with it. We must imagine this as a fun movie,made for laughs,with his own money and production company. Hollywood was a tough town to make it in. Frank also had a hard time and during the 50's was told he was finished andleave town, but he wasnt the first. Not even dean martin had this happen to him,kicked out! But he said he never held any grudges,which others had. He was mostly at home with outsiders in hollywood,humphrey bogart james cagney and more innovative artists,but they were more well read and at this time opened up production companies,but he didnt get any jobs from them. But they actually warmed up to him and became a circle of friends with these enterprising artists. However this did him little good but he did get a break with harry cohn working almost for free with from here to eternity,which helped him in hollywood. However he aften made films like rat pack movies,and like this movie,which no one really knew what to make of? This movie was poorly received and reviewed and largely failed. Philip roth had written a successful novel Portnoy's complaint which was made into a film,and jerry lewis would make a kind of psychologist film(1966)three on a couch...which his old studio wouldnt allow him to make. These kinds of stories were not well accepted at the time,and woody allen would make a series of these films in new york,they all have a psychoanalytic frame at diagnosing and alleviating problems,and for that reason people have problems with these film makers, as being kind of foreign,and if we look closely this film does the same,but its all a send up and a joke. For the first 40 minutes, where frank's wife leaves him among best friend/swinger dino there are a flurry of psycho analytic potshots and jokes at characters,which are all in jest,and whether frank understood them is up for debate, but they do take an approach at swinging america at the time,typified by dean martin and california! The girls are also the kind of girls who would later follow him on his tv show, much like his secretary where his jokes. And he makes no attempt to act. As a matter of fact in 1963 he announced to the chagrin of hollywood he would continue to make movies but not act which many found disrespectful,but this nonsense started with some critics of Toys in the attic. They hit a sore nerve. Anyways frank divorces and the children are shattered,and lost and frank's character shows remorse at the children but his wife wants to move on with others,and to resolve this problem they move to mexico,and mexican culture,and the wife doesnt seem to care but he carries burdens,becomes ill, disease(or a play on words dis-ease)with life. That's the metaphor,sick of his wife. She eventually married his best friend,they divorce,many shenanigans,and dino at movie's end hates his wife,his character,but frank has shown remorse and has internalized many experiences from somewhere and developed a love for the three children, which dedicated him to the marriage,the family frictions,wife,husband, kids,all live happily ever after and its his culture which provides this healing? Which culture? Cesar romero and the spanish visit,among the parties and fun,and experience of family life,which is what the character is really about,his life is made whole. A bit simplistic order from chaos,but really frank sinatra,and this is a joke with a look inside at frank sinatra,they are having fun,frank was always a latin person in all ways,his relation with woman,loyalty to first wife,looking after the children(who appear in this film) and in friends and associates. He liked the people from his old neighbourhood(and there's a film he made of his life by his daughter which goes into it)...but for him a search inward is his culture to resolve problems. This is done as a sendup,but the writer has fun with it in this way, as Spanish and American life are contrasted. This is a party film with old stalward cesar Romero and a host of european actors thrown in. Frank is always a latin person,most comfortable there,and this kind of joke-film he would do again in dirty dingus magee. There are shots here at the dino character, who cant reform the way the more cultural character frank plays,as he finds salvation among the ancient cultures of the south! It's a joke but interesting look at life,in my youth the most often repeated Sinatra film shown,a fun send up. Some people are sensitive to these kinds of films,the lewis film, and the woody allen films. The los angeles times reviewer found it a movie of the Sinatra clan...these kinds of comments are not acceptable by reviewers i find it a legitemate artistic expression,and he always admitted he does not write his movies. These were a kind of film,so its good to look at them... he does do a send up of jackie gleason though...but frank's idea is finding value and healingin family relationships,which the children bring about.. now how did the writer come up with that...from someone who grew up on the Sinatra music and music like many others!

Wonderful Document of Incredible Performances I would have to agree with many of the previous reviews, that the quality of the photography and sometimes the sound isn't all that great, and that the lighting is not adequate to capture the performances as well as it should.  That being said, it's an incredibly beautiful performance and worth putting up with the disappointments in sound, photography and lighting, to appreciate.  Maya Pleitskaya is miraculous as Odette.  As the white swan she is so delicately fragile; her long slender arms more evocative of the flutter of soft graceful wings, than any dancer I've ever seen.  The scenes with the prince and Odette are achingly tender and beautiful, both before and after the encounter with the Black Swan.  As Odille (the Black Swan) she impresses with her confidence, grace and power in subtler ways than younger dancers but its a primer for them too.  It isn't necessary to hose the stage with super-powers and athletic pyrotechnics get the effect you want.  Dead Solid Perfect is just as good and frequently better.  The dancer who dancers the part of Prince Sigfreid more than looks the part and does brilliantly.  I was really pleased to have purchased this for my collection and I think you would be too.

Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2011 3D Blu-ray - Review By reggun Thanks to Sony Pictures under the direction of few executive producers in bringing to the home entertainment this 3-D experience. Swimsuits continue to influence fashion reflected by top deisgners' collections. Not forgetting that Australia (Down Under) produces the top swimsuits (including men's swimming-trunks) in the world, due to its climate. Julie Henderson, Alyssa Miller & Irina Shayk are the three gorgeous streamlined and minimal silhouttes with their soft and supple tone skin that embrace the 3D Blu-ray "Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2011"; hence let us thank the producers for not using the silicone babes; skeleton-like models and/or over-facelifted people that looking more like lizards than like mammals, for modelling their swimsuits. I reduce my rating by 1 Star as I did not appreciate seeing queer-hairdresser adjusting the supermodel's hairdo or other photographers appearing during feature scenes of the film instead being in the "EXTRAS" ; that's where the producer can show the viewers how the film is being done; and also the 3D effects were average, I did not expect to see titties coming out of the screen and hit me in the face, but at the same token the MAUI's exotic sceneries could had been enhanced with more 3D spectacular effetcts. Overall, my rating is 4 Star; even then, to all 3D Lovers, please get a copy of this 3D Blu-ray for upkeep at Amazon.com for your collection .

Not a bad trip to Sesame Street This video is fun but has the new Sesame Street feel. Clips toward the end of the DVD are my boys favorite part while the main story is long and have bored most of the 5 and under kids that have watched it in my house. Good background play noise. Look for "Cookie Monsters Best Bites" it is much more Cookie Monster and much more fun.

Great Indie movie I am not going to be able to improve on several of the great reviews already posted here. But I second the four and five star reviews.  We watch a ton of movies and about half are Indie or small house movies or foreign. (The rest are evenly split between Sci Fi {for me} Superhero {for my partner} Animated {for me} and old and goofy {for my partner}). Both of this really liked this. I think I did more than he did...which is probably due to my actual profession: Children's Librarian. I work with a lot of kids and teens and I quite liked this.  If you are a fan of sardonic teen lit you will enjoy this.  It wasn't until after the movie was over that I realized that the girl was Yasmin Paige who I adored in the first season of the Sarah Jane Adventures. She was great!

Rangers Lead the Way The great raid on the Cabatuan Prison Camp in the Philippines on January 30, 1945 is one of the lesser heralded stories of rescue and bravery of World War II. American prisoners who had been captured after the fall of Bataan and Corregidor faced three long years of slow starvation, torture, and unspeakable cruelty from their Japanese captors who regarded those who surrendered as less than dogs.  The 6th Army Ranger Battalion is selected to conduct a daring raid in enemy territory and liberate more than 500 prisoners, kill their captors, and return the survivors to safety. Their mission is fraught with danger as they learn of a Japanese division that will cross the path of their destination. They must also negotiate their way across 800 yards of open ground that leads to the camp.  This is a two-fold story that takes to the inside of the camp and outside where a Filippino underground conducts a dangerous game of cat and mouse trying to smuggle medicines into the camps. Many of them pay with their lives.  Benjamin Bratt plays the real life battalion commander, Lieutenant Col Mucci, a West Point graduate who is determined to get the most out of his rangers.  James Franco,  plays the Captain Bob Prince, a Stanford and ROTC graduate that Mucci selects to plan and execute the raid. Joseph Fiennes plays Major Gibson, the commanding officer of POW's who suffers from a severe bout of malaria. Connie Nielson plays a nurse, Margaret Utinsky, who is up to her neck in spiriting medical contraband to the prisoners.  One gets the impression that Utinsky and Gibson have an unfulfilled love and her clandestine efforts are primarily to express that love at liberation.  The movie is graphic in what are almost forgotten Japanese atrocities of pushing prisoners into  air raid tunnels,  sealing them in with barrels of gasoline that they then set ablaze. As the prisoners attempt to escape they are cut down by machine gun fire, which was probably the only mercy they showed the prisoners. (Japanese allowed 30% of their prisoners to die of disease,  or were executed, starved, or beaten to death as opposed to 1% by the Germans).  In spite of the taut suspense of the Filippino smuggling operation under surveillance of the Japanese, the movie plods along worse than a 500 yard low crawl. In spite of this tedium, it is a worthwhile experience to follow it through to the raid and actual footage shown at the end.  For the two Rangers who died, the 21 Filippino casualties, and the one prisoner who died after liberation.  Memorial Day Weekend 2011.

Outrageous entertainment! This show is a guilty pleasure.  This reality television show chronicles the competition dancers at Abby Lee Dance Company in Pittsburgh along with their stage, uh I mean dance moms.  The dancers are genuinely talented, but the behavior of the studio owner/teacher, Abby, and the dance moms grows increasingly more outrageous.  Their behaivor may be wild, but it sure is fun to watch!

OK not spectacular Got caught up in the bluray craze.  Now have both regular and now bluray version.  Of course bluray is better but did I actually need it?  This movie is the all time best gritty Bogart movie and gritty is good in regular version.

Not the best iCarly episodes The previous episodes of this show are much better, but this is still pretty good.  iGot a Hot Room: B+ iSam's Mom: B- iGet Pranky: B+ iSell Penny Tees: B iDo: C+ iStart a Fan War: C iHire an Idiot: A iPity the Nevel: A iOMG: D- iParty with Victorious: B+

Great Video I got this for my husband for Valentines day, We both loved it! We do wish the actual Super Bowl game was on this dvd though. But is had some facts that we did not know which was nice.

The Best Musicians It was great to put faces to the great sounds! I have always liked their music, now I know who they are.

Most politically incorrect musical ever!! For those who have only seen West Side Story and Les Mis, "musical" and "PC" are probably synonymous.  Not so with Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.  The brothers in this story kidnap six women to provide wives for their frontier homestead, following on Plutarch's description of the Sabine Women.  Like the Sabine Women, the kidnapped girls are seduced by the forward rapscallions and turn into willing and loving wives.  Even though this movie is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, it nevers passes judgement on the brothers.  It could never be made today.  (In fact, I'm surprised TT didn't buy the rights so he could keep it from being shown, like he did with Speedy G.)  The music is fun if not particularly memorable, but the occasional views of the mountains and frontier life are beautiful.

Enchanting Hugo was a delightful movie, quite magical with wonderful performances from the main characters.  It's a simple story but very engaging with some incredible 3D imagery.  It's a real family movie where the adults will not get bored and I highly recommend it.

No Evil Shall Escape My Sight With two Green Lantern films on the horizon, I thought it was about time I finally wrote a review for Green Lanterns first official solo debut. While originally I didn't like it too much, watching it again I found it much more agreeable. I must have not been in a good mood to watch it originally.  People call this "Green Lantern: Training Day," Sinestro is a veteran cop taking Hal Jordan under his wing. Immediately, what I like is the fact that it doesn't waste any time, after the first 10-minutes, Hal is in space and the story gets going. Originally, I didn't like Kanjar-Ro, the sneaky villain of the story, but now that I've read more about him, I can at least tell that the characterization is correct. Meanwhile, Sinestro comes out really great as a soldier that can barely hide the fact that he's waiting for his chance to come out on top.  Victor Garber is the perfect voice for Sinestro. And Christopher Meloni is an okay Hal Jordan. (I still like David Boreanaz better.) The film is not an adaptation of any specific graphic novel, instead it's an amalgamation of different tales including the origin, Green Lantern Rebirth, and the Sinestro Corps War. And it works really well, all the complicated stuff with "Parallax" is removed, but the core story remains. Since it's not an adaptation they created their own art style.  For the extras they were pretty good.  "Sneak Peak at Superman/Batman: Public Enemies" which at this point is already out.  "Behind the Scenes of Blackest Night" is a promo with Geoff Johns (writer on Green Latern) about the DC event "Blackest Night." It's okay, but they should have listed what books a person should read to build up Blackest Night.  "Behind the Story with Geoff Johns" Eight minutes with Geoff Johns briefly going over the Green Lantern character.  Character Profiles for Sinestro & the Guardians of the Universe.  Duck Dodgers - Green Loontern. A nice surprise, a bonus cartoon of Duck Dodgers becoming a member of the Green Lantern Corps.  Bruce Timm Cartoons - Justice League "Once and Future Thing" Part 1 & 2.  Trailers for Wonder Woman, Batman Gotham Knight, and Justice League: the New Frontier pad out the disk.  So, it's a pretty good DVD set, but it's not perfect. I'm scoring it a 4 out of 5 because this was the first time they didn't include a commentary track. Plus the Justice League episodes they chose suck, they only chose them because Hal Jordan randomly appears for a minute. They should have chosen "In Blackest Night," and "Hearts and Minds."  Be sure to check out the sequel: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004QOB8PW">Green Lantern: Emerald Knights</a>. Or, if you want a different take on Green Lantern's origin check out: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000PFSYO4">Justice League - The New Frontier (Two-Disc Special Edition)</a>.

Oh So Dark First, I would not let a young child see this movie ( +16  years old).  It is dark and disturbing.  I read all the books and have seen all of the movies in this series.  This was not as much fun as the first few movies.  This was a dark, brooding, and disturbing movie which I enjoyed a great deal.  The battle between good and evil is not pretty but it is fascinating and engaging.  A must see for Harry Potter fans, but I don't think I need to tell them.

Good Movie, Needs a Digital Copy Great classic movie, looks pretty good on BluRay, but not the best I've seen.  Interesting features included in the box, but I just wish it had included a digital copy.

Something of a disappointment I tend to make my reviews of products with hundreds of reviews brief since there is little to add to the existing ones.  The bottom line is that this film has fabulous production values, great acting, wonderful action sequences, but a plot that is so thin as to be nonexistent. This movie almost fell in the same category as the wretched "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow". What redeemed it in my eyes was the way the actors made the most out of the material they were given to work with. Jeff Bridges is particularly impressive in a dual role. The plot is nothing more than a few cliches strung together - growth of a rebellious son of a famous father under pressure, a monster created by a modern Frankenstein, fallen hero redeems himself at the final moment, etc. Surely the screenwriters can do better?  But ultimately the acting and action kept me involved. Recommended, but Shakespeare this isn't.

Excellent film - small disappointment This is a very good film.  My only negative is that so little of it was shot by Japanese, or even shot in Japan.  There is very little combat footage, and all of that seems to have been shot by the British and Americans.  The film does tell a good story backed up by appropriate footage.  The color restoration is very good, though at times the intensity of the color seems to have gotten a bit exagerated.

This show is fantastic. Box just okay. Yes, this is the complete Genshiken series. 13 episodes from both seasons, including the 3 OVAs that was made. The series is very amusing and explains a lot about these people known as "otakus". How do they spend their days? Well, social gaming, cosplay, manga reading or watching Anime and... DISCUSSES EACH EPISODE! The series is very realistic (with the exception of the exaggerated face expressions) and will be a joy to those who doesn't enjoy action Anime that much. And, of course, there are enough twists, drama and of course comedy to keep this series entertaining for all, especially you otakus out there! The change of animation style on both the OVA and season 2 bothered me at first (looks a lot more cartoony), but you just got to accept it.  The DVDs also have the three Kujibiki Unbalance OVAs, previewed in the Genshiken episodes. They're not that great and  makes you wonder why everyone in this show loves it so much, but oh well. Also, a PG-13 special on the Ramen Pretty porn-game character is included on the second season. So added together, 4 extra episodes including the whole genshiken series! Can't get much sweeter than that! The extras are fantastic too, there's at least 1 hour with only extras.  The box however is... not so good. Seven discs inside a box without any system!? Stupidity! Just a spindle, so you'll use ages on searching for the right disc every time you want to see an episode. Reached the end of season two? Dear lord, don't even get me started...  But for this price (30 bucks), you can't really complain. You get a lot for your money and I mean a lot! The money you have saved can be used to buy yourself a new 7-disc DVD cover. So enjoy, get this while it lasts and join the Genshiken on their joruney through their life!

Not as good as the first but.... Magnum Force was the second Dirty Harry movie starring the legendary Clint Eastwood. As with most sequels to great movies the second sequel just doesn't quite live up to the power of the original. The main reason why this sequel is not as great as the original is due to the antagonist(s). In the original Dirty Harry from 1971, Harry does battle with a disgusting and depraved villain. It is truly a battle of good and evil and of course we the audience cheer for our hero Dirty Harry. In Magnum Force, the antagonists are a bunch of rookie cops turned vigilantes who are killing off San Francisco's top criminals. Hmmmmm...they sound a lot like Dirty Harry don't they? I'm not sure why the makers of Magnum Force chose these antagonists for Harry to fight. It almost feels like a defense to the original movie. It's as if the makers of Magnum Force are saying: "Harry is a tough cop but he goes by the system wheras these guys go too far!" or something like that. It's a bad idea in my opinion. However, the movie does not fall flat simply because the actors in this movie are great professional artists. Of course the star is the impeccable Eastwood. But the rookies are no slouches either, they include a young Robert Eurich and David Soul (one of my personal favorites). The dialogue and the action all meld together in an early 70s medley of shootouts, long hair and beautiful shots of San Francisco. Magnum Force is not as good as the original but I still recommend it for any Eastwood fan or fan of 70s movies.

Surprisingly Interesting I am not into boxing movies, but Lucy Liu always catch my interest. The next step was Antonio Banderas plus Woody Harrleson, so i said there must be something about this, and it was. Surprisingly interesting as it was not only did it keep my attention span, it brought chuckles as well. The story line portrayed here is something i had never seen before, so it was a plus. I most definately will be watching this one over and over again.

Blu-ray: Fans of "The Magnificent Seven" will no doubt enjoy this 50th Anniversary Blu-ray release of the film! In 1954, filmmaker Akira Kurosawa released the film "Seven Samurai" which took the world by storm.  Several years later, a loose US adaptation of the film was written by William Roberts ("Red Sun", "The Donna Reed Show") and given a western setting.  And directing the film would be John Sturges ("The Great Escape", "Bad Day at Black Rock", "The Eagle has Landed") and would feature an all-star cast which included Yul Brynner ("The Ten Commandments", "The King and I", "Westworld"), Steve McQueen ("The Great Escape", "Papilon", "Bullit"), Charles Bronson ("Once Upon a Time in the West", "The Dirty Dozen", "The Great Escape"), James Coburn ("The Great Escape", "Charade"), Robert Vaughn ("Bullitt", "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."), Brad Dexter ("The Asphalt Jungle", "Von Ryan's Express") and Horst Buchholz ("Life is Beatiful", "Tiger Bay").  The film would be considered one of the top American films of all time (#79 on the American Film Institute's "100 Years...100 Thrills") and was nominated for an Oscar for "Best Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture" and was voted #8 on AFI's "100 Years of Film Scores".  The film would lead to three sequels: "Return of the Seven" (1966), "Guns of the Magnificent Seven" (1969) and "The Magnificent Seven Ride" (1972).  VIDEO:  "The Magnificent Seven" is presented in 1080p High Definition (widescreen 2:35:1).  For a film shot back in 1960, it was great to watch this film and see a good amount of detail!  From the grime and sweat on the faces of the characters, the detail on the bricks and windows.  Colors are very good, back levels are nice and deep and while I did notice some color fluctuations and a few white specks, I didn't notice any compression artifacts or any major problems.  If anything, fans of the film should be happy with the overall picture quality!  AUDIO & SUBTITLES:  "The Magnificent Seven" is presented in English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, English 2.0 Mono, Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital.  While the film is primarily dialogue driven, I did notice the horse hooves playing through the surround channels, as with the Elmer Bernstein's musical score.  The bullets and explosions also sound good via lossless and for the most part, for 1960 film, I did like the fact that a 5.1 DTS-HD lossless track was added along with the original monaural soundtrack.  Subtitles are in English SDH, Spanish and French.  SPECIAL FEATURES:  "The Magnificent Seven" comes with the following special features:    Commentary by Producer Walter Mirisch, Assistant Director Robert Relyea, and Actors James Coburn and Eli Wallach- A wonderful commentary featuring in-depth information about the film.   Guns for Hire: The Making of The Magnificent Seven - (46:54) A wonderful featurette about how "The Magnificent Seven" was adapted from Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" and the competitive nature of the talent in the film.  Also interviews with talent and producers.   The Linen Book: Lost Images from The Magnificent Seven - (14:48) Maggie Adams, head of MGM's photo archive talks about the discovery of "The Magnificent Seven" linen book and also a few of the stars talking about the photography in the book.   Original Theatrical Trailers - Featuring two trailers.   Still Gallery - (4:05)  JUDGMENT CALL:  "The Magnificent Seven" was the first of several Westerns to be based on Akira Kurosawa's popular film.  While the film adaptation of "The Magnificent Seven" is much different than the "Seven Samurai", the timing of the film was perfect as Westerns were still popular in America and it was one of the few films to see an all-star cast (albeit when many of them were younger) and for the most part, a wonderfully directed film by John Sturges.  While today, the subject of guns for hire, protecting the unfortunate is part of the banality of modern Westerns, part of the the uniqueness of "The Magnificent Seven" was that it was based on an impressive film but this time carried out into a Western atmosphere.  Acting by all men were well-done and with the all-star cast, it is no surprise that there were ego's involved in the film and you can see Steve McQueen really trying to do his best to upstage Yul Brynner in the film.  In fact, one of the greatest inclusion for this anniversary Blu-ray release is the fact that we get to learn what took place behind-the-scenes of the making of the film.  It's important to note that there is no difference with this 2011 Blu-ray release compared to what is inside "The Magnificent Seven" Collection.  The main thing is these films are now being released individually and if you own the set, no need to buy this Blu-ray release.  With that being said, if you own the 2006 Collector's Edition on DVD, you may want to hang on to that release as it does have the Sir Christopher Frayling audio commentary track not included on this Blu-ray release.  "The Magnificent Seven" is a satisfying Western with one heck of a memorable score but while I felt the "Seven Samurai" was a much better film in terms of character development and pacing, "The Magnificent Seven" was still very entertaining and great to see how the adaptation would be carried out as a Western.  I just remember when I first watched the film and seeing how different the film was compared to the original Kurosawa film for the last half hour, I did enjoy the action sequences and for the most part, the personality differences amongst each of the hired guns.  I felt at the time that "The Magnificent Seven" was an exciting film and for the Blu-ray release, I'm quite confident that fans of the film or for those looking for Westerns on Blu-ray should definitely check this movie out.  While, I wouldn't call it one of the great Westerns ever made, it's still an entertaining film.  While the sequels did not do any justice for this film (the quality of the films literally slowly go downhill from the second sequel to the next), if you are a Western fan, "The Magnificent Seven" is definitely recommended!

Its a disaster! Well, this movie is another one in my top ten disaster movies list. The world is going to be destroyed by another meteor, ala Armageddon. This a disaster film "the world is comming to an end" The special effects are there, we have heroics, and heroism. This movie is about hope, as we get to peer into our players lives, and see how they react, and deal with the information. This movie is a worthwile investment for any collection.

Great Movie I had a difficult time locating this movie.  I found it here.  It is an oldie with Tom Hanks and I am very satisfied.  Thanks!!!

Not thought provoking, but does has you asking questions. Like the title says.  This movie is definitely nothing amazing or something you can consider in a top ten list of greatest movies of all time.  Kill List was highly suggested by friend of mine who has almost the same film taste as I, so I took it in to consideration to watch it.  Not bad for an independent budget. The story just leaves a few questions you have to answer yourself. Yep, it is one of those movies. The ending is your own interpretation of what you think. Although the director has discuessed what he believes the ending represents, it still has you thinking "but why?" I mean, the director said "what he believes" the ending could mean....not what it means. So, yeah....you're own interpretation pretty much.  I also asked myself why I watched this movie. I felt irritated at times, but I wanted to finish the movie. You feel it is a dark, gritty hitman movie, but then you start wondering where the film is going.  For those who know a lot about movies and can predict a films outcome, you'll be irritated. Those who hate short films that feel too long, you're gonna be irritated.  It's not awful or the worst movie ever made. You're just gonna have that feeling of being incomplete and keep asking why the hell did this happen and why did it end this way.  Rent it.....at a video store cause $9.99 here is way too much. or just "1channel" search it.

Saltimbanco - Great Entertainment The DVD for this performance is of a pretty good quality.  The music and visuals are very good.  Having seen the performance live earlier this year we were eager to get the DVD to remind us of our wonderful experience.  The only slight criticism I have is that at times the camera was focused on facial close ups of performers who were sitting around the stage rather than on the actual acts in the air etc.  However this is only minimal and one is still able to enjoy the major performances which are so perfectly executed.  I am very glad we purchased the DVD.

great movie! great effects! great story plot! Black Swan is trully a master piece. I'm not going to spoil anything so let me get straight to the point. When watching Black Swan keep your eyes out on the small things that go throughout the movie. Remember the story plott of the story of the White Swan. The story White Swan has many connections with the story plott of Black Swan. Also keep your eyes out on the the special effects such as Nina's (Natalie Portman) skin, and other phycological changes. The movie isn't a fully explained. I guess it's up to you to decide what truly happened. (-the movie is not recommended for those who have troubles understanding phycological movies. Movies such as: The Uninvited, Inception, and Shutter Island all fall into the catagory of phycological movies.)

great tv movie from the 70's! This was one of those great tv movies of the week that you could find on tv in the 70's! Great writing and acting by some of the best actors. Tom Selleck is in this! If you are a fan of mystery/horror than this is a good movie to see what you missed. They don't make them like this. The person who wrote the first review said nothing of the movie except insulted cause it's not accurate about witches? please! I think they have other issues.

Review of the blu ray transfer Finally we get all the SCREAM films on blu ray and here we have the first and best that was hugely original and put a much needed original kick in the horror movie genre.  We all know the story and we also know that when an older classic film comes out on a blu ray transfer it is really important to find out the quality and if the transfer succeeded.  I was thrilled when I popped this movie into my blu ray player and was itching to see the infamous opening scene with Drew Barrymore.  Sadly it was a huge disappointment.  The audio was great but the video totally lacked clarity and seemed blury and overly grainy.  For me the full effect of the scene was lost.  Luckily when we get to the next scene with Neve Campbell at her computer the video had hugely improved.  The picture was pretty crisp, colors were vibrant, flesh tones realistic and I was then impressed.  Throughout the rest of the movie the video quality gets about a B.  The dark scenes work well.  Black and white ratio is clean and the colors do blend in well.  The graininess after the opening scene is there on purpose and looks fine.  When the villian dashes in and out of the picture the black and white of the costume looks great.  But the part of the movie that is a truly huge improvement over the dvd is the audio.  The DTS HD Master 5.1 audio track uses all surround speakers to full effect.  Dialogue is crisp and you will be jumping out of your seat in all the right moments.  The track is perfect for this classic horror movie and shines.  The soundtrack blends in with all the films sounds perfectly.  But the video is where opinions will clash.  For me the upgrade to blu ray is much better than my dvd version.  I never liked the dvd presentations and the blu ray is in a 1080p enhanced widescreen which makes viewing the film better.  There is some fine detail but the picture overall just does not POP like a quality blu ray does.  I think when most people watch a blu ray they want that crispness and clarity that just makes it far surpass the dvd.  It can become almost like you are in the movie.  I think people forget the film is 15 years old and overall the picture is acceptable but the poor quality of the opening scene just leaves it lacking for me.  When the movie is offered on blu ray at a steal price which Amazon seems to be doing now it is definitely worth a buy but if you are pretty satisfied with a dvd version you own I would think before purchasing it at full price.

I AM DVD This movie is brilliantly done and conveys a message everyone all over the world needs to see and hear...the only drawback at all is one scene which is a little too graphic about man's tendency toward cruelty and violence. The point this director makes is well worth everyone considering very seriously as a solution to the way most people look at life. We are all caught up in something that is repeating and getting more impersonal all the time; the movie makes an excellent case for the fact that we were all intended to be here for each other and in the end, as Solomon so wisely said, the rest is just dust in the wind (or something to that affect)...Well worth watching, but get ready for one scene that may take you back a bit.

Intelligent. Remarkable. Fantastic audio commentary. Guillermo del Toro is one of the most original visionaries still directing and creating films today. His films are usually very attractive visually and put a different spin on something you may already be familiar with while also darkening its tone. Even if you don't fully adore whatever del Toro film you just watched, you can probably find something in there to admire and the experience still turns out to be more interesting than the average popular fluff that people go gaga for. del Toro has also produced some amazing projects with The Orphanage gaining quite a bit of praise and being called one of the most original horror films of the past few years and Splice having one of the most surreal audience reactions I've ever witnessed in the theater just to name a few. Guillermo del Toro's projects aren't necessarily films you've never seen before, but are more along the lines of the films you want to see Hollywood producing. His English language debut, the sci-fi thriller Mimic, has just been released as a director's cut on Blu-ray. After realizing how intense the uphill battle was for del Toro just to get this thing made and fighting tooth and nail just to keep what he could from his original draft(s) of the screenplay, it's really quite incredible the movie turned out as good as it did.  The amount of work that went into making something as silly as giant cockroaches become a reality may be the film's biggest achievement. del Toro didn't want a gorefest or give these creatures extra appendages or teeth to make them more menacing. Scientifically speaking, all of the modifications stay within the boundaries of nature. A great deal of research went into creating these monsters and you can tell. The way they mimic humans, where their lungs are placed, and the amount of puppeteering involved are all pulled off in a way where it's obvious a lot of time went into planning how they'd be executed. It's a welcome change of pace worth noting since most horror films along the same lines as this are all about the quick scare and creating a monster that is visually menacing rather than staying within the limitations of reality. del Toro makes it clear in the commentary that Mimic is more about suspense than aiming to be scary. The fact that the film is a slow burn allows you to digest everything a bit more than a film that would throw everything at you all at once.  The special effects look very dated, but only when it comes to digital stuff. Thankfully, it's kept to a minimum because of the budget but all of the practical stuff is fantastic. Seeing their mouths move just like a cockroach's is such a simple idea, but seeing it executed in a creature as big as we are is something extraordinary. The concept of them using their front appendages to form a human face is really creative and exceptional, as well. The method in which this team has pulled off adding human traits to a cockroach without it feeling too far-fetched is spectacular in itself.  Unfortunately I never saw the theatrical cut of the film so I can't really compare the differences, but del Toro's explanations of it don't really make you want to actively hunt it down and see it since this is obviously the cut of the film he wants people to see. The last thing that should be touched upon is the lighting (or lack thereof) used in the film. Most of the camera work in the film seems very straightforward, but having a dolly sliding to the right while another slides to the left makes something as simple as the camera circling around two characters seem a bit more extravagant. An emphatic use of shadows, textures, and amber and blue lighting is used throughout the film to give it a look that many other genre films don't have. Everything just feels very unique and like something you'd only find in a film by del Toro.  Mimic isn't del Toro's greatest achievement, but all of the elements you love about the Mexican director are all there. The attention to detail is astounding as del Toro's scientific approach and staying true to nature made giant cockroaches as realistic as possible. Mimic is also visually remarkable in the way it not only uses shadows, but a minimal use of lighting and heavy textures as well. The only real complaints lie within the dated CG and the fairly atrocious ending. Its obvious flaws and production troubles aside, Mimic is more intelligent than you're probably expecting and a very solid experience overall.  The special features are pretty cool. Video Prologue with Director Guillermo del Toro is only about a minute long but del Toro talks about how this is as close to a director's cut as we'll ever get, being happy with this cut, what the movie could have been, and so on. The Audio Commentary with Director/Cowriter Guillermo del Toro is the Blu-ray's crowning achievement. del Toro is so open about everything that happened behind the scenes, but doesn't seem bitter about any of it. He's very straightforward and isn't afraid to use harsh language, but the entire commentary just makes you admire the film and the rest of del Toro's work just a little bit more. He seems so easy to get along with and relate to. During the commentary, many topics are covered including the opening credits being similar to Se7en, Mimic teaching del Toro more than some of his other films have, the cockroaches originally being bark beetles/scarabs, the never-ending studio battles, original ending idea involving the male cockroach in the subway, the film originally being planned to have no explosions, and he even talks about the direct to video sequels among many other things (he actually recommends seeing Mimic 3). del Toro refers to Mimic as his "imperfect child." One of my favorite lines from the commentary is when del Toro is talking about Sarah having her Ripley moment as she yells at the male cockroach to get away from Chuy. del Toro says, "You cringe every time, I cringe every time, let's cringe together." The commentary track just helps you admire the film a little bit more and that's coming from a guy who isn't a big fan of commentary.  The rest of the special features are fairly short and sweet. Reclaiming Mimic is about fourteen minutes long. del Toro discusses how important suspense is for a film like Mimic, a B-movie concept needing to be executed as an A-movie, the different subway ending, and this director's cut being free of "second unit crap." A Leap in Evolution runs around nine and a half minutes and mostly goes into detail about staying true to nature and puppeteering. Back into the Tunnels is a five minute behind the scenes featurette, there are three Deleted Scenes that total around five minutes in length and include an alternate ending, Storyboard Animatics cover six scenes in the film, and a two minute Gag Reel rounds up the special features rather nicely. The second disc of the two-disc set is just a digital copy of the film presented in widescreen in 1080p High Definition and English 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio.  Mimic (The Director's Cut) is unrated, but was previously released in a version Rated R for Terror/Violence and Language. This unrated version contains material different from the original R-rated version. It's presented in 16x9 widescreen with a 1.85:1 ratio while also being presented in 1080p High Definition, has an English 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio track, and has English and Spanish subtitles available. The film is approximately 112 minutes long.

Yay! I was a little nervous ordering something for such a low price, but I was pleasently suprised. The adds are done old school but then the movie is normal(wide screen). Deleted scenes are poor quality though. Oh well. Love this Movie. Thanks for actually having it!

genre mix definitely worked for me I was skeptical when I heard about this film, I mean, cowboys fighting space monsters?  It seemed like too much of a stretch, especially since only a few Europeans were even dreaming that such things were possible.  However, given the actors, I thought, what the heck, I'll give it a look-see while on a long airplane trip.  And from the first moment, when the hero wakes with amnesia and a strange metal bracelet, the characters drew me into a much better-than-average story.  It was even hard scifi without a whiff of fantasy, though what the aliens could do definitely would have seemed like magic or demons to the men of that time.  The plot even has some good twists.  D Craig makes a wonderful tough guy who deep down is grieving even if he can't remember why.  He demonstrates his propensity to deadly violence right away, but there is something principled about it or seemingly so.  After a quick imbroglio, he wanders into a town that is riven by a spoiled gunslinger, whose father is apparently a brutally evil rancher.  Craig is also approached by a mysterious and beautiful woman, who seems to know a lot about him.  When they seem ready to kill eachother, the town is attacked, setting them on an adventure together as Craig discovers the metal object is a weapon.  Add Indians and a band of outlaws (who know Craig as a leader) into the mix and you begin to wonder if any of it is going to make sense.  That the rest of the movie succeeds so well, maintaining a sense of mystery and awe at least in me, is a testament to an unusually intelligent script.  One of the best themes in the film is how the humans band together, each bringing skills from their cultures and experience, to fight the baddies.  It might sound silly, but it really works well.  For example, the Indians give a potion to Craig that liberates his memory.  I don't want to play the spoiler, so won't say anything more, but it is a raucous ride with great CGI.  Warmly recommended.  It won't be what you expect, if you like hard scifi to begin with, that is.

Breaking Dawn Part 1 I really like watching the Twilight Saga. Each time I get a new one I watch the previous ones too, back to back, so I can see the story all at once. I read all the books and of course they are much much much better than the movies.  Breaking Dawn is good but for me it wasn't one of the most exciting ones.  The acting wasn't as good, especially Alice. I was expecting too much from this movie so I was a bit disappointed. Overall, it was a good movie. Just not as good as the others, in my opinion. The trailer made the movie seem more exciting than it really is.  I would have preferred it to be one part. I think it would have been a better movie. Normally I'm exited to see the next one, but after watching Breaking Dawn I haven't even thought about the next one.  Not getting my hopes up when the trailer comes out for part 2. No expectations so I can enjoy it more. Hopefully the acting will improve. Who knows, maybe the actors didn't like this part much either and it showed in their performance OR maybe they were not allowed to express themselves fully. All I know is, I noticed a difference in the acting.  I'm not putting down the movie, just expressing my own personal thoughts. I'm still a Twilight fan!

Good workout, annoying voiceover This is a good barre-style workout.  She has some innovative moves, it is a good option.  My critiques are that I would prefer an all-over workout like you get with a Tracey Mallet or Physique 57 DVD.  It looks like you have to buy all 3 DVDs to get that.  Also, the reason that I work out with DVDs at home is that I want someone to workout with.  The voice over is very matter-of-fact announcing the instruction. The exerciser is like an automaton performing what the invisible voice is telling her to do.  She has no expression at all.  She doesn't show that the workout is any effort.  I appreciate some empathy from my DVD workout "partner".  The lack of emotion makes this just a decent work out, no fun at all.  If you're all business, this one is for you.

Just like I remember Fat Albert is just like I remember him as a kid.  I grew up with this show and it was good then and is still good today.  Brings back good memories of me as a kid sitting in front of the tv watching cartoons.  Good shows, good morales.  Now I can share those same shows with my son when he gets a little older, since he's still a baby. =)  I just love collecting good shows I grew up with am looking forward to sharing them with my son and my baby to be.

A difinite must see! Oh my goodness, I've watched a few horror movies in my time, but seriously this takes the cake for me. Most horror movies are so unrealistic that although it is scary you can get up at the end and walk away. Claustaphobia is real as well as the plot, given that Americans are not liked in Iraq and civilian workers have been taken hostage and murdered. At the end of this movie, I just sat there for 3 minutes watching the screen hoping that after the credits there would be a great surprise ending. Well surprise! Now although Reynolds acting was superb, had it been great acting by an unknown actor, it would have scare me more. It would have been too possible.

Makes some interesting points This is a documentary by a couple of economists, making some surprising connections between such things as statistics on number of abortions and the crime rate, paying kids to get good grades in school, ethnic first names versus traditional names of kids and whether or not they succeed in life, and the propensity for cheating in different areas and how frequent it is.  This is a series of vignettes, each with a different director. Each one I found to be interesting. The comparison that was done on crime rates and availability of legal abortion was the most controversial. It seems, when studying the statistical data, that when abortion is readily available in a state, twenty years later after it becomes available, the crime rates drop. The implication is that, with fewer unwanted children, fewer children have the socioeconomic problems that lead them to commit crimes. Twenty years after the landmark Supreme Court case that marked the legalization of abortion, Roe v. Wade, crime rates in all catagories went significantly down. I feel that this is something that needs further looking into. We know that wanted children usually have much better lives than unwanted ones. Do wanted children commit less crime as a result of having better lives? Of course. This isn't a popular conclusion to draw but looking squarely at this data, there seems to be some truth to it.  I thought this was an excellent documentary but I took off a star because the main documentarian, Steven Levitt, had an unfortunate speach impediment that made it hard to understand some of what he was saying. Many sentence endings were a fast jumble of mumbled unintelligable sounds rather than words. There was also a long segment on Sumo wrestling which, while interesting, wasn't quite up to the rest of the individual segments as far as making any point, except to point out that Sumo wrestling had been exposed to be corrupt in some cases.  If you enjoy well done documentaries as I do then you will enjoy this.

Same Movie, Better Picture & Sound This trilogy never looked better or sounded better.  In my opinion the special effects looked more realistic in blu-ray.  The movies themselves are pretty good and are worth watching again.  I'm glad I purchased it.  The only gripe I have about this trilogy is the packaging.  If it weren't for the instructions inserted in the package, I think I would've broken the discs trying to pull them out.  There are definitely different options for securing the discs.  Hopefully I'll never lose the instructions, in case someone else decides to watch it.

Not a great film, but we really enjoyed it. This is a film that suffers from that romanticism and history changing problem most big Hollywood blockbuster's fall into. But being a romantic myself, and not much of a historian, I personally enjoyed the film for what it was. An inoffensive and even enjoyable piece of cinema.  Certainly wouldn't appease everyone, I suggest renting it first.

Event Horizon review 8/10 an underrated horror film Here we have the underrated SCI FI horror flick Event Horizon all around a fairly solid movie. You have the blue collar worker & you have the 1 location setting which I like kind of like Alien. Which the director Paul WS Anderson is fan of Alien so I know he jumped at the chance to do this movie cause it has that vibe only it doesn't have a creature. I have the 2 disc edition with some pretty good features. The movie was made on a budget of $60 million only made $26 million which is sad that it tanked it didn't deserve to tank. It didn't get the critical notice either. Directed by Paul WS Anderson he directed Mortal Kombat, Soldier he wrote all 5 Resident Evil movies & directed the 1st 4th & 5th, I like the 1st 3 Resident Evil movies as sort of a stand alone trilogy I might review them someday. It stars Laurence Fishburne as Captain Miller, Sam Neill as Dr Weir, Kathleen Quinlan as Lieutenant Peters, Joeley Richardson as Lieutinant Starck, Jack Noseworthy  as Ensign Justin, Richard T Jones as Lieutinant Cooper, Jason Isaacs as Commander DJ & Sean Pertwee as Lieutinant Smith. The story is this team abord The Lewis & Clark are going to search this ship The Event Horizon that has been missing for 7 years. The crew headed by Captain Miller includes Lieutinant Peters, Lieutinant Starck, Dr Weir the man who designed The Event Horizon. You have this younger crew member Ensign Justin. The other crew memebers are fine. You have moments of humor like when Lieutinant Cooper has some coffee he asks Lieutinant Starck if she wants something hot & black inside her. Dr Weir has these nightmares about his wife & he slowly loses his mind. They find The Event Horizon & board it. I can admit The CGI does look bad like the liquid from coolant leak does look bad. But you have some nice practical effects like very gorey stuff of whats left of the crew. The Frozen body of this man floating on the ship. Justin enters this room with a Gravity Drive there is this portal he puts his arm in it & he's pulled through. Lieutenant Cooper goes in after him. Justin is messed up badly & is in a catitionic state. You have character seeing weird stuff like Lieutenant Peters sees her son on this table & his legs are eaten up. Very disgusting or Captain Miller sees this man on fire & we find out that there was this crew member that he had left behind years ago when there ship was on fire & he had to leave him behind. The Event Horizon is alive it knows the crew members fears. There is this well done scen you have Captain Miller & Lieutenant Cooper outside of the ship fixing some damage Justin is opening the airlock the crew is trying to stop him & he's spouting off about the dark from the other side how it shows you horrible things. Jack Nosewothy was great in this scene. The decompression alarm goes off & he's back to normal & he is begging for the door to be open. They can't cause it would decompress the entire ship. Captain Miller tells Justin what to do so he can get to him in time & save him. Captain Miller asks Dr Weir what is going on & he knows more than he is letting on. Peters & Starck come across this video showing what happend to the crew of The Event Horizon all I can say it's very very gorey of these people ripping each other apart. Captain Miller decides they need to leave & blow The Event Horizon up. DJ goes & puts Justin in stasis. Peters & Smith go & pull out The CO2 tanks Lieutenant Peters thinks she sees her son & starts following him where she falls to her death. Creul way to die. See I care about these characters. Dr Weir finds her then he has flashbacks of his wife when she killed herself. The way the flashbacks & whats really going where in the falshback his wife is ripping his eyes out & he's really doing it is just well shot. Smith spots Weir leaving The Lewis & Clark he tells Captain Miller about it he tells him to get off the ship. Smith finds the explosives were activated by Weir but it's too late & it goes off. The blast knocks Lieutenanat Cooper into space. Cooper cuts his air tank where he will be shot back up to the ship. DJ is killed by Dr Weir & his death is probably the cruelest cause he's gutted by Weir & hung by his back with his stomach open a great practical effect. Captain Miller finds Starck she is fine. They confront Dr Weir who is opening a  black hole. Lieutenant Starack charges at him Weir throws he to the side. Lieutenat Cooper floats back Dr Weir fires nail gun at him which starts decompressing the ship cause he shot out a window. Weir flys out into space. Miller saves Starck from being blown out into space while the door shutting on him. They open the airlock Cooper is still alive. Miller decides to blow The Event Horizon in half & escape on a life boat. You have kind of creepy scene where blood is flowing through the ship. Miller is setting the charges & this dude on fire that represents the the guy that Captain Miller left behind. The effects are amazing for this Sam Neill in this scene. He can breath fire he sets Captain Miller on fire Miller says that your not him cause I watched him die. He transforms into Weir & the make up job for Sam Neill is great. Weir show him disturbing images of his cre being tourtured. He was like no way takes a CO2 tank hits Weir on the head with it & yells "You won't take my crew!"  Weir pwns him Miller grabs the detonator blows the ship in half the part that Miller & Weir is in goes into a black hole the other part with Cooper & Starck goes on safely. The way Sam Neill acted in this scene really reminded me of Pinhead. Then you go to 72 days later where Starck & Cooper are picked up by a rescue team & Starck has nightmare where 1 of the rescuers is Weir & she wakes up in a paniced state Lieutenetant Coooper is trying to calm her down. That's pretty much the movie. If I didn't do a good job explaining the plot in my retrospective I'm sorry. But Event Horizon is a movie that earns it's R rating with disturbing images & gore. Characters you care about the inside of The Event Horizon looks great $60 million well spent the budget is on the screen. I'd put it up against any SCI FI horror movie from today with a $100 $200 or $250 million runaway budget. The CGI isn't great though but it's never going to be perfect. But everything else is great. Paul WS Anderson did a very good job directing. This is better than any of his Resident Evil movies or AVP. Laurence Fishburne did a good job. Sam Neill did a very good job. Kathleen Quinlan was good. Joeley Richardson did a good job. Jason Isaacs you can't go wrong with he was fine. Richard T Jones was did a pretty good job. Jack Noseworthy was pretty good. Sean Pertwee was decent. I recommend Event Horizon if you decide to buy it go for the 2 disc edition cause it has interviews with cast & crew like with Paul WS Anderson & funny stories on Laurence Fishburne. So all in all a faily solid SCI FI horror movie.

They Finally Got It Right! Is Captain America: The First Avenger perfect? No. Is it the best live-action interpretation of the character? You betcha! In fact, of all the Avenger movies, this one is my favorite so far (though I DO love all of them). For those that like storylines, I would recommend watching this film first, then Iron-Man, then Incredible Hulk, then Iron-Man 2, then Thor. This film makes those other four make more sense as there are clues and elements (and character links) that show up in those movies that are shown here.  On the film itself, I found it to be dramatic fun! The 3D effects in it I found satisfactory as well as the bonus features. I loved this film in the movies and I like it here. Would recommend the film itself no matter the format!

Pirate Radio DVD I gave the DVD 4 stars because I haven't actually played it yet. However, I did see the film and thought it was exceptionally good with 5 star music. And, as usual, Amazon shipped the product promptly.

Who couldn't love a talking bird? I bought this movie because it was the first movie my wife and i saw when we first started dating. All the same, if it sucked i wouldn't have bought it. It's cute and has a few lessons about life. And it comes full circle at the end. A good story with characters that develop along the way. When the man who ends up rescuing the bird first entices it to give up his secret silence, it is hysterical.

Touching Far from playing the clown and other trade mark antic , this Jackie Chan film is acually touching , and ends on a melancholic existentialist human condition sequence not unlike Kurosawa's endings

Retrograde entertainment You have to have a taste for the marionette action of these series. But having that, these series are very entertaining. The old corny special effects by todays standards are fun. Just fun.

Funny for real I would say blaxploitation cinema at it's best.  This is an excellent parodic representation of films from the genre.  Can we forget such classics as Dolomite, Blacula or Foxy Brown?  Black Dynamite takes everything that was wrong from that era of film and turns it into farce.  If you like to laugh and you have some reference for black cinema in the 70s you will love this movie.

Something to think about! I had seen this movie not too long ago, but when I saw that Amazon had it available I thought, 'why not'. This horror tale takes place in space where rescue is a long way away and a long time in getting there. It makes you think that you just don't know what will come back when you send something out in a different form of travel.

Enjoyable This was a great modern day reimagining of a classic show, and I very much enjoyed it.  I am a long time Tim Burton fan, and although it is not one of my absolute favorites of his, I still found it to be quite enjoyable.  Johnny Depp was cool as Barnabus Collins, and the rest of the cast also played their roles very well.  If you're a fan of vampire movies in whatever fashion or a Tim Burton fan or just want something imaginitive and/or entertaining to watch, I highly recommend checking out this movie.  I for one will be adding this to my Tim Burton collection.

Movie I love Ellen Burstyn and had heard it was a good movie.  I wish the ending would have been diffenent.  On a 1-10 scale, I give it a 8.

Wow! If you are a fan of true Black Metal, then you will really want to purchase this live concert!  Admittedly not the best in live footage out there, but very good quality nonetheless!

Good movie I haven't seen this movie since I was young. I think high school years. I watched it yesterday for the first time in year's and I remembered it being a little bit more funny and fun to watch. Still was a good movie though. I like the guy who is always being moved around and just wants his red stapler.

This remake of a cult-classic revenge story delievers the goods! Normally when I say 'this re-make is much better than the first version' it's small praise. Not this time!  This remake is better scripted, better acted and directed, the tortutre scenes made some of the traps in SAW look like child's play, yes the gang-rape scene is more drawn out, but that makes her revenge more fun to watch...if you can stomache it, that is. In a revenge fantasy movie, I don't always come out of it unscathed or fully satisfied, 'Last House's re-make was better than WC's version in many ways, esp. the vengful tactics of the victims parents, but here, as you probably know by now, Jennifer survives the attacks of the chauvanists that rape her, and becomes a vigilante exacting her own justice, you're definately hoping with how truly cruel most of the pig-like men are) that she will have her revenge in this film, there's even a wild twist towards the end that you may not see coming, but I won't even hint on that. Anyway, if you did like the 78 version, you'll probably like this one too. If you're too close-minded about re-makes which I obviously am not, don't waste your time.

Terrific and entertaining Russell film only marred by some poor casting, plot inconstencies Soldier is a superb installment in the fictional military genre, containing one of Russell's most impressive performances as an actor. A bust at the box office that cost $60M to make but brought in only $14M domestically, it was vilified by the critics (10% at Rotten Tomatoes) and received only a lukewarm reception by audiences.  A military program in the somewhat near future is established (no nationality is mentioned) to recruit and indoctrinate soldiers at birth rather than at the age of majority. This isn't the gritty and gutty military of Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down (2002), but the glossy Hollywood military of Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers (1997). No surprise there as the choreography is done by David Tattersall, responsible for the gawd-awful choreography of Star Wars Episodes 1-3 (1999-2005), Speed Racer (2008), and Gulliver's Travels (2011), with a similar look and feel. Why is this a problem? Because Kurt Russell and supporting actors Connie Nielson (The Devil's Advocate, Gladiator, Basic), Sean Pertwee (Event Horizon, Formula 51), Jason Scott Lee (Born in East L.A., Timecop 2), and most of the bit characters are playing it super straight and intense. When the foppish Jason Isaacs (Harry Potter, Peter Pan, Abduction) strolls in as the critically important character Colonel Mekum, the movie never quite recovers from the dichotomy between the two very different acting styles, set within cartoonish visuals.  Isaacs plays Mekum in the same manner he did for the The Patriot's (2000) effete war criminal/British army officer Colonel Tavington. His over-the-top performance in the The Patriot was heavily criticized, particularly by Britons. His turn as Mekum is even more ridiculous, an effort of near-comedy apparently encouraged by director Paul Anderson (Resident Evil, Death Race). After the box office drubbing the studio took on Soldier, Anderson made sure not to make that mistake again and his later movies are as a result better and more successful.  Isaacs isn't the only casting blunder. Gary Busey (Lethal Weapon, Point Break, The Firm) was signed on for the project for the limited candlepower he could bring to the movie. He gamely takes on the role of Captain Church, the company commander of Russell's super soldier outfit. But he has no chemistry with Isaacs, and his performance falls flat. Miscasting doesn't stop there, with other odd choices peppered throughout, such as Paul Dillon (Natural Born Killers, Fight Club) as the comical Slade or Mark Bringelson (Lawnmower Man, Austin Powers) as the toady officer Rubrick. Economy might have has something to do with the casting, as many of the actors are more known for TV credits rather than the big screen, and it is clear a ton of money was spent on special effects, sets, stunts, and probably Russell's salary.  Mekum is the head of a new super-soldier program that genetically engineers its recruits rather than screening the naturally born children used for Church's company. Church's company and Mekum's company square off in a sort of competition to determine which program is to survive. After the deaths of several old-style soldiers and the defeat of Sergeant Todd (Russell--the head NCO of Church's company) by Private Caine, the most aggressive and ruthless of the new genetically engineered soldiers, Todd's body is discarded in cast into the rubbish. His comrades are reduced to being menials and Mekum takes over the super-soldier program.  Rather than being dropped into the nearest sun or jettisoned into space like one would expect, trash is hauled in this movie-verse to a suitable planet and dumped. Todd is dumped with it on a world designated Arcadia 234, a desolate orb that also happens to be inhabited by the crew and passengers of a colony ship that crashed several years prior. This self-indulgent act of eco-silliness on the part of the director or writer (or both) seems to have been also an attempt to justify the introduction of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome-style (1985) sets that make use of the discarded detritus of all kinds. Not to mention to also act as a platform for the combat sequences that mostly consisted of explosions and various stuntmen hurling through the air, arms and legs flailing.  Even more remarkably, Mekum's command ship chooses Arcadia 234 out of the thousands of possible worlds in a particular sector of space to run training missions for his super-soldier company. The ship lands, Caine's comrades-in-arms are sent in to exterminate trespassers (the colony ship crash survivors), and Sergeant Todd redeems himself by exterminating the new super-soldiers and their officers, seizing the ship, and lifting the colonists to their original destination (the Trinity Moons).  Viewers who are ex-military will be somewhat annoyed by mistakes in mili-trivia, such as a buck sergeant acting as first sergeant or master sergeant, the rank-less formation of the genetically engineered soldiers (all are privates), a colonel acting as commander for a mere company (or possibly just a platoon) of soldiers, the rumpled civilian look of the officers (other than Colonel Mekum), and the sight of supposedly highly trained soldiers stalking around in the open without concealment or cover. Civilians won't likely notice any of this.  If the movie consisted of just these mistakes, the critics would have been justified in the venom they poured into reviews. Fortunately, none of the plot elements above are particularly relevant.  What is central to the screenplay is the evolution of Sergeant Todd from emotionless child soldier to experienced war veteran NCO rejected by the same military that created him. The loss of all he knows and understands, consisting largely of esprit de corps, combat, discipline, and death, runs headlong into the love, life, community, and nurturing held sacred by the shipwrecked colonists on Arcadia 234. His inability to cope leads to his banishment from the community to live in the wastelands as a hermit. But the arrival of Mekum's troops gives him an opportunity to learn that life is more than fear and discipline, and for the shipwrecked colonists to learn the value of including those that are willing to selflessly defend others at considerable risk to themselves.  The beautiful Connie Nielson is an enigma to Sergeant Todd, who's only exposure to the opposite sex is the occasional female officer (enlisted soldiers are all male). He is attracted to her, but does not know why. He is also grateful to her husband Pertwee for sponsoring his recovery from his injuries sustained in the contest against Caine, but is also stymied by the fact that Pertwee is a civilian, and as such does not understand the other man's motivation for helping him. Many of the colonists are children, and Todd is puzzled by their role, although he empathizes with them as he remembers his own stunted and warped upbringing. It is Nathan, Pertwee and Nielson's son in the movie that breaks through Todd's barriers and allows him to feel something other than just discipline and fear. Feelings like loyalty, love, empathy, and respect invade his consciousness and finally allow him to start evolving beyond the state in which his upringing and military training had artificially held him.  Anderson claims Soldier is an homage to Blade Runner, a sort of sidereal universe to that of the older movie. But other than the spinner (a type of police cruiser seen in Blade Runner) visible in a rubbish heap in one scene, I have no idea what he is talking about. Soldier scores more points for originality and interesting character development. With such promising material it is disappointing that the director's efforts fell so far short. But in terms of pure entertainment value, Soldier earns a medal for valorous conduct.

great chinese style adventure It is a great movie. My daughter could also watch it using the Mandarin version. Quality is great (sound and picture).

Fun to watch This BD has great video and audio quality. The story is just, ok. Seems the story has been done before, govt experiments unleash a killer virus, kills then brings you back to life, this time we dont stop it. This movie I think is the best of the first three.

The resurrection of Batman and Gotham City "The Dark Knight Rises" presents a bruised and fatigued Batman trying to find inspiration, which is gradually pushed upon him by the realisation that the wellbeing of Gotham City and those he is close to need him to be revitalised.  The film begins quite dramatically and the viewer's attention is regularly stimulated by various shifts in the narrative.  There are many subtle and overt undertones to the story, which includes: a changing social order that advocates wealth collectivism, clean energy production advocacy, and helping the socially disadvantaged.  As a superhero movie it surprisingly delves quite deeply into mainstream social issues, and asserts wealth collectivism as unsustainable revolutionary anarchy.  Batman's own struggles in the film are emblematic of a society that needs to re-evaluate its priorities, but not at the expense of the beliefs and attitudes which are central to its identity.  Therefore, Batman's own journey of forced self-rediscovery is a representation of finding greater purpose and self-meaning for the betterment of Gotham City.  Nicholas R.W. Henning - Australian Author

Great Balls Of Fire Yes I Was Happy With The DVD.Thank God I Had A Pal DVD. div.2 Player. Sometime people By A Movie,not paying attention to it. wether it was there or not. It should be more visable. Thanks.

Fan of Twilight Saga So far this movie was the best one in the Twilight Saga.  I am looking forward to the next movie.

The second time around... OK, I last saw this movie, many, many years ago.  A VHS title, "Terror on Tape" ruined much of the, "Scares" for me early on. So, avoid that.  Anyway, when I first viewed this, years ago, I expected a lot of action, something that at least kept pace with "Maniac". Well, I was disappointed. This movie has a bit of a slow pace, and you'll realize that when you watch it, since it reminds you which day it is as the movie strolls along.  With this more recent viewing, I was older, and, I kept very low expectations. I remembered I thought the movie was below, "so-so" when I saw it years ago. That helped, as I really enjoyed it the second time. It has a bit more to it than a normal slasher film.  Give it a go, just don't expect the type of energy, "Maniac" and such have, and you may have a decent time. I kept that in mind years later, and I had a much better time with the film than I did 10+ years ago. It also helped, that the picture was much better, even with the hisses and scratches on the print (I viewed the, "Open Matte" version on this release).  .

Whose Shoes? THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN is an uneasy film.  It's good, but not good enough.  Filmed in 1968, it projected itself into into a futuristic vision of our world in the 1980s.  It stars the late Anthony Quinn, a Mexican-American actor with a knack for being present in films with a large cast of "important actors" and holding his own among them. In SHOES he becomes Pope, after the death of the old Pope played by John Geilgud, whose performance is so good because it's so bad.  I suspect he was modelled after Pius XII, the great ascetic Pope of W.W.II, and Geilgud's idea of that is to play "The Queen of the White Robes".  (In fact, anyone working in the Vatican during the reign of Pius XII had to kneel when answering a phone call from him.)  The shoes that Quinn wears as THE FISHERMAN  are more leathery.  THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN includes the likes of Laurence Olivier, David Jansen (whom I don't recall ever giving a poor performance when working within his range), Vittorio De Sica, Oscar Werner.  Unfortunately, THE FISHERMAN was filmed in the 1960s, when Hollywood dealt with Vatican affairs in language a little too reverent for words.  My snide remarks aside, THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN makes for a pleasant watch.  It's well filmed, adequately directed.  THE FISHERMAN is adapted from Morris West's novel that looks at the world with idealistic wishful thinking.  But who can deny that the world would be a very much better place if such wishful thinking were to become wise thinking.  Amazon has it, reasonably priced as always.  Peace, P the G

MGM Version Is Upgrade-Worthy;But KEEP The Anchor Bay Version's DVD Case!! I Upgraded My Purchase Of This Beautifully Filmed Gem With This MGM Version A While Ago <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002KPHYC">Portrait of Jennie</a>, Though I Swapped-Out The Disc To Put In The MUCH Better DVD Case Of The "Collectors" Anchor Bay Version <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004Y6AL">Portrait of Jennie</a>, With It's Cool, Detailed "Movie Poster Cover" Booklet, As I Did With "Duel In The Sun" <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6305808074">Duel in the Sun (Roadshow Edition)</a>.  Until They (Hopefully) Release A Blu-Ray Version, This IS A Superior Transfer By MGM. Even In Black & White, Jennifer Jones Is Simply Luminous;And ANY Guy Who Wishes To Just ONCE Meet A "Jennie" In His Life, Can Relate To "Everyman" Lead Joseph Cotten. And To The "Newbie" Who Wants To Know "What's SO Special?" About Jennifer Jones,You Need Look NO Further Than THIS Film.  Even When I First Saw It As A 12 Year Old, I Noticed The Ahead-Of-It's-Time Cinematography By The Great Joseph August, Who Died Of A Heart Attack Before Filming Was Completed.  He Was Another Victim Of Jennifer Jones Producer Husband David O' Selznick's Attempt (Of Too Many) To Top "Gone With The Wind", A "Back-Story" Rivaling The Size of The Production Itself, With The Meddling Selznick Scrapping Footage, Demanding Re-Takes, And Many More Changes To EVERY Aspect Of The Film That Ballooned Production Costs Close To "Gone With The Wind's" $4 Million Budget, Making It Impossible For It To Ever Make A Profit At The Box Office.  It Was Only As Time Went By, And All The Selznick PR-Machine Hoopla For The Film Was Forgotten, That People Were Able To See This Romantic Fantasy For Themselves, And Take It In Without Being Pushed To Do SO. And Though The "Selznick Touch" Could Have Made An Essentially Short Story Overblown, To His Credit, It DOES Help Distract Viewers NOT To Dwell On The Fact The Basic Premise Is Actually Far-Fetched, And Enhances The Romantic, Intimate Moments With A Magic That's Necessary To Make The Story WORK As A Film.  But Even With The Now-Cliche Debussy Themes That Are Used, I Never Cease To Melt EVERY Time I Watch This Film. It's Funny, How Films Where "Love Is Lost" Or "Unrequited", Are The Most Romantic And Memorable;And "Portrait Of Jennie" Is HIGH On THAT List.

Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra:  Marvelous! Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra did this remake of the Philadelphia Story, and they clearly had a lot of fun doing it. They added some great music (and some not so great, but nevermind), including Louis Armstrong and Crosby teaching a bunch of high society people (moved to Rhode Island from Philadelphia, which turns out to be the largest change made in the script) about jazz with "Now You Has Jazz." Also Crosby and Kelly singing one of my favorite songs of all time, "True Love," which was the name of Crosby's boat on which he and Kelly had spent their honeymoon. Now she's going to marry the stuffed shirt self-made man played by John Lund to be as colorless as possible. But Frank Sinatra, playing the role held by James Stewart only 16 years earlier, confuses things considerably, and thaws out Miss Frigidaire.  Another highlight of this light-hearted film is the duet "Well Did You Evah" by Crosby and Sinatra, overdosed on champagne and high society. "What a swell party this is," they sing, but it's done mostly for some of the best musical jokes in history.  Four stars, for the shear joy of it!

Way better than the book I thought this movie was going to suck because I had to watch it for school. However, I was pleasantly suprised, the casting was great and didn't really have that old movie feel to it. This was one of the few cases where the movie was better than the book.

Ruggles of Red Gap Beautifully cast movie.  Mary Boland can't be beat. Her performance is layered and on point as the good old gal who got rich and is trying to be high classed. No one can read more inflection into a line than she can. She's completely lovable despite her affectations. Love Charlie Ruggles, just on general principal.  The movie is full of quiet, good natured, subtle humor that can crack you up. All the characters are loveable, from the good old cowboys to the "toney" English Earl and butler, Ruggles, played by Charles Laughton, to the ever so nervous but gutsy Zasu Pitts and her democratic, cheerful boss lady. When Charles Laughton waxes eloquent on the Gettysburg Address, it's palatable because all the American bar hounds gathered reveal with humor their ignorance of its contents. Simple, sweet, funny and timeless.

Watch! This reminds me of the movie equillibrium, if any have seen it. In the sense you do whats right no matter the cost. Nicholas cages' wife is raped and beaten in the beginning of this movie. while in the waiting room Guy Pearce aproaches him and says he knows who did it and he will take care of it for him, for a favor in return. Thats how he hooks all grieving spouses. Its this group of once traumatized men who are then asked to murder someone else who commited a simular crime. it just goes on and on. Like the movie the box, press the button you can have a million dollars, but you have to murder your wife or husband to get it. Messed up moral deliema that proves what kind of person you are. Well Nicholas Cage is asked to kill a child pornographer, what happens from there is twisty and turny and keeps you guessing. HIghly recommend!

Video Quality The movie, itself was good, informative. The video quality of the DVD skipped a little a few times, like it was scratched. I had to restart it once to move past a scene.

Entertaining The title tells you everything you need to know.  If it appeals to you, you will enjoy the movie.  It it does not - well you probably won't, but then you would probably also not be reading this review!

Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead The beginning of the movie seemed to move very slowly.  I didn't really care for the cartoons.  I found them silly and boring.  However, as it progressed this movie turned out to be quite an eye opener.  I liked it's main message and it's potential to save people's lives (if people follow through with what they need to do in rectifying their eating habits).  I plan to recommend this movie for others to also watch and learn from.

Not as bad as most say it is Yes, it's not as good as any of the Alien or Predator movies (except for maybe Alien 3), but it still is a really fun movie. The graphics were very good, probably my favorite part of the movie. The story was interesting, it worked for the movie. I thought they could have added more to the characters, but they're still okay. Also, let me tell you that this one is WAY better than Requiem. I wouldn't doubt that for one second. So if you're wondering if you should get it, I recommend it. It's a cool movie with good replay value.

Sick sad world It is a little sad to think how everything has changed in the past ten years. Parents with steady jobs, no one worrying about gas prices. Fashion club spends nice amount of money on useless teenage stuff. Bets with good chunks of money. It is like watching a pre-depression era movie in the midst of Great Depression.

Heartfelt story about love and honor I had not seen Mulan in a very long time and it was fun to watch it with my kid. It is a great story about honor, honoring your parents and your country, and love; and how love and honor are intermingled. My only problem was with the digital technology. My roku was having some issues with the wireless network and I have three children looking at me asking why the movie wasn't coming on and if I could please fix it. Don't know, might be worth to get the hard copy.

What an Introduction to School Staff! I used this video with my Kindergarten students as an introduction to some of the staff they would meet at school. We had fun talking about what the characters thought someone would be like and then finding out what they were really like. I bought this one for The Librarian from the Black Lagoon but the kids also enjoyed the story about the PE teacher. They caught most of the jokes. Each episode is short which allowed me to show and talk about 2 of them with each 25 minute class.

This movie is ideal. I watch the movie and thought abou myself in what I am looking for in a husband. It gave me some ideas about what I am looking for in husband and what I want.It was a good movie.

Wonderful Show I am watching the first season. I sure wish we could get more seasons. The acting is great and the plots believable.  Apparantely, this is all we can get in the US.

Loved it Yes all of you cry babies, it's about human torture. So what! Go watch your boring predictable slasher movies so you won't get scared and freaked out and you'll have something to give a good rating to.

Good World War 2 film with great acting If you like WW 2 films made during WW2, "Back to Bataan" is for you. It stars John Wayne and Anthony Quinn, was directed by Edward Dmytryk, and tells the story of the Pilipino resistance to the Japanese invasion from 1942 to 1945.  John Wayne (1907-1979) was a major box office draw at the time, having made his breakout with "Stagecoach" (1939) and then a series of war films in 1942 including "Flying Tigers", "Pittsburgh", and "Reap the Wild Wind." He followed them with "The Fighting Seabees" (1944), and "They Were Expendable" (1945) - all of which did well at the box office. He was nominated for Best Actor for "Sands of Iwo Jima" (1949) and eventually won for "True Grit" (1969). He plays an American Colonel who stays behind after MacArthur retreated to Australia.  Anthony Quinn (1915-2001) plays a Pilipino Captain.  In 1945 he was still a supporting player although he had been in more than 20 films and had done well in "The Ox Bow Incident" (1943) as a Mexican, "They Died with Their Boots On" (1941) as an Indian, and "Blood and Sand" (1941) as a Spaniard. His big break wouldn't come until 1952 opposite Marlon Brando in "Viva Zapata". Quinn, of course, left us a great legacy of more than 100 roles, with films like "Zorba the Greek" (1961), "Lust for Life" (1956), and "Wild is the Wind" (1957). He was nominated for an Oscar 4 times, winning twice for Best Supporting Actor.  A good supporting cast includes Beulah Bondi, Richard Loo, Philip Ahn, Vladimir Sokoloff, and Paul Fix.  The marvelous Beulah Bondi (1888-1981) was nominated twice for Best Supporting Actress ("Of Human Hearts" in 1938 and "The Gorgeous Hussy" in 1936) and won an Emmy in 1977 for an appearance on "The Waltons". She is best remembered as Jimmy Stewart's mother in films like "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939) and "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946), but I remember her best as Granny in "So Dear to My Heart" (1948).  You'll know Richard Loo's (1903-1982) face even if you don't recall his name. He's best remembered as a Shaolin Monk from TV's "Kung Fu" and as Thai billionaire Hai Fat from "The Man with the Golden Gun" (1974). Loo was Hawaiian with Chinese ancestry, but he had a busy career playing Japanese and other Asians in more than 100 films.  Philip Ahn (1905-78) played Master Kan on the "Kung Fu" series. He was Korean but played a Japanese Major in this film. Ahn appeared in more than 100 films before transitioning to TV in the 60s.  Paul Fix (1901-83) played in more than 200 films, many of them westerns, starting in the silent film era. He gave us such memorable roles as old man Maxwell in "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" (1973), and Joan Crawford's confidant Eddie in "Johnny Guitar" (1954). He was an acting coach for John Wayne and played with Wayne in "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" (1949), "The Fighting Kentuckian" (1949), "Big Jim McLain" (1952), "Hondo" (1953)" and El Dorado" (1967). He's best remembered for his role as the Marshall in Sam Peckinpah's TV series "The Rifleman" (1958-65).  Vladimir Sokoloff (1889-1962) has a brief role as a school principal. Sokoloff was a terrific character actor and stole almost every scene he was in over 100+ films from 1926 to 1962. I remember him best as the village leader from "The Magnificent Seven" (1960), one of his last films.  Director Edward Dmytryk (1908-1999) was part of the Hollywood 10, a group of blacklisted film makers imprisoned during the McCarthy era. Dmytryk was nominated for an Oscar for "Crossfire" (1947) and won at Cannes. He was twice nominated for a DGA award - "the Young Lions" (1958) and "The Caine Mutiny" (1954). Among the 50+ films he directed were "The Left Hand of God" (1955), and "The Carpetbaggers" (1964).  FWIW - The film's writer Ben Barzman (1910-89) was also blacklisted. Given Wayne's politics, this caused some friction on the set. Wayne called them "lefties" and was sometimes openly hostile.  Bataan was a popular film subject and in addition to this film we have "Bataan" (1943), "So Proudly we Hail" (1943), "Cry Havoc" (1943) and "They Were Expendable" (1945).  The film starts and ends in a semi-documentary style and switches to a standard war film in between, chronicling the activities of Pilipino resistance fighters from 1942 to 1945. The action is good and the black and white photography is crisp. Some of the scenes are obviously shot on a stage, but overall they give an impression of being shot on location. War footage is blended well. John Wayne fans will enjoy how many stunts the actor actually performs himself, and for Anthony Quinn fans, this is his biggest role to date.  War films were plentiful in 1945, but the top grossing films were "Mon and Dad", "The Bells of St. Mary's", "Leave Her to Heaven", "Spellbound", "The Dolly Sisters", "Weekend at the Waldorf", etc. The only war film to show up in the top 15 was "A Bell for Adano". The big Oscar winner was "The Lost Weekend" (Director, Picture, Actor). Notable war films released that year included Jimmy Cagney's "Blood on the Sun",  Errol Flynn's "Objective Burma", John Garfield's "Pride of the Marines", Burgess Meredith's "The Story of GI Joe", Dana Andrew's "A Walk in the Sun", and John Wayne's "They Were Expendable".  Fans of the Duke and World War 2 films will want to see this film.

Super fun A great romantic adventure where Pen&eacute;lope Cruz (Isabella) tries to live her dreams of cooking. Great movie. Recommended. And the best is Watch it with someone you love jeje.

Good Docudrama I purchased this movie after reading about G. W. Bush recounting in his memoir ("Decision Point") that, prior to getting Ted Kennedy on board for his education initiative (No Child Left Behind Act), he invited Ted to the White House to spend a night together enjoying watching this film. I thought this might be an interesting moivie to watch since Bush and Ted Kennedy could hardly agree on anything. Overall a very good movie. Besides Costner and Greenwood, I think Steven Culp (Bobby Kennedy) and Dylan Baker (Robert McNamara) also did a very impressive job.

Christmas in L.A. I just watched "Mixed Nuts" for the first time - what a hoot!  I loved the casting.  Whoever would have thought of Liev Schreiber in his/her role?  And he was perfect as Chris.  Anthony LaPaglia was a baby in this movie-so young.  Madeline Kahn was as wonderfully zany as always - such a shame she was taken from this world at such a young age.  It was fun just picking out the big name stars - Jon Stewart, Rob Reiner, Joely Fisher.  And of course Steve Martin, Rita Wilson and Juliette Lewis were all perfect.  The only character I wasn't totally thrilled with was Louie, played by Adam Sandler.  I thought the character should have been there, just maybe a little less of him (the voice was grating).  Of course, Kahn's voice was, too, but it didn't bother me.  This was a totally absurd concept for a Christmas movie but it worked beautifully.

Great Movie I was surprised at how much I liked this movie. Watched it with the family and all really seemed to enjoy it.

Enter the river at your peril "Deliverance", John Boorman's harrowing depiction of a white water rafting expedition gone horribly wrong, was an Oscar nominee for best picture the same year as "The Godfather"(1972) and is, in some ways, a companion piece featuring a quartet engaged in male bonding. Instead of the ultimate crime family of three wildly disparate sons presided over by an immigrant patriarch, "Deliverance" offers up three suburban males following the misguided quest planned by a fourth,who is besotted with a half-baked sense of environmentalism and sure of his own macho capabilities. The role of Lewis offers Burt Reynolds a chance to play against the rowdy physicality of his previous roles, but the most complex and challenging role is owned by Jon Voight, midway between his Oscar nominated turns in "Midnight Cowboy"(1969) and "Coming Home"(1978). Voight evolves from a mild mannered fellow comfortable with his middle class existence to a bow and arrow wielding seeker of revenge for the death of one friend and the (spoiler alert) rape of another. Set as it is deep in woods soon to be flooded in a dam building project, "Deliverance" shares some of the same concerns that would animate Boorman's "Emerald Forest"(1985), but instead of Amazonian natives whose very existence is in peril, this film gives us a gallery of threatening backwoods types, whose genetics are as inbred as their penchant for violence. The sole exception is the banjo playing boy whose digital wizardry in the "Duelling Banjos" scene with Ronnie Cox is the most memorable aural component of the film. Even the local sheriff, played by the author James Dickey, proves an unsettling presence, and not just because he seeks to uncover the truth behind the death of the Cox character. The Blu-ray iteration of the film, released in 2007, is an early example of the species and probably the best version we're ever going to get. The source material reflects the era of its production with some muddy and overly saturated colors and obvious use of blue screen. Imperfect as it may be, "Deliverance" in Blu-ray still has the power to haunt. Who can forget "Duelling Banjos" or the dead arm reaching up from the water? This is no lady in the lake proffering Excalibur, but rather a reminder of how close supposedly civilized man is to his primitive ancestors who can be accessed both in dreams and in times of great stress.

Really good! If you liked the Buried Lfe season one, then you'll enjoy season 2 just as much. I would definetly recommend getting it now that the show is cancelled.

dvd It was a good movie, but not as good as I had hoped. There were parts I thought were nonsense. It was funny in parts, though.

Bruce needs to find a way to do 5x+ movies a year There aren't a lot of horror comedies I can openly admit to really enjoying but very few can truly resist the charm of quite possibly the best B-actor to walk the face of the planet - Bruce Campbell. Honestly if you haven't seen the other major films Bruce has been in (The Evil Dead series) you may not yet be ready to watch this one. This film not only gives us Bruce in the starring role but also is directed by the man, the myth, the legend - Bruce Campbell. Yes he has learned the art of multitasking on this one and could only be better if it was written by none other than... Mark Verheiden. OK Bruce can do quite a bit but he doesn't do everything under the sun. Mark Verheiden has mainly written television shows until this point (aside from a small 90's comedy known as The Mask) but did such a great job Bruce signed him up for his next epic battle - Bruce Vs. Frankenstein. I for one after seeing My Name Is Bruce cannot wait for the next film they do together and with a title like that you know comedy gold will be in the works.  At any rate in this film Bruce Campbell plays - himself. Yes a run down B-Actor who is doing film after film of horrible movies with nowhere to go in life and running out of friends and jobs. Meanwhile in a small hillbilly town an ancient evil, Guan-Di (the Chinese God of War, protector of the dead, and bean curd) has been awakened and is terrorizing the countryside. No one is quite sure what to do but one of the town's inhabitants, Jeff (Taylor Sharpe), is a huge fan (stalker) of Bruce and believes that he is the only man capable of saving the town from the curse that has befallen it. Anyone who has been able to live through so many B-Movies has to know how to handle a real life situation of the same magnitude, right?  To get Bruce out there he kidnaps him and due to an entertaining set of circumstances (and Bruce being Bruce) he quickly believes that he is actually being hired to star in a new movie, not save a town from a monster that is real. We are introduced to the boy's mother where a love interest blooms between Bruce and Kelly Grahm (Grace Thorsen,) at least in Bruce's mind this is happening. When he realizes that the demon is actually real he responds in true Bruce fashion - he runs away as far and fast as he can.  Bruce never fails to delivery on entertainment. He has B-Movie campiness down to an art form and can fuse this talent into any genre. Gladly he has chosen to mix it with horror as it is non-stop laughs in a very twisted and self loathing kind of way. The movie also gets bonus points for casting Ted Raimi (Sam Raimi's brother) in 3 separate rolls within the film, each one of them more entertaining than the last. You really do need to have an interesting sense of humor to be able to enjoy such an abundant source of B movie madness.

cool I got this cuz it was priced right. It showed up a day or two after Amazon said gottcha would. So if was wanted something in a hurry would not get something through most companies, this is one. But for I just want that, I would get whatever. The said what it was and that's what I got all for a good price.

Nitty Gritty Look Of A Campaign 'The Ides of March' may not bring us anything new as far as campaigns go, but it does bring us the look of the day to day, nitty, gritty campaign. We are up close and personal with the people who run and the people who live campaigns. It is isn't pretty, and we do understand just how wearing to the soul a campaign for President can be.  The movie stars George Clooney, the Governor of Pennsylvania, Democrat, Mike Morris. He is in the state of Ohio, trying to win over that Governor and get his feet on the ground. He has the nondescript wife, played by Jennifer Ehle, and the requisite child. We don't see or hear much from them. Philip Seymour Hoffman plays the campaign manager, an old hand at this job, and he knows all the tricks to the trade. Ryan Gosling plays the press secretary, Stephen Meyers. He looks young and is still idealistic. He knows his job and will lie, cheat and do whatever it takes to keep his candidate in the game. Gov Morris has a smart opponent in Sen. Pullman, but the real mind in that cfampaign is Tom Duffy, played by Paul Giamatti, the campaign manager. Duffy will stop at nothing to better his team, and he is well known for playing dirty tricks. The new campaign managers are old hands at this business and are as cynical as one can be. No one wants to cross these two, and when Stephen Meyers does cross a line, everyone pays. Marisa Tomei plays a hardnose journalist, playing each member of the campaigns off one another, The young not so innocent intern, Molly, played by Evan Rachel Wood, is a catalyst of sorts for the campaign and it may be her undoing.  This film is directed by George Clooney and it has the hard edged look of a campaign. The underlings staying in a motel, while the Gov and the upper echelon stay in a nice hotel. The real worker bees are volunteers and how they maintain their ideals for a while is no mystery, we all start that way. In this day of 24/7 cable television, nothing much is left unsaid or undone in campaigns. We know almost all there is to know. The last few months with the GOP debates has shown us the downfall of campaigns and how easy it is to fall, and how difficult it is to stay on top. I think this film gave us that feel. Not much new, but the telling of the story left me with a feeling of deja vous. Politics is a dirty business. None of us want that, but that is what we have, and look at the mess in D.C. This film does not give any answers, only the reality. The dirty down reality.  Recommended. prisrob 01-21`-12  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003E88TKS">Up in the Air</a>  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0064NTZQ2">Drive</a>

A Perfert Getaway. A Perfert Getaway single disc widescreen dvd. This is a good move to watch. Makes you wonder about people you meet on vacation.

No time puns please There are more than 200 reviews of this movie and I'll admit I didn't read every one of them.  But after reading 10-20 of them, a pattern begins to form.  Rather than delve into the actors and who IS or ISN'T a good actor, I think overshadows what's the underlying and most important factor here:  The concept of whether this type of societal situation could ever happen?  As you may or may not know, the movie was accused of plagiarizing a short story written by Harlan Ellison.  Long story short (no pun intended), a lawsuit was eventually dropped and everyone moved on their merry way.  Movies like "In Time" and others such as "I Robot", "Children Of Men" and "District 9" all speculate about the future of mankind but they all cling to the same premise: that the future is doomed to even worse a fate than we can imagine even in our so called "modern times".  At best, these movies are subjective and whether one can enjoy them or not depends on whether or not you buy into their premise.  Personally, I see them all as thought provoking and yet........a form of escapism.  They are a fantasy created by the writer for us to decide either to go along with it or not.  Does "In Time" have from a technical, artistic and dramatic point of view, faults and flaws?  Yes of course.  Plenty of people have already spoken to this.  But this shouldn't be the important issue about a movie (and others mentioned)like this.  Just my opinion..........

Great Movie Anyone in the family can watch this movie.  They do not have enough movies about cattledrives. I wish they would make more movies - George Montgomery is his usual nice self and the story is easy to follow.

Landmark, even if not perfect, film Justly regarded as a landmark film, this disturbing and violent movie by Stanley Kubrick - stunningly filmed and still shocking after forty years - has been so talked about and overanalyzed that there is probably not much more to say. But let me add a few thoughts about A Clockwork Orange, after having recently seen it again after perhaps some twenty years.  First, the movie has three clear and differentiated acts. In the first act, we see Alex and his gang commit outrageous acts of violence, rape and eventually murder against helpless citizens in a futuristic London. In the second act, Alex is caught and sent to prison, where he is "cured" through an aversion method called the Ludovico technique (involving basically the infliction of pain and nausea on Alex when he is forced to see violent acts in a movie). The third act sees Alex being rereleased into society, supposedly cured, but he will find it impossible to reintegrate himself to society. If the first act is a clear masterpiece (perhaps the best thing that Kubrick ever made), and the second act is very powerful, the third act I found wanting. It's as if Kubrick (or for that matter, author Anthony Burgess) wasn't very sure about how to wrap the story or what particular message he wanted to give forward.  Lastly, and about the message of the film, there has been some debate on whether this is a right wing (conservative) film or is it a left wing (liberal) film. My feeling is that it cannot be put safely in any of the two categories. Kubrick was too idiosyncratic a director to be put into a neat ideological label. Thus, while the movie's radical critique of contemporary western society might put it in the left category, its skepticism that criminals can be "cured", can be seen as a conservative position. Also conservative might be its skepticism about whether any government bureaucracy can have good intentions toward the people.

Great movie, lots of laughs! Love this movie heard about it on the FILM VAULT and have since bought it! Great acting and great casting! A must watch :)

Wahlberg fits perfectly for this role A role of army sergeant - an unemotional and not wordy, fits Wahlberg perfectly. Sticking  with roles like this will see Mark's career soar. Back to the movie - plot is pretty solid for a thriller. Overall movie has a good balance or paranoia, govt conspiracy and butt kicking. I watched it twice and enjoyed. Why only 4 stars? - it is forgettable. In the middle of watching it second time I remembered watching it a couple years before.

Pretty good flick This movie took me by surprise.  I thought it would be a slasher movie and even tho there are bloody scenes (not many), there was an actual plot to the movie.  You have to wait till the end to find out tho.  I may just watch it again!

Get em both! I picked up this movie because I'm a big Hellboy fan, and I had picked up the orginal movie and wanted the set.  To be honest, I like Hellboy 1 better as a complete package.  I think the writing is weaker in Hellboy 2, and the director made the odd choice of shooting Ron Perlman like any of the other actors instead of from low angles, as he did in the previous movie.  It meant that Hellboy no longer looked huge and 7' tall, and in a couple of scenes where he takes his coat off, his head looks oversized and his body comparatively normal human proportions.  I found these things disappointing.  On the up side, however, the villain in this movie, Prince Nuada (played by Luke Goss), is amazing, and worth the price of the movie all by himself.  He looks stunning, and the scenes where he displays his martial skills are lyrical and a pure pleasure to watch.  He is also an excellent actor, and steals every scene where he appears.  I should mention, too, that the Golden Army itself is beautifully realized, and the sets and the various arcane objects that Hellboy interacts with are also.  Just watching some of the scenes unfold is a treat for the eyes, and Mike Mignola's involvement in the production comes across very clearly.  Looking forward to the next one!

Excellent movie have got to say i really enjoyed watching this film. Suspense was super class and was very unlikely to be guessed.Nana Patekar acting was superb. All others were not very good though.But, the film is lifted mainly by NP. A truly unique thing about the movie was the ending. I haven't seen such justified and unusual ending in any other film.If this is not a copy of any Hollywood film then its gonna rest into my all time favorite movies. Watch the movie and you would not regret 1 bit of your time spent.

Excellent blu-ray restoration Excellent work on both DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 1080p video. There are rightly-deserved credits at the end for the restoration team.

Good book I purchased this book as a gift. Ive been told its very good. Seller sent it promptly.  I am happy with purchase.

12 Great Episodes It's a very funny anime. If you're a fan of comedy and anime or Full Metal Panic!, then this would be a great show for you. The one drawback is that it's a very short series. It is so short, that I felt the need to remove one star.

Moody and Fascinating Greed, power and intrigue create several equally-credible threads of possible truth in the storyline. Some of the 17th century feminist manifesto bits were slightly ham-handed, and I found it equally frustrating that such a powerful woman might be so completely unwound by vanity, but it's exactly these juxtapositions that pushed (and sometimes forcibly dragged) the story forward. It's also nice to see something other than French and English costume dramas for this period. The overt politics kept this from getting all five stars, but definitely worth watching.

Poltergeist remastered, revives the goosebumps of this classic thriller The remastered DVD and Blu-Ray of Steven Spielbergs masterpiece POLTERGEIST will have those goosebumps freshly painted all over your body. Though after seeing it again after all those years, the scares were a little less intimidating (I Genuinely had nightmares for years after seeing Poltergeist the first time as a teenager)as they were in its debut. Poltergeist still evokes a fearful trip through the story of a cemetary full of unhappy ghosts that retaliate on a family whose house was built over their unmarked graves. The Headstones may have been removed to make way for a housing development, but the bodies still remain in the ground beneath the new homes. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000V4UFZK">Poltergeist (25th Anniversary Edition)</a>

fun Ella is funny and sweet. My daughter, who is 8, and I laughed and found the plot engaging enough. We would recommend to girls out of the Disney stage.

The most entertaining TV show of 2011 With "Nip/Tuck" Ryan Murphy created a television show that supposedly revolved around the lives of two prominent plastic surgeons. The show, however, more often seemed more like a psycho-sexual horror story than it did a medical drama. So it was only logical that, for his next show on F/X (let's not even bring "Glee" into this conversation, alright?) he would just completely abandon storytelling based on any sort of conventional reality and create a show that exists within the loose, unpredictable, and often absurd genre of horror.  The first season of "American Horror Story" involves a family of three (Psychiatrist/Father/Adulterer Ben, Wife/Mother/Woman-Scorned Vivien, and Daughter/Teenager/Depressive Violet) as they try to make a fresh start in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, they're not aware that the beautiful and suspiciously underpriced house they bought has a history of various murders, suicides, and other brutality, and is haunted by not just one ghost, but a smorgasbord of the living dead (some malevolent, some benign).  Although Ben, Vivien, and Violet are the show's supposed main characters, the most important and powerful character on the show is really the house itself. It's made clear throughout the season that the house is its own entity; drawing people to it, driving them to madness, and then containing them once they're dead. (One of the few "rules" of the show is that anyone who dies on the house's property is doomed to haunt it forever.) Over the years the house had claimed many victims, so the show each week often introduces the viewer to a new character, usually from a distant past, whose tragic fate involves haunting what the neighborhood refers to as "the Murder House." Some of the macabre characters who haunt the house include the historical Black Dahlia, a Columbine-esque teenage mass murderer, a modern gay couple, a severely deformed young man, and a housekeeper who appears as a matronly old woman when living women see her and as a naughty temptress when men see her.  Every episode of the show is completely over-the-top, filled with all kinds of outrageous plot twists meant to shock, titillate, provoke, and crack up the audience. The show doesn't rely on slow, deliberate character development, subtlety, or nuance. In terms of quality, it's a long way from "The Sopranos" or "Mad Men." What it is: a loud, freaky, kinky, fun and addictive affair. Although for such a campy show, it does include a lot of prestigious talent: Jessica Lange (who won a Golden Globe for her scenery-chewing turn), Dennis O'Hare, Francis Conroy, and Zachary Quinto all add considerable acting chops to the whole deliciously decadent show.

classial Indian movie Moksha is a classial example of an Indian movie that lacks originality and attempts to show a sequence of events in a Hollywood style. The movie is basically about a law graduate (arjun rampal) who studied law because of his passion towards helping those who cannot help themselves. Money was never an incentive for him to practice law. This dogma of life caused problems between him and his father (oberoi) because his father was a money motivated person and resented his son for his way of thinking. Further into the movie, he meets and falls in love with a naive, vulnerable but good looking young girl (manisha) and they begin to spend a lot of time together. Eventually, he begins to confide in her. After witnessing injustice at a local village where several impoverished people underwent a momentous amount of suffering, he decides to open up a charity foundation for the poor and needy. However acknowledging the need for funding, he explores all possible "legal" avenues but fails to get the funds. Even his father turns his back on him. This compels him to use illegal methods to obtain the required funds and during the course of doing so, he begins to turn insane. So thats the plot of the movie. The problem with this movie is that it mimics the Hollywood style of direction (i.e. the black and white flashbacks and the obscure dream) and overall seems very illogical. The plot however was very good in my opinion, but unfortunately, the movie failed to demonstrate it effectively.

Breath Taking This is a breath taking film.  I saw the preview for it in the theatre in 3D, but (much to my disappointment) did not get to see it in 3D in the theatre.  I was not certain if watching it on my television would be a let down or not because of this.  I was very impressed with the visual presentation, and would highly recommend this movie if you're looking for something that "stands out" from other animations like Shrek, etc.

Liked the movie Much better than T3, good action movie. I'm not going to get as detailed into it as some of the reviews. its not a complicated movie. Are there some gaffs that "true fans" will notice and blog in their parent's basements about? Yes, but thats all movies.  Dont like it, start a movie studio and do it right.  Lots of nice easter eggs and references to T2. Pop some popcorn and watch. I would review the BR extras, but dont have a BR player. I rented it with the option of getting a disc, and at some point a BR player will make its way to our house. Till then...

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance.... I don't know where I read it but I'll agree with whomever said it that Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance is to Ghost Rider as The Punisher: War Zone was to The Punisher..a better take, overall, on the comic book character but in movie form. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance begins when a monk, Moreau, alerts Blaze that a woman named Nadya & her son need protection from the very devil that created the Ghost Rider. Blaze feels obligated to help and that's where our new adventure begins.  Most of you will notice that this film bears very little resemblence to the previous Ghost Rider film that came out in 2007, although Nic Cage reprises his role as Johnny Blaze/Ghost Rider. I hate to admit it but it took a couple of viewings to agree that this is a better film than the first. It's better in the fact that the action is more frantic and intense than the first. My only gripe would have to be that Nic Cage's performance is predictable in this movie. It seemed like he dialed this one in, instead of really giving a Grade-A performance. It was nice seeing Christopher Lambert on screen again. The last time I seen him was in Mortal Kombat, I'm afraid.  Despite negative reactions to the movie, I thought it was pretty decent movie. If it were given a bigger budget, I'm sure we would have seen a more robust movie by  Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor(whom most of you know as the directors of Crank). As it is, though, I loved it. I hope this isn't the last we see of ol' Ghost Rider. He's one of my all-time favorite Marvel characters that's deserving of some screen time.

Pretty great This movie is a pretty great flick.  I saw it in the theatre years ago.  I rented it to watch with my fiance who hadn't seen it, and she loved it.  The quality of the stream was stellar with no hickups or jumps.  thanks,  Ethan

Why does the world still need Superman? This Blu ray makes a pretty good case for those of us that still believe in the big blue boy scout, my 4 year old daughter loved it, minus 1 star for mediocre animation but its good to see a Superman story that is still relevant in this cynical world that we live in.  Believe, Always Believe.

Inspiring A good positive family film. I haven't seen the original but the story is told beautifully of the difficulty a young skater has getting to the top and retaining herself. Then the downside of falling from grace, then getting back up and being great on her own terms. Not a classic underdog theme just that it's important to know who you are, strengths and weakness so you won't become someone others want you to be. You can't fail if you do your best. Not the strongest acting but portrayed the thought. Choreography was thrilling and the theme song was beautiful.

Rankin/Bass Does Thanksgiving!! Thanksgiving is devoid of icons to make it a favorite amoung children - Tom Turkey can't compete with Santa Claus or Dracula - and so this holiday which is crammed in between the other two bigger ones comes up short when it comes to fun TV specials marking the celebration. However, you can count on Rankin/Bass, the long-reigning kings of enchanted holiday programming, to have left us this warm, entertaining show.  Treading a fine line between historical accuracy and cartoon make-believe, Mouse On The Mayflower tells the tale of the Pilgrims' toilsome trip over to Plymouth Rock from the perspective of its tiniest passenger - a mouse! Although this special was done in traditional animation, and not the charming Animagic puppet-animation the studio is most well-known for, it still bears all of the trademarks of a Rankin/Bass special - with that bouncy background music that gets you all hyped up for the holiday. Also, like most other R/B specials, this one gets better and better each year you view it, with the songs becoming more familiar and enjoyable every time.  With the lack of Thanksgiving Day Specials out there, and the beloved legend-like status of Rankin/Bass, you would think that this one would have been released on DVD a long time - but not the case! We are still left with a decade-old VHS release as our only source. Hopefully this will change soon.

And so the world turns I guess I enjoyed this  movie, but at some points it was a little slow - It didn't stick with me at much at some other movies did, but I have to say it was worth watching. We have so many movies out that tell this type of story now & despite that I feel the movie did give an inside view of what things may really be like on the other side.

Ultimate gift This video is true to the book which is extremely good.I would highly reccomend the 'Ultimate Gift' to anyone who is searching for a way to enhance their own or anyone elses life.It is well writen stcks to fundamental example and will be of beefit to any one who can take on board the lessons that Jim Stavall is attemting to impart. I loved it RON L

Kurt Vonnegut Lives! I suppose I should call this science fiction, because there are elements of the story that take place on Trafalmador, apparently in orbit around Jupiter. But that's really not the main point to the story.  Billy Pilgrim (Michael Sacks) has gotten unstuck in time, and goes back and forth without being able to control where or when he will be. To people watching him, he seems to have a moment of blackout, or at least of inattention, but the audience knows because it happens wherever/whenever he is.  The title refers to only one chain of events, that of his being a prisoner of war in Dresden, in Slaughterhouse Five, when it was bombed by the allies. Another major segment is around his palatial home in the US, where his wealthy wife is a bubble-headed perpetual adolescent who gradually becomes a bubble-bodied fool as well. You can figure when we are from the age of his children and of his dog.  The third segment is in a geodesic dome on Trafalmador, where he and Montana Wildhack (Valerie Perrine) cannot go outside the dome because the atmosphere is cyanide. They are on display for the curiosity of the Trafalmadorians, but they do have a night shield when they want privacy.  Did I mention this story was written by Kurt Vonnegut, Junior? Does that explain things? It was better as a book than as a movie, though, because movies often tell stories with flashbacks, and you figure the guy is just remembering his past. But Billy also has access to his future, including the day he dies. Still, it's not as remarkable as it was in the book, where the fact that it's Billy's consciousness that is moving, not merely some literary device, is more pronounced.  Still, the movie is clearly worth watching.

If you like 80s movies If you like 80s movies this one is a classic. Very Funny and a lot of the usual predictable humor. But still good.

A Well-Constructed Spy Romp When it comes to Alfred Hitchcock pictures, his "MacGuffin" plot style is quite a bit overused (especially by today's standards).  "North By Northwest" contains that same style of film-making.  However, this film is so well-constructed otherwise that it still holds up well over time.  For a basic plot summary, "North by Northwest" follows the exploits of one Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant), who is mistaken for another man and happens to fall into a Cold War spy ring led by Phillip Vandamm (James Mason).  Along the way, Thornhill is romanced (and does a fair share of the romancing) by Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint), whose character may not be exactly who she seems.  In terms of plot, this is one of Hitchcock's best...if only for the first half of the film when the mystery of "Thornhill/Kaplan" is still brewing.  Once the truth is disclosed, however, the MacGuffin quickly becomes apparent and kind of turns the movie into a simply spy tale (and thus it loses a little luster).  The acting is terrific, as Hitch makes the "bad guys" genuinely creepy (I mean, Martin Landau's face alone is enough to do that!) and showcases Grant & Saint throughout.  Bernard Hermann's soundtrack also deserves a good chunk of the credit for keeping the latter portions of this movie interesting, as those famous Hermann strings refuse to let viewers relax even for a moment during the climactic moments.  Overall, "North by Northwest" is a very good Hitchcock effort that deserves watching by any fan of the director or just cinema buffs in general.  A 3.5 ranking would be my exact choice, but because of it being so well-made, I bump it up to four stars.

The Polar Express (Single Disc Blu-ray 3D/Blu-ray Combo) by Polar Express A fantasy film, fill with the dreams of Christmas as some children dream, but far from the true nature of Christ, the Divine Child, from Whom this Holiday is celebrated, He, unfortunately, is the absolute absent.

Single-Disc Blu-ray Review "Aliens" is one of the all-time great "monster from outer space" movies, in my opinion, so I picked this Blu-ray up from Amazon recently.  The film itself: A bit dated perhaps, but nevertheless a sci-fi horror/action masterpiece. Better than Ridley Scott's original, and I don't say that about many sequels. Beautifully shot with wonderfully dark and claustrophobic cinematography. Sigourney Weaver's performance is sublime, and you can tell she takes her craft very seriously. James Cameron's direction is taut and soaked in adrenalin. On the flip side, Bill Paxton's performance is execrable, though. He never could act, and I was glad when one of the aliens finally dragged his screaming, hysterical butt to his doom, probably just to shut him up. It's nice that there are two versions of the movie to choose from; I prefer the original theatrical version.  Transfer quality: Average for Blu-ray, in my opinion. There's a lot of grain in many places. The graininess does add to the dark, foreboding quality of the movie, but to be honest if I had known there would be that much grain I would have just settled for the DVD version. It is possible that the decision to not "clean up" the grain was made because often that cleanup process softens the video quality, so maybe it was deliberate. I do appreciate the 1.85:1 aspect ratio - I like having the picture fill the entire screen as opposed to thick black bars at the top and bottom of the screen. Audio sounds very good through my home theater system, and is the quality I expect from Blu-ray.  Extras - Not too many, not that I expected much in the way of extras in a rock-bottom price Blu-ray. The deleted scenes are always fun to watch, and gets you playing the "what if" game - would the movie have been better or worse if the scenes had been left in the original theatrical release? The audio commentaries are somewhat informative, but I never did care for those too much, so I only turn them on for the sake of reviewing a movie here. The isolated James Horner scores are nice to listen to, though.  Overall, a great movie and a solid product. If your main motivation is just purchasing the movie and not worrying about a lot of extras (as it was for me), this will do you nicely. Serious fans of the franchise may well wish to invest in the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AQO3QA">Alien Anthology [Blu-ray</a>], which has a lot more supporting material.

Battleship No more implausible than many other sci-fi action flicks.  Great entertainment as long as you can suspend reality for a bit.

Surprisingly good and enjoyable, but sound quality is occasional distraction The directing and camera work are very good in this movie. The storyline is interesting: a modern day fairy tale. Occasionally the sound was so quiet that it was impossible to hear the actors -- this was a streaming movie, so I don't know how the DVD would be. Overall it was a very enjoyable movie and I would recommend it to others. Paul Giamatti is a tremendously talented actor and gives a superb performance.

Intense WWII story of SSF mountain assault "The Devil's Brigade" is a 1968 film about the 1st Special Service Force (SSF) that fought in Italy and France during WWII. This movie seems relatively obscure nowadays; I first saw it on AMC and recently on the Military Channel's "An Officer and a Movie" program. With the climatic scene set in the mountains of Italy, this film proves to be among the first war movies that approaches realism.  There are earlier movies such as 1962's "The Longest Day" and other John Wayne projects that garnered alot of popularity, but most soldiers who fought in WWII would not see them as totally realistic. James Jones,a veteran of the 25th Infantry Division's campaign on Guadalcanal, wrote an essay about the discrepancy between ficion and reality in old fashioned war movies that can be found in the DVD of the 1998 film adapted from his novel, "The Thin Red Line." Many of these old movies were filmed in black and white and were subject to heavy handed censoring.  After the success of "The Dirty Dozen" in 1967, came a string of much more realistic WWII films, "Devil's Brigade", "The Bridge at Remagen", "Kelly's Heroes," Tora Tora Tora" and the Oscar winning "Patton." These movies utilized special effects and color footage to make the previous attempts to depict war pale in comparison. These late 60's films were far from perfect, but they set the bar for the future projects of Steven Spielberg, whose "Saving Private Ryan", "Band of Brothers" and "The Pacific" are widely considered definitive WWII stories.  "The Devil's Brigade" was released the year after "The Dirty Dozen", and due to the first film's commerical success, the follow up borrowed a few ficticious themes to sell the movie to a cynical generation that was embroiled in Vietnam. Both stories have misfits who are deemed "unacceptable" until the Army gets their hands on them, molding the motley crew into a respectable fighting force.  In "Dirty Dozen" the soldiers are criminals, while "Devil's Brigade" tones down the deviant aspect and makes the Yank contingent of the Ameican/Canadian SSF just plain rowdy in comparison. There antics are a bit more in line with druken disorderly and AWOL type stunts that some soldiers pulled in an army with many draftees.  There are two main portions of this film: training and combat. The first takes place in the mountains of Montana, the second in the combat zone of Italy during December of 1943. The climatic scene is based on the battle of La Difensa, and this is probably one of the first intensely real combat depictions in the history of the genre. This film has a few weak spots (mainly the unit's first raid into a German held Italian village), but compared to other war movies that came just a few years before, this largely forgotten film really set the standard for cinematic combat scenarios.

A Stellar Cast, Magnificent Entertainment: An Unforgettable Film. What a motion picture this is!  With a cast so star-studded it blocks out the sun, and battles so well-directed they rival the best Gladiator can offer, and sets so large you wonder if they're real, THIS is true film entertainment.  What a movie!

Robbing banks is way more fun for the salt of the earth poor than for the idle rich! After reviewing the Thomas Crown Affair, it occurred to me that Faye Dunaway was involved in another bank heist movie made at about the same time--this one.  And rob banks they did--and had fun while doing it!  I remember this movie fondly.  My father took my brother and me when we were young teens.  He was shocked to discover that crime capers weren't what they used to be!  Gone were smirking bad guys and straight arrow cops--instead we were treated to gratuitous sex and violence!  It was more than we could have hoped for--and beside ourselves with joy that our dad had taken us to such a movie!

The HedgeHog Enjoyed this movie and it's intertwining story lines.  A story of journeys and growing. Watching the art unfold was a particularly good rush.  Definitely worth watching!

A lesbian-themed movie that isn't a romance I really liked this movie. So far, the only bad things I've read in these reviews had to do with the gay theme or the storyline itself. If you don't like gay people or if you read the summary of the movie and don't find it interesting...don't watch it.  For not being a lesbian herself, Dreya Weber does a wonderful job at making the experience come to life. In this movie, her character was drummed out of the military on suspicion of being gay. So, for the first time in her life, she is learning how to live honestly with who and what she is. One way she comes to terms with herself is by training a troubled and lost teenager who has been court ordered to do jail time or join the military. The teenager is straight, so this isn't a romance. Though there is a lot of chemistry between these two actors. The town she comes back to is one that is in trouble. Being a female ex-marine, she is pulled into some fights that she would rather not be a part of. For anyone who has dealt with coming out or knows someone who has, this story will hit home. It was beautifully told, if a bit slow in the telling. Personally, I like slow movies that require you to sit back and soak it all up. This is more a character movie than an action flick, though the fight scenes are very good. It's fun to watch a strong woman kick a jerk's butt. Again, I stress that this is not a romance. It's difficult for our American minds to come to terms with this as we are used to romance being involved in everything. She does find love, of course, but it is a very small part of the movie. And the point of involving the other woman seems to be more about showing how difficult it can be for these soldiers who have lived in fear of being found out for so long to free themselves. The real story here is about the pain that Don't Ask Don't Tell and the narrow-minded views of homophobic people have caused in this country. However, it is not preachy. It's real.

Jason Siegel does it again!! Jason Siegel and Emily Blunt have amazing chemistry in this movie. A bit of a long movie, but moved well and so worth it for the ending. A good story that even a guy wouldn't mind watching.

Needed to finish my collection I watched this movie a long time ago and figured I would buy part 2. So, I had to buy part 1. The second one is still my favorite from the two.

Good Sci-Fi but not for everyone I enjoyed Red Planet,I thought Val Kilmer had a very good performance in this picture too bad he has deteriorated over the past several years. Carrie Ann Moss was very beatiful and dare I say sexy, I had forgotten how good she looked without all the goth wear in Matrix. Back to the movie if your used to seeing killer aliens or rampaging mutations and other murderous life forms then this is not the movie for you. This is true science fiction here where the only demons and monsters are the ones we bring with us. Don't pass this movie up, I recommend it.

Entertaining Entertaining movie with good supporting actors. Nice to see a true story brought to the screen. David Niven has always been one of my favorite actors to watch.

Much better than the last one. After MI2 I wasn't even sure I wanted to watch this one. I'm glad I did. All the mistakes they made with 2 they corrected with this one. The goofy dialog was much improved and the overall flow of the film was much better. Better FX, dialog, direction, stunts get this movie a recommendation from me.

Good info, but consumers will need more reassurance if their verdict is to change This documentary is set-up like a whodunnit murder mystery...except instead of trying to solve the murder of a person, you're trying to solve the murder of an electric car.  It's kind of silly set-up, but I did walk away seeing the importance of cars that run without gasoline, produce no exhaust, and are quiet, yet still drive fast.  There was a time when these cars were available to the public, but then they disappeared.  In this documentary, you're given a  list of suspects who caused this to happen.  Those suspects are:  -- Car companies, specifically General Motors -- Air Resources Board, specifically Alan Lloyd -- the government -- Consumers -- Batteries and their efficiency and practicality -- Hydrogen fuel cell cars as a better alternative  By the end of  the  documentary, a verdict of guilty or not guilty is reached for each of these suspects.  One verdict I had trouble  with, though,  was  the guilty verdict for Consumers.  They're  faulted  for being too skeptical,  however,  that's  unfair seeing how  it's actually wise for consumers to be skeptical about fantastic claims, especially when those claims are about a large and expensive product.  Had advertisers done a better job convincing consumers  that the electric car is a better alternative, maybe the verdict would've been different. After all, as noted in the documentary, consumers  were  originally  skeptical about  owning a SUV.  They thought SUV's were too big and scary to drive, yet advertisers managed to convince  consumers to own one.  So why not do the same with the electric car?  With soaring oil prices, America's entanglement with the Middle East, global warming and smog ruining people's health,  we're told electric cars are needed  now  more than ever.  The documentary ends with hope for electric cars in our future.  However, for the electric car to realistically take off again, consumers will need to be reassured that an electric car won't further complicate their lives, which this documentary doesn't go into that deeply.  For example, how much does it cost to own one of these?  How much will this increase my electric bill?  What happens if this car stalls in the middle of nowhere?  Until consumers get clear answers to these questions, they'll continue being sentenced with a guilty verdict.

HTT Makes There Debut While volume 1 set up the characters, volume 2 sets the story in motion. Containing episodes 5-8 we get to see the girls have there first concert, throw a Christmas party and try and recruit new members. Overall volume 2 really picks up the pace and for me things flow nicely. One of the things I love about K-On as a whole is that it's not a series you have to focus the whole time, you can just check your brain at the door sit back and enjoy a good light hearted comedy. The real star of the series is ,as corny as this sounds, the music itself.  Now getting to the basics of this volume, The voice acting from the English dub team at Bang-Zoom continues to improve and the actresses are getting better and more suited in there roles. However the Japanese version is still my preferred track. A lot of people have complained about the 2.0 stereo track, while yes I would love to have the dub in TrueHD 5.1 Lossless audio, It doesn't bother me that much and both tracks come though clear and with good quality. The bonus features are well done with a interview with Cristina Vee (English voice for Mio) as well as an English version of the one of the songs "Fuwa Fuwa Time" witch sounds really good in my opinion.

Another good Tenchi series, but.... Tenchi in Tokyo is another good Tenchi series, but it's different from the others. In this series Tenchi leaves the girls. He goes to Tokyo train for the priesthood and go to high school. With the girls back home and a new girl on his mind. Tenchi's future is uncertain. Especially with an evil demon from the past gunning for his powers.  I like this Tenchi series, but it has a totally different atmosphere. The voice acting style and animation are not like the other entries. Although there are some fundamental differences, the new plot line and characters make up for what may have been lost. It is definitely emotional at times and it has plenty of action & comedy. So this anime shouldn't disappoint. Give it chance, you'll probably like it.

Freakin' Adorable This is 75 minutes of pure, unadulterated, animal cuteness. I'd tell you about the dynamic story and incredible art direction, but frankly this is a G rated kids movie ment only to give enjoyment through curious and cute animal companions. Want to waste some time smiling and funny critters? Buy Milo and Otis. Want to watch a cutting edge drama/ thriller? Buy something like The Departed. *SPOILER: It's worth noting that near the end their are two live birth scenes involving both kittens and puppies that is rather graphic. It's very quick but still just be prepared to see it.

interesting film Lots of people don't like this film, but I honestly liked it and thought it better than some other sci-fi movies (including Ultraviolet) Yes, this show is quite different from the TV show, but hey, I liked it, and also liked the story and the weird and cool sci-fi bits and special effects.

It's not Donnie Darko, but it's still a good Richard Kelly flick. Many people are to critical on their reviews of this film.  You can't compare it to Donnie Darko, just take it for what it is..  It's not as good as Donnie Darko, but it's nowhere near as bad as S. Darko.  Give it a chance.  It's supposed to mess with your head.  Not everything is going to be spelled out for you.  Take from it what you will.  p.s. The cast is awesome!

Entertaining But Not a 3D Demo Movie We watched this movie last night in 3D and found it imaginative and filled with action. It may have some scary scenes for the very young but is not, I would think, too scary for most younger viewers.  One is given the option of viewing it in 2D or 3D; even in 3D there are some scenes that appear fairly sharp and clear without the glasses. It seems as if the 3D effect is applied unevenly to the movie; other scenes have the familiar blurring without the glasses.  The sound is very good in surround mode with lots of action from the surround speakers in the big scenes. Although it is primarily for younger audiences, it has sufficient interest for many adults to enjoy watching as well.  We'll probably not watch it too often but I'm glad to have it in my small, but growing collection of 3D movies.

Enjoyed this story. Now I need to read the book. I wasn't sure what to expect when I started watching the movie. I'd never seen Robert Pattinson act before (I know, where have I been?) and I thought he did a great job portraying the variety of emotions expected of his role. I've always adored Reese Witherspoon, so she met my expectations and I was not disappointed. The story was a bit tragic, but at the same time it had a good ending. I didn't agree with the fact that they fell in love while she was still married, but at the same time I understood how it happened because her husband was an abusive man and pretty scary at times. I had to admire Jacob for caring enough about her to try and protect her no matter what it cost him. I loved that they ended up with a normal family situation and that there was no more fear or abuse in their lives. The husband was just plain twisted and I thought it was cool how people got tired of him throwing people off the train and finally did something about it. All in all a good movie. And Rosie the elephant was awesome!

A fantastic time capsule of British rock in transition Time for a proper review, of sorts, to balance the ridiculous one-star rating afforded this DVD in 2007 by "Gale M. Green", an apparent Small Faces fan upset that the entire film isn't about the Small Faces, and who apparently knows nothing of the importance of this film in the timeline of British rock.  DATELINE DIAMONDS was one of many lightly-plotted rock & roll movies produced in Britain in the early 60's, very much in response to (and in reflection of) a similar, stronger trend in the U.S. at the time. Guillotine Films, the distributor behind this DVD, also has two earlier pictures in it's British Rock & Roll Series, LIVE IT UP (1964) and its sequel BE MY GUEST (1965), both starring a very young, very mod David Hemmings, and both worth seeking out just as much as DATELINE DIAMONDS. All three, plus many more that may or may not have made it to home video, are critically important time capsules of a period in British Rock history just before it exploded around the globe. Sure, the Beatles were starting to make noise by the time the two '65 movies (GUEST and DATELINE) were released, but they were still battling it out in an awfully crowded field.  DATELINE (along with the earlier pictures) showcases many of the bands who sought to stake their claim on the then-burgeoning British rock music scene, including many who would indeed go on to greater success in different groups in the years to come. DATELINE's plot, involving the Small Faces' ex-con manager hatching a scheme to use the celebrated Radio London "pirate" ship to smuggle hot diamonds to the Netherlands, is really the thinnest of clotheslines on which to hang a number of "live" performances by popular singers and bands of the day in an effort to deliver them to a wider audience than could've been achieved with the BBC running a virtual monopoly on airplay during the period. As such, the film presents some top-notch numbers, including two by the Chantelles sans Dusty Springfield ("I Think of You" and "Please Don't Kiss Me"), a smashing number by Kiki Dee called "Small Town", Rey Anton belting out "First Taste of Love", Mark Richardson crooning "What 'Ma Gonna Do" and, of course, Small Faces performing no fewer than FOUR tracks (three are indeed heard in the background, as Mr. Green noted): "I've Got Mine", "It's Too Late", "Don't Stop What You're Doing" and Come On Children". Sharp-eyed viewers will also spot British TV legend Kenny Everett in a couple of scenes.  The DVD from Guillotine Films is a real treat. The picture is presented full-frame but does not appear to suffer from much if any pan & scanning, as framing and compositions all seem correct). The disc also includes: biographies and discographies for Small Faces, Kiki Dee and The Chantelles; 11 rare (VERY rare) Radio London jingles, and an audio commentary from Guillotine Films disc executive producer Phil Loveman. As is noted in the other review, the commentary only runs 18 minutes, but contrary to the other review, is IS very enlightening all the same, offering up choice tidbits about the bands, the Radio London enterprise, the general scene of the time, and the production of the film. Those looking for more info about the performers have the internet at their fingertips. On the commentary for LIVE IT UP and BE MY GUEST, Loveman is joined by a Londoner named Cyril Kay (can't remember if he has any particular title, or was just there when it all happened), and those tracks run to approximately 45 minutes or so.  The artwork on all three of these DVD releases is generally quite awful, consisting of mediocre photoshop montages using what appear to be still captures taken directly from the discs themselves (at least on the sleeve fronts), augmented with title treatments in silly-looking, inappropriate fonts. This is truly the only amateurish part of these otherwise excellent discs, and it makes them look like dollar-store junk (ironically, I found all three in Canadian department store dollar bins in 2011). A proper designer could easily have cobbled something together that visually elaborated on the mod aspects of the films themselves, and their place in both the histories of British film and British rock & roll.

Good Movie I liked this movie because it was fun and I didn't expect it be a great masterpiece. The characters were good and while I wouldn't have seen in the movie theater,but its a good movie if you are looking for something. I enjoyed it.

Witness I was satisfied with my purchase, but I would like to know how to choose a DVD, in the future with Spanish subtitles. I'd appreciate your help with this.

underappreciated Christmas classic I still watch this movie several times each holiday season, and it never seems to get old.  The only unfortunate part is that in this new release, they had to cut out the prologue part with Kermit the Frog due to licensing restrictions.  Still, it holds up as one of the best non-traditional Christmas movies - great for kids and adults alike.

Not my Wallander, but... Of course, Kenneth Branagh is a superb actor and the series is quite good (except for "Sidetracked" which I found exhaustingly "downbeat" and went on way too long).  I've read them all, and Henning Mankell is a genius, but frankly, I like his other novels (not detective stories) even better.  One does have to slog through a Wallender story, although the beautiful writing makes it worthwhile.  Perhaps that's the problem with this series. It's good, yes, but you don't have the wonderful sense of reading a masterwork, so the stories just...slog.  Also, it bugs me that an Irish actor took on this role.  I mean, Branagh has about the most Irish-looking face I've ever seen, and I always picture Wallender as looking more like Von Sydow or even - yes - David Warner, who plays Wallender's father in this series; tall, lanky, long-faced and ruminative.  Branagh is too - well - short, and his face is babyishly rounded, despite the stubble and tired-eyes makeup.  Still, I did enjoy the first two episodes.  I'd like to get my hands on the Swedish version.

I enjoyed it. This isn't Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone but then it's not Men in Tights either.  I enjoyed it when I watched it on BBCA.  And I would rewatch it.  I don't think any of the Robin Hoods are super believable but then this is TV.  As another said, it got better as the series continued.  I was sorry when it ended. I didn't notice anything wrong with the photography but then I'm not a professional.  Watch one or two and if you like it then watch more.  If you don't like it, don't watch any more.

Pretty Good!!! The only Lorax story I knew was the 70's cartoon classic. This new movie seemed much different, but still good. It didn't have enough Lorax in it. When a boy named Ted tries to find a tree for a girl named Audrey, he meets the Once-ler and tells him the story about why there are no more trees. Ted tries to bring the trees back before the Mayor of Thneed-Ville tries to stop him. I'd probably recommend THE LORAX!!!

REALLY AWSUM HARD-HITTING MOVIE REALLY, REALLY GOOD, GRITTY, REAL AND SAD MOVIE. IT WILL STAY WITH YOU LONG, LONG AFTER YOU FINISH WATCHING IT.

A breakthrough classic. If you can try to believe it, there was a time when computers considered untouchable to the average person in this world. No one would have ever expected that these wondrous thinking machines would be a staple of the common house hold let alone be used for anything else than simple game programs. Suddenly in the early 1980s a film was announced and it was to be the first that ever delved into the concept that computers could be use to help make films through its own style of animation. That movie was Tron. Tron is a simple story starring the great Jeff Bridges who hacks his way into his old company's computer data base to retrieve evidence that ideas for successful computer games belonged him and not the man who forced him to leave. Little did he know that a program known as Master Control had been growing and hacking its own way into other databases to become the greatest most powerful program ever. Machines thinking on their own?! ,Who would have thought?! So the computer universe is given a visit from "The Dude" and a cult hit is born.  This film for what it was for its time in incredible. I am blown away by what creative minds felt would be the next generation of film making. Mind you if you were born after 1996 you probably will not understand this film nor will you even believe that there was a time when computers that you see in Tron were considered `Advanced.' This film is not only a great ride, but it is a historical trip in understanding the pioneering of computer technology and how we got to where we are today. The plot is a little hard to get at times and the movie does move a bit slow. Still, Tron is a classic and a true wonder to behold

GI Joe, Rise of Cobra This is a great action film with a good plot and average acting.  Good mindless entertainment.  I received the usual excellent service from Amazon.

Goofy Fun!! A good Slasher-Film spoof with innocent backwoods villians and mistaken and evil victims! Lots of Laffs! Good Goofy Fun!!! Fans of the slasher genre will definately bust a gut!!

Passion at Midnight There is a great deal of fun to be had with Charles Jarrot's potboiler, "The Other Side of Midnight", if you don't take it too seriously, which is, apparently, what critics did when they widely panned the film upon its original release in 1977.  A lavish soap opera with hand-wringing melodrama, cringeworthy dialogue, and a running time of just under three hours, "The Other Side of Midnight" works precisely because of a High Hollywood pedigree that has, sadly, gone the way of the dinosaur, as well as its straight-faced camp.  The Latin American telenovelas are currently thriving with this kind of fare, and it's easy to imagine Pedro Almodovar re-making this film in his own signature style; with its twisting turns of passion and revenge, "The Other Side of Midnight" is operatic on a grand scale.  The heroine (anti-heroine?) is Noelle Page, an innocent, young French girl from Marseilles whose father sells her to a horny old Parisian with a hairy back (played by Sorrell Booke, who later gained prominence (?) as Boss Hogg on "The Dukes of Hazzard").  One roll in the sack later, Noelle runs off and meets up with American Lothario/soldier, Larry Douglas (John Beck), who rapidly impregnates her and then hits the road, with promises that he will return to marry the smitten Noelle when he returns from his assignment.  Meanwhile, in the U.S., the country is preparing to enter WWII, and spunky Catherine Alexander (Susan Sarandon) is making headway as personnel assistant to the head of a top PR firm.  Larry meets Catherine, marries her, and forgets all about the poor little French girl he left behind in Paris.  However, she doesn't forget about him.  Once Noelle discovers what Larry has gone off and done, she is driven to acquire fame and fortune at any cost, which is to say that she spends a good deal of the movie undressed and lolling in the beds of various powerful men.  Once she achieves the pinnacle of material wealth by taking up with billionaire Greek, Raf Vallone, she makes sure that hers and Larry's paths cross again.  Which will not bode well for everyone.  With one double cross after another, "Midnight" may be short on logic but it is never dull.  As Noelle Page, raven-haired Marie-France Pisier does a credible job and is exquisitely beautiful, too; it's a shame that she didn't make more movies outside of Europe, because she was a radiant performer who should have become a much bigger star (if she'd wanted to).  Susan Sarandon, for all that I admire and respect her now, sort of reminds me of a boozing Olive Oyl in this film; with her squeaky voice and lanky frame, she's a million miles away from the sexy parts she played in "Pretty Baby", "Bull Durham", and "Atlantic City".  Her Catherine has the worst lines in the film, but, the fact is, she never seems like a fully fleshed out character, anyway.  It's the idea of Catherine, and what she represents, that is supposed to make us, the audience, root for her, but it's "bad girl", Noelle, who is the more interesting of the two.  Caught between the two ladies is John Beck, who I never thought was much of an actor, but he has the right stalwart, square-jawed look that is appealing, without any suggestion of real depth--which is perfect for the role of Larry.  The DVD looks great, enhancing the beautifully filmed locations, not to mention the beautiful people doing not-so-beautiful things.  Well worth the cost, "The Other Side of Midnight" is a rare treat, a film not often seen anymore.

Fun movie Although I did not care for the scene where they toys were about to go into the incinerator for the most part it was a good movie. Fun and great animation.

st francis assisi movie Great movie, i loved it. i have not read his life story, but had heard so much aboutjthis saint, specially his love to animals. Not to long nor short, just perfect.

See it I'am a horror/suspense movie snob. I will watch 10 minutes of a movie, roll my eyes and turn it off. I didn't roll my eyes with the Devil. To keep it short and sweet, I felt it was scary, suspensful, and all around a great movie,  I wish I had seen it in the theatres.  I don't think you will be sorry if you buy/rent this film.

One of the best from DC animation. Adapted from Grant Morrison and Frank Quietly's Epic, ALL STAR SUPERMAN series, this animated film, written by the great Dwayne McDuffie (Who just passed away, and will be missed greatly.) Is a beautiful love letter to the wonders that is Superman. Wether you are a fan of  50's, 60s 70's or the current Superman, you will find it all here, mixed within a One shot story. Great artwork, great voice acting and Music.  Whoever doesn't like this, simply doesn't get it, and should stick to reading X-men books.  More emotion than action, this is Superman, in a way that is fresh and new. If you aren't sure about it, at least give it a rent. For me, it's a keeper. I am a 25 yr vet of the independent comics Industry, having worked on dozens and dozens of titles.......I know a good story when I see it. A shortened version of the 12 issue mini series, but like Snyder's Watchmen, there's only so much you can pack into a hr or 2.

Demonstrates the talent of our Navy Seals It's cool, seeing all the different skills and talents the Navy Seals learn, the list is long, which goes to show why it is so hard to pass Navy Seal School and why Seals are not just anybody.  But I should imagine that the tactics demonstrated in this flick are Textbook tactics, can you say OPSEC?  As for plot/storyline, it does exist, but this movie is really geared towards showing off the Seals.

Funny This is a good funny movie that i never heard of b4 until i was searching thru amazon and you should definitely give it a shot and check it out i think u won't be disappointed.

Good For a Laugh This movie is funny! I read the reviews before viewing and was worried I might be wasting my time and money. I thoroughly enjoyed the comedy. I had many good laughs. Yes, the characters were one dimensional and the plot was contrived. The comedy is straight forward and hit me as funny. If you are looking to be entertained and watch something light and funny, this movie is for you. Sit back, unwind, and enjoy it for the comedic value you'll be pleasantly surprised.

Daylight I remember watching Daylight as a kid.I would watch it over and over again and after many years its still as i remember,a really good film that i think people would enjoy i really recommend for to buy this is and its good for the right price witch is very cheap.

More cutesy-story-driven and less goretastic than Tokyo Gore Police, but still a fine addition to the Tokyo Shock genre. More cutesy-story-driven and less goretastic than Tokyo Gore Police (2008), but still a fine addition to the Tokyo Shock genre.  This is like a high schooler's Tokyo Shock flick; a good taste of the style.  Lovers of the genre won't be disappointed.  [B-]  Intentionally over-acted like an early Troma film, this movie is about Keiko (Frankenstein Girl; Eri Otoguo) and Monami (Vampire Girl; Yukie Kawamura), clearly the protagonist.  It's Valentine's Day in their high school and both of them like the same guy, Jyugon.  The first half of the movie is really just about Monami pursuing this guy and Keiko figuring out what's going on between the two of them.  Then, when she confronts the lovers, she accidently dies.  Luckily, this happens just as her father discovers how to make Franken-monsters.  And so, two-thirds into the movie, we finally get Frankenstein Girl and a 25-minute fight scene involving the majority of the movie's characters.  The finale closes with a happy ending, a goofy surprise ending, and a cutesy little twist.  When I see trailers for Tokyo Shockers from Sushi Typhoon or Magnet entertainment, I wonder "just what nonsense is in this flick that I won't want to miss?"  Well...flesh is stripped away in lengthy strands, stretchy faces are peeled off, swords are gorily worked into bodily crevices that I dare not mention, amputations leave behind uber-fake stumpy prostheses which Gallagher-cannon fake blood, sometimes it simply "rains" blood a la Broadway as Monami dances and soaks in it to some happy-go-lucky music, an animated intelligent blood droplet, a blood cocoon, a two-footed one-handed one-eyed Franken-thing reminiscent of Jeffrey Comb's creation from Bride of the Re-Animator (1990), living "screw" worms, a "smashed" face, an arm used as a helicopter propeller screwed into someone's head, bone-shard katanas, projectile fingered eye-nipples, and a hail of blood bullets.  My next thought might be "well what sort of weird hybridized bad guys are there and what weapons do they use?"  A sword-armed sumo wrestler with a holy helmet gun, buzz-saw ankle-wheels made out of crystallized blood, and after we think she's been defeated Frankenstein Girl returns as an odd, spider-like mechanized menace.  These movies tend to add some other flavor particles as well (e.g., strange commercials in Tokyo Gore Police).  The pale and awkward Wrist-cutters Club girls practice with box-cutters like cheerleaders preparing for the 13th Nationwide High School Student Wrist Cut Rally (which is really nasty).  There is an extremely racist depiction of a clique of black girls--one is actually a spear-toting tribesman, another a fro'd 80s hip-hop black panther mix--it's really inappropriate...and that makes it funny.  Lastly, like any Asian movie, even this slapstick sensation features some informative background, in which Eihi Shiina cameos as Monami's mother during a backstory flashback. There is some goofy, almost farcically cartoony, CGI.  They even feel like they'd be in a macabre version of Pee-Wee's Playhouse, especially when we see Keiko's Dr. Frankensteiny father (dressed up like Sgt. Kabuki Man) and his assistant (the sexy school nurse) hacking up some poor guy.  It's so wonderful when two great minds can work together to produce something so beautiful.  Director Yoshihiro Nishimura also directed Tokyo Gore Police (2008), Mutant Girl Squad (2010), Helldriver (2010), and the upcoming The ABC's of Death (2012) and The Profane Exhibit (2012), in addition to doing the make up for dozens of Tokyo Shock flicks.  Co-director Naoyuki Tomomatsu directed Zombie Self Defense Force (2006), Maidroid (2008), Maidroid 2 (2010) and Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead (2012), along with a lot of writing experience in the subgenre.  Eri Otoguo (Frankenstein Girl) and Scream Queen Yukie Kawamura (Vampire Girl) each have some exploitative slaughter movie experience as well.  DVD Special Features:  I have warned before about the lack of bonus content and/or re-release of these films.  The features are nothing special.  Just some footage of "the making of" the film.  It's entertaining seeing how cute Yukie Kawamura is in between scenes.  But we don't get any interesting insights about making the film.  These features could have easily fit on to one disc with the movie.  I wonder if they made it a 2-disc unit to fool people into thinking it would be something special.  But, like Tokyo Gore Police, expect a re-release with an additional disc with some real special features.  Then, maybe even another re-release with more stuff.  LANGUAGE:  Japanese; I got the 2-disc DVD, which offers English dubbing.  IF YOU LIKE THIS WATCH:  Tokyo Gore Police (2008), Helldriver (2010), RoboGeisha (2009).

Very funny! Great movie, very funny and brutally honest about how relationships work. I watched this with my fiancee and we both agree the movie hits and real points and topic. Kevin Hart stole the show, hilarious dude. Great cast all around, worth every penny. Ive seen this 5x, lol.

Fairly Faithful Adaption, Too Bad It Wasn't Released in the US... When I was a kid, I discovered the works of Robert E. Howard, namely Conan the Barbarian and Solomon Kane. Being a fan of sci fi and fantasy back then, I devoured them like a hungry man at a banquet. I enjoyed them and have many fond memories, and have even gone back and revisted those stories as I got older. So, one day as an adult, I sat in the theater to watch some movie I can't remember, and what should be among the teasers? The trailer for Solomon Kane! As it started, I thought "hmm, this seems like Solomon Kane," but didn't know a movie was being made of this fine character. So when the words popped up saying something like "From Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan the Barbarian", My heart nearly leaped out my chest. Solomon Kane! Yes!  Sadly, it was to never see a US theatrical release (thus far, and no stateside DVD or Blue Ray release either). Personally, I believe it was because it was in competition for some Nicolas Cage movie that looked vaguely the same, and US movie studios didn't want the competition. So, after trying for a long time to get a working import, I finally got one. When it arrived, I eagerly put it in my DVD player and sat back and watched it. I won't bother with any spoilers, and so you'll only get my opinions as a fan of the original character.  The movie is about a 17th Century soldier of fortune (the titular character that is the film's namesake), who starts out very mercenary and violent, but eventually turns his sword on the forces of demonic evil that is threatening England. He's basically told that if he continues to fight, his soul will belong to the devil and he'll go to hell, and so he tries to live a life of peace. But that wouldn't be a good story, and so he eventually has to go back to his old ways, but this time fighting for the side of good.  First off, this film is well worth the price of admission. Buy it! Watch it! Invite your friends and family over, and watch it again! Very well done, and James Purefoy pulls off Solomon Kane very well. If you know anything about the original character, the start is a bit shaky, but by the time the credits roll, there is no doubt that that is indeed REH's Solomon Kane. I hope there will be sequels. Having said that, I have a few issues with it, albeit very minor and thus do not detract from the overall experience. One of the characters that Kane confronts is practically telegraphed, and without giving anything away, all I have to ask is, is it too much to stop linking villains to the heroes in such obvious ways? Second, Solomon Kane has a backstory in this movie, something Robert E. Howard never gave him that I'm aware of. Of course, this being Hollywood, every hero has to have some kind of origin story, so consider this movie Kane's. I did some research on this and found that the film makers didn't want to give him an origin, but were forced to in order to get funding for the movie, as well as being able to secure distribution in the US. All the more ridiculous, since it was never given that distribution (trust me, it's a crime of the highest degree, as it's better fantasy than most of the crap we've been given). For all that there was no REH origin story, the film makers tried to take cues from the original works to try and figure out what REH might have come up with. Did they succeed? I think so. Lastly, one of my favorite actors is in this, the very talented Jason Flemying, and I feel he was vastly underused. It felt kind of a waste to cast him in this and not give him much to do.  Beyond all that, the acting was well done, even the children. The directing was superb, and the costumes and sets really helped to set the mood and tone. In additon, the sword fights were very well staged and believable, even when pulling off the kind of stunts that are more Hollywood flair than what might have been correct for this time period. There's plenty of stylish tracking shots and the movie is blessedly free of the jerky, hand held shots so horribly common in action films these days. Now that the origin story is out of the way, here's to hoping for sequels, where James Purefoy can more fully bring our beloved Solomon Kane to the character in the original REH stories.

The unconventional lives of two artists Anais Nin and Henry Miller are known for their literary achievements.  Both published a number of books and created quite a stir in the times they lived.  Henry and Anais met in Paris in early thirties. Both were married to other people at that time. Anais' husband Hugo was working as a banker while she was writing her first books.  Henry on the other hand, came to Paris from US pennyless with his wife June who supported his ambition of becoming a writer.  What both Anais and Henry had in common is that June was their muse.  June was strikingly beautiful, uninhibited and somewhat psychologically unstable person.  She had personal charisma and people were drawn to her for her looks and her unconventional life.  June worked to support Henry while he wrote and was disappointed when she realized that his writing style is quite different from Dostoyevsky's.  At the time Anais met Henry, she was naive, yet curious about the world around her.  She wanted to be surrounded with people who could entice her to write - she craved to be around "live" people.  Luckily for her, Hugo was supportive of her desires.  They seemed to have good marital relations.  But Henry was so different from anyone Anais met before that she allowed herself to have a passionate affair with him that eventually transformed into a life long friendship.  This relationship with Henry (and June) also relinquished her to write with passion she would not have known otherwise.  This film is for open minded.  It is explicit, so prudes should not attempt to watch it.  Uma Thurman plays June with someone flawed and half hearted efforts.  Portugese actress portraying Anais has the most beautiful, expressive eyes on screen that allows her to act without saying a single word.

Great movie Read the book first and then watch the movie. We compared and contrasted between the book and the movie with my third grade students.

A Few Bad Apples I enjoyed this beautiful film, gentle and horrible, great cinematography and music, well worth seeing, but I'll never accept the premise. SPOILER ALERT: My instincts tell me that every group would produce a few bad apples that would not march obediently off the cliff and they would spoil the whole barrel.  While it is true that we shall all die, being treated like produce who exist merely for medical benefit of unseen strangers is bound to bring the survival instinct to bear.  That scream of rage would lead at the very least to avoidance behavior, which even a rat or flea will demonstrate.  Still, we all face the inevitable fact of our impending doom whether it serves anyone else or not.  Its treament of that makes this a very worthy film

Firefox The film follwed tha book very carefully.  I read the original book whileI was traveling to europe.  Sometime's the writers of the film go to far in cuttin out or changing the facts from the book.  Clint Eastwood as star & Director normally finds the story he has choosen for a film production tobe as good as necessary to mke a riviting movie,  The only thing missing making a movie of the follow-upbook "Firefox Down"

Customer service cleaned up the mess, somebody did... I was waiting for this item to receive at home, but what a bad surprise to get a DVD version and not the Bluray version i ordered. The company who sells this item sucks (was a third party), they sent me a DVD instead of a Bluray version of this concert, but simply Amazon customer service cleaned up the mess... i called to ask how to return this item, as it was NOT what i ordered and expected to get... they just refund me all the money and let me keep this item... So i will order this from another source to get this item for real... Thanks Amazon for an amazing service (at least i wasn't charged for this).

Great Movie on Blu-ray(don't know if it was NEW) I ordered 7 Blu-ray Chinese cinema movies, this one seemed like it wasn't new, but used and re-shrikwrapped which I don't like. The disc seems fine, but it didn't have the typical sticker sealing it shut etc... just a mangled shrink wrap. Anyway i would expect more when Amazon is the seller/supplier.  I'm watching it as i type, well it's not the greatest HD transfer, but i don't know what all goes into that... seems a bit grainy so far. The main thing is that i can now watch in with in Cantonese or Mandarin.  4/5 stars for Blu-ray quality 2/5 stars for Amazon sending me what appears to be a used copy.

A fun and funny movie, with enough sports for him and enough romance for her! We love this movie and just watched it again last night for Valentine's Day, and it was the perfect fit.  We hadn't seen it since it was in the theaters, so it was fresh and funny all over again.  Both leads do a great job, particularly Jimmy Fallon.  Not that Drew Barrymore isn't great, but we've come to expect that from her, so the performance by Jimmy Fallon was a refreshing surprise.  Yes, he's doing his lovable, funny, stuttering schtick, but it works, and he has moments of real emotion, as well.  The romance angle is a little broad, with her as the hard-driving, upwardly mobile professional woman (complete with her pack of predictably diverse girlfriends/drinking-workout partners) and him as the cool school teacher who lives for his one passion, the Red Sox (complete with his pack of predictably diverse friends/season-ticket leeches).  When they meet, he's in 'Winter Guy' mode, and they spend a few months developing a romantic relationship.  However, once Spring Training starts up he switches to 'Summer Guy' mode, and his obsession with the Sox begins to manifest itself into their relationship.  Hilarity ensues, as they say, along with some rom-com level drama.  The interesting twist for this film is that it is set and was filmed during the Red Sox successful run for the World Series title in 2004.  They adapt the vanquishing of 'The Curse' into the plot of the film, and it adds a touch of realism not normally found in most rom-coms.  A very enjoyable film, even more so on repeat viewing, where it held up remarkably well.  Highly recommended.

Only the First Three? Owned. Okay, I know my review title seems a bit confusing. I say this because I thought that this was the boxset with all four of the Indy Jones' movies. Unfortunately, it was not. I was feeling a little bamboozled.  But. For all intents and purposes, Indiana Jones is a good investment. Now, I just need to find the newest one to complete the collection.

Fine performances, the video shows its age If you were to dismiss this DVD because of its less-than-stellar video quality, you'd be missing out on some fine music, and excellent sound. The video in this 1991 recording is a bit rough around the edges, but the sound and the performances are as good as one can hope for.  Andr&aacute;s Schiff, Yuuko Shiokawa and Mikl&oacute;s Per&eacute;nyi lovingly perform these three works for piano trio, providing moving, melancholic playing at times, and lively, boisterous interpretations at others. The third movement of Piano Trio No. 1, that slow, languid melody at the heart of this work, is splendidly performed, and the balance between the instruments is ideal. The more lively opening movement of Piano Trio No. 2 has plenty of energy. And the slower second movement of the same work, with that unforgettable cello melody opening over the piano - well known from the film Barry Lyndon - is performed with great subtlety.  The timings of the piano trios are on the long side, with the second trio nearly 52 minutes long. I find the tempi to be ideal for these works, as the musicians seem to have found just the right balance of energy and speed for these trios.  The Arpeggione Sonata is performed here in a version for cello and piano. The musicians play without scores, unlike for the piano trios. Again, the balance of the instruments is ideal, and Mikl&oacute;s Per&eacute;nyi gets an occasion to stand out with his excellent cello playing.  These works are filmed in a small room, with the three musicians very close together. The piano is in the rear, and the violin and cello in the front. The sound of this recording is excellent, with a nearly perfect balance among the three performers. Visually, the small space where this was filmed allows for little variety in camera angles, but the music is so vividly performed that this actually works quite well. There is no distraction from excessive cuts and angles, so the viewer and listener can focus on the music.  These musicians recorded these works for Teldec on a 2-CD set released in 1998, but which is, unfortunately, out of print. After watching this DVD, I would very much like to get their recording, as this is one of the better performances of these works that I have heard.  This is a delightful performance of some of Schubert's best chamber music. While the video quality is not perfect, it's easy to forget this as you are carried away by the wonderful music.

My son is still asking to watch this months after he first saw it LIKES  - Wonderful animation, great textures - Beautiful colorful landscapes - A kinetic and interesting dream world - A sweet and slightly cheesy children's story for the first 3/4 of the movie - Interesting and exciting action sequences - Good vs bad, good wins - Bully vs victim, victim fights back (verbally) and wins - Interesting characters and good voice acting  DISLIKES  - They overdid it when making the nightmare train. He's freaky and scary. My 3 year old watches the movie and at first was a little anxious but seems fine now. He has a creepy scary appearance, voice, and actions.  I'd love it if the bad guy was bad rather than creepy and evil, but I can't really say it's a problem because my son loves this movie.

Still powerful after all these years... Still powerful after all these years...  Despite all the scifi films I've watched and loved over the years, this film has oddly grown to be my favorite of the genre. There is such an elegance and a beautiful economy to the storytelling. There doesn't seem an unnecessary action or line in the entire film, just this wonderful awe and intelligence and tension throughout. The cast is first-rate, and Michael Rennie was a brilliant choice for Klaatu. And as much as I like The Sound of Music and other films by Robert Wise, I think this is his finest. His direction is impeccable here; the story's subject matter and pacing fitting his directing style to a T.  The message, of course, is just as poignant today as it was then -- and leaving the ending hanging with the audience makes it all that more sterling an accomplishment.  And I haven't even mentioned Bernard Herrmann's masterful innovative score, which was groundbreaking for its day, and so oft repeated in the decades to come that here it begins to border on the cliche. But even then it remains above the musical fray, adding so beautifully to the wonderful mystery and atmosphere of the story, and melding film and music in a way rarely achieved. (On a side note, whatever you do don't confuse this film with the misguided remake from a few years ago.)

There was a bulge, then a battle Giant war films like this one have two distinct sides. The battle scenes and the human element in between. If you like tanks you will get a bellyfull, up close and personal. Several of the fighting scenes show close interaction between men and the tanks, giving a taste of the tank's intimidating power. Including men and tanks in mix-ups give a sense of intimate reality, rather then the normal back and forth cut-aways. The human element introduces us to several characters who are distinct enough to draw us in on a personal level. I had never seen this film, and was expecting a bloated mess. It was much better then I expected, and drew me in. Well written, directed, and acted.

Very Good, Chic Flic Very good movie.  Modern "terms of endearment".  Single, powerful, self sustaining women, not looking for love but love finds her.  Love Kate Hudson and her simplicity.

Death Wish Saldana Remember La Femme Nikita?  Or, better yet, Lucy Liu's history in Kill Bill?  Same thing.  It's nice revenge fantasy, and Zoe Saldana is certainly gorgeous to look at, but there is nothing very new here.  Which isn't a bad thing!  A few interesting, somewhat creative assassinations, even though I've seen better.  The blood and gore is a little lacking, not to mention the absence of nudity, limits the impact a bit.  Nonetheless, I enjoyed its simplicity.  For a mindless action flick that does a good job from beginning to end a viewer could do much worse.

Ken Davis-Is it just me We ran across this entertainer on TV one night and bedame very interested in his work. My wife and I both enjoyed his show and wanted others to see it so we ordered the same show on DVD thru Amazon. This man is very sincere with his message along with the humor he uses in his act. It's very refreshing to watch a comic that doesn't have to use foul language to make his point. I have watched several other of his performances and plan on purchasing more to show to others.

A blood-pounding, high-octane, heart-racing thriller. The Titanic in half the time and 1/3 the sentimentality... I loved this movie! It got my heart racing and saying "GO GO GO GO GO NOOOO OMG!!!! O MY GOD! HURRY UP!!!" about every 5 minutes. It was INTENSE. I saw the Poseidon adventure when I was about 13 (my dad doesn't have an age limit on movie recommendations for kids) and found this one to be better. I actually thought the Poseidon Adventure from the 70s was terrifying and traumatic but this one was scary in a more wholesome way, the kind of scary that you might have to cover your eyes for if you don't like corpses floating in water or with their eyes open and the kind of foreboding scary to the nth degree. However, I think I agree with a previous reviewer that said there was less character development. That is true- but Josh Lucas makes a great, believable hero and a very likable guy- going from a dry playboy to a wet Achilles. Kurt Russell is fantastic as always! A nice replacement for Gene Hackman. This movie was a 'heart-quality-testing' thrill ride in every sense. I recommend to anybody that likes adventure books and movies.

Justice for Jessica Lall comes alive on the screen! In 1999, model Jessica Lall was shot in the head and killed at a party in New Delhi for refusing to serve a drink to Manu Sharma, a spoiled playboy and son of a powerful politician.  Despite numerous eye-witnesses, Manu eventually was found not guilty.  The reason?  The politician father and his cronies conspired to manipulate evidence and witnesses.  The verdict resulted in massive demonstrations ("Justice for Jessica!") and an eventual reconsideration of the case.  Manu finally was sentenced to life imprisonment for this crime.  In No One Killed Jessica, this story is embellished and fleshed out.  Some parts are certainly fictionalized.  It's a 2 hour event, with Bollywood melodrama, extended background songs, and final victory.  However, it is also a film with exceptional acting (particularly Vidya Balan and Rani Mukerji), a real edge-of-the-seat plot, and true drama.  Even though the story is incredibly sad, this was a very enjoyable film to watch.  Victory to the people!  Justice for Jessica!  In Hindi and English, with subtitles as necessary.  On the downside, I found the subtitles hard to read (size and contrast).

Turned out pretty good Have read the book Atlas Shrugged several times, always wondered if something of that magnitude could be translated onto celluloid.  The production quality was surprisingly good, follows the book pretty well.  Good enough, that I am really looking forward to Part II!

good movie Four stars because it did drag on a bit, but the acting was flawless and the suspense was palpable. Even my dog was at the edge of his seat. They actually managed to surprise us with the ending, something rare these days. I give it a double thumbs up, but be prepared to be scared out of your wits.

good movie I had just read the book and found out that there was a movie out on it, ordered it was not disappointed,it was an older movie, but pretty good. It is a true story.

HiDef but been there, done that The premise for the movie is interesting in that "ET" is more from Independence Day than from the hand of Spielberg. Now take every War cliche from the slaughter of innocent civilians by a truly malevolent enemy, the plundering of a country/people by the same charicature (Nazis, the Japanese, the Russians, etc...), a reluctant hero and a polyglot squad of newbies (anyone thinking Sands of Iwo Jima?). Add it all up and darn it all, it makes for a really good war movie. The special effects are very good and the blu-ray copy is almost as intense as Saving Private Ryan in the Sapphire release. Now that the price on the BD has slid a bit, I can only say that if you like a really well-done war movie that isn't intent on shovelling special effects at you, this is worth adding to your collection.

Good Action and Awesome 3D This film was my introduction to the "Resdient Evil" franchise.  I've always avoided zombies movies, but I was looking to add another 3D movie to my collection, so I took a chance.  Though the story was about as brainless as the poor souls infected with the T virus, the action and gore were good (if not over the top), and the 3D effects were among the best I've ever seen.  In fact, I had a better 3D experience with this film than I did with "Avatar" because "Avatar" didn't have enough pop-out effects for my taste.  "Afterlife" was filled with them and also offered plenty of depth.  I got the first 3 flicks in this franchise after seeing this one just to satisfy my curiosity, but I didn't have as much fun watching them simply because they were all 2D movies.  (I'm glad I found used copies of them for dirt-cheap prices.) If the 3D in this film weren't so good, I'd knock off a star.  I'd say buy this just for the 3D if that's your main interest in it.  Otherwise, you should know the story here isn't very deep, and the action features that "Matrix" style type of wire work with lots of green screen shots (some of which work, and some of which don't).

big fan of movies that depic cultural realities Amores perros is a movie that depicts a specific (3) story of typical lives of society in Mexico city. I really like these movies that will conserve through time the culture that is hard to describe in other arts. must watch for those who love to understand this culture.

Unexpectedly good I thought the political/campaign movie genre had been fully explored, but "Ides of March" was a great surprise.  Novel, well-written, and beautifully acted, with an ending I never saw coming.  Well done!  Two thumbs up.

Dr. Who No More David Tennant is nothing short of fabulous in the part of Hamlet.  His rendition of the "To Be or Not to Be" speech is flawless.  I have to confess that I have not watched Hamlet in its entirety because it is long and you really have to be in the mood for it, and what's annoying is that every time I go back to my Library to continue it, it starts all over from the beginning and I have to hunt for where I left off.  Also, some of the other actors are not as engaging as Tennant, particularly Ophelia, who is too whiney and in my opinion not attractive enough for the part.  I will always dislike Shakespeare in modern dress, but unfortunately it is now the way of the world.

Finally an End! I've been watching this on and off on HuluPlus. So I'll wait till it comes out as a completed box set. Feels like I've been waiting too long for this. There is definitely a disconnect somewhere.  Anyway, I purchased from Ebay, the complete 7 seasons set not knowing I could have paid $9 less through Amazon. I think the one I bought is from a prior production run. The one here looks like a new production run. I used to see the individual seasons go for $120 each 5 yr.'s ago with or without trinket. Who know's, maybe 30 yr.'s from now, one of those unopened trinket season box's could go for $100k like the unboxed bobbafett from 1976? that sold for $19k.  I think the music from the Inuyasha series is the best I have listened to even if my copy was a knock-off. An absolute top-notch production as well the anime. The licensed copies from other countries go for alot less on Ebay apparently. Knock-offs have about 97% of the fidelity clarity of the licensed DRM copies I think but play anywhere.

Inspired me to start a juice feast (not fast -- google it) I'm giving this four stars because it is extremely motivational, although I felt the story telling for the first half of the documentary was a little boring.  The second part is where it got more exciting.  In the first half, Joe, a wealthy Australian with an auto-immune disease and a large protruding stomach commits to a 60 juice fast, which he decided to do while road tripping across the US, a country he has visited frequently and loves.  He begins his journey with a visit to Joel Fuhrman, MD who is famous for helping people reverse and cure numerous diseases through a nutrient dense diet.  Dr. Fuhrman takes medical tests and gives Joe the go ahead to do the fast as long as he does blood work every 10 days.  For the first half of the movie, we see Joe as he road trips across the US with his little juicer plugged into a battery in the back of an SUV, sharing juices with people and asking if they would ever fast.  It was great to see his progress -- without even doing any exercise it seemed.  But, this part of the movie was a little boring - maybe it could have been shorter or the videographer could have shown more of Joe's struggle with staying on the Juice fast to make the story more interesting.  Or maybe if we had a better sense of how Joe grew as a result of the fast -- apart from just the physical journey.  During his journey, he meets Phil, a morbidly obese American trucker who has the same rare auto-immune disease he does.  Joe goes back to Australia much thinner and trimmer and looking much better, where he continues with exercise and a healthier diet inspired by no doubt by Dr. Fuhrman's nutrient dense approach to eating, and occasional juice fasts.  After a few months, he receives a call from Phil, who is seeking help.  Joe flies back to the US and sets Phil up so he can begin his own journey by helping him rent what looks like a vacation condo on a lake to help him get away from temptation.  This is where the storytelling became more compelling for me and more engaging.  We follow Phil, who during high school was a competitive swimmer.  Two divorces and an isolated life as a long haul trucker led him to take solace in food and his weight to go up to 425.  His transformation is inspiring to those around him (as was Joe's journey) and he begins teaching people to juice, while taking a new job at the YMCA.  He evolves out of his depression and has the self confidence to begin developing a closer relationship with his son.  It's not likely to win any Oscars or Golden Globe awards as best documentary.  But what is it doing is inspiring many  who see it to create our own visions of health and vitality .  There is a similar story on Youtube about "Dave the Raw Trucker" who kept his job as a trucker, but has gone raw and does juicing.  there are videos of his progress if you just google that.  As for me, I'm dusting off the juicer and committing to 30 days.  From there, we'll see how it goes.  But anyone who does it, I suggest looking up Juice Feasting, which is a concept where you make sure you have enough calories and nutrition.

Truckers Fans Will Love It, Outsiders Might Not As a Truckers fan there is no doubt you are going to love this.  Order it without question.  For me, I am an avid doc fan and really enjoy music docs, even when I never heard of the band.  Coming from the outside this does leave a little to be desired.  The insert that comes with the DVD has vocalist/guitarist Patterson Hood explaining this is not meant to be a "Behind the Music" tell all, which is important to note before you buy.  A majority of the doc explains Patterson's family roots in the music industry, shows Patterson with his family now, and has Patterson explaining what his songs are about.  The other members of the band aren't as open.  The Jason/Shonna divorce drama gets glossed over for instance.  You will get a good understanding of the band, but most people who are going to buy this know a large portion of it.

Judy & Johnny 4ever They make such an amazing hearfelt duo. I was so surprised that we didn't see them dating in real life. After watching this I can say it is one of my all time favorite movies! If you haven't seem it, it is a great movie to watch with your daughters.

Good action/fantasy movie. I have never read the books so I wasn't sure what this whole thing was about. I'll make it short.  The good. Incredible sets,locations etc... The plot advanced at a nice pace. The music was done well. It's a good watch but not nearly in the "Potter" category of excellence.  The bad. My only real gripe is the acting. And it wasn't just one actor, all of them gave great "made for tv" performances. But for a major movie like this, the acting was below standard. Is it enough to break the film? Hardly but it is a persistant annoyance throughout the movie.  Otherwise... Fun and not too serious. A great movie for the family. A tad too "Disney saccharine" for my tastes but still worth a rental. Recommended.

The Blind Side Very well done.  When my 25-year-old daughter suggested it, I thought I was going to have to sit through a chick flick.  I thoroughly enjoyed it.  Many great laugh-out-loud lines.  Engaging characters, good acting.  This movie would appeal to everyone in the family.

The Amazing Story of Superman Kevin Spacey(The Usual Suspects, American Beauty, Superman Returns, etc.) narrates this well made 2006 documentary about Superman called Look Up in the Sky: The Amazing Story of Superman. The last ten minutes are a plug for Superman Returns(2006). Produced by Kevin Burns and Bryan Singer, this documentary tells us about Superman's history from 1938 to 2006. They filmed interviews with people they could find. There's a brief interview with the late Jackie Cooper; he played editor Perry White in Superman The Movie(1978). We see Superman's roots in the DC Comic Books, the Superman movie serials starring Kirk Alyn and Noel Neill, the 1950's Superman TV show with George Reeves, the unaired Superpup TV pilot, the Filmation Superman cartoon, the campy Superman musical, the Christopher Reeve Superman movies, Superboy, Lois and Clark, the WB Superman cartoon, Smallville, and more. This DVD is a must see for any Superman fan. I learned a fact or two from this documentary.

I'll Swallow Your Soul. Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn is the sequel to the ultimate experience in grueling terror. Evil Dead II is the definitive cult flick sequel and perhaps one of my favorite horror films.  Bruce Campbell takes on the role of Ash once again in this hilariously horrific sequel to a legendary movie Evil Dead. Few sequels live up to the original and fewer still surpass it. This is one of those rare instances. This movie is the perfect mesh of On the edge of your seat horror, and side hurting laughter induced comedy.  Sam Raimi is a second to none with a camera and has gone on to create some of the best films and television shows around.  The script is inventive, highly original, and funny as all hell. It's a mix of horror, laughs, and gore; or 'splatstick' as Campbell calls it.  Once again, Campbell's facial expressions alone are worth the price of admission. If that doesn't get you the laughing deer head will. Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn is a true horror masterpiece. A completely original concept, some screwy camera angles, and one Bruce Campbell make for an entertaining combination. If you don't like it, "I'll swallow your soul, I'll swallow your soul."

Nazi Zombies...I love this stuf Just because it's subtitled won't stop you from watching!!!  From the opening scene with that wonderful tune that still haunts my mind....to the bloodsoaked snow that just brims with fun.  This is a great flick!!!  I love Zombies...and the premise may be a little on the crazy side in this movie, but dang it, it's fun!!!    Be on the look out for my next horror novel with the same title!!!

I don't like to give away plots... ...and so sometimes folks indicate my reviews were unhelpful. still I won't go into details. I will say these are pretty well done. However, they are not for younger children. The Exodus story has some intense history and much of it is here. make sure your child is age appropriate for some slightly intense images.

Great workout DVD Leslie Sansone has done a great job in this 3-mile Walk at home DVD. It has motivated me to get up and work out with her every day.  She's so encouraging that one wants to keep going until the end. I shall be purchasing more of her DVD's in the future.

Brilliant in a twisted kind of way Bobcat Goldthwait turned R-rated comedies inside out with "World's Greatest Dad". It was so dark and funny and wrong. You even got to see the kid from "Spy Kids" (Daryl Sabara) be a total pervert and take on autoerotic asphyxiation. It was like you almost felt guilty for liking something so twisted. That dark comedy made me a fan of Mr. Goldthwait's for life. I even marked out when he was on a recent episode of "Adventure Time". Three years later and Bobcat has another dark, twisted comedy up his sleeve. "God Bless America" begins with a baby being shot point blank with a shotgun in its opening moments and you just know Bobcat has returned to deliver another cinematic journey that's just as unsettling and hilarious as his previous effort.  Frank (Joel Murray) suffers from chronic migraines. He's utterly disgusted with what the world and even what humanity has evolved into. His daughter is a spoiled brat, his ex-wife refuses to take responsibility for anything, and he loses his job when a few acts of human decency on his part are mistaken as sexual harassment. When he goes to the doctor, he's diagnosed with a brain tumor and isn't given long to live. He contemplates suicide and even gets as far as putting the gun into his mouth, but instead decides to take his frustrations out on the stupidity and downright vicious behavior that currently plagues the world. His strange behavior and cruel intentions attract the 16-year old Roxy (Tara Lynne Barr), who not only supports Frank's cause but wants to help him achieve it.  "God Bless America" is a bit different than "World's Greatest Dad". "World's Greatest Dad" had this father/son relationship at its core and while it wasn't exactly the most normal relationship, it was more intimate in comparison to "God Bless America". "God Bless America" has a bigger message. It takes aim at our entire generation and is mostly spot-on about everything it has to say. It just so happens to be things people either don't want to hear or are too afraid to actually say. If anything, "God Bless America" has the biggest balls of any movie so far in 2012.  The 9/11 bumper sticker, American Superstarz phenomenon, rude people talking or using their cell phone doing a movie, and famous individuals swerving the population's opinion about something even though they know nothing about it are just a few things "God Bless America" puts in its crosshairs. The truth of the matter is that if you don't relate to absolutely everything Frank or Roxy have to say, then you'll find at least one message in the film worth applauding. Does that mean people are going to pick up an AK-47 tomorrow after seeing this movie and annihilate rude people they think will be for the greater good? Probably not, but deep down if you're reading this then that thought has probably crossed your mind at some point.  "God Bless America" is most reminiscent of "Super" and even though Frank and Roxy's friendship is never taken to the level that Frank (Rainn Wilson) and Libby's (Ellen Page) gets to, the two dark comedies are more similar than you may think; both contain twisted subject matter, both Franks take matters into their own hands after something drastic happens to them, and the older man/younger girl relationship are just a few examples.  "God Bless America" is a really sensational comedy that not everyone is going to enjoy. It jumps over boundaries that many expect should never even think of being crossed. While it may appear cynical and pessimistic, it's actually very intelligent and makes several fantastic observations about how the world currently works. One of the key points Frank makes in the movie is "Why have a civilization if we're no longer interested in being civilized?" In between its destructive mayhem, raunchy vulgarity, and sadistic violence, "God Bless America" makes you think, which is the only thing a memorable movie should be asked of being capable of.

Really Good The Planet of the Apes movies are fantastic if you love those kind of movies, I remember watching these as a kid and fell in love with them. When they started remaking or coming out with the new Planet of the Apes I liked those too, but to think that the way these movies were mad back in the late 60's early 70's and how they made them were great. Everything in the description about these DVD's is correct you will not be disappointed if you purchase them.

"John Housman's name Forgotten" To my chagrin, while viewing "The Naked Gun" on CD at home, it grubbed my attention that John Hauseman's name was omitted both from the opening and closing credits for this movie. In spite of the fact, that in the commentary to this movie, by its producers, writers, and director they bragged that they had to remember and credit any person; no matter how tiny was his contribution. Indeed they didn't "forget" the names of supernumeraries', stand-outs, even the names of a man and a woman from the firework deleted scene are remembered and credited. But, John Houseman's name was omitted; a person of stature in the film and theater industry, a producer, drama teacher, an Oscar winner actor for "The Paper Chase" as Prof. Kingsfield. JH had a memorable  cameo scene  as a driving instructor, yet his name was skipped and he was deprived of all credits for this movie ;it's not only saddening but a gross injustice too. The first time I saw " The Naked Gun" was in a movie theater in Israel. When JH appeared on screen, there was a joyful shouting all over the hall: "Professor Kingsfield!! ...Kingsfield ...did you see that?! ". J.H. is known all over the world and yet already forgotten by his own peers.... The movie is entertaining, witty and satirical with slapstick situations that confer light mood and belly-laughs.

Entertaining tale of lost Vikings via Disney style I first saw this movie when I was ten years old and for some reason I still remember going to see it to this day.  I guess it is because I was a ten year old interested in history and archeology even as a 10 year old.  I remembered it thru the years (only vague bits and pieces), and when it came out on DVD a few years ago, I rented it.  It is an interesting tale (though a bit far fetched), about how some lost Vikings found an island that is shrouded by clouds so for hundreds of years no one could find it.  It was a "folklore" tale.  The movie takes place in the early 1900's (I believe around 1920) and stars David Hartman (before his Good Morning America stint), the late Mako (a great actor), and some that faded into Disney history.  In the movie, these explorers eventually find the lost Vikings.  It is a place where "the whales come to die".  How great is that?!?!  This is a good movie for kids and young teens.  Not a bad plot, decent acting (no Oscar performances though), and all together a fun movie to watch when the weather is too cloudy or rainy to go and play outdoors.  Good fun overall!

excalibur Bought this for a friend, and got me one. Vaguely remember seeing it in the past, and look forward to seeing it again in the near future.

It's a solid Film, but haters gonna hate I watched this film as a kid with my brothers & sisters, it was awesome...If you like Elvis & cartoons you'll get it...if not...then don't watch it...But it is a solid FILM...Don't hate..PS: It is explained why he is turned a kitten? Did the critic who reviewed the movie actually watch it????? He is turned into a kitten(Spoiler ALERT) because the Main Villain The Duke wants to eat him cause he doesn't want the little boy to go get the hero and bring back the sun...Haters Gonna Hate.

Challenging, unique film-making that won't be for everyone John Akomfrah has spent his career creating films that are more 'tone poems' about a subject than literal narrative or documentary.  Combining newsreel footage with often surreal images he shoots, and sometimes an audio collage approach to sound, Akomfrah's films are by turns brilliant, frustrating, effective, sophomoric and just plain unique.  Some of the films 'work' better than others for me, but I suspect that is a subjective reaction, and one that could easily change on repeated viewings.  In short, these are more like films you'd see playing as an installation in an art museum than at your local cinema, which probably explains why so little of Akomfrah's impressive body of work is available on home video.  Kudos, then, to Icarus films for this three film collection.  Some thoughts on each of the films - at least my first viewings of them.  Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993) The most 'normal' film in the set, in that it has a clear focus - Malcolm X the man, his life and particularly his assassination. Still, Akomfrah uses a quiet, almost poetic approach to this short (52 min) documentary.  Obviously 52 minutes isn't nearly enough to truly explore the man and his long, complex journey.  But Akomfrah instead provides insightful interview clips from many who knew Malcolm at various times in his life (shot far more interestingly than most documentary `talking heads'), striking historic film clips, and many `staged ` moments.  But instead of trying to re-enact history (something that so often fails), Akomfrah creates surreal and almost painting like tableaux; a young Malcolm standing staring at a bird cage.  An older Malcolm, friends and family out of focus in the background, holding a sign that says "I made me".  These turn the film from a familiar documentary into something more artistic and personal.  Far from the definitive film on Malcolm X, but a worth addition to the exploration of his life, times and legacy.  The Last Angel of History (1996) For me, the weakest of the three films, though still arresting at times.  An interesting basic theme - that the black Diaspora echoes the experience of aliens in science fiction - strangers in a strange land indeed; abducted from the world they knew, and faced with technologies and societies that made no sense to them.  But even though the film is only 45 minutes, the idea starts to run thin after a while, and the surreal visuals start to lose their power through repetition.  I'm glad for Akomfrah stretching the medium, using film more as poetry than narrative,  But when it doesn't work right it can wear out it's welcome before long.  The Nine Muses (2010) The most purely poetic - and my favorite - of the three films here, a tone poems with no literal narrative.  "The Nine Muses takes as it's `subject' Africans and others emigrating to England after WW II, and the difficulties in assimilating, as shown in numerous and well chosen old film clips.  But the film combines those clips with gorgeous, lightly surreal images of two unidentifiable men in parkas against the background of Alaska while on the soundtrack great writers from Homer to Beckett are read aloud by great actors (from Naxos' recorded book series, most many years old).  The reading with the most clear thematic connection is "The Odyssey" and it's tale of a difficult journey.  But all the readings echo the immigrant experience, if sometimes in a very oblique way.  At the same time, the score is a mix of all sorts of music, often crashing into and playing on top of each other (more on assimilation? Loss of identity?)  I'll admit, by the end of the 93 minutes, I was starting to burn out a little on the lack of clear connection and context between these images, words, and the eclectic score. But like poetry, this is a film that transcends logic to create a mood more than a story or point.  And while I don't think it all works, I salute Akomfrah for being willing to challenge his audience with something experimental and different.

Amazing moments This movie has some very funny and enlightening moments in a movie that isn't exactly fantasy or reality. I always enjoy it and bought it specifically to show to the girlfriend. I can't say it will change your life but I'm glad I've seen it.

WestWorld Movie I saw this movie on the "big screen", and a couple times since. Sure, it's dated, but it's groovy. The premise of a menacing and hard to destroy android will be familiar to the Terminator generation.

Better than I expected Tired story, silly humor, but it's obviously not meant to entertain adults.  The animation is colorful, simple, and interesting, and the storyline moves quickly.  A great one for keeping the attention of small children.  Plus a warm, fuzzy, 'never-give-up' moral and great teaching opportunities.

It's Witch Season! As anyone who knows me is well aware, I'm a self-professed masochist; if there's an opportunity for me to experience something excruciating, I jump at it (keep that in mind, ladies). Obviously, when I saw that Season of the Witch had an abysmal 4% on Rotten Tomatoes, I simply couldn't resist. I quickly found out, however, that I was sort of in the minority on this one (who knew?!)--after petitioning all of my friends, only one was intrepid enough to brave the theaters with me. We planned the trip for early Friday morning, our mounting excitement making Thursday's sleep an ephemeral affair. I awoke that day to an act of God. In his infinite wisdom, he had bestowed upon me a migraine most malicious in an effort to prevent one of his flock from the even greater pain of watching Nicolas Cage play a disillusioned Knight in a fantasy movie.  But I am not a God-fearing man, and so, despite the advice of my friends, despite the admonitions of the critics, despite the wind and the cold and the rain, despite even the divine hand of God himself, I rose from the beanbag chair that was my bed and journeyed forth toward almost certain disappointment. After all, if The Last Airbender, a memory better left forgotten, had received a 7%, what hope did Season of the Witch have? I met Dphil, the intrepid friend, at the gates and handed my ticket to the clerk, who, with his snarling remarks, unkempt hair, and bared teeth, could have (save for the two missing heads) passed for the guardian Cerberus. My companion and I took our seats and surveyed the scene. I have to be honest with you here. It's a little disconcerting when the only other people in the theater are an old man by himself, a huge lady in a squeaky wheelchair being led by a group of friends, and someone who probably rides the short bus and kept babbling and mumbling incoherently. I mean no offense. It was simply an odd crowd.  Season of the Witch is set in England during the Crusadin' times. After a quick intro that proves witches to be all too real, we get a montage of battles in which the knights Behmen (Nicolas Cage) and Felson (Ron Perlman) kill many non-innocents, then finally, after ten years, kill some innocents. Ten years before the first undeserved death? Very impressive. Disillusioned, Behmen and Felson desert the army only to end up in a town ravaged by the plague, which is apparently caused by a hot young vixen who's got this sexy witch vibe goin' on. Setup complete, our two warrior heroes join forces with an elderly knight and the priest Debelzaq (Stephen Campbell Moore), ready to transport the sorceress. At this point, my buddy turns to me and says, "I can't believe they don't have a rogue in their party!" Seconds later, Nicolas Cage goes, "We need a guide!" and of course the only person who can guide them is the lock-picking ne'er-do-well swindler, Hagamar (Stephen Graham). Dungeons and Dragons team assembled, they set out for an ancient monastery, for only there can the monks cast out the witch and end the plague.  One of the better aspects of Season of the Witch is the way it keeps you guessing. It utilizes the tried-and-true "Is she a witch or isn't she" method to keep the audience interested, though I don't understand why the characters never thought to simply compare the girl's weight to that of a duck. Anyway, partway through, it simply tells you the answer. I've tried to craft this review in a similar style. Is Season of the Witch good, or is it not? I guess I've probably been leaning a little too obviously toward the "not" side, but the movie has a surprisingly good twist, and so do I. Season of the Witch was actually good! Maybe it was just because anything was better than the pain of a migraine, maybe it was because I was delirious from lack of sleep, or maybe it's because I just can't resist Nicolas Cage's entertainingly unemotional acting, but I enjoyed the hell out of this movie (like how those monks exorcised the hell out of that girl! Get it?).  Sure, it was a little bit predictable in parts, but that just made it more surprising when it caught me off guard. Yes, there was the obligatory bridge-crossing scene, with boards cracking and plummeting below the characters' feet as ropes twisted and frayed, but it was reasonably well done, and, more importantly, it wasn't there just for the sake of unnecessary suspense--the girl saves one of the characters from falling to his death, casting further doubt on her motivations. Yes, witch girl ostensibly summons a bunch of wolves to kill our heroes, but you find out later that there was more at play than you'd ever imagined. The fight scenes were pretty entertaining, I was constantly creeped out by how I was both creeped out by and attracted to the main girl, and unlike stupid The Last Airbender, the movie was surprisingly well paced. Plus, the final battle was pretty awesome. I mean seriously, what's cooler than fighting a horde of cloaked, plague-ridden, undead monks who have boils all over their faces and battle with fearsome hooks in a room that's on fire and filled with shelves of scrolls that go flying whenever someone's thrown into them? All this while a priest epically incants an unnerving Latin ritual in the background, hoping to slay the giant winged demon that seeks to end all human life.  I honestly don't see how this movie got so many negative reviews. The dialogue was a little campy, especially the lines delivered by Hagamar, like "This damn fog is like a veil before my eyes," or directly after, "I can't see my hand in front of my face." As clich&eacute; as some of it might have been, Season of the Witch had enough new ideas that, when coupled with a hot girl, some twists and scares, and a general sense of fun, it ended up being well worth the price of a matinee ticket.  Don't just take my word for it, though. I have proof that this was a "great" film. You see, I was so totally engaged that I didn't even notice that, by the end of the film, everyone else had walked out! If that's not hard evidence, I don't know what is. The credits rolled and I looked around, extremely pleased that I'd decided to see such a fine film, only to find that there was literally no one in the theater. Had they ever even been there? How could I not hear someone get creakily wheeled out of the room? How could I not notice the babbling babbler leave the theater? Where did the old man go?! I was sure a witch had cursed me. Like I said, it must have been a damn good movie! I'd been looking forward to being able to tear this film apart, but I walked out of the theater perplexed: How was I supposed to write an entertaining review now? Just then, Dphil turned to me, and, as if he could see into my soul, said, "Russ, you're just going to have to use nuance." And, as you, the reader, are my witness, this is a review so nuanced that it knows no equal. I braved the wrath of God and more to bring it to you and returned from my quest unharmed (which, for a masochist, is rather disappointing). Someday, I hope to craft a movie of my own with as much nuance and subtlety as Season of the Witch, but until then, I must simply award it:  3.5/5 Stars  Honestly, the worst thing about this movie was the way the sound kept cutting in and out. Perhaps it was another attempt by God to intervene, but I brazenly ignored him, sitting through what seemed like the worst dubbing ever because, darn it, I paid good money for this!  Check out more reviews at thenickelscreen on wordpress!

good food for the imagination I am a long time horror fan. I like this series from the "gotta see this one" straight forward title, through the twists and turns, and onto the hangers that make me want more by the end of each episode. This production has great casting with good acting and directing that does the story line justice. I'm glad I bought it. I'm looking forward to the new season. Amazon's instant viewing system makes enjoying their entertainment products a breeze.

Some thing for everyone I liked it... unfortunately, I constituted half the audience at the matinee showing I attended.  I can't complain about the CGI... we've all gotten so used to seeing grand vistas, battles stretching beyond the horizon and brutal violence in full-view... most films use some kind of CGI.  The Griggs-monster (in the chopper), was very cool, but the tentacles-and-toothsome-gaping-maw was getting pretty old toward the end.  I didn't care for the art direction for the inside of the flying saucer:  I know it's an alien culture and saucer is ergonomically designed to accommodate an alien creature, but the problem was the outside of the saucer doesn't resemble the inside.  The inside looked like that organically-inspired, curved walled interior of the Jupiter 2 in the "Lost in Space" remake.  All in all, though, I found the movie exciting.  The fight in the rec room served as the "bomb-in-the-closet" in Stephen King's "The Stand", eliminating a lot of characters in short order.  The art direction for the camp and costumes is excellent!  I like the way the director got around rehashing the primitive computer graphics of the 1982 version during the investigation of the cellular activity by going full CGI, showing the cells as viewed through a microscope.  It may not have been John Carpenter's "The Thing", but is certainly wasn't "Saw 18", either.

The more you watch it, the more you dont stop your giggle! I had watched this film once, a very long time. but Unfortunately I couldn't actually catch the title as well as I wasn't able to get it from amazon.com, but Now I could WOW! because of hilarious scenes & clever moral that brings up excitement till the end of this film which made me insistingly impulse buying it, and to search for in amazon and place my order immediately. Both actors have played their role perfectly & cunningly! but there was third unexpected person who played this rotten dirty game which made steve & michael declare their loss ...if you want to know who is he or she! you can buy this interesting movie, good choice! doooooooon't miss it......

Tony and Dan kick ass I was able to get and understand the story, however I have heard from others that it makes no sense what so ever. Over all I wasn't looking for a storyline anyway. Just another kick ass movie with great fight scenes. I am a fan of martial arts and martial art movies. If you are the same, I see no reason on why you would dislike this movie.

Ok hows this: "Somthing is seriously the matter with me!" Hahahahahah really i mean come on i really dont think she knows that she said that twice during the movie. So here's my 2 sence, i really enjoyed the film had a interesting story line, good actors, plot & blood was nice. At least they brought back one of the frog bros Edgar "Eddie" Frog. Angus sutherland did a great job playin the head vamp of the crew ~ liked the part when he said "Thank you" so proudly. The action was great plus the surfing!!!! me & my family surf & we love vampires. Any way good movie to enjoy fun to watch and laugh.

Excellent movie;Odd DVD I purchased the single disc  Anniversary Blu-Ray dvd. The cover clearly advertises sub-titles; yet none were available on the disc I received. After the disc loaded, there was the FBI  warning and then the screen with the special features. The normal opening screen with the set-up options was not there and could not be accessed. It was as if this were the 2nd disc in a 2-disc release or the flip side of a disc that had been recorded on both sides with alternate versions of the film- ie one wide screen the second full screen with special features, which is what I received. That noted, the transfer was excellent; the movie looked beautiful. And the features I watched: a documentary on the life and career of Cary Grant and a documentary on Hitchcock and the making of this movie, hosted by Eva Marie Saint, were both interesting.

Quirky and cute A fun and light hearted look at all the odd and wonderful differences that make up a loving family. Very sweet.

The Jackal - An oldie but goodie I ordered this Blu-Ray/DVD combo as aresult of an Amazon promo. It was well worth the money.  It was refreshing to see Bruce Willis & Sidney Potier (surprise) in this movie.  Mr Poitier played a very convincing and distinguished CIA operative desperate to find the assassin-for-hire (Jackal) played by Bruce.  The acting by these two gentlemen is refreshing. Just pay a little attention to the dialogue and you should have no problem feeling the pace and excitement of this quality movie.  Look for a surprising appearance by an recent actor, who younger viewers (& those with kids) should have no trouble recognizing. Hint (China's State animal, also herbivore)!!  The movie itself is set in the WW2-era and some of the dialogue may throw you for a while, esp. if you are not familiar with Cold War attitudes and mentalities. I'm very curious to see what liks and info (via BD_live) are avialable on the Blu-Ray version.  Perhaps someone out there could give me a preview.  Buy this movie.  its one of those you can watch over and over again !!

"Good Horror Prequel!" Jordana Brewster, R. Lee Ermey and Andrew Bryniarski star in this 2006 horror prequel to the 2003 remake. A group of teens become terrorized by a psychotic cannibalistic family. Ermey is terrific as usual and Bryniarski is creepy as Leatherface. This dvd has not only has nice picture and sound, but it's unrated with some neat extras. I recommend this good prequel.

The Krotons rise again Not exactly the most fondly remembered Dr Who story - by the production team, the actors or indeed the audience - one of the later Patrick Troughton stories gets it's long awaited DVD release, completing the catalogue of his complete adventures available in the archives. Only incomplete stories now remain to come. Whether or not you like the actual story is completely personal, but it's probably fair to say it's not as bad as reputation would have it. As always, the picture quality and remastering for the DVD has been improved to the point where it is probably better than the original broadcast was likely to have been, a questionable technique in itself. It's the 'extras' that usually make the Dr Who DVDs so compelling, even for the weaker adventures and this release is not an exception. There's a 50 minute retrospective of the entire Troughton era of the show, which for me is the best documentary I've seen on his tenure. It really is fascinating and reveals many things I'd never heard before, including the poor relationship between Troughton and producer Peter Bryant. For this inclusion alone, I'd highly recommend the disc. There's other stuff that's not quite so interesting, including yet another chance for Frazer Hines to trot out the same old anecdotes he's been peddling now for nearly 50 years. It's not his fault and he's an entertaining enough chap, but there comes a point where there is simply nothing left to be said that hasn't been said 100 times already. In the main documentary, Scarlet haired Deborah Watling does a stunning visual impression of Padmasambhva in her interview and again, trots out all the old anecdotes in her ridiculously theatrical manner, but likewise, if you've not seen these two go through their 'spontaneous' routine before, then you'll certainly enjoy seeing them here. For the die-hard fans, doubtless they'll be thrilled at another chance to hear it all again anyway. It's a good DVD, with excellent material and is highly recommended, despite the weak story itself. Up to you whether you want to buy it now or wait for the later "Special Edition" when Padmasambhva Watling will doubtless regale us all again with her stories of how Troughton was "almost a second father". Zzzzzzzz....

Great funny movie! It's very strange movie I know, but I really liked it though. Olivia Wilde is hilarious in this. It's about butter which sounds boring and kind of is, but I enjoy the characters. They are funny and sweet and I recommend this movie. It is crude and lot's of cuss words, but that's how people really talk. So overall I enjoyed.

I Liked It I'm honestly not too surprised that some found this movie a little slow.  It doesn't follow what seems to be the standard cliche for "African American" comedy dramas, IMO.  That is, absurd drama, stereotypes, a measure of preaching and even more over-the-top drama followed up with an illogical ending all the while with sprinkles of black culture throughout and slapstick.  While there was admittedly some level of 'preach' here, it wasn't so different than any other movie and I felt it was well done in the various subtle ways due ot the characters' interaction.  I will try not to give too many spoilers away but warn that I might, so you may want to skip to the end of the review if you don't want to know too much.  The synopsis was already well described, the main characters are Ray, Donna and Dr. Zachary (Sidney), played by Brian White (JoJo White's son!), Zoe Saldana and Wood Harris.  The story is about a young doctor trying to find his way - and the pieces of his heart - after following it to an under-funded hospital in Florida.  In the aftermath, he learns quite a bit about heart, people, love and maybe most importantly, taking himself so seriously.  Who you originally think could be the main character of the movie ends up not really being the one - though it's hard to argue against the person being the most important in the movie. In the end I too have to admit, it takes a dramatic turn that actually makes sense but still (spoiler.... warning....) leaves you reflecting on the characters.  I actually really liked this movie but then again I'm a fan of Wood Harris.  He comes across as extremely down to Earth in this role like he did in "Remember The Titan's" and does a fantastic job with the material.  Though comedy was probably branching out for him, he held his own.  Zoe was charming as well and Brian White played her part very nicely too.  But in the end it was Wood Harris' delivery as Dr. Zachary that really delivered and perhaps the most special moment of the movie came at the most dramatic - to me at least.  The characters come across as very real, not necessarily the pedestal's in Hollywood film.  To buy the movie may be a stretch and I'd say if you're looking for an enthralling, dramatic stereotyped movie you'll be disappointed.  It does however make me look forward to Wood's portrayal of Sweetwater in a year or two.  Oh - and it was good to see Scott Paulin (ER) here, Method Mad had a cameo and Mya was on briefly as well.

Funny Good movie Johnny Dep is always fun to watch would recommend to anyone who likes Johnny dep the car police scene is my favorite.

Interesting Movie. Quite Worthwhile Viewing. The bargain-rack movie for last night was the "Knockaround Guys" DVD. It was an interesting movie involving the offspring of a big-time mob member. Barry Pepper played the son and Dennis Hopper played the father. The son didn't seem to be up to what it took to be a mob member but was given a task in which he might prove himself. He was to manage the transport of a satchel of money (about a half million bucks) from the source to the boss and his friend had a private plane in which could do it. Well, the plane had to land for a fuel stop in a small Montana town and the task became infinitely more complicated by the satchel getting stolen by a couple young punks. Hence, a call for help to find and rescue the satchel and the later arrival of three mob-related friends to help out. At this point we got into the dynamics of eastern mob tough guys (one was Vin Diesel) pitted against the local wild-west tough guys, including a couple crooked cops. It was an interesting match-up involving a lot of violence and ultimately death for most of the participants.  The movie was well done. The acting was good. The photography and scenery of the set was good. The action was well paced and boredom had no chance to set in. The assorted violence was, well, violent. I wouldn't put "Knockaround Guys" among the top-rated movies to watch, but it was quite worthwhile.  Gary Peterson

a scary road, a scary Chicago This Mafia film gives good insight into this tenuous type of living of the 1930's, and Chicago was well-depicted. Paul Newman and Tom Hanks were outstanding, nearly at their best in their careers. Though Newman is depicted as a smart-aleck clown in many of his other movies, here is a mean Mafia head. He is totally serious, awe-inspiring, and a heartless betrayer. And while Hanks was a good-hearted, somewhat retarded dupe in "Forest Gump", in "Road to Perdition", here he is a clever, mean-spirited, evil, and heartless person to be feared; he is definitely a versatile actor. No one would lose tears over any of the Mafia thugs being killed. And, a "you-are-there"  atmosphere was created in this movie. Again, any viewer would receive a very clear idea of the physical attributes of Chicago and the Indiana suburbs. To recapitulate, this Mafia movie was well done, good acting and action were found, there were good gnostalgia effects, and an excellent insight into the gangster type of lifestyle was present.

Started off rocky then got good I decided to start watching other films that Kristen Stewart starred in. I'd already done the same thing with Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattinson so I wanted to give her a shot. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0034G4P6W">The Runaways</a> was too boring for me to finish and when I started this film I was thinking the same thing: "Does she ever play a character that doesn't look like her during interviews? Is she even acting or is she always this nervous and squirrel-ish? This seems like the exact same person, just with new actors surrounding her." While the verdict is still out on whether she can play roles unlike herself (this character may as well have been Bella), I really liked her in this film. She was a little more complex--in a weird relationship with the guy who played Mark Zuckerberg from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004HWT6DO">The Social Network</a>--Jesse Eisenberg, another actor who always seems like he wants to run screaming from the camera; and she was boning a married man who lied about his background with a famous band.  But it wasn't just their situation. I get into teenage/college age films. I'm always interested in the things that are considered "huge" at that age, and this amusement park was full of drama. The amusement park owners crack me up. The male owner with the bat was priceless. Talk about multiple personalities! I did not see that one coming.  Anyway, this film is worth buying. The only con was painfully watching the "hot" girls dance. All they did was twirl around and show flat bottoms (again, like watching "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003BI76ZA">Live Nude Comedy</a>," somebody needed to invest in butt pads). They had the cute part down but the dances left much to be desired. Then again, I got the impression this movie was supposed to be in the '80s when we all painfully danced badly so who can blame them?

James and the Giant Peach My twin daughter read the book in school and she enjoyed the book so much that she asked me to buy the dvd and the movie was about as good as the book according to her I enjoyed the movie too!!

An entertaining box office flop I have always been a Jack Benny fan. His radio and TV shows were great fun. He made only a handful of films and "The Horn Blows at Midnight" was certainly less successful in the cinema than "Charley's Aunt", "George Washington Slept Here" or "To Be or Not to Be". In fact poking fun at the failure of "The Horn" became a regular feature of Jack's monologues and humour. I saw the film as a teenager on TV a long time ago, and have searched for it repeatedly over the past years. It's not yet on DVD, but here at least is a good copy on VHS. I don't know why it failed in the cinema. The plot is light and moves at a good pace. There are some very funny scenes and Jack has some excellent supporting cast. Jack's naivety as an angel come to blow the Last Trumpet is delightful, as is the hotel detective's confusion as he tries to discover why the hotel lift (elevator) keeps disappearing. A must for all Jack Benny fans.

Beware the Body Snatchers! One of my all time favorite 'scary' movies. Product arrived on time in perfect condition. Still a great family favorite. Better than the remake with Donald Sutherland because at the end of this one at least there was hope!

Great Movie The quality of picture and the sound are terrific - my only disappointment was the 4:3 format - watch Blu-Ray movies on a plasma TV and prefer 16:9 format - if I had noticed this feature I would not have purchased the item.  Still a fantastic movie.

A different take for the Walking Dead Walking Dead has been hugely popular in the comic scene for awhile now, yet the introduction of this AMC show skyrocketed the whole franchise into fame and notability among not just the 'nerdy' markets yet the TV market itself. This surge of popularity has given the franchise an amazing amount of room to branch out to video games, novels, collectibles, etc. So the second season of the TV show was bound to have a lavish collectors edition, and while it isn't a letdown, there are some annoying drawbacks.  For start, the "head-case" is pretty cool. It does come from a pretty iconic scene exclusive to the second season of the Walking Dead. The blu-ray discs fit perfectly inside, and the opening/closing mechanism seems pretty solid, yet I keep them with the other blu-ray discs because I see no reason to hide them inside the head. The detail of head seems similar to a high quality Halloween mask up-close, yet looks fantastic from a distance away, and I also love the big title-words underneath the head. Overall, it looks really awesome on a shelf, I have mine on my shelf dedicated to Walking Dead where it holds all my books, issues, and blu-rays of the franchise.  The season itself is pretty awesome, I've found that most readers of the book wish it stuck closer to the book and went through these events much faster. (For comparison, the first two season of this show only cover the first twelve issues of the book, and each issue is very short.) Yet I find the second season to be a more dramatic, realistic, and character driven version of the book. There's more time for each character, and more pacing for each event. There's still certainly some issues with the show, most notably two of the characters are jaw-droppingly more stupid in the show, and some other characters are seemingly not in the show.  The video and audio quality is terrific. Due to the nature of the show, there's a very gritty look with plenty of film grain, yet it all looks great. There's a general lack of a soundtrack, so there's plenty of time to notice all the immersive background sounds, most notably a very subtle effect of a horde of zombies moaning into a collective disturbing feeling that is used numerous times. While the more intense sounds of gunshots and yelling all stay crisp and clear.  This release is spread along four blu-rays, so it's obvious there's a very decent amount of extras here. Yet, the first season had at least one audio commentary on each episode, while this one only has audio commentary on five of the thirteen episodes (and the 20 minute collection of the webisodes). The rest of the special features are pretty awesome, a huge amount of behind the scene and interview featurettes which each clock in around seven minutes. The best part is probably the 30 minutes of deleted scenes.  Now while this release is pretty awesome, there is a looming threat of there being another release of the second season in order to get another $40-$50 out of the diehard fans. This was done with the first season, and it could very well be done with this one with the rest of the audio commentaries. Yet even if that does happen, one could still be happy with this release just for the zombie head-case.

Me + Westerns = Usually not good...except for this! When my Father and neighbor asked me if I wanted to see the movie True Grit, I wasn't too thrilled to see it, due to the fact that I never really liked western-style films.  I agreed to see it, just to give it a try and see if I would like it.  Contrary to my original belief, the movie, to me, was very good!  Yes, some parts did lag, but how many movies don't lag anymore?  Not many!  I have yet to watch the original to compare this movie to it [the original], or compare this and the original versions to the book version, which this movie is said to follow, unlike the original. All in all, even for some people that don't like westerns, they may like True Grit because it does have the "true grit" of a western-style movie.

Solid Movie Captain America is a very enjoyable ride with a good amount of laughs and action. The cinematography was done very well giving it that WWII feel. The action was very entertaining but the only bad thing about it was it was rushed into. There isn't any build up to it at all and when they reveal the shield, it didn't have that spark to the crowd like it should. Overall though I give the movie a B and recommend it to anyone who likes Super Hero Films. Definitely stay past the credits...you won't regret it at all!

Good not great Read the book and watched the movie on the same day.  The book was very dramatic and you could feel the emotion just seeping from John and Savannah.  I just couldn't put it down, and while I am sometimes mad at Sparks for not always giving me a happy ending, I understand in life we don't always get happy endings.  IF I was reviewing the book, I would tell the author to mix it up a little because I feel like I already know what he will write in most of his next novel.  Someone always dies, there's always heartbreak, and almost never a happy ending.  When it comes to the movie (and most of the movies based on Sparks' books)  there are too many changes.  While I am happy the ending is changed in the [Dear John] movie (I couldn't take that much heartbreak in one day), I can never focus on the movie without focusing on the changes and how little sense they make to me.  I don't understand why after a successful novel Sparks allows so many storyline changes. I understand they don't want the story to be boring for the people that read the book, but we want it to be at least remotely similar.  For the longest time I thought Savannah married Randy but I guess so did John... In the movie version, John's sacrifice made no sense since Tim died anyway, and the movie made no reference to the scene [in the book] where Tim asks John to treat Savannah well if he dies since he knew they would be together anyway if that happens.  If this was mentioned the ending would have more meaning because Tim basically gave John permission to be with his wife and John tried to save him anyway, even after he stole his girl.  It would also help to mention that both Tim and Savannah considered the latter naive, and that could be the reason she left John to help Tim.  Did I believe she could leave John to help Tim? Was the relationship between Tim and Savannah fully explained?  Did I believe she could ever fall in love with him? Nah. Worst choice of actor ever!  As to the acting, I like Tatum, Seyfried is gorgeous but together they had no sparks or the movie was just too segmented, and couldn't convey the characters emotion with that little time for each scene.  The real love, passion and heartbreak couldn't be felt and that was what ultimately led me to take one star away.  Still a good portrayal of the book, but not an A+

Rush Beyond The Lighted Stage Blu-ray After watching this show on VH1 I thought it would be good for my collection. My order came faster than expected. It came in perfect condition.

Watch the end credits. I have one thing to say, since all of the other critics have fairly well hashed out what this movie was good for or not... watch the credits. There is a great little music video in there, with possibly my favorite shot: Sean Bean looking askance at two dancing palace guards. Seeing Julia Roberts expressions during the party scene is absolutely priceless, too.

Rocky 4 I enjoyed this film. Its East Versus West America against The Soviet Union as Rocky takes on the Giant Ivan Drago in Dolph Lundrens best role. In this film Rocky travels to The Soviet Union to fight Drago to avenge the death of his friend Apollo Creed who is beaten to death in the ring by Drago. Dolph Lundgren makes an outstanding villain in this film while Bridget Nelson is good in her role as his partner. The training sequences are great to watch. The songs Burning Heart and Hearts on Fire are very good too. Another enjoyable Rocky film.

Great sound and picture This DVD produces great sound and impressive picture.  It's a great movie too at an excellent buy.  How can you go wrong?

love it!! =)) Im from sydney, im glad i ordered,its  quick and easy, im satisfied with the product because it was nice,neatly packed and  it took less than 2 weeks before i received the product i guess..quicker than i expected to be honest, as a matter of fact i ordered 2 more ju on films here (The Grudge Unrated Director's Cut) and (Ju on White Ghost/Black Ghost),same as the grudge 2, good packaging and i got the movies less than 2 weeks aswell, for that im happy, thanx!

Thelma and Louise Love the movie love the way it looks on blu-ray. If you love this movie get it on blu-ray! It will never look this better than this.

I Drank With a Zombie (3.5 stars) Fun but dumb, "House II: The Second Story" is an altogether different tale than that of the original "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000069HP4">House</a>," starring William Katt. In the second installment, a yuppie couple (Arye Gross and Lar Park Lincoln) inherit a mansion, only to discover an alternate universe inside. Hijinks ensue when the lucky owner reunites with his undead great-great-grandfather and, along with his goofy buddy, battles baby pterodactyls, angry outlaws and Bill Maher.  Although a character in "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005NRO3">Scream 2</a>" cites the film as a superior sequel, "House II" does little to one-up its predecessor. Taking on a much lighter tone and with little to no violence, this sequel is more like a campy spoof of the first film, which in and of itself was a silly affair. No worries, though, as once you know what to expect, you can have a good time with the film. The performances across the board are light-hearted and fun, with plenty of lovable goofballs to go around (a sequel concerning these characters would be a good time). The score by Harry Manfredini is most memorable, as you'll be humming the film's main theme not long after the credits have rolled.  Writer/director Ethan Wiley may not have created much of a horror film, but his blend of the supernatural and absurd with a hint of Western makes for a winning recipe that just can't be matched. Those expecting bloodshed and jump-scares will be left in the cold, but perhaps with a few drinks in hand and with the right expectations, you'll find "House II: The Second Story" a film deserving of the title "cult classic."

Very good movie This is a good action movie. Joe (Nicolas Cage) is an assassin. There are four people he needs to kill in Bangkok. While he is there he falls in love with a beautiful death woman named Fon (Charlie Young). I liked Fon's acting. I also like that Fon and Joe didn't have sex. In a lot of movies there always has to be sex. Fon and Joe had a good relationship. Till one night they were walking in the park. Two man attacked Joe and he shot them. Fon was scared of him after that. I don't want to go further with this movie. I'll just say that I think you should give this movie a change.

Pretty Good Movie with a sense of humor Not great but a nice little movie with an interesting story line. Great scenery ala Megan Fox and I really like Amanda too. Pretty nice special effects too. Not a classic but you will have a good time. OK, guys might have a better time but it is worthy of putting on the popcorn and have some fun.

Fun to watch A nice rendition of the classic story, with the added bonus of Angelina candy!  It's hard to believe it's an animated movie at times, as it's done so well and it draws you in.  If you like this movie try Beowulf and Grendel, a live action movie that's very well done!

Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory 3 disc Blu-ray It's fun and great have this edition. I see a good transfer for this movie and moderate for the audio. For movie 1979 i see no prbolem at all for the transfer and with a big ratio you can see all movie with full your LCD. But i know the special feature not very well enought. But i know perhaps in 1971 not much record all the makign this movie. But i very liked of all bonus include the ticket Wonka Wonka .

This classic movie is still great for kids! I LOVED this movie growing up, and as my son is currently obsessed with animals - I thought I'd test it out on him. He loves it too! He's only 2 but he laughs at the funny parts and loves pointing and getting excited when the bear comes on. I love rewatching it and bringing back old memories. Fun to have in our house again!

Conran The  Magnificent Sky Captain? I did not know this movie even existed until a friend lent me his DVD. A toast to Kerry Conran and his VFX crew for creating a very enjoyable suspense and action packed thriller. I wanted to have my own DVD of this lengthy and hard to remember title but could hardly recall the name. (Thanks, amazon.com.)  I suppose some B-List trio of actors with a smidgin of acting ability could have substituted for the lineup of Academy award winner/nominee with billboard names. Jude Law as (Sky) Captain Joe Sullivan brings home the bacon, or the Vienna sausage. Angelina Jolie as the attractive commander of a fleet of aerial aircraft carriers shines as Captain Joe's female clone in a script that deserved more of her screen presence. As for Gwyneth Paltrow she struck me as one obnoxious "intrepid" reporter. Academy award recipient Ms. Paltrow's acting gets progressively worse throughout the movie.  Okay, she carries her irritating role to the point that I really found her annoying.  My four stars go to Conran, Jude Law and Angelina Jolie, Sky Captain's nearly indestructible P-40 fighter plane and airborne aircraft carriers and their flying machines.

Boy and his racoon... and his dog and other animals A warm story of a young boy who's father is a single parent, but is gone on travel as a salesman most of the time. The boy is well behaved though, and his love for animals is what gets him in trouble at times. He collects them in a way, but when he brings home a baby raccoon, things really get wild. Naturally when the raccoon grows up, it changes, and that is hard on the boy. I love old Disney films, and this is very nostalgic. But let me warn you, it is a litle slow paced. It is a neat time period, with the cars, clothes and homes. But I agree that people expect to see more fun and action with the raccoon, my son was bored too. I wish Disney had released this in widescreen or taken the time to add any extras such as theatrical trailers, or footage from their many shows that included animals. Disney made the best animal movies of all time, and they made the most. If you want great animal stories for your kids try other Disney fare such as "Nikki the Wild Dog of the North", "Lobo", "Sammy the Way Out Seal", "Charlie the Lonesome Cougar", "The Ugly Dachsund", "That Darn Cat", and many more. Some of these are released as videos under the name Anchor Bay instead of Disney, but they are originally Disney in the theatre.

Buy It. A fun movie.  First watch the Steve McQueen version.  There is just something about McQueen that says "cool".  And the chemistry between him and Faye Dunnaway is palpable.  Now watch this movie.  It is more clever, more polished, more fun, but . . . Pierce Brosnan's character does not shout "cool" and I did not get the chemistry between Brosnan and Russo.  Plus the happy Hollywood ending wasn't needed.  None the less, this is a movie worth watching with your sweetie some evening.

Land's End Okay here is the genesis of this review. Recently, being on a something of a film noir tear, especially a crime noir tear, I reviewed a little light puff of a noir film, Moontide, where well-known 1940s French film star Jean Gabon tried to break into the Hollywood film racket with a role as a tough hombre, seen-it-all dockworker who is really, just ready, to settle down after all the wine, women and song escapades have worn thin. And settle down in 1940s movie parlance (and maybe life too) was with a good woman and a white picket fenced house (or in this film a barge, it's near the sea, see). The good woman, a kind of eternal working-class version of everywoman also happened to be down on her luck, and in that film was played by Ida Lupino.  Well, seeing Ms. Lupino in that role got me to think about a similar role that she played trying to be a good "wifie," (and "mother" to the dog Pard) to Humphrey Bogart in High Sierra. In that film the grizzled Bogart played a serious desperado, a three-time loser desperado, Roy Earle, looking to "retire" to that picket-fenced house except the cops would not let him. Let him, especially after a certain messed-up resort hold-up caper went awry. And when Mr. Earle bought it, as it had to be since crime does not pay, grizzled wised-up gangster or not, Ms. Lupino was left to keep his memory fresh and keep moving on.  Of course all of that high Bogartism  got me to thinking about other grizzled gangster roles (and grizzled detectives too) that the bad boy actor Humphrey Bogart played, and that led naturally to the film under review, Petrified Forest, where as Duke Mantee Bogart put in his bid for king of the gangster hill. In fact this film (he had also played the role on Broadway, I believe) first established him for that challenge. The story line here has him on the run from, what else, a busted bank robbery, and every cop in the Pretty Boy Floyd, John Dellinger, Bonnie and Clyde American untamed West was looking for him and his confederates. He winds up in a flea-bitten caf&eacute; located, where else, next to the Petrified Forest, a great symbol of humankind's age old struggle to deal with nature, and to break with the primitive past.  And that isolated, flea-bitten caf&eacute; setting is important because there is a young serving- them-off-the-arm waitress, Gabby, played by a very young Bette Davis, as the owner's  daughter, trapped there, full of dreams, literary dreams, and a very, very strong to desire to put those silly tree rocks behind her. And, as the film opens, a very well-turned out gentleman/intellectual/ hobo/alcoholic, Alan, played by Leslie Howard, on his uppers trying to get off that dusty road. And that little tension, a tension that was palpable to audiences in the 1930s, between Bogart's gangster take-everything-you-can-grab-and-grab-it-quick and Howard's ordered intellectual world gone awry with the times, the 1930s despair times what they were, is what drives the theme of this one. Alan, knowing his time has passed, in any case, makes a pact with the devil to insure Gaby's future hold on her dreams.  And while Bogart, perhaps, played more memorable roles later he certainly was believable as the primitive man gangster trying to claim his rightful place in the modern world. Naturally, in movie life he must pay, pay big-time, with his life because we all know, or should know, that crime does not pay.

Beautifully Acted, Filmed - Slow Pace I remember when this movie came out. I did not see it back in the 70's but have seen snippets of it since then. My husband and I were talking about time travel and how we like books and movies of this theme. So we got "Somewhere in Time." It is beautifully written and photographed. Jane Seymour is luminescent, Christopher Reeves is young, handsome and virile again, and Christopher Plummer is, as always, magnificent with that commanding voice. The movie is dated, of course. One sees typewriters and clunky tape recorders. But that can be overlooked. The pacing of the events is slower than I would have liked and some characters who are minor could have had greater development to enhance the storyline. I especially liked the reason the time traveler returns to the present. I thought that the concept was well developed and carried through the film. A four star because of pacing. However, I'm glad I saw it.  It is a classic and very romantic.  Kristine Mika

Not that bad and The ending song I actually didn't think it was too bad. I kind of followed it. I have definately seen worse movies. Yes, the picture and camera angels seemed kind of amateurish at times I found the story quite intriguing. The ending song is really catchy ( I like it and have been trying to find it else where.) Though, just because I don't want anybody to put their money into something that they don't think they would like, or juts want to save a couple of bucks. It is only the Netflix Instant thing). It is understandable why many think this is a bad movie. I really do like it though.

Forget the 2004 film and watch this instead. I've never had the chance to see POTO live on stage, and until now my only exposure to the show was random Youtube clips, and also the 2004 Hollywood version (which was...disappointing, to say the least). If you can't make it to the live show, get this version. Ramin Karimloo's performance alone is worth the price-- he blows me away! The rest of the cast is good as well, particularly Sierra Boggess, whom I think is even better than Sarah Brightman.  The staging isn't perfect, but at least it IS staged. I'm not too sure how I feel about the screens in the background-- I don't think that was an ideal choice --but most of the time I didn't notice them because I was too wrapped up in the music.  Also, I'm a big Les Mis fan, so seeing Colm Wilkinson, John Owen-Jones, and Anthony Warlow during the encore was a really great moment.

Bringing Balance I am a longtime fan of Star Wars so I couldn't get the original trilogy unless there was a theatrical version included, which is one of the main reasons why the blue-rays aren't as popular as LFL expected. Return of the Jedi isn't my favorite movie but it's still better than Episodes I & II IMHO. By getting the old and semi-new version of this movie together it can appease more people and is a worthwhile purchase. May the Force be with you.

Norman is back!! Anthony Perkins takes to his role as a swan to water. He is Norman Bates, and with that he easily handles his role like butter to an available kitchen knife. Thank goodness, for sequel purposes, there was no other actor to fill his shoes as a Norman wannabe. On the other plus side was the return of actress veteran, Miss Vera Miles, who was a key role in original Hitchcock film as the prime victims's relative. Here, she wants him re institutionalized after being released from his imprisonment, and will stop at nothing to make sure he gets there with all the dirty schemes she can conjour up, with the help of another relative accomplice who works from the inside.  Things, of course, do not work out as planned even for the righteous with a vengeance. This movie actually allows the viewer to almost sympathize with Norman's plight, not as a deranged killer, but instead, a very confused highly influential hombre who believes his mother is contacting him, and is not dead. The film progresses from a functional earnestly seeking a new life back at his old motel Norman, taking charge and trying to start things a new, then gradually falling apart at the seams reluctantly a defeatist at his own grasp to not being able to accept things can stay right forever, and that things are beginning to happen "just like before." Again, it appears that Norman is not, or has never been entirely to blame for his own state of mind fallout, as things just seem to compound to his mental breakdown, demanding the original psychosis of pretending his mother is alive and barking and him, to the bitter end. Fine film that treats Norman with justice instead of ridicule, and Mr. Perkins is just a treat to see again in infamous role. By the way, that house has still retained it's utter creepiness, and hasn't lost an inch.

The muddy moments are forgivably sparse... Truth be told, there were moments in this film where I died of uncontrollable laughter.  I mean, Seth Rogen is hilarious, and James Franco is really transforming into an actor I get excited about watching.  What happened there?  There was a time when I would intentionally avoid movies starring that guy.  I must say, he's surprised me.  This film is a little unevenly crafted, but the end result is not anything to be ashamed of.  It basically follows some stoner idiots as they run from a corrupt police officer and a drug dealer who they happened to witness kill some guy.  The film bounces along nicely, remaining forgivably unbelievable.  The ending, for me, was a mess and that whole action sequence overload killed a little of the films `fun factor', but the ending diner sequence was a laugh riot so I forgave it.  James Franco owns this movie, playing a mindless stoner to perfection with the right amount of overplayed tenderness to make his character a pure standout.  Not much else to say here.  I'd watch it again.

Underrated This is by far Judd Apatow's most underrated movie. I think that most people went into it expecting the typical Apatow fare, but were disappointed when they realized it was one of the filmmaker's more mature efforts. The film has its share of laughs, as well as moments of sincere drama. Just put yourself in that mindset, and you'll really enjoy this movie.

Just as cute as I remember it. our dog kept running to the tv trying to watching lady! I had not seen it long time & it was pretty funny a and cute to watch.

very fun sci fi fantasy movie. get the blu ray. This is really more of a fantasy flick than a sci fi movie. And on blu ray it looks pretty good , alot better than dvd. If you don't like campy fantasy then this cult flick is not for you. But the camp is played straight and that makes this a cool movie to watch. Queen provided the soundtrack and it's a good one too. Queen also had their 'the game' disc out that year so they were at their commercial peak at that time. The movie was panned by serious sci fi critics who just didn't get the whole idea of this movie: it was  salute to the 1930's serials of which 'flash gordon' was one of the most popular. kids back then flocked to see buster crabb on a saturday morning screening doing flash gordon. This movie was only 35 years away from that time. Those 1930's  kids were in their forties in 1980 so this would have been quite a treat for them. And it was for fans of fun fantasy too. The cast plays it up very well. this has a few extras on this but sci fi fans who want a star trek adventure need not apply here , this is over the top and like a serial from the 30's with excellent effects of it's day.  The blu ray has a few extras on it and that's about it.

"Monsters, Inc." is Immensely Entertaining but also Relevant to our Post 9/11 Times ***This review may contain spoilers***  When "Monsters, Inc."first came out, some perceived a rivalry with "Shrek".  I simply want to conclude that I enjoyed both heartily and own both DVDS, and that both are highly accomplished animated features. On the old "Ebert and Roeper" TV show, I remember that critic Richard Roeper somewhat dismissed the film as something the kids would enjoy, but something where the adults would be glancing at their watches every few minutes. I can assure Mr. Roeper that my eyes did not stray ONCE during the film; the poor fellow must have been jaded by so-called sophisticated movies.  I will not rehash the plot. I will say that all elements that constitute a movie, from background to characterization, were dazzling, convincing, and comprehensive. Monstropolis emerges as a fully fleshed out dimension uncannily mirroring our own - even up to the minute, with the simultaneously uproarious but sobering scene where a monster returns from the human dimension with a child's sock stuck to his back and he is manhandled (monster-handled) by decontamination crew members. Mike Waslowski (Billy Crystal) and James P. ("Sully") Sullivan (Goodman) move easily through this world. While the "Odd Couple" pairing is obviously not new (as admittedly, the plot - BUT WHO CARES?), Crystal and Goodman add spicy spin to their camaraderie. Despite Crystal's comedic presence, Goodman anchors this movie with his hulking and massive but ultimately sensitive and caring character, well, at least a good part of the time. Boo gives Sully a run for his money in the presence department.  Despite superficial plot similarities to Toy Story (especially in the climactic dimensional door pursuit - yes, a potential Disney theme ride) and yes, even a smidgen of "King Kong), "Monsters, Inc." stands on its own as a fascinating, well-rendered, multi-faceted piece of work. It is NOT a sickeningly cloying, sweet movie. Its moments of tenderness are balanced with some unsettling moments (e.g., Sully's scare demonstration (scared me, too) which terrifies Boo, Boo's restraint in the "Scream Suction" device by the unctuously reptilian Randall, and Sully's/Randall's fight, where Sully is being strangled by his invisible enemy). Sully's and Boo's developing relationship mixed in both laughter and tears. The dialogue and presence of the supporting characters was natural, matter-of-fact, and all the more funny for it.  In short, "Monster, Inc."'s plan came wonderfully together. Despite some commentators' views, the movie DOES have messages, not only of love and devotion and self-acceptance, but also about having the courage to risk altering a lifetime of conditioned thinking and behavior when it proves to be misguided. Pixar, you've done it again. Keep doing it...please!  ONE QUIBBLE: Boo spends a considerable amount of time in the Monstropolis dimension. I wonder what her parents were thinking when she went missing. Perhaps the Monstropolis dimension is on a different time line, where hours there are the equivalent of minutes in our dimension (time relativity and all).

Great Movie I really liked this movie! Its serious but yet has a few funny parts. I was to cheap to buy it when it first came out lol. It's well worth the money I payed for it on amazon. I recommend you buy it. THE ONLY THING IM MAD ABOUT IS THE MOVIE WAS BRAND NEW IN PLASTIC AND EVERYTHING AND WHEN I OPENED IT, IT WAS SCRATCED !! I WAS SHOCKED IM JUST GLAD IT DIDN'T AFFECT THE QUALITY OF THE MOVIE.

Clap hands, here come's Charlie! If you keep in mind that Victor Hugo's classic book is 1000+ pages, you can appreciate how surprisingly well the 1935 version of the film actually succeeds in creating a sketch of this very intricate, envolved story.  However the strong point of this film in its cast also represents its centreal problem -Charles Laughton!  Mr Lughton, not even being a handsome fellow is mesmerizingly effective as the villain, Inspector Javert in this picture.  Incredibly talented, skillful actor.  The problem is that he often outstages Fredric March (Who also did a very good job) so profoundly that the focus of the veiwer is easily shifted from the hero Jean Valjeane to the villain, Inspector Javert when it is probably not intended.  That said, a movie can have much worse flaws than a distractingly powerful performance by the villain, so enjoy!

Fun and uplifting I really like this movie! It is about a small town in Arizona with breathtaking views and eccentric personalities. It centers around events that happen to a gay couple on vacation with their son and and a business woman just passing through. The story was wonderfully done and in its conclusion left me feeling warm and fuzzy. A good family movie! The actors were really awesome for an indie movie.

A good soild Western.... John Wayne, Dean Martin, and Ricky Nelson star in this solid Western.  Dean plays the drunkard who, after two years of being in the bottle, wants to crawl out, dust himself off, and gain some respect.  John Wayne is Sheriff John T. Chance, Walter Brennan plays an old coot, and Ricky Nelson plays a...wait, who is Ricky Nelson? Starring the lovely Angie Dickinson whose character falls for John Wayne's character and directed by Howard Hawks.  As a family of bad guys are trying to release one of their own it is full of action, some humor, and singing.  Yes, well you have Dean and Ricky, a young hot new talent , so you have singing.  Not a lot, so don't worry about it. Now, if this film seems familiar to you, please remember there was a remake in the form of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001KS0THU">El Dorado</a> with Robert Mitchum and James Caan.  I happen to like the remake a lot, mostly because of the interaction between the three main male characters.  It could also be because I saw the remake first and also really do not like singing in what I think of as a serious work.  But that only takes away one point. If you like John Wayne, Wasterns, or Dean Martin, may I suggest this DVD?

American Psycho 201 I am, and I am publically on record on this question, very indulgent toward an off-hand femme fatale in a film noir shooting up a guy, even a guy trying to help her, in order to get what she wants, usually the dough. It is a cruel world out there and a girl has got to do what a girl has to do to keep the wolves from the door. So I had no problem, or maybe just a little problem, when Jane Greer in Out Of The Past shot up her fancy man (Kirk Douglas) and ran off with some of his dough and he, just to keep his manhood intact, hired Robert Mitchum to go get her (and the dough). And, of course like with all guys, guys built for heavy lifting like Mitchum or just wimps like me, once old Mitchum got a look at her, or maybe even caught her scent in the Mexican night air he was a goner. So later when they were on the run and she off-handedly put a bullet or six in some new sleuth hired to find her and him I just charged it off to overhead. And even when things got tough and she needed to go back to her sugar daddy Kirk and things didn't work out and she had to blast him, and in the end helpful Mitchum I just chalked it up to circumstances. Even with trigger happy junior league femmes like Irene (played by Helen Walker) in the film noir Impact I could see where her being married to some major league Walter Mitty-type would keep her from full attention to her low-rent boyfriend  and gave her a pass on her plot to murder the guy. That is just the way I am with cinematic femmes.  But I draw the line with stone-cold killer guys, hard boys kept around to do some heavy lifting for an off-hand mobster lets' say, like in the film under review, Railroaded. No dice, no way. They had got to get what is coming to them. Especially when said stone killer, here one Duke Martin, framed an innocent guy in the process. Maybe it is just because in real life I was close, way too close, to some junior league hard boys when I was growing up and they were winning their spurs by some ill-designed caper, like a mom and pop store robbery, or holding up a gas station in the days when they were easy to knock off, or maybe a liquor to get some walking around money. Hell, maybe it goes back before that when they would bonk a guy for his school lunch money or just bonk a guy to do it because they could do it. No indulgences, okay, none this side of heaven.  Duke, well, Duke Martin (played by John Ireland), as the story unfold in Railroaded, wouldn't qualify for indulgences anyway whatever I thought of hard boys, or femmes for that matter. This guy had no manners as he tried to pin a busted bookie joint (his boss' to boot) robbery on a delivery boy (a guy who did some hard war time service while Duke was probably shooting craps with some "mark"). Worst Duke offs with about as much regret as he would for swapping a fly every person who could, or who might, or maybe who just might think in the deep recesses of his or her mind about turning him in. No, this bad guy had got to fall, and fall hard.  And as is the nature of such film noirs Duke falls due to his own hubris, and his obsessive need to overplay every situation. He gets some help in his downfall by the intrepid work of the deliveryman's fetching and no-nonsenses sister Rosie (played by Shelia Ryan) and tough but good (of course) cop Mickey (played by Hugh Beaumont) who play on his weaknesses for good-looking women (or rather the next best thing that comes along after he finishes with a dame) and a certain need to try to intimidate everybody around him. So he falls, and good riddance. Now if Rita Hayworth in say The Lady From Shang-hai had been in that fix, well, you know where I stand. Got it.

OK, but not the best Decent DVD.  'Adventure in Photography' is much, much better for overall content.  But if your just interested in American photogs, then this is fine.

Disappointing compared to the Original Cut I'd like to start off saying that Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is the film that convinced me to watch the films of Guy Ritchie and is still by far my favorite.  Unfortunately, the Director's Cut is a bit cluttered for me to enjoy it to the greatest degree. Now, the changes are not deal breakers in any way, and for someone new to the film perhaps even welcome.  However, in my opinion all the changes serve one of two purposes: changing the pace and clarifying the story. In the case of the first, these edits, however small, almost always serve the purpose of slowing the film down and calming the overall tone of the film.  The original is incredibly fast paced, with solid characters and an almost manic pace.  Sure there are some moments to breathe and the first two acts of the film remain fairly calm, they're still extremely tight, showing to the second what we must see, shortchanging nothing, and moving on.  The 13 extra minutes in the directors' cut just seem to fall down in the middle of this and hang the movie for a minute or two in about a dozen places. As far as clarity: The movie is confusing.  Maybe it's the thick accents, maybe it's the aforementioned tight editing, maybe it's because they don't simply spell every letter of what's going on out to you.  However, for me, the confusion was the joy in seeing the movie, I was sure I had all the basic details the first time I viewed it, but small twists and turns of the narrative were lost in the blur of the constant mayhem and double/triple crosses.  It only helped convey the right tone for the film as you're left in awe of the final 20 minutes or so.  Maybe other people would prefer it spelled out but I just thought the scenes for clarification only helped "dumb" down the experience.  Either way, if you haven't seen the movie I still recommend seeing it in its original form, if you're a big fan, I'd recommend seeing this to find out the difference.  I personally was not on board with Guy Ritchie's alterations to the film and maybe even suspect they weren't entirely his, but that's another discussion.

A Minor Trendsetter "Bucket List" has become part of our lexicon now, and even people who haven't seen the movie know what the term means. The idea of fulfilling a list of things to do before you die obviously gained some traction after the 2007 release of this film. The movie features two of our finest "older" actors in a script that doesn't really challenge them or the viewer, but it's still an entertaining and thought-provoking film. It gets better with subsequent viewings. I especially enjoyed the DVD special feature in which screenwriter Justin Zackham explains the genesis of the script; it came from his own genuine Bucket List.

Great acting They cast this film well.  And, the ending has a bit of a surprise to it.  I also enjoyed the locale -- a small town somewhere in Australia.

Atlas Shrugged Part I to Atlas Shrugged is good.  But where is part II?  I can't seem to find it anywhere. Please advise

Love and Other Drugs I'm a huge Anne Hathaway fan, and I really liked her in this movie. If only all sick people could look this good.

Love any Pryor/Wilder movie Great combination of comics.  Joan Severance is a beauty and Kevin Spacey is a surprise.  Also a good plot for the interaction of the characters.

What a Delight! This is a very entertaining music and dance film starring Fred Astaire, George Burns, Gracie Allen and Joan Fontaine with wonderful songs composed by George and Ira Gershwin.  Joan Fontaine is no Ginger Rogers or Cyd Charisse, but her beauty and brightness add to the fun.  It's easy for us to forget that Burns and Allen were a very successful Vaudeville song and dance comedy team and this film amply demonstrates what fine dancers and how funny they were.  The cast is bolstered considerably by Reginald Gardiner and Constance Collier who give a British authenticity to an American film.  Alfred Hitchcock would use Joan Fontaine three years later in "Rebecca" and Contance Collier eleven years later in "Rope."  By the time this film was released in 1937, George Gershwin would be dead at 39.

T3: Rise of The Machines *Warning - Spoiler* (If you havent watched it yet) Ok...so I was never a big fan of the Terminator movies until recently. I never even saw T1 or T3 til Salvation turned me onto this movie series.(T2 is on every weekend, and everyone has seen it like 100 times, consider this b4 you buy it for $15.00 or whatever)  I thought Terminator Salvation was one of the best movies of the year. So when I sat down and watched this, I was blown away.  I liked this movie, it's not as edgy as T2, but it's great. Nobody wanted to hear this part of the story, but it had to be done. I think it was done rather well.  What I liked most of all is: As you watch this, you can't help feel like it's a T2 ripoff. (That's probably why most fans didn't go 4 this movie) You think they will yet again stop judgement day from ever happening and everything will be alright. Until you get to that last scene, at the end, where they go down the elevator to the shelter for VIP's and realize that they can't stop it. They never could. I thought this was AWESOME and the only rational way to end this movie. Safe 2 say that my favorite part of this movie is the last half hour or so.

Fresh Air for the Spy Genre As a standalone film, this still works very well. The action scenes, brief and scattered as they may be, are very well done and (mostly) grounded, especially by Hollywood standards. It's not quite as smart as it would like you to believe, but is intelligent enough to avoid becoming a stereotypically brainless puncher, and I enjoyed the constantly-flipping roles of the ongoing cat-and-mouse game between Bourne and his handlers. The ending was too abrupt, tying everything up into too neat of a package and omitting a lot of vital details along the way, but I guess that's what the sequels were for.

Beatles Momma Mia If you like the movie Momma Mia and you like the Beatles music, you will enjoy this movie.  The singers have good arrangements for their respective voices and there is some really good choreograpthy in some sections.  If you wish you had gone to Woodstock you'll enjoy it.

realistic and interesting. This is a film that presents a fictional company in the very real situation as the 2008 financial meltdown began. Profits have been high, but their business model of packaging mortgages together as securities to sell, is collapsing. A recently fired analyst brought forth information revealing that their potential losses are greater than the value of the company. This film presents the real-life scenario that some investment companies and banks faced, without confusing the viewer with too much information. The movie does not overdramatize the events, but is able to stay focused on the storyline, while also remaining interesting to those who may not have closely followed the real-life events.

Interesting Drama With Suspense Demi plays an author who loses her son in a drowning accident.  Afterwards, she moves to a sparsely populated island to get away from the memories of her loss and to bear down and do some writing.  Just when it seems like she's ready to start over with some aspects of her life, she meets someone and ....  this is where I stop as I don't like to spoil plots for those who haven't seen it.  For quite some time during the move, you won't know in what direction it's going. It's suspenseful, I wouldn't call it a thriller, it's far from a horror movie.  But if you like a contemporary drama set in very scenic areas and enjoy suspense, check this one out. It's not a "must see", but it does make for an interesting movie.

Everything I Expected This product was delivered as promised in a condition as promised and contained all the content promised. I have no complaints I would recommend this product to anyone.

Like a brighter Brick Very noirish and sultry. Stylishly shot, expertly performed. A tour de force High School gumshoe tale. It is quite unrealistic, but funny. Band of Horses play during a school dance. The dialogue is crisp and witty. The set design is inspired. A cool burn. Bruce Willis as a sociopathic principal is hilarious.

While I am biased to the original film, I also enjoyed this film and how it focuses closely on the original novel! Stieg Larsson is known in Sweden for his contribution to sci-fi fandom but to the outside world, he is known posthumously for his "Millennium" trilogy especially with the novel "M&auml;n som hatar kvinnor (Men who hate women)" aka "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo", the first novel of the trilogy and a novel based on manuscripts by Larsson written  but unpublished until after his death in 2004.  In 2008, Larsson became the second best-selling author in the world and the trilogy had sold 27 million copies in more than 40 countries.  In 2009, the film received its Swedish adaptation and the film which was created for $13 million would go on to earn $102 million worldwide and with the success of the novels and the Swedish film, it was no surprise that Hollywood would come knocking and create an English version of the popular storyline.  The 2011 version of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" was directed by award-winning director David Fincher ("Fight Club", "Se7en", "The Social Network", "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button") with a screenplay by veteran writer Steven Zaillian ("Schindler's List", "American Gangster", "Gangs of New York").  The film would feature the cinematography of Jeff Cronenweth ("Fight Club", "The Social Network", "One Hour Photo") and music by Trent Reznor ("The Social Network, "Se7en", "Lost Highway") and Atticus Ross ("The Social Network, "Twilight", "Limitless").  Starring in the film are Daniel Craig ("Casino Royale", "Quantum of Solace", "Cowboys & Aliens"), Rooney Mara ("The Social Network", "A Nightmare on Elm Street", "Youth in Revolt"), Christopher Plumber ("A Beautiful Mind", "The Sound of Music", "Beginners"), Stellan Skarsgard ("Good Will Hunting", "Thor", "Mamma Mia") and Robin Wright ("Beowulf", "Unbreakable", "Moneyball").  The film was quite successful in the box office earning over $229 million and also winning and being nominated for a plethora of awards worldwide.  Including an Academy Award for "Best Film Editing" (Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter).  VIDEO & AUDIO:  "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" is presented in 2:40:1 anamorphic widescreen and presented in English and French 5.1 Dolby Digital and English Dolby Surround plus an English audio descriptive track.  It's important to note that "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" will be released on Blu-ray and this is one of those films that are shot in a variety of locations, beautiful cinematography that would look absolutely fantastic on Blu!  I didn't notice any compression artifacts or any major PQ problems.  Personally, I was impressed by the cinematography that I actually am looking forward in picking this film up on Blu-ray and watching it via HD.  It's a stunning film that the David Fincher and David Cronenweth really did a wonderful job in bringing Stieg Larsson's novel to life.  As for audio, once again, this is where audiophiles would opt for Blu-ray for its lossless soundtrack.  On DVD, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's music sounds clear and there are moments of action scenes such as a rifle shot and explosion, but it's a film where ambiance plays a big role in the film and what you hear the most through the surround channels.  Subtitles are in English, English SDH, French and Spanish.  SPECIAL FEATURES:  "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" comes with the following special feature:    Commentary by Director David Fincher - Featuring an in-depth audio commentary by director David Fincher.  From discussions of the cast, the characters, locations, stunts and overall making of the film.  JUDGMENT CALL:  My first foray into "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" came from my wife.  Her family members have loved the novels and my wife was going crazy reading all three novels and then watching the film.  She has told me many times to read the novels in the trilogy but with so many books in my reading queue, I figured, why not see what the hype is all about and watch this film for myself.  When I watched the Swedish version of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", I was drawn in by the performances of Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Rapace.  Their performance was magnificent, as was the cinematography by Jens Fishcer and Eric Kress.  Just the amount of footage shot in various weather conditions and locations was quite impressive but most of all, bringing the novel to life (as my wife would say).  I also knew there would be a David Fincher version of the film but I was skeptical at first because I enjoyed the Swedish version so much.  When it was revealed that veteran Steven Zaillian would be writing the screenplay version and that Daniel Craig was hired to play Mikael Blomkvist, I figured, let's see how things go.  Similar to the Swedish version of the film, I absolutely enjoyed Fincher's version of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo".  This film was not only suspenseful but it literally sent chills down my spine.  The film is not for the weak at heart when it comes to violence and torture.  The film has many graphic moments of people who have been murdered, people who have been raped and I'm not going to sugarcoat things... this film is violent.  But the film is also a suspenseful, haunting thriller that not only grabs your attention, you literally root for these characters that are completely opposite but they take you on an amazing ride with quite a bit of twists and turns along the way.  I have no problems saying that "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" is one of the best modern suspense films that I have watched in long while.  And I'm talking about overall acting, cinematography, pacing and how well the story is conceived.  It's a fantastic film!  Personally, these characters are what I loved about the film.  The character of Mikael Blomkvist is an experienced writer who is taking on a billionaire and now having to face a serious libel charge that he libeled him due to false information he was given.  While I was skeptical of Daniel Craig at first, he managed to do a fantastic job playing the character. But the character I was the most skeptical is Lisbeth.  Noomi Rapace was fantastic and when I saw pictures of Rooney Mara prior to her playing Lisbeth, I was not sure how this would play out, but she instantly transformed herself into a new breed of Lisbeth.  Different from Rapace's version but still effective.  As for the character of Lisbeth Salander,  to see her as an anti-social, goth-like computer hacker brought another dimension to this film.  But what works is the slight changes that were made to this 2011 American version of the film from the original Swedish version of the film.  The American version actually incorporates more of the book to its storyline than the Swedish version.  For one, Blomkvist is not a character that has to be worried of going to prison.  This impacts Blomkvist in the Swedish version of the film, in the American version, he does not have to worry about prison time at all.  Another major difference is that the book focused more on the relationship between Mikael's Millennium Magazine partner Erika Berger and this is more evident in the American version.  Also, in the book, Mikael's daughter had importance and in the Swedish version, she was barely mentioned. In the U.S. version, Mikael's daughter is a major key to the discovery of deciphering the code made by Harriet.  There are also quite a bit of differences involving Lisbeth Salander, such as the Swedish version has her mugged by a gang of men, not the case of the US version.  Also, the introduction between Mikael and Lisbeth are very different between the two films.  But most importantly, the relationship of both Mikael having to work with Lisbeth and how it affects the characters to the final scene of the film.  Which I actually enjoyed from the American version over the Swedish version of the film.  While I enjoyed the Swedish version a lot, in many ways I also enjoyed the American version even more.  Mainly for its attention to details from the book that was incorporated into the film, although I enjoyed Noomi Rapace's version of Lisbeth Salander even more, Rooney Mara's version actually works much better.  But I do enjoy both films a lot, it's just that the 2011 version, they were able to incorporate more of the book and tweak the storyline a bit more.  I suppose it's a bit more subjective to the viewer familiar with the Swedish film and the book but if I wished there was two things that weren't changed in the American version, it would revolve around Blomkvist's problems with prison time and a scene revolving Lisbeth and the assailant, which I enjoyed from the Swedish version even more.  If there was one subject that I feel may touch a nerve with viewers is a rape scene (well, actually there are others who have been raped and tortured) but there is one graphic scene that may turn people off.  I for one, dislike disturbing scenes like this in a film especially if was done for shock value.  In the case of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", although a film that contains a lot of violence, I felt that the violence was not gratuitous and was appropriate to the story but again, this is subjective as I've read those who felt it was appropriate and others who felt it was bit too much for their taste.  As for the DVD, the DVD doesn't come with a lot of special features but an audio commentary by David Fincher.  As mentioned, if you want the best version of the films, go for the HD release as I'm sure the film will look and sound incredible on Blu-ray.  A movie this good, demands to be seen on Blu!  "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" is a fantastic film featuring an awesome performance by the talent, a chilling screenplay adaptation and wonderful cinematography and music.  It's a film that will no doubt send shivers towards your spine but you will feel that you are captured by the film by the solid performances courtesy of Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara.  These two were absolutely wonderful and felt that Steven Zaillian and David Fincher did a magnificent job in including more of the book to this adaptation of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo".  And I can only hope the two work together again for the second film and see if they can fix some of the problems that the Swedish version of the film was criticized for.  Overall, I absolutely loved this film and if you have not watched this film yet, I absolutely recommend one putting this on their must-buy list for 2012.  "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" is highly recommended!

Very entertaining!! Our whole family really enjoyed this movie. My 5 year old son laughed at all the crazy antics of Ramona. The story was good and I would definitely recommend this family friendly movie.

Imitation of Life 1959 This remake is quite different from the 1934 original in several ways. Bea's character is now named Lora (Lana Turner) and is an aspiring actress in New York City. She meets Delilah's character, now named Annie (Juanita Moore), at the beach on Coney Island. Annie and her daughter Sarah Jane have recently become homeless and Lora agrees to take them in just for the night. Lora is a single mother supporting her daughter Susie and she can't afford to support Annie and Sarah Jane too. Annie gets a job washing shirts and she and her daughter end up staying. Eventually, Lora becomes a successful Broadway actress and is very wealthy. Annie's role in Lora's success is that she takes care of Susie while Lora is working. Lora works a lot so Annie is more of a mother to Susie than Lora is in most ways.  Lora's romance with Steve Archer (John Gavin) is fraught with conflict in this movie. He can only be with her if she prioritizes him over her work and apparently that means not working at all. He's a good guy though; it's clear that this expectation is not unreasonable. It's Lora who is being unreasonable wanting to work when there is a perfectly good man wanting to take care of her. I wasn't expecting to find such a sexist subplot - the 1930s version portrayed women in a way better and stronger light!  Sarah Jane's struggle with being a light-skinned black person has a bigger part in this movie than Peola's struggle in the original. I was disappointed that they did not cast a black person to play Sarah Jane. Susan Kohner did do a fabulous job playing Sarah Jane though and was nominated for both an Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for the role. Sarah Jane is even more of a "tragic mulatto" in this movie and has quite a few dramatic scenes in which she talks about why she wants to be white.  This movie address the issues of race in a more direct way than the original which I'm sure is a product of the time in which it was made. When Lora suggests that Annie talk to Sarah Jane about not trying to pass as white, Annie says, "How do you explain to your child that she was born to be hurt?" Like Delilah in the original movie, Annie wants a big funeral when she dies. She tells Lora to please invite all of Annie's friends. Lora looks surprised and tells Annie that she didn't know Annie had any friends besides her - very telling of the one-sided nature of their relationship.  Another difference between the two movies that I must note is the heightened drama in the remake. Lana Turner chews the scenery every chance she gets and the score is very heavy handed. The melodramatic background music makes sure that the viewer is not confused when something VERY DRAMATIC is happening.  This movie has all kinds of interesting movie star connections. Alan Alda's dad, Robert Alda, plays an agent. Troy Donahue, who was just starting out, has a small part as a real jerk - he was not dreamy at all in this movie. And Susan Kohler's son is Chris Weitz, the director of The Twilight Saga: New Moon.  It was interesting to watch the two versions of Imitation of Life back to back and see how much (and how little) relationships between black people and white people changed over the twenty-five years between the two movies.

Great Story - Well Told! This film accurately portrays the building and training of the USA hockey team to compete in the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid. It captures the challenges and emotions of that effort. What a great way to relive one of the greatest moments in sports - "the miracle on ice".

America, [heck] yeah! I rented the Blu-Ray edition of Captain America through RedBox.  The following week, I rented it again.  That was ridiculous, but that fairly expresses my opinion of the movie: don't waste $1.59 (twice), buy it for $20.  CAPTAIN AMERICA isn't a flawless movie: it's 4-stars, not 5-stars.  To add some rants and address some reviews:  1. The film is pro-American Absolutely.  It's unabashedly so.  It's [expletive] Captain America!  Compare to actual WW II propaganda (c.f., Signal Corps museum at Fort Gordon) - shocking in the Age of Apology.  2. "Cheese to the rescue" This is SHANE not PALE RIDER.  Captain America precedes the modern convention of the anti-hero, and the movie reflects that.  3. Some actors are under-utilized The "cow" one-liner was rather painful (my drink went up and out my nose), and I foresee extensive usage of the "YOU ARE FAILING!!!" clip in graduate schools across the world.  Unfortunately, that's the extent of the highlights from Tommy Lee Jones and Hugo Weaving.

Received a great product I purchased a used DVD. Besides the package being opened, there was nothing wrong with it. There is not one scratch on it. It doesn't skip or stall. I was a little hesitant in purchasing a used DVD, but was relieved when I received a great quality item.

Run to...err...from the Hills In Wes Craven's "The Hills Have Eyes," a family finds themselves stranded in the middle of nowhere and at the mercy of a blood-thirsty clan of mutant cannibals. Ultra-violence, booby-traps and other shenanigans ensue.  In spite of its clumsy opening, the film gets going rather quickly, leaving not a single moment to spare. When things get bad for our unfortunate family, they get really bad, taking a grisly and gruesome turn for the worse. The overall tone is that all bets are off, and it's never clear just who will survive and who will meet an unfortunate and unpleasant demise. The acting (especially from the villains) is spotty at best (with a completely wasted Dee Wallace in tow) but the film doesn't succumb to that fact. As Wes Craven's second film (following up "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000068IEU">The Last House on the Left</a>"), it shows signs of the true genius that would give birth to "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000JQTT">A Nightmare on Elm Street</a>" with some interesting plot devices (a dog becoming a main character in the final act? Rock on!) striking visuals, an eerie setting (it's all about location, location, location) and an unrelenting mean streak.  While time hasn't been too kind to the film - being that it looks horribly dated now that a 2006 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FAOC2W">remake</a>, directed by Alexandre Aja, turned out to be quite the success -- it's still a well-paced, gritty and grim affair that keeps you on your toes throughout its brief 86 minute running time. In a way, it's a film that was ahead of the curve and deserves to be seen by any and all genre fans as the iconic piece of horror movie history that it is.

Great movie....but.... First of all, I loved the movie.  It's wonderfully told and imagined and a great build up for the final film. Definitely worth buying!  I am,however, disappointed with the quality of the film transfer to DVD. It has possibly some of the most pixelated images I have ever seen in a DVD. This is especially evident when the scenes are dark, which is most of the movie.  I'm not sure why this is so bad on the DVD compared to other films of similar darkness and length....but I think they should have put more focus into clearing it up some.  Otherwise, I love it....just wish it has the opening scene from part 2 as the bluray version does.

West Side Story This product is very nice. It contains a blue ray production of the play and also includes a lot of added things. This was worth the amount paid for.

NICELY PRESENTED This film was based on an Oscar-nominated screenplay and was the first picture after WWII to show real life footage of concentration camps. The focus is on whether the Orson Welles character is an escaped Nazi or not who was part of the think tank for the Final Solution (i.e. the execution of undesirables in Nazi Germany). The investigator is played by Edward G. Robinson in an atypical role as a good guy who comes to the small town of Harper gathering information. There's a good split between the possible sinister evil doer in this Utopian town with a frank innocence that many of the folks seem to possess. The relationships in the town, as well as some of the sub characters, are done particularly well. The ending has some cheesy special effects by the standards of today (like the giant clock) but just go with it. This was one of the few Orson Welles pictures that did quite well at the box office. WHEN WATCHED: end of October 2011(streamed); STORY/PLOTTING: B to B plus; CHARACTERS/DIALOGUE: B plus to A minus; SUSPENSE LEVEL: B; OVERALL GRADE: B to B plus; BEST DIALOGUE: Professor Charles Rankin: The German sees himself as the innocent victim of world hatred and conspired against and put upon by inferior people, inferior nations. He cannot admit to error, much less to wrongdoing, not the German. We chose to ignore Ethiopia and Spain, but we learned from our own casualty list the price of looking the other way. Men of truth everwhere have come to know for whom the bell tolled, but not the German. No! He still follows his warrior gods marching to Wagnerian strains, his eyes still fixed upon the firey sword of Siegfried, and he knows subterranean meeting places that you don't believe in. The German's unbroken dream world comes alive, and he takes his place in shining armor beneath the banners of the Yeutonic knights. Mankind is waiting for the Messiah, but for the German, the Messiah is not the Prince of Peace. He's... another Barbarossa... another Hitler. /// Professor Charles Rankin: Murder can be a chain, Mary, one link leading to another until it circles your neck. Red was digging at the grave of the man I killed. Yes, your little man. Mary Longstreet: You killed him? Professor Charles Rankin: With these hands. The same hands that have held you close to me. ///

The Beginning Of A Saga--The First Film Of An Epic Underworld Trilogy Brutal, but with a keen sense of irony, Nicolas Winding Refn's "Pusher Trilogy" is a wildly entertaining ride that's far more sophisticated than might appear at first glance.  Three films that share certain overlapping characters, the "Pusher Trilogy" also links the stories with thematic similarities--but any of these movies also stand up to independent viewing.  Individually, they are gritty and effective looks at the criminal underbelly--but together, they are an undeniable masterwork!  Uproariously hilarious, wickedly bloody, and even surprisingly moving at times, I wholeheartedly recommend these to lovers of international film (they are set in Copenhagen) or the action genre.  "Pusher" tells the story of a low-life hood, Frank.  As Frank hustles up a drug deal that turns south, he suddenly finds himself in a week long scramble to get on top of a bad situation.  When bad goes to worse, he turns on his closest allies and faces the final reckoning alone.  But he may just be in too deep!  "Pusher" is a solid action picture.  Frank's relationship with his cohort Tonny is played extremely well.  His desperate machinations are a doomed excursion to the darkside and have a black humor that's uncomfortably appealing.  Not the most original story in the "Pusher" arsenal, but it works really well regardless.  4 stars.  "Pusher II: With Blood On My Hands" is easily my favorite film of the trio.  Why?  It is understated and surprising and, of all the films, the most unique.  Tonny (the terrific Mads Mikkelsen) returns from "Pusher."  Some time in the future, Tonny is being released from prison and Tonny must reestablish his place in the outside world.  A disapproving father, who just happens to be a crime boss, doesn't help matters.  Tonny finds it difficult to be taken as a real player and is a doormat for those that surround him, both professionally and personally.  Tonny actually starts to prove that perhaps he is the most worthy character amidst a barrel of bad apples and a final act of redemption is oddly heartfelt.  5 stars.  "Pusher III:  I'm The Angel of Death" reintroduces Milo--a boss who has played a supporting role until now.  Like a mad comic opera, "Pusher III" has Milo making dinner for his daughter's birthday party, juggling rehab meetings (he's 5 days clean), and trying to maintain business as usual with his crew.  When a drug deal sours (that happens way too much!), Milo's perfect day loses all sense of balance and Milo is drawn into an unpleasant series of events leading to human trafficking.  Milo's bratty daughter is a hoot as are his attempts to shanghai the addict's meetings.  But ultimately, it's Milo's drug fueled descent (based on both morality and pride) that is nightmarish and unforgettable.  4 1/2 stars.  Each film works and succeeds on its own merits!  But if you get the "Pusher Trilogy" and watch them in conjunction, it is a movie making magic.  Together, I easily rate the product at 5 stars as the three different films enhance the others.  Perfection.  KGHarris, 1/11.

Not for everyone I was Intrigued by the reviews so I decided to watch out of curiosity. The movie starts off with a feeling of confusion as to how the story was going to progress and yet I found myself playing the plot out in my mind without really paying attention to the beginning. I am not going to go into detail, but I will tell you that the ending is just the beginning.

One Classy Lady I'm not particularly an avid Cher fan in her singing, but this woman was fantastic in this movie.  That she would share the screen with another great singer shows just how much class this woman has.  Cher, girl, you are a class act all the way.  Also, the movie would have been better if it had incorporated Cher into the storyline more deeply.  As we all know, she is a great actress and the script didn't measure up to the talent it had to "play" with.

Fun workout This workout is fun and full of cardio.  You can customize your workout for intensity  by adding more reps per workout and target your problem areas.

A Christmas Favorite I put this movie on my Christmas must do list every year.  It's a very good family movie with a great message of hope.

Great Movie This was a great movie and we enjoyed watching it as a family. There were several different blu-ray options/versions for this film. I chose this one because I wasn't interested in the "extras" and the price was great. For just the movie alone, it was under $10. It's definitely something we will watch again so it was a great deal for me.

Under-appreciated, edgy classic from Disney I watched Disney's animated "Alice In Wonderland" at the request of my 10 year-old daughter. Based on my (decades-old) memories of seeing this in the theater, I was fully expecting a sugar overload. To my surprise and great pleasure, I was treated to a riot of color, manic activity and enough edgy darkness to make this a truly worthy Lewis Carroll adaptation.  Featuring voice-work from some of old Hollywood's greatest character actors, the animators seemed inspired to explore the limits of their wildest imaginings...creating a Wonderland of marvels, wackiness and more than a bit of real danger.  The result is an animated film that is a visual joy for youngsters, and a guilty pleasure for their parents. If you don't have a kid, but luv great animated films...treat yourself to "Alice In Wonderland" anyway.

"Above Us The Waves (1955) ... John Mills ... Ralph Thomas (Director) (2011)" VCI Entertainment and London Independent Producers presents "ABOVE US THE WAVES" (1955) (100 min/B&W) -- Starring John Mills, John Gregson, Donald Sinden, James Robertson Justice, Michael Medwin, James Kenney & Theodore Bikel  Directed by Ralph Thomas  Another great film from the British Invasion from VCI.  This film is a low key film with subdued performances. War isn't depicted as a heroic game, as these men face deadly danger and fully aware of it.  Do your job and carry on quietly - now that's bloody real courage for you.  German stereotypes on the Tirpitz, yet their Captain salutes the "brave men" who have arrived to attack his boat.  Great acting, powerful direction and real emotion, with an excellent British cast the way they used to make them.  John Mills and John Gregson are the background of training and the eventual attack is very absorbing, filmed in beautiful stark black and white.  Watch for a young Anthony Newley in the Midget X class submarine sequences.  Special footnote: -- In the film, the name of the vessel that carried the manned human torpedo chariots was called "Ingebord" but in the real-life it was really named "Arthur".  The code-name of the real life World War II mission that this film was based on was Operation Source. This operation utilized the Royal Navy's midget X class submarines.  BIOS: 1. Ralph Thomas (Director) Date of Birth:  10 August 1915 - Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK Date of Death:  17 March 2001 - London, England, UK  2. John Mills[aka: Lewis Ernest Watts Mills] Date of Birth:  22 February 1908 - The Watts Naval Training College, North Elmham, Norfolk, England, UK Date of Death:  23 April 2005 - Denham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK  3. John Gregson  [aka: Harold John Gregson] Date of Birth:  15 March 1919 - Liverpool, England, UK Date of Death:  8 January 1975 - Porlock Weir, Somerset, England, UK  Mr. Jim's Ratings: Quality of Picture & Sound: 4 Stars Performance: 4 Stars Story & Screenplay: 4 Stars Overall: 4 Stars [Original Music, Cinematography & Film Editing]  Total Time: 100 min on DVD ~ VCI Entertainment ~ (May 3, 2011)

Creative and fun I can't say much that other reviewers haven't already said. This is a fun movie to watch, a bit happens in the early 20th century, but most of the story happens in the future and revolves around a cab driver and this weird girl called Leeloo and their quest to save the world by looking for the physical representations of the four elements and keeping them out of the hands of the bad guys. There's some messages here about the environment and war, so this isn't just some pretty film to watch.

Mad Max DVD My 17 yr old son asked for the Mad Max series for Christmas.  He and several friends enjoy the "old school" movies so this was a great buy, good price too.

To Catch A thief I love the old classics!  It is very well acted--No bad language or anything. It is fun to watch the "oldies" with all the great stars of yesteryear.

Air Jordan rules forever in basketball This is a great movie for kids or adults. If you're a Jordan or Bugs Bunny fan you'll enjoy this movie. Great animation and acting. How they got all those NBA players to work on this movie is beyond me, but it sure wouldn't happen today with today's greedy owners and players!

Not as good as the 1st, but better than the 2nd and 3rd. Not nearly as good as the first Die Hard, but way better than the second and third film. The transfer is exceptional, free of DNR (Digital Noise Reduction) and retaining natural film grain, this movie pops on Blu-Ray. While having some decent special features, my favorite of which is an interview with Bruce Willis where Kevin Smith is asking all the questions, there isn't a lot of supplemental material. If you like action movies that are shot well, or any of the other Die Hard movies, you'll probably like this just fine. Though it isn't even close to being as good as the original. If you want an affordable Blu-Ray that really showcases how good they can look when they are transferred  well, this is a great representation. I saw this in the theater and it looks even better on Blu-Ray than it did when I saw it back in 2007. Maybe not a movie you will watch over and over again, but for mostly mindless action this is pretty good to have on in the background while cleaning or to watch specific scenes again and again for good action and fights, which are easily the strong point of this movie.

Not what I expected... But I really enjoyed this movie! As a rule, I'm not big on Woody Allen movies, but for some reason I decided to give this one a chance. It was especially interesting to me because I have somewhat studied many of the characters that were in the movie and found them to be very well represented...and highly entertaining. I thought Salvador Dali was hilarious. However, if you don't know anything about these famous artists and writers, some of the humor might fall to the wayside.

sweet:-* Typical date movie with it's own cast and twists and still pretty predictable. But all in all a pretty cute movie.

Infectiously Energetic, Outrageously Gory What points this loses in coherence and structure it immediately makes right back with energy, ingenuity and downright entertainment value. Little more than a one man show, Evil Dead 2 is where Bruce Campbell really made his name, and deservedly so. Whether he's shrieking like a little girl at the sight of a poorly-animated headless marionette, cackling deviously as he nails down his own evil right hand or playing it cool as the gritty, badass soldier-man with a chainsaw appendage, Campbell boldly plants his flag right in the center of every scene. I can't begin to imagine the kind of fun he and director Sam Raimi must have had cooking up one outlandish, unbelievable situation after the other, then playing it up on-screen to this degree. It's a film you'll never quite nail down - is it meant to be serious or slapstick - and that's precisely why it works so well. A load of fun that escalates faster than you can blink.

The best "Patience" out there - very, very entertaining This is a terrific performance of what I think is the wittiest of the Savoy Operas. In its initial run, Patience was extremely popular, bested only by The Mikado. Since then, unfortunately, it has usually been either updated (with mixed success), or performed in a fairly stodgy imitation of the D'Oyly Carte style. Its music is fine, but the comedy is the real selling point. The original Victorian audiences probably found it hilarious, but modern audiences too often find themselves wondering what they are watching, and hoping it won't last much longer.  This cast does a very solid job with the humor, probably the best you're likely to see. Although I wouldn't say it was as side-splittingly funny as it could possibly be made. A gag here or there fell a little flat, and it seemed to me more could have been made of the officers' medievalism scene. Even though I've seen the Bunthorne-Grosvenor-Patience scenes many times, I still laughed aloud at them. But even these could probably have been more finely tuned. If a really terrific comedic director and a cast of comedic geniuses ever got hold of this opera, I think the result would be legendary.  The singing is very good too. And, surprisingly, so is the dancing, which is usually not given much attention. I was amazed to see Anthony Warlow (terrific as Archibald Grosvenor) sing and dance his way off the stage at the end of "When I Go Out of Door," then back for an encore, and still manage to sing as if he were standing still the whole time. The rest of the cast is great as well.  The costumes look good on screen, and even the set is attractive, which can't always be said even for professionally produced DVDs of these operas. Often they're filmed in ordinary stage costumes (which look fine from a distance, but close up, not so much); and with ordinary flat stage scenery, or sometimes on unconvincing TV sound stages.  The set has a slightly abstract look, but still manages to evoke the opera's Pre-Raphaelitism.  I'm giving this production four stars because I think there's just a bit of room for improvement. But overall, it's quite a good production and, if you're a fan, definitely worth owning.

Ideal husband I enjoyed the play, and it was good. It came on time and in great conditions. I look forward to ordering more movies titles in the future.

Movie Blu ray disc is ok, the other 2 disc are not The other two disc are only a sample of the original soundtrack, and the extras are in DVD quality. Also i received a package with the box a little damaged, new but a little crushed. Now i understand why it was so cheap.

My son loves this movie My son loves this movie -- and so does my husband.  One of them will start a quote from the movie, and the two of them will just take off for the next 15 minutes or so of dialogue.  Snappy wit, good message, and not all fluffy unicorn stuff, I think this movie has something for everyone.

Four and a half stars, no spoiler but referring to ending I hate spoilers so I am going to base my review on the entire movie, but my lack of 5 stars due to the ending. If you want to skip my review because I refer to being disappointed in the ending..read no further.  Russel Crow was AMAZING in this movie. He looked great, totally believable as a loving hubby and father. The writing was great. I will say the first scene and the second (in the car) were not what I would call PG-13 material only because I found it uncomfortable as I watched this with my 14 year old son.  But, I'm a prude when it comes to my own boys ;)  This was an adventure, it really kept you wondering what would happen. That was the entire point of the movie...what is going to happen??!! Will they get away with it???  I sat on the edge of my seat the entire time, like the first time I watched Speed, waiting, worrying, wondering!!!!  Then came the ending. What a bummer. I almost forgot it was a movie..I wanted to flip the 'book' over and see if I had missed the last page.  The ending was not...bad...it was just unclear. I am pretty sure I get what the 'outcome' was, but this movie reminded me of my soap opera. You know a beloved character is going to have a traumatic thing happen...there is so much build up...weeks or months of it...then when they die/live/come back to life/return to the show...whatever...you are like...huh? What the???!!! Where is the dramatic finish?? The closure!!!?? I wanted closure with The Next Three Days and don't feel I got it. I feel like they kept me excited and waiting for the ending, such a long movie too....then it just sort of peetered out.  Overall though, I would still recommend this movie.

2D or Not 2D? I liked the movie, but I can see where others may not. I bought the 3D version because I am addicted to 3D. The 3D in this film did not satisfy my hunger. There were two, maybe three, places where you would say... "That looks cool"! That was it. Most of it didn't even look like it was filmed in 3D.  So if the 3D version cost more... don't buy it! The Blu Ray will give you the same amount of entertainment

Brilliant Commentary The commentary by Katherine Orrison is worth the cost of the entire package. Brilliantly spoken with a wealth of information this is about the best DVD commentary I have ever heard. There is  non of the usual nonsense diatribe  ,instead there is  a rich history of what is occurring on screen. The commentary is a 5 star effort and should be viewed first- it is that good and well worth the time.

Great book. . . great movie Seldom does the movie compares with the book, but in this one it does.  It shows how our society has changed and the impact it has on people like the character in this movie.  It shows how the political-correctness aspect of how we think and do things has an impact on our lives.  I actually felt sorry for this racist murderer, but realize, that he was a product of a society, at that time, condonned  such things and incouraaged them, only to do a flip-flop that left some, like the character on death-row wondering:  What the hell happened?

Not another long review I am not going to write 2,000 words on this movie so don't worry. This has been one of my favorite movies since I was 11 years old.  It is a purely good story. No swearing, no sex, nothing profane. Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan are two of my favorite actors of all time. Together in the same film can only be good.  There are some slow parts, but otherwise it is a great romantic-(comedy?) I think this is a great film for everyone mature enough to understand it. Take the time to watch it and you will love it forever. An instant classic as they say.

Cocoon - The Return Part two to the popular film.  This sequel finds Jack back into the mix with the aliens and their original guests who go with them return on a sort of holiday.  The aliens have business, again they must rescue some of their fellow aliens from scientific experiments and certain doom.  This film is enjoyable but not nearly as good as the original.

real mccoy awesome movie nice packaging this is a service i want it, pretty neat perfectly factory seal i like it. great job!!

Pleasant reunion of Tom and Meg. This film seems quite dated in some respects. All those dial-up modem connections and the still-new sheen of all the internet technology on display. Little did the writers of the screenplay dream that the internet would spell doom for the brief heyday of the book superstore. Starbucks has also come down significantly from its late '90s prominence on display in the film.  I was somewhat taken aback from the disfunctional Fox family structure. Joe Fox (Hanks) has a grandfather in his 70s or 80s fathering a young daughter with no apparent mother for the child mentioned in the film. Joe's father has had a long string of paramours, mostly hitting on the nannies hired to care for his son.  His currnet paramour has produced a 4 year old son, and the father is making noises about marrying her. Joe's mother is briefly mentioned, but her absence is never explained. Finally, Joe is living with a woman he doesn't love because she can match his self-absorption and can stand his obnoxious behavior.  Kathleen Kelly (Ryan) runs the bookstore she inherited from her mother. Apparently her father was never involved in her life and is never mentioned in the film. The film hints that Joe Fox's grandfather may have been romantically involved with Kathleen Kelly's mother. If Kathleen was the product of such a union, there may be an element of incest involved in any romantic relationship between the two.  The film mostly follows the worn conventions. It is somewhat amusing to watch how Joe can turn on the charm when it suits him. Joe decides he wants to romance his former business rival and deftly outmanuvers her naive approach to life. Joe works both sides of the street to gain the trust and affection of a woman who formerly despised him. Kathleen Kelly is such a fundamentally decent woman, she stands no chance against the devious Joe Fox.  The film ends with a tentative kiss growing into full-blown love. Well, maybe Joe Fox will rise above his family disfunction and treat Kathleen Kelly as she deserves to be treated.

Excellent!!!! 'Koi Mere Dil Se Pooche' is another remake of 'Sleeping with the Enemy' starring Julia Roberts after Agnisakshi, Daraar and Yaraana.  Surprisingly, 'KMDSP' turned out to be a good remake of SWTE with its own twists and turns.'KMDSP' is Esha Deol's debut movie.Sanjay Kapoor is strictly okay. Nothing much can be said about him. He does look different in a negative role but not terrorising which his role demanded.Aftab Shivdasani is just okay. He has miles to go to scale the ladder of success in the industry.Jaya Bachchan was excellent. Jaspal Bhatti is as usual a nuisance.  Overall, a good movie if not excellent. Watch it if you haven't done yet.

Solid show that takes place in NYC Based on its price and existing reviews, I decided to try "White Collar," Season 1 and believe me, it was worth all 1,900+ pennies.  The story revolves around a classy master thief (played by Matt Bomer) who strikes a deal with the FBI agent (played by Tim McKay) who caught him twice, all in order to avoid going back to jail.  The agent works in the FBI's white-collar crime division in New York City and the master thief is there to provide a criminal's perspective to each case.  Catch is that the thief is confined to a two-mile radius by an ankle bracelet and needs to locate his missing girlfriend.  Tiffany Thiessen (of "90210" fame) stars as the agent's wife.  Great cast works well together.  Solid, believable scripts kept me interested and jonesing for season 2.  Could be filmed in L.A. for all I know, but looks like NYC to me.

At Last I enjoyed this movie many years ago and seeing much later I still enjoyed it. With old time actors, Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins plus all those extras with non of the trick photography this movie is a classic. Was great to get it on DVD If you enjoyed Ben Hur you would like this one.

Unexpected, very human. I wouldn't like to spoil the movie for you so I would try to be very general. If you expect to learn about entrepreneurship, human achievement, human behaviour and sense of legacy you will appreciate this movie. Do not ignore the side stories, at least one of them might be the main one but the less obvious.

Too bad it didn't wrap up! Great series that really sucked us in, but since the show was cancelled they really didn't wrap it up cleanly and the last episode left you wanting.

Love and War The title "D-Day the Sixth of June" is somewhat misleading in that this movie doesn't center on D-Day.  There is indeed a battle near the ending of the movie that involves a joint Anglo-American raid on a German position that precedes the main landing.  The main theme in this movie centers on a war-time romance in London between an American officer (Robert Taylor) and a lonely English wife (Dana Wynter).  Their meeting begins innocently; however, war-time circumstances, i.e., he is away from home and wife and her husband is a high ranking officer that is heavily engaged in fighting battles. The friendly "dates" evolve into to affection then into a love affair.  While all this is proceeding the American officer (Edmond O'Brien) that was to lead the joint operation cited above becomes incapacitated and has to be replaced.  The new leader an English Colonel is the husband (Richard Todd) who has figured out his wife has been involved with the American Captain (Robert Taylor) who will be his second in command during the raid.  How this plot unfolds is the crux of the movie. I will not divulge the ending other than to say only one of the married couples will have a happy reunion.

GREAT movie, Blu Ray could be better.... I grew up with The Beatles and they remain my all time favorite group, the model for almost all that was to come for the next 15 years or so.  I was very excited to learn 'A Hard Days Night' was being released on Blu Ray and had high hopes for a major improvement in both picture and sound quality.  I will assume the reader has SEEN this movie so instead of reviewing the film I will instead give my impressions of the Blu Ray release.  'A Hard Days Night' is presented in glorious black and white with a 1.66 aspect ratio that is almost the original aspect ratio. In my experience every home released version of this movie has had a slightly different cropping job done to it, some better than others.  The framing for this Blu Ray release looks to me the same as the Miramax DVD version which I assume the master was sourced from.  On my display I choose not to use over-scan and thus it almost fills the entire 16:9 screen with a small amount of top and bottom pillaring.  Unfortunately since the original negatives were not sourced and rescanned/remastered we are only allowed a 1080i presentation which may cause some unwanted combing effects if your display and/or player can not properly de-interlaced the video.  Most people won't notice anything in that regard but I thought I would mention it for the picky out there, myself included.  How does the picture stack up against the latest Miramax DVD or even the fabled MPI DVD?  Bottom line is, you DO get more detail.  While the contrast levels are just a bit washed out compared to the MPI DVD version, the overall picture quality is a fair step up from ANY previous home video release.  It is a sad thing to say, but it COULD have been much much better.  Even just using the same exact film elements and rescanning at 2 or 4k with 1080p output resolution and a few contrast/brightness tweaks would have REALLY made this film pop big time.  Mind you, it is no where near to "poor quality" in appearance.  From time to time you get an almost 3D pop, but just barely and then ti is gone and you have been teased, seeing what COULD have been with this release and wasn't. Obviously they have taken the easy cheap way out here by using the existing production master which was never progressive in nature to begin with.  Oh well, it is still much better than any existing home video product and I am glad to own it.  What about the sound quality? Many are raving about it.  It is presented in DTS-HD Master Audio so what could go wrong...right? For the most part, not much. Dialogue is crisp and as clean as you will ever get from this movie, which was done quickly and 'on the cheap' back in 1964 when The Beatles were running their mop tops off and had very little time for extra takes or for much ADR dubbing after the fact.  Most of the music sounds better than it EVER has and that is the main sell point for me.  Presented in the highest fidelity available for now, theses tunes rock. Too bad we are not given a soundtrack only option to play just the tunes without the screaming and applause that is dubbed on top of a lot of it.  My only real complaint is that there is a very audible and annoying 'pumping' going on during "Can't Buy Me Love" which is obviously an error made at some point during the production of this Blu Ray release and caused by massive overuse of a stereo compressor.  None of my other copies of this film have this, and of course it doesn't exist on the studio recordings either. Yes the Beatles used compression in the studio, but this song is PUMPING so badly that it spoiled that part of the movie for me.  Again, unless you know what you are hearing it probably won't bother most people, but for those of us who do know, it will drive you up the wall.  All the other songs sound fine.  Some will notice they are slower and slightly lower in pitch, this being due to a production quirk that required an adjustment in filming speed so the Pal video monitors in the TV Studio sequences wouldn't show scan lines.  Basically unless somebody fixes the audio digitally for pitch and speed in a future re-release, we will always have to live with this little unfortunate artifact.  As for extras, most all the extras from the Miramax release are ported over to this Blu ray release and I won't bother listing them all here. It's a nice slelection, but you most likely have them already if you are a fan of this film.  'A Hard Days Night' is a low budget exploitation film created solely by United Artists to extract a soundtrack album.  It is also a true classic and a wonderful slice of the 1960's , attempting to portray a 'day in the life' of The Beatles.  It is amazing how well the film still holds up all these years later.  I am still hoping there will be an official 'Apple' release of this film that will give us a remastered 1080p picture and a proper soundtrack mix for the music, but for now this is the best there is and well worth owning.  Most viewers will find nothing wrong at all with this release with only the obsessive fans and videophiles/audiophiles among us complaining ever so slightly!  I love this movie and get a big charge out of it each and every time I watch it.  When you see the crowds and audience going wild for The Beatles in this film, it ISN'T acting!  YEAH YEAH YEAH !!!

Review I was very pleased to be able to obtain this video to accompany the first in this series: "A Man Called Horse".

The Pacific Blu-ray The Pacific blu-ray is great. Item was shipped over to me very quickly, and was at a conciderable savings verses all other majior in-store prices I checked out. This is just an awesome series for anyone who is into the WWII genre. Would highly recommend this miniseries to everyone.

All 3 Movies on Blu-Ray Only For $17.99 - Great Deal !! I must admit that this package wasn't on my list to pick up as I wasn't particularly impressed when I saw all three movies at the theater. I remembered them being entertaining with lots of action but other details didn't stick with me. When I saw this just for $17.99 on Easter Sunday, April 4 I couldn't resist the temptation and ordered it.  Mission Impossible (my rating: 4 star) is actually a very decent effort and the movie is loyal to the original TV series with look and feel of it, including the storytelling style. Ethan Hunt and his team go on a mission to retrieve a list that contains the names of secret agents but the operation goes wrong and Ethan finds himself trying to uncover the list and the identity of the mysterious mole named "job".  Mission Impossible II (my rating: 3 stars) Unfortunately this movie is probably the weakest installment in the entire franchise. It is not even remotely close to the original. Actually, the basic plot line is not that terrible and there are some redeeming qualities. However, the first act is ruined by the romance between Ethan and Nyah which is built on empty dialogues, cheesy lines, not to mention the  ridiculous car race scene where both cars get tangled and spin out of control. However none of this is match to what happens in the last 20 minutes of the movie which is pretty much filled with one nonsense action scene after another, cars flying in air, crashing into one another exploding, motorcycle race, Ethan and Sean riding their motorcycles toward each other and jumping in air, colliding with each other in mid-air with 80 miles per hour speed and never-ending fight sequence with lots of karate gimmicks. I understand that action movies are not always believable and they are not supposed to be realistic but there is a line and Mission Impossible 3 crosses that line by miles (John Woo may be technically a potent director with technical skills and I admit each action scene is filmed perfectly but that's not enough to make a good movie).  Mission Impossible III (my rating is 5 star). I can honestly say this movie is the saving grace of this box set. Some might rightfully argue it is even better than the first one. It is not as loyal to the original TV series as the first one is but it is very entertaining and moves with excellent speed. It has some incredible action scenes, gun fighting and explosions, but it still manages to stay within certain limits. Mission Impossible III is only second to Mission Impossible IV The Ghost Protocol which is not part of this box set.  Overall, I think this a great box set especially for $17.99. I am not sure about the criticism about the lack of lossless audio some other reviewers mention. I understand lossless (uncompressed audio) is the clearest sound available but then again there are many Blu-ray titles that don't have uncompressed audio but they still have, as all these 3 movies have, 5.1 DTS HD audio which is still great.

If you like Al Pacino These are old collections of the suspense movies and you have to like this type of films to have this DVD.  I like the Insomnia and Seven more than the Heat and The Devil's Advocate due to the story line and the plot.  Al Pacino's performance (in three of the four movies of this set)becomes more predictable in his style.  So he is not like Meryl Streep who can act on any roles.  If you like to collect any one of the four movies, then you can not beat the price of this combo collection.

"Intersection" is a gut wrenching emotional roller coaster ride This movie has a lot of twists and turns, so you'll have to sit still and pay attention to understand it. Richard Gere plays Vincent Eastman a debonair and renowned architect who works with his corporate partner Sally who also happens to be his wife of 16 years that he has separated from, and the mother of his 13-year-old daughter.  As the movie begins Vincent is driving (much too fast) along a winding road. As he rounds a corner he comes upon a Van that has stalled in the middle of the road. He swerves to avoid hitting the Van only to run head-on into a large Commercial truck and trailer. At this point Vincent's life flashes before his eyes and he recounts what brought him to this metaphorical crossroad, or "Intersection", in his life. "Your wife and daughter are in your house in the country and your girlfriend is in your apartment in the city. Not a good plan Vincent. Architecture 101--everything under one roof. You've got to make a decision", Vincent's design partner (played by Martin Landau) tells him. Will he choose a new path and commit to the woman he fell in love with, Olivia (Lolita Davidavich); the woman with the wild fiery red hair that wears her emotions on her sleeve, a woman who is vivacious and full of life? Or will he choose to return to the path he was on prior to meeting Olivia? Back to his wife Sally (Sharon Stone), a classic beauty that is stoic and emotionally cold, and a marriage that he describes as being more like a corporation with a child. His choice, and the ending, will leave you breathless.

A good, traditional haunted house story The Woman in Black is a pretty traditional haunted house story that focuses on atmosphere and the lingering feeling of dread instead of CGI gore and horror. If you've read the book, you'll be familiar with the unsettling nature of the story - a general sense that translated well to the stage play and here to the film. The filming locations capture the remoteness of a house cut off by tide and tragedy and the general production design makes great use of a set to spring some fairly major jumps.  Daniel Radcliffe is well cast in bringing an innocence to a pretty dire situation where children keep dying every time the woman in black shows up, and he's clearly going to keep going beyond Harry Potter. The rest of the cast do well to portray the town that doesn't want Radcliffe there too. All of the tension and surprises rise from the situation and some clever camera shots and even the most hardened horror fan should get quite a few scares.  It's all a fairly solid production until the ending. Susan Hill's book transcended the genre with the end of her story (which has since been copied many times) but this movie doesn't stay faithful to the original material in an attempt to spare the audience the downer. Considering the whole tale is about multiple violent child deaths, I think the filmmakers underestimated the audience here.

Total chick flick, which is what I was looking for I tend to gravitate toward highly recommended films and classics so often that I sometimes feel the need to see a lighthearted movie. My state of mind when watching anything determines my reaction to it.  This made me miss the days when my daughters picked something for us to watch together. I have a special place in my heart for old Disney flicks and movies like "Mean Girls" or "Nanny McPhee." They were well-acted and entertaining films that I personally wouldn't have chosen - but turned out to be a pleasant surprise. It can be a lot of fun to watch a fantasy that is guaranteed to have a happy ending.  This made me smile and I enjoyed it for what will undoubtedly be a one time watch - that is unless one of my daughter's wants to have a chick flick day with me sometime!

Better than the last two! I feel that the first movie, "the black pearl" and this one are the best that the series has to offer up till now.  Of course I gave it a four star because I do not think it had the depth of characters or back story that the black pearl had which I would give a five star to.  The cinematography is top notch and the story keeps you engaged to the end.  I highly recommend this movie!

Happy Though Dated Just for fun, I decided to order the Jazz Singer with Neil Diamond for a family Christmas gift. I was surprised how expensive a new DVD would cost so I settled on a used one in Very Good shape for half the price. I'm glad I didn't pay more. Memory is a funny thing and this is a very dated movie. The quality of the DVD was great and it was fun to watch again after so many years but it certainly wasn't worth the price for a new copy. No shipping problems.

White Zombie On the boat ride from New York to Haiti to meet her fiance Neil, Madeleine (Madge Bellamy) meets Charles Beaumont (Robert Frazer) who not only invites Madeleine and Neil to marry in his home, but promises that on their return to New York, he'll offer Neil a job in one of his banks. In truth, Beaumont wants to get closer to Madeleine in hopes of stealing her away and marrying her himself. When she rejects his advances, he turns to local Voodoo prince "Murder" Legendre (Bela Lugosi). Legendre (whose sugar mine is staffed with the walking dead) gives Beaumont a drug that will make Madeleine his. The drug, however, puts Madeleine into a death-like coma which, when Legendre brings her out of it, will turn Madeleine into Beaumont's mindless slave.  Neil (John Harron), distraught over his loss, turns to Dr. Bruner (Joseph Cawthorn), the missionary who married the Parkers, and together they realize what's happened and set out to rescue Neil's wife.  Now this is the kind of zombie movie I've been dying to see. I'm not sure how it is Hollywood's managed to distort the idea of zombies from mindless slaves to flesh-eating monsters, but for a long time I've wanted to see zombies done the way they're supposed to be. Granted, this version of the zombie isn't as terrifying as the one who'll eat you, but with the right story, they can still be made threatening.  WHITE ZOMBIE was released in 1932, and it shows. The quality is horrible in spots, there are jumps in dialogue where you can tell cuts were made. The actors are all too white--obviously wearing make-up for the black and white film stock. The effects are limited to a couple of double exposures and a bullet-hole appearing in one zombie's stomach, but for all the old-time cheesiness, this is a hell of a good horror movie.  The zombies Legendre controls are creepy as hell. Silent working machines with blank stares, you get the feeling they're capable of anything, and given they're controlled by a man called "Murder", you believe "anything" is exactly what they'll do.  The principles, Bellamy, Harron, and Frazer, all give fine performances--fine for 1932. Frazer and Harron over-emote a bit (okay, Harron hams it up, but at least Frazer keeps it under control), while Bellamy plays her dual role--willful Madeleine, then zombie Madeleine--very well. Lugosi, however . . . once again Lugosi is his own worst enemy. The Lugosi stare is back in full effect in this movie. I sometimes find it funny when actors rely so heavily on one aspect of their performance to carry them through most of their roles, then complain when they're typecast. And Lugosi as a Haitian? I think not.  But even with Bela "I played Dracula, then beat that horse to death the rest of my career" Lugosi, WHITE ZOMBIE succeeds where so many other "classic horror" movies fail. It tells a good story, it makes sense, and in places it creeps you out. And despite a running time of a mere 69 minutes, we still get to know enough about the characters and their situation to care when Neil is backed up against the ledge overlooking the ocean with half a dozen zombies shambling toward him.  I was surprised by WHITE ZOMBIE. After the previous 3 Lugosi movies (BLACK DRAGONS, THE INVISIBLE GHOST, and ONE BODY TOO MANY), I'd given up hope of finding a good one. And while he's far from the best thing here, the overall experience is a rewarding one. Finally, a zombie movie about actual zombies, and it offers a few honestly unsettling moments, which is more than I can say for most of the other horror movies I've seen in the last 5 years.  WHITE ZOMBIE just might be strong enough to become a Halloween tradition. It's that good.

Suprisingly Good! I'm kinda picky when choosing to check out a new show, but I had never even heard of Breaking Bad, and Amazon and Netflix kept bugging me to watch it via my recommended products, and I finally gave in.  I guess the image for the show (shown here as the cover for the first DVD) had me confused about what the show would feel like perhaps - I was expecting more of a sitcom initially.  After finishing up the first season, I feel like the show Breaking Bad is essentially a mix of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000Q6GUW0">Dexter: The First Season</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FFJYE8">Weeds: Season One</a>.  I do not mean to say that it appears to clone these shows, but rather if you tied in the basic elements of each and put them into a brand new show, I think you would end up with Breaking Bad.  I loved both of those shows, and so naturally I felt drawn to this one as well.  My main complaint is the main character's personality just feels a little off.  The actor does a great job with it, and I do understand the director's (or whoever's) intention of making the personality come out like it does, but I feel like it is a little much at times, and makes the show feel like it is dragging.  Thankfully, he remains quirky enough that you don't notice it too often.

Heartwarming Very enjoyable start to finish. We were frustrated seeing the dilemma Jessie had between the two guys because the choice seemed so easy for us, but then the other one would do something to draw you back.  We were very happy with the ending.

Fun movie, good picture and sound I fall in love with Olivia all over again every time I watch this movie.  She is astoundingly beautiful in her Golden Goddess costume during her entrance in the last scene of the finale.  Gene Kelly never lost the magic.  He could still float across a room like he was dancing on a cloud.  One complaint: the image is too large and too cropped.  It's most evident and most annoying in the overhead finale shots when the top and bottom of the turntable are cut off.  I compared the same frame side-by-side with an HD broadcast image, and it is in this reproduction, not the original movie.  But overall, a fun movie with good picture and sound quality.

Yearly Holiday Entertainment I generally don't like to watch the same movie again and again, so I don't have much of a video collection.  The exception is for holiday movies.  I consider this to be one of the classics we have to have on hand at the holidays.  It's just so different from the others.  Just in case you haven't seen it, it is animated, of course.  It's whimsical and uplifting -- not just for the kids!

Really Grand Funny and thoughtful. Worth a watch, if your expectations are appropriately calibrated. The improvisation is just great, as are the impersonations.

the three stooges buy this kind of movies all the time good and funny you'll enjoy it.i collect old time movies, this is one you will watch over and over again.

Enjoyed this movie. This is a great movie with great actors. Really enjoyed it. The item shipped timely, this was an easy transactions.

Snatching Defeat from the Hands of Victory Two moronic, banana-slinging half-siblings (Gael Garc&iacute;a Bernal, Diego Luna) ascend from peasantry to football stardom by way of their formidable talent, though their auxiliary pursuits lead them to failure and ruination: goalkeeper Luna is an inveterate gambling addict, while striker Bernal falsely fancies himself a singer despite his complete dearth of talent. Writer/director Carlos Cuar&oacute;n's association with Mexico's sexiest BFFs may not be so profound as his brother Alfonso's international hit, but it's actually more engaging: despite their idiocy, it's easy to laugh at and cry for two hopeless jocks who haven't the first notion of how to conduct themselves whilst awash with fame and fortune.  As usual, Bernal and Luna are in top form as the asinine footballers, as is Guillermo Francella as their suave, sympathetic, long-suffering manager, who narrates their tale with a poetic wisdom. In fact, not a single poor performance is to be seen here. Further, Adam Kimmel's photography - especially that of landscapes - emphasizes the natural beauty of Mexico's unspoiled locales.  Just as the quick rise and precipitous fall of these simpletons reflect the breakneck development of Mexican society as it's emerged into meretricious modernity over the scant course of a half-century, so do the politics of their sport mirror its culture's many perils. Neither brother is proven any wiser after suffering for his foibles, and that much bespeaks a universal condition. Carlos may not aspire to his brother's filmmaking fame, but he's proven again that both owe their successes in part to his fabulist's talent.

"Good Romantic & Edgy Drama!" Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston star in this 1992 romantic drama. An Ex-Secret Service agent gets involved with a pop singer he's hired to protect. I've always enjoyed this film and Kevin and Whitney were great together. This dvd has good picture and sound plus a making- of documentary, music video and trailer. I recommend this good romantic & edgy drama.

Scrooge This is an old musical movie made in the 1970's and is utterly delightful.  Famous actors portray Charles Dickens' characters with integrity and amuzing depth.  It's simply a delightful old Christmas musical fit for children ages 7 and above, and for family viewing.  It's my favorite version of Dickens' famous book A Christmas Carol.

great workout; room for improvement on instruction This is a great workout. I am a big fan of Denise Austin. The only complaint I have is that her instructions could be better. She says things like "place your hands here" when you are not able to see the video to know where "here" is. The routine goes very quickly, and I sometimes feel rushed moving from one position to the next. I have done the workout only a few times and it seems to get easier to transition between moves each time I do the workout. My advice would be try not to get discouraged until you have done the workout a few times.

Worthy Sequel If you enjoyed the first installment of Sherlock Holmes, you're sure to enjoy the second.  It's done in the same vein as the first.  This time Sherlock Holmes is pitted against his arch-nemesis Prof Moriarty.  Robert Downey Jr pulls out another stellar performance in the title role.  Jude Law as Dr. Watson has good chemistry with Sherlock Holmes, which makes the movie fun to watch.  Plus the continuing relationships of Dr. Watson and Mary, and you have to admire any woman who can put with Sherlock for any amount of time.  Overall enjoyable movie if not ground breaking.

Comatose Cinema for the Spirit, Mind & Body Nature, phantoms & catfish. It's hard to really say what this film is about. It is however easier to say that the images in this film speak for themselves. First off, after being acquainted with work by Vietnamese director, Tr'n Anh H&ugrave;ng, I saw a strong similarity of visual poetry with his films and this film. The incredible Isaan region was captured so beautifully, that all I could think about was wanting to go there during the entire film. The overwhelming nature could easily swallow you up, as it did with the lurking phantoms that show themselves with their glowing red eyes. Long takes and a strong thread of neorealism penetrate the core of this film, but also surrealism and a dream-like trance heavily coat everything as well. This film's mutation of different styles has certainly created a distinctive piece of work.  However, this won't be everyone's film. The slow pacing and lack of easy explanation could put many people off. But if you're like me you'll fall into this film's spell and let your mind fill in the blanks rather than have them spoonfed to you. When the film ended, I wanted there to be more, and it is when I yearn after a film is over that I realize how successfully it has managed to ensnare my senses. Uncle Boonmee, after I have just finished it, feels like such a far-off dream, that all I can think about is watching it again to actualize all of the half-remembered details. The climax of the film, or lack of one, has completely intoxicated me with its simplicity and for the tangents it decided to take. This is a film about people, their connection to each other, themselves and the world around them. Meditative cinema is back on the fringes of the mainstream, and after what I've witnessed this year, I'm excited to see where it goes from here.

Decide for yourself. Now that Amazon's editorial review has told us what a stinker this is, how about deciding for yourself? This isn't "Citizen Kane," but the women -- especially Gina Gershon -- are ripe and breathtaking. Four stars for that alone. See what all the buzz is about.

Great Anime This is the second half of the Casshan reboot. Casshern Sins part 2 starts pulling back the viel of unkowns from the first half of the series and closes out very well. The voice acting (including the english dubbing) is good and has some great music to go along with it.

Avengers - the next generation Next Avengers - Heroes of Tomorrow... I was reserved in watching this; however, I did watch the 2 Ultimate Avengers movies and said, `Ok'.  Next Avengers takes place a few years after the Avengers battled the monstrous Ultron and lost, leading to the Earth's population decimated.  The children of the Avenger are secretly cared for by Tony Stark and from there... I'd give away the rest of the movie.  It's as much Avengers as one could think of, with an inside joke told twice... classic to the comic book.  Very entertaining.

To Muse Or Not To Muse Muse: 1. Greek Mythology Any of the nine daughters of Mnemosyne and Zeus, each of whom presided over a different art or science. 2. muse a. A guiding spirit. b. A source of inspiration. 3. muse A poet. Free On-line Dictionary  Hollywood seems so false. Each of us has our own interpretation of Hollywood life, but I can safely assume that behind the glamour is a group of people playing one-upsmanship, trying to outdo the other and using any means to get there. Steven Phillips, played by Albert Brooks is a film writer. Now, Albert Brooks has always been the epitome of irony to me. His acting and comedic skills are so powerful that he has become a favorite of mine. Somehow Albert Brooks is able to convey and project the feelings of a film writer who is on the skids, but doesn't want to face the reality of a Hollywood that has no empathy. He has written 17 films and is comfortable with the company he works for. B ut, he is told by his boss that he has lost his 'edge'. Steven feels he is on the edge now and never lost his. After talking with his agent, Hal, played by Bradley Whitford, he is told that no studio wants him, they all feel he has lost the 'edge'. Steven goes looking for help, and ends up at the home of a fellow writer, Jack, played by Jeff Bridges. Jack reluctantly tells him he has hired a 'muse' to help him through the rough spots. At last Steven meets the Muse, Nicole, played by Sharon Stone and hires her. Sharon Stone steps out of her usual sexpot roles and plays a seemingly, intelligent woman who has wisdom to spare. That is not how this Muse works. Steven must pay handsomely, Muses do not come cheap! As time goes on, Steven's wife comes under Nicole's spell and she and Steven go to great lengths to keep their muse.  This is a light hearted romp through the business of film writing, and we get a look at how Howllywood works. It is not all talent, tricks and under pinnings all play a part in this world. Self confidence can be the name of the game, but we all need a boost every so often. This is not one of Albert Brook's best film, but it is a good one. So, is it better to hire a muse or be one?  Recommended. prisrob 01-23-12  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001R1B6YA">Defending Your Life</a>  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000I8G5DK">Basic Instinct 2</a>

Loved Fireproof! I found Fireproof to be entertaining as well in convicting. Most of the acting was realistic and sincere, even if it was not professional. Within a very short time the story had me so involved in the characters lives that any minor flaws were not noticed. As in their previous movies, the Kendricks brothers had me crying, laughing, cheering, and, during the action sequences, on the edge of my seat.  Being a Christian, I was not turned off by the message(s) of faith in Christ that are an inherent part of Sherwood Pictures productions, and I didn't feel like that aspect of the movie was being shoved down my throat. It is presented, laid out before the audience, and is there for you to take it or leave it. If you find occasional conversations about God, Jesus, or spiritual matters offensive, then be warned, you may be offended on occasion. I'm sure there are plenty of movies at your theater that push loose morals, profanity, and obscenity that you can choose if this is not your cup of tea. But if a message of being good, kind, and loving doesn't frighten you, I highly recommend this movie.  At times I saw myself on the screen, as most of us can relate to some level of tension in marriage (or any relationship). The principles behind the message can work in most situations - whether or not you are a Christian. And I believe people of any marital status can learn valuable lessons from this movie and be entertained at the same time.  An interesting side note - I heard in a couple different interviews that Kirk Cameron auditioned for this part like all of the other volunteer actors, AND was a willing volunteer himself - pretty much quieting the skeptics who claim he (and others) were making this movie to line their pockets.

Innocence I have never seen a film which can combine philosophy, romance, politics and entertainment with such ease. I highly recommend this for any creative individual

;0) I liked it, I thought it was a touching story and the part with his dad I was bawling my eyes out, I was bawling sometimes. The whole concept of the movie was good the letter writing from both characters, the other stories that brought everything together was good. I put off watching this movie and glad I finally did. A good watch

Crowe does crow Russell Crowe has a definite style and it comes through in this movie.  Excellent from start to finish, it's the kind of movie that keeps you glued to the screen,

A good film to watch, but could have used some work This film is a mostly nice attempt to summarize the events that lead up to the Hindenburg's distruction on may sixth, 1937, as it was completing the first voyage of its second season of service.  Because this ship completed its first flight season without a single passenger mishap, it was thought to be safe.  The film begins nicely with a grainy but historically accurate black and white seen describing the history of airship travel, but as the film progresses, some accuracies become apparent to those who have previously read on the Hindenburg disaster.  If historical inaccuracies drive you nuts, then I would stay away from this film, but it's still a good one to watch.  What I was most disappointed with is the fact that the actors meant to play the German crew of the airship weren't themselves German, and spoke with no accent, as is apparent in Hogan's heroes.  The model of the Hindenburg that was used in the movie is on display at the Aeronautics and Space Museum in Washington. D.C.  If you're willing to overlook its flaws, it is truely a piece worth watching!

An Action-Packed Mystery Detective Dee is an action/mystery film. Detective Dee is called upon to solve the mystery of the phantom flame. It leads to some mysterious conspiracies and over-the-top battles. Overall, it's a very fun and entertaining flick.  What did I like? It moves at a fast pace for a 2 hour film, so the story was captivating. The action scenes are over-the-top; I'm talking fighting on and dodging logs, and even fighting CG deer. Visually, in personally thought the film looked amazing. The acting was fine, and I enjoyed the music.  What did I dislike? The use of special effects was weak at times. Like the animal vs man fight, it looked too cheesy and poorly done. I did like the over-the-top action but felt it got too ridiculous and some concepts weren't fully explained.  Overall, Detective Dee is a fun mystery film. I definitely recommend checking it out. If you're interested, it is currently available on Netflix Streaming as of 7/6/12.  Detective Dee has some violence and blood (bodies vividly combust/burn), and no nudity or sex.  *originally posted on DVD version.

Alec Guinness is George Smiley The movie, while good, does not do justice to the story.  You need to see the Alec Guinness mini-series.  I love Gary Oldman and he does a good job but the story is too neat, too easy, and worked too hard to fit into the 2 hour movie format. After watching the Gary Oldman version it just slapped me in the face how really good the diabolical chess match with Karla was in the Alec Guinness version, especially considering it was 1979 vintage.  Even with that comparison there were still several very good scenes in the movie.

Infinitely Rewatchable Anyone who spends any time around me will quickly find that there are some movies that I can watch or "watch" almost on repeat for an extended period of time (I put watch in quotes because sometimes I'll have a movie playing while either going to sleep, at the computer, cleaning, working, etc.). JFK became one of those films.  I didn't see it until probably almost 15 years after it came out. I was scouring an auction site for old, cheap laser discs to add to my collection and came across it. It wasn't much, so I ordered it. It probably sat on my shelf for another year before I remembered that I owned it and finally popped it in. I hadn't been purposely hesitating, it's just that, you know, I had heard some not-good things about it and it wasn't a priority. I was pretty blown away by it and started recommending it to anyone who hadn't seen it. Yeah, it's not exactly rooted in reality, but as a crime procedural-thriller, it's a good flic! It's got solid performances from the entire cast, Stone was doing interesting things with lighting, cinematography, etc. and it's visually interesting. And, yeah, while Costner is completely tolerable his accent is both unnecessary and pretty bad. Garrison was originally from Iowa and didn't talk like that. Heck, the real Garrison is in the film (as Justice Warren) and he sounds like hes' from the middle of the country, not the south (you can also find videos of him on Youtube). Costner plays it like Garrison is from the Bayou-- but a cartoon Bayou. Other than that, though, he's good.  I picked it up on Blu-Ray so that I wouldn't have to change discs to watch the last half (and the Mr. X monologue is one of my favorite parts). Yes, it's long spanning several years, but it's intriguing unless you can't switch off the part of your mind that just can't let this exist as entertainment instead of a documentary. It prompted me to spend a bit of time on line reading about some of the historical players in the film and reading some of the criticism of the film from a historical perspective. The film is fun for what it gets both right and wrong, what it represents and misrepresents, and as a supposition of what could happen and why. Also, the BD transfer is fantastic looking. Great color, the intentionally over-exposed bits are very bright, the shadows are dark, the warmly shot scenes are very nice looking. And the cast-- wow! There are enough stars and great actors in this film whose collective careers span the better part of the 20th century. And, hey, this film will give you plenty of ammo for your next Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon! You could probably get to Charlie Chaplin in just a couple jumps from here :)  I say just enjoy it for what it is: a political crime procedural with some thriller elements. If you look at this as a historical document it's my opinion that you're doing it wrong.

6 and 7 year old boys love it My kids ask to watch it periodically and love it.. I guess as soon as I buy it, they'll stop watching it.

Well done! An aspiring young filmmaker spent a short time in 1956 on the set of a Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe film as an assistant director. He became close to Marilyn as many men had, and ended up a key figure in the production. Marilyn Monroe was notoriously difficult to work with in Hollywood and that is well-dramatized here. Michelle Williams IS Marilyn Monroe in this one and her performance highlights a realistic look at the difficulties that Marilyn had with trying to be a serious Hollywood actress while dealing with her insecurities and a prescription drug habit. This film was a pleasant surprise and another terrific movie to see during the holiday season.

Bodyguary - really good movie. This was a really good movie.  Whitney did a great job being this was her first movie role! Kevin Costner was good as well as always.  The movie had a good theme and was well written.  All of the actors in the movie played his/her part well and the characters made sense.

Enjoyable Overall, I enjoyed the dancing as well as learning about this Chinese dancer's life.  I struggled between 3 and 4 stars as I felt that the film could have been shorter and not lost anything.  I also felt that parts were hokey with dialog that seemed sappy at times.  The ballet segments were breathtakingly beautiful.

A Conventional Police Procedural Turns Into One Of the Year's Biggest Surprises--A Tough And Uncompromising Treat I'm going to be honest, I really wasn't overly exited to see "Gone Baby Gone." From the previews, it looked like a competent--if familiar--genre picture. I was galvanized, finally, to see the film based on Amy Ryan's practical sweep of the award season's Best Supporting Actress Prizes. The Affleck brothers, Ben as Director and Casey as Star, did nothing to alleviate my limited expectations. But something quite unexpected happened--my opinion completely changed as I was caught up in the twists of this genuinely good sleeper. Ben Affleck has generated a brisk, tough and uncompromising film and Casey Affleck has turned himself into a bona fide leading man! And although not a flawless film, I ended up loving "Gone Baby Gone."  When a child goes missing, the community of Dorchester gets caught in a media frenzy. With Morgan Freeman and Ed Harris as officials in charge of the investigation, Casey Affleck (as a local detective) is brought in by the family as additional help. Having been raised in the area, it is felt that these contacts may give him better access to and communication with the tightlipped Boston neighborhood. Immediately, the story starts to unravel and the sympathetic mother (Amy Ryan) turns out to be not so sympathetic. The route the film follows takes us to some familiar territory but also to unchartered waters. The film dares to raise moral and ethical questions and presents a terrific and thoroughly uncompromising ending! The film's final moments put this head and shoulders above traditional Hollywood product. And I give Ben Affleck full credit for not bending to a more stereotypical conclusion.  "Gone Baby Gone" is actually the fourth in a series of novels by crime writer Dennis Lehane featuring private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. It is, however, the first to be treated to a big screen adaptation. Those familiar with the novels know that the Kenzie/Gennaro dynamic provides much emotion and conflict. Their relationship is almost as important as any case that they work. Fans of this aspect of Lehane's novels, therefore, might be a bit disappointed. In making this stand-alone film, Gennaro is largely marginalized and the impact of what happens to them as a couple isn't as significant to the story as it is in the book. That said, film and novels are two different mediums and "Gone Baby Gone" as a film still works exceedingly well in its own right.  Casey Affleck is not the conventional actor one would picture for this role. Small in stature, relaxed in delivery--his offbeat presence actually makes "Gone Baby Gone" even more intriguing. As he is not a predictable "leading man," you're never quite sure what he's going to do. I found this lack of expectation to be quite invigorating and led me to accept and appreciate the twists of the film to a greater degree. With "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," this was Casey's year to redefine himself. Freeman, Harris, Ryan, Amy Madigan, and Michelle Monaghan (as Gennaro) all give impassioned performances. With a tight script and solid direction, "Gone Baby Gone" is a surprisingly tough film--and I mean that in all the best ways. Highly recommended. KGHarris, 01/08.

The Bouly This was and great movie one of a kind and yes it would have been even better had the director/producers given the movie a better soundtrack, perhaps some old school jams like Rafi Pagan, Heatwave, G.Q., Malo, etc.). It is still not to late to make a new version of this old concept.It would definitely be a hit.

Blu-Ray Impresses with Picture Quality The digital transfer for the Blu-Ray version of Spider-Man 2 exceeded my expectations.  I had owned this on DVD but after the kids watching it non-stop the disc had gotten several scratches and began to skip.  When it was finally too much to deal with I replaced it with a Blu-Ray disc.  I didn't have hight expectations that this version would be much different than what I saw on DVD.  I was amazed at the clarity of the picture.  The detail made the movie even more immersive.  My only regret is that the movie was not available in a combo-pack featuring both Blu-Ray and DVD to all the kids to watch the movie in the car.  Despite this drawback I would still recommend to anyone looking for an impressive picture and sound quality.

the best way for newcomers to enjoy this master piece i am kinda seasoned in the dbz series. i have read every dbz manga volume. i did own seasons 1 and 9 plus the broly trilogy and wrath of the dragon/fusion reborn. at the time i got season 1 nicktoons was close to airing dbz kai. i watched my season thinking it was like another anime (naruto or one piece). boy was i wrong. i loved that it had a retro 90*s feel. i kinda griped at filler, with a few exceptions. when dbz kai was on dvd i saw part 1. 50 dollars. i buy lots of anime especially old 4 episode volumes of finished anime , the one thing i cant stand in fye is overpriced anime at 13 episodes a set. most anime are now making it to fans with 2 in 1 value collections like naruto and one piece. months after seeing the last episode of kai on tv ( I know the events of every main saga so i skipped watching some of namek and cell sagas) i saw this dvd (the 50 dollar part 1 which is now 35 at fye) for 8 BUCKS! great music and a fast fun way to watch a classic anime. now the time to buy dbz kai!

The Music and Dancing Make This Movie; Wall-e's Favorite Well, folks, I've always thought musicals are a little silly. Fun, entertaining, but silly. I mean, people don't start dancing and singing in the middle of the streets the way they do in musicals. Waiters do not, really do not, dance around and do cartwheels carrying trays with fake food glued to them.  Silly, but entertaining. Lavish sets and costumes, some wonderful music, a very silly plot, and the magnificent voice of Barbra Streisand.  In 1890, Dolly Levi (Streisand) goes out to Yonkers to see Horace Vandergelder (Walter Matthau) and take his niece Ermengarde off to New York to get her away from the suitor who Vandergelder feels is inappropriate because he's an artist, which is impractical. Vendergelder is himself off to New York to ask a young milliner to marry him. But Dolly has other plans. Through a series of sneaky moves, Dolly manages to get all the potential couples matched up properly: including herself and Vandergelder. In the process, all those songs and dances and lovely costumes and settings.

THE WIZ IZ BACK ! Product was delivered and received in perfect shape . Had to get because daughter is in middle school production of The Wiz! As far as the movie goes it is hard to watch. Very long urbanized version of the Wizard of Oz .Some things should be left alone.

Excalibur (Blue-Ray) The first time I saw this movie (years back) in cable I thought it was one pf the best King Arthur movies I've eve saw.  I was surprised to see Patrick Steward and Liam Neeson in it.  When I saw this was going to be launched in Blue-Ray it was no brainer.  The movie is as expected... since is an old movie, the production is not very good:  Terrible sound effects, terrible fighting scenes, not very good acting, etc.  ...But I still think is a good King Arthur movie.  I was strucked when I found out Morgana is actually Hellen Mirren!!.  You can see her nowadays in RED with Bruce Willys and Morgan Freeman.  She was H-O-T in her days.  What it lacked this edition is some special features.  Maybe interviews with the actors would be nice but nothing of that.

finally a decent statham film The guy has a great screen presence with very few good movies under his belt.  If you like action flicks this is entertaining and has enough twists and new angles to keep things interesting if not predictable.  If you like this guys better films you will like this one.  It is not a turkey like so much of his offerings.

Lassie with a twist ... The only reason this movie gets four stars is for Billy Connolly & Carrie Anne-Moss, otherwise three.  Just substitute a zombie for Lassie & you're back in the 1950s ... Ah ... such a wonderful time NOT  Zombies have taken over & that's where the fun begins. There are endearing scenes, but this isn't a George Romero movie.  It was a little boring, but I watched it anyway. Everybody whom deserved to die did.  The best parts of the movie were Fido & Mrs. Robinson. She gets into trouble in all sorts of movies. Hello ... Dustin Hoffman reference  Billy nailed the zombie role. They allowed him more feelings as the movie progressed, so it got funnier.  I'm used to seeing Carrie as a hardass in the movies. This time she got to play a domesticated housewife. Oh ... she got to shine in the second half of them movie.  See it for yourself ...

Samantha Who season 2 I like this sitcom, I think it is very funny. I had seen a few episodes on tv and was sad to see it go off the air.

A Cottage on Dartmoor Stodgy Asquith was such a show-off in his youth! A barber becomes obsessed w/ his manicurist colleague, who's just not into him. Asquith borrows tons from Eisenstein: one rapid-fire montage of the stalker losing it shows a frayed rope breaking, cannons firing off, & a single red frame. Another great montage in a movie theater lasts for 10 minutes & never shows the film playing on screen once. A gem. 8/10

Losing My Religion... and other Renn Fayre stories "Blue Like Jazz" (2012 release; 106 min.) is a remarkable little movie on many different levels. Marshall Allman plays Don Miller (on whose autobiography the movie is based), a Southern Baptist teenager in Houston. Miller's universe is shaken up when he finds out that his mom is having an affair with the (married) youth minister of his church. At the prodding of his far more liberal-leaning dad, Miller ends up going to Reed College, the liberal arts school in Portland, OR. Talk about a contrast! Miller tries to fit in as best he can, and also meets Penny (played by Claire Holt), to whom he is instantly attracked. Will Miller lose his religion? Will Miller win the girl? To say much more about the plot would ruin your viewing experience, you'll just have to see for yourself how it all plays out, but I will say this: there are a couple of nice twists towards the end. The campus of Reed College is almost a character in and of itself, and a number of its campus traditions play a prominent role in the story line, including its annual Renn Fayre festival. Apart from that, I thought Claire Holt was quite the eye-opener (her days on "H2O Just Add Water" are clearly behind her!).  Apart from the movie itself, it is worth noting that the fact that the movie was even made is almost a miracle, with hoped-for investment money not coming through days before shooting was to begin. Several fans began raising money through the Kickstarter website, and long story short, enough money came through for the movie to be made (all 3000+ contributors are listed in the film credits, by the way, scrolling by very quickly). The movie made its debut just 2 months ago at the SXSW Film Festival and with almost unheard of speed/urgency, only a month later it was in the theatre (where I saw just it the other day).  Last, but certainly not least, the movie features an excellent soundtrack, truly enjoyable. Most notable is the outstanding indie-rock band Menomena (from Portland, incidentally), who have 4 or 5 songs in the movie. Also featured are indie bands like Be Your Own Pet and Cincinnati's Over the Rhine, which contributes "All I Get For Christmas Is Blue" in an important Christmas-themed scene, as well as jazz legend John Coltrane (his album "A Love Supreme" plays an important role itself in the movie). To be clear: REM's "Losing My Religion" is NOT featured in the film, although certainly could have thematically. In all, I found "Blue Like Jazz" to be an unexpected, likable, quirky little movie, miles away from your standard Hollywood fare. If that sound like your cup of tea, you will injoy this movie quite a bit.

For Suspense, Applause for Tom Clancy - and a Fine Cast THE SUM OF ALL FEARS may be 10 years old not but it packs a wallop no matter how many times it is viewed.  Credit the particular genius of Tom Clancy and his memorable creation of the main character in these suspense/espionage thrillers for that, but at the same time much credit is due screenwriters Paul Attanasio and Daniel Pyne for the tense dialogue and DiRector Phil Alden Robinson for the pacing of this story.  As far as the story is concerned, very briefly the essence can be summarized as follows: When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight and advice on the situation. Then the unthinkable happens: a nuclear bomb explodes in a U.S. city, and America is quick to blame the Russians.  Jack Ryan was a role that seemed to belong to Harrison Ford in the other Clancy films, but here that role is assumed very well indeed by Ben Affleck. He is capably assisted by Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Bruce McGill, Liev Schreiber and Philip Baker Hall along with a large cast of supporting actors.  They give it their all and make this film work on every level. For solid entertainment this is a film that deserves repeated visits.  Grady Harp, December 11

Soothing yoga I loved this yoga routine and the way the instructions were delivered. The routine is fairly basic and just right for  a pregnant women. The prenatal section is under 30 minutes which means that one can rarely be too busy to accommodate this yoga in a daily routine.

Fun, if familiar Entertaining if derivative Steven Spielberg homage (ironically produced by Spielberg himself), ths is smarter than most modern summer action movies by a long shot, with some amazing special effects, some fun shocks, and good performances from a brace of young actors.  What it doesn't have is a lot of originality, being sort of a mash up of E.T. and Close Encounters with a few bits of The Goonies and old monster movies thrown in.  It does remind us of how good those stories were, and that there's no reason you can't make a teenage friendly action adventure with smarts.  Fun and fast paced, but after the smashing (literally) opening I was hoping for more than a warm hearted, well made re-tread of films gone by.

good entertainment it was  exactly what I wanted. Good entertainment. No brainer,but good movie. I will watch it again. hope they will make more

Great "Plug & Play" Video I really like this video for variety and ease of use.  Pop it in, choose a day, and it plays all the videos that are associated with that day.  You can choose to follow the 28-Day Plan, or do the segments separately on their own.  Knocking off a star only because it's not as hardcore of a workout as a Zumba or Pilates class that you would get at a gym, but for an at-home option, it's a really decent use of your time and burn potential.  The package also contains a couple of other workout segments from other people published by the same DVD company that are useful, and some great recipes from the new SparkPeople Cookbook.

Pretty Good I enjoyed it. The story line is fairly slow; however, I enjoyed the fresh take on typical exorcism movies.  I would recommend this movie!

Solid movie - B+ Maybe more of a 3.8 or 3.9 than a 4.0. But - in this day and age - McFestus rounds up. Story - credible. Acting - good. Matthew M is not the same as the lead lawyer in the book, but his take is more than passable. Plot - interesting with enough twists and turns to keep one involved. William H Macy and John Leguizamo deliver with authority in their brief parts. Ryan Phillipe handles the spoiled young man part with aplomb. Almost as if he has done it before. It's a good solid effort.

Entertaining take on the Sleepy Hollow story I've long been a fan of the Sleepy Hollow story as well as Tim Burton's films, so this was a must-get for me. Johnny Depp shines as the eccentric Ichabod Crane, and Christina Ricci is great as the beautiful, mysterious Katrina Van Tassel. I was also pleasantly surprised to see Ian McDiarmid(of Star Wars fame) in a supporting role, as well as a cameo by Christopher Lee. As for the story, Burton does take a few liberties with it, but still makes it very enjoyable. And of course, he adds his own brand of twisted, zany happenings that make the hour and 45 minutes a very fun ride (and if you can get this in Blu-Ray, I highly recommend it!). If you're a fan of the Sleepy Hollow story and/or a fan of Tim Burton's work, add this movie to your collection. You won't regret it!

skulls love this movie!! I watch this from time to time. You can't go wrong with this movie when you have friends or visitor wanting to watch some good action thriller.

Planet of the Apes DVD collection Purchased as a gift for someone special who is a fan of these films. I am sure the preson will be delighted to receive them.

kids cant get enough of the sponge I watched this with my daughter and grandson and have to admit i was laughing as much[if not more]then they were. funny and witty at times the story is plain and simple with a sprinkle of moral values[i know Spongebob and morals??].. a fairly talented cast wraps this movie up well,,, i guess I'm just a kid a heart as i enjoyed this as much as any kid would.. Go Goofy Goobers!

Wonderful nostalgia What a great experience. This is such a little time capsule of 1980 's music and aesthetics. The DVD quality was a little grainy and appeared to be a video transfer, but this barely detracted from what was a wonderful return to a film very much of its time and all the better for it.

GREAT Great thriller that will have you jumping out of your seat at times. This was a fantastic thriller about four eyewitnesses of a murder who run for the lives after a group of gansters goes after them.

Robin Williams Does It Again A three-hankie movie. Heart-breaking and also inspiring. This was an especially deep one for me because the action takes place in a hospital for chronic patients, mostly mental patients, that reminded me quite painfully of where my father spent most of my life. He was in the locked ward at Norristown State Hospital from 1962 until his death in 1995.  Robin Williams plays Dr. Malcolm Sayer, and he is a real doctor (or was in 1990). He was trained in neurology, and had never really worked with patients before coming to Bainbridge Hospital in 1969. Robert DeNiro plays Leonard Lowe, a patient who had been catatonic for something over 30 years.  Dr. Sayer found the common link between him and quite a few other catatonic patients in the hospital: they had all had encephalitis years earlier. He studied their conditions, noted that many of them would catch a tennis ball if he threw it toward them, and found that an electroencephalogram showed a reaction when he spoke Leonard's name aloud.  Dr. Sayer concluded that their symptoms had something in common with Parkinson's Disease. He noted that the new drug L-Dopa was being given to Parkinson's patients with good results, and persuaded the hospital to allow him to administer it to Leonard Lowe with his mother's permission. Leonard woke up.  Eventually Dr. Sayer administered it to about a dozen other catatonic patients and woke them up, too. They didn't even know what year it was, or how old they were, but gradually adjusted pretty well to the differences.  Without giving too much away, let me say that the above is barely half the movie, and what happens next is the hardest part.

Improved from the last release, NEW UPSCALE! I won't go into detail about the series because this is a review of this particular release.  The last Blu-ray release of this series was poorly upscaled, but it appears Funimation has fixed the problem and re-upscaled the video for this set.  Since the show was animated in standard definition it will never look spectacular, but this new upscale is probably the best we will see.  Unlike the last set, the film grain remains intact with very few visual flaws from the upscale.  If you already have the DVDs there is no real need to upgrade, but if you are on the fence about buying either the DVD or the Blu-ray, get this Blu-ray release.

Just about as good as the book.... I am a late comer in terms of finding out about both this movie and the book that it was based on.  I finished reading the book a couple weeks back and was just blown away!  I am usually a little hesitant to read non-fiction, but it read exactly like a thriller novel and my original worries were gone within a chapter.  So after finishing, I heard that there was a Clint Eastwood directed movie out there as well and knew I had to see it.  The only reason I did not give it 5 stars was the same reason I do for all book to movie productions...it is just not always as good as the book. Now some are MUCH worse than the book, I grant you this, and this is why I rated it as highly as I did.  It was definitely a great movie and followed the book pretty closely throughout, but there were enough differences for me to be slightly bothered.  Kevin Spacey, as always, is just amazing in his role as the main character in the film, and I found John Cusak to really fit the role of the author of the book amazingly well.  A bit headstrong but naive at the same time...he nailed it.  It also depicted the feeling of eerieness that I felt present throughout the book when reading, and that was awesome to see it captured as it was.  I would highly recommend this to anyone out there...but have the filmgoer beware, while it does follow the book quite well, there are enough liberalities taken for me to have been a bit bothered but not enough where the film is not highly enjoyable

Quantum of Solace `Quantum of Solace' is pretty much your typical James Bond film. Bad guy has fiendish plot to control a world resource, Bond foils the aforementioned plan whilst kicking bad guy's *** and bedding the beautiful girl. All formulaic stuff but beloved by generations of Bond fans. `QoS' has these elements parcelled up in a modern day action movie wrapping and the car chases and parkour roof top running scenes make impressive viewing. Craig makes for an macho Bond and there is a gruff hardness to him, rather than the suave sophistication other actors (Connery or Brosnan for example) brought to the role. This film sadly lacks the multitude of gadgets, or even the usual Q segment where they are all introduced. Dench is great as M and the other supporting roles add the right levels of sexiness (from the Bond girls) or sneering evil (from the villains). This is best viewed as the second part to `Casino Royale' and where that film provides the set up, this film provides the release. Both aren't too great in their own rights, but together they make one verygood Bond film. This is worth a look at some point and a worthy addition to the Bond franchise. Lets just hope the next instalment can stand up on it's own two feet and win some of the doubters back.  Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.

I SEE YOU That was the line spoken by Billy Zane prior to blowing off the head of a UN Congo soldier with a 50 caliber (?) bullet. I must say the special effects on the blood and bullets were good. The plot is another story. It made me go to Google. First off there is no United Nations code of Military Justice, nor is there a United Nation Military Code of Criminal Justice. In fact it is just the opposite. There is no military code of conduct in the UN which has caused problems in recent times and the UN is in the early stages of looking into such a code. The movie attempts to make a statement about strong patriotic military men vs. weak politicians who play both sides of the coin.  Chad Michael Collins plays "son of sniper"  (I don't recall seeing the other movies) in this weak plot, no character developing saga of UN gone awry in the Congo. Billy Zane had the best lines in the whole movie, unfortunately he wasn't in the movie enough to make it work. One sex scene, no nudity, don't recall any f-bombs. Collins as an actor was about a C- if Zane is an "A". If you have a choice between this and a Steven Seagal or Steve Austin movie, choose this one. 3 stars plus a half star for the guy's head getting blown off.

This is It This is a well-done composite of Michael Jackson's music and moves, and a fun back-stage experience to see how the shows come together.  Was shipped really fast, too!

Bluray From Bluray.com: Update: While Lionsgate has not confirmed the full list of features for the Swingers disc (their press release makes a generic claim of "audio commentaries, deleted scenes...[and] featurettes" for the Blu-ray), the studio has announced the supplements for the Hostage Blu-ray, all of which are carryovers from the old Miramax DVD. Special features include:  Hostage - Taking Hostage Behind the Scenes Deleted Scenes with Commentary Extended Scenes with Commentary Audio Commentary by Director Florent Emilio Siri Both films street on August 16th, 2011.

Pretty good, but some shortcomings I bought this movie for a housemate and we watched it last weekend. I was hoping for a fun movie and this certainly filled the bill, I just don't see it being a go-to movie for a movie night. If you have kids between 8 - 11 years old, I think they'd love this movie. For older audiences it might be a bit of a stretch beyond the cute one-off gags they have. It is an adorable movie though.

"Ok, I'm drawing a line in the ******* sand. Do NOT read the Latin!" Blu-ray Review:  Will you enjoy this? It's hard to say. Read below:  Audiences often don't like films that shift genres, play with the conventions of the genre incorporating elements of multiple "types" of films or change the rules of the game while the movie is being watched. "Cabin in The Woods" does all three and whether or not you'll enjoy it largely will be determined by your enjoyment of films that do that very thing such as  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005J9ZE5I">Evil Dead 2 (25th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray</a>]or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004OEIL54">Scream [Blu-ray</a>]. In fact, if you enjoyed Whedon's series <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0046XG48O">Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete Series</a>or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004YM6JK0">Supernatural: The Complete Seventh Season [Blu-ray</a>] then you'll probably enjoy this film.  SPOILERS:  With "Cabin in the Woods" Drew Goddard (a former writer on "Lost", "Buffy" and "Cloverfield) and Joss Whedon turn the horror conventions of the slasher flick on its head combining elements of H. P. Lovecraft, "The Truman Show" and "Scream" creating a sort of "meta" horror movie. Since the film also has elements of satire I wouldn't go into "Cabin in the Woods" expecting a straight horror experience as the film plays with the expectations of the genre as well. Those looking for a slasher film that will scare them scene after scene would do well to steer clear of this "Cabin". If you enjoyed "Buff The Vampire Slayer", you'll enjoy "Cabin". If you didn't, you probably won't enjoy this.  A quintet of college kids head up to a deserted cabin that was recently purchased by the cousin of Curt(played by Chris Hemsworth of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0034G4P8A">Thor (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy)</a>). He drags along his girlfriend (Anna Hutchinson), teammate (Jessie Williams), Anna's roommate (Kristin Connolly) and their stoner friend Marty (Fran Kurtz)  and As the creepiness builds we discover that they are being watched, manipulated prior to being attacked and picked off by the resurrected corpses of the former inhabitants. Those in the control room (the Richard Jenkins of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001C0NMUC">The Visitor [Blu-ray</a>]who inhabits the banality of evil in his role here and Bradley Whitford of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000HC2LI0">The West Wing: The Complete Series Collection</a>) who are observing and guiding the fate of these four insuring they'll die horribly to prevent something evil from being released. Imagine "Evil Dead II" with a bit more satire and you'll have a sense of the feel of "Cabin in the Woods" is like.  END OF SPOILERS:  The Blu-ray for "Cabin in the Woods" is a bit disappointing. While it accurately represents what was seen in theaters, the lack of contrast unfortunately makes the darker sequences in the film a bit too murky. Yes, it represents the films that Whedon and Goddard are satirizing look like but I expected a slightly sharper presentation. The rest of the film looks pretty good but given that some of the key sequences occur at night, I would have liked slightly better resolution.  The audio, on the other hand, is a knock out 5.1 lossless presentation. Dialogue is never overwhelmed by the various sound effects or the marvelous score by David Julyan <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000JJ5F0W">The Descent (Original Unrated Cut) [Blu-ray</a>], <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000L212HC">The Prestige [Blu-ray</a>]).  The special features are quite solid and include a commentary track by Goddard and Whedon. We get a number of featurettes that are quite good "We Are Not Who We Are" about the making of the movie; "An Army of Nightmares" focuses on the animatronic/make up effects; "Primal Terror" focuses on the visual effects. We also get "The Secret Secret Stash" about Marty's pot stash. "Hi, My Name Is Joss and I'll Be Your Guide" features Whedon giving a guided tour of the sets for the show. We also get the "Wondercon Q & A" after the screening of the film. We also have "It's Not What You Think" a "Bonusview" special feature allowing you to see interviews and behind-the-scenes footage while watching the movie.  Will "The Cabin in The Woods" be for everyone? No. I feel it's a clver mixture of satire and horror and enjoyed it quite a bit. Your mileage may vary though depending on your taste.

The Revolution Might be Televised! This is the s true story of a group of photo journalists, who came to fame during the civil war that saw South Africa finally end apartheid. It is based on the book of one of them; Greg Marinovich (Ryan Phillippe - `54', `Cruel Intentions' and `The Lincoln Lawyer'). Greg was a freelance but managed to get taken seriously by getting up close and personal with the warring sides. The ANC were in a civil war with the `Authorities' who were being helped by the Zulu Inkatha Freedom Movement. Atrocities were being perpetrated by both sides, but the press was very much on the side of the ANC and working to strict censorship from the ruling white government. Greg went out of his way to hear what Inkatha ha to say - and show him, it is not all pleasant.  We follow the fortunes of Greg and one of the more laid back members of the `gang', Kevin Carter (Taylor Kitsch) who has a penchant for recreational cigarettes and an excellent eye for a good photo. Greg also falls for the Photo Editor - Robin Comley (Malin Akerman) something which she says she never does. In one scene as they enter a bar there is a poster that proclaims, `A Civil War s not Very Relaxing', well we soon find out why. There are graphic scenes of violence, with extensive use of machetes and not a lot being left to the imagination. There is real tension throughout and loads of extras involved in the street and ghetto fighting. Writer and director Steven Silver has done an excellent job to try to recreate the actions that took place and are both from the book and the actual original photos.  The film tracks mainly the four year period between 1990 and 1994 and for the most part does so as observer with an interloper feel. The question of `when do you intervene', is finally addressed, but to say any more would be a plot spoiler for those not familiar with what took place. I always find that some photographers of death and suffering are almost indecent voyeurs, however; the fear and passion that is needed to do such work is brilliantly captured. It is always easier for the casual observer to be critical of such actions, when they have not actually done the deed themselves.  This is an excellent piece of cinema that has brought to the screen an essential piece of African recent history, if you are interested in that period then this is a must see. A word on the acting, everybody puts in excellent to well above credible performances and the direction is great too. There has been criticism of the shaky camera during certain scenes, but as these are street battles I found it totally unobtrusive and even fairly realistic. I feel all involved should be justifiably proud of the film they have made.

The Ultimate Dare is to tell the truth... I have been waiting years for this to come out on Blu-ray and was so excited when i heard it was finally being released in high def, but then my excitement was short lived when i found out that the ONLY bonus features was the trailer...WHAT are they thinking?  We know there are hundreds and hundreds of hours of unreleased material that Alex Keshishian filmed, we know that the Blond Ambition Tour was filmed professionally many times and released...The Nice, France show was shown on HBO and then released on Laserdisc, the Yokohama, Japan show was released on VHS and Laserdisc in Japan, the Barcelona, Spain show was shown in Europe, Australia and Canada and then of course all the footage filmed for Truth or Dare was filmed over 2 nights in Paris, France.  They should of done a huge box set with her new Truth or Dare perfume and included at least 2 versions of the Blond Ambition tour, one with the ponytail and one without. Even the VHS had 2 bonus songs Like A Prayer and Hanky Panky, which aren't even on this blu-ray.Lionsgate could of really put together something special for the fans but really screwed up this release.  I of course will still buy this as it is the single best tour documentary ever. All the backstage footage was filmed in grainy black and white and all the concert footage was filmed in glorious high definition color. The movie shows Madonna at her best, worst, most vulnerable and bitchiest...it also concentrates a lot on her dancers and their lives.  I would love if Madonna chose to do another documentary like TOD (She did do I'm Going To Tell You A Secret but she wasn't followed around day and night like in TOD) where everything on tour is filmed. I would imagine that we would see a much more gentle, caring and less bitchy Madonna that we saw in TOD but Madonna herself said that she would never do something like that again.  Bottom line I would of given this release 5 stars if there were more bonus features but because of that it only gets 4 stars...but do yourself a favor and buy this as it is going to look amazing on blu-ray. Hopefully Lionsgate will come to their senses and release an director's cut or box set in the near future, I can only hope.

Well worth watching I was of course curious to see Robert Pattinson in a role other than the Twilight series. First, I thought the overall film adaptation was good. As is often noted, what is written as a book does not translate well into a film therefore artistic/creative changes are necessary. A PG-13 rating also had to be taken into consideration. While I like Reese Witherspoon and she did a fine job in the film, I did not find her particularly alluring in the role of Marlena. I also expected August to be a bit younger and brawnier, although again, the role was well-portrayed. I was actually quite delighted with Mr. Pattinson's portrayal of Jacob Jankowski. His smile was infectious and there such an aura of joy when he was with Rosie (Tai). He brought innocence and wonder to the part. He also showed his fear, anger, murderous rage and sadness. His silent gazes spoke more clearly than words.  He really did a wonderful portrayal of Jacob who is such a decent, honest, caring and true person - a young man on the cusp of adulthood, straddling the innocence and insecurities of youth with the responsibilities of a man who has to make his own way in the world.

Body Heat One of the best proformance's of Kathleen Turner and William Hurt in a long time....A claseic!!! A must see movie!!

Cool, cool, twisty turny, sweet... I don't know what it is, but I've been really lucky lately at picking movies that I think are going to be full of one thing, but then turn out to be full of the complete oposite.  This was a fun, well acted, and engaging midnight movie (with a perfect twist at the end.)

Love that but disappointed. I always loved that movie since I was a little kid.  Years ago, we finally got a VHS tape w closed captions.  My mom borrowed it so she and her hubby could watch it.  Her hubby (my stepdad) had hearing problems due to age.  He needed to read closed captions.  We laughed alot and my kids who hated classic movies..they loved that movie.  My VHS player no longer works.  I bought a DVD with NO English subtitle or closed caption.  What about hearing impaired ppls who love to laugh w movies?  That is why the company won't make English subtitles or CC?  I hope another company would make it that so I will buy another one.

Neat film and not a bad print, but.... OK, this is a great, creepy old flick. Very sinister in its Germanic expresionist use of light/shadow/mood. I won't go into the plot or detail, but I love this film , despite the crude, unrestored nature of this print , which really didn't distract from my enjoyment of it, even though it is obviously a splicing of 2 different original transfers, ranging in quality from ok to very grainy. it is jumpy, disjointed sometimes, and volume ranges greatly. That being what it may, it's just such a great, creepy old film, that the graininess almost adds to its mystique. I only wish it was more well rounded as A whole.  I was more bothered by the Sinister Cinema "SC" logo that appears at the bottom of the screen for maybe 5 min in the beginning. It is slight, but still, in my eyes it is interferring/distractive, and an alteration.  other than that, a creap alternative, though i recomend the Criterion Collection version for the more serious minded.

GREAT, Jack!!! I am a MAJOR Duck Dynasty fan! Having lived in LA (Lower Arkansas), we are pretty used to huntin', fishin' and doin' with what you have to make something work. I love this series. Traditional values and just funny stuff, there, Jack! I cannot wait until season 2 begins. The series is great. Now, as for the DVD, I would have given it a five star rating, except that the video listing on the menu DOES NOT FOLLOW what is actually on the disc. Has anyone else this problem too???  Anyway, I can watch the episodes over and over again, and again, and still chuckle. Great stuff!!!

Hot Fuzz A very enjoyable fast paced film.  Lots of action and violence but humorous at the same time. I loved the dialogue and all of the characters.

Mutant And Proud! Though Bryan Singer put his stamp on this movie as an Executive Producer, it's Matthew Vaughn the director (2010's Kick-Ass) who deserves every bit of credit for breathing new life into the X-men comics with this outstanding "First Class" prequel which takes us back to when Charles Xavier could walk and the X-Men were first coming together.  Magneto and Xavier team up as best friends to combat Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon) who is pushing for World War III during the Cuban Missile Crisis.  Shaw was also responsible for killing Magneto's mother during the holocaust , so Magneto is out for personal revenge.  Unlike the other films, this one doesn't suffer from an over the top cast all seeking to hog camera time. We have a smaller concentration of mutants to get wrapped up in and to care about.  Xavier and Raven (Mystique) are growing up as best friends. We meet Hank McCoy (pre-Beast) as a scientist working on Cerebro.  Xavier uses it to seek out and recruit other mutants: Darwin, Angel, Havok, and Banshee. Meanwhile, Shaw already has his own team: Riptide, Azazel, and Emma Frost.  Though Bacon was probably my least favorite character as Shaw, his scenes definitely have that 60ish Austin Power feel to them, complete with the ascots which Shaw liked to wear in the comics. His team of mutants are much more interesting and definitely upstage him. Emma Frost was superb!  But unlike the earlier films, we actually get to invest in all of the mutants here along with their storylines which have equal screen time.  We see Raven and Xavier as friends.  Raven and McCoy becoming interested in each other as McCoy seeks out a way to hide their deformities.  We see Xavier caring for Erik's well-being, but Erik falling closer to evil.  And most of all, we see the other younger mutants giving themselves nicknames and learning from Professor X how to control their powers. Fans of the early films will enjoy seeing cameos by Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Romijn, which made for a nice tie in.  I loved the music throughout which gave the movie a real hip and upbeat feel.  Special effects were amazing.  And as I said before, I didn't feel any of the mutants really upstaged each other.  It was an all around great cast and a great depiction of the early comics, complete with yellow jumpsuits!

Rocketeer Soars as a Nostalgic Comic Book Come to Life One of the great movie-going experiences I ever had was seeing "The Rocketeer" back on its opening weekend in June of 1991. My parents and I were at the end of a long vacation that saw us drive from Colorado back to Rhode Island right after my sophomore year of high school finished, stopping near the finish line in Toronto. I don't recall the name of the theater where we saw the film, but it was one of those old, grand movie palaces that was updated for THX and had the singular best stereo system I had ever come across (before or since).  Seeing the film with a packed audience on a Saturday matinee in that particular venue was just amazing, and the crowd - filled mostly with kids and their parents - laughed and cheered at all the right moments, even giving the Disney film a round of applause at the end.  For that reason, THE ROCKETEER has always been a film I've had a particular fondness for, though on-screen there's also much to admire in this Joe Johnston-directed adaptation of Dave Stevens' 1940s-set graphic novel. As scripted by Danny Bilson and Paul DeMeo (who wrote the solid yet short-lived TV adaptation of "The Flash" around the same time), "The Rocketeer" stars Bill Campbell as a barnstorming pilot who improbably inherits a stolen top-secret jet pack that had been created by none other than Howard Hughes ("Lost"'s Terry O'Quinn). In hot pursuit of Hughes' creation are the mob, the FBI, and a dashing Errol Flynn-like movie hero (Timothy Dalton) with a secret agenda, all of whom try and wrestle the pack away from Campbell, who dons a helmet courtesy of pal Alan Arkin and takes to the skies in WWII era Southern California.  "The Rocketeer" is nostalgic and fun, filled with period detail, gorgeous widescreen lensing, one of James Horner's best scores and pitch-perfect direction from Johnston, who would get another crack at helming a period super-hero film with last summer's "Captain America." Rewatching the film on Blu-Ray, it's even more rewarding now than it was then - made without an abundance of CGI and colorfully shot by Hiro Narita, the film may only be 20 years old but feels older (in a good way). It also feels less formulaic than so many of today's routine super-hero movies, moving at a brisk clip but still pausing to develop its characters without the contemporary helter-skelter editing that's designed to hold the attention spans of ADD-riddled viewers.  Jim Bissell's production design beautifully evokes the era and the cast is fine, from supporting roles filled by veterans like Dalton, Arkin and Paul Sorvino, down to Campbell in what would be one of his few lead performances and Jennifer Connelly as Jenny, the Rocketeer's love interest. Connelly never looked so luminous on-screen as she did here, years before dieting, plastic surgery and the course of time changed her voluptuous physical appearance into that of any other anorexic-looking modern leading lady. Johnston even throws in a nod to Hollywood's past by having a henchman made up like B-movie villain Rondo Hatton!  "The Rocketeer," sadly, performed only modestly at the box-office back in `91 but viewed now, ahead of all the various super-hero films we've seen, it holds up as one of the best of its kind: a rousing, old-fashioned entertainment, capped by one of Horner's finest scores - a real beauty - that adds immeasurably to the action.  For years, though, I've been unable to recapture the magic of seeing "The Rocketeer" in that Toronto theater. A widescreen laserdisc transfer sounded great but looked a bit fuzzy, while the domestic DVD edition didn't even include an anamorphically-enhanced presentation of the film (I did import the Region 4 DVD, which was 16:9, though not a great transfer by any means).  Neither did justice to the picture's visuals, but fortunately Disney's Blu-Ray edition does in an almost spectacular fashion. The AVC encoded 1080p transfer is dazzling, especially during the outdoor, aerial portions of the film. Bold colors, crisp detail, and no seeming use of DNR make for a gorgeous presentation all told, even if the movie's darker, studio-set portions are less impressive, showing the age of the master that was used. The DTS MA sound is certainly good, though seems a bit subdued from what I recall, and the sole extra is the theatrical trailer, culled off an old videotape master.  Despite the lack of extras, Disney has finally done "The Rocketeer" justice on Blu-Ray, where hopefully it will garner some new fans in the process. Highly recommended!

great movie, big edward burns fan since i am such a big edward burns fan i didnt hesitate to watch this movie and it has to be on my top 20 lists of fav movies.  it is so imaginative that this movie can show you this scenario

Worth Watching Through in its Entirety! Watching this series is truly a commitment of time and patience but it does pay off. In the honored tradition of BBC productions of the era, the sets are somewhat flimsy (walls shake when doors are slammed shut - you could make it a drinking game in some episodes). The costumes are well done but not entirely period correct - you know, the late 60s/early 70s hair along with a slight spin on the costumes (think more SF Opera one piece costumes rather than Dickens Faire period correct costumes). In early episodes - some of the actors seem to be rushing lines and it can be hard to pick up what they are saying - and there are no subtitles available for the hearing impaired.  But the rewards are great - you see the development of complex characters, you see Soames as truly unlikable at first and then changing as he grows older and learns from his life. You also see some of the actors improving their acting skills - and you get a rich story that is very true to the original story written by John Galsworthy. It's far more complex and engaging than the 2002-2003 miniseries - with some fantastic double entendres that are just left out of the new series entirely (in favor of batting people over the head with overt sexuality). Quite a masterpiece, indeed - add all to your queue and settle in for a rich and well executed production.

"That's a hell of a thing for you to say to me..." I watched this movie for the first time a week ago, right after my first visit to Tombstone, AZ. I loved the portrayal of Doc Holliday by Val Kilmer. I liked all the popular lines he uttered such as "I'm your huckleberry (or was it hucklebearer?)", but the best line to me was when he said "That's a hell of a thing for you to say to me" to Wyatt when he tried to keep Doc out of the gunfight. That was a telling statement of friendship to me; in other words, "We're friends-you're really asking me to not get involved?" The most powerful scene to me was Wyatt running out in the rain after his brother Morgan has died in his arms, crying out in grief and anger, only to reappear later with the words, "Tell them I'm comin'-and hell's comin' with me!" That was good, good stuff.

Gere is good in this This movie is worth watching; however, if you've seen the Bourne Trilogy or read any of Ludlum's other books, it may seem trite by comparison. So don't compare it. Just sit back and enjoy the entertainment.

ANOTHER SHERLOCK HOLMES? I was happy with the Murder By Decree on the whole....it arrived in really good condition as promised an it was pretty typical Sherlock Holmes....although I like Brett better and I can't have Basil Rathbone

Inspirational and Hopeful A man feels empty and deals with it by becoming addicted to the endorphin rush of being the centre of attention (a rock star of politics).  But once a decade he gets into contact with his real feelings or soul (as symbolized by his relationship with a highly gifted and beautiful dancer) but his script or fate (the material in this unconscious or the adjustment bureau) tells him not to get too involved there, to ignore it and go on.  When our hero decides to question this, every memory within him (men with hats) chases him to return to his script which would be altered if he were to have contact with(in) the woman he loves.  A high quality movie with heart.

action the way you like Cold cruel action done right. Well scripted, good acting and realistic stunts. Gets down and plays just a little on the dirty side of spy craft.

Great Creature Feature Fans of the franchise inevitably agree that the 1st installment is by far the best.  However, being that I saw Jeepers Creepers 2 first, I disagree.  The first one movie is in my top 50 favorite horrors of all time, but this one is a bit higher.  The production quality is higher and that in itself sometimes can persuade me to give a positive review.  However, the thrills in this movie are what does it for me.  The gore is plentiful, but not comically overdone.  Acting is okay, minus the cliche highschool roles.  A great pic for horror fans!

Best Toy Story yet Toy Story 3 was the best of the series. Rarely does a sequel match up to the original, but in this case it exceeded the original.

An Outstanding Movie Minus One This is a great movie and Civil War movie.  I ordered it from Netflix and liked it so much that I bought it from Amazon.  There are some memorable actors from generals to foot soldiers.  The dialogue is authentic and the situations historically correct.  There is only one negative performance in the movie, and it is a biggie.  It does detract whenever he is on the screen.  Martin Sheen as Robert E. Lee is one of the most miscast performances I have ever seen in any movie.  He has the whiniest, hokiest Southern accent of any actor I have ever heard.  He is distracting and painful to watch and hear.  I enjoyed him in West Wing but not this role.  Recommended with the reservation that Sheen is a terrible Lee.

great movie I haven't read the book, but the movie was really easy to follow and quite interesting. Really worth the time and money, I feel. I also think it backs up some theories and ideas I have for my "Aliens" book, which I haven't started writing yet but have growing inside my head.

solid Can't go wrong with this film.  It's exciting and suspenseful.  The acting and directing was a home run.  Would watch again.

Intelligent, well observed, but missing something While an intelligent portrait of a highly dysfunctional family that shares a lot in tone and style with Baumbach's amazing `Squid and the Whale', this is colder, more distant and less moving.  That's OK, and it's still WAY above most of what's out there, but it's hard not to feel there's a great movie trapped in this good one.  One thing that hurts is that (unlike `Squid') the acting is uneven.  I don't want to cast stones at a cast this talented, but it didn't always feel to me like everyone was in the same film.  But this is one of those complex films I'll re-visit one day, and could imagine liking more on re-seeing, being better prepared for it's difficult tone.

Better than I thought This much maligned film by Spielberg seems somewhat dated, over 20 years later, but hardly worthy of the criticism it received at the time. A remake of the classic Tracy film from forty years earlier, A Guy Named Joe, it still possesses considerable appeal. But its main strength is in the wonderful performances of the three main leads, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, and Richard Dreyfus. And certainly last but not least, in her last screen role, Audrey Hepburn appears as an angel who is helping Dreyfus to make the transition to his new life. If there was ever an actress who could bring a  touch of class to any movie, no matter how good or bad, it was Hepburn. The story line, which has to do with the risky business of fire fighting pilots and fire jumpers,  has enough suspense and drama as any action movie theme you could think of, and isn't one that has been done before to my knowledge. Overall, a fine film which I think would have received far better critical acclaim had it not been done by Spielberg who sets the bar so high that even he has trouble meeting critic's expectations at times.

ER: The Complete Fifth Season The product is in excellent condition!  It just took almost 2 weeks to arrive.  I was unable to track the product and had to contact the seller just to make sure that it was sent.  The seller didn't even know where the product was in the delivery process.  In all fairness though, the seller did respond fairly quickly to an email questioning when the product was to arrive.

"Good Comedy That's Not Just A Chick Flick!" Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne and Melissa McCarthy star in this 2011 comedy. Things go wrong for a woman trying to help plan her best friend's wedding. The cast is great, but Kristen and Melissa steal the film. This dvd not only has nice picture and sound, but rated & unrated versions of the film plus some neat extras. Get this good comedy that's not just a chick flick.

Great movie Starts off a little slow, but once the story is established the plot takes off with a suspense driven ride that's worth it.

CSI New York 2nd season Arrived in good time . . .had problem keeping one dvd in its place, but it didn't effect the dvd.  Purchased from Amazon.

Best Van Diesel movie This is on par with pitch black and he thrives in this stuff. The action alone is worth it, and is way better than Ghost Protocol.  The thing that caught my eye was the girls secret. A cool storyline for us sci fi freaks.

3D Review by a 3D Connoisseur POST-PRODUCTION 3D (converted from 2D to 3D)  My ratings are based mainly on the QUALITY OF THE 3D, not the video content.  There are about 51 out of screen effects that extend about 10% of the way, from the screen to the viewer and another 14 ranging from 15% to 25%. Most of the 25% effects are very quick though.  The quality of the in-screen 3D is excellent for a post-production (FAKE 3D) film. This movie was never intended to be in 3D evident by the camera angles and scene framing but the conversion only had one easily noticeable flaw and the cardboard cut-out syndrome seemed somewhat less evident than in other converted films. I'm not a fan of 2D to 3D conversions but you could do much worse.  ***  Everything considered I'm stretching *** ***  this one to a 4 star/very good  ***  MY 3D RATING = VERY GOOD (poor, fair, good, very good, excellent)  Note: As far as the percentages go, everyone's eyes are different. What I see at 25% you may see at 15% or 35%. To fully realize how far something is out of the screen for you, pause on an effect and direct a partner with an extended finger to the tip of what you are seeing. You may be surprised.  Click on `See all my reviews' for the lowdown on other 3Ds

Superb Cast and Clever Mystery The cast is superb, especially Bette Davis and Angela Lansbury who have the luxury of playing some very colorful characters.  Everyone right down to the great Maggie Smith in a supporting role give outstanding performances.  I've read lots of Christie but not seen any of the films before this.  So, I can take Ustinov's Poirot performance with nothing to compare it to.  I must say, he was terrific.  The only issue I have with this film, as with the book is that it takes too long for the murder to happen.  Yes, there are many characters and it takes time to do the proper setups and establishing of motives.  Even so, I could have done with a few less characters so the more interesting ones like Davis and Lansbury could have more screen time.  That way, the murder could have happened sooner.  This film and book depart from Christie's usual format.  Quickly establish characters.  Murder happens.  The rest of the book is the unraveling of the plot and investigation.  It's over an hour into the film before the murder happens.  That's too long.  Once it does happen, it's classic Christie.  The pace picks up as the bodies pile up.  I've only ever guessed a Christie murder twice and this was one of the times...but it wasn't until near the end.  As usual, she has you changing suspects and second guessing yourself all the time.  Even though I knew WHO, and WHY, I didn't know HOW it was done.  Christie's attention to detail in the premeditation aspects is always highly detailed.  There were a few nitpicky things about some of these details, but I'm letting them go because the rest was so good.  Even after the murderer is revealed, there are STILL unexpected turns that I didn't see coming.  I can definitely see why Nile is in the upper echelon of Christie's body of work.

A Bit Missing A little bit of railroad history was cut from the movie in the BluRay release. I do not know why such a brief scene was deleted except the editor of the BluRay thought something was amiss and jarring. The New York Central 20th Century Limited had an agreement with the Santa Fe Super Chief to attach a Pullman first class sleeper car from the arriving Super Chief in Chicago and take it in to New York City. Thus the passengers on the Super Chief did not need to transfer with their luggage from Dearborn Station to LaSalle Street Station. The whole car was switched over to the 20th Century. The reverse was true for Super Chief through passengers from NYC to L.A. In the the newly released BluRay version a brief scene which showed the silver Santa Fe car in the middle of the NY Central 20th Century Limited gray consist exiting a tunnel in New York City heading north was deleted. A bit of the original was therefore cut.

Exercise Can Beat Arthritis This video is identical to the original tape version and provides an excellent exercise program for older people or sufferers from athritis.

We need Hollywood to make more Movies like this My wife turned me on to this movie.  She watched it a lot as a youth in Brazil. We were lucky enough to find a copy at the local library.  Well worth requesting a copy.  The basic movie is about  a fairytale like curse placed on a couple.  One turns into a wolf at night and one into a hawk during the the day.  You don't get a fuller understanding of the curse and who placed it on them until about 1/3 to half the way through the movie.  The movie includes several very well known actors and starts out with Matthew Broderick (just before his Ferris Bueller fame<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001D0DQUC">Ferris Bueller's Day Off</a>) as a prisoner escaping the evil Bishop of Aquila (John wood) Soon we get to meet Rutger Hauer and Michelle Pfeiffer as the fairytale couple with the cure. From there is the adventure to remove the cure and get revenge.  What is so good about this film?  Well for one it is clean compared to some period type films <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005IAVJB6">Name Of The Rose</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000NQRE0K">Braveheart (Sapphire Series) [Blu-ray</a>], etc. The story is one of good verses evil, light and dark, and true love. Full of knights in shining armor, beautiful horses and plenty of people in distress. The music at times is very eighties, and the costumes a bit over the top. There is some fighting.  And the sword play is a little cheesy.  The swords don't seem very legit at one point in the film. Overall the locations, castles, and towns are as good as any film.  Interestingly, the bad guys are all dressed in white and the good guy is in black.  Draw your own conclusions about that.  You feel good at the end of the movie as things get resolved, the cure is broken and the thief mends his ways.  You begin to really pull for the main characters.  This is definitely a film you can see with your children.  Not super young ones but, 8 years and up though it does have a PG-13 rating.  You might have some explaining to do since traditionally good authority figures are the bad guys in this movie.  If you like or have any of the following films you will like this one.  Truly a film for the whole family with clean fun had all around.  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00003CXDD">Willow (Special Edition)</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000TJBNHG">The Princess Bride (20th Anniversary Edition)</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004QSQML8">Legend (Ultimate Edition) [Blu-ray</a>] <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006ZXSK">Ever After - A Cinderella Story</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0783225814">Dragonheart - Collector's Edition</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0013FSXSC">First Knight (Special Edition) [Blu-ray</a>] <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0011U52E2">Enchanted (Full Screen Edition)</a>

A must There is a true saying what's done in the dark always comes to the light.  Can't hide the truth.  Good movie!!! Definitely, a keeper for my movie collection.

NWO Be Damned! The star power on this little film should be a clue that something extraordinary might be  happening here; and something remarkable is. No...not just the denouement....a planet really is hitting earth.  It's the conspiracy of creatives to say something very real and honest that the media is suppressing. Make no mistake: this is a literal metaphor. The "dysfunctional family"  are archetypes,  wherein Keifer Southerland's character  stands in for the ""Elite" and the rest of us are waiting painfully for the Bride of Christ to be revealed. There is no rapture in these two hours...but there is truth aplenty. Listening....

Thrilling; overrated? Thrilling, but overrated. I picked up the novel after so many raved about it, to see what the hype was all about.  The overarching plot is quite enthralling, but the additional details makes it become a seemingly endless novel three-quarters through. Overall though, if you're looking for a lot of angst, character development, and a crime thriller -- this is for you.

"A Documentary Film, about THE DOORS." The opening footage, was the best part of the film, although, the film's director, cannot really take credit for it, because he didn't shoot or direct, the opening footage of Jim Morrison. Rather he just compiled, the footage, like much of the film. When Jim died, in 1971, there was some speculation, as to whether or not Jim's death was a hoax. It's no longer an issue, Jim's body has expired. Although, his spirit has lived on, in his music, lyrics, and images. Some of the footage, in the film, was used in other documentaries, about The Doors. Overall, though, the film did a good job of presenting, some factual information about The Doors, as a band, in some sort of historical context. Using Johnny Depp, as narrator, was also a good choice, as well.

Ingredients I love documentaries on the food movement.  I always find them interesting and while there is a lot of hype about it being propaganda at times, I find it all informative.  This particular food documentary was in regards to the local food movement.  In search of great ingredients, this documentary gets up close and personal with farmers, chefs, and other movers and shakers in the local food movement.  It explores getting people interested in sourcing their food locally.  The relationships between the chefs and farmers that coexist to provide seasonal food on a rotating menu and everything sounded fantastic.  It also explored introducing school age children to where their food comes from.  Several of the people interviewed talked about concerns with the seed industry and the high volume farming that isn't very sustainable and while small local sustainable farm methods are taking hold in the United States.  Overall the film was broken up into four parts titled by the seasons and revolving around the different aspects of farming in those seasons.  All the speakers were very informative.  They shared information clearly, listed out their beliefs on why they thought the way they did, and gave advice for those looking to join the movement.  There were a couple that made things sound like doomsday, which could be alarming, but as with all information, you have to be the final judge and look at the world around you before buying in to anything.  The information was good, the method of delivery was all that needed worked on.  Don't let that scare you away from this film though, it was overwhelmingly in the positive for most things.  Most people who aren't interested in this type of information or who don't believe the ideas shared by this film probably shouldn't bother watching it.  But for those who are interested in learning more or already know a bit about finding local food sources, this is a great documentary.  Experts in the field probably won't learn anything new, but it was interesting to listen to the different people talk about their experiences with local farming.  I know a little big about local sustainable farming and have recently started a large garden on my property myself so I found everything fascinating and want to look into more documentaries like this one to get an even bigger picture of what's happening with today's food resources.  Great informative documentary that should be enjoyed by any who like to have the best freshest possible ingredients that are farmed without hurting the land or destroying the eco-system.  Review by M. Reynard 2011

Great Instant Video Wish Amazon had more Matchstick Productions available for instant viewing.  Hit List is one of those films I could watch over and over, particularly when fall comes and I start thinking about snow.  It's great having it in the Amazon cloud so I can pull it up whenever the ski bug bites me.

WWF: Hulk Hogan Real American (WS901) Hulk Hogan Real American (WS901) 07/30/88 Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant (steel cage match) 10/03/85 Hulk Hogan vs. Nikolai Volkoff (flag match) 10/25/88 Hulk Hogan vs. King Haku 11/87 Hulk Hogan vs. Ted DiBiase

My Life in Ruins Great date movie. Funny!  I saw this on a trip to China, you could tell which passengers were watching it because of their laugh out loud response.

No Portuguese soundtrack? This is a fantastic movie.  The scenes of Rio De Janeiro are really fantastic and actually very realistic - there are parts of Rio that are just unbelievably beautiful.  The story is fun and the music is also terrific. However, I was really hopeful that there would be a language soundtrack in Portuguese.  Is that too much to ask for? That a movie that takes place in Rio and that actually has some dialogue in Portuguese, would have a Portuguese soundtrack? Thank you, ignorant, out of touch movie studio executive that made that call.

Desert Hearts (1986) brief plot synopsis:  uptight literature professor Vivian Bell heads to Reno, NV in 1959 for a quickie divorce.  While staying with Frances Parker at her ranch to establish residency, Bell meets Parker's adopted daughter, a casino worker 10 years her junior.  Bells finds herself increasingly attracted to the open and self-assured lesbian, and their developing intimacy releases buried emotions Bell has never explored.

Reasonably Good Attempt at Unconventional Structure Brought Poirot back for Series 7. "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" brought "Agatha Christie's Poirot" back in 2000 after a hiatus of four years. Perhaps this mystery was selected to re-introduce the series, because it brings Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) out of retirement. For reasons unexplained, the Belgian detective has quit London for the village of King's Abbott, where he is perfecting his vegetable garden. But Poirot cannot escape man's criminal nature. He becomes concerned about his friend Roger Ackroyd (Malcolm Terris), who owns a large chemical company, after Ackroyd's paramour Mrs. Dorothy Farrars (Rosalind Bailey) dies of apparent suicide. Ackroyd had learned that someone was blackmailing Dorothy over the suspicious death of her late husband. He intends to find the culprit, but the culprit finds him first.  The novel "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" was published in 1926 and is considered one of Agatha Christie's best on account of its unusual structure and surprise ending. Screenwriter Clive Exton has tried to bring some elements of the structure to the film. The story is told from two perspectives in parallel. Poirot is reading the diary of the murderer after the crime has been solved, and we watch the crime and its solution play out while the murderer narrates. There is nothing wrong with this structure except that it is superfluous. It is a method of incorporating the murderer's diary, which becomes a plot point later on, into the film. The alternative would have been to leave the diary out of the story entirely. Undoubtedly, some viewers will prefer the path not taken.  David Suchet is in great form as Poirot after a few years away from playing the detective. Poirot betrays dismay at his own inability to save his friend and mounting frustration at lying witnesses. Inspector Japp (Philip Jackson) makes an appearance, though he was not in the book, and Poirot is overjoyed to see his old friend. Poirot's reasons for leaving London and his disquiet at visiting his old haunts are never clear, and they leave the audience a little uneasy. This isn't one of the series top-tier episodes, but it's solid entertainment. It's nice to see the show was still going strong in Series 7 and into its second decade. The DVD (A&E 2000) offers no subtitles or bonus features but forces the viewer to watch an ad for A&E.

Same old Mel... brand new package. This is a quick review of the new packaging for this blu-ray collection (since we all know most of these films already and this is the first time they're available together, so for fans/collectors it's pretty much a no-brainer anyway). Personally, after reading some reviews I knew I wanted this but was concerned whether this set would fit into my existing DVD shelf (call it OCD or whatev, but I didn't want to need a special place to store this thing...). Well the rest of the space-conscious collectors out there can rest assured that this does indeed fit onto a standard DVD/media shelf. Due to popular demand (I'm assuming, anyway) 20th century fox did away with the over-sized "coffee table book" display package in favor of a new standardized, space-conscious design. And in addition there is no more sliding the discs in and out of scratchy cardboard sleeves because the new case is plastic with 4 double-sided plastic flippers (like most standard double disc BDs/DVDs). All together the whole collection takes up exactly the same space as 2 standard blu-ray cases with the spine facing out. Great collection finally in a sensible sized package!  However, the trade off here for the new compact size is that it no longer includes the 16 page booklet with anecdotal production notes, etc., that the big fat old package did. You're basically just paying for the discs here, but I'm pretty much cool with that.

The Tramp's gutsy stand The Great Dictator (1940), released to DVD and Blu-ray on May 24th, 2011 is the second of Charlie Chaplin`s features to receive the Criterion treatment, following 2010's release of Modern Times (1936).  Times was Chaplin's last silent feature, produced nine years after the advent of sound.  Chaplin stated that when, and if, his famous character the Tramp ever spoke, it would be as a farewell.  He found a reason for the Tramp to break his silence in the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich; this was the birth of The Great Dictator.  Few people wanted Chaplin to make this anti-Hitler satire, and the speech at the end of Dictator was even seen by some as communist propaganda.  It securely put Chaplin on the subversive list.  Within a few years, Chaplin was thrown out of the United States, only to be invited back by the Academy Awards for a honorary Oscar (he never actually won one) in 1971.  Chaplin accepted the honor as a sign of mending.  Chaplin later said that if he had known the actual extent of the horrors perpetrated in Nazi Germany, he could never have made The Great Dictator.  His detractors went so far as to accuse him of merely being angry at Hitler for stealing his mustache.  Of course, Chaplin had been making films against government oppression and the struggle of the little man almost from day one.  Additionally, Chaplin's half-brother's father was Jewish, giving him further motive to lampoon the dictator.  Chaplin's mistake was that he spoke out against Hitler and the Third Reich before the United States entered the war.  Whether or not the Jewish Barber is the Tramp has been debated for years.  He is not referred to as the Tramp, but he is certainly a Tramp-like character, and that is really enough.  But, for the first time, Chaplin is uneasy with his iconic character.  After seeing the Tramp in all of his silent eloquence for years, hearing him speak in the opening WWI sequence is  greatly disconcerting.  This opening is awkward, and Chaplin reveals that verbal humor is not his strength.  Jokes about gas and, later, plays off the words "Aryan" and "vegetarian" fall embarrassingly flat.  His Tramp doughboy had done better lampooning the Great War in First National's uneven Shoulder Arms (1918), which may be the first anti-war film.  Still, the Marx Brothers bested Chaplin in both of his anti-war films with their hilariously surreal and biting Duck Soup (1933).  When The Great Dictator picks up in Nazi Germany, the film improves, albeit sporadically.  Not surprisingly, Chaplin's best moments are in two and a half silent vignettes.  In the first, the Jewish Barber is in a scuffle when Paulette Goddard's Hannah accidentally hits him over the head with a frying pan intended for one of the bullying Nazi soldiers.  The Barber's brief, dazed dance trot down a ghetto street, past shop windows painted with the word "Jew," evokes anxious humor.  Unfortunately, this brief scene is only half silent.  The scene is framed with slapstick interplay between the Barber and the stormtroopers--ranging from buffoonery with a paint dipped brush to an attempted lynching--which further weakens its impact.  All of this is akin to Keystone Cops antics.  Something more unsettling was desperately needed.  The second and third silent vignettes are shared between the Barber and the Great Dictator (also played by Chaplin).  The Barber's shaving of a customer, choreographed to the music of Brahms, is a brilliantly polished bit of quicksilver business and has nothing to do with the rest of the film.  (The shaving sequence had been attempted in a previous short and is a good example of how Chaplin re-worked ideas).  It is the Tramp's best moment in the film, however.  In the final silent vignette, The Great Dictator nearly copulates with a balloon globe of the world.  Oddly, it is in the portrayal of Hitler, rather than the Barber, that we see more of Chaplin's Tramp shining through.  The Dictator hearkens back to the earliest Keystone Tramp characterizations, when the little fellow could be cruel, selfish, and remarkably antagonistic.  (Later in his career, Chaplin's First National Tramp has a moment, in The Pilgrim [1923], when he delivers a sermon in a hyperkinetic, uncannily Hitler-like stance).  Chaplin clearly invests most of his energy into this new character.  The Barber's cutesy relationship with Hannah is forced and occasionally irksome, although through no fault of Goddard, who is probably Chaplin's best leading lady.  Her role here is not the level of her compelling Gamin in the Modern Times, but she is Chaplin's equal in ways that Edna Purviance, Georgia Hale, and Virginia Cherril, good as they were, could not be.  In 1917 Chaplin lost his great on-screen nemesis, Eric Campbell, to a car accident.  Chaplin's films thus lost the sense of rudimentary mystery that Campbell's foil gave to the Tramp.  The closest Chaplin came to having a worthwhile nemesis again was in Jack Oakie's "Napolini" (i.e. Mussolini.).  Although Oakie has been rightly praised for his performance here, time  has also somewhat rusted his Chico Marx-like caricaturization.  Almost as good, although his appearance is brief, is Henry Daniel's Herr Garbitsch (likely based on Joseph Goebbels).  Daniel, as usual, supplies macabre precision to his villainous role, although he is, overall, too sophisticated for the part.  The Great Dictator benefits from Chaplin's attention and development of his co-stars Goddard, Oakie, and Daniel, but the film also frequently flounders by being littered with flat, obvious jokes.  The speech at the end is as naive and as heart-felt for its age as John's Lennon's "Imagine" was three decades later.  Chaplin steps out of character here, and critics of the period were right in their assessment that the speech throws the film off.  In hindsight, the oration is a  coda of sorts for Chaplin's Tramp, although, again, verbal expression amounts to a new, nervous language for the actor.  The creation and the creator merge into a persona of maudlin sentimentality and extravagant social satire.  To criticize Chaplin for either is to criticize Chaplin as a whole.  Chaplin said if the Tramp ever spoke, he had to say something important.  Imagine, a filmmaker actually believing a film needs to have a point.  For all of its flaws, The Great Dictator is an important and enjoyable film.  Whether it's important or enjoyable enough is debatable.  *The Criterion extras are sprinkled with The Great Dictator`s seeds.  "Chaplin's Napoleon" is a short "visual essay" detailing an abandoned film on the French dictator.  More interesting is the short King, Queen, and Joker, directed by Chaplin's brother Sydney. It contains one of two blueprints for the barbershop sequence (the second is a scene cut from First National's Sunnyside).  Another fascinating document in this impressive criterion package is film critic Michael Wood's impassioned essay in defense of the film. Chaplin was probably grateful, considering all the negative heat he received from other quarters.  *my review originally appeared at 366 WEIRD MOVIES

Fun & Challenging I was on a dance team for four years and thought these dances were pretty great. Some of the moves are cheesy but overall it's a great video and gets your heart-rate up.

Great Submarine Story O.K,I admit,I'm a sub nut!!I have always enjoyed this movie.Real good story starring Charleton Heston as the skipper,Stacy Keach as his concerned commanding officer,David Carridine and Ned Beaty as the rescuers and a couple of other familiar faces I'm sure you'll reconize.   A nuclear sub is out on test run and dives after a refit,gets rammed by a foriegn frieghter in a fog and the sub sinks in very deep water.   A rescue is launched and it is trial upon trial to try to save the crew.For the nautical or sub nut,as I fit both catagories,I do recommend this movie.The special effects are old timie(not a typagrahical error!),but very good for the times.

Artistic and Smart Redline art style is energetic and expressive. Animations are smooth and coherent. Modest character development. Smart dialog gives separation to these off-beat characters ( You can actually make sense, the motives of each character).  This movie is a fun, Visual spectacle.....Enjoy!

ADRIEN GOES FOR THE GOLD A remarkably brave performance from Adrien Brody highlights this intense psychological thriller.  WRECKED is basically a one-man show with very little dialogue. Brody plays a man who wakes up the victim of a serious auto accident.  He has no memory of the accident, who he is, or the identity of the two dead men who were obviously with him.  A news report on the car radio convinces him he's one of three bank robbers on the lam. The movie focuses on Brody's desperate attempt to free himself from the car and get help.  As he crawls through the dense woodlands, he encounters a hunter, a mysterious woman and a friendly dog---and disturbing memories surface. WRECKED is a difficult movie to watch.  How can we sympathize with a desperate criminal?  It's to Brody's credit that we do care about his plight. The script takes an unexpected twist and turns things completely around.  Director Michael Greenspan takes the risky task of keeping things interesting with little actual action and allows us to feel Brody's hopelessnesss and despair, and on that level succeeds.  My only complaint comes with what really happened with the female character. Adrien Brody's performance is Oscar worthy and forms the heart of what could have been an average film.

EXTENDED version I love, love, love this movie. However this version is terrible! All the deleted scenes that they had the common sense to 'delete' 15 years ago are IN this movie. It ruins the original movie we all loved. When I first put it in, I thought I had hit something on the main menu to get this new version. I went back to the menu, searched and found out that the original movie is not on here! I now have to reorder it and get my favorite movie.

A Good Combo If you're a fan of the movie, this is a good combo to have.  It has all the formats you'll need.

Funny I love bollywood and cooking and this movie had both. I thought it was funny.  I like the music in this movie also.

Total Recall This Movie is a Cult Classic it has The future yet it brings you the present and there are some cool special effects although perfected through out the years

In case you were disappointed with the first season... I watched this after watching the first series which I personally was a bit disappointed with. This series reloads to give you more of what you saw in the first series but this time the creators do a much better job of fleshing out the characters. Everything is just more polished, including the animation that was already excellent to begin with. You could watch the second raid without watching the first season but you'll be missing out a bit on the various relationships between many of the characters. Unlike some series though, you won't be totally lost.  I just wanted to do a quick review for those who have seen the first series and were also left feeling disappointed and wondering whether they should go for the second, I say yes. If you're just a casual fan of the anime genre, you can go ahead and skip the first season without missing out on too much.

Decent heist movie I went in to this not expecting much, but I was pleasantly surprised.  I liked this movie a lot, and I'd feel confident recommending others watch it.  It was also very cool to see Slaine in it, I'm a big fan and it's awesome to see someone be able to perform well in more than one medium.  This edition is more of the definitive one as well, with another ending and a ton of bonus materials.  If you're going to pick up The Town, this is the one to get.

Surprisingly good This is a very good story.  Something new (at least for us) and interesting to watch that we have not seen before. The language is a little rough but we did not take offense because it was part of the life of the stripper.  The actors ALL do a great job. You will enjoy how the characters develop --- but --- Melissa Leo stole the movie! Her character brings life to the story.  Watch it just to see her.

Great Ride I read the reviews like everyone else before buying this movie, and I have to disagree with some of them. Although this movie does make you wonder where all of it went wrong in the first place, I had fun watching it. It was an interesting maze, filled with dark secrets. Anyone who likes finding the dirt on other people (in movies, if not in reality) would find this movie very appealing. It's like every character in this movie has some kind of dirt on them (Don't we all?).  With every twist, my mouth dropped and I was like "Oh no, he/she didn't!" It's true that you can kind of see where the twist is coming and how it will come up but by the time you can get over it, the plot has continued without you, but eventually one catches up.  To be fairly honest, I only watched this because of James Woods, being a girl fanatic about him. On his part, he had some amazing acting, and this goes right along with his trademark of portraying dark, intense characters. Though he wasn't as intense as I would have expected him to be, he still gave that stunning performace, creating a certain creepiness out of Jake, that makes the audience know he's not playing games with anyone.  My only complaint that keeps this movie from being five stars is that I felt there were too many love scenes between Jeff Bridge's character and his co-actress. Though the two made some great chemistry, I thought there were one too many love scenes.  The scenery is very breath-taking, making shots of the Mayan Ruins where not a lot of movies have been able to take place. I am a bit of a history buff so when the two stars talk about how Mayans used to place bets on football, you get a little taste of a Roman game, in some ways. It's stunning and breath-taking, almost makes me want to go there and see it for myself.  This movie was very good, despite some bad reviews. I'd say if there's a fan out there that likes Jeff Bridges or James Woods, they must watch this movie. Even if they don't watch it again, at least you can have it under the belt as one of the movies they've watched.  I'm keeping this movie :)

Pleasantly surprised I was not sure what to expect with this show, but I can say that I am enjoying it thus far. It has some predictable moments but most "horror" shows do. the thing that sets this show apart from the others besides the documentry style filming is the obvious setting of it. The amazon is full of mystery and beautiful locations and this show takes advantage of it well.

not bad Not as good as the others, however, I found it just as entertaining. Plot was pretty easy to figure out. Not bad for some mindless entertainment.

Surprisingly good My older children (aged 20 and 18) have been raving about Tim Burton's movies for years, and somehow it's taken me this long to get around to watching a couple.  This week I watched this film and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001HN694K">Alice in Wonderland</a>.  Though the general darkness of the film is not an environment I typically seek out, I learned that Burton uses the overall darkness and dreariness in his films' imagery to build his story to its unexpected conclusion.  The stop-motion animation (at least that is what it looks like) was well done.  The scenery and trees, etc., are classic Burton.  I actually felt for both of the brides and the groom in this twisted tale of wishes, dreams, and love lost and love found.  I won't spill the beans, but if you are like me, you will greatly enjoy the exciting conclusion to this dark tale.  I'd recommend this movie to viewers probably aged 10+.  Younger children may have nightmares, though the movie is not particularly scary over all.  All in all I'd say that I liked this film a lot, but did not "love it."  A solid 4-star offering for me.

Body of Lies `Body of Lies' is a political thriller set during the Iraq war and with some solid performances from both Di Caprio and Crowe. Following a CIA operative in the middle east who is trying to track down a terrorist this film has enough twists and turns to keep you interested, but not so many that you are left confused and asking too many questions as you go through. This film is very well directed by Ridley Scott and is also very well written; it makes certain points about the Iraq war without ramming them down your throat, which is rare from Hollywood and infinitely preferable to being spoon-fed. There are explosions enough for action fans, espionage and intrigue for thriller fans, political machinations for the more machiavellian and some romance for the softer side in us. All in all a good balance. This film tries to show Americas superior technology and ability to watch who it wants, when it wants, but that may just be good film propaganda and beneficial to the storyline. I tend to take it with a pinch of salt at least. Overall this was a good, but not great, political/spy thriller and the performance from Leonardo alone makes it worth watching. Check it out.  Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.

Tapes of concert I taped the whole concert that day on my VCR. I have to transfer them to  dvd but I have to edit out Sally Fields and the V J's talking. I thought about buying this and not do the transfer but it does not have all that I have. Queen was outstanding with Freddy Mercury.

SOLID COSTUMER! ENTERTAINING FROM BEGINNING TO END! Reminiscent of Ray Harryhausen's 'Golden Voyage of Sinbad' without the mythical monsters, 'Prince of Persia - The Sands of Time' delivers the goods where so many of these silly costume adventures fail. A nice mix of good vs. evil story and some exciting parkour action sequences make this film very exhilarating and entertaining. I found it humorous that Ben Kingsley appropriately played a homage to Torin Thatcher who played the sorcerer in another Harryhausen classic 'The 7th Voyage of Sinbad' and the inspired rip off 'Jack the Giant Killer'.  Jake Gyllenhaal aptly plays the hero and all supporting characters fit as well including a colorful role for Alfred Molina. Even if you don't usually like these types of films, this one is an easy and fun ride. Recommended to all costume adventure or Harryhausen film fans. Even though there are none of Harryhausen's creatures, this one surely has his heart.

A sharp remake/adaptation.... The original Fullmetal Alchemist animated series is easily one of the best and most popular anime's ever created. Adapted from the manga by Hiromu Arakawa, the original series eventually had to split from the narrative of it's source as the manga hadn't finished before the series took off. This new show, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood is a more faithful adaptation of the original manga and despite covering some familiar ground should be of interest to the original anime's fans as well as newcomers.  The world of Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood takes place in an alternate early 20th century europe and Alchemy is used as a major part of the world's science. The story follows brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric, two alchemists in the military who're set on a personal journey after an amchemy accident steals Al's body and leaves Edward with missing limbs. We also get introduced to other characters in this world including the Elric brother's allies (like the adorable mechanic, Winry and their comrades in arms Roy Mustang and Alex Louise Armstrong) and antagonists (the Homunculi and the terrorist Scar) and even characters that seem unrelated that get tangled up in the brother's quest.  This first boxed set of the anime covers almost the exact same ground as the first twenty five episodes of the original series, though much more condensed. By episode 11 things start heading in a different direction and by the second boxed set Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood becomes it's own show.  The big difference between 'Brotherhood' and the original 'Fullmetal Alchemist' is the pacing. The writing is very sharp compared to the first series and never drags it's plots out (which are actually a lot more interesting and rewarding than the original) but that also doesn't leave a lot of time for character development, at least not at first. The original show let us slowly warm up to the characters that inhabit this world and let us care about them at our own pace. The plot-centric approach in 'Brotherhood' might have viewers wondering why they should care about certain characters. Don't get me wrong, everyone is complex in their own way but the warmth takes some time to shine through. It'd be interesting to hear what someone who's never read the manga or seen the original show thinks of these characters.  Even with it's similarities and differences from the original show, 'Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood' is one of the best anime's running. There are some spotty bits in this first collection (the show hits it's stride in the next set) and some fans might still prefer the first show but I think any anime fan will get a kick out of this slick, complex and rewarding remake!

I've been waiting 30 years for an A-team movie. I'm a long time A-team fan and I've been waiting 30 years for there to be an A-Team movie. Those of you who are also hardcore A-team fans know there's been a lot of rumors through the years.  When this one came out, I was not eager to watch it. In fact, it took me all the way up until September 2012 to watch it and the reason was because of course I wanted original actors (or as many as there could be) and I really didn't have much confidence in these actors. I was immediately reassured when I saw Stephen J. Cannell's (RIP) name in the opening credits as a co-writer.  I must say I was pleasantly surprised. The cast was spot on except for one, and that was Hanibal's character. I know Liam Neeson is a great actor but he just didn't make a good Hanibal. Hanibal is a more calm, laid back and collected cat. He's almost effortless when he's working. I just didn't see that here.  The others were great. Especially B.A.s character. Although what's up with all this "Bosco" stuff. His name is B.A. Not Bosco! And where's the gold?  I have long wondered how they would do an A-Team movie. I mean... just an episode takes up nearly an hour and that's only one case. It'd be pretty boring if it was just one case handled in the movie but it wasn't. It was wall to wall action from start to finish. It was very suspenseful and exciting. It wasn't the same original story as the original A-team but heck, it's been 30 years, I'll cut them some slack on swapping out wars.  This was a very good movie and I'd love a sequel.  Just one little fun fact... wait until the very end of the credits for a nice little surprise that original A-Team fans will really like. I'm not talking about the extended version. The standard version has it. Wait for the end of the credits.

Wow This workout is incredible.  I have used it for 3 weeks now and still have to rest in between sets.  It definitely works your whole body.  My flexibility has already increased.  This workout is really tuff but very worth it.  I can definitely see a difference in my legs and lost inches everywhere.  The abdominal workout is not that long but still very effective.  Some people have complained about that and wished it was longer, but you really don't need it to be very long because the rest of the workout is working your abs and burning more calories and fat than the ab section does.  The only thing that I wish it had was more cardio/ballet moves (footwork).  There is a lot of isolation moves for toning that are great but I think you would get the best of both if Tracey incorporated a typical ballet warm-up like in ballet class.  Overall though it still is a great workout.

Maravilloso contenido Fue, de nina, mi serie favorita y tenerla es revivir mi infancia.  Aunque la primera temporada es colorizada eso no altera su contenido.  Toda la serie es MARAVILLOSA.  La recomiendo.  La estrella que no les di es porque el empaque de los DVDs es impr&aacute;ctico  (viene en una "sinfon&iacute;a" de cart&oacute;n que se abre y se caen los DVDs al piso, eso me sucedi&oacute;).  Hay que cambiarlos a cajas pl&aacute;sticas para preservarlos.  La botella deber&iacute;a ser, al menos, de pl&aacute;stico (viene de cart&oacute;n).

Wonderful movie Great movie, could have been a bit longer for my taste, but great none the less.  It is the greatest story, as we now have our Savior to help us.

The "bad" movie here is the GOOD one! I bought this disc to upgrade my copy of Al Adamson's sublime "Dracula's Castle" and I found The Hearse to be a very lame product of its time.  But if you're looking to upgrade Dracula's Castle, here ya go. This of course is the "werewolf version," one of the best examples of post-production alteration of a movie I've ever seen.

Didn't know what to expect I discovered this video while looking for more from Daft Punk, which I also discovered via the TRON:LEGACY movie. I had no idea what this movie was about, but as I LOVED the music in TRON (actually I loved the entire TRON movie), I thought to give this a try.  It is an engaging story, the music is great, the animation adequate (I'm now spoiled by TRON), and I like that there is no narration.  My only disappointment was that it is in the 4x3 aspect ratio. Otherwise, it's great.

Decent sequel in hi-def, plus a rare bonus movie OK, there are currently over 400 reviews telling you how good or bad "Halloween II" is.  Chances are, if you're reading this, you already have your own opinion of the film itself and want to know about the Blu-ray.  The transfer is quite good, although not perfect.  Unlike the 1978 original film, this one takes place all in one night.  And some of the scenes are pretty dark.  Still, it's probably the best the film will ever look on the home screen, so I'm reasonably satisfied with the picture quality.  Unfortunately, the sound suffers a malady common to too many discs: You have to really jack it up to hear people talk at times, only to have your walls shaken by a sudden sting of music during a scary moment.  The real treat that no one seem to be talking about, however, is the bonus feature film included.  "Terror in the Aisles" was a theatrical release way back in 1983.  The Universal-produced feature is a compilation of scary moments from films from the 50's through the early 80's.  Co-hosts and frequent genre stars Donald Pleasance and Nancy Allen not only narrate, but sit in a crowded theater watching the film clips.  The theater scenes are generally a bit cheesy, but not really out of line with the often irreverent tone of the film.  I remember watching this one in the theater back in the day, and I'm delighted to finally have a copy.  As far as I know, it was previously only available on a long out-of-print VHS tape.  If you're a fan of the movie, this is certainly a must-have (especially at the current low price).  But even folks who are just fans of horror cinema in general should pick it up for Terror in the Aisles.  Aside from the aforementioned technical deficits, it's a welcome addition to my Blu-ray collection.

"Toxic Avenger" Meets "Deliverance" This film does not entirely suck. I found some pretty clever situations in an otherwise formulaic take on "kids in the woods" stories. There are sufficient creepy moments which should satisfy the mildly hard-core slasher freaks; good photography and an intense score also helps. I ended up thinking of this not as plagiarized, but rather a tribute to other films of the genre, most notably "Evil Dead" and "Night of the Living Dead", among others, even though there are no ghosts or zombies. Creepy fun; never boring, with interesting supporting characters.

Great adventure movie, totally different Every once in a while, Disney gets brave and ventures outside their "Perfect-Princess" cliche formula. This is a great sci-fi flick, with astounding special effects, a strong plot and great characters. The women in this movie are strong, they are leaders and fighters, and don't need a man to rescue them or fight their battles for them. I encouraged my daughters to watch this. I like it for the sci-fi and comedy. My girls like it because the women kick butt.   In addition, the movie boasts some hefty male voice talent too: Michael J. Fox as Milo, Leonard Nimoy as the Atlantean King, James Garner as the lead Mercenary, John Mahoney as the financier of the expedition, and the late Jim Varney (Know whut I mean Verne?) as Cookie, who died shortly after its release.    My favorite quote from the movie... Jim Varney as Cookie: "What in tarnation is this?!?!?" Female soldier: "Lettuce. It's a vegetable, Cookie. The men need the four food groups." Cookie: "Lettuce?!? Bah! I got yer four food groups...beans, bacon, whiskey and lard!"

great movie (: A really funny and cute movie. Definitely fun for any family.  One simple warning: a couple naughty words you may not want the super little ones to hear (but nothing too bad.)

Shocking, Intense, and Very Well Done !! Like other reviewers, I had no idea what to expect from this Australian production, but I did assume that it would follow the routine course of the countless revenge tales that preceded it. Boy, was I wrong. Not since watching The Exorcist many years ago have I been so unprepared for a movie. In fact, comparing it to any previous revenge flick is like comparing Gone With the Wind to a Looney Tunes Cartoon....it is absolutely riveting, thoroughly engaging, well-scripted, superbly acted, and not easily forgotten.  The storyline is simple and already described by many other reviewers; it involves a physically unimposing father avenging the death of his teenage daughter at the hands of porn merchants, or so he assumes. What separates this production from previous ones is that it explores the gray area of responsibility for her death, between the father who tortures himself (legitimately) for his poor parenting, the girl herself for making bad decisions, and the group of men involved in her demise. Most of these men present their side of the issue, and it should be noted that some of them present rather compelling cases. They are not all the drooling, psychotic fiends normally encountered in such productions, but characters which are generally complex, realistic, and guilty to varying degrees.  The father has no superhuman abilities and is always in great jeopardy while exacting his revenge. You are never really sure if he's going to achieve his goal or end up sharing his daughter's fate. This adds greatly to the suspense. He is not Liam Neeson or Charles Bronson, but just a common guy whose guilt makes him relatively immune to pain and whose rage makes him very, very tough. The fight scenes are superbly choreographed, and appear to be both spontaneous and absolutely realistic....the best I have ever seen. There is no silly Kung Fu or predictable outcome, just the sheer, scary violence that occurs in battles to the death. At no time does the violence become gratuitous, except perhaps during a torture scene involving pliers and a blowtorch (you will know it when you see it), which is quite rare in such movies.  The bottom line is that this is a spectacularly original, superbly staged and acted production which no ADULT action-movie fan should miss. There are no boring, trite, or predictable moments. It is absolutely electrifying, and, like someone who has just been Tasered, I can't fully describe the experience......you'll just have to find out for yourself.

Hit Girl Is It I caught this on netflix, and have to say I was taken by surprise.  I was expecting a kid's superhero movie, but this sure isn't that.  Sure, it's a bit campy, but that's what's going to make this a classic in a few years.  I'm not going to give too much away.  This is a violent action film, and it's all about Hit Girl.... watch and you'll see.  And Kick Ass, well he does... in a final act of redemption.

A May/September romance whose effects last forever Romantic liaisons between younger women and older men aren't supposed to last.  The initial impulse isn't supposed to last, the incompatibilities in age and lack of shared cultural experiences are supposed to prevent a deep bond from forming, and the censure of polite society is supposed to eventually cause the parties to sever their ties.  Yet what if the initial impulse is deep enough, and various parties around the lovers are rash enough, to trigger effects which last for the lifetimes of both participants?  This is the intriguing scenario explored by director/writer Claude Chabrol (assisted by writer Cecile Maistre) in "A Girl Cut in Two".  The "May" of the romance is a young on-air television personality wonderfully played by Ludivine Sagnier, who in this film is the embodiment of the expression "a breath of fresh air".  The "September" of the romance is an aging author and intellectual capably portrayed by Francois Berleand.  Sagnier manages to demonstrate some believable longing and chemistry towards Berleand, even though their scenes together are not explicit (Sagnier fans will see a lot more of her, so to speak, in the film "Swimming Pool").  Unfortunately for our lovers, not only is Berleand's character married as well as fussed over by a publicity agent (played by Mathilda May) with whom he is also dallying on the side, but Sagnier's character is the desired object of affection of a brash, spoiled young heir played by Benoit Magimel.  This combustible mix eventually explodes, as it must.  "A Girl Cut in Two" is a very French film, and will appeal to those seeking an immersion in French culture, society, and morals.  The setting is not Paris but rather the smaller southern French city of Lyon, which is beautifully captured on film.  But the most intriguing aspect of the film is Berleand's character, and what his many actions and deceptions say about French society and morals in the early 21st century.  Berleand's character, although he is exalted for the truths contained in his writings, invents different "truths" to suit his circumstances, and eventually pays a price for doing so.  Ludivine Sagnier fans who appreciate her for more than just the charms of her beauty and body will enjoy "A Girl Cut in Two", as will those seeking a thought provoking film about upper-crust French society.

DVD good movie not much more to say about it that other reviews have not already said shipped and rec on time would buy again.

Neat fun little film This is a fun little film. The idea that a story of control and bigger issues was written around a con is a interesting story line. The movie itself is a cute con with fake endings and lots of fun. It does take on some life issues. Is your life being controlled by someone who loves you or do you enjoy the freedom and pain of writing your own script. The idea that the writer of the script (older controlling brother) having to die to free his brother is intriguing. I am sure deeper stuff is present in this movie and a thoughtful person can have loads of fun just trying to pick up the angles in the picture. It is just a fun movie more than all. The "mark" is well played by a zany Rachel Weiz. Brody and Ruffalo do a great job too.

Very Nice and Informative Film We really enjoyed this film about the life in the Himalayas. I've seen it twice and happy to won it.

Movies My daughter has watched this several times usually in waiting rooms and some appointments and what not. But it is great as far as quality goes and it doesn't mess up at all.

Great schools starts with great people I am not an educator but I have a passion for the education of our youth. I am from the inner city and know all about our public schools. Fortunately my parents had the means to send me to a private school half way across the city and eventually move to a neighborhood with a magnet school for the remainder of my school career, college and beyond. What about those children and families who do not have that luxury? Where do they end up, why and it is not for a lack of their parents trying. This movie tells us why but ends with only so much on how to change our current reality. Great film for all that are not delusional about the state of our public school system. Hopefully this is just the beginning.

Spellbinding This film takes place almost entirely in one scene and held me spellbound throughout the entire film.  The "perfect Stranger" is Jesus in human form.  If you want to understand God and the world today buy it.  Robert Allen

Subtlety, not action Most of the reviewers who did not like this movie were expecting some sort of "Bourne Identity" or "Salt" style of movie.  Instead, they got something reminiscent of the older 1950's style romances with a hint of cloak and dagger.  I also see a number of people who are wondering why the Golden Globes nominated this for three awards, they were all nominated under "Comedy or Musical" categories.  This was not a Michael Bay explosion-fest, it was a romantic comedy. If you watch this movie understanding that is the category, you will likely enjoy it.

"Marriage Italian Style" is my favorite film of the De Sica/Loren/Mastroianni collaboration and a film worth watching! Vittorio De Sica, the filmmaker and actor who captured the attention of the world through Italian Neo-Realism with films such as "Shoeshine", "The Bicycle Thief" and "Umberto D.".  Known for his neorealist films in the '40s and '50s, by the '60s, De Sica was a man who did what he wanted to do and that meant changing genres and experimenting with various themes. And in 1961, he would go on to create a film that would feature an all-star Italian and American cast titled "The Last Judgement" (Il Giudizio Universale) and also go from creating films about the poor to the people flourishing during the post-war economic boom (known as the Italian Economic Miracle) in which Italy would transform itself to a major industrial power starting from the '50s through the '70s. A subject that De Sica would focus in his 1963 comedy film "Il Boom".  While known for his neorealistic films and also his starring role in the 1957 film "A Farewell to Arms" (which De Sica received a "Best Actor in a Supporting Role" Academy Award nomination), his 1963 film "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" (Ieri, oggi, domani) would win an Academy Award in 1965 for "Best Foreign Language Film".  With the collaboration with actress Sophia Loren ("Two Women", "Boccasio '70', "Marriage Italian Style") and actor Marcello Mastroianni ("Divorce Italian Style", "La Notte", "La Dolce Vita", "8 1/2') resulting in success, the three reunited  again for the 1964 film "Marriage Italian Style" ("Matrimonio all'italiana"). The film is the second onscreen adaptation of the play "Filumena Marturano" by Eduardo De Filippo.  The film was nominated for an Academy Award for "Best Foreign Language Film" in 1966 and also a nomination for "Best Actress in a Leading Role" for Sophia Loren in 1965.  To celebrate the working relationship with filmmaker Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, Kino Lorber have released three Blu-ray titles and a special four-disc DVD set featuring "Yesterday Today, Tomorrow", "Marriage Italian Style" and "Sunflower") as part of "The Sophia Loren Award Collection".  VIDEO:  I have to admit that I was a bit surprised that "Marriage Italian Style" was given a Blu-ray release but considering it is one of the well-known Vittorio De Sica Sophia Loren films, I can understand why Kino Lorber was released on DVD and Blu-ray.  The film is presented in 1080p (1:85:1).  While it is great to see this film available in HD, I caution those who are expecting pristine picture quality.  You can tell that this print has not aged gracefully through the years and its important to note that similar to other De Sica films at the time, they chose to go with a more economical choice for film than the best quality available to them.  With that being said, there is mild flickering, there are white speckles and dust, a lot of grain, colors are not exactly vibrant and black levels are OK.  While some parts of the film look great and this is probably one of the few films where videophiles can easily debate the use of DNR.  If anything, Kino kept to the original print and not mess with it, so people are getting a film transferred to high definition.  But it's important to remember that if you want any of these Vittorio De Sica/Sophia Loren films, you either buy the DVD boxset or buy the Blu-ray release individually.  Personally, if you love the film and I do feel it is the better of the three films in the Sophia Loren Award Collection, the Blu-ray release is the way to go.  AUDIO:  "Marriage Italian Style" is presented in Italian Dolby TrueHD 1.0. The lossless monaural track is still clear in dialogue and everything comes quite clear through the center channel. Granted, I did choose to watch the entire film in stereo on all channels for a more immersive soundscape.  I didn't notice any hissing, pops or crackle and for the most part, soundtrack is what I was expecting from the lossless monaural soundtrack.  Optional English subtitles are included.  SPECIAL FEATURES:  "Marriage Italian Style" comes with the theatrical trailer (3:41) and the trailers for the three De Sica/Loren films that are available from Kino Lorber.  Also, a stills gallery with 28 images from behind-the-scenes and promotional images as well.  EXTRAS:  "Marriage Italian Style" comes with a slipcase.  JUDGMENT CALL:  As a Vittorio De Sica fan, knowing that many viewer's exposure of his work are through his neorealist films, let's step away from that and not focus too much on De Sica's past work but focus on what he has done in 1960.  Sophia Loren literally became the filmmaker's muse.  Beginning with "Two Women" in 1960, he would follow up film after film with Loren, "Boccaccio '70' and "The Condemned of Altona in 1962, his Academy Award winning film "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" (1963) which featured the first major collaboration between De Sica, Loren and Mastroianni.  And to follow-up a year later with "Marriage Italian Style".  While "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" did win an Oscar and while it was a fun comedy anthology that showcased Loren's body and sexuality, Loren was more than just a beautiful buxom actress, she was also a talented actress that can dish it out like any major actress out there.  You want her to play sexy, she will play sexy.  You want her to play a woman who has been jilted for nearly 20-years and want to see that frustration, she absolutely delivers in "Marriage Italian Style".  In fact, this is a very different film than "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow".  While sex does play a part, this film is not much about the comedy, it actually focus on the emotional drama and toll it takes on Sophia Loren's character Filumena Marturano. We have seen Loren give a superb performance in De Sica's "Two Men" but she shines again in "Marriage Italian Style".  And Marcello Mastroianni, he also delivers in a superb performance as their characters both feed off each other's anger, stress and passion.  The scene which involves Filumena giving a peace of her mind to Domenico about how she really feels and the fact that she has three sons was quite powerful.  She embodied the character of Filumena and I felt that she was absolutely on fire!  Mastroianni played the convincing role of the suave, wealthy older gentlemen, with the graying highlights and all, he looked the part, he played the part and he delivered!  And I do believe that the film was very much deserving of its two Academy Award nominations as this was the better film compared to "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" when it came to story and performance.  But while I enjoyed "Marriage Italian Style", it's important for those who are planning to purchase the Blu-ray to know that this film is not pristine by any means.  In fact, some may find the film unlike any film they see on Blu-ray because of its high level of grain, minor flickering, dust and speckles and so forth.  Yes, the film has been given the 1080p High Definition upgrade but Kino Lorber does not do restorations like other niche companies specializing in cinema.  They take the film elements and give you an HD version of those film elements and suffice to say, because restoration is extremely expensive, not all films that come to Blu-ray are given significant restorations.  Even from the major studios.  As for special features, this one is pretty much barebones.  While "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" contained the Vittorio De Sica documentary, I was hoping there would be some revisiting by Sophia Loren or someone involved with the film.  Also, may there be an audio commentary or something else that would make this release much more attractive to Blu-ray fans.  And this brings me back to the man who is responsible for directing the film, Vittorio De Sica.  Like Fellini, Rosellini, Visconti and Antonioni, De Sica is a legendary filmmaker in my eyes.  While not all De Sica's films were magnificent hits, the fact is that throughout his oeuvre, he has created a few masterpiece.  Not one, not two...there are quite a few that surprise you with its overall look but performances that really are heartwrenching.  While "Two Women" was a powerful film featuring Sophia Loren, the primary focus of "The Sophia Loren Award Collection" is to feature three major collaborations between De Sica, Loren and Mastroianni.  And for me, this is important because if you want to enjoy "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow", you must watch "Marriage Italian Style" and "Sunflower" and pretty much, if you enjoy the working relationship between these three talented individuals, it's worth watching each of these films.  By no means, are each of these films their best work but its a collaboration that remains special for cinema fans and fans of each of these three individuals.  And as De Sica brought out the performances of both Loren and Mastroianni, for me, this was like the Italian equivalent of a William Powell and Myrna Loy or Clark Gable and Myrna Loy ala early '60s.  They may have not made that many films than their Hollywood counterparts but they did have great chemistry onscreen for these three films presented in the collection.  Overall, while "Marriage Italian Style" is not the best looking film on Blu-ray nor does it contain a lot of special features, it still is an enjoyable film.  So, if you are a big fan of Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, "Marriage Italian Style" is worth giving a try!

Worth the purchase Touching Home is a wonderful little film with extraordinary performances from Harris, Dourif, and Forrester.  Because the twins are identical, it takes a bit of concentration to follow which twin is saying what. I recommend you also pick up the book written by the Millers which chronicles the ups and downs of producing their own film, "You're either in, or your in the way".

Fun Film Red Cliff has great cinematography, the characters are interesting and the story moves along at a good pace. There is some good unpredicatability and suspense that makes this a fun film to watch. A film you will watch a number of times over the years to come and enjoy.v

GREAT collection of some of JW's old movies! It is SO NICE to be able to view these old movies (I ~love~ John Wayne movies!) without all the commercials!! Have recently begun building a collection of them for personal viewing. These are a very welcome addition to it.

Great Movie! Okay, I just have to say from the start before I saw this movie I knew it'd be a "B" movie. We all knew that. But I am a huge fan of the ultra-creative horror picture of "The Blair Witch Project" and I think since this movie is very like that but almost a little better I think that this was a very creative and well done movie. People don't come into theaters anymore with an open mind and just not think about the movie and just enjoy the roller coaster ride for these kinds of movies.  The effects were amazing, the cinematography and the different camera shots were very well done, and the acting was much better than I thought, and the suspense and story was was great! I am amazed to how many people hated this movie...I found the movie pretty convincing as well...Even though it is fake it almost convinced me...

sweet dvd watched this as a child and had to get it for my collection. some really funny parts in this movie

A Rib Tickler Here's the deal:  OUR FAMILY WEDDING is predictable, often forced, sometimes contrived, nonsensical, cliche-driven, and even lame in spots--but you'll still watch this heartwarming comedy with a grin on your mug.  As love birds Marcus and Lucia (Lance Gross and the spectacular America Ferrera) plan their nuptials we witness a titanic clash of cultures, as Marcus is African-American, Lucia Hispanic.  And both papas (Forest Whitaker and Carlos Mencia) can barely disguise their inherent biases, believing their respective child can do much better.  Accordingly a mano-y-mano contest takes place, with both fathers going overboard to comedic contentment.  Both Whitaker and Mencia have some hysterical moments; I'm still giggling over the 'Boys Night Out' scene at the local watering hole.  Naturally the tension and lack of consensus over the wedding ceremony create a degenerating strain on Marcus and Lucia, culminating in predictable plot turns.  Yet OUR FAMILY WEDDING has such a feel-good silver lining you're looking forward to the inevitable butterflies and kittens ending.  Just be prepared for some really outrageous behaviour on the part of a goat before the ceremony begins.  Alas, even goats need some luvin'. . . --D. Mikels, Esq.

An unexpected good story It was like watching stand by me mixed with war of worlds. While each has its charm, it was a nice movie with great characters with an alien backdrop. I think a lot of people expected Independence Day, but I enjoyed the new twist on telling an alien action story.

Slip Cover Movie worked fine, just if your a collector like me and like your things intact.  You might want to ask before ordering.  The movie didnt come with a slip cover like it should.  Tho its not a biggie to most people.

The Fighters The film was produced in 1995. Popular actors are Chris Owen and Ariana Richards. You might have seen them in American Pie or Jurassic Park. The film is funny, because it is about a fat boy (Angus) and a pretty girl (Melissa), who dance together at the prom of their school. It's a fascinating romance. Angus often has problems at school and he solves his problems in an interesting way. It's a romance, because Angus gets Melissa in the end. In my opinion the film is about a fat boy, who dances with a famous girl, which shows that your character matters more than your outer appearance and that it's not important how you look, but who you are! See it the same way ? Than what are you waiting for ? Enjoy the film!

Fine job, but needs the sequel They did a fine job making this great book a movie, but it needs the sequel so you can find out what happens to Ayla. Or better yet read the books!

Good movie Very good movie.  At first I was hesitant due to it being another Rom-Com but I was surprised.  The backdrop is awesome and looks fantastic in 1080p.  It's a funny yet a bit predictable story.  All in all, it's one that has made our repeat viewing list.

Best Picture and then some "Chicago" is a musical 'satire', but nonetheless a musical set in the roaring twenties when times were understandably wild. Renee Zellweger plays a wannabe chorus girl that dreams life around her in terms of theatrical sets. She would not hurt a worm, but in an instant of artistic indifference discovers that although 'he' thinks he is alive 'she' thinks him dead. The murder that follows sets the theme for this genre.  In its broadest sense, the film is about American innocence seen through the actions of the not-so-innocent, about life in times of murder, greed, and bedlam.  The flick won 'best picture' award and rightly so. The acting talents of Catherine Zeta-Jones are extended by her song and dance talents as well.  Worth the money.

50/50 on this one! My husband loves this video, but it's a little too easy for me.  (We're both "60ish" and very active.)  It's good for relaxing and stretching, but maybe that's what it's intended for.  We both like Scott Cole.

Leslie Freshens Up 4 Fast Miles With Intervals! Leslie's newest DVD has 4 fast miles and includes interval training.  The set is the newer studio that her other recent videos have been shot in -- it's nice and bright.  The format is 4 total miles -- 2 are classic walks and 2 include interval training, or "power surges" as Leslie calls them.  The 2 classic miles include some newer moves and are fast--the first mile comes in at just over 11 minutes including the warm up and the last mile is just over 12 minutes.  The middle two miles are both just over 13 minutes and include the intervals -- each of these miles has three sets of intervals, alternating 2 minutes of slower walking and 2 minute power surges, which have higher impact moves like jogging, mini jump rope moves, twists, and mini jacks.  Your heart rate stays up throughout so it feels like a good workout. On most of the miles, Leslie works with the younger group of women that have been in her recent videos.  She does one of the interval miles solo.  There are not too many opportunities to mix and match on this one  -- you can do all 4 miles or choose to do the 2 classic miles or the 2 miles with intervals.  Overall, a good aerobic workout with some new moves and new music!

a complex, touching film "Miral" traces Palestinian experience with Israeli oppression from the 1947 "Nakba" forward to the present.  Heartache abounds, as the characters cope with tragedy.  But the film is wise in tracing some of the problems to Palestinian roots, although the Israeli occupation always provides a backdrop for the impulsive and sometimes cruel things that Palestinians do to each other.  Wisdom is earned the hard way in this film, but in a way that vindicates the unfailing love shown by the principal character to the orphans under her care.

A Good Situation I love this workout DVD. It works every area of my body. Mike is hilarious during the whole thing. Looking past that, I would recommend this DVD to anyone.

A great Burton movie, little scary for kids I bought this movie more for myself rather then for my kid and its a good thing too. I forgot how creepy Burton movies can be. I love the plot of the story and I really like the story ends. I dont get to watch it much though because I have to watch it when the kids asleep :) But it was a great buy and I recommend it to anyone that Likes the Nightmare before Christmas.

Not what you'd expect... I originally was interested in this movie because of the cast. I'm a big fan of both Jeremy Piven and Rob Lowe. The previews for this movie left me unsure what to expect. While watching the first 45 mins-1hr of the movie, I was following along but kept wondering "why is this important?" And then, of course, the hook catches, everything becomes clear, and the story shoots down a direction I never anticipated. In the end, my heart strings were pulled. I became emotionally attached so subtly that I didn't quite realize it had happened until it all hit home. I recommend the movie, but keep in mind it's kind of a "slow starter" and you really need to be prepared to endure the whole journey to appreciate it as a whole. Most importantly -- abandon any preconceived notions before you begin watching, because this movie won't be what you expect it to be.

good flick Sean connery has done it again with this epic exciting film, portraying some great sci fi people to boot.  I love this film and had to enter it in my collection, very glad I did.

More Bad News for the Catholic Church On the positive this film features Iain Glen and Aiden Quinn, two quite spectacular thespians. Glen once again gets to play a creep. I first saw him as Preston in "Wives and Daughters" and was impressed by his brooding depth. He's perfect as the obsessive-compulsive, sadistic priest. I can't imagine him ever giving a bad performance. The rest of the cast is uniformly excellent.  Never once did my engagement flag, which indicates something went very right with the script and the editing. Only the magenta colored flash-back sequences, which seemed both incongruous and conventional, made me roll my eyes. But that is a minor detail in an otherwise riveting drama.

A different role for Will Ferrell.  A very good performance in a very good movie.  Well worth watching. I say A "Good without the bad ain't no good at all."  After Nick (Ferrell) gets fired from his job of 16 years he comes home to find his wife has changed the locks on his doors and all of his stuff is on the lawn.  Thinking the best way to fix things is to stay at home Nick begins his new life, living outside.  This is a very very good movie and a very different role for Will Ferrell.  While not quite as good as Adam Sandler in "Reign Over Me", Ferrell still shows he has what it takes to be a good dramatic actor.  There are a few funny parts in this but this is not a comedy.  It's a drama with a lot of heart and while the movie is depressing at times it is a joy to watch.  Ferrell does have some funny scenes with his own style of humor that adds to the character and watching him with the actor that plays Kenny is a treat.  This is not a typical Will Ferrell movie, but being a huge fan I loved it and look forward to more roles like this from him.  I highly recommend this.  Overall, if you like Ferrell you will like this, if you don't give this a shot still.  You may like the change.  I give it an A.  Would I watch again? - I think I would.  *Also try - Barney's Version

Low Budget - Originality - Horror Fun! From the guy that brought you Puppet Monster Massacre, has now given us another fun adventure.  With Zombies being a pretty big deal lately, it's nice to see a story that although has some elements we've seen in other movies, is a whole new take on anything you've ever seen involving Zombies.  Now keep in mind that this is the lowest of budgets you can get while still delivering a good looking movie with even better special effects.  This movie is perfect for a Grindhouse setting and in my opinion, a great Double Feature, companion piece for a film like Dead Hooker in a Trunk.

Deathly Hallows part 1 blue ray DVD The film itself was much much better watching it again after watching Deathly Hallows Part 2. The first time I watched this as a rental before Pt 2 was out I was not impressed, thought it was the least dynamic and interesting of the Potter films - kind of dull and flat, lack of plot elements as well as "new scenery" of the world created by Rowling. This is probably why it's so inexpensive even on blue ray. I must say I enjoy it more now on re-run.  Bought this and Part 2 because of the upcoming "blackout" on Potter DVDs/broadcasts/streaming availability that is going to happen in 2012 and will last until Warner Bros. releases the new box set some time in 2012 or possibly even 2013. I do like to have Harry Potter "marathon weekends" on my own time, especially holed up during snowstorms and since I have all the other movies I didn't want to wait for the box set to watch the whole saga when I want to. And of course if the box set does not provide extended versions of these films with ample extra footage in all of them in my opinion it will be pointless to have since I'm not a collector but watch for "entertainment value".

Entertaining and Kinda Creepy Screamers tells the story of a futuristic warrior (Weller), fighting similar forces of an evil idustrial conglomerate on a planet that seems to have been bypassed by the rest of humanity.  In their quest to win, they have invented the "screamers"; self propelled, mostly underground, and very noisy killing buzzsaws that pop-up and shred anything not shielded by a wrist-held device. With the promise of peace at hand, he ventures off to meet with the opposition.  Along the way, the invention of new models of Screamers becomes apparent, but he cannot discover the nature of the latest version.  After the opposition is found and they agree to an uneasy peace to discover the new Screamer's real identity, well... I don't want to give it away.  Higher than average production values, enough action to keep one interested, and Weller's very natural and realistic emotional behavior as the self-tortured soldier (in contrast to some of the other actors - Jennifer Rubin being the exception), give this film an odd and somewhat dark, but compelling edge.

Cute Story Very cute, engaging - Bette did a great job as always! Helen was extremely believable and played the lead perfectly.

Pretty interesting movie This is another movie that doesn't get a lot of recognition but turned out to be very interesting with lots of good actors. Cillian Murphy especially.

The Coen brothers create their own "True Grit" After viewing this revisionist remake of the John Wayne Western twice, I'd have to say that this is an improvement over the the 1968 film. One factor is the marvelously scene stealing performance of 14 yr old Hailee Steinfeld over Kim Darby's performance (she was 24 and married with child at the time)plus Matt Damon's La Boeuf is big improvement over the wooden Glen Campbell's take.  As for Jeff Bridges' take on Rooster, I found it hard at first to understand him but was gradually won over because his performance was much more subtle and understated than the over-blown performance Wayne gave to the role. And also, the Coen's managed to remain truer to the book and capture the humor of it as well.  If you love Westerns (this made over a 100 million at the b.o.) or the Coen brothers--then you'll like this oater.

A pleasant surprise Mao's Last Dancer took me by surprise when I watched it the other day. Given only a two star recommendation from the critics, I was expecting a schlocky cornball bit of fluff. It was instead a joyful celebration of the human spirit that avoided going too far overboard. Sure, the ending was a deliberate tug at the heartstrings, but the rest of the movie was a touching motion picture about determination and difficult choices.  Mixing in flashbacks of his discovery in a small village through his training in Beijing with his initial eye-opening voyage to the United States and his instruction in the differences between eastern and western ballet styles, the story gave the uninformed (like me) enough ballet insight to stoke my curiosity but never smothered me, thus allowing me to appreciate the physical and mental demands of this art form without getting bored. Bruce Greenwood, playing against his usual nasty type, does a fine job as the ballet director and Joan Chen provides poignancy and strength in her limited role as Cunxin's mother.  Mao's Last Dancer was a lovely film about courage, hard work, sacrifice, and conscience. Despite some of the more rhetorical and argumentative reviews, it is not a movie about politics. Many have criticized the movie as pro-American propaganda, but I didn't see that. To deny that China went through a dramatic period of change over the years the story takes place is an understatement, but I saw nothing heavy-handed about either side.  The characters are the focus of Mao's Last Dancer. Certainly the comparisons are evident and a minor plot device, but to see this movie or even the story of Li Cunxin as strictly about the differences between Chinese and American methods of government is to be myopic and thus miss out on the beauty of the larger story.

Confused in PA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After buying the Blu-Ray and regular DVD, finally the correct one!!! Amazon reviews are usually great and we all depend on them more or less! But these were confusing!!! I finally got the correct version and gave the Blu-Ray to my daughter. But because of the difference between PAL and US versions, I'm seriously considering a multi region DVD player!!!

Somewhat eye-opening...albeit in a negative way This is a competent program, covering Da Vinci's life from birth to death. There's very little mystery inherent in the coverage of his life - he starts as a frustrated artist, and ends life pretty much the same, albeit with accolades (his role as court artist for Henry of France was largely ceremonial, and Da Vinci was apparently quite frustrated that he was not able to work as much as he would have liked, both due to limitations of his responsibilities and his advanced age). The program serves to demystify much of the current cult surrounding him. He was a humble man - albeit a brilliant and talented artists and engineer - and there is no evidence presented that he in any way participated in many of the secrets ascribed to him in more modern days. There are dramatic recreations at various points in Da Vinci's life. Personally, I could take or leave them, and I found the heavy modern Italian accents on the English used a bit patronizing. Regardless, one gathers that the History Channel felt they were necessary to maintain viewer interest. Frustratingly, I have long believed the popular myth that Da Vinci was a man hundreds of years ahead of his time as a scientist and inventor - part of the modern cult of Da Vinci. While this documentary certainly does show him to be a brilliant artist and competent engineer, it goes far to set the record straight, perhaps unintentionally, that the man was no savant in the area of so-called ground-breaking inventions. His "inventions" were, for the most part, already extant in some form or another. Da Vinci's contribution seemed largely to make the item bigger. Much, much bigger. Da Vinci did not "invent" the helicopter, for example - he took a child's toy of the day, made it bigger, and put hand cranks on it so it could be turned by men riding it (practicalities aside). Even his engineering brilliance is inadvertently put into question marks. When building the bronze statue for Sforza of Milan - planned as the largest of its day, and never actually developed beyond a full-sized clay model prototype - one commentator mentions that, had it actually been produced, Da Vinci could have been responsible for explosions and minor devastation due to the proximity of the water table to the surface during the casting. The commentator seems to regard this as Da Vinci pushing the boundaries of the possible. Another read would be complete ignorance of the potential consequences. While an exemplary artist and keen observer beyond question, he also seems to be more enamored of the process than of achieving results. His "Last Supper", for example, was painted in an experimental way that severely impeded its longevity. It was a technique he is only mentioned as using once - probably since the result wouldn't even survive his own lifetime due to the technique in question. He was, undeniably, a keen observer. His paintings show a contrast in light and shadow unprecedented in his day, and his anatomical reproductions reflect a level of detail only someone with an artist's eye could possibly produce. Interestingly, there is a small amount of detail on the rivalry between Da Vinci and Michelangelo. Apparently the two detested one another. Irrespective of my now changed view of the man, the documentary is a good one - perhaps best illustrated by the fact that I have changed my view of him as a result. There is much information here I have not heard before, presented in easily digested form.

good view! Bought the movie for my son! who loved it! I enjoyed the movie also. Not usually something I would pick to watch but found it entertaining.

Doom Once again Dwayne Mcduffie, kicked ass....God Rest Him. I enjoyed it, loved it and it is good having multiple copies.  Blue Ray, DVD and Flickster.  You will buy this movie if you are a DC Fan.

Quiet and Powerful Film "Blue Valentine" is one of those quiet films that manages to pack quite an emotional punch without having to hit you over the head to get to your heart. Some of the credit goes to the script, which manages to convey more by saying less. "Blue Valentine" does not rely on the mawkish sentiment and/or  weepy soundtrack that helped doom "My Sisters Keeper" nor is it a paint-by-numbers "chick flick" like "The Notebook." Dean and Cindy (Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams) are much like any young couple that fall in love at first sight but then struggle when reality sets in. The film follows Dean and Cindy for 24 hours as they try to rekindle their passon. This is not a happy film, but the performances are first rate. Williams is wonderful as she slowly realizes that she has simply outgrown the relationship with her husband - she says more with her muted expressions of sadness than if she screamed and cried. Her Oscar nomination was deserved but even Williams' performance is dwarfed by Gosling's. His performance as the simple, comfortable Dean is magnificent, and he is painfully real as he watches Cindy slip away. Much like his work in "The Slaughterhouse Rules" and "Half Nelson," Gosling is able to shed his hunkiness for reality. He deserved an Oscar nomination but was unjustly snubbed.

one,two.three I like this old classic. It was entertaining and arrived in a timely manner.it was funny and the last of james cagney's film in twenty years. It is also a vault item hard to find so i was very happy with the fact that amazon has this item.

Used but still works great! Bought this used but it's a blu-ray so there was no problem when I played it on a blu-ray player nor a PC blu-day laptop. The Blu-Ray cover was a little beat up since it's a used product but I am not complaining. It's a nice addition to our daughter's Disney collection.

Not the best, but not the worst either - Just a fun movie People seem to fall into two camps concerning this movie: those who love it, and those who hate it. I hope to present a more balanced view.  This is a fun movie full of action, humor, surprises, interesting characters, and intrigue - everything you could hope for in an Indiana Jones film. But since fans had to wait so long for it, and the anticipation was built up beyond normal proportions, expectations were too high for many to fully enjoy it. They were expected to get blown out of the water, much like audiences were when they saw the first Indy movie in 1981.  While this movie has much going for it, a few things keep it from being the great film it could have been. Like many, the alien-related plotline didn't really do it for me. I understand they were trying to emulate 50's alien B-movies, much like the previous films emulated 30's adventure serials, but it doesn't quite work in an Indiana Jones movie. The MacGuffin (what they call the treasure being sought in each film) needs to be believable, and an alien skull just isn't believable enough to work. Plus, it's revealed much too soon in the movie. In the previous films, there was much build-up and anticipation to each of the MacGuffins which added to the mystique.  Also, too much CGI is used for the special effects. One of the great things about the previous Indy films is that relying solely on stunt work gave it an air of believability. In this film, you can tell where CGI is used and where it's not used. Spielberg should have kept to his original plan of not using any or very little CGI, especially during action sequences like the jungle chase.  What the film does well is showing what Indy is like in his later years. Harrison Ford is still in great shape in his mid-60's, and he looks pretty much like he did in Last Crusade except with more gray hair and wrinkles. The film gives us some interesting backstory on what Indy has been doing since the last film, including a stint in the U.S. military during WWII and participation in the Roswell crash of '47. I wish they had done an earlier movie about his time in WWII, but it's a bit late now.  With all that said, I hope they follow through on completing the fifth film (as of now it's being written). Why you ask? Think about it: all the odd Indy movies are great (Raiders, Last Crusade). Plus, this will give the filmmakers the chance to do a film with a bit more gravitas, much like Raiders and Last Crusade. Of course, whether that will happen is yet to be seen.

rookie blue the product was good i enjoyed that it arrived quicker then stated and enjoyed that it worked on my dvd player

I solve a case every week. And usually one around Christmas No matter how much time goes by, Gus and Shawn still attract the weirdest cases on TV. So unsurprisingly, "Psych Season 4" is just crammed with hilarious faux-psychic mysteries -- it gets a little dark in places and shows a few signs of wear and tear, but the rest of the season is full of werewolves, westerns and Bollywood. Well, not all in the same episode.  A Vancouver ski vacation is interrupted when Shawn (James Roday) spots the brilliant art thief Pierre Despereaux, so now he and Gus (Dule Hill) must figure out a way to thwart the perfect crime. To make matters worse, Lassiter (Timothy Ormundson) is determined to capture Despereaux himself, since he's been after the thief for years.  And back in Santa Barbara, the boys have a slew of other weird cases -- possible demonic possession, a murdered billionaire who asks Shawn to solve his murder, a haunted Wild West town, a drug lord, Gus' college a capella quartet, a soldier's mysterious death, a whitewater rafting disaster, tracking down Juliet's college boyfriend, a deadly virus, a shark attack, a Bollywood curse, and a man who believes he's a werewolf.  On the darker side of things: Shawn ends up kidnapped by a thug during the course of a case, and must find a way to tell his friends where he is. And the gang is dragged into ANOTHER game of cat-and-mouse -- Mr Yin ("dance partner" of the insane Yang) starts killing people in Hitchcockian style.  "Psych Season Four" is perhaps the most uneven season that this show has had thus far -- when it's good it's very VERY good, but a few of the episodes are kind of flawed ("Think Tank"). Fortunately, "Psych" at its worst is still a deliciously weird experience -- the writers are still exceptional at writing twisty-turny mysteries full of strange twists. AND we get to see Shawn biting a U.S. Marshal.  It also has the usual "Psych" mix: hilarious dialogue ("My first instinct is beavers, but I'm not willing to rule out those pesky Keebler elves"), funny situations (Henry stuffing little Shawn in a car trunk, to the horror of their neighbor") and increasingly strange cases that always turn out to be murder. Most of the season is comedy/light mystery, but the writers drop in a couple of more dramatic episodes -- and the finale is a brilliantly tangled web of murder, twisted trickery, and poignant loss.  Roday's Shawn is a pop-culture Peter Pan -- charming, funny, weird and goofily immature, but he gets to show his serious, sadder side in the finale. We also see Shawn actually having a long-term relationship, and struggling to deal with the demands of a selfish girlfriend who doesn't seem to respect his work.  Hill is amazing at being the "normal" guy who reins in Shawn's weirdness (while displaying a little of his own). And both Ormundson and Maggie Lawson get their time in the spotlight -- Lassiter gets sick of being overshadowed by Shawn and tries to solve a bizarre case the way Shawn would, and Juliet has to deal with her ex-boyfriend and brother being mixed up in crimes.  "Psych Season Four" has some rough spots, but it's still a delightful blend of mystery and comedy with the occasional spattering of darkness. Fun and crazy still.

a better heroes Alphas is great. Its kinda cheesy, and at times over the top but its fun and entertaining. Its what heroes would have been with a smaller budget and better writing. The season finale is amazing.

Ho for "Ivanhoe"! Anthony Andrews made this fine "Ivanhoe" and an equally excellent, if not better, "Scarlet Pimpernel" in 1982 and they may well be the best film-versions of either story.  Despite the fact that Wilfred of Ivanhoe is wounded about a third of the way through the story -- largely rendering him absent from perhaps half of what remains -- Andrews carries the film.  The supporting cast, notably Olivia Hussey as Rebecca and James Mason as Isaac of York, are generally quite fine, though Sam Neil's Brian de Bois-Guilbert is rather uneven and over-acted.  Despite its long running time, the tale moves along apace and the jousting and other set-pieces are rousing.  Recommended.

When TV takes over your brain I loved seeing Debbie Harry in a movie role although her acting was a bit unsteady. This takes being addicted to television to a whole new level.  Watching this particular new show called Videodrome of non stop torture plants a tumor in your brain which causes some very sick fantasies. This movie made me question my own life long television viewing.  What would life be like without any television?  Hasn't it taken over our brains just like the people in this movie? This didn't rise to the level of five stars for me but it certainly gets four stars due to it's poignant theme and the way it made me look anew at what too much television can do to us.  For anyone who loves sci-fi this is a must see.

Good movie This is Mrs. Rife -- Good movie. Showed dealing with loss and a bridge b/t the living and the dead and how thin the line can be. Emotional without being overly so. Left me smiling.

An interesting product of its times... "The Cardinal" could probably not be made the same way today, but it is killfully crafted by Otto Preminger at the height of his powers. Long but never boring, we're treated to a rare English-language appearance of the tragic Romy Schneider, to whom fate brought such misery and ended a life all too quickly. It does bring the viewer a close-up glimpse of pre-Vatican Council church workings and the adequate script is well-handled by even the minor characters. It deserves to be seen uncut and on a big screen where possible.

Good natured, good hearted 80s mini classic Sweet, unabashedly sentimental coming of age in the Catskills tale.  The dancing is hot, the acting is a mix (Grey and Orbach are VG, Swayze tries hard, looks great, but is a better dancer than actor ).  The ending feels very Hollywood, which is too bad, because the film seemed to promise more complexity in its gently satirical look at early 60s America in the first half.  Plus some very creaky, cliche sub-plots start to invade as well.  Yet the story is told with an honest and good heart, and there's a reason it's become a mini-classic.  Do I think it's a great movie?  No.  But can I understand why a generation that grew up with it cherish it? Absolutely.

Not more of the same. We bought the movie for me 4 year old son, his favorite movie is Madagascar so we figured he would enjoy the second one.  While he did enjoy it albeit not as much as the first., where we had a bit of an issue is it's much more adult oriented than the first more with regards to the jokes and language used.  So it will be a few years before I let my son watch this movie again.

Definitely not for young'uns To be honest, I feel this movie only deserves 3.5/5 stars, but since I can't give half-stars, I'll just give a 4. Do not be fooled by the fact that this is a cartoon, this is NOT a movie for young kids. I recommend this for older kids at the least. The story is cheesy (despite its dark themes) and I honestly feel it could have been done better. If you liked this movie, then watch the sequel, as you can see this and the sequel as one story due to what happens in the second story since it feels more like a continuation to this one rather than just a sequel.

Two interesting early Russian films, The Girl With the Hatbox" is the real prize in these two films. A cute, charming silent comedy of Russian girl who travels between her home in the country and an apartment owned by a greedy, rich couple in Moscow.  She meets a poor student with nowhere to go, and ends up marrying him to give him the right to stay in the apartment although the marriage starts as just a platonic arrangement. Lots of hi-jinx ensue, almost all well acted, and I found myself enjoying it way more than I expected to. Yes, there are some over the top performances, and a couple of unneeded sub-plots, including our heroines cruel ignoring of the post man who is in love with her, but overall this is a breezy, sweet comedy, well worth watching.  "Outskirts" is an interesting, if not totally successful and sometimes awkward mix of comedy and drama, expressionism and realism in a study of small town life and the horrors of WW I. Some wonderful photography, but distractingly bad post-dubbed sound.

The human face of conflict and survival As a general rule war requires 1) the suppression of the consciousness' instinct of universal justice; and 2) the dehumanization of the enemy. The injustice done by the West in Afghanistan and dehumanization of the Taliban is a case in point. The war in Afghanistan has long, long ago passed the rubicon where it can judged as "just" by any measure. Whatever legitimate criticisms one may have of the Taliban are far superseded by what has become a raw imperial drive by the West to dominate that tortured land for other geo-political goals, with no regard whatsoever to the sanctity of human life on the ground. As example of just how far our dehumanization of the Taliban has gone, Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan and an ethnic Pashtun, was severely criticized for calling his and America's enemies amongst the Pashtun Taliban "my brothers". (Of course, the cozy relations between the Taliban and the US pre-911 are generally forgotten) Even among many Muslims, we see the dehumanization of the Taliban. And the Taliban have been guilty of dehumanizing others -- such as their fellow Afghan Shi'is -- as well.  In Essential Killing we are reminded of our shared humanity, our shared anguish over separation from our loved ones, and our struggle to survive and to return home. We are reminded that, as we dehumanize others, we need to gaze into the mirror of both our individual and national consciousness to see both the human and the beast within each of them.  The director --- no doubt and in part out of deference to anti-Muslim and Zionist sensibilities in the West -- plays down the political implications of this masterpiece. One wishes he could have been a bit bolder on this front; to bring more of the protagonist's roots, culture, and spirituality into the forefront of the drama. But those implications are inescapable, and the dynamic imagination can fill in the blanks.

Oldie but Goodie I bought this movie for my sister. It was a childhood favorite of hers. The movie worked great, and she loved it.

Pretty good Mask Of Death is a cool action flick if your wanting to see some cool action this is the movie even though im not a fan of Lorenzo Lamas this is one of his good movies.

A great adaptation, highly recommended! What's it about?  A 2D animated spin on the origins of Batman and Gordon (before he became Commissioner Gordon), and how their lives come to intertwine.  Is it any good?  Do we really need another Batman origin tale? I think just about everyone knows the origins of Batman (murdered parents, wealthy entrepreneur etc.), but what makes this movie really appealing and unique is that it follows Gordon's origin. The story is based on Frank Miller's hugely popular graphic novel of the same name, and it really does an amazing job of developing the complexity of Gordon's character. It mustn't be easy for a man to move his life to Gotham City, survive police brutality, become a first time dad, the temptation of having a hot young blonde as a colleague, and chasing down a masked vigilante, all in the space of a paltry 60 minute run time. The voice acting is admirable and the dark toned animation really lends itself to the story, making this film worth watching.  Best bit?  Gordon races to save his family, with a little help from the caped crusader.  Did you know?  Batman: Year One was almost adapted as a live-action film to be directed by Darren Aronofsky from a screenplay by Frank Miller. Warner Bros. canned the project in favor of Christopher Nolan.

Movie 5 Star, DVD not Why do you do release such great musical's/movies on a cheapy way without a restoration and subtitles? Sorry, for foreign speaking like me I need those sometime as help.  Well, the movie itself is in one word: fantastic.  Eleanor Powell is the queen of tap dancing and I love her "Honolulu" and "Old Dixie Melody" (Bill Robinson-)-Number and her hawaiian dance numbers. Miss Powell's Co-Stars Robert Young and Gracie Allen are amazing. And apropos the scenes with the Double/Twins are amazing. It looks incredible when Robert Young shakes the hand of his Doppelganger - made without any computer effects!!!  TRIVIA: Did you know, uncredited parts as singer/chorus you can hear the voice of the amazing Douglas McPhail (who maybe is most reconized in Judy Garland/Mickey Rooneys "Babes in Arms" and "Little Nellie Kelly"). McPhail had also a bit part in Eleanor Powells "Born to Dance" (Solo Bit in 'Entrance of Lucy James' Number) and was the Masked Singer (uncredited) in Fred Astaire/Eleanor Powell only movie together: "Broadway Melody of 1940". His wife Betty Jaynes is also as singer/chorus in "Honolulu". Sadly, this very talented singer made suicide in 1944. Miss Janyes is still living.  Apropos:  one of those Groucho Marx masked singer who sings with Gracie Allen - it's Ken Darby who is maybe well know as director of the Ken Darby singers.  The Picture Quality is very good and also the soundtrack is very good (of course in mono).  FAZIT: very nice musical, with fantastic special effects and a wonderful Eleanor Powell where is still the QUEEN OF TAP.

Like a Kurosawa film Thirteen Assassins is a wonderful film. Dramatic, action packed, and quite engaging, the film is fairly reminiscent of Akira Kurosawa and his works. Takashi Miike knows how to pair gooddialog with good story telling, making the scenes more memorable. It shows the a grim retelling of the lives of the people living in the Japanese unification period. If you really like samurai and bushido, if you are a fan of Kurosawa, Seven Samurai, or the Magnificent Seven, you will enjoy this film.

Morocco Great movie for study of the cross over from silent to talkies. Joseph von Sternberg does a great job using dark and smoky cinema to convey the down and out personalities of the two main characters. The numerous moments of non verbal, body language and facial expression are well weaved into the verbal dialog. Cooper's wimsical acting behaviors bring a fresh interest to the movie, I'm sure in the 30's and for me now.

Great little movie with twists and turns and excitement I don't get the people that gave this one and two stars. I think to tag it as horror might be a mistake. It is more like a mystery thriller. Lots of twists and turns and a great exciting end of movie run with a nice touch during the credits, don't miss it.

Kalifornia This is one of Brad Pitt's early movies. Although it is not an amazing movie in itself, it is an absolutely amazing acting job by Pitt. He does not play the hero type like normal. He is a stone-cold killer who is absolutely demonic. You have never seen Pitt in a role like this. Watch this movie for the acting.

GOOD MOVIE ABOUT CHRIST'S DEATH & ST PETER GOOD MOVIE ABOUT JESUS' DEATH ON THE CROSS AND ST PETER BEING TAKEN BACK TO ROME FOR EXUCUTION, BUT THE CHRISTIANS HAD SPREAD THE WORD OF GOD AND NOW IT WAS TIME FOR PETER AND PAUL TO MEET JESUS IN HEAVEN. OLDER MOVIE, BUT THAT IS WHEN THEY WERE GOOD.  NOW YOU DON'T SEE MUCH OF ANYTHING AS FAR AS RELIGIOUS MOVIES THEY USED TO MAKE YEARS AGO.  IT IS SHAME.  WE NEED MORE GOD IN OUR LIVES, PRAY FOR OUR COUNTRY!

Shakespearean Adaptation This is one of Shakespeare's most chaotic plays, and you know that is saying something. It's a great deal of fun, and I only have one complaint. Denzel Washington and Keanu Reeves are supposedly brothers. Half-brothers I could accept, although even that would not be easy. But brothers??? And one to blame Old Bill for: Hero is a girl's name??????  Anyway, the lovely Hero (Kate Beckinsale) is in love with Claudio (Robert Sean Leonard), just back from some rather unspecified adventure in the service of Prince Don Pedro (Denzel Washington). Her father had promised her to the Prince, but when he finds that she and Claudio are in love, he is happy to speak to her and to her father and rearrange things so the lovers can wed. Of course there must be some misunderstanding first, but that's easily worked out.  Or is it? Turns out Don John (Keanu Reeves) was only pretending to be reconciled to his brother, and actually plots to do him in. And since Claudio is clearly in Don Pedro's favor, he plots against him, too. The idea being, I suppose that since Don Pedro vouched for Claudio to Hero's father, he'll cause a rift all around. I'll let that part of the story play itself out without revealing anything more.  Anyway, Hero's cousin Beatrice (Emma Thompson) is a high-spirited and rather scornful girl who says she will never marry. Don Pedro and Claudio's friend Benedick (Kenneth Branagh, who played Professor Lockhart in the Harry Potter series) also vows he will never marry. In fact, he and Beatrice have been trading insults for years. So of course his friends conclude that they love each other, and plot to bring them together. And as most of us know, those who argue constantly do sometimes love each other; they simply love arguing.  After every possible mix-up, plenty of bawdy humor, and lots of lush costumes and settings, it all ends happily, with the two couples properly married. Even if you were forced to read it as a student, you should be able to enjoy this one. As with much of Shakespeare, it is far easier to understand when you can attach a face to a character and see by inflection, gesture and so on, what the sometimes rather awkward phrasing is saying.

Great follow up. Banner of the Stars is the sequel to Crest of the Stars. Crest of the Stars chronicles the meeting of Jinto and Lafiel, Banner of the Stars reunites them and focuses on the actual war. There is plenty of action and exploration of emotions in this one. I think this is my favorite Crest of the Stars series. I have the first 3 installments and I have heard of a Banner of the Stars 3, but never seen it. Banner of the Stars 2 wraps it up pretty nicely though I think, so I'm not too worried about it. Anyway My only complaint is the animation. It's not much better than the stuff we saw in the 80's from anime like Robotech. It's obviously not that old, some of the special effects are pretty good. Like when they enter hyper space & stuff like that; but the character drawings are kinda rigid. The depth of the characters makes up for any other complaints one may have.  I thoroughly enjoyed this anime and I think anyone could find something to love about it. Check it out.

Chi Energy Workouts for Beginners I felt this was a good workout not only for beginners, but seniors as well.  In addition to the benefit of the workout, the program had an overall calming effect on the senses.  The program was easy to follow, the directions explicit and clear as well as the demonstrations of each position and the movement.  I am very happy with this product and would recommend it.

Strange but different I am a huge fan of Christmas movies and for some reason, I really like this movie.  It's kind of strange and different from the usual Christmas movies but what can I say, I really liked this movie (yes, I'm repeating myself)!

Fast and Furious Great movie! Takes place before Tokyo Drift. Love the title sequence with the fuel truck and the cars stealing the trailers!

Getting better!! This movie is a major improvement over the second one. Still not as good as the first movie but they are getting better and they listened to the fans about what was wrong with the second movie and improved alot of them in the third movie. How they make a number four!

V.Good Collection , Pleasantly Theatrical This is a very good collection of stories that reminded me of my good old childhood days when I used to be a dedicated viewer of the television series . However I do feel even though this has a very pleasant theatrical ambience , it may not be very enticing for the newer audiences . I wish they could have restored or enhanced the video quality to make it more appealing.

robert's review this movie is not as good as "adam's rib" or "woman of the year". Enjoyable because of cast and Tracy Hepburn team, however.

Action Packed This is an exciting movie, full of high-paced action, and with the convenience of amazon on demand, an overall great experience.

Pure, Unadulterated, Efficient, Confident, Fun Dinosaur Adventure ***This review may contain spoilers***    Jurassic Park III (hereafter JPIII) is essentially JPI or JPII without the excessive environmental, industrial, and genetic ethical moralizing.  JPIII is simply content to pit humans vs. dinosaurs as the humans seek to escape the dinosaur domain alive, and does so, as I said in the title, efficiently, confidently, and entertainingly.  Unlike the first sequel, which gave us the brave but bemused and not dinosaur-savvy Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) JPIII has the good sense to reintroduce rugged, resourceful, Indiana-Jones-like paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant in a latest attempt to save someone from dinosaur-infested Isla Sorna.  That someone is resourceful, plucky 12-year old survivalist Eric Kirby (Trevor Morgan), stranded by a parasailing mishap.  Eric is certainly a refreshing improvement upon the first sequel's whiny, peevish Kelly (Vanessa Chester). A third plus, at least initially, is Dr. Grant's able, young, handsome graduate student assistant Billy Brennan (Alessandro Nivola), who comes along for the rescue attempt.    Somewhat unfortunately, JPIII counterbalances these competent characters with Eric's nondescript parents: Paul Kirby (William H. Macy) who poses as a wealthy businessman willing to subsidize Dr. Grant's research in exchange for his son's rescue, and Amanda Kirby (T&eacute;a Leoni), Paul's tenderfoot ex-wife.  Both participate in the rescue, even after Paul reveals he is merely a hardware store owner, and Dr. Grant exasperatedly punches him for the hoax.    Off the quartet goes to Isla Sorna, where they are, naturally, stranded when a gigantic carnivorous Spinosaurus dismantles their aircraft and slays the mercenaries accompanying the group for protection.  Despite their encounters with the Spinosaurus and T-rex, the latter which is killed in a vicious knockdown battle, the quartet becomes a quintet when they find Eric quite alive and quite well near an enormous aviary.  The Spinosaurus was the first new angle in JPIII, the second is the eventual discovery of towering winged Pteranodons nesting within the aviary.  The Pteranodons chase them as well.  The group's progress is impeded by Eric's out-of-their-element parents, and, surprisingly, by Billy's appropriation of velociraptor eggs in a misguided attempt to fund Dr. Grant's research. Dr. Grant discovers the theft and severely chides Billy as no better than an avaricious corporate suit.  Billy redeems himself by using a parasail to save Eric from a pteranodon's clutches and disappearing into a stream.  The remaining group drive off the attacking Spinosaur with a crane and a boat fire, escape a surrounding pack of velociraptors by communicating with a shell that simulates their cries and giving back their eggs, and manage to contact Dr. Ellie Satler (Laura Dern) with an elusive cell phone for help in getting off the island.  They get off the island, find Billy injured but safe, and see the freed pteranodons fly off the island for a possible third sequel.    I liked JPIII because it is a stripped-down, just-long-enough, straightforward dinosaur adventure.  Furthermore, we learn more about more dinosaurs (carnivores and herbivores) and realize they are far more than villains that chase and eat people.  Also, the characters, even Eric's stereotypically clueless parents, test their mettle and will for survival and eventually earn our respect.  Finally, the CGI beasties are as awe-inspiring as ever and advance in our estimation because of Dr. Grant's scholarly admiration of them.  One can find lapses in JPIII, such as the T-Rex's willingness to leave the carcass it's feeding on to chase little humans, and a 40-pound pteranodon's questionable ability to pick up an 80-pound kid (besides pteranodons are fish-eaters).  Nevertheless, JPIII is a thrilling, suspenseful ride (especially the sequence when Dr. Grant desperately calls Ellie on the slippery cell phone, gets her 3-year old son instead, and tries to get the Barney-distracted child to get mommy on the line). And yes, it's much better and more intelligent than The Lost World, and on a par with the first Jurassic Park.  P.S.:  After three "Jurassic Park" movies, what's left for the putative third sequel to cover?  Okay, we have the escaped pteranodons.  But is that enough?  All I can think of is that unscrupulous InGen scientists somehow obtain the dinosaur zygotes from the first movie, perform some cross-breeding on the mainland, and create new dinosaur hybrids, including humanoid dinosaurs (from the velociraptor embryos).

Miss Ellie's Review of "Pure Country" Hey all you George Strait fans out there.....you just HAVE to buy this DVD!  Then you can listen to OUR "Boy George" sing his heart out and "strut his stuff" as many times as you'd like!!!  I gave it 4 out of 5 stars only because the sound quality isn't the greatest but it's definitely a KEEPER!!

Fun & entertaining Good for kids but has pretty cheesy songs/narration. Still worth it though. This DVD does the first portion on Firetruck, then garbage trucks, then finally vehicals used in the city (like street sweepers). My kids younger kids are bored by the time the get to the last one but the older ones really enjoy it.

Rocky Meets Transformers Ex-Boxer traveling through town to town using robots to compete in boxing matches, down on his luck & short on cash,  he discovers he has a son and doesn't know if can handle the responsibility of being a father. he brings him along and they find a robot that was the underdog in its day can handle taking the hits in the ring and come out winning. Between all of this its a story about a father & son becomeing closer. Well written, good special effects and has a Rocky message.

Another snide look at the upper classes Well acted, as are all Masterpiece Theater entries, this story focuses on a wealthy family in a dire mess for want of a male heir, a distant heir-apparent relative who is not truly upper class, and the herd of people who keep the huge Abbey running.  Many stories progress simultaneously, forcing you to pay attention if you don't want to lose track of who is who and is doing what.  We found the four episodes immensely entertaining (we particularly enjoyed the grandmother's [Maggie Smith's] snide comments) and were disappointed only in that most of the stories were left hanging at the end.  The producers want to be sure we turn in for set two, but it hasn't been completed yet!

come early morning I have enjoyed the movie ..something different to see Ashley and Jeffrey playing this kind of role.... but their performance was excellent....  I just finished watching tv show Missing with Ashley and 4 season of Jeffrey Donovan Burn Notice.... looking forward to receive the 5th season which I have ordered already.....  sincerely Marcelle

Blu-ray Review: "Puppet Master II" Full Moon Entertainment films are a big part of my horror upbringing. I would say they were my first exposure to direct-to-video movies. I remember going to the local video store and grabbing up every "Subspecies," "Trancers," "Robot Jox," and "Dollman" release I could get my hands on. I never thought I'd see the day where these B-movie gems would get a high-definition transfer. That dream came true as I sat down to enjoy "Puppet Master II" on Blu-ray.  The evil puppets dig up their creator, Toulon, and bring him back to life. They need the mad puppeteer to concoct more of his formula to keep them alive. Thanks to a new group of paranormal investigators visiting the Bodega Bay Inn, the diabolical little creatures have a fresh supply of humans to use for the ingredients. Complications arise when Toulon becomes mesmerized by the leader of the group who resembles his late wife, Elsa.  "Puppet Master II's" high-definition transfer gives the film a new lease on life. It's safe to say the movie never looked this good. Charles Band admits that himself in the introduction of the film included on the disc. The coloring is beautiful and there's no softness to the picture. Everything looks sharp and clean. It's nice to see this get the facelift it deserves as an essential piece of B-movie horror history.  The movie gets a 5.1 surround sound upgrade from its original version. Richard Band's score accentuates the dark fairy tale atmosphere of the film and feels fuller. All the sound effects, dialogue, and horrific shrills are given more room to breathe. Fans of these films will hear portions of the audio they won't remember from the original video and DVD releases because of the improvements made here.  Special features for the Blu-ray include an introduction from the set of the new "Puppet Master" movie by Charles Band. He also provides commentary for the film. The original full length "Videozone" with the making of "Puppet Master II" is here as well. There's also a montage of the killing scenes, a rare 1997 commercial for "Puppet Master" action figures, and Full Moon trailers to enjoy.  The "Puppet Master" Blu-ray gives new and old viewers alike the chance to see the film the way it was intended to be. Although it's cleaned up, it doesn't lose any of its B-movie swagger. It's a classic creature feature that will give you a fear of dolls and puppets if you don't already have one. A combination of an entertaining feature and great bonus material makes this a must-own release for every B-movie horror enthusiast.

Pleasantly surprised I was pleasantly surprised by this dvd.  Based on his description of using Andersons methods, I guess I was expecting something drastically different than what was on the dvd.  As a parelli student, I would say it is a good and interesting look at maybe a different way of getting a horse to want to be with you.  And I would have to say that upper level students or anyone who is dealing with rescues, unhandled colts or wild horses, would benefit from watching this. Why?... Because you don't need to make a huge fuss and battle of wills to be good with horses.  While it is basically similar to Parelli in principle, there are some differences in technique.  IE: missing the 'send'..and 'neutral' (more about these later)...other than that, I don't see anything that contradicts Parelli in concept or principle, nor any other sophisticated method.  Now here is a really good compliment coming.  In my new journey, for my own education, I have adapted a screening process for deciding if I like a concept, technique, method or trainer.  First.....How would I feel if I was that horse?  Would I mind being the horse of that human?  For this dvd and for Smokie, I would have to say he gets high marks in this category.  Based on the dvd, I would not have minded being his horse.  Second.....does this concept/technique make sense and is it getting the results they say it is?  Again....for Smokie...YES!  Third.....Would I send my fragile Mustang to Smokie to be started?  The list of trainers I would hand my horse over to, is a VERY short list indeed.  Seriously....less than 5 people so far have made it on that list.  I have to say......based on what I saw so far....Yes I would.  I liked his philosophies, they align well with being a Parelli student, yet there is enough "different" that makes it worthy of watching.  In other words, we haven't seen it a 1000 times already from Pat and Linda.  The basic purpose of his technique is to get a horse to "hook on".  Something like Monty Roberts 'Join Up' meets the Parelli 'Catching Game'.  No reason you could not add a 'send' into the technique he is using to make things a teeny bit clearer for both horse and human.  He does not do the stand in the middle 'neutral'.  Personally I have deleted that one from my list of 'rules' anyways, and have demoted it to a temporary tool, so two thumbs up there, as long as you find an in motion 'neutral'.  His technique I find also aligns with Carolyn Resnick's Water Hole Ritual "leading from behind".  I liked that he also, takes the time to just BE with the horse before he starts to make ANY requests.  Which also kinda goes along with Water Hole Ritual #1...."Sharing Territory" and Parelli's task of `Undemanding Time".  He gives the horse time to settle into their surroundings, and also to 'settle' with his presence.  This is something that few trainers or owners do, that I feel could very well be standing in the way of your success if it is lacking.  He also does not seem to promote drilling a horse, or running it ragged, to wear it out, and have the "hook on" be due to fatigue, fear, or dominance.  Which is probably why I was most surprised, as he states he kinda uses Clinton Anderson techniques and yet I find him far more benevolent than Andersons dictator fashion, and nothing he does appeared to Anderson like to me at all.  They just look nothing alike.  Which is good for Smokie in my opinion as Anderson is FAR too aggressive for my liking.  Smokie, for me, seems to encompass principles gleaned from far greater masters of the horse.  I have to say that it is evident in watching Smokie with the horses in his presence, that he truly cares about the horse.  But more than just caring, honestly he treats them like a friend.  I like that....ALOT....so for people who are not Parelli students, and thus have not seen tons of videos already....I give this 4****'s, definitely a must see, and is a good educational dvd.  I didn't fall asleep, and I was interested listening to him.  He has the Language, and the Leadership, and most importantly....the LOVE!  If you really wanted to know...given the choice....I would choose Smokie over his far more famous brother Buck....every day of the week and twice on Sunday....but that is a matter of a different`review'.  For more equestrian dvd reviews.....[...]

Shoot for the Stars As an avid sports fan and weekend warrior I could relate to the plight of Jon. Who has not fantasized about being something other than who we are? From chef to pro basketball player and in this case pro golfer. All too frequently life gets in the way of being Kobe or Tiger. So what if you get that one little window to try? Most of us are too afraid to give it a shot. I give the guy a lot of credit for chasing a dream. I got lost in the dream of it all and really enjoyed it.

Very Good Video Quality, Great Audio Quality Please describe the audio and video quality of any Blu-Ray you review.  Thanks to those who do this.  The video quality was very good, but I didn't see it as great.  I thought the video was soft.  I had my TV set to "Vivid", and it still did not look great.  There wasn't any grain, but it just did not look sharp.  The DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio was great - lot's of surround sound.  I thought the movie was pretty good.  It looked like it was 2.40:1, and lasted about 2 hours and thirty minutes.  There were a lot of sub-titles, and it did not give me enough time to read some of them.  I just don't like having to read the words; it distracts from the movie.

Actually a very good mash up of SciFi/Fantasy This seemed like a risk to rent. It was not. I highly recommend it.  The movie is very good once you get past the fact that these ancient Nords accept a stranger into their camp with super short hair, modern clothing and no facial hair. LOL But one does have to suspend some belief when watching a fantasy film.  That said, I found the movie very entertaining and will watch it again.  I would have enjoyed seeing this film in a theater.  Story, characters, pacing and special effects were all excellent. Go on, rent it. It's worth a rent.

The forgotten one This was one of a trilogy of hard hitting cop thrillers from the time, which began with Bullit, and continued with The French Connection.  I have owned copies of both previously, but traded them in, but interestingly, decided to keep a hold of this one.  Quickly, Seven ups refers to a group of cops whose use unorthodox methods to entrap the criminals they pursue and they end up doing seven years in jail or more.  No six months or suspended sentences nonsense here.  Roy Schieder is electrifying in the lead, having no doubt been given the part because of his support work in The French Connection, so I guess it's a promotion of sorts!  Like with Bullit and The French Connection, the standout scene is a car chase and in my view, I think it's the best of the lot.  Okay, for three reasons; firstly, it's as gripping, if not more so than the other ones in Connection and Bullit, except to be predantic, French Connection wasn't strictly a car-car chase, but it was a tough act to follow nonetheless, and they did it with this; secondly, it's over a longer distance and so the attention has to be sustained for longer and it still manages to grip; thirdly, (spoiler alert, careful!), the ending to the chase is sudden and it is the wrong one who wins.  The pursuer loses.  That gives it a harder edge funnily enough.  But there is a further payoff to come.  There is also a very deserved mention here for the stunt driver who worked on both previous films and I am not sure if he did the stuntowrk on this too, Bill Hickman.  If he did co-ordinate it or even perform it, then hats off to the best stuntdriver that Hollywood has ever seen.

Sci-Fi thats out there This Season 2 set is a good bargain, although the episodes are oddly distributed over 3 discs (9 on disc-1 and d-2, and only 2 on d-3 ?!).  I was thinking of returning this after reading a negative review for the season 4 echo bridge set, however I decided to open it and give it a try.  Picture quality is fairly good considering 9 shows are squeezed on disc 1 (no worse than I remember when it originally aired on the sci-fi channel and the digital Lexx and space scenes still look great).  Its true the discs are not labeled but they do have different colors and the number next to each bar code is different, its not a big deal - just pop one in the player to see the episode list.  I've since picked up season 1 and 3 and not much interest for the 4th as that year is forgettable other than for the final show.  When Lexx originally aired it was considered the evil twin of Star Trek, much darker in tone and theme.  Although I still find the characters interesting, music great, and the humor from 790 and Kai over the top.  Too bad many of the story lines don't hold up quite so well.  Nevertheless, its a trip back to a weird sci-fi classic at a great price.

Stunning to look at, message could be stronger Beautiful imagery kept my 9-year old and me hooked to the 1.5 hours of film. Some of the animals I'd never seen before. Other familiar animals were captured in new ways. The wonders of the oceans was more than adequately expressed; the need to save our oceans and how we do that was fairly weakly conveyed.

Very Scary original CLassic  Masterpiece I really enjoyed Night of the Living dead it is a good film with decent acting an okay story and plot and its in black and white. I prefer the black and white version cause thats what it originally came out as.I remember buying this film at Barnes and Noble and I really was impressed by what I saw the zombies were so believable.Overall for  the tight budget this film was made on it is pretty good although I wish that the film had some special features and it had more zombie action but this movie is a classic in every way imaginable like ALfred Hitchcock's Psycho film and in my opionion scarier and better.I thought it was really corny and dumb when the kid zombie killed her mother with a tool I mean zombies  arent soppused too use tools everybody knows that. They eat you and then you become a zombie. I found the music too be good in this film.This isnt a perfect film but its still pretty good. My favorite part would have to be when the zombies enter the house that the people are hiding in and its pure cauos. This movie will always be a classic unforgettable in every way corny at some parts but  overall a pretty decent film one every horror aficionado should add too there collection.The gore in this film was really good I thought it was believable. This movie is one of the best of the geaorge Romero's dead series. I think that every horror buff should watch this film at least once and you wont be dissapointed trust me. I wish that there was a special edition of this film but alas there isnt that im aware of but still worth a buy.    THis is the type of movie that after watching a million times you will want too keep coming back and watch it again and again. The secret too making  people think something like this could happen is too set it in the real world and Romero has definetely done that here with this good picture. Zombies have been around in horror films for a long time and there not going away anytime soon so praise to Romero for helping define the zombie Genre of Horror films he didnt invent it but if you ask me he sure helped perfect it.Romero is one of the best movie directors too ever live and his movies are a must see.

Great movie, poor dvd Not optimized for 16:9 widescreen  the movie will be a smallish rectangle in the middle of your screen

Decent Reimagining I remember when this film came out and was wondering how it would compare to the TV series of the Sixties.  Harrison Ford is Dr. Richard Kimball who has been tried and convicted for killing his wife.  But he didn't do it!  Through an accident, he escapes and Federal marshal Girard goes after him, played seriously by Tommy Lee Jones.  TV versus Movie!  On TV it was a continuing series with Kimball disguising himself and avoiding Girard, going through various areas where he would use his medical knowledge to help others and became a master of disguise while he was at it.  Girard was obsessed when others gave up.  The film has some of these elements, but seems more concerned with medical malpractice and how some doctors can go crooked.  This was the good part.  And Tommy Lee, though plays it in a wisecracking way, plays a pretty good cop.  There were some pretty farfetched scenes:  Jumping off a waterfall would kill a normal man but not Richard Kimball!  Bottom Line:  Action and adventure, though Girard is not as obsessive as the TV series, the crooked medical men hiding behind their reputations is intense.  Check out the TV series:  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000Q6GUSE">The Fugitive: Season One, Vol. 1</a>

Made me laugh! I enjoyed this movie! Granted, I will probably only watch it once, but enjoyed it.  Is it stupid and corny? Yes it is. However, I kept watching it because it was funny and I wanted to know what happened to `Jessica'. Will it win any awards? I doubt it, but it is enjoyable and made ma laugh a few times. I had to rewind the Jeff pants scene with the coffee, I laughed so hard!  I wish it had CC. I know it is a rough draft but the sound is loud in some areas and so low in others. I had to keep turning the volume up and down. Some parts I could not make out, they were too muffled.  All and all I laughed and am glad I watched it. I am a 38 year old female and think that it targets several ages.

Ghostbusters II Review This mock-horror comedy is a great movie for 8o's fans or anyone looking for a fun movie for their kids. There is more comedy than horror in this fun squeal to the original Ghostbusters. The film opens five years later with most of the city believing the guys are fakes. It seems the ghost busting has wound down after the destroyed the creature in the first movie. But, when the city is once again overrun by mischievous ghosts the mayor has no choice, but to call on the guys for help or face an election year with no voters. The guys must capture all the ghosts and stop an evil spirit from taking over a baby before it's too late. With the comedy genius of Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd this movie is sure to make you laugh.

The Grey The Grey was what I expected from Niam Leeson, and was fairly predictable. The end, however, left me feeling like it was unfinished. I understand what the director was going for, but nonetheless was not satisfying. Definitely a rental and glad I did not pay movie theater prices. Recommend watching.

The Three Caballeros The Three Caballeros is one of Dinsey's stranger animated movies that is about Donald Duck receiving several experiences in South America for his birthday. He gets several small packages that turn out to be travelogues to South America and Mexico. The animation is mixed with live action movie. This movie is more for adults then geared towards children. I can not see myself enjoying this much as a child. However now as an adult I enjoy the music, songs and top rated animation. Recommended. 4/5.

Timely In Time is a retro-sci-fi period piece that uses a dystopian setting to make a political point.  Depending on your willingness to listen to the polemic that one's wealth is directly tied to one's longevity will determine how much you enjoy the film.  That one point - money is life - is key to In Time's premise, and it's the cost of entry to watch what amounts to Bonnie and Clyde meets Logan's Run. In this non-future, everyone ages to 25 and then begins paying their dues in seconds off their remaining life, a form of population birth control.  The good news is that they will be young and beautiful for the rest of your days; the bad news is that only the rich can afford to be immortal.  And that's at the crux of In Time.  Is it better to live a short, exciting life or an eternally long safe one? On the brutal and short side is Will Salas (Justin Timberlake), his hottie mother Rachel (Olivia Wilde), and his best friend Borel (Johnny Galecki). In Time playfully teases us by openly embracing a common movie foible: mothers, sisters, daughters, and wives all look young and beautiful.  The intimate moments between mother and son are uncomfortable for the audience because we can't help but ogle Will's 50-year-old mom.  The flip side features the very rich and suicidal Henry Hamilton (Matt Bomer), over a century old and bored to death. When Salas saves Hamilton's life from Minutemen mobster Fortis (Alex Pettyfer), he bestows a century on him with a flick of a wrist.  In this universe, everyone's time counts down on their forearm and it can be given or taken by whoever "has the upper hand" - two forearms touching exchanges time to the arm on top.  See what I just did there? It's impossible to avoid the use of clich&eacute;s in reviewing this film because the script's dialogue gleefully embraces the absurdity of it all. From "cleaning clocks" (killing people) to "keeping time" (policing citizens), no ironic turn of phrase goes unspoken.  Speaking of keeping time, the only law of consequence are the Timekeepers, led by veteran Raymond Leon (Cillian Murphy), who is convinced that Salas stole his time.  When Salas' mother runs out of time, he transforms into a daredevil with nothing to lose, hellbent on getting revenge against the system.  The system is embodied by one of the richest men in the sector, 90-year old time-lender Phillipe Weis (Vincent Kartheiser) and his wide-eyed 27-year-old daughter Sylvia Weis (Amanda Seyfried).  It's not long before Salas climbs his way up the social ladder through ample measures of wits, charm, and violence.  In Time has an art aesthetic similar to Equilibrium, embracing a militaristic style of dark colors, smooth lines, and hot women sheathed in stockings and heels.  No one wears sensible shoes in this movie. There are no cell phones and the vehicles look like muscle cars from the 60s.  In Time is only as effective as its polemic. Lurking beneath the movie's long shots of pretty people are hot button topics: class warfare, overpopulation, credit scores determining your future, conspiracy theories about an unjust government, the plight of the working man and his aspirations, bank bailouts, and more.  In Time is a little rough around the edges, the dialogue is occasionally trite, and the plot can be uneven, but its message is very - ahem - timely.

excellent film I have yet to see a preston sturges film that disappoints and although during his life no studio particularly was enthralled with him and some of his great films failed with the public he is really the dean among screenwriters. I recall when I was younger his famous film unfaithfully yours one of his best which did fail,was to be remade by peter sellers i believe but his death prevented that. I'm sure  of that...anyways here we have claudette colbert struggling in her marriage and make a living. This screwball comedy which seems like a film designed for carole lombard but claudette does well with it. She is probably one of the great american actresses appealing and intelligent and a god actress and the whims of changing tastes ended her career in the 50's..Robert Wagner has some nice things to say about her...back to the film. Her husband is distraught as his marriage is falling apart from intense love after 5 years things seem ritualized,even the romance after 5 years. Claudette soon departs runs away in a taxi and her husband chases after her,on a prowl. She makes it to palm beach and is romanced by a billionaire of sorts...who hates her husband and doesnt want to hand over the $99000 to her ex as an alimony type payoff...and we also have an upper crust british lady on the scene,and william demarest as a minor character...a good screenwriter knows how to breathe life in his films by making minor characters come to life and have a weight of their own...the train scene and fox hunt type antics with the dogs is great comedy. The dialogue is great to listen to throughout the film,you can listen to the talk and forget about the movie..great language and play like interactions among principals. The writer like Colbert and she comes off best in film,one of her best. He does not like the men so much,preoccupied a sthey are by those attracted to their lovers rather than their lovers emotions..and the ending will surprise as much else in this frothy and light movie which moves briskly although with serious ideas about relationships below the surface. Claudette's character in this film is looking for lovers,not overseers or guardians and the men dont always see it..but does she actually see them..

Robert Mitchum at his best This is mostly a two actor movie, and they are more than capable of keeping your attention. Set in WWII it takes place on a remote island where both a marine (Mitchum) and a nun find themselves stranded. During their time together they end up bonding and helping each other especially when the Japanese show up on the island. I feel this movie is a timeless classic.

Not up to the hype This movie came out during the time I was in Vietnam on my second tour.  At that time and ever since I have heard what a wonderful movie it was and how great John Wayne's and Kim Darby's acting was.  I just didn't find Kim Darby's character authentic nor anything special about the way she presented it.  John Wayne's acting was especially good and so was that of some of the actors with smaller parts like Robert Duvall.  But, Glen Campbell?  It just didn't work for me.  I found "Rooster Cogburn" to be a much better movie as well as more enjoyable.

big edward burns fan since i am such a big edward burns fan i didnt hesitate to watch this movie and it has to be on my top 20 lists of fav movies.  very great twists and turns

Bogart and Bacall in a Classic Detective Story Humphrey Bogart is private eye Philip Marlowe. Lauren Bacall is the spoiled wealthy divorce who is the elder daughter of his client, a frail old man who spends his time in an orchid hot-house because he's always cold. Marlowe is dripping with sweat by the time he emerges from the greenhouse with a commission to find and "deal with" a blackmailer.  And there is Bacall, beautiful, haughty, and prepared to tempt Marlowe in a far more sophisticated way than her younger sister, who threw herself at him when he came in.  This is a Raymond Chandler story, and halfway through the film I realized that I had read the book many years ago. So many of the events which seem startling to the audience in this film were not shocks to me. And still I was drawn in, fascinated, lured to believe things that seemed to be true even though I knew the "outcome" truth at the end. Characters appear, sound like they are on one side, end up being on another. In this story, there are way more than two sides to every issue.  So I will not tell you much about the plot, but instead ask a few questions for you to ponder, and answer if you can:  Is the younger sister a drunk, a drug-user, or what? Is she merely insane?  Can you untangle who is working for whom, who is following whom, and who plans to kill whom? If you can, you're better than me, and I read the book!  In the various gambling situations, who ultimately is the winner and who the loser? Are you really sure?  There are quite a few corpses in this story. Even at the end, are you SURE who killed each one? Really sure?  Enjoy it; if you love mystery stories, this is one of the most mysterious done by anyone other than Hitchcock.

CINEMA HISTORY  COMES TO BLURAY  FINALLY I first saw this film when it was originally released.Those magical days  of long ago  can now be relived  on bluray for the first time. It isn't a great film  but  seeing  places that we could only dream about, on a  massive  cinema screen  was truly  a  memorable experience back in the fifites.It is a  huge part of cinema history regardless of  whether or not you like the film or not.Sadly there won't be extras  containing  the original  black and white  filming that took place in the late  forties. At least one of those original B&W filmed scenes did  made it to the final film,although it was  colorised. Luckily the BBC in London  made a copy of the  film  on video many years ago and  many of us were able to get a copy if you had the right connections.Study the  famous roller coaster sequence .It was filmed 3 times. See if you can find  the 2 joins  made in the editing room.It is a pity that Lowell Thomas's  cameo in the venice scene is missing from the bluray, or didn't anyone else notice? It also  looked  strange seeing David Strohmaier  looking to the left of the camera when  the documenmtary was being filmed.

3 DTV 4EVER This video was reviewed very favorably in one of my A/V magazines.  5 stars for 3D.  5 stars for sound.  I just had to get it to see how it played on my system, [Samsung 61" DLP TV; Panasonic 310 3D BD player; Onkyo 7.1 A/V receiver w/ digital optical inputs no HDMI for the sound; 6 x 1970's vintage speakers; Def. Tech center] even though it's not "my kind of movie". I would have given it 5 stars above if it was my kind of movie.  No ghosts!  Great depth but no outstanding 3D moments. Intense color! Good, clear surround sound.  Cute story...My lady LOVED it. I have to admit that I enjoyed it as well.

understated masterpiece Hard Rock Zombies is the epitome of bad 80's movies, contrary to the other review here my disk is very watchable, the sound is a bit lofi and mono, but the print is good.

My Fair Lady This is one of those movies that even though you have seen it before, a couple of times, it is worthy of watching it again. Very well done musically as well as fine acting.

He actually attempted acting in this That alone to me is worth it. It was good to see JCVD trying to show some emotion and get the story across, instead of punching guys in the face and/or dick. The casting was good, and it engaged me enough that I would watch a more than a few times. It didn't hurt that they filmed in a really beautiful part of the U.S. In some scenes, Jean-Claude even looks like Clint Eastwood.  It also didn't hurt that Jean-Claude looked beautiful as well. Just saying.

'Prometheus' Delievers! Well even though it started nearly an hour behind schedule, I finally got to see Ridley Scott's long awaited "Prometheus" this evening. It has been debated whether or not this movie is a full-fledged "Alien" prequel. I can happily put those rumors to rest. "Prometheus" certainly takes place prior to "Alien" and it establishes tie-ins to the franchise at regular intervals; but this is not another "Alien" movie. I know that this sounds a little confusing, and it is; but once you see the film for yourself, you'll understand exactly what I mean. I'm not trying to say that "Prometheus" is formulaic, it may set up the events of the "Alien" franchise; but it is its own beast all together.  Helmed by Ridley Scott, who also directed 1979's "Alien". Ridley returns to the genre of Science Fiction after nearly a thirty year hiatus. Despite the gap, Ridley Scott certainly feels right at home in this field of story telling. Anyone who's ever seen a Ridley Scott film knows that he's always been a stickler for detail. The best part about Sci-fi is that he gets to make up all the details himself now. Honestly, does anybody know why Ridley wasn't asked to direct any of the other "Alien" films? I'm pretty sure he could have saved it a lot sooner. "Prometheus" boasts phenomenal visual effects and gruesome Alien mayhem; but never once did I feel as though I was watching something fictional. Everything on screen looks and feels as though it would really work and in doing so captivated me as an audience member. Starring a AAA cast: Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, and one of my personal favorites Michael Fassbender all do exceptional work here. I won't go into too much detail about their respective characters, because I don't want to spoil anything. Elizabeth Shaw (Rapace) is part of team of explorers. They discover clues scattered across the globe pointing to the origins of mankind's presence on Earth. These findings lead the team on a journey across the stars to the darkest corners of the universe. Aboard their spaceship "Prometheus", they touch down on a foreign planet with hopes to make contact with alien life forms. Well make contact they do, and they must fight a thrilling and at times, terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.  "Prometheus" may not answer all the big questions that its starts out trying to accomplish; but it does provide us with a satisfying story and compelling characters. It may not be everything we were hoping for, but I would label this as well done cinema. In the end, "Prometheus" may be construed as being a victim of over hype, but I believe that it delivers on most of its promises. It will be enjoyed by fans of the "Alien" franchise and hopefully regarded as the new standard for any more films in that franchise to come.

Great Black and White Video Please describe the audio and video quality of any Blu-Ray you review.  Thanks to those who do this.  Aspect Ratio: approximately 2.35:1 (it looked more like 2.30:1). Audio: DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio. Good. Video: Black and white. Very good. Length: 2 hours 15 minutes.  Overall, a good Blu-Ray purchase.

First And Best Of The Quintet Warner Archive has finally released a beautiful 2.35 DVD-R transfer of Director Don Sharp's 'THE FACE OF FU MANCHU'-1965, the first time the film has had a digital release in this country and which was the victim of poor pan and scan VHS tape and Laser disc fodder over the years. The colors are much richer and the lavishness of the scope image makes the film look more expensive than it probably was.  Christopher Lee will never look as good in the role as in this first and best outing donning oriental makeup (not the first time, however, having sadistically tore up the screen as Chung King in Director Anthony Bushell's 'THE TERROR OF THE TONGS'- 1961 for Hammer Films) and gleefully sneering at every obstacle put forward by his daughter Lin Tang played beautifully by actress Tsai Chin who would also appear in all films of the series and placed at the feet of nemesis Sir Nayland Smith played by Nigel Green in his sole outing of the series and one of his best performances.  Producer Harry Allen Towers would steadily worsen the series by cutting the budgets and eventually handing over the Director's mantle to Jess Franco who would release the last two films and reduce Lee's performance to that of his Hammer Count Dracula as just standing around and spouting out orders. This film also blends the British with the German Edgar Walace Krimi's by having actress Karin Dor and Joachim Fuchsberger along for the ride.  It is photographed in gritty fashion by Ernest Steward who graced the Diana Rigg/Emma Peal seasons of 'THE AVENGERS' with his camerawork and has a brassy music score by Christopher Whelen.  The screenplay is by Towers here billed as Peter Welbeck loosely based on the Sax Rohmer characters.  Sharp directs excellently bringing a combination of espionage and comic book formulas to the proceedings especially at the explosive climax at Fu Manchu's monastery.  As Lee echoes at the end of the film 'The world shall hear from me again', it most certainly would but not as excellently as in this first atmospheric excursion.

A love story....told by Vincent Gallo Gallo once said that growing up in Buffalo NY - "at home everything was ugly, casual, lacking in love, from furniture to clothes, to behaviors...". He's a strange dude but once you get his style of his filmmaking you'll completely appreciate it. His 1998 piece 'Buffalo 66' is art with a capital A. Starring himself and Christina Ricci, the film revolves around Billy Brown, out of prison after 5 years. Billy's seeking revenge against Scott Wood (nods to a former Buffalo Bills kicker, Scott Norwood, who missed a game-winning field goal in Super Bowl XXV against the Giants). He kidnaps Layla to impress his parents (Gazzara and Huston) and she likes it from the get-go. But he doesn't like her. But maybe he does.  The beauty of this film is in a few things. The more obvious is, like the controversial 'The Brown Bunny' - is the art direction/cinematography. From the gloomy Buffalo setting to the surreal stop-animation sequence in the strip club the movie emanates artistic originality. Another is that you like Billy Brown even though he's unlikable. You want to see him move on and succeed at something regardless of how much of a loser he is. And Layla was the mystery. Like the mystery I feel when walking lonely through a dirty, soulless city, expecting to encounter only tedium and more loneliness, but hoping to run into a serious, beautiful tapdancer who will love me instantly for no good reason. I don't believe the movie is 100% perfect by any means, but it is a pleasure to watch and it's a shame Gallo doesn't make more films.

Remembering This movie brought back many fond memories of early science fiction movies of the 50's and 60's.  The plot was predictible and the monster a little less than frightening.  Richard Boone's performance as the heartless, driven millionaire was over the top.  His acting takes the movie from simply good to outstanding.

I've rewatched this movie probably 20 times Broken Lizard is the bomb. Each guy has their own style, and you see it in each film. Although I don't want to say that this is one of my favorite films, I don't think there are many other films that I watch over and over again like this one. There are too many classic scenes in this movie...quotes galore. If you have an open mind and love humor, you will find this film to be entertaining. I can see why it's a cult classic...hell, I didn't see this until it was on DVD. Yes, I own it. :)

good deal, but..... it doesnt get any better. 2 seasons for the price of one!! i love this deal. my only problem is the case was kind of messed up when i got it. that wouldnt matter to me expect, when i opened it, a couple of the discs fell out and i saw a few scratches from it moving around so much during the shipping process. i sometimes have problems playing the discs that fell out, but eventually it works

Guttenberg saves the day! As other reviewers have mentioned, this film as flaws. Plural.  And they are either directorial or plot line in nature. Not enough to ruin the movie for you, in part because of Guttenberg's surprisingly well delivered dramatic role...no comedy this time. He really does a great job...he acts just like an average guy in this situation would. In other words, he is very believable in this role. The supporting cast  are not notable with the acception of Elizabeth McGovern. She delivers her role, and that's all. And, sorry, but trying to portray her as a sex pot is on the same scale as trying to portray Mother Theresa as a Hell's Angel's' biker mama. It ain't happenin. The flaws mentioned by other reviews seem harmless to the films entertainment value. But, there is one flaw that really glares...trying to squint blind sides you into almost losing the thread of the plot. It is this(if you have never seen this movie...close your eyes). Our serial killer gets the address of his victims by peeking at their open wallets lying on a table or bar top in a cocktail lounge. He leaves the bar, drives to their home, arriving ahead of them, where he then waits to spring an ambush. The movie opens with him attacking Elizabeth McGovern. The movie comes to it's dramatic close with him lying in wait for a DISGUISED Elizabeth McGovern, after sneaking a peek at her wallet while she absurdly slithers and teases the men in the bar wearing her disguise...impossible black leather skimpy out fit, blonde wig and all. What's wrong with this picture? Since it would be impossible to get a photo ID  showing her in her blonde wig and false eyelashes in time to bait the killer into attacking her disguised persona, and since the killer had attacked her before as her real self, wouldn't he have noticed she was the same women? If not her face, at least going to the same address should have caused him to smell a trap.. He sees the same photo ID, and the same address, and doesn't get. It. He pushes ahead with his plan to attack her blonde self. Maybe he was so engrossed in her jungle tempstress routine to be paying attention. Sure. That's it. That's the reason. Did I like this movie enough to buy it any way? Yes. Guttenberg defty playing a dramtic role instead of comedy is well worth the price!

If you do not like you jave not got the point Yes it cloches if you to not have a open mind. It about today's. America or societies take on horror are we puppeteers are we controlled by mass media. The good or the bad. All horror movies cliches are in this movie. As well as religion cultures and our thinking of ancient and philosophic gods and demon with some pretty good humor thrown in. I will purchase for my collection because we make our. Own destiny depending on if we follow logical thoughts"if you saw the movie you know what I mean. The ending was the stupid part. Really........its a different horror. Movie and It is so many ways to look at that..

Surprisingly Very Funny Superhero Movie surprised me with pretty consistent laughs. I wasn't expecting it to be as good as it was, since the reviews were not kind. But it ended up being almost as funny as Scary Movie 3 & Scary Movie 4, and I recommend it to fans of those movies. It's from the same producer of those two, as well, which is probably why it's so similar in tone and many of the same actors that appeared in those Scary Movie sequels appear in Superhero Movie as well.

BEETLEJUICE..A TIM BURTON CLASSIC! [[ASIN:B001AGXEAG Beetlejuice (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)]  Beetlejuice, the Tim Burton classic from 1988 now comes to you packaged as a 20th Anniversary DVD edition.  Michael Keaton, I think in one of his best film performances brings down the house.  Also starring Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin, two actors you would have never thought to put together in a movie of this genre, it is classic comedy at its best.  The DVD also has special features, although nothing to make your head spin, but it offers several episodes of the cartoon series from the late 1980's.  But beyond that, nothing too spectacular; not that it needs that much more. A simple classic comedy that if it doesn't make you laugh, something is wrong with you and you should be exorcised!  With that being said, buy it if you don't own it. It's a must have dark comedy.

Pleasantly surprised! Better than the last "Apes" remake Rise of The Planet of the Apes turned out to be a fun and at times thrilling film to watch. The visuals are very well done and the acting is on point. It was much better than the last apes remake that made me want to fall asleep 10 minutes into it. The story line is developed smartly in this one, so it appeals to those of us who like to delve a little into what is actually going on. At times, you cant help but side with the apes, and I know for those who are fans of the originals, we don't want to do that. A lot is revealed here, focusing on Caesar, who is supposed to be the son of Cornelius and Zira, who basically is raised by a scientist after his rescue from a "Big Pharma" style drug corporation. He is super intelligent and eventually is locked up in a primate shelter where he gains his following as the leader of the soon to be ape revolution.  This is a film that fans may want to consider purchasing instead of renting, it is re-watchable and the visuals are good enough for that Blu-Ray you just got for Christmas. Don't miss out, if Hollywood stays on track with this one, we may see more pleasing sequels.

5 stars for visual but only 3 for audio I'm working my way through the box set. I have owned this on VHS and dvd. The blu ray is visually stunning and brings out the quirky aspects of this show. however I have issues with the 5.1 mix. now i only have a stereo amplifier not a 5.1 surround system, so maybe it's my problem. But, there is a noticeable amount of phasing and comb filter effects, for example, whenever the helicopter or a taxi is on  screen. when its just dialog there is no problem. The sound also appears weighted to the right side on my system, instead of being spread evenly. now having listened to some dvd-A's and had similar problems (due to  the sound going to speakers i don't have like a front or rear) i can't blame the manufacturers, however, would it have been much more trouble to provide a 2.1 stereo track  for those of us without 5.1??? I have to listen using the old mono soundtrack as the phasing artifacts are just too much. I have not had this problem  with shows such as space 1999 on blu ray. The stereo sound stage is perfect there. just some thoughts.

A love letter to slasher fans When Hollywood writers finally caught on to the reality television craze, it became fertile ground for horror movies.  Dozens of horror films featured a gimmick where the ironic hipster protagonists were unable to distinguish between the gruesome murder of a serial killer on film and what lurks in the bowels of the Internet.  But it was always precisely that, a gimmick: victims were still stupid, the police were never clued in until the end, and all that supposed media scrutiny changed little. The progeny of The Blair Witch Project are few and far between. Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon is a worthy successor.  Behind the Mask takes a faux documentary approach, but instead of featuring know-it-all protagonists it thrusts the viewer into a surreal universe where movie slashers are real.  Freddy, Jason, Michael - they're legendary magicians who practice sleight-of-hand, meditation, and rigorous calisthenics all for the sake of committing mass murder.  Our chatty subject is Leslie Mancuso (Nathan Baesel), who is hoping to make it to the big leagues with his slasher debut.  Like a professional wrestler, he reveals all his secrets to a film crew that consists of wide-eyed Taylor (Angela Goethals) and cameramen Doug (Ben Pace) and Todd (Britain Spellings).  They won't be observers for long.  Mancuso takes the crew through his preparation for the horror that is to come, ranging from how he capitalizes on local legends to increase his mystique to his use of computer graphics, fire retardant gel, bullet proof vests, and booby traps to protect himself and waylay his victims.  Along the way director Scott Glosserman brilliantly deconstructs the slasher genre, covering the role of the Final Girl, the violent male vs. female showdown between Final Girl and slasher, and a host of fabricated insider industry terms.  Mancuso has a parent/child relationship with retired slasher Eugene (Scott Wilson) and his younger wife Jamie (Bridgett Newton).  They're a post-horror movie happy couple who dole out parental advice to newcomer Mancuso and their "go get 'im tiger!" pep talks are a humorous injection into a pretty dire subject. In fact, it's easy to forget Macuso is there to murder actual human beings until midway through the film when he starts killing people.  Then the fun really starts.  Our film eventually crew grows a conscience, only to be tripped up by the assumed stereotypes of horror films not quite working out the way we expected.  Glosserman switches to a different film speed to show the horror film within a horror film, which eventually includes the film crew. It's all very meta.  If there's a flaw, it's that the film crew's sudden concern for the victims seems completely disconnected from an earlier murder of librarian Mrs. Collinwood (Zelda Rubinstein of Poltergeist fame).  The plot may be a casualty of the editing process.  But logic was never the slasher genre's strong points, and if you can overlook that hiccup, Behind the Mask is a love letter to serious slasher fans who appreciate the genre.

Good video quality was very good. The movie had a few stops and pauses but the overall opinion was very good!

Has the feel of "Hand That Rocks The Cradle". Movie is OK, but worth watching for Arquette, very creepy in this. I say B+. "You left the door unlocked you obviously wanted me to come back in." After the tenant that Chloe (Dalton) and Michael have set for their cottage falls through romance novelist Robert (Arquette) answers the ad. After meeting him the family thinks they have the perfect person to move in and are excited. But like most things in life some things are too good to be true. This is true in all genres but I think that casting in horror movies has a lot to do with how creeped out you get watching. I have always wanted to write a "Silence Of The Lambs" type movie starring Roma Downey (from Touched By An Angel), to me that would be creepy just because of who she is. Most people know David Arquette has a comedic actor in movie like "Eight Legged Freaks" and "See Spot Run" which is why he comes off so creepy in this. He gives a very laid back performance and the movie has the same vibe as "Hand That Rocks The Cradle" or "Fear". The movie itself isn't that original and if it weren't for Arquette it would be forgettable, but his performance gives the film the extra dimension it needs to make it genuinely creepy and very watchable. He took the movie from an OK made-for-TV movie to an entertaining movie movie just by who he is. That is hard to do. Overall, an OK movie made much better by the casting of Arquette. I give it a B+.

GoodTimes Video is the one to buy! The GoodTimes Video is the one to buy. The DVD has excellent focus and contrast. The sound is crisp and clear. Spend the extra money for an excellent product. The original theatrical trailer is included.

Chalean I am currently in my second month using Chalean Extreme. It's easy to work into my mornings since on average the workouts are 30-40 min. Only has 2 cardio days a week, however more can be added if cardio is done on the two rest days. I can definitely see a difference so far. Adjustable weights are recommended to make transition easier from one set to another. My husband is doing Chalean with me and enjoys the workouts as well. I have P90x as well but don't have an hour every day so this workout works great with my schedule.

The body in the garden Sisters Gillie (Kidman) and Sally (Bullock) were born into a family of witches, but they couldn't be more different in their approach to this condition. Gillie's the wild one, who thinks being a witch is cool. Sally wants a normal life and has avoided witchcraft like the plague; she was happily married, until her husband fell victim to the family curse, in which men who love these women suffer untimely deaths. Heartbroken, angry, and depressed, Sally moves back into her childhood home with her 2 kids, to live with the family matriarchs (Dianne Wiest and Stockard Channing).  The trouble begins when Gillie hooks up with a loser, and needs Sally to get her disentangled before the guy kills her. The sisters inadvertently kill him instead, and when they try to bring him back to life, chaos ensues.  Whimsical and visually extravagant, Practical Magic swings from comedy to romance to mild horror and back again. All four actresses, each justifiably notable, are well cast. Perhaps the most fun comes from the main setting - the witches' house is a pink Victorian confection with miles of staircases and an ocean view. Magic seems possible in a house like that. Some of the dialog is reminiscent of Doris Day movies ("What wouldn't I do for the right guy?" and "Out of bed, sleepy head"), but some is genuinely funny. A few of the scenes may be a bit too strong for young children, but this film certainly does not have the edge of today's vamp movies.  Practical Magic should not be taken too seriously as a film. Enjoy it for what it is, and you'll have a good time.

Feel good movie Really enjoyed this movie.  Definitely a glass of wine and a short flight type of entertainment.  Makes the time pass in the most pleasant way.

You will like this film IF...... People either LOVE this film or HATE this film. The premise of the film starts off as one thing--a daughter (Elizabeth Olsen) and her father, as well as her Uncle are in a large creepy house trying to fix it up to sell. Their Uncle leaves to run into town, and the daughter hears a weird noise upstairs. Her father goes to check it out, and then BOOM--a great amount of terror ensues which some will find appealing, and others may not. Let me help break it down for you,  You will like this film if:  You like technical wizardry and artistic style that incorporate dark spaces, low light levels, and a general feeling of claustrophobia and fear. If you don't mind films that take place in constrained spaces, then you will like this film. Films like the superb if also somewhat cliche "Panic Room" with Jodie Foster come to mind.  Silent House is shot to look like one long sequence of events in real time, which is done quite well. Fans of Alfred Hitchcock's film "Rope" did a similar feat. This film transforms into something quite different than what it starts out as about 75% of the way through. So if you love plot twists, or don't mind things taking on a different narrative form then this won't bother you. Think of plots twists akin to the ones in "The Sixth Sense" or "The Others". You will also like this film if you like looking for clues. Pay close attention to the different details that are peppered through the film--you will be rewarded at the end if you do. Things are not as they seem!  You will NOT like this film if:  This film can be very confusing at times. Continuity in terms of the plot is difficult to surmise until the END of the film when things finally come crashing together. So you may feel like the film is having an identity crisis --is it a panic/torture type flick? Is it a ghost film? Is it one about revenge? Mental illness? Or just about a bunch of hooligans trying to prevent a house from being sold? If you like a plot that is steady and that does not morph constantly, and if you don't like "guessing", then this film will probably drive you crazy. Also, if you didn't like the film "The Blair Witch" then you probably won't like this. It's a lot of running around in dark spaces. Except instead of three college students lost in the woods running around--the woman is trapped in a strange house running around in the dark.  There is no shame in liking what you like. That being said, I hope this review will help you decide if you would like to watch this film or not. It's actually a remake of an independent film that was shot in Uruguay, allegedly based on "true" events. Many people feel that the original was superior. The fact remains that honestly--there is not "original" story. It's more about the way that the story is told.  I personally think this film has many merits, but I am very aware that my own personal opinion is influenced by my own tastes. Many of my friends disliked the film, while many of them loved it. So see for yourself! I'd love to know what other people thought! Feel free to comment in response to this review!

Must See for any fan of CLAMP or dark anime I really do like this show. However it took me a loong time to get into it. I didn't get hooked until episode 7. But when I did, I couldn't tear myself away from it. So just be patient with it.  The dub is pretty good. I personally didn't like Hokuto's voice, being a huge fan of Tokyo Babylon therefore very picky, but Kamui and Subaru's voice, and almost everyone else's were done well. Some of the dialouge is kind of goofy in the wrong spots, but it got a laugh outta me, so it's all good.  As for Tokyo Babylon fans, if you haven't finished the series or you're interested in reading it, I suggest you read that before you watch this show. X takes place 6 years after Tokyo Babylon, and it's the prelogue to X. If you don't finish Tokyo Babylon first, the ending will be spoiled for you in episode 9, Subaru's entrance.  One last thing is that this show is a tragedy. It deals with the end of the world, and over half the cast does not have good endings. But it really is a great show.

Cyborgs don't feel pain. You shouldn't either, buying this disc... I don't usually review DVD/Blu-Ray releases, but I wanted to note that the Blu of Terminator makes for a nice companion piece with the T2 Skynet Edition, and is a good watch in its own right. I read a lot of reviews saying that the video looks bad, and while it could have been cleaned up and remastered, it looks fine for what it is. Remember that it's a 20 year-old movie that was shot on a relatively low budget, and that much of it is supposed to look rough and gritty anyway. Even saying that, the depth and clarity were nice, and the soundtrack/effects were a blast! Unless/Until a new version of the movie comes out (how many times was T2 re-released?!), and if you can get it for around $10, I'd say buy it.

Appeals to the Older Crowd; what a Shame I appreciate this movie about Robert F. Kennedy, which centers around the last day of his life. Yes, the audience knows the ultimate outcome of a movie like this, but Emilio Estevez manages to make the events leading up to the assassination something of a "story within a story" (or stories). This film simply cannot be cut and dry, and only feature the campaign trail and an assassination. Estevez drafted a star-studded lineup of actors to play parts of people less prominent, and it seems to work pretty well. We're treated to good acting that sort of fills in the perceived 'holes' that a film like this may have. If there's one frustrating element of this movie, it is its performance at the box office. I read that it only grossed 19 million dollars, and I have my theories as to how this movie came up short in revenue. Okay, how many teens are going to see a movie like this? How many teens even know who Bobby Kennedy is? This is sad, but true. For those who do know, how many of them care to see this movie? A movie like this probably isn't exciting enough. Simply put, this movie appeals to the older crowd and previous generation who may have been alive in 1968, and fully understood the social and political impact of the Kennedy assassinations. On the flip side, perhaps some older people are simply tired of the whole Kennedy mystique, and chose to skip the film. Whatever the case, I think that this film is still well-done, and Emilio Estevez deserves a lot of credit for bringing it to the silver screen.

highfive The semi-documentary(?) was very funny, but most importantly, it was informative. The things a woman should know these days about hair and the upkeep , unfortunately, I didn't know. I love the pace of the movie and the characters and their input on how important in this day and age hair is to our self-esteem.

Redemption code has been extended I just wanted to share with everyone just like a previous reviewer that the digital copy redemption code has been extended. I'll be transferring a copy to my IPAD. I just bought the blu ray combo from best buy earlier in the week. Enjoy

The Last Legion Good enough.  Slow at times and a little improbable but,  once it gets going a good movie.  No Oscar but plenty of action.

Great If, like myself, you have never had the good fortune of reading the books, you will surely enjoy this for what it is;  a well done adventure. This third in the series of Narnia movies has a different feel. It doesn't have the same quality of music as the first two, so at first I was a bit disappointed. But one should always try to ward off that "just-isn't-the-same" mindset when viewing sequels, otherwise you can really shortchange yourself on a good thing. And that's what I almost did as I started this one. However, I found myself quickly getting drawn in, once I got over being thoroughly annoyed with cousin Eustis and delighting in the fact that he's just a fabulous little actor. It's always fun to watch a snarky little coward turn into a great hero in a well done fashion. This one is full of adventure, a bit of humor, and some surprisingly good special effects. Although I'm not in love with it like I was the first, it needs to be in the collectors set, as I have noticed how much it can really grow on me in spite of how I was disappointed that Aslan was not as personable as he was in the first two. I recommend getting all three movies, but probably, for safe keeping, I would buy them individually.

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Fighter pilots make movies, attack pilots make... less successful movies Four stars because, even though I love it, I realize that it's overacted, has some cheap-looking special effects, and butchers the storyline of the book.  If you're familiar with the film and are looking for a copy, buy it.  I had no issues with the quality of the DVD itself.  If you're unfamiliar with the film, read on.  This is based on a book of the same name by Stephen Coonts who actually flew A-6's in Vietnam.  I'd recommend reading the book first since the movie takes some liberty with the plot and covers far less detail.  The movie was filmed on the USS Independence with an actual A-6 squadron and has some very nicely done flying scenes (it also has some poorly done special effects in places too).  You can find the plot synopsis online if you're interested, I'm just going to cover what I like and dislike about it:  Like: Nice flying scenes Depiction of life on a carrier Unexpected cameos (David Schwimmer, Ving Rhames, Fred Thompson) Slightly more believable than Top Gun (just slightly) Willem Dafoe playing an unstable/creepy guy  Dislike: Overacted in places (I'm looking at you, Danny Glover) Obvious / cheap special effects Not following the book more closely  Overall, this ties Top Gun as my second favorite Naval Aviation movie (The Bridges at Toko-Ri is in first place).  It's not a perfect film, but it's entertaining and you might find yourself genuinely interested in it if you're an aviation enthusiast or into that part of our history.

Gets you moving I recently ordered this DVD because of a need for exercise. Lately I've been unable to go outdoors and walk due to weather and circumstances so I thought it would be a good idea to walk indoors. This DVD got me moving. The next day my calves were sore, so I knew that it did something. I'm  not a fan of boxing, however, I feel that the arm movements are a nice addition to what I hope to be a healthy routine. The different levels of activity are also shown so that a viewer can follow along at the pace that's right for them. Overall, I'm satisfied with my purchase.

Still a great movie! My first introduction to Zack Snyder was a good one. This was a fantastic re-imagining of Romero's Dawn of the Dead. All in all a great zombie film. There needs to be more zombie babies in movies.

Grass is not Greener I loved the story line of this movie. Sweet little Caroline thinks the world is so not fair until she finds the "other side" and realizes that home is exactly where she is suppose to be. Family is Family and eventhough life can be tough..it's worse without those that love you. Excellent movie and have recommended to others.

"One Of Dustin's Best!" Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft and Katharine Ross star in this 1967 drama. A college graduate has an affair with his family friend's wife and falls for her daughter. This is one of Dustin's best and this anniversary edition has nice picture and sound plus neat extras and the soundtrack. I recommend this great film.

Trust, Teenagers and Electronics If you do not do any monitoring of your children's use of their computer gadgetry, this movie makes quite the case for you may be making a huge mistake. Although I adore high tech, I am really glad I did not have my own smartphone when I was a high schooler or college student. The daughter in this film has her own smartphone, computer and other electronic devices.  She is on her smartphone all of the time texting "Charlie", a guy she believes is a teenager, like herself.  Her parents do not find this at all strange that she texts him night and day and is building a bubble around herself of living in text messages.  This movie takes the more obvious plot twist by making Charlie not what he seems to be in all of this messaging.  I am sure this happens but it is probably a smaller percentage the number of kids criminally victimized by this practice. I would have preferred if we could have stuck to the more everyday problems of living in a bubble world of text messaging, where the kid starts having trouble dealing with the daily world around herself and especially the fact that she probably doesn't have enough hours in the day.  The pressure of not having enough time to do all the messaging and live your life would really become excruciating in a very short while.  I also would have liked some exposition of why the parents had absolutely no controls over her use of her gadgetry and/or the boys in her life, no matter which way the boys were attempting to enter her life. They really needed to put some restraints on this early teenager. I hope others are doing a better job than they did.

Entertaining video Entertaining video but I feel the recent remake(2012) is better.  I've watched it twice and will probably purchase the remake when it becomes available on Blu-ray.

Rubbin's Racin' My parents didn't let me see PG-13 movies when I was a tad.  A special exemption was made for Days of Thunder.  They knew their parenting priorities (besides, 8 is plenty old enough to learn how to drink and cuss).  It's hard to imagine in this day and age of sanitized racing, but once upon a time, NASCAR drivers would race a little bit and fight a little bit, race a little bit and fight a little bit.  Days of Thunder captures some of that spirit.  Cole Trickle is, inexplicably, a driver who knows nothing about cars.  He needs a gristled old crew chief, and nobody does gristled like Robert Duvall, to teach him.  Spoiler: "loose" means a car is running loose; "tight" means a car is running tight.  Cole Trickle is loosely based on the late, great, and controversial driver Tim Richmond.  Trickle's nemesis is Rowdy Burns.  Loosely based on Dale Earnhardt, he's the kind of guy who would saw his own hand off to get away if the zombies were coming.  Yes, many corners are cut, and it's not entirely realistic, but it's all in the name of drama.  Mello Yello as a fly-by-night sponsor, on the other hand, is completely believable.  The romance between Trickle and Dr. Lewicki doesn't work nearly as well as the friendship between Trickle and Rowdy.  I hate warm beer, cold women, and Russ Wheeler.  Highlights include a young Art Mullen, only a lowly state trooper before his meteoric rise to become a chief deputy in the U.S. Marshal Service.  I wouldn't have pegged him for a man that would let a girl get ornery (I mean, real ornery) with a man he had pulled over.  FACT: Fred Thompson has, with one sole exception, outshined the real person upon which every character he has ever played.  That exception?  When Fred Thompson played Fred Thompson.  The real winner in Days of Thunder?  The Skoal Bandit.  A cameo is all Mr. September needs.  This review is of the 1999 DVD.  You are given the option of listening to the movie in "Dolby Surround" and "5.1 Surround" (and French).  Presumably this means Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround and Dolby Digital 5.1.  Inexplicably, the DVD defaults to 2.0.  The only DVD extra is the theatrical trailer.  The sound is good, not great.  Which is a shame; a NASCAR race is an incredible aural experience.

Better the 2nd time watching it. I got this and watched it a few months ago and didn't care for it. I watched it again a couple day's ago and seemed to like it better for some reason. It's kind of a slow movie. It's about a plane crash in which they all die in the ocean and a letter is found by a reporter who has been threatened to get fired. She uses the letter to increase her readers by trying to find out who left the letter to T. Good is come to all she inquires to when looking for T. T. ends out to be a blessing to the reporter as well. She also hooks up with a co-worker as well. Good movie for all to see. Family friendly.

Hoffman Vs. Strahm This is yet another "thinkers" Saw movie, although not as much as Saw IV. "Saw V" is basically the story of detective Mark Hoffman's journey into becoming Jigsaw's accomplice. So there are a lot of flashbacks and back story involved in this interesting chapter of the Saw series. And please do not just plunge in and watch "Saw V" without watching the others first. It will make no sense if you do.  When the film opens, we're introduced to a murderer named Seth, who is laying on his back and chained down to a table. Above Seth is a pendulum, which will drop down and slowly cut him in half unless he crushes his hands in a device. But this is no ordinary Jigsaw trap and someone is watching this "game" unfold. Even though we only see Seth for the opening of the film, you'll find just what a huge impact he makes on the story of "Saw V." Personally, the pendulum trap is one of my very favorite Saw traps of them all.  Like Saw IV, Saw V is both a prequel and a sequel, picking up right where Saw IV left off and also flashing back for some back story, beginning with the first Saw, all the way up to the current. First of all, from Saw IV, we found out that Mark Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) has been a accomplice to John Kramer/Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) all along. We also saw where agent Peter Strahm (Scott Patterson) found the room where Jigsaw lay dead on the bed with his deceased accomplice Amanda Young below him on the floor. We see Jeff (the grieving father from Saw III) demand to know where his daughter is and Strahm killing him in self defense. And Hoffman shuts and seals the door behind Strahm. So here we have basically Saw III, Saw IV and Saw V linked together here.  After surviving the "cube trap" (where his head was in a glass cube that fills up with water), agent Strahm is transported to the hospital just as Hoffman emerges from the warehouse carrying Jeff's "missing" daughter. Hoffman and Strahm have a brief confrontation at the hospital near agent Perez's bloodied hospital bed, and the cat and mouse game begins from there. Strahm suspects Hoffman is linked to Jigsaw, and so begins his quest to find out the truth to Hoffman's past by sifting through and studying old records and files and visiting the areas where some of the Jigsaw "games" took place. Through this, we are taken back to the days when Hoffman met John/Jigsaw and how a huge tragedy in Hoffman's life led him to help out with the kind of horrific "rehabilitation" that John Kramer thrived on. One of the best scenes in the movie is of John confronting Hoffman for the first time, using fear tactics and offering him the chance of a lifetime. It is neat to see all the puzzle pieces fitting together and all the gaps filled as we are taken clear back to Saw I, II, and on up to witness Hoffman's hand in the havoc that Jigsaw conducted. While Strahm is investigating, Hoffman stays a step ahead of the game and all the while tries to make it look like Strahm is the one for new-to-the-case detective Dan Erickson (Mark Rolston) to point the finger at.  Presently, there are many other things going on as well. Hoffman gets a card the reads "I know who you are;" something for the mind to feast on. And Jill Tuck (Betsy Russell), John Kramer's ex-wife, has received a video and a box that he had left for her in the event of his death. But there's more! A new game is being played out known as the "Fatal Five." Five people; Brit, Luba, Charles, Mallick and Ashley are responsible for the tragic deaths of 8 people due to their self-centered, unethical actions. Now together they must survive the traps in four rooms. But will they think to use the vital tool of "teamwork" to survive? Each room as a timer and nail bombs which will go off when time expires. The first room that they all awaken in contains the "Necktie Trap" where they are all in their own locker-sized spaces wearing collars linked together by a string. There are razors mounted in back of them. Five glass boxes with keys inside stand before them and each time a person goes for their key, the string pulls back so tight on the other participants that the razors in back of them could decapitate them. In the next room, we have the "chamber trap." There are nail bombs in the corners of the room that will go off when time expires, and there are four chambers that people can climb into for safety. The keys to the chambers are in the glass jars hanging from the ceiling. Who will be the odd person out? The next room has the "bathtub trap." Here we have a bathtub full of water. In order to unlock the five locks on the door, the five electrical cords in the room must somehow connect to the bathwater and close the circuits. Finally there's the "blade trap." We have a long box-like contraption with five sections with five holes in each section big enough for a hand to fit through. In each section is a saw blade and the challenge is to fill a beaker with 10 pints of blood before time expires or else nail bombs will go off and the doors will be sealed.  By the end of the film, the cat and mouse chase between Hoffman and Strahm is about to reach a crescendo complete with an epic ending involving a glass coffin and walls that close in and crush. Yes, it is another great ending for Saw fans. I know when I first watched Saw V, I never saw it coming. More trademark twists. While "Saw V" answers a lot of questions, it also leaves you with new questions. It took me a few watches for this particular Saw movie to grow on me a bit, but it's still probably my least favorite of the films. The "Fatal Five" game seemed like it was just kind of thrown in there with no real point exactly; perhaps just to show that even though Jigsaw is dead, there are still games being played out. Save Tobin Bell and Costas Mandylor, the acting was not the greatest in the world, but still passable I guess. I gave this movie 4 stars instead of three, just because it does a good job of holding true to the storyline started by the previous movies and everything seemed to come together in the end for a dramatic twist. Overall a decent Saw movie that will leave you thinking again.

decent tv movie of the doctor THis was a good effort for the return of the doctor. It was on tv in 1996 and it should have been picked up for more episodes. It was a pilot. Paul m. does a fine job as the new doctor and sylvester mccoy ends his era with this one. Of course this isn't storywise as good as later efforts but if they had shot more eps this would have been a great series for the doctor. I don't agree with those that say eric roberts isn't good as the master. He' playing a paramedic who gets taken over by the master and that is quite different than the old master really. So he's fine in this one. This edition is a longtime coming too, for many years there was some doubt if we'd ever get this on dvd here. But we have and I am glad to have it, (therights were in question as this was done by two companies). This has plenty of extras and looks great. If you like doctor who  then you should enjoy this one. As it's not as old as the older series. Which I love but some fans might not like because of the very low budget effects. The effects of this one are really good as they had lots of ;money for this effort. THere's tons of extras too and that helps.

Great fairytale! Mr. Khan delivered once again. Very nice story. I actually wanted more at the end so that is a good thing.

The snake is inside the pie The theme is simple and some will say already seen over and over again. A new version of Big Brother. Micro spying cameras set in the concrete of buildings, millions of eyes that are seeing and transmitting and telling who knows who and no one wants to know though it would be better not to have these spying eyes.  What's different is the setting: in a boxing arena, one night when a fight is supposed to take place to which the Secretary of Defense will attend. The arena is part of a bigger complex with casino and hotel and quite a few other things of the same type. So we have crowds, crowded places, and dozens of miles of crowded corridors and dozens of illuminated floors. Brilliant.  Then the security is important for that aforesaid Secretary of Defense and yet the objective is to assassinate him because he is going to get rid of the financing for this spying system we have already mentioned. You can imagine there are plenty of people who are against it, in the industrial complex, in the military and in the military industrial complex. Yet there are some people inside the new system who see the danger and try to let the Secretary of Defense know.  And during that boxing fight the assassination is of course attempted and  a local honest, way of speaking, cop who believes in some fundamental principles and refuses violence as a means to solve any problem, will put his two bitts in the machine and the storm outside, close to a hurricane, will be the mirror image of the tempest inside the arena and gambling complex. You add to that what is always suspicious in such films, the long friendship between two people who happen to be in the two opposed camps and you have the recipe for a dense, rapid and thrilling action film.  The rest is only detail and you will have to get them by yourselves because I have forgotten them. Have a good adventure.  Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

Not the best transfer but for the price. I got these for a song from Amazon. While the transfer is not that great they are still great fun. For the price I can not complain. The presentation is nice and the included booklet explains each movie.

Yet another Bergman classic that I liked and admired, but didn't love on first viewing An old doctor (a magnificent performance by Victor Sjostrom) takes a car trip to receive an award for 50 years in medicine, accompanied by his daughter in law, and some teenage hitchhikers they pick up.  He is tormented by highly symbolic dreams (beautifully done), and by the realization he has kept himself at an emotional distance from others and the world, and now his life is racing towards it's end.  Quite moving in spots, but somehow never ended up with as much power as I expected.  Two critics' notes made sense to me. One said that, for as great and transparent as Sjostrom's performance is, he is so sweet and likable a presence it's hard to reconcile him with a man his daughter in law openly admits she doesn't like because of his cold nature.  The other point - which could also be applied to 'The Seventh Seal' is that the film seems less special today because the stylistic barriers it broke and the doors it opened (an almost totally subjective film, dream sequences of depth and meaning, etc) have since become a familiar part of film grammar. But at the time, this was something new and brave. Another to re-see.

Nice film I purchased this film because I am a fan of Shah Rukh Khan and he has a special appearance in this film. He appeared in the second half of the film for quite a few minutes and it was very enjoyable to see him. Rani Mukerji stars in this film and I really enjoy seeing her in films. I believe the name of the male lead is Vivek Oberoi. He did a good job in his role. This film tells the love story of two young adults who marry dispite opposition from family. It depicts the reality of life for newlyweds. It also shows how true love rises above trivial matters in the face of a major crisis.

A Brutal Guilty Pleasure!!! I watched this last night. At first, I thought it was gonna be boring, but got a whole lot better. First off, this movie is cheap and low-budget so the audio is a little off. The one thing I really loved about this movie was Natalie Dickinson as Tara. I just absolutely loved her performance as this crazy psychotic sick twisted woman! She starts flirting with her neighbor, Ray. After a regretful one night stand, Tara believes that he's in love with her and stalks him and slowly begins to kill his friends. She abuses and cuts herself to show her love to Ray. (The torture scenes are very brutal and will make you squirm. To make it even more creepy, they play fun circus-like music) I would definitely recommend SHE'S CRUSHED!!!

Angel Eyes Angel Eyes any movie with Jim Caveziel(sp) is great in my opinion.  I think this is the first movie I saw him in and I really thought it was a great chick flick.

U.S. Marshall played by Leonardo DiCaprio faces a surreal and enigmatic dreamscape Leonardo DiCaprio plays a U.S. Marshall called on to investigate the escape and disappearance of a patient from the Civil War island fortress which serves as an institute for the treatment of the criminally insane.  Set in the gray cold war year of 1954, DiCaprio's Marshall finds himself immediately enmeshed in a Kafkaesque maze presided over by the aloof chief psychiatrist played by Ben Kingsley.  As if being trapped on an island insane asylum accessible only by ferry in the midst of a terrible storm is not enough to face, the Marshall is also plagued by his own personal demons.  His dreams are marked by the beseeching eyes and voices of the dead, from his late wife (played hauntingly by Michelle Williams) to the inhabitants of the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau that he had encountered as an American soldier at the end of World War II.  The troubled and numerous dreams of the protagonist cause the audience to wonder which events correspond to reality and which exist only in his own mind--to the point where the movie becomes something other than a classic thriller.  The viewer is less inclined to sit on the edge of his seat if that which the protagonist encounters may be only his own dark thoughts.

Good Laughs, Classic Cheech and Chong style. I love some of the Cheech and Chong movies, others, I dont really care for,  this one is one I liked, I put it behind Up In Smoke, Still Smoking, and Cheech And Chong's Next Movie, which were great...and AHEAD of others such as to give one example - The Corsican Brothers, which seems to follow a different format or something and I didnt particularily like.  The humor was good, I just was turned off by the silly parts relating to the [this is a possible spoiler] lizard transformation from the smoking of the weed, it was silly.  The detective had goofy over acting too which was annoying.  Cheech and Chong were top notch though however so I give this 4 of 5 stars!

Great Entertaining Adventure Purchased this film to replace a VHS. Really enjoyed both Legend of Zorro and Mask of Zorro. Mask features Anthony Hopkins, Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones.  After twenty years Zorro (Hopkins) escapes from prison to avenge the murder of his wife and kidnapping of his daughter Elena (Zeta-Jones) by his enemy. First he must transform a cocky young thief (Banderas) into the fearless hero and champion of the people he once was.  The adventure is an action packed story so entertaining to watch. Second installment Legend of Zorro matches the same level of enjoyment. It brings back Banderas and Zeta-Jones along with another fiesty character.

Great life story of a great man. What a wonderful portrayal of the life of President Truman. Received the product in perfect condition. A nice addition to my Presidential Video Collection.

The CG series continues As a fan of the book, the movie, and Henlein in general, I bought all the DVDs in this series. The CG is a little crude, sometimes it looks like a very old computer or X Box game, but that said these DVDs are the only way I can see more of Johnny Rico and friends. Lets hope that someday they make a big budget movie that is spot on with the book's origional story. Until then we will make due with what we have.

Good bad movie This movie had several funny moments.  It had several characters to keep it from getting boring.  It beat my expectations.

and the lesson is? Except for the social worker, the acting in this movie was phenomenal - even Janet was convincing.  Overarching lesson (IMHO):  women have significant power between their legs and with the exercise of great power comes great responsibility.  this lesson does not seem to fit crystal - whose relationship should have been a movie in itself.  Unfortunately, like most Perry movies, there is wonderful emphasis on depicting the outcomes of the problem and drawing out the attendant emotional trauma, but little attention paid to the solution of it b/c this would often cast the blame on the "victim" and the "victimizer".  Because of the impact of media on the collective female psyche (especially black women) I do think it was socially irresponsible to show the blackman intentionally dropping his kids out of the window in a fit of misdirected rage b/c black women will latch on to that image and label every vet as a potential psycho (same re professional so called "down lo" brothers).  An implicit lesson I saw was that black women don't get the same benefit (commitment, continued respect, marriage proposal) from opening their legs as their noncoloured (white) counterparts.  The current debate is whether this disparity stems from blackness or boisterousness.  Also there is a conflict in women between being led by their emotion as opposed to the reality of the situation - the emotion seeks "fantasy" where none exists - many men capitalize on this frailty (with great power comes responsibility to not be led by your emotions).  Facing the reality that emotion/fantasy led decisions leads to dire consquences has a humbling effect which tends to harden women over time.  It is difficult in a world that perpetuates the lie that who men and women can become is limited only by our desires.

John Leguizamo Made This Movie Many people didn't like this movie, I'm not sure why. For the year it was made, the special effects are really good. The acting was decent in my opinion. It really could have used more action. The clown played by John Leguizamo was really what kept me watching. I kept wondering why the clown seemed so familiar up until the end when it finally hit me. The twisted sense of humor was great. The armor on Spawn was awesome. The storyline was decent. I really feel like this movie was just missing more action.

Where is your ID?  On the way to Cleveland! A former US Army Special Forces Colonel is shown warming up with his martial arts skills.  He and a team of men check out of the hotel at the same time and leave on their special mission.  Two of his team goes to a church near to the airport dressed as utility workers. They kill the church's guard and custodian to prepare their center of operation.  At the airport part of the team synchronizes their watches and separate to complete their part of the mission.  John McClane is at the airport to pick up his wife on Christmas Eve.  While at Washington Dulles Airport he spots two men carrying a wrapped Christmas present.  He sees that one of the men is acting suspicious by hiding the package as the police walk by.  He follows them as his sixth sense is peeked.  He finds the men in a restricted luggage area and when he confronts them a shootout ensues and he kills one of the men as the other escapes....  This is a full blown action movie with John McClane at his best trying to save the day.  This is an entertaining movie and I enjoyed it.  It is a good sequel to the first Die Hard and it is as entertaining.  At times it was over the top with some scenes that are not totally correct like McClane jumping and grabbing a bare steam pipe and not suffering major burns on his hands.  Bruce Willis did a good job in the movie and as usual he makes the movie.  There are a lot of good one liners and actions sequences that you will like.  I liked this movie and I recommend it to you.

Great Flick (if you like Quentin Tarantino's style)! A great movie with great acting and great music.  Just be aware of the fact that it does have a lot of violence with Quentin Tarantino's flair.

Should be renamed DONNIE YEN'S BEST Well its a very great movie but with only 4 fight scenes but all of them were so great that those scenes made the movie look like a hollywood blockbusters. here are great reasons to watch legend 1. Great Fight Scenes 2. Great Story 3. Has A Great Chinese With English Subs Option  Recommend this to any Donnie Yen,Bruce Lee, and martial arts fan

Good Solid Action Movie Do not expect great acting, memorable dialog or a complex plot.  If that is what you want, get a serious drama and have a great time. If you are looking for fast pace, violent action, evil villains and questionable heroes, this is a good choice. Without going into details, the hero (?) is a cop in New Orleans.  He gets involved in a war between criminal and questionable elements. Over the course of 104 minutes, we see some nice backgrounds, explore some troubled personalities and see people get hurt, tortured and killed. This is a good solid action movie that has some excellent moments.  The cast is reasonably good and they are professional enough to be believable. While it is not a great movie, it is fun.

the second time around I prefer the old movies to the new as I like a little subtlety, a little less coarseness and a little space left for my own imagination.  Hadn't see this since it came out originally and liked it better this time. Always liked Jimmy Stewart,....A LOT! and Doris Day has grown on me a bit. Alfred Hitchcock makes for interesting entertainment every time. DVD received promptly, in good condition and played just fine..

Told in a Tender and Intimate Manner "Strayed," ("Les egares"), (2003), is a French war drama/romance, about 90 minutes long, filmed in full-color in the mountainous Castres, Tarn, in the beautiful countryside of that nation.  It is set during the climactic days of World War II, directed by Andre Techine,(<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1572522178">Wild Reeds</a>,<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000SIWHB4">Scene of the Crime</a>). It is based upon the novel LES EGARES by Gilles Perrault.  In June, 1940, Paris is falling in slow-motion to German soldiers as they advance on the city.  Odile, played by Emmanuelle Beart, (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000053VBP">Manon of the Spring</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ENC73G">Nathalie</a>,<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00007J5VT">8 Women</a>), is a widowed schoolteacher whose husband was killed early in the war.  She is drawn into the panic surrounding her, so she packs up her car with everything it will carry, and with her two children, joins the exodus from the city. Philippe is on the cusp of adolescence.  Little Cathy knows only that they are going south. After the family has spent many slow-moving hours on the overtaxed roads, a German plane attacks the refugees. There is great loss of life.  The terrified Odile's car burns; she and her children lose everything. Then a shaven-headed 17-year old local youth, named Yvan, who seems to have escaped from a local institution of some sort during the panic, appears from nowhere.  As played by the young Gaspard Ulliel,(<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006ADEM">Brotherhood of the Wolf</a>,<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007Z0NYQ">A Very Long Engagement</a>), he leads the small family away from the carnage, to the safety of a lovely house standing empty during the war. Yvan seems to be well able to live off the land, and to provide for the little family he has found.  Odile and Yvan are cut off from the rest of the world, living in confined quarters; they find their sexual desires awakening.  There's a scorching sex scene between Odile and Yvan -- it's probably the film's best known. The unusually interesting extras on the disk include interviews with director Techine, and the young actor Ulliel, in which Techine reveals how he hesitated about including the scene in the finished picture.  Ulliel discusses the difficulty that ensued as two naked actors tried to film it. One thing's for sure, it required a lot of bravery on his part, and even more on Beart's, who is known for her bravery in that regard -- she filmed several unclothed scenes in MANON.  And, luckily, she's still gorgeous while evidently in her thirties.  The disk's extra features also give us an interview with Perrault, author of the underlying book, which makes clear that the novel is based upon his own life experience - the story feels like felt experience.  In June, 1940, his mother fled the city of Paris with his nine year old self and his younger sister; his family, as resident in the city's chic 16th arrondissement, would, however, have been better off financially than the family that the movie portrays.  Realistically speaking, war stories cannot turn out happily for everyone, and this one doesn't.  Still, it is an extremely particular, resonant story, set in lovely surroundings, told in a tender and intimate manner that is likely to stay with you for a good long time.

Gone with the wind It was a good movie, I and my son liked it.It had a lot of laughs with twist and turns through out the movie. Tim Conway and Don Knox are two of the most funnyist guys I know.I wish the could done more movies on the same subject.

good movie not a great movie I expected more of a adventure,and less of a flower garden. Me personal I like journey1, I watched this movie in 3D  there were some pretty good pop out scenes my favorite was Dwayne Johnson  had those cherries popping off his chest  right into the viewer face. how cool was that?

animated movie Quite simply, the best animated DC movie out there. Although it's a cartoon, it has a dark and mature setting. I applaud the makers on a fine job!

The Lady Of The Dance You can see the beautiful talented Cyd perform in the modern ballet mode.  The only fault is there should have beeen more of her.  But it is delightful to see her perform so beautifully.

the book was great, this version is really pretty good. We have 3 great actors working with some good material. Even if you know nothing about birding, this is an enjoyable movie.

Entertaining, . . . Turn Up The Sound!!! This particular effort by Charlton Heston is certainly worth a look, at least once.  In some ways, this film shows subtle hints of being just ever so slightly "campy" (in the way that many early 80's films can be), particularly during some of the initial opening sequences.  However, overall, this film "is" entertaining, even if most of the major plot points are reasonably predictable.  There are many, many reviews describing the basic story line, so I will refrain from simply rehashing what has already been clearly explained.  In my opinion, Charlton Heston gives a tremendous performance, and is truly believed as his colorful character when watching this film, even today in current times.  Kim Basinger is obviously very "green" with her acting skills in this movie, as it was one of her first, and it tends to show.  For example, you will definitely not be seeing the Basinger performance which was offered in "Cellular" a handful of years back.  However, she does turn in an adequate performance, and you do wish her character well.  Nick Mancuso seems like he's trying just a little to hard to convince us much of the time, and it tends to come off as slightly less than genuine.  But, once again, the performance of Heston makes up for these other quirks and weaknesses of the film.  The amazing scenery, and filming techniques used, certainly add to the appeal of the movie.  This definitely was a lower budget film, with a small cast, and a relatively simple and predictable plot by today's standard, so please set your expectations accordingly.  This truly is a very watchable film, just be sure to place it in your mailbox for less than ten dollars, if you can.  One or two viewings may be enough for many people.  Now, . . . regarding this particular DVD release.  The widescreen format picture quality is very strong for a modest budget project from nearly 30 years ago.  The contrast is great, the colors are strong, and the clarity is definitely "good" (not spectacular).  However, the soundtrack for the film is lackluster at best.  The tones and sound effects which are more toward the "loud" range sound "okay".  But, the more intricate conversational dialogue is notably under amplified, and I often found myself "maxing" out the volume range (simultaneously) on both the television speakers and separate surround sound system.  Altering the sound settings didn't seem to help in any significant way.  Be prepared to keep your audio remote in hand and ready to go!!!  GOOD LUCK.

Great workout set I've been a big fan of Rodney Yee's videos for a while now and this one is no exception.  Very gentle but strong work-outs that you really feel the benefits of the following day.  There are a couple of editing issues that were puzzling, but fortunately I was looking down before the first time I realized that the action on the DVD was behind the vocal instruction in a couple of section in the Yoga Burn.

Great Series My son loves the Praise Baby series.  He loves the music and the graphics.  He has watched them for the past year and it was neat when he started to talking because he used the dvd as a slideshow to name the object/people appearing on the screen.  My godchildren also enjoy it and will sit and watch it.

With jaw hanging I still couldn't believe what I was watching, and then the next scene came on... I couldn't help but sit dumbfounded scene after scene.  The opening scene of a nuclear attack on New York is all you need to set up a group of survivors stuck in the basement to await the fallout.  But the movie takes so many twists and turns I was dumbstruck.  I've never had a movie leave my jaw hanging as much as this one and still continue to surprise scene after scene.  In the end you are left with an "I can't believe that just happened" feeling.  What the movie was trying to do and what others seem to be missing, is set up what it would be like for people stuck in a basement experiencing the nuclear fallout.  How not only being cooped up in the basement with no hope for survival and all the psychological traps involved there, but also succumbing to the radiation of the blast and the toll that it took on the survivors.  This movie explores the what ifs of that scenario, one where there doesn't seem to be any hope for survival and yet they must all co-exist with one another.  Granted it is dark and takes turns you wonder if it would have happened in real life, but in the end you accept it for what it is because each group of survivors is made up of a different group of personalities, and thus all reactions change.  I would recommend this definitely if you are ready for a mind trip.  Definitely not for everyone, but definitely worth watching and is best to go in to this one completely blind to the plot.  It has that much more of an effect on the viewer when you know absolutely nothing.  4.5 stars.

Great Resistance Band This band is good.  There is always a chance with resistance bands that they break or come loose where attached.  I would not wish to be hit by one when that occurs.  With this cord, four bands are braided together.  I doubt all four would ever break or come loose at the same time, so getting injured would not happen.   I also bought this band for use with P90X.  I have dumbbells, so mainly this is used for pull-ups.  Pulling up ones weight is not easy.  We have a pull-up bar that we drape this cord over.  I gave this cord only four stars because it is called a heavy cord and the weight that can be pulled on it is more than most bands, but I do not believe it could take 40 lbs of pull (20 lbs for each arm).  If someone wants to build up to being able to pull up their body weight of 140 lbs, there is a definite gap there. I feel a five star band would indicate the maximum weight that it could be equivalent to.   That said - this is the best band I have found.  It says heavy and it is stronger than the couple of other heavy ones I have tried.

Missing serial number The DVD was as expected.  It came factory sealed.  Once I started the movie, it advertised the option to transfer the movie to my computer.  When I tried this, it asked for a serial number supposedly included in the package.  Alas, no serial number.  Wish it had one...

Titan AE It came on time. That was great. The only thing was the disc had come out of the setting and was sliding around during shipping.

Its Me, Myself, and the Robot from here on out Moon is the first feature film by Duncan Jones who went on to create the more high profile Source Code. Like Source Code, Moon is built on a Science Fiction high concept but is crafted into a relatively low key and human narrative.  The human in this case is astronaut Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) who is completing his long and solitary contract on the dark side of the moon. Sam has been isolated, his only real time contact is a robot named GURTY (voiced by Kevin Spacey), for nearly three years and the time has begun to take its toll on his body and mind. His confusion leads to an accident and which starts him down a path of increasing strangeness.  Mr. Rockwell does an excellent job of holding down this basically one man show. He helps create a character that is at times his enemy and best friend. Its a careful role as he must keep the audience on his side while still being a little bit of a cipher.  As he did in Source Code, Mr. Jones seems comfortable deploying his twist early on and letting the audience and story grapple with the implications for the rest of the film. The result is that the viewer is not asked to believe in the core premise so much as enjoy its outcome, which works with the creative scenario to heighten the oddness of the film.  Moon is strange, intelligent, and unexpected in its own right. However, coupled with Source Code we seem to have a promising young film maker who is well worth watching.

One of the best Viking movies ever. The 1954 version of "Prince Valiant" is one of my all-time favorite movies.  Of course, it's not historically accurate, Vikings did not wear horns in their helmets and if "King Arthur" existed at all he was a 5th century Roman-Celtic chieftain without 14th century armor and elaborate castles.  Arthur was  fighting off Angle, Saxon and Jute invaders from northern Germany and southern Denmark, not Vikings.  The Vikings didn't start raiding England until the late 8th century CE.  That being said, I'm glad there were changes made in the movie that did upset some purist "Prince Valiant" comics fans.  I'm glad Prince Valiant's homeland was changed from "Thule" to "Scandia" which was an actual region in southern Sweden.  Also having his mother still living was a plus.  Victor McLaughlin was magnificent as the Viking friend to Prince Valiant (Boltar).  And the music by Franz Waxman is perhaps the best musical score ever used in a medieval movie.  My favorite part of the epic was the battle of Scandia at the end where the Christian Vikings attack Sligon's pagan stronghold to free Prince Valiant and his family and restore the Christian faith.  The only reason I gave this movie four stars instead of five, was because of the jump the movie makes after Sligon is overthrown, the movie suddenly shifts back to Camelot.  There is no interim to celebrate Aguar's restoration as king of Scandia and Prince Valiant suddenly appears in King Arthur's court clothed in a knight's wardrobe wanting to fight Sir Brack.  I had hoped that maybe the DVD had contained some lost scenes that had never made it to TV, but unfortunately I was wrong.  But still, I recommend this great movie to all ages.  And by all means, please avoid the wretched 1996 version of "Prince Valiant."  It's an insult to the original movie.

Better Than The Poem Found Beowulf for super cheap, d'never seen it, thought I'd watch it.  The movie is shot using the same motion capture technique as The Polar Express - except the characters look a lot sharper.  Starring: Ray Winstone (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) as Beowulf, Crispin Glover (Back to the Future) as Grendel, and Angelina Jolie as Grendel's mother. Co starring are Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Robin Wright Penn and Brendan Gleeson.  This is the story that spawned many of our legends including King Arther. The film version is told by Neil Gaiman is full of grotesque monsters, seductive demonesses, dragons and blood.  Beowulf was not as horrible as I was led to believe. Outside of the title character being obsessed with his name and screaming, "I. AM. BEOWULF!" whenever he gets the chance, this film is quite entertaining. And if you had to suffer through the boring poem in Middle School or, like me, never read it - you'll find this action movie a nice thrill ride.

F*** the Critics of this show. Shame on you. I do realize that it's a matter of opinion that people write on these reviews. That being said, if you don't like it, then just say that. Don't try to steer people away by falsely claiming it was poorly written, or had bad casting, or was a bad series. I am one of the biggest movie/TV fans around, and I'm highly critical of most shows. That being said, this show is phenomenal.  Set aside Joseph Finnes always top notch acting, this show was well done. Well written, well acted for a relatively lesser known cast, and well worth watching again.  If you are a fan of this type of show, buy the blu ray. You won't be disappointed. With gorgeous cinematography to boot, you may not like it, but you can't blame this show for being any negatives a few critics are pushing.

The Cat sat on the Mau-Mau Insofar as it plumps for a "heart-warming and inspiring" general vibe (and it does: it's even in the production notes), Justin Chadwick's new film The First Grader certainly gives itself a fighting chance. Well, how many cockle-warming boxes can you check: illiterate octogenarian; overflowing rural Kenyan primary school; the massive, rolling expanses of the Kenyan bush; the accompaniment of African music and a dazzling, wholesome heroine to beam at the screen whenever things start to lag a bit.  Chadwick makes the most of these facilities, available to him in abundance, and why not: there are several scenes where unbearably cute little children buzz happily around the sombre silhouette of a elderly figure, and it is impossible not to be gladdened, whatever the context. Kimani Maruge, the titular first grader, even wears a child's school uniform - including shorts and socks - and gamely wrestles with cat, sat and mat by day and in the night retreats to a darkened shed, and stares into the distant darkness with ancient, sad eyes.  Before long we are let into the secret of those sad eyes.  As of course it must be, while based on a true story this account is heavily fictionalised: only that nod to verisimilitude gave any licence to make a film which would otherwise be too cheesy to survive the pitch. No doubt in a number of ways the real story would have made for inconvenient narrative: I doubt, for example, Maruge actually marched into the Kenyan education minister's office and ripped his shirt off.  While Chadwick is never ambitious with his film - he knows what his assets are, flaunts them, and doesn't try any funny stuff - he is nonetheless challengingly political. In its back-story First Grader is by no means saccharine: Maruge was a Mau Mau resistance fighter in the fifties, was imprisoned for the best part of a decade and, as the screenplay unfolds, we find out it is this history which compels him to seek his education. The film repeatedly flashes back to the resistance, and the flashes don't compromise. There's some pretty brutal viewing in there. Now, all Maruge has is a letter. And he can't read it. Hence the story.  The Mau Mau's plight at the hands of the British colonials is at the top of the news agenda at the moment, so Justin Chadwick couldn't have timed it better in terms of profile; on the other hand I suspect he may have romanticised the struggle somewhat (the Mau Mau are portrayed more or less as hapless victims; the British as torturing fascists), and this may lead to some charges of revisionism that he might otherwise have avoided had his story not had the same currency.  There are a couple of missteps: in an attempt to force the narrative, the screenplay calls for some anonymous antagonism (crank calls and threats of various sorts) which don't appear plausible since all that is going on is an old fellow showing up at a rural primary school for some reading lessons. Some of the parents at the school display a positively North London sensibility when it comes to their furthering their children's education at all costs: this didn't really ring true either (simply put, no peasant farmer could be quite that neurotic) yet this antagonism is allowed to build seemingly to boiling point, at which point it just dies off without resolution.  This review couldn't pass without mention of Naomie Harris, who is simply radiant whenever on the screen, and completely occupied the character of the principled teacher who takes Maruge in regardless of the firestorm it improbably provokes. Harris could have been reading the back of a cereal packet and I'd enjoy it: it's hard not to like a film when there is such a natural sparkling beauty in it. Expect to see more of this young lady in the next few years.  The First Grader sets itself an unambitious target and, with such prime quality raw material, gets home easily. Those of a delicate sensibility go in forewarned, though; some of the scenes from the Mau Mau uprising are more disturbing than you commonly see in a "heart warming and inspiring film"  Olly Buxton Flickfeast

Awesome Gruesome This is one of the WORST shows I've ever seen.  It's so bad, it's a jewel in it's own right.  Entertaining-hilarious-engaging.  This thing is so bad on so many levels it's astonishing.  It's a "must have" for my carefully chosen home library.The "business" some of these actors utilize is hilarious.  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0085Z3C0M">Jersey Shore Shark Attack</a>

No more chicken noodle soup!! I have searched high and low for four movies I remember from TV in the 70s and this is the first one I can check off my list.  The main memory I have from this movie is that I didn't eat chicken noodle soup for years after - even after I couldn't remember why I couldn't eat it!!  I thought I might find it on Netflix but no luck yet!  I will add this to my list and continue my search for the other three.  If anyone has any leads on movie search sites that are helpful, I would appreciate any help I get.

Bunny vs. The Race Spoiler Alert!! I have always loved the Little House on the Prairie show, and it is still a favorite after many years. I wasn't around when it was being aired on television, so as the DVD series were being produced, I would buy them, and watch every episode. However, after rewatching this season, I was still confused about the first disc. I never understood how Laura got Bunny back in The Race, and then in the episode, Bunny, the horse was again Nellie's. I looked it up online, and it seems the producers put these episodes in the wrong order on the disc. I now wonder... has this  happened with other episodes? I guess I will find out as I rewatch.  In the first season, Christmas at Plum Creek was always my favorite episode. In this season, it is definitely these two episodes. Not sure why! I guess it's got to do with Bunny!

This means war This movie is pretty fun and funny liked it. Reese is awesome as ever.And the guys are good looking.Would recommend!

Very dark, very violent A fairy tale this may be, but do we really have to see a man's face being cut open, a leg being cut off, lingering shots of hypodermic needles being stuck in bodies or a man sewing his lip up with a sewing needle? Aside from these squirm-inducing moments, this Spanish film lingers longer in WW2 reality than in fantasy. I wished for more interludes in the underground world, and fewer in the present when we must watch sadistic Fascist soldiers killing and torturing Spanish rebels. There's a lot of blood here, and this is certainly not a great movie for kids. Still, worth a watch if you enjoy a slight departure from Hollywood's inanities.

Great Movie! One of the best mobb/cop flicks with 3 heavy hitters leading the way.  The disc was new as advertised.  And I received it timely.

Lovecraftian =/= action movie. So, most people probably won't get this movie, or will think it's boring. I empathize.  It's not for everyone. It's not an actioner (sure there's some incidental gun play with large octopoid creatures). It's not a love story (though maybe the lead characters do come together under and/or due to shared perilous circumstances). It's not a comedy. It's not exactly an adventure movie (though, one would probably have to be adventurous to trek through the jungle of central America with monstrous octopoidal being potentially threatening your existence at any/every turn).  At it's core, this movie tries to get at a certain Lovecraftian sentiment. It tries to get at that sense of the unknown, of a certain dread of the "other." And it feels like it succeeds, near the end in capturing the cosmic ambivalence toward humanity as well as our own limited understanding of what drives/motivates these other-worldly beings. It seems in the final analysis they did pull of that cosmic ambivalence and demonstrate that what we've read as malignity is simply perhaps a misreading of motivations so beyond our own ken that we don't even know what to make of them.  But enough Lovecraftian analysis. It's got giant alien octopi, a trek through the Mexican jungle, characters that you may or may not eventually come to like at least a smidge by the end of the movie, even if you could pretty much care less at the start (maybe you won't). It's worth a viewing. But you might want to read up on HP Lovecraft and his weird fiction & philosophy first. It might help you appreciate it more.  But, as I said, this movie might not be for everyone... If you're looking for an actioner with huge explosions or a RomCom, you're probably in the wrong place. If you're looking for something like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002NZK5U0">Eight Legged Freaks</a>, well, it's not that either. It's a slightly slower & slightly different kind of monster movie.  Saw it screen at the HP Lovecraft Film Festival. Overall, I think I liked it. But, then I understood what they were going for and gave it some slack for some of the rough bits. Others haven't been quite as forgiving. That's their prerogative... But, I feel like the filmmakers did what they set out to do, even if it wasn't, perhaps, what some of their potential audience might be expecting...

Teenage CIA Agent Takes on Bad Guys Fifteen year-old Cody Banks gets the job of his life: An agent sent to a prep school to monitor the movements of a beautiful girl. He starts awkward with girls, and makes a lousy first and second impression. However, he eventually connects with her. However, others have their own designs on her.  Evil men kidnap her, because her father is a scientist who works on nanotechnology that can be diverted to the destruction of missile controls, rendering the US defenseless in a war. The kidnapping is designed to force the reluctant father scientist to program the nanochips to destroy the controls of missiles. Agent Cody Banks, against orders, locates the kidnapped girl, and then the action really starts...

Wide Range of Barta's Works The Labyrinth of Darkness is a brilliant collection of Barta's eclectic styles.  The Club of the Undead, The Last Theft, and Krysar: The Pied Piper of Hamelin are notable works that are must-sees.

whiteout I wasnt sure about this since I had not heard anything - but it looked intriguing - I was surprised and pleased with this film - very good work and has its surprises in the mystery.

No title I listened to a radio review about the new Arthur movie and they said the original movie is better, that's why I purchased it. Now I have to see the new version but let me tell you, this movie with Dudley Moore and Liza Minelli was very good and hilarious. It's a keeper. Good acting, too!

Still Sufficiently Creepy! Even today, there is still a certain creep factor in "Fiend Without a Face"--  A British sci-fi film starring American Marshall Thompson--which takes place on a US air force base in Canada.  Criterion has done a nice job in restoring this film.  While not as famous as the Quatermass films or "X the Unknown"--this film is still a lot of fun.  The "fiends" in question are invisible throughout most of the film, but near the latter portion of the story--you see them materialize as CRAWLING BRAINS! The manner in which these "fiends" attack their human prey may have been shocking in 1957---but any gore is pretty mild by today's standards.  A worthwhile addition to any British Sci-fi buff's library.

pretty good I actually liked this flick.  It is pure entertainment value, but Taylor Kitsch dies a good job. Brooklyn Decker is not only hot, but also puts in a credible performance. I like the fact that the Navy fights aliens in the ocean, I think it adds a bit of credibility to a story that requires suspension of reality. Overall, very entertaining.  I saw this movie a few times before purchasing. I liked it enough to watch it over and over.again.

Engrossing Performances by Two Beautiful People The first three-quarters of this film are suspenseful and somewhat innovative. "The Resident" attempts a sort of Rashomon-like recursion from different points of view.  First we see life from Hilary Swank's character's point of view. She's a busy ER Doctor who responds to an ad for an improbably large, inexpensive Victorian apartment unit in New York. From the start, she's a little suspicious of what lies behind the complex, creviced spaces in the old building. She's a little unsettled by the atmosphere of the place and the things that go bump in the night.  Then the film figuratively rewinds and we see the same progression of events from the stalker's point of view, from the point of view of the person who is in fact creating those unnerving little rustlings from the rafters, from behind the lathes of the apartment. We see how he originally crossed paths with the Doctor and how he launched his campaign to "get" her.  It isn't a radically different perspective, but we catch more subtleties of angle and expression the second time around. The stalker, who comes across as being simply so handsome, so charmingly self-effacing in the first reel - expresses a more dangerous intensity in the re-play. We catch the flash of cold appraisal and calculation that crosses his face when Hilary Swank's back is turned. We understand the level of his peeping, peering obsession better.  Although this situation is hardly novel in the suspense/thriller genre - these lead actors are so beautifully caressed by the camera, it would be a pleasure to see them in any context, acting out the flimsiest of plots. There are some beautifully sensuous nude scenes included as well.  Unfortunately, the last quarter of this film turns into utter clich&eacute;, betraying much of the film's early promise.  SPOILER - SPOILER In that last quarter, the stalker turns predictably ulta-homicidal and the film devolves into a gory, blood-sport combat between stalker and Swank - with Swank displaying her Million Dollar Baby fighter's fitness in the fray. Once, just once, I would have liked the stalker to turn out to be not quite so mad - and for him and the object of his affections to get together and live happily ever after. Now THAT would have been innovative. I almost thought this movie might break new ground in that direction. Too bad.

Very funny and good anime. I was debaiting on buying the 1st one, but once i did, it was a very enjoyable anime. it lacks sme fan service in nude shots/scenes, but all the comedy, and really retarded kid in the space suit make this season worth the buy.

Peter Sellers Final Flick Fiendishly Amusing.  Peter Sellers was a very funny man.  The story line is completely absurd -- but that is the whole point, isn't it?

An enthralling look at how life is full of surprises! This movie hits home from the opening scenes where the main character, Joe, an out-of-work and one-time famously rich actor, is engaged in an orgy before being snapped back to reality by his down-to-earth assistant. Joe is the epitome of a person who has the opportunity of a lifetime as an actor, but when the curtains are drawn and its time to pass the mantel he winds up spending his money on hookers and drugs. Even his agent begs him to leave the business.  When Joe learns his best childhood friend dies he spirals into a flashback of his teen years in England. Here we meet his family, friends, and the older woman next door who seduces him. When a tragedy occurs leaving Joe to blame himself, he runs away and becomes a famous actor. Only when he returns for the funeral does he realize how much he missed out on in life.  Reviewer's Note:  I was drawn to this movie because I like Daniel Craig, and not simply because I believe he's the best person to play Bond since Sean Connery. Rather, Daniel Craig has the ability to play anything and leave you to believe he's the person you see he's playing in character. Flashbacks of a Fool came out the same year as Quantum of Solace and did not get a lot of publicity, but neither did his movie Archangel, from the author Robert Harris, and I like Craig best of all in that movie.  Flashbacks of a Fool hits home because I think all of us look back in our life and wonder what we did right and/or wrong, and how would things have turned out if we did something different. My take on this will end that you won't be disappointed for buying this movie.  by David Lucero, author of THE SANDMAN

It's so good there's an extra "g" at the end Larger than life and vastly entertaining, DABANGG (meaning "Fearless") shattered the box office record in India, and now 3 IDIOTS, the previous record-holder, is all pouty. DABANGG's success hinges mostly on star Salman Khan's drawing power, but you can't front on the highly stylized action sequences, the polished cinematography, the sizzling musical numbers, and the cinematic debut of the gorgeous Sonakshi Sinha. The film boasts a masala of derivative plot points, but this is one of those cases in which the flashy bells and whistles work hard to compensate for the lack of narrative substance. Salman Khan is a friggin' rock star, man.  DABANGG takes place in the sprawling northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, a place that turns out to be a hotbed of combustible politics and police corruption. Salman Khan plays Police Inspector Chulbul Pandey, a character whom on the surface isn't unsimilar to his role in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002VYJX8S">Wanted (Bollywood Movie)</a>. Chulbul Pandey, an unrepentant crooked cop, stalks his world with an unmatched swagger and a p0rn mustache. And he is the film's hero. Raised in strained family dynamics, Chulbul resents his indifferent step-father and useless step-brother, and this has surely affected how he sees the world and his sense of ethics. His mother serves as his only anchor. It's left up to you to determine whether he gains a measure of redemption. Me, I don't think he mends his ways all that much.  Do you appreciate or feel distaste for take charge men? Men who assume they know what's best for you? My eyebrows were consistently raised at Chulbul's rather perfunctory courtship of the beautiful pottery girl Rajo (Sonakshi Sinha). But I guess some girls dig that approach. Not that Chulbul doesn't melt at certain stages of his wooing. He is obviously very smitten with Rajo. To observe that tired old cliche, he's a better man for it. It makes him aware of the importance of salvaging his estranged family.  But all the soap opera hand-wringing feels obligatory, something to tide us over until we get to the bits that we actually came to the theater for: which is force of nature Salman Khan kicking tail with panache. With invisibly rendered wires lending him unearthly grace and athleticism, Salman Khan takes out armed goons in several electrifyingly staged action sequences: in a warehouse during a bust, and during a rooftop shoot-out, and on a train platform as assassins spring out of the woodwork. However, I do sense a whiff of plagiarism. I recall having seen some of the action flourishes in earlier films (the firehose routine is from ROMEO MUST DIE; the window slamming shut just as the thug is jumping thru it is from DISTRICT 13: ULTIMATUM). I probably missed other bits. I'll say this, even if "inspired" by other films, the stunts and fighty fights are stunning stuff.  But this is Bollywood, right? DABANGG follows that successful blueprint. It is action-packed, exaggerated, boisterous, lushly romantic, and so vibrant. It is unashamedly all of those things. The sleek production values suggest an impressive movie budget. I appreciate Salman Khan's having a sense of humor about himself. He willingly spoofs his action hero image. I love his ring tone dance. It makes his "hero" cop more likable. But you merely have to check out his performance in the amazing title song "Hud Dabangg" to realize why he's had such longevity. Salman Khan exudes charisma. Hours after watching DABANGG I'm still going around, jerking my belt buckle this way and that. As if that could make me fearless.  This two-disc set offers the film presentation with optional English sub-titles and includes the following bonus featurettes (but without English sub-titles): "The Making of DABANGG" (00:40:53 minutes long) and "The Making of the Songs" (00:27:07 minutes long).

Hamlet 2 Funny! Funny! Funny! Watched this movie at my sisters a few weeks ago and just had to have it for my movie collection.

Great This movie was actually pretty good..I really enjoyed watching the fight scenes and the music that was included the only bad thing I would say abt the movie was that the ending was a little lackluster and bit of a let down

Excellent addition for any Rush fan This is a really solid title and I would highly recommend it for any Rush fan's library.  These guys are just so musically talented it is pure pleasure watching them perfom.  I missed a chance to actually catch this show live, so it was a no brainer for me to at least buy the disc.  I will agree, however, with some of the other reviews that the sound quality does not blow me away - hence the reason I only gave it 4 stars.  The band and the overall concert is a 5 star performance all the way.  I'm no audio expert, but in my opinion the Snakes & Arrows blu-ray has a much better mix and overall sound quality.  That being said, the content is great and well worth the purchase.

The First in the All-Time Favorite Homecoming Series This is the first in the series of "20 All Time Homecoming Favorites" with selections from outstanding performances of Homecoming classics. This series captures all the excitement of the original live concerts. Two numbers from the Ryman Gospel Reunion performance are the opening numbers featured on this unique program. Ivan Parker is featured singing "Further Along" and Squire Parsons follows this with "Sweet Beulah Land."  The program continues strong featuring Russ Taft singing an arrangement of Andre Crouch's song "My Tribute." Joy Gardner follows with a song that emphasizes the element of hope for the Christian found in the song "Joy Comes in the Morning."  I always find Anthony Burger's masterful piano accompaniment adds a special dimension to my enjoyment of these concerts. Other personal favorites include: The Vocal Band's number "I Believe in a Hill Called Mount Calvary," Larry Ford's rendition of "Whispering Hope," and Glen Payne's sincerity when singing "If I can Help Somebody." I also enjoyed the Vocal Band singing "The King is Coming" with George Younce.  Other artists featured on this program include: Vestal Goodman, Stephan Hill, Reggie Smith, The Mullins Family, Candy Christmas, Ben Speer, Jess Dickson and many others.  I am looking forward to adding additional recordings of this series to my growing collection of Homecoming favorites.

great disney classic i love this movie! wasn't expecting the slight damage to the case, but the video itself is in perfect condition, and that's all i really care about : )

Clever Script and Stellar Acting I wasn't expecting much and was prepared to fast-forward through the video, but found myself kicking back and thoroughly enjoying "Get the Gringo." It's not easy (and actually risky) to attempt mixing comedy, action, and drama in a film, yet the writers (including Gibson), actors, and director pulled it off here. I agree with others that Mel is at the top of his game in this one, and his co-stars, Kevin Hernandez (as the boy) and Dolores Heredia (as the mom) shine as well. My favorite scene involves Mel...nah, I'm not going to spoil it. :)

Great Buy & Great Seller This movie is a classic and it was priced very low compared to other sites and stores. I bought the movie as a gift and it was a hit.  The seller also had exceptional customer service. They made sure I received the movie, in the condition stated on Amazon, and they wanted to be sure the product worked.

Different, non-boring way to do low impact workout or warm up I don't get the slamming review - I didn't think it was the best workout DVD, or best workout ever - but I enjoyed it just fine. This is a good DVD to start on if you're interested in dance style based workout and you haven't done any aerobics in a while. For instance, if you've been desk-bound for 3 months, diving into a Zumba class may leave you panting, but this is a good DVD to start out with to get back into and work your way up to a faster, possibly higher impact dance style workout DVD or class. I found this when trying out belly dancing workouts years ago, and thought this was interesting - if you learn both styles they're actually totally different in the way you('re supposed to) move to pull of the steps.  I found this to be a great workout for calves, thighs and butt - a slow, long burn type - as long as you stay as crouched as you are supposed to to get the fluid hip movement. If you're going to cheat the moves and stand straight, yeah - you're not going to get much of a muscle workout.  Even when doing regularly doing high-impact, high energy workouts, I liked to pop this in on my 'off' impact days to get some good stretching, fluid movements and a light workout while trying to loosen/rest a hurting knee.  Yeah, the music is not traditional Hawaiian style hula music. Sounds more electronic. Wherever she filmed it (outdoors) is a beautiful backdrop.

Met deadline Ordered new condition DVD. Arrived as promised, new.  Arrival was earlier than anticipated as a deadline was self imposed for an event, so crucial that DVD arrive on time. Great Job and will use same Amazon partner company for many of my DVD's

Good movie Munish (Dharmendra) and JK (Feroz Khan) were friends, bound together in many ways. JK has helped Munish in his education, a trip to England for higher education and has now made him Engineer-in-charge for his prestigious dam project. JK's brother Ravi is engaged to Munish's sister. But these bonds of friendship are severely tested when Munish finds out that JK's vast empire is not built on totally honest business practices and refuses to support him. JK interprets Munish's behavior as avenging the fact that JK loves his girl, Meena (Saira Banu), and expects Munish to give way for him in return for his favors. But Munish knows otherwise. He knows that though he loves JK dearly and would sacrifice his life, his love for him, he will not compromise on his principles. How will the conflict between emotion and principle be resolved? Will Munish have to choose between his heart and his conscience? Aadmi Aur Insaan is yet another powerful film coming out of the partnership of B.R. Chopra with his younger brother Yash Chopra. Intense performances by a multi-star cast won this film 2 Filmfare Award nominations - Best Supporting Actress to Mumtaz and Best Supporting Actor for Feroz Khan who went on to win the award. The film's music composed by Ravi with lyrics by Sahir has such memorable numbers like "Dil Karda O Yaara Dildara" and "O Neele Parbaton Ki Dhara".

Good show, could be better poor DVD package I am NOT a Playboy fan. I started watching The Girls Next Door in early 2009.  Became a fan because I liked Bridget & Holly.  I do enjoy the show.  Here it is uncut so we get the language.  Good the episodes are wide screen.  The seasons were TOO SHORT.  Favorite episode in season one was Bridget's episode where the take the trip. And, I agree with what Holly said, her bobble head looked like a man.  Of course season two as short as it was is better.  We got to see the whole Hef getting engaged to "The Runaway Bride".  The other parts this season is that Jadye person causing problems and the fight with Angel and Josh finding his real mother.  You can tell some of this is staged.  Good to see Vegas  What a cheap DVD package.  The same photo of her on all three DVD's.  NO episode information listed anywhere.  A disappointment-no commentary  I hope further seasons of the show have more episodes

Birdcage-4 stars Great movie and very funny.  Would watch it again.  Hilarious, could not stop laughing.  Totally worth watching, would watch it again.

"Skyrocket... Super... Punch!!" I'm not at all familiar with the Tekkenverse, and I'm only going on my friend's assurance that this film doesn't too much mangle the internal continuity of Namco Bandai Games video games. I'm recommending TEKKEN: BLOOD VENGEANCE, mostly for its dazzling CG animation. The story itself gets more muddled as it progresses, although, thankfully, enough coherence is retained. I was able to follow the plot, even though, at times, I did scramble to keep straight just who is who and which their respective allegiances. At its core, the narrative is constructed around a seriously messed-up family feud. The supernatural Mishima bloodline had always been prone to homicidal urges and wanton destruction. But those new to this universe may require a scorecard.  Powerful rival corporations use, respectively, a high school girl and a robot posing as a high school girl to infiltrate Kyoto's prestigious Kyogoku Academy to spy on a student rumored to hold the key to the M stem cell, the so-called Devil gene which unlocks paranormal talents and confers immortality. Teenager Ling Xiaoyu, an expert martial artist who rides a panda and looks cute in her standard schoolgirl outfit, is expelled from Mishima Polytechnic High School which then paves the way for the Mishima Zaibatsu company's brand of arm twisting. This leaves Ling's loyalties veering somewhere on the shaky side. It's even suggested that she goes along with the espionage ops only because the target, Shin Kamiya, is a good-looking hunk.  You have to credit the script writer(s) for dispensing with the fight tournament format, as that plot device is pretty played out when it comes to adapting video games to cinema. Instead, there is a "story" which does frame the fighty fights. The film's first half-hour dedicates itself to fun high school hijinks, with Ling Xiaoyu's snooping around qualifying as lighthearted caper. She befriends another girl, the naive Alisa Bosconovitch, who dresses like - to borrow one reviewer's neat description - a "cosplay courtesan." Alisa and Ling are soon vying for Shin's affections, although Ling's crush seems more half-hearted.  The story drops the high school shenanigans once Shin Kamiya is abducted during a school festival competition. It adopts a more somber tone. The two warring corporations - the Mishima Zaibatsu and the G Corporation - show their hand and deploy their forces. This leaves the outgunned Ling Xiaoyu caught in the crosshairs from all directions.  Again, TEKKEN: BLOOD VENGEANCE may be a bit daunting for those just entering the Tekkenverse. There's a lot of things thrown your way. In a good move, the writers opted to focus on only two protagonists (three, if you count Jin), even though plenty of Tekken characters pop up seemingly for the sake of a gratuitous cameo. Shin Kamiya, for one, feels like a gimmick, there only to advance the story and then disposed of. But Ling and Alisa are appealing protagonists and their friendship is really nicely fleshed out. What happens to one of them in the hell's broken loose third act makes for a surprisingly emotional moment. On the other hand, it's disappointing that Ling, in that same third act, is relegated to the sidelines, although, yes, logically, her skills set renders her pretty helpless in the face of the apocalyptic brawl. Yes, the film culminates in an epic three-way battle royale among the Mishima clan, all three of whom exhibit destructive supernatural aptitude. I'll say that this is possibly the best extended animated fight I've ever seen. Three generations of the Mishima bloodline just tore each other up! And just when I thought they couldn't top it, the Mokujin spirits of the Kyoto Castle are invoked and the stakes escalate that much more.  This film gratifies several fetishes of them anime geeks. Cute martial artist in schoolgirl outfit - check. Hot robot girl with transformable body parts (and a nifty jet pack) - ditto. Another hottie in tight black leathers springing into action - you betcha! Frequent salacious upskirt shots - yes! Oh, and let's not forget the refrigerator scene which has a toweled-only Ling cuddling with Alisa.  The story occasionally drags and baffles, but it's worth sticking around for the CG work and the remarkably rendered action sequences. I really couldn't care less about Ling's search for the kidnapped student and the resulting poking into the M cell conspiracy, but I did like the human touches, the interactions between our two heroines, and even the clich&eacute;d plot device of the robot's developing a sense of humanity. And how can you not get hyped when the fate of the world ultimately rests on a wrecked robot's Skyrocket Super Punch?  And a final thing. May I suggest that you watch this with the Japanese soundtrack? The English dub lacks a little something.

Fritz Lang Masterpiece - Is the Insanity Defense Relevant? [This review is for the single DVD Criterion Collection]  I really wanted one of Fritz Lang's first "talkies" and as I do enjoy Peter Lorre (and here, in one of his first appearances) I had to get "M."  "M" deals with several themes:  A child murderer, two groups both out to get him (one, criminal -- the other, the police) and as well the terror in the streets.  The luring of the child to her doom is not easy to watch, although done tastefully for use of a better word.  You hear no scream.  Just a bouncing ball that stops, a balloon toy recently purchased now caught in the phone lines.  Pretty creepy.  Peter Lorre plays the child murderer and finds himself before a kangaroo court made of thieves and murderers that want justice and his head!  As I said, several themes:  Is a man guilty of murder if he "can't help it" and the voices in his head tell him to?  The thieves have one thought:  let him go to the asylum, he gets out after being declared harmless and does it again!  Is mob justice just?  Is the insanity defense proper?  And finally, the torture parents go through at the loss and/or death of their child, though this is touched on only briefly.  The only counterpoint on this tale is the slow-moving committees that are set up:  this film is quite talkative in the first third and I felt that really dragged the film.  The film is quite thought-provoking and is a msut-see for film students and murder mystery fans!  DVD:  My DVD was from the Criterion Collection and did not have any features.  You can change the subtitles and even make color bars for your TV, but alas no trailers and no discussions or commentaries.  Other Noteworthy Films from Fritz Lang:  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0040QYROA">The Complete Metropolis</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00065GX64">M - 2 Disc Special Edition - (The Criterion Collection)</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00064AEXI">Woman In the Moon</a>

Back and better than ever. After the disappointing reception of Aliens VS Predator, I came to the conclusion that the Predator franchise is dead in the water due to a number of factors: The PG-13 rating. Since when was the Predator franchise PG-13? It doesn't make sense since the first movie was rated R and which is an action/sci-fi classic. Then came Predator 2, which I didn't like at first but after watching it for the first time several years ago, I really enjoyed it. The less said about AVP1 and 2, the better. Now, on to the review.  I have to say that Predators is hands down the best film in the franchise. Though it's not as iconic as the first film, Predators goes back to it's roots and delivers pulse-pounding suspense and action set against an mysterious alien planet with it's own dangers and fauna and flora. The story is well-written and gives life to the characters. The irony that is so clever is that the humans are actually predators themselves with their extensive background in military but there's a nice surprise at the end of the film that I won't spoil for anyone.  With it's subtle homages to the first film and getting back to basics while going in a new direction, Predators is a blast that ranks up there right next to it's predecessor; a somewhat new perspective that AVP1 and 2 tried to do but failed miserably. But now fans can rest assured that the franchise is hack and better than ever.

Great Acting This is an actor's movie, a movie that makes use of the full range of acting talent of this ensemble cast.  What makes this movie so compelling and so suspenseful is not the frivolous limited plot but the emotional volatility and range of Emma Watson and Ray Winstone, who offer stellar performances.  Their performances -- anger dissipating into fear coalescing into resolve -- are the highlights of this movie.  But because the acting is so superb this movie does descend into melodrama, and the ending is hardly believable.

Phantom of the Opera (1925) Blu-ray If you're in the market for some post-Halloween creepiness, you're in luck: The Phantom of the Opera is hitting shelves on Blu-ray. Starring Lon Chaney in perhaps his most iconic role, this supremely gothic 1925 masterpiece is unlikely to shock contemporary slasher fans, but it still has the power to get under your skin and stay there. Chaney plays Erik, a disfigured, misunderstood music star who slinks around the dark corridors below the Paris Opera House, causing all sorts of havoc in a misguided attempt to win the heart of his beloved Christine. Featuring grotesque makeup and innovative color sequences, Phantom still has the power to disquiet; for silent movie buffs, the disc has some interesting bonus materials, including a commentary track, the original script, a photo gallery, and a souvenir program.

Screw the critics It's been a few years since Lightning McQueen learned to take it slow. Now he's been racing, and has won 4 piston cups. After all that, he want to slow done once again. However, when he sees that the world grand pri is coming round, and one of it's racers, is mocking him, Mater (Larry the cable guy) convices him to enter the grand pri. They head to japan, where Mater runs into super spy, Finn McMissile, who thinks Mater is an American spy he wishes to meet with. Him and his partner, Holly shiftwell, take mater on to help them stop the evil Professer Zundapp from using a new alternative fuel to..well you know.  The first question you might want answer is "Is it as bad as critics say?". Well, my answer is...No. Not at all! Infact... i loved it!  Let me first say the one problem i had, which didn't really bug me that much, but it's still enough to take some points off  Like some people have said, it doesn't have the heart all the pixar movies have. There's only one scene of real emotion, and it feels slapped on. But it doesn't really take away from how fun it is.  I think what really makes it good, is the spy element. Some people say it's out of place, but i didn't care, it was still pretty cool. Finn is a great character, while not too complex, he is just awesome. This is due to a great performance by Micheal Caine. He just sounds great, and it seems like he had fun with this movie. Everyone does in fact  Now for the other common complaint: Mater. He's the main character this time around, which bugs people. Personally, i didn't mind it. I love mater, and he's big role in it is fine for me. He plays off well against Finn and Holly,. Mater is also just plain awesome. He ends up figuring out the bad guys plan in a very cool way, and he is bad ass with his new spy status  Yes, McQueen isn't in it much, but he is in it. I would of like to see more of him, and as a spy, but it's ok he's not in it much. For those wondering, A113 is on Mater's license plate. Also on the tail of the spy plane Siddeley. Additionally, the number appears beneath the photo of Axlerod's engine when Finn, Holley, and Mater are examining it for the first time.  Infact, this has the most A113's in a pixar movie. Pretty cool, eh?  The score is pretty cool too. Though it's not the best. The main theme is really good i must say. This is done by the same cuy who composed The Incredibles and Up, just so you know.  As for what i think of the negative reviews..eh i don't care anymore. So pixar made a negatively reviewed movie. So what? Everyone makes mistakes once in awhile. Though i do think some of the reviewers are asking too much from this movie.  To sum it up, Cars 2 is not the smartest pixar movie, but it's still an incredibly fun ride and i will be watching it for years to come.  Score: 8.9/10  Oh, and if you wanna know my thoughts on The Toy Story Short, that came with Cars 2, I loved it. It was funny.

Cameron Crowe does it again One of my all-time favorite Cameron Crowe films is Almost Famous and The Gladiator but Vanilla Sky ain't too shabby. I love psychological thrillers and if you are a Cruise fan you should see this film. Its a little long for my tastes but its worth watching.

Todays Version of the "Snow White Fairy Tale" I must say I enjoyed this movie enough to see it twice in the theaters and also purchase the DVD.  Chris Hemsworth is definately easy on the eyes, and the visual effects were astounding. I ejoyed the story line and the humor throughout the film.  The dwarfs were adorable.....it had the stuff to entertained both the male and female population.

great war movie This is 1980`s movie about vietnam, there is cool flight action,comedy,and more action.With an A list of actors.Well worth watching if you want to see a good war movie.

Artistic Porn! I've heard about it, and did everything I could to find it.  I finally found a copy of the uncensored film online.  It's like watching two cars speeding at 90 miles an hour, getting ready to crash.  You know it's gonna happen, but you don't want to take your eyes away from it.  It's everything I thought it would be...shocking, erotic, amazing.  It's in the line of Bertolucci (Last Tango in Paris), but with a slash of the Mitchell Brothers (Behind the Green Door) in it.  Hollywood is still struggling to do something similar.  It won't happen, because there are too many prudes running the show.  If you value your artistic ignorance, then don't watch this film.  If you're looking for a film that knows no boundaries and you're looking to explore a different movie experience, then this is the one film for you.  Leave your egos and prudish grandma at the box office!

Plain Truth Mr. Pitt is strong in exaggerating his own importance in the roll of the Greek Warrior Achilles. He gives no respect especially to the waring king whose battlels he fights. In the end he must give in to poor Priam whose son he has killed, and surely disrespected in death. He conquered the one woman who ever gave him any peace in his lifetime. He loved hard and was very faithful to his cousin and his men. As he hoped, they still tell stories about Achilles today. He was indeed a great warrior. In Picking Brad Pitt, he surely gave movie goers their monies worth. This is not for children nor the faint of heart. This is your real blood and guts action. Don't even think about looking back or being sorry. That's not in the game plan.

Great Indy flick I could never imagine a big time studio putting out a picture like this.  That truly is a shame though, this movie was very funny and very dark. Look for great things out of these kids in the future.

Ha! If you're looking for highbrow comedy, you most certainly will not find it here! There's lots of slapstick comedy and gag humor, but if you're into that kind of thing, then this is gold. Heck, the title says it all.

Nice classic... Just for the real sci-fi lovers... a great classic, at a great price... great performance from Jeff Bridges... valid for a Oscar nominee...

Dracula: A Love Story Released at Christmas time 1992, Francis Ford Coppula's version of the oft-filmed tale was moderately successful at the US box office, costing $40 million and bringing in $82 million; it earned an additional $133 million worldwide for a total of $216 million. These were decent figures back then, although far from spectacular.  POSITIVES:  - This is easily the most stylistic and visually opulent film version of Dracula. - The first 88 minutes, up to Lucy's vampiric resurrection, are great. - I've always thought one of the best parts of the original novel was the beginning where Jonathan Harker goes to Transylvania to visit the Count at his castle and the ensuing horror. This entire sequence is done very well in Coppola's version. - Harker's run-in with Drac's three brides is outstanding. Monica Belucci appears as one of the three ravishing-yet-diabolic brides. Monica was one of the most beautiful women in the world (and still is at 46). - Another great scene is the surreal sequence in Lucy's lavish gardens where she's seduced by Dracula in man-wolf form and spied on by Mina. - Lucy's vampiric resurrection in the tomb is also horrifying and well-done, albeit not scary. - Drac's supernatural aspects are played up here more than any other version of the tale; he appears as an old man, a younger man, a wolf, a man-wolf, a bunch of rats, a green mist, and a man-bat creature. - Sadie Frost puts her whole heart into the role of Lucy and is excellent. Winona Ryder is also effective as the meek Mina. - Not to mention Anthony Hopkins makes the best Van Helsing with his determined, hardy spunk. - The score by Wojciech Kilar is fitting and memorable. - Writer James V. Hart gets creative and adds an interesting twist to the done-to-death yarn. I'm referring, of course, to Drac's love for Mina, who's evidently his wife reincarnated. This new twist helps keep the story interesting for those who may be bored with the oft-told tale. - The ultimate message of the film is great: Love conquers all and the light of God's presence brings redemption to those whose hearts still blip with a glimmer of hope, faith and love, no matter how mired in total darkness. Freedom & forgiveness are there IF you want it.  NEGATIVES:  - Despite the title, this is not a faithful version of Stoker's book. The difference is that the Dracula in Coppola & Hart's version is not a paragon of unadulterated evil, as in Stoker's novel, but rather a sympathetic vampire with a serioius case of love-sickness. Needless to say, this takes the bite out of the Count's wicked exploits as it's nigh impossible for the viewer to be horrified by a character with whom s/he sympathizes. - Gary Oldman, who plays Dracula, does a great John Lennon impersonation. - The film is definitely entertaining and successfully creates a horror atmosphere, but I never found it scary, like - say - the 2004 remake of "Dawn of the Dead" or "The Exorcism of Emily Rose." (This isn't really a negative to me since I don't really WANT to be scared; I want to sleep at night!) - The fact that Dracula appears in so many supernatural forms can be confusing on one's initial viewing, unless of course you're well-versed with the book; consequently, the viewer may have a hard time comprehending or even identifying the title character (Is he an old man, a younger man, a wolf, a bunch of rats, a werewolf, a mist, a man-bat or what?!). - The last act, which comprises the final 33 minutes (not including credits), loses the captivating appeal of the first 88 minutes. Up to this point Coppola & Hart obviously took their time with the characters and their story and it worked. The final act, however, seems like they rushed to tie everything up by the 2-hour mark. Don't get me wrong, the last act isn't bad, it's just not as good as the first two acts; it's a little confusing and the film suffers for it. - The final act contains two love scenes between Drac & Mina that are very hard to watch. I just get sick to my stomach viewing these sequences where Mina gets intimate with this nasty fiend (not sexually), particularly the scene in the chapel where Drac looks like a hellish man-bat. But, then again, I like the message: Genuine love & loyalty transcend personal failings and distasteful aspects, like a wife who still loves her husband even though she sees him floss his green teeth and washes his soiled underwear (lol).  BOTTOM LINE: Coppola & Hart's version is colorfully lavish and adds an interesting love story to Stoker's tale with potent spiritual significance. This will, of course, turn-off purists who prefer the totally malevolent king of vampires of the original novel, which is what disenchanted me the first time I saw the film, but who can blame Coppola & Hart for wanting to try something new with the well-worn yarn? Despite a fairly weak final act, they largely succeed.  Despite losing points for the negatives listed above, I have to admit that this is probably my favorite version of the tale.  GRADE: B+

Every show just gets better/funnier! Funny, Clever and Witty. Every show...season just gets better. Fits my humor to a T! Its a must watch !

Great Movie I have never been a big fan of war movies, but found this movie very entertaining. Melanie Griffith does a wonderful job in this movie set in WWII. She is hired as a secretary and then goes undercover (as a nanny) into war torn Europe. Ofcoarse, Michael Douglas does an excellent job also !

Batman gets off the couch and gets darker... I will keep it short and sweet. The Second installment of the Tim Burton Batman series, (which ironically was the last of the Tim Burton series) was a lot darker, more graphic in it's depiction of Batman/Bruce Wayne. The addition of The Penguin and Cat Woman also added a new, darker element to the Larger Than Life Scaling of Tim Burton's Gotham City. The only thing a bit campy was Christopher Walken's Max Shrek...(trying not to say Donkey) character. I thought he was a bit contrived. All in all, the movie is worth having for any Batman fan. I would stay away from the Joel Schumacer series. Way too colorful and overdone. I would say this is an excellent movie and divergence from the normal Superhero movies. It may not match up to Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy, but it stands pretty strong on it's own two feet-or Wings. I hope this helps. Batman Returns was worth the price and the time to watch over and over again.

Absorbing historical overview of the evolution of suicide bombing as a weapon in the middle east. The film makes some thought provoking moral distinctions between suicide bombing as a weapon of war for those without access to high tech weaponry (e.g. would it really be so different if a fighter dropped a bomb on the military convoy from a plane instead of attached to his chest?) and as a weapon of terror used against civilians.  It also does not deny that some who have used it as a weapon have done so after suffering heavy losses from others, instead of simply reducing them to crazy people acting in an irrational vacuum.  It traces the roots of martyrdom in Islam back 1400 years, and explains how that history was twisted by the leaders in Iran to justify suicide bombings in spite of strict Islamic laws against suicide.  Yet, in spite of the intensity and complexity of the subject, the dramatic, sometimes upsettingly graphic footage, and the somewhat over the top music, it starts to get a little repetitive and flat.  And it curiously ignores other historical suicide bombings, like the Japanese Kamikaze WWII pilots, declaring that suicide bombing was "invented" by Iran in the war with Iraq.

Great Sci-Fi Parody! Released in Christmas 1996, Tim Burton directed this just after doing the successful biop with Johnny Depp, "Ed Wood."  Another film based on the nostalgia Burton had for the old 1950s film and the short-lived gum card set by Topps, "Mars Attacks," the film is overblown, corny and an all-star cast!  Loved it.  Burton has often been a hit or miss director for me - from the great Ed Wood and the awful remake Planet of the Apes, and so I was happy to review this one.  Storyline and plots:  The film has lots of subplots with different people dealing with their own worlds as the planet is invaded by saucers from Mars - ships that look just like the 50s invasion film "Earth versus The Flying Saucers."  Jack Nicholson plays a dual role - the President of the USA who wants to put a positive spin on everything, and a wild Vegas investor who is a sketchy guy running The Galaxy Hotel.  Jack is funny as he overacts and really has fun with the script.  Fun to see Pierce "Bond" Brosnan and Sarah Jessica Parker as they lose their heads over the Martians.  What can stop the impossible, invincible Martians?  How about a country-western record?  Ha!  Bottom Line:  As a lover of the old classic science fiction films, it was great seeing a well-made parody of those old films, with some digs regarding the military (kill! kill!) the government ("We still have two out of three branches of government operating and that's not bad!") and the Kennedy room!  Great to see early appearances of Natalie Portman, Jack Black and of course the Twin Towers.

great acting and dynamic Movie was well done and really drew you into it. Great character development so you really get inside the character and feel what they feel. Very intense and scary.

50s Rock Opera == 80s Cheesy WIN! I'm biased, having watched this movie in my youth... but there is something at the core of Streets of Fire that makes this movie an absolute "guilty pleasure".  The cast of characters are flat archetypes, which works here quite effectively. From biker gang leader to "trying to forget her past" starlet to "home from the war" hero for hire, to "gotta keep my claws into this one" nebbish manager/boyfriend, the ensemble delivers their 80s-infused dialog which is aided by toe-tapping power ballads.  If you're a fan of 80s cheese, I highly recommend this "Rock & Roll Fable"!

Incredibly creative alien world The alien world of Mer is easily one of the most interesting worlds in cartoon history, be that in culture, fauna and the few hints of language we stumble across as a form of censorship ('Noy jitat!') while the rest is rendered in English for our convenience. The Pirates of Dark Water series uses this world as a backdrop. The plot of the series itself is not that great or innovative (Sealed Evil In A Can escapes and needs to be trapped with the help of thirteen magical trinkets in an epic Fetch Quest), but the world it's set in truly makes it shine, and the deliberately flawed characters make it all the more enjoyable.  As children, we watched Pirates of Dark Water and found it phenomenal - less because of what we saw on-screen... and so much more because of what we were almost forced to imagine off-screen, a richly textured world that the show itself only offered a glimpse of. As adults, I daresay that's still the same appeal. Mer is just beautiful, and I yearn to see it revisited in some canon way, unlikely as that may be.  Each episode is written by a different combination of authors, and it shows; some episodes will make you cringe at the bad writing (personally I'm much happier pretending the Dark Dweller doesn't exist, and I know I'm not alone with that assessment), whereas others have you holding your breath as they suck you in. My personal favourites are 'The Collection' and 'The Game Players Of Undaar', and of course the five-episode mini-series that served as a pilot, which (in a way unfortunately) were the most intense crash-course into the Merian backdrop (later episodes show few to no new Merian concepts), but your mileage will almost without a doubt vary.  The DVD set has a crisp image quality, but is unfortunately rather barebones - no extras, not even a fancy themed menu, just a WB episode selection. For me, that suffices entirely - and these four DVDs have made for an absolute awesome trip down memory lane.

Lady and the Tramp It arrived very fast,but I haven't watched it.It is a Christmas gift for my 3 year old granddaughter.I think it will be fine.

XANADU....An Acquired Taste...A Magic Place! I saw the movie in 1980 during its initial theatrical run, with high expectations on the strength of ELO's and Olivia Newton-John's hit music from the soundtrack, and in the wake of ONJ's hit performance in "Grease". I have to admit, I left the theater a bit confused. I enjoyed the sights and sounds, but didn't quite get it. What I knew and loved was the soundtrack album. Unique and great listening. Fast forward to now, 9-3-12, 32 years later,nearly to the day, I Just watched the DVD (Magical Edition), and I found it fun, visually spectacular, and the sound is truly special. It still strikes me as  rather quilt-like...kind of like a dream sequence of videos and animated snippets saluting the 40's through the 80's and beyond. It's Roller Boogie meets Gene Kelly meets the Princess Olivia in a way. On a second go-round this film is actually quite charming and fun. Get this DVD for the music and the videos...and escape!  Gene Kelly, Olivia, and ELO....that's plenty!  The DVD extra features: The trailer is fun, the documentary is well done, but yearns for some Olivia, Gene Kelly, or Jeff Lynne on-camera commentary. There is none. But some really enjoyable trivia about Gene Kelly's involvement in the project is discussed."The Tubes" fans will enjoy their appearances in the documentary. "Xanadu" on DVD is a really cool trip! Sit back and enjoy!

Love this movie! I friggin' love this movie!!!  It's so ridiculous!  Cool Beans!  This my friends, is what comedy is all about!  Hilarious movie...but not for the kids.  There are definitely a few instances of strong language.

The Movie is Great, the DVD is ANNOYING! This is the first DVD I've had in ages that won't let you start watching the movie until you've watched a commercial for Sony, followed by a string of previews for Sony DVD releases.  I must have pressed every menu and skip button on the remote a dozen times to no effect.  The irony is that it I was playing it on a Sony Blu-Ray player that advertised a special feature button to "bypass those annoying previews" that Sony seems to have disabled for their own DVD products.  I don't count this against the movie, but it's going to make me think twice about rewatching the movie, and I probably won't recommend that other people buy it.

Decent war movie Saw part of this movie on TV so I wanted to add this movie to my movie collection.  Lots of war action as well as many stars at the beginning of their careers.

Hail to the Geeks Tsukimi Kurashita is an eighteen year old young woman living in an old apartment complex with the rest of "The Sisterhood" - a group of female otaku (nerds in the presumably worst sense of the word) with varying obsessive hobbies, Tsukimi's being a love of jellyfish.  One day, a beautiful, confident young woman helps her rescue a jellyfish from the uninformed local pet shop and bunks in her room after they return to the apartment complex and see to the jellyfish.  In the morning, however, Tsukimi is shocked and dismayed to find that the new pal she just had a sleepover with is actually a trannie.  Little does she know that the young man, Kuranosuke Koibuchi, is about to become the best friend of her life - and the best thing that ever happened to the apartment residents.  The dub ranges from good to excellent.  Maxey Whitehead, best known for the stir she made upon taking over the role of Alphonse Elric in the Fullmetal Alchemist franchise once Aaron Dismuke had to bow out after his voice changed, spearheads the cast with likeable vulnerability as Tsukimi.  The standout of the supporting cast is a nigh unrecognizable Monica Rial striking comic gold as the manic Records of Three Kingdoms otaku Mayaya.  But the real revelation is Josh Grelle as Kuranosuke.  Not only does he switch effortlessly between an extremely believable drag voice and Kuranosuke's natural voice out of costume; but he also embodies both Kuranosuke's unbreakable spirit, unwilling to cave in to family expectations he knows will make him miserable, and the sensitivity of a young man trying to honorably ignore feelings that he deems inappropriate once a mutual attraction develops between Tsukimi and his half-brother, who meet through him - all while becoming the emotional bridge enabling Tsukimi to overcome her fear of interacting with men.  Although there's a somewhat innuendo-laden subplot that arguably ramps Princess Jellyfish up to a 16+ rating, it is basically a warm, tender story that makes it Fruits Basket's big sister in spirit, if not in content.  I for one hope that a second limited series will follow.

Good fun to watch My Hero is a fun series with excellent acting from all the mostly weird characters. You will keep on laughing.Well written series and worth buying to brighten up your life.

Fantastic film BUT DVD Lacks... For those of you who haven't seen Tangled yet, it Is a must-have Film, and destined to be a true Disney classic.  My only problem with the DVD is the lack of special features.  The only features on the disc other than the movie itself, is an alternate penciled intro.  All of the other bonus features such as the behind the scenes and such is on the Blu-ray.  So beware.

Act of Valor Good drama, good acting, fast paced, good action film that keeps your attention, actors were good and I read there were some real Navy personnel in this movie.

Price is Outrageous! Buy the blu ray plus digital copy at Amazon for $7.99 June 5 or right now at Bestbuy for $7.99.  The dvd version is $3.99 at Bestbuy right now as well.  $11.98 plus tax at Bestbuy for both until June 11, 2011 if a store is in your area.  Get a better deal than this price at Amazon.  The movie is good, though a little different from the previous Xmen stories.  It's more about Wolverine if this is one of your favorite characters. Alot more growling, and fighting.  I don't like the fighting between he and his brother though. It has some other cool characters with special powers that have good action scenes. I gave it a four star, because I like the Xmen franchise as well as the cartoon versions.

You Rock Joe!!! Not the best in the guitar playing line up, but certainly amoungst them. Nice dvd I would play more than once. Recommend highly!

FINALLY I have been looking for this DVD for over a year. It may be an oldie, but we really enjoy it. Thank you Amazon for making it possible to have this delightful DVD in my collection.

Chloe is Worth the rent This was a good movie with an unexpected twist. Julian Moore was good as always in her role as Catherine. Amanda Seyfried was very sexy in her role as Chloe. Her character seemed to be searching to fill a void in her life. Then she turns a little psycho. You find out how psycho toward the end of the movie. Throw in Liam Neeson and I believe this movie is at least worth renting.

pretty sweet! well made movie based on a real life event!  we watched it for our in home date night and loved watching it via amazon instant video on our roku system!

notting hill review i ordered this for my girlfriend for her birthday we couldnt find it at any rental places. even though its a chick flick there are funny parts both boy and girl will enjoy all in all it was a very good movie one thats definatley worth your time to watch.

I am for this movie! Interesting, somewhat original take on the marooned alien on earth genre. the movie is fast paced the special fx are mind blowing! Can't wait to see part 2.

I remember when X-Files was the golden standard of TV on DVD Please put X-Files on Blu-Ray. I remember the first X-Files seasons being out on dvd in like 98 and wishing other tv shows got the "X-Files" treatment. Crap wasn't a season like $150 back then. Why can't we get this on Blu-Ray! I remember watching Dod Calm like 4 times in a row....  First episode I ever watched on TV was Darkness Falls.  I miss the Lone Gunmen. And John Dogget was awesome

Parents Beware! Your Children Are Doomed!... STRANGELAND combines two current fears among parents, those being 1)- Kids gone wild on the Internet. 2)- The weirdos they'll run into in chat rooms, etc.! Dee Snyder's story takes these fears and amps them up to horrific proportions! This makes for a winning combo, w/ Snyder's "Capt. Howdy" character guaranteed to keep granny up at night thinking about those full-body tats and all that metal in his face! There's a lot to like here, including Robert Englund (EATEN ALIVE, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, BEHIND THE MASK) as a beer-swilling hick! Snyder himself is quite good in his "modern primitive" role. He chews the scenery w/ zeal and gusto. Great stuff...  P.S.- Yep, Capt. Howdy was the demon in Regan's ouija board in THE EXORCIST...

Siegfried is a Simpleton Siegfried a simpleton? Of course he is! The son of a toad is a toad, as Siggy himself was clever enough to observe, and the father of a wolf is certainly another wolf. Siegfried's mortal father was supposed to be the Volsung Siegmund, but his `literary' father was plainly Simplicius Simplicissimus, the hero of the the 17th C picaresque novel by Christoph von Grimmelshausen. And his grandfather was not so much Odin as Parzifal, the boy who grew up in the forest with no knowledge of knighthood, the hero of the Middle High German epic by Wolfram von Eschenbach. All three have a slew of kinfolk in the M&auml;rchen collected by the Brothers Grimm. Richard Wagner wouldn't deny the kinship. His sources were Germanic folklore, and "Der Ring des Nibelungen" is quintessentially a Grimm fairy tale.  In this production from the Bayreuther Festspiele, Siegfried is both an 'innocent' and a lout, qualities certainly exaggerated by the camera when its close-ups reveal the redoubtable Siefried Jerusalem to be a bulky man of middle age rather than a simple lad. What looks plausible from the third balcony tends to become questionable on HDTV, and the better the camera work the less comfortable the viewer may be with the characterization. John Tomlinson, in the role of Wotan the Wanderer, is far more plausible as an actor, given the post-modernist interpretation of this drama by director Harry Kupfer. The Nibelung brothers Mime and Alberich are disturbingly plausible in this staging. Dare I point out that they're both portrayed as stereotypical Jews? Mime is a too-clever kvetching manipulator, and Alberich is a coarse, corpulent, greedy Merchant-of-Venice lookalike. Both of them lust for Gold on any terms. Was this an allusion that Richard Wagner intended? Was it explicit in the thinking of director Harry Kupfer? More importantly, was there ever a single "Aryan" &Uuml;bermensch who didn't grasp the allusion in racial terms? Reach your own conclusions.  "Is it supposed to be funny?" That's a question Kupfer must have asked, and that innumerable opera-goers ever since 1860 perhaps have avoided asking. The first Act of Siegfried is inherently comic stuff, made goofier by the antics of both Mime (Graham Clark) and Siegfried. When Wotan and Mime wager their heads over three questions, old-time burlesque comedians hoot from the wings of the theater. But the humor is ponderous and slow; you flinch at it rather than chuckle, as you would at a dreadfully corny joke told by your local pastor. This staging is modernist, of course, and intended to offer `something for everyone' -- Wagner Lite, especially when Siegfried swings like a schoolboy on the handle of the bellows. Maybe a staid traditionalist lushly costumed production would seem less slapstick. Honestly, I don't think Wagner had humor in mind. He had no aptitude for it.  The Second Act extends the buffoonery of Mime and the oafishness of Siegfried almost beyond endurance and -- here's where I get myself in trouble -- quite frankly the music, though wonderfully fluid and deft, also tends to be bumptious and bombastic. It isn't until the long Third Act, after Wotan is finally brushed aside and Siegfried penetrates the magic fire that encircles the sleeping Valkyrie Br&uuml;nnhilde, that Wagner's rapturous music finally overwhelms my intellectual Wagnerphobia. Clear the stage! (in fact, the Bayreuth stage is utterly bare at this point, with only swirling smoke and colored lights to enhance the drama.) Let the human lovers sing their Liebestod! Let Transcendence be conceivable, if only at the cost of defilement and mortality! So! Now I get it! This is what Wagner is all about!  Siegfried Jerusalem -- how I love that name! -- and Anne Evans as Br&uuml;nnhilde finally, finally! get to SING in the Third Act, and they sing so numinously that most audience members will remember nothing previous.  Wait! Wait? Don't tell me there's more, another whole opera, after that sensuous climax!  Well, it'd better be good ....

great story, well acted This isn't your traditional kung fu movie.  In fact, there is almost no "melee" fighting in it.  As the title would suggest, it's mostly about archery.  The acting is good, the cinematography is excellent.  I wasn't paying extremely close attention, but I do believe the "enemy" in the movie is the Mongols.  This certainly isn't one of those movies where there is "unrealistic" action- "good" guys and "bad" guys both die, and get hurt while fighting.  The character development of the main character is pretty good, and it is definitely a movie worth watching.

A Little More Than Inspirational Often times you get just a taste of what hip-hop is truly about. Its essence is lost in so many of today's rappers and artists.  The talent debuted in this documentary illustrates the "other" side.  It's not just about getting paper, but expressing one's self through your talents, which Common describes as a connection to the most high.  This documentary explores the creativity and thought process of some of thee most influential artists in the 21st Century.  If you're a wanna be hip hop artist, you need to watch this film.  If you're a current hip hop artist, you need to watch this film.  It will make you want to tap into something that you've never tapped into before...the spirit realm.

My daughter told me I'd like this and. . I did.  It was a good movie. . basically takes you through what every woman encounters until she finds the one that makes her feel liberated. .it was sad though, which is another pearl of life. .sometimes you get something great and it's taken away from you.  Good movie though, I'm glad I have it in my collection.

Intense! This movie was captivating right from the start. The part that caused concern was the references of the bible throughout the movie along with the liberal use of off color language. It didn't seem like a good match. The only reason to score this movie at four is the obligatory sex scenes and the cussing. Overall Deniro did a fantastic job as always in this role, and we even got to see some budding new talent.

Delivery was prompt I am very happy with the product and the way it was deliverd. I will go towards my collection of MIP!!

Fascinating, if not quite as emotional as I expected I really enjoyed this.  It's a fascinating meta look at film-making.  An obsessed, driven director (Werner Herzog) is trying to make an almost impossible film about an obsessed, driven man trying to do the same impossible thing the film-maker is trying to do - drag a 320 ton boat over a mile of forest.  Most people see this as an out-and-out masterpiece, which makes me feel I need to see it again.  I found it always interesting, but less emotionally compelling than two other great films about difficult filmmaking dreams gone awry; `Hearts of Darkness' about the making of `Apocalypse Now' and `Lost in LaMancha' about Terry Gilliam's never completed `Man of La Mancha' film.  There's a distance in this film that worked to a point, but kept me from being emotionally caught up in Herzog's dream, or fully understanding it.  The Criterion Edition also contains Les Blank's wonderful 20 minute short "Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe".  In it's quirky, funny way I find this has more to say about the need for madness and art to co-exist than the main feature.

Great Movie I enjoyed the plot.  Even though I'm not a fan of moview with strong profanity, this movie touched my heart.  I was left wanting to know more about this "girl" so i watch the 2nd and 3rd movies.  Very well written!

Wonderful Misery. I enjoyed this movie as a child and as an adult. As a child it scared me, as an adult I grew to appreciate the story. I am a Kathy bates fan. I enjoy her work. She brought Annie Wilkes to life. The movie is a little more palatable than the book because it's not as offensive and gross. However, the book was a very good read.

Improving with each movie I only started watching these movies because I read the book series and loved them! The acting is not all that great in Twilight...but as each movie comes out, the actors seem to get a little better. If you read the books, it is worth watchign the movies just for entertainment.  Don't be expected to be blown away by stellar performances or academy award nominations, though.

A coming of age action arthouse movie. Hanna a very different thriller that plays like a twisted fairy tale. Hanna is played perfectly by Saoirse Roan. Directed by Joe Wright, Atonement, If you didn't know better you would swear he had directed action before. The movie does have a lot of action. Filmed very well, not that shaky camera stuff either. The plot is a little thin and the ending is pretty much predictable. The acting was really good again. Eric Banna no stranger to action, and Cate Blanchete who plays the villain over the top but you can tell she had fun with it. The movie is being called a art house action movie because after Hanna thinks she takes care of her problems she has to trek across Europe mostly with a very odd family where Hanna Learns about the world and how ill prepared she is to deal with it. Just when things start to fell slow the movie kicks back into action until its ending. The cinematography is insanely beautiful. Form the Cold winter wonderland to the scorching desert, Hanna's whole journey looks amazing on Blu ray. The score is one of the best I have heard, somewhat like Tron Legacy's score, its loud and will get your heart pumping. My only problems were I had a slight disconnect with the family Hanna stays with and I thought it shouldn't have been so predictable. Overall the movie has great action, and action with a coming of age movie, really changes the feel in this original movie. Grade: A-

Somewhat A Mess, But Oh So Intriguing "The Devil's Advocate" is a strange motion picture.  In some ways, it is a complete and utter mess.  Yet, it touches on such interesting themes and contains such great acting that it is tough to rank it as anywhere near "bad".  For a basic plot summary, "Devil's Advocate" sees hotshot lawyer Kevin Lomax (Keanu Reeves) move from his small southern practice to the "big time" in New York with wife Mary Ann (Charlize Theron).  Employed by the mysterious John Milton (Al Pacino), Kevin begins to realize that his "dream job" may be a bit more complicated (and ultimately cosmic) than he could have possibly imagined.  In terms of acting, this film is top-notch through and through.  Al Pacino was born to play the nefarious Milton, Reeves gives a solid performance as the conflicted lawyer, and Theron is startling as the mentally-slipping (or is she?) wife.  For fans specifically of Pacino watching this film to see one of his "rants", you will not be disappointed, either.  The conflicting part of the movie, however, lies in its multitude of themes.  Such topics as "God vs. Devil", "Innocence vs. Guilt", "Small-Town vs. Big City", "Ethics vs. Greed", and "Husband vs. Wife" are touched upon.  Each theme in and of itself is extremely interesting and could carry the film without the others, but the problem is that they all smooshed together for two and a half hours.  Just when you think the movie is about one thing...BAM, it switches to something else.  While that filmmaking is admirable in terms of keeping the viewers glued to the screen, director Taylor Hackford could have done a much better job of sorting things out to produce a clean, crisp narrative, instead of one that jumps so often from theme to theme.  Overall, this was one of the strangest movies I've ever seen.  The acting and plot elements are incredible, but it just tries to do too much and gets lost within itself at times.  It could have been epic, but instead (because of those flaws) settles for "above average".  If you are a Pacino or Reeves fan, or just like movies that will make you think, "The Devil's Advocate" is very much worth a viewing.  It may not fit together perfectly, but you'll be thinking about it long after the TV is turned off.

Wow! Amazing 3D and what a show! I honestly don't think I've ever seen a show so elaborate! Even in Las Vegas!  There were guys and gals up on ropes dipping into pools, levitating and rotating platforms, water fountains shooting up and onto the audience.  The 3D was really incredible and really lent itself to the stage design. The main stage is set up with stairs and several columns and then there were catwalks that extended to a point out towards the audience. So the depth was amazing! You normally have subjects in the foreground, which is where you focus, but in this it was more mid to back, so anything that popped up in the front was unexpected. There was a part in the beginning where people were sticking their arms up and taking video or photos and it really put you right into the arena with them. And later on one when Kylie is solo on the catwalk the cameras follow her and her mic sticks out of your screen!  Granted, I really didn't know a lot of the songs, but Kylie clearly knows her audience with the selection of dancers abound on the stage with her, so there was a lot to marvel at.  I've yet to watch the doc that is included, but the overall experience I just had was well worth the price... and I can watch it as often as I like, unlike live shows. I just wish this would start a trend. There are so many more artists I'd love to see this way. Britney's Femme Fatale concert, as bad as it was, was actually shot in 3D at at least one of the locations, but was never exhibited anywhere or released on video (that I know of).  Oh, the labeling on the discs is messed up. Disc 2 has the 3D Blu Ray logo, yet it's the standard Blu Ray and vice versa.(collector's item?) I've read on a thread elsewhere that someone else had the same issue as well.

Hrithik Roshan, His looks grab your attention..his acting keeps it! I bought both the "Bollywood" version and the "Hollywood" version.  I much preferred the "B" version. It is longer and has more of Indian movie style with the song and dance which is such a huge part of Bollywood. It also gives you a better understanding of the characters and the story.  If you are already a fan of Hrithik Roshan you will not be disappointed.  This wasn't the best written movie because I feel they tried to go in to many directions.  That being said, I think both Barbara Mori and Hrithik Roshan did a beautiful job of bringing your emotions to the surface. I love the fact that Roshan is trying to break the language barrier and make more universal movies.  I'm sorry this was not as big a hit as projected but I do hope that he continues to make movies that can relate with more than just the Indian audience.  His acting is as good as his looks...and that's saying a lot!

Excellent Classic Western James Stewart made better westerns than John Wayne. There, I've said it. I feel better now.  This one actually was good enough to become a successful TV series a few years after the movie came out, but this is the first I have seen the movie. I grew up on the TV series, but don't remember much about it. When I was a kid, most westerns blended into one another under the "cowboys and indians" rubric.  Tom Jeffords (James Stewart) had been a soldier, a military scout, and a prospector in Arizona territory. It was Apache country in 1870, and the U.S. military was at war with the Apaches. But when Jeffords came upon a half-dead Apache boy (he said he was 14), he nursed him back to health despite the enmity between their tribes. As the boy was nearly ready to go home, worried that his mother was weeping for him, Cochise (Jeff Chandler) and a band of his men showed up. But the boy told him that Jeffords had saved his life, and successfully pleaded for his release.  When Jeffords returned to the fort, he told the others what had happened, and was greeted with scorn. Still, when Tom was told that the mail had not gotten through for months, and the mail riders were being ambushed, he agreed to go and talk to Cochise about allowing the mail riders through. Amazingly, he succeeded. He came to realize that Cochise was a man of his word, and that the Apaches revered him and would not harm the mail riders at his command.  Another thread of story started at this point, and her name was Sonseeahray (Debra Paget), a beautiful maiden. Obvious from the start where that was going, Tom eventually married her with due ceremony in the Apache tradition.  Back at the fort, a new general, a devout Christian who said that he saw nothing in the Bible about the color of anyone's skin, asked him to arrange a meeting with Cochise to talk about a peace treaty. He had the authority of the President to make a treaty.  Without going into details about the outcome, which is complicated by a hot-headed Geronimo, I will point out that the Broken Arrow of the title is the symbol of a peace treaty.  It takes remembering that this film was made in 1950 to appreciate it, but I think most people will. I'd be interested to know if anyone who has seen it knows enough to be able to say whether the Apache traditions and costumes for ceremonial dances were reasonably authentic. My knowledge of such matters is very scanty, for all I lived in Arizona for a while. Mostly, we saw Navaho people in Flagstaff.

Pretty Good I kind of liked it because all their defense didn't work but they still solved the mystery. It was also pretty scary and kind of funny. By WB, age 5 3/4

Don't take it literally I'm a railfan and I like watching trains. I therefore am awarding this movie one star more than I think should really be the case. It's a well-made film, with lots of action and just enough character development to make the principle characters (though not what they are portrayed as doing) credible. The star of the movie is the train, and here I must give a tip of the hat to director Tony Scott for using as much real railroad footage as possible, even though I have to say that to someone accustomed to watching trains the speeds claimed by the movie are patently not the speeds at which the trains are running.  Never mind, it's all good, clean, edge-of-the-seat fun and if the ending is rather predictable (and belies the title) I'm old-fashioned enough to be happy with that.  The two documentaries are very good, but I'd caution anyone who decides to switch on Tony Scott's commentary that his style is a stream-of-consciouness ramble which tells you a lot about Tony Scott but not much about what you are watching on the screen. Four stars for railroad buffs- perhaps an 'It's OK' three stars for everyone else.

Classic still classic Ben Hur is probably my altime favorite movies. I had it on VHS for years but we all know how antiquated those are today. Anyway, I finally replaced it for the std dvd and wow what was great is now even greater. Thank you Amazon for having Ben Hur in stock. The price was very competative and the service and shipping was ideal.

Great movie for older teenagers Great movie for older teenagers, common we have all been there. Loved the development between mother and daughter. Demi Moore did a good job playing mom role. Music isn't too bad either.

Don't overlook Ken Branagh's performance! Michelle Williams paints a soul-deep portrait of a Hollywood goddess addicted to pills, alcohol, fame, and a little girl's notion of love, but Ken Branagh's Olivier also seems channelled from the Great Beyond. That rat-a-tat voice! Those serpentine eyes! That tight-lipped civility! Like Williams, Branagh offers us not an imitation but an incarnation.  Electrifying onstage, Olivier knew that the new generation of film stars had a mystical relationship with the camera that eluded him. In "My Week with Marilyn" even Sir Larry grumblingly admits that when she's "on," Monroe lights up the screen in a way that he, for all his experience and technical training, never could. The film sent me home to watch "Prince and the Showgirl" on DVD, and yes! While Olivier seemed wooden and "dead behind the eyes," MM was radiantly, effortlessly funny. Whether Colin Clark's intimate encounter with MM is truth or wishful fabrication hardly matters--I left "My Week with Marilyn" feeling greater respect for the abilities of Miss Monroe, the legacy of Lord Olivier, and the artistry of both stars portraying them.

Really Great Movie I really enjoyed this movie. I have always been a huge fan of Colin Firth and Bette Midler. Just a beautifully done movie.

An affectionate and thoughtful look back on the Star Trek experience I just finished watching this doc' by William Shatner. First impressions: what a sweet film! Seriously! It takes an affectionate look back at the series, it's impact, and how it effected the lives of the five actors who sat in the Captains chair. One recurrent theme is the toll it took on their marriages. Three of the five actors went through painful divorces, during their tenure on their respective shows. Often they were told they'd be home by 6:30, which turned in to 9:30 with a morning wake up time of 5 am. Kate Mulgrew, who was a single mom at the time, experienced resentment from her children, who to this day won't watch the show on re-runs.  You learn something (a little bit) about the actor's life working on series television. You learn what it means in terms of financial security being cast in a series with such a large following, that it's fans are willing to support you by paying for the privilege of an autograph at conventions. You see the impact a form of popular entertainment can have on the lives of its fans and how the trajectory of a life can change, for both the actor and the audience.  You get the "where are they now?" Avery Brooks is a tenured professor of theater at some University. Kate Mulgrew is artistic director of some Theatre company in New York. Patrick Stewart is still doing theater. Chris Pine is arm wrestling William Shatner on a makeshift table in front of Paramont Studios and beating him 2 of 3 times...  It's not a great film. But for a trekkie... it's the right film. Beam me up, Scotty!

Another Good Show by Chicago I am glad I saw this high-def concert video on HDNet last December (and currently showing regularly on DishTV's channel 102).  Robert Lamm still sounds great when he is singing his classic songs, "Saturday in the Park", "Does Anybody Know What Time It is" and "Beginnings."  And the trombone/trumpet "duel" in "Beginnings" between Jimmy Pankow and Lee Loughnane still blows me away every time.  And the finale of "25 or 6 to 4" is enhanced with the enthusiastic participation of the entire Doobie Brothers band.  Of course, Peter Cetera and Terry Kath are always missed -- but it has been 27 and 34 years respectively since  they were in Chicago!  The great songs are still there.  A video cannot replicate the excitement of being at the show itself, but this is still worthwhile.  After all these years, Chicago still enjoys themselves on stage and you can see it in this show.  My only criticisms of this product are 1) Having an audience member attempt to sing "If You Leave Me Now" as part of a noble charitable cause; and 2) The absence of founding member Walter Parazaider on saxophone at this show.  Walt's substitute does a fine job, and I am okay with him taking some time off, but if Chicago is putting out a DVD/Blu-Ray, then why not make sure that it is a show where the four remaining founding members are there? However, before I buy this product, I would want to know that there is something more than what I already saw on TV and have since saved on my DVR.  If you are a fan and haven't seen this show, I recommend its purchase!

SPEED-CALAMITY-ACTION! Not your usual car-crash-chase scene.  This is all about the out of control, runaway train - and they pulled it off!  Gripping!

Wild Tornado "The Showgirl Must Go On" entertained me from beginning to end.  I've listened to Bette's recordings for decades, but have never seen her live.  This DVD opens with a wild tornado that lands us in a whirlwind of dancing girls, bright colors, music and Bette.  Most powerful for me was her performance of "From A Distance," one of the serious songs tucked within the show.  Looking great in an orange flowing gown, Bette reaches her hands up almost as if she had a direct line to the Almighty.  Also amazing was her powerful performance of John Prine's "Hello In There."  Now in her 60s, Bette seemed to have great empathy for old people who "grow lonesome."  Toni Basil, who's one hit "Mickey" came in the early 80s, does the choreography.  On "Do You Wanna Dance," it is a breathtaking combination of umbrellas that pop open and close with the lights pink and blue.  When the DVD ended, I wished there were more.  Enjoy!

Casear Rules ! I must say I truly enjoyed this movie.  I heard about it prior to going and I am glad I went to see it for myself. I immediately fell in love with Casear from the time he was an infant. To watch him become so human and smart was crazy it was rather touching and to see that although he was raised with love he infact got to see the real world and the evil there in. I couldn't wait to see the making of the movie for to see apes all over the place and moving at such high speed was remarkable. To see that even after Will had to send him away the initial reception Casear received from the other chimps only for him to be the man in charge in the end.  Loved the communication that the chimps had acquired between themselves, survivor of the fittest.  The affection that Will had for Casear was a parent has for there child so much love and wanting to protect his own. I loved Casear's eyes and I loved the man that played that character for truly he had that role down to a science. He did his research very well to literaly walk in the manner that an ape does with all the emotions/intel that Casear protrayed. I think the producers did a great job and I thoughly enjoyed watching it on the big screen. Yes I will be buying it when it comes out on DVD

Another Great DC Animated Feature While DC movies may lag far behind the superior Marvel movies (Batman excluded), the DC Animated Studios are much better (and faster) at producing movies that are of exceptional quality.  Justice League: Doom is another fine effort and one well worth your time to seek out.  This movie has excellent voice acting from veteran actors of DC animation and the visuals are on par with the old Justice League Unlimited cartoon series.  Others have delved into what the plot is, so I'll just add that the movie is probably a little to dark for children under 8 years old.  (At one point Batman is placed in coffins with decayed bodies).  Don't hesitate to add this to your DVD/Blu Ray collection.

delighful song I am so happy that I found this movie on dvd. It is a movie I used to watch over and over and over. Drove my dad crazy. was delivered very fast and is my christmas present to myself.

The extras make it worthwhile As much as I love the show, I have to admit that the only reason I buy the box sets is for the audio commentary. Once again, no offense to the show itself, but the audio commentaries make me smile and laugh harder than the actual episodes. Season five of Psych got back on track after a really disappointing season four, episode wise, and after five years of doing audio tracks together, the bonus features on this box set are the best of the lot!

A truly great submarine film I recall enjoying this very much when it was first released, but hadn't seen it for many years. It is wearing very nicely, thank you -- much better, actually, than I expected. Yes, it has its flaws, which I'll get to, but first, the strengths:  1. Acting. It's first-rate throughout, with terrific performances by Alec Baldwin, Sean Connery, James Earl Jones, Scott Glenn and others. Even Tim Curry, who gets little screen time as the doctor, leaves a good impression. As for the debate over who made a better Jack Ryan, Baldwin or Harrison Ford in subsequent Tom Clancy-derived films, I think that's purely a matter of personal taste. I've seen several of the films and enjoy both actors' efforts.  2. Story: It's gripping, to say the least! A Soviet submarine captain and his senior officers decide to defect, and, better yet, to hand over their nation's most advanced nuclear sub to "the enemy"? Terrific stuff! But is Connery, who portrays the captain, really to be trusted? That's the question, isn't it? And the stakes could not be higher.  3. Sound and music: They really add to the drama here. That's true with many sub movies, including the classic "Das Boot." But there are several unforgettable scenes here, including the one with the Soviet sailors singing just before their boat seems to vanish from a nearby American sub's sonar capabilities.  Now the cons:  1. The visual effects: Well, time marches on, and these look awfully dated (the film was released in 1990). Still, for a two-decade old piece of cinema, these aren't bad. Remember that this was before the new wave of CGI, and give credit where it's due.  2. Timing: The film was released just shortly AFTER Communist rule ended, leading to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Still, the movie did great box office, despite the unfortunate timing. Even though it's a Cold War movie (the opening crawl states it occurs in 1984, when the war was still very much on), it resonates in today's Age of Terror.  3. The flipside of the casting: Much as I enjoyed Connery as the Soviet captain -- and Sam Neill as his executive officer, for that matter -- it's another film featuring Westerners in those roles.  In the end, though, the criticisms amount to little more than nit-picking. I would put "The Hunt for Red October" on a very short list of the greatest submarine movies of all time, along with "Das Boot," "Crimson Tide," "U-571" and a couple older titles such as "Run Silent, Run Deep" and "The Enemy Below."

It has bite... I have not seen the 1973 original film, `The Day of the Jackal', despite the fact that it has been on my DVR for the better part of the past four years, so maybe that is why I can look back on `The Jackal' with the fondest of memories.  Besides, the 90's were a confusing time for me and my complete obsession with Bruce Willis only added to that confusion, and so I kind of salivated over anything I could get my hands on boasting his star power.  This action thriller is labeled unrealistic by some and balked at for being farfetched in its construction, but some premises or genres or films in general are just made to be taken with a grain of salt, so I don't see how you can necessarily fault it for being what it is.  I know that sounds ridiculously hypocritical coming from someone like me, who has openly thrashed other films for not reaching for greatness or just being plain stupid in conception, but I said I was approaching this in bias (in not so many words) so forgive me that.  The acting is very well done, especially from Willis who is utterly chilling as the title character, and the pacing is extraordinary, giving you a true adrenaline rush of sorts.  Yes, there are a lot of plot points that seem placed there to elicit wide eyes and wonderment and not necessarily to make sense, but in the scope of the film it really doesn't matter much since the cast sells everything.  So, if you are in the mood for an exciting thrill ride with a memorable villain, this is your ticket.  Just, don't expect it to be the smartest thriller you've ever seen.

Brigadoon Brought back many memories of Kelly, Johnson, and Cyd Charise at their acting and dancing best in this film. Musical score was great!

Good The movie was in the plastic cover over the DVD and box but I think a sheet was supposed to be inside the front box cover but was not.

Great addition to my collection of Jillian Dvds I love this ! It's fast paced but you don't do each excercise for to long. It keeps you interested and it is far from boring and its doable!! It's both abs and cardio so its a perfect addition to my cycle of dvds through the week !

Repackaged I had a suspicion that this trilogy was going to be <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000CCD062">Gangstaz: L.A. Street Life, Vol. 1-3</a> repackaged.  The first DVD is Dead Homiez but the other two were entitled Bangin and Slob 187/Crab 187.  In the other trilogy they are labelled City of the 187 and Livin with Colors but only the titles have been changed.  Don't bother buying if you bought the other which I also gave 4 stars to.  They are good documentaries, though Dead Homiez is 15 years outdated.

Good movie Akhay Kumar is my favourite actor with no doubts. He has done many great films but made many hideous mistakes in the 90's. His biggest mistakes were the one's in 1997 but before that things were OK. This movie Sainik(Soldiers) is based on Akshay Kumar a soldier in war with some bad terrorists and he does a great entry at the beginning. The romantic scenes and the songs were OK not as bad as what came in the year 1997 for Akshay. Then Akshay risks his life and dies after the interval and after everyone gets to know boy does the movie get damn boring with everyone cry and pretend to be happy. That's the most bad thing about this movie but at the end when Akshay who was captured by the enemy who didn't die came back and everyone was happy an OK movie better than the 1997 crap Akshay gave us.

Better then the GI Joe Remake... Better then the GI Joe Remake...Hey it's all good...I like it...I grew up watching the Dukes every Friday night...This movie is not the TV show but it's good with a great soundtrack and a typical dukes of hazzard story...GO Uncle Jesse...

great movie Well, I had some trouble with getting the website to actually let me stream the video once I paid for it.  But after that, the product itself was great and of course the movie is awesome.

Laugh Out Loud Dark Comic Snarkiness! POSSIBLE MILD SPOILERS:  As a horror enthusiast, I like to see how scared a movie can make me feel. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007VYEDHO">Some Guy Who Kills People</a> is not that kind of movie.  I've never appreciated Horror/Comedy movies very much (preferring to keep the genres separate), but Some Guy who Kills People has some of the funniest lines spoken by the quirkiest characters in the Horror/Comedy ouevre I've ever seen.  The filmmakers managed to assemble a near-perfect cast of social retro-misfits in some strange and very Californian alternate '50's universe. The humour is mostly in the asides, such as when Ronald - the goody-two shoes religious boyfriend of the young leading lady's mother - says in a creepy, robotic monotone, "Lord, please send someone to aid this precious child and steer her down a righteous path Amen." while leaving the eleven year-old stabbing at some horrible TV dinner to go to a bible study group.  Barry Bostwick as the town sheriff is hilarious in several sight gags where you can't help but laugh. Karen Black is predictably creepy as the 34 year-old protagonist's (Kevin Corrigan) long-suffering mother - and so funny, too.  Somehow all the madness in this weird psycho-cosmos works its way through to a satisfactory end and everything is right again in the world.  No CG effects plus all real-time physical gags and lines make this quite a funny movie.  Not really a horror movie whatsoever but as a comedy Some Guy Who Kills People has some killer moments.  Now, let's give it the proper treatment that it deserves: add some subtitles and bump it up to a Blu-ray version.

An action/horror movie about knowing when a killer will kill and trying to stop it, good movie-great twist An investigative reporter (Gooding) comes home to find his girlfriend brutally murdered and chases the killer (McDonough).  After finding a diary with names and dates of future murders he tries to stop them.  Most of the time B movies like this one are boring and drag on and on to a lame conclusion.  This one is a rare exception.  This movie had me rivited and second guessing myself all over the place.  A very original movie that has a huge twist in it that could have ruined it, but was done so well that it actually helped make the movie better then I was expecting.  Very tense in some parts and will keep you hooked until the final frame. A MUST SEE, even for non horror fans. A very original, surprising and enjoyable experience.I give it an A-

Very Well Done & Enjoyable A truly gorgeous movie -- despite criticisms by other reviewers that the movie was all dressed up with no place to go, just ticked off events in Alma's life or that the lead actress lacked acting talent -- I still found this to be quite enjoyable.  The lead actress is just stunningly gorgeous -- she provides a restrained performance as Alma, and gives a sense of what kinds of compromises smart, attractive women had to make in their lives.  The relationships with the men are complex -- and she does seem to run through a number of them before finding a writer who was captivated by her musical talent and encouraged it. The other men seemed mostly to be captivated by her other charms and did not do much to nurture her creative and independent spirit. I liked it -- and am disappointed that the actress (Sarah Myles) hasn't made more films!

Musician and artist in her own right This film is completely devoted to exploring life, dreams and hope of Wolfgang Amedeus' sister Nanerl Mozart.  She was older than her brother and very talented musician herself.  She played violin and piano and also had a voice of an angel.  This period drama explores how it was to be an entertainer and travel all over Europe at that time.  She and her brother were each other's companions.  Luckily, both loved music so endless performances and rehearsals came natural to them both.  The difference between the two was that in the time they lived, a boy had all possibilities open to him, while girl's options were quite limited.  It was unheard of for a woman to be a performer.  It was expected of her to be a mother and wife and if not that than she was to devote her life to God and church and become a nun.  For most of her life, Nanerl devoted her life to tending to her father and his needs.  To some such demanding father may seem cruel; to others this father tried to teach his children music, grow their love for music and be a firm disciplinarian in order to ensure the highest level of music they presented in front of various european rulers.  He also had to adapt to the fact that his children will grow up into adults and that more permanent way of living arrangements and income flow will have to be secured for the family.  Not an easy task.  There are beautiful costumes, make-up and interior design in this movie.  Music is fabulous too.  The shortcoming of this movie is that some of the scenes that involve singing and performing are so poorly dubbed it is impossible to ignore it.

Lucky to Have It Now It wasn't the best TV show of all time, but it WAS a very good one, and those of us old enough to remember its one and only year on television rejoice that it has finally been released on DVD. Bootleg copies have been available for years, but badly put together and difficult to watch. Finally, a cleaned up version is now available. Craig Stevens was more successful with "Peter Gunn," which came just after "Mr. Lucky," but viewers will still enjoy John Vivyan and Ross Martin, and the great music of Henry Mancini (who also did "Peter Gunn"). It's a good way for moderns to be introduced to late 1950s America, and for Baby Boomers to be reminded of their youth.

decent sequel The first Rescuers was a really good film, and this one is not QUITE as good, but it is sitll a pretty good sequel with an enjoyable story that is set in Australia with a convincing villain.

Luv Is The Drug I'm not a huge fan of romantic comedies but this one kept my interest for the most part.  I thought Jake G. and Anne Hathoway made interesting characters and u get to see them both partially nude. U get 2 c Jake G's bootie several times and he does have a somewhat hot body.  I thought the story was interesting with a new twist so the story was somewhat original.  Put it this way, I didn't have to turn it off half way through, you want to see what developes.

A 1970s period piece gem from Amicus In 1795, Catherine [Stephanie Beacham] marries into the Fengriffin family, and comes to live at Fengriffin Hall with her husband Charles [Ian Ogilvy]. Immediately upon her arrival, Catherine is tormented by visions of a bloody, eyeless ghost with a stump where his hand once was; his disembodied hand roams the castle, killing anyone who might take Catherine away from Fengriffin Hall, or help her to learn its secrets. When Catherine learns she is pregnant, she fears for the life of her child and becomes obsessed with discovering the grim truths that the Fengriffin family has hidden so deeply. With the help of a psychiatrist, Dr. Pope [Peter Cushing], she moves closer and closer to the truth; but will she learn the family secret in time, and will knowing it send her over the edge?  Screaming is an excellent example of the period films that were so popular during the 1970's, and loads of good creepy fun. The special effects are amazingly good for the time, and the moody atmosphere is so well done you can feel the cold creep into your bones. Stephanie Beacham does an excellent job of portraying the woman trapped by an unknown curse; you can feel her sorrow and desperation. And the story neatly ties together all the loose strings at the end.  A must-see for Amicus and Hammer lovers!

Ignore the one-star reviews People who believe they will "look" like the workout instructor on a DVD don't understand the concept of biology and human physiology. Isn't the point of working out to get the best out of YOUR body? I have viewed and used lots of workout DVDs/videos. Cindy Whitmarsh is upbeat, without being annoyingly perky. She explains the workout and I was able to do it the first time without rewinding or missing what she was explaining. I did, however, do the less-intense workout until I get to know the workout better. Will it give me a better body in 10 days? Who knows. I don't care. Workouts take time and depend on lots of variables. If you want a good, sensible weight workout with an intelligent mix of cardio, this is for you. If you have a mental image of yourself that doesn't match your body reality, move on to something else.

Thought provoking Despite some flaws in the continuity of the story, especially at the end, I thought the film, overall, was thought provoking and very much worth the time it takes to watch.  It has suspense, drama, feel good stuff, and it's mildly frightening in some parts.  I'm used to horror films though, so maybe other people would find it more frightening?  The thing that really stands out is the visuals and the atmosphere they managed to create.  That alone makes the movie worth watching.

Better than the second The movie arrived on time and well packed.  The box had no damage to it - the was reflected by the fine quality of the the DVD inside.  The movie itself is a solid buy for the price.  I will not give anything away, but I must say that the movie is solid and is better than the second.  There is some nudity and as expected, it has a fair amount of gore.  Over all the more is great for any fan of this franchise or the SAW movies.

Enjoyable movie, solid 3D experience. The movie is great to begin with, adding 3D just enhances the experience. The 3D version does a nice job of providing depth as well as some occasional images that pop off screen. For those that want the screen to jump out at you, you will be disappointed, but in my opinion, 3D quality is both about the depth and screen pop combined. Too much of either and not enough of one can leave the viewer dissatisfied. While it does not have a great deal of pop, it does have enough and excels at screen depth.  I would rate this an 8.8/10 overall. It will become a family tradition around Christmas time each year.

Black & Latin - Hmmm Mr. Gates has again provided an interesting piece. Black & Latin in America left me wanting to explore these cultures in more depth. To seek those in my own community; to hear their perspective of being Black & Latin in America.  Thank you for continuing to keep us challenged to look outside of ourselves and to view through anothers' eyes.  Well done my friend!

Bloody and extreme With the release of the HUNGER GAMES in theatres, I assume that Battle Royale finally got its release in America, after being banned for years. It is similar in concept, but has different methods than HUNGER GAMES. Both movies are about the deteriation of society and an unchecked media gone wild. Most importantly though, both movies are about the shocking subject of kids put into a game where they must kill each other in order to survive.  Where HUNGER GAMES chose to go the PG-13 route and focus on the humanity of its lead character. ROYALE chose to go the carnage route, and focus on the bloody realities of cold blooded murder.  This blu-ray release is outstanding quality and the movie is fun in a disturbing way. It never stops being interesting and it was ahead of its time with its techniques. Unfortunately, it was also ahead of its time in making a movie about kids murdering each other and it being widely accepted. HUNGER GAMES apparently picked a better time and a better technique to get this ultra-sensitive subject embraced.  Both movies are outstanding in their own right and ROYALE is more for the audience of people who don't want their death and carnage sugar-coated and off camera. It is in your face, hides nothing, but doesn't have the personality and character depth as HUNGER GAMES.

Lucky One - Great chic flic! The Lucky One was a great movie.  Good character development and good drama. Zac Effron played a quiet, mild mannered, army guy well.  Definitely a must see chic flic.

Such a moving story Having watched the movie and loved it, I couldn't help but read the book as well. Very moving love story and has a realistic side of showing that love stories don't always go like the fairytales do!

MR. SERIOUS AMERICAN When I saw the movie at the flea market for a buck, I said, "What the heck, it's Tarantino." I had trouble following the movie due to a lack of confusing flashbacks (It's a joke.)  Three guys are touring Europe doing guy things. They meet a man who tells them about a Hostel in a small isolated town in Eastern Europe where there is an overabundance of pretty women who have nothing better to do than to throw themselves at anyone with a foreign accent, and they love all Americans. When they get there (note "Pulp Fiction" on TV) it is true. Women who look like models unashamedly share sleeping quarters with men, give them drugs and have sex with them.  One by one the men disappear (as do the Japanese girls) and are tortured to death, aka "Blood Sucking Freaks". Paxton (Jay Hernandez) the last of the trio demands to know where his friends are... The slaughterhouse was filmed at an actual mental hospital in Prague.  Sex, nudity, f-bomb, torture.

You will love this if you are a Tommy Shaw fan... because he still has "IT"... after all these years. Tommy Shaw is the reason why I purchased this and I was not dissppointed. He looks great, sings great and plays that guitar like his life depended on it!! AWESOME!!!!!

A masterpiece on one of the worst episodes of Stalinism This is a spine chilling documentary of an abominable episode of World War II. In fact it was not even part of the war, really. Thousands of Polish officers and intellectuals who had escaped German aggression in 1939 were killed in cold blood by the Soviets, supposedly their allies against Hitler, to pursue Stalin's goal of decapitating Poland's leadership so as to better control the occupied and partitioned country. When Germany advanced deep into the USSR and found the bodies it told the world about what happened. The Red Cross confirmed. But in light of the fact that the USSR was fighting on the Allies' side against Germany no one did anything about it.  After the war, Poland was occupied by the Soviets and for almost half a century it had to officially acquiesce with the big lie: the Poles at Katyn had been killed by the Germans. It was only with Gorbachev that the truth became undeniable, and gradually the new post Soviet Russian leaders have admitted to Stalin's crime. And it was only in 2010 that the tragic epilogue took place: on their way to Katyn for a joint Russian-Polish commemoration of the events of the 1940s, a Polish plane carrying the President and a number of the country's top officials crashed near Katyn, thus prolonging the agony and the mourning.  Wajda has produced a highly commendable masterpiece.

Creating order out of chaos... "Cold Comfort Farm" (1995) is directed by John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Pacific Heights), and based on the novel of the same name by Stella Gibbons. The story is about a young orphan, Flora Poste (Kate Beckinsale), who is a young society girl. Flora decides to move in with her backward and eccentric relatives (the Starkadders) who live on a run-down farm. Flora  then takes up the task to rehabilitate them even though they seem dreadfully beyond hope given that they are the grubbiest lot one could possibly imagine. She goes about matters by first removing the head of the family (Ian McKellan) who is an fire and brimstone preacher. And one by one the undaunted Flora expertly maneuvers the family members, and so proceeds this hilarious story, even though the grandmother who hides herself away upstairs in a bedroom proves to be her toughest challenge. This humorous and witty tale about creating order out of chaos is full of memorable characters, with names like Ada Doom, Mybug, Mrs. Beetle, Urk, and Adam Lambsbreath.  The dvd looks good, though there are no special features except for the trailer.

Good movie for the horse lover in us The movie was great though if you saw the tv series first you will be very confused as the clair tess personality is basically swopped.  Other wise was a great movie and i loved it.  Pg enough for the whole family but a gripping story that even the adults won't be bored.

Hall & Oates Blu Ray - 4 stars Great concert.  Excellent picture quality and excellent detail to sound.  Would have been awesome to have been in the crowd and not watching at home on Blu Ray. This is an intimate concert (400 people???) so for surround sound of the crowd, you're not going to get that stadium/arena/ roar effect after each song, or the bellowing sound from the stage either.  But saying that, this is defintely a must for all Hall & Oates fans, even if you only know a couple of their songs. Perhaps this concert sounds better in pure stereo as most of the sound appears to be from the stage rather than entire venue, rather than setting to surround sound???  After all that I can only give 4 stars in total.  Compare the sound on this Blu Ray to Adele live at Albert Hall, or Sade and you'll see why (I know they're not the same kind of concert, but it just lacks that wow factor).  What are you waiting for?  Just buy it!  I'll definitely watch it many times again :)

Love Music I bought this for my husband, it's one of his favorite TV shows. He's 67 yrs old and loves all the music. He has all the DVDs and most of the CDs. I listen to the CDs and enjoy them a lot. If you like good music and great voices (or the other way around), I don't see how you won't enjoy this one. Oh, my husband did say they left off a couple of the songs he liked, but I told him they'll probably be on the next one.

THE POSTMAN DELIVER'S THE GOODS I don't get it. Kevin Costner (JFK, WATERWORLD, MR. BROOKS) is the most underrated actor/director of my generation. I can't think of a single film  he has been in that wasn't good (okay, okay DRAGONFLY sucked!) and THE POSTMAN is no exception. A truly epic film based on the novel by David Brin, begins in the year 2013 and follows a drifter played by Costner (who also directed the film) wondering a vast wateland. America we learn was ravaged by war in the late 20th century by an army of fascist warlords called "The Holnists" led by Nathan Holm (whom we never see, only learn about). The United States government has been overthrown, there is no technology and earth's suvivors have scattered into tiny hamlets across the country. Costner's character & his mule named "Bill" travel from village to village where he preforms Shakesperian plays in order to get food and shelter. It is after performing one such play that Costner's character known as Shakespeare (we never learn his true name) is captured by the Holnist army when they raid the village to get three men from ages "between 15 & 50". The army now led by the evil General Bethleham, played brilliantly by Will Patton (The Mothman Prophecies, Remember The Titans)is now an army basically comprised of murderers, rapists and anarchists. Shakespeare escapes, and in a heartbreaking scene finds shelter from a storm in an old mail carrier's vehicle. He then takes the dead postman's uniform and begins traveling from village to village telling people that he is a representative of the "Restored United States Government, authorized by "order 417" to reestablish a communication route. The problem is that EVERYONE believes him and a legend begins that inspires hope in  people who have not known it for a long, long time. Once Shakepeare realizes what he has done he leads a rebellion of postmen in a battle to defeat the Holnists and reestablish a country destroyed by violence. This is truly a film of epic proportions that is one of the best films of the 1990's. I emplore everyone to see it despite what you may have heard. A+. A masterwork from Mr. Costner.

Every Which Way But Loose The DVD was in good shape when received.  It was what I expected.  It was a little difficult to get it out of the shrink wrap mailer.

Excellent movie, well done, Scott!! Having been a fan of the Alien franchise since I was in grade school, I was anxious to see this movie when I first heard about it. I then began hearing mixed reviews, and became wary about seeing it for fear it would be an enormous let down for me. I finally got around to seeing it, and I just have to say I am not the least bit disappointed. There are a lot of things in this movie that require interpretation on the viewer's part; they are not spelled out for you immediately. It also requires some knowledge of the first Alien movie- not so much the sequels. And some understanding in Greek mythology and the bible as well. If you want to see a movie that just spells it all out for you and you just have to sit there and watch it, this isn't the one for you. I thought it blended excellent elements of horror, suspense and amazing special effects into an incredible HR Giger-esque vision. Awesome movie. Can't wait to own it.

Spicy and mixed like good masala should be I was surprised to find a movie dealing with various topics often overlooked. Sure, there are movies about race relations in the southern US, movies about the Indian diaspora, and movies about African civil wars, but nothing that combines these issues together into a feature film! Young Denzel Washington is one of the biggest stars in the movie, which is clearly a plus as well. I didn't realize what a critical part the Indian community was in Uganda until I saw this, but it makes me want to explore the topic further.  While the movie focuses on the romance between an Indian woman from Africa and an African American man, in the beginning it was hinted that the Indian girl's mother had her own affair with an African man. I'm not sure if that's what really happened, because it was not revealed later on what exactly happened, and how it might have influenced the mother's views about interracial dating. I suppose one could say the fact that the issue was left ambiguous could mean you can decide for yourself what happened, but I think it would have been nice for the movie to tell us that.  Otherwise, though, it's a solid film. Even though it's a little old and wasn't too popular around its release, it is entertaining and eye-opening.

Good show Great service to get the movie to me.  The movie was as good as all the others.  Hope they make more.

These movies "transport" me! This is the third in the Transporter films and each one is better and more action packed than the previous one! We love the way time flies when watching these great action flicks and find them thoroughly entertaining!

Secret Bunkers To date I have seen several DVDs covering the underground installations of countries such as Germany, the United Kingdom, and the U. S. They are no doubt interesting to history buffs such as I am, because they cover a subject that was little discussed during its active period. This DVD was about average compared to the others dealing with the same tpic.

Brilliant Movie I was a massive fan of the original movie. I was excited when I found out they were doing a sequel and my excitement grew when I found out, Jeff Bridges, was going to be back. The movie really doesn't disappoint. The fast paced story kicks off with Flynn's son breaking into the company building and causing problems. Flynn has been missing for years, but when his son finds the machine he is teleported onto the Grid. The story is then a visual masterpiece. I think the characters were amazing and well casted. The action is very face paced, but in keeping with the actual story and not there for the sake of being there. I really enjoyed this movie. My only negative is that I would have liked to see more of, Tron. Tron was my favourite character from the original and he really was a side show piece in this movie. I could watch this movie again and again!

"Moses! Ninja!" Months later, my first vivid memory when someone mentions ATTACK THE BLOCK is of how it generated more good buzz than COWBOYS & ALIENS, another sci-fi feature which shared the same box office debut date, stateside (July 29, 2011). Except that COWBOYS & ALIENS lacked what ATTACK THE BLOCK brought to the table: a certain vitality, a sense of suspense, and an exuberant young cast that's years away from being jaded. So, yeah, if you're expecting loads of Nick Frost in this picture, be aware now that he's in only for several cameo appearances, what amounts to pretty much a supporting role. And, word to the wise, unlike previous films featuring Nick Frost, this one isn't a spoofy film. Or not blatantly anyway. Director Joe Cornish opts for a more straight-up sci-fi action thriller. With good bits of comedy. But characters fall victim to alien predations and there are moments of icky blood-letting and gore. Which to me are strong selling points.  ATTACK THE BLOCK pits a crew of teenaged hoods against a localized alien invasion. The film's skimpy budget couldn't at all afford epic. In South London, on Guy Fawkes Night, as lights and sparklers festoon the atmosphere, Moses and and his street gang go about the business of mischief. A nurse named Sam (Jodie Whittaker), who lives in the neighborhood, is their latest victim, to the tune of a mugging. But then a meteorite hurtles down to earth, smashing onto a nearby automobile and so Sam, she makes her getaway.  I guess you can blame the ringleader Moses (John Boyega, memorable). Moses is stoic and intense and not afraid to take matters into his own hands. He ends up offing an extraterrestrial - because in sci-fi films, chances are good that meteorites are actually vehicles for space aliens. Moses's action ushers in the plummeting of more meteorites, and true to sci-fi trope, more alien creatures emerge, this time a pack of jet black, furry monsters. These predatory things, exhibiting cruel bioluminescent fangs and an aura of sheer menace, evince a marked lacked of intelligence, as demonstrated by one creature's sheer inability to open a friggin' dumpster. It's actually rather sweet that our "heroes," witnessing these meteorites descending onto their South London housing projects, get all excited about killing off more aliens.  Director Joe Cornish purposely introduces these disenfranchised inner city youths to look as threatening as possible. The kids are fully hooded up and masked, silhouetted in shadow, ominous. Every suburban yuppie's nightmare. As the story progresses, we see the kids remove their layers, and we get a peek into their personalities and individual ticks. It's nothing new, but Cornish frames these characters really well and the kid actors are lively and likable, once the masks come off. And when the chips are down, they don't hesitate to stand together, to protect their block. And they go about this armed with baseball bats and samurai swords and near-cryptic South London slang. Doesn't anyone just say "Crikey!" anymore?  COWBOYS & ALIENS, with its mega-budget, doesn't come close to being as watchable as ATTACK THE BLOCK which goes to show that, sometimes, you really hone in on what's important when limited to meager resources. The film makes do with generous application of practical effects and by opting for a big bad alien that's conducive to cutting cost. And, yeah, the film could've been funnier. It could've been scarier. But this film didn't intend to be another SHAUN OF THE DEAD. It's its own entity and comes with its own sense of dynamism. Cornish infuses the screen with smarts and heart and lots of energy, abetted by cinematographer Thomas Townend's vivid imagery and Basement Jaxx's throbbing score. And the kids, again, lend their own vibrancy and great enthusiasm; their interactions are highlight scenes for me. This is some refreshing take on ye olde space alien invasion, with attitude to burn and urban jungle ethics and braggadocio on full exhibit. Er, not that I condone folks getting mugged or pants being worn so low that your crack shows.  The DVD's bonus stuff:  - Audio Commentary with writer/director Joe Cornish with kid actors John Boyega, Alex Esmail, Franz Drameh, Simon Howard and Leeon Jones - Audio Commentary with Joe Cornish and grown-up actors Jodie Whittaker, Luke Treadaway, and Nick Frost - Audio Commentary with Joe Cornish and executive producer Edgar Wright - "BEHIND THE BLOCK Behind the Scenes Documentary" (01:01:00 minutes long) - "Creature Feature: Special Effects" - spotlight on creating the alien invaders (00:19:36 minutes) - "Meet the Gang" - the kid actors introduce their characters (00:03:56) - "Unfilmed Action - Unfilmed Sequences from the Movie" - Joe Cornish and teen actor Alex Esmail talk about scenes that were omitted; this feature partly with storyboards (00:04:45) - "That's a Rap" - Fun with the kids on set as they try to rap (00:02:15) - the UK trailer and the US Red-Band trailer

"...Ack Ack! Don't Run! We Are Your Friends! Ack Ack!" *** REVIEW FOR THE BLU RAY REISSUE  ***  I hadn't looked at my DVD of Tim Burton's ridiculously over-the-top homage to Fifties Sci-Fi movies in years - and I was stunned at two things when I popped this 2010 BLU RAY reissue in my Sony - first - the massive improvement in picture quality - and second - just how ball-breakingly funny "Mars Attacks!" actually is.  At times the great picture quality is a shock after the dull DVD I've been used to since 1996 - there's tremendous clarity on offer on almost all of the internal scenes. And the upgrade has somehow made the film seem all grown-up all of a sudden - a real contender for an all-time comedy classic too easily dismissed as fluff when it was released.  Genuinely anarchic in a way so few movies are these days, you also forget how good and varied the cast was... Glenn Close plays the President's fussy uptight wife Marsha Dale ("...they're not eating off the bone china, I can tell you that..."), Pierce Brosnan is brilliant as the pipe-smoking Professor Donald Kessler forever with a reasonable explanation about 'cultural misunderstandings' and why the Martians are delighting in ray-gunning everything in sight. Donald also has the hots for airhead news reporter Natalie Lake played deftly by Sarah Jessica-Parker (she and her irritating Chihuahua dog end up closer than they should at one point). Martin Short plays the permanently randy White House Press Secretary Jerry Ross (Lisa Marie does a great turn as a alien prostitute), Annette Bening as a dizzy hippy-chick saving her glass pyramid in her handbag as the Aliens wreck Vegas and Rod Steiger is just fabulously tacky as General Decker - the military dinosaur whose battle cry of "Kill! Kill! Kill!" turns out to be right all along.  There's Danny DeVito as a gross gambler, Lukas Haas as the only sane kid in a trailer-trash family ("...they ain't getting the TV...") trying to protect his wheelchair bound aunt (played with relish by Sylvia Stalwart). We get Blaxsploitation stars Jim Brown and Pam Grier as a couple trying to keep their family together (their kids gaming skills come in handy when the aliens attack the Whitehouse). There are even early roles for Jack Black and Natalie Portman before global fame consumed them both - and Tom Jones gives it a bit of swivel-hip as he belts out the irrepressibly brill "It's Not Unusual". Danny Elfman's score is suitably throwback and brilliantly woven into every scene - it even pays respects to the films Tim Burton so loved by taking the ray gun sound from the 1953 Sci-Fi classic "War Of The Worlds". And by the time you get to the end - you've enjoyed enough fried doves of peace, bowling balls taking out Easter Island and splattered alien brain matter in glass-dome helmets to keep any customer satisfied.  But the real shame of this Blu Ray reissue is the complete lack of any bonus material (not even a trailer for God's sake), when this release screamed out for an orgy of it (definitely docked a star for that).  My son Sean watched this with me (he's 14) and we then spent a good hour afterwards going around the TV room squawking "Ack Ack!" like giggling mayhem-inducing aliens. Buy this and do the same peopleoids.  Nice one Mr. Burton - and a bit of a wee gem frankly...  AUDIO: Spoken Languages: English, French, Dutch, Italian, Castellano, Czech and Arabic Subtitles: English (SDH), French, German, Italian, Castellano, Dutch, Chinese, Spanish, Czech, Danish, Greek, Hebrew, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian and Indonesian

cute movie I bought this movie to try to appease my niece. She watched it 3 times. I thought it was adorable. Highly recommended for it feel good movie

Fast Service fast and good service nice to be able to trust a company online, we purchase this movie for a friend.

An Ode to the Original! I never really watched the Three Stooges show when I was younger, but I did watch the cartoon, so I could kinda relate to what I was watching.  There's no real spoilers that I can think of that are essential to this review so I can do without my usual warning about spoilers.  It's got a basic cookie cutter plot where there's an orphanage about to close and these guys have to raise the money to save it and they do wacky things in order to try to raise the money.  Moe of course ends up on the Jersey Shore, (but we all knew that from the previews), and does crazy things with those guys.  Frankly I was hoping he'd take a sledgehammer to most of their heads but that didn't happen.  In the end it was just a great re-living of the good ol' days of slap-stick comedy and corny jokes.  Check it out!

Patty and Selma Would Approve The Eighties TV show "MacGyver" would be the obvious reference point for "MacGruber" but it reminded me of another show from that era, the cult sitcom "Sledge Hammer".  A lot of action comedies are pretty lame i.e. "Get Smart" and "Starsky and Hutch".  "MacGruber" is more comic than action oriented and the laugh quotient is pretty high.  Credit star Will Forte with going to the comic edge with his profanely lovable title character and making it an enjoyable viewing experience.  This film may not be for everyone judging from the number of negative reviews but I liked "MacGruber' alot.

Cute! This Angelina Ballerina movie is great because it is a whole movie featuring Angelina and her friends.  Angelina is determined to shine in her performance but also help out her friends with their own performances.  There is singing and dancing and many positive lessons to be learned.  The main lessons are that everyone has a unique talent and friendship is important.  Also, while this is more of a girly DVD, my boys didn't mind it at all and there are some boy mice in it dancing!

Ron Howard can make the evil Nixon likable, or at least human Frost/Nixon was a great broadway show, and I feel that this film is a great successor to that. Ron Howard has never disappointed and this film will leave you entertained. The cast is great and the production is fan-damn-tastic

Not Your Typical Rob Scheider Movie Not your typical Rob Schneider movie. I liked it. I would not consider this to be a comedy. I would consider this more of a dramedy with the drama outshining the comedy.

Life In Miniature--An Intriguing Documentary About Art, Therapy, And Life As A Doll I caught a glimpse of the fascinating, yet decidedly odd, documentary "Marwencol" at the Independent Spirit Awards this year and have been eagerly awaiting the opportunity to view it.  Hard to categorize, this tale of persevering and triumphing over tragedy has all the earmarks of a feel good story of uplift, but has such a melancholy sadness underneath the surface--it is bound to elicit conflicting emotions within different viewers.  One thing, however, that is impossible to deny--the subject matter is strikingly unique and extremely personal.  The film profiles a contemporary artist Mark Hogancamp.  After a brutal beating, Hogancamp suffered brain damage, a disruption of motor functions and a great deal of memory loss.  When his therapy treatment ended, he continued to pursue an alternate course to wellness.  Devising a fantasy world inhabited by dolls, he created a World War II village and envisioned a fantastical back story about its inhabitants.  With himself playing the lead (he and his friends are all represented in the tableau by alter ego dolls), he enacted love and retribution in a land torn with violence.  He also painstakingly and meticulously photographed his world--and this surprisingly original voice was soon discovered by the contemporary art scene.  A reluctant talent, to be sure, the project took on levels of interest that he could never have originally foreseen.  The film is, first and foremost, an exploration of the artistic process and a modern character study.  It's fascinating to see how real life occurrences materialize as dramatic plot points within his imagination.  And that's what he's most proud of--he hasn't lost the ability to imagine.  But despite the successes, his loneliness and sadness never seem far removed--and yet he continues on, yearning for connections in the real world as strong as those he has created.  The art work, itself, is fascinating stuff and beautifully rendered.  The film is alternately amusing and disturbing--an intriguing combination.  We get to see a fully formed Mark Hogancamp complete with eccentricities and moments of brilliant insight.  For me, however, I'd have liked a bit more content about life before the attack.  We don't get a lot of back story and what we do get points to an unhappy and repressed alcoholic existence.  And as the violent episode redefined the man (he no longer drinks, yet maintains other unorthodox proclivities), perhaps the film stands as a testament of something greater.  Not just to survive a beating and to come out intact, but a realignment of a life in free fall.  But without any real insight into the demons Hogancamp faced prior to the incident, we'll never realize how truly different a man he has become.  Still, a fascinating and unusual peek inside a realm that borders both madness and genius--this should be appreciated by documentary and independent film lovers.  KGHarris, 4/11.

Great Fun! This is a great no-brainer rom-com for the aging set.  If you're a fan of either Walter Matthau or Jack Lemmon, this is a must see!  If you're a Next Generation Trekkie, you'll also get a kick out of the Brent Spiner performance.  Great supporting cast and a lovely way to spend an evening....

Steampunk Meets West The American Civil War has ended but not for everyone and not for every country either. Everyone wants a part of the United Stats and only Capt. James West and U.S. Marshal Artemus Gordon stand in their way. This award winning film is a timeless keepsake and really does show some of the best of Will Smith and Kevin Kline. Something for everyone in this film from Steampunk to Western and even Salma Hayek behind, a wonderful site to see indeed.  The film starts with a scientist running threw the woods with a strange metal collar with magnets attached. Chasing him is a razor sharp spinning disk like a buzz saw and it is gaining on him every step he takes till it catches up to him. Next wae have General `Bloodbath' McGrath played by Ted Levine pulling the disk from the ground as the opening credits begin to roll. This is mostly a fast paced film with a lot of comedic liberties to keep you laughing and wanting to see more. This film has a clever mix of slapstick, suspense, partial nudity of Salma Hayek and Will Smith and plenty of put-downs and innuendos to keep you entertained even after the credits on this film end. Director Barry Sonnenfeld did an excelent job of putting this film together.  James West and Artemus Gordon have been tasked by President Ulysses S. Grant to find out what has been happened to missing scientists as well as the plans of Dr. Arliss Loveless played by Kenneth Branagh who has demanded that the United States surrender to him. This film is a love letter to the fans of the original show Wild Wild West that ran in the 60's. It might not be what the fans expected but it is indeed a treat for them and was done in the spirit of the first TV show as we see the exploits of the first 2 Secret Service agents under Grant.  Loveless is a Confederate inventor that feels that he was betrayed by The South for surrendering to the Union. Loveless was a maker of advanced weaponry and according to the film the one to make the first tank. It was the use of this tank by McGrath on a freed slave town that caused Will Smith's character Capt. James West to start chasing the general all over the States. It was during the testing of the tank that West's parents were killed as well as the rest of the town. The tank was able to roll in and just shoot everyone over and over as the turret spun. A truly devastating killing machine and the type of weapons that Loveless enjoyed making and testing. He loved it so much that it caused him to loose the lower half of his body, a point that West continually reminds him of in pun after pun.  This is by far a serious film and anyone expecting the dramatic westerns that they grew up on will not find that here in this film. This is a comedy that you can watch with the whole family but be prepared to answer all the questions of the little ones that might be around you as they start to pickup on the jokes for all of us adults. This film also has some of the songs sang by Will Smith himself. Oh the days when Rap was actually Rap and not just hate songs.  [...]

White Men Can't Jump Seller Review I am thrilled that I finally own this fantastic movie and for such a low price. I bought the DVD new and received it within 4 days of buying the movie which was fantastic. However, the movie was not properly locked into the case and therefore received some scratches. Normally I wouldn't mind as much but the fact that it was not properly secured and had scratches was very irritating. Overall though, good product.

Music good, video quality, not so much I like Styx so I enjoyed the videos, with the exception of Mr. Roboto.  I was a fan earlier on and with many other fans, Mr. Roboto just wasn't my cup of tea.  The group was doing something that just wasn't them, and sales of that album reflected that.  Many of these videos were before the pre-MTV era, so the quality is probably comparable to many from that era.  If I had to do it again, I would make the purchase.

A nice gay romance comedy with stupid cover. The cover of this DVD is very misleading. Yes there is a male go-go dancer in the movie, but sex is not at the center of the plot. It's more in the genre of "You've Got Mail" and "The Shop Around the Corner" with a gay twist. The acting is good and the pace of the film is fine. A true gay romance comedy that I highly recommend.

Good old Flick For a film from the 50's, this one delivers. Would recommend this one to anyone, especially si-fi nuts like myself. You'll enjoy it.

Hey, what about that child pornography statute?? This film has many ingredients which could have made a really interesting story - stellar performances by newcomer Katherine Waterson, daughter of well known actor Sam Waterson, among other excellent actors - but falls apart quickly into a sort of soft porn / teen comedy due to a stupid writer-director, who allows promising assets to fall through his fingers. For example, the character of Shirley played by Waterson, is portrayed as suffering from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. But it was never made clear what connection this might have to her emotional manipulation by older men. Or, the vulnerability of the older men themselves is sometimes on display, but never developed. Instead we get the absurd hypothesis that comfortable suburban teen girls from good families would transition in one day from virginity to cash-accounting for sex at $200-300 a pop. With old guys from the neighborhood well known to their friends and parents. I don't think so.  Bottom line: Could have been a classy film but instead, deteriorated into teen sex-ploitation. The director Ross has a long way to go before he is a skilled filmaker. At least let's hope for more in the future from Katherine Waterson.  I'm curious about a legal point. There is no doubt about the depiction of sexual activity of mid teen girls here, even if the actual actors were over 18; doesn't that violate the federal child pornography law?? I mean, if a cartoon violates the law, if a comic violates the law, why not this movie?

Expelled "Expelled" by Ben Stein is an interesting look at the world of science and academia resists efforts to allow the discussion of Intelligent Design into the classroom.  Stein interviews scientists on both sides of the issue and the dvd covers several topics:  1.  Why evolutionary scientists believe the way they do. 2.  Why intelligent design scientists believe the way they do. 3.  Examples of professors who were expelled from their work because of their intelligent design views. 4.  Connection between evolutionary theory and Nazism (this is sure to rile some folks!). 5.  Stein (a Jew) visiting the Nazi death camps of World War 2 and reflecting on the atrocities performed there.  While discussing a very serious and divisive topic, the dvd manages to include several instances of humor.  Depending on your point of view, you will either like or dislike the comedy.  A controversial dvd that has already stirred a lot of debate, people will either love or hate it.  Despite your point of view on evolutionary theory, the dvd is recommended.

A vast improvement The last time I saw this, it was a disaster courtesy of Synergy Films. This release is wonderful. Two boys from The Mystic Knights Of The Sea have to spend the night in a haunted house. How can you resist? Don't even try. Just sit back and enjoy what ultimately led to the first starring roles for Blacks on television.

Beautiful, High-energy Music This is a wonderful DVD of a live Santana concert we believe in Mexico - can't be sure. But, the music is just very good and the level of energy high and the atmosphere intense. One of the best music DVDs I've seen.

Decent romantic comedy Sandra shines in this movie.  I have seen better chick flicks, but this was worth a rental.  I did like that the movie was relatively clean compared to some.

A Clever Homage to Science-Fiction/Spielberg/etc. Graeme Willy (Simon Pegg) and Clive Gollings (Nick Frost) are two English nerds taking a road trip across America to see all the sites where alien activity has been reported. After a quick stop through Comic-Con, they embark on their trip and shortly into their excursion they meet Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen), an alien who has escaped from Area 51 and intends to return to his home planet. He enlists the reluctant Graeme and Clive to give him a ride and they embark on the journey to get Paul to his mother-ship. En route, they unwittingly kidnap Ruth Buggs (Kristen Wiig), a Creationist, whose glimpse of Paul more than challenges her beliefs. In addition to Ruth's father Moses (John Carroll Lynch) chasing after them, they also have government agent Zoil (a stone-faced Jason Bateman) and FBI agents Haggard (Bill Hader) and O'Reilly (Joe Lo Truglio) hot on their trail.  Pegg and Frost previously collaborated with Edgar Wright for the hit films Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, which were comedic homages to zombie movies and cop movies, respectively. Paul follows the same formula of genre-spoofing and is, in many ways, the next logical step after those two films, yet it exists as a separate entity. While Pegg and Frost wrote the script, directing duties are handled by Greg Mottola (director of Superbad and Adventureland), who likely had a hand in shaping the humor of the film as his influence is apparent in the casting and overall tone. Audiences haven't responded to Paul as strongly as they did to Pegg and Frost's previous outings and it's true that this is a much more run-of-the-mill comedy, but that doesn't mean it's generic. It still has Pegg and Frost's comedic sensibility and wit and is more amusing and fun than it's been given credit for.  Both Simon Pegg and Frost have described Paul as a love letter to Steven Spielberg and, in some ways, this makes it the comedic cousin of this year's Super 8. Unlike that film however, Paul doesn't just reference/homage Spielberg. The film has pop-culture references galore, with the majority relating to science-fiction and comic books. These references, visual and spoken, obvious and subtle, will be most enjoyed by fanboys but the casual viewer won't feel alienated. References to science-fiction/comic culture don't stop at the plot, but influenced the casting as well. Spielberg himself makes a voice appearance and an icon of the sci-fi genre makes one of the great "I should've seen it coming" entrances I've seen in some time. Even Blythe Danner (who it's nice to see in a non-Meet the Parents role) was likely cast because of her participation in the first X-Files movie.  The cast is marvelous, with Pegg and Frost (best friends in real life) carrying the film with an onscreen chemistry that makes the film's message about friendship more poignant. With this film and Bridesmaids, Kristen Wiig is establishing herself as a star comedienne. Bateman, Hader, and Truglio are great as you'd expect, but there are hidden gems in the performances that can't be overlooked such as Jeffrey Tambor's small, but memorable role as science-fiction writer Adam Shadowchild and John Carroll Lynch's hilarious turn as Moses.  The character Paul has physical characteristics that mirror the accepted look of an alien life form, but isn't much of an alien. This may be because he is voiced by Seth Rogen, who also played the character via motion capture until shooting The Green Hornet made it necessary for Truglio to step in. Rogen doesn't just provide the voice of Paul; Paul is Rogen and they share the same vocal facility, physical mannerisms, and character traits. Aside from looking like an alien and having alien abilities, Paul is basically Seth Rogen. I only mention this because some people seem to have a problem with Rogen and if you're expecting him to stretch his range as an actor, this isn't the place to look for that. While he may not stray from his persona, he does give an inspired vocal performance.  Much of the humor comes from the pop-cultural references, but Paul is characterized by a broad spectrum of comedy that has elements of religious, political, gross-out, and satirical humor. What's better is that it is all bitingly clever and has my favorite throwaway line of the year (a reference to a certain 90s documentary directed by Andrew Jarecki). My readings on the internet boards for this film (never a place to go to read anything of worth) have revealed misguided controversy about the film's shots at religion. Yes, the film does ridicule religious beliefs but the jokes are pretty tame. What's more, they're aimed not at innocent churchgoers but satirical religious zealots who attempt to force their message onto anyone whom they come across. In context, these jokes don't poke fun at religion so much as closed-mindedness. Are these jokes essential to the plot? No. Are they funny? I thought so.  Paul is a comedy that would not exist without the films that came before it and as such is predictable, but it can hardly be faulted for this. It's entertaining with a consistently amusing tone and some laugh-out-loud and subtly brilliant humor throughout. It's essentially a buddy/road comedy that happens have an alien, whose function is that of a "buddy" anyway.  Spielberg's early films are the reason summer blockbusters are released every year. What's so great about Paul, along with Super 8, is that it's a direct descendant of those early Spielberg films but creates something wholly entertaining and fun. These films hearken back to when films were influenced by Spielberg's early films themselves rather than the business model they created. Paul made money at the U.S. box office but has been overshadowed by other comedies this year. It's not a profound comedy classic, but it's a nostalgic, satirical sci-fi comedy with a hilarious cast.  GRADE: B+

Great little film Wonderful performances - lovely little history lesson -- very funny & charming. Maggie G gives a stellar performance (I think one of her best, actually) as does Hugh and the rest of the cast. Very well done. Definitely worth watching.

Woo Extremely funny!, Jada Pinkett & Tommy Davidson are great in this romantic comedy. This movie will keep you entertained from start to finish, it's definitely one of those films you don't mind watching again from time to time.

captain america battles red skull and his elite hydra force... While some of the Marvel superhero films don't do a great job of adhering to the source material, Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) does better than most, as it succeeds in capturing to a large degree, the spirit of the comics which saw the genesis of the character during World War II.  The film features Captain America battling his greatest and most ruthless adversary, Red Skull, the personification of Nazi cunning and fighting spirit, and the leader of the Third Reich's secret weapons branch.  In superhero movies, setup and character origins typically eat up a nice chunk of time in the initial film.  That is somewhat true here, but the process is streamlined by Steve Rogers (Chris Evans), the future Captain America, not having a complicated backstory, and the action being set in the already familiar setting of World War II.  The year is 1942, and a patriotic Steve Rogers has once again been classified 4F, and rejected by the army.  Recruited by Dr. Abraham Erskine (Stanley Tucci), the scrawny Rogers finds himself in uniform, as a volunteer in a top secret experimental program to develop an enhanced fighting man.  The process is successful, as Rogers becomes a muscular specimen, but when Erskine is assassinated, the secret of the process is lost.  Instead of an army of supersoldiers, there is just Rogers, and as the costumed "Captain America" he is used mainly as a public relations tool for the red, white, and blue.  Under the command of Colonel Chester Phillips (Tommy Lee Jones), Rogers is in Italy entertaining the troops, when he learns that his friend Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) has been reported missing, while battling German forces led by Johann Schmidt (Hugo Weaving).  With the help of British intelligence agent Peggy Carter (Haley Atwell), Rogers embarks on an unauthorized rescue mission.  Dressed as Captain America, Rogers frees Barnes and other American soldiers being held prisoner.  Schmidt the leader of a force of specially trained HYDRA agents, reveals himself as Red Skull, a man who has aspirations that exceed even Hitler's.  Rogers puts together a strike force, and sets out to destroy all of HYDRA's forces, leading to a dramatic final battle with Red Skull, and setting the stage for Captain America's appearance in The Avengers (2012).  With World War II as the canvas against which the action takes place, Captain America: The First Avenger successfully captures some of the spirit of the comics, while adding a ton of high-tech enhancements.  There isn't much time devoted to character development, as director  Joe Johnson focuses on keeping things moving, and making the second half of this darkly atmospheric fantasy, as action oriented as possible.  Although the war becomes a complete parody, borrowing from films like Star Wars, and Raiders of the Lost Ark, Captain America is still one of the better Marvel adaptations to date.  With a rating of 4.5 stars, don't miss this one while it is available on Amazon Prime.

Not accurate, but the truth is even worse. I heard about this movie in 2007 or 2008, but sounded too terrible to watch. There is too much evil, & horrible stuff going on. Overwhelmed by crime drama, violence, blood & guts on regular TV, movies (out there for "entertainment" that too many americans seem to enjoy way too much), media, & in the news, this was not what we wanted to see.  Unfortunately (or fortunately) I was searching for sci-fi, action/adveture, or horror films we could see tonight. Completely forgetting about the 2007-2008 review & movie, We saw the movie advertised as about a horror flick on hulu, & we decided to watch it... not remembering that it was LOOSELY related to a real story a few years ago.  Thinking that it was a horror story, & the villains would get what they deserved at the end, we watched to very end, turning away from the screen frequently. Although we thought it was fiction, it was not the horror movie we expected, but couldn't shut it off.  It wasn't until we were over halfway through, we remembered that it was a movie we read a review of years ago that we did not want to see. This wasn't a scary horror flick for fun anymore, but we couldn't shut it off. After we watched it realizing that it was loosely based on the terrible truth, we had to lookup what really happened to those poor girls.  This movie isn't the real story & was twisted around a bit, but gave us a motive to find out what happened to these poor girls & those villains. Lookup/Google "Sylvia Likens" to get the whole truth. The villains got off easy. Sylvia Likens suffered more than Jesus did on the cross, & more than most people ever did in the history of the world.  Where were our gods during this? I lived through the 60s. We were not stupid in those days. I was about 10 then, & would have reported this kind of abuse to everybody without stopping until they checked their basement. Even in the 60s, this would be a terrible thing, & not ignored. So the abusing kids were just as evil.  Although I'm pissed off that any god would ignore her suffering, since reading her history & the real events, we will include Sylvia & her sister in our daily prayers to the spirits we love from now on.  If I was god I would burn all those who did this stuff to her & her sister at the stake in a slow painful fire BEFORE they did it, at the time when they even thought about doing it.  C'mon great & powerful god, where were you? I don't care what they did in a past life, if they don't remember it, this is a new life. No true god or any world would allow this tragedy.  Election day is coming up soon. I vote Sylvia or her sister be the new god of earth or at least be in charge of doing whatever they want to all evil people like this. Pray to give them power, not for revenge (although I grant it for those who did this to them), but to rescue all victims of evil, & make the villains suffer more than they intended for their prey BEFORE they do it. That's the type of god we really need. Power to the good people, good souls, & those who suffered way too much in the universe.  Your prayers to good souls & spirits will vote for what's right, not some god that doesn't work, or was made up by people. Jesus said he was the son of man. He preached to be nice, & do the right thing. Not some stupid repetitive hocus pocus pointless rituals.  There's a whole universe out there. Some good & some bad, but most of them want to do the right thing. Pray to put those seriously wronged, abandoned by false, imaginary, careless, or lazy gods, in charge of making things right. If a god wasn't born here, they're aliens, so don't belong here, have no right to be here, & don't deserve to be a god over billions for doing nothing for some incredibly stupid "plan" that never worked except to cause more misery than we'd be without them.  If they let so much bad go on, help create it, no matter how good & powerful they think they are, they are not & should not be our gods. We don't need an evil, negligent, absentee landlord, or lazy god. The best or most suffered souls ever on earth can do a much better job.  Sorry "GODS", but you're fired. Undecipherable riddles & parables that anybody can interpret any way they choose is not a sign of god. An all-knowing, all-powerful demanding god would just say what they want & make it so. So unless the gods are actually lazy or evil or goofy (which means they should get off of our earth), we have to believe they have no business here anyway & don't deserve any of our worship for screwing up more than our worst most corrupted politicians.  I'll bet Sylvia or her sister would make a much better god than any god we had in our history. Vote in your prayers so the universe will listen!

Higher quality and less cornball than typical CGI films Pretty much all the recent animated CGI films are very cornball, formulaic, and cynically dumbed down for kids and family viewing. It's gotten to the point that these movies are so stupid that I don't feel much like watching them anymore. Rango is a little more sophisticated and adult in visual design and tone. It's something special, compared to other CGI movies. I'd like to see more CGI animated movies go further in this direction. I'm tired of corny animated films with extremely predictable boy-meets-girl plots,  cheerful music, and simplistic visual design designed to make the dumb masses happy. CGI is not such a novelty anymore, so we need more sophisticated, deeper films. I don't want more corny kiddy movies.

as funny as Bud & Lou This was a great wartime comedy.William Bendix and dennis o'keefe were as funny together in this movie as Abbott & Costello.A bunch of guys in marine uniforms vying for the affections of an Aussie girl played by Helen Walker.I felt like the Farrelly Brothers might have got some of their ideas from watching this. A lot of similarities to 'Something about Mary'.

One of the Best Films Ever Made! The picture and sound on the Blu-Ray are amazing!  I watched this on a 55-inch with Polk speakers and it was truly better than anything you could hope for in the theater.  The disc is missing some of the documentary features that were included on the multi-disc DVD set, which was disappointing.  For that, I give this only 4-stars but for the film itself, you can't do any better.  This transfer is one of the best I've seen.

Excel Workout This product is a very good way to jump start your exercise program. If you are looking for an inexpensive way to exercise, I would recommend this download!

DVD Purchase-Russia house Was glad to be able to still purchase this out of production film. Came quickly and in used but good shape.

A LOT BETTER THAN I EXPECTED I put this DVD on while surfing the web, expecting it to be a barely passable movie at best.  Well, I was wrong.  This was a taut thriller done particularly well on a tight budget.  There are enough interesting surprises, too.  Just don't go in expecting a high budget on the special effects.  Nobody believes a small group trying to save the world which will appeal to some audience circles, like the Delta Green RPG fans.  DIALOGUE/CHARACTERS: B minus to B; SURPRISES/BAD JUDGMENT MOVES: B plus; STORY/PLOTTING: B to B plus; OVERALL GRADE: B minus to B (B to B plus for certain audience circles); WHEN WATCHED: 02/07/2011.

Studios messing with directors: not a recent development as you might think. &lt;strong>Der Letzte Mann&lt;/strong> (F. W. Murnau, 1924)  Now, before I even start, I will tell you this: I understand that what I'm going to complain about in this movie is its very point. That didn't make it any less annoying. Which is admittedly an odd thing to say about a film I'm rating as highly as I am, and a Murnau film at that, but allow me some leeway here. The first hour of this movie (released in English-speaking countries as &lt;em>The Last Laugh&lt;/em>) is pure, solid-gold Murnau, so vastly depressing that one cannot truly enjoy it unless one has a finely-developed sense of &lt;em>Schadenfreude&lt;/em>. Emil Jannings plays a hotel doorman who lives for his job, but thanks to a misunderstanding is fired, after which his life spirals out of control. It's ugly and heartbreaking and beautifully-shot, and Emil Jannings may have never given a better performance. Had the movie ended with the depression, it would probably be one of the great works of film.  But such was not to be. The studio was unimpressed, and demanded a happy ending, leading Murnau to create the final seventeen minutes of the film. His annoyance with the studio bleeds through; the entire extended scene is garish, overdone. It is entirely unlike the rest of the film, and it's pretty bad. Which is not a reason to not watch the movie, not by any means, because that first hour is so excellent. But be prepared, ultimately, for a letdown. *** ½

There are so many reasons they are human's best friend Though the episode is less than 60 minutes, there is a great deal of information presented. And the information is intriguing and fun.  Deducted one star for the pricing, which is high for a short DVD, especially when the material is available for free via streaming on the PBS website, or through Amazon Prime.

What can you say? This is a good movie.  Don't let the fact that Elvis is in scare you away.  This is one of his best performances, and it is a legitimate movie, not one of the usual "any excuse to sing" filmings he was forced to do in the 60's.  The story is tense and ultimately sad, but feels like a real story from the wild west.  I recommend this Elvis movie along with King Creole.  He really could act.

Entertaining A story that may or may not stretch the truth about studies (never studied them, so what would I know?).  Based on a story by Farley Mowat, one who has said that he doesn't let fact get in the way of the truth.  Entertaining nonetheless and there are some good "truths" in this movie.  I most liked the interactions with the Inuit as you can see the difference between the Elder, who follows tradional beliefs and the younger, who was sent to boarding school.

Sid Bought this for our 1 yr old grandson who is just mesmerized with Sid. Great choice and thanks for such prompt service.

A SOMEWHAT GOOD SWORD AND SANDALS TALE This tale is based on the supposed disappearance of the Spanish 9th Legion in Scotland (thought more historians seem to believe said legion was lost in the Eastern Provinces) in which the son of its commander tries to discover the mystery of its whereabouts.  Led along by a slave whose life he saved they cross through Hadrian's Wall in search of a mystery with a somewhat obvious ending. It's your standard sword and sandal picture with some fairly good action scenes though they aren't always accurate in how a Roman Legion would have fought but go with it, I suppose. The ending didn't feel right for the main character and seemed more like an excuse to end on a buddy picture.  This film was partly photographed in Scotland and said film was adapted from a novel by Rosemary Sutcliff.  HISTORICAL ACCURACY: B minus to B; ACTION SCENES: B to B plus; CHARACTERS/DIALOGUE: B minus to B; STORY/PLOTTING: B minus to B; OVERALL GRADE: B minus to B; WHEN WATCHED: end of July 2011.

The Distant Echo of Hypatia's Screams SPOILER ALERT! I find it particularly disturbing that the unjust demise of Hypatia at the hands of an angry mob of Christians took place during Lent of 415 A.D.! As to the ungodly scoundrels who perpetrated this horrific crime against a defenseless woman in true cowardly fashion and who by their very actions rejected the timeless teachings of Jesus (especially that part about loving others), couldn't they at least have given up torture and murder during Lent the way later generations of their Lent-observing progeny give up candy and cake?  And to anyone who wants a crash course on the differences between the teachings OF Jesus and the teachings ABOUT Jesus, there is always the distant echo of Hypatia's screams to cut through the clouds of chaos as just one of many examples that emerges through the thread of time and the needle of space to remind us how differently Jesus would have reacted to Hypatia and the angry mob compared to the worst of what can happen when the name of Jesus becomes merely an outside thing worn like a fancy logo on a uniform for a local sports team.  Whether based on the 77 Urantia Papers devoted exclusively to the unabridged version of Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Jesus or the Bible's Gospel accounts, the Jesus I know would have undoubtedly rescued Hypatia from this dire situation had He been incarnated on the temporal stage of tragedy depicted in this film where all tangible traces of her slaughtered innocence slowly slipped away from her mutilated femininity with the final few breaths that passed across her fading lips into the winter darkness of a silent abyss. How quickly Hypatia would have embraced Jesus and become a true believer had His facial expression of unconditional love been the last image she saw at the very end of her mortal journey.  If the eyes are the windows to the Soul, then just imagine how Light from Paradise reflected through the eyes of Jesus could have reduced that crime scene to a tiny speck of cosmic dust.

So bad it's good! This movie is actually listed as one of the 100 worst movies ever, but if you like 'B' movies that are really bad (a La Mystery Science Theater 3000) this is a must have for your collection. I still haven't gotten my husband to make it to the end...

A classic thriller I loved it the first time I saw it on tv when I was a kid. Alan Arkin played a creepy villain. Audrey is great in this movie. She made it very believable that she was blind. They just don't make thrillers like this anymore. Reminded me of a Hitchcock film. The ending is guaranteed to make you jump.

Brilliant action film save for one glarring flaw Matt Damon is back as Jason Bourne in this superb sequel to the great "Bourne Identity*.This movie starts pretty much where the previous one left off, with Bourne trying to live a simply life in the quiet village of Goa, India with Marie (Franka Potente of "Run Lola Run", "Blow", and "Anatomy"). and trying to piece together his nightmares and memories of his still mostly forgotten life. But shortly thereafter he is found by an assassin resulting in the death of a loved one, so now true to his word that "if I even feel somebody behind me, there is no measure to how fast and how hard I will bring this fight to your doorstep." from the previous film, he again must take up arms and see to it that the people responsible must pay.  Whereas while going into the first film wondering and slightly hesitant to know if Matt Damon could pull an action film role off, I want into "Supremecy" knowing that this was one part Damon was born to play and he didn't disappoint. In fact all the actors, from Brian Cox all the way down to Franka Potente played their parts with equal aplomb. And the game of cat and mouse was both thrilling as well as captivating, if there was one major flaw in this film, it would have to be the way that certain fight sequences were filmed, at times borderline incomprehensible, it almost took me out of the film. Shame because the rest of the film is truly fantastic.

fantastic movie, great version I saw this on TV many years ago and thought it was a great martial arts movie.  When I spotted it available on DVD a number of years ago on Amazon, I bought it.  The version I got was just OK. It was like watching the movie on a TV broadcast but at least I had a copy.  Then Dragon Dynasty came around and made 36th Chamber of Shaolin available which was another one of my favorite martial arts movies.  So now they came out with Five Deadly Venoms in both DVD and Blu-ray so I bought the Blu-ray version.  Boy is it a significant difference from my old dvd copy. My old dvd version was from Master Arts Video distributed by Steeplechase.  There may have been better versions around but I wasn't aware of them and it was the only one available from Amazon at that time.  If you have an older version that looks like (or just slightly better than) a TV broadcast of the movie, get this one.  Also this one includes commentary by Bey Logan which I found interesting. He knows all about the various actors and their background (i.e. the other movies they starred in, which studios they worked for, etc.)  If you like martial arts movies but don't know much about the stars, directors, producers, the chinese studios, etc. you may find it interesting as I did.  And if you have a blu-ray player... and the blu-ray version is even cheaper than the equivalent dragon dynasty dvd version (least currently it is cheaper), how can you pass this up.  (If you want to find out about the movie itself you can read the various dvd reviews about it.) Just wanted to provide info about this great version of the movie.

Lady Hawk This is not the most profound movie I have ever seen but it is a good one to watch with a girlfriend, has a happy ending and the bad guys get theirs. Oh if that were only true in life.

Greedy We watched this as a family night at the movies.  All ages enjoyed it.  Gave us much need laughs!!! It is often hard to find a comedy that is appropriate for a wide age range (13-76) and can hold everyone's attention.  This movie met our criteria.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0783230354">Greedy</a>

Nothing bad to say. Funny movie. I liked it. Different. Wish there would've been a part two. Seen this when I was younger, brings back memories seeing it again.

NO REFUNDS Sean Bean plays a British bad guy and his twin brother in the Cook Co. Jail. His brother, Reese had a suitcase of illegal money which he tossed out the window while be chased by Chicago's finest. The suitcase lands on top of a Buick station wagon. Pyke, the brother who is not on jail is tasked to locate the money by following the cash being spent in Chicago (not realistic, but it gets us from point A to point B). Point B is Sam (Chris Hemsworth) and Leslie (Victoria Profeta) who have found the money. They are forced to give back the cash, but when they come up short because they had spent a few thousand of it, Pyke is not overly understanding.  The film is self described as a "twist-filled crime thriller." There were no significant twists, and the "thriller" aspect of the film was more akin to a 70's thriller than the fast paced modern films, and at times seemed a bit slow. I didn't find the acting as convincing as the other critics and Pyke's obsession was unrealistic...but without it there wouldn't be a story.  F-bomb, sex, no nudity.  3 1/2 stars

Kill List This is exactly what's up!  A great new addition to the genre.  Part Thriller, Part Family Drama, Part Extreme Horror, this has an excellent mood to the film, accented by wonderfully grandoise "Kubrik'esque"  Wide shots of forboding sets to help incorporate the hopelessness this film exudes all work very effectively in my opinion.  Hats off to the director and actors!  And damn, some realistic gore FX if I've ever seen them, there is a great shot of a man cutting our protagonists palm and then it bleeding out into the sink where you really couldn't have really cut his hand to make it look any more real... very unsettling.  Don't listen to the naysayers who will give it obvious comparisons the The Wicker Man and A Serbian Film, which are both excellent pieces on their own, and yes, of course it will have its similarities, but judge it without comparisons and you will no doubt have one of the best horror films of 2012 under your belt!  This is definitely what I need more of!  Cheers and Enjoy!

Wheel of Knowing----a true look at caregiving WHEEL OF KNOWING should be of interest to anyone who cares about people.  The pressure of being a caregiver is overwhelming.  Many are now facing the care of aging parents (relatives); this film hits the issue directly.  WHEEL OF KNOWING is realistic, and therefore, places before the viewer the dilemma of  time spent with children and spouse vs. time spent with elderly parents/relatives.  Gather the family and watch it together.

Entertaining Mini Series Entertaining mini-series, especially if you consider it as a stand alone movie and don't try to compare it to the book.  I just finished re-reading the book for the 4th time (over a 30 year span) and it is hands down the best book I have ever read.  Should be required reading for all military officers.  The mini-series obviously misses the depth and central messages of the book.  Some of the obvious event and character changes from the book work out okay.  I was disappointed early on in the movie on the differences from the book, but it got better as it progressed.  Overall entertaining and a good value.  Not sure if I can watch it a second time, just because of my intense love of the book.

Mosquito Coast Dilemma Harrison Ford portrays an ingenious American inventor bound on finding and living in an ideal primitive place in Central America with his wife and children away from the bad influences of U. S. society.  However, he quickly discovers that bad people can and do exist anywhere and they make life miserable for him and many others.  Even his ingenuity is not sufficient to avoid personal tragedy and his family, rightly, loses confidence in him and his abilities to cope with the overcoming odds.  The thesis being that the grass is not necessarily greener on the other side of the fence and that life, more often than not, is rarely fair.  The whole cast gave good performances.

Billy Jack...with Wizards! Simon: King of the Witches is a study in contradiction. On the one hand, it's supposed to be about white magic, on the other, the protagonist resolves almost everything through gratuitous cursing. On the one hand, this is a movie about spiritual liberation, on the other, it feels like a stroll through Kenneth Anger's ego. Like El Topo, Holy Mountain and Billy Jack, this movie feels like a desperate cry for a hippie messiah. And like Holy Mountain and Altered States, it feels like a deep examination of human potential. All in all, it's inspired psychedelic silliness with its heart mostly in the right place.

A Very Nice Evening, but Could Be Better Musically, this production is first rate.  Les Musiciens du Louvre, described by The New York Times as "one of France's crack period-instrument groups," performs fabulously under the direction of Marc Minkowski.  The vocalists--especially Anja Harteros as the sorceress Alcina and Kristina Hammarstrom as Bradamante--are also excellent.  But the staging lets us down.  As the previous reviewer explains, the opera is presented as if it is being performed in the home of an 18th century British aristocrat.  The problem is that this approach adds a lot of extraneous stuff that has nothing to do with Alcina and shortchanges the opera itself.  There's not much to Alcina's island here except a lot of dune grass, and the climactic moment when Ruggiero breaks Alcina's spell by shattering her magic urn is underwhelming.  The blog Likely Impossibilities comments: "I don't think that [director Adrian] Noble has a single thing to say about Alcina, about the lady's magic or her society.  . . . The frame merely adds an alienation effect, which makes me suspect that Noble doesn't really trust the libretto to work when taken seriously on its own terms.  I think this is a shame, and it helps make this a rather emotionally shallow production."  With considerable understatement, the Times reviewer says, "Mr. Noble's approach takes some of the edge off the drama."  The costumes are very attractive, though, and aside from the play-within-a-play conceit, there's little distracting stage business in the opera itself. The scene in which young Oberto recognizes his father, whom Alcina has turned into a lion, is simple but effective; the choirboy who sings Oberto is extraordinary. The dance movements are nicely done, although I could do without the dancers' hand-clapping in the final chorus.  All in all, this disc presents a very nice evening at the opera, but it could have been even better.

Pandora's...Umm...Dawn's Box 4 Stars = Classic  "There is something wrong with Dawn"  A black comedy with bite, cult classic! This film is every man's deep seated nightmare when having sex with a woman, the ultimate female revenge!  Funny & scary, this is a original film to say the least, from an idea as old as chastity it's self. No film maker has had the testosterone testicle fortitude to confront this malicious munching monster, until this film! But here it is, in all it's toothy terror!  The moral of the story; don't go sticking your business in where it may not bring a return, literally!  Don't be surprised guys, if you find your legs crossed while watching this film. It's safer that way! And if your wife, girlfriend, or a strange woman is smiling at you while watching this film, go immediately to the shower & turn the cold water on, then leave the state!  Nuff said!

Survival Of A Genre? It's truly a sign that when George Romero can no longer make a terrific zombie film anymore that this whole zombie craze B.S. that's swept the world in the last 8 years or so, is....well, dead.  A friend of mine summed it up by saying that there should be a law passed by congress that no zombie films can be produced, in Hollywood(especially) or independently, for at least a decade.  With zombies in T.V commercials, every video game including a "zombie mode", eight billion zombie novels appearing on the shelves(including those atrocious cutesy zombie survival guides), a television show(which really is much better than I thought it would be oddly enough), and even making appearances on Spongebob Squarepants, how can it not all fall into parody?  Every zombie film that comes out anymore seems to be a comedy!  How do you bring the creepiness or seriousness back to the genre?  Zombie movies have always been a kind of taboo, gruesome movies that only weird horror people watched.  I have no problem with the zombie film getting more exposure and becoming more acceptable, but it seems that whenever that happens to a genre or idea, it soon becomes overkill and almost immediately turns to crap, especially when Hollywood goes in for a piece of the action. Sorry, I didn't intend to rant about all this for so long, but I can't help it when zombie movies are the hot topic. So, what's with this Romero movie everybody's bitching about?  Well, I gotta say that Survival of the Dead isn't quite as bad as it's reputation would have you believe.  The problem is that it's Romero.  We count on Romero to give us the great zombie film that will stomp all the wannabees to dust, to show us all how it's REALLY done.  Problem is, is that he's buried in a sea of his own imitators, most of them bad.  And Land of the Dead, Diary and Survival come across to horror fans like Lucas' last Three Star Wars movies come across to Sci-Fi fans.  What could Romero possibly do to follow up three classic films, especially after such a hiatus that allowed their legacy to grow. The sad fact is that Survival comes across like a straight-to-video or made-for-SyFy movie.  An above average one, in my opinion, but a run of the mill one nonetheless, and that's not what we expect from Romero. The story follows a rogue group of soldiers looking for their own private piece of the world, and think they've found it in a New England coastal island, but a Hatfield/McCoy-ish civil war is going on there.  One family, led by Kenneth Welsh(who I loved in Twin Peaks, and is a dead ringer for Terence Stamp) wants to wipe all zombies out and make the island a safehaven, while the opposing family are religious nuts who want to keep the dead "alive" and chained.  Why?  To try to get them to acquire an appetite for another meat besides human.  The zombies don't seem to comply when horses and other animals are served to them, so the zombies spend much of their time doing manual labor and chores around the farm.  It's an extension on ideas put forth in Day of the Dead. Once the soldiers and Welsh(who had been exiled) come to the island, a war is waged.  Like I said before, I really don't think this movie was all that bad.  No, the cast isn't full of DeNiros, Romero has started using CG since Land(which is probably my biggest complaint as it makes it look all the more SyFy channel-ish, and is just a flat out sin amongst horror fans, right on par with the running zombies), the social message isn't as strong, gore is minimal, and a twist involving an identical twin sister will make you roll your eyes. Even with all of that, I'll take this movie over 100 Zombielands and 1,000,000 Resident Evils.  I don't think Romero has "lost it", I just think he's stuck in a Catch 22 type situation with the way the film industry is now and a genre that has been all but ruined.

Funny in parts Ok, I must admit, I only watched this for Channing Tatum. My sister and I are fans of his, so we wanted to see this movie despite the bad reviews. A lot of scenes were so random, but we got excited when Channing's character came on screen. We laughed so hard at his parts, especially the fight scene with the fish. Vince Vaughn was funny as well. I liked how the story kept getting more and more complicated. Basically, if you're a Mr. Tatum fan, watch The Dilemma for his character alone (even if he only has a few scenes).

Very Good Agree with a lot of people - the movie turned out better than expected. People need to take it for what it's meant to be - light Rom Com made by Adam Sandler. Not sure how original a movie luck that can be, so yes the ending is predictable. There were plenty of funny scenes, dialogues to enjoy, kids were rather hilarious, women looked nice... Recommend, as long as you do not expect anything extraordinary.

View this as a VERY loose remake, not a modernization I own the Frederick Forysythe novel, the 1973(?) film on DVD, and now this DVD (having seen it on satellite TV recently, I liked it enough to make it part of my collection).  Without a doubt, the original is better.  But that doesn't mean this film is a stinker.  This film is a VERY loose remake of the original, NOT a modernization.  The main storyline has changed ENTIRELY, so don't expect it to appear.  But many elements from the original novel/movie DO make it into this remake: those who hired the Jackal holed up in a hotel, the kidnapping and torture of their courier to learn what's going on, the Jackal's use of multiple identities and disguises, the Jackal's changing his vehicle's color, one person who supplies the Jackal wants more money and is eliminated, etc.  All these come to mind as I type; I'm sure there are some that I'm forgetting.  The remake is good, but not great.  There's more shoot'em'up and less intrigue than the original novel/movie.  While I don't think the shoot'em'up was overdone (the goal of the Jackal in the remake was to make a VERY public statement, not shoot a single sniper's bullet and then disappear as in the original), I do believe it was too short on the intrigue aspect of the original.  This remake works for me.  I'm happy to add it to my collection.

Ulrich shines in "Running America" In one year from today, Greensboro, NC's Charlie Engle will be released from prison. Right before he was indicted, his film, "Running America," had just been released. Much of the promotion tour for "Running America" was cancelled, due to Engle's arrest, but Charlie isn't really the star of "Running America." That title goes to grand master (over 50) Marshall Ulrich.  Ulrich is a long time endurance runner from Colorado that faces obvious internal conflict as he attempts the 50+ cross country speed record. His story truly picks up in "Running America" when Charlie's ends. Charlie gets injured early into the film and can't continue the 3000+ mile jaunt across the country. Where Charlie's charisma is demanding of the audience's attention, Ulrich's struggle is equally, if not more, enthralling. Ulrich's wife succumbed to cancer at 28, and as his daughter Elaine states, he's been running from that ever since. Seeing Ulrich carry on day after day, averaging ~58 miles per day for 52 days is enough to make most of us feel pretty soft! Ulrich has also written a book about his nationwide trek, entitled "Running on Empty."  The scenery in "Running America" isn't quite that in "Running the Sahara." The film's B-story is the restlessness with the government and the economy surrounding the 2008 election. While many "locals" along the nationwide journey are interviewed about their disillusionment with the state of the nation, the running story still leads the way. Those interviewed seem most bothered towards the beginning of the journey/film and seem more hopeful by the time Ulrich is finishing up and Barack Obama is winning the 2008 election. It's filmmaking. It just seems a little odd as there are really two stories going on that don't really weave together.  That being said, "Running in America" is indeed entertaining, especially for those that have not seen "Running the Sahara," as there are many familiar scenes of blister popping and just watching grown men deal with the agonizing pain that comes with running an average of 2+ marathons per day! When Engle is on screen, he commands it. His passionate attitude and dealing with those with special needs is excellent. Hopefully he'll continue more of that when he's released a year from today. If you aren't already, follow Charlie's always entertaining twitter feed about life inside Beckley Prison and his introspective and also comedic blog, the aptly titled "Running in Place."

Good movie This is one of my daughter's all time favorite movies.  She likes the story and the characters.  we watched it together and I thought it was a pretty good movie and good for discussion afterwards.  Not a very realistic portrayal of a mental health unit or mental health issues but compassionate.  The main character deals with depression and ends up accepting himself and others as who they are.  A bit of rough language at times and some references to sex but overall a good movie.  The end results of understanding and acceptance of mental health issues and compassion and kindness are good reasons to watch the movie.

A horror thriller that's got a psychological feel Christopher Smith is a partial newcomer to cinema, at least quantity wise. He's been making films since 1997 however this is only his 5th movie to date. This one though has made me want to see where he is going as a filmmaker and excited about his 6th film which comes out next year. While I can't claim that this was the best horror film that I've seen this year the unique way it was presented with such a very underused premise was brilliant to watch.  The story involves a group of 'friends' who are going out to sea on a yacht for the day. By group of friends I of course mean they all know the owner of the yacht but really don't know each other for the most part making it hard for them to easily interact with one another. It's a great reason on bringing a group of strangers together that makes sense without having to try to bring up a long and drawn out back story. All you need to do is focus on the potential love interest of the owner of the yacht - Jess. A single mother and clearly out of it Jess is the major character to follow throughout this story as she is the first to realize something is out of the norm.  While at sea there is a flash storm of epic proportions that destroys the yacht and we see the group survive and picked up by a passing ocean liner. I use picked up rather loosely as it pulls up right next to them and they hop on without it stopping. It's not every day where you see an ocean liner that is apparently empty of passengers and crew alike. While it appears deserted you know as well as I that while watching a horror movie a deserted area is never truly deserted and soon after the killing starts. Someone is hunting this group of friends.  Now when you have such a small group of people that been rescued you would wonder how they can all be killed rather quickly and still allow the movie to easily go forward? Without realistically spoiling a single thing they are quickly removed and it quickly becomes clear that "Jess" is both the main character and the only one that matters. However, this is quickly shown how it is possible though the explanation isn't readily apparent until further into the movie. There is a twist that comes up that reminds me of a few science fiction plots I have seen in my day though never put into such a fun horror themed world. It's hard to go into great detail with the story line without touching on what the twist is or how it plays out, which is a shame because said twist is what will make or break the movie for you.  The film itself carries through to the end and has a strong finish that makes you truly feel that you finally see what is actually going on. It's not a 'unique' idea in horror but one that is rarely used and never quite like this. If you want something that is mostly original and not your everyday horror movie (yet still a slasher flick at heart) this one is a great one to pick up or rent.

Great Gift I got this for my girlfriend as a spur of the moment gift because a) it is her favorite movie and b) I couldn't beat Amazon's gold box deal of the day price that easily beats any other site/store I have seen this at. The blu-ray is clean, played it on my 42 LCD 1080p and everything was stunning. the box has some extra's (not to mention the DVD) including the favorite things musical box and various postcards from Salzburg (acutally usable if you want to). I would recommend this product to any boyfriend looking to please his significant other.

Very Scary film! The Exorcist remains one of those films that scared the hell out of a whole generation back in the 1970s. Although it does not hold the graphic artistry or modern technical abilities of todays horror films, The Exorcist falls into that category of older films that has something todays films have lost, a mixture of quality acting combined with that eras respect for horror. One of the more effective filming techniques is the use of light and color played against the story's actress/mother Chris McNeil (Ellen Burstyns) reaction shots; Father Merrin's (Max Von Sydow) powerful presence in facing the demon and victim Regan McNeil's (Linda Blair) playful innocense as the demon child.  The film begins with the haunting chant of a middle eastern prayer in Iraq as Father Merrin (Sydow) unearths ancient ruins and something else, but what appeals to most is the build-up of events that lead to the possession and climax of a battle between the demon and the priest. There is also the plight of Father Karras (Jason Miller) who's faith hinders on a constant barrage of test perhaps targeting him as the storys reluctant hero, but one of my favorite actors in the film is Jack MacGowran as Burke Dennings, movie director and collegue of Chris McNeil. I remember MacGowrans memorable comedy, "The Fearless Vampire Killers" (1967) as a bumbling and incompetent vampire killer with his ever inexperienced sidekick, Roman Polanski and sexy Sharon Tate as the host vampires love interests, but thats another film.  Young people today may not have much response to a pea soup vomiting or a head turning completely on axis, because they have been desensitized to more horrific violence through X-BOX games and slasher films today that make The Exorcist seem too fake and even comical, but if we look at the history of cinema beginning with silent film on through to today, one can see just how much harder artists worked in older films whether its comedy, drama or horror to achieve what I see as plastic and overused CGI today. I remember how ministers and preachers responded when The Exorcist came out and they basically fell into two opposite ends of critique, either the film was too fake and unreal as God would allow, or the film was not severe enough in its portrayal of Satan being allusive and isolated in a child, but I think both sides have it wrong. We cannot deny this nations religious state as both superstitious or scientific, so we have films like The Exorcist to measure our own definition(s) of what we fear and what we believe to be real. The Exorcist will always remain a part of my library collection.

Heidi It had been many years since I had last seen this classic. It is a wonderful movie for any age. I thought I had remembered it a certain way and then when I saw it again, it was like I was watching it for the first time. What a difference watching it as a senior than when I was a child. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Continental Divide Purchased this for a friends birthday. She wore out the VHS tape, glad to have found it on DVD for her continued enjoyment.

Hilarious! Three middle-aged women from L.A. begin a new life in the Midwest after their plane makes an unexpected stop. To their delight, Melanie (Valerie Bertinelli), Joy (Jane Leeves) and Victoria (Wendie Malick) discover they're considered beautiful and in demand by the locals, and as they're all at crossroads in their lives, they decide to stay.  They rent a spacious home that comes with a bonus - a  live-in caretaker (played by Betty White). The elderly Elka, a smart-talking Ohio native, clashes with the trio every step of the way. A undeniable bond is formed, however, and clearly visible whenever things get tough.  Notable guest stars include Carl Reiner as Elka's boyfriend Max and Wayne Knight (Newman on Seinfeld) as a nerdy neighbor with a crush on Melanie.  Although Season 1 only has 10 episodes, this DVD set includes several extras, such as bloopers, cast interviews and a full version of Victoria's infamous "Lady Pants"  commercial. Viewers are surely in for lots of laughs.

Real "feel good" ,Movie I have always loved this movie and its companion music.  It brings back memories of a softer, more gentle time.  Boy, do we need that now!

This is a great movie This movie brings a softer side of George Strait instead of his ability to sing he can also act. Loved it

Under Seige Bundle I purchased the Under Siege Bundle because I liked the movie and the bundle was less expensive than purchasing one by itself. The bundle is literally the DVD and the Blu-ray wrapped together in plastic. This is why I didn't give it 5 stars. I typically purchase bundles because I have a combination of TV's that are standard and high definition and some are not Blu-ray compatible. DVD Blu-ray bundles give me the flexibility to play the movie on any TV. I'm not sure when I'll get a chance to watch either of them, so I trust that the quality is normal for new movies.

Le Noise has Le Message The message within the musicvideo, as per Neil Young's musical history, carries an important theme. Look for it and think of the historical overtones woven brilliantly within as it reveals national direction and, I believe, demonstrates hope from within the fractures of a tortured citizenry. This is a great work of art, worthy of acquiring for its message as much as its music and film production creativity. Neil Young's genius refuses to be boxed in and seems to span time, like a time traveler appearing within new dimensions to speak to all generations.

Ben Like I Have Never Seen Him In this movie he acted and directed roles he has definitely steadily grown into over the years. Admittedly I have never seen him as an action hero firstly but in this endeavor he has done job. Great plot and great acting. Lots of action and even some laughter go.

Very Nice Nice video. Very detailed on the cleaning and handling of the Mini Glock. Def recommend for beginners not familiar with this firearm.

zathura If you liked jumunji you will like this one too. It is unique and sparks the imagination of your mind. Characters helped make this a great movie.

Mysteries are resolved If you have ever wondered about the exotic alchemy involved in the production of bourbon, this is the source you need. On a beginners level, it answers questions you very much need to resolve.

Well, it's about time!!! They sure don't make movies like this anymore! It has been a long wait but finally this thoroughly entertaining adventure will see the light of day...and in widescreen no less! The wonderful thing about this movie is the atmosphere created by the amazing photography, Heston's creepy performance, and the great score by Ken Wannberg - it's a real throwback to the rich orchestral adventure scores of the 40's and 50's. I certainly hope after all this wait that Warner Bros. has put some effort into the transfer and that we're getting something that will showcase the beautiful visuals of the film......how about a bluray now! ;)

A nightmare filled with visual treats One of the strangest films I've seen in a long while and I've seen many ! The sequence of life in the bathtub is remarkable and the visuals overall are superb. Not for everyone but for people like me who like their films strange and sometimes horrific, This one rocks !

However.... I recently saw this film on dvd after watching the original, "Let the Right One In". It is a beautiful movie to be sure. However, the remake "Let Me In" is almost shot for shot exactly like "Let The Right One In", and it is misleading that it be advertised as "written and directed by Matt Reeves. Taking out and changing some minor characters and redoing the opening sequence is all that makes this film different from the original. In any case I loved both films.

Fairly entertaining It's rather funny to see Molly Shannon and Will Ferrell co-starring as highschool kids, but they make worthy effort, and overall this movie is pretty funny. It's especially lulzy to see Molly Shannon stick her hands in her pits and sniff them, and she does a great job with her musical numbers. Overall this is a satisfying SNL-inspired flick that should satisfy Molly Shannon fans.

Lots of Action, but with some Emotional depth This is a wild sort of Steam-punk (train and all) alternative reality in the future. The movie rolls off the blocks with some intense action. After a brief narration to get the viewer up to speed. It then flips over to a calm family setting, which is then quickly shattered.  What makes this movie a cut above the typical hack and slash films is that it is able to steal away moments of intense emotional depth between the characters.  This adds texture to the film and makes it a truly enjoyable film.

Different options I like the 5 Day Fit Walk because it has five different options in one single dc. It allows me to choose whatever exercise plan is suitable to me for that day.  If I don't have time I do the one mile power walk, if I am feeling kind of lazy I do the one mile, and when I have the time and energy I do the half hour programs

Still funny... Still funny and worth the watch.  NPH is awesome as always.  Looking forward to the next one in the series.

Great show, but update your blu ray player! You can read all about the show in the other reviews - I'm sure you can tell that the show is pretty funny, the actors are very comfortable in their roles by season 4, and they bounce off one another nicely.  I won't belabor the greatness of the show.  The picture/sound quality of the blu ray offering of season 4 is top notch, the menus are easy to navigate.  I will say however, you must update the firmware on your blu ray player.  This set would not play on my setup until I managed to patch my blu ray player into my home network and get it updating over the web.  Even then, this set seems to tax my blu ray player unlike any other discs I've ever played.  Its like I need a newer player with a faster system or something.  Be warned.

Let's K-nock K-nees??? Oh how I dream of seeing a review from 1934 on Amazon for this film... What did folks from that time think of this wild full of bathing beauty dancers think?  Not sure when they enforced the decency code but was quite surprised at how much expsoure of women doing cartwheels and seeing undergarments and in formal dance scenes, one minute they have lovely floor length gowns and then director got bored and cut their skirts off?? Don't get me wrong, I absolutely adored this film, the acting, the script, the plot, sets, etc. I am unaware of why Ginger had to stay the night playing cards with some stranger to get a divorce, this was common practice back then?  And what's with this term knock knees??  Sounds pretty racy and what an awful view of Hortons knees it was!! lol  I believe they highlighted the Continental because F&G were going to play the famous dancing duo that started that dance craze. And WOW how they danced over tables and chairs was utterly amazing, the stairs were formidable enough, these guys are surreal and the wonderful feelings imbued while viewing are heavenly.  Cole, you the man!!

Much Better Than I Expected Let me begin by saying that I am not a Mel Gibson fan. But, as loathesome a person he may be, he is a terrific actor. I first saw Edge of Darkness on HBO. I had never heard of the film and had not seen a Mel Gibson movie since the brilliant Braveheart. I was immediately drawn into the film, which is a whodunnit. Gibson portrays a Boston police detective, whose daughter was shot in front of his home by an unknown assailant as the two of them walk out the door. I will avoid further spoilers by saying that because he's a police detective, Gibson's character pursues an investigation of his daughter's murder on his own. Was the killer trying to kill him as the Boston PD suspects? Was it someone he had once arrested seeking revenge? Or, was his daughter the target? The remainder of the film is exciting, thought provoking and brings in a number of interesting characters, which deepens the mystery. Frankly, this film is far better than I expected. After seeing it several times on HBO I decided to buy the DVD. Whether you're a Mel Gibson fan, or not, he brings tremendous energy to his role and the seething anger and torment which plague the actor, are used to excellent effect in Edge of Darkness.

Great movie, surprising. One of the better Peter Pan films, quick turn around as well.  I would recommend this to anyone. Buy it today!

A good Sci-Fi movie My family saw this movie at the theater and we just watched the DVD.  We enjoyed it both times.  My wife loves movies with child actors in it and said that this reminded her of "Stand by Me."  I thought the kids did a good job of acting and the story line was pretty good.  The special effects were also good and Spielberg always makes a great movie.  It was creative and interesting to watch but I did not give it 5 starts because the alien wasn't really seen until the end and only for a short period of time.  In the old movies they did this and kept the screen dark because the special effects were so bad. I always hated that! Today that is not necessary as special effects look so real and I think the movie would have been better with more scenes with the alien being shown.  Overall it is a solid rank of 4 but it could have been a 5 with some script changes and more alien sightings.

The War As an 86 year combat infantry veteran of WW II I am super critical of anything about that war. Burns' effort was good of its kind and I think those who were not alive then should see it especially the Pacific part of the war. The war was tough all over but the pacific was by far the worsted because of the attitude toward surrender of the Japanese. I was gratful to have done my fighting in Italy and France.

AHH THE MEMORIES I was really stoked when I heard the WWE were releasing a collection of the Clash and I was pretty happy with the outcome.  I do wish there was a documentary to go along with the matches but I'm still happy with what the WWE put out.  The first match is the main event of the first Clash between Ric Flair and Sting for the NWA World title.  The match is a classic and goes to a 45 minute draw.  It is also the match that many people, myself included, made Sting the superstar that he is today.  The match is very well contested and made all of the matches from Wrestlemania IV (held on the same night) pale in comparison.  Up next is another match from the same event as Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard defend the NWA Tag titles against the team of Barry Windham and Lex Luger.  This match is just plain good.  The fans for some reason are just rabid during this match and I think that's one of the reasons it's so good.  It's kind of short, clocking in at like 10:00, but still worth watching.  Up next is another tag title match from Clash II involving Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard defending the tag titles again against Dusty Rhodes and Sting.  This was another good match and again clocking in at around 10:00 but again worth seeing.  To me anything with Sting in it is worth watching.  The next match is pretty suprising as they chose to put on Ricky Morton vs Ivan Koloff in their Russian Chain match from Clash III.  I don't know I just found it to be a suprising pick but it was a good pick.  Of course there is some blood but these two do use the chain rather well and have a pretty good match.  Still, if I was choosing a match from this Clash I would have picked Sting against Windham.  The next match is a classic between Ric Flair and Terry Funk from Clash IX in an "I Quit" match.  Many have said this may have been the first real main stream hardcore match and after viewing it I kind of agree with it.  These guys leave it all hanging out and then some in this classic.  I like the use of the microphone although sometimes you can't hear what Flair says.  I like the use of the tables in the match and Flair's chops are just freaking killer.  Just put on your surround sound and listen to the sweet sound of Terry Funk's chest being turned to hamburger meat.  All in all good match and great choice for the set.  This next match blows my mind as to why it's on here:  It's the Clash X match with Mil Mascaras taking on Cactus Jack Manson.  This match sucks and the only reason I can think of as to why it's on here is because of the WWE trying to reach a bigger Latin audience.  That's great and all but jeez pick a better one then this.  Even Mick Foley said Mascaras was one of the most unprofessional wrestlers he has ever worked with.  The last match on the first disc features the Midnight Express taking on the Rock n Roll Express for the NWA Tag title at Clash XI.  This is an awesome match with 4 of the best tag wrestlers ever!  This match is fast paced and features some great back and forth wrestling.  The only downside is the DQ decision at the end but still worth checking out.  The first match of disc 2 is a US title match with Lex Luger taking on Ric Flair.  I love all of their matches and this one is no different.  Great wrestling, great psychology and all around great action make this match another one worth viewing.  It's another DQ match but it's still worth viewing.  Up next is a 6 man tag from Clash 15 with the Young Pistols and Tom Zenk taking on the Freebirds and Badstreet.  This match is ok and has some cool spots but I'm still wondering why it's on this set.  The next match is the Battle Royal from Clash XVI which is actually the first Clash that I saw as a kid.  Again this is another one of those matches where you're left scratching your head.  It's a good match and El Gigante (aka Giant Gonzales) wins but I still can't understand why it's on here.  The next one is Sting defending the US title against Rick Rude from Clash XVII.  This match is ok but I would have prefered the 20 minute draw they had at Clash XXI.  This one is subpar mainly because Sting was supposed to be hurt during the match.  Earlier in the show a package or gift was presented to Sting and Madusa was in it.  While she was flirting with him Lex Luger came out and attacked Sting.  So he was still showing signs of being hurt for this match and it kind of took away from it.  Still, it's a Sting match and worth viewing.  The next match is the 2/3 fall match for the WCW Tag titles between Brian Pillman and Steve Austin vs Ric Flair and Arn Anderson.  This was a great match even though the ending is pretty crappy.  I enjoyed all the time we see Austin and Flair in the ring with each other but one thing I didn't like is the fact that they edited out Jesse Ventura's commentary.  We only hear Tony Schvonie's commentary and it is kind of hard to watch because of that.  I don't know why they just didn't get Austin or Anderson or both to step in and do some guest commentary with JR or Michael Cole or Matt Striker.  That would have been better then gaps in the commentary.  Still, the match is fun to watch.  Up next is a match between Brian Pillman and Steve Austin.  This is after Austin turned on Pillman and joined the Studd Stable.  It's a good match but I honestly don't think it was good enough to be on this set.  After that one we get another suprising match with Dustin Rhodes and Steven Regal going at it for the WCW TV title.  This was a great contest between two very underrated wrestlers.  The match does go to a draw but it is very well worth seeing.  The last match of disc 2 is an Elimination match with Sting and Ric Flair taking on Rick Rude and Vader.  This match is very very good and I was so glad that I found out that it was going to be on the set.  It is really a dream match with 4 of the biggest stars at the time going at it.  The match goes for like 22:00 and that was pretty long for a televised match at the time.  Flair gets eliminated early on like after maybe 10:00 or so because of a massive suplex Vader gives him.  Then Vader is eliminated at the same time by DQ so the rest of the match is between Sting and Rude and these two deliver another great match up.  This one is worth the price of the DVD set alone!  The last disc starts with the Unification match of the WCW World and International titles when Sting once again takes on Ric Flair.  This isnt't Clash I again but it is still an enjoyable match.  I do feel that the whole Sherri storyline that goes along with the match takes away from it but it's still worth seeing Flair unify the titles and add to his legacy.  The next match is a US title match between Steve Austin and Ricky Steamboat.  As always this is a great match between the two and if I'm not mistaken this was Ricky's last match in the WCW due to an injury he received.  Classic wrestling, great match.  The next match is another really good one from Clash XXXII when Ric Flair and the Giant take on Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage.  This is a big time match and all 4 guys I thought brought it for this one.  This is also the match where Elizabeth makes her debut.  The fact that Flair and Giant won made me smile ear to ear when I was younger and when I watched it again here recently it made me do it again.  The next match is a women's match from Clash XXXIII between Madusa and Bull Nakano.  These two always put on classics and this one was no different.  Awesome contest between one of the best from Japan and in my opinion the greatest American women's wrestler of all time Madusa.  I'm hoping because they have been putting her (Madusa) on some of the last few DVD releases that maybe she'll go into the Hall of Fame and has finally gotten over the embarrasment of dumping the WWE Women's title in the trash at WCW.  Now we get another head scratcher as DDP takes on Eddie Guerrero for the Battle Bowl ring.  It was a good match, don't get me wrong but neither one of these guys were big stars at the time so I'm not sure why their match was included on this set.  Still though, watch it, cause it is a good match.  The next match is a Triple Threat match with the Steiners taking on Harlem Heat as well as Sting and Lex Luger for the WCW Tag titles.  This is a good match but the ending with the match being declared a no contest kind of took away from it all.  Still worth seeing.  The next match was Ultimo Dragon defending the WCW Cruiserweight title against Dean Malenko.  This match, as is always the case with these two, was very well done and well worth seeing.  I'm not so sure if it was as good as their Starrcade 1996 match for the 9 Cruiserweight titles but it was still worth seeing.  The next match was from the very last Clash and it featured Chris Jericho defending the WCW Cruiserweight title against Eddie Guerrero.  This was another good match and again was another match that was well worth seeing.  The last match was the main event from the last Clash as it was Lex Luger and DDP taking on Scott Hall and Randy Savage.  Honestly, Hall is not worth seeing in this match but everyone else carries the match and makes it well worth seeing.  I can't remember now for the life of me whether we get to see Sting with the vulture at the end but even without that segment it's still worth seeing.  There are some extra matches on Blu Ray and if you bought this at Best Buy you received two bonus matches.  I didn't get either one of these but because I've seen every Clash event I can tell you about the matches.  The first BR match is a tag match with the Midnight Express taking on Ric Flair and Barry Windham.  This was at Clash IV and was a very good match that I wish was on the regular DVD set.  The match goes about 17:00 and does have Flair and Windham going over but this was an instant classic.  The next bonus BR match we get is from Clash XVIII and it features another tag match with Steve Austin and Rick Rude taking on Sting and Ricky Steamboat.  This is another match that I wish was on the regular DVD set but sadly WWE decided to put it on the BR set only.  This is a fantastic match that actually features the top 4 contenders for the WCW World title.  Great contest and well worth seeing.  The final BR bonus match we get is the Thundercage match from Clash XXII as Sting and Dustin Rhodes took on Vader, Paul Orndorff and Barry Windham.  This was yet another match that should have been on the regular DVD set.  Fantastic contest that I believe was originally supposed to be a 8 man tag.  The match was supposed to be Sting, Dustin Rhodes, Van Hammer and Ron Simmons taking on Vader, Rick Rude, Barbarian and Barry Windham.  That would have been good but what you get is even better.  Great contest and also features Cactus Jack turning good.  If you bought this DVD set at Best Buy then there was 2 other matches your could have gotten.  The first one was Hulk Hogan taking on Ric Flair for the WCW World title at Clash XXXIII.  This was not their best match together and I am glad this one was not on the regular set.  It's a terrible match with the two and it ends in DQ, so it's not worth seeing.  The final BB bonus match was the Midnight Express taking on the Fantastics for the NWA US title from Clash I.  This was a pretty good match but again I am glad WWE kept this off the regular set.  So, all in all this is a pretty good set.  Of course there are some matches I wish was on here like:  Sting and Ric Flair taking on Dick Slater and Great Muta from Clash VIII, the Steiners taking on Doom for the NWA Tag titles and also Doom's masks on the line from Clash X, Ric Flair taking on Bobby Eaton for the NWA World title in a 2/3 falls match at Clash XII (this one in particular is one I was suprised was not on the set as it requested a lot by fans), Lex Luger taking on Rick Steiner for the WCW World title at Clash XVII which is a very underrated match, Steiners taking on Steve Williams and Terry Gordy at Clash XIX, Shane Douglas and Ricky Steamboat taking on Steve Austin and Brian Pillman for the WCW Tag titles at Clash XXII, and there are many more that I won't mention at this time.  Here's hoping for Best of the Clash of the Champions Vol II.

It's Got Heart, Just Not Enough There's not much bad you can say about a comedy that makes you laugh.  This will more than satisfy that, but the movie itself moves into a different direction that it partially--but not fully--deliver on.  Robert Downey Jr. is masterful as the dickish, temper-prone, soon-to-be father architect on his way cross county after an incident on an air plane puts him on the no-fly list. He is accompanied by a wanna-be actor, Zach Galifanakis.  Of course, hilarity ensures. But with it comes a lot a heart as both recount memories of their respective fathers and how it has shaped their lives. The film, though, had much more room to grow with this though, failing, though, and contimues in the outlandish comedic actions.  There is a lot of heart and as you continue to watch it, your feeling for the charactors grows. You only make it to the top of the hill, though, instead of over to the other side. But it is full of laughs front to back.  And there is not much more you can ask from a comedy.

Good Ice Breaker This movie is very good ice breaker for interracial dating.  It addresses topics that are of concern, but ppl are hesitate to bring up on their own.  I do think successful or not, black women should open up that dating pool and "let go, let flow."  We can be our own worst enemies.  Im not saying you should just date a person because their a different race.  That makes you superficial & I have disdain for individual's like that. Take your list of qualities & attrabutes & apply them to the guy/girl you meet regardless of race.  Review of your list & recognize what is a deal breaker & what is cosmetic.  A deal breaker might be "I don't want kids."  Well if you know you want kids, don't be with that person.  Somethings cosmetic would be "I want someone who works out everyday."  Ok, thats a little unrealistic, because most ppl don't work out.  How about meeting in the middle & getting with someone who works out, encourage them to increase their days of activity.  In addition to that, if your partner of another race tells you about how they're being treated, listen.  Perhaps their reason for their mistreatment is because of their race.  And perhaps you haven't had that encounter because you may be from the majority race.  Just because its 2011, doesn't mean racisim doesn't exsist; its just done with a little more finesse.  Kenya's dad draws a great comparison when he's comforting her - he says "what you had with brian was real. besides its like the boy is from another planet...he's just white." "Everybody carries on like we're some pure race, but we're all mixed up."

Non stop action! I didn't think this film was that bad as some have pointed out. It has tons of action and it keeps you going till the very end.  The bluray is a 10/10 for sound and picture.  You simply can't beat 5 bucks for this disc!

Logan I'd heard about this film, and was perplexed not to see it (then) available in the UK. By total chance, I ended up buying something else from Amazon USA and found the film listed on that site. I ended up paying what I consider 'rather over the odds' (down to import taxes perhaps) for this film, but I don't in the least regret searching it out.  The write-up I had read about it was accurate: it is a moral tale, and like some USA films aimed at families carried a fairly prominent Christian message. I was relieved to find that this did not in any way spoil the film because sometimes such a stance does affect the 'reality' of the storyline.  I found it an uplifting tale, well-acted and filmed. The youngsters were pretty credible; I am a long-serving state school teacher so I know what is and is not believable in screen portrayal of children. In short, it's an engrossing and largely realistic tale, well told, and one feels genuinely uplifted at the denoument. I have kept actual description of the storyline to a minimum here so as not to spoil anyone's enjoyment.

Something different "Battle of the Brave" is a 2004 Canadian film originally titled "New France" since the story mainly takes place in Quebec during the closing years of France's control of the province and the French and Indian War circa 1759-63.  As other reviewers have pointed out, "Battle of the Brave" is not the most accurate title since it gives the impression that the film will focus on General James Wolfe victory over General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham outside Quebec City in late 1759. While this battle figures in as a brief backdrop it's not the focus. The focal point is a young peasant single mother, Marie-Loup, and her mutual passion for an aristocratic trapper, Francois. Francois seeks justice for the people of New France from the greedy and disloyal French overlords, but is ultimately forced to flee to France. A well-intentioned lie prevents Francois from taking Marie-Loup and her daughter with him, and this leads to tragedy.  As you can see, "Battle of the Brave" is more of a love story with a historical backdrop a la "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000JLWW">Titanic</a>" than a big battle picture like "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00003CX95">Braveheart</a>." As such, it may appeal more to women than men intent on seeing an action-oriented historical picture. Which isn't to say the movie's all romance; there's drama, comedy, history and flashes of action.  Actually, the title "Battle of the Brave" isn't all that inaccurate; it's just that the "battle" is on a much smaller scale than "Braveheart." The battle of the brave here is in the hearts of the main characters as they make hard and sacrificial choices during a time of great political upheaval. Unfortunately the DVD cover doesn't denote this; it suggests a big battle flick with huge armies along with the statement, "RISE. UNITE. FIGHT.", which is totally misleading. Why falsely market the product? Don't producers know bait-and-switch tactics will ultimately turn people off to the film?  I admit that the first time I saw "Battle of the Brave" I was somewhat disappointed because I was expecting something more along the lines of "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000A2WP7O">The Last of the Mohicans</a>" (1992). Viewing it again recently, I was fully prepared for its uniqueness and even utilized the subtitles so I could keep track of the characters and not miss any of the accented dialogue, which I recommend. As a result, I quite enjoyed the movie. I was able to follow what was going on and successfully entered the world of the characters for the next couple hours (the film runs 143 minutes). Besides, who wants another "Last of the Mohicans"? We already have that. "Battle of the Brave" is totally unique and completely non-"blockbuster."  The film has high production values (it was the most expensive film ever made in Quebec) but it has a peculiar vibe that the viewer has to get used to; the tone is more akin to a TV movie (with a huge budget) than "Last of the Mohicans" or "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/079283366X">Rob Roy</a>," but I don't necessarily mean this in a negative sense.  With the exception of Gerard Depardieu, who plays Father Thomas, the main characters are relatively obscure French actors, but they all rise to the occasion. David La Haye as Francois is a likable and believable male protagonist. The actresses who play Marie-Loup, her daughter France, and their family friend Acoona are likewise great. I particularly appreciate Bianca Gervais as the part-native Acoona. Speaking of which, I like the respectable way the film figures in the Innu people, albeit small.  One reviewer lambasted the film as "seethingly anti-Catholic," but the ending totally refutes this absurd claim. Did he even finish the film? Actually the picture is brutally honest with its depiction of people, governments and institutions - all can be corrupted and corruption comes down to the individual. Just the same, honor and integrity are rooted in the individual before anything else. Governments and all institutions are only as good or bad as the individuals from which they're comprised. Thankfully, there's a remedy to corruption: humble repentance. Confession stops prosecution and humility attracts grace, which leads to positive change, even if it's upon one's deathbed.  The ending scene is powerful in a subtle way. No matter the tragedy, beauty and positivity can arise from the ashes.  Speaking of the ending, the credits sequence features the excellent song "Ma Nouvelle France" by Celine Dion, sung in French.  But the story leaves a few questions (SPOILER ALERT!!): Why did Father Thomas lie to Marie-Loup about Francois' letter? Was he simply concerned about her safety in a time of political unrest or did he love her so much he selfishly couldn't bear to have her removed from his life and influence? Why does France call Francois "Father" (capitalized) at the very end? Why didn't Marie-Loup simply tell the truth at the trial? After all, what legitimate court would convict an 11 year-old girl who was simply defending herself from a drunken rapist (unless, of course, the court was heavily biased toward Xavier)?  The film was shot mainly in beautiful Quebec and Eastern Canada, which makes the film realistic. (Wouldn't it have been absurd to shoot it in, say, British Columbia, as was the case with "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000R9U3B0">Pathfinder (Unrated Edition)</a>"?). (Speaking of which, "Pathfinder" is well worth seeing. It's a great 'guy flick'; the antithesis of "Battle of the Brave").  GRADE: B-

A great printing of this movie A great movie, especially if you are a Bob Hope fan.  The movie looks good, but it is an old movie with a few old movie artifacts.  You'll see the occasional, but by no means frequent, line run laterally down the picture, or a slight picture jump, but this is as good as it gets unless the studio or a preservation group targets this film to be saved.  I loved it and was proud to add it to my collection of classics.  I must have watched it a half dozen times already.  A great film for your Christmas movies list.  The only reason I gave it four stars was the film stock's less than pristine condition in a few small pieces of the film which it would have been wonderful to see restored.

The basis of HBO's Girls The movie stands well on it's own but it is essential background for the HBO series "Girls." The star, producer, writer uses her own sister and mother in the film.

3D movie Very pleased on the price I got for this 4 Disc combo. Enjoyed watching it in 3D also. Grandchildren love it too.

Good, Entertaining Action Flick! Rented this movie and very glad that I did. Full of action and enough twists and turns to leave you wanting more. Hopefully there will be more to come!

A very tense and engrossing thriller about a mother and her son carjacked and forced to drive the stranger to safety. I say B+ "I don't want your money, you got a car don't you...drive" Lorraine (Bello) is having a rough time. Her husband left her with her young son and she has no money. Her night begins with group therapy, then she spends the rest of the money she has on Bagel Bites and gas. It gets worse when Roy (Dorff) comes into her life. He wants a ride, and has a gun to make sure he gets one. Lorraine and her son are now forced to help him. This is a movie that could easily have been a cheesy TV drama. The fact that Bello & Dorff are the actors helps make it into a more tense and exciting thriller. This is the kind of movie that has you hooked 5 minutes in and you are tense and on the edge of your seat the entire time. Stuck between doing what you would think you would do, and what you should do keeps you thinking and engrossed the entire time. Nothing really amazing here, but one of the most tense and exciting thrillers I have seen in a while. Overall, a very good movie that won't disappoint and is very much worth watching. I give it a B+.  *Also try - Endure & Firewall

Good movie Disturbia is a good movie with a pretty good plot. After being put under house-arrest, Shia Labeouf's character starts spying on his neighbors (I guess 'cause he's bored?). He begins to suspect one of his neighbors is a killer. I think you can guess how things go from there. I enjoyed the story, characters, and the suspense. Good movie, I'd recommend it. -Trent Foreman, Author of Nightmare

critics 0 This movie may not be what the critic think Ms. Davis is all about, but she really is a strong role model. If it had been a guy in the role, he would have been praised for his talent and acting ability. I love this movie and have watched it every time it comes on TV. Now that I have a copy I will watch it more often. Yeah for Ms. Davis, I hope she continues to take chances, even her "dogs" are better than most.

The Son of Odin Thor has to get a good review, for the simple fact that it didn't end up being outrageously goofy.  It was thoughtful, had good character development, and Hemsworth did a great job as the son of Odin.  I'd say this is the second best lead-in movie for the Avengers film in 2012 (right behind the first Iron Man).  The only major problem with the movie is the fight scene between Thor and the Destroyer--it's way too short.  Marvel also did this with the main fight scene at the end of Iron Man 2.  Are they just too tired at the end of production to make the fight scenes more elaborate and compelling?  It's strange that they make such an expensive movie and then skimp on a major battle.

The Best Disney Film in a While Looking back on my review of the Princess and the Frog, I feel I may have dropped the ball (no joke intended) in one respect.  I didn't give it sufficient credit for the fact that both main characters cared enough about each other to sacrifice themselves; in other words, true love.  I apologize for overlooking this.  I only mention this because the very same thing is present to an even greater degree in Tangled; probably one of the better animated Disney movies I've ever seen in my life.  Not top three, certainly, but top ten at least.  It's a story about Rapunzel and how she escapes from her tower to find out the secret of the lanterns that rise into the sky each year on her birthday.  In escaping, she enlists the assistance of a thieving, manipulative, philandering bandit named Flynn Ryder (he gets better,) and has to struggle to keep from being dragged back to the tower by the hag Gothel, who's been using her magic hair to stay young.  Tangled has everything.  There are scenes with fun, fast-paced action and adventure, scenes with pure comedy, heartwarming scenes, goofy scenes, romantic scenes, tragic scenes, etc, and sometimes, a little overlap.  There are running gags that travel through the whole movie, characters who always bring a little levity to the scenes they're in, and Rapunzel's mile-long hair is easily as eye-catching and fun to watch in action as the balloon house from "Up."  The horse Maximus is one of the coolest and funniest characters I've ever seen.  Utterly wordless, unquestionably upright and unshakably determined to see justice done, and yet, he pulls it off with a sort of goofy seriousness rivaling the vorpal bunny from Monty Python.  No matter what scenes Maximus is in, it always benefits from having him in it.  In fact, I'd say he's probably the best enforcer that the royal guards have at their disposal.  Gothel is a surprisingly well-done villain.  She might be a witch, but there's no indication of it.  She never uses any magic.  She's just crafty and manipulative, and really, when you think about it, that's all that most real villains are too.  On top of that, having very little power makes it much more of a challenge to write for a villain, and yet, in a sense, much more rewarding.  Coming up with schemes for an intelligent villain requires intelligent writers, and I absolutely appreciate the effort that was put into this.  Rapunzel's real parents never say a word, and neither does her best friend; the chameleon Pascal, but in a way, the fact that they can be so expressive and convey such a breadth and depth of emotions regardless, is itself quite an accomplishment.  I was amazed by just how much was accomplished with these characters, without ever saying a word.  Flynn and Rapunzel both have basically the same problem, as characters, unfortunately, and that is that while their relationship is utterly serious in later scenes, they both start out more or less goofy and hyper.  Rapunzel uses a lot of modern, casual, teenagery terminology, and Flynn is even worse in this respect, since he starts out with so many character flaws.  Still, as I said, all of this gets better later on, so it's very well-done.  Flynn is played a little like Bill Murray's character from Groundhog Day.  You don't really like him at first, but as time goes on, he becomes a better person.  Rapunzel is a little different in that respect.  She's likable from the very start; quirky and weird in a happy sense.  Energetic, intelligent and imaginative.  However, even she starts out the movie with nothing to really sacrifice, and no one to sacrifice for, and it really helps as the movie progresses, and this gradually changes, until she and Flynn both become truly heroic characters.  Flynn is clearly shown stealing, betraying, philandering and so forth, so there's obviously a reason for this to be rated PG, but like I said, these aspects of his character don't last.  I was actually amazed by the quality of the music in this movie.  It's truly awesome; even the instrumental tracks.  In fact, it reminded me a lot of Beauty and the Beast; probably because they got the same guy to do it.  The humor in the movie is wacky and weird at times, and very strongly character-driven at other times.  There was no toilet humor, no off-color jokes, etc...  I think that pleased me more than anything.  They had to get away from the Dreamworks/Fox trends of non-funny humor if they wanted to make a real masterpiece, and they did this magnificently.  In fact, I have only two gripes against this film, really.  One small, the other big.  The small one is this; I didn't feel that the narration over the beginning and end of the film was helpful.  It's like the king and queen.  The visuals alone would have told me what I needed to know.  Hearing Flynn talking in modern casual slang over them doesn't improve their ability to tell me the story of what happened.  They could still have had narration, though.  Maybe if it was just a more dignified-sounding kind of narrator, like they got for Beauty and the Beast.  The big gripe is this; something happens to Rapunzel near the end of the film, which drastically alters her appearance, and this truly troubled me.  Granted, this does show Flynn's development as a character more strongly, because it proves his willingness to give his life for her, but I much preferred Rapunzel's quirky looks at the beginning, to her more modern looks at the end.  Still, even this is just a surface-level complaint.  I tend to stop the movie before the ending these days, but if it doesn't bother you as much as it bothered me, have a field day.  To sum it up, Tangled is far superior to the Princess and the Frog, and as I said, one of the better Disney films in general.  Watch it for yourself, and then decide what you like and don't like.  Like I said, a few things bothered me, but I still think it was a great flick, and I hope you'll like it as well.

Away We Go `Away We Go' is a nice little film from Sam Mendes that manages to be both funny and poignant. This follows a couple, Burt and Verona, who are about to have a baby and who are looking for a place to bring it up and settle down as a family. They travel around various places in America and visit assorted friends in their search for a place to call home. This has great performances from the two lead actors and they have a great on-screen chemistry together. I found myself laughing out loud many times throughout and this is definitely one of those films with a quirky, kooky edge to it. This also has a indie film feel to it, which only adds to it overall and it also has a great soundtrack which adds to certain scenes and compliments it perfectly. Burt and Verona feel confused and lost in their lives and it is only by travelling around that they realise that others feel the same way they do and have their own individual issues and crosses to bear. This leads up to a satisfying conclusion and although it is a little predictable, it leaves a warm glow. This is an inoffensive, feel good movie and there is nothing wrong with that; I enjoyed it more than I thought I would and recommend it for a chilled out evening in.  Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.

My son loves it :) I only wanted my little one to watch videos that could teach him something useful and that showed other kids..not just puppets and toys that I could do myself...I chose this one and I'm glad I did. It was so funny to see him as your as 4 months old in his jumperoo watching this. He is almost 13 months and this is still his favorite. The only downfall to this video is that it doesn't include many signs for words that I wanted to use. It doesn't include the signs for "milk", "bath", "blanket","bed/sleep", "please","help", "play" or "cat".  We use them anyway so he learned but it would have been nice to see them in the video. Some of the signs are ones I wouldn't have chosen but its still done well anyway. I like all the kids in it and the signing bear is a great idea. He really likes the 2nd one too with all the music.

Great nostalgic trip back to Eternia for children of the 80's. I bought this under the ruse of wanting to share some of my childhood with my son; in reality, I wanted it for myself.  I love this show, with all its cheesy details and reused animation sequences.  Two things I love about the He Man empire (TV show, toys, etc): 1) The cartoon is/was very bold in explaining the differences between right and wrong (something that is all but lost in 21st century America) and 2) it was sheer genius from a business point of view!  Cartoons were filmed on a shoestring with "repurposed" character likenesses and reused animation sequences.  The toy line was also genius for many of these same reasons.  For example, Stinkor and Mer-man were basically the same action figure with different paint--genius. Season 2 is great because we're introduced (or re-introduced) to many new characters such as Robot, Buzz-off, Mekaneck, Clawful, Two Bad, Spikor, Webstor, Fisto, and the list goes on and on.  I love these DVDs and I WILL share them with my son when he gets older.  The bonus features are great--interviews with the writers and animators, character profiles complete with scenes featuring the profiled character, colorful box-enclosed cased, etc.  The only reason I didn't get this 5 stars was for the same reason many complain about this DVD set--the packaging.  The case is great, but the paper sleeves jammed into a CD cased-sized hole in the case seems cheap, is cumbersome, and detracts from the over-all quality of this set.  A must-buy.

Enjoyed the movie...BUT I have to admit - when Ian Somerhalder first came onto the scene with Lost (ok...that was the first that I'd heard of him)...I thought he was just a pretty face.  In fact, I pretty much didn't hop onto the bandwagon until I saw him play Damon Salvatore in "The Vampire Diaries."  So...now I want to see him in other things.  Enter this movie.  The premise is awful..Bijou Phillips is both "cute-as-a-button" and "eerie" and "annoying" with her portrayal of an emotionally stunned woman who just happens to frequent funerals in an attempt to "feel" again.  I was willing to suspend belief UNTIL  the scene with the ring.  THEN...it became painful.  It was painful because of how Bojou's character treated Ian's character (Tyler) throughout the entire movie.  The woman is flawed.  VERY flawed.  You get the sense that there is something Tyler is holding back...that there is more to the death of his fiancee...and as part of the audience i don't think ANY of us believed he was a killer.  To watch Karis go off the deep end.  Wow.  Ian's performance was the typical nice guy.  He did a great job of making you believe that the comedy of errors would wind up exonerating him.  But it was STILL painful to watch...not because his performance was bad or that the movie was bad...but BECAUSE the way Karis stumbles around and fails to be honest and BELIEVES a man she's said she's in love with to be a murderer so easily...well..  The movie ends with a single scene.  I wanted at least something said between these characters.  It was a tender moment - bittersweet...but at the same time leaves the audience hanging. Ok...it left me hanging.  That being said, I did LIKE it.  I know...a bit contradictory...but ultimately it has heart.

Re: An insightful look into WWII history This disc provides an insightful, often overlooked, glimpse into history from human terms during the course of a single evening that covers the worst instance of bombing in London's entire existence.  I highly recommend this product for anyone seeking information on the effects of modern warfare upon an urban populace and the limitations of relying upon arial attack to overcome an opponent.

Love the poor reviewers I walked out of the theater loving this and heard a great comment while stopping off in the bathroom before heading to my car....."This movie was supposed to have something to do with the movie "Alien" right?" Best thing I heard all week, and a great marker for how people reacted to the movie. If you love the Alien series then you completely got this installment. The visuals were stunning, Noomi Rapace was great, particularly in one cringe worthy scene, the story behind the race that you received a glimpse of in the first Alien movie was incredible and leaves room for additional movies. I can see where some people will hate this and ultimately pass out a one star rating but if you really love the series, you will love Prometheus!

DVD details Original aspect ratio. Fine print. No extras. No menu. Recommended.  Film: 8/10 Picture quality 8.5/10 Aspect ratio: 2.35:1 (orig.) Run time (NTSC 60Hz): 1:54'33" Chpt.: 12 Audio: Engl. ST: - RC 1 Bonus: - Studio: Universal  DVD-R: will ONLY play on DVD player, NOT on PC drive or DVD recorder etc.  If you like to find out more about Ken Kesey you might check out these books: "Haight Ashbury", Charles Perry "Storming Heaven", Jay Stevens "Electric Kool Aid Acid Test", Tom Wolfe "On the Bus: The Complete Guide to the Legendary Trip of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and the Birth of the Counterculture", Paul Perry, Michael Schwartz and Neil Ortenberg

Great movie, but... This was an impressive movie! So far my favorite-visually of the series. I've really enjoyed the HP films Yates has done. They're beautiful! I'm disappointed so many reviews declare their loathing of Yates as director. This leads me to question whether they understand what directors actually do... Anyway.  The book to me was rather slow paced and at times tedious (but still enjoyable). I felt the movie could be equally slow paced but I believe that was because of what they chose to add compared to what they got rid of:  Added: -Cafe scene (aka: Harry is a player... not.) -Too much Ron/humor time in the beginning (as much as I enjoyed both) -Bellatrix and Death Eaters attacking the Burrow  Got rid of: -Dursleys versus Dumbledore -Snape and Harry's interactions -Awesome Voldemort/Tom Riddle memories -Ginny and Harry's relationship development -Harry being a jerk about Malfoy (while he was correct, I was glad they made Harry's character less of a jerk, to put it nicely) -Bill and Fleur (and Mrs. Weasley) (When Fleur and Mrs. Weasley make up at the end) -The original Tom Riddle actor (from CoS) (although, understandable after so many years..)  These changes both helped the movie along and confused the heck out of everyone. I had finished the book about an hour before watching this movie, and I was still a bit unsure of the logic. I give this movie 4 stars, however, because of the quality of the cinematography, special effects, and acting. They did the best they could with condensing down a huge book into a (still relatively long) movie.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 1 I'm a huge Harry Potter fan. This particular movie didn't have quite as much action as the others but, I still enjoyed it. Definitely leaves you hanging and waiting for part 2.

dramatic to suspense I have enjoyed Dolores Claiborne and great acting Kathy Bates,Jennifer Jason Leigh,Christopher Plummer. The story is intense with drama,the past and especially with Judy Parfitt. The movie is 4 stars to me and I hope it is for other movie fans.

Nosferatu (Kino ) I watched the TMC HD version and the colors are pink and at times yellow or blue for the tint which i like better then the kino version. But the TMC is cropped and looks like your watching it through a view finder . The Kino picture quality is much better but its very green tinted ,...why is that .

Pretty Good DVD and CD I like this set because it offers a behind the scenes DVD and a mixtape-like CD with cuts that you won't get off any album.  Its enjoyable for all Mobb fans. Recommended!

haha Awesome movie awesome copy forgot how much I liked it was great and came within specified times nice work cheers!

HBO tale of Jacky Presser and the post Hoffa Teamsters In this HBO production releasd in 1992, Brian Dennehy gives a solid preformance as Jackie Presser, the heir to the Teamsters presidency in the late 1970s and early 80s.  HBO has done alot of series and made for tv movies on the mob and corruption in general, and this might be one of the initial efforts in this genre (along with the 1996 production of "Gotti" staring Armand Assante) that gave rise to later series such as "The Sopranos" and "Boardwalk Empire."  At first I was not so convinced of Dennehy's portrayal of the large and in charge Jewish teamster who inherited his position from his father (who did a stint in jail during Jimmy HOffa's tenure). Most stories of the mob show the charisma that makes leaders so appealing to their underlings (and Hollywood in general).  In other movies the driving characters can bring this across in the first few scenes with their screen presence alone.  I didn't think that Dennehy pulled this off at first, as he is nominated to head the Teamsters Union local in Cleaveland and buts head with another infamous labor leader, the Irishman Danny Greene.  In the film about Green's life that was just released a few years ago titled "Kill the Irishman", I can't recall any mention of Jackie Presser; he certainly wasn't a main figure. In that version, Greene's real adversaries came from the New York Mafia.  Though Presser is obviously within the NY mafia's realm, each film depicts a differnt take on the Greene situation, and shows that in mob folklore, there can be several versions of reality.  The real strength of the movie comes from the writing, which is based on the book "Mobbed Up" by James Neff. It weaves the ascendancy of Presser and the delicate relationship that existed between law enforcement (mainly Federal) and the Teamsters, which beginning in the days of Bobby Kennedy and Hoffa created alot of friction. Jeff Daniels gives a good preformance of an FBI agent who ventures into the grey area with his dealings with Presser, with Eli Wallach as Bobby Presser and Robert Prosky as bookeeper Mache Rockman.  The conclusion to the movie breaks from the typical mold of tales of the mob and corruption in their often predictable ascent and demise. There is also alot of commentary on the political angle that Jackie Presser brought to the Teamsters, as his connections to the very top levels of Washington create an important aspect of his persona. Presser guided the Teamsters through a difficult transitional phase at the end of the 20th century, and this is able to show a shot at redemption for Presser and his union. Dennehy really shows alot of heart through his Presser character, who inherited an entangled situation but actually made some effort to serve the original principles of the union, which were to support the working man.

Swastika Thought this documentary quite informative with some new information. Good addition to your collection with film footage I had not seen before,so if you have an interest in this dark time in world history it's well worth having

4.5 stars... outstanding movie on Israeli-Arab conflict "For My Father" (original title: "Shabat Shalom Maradona"; 96 min.) is another release in the on-going and excellent Film Movement series. The movie was originally released in 2008 but it took almost 2 years for it to find wider distribution into the US, to which I can only say "better later than never".  The movie brings 48 hrs in the life of Tarek, a would-be Palestine suicide bomber, who fails to detonate on a Friday morning in a busy open market in Tel Aviv due to a faulty electrical swith. (During the last minute pep-talk to Tarek by the masterminds behind the bombings, one of them says: "Remember why you are doing this. If we had an air force, we wouldn't do this. You are our air force." Chilling.) Tarek now must fix the switch that prevented the bomb from exploding and given that few people are out on the Sabbath, he must wait out the next 48 hrs. Not surprsingly, the would-be suicide bomber comes to notice that most of the Jewish people he intended to kill are just regular and innocent people, each with their own ordinary lives and problems. Tarek even strikes up a friendship/light romance with Keren, a beautiful Jewish woman, and also befriends an old Jewish guy who remains bitter over the death of his son in the Israeli army many years ago. Given that Tarek was blackmailed into becoming a suicide bomber, he has ever-growing doubts about what he intended to do. Then Sunday morning comes around...  I very much enjoyed this movie, as it showcases the human consequences and costs of the Israeli-Palestine conflict. Let me be clear: I strongly condemn and oppose any suicide-bombing, regardless from which side it comes. As directed by Dror Zahavi, lead actors Shredi Jabarin (as the would-be suicide bomber) and especially Hili Yalon (Keren) give outstanding performances. "For My Father" won 7 Israeli Academy Awards for good reason. In all, I can't say enough of this movie. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

beverly hills chihauha I thought this was cute.  Nothing surprising about it or the ending.  Just a mindless hour laughing at the dogs.  And some days this is just what I need.  Streaming works great with my roku.

Cute film This is a surprisingly cute film about the life of a bird and the people that in one way or another have him as part of their lives. Loved the ending, so sweet. If you like birds, you'll love this.

Ben Affleck directs, adapts, and stars in solid Boston crime film Ben Affleck will be forever identified with two powerful influences on his life:  his friendship with fellow Hollywood demigod Matt Damon and his devotion to the city of Boston.  (You could also add the perils of over-exploiting the Hollywood celebrity machine with J-Lo as another influence, but that would be cruel.)  With "The Town," Affleck follows in the footsteps of his friend Damon - is it a coincidence that Hollywood green-lit an Affleck-led Boston crime movie shortly after Damon's performance in "The Departed"? - by making a terrific cops-and-robbers movie set in Boston.  With "The Town," Affleck famously does the heavy lifting of directing, adapting the screenplay from a novel ("Prince of Thieves"), and starring.  I haven't read the book, but it's safe to say that he did a fine job with at least two of his three roles.  "The Town" tells the story of a next-generation gang of Boston criminals, led by Doug McCray (Affleck).  His best friend, Jem (James Coughlin), has done nine years hard time after committing a crime to help Doug - think of Jem as a younger Boston-based version of Joe Pesci's various characters.  These guys rob banks and armored cars, and they are good - so good that the FBI is gunning for them.  FBI Agent Frawley (Jon Hamm) is on the case, and he's good at his job, too, so fireworks are guaranteed.  The main storyline involves a girl:  the gang hits a bank and in the process may have allowed the assistant bank manager Claire (Rebecca Hall) to see something incriminating . . . and it turns out she lives in their neighborhood in South Boston.  Jem wants to deal with her so that she's guaranteed never to testify, but Doug tries his own tactics.  Doug quickly falls for Claire and is caught in the web of his own deceit.  "The Town" is aptly named, as all the characters are caught up by the lives they have already lived in South Boston, where everybody seems to be either a criminal or in love with one.  The town forces you to make choices, and those choices have lingering consequences.  Beautifully shot, "The Town" offers a visual tour of Boston and culminates in a daring shoot-out at Fenway Park.  This is an intelligent piece of filmmaking - we're not talking about "Point Break:  Boston" here - and the full cast does the story proud.

Too bad this is just a one season show This DVD series is based on the legends with which many are familiar.  It has the usual people and usual incidents that one would expect of the King Arthur tales, but don't expect them to follow the plots of the story you know and love.  However, the stories they did tell are an interesting twist on the old legends.  This is not the best fantasy staging I have ever seen; there is a lack of realism.  Camelot must be small because it takes very little time to travel between farms and castles.  When the men are out hunting deer they are talking and stumbling all over the forest.  There are very few characters in any setting, castle, village, and soldiers.  Most disturbing in my opinion is the choice of actors for King Arthur, Jamie Campbell Bower.  There is some nudity and violence but it doesn't distract from the story.  That said, I liked and would recommend the series to anyone who enjoys fantasy, King Arthur, or the Middle Ages.  It has some interesting story twists regarding the Lady in the Lake and Excalibur.  As some others, I loved Eva Green as Morgan.  I would like to see how the story continues if STARZ decides to continue the series.

Slight Let Down I was expecting more, given the super cast and Sly's recent string of awesome hits in which he directed, including Rambo and Rocky Balboa. The dialogue, especially in the beginning, seemed really forced. It starts to work itself out towards the middle, but still nothing compared to what it could have been. The awesome action saves the movie. This cast, this director, in this era of filmmaking could have been one of the coolest ever.

Plot problems, but fun If it is a indeed a retold fairy tale please stick with the magic aspect.  It trys to have magic and Christian values and it makes holes in the story line.  I had fun but it needed some script work.

Dope set.........But contained bad disk Everthing was in working order. Except the DOTM disc started to skip in the middle of the movie. Kinda strange. Called amazon and the service was absolutely exceptional. Right away they put the order in the replacement. Same shipping and everything. Just be you check the disc before you play it. Movie sounds completely amazing in 7.1 surrounding sound.

Great movie - lousy playback Yet again, glitches with Amazon streaming movies via Roku ruined an otherwise beautiful movie. Had our end checked and the problem seems to be on Amazon's end. Grrr.

The greatest animated movie ever I love this movie. It is one of the best movies i have ever seen in my life. I wish they would make a second incredibles movies. That would be freaking awesome.

Interesting... This was an interesting movie. I enjoyed the friendships that the women shared. Some of the acting wasn't that great. It wasn't all characters but some were not as strong as others. Overall, I do think it was a good movie and look forward to seeing more from this talented screenwriter.

Just Watch IT I could get all heady and intellectual about this movie and write a long review...but honestly, who has the time for that??  A lot of people, thankfully.  This is just a good movie....among so many bad ones in the theaters all the time now!  I rarely go out to movies any more because very few of them are like this one.  If you're looking for a simple good story with laughter and a little depth then just watch it.  You won't be disappointed.

Straight forward no excuses Charles Bronson A nice movie to see. A little bit of Charles Bronson, with a reasonable story. If you like Charles Bronson, you are likely to like it.  In this movie he does not shine as he did in "Once upon a time in the west", which you may want to buy, if you like this one.

Check the "options" before playing I bought this DVD, from Amazon.com, to watch a well respected film.  However, for some reason  Frank Capra, Jr's comments on his father's film were overriding the sound of the film in the background.  After watching the film, but listening to Frank's voice, we finally went back to the beginning and re-set it.  This time it worked...and we did really enjoy the movie.

good movie I think this is a pretty good movie -- I return to it to watch again every once in a while.  It's not perfect, but I think that Brian Cox is an excellent Hannibal Lector, and I think Peterson is very compelling in this role. I think Tom Noonan does a good job of showing a serial killer's human side.

Dread brings us a very interesting 'case study' Anthony DiBlasi adapted Dread from Clive Barker's short story to the big screen by writing the screenplay and directing it. While this is the first movie that DiBlasi has written or directed (and managed to tackle both) he is clearly no stranger to Clive Barker's work and is obviously a fan as he produced The Plague, Book of Blood, The Midnight Meat Train as well as is working on the new Hellraiser, and another untitled Barker project. With so much experience with Clive you know he's got a taste for what makes Barker's writing work and this film is no exception. If anything now that he has had a more direct hand in the creation of a Barker film it's only ended up even better.  Having not read the short story I cannot give you any commentary on how it holds up against the subject material. What I can tell you though from having read a lot of Clive Barker novels and short stories is that it feels like something Clive Barker would have written if it were properly caught on screen. There are two leads in this story Stephen Grace (Jackson Rathbone) and Quaid (Shaun Evans.) Grace is a film student who is attempting figure out what he wants to do for his final project and ends up becoming friends with Quaid who pushes him towards making a documentary about what people dread and how this is build upon fear. They recruit an editor who Grace slowly ends up falling in love with and who is the one who finally gives them an idea of dread they can run with instead of the normal run of the mill fears people suffer from.  We slowly learn as the film progresses that Quaid has his own dread. He is trying to use this documentary as a way to understand what is wrong with him and find a way to cure it. What we don't know until it is almost too late that Quaid's dread is actually that he insane and is feeding off of the fears and dreads of others to further the mind games that is has begun to play with Grace, their editor, and another one of Grace's friends. The mind games turn real though as in the later half of the film Quaid starts to force people to suffer through what they truly dread. The film really does start slow and there isn't quite a bit on the payoff for horror fans until later in the film but when it starts to kick in the buildup just keeps going through the end and pays off.  The film itself has a very disturbing end as the 'fears' of having to be stuck with this insanity really does prove to give way to dread in the way the finale is portrayed. DiBlasi may not have a lot of previous writing or directing credits to his name but this is another director to keep your eye on and I for one can't wait to see what he's going to be working on next.

Conan... might just surprise you... I have to admit, i saw the teaser, i saw the trailer, the poster, but never saw it in the theatre. I still have a soft spot for the Arnold films, and personally have tired of the remakes, reboots, and sequels of today. I just recently watched this... the dvd mind you, not the blu ray, and all i can say is I really enjoyed it. This is more of an attempt at remaking a franchise then continuing the arnold films... but not to a fault. The story begins with an origin, which is appropriate beings how most know the conan name, but not the story. The action is bloody, and vicious, the acting is surprisingly good, and the dialogue seemed witty and not as cliched as most might have you believe. Yes it has some fantasy elements, but instead of it being a 2 hour film opus of cgi it is used sparingly and where needed. the film does play out like one long action film, where you barely get enough time to breath before the next battle, which might have been a drawback for most films, but kept this one moving until the climax. Jason Momoa does a fine job at the role of conan, he has the muscular prowess of the character and is filled with the look of rage in battle and the charm when not, which is opposed to (however much it was a defining character for arnold) arnolds clunky "too big to move very fast" conan interpretation and Jason Momoa adds more personality to the role as well instead of being this brooding brute throughout the film. This film will not be for everyone, but it was entertaining. I went in with less than no expectations and found that... Conan... did surprise me.

Little slow but overall a good movie Its a bit slow going till mainly half way through the movie but all in all a pretty good movie.  I woulden't recommend buying it though but instead rent it.  Just because I think its a good movie doesn't mean I have to pretend its a movie I would watch again.

A Forgotten Treasure The Goose Woman is blessed with one of the great unsung performances on film - an extraordinary piece of acting by Louise Dresser in the title role - a drunkard ex-opera singer who sees a chance to return to public attention by concocting a story about a nearby murder that inadvertently throws suspicion on her son. When in Sunset Boulevard Gloria Swanson uttered the immortal lines "They didn't need sound - they had faces then," she could have been referring to Ms Dresser. She displays the gamut of emotions without resorting to the histrionics that were so common in silent melodrama. The film predated the Oscars - one can imagine that Ms Dresser would have won the acting trophy hands down had it been awarded in 1925 (when the film was made). That the print is poor is more than compensated by her wonderful performance and the opportunity for film goers to see this lost classic at all.

Awesome movie! this sequel was great and the kids loved every minute of it...all the behind the scenes stuff were great and the digital short was funny!

Looks great on Blu-ray I've viewed this film in various formats since the 1960s.  The Blu-ray transfer is by far the best version.  I suspect it looks better than most of the prints that originally went through theaters in 1956.  They put a lot of effort into making this picture look great.  When I'm paying twice the price for a Blu-ray disk than I do for a DVD, I do it to get a better image.  And so often this is not the case.  But I definitely got my money's worth on Forbidden Planet.  As far as the movie itself goes, it's a clever premise and Walter Pidgeon knew how to act.  But the other actors are pretty stinko. And the screenwriting is just plain awful. However, it's worth seeing just for the analog special effects that had to have been the best put in any movie of the 1950 decade.  And with this excellent transfer the effort behind them really shows.  Besides, how can you possibly pass up watching 30-year old Leslie Nielson playing a straight romantic lead in high definition?!?!?

Fun slasher sequel. This sequel is about as enjoyable as the first. Lots of violence and Crowley is awesome in this. Just grab a couple of beers and enjoy!

A wonderful collaboration between Dietrich and von Sternberg!  A Wonderful classic! For director Josef von Sternberg, he would be known for silent films such as "Underworld", "The Last Command" and "The Docks of New York", but for this Austrian-American film director, like many filmmakers who worked in the silent era, his career would be in question with the coming of the talkies.  It was when he was invited to make a film in Germany that his life would change forever.  In 1929, Sternberg would create a film known as "Der blaue Engel" (The Blue Angel) and he would later have a muse who would become one of the greatest actresses of all time... Marlene Dietrich.  A film that is loosely based on Heinrich Mann's 1905 novel, "Professor Unrat" (Professor Garbage).  As von Sternberg would return to America, Dietrich would follow as she would have a U.S. contract with Paramount Pictures and as Greta Garbo was the Swedish sensation, Dietrich would be the German sensation and together, she and von Sternberg would work on films such as "Morocco", "Dishonored", "Shanghai Express", "Blonde Venus", "The Scarlett Empress" and "The Devil is a Woman".  But before she would excel in the later films with von Sternberg, it was her very first film with him "The Blue Angel" that would make her a movie star and a singer.  Interesting enough, while a German version was filmed, von Sternberg also created an English version simultaneously but the latter would require refilming of certain scenes much later.  While the English-language version has been released in the U.S. courtesy of Kino Video in its regular format and also included in the "Glamour Girls" DVD set, the German version is available only in "The Blue Angel: Special Two Disc Set".  It is important to note that while "The Blue Angel" is known to many as a Marlene Dietrich film but even Dietrich herself was known to remind people that she was on the bottom of the list at the time and not top-billed because the actress was not known at the time.  The film's star was Emil Jannings, the popular silent star who was in the 1922 film "Othello" and F.W. Murnau's "The Last Laugh", "Herr Tartuff" and in "Faust".  The actor would be the first person to receive an Oscar which he won in 1929 for "The Way of All Flesh" (1927) and the 1928 film "The Last Command" (the only year when multiple awards were issued).  But it was Marlene Dietrich would win people with her performance as Lola and would cement her career as a lead actress.  "The Blue Angel" revolves around Prof. Immanuel Rath (played by Emil Jannings), a professor at a local college in Germany.  He is very strict and his wily students are known to make fun of him quite often.  But it is when he catches the students with photographs from the beautiful Lola that angers him.  Why would his students be wasting their time at a cabaret?  When he goes to the cabaret one night to catch his students in the act, he runs into Lola Lola (played by Marlene Dietrich).  Accidentally entering her changing room, some of the students are hiding and watching Lola Lola's interaction with the professor, as they see him as a sexually repressed man.  The next thing you know, the Prof. is calmed around the cabaret singer. As Lola Lola is changing, she throws her undies out in which one of the students grab it and put it inside the Rath's front pocket.  When Rath returns home, wiping off his sweat, he accidentally wipes uses her undies.  Feeling ashamed that he may taken her undergarment back home with him, he returns back to the cabaret.  But when people that work with Lola, especially Kiepert the magician (played by Kurt Gerron) feel that an esteemed professor has come to the Blue Angel, they give him the red carpet in hopes that they can attract other well-known people to their club.  As for Rath, he has fallen in love with Lola Lola and no matter how badly the students tease him and make fun of him, he does not care.  The students become such a distraction at the school that a fellow colleague tries to tell him that a person of his stature should not be with a woman like Lola but it is too late.  Rath is in love, he wants to marry Lola and he could care less what anyone else thinks.  And sure enough, Lola and Rath get married...but then we start to see the Prof. Rath's life crumble professionally and personally and see how people including Lola react around him.  How a man's morality is lured to the life of immorality and is led to ruin and ridicule.  VIDEO & AUDIO:  Before I review this DVD for its PQ and AQ, I want to remind everyone that this is an older DVD released back in 2001.  With that being said, considering "The Blue Angel" is a film that is over 80-years-old, I was pretty surprised to see this 1930 film in good condition.  Considering that many 1920's nitrate films did not survive, many early talkie films did not survive and because of their bad audio, not many paid attention to those movies at all.  But in the case of "The Blue Angel", sure you have dust and speckles, sure you have lines and occasional flickering but the fact that the complete film is intact and still manages to look quite good for a 2001 DVD is impressive.  Granted, if Kino Lorber was to release this film today, with a better remastering, especially on Blu-ray, I don't think anyone will complain.  The film looks very good on DVD and I can think of any newer remastering with a higher bitrate to be a positive.  As for the audio, audio is clear and heard no major warbling or hiss for both films.  Audio is presented in Dolby Digital 2.0 and once again, if this film was released with a lossless soundtrack on Blu-ray, I would be impressed.  But for now, the soundtrack on both DVD's are good.  It's important to mention that although both soundtracks are clear for both version of the films and the good news is that the English version features a redub by Dietrich, as both films were shot simultaneously, as opposed to having different actors dubbing the main characters.  But as mentioned, I hope that Kino Lorber will release this title on Blu-ray, especially since it is one of the few early talkies that is complete and in very good condition.  SPECIAL FEATURES:  "The Blue Angel: Special Two Disc Set" comes with the following special features:  - Audio Commentary by Film Historian Werner Sudendorf - The audio commentary features Werner Sudendorf talking about the differences between the English and German versions of the film, the music and various shots and what happened to some of the talent and crew after the movie.  Please note, there is long stretches of silence. - Scene Comparison - (3:18) Screen comparisons of a single scene between the German and the English version of the film and their differences and similarities. - Screen Test - (3:38) A screen test made of Marlene Dietrich in the Babelsberger Studios back in Oct. 1929. - Marlene Interview - (1:25) A 1971 interview with Marlene Dietrich in Stockholm in regards to "The Blue Angel". - Marlene Performances- (3:30) Featuring Marlene Dietrich performing "Falling in Love Again" (3:26) from a concert back in 1963 in Stockholm and a performance of "You're the Cream in My Coffee" (3:30) and "Lola" (2:14) recorded in London in 1972 as part of her "I Wish You Love" performance. - Trailers - Two theatrical trailers for "The Blue Angel".  One from the '30s (3:42) and the other from the '60s (2:59). - Photo Gallery - Featuring still photographs and production stills for "The Blue Angel". - The Chronicles - A chronicle of the film being made through April 1929 through December 1930.  Includes a few photos. - Facts & Dates - Text based production dates and credits. - Cast & Crew - Featuring images of the cast and crew which you can view via using your remote to go through various images.  JUDGMENT CALL:  "The Blue Angel" is a fantastic pre-code film in which filmmaker Josef von Sternberg combines German Expressionism but also utilizing Western sensibility in his film.  And like many German films of the era, there is an air of darkness, moral descent and while it may seem as the film contains the banality of what has been done in German films, rarely do these films showcase a beautiful woman, a woman who is literally not wearing much (which definitely sent conservatives up in a tizzy) and as it was a von Sternberg film, its the unknown actress who has won the hearts of many viewers worldwide.  That actress is Marlene Dietrich who didn't stick around to find out how the film would do in the box office.  She packed up and left to America to embark on a career which she would be signed by Paramount and would headline many more films after "The Blue Angel".  First, the performance by Emil Jannings is wonderful.  As Dr. Immanuel Rath, he is your professor that is always strict and one who will not put up with anyone's guff.  He is an intellectual and he is proud of his role as a professor at the local college.  And as someone would think that Jannings is a man who is so strict and possibly sexually repressed, he is a man afterall and that is where is naivety gets the best of him.  For an intelligent man, he has made a bad/desperate decision to go after a woman who probably has been around the block many times and a woman who literally offers nothing to him intellectually but perhaps only sexually.  If not sexually, just a woman who appears to accept him for how he is and a man who has dropped his guard for the sake of companionship.  As a viewer, you can sympathize with his decision.  Many of the young men can only dream of being with Lola, but now this man is with the beautiful Lola.  And it is Marelene Dietrich who is able to take the role of Lola Lola and give us a sense of intense sexuality and domination.  From the moment Dr. Rath proposes to Lola and you hear this devious laugh, it is like the snake who has convinced Eden to take a bite of the apple, but in this case, it is Dr. Rath who chose to go the path of Lola, despite being warned and now she will take him on this journey to moral descent and over the years, we see this distinguished professor go from a strict intellectual to a ridiculous clown.  No money, no respect and even lost any sympathy from Lola and those around him.  And this is where Josef von Sternberg is able to capture with efficacy, the destruction of a man, all decency stripped and you can only watch and realized that this man, blinded by his love of wanting to be loved, wanting to find a beautiful companion, has literally thrown everything in his life that is decent, away.  While the collaboration between Sternberg and Dietrich would lead to bigger things and better films, "The Blue Angel" is special for the fact that it introduced Dietrich to the world, it was an early German and English talkie but it is a film that was able to capture German filmmaking but with a filmmaker from America.  "The Blue Angel" does have cinematic important and while loosely based on the more darker "Professor Unrat" novel by Heinrich Mann, the film was a big success in the box office and most of all, Paramount knew that having both von Sternberg and Dietrich together will continually bring home box office gold!  And the fact that you do get both films on one DVD is awesome!  It's one thing for Kino to push the English version of the film in its "Glamour Girls" DVD Box Set but for anyone who really wants to experience this film, those extra 10-12 minutes in the German version, do make a difference and you get the best of both worlds with having both German and English versions.  Also, you get a release with audio commentary and special features!  I can't emphasize that if anyone wants to see "The Blue Angel", the version to buy is this special two disc set.  And until this release gets mentioned for a Blu-ray release, make no doubt about it, this is the definitive version of "The Blue Angel" to own.  Highly recommended!

Iron Man 2 DVD - used I received this DVD in advance of the earliest arrival date, so delivery was excellent.  I bought the DVD used, and there was a minor glitch in the playback at one point.  I haven't watched it a second time to see if it was a permanent issue, but it's not the kind of thing that you like to see the first time you watch something--new or used--that you can't return.  But I weigh it out like this: The DVD was pretty cheap, arrived super quick, and by the end of the year I'll probably switch over to Blu-Ray anyway, so I'm not too worried about it.  If I could, I'd give them a 4.8, 4.9, but since it was not exactly perfect, I cannot give it a five star rating.  I have not contacted the seller about the issue, so I don't know what the customer service would be like, but they delivered what they said they would, cheap and quickly, and about the seller I have no complaints.  I would recommend them again!

Cute romp I had some trepidation about this one. The first KFP was so much fun, I was afraid they'd just do more of the same, to the point of too much. Instead, I got better than I bargained for.  Po remains the overfed semi-slacker of KFP1. He has a reputation, by time this movie starts, and a bit of an ego to go with it. And, as in common cases of acute sequel-itis, #2 is like #1, but lots more. The difference is that this flick really goes beyond the founding member of the franchise. You'll love to hate the evil peacock, and his foundry evokes Geidi Prime, the Orcs' smithy, or any other industrial hell you can think of. Then there's Peng, Po's father. Gawd, I love that silly little goose. He's all about fatherhood, the kind that comes to define a man's entire identity (except for a noodle or two), a role I admire immensely when I see it in real life. And, of course, the quality of recent animation goes up faster than Moore's Law can explain. Except for one teeny, weeny thing, this adds up to a very enjoyable kids' flick, the kind you might not need a kid to enjoy. (Parents of skittish littler ones, check first to see if your tot is up for the more intense scenes.)  That one little thing was the flagrant sequel-bait at the end. Grr. A little foreshadowing can be fun. An ambigiuous ending can engage the viewer's imagination. The ending in this one looks almost like a trailer for the next in series. It's almost as if the movie is doing "product placement" advertising for itself.  As you watch it, though, try to forget that the ad is coming. Instead, try to enjoy the spirit that contains equal parts Bruce Lee, Mr. Rogers, and Three Stooges. Right down to that big fight scene near the end, there's a lot to enjoy.  -- wiredweird, reviewing the release to theaters

Good event, worth the money. Given how lackluster Wrestlemania was, Extreme Rules was a fairly good show.  -Last Man Standing Match: CM Punk vs. Randy Orton: These two have had a great rivalry, their match at Wrestlemania was one of the few bright spots of that show. This was a pretty brutal match and the crowd was split in the beginning cheering for both men. Punk brings out a kendo stick, repeatedly hitting Orton with it, even going after his shoulder that has been injured in the past. Punk sets up a chair in the corner but gets swung into it head first. Punk hits a nice high kick but he takes a nasty backdrop onto the barricade, but makes it back up before the 10 count. Orton hits an RKO on the announce table but it doesn't break. Punk counters Ortons punt into a modified GTS on the steel steps, but Orton gets back up. Orton hits a top rope RKO and Punk is down for the count and Orton wins. 9/10.  -Tables Match for the U.S. Title: Kofi Kingston vs. Sheamus (Champion): This is an added match and the crowd seemed dead. There were some nice spots like Kofi jumping onto the ropes to avoid going through a table. Kofi jumps off the top rope slamming Sheamus through a table to become the new U.S. champion. An ok but not great match, especially cause of the dead crowd. 5/10.  -Nice backstage promo by the newly turned heel R-Truth, good idea to do something different with him.  -Country Whipping Match: Jim Ross & Jerry Lawler vs. Michael Cole & Jack Swagger: Cole comes out covered in bubble wrap (you read that right) to absorb the impact of the leather straps used in this match. This is exactly what you'd expect with Lawler and Swagger carrying most of the match though Ross gets in some nice shots on Cole and Swagger. Ross does get a measure of revenge on Cole though he does get rolled up by Cole for the win. 6/10 and that's being generous.  -Falls Count Anywhere Match: Rey Mysterio vs. Cody Rhodes: A vastly underated rivalry and this was a good match that went all over the arena, Rey hit a seated senton splash off the stage. The action even up the stands into the hallways where some of the crowd cheers them on and Rhodes hits a jumping kick off of a concession cart that got a nice "Holy S***" chant from the crowd. Rey hits a springboard dive from a concessions counter for a 2 count. Back in the ring Rey does a diving headbutt to Cody for 2. Rhodes has Rey up in the corner but Rey sprays some mist into Rhodes eyes, then hits the 619 and splash off the top rope for the win. 9/10.  -Layla confronts the divas and apologizes for ever hurting any of them, since this could be her last match coming up.  -Loser Leaves WWE Match: Michelle McCool vs. Layla: The 2 former Laycool members face off in what is easily the best women's match WWE has put in years. McCool is more vicious in the early going knocking Layla off the top rope and hitting a nice kick for 2. Layla fights back on the outside nailing McCool into the announce table, then hits a nice springboard dropkick for 2. McCool goes for a kick but misses jamming her knee into the barricade. Layla hits the Laid Out Diamond Dust off the top rope for the win. Layla hits a reverse neck stunner but McCool gets her foot on the bottom rope. McCool hits the Styles Clash I mean Faith Breaker and goes for the pin but Layla reverses it for the 3 count. Winner Layla, Michelle McCool is gone from WWE. 9/10. Michelle is crying in the ring, when Kharma's (TNA's Awesome Kong) music hits and she comes out staring down McCool and hits the Implant Buster laughing like a maniac then walks off. They show a shot of the divas looking on and they all look shocked.  -Backstage Ricardo Rodriguez is practicing announcing Alberto Del Rio as the World Champion, Del Rio doesn't like it and makes him do it again.  -Ladder Match for the vacant World Title: Alberto Del Rio vs. Christian: Its Del Rio's destiny vs. The Instant Classic's quest for his first world title (if you ignore his 2 title reigns during his 3 year run with TNA that is). This was a good ladder match that had plenty of uses of the ladders, but first there is some good wrestling by both Del Rio and Christian. Del Rio gets hotshotted into the the ladder in the corner that looked like it jacked up his elbow. Del Rio gets backdropped into the ring smashing his back into a ladder. Nice jumping kick by Del Rio around a ladder kicking Christian who falls down on the ladder jamming his side. Christian hits a spear and goes up the ladder but Del Rio pulls his legs through and traps Christian in the ladder. Del Rio jumps from the top rope and hits the ladder on the outside as Christian moves out of the way. Brodius Clay makes his way out to prevent Christian from getting the title, Clay gets knocked to the outside but Del Rio locks on the cross arm breaker while Christians arm in a ladder. Del Rio almost has the title when Edge comes out in a jeep distracting him, Christian knocks Del Rio to the outside, and grabs the title to become the new World Champion. 9/10. Christian and Edge celebrate the win in the ring.  -Lumberjack Match for the Tag Team Titles: Big Show & Kane (Champions) vs. Wade Barrett and Ezekiel Jackson: The lumberjacks include Heath Slater, Justin Gabriel, Tyler Reks, The Usos, Primo, Evan Bourne, Yoshi Tatsu, Koslov, Santino Marella and some guys whom I have no clue who they are. This is a standard tag match, Big Show chops Barrett then Kane comes in with a low dropkick. Barrett to the outside, gets right back in and eats a sideslam. Kane gets nailed by some lumberjacks and Big Show knocks like 4 of them down. Zeke is in and uses massive clotheslines and forearms to wear down Kane. Show is tagged in and Zeke nails a very impressive slam on Show, Barrett tags himself in but eats a chokeslam and Big Show pins him for the win to retain the tag titles. 7/10. A post match brawl occurs between the lumberjacks and Slater and Gabriel both take stereo chokeslams.  -Triple Threat Cage Match for the WWE Championship: John Morrison vs. John Cena vs. The Miz (Champion): There's some double teaming on the Miz by Cena and Morrison, and later in the match they hit a double suplex on Miz from the top of the cage. Cena lock on the STFU on Miz who almost gets out the cage door before Cena pulls him back in. Morrison pulls off some impressive moves in this match, like a double jump spring kick and hitting Starship Pain from the top of the cage onto both Cena and Miz. Morrison goes for the cage door and R-Truth comes in and puts him back in the cage, then enters the cage beating up Morrision some, even hitting the axe kick on Cena before climbing over the top and leaving. Miz and Cena battle at the top of the cage and Cena hits a top rope AA and becomes the new WWE Champion.... again..... ugh. 9/10 for the match.  -Extreme Rules was a good show and is worth getting on DVD.

About What You'd Expect... Kevin Smith's films are a bit self-indulgent, and so are his DVDs.  This one's no exception; the transfer looks good and it sounds just fine, but the DVD extras are largely pointless.  Mostly about him and his buddies amusing themselves rather than shedding any additional light on the process, the background, etc.  If you know the movie, this is a good version of it.  If you like Smith's films in general, this is a good one, with the usual Kevin Smith problems (amateurishly shot, painfully un-subtle in the writing, etc).  If you're looking for much in the way of deeper insights, you're likely to be disappointed.  But he does seem to have a pretty good time with his buddies.

Great scenery Great scenery and theme make up for slim plot. I watch this movie 2-3 times per yr.  my readings indicate that the movie gives an accurate depiction of el Camino

Fear and loathing in Las Vegas <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ID1J0E">Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas</a> Worth a watch. Pretty strange and funny film.... I can't believe I hadn't seen it before until my husband forced me. I'm glad he did.

Parental Discretion Should Be Advised All in all the movie was quite good, but if you have an understanding of the dark symbolism and saturation of cryptic subliminal messaging here you would see that this shouldn't have been considered acceptable for young children to watch. Read my blog post for further details, as I do jot wish to copy the entire post to Amazon.  [...]

Flimsy Packaging, No Bonuses I'm thrilled at the release of unedited episodes -  These are released as they were originally aired.  However, there are a few problems:  1)  No subtitles. 2)  The packaging -  The individual DVDs are thrown in the case with little paper envelopes.  They don't stay very secure and tend to rattle around. 3)  No good bonuses -  No commentary, a couple lame interviews.  This is a bare bones set.  Overall, for the price I paid, it's worth 4 stars.  If I'd paid retail, I'd probably drop it to 2 stars.

In "Superman II", the Man of Steel has a "Spiderman Existential Moment" ***This review may contain spoilers."    To its credit, "Superman II" continues the exploration of and challenges to both the "Super" and "man" aspects of the legendary Kryptonian.  His "Super" part must confront three utterly ruthless, rampaging Kryptonian villains he inadvertently freed from the Phantom Zone limbo with the bomb he flung from the Eiffel Tower during the beginning of the film.  Fueled by powers equal to (and maybe even surpassing) Superman's own, and by vengeance against the "son of our jailer", Jor-el, General Zod, Ursa, and Non prove quite a nasty handful.  Complicating Superman's job, however, is an emotional and psychological dilemma facing his "man" persona, something I call a "Spiderman Existential Moment".    Every so often in the Spiderman comics (and in the recent movies), Peter Parker has agonizing debates about whether he should continue as Spiderman, because playing hero denies him a normal life and constantly puts his friends and loved ones in danger.  Apparently but unexpectedly, Superman as soft-spoken "bumbler" Clark Kent feels the same doubt about his superhero life.  "Superman II" scores points for devoting equal time to Clark Kent, but in my opinion does not fully prepare us for his renunciation of his powers for love.  Nothing leads us to suspect that he is dissatisfied or burdened by his superhero responsibilities, or by having to support a secret identity.  We are asked to take it for granted.  We are also asked to accept the fact that Superman/Clark Kent has harbored such  secret, burning desire to be with Lois Lane for a long time.  Ok, ok, he did reverse time in the first "Superman" to resurrect her from the dead.  But, and I know I might get attacked for saying this, why would anyone give up his superpowers to be with Lois Lane?    I guess I was never a Lois Lane fan.  Superficially, Lois is presented as an intrepid, daring, celebrated newspaper reporter.  However, she's always making reckless, foolhardy mistakes that put her in danger from which only Superman can save her.  Lois can also be breezingly thoughtless and cruel to fellow employees like Jimmy Olsen - and the unassuming Clark especially.  And as others have said from time immemorial, if she is such a perceptive reporter, why did it take her so long to notice that Superman and Clark are one and the same?  I guess Superman/Clark has a special kind of emotional, as well as physical, X-ray vision that sees something in Lois we mere mortals just can't.    Well anyway, as the Kryptonian trio ravage the Earth, Superman whisks Lois off to his Fortress of Solitude, uses the crystal shards to de-power himself, and has an un-PC sexual dalliance with Ms. Lane at his Arctic home.  Soon, they somehow leave the Fortress (it must have taken days without his powers) without freezing to death, find a station wagon and drive back to Metropolis.  During a pit stop at a diner, a humiliating brawl with a bully makes Clark have second thoughts about his sacrifice.  Clark has another "Spiderman" moment when he finally learns that the Kryptonian trio may soon take over, and that with great power comes great responsibilities.  Better get those powers back.  But wait, Jor-El had warned him that the superpower loss was irrevocable.  Except when it isn't.  The green crystal is the key.  Clark has to trudge back thousands of freezing miles with the crystal back to the Fortress to get his mojo back.  Just in time too, because the Kryptonian trio has invaded Metropolis.    You know the rest: the Kryptonians have a destructive battle, the villians capture Lois, Superman retreats to his Fortress to lure the villains away and spare Metropolis more devastation, Superman tricks the villains into losing their powers, the villains fall into an icy crevasse (awaiting a sequal that never came), Superman saves Lois and gives her the "forgetfulness kiss", Superman promises the President of the United States that he will never desert his post again, the end.    Now, now, I liked the movie very much, in spite of some inconsistencies and improbabilities (due to the checkered development history reported by other posters), because of both the dynamic action and character development, plus the interspersions of humor, drama, and even horror.  But "Superman II" is special because it humanizes the demigod from another world and, even though it may surprise and annoy us, he is as capable of making hasty, impulsive, romantic choices as any of us.  Fortunately for the world, Superman/Clark Kent learns from his mistakes.    Wait, I forgot.  Lois and newly re-powered Clark revisit the diner and meet the bully again.  Clark shoves the bully against a pinball machine and pays for the damage.  Sweet payback.  NOW it's the end.

MOVIE I bought this movie as a gift to a friend.  I have not seen the movie.  I repeat, I bought this movie as a gift to a friend.  I have not seen the movie.

Excellent Blu-ray Release First, I must mention that this is more of a review of the Blu-ray release than the movie itself.  If you like Adam Sandler and enjoy his slapstick humor, you'll love this movie.  Also, I normally only double-dip from DVD to Blu-ray for action films, or movies I consider to be classics.  However, the DVD version I had for The Waterboy was not in anamorphic widescreen, and as a result, I had to use a stretch mode on my TV to get it to fill up the screen - this looked horrible.  Thus, I opted to upgrade to the Blu-ray version. I have to say, this release was impressive.  The colors on the players' uniforms pop, and the soundtrack is awesome in DTS!  There's a lot of bass from the heavy body slams of Bobby Boucher when he tackles the other football players, and the roars of the crowds during the Bourbon Bowl scenes will literally engulf you.  There are a number of things you might notice which you may not have noticed before.  There's MUCH more visible detail in the shots in the bayous.  Also, I never realized that Farmer Fran had nipple rings!  I just about rolled on the floor laughing when I saw this.  Why only 4 stars? My only reason for docking a star here is that, when you rewind or fast-forward during the movie, there's an annoying still clip of the chapter that appears just above the timeline.  This may be a minor nuisance to some, but it annoyed me just enough.  All said though, this release is certainly worth the upgrade - highly recommend!

Red DVD Pretty entertaining movie.  Nice to see that Bruce Willis has still got some talent, but Helen Miren makes the show worthwhile, as does Morgan Freeman.  Enjoyed watching this movie, and of course, Amazon rocks when it comes to price and shipping costs.

Very pleasing I found this film very entertaining, enlightening but most of all endearing.  There isn't one actor who's performance doesn't add to the whole of this film, they all put on stellar performances without a hint of overstatement or artifice.  The story of course is of a young english aristocrat who's love of cinema has him seek out a job in film.  Through his family connections he finally gets hired as 3rd assistant director in the film 'The Prince and the Showgirl' starring Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe.  The story thereafter is of a brief non-sexual encounter with Monroe and all that happened in the making of the film. Kenneth Branagh is superb channeling Sir Laurence Olivier, in a performance that had me laughing half the time and mesmerized about the small aspects of Olivier's style he managed to hone without it coming across as camp. Marilyn famously clashes with Olivier, who as director, has to put up with her tardiness, forgetting lines and general fragile yet diva behaviour.  Now for Michelle Williams.  In the beginning of the film they show an excerpt of Williams performing Heat Wave from the film 'There's No Business Like Show business"  and I immediately had mixed feelings and almost thought she was miscast;  it was her body.  You see Williams diminutive child-like frame barely holding up a dress meant for a curvier woman. They pad her hips which contrasts two twigs meant to be legs, small arms and breasts, old hollywood make-up that left Williams looking old and washed out and not a hint of sexiness...I was aghast and thought "This is wrong, ALL WRONG!!!". They make up for this by later concentrating mostly on Williams face who is more than talented enough to exude the vulnerability, freshness, seductive sweetness and almost too open unguarded expressions we come to recognize as distinctly Monroe charm, also they leave off the heavy make-up.  This is a role where the physicality is important, we don't just remember Marilyn's face but the natural contours of her body, so to have an actress with the wrong body distracts the same way a too skinny woman playing Sophia Loren would have you questioning the authenticity of the role. The camera however compensates and concentrates on what Williams gets right which is the mood and cheekiness of Marilyn, the vanilla ice cream sexiness and little girl lost.  Its a distilled Marilyn that left me thinking "Nicely Done!".  Williams brings a dignity, humanity and authentic classy sweetness to the role. I'm sure Marilyn would have been proud.  There is no question that the portrayal of what went on at the shooting of The Prince and the Showgirl is accurate.  If you have read enough biographies on Marilyn at that time everything in this film just fits including the nature of he behaviour which today is attributed to Borderline Personality Disorder.  They show MM as manipulative but in the way toddlers are, grabbing hold demanding time, attention and affection when they need you and then forgetting you minutes later only to return and drain you a bit more, the difference is we don't take it personally when it comes from a toddler.  Marilyn was very emotionally demanding and consequently seduced a lot of minders and helpers and people who thought only they could protect her, understand her, help her when in the end they were simply dangling from her strings. It is said that during the filming 'The Misfits' Marilyn broke Arthur Miller who was doing everything and anything to make her happy; at the end of shooting she had arranged a ride from location with other people and got in a car which drove away leaving Miller deserted, abandoned, alone and without a ride on a deserted set.  It was as if he were merely an old shoe she had forgotten to pack.  Consequently they divorced but he like Di Maggio loved her dearly and both went to their grave never writing or speaking of Marilyn out of complete respect for her.  If only Princess Diana could have said the same.

Throwback of sorts This is type of film that Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway used to make in the late 40s and early 50s at Ealing Studios--memorable characters, sly humor, good acting and a silly plot tossed in.  I could see a young Guinness cast as in the role Hugh Grant and the Stanley Holloway as part of the town.  The film is something of an oddity of our time--a romantic comedy that succeeds brilliantly.

A cheap movie with a great story The first time I watched the Great St. Louis Bank Robbery I didn't know what to expect.  I had never heard of the historic events that form the basis of the movie, and frankly I had never heard of this movie either.  This movie feels more like a play or graphic novel.  There are no fancy stunts or even fancy camera work.  It's a simple story about a disastrous set of decisions that leads to a lousy day in St. Louis.  As for acting, well, the actors over reach and clearly Steve McQueen was still developing his cool guy persona.  What makes this movie compelling is the downward spiral of Steve McQueen's character (and the weird "time capsule" feel the movie projects to modern audiences).  In this movie, McQueen could project tough, but cool ... not so much.  In keeping with the low budget feel of the movie, the transfer to DVD is low budget too.  Don't bother placing this on a high def TV. An old analog TV is this movie's proper home.

One of the better swords and sandals movies I saw this as one of the movies on my 50 pack of warrior movies. It is all swords and sandals flicks. I was pleasantly surprised at this one. It had great scenery and color. It definitely needs a restoration though, it was not a crisp clear picture but I could still see the potential. The scenes inside the pyramid going through secret passages was pretty cool. Very reminiscent of the Indiana Jones movies during those scenes. I liked the plot and I thought the acting was fine, especially by Debra Paget. I think I'm better off with my version than purchasing the separate disc from Synegy. It doesn't sound like they remastered anything. I bet I have the same print on my 50 pack as this one. Too bad, if it were actually remastered and any cut out parts restored I would buy it.

Good service I received the video, but because they used a bubble pack envelope and the case was broken. The video was not damaged.

The Barrow Gang I had known little of Bonnie and Clyde, America's famous outlaw couple, prior to reading Jeff Guinn's Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde which I found thoroughly enlightening in its depiction of two criminals who were said to have been lost in the romantic image conveyed in the 1967 film about their lives. I was naturally intrigued to see how different the film was to the real events so prepared myself hopefully for a classic.  The film begins with a brief bit of background to Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker before moving quickly to their first meeting. Bonnie (Faye Dunaway) notices a man inspecting her mother's car and proceeding to try and steal it. When she halts him he introduces himself as Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty) and their love story begins. Bonnie and Clyde start their career with small crimes before progressing to bank robbery once they have formed the Barrow Gang with Clyde's brother Buck (Gene Hackman), Buck's wife Blanche (Estelle Parsons) and a bored gas station attendant C.W. Moss (Michael J. Pollard). The film traces the gang's rise to fame and the eventual ambush and murder of Bonnie and Clyde at the hands of Frank Hamer (Denver Pyle).  Less than two hours Bonnie and Clyde ignores much of the true story, making brief mention of Clyde's imprisonment as a rebellious youth and how he escaped heavy labour by chopping off some of his toes. Clyde's affiliations with a variety of criminals such as Raymond Hamilton and Henry Methvins are not included here. The emphasis is on the romance between Bonnie and Clyde which is not overly sentimental and has an unusual take on the couple. Bonnie is a sultry criminal always eager to get Clyde into bed but the trigger happy Clyde insists at the outset of the relationship that he is no lover boy. In fact the couple only manage to consummate their relationship close to the film's conclusion. Their love for each other is without question but inevitable arguments creep in, most caused by Buck's wife Blanche who hates Bonnie and has those ill feelings reciprocated. Parsons must be a contender for one of the most annoying Oscar winners I have come across!  The film caused much controversy when it was first released for its depiction of violence. For a film made in the sixties this is violent but by today's standards it will seem quite tame, though the gunning down of Bonnie and Clyde at the end is brutal though a tad melodramatic. In reality Clyde was killed when one of Hamer's nervous men opened fire too soon and hit Barrow in the head, while the rest of the men opened fire soon afterwards leaving a screaming Bonnie no chance. In the film Clyde leaves the car and is gunned down trying to get back to Bonnie who isn't spared from Hamer's men. Hamer was hired to hunt down Bonnie and Clyde at the height of their fame in reality but in this film he crosses paths with them when he is captured and humiliated by the Barrow Gang, most likely to give him more prominence rather than a late entry into this story as the real events did actually play out.  This is a glorified version of what was a gritty life for the real Bonnie and Clyde. Beatty is delightfully charming as Barrow while Dunaway makes for a sexy Parker and has a prominent role in the gang, something that remains open to debate in reality with some suggesting that Bonnie never fired a gun during her time with Clyde. There are some good early appearances from Gene Hackman and even an amusing one from Gene Wilder who is taken hostage by the Barrow Gang but soon jettisoned when he reveals he's an undertaker! The abrupt ending of the film is bloody and memorable but it would have been interesting to see the impact of Bonnie and Clyde's deaths, especially the many Americans that flocked to see their bodies and the bullet-ridden car. Though a romanticised depiction of the true events this is still an enjoyable film but if you want the real story in detail then I would recommend reading Jeff Guinn's book first.  Bonnie and Clyde offers the basic storyline to the true story of two of America's most famous outlaws. Though overly romantic and sentimental in places the film still deserves to be seen for Beatty and Dunaway as well as some exciting chases and that brutal denouement that is hard-hitting despite a tint of melodrama.

3 1/2 stars for a fine return to the series After a 10 year hiatus, MIB returns with Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones as our heroes J and K.  Still keeping order with an assortment of space creatures inhabiting Earth, but one invader known as Boris the Animal (Jermaine Clement) is so evil he has been sequestered in a special prison on the Moon.  Put there 40 years earlier by K, he manages to escape thanks to a special cake brought to him by his "girlfriend," a delicious Nicole Scherzinger.  Once on the loose he discovers a way to go back in time to 1969 where K managed to stop Boris and his plan to destroy Earth with more of his species enroute.  J makes the leap back as well in order to kill Boris ("I'm no animal") before the future is changed.  Director Barry Sonnenfeld returns at the helm and manages to infuse the film with goodly amounts of humor (did you know all models are aliens?), CGI wizardry and a lump-in-your-throat ending.  Bringing in Josh Brolin as young agent K is a brilliant addition.  His spot-on characterization of Jones's voice and mannerisms is remarkable.  There is a hint of romance between young K and young Agent O (Alice Eve) that never gets played out.  Too bad.  In the current time frame, O is now the boss, played by Emma Thompson who has a great speech as the film opens.  Certainly III is better than II, but isn't quite the equal of the first film which was so original.  Still MIB III is a thoroughly enjoyable way to start the summer.

Such a cute movie1 All of the actors in this movie are so good, it's a women's movie, but so what, it is really great, I just love the characters, I rented it first, then decided I really liked it and had to buy it!  It's very true about relationships.........

Delivery was prompt Disc was what I expected and I am very pleased with product!! It wil go to my collection of MIP!!

It's not a witch it's a ... While I'm not into dark things (like that witch that turned out to be something else), I think it was a very good movie which kept me worrying about the characters and kept me wondering what will happen next. It was very entertaining and the story was actually good. I dislike the fact that I didn't give the movie a chance before, because of bad reviews that I've read. The special effects were nice, environment was creepy and wolves were done pretty cool. Hopefully there will be another exciting and enjoyable movie like this one.

I WAS THERE!!!! First off, I do not own this DVD. I was at Fatal-4 Way and to be honest I thought it was gonna absoluetly suck. Turns out, it wasn't as bad as most people also probably expected. The only thing was they included some last minute matches and a very good bonus match. Overall, one of the most anticipated PPVs of 2010. (When you go to a WWE show, comment if during the opening promo of the show, people yay and boo the superstars. Its constantly changing so you get out of breath if you participate)  1. Intercontinental Championship Kofi Kingston(c) vs. Drew McIntyre (16:29) This match was great. It lasted very long and was a huge satisfaction to the crowd and especially, me. There was a small buildup of Drew McIntyre injuring GM Teddy Long on SmackDown! This match included some interference by Matt Hardy and Teddy Long himself. McIntyre was mostly in control throughout the match but once every while, Kingston would find some DDT of high flying move to use as a reversal. I think that this was a truly great way to start the show. I never saw there match at Over the Limit but obviously this had to top it. 8.5/10  2. Fatal 4-Way Match for the Divas Championship Eve Torres(c) vs. Gail Kim vs. Alicia Fox vs. Maryse (5:42) Sorry, but the first match was so good and long that I got hungry and well, this match was my snack break LOL.  3. "Bonus Match" Evan Bourne vs. Chris Jericho (12:04) Let me just say that this match was unexpected and the crowd obviously went CRAZY for Evan Bourne but the New Yorkers were also in favor of Y2J Chris Jericho. (NY loves the heels) this match was very incredible and high-flying. Evan Bourne got out of the Boston Crab on a few occasions. This could possibly be Bournes best match ever. He did some major high flying moves and worked so hard to be on top. Jericho delivered some high-flying moves with a random german suplex to change some the odds in the match-up. In my opinion, Match of the Night. 9/10  4. Fatal 4 Way Match for the World Heavyweight Championship Jack Swagger(c) vs. The Big Show vs. CM Punk vs. Rey Mysterio (9:55) This match was pretty good and my favorite other than the IC Title Match and the Bonus Match. This match was pretty back and forth. Everyone except Swagger was favored by the crowd. There really in no buildup other than The Undertaker getting seriously injured and to be found by the Big Red Machine Kane. Now Kane is thinking one of the four in this match is responsible of all responsible. Great Spots in this match include Swagger suplexing both Punk and Mysterio at the same time, Mysterio going for the 619 but Big Show catches him in the ropes and throws him onto the table and Kane coming out, grabbing Punk and chasing him around the stage trying to throw him in a casket. It was kind of short but watch it anyway. 7.5/10 Rey Mysterio: The Life of A Masked Man DVD  5. United States Championship Match The Miz(c) vs. R-Truth (13:23) First, The Miz came out and started to make a rap to Truth's music and the crowd liked that. (It was funny) This match was long and medium-paced with few high flying moves by R-Truth. To be honest, I don't remember this match that well. It really isn't anything special. 7/10  6. Six-Person Mixed Tag Team Match The Hart Dynasty (Tyson Kidd, David Hart Smith and Natalya Niedhart) vs. The Usos (Jimmy, Jey and Tamina) (9:31) I did not care for this match.  7. WWE Championship Fatal 4 Way Match John Cena (c) vs. Sheamus vs. Randy Orton vs. Edge I thought that this match was exciting, but its pace got slower throughout the match. The best part about the match was how NY is mostly full of Anti-Cena fans so Edge and Orton were the big favorites to win the Match. It was exciting but got a liitle boring. Mostly Edge and Sheamus were battling each other. Seriously, the actual best part was when Evan Bourne, R-Truth and the Hart Dynasty are watching the match in the locker room the the NXT Rookies "The Nexus" attack them then come out to the arena and beat up security and go for the four challengers. They try to fight back but the seven beat the four. I don't give out too much detail for main events but you have to buy the DVD if you wanna see it.  7.25/10

Very Good if you like suspense and gore At first, I had mixed reviews and was going to give this movie only 3 stars because I wasn't expecting it to be so graphic. But then I changed my mind and gave I Saw the Devil 4 stars because it is supposed to be a horror film. It's mainly a slasher thriller but it does both very well.  I don't like slasher films like Friday the 13th and similar movies so I didn't enjoy this one as much as others might. But I have to admit that the film is very well done and the acting is great. The person who plays the psycho does an excellent job. The young cop is good too but there isn't much character development. It's like a Charles Bronson movie -Death Wish - on steroids. If that's your type of movie, you will love this one. If, however, you don't like blood and guts, you should definitely pass on this one.

books better I definately enjoyed this book better than the movie but would still recommend the movie to anyone, it is a very endearing movie but felt the book enhanced the scenario....

Gotta Love The Sex! I watch these dvds over and over...I get through to the end and just start over again. My only complaint is that 3 of the discs were scratched so that I was unable to watch a few of the episodes. It's fun to follow the lives of Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha. Buy the movies ("Sex and the City" 1 & 2) and you'll have the entire story!

Kung Fu Panda Great movie.  He had a low to no fear complex & reacted low profile naturally to conflict.  Almost like a baby or small child who doesn't know if he stick his hand in the fire it will hurt him. He absorbed insults to pursue his dream, for he had ample knowledge of kung fu history. Lesson for the youngsters - don't let anyone, anything people say or anything stop you from pursuing your dream.

notebook havent watched it yet, but arrived packaged and in a timely fashion. awesome price for an awesome movie that ive seen several times and will see several times more when i need a good cry.

A worthy remake I've often joked that you cannot put weight in calling yourself a man unless you have seen at least one John Woo film. His early work especially was filled with epic gunfights, explosions, and just all around awe-inspiring action sequences. The only downside is that many of his older films featuring Chow Yun Fat all feel so similar that it's really difficult to distinguish one from another. The storylines are almost exactly the same and many of the same cast members are utilized in each film. It has literally been years since I've seen the original A Better Tomorrow. I was mostly hoping for an upgrade of sorts from Dragon Dynasty since their 2-disc and Blu-ray releases of classic foreign cinema are always top notch. Nevertheless, I do remember holding both the original film and sequel in high regard. I wasn't even aware a Korean remake was on the cards until I received an email informing me of the DVD and Blu-ray details. Given the amount of remakes that hit US shores at such a quickened pace, I was a bit weary of giving this film a chance. But then I began to realize how much I love Korean film and came to notice that John Woo produced the film. So A Better Tomorrow was given its proper chance and folks, maybe it's because I haven't seen the 1986 version in so long but this remake almost seems as worthy as the original film.  Before I get ahead of myself, I love John Woo's film. I want to make that point crystal clear. A Better Tomorrow features some of the most influential action sequences not only of the 1980s, but perhaps of all time. The remake takes a bit of a different route and is more story-driven. There are only a handful of action sequences, but they feel strategically placed and mean a bit more in the long run. Character development is key. The action is only there to compliment the drama. While the original theme, location, and character names may have been changed, much of the impact of what these characters are going through is still rather strong. The majority of the film is carried by the brothers Hyuk (Jin-mo Ju) and Chul (Kang-woo Kim) and their relationship or lack thereof. Hyuk abandoned Chul and his mother years ago. With their mother now dead, Chul seeks revenge and only wants to see his brother dead while Hyuk just wants Chul to be a part of his life. Hyuk is a policeman who illegally deals guns on the side. His partner Young-chun (Seung-heon Song) is more than likely the coolest guy you've ever come across while Tae Min (Han Sun Jo) is the lackey who dreams of becoming a gangster boss.  The film looks stunning. It's beautifully shot and features some amazingly vibrant colors along with some really impressive lighting. The Young-chun gun scene with the arms dealers from Thailand near the beginning of the film is where things begin to get interesting. The interrogation scene where the brothers meet for the first time after many years of separation show how powerful the performances of Jin-Mo Ju and Kang-woo Kim are going to become. But the massage parlor scene with Young-chun is where the film begins to show its first signs of John Woo influence. While the action scenes are fewer, everything seems to be riding on the final gunfight which is pretty extraordinary. The relationship between the two brothers is what drives the movie forward, but the way Young-chun tries to make himself part of that equation and the monster Tae Min becomes is what makes the film at least a little special.  The few reviews I'm seeing online of this film are saying things like it lacks the very important theme of the John Woo film and that there isn't as much action. There's also a lack of female roles, which I agree with. This version of A Better Tomorrow is good for different reasons than its predecessor. I feel like the performances were much stronger in the remake and that the story, even though it deviated quite a bit from John Woo's version, took a front seat rather than the action. The Korean remake is slower and not quite as violent. My only complaint falls onto the ending, which is way too anticlimactic.  A Better Tomorrow is not the same movie it's labeled as remaking and that's a good thing. Strong performances and fewer action sequences help pave the way for more meaningful character development and a story with a bit more of an impact. Maybe I'm biased because I love depressing films, but A Better Tomorrow is well worth giving a chance if you can settle with the fact that it's different and altered from the source material; arguably not for the better but enjoyable in a contrasting way.  Special features are pretty minimal. It says there are 27 minutes total of special features in the set, but I believe the same set of special features are on both the DVD and the Blu-ray. So it's more like 13 minutes of the same features on both discs. There's a three minute Character Intro Cast Interview that introduces the characters and shows you a little bit behind the scenes, a four minute Making of featurette that goes into more detail behind the scenes and gives you more information about the film including it being filmed in Thailand, the type of blood packs they used, and action scenes being shot from a helicopter. Challenges & Transformations is nothing more than a two minute interviews with director Song Hae-sung and producer John Woo (separately). Throw in the original trailer and a bonus trailer and that sums up all the bonus material. Keep in mind both the DVD and Blu-ray of the film are included in one package.  A Better Tomorrow is presented in widescreen with a 16:9 aspect ratio and features stereo 5.1 HD Surround Sound along with Korean DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1. The film is in Korean with English subtitles and is approximately 123 minutes long. The A Better Tomorrow DVD/Blu-ray combo package is available in retail stores and most online retailers now.

Star Trek III It's nice to see all the classic Star Trek movies on DVD. They look and sound great, but now I wish I'd held out for the Blu-ray versions. Don't miss the cameo role given to Christopher Lloyd.

I like Psych I like Psyche. Gus has become a very strong character. The episodes are good but the novelty has worn off; the show is not as magical as it was the first season. Still enjoyable and worth the price. Clean family entertainment.

50/50 i guess ?? i dont know why so many people did not like the movie because i did like it. so love it or hate it that will be up to you. i am glad i gave it a go.

Lives Up to the Book That Inspired It Pretty Well Based very loosely on Philip Jose Farmer's book(s), this was intended as the pilot for a TV series, and so has an unfinished aspect. Much of what was a part of the book Riverworld is barely suggested here, but if you can view it as an adventure, without thinking about the books, or if you've never read the books, you will probably enjoy this quite a lot.  Riverworld is not heaven or hell, but it is populated by people who have died on earth. There is exactly one alien, because he happened to be visiting the earth when he died. And there is exactly one child, but nobody seems to know why. Everyone else is a physically healthy adult. People who died of old age are young again, including Sam Clemens and Alice Liddle.  Food and clothing are provided anonymously through a series of mushroom-shaped structures and canisters. The canisters were on the beach as they came ashore, and contained clothing. The next morning, the mushroom towers had holes in the sides where a canister inserted came out with food in it. Although the people who came ashore as a batch with our hero (an astronaut from 2009) were from very different eras and countries, they all seem to speak English. That is, whatever they believe they are speaking is understood by all the others, and it's English as far as the audience is concerned.  But it doesn't take long to discover that there are a great many more people who have been there longer, and have built their own little societies. And almost inevitably, they come into conflict. Why? The mushrooms provide sustenance, so what's the point of fighting? The best explanation is illustrated by the king of the Vandals and by Nero. There is something about having power and control over others that seems to be necessary to their sense of manhood.  Then there's women to fight over, and also women to do some pretty fierce fighting themselves. There's a pagan priestess who fights better than most of the men, in fact.  There's also Sam Clemens and his riverboat, built with the help of the single alien who powers it with something otherworldly. And a few good hammer blows from Alice when the mechanism fails to start up.  As I say, it was designed to be a pilot for a series. Sort of a pity the series was never made. I think it would have gone well.

Good but scratched The order came within a couple days of placing the order and before the ship by date. However, it did not arrive in the condition described. One or two of the discs in the season were scratched and would not originally play.

An elegiac and melancholic film By the time India nears independence from Great Britain in 1947, the profound clash between Moslems,Parsees, Sikhs and Hindus is about to reach the boiling point. This was the great event Gandhi had forseen. But Mehta tells the story from the perspective of an eight-year old girl who sufers of polio contemplates the universe of the elders and simply can not understand the reason that feeds such hate between the different factions.  The movie is quite moving but profoundly expressive. One of the most notable and extraordinary artistic releases from India since the times of Salaam Bombay.  Magnificent and worth to be part of your personal collection.

BASIL DEARDEN, OPUS 24, 25, 28 AND 29 ****  ALL NIGHT LONG (1962)  Patrick McGoohan, in a role that seems to have been written for George Sanders, is great as drummer Johnny Cousin. Highly recommended.  *****  VICTIM (1961)  Basil Dearden magnificently handles a sensitive theme (like racism in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005DRC1HU">Sapphire [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - United Kingdom </a>] while delivering an above average crime story. Alternating realist sequences on location and tense dialog scenes, the director manages to present the perfect mainstream movie with a social concern. It's Capraesque, it's a masterpiece.  ***  THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN  (1960)  Film Noir &agrave; la British without Femmes Fatales but with great actors and humour. Recommended.  ****  SAPPHIRE  (1959)  Very interesting police procedural film that allows us to visit the London (thank you Pinewood!) of the late 50's. Not the best neighborhoods but the more cinematographical ones: Jazz-clubs, seedy boarding houses or gloomy backyards. Basil Dearden also handles the theme of everyday racism and cleverly reminds us that there are a lot of shades between black and white. Highly recommended.

007 is always fun Yes, I know it is a remake of Thunderball.  The improvements in color, and style are worth the investment.  Great addation to my 007's.

I weirdly different kind of movie... `Kabluey' is not your typical kind of comedy.  It isn't laugh out loud funny and its darker side is certainly more prevalent than one may have initially thought.  It is subtle, but it makes a big impact as it lingers on the screen.  That said; there is an airy emptiness that also is prevalent and one that makes this a hard film to truly enjoy or at least fondly remember.  It feels unlike anything else I've ever seen.  It isn't perfect as a whole, but in parts it is flawless.  The story tells that of a desperate mother left to wrangle two seriously unruly children while her husband is away in Iraq.  To help, the man's loser brother comes, but he's almost more trouble than he's worth considering that he lacks any real skill.  He gets a thankless job as a roadside mascot of sorts and he begins to use this guise as a way to intake knowledge of everyone around him.  He observes and thus we observe and we start to see the reality of certain things that are not all what they seem.  The film's conclusion was pitch perfect for the direction things were headed, because it added a certain depth that could have been wasted on a perceived clich&eacute;.  Kudrow is wonderful as the exhausted mother, and Conchata Ferrell, Teri Garr and Christine Taylor all make the most of their scenes.  Scott Prendergast (who also directs) isn't particularly interesting, but his character is basically a doorway to another world, so as a prop he works well I suppose.  I'm still not sure how I really feel about this movie.  I want to say its sublime and yet part of me also wants to say it is missing something pertinent; I just can't decide what that is exactly.

Big Fat Movie Great movie.  Every time that you watch this movie you will see more things going on in the background that you missed.  Who doesn't know a family like this.  This is kinda a chick flick, but it is great!

Surprisingly good movie..4.5 stars I'm a Prime member who hadn't taken advantage of the movie benefit, and being a Holiday weekend, I thought I would finally see what that was like.  I sifted through a listing of a number of the free ones, and this one looked interesting. So, I skimmed over a bunch of the reviews..somewhat cringed at the lesbian aspect..but the reviews and movie story looked promising and worthy,and Ma'am - yes, ma'am - it was! I agree with the other reviewers that the acting was superb; script and story very real, and emotional on many levels; and I was immediately taken in and experiencing them all.  "I wish ignorance HURT" is a line I won't forget..and boy, ain't that the truth!? And from the top on down. But 'failure isn't when you fall down..it's when you stay down' and this Marine doesn't stay down, nor does she let a young troubled girl bring herself down.  I was very surprised at how much I liked the movie and would recommend.  Semper Fi!

THE NEW SHERLOCK HOLMES? Now understand that for me, if it's not Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, then it's not Sherlock Holmes, so I saw this movie in the theater before I purchased it. And...I was surprised. Certainly a new take on Sherlock's physicality...not what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would write. And the new Dr. Watson is a little young, but not bad. I enjoyed the movie...very entertaining...but I think if they would have shot the movie in black and white it would have been better. I would probably watch another "episode" if they make one...but alas...it still can't touch the old series.

Four Stars for Color THE BIG BANG is one of the most fascinating uses of color on film.  It is a study in graphic design, palette exploration, and crafty editing and manipulation of film.  And for that alone the film provides entertainment.  Not as much can be said wither for the writing or directing or acting. It is a bizarre mix of film noir, sci-fi, and old fashioned crime dramas that just doesn't manage to end up with anything novel - except for the look.  'A private detective Cruz (Antonio Banderas) is hired to find a missing stripper (Sienna Guillory) but the job turns complicated when everyone he questions ends up dead. From the mean streets of Los Angeles to the desolate desert of New Mexico, Cruz must contend with a brutal Russian Boxer, three brash LAPD detectives (Thomas Kretschman, William Fichtner, Delroy Lindo), an aged billionaire (Sam Elliott) looking for the Big Bang, and the billionaire's stunningly gorgeous wife. The solution to the mystery will cost ten lives, net $30 million and just might explain - well - everything.'  It would be difficult to summarize the unsummarizable better. Toss in a few good cameos by Snoop Dogg, James Van Der Beek, Autumn Reeser, Rebecca Mader and Robert Maillet and you have a colorful cast without a whole lot to say.  Despite its weak storyline the film takes on a life of its own with flashback sequences taking us out of the initial interrogation room while Banderas tells the story - and tantalizes the cops with knowledge of diamonds.  The  film often seems like a parody of serious crime films and as such it is entertaining.  Grady Harp, June 11

Nice classic For the limited technology that was available at the time - practically Stone Age compared to what we have in 2011! - the merging of animation and live action in this movie was nicely done, with a fun story of a orphan who runs away - and for good reason - and the dragon he befriends. This is definitely classic Disney, better than many of the films the company makes today.

Ummmm.... If I wasn't so busy trying to determine the swing in his 'metro', then I might have laughed....imstead I was busy playing detective.

You are special mary Lou's flip flop shop My kids love the action, songs, and color. I also like the message of the episode. Fun and educational. Good choice.

There are widescreen versions out there... I know because I own one.  As a multitude of reviews here testify, 'Bite the Bullet' (4 stars) is a real gem of a western-adventure that got buried under a heap of equally well-made but more topical genre films released in 1975 ('Jaws,' 'Cuckoo's Nest,' 'Shampoo,' 'Nashville,' 'Dog Day Afternoon,' etc.).  It is a fact, however, that Columbia released two versions of BTB on DVD:  one a picture disc containing only the ugly pan/scan fullscreen transfer of the film and the other a flipper which features that and a nice 2.35:1 widescreen transfer.  Problem is that information appears in small print on the back of the packaging (I believe the UPC codes are even the same), which you won't be able to confirm unless you have the thing in your hand.  So you have to either 1) comb your local DVD outlets to see if you can luck into one, or 2) query the vendor before you purchase online.  (You can also opt for the Blu-ray or pick up the 'Quick and the Dead/Bite the Bullet' double feature, which offers BTB in widescreen.)  Update: Since writing the above, I purchased BTB on Blu-ray and it looks spectacular.

Definitely worth seeing! Eye-opening (literally) and Well-Crafted! I heard so much about "I Spit On Your Grave" (2011 remake) that I eventually had to watch the movie myself to see what all the hype was about. Much of the controversy over this movie centers around the level of brutality and torture within the film, and to be honest...I saw the "Rated R" version rather than the "Unrated" version, so I am not sure how much of it has been trimmed down and edited from the uncut version. If you have a weak stomach, then at least check out the "Rated R" version because their isn't much gore, and certainly much less than your average horror movie.  This is a really good movie that was shot as an independent film on a low budget. The acting is quite good, the setting is eerie, and the plot centers around a very real evil in society (rape). In reality, this film is almost like two separate films - The Rape and The Revenge. The Rape (first half) is the true strength of the movie...Sarah Butler (as lead character Jennifer Hills) gives an outstanding performance as the lead character who is emotionally harassed and ultimately violated by a group of redneck thugs while renting a summer cabin in rural Louisiana. The Revenge (second half) centers around Jennifer's attempts to gain vengeance against the perpetrators, and while there are some creative torture/kill sequences, the second half just seems weaker than the first half. In my opinion, the first half of the movie was extremely realistic and, as a male, gave me greater insight into the fears and concerns that all women probably face at some point in their lives over the risk of being a rape victim. It also made me sympathize with all victims of rape, by further raising my awareness of the cruelty of this violent crime. Rape is an act of control and domination, not sexual pleasure, and this film definitely conveys this point.  ***SPOILERS BELOW*** The movie slips somewhat in the second half because it starts to follow the conventional horror film cliches of a killer who defies rationale and logic. 1) How did Jennifer survive weeks on end without any money, food, clothes, etc? When she returns, she is not any thinner from hunger, has two sets of clothing, and like Freddy or Jason - she can telepathically appear anywhere in an instant. 2) Jennifer would opt to remain secluded in the woods for a month just to murder her rapists once they have forgotten about her, rather than to go for help or attempt to contact her family/friends? Yeah right!  *** These things are what I felt detracted from the storyline, and while I know this is a movie - a horror movie, at that - I was a bit disappointed because the first half of the movie was so outstanding. ***END OF SPOILERS***  Nevertheless, the movie is absolutely worth watching! It is definitely not for children, though! The film allows the characters of the five rednecks to be developed to a point where you see into their perverse, hypocritical worlds and their twisted viewpoints (regarding their phony Christianity, reverse-elitist attitudes about the alleged superiority of rural vs. urban lifestyles, sexist and demeaning views of women, etc). This doesn't make you sympathize with these rednecks, but it does give a context for why they feel justified in violating Jennifer. I just wish the film makers would have devoted as much time and effort towards developing Jennifer's character as well. Overall, you definitely should check out this film!

didi I enjoyed this movie.  It is a family-type movie.  However, there are a couple of death scenes that might bother younger children.  For a disaster movie, it is better than most.  It was nice to have a good guy who didn't go around his boss and take things into his own hands.  It was a more realistic compared to most action movies where the hero walks across everyone around him because he is right and they are all wrong.  Good movie.

Good Movie!!! Really liked the stories the twists and turns were really surprising.  The stories were very good. Not like your ususl Halloween movie. Great Price!

A good Joe Pesci movie This may have come out in 1992 but to this date I still find it funny and enjoy watching it time and time again.  What makes it so enjoyable in my viewpoint is the many one liners Pesci uses in the movie and the scenes in the courtroom very funny.  When the judge keeps asking him what did you say and even to me it was hard to understand but I had close cap on so I could see the words.  So even for a dated comedy... if you just need a good laugh and see some good actors in a good movie then pick this up and see if it makes you laugh as much as it did for me.  Side bar Marisa Tomei won Academy Award for best supporting actress in a movie for this movie.

Cool Game It's great to be able to watch video on demand! Love the original series. It's cool to see the final chapter! I only wish that I could download to my Mac.

A Thin Storyline Successfully Disguised by Gorgeous Cinematography THE TOURIST has many flaws, not the least of which is the fact that it doesn't seem to be able to make up its mind whether it is a suspense thriller, a romantic comedy, or a travelogue.  But despite all of its weaknesses, on the small screen in the home it comes across as an Italian delicacy well worth watching. Bouncing around from Paris to Scotland Yard and eventually to serenissima Venice the visuals (thanks to cinematographer John Seale's ability to capture the flavors of Venice so beautifully) steal the show. The story written by none other than Julian Fellowes ('Gosford Park', 'Separate Lies',  'Young Victoria', 'Vanity Fair', 'From Time to Time') with director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Christopher McQuarrie, and J&eacute;rôme Salle (whose 2005 French thriller 'Anthony Zimmer' spawned this American version) is quirky by entertaining, and the musical score by James Newton Howard adds distinction to the film.  Elise Clifton-Ward (Angelina Jolie, dressed to the nines and looking like a mannequin) is on a mission: she is being closely followed on secret video by Scotland Yard Inspector John Acheson (Paul Bettany) and Chief Inspector Jones (Timothy Dalton) who expect her to meet up with one Alexander Pearce and gain back the money stolen from crime lord Reginald Shaw (Steven Berkoff). She eludes capture and boards a train to Venice where her instructions from Pearce suggest that she meet a man who looks like Pearce.  Interpol is engaged and the Italian police - led by Sergente Cerato (the extraordinarily handsome Alessio Boni) et al - pickup the chase for Scotland yard.  On the train Elise meets American spy-fiction fan and math teacher Frank Tupelo (Johnny Depp) and manipulates his emotions and attention to the point that Frank follows Elise to Venice - and the mystery thickens. Amid interesting characters are 'The Englishman' (Rufus Sewell) and Conte Filippo Gaggia (the ultimate Italian leading man Raoul Bova, remembered for his important role in 'Under the Tuscan Sun') who add to the suspense and incidents of mistaken identity.  To say anything further would rob the viewer of what little suspense the script contains.  The very fine cast seems to be sleepwalking through much of the story, but they are still so terrific to watch that they make the film a fine evening's entertainment.  Probably this film is better on DVD than it was one the big screen in theaters: the story seems more intimate and the relationships more credible.  Grady Harp, March 11

Very Good Movie Quite a story  of love & caring & what evil can & will do in this world we live in . Still is a  very powerful statement that the monks did for the village. God Bless them all.

thought provoking I was glad to find this movie available on amazon prime watch it now, because I'd been interested in seeing it for awhile.  I thought it was overall a well put-together documentary with a good message.  Although I do think animal cruelty is an important factor in veganism, I wish the film maker would've focused a little more on hard data and statistics associated with a plant based diet and how it benefits overall health and the environment.  Some people respond really well to the stark animal cruelty images, but other people may just feel manipulated by them.  Again, though, it was a good documentary with a good message.

Horror Made Correctly This is a collection of short horror films, tied together by one central storyline.  Each film is done by a different filmmaker, some of which are still up and coming.  To put it bluntly, this movie was brilliant.  Each story was unique, and each one scarier than the next.  I think that may have been used as part of the tag for the movie itself, but really, it holds true.  From psycho killers to insane paranormal, these filmds have everything for horror fans.  So, if there is one short you don't care for, there is at least one more to enjoy.  Although I'm  afan of found footage, the only real issue I had with this one was the justification for filming in each of the shorts.  However, some were clever and funny.  It's overall very enjoyable and definitely worth renting or purchasing if that's your thing.

A Classic Great digital remaster of the classic movie.  The movie is good quality.  I enjoyed watching the old time movie.  It helps me slow down when I watch it, especially since all of the movie and life itself these days are so fast paced.

A little graphic, but an excellent movie. I Love You Phillip Morris is a wonderful movie. It is very obviously about two gay men who are in love, one of whom is an unrepentant conman. Oh, and it's the true story of the main character, Steve. That just makes the movie that much better, after reading up a little on the man, knowing that all of this happened. The only downside is the graphicness of the first few minutes. There is a scene of very uncomfortable, clothed, hetero sex that I could have done without, and a similar scene of gay sex that made me uncomfortable because of the nudity and language used in it. The romantic scenes between Steve and Phillip (Jim and Ewan) were the least graphic in the film, and most were actually very sweet. Basically, if you enjoy seeing romance (not just random sex scenes, but actual romance, with dancing and kissing scenes) between two gay men and don't mind the one graphic scene, watch this movie. It's touching and a little sad. However, if you have a homophobic fiber in your body, don't watch it. It'll just set you off, and the world can do without that rant. ;)

More than just Marilyn Much better than what I'd expected, this film isn't just about Marilyn. It is about melancholy, longing and that grand divide between what calls us and what is in our best interest.

A Mixed Bag BURLESQUE is a mixed bag.   The musical numbers, which look like they could have been staged by the late Bob Fosse, are plentiful and fabulous, filled with a spectacular, sexy razzle-dazzle.  When they are on stage, strutting and singing their stuff, neither Christina Aguilera nor Cher disappoint.  They are terrific.   The problems with the film, written and directed by Steven Antin, occur when the actors are not singing or dancing.   The screenplay is rather trite and the performances, with the exceptions of Stanley Tucci, as the nightclub's gay, sharp-witted stage manager, and Kristen Bell, as the club's hard-drinking lead dancer, are dull.  Despite the fact that she screwed up the "Star Spangled Banner," Ms. Aguilera should keep her night job.   For the record, the story deals with an Ohio girl (Aguilera) who travels to Hollywood to make good as an entertainer.  She maneuvers herself into a waitress job at a hot nightclub, Burlesque, owned by Cher and her ex-husband (Peter Gallagher), which is a stone's throw from being foreclosed upon by the bank.  Soon, Christina has not only become the star of the floor show, but she is also being romanced by a ruthless businessman (Eric Dane), who wants to buy Burlesque, so that he can tear it down and build a high rise condo on the land, as well as her "best friend," a young bartender/wannabe songwriter (Cam Gigandet).   Guess which one she winds up with while devising a plan to save the club?   Alan Cumming is also, very briefly, in the movie, but his one big number was cut from the theatrical release.  However, it is viewable in the deleted scenes section of the DVD.  Other extras include audio commentary by Antin, an alternate opening and a blooper reel.  © Michael B. Druxman

Thor on BR Well i haven't watched it yet but the transaction with Amazon was quick & easy + free shipping too. I hope its as good as everyone says and then i need to watch the Avengers

still thinking about the film great performances all around.  really great directing too.  i'm still thinking about it a few weeks later and wishing i could find more films like this that I haven't seen.

Entertaining, more like the first movie I didn't see the show until it came out on disc, mostly because I had not liked the 2nd and 3rd movies. I did enjoy is one though. It had more of the romp and fun of the first movie and less of the battle scenes and scary make up of the previous two. While I missed Will and Elizabeth, the movie was fine without them. Of course, it looks like they are hopeful to keep the franchise going, so we'll see what the next installment may bring. I did get the 5 disc set, but I bought it at a local store where I could use my $5 Disney Movie Rewards coupon and then get the $5 rebate from Pirate's Booty snack mix (and since I don't need the 3D disc, I'm going to sell that to someone who does)- makes the $29 price tag much more reasonable.

Superman: The greatest of all time! I am a huge fan of the Superman comicbook titles as well as the Superman All Star limited series.  This movie will remind everyone why Superman is the greatest superhero of all time.  Superman may have "old fashion" values (yes, I know that im talking about him as though he actually exist :) but I think these are values that we need in today's world.  Even though its 2011, Truth, Justice and the American way still mean something.

"Surrender your planet!" I have a specific fondness for Gamera that I'd have a difficult time explaining to someone who didn't feel the same way.  He's a giant toothy turtle for pity sake, how is that not cool?  I also like the battery of villain monsters he has to defeat (who designed these things?).  In this double feature he must stop the rampage of Gyaos (a giant bat-like creature), and the spacey Viras (a bloated octopus?).  Of the two, the first film is the better crafted offering.  The plot involves a stalled highway project.  There's both a village and Gyaos to deal with before the road can move on.  As for the second feature, it's definitely aimed at a younger audience.  The lead characters are two boys who are kidnapped by a fleet of spacemen flying around in this giant bumble bee contraption (very graphic, very 60's mod).  The spacemen are shells harboring more hideous creatures (the sequence with them in a dark room, eyes lit up, was very creepy and easily the best scene in the movie, that, and losing their heads).  Part of this movie is padded with battle scenes from previous Gamera movies.  That the story wasn't as well thought out is evident but as a whole, it's really not that terrible.  At worse, it could be dismissed as "cute." Definitely a keeper for the collection.

Nice flow. You can tell that the writer and director spent a fair amount of time on details which to me is an accurate indicator of quality. The storyline of an inadvertent citizen being drawn into a bit of criminal and police conspiracy intrigue has been done before but this film had enough twists to that story that it was still engaging. It had a nice flow to the action - not excessive and overly stereotypic in the chase scenes. Acting was passably OK but kudos to the cinematography to keep the whole experience feel really close to the viewer. A few parts seemed a bit too unlikely but not excessively so.

'Dossier' redux option (Apologies for mismarking review! Realized too late was for blu..)Bought 2 disc blu, which kept freezing at 1'16" into film, so returned. Having watched an hour of 'blu', decided to revisit 'dossier' set. Aside from slick packaging, and despite the "Act 1/Act 2" split over 2 discs, I enjoyed the "redux marker" feature in this set (don't think it's on blu version). This allows viewer to watch Redux version that has pop-up subtitle (option 3), indicating exactly which scenes were added to original film -as you're watching film-. Interesting to see how different the film's 'attitude' becomes with these scene insertions. MY own opinion- added footage detracts from original: did not think Willard's laughing after, then Kilgore's whining about, the surfboard theft kept their characters intact; thought original playboy sequence was superfluous, so added 'nudity' footage was really unnecessary; also thought plantation sequence wrecked the original's pacing. My individual take on film: yes iconic, yes superb cinematography and editing, however: I thought most of the written dialogue and scenarios, especially on the boat, were poorly/shallowly written, and I thought the ending was lackluster. (I know my opine is in the minority, but please refrain from leaving too ugly a comment!)

9yro Daughter Loved this My daughter is a huge Selema Gomez fan, she loved this movie.  I was happy that it was appropriate for her age and did have some nice scenes about not trying to be something you are not and loving who you are.

Solid acting across board Solid acting by entire cast kept the movie moving along at a good pace.  Some esoteric language may confuse those not familiar with terms, but a minor complaint. Jeremy Irons and Kevin Spacey were solid as ever.

Good Movie - Good Acting "Lost Souls" may be a little dry for horror fans, but I thought the movie was well paced and managed to avoid the normal cliches and cheap scares.  If they added more exorcisms, gore, and special effects, I'm sure horror fans would have been raving over this movie.

Good Movie/Faulty DVD I too loved this series back in the 70's and was happy to see it offered again. I am a huge Elizabeth Montgomery fan.  The item shipped expediently.  Discs 1 & 3 ran beautifully with no problems.  However disc 2 would not play.  Contacted MovieMars who promptly issued a return label.  Returned the product over 2 weeks ago with request to send back to me the original discs 1 & 3 as I know these work along with a new disc 2. Am still waiting on my product.  Hopefully, it will arrive soon and work without problems.

Needs a official remastered release on Blu-Ray This movie is a great drama with a outstanding Cast (Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall, John Kerr, Lilian Gish, Oscar Levant), great camera work (filmed it Cinemascope) and direction (famous from his musical "Meet me in St. Louis" and other dramas "Home from the Hill") and great script with very good dialogues.  Also starring in this movie: Tommy Rettig and Fay Wray (famous as first Scream Queen in "King Kong" 1933 and "Mystery of the Wax Museum".  Movie is remastered (!), on DVD-R Product, without any bonus-features or subtitles.  Like very much John Kerr's acting.  P.S.: got my DVD Cover shortly signed by John Kerr  :-)

Guzaarish ( The request), one of the best of 2010 Guzaarish is about a crippled musician living in a desolate mansion in Goa. A shadow of his glorious past Ethan is dependent on his full time nurse ( Aishwarya Rai), who has cared for him for the last 12 years. His disability does not stop him from hosting a radio show or writing a book. To everyone, he is a person who has conquered his disability and is living a full life. People, both closest and outsiders are shocked when he files a petition through his lawyer for Euthanasia. The movie tells us about Ethan's life both past and present through flashbacks and his fight to have the right to die. Sanjay Leela Bhansali or SLB, has once again chosen a bleak topic to make a movie on. He is no stranger to such stories, having made films on deaf and mute people ( Khamoshi), Alzheimer's and blindness ( Black) and alcoholism ( Devdas). As in the past this is not an original story idea but has been inspired from other sources, for this movie SLB relies on the  movies, Sea Inside and Whose Life is it anyway, but has modified the script greatly and has set it in Goa. A complete entertainer, this movie had great music, dialogues, script, acting and direction. Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai put in great performances and their chemistry, as it was in Jodhaa Akbar and Dhoom 2, is amazing. Hrithik has put in the best performance of his career and Rai supports his at every nuance. The rest of the cast is superb as well, including the people who have one minute roles. The music, one of the best of 2010, is melodious. Ek Tera Zikr, Saayba, 100 gram zindagi are some of the great tracks. They are choreographed and shot well, just watch Udi, featuring Aishwarya Rai to see what I mean. SLB has composed the music himself, shows that the man is supremely talented. The photography is marvelous and Goa looks beautiful. This is a top notch product and easily one of the best films of 2010. 4 stars. 1/31/11

Like no other Musical I'd seen I think they could have really benefited from a larger budget. I think a lot more could have been done; but given the resources they had I think it was very well done. The story was interesting and captivating. There were multiple layers of character conflict which was very nice. The ending had a cool twist to it as well. The only thing I think I didn't like was EVERY SINGLE LINE was sung. There is never a speaking moment. I think it makes it unique, but allowing some resting time where it's only talking, would have helped make a better flowing movie. There were a lot of good songs and I think only one that I actually disliked... Overall, I would suggest it to a few of my friends, but certainly not everyone I know. It has earned it's R rating with blood, gore, language, nude dead people and some "drug" (fake drug) use.

A STRONG DRAMATIC ROLE FOR SOPHIA LOREN I've been a fan of Sophia Loren since I was a kid. Her sexy and exotic looks are one of kind. She is one of the most beautiful women every to have graced the cinema. I think of Loren has as a romantic comedy actress, although I know she has done many dramatic roles Usually in the dramatic roles, Loren is the romantic partner for the male lead but in TWO WOMEN, she is the star. This is her movie and no doubt it was a role of a lifetime. It's clear why she  won the Academy Award for Best Actress.  In TWO WOMEN, we see not only Loren's stunning beauty but also her remarkable beauty. Loren stars as the feisty and independent Cesira. The young widow runs a small grocery store in war-torn Rome.  Cesira is trying to give her 13 year old daughter Rosetta a normal life despite the regular arial bombings and dangers. Finally a bomb strikes too close to the shop and Cesira decides that the countryside would be safer. She and Rosetta embark on a hourney to the safety of her small childhood village near Naples.  We see the horrors of war on innocent civilians as the pair head south by train and then on foot. There is danger around every corner. Cities are bombed out and civilians are doing whatever they can to survive. No worries for tough Cesira. No one will hard her or her daughter. Eventually they find safety in the mountains near her village with people she knows.  One of the refugees is Michele played by French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo. Michele (pronounced Me KEL A in Italian) is an idealistic young man who like many falls for the beautiful Cesira. He professes his love for Cesira, but what does fate have in store for them?  I knew what the main premise of the story was and what happens to the "two women", but that incident comes very late in the movie and it is distburbing and heartbreaking. I had heard so much about that part of the story that it to all happen much earlier. This is a story of survival and a young mother's determination to protect her child. Loren shows her amazing acting ability in this once-in-a lifetime role.  Like other reviewers, I have to take note of the particularly bad quality of this DVD. The cover shows a sultry Sophia Loren when most covers and pictures I have seen show her in the agony of war.  The video and audio qualities of this version were very substandard. I'm referring to the version listed as coming from Pro-Active Entertainment Group. The quality was almost unbearable and I am sorry it destroyed the artistry of the film. This is definitely not the version to buy if you are serious about film.

Entertaining This movie was funny and for the most part family friendly. Pole dancing scene the exception.  Good entertainment for adults.

season seven Well, works fine and all, wasn't packaged as well as I would like and the little plastic disc holders in the actuall case were broken, letting the discs slide around thus scratching them up a bit.

Hetallia 1st season DVD is great. It is funny after I watched it a few times. It was a gift to my daughter. She really lilkes these type of books and DVD/CD.

Good Action and fun Johnny Depp returns to the well once more for Pirates 4- On Stranger Tides. Losing some original cast members doesn't hurt as the movie is action filled, scary in spots and with many good special effects. Early on in the movie there is a big chase scene through Old London which is vry well done. Another higlight is the dramatic and scary  mermaid attack scene. The plot is a bit easier to follow here than in the earlier sequels also. As always, Depp is great as Jack and he gets good support from the rest of the cast. Cruz is good but her role doesn't give her all that much to do, still a very entertaining sequel- 4 stars.

cute, wish it was longer These are very cute "shorts"!  I love the 'play all' feature.  My son LOVES them.  I wish their were more - there are 9 and they range from 2.5min to almost 5min long.  They are really cute though and right in line with the first movie - no violence, just innocent fun.

Could A "Pipebomb" End "The Game?" WWE Tag Team Champions Air Boom vs. Awesome Truth - Before the match, Truth came out with a remixed version of his old "What's Up" theme under the new name "U SUCK!"  Kofi & Bourne were in control early by keeping a fresh man in with quick tags while using double team moves like stereo top rope dives onto Truth & Miz on the outside.  Miz & Truth were able to regain control & did "classic tag team wrestling 101" by keeping him away from Kofi & grounding him taking away his high flying offense.  The bigger story here was when things broke down with the referee missing calls that ended up working in favor of Air Boom causing Miz & Truth to take matters into their own hands.  This was a good opening match but was more about the story behind Miz & Truth's "conspiracy."  Intercontinental Champion Cody Rhodes vs. Ted Dibiase - Former Legacy members against each other here with Dibiase coming out very aggressive & more focused on brawling than wrestling with his intense punches & even kicking Cody in the face at one point.  Cody tried to slow down the pace with various holds & stretches but resorted to using the mask as a weapon which caused Ted to try to beat Cody at his own game towards the end in what was a solid match.  United States Champion Dolph Ziggler vs. John Morrison vs. Alex Riley vs. Jack Swagger - As you expect from a fatal four way match, this was non-stop action with everyone getting their various moments & stories told.  From Swagger & Dolph competing for Vickie Guerrero's attention, Morrison delivering a dropkick on one person & landing on another in a pinfall position all in one move, Morrison's unique counter of Swagger's attempted slam, and when Swagger & Dolph had their submission holds on at the same time.  One moment to look out for was when where Dolph & Morrison were fighting on the top rope with Morrison falling into the tree of woe position with his head striking the mat on the way down before Riley leaped over Morrison onto the top rope with Ziggler only for Morrison to pull himself up & back suplex Riley off the top followed by Swagger leaping to the top rope & hip tossed Dolph off.  As I said, non-stop action while continuing the story between both Swagger & Dolph fight over Vickie Guerrero.  World Champion Randy Orton vs. Mark Henry - After Henry showed his power advantage early, Orton was able to knock Henry off his feet & focused on his knees & ankle while also showing his speed advantage by side stepping Henry causing him to fall to the outside.  However Henry's power advantage was showcased such as wrapping Orton around the ringpost & a big splash while Orton continued to try to chop Henry down with clotheslines, dropkicks, and even able to do the hanging DDT.  This match did it's job in putting Henry over as a big strong monster heel but the match itself was as well worked as you would expect since Henry is very limited & but a step down from his previous series against Sheamus.  Divas Champion Kelly Kelly vs. Beth Phoenix - This was the same setup as their previous match at SummerSlam with Eve & Natayla being in their partner's corners with the major difference being that this was in Beth's hometown so the crowd was heavily on her side.  Kelly had the advantage with her quickness & athleticism but Beth clearly showcased her power when she caught Kelly in mid air & spanked her in the ring before choking her in the ropes.  Eve & Natayla ended up getting into a fight on the outside while Beth continued to dominate including a superplex off the top rope before Kelly was able to pull out a quick roll through to the surprise win.  This was almost the exact same match as their previous one at SummerSlam which may sound bad but it was still better than the usual divas matches we are used to seeing.  WWE Champion Alberto Del Rio vs. John Cena - We had some comedic moments before the match in regards to the entrance of both men from Del Rio's car to Cena being a "fighting Fruity Pebble."  The crowd being split for both men here & Ricardo ending up being sent to the back early making this a one on one match.  Both men traded momentum early with Del Rio wearing down Cena with chinlocks & knees into the ribs but Cena was able to regain momentum when Del Rio missed a dropkick that caused him to slip right through the ropes to the floor.  Cena attempted the A.A. but Rio was able to counter with a backstabber followed by his sidekick while Cena was on the top rope but Cena was able to hurt Del Rio's shoulder when he missed a shoulderblock & hit the ringpost.  Both men from here took it to the air was Del Rio came off the top rope to land backfirst onto Cena while Cena also hit his legdrop from the top.  This was a very good match as Cena brought his A game here & didn't do his "stereotypical" performance of walking through his match while this was also Del Rio's best PPV performance in months since moving to RAW earlier this year.  No Disqualification Match: Triple H vs. C.M. Punk - The PPV called "Night Of Champions" is main evented by a non-title match (how funny is that) but Triple H's position as Chief Operating Officer is on the line.  A few side notes here before the match is that this is Triple H's first match since WrestleMania, Michael Cole at this point in the show lost his voice so it's just Booker & Lawler commentating the match, and you'll get a chuckle out of the new C.M. Punk t-shirt that he wears to the ring.  Punk kick started the match right away by jumping Triple H during his entrance & threw him over the ringside barrier with Triple H bouncing back & throwing Punk over the announce table.  Both men took back in to the ring & brawled with ramming Punk's knee into the pole twice before both men taking the fight through the crowd onto the stage & back in to the ring.  Punk used a chair into the ring before wedging it in a corner only for it to work against him when Triple H whipped him through the chair onto the outside.  Triple H continued to work on Punk's leg using the ringpost & a chair before Punk countered by sending Triple H into the steps at ringside & delivering an impact move that the announcers described as "SAVAGE!"  we saw various people get involved from Miz & Truth coming in only to attack BOTH men, Johnny Ace (V.P. of Talent Relations) & his actions looking like that he was biased towards one competitor in the match, and Kevin Nash again having his issues with both men.  This was the match of the night as they played to the "No DQ" rule & buildup very well as this was more of a fight than wrestling match while continuing the various storylines involving everyone involved here.  In the end, this PPV did it's job as far as furthering storylines while giving up some good matches that ranged from solid & very well done as I don't consider this PPV to have a bad unwatchable match on here so it's one worth checking out.

movies review Nine Months was a funny movie even with Robin Williams showing up in two scences.  Hugh Grant plays a man who thinks that life with his live in girlfriend is just perfect the way it is until she declairs that she is pregnant one day on their way to a friends house for a weekend get together.  He runs into Tom Arnold and his family whom he thinks is just crazy life with all of the kids.  He thinks that kids just ruin your life.  He can't except his girlfriend is pregnant and they are going to be parents until his girlfriend leaves him when he misses an appointment for the sonagram.  When he watches the video at home he falls in love, he gets Tom's character to help him get his girlfriend back and prove to himself to her.  The funniest part was them trying to get to the hospital when she goes into labor at a resturant.  The end was so cute, and I think that this is one of Hugh's beter movies before the whole scandle.

Like it I haven't used it much yet, but it's pretty easy to follow even though there are not any step by step instructions.  It's been good so far.  Am working on the rest of it.

An excellent documentary about the rise of the "Once" stars The title references the recording and touring group that began as a collaboration between Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova.  They  became Oscar winners and stars for their hit movie from 2007, "Once."  They met in Dublin when Irglova was still a teen, having immigrated from The Czech Republic with her mother.  In spite of their 18 year age difference they became music partners that developed into something more.  This documentary focuses on their post-Oscar (2008) fame.  Shot in an unromantic black and white like a home movie, the style while raw is very effective.  We see the more experienced Hansard ("The Frames") find his dream of music stardom, but still looking for something more.  Irglova on the other hand was thrown into the fray as a shy, unassuming 18 year old at the time "Once" was shot.  She is clearly uncomfortable with the fame, the fans and the autographs that come with the accolades.  In one scene she is surprised coming off the tour bus early in the morning, only to find a couple teenagers looking for a conversation and some pictures.  Eventually we see their real life romance begin to fizzle and each partner can't see the other's point of view and even if they do, don't know what to do about it.  Most of the film is shot at concerts with plenty of back stage story telling.  It is convincing to see the song writing follow their relationship, whether that was the original intent or not.  We see some back story of Glen, with interviews of his proud mother and alcoholic father (who died during the filming of the documentary).  Hansard talks about his schooling as it were.  He dropped out at age 15 to begin his music career.  Unfortunately we don't get much of anything on Irglova at all.  That's a disappointment.  Still, overall this is a brief study on how fame changes a person.  The film suggests that although the couple is no longer romantically connected, the touring would continue.  From what I can tell as I write this, they have opted for solo careers.  Too bad for fans.

frozen and cold! this was a movie about 3 kids that wanted one last go on the lifts in the snows befor it closed for the week, why you would want to do that is beyond me, anyway the lift stops and there stranded.  what would you do?  i found this movie terrifying, brutal and gross, a bit far-fetched but definitely worth a watch

Bridge To Terabithia GREAT MOVIE,SAD ENDING. BUT I STILL LIKED IT.WORTH RENTING AND KID FRIENDLY.I WOULD RECOMMEND IT HIGHLY. GOOD STORY AND LIKEABLE CHARACTERS.

Lover of Plays Wendy is a fool. You will crack up and her stunts in this movie. men tend to think or act like women have majical powers and in this Play Wendy will show you just how animalistic a real crazy woman could make a weak man act. Get it its funny.

Very good movie I have quite a general knowledge of the American revolution, basically the ideas and principles involved and political leaders involved. I am an objectivist and firm advocate of Ayn Rand's philosophy. I want to learn much more about this whole fascinating historical era of Founding fathers and I believe this good movie gave me even more insipration for further study. Would highly recommend it. Very long film (3 DVDs, at least 8 hours), it originally ran as series, so make sure you split your watching into at least 3 parts. Comment for non-US viewers: unfortunately dvd may not be playable on some european dvd players. I had to play it on my laptop.  Jiri, Czech Republic

a cool flick and several decent ones. The first movie just rocks and is alot of fun, it's man versus the big bugs but the whole thing is a movie popcorn at it's best. Even though story wise the humans probably started the 'war' it's really doesn't matter because it's just meant to be a action flick. On blu ray it looks great too, the next two are made to video efforts and the second one is only available in this package which is why I bought it. The second one is taking place in the mythology of the first but doesn't feature any of the characters of the first movie. It's still a decent low budget flick on it's own but compared to the first it's very much a lower budget affair. The third features some of the characters of the first and isn't as limited in storywise as the second which takes place mainly in one location. the third is better and features a higher budget which helps but it's still no a budget flick. The blu rays look pretty good although the price is high. I bought this at ultimate electronics which is going out of business sadly for alot less. I would say casual fans should stick to buying the first and third on their own but completists will want this boxset.

#1 Detective of All Time These seasons are some of the best of Columbo episodes. I grew up watching all the shows and was never disappointed. I love the Old Fashioned Murder episode. My only regret is that they no longer air on television, what a waste. I'm proud to be an owner of the first through the seventh season.  Southern Bell

What I Missed Was a kid in 60s. Saw one of these shows on rare occ at somebody elses. Always wanted to see. Liked what i saw. Like Patty Duke still. Had to adjust to the time era change but then fell right into the show. Thought there should have been more to the beginning. Miss the family comedies. Todays version doesnt interest me. Would rather find it back in time.

seems something missing I love Charles Bronson, so I was excited to order this movie. It plays same as when it was on television. That's fine with me, I would rather have it like that. The ending scene seemed to be missing. It just stopped and went to the end. That was very disappointing, esp. w this one. That should never happen. I'm keeping it though. I should've asked for return or refund. Didn't ask and that's ok now.

Good combination of suspense and action Alien (1979) Science Fiction, Horror, 117 minutes Directed by Ridley Scott Starring Sigourney Weaver, Ian Holm and Tom Skerritt  I first saw Alien during its original theatrical run in 1979 and appreciated it even more on the big screen. The first half of the movie is the best part. It's dark and atmospheric and there is an element of mystery. We are introduced to the crew of the mining ship and learn the relationships and personalities involved.  The computer screens on the ship seem dated now, but the overall effect of the movie is just as powerful. The story gathers pace when some of the crew investigate the surface of a moon and find a ship from an unknown species. The way this sequence unfolds is almost worthy of Hitchcock.  The purpose of the mission isn't immediately clear, but I won't reveal the details in case you haven't seen the movie. This is essentially a story of survival. While an actual encounter with an alien race might involve peaceful interaction, Alien never suggests for a moment that peace is possible. The creature is a killer and pursues the crew one at a time. Eventually, the battle focuses on Ripley (Weaver) and the alien. The second half of the movie doesn't quite live up to the promise of the first because most of the mystery is gone, but it's still a gripping story.  Like many movies featuring unknown creatures, we rarely see shots of the whole creature. We are shown glimpses as it evolves and our imagination fills in the gaps. When we are eventually shown the whole thing, it adds to the effect and comes as quite a shock as we realize its strength and resilience.

Not Bad Pretty good flick Kevin James is his normal self making fun of his weight like he always does. Good story about self-esteem.

A Couple Things Are Out Of Place Orlando Bloom is shown hotshoeing a horse. Iron horseshoes would not be in common use for another 200 years and hotshoeing was still 500 years in the future.  Also Bloom is forging swords which are glowing red, and handles the "cool" end with his bare hands. Yeah, that end would still be 400 or 500 degrees.  But then he severely burns his hand on a tiny cross that has barely touched the flames.  In the scene where they are ambushed by archers, about 8 guys with bows are able to accurately fire what seems to be hundreds of arrows in about 30 seconds.  A character talks about dying from a blood clot caused by bone marrow, which was obviously unknown in 1000 AD and the worst cliche plot device from "House."  Also, it is not clear how Bloom goes from bullied little brother to Terminator-like killing machine, although there is mention of previous military experience.  And it's not clear why he is able to return to his home where he had been wanted for murder.

Really Good Workout! I dont normally write reviews, but I would like to address some of the negative reviews...I actually burned 690 calories, with stopping and taking breaks so actually doing the entire workout nonstop Im sure I could burn the 800 calories indicated....To the people who claim they didnt sweat or indicate that the workout was 'disappointing" there is no way you did the entire video without breaks, and without sweat'n and if you did you should consider the Iron Man Comp...b/c you are truely a beast.. bottom line good workout, it does what it says...you will burn alot of calories...

Lightweight but a great deal of fun!  Carrey & MacGregor are delightful. Some have suggested that Jim Carrey is poorly cast in the role of Steven Russell, the con artist whose story is told in I LOVE YOU, PHILLIP MORRIS.  It's been said that his performances are too glossy, too on-the-surface for us to believe him as lovestruck and will to do everything and anything for that love.  I believe he is IDEALLY cast because of that.  It's true that Carrey is not a classically trained actor...he is just very good at faking emotion (lots of actors do that, of course).  But think about one of his most acclaimed performances, as Andy Kaufmann in MAN ON THE MOON.  Kaufmann was a cipher, a man who deliberately avoided showing his real self by faking one "public persona" after another until he had no real persona at all.  Carrey was pitch perfect. In PHILLIP MORRIS, he plays a gay man who initially lives a lie of being straight.  He also joins the police force, not because he wants to fight crime, but as an avenue to getting access to paperwork that will show him who is real mother is.  (And when he finally meets her, she slams the door on him.  He was the middle child, and he wants to know why she kept her first child and her third, but not him.)  Eventually, he amicably ends his marriage and perhaps over-compensates by living a lavish Key West lifestyle...flamboyantly gay.  He funds this lifestyle elaborate con games.  The way Carrey plays Russell, we're never sure if Russell is actually a little self-deluded and half believes the cons...or is he just so good at them because there's no real Steven Russell inside the body.  This disconnect from reality allows Carrey to jump everywhere emotionally with great facileness but we also never know when or if what we're seeing is really what Steven Russell is feeling.  I liked this.  Does this man have any self-insight, or is he faking everything...even love?  For when he is sent to jail, he falls BIG TIME for a fellow inmate, Phillip Morris (Ewan MacGregor).  The feeling is mutual...or is it.  Certainly, Morris loves Russell.  Does Russell really love Morris, or is he just fulfilled in some way by being loved, and thus will do anything to keep winning the approval.  And does it matter?  They both seem happy with each other.  Eventually, both are on the outside, and the question becomes, will Carrey go straight, or will his desire to keep Morris living in the lap of luxury drive him to further cons?  The answer is not hard to guess, and where the film goes from there is too much fun for me to ruin now.  In reality, although based on a true story, the entire film lives at an exaggerated, slightly fake level.  It's just so hard to believe Steven Russell did all the things the movie says he did.  (Although apparently he did!).  But it strikes such a rich tone that frankly the film is a blast from beginning to end.  Russell has seemingly endless depths of trickery that he can go to...and Carrey plays the role with gusto.  "Gusto" is a word I seldom trot out...but it is SO appropriate here.  He's having a ball playing a guy having a ball.  And MacGregor is a delight as Morris.  He's filmed in such a way that he practically glows.  He's slightly fey, slightly effeminate...but it never struck me as a caricature.  We DO believe he loves Russell.  There are plenty of plot hi-jinks throughout the film...including one of the funniest and cleverest prison breaks since SHAWSHANK.  It's certainly quite entertaining just at that level.  But watching these two guys absolutely grab the screen is the enduring pleasure.  And yes, there is plenty of relatively graphic smooching and sex in the film.  I say "relatively" because if what we saw was between a man and a woman, we'd scarcely bat an eye.  But because it's two men, some of the physicality is a bit surprising to see in a mainstream movie.  Carrey & MacGregor play it with nary a wink or a hesitation...and thus their relationship has real spark.  It's sexy and fun and romantic.  The film is too lightweight and frothy to really be great...but it is a wonderfully good time nonetheless, and should be enjoyed by any adult audience not afraid to see Carrey and MacGregor do some serious smooching.

Set 18, Midsomer Murders Received the item (Set 18, Midsomer Murders)  on time and in good condition. However, for only three episodes, I thought it was a little pricey.  For the money, I would have been happier if there were four or five episodes.

Not prime Pixar, but close It's a little thin on story, but the characters are so charming and the visuals so dazzling that it's hard to knock this movie. PLUS ... it holds my nephew's attention every time we watch it together, and that's saying something. Now if only I could stop him from saying the lines out loud; he's memorized the whole thing.  I grew up in an era in which cartoons were pure fun ... Looney Tunes stuff, that kind of thing. Lots of modern animation doesn't grab me. This film did.

From a Woman's Perspective As an adult woman I didn't think think this was a great movie--but it's great for my kids!  The character of Andrometa is a perfect Princess Leia-type roll-model. FEMININE AND STRONG (not a man-hating who-needs-you feminist or bitchy Xena).  I liked the messages of Forgiveness and the power of Father-Son relationships.  In the first Titans movie there's was anger and rebellion towards Father-Figures. Also, Rape, Infanticide, Nudity. I appreciate the movie-makers tapping into the fact that a lot of kids were interested in this type of movie, just as we adults were in the older version when we were growing up.  I will be definitely be purchasing this sequel movie for my kids.

JUST PLAIN FUN THE A TEAM  When this film was first announced I was really excited for it because one of my favorite Mixed Martial artists Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson would star in it. Of course you know I had tog o see it and own it when it was released on DVD and Blu Ray. So here we are and I am finally going to review it, something I should have done a while back. Still better late than never I always say, or is that some one else's saying, anyway.  This not you're A-Team you may remember from the TV show, no not at all, could be a good or bad thing depending on how you look at it. Me personally I loved this new version and found it to be nothing more than just pure fun. It also didn't hurt that one of my favorite MMA fighters Quinton "Rampage" Jackson is in this movie as BA. Any way regardless of all that this is a very fun flick that is meant just to be that, fun. So turn the brain off and enjoy what is on the screen.  The story follows a group of men that come together in one hilarious moment after the next and form a new group in the US military. They tackle the missions that no one else can and do it in the most outrageous yet ingenious ways ever. You know, they take on the jobs no one else can or wants to, I love it. Any way they are sent out onto another one of these missions and are successful of course, but there triumphant return is spoiled by the murder of their commanding officer. With no record of him sending them on this mission and the military thinking they killed him they are sent to live out the rest of their days in prison. So after they escape prison, with a little help from a not so trustworthy guy they plan on clearing their names.  The film is just straight up fun, nothing more nothing less, if you try to turn on the brain you may disappointed. Everything in this movie goes bang and everything is pure dumb fun. I knew this going in luckily so I had a great time watching it. Not to mention that mixed martial artist Quinton "Rampage" Jackson plays BA, love it. He is a very funny guy in real life and it shows here, you can tell had fun doing this. Liam Neeson is brilliant in this and plays his character up, as does Bradley Cooper who is just his plain old self, which is a good thing here. Sharlto Copley is a show stealer as Murdock, way to funny, brilliant job. Patrick Wilson, and Brian Bloom are equally as good here as two of the villains in this film, great jobs on both parts.  It is obvious that I enjoyed this film but I must say that you have to go in knowing what you are getting. If you do I think you will have a good time as well, writer/director Joe Carnahan along with fellow writers Skip Woods and even Brian Bloom himself did a great job making this just pointless fun. I do recommend this film if you are looking for a good, dumb, fun flick for a weekend afternoon or something.

Great Mockumentary A very real-feeling mockumentary about the making of a zombie movie. Good acting for such low budget film. Great story line.

Marley & Me makes a grown man cry. "Marley is not just a regular dog. He once ate an answering machine and polished it off. He did not just chew it either; he ate it and digested it, then he came back and ate the phone for dessert ." ~John Grogan ~ (Marley & Me).  Brief summary: Marley & Me is a comedy about a Yellow Labrador Retriever. A young couple John and Jenny Grogan adopts Marley as a puppy and soon discover why he was sold to them on clearance. He is the "worst dog in the world" and wreaks havoc and destruction everywhere he goes. John gets an idea from his friend Sebastian that a dog might help him avoid some tough responsibility and allow him a few years of freedom by getting his wife's mind off of having a baby. The plan doesn't work out as well as John hopes and finds out that owning a Labrador Retriever can be just as tough as raising children.  My experience: I had avoided Marley & Me since its release to theaters. I had heard rumors that the movie was so sad that grown men would leave the theater to avoid the embarrassment of bawling like a baby in front of thier family, friends and worse yet, complete strangers.  The movie traces the life of a Yellow Labrador named Marley and follows thru to the dogs last days of life. Since I had just suffered the loss of losing my first Labrador; Zira in 2005 I knew I would not be able to cope well with the story-line. As the old saying goes "Time heals all" and I felt I was finally ready to take on the challenge of watching this most talked about film by all Labrador Retriever fans and just dog lovers in general.  The movie made me laugh out-loud so many times and I could relate and appreciate every aspect of John and Jenny's experience with Marley. John is also a writer so I could definitely relate to that as well. Most of the humorous lines come from the character John and of course from the hilarious antics and behaviors from Marley.  There were so many heartfelt moments, they were so tear jerkingly touching, that some lumps in my throat had to be swallowed back and then the writers of the movie could immediately make me laugh again. The last half hour of the movie was so sad that I must admit I was glad I watched this movie alone. It did indeed have me "bawling like a baby" (I guess I am such a softie when it comes to stuff like this.) However I thought the movie ended on such a positive note that I found myself really enjoying this film. My biggest disappointment was that Marley is only an adorable little puppy for about ten minutes in the entire movie. I would have liked to have seen more of that.  The movie overall: The acting was very well followed thru and Owen Wilson as John Grogan was very funny and an extremely likeable character. Jennifer Aniston as Jenny was just okay to me. The pacing of the movie was a little bit on the slow side, with all the family, pregnancy and baby stuff; the pay-off at the end however made it necessary so it was well worth it.  The acting (if you can call it that) from Marley was fantastic, he really makes this movie extremely enjoyable and I will treasure Marley & Me for a long time.The music in Marley & Me was very decent as well; from the opening title theme to a remake of a Nirvana song all the way to the heart wrenching ending theme, I will simply name it, "Reflections".  There were a few adult themed elements that gave the movie its deserving PG Rating but all in all I found it to be very appropriate for young children. I would highly recommend Marley & Me to any dog lovers and to all Labrador Retriever fans.

Decent Movie This movie keeps your interest and the acting is great.  There are also alternate endings you can view although the published one is my favorite.  That Steve Zahn has a great sense of humor and facial expressions.

Friday The 13th part VI Jason Lives review 8/10 Then we have the return of Jason & the introduction of Zombie Jason. This was the only Friday The 13th movie to get any kind of critical notice cause a lot of critics hated slasher movies in general I wonder if what the critics wanted was a deep plot with 3 dimensional acting you know. But Friday The 13th part VI is a good sequel it went under a working title Aladdin Sane due to the popularity of this series. Made on a budget of $3 million made $19 million directed by Tom McLoughlin he's really only done TV work like Murder In Greenwhich as well as DC Sniper. It stars Thom Matthews as Tommy Jarvis I know that they wanted John Shepard but he had became a Born Again Christian. It also stars Jenifer Cooke as Megan Garris, CJ Graham as Jason Voorhees, David Kagen as Sheriff Garris, Kerry Noonan as Paula & Renee Jones as Sissy. The story is 6 years after Jason Voorhees has been buried Tommy still hasn't dealt with fear of Jason Voorhees he has decied to dig him up & cremate him. He has 1 of his friends along with him they dig up the body Tommy takes a fence post stabs Jason's body repeatidy with it lightning strikes Jason where Jason comes back to life he is covered in maggots & dirt he puts on his trusty hockey mask & is ready to kill Tommy but his friend takes a shovel hits Jason in the back of the head Jason punches a hole into that guys stomach. Then you have the opening where it parodies James Bond. Tommy goes to The Police Deparment when they find out Tommy is from the hospital they lock him up. Then you have this couple Darren & Lizbeth who are going to work at the reopend Camp Crysatal Lake now called Forest Green. They encounter Jason who is just standing there Darren pulls out a gun at Jason who takes that fence post stabs him through the stomach throws him overhead. Lizabeth runs for her life she pulls out money of course Jason doesn't want her money he takes the fence post uses it as a spear sticks her head in mud puddle & drowns her & an American Express Card floats away. Your then introduced to Megan & her friends Sissy, Paula, & Cort. who are going to work as Camp Counselers at Camp Forest Green Megan reports to her Dad who is The Sheriff that Darren & Lizabeth have gone missing you have Tommy in his cell telling them it was Jason Megan also starts to have a thing for Tommy. You have a group of business people out in the woods playing paintball you have some good kills Jason ripping a guys arm off slamming his head into a tree & there is a smiley face imbeaded in the tree where that guys head was slamed in. Or when in 1 big swoop you have 2 guys & girl Jason cuts their heads off. Then you have this guy fire a paintball at Jason he goes after him & is killed off screen. Later on that night Jason kills the grounds keeper of the graveyard with a glass bottle & there is this man & woman out there in the woods making out & the guy checks out what the screaming is about Jason goes after him & they try to leave on a motorcycle but they get a machete through the chest at the same time. The cops get Tommy out of town & tell him not tot come back. Meanwhile at Camp Forest Green Cort is off with this girl in an RV Jason rips the plug out & the power goes out in The RV. They decide to get out of there this scene is funny Jason grabs the girl kills her in the bathroom & Cort is jamming to a real rocking song Jason stabs Cort in the side of the head The RV flips over on it's side Jason stands on top of it that was just a great shot. Sheriff Garris gets a call they found the bodies of Darren & Lizabeth you have Tommy call The Sheriff's Office Megan decides to help Tommy. Jason is going around the camp Jason twists Sissy's head off this little girl named Nancy sees Jason carrying her body tells a Paula a Conseler about it she puts her back to bed Paula is killed by Jason. Meanwhile Megan helps Tommy leads the cops on a chase scene that I liked is where she lowers Tommy's head between her legs she tells him to stay. I've heard it said that the character of Megan is a spitfire & I agree she is also a really likeable character. 1 thing leads to another & they are caught at a police blockade. At the jail Sheriff Garris gets a call they found Cort & that girl he was with. Megan tries to explain to her Dad that Tommy was with her that whole time. Later on you have Mega & Tommy act like they are arguing with each other where they trick a deputy & she get Tommy out of the cell. Then you have Jason go up to that little girl Nancy & she prays that scene was done well. The cops arrive at Camp Forest Green & Jason kills Garris's deputies. Tommy comes up with a plan to trap Jason in the lake where he drowned at in 57. Then you have a cool scene with Sheriff Garris shooting Jason with a shot gun he shoots Jason with his revolver nothing phases him he runs for it but when he goes after his daughter he's like not my girl jumps Jason stomps him bashes his head with a rock. But Garris is bent in 2 by Jason very good & painful looking kill. Jason is trying to kill Megan Tommy attaches a stone to this chain call out Jason calls him a p  u  s  sy & a chichens  h  it. Tommy has a scuffle with Jason & he gets the chain around his neck & they both fall in the lake where it looks like he has drowned Megan goes to save Tommy Jason grabs her she cuts up Jason's face with a motor boat propeller. She gets Tommy back to shore & revives him Tommy says it's over & Jason is stuck under the lake still alive but can't do any thing about it. If I didn't do a good job explaining the plot in my retrospective then I'm sorry about that. Friday The 13th part VI is a good sequel Jason's more violent 2 really likeable characters the features on The Deluxe DVD are very good. Tom McLoughlin had an interesting take on Friday The 13th & did a good job directing. Thom Matthews was goo. Jenifer Cooke did a very good job. CJ Graham made a pretty good Jason. David Kagen did a pretty good job. Renee Jones was good. Kerry Noonan did a good job. Next we have the introduction of Kane Hodder's Jason.

HORRORFEST FILM?  OKAY i'LL GIVE IN! Alright, I'll give credit where it's due: EUROPA has pulled off a very good rendition of a HAMMER FILMS PRODUCTION Company immitation, complete with a decent though predictable storyline, and a plot that incorporates aspects from several various familiar horror flicks over several decades. A sounding round of applause for everyone involved, especially the marketing department... Enjoy!  GBJ

Very good I was pleased with the packaging,the movie was great and also the videos got here in a timely manor.very good!!!

A Lot of Fun, but a Bit Unpolished I love Alice, it's a stand-out among the many works that have been inspired by Lewis Carrol over the years. It comes off as more of an affectionate tribute to the original story than a rehashing of the same or attempt to "modernize" a classic. In the universe of the series, we are told that the events of the original story did happen 150 years ago, but have little impact on the rest of the series. I thought this was a far better and more respectful way of doing things than Tim Burton's film, which seemed like an egotistical attempt to make a true sequel to the original.  I loved the aesthetic of the series, especially in the city. I only wish they had spent more time on the plot, or given the writers an extra episode or 2 to flesh things out. In a lot of scenes, something interesting would be brought up and I'd get curious but then they'd never be explained. Like, what was up with Hatter's hand that made people scared of it? Also, you put Tim Curry's name in all the ads and then he's literally in only one scene? There's all this talk about how bad things are in Wonderland, but very little is actually shown. Why did Charlie's trick with the skeleton army work?  Overall, though, it's great. However, it's a small made-for-tv event from a minor cable channel. That gave me very low expectations of quality. However, Nick Willing took the resources he had and got the very most out of them. This is an entertaining watch with likable characters, action, and eye-catching visuals. Definitely worth purchasing for multiple viewings.

very weird, but it definitely worked for me This is one of those comedies that either clicks for you or it doesn't.  No matter what my fellow bloviators might say, this is subjective.  I liked the chemistry of the characters, each one was very well acted, and the situations made me laugh.  I was not looking for, and did not find, anything profound, just good entertainment in a universe that belongs only to itself.  Recommended for fun.

Good chapter indexing; okay movie I bought this DVD because, many years ago, I worked on this film. I use it to teach a class and have had the VHS version for a long time. I bought this mainly to get to the index chapters I needed rather than having to wind and rewind the VHS tape. The product packaging is good and the chapter index in very plentiful (unlike some DVDs). The movie isn't bad, either. Actually, it would be very good if there were only 3 lines of dialog that would explain why Danny Glover's character is a killer.

Interesting Mistake I kinda got sucked into a very interesting, yet disturbing, look at the judicial system by accident.  I thought it was based on Milton's work, but I am "pleasantly" baffeled byt suck a miscarriage of justice.  I wish I could actually see the entire trial and show law students and police officers what not to do.  ( Grisham move over, this is a wild one.)  If you can get past the murder of three young boys, the documentary is a glimpse of how our subjective our conclusions can be.  Why did the prosecution address music (specifically Metallica) during the trial, andwhy didn't the defense object? Is there a causational link between Metallica and murder?  Do many people murder because the listen to Metallica?  Did the victims speak out against Metallica?  IS there even a correlational link to Metallica and murder?  What did murderers listen to before Metallica?  Is there any other band more common amongst murderers?  The same questions can be raised about wearing black.  All of the band members of Metallica wear black.  Is it safe to say they are in an occult and, thus kill?  Billy Joel is a musician who wears black, too.  Every Judge and Priest wears black, but that is part of their work attire.  Does that exclude them?  Why is black the color of choice for murderers?  Why not red?  Red is the color of blood when it is exposed to O2.  Blue is the color of blood in the body.  Why not blue?  If it is occult realted, why not wear colors of your sect or group?  How can there be no evidence at the sceen of the crime?  The defense did mention this in discussion, but I don't know why they did not bring this up in the investigation.  That is more grand jury quetions, but it is important.  Were the kids murdered somewhere else, and if so, did the accused have the ability to transport them?  Was their mode of transprotation researched?  Was there any other evidence at the scene of the crime?  Was there anything on the shoe strings used to tie the knots? They said the blood was washed away, but was there any clothing of the suspects with traces blood?  Why did the killers clean the blood up, take the weapons, but leave the condoms?  The weapon evidence was a joke, too.  Why was a knife at the bottom of a lake considered the weapon?  How long had that knife been in the lake and was it available to be a weapon?  Was there trace blood on that knife?  Was there only one knife used?  What in the world were the police thinking when they dismissed the jack knife? How could the police walk away from a knife with a possible match to one of the victims DNA, and not question the conflicting stories of the owner of that knife?  How could the police and the prosecution ignore the fact that a stepfather owned this knife when majority of the abuses and homicides of a minor are conducted by a family member?  I do not know if these kids did this or not, but I think justice was not blind in this case.

A truly creepy collection This is a nice collection of mostly 60's-70's low budget creep-fest. Those who don't already like these type of movies should probably not bother. My favorites from this 12 movie, 3-disc collection include: 'Blood of Dracula's Castle', 'Nightmare in Wax', 'The Madmen of Mandoras', and 'Stanley'.  'Blood of Dracula's Castle' is a horrible copy with streaks of green like it was mangled by the drive-in projector(but this adds to the creepiness, in my opinion). 'Stanley' includes copious handling of live snakes(and might be offensive to modern sentiments with actual on-screen violence toward snakes) including villian characters that look/act like they belong on a Sex Offenders list.  And for those in Southern California, 'Nightmare in Wax' includes actual scenes from the now defunct Movieland Wax Museum in Buena Park, California. I got my used copy for a little over three bucks and change, so that's around 30 cents a movie. Not a bad deal for some old-school drive-in fun.

Good re-boot of a childhood favorite This review has two parts - the film and the actual DVD product I received from Amazon.  First, the film: the characters are classic and they are true to form for the original versions put on television in the 1980s.  Sharlto Copley's performance as H.M. Murdock was particularly enjoyable.  The film has the same sense of energy and fun that the series had while upping the ante a bit with the body count.  In the original series, it was almost a point of pride that there were only 2 on-screen deaths during 5 seasons.  I guess it's a sign of the times that a modern version had to actually kill some of the bad guys.  Some people don't like the film because they say it has plot holes and doesn't follow the "laws of physics."  Well, duh!  It's an action movie.  More than that, it's an action movie based on a cheesy action TV series from the 1980s.  That's part of the fun of the film.  You don't watch guys fall to earth in a tank because it's real - you watch them fall because it's funny as hell to see them interact.  If we watched films for "reality," well, films would be pretty boring.  There's a reason films say "based" on true events instead of "here's everything exactly as it happened"...  I recommend the extended version of the film.  Not only does it have the 2 extra scenes with Dirk Benedict and Dwight Schultz that appeared at the end of the credits when the film was in theaters, but it has some other scenes that really build the team rapport.  I think it's a better version of the film.  Now, as for the actual product.  My DVD (regular disc, not BluRay) has some issues.  It skips or gets hung up on occasion, and at the same point in every viewing, the closed captioning will appear on the screen and hang two words there until I stop the DVD and start it up again.  I don't know if this is a mass production problem, but it happens no matter what player I try it in, so... I'm in the process of trying to get a new disc.

Universal Sent New Digital Copy Codes I purchased this item as I wanted to get it before the Digital Copy promotion had expired. I was disappointed when I saw that the Digital Copy promotion seemingly ended late last year, and that no Digital Copy codes were included in the package.  Then I looked at several recent reviews, and saw that several people had gotten new Digital Copy codes from Universal within the past two weeks. So I contacted Universal from their Digital Copy site on June 13th, and received new codes last night (June 18th). I can confirm that the new Digital Copy codes worked, and I now have all three movies in my iTunes library.  I am deducting one star since I had to contact Universal to get the Digital Copy codes, and their reply took more than two business days (it was three business days for those counting).  ***  6/28/2012 Update:  I purchase movies to enjoy, not to review. Plenty of others have already critiqued the plot of the movie, and have also digested the visual quality of the Blu-ray transfer. So I am sorry if you didn't appreciate my original "review" that was pointing out that Digital Copy codes, which were said to be included in the Amazon description, and were actually missing from the package I received. I do deduct point(s) for missing parts, and would have actually deducted half a star if Amazon allowed.  So the only thing that I am going to say about visual quality is that while it has been a while since I have watched the DVD version of the trilogy, I can tell that the Blu-ray transfer is superior to the DVD (as it should be) -- and Universal didn't manage to ruin the visual gags in Back to the Future II, as was the case with the original trilogy DVD transfer (which is the version that I owned). But I am not the kind of person that measures charts with a digital camera; likewise, I am not going this watch a movie, or any other, and find every last flaw (visual, plot, etc.)  I will also go ahead and thank Universal for including Digital Copies of all three films, instead of UltraViolet "copies".

ChromeSkull is the primary reason to see this slasher-rama... The story isn't all that good and neither is the acting, but what separates Laid To Rest (2009) from most other slashers is that it actually delivers some genuine bone-shattering, ligament tearing, flesh splitting kills, mostly administered by one particularly nasty looking hunting knife.  The killer named `ChromeSkull', wears a mask with a silver chrome finish, and doesn't speak.  Written and directed by Robert Green Hall, the film has good production values, cool special effects, and capable camera work.  Hall's wife Bobby Sue Luther stars in the film, as "The Girl".  Spoilers follow, so proceed at your own risk.  A woman (Luther) wakes up inside a coffin, and after managing to break out, finds herself locked inside a funeral home.  A man is about to unlock a door and let her out, but is stabbed by ChromeSkull (Nick Principe), who has a video camera attached to his shoulder.  The girl rushes the door and manages to get outside and make her way to a road, where she is picked up by Tucker Smith (Kevin Gage), who is on his way home.  The Girl has a wound on the back of her head, and Smith's wife Cindy (Lena Headey) is unable to coax much information from her about what has happened.  ChromeSkull makes a dramatic appearance at the Smith home, and offs Cindy in a truly spectacular manner.  A traumatized Tucker and The Girl, take off in a car, and stop at a house to call the police.  Steven (Sean Whalen), the man who lives there, doesn't have a phone, but sends an email to the police.  Smith convinces Steven to join them on a trek to the police station, where they soon find that ChromeSkull has slaughtered the officers on duty.  The trio flees down the road in Steven's car, stopping when The Girl spots the funeral home she originally escaped from.  The intensity continues to ramp up as she discovers ChromeSkull's grisly workshop in an adjacent building, with coffins containing his dismembered victims.  Smith breaks in and wounds ChromeSkull, and the trio drives away in the killer's car.  The movie's bloody climax takes place in a small convenience store.  The film's resolution is very weak, and not as spectacular as it could have been.  With a story that doesn't make a lot of sense, it's ChromeSkull's vicious and often creative kills that are the high points of the film, as he puts his wicked signature weapon to damn good use.  Like so many psycho killers, ChromeSkull somehow manages to show up everywhere, and there's no point asking why.  Not much is known about The Girl, but a few things about her are finally revealed by ChromeSkull.  Even making allowances for her amnesia, she's not exactly the most sympathetic or intelligent character.  The killer points out, that she seems to be really good at getting people killed.  Tucker is a remarkably tough, for someone who has just witnessed his wife being butchered.  Unfortunately he's not the brightest guy either.  Sean Whalen does a good job, as a kind of a goof in the wrong place, at the wrong time.  Lucas Till shows promise, in a brief role as a store clerk.  Laid To Rest doesn't have an intelligent story or sophisticated premise.  Plain and simple, the victims are setup nicely, and then slaughtered with flair and cruel enthusiasm.  ChromeSkull is very consistent, when he appears, someone is going to get cut up.  For gorehounds, Laid To Rest should satisfy your desire for blood.  A sequel, ChromeSkull: Laid To Rest 2 (2011), is scheduled for release in the fall of 2011, with Nick Principe returning as the masked killer.  As the character lost a vital part of his anatomy in the first film, it's hard to imagine that he could recover, however such things are often no major obstacle in horror.  Scream queen Danielle Harris (Hatchet 2), and Brian Austin Green, will star in the sequel.

Not the best but well worth the time It's nothing special, but it delivers on the premise and offers up a number of genuine laughs.  I was a bit worried when I saw the poor to average reviews, but all in all I'm glad that I watched it.  Low expectations may have helped.  One gag in particular was priceless.

A somewhat forced, but enjoyable action/adventure yarn. Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) isn't exactly cut out for the Army: he's short, scrawny, and asthmatic.  In essence, he's the exact opposite of what Uncle Sam is looking for.  Yet Steve just can't wait to get over to Germany and kick some Nazi butt.  A scientist (an almost unrecognizable Stanley Tucci) admires Rogers's ambition, as well as his good heart, and enlists him in a special Army program, against the wishes of Colonel Phillips (a deadpan Tommy Lee Jones).  Rogers come out of the experiment stronger and smoother, and teams up with a feisty female (tough-as-hell Hayley Atwell), his best bud (super-suave Sebastian Stan), and scientist Howard Stark (Dominic Cooper doing a dead-on Robert Downey Jr.) to take on the evil Johann Schmidt (the always-sinister Hugo Weaving) and his cohort (Toby Jones.  CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER has one solid thing going for it (no, not that god-awful title): its cast.  Everywhere is admirably cast, and while a few get underused (both Joneses, for example), and still others don't get much time to shine (Weaving is perfect when he's Schmidt, but as Red Skull, the special effects kind of get away from him), throughout these characters remain relatable and intriguing.  We genuinely root for Rogers, and though Captain America comes off as a bit of a d***** (rhymes with "whoosh"), that could be intentional.  Director Joe Johnston knows what he's doing, at least: crafting a middle-of-the-road superhero flick, something meant to tide us over until THE AVENGERS gets here (the set-up for the latter is actually interesting; not believable or original, but interesting).  It seems I'm heaping a lot of criticism on the film.  Well, I am.  But note those 4 stars.  CAPTAIN AMERICA shouldn't be taken for anything more than it is.  It's not a great comic book film; merely a good one.  But hell, that's better than so many others out there.  If nothing else, it makes the 1940s look spectacular; kudos to Johnston for knowing how to make a period piece.  Watch this film if you're a fan of the comics, enjoy a good action/adventure yarn, or want to know all the pieces of the puzzle before seeing THE AVENGERS.  You won't be blown away, but you won't be bored, either.

28 Weeks Later / 28 Days Later Frankly, I think it's an excellent addition to Zombie lore and stands alone in some respects.  Especially for the first one, the story-telling is quite well done.  Didn't take long to ship, either.

The Blues Brothers 25th Anniversary I love this movie! Another one that is just a classic, done at a time when movies were still made and not a "GREEN SCREEN"  Makes me feel old.  A fun movie from start to finish, a must see.

Great Camp Classic Omg....what a great camp classic. People have said this is Kim Novak's worst performance, (it's actually her last leading role in a feature), but I think people are taking the movie too seriously. It' been said the studio upon viewing the movie for the first time, didn't know how to take it, then decided to sell it as camp. There is no doubt in my mind that this movie was made from the start with that in mind. Maybe some of the actors involved didn't know it at the time of shooting, but that's the brilliance of it. Kim had to be in on the joke though, her performance is high camp style at it's best. When she does her wicked laugh, it is f'ing laugh out loud hilarious. Lylah Clare (Kim Novak) is a dead film star. Movie-producer Barney Sheean (Ernest Borgnine) hires Elsa Brinkmann (Kim Novak), the living image of the late Lylah, to star in a film based on Ms. Clare's life. Barney hires director Lewis Zarkan (Peter Finch), Lylah's former husband, to transform the talentless Elsa into a facsimile of the deceased screen queen. This color print from Warner Archive is really crisp, and bright. There is a drinking game to be made from this movie, I just haven't figured it out yet. Really fun, campy movie about Hollywood, but please, watch it with tongue firmly plated in cheek.

DEAD SEASON This movie was a slow starter but I really enjoyed the zombies.  The "fresh" ones were extremely fast. I also liked the fact that there weren't just a few sprinkled here & there. When they came out they were in full force. .  Anyone who enjoys a zombie packed film, this film's for you.  This is one I'll watch again & again.

tragedy or comedy, great writing, insightful depiction of our shallow, dumbed-down, meaningless society, and excellent acting Whoever cast this movie made the best choices  How Brad Pitt, rather than playing ego building roles like DiCaprio does, plays just a regular air head doofus in this movie, and so endearingly, is wonderful, brilliant, perfect.  How Clooney plays a total, complete, absolute, malicious, deceitful jerk rather than the nice guy (which is Pitt) is amazing. I could have done without the sight of his basement project, but it reveals much about the personality and concepts of his character and of the decadently shallow meaningless society he keeps.  Amazing thoughout, although, as I say, I find the basement project really really unviewable, while it makes you wonder how he imagines this will help grow his wife's love.  Clooney is amazing, and does the character perfectly, complex, yet shallow, fooling no one.  THat chidlren's book, yeah, pure marketing, but not a book you would ever actaully read to kids, not one kids would ever actually read, but one which makes tv morning shows.  So, just one question.  IS this a comedy or a tragedy?  Kind of like Hamlet, lots of really funny lines, and much tragedy. Hear <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9626344172">Hamlet: John Gielgud's Classic 1948 Recording (Classic Drama S.)</a>  More like Titus Andronicus, in fact, gruesome comedy with excruciating tragedy. See, if you don't read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000E6ESKS">Titus</a>  And a perfect representation of the decadent society we exist in. Or those of the upper middle class desparately clinging to their stuff.  Like in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140437649">The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Penguin Classics)</a>  We're toast. Stick a fork in us. We are done.  Casting is great in this, with familiar faces. QUIZ: Who is the superior in the closing summing up scene? SO familiar, so great!  The former Russian (or Greek?) Orthodox priest?  Ok, NO SPOILER HERE!! Only two really nice guys in this movie, both work at Hardbodies (ok, Manolo, too, but we do not see much of him, as he is poor in this complex wealthy film)  so how come they, you know, well, watch the movie.  And after we grow to appreciate them both in this movie of no saints.  Excellent film, again nearly Shakespearean in complexity, I just wish the Coen brothers had kept us out of that basement. NOT A NICE MIND PICTURE, ok? Besides, no white one has ever been that big . . .  interesting to see as a prophetic warning of where we are, and a delight at moments, watching Mr. Pitt play a doofus exercise guy who breaks people's bones, all around a real indictment of our society (have I said that yet?)  well done. They say the Coens have several other fine films I have not seen. Might be time to seek them out.  like, hey, look at this! <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00553K8FY">Coen Brothers Collection (Blood Simple/Fargo/Miller's Crossing/Raising Arizona) [Blu-ray</a>]  or maybe even <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051GOB26">The Big Lebowski (Limited Edition) [Blu-ray Book + Digital Copy</a>]  is that by them? Is this? <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00118T63C">No Country for Old Men</a>  what, so, like, is every GREAT film I have never seen from the Coen's? Watch this one first!

The Lord of th Ralph Bakshi, who was most well-known in the 1970s as the creator of the X-rated FRITZ THE CAT and HEAVY TRAFFIC went mainstream with THE LORD OF THE RINGS in 1978. Originally slated to be a two film project, Bakshi wanted to name this LORD OF THE RINGS PART I but was overruled by the studio execs. That should have been his first warning that there wouldn't be a PART II.  The existing film includes material from "The Fellowship of The Ring" and "The Two Towers." Bakshi is faithful to Tolkien's work, even more so than Peter Jackson, though a few of his characterizations are off-key, such as Boromir, who is depicted as a Viking warrior.  Come the end of LOTR you WILL be asking yourself, "Where's the third reel?" The film ends abruptly---really abruptly---disturbingly so. Merry and Pippin are carried off by Treebeard (who looks like a cartoon version of what eventually became Peter Jackson's Treebeard), we are told that Frodo and Sam are entering Mordor, and the Battle of Helm's Deep is won by the Free Peoples. LOTR then slams shut like an iron door.  The film is voiced by an all-British cast (including John Hurt as Aragorn), and where it works, it works wonderfully. The traditional animation is smooth and flowing and seamless. Bakshi also decided to use a technique called rotoscoping in which live-action shots are animated in layover. Bakshi at first intended to rotoscope the whole film.  The use of rotoscoping was a groundbreaking cinematic development and earned Bakshi's LOTR a place in the history books. As an aside, Peter Jackson also used some rotoscoping in his LOTR, but the advances in technology between 1978 and 2003 mean that Jackson's rotoscoping was flawless. Unfortunately, Bakshi's was not, primarily because of budget constraints, and it sometimes looks rushed, muddy and distracting.  Later critics have attacked Bakshi's work for its flaws, but much of the problem can be laid at the door of studio beancounters.  Considering that Bakshi's LOTR cost just over $3,000,000 to make and gated $30,000,000, it is bizarre that the studio did not order up a sequel. Bakshi later disavowed his LOTR. There's a story there that's yet to be told.  Rankin-Bass, who'd previously done an animated THE HOBBIT for television eventually did create an animated made-for-TV THE RETURN OF THE KING calling it the sequel, but it is very different in sense and substance than Bakshi's work, which, despite its shortcomings, is brilliant in spots, and well worth your time, especially if you are a Tolkien fan.

Welcome to the Legion of Doom... again Justice League Doom is the last story adapted by the late, great Dwayne McDuffie who had previously worked with DC in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited. It also features the return of the majority of the JLU voice cast (except Phil Lamarr, Green Lantern - John Stewart). It's a loose adaptation "JLA: Tower of Babel," where the JLA are systematically defeated by their enemies. While it's certainly not a bad story, it's predictable pacing and close association with the Justice League cartoon makes it feel like just another episode of Justice League.  On the positive side, not even mentioning the splendid animation, the original "Tower of Babel" was cleaver but very methodical, so they changed it up to be more action oriented. For instance, in the original, the plan was to render all language (written and vocal) into randomness and cause confusion. In this version, it's world domination. (Of course!) And they mixed in allusions to another similar Justice League story "Justice." But, the disappointing part is the predictable set up:  First, Action Piece. Then, they get taken down. Then, they pull themselves out of it. Then, the final action piece.  It's a tired formula and I've seen it a million times. But, as they say in the commentary, every time it's somebody's first time. So, if you weren't old enough to watch Justice League in it's original run, this is a pretty good showcase for them and the "Legion of Doom" concept.  Extras on the Bluray include:  Commentary with Geoff Johns (current writer for JLA) and Mike Carlin (former DC editor). It's strange they chose them, instead of Bruce Timm and Andrea Romano or the voice cast.  Guarding the Balance: Batman and the JLA - A 18 minute featurette about Batman's relationship with the JLA.  Cyborg: His Time Has Come - A 6 minute featurette about Cyborg (Victor Stone) and his role in the comics. People have been asking for him to join the JLA since the end of Super Friends.  Digital Comic Book - JLA: Tower of Babel - The firs issue of the Tower of Babel storyline from the comics. They really should change this into a code from a free download of the comic from DC's online store.  A League of One: The Dwayne McDuffie Story - Thirty minute documentary about Dwayne McDuffie and his legacy across comics and TV.  First Look at "Superman vs. The Elite" - The first glimpse at the adaptation of "What's so funny about Truth, Justice, and the American way?" The first impressions of the animation remind me of "The Batman," and that's not the best first impression to give.  Bruce Timm's picks: Wild Cards parts 1 & 2 - The episodes of the Joker and the Royal Flush Gang.  I suspect they didn't include episodes like "Secret Society" and "Injustice For All" because it would highlight how often they rely on the "Legion of Doom" concept. I don't mean this as a knock against Mr. McDuffie's legacy, but I will not give this a perfect score based solely on the fact it's the last thing he penned. It's just an all too familiar plot with the added novelty of bringing back the iconic voices from the much acclaimed JLU series. And I can't help feeling that a straight up adaptation of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401231853">Justice</a> might have been a better choice.  I like to buy all these movies, but I recommend renting it instead. For that I give "Justice League: Doom" a 4 out of 5.

Excellent cartoon! NEED MORE!! Adventure time is truely an excellent cartoon show as many other reviewers have already stated. It's actually one of the few animated shows left on Cartoon Network that I like; the other main one being Regular Show.  I was pleasently suprised to see that this dvd contained the episode about Lumpy Space Princess,as she is one of my favorite characters because of how she talks (MA PARENTS ARE LIKE HORRIBLE IDIOTS!)  The only reason why I gave this four stars as opposed to five is because like all the other fans have stated,I would much rather own a complete season of Adventure Time rather than these volume deals CN keeps feeding us.  I don't know why the big wigs at Cartoon Network keep cheating their viewers like this. First we only get one season of Billy and Mandy,then only two seasons of Foster's,lastly only two VOLUMES of Chowder. Now this last dvd release is a few scraps of Adventure Time.  In my opinion,more shows like Adventure Time should be put out on whole dvd sets;esp when the demand is there.  As for Cartoon Network in general,they would do alot better if they had more shows like Adventure Time,Regular Show etc. They should also get rid of all the non-animated shows like destroy build destroy,hole in the wall,dude what would happen and all non-animated movies (the channel is called CARTOON network y'know?) I would also like to see Adult Swim have it's own channel, and Cartoon Network given back to kids and fans of regular non-explicit cartoons. Personaly I think the humor in shows like Invader Zim,Regular Show,Fanboy/Chum-Chum,Chowder is funnier than the stuff in Family Guy and South Park.

The best stars made the show - more scenery would make it better.  For two older adults, the quiet, gentle and fun treatment of several problems of both the older characters and the very young characters was just right for an evening at home.  Maggie Smith and Judi Dench did not disappoint. The stars we were surprised to enjoy were previously unknown to us, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Nighy, Ronald Pickup.  GREAT portrayals and fun even in the scary or sad parts.  We enjoyed it and would like to see more of the same actors and/or characters.

Very funny throwback to the 70's Don't know how I missed this movie when it came out in theatres but it is very well done.  This is the perfect role for Johnny Depp.  If you liked Sleepy Hollow you will love this.  Very entertaining and the styles and music from the 70's add to the fun.  Admit I have never watched the original series so cannot comment on that aspect but will definitely check them out now.

Great if you missed some episodes - The Bonus Features  are just "okay" There are plenty of other reviews of the seventh season of this show - my one really "guilty pleasure" of prime time TV (I've watched every episode) so I'll concentrate on the DVD package of this season. The first four discs contain only episodes, which - when the commercials are removed - run about 42 minutes each. Disc five contains four episodes (including the two-part season finale) plus the Bonus features.  The "Bonuses this time include "Desperate For Trivia"- a 4 ½ minute rapid-fire segment with the main adult cast members trying to guess answers to questions like "what was your address on the show?" and "what town is Wisteria lane in?". I did learn one interesting fact about the titles of each episode (though the episode titles are never shown on the broadcast show).  Next up is "Growing Up on Wisteria Lane", a 10 minute interview segment with the cast of "kids" who aged on the show. (Remember there was a "five-year" advance forward in on season.). It was a surprise to see how young Andrew van de Camp once looked. Then comes the requisite "blooper reel" which only runs four minutes. And the final bonus section is "Deleted Scenes", of which there are 12, though they only range from 16 seconds (!) to 1-½ minutes. And none would change the plots if inserted.  So, if you missed this season or want to relive it, this set will serve that purpose. The bonuses are just "so so". Now it's time for Season eight - which will be the final season.  Steve Ramm "Anything Phonographic"

Wrong Turn 4 Movie provided an interesting twist.  Horror movie fans will appreciate this rental. Worth the $5 so give this movie a shot.  Wrong Turn series get better each movie.

Bad movie, funny segments, and funny riffing As MST3k is sort of a show within a show within a movie format, I like to review the sections of each episode in order to give it a final rating.  The movie: If you are wondering why you never heard of this movie even though it was released in the late 90's, don't.  There are films from the 50's that have better special effects (and acting, and directing, etc.  With this movie you get dinosaurs that are 20 feet tall in one scene then 5 feet tall in the next; the nicest smoking, swearing nun that used to be a drug running prostitute; and several fights in a factory that apparently ships air in their boxes.  Need more proof that this is a great bad movie:  per Wikipedia, the movie crew predicted that this film would be shown on MST3k - while they were still shooting.  Host Segments: The first few are not that great.  But Pearl and Crow save the show with some really funny skits at the end.  Riffs: Constant and steady wins the race so kudos to Mike and the bots.  There were several good riffs and I loved Mike's presentation during the ending credits of the movie.  Overall: Bad movie, funny segments, and funny riffing.  Not a top 10 classic but one of the better episodes.

Set-up for another movie or TV Series??? Good special effects are a treat for the eyes, but this feature seemed to me to be a setup for a next movie or TV series. It was not extraordinary in any way and actually made me feel as though I was watching another episode of the X-Files. Definitely good enough for watching at least once.

Lacks the Charm of the First, But Still a Fun Ride Cars 2 is enjoyable and well-animated, but definitely suffers from sequel-itis; it seems so concerned with generating excitement that it feels overly manufactured. The plot centers around Lightning McQueen & Co. traveling to Japan, Italy and the U.K. for a series of three races against an Italian superstar racecar. McQueen brings along his best friend Mater, but Mater embarasses him, and they have a falling out. The races and Mater friendship storyline probably would have been enough for most kids, but entwined with this is a complex James Bond type plot, involving an alternative fuel company, a bunch of 'lemon' cars, and lots of mistaken identity. My kids, ages 5 and 7, couldn't really follow that at all. I'm not sure I completely did either! And the focus on the cast of characters involved in this plot means we don't get to see a lot of some of the original Cars characters, other than Mater and Lightning McQueen.  On the plus side, the friendship plot is touching, and having Mater overseas does create some amusing culture-clash scenes. Tokyo, Paris, the Italian Riviera and London are all beautifully rendered, stunning really. And the race scenes are lots of fun. So all in all, it was enjoyable, just not a home run like the first one was for me.

A VERY pleasant surprise but not Schindler's List This looked interesting at the library and Rotten Tomato reviews were very good (even "As good as Schindler's List").  So we tried it.  A well done movie, made almost great by a terrific song (The "Suicide Song" --- look it up) and a beautiful actress.  The song, written in 1933, was evidently played by many (in the movie and in real life) all over the world (including here) when they committed suicide and the song writer himself committed suicide.  The woman, a gorgeous brown eyed beauty would capture the eye of almost any male in the audience (some good, tasteful nudity increases the allure).  The acting is very good (especially whoever plays "Laslo")and the City looks beautiful (Note:  To me, the restaurant looks modern and it appears to lack a sufficient number of tables --- maybe the director didn't order enough).  A touching story but, as noted, not Schindler's list.  Not as well directed, no great early scene with Schindler in the restaurant, not quite as well acted (e.g., Fiennes as the male commandant is all too believable), no great ending, not as moving, less believable and more fiction than fact.  Still, well worth watching.  In German.

Not without its faults, but definitely under-appreciated. I'll be the first to admit that this film is not without its faults, first and foremost being Keanu Reeves. You can tell that this casting choice was made by producers who were hoping to ride on the coat-tails of the Matrix series. Reeves' stoic performance drains the acerbic wit and douchebaggery that Hellblazer fans have come to love from John Constantine. However, we get a surprisingly good performance from Rachel Weisz, who clearly put a lot more effort into her work than Reeves. Furthermore, the film has a very solid sense of visual style, which doesn't solely depend on its visual effects. At times, it simply makes use of good cinematography and editing, which is enhanced by Brian Tyler and Klaus Badelt's refreshingly original soundtrack. Perhaps this film's strongest asset, however, is its script, which has its occasional drags and forced dialogue. However, it succeeds where many recent comic-book adaptations have failed. It gives us a fairly original story that contains some genuine surprises and some cool action. Sure, it didn't deserve any Oscars, but it was a solid B-movie that was under-appreciated for its time.

Excellent Science Fiction That Spawned Disappointing Sequels Another one of those I heard about for many years but finally got around to seeing just today. I will attempt to make something resembling sense out of this amazing plot line.  In ancient times, something was buried in the sands of Egypt. In the 1920s, an archeologist (with his little daughter along for the adventure) uncovered a huge ring of metal unlike anything else known to man. So in the 1990s, Dr. Daniel Jackson (played by a very cute James Spader), was offered a super-secret job inside a decomissioned missile silo in the Colorado mountains. Actually inside the mountains, apparently. This huge ring has been set up there, and the project to figure out what it is and what it is used for is being headed up by the now elderly daughter of the archeologist that found it all those years ago.  Actually, Dr. Jackson is needed as one of the rare few who might be able to decipher the symbols on the ring which are not Egyptian hieroglyphics. There are hieroglyphics on the stone which had covered the ring, and I think on the outer edge of the ring, but the ones on the ring itself are alien. Literally, as it turns out. Jackson is able to translate the hieroglyphics and recognize that what the thing is really is a star gate: a portal into somewhere else altogether.  A robot probe is sent through and reports back that the conditions on the other side are fit for humans. A group of soldiers and Dr. Jackson are thus detailed to go through and find out what lies on the other side.  What they find, predictably, is a civilization which resembles ancient Egypt in many ways, ruled by an alien who uses human bodies, the most recent one of which greatly resembles my former room-mate who is also a Multiply user. (But her voice was a great deal nicer and her temper was a little less caustic.) I'm pretty sure she has seen this movie and I wonder if she agrees about the resemblance.  Anyway, there are many hazards to the soldiers being able to return to the earth, including problems on both sides. To detail them would ruin the story for you. But let me ask you this: what would you get if you crossed a camel with a bison?  It's good fun, a rousing adventure, and I recommend it. The only reason it's 4 stars instead of 5 is that I kept looking for something rather more profound in the way of denouement. Still, real good fun.

Don't waste money on the comic. The movie is spectacular--who doesn't love RDJ and Jude Law--but the comic is absolutely horrendous story wise(the art isn't bad, but it's not very creative). Not only does the story imply that Holmes and Adler have sex, but here are some quotes taken directly from the comic:  "He(Holmes) grabs her throat demanding she return his prize. She(Adler) uses martial arts to free herself and runs for the door". But wait, it gets better. "Holmes, now a true believer in magic, secretly hides the talisman..." I'm not a big stickler to those kinds of things, but for Holmes' sake it is the worst, most out of character, poorly imagined piece of fandom it has ever been my misfortune to read. Don't waste your money, and don't waste your time if all you're after is the comic book. Sincerely, A disappointed fan  (The rating loses a star because of the comic)

Cute Movie Julia Roberts was, as always, the best.  The movie was not as good. It was not what a young child would understand.  More for adults and young adults.

funny I really enjoyed this movie. I bought it so the younger kids in my family could experience wholesome family movies.

good movie, bad price The movie gets 5 stars, the price gets 3 stars. For me, it's not good enough to justify paying $19 for it. My advice, look for it used

Kaleidoscope of Killing and Gore Galore "Street Trash" begins with the owner of a liquor store in lower Manhattan finding a case of cheap liquor ("Tenafly Viper") in his basement. After a little bit of research, the shop owner finds out the the liquor is over 60 years old and has gone bad....really bad. Nonetheless, he decides to sell it to the local hobos anyway for a dollar. A dollar for a bottle of liquor? That's a steal. What's the worst that can happen? It's not like the stuff is going to kill you. Right? Of course the rancid liquor does have some side effects. Turns out that anyone who drinks this Viper melts away in a hideous fashion. At the same time, two brothers find different ways to cope with homelessness, while an overzealous cop (Bill Chepil) tries to get to the bottom of all the deaths, all the while trying to end the tyranny of deranged Vietnam veteran Bronson (Vic Noto).  Sound like too much story for any one movie to handle? Well..you would be right. "Street Trash" is a mess and I'm not just talking about what happens to the hobos after they drink the Venom. Part "Dirty Harry", part social commentary, part Troma flick, and part "Hills Have Eyes", "Street Trash" doesn't stay in any particular genre for very long. Just when you think the movie has settled into horror, we get crude comedy (fart jokes anyone?), just when you think it has settled into Troma land with body parts galore, the film turns into a cop drama. None of it really gels. You know what? It doesn't matter. Why you ask? Because of the gore! Ohhh the glorious gore in this flick. You want to see a kalidoscope of killings? It's all right here in just about every color of the rainbow imaginable. I've never seen death in a horror movie be so....beautiful. That's right, it's beautiful darn it and when the movie focuses on the gore it is a rousing success. The fx in this movie truly must be seen to be believed. This is the kind of little gem that isn't for everyone and it is bound to offend most (rape, torture, homeless homicide..it's all here), but it won me over with its low budget charm. Oh...and did I mention the gore? Check it out.

Pretty mellow tape Wanted a tape to work out to that I knew I could do to get me moving at home. Since I am over 60 I wanted something not to tough on my bones but enough to get my muscles working. The tape has 2 different levels. The first half is basically a warm up and part 2 is more active and strenuous. You get your workout with part 2. If you learn the tape and play it to music it is more enjoyable than listening to Jane talk through the whole thing.

Kevin This movie is not for the faint of heart, it does speak volumns about mothers and their children. Not an uplifting story, rather melodious.

Riot Not for kids but that aside it is action all the way. If you can stand up to that m e a n look from Danny Trejo without running home to momma you will be entertained. You'll get a slice of a man betrayed but willing to battle it out on his own terms with a little help from unlikely sources.It's packed with laughter too.

Good clean fun This is a solid movie.  There really isn't any crude humor and the wife stays loyal to her husband. The topic about name changes after you're married comes up. I think a woman should always take her husband's last name to show that she is committed to the relationship. There is a joke about Mormons because when the couple arrives home one night they see a tie on the doorknob and Molly says there is no way that Mandy, Randy's date, would be doing anything sexual because she is a Mormon. I think Kate Hudson is hot.

Engaging, Fun, Needs Dubbing Badly, Subtitles Flaky This romp pits a group of subterrean folks-misfits is not really the right word-against well-connected interests in a very unfair world. The gadgetry and Parisian backgrounds (mostly in non-tourist venues) are a rich canvas for the antics, however improbable, of this troup. The characters are mostly believable and well-drawn. The movie's only flaw is that the subtitles are not complete. I can't comment on accuracy since I am not a Francophone. But there are several segments when the characters are singing or speaking and the subtitles are absent. Most subtitling of foreign films for Anglophone audiences is poor quality and it's this kind of carelessness that turns people off from subtitled films they would otherwise enjoy. If this movie were carefully dubbed in English it would have a much wider appeal to Anglophone audiences.

Fun and sexy This movie contained quite a few genres: horror, adventure and a touch of comedic relief that appeals to all. My most favorite part is by far Colin Farrell, I could watch him do nothing!!

Good workout This DVD helped me get over my plateau and loose the last 10 lbs of baby weight after my last pregnancy.  Tracey's comments were enjoyable to enough to listen to day after day.  It was particularly a great workout for the lower body.  I loved that I could easily do this in my livingroom with only a 'toning tube' for equipment and still get great results.

One of the great old movies, historical, too. We loved this movie and the DVD is so clear and the sound is good.  We received it in a timely manner.  Very happy with it.

Solid Old Fasioned Western I enjoy watching westerns from the 60's, 70's and early 80's. There wasn't special effects and the movies weren't overblown. This movie also had a message with bad guys and hero's coming to the rescue. I always liked the quick draw and this movie has all of it.The scenery and backround are awesome, very well made for a low budget movie that Tom Laughlin (Billy Jack) used his own money to produce.At the end the interveiw session is funny and lets you know some of the internals that go on. Highly recommended.

STILL GOOD The blue ray transfer was as good as your going to get from this film. After reading and debating the pros and cons I bought it with the same expectations I'd have with any older disc. It satisfied me and the story is still quite clever given the time period of making films in the eighties. As usual Amazon has been promt with most of my orders.

Audrey Hepburn in One of Her Most Famous Roles It's great fun. Perhaps not great art, even though it was written by Truman Capote, but it certainly is great fun. This is the one where Henry Mancini got an Oscar for "Moon River." Miss Hepburn sings it.  The focus of the story is an apartment house in New York City, where Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) lives and parties and drives the photographer two floors up (Mickey Rooney playing a Japanese) quite crazy by buzzing his door to be let in no matter how late it is. She says "but I lost my key," and he replies "But that was two weeks ago, you must have another one made." Her answer is "Why? I'd just loose it. I lose them all the time." But she quiets him by saying that if he's nice to her, she will let him take "those pictures we talked about."  In the apartment directly over her head there moves in an aspiring young writer (George Peppard) who is "sponsored" by a rich older woman (Patricia Neal) who calls him darling all the time and decorated his apartment for him before he even saw it. She's obviously using him as a toy or a pet, and he accepts it so that he can write.  Holly's income is a little hard to figure. She gets $100 a week (in 1961 that was quite a lot) for going to visit a gangster at Sing Sing once a week, and taking his lawyer a message in the form of a weather report. She says that men give her $50 "for the powder room," and if she asks for cab fare, they usually give her $100. As Truman Capote wrote it, she was more obviously a prostitute, but this sounds more like she's a fake. Twice she appeals to Paul, the writer, for protection from men who "followed her home." In fact, her agent says she's a fake, but she's a genuine fake. That is, she believes the stuff she says.  One of the funniest parts is a huge party she has in her little apartment, where all sorts of crazy things happen. Her agent (Martin Balsam) goes up to this tall, beautiful woman and asks her name. "She" answers "Irving." He doesn't seem to mind; later Paul finds them necking in the bathtub.  There's enough more to the story I'm tempted to go on, but let's leave a few surprises, OK?

Trinity Blood Delivers Saw this series late night on Comedy Central a few years back. Was overjoyed to be able to purchase it on Amazon for such a reasonable price at the time of my own choosing. Extremely pleased with my purchase.

Good effort by great cast, but writing was iffy 30 MINUTES OR LESS is the story of a slacker pizza delivery guy named Nick (Jesse Eisenberg), his best friend Chet (an elementary school teacher played by Aziz Ansari), and two buffoons (Danny McBride and Nick Swardson) who are plotting a murder in order to collect an inheritance. Nick is captured and wired with a bomb before being given 10 hours to rob a bank and turn over $100,000 dollars in order to save his life. Almost mirroring the story of real-life pizza delivery bank robber bomb victim Brian Wells, the movie is a mixed bag of laughs and duds.  This is a movie that people will either enjoy or hate. I was surprised to find that I actually enjoyed it when I came out of the theater. It's definite crude and lewd, with jokes sometimes racially motivated for example and some nudity. From the director of Zombieland, the visuals follow much the same path as Fleischer's previous effort, but what failed him was a poor script. The actors make up for a lot of that, giving their performances the gusto needed. McBride especially put forth a great performance as a misfit son who is tired of his father. For a story chock full of stupid characters, there are some great performances from these actors playing total idiots, from the bumbling would-be crooks to the pizza delivery boy who has trouble keeping up his boss' 30 minutes or less promise.  One acting letdown for me, though, was Aziz Ansari. I love him as Tom Haverford in the amazing Parks and Recreation, but in this movie I couldn't find him believable in his role. There was something off to me, but his chemistry with the other actors makes up for this slight lapse.  Fleischer definitely has the directing gift when it comes to these type of movies. Excellent car chases, a great eye for style, and amazing at pulling interesting, energetic performances from his cast. While it isn't as good as the amazing Zombieland, 30 Minutes or Less, is still a solid movie that fans of crude humor will enjoy. It's a definite summer movie that will appeal to teenage boys and young men, but even some girls could find this movie and its crude humor to be appealing.  3.5/5

Great after-the-crash flick You've seen all the pieces before. The country has fallen into lawlessness, where warlords with bad haircuts rule their fiefdoms (as in Mad Max, to name just one of many). There are the government officials trying desperately to save his bu... I mean, career (My Fellow Americans). There's the insanely contagious and deadly virus (28 Days Later). And there's the way-cool babe with a gun and an attitude (Resident Evil) leading her small but brave band through it all. Oh, and a little comedic banter (any Bond film), but not enough to change the tone of the film. If you want novelty, or even plausibility, you probably ended up in the wrong theater by mistake.  So just take it for what it is: commodity entertainment, a bit bloodier than some but not off the charts, and where people keep their clothes on. Some days, I just want an adventure flick with nothing much to think about, except maybe how good Maj. Sinclair looks in that tight outfit. If that's what you're after, then "mission accomplished."  --wiredweird

Pleasing but not overmuch Never having seen SNL I am only guessing that the character Steve Martin plays was one he created for that show. Whether or not this is the case, his performance looks as if he were acting in an extended TV variety show skit. Wasn't bad, simply looked like it fit better a ten minute comedy sketch than a full movie. In fact, the entire film pretty much has the same aspect, actors, some good, some very good, some not given much of a chance to be either, are putting on a skit that hasn't enough depth to provide more than easy laughs sufficient to keep the film from being a stinker. As it is, it is pleasant viewing, good for an evening when one wants nothing but to avoid having to think about hard economic times.

Cliffhanger ending that never ends I enjoyed all 15 episodes of this series -- strong pacing and good characterization held my interest. The special effects weren't quite as good, but I was able to suspend my disbelief. I'm just really disappointed that the series stopped where it did, with none of the major story arcs  resolved. It's too bad they couldn't make a movie wrapping up the series, but it would be difficult -- so many things were literally and figuratively up in the air at the end of episode 15!

ice age I ordered this for my nephew on dvd, but we have so much relatives that they come in our house and take the dvd movies out. When they finally return,they either have no content or are completely ruined.So I went and ordered them on umd, I love it. So I started ordering umd movies. This is one of my favorite movies. I also ordered ice age 2 on umd. I just wish they make ice age 3 on umd.

Enjoyable movie I saw this when it first aired on television and really enjoyed it.  Wendy Crewson and Victor Garber have a good chemistry.  When I saw it listed on Amazon Prime, I watched it again recently.  Still enjoyable.

galapagos I first saw this series on TV and I just hope it will be on every night as I go through the National Geo wild channel, animal planet and  HDTV channels and so on and if its on TV I watch it from start to finish, if its not I find myself disappointed so I thought about it and decided it was time to purchase it. The narration is great and as with the planet earth, life and blue planet DVD sets the views are like nothing you will see anywhere else not even if you were in the Galapagos yourself, because you are not gonna see a lizard, fish , frog etc. as close up as they show them to you in these documentaries! My 3 kids and I loves this one (Galapagos), planet earth, life, African rift valley, and wild pacific. So Thank You BBC, National Geo, discovery all the individuals involved in the making of these awesome documentaries.

Is it real or Rodney? Typically Rodney, it's got more funny moments than not.  What wasn't known when ordered is that this is actually a movie, and not one of his stand-up comedies.  It's still great for Rodney fans.

Dance genious. Without doubt Fred Astaire was the GREATEST!!! His dance numbers in this movie are,as always,teriffic, especially the one where he is in the guardhouse. Rita Hayworth surprised me with her dancing ability, but then Fred could make even a hat rack look great!!! The rest of the movieand the story,was pretty ordinary, but I will watch Fred's dance numbers over and over!!!  Scot.

Good Popcorn Movie I guess I don't understand the haters of this film. This was a fun pop-corn movie. You will always have the students of mythology hating anything that isn't verbatim to their gods and you will have those who hate anything re-made.  Clash of the Titans is the story of Perseus, a son of Zeus, who must kill the kraken before it destroys some humans.  Starring Sam Worthington as Perseus, Liam Neeson as Zeus (and really who else has the voice of a god?), and Ralph Fiennes as Hades, this film is as entertaining as any summer blockbuster.  You have a group of men fighting giant scorpions, trying to take the head of Medusa, and riding a flying horse.  The special effects are great. Go along for the ride and enjoy spectacle.  It will be interesting to see what they do for the sequel and I think I'd like to go back and watch the original because the effects they used for that movie was state-of-the-art at the time.  Don't listen to the haters, this is a decent movie.

3 1/2 stars for Millennium Edition DVD of this classic While zombie pictures had been around for a while, George A. Romero changed things forever in 1968 with this classic horror film.  Produced on a shoestring budget with unknown actors, he brought a new gory, visceral texture to the genre.  The movie opens with a brother and sister travelling from the city to rural Pennsylvania to place flowers on their father's grave.  A lumbering man with dead eyes approaches and the fun begins.  As her brother is killed, Barbara (Judith O'Dea) manages to escape to a farm house.  Shortly a man drives up in a pick-up truck.  Ben (Duane Jones) is also looking for safety.  He manages to board up the house using tools and wood found inside the house.  Barbara goes insane after her confrontation earlier which isn't helped when she finds a partially eaten housewife upstairs.  They are then joined by a couple and their young...and bitten...daughter along with another young couple.  They had taken refuge in the cellar but finally emerge after hearing a radio.  All the performances are, well, terrible with the exception of Jones as the hero.  Although his race is never mentioned in the film, it was controversial at the time.  Here is this good looking black guy saving the ass of the white whiners.  Pretty ballsy casting by Romero.  The zombies in this early film, unlike some of the more modern epics, are slow, clumsy, stupid and easily killed, "kill the brain, you kill the ghoul" (they are never called zombies).  Even though it is cheaply made, there is a certain legitimate dread watching it.  And if you saw it in 1968, you remembered it for a long time.  Still it really isn't very good; but it is a game changing horror classic and certainly worth watching.  There are numerous video versions of the same film and some are pretty bad transfers.  I saw this on "Millennium Edition" DVD which is THX certified and produced by Elite Entertainment.  The film looks good in its original black and white and 1:33:1 aspect ratio.  You have a choice of original mono or Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.

Entertaining! Good thing I was not dissuaded by the "professional critics" to stay far away from this movie. Sure, this is no art movie and it is not the best movie ever made but I enjoyed every minute of it, well almost every.  To me, the acid test of a good movie is how quickly time flies (during the movie) and when the movie is about to end, I'd hope it'd run another hour or two - in my book, this is one of those movies.  Yes, this movie could have been better, have fewer holes, have more "soul" and not so bloody loud but still it is good enough for now... till The Avengers?  Bottom line: This movie sure kept me wanting more... like Battleship II and III!  P.S. To give you an idea if you should give any weight to my "review"... I loved Source Code, Iron Man (Iron Man II not so much), ID4, The Incredibles & The Rock. Absolutely hated Inception and True Grit. And I did not like the first 2 Transformers movies either (boring), couldn't be bothered to catch the 3rd.

Kroft Brother Morning Hits DVD Got this for someone as a gift, we both grew up in the 70's and it was the perfect thing to get...  What great memories!!!!

Amadeaus DVD My favorite movie, had it, this was a replacement because the "borrowers" must have taken the original. If you like Mozart, you'll love this film. It really showcases his many opera's and other musical pieces. F. Murray Abraham is FANTASTIC as Salieri, Mozarts rival in the music world. Tom Hulce as Mozart is outrageous. A music lovers movie

Dobby "bookend" and DVD Although from the picture it looks taller, the Dobby bookend is a shade over 5" tall and not weighted. It holds up the DVD(s) through the means of a thin plastic base- a flimsy,thin piece of plastic. As to be expected it was manufactured in China where most cheap,crummy and sometimes dangerous products are being manufactured these days. That said, it  is a fair representation of the character. For those who care, the DVD case is a shade larger than the other DVDs in the series. The DVD itself played without hitches so no complaints there. All in all I am satisfied with the product.

Blu Ray Recommended Highly for fans,  not so much for the casual viewer....... Notorious (1946) is a stellar achievement from director Alfred Hitchcock and master  screenwriter Ben Hecht with Oscar worthy performances from all 3 principal stars, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and the ever Oscar worthy Claude Rains. It is hands down somewhere (arguable I suppose) in the top 5 films Mr. Hitchcock has ever made and sports a truly nuanced and multifaceted performance by Cary Grant who proves in THIS film he is not just a pretty face but a very fine actor who was capable of much more than he is usually given credit for.   With that said, this review will focus on the technical aspects, both audio and video, of this Blu Ray presentation rather than the film content itself. If you are a casual viewer or someone who can not abide film grain, this transfer will most likely be less than satisfactory for your tastes and you could easily get by with the latest DVD version.  I am, however, a MAJOR fan of Cary Grant and fully intend to purchase each and every title of his that becomes available on Blu Ray This review is for those of you who are OCD about the video/audio quality of B&W classics and need to know if it is worth spending again for this title.  If this sounds like you, then read on!  The disc itself is housed in an appallingly cheap Eco-Case with  equally appalling cover art. (I use the term "art" loosely here)  The media is of good quality, not the cheap super thin discs that have been going around lately. The disc has color printing on it, the same as the case cover. The transfer uses the AVC codec with an average transfer rate of 38 MBPS on a 50 gig disc and presented in it's original full frame aspect ratio.  I read numerous online reviews regarding this transfer before purchasing, so I pretty much knew what I was getting myself into. I will be right upfront and state that although this is NOT the level of visual quality I had hoped for, it is still a large step ahead of any other transfer currently available.  It would take a frame by frame restoration done from an original camera negative (similar to what was done with 'Ben-Hur' or 'The 10 Commandments') to improve much on the visual quality and I am afraid that studio profits trump my own personal wishes here. It is a real shame that Cary Grant's films are not shown the same reverence and care that are given to Bogart's in the Blu Ray market.  Bottom Line: 'Notorious', while a true cinematic masterpiece just doesn't get the same amount of respect shown to it as other titles from the same time period.  The image quality at times achieves great heights of both clarity and stability, but at others reveals a troubled and damaged source. I would have to say after viewing that this transfer did NOT come from an original negative or any negative at all, rather from a decent quality print of dubious origins that has been cleaned up and scanned in at 1080p.  While the bit rate of this transfer remains consistently high during the film, there is little depth to be had, and at times much noise , chemical damage to the nitrate/emulsion resulting in discolored contrast 'stripes' from time to time , film warping and a few scenes that seem to be sourced from  lower resolution material of some kind.  Close-Ups, in particular, are very very good. The fine detail revealed during close-ups easily trumps anything you could ever see on even the best DVD transfer.  If you screen this transfer in full 1080p with 24 frames engaged you will be treated to something very very close to a  theatrical presentation. Once you overlook the downside of the source material, this Blu Ray can and will provide you with a very nice overall rendering, despite the print damage.  Upon close inspection I found no instances of missing frames, although the bit rate is SO HIGH that occasional my equipment dropped one or two from time to time and upon rewinding and replaying it could not be repeated so this was not a fault of the transfer. For most of the film the contrast remains good and on a calibrated display you will mostly see things the way they were meant to be seen, although during the moments when a different source appeared to be used the contrast will be too dark or even too high depending on the scene.  These is all really REALLY picky observations, but I write most of my Blu Ray reviews for people who enjoy seeing their favorites in pristine condition and unfortunately 'Notorious' is not among them. The average viewer will be put off quickly by the amount of film grain visible. Of course if you remove the visible grain, you also remove the TRUE details which exist in the print so I prefer the grain to be left in and apply my own desired amount of DNR if I deem necessary.  Sound quality is fine. It is MONO but rendered in DTS-HD Master Audio into two identical 'stereo' channels. Selecting the stereo option on your receiver will yield a nice mono spread, otherwise your surround decoder may send all the sound directly to your center channel. Either way it sounds fine and there was no instance of any gross level distortion, clicks, pops or excessive hiss, although being an old analog recording SOME hiss is expected and excessive hiss removal can degrade the overall fidelity. The sound is fine, I thought it was actually a bit better than the visual presentation.  Extras included are ported over from the last DVD release and are fairly extensive. Commentaries from two Film Professors, various documentaries on the film and Hitchcock, a radio drama with Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotton, the original films trailer, an audio only interview with Hitch by Peter Bogdanovich and more.  I watched/listened to them all and enjoyed them very much, being a fan of the film.  Overall, the Blu Ray release of 'Notorious' satisfies me, while still leaving a LOT to be desired. Unfortunately that seems to be the case with many classic Blu Ray releases. The studios are giving us just enough to make us happy, and not much more. This transfer does not begin to reach the heights of 'Casablanca', 'Maltese Falcon' or 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' and that is a real shame.  Hopefully the upcoming release of 'To Catch a Thief'  will make up for this fairly lackluster Blu Ray. Being a Cary Grant fan, I will continue to purchase every Blu Ray title he is in as it comes out, but like the latest Criterion release of 'Charade', this version of 'Notorious' misses the mark somewhat.  Recommended Highly for fans, but not so much so for the casual viewer.......

paula deen bought this movie just to see how Paula Deen did in her acting debut. although she played only a bit part, she did very well. the movie itself was definetly worth viewing.

David B. I don't think that I would have bought the Movie if I could rent it instead but what the hell it's only money!!

Funny. I really liked the movie and found it very funny. If you have young children or are uncomfortable with blue(adult) humor, you may wnat to pass this movie by.

Impressive Video, Disappointing Audio Please describe the audio and video quality of any Blu-Ray you review.  Thanks to those who do this.  The picture was 1.85:1 (or something close to that), and completely filled my widescreen LCD.  I would rather of had 2.40:1.  Video quality was very good to great.  I only saw grain on one scene.  I give it a 9.0 out of 10.  Very good for a movie this old.  Audio quality was disappointing.  It was only Dolby Digital 5.1, and there were hardly any surround sounds, if any.  The sound came from the fronts and center.  I don't recall any sub-woofer bass, but I could be mistaken on that.  Overall, a good Blu-Ray purchase.

A Fine Sequel "The Son of Monte Cristo" is a most enjoyable swashbuckler.  It has nothing whatsoever to do with Dumas -- apart from the title and the most glancing reference to the Count his father -- but the story is exciting, suspenseful, and romantic, and the primary performances are excellent.  Louis Hayward displays his characteristic enthusiasm and &eacute;lan in the lead role, Joan Bennett is more utilized than in many of her other Hayward co-starring vehicles, and George Sanders makes a fine and dastardly villain, as ever.  Production values are pleasing as well.  The film is only marred by some regrettably wooden supporting acting -- notably by a pre-"Lone Ranger" Clayton Moore, and a story that goes on, perhaps, fifteen minutes too long and falls thereby into a more contrived ending than was necessary.  This is unfortunate, since the story establishes a ready-conclusion around the 85-minute mark, but, perhaps trying for one more action set-piece, things are carried along to the point where story-logic is sadly damaged.  That said, this is a most worthwhile film, and the Alpha Video release is acceptable -- better than their usual low-quality "slap it on video" efforts.  By the by, I have both the VHS and the DVD Alpha releases, and the DVD is a bit better in video quality.

A Must See!! My brother recommended this movie a few years ago, and being a fan of Anthony Hopkins and motorcycles, I went for it.  What a great story.  I eventually purchased the movie for myself, and then again for my brother.  You can't help but love the character and the story he tells.

Missing DVD I've been missing this movie for awhile. I have all the other howling movies and Werewolves are my favorite movie monster. This is an okay movie I would recommend if you like werewolf or the howling series.

An historic event One decision probably change the life of a whole generation, the II World War could have ended with a different result...

Thought it would suck, but was actually good. Well, what to say, most of these "types" of movies just suck, but this one was good. Watch it, good funny movie

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom(1984) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom(1984) is an underrated sequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark(1981). It's darker and different than Raiders. The human sacrifice scenes probably traumatized children for years! The film has been criticized for its dark tone, racial stereotypes, stereotypes about blonde women, and strong violence. John Williams' music score is good and it reflects the dark, nightmarish tone of the movie. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was so violent that the MPAA created the PG-13 rating. In India, Indiana Jones(Harrison Ford) must recover mystical stones for a suffering village and battle a Thuggee Cult. The filmmakers borrow some ideas from the Cary Grant movie Gunga Din. Roy Chiao(Spring Song, Treasure Hunt) played a Chinese crime boss in the early part of the movie. I like Kate Capshaw and she has more charm than her vain, dopey Willie Scott character. Jonathan Ke Quan(The Goonies) played an orphaned Chinese kid who helps Dr. Jones. The Temple of Doom is the only Indiana Jones film with a real climax! Jones and the Indian bad guy(played by Amrish Puri) have an equal chance of being killed by alligators! In Raiders, The Last Crusade, and Crystal Skull, supernatural forces defeat the bad guys for Indy! The scene where Indy, Willie Scott, and Shorty escape in a mine cart felt like a roller coaster ride! Temple of Doom is nowhere as fun as Raiders, but it is a solid sequel.

A great new TV show! It's refreshing to see a crime/police drama on TV that's not based in any of the big cities. I loved Law & Order, but it is nice to see a show based somewhere less well known (Wyoming). The acting is great and the tone of the show is not comical or goofy like so many other crime dramas (Bones, NCIS, CSI).

Almost as good as their cheese Having never seen a Swiss movie and seeing this had a relatively short running time, I was curious enough to check this one out. The 2 main characters in the movie are Ana, a 22 year old free spirit and Rusa, a middle aged lonely woman who owns a restaurant in a working class neighborhood in Zurich. Ana goes to work for Rusa and with the pair being opposites in behavior and attitudes, this changes both their lives. Pay attention as there is a huge plot twist towards the end. Most of the events in the movie take place in the less scenic parts of Switzerland although there is a brief trip to the Alps which is very much like a postcard. In addition to cheese, chocolate and watches, it looks like the Swiss can make a pretty decent movie too.

For Greater Glory DVD A good copy of a timely and good film.  The film tells the little known (in the U.S.) story of the Christero War in Mexico in the 1920s.  Hundreds of priests and brothers, catholic laymen and women died at the hands of their national government, often executed for who they were, rather than any criminal activity.  Some Catholics rose up in revolt, joining bandits in rural Mexico.  The film tells the story well of one Mexican general (General Gorostieta, played by Andy Garcia) who reluctantly joins their fight, and dies (reminiscent of the last frames of Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid) when the national army figures out where his hideout is.  The film uses the Christero War as a backdrop, and does not tell at the end how the Catholic Church was resolved with the national government (and the PRI) of Mexico.  Some of the supporting characters are a bit 2 dimensional, and a bit too good in some ways.  The wife of the general (played by Eva Longoria Parker), the old Bishop (played by Peter O'Toole) summarily executed outside of his cathedral, and the bandit-leader priest are 3 exceptions.  The screenplay and their acting skills carry this film.  Does it have a message for us today?  What of religiously observant citizens herded away form their religious convictions about abortion, forced to pay for medical acts they consider murder, by the impending national medical care takeover by our federal government?  Only time will tell.

B-movie fun, you'll enjoy every minute as long as you realize it's not trying to be Scorcese or Speilberg... Very silly, a tad forced in places, and who gives a crap? Pure, B movie fun, as was intended. Amazing effects considering their $10 million budget. This movie was silly, had a message but delivered it with the subtlety of a giant rubber mallet. It was the funnest load of crap I've ever watched. Highly recommended.  (Note: this review was originally a reply to Hydra's review, but I decided to post it on its own.)

3 1/2 stars for some good old fashion moviemaking Most of us have read about dogs that after a distant separation from their human families, find their way back home. There are also cinematic versions. I recall "Homeward Bound: An Incredible Journey", and a Lassie film from the 1940's and I think Rin-Tin-Tin; but that might have been TV. In any case, director Steven Spielberg ups the ante, this time with a horse named Joey.  An English farmer, out of spite for his landlord (David Thewlis), buys a young horse at an auction. He needed a larger horse for purposes of plowing but was a wee bit tipsy at the time. The son, Albert (Jeremy Irvine) raises the horse that is unusually smart, strong and sociable. Eventually, in need of cash, the father (Peter Mullan) sells the horse to a young army officer (Tom Hiddleston) at the dawn of World War I. Spielberg then sets events in motion that follow Joey and his fellow horse through numerous battles, arduous labor, escapes and engagements with English and German armies and French farmers. Aided by longtime partner, cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, Spielberg paints a beautiful portrait of landscapes, sunrises and sunsets.  The film does stretch believability at times. Would a horse volunteer for duty to pull a canon up a hill in place of a fellow horse? It also would have made more sense to have Germans speak German and French speak French but I guess subtitles over even small sections of film would scare off some audiences. This is old fashion movie making and even with some bleak battle scenes and animal mistreatment, will attract families. Sure it's sentimental and even cheesy at times, but it has a strong moral foundation and it ultimately uplifting.  The Blu ray disc is of course a 1080p conversion.  It has a 2.40:1 aspect ratio which makes the spectacular cinematography really shine.  The audio comes in the form of DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 24 bit surround, so those with a serious home theater system will be rewarded.

Quite Insightful This movie finally made me look at Michelle Williams and commend her on the acting she is capable of. Seeing her play Ms. Monroe was refreshing and entertaining. Finally Marilyn from A different perspective!

A Must See I loved this film! It wasn't necessarily terrifying, but it was full of gory justice.  I've never seen the original film that inspired this remake, but I did enjoy it.  My attraction to this film stems from its basic idea of a victim getting their own revenge against those that brutalized them.  The story is about a woman that was raped and beaten by a group of men, somehow she survived and starts murdering them very creatively.  Each of the deaths of the men is inspired by his own actions during her rape/attack.  I would reccomend watching this, it's a great film.  I don't think I've ever watched a horror film, where I sided with the murdered.

Very good anime. Gungrave is a good story about a couple of friends that move up from being street punks to the leaders of a powerful mafia organization. Brandon, the main character is murdered by his partner, Harry, and returns from the grave to take revenge and set things right again. That's pretty much the plot in a nutshell. There a lot of really awesome characters and fight scenes in this anime. There is also enough drama and character development to keep you wanting more.  The animation and voice acting are pretty good. You should recognize many of these voice actors. Overall this is a really good anime. Especially for one based on a video game. I recommend it to any anime fan.

Needs more than one viewing I really enjoyed this one. It's one of those films that you need to watch more than once. The first time I saw it, I felt lost at the end. When I watched it again, I noticed so many small details that I missed the first time around. The acting, atmosphere and score worked together to create a wonderfully creepy, thought-provoking film.

It's a shonda! I remember watching this wonderful movie with my mother through out my childhood and was excited to see it on DVD for such a great price.  The VHS I had was running out of steam and I very much wanted to keep "Penny Serenade" a part of my movie collection.  Well, I get the DVD, it works but they have left out one of the best scenes in the entire movie and, possibly, of Cary Grant's career!!!!!!!!!!  How and why would they leave out the scene in the judge's office where Roger must plead for he and Julie to keep Trina despite their financial problems?!?!?!?  I hope I can one day get this movie in its entirety without having to sacrifice quality.

Blu Review 46 - The Exterminator The Exterminator Blu-ray Review  Distributor : Synapse Films (US)  For a movie that contains such visual delights as beatings, burning, beheading, forced prostitution and the painfully slow decent of another unfortunate victim into a working meat grinder, it is no wonder that the The Exterminator has had its share of controversy over the years.  Robert Ginty plays an ordinary every day guy who after a particularly nasty attack on his best friend, sets about dispatching the criminal element of 1980's New York in ways which would give even Jigsaw nightmares. Highlights of vengeance include extreme facial surgery involving a group of hungry rats,  poison tipped bullets and the previous mentioned incident where the local gangster is quite literally turned into a string of sausages. Even the family dog doesn't escape unharmed in this one folks!  With the varying amounts of violence on display, it is no wonder that the film has suffered numerous cuts over the years, however it is the gritty realism of the film itself rather than any one particular gore scene which ultimately unnerves the viewer and actually makes for a pretty good story beneath all of the carnage.  Released on Blu-ray by Synapse Films on a region free disc, the film is presented in its fully uncut directors print which features all of the gore excised from previous releases. Synapse have gone to town on this release and have invested in a brand new 2k scan from the original materials which has produced a quality 1080p 1.78:1 transfer of the film that put simply is stunning. Detail is sharper than ever before with colours and black levels appearing really well defined. Film grain is rightfully present throughout the picture which only enhances the overall atmosphere and for anyone who is used to watching previous versions of the movie, this new print will be a revelation.  Audio tracks are available in a choice of DTS Mono and original restored Stereo mixes, both of which are trouble free and sound clear and well balanced. Admittedly the low budget roots of the film will ensure that the soundtrack will never compete with the latest modern day blockbusters, however there really is nothing to complain about here, with both dialogue and action scenes being clean and well represented.  Extras wise there is not a great deal available in this package, however what is here is largely very good. Firstly there is an informative commentary track by the films director which covers every conceivable angle relating to the films production, locations, release and even his personal views on the films sequel. As far as commentaries go this really is one of the better ones and fans of the film will find plenty of interest. Rounding this off, there are the usual theatrical trailers and  some TV spots which also make a nice addition. Although a couple of extra documentaries would have been most welcome, the excellent commentary track more than makes up for any shortfall.  All things considered, this Blu-ray release should be considered as a must buy purchase for fans of the film. Casual viewers will also find plenty to like and as a classic example of 1980's exploitation movie making, the film still has plenty to offer. With a UK Blu-ray release coming soon from Arrow Video which is said to use the same quality transfer and contain additional extra features, there is a clear choice to import this US release or wait until November for the UK disc. Worth noting however is that the Arrow release contains an altogether different audio commentary track with the films producer and at this time it remains unconfirmed whether the original Stereo soundtrack option will be present on their release. For real fans of the film or for people who remain undecided there is of course always the option of a double purchase.  One things for certain The Exterminator has never looked or sounded better, further proving that older low budget films really can have a new lease of life on Blu-ray.  "If You're Lying.....I'll Be Back!"  BLU REVIEW OBSCURA - for reviews of the less mainstream releases find us on Facebook or at blureviewobscura .yolasite .com

Sweet Story We enjoyed this documentary style film. Althought there are some very sad aspects, the outcome is sweet. We recommend this movie to people of all ages.

Stacked with skirmishes "Act of Valor" is an action film which follows the missions and camaraderie of U.S. Navy SEALs and U.S. Navy Special Warfare Combatant Crewmen.  The narrative of the movie is typical of many works of the same genre and this is perhaps its weakest attribute.  However, for viewers who enjoy blazing action this film delivers plenty of big bangs and hails of gunfire.  Overall this is a movie where an action enthusiast should feel right at home and be satisfied with many barrages of bullets.  Nicholas R.W. Henning - Australian Author

An interesting view of WWII history This film was assigned as part of a program of study my husband is in or we may not have selected it to watch.  The film was a pleasant surprise.  As most films, the script writers must select snapshots of Bonhoeffer's life story to highlight, but the result in this film is a very interesting and compelling story.  If you are a fan of BBC dramas, or a student of WWII history, you will enjoy this film.

NOT SO ITSY-BITSY SPIDERS Roger Corman, master of the cheesy B-movie, is back with the creepy crawly CAMEL SPIDERS.  All the ingredients that have endeared Corman to us b-movie addicts are shamelessly evident:  average CGI effects; cliched characters and pseudo-factual background. Admittedly, the six-legged scorpio-spiders are quite creepy and they're shown quite a lot.  The two "name" stars---Brian Krause and C. Thomas Howell---give as good a performance as the script allows, but let's face it---we're watching for the bugs...everything else is incidental. CAMEL SPIDERS sets no new standards in horror cinema, but it IS Cormanesque and therefore entertaining.

good...just not great Although there is so much in here, I found the ending (SPOILER ALERT) where the three journalists decide to run away from the CIA as implausible as well as their ability to capture, on their own, a notorious Serb war criminal.  Having said that, at the end of the movie, are claims that this actually happened. If that's true then the depiction of the final 20 minutes of this movie was even more unbelievable.  It's hard to know what to think but up until that point this is a terrific thriller with loads of mysterious threatening characters and scenes. The acting is first-rate as when Richard Gere gets those indignant roles he is always able to pull those off. Throw in Terrence Howard who just exudes cool and the surprising newcomer "Adventureland's" Jesse Eisenberg. Throw in a gratuitous James Brolin (sadly his beard demanded too much salary and did not appear in a suppurting role), loads of war scenes and bombed out building across Bosnia-Hercegovina and you have one heckuva movie.  Maybe not as well done as "Savior" was as far as depicting the atrocities in the Balkans but a damned fine effort.  DVD extras are the usual--commentary track, making of and deleted scenes.

Creepy and bizarre, but well done Before watching a few other movies about vicious serial killers, I thought I'd seen the worst depiction of human cruelty in this film. Having said that, this film is very well done, but if you have a weak stomache, I don't recommend it. On the other hand, if you got through 8mm( by the same script writer-Andrew Kevin Walker) unscathed, you should be fine. Certain scenes, mostly the kill scenes, sent chills down my spine. It is a very good movie, and worth owning for the psychology behind it alone, but don't watch it after dark, that's a precaution. The story, though not original by today's standards, is chilling, to say the least, but the actors do an excellent job with their roles, Kevin Spacey as the killer does a great job being creepy, showing no remorse for his actions, thinking he was chosen by God...to kill, make sense? Didn't think so! Check it out, if you haven't already.

Reminiscing Review American Reunion is basically a chance for all those in their late 20s and early 30s to think back to their high school days. It brought in all the characters from the original, but not in a forced way. Some obvious flaws (who celebrates their 13th reunion), but definitely a must see for those who grew up with these characters from the American Pie series.

Great Episodes I had a blast watching these nine episodes, which are better pick than the uneven <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006Z7Z3PO">Dark Shadows: Best of Barnabas</a>. There is a werewolf, ghosts, a witch, demon possession, time travel and a parallel timeline in this collection. The first three episodes are my favorites, where Barnabas introduces himself as a cousin to the Collins family; during a freaky s&eacute;ance Victoria Winters travels back to the year 1795; and the witch Angelique tries to hurt Barnabas. The video resolution is better than the previous collection. Make sure to look for a few Dark Shadows famous bloopers/mistakes, as the actors flub their lines and you can clearly see the microphone boom shadow in several scenes. The Fan Favorites DVD should satisfy most Dark Shadows fans and introduce the series to a new generation.

Unusal  Movie The entire movie was alright up to the point where a notice flash saying "a reel of film was missing".This movie was worth the money. The seller was on time with the delivery. This made me very happy.

Great! This is a great movie, especially on blu-ray. Completely new and scratch free! Wouldn't change a thing about it! Thumbs up

Over looked movie I don't remember when I first saw this movie, but I really enjoyed it. The acting and sets were great. And the way the movie flowed keeps you drawn in.

Thor--Shakespearean, Light...And Well Done... With "The Avengers" due for release in 2012, there might have been a temptation on the part of Marvel Films to not be thorough with the two releases of 2011, "Thor" and "Captain America: The First Avenger".  The first of the two releases...did much to eliminate that line of thinking.   "Thor" plays well on two levels--as a story of intrigue and betrayal among Norse Gods, it seems as if it is "Hamlet" on steroids; but carries some moments of surprising humor and pathos.  The humor strikes many who have known the Marvel character as surprising--after all, Thor and the fellow Asgardians have been primarily known for their Elizabethan English (The usage of "thee" and "thou") and Thor's own rather severe nature.  Which is why credit must be given first and foremost to Kenneth Branagh.  Branagh has certainly had a history with The Bard's works, having directed "Henry V" in 1989 and "Hamlet" in 1996.  Certainly the Asgard part of the story--Thor's ascension to King of Asgard subverted by his half-brother Loki, and Loki's ascension to Odin's throne--plays as a Shakespearean tale...   But the earthbound part of the story--Thor's banishment to Earth, developing his relationship with the astrophysicist Jane Foster, and learning that a true leader will make sacrifices for the greater good--comes in a part of the tale which is at points humorous (If not laugh-out-loud funny), touching...almost endearing in many ways; while mixing in the action that superhero movies have to have.   Branagh mixes both elements of his Shakespearean training and more traditional leanings quite well here, and creates a very good introductory story.   Of course, it helps that the cast doesn't sleepwalk this out.  Chris Hemsworth pulls a magnificent double in this movie (For that matter, Hemsworth and his wife--Elsa Pataky, who played the Brazilian police liasion to Dewayne Johnson in "Fast Five"--probably rolled in a bunch of money this past summer).  Hemsworth captures a headstrong, willful, quick-to-anger warrior at the start; when cast out of Asgard without his powers he comes off as arrogant and spoiled--and maybe a little bit touched--but grows in the story.  But Hemsworth also provides charm and a pretty good gift for physical comedy that enhances the characterization.   Tom Hiddleston's Loki steals the show.  It is a brilliantly nuanced character that plays all sides against each other for his benefit, but Hiddleston gives the character a unique soul--angered at his origins and feeling deprived of his birthright, and willing to take out his anger on both his Asgardian family and the Frost Giants.   Anthony Hopkins and Rene Russo bring regality and power to Odin and Frigga--it is particularly nice to see Russo back at work after about a ten-year absence...Stellan Skarsgard plays Erik Selvig with a bemused look, but honest concern for Jane Foster; and Kat Dennings is a riot as Darcy Lewis.  Among Thor's fellow warrior gods, Jaimie Alexander's Sif is a delight--she seems to lead the Warriors Three (Including Ray Stevenson's Volstagg--Stevenson seems on course to become a member of "The Mighty Marvel Movie Players", people who have done different roles in Marvel movies, since he played Frank Castle in "Punisher: War Zone...).   Natalie Portman's Jane Foster is notable..touching, and brilliant.  Given that it follows her dark turn in "Black Swan", Portman has to call on a lightness and humor that hasn't been seen much with her.  Her Jane is a brilliant woman with a bad dating history, and when she has Hemsworth's Thor drop out of the sky onto her RV, she's a little overwhelmed by the mystery and the slightly imperious (Though charming) behavior.  The key sequence of the movie--when Thor proves himself a hero worthy of Mjolnir, the mighty hammer--is Portman at her best; sad at Thor's initial sacrifice to The Destroyer, but her shock at what happens when the hammer returns to Thor--her "Oh...my...god??!?" is priceless, as is her comments about Thor's usual clothing after defeating The Destroyer.  To paraphrase that line, Jane is a good look on Natalie.   Notable among the special features is the "one-shot" where Clark Gregg's Phil Coulson, the SHIELD operative from the Iron Man movies does a little manipulating in a side-story (Which also explains a scene from "The Incredible Hulk"...).   Again, Marvel Films could have been very sloppy with this story, figuring that nothing really counts until the summer of 2012.  But Kenneth Branagh didn't allow that, Chris Hemsworth couldn't allow that, and Natalie Portman wouldn't allow that.   Highly recommended.

The Avatar of 2001! This review is for the two disc special edition of the Oct/2001 animated film Final Fantasy.A film that never made its creating costs,it nevertheless is a very compelling piece of animation that still to this day holds up very well.At first glance the plot can be a little heavy at times as it gets too detail oriented and even the premise(Gaia and the spirit concept)can even be a little off putting to some.But it is a film that can be scrutinized again and again,as each time you see something a little different.It was a Japanese(inspired and directed)/American co production and features the voices of Donald Sutherland,Ving Rhames,Alec Baldwin,James Wood,Steve Buschemi and others. The story involves the Earth of 2065 now dotted with encased cities.They are under constant threat by a variety of ethereal type entities called Phantoms,who,with just a slight touch,can kill a man by taking his very essence.The film opens as one Aki-Ross is scouring the old open city of New York for a plant which is one of eight spirits needed to defeat the Phantoms.At that same time some troopers drop in on reconnaissance and luckily for Aki,end up saving her life as the Phantoms start attacking. It turns out Aki had a relationship with the head trooper and as the movie progresses the two end up reconnecting.Aki works for a Professor Sid and from here on in the troopers,Aki and the professor will work together to collect the other spirits.However not all are happy with the spirits or Gaia theory that the professor expounds.In fact General Hein wants to use an orbiting dynamo to wipe out the main cluster of Phantoms in Russia.Both sides give their arguments at a hearing with the current administration and the professor and company buy some time. Eventually however the domed city is attacked and an over confident Gen.Hein recklesly allows the Phantoms access but is unable to contain the threat and they overrun the city.Many of the population are killed including most of the troopers.Aki,the head trooper and the professor barely escape and head for Russia.Meanwhile the General has gone to the orbiting energy weapon and starts to rain down its deadly energy upon the Phantoms just as Aki and the trooper are going into the crater in which the Phantoms congregate.Aki has by now learned through a series of dreams,like pieces of a puzzle,that these Phantoms are not living alien creatures but spirits or ghosts of a long dead civilization.Their essence was embedded in a meteor that crashed in that crater in Russia many years before. The energy beams force the gigantic creature in the crater farther into the ground which Aki and the trooper find is occupied by the Earth spirit Gaia.The creatures are red coloured while Gaia is blue.The trooper is killed/taken but Aki uses some of the alien kept dormant within her body,along with the other spirits,to transform the Phantoms into harmless spirits.They return to outer space in a giant shaft of blue light and the Earth returns to normal. Technically speaking the picture is in its w/s a/r of 1:85:1 and is clear and crisp.This two disc edition is chock FULL of special features,some that only can be accessed through your computer DVD player like the complete screenplay,a version of Michael Jacksons Thriller the Final Fantasy way,and more.Included on these two jam packed discs are,among many other items,two feature length commentaries,storyboard commentary,factoids,a look at Aki as an animated character,The making of FF,a look at several aspects of the art and animation process,alternate opening,the ability to edit and playback a scene from the movie and on and on.It is a tremendous package of extras that will thrill any fan of the film. In conclusion,this animated feature still holds up well after 10 years.The animation is detailed to the nth degree and you can practically count the hairs on Akis head.It was quite the undertaking then and could be considered the Avatar of its day.Recommended.

Great The movie is great for the class. They really enjoyed getting to see how the legal process works. It is recommended for others.

Perfect drive-in movie Which is where my wife and I saw it when it first came out. A six pack of beer made it all the more enjoyable. I think people love it for what it is -- a great schlock movie.  I don't think seeing it on a small screen takes away much, with the possible exception of the upside down ballroom sequence. That was quite a technical feat with the technology of the time. The recent remake sucked badly; what a disappointment.

Ultimate Cardio? Let me start by saying that I am a cardio junkie. Whenever I purchase a workout DVD 9 times out of 10 I'm looking for something to really get my heart pumping. I was so excited to try out this DVD because of it's title... ULTIMATE CARDIO BODY!! Well, the workout doesn't quite live up to that title. There were moments when I could feel my heart rate getting elevated, but it wasn't a feeling that I had frequently throughout the workout. Having said that, I don't think this is a bad workout. There are a lot of difficult moves that really challenge your body and you'll probably be sore the next day. All in all it is a good workout but it isn't ULTIMATE CARDIO.

The suspense and drama are well done I like the Masterpiece Theater style crime stories.  This one is in that style. It focuses on the stress of the investigation and the interaction of the characters. It was not too horrific or over the top.

Good sci-fi fun but liked the first better. The action in the first movie was better. This one was new and entertaining but not edge of your seat thrilling.

A Better One of the MGM Talkies I really didn't mind "Speak Easily". As another reviewer mentioned, he is allowed to be seen as a intelligent person and his inexperience comes from the "Ivory Tower of Academia" which is more believable and doesn't show him to be such a loser as in other films. Also, in the film, he is not a victim, he offers to help the Theater company and they seem to really like him despite some of his oddities. Finally, FINALLY he is allowed to get the girl, which MGM seemed to think was not possible. If Keaton had full control over this film, it would have been tighter, the physical humor less broad and no Jimmy Durante but all things considered, it's really not that bad which is about the best you can say about a MGM talkie.

Great movie! This was a great movie with a great cast.I think Kevin Max was amazing in this story.He also hit it right on the head with the struggles that christians have to face,no dancing around the subject.

When I want it, on my TV Love love love this show. Happy to see it through my Blu-ray player on my HDTV, which I didn't have when the show began. Keeps me laughing.

Overlooked Gem This is an example of a very good movie that was not promoted properly.  This look at the underbelly of modern London is fascinating.  In "Dirty Pretty Things" the viewer is taken beneath the usual staid and proper face of the city to its dirty tenements and nasty underworld.  And we're not invited into a lower-class colorful Cockney world.  Instead, we are shown into a world teeming with immigrants, legal and illegal, from all over the world, trying to survive in a brutal world without mercy for the defenseless. It is a world filled with sweatshops you would expect to see in a third world country, prostitutes, and predators of every stripe.The legal immigrant is Senay, a Turkish Muslim played by the lovely Audrey Tautou.  She displays the wide range of her acting talent in a role quite different fron the whimsical pixie she portayed in "Amelie".  She is a housekeeper in the aptly named Baltic Hotel.  Her counterpart is Okwe, an illegal immigrant from Nigeria, a former doctor who is now a taxi driver and night desk clerk at the same hotel where Senay works and is allowed to sleep on her couch when she is not there. I don't know where they found Chitwetel Ejiofor,  but he has star potential. He actually steals this movie in my opinion, even with an outstanding performance by Tautou.  The two of them are thrown together by happenstance. Each is preyed upon by the type of vultures that haunt a large city's underbelly.  Senay is sexually exploited by a sweatshop owner. Okwe is exploited by Sneaky Juan the kind of underworld denizen always working an angle at some vulnerable immigrant's expense.  He co-opts Okwe into using his medical skill for an outrageously immoral scheme in exchange for fake passports for Okwe and Senay. After their experience in the London underworld these two immigrants want to emigrate.  The satisfying irony of how Okwe obtains the passports from Sneaky Juan, and then turns the tables on him, is worth the price of admission itself. It involves a very clever plot twist. The movie has a bittersweet ending but that is hardly a negative for this gem. Very nicely done and well worth seeing. With wider distribution this could have been a foreign film winner.

Good I don't normally write reviews but I haven't found very much information about the Blu-Ray. For people looking for this information, here you go. Everything on the disc, including the bonus features, is in 1080i AVC video with a bitrate that bounces mostly between 15Mbps and 25Mbps. Everything on the disc also has a DTS-HD MA audio track. The track is 5.1 for the main film/documentary, but Stereo for everything else. I won't comment on the film/documentary, since other reviewers have that covered. It is basically a quick 1.5 hour summary of the season, mostly focusing on the World Series.  The Blu-Ray set is 1 disc, but on the disc is the entire Game 5 from the NLDS. This is the main draw of this disc for the serious fans. This essentially contains the entire TBS broadcast, minus the commercials. The picture quality is better than the TBS HD broadcast, but not at the level of watching a good film on Blu-Ray. Despite the sound track technically being a stereo track, it is essentially a dual mono track. The exact same sound comes from both of the front speakers. If you have ProLogic II enabled on your receiver, all sound comes from the center channel. There is only one audio track, so it is definitely a missed opportunity. I would have loved to have a choice of the radio announcers (like on the World Series set). There are chapter stops at each half inning. The total running time of the game is 2 hours and 1 minute. After watching this, I absolutely think full length baseball games and Blu-Ray are a good fit. If they did surround sound and included the radio tracks, it would be flawless.  The bonus features are each under 5 minutes. There are short clips about LaRussa, Berkman, etc. The clip of the parade is under one minute, so definitely a missed opportunity from a 2 hour parade broadcast. I would have loved to see LaRussa's speech in the stadium after the parade. What is nice is the final outs and the three big Game 6 hits included as bonus features. Anybody really into it will have the complete World Series DVD set, but it is nice to have these moments in HD quality, without the score box, Fox Trax, etc. The David Freese home run is actually played 5 times in the bonus features with 5 different audio tracks.

hot women, vile villians Just a good anime series.  Jin is fun, sexy, smart.  Lesbian scenes are okay, should be more.  Plot, oh pretty good, but a bit hard to follow.

Decent It's really tough to find a good horror flick out there but this one meets the standard better than most. The stories are far more interesting than the average vampire or crazed murderer horror and the variance in topics allows the stories to develop and end quickly without dragging long enough to bore the viewer (pun intended). For most viewers, this movie will be good enough to see on the big screen but, if you seek more than cheap thrills in the horror district, you'll probably want to wait to see this on DVD or even Blu-ray format instead.

Fun family movie from another era Great family movie, from the time when Hollywood still regularly included examples of good moral values in its offerings aimed at youth. I concur with Dudley Tate's review in that aspect. This piece is very easy to watch, and the extended battle between the horse and the black bear is the only violence in it.  As to the quality of the print, however, I must disagree. This film was obviously not shot on Kodachrome. The print used to make the DVD has faded heavily toward red and green tones, and no amount of adjusting of color, tint, contrast, or brightness on my set could restore a full color spectrum. But that is minor.  For its intended audience, it succeeds wonderfully.

Harry Potter Harry Potter movie 2 is one of my favorites because the kids are still young and the plot line is quite catchy :P Enjoy!

All Good Things Definitely Do Come to an End In this thriller slash drama flick based upon a real missing person's case, Ryan Gosling plays David Marks the son of a wealthy real estate magnate in New York who, affected by watching his mother's death when he was 7 years old, loses patience with his wife (Kirsten Dunst, and looks to end their marriage in a very permanent way. His wife clearly comes from a family nothing like the Marks and from the beginning was treated like an outsider.  The senior Marks focuses all of his effort on running his real estate empire and doesn't pay anywhere near enough attention to his son who clearly has been slipping away from him for many years.  Although this crime still hasn't been solved more than 30 years since his wife dissapeared, the amazing thing is that David Marks--as you learn right at the end of the movie--still lives in Florida as a real estate investor.  I thought the movie moved along at a pretty decent clip most of the time.  It was somewhat unclear to me towards the end of the story if the events portrayed were in fact where the case stands today or if the screen writers took some liberties with the ending.  Overall a good story and a good secondary lesson for parents who put too much stress on their kids to follow their lead. I recommend this movie as a good Saturday night watch.

Jason who? This is a wild one for the lovable slasher flick series as the killer on the loose has nothing to do with original story of Jason taking revenge on camp counselors, and that's pretty much the pace for remaining series. This time it's an imposter posing as Jason to avenge his sons death at a mental home in the country. And the even weirder thing is he eventually targets anyone in the area who weren't around or had anything to do with his sons calamity. So it's really an imposter Jason who has no connection with ongoing story who kills randomly at anything that moves. It really doesn't make sense as to why he doesn't just concentrate on the mental home itself and it's inhabitants, although he gets to them later, but in the meantime he cleans out the local area, even the ones just passing through or on a hot date. The good thing is there is something for everybody here as far as characterization from hillbilly locals to punk rockers. You feel for Tommy as he struggles with his nightmarish hallucinations of the real Jason, and having to deal with being a misfit among misfits. The pace is good, and even though we are not treated to the real Jason personified, the killer treads the same like footsteps.

The Entertainment movie Manoranjan - The Entertainment also tells the story of aspiring actors, star struck producers, manipulative business managers, the casting couch, the underworld nexus... but it's done in the most amateurish manner. Director Karaan Choudhary tries to pack in too much in those two hours, but the execution of the subject leaves a lot to be desired. Rahul wants to make it big in the industry, while Vicky aspires to become rich overnight. Rahul starts working as a spot boy, while Vicky becomes a chauffeur to Maya. There's Priya [Kavita], an orphan, who aspires to be an actress.

Turn on The Switch! The Switch was one of those rare movies for me that surprised me with its scope, story, humanism, acting, and sheer heart! We've all known and admired the abilities of Jennifer Aniston...but Jason Bateman has always been such an underrated talent, and especially so in The Switch! His natural delivery, his quirkiness, and his character development elevate this movie, and give it its warmth and depth! BUT...that being said, the ADORABLE little boy STEALS the show, hands down!! I don't know where they got this incredibly cute and talented young boy, who is SO CONVINCING with his insecurities...but he was indeed the icing on the cake for me in this movie!! I've watched this movie a few times, with different friends and family...and I've gotten something different out of it each time!! If you're looking for one of those hidden gems that celebrate love, and the human spirit, The Switch will MORE than suffice!!

Intense, mysterious, violent, highly entertaining film This is an excellent film, however the violence in parts of the film was a bit much to endure. I felt that the film had a carefully unfolding so that the viewer was never certain of anything except the moral character of the nurse played by Naomi Watts. Now this is a nice plot devise to have one character on whom the viewer can trust to make ethical decisions and thus it allows you to suspend judgment about all the other characters and try to sort out the puzzle pieces one by one as they are revealed.  Violence is not implied in the film, it is usually shown in full gore. Likewise the plot is not always obvious and the film pulls a couple of surprises on you. The film depicts the Russian underground crime families living in London, a group hardened by the Soviet Union realities and the hardships they endured in Russia. The acting is superb and I was glad to see that Vincent Cassel was included in the top billing with Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts since he had a very difficult role to play which he delivers with great power. Mortensen does a super job in this film for he plays a driver for a Russian mob family who gradually is involved in more violence and is allowed into the inner sanctum by Kyril, the mixed-up son of the Russian godfather.  The nude steam bath fight scene is as terrible as anything I have seen in a film in a long time but it was highly realistic and amazingly filmed, though I have to admit I looked away a couple of times because it was intense. Armin Mueller-Stahl is the actor who plays the elderly Russian godfather of the underworld family. He seems like a grandfather but his dark side is gradually revealed and Mueller-Stahl plays it wonderfully for he remains understated from start to finish.  The plot is carefully filmed so that the viewer is shown details, clues, and character flaws one at a time until a picture of what is actually going on begins to reveal it. The ending is not sentimental at all and whereas it resolves in the minds of the viewer what happens in the future, it is not necessarily a happy future for all. I would recommend this to folks who can deal with a complex plot and a good deal of violence.

Cute film This is a nice classic film from the 70's (if I remember correctly, lol) with talking animals and a kid in distress - typical Disney fare, but you had characters that were funny and entertaining, and villains that were also funny, especially the duo in here wo are after a diamond and want to use a poor orphan girl to get it for them. As far as this movie goes, it's pretty solid Disney fare and should please any longtime Disney fan.

Great gothic horror with some tricky editing (details) This is the USA version of the black-and-white 1965 release of the Italian film that originally ran (in Italy) for 104 minutes. Unfortunately some imprudent editing has clearly diminished several of the finer points of the film, shaving off a star for me.  It's essentialy a terrific classic horror film, very gothic, and a bit of a psycho-thriller to boot. One big plus is the superb filmscore by none other than Ennio Morricone, (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6304698798">The Good, the Bad and the Ugly</a>.)  The story: An evil and depraved Count with a large estate, (who also happens to practice a sort of Frankenstein-ish medicine), catches his cheating wife [Barbara Steele] with her lover. He tortures and kills them, draining his wife's blood (more on this later) but he's nettled to discover that his wife has written him out of her will (she was very rich), having awarded all her riches to her step-sister who is locked away in a mental asylum.  The hag of an aged housekeeper had been helping the Count to do his wife in because he had promised her a cut of the inheritance when his wife met her demise. *But* he also had a means, by using his wife's blood, of making this decrepit witch young and beautiful and he does so [This point is not all that well-made in this version of the film].  Then the Count elects to bring the step-sister [also Barbara Steele but now with a blonde wig] home, as she has somewhat recovered her sanity, and he plans to gain control of the estate through her. Much to the displeasure of the housekeeper (now young and beautiful) the Count unexpectedly marries the attractive step-sister during the carriage trip home. [For reasons unexplained, the step-sister looks exactly like the first wife, blonde hair aside, which should not be since they were not blood relatives... oh well -- it was probably "half-sister" before the translation went awry.] The Count pacifies the housekeeper as the plan is cemented between the two of them to drive the new wife crazy again, making it easy for him to access her inheritance.  The final Macguffin occurs when the Count invites his new wife's asylum doctor to his estate to care for his unstable wife. That drives up the suspense a notch or two since this unwitting physician is now in jeopardy too.  I like this film a lot but there certainly are some abrupt transitions. I've also seen some very marginal copies on multi-film DVD collections so beware of those. You get what you pay for, at least when you're lucky you do.  In summary, I can definitely recommend this creepy drive-in film for fans of the genre. The setting is first-class and the terrific filmscore is just icing on the cake.

ACTION PACKED BUT UNSTEADY STORY ELEMENTS A good part of the idea for this film is based on a novel of a similar title by Alan Dean Foster as well as the 80s TRANSFORMERS TV show. There are some interesting ideas in here that made it more intriguing than the last movie. There are also a number of known actors and actresses who showed up to play supporting or tiny roles (i.e. John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Ken Jeong and the voice of Leonard Nimoy as Sentinel Prime). In certain parts the story is good but in others it falls apart or has issues, especially when the love interest compels Megatron (come on, that isn't much of a spoiler if you watched the trailers or just know how these things work) and when Optimus Prime gets his second wind. I felt a tad ripped off with the Bee incident but I get a lot of kids are watching this and wanted it to go another way so I grudgingly understand. I did have some secret fun in yelling to my date "He's no McDreamy now!" but you have to have watched this movie and know GREY'S ANATOMY to get that reference. Megan Fox was said to have not been invited back by Bay after comparing his work methods to Adolf Hitler. Too bad because the new love interest got criticized even more than Fox. Shia LaBeouf said he would not do a fourth installment and some say that convinced Michael Bay to drop out of the franchise. Look for several Star Trek references. This film cost $195M to make and yielded over $1.1B at the box office. Several novels and a video game were spun off of this film. It had several nominations from the 2011 Teen Choice Award. CHARACTERS/DIALOGUE: B minus to B; STORY/PLOTTING: B minus to B; ACTION/SPECIAL EFFECTS: B plus to A minus; WHEN WATCHED: mid October 2011; OVERALL GRADE: B. BEST DIALOGUE: Sentinel Prime: Optimus... all I ever wanted was the survival of our race... You must see... why I had to betray you... Optimus Prime: [picks up Megatron's gun] You didn't betray me. You betrayed yourself. [takes aim at Sentinel] Sentinel Prime: NO, OPTIMUS...! [Optimus fires] Jerry Wang: [pulls guns on Laserbeak] S**t! Who wants some chicken dinner now, b***h? Huh? 'Cause somebody messed with the wrong Wang today! /// Wheelie: You know, Sam, I don't know about moving in with this chick. What if she dumps us like the last girl? Brains: She was mean. Didn't like her. Wheelie: Us guys got to stick together. Brains: [Starts singing] We are family! Sam Witwicky: No, we are not family. You're a political refugee, and I have finally found someone who appreciates me for me. Brains: Well, you tell her that we're not your pets, and we're not your toys! All right? We're an advanced genius alien race just looking for a home. // Starscream: You can't hide, boy! I love it when your little insect feet try to run!  /// CHEESY DIALOGUE: Optimus Prime: Today we take the battle to them! /// [Cybertron looms above Chicago]  Megatron: Cybertron... you are saved, at last. [Carly approaches Megatron] Megatron: Oh, have you come to surrender? Carly Miller: Was it all worth it? Megatron: Obviously! Carly Miller: All your work to bring Sentinel back, and now clearly he has all the power! It's actually almost tragic! Megatron: YOU DARE LECTURE ME, SLAVE? Carly Miller: Your Decepticons finally conquering this planet, and yet their leader won't be you! Megatron: It will be me! It will always be me! Carly Miller: In any minute now you'll be nothing but Sentinel's b***h! [Megatron snarls and rises] /// Carly Spencer: I love you. Sam Witwicky: I love you. You're the only thing I need in this world and I'll do anything to make it up to you. I promise. Carly Spencer: I'm going to hold you to that. Just never let me go. Sam Witwicky: Promise. //// Optimus Prime: In any war, there are calms between the storms. There will be days when we lose faith, days when our allies turn against us. But the day will never come, that we forsake this planet and its people.

Recommended for fans It's a blast. If you loved the movie and you consider yourself to be a Scott Pilgrim fan, this is a no-brainer. The extras are adorable. I personally liked the cast commentary on the film.

Very Funny!!! Not for everyone though I was one of the lucky ones to see this movie in a theater, and I laughed my ass off!!!  I'm a huge fan of Improv and UCB, so when I finally saw this movie there was no surprise that I would love it. After purchasing and watching it again I caught some subtle jokes that I didn't get before due to the fast pace and the fast dialogue.  This is a type of movie that grows on you, like Grandma's Boy.  At first I hated Grandma's Boy and thought it was the stupidest movie I have ever seen.  Then I watched it with some friends who enjoyed it, and we laughed til we cried.  High Road is shot like another Improv movie from a few years back called Cyrus (Matt Walsh, the director of High Road was also in Cyrus) but where Cyrus was a mopey melodrama, High Road plays out like a French Farce.  The plot really doesn't matter, but it's the actions of the characters and listening to their dialogue that really makes the movie shine.  Watch it with some friends and pay attention, or else you'll miss the funny.

Well-done material, but may not appeal to a wide audience NOTE:  I received a free copy of this DVD to review for the web site Metapsychology Online; you can read a more complete version of my review on that site.  This DVD (along with its companion, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005JJ0ED0">Viniyoga Therapy for Depression for Beginners to Advanced with Gary Kraftsow</a>), is the latest release from Gary Kraftsow, yoga instructor and founder of Viniyoga Therapy in the United States.  As with Kraftsow's prior Viniyoga Therapy DVDs, he has designed these new releases to include not only a practice element but also a strong educational component in the form of lectures on both yoga therapy in general and the treatment anxiety in particular.  The Main Menu of the DVD is broken up into two sections, Lectures and Practices. Also on the Main Menu, there is a link to a short (less than 1 minute) introduction from Kraftsow providing an overview of the DVD plus a second link to Special Features.  For the Lecture segments, Kraftsow is in front of a small group using a slide show; the chapter breakdowns are 1) Foundations of Yoga Therapy, 11 minutes, 2) Viniyoga Therapy for Anxiety, 18 minutes, and 3) Questions and Answers with Gary, 32 minutes.  Selecting "Practices" opens a submenu which lists the following options: *Guidelines for Practice, 10 minutes *Practice 1, Physiological Rebalancing *Full Practice, 45 minutes *Practice 2, Shifting Mood and Self-Concept *Option 1, Full Instruction, 54 minutes - Explain Option 1 *Option 2, Concise Instruction, 47 minutes  Kraftsow emphasizes five guidelines for practice: 1) breath-centric asana practice, 2) pranayama, or breath control, 3) chanting, which is used in the second practice, 4) meditation, and 5) modifying the practice as needed. The Concise Instruction option can be selected once viewers understand how to incorporate chanting that is used in Practice #2. (Note: the four chants used in this practice are listed in the DVD insert; they also appear on screen briefly.)  I have provided a general overview of each of the two practices below.  Kraftsow provides all of the cuing via voiceover; he does not mirror his instructions to the viewer. Initially, Kraftsow refers to each posture by its Sanskrit name (which will also appear on screen), but he will sometimes follow-up by using the English term as well.  1. Practice #1: Physiological Rebalancing. This first practice does not incorporate the use of chanting. Rather, the focus is on pranayama, or control of the breath. In particular, Kraftsow leads the viewer through simple postures combined with brief intervals of breath retention. He begins with a body awareness exercise lying on the back, then comes to the knees for child's pose to a cat flow. The breath retention work first appears within downward-facing dog pose, but it also occurs with more flowing movements. To conclude this practice, Kraftsow first cues a 6-minute guided savasana centered around increasing awareness of the left and right brain; an additional 5.5 minutes of pranayama closes the session. 2. Practice #2: Shifting Mood and Self-Concept. This session begins in a lying position, with a focus on gradually extending the breath. Many of the movement are asymmetrical in nature--for example, lifting one arm overhead while flexing the opposite foot. The middle of the practice includes a long mediation with an accompanying self-reflection regarding a source of anxiety in one's current life. The chanting work is incorporated throughout the practice, in various postures from mountain to hero's pose. The final 12 minutes of this session involve pranayama and meditation. Here Kraftsow chants aloud while the viewer is expected to follow along by chanting silently to oneself.  Kraftsow's credentials and knowledge are undeniable. Unfortunately, however, as with his last series of DVDs, his approach is rather dry. There is no music to accompany these practices, and because Kraftsow does not perform the asanas himself, there is a general lack of warmth and connection to the viewer.  Combined with Kraftsow's often overly intellectualized vocabulary (e.g., "cogitate on..."), there is a rather cerebral feel to these sessions. As a psychologist myself, it is difficult for me to imagine someone with anxiety easily connecting with these practices--which is a real shame, as I have no doubt that they would be helpful.  One final note: this DVD is packaged in 100% Recycled Packaging, including a recycled cardboard folder (full-length but slimmer than a regular DVD case), recycled plastic DVD tray, and vegetable-based dyes. While I personally appreciated the eco-friendly approach, I did not like that the case was held closed only with tape (which tore at the cover when I attempted to remove it).

The title says it all...and the actors say the rest. First of all, the title should tell you what you need to know. If you can get past that, you will notice two of the best actors around (my opinion). Overall, I enjoyed the movie and would watch it again if it were on TV or in the free category. Worth renting if you are into action, old west action, decent story lines, or aliens.

Descent movie for thoses who like to think a little. First the title The Enemy Below after all is said and done is really not the enemy under water but the enemy within ourselves.  Yes the scene where the sailor gets his fingers cut off was not done well but the point of that is to parallel the problems on a sub where the guy goes crazy grabs a wrench and wants to get out. Each captain has his problems on his ship.  Each captain lost a loved one and each captain had a person they could talk to and that is where we see that both captains are in reality the same even though they are on different ships.  Mitchum's character distains war because as he said you cut off one serpent's head and another one grows. Saying you stop one war and another one takes it's place. Jurgens character found WW I glorious with a sense of purpose where WW II serves no purpose at all. The enemy below is the enemy within humanity itself but at the end there is hope for humanity found in the middle of the Atlantic. Problem with some people who rate these movies is that they are like deer and see the special effects like deers lookiing into lights not see the underlying message the story is trying to get across but I guess those type of people are not deep enough for the average intellect and give poor ratings.  I am kind of in between a 3 and 4 star. I would like to give it a 3 1/2 but not possible in this rating. The story itself was pretty good.  The acting I thought was good from the main characters.  For those who want action I would not recommend this.  But those who can view this movie in a different light in a way that gives food for thought I would recommend this movie.

A Bedroom Farce (three and 1/2 stars) Town and Country is NOT the worst motion picture Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton and Goldie Hawn starred in. Negative media coverage "killed" this movie before it even opened in 2001. The overall tenor of the film is hilarious, but there are ambiguities. This isn't unusual for any picture Beatty stars in, whether solely as an actor in a film directed and produced by someone else (as in this case), or as one who also controls the production (as the director, producer, and/or writer). Because the stories are often intentionally not as straightforward as "Sesame Street," viewers must pay close attention to avoid overlooking something that's essential to the plot. Town and Country is no exception.  During a tryst, Alex (Nastassja Kinski) tells Porter (Beatty) she is "married" to her Stradivarius cello, the same as a person "married" to a spiritual vocation or other career. Later, she ecstatically informs him of "the report from the doctor" confirming she's pregnant. Even later, Porter, who presumes he's the child's father, is surprised when Alex suddenly utters the name of "Didier" (dee-dee-yaa) as the actual father of her child, saying that the pregnancy has gloriously revived her relationship with that man, and she didn't know she was expecting when she met Porter, indicating that she originally thought Porter was the father. This refutes the mistaken deduction by some viewers that Alex believes a stringed instrument impregnated her! Unlike Eugenie (Andie MacDowell), favorably disposed toward tall tales, Alex isn't a liar or delusional.  After just one night of pseudosexual role-playing with dolls by Eugenie and a bewildered Porter (who's too traumatized by her gun-crazed father [Charlton Heston] to dare begin a physical affair with her), Eugenie deludes herself that she and Porter are eloping. Overhearing Auburn (Jenna Elfman), whom Porter almost sleeps with but gets caught first, tell Ellie (Keaton) that a contrite Porter professed his undying love for nobody else but Ellie, Eugenie, trapped in her own fantasyland, is so distraught that it compels her father to seek revenge.  Porter sleeps on a sofa in his office when he and Ellie separate, and she refuses all phone contact with him. At the end of the picture he is still sleeping on his office sofa--and wearing his wedding ring! Divorced people usually sleep in the residence awarded to them, and the wedding bands are no longer on the fingers. Ellie may have thought twice about divorcing, following Porter's heartstrings-tugging mea culpa in attorney David Suttler's (Buck Henry) office, but not yet ready to take him back, especially after he said there was something else she needed to know (confessing his assignations with his and Ellie's best friend, perhaps?). It appears they continue in (undivorced) separation, with Porter feverishly striving to win Ellie back, she at last accepting his phone calls, and then finally allowing him to come out to the country house.  Many men wish they looked as good as Beatty did when he made this movie. Ruggedly sexy, with no plastic surgery on loose facial and neck skin that's normal for someone alive over six decades--and showing more of his body in this movie than he did in his youth, Beatty sizzled and, at 74, still does, with the clout and wealth to attract several yacht loads of women of all ages, were he so inclined! Unlike his character Porter, and his real-life heyday as Hollywood's leading UNMARRIED playboy, the filmmaking genius has remained FAITHFULLY wed to just one woman--the luminous and spectacularly talented Annette Bening--for nearly two decades, fathering four children with her! Twenty years ago, countless viewers (I included) believed that, although Beatty would never be a deadbeat and unloving father, divorced or not, Bening would be Mrs. Warren Beatty for only a short season until he tired and moved on to another woman. Man, we sure have egg on our faces now!

Awesome birthday gift My friend was very excited about the complete series being their birthday gift. It came on time and was here two days before his bday. I will defiantly use amazon again for birthday gifts!

Bernie is enjoyably funny! Enjoyably funny. Of course may shed a tear or two. Loved the salvation motif in a couple of scenes with the subtle music of "O Sacred Head Surrounded" in the background. It was great how it was used in the first scene when it cued you in on something important was about to happen. I highly recommend the movie.

So lame it's awesome! Let's be honest here, the movie idea itself is utterly lame. You've got to be tired, drunk or extremely bored to even consider watching a film this lamely named. However, with that being said, my exhausted husband and I did watch this movie all the way through and it's so lame it's awesome! We're well read on Mormonism, so we know there were a LOT of lies regarding Mormonism in this movie (although to the untrained eye, it's fairly subtle). In addition, most of the characters were poorly written and the actors certainly needed more experience in order to pull off their roles.  I wouldn't really recommend this movie to anyone who, like I said before, isn't tired, drunk or extremely bored. We liked it, but we're more likely the exception than the rule.

Get to know Marcus!!! I thought this concert was great!!!  I really enjoyed the interviews where I learned more about who Marcus Miller (the person) is.  I now know that Marcus is more than just that slap/pop bass playing guy!!!

Good movie for your collection Cute movie for kids as well as entertaining for adults. I love how the storyline is about the original characters. We watch this movie a lot. Although, i would suggest it for children probably closer to a year old and older. My 9 month old doesnt stay interested for long. He tends to be attracted to movies with more upbeat music and dancing characters than Toy Story 3 has, like his favorite <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0044RFTBK">Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo)</a>. I would suggest buying Toy Story 3 for your movie collection and i got a great deal with fast shipping from Amazon.com, as usual.

all good I enjoyed this one ,the outline was fresh and concise .The subject manor was for me, worth further research .T he people profiled are some of the most respected by the establishment as well as feared by THEM , a good watch.

By Dawn's Early Light Technical Details-This DVD was in English with no options for other languages. Audio was Dolby Digital AC3(per InterVideo WinDVD7 Info button) and the DVD case stated English 2.0(stereo?)and Dolby Surround but there were no audio options available on the DVD. There were no detectable audio problems. Case stated Closed Captioned but there were no options available on the DVD. Picture was color and displayed perfectly on my 4:3 format TV(case states aspect ratio 4:3). Picture detail was good with only 2 video imperfections on this DVD detected, a matrix of white dots across top of screen and a red spot over the face of the copilot(in order of appearance), but these were momentary defects. Scene access performed using Chapter Selections but note they are in text form only, no thumbnail images available to help you navigate quickly to a scene. There were no extras on this DVD.  This DVD did play on my Windows 7 Ultimate PC with a Dell HD monitor and resolution set at 1900 x 1200, using both Windows Media Player 12 and VideoLAN's VLC Player v.1.1.10. The picture displayed with vertical black bars on each side of the picture for both Windows Media Player 12 and VideoLAN's VLC Player v.1.1.10. Resolution was not as good as on my 4:3 format TV. HD monitors vary in their ability to down convert a signal source(720p) below its capability(full HD).  On my Windows XP SP3 laptop with resolution set at 1400x1050 using InterVideo WinDVD 7 software, the picture displayed better than on the HD monitor and the software controls are better as well than either Windows Media Player 12 or VideoLAN's VLC Player v.1.1.10. The picture displayed with vertical black bars on each side of the picture like both Windows Media Player 12 and VideoLAN's VLC Player v.1.1.10 on my Windows 7 Ultimate PC, except that the bars were much thinner compared to those displayed on my Dell monitor.

Planet of the Apes If you are an old fan, this box set is great.  The only draw back is that once you take the DVD out,  it is very difficult to put in back into place in the case where each DVD is stored.  The center hole does not ready insert back into position.

Saw + Friday the 13th + film noir influence = Kill Theory Skimming through the free on-demand movies, I came across this one and it caught my interest. "Kill Theory" is an intriguing movie that blends the elements of '80s slasher films such as "Friday the 13th" with the suspense/tension/torture-film elements of "Saw" and a dark, nightmarish setting that rounds it all off. This movie has a lot going for it: a clever and twisted villain, great atmosphere, and it certainly goes hard with the gore (the scene where that one jerk got bludgeoned in the skull with a shovel says it all!)  One thing that did bother me was that, despite reviving the whole college-kids-on-vacation theme being a positive, it felt kind of rushed because it was almost forced right into from the beginning. It was like the movie-makers were saying "Okay, here's a half-dozen characters, instantly connect with them." It also got a little tedious in parts, however it still has quite a few moments of suspense that round it all off.  All in all, this was an interesting, suspenseful and gory movie that I think deserves more recognition, if only for the fact that it's not a Z-grade remake of a horror classic. Check it out if you get the chance! Thanks for the time, and peace.

Nail Biter This was a great movie. Richard Gere never loses his mojo! If you like Gere, you should definitely watch this movie!

Rare "live" television kinescopes INFINITY's three SUSPENSE collections are dubbed from antique kinescopes, a process in which a film camera is pointed at a TV monitor and synched so that it doesn't capture a raster flicker. The sound is particularly clear, undoubtedly because audio was directly patched from a mixing board. Video quality is a bit grainy and similar to other kinescopes in that the picture's edges are missing and the view favors one side of the screen. I notice a slight tilt to the right.  . When the long-running SUSPENSE radio program made a jump to television in 1949, several crew members and show scripts also came along. Of greatest prominence are director Robert Stevens and organist Hank Sylvern. Stevens also directed several dozen <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000AL733G">Alfred Hitchcock Presents</a> TV episodes. Sylvern was organist on a number of radio shows and the composer of themes for "The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin," "Strike It Rich" and others, plus the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0028ZI8E0">Tom Corbett, Space Cadet</a> TV series. He was also an orchestra leader.  I like best the earliest ('49) episodes of SUSPENSE, for they illustrate how post-war TV was a "learn as you go" process. These programs with live AUTO-LITE commercials run over 29 minutes each. It's impressive to see actors under the pressure of a live broadcast hit their marks, get their lines right and emote without overdoing it. Because of Sylvern's ever-present organ, SUSPENSE on TV is much like radio with pictures.  Of the dozens of TV series DVD collections in my home library, the Lost TV Episodes of SUSPENSE are among my very favorites. They're not perfect by any means, but they are perfect examples of what television was like over 60 years ago. Highest recommendation for fans of historic "live" TV broadcasts.  Also available: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001UE66B2">SUSPENSE: THE LOST EPISODES - COLLECTIONS 1-3</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000V6LSLS">SUSPENSE: THE LOST EPISODES - COLLECTION 2</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001R0AY9E">SUSPENSE: THE LOST EPISODES - COLLECTION 3</a>  . FOR A COMPLETE EPISODE LIST, INCLUDING AIRDATES AND ACTORS, SEE COMMENT #1, ACCESSIBLE FROM LINK LOCATED BELOW THIS REVIEW.

Been waiting too long to be dissatisfied This review is for the Blu-ray edition of this movie, which I have just finished watching. Some of the earlier reviews had me very worried, but I saw no evidence to support the worst of those complaints. While the picture detail is NOT up to the Blu-ray standard I have come to expect, it is a decent DVD-level quality, and FAR brighter and more detailed than the VHS and pirated DVD's I have been tolerating all these years. The flesh tones are a little bright most of the time, and I saw some haloes around one or two of the brighter explosions, but that is the worst of it. The 2.0 soundtrack quality is a little uneven (the last scene and end credits especially seemed to suffer some distortion), but all through the movie I was noticing details and background noises I had never heard before. (I have a good Pioneer receiver powering a Definitive surround system, and can't say how much this may account for the quality of my experience.) I have loved this movie since first seeing it on HBO back in the early '80's. Maybe I have been waiting so long that I am easy to please but, based on what I just saw and heard, I don't think that fans of this movie will have reason to feel shorted. I would like to thank Hen's Tooth for doing what no one else could be troubled to do.

Superman/Batman Apocalypse Rewiew Well When I finally got this in the mail I opened it up and guess what I saw the damn Blu-Ray case had that opening in the shape of the recycle symbol this really bothers me because the case has three huge holes in it why do we have a DVD/Blu-ray cases its to protect it from damage from leaving it out in the open.  Other than that I really had no problem. What I love about the Blu-Ray releases of the DC Comics movies it the extras that you get.  You get four cartoon episodes from old tv shows an extra short on the Green Arrow, a few documentaries on the characters in the movie and a upcoming sneak peek at their next animated movie.  Now we are going to have some spoilers so stop reading now if you don't want it spoiled. Well now for the movie it self, pretty much the plot follows as this Supergirl comes to earth and is lost when Batman finds her but she cannot control her powers then Superman shows up an speaks with her in their alien language.  Batman is distrustful of her throughout the beginning of this movie eventually he sets up a trap with Wonder Women and she takes her to Themescyra where she learns to control her powers and the ways of the warrior. At this point Throughout the movie the villain Darkseid has been planning something which comes to fruition when he attacks Themescyra with an army of Doomday clones but this is just a distraction so that his minions can kidnap Supergirl.  So we have the big three: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman need to head to Darkseid's home-world Apokolips they do this by getting help from Big Barda.  When they get there the have to face off against the Furies who are powerful female solders under Darkseid control.  Superman evuntaully encounters Darkseid, who sets the brainwashed Supergirl on him.  While that goes on Batman confronts Darkseid and informs him that he has activated the some sort of  bombs around the pits of the his planet which will destroy it.  So Darkseid gives in because its something he would have done and frees Supergirl.  The heroes head back to earth and Superman takes Supergirl back to his parents farm but Darkseid pulls the dirty double cross and there is one last big fight.  For the most part this movie is pretty good you get some great action scenes and an OK story arc animation is good quality I say get it especially if you are a fan of Superman or Batman.

Great movie This is not only one of the best action movies, but also of the best comedies! Has always been one of my favorites. Also one of Martin Lawrence's best (and I've seen almost all his movies)!

Pelican Brief - DVD This is a good movie but the 'image' is not as sharp as it should be for a DVD.  At least it has closed captioning/subtitles -- that, for me, is very important.

Where is Karen Leblanc? I've loved this movie ever since I saw it on VH1.  It was played out well.  I just wish that Karen Le Blanc actually had a cd out.

The Real Rocky Overview:  This film is what I would consider to be the 'Real Rocky' story. It is gritty, it is seedy, and it is real. This film is based on the life of boxer "Irish" Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg) and his older half-brother Dicky Eklund (Christian Bale).  They are two brothers, who are chasing a dream, to be recognized as a boxing champion. Dicky's had his shot and once knocked down Sugar Ray Leonard, as his dream fades, he can still talk the talk, but as reality hits him he turns to the crack house. His habit drives him into criminal activity and eventually jail.  While Dicky is in jail, Micky makes some serious strides, partially being motivated by his future wife, Charlene Fleming (Amy Adams) in terms of winning his fights. At the point where he has a shot at a title fight, Dicky is released from prison and makes a serious commitment to stay clean and to assist in training his brother.  This is a film about having a dream, and struggling, and making sacrifices to reach the goal and the destiny of your life. To attain the vision of your life.  The Brothers:  Micky, being the younger grew up in the shadows of Dicky. He looks up to him, but realizes too late that his brother was only selling him smoke and mirrors, as his real interest is crack (that is until he is dried out in jail).  Dicky always enjoys being the hero and the center of attention. It's this crave for attention that caused him to be duped into making a HBO documentary on Crack in America. Bale does an exception job acting as a crack head, he looks quite drawn and just a bit punch drunk.  In the end, they are able to set aside their differences, come together to work towards a common goal.  The Title Fight:  The fight of his career was the Welterweight Championship bout with Shea Neary, in London. This fight takes place in 2000. This fight was quite sensational; you should see it for yourself.... so I will not put in a spoiler here.  The Conclusion:  This film motivates and it shows the strength and resolve of the human spirit. The unwavering determination of Micky is truly to be admired and emulated.

Chasing Madoff Although this was probably a low budget film, it is something most people should see. It is mindboggling that the offices who should have discovered the fraud did not, including the media. it seems they were afraid of powerful people in high places.I am glad I purcased this film from Amazon

My favorite series but the video quality could be better. We've bought each season of this wonderful and hilarious show. Only about a half dozen episodes into this, but so far no disappointments in the content. Writing is as good as always, though there seems to be more emphasis on relationships and less on the "geek" stuff. (Hopefully we fanboys and girls will be treated to more good stuff as in previous seasons, and less focus on the sex.)  As for the DVD, I don't know what it is but the video quality for this one just doesn't seem quite as good and crisp as previous releases. I've watched it on two different players, both "upconvert" models (including the one we used for the last season) and it just seems a bit less. Nothing glaring, just think it could have been crisper. Not sure if it's just this disc or all of them, but thought I'd mention it.  If you've never seen the show, however, I recommend starting with the first DVD; the characters will make more sense, and frankly, you'll want to get them all after that!

Loved Every Single Movie A wonderful furturistic romp through the concept of Messianic deliverance (complete with a Cyber Judas). Highly recommended and if you didn't understand the second movie (which is the general complaint I read about all the time) I suggest you watch it a couple of times until the core idea behind it sinks in.

Start Locally This movie was shocking in its day as it broke down cultural norms of the "truth telling" variety. In retrospect, the movie is merely funny but there is still a meaningful message here. Namely, stand up for your rights and don't be afraid to point out the hypocrisy of a corrupt system.  For most of us the thought of traveling to Washington DC or our state capital is intimidating and inconvenient. Don't worry about that level. Start local. So says this endearing movie. Stella Johnson started with the local P.T.A. (Parents Taking Action) group. Find your local version of such as organization and get involved. You never know what good you may be able to accomplish.

Sons of Anarchy Instant Queue Very convenient! Great quality. Cooperative. NO lagging. Only wish I could have had a way to have it in a physical form as well.

Well Put Together, Logical and Shocking Documentary Wow, astonishing film about Obama in many ways. I was drawn in to this film, though it was speculative, and gained a heightened perspective of the ROOTS of Obama. There is NO doubt in my mind however, that Communist Marshall was the REAL influence not just a father figure in Obama's life. Most importantly this movie clearly shows the radical communism that flows throughout Obama's entire life. The logic is strongly formed in this well put together documentary on Obama and his REAL dreams and agenda that will certainly give me something to dwell on, speak out about and expose!

Lucky Number Slevin As already noted Lucky Number Slevin is shot in a very stylised and slick way, which I happened to enjoy. The story keeps you engrossed as it moves at a good pace and all the actors do an OK job that shouldn't make you cringe too much. I liked it more than most films of 2006, and you can do worse for a bit of afternoon entertainment. The twist in the tale was good and it finished with a satisfying ending. Not bad overall, but not outstanding.  Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.

Fun. Worth watching. It's not like most people could go out and buy a zoo, but the movie is fun. There are a couple of short snake scenes...just a heads up.

Dark Angel I love Dolph Lungren, and this is one of the best movies he's ever been in.  I would highly recommend to Lundgren fans.  I though I would never have this movie on DVD, but I finally found it.

Entertaining, engrossing and extra-terrestrial - Derivative but from the very best Super 8 is admittedly not a perfect film, but I enjoyed it so much, and was so taken by the characters and the actors playing them, that I didn't really mind the occasional inconsistency or lingering "awed expressions" scene.  Set in a small town in Ohio in 1979, the basic plot centers around Joe Lamb (Joel Courtney), a 13-year-old boy whose mother recently died in a factory accident, leaving him with only his father, Jackson (Kyle Chandler), a sheriff's deputy who's a more than decent man but who has never known how to really be a father. Jackson's escape is burying himself in his work, while Joe's is helping his best friend Charles (Riley Griffiths) make an amateur zombie movie with the help of their other friends Preston (Zach Mills), Martin (Gabriel Basso) and Cary (Ryan Lee). But Joe's involvement becomes truly committed when Charles persuades Alice Dainard (Elle Fanning), a girl he secretly has a crush on, to join the project.  Things taken a sudden turn when, in the midst of shooting a midnight scene at the local railroad depot, Joe sees a pickup truck suddenly drive onto the tracks, directly in the path of an oncoming freight train, resulting in a spectacular crash that sends freight cars derailing everywhere and the shocked kids running for cover. The plot quickly thickens when Joe gets a glimpse of something bursting out of one of the freight cars, and when they find the driver of the pickup, badly injured, is Dr. Woodward (Glynn Turman), their biology teacher, who warns them to get away and to never speak of what they've seen to anyone or they - and their parents - will be killed. And then there's the knocked over Super 8 camera that has been continuing to roll throughout everything, capturing something that no one else saw while they were busy tried not to get crushed by flying debris. Something that will become important later as strange things begin to happen:  dogs fleeing the town for no apparent reason, car engines and other pieces of machinery being stolen, people suddenly disappearing. And of course the massive influx of military personnel who are crawling all over everything while their commander, Col. Nelec (Noah Emmerich) blandly insists that there's _nothing_ going on.  The characters are well drawn, fleshed out with real personalities, quirks and flaws, and you very quickly come to care about them.  And the actors, most of them either fairly unknown or newcomers, are marvelous, the kids in particular as they're at the heart of the film, but also the adults, particularly Kyle Chandler and Ron Eldard as the two fathers linked - and separated - by tragedy, each not doing so well at dealing with it. Joel Courtney as Joe has one of those faces that projects everything he's feeling, from the distance he's experiencing with his dad to the secret yet painfully obvious crush he has on Alice. Riley Griffiths as his best friend Charles is a perfect counterpoint, pursuing his film with single-minded determination but holding other things in. Ryan Lee's pint-sized braces-laden (and explosives-crazy) Cary is a riot, as is Gabriel Basso's Martin as the zombie film's leading man who has an unfortunate tendency to puke a lot, while Zach Mills' Preston has the healthiest fear-instinct of the crowd. And last but not least, Elle Fanning's Alice is a wonder, a sensitive girl with her own father issues whose unexpected natural talent at acting leaves the boys with their jaws hanging.  Super 8 is highly derivative, but in a good way. It draws on the best parts of any number of movies from the past, most notably E.T. (1982) and The Goonies (1985) but also films like Joe Dante's Explorers (1985) , The Bad News Bears (1976) and, more recently, Son of Rambow (2007), a little seen but marvelous independent British film about a couple of boys with family issues who bond over making an amateur movie.  Note:  in one scene, there's a definite tip-of-the-hat prop taken right out of Spielberg's E.T.  Just keep your eyes peeled when the camera closes in on the water tower near the climax of the movie and see if anything looks strikingly familiar.  There are admittedly weak points in the film, mainly where it seems uncertain of just which direction it wants to take or where inconsistencies tend to be glaring. Is the alien dangerous and deadly... or just misunderstood? Is the alien killing people... or just holding on to them for a while?  The trouble is that in different parts of the film it's definitely one, but in other parts of the film it's the other.  And the climactic lingering "awed expressions" scene does feel at odds with the the life-threatening dangers the characters were experiencing earlier (not to mention the burning shambles half the town has been reduced to). Another weak point is the villain, Col. Nelec (I suspect the name Nelec is an in-joke of some kind), who is never anything but a cliched military bad guy.  But as I said, while these things do keep it from being a perfect film, they don't in the end get in the way from it being an engaging and enjoyable one.  Highly recommended for anyone who likes an engaging film that sucks you in and keeps you involved all the way through, and that values story and character over special effects and stars.

Hilarious campy film! Hilarious film about a confused family situation. Gay son tries to hide his orientation in order to give his mom what she wants, a happy hetero marriage with children. The plots and subplots unravel in very funny ways. Most of the characters are stereotypes and for a good reason as the film carries a message about respect, honesty and acceptance. It's a keeper!

Christmas at the Plaza with Eloise! My first grader is a great fan of Eloise, and we have read all the stories and watched the animated series. In addition to this, there's also <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000BWVMO">Eloise at the Plaza</a>, and both are wonderful adaptations of the stories, though this is our favorite.  In Eloise at Christmastime, precocious 6-year-old Eloise (Sofia Vaissilieva in a wonderfully exuberant performance) plays matchmaker. It is almost Christmas, and everyone at the Plaza is excited. Eloise learns that Rachel (Sara Topham) who is the daughter of Plaza owner, Mr. Peabody (Victor Young) is about to marry Brooks Oliver (Rick Roberts). Eloise also discovers that her favorite waiter and best friend Bill (Gavin Creel) used to be Rachel's sweetheart and is still in love with her. Eloise, in her usual inimitable fashion, decides to play matchmaker and bring the two together.  There's also Eloise's nanny, played by the amazing Julie Andrews. Nanny is such a wonderful character, always guiding Eloise, and being kind and compassionate. Nanny is truly a gem! Eloise here is a bit more grown-up in the sense that she truly tries to do something for others out of generosity, kindness, and compassion. This is a wonderful family-friendly Christmas movie that will warm young hearts at Christmastime.

I SOUGHT AND I BOUGHT I had been looking for this video for awhile. I happened tobe in amazon.com and decided to look. NOW I HAVE IT ALONG WITH ULTRAVIOLET.

HP Part 1 - I have to be honest, this wasn't my favorite part of the books, so I knew this wouldn't be my favorite movie. You have to see it if you are an avid Harry fan because it is part of the whole series that makes these books so wonderful. It does remind me why I don't like the Lord of the Rings especially the first movie because they are doing a lot of running to something but they aren't sure what it is or how they are going to get there.

Simply put, this is seriously fun movie magic. When I was growing up in the 60's and 70's, I never understood why Dad liked westerns so much: They moved too sinkin' slow with characters whose motives were absurdly simple or lethargically opaque and with randomly peppered "action." Action, right --a couple of guns fire-- Oh boy, that's exciting. . .but Dad also loved Kubrick's 2001. . .  I, on the other hand, was mesmerized by Star Wars' aesthetic (excepting the horribly edited Return Of The Jedi, the first misstep), and entranced by Ridley Scott's exceptional and visually arresting Alien. That was my time and represented my sensibilities on film. Westerns? Please.  Now I'm in my early 50's and I've only recently re-discovered Eastwood's not-edited-for-60's-TV spaghetti westerns. Yes, I think I now understand why Dad so enjoyed those movies with their alternating boldness and slinking subtlety. It has something to do with the appeal of shedding modern-age trappings in favor of the simplicity that a good horse and a reliable six-shooter can provide. Still, I'm entertained by the SciFi fantasies of Robocop and District 9, too.  One dimensional characters that gain substance as the movie progresses, remembrance of love and glancing hints of what might be, a grand moment of thwarted alien retribution, but more than anything it's the overall tone of the film that binds it together, and with great satisfaction. Part Unforgiven and part Starship Troopers, this is absolutely fun stuff. Dad would have loved this film and also would have anticipated its DVD release.  In the meantime, I think I'll pull my copies of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and 2001: A Space Odyssey for another viewing.

Godard's Influential Masterpiece Given the Criterion Treatment To Good Effect! Who says you can't make a great picture cheaply and on a very tight budget?  This is only the 7th Criterion Blu-Ray release that I've seen after <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001WLMOG4">The Seventh Seal: The Criterion Collection [Blu-ray</a>], <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003ZYU3TQ">The Night of the Hunter: The Criterion Collection [Blu-ray</a>], <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00393SFU2">M: The Criterion Collection [Blu-ray</a>], <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003ZYU3T6">Modern Times: The Criterion Collection [Blu-ray</a>], <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00393SFWU">Stagecoach: The Criterion Collection [Blu-ray</a>] and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003KGBISY">Seven Samurai: The Criterion Collection [Blu-ray</a>] and "Breathless" is as unique and extremely enjoyable to watch as the rest.  This version of "Breathless" firstly comes with an excellent 80-page booklet containing essays by Godard among others. The picture quality is pretty good having been well restored and while not pristine perfect is still good to watch and one cannot overstate just how much better black and white films look on 1080p. The sound quality is less good as I would have liked to have had a DTS HD MA lossless 5.1 surround option but perhaps this mono is the best they could do. The special features are also great with the interviews of Godard and Belmondo being the standouts.  It is obvious that this film influenced countless others as in its almost documentary-like feel with handheld cameras following the actors and shot in the streets of Paris it reminded me of William Friedkin's work in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BZIST4">The French Connection (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)</a> and even Scorcese's work in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004IFYMYI">Taxi Driver [Blu-ray</a>] while the overall story of amoral figures running around allowing circumstances to dictate their actions reminded me a lot of films like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0010YVCHK">Bonnie and Clyde (Blu-ray Book)</a>.  Also the way this film was made on the ridiculously cheap probably inspired films like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0024FAG6M">Easy Rider [Blu-ray</a>] and The Blair Witch Project [Blu-ray].  What really impressed me was the "surprise" ending with the enigmatic actions of Seberg's character at the end which made me laugh when I realised that she fooled us all along and that the naive American girl was actually the most cunning and totally self-serving (others may consider it just being realistic) character of all.  It was obvious from the start that Seberg never really loved the Belmondo character and in fact she was trying to get rid of him but like a rash that wouldn't go away she simply tolerated him knowing that it wasn't wise to upset a murderous gangster and when she saw a chance to get away from him and from his manipulating her into agreeing to go on a trip to Rome with him when she clearly preferred to continue studying at the Sorbonne at least for me all her actions made a lot of sense in the end.  Beware the naive and innocent looking as they may just turn out to be the very opposite.  In fact, the Belmondo character was on the outside what the Seberg character was on the inside and vice versa: remarkable!  I enjoyed this film so much that it too will now make it onto my shortlist of annual classic film viewing.  Very unique film that impressed me no end and a must-have in any self-respecting movie fan's video library.  Very highly recommended!

Everyone's a fruit and nut case I didn't enjoy watching Black Swan. It would not have taken much persuading me to get up and walk out. As we left the cinema, other than to remark upon its startling intensity, my initial reactions to it were mostly negative. I enjoyed it much more in the twenty four hours afterwards, unpeeling its cuticles and scratching at its feathered back. That suggests the jarring sensation is a superficial one.  It was never going to be straightforward with Darren Aronofsky at the helm. Black Swan starts out in a fairly conventional direction - the sheltered heroine battling to escape her castle - but veers off in quite another. So, we watch the unfolding petals of a cosseted young bud, kept out of the light past her date of maturity by well-intending but all the same mendacious forces. We see this charted against the depredations of her environment - there are big, bad wolves everywhere you look - and the technical and spiritual challenges she must overcome to earn her place as the prima ballerina, an award we infer is long past its due date. We see Nina battle her own demons and those of her protectors: there is self-flagellation in her insistence on technical perfection, mirrored in Nina's chastity - self imposed, we suspect - but it is all reinforced by a text-book neurotic, over-protective, historically harmed mother. In a way her mother's behaviour is a sort of vicarious self-flagellation too: Nina is simply the unfortunate vehicle for working out her mother's own self torment.  So much, so conventional: as the drama shifts onto Monsieur Leroy, the darkly charged womaniser of a ballet director. He is everything Nina is not: he represents everything she is afraid of: passion: licentiousness.  We first meet him pawing his stable of swans, like a Siamese King inspecting his harem. He's a tease, too: those he has *not* patted can report to his chamber at sundown. There is an uneasy equilibrium, though, in the same way there is between lions and gazelles in the Serengeti: this is an ecosystem, and for it to function it must be so.  And then, breaking up the order and hierarchy is a new dancer, flown in to neurotic New York from free-loving West Coast San Francisco to deputise for an injured dancer. In case that wasn't enough of a clue, we're told in an off-stage exchange between Leroy and Nina, she is a free spirit: she may not have all nina's the technical chops, but she *feels it*. She can, Leroy remarks teasingly, let herself go.  He tells Nina more than once she is his perfect white swan. But he has trouble seeing the dark alter ego she must inhabit to play the Black Swan.  There you have it: a white swan, a black one (though of course it doesn't play out as straightforwardly as that), a wicked witch, Bluebeard. Enough dramatic impetus to last you a week. And boy does Aronofsky deliver it, too: you get that impetus focussed and concentrated into a two hour spell, which is about as intense an experience as you could ask for. This is Scotty in the engine room material: any more, captain, and she'll blow.  Aronofsky adds another level of doubt by interposing a layer of fantasy here too. From the opening scene - a dream - we know Nina has an active subconscious, and we're not clear in early exchanges what is "real" and what is not. This extrapolates unhappily, however: as the flood waters of Nina's neuroticism rise, a fertile imagination gives way to active hallucination, which eventually canters onwards into a diagnosable psychotic episode. Intensity to the max, but it undermines the dramatic development. Was that her mother sleeping in a chair in her room while she fantasised? Was she just fantasising? Or was she fantasising about fantasising?  Now once or twice that sort of ambiguity would be ok: adding a little uncertainty to further pique the raging intensity (not, though, like the picture needed it). But Aronofsky over-uses the trick: the default assumption becomes is hallucination. This alleviates, rather than builds, tension.  There is a profound undercurrent of ickiness: the self flagellation, per his previous picture, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0847832430">The Wrestler</a>, becomes self-harming. But it feels unnecessary: guignol for the sake of it. The purely ballet-oriented gruelitudes (particularly the punishment a ballerina administers to her feet) are enough make this point without the (usually illusory) woundings. In sensationalising this way Aronofsky cheapens his art: he cuts it with hyperbole. Likewise with some of the eroticisms: no red-blooded fellow will completely object to being asked to watch Natalie Portman's onanstic activities (and more!), but Aronofsky goes beyond what is strictly necessary for his statement, even if he doesn't ever quite let Nina get to hers (all the more tension!): It is a little artistically voyeuristic.  Because of all his mucking about in mental hyperspace, where we don't know what's real and what's not, Aronofsky's climax misses its beat profoundly. It's a silly, trite, implausible ending - the credits fade up and it feels like a ten-ton weight has been dropped on the picture, Monty Python style.  Is it a good film? Yes. It's a very good film, though I think I'd take a certain amount of evasive action to avoid watching it again. Is it great one? That I'm not so sure about.  Olly Buxton

WOODY DOES PARIS? I hated the protaganist from the very beginning, but strangely enough I enjoyed the film itself immensely. The lead male, with whom we are supposed to sympathise, was obviously told to do his very best Woody Allen impersonation, ...which he does, ...much to my irritation. We get the usual constant New York over-analytical voice-overed babble that made Allen and his many neuroses such a self-caricature in the end. The actor even dresses in ill-fitting oversize clothing, as did Allen. It's as though Allen really wanted to play the lead himself, but he was too old so he just hired an impersonator.  That aside, ....the film opens with a lingering homage to Paris, ...the "tourist" Paris, ...which is probably the one we all want to see anyway. For some inexplicable reason known only to Allen it's all shot through a deep orange gel. I can only suggest it was meant to symbolise "warm memories"? If indeed this is the case then those memories must have been viewed through one of those Tandoori Chicken spray-tans we see on women nowadays.  The story itself has been well documented here. It requires you to suspend disbelief and ignore holes in the plot large enough to run the Metro through, but it's one of those movies where you can thoroughly enjoy sitting back and just letting it all wash over you. The strongest performances are all from bit players, ....Kathy Bates is a standout as Gertrude Stein. The bride-to-be's parents are truly obnoxious American snobs, ....sadly not all that hard to find in today's Paris, although the mother does get some of the best lines. Wait for "And cheap is cheap I say!" Perfect!  The bride herself is just SO vapid, shallow and self-obsessed that you cannot believe even the Woody Allen impersonator could ever have fallen for her in the first place, much less made it right through engagement and onto the impending marriage situation.  It's not giving anything away when I say that you too will know in about the first 15 minutes that she will be found out as having it off with the "know-it-all".  What is interesting about this movie is that the "real" people are just character "types", ......one dimensional and very stereotyped, while the fantasy characters have much more depth and end up stealing the show, ...along with the romantic City of Paris, which is probably the real star. A case of imagination being stronger than reality perhaps?  I must confess that I have a fascination with Paris, ( I live there for six or so months each year), and the characters we see in the periods revisited during the course of this movie, so the historical re-creations of both people and places held the most interest for me.  You'll all know where this movie is going, but the journey is a very pleasant and picturesque one if you are able to just go along with it all. It's a fantasy, and whether any of it is meant to be actuality or it all takes place in the lead's over-active imagination doesn't really matter. (No, he doesn't seem to drink absinthe at any stage.....)  Personally I'd have dreamed up some serious injuries indeed to get out of marrying the air-head and becoming part of her profoundly irritating family. That's injury for them, .....not me. I kept hoping he'd throw her off the troisieme etage of the Eiffel Tower and push Mom & Dad under a speeding Metro!  The know-it-all gets EXACTLY what he deserves in the end,(hurrah!) ......although I thought the VERY attractive, well mannered and bright guide at the Musee Rodin a far better prospect than the teenager from the flea markets for Mr. Allen.....sorry, I must remember it was Owen Wilson! But then Mr. Allen always had that penchant for VERY YOUNG girls didn't he! Probably goes a long way towards explaining the ending.......  Trivial Footnote: I wonder why the poster specifically references Van Gogh's night sky over Paris when that particular artist is never mentioned at all in the film?

Entertaining Turn on History I know there are some number of films containing the Black Plague or have the Black Plague as a backdrop, but this is the first I've seen that dealt specifically with that deadly historical disease.  Here's the scoop. A young monk on the religious fence agrees to guide some of the Bishop's soldiers to a remote village which has somehow managed to avoid being effected by the plague. His real reason for guiding the soldiers is to visit his girlfriend and see what side of the fence he will come down on. The soldiers are sure of what they will find and have weapons and instruments of torture to make things right. Of course, things go awry and it makes for a great ride.  Some great decisions were made in this movie. It has a good look and feel. This might be the only movie I've seen that gave me a genuine sense of what life might have been like back then. The costuming, buildings, ubiquitous death and despair were all present. It was shot well. Sometimes the camera was steady and sometimes it moved and the blend was good. I was drawn into the scenes. The casting was good. The band of soldiers was a group of individuals. They didn't run together. The casting agent made sure they didn't all look alike so you could pick each one out in a given scene, and they were all allotted as much personality as possible given the circumstances.  The story worked well too. Certain things happened sooner than I expected so it made me wonder where the proceedings would go from there. The Catholic Church has garnered a bad reputation in regard to that period of history and this movie doesn't shy away from showing them in a less than favorable light. These soldiers of God are on a mission and they are going to do what they are going to do no matter what they find. It's a no win situation for whomever is involved. I did wonder how the story would be resolved and was more than pleased with the ending. All too often films move like a freight train only to slip the tracks in the final scenes. Here I felt things stayed true.  This is a good movie that, at 102 minutes, is the right length for the content. It gives a good historical perspective yet maintains an innate ability to entertain.

an ok ending I am a James bond fan. Quantum of Solace was a bit hard to follow at first. But enjoyable. Video quality was excellent. Wish I had known about amazon video sooner.

Hilarious, If Somewhat Ludicrous Premise Have very mixed feelings about this film - it's one of the few instances where I'm unable to extract my modern sensibilities and impartially review a movie. I'm constantly poking fun at and mocking people who are unable to watch a production in the context of its creation - the 1930s were, and will never be, the 2000s.  It's ridiculous to view such films thru a narrow modern prism.  Women were generally weaker or emotionally unstable, people of color were servants or entertaining buffoons, Scots were cheapskates, Irish were brutal fall-down drunkards, Chinese were either effusive bobbing fools or sinister manipulators, etc, etc. It's not right, but that's the way it was back then. Cool critical thinking is required. I've even observed someone get angry and spitting at 'Roots' while completely ignoring the powerful historical drama being offered. Seen it before at different film festivals as well, especially the derision coming from women when female subservience is displayed on screen.  However, in this film, I'm trapped in my own biased perspective.  I just can't buy that a stunningly beautiful woman and a very handsome man can remain completely platonic while stranded alone on a deserted island for 7 years. Just not believable and too preposterous to accept. So the foundation of this film is, for me, completely unworkable. That's not to say that it's not entertaining. It's just that I have to 'forgive and forget' in order to move on and appreciate.  A hilarious movie with Grant at the peak of his physical comedy. And I never tire of Irene Dunne, never. She's just so beautiful. Radiant and stylish, with just the right amount of playful sexual energy. One of my favorite performers from this period. That she's a talented actress only adds to that wonderful mix.  In this film Grant plays Nick Arden, a successful lawyer, father of two, and soon-to-be former widower. Having lost his wife seven years previous, he's now legally free to marry again. And with two young children to raise, he feels has to find a stepmother for their sake. Pretty standard fare, except for one thing. His first wife, and true love, isn't dead.  Stepping off a truck dressed as a Portugese fisherman is Ellen Arden. She's been rescued from the desert island she's called home for all those years. The very day she returns home is the very day Nick has married a haughty bitch played by Gail Patrick. Throw in the amazing Randolf Scott, who looks like the living embodiment of the Greek god Apollo and his own unrequited (and unbelievably - unconsummated) love for Ellen.  Well, you get the picture. Awkward social interplay and hilarious hijinks abound. Especially as Ellen employs trickery and out-n-out fraud to deter Nick from believing what every guy is going to believe. How these four work out their predicament makes for an incredibly enjoyable and funny film.  Personal Note: Classic movie fans already know this, but back then, when Hollywood found a winning formula - they usually milked it to death. Hmm. Come to think of it, that's not so different from today. &lt;g> Combo teams that captured that special on-screen chemistry were often paired together for years and years. Myrna Loy and William Powell immediately jumps to mind. And speaking of Myrna, she's the point I want to make about Irene.  Dunne and Grant were another winning duo. They did so many fantastic films together, like this one. And their pairing was guaranteed box office success. So I've been haunted for many years when they weren't able to work together on one of my all-time favorite films: "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001WTWVU">Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House</a>".  Director H.C. Potter wanted Irene for the production, but unfortunately she had already committed to a different picture and his production couldn't wait. So they hired Myrna as her replacement. I think she did a fine job and I still enjoy the movie very much. But I often wonder how much more wonderful 'Dream House' would've have been had Irene taken the role of Murial Blandings. God, what a missed opportunity!  Don't blame Irene at all - the role she took eventually earned her a Best Actress Oscar win. But still. &lt;sigh>  Interestingly, a few years later, both Grant and Dunne signed on to do a radio version of "Dream House". And I have to say - it's utterly *fantastic*. It makes contemplating 'what could have been' all the more painful.

Great video for non-olympians needing to just get moving This is a great video for older people, very overweight people, or just anyone who does not get up and go on a regular basis.  The video is a great low impact way to get the heart rate up and get the body moving. Requires no getting down on the ground, strenuous lifting or acrobatic movements.  A great place to get started on the path to better health and fitness.  I also find Mazda's delivery to be less annoying than the other popular walking video from Sansome.  I own and use both videos, and I find the workouts are similar but sometimes I'm just not in the mood to listen to Sansome's animated commentary.

Captain America: The First Avenger The movie awesome. I can't wait until the second installment of Captain America. Also putting Captain America in with the other Avengers (Ironman, Thor, Hulk, Hawkeye and Black Widow was a stroke of genius).

Great for 5+ This is a great movie,  I bought it for my 3 year old who loves Miyazaki's other films <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002ZTQVLG">Kiki's Delivery Service: Special Edition - 2-Disc DVD</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002ZTQVGQ">Ponyo</a> a lot more.  This movie did not go over as well for the 3 year old.  But I am sure 5 and older will love this movie.  It has a wonderful story.  So 1) DO NOT buy for your three year old.  2) DO buy for anyone 5-100.

Tongue lashings for sophisticated tastes Well this is a film you will either like or hate. But even if you hate it, you will appreciate the complexity of the dialogue and outstanding script as well as the razor sharp directing from Mike Nichols. You will probably appreciate the outstanding acting, especially from Natalie Portman. The film is about the complexity of relationships. Relationships and love in all its variations is extremely complex and therefore when folks don't know what they want and don't tell the truth, it is bound to become a big mess and this film shows just how messy it can get. The film shows how self deception leads to deception of others. It shows how every effort to avoid pain in relationships just leads to more vulnerability to pain. It also demonstrates that in general we are much better at talking about sexual intimacy than emotional intimacy. The character of Alice, played by Natalie Portman, was certainly my favorite and I found her to be the least emotionally damaged of all the characters. Her scene with Clive Owen in the strip bar was unforgettable. She is the least calculating and emotionally constricted of the 4 main characters. Jude Law plays Dan, a fellow who doesn't know what he wants and doesn't like what he gets and has an arrogance and distance that he seems to think will protect him from emotional hurt. Because he is so into himself, ensuring that he gets what he wants without much regard to others, he is not a likeable character and in the end I felt no sympathy for him. Julia Roberts plays Anna, a cool character if there ever was one. She is withdrawn and a bit listless. She hides behind her camera and is not enthusiastic about life. Her best scene is the wonderful scene where she meets Dr. Larry in the aquarium and he thinks she is the wild sex hungry uninhibited chick he has communicated with on-line. Here she shows humor and insight, which would have served her well in trying to manage her marriage to Larry. Clive Owen, as Dr. Larry, gets five of the best scenes in the film. The film seemed to translate well from the stage to the screen. Comparisons to "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe" don't really hold for in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe" alcoholism and years of intimacy and keeping each other's secrets erupts. However in Closer, the anger and aggression comes not from too much intimacy but from too little intimacy, so that only sex and anger penetrate the carefully constructed veneers of three of the 4 main characters. The scene closest in intensity to the Taylor and Burton fight fests in "Who's Afraid" is the scene where Larry and Anna fully confront each other due to Larry's absolute insistence on hearing the worst and saying the worst. Clive Owen's performance is excellent and I empathized with him more than the other characters. Structurally the film seems to be about Anna and Dan with Alice and Larry on the edge, but the performances of Portman and Owen are so strong that the tables are turned and Roberts and Law are given a run for their money in the acting department. The dialogue is fast and sharp, so you may wish to watch it twice, if you can bear to watch human train wrecks.

Justs misses being great Douglas Trumbull is a legend in filmdom -- he was one of the special-effects wizards for Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," which, more than four decades after its 1968 release, still looks better and more believable than some brand-new science fiction films. More recently, director Terence Malick drew Trumbull out of retirement to help with the FX for "The Tree of Life."  "Silent Running," Trumbull's turn as a director, is a really fine piece of science fiction. If the film has a problem, it's that it can seem a bit ... quaint at this point. Made in the early 1970s, it features a Joan Baez song and some decidedly hippie-esque trappings.  But it also boasts a superb performance by Bruce Dern, who spends much of the movie acting opposite three diminutive robots (precursors of R2-D2?). And Trumbull's special effects look typically wonderful, despite his not having a budget to work with that was anything near "2001."  I recommend this movie. Just keep in mind that it was made some time ago.

Doris Day IS a national treasure and is superb in this movie Doris Day is a national treasure who has entertained us for many years. She sings, she dances, she can act and she has a wonderful way about her that pulls one in to the story she is trying to tell. She represents in many ways a better time to be an adult in America. She is classy, sexy, smart, beautiful, and displays one of the most radiant and winsome personalities ever on the screen. She has known tragedy and loss in her personal life, and is a survivor, who cares for animals. Truthfully the movie is good and if you get into the story you do not notice that people don't dress like that anymore, have cars like that (we can wish we did though) or have TVs like that anymore. Check out the box TV in the stewardess's apartment and the funky front load washer visible when the old man in the country opens his door to check on the noises outside. For me these glimpses of the past do not detract from the story, they only add to the atmosphere.But some people worry about such things. Also, that the movie is in gorgeous B&W, not color. As another reviewer has stated Doris Day flying the airplane has a lot more credibility in "Julie" than Karen Black in Airport "1975."  While she protests, she steps up to the plate and does the job. She is a person of considerable inner strength and shows it to good advantage. By the way, it is not a jetliner she lands but a four engine prop job, maybe a DC-6? Louis Jourdan is a wonderful, believable villain. Good entertainment, good script and a lot of fun.

Fun French action pic A sequel to 2004's "District 13 B".  As with the original, this has some amazing, almost balletic stunts clearly done by the actors themselves, who are in this case two of the originators and developers of the sport called parkour, which involves scrambling and leaping around the urban landscape, jumping up and over cars, out of 2nd floor windows, across rooftops.  In this age of CGI and wire assisted stunts, it's wonderful to watch real human beings doing amazing, acrobatic things.  I also liked that the film had an interesting element of social satire which made it smarter and more political than most of the action blockbusters we get from Hollywood.  That said, sadly it did eventually burn out for me, on both the action and the plot front. For the first half I thought this would end up one of my all time favorite action pics. But the story logic gets stretched further and further, and by the end the clever political set up turns a bit silly, while some of the action starts to feel a bit repetitive. Still, I'm glad I saw, and enjoyed it. I just doubt it's a film I'd buy, or return to again.  BTW: The blu-ray seems to default to the English dubbed version. Big mistake. Change things in the set up menu and watch this in the original French with subtitles. The performances are much better.

My heart is still racing So I just finished watching Paranormal Activity 2. You usually know when the end is coming, with this one you never do. I found this to be a scary sequel to the very scary Paranormal Activity. The first one had images that stayed with me, I have just seen the second, I hope I'll be sleeping peacefully. Not one of the best films of the year but definitely worth watching. It remains to be seen what they'll do with the upcoming third part of the trilogy?!

The Dirt Comes Out In The Wash Born 56 years ago in  Maryland, Goldie Hawn is type-cast as the skinny, ditzy blonde of LAUGH-IN.  Of her 28 movies listed by MALTIN, she plays to type best in the farcical assassination plot of FOUL PLAY.  Actually, Ms. Hawn has an extensive acting range with serious dramatic accomplishment, as she demonstrates in her mystery suspense thriller, DECEIVED.  Ms. Hawn chooses scripts with a poignant moral, consummated at the end of PROTOCOL by her passionate plea for citizens to participate in democracy, recalling Charlie Chaplin's emotional prayer for compassion at the end of THE GREAT DICTATOR.  The heartfelt messages of her movies is the probable reason for consistently satisfied  fans.  George Segal is cast with Goldie as THE DUCHESS AND THE DIRTWATER FOX, a comedy only because the characters are not distressed by their predicaments, including bullet wounds in the upper body.  Comic relief does not make a fun fest; a Western played for laughs throughout is THE HALLELUJAH TRAIL starring Burt Lancaster with Lee Remick, not to mention Mel Brooks' classic BLAZING SADDLES.  Through a series of contrived crises, two long hilarious scenes and five repartees lighten the serious love story of lonely, selfish, opportunistic, and desperate scoundrels, like Scarlett and Rhett.  The critical shot is the moment they realize they love each other while dancing at a Jewish wedding; don't miss their faces during those 5 seconds at the beginning of the Third Act; the whole movie hangs on it.  The story ends with their romantic consummation, but persists through three more sequences with faulty continuity and unsatisfying resolution.  Ms. Hawn has no figure, but she passes no opportunity for teasing with all she has without showing skin that never gets tan.  Her thighs are delightfully photogenic; THE DUCHESS displays them in crotch shots that would shame Sharon Stone because they are gratuitous.  Goldie's fans will appreciate the striking beauty of her mature face without make-up in the scene of her staked out to die with sarcastic witticisms under the desert sun. TP

A really good small budget ww2 movie. The folks that put this movie together did a great job for less than a million dollars, they used re-enactors and authentic looking jeeps, half-tracks and even a P-51 Mustang as props. The acting isn't stellar quality but it is well done. There are some minor inconsistencies with a few of the props, mostly wardrobe etc but you would have too be an armchair historian too pick up on these, some of the dialogue may not be "period" either. But it tells a good story and the battle scenes are well done if small scale. Worth watching imho!

def worth watching got this about a week after it came out. I was planning on sitting down to watch it over the weekend but got home from a game early and popped it in for what I expected to be 15, 20 mins. wound up going to bed late because I stayed up to watch the whole stupid thing. I didn't want to turn it off. I know some people have complained it's only part of the tower of babel, blah blah blah. as someone that grew up on old school comics and doesn't read any of the new crap, I greatly enjoyed it. I'm not going to nitpick at things that seemed off but sit down and enjoy. it's not that awful live action comic or whatever it's called art. things flow, decent art, good story. haven't had time to watch the special features or 2nd disc but looking forward to the weekend when I have that kind of time.  the biggest con of the movie was I would have preferred it to be longer. it really does fly by and got to the end was a little disappointed it was over already.

Very good 3d makes this a very enjoyable movie What a difference great 3d makes.I saw this movie in 2d and it was just so-so.Read the positive reviews on the 3d blu ray version and bought it.Pop out 3d abounds in this movie.This one I will keep and rewatch.Good action,great 3d !!

Winner for Chris Pine fans If you like Chris Pine, as I do, you'll enjoy this movie. It's a comical story. A little crude at times, but overall a cute movie. It's not a blockbuster but was worth watching. I thought it was endearing how Pine's character's family rallies around him as he tries to cope and mature with his blindness. Danny's (Pine) brother Larry is hilarious! He sets him up on some blind dates that are unbelievable and just cracked me up! And it was a new appreciation for cultural differences as Danny falls in love with an Indian girl. Like I said, comical and at times laugh-out-loud funny. Pine is a far cry from James T. Kirk or FDR Foster in this one, but certainly entertaining.

Good Flick! This was a good movie.  Lots of action.  Denzel was great.  He is a scene stealer!  Without him, this movie would be a 2.

However, they are not Widescreen The Amazon description says that these disks are widescreen, yet when you play them, they're fullscreen. I called the DVD help line to make sure it wasn't something I was doing and they said if the disks play as fullscreen, there is no Widescreen playback capability on the discs.  Does anyone who bought this set get the widescreen bars at the top and bottom of the screen when playing these?

Capt. Marco: "Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life." URBAN MYTH DEPT. THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE was never withdrawn from circulation after JFK's murder. It debuted on CBS-TV in September of 1965 and had many reshowings over the years, even after film rights reverted to Frank Sinatra in 1972.  Angela Lansbury is the ultimate villain is this political drama about a group of Korean War soldiers who are captured and brainwashed. One is programmed as an &aacute;ss&aacute;ssin. His target: a conservative Presidential candidate. His stateside controller: a mother he has a Freudian love/hate relationshop with.  Sinatra is the killer's former captain, a man who also underwent mind control training. Well-done but slow in spots. Has an exciting finish.  Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 imdb viewer poll rating.  (8.2) The Manchurian Candidate (1962) - Frank Sinatra/Laurence Harvey/Janet Leigh/Angela Lansbury/Henry Silva/James Gregory/Leslie Parrish/John McGiver/Lloyd Corrigan

Good companion for the book I like the Starting Strength book. This DVD is a good companion for the book. I have been able to learn the lifts through the book and the DVD. The DVD alone will leave you bereft of a number of major points that are there in teh book, the anatomy of lifting, the mechanics of the lift, various alternate excercises etc. The video quality is good and camera work isnt too bad either. Good buy

A Timeless Classic Zulu is the re-telling of the incredible but true story of a small garrison or regular British soldiers at the very start of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa. The 100 or so soldiers are in a rear area away from the fighting going on many miles away---or so they believe.  Suddenly they are attacked, pinned inside a corral and blockhouse and must fight against a huge Zulu force vastly outnumbering them.  It's a fight to the death.  Advice: watch "Zulu Dawn" first, before seeing Zulu.  Zulu Dawn tells the story of several hundred British soldiers massacred at Islandwana by the same Zulu army who, after winning that battle, move on to attack the small company of soldiers in the rear compound (the story "Zulu" tells).  Chronologicaly, that's the way it really happened.  If you don't see Zulu Dawn and just see Zulu all by itself, you won't be disappointed. It's that great a movie! I must have seen it a hundred times as a kid and can watch it a hundred times more.  Excellent acting and efforts all around.  They don't make movies like this anymore---a great shame. The fighting is almost non-stop and exhausting to watch. Best line: when a scared young soldier asks his stern sergeant, "why us?" the sergeant replies in his best stiff upper lip English way, "because we're here, that's why." Classic!

Clapton and ensemble do it again for charity Maybe not as good as "Concert for George", but excellent value, all the same.  Now, if it would only be offered in Blu-ray!

Great I have been wanting this for a long time.  Had not seen it since i was a kid.  Now I remember where I got saying stagger stagger crawl crawl from.  LOL

Slam-Bang Job on The Pacific Stephen Spielberg and Tom Hanks did a slam-bang of a job creating The Pacific.  It has no equal, except, perhaps Finding Private Ryan, and for their equally brilliant Band of Brothers.  Forget about John Wayne's war dramas, forget about M.A.S.H., nothing compares to these three magnificantly produced war films.  I remember being blown away by Twelve O'clock High but it was a remote battle. Remote in that the men who fought and died did so off camera. Not so in The Pacific.  Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima were both excellent but I would place The Pacific, Band of Brothers and Saving Private Ryan a notch above Eastwood's fantastic duet.  All of the above have meticulously recreated the dirty and bloody aspect of war. My closest (fortunately) encounter with war has been to hear my brother in law recount his experiences in the Phillipenes during WW II.  He was in a special 50 Cal machine gun unit that saw heavy action there.  After taping his account (for the Library of Congress) I sat back and counted my blessings I missed that carnage.  As I watched Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, and The Pacific, I again thanked God I was lucky enough to be born at a time that placed me between all wars.  The Pacific reiterates, time and again, what sacrifices our service men and women have made to give us the freedoms we enjoy today.  Well done.

An Interesting Collection This is a very good idea by Mill Creek Entertainment, putting two Documentary Series together in one DVD Set. This is a 4-Disc Collection, containing over 14 hours of interesting documentaries about Native Americans and the History of the United States. I recommend this set to people having a huge passion for history and to people who enjoy watching Historical documentaries. This DVD Set will be a good addition to your collection.  The two Series you'll find on this DVD Set are:  1. NATIVE AMERICA: VOICES FROM THE LAND ( 2 DVD, 10 Hours, 32 episodes ) This compelling documentary collection examines Native North-American culture, past and present, and its attempts to halt assimilation and retain native cultural traditions. Through historical and contemporary photographs, paintings, artwork, archive footage, reenactments and interviews, the rich culture and history of America's aboriginal people is showcased across 32 unique and important features. Witness the struggles and hardships, the practices and traditions, the art and beauty of this country's natives past, present and future. The episodes you'll find in this documentary are:  1. After the White Man Came, 2. Corn Dancers, 3. The Desert People, 4. Do We Want Us To?, 5. Earthshapers, 6. Eskimos: Winter in Western Alaska, 7. The Excavation of Mound 7, 8. I Will Fight No More Forever, 9. An Indian for a Change, 10. Indian Pottery of San Ildefonso, 11. Indian to Indian, 12. Lesson in Archaeology, 13. Lewis and Clark, 14. Maxidiwia, 15. Miracle on the Mesa, 16. Native American Art, 17. Navajo Canyon Country, 18. Nez Perce: Portrait of a People, 19. Pablita Velarde - An Artist and Her People, 20. Pecos, 21. People of the Macon Plateau, 22. Pueblo Heritage, 23. Santa Fe, 24. Seminoles of the Everglades, 25. Spanish Empire in the New World, 26. Spirit of the Earth, 27. Tahtonka - Plains Indian Culture, 28. Voyage of Discovery, 29. We Belong to the Land, 30. White Fawn's Devotion, 31. Canyon Voices, 32. Cataloochie: The Center of the World  2. TRAIL OF TEARS: A NATIVE AMERICAN DOCUMENTARY COLLECTION ( 2 DVD, 4 Hours, 4 episodes ) This harrowing and compelling compilation of 4 award-winning documentary programs chronicles the struggles of the Native American culture from the forced relocation known as the Trail of Tears to the current issues faced by America's aboriginal people.  ------ TRAIL OF TEARS: CHEROKEE LEGACY ------ This two hour documentary explores one of the great historical tragedies of America's aboriginal people. In 1830, eager to gain access to lands inhabited by Native Americans, President Andrew Jackson enacted the Indian Removal Act which forced the Cherokee Nation to leave their homeland and relocate into unchartered territory. Many of these forced settlers suffered from exposure, disease and starvation and upon arriving in Indian Territory, they arrived with no past and no future.  ------ NATIVE AMERICAN HEALING IN THE 21ST CENTURY ------ This comprehensive look at the ancient health and healing methods of American aboriginals uncovers the invaluable contributions that Native Americans made to early frontier living, showing how many of the healing plants and herbs that early European settlers were taught by the aboriginal people are still important sources of today's modern methods of maintaining health.  ------ BLACK INDIANS: AN AMERICAN STORY ------ This award-winning feature examines a minority group that is discounted and often ignored by mainstream media. Sharing a common past, many African Americans and Native Americans have combined to create a unique culture that has meshed the traditions and fine heritage of both. Little known, little documented and often marginalized, this group has become all but invisible at the dawn of the new millennium.  ------ OUR SPIRITS DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH: INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOL ------ This compelling documentary feature gives the Native American perspective on Indian Boarding Schools and uncovers the dark history of U.S. Government policy which took Indian children from their homes, forced them into boarding schools and enacted a policy of educating them in the ways of Western Society. This award-winning film gives a voice to the countless Indian children forced through a system designed to strip them of their Native American culture, heritage and traditions.

Relationships I have found that some of the relationships, I have been there and did not have the tools to work them out at a young age.This movie was real insightful. I thought all the scenarios were hilarious, but made you relate to each situation.

The blu ray of Dead Alive is better than the DVD...but that ain't saying much. This is a review of the US release of Dead Alive on blu ray and has nothing to do with the movie itself. As we fans of this brilliant classic from Peter Jackson have been waiting for a good video release, Lionsgate just upconverted the video image on this blu ray. The old Trimark looked horrible! This blu ray looks better, but not much. I wanted to be blown away with the bright colors of this supposed 1080p release. The picture quality looks like a good DVD upconverted. I didn't expect Avatar quality, but at least restore the picture. The colors are still muted, specks and dirt abound, softness that distracts from any enjoyment. This classic deserves better than what cheap Lionsgate is willing to do. At least they finally got the aspect ratio closer to what it supposed to be. But that aside, there still are no special features (a trailer) and this movie deserves at least a commentary. And also missing is the 107 minute version of Braindead. It would have been nice to see the two and let us fans decide on which version we like the best. Even at ten bucks, this blu ray is a disappointment, but I still prefer it over all other US home video releases. Too bad it doesn't get the respect it deserves. Maybe next time, Peter Jackson would supervise a director's cut of his classic. Until then, this will have to do. Sad, to say the least....

80's sci-fi at its best The Terminator. Not much more needs to be said nearly 30 years after Arnold told us he'd be back. His merciless cyborg stalks and glowers his way to near perfection throughout this movie. I can't think of another truly evil character this iconic that has held our attention and filled us with dread for that long. Even Vader has some redemption in the end. The Terminator just, well...terminates people. And we love him for it. Do what I did and treat yourself to a great piece of 1980's film noir. The Blu-ray version's clarity and soundtrack is well worth every penny.

Excellent Blu-Ray Conversion Excellent Blu-Ray conversion in picture and sound for an in the beginning Tom Cruise effort that tackles universal themes at a High School level.  Craig T. Nelson is oft (been reading too many Game Of Thrones books) overlooked for his performance here and coming after Robby Benson's excellent One On One with a brittle but subtle performance by G.D. Spradlin...he takes the vindictiveness to new heights and paints a Coach's legacy that must have affected the boys who undoubtedly passed his way over the years psychologically long after they graduated from his reach.  At least Cruise decides to fight back.  Good movie of its time and swept under the carpet by the competition when it came out.  It's nice to go back and see the promise that Cruise exhibited here along with a moving portrayal by Lea Thompson (the mom in Back To The Future)as his small town girlfriend.  It also includes the infamous scene where Cruise exposes more than just his acting talent that made this an underground 'must' for certain segments of the audience back then (and that's just how it would have been referred to at that time). Over all a good 'struggle against the odds to overcome' movie and one Mr. Cruise doesn't have to wish erased from his early projects.

Thanks! I got the product pretty quick. It was wrapped up great. It was exactly as the description said it would be. I am enjoying the movie very much! :) Thank you~!

Outstanding DVD Outstanding DVD, good quality throughout, shows one of my favorite groups at their very best, sadly with Maurice's passing, no longer will they all be together, on stage...

why did they slow the tempo for every song? I have loved ZZ Top for many years, back to the vinyl days.  This Blu-Ray, like others have said, has superb audio and video with many close-ups, so technically it gets nothing but praise from me.  I can't give the DVD the full 5 stars however, because I just don't think these re-imaginings of the songs done at slower tempos are better than the original versions.  Billy Gibbons is obviously a virtuoso guitarist, worthy of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, etc., but I don't love the way he has simplified some of the solos here.  Not only is Pearl Necklace slowed down to almost half speed, but the guitar solo is also dumbed down and I missed the shredding of the original.  I prefer that bands do alter the songs somewhat when performing them live - The Deep Purple Made In Japan album is the paradigm I would look at for an example where the original songs are improved in the live concert setting by adding extended solos and so forth - but ZZ Top has turned the songs into something different here, and some people may like this type of change but I wasn't crazy about it.  The quality of picture and sound is incredible, and the concert is enjoyable, so this is still a must have for ZZ Top fans.  Just beware that the songs are noticeably plodding compared to the original versions.

3 1/2 stars for a brutal combat film Let's get the Blu ray business out of the way.  As you might expect, the film looks great.  Director Takashi Miike uses the camera to show great views of the mountainous Japanese landscape.  The small villages look authentic.  The sound is in both Dolby Digital HD and DTS HD so take your pick.  Both are fine but nothing special.  I was a bit surprised that for an action oriented film like this, we wouldn't get more from the surrounds.  Still, clear and focused.  Special features include deleted scenes, an interview with the director and a trailer.  The film takes place in 1844 toward the end of the Japanese feudal era.  An evil...and I do mean evil...lord is about to ascend to power.  While he is despised by nearly everyone including his closest protectors, it is the way of life to serve the master class.  A small group of samurai are called upon to kill him.  The leader of the samurai is Shinzaemon Shimada (Koji Yakusho).  He is reluctant to mutiny until he hears and sees evidence for himself.  In a ghastly scene, a nude teenage girl is presented to him.  Her limbs had been severed and her tongue cut out by the evil butcher.  Shinzaemon accepts the assignment.  The first half of the film deals with the gathering of samurai warriors and their preparation to intercept the evil Lord Naritsugu as he travels to accept his Shogun promotion.  The small group of 12 encounters the 13th assassin in the forest, a peasant who is adept at stealth movement and with the use of a slingshot. He joins the band.  They are a mixture of seasoned samurai looking for one last fight and young men looking for acceptance.  While the photography is beautiful and the acting is fine, this is pretty standard stuff.  What comes next isn't.  Expecting to encounter an army of about 70 soldiers guarding the lord, it turns out to be more like 200 as the lord has called in reinforcements.  In a calculated retreat, the samurai build up a ramshackle village they come across, setting numerous traps as they await the onslaught of the lord and his loyalists.  Once the battle begins it goes on for 45 minutes or so which must be some kind of record for a film.  This is not kung fu fighting or aerial ballet.  This is visceral, samurai sword fighting.  It is brutal but artistic, violent but resplendent and smartly choreographed.  We're talking about scores of combatants going at it and it all looks seamless.  The 13 extend the battle, not only because of their fearlessness and expert swordsmanship but because they had set traps to encapture the enemy in smaller groups.  This remake of Eiichi Kudo's 1963 film starts out a bit slow and predictable, but ends with one of the great hand-to-hand combat movies around.

Decent service The service was decent. I recieved the order in great condition within 2 weeks but had to make an inquiery.

FDA is bad for the reality of Freedom I liked it and I agree. What business does the FDA have with what I choose to Eat? How is it legal to buy a pack of cigarettes but not a pint of raw milk?

Great for the Batfan! What a nice bat-umentary!  It was nice to learn little known facts about the Batman 1966 TV series and how it came to be.  Great nostalgia and fun for the batfan.

Solid and Engaging... Being a huge documentary fan... I'm hesitant to admit that I waited so long to finally see The Thin Blue Line. I don't know why it took me so long, but I'm glad that I finally watched it... I thought it was amazing. Errol Morris truly shows why he's one of the most respected Documentary filmmakers of all time... all of his films have this polish and style to them that separates his documentaries from the rest. He has a way of doing reenactments in a non-cheesy and totally believable way. If I hear a documentary relies on a lot of reenactments, I usually cringe; but when I hear that for an Errol Morris documentary I get excited... The Think Blue Line is a perfect illustration of this.  The movie itself is an exceptionally interesting and thoroughly captivating story about the murder of a police officer and the ensuing investigation into it. What follows is corruption and a perfect example of when our legal system flat out fails to do its job. Very nicely done as expected... I fully recommend seeing this if you haven't already. 4/5 stars.

Great Performances I enjoyed The Gathering Storm for it's depiction of Winston Churchill the man.  You're shown the leader in all his arrogance and vulnerableness.  To see him in the comforts of his scenic countryside home with his loyal wife and household staff gives proof to the saying that behind every great man is a strong woman.  This is as much Clementine Churchill's story as it is Winston's, though her role is downplayed.  He being a renaissance man was a perfect match to her stoic stand-by-your man mentality.  Without Clemmie I shudder to think that Winston Churchill could ever have found the courage to stand by his principals and lead England in it's darkest hour.  Excellent movie! It could have been longer.

Blood Test... This documentary is a proof that when it comes to any issue, we need to be responsible for our actions. The same goes for food consumption. Obviously the USDA would protect the interest of its donors not the general public or the school lunch program. Obviously Cornel will go against a doctor who is speaking not favorably to a certain industry since Cornel survives by grants. Citizens should not expect their government to tell them to get into sports or have a healthy diet or what a healthy diet is. It is the function of every citizen to care for themselves since staying healthy means being able to move, hike, bike, see places, go places, surf and swim in the ocean instead of being a couch potato... Even the director did not know his own health condition just like millions of people who do not get a blood test but yet dump vitamins and supplements into their body without knowing if they are low in the supplement that they are using or not and that is considering if it is a safe product or supplement at all. Every serious cancer patient knows that they can not consume meat since it requires too much energy and difficult on the body and infact if they happen to be a real serious cancer patient they can not even consume plant base food either since even the fiber is hard on the body and they have to get a juicer so the nutrients would go directly to the blood stream without their body doing the actual work of separating the fiber in the plants that they are consuming. I consume fish and yogurt on a daily basis and stay away from processed foods, eating out, salt, sugar and fat although I get my fat from my organic whole yogurt. Sports should be a joy not a duty and the same goes for ingredients that we consume. I did not learn much from this documentary but regardless, the packaging and the format of this documentary is a good one which hopefully can spread the reality which is pay attention to ingredients that you consume and treat your body like a machine by getting a blood test with all details so you can see what is what...  Director's blood test showing HDL level of 40 (which they did not elaborate at all) is on the borderline if not low after 13 weeks of plant base food. Got to get it above 60 and triglyceride of 169 (which they did not elaborate at all) was high as well. Hopefully he will watch his documentary and do better not only by diet but by being active just like the landscaping contractor. The biggest change was in the landscaping contractor. He looked sick at the beginning and at the end of the documentary he was glowing, in a good shape, with a big smile on his face. Good for him now that he has learned how to keep his only machine in life that can bring mental and physical happiness not only for him but for loved ones. Health requires dedication just like anything else and is the biggest asset of any life...

Can anyone give me directions to I60? O.W. Grant, O.W. for one wish hangs out on Interstate 60.  One wish may not be the thing you really want after all but if Mr. Grant takes a shine to you and your wish is not one out of selfishness, then maybe you will get more than what you really wished for.  Can anyone direct me to Interstate 60?  Surprise appearances by Michael J Fox (did not care for his role), Kurt Russell, Ann-Margret and Christopher Lloyd.  The folly was in the towns and people along the way (some pretty far out there, all really weird...but what do you expect from dreams..or were they?)

Review of Blue Ray Enjoyable cop movie. Classic chase scene through San Francisco. I hadn't seen the movie before I bought it. Part way through the movie I was thinking, 'This is quiet.' I then realized that there was no blaring sound track trying to eek out every little bit of emotion. It was very refreshing. The aspect is 16:9 for full HD viewing. Sound is great. The video suffers a bit as the contrast is weak in shadows and a bit grainy over all. It is from 1968. For the price it is worth putting in your collection though.

A worthy Blu-ray The Big Lebowski doesn't need a review, so if you're here to read about the film, this won't be helpful. This is a review of the Blu-ray Limited Edition with book.  That being said, this is a very nice edition. The photographs in the book are great and are fun to see behind the scenes action, especially Jeff Bridges' photos. He's a talented photographer utilizing his unique pano camera.  The Blu-ray conversion is clean, crisp and well done. The picture and sound are excellent. The digital copy is a nice plus, but consider that the coupon expires on 12/31/12. Its more than a year away, but its worth noting in case it's something you forget to take advantage of.  However, my biggest complaint is this. The size of the book (which holds the physical disc) is actually just a little larger than standard Blu-ray cases. While this may not be a big deal to most people, if you're like me and have bookshelves fit to the height of a Blu-Ray, this movie can't stand on end. It has to be laid flat, or sideways on the shelf. It's a little thing, but for those with extensive collections on shelves, it can be annoying.  Overall, the Blu-ray edition is a nice step-up for those looking to upgrade their DVD or add it to their collection.

This Is Not a Film About Severance Pay & a Gold Watch for Faithful Service to a Employer! 4 Stars = Classic  Half of the film is a great comedy/black comedy spoof on the "Torture Porn" sub-genre, & the other half, a dead serious, white knuckled affair! Especially the last third of the film!  A group of employees go out together for a weekend of fun & management improvement skills, but they get more than just fun, & learn how to manage to survive. We have the inept manager, the bookworm woman in glasses, the stoner guy, the black guy, the arrogant, sarcastic, good looking white corporate yuppie guy, the, I get along with everyone guy, & the out of character intelligent & resourceful good looking blonde. Their all going out to spend a weekend in the European redneck equivalent of the S.E. United States, Central Europe, Romania, where the seed of evil torture porn lies!  "Severance is filled with great acting, especially the inept manager, & much kudus goes to the good looking blonde in the strong character role. She's an actress to watch! The others are no slouches either. The stoner is particularly funny & cowardly, as they usually are, but finds courage. The director has to be commended for making what should've of been just another forgettable everyone getting massacred film, into a classic of giggles & thrills! The script is sharp, intelligent, & witty, & the actors all make it come to fruition! You got to love the ending, as it looks like something straight out of a Quinton Taratino film. As a matter of fact, if Taratino was to make a semi spoof/serious torture porn flick, it would be a lot like "Severance." You could also throw in the English version of Quinton Tarantino, director, Guy Ritchie.  "Severance" is well worth the watch, for the person who like just more than ketchup on their torture porn!

the deadly spawn this is cool b movie,but must be some thing in it to make anybody think its a five star its not  maybe four to three. sometime a movie has a special meaning and others dont havethe same feeling for a movie ,  so they rate it five stars

Happy Feet I like penguins, so I loved the DVD.  The penguins dancing was darling and it also featured the adalia which is my favorite.

Entertaining Future-Noir Never Looked and Sounded Better In Blu! I have to disclose right at the start that I have never read an Isaac Asimov book and so I can only judge the movie without any reference to the book it is based upon.  Now that I've got that out of the way, I also have to say that I have always liked film noir and so movies that are even remotely noir-ish like this one and say "Blade Runner" or even "Gattaca" have a headstart with me.  That said, while the movies share similarities with each other e.g. the Smith and Harrison cop characters after renegade artificial life forms etc "I, Robot" rises above just being a shoot-em up, all action film but also appeals to a thinking audience raising the issue of bigotry and prejudice with Smith's hatred of all things robot based upon his one bad experience with them and how all this changes once he gets to know and understand them better.  There are some elements though that detract from the enjoyment of the movie such as the inclusion of scenes that are not necessary; while I am fan of Shia LeBeuf for example from his work on "The Greatest Game Ever Played" I thought his scenes were totally useless here and that the film would be far better off without any of his scenes.  I also got the feeling that the film was too short and that far more meat could have been included to the story to develop the main characters more.  The good storyline aside though this movie has excellent 1080p picture and sound quality coming in DTS HD 5.1 MA making this a strong candidate for reference quality blu-ray disc.  The special feature documentaries while not great are still pretty good and unless you are a diehard fan who has to have every single tidbit this average viewer for instance is happy with this release.  This blu-ray release has excellent picture and sound quality and a decent storyline making this a worthy reference disc in your video library.  Recommended for the picture and sound quality but perhaps the content could have been a little better.

Geared up for a flop but discovered fruition instead... I've read Atlas Shrugged, and I too read negative review after negative review of this movie. Many of those reviews were obviously written, not to critique the movie itself, but rather Ayn Rand's philosophy. Many critics seemed not to understand her philosophy and skewed her ideology. Rand would have been just as against large corporations who allowed themselves to be bailed out by government as she would have been against rich people who created laws that from the surface appeared helpful to those less fortunate, but upon further observation, actually harm the least fortunate. She was not about wealth, but about the individual and all the promise that one person can encompass. She was about pride - pride in whatever it is that you do because the one can, and often does, make the difference. She saw what collectivism did - what group think did - as she grew up in Russia. So, Rand was not about greed, nor about wealth, she was about the one and the one cannot be free if he/she is subjected to a government that creates a dependent society. Then, the one becomes a slave to the needs of the many - and in Rand's novel she provided an escape hatch - one that might have many producers, as she refers to them in her book, (both wealthy and poor) considering as we watch bank bailouts, nationalized healthcare, and over-reaching federal policies rob its citizenry of choices. She provided us a glimpse of what could happen if...all those big corporations, rich productive entrepreneurs just walked away. For those that love to blame the rich, Rand offers you one possible scenario. And in her world, producers were men and women who worked hard from the bottom up. Producers were not rich folks who inherited daddy's fortune and then sat around smoking with a cognac in hand, nor were they poor people who expected hand-outs from government.  With that said, I still didn't expect much from the movie because the book is extraordinarily complex and rich, with thought provoking dialogue, emotionally vibrant characters, and difficult economic ideas that took over a thousand pages for Rand to lay-out. Needless to say, I purchased this expecting very little.  Surprisingly, I was very pleased with the adaptation. Yes, they had to drop a lot of the dialogue, but remarkably, they were still able to deliver the gist of the plot in under 2 hours. I am honestly looking forward to part two, and I hope they are able to fund it and produce it. I thought Hank Reardon was well cast as was Dagney Taggert.  Someone mentioned the score - it didn't bother me at all. I didn't notice it. I did notice the acting, which pleased me, and the script, which as I've already said, surprised me.  I would suggest this movie for those who enjoy thinking about and pondering over our world, our system of government, and how we the citizenry play a part in shaping those realms. If you are looking for glitz, chick flicks, or something you can get up and get popcorn without missing anything, pass this one up. It's not for the casual movie goer, or the lazy watcher. It demands your attention and your involvement. My thirteen-year-old son enjoyed it very much, but he is fascinated by government and economics AND trains!

Nice nudity Who cares about the plot???  Like you are going to buy a movie like this and be concerned about plot....  Good nude ans sex scenes, although some of them have unhappy endings,.... I enjoyed it.

Enjoyed This Movie Thoroughly!! This is a good movie, I like it a lot. There are some parts that sound a bit off or stupid and some of the acting is a bit strange and corny but except for those few parts, it's a really good interesting movie. It's very fascinating to watch and learn how they brought the aliens back to life and Ripley. It's a real good movie but not perfect by any means. But it's entertaining and keeps you interested on what's going on and what's going to happen next.

A Timely Movie In A Time Of Rapid Change. Last night I felt like watching a comedy, so I put a "9 to5" DVD on. It starred Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton. The setting was about 1980 when the country was going through a major realignment of the work force. The male-dominated upper levels of business, scientific or academic employment were under fire for not hiring and promoting enough women and women's role in these establishments was starkly defined. It was an interesting time and this movie fits the situation. All the stereotypes prevail in abundance. The Fonda/Tomlin/Parton trio play the downtrodden women and do an excellent job of it. Gags are plentiful and it makes it fun to look back on that period, if somewhat embarrassing.  The movie is well done. The acting is good, if somewhat exaggerated here and there for the purpose of laughs. The direction and filming are good. The three leading actresses fit well together and seem to be having a good time. It's a fun movie to watch. If I had any criticism, it would be that the circumstances have changed so drastically in the past three decades that the humor now seems very dated and somewhat stale. Well, that's the fate of producing a timely movie in a time of rapid change.  Gary Peterson

a creepy movie though this movie is a haunted tale, it drags a bit before leading up to the scary stuff.  This movie not only is creepy because of the moving objects, and the scary things that happen around the house, but also because it is based on true events.  I think the beginning starts out great and leaves you wanting to learn what ends up happening to the family.

Good Halloween movie The video worked well, no skipping or problems.  It was at times gruesome as the headless horseman was riding about the countryside chopping off heads.  Bought this movie to see how Johnny Depp did in this.  The acting was good and it would be a great movie to show at a Halloween gathering; very spooky yet not overwhelming.

Good Blu-ray deals! I have bought quite a few blu-rays on Amazon and have been content with all of them to include this one, Morning Glory.  I usually only buy ones that I find very funny or enjoyable because you would not want to buy one that you would only watch one time.  Very happy with the deals on blu-ray discs I have bought here on Amazon.  Thanks!

Effective horror thriller! When it comes to horror, audiences can never get enough of ghosts and haunted houses with the onset of reported paranormal events becoming more common in the last century or so. Mikael Hafstrom's 1408, based on a short story by Stephen King, puts 100+ minutes of horror into the confines of a single hotel room, but is it scary or laughable?  Mike Enslin (John Cusack) is a writer that makes a living visiting and reviewing haunted establishments, usually dismissing them as hoaxes. The sceptical Mike learns of a room at the Dolphin Hotel in New York where many visitors have met their deaths. Seeing this as the latest opportunity for a book, Enslin heads for the Dolphin Hotel but is stopped in his tracks by the hotel manager Gerald Olin (Samuel L Jackson) who offers Mike an upgrade to an expensive room, an expensive bottle of cognac and exclusive access to documents related to Room 1408 on the condition the writer doesn't stay in the room. Olin insists no one stays in 1408 anymore and warns that previous victims have not lasted more than an hour but Mike insists he can sue the hotel if they deny him access. Olin reluctantly gives Enslin the keys to 1408 and no sooner has he entered the room than his scepticism is put to the test by a series of horrific events.  Being set in one hotel room a lot of the scope in the film is for Cusack to carry this film on his own and he does this well. Olin's warnings about the room he is about to face are very foreboding indeed. 1408 is cleaned irregularly and when it is opened to the cleaning staff, there are two in the room at the same time with Olin supervising them both throughout. This follows an incident where a cleaner got locked in the bathroom and in the short time it took for her to be released she had blinded herself! Enslin's experience of the room begins with the radio coming on but he quickly dismisses this as Olin playing games. Over time the strange events become more frequent with ghostly sightings of previous occupants of the room, the bedside clock switching from the time to a 60 minute countdown, with the feeling that Enslin will not survive to the end of that hour, and later in the film we have ice cold temperatures and the room falling apart all around Enslin. You're not short of supernatural events here.  Enslin is a complex character, his dismissal of haunted locations and ghosts likely a result of the massive impact the death of his daughter, Katie (Jasmine Jessica Anthony), has had on him, while his estranged wife, Lily (Mary McCormack), is never far from his mind. As Mike suffers physical and mental torture in Room 1408 what he believes to be hallucinations in the first instance become very real threats and the spirits that occupy the room take on a more personal nature with Katie also appearing to her father. The room is always in control, responding with greater malevolence whenever the sceptical Mike continues to challenge it. What's unclear is why the room is haunted in the first place or why the staff would keep cleaning 1408 when it's not supposed to be open to guests anymore. As the one hour countdown ticks by we are left wondering whether Mike will survive the experience or be driven to suicide or self-harm like previous occupants of the room.  1408 has a feel of The Shining but isn't as atmospheric as Kubrick's masterpiece from the eighties. The events will unnerve many and there are one or two moments that will make you jump as well but I was more interested in the character of Mike Enslin and how just a single hour in the room leaves him looking like he's suffered years of torment. 1408 has two endings and it is open to debate which of them is the best. I would favour the one I saw on the UK copy of the film which doesn't end as well for Mike but makes for a more moving experience. Although atmospheric in places I didn't feel uncomfortable in my seat but that didn't stop this being an enjoyable film.  1408 is a like a piece of The Shining but on its own is an effective, but by no means, outstanding horror film. Cusack in the lead does a highly commendable job in going mostly solo throughout and by the end you'll be exhausted for him after his experience in 1408. Not particularly scary 1408 is still worth a look, particular for fans of Cusack, Jackson and King.

For all ages This purchase was for my daughters.  To be honest, we don't view the extras DVD much, however the main feature is seen many times a week.  Recommended to all mothers and grandmothers out there who enjoy the Disney classics as I did when I was young.

Driving Miss Daisy The movie is well cast and illustrates a time gone by.  The acting is particularly well done.

Great Collectors Set....BUT... This is a wonderful film in the best remastered quality. Plus you get to see all of "Robby the Robots" guest appearances of merit after this film.  The collectable character was sweet as well, and the Lobby Cards set it apart.  My only problem from a "5 Star", is totally an "Amazon Problem" and not a "Product Problem". The collectable tin that my set came in looks like someone at the "Fulfillment Center" had "drop kicked" it...or at least dropped it, and I was able to "pull out the dent", but it is far from "mint" and "collectable" condition. So the value of the tin is worthless, but at least nothing in the tin was damaged in any way.

The Movie The movie was good...the quality of the streaming was horrible...so buy dont stream...I thought it would be more of a comedy, yes it had funny parts but all in all it was serious...I liked it

HONEY THE CAT IS MISSING The film spends the first five minutes explaining where the word "Pontypool" comes from and I still couldn't tell you right after I heard it. Grant Mazzy (Stephen McHattie) is a fallen from grace radio newscaster who likes to philosophize his broadcasts to the dismay of his small Ontario town employer Sydney Briar (Lisa Houle).  Laurel-Ann Drummond (Georgina Reilly) who screens calls and runs the boards likes Mazzy's style and sides with him in minor disputes with Sydney.  As Mazzy starts his broadcast the town goes viral in an "Impulse" (1984 Meg Tilly) type of way. What I disliked about the DVD cover description is that it gives you the cause of the infestation, which takes away from the fun of trying to figure it out. The production is shot rather modestly inside a radio station. This could become a zombie play, although the infected people are not true zombies even by our expanded movie definition.  The production has a unique plot and well played. It would definitely make for a conversation piece of anyone's zombie collection.  PARENTAL GUIDE: F-bomb, no sex. no violence. Some Blood.

Great films, but piddlin' DVD treatments. This was the first DVD set to combine Doris Day and Rock Hudson's trilogy of romantic comedies into a single set. Released back in 2004, the set took the existing DVD of "Send Me No Flowers," the newly-released disc of "Lover Come Back," and simply made the existing DVD of "Pillow Talk" anamorphic widescreen with no other changes, and threw in a charming 8-track CD of Doris Day songs, mostly from films and including the title tracks from all three films. All in a very attractive package.  The films themselves are slightly dated, but at the same time very fresh and vibrant. "Pillow Talk" and "Lover Come Back" are among the quintessential late-Production Code-era sex comedies - films that contain plenty of sly adult humor without ever saying or showing anything indecent. There's nothing in any of these films to offend or that will corrupt your kids - they'll respond to the low-brow and physical humor, while the innuendo goes over their heads but gives the adults some nice chuckles. "Pillow Talk" and "Lover Come Back" both follow a basic formula - Doris Day plays a beautiful sophisticated single career woman, kind of uptight, while Rock Hudson plays the handsome playboy who somehow ends up pretending to be someone else to woo her. "Send Me No Flowers" is not a sex comedy - it's more of a screwball comedy, with Hudson playing a hypochondriac who thinks he's dying and Day playing his wife, who thinks he's having an affair. All three films contain superb supporting performances by Tony Randall, who had supporting roles in many other similar films, such as "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" and "The Mating Game," and has some of the best lines in all three films. Sad that he was never recognized by the Academy for his witty performances in these films.  "Pillow Talk" won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, while Day received her only Best Actress nomination. Thelma Ritter in an excellent performance as a drunken housemaid received her fifth out of six nominations for Best Supporting Actress. (She never won and, with Deborah Kerr, holds the record for most Academy Award nominations without a win.) The film also received nominations for Best Art Direction and Best Original Score. "Lover Come Back" received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay.  Unfortunately, the DVD's leave a lot to be desired. All three transfers are problematic, with "Send Me No Flowers" faring the best. The other two are scratchy in spots, with "Pillow Talk" actually faring the worst - faded portions, excessive grain during split-screen sequences, very scratchy during some parts. (The opening credits is actually one of the worst parts of this transfer in terms of scratches.) In addition, some early copies of the 2004 pressing were horribly misframed - I heard about this AFTER purchasing a used set from the Marketplace and worried I might get one of the uncorrected discs. Fortunately, I got lucky and got the corrected disc in my set, but it's still unacceptable that Universal allowed such a shoddy product to go out. All three discs are still better than what was shown on VHS and TV for years. (This widescreen transfer of "Pillow Talk," with all its faults on this disc, still outdoes the pan-and-scan extremely-faded VHS version by a mile.) All three films were reissued in a less extravagant set in 2007, and "Pillow Talk" is said to have been slightly improved, but not much. A 50th Anniversary Edition recycled the 2007 transfer and added new bonus materials. Most recently, it's become available on Blu-Ray, where the transfer is said to blow every DVD out of the water.  Bonus materials on each DVD are slim to none. "Pillow Talk" contains a trailer and some text screens on the cast, crew, and production. "Send Me No Flowers" contains a trailer. "Lover Come Back" is completely barebones.  The biggest bonus in this box set is the 8-track CD titled "The Doris Day Romance Music Collection CD." The disc contains 8 tracks, including all three title songs from the films in this set: 1. Secret Love 2. Lover Come Back 3. High Hopes 4. Send Me No Flowers 5. illow Talk 6. Pretty Baby 7. Makin' Whoopee 8. Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)  Clocking in at just over 21 minutes, one could wish that a few more songs had been included, including more of the songs from the films. I'd love for Sony Music to have included "Roly Poly," "Should I Surrender," and "Possess Me" on this CD. But it's still a nice extra and you can always find many uses for the songs on your playlists, mixtapes, etc. Or just pop in the CD for a quick trip to Happy Land! This CD is not included in the 2007 set.  The packaging for the set is quite attractive. A nice thick box opens up holding a four-panel digipak - three trays hold each disc while a pocket holds the CD in its own cardboard sleeve. Each tray has photos from its respective film underneath the disc. While Universal may not have gone all out on the discs themselves, they did at least manage to package them in an attractive manner. (The 2007 collection, in comparison, is merely in a standard DVD case.)  With all its faults - uneven transfers, barebones bonus materials - the set is still a good buy if you can find a copy for cheap. The films are loads of fun, the 8-track CD is a nice addition, and the packaging is quite beautiful. It'd have been nice if Universal had made better DVD's of the films to be included in here, including digitally restored transfers, NOT botching the original anamorphic reissue pressings of "Pillow Talk," and included additional bonus materials, but you'll still have lots of fun with this set.

Sweet movie This film has a retro feel because the design and setting is 50's inspired, including the robot itself. Overall a fun film, and good for kids and adults alike with a believable story surrounding said 'Iron Giant'.

Great Ending, Slooooooooow Beginning The ending to this was great, the whole idea that science and religion are driven towards the same goal using different means to achieve the same end, good stuff.  HOWEVER, holy s*** the first and second acts are slow. Do we really need to see the Giant A-hole walking around sucking up credit for everything? Did we really need to see Gary Busey's son as a psycho cult leader and the whole destruction of the first device when a second one was readily avaliable? It felt like pointless filler padding out a strong story into an overly long drag, if I was in charge of editing Contact I'd probably take out about an hour of filler.  Anyways underneath all the forced drama lies a really good story that sci-fi fans and religious people can both enjoy.

lovely and heart wrenching I personally like the movie better in black and white.  it feels more nostalgic... more of a time peace/classic.  I enjoy the historic accuracy.

Dogs have a lot to teach us. It was a cute movie, but oh so hard to watch at the end.  I actually enjoyed <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002ZG98DC">Marmaduke</a> more because they didn't deal with the animal's final moments and they included the dog's point of view.  One is always so joyous over a puppy or even a young dog, but no matter how long-lived the breed, for a loving family it is NEVER long enough.  The pain of the last "goodbye" is in direct proportion to the amount of love one feels for the animal, and it is a moot point when dealing with the anguish of loss over a good and loyal friend and family member whether it is worth going through it ever again with another.  Anyone with a pet of any kind will understand the ups and downs of the Grogans and their Labrador Marley.  I gather from the content that the movie is based on a true story, which I can believe.  Though I didn't have as much trouble with my Great Dane Courageous, I had at least some of the issues.  (If you think a Lab can drag you along on a "walk," try walking a 175# Great Dane!)  While some reviewers suggest that the movie isn't for children, I have to disagree.  I suspect small children will deal better with the end than adults will; I'm always amazed at the resilience of children.  Perhaps it's that they have no clue about what dying really means.  Having worked in Pediatrics, both in ICU and in bone marrow transplant, I can say they are a whole lot more stoic about the prospect than adults are, even when it's the possibility of their own death that looms.  I think the end of the dog's life was dealt with well and would help children understand and deal with a forthcoming loss in their own lives.  One can collapse into an hour and half the entire life of a dog, see its contributions to family life, understand that everyone gets old, that sometimes even though it's sad for us because the family member or pet is no longer with us, death comes as a natural thing, even a welcome thing at the end of a well spent life.  Dogs have a lot to teach us.

Huge feel-good fun I'm just this guy, y'know? I yam what I yam, and no one to date thought very much of it. Maybe the opposite, if you focus on a wedgied eighth grade. But I'd give anything to be this way-awesome master of way-awesome beatdown skills (on all those guys who beat me down, at least), as long as it isn't too hard. Heck, I'd take a fair beating too - not like I haven't done it before - as long as the cool guys let me hang with them.  If you're still with me, then KFP is your ultimate fantasy. The golden goal is to find that unique power that each of us has within. Yeah, and everybody wins the race and gets a hug at the end. But maybe, just maybe, that one thing about you really can stand tall in some squirrely place in the world. Then, you are Po. Po Panda.  Perhaps there's a reference here to Li Po, the classic drunken poet - perhaps not. I really don't care. It's just a fun flick with lots of satire on the traditional "work hard forever" themes that don't work so well in the current decade. Po is the guy you really want to like, even if he's ... well, y'know, not so hard-working.  The animation matches the best of today's, and voice casting backs up the animated characters as well as any. My one kvetch, and little, is that Angelina Jolie's voice was way too smooth for Master Tigress. My ears just kept looking for a rocky rasp that her honeyed soprano never delivered. My problem, not yours, not hers.  As long as you don't take the martial arts too seriously, this is a charming and humorous riff on taking them seriously. See it and laugh at it. If you can be polite about all the rest, it's warm fuzzy fun.  -- wiredweird

Commentary This is a good movie and the transfer looks great, but by default it starts with the commentary track running. We didn't know what was happening. You must stop the movie and then start it again making sure that the audio is set with the commentary off.

Soldier On!! Adventure!! Action!! Excitement in the African jungle to South America to the Middle East all filmed at Revue Studios in Hollywood in the 1950's. Who cares where it was made!!If you love your TV Adventure shows from the 50's and 60's buy it!! Stars John Russell(Brother of Jayne (The Outlaw) Russell)and Chick (Fehmer) Chandler top second banana in a zillion TV and movies from this era. Jump in to your time machine television and zip back to when TV was FUN!!!

CO River in the Grand Canyon Since the subject of the title being misleading has been well discussed in other reviews, I will only add that any time "river at risk" is being used, it would imply a conservation theme. If you visit the Grand Canyon they offer a beautiful IMAX film which is well worth the time and admission fee. This film focuses on a photographer and his daughter along w/ a few friends, Bobby Kennedy, Jr, etc., going on a rafting ride through the canyon with the only female Indian guide (at the time of filming). Part of the canyon is her native land, thus discussion ensues about the serious issues of poor water management depleting this vital river, invasive plants on the small areas of previously used farmland, and general stewardship concerns. Some of the photography is absolutely stunning. When in 3D mode, the film appears as if you are looking through a window. At times it seemed I could extend my hand and touch the clear, still water. I enjoyed this film as I did not go on a white water rafting ride when I visited the North and South rims during 2002. This film provided me a vicarious experience that was well worth the $16.49 and forty five minutes of my time.

Sometimes A Good Girl Just Wants To Be Bad!! I used to watch her in Who's The Boss. Not that it's important, I have the theme song on my ipod because it's so beautiful. It's just like my title says, "Sometimes a good girl just wants to be bad." When you spend the majority of your life being a good girl, chances are that at some point you will want to be someone else, so I can relate to this film. I'm glad she switches back to her normal self in the end because as I stated in my review for Little Giants and Sense and Sensibility, we should be true to ourselves not just so we can sleep well at nights, but so that we can attract people who'll love us the way we are. I skipped poison ivy 1 because while I liked Drew's erotic part, she tried to break a home and that was bad. It's really all about that Abba song: One Man, One Woman. Alyssa had parents, but I didn't see them. Still, they reminded me of my family. Since her teacher tried to rape her, I will remove 1 star. I have not yet watched part 3 and -4, so I won't review them.

A Brilliant Sci-Fi Classic Now In Blu-Ray To Mostly Positive Effect! Although rarely if ever mentioned whenever sci-fi classics are discussed, "Planet of the Apes" deserves a place on the same pedestal as Classic Trek, Forbidden Planet and even Kubrick's 2001 as an original and very thought-provoking story that also serves as a great social satire for the times i.e. U.S. in the late 60s.  This blu-ray version certainly does not let the great content down as the picture quality although not perfect still looks very good in 1080p despite the fact that there are a few poorly preserved frames here and there throughout the film.  The sound quality though in DTS HD MA 5.1 surround is very good albeit the mostly front heavy nature of the original source means we don't get to fully appreciate this audio option.  The special features are good but not great but overall this is the best version of this great film that is currently out there.  Being a big fan of Rod Serling and his Twilight Zone series I could see the Serling influence in the screenplay which he co-wrote; certainly the surprise ending is truly Twilight Zonish in nature not to mention the satirical references to prevailing social issues of the time which is another Zone trademark.  This is a great film but the many follow-up sequels are not and they fall far short of the brilliance that this the original film achieves.  No sci-fi film buff should be without this film in their video library and this blu-ray release is currently the best version of the film that is out there.  Get this but ignore the sequels.  Highly recommended!

Very romantic, actually This is one of my all time favorite romantic comedies.  Maybe you had to be a young adult in the 1980's to fully appreciate this movie but I still recommend it to anyone who enjoys a romantic movie that really delivers.  Warning:  there are are some lame scenes but just ride them out - they pass quickly.

Classic Film This is what started it all for the great Dietrich. The DVD is very good viewing quality and a reasonable price.

good I consider myself at an intermediate-advanced level fitness.  I have quite a few workouts by this instructor.  As always, low key, minimal chatter, good cuing.  "Backup dancers" are non-annoying although a few too many of them.  Good quality DVD, good camera work, music with a beat to follow.  Pros:  I enjoyed this workout although it seemed like the easiest I have done by this instructor so far.  That said, her workouts are usually super tough so this one was still good.  Liked the lower body focus.  Cons:  Lot of equipment used which was not really necessary (did not enhance the workout that much and nearly the same without.)  That said, you always have the option not to use all the equipment.  I never use the band (dislike the band) or barbell (do not have one) and substitute free weight moves.

I'm in the minority in not being completely blown away... Rourke is indeed very good as a aging wrestler disintegrating before our eyes. And there are some beautifully shot sequences.  But there's also a lot of hokum, especially in the failed relationship with his daughter, and the stripper played by Marisa Tomei, who is trapped in a similar downward spiral to Rourke, and may be his only hope, simply doesn't have the depth to balance him.  For me, a good, solid movie, but not the masterpiece a lot of critics claimed, at least on first viewing.  I'm a fan of Aronofsky's, but I found this the least compelling of his films.

hulk hogan I give this dvd to a friend of my for a brithday present, hulk hogan is his favorite wwe superstar, he say it was a great dvd.

Visually compelling This is a compelling mood piece in some ways but overall I found the plot and story not particularly engaging, but its portrayal of a 17th century domestic in Delft seems very authentic. But for me, the best part of the movie was the cinematography and set design which does a beautiful job of conveying the suffused and luminous treatment of light in Vermeer's paintings. For that alone I give it four stars.  A brief aside here, art forgers of fake masterpieces have actually been caught because they couldn't duplicate Vermeer's technical mastery of light such as his treatment of specular highlights. No painter, even the great Rembrandt van Rijn, who was a contemporary of Vermeer, could paint light and optical effects as Vermeer could.  Anyway, I digress on the technical details of Vermeer but obviously a great deal of thought and effort went into the visuals and the set designer and cinematographer deserve a lot of credit for that. I'm a big fan of Vermeer so I just had to see the movie. The emotional climax of the movie is reached when Vermeer's wife discovers Vermeer is painting Johansson's character instead of her and basically flips out. But for the modern viewer it just seems like much ado about nothing. If you're a fan of Vermeer you'll like the visuals and might want to see it just for that.  Vermeer clearly painted the maid because he liked how her skin reflected the light. I'm reminded of when the Impressionist painter Renoir was looking for a new model and Gabrielle (who became his favorite and most famous model) first appeared at his door, he exclaimed "Her skin does not reject the light!"  The book stays close to the spirit of the book, although a lot of things had to be left out of the movie. The entire cast, though, is excellent, with finely tuned performances by Colin Firth in an understated and introspective portrayal of Vermeer; Tom Wilkinson as Vermeer's wealthy but lewd patron who manages to seem like he's leering at something even when he isn't; Judy Parfitt as Vermeer's mother and forbiddingly stern matriarch, Essie Davis as Vermeer's overwrought wife; and of course Scarlett Johansson as the deferential, illiterate but not unintelligent maid who nevertheless is the only person in the household with the aesthetic sensibilities to truly appreciate her master.

Overheated Drama In The Mexican Sun--No Surprise As The Title Is "Drama/Mex" Amidst one day in Acapulco, two sexually charged stories intertwine together in the Mexican film "Drama/Mex."  With plot threads meant to provoke, it's easy to dismiss "Drama/Mex" as an overheated melodrama.  But the (mostly) young cast brings a believability to the general feeling of being morally adrift in the big city.  The primary negative criticism that I had heard leveled against this film was that none of its central characters were remotely likable.  I don't feel that is necessarily true in the strictest sense, but they certainly act with a selfishness and impetuousness that might distance them from certain viewers.  The notion of disaffected youth, however, is not a new concept in film--so I really didn't find it hard to identify with the characters in "Drama/Mex."  For me, the day-in-the-life concept played well--even if, ultimately, there wasn't a grand meaning to be taken from it all.  In one thread, a young couple reunite in a torrid affair.  Making plans to run off has one obstacle, however.  The girl's current boyfriend isn't any too keen about the notion.  As the night progresses heatedly, everyone must make a decision as the trio experience a number of emotional confrontations.  The other plot point concerns a suicidal businessman and an underage girl who is hustling at the beach as they form a tentative friendship.  It's an odd pairing, and certainly one that my cause an uncomfortable feeling, but somehow this unlikely duo may hold the power to redeem one another.  Overall, the cast did a nice job with the material presented.  If I have any reservations about "Drama/Mex" is that it doesn't really dig into the psychology of its characters.  The viewer is left to make any assessments on purely surface behavior.  This is noticeably problematic in terms of the older businessman character.  He engages in some pretty unsavory acts, but is not depicted (by the film) in an especially negative light.  I'd have liked very much to explore his character, in particular, with a bit more depth.  At the end of the film, everyone has reached a new place--but has anyone really changed?  There is no discernable character arc.  So while I may has been fascinated by a night of debauchery and bad acts, I was a bit unmoved due to an emotional distance from the characters.  Worth seeing, for sure, but I don't think "Drama/Mex" will linger in my memory as a "must see."  KGHarris, 1/11.

A Really Nice Introduction to the Gundam Universe When I picked this movie series, I had been wanting to see the original TV series something fierce but sadly, it was only available in English up until recently on DVD.  I was finally able to pick up this set online and I fell in love with the set instantly.  Now, this is NOTHING like Gundam Wing as in style so if you're thinking that, you may as well give up looking right now.  But if you were EVER curious as to HOW Mobile Suit Gundam came to be, this is your chance to get a good grasp of it without grabbing the entire 56 episode TV series as the three movies give you a good chunk of what happened in those 52 episodes in about 6-8 hours. So again, if you're at all interested in the origins of how Gundam started, I highly recommend picking these movies up at some point.  These movies ARE from the 70's though so keep that in mind.  Their animation has been restored but they are older animation than you're probably accustomed to.

Almost As Good As "Taken" This movie was great.  I watched it on an airplane, and if a movie is good on an airplane then that means it is really good.  This movie is second only to Taken as far as Liam Neeson movies are concerned.

Loved the book, loved the movie. Loved the actors and their portrayal of the book.  The movie followed the book pretty closely.  I recommend this to anyone who enjoys a good love story!

Complex Portrait of the Tragic and Heroic General The role of George S. Patton in Patton, like the roles of Lt. Col. Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman and Willie Stark in All the King's Men, is the kind of role to leave aspiring over-actors chomping at the bit.  And George C. Scott chews up every scene in which he appears.  But such is as it should be.  Patton was an outsized figure in American history.  Patton follows the career of American general and tank commander Patton from taking a command during the North African campaign of WWII through the conclusion of the war in Europe.  This gives the movie an appropriate dramatic arc as it follows the Patton's career from an untested general to being sidelined for intemperate remarks (the Germans, unable to comprehend a free press and civilian control of the military, are suitably confused) to his triumphant return to the war on the mainland to a bittersweet d&eacute;nouement.  In between, Patton's brutally honest and unfiltered mouth and intermittent tank battles keep the level of entertainment high.  Patton is completely Patton-centric (the first hint was the title).  When Patton is off-screen, characters have little to talk about but Patton.  A German intelligence officer serves as a sort of Greek chorus, telling the audience what to think in impotent attempts to inform his superiors.  I could have figured it out myself.  The input of other commentators, historical figures such as American general Bradley and English general Montgomery, is better taken, as the viewer is forced to filter it through the speaker's own biases.  Patton is certainly sympathetic to the general, but it also presents him as a tragic figure.  He can never live up to his own expectations.  He is openly rueful he is not living in a different time (as if the era of WWII wasn't warlike enough for anyone).  His mouth continues to get him in trouble despite his best efforts, a particularly harsh way to fail for someone with his personality.  And in the end he is left a warrior without a war to fight.  Little, outside of Patton speaking fluent French, is seen of Patton's intellectual side.  The DVD extras include theatrical trailers for Patton, Tora! Tora! Tora!, and The Longest Day; cast credits; and, in lieu of a traditional audio commentary, an audio essay on the historical (I suppose to say "real" would have made them feel silly) Patton overlaid on the movie.  The audio essay is pretty divorced from the movie itself, but I found it informative and fascinating nonetheless.  Note: this is for the regular edition, not the two-disc collector's edition.

The Gunfighter Who Reformed Angel and the Badman, 1947 film  The story begins with a man shooting his revolver in a semi-circle, then riding away. He is chased by other riders. [The scenic background seems familiar.] A couple in a wagon see a lone rider fall. They take him to the telegraph office. He is Quirt Evans! He has a reputation for killing men and loving women. What is his destiny? The doctor removes the bullet, and advises the family to put him out. Mayhem, theft, and murder are too common in the Wild West. [Was that really true?] The delirious man speaks out. Was he guilty of some crime? "Who cares what happens to him?" Is realism that is untempered by humanity just mean and cold? The family offers him smoked sausages and eggs for breakfast. Donuts too! Are only the doers harmed by an evil act? [Not true in this world.]  The next morning we see four men in town, they are seeking Quirt Evans. [Can you judge a man by his enemies?] Quirt is warned about them, and prepares to meet them. They make a deal, the deed is signed. Quirt will ride away now. What about Penny? Her young brother looks up to him. [What kind of hero worship is that?] A big landowner prevents them from having water for their crops. Quirt Evans negotiates with Frederick Carson to release some water from the dam. "How wonderful!" [Sharing property with the community?] Did the prayers work? Are we better off sharing and looking out for each other? A man arrives looking for Quirt; he is the marshal of this territory. Randy McCall rides by. "Keep the Commandments." We see family life. Randy offers Quirt a deal involving a cattle herd. Will we all be happy by being friendly? Quirt decides its time to ride away. His friend Randy reads from the Bible.  Elsewhere men lie in wait for a herd of cattle. Riders attack the cowboys with the herd. Quirt and his riders attack the attackers (who we've met before). In town, Randy and Quirt drink champagne with two hostesses. Has Quirt changed? Neal sings a song to provide entertainment. Quirt wins at the wheel. The Baker brothers are upset. There is a barroom brawl for action and entertainment. "Where would you get a Bible?" Quirt returns to the Worth family. Penny knows about the outside world. The marshal arrives silently, asks some questions, and leaves.  Quirt must make a decision, and chooses a new life. But someone takes a shot at Quirt who is riding a wagon. Three riders chase this wagon! The wagon goes off a cliff! They are saved, but Penny needs the doctor. Quirt rides off before Penny recovers. "I can't understand it." A message is delivered to Laredo: come outside. The men inside the bar leave by the back door. Where is the marshal? People outside run for cover. A wagon rolls up. Laredo and his buddy fall, there is a surprise! "Nothing ever works out right" says the marshal.  This movie shows the classic Westerns of the 1930s and early 1940s have ended. The big landowner agrees to release water to the small ranchers upon request. The "badman" turns out to be a former deputy town marshal. It is somewhat sentimental, but still an entertaining movie. You can decide how plausible are some of the scenes. This story about a gunfighter reforming his life was echoed in "High Noon". The villains, Laredo and his men, are small-time operators, not employed by the big rancher or by any business in town. Usually, it was the owner of the saloon and casino in the older movies.

Early Brando I have seen this movie at least twice, and each time that I see it, it thrills me to see Brando, when he was young and had so much raw energy. It jumps out on the screen, and it feels so real. Great movie

First Hellraiser? Dated. This one?  Even in 2012, still worth seeing. Visually, this is miles ahead of the first Hellraiser.  The acting hasn't improved by much--but the script certainly has.  Lots of nice one-liners here.  Overall a delight for any true fan of the dark fantastic.  Still, as much as I like this movie, there are plenty of things that annoy every time I watch it.  **MILD SPOILERS FOLLOW**  The Tiffany character... Sorry, but I HATE characters like this.  It's never plausibly explained why she couldn't speak (or at least didn't for much of the movie); and, worse, she never really seemed frightened or confused by anything she experienced.  Just seemed totally unrealistic to me.  Kirsty... Terrible, TERRIBLE, actress...probably the worst out of everyone in the entire film; and yet, she's our protagonist.  This is where the visuals came in handy.  One could concentrate on the awesome effects rather than the horrific acting.  And just how did Julia emerge in one piece when Frank, in the first movie, didn't?  Most annoying of all:  Who packed all of the boxes at the end?  **END OF MILD SPOILERS**  I'm only glad I first saw this as an adult.  If I'd seen this when it had first come out, as a middle schooler, I would have been seriously messed up for life.  Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street are on one level, but this is almost like an NC-17 version of Dreamscape.

good workout My favorite segment in this video is in the extra section.  You will need a band, but is a great full body workout.  Tamilee is buff!

I Love It...No Matter What Others Have Said. Personally, I love this movie. I'll admit, I'm a bit bias, though. I did grow up seeing and reading this book in school and I think the film is as beautiful an adaptation as any. I sent a copy of this to a friend for her young son and was shocked when she reported back that her family didn't like it. I'm pretty sure they turned it off and never finished it. It was, apparently, too creepy for her fiance. Yes, that's right, her fiance.  While I can admit that there are a couple scenes that do not follow the guidelines for your average, family, holiday film, I think "creepy" is a little too strong a word. Then again, that's what makes the world go around.  I think this is a gorgeous, thoughtful movie that is deeper than many others. The music alone is wonderful, but the whole experience is artistic and meaningful. My family has made it a tradition to watch it every Christmas Eve. We'll be doing that for years and years to come.

A really good flick! This is why I like Brad Pitt.  This guy, for the longest time, has been making movies of real substance rather than letting his looks help him.  He would rather win Best Actor rather than Best Ass and has picked his roles accordingly.  The first time I realized what a good actor he was was in 12 Monkeys.  He has been impressing me ever since (with the occasional misfire-Legends of the Fall anyone?) with his roles that seem to do the opposite of capitalizing on his looks.  Well, here's another one.  He doesn't chew the scenery, but gives a nicely nuanced portrayal.  The story is interesting and if you don't know what appened with the As, it keeps your interest?  Will they win or not.  There are so many moments this film could have stumbled with schmaltzy, Hollywood conventions.  Indeed, there is a lot here that could degenerate into that, particularly in the scenes with his broken family.  But even these scenes ring true.  Jonah Hill is really good here too, showing once again that good comic actors make good regular actors.  He is perfect for the role without degenerating into the funny fat guy he normally plays.  He gives light comic relief without going overboard.  All told, it is a very good movie.  It is high time that Brad finally got an Oscar.  Maybe this movie will give him that chance.

Lovely! With such a good cast, there were going to be some highlights and lowlights with this movie:  - Fun. Lots of different stories to keep your engaged or interested. Some will spark interest, some will not.  - Cute. The endings were nicely crafted to give you warm feelings of love.  - Actor/actress performance were collectively good, but with a few rotten tomatoes. I will say that most of individuals involved in the cast did a good job. However, there were a few that just left a bad taste in my mouth. They contributed almost absolutely nothing to the movie.  Solid love movie with a few flaws. Bearable though. Watch with your family, significant other, and friends

5 Star Film, inferior DVD Stars that I always enjoy watching, Joan Crawford, Gloria Grahame...flawless.  I could watch this film every week.  Love the location shots.  Great camera work, authentic locations.  Good story...a middle-aged woman who, although extremely bright, is completely deceived by Jack Palance's character...he is, after all, an actor.  Love Gloria Grahame...but I would watch anything she was in.  The DVD sound is inferior.  But I am grateful...I never see this film on TV...cannot understand why.  Have not seen this film since it came out and I was a very, young girl.  Glad to have it. Took a star off because of the quality of the DVD.

Newbie I am new to the underworld series. I saw the 1st underworld and liked it and deciced to invest the time to see them all. Underworld Evolution is part 2 in the series and picks up where part 1 leaves off. Without giving away the plot, I will say that it will prepare you for Underworld Awakening.

Good old action movie This movie is like a cross of Independence Day and Black Hawk Down.  The movie follows a team of marines and is filmed from a military prospective.  After aliens invade earth and begin killing humans a team of marines is send out to extract a pocket of civilians.  While there is plenty of action, shooting and explotions, the movie also shows the emotional side of soldiers dealing with war and its effects.  It did not bother me that the movie did not go into more back story on the aliens, but I did find it refreshing to see a movie in which the honor and bravery of our military in combat is displayed.  Something I have not seen in a while.  It was a good old bad aliens invading earth and wanting to kill all humans movie with the humans winning in the end.  It did not seem to have any heavy handed political, environmental undertone that was painfully obvious in Avatar, which ruined that movie for me.  If you like action and sci fi, go for it.  If you are looking for some great story line and drama find some independent, subtitled movie.

Good Slasher, But Could've Used More 'Blood' Blood Junkie is a new slasher movie that I liked despite not having any actual blood until the last twenty minutes or so. Up until that point, the quirky characters kept me entertained. The film is very retro, with the fashion, music, and dialogue being very authentic of the 80's. And the killer reminded me of the killer in My Bloody Valentine, with his gas mask. It's a cool killer, but unfortunately we see almost none of him until the third act.  Blood Junkie is another throwback/homage to 80's slashers that began with Hatchet a few years ago. Unfortunately, most of these movies go straight to DVD with little fanfare. Blood Junkie is a movie that most people, including horror fans, probably won't see. After all, it was released by Troma. And as you may or may not know, any movie that is released by Troma but wasn't directed by Lloyd Kaufman (Poultrygeist, Toxic Avenger), usually fades into obscurity. I'm glad I saw it, though.

Enjoyed this movie I have read all of Michael Connelly's books. The movie of The Lincoln Lawyer followed that books polt closer than Clint Eastwood's adaptation of Blood Work. I enjoyed both movies. I would like to see more of his characters on screen. Do you like crime novels. Try his first book "The Black Echo", it was written twenty years ago and is still a great read. If "Echo" tweaks your intrest for a first time author; as it did mine; hold on, you only have 25 books to go.

fun and heartwarming! a truly feel good movie with a wonderful cast and multiple messages. photography lovely. saw in theater then had to buy thats how good it is!

A perspective after several years I watched JP trilogy again recently, with a friend that had not seen them or barely remembered since he was too young when they came out. Yes, the first one is a classic, nothing can compare or surpass the awe of the discovery of the park. My friend, who has been to the Orlando Jurassic Park ride many times was saying why they didn't do the ride just like the movie? And that summoned up my own feelings when I say JP for the first time: I wanted it to be REAL. Then it comes JP 2: Lost World, which, yes, the plot is not as good, the effects are better, but to be fair, it is a highly entertaining movie with some genius action sequences. The action scenes in JP series are usually layered: two or more things happen at the same time and there is an element of urgency, a time-clicking bomb alike plot device, and they make you feel like you are watching an accident in slow motion. In JP, examples are the T-Rex appearance, the car in the tree, electric wire climbing... there is always that clicking suspense. In Lost World, we have the trailer scene, which is very effective, it creates tension through motionlessness, you have a person still on a shattering glass, another trying to avoid an object to fall into it. New movies' action sequences are all about blurry, fast, suprising, explosive tricks that are ultimately boring and repetitive, that won't allow you to build suspense, to feel the tension. JP trilogy is filled with good old fashion suspense, every chaotic situation develops in front of your eyes adding layers of tension and builds slowly. In addition to this, all three movies have the signature mix of tension and humor that is typical of Steven Spielberg movies and started with Jaws, the dialog is not 'on the nose', characters don't ask stupid questions so the writer makes extra sure the audience understands issues about the plot, when they are scared they freeze and get quiet, not everything is a complete sentence, people don't say "a T-Rex is coming" but "this is gonna hurt". So, maybe we are being to harsh with the JP sequels and we forget that there are very few new movies today that will leave you wanting for more, that will have action sequences that are actually watchable and not just a blur, movies that create suspense, that use special effects to create a character, not for the sake of special effects only and with a story that will let you day dreaming afterwards.

The Horse Soldiers-Blu-Ray This is the type of movie, Hollywood should make more of instead of the ridiculous garbage they now turn out.  Holden. Wayne are actors.  The blu-ray version in spots is a little grainy but it's a great DVD to own

Holding Christmas Hostage for Laughs Another cute Christmas film meant for laughs and pure enjoyment.  Ordered this one fairly late in the season and received it in plenty of time for holiday viewing.  Thank you to the Amazon vendor who sent it via airmail reindeer for me.  This is another tv movie that shows up each year during December on cable.  I was anxious to have a copy for myself since I plan to watch it periodically all year long - not just during the holidays.  Well cast, humorous, predictable but truly enjoyable plot! Worth a look if you have a chance to catch it.

Krull - A British Fantasy `From the sky will come the Black Fortress. From the Fortress will come the Slayers to devour the planet of Krull. Then shall a girl of ancient name become queen...she shall choose a king...and together they shall rule the planet. And their son shall rule the galaxy.' For all of those people out there that were young when Star Wars was released, like me, I assume you also were drawn in at the video store by another fantasy action adventure movie by the name of Krull. It certainly had all the ingredients to follow on from the success of Star Wars. An indescribable monster and its army (the Slayers) attack the planet Krull. In order to stop the invaders, two hostile nations decide to join their forces by the marriage of Princess Lyssa and Prince Colwyn. During the ceremony, the Slayers attack the palace, kill both kings, wound Colwyn and kidnap Lyssa. The next morning, the wise Ynyr seeks and finds Colwyn. With Ynyr's help, Colwn gains possession of a magic weapon, a five bladed sword, and together they go on their quest for the indescribable monster's black fortress to free Lyssa. The special effects however left a lot to be desired, although the gigantic spider that was as big as a house did salvage some respect. The acting however very rarely did, which is a shame as it starred some up and coming names, with Liam Neeson being possibly the biggest now. Yes the mentor to Obi Wan and Batman started off his early years as a criminal battling Slayers (sort of a Storm trooper type deal) under the control of the Beast. Also Alun Armstrong appears as the leader of the band of criminals that help Colwyn rescue his bride. You may have seen him since in Braveheart, The Mummy Returns and Tim Burtons, Sleepy Hollow and if you look really hard you may even spot a young Robbie Coltrane as one of the gang members. Obviously all the younger readers will know Robbie from the Harry Potter films as lovable giant, Hagrid. And it wouldn't be a Star Wars-esque movie if it didn't have its comic relief, this time it comes in the guise of hapless wizard, Ergo. Very much along the lines of a C3P0 who claims to be great but inevitably is found behind a tree or at the back of the action. Played by David Battley, (also the school teacher in Willy Wonka) and introduces himself with `I am Ergo the magnificent. Short in stature, tall in power, narrow of purpose and wide of vision. And I do not travel with peasants and beggars. Goodbye!' and later states of Colwyn `He marches us towards a solid face of rock. The man has raisins in his braincase.' But it is not just the actors that are of note, the Director, Peter Yates also directed Steve McQueen in a little movie called 'Bullitt' and has directed 3 actors to Oscar nominations: Barbara Barrie (Best Supporting Actress - Breaking Away) & Tom Courtenay/Albert Finney (Best Actor - The Dresser) and the writer, Stanford Sherman also is credited for many Man From U.N.C.L.E and Batman episodes as well as a small Clint Eastwood movie called `Any Which Way You Can`. James Horner who went on to compose the music for Titanic, Avatar, Braveheart and Troy also did the music for this film so you see, the talent was there for this to be an epic, and maybe if it had been released before Star Wars then maybe it would have claimed more plaudits, but it wasn't and it didn't but it is still well worth a look, if only to see the young actors before they were famous and probably the most coolest of fantasy weapons, the Glaive. Yes I almost forgot the Glaive, a spinning blade that can only be retrieved by the chosen one, pretty cool and something as a kid playing in the schoolyard I imagined I had when all others had imaginary lightsabers!

Classic Guy Ritchie I put people onto this movie all the time. I wish Guy Ritchie would make more stuff like this and Lock Stock

Pro-CIA propaganda from French directors !! This movie stands a lot of Hollywood practices on their heads. The heart of the movie is a young CIA operative, who meets a seasoned ex-military (presumably) "opps" guy, played by John Travolta, to track terrorists through Paris.  The B.S. part of this movie is of course the action scenes. But of course, this is a Luc Besson film, so I am willing to just deal with that, grab some popcorn, and sit back and enjoy (compared with the movie "Salt", the martial arts and action is not THAT over the top, because the Travolta character looks like a real rear end-kicking kind of guy, at about 200 pounds, not some girl who looks like she just got out of a fashion shoot.  - Depiction of the CIA in a more realistic manner. Compare with the "Bourne Identity", which showed the CIA being in essence killers who kill their own. The CIA actually is depicted in a positive light here.  - Humor. Unlike the Bourne Identity and Salt, this movie has a lot of humor in it. And if you read books by guys like the Travolta character, that is spot on (read "Highway to Hell", by John Geddes to see read humor in action !).  - Tongue-in-cheek references to other movies ("Cheeseburger Royale", and the John Woo scenes).  Ultimately, take this movie as a kind of Tarantino/John Woo kind of thing, and you won't be offended by the "lack of realism".  Btw, the extras are great, when they interview real CIA guys.

Decent Enjoyed this rendition of a classic. Was a little hard to follow in parts but other wise good. Will watch again.

Downton Abbey:  A wonderful holiday I first discovered this wonderful series from the Masterpiece Classic series on TV.  And, I quickly found I couldn't get enough of it.  So, I bought this, and I haven't been disappointed in the least.  This set from Amazon has all of the parts that couldn't be included in the TV showing due to time constraints, I assume, and it was like watching the show again.  If you enjoy the vicarious view of turn of the century Britain and especially if you enjoyed "Upstairs/Downstairs" or "Gosford Park", you will love this.

The Full Monty An entertaining movie with a decent and believable story line about the characters. Good natured humor without being crude.  Very enjoyable and funny!

5-stars only if you love the music I expected a little more. But still amazing quality of capture. I did not notice any lip-syncing that others have mentioned and I watch this pretty closely.

Wonderful Laugh but little late shipping My friends and I watched this one day at my house on a Friday night.  It definitely gave us some laughs and was a great chick flick that any girl could relate.  So this was worth buying on DVD for a friend for her birthday.  It was winter break, around late December, and I needed to order Wild Child as soon as I can since her birthday was January 4th.  I chose the 2-3 business day shipping for about an additional $6 and I was disappointed receiving it a week or week and a half later.  I felt that it wasn't worth paying for the extra money when it could be perfectly fine with a standard shipping option.  But because I was in a giving mood during the holidays, I did not mind at all.

The Help DVD Product excellent, just unable to watch on a German video recorder, had to watch on the PC. A bit of a hassle. Find if the product is officially bought and paid for, it should be able to function everywhere.

BLOOD, GUTS, GORE, DECAPITATION--IT'S GOT IT ALL, AND IT'S HILARIOUS Bloody-yes, Hilarious-absolutely. I think this is Peter (Lord Of The Rings/King Kong) Jackson's second movie. I don't like slasher movies, and, I guess, this is kind of like one, BUT, this is a major comedy. I couldn't believe how funny it was. Not for the squeamish. It is graphic. Looks like Jackson had it from early on.In my book, a must see. So very funny. SHAUN OF THE DEAD TO THE POWER OF 10!!

Worth it The movie worked.  If you like the actors you will like the movie.  Payback for the swindlers on wallstreet and in the banks.  The Federal Reserve has ruined us, and greed is rampant.  Hurray for the little guy who trusted the system and lost.

Sadistic + "effed up"! ** SPOILERS BELOW **  I found this one on a few 2010 "Best Of" Horror movie lists, so I thought I'd check it out.  Let's just say I hope it makes it's way to America!!!  The woman who plays Lola plays the role of the "weird" girl very well.  She doesn't take kindly to rejection (even of the polite persuasion), and decides to get even.  She and her Pops do some nasty stuff to their victims.  I also appreciated (as I'm sure most of you can) that the movie took off and got exciting quickly.  Some absolutely brutal + original torture scenes.  Wow, just thinking of them makes me recall how truly sadistic and evil Lola's character is.  I don't give the flick 5 stars for 2 reasons:  The mystery is "solved" rather easily.  Come on.  No one would have immediately guessed he had been kidnapped by Lola + Pops.  Secondly, the ending.  I'm OK w/ "Hollywood" happy endings, but in my opinion they rushed the ending.  Not much tension throughout the last 10 minutes or so.  It was never really a suprise what would eventually happen.  If you can find this somewhere, check it out.  I'm not sure if it will be released in America, but if/when it does, hit the theatres ASAP.

Gorgeous This is a 40 some minutes long documentary. It is not boring but it is peaceful. In fact it is so beautiful that while I was watching all the underwater scenes, I was totally in the movie and fell asleep. I have an active shutter system that does justice to all the vibrant colors and the images in this movie simply perfect. There was almost no ghosting except for a second or so. Some of the 3D effects are good. Especially the under water scenes and the solar system explanations have some pop-up-and-outs. If you are expecting some crazy 3D effects though, you would be disappointed.

Dirty politics I'm a sucker for movies that depict politics as byzantine, cynical, and dirty -- in other words, realistically.  This movie does that.  The script is just ordinary -- good, not great -- but the story is tight, it's beautifully filmed, and the performances are excellent.  There are political movies with greater depth and more emotional power than this one, but it held my attention from beginning to end.

This movie had a large popular Bollywood cast, but still fell short of being an outstanding film You can never go wrong with watching a Yash Raj film.  Yash Rah films have always been recognized as the films with the largest budgets, the most popular actors and actresses, and the most colorful scenes throughout the film.  In this film "Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna", it is filmed in New York.  It's interesting how such a dirty city could look so good in High Definition.  Now check out this cast:  This film has Shah Rukh Khan, Abitabh Bachchan, Rani Mukherji, Prity Zinta, Abhishek Bachchan, and Arjun Rampal. Just to name a few.  There hasn't been this many big names all in one movie since Yash Raj's "Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham."  But, this movie does address two failing marriages with the starting of a new relationship of two unhappily married people. I love Rani Mukherji, but I don't understand why she was so resistant in her marriage to her husband who definitely shows a more loving interest in his wife.  Shah Ruhn Khan's role in the movie seems bitter and mean.  He's terrible as a father to his son whom he seems to "scare to death!" So, some of the character behavior of these actors and actresses that I generally love, have rather disappointed me in this movie.  But, I generally watch a Bollywood film because I love to watch good looking people on film.  A good story is only secondary as my intention to be entertained.  If you an English speaking American, and are new to Bollywood films, let me give you a breakdown of how I interpret and ingest the Bollywood experience:  First of all, you will most always be reading English subtitles. The average Bollywood film is about 3 hours long. Bollywood films are very colorful.  All their beautiful fashion, and colorful dance floors. In High Definition, just the sceneries alone make you appreciate what High Definition is all about. About 30 percent of the film will be music videos (with Yash Raj films, it's more like about 45 percent). I personally wish there were less music videos if the movie is already over three hours long. About 30 percent of most Bollywood films have some rather silly, really unfunny, and downright annoying comedy scenes (which is usually in the first half of the film), then the film will start to become more serious, as it moves along. One of the main reasons why you will watch a Bollywood film, is because you already chose to fall in love with one of their many beautiful actresses, or handsome actors. (I personally try to see all Rani Mukherji films, and Shah Rukh Khan is the one actor known to be one of the biggest box office sellers of Bollywood.)  So, I guess I can honestly say that I have about 10 Blu-Ray Bollywood films which about 7 of them are Yash Raj releases. Thouugh I have about 100 Bollywood films on DVD, all I really care to get on Blu-Ray now is "Lagaan" which was the first Bollywood film that I saw about 10 years ago.  And perhaps "Mann" with Aamir Khan, and "Rangeela" which stars the enchanting Urmila Matondkar.  Oh, and I guess it would be truly appreciated if "Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai" starring Amisha Patel and Hrithik Roshan would ever be released in High Definition Blu-Ray.  The scenes in India and New Zealand were all just so beautiful on the screen.  Another good movie that I would like to recommend, that is not a Yash Raj film, but is available on Blu-Ray is "Ghulam" starring Rani Mukherji and Aamir Khan.  Even all the song videos in this film are all truly appreciated, and the added humor isn't so annoying.  Check it out!

Classic action film, but appealing to all ages an audiences Seen this movie many times, but finally shared it with my ten-year-old son. Such a great combination of low and high art.  For my son, it is an intense action flick, but it works on so many different levels.  The ultimate kung-fu flick that is also art house fare. I also like the very strong female characters.

Action-packed adventure with lots of humour This movie was really a good surprise. Action-packed, easy to follow, this is really your Friday evening chillout movie. It was a pleasure to see Stallone come back with some high-profile names. The humour and self-satire makes the movie lighter and the violence more acceptable. Actors are well-directed and you end up the movie wanting to see more of it.

One of My Favorite Christmas Movies Ever I watch this, My Reputation and The Family Stone religiously every year during the holiday season.  Fine acting, great dialogue and sure-footed direction by Mitchell Leisen.  Stanwyck adds another dimension to her string of shady ladies that have made her famous.  Fred MacMurray is also fine here.  They are both backed up by a superb supporting cast headed by Beulah Bondi.  The highlight of the film is when Stanwyck and MacMurray's characters arrive at his mother's house and they sing a song called "The End of a Perfect Day" on the piano.  The film, like many of its time, unfortunately, fails in its portrayal of its African-American characters.  Fred 'Snowflake' Toones portrays MacMurray's stereotypical manservant, Rufus, and it is rather painful to watch for the unprepared, as annoying a portrayal as Mickey Rooney's Japanese character in "Breakfast at Tiffany's".  But the rest of the film is compellingly watchable, with a couple of tear-inducing moments.

Good show, Denzel did well. Not exactly a typical Gangster movie with Ennio MOrricone or Robert Nero. It shows crime in the light of Race relations and also how blood money can actually blur the race boundary when greedy police kill whoever is in the way of cash flow. Denzel gave a very solid performance. Not a masterpiece, but as a Hollywood movie, it did its job. Don't expect any insight though.

When we left Earth So far I have only seen the first of 4 DVDs, but I can say that this was done perfectly in a way that you are always interested on what's coming next. It's a great story told the right way.  Excellent camera shots, I look forward to watch the next disc.  L.D. Florida

Great cast, very different story You have to admit that in your average crime movie, you're not going to find a crotchety old detective, an alcoholic actor, and the ghost of a Confederate General teaming up (or at least contributing) to solving a series of murders. You get that here. I won't say that the story moves slowly in this movie, that would indicate that it could get boring. Let's say that the story moves along with a sense of stately grace perfectly at home with the Old South themes and settings.  The cast is outstanding. Tommy Lee Jones and John Goodman pick up any film, and Peter Sarsgaard does a masterful job as the rich, alcoholic film actor with an irrepressible enthusiasm and absolutely no clue just how dangerous his behavior is.  The movie is gritty and sordid at times. Even if the worst visuals stay a good bit shy of what other films might try to gross you out with, here they make sure that the dialog fills you in on anything they may have spared your eyes. The reaction of the man who swears off ever looking into a mysterious barrel again is real, and chilling, for example.  You'll enjoy this movie for the unique flavor of its premise, and the entertaining interplay of its characters, or you won't much like it. Its a stage play set to location, not an action flick. I enjoyed it a lot.

Good movie Love this series of movies and even though they are older, the quality really wasn't that bad.  I think the series was done fairly inexpensively so I can't really complain.

Watch all the seasons!! Just recently (in the last couple years) I started watching The Real Housewives of Orange County so I did not understand the relationships they had with each other.  I decided I would rent/buy/borrow each of the seasons.  It is funny how my attitude toward characters have totally changed.  I didn't like Jeana when I started watching in Season 5 - 6.  I thought Tamra was nice and her husband wasn't.  Go back and watch the relationships from the beginning.  You may be surprised.  I know I was.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004VHI848">The Real Housewives of Orange County: Season 4</a>

Ip Man 2 blue ray dvd I received the blue ray dvd on time.  There were no issues in Australia as our blue ray could read this edition.  The price and quality was fantastic.  Movie itself was good, although not up to the same standard as Ip Man 1.  Definitely worth watching though.

Carell was Great. Needed More Fey Your average married-with-kids couple stumble upon a deadly case of mistaken identities.  Steve Carell and Tina Fey are fantastic in Date Night. My only disappointment was with Tina Fey: I wished they would have given her more opportunities to show off her comedic talent.  Steve Carell continues his laugh-out-loud antics. I was crying at one point because he had me laughing so hard. (Of course, that was the only time I laughed so hard during this film)  For the most part, the comedy is smile-worthy. Other times, I cringed at some of the humor and jokes. It was as if they tried too hard. But you'll get that in about every comedy.  This touts a great supporting cast: Mark Wahlberg as the guy who never wears a shirt, Mark Ruffalo who sets the theme for the film, and James Franco becomes yet another drug-head. Each adds their own flavor to create a fun film to watch with your spouse/date.  What comedy DVD would be without the gag reel? The outtakes are just as funny as the film.

One Of Her Best I've worked out to Leslie's tapes and DVDs for years.  And this workout is one of her best in a while.  The thing I like most is how she introduces us to new steps that really help to add variety to the same old walking workout.  One of the new steps we learn is in mile 1, an alternating knee up.  If you do step aerobics, you'll recognize the move right away.  In mile 2, Leslie adds a weight shift step to the usual 2 steps up and back move.  This leads into a boosted walk or light jog.  And in mile 3, she incorporates a combo squat with rear leg lift and standing leg circles to the workout.  The pilates mat workout includes exercises for the abs, back and buns such as the hundred, scissors, criss cross, swim and bridge.  By the end of this workout, I definitely felt like I had burned a calorie or two.  Other things you might like to know is that Leslie leads this workout solo.  I know some prefer her teaching a class but I enjoy the workouts either way.  And I guess I should mention that most of the music seems new.  I don't own all of Leslie's workouts, but the ones that I do own  tend to use the same music.  I think this workout would be good for beginner to intermediate level exercisers, since Leslie's workouts can be easily modified for both.  I'll definitely be keeping this workout for a while.  For another recommendation, I highly recommend Leslie's  Walk Slim: Fast and Firm 4 Really Big Miles.

Autumn Sonata magic. I saw this film in an art house in San Francisco the day it was released. I love it, and anyone who likes that intimate sort of Swedish drama will.Plus, it features Liv Ullman and Ingrid Bergman together.Very fine!

Good Movie But You Have To Be a Burke Fan To Love It If you're a James Lee Burke fan you'll love this movie.  Tommy Lee plays a great 'Dave Robicheaux' though Mary Steenburgen is little used as Bootsie.  I was a little ticked off to see that the movie version of 'Tripod' had all four legs. (Couldn't they find a Veterinarian willing to help with continuity?) John Goodman plays 'Baby Feet' and looks like he really enjoyed the part.  The film is a gift to the writer's fans.  Shot in New Iberia and Teche Bayou. People unfamiliar with Burke might find the film a bit disjointed and some of the characters are poorly developed (like Alafair, Dave's daughter) Heck, Cletus Purcell never even makes an appearance.  Beautifully shot on HD you get a real feel for the country and towns.  Tommy Lee is superior to Alec Baldwin's version of Robicheaux in the 1996 'Heaven's Prisoners'. After seeing the film my wife and I drove from Florida to Teche Bayou.  We found the Teche Motel where they shot the scene where Robicheaux's buddy allegedly kills himself. Spent the night in the same cottage (#12) and loved every minute of it.  The motel owner's name is Rosebud.  Just tell her you want to stay where those 'Movie People' were.  $40 a night to be part of filmdom. Rosebud will excitedly tell you the whole story.  Apparently she and Tommy Lee are on a first name basis.  A great whodunit for most people.  For Burke fans who already know the ending it's like sitting back and watching a beautiful sun rise.

Why the deleted scenes? I love this movie but was disappointed that the wide screen DVD version deleted a couple scenes. Especially troublesome was the deletion of the Scrooge's fiance singing after she leaves him. It is a great song and I do not understand why they deleted it in the wide screen version. Luckily you can see it if you watch it in the standard version.

Bob Hoskins flexes some considerable underworld muscle... The Long Good Friday (1980) takes you into the criminal underworld of London, as a mob leader struggles to maintain control over his empire, in a fast paced tale, often punctuated with realistic violence.  In a breakout performance, Bob Hoskins stars as gangster Harold Shand, a no nonsense fellow, with some big ambitions.  Set in the late 70's, Harold Shand is meeting with representatives of the Mafia on a Good Friday weekend, when a series of violent incidents, upsets his normal operations.  Shand learns that a number of his associates have been violently murdered.  Shand, his girlfriend Victoria (Helen Mirren), and his American visitors, narrowly avoid being in caught an explosion, which sets off an intense search to find the source of the unknown threat.  Shand and his men rumble through the underworld, spilling a little blood, threatening those who may know something, and trying to shake loose a little information from rival criminals.  Eventually it comes to light that without his knowledge, one of his men was involved in an incident in Belfast that may have set off reprisals by the Irish Republican Army (IRA).  Vowing to "crush them like beetles", Shand takes violent action against IRA representatives, and although his relationship with the Americans goes sour, as he leaves them, Shand feels that things are still looking up.  Stylish, gritty, and British to the core, The Long Good Friday is perhaps the highpoint of John Mackenzie's directorial career.  The violence is plentiful, but never seems gratuitous, and has a genuine sense of realism, as the plot unfolds in a credible and compelling manner.  Featuring an edgy score by Francis Monkman, the film takes a look into organized crime, and taps into the feeling of unrest and terror, that was part of the IRA's mystique.  Experts in demolition, they were not to be taken lightly.  Bob Hoskins thoroughly assumes the role of Shand, which fits him like a perfectly tailored suit.  Displaying a wide range of emotions, Hoskins is tough as nails, while also displaying sensitivity at a widow's loss, shock and anger after killing a close friend, and amusement when dealing with a young street tough.  Helen Mirren is very good, as the acting performances are mostly solid throughout, including the film debut of a youngster named Pierce Brosnan, who would later collaborate with Mackenzie in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BMTBI4">The Fourth Protocol</a> (1987).

Ah! Jessica Walters - Beautiful but frghtening! We decided to watch this movie after having listened to some music the other night at dinner. It was Johnny Mathis singing "Misty". It reminded me of the movie which I probably haven't seen since sometime in the 80s. It's not a perfect movie, but the suspense is well done. Paradoxically, there was some empathy evoked for the femme fatale - a perverted allure to her beauty and devotion. What is really frightening to me is not how she manifested her obsession but how real this kind of obsession is. My recommendation is watch the movie if you haven't yet and see it again if you have!

Icon of filming Proving craft can become art with both Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, Director David Lean's epic's still hold together when viewed in the Blue-ray format. This is a terrific transfer and package that though a bit pricey retail, is still wonderful considering its classic status. Robert Bolt's wonderful script, Freddy Young's photography, and Omar Sharif's performance hold the film together. Rod Stiger's scene chewing is a delight throughout. A great cast all around. Detractions are the lighting is stark when jumping from exterior to interior but typical of the 50's and 60's studio films. Pacing may be a bit tough for today's audiences, but for students of film it is a study that represents David Lean mastery of story telling.

Awesome All, I have to say is A MUST WATCH!!!! I can say that every time I watch this movie I am happy with that decision:)

All-Star Superman (Single-Disc Edition) If you ever wondered how Superman could possibly die?  If he did die, what would happen to his essence? Is it possible for Superman to have children?  Would Lex Luthor ever use his intellect for the good of humanity?  Who would write Superman's obituary for the Daily Planet?  Would the meek and mild reporter named Clark Kent perform a heroic act?  All Star Superman answers those questions and many more.  It is a love story.  It's a hero story with some nasty villains besides Alexander Joseph Luthor.  The main story takes place on Lois Lane's birthday where Superman whisks her off to the Fortress of Solitude.  There she discovers more about Superman and Clark Kent.  The Fortress is a museum, workshop, laboratory and most of all a homage to an ancient planet known as Krypton.  This hermitage is where Superman pursues his various interests and vocations.  Except for his robot helpers it is a lonely, isolated place.  Perhaps this is the core of the film--Superman's unique loneliness and isolation.  Growing up in Smallville he had his earth parents and special friends like Lana and Pete.  In Metropolis he had Jimmy and Lois, but all in all Superman's existence was a lonely plight of a strange visitor from another world untouched by humanity's mortality.  The various battles, the inspiring music and the sad overtones of a demi-god facing his end are wrapped into a neat package.  The poignant conversation between Superman and Lois about their genetic incompatibility is touching.  The conversation between Clark and Lex as they fight for survival in a prison riot reveals how Lex feels about Clark and how Clark feels about Lex.  Lex and Superman could have been great friends.  There are many elements in this film as well as many characters.  Bottom line: it's a great story if you look pass certain plot and voice nuances.  The ending leaves one speechless and saddened, but a special book holds the promise.  It is that promise which makes what went before easier to accept--that the cosmos has a plan for its special beings, its protectors of planets.

A must have for all 70's music fans. Being a huge rock and roll fan and having seen Pink Floyd live 3 times back in the 70's this was a must have for my collection. I have all their albums,DVD's and books on them. It's a must have for all Pink Floyd fans and rock and roll fans in general. It tells you what went on during and what went into the making of a fabulous album of a great band at their peak as musicians. A must have for all 70's music fans.

Great movie I used this to supplement a unit I teach to my Sophomores. It was definitely worth the purchase. The students were able to see and learn more about India's partition from Gandhi's perspective.

Tuskegee Airmen - Very sobering... Although there was theatrical license taken in many of the combat scenes, the telling of this true story was done very well.  Special notation should be mentioned for the character and integrity of the black pilots of this era (known as "The Tuskegee Airmen"), which was extraordinary considering the prejudicial treatment, so common in the culture of this era, by the very people they volunteered to defend.

Foreigner Live The picture quality on this blue ray disc is awesome, it fills the entire screen,no letterbox. Sound quality is great. Musicians are great. All that being said it is not Lou Gramm singing lead vocals and while the singer is very good, the song's don't have the sound of the original. If you like foreigner and want to see their biggest hits performed live this is a great blue ray to get.

The Horse Whisperer A terrific picture especially if you like animals as I think horses are something special I thought Robert Redford is excellent in the movie but al ittle disappointed he did not win his love otherwise I do recommend this movie

Better than expected. I think that this movie is underrated. It had good acting, good actors and actresses. They story moved right along. The premise is from current science. The suspense increases and brings out the various characters personalities and how they each attempt to deal with each other, control and the unknown. I enjoyed it and it is a bit like a horror movie. The lost of your faculties to determine what is real is a scary thing to lose. The book is better of course.

Imperfect but still worth watching World War II aviation enthusiasts will find enough holes in "Memphis Belle" to fly a B-17 through and it has been extensively dissected on the "Memphis Belle" website, as this is a real aircraft that has been fully restored. The "Memphis Belle" was the first Flying Fortress to complete 25 missions and then sent stateside with its crew to raise money for war bonds. This film purports to show what happened on that final mission but, of course, it is all fabrication. There are some subplots that would appear ludicrous to a real WWII bomber crew, not the least a co-pilot whining that he has nothing to do and then leaving his post during an air battle! In truth, bomber missions were not only long and grueling but dangerous, the pilot often getting killed or wounded along the way. Add to that the cheesy FX graphics and clich&eacute;d cast members (One Jew, one hillbilly, one poet, one Italian, a coward who learns courage etc) and you could write off this film as second rate.  What saves it is excellent ensemble acting, great music, thrilling air combat scenes and one unforgettable vignette that shows the viciousness of air combat through the actual gun camera footage of German fighter planes. Watching the Forts get chewed to shreds in real life is sobering and adds some weight to the story. There is also a great acting role for David Strathairn, as the squadron commander, Col. Harriman who practically bleeds for his men. His showdown with the obnoxious public relations huckster Lt. Col. Derringer is a study of barely contained rage.  A reliable cast rounds out the crew, from Mathew Modine's mother hen of a Captain Dearborn, Tate Donovan ("Damages") as his surly co-pilot, the always reliable Eric Stoltz, Harry Connick Jr. Sean Astin, D.B. Sweeney and a surprisingly sweet turn by Reed Diamond as top gunner, Virgil Hoogesteger.  It's worth noting that in this age of computer-generated reality, the most convincing scenes are those of the 1/4 scale models of the B-17's which, lined up on the runway, look like the real deal. Only 6 real Fortresses were available for the film so the rest of the squadron was filled in by good old fashioned model making.

back tohe tv's late golden age - could have been a better package A reminder of a time when characters in a tv series didn't spend most of their time sleeping with each other. One might also note only one commercial break in the middle of the show, as opposed to a break every 7 or 8 minutes today. Still a pretty neat series. But that "Danger Man" theme and the hysterically shrill jazz at every action scene are totally annoying, and sometimes just silly. Not much in the line of extra features, but consider that the price is pretty cheap for 86 episodes. Most of the video transfers look good, although audio is often murky. The writers packed a lot of story into very small time slots, so don't expect to see many drawn-out "thinking" or character-development sequences -- the script just moves from one action scene to the next. Dated stuff, but still involving.

Road House Talk about cheesy, but it's good cheese.  It's cliche after cliche but worth having in the collection.  Much better then his other movies around that time.

An entertaining way to spend 1.5 hours Okay, so this isn't the best Kevin Spacey movie, but so what?  It's still a light-hearted, entertaining movie with a simple message that we should value and appreciate our families and be careful not to get too obsessed by our work.  As many critics have noted, the screenplay is uneven and some of the humor falls flat.  The unlikely romance between Spacey's character and a much younger (and much better looking) "lesbian" stretches credulity.  But I still enjoyed this movie.  It was suspenseful (would the fabricator redeem himself?), and the ending surprised me (at least a little bit).  All in all, this movie is an enjoyable way to spend 1.5 hours.

Great story, but cover misleading The story is a classic and this original is one of the best.  However, as a Blu-ray we expected a bit more.  First, the cover shows the colorized version of the movie.  We expected to get both, you only get the black and white version.  In fact, that is all you get.  Hardly worth the blu-ray disk storage.

enjoyable Its a decent story line, rushed in parts, yet dreadfully slow at times. The scenery is beautiful and has moments where it is better than the movie.  However, at times this movies leaves something to desire.  If you like epic or long films this one is worthy to be in your collection.  If you are looking for history accuracy, you probably will need to watch something else.

Great film with a couple of problems... Stakeland was a great Vampire/ Zombie movie. The vampires are definitely of the "30 DAYS of Night " brand, only more feral and animalistic. The vamps spread over the world and pockets of resistance exist that try to conduct human life as before, but there's another problem lurking about. There's a group of religious zealots who believe that the vampire outbreak is a sign from GOD to cleanse the earth and they use the vampires to do his(their) bidding. Stakeland is a coming of age film about a boy, his vampire killing trainer and a small revolving cast of people who could be his mom, brother and sister, and even girlfriend. Along the way he's faced with a stern un-feeling mentor names Mister who saves his life one fateful night and takes him as a pseudo-son and trains him for the harsh reality of living in a world filled with vampires. As I said, the film works great with good action sequences and down time scenes that don't drag on and help advance the story. My one problem is with the leader of the brotherhood and something that happens that nearly ruined the film for me. (SPOILER ALERT!!!It's a lot like what happened with Steve in Dawn of the Dead. The foreshadowing that if he was to turn, asking Sarah Polley to kill him. We all know what's going to happen right? But look how it happened: We have to overlook why once the zombie bit him, he must have killed it , although he didn't have any type of weapon, and he was given a fatal bite that killed him immediately. See if the zombie kille dhim, what happened to it? Did it run miles away after a killing blow cause he doesn't eat his victims he just kills them?  Why wasn't he ating Steve instead of Steve walking around reanimated? I hated that. Still do. Well we get soemthing akin tot hat here and it was so ridiculous that I almost stopped watching. I gave them a pass on that one small stupid plot device though, and overall I liked the movie anyway. OK. END SPOILER!!)  This is a good movie and if you liek your vampires as monsters, this is the film for you. You will enjoy it. Oh, and there's a scene 10 minutes in that I did not think I would ever see in an American film. Something so heinous that I had to rewatch it to make sure I saw it. You'll know what I'm talking about when you see it. Keep your eyes open for it. WOW.

Trippy Source Code is a Sci Fi Thriller with an Inceptionish premise.  A US soldier(Jake Gyllenhaal) is trapped in a capsule of some kind and is being sent to an alternate past over and over again where he awakes on a train and keeps repeating the same sequence of events on an 8 minute duration.  After these 8 minutes have passed, all of a sudden a bomb explodes killing everyone on the train, and he returns to his capsule.  The soldier is informed little by little about why he is there and what the point of all this is.  He is dead and exists in a strange new technology called "Source Code" and the military is using him to find out who was the bomber on the train.  The soldier must go back over and over again, looking for clues and searching for this mysterious bomber.  I first saw this movie and the video store and I'm a sucker for Sci Fi so I thought I'd give it a try.  At first I was a little confused about what was going on but I was instantly sucked in and wanted to know more, You're right there with the soldier trying to find out who the bomber is, searching for clues and anything suspicious.  They did a great job of creating elaborate characters, building a solid script, and creating an atmosphere where you just had to know what was gonna happen next, and the special are very well done.  The score, writeen by Chris P. Bacon, fit the scenes very well and helped to build suspense. Kudos to Duncan Jones, the director for giving us a real blockbuster.

British Mystery on the Thames Original Sin is classic British mystery which I just happen to enjoy along with the work of P. D. James in particular. When you hear the famous theme music in the middle of the story, don't worry there's more coming; the DVD includes all three episodes that were aired in March and April of 1997. I'll admit, as others have observed, the story is somewhat involved but I found it held my interest  This particular DVD runs just under 2 and 1/2 hours so plan for a long evening. I had some difficulty playing this DVD on one player which wouldn't pick up any sound; I moved it over to another player and it all worked perfectly. Later I went back to the first player and tried two other discs and they both worked normally; I have no explanation for that.  Roy Marsden as Adam Dalgliesh turns in his customary effective performance joined by Ian Bannen and others in this P. D. James mystery. The story is nicely done for the most part although I'll agree that certain actions at the end of the movie strain credibility to some degree. These are not severe enough to compromise the story or the series in my opinion so I can recommend this DVD.

Good movie So... how would you like to be a reality TV star? I mean, REALITY! This is the premise of the 'Truman Show', which follows Truman since his birth, only he is not aware of the fact that he is the most-watched TV show in the world. However, he gets little hints that things are not as perfect as they seem, and must put the pieces together and attempt to take charge of his life. Good movie, and Jim Carrey did a good job as Truman.

Loved everything except the ending I love Richard Gere and I thought the movie was great. He's still got the "IT" factor to me. However, maybe I was up too late but the ending left me thinking "what the hay". It just basically ended...and that was that.

funny stuff As a fan of Adam Sandler, I really enjoyed this movie. While I do believe that it isn't his best film and that you must be a fan of his movies to find Jack and Jill humorous, I found myself laughing throughout the majority of the movie. Its typical Adam Sandler humor and I will be purchasing the film. Unlike movies that really shouldn't exist like Date Movie, Meet the Spartans, Dance Flick, Epic Movie, Disaster Movie, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail (all of which I feel made me dumber for having watched) Jack and Jill has a plot and puts humor to a situation that many people could relate to.

Funny, but could have been funnier This movie looked hilarious when I first saw the trailer.  All the funny parts are there of course, but I feel that it could have been done better.  Some scenes were very original such as stuff you've seen in all those new stupid movies like The Hangover, etc etc.  But both actors do a fantastic job.  They were both funny.  I recommend just renting it.

Rollercoaster I watched "Memento" because I saw it in the book "501 Must-See Movies".  My observation of the books selections is that a few of those movie I didn't really have to see but "Memento" is one that lived up to the billing.  I admit to being scepticle at first because it seemed that I was watching the movie backwards in sequences.  I wondered what kind of movie it would be since much of it was rerun scenes.  However, I realized that this was a unique movie that keeps the viewers guessing (although I can imagine that some may have taken it back to the video rental without watching the whole movie).  The retelling of the various scenes created impressions as well as doubts and that really came together at the end.  However, the ending was not typical either.  It left us wondering what is the reality.  Along the way there were at least two or three scenes where I had to double-check to see if what I saw was real or not.  "Memento" has a plot but it seems less important to the film than the twists and turns it takes us on.  In the end, I was pretty dazed by what I had seen but I knew it had been an exciting ride.  I suggest most people should watch "Memento" at least once (excepting small children and pregnant women).  I don't know that I will watch it again but I'm sure there are a lot of people who do watch it over and over.  I wouldn't be surprized to hear them say they see something new each time.

A Few Good Laughs I hope this script was written before "Kick Ass" but you never know.  Another unpopular loser makes his own superhero outfit because he's in a rut.  A skinny girl sidekick ends up taking out a few bad guys again.  A final showdown with criminals in fancy suits armed to the teeth ends with bodies piled to the ceiling.  Strangely enough, I hope there are more "loser in tights vigilante" movies.

Entertaining and Deeper than the Average Summer Movie I didn't care much for this movie after the first viewing. I thought it was hammed up and bloated with special effects that are hallmarks for most summer releases. However, after watching it a few more times the movie has grown on me to the point that I think this was, while not a great masterpiece, a very good film.  Sure, there are plot holes and characters that aren't truly developed or fleshed out. Some scenes are down right ridiculous (the night time experiment that spawns Sandman). Yes, some of the CGI borders on cartoonish - the fight between Sandman and Spiderman in the subway comes to mind. And there are cliches, like the old damsel-in-distress scenarios that Mary Jane continually finds herself in. But this is a superhero flick and it's not supposed to be completely realistic. So like Steve Winwood says, just roll with it.  What makes this movie rewatchable is the acting and the overall theme of forgiveness as it pertains to Peter Parker and Spiderman. Tobey Maguire, Thomas Haden Church, Kirsten Dunst and of course J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson rise above the hokiness and give great performances. Even James Franco delivers - he just plays a great jerk. And Rosemary Harris makes the best of her limited role as Aunt May and gives a high quality performance.  The final scene between Spiderman and Sandman was very touching and done so well. In the end, Peter learns how to truly forgive, an act that releases his heart from all of the pain he's been carrying around since his Uncle was murdered. Although I despised this final scene on the first viewing, thinking it was a little too tidy and contrived, I now realize that this was the culmination of the trilogy that finally rounds out who Spiderman truly is. The dark, vengeful corner of Peter's heart which the Symbiote latched onto was exposed and destroyed by the love he demonstrated after Sandman's confession. Peter saw what he would have become - Venom - if he did not confront his hatred and then let it go. This final installment in the series is a fine capstone. In all, one of the better superhero and summer blockbuster movies I've ever seen.

Slow but fascinating The movie was slow and a little hard to watch.  But lots of beautiful things feel that way to me.  Its fascinating, has real character, beautiful cinematography, and lots of metaphor.  Not all of the plot added up for me, but it worked.  However, its not for everyone.  I'd call it a refreshing Sci-Fi with real humanity mixed in, or a drama with a thought provoking twist.  Either way, I enjoyed it and it felt like watching art.

Very Cool! Though I liked some of the earlier ones just a little bit better, this installment of the Pirates series is still pretty awesome. I love these movies! I have the original trilogy on Blu-Ray, and will be adding this one to the collection as well!

Solid, Concise Review of the Battle of Leyte Gulf This is a very well done, but short, documentary (45 minutes) focusing on the executive planning for, and the battle of, Leyte Gulf in the Pacific.  The latter was one of the largest naval engagements of WW2, even of all time, and can be seen as the last great effort effort by Imperial Japanese navy.  Emphasis is given to Japanese high planning, and a generally incisive description of the battle is given.  My only complaint is that it could have been longer, and more detailed.  Nevertheless, a very good effort, and recommended.

A GOOD MOVIE REVIEW THIS MOVIE WAS FILMED VERY NICELY AND THE DIRECTING WAS WELL PLAYED. GLEN CLOSE WAS A GOOD REPRSENTATIVE OF THE SUBJECT LINE OF THIS FILM.  THE MOVIE WAS ENJOYABLE.

Everyone Wants the Beautiful Angel in Director Mitch Glazer's Bizarre Noir, "Passion Play" Alcoholic, has-been blues musician Nate Pool (Mickey Rourke of "Angel Heart" fame) slept with the wrong woman.  Now gangster Happy Shannon (funnyman Bill Murray of "Groundhog Day") wants him dead.  While escaping from one of Happy's thugs, Nate stumbles upon a carnival sideshow owned by Sam (Rhys Ifans of "Hannibal Rising").  Nate helps one of the freaks, Lily (Megan Fox of "Jennifer`s Body"), a girl with wings, escape the sideshow.  He plans to have her work for Happy in hopes that the gangster will allow him to live.  Unfortunately, Happy can't be trusted.    Director Mitch Glazer's "Passion Play" is the most bizarre combination of science fiction fantasy and noir I've ever seen.  There are scenes that generate such great tension that my breath was literally taken away.  Megan Fox is simply incredible as the innocent, naïve, attractive Lily who craves to look like other girls.  My heart broke for her, knowing that she was being duped by the despicable Nate Pool.  He's a coarse, slimy loser that I never much liked.  However, towards the end, Nate does experience a change in heart which causes the viewer to root for him as he eludes Happy's thugs.    "Passion Play" does contain some bloody surprises and shocks, which make it a good noir.  The desert scenes were beautiful in their bare, breathtaking majesty - the land from which Lily is taken.  She is transported to the gritty, dirty big city where the bloody love triangle of this bizarre passion play begins to reveal itself.  Poor, lonely Lily finds herself at the center of at least three men who all want to exploit her for her unusual body.  (Many women find themselves in the same situation as Lily.  They just want to be loved for themselves.)  In her desperation to be accepted as normal, Lily seeks medical advice in having her wings removed.  Little does she know that this unusual gift will eventually bring her freedom.    While watching "Passion Play," I was reminded of best-selling author James Patterson's "When the Wind Blows" and its equally superb sequel "The Lake House."  Both novels involve the exploitation of children who have been genetically engineered to have bird-like wings.  They can actually fly.  Lily was born with wings.  Sam, the owner of the sideshow, found her in the garbage when she was a baby.  Unfortunately, he would never allow her to "leave the nest."  In Patterson's novels, a veterinarian, Frannie O'Neill, and an FBI agent, Kit Brennan, help the children escape evil scientists and their laboratories.    If one is tired of the same old bloody, shoot-`em-up crime drama, then I recommend viewing "Passion Play," which has a lot of heart.  The film's hero, Nate Pool, finds himself in the biggest moral dilemma of his life; he risks death for a woman with whom he had no intention of falling in love.  Unfortunately, Image Entertainment's DVD release is lacking in special features.  (At least my copy was.)  The film is presented in its theatrical release aspect ratio of 2.40:1 and has SDH and Spanish subtitles.  However, it doesn't have any special features such as audio commentaries, deleted/extended scenes, bloopers, "making of" documentaries, cast/crew interviews, etc.    On the DVD, there is a trailer for "Passion Play" as well as trailers for three other Image Entertainment films of various genres:  The first is for "Burning Palms," the bizarre anthology of five sexually-explicit stories that are both shocking and horrifying; the second is for "Wild Cherry," a raunchy teen flick in which a group of girls get revenge on the guys who've sexually exploited them; and the third is for "The Violent Kind," a grisly horror film where three male friends go to a party in the boonies and are viciously attacked and tortured by insane country bumpkins.  Of the three, "Burning Palms" is probably the most original.  Joseph B. Hoyos

Great Throwback Action Film If you like old school Action movies with lots of things that go boom, This is the one for you! Story is irrelevant. Just good old brute action. Great popcorn movie!

Beware of the Region Code!!!! A great (maybe the best) adaptation of the play.  Even better if you're in Europe.  This DVD won't play on most American DVD players because of the Region Code.  It would help to highlight this technical fact on the page displaying the film.

9 1/2 Weeks I enjoyed 9 1/2 Weeks.  I found it to be very sexy and quite erotic.  The kitchen scene was delightfully yummy!  The chemistry between Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger was absolutely steamy.  A very good and spicy couples movie.

Better Than Everyone Says This was well-written and well-acted. I'm not sure why it has received such low ratings. But it's one the better romantic comedies I've seen this year. Definitely worth 2 hours of your life.

The future is ours...if you can count Directed by Walter Hill Starring Michael Beck, James Remar, David Patrick Kelly 93 minutes  Video: Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video resolution: 1080p Aspect ratio: 1.78:1  Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1 French: Dolby Digital Mono Spanish: Dolby Digital Mono  Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish  The future is ours...if you can count.  I have a small pile of unwatched Blu-rays, but last night I was in the mood for something I already knew. After much deliberation, I went with The Warriors.  I like to analyze why I enjoy certain movies so that I can understand myself more, but this one is tricky.  I know that I don't like watching violence or people getting beaten up, unless there's a point to it. I certainly don't think it's cool to watch a fight or someone being hurt. I have no fascination for gangs in general. The acting isn't up to much and dialogue is limited. I couldn't pick out a selection of scenes that were meaningful or memorable. So why do I enjoy watching this movie?  I do like the setting. Released in 1979, it was intended to have a somewhat futuristic look. It still seems dated to me though.  The first 15 minutes sets up the story so I don't think talking about it is much of a spoiler. The gangs are requested to attend a meeting by Cyrus, the leader of the biggest gang. Those attending are allowed to send nine members from their gang and weapons aren't allowed. Cyrus points out that members from rival gangs are standing together without anyone getting wasted. He also observes that there are 60,000 gang members in New York and only 20,000 police. Instead of fighting over a few yards of turf, the combined force could take over the city. That's an interesting idea. Unfortunately, gangs being what they are, one of the gang members (Kelly, Twin Peaks) hasn't obeyed the truce and shoots Cyrus, killing him. He points at the Warriors, claiming they did the shooting.  So the nine gang members are surrounded by rival gangs, weaponless, fifty miles from home. Both the police and the rival gangs are after them. The story shows what happens when they try to make it back to their home turf. Nine innocent men on the run; Hitchcock would be proud.  As I said, that's the first 15 minutes. The remainder of the story deals with the journey home. Will they all make it? Will any of them?  The soundtrack adds something and a local radio station monitors the progress of the Warriors. The original music by Barry De Vorzon fits in well and makes the whole thing an atmospheric experience.  Various encounters with other gangs and the police ensue. The gangs all have their own colors and way of doing things.  It's such a simple story, but it works. It's become something of a cult classic over the years in the same way that Escape From New York has.  I'm still not sure why I like it so much. Do I place myself in their position? Is it nostalgia for my childhood? Most of the characters are merely sketches, although some have a bit more depth. There are quiet periods where we just see the Warriors walking around, although the scenes are filled with tension because a threat could appear at any time.  After all that, I'm still not sure.  Would I recommend this? Sure. It's not what you would think just by looking at the title or the cover. If you can see it for free, it's worth checking out. Maybe you'll have the same reaction as me.  This is a surprisingly good transfer for a movie of its age and limited budget. The sound quality is a little lacking, being just DD 5.1.  Overall 4.5/5

Laugh out loud funny :) We love Psych and so I bought all the available seasons as a gift for my husband. I like the nicer packaging that a couple of the seasons have (this just comes in a typical plastic DVD case) but the DVD quality is good and the show is hilarious! :)

Blast from the past I am old enough to have seen this movie when it was in the theatre, but I never did. So this was a  real treat to watch for the first time about 35 years later. When it was new, I may have had a different take on it for sure, but to watch it now compared to our current movie technologies was really interesting and fun.

good movie Over all the movie was good. Not the best work of either actor but worthy of a pure fan of Walhberg or Farrel. The genre is a bit over played but the movie has laughs throughout that keep you entertained enough.

Gilligan's Island: Complete Series Collection Review I was very pleased with this product.  It took a while to get here but it was well worth the wait.  I actually gave it as a gift and the person I gave it to was very happy about it.  They watch it all the time and I have yet to hear any complaints about it.  I was really happy with this purchase.

Action packed, Entertaining, unique tempo and mood! Jason Statham really did wonders in this film with his martial arts. Moreso I think than in his transporter films. The movie has a nice plot, believable story, lots of action, lots of gore,  and multi-cultured. I got a unique or weird vibe from the film but I guess it was Jason playing a depressed down on your luck , nothing to live for  role. It gave off a strong negative feel but at the same time was refreshing seeing him in the hero role. If you have seen "The man from nowhere," it's basically just a remake of that film. I wouldn't say as good but just as good in it's own americanized way.   Overall it's a fun flick for action and/or martial arts films. Enjoy! Godbless  ~shauns movie review

Ang Lee and Ms. Thompson would make Austen proud Despite the fact that much of Austen's language from "Sense and Sensibility" is not included in this film, the spirit and soul of her characters and plot remain. Since this was Austen's first attempt at writing, much of her language is stilted to the modern ear and Ms. Thompson's rewrite for the screenplay makes it flow in a more sensible fashion. It's filmed in loving detail by Ang Lee, saturated in light, Kate Winslet's Marianne and Emma Thompson's Elinor shine in their roles as siblings and the complications that arise from that relationship. A "new" sister, Margaret, is added to explain the culture of the period as she blurts out questions that the modern audience may be thinking to have the family answer.  Imelda Staunton and Hugh Laurie as the Palmers are a wonderful foil to the rather silly manners of the day and Greg Wise provides a delicious villian as the rogue Willoughby. Hugh Grant as love interest Edward is underplayed; this role was cast before his big splash in "Notting Hill." And Alan Rickman as Marianne's suitor was just lovely.  Yes, this is chick flick-no explosions, no one killed, no blood. Just a story about human relationships, overcoming adversity, and a bit of romance.

Hey Fighting Tigers Old War Skule was one of those films that I'd wanted to see since I saw a billboard advertising it in Baton Rouge. As a LSU graduate I had spent many Saturdays in Tiger Stadium and I thought a film about LSU football history would be a good way to spend a weeknight. Little was I prepared for this three hour comprehensive history of the team.  Narrated by John Goodman in a folksy tone, the film covers the history of the team and it's coaches and players from 1893 until. 2007. The film also covers so much more that it's hard to know where to begin. We get the story of the band and it's music, some Louisiana politics curtesy of Huey Long and a good deal of what type of character it takes to both wear and play for the purple and gold.  The film is divided by decades and the story from the 1950's through the present is the most well covered. I remember many of the featured games and it was fun to see the highlights again. Who could forget Billy Cannon's run or the "bluegrass miracle" ?  There are also interesting segments on the making of the championship trophy and rings.  If there is one shortfall here it is that the special features are only accessible online instead of on the disc itself. This is an excellent low priced feature that should be seen by LSU fans and college football fans in general. Highly recommended.

a must-watch doc - especially for animal lovers A startling account of exotic animal ownership in the US, from poisonous snakes to big cats and everything in between. Though animal lovers like myself may cringe at times, it's clear that sticking our heads in the sand isn't helping anyone - animals or people. I came away from the film feeling enlightened and more motivated than ever to take a stand on the issues. Tim Harrison is nothing short of amazing - I can't imagine too many people sticking with a heartbreaking job like his. Like any good report, both sides are given opportunity to speak, but the message is clear: wild animals do not belong in our homes.

Great Film in Great condition. The movie arrived just on time and in perfect condition. The review on the front says "Jaws, Alien and Predator with a werewolf twist." and they're not wrong. It has great atmosphere and likable characters. The werewolves look great, as the went for "live" monsters and not CGI. It's wasn't scary, but the story is compelling and tense (and they blow and awful lot of stuff up!). I recommend it to werewolf fans or people who like a little supernatural in their thriller with comedy tossed in for good measure. All in all I'd say pick it up.

Great Video Quality.  Disappointing Audio Please describe the audio and video quality of any Blu-Ray you review.  Thanks to those who do this.  The 2.35:1 (or 2.40:1 - it is hard to tell the difference) video presentation was great to excellent.  I didn't see any grain at all.  I give it a 9.5 on a 10.0 scale.  The DTS-HD 5.1 Master audio was disappointing.  I thought I heard sound from the surround speakers once during the movie, but I wasn't sure.  I think the ending music had some surround sound.  But during the movie, 99% of the sound came from the center or front speakers, and I couldn't hear any stereo separation coming from the front left and right speakers.  The sound just seemed to come from the center speaker.  Overall, a good Blu-Ray purchase, because of the great video quality.

Interesting and Entertaining. This movie is a rather simple sci-fi movie. We liked it because it was interesting and entertaining with a relatively good story line.  If you are looking for a well acted and definitive sci-fi movie then you probably should skip this one. If you want a clear plot then you probably should skip this movie, you have to fill-in a lot of gaping holes in this plot. If you are a die hard sci-fi fanatic then skip this movie, it is a typical "B" movie.  The acting is fair, the story line simple and poorly defined by most standards (except for entertainment), full of cliches and not much suspense. The premise behind the story is only brought to light sparingly throughout the movie.  However, if you can overlook all the negatives, this was actually an entertaining movie. It had a cute love story (but cliche ridden), some neat special effects and a good ending. We rented it from Redbox for a $1 as it is not worth spending $4 on it though.

A Charming, But Slight, Indie Dramady That Is Bolstered By Winning And Appealing Performances Writer/director Michael J. Weithorn, a television sitcom veteran, makes his feature film debut with the slight but likable "A Little Help." In truth, his sitcom origins are pretty apparent as many of the film's situations feel a bit forced for comedic or confrontational value--and yet, the film contains a fair share of charming moments as well. This is one of those small independent endeavors that you will either love if you identify with the characters or be generally underwhelmed by its lack of narrative momentum. I, for my part, enjoyed the movie for its unassuming tone and a bold lead performance by Jenna Fischer. Fischer, best known for "The Office," rarely has a chance to display her acting chops but this is certainly a nice showcase. Despite some of the screenplay's shortcomings, this has to have been a dream part for Fischer who is usually relegated to small or benignly generic supporting roles in feature films. Here she gets to act with a capital "A." And for my money, that is a primary selling point.  Fischer and Chris O'Donnell play a troubled married couple living a typical Long Island existence. When things take a tumultuous turn, Fischer and her son are left to rebuild their lives with the help of her ever-intrusive family. With seasoned vets Leslie Ann Warren and Ron Leibman as her protective (and oftentimes critical) parents and Brooke Smith as a caring (but overbearing) sister, it's a hard road to newly defined independence. Fischer maneuvers through the pratfalls of moving toward maturity and confidence through a series of comedic missteps that seem to be leading her in the right direction. Some of these moments contain genuine emotion, some are lightly amusing, and some are awkwardly strained (come on, does anyone really believe she'd have actively participated in the lie perpetuated at her son's school?). It is the script's unevenness that is perhaps the movie's biggest detriment, but Fischer manages to keep things grounded and on track throughout. In the end, the life lessons might be too understated and barely noticeable to make the journey worthwhile for some viewers--but I didn't mind the film's loose ending.  As I said, I quite liked "A Little Help" despite my intellectual reservations. It is designed to tug at the heartstrings and I was willing to let Fischer and team manipulate my emotions, even in the less-than-real intrusions. While I did love Fischer, the film is NOT a one woman show either. It has some notable work from a trio of actors that are often overlooked or underutilized. Brooke Smith (often misused) is terrific as the put-upon sister--it might be my favorite performance of hers going all the way back to the criminally underrated "Series 7." Rob Benedict (maybe still best known for TV's Felicity), usually playing an oddball or eccentric, gets a sympathetic and well rounded role as Smith's husband who once had a crush on Fischer. And Kim Coates (Prison Break, Sons of Anarchy) scores in a change-of-pace stint as Fischer's aggressive attorney. I appreciated seeing these great actors given a chance to shine! "A Little Help" may be a bit slight for its own good, but I genuinely enjoyed this sleeper. Recommended, but a must-see if you love Fischer. KGHarris, 10/11.

Kinda dopey...but good nonetheless Some of the lines were, I'll say, less than awe-inspiring...but if you're just looking for an hour and a half of mindless entertainment, it's a good flick.  The bits where the original 21 Jumpstreet actors reprise their roles are actually pretty funny!

Modern Spin on a Classic Fairy Tale "Snow White and the Huntsman"  is a dark retelling of the famous fairy tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs that emphasizes toxic jealousy, the usurping of royal power, premeditated homicide, and the power of evil magic.  Ravenna (Charlize Theron), an incredibly vain sorceress, has the ability to shape-shift, use her feminine wiles to enchant, and methodically seize absolute power.  Her prized possession is a round metallic mirror that assures her periodically that she is the fairest in the land.  After Ravenna has successfully disposed of her husband, the king and father of young Snow White, the queen imprisons the child and rules with malevolence. Years later, when her mirror delivers the news that Snow White (Kristen Stewart) will soon surpass her as the most beautiful woman in the kingdom, the queen plots her death. But Show White escapes into the Dark Forest, a place where the queen's magic doesn't work. Ravenna summons a drunk, rough-hewn huntsman (Chris Hemsworth), and orders him to find the young woman and kill her.  Ms. Theron acts up a storm here with a characterization that allows her plenty of opportunity to play her scenes to the max.  She makes a fearsomely wicked queen and, with the assistance of special effects, is a formidable adversary against Snow White.  Hemsworth (Thor in "The Avengers") once again carries a weapon, this time an ax, as the unwilling killer.  He is a big guy with a deep voice who looks and sounds the part of an uneducated clod. He rises to a state of heroism when he realizes what Snow White is up against and transforms from would-be assassin to protector.  Ms. Stewart (the "Twilight" saga) is the weak link in the cast. The script attempts to make Snow White more than a shuddering, defenseless naif, but Ms. Stewart appears to be phoning in her performance. There's little fire, and we never are convinced that she is in fear for her life.  Director Rupert Sanders has crafted a smart-looking movie, with special effects worked smoothly into the narrative rather than overshadowing it.  There are phantom armies, characters morphing into others, and normal-sized actors -- Bob Hoskins, Ray Winstone, Toby Jones, and Ian McShane -- digitally shrunk to portray the dwarfs who become Show White's allies.  The two-disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack contains numerous bonus extras, including audio commentary by director and key crew members; behind-the-scenes footage; a video tour of the Pinewood Studio's sets on which the movie was shot; and four featurettes covering visual effects, characterizations, fairy tale elements, and "Tone Poem," a proof-of-concept reel that sold the studio on the project.  The movie is also available as a single-disc DVD

Chess Anyone? In this second installment, Sherlock Holmes employs a myriad of disguises which even manage to fool Watson on occasion. Watson gets married and Holmes is his best man of course, however, Holmes is a bit of a pest for the new wife. The honeymoon will have to wait. The action and intrigue center around a dangerously clever professor who strives to own all the bullets and bandages in the world. He and Sherlock Holmes play a high stakes game of chess. A winning strategy requires intelligent and unorthodox planning. The conflict and the devices of the villain relate to modern day.

Bobbie Phillips strong film ok I finally got around to seeing this film. I have been a fan of actress Bobbie Phillips for a long time as she has appeared on many of my favorite shows. I agree with many other fans that Ms. Phillips could have been a bigger star. Her acting abilities through dramas and comedies are right up there with Angelina Jolie, Halle Berry, and many other strong female actresses that are also beautiful. Back to the film, however. There are many enjoyable scenes, but overall the writing has a lot to be desired. With a bigger budget and better writing it could have been extremely good. I enjoyed it,but it really could have been much better. I gave it an extra star for Ms. Phillips. Now I will revisit MURDER ONE-Season one for some great acting by Ms. Phillips, stellar writing and great production value. Sometimes tv really is better than film.

Fun family film The movie was a fun little family film with a few name stars. Not in the same league as a major sci-Fi film but was a perfect family film.

Great band, great story and then WOAH! I have to preface this by saying that Broken Social Scene is my favorite band EVER!  Since 2006 I've managed to see them live about 9 times and they never fail to put on an incredible show.  If they roll through your city or town, do whatever you can to catch their performance.  You'll be a changed person (cheesy but true).  This movie, by director Bruce MacDonald, tells the story of a boy and a girl who have one last night to spend together before she gets on a plane and leaves for Europe.  All of this takes place on a sunny July day/evening in Toronto.  The boy, who desperately wants to impress the girl (the childhood love of his life), by taking her to see her favorite band (BSS) who are performing a free outdoor show that evening.  He gets ahead of himself and makes a lofty promise to get them backstage passes.  By some great miracle he manages to pull it off and they have a great time until tension and miscommunication build and threaten to tear it all apart.  Here's the thing, the ending of this movie (which I won't reveal) comes right out of left field.  There's no way you'll see it coming and it will totally floor you because, in my opinion, it has absolutely nothing to do with the build-up of the entire film up until that point.  It just seems so... random.  And maybe a bit trite considering we've spent the entire film watching this boy hopelessly pine for the girl.  The storyline is cut up with wonderful footage of the band's concert.  I love being able to have a beautifully recorded performance of their live set.  The music, as to be expected, is phenomenal and I think these scenes trump the romantic storyline.  I think this movie is a must-watch for any BSS fans.  You'd be remiss not to check it out.

Minions Me Although the primary character in the movie is Gru, the Minions steel more then the Moon, they steel your heart.  This is a sweet and warm movie and it makes you feel so good.  I am going through my second childhood, but would have loved Dispicable Me even in my first.  I would recommend this movie for anyone who is young at heart and wants to smile.

great flic I was pleasantly suprised with this movie. Good acting, nice twist on the plot. Definately worth watching over and over.

Four Stars Only Despite All its Merits I am giving this production of one of the oldest operas four stars only with a heavy heart. I believe it is one of the best 'modern' productions of a baroque opera. Thoughtful, intelligent and utterly convincing. The music, singing and dramatic acting are glorious and a real joy. I am usually open-minded towards modern re-interpretations of classical works, but I found the majority of them disapointing. Some even deserve the American coined pejorative term 'Euro-trash'. Well, this work is definitely not Euro trash, however, the director insisted on giving his detractors the opportunity to attack him by his excessive depiction of blood. Given the story, the sexual and bloody connotations of the Monteverdi masterpiece are understandable and absolutely legitmate. In this production they are both abundant. Whereas I found the sexual gestures a little exagerated, they remained within the tolerable difference of perspective and taste. However, it is the blood scenes that ultimately disturbed me. Had he used blood in the same dramatic way he has intelligently implemented (I am talking here about his selection of colors: red against a background of white and black,) but in a moderate way that suffices to carry his artistic vision, I would have considered the work one of the best 'modernistic' interpretations. Unfortunately the gushing streams of blood by the end of the opera have simply put me off. Had it not been for all the other good qualities of this production, I would have given it two stars only. Hence four stars.

Fun Movie Robert Downey Jr. was great in this movie.  The plot was what you would expect with some great twists added to throw you off tract.  It was very nicely filmed and kept my attention pretty much through the whole movie.  The bull dog is cute and a nice added touch.

"It's soldiers who do the fighting and soldiers who do the dying. And the gods never get their feet wet." Despite being the most overtly commercial of his films, The Descent director Neil Marshal's Centurion ended up doing the worst of any of them. One of that curious post-Gladiator subgenre of films inspired by the legend of the lost Ninth Legion (The Last Legion, The Eagle), it had the misfortune in the UK to open the same day as Agora in a rather limited release to much the same indifference from critics and paying audiences alike before going to cable TV in the US after a brief release on a dozen screens. Which is a pity, because it's a more historically savvy and satisfying film that Alejandro Amenabar's dreary polemic, and also a much more dramatic and entertaining one.  Not that it's another I Claudius or especially ambitious: this is a testosterone-driven manly action movie set in a convincingly rendered Roman Britain, a graveyard of ambition where mutual cruelty is the rule in the ongoing stalemate between the stalled invaders and the unyieldingly savage Picts. Yet it sets its gritty adventure in a credible environment and doesn't idealise its characters, limiting itself to the military side of the Empire, its soldiers a convincingly multicultural lot of hard cases. Characterisation is simple at best but effective enough for the film's needs - just enough to differentiate between its dirty half dozen legionaries being hunted down by vengeful Picts after being lured into a massacre while saving most of best writing for Michael Fassbender's occasional narration. Unfortunately Olga Kurylenko lacks the screen presence to really carry off her role as their mute nemesis relentlessly tracking them down: while the character may well be described as being an empty vessel that can only be filled by the blood of her enemies, she probably wasn't intended as quite such a blank slate. It's not a fatal flaw, but a stronger villain could have raised the stakes.  As with The Eagle, most of the spectacle is in the film's fist hour but it has a good sense of scale, with a particularly strong use of a harsh landscape that's as much an enemy as the Picts. Where his earlier Scottish-set Dog Soldiers was filmed almost entirely in Luxembourg, this time Marshall filmed on location in Scotland in some impressively inhospitable and grandiose locations with no greenscreen, and it pays dividends. The action scenes are convincingly brutal, making the most of the kind of damage steel does to bone and flesh without getting too silly about it, throwing in the odd memorable moment like a survivor being buried under the mounting number of dead bodies. There are a couple of lapses in logic - surely it would have made more sense for a traitor to have allowed the assassination of the roman governor of Britain than to have gained his trust by saving his life merely to lure a legion into a trap? - though thankfully most of the film's missteps, such as Rachel Stirling's duplicitous governor's wife, have been relegated to the deleted scenes bin of the DVD/Blu-ray. It's best viewed as a decent hard-edged Saturday night adventure film rather than an epic, but despite its almost under the radar theatrical release thanks to Marshal's strong direction and good visual sense it's one that works better than many a bigger budgeted epic.  The Blu-ray offers a good 2.40:1 transfer with audio commentary by Neil Marshall, Simon Bowles, Paul Hyett and Sam McCurdy, 6 deleted scenes with optional commentary by Marshall, outtakes, cast and crew interviews, a 28-minute making of documentary split into four parts, a short HDNet featurette, and production design gallery.

Blu Ray Review Goonies on Blu Ray is a pretty good transfer. Not the best, but lots of fun to go back to this classic in high def. The end scene in the water looks great, the blue water really shines... The 5.1 sound of water trickling all over the place inside and outside of the boat sounds great! Many small things throughout the movie look good, the part with the keyboard is neat because you can see small details you couldn't pick up on earlier versions. Bright colors, Chunk's red jacket has never looked so red! If you are a big fan it's worth the upgrade, and if you haven't seen it in years it's a fun one to go back to!

Scream Factory is phenomenal!! This film is not perfect.  It's a little bit laughable at points.  But it has always been one of my favorites, particularly to watch around Halloween time.  The new Scream Factory edition is so great.  For me, trading in my bargain basement Video Treasures edition for this one was beyond an upgrade; it was a revelation.  It was almost like seeing the film for the first time.  The special features got me wondering what might have been.  Can you imagine if there had been a string of anthology-like unrelated sequels all set at Halloween instead of the pile of crappy Michael Myers sequels and remakes that followed?  It was a grand idea, but the marketing alone seems to have sunk this film.  Billing it as Halloween III set up improper expectations.

pretty darn good cop-and-robber flick!  plus great band! I'm a part time musician, and this big band in a movie flick really got to my inner muse.  I want to find Danny May the guy credited with the arrangements so I can have my own band play them!  Oh, the movie...Snipes, Mortensen, Hopper all give creditable performances.  In fact, having seen most of their other movies, I'd say this was one of their best, i.e., all 3 gave believable performances.  They say "the suspension of disbelief" is essential to getting an audience to keep watching, and this one kept my own disbelief suspended even tho I knew it was just a movie.  I'd watch it even if just for the score, but if you're not a big music buff, then it's still a very good cop and robber thriller.  You kinda figure that Hopper will get caught, but hey, crime doesn't pay anyway, so he gets justice for setting up so much bloodshed.

Surprisingly good I remember seeing the commercials for this years ago and thinking that it would be dumb.  I'm rarely wrong in those judgments, but I was on this one.  This movie was not very formulaic, not just copying any previous genre.  It did combine a little bit of Beowulf and a little bit of The 13th Warrior, but it was original in other things and the acting and story and dialogue were good.  This was a really good action adventure movie.

Death and rebirth at the end of the world A young doctor Julian lost all his hope when his stewardess wife died. He flies to Ushuaia (the southern tip of Argentina close to the Antarctica) where they had their wedding, to scatter her ashes and then kill himself too. Meanwhile a stewardess Teresa, who is extremely depressed that she might be pregnant after an one-night stand, also boards the plane. They both go into the mountain in deep snow to freeze themselves to death at the same time, and end up meeting with each other.  "Todas Las Azafatas Van Al Cielo" is a strange film. The story does not make complete sense. First I thought I had missed some details and I have watched it many times since, but it still does not make complete sense. Some of the characters and settings are fairly ludicrous. However, even though I cannot pinpoint what it is, there is something really sincere and heart-warming about this film. Also it has a distinctive Argentine flavor, somewhat chaotic yet elegant. The background music is some of the best you will hear: atmospheric and ethereal, it really fits the sternly beautiful, other-worldly scenery of Ushuaia. If you are into Hollywood blockbusters probably this is not for you, but for some this film can resonate quietly for a long time.

Great movie, but disc was scratched.. This is a two sided disc, blu ray on one side, dvd on the other. The packaging was ok, but somehow the blu ray was scratched in a couple different places. I didn't scratch it, all my movies are flawless, I'm OCD about that! It still works, but it's just the principal that I paid for a brand new movie that had scratches on it right out of the box. The movie itself was excellent!

Heated Romance This film had to be made.  After all, Clark Gable was THE king of motion pictures and Ava  Gardener the most sexually allureing actress in the world at this time.  So MGM made this love story.  It is very entertaining, and I recommened it.

Not as expected but still really good When I first saw previews I thought that Our Idiot Brother was going to be the normal everyday comedy that we see now days. I couldn't of been more wrong. This movie is more about a man who is misunderstood and who doesn't have a lot of common sense but is super nice which borders on stupidity at times. His family passes him around like he is some kind of toy because they do not understand him. However, if the family would look closer they would realize that they are just as messed up as Ned is in one way or another. Throughout the movie you see Ned get into a lot of mischief and mishaps that only makes his family stronger and makes his sisters understand him better.  I think this movie is more of a drama than a comedy but it is still a really good movie. I was anxious to see it though because I am a big fan of Zooey Deschanel and I'm glad that I did. If you are expected a flat out comedy then you will be disappointed but if you keep an open mind , as it is more of a drama, I think you will like Our Idiot Brother.

double fun the film is a dated eighties film for two divas of the screen.  some of the comedy is situational, and you really can't put a price on mixed-up siblings.  but when they are mixed-up twins the situations can get pretty unreal.  and when the actresses playing the twins are tomlin and micler, you can get hysterical laughs just from the presence of the two.  the story of two sets of twins has been played alot over the years, and this takes the cake.  admittedly, the comedy is physical and situational, and actresses-driven, but the three blend well together.  you don't go home with a feeling to change the world or save the dolphins or save mother earth, but you do go home with a snap in your step from the comic misadventures of both rose and saidie, and rose and sadie (tomlin's and midler's characters' names).

Thought provoking evaluation of modern youth ministry A new documentary DVD sponsored by The National Center for Family-Integrated Churches, is beginning to make some waves. "Divided: Is Modern Youth Ministry Multiplying or Dividing the Church?" explores the pitfalls and problems of how we've done church for the last thirty to forty years (and more).  I found the DVD thought provoking and definitely worth my time in watching. Age segregation is a new concept in the church, and has only been around in the last hundred years or more. There is a strong argument to be made that it has contributed to many of the problems in the church.  The documentary interviews current youth ministry gurus, youth ministers with misgivings, and former youth ministers. Also included are interviews of church leaders in the Family-Integrated movement such as Douglas Phillips, Scott Brown, and Voddie Baucham, Jr. as well as other leaders less known for their preference for Family-Integrated churches, like R.C. Sproul, Jr., Ken Ham and Paul Washer.  The movie itself flows at a nice pace, tracing the investigation of Philip Leclerc into the problems surrounding youth ministry in the church. The filming is superb and well-planned, interesting shots abound. The setting of the interviews also are visually appealing and the whole movie is a great production. The Leclrerc brothers criss-cross the country interviewing leaders and digging into this problem.  Still, after all the interviews and the questions have been presented, I don't think the case against modern youth ministry is as fool proof as the documentary claims. At our church, children age 5 and up sit with us in the worship service and that alone contrasts with what many churches do. We have age segregated Sunday School classes, but also foster a unity in spirit throughout the church cross-generationally. More could be done though. And just opening eyes to the questions in this debate can make a big impact.  I recommend you take the time to watch Divided. You may want to pick up a copy of the movie to have it in your library and show it to your church leaders. Learn more about Divided at DividedtheMovie.com. You can purchase a copy of this movie direct from the movie's website, or through Amazon.com.

Has recut and theatrical versions "Sin City" is now on Blu-ray on two discs. One disc has the "Recut" version which adds about 6 minutes of story content, and also presents each story as a separate feature. There's not a big difference between this and the theatrical version. I think the theatrical version flows nicer, because it blends the stories together, so I recommend that for a first viewing. I enjoyed watching the "recut" version as a second viewing, because it's changed just enough to keep it feeling fresh, like listening to a favorite CD on shuffle.

Excitement for a seven year old I purchased this as a surprise present for my seven year old grandson. He must have played it seven times with his friends & they are all busy building models of Spitfires, heinkels etc.  It is an exciting action film - not always totally accurate but very engaging!

Looks amazing I wasn't entirely sure what Bambi would look like in High Definition.  It looks absolutely gorgeous!  Great blu-ray combo pack...all around great purchase!

Chronicle I liked this movie more than I thought that I would. I wanted to see it, but I wasn't sure because of the "home video" type of filming that it used. I am getting kind of tired of movies that use it, but I decided to give it a try and rent it anyway. I liked the movie because it was different and it kept my interest. I liked the characters and the story line. If you are unsure about it, I think that you should give it a try .

Classic comedy! Bob Newhart stars as Dr. Robert Hartley, a psychologist living in Chicago with his schoolteacher wife Emily (Suzanne Pleshette). The two navigate the daily perils of marital and household squabbles, intruding neighbor Howard (Bill Daily), their respective careers, and other life obstacles.  Rounding out the cast are Marcia Wallace as Carol, Bob's wisecracking receptionist; Peter Bonerz as Jerry, a dentist occupying an office next to Bob's; and a myriad of recurring patients, all eccentric in their own peculiar ways.  Despite 30+ years passing since the show debuted, its comedy and drama continue to stand up to time. The Bob Newhart Show is bound to engage viewers, young and old, today as it did in the '70s.

Very cute movie. I really liked this film, which can be watched with English subtitles and original Mandarin Chinese or With English language in the audio.  If watching with the audio words in  English, it is actually really good (as many films aren't).  Suitable for children and adults, it portrays a boy who is always bullied and how an "alien dog" helps him overcome the bullies--is the dog real?/imaginary?--We never really find out which adds to the magic of the film..

Better then the first film YES I SAID IT no cheap low grade animation Most of us have seen the original version of Disney's Cinderella the story of a cinder girl who over came obstacles with the help of her fairy godmother to finally marry her prince, and live happily ever after. with that said, it was a beautiful animated film but quite honestly I thought the original Cinderella story was too simple and kind of boring, but Cinderella III-A Twist in Time was WAY! better then the original film  Why because the story was richer and it had more layers to savor, also the animation was just as good as the original, YES I said it, ok most Disney films that are made just for DVD release have a very poor animation quality. but not this the second DVD sequel I loved the fact that they kept the same level of animation and didn't slack off just because its a DVD release like some of the other straight to DVD Disney remakes.  This one was a great one, and personally I think this sequel should of had a theater release because the animation stayed true to what Disney is known for I highly recommend it, though the DVD only has a music video featuring actress Hayden Panettiere, no audio commentary or making of short for us adults that was one slight disappointment, but over all a great film get it its very fun.

Where is the wide screen? I remember when the film came out.  So much press about the special effects in the film.  And, what does Universal do?  Makes the film ONLY in full screen?  Does NOT do justice to the film.  The film itself is entertaining.  Meryl & Goldie do good jobs with their characters.  Willis, did NOT need him in here.  I think he was miscast.  Going back to the special effects, they were good & do well in standing up to the test of time.  No good extras on this, just standard cast information.  NOTHING on the actors or the special effects, nothing.  I hope Universal rereleases the film IN THE NEEDED WIDE SCREEN FORMAT.

great cant wait for breaking dawn part 1, because the saga is always left room for the endings to lead to another movie for the saga :)

Another Good Season! This show has gotten better year after year & I am glad I am able to have these shows in my collection.  Good performances by all, although the cast changes took some getting used to.  Selma Diamond, (God rest her soul) & John Larroquette have  been my favorite actors for their performances.  JL definitely deserved those 4 Emmys.  Season 3 on the way!

"It still ain't about nothin'" Robert Culp's "Hickey & Boggs" is one of those rare great movie experiences, it is more of a legend than a film, and what a film it is. Released in 1972, just before the boom in detective neo-noir with films like "Chinatown", "The Long Goodbye", "Farewell, My Lovely", etc. This is one of the best, most interesting and deeply pessimistic, in a god way, thrillers of the era.  Culp is Frank Boggs and Cosby is Al Hickey, two low down private eyes, both minorities as one is African-American and the other is gay, who spend too much time drunk, drinking and/or dis-paring. Accepting a job from a suspicious acting client, they soon find themselves in over their heads in corpses, some of which they know, stolen money and hired killers.  Not a really unique or strong story, so it serves as an exercise in style, which to successfully pull off usually requires a more experience and confident director. This being Culp's only feature film, not only is it a surprise triumph, but a damn shame on par with Charles Laughton <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003ZYU3TQ">The Night of the Hunter (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray</a>] and Marlon Brando <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005GP7F8Y">One Eyed Jacks [Blu-ray</a>], that such promising talents behind the camera never were allowed to fully develop.  Working from a screenplay by Walter Hill, his first filmed, that snaps with crackling tough guy dialogue. This serves as quite a departure for those expecting an "I Spy" reunion Culp was always an underrated actor in my opinion, but who knew that Cosby was too. In fact, this whole film belongs to Cosby just for the shear fact that you can't take your eyes off of him as you keep muttering to yourself that's freakin' Bill Cosby, no Cardigan sweaters or Jell-o pudding pops here. This is a triumph of acting for both of these stars who never really got another opportunity to show it. Also keep a lookout for future stars James Woods and Michael Moriarty in early career roles.  An under appreciated movie for sure, this one is a must see if you haven't, a great addition to a beloved genre and the best era of American filmmaking. To quote the Cos as Hickey, "it ain't about nothin". It might not be, but it sure is worth the time to ponder what if it is.

Ford's Follow Up After the success of THE IRON HORSE, Fox wanted anothe epic from Ford, so they gave him 3 BAD MEN.  It didn't succeed at the box office, and the director didn't make another Western until 13 years later with STAGOCOACH.  Despite its monetary failure, 3 BAD MEN is a compelling film, and *not* a companion film to Ford's later 3 GODFATHERS.  They are based on differing books, set in differing locations, and in this film, they rescue a young woman instead of an infant.  Ford *did* make 3 GODFATHERS as a silent, calling it MARKED MEN.  This film shows us people are capable of change, and the photography is stunning. 3 BAD MEN is discussed in more detail in my recent book 'Head `Em Off At the Pass! 94 Westers You Should Watch.' <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1460905016">Head `Em Off At the Pass!: 94 Westerns You Should Watch</a>  HANGMAN'S HOUSE is sadly remembered for a bit part of John Wayne's and people seem to forget McLaglen's wonderful performance.  Pity.

A Hip-hop Classic If the year was 1992-93 and Roger Avery wanted to collaborate with me on the screenplay for "Pulp Fiction", this is how I would have written it. "Belly" is as gritty, detailed and mesmerizing as urban crime films get. DMX and Nas give knockout performances as hustlers caught up in inner-city hardship and looking to get paid in full. The story has plenty of depth to it and elements you wouldn't usually find in a drama. Hype Williams directs with style and finesse. Malik Sayeed brings dazzling, superior cinematography to the table that serves as a model for modern-day filmmakers.

Price is nice! I got this for like fourteen bucks.  Excellent price!  Psych is still awesome.  The Yin-Yang conflict in each finale, however, is getting extremely tiresome.

A very funny and entertaining dark comedy that deserves to be watched. I really liked it. I say B+. "The events leading up to my death were a lot like the rest of my life, things didn't go exactly as planned." Duke White (Keitel) is dead and his three sons are at the will reading. After hearing what they will get they also get another surprise, due to gambling problems their father signed them up for unsafe drug tests when they were babies and because of that they all find out they will die soon. All three sons handle the news differently but eventually they all take one last run at the one thing they have always wanted to do. Based off the preview this is a movie I was looking forward to. I really like these dark comedies and the cast was pretty good. I have to say that I really enjoyed this movie and laughed throughout, but this is another movie where I laughed at things I shouldn't be laughing at. The idea on it's own is pretty morbid but watching it it comes off as more comedy then depressing. There are some really funny lines in this and the running gag about Cal's (Caan) car is great and I loved hearing what they would say about it next. This is a very funny comedy but is not for everyone. Overall, really funny but this is a dark comedy so you must like that style of humor to fully enjoy this movie. I give it a B+

A nicely blended treat... An intriguing mix of drama and comedy, this witty outing blends the controversial with the acceptable rather well.  Basically, this is a story of teen angst done with the charm of adolescence kept squarely in mind.  The cast is young and impressionable and they come across with convictions beyond their years, especially Kieran Culkin, who had a stellar year (with this and `Igby Goes Down').  Hirsch leads the film with admirable conviction, although he is one of my least favorite in the cast.  At the end of the day, `The Dangerous Lives of Alter Boys' is not the film you'd expect it to be.  It is fun and knows not to take itself too seriously, yet it never forgets that a good lesson learned makes a much needed impact.

Sanguineous, sincere, and psychotic!  Delpy has outdone herself. Julie Delpy wrote, produced, directed and starred in this perhaps somewhat-fictionalized historical account of the Countess Erzebet Bathory (1560-1614), an infamous, noble Hungarian widowed by her warlord Count.  This historical figure has been known as the Blood Countess and Countess Dracula, has been compared to Vlad III (Vlad the Impaler), and was loosely associated with witchcraft.  From early childhood through marriage, and leading to the death of her husband, Erzebet (Julie Delpy) is painted with all the makings of a "typical" noblewoman with "typical" white-people-problems of the time.  We see the potential for both compassion and cold sociopathy in the future of this powerful and highly intelligent woman.   In her late thirties Erzebet meets and fancies Istvan (Daniel Br&uuml;hl), a young noble and the son of Count Gyorgy Thurzo (William Hurt) whose recent advances she denied.  Young Istvan is quite sincerely taken with Erzebet, as is she with him.  But she finds herself transfixed on his fine skin and, ill-comparably, her aging skin (as she is nearly twenty years his senior).  Little did she know that Gyorgy would use her love for Istvan against her for years to come.   After promises to be together, Erzebet waits for Istvan.  She becomes obsessed with "looking worn and old" and resigns herself to continuous fasting and prayer until Istvan answers her.  Later, actions of self loathing, self mutilation, and bondage fuel her descent into madness.  After some provocative suggestions from a vamp-like nobleman and a random household accident, she learns to find comfort in the rejuvenating properties of virgins' blood.  Her young handmaid plays the scapegoat of this psychosis as she is periodically drained.  As time passes, Erzebet's addiction to sanguineous cosmetics increases and so follows the body count with her state of mania.   The film is presented with a strong feministic tone in support of Erzebet's integrity and actions despite her psychosis, as if told by Erzebet as an autobiography.  Delpy was fantastic.  Much as with Anonymous, an admirable job was done with a limited (i.e., non-Blockbuster) budget.  The cinematography and wardrobe were fantastic.  The set design should be noted for effort, but it takes a big budget to properly emulate the grandeur of nobility in period films.  Lovers of this dark, murderous period piece should very much delight in Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2007).

hunger games I in golding's lord of the flies, a class of boys standed on a tropical island reverts quickly to barbarism once all "civilized" restraints have been severed...in br, combat SPOILER......SPOILER......SPOILER......to the death is forced by adults on a class of 15 year olds (boys and girls), as a rather dubious means of restoring discipline to a shattered culture.  i believe that is gogo (chiaki kuriyama) i find in the part of takako chigusa.

The Blues Brothers (widescreen 25th Anniversary Edition) It's a classic.  Belushi and Aykroyd are great together. It's one of my favorite comedies ever. Have to watch it a couple of times a year. I bought this edition for my 11 yr old grandson, it is one of his favorite movies also. This movie crosses the age barriers. The music and the cameo apperances by Ray Charles and Arthea Franklin and many more blues singers is the icing on the cake. It a must have.

Very Fun, Great Action Movie I've been a fan of the Musketeers since I saw the 70's versions.  Disney's rendition was just bleh... The Musketeer was cool.  The 70's ones were awesome.  This one is closer to those, imho, and threatened to unseat the original as my favourite, but I don't think it can quite cut it... close, though.  * SPOILERS BELOW *  I really don't understand why people are complaining that it's an action flick... or super-hero-esque... that's what the Musketeers are! I personally don't care whether or not it remains "true" to the original story, whatever, exactly, that might mean.  Though the story is a little used because of the previous movies, it feels pretty fresh. But they did actually put some effort into the characters and plot and made them different than in the older movies, but just as good.  That they made D'Artagnan younger and gave him an age-related dynamic with the Louis was neat.  That they made him that young also fit with his cockiness much better than the older incarnations in the other movies.  Louis was hysterical, and I'm glad they made him somewhat of a twit. The dialog was witty, funny, and well written (except for one part below). The sword fighting was extremely fun to watch, which is part of why I like the originals so much.  That said, there were a couple of things that weren't so great.  I hate that ploy where writers give the main character some witty remark early on in the movie, and have him repeat it at the end... IT'S LAME, and it was lame when it happened in this movie.  It wasn't, however, a deal killer.  Milla Jovavich was disappointing, though, and she's the reason I had to give the movie only 4 stars.  She left the role feeling pretty empty, which is sad. I haven't enjoyed a single movie of hers since  The 5th Element.  So, bad casting job for the Countess, but the rest were great.

Just Came In Today Can't wait to finish this dvd, just arrived today, so far looks great, and the story is kind of spooky, love it so far!

Pushing Daisies - A Delightful Comedy About Death Pushing Daisies is a very delightful, offbeat, light hearted comedy about death! A very stylistically and thematically original TV series with a unique premise about a young boy who at an early age discovers he has the unique ability to bring dead things back to life by touch. There is a catch though - if he touches something a second time it goes back to being dead forever. Unfortunately, with his power comes still another catch - if he leaves the reanimated person or thing alive more than a minute, something or someone else nearby dies  The boy grows up practically an orphan; after the death of his mother (whom he brings back, but when she touches him to tuck him into bed, she dies again) he is sent to a boarding school for boys.  As a man, he tries to remember his deceased mother's nurturing by becoming a pie-baker. He learns of the death of the one great love in his life, his childhood sweetheart, whom he touches and brings back from the dead. Unfortunately, when he re-animated his mother during his childhood, His allowing her to remain alive past the one minute limit caused the nearby childhood sweetheart's dad to die. This is the terrible secret that he must carry in his romance with his now reanimated sweetheart. Another irony is that though the two people love each other dearly, they can never touch, or she will dies again.  A private investigator sees his re-animation abilities, and they form a partnership; solving murders where there is a reward by re-animating the deceased for a minute to ask who killed them, and collecting the reward.  It is a shame that this series was pulled after only two seasons. It is incredibly original, very engaging, and with very florid scenes that burst with color. An instant classic!

My students loved it I taught Spanish 4 last year, and was looking for a film that told an historical narrative through the eyes of youth.  My students were completely engaged as they watched.  They also learned about a little-known piece of American history, and how young people like them can effect change.

The Count of Monte Cristo I rented this movie to have a small idea of what it was about because I was monitoring the homework of a 9th. grader tasked with reading the book and answering questions.  It seems to have followed the book fairly closely.  At least I could ask relative questions.  It was well worth the rental fee.

Very eye opening. Gives great background, mostly in his own words, about Obama's belief system and what may drive some of the decisions he has made while in office.

Good mix This is a unique album.  A refreshing take on Bennett's hits of the past.  The idea of duets with other contemporary singing stars is wonderful!

suspenseful and engaging Great movie. Show's a fascinating process of how to get adversaries to talk to each other and gain trust. My wife is in the mediation field and I bought it for her as a gift after seeing it on television so she can use it for reference and for trainings. However, it's also suspenseful and engaging for us lay people and brings a lot of insight into the field.

Changed my life I've never read a book that had such a profound effect on me until I read this one.  I can truthfully say this book changed my life.  And I wish I had read it many years ago.  Very enlightening. I've given copies to friends and family who I felt may benefit from it.  and I will continue to give this book as a gift for many years to come.

"...from Heather to Heather." This is my all time favorite of the "bitchy girl" movies. Wynona Ryder, Christian Slater and a pre Beverly Hills 90210 Shannen Doherty. If you like movies about popular high school girls who murder thier friends and make it look like suicide, than you'll love Heathers. This movie is a Gen X cult classic. A+

This movie is AWESOME!!! LOVE IT! Pride & Prejudice ~ this movie is probably my favorite movie (or top 5, anyway!).  It's better than Bend it Like Beckham ~ at least for me it was!  If you liked Bend it Like Beckham & you like romantic movies with a feisty female lead, you'll LOVE this movie!!!  Colorful, wonderful, dancing, singing, & just a blast to watch!!!  Kim

Exceptionally Favorite Film...Hi-Quality Service! I had been searching throughout local stores to try to find this really favorite film on DVD...to NO success.  The closest I came was a 2 Film or 3 Film pack (the other film or two films...known not to be the greatest)...so didn't waste my money.  Sooooo..just out of the blue (sort of) I decided to search through Amazon...and TAH DAH!  Not only did I find "MY" favorite film .... but also in "Full Screen" and "Brand-New...not Previously viewed"...Thank you Jesus!!!  Exceptional service from the Seller...My DVD arrived in excellent packaging...no disc trouble while viewing at all...and it arrived a lot faster than for the time frame stated.  Looking to buy again through this Amazon Seller....DEFINITELY!!!  Thank you Thank you!

British edition of the Blu-Ray set Others have reviewed the product. I'd just like to mention that the British release, which is quite a bit less expensive, is very good. I had no problems with it at all. I can think of no real reason for paying more than $20 more for the American release.

Better-Than-Most theme for a sci-fi film I remember watching this on t.v. as a kid in the mid-70's.  I loved it then and I still do.  It has been reviewed here already probably better than I could do - I'm not really a writer.  This film points out the urgency of preserving and maintaining our environment (remember people, this is where we live!!).  Forget awesome special effects - this was back in the days when filmakers had to create without the aid of CGI (although the scenes where they are skipping on the outer rings of Saturn are good).  Any truly good sci-fi film is about people and the human condition - when mankind clashes with technology or some unknown from another world - how does it affect humans and how do we react.  Think about all the truly good sci-fi films you have seen over the years and you'll agree with me.  The film came out around the time 'Earth Day' was instituted - the music reflects this as does the 'Pledge To The Environment' Bruce Dern reads on the wall during the film.  It is still one of my favorites - and I have a decent collection of sci-fi movies.  If you are a sci-fi lover as I am and you have not seen this film, you will not be dissapointed.  The 2002 dvd release has a nice-looking transfer, plus lots of good extra features - the vintage 'Making of Silent Running' runs about an hour and is awesome.

Great This movie was one of the best I've seen in a while. Superb acting, superb overall. I will definitely buy.

One of the Best Classic TV Shows! I am SO happy to finally own this show on DVDs that look and sound this beautiful! I own almost all of the episodes on less-than-stellar DVDs that crackle and hiss and roll (hey, you take what you can get, right?)... but this is just a gorgeous edition! The only problem is that now I would REALLY like the rest of the series to finally come out on equally beautiful DVDs. Get going with the NEXT SEASON already!!  One Step Beyond was a pre-Twilight Zone gem focusing on paranormal phenomena. Whereas Twilight Zone episodes were fictional jaunts into the unknown and strange, One Step Beyond episodes were purported to be taken from "real" experiences. There are some really great stories here, with excellent acting by some great actors and actresses (many from shows of the same time period, i.e. The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock). I highly recommend the series to scifi/paranormal buffs, and fans of classic TV of any genre. Good Stuff!!

Dexter season 6 Great season, very intense and unexspected. Still like season 3 the best, but no let downs here. Cant wait for season 7!

Excelent Amo esta pelicula. Recuerdo la primera vez que la vi y la ame. Ahora en Blu-ray, excelente!!! See you around Brandon!

A testament to love and friendship This is a film that reminds you how love, kindness, friendship and community can conquer horror, tragedy, loss, rage and evil.  Just make sure you to have your hankies ready as its a real tear jerker and I'm not one to get all sappy about a film. Do not expect to find a deep investigation into the life of the perpetrator as there are enough documentaries highlighting sociopaths and psychopath. This documentary is about the victims and the lives they touched and it doesn't waste any time on the murderer at the expense of the victims, in this way I find this film as a kind of triumph as the victims and the survivors will be left embedded in the mind of the viewer and the murderer floats to the sidelines where she belongs.

Amazing movie I heard about this movie from the USO, as I volunteer there occasionally, when I have time between work and school.  Having an interest in war films, I watched this documentary. Thought that it was amazing and also had an excellent insight. I'm joining the Army in May or June. This movie is raw with emotion  Saving Private is one of the greatest war movies ever made, simply because it shows down time. This documentary shows it and gives the day to day humor of a soldier switching from high adrenaline to absolutely/not much going on.

great scary movies Got this dvd because it had both of the movies that my boyfriend & I really liked.  Great price and quick delivery.  Plus, we used our Discover points to buy it!!

More fun from this crazy band of brothers Really began to enjoy the out-takes and the extra scenes.  Of course it was everything I expected as I followed the entire season watching all the episodes at least twice.

Absolutely stunning! If you're a fan of Feist, then you will absolutely love this DVD and CD! It is a wonderful insight into her creative process and allows you to meet all of the people who contribute to her artistic process while watching them work. I highly recommend!

Space Cowboy "Trigun" is another one of those anime that I have known about forever, but never got around to watching for some reason.  At almost any manga/anime convention you are guaranteed to see at least one Vash the Stampede walking around with Nicholas D. Wolfwood carrying a giant homemade cross. When Funimation put out this boxset of the Complete Series, I figured it was finally time to sit down and see what all the fuss was about with the guy in the long red coat and his friend with the giant cross.   To no ones surprise, "Trigun" is a great series.  I really love the Space Western genre (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000AQS0F">Firefly</a>, anyone?) and "Trigun" takes the tropes of the genre and gives it some unique twists.  Sure, there are the usual drifting into a barren town and kicking out the local boss, or quick-draw contests and bank robberies, but there are also sentient plants and seedships traveling interstellar distances.  Tone-wise, the series is split almost directly in half.  The first part is a screwball comedy of errors, focusing on two insurance agents Meryl and Milly, as they hung for the legendary gunfighter Vash the Stampede, known as the Human Typhoon.  Vash causes enormous amounts of damage every where he goes, and the insurance company is looking to cap their loses.  They fall into company with a goofy, seemingly harmless guy in a long red coat who (of course) turns out to be Vash the Stampede himself.  But instead of a cold, calculating gunman Vash is a pacifist who fights only for Peach and Love and refuses to kill.  They do some road tripping, moving from town to town, and pick up as a straggler the priest Nicholas D. Wolfwood who turns out to be almost as good with a gun as Vash himself.  The second half get serious, delving into the past of Vash and Nicholas, and the mysterious killer known only as Knives.  Vash has a history that he has entirely forgotton, including exactly who and what he is.  And it turns out that Nicholas did not join their company by accident, and tragedy moves in his wake.  I confess I like the second half better than the first.  The "super killer who is really a nice guy but just misundertood" bit works for awhile, but starts to wear thin.  And just when you can't take another comedy of misunderstandings and hijinks, the true story takes over and you delve beneath the surface of the characters.  That was were this anime moved from just mindless fun to something worthwhile and interesting.  I am glad I finally got around to watching "Trigun."  Great series, and this Funimation boxset is an economical way to get all 26 episodes.  There isn't much here bonus feature-wise, but that isn't really necessary.  The story is complete as it is.

Delightful I just finished watching the charming "Bulldog Drummund" series on this set.  What a hoot: funny, sometimes complex, and using the big "tech" of the times: aeroplanes, custom gramophone recordings, even synthetic diamonds! Also lots of Art Deco and appropriate fashions!  I also spotted a very young Anthony Quinn, Ray Milland and Leo G. Caroll.  Film and sound quality vary, but the stories are just so much fun. Up next is "The Shadow," complete with more hot tech of the day: and inside look at 1930's radio broadcasting!  I don't know if teens will love these, but they are before "my time," and I still enjoy them. The best of this kind of collection I've seen.

Always fun to watch, never get tired of it. This is well acted and the filming is almost perfect. The sound track is astonishing because the composer was one I hadn't really heard before.  Filmed in various places the level of effort shows and Polanski manages to 'whip us up' in the a completely fantastic belief structure and leads us to a conclusion we cannot have foreseen.  The sound track alone is worth having. This is, once again, based on the notion that there are 'dark forces' which are ever present, but only visible to those who know where to look. Approach evil and you will be sucked into it. Don't think that this won't work, it does. Buy it! It's just what you need for a Saturday afternoon. If nothing else it's a lesson in the brain's ability to believe silly things . . . if only for the duration of the film. The excellence of the filming, editing, acting and music help to make the experience complete.

He's Just Not That Into You This was a great movie...however the amazon streaming was very poor. As such I will have to buy or rent a copy if I ever want to see it again. The movie highlights and depicts the phrase 'action speaks louder than words'....loved it!!!!

Over & Over & Over again.. This is one of the only movies that my 4 year old son can watch over and over and over without getting bored after a while. He loves it and I actually find myself watching along sometimes.

Fast Shipping This product was shipped very fast and it was exactly as described. There was an added bonus with a 5th DVD that we weren't expecting; Donkey's Christmas Special. Very happy with this purchase.

One of my fave's Classic Jane Austen story. I like the actors and the the quality of the film is wonderful. It is a film I watch over and over again!

Received mine today! I just received my #266 out of #2500 boxed set of Dark Shadows: The Complete Original Series (Limited Edition)! It is a d o r a b l e. The box is heavy and sturdy. The way the 32 spines, or individual DVD case inserts, were printed align to picture an at-rest Barnabas in his coffin. So completely cool. My signed card is in silver ink; not the red some of you guys have mentioned. I wonder how cool the red looks?! (I think tufted red velvet on the interior of coffin would have been absolutely perfect. NO complaints at all, however. This packaging is beyond awesome and obviously expensive.) Well, to all of us who have received them, congrats and happy viewing! To everybody else, buy one! You won't be disappointed. Thank you to MPI. Have fun!

Great quality! Great quality! Very happy with the purchase and this was a great gift from my husband for one of my all time favorite movies. A great gift for anyone who is a fan!

Pleased with this product. I have been thoroughly pleased with the prompt arrival and shape this movie came to me. It is an excellent movie and I look forward to enjoying it for many years to come.

Conway Twitty Gteatest Hits Glad to add this dvd to my collection , great songs and over all great video,  Fast shipping and even though it was used it was in like new condition

Chinatown Blu-Ray EXTRAS The Chinatown Blu-ray will be released April 3, 2012 and presented in 1080p high definition with English 5.1 Dolby TrueHD, English Restored Mono Dolby TrueHD, French Mono Dolby Digital, Spanish Mono Dolby Digital and Portuguese Mono Dolby Digital, as well as English, English SDH, French, Spanish and Portuguese subtitles.  Special features are set to include:  *Commentary with Robert Towne and David Fincher-- Towne and Fincher offer unique insights into this classic film.  *Water and Power (HD)-- In this three-part documentary, Robert Towne visits sites along the original Los Angeles Aqueduct for the first time.  He is informed of the social and environmental impacts and given insight into the major issues around the creation and ongoing operation of the aqueduct.  *The Aqueduct (HD)-- The City of Los Angeles completed the 233-mile gravity-fed aqueduct from the Owens Valley in 1913, under the leadership of a self-taught engineer named William Mulholland. L.A. Department of Water and Power representatives along with Catherine Mulholland, granddaughter of the engineer, discuss the development of the aqueduct and its contribution to the growth of the nation's second-largest city.  *The Aftermath (HD)-- For decades a large rural community was desiccated under the management of water rights by the City of Los Angeles over a vast area of the Owens Valley.  Legal victories beginning in the 1970's lead to successful reductions in environmental damages and the restoration of some natural habitats.  Historians, local ranchers and activists discuss the up-to-date impacts of the aqueduct and struggle to maintain a stable environment and community.  *The River & Beyond (HD)-- Prior to the building of the first aqueduct a century ago Los Angeles relied solely on its own local water supply: the Los Angeles River and its aquifer.  Today the river as a water resource is largely forgotten. Currently there are plans to re-develop the river to reduce L.A.'s dependence on imported water, reducing the environmental impact on distant communities, while creating parks and open spaces for the city.  *Chinatown: An Appreciation-- In this featurette, prominent filmmakers express their personal admiration for the film: Steven Soderbergh - Director ( Traffic), James Newton Howard - Composer ( The Dark Knight), Kimberly Peirce - Writer/Director ( Boys Don't Cry), and Roger Deakins - Cinematographer ( No Country For Old Men).  *Chinatown: The Beginning and the End  *Chinatown: Filming  *Chinatown: The Legacy  *Theatrical Trailer (HD)  *Cover artwork using the original theatrical poster  *Collectible booklet.

Interesting.  Great cinematography. Sorry to say, this is not very scary.  I love vampire movies and while I admire the abilities of the actors to tell a story without speaking I have seen many vampire movies that are a lot scarier.  The appearance of the vampire was interesting, and nothing like other Dracula movies.  The musical score was also very good.  But some of the scenes verged on the "You've got to be kidding, right!"  The scene of Dracula carrying his coffin were actually kind of funny, or maybe I should say, quite odd.  And his bug-eating servant was also interesting.  And what's up with Dracula walking around in the daytime?  The level of a willing suspension of disbelief is quite high!  But it is an interesting film and the cinematography is lovely.  I had of course heard of this film.  It is legendary, but it was just not very scary.  I would say I was only mildly creeped out, and never actually got to scared.  And I like my vampires sexy, like Frank Langella.  That's my favorite Dracula.

Bmielke2 What a great movie. This movie has it all. I am glad it finally became available on DVD. This is one of the best adventure films ever made. Many movies made today are fun to watch but after a few years they just collect dust. This movie is one you will enjoy year after year. It has romance, action, hardship, and the effects of war. It's a story of two people who really don't like each other at first but are forced to work together to survive. Along the way they learn to work together, see the good in each other, find love, and fight for a common cause even if it means risking their life.  Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn are excellent together and this timeless classic will go on delighting new audience's for generations to come.

VERY SCARY!!!!!! This movie is really good if are a fan of scary movies you will not regret to rent or own this movie. Full of Terror, horrible voices and faces, something  you can not forget in  long time

A rats tale This is a very informative episode of American justice detailing the undercover operative "Donnie Brasco". The real Brasco tells you how he infiltrated the mob and at times feared for his own life. The evidence he gathered and his testimony dealt a huge blow to the mafia. Anyone interested in organized crime will want to add this to their collection.

And we're supposed to look forward to the 2016 Rio Olympics? How did they get away with making such a film??? I kept asking myself this question. What if politics would be as brutal in our country? So far, this has been Brazil's highest grossing movie - ever. A movie that is made very much like a fancy documentary must have some truth that's very appealing to the average person if it achieved such a status. Yet the main character is fictional, and the movie's leftist undertones may have appealed to the majority of Brazilians, especially to those cable-dependent living in the slumps. Very tense and emotional, with a lot of militia & gang violence. Life seems to be cheap in Brazil - votes is all that counts in the end. Out of a room full of politicians at the end of the movie, maybe 5 or 6 were considered honest ... and that takes guts for producers not just in Brazil, but in any country. Great entertainment. The DVD / Blue Ray Pack is great. Unlike some cheap "combos" by Canada's Alliance which sells disks that are Blu Ray on one side and DVD on the other, this set contains 2 separate disks.

Mermaid Tale 2...Pretty Cool This sequel to 2010's Mermaid tale continues to develop the story around the conflict between Merliah's human and mermaid heritages. As with any such conflict, Merliah's ultimate happiness depends on her ability to reconcile both in her life.  I personally thought this movie was better than the first one.  As a parent, I really liked the messages about working together, forgiveness, overcoming adversity, learning to accept yourself and find joy when your life faces dramatic changes, facing your fears, and especially that there are more important things in life than winning.  I especially liked the closing scenes because of the message that some things are more important than beating the competition and that life can honestly feel a lot better if we allow other people to share in our successes. As a fan of the Barbie movies in general, I was thrilled that Kelly Sheridan voiced Merliah.  For me the voice artist change wasn't a deal breaker, but I definitely prefer Ms. Sheridan as the voice of Barbie. And, my daughter also really liked this movie.  There continued to be an emphasis on celebrity that I'm concerned about as a parent, though I was happy to see that while there was some commercialism in this movie, it wasn't as over the top as it has been in some of the recent Barbie movies.  Though, on that note, the preview for Fall's Barbie movie, Princess and the Popstar, has me thinking that the Barbie line is going to continue it's emphasis on celebrity, which isn't thrilling.  I also am concerned that this seems to be a reworking of the Princess and the Pauper concept, which I thought they did so well the first time that they ought to just leave it alone.  But that is the next movie...For Mermaid Tale 2, I would definitely recommend this movie.

Better and better Having read the books before seeing Tom's movies, and being a big Robert B. Parker fan, Selleck would not have been my first choice to play Jesse Stone.  But after 7 movies I'd have to say that he owns the character, the laconic drunk with "issues" who can't help but do the right thing, whatever the cost.  Parker is a master at creating flawed characters and Selleck brings this one emphatically to the screen.  The supporting cast is excellent and one has to wonder what will become of Jesse's growing friendship with the Boston gangster.

great cast Hilarious movie, perfectly cast about a guy that had an embarrassing moment at a high school graduation party. Not being able to get the girl of his dreams(his best friend) because he is overweight, he leaves his home town forever going on to L.A. to work as an agent for the music industry. He becomes super successful and good looking with a great life. While chaperoning a difficult singer to Paris,(Anna Faris in a role she was born to play) their plane makes an emergency landing outside of his old hometown. This being the first time back in ten years, since his embarrassing send off, he has to deal with all the drama he left behind and reconcile with old friends, including the love of his life, his best friend. He soon realizes although he has changed so much, the old feelings for this girl and his own insecurities from high school come roaring back in a big way. Great cast of characters and lots of laughs. One great role is that of his mother, played by Julie Hagerty, from Airplane fame. Hilarious ( Joyce, Joyce?) everyone is terrific and really puts their own mark on the movie. Good storytelling and memorable scenes. A must see!!!

all I can say is WOW! The movies are just as riveting as the books...true to the story, excellent casting and outstanding performances by all. Again, all I can say is WOW!

The Commandments: Blu ray September 2012 The quality of the image with its clarity and richness of colour is a sight to behold. This is what blu ray is all about. As for the film itself, it is a typical Cecil B. production - great story telling with a sweep and grandeur that one doesn't experience in the current cinema, but with a simplistic mix of sex and religion that leaves a lot to be desired. The special effects are not up to those seen in the movies of today, but they are presented with passion and conviction that make this a treasured movie experience. Buy and enjoy one of the glories our our cinematic past.

Excellent Quality On BluRay!!! While waiting for this pre-ordered BluRay to arrive (nervously pacing back and forth in front of the mailbox for 3 weeks straight), I was hoping and praying for an excellent BluRay experience - both a good transfer to disc and a good restoration process. Being well aware of what the best of BluRay can offer, and in view of the fact that this has, for so long now, remained with me as one of my all-time favorite films, I just didn't know if I would be able to stand it if the whole thing had somehow proven to be below par. But from my first glimpse of the remarkable hues, details and textures of that very first, opening and dramatically iconic, full-height pan of the imposing visage of Woody Strode, standing there, motionless in the doorway of that isolated and dusty train depot, I could tell that in all likelihood I was in store for something special - and, as it turned out, indeed I was from beginning to end. This disc has an extrordinarily film-like quality to it - the level of which is rather astonishing and it is infinitely pleasing and rewarding to find this sort of viewing experience associated with a film of this caliber (not always the case with BluRay) - but, both picture AND sound are top notch! I haven't even soaked in all the extras yet, but I really don't care - this transfer of this movie is itself all that and a bag of chips! What a treat it is to feel, with each and every scene, that you are finally seeing and hearing (so much of it as if for the first time) everything the filmmakers wanted you to! All of it only serves to enhance the indeed emotional, dramatic and cinematic depths of, without a doubt, one of the finest westerns ever made - from the rugged coarseness of up-close, more-than-3-day-old beard stubble, to the expansive openness and bell-like clarity of the magnificently sweeping shots of Monument Valley, to the inspired metaphoric use of the slow, rhythmic and (enhanced to new, virtually chest-thumping levels) deathly laboring chuffs and puffs of an idling locomotive - all equally unforgettable. And in fact you can't pass up, as well, the memorably mythological dialogue and cinematography, both so entrancingly paced, that is within and IS this film - or, as I believe it was once put before: "the poetic myth of it all, and all of it poetic myth". Yes sir, any way you care to slice it, sitting down to view THIS BLURAY presentation of Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West is an event. If you love this movie even half as much as I do, you need to stop whatever else you may be doing and go over and click on the order button for this one - like, right NOW!! And it's OK, the price is right, too! Enjoy!

Unique film from a hit or miss director. Director Brad Silberling isn't the greatest director to ever come out of American film but given that he was trained by working in television and then was even chosen by producer Steven Spielberg to direct his first film says that he is a worthy talent. After 10 years of working in television, Brad Silberling began a friendship with Steven Spielberg, who felt he was the right choice to direct a film which he was producing. The result was the 1995 blockbuster, Casper. While not the greatest film ever made, Silberling proved that he could handle a big budget special effects production and he didn't even have one film to his credit before then but also he showed how he could work well with actors and bring out solid performances. While I'm not defending Casper as a masterpiece, I think it has some inspired moments of comedy and drama in it that dealt with loss of a loved one and how to carry on from such a tragedy. The only thing I could have done without was the last minute of the film where the cast dance along to a Little Richard cover of the popular Casper theme song. Other then that, the movie works well.  Silberling then decided to make a more grown up film but still dealt with the same themes of his first feature, the result was City Of Angels (1998) which was an American remake of the popular art house film Wings Of Desire from 1987. Again, not what most would consider a masterpiece but it still showed Silberling's talent with working with actors and it was also a well made film if you ask me. The heavily emotional scenes with Nicholas Cage and Meg Ryan caught the attention of acting legend Dustin Hoffman and then Silberling was able to make his dream project for his third film.  Moonlight Mile (2002) is loosely based on a real experience. Silberling was dating actress Rebecca Schaeffer in 1989, who was killed by an obsessed fan. This unfortunate event inspired the idea for his most personal and best film to date. I won't give away too much in this review but I felt that this was a unique film about following your own heart and not focus on what is expected of you. Many films have done this in the past but Moonlight Mile has a different take on it because it is also about grief, keeping secrets and not opening up to people which I think makes it even more thought provoking and inspiring which I feel are the two most important elements to a film.  So check this one out when you have the chance. Again, not the greatest movie I have seen in my life but it's still an interesting twist on subjects that have been repeated many times. Unfortunately, Silberling has made some weak choices as a director. I will not be defending his latest film Land Of The Lost with Will Ferrell but other then that, the rest of his work is rather impressive and while he hasn't reached the same heights as Steven Spielberg or many other directors who work in the genre he works in, he almost got there with this film. Let's hope if he does make another film, it will take us completely by surprise. We can only hope. I would also like to add that this movie is named after a really great song by The Rolling Stones which plays during one scene in this film. It includes a killer soundtrack with many artists from the 60s and 70s including Elton John, Bob Dylan and my personal favorite Van Morrison song called Sweet Thing appears in the film.

awesome show! zombie apocalypse, a rag-tag band of friends, dry humor, and a desperate dash for the Winchester. one of my favorite movies for sure.

What a Tangled Web We Weave. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0013XZ6X4">Atonement (Widescreen Edition)</a> This is a story about a lie that changed the lives of all the people involved.  James McAvoy plays Robbie Turner, son of the housekeeper who works for the upper class family he has known since he was a young boy and where he meets Keira Knightley, playing Cecilla,older daughter of the family. The difference in class is forgotten as the two fall in love. There is a younger sister, Briony, played by Saoirse Ronan who has a crush on Robbie and through jealousy fabricates a serious case of abuse against Robbie which causes his imprisonment.  When World War II begins, Robbie joins the military and is sent to France. Cecilla becomes a nurse and Briony who is now 18 realizes what she has done and tries to atone.  There are some marvelous scenes. Most memorable: Robbie and his buddies walking alone through war torn France trying to find their regiment. The shots of Dunkirk are really earth-shattering. The best I've seen.  The music is great.  The leads play their part superbly and you can feel the attraction between Robbie and Cecilla. The young nasty lier, Briony is played very well by Ronan and the older, kinder, trying-to-atone Briony, by Romola Garai. The entire cast, including the narration by Vanessa Redgrave as a middle aged Briony, now a writer, is outstanding. Great movie and great director, Joe Wright.  Give yourself a treat and buy it.

Yay!! I got it before eta and in great unopened condition. Was a shock it showed up so quick. Less than a week. Very thankful. Happy holidays!

Great re-telling of Shakespeare in a modern setting. The setting may be in modern times, but as with Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet, Fiennes sticks with Shakespeare's incredible dialogue.  I don't think there's ever been a writer who could say so much with so few words.  Listening to the dialogue is just like listening to a Beethoven symphony.  However, if you find it difficult to understand some of the expressions or the syntax used in the movie, Fiennes provides a very descriptive commentary track that will get you up to speed - really one of the best commentary tracks I've listened to with a movie.  In fact, it's so good that you MIGHT want to watch the movie with the commentary track FIRST and then watch again without it.  This one should definitely become a classic.

Top flight resistence thriller The plot has been described elsewhere. I will just say this; if you like World War 2 espoinage/resistence thrillers with sporadic action scenes and heavy on plot/suspense you will love this film. Enough twists and turns to make Hitchcock's head spin. The bad Nazi Gestapo guy is an "intellectual" who attempts to reason with Flame in order to bring him to the "dark side" (shades of "Luke, you do not know the power of the dark side" - LOL!!). You literally do not know who to trust, the film draws you in so tightly. AND...just when you think you understand?....the ending shocker hits you in the gut!! The Bluray transfer is great - wonderful blue grey hues for the German army uniforms, jet Black for the SS, etc. LOL!! Being a foreign language film just adds to the realism. My vote for one of the best resistence films EVER MADE!! Highest recommendation!!

Incredible movie! I haven't seen a movie recently that still holds a place in my memory as does the North Face. It's one of those that lingers for it's emotional impact it leaves with you. An absolute treasure!

The heart pounding intesity of  "The Original There is a reason such emphasis is placed on the original form of any media . Film . Television . Book . Newspaper , etc . Technology may permit greater realism but owes it's source material ALL the intellectual property . I had the great fortune of just seeing the Criterion version of this film via a streaming source . I'm stunned by the effort , skill , ambition and literate power of this 1932 film . I shouln't be though . So many films owe their very existence to this magnificent pearl . A serving selection ? Always select "The Original" when given the/a choice . Thrilling and GREAT . On my VERY short list of MUST own films .

The funniest comedy ever! Young Frankenstein is delightfully funny with very understated humor. When we saw the movie in a theater, I laughed so hard at the scene with the blind man and the monster that my stomach muscles ached for days.

Classic Nostalgia The transaction was easy and it shipped much faster than I expected! Gifted with the standard holiday collection, and it was a hit. Would recommend.

Region Free BluRay Movie A1 Quality This is the ultimate version both the UK & the US version's of the much loved Legend (Tangerine Dream & Jerry Goldsmith Score Music)The choice is up to you to listen & watch what version of the movie and it plays on United Kingdom (region 2 B )the quality is amazing better getting this version as it will be cheaper than the uk release later on in the year.

Worth buying!! When I saw this in theaters, I wasn't sure what to expect. At first I was annoyed to see that it was going to be split up into two film installments. However, I was pleasantly surprised when the credits started rolling. I went back to see it three more times! The first half of the book was good but a tad slow, and the filmmakers made sure this wasn't the case for the movie. They created a proper balance of comedy, action, and character development. If you like the Harry Potter series, you will not be disappointed. Needless to say, I'll be getting my copy on DVD when it hits shelves on April 15th!

the ultimate Superman sequel I won't give the plot, since that has been given thousands of times. But for years we grew up with the Lester version of this movie, and while it wasn't great, yeah it was bad. Until recently, after the updated versions of late 80's movies on DVD, and Superman the movie, the behind the scenes bickereing between richard Donner and the salkynds came out. I won't bore everybody with that story, since it's been told a thousands times as well. Needless to say, we have richard Donner's cut of Superman II. AND IT IS AWSOME, for those who don't like it. Must like mediocrity, as shown in Superman III. Point one, the story had always been between Jor-El and Kal-El. Not with the mother, thus the giving up his power scene is more powerful, when His father tries to talk him out of it. Kind of like a normal father would when their children are about to do something that in the long run would be a harmful decision for them, and the fact that Lois is wearing Superman's shirt during that scene. Just priceless, also the repowereing scene. In Lester's version all we get is him seeing the glowing crystal, walking over to it picking it up. And Cut to Metropolis, and the battle. But here, again, Jor-El forgives Kal-El, But the consequences for his actions, are that Jor-El, sacrafices himself to give Kal-El back his powers, sacraficially I might add. And yes, I like the ending. It was always going to be the ending to this movie, not the god-awful memory losing kiss. And as Tom mankiewicz had said in the commentary, "only Superman should kiss Lois, not clark" Is this movie perfect, no. As Dick Donner himself said, if he could, he would go back and change a few things. But he can't, all in all. It's hands down better than Lester's version, I'll quote Dick Donner in Closing "this story is about Verisimilitude" Lester's wasn't

A SILENT CLASSIC SOARS TO NEW HEIGHTS IN HD In 1927 airplanes were big news. Charles Lindbergh made the first non-stop transatlantic flight and Paramount Studios released one of the last, great silent films, WINGS. The unprecedented production of this film epitomized the daredevil spirit of the '20's just as much as did Lindbergh's historic flight. It won the first Academy Award for Best Picture, and its thrilling aerial scenes remain among the finest ever filmed.  WINGS tells the story of two WW1 flying buddies (Buddy Rogers, Richard Arlen) and the girls they love (Clara Bow, Jobyna Ralston). This premise serves as the backdrop for the breathtaking sequences that take place on the battlefield and in the sky. While the story is necessarily simple, it's acted out with touching sensitivity so that we're easily moved by all the characters. The radiant Clara Bow is particularly good as the long suffering ambulance driver. Soon to be star Gary Cooper has a brief but memorable scene as a cadet.  To those of us who watch a lot of silents, the greatness of WINGS comes as no surprise. Filmmaking in that era was pretty gutsy stuff. CGI was unheard of, and rear projection - or process photography - was still experimental. Often times the only way to get certain shots of a spectacular nature was to film the actual event - no faking it. WINGS was expertly directed by William "Wild Bill" Wellman who was himself a WW1 pilot, and whose crew consisted of professional stunt fliers who really took those planes to the heights we see in the film. Even leading stars Buddy Rogers and Richard Arlen had to fly their own planes for many of their scenes.  Paramount's Blu-ray of WINGS is jaw dropping - the image clarity leaps from the screen. We must be very close to what audiences saw in 1927. There's two soundtracks: the original, re-recorded score by S. J. Zamecnik with sound effects, and an organ score by Gaylord Carter. I prefer the Zamecnik/sound effects track because it enhances the entire viewing experience. The special features are all excellent: A documentary that raises appreciation for the enormous effort that went into its making; also one on how it was painstakingly restored; and a segment on WW1 dogfighting tactics.  This is without question a five star release that fulfills any classic film lover's highest expectations.

great price was alittle sceptical buying a used movie onlie at first. found a good price from a "reputable seller". ordered my movie and BAM!!! it was awsome. greay shape no skips case in good shape. movie playes perfect. im hooked. buying all my movies from amazon here now on

Thought provoking I don't understand all the negative reviews of this movie. Much along the lines of Matrix, 13th floor and eXistenZ before it is a thought provoking look into a future that might not be as far off as we would like to think.  Don't let the bad reviews put you off, judge for yourself. I believe this will become a cult classic.

Simply Heartbreaking My daughter turned me onto this movie, which was required watching in her college Italian class.  I was sold when she told me she involuntarily cried a bit in class.  The fact that someone under age 21 could be moved by an old black & white movie in a foreign language sold me.  I'll admit up front that we are an Italian-American family but I don't think you need that ancestry to appreciate this movie.  In its own quiet way, it paints a clear picture of post-WWII Europe -- no food, no jobs, no hope.  When the main character goes to the pawn shop to retrieve his bicycle and you see cavernous rooms full of sheets and other household and personal items that people had to sell in order to survive, it is beyond comprehension for those of us who have grown up in comfort and the relative affulence of the US.  And the little boy in the movie is simply amazing.  He is an old soul occupying a child's body.  Whether he is at his job pumping gas or running around Rome after his father, his little face moves seemlessly from adoration to worry to hurt.  When he is mopping the tears from his face with a handkerchief, I found myself doing the same.  Movies like this should be required viewing so future generations don't lose sight of what happened during the world wars.  When I see all these various "Occupy" groups camped out in public places in major cities around the US, pretending to be roughing it in protest against corporate entities, they are still working their modern conveniences of cell phones, ipads and propane stoves.  Suffering and pain depicted in movies like the Bicycle Thief gives you a whole new perspective on your good fortunes.  A great companion piece to read after watching this movie is the book "Christ in Concrete" -- the timing is off a bit, but it almost picks up where this movie ends in 1931 New York with the flood of immigrants looking for work.  Another thought-provoking piece.

excellent i just recieved my dvd of Moneyball and it works great, i'm pleased with the service. it came pretty fast to my house and i'm extremely happy

A Must See Film Yes I know this is a Cristian film, and that I am a Druid. Yet I can not help but love this movie. And no it is not because Nancy Valen is in it, though that did prompt me to watch it.  What I really love about this movie is its message, that can be used whether you are Cristian or not. The message is a simple one really, stay true to your belief no matter what horrors you are seeing in your world.  If you truly believe in what ever faith you have, then you will find the strength to overcome or deal any obstacle that has found it way into your life. There are enough funny moments, (mostly thanks to Mr. Law,) in the film to keep you entertained while delivering its serious message. -Review by McCollonough Ceili

Best 3D movie we've ever seen This is absolutely the best use of 3D movie technology we've seen yet. The effect was very realistic (an I'm deliberately using that term for a movie with a lot of CGI effects). The illusion of depth was amazing. It felt like we were actually looking through a window into another world.  We've waited to get a 3D setup until there was enough content available to make it worthwhile. Movies like this have definitely made it worth the wait. We're watching the credits as I write this, and they're 3D too. Very nice.

Bloody, Brutal ... but Brilliant A fascinating tale of moral redemption.  Images so powerful they linger in the mind hours after they've left the screen.  And the eyes, always the eyes ... the eyes of Evil, the eyes of Truth.  A young man (Hrithik Roshan) must tread the dark and difficult 'path through fire' -- lit., 'agneepath' -- of challenge and personal sacrifice to avenge his family against the crimelord (Sanjay Dutt) who brutally murdered his father, dishonoured his family, and corrupted their whole community.  If the classic 1990 "Agneepath" pioneered one of the strongest stories ever in film (and was way ahead of its time, for Hindi cinema), this 2012 "Agneepath" preserves the most effective elements of that brilliant original story and revamps what needed help. Our villain is even more evil, and the road of challenges our hero must overcome to defeat him is correspondingly an even darker, more treacherous journey.  Raw. Powerful. Primeval.  Sanjay Dutt's Kancha is a villain for the ages. Visually, he scared me just on the poster! A big, bad, very bad man. The bald head, the tattoos, the smile, the laugh, the spreading shapeless pale blobbiness of his huge bulk, and above all those hauntingly sick eyes, combine to render Mr Dutt's Kancha one of the most naturally frightening villains ever conceived. Where the original 1990 Kancha Cheena played by Danny Denzongpa was sleek and smooth and sophisticated, his evil was very modern and straightforward in open pursuit of power and wealth - and thus more familiar. Mr Dutt's Kancha, however, is pure psychopath: he destroys and kills because he LIKES it. And even though the audience understand how he became so twisted, that sickness makes him very scary indeed ... the visual embodiment of human evil.  What I could *not* anticipate from the trailers, though, is how Hrithik Roshan's Vijay Dinanath Chauhan would prove equally intimidating and visually frightening as Mr Dutt's Kancha: with those keen clear eyes knifing through his face awash in blood, Mr Roshan's Vijay looks purely the Avenger-from-Hell. Director Karan Malhotra effectively channels Mr Roshan's natural intensity into a human sword of vengeance - a quiet character who 'says' a lot from the shadows, projects mountains of lurking threat and menace, even where he has no dialogue. Again the eyes, always the eyes in this film! Never before had any director so effectively used the sheer glow-in-the-dark luminosity of Mr Roshan's eyes. The iconic 1990 Vijay created by the great Amitabh Bachchan (one of his most memorable roles) was significantly older and more verbally aggressive, the character more seduced by the trappings of power and wealth, only refocussing on his essential task toward the very end. By contrast, Mr Roshan's Vijay leads a haunted, almost monk-like existence, never losing focus down the years toward destroying his enemy. Obsessed, relentless, deadly - and a perfect showcase for Mr Roshan to demonstrate, yet again, his great dramatic range as an actor.  Mr Roshan and Mr Dutt are so riveting in this film that any scenes they are not in, separately or together, honestly feel like a distraction.  Despite 12 intervening years these two great actors have lost none of the chemistry that powered 2000's excellent "Mission Kashmir". Mr Roshan is slightly the taller actor, Mr Dutt significantly the heavier, but the two are so perfectly matched and the build-up so well laid that by the climax of this "Agneepath" audience anticipation could not be higher ... or more well-rewarded.  An unforgettable, 'must-see' film!  Special credit is due the highest standards of craft professionalism that distinguish this 2012 "Agneepath", notably these departments: Cinematography (exceptional lighting and shot selection, especially with the principal actors); Sound and Sound Editing (variety and scope, silent private moments to mass public festivals, all perfectly managed); and Stunts/Fight Choreography (so many action scenes, but each distinct and cumulatively building to the truly epic climax).

Still a Classic I watched this movie when it first came out in the nineties. This movie is probably my most favorite of Kevin Costner's, just because everything was done right: costumes, time period, use of land, and many other things pertinent to the time period. It's just an overall great film.

Stone Cold Steve Austin his bio on DVD I would like to say I am glad I purchase this DVD it is loaded with tons of promos and some of the best wrestling matches he hand picked himself which I thought was cool.  Now with that being said I know there are some who probally would say I've seen most of these matches before on the Legacy of Stone Cold DVD so why waste time purchasing this, well to tell you the truth I didn't buy this for the matches I bought it for His bio. I wanted to know more about the man behind the character he protray in the ring. Even with that said I know there is some who would say I've seen half of that on the Stone Cold Truth documentary. But this is different because He takes you not only from the beginning but all the way to what he's doing now and I really liked that. I hope one day they will do one on the Rock Where they actually have sits down and talk about his life like the way Steve did on his DVD collection. Bottom Line 10 Stars!

Great Movie I've been looking for this movie, at last I owned it now on DVD. I received this today.  Right now I'm watching it here in my PC. And later when I get home , I'll play this on my player. Watch it all over again.

1968 Bat move Augh, memories - what a great movie - My kids love it!  So do I.  Go Adam and Burt!

Great product Very nice DVD/BluRay, shipping was very fast and the item was in perfect condition, still in shrink wrap. DVD is good for people who have never been to Disney and also great for people who have already been there, as it shares some things you may not be aware of.

trilogy of terror hey people if you want a good scare try this movie...............  i dont particularily remember the other 2 short movies also in this movie but i still cringe when i see or think of this movie, concerning the 1 with "karen black" in it!  the remake in 80's or 90's was nothing compared to this original.  if after watching this movie, and you dont forever more run around in a loincloth carrying a huge knife screaming "iya ya ya ya yahhhh iya ya ya yah yahhhhh"!  then you should report to your nearest mental health counselor

Great movie...loved it! My daughter read the book for school and recommended we watch the movie. You won't be disappointed. Great cast and great story.

Surprisingly Good Adaptation I loved the book and was doubtful that any 2 or even 3 hour movie would be able to cover so much of the plot. I was surprised by how good this movie is. I knew the plot well and found few changes or omissions that, in my opinion, mattered. The rooms, lighting and  views were as I imagined them while reading the book. This is a wonderful movie.

Legend - Directors cut I am a person who can't get enough of Legend. Anyone who has watched Legend should know there are two versions of Legend. It is packed into a two DVD set. One is the director's cut and the other is the U.S. Theatrical Version. The only difference that I know of is the Music. The U.S. version has music from Tangerine Dream, the Directors Cut has Jerry Goldsmith's music. Jerry Goldsmith's music is fine but not quit lively enough as Tangerine Dream's music. Now, The Directors Cut I do believe has more film footage in the film. I do like the extra footage and the differences in the Director's cut but in the U.S. version I love the music. I have seen comments on both sides for this movie. If you are a person who likes the movie either one is fine. Pick the one you like best and go with it. I like both for different reasons.

"Old Men" double feature Item was exactly as described.  In perfect condition and works wonderfully.  Very fast shipping.  I would highly recommend this movie.

Burton and Taylor are great but one disc un-playable Great performances by Burton and Taylor.  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is definitely a modern classic with both Taylor and Burton in top form.  My only negative remark would be that the disc of The Comedians I received is unplayable and when I contacted Amazon I was informed that the distributor is no longer carrying the Burton/Taylor Dvd set.  Amazon offered the option of sending it back for a refund, but I decided to keep it even with the unplayable dvd as  the other discs are fine and I wanted the set.

fabulous! The story and the acting are superb. Kudos to Julian fellowes for a fabulous production, can't wait for season three.

Addictive Series This series is perfect and follows well with the original storyline making it enjoyable for the fan-boys as well as new audiences who just love a good zombie show. I easily finished the whole season in a 2 day marathon.

Very entertaining We heard good things about this series but had never watched it. Saw it on special on Amazon and took a chance with the first two seasons. Really very entertaining and a comical look at life in the 10's.

klink I just love this movie. It is funny and romantic. The characters clearly have the right chemistry for each other. I love the setting which is in Ireland. It really makes you want to visit after watching. Perfect movie for this year.

Under the shadow of Robert Bresson Rosseta is a disturbing picture. Filmed according the precepts of the cinema verite so in vogue in the sixties, the film accuses a direct influence of Mouchette, a classic film of Robert Bresson.  Rosseta is a girl unable to hold in a job steadily, her mother is alcoholic and good for nothing, so Rosseta has to tabe the ride and let behind the used customes of a girl of her age, as a amatter of fact, she cannot establish a rapport with the outer world, she ignores how to dance and the emotional state is very unstable.  The nervous camera doesn't leave her alone for a single shot. It runs behind her and nothing else, the dialogues are straight and awful. Her cry of battle is to survive in the hostile world she has to live.  A winner film which deserved Cannes in 1999 and for Emile the prize of Best Actress. A genuine masterpiece but if you are not related with Bresson's filmography, you pitifully won't capture the essence of the film.

God Sent I watched this film after reading a good review in the San Francisco Chronicle.  I'm glad I did.  It is a wonderful (and heartbreaking) story more about the mother in the film than her gay son. Being a gay man born in the '60's I've known a lot of people who want to shove scriptures down your throat as way of fulfilling their own mission to please God. This is what the movie really addresses.  The story is heartbreaking when the mother in the movie realizes she may have been the very cause of her son's suicide.  What is inspiring is how she lives her life after the fact and comes to terms with her own weakness' and failings... that ALL people are struggling. It's also inspirational to watch her struggle and overcome her own prejuduges only to become stronger and more sensitive to the world around her. (Many people stunt their own spiritual growth by refusing to question their  beliefs.) Ms. Weaver does an excellent job of portraying the many dimensions her character requires. The extras on the dvd are as interesting to watch as the movie itself.  All churches should have a copy of this film in their library.

Good value We bought this set to prepare for a trip with our 2 yrs old. Good pictures.  No problem copying into smaller viewing device (iPhone) He loves the different Thomas episodes that comes with it along with all his friends.  Definitely cheaper vs. buying them at Target or etc.

I laugh when I read the 1-2 star Reviews! First of all, this movie needn't get another actual review from me, because there are too many reviews anyhow and mine would never be read. So rather than lecture on about how this is one of the best in the series (and it really is) I would like to address some of the 1 and 2 star reviews. I find it sad that people's ignorance and stupidity has to diminish the rating of this fabulous movie. Yes I know the ratings on Amazon really don't matter, but I really bothers me.  So to the reviewer that gave the movie 2 stars for not completing the Dobby's Burial scene and explaining Harry's choice between the Horocrux's and the Hallow's, you might like to know that is only Part 1. There is a freaking reason why they split the movie into 2 parts, that is because there were things that could not be pushed into a single film. Ever think they might address that in Part 2?  And to that person who rated the movie 1 star because he claimed he couldn't review the movie because he hadn't watched it yet, then why did you write that in the form of a review with 1 star?  Finally, to the person who states that it was a failure because he is a huge fan and it didn't meet his expectations, so he was going to leave the Harry Potter series, I wouldn't call that being such a huge fan.  I could go on and on and on, but I'll stop there.

Blugrass Dobro with Ivan Rosenberg I have purchased other Dobro teaching videos from more "famous" players, but Ivan Rosenberg's style is the best!  Much more of a teacher and less of "look how good I am".  Practical techniques and a dry sense of humor. Highly recommended.

No Mercy A great movie, what one would expect from Gere and Basinger, keeps you on the "edge of the seat."  Lots of suspense and violent action, just the thing for an action "junkie."

Great video My son saw this at a movie outing with his YMCA group and loved it.  Got it for entertainment on the road during vacation and he watched it at least 5 times.  A fun movie that he'll watch many more times.

Great movie This movie is awesome. I saw it when it first came out on VHS. I'm so happy that I found it on DVD. My friends I have fun watching it.

So good..... Spawn... this animated show is long and amazing the animation style is old a bit,  the show is Dark, a lot of blood a lot of nudity (american style animated nudity is NOT as impressive as japanese anime nudity) strong dramatic plot  great acting ! the people who do the voices are amazing in their work, I wish they kept making more of this show!  watch it watch it watch it!

State Fair Benefit Basket I put this movie in a basket along with tickets to the local state fair and other goodies to help raise money for cervical cancer reserch.  I am hoping who ever got the basket enjoyed the movie also.

Awesome Movie! This is definitely a must-own movie! I watched it twice the first weekend I had it. Great collection piece. Perfect for family movie nights!

Amazing! By far the best film of 2011; I saw it 4 times in theaters and I can't wait to own it on Bluray!

If your son likes airplanes... Get this movie! We have watched it hundreds of times. My son can recognize types of planes now, and he is two. I asked him where he wanted to fly me to and he said "New Zealand".  The mammoth series are great and fun learning videos for kids, and I like watching and learning too. We have so much to talk about now.

my movie I bought this movie for a gift. It came in perfect condition, speedy and no problem. It was at a bargain price, and I am very happy with the product.

Should be a classic This is a great movie with fast dialogue.  Cary Grant looks young and has great lines.  Much better than modern movies, most of this is filmed in one room, and is done in "real time."  The humor is hidden in some lines, while out in the open in other parts.  Would make a good school play because many characters have small parts.  A dead body is never on screen (except a silhouette for a couple seconds), so you have to use some imagination.  The aunts are hilarious.

The Biggest Loser British History Style Nine overweight Britons are divided into 3 period teams: Victorian, Edwardian, and 1920s, and put on various historical diets. It's presumably competitive to see which of the diets is most effective, but after one of them leaves in a snit, and it also becomes clear of the cast are more motivated than others, it's hard to gauge which is more effective than others, but the final conclusion made is that they all work, and health and fitness are more a factor of self-discipline than anything else.  The casting is a huge part of the appeal of this show, and makes it fun to watch. The eight overweight Britons who are left are charming and good-natured, and open about their own experiences with their body images, fat discrimination, and health concerns. The staff that monitors them is strict, scolding, and yet charming, too. The historian who runs the experiment is such a fat Nazi, calling them blobs of fat buried under lumpy clothes. He often chides the contestants about their comportment, manners, and lack of willpower. "Matron," the nurse, weights them and watches their health, but once she just lays into one guy after he grabs someone else's leftover desert, and tells him he can just enjoy that cheese when he's got his legs cut off when he gets diabetes, which he "surely will 5-6 years from now." There's the old school New-Age spirit, who teaches the cast (well, mostly the 1920s crew) about interpretive dance and naturism. And there's the grumpy butler, who openly thinks the contestants are bunch of misbehaved children.  One thing you learn is that there is practically nothing new when it comes to what we think of to do in weight-loss and health. The Victorians follow a low-carb diet; the Edwardians chew each bite 32 times; and the 1920s bunch follow a 1200-calorie diet with a lot of fruit and vegetables. The Victorians get ice baths (think of our modern-day ice swimmers); the Edwardians work out with weights; the 1920s crew get colonics (which some celebrities swear by today.) You see these things in their historical context, as well as some sporting activities which have been forgotten, like a "paper chase." Oh, and the contestants are often tested on their willpower, and some of them put on a performance with historical-era entertainment for the others, like an Edwardian strongman show. Anything that is dodgy may be presented (like eating a tapeworm to lose weight), but isn't done.  Oh, and everyone is in historical costume, and yes, as a result, 4 of the ladies have to wear corsets, even when working out. They rarely complain about it, although one says how exhausted she is after running around outside is her heavy crinolines and hoop skirt. You get so used to it that you're as pleased and amused as they are when they're back in modern clothes at the end, and the strict historian who's been in starched collar for weeks is just a nice-looking guy in a leather jacket. They all look great and happier in the end.  As a spoiler, I was really disappointed with the guy who left. Supposedly, he was a frontman for a band, but he leaves because he feels _so_ humiliated for having to wear a costume and put on the strongman show. The frontmen I've enjoyed are terribly shameless, no matter what they look like (think Jack Black), so his weight was just an excuse for his other failures. The rest of the cast open up despite their reservations about themselves and their abilities, and that makes you cheer and root for all of them. It was more fun and inspiring that I thought it would be.

One Of The Best Movies Out There I am 15 years old, and I have watched a lot of movies, and this by far is one of the best movie I have seen. This movie is touching and at times very unexpected. I higly recommend this movie.

Exelent adventure/fantasy movie. This is  new theme in fantasy, it combines the 1800's look with advance technology in everything like transportation methods etc. For another way, and maybe the reason the other 2 parts never came out (people protesting); was the use of words that in the world of the movie have a different meaning than ours, just like: demon, lord, witch..etc.  People though that because the writer is atheist, he tried some how to confuse children..and other abnormalities that only closed minded beings can believe.  Lots of action, adventure, suspence etc can be found is this 2 hour long movie...no matter what people said about the "vocabulary", is good for the enjoyment of all family members. :D

FUNNY!! Ricky Smiley is at his best. Watched it twice just to hear jokes we missed from laughing so hard. I would definitely recommend this DVD for a fun "date night" at home.

You'll love it! George Cochran and Harold Gridley are somewhat down-on-their-luck song and dance men who have to leave Melbourne, Australia in a hurry. Before they know it, they are caught up in intrigue and adventure, not to mention romance, on the road to Bali!  Road to Bali is the sixth of the seven Road To movies, and it's a good one. As you expect from the films, it's filled with lots of great Hope & Crosby humor, asides, slap-stick, and just about every other type of humor you can think of! It's a great family-friendly movie - clean and yet hilarious. You'll love it!  (Review of Road to Bali - starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour)

Great movie High suspense and non-stop action.  Liam Neison captivates your interest the whole movie.  Impressive stunts and fight scenes.  Can't wait to see the sequel!

the man. i got this disc set for christmas. i put it on my wish list and my girl got it for me. shes good like that. . this is a great set of discs that cover the 1968 comeback television shows elvis did. . elvis was the man. plain and simple. he gets up on that little stage and sings. plays guitar. talks to the crowd. its cool. this is a good set to put on the tv and just relax. i watched the first disc and then played the second and third while i read a book on the couch.  what book?  that doesnt matter.  just know that this is a good disc set and if your any sort of an elvis fan, youll like this. . get it. watch it. listen to it. . T.C.B.

Lisbeth Salanger kicks ass I have seen both versions of this movie and both of them recently.  I have tried to read the book but I am unable to invest myself into reading it.  However, the Swedish version of this movie had me on the edge of my seat.  Noomi Rapace gives a brilliant performance as Lisbeth Salanger, the girl knows how to kick ass.  She is so bad ass and shows her strength and her prowess on computers and will forbid any man who harms her or the ones she cares about to go unpunished and at the same time she shows a vulnerability, it is rare but it is there right below the surface of her stoic punk persona.  It is an amazing performance and I just do not understand how Rooney Mara who plays Lisbeth in the US version was nominated for her performance of Lisbeth.  It is a travesty.  You are unable to take your eyes away from Noomi's Lisbeth, she is so intense, compelling, and strong, you root for her all the way.  The Swedish cinematogrophy is chilling and beautiful at the same time.  I admire this production and although the US version is good, it is not nearly as good as David Fincher's Seven and Zodiac which were more intense.  The US version had the Hollywood varnish and the ending was so cliched.  The Swedish version had Lisbeth her own woman, no man will control her.  You have to watch the movie or read the book to know why, no spoilers here.  A riveting film.  Everyone will have their favorite version, but I honestly believe this Swedish original version is superior and I am from the US.

Awesome, could've been better.... I agree w/ alot of the mixed reviews...Hiro did spend TOO much time in Japan, and thus skewed the timeline. The strike did hobble the show, and the introduction of too many new heroes( Maya/ Alejandro, West, etc.)that were not directly tied to the core heroes of season 1 muddled the story somewhat,but the  revelation of who the Bogeyman of S.1( no spoiler from me)was  DELISH, and answered a huge ? as to a core hero's ability, and ties in so nicely with the company and their directives. It also delves deeper into the the Petrelli family, the Bennets,etc. Plus the murder, intrigue that we all crave! It gained traction, speed def after the middle of the season, tho, & segued nicely into season 3. Couldve focused more on the bomb plot ,the Company's origins,more into the Suresh family(the virus) had some cool flashbacks over the centuries( apparently they've been around that long!) into the timeline of hero origin( a main villan is over 400 yrs old!) Nothing but praise for Zachary Quinto's Sylar, more evil than ever!! And more vunerable also! Creeping towards the cliche, but over-all not too shabby :)

Captain America What a great movie. I loved the movie settings. I think the movie directors caught the feel of the 30's and 40's

I'm a Motown "Old School" Fool! I loved this so much that I purchased this several times as gifts for my "Old School" friends.  Buy this CD.  You won't be disappointed.

Flawed Christmas Classic! A lot of people out there seem to not really like Home Alone 2, but happily I do! I was 10 when this movie came out and now I'm 29 and I still enjoy it as much now as I did then, but maybe for nostalgic reasons now. This movie was ragged on for being even less plausible, more cartoonish, having more amped up violence and well being pretty much the same as the first movie just a different locale. And I guess I understand now being an adult all the problems with the movie, but for all of its faults there is just as many funny and warm moments which for me cancel out the problems. You can complain about a lot of things in this movie, but just sometimes it's better to let go, have fun and enjoy a Christmas movie. Plus I get great joy seeing bricks being thrown at someone's face lol

impressive and ghoulishly funny, one of Burton's best.. Original, sweet-tempered and enjoyable film which is one of my favorites among Burton's oeuvre. Ignored in life, mocked in death, Edward D. Wood Jr. was a real phenomenon in American cinema history, especially famous for his Z-budget filmmaking. Making a biopic about such a schlocky visionary reputed as the worst director of all-time is just a groovy idea, which only Tim Burton or Coen Brothers dare to do it.  Shot beautifully in moody black & white, the film centers on Wood's most "prolific" period, when he relentlessly churned out one movie after the next, from his 1953 beyond-awful debut "Glen or Glenda" to his "groundbreaking" 1959 sci/fi "Plan 9 From Outer Space". Paying a final tribute to this idiosyncratic director, Burton opts to portray Wood and his misfit menagerie in an overexaggeratedly sympathetic way, not to depict the darker side of his life. The film ends before his slide into porn, misery and alcoholism. The film charts Wood's tragi-comic career: his flagrant ineptitude as a writer, producer and director; his efforts to beat the bushes for cash; his indifferent, hyper-enthusiastic and over-optimistic disposition against all kinds of professional and personal setbacks; his sheer passion and child-like naivet&eacute;; his transvestite tendencies with a particular taste in fluffy Angora sweaters, blond wigs and high heels; and lastly his strange friendship with 70-year old sepulchral Hungarian actor Bela Lugosi.  The film is hilarious and witty from beginning to end, especially the recreation of certain scenes from Wood's original work (e.g. Lugosi's fight with a flaccid rubber octopus puppet and graveyard scene of "Plan 9 From Outer Space") are hysterically funny. But such a film desperately needs a some degree of gravity. The relationship and chemistry between Wood and Lugosi is the emotional core of the film. Johnny Depp gives a sympathetic and charismatic portrayal of Wood. But, this is Martin Landau who really steals the show, and he is the glue that holds the movie together. His performance is dazzling, conveying the ego, pathos, pride and real dignity of the former horror hero Bela Lugosi. This is the role which won him Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and he really deserved it.  To me, "Ed Wood" shows that life is not merely about success, fame or money; but rather about your creative spirit, and how much you cling to your principles and how much you love what you do. Burton portrays Wood as a winner, because he dared to make films yet he had absolutely no gift when it comes to filmmaking. Today, despite the fact that his films are used as a benchmark that the most awful films are measured by, that's not the problem at all.  The wonderful irony of the film is that it won two Oscars with the name "Ed Wood" written on it :))

Streets of Fire Still Blazing... While billed "A Rock and Roll Fable," Streets of Fire fell short of expectations; that is unless you took the chance and saw it.  It is a film that takes place in the back alleys of a town far far away, but yet not so far away.  Michael Par&eacute; creates a very believable bad, good guy looking to defeat to Willem Dafoe's bad, bad guy.  It is filled with great songs from blues to pop music with a little bit of everything for everyone.  And then, there's a music concert that pulls it all together.  Who would of thought funnyman Rick Moranis could be such a jerk in this film (a week later he was seen as Louis Tully in "Ghostbusters" reprising his true call to comedy) playing Diane Lane's "manager?"  An excellent film, to be sure...

Really makes you think Excellent film.  Really makes you think about a lot of things in contemporary society and why we seem so helpless to establish a united moral standard as a nation.  Recommend it for anyone who is concerned about the moral slide of society, regardless if they consider themselves inside and outside the established church.  The producer's personal story on the extra section of the DVD is excellent.

Mario C The story and animation was great. Beautifull color and special effects great.  I purchased the BLU RAY 3d Version. 3d not good buy the regular BLU RAY or dvd and youcan't go wrong.  Not sorry I bought it and I can play it in 2d and can enjoy it  Mario C

The quintessential "Space Marines" movie. I remember the first time I borrowed a VHS tape of this movie from the library. I had heard stories about this movie, and seen pictures, but nothing prepared me for what a rollercoaster ride of suspense and bad-ass action I was about to experience. This is the movie that every other man-vs-alien movie wants to be, but few have succeeded. If you haven't seen this movie yet, you owe it to yourself to watch it. If you have seen it, rest assured it got the royal treatment on Blu-Ray-- it probably looks better on this disc than it did back in theaters in the 80s, and as with its predecessor, you get both versions of the film and some nice special features. It's one of my favorite movies ever, and it's one of the best Blu-Rays you can buy. Unless you want to spring for the Anthology set, this is the best bang for your buck you can get with this movie.

The Neverending Story I remember watching this as a child and it really was a never-ending story - an epic of great proportions.  In fact, I was probably a lot like Bastian, really getting into the story and living it, and it felt like it went on for ages as you traveled with the characters.  As an adult, my first reaction was "wow, is the movie over already?"  It just went so much faster and while it still had charm, I couldn't believe the different perspective I had.  Bastian lives with his father after the death of his mother.  A small boy and quiet by nature, he is often the target of bullies.  It is on one day, when he is running from said bullies, that he stumbles into a store where an old man shows him a mysterious book called The Neverending Story.  Knowing he has to read it, Bastian slips out of the shop with the book (but assures the owner in a note he'll bring it back) and takes it to school.  There in the attic, he starts to read the book and becomes a part of a world called Fantasia, where the nothingness is taking over and the empress is dying and only a young boy named Atreyu can help save it.  But to do so he must go on a dangerous journey, where his wit and skills will be tested.  Characters: Barret Oliver: Bastian Bux Noah Hathaway: Atreyu Tami Stronach: The Empress Alan Oppenheimer: Falkor, Gmork, Rock Biter and the Narrator Moses Gunn: Cairon Sydney Bromley: Engywook  I don't really remember caring either way about Bastian as a child.  As an adult I find him a tad annoying, but at least his imagination and zest for reading is charming.  And he does seem like a realistic little boy.  Oliver did a good job filling the role.  Hathaway as Atreyu was quite good too.  He had to do a lot of different things in the movie and he pulled them off admirably.  He had the right amount of spunk that brave Atreyu needed as well.  The only other character that got a ton of screen time was Falkor and since he was a dragon, his voice was appropriately deep and commanding (as done by Oppenheimer).  He's a likable dragon though, with a certain jovialness to him that's appealing.  The other characters are all neat, but they play small roles and in my opinion, not used to the best of their abilities.  But they do paint the picture for what Fantasia is like.  This is an adventure movie.  It's based off of a book (which I have not yet read but will eventually) and I can't really say how well it follows the book.  I'm assuming well since it seems like the author had a big hand in how the movie was made.  As said before though, while this movie went slowly as a child, it moves very very fast as an adult.  Almost rushed.  So as much as I would like to give it the highest rating, there are some flaws there that nostalgia just can't fix for me.  This is a kids movie, and it's appropriate for kids, however, there are some very hard themes that are expressed in it.  Loss, violence, sorrow; just to name a few.  For being made in the eighties, this movie had some decent special effects.  The dragon Falkor alone was well done and lifelike, and even a bit scary for a young child.  Likewise the other characters had neat costumes.  The only thing I really found hokey would be the castle in the end, it was just a little out there.  But really, well done.  And then there's the music.  Epic music, I loved all of it.  Mainly because it brought back memories but there's just something so catchy about it all, and it was written specifically for the movie so it's very fitting as well.  This movie brings back a lot of memories, and while it's not quite what I remembered it's still very good.  It's one of those movies that all ages will like too so it's a good one for family night.  Enjoy this jewel!  Review by M. Reynard 2012

Another great show - that wasn't given chance. GCB is a witty original show that shows the lives of a group of Christian women - Texas style.  It's Texas - you go BIG or you don't go. The story about a reformed mean-girl who moves home to face those she tortured in high school. I wish ABC gave GCB a second shot -since the season finale turned out to be the series finale and left us with a cliffhanger of what is going to happen next. ABC - sometimes I think you don't know a great show when you have one but will keep a show that should have been canceled a while ago on for 9 seasons. Great show with a great cast!!

What a Story! This movie gets me right in the pump! So touching. Tom Hanks can play any part and the rest of the cast were perfect in their roles.  I could watch this movie again and again.

Satisfied I got this movie at a great price. I am in love with twilight. It was in really good shape. They shipped it out quick and I got it a lot earlier.

A look at war from the enemy's perspective War is hell,of hat there is no doubt.We tend to malign our enemies maliciously during times of crisis/war.In this instance the Japanese were portrayed as small,bespectacled dirty fighters often referred to as Nips or Japs.The truth was the Japanese were indeed hard soldiers to contend with on the battlefield,stopping at very little to win the tiniest piece of ground,even to the extent of banzai or suicide charges(on the ground-kamikazes in the air).But to propagandize the public and sheer up support for the war machine(very necessary in times such as WW2)these kind of images helped to propel the US and the rest of the allies ever onward to ultimate victory. Underneath the Japanese soldier lay....a human being like anyone else.Their Samurai code and service and discipline structures gave them an attitude which took the Western powers a while to get a handle on.When they finally did they took the fighting to the Japanese in their own style.30,40 years ago,this movie would not have stood much of a chance of getting noticed or being accepted altogether.Memories of those that fought against them were still very much tender.Even today it is still tough for those that fought in such hell holes as Iwo Jima,to accept another or different side to that piece of battlefield history.It was a bold step on Eastwood's part to undertake its making,but undertake it he did and to much acclaim. Letters from Iwo Jima(released in Dec/06) was the second release which dealt with that terrible battle.His first epic was Flags of our Fathers(told from the U.S. perspective),but personally I find this one much more compelling than the first.The story in "Letters" dealt with the small(in comparison)Japanese garrison ordered to hold the island at all costs.We see the day to day life amongst the troops and their struggle to survive on little hope,meager rations and a strict and unbending command structure.In fact what makes this movie work so well is the pall of the little hope this garrison has against the superior forces of the Americans.It is truly a miracle they accomplished and held out as much they did,as long as they did.We see the human but tragic side of the Japanese,a side we the Japanese antagonists have more often than not,just refused to see.Again it is a rational thought process as we,especially the soldiers themselves,would like to try and forget all the horrors that battle,as so many others of WW2,bring to mind.Many others would also say they got as good as good as they gave.Of that I cannot argue. This movie stirs up those and a plethora of other emotions as you watch it,but Eastwood's camera doesn't dwell on any one thing too long.The movie does not take a side,it projects what it was like to be a Japanese soldier during the battle for Iwo Jima,and nothing more.Eastwood,remarkably and successfully,juggles a very controversial topic masterfully.If it had been handled any other way it would have been a disaster. This two disc edition has been transferred beautifully and is clear and crisp in its original widescreen a/r.Extras are abundant and include:A featurette on the making of the movie,a look at the cast members and a clip from the 2006 premiere and press conference in Japan for the movie. A highly recommended DVD for war buffs out there and for everyone else looking for good plain entertainment.The movie takes no sides and Eastwood and company gives a surprisingly accurate portrayal of the life of the Japanese soldier during one of the most bloodiest battles of the Pacific during WW2.

Awesome Story! I read some of the reviews on alot of these videos and I have to say...Some people have too much time on their hands. I used to read comics looong ago and have watched some of these on catoon network, so I bought them. What else can you say? They are cartoons and are meant to be enjoyed; not critiqued to death for not being what some people think they should be....Anyhow, this was a fun movie and it is definately meant for an older crowd. Pop it in and enjoy!

BLU-RAY REVIEW You've adored the film; now here's a print you can finally adore. Neither laserdisc nor DVD ever gave this beloved movie its due. It always looked grainy and the colors were always washed out to a dull brown. Apart from the opening shot which still looks pretty cruddy, as soon as the action starts we're treated to dazzling colors and a sharp, vivid picture. Newman's eyes never looked so blue.

Exactly what he asked for... My little man loves Ghostbusters and asked for the movie! He was very excited to see that "Santa" had brought it to him!

Humanism triumphs over petty minded people I saw this movie last night. My mother had recommended it. It was excellent. Classic Cary Grant. But more important to me was the story it told. People Will Talk is a  1951 remake of a German film that came out the year before and the plot is basically Humanism vs. traditionalism. As a Humanist, I loved it.  The basic story is that you have a doctor practicing what we now call Humanistic Medicine who is a) being challenged for unethical conduct by a colleague and b) who falls in love with a pregnant woman, which is obviously scandalous for the time. But what gets people talking is actually his mysterious friend who is like a man servant to him, but who is actually just a very good friend. This friend has his own story that again, highlights the applied humanist ethics of our lead character. And yes, it is very powerful.  Dr. Praetorius, our lead, runs a clinic where patients are considered humans and not inmates. They are real people to be treated with compassion and not just as lumps of flesh to be cured. As much attention is paid to their mental health as it is to their physical health. And if you were wondering why more doctors don't practice medicine this way, you will be glad to know that there is a modern movement to encourage doctors to approach their work with exactly this attitude. It is promoted by the Gold Foundation (for Humanistic Medicine).  Dr. Praetorius' relationship with the woman pregnant out of wedlock and her family is compassionate, ethical, and responsible and ultimately very loving. As is his relationship with his friend Shunderson. Shunderson is a beautifully written character and well acted by Finlay Currie.  This movie covers a variety of difficult topics but ultimately encourages all of us to lead ethical and compassionate lives and to do what is right by others. It doesn't matter that people will talk, as Dr. Praetorius shows, there is joy to be found living life ethically, fully, intentionally and compassionately.

Inteligent, surprising, full of humour, with great casting and one very tragic character How come, that the secret of making movies which could be THAT good, seems to be lost? No matter how long you look, you will not find in the contemporary cinema a movie which would be so smart, funny and tragic in the same time as this one. Well, ladies and gentlemen, behold here one of the most legendary masterpieces of western - and three giants of American cinema: James Stewart, John Wayne and Lee Marvin.  This is a highly symbolical story about the barbary being beaten away by the civilisation, the crime being reduced by law and the chaos of wilderness being replaced by order. The symbol of barbary, crime, chaos and violence is a jubilant, agressive, vile and primitiv bandit, called Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin). He is so horrible that almost strangely appealing, a force of nature which can fascinate - until we actually see his victims... He will be confronted by a young lawyer (James Stewart), who came to the Far West trying to establish a law practice, but who, in a lawless town, will end washing dishes.  Now, James Stewart was not a whimp (he actually ended the WWII as general of aviation - the only Hollywoodian actor who went as far in military) but in this movie he portrays the total opposite of Liberty Valance - he is civilised, non-violent, polite, reserved (although well spoken), in fact he seems a little dull compared to the bandit. Until the day when he grabs that gun and (still wearing an apron!) walks toward the deadly bandit...  But the actor who is the reason for which this movie is such a masterpiece is the Duke himself - John Wayne. This is one of his most important, most complex and possibly the most tragic roles. His character represents what we have to loose when the heroic and barbaric times end - we gain civilisation, peace, law and order. But we loose also something - and although finally we get a fair deal, it is still painful. Even if you hate John Wayne, you will feel for his character in this movie - and you will be impressed by his acting.  This movie is not linear - the story of this one gunfight and its consequences is told twice, and before that we are going from one time to another. The plot is watertight - everything falls in place at the end with the precision of a Swiss clock mechanism. And the final punchline of this partly tragic but finally very funny film will simply blow you away! This is a treasure of the world cinema - a classic to see and then see again.

A movie for everyone, not just fight fans This movie is one that any boxer fan should see and a movie that any boxer or boxer trainer absolutely must see. Although I am a professional boxer trainer, I must mention that this movie isn't a movie just for boxing fans. Anyone who enjoys a good story of someone who struggled against the odds and still succeeded will enjoy this movie.  In a sense, this is also a family film because it demonstrates the importance of family values and what it means to never put anything such as your profession or dreams before your family, and that you don't have to comprise family in order to accomplish your goals.

Wonderful Film for Familty Night Not sure why there are so many bad reviews here other then this version is not as musical as the first. There are not really any songs in this sequel (except for the goat and one or two by wayne newton though they are short scenes)...something that was lost since Anne Hathaway didn't play Red this time. Also, they didn't follow the general formula of the first which was to take a fairy tale and disassemble it from 3 perspectives. That being said though, the storyline was sweet and engaging (just as much as the first if not more as this time around there were a couple really wonderful life lessons mixed in with the humor) Myself, husband, and our 10 yr old son spent the whole movie laughing (as we did with the first) and we loved it. The animation was charming, the storyline and dialog was funny, and over all we had a great time as a family. Twtichy (who stole the show for us first time around) had a ton more lines and was hysterical. All in all, if you are looking for something you can watch with your kids and all enjoy, this is a wonderful movie for just that occasion :)

Really fun to watch This show is action packed, funny and engaging. Not to mention it has Bruce Campbell! I really love how they go about creating A-Team like scenarios for our heroes to overcome. We had been sorely lacking that. It almost makes you feel like if you paid enough attention to this show, you just might be able to survive an attack on your home by a drug cartel if you had to. Basically, you kind of feel like a badass by association to this show.

Forks over Knives This is indeed a great movie/ documentary. If a person does not now question our food supply in relationship to our health, you will after watching this. The serious scientific studies that were done here are absolutely right on. Great job.

Act of Valor I did not just see a movie ,I had an experience. I was not in the military, but I do have a respect,admiration, and a total gratitude for the men and women that serve our country.   As for the film,I was totally submurged in what I saw and was both thrilled by the action and brought to tears by the sacrifice. This is a must see movie .

Classic If you were a fan of the attitude era. You know the Story between these two great stars. What an awesome look at what behind the scenes reactions between them. This is a must own.

Ladies & Gentlemen, THIS is the Rolling Stones! If you only own one DVD/BluRay performance of the Rolling Stones, this should be it. Smallish stage, none of the distractions of monster blow up dolls or other contraptions, no backup singers, no horn section, just the Stones and their piano player and a pretty much unseen organ. Not that the horns and Lisa Fisher, Bernie Fowler, et al don't add to the show on a larger stage, they most definitely do, but this is the Stones in about as basic a form as you will find them.  The sound is superb. The video is as it should be, and likely the best it could be given the original medium. The performance is non-stop, with Mick being especially "playful", especially in grabbing Ronnie where he might not ought to have. Bill Wyman is as Bill Wyman was, appearing suitably bored throughout. But, who went to see Wyman anyway? Keith was on, how that happens is always a mystery, as was Ron Wood, though Woodie didn't seem quite as animated as he is at times. Charlie is his rock steady, never miss a beat self. Overall, it is a Jagger focused show as usual, with just enough time on the rest of the band to know they were there with him.  Overall, this is my favorite Stones video, and I have them all. Maybe that opinion might change if the Brussels Affair is ever released on video, if you have an isp or proxy outside the US you can download a flac version of the Brussels Affair audio from the Stones marketing website and it is quite good, with Mick Taylor on guitar, and very up tempo. So I am hoping that show makes it onto video before too long. Meantime, enjoy Some Girls-Live in Texas '78 (and perhaps you can remember their names).

To Kill A Mokingbird This is a classic.  I would recommend it to anyone who likes to read.  It doesnt' get better than this.  The movie is just as good, but I prefer the book. I read it every two years and I always get a new prespective every time.  Everyone should read this book every two years.

You don't need to read the reviews, just get the movie... God of my fathers!  This is the most beautiful and stunning version of this movie.  Don't waste your time reading all of this, trust me, just get the blu-ray and enjoy!

Christmas gift My 36 year old son requested this movie for a Christmas gift, so I rated it according to how much we liked the first one.

Emma and Nelson. As a part of my history doctorate thesis I have decided to purchase the movie "That Hamilton Woman" which is a classic of british filmography. Produced during WWII it displays the torrid romance between Lord Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton at the end of the XVIII century. The two british actors Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh were supreme in their roles. I recommend vividly this wonderful motion picture. At the same time Amazon.com service was fast, precise and reliable. I have received the product in a short notice.

Good for beginners I would recommend this video to those who are looking to ensure they are doing the poses correctly and/or want to have a yoga addition to other workouts.  The morning routine is basic and good for beginners, the evening routine is nice and short, and can be used as a cool down after another work out as well.  I use this when looking for a more generic yoga workout and interchange it with the AM yoga video with Rodney Yee, which is a bit more advanced and includes workouts that are more targeted.

Excellent A surprisingly touching, entertaining, action-packed drama/thriller that is a much a tear jerker as it is a satisfying roller-coaster ride.

WE R MAGIC BUBBLES !!! Excellent collection of episodes. Watched it every night, all night for 10 days with my 2 y/o son cuz we were overseas, my son was up all night due to jetlag, and they didn't have Nick Jr there - don't know who enjoyed it more, me or him. This collection includes some of the most addictive songs, especially magic bubbles, animals, and adventure. Would highly recomend it.

childhood returned Gentlemen, we can rebuild him.  We have the technology.  We have the capability to make the world's first bionic boy....   Son, your first mission is to bring in those schoolyard bullies who beat you up while the teachers backs were turned.   John, David, Martin, and Adrian?  Thanks, Oscar.  I always suspected they worked for the Russians and Doctor Doom.  I won't let you down!   Try not to beat them up too badly, kid.  And watch that laser in your right eye!  Even Steve doesn't have one.  You sure you don't need his help?   No, I think I can handle it, but I wouldn't mind Jamie Sommers being our new teacher.  I've got a crush on her.   You and every red-blooded American 6th grader.  Take care, kid!"    that was my first mission.  I had to rescue Jamie from my evil classmates, of course!  David sold her to the Kremlin, and I had to get my bionic teacher back!  (even if I was too young to drive, and had no idea what the kremlin was, other than another super villain headquarters.)    seriously, can someone please tell me which seasons feature Sasquatch and the Venus probe?

Great Viewing If you like fish, you like a dream and the views of different lands then this film is a must see.  Just the idea of Salmon in the Yemen is fantastic and makes it a must see.

awesome movie This movie is awesome. I have all the other movies and books, as well. I wanted the movie fast and got it the day after it came out. I will preorder part 2, too. In my opinion, this movie is more like the book than some of the previous. I enjoyed that. I prefer movies that were first book, be like the book. I realize that most movies would be too long if everything was put in them but I was very pleased with this movie.

Happy with everything! Shipped quickly. Great quality. Very happy with the price. Item arrived as described and in a timely manner. We love this movie!

Fantastic comedy-drama Superbly written, fine acting and outright belly laugh inducing fun. I enjoyed every episode and it's nice to have it on DVD to re-watch at a later time.

The great "Casablanca" One could say that "Casablanca at its core is about love and romance", Rick and Elsa's time in Paris is at the core of their wonderful love affair. But Casablanca is much more then an ordinary romantic fling. The lovers who met in Paris found things about each other that excited them and made them yearn for an even more intimate relationship; but ironically what they didn't know about each other set the stage for a far more profoundly consequential development one which neither of them would have initially chosen.  The conclusion of Casablanca can be characterized but Rick words to Elsa, "remember we will always have Paris"; for it the essence of what this extraordinary movie is about and that is that the passion and feelings that the two  lovers felt for each other paled in comparison to the profound cause that Elsa's husband was fighting for i.e., the defeat of the Nazi cancer that was sweeping across Europe, and that it was ultimately the extraordinary character of Rick, cynical, selfish  Rick, that moved him ever reluctantly and sadly to conclude that Elsa's husband needed her to continue his cause and that cause was more important and profound than an even a loving relationship between a man and a women.  One could say that "Casablanca at its core is about love and romance", Rick and Elsa's time in Paris is at the core of their wonderful love affair. But the core theme of Casablanca is much more than about an great romantic interlude; it about the character of man who was moved to give up the love of his life for a cause, that sadly he found far more worthy.  You don't see that strength of character very often in so called "real life" and this is what separates Casablanca from other great movies and makes it perhaps the greatest in the history of cinema.

Tissues A must have if you are considering any kind of humanitarian work.  Bring a box of tissues and open your heart! Shipping and cost on time and worth it!

Perfect stocking stuffer Purchased this movie for my son for Christmas. I have 2 boys ages 10 and 14. They love the monsters, the guns, and the action in this movie.

It's a classic! I have always been facinated by Japanese movies.  This is another classic war epic which reminds me of "Ran."

Peter O'Toole Audio Commentary IS included on DVD and Blu-ray! I won't try to top the reviews of this wonderful movie--which extol its wonders far better than I, but I will add that the DVD and BluRay special features BOTH include a wonderful, insightful and imporant audio commetary track with Peter O'Toole.  When I came to buy this on Amazon, I could find no mention of it and wondered if it had been deleted in a recent repressing of the DVD. I remember renting this DVD back in the day when rental DVDs still had special features on them, and being entranced by O'Toole's bonus track. He shares the experiences of making the movie as well has his insights into the characters of Henry II and Becket---and great admiration and affection for Richard Burton his co-star shines through every word.  Odd that under special features this is not mentioned!  The interview of one of the stars of the film --and an actor of O'Toole's talent and reputation should be noted over those of the very fine editor and composer!  Also not detailed in special features above, there are archival interviews with Richard Burton as well.  This DVD is worth having for the O'Toole commentary alone.

Scrroooooggggeee!!!! I remember finding this exact VHS version sold by a street vendor for $3 during Christmas one year. We brought it home and it became my boyfriend's son's favorite movie. Because he was learning to read, he would ask for it by the name on the box, and he mimicked Bob Marley's ghost calling for him ... Ebeneeeezer ..... Ebenezer Scrooooogggge!!! This kid (Nicholas) would watch this movie over and over and over again. Even a little 4 year old child knew it was great. And it is. My favorite version of this movie, hands down (in addition would be the 2 cartoon versions ... Donald Duck and Mr. Magoo, which Nicholas liked, as well). But this classic in a bargain bin sold on the street ... sad ... but who knows? Maybe it made it accessible to more people that way. All I know is, I'm very glad it's finally received the praise it deserves. It is a diamond in the sand.

Aaloooohhaaa. This movie was in great condition. It is exactly what I was expecting to be buying. I am pleased & I love it.

beneath the blue i loved it i got it because paul wesly is in it. it turned out to be a good movie

Stunning presentation. The packaging on this is amazing. The discs are a little tricky to remove, but if your fingers aren't too fat, you should have no problem. It's really compact. I was expecting to get a cube with flimsy blue cases and I have been wondering where I would store it. But this is a really remarkable book-like set. The price is fantastic. Barry Lyndon looks amazing, by the way...haven't had time to check out Lolita. I have to underline the fact that the discs do NOT get scratched when you take them out.

fun for kids of all ages I remember these as a child and was delighted to see them in a set.  I sat and watched them during the holidays.  Felt like a child again enjoying the magic of Christmas!

Truly This Movie Is The Example Of Love Unfeigned I found this movie to be so moving that I have watched it a number of times (I lost count) in less than a week.  As soon as it ends, I start it over again.  My family has viewed it and were equally moved by this amazing epitome of Jesus Christ's love and concern for all of us.  Oh Wow!  I really enjoy watching this movie!  The actors poured themselves into their roles and ministered to the audience.  I was so proud of Steve Borden.  Myself and many others, I'm sure, had prayed for his salvation along with many other wrestlers back before they came to the Lord.  Now to see him walking out his faith in this arena over floods my heart with joy.  Jacqui Velasquez was brilliant!!!  What can be said of Mr. Bruce Marciano for his excellent performance except, "Bravo"?  The married couple, the teenage girl and officer in the film played their roles out to the 'T'.  What talent!  It was not like watching a movie.  It was so real.  I highly recommend this wonderful movie, "The Encounter". Thank you God.

Thought-provoking film with interesting origin Thought-provoking film whose reason for being made is interesting in itself. Successful Hollywood director, Tom Shadyac (Ace Ventura and Nutty Professor), gets into accident and develops post-concussive symptoms that make him face his own mortality and re-evaluate his own life. As a way of answering some questions that arise from this re-evaluation, he travels the globe interviewing prominent authors, religious leaders, and scientists. He asks two questions: What is wrong with our world? What can we do about it? Initially, the film is depressing, demonstrating the results of man's constant aggression and current over-the-top "Greed is Good " mentality. As the film progresses, the theme goes from separateness to connectivity. It approaches this connectivity in a novel way - demonstrating the scientific evidence of our connectedness. In doing so, the film has more weight than in a typical new-age connectedness theme. For example, the scene where the yogurt's bacteria responds to the Tom's emotions is effective and memorable. The effect Tom's research has on his own personal life also hits a chord. Tom's big screen experience helps make the film's montage and sound effective, subtle yet work well in the movie.  After watching this film, I felt inspired to be more conscious my own actions, which can directly impact my own daily life as well as all life around me. Tom has certainly done his, in creating this film. If, like ripples of water, we each watch this movie, try to live its take-home message and encourage others to watch it, maybe we can eventually bring out the best in the human race on a large and daily scale. Kudos, Tom Shadyac. This may be your most successful film yet!

Great purchase This was a great purchase!  The video and cover are In perfect condition.  It was delivered quickly, hardly a wait.  This is my favorite Disney movie and now our daughter enjoys watching it, she loves it!

Person of Interest Season 1 Love this show and enjoyed the special features like the Director's Cut for the pilot and the commentaries from Jonathan Nolan and Greg Plagerman.  Wished there had been more outtakes though.

Big fan Got into Jumong while stationed in Guam. Married a Korean gal and got exposed to a lot of Korean movies and shows. I had to watch with the subtitles, although I know some Korean, I have a hard time following a tv show in it because they still say many things I don't understand yet.  Jumong has a lot of appeal to it.  Not sure how to put into words to give it justice. It is a T.V. drama, and not a STARZ special.  Think of Sparticus on a day time soap opera budget =P  The story is well told and the characters are all very likable.  I hope everyone who watches Jumong enjoyed it as much as I did.

Everyone should see this.  Everyone. Just watch it.  You should see it.  I hope you won't regret it, but honestly, it gave me more faith in humanity than I've had on a long time.  Of course that all went away when I got into a car 2 hours later, but you do what you can.

Wonderful film A heart wrenching and heart warming story with beautiful cinematography and excellent acting. As far as films go, it is hard to ask for more.

A Unique and Classic Western I am a huge Marlon Brando fan and this is one of my favorites. Although Brando is always interesting to watch, he goes above and beyond the call of duty in this film. Jack Nicholson is also superb, as always, and the other actors are great as well. A very entertaining film.

Brilliant Comedic Commentary Above all else, "The Monkees" is aware of itself as a television program.  This might sound odd to most--but it's one of the most culturally provocative and intellectually rewarding aspects of the show. It was leagues ahead of its time in playful satire, cultural punning, and broad-view distillation of social and political issues (all wrapped up in what seemed to be endless zaniness). Most viewers are able to sit back and enjoy the sheer, unbridled fun and music, but there's enough meat here to fuel someone's thesis. The humorous, self-referential way in which the show (season 2, especially) acknowledges its own existence as a tv production, a moving picture, and a reference to the "real" within the "created" is done through fluid delivery of both the obvious and subtle. Characters frequently comment on filming techniques, episode length, and the television aspect itself, breaking it down into an amusing satire of all television and move styles and tropes that it existed with and after.  Placing the Monkees within their historical context--they are a completely, joyfully post-modern experience. They break down all expectation of television--challenging TV stereotypes, running through common themes (while poking fun at these same cliche expectations with over-the-top humor). Certain episodes have ground-breaking fluidity, exhibiting what was then new approaches to cut-scenes, layering, and blending of both the imagined story and the real filming. Episodes can be read as straightforward, innocent romps or as self-aware ideas, rollicking in its own awareness of its silly (yet biting) review of media themes.  For a scholar of art history, "The Monkees" offers a raw, underrated, fabulous approach to the deconstruction of cultural expectation while paradoxically existing as a marketable package.  If you've seen it before, and enjoyed it on the surface for its storylines, watch it again and pay attention to its unique sense of identity. No episode is to be taken seriously, and yet within that silliness, there is real, genuine social commentary. The writers were brilliant, the episodes well crafted, and the charm of the Monkees themselves endears to this day.  Season 2 shows it's possible to be filled with the serious, the silly, the satirical and the strong--and thoroughly enjoyable decades later.

Count the drops of dew on a dragonfly... Wow, this blu-ray lives up to the hype.  The extreme close up shots are just as vivid as the sprawling landscape scenes.  The action is caught in slow motion and also crystal clear.  It says the plant scenes are in 1080i, they are still very impressive and youll forget you are seeing less than 1080p.  I watched this series when it was on the Discovery Channel and ill agree that David Attenborough is far superior for this series than Oprah

Great delivery of Midnight in Paris Product was delivered in a very timely manner and in good shape, as promised.  It is a movie I had previously been able to view so I am thrilled to now be able to own it.

Even better than the first! I've recently decided that Shameless is the best show on television currently. It's the kind of series that's so fast-moving, so well acted and written, that you can watch it over and over again and notice new quirks each time. Some people would probably call the show's lack of shame tasteless. To me, it's exciting. You truly don't know what's going to happen next!  The second season started out a little slow, but once Frank's mother ("Grammy") shows up, things really kick into gear. Played with utter relish by the great Louise Fletcher, Grammy's a force of nature. And let's just say, her character arc ends in quite a... shocking way.  Season Two also sees the return of Chloe Webb as Monica Gallagher, Frank's estranged wife and altogether crazy, sad character. Her episodes are such a great, gritty depiction of mental illness. I'm always amazed with how this show manages to be both fall out of your seat funny and completely heartbreaking... sometimes at the same time.  As with the first season, the ensemble cast is extraordinary, led by William H Macy and Emmy Rossum (where is the awards show love for these two? Especially Rossum!). Joan Cusack continues to steal every single scene she's in, and has a few really, really funny ones towards the middle of the season. And finally, the kids manage to be totally unaffected and charming. You really feel like you're a part of this crazy, dysfunctional family -- for better or worse!  In short, if you haven't seen this series, go buy the first season on DVD and get this one as soon as it's released. You will be completely addicted.

35 & TICKING OMGoodness! This movie is funny, im finding out kinda, tardy for the partyish, howeva ima need that soundtrack. What, they don't have one published...help !

Hope they don't remake this in America There are reviews on here complaining about having to read subtitles... if that is one of your main complaints, you have no business watching films. Part of watching film is to be exposed to foreign films and other cultures. If you can't watch a movie with subtitles, you shouldn't really be watching movies period, instead, you should learn to breathe through your nose. As far as people complaining about the premise, get real. Movies are invented and designed to be escapism and entertaining. Not all movies are supposed to be thought provoking or contenders for stupid ass academy awards. This movie is for people who like fantasy, fairy tales and foreign films. If you like any or all 3 of those things, you'll like this movie. This movie goes to show what can be done with a modest budget and still somehow look like a 15 million dollar plus, movie. While not much can be said about the cinematography as it is all shot on digital camcorders, the shots of the Norwegian country side, pacing and effects layer an otherwise simple plot, (hunting trolls) and make it very entertaining and watchable. The acting is good and seems genuine and not cheesy, the tension builds rather well and the third act is well done and not predictable like most Hollywood movies. People on here reviewing this movie negatively are probably the same people who go to the theater to watch Fast and the Furious 6. In other words, they don't know s#*% about what makes a good movie. Watch the trailer, if you like what you see, you'll like the movie even more.

Great movie I was so happy to see that you had this movie. It's such a fun film. My kids loved it and my roommate loved christna applegate. I'm happy amazon caries all the movies you can't find in stores.

Wow!  Why didn't I hear about this movie before?? I don't watch many movies and I don't usually write reviews, but I must jot down something for this special movie.  This movie is simply gorgeous from the beginning to the end, outstanding acting and casting.  Watch, and you will enjoy and remember it for a long time.

SO WELL DONE This film is a classic. I waited for the movie to be on a dvd format for over thirty years. It was worth while. The story is so sweet, the actors are superb and of course ROME. What can I say, a film for the ages. You can't tell I love ITALY, can you? Please do purchase it ,do yourself a favor , maybe ROME will be your favorite city too. thank you again AMAZON.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005SYZZ9E">Light in the Piazza</a>

A film where people speak their subtext... Subtext is what an actor plays but does not speak and that's what this film is about - subtext. The actors speak what the character actually thinks and feels and you won't see that in any other film. Once you realize that, then it is a mind-blowing experience that makes you question everything you say and think in the course of a day. It's also a very sweet love story. BUT if you want to watch a typical Hollywood formula romantic comedy, then pass it by, you really won't like it.

Thor! Marvel guys did it again with this movie, it's even better than Ironman's franchise.  You have to realize how hard is to create a movie of this type with the story and characters involved!  Thor's realm (Asgard) is magically reinvented, with outstanding visuals and really well made costumes! Would like to see a bit more of this.  My only complaint would be the Frost Giants...In the cartoons they were huge like 20 ft tall something ridiculous, but in this version they were actually almost the same size as the asgardians... Just a thought...  Thor's father, Odin performed by Anthony Hopkins is great, best performance of all the characters..  You can really imagine Chris Hemsworth as Thor, the guy is huge as in cartoons with a sort of viking accent...  As with all Marvel movies of this and last year, this is a wrap up for The Avengers movie!  Great movie most people won't be dissapointed, really entertaining for all ages.

Never received. I paid for this movie but never received it.  I will say that this is the best western ever made. Very well written and the actors do some of their best work. Can't beat the cast!

Reflections on The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel A wonderful show dynamic in its range while maintaining a level of comprehensiveness. The cast was clearly top notch most, if not all, coming out of the British theater all of them with the greatest of credentials. The story line was magnificent with themes of redemption, the dynamics of continued growth in life, and best of all freedom in its most complex and diverse manner.This is indeed a story to be watched by anyone but especially those who may be in the fall of their lives.

riveting,action packed, edge of the seat excitement. just watched this last night on TV. was 1 of the best movies ever.have seen liam neeson in many movies, but was incredible!!! great actor.

Fast & Furious- of course it was great The Movie itself was great.  There was alot of drama and action packed scene's in it.  I alway enjoy the music they pick for the fast and furious movies, it always fits the movie's well and the scene's.  The girls are always hot, especially Mia(Jordana Brewster).  The storie line was ok, I think it could have been a little better.  And The car's, well the car's are always amazing.

videos Great product as I knew. Took WAY too long to arrive! Could have just went to a store. Would think before doing again...

the horse with ups and downs this is a wonderful movie for all ages and the filming backdrop is a thing of beauty. it's a heart warming film that many may enjoy.

amazing find I looked for years for the color version of this movie for my mom. I was so excited to find this one that comes with the b&w and color versions. Great picture quality

Paprika Blu-ray I bought it for two reasons: it has an intriguing description and it is very cheap in Amazon. Having recently seen Inception, I was curious about this "entering other people's dreams" theme. This movie came out before Inception. This movie is NOT like Inception. As a matter of fact, it is more plausible than Inception. The art work is very nice, the story is well written and the director takes you along the ride in a spectacular way. For me, it was a nice discovery, I really enjoyed it and highly recommend it.

Fabulous. I rented this video for .99 cents and I definitely would've payed full price to see it in theaters if I had known it was going to be this good. I've seen through a lot of plots by the time the first five minutes have passed in the movie, but this one truly kept me guessing until the end. Depp plays the part of the tourist perfectly, and the twists in this movie put me in a good mood for days. Definitely going to buy this.

A Treasure of the 'Isle' An absolutely charming film, The Magic of Belle Isle showcases the warmth and civility Morgan Freeman has become known for over the course of his outstanding career. He and Virginia Madsen deliver likable, gentle performances here and are relaxed enough in their talents to let the three young actresses (and an eclectic supporting cast) shine in their own ways. Highly recommended!

The Wiz Exactly as I thought it would be. It is the movie music, not the Broadway play which is what I wanted for my students.

smiley face I love this movie... it plays great, there are no issues when playing the disc. Also it arrived at the expected date.

Provocative! Yeah, the plot turns on a bit of fantasy, or magical realism, and I don't ordinarily go for that kind of thing. But somehow, in this film, it works well. The prettiness of the actors falls right into place as a counterpoint to the dramatic plot.  Beautifully written feature. It takes the audience on a road to self-discovery and friendship.

No lip syncing!  These shows are cut together from mutliple performances. Hey all,  As a video producer I have noticed that Trent and MM both employ a common technique that matches the best audio from multiple shows with the best video from multiple shows.  I don't know if they did 2 show for this shoot but they usually do.  This means that occasionally you will see the artist put the mic down in one clip sooner than the actual audio ends. Because it's nearly impossible to splice pieces of audio together from a live performance we accept certain inconsistencies between alternate clips and the best choice of audio.  I've seen MM many times and he does not lip sync.  One Hell of an amazing performer, not doubt about it.  One of the best.  Cheers.  Todd R.

Rear Window, a true classic! This is by far my favorite movie, the cinematography is amazing and can I just say You can't go wrong with anything Grace Kelly and Jimmy Stewart are in.  True suspense from start to finish and the whole concept on spying on your neighbors is simply great, maybe I'm boasting alittle but Jimmy Stewart was my grandfathers cousin and that was how I got hooked on watching every single movie he was in and this movie out of all that I've seen has to be the best one for me anyway.  I only had this version to compare to a vhs copy I owned but I thought the picture quality was very nice and it had some great extras as well!

Knife, A Cut Above "Lifeboat" has multiple characters to distract you while viewing. "Knife in fhe Water" has but 3. The sexual tension & temptations  of the three, would later be recaptured in 1989's "Dead Calm". Herein, lay the original. In Polanski's native Polish yet provided with subtitles, we watch a stressful dynamic unfurl while a couple minding their business during an outing on the sea, find the need to assist a stranger in apparent need of help. The result, should you see someone in distress, would you help? Do you keep going? In today's society, unfortunately, if you want to live, pass on by....

Nice! These are not my favourite movies by a long shot and don't think I would have bothered or it even to have crossed my mind to have replace these if it wasn't for the price but certainly wouldn't buy them if I really didn't think the films were ok , unlike some reviewers who seemed to have had a gun pointed at there heads and forced them to purchase a film they really hate and despise then moan endlessly about it...Unless they didn't buy them and make out that they did just so they can complain to a larger audience.  For the prise I feel as though I've bought the bargain of the century and not going to moan to have replaced them which back in the day would have cost nearly that per film on DVD...And probably more on VHS !

Great family movie. I wasn't sure if it was worth the upgrade to blu-ray but I'm glad I did. Some of the outdoor scenes are really beautiful and the soundtrack is great.

Beautiful Movie, Sense & Sensability Oh how I wish I could have lived back then (well maybe not), but it certainly seems more civilized in some ways. I received this movie quickly and in good condition and enjoy watching it over and over, simply a beautiful film

no problems, good service Exactly what I needed, for a very reasonable price! The movie was used, but clearly in good, playable condition. I am overall pleased with the ease of the sale.

To Kill A Mockingbird I got this for my wife who said she had never seen the movie, but had read it in school as mandatory reading. When we watched it, I remembered why it was up for academy awards. Excellent movie and acting.

Love this movie! This movie is just the thing if you like musicals! and if you like pride and prejudice then you'll love this movie too! this movie is colorful, fun, and romantic and you'll be singing along!

Matewan I am from Mt. Pleasent Penn . My Father & most of my family were coal miners . My grandfather worked 57 years in the mines & retired as an inspecter . He was 76 when he retired & died from black lung disease . My father started working in the mines at 14 years old & told me many stories about how life was working in a town that was owned by the Mining company . You were paid in script & could only spend it in their company store . They also owned the house you lived in & paid you very little cash money . There was no safety measures to speak of & my dad was caught in one cave in . Thank god it was enough to quit mining never to return . The  West Virginia state line is not that far from Penn . The union & Mine trouble is well known in that area & when i was a young boy we went through Matewan while on a vacation . I remember that it looked similar to our town . Back then they hand dug coal for 10 cents a ton and mules pulled the coal cars to & from  the lift . They used birds in cages to check for methane gas . The movie told the story of the miners plight in a great real life story . I am now 79 years old & it brought back some great memories ,  thanks to Amazon ------------Rich Mellinger

Good movies Before ordering this from Amazon I've only seen one of the Poison Ivy movies. And that is the one with Drew Barrymore. I really enjoy that movie. I like drew as an actress in Poison Ivy then in any other movie. I strongly believe Drew acts better in drama movies then funny movies.  Poison Ivy 2 is a good movie. I don't see how it mixes with the first Poison Ivy, but it was enjoyable to watch.  Poison Ivy The New Seduction is also good. It doesn't bet the first Poison Ivy, but I can see it taking after the first movie.

There's No Business Like Show Business A classic musical from the Golden Age. Merman...Monroe. Need I say more?  It is worth it just to hear Merman again and in Technicolor.

Brothers don't shake hands, brothers hug I own this movie but don't always get around to putting it in the DVD player with kids and life going on but was thrilled that this was available for streaming so I can watch it if my boys are watching a movie for themselves and watched while on the stationary bike as well.  This is absolutely a terrific movie and a must have for a Chris Farley fan, which I am one. A great movie with plenty of lines that you will remember and can quote for years to come.

One of the best, most intense shows ever. SOA is supremely well written and the acting is amazing as well. I can't get enough of this show. I'm not generally into this specific genre, but the criminal themes in this show are so much less important than the themes of family, loyalty, and sacrifice. Every character has a reason for being there and though there are some bimbos in the show, the majority of the female characters are strong and bad-ass. I would watch this show every day if that was an option. Anyone who watches can't help but get sucked in, so if you don't need another show to watch, don't start watching this one... you won't be able to stop until you have no choice. Can't wait for season 5!

A Classic I have always been a fan of Robert Taylor but he out did himself in this dramatic portrayal. The word 'excellent' comes to mind. This movie is on an equal plane with '30 seconds over Tokyo' and 'Twelve O'clock High'. A Must SEE.

Great movie/lesson This movie could be boiled down to today's ideals, talent = greatness. Two of the main characters who were genetically superior found themselves at a disadvantage according to their superior genes, they didn't want something near as much as Vincent because they were given more and had less to prove... kind of. It's one thing to be a failure, it's another to be a failure with everything going for you.  It's a touching movie and as far as sci-fi goes, it is, in my opinion, one of the better.

Such a cute movie! I love this movie! I watched it as a child and again a couple of weeks before my own wedding. A classic romantic comedy.

Hanging with Stallone! Woohoo! Cliffhanger is one of my favorite Stallone movies. Suspence, action, tragedy and a little love thrown in for good measure. I don't agree with those who say the plot is thin. It is a clear cut story with characters you want to succeed and villians you want to fail! Lithgow is so predictable but is effective in his roll as the mirthless bad guy. Stallone makes rock climbing look like the tough sport it is, even if you know that actual rock climbers have it a little tougher. A great movie in regular form, blu-ray makes the awesome background even more amazing. Just buy it!

This Movie Never Should Have Worked! Start with legions of angry fans awaiting another sequel to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000JQB5">The Mummy</a> but getting stuck with a prequel lacking all of their favorite characters.  Then make the hero of said prequel the character doomed to a horrible fate in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00003CXTA">The Mummy Returns</a>, arguably a worse fate than that visited on the titular Mummy.  Then assemble a cast of unknowns, barely knowns, and character actors to act it out.  How could it POSSIBLY be anything but a disaster?...  But it WASN'T a disaster!  In fact it was IMHO highly entertaining, almost as much fun as The Mummy itself!  Why?  Start with a leading man who exceeded all expectations.  You might expect a former athlete and professional wrestler with Dwayne Johnson's natural abilities to be a good potential action star, but unless you'd known him personally, you might NOT expect him to be such a good comedy actor, and it is no surprise to anyone who has seen this movie that the Rock has gone on to successfully star in so many comedies and children's movies.  The man clearly has as much (if not more) acting talent in that area as he does in more traditional action roles.  In addition by all accounts the Rock applied himself like a true professional and took the golden opportunity given him to learn as much about the movie making process as possible.  Add a talented (and beautiful) leading lady.  It is an utter mystery to me why Kelly Hu has been so underused in movies and television, but she has certainly shone in those roles I've seen.  Some have criticized her performance here apparently not recognizing the limitations placed upon her by this role.  Despite being a black belt martial artist in real life, Kelly Hu is required to play the (almost but it turns out not completely) helpless damsel in distress in this movie, and I thought she did an excellent portrayal of a woman balancing on the knife edge, required to use cleverness and soft power to protect herself from brutish men, at least until the wild finale where she finally gets to kick some butt.  (Funny story: I once won an autographed copy of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1583484698">Dead On</a>, one of the creepiest thrillers I've ever read with one of the most intriguing premises I've ever heard of -- a serial killer chasing his prey through time, by suggesting Kelly Hu as the actress to portray the heroine Dr. Ann Yang, county medical examiner for Bucks County, PA, in the movie version.  The movie has never been made, but I still think Ms. Hu would be perfect for the role, and if you'd like to scare yourself silly, you could do worse than to read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0595326641">Dead On</a>, first published under a pseudonym.  But don't read it at night when you are alone in the house; seriously, DON'T!  You'll thank me.)  The rest of the largely unknown then but soon to be much better known cast also measures up.  Steven Brand makes a fearsome, calculating villain who has convinced himself that he is the good guy; Michael Clarke Duncan, probably the best known of the cast prior to this movie, gives a great performance as the Rock's greatest potential rival/friend; Bernard Hill does a great absent minded scientist; Grant Heslov steals every scene he's in; and Tutu Sweeney did such a great job as the head street urchin that his role was expanded.  The movie probably works best if you forget about the Scorpion King's eventual dark fate; the only hint here is the shadow of sadness we see on Kelly Hu's face as she says, "Nothing lasts forever, my king," at the end, suggesting she has already foreseen it.  Interestingly by all accounts this was the last arguably good movie in the franchise.  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001HQZJMU">The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor</a> was widely panned, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AV3BYK">The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005TK0MFE">The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption</a>, made without any of the principal cast members, are reportedly awful, and the TV series was cancelled: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001I2EQS6">The Mummy: The Animated Series - Volume 1</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001I2EQSG">The Mummy: The Animated Series - Volume 2</a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001I2EQT0">The Mummy: The Animated Series - Volume 3</a>.  Note: If you like this movie, but you've only seen it in the theater or on TV, you owe yourself at least a viewing of the "alternate" version available only on DVD.  In addition to an entirely different opening scene that would have given the Rock one of the more spectacular entrances in movie history, and an extra line from Cassandra (Kelly Hu) that reveals her decision to help Mathayus (the Rock) to be more of a calculated risk than the theatrical version implies, the rest of the alternate scenes revolve around a prophecy that was cut out of the movie very late in production.  Essentially, Memnon (Stephen Brand) assumes that this prophecy about the rise of a Scorpion King is actually about him, but of course it really turns out to be about Mathayus.  The prophecy put more of a time constraint on events and explains why the movie takes place over just a matter of days.  It also explains why some of the now shortened or rewritten scenes were shot the way they were, which clears up a few minor mysteries.

A Yearly Classic This movie is a holiday classic and I wouldn't miss it.  Buying the movie (DVD) makes sure that viewing is commercial free and as a set - it not only is in B/W but also color.  Love it.

Fairytale Story Does Not Disappoint Being a fan of Michael Fassbender is what brought me to this movie.  You can feel the emotions along with Angel as we follow her life and adventures.  The colors are vivid, the scenery a bit cheesy at times, but it is all part of Angel's fairytale life.  This movie is a good escape and it is easy to get wrapped up in Angel's success and love for Esme.

Movie After I ordered this movie it came quickly and it is still wrapped. It will be a great Christmas present. Thank you

Outstanding A loving homage to the schlock horror films of the early 60s, Lost Skeleton takes that favored approach of sticking a bunch of clueless actors in the woods to act frightened of things. The performances waffle between purposeful absurdity and reasonably faithful classic B-movie acting, and this is deliberate- the goal of the film was not to recreate a classic b horror film, but to recreate a really BAD classic B horror film. That said, every performer also emits a sort of genial wink-wink-nod aura that strips the movie of basically any pretension and makes the whole cast quite likeable.  The plot is a mashup of basically every sci-fi movie made between 1958 and 1969. It doesn't bare much description and talking about it would ruin all the zingers anyway.  While this film is only available on DVD it's a very clean digital print that upscales nicely. The audio is atrocious by design. Features are quite robust, and the making of/panel discussion clips are well worth your time.  Overall this is a film that will absolutely appeal to fans of the genre, fans of absurdist outsider comedy, and anyone with fond memories of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (although there is no connection save for the lampooning of classic horror-sci fi). If you can't stomach black and white cinema or you like your comedy more on the frenetic side your mileage may vary, but garish color zany madcap b horror movies are already a pretty robust niche.

Great workout as advertised! I read some of the reviews before trying this workout, and was happily surprised!  I'm a Spinning instructor and have been doing Power Yoga as a compliment to my cardio.  I need the strength building and flexibility that yoga offers.  After trying a variety of Yoga workouts, I rented this one before buying, and I will be adding this to my library.  This was a concise, challenging workout.  No, it's not traditional yoga, but Jillian describes the workout in the introduction and it is just as she says - she combines traditional yoga poses with her training methods to get a bigger burn.  My heart rate never got much above 60% of my max, but my muscles, especially in my upper body and core, got a great workout.  It was fast paced, so I never got bored as I do in traditional yoga workouts, and I felt she described form and modifications just fine for the beginner, too.  If you're looking for relaxing yoga, this isn't it, but I can't imagine why you'd buy a DVD called "yoga meltdown" for that purpose anyway when there are so many others out there specifically targeted for stress relief?

awesome-great memories! I have been waiting for years, since tv shows have been coming out on dvd but never saw this anywhere! Thrilled to find it in Blowitouttahere.com!

Great awesome DVD This DVD concert is great. Alberto Vazquez is a great mexican performer. I highly recomment this DVD. Best part is when Alberto sings great mexican ranchera music in this DVD.

A phony peace I loved this movie...for about 85 minutes out of it's 90 minute length.  Btw, for a movie that deals with such an important theme, i.e., how can we be forgiven, 90 minutes seems to give that subject of forgiveness short shrift.  I really did love this movie.  The plot was fascinating, the characters compelling, the photography worthy of hanging in a museum, especially that shot of the woods when the main character and Mattie go for a walk.  But the payoff isn't there.  For two reasons.  Number one....the movie promises that the townsfolk will offer their opinion of the hermit.  They never do.  Number two....the hermit (Robert Duvall) does all the talking at the end.  He confesses his sin and asks for forgiveness.  The penultimate scene shows the married woman he had an affair with, coming for him, ghostlike, to apparently, transport him to heaven.  Then in the last scene, the evangelical minister pronounces peace on his soul and on everyone else, hopefully.  So let's see if I have this right, you commit adultery, confess it, and then, the one you committed adultery with takes you to heaven as long as you admit to everyone you did wrong.  I admit, I'm a Christian and take offense at this denouement.  If you look at Psalm 51, you see that he needs forgiveness from God most of all.  "Against You, and You alone have I sinned," says David.  The Bible aside, if we are going to pretend to be honest about these issues, then let's not have any baloney about how all you have to do is say you're sorry to people and you will have peace.  That is a lie.  Otherwise, I loved this movie.

AT LAST!!! This series is a great way to go from early contact through events that happened in relatively recent history.  Don't miss this!

The best season yet! I was so blown away by this season after the shooting finale of last season.  I know they took a lot of flack for the musical episode but it is one of my all time favorites.  It showcased these many talented actors who proved themseves to be such amazing singers.  I loved this show and it took guts to break ground like that and do something so out of the box.  As for the season, there is no sugar coated jumpiing back in the saddle for these doctors.  It allows you to see them going through the serious symptoms of PTSD.  I enjoyed every moment of this dvd.  The extras are so terrific too, especially the behind the scenes for the musical and the out takes bloopers.  Very funny.

Super funny... Great movie, my 3 year old loves it. A few pieces of language I'm not happy about (i.e. dump and stupid) but overall great family / kid movie. Buy it!

SOPRANOS COMPLETE SERIES Excellent quality as usual Amazon makes sure this is no set of copies these are the real deal. Was a gift for my wife the Sopranos fanatic and she loved it. No quality problems, if you find cheaper beware they could be inferior quality this is all HBO made and original. Way to go Amazon another winner.

Government corruption Everyone should see this documentary. It is so sad that Valerie's career ended because of greed and hate. She had worked so hard to be a good agent and no one in the bush administration paid anything for what they did and Libby was pardoned by bush; what a travesty!

Amazing 3D, great product! This was exactly what I wanted, a well done 3D movie with lots of fun effects. As far as the product itself goes, I couldn't be happier!  The quality of the movie (acting, script, etc.) is definitely not top tier though, so don't go in expecting a 5 star movie.

Change of Heart I must confess that I saw HUGO in the theater and came away thinking, like many reviewers, that it was long and boring. For some reason I felt compelled to rent it and give it another try, and was glad I did. All I can surmise from my initial reaction to the film was that I was in either a bad mood, had wrong expectations, was tired, slept through the better part of the movie, saw it at a cheap cinema, had an uncomfortable seat, or all of the above! What a revelation after my second viewing. I'll go as far as saying that it should have beaten THE ARTIST (which I also loved) as Best Picture. HUGO is a charming homage to a bygone era dealing with the advent of moving pictures. I'll say no more, lest I spoil it for those who haven't seen it yet. What I will say is that the movie is engaging beautifully filmed, with a great score. Invest a couple of hours with this gem of a movie and you'll be rewarded.

Stick it out! Don't be afraid to show what you got! Honestly, I got this because the comercials were hilarious! I never expected it to really work. I'm already a fit person, but lately I've been slacking because of bordem. It happens. The first week, I did the first couple of videos: Piece of cake, until the Sculpt and Tummy Tuck. Holy S! On the second week you add the bands and ankle weights, which really changes the moves. At the end of my second week, I already see definition returning and the muscles on the top of my bum have really changed. I'm looking forward to finishing the program and working parts into my regular routine. Plus, who wouldn't want a workout that makes you crack up. My boyfriend thought I was watching a movie.  Only complaint: The schedule is a little intense. After the second week, you only get one day off. It's a challenge but not impossible. If you really want changes, YOU'VE GOT TO DO IT. I could see how this would really turn off people who are not used to exercising. There's a lot of soreness, but the next workout loosens up the muscles.  Two BUMS up!

Christmas present I gave this to my daughter, she is a huge fan of Adele, I knew she will enjoy it and she does. I was in the kitchen with my wife and we hear her voice, Adele's voice and it is angelical. 100% recommended.

Eclpise Excellent movie, I truly recommended! Its one of my favorite of the trilogy... You must see this movie if you like vampire movies with a romantic twist!

Great FIFA DVD This is a great DVD, with all the great highlights.  My 3rd grade soccer player is totally fixated on it and watches some of it every day.

Second Season Even Better Than The First I shan't bombared you readers with technical details about the actors, performance, directing, etc... of this show.  Just wanted to stop by and give my opinion on Men Of A Certain Age Season Two...  I truly haven't been this impressed with a television show since the pilot episode of Eureka some years ago (and very seldom before that).  Finally, there is a series on my TV that not only is fun, but displays some actual maturity as well.  And quite frankly, Men Of A Certain Age is far more real than any reality tv program running today.  If you have not yet seen Men Of A Certain Age, by all means put it on your netflix list, check it out on Hulu or TNT.com, or better yet, just buy the first season on DVD because I doubt very much you will be disappointed with such a purchase.  If I must admit to a greivence with Men Of A Certain Age, there are two that come to mind.  Each episode is so well written and paced that you find yourself lost within it's run-time and wondering why it's over so soon.  Additionally, the seasons are a bit short (only 10 & 12 episodes each for the first and second season respectively).  I totally understand the short run with the first season, but I really would have liked to have seen another three to six episodes added to the second season.  Both are very minor complaints with an otherwise superb series.  Unfortunately, it was announced a few days ago that TNT has CANCELLED Men Of A Certain Age.  I'm completely dumbfounded.  They cited low ratings as their reason for cancellation and really, it's not wonder the show received few ratings for the following reasons;  1. TNT didn't feel much need to advertise the show.  I honestly only remember seeing commercials for the show during the airing of it's episodes.  2. TNT also felt it was a good idea to give the show a poor time-slot.  It aired Mondays at 10:00pm eastern for it's first season and Wednesdays (same time) during it second season.  Mondays have always been a heavily loaded TV day and Wednesdays weren't much better.  Why not Tuesday or Thursday? There is/was far less competition for viewers on those nights.  Or how about a good way for people to chill out and enjoy a great show on a Sunday night?  Monday and Wednesday evenings might have been the worst possible nights the could have aired a show that needed to attraced more viewers.  3. Perhaps the biggest reason the show didn't draw the rating TNT expected it to was the shortened seasons.  The first season's ten episodes was split into two, five episode 'seasons' (five in the spring and five in the fall).  The same method was used during the second season, only with six episodes for each 'season' this time.  Basically, by the time the viewers really got into the season, it was over and the show disappeared for six months.  I get splitting a season if you're going to have twenty-some episodes in it.  That makes sense in a way.  Splitting a ten or twelve episode season doesn't make any sense at all.  At least not to me.  It is truly sad that TNT chose not only to not truly support Men Of A Certain Age, but decided to cancel it when it didn't meet their ratings expectations.  Even sadder is it that MOACA was reportedly cancelled in large part to make room for a "Dallas" remake series.  Men Of A Certain Age was, without a doubt in my mind, the best show on television. I truly, truly hope that there is a network out there who decides to pick the show off the scrap-heap and let it continue.

I wish they would bing the show back. I'm really sorry that I didn't watch this show when it was on the air.  It might have saved it from being cancelled.  The show was smart and funny which is lacking in a lot of today's shows.  The story lines are hilarious and the cast really gives life to it.  Lem is my favorite!  The network advertised it as the best show you've never seen.

Great Product!! Marvelous DVD set!! Received them quickly in the mail and have had no problems with it. Who doesn't love I Love Lucy anyway?

Just the documentaries (special features) is worth it to buy this movie on blue-ray I am a die hard fan of this movie.  I even read the book when I was just a kid when the movie came out.  Fortunately for me, I never bought this movie on VHS or DVD, so I REALLY didn't feel guilty for buying this fantastic movie for only $8.  Seriously, I've paid for more for far less inferior films.  Just the special features of this movie makes it worth it to buy.  It contains a lot of those "while we make it, this is what we thought" kind of documentaries.  They also have this weird little "Pop Up" version of the movie where actors would literally pop up on a small corner screen to tell you more about this scene.  I actually quite enjoyed it.  Much more fun than your typical audio commentary features.  It also have trivial facts about the movie or factors of what the scene were talking about.  Really cool stuff, but I'm a bit of a nerd.  I like trivia!  Having never seen this movie on DVD on a big screen TV like I have right now, I have no idea how it compare to the blueray.  I have absolutely zero complain about this purchase.  If you love this movie, just get it.  You can seriously spend $8 on much, much less quality... ANYTHING.

ADVENTURE TOM SELLECK- NEED I SAY MORE. 1920 SOCIETY GIRL MEETS A ROUGH RIDER. PREDECTABLE PLOT BUT A GREAT RIDE

Good movie I found it to be a good movie that acurately portrayed the Battle of Stalingrad and the true story of these two snipers that fought it out to the death. Many have said that it is insulting to the Russian people in the way that the soldiers were locked in box cars and shot by their own officers, but in reality, both of these things really happened to prevent desertion. Stalin even said in his speech at the Battle of Stalingrad that 'All traitors will be shot'. Soldiers would run away from the battle, where they would be shot, or they would escape from unguarded box cars, making it necessary to lock the doors on the cars, otherwise, when the train arrived at Stalingrad, it would be empty! Very good movie, very good product.

I Wish I Had Friends Like These OK, maybe I wouldn't like it nearly so much if I hadn't read all the books they review in their club. Or maybe if Hugh Dancy, who plays the only male member of the club until the end (when some husbands join in), wasn't so adorable. But I have, and he is, and I identified with elements in every one of these women's stories, even the lesbian. You don't have to be a lesbian to identify with some of the elements in her life, after all.  And there's much to that point regarding Jane Austen, too. You don't have to identify with the characters to learn from reading about them, and you don't have to be a willowy young beauty to appreciate those aspects of her life with which you can identify.  All the members of the club have their strengths and weaknesses. Prudie is a French teacher who has never been to France, and who is deeply disappointed with her husband's lack of interest in her life. Sylvia's having all sorts of issues around her husband leaving her for a younger woman (especially because she's not all that much younger). Jocelyn is a breeder of championship ridgeback dogs, and has never been married. Bernadette, older than the others, is looking for romance but not glum about it. Allegra, Sylvia's daughter, is a lesbian who has yet to find just the right partner, and loves dangerous sports. Grigg, the only male, is attracted to Jocelyn but being pushed to date Sylvia. He thinks he's being pushed toward Allegra, but her frank mention of her girlfriend and her out-of-closet tee shirt soon makes it clear that's not the point.  Jane Austen is a romantic, and therefore these people are pretty romance-minded, too, or they wouldn't appreciate Austen the way they do. But until you see the "one year later" dinner at the very end, you won't know how it all works out.  I loved this film almost as much as I love Jane Austen, and that's saying something.

Like The Hangover, but funnier (a guy's perspective) Bridesmaids is sort of a female version of the Hangover. There's the person who's about to get married (with the fiance largely absent), a goofy sibling comes into the picture, with one of the main characters of the film in a lousy relationship. But Bridesmaids stretches the story over a longer period of time and includes more characters (and it packs in way more character development). It's also funnier, even if it is a bit more formulaic and relies somewhat too much on caricatures (like, as gut-bustingly hilarious as they are, main character Annie's screwball roommates, a disgusting brother-sister pair). As interesting as it is to watch Annie's goofy ups and downs, and her fine acting, she does come off as a younger Meg Ryan in the way that, as attractive and likable as she is, she just can't seem to get her life together. Better than all that is the dialogue, which is pretty sassy, especially when it comes to the over-the-top sister of the groom, Meghan, played by Melissa McCarthy, who is a swarthy and raunchy butch chick (her suggestion for a bachelorette party is to do a ladies Fight Club for the young bride). Jill Clayburgh is awesome as Annie's wacky mother; sadly, it was her last film as she died of leukemia in November 2010 (ironically, her first film credit was for The Wedding Party in 1969). As for the plot, it's pretty predictable... but what a ride! Like all comedies, this one also devolves into a few pivotal "key life lesson scenes" that are as serious as they are unnecessary (do we really care how and when the bride came to her senses and realised who her true friend really were?), but they are short-ish, and we quickly get back to the hilarity with a dose of... Wilson Phillips?

Excellent! Excellent product. one essential piece for any collectionist. 9 dvd with all the story of Kubrick in a perfect format (extra material).

The Funniest Anime I have watched to date Baka and test follows the story of class F. They go to a unique school where classes are split based on test scores. The best students get all the money and equipment in class A, while the worst students get stuck with nothing in Class F. However, students can earn better supplies and equipment by quite literally battling other classes, using their test scores as their battle points.  This anime is absolutely hilarious, filled with tons of visual gags. This is the first anime I have ever watched that I would have no problem watching again and again. I watched one episode twice in a row, and found tons of hilarious things I had completely missed the first time through.  The season, in and of itself, is very satisfying. The story starts out strong, sits for most of the mid season, but with good reason, and then ends strongly. You will most likely be satisfied with the ending to. There is another season in progress, but I wonder what will happen to continue the series, which seems to have finished up pretty well.  There is not any complete nudity although the anime possesses of some partial nudity. The language is OK as well. The comedy is often very visual with a fair amount of slapstick too. I would highly recommend this anime for anyone who wants a couple of laughs and is OK with some stupid humor.

Awesome I love the show when it was on but to be able to have all of it and for such a low price. I wish I could find more deals like this one!

Best Film You Probably Never Heard Of One of the first images of "The Propostion" is of Captain Stanley(Ray Winstone) striking feeble-minded Mikey Burns(Richard Wilson) with the handle of his pistol.  Moments later he makes a deal with Mikey's older brother Charlie(Guy Pearce)-Mikey will hang on Christmas day if he doesn't kill the psychotic brother Arthur(Danny Huston).  From these early scenes one would think you would know the good guys from the bad.  As the film opens up it becomes much more ambiguous.  The setting is the Australian Outback of the 1880's.  Everything is wide open to everybody.  The Irish settlers and the British occupational force are the adverseries with the indigenous Aborigines an eyesore to both of them.  Violence and brutality rule the day. Director John Hillcoat's film is very reminiscent of the work of Peckinpah, Leone, and Eastwood.  The performances by all are uniformly superb with Winstone, Pearce and Huston imbuing symapathy for their complex characters.  Because of the harshness of the film its not for everybody but those with a measure of stomach will admire the richness of the film.

Kill Bills It's Kill Bill one and two!  All the great movie you'll need in one neat shipment. Great films, awesome soundtrack. Enough Said!

Beautiful way to grow up A friend recommended this movie for my daughter who was 3 at the time. It is beautiful. I love the artistic style of the Japanese anime. The storyline is not at all like the anime cartoons you see on tv like pokemon. It is more like a beautiful, nature-y aesthetic experience that creates memories in a child's mind and enriches a love for nature and family throughout their lives.  In this movie the two sisters find acorns that were dropped by possibly imaginary gentle forest creatures (some giant, some not). They wait and wait for them to grow. At one point the smaller sister takes corn to their mother who is sick in the hospital.  A few times during the movie I thought it might be too scary for such young children, but my daughter has never seemed scared by it. I feel that overall this movie has way more positive life-enriching moments to offer than those small complaints! Beautiful music the entire time with raindrop noises during the rain.  If you like this one, check out <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001XAPZ6">Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind</a>. It is rated G, but was created in the 1980's and is a little violent for my taste. However, the aspects of environmentalism and non-violence it teaches is quite possibly indispensable.  Both movies are good for ages 4-10, as long as you review Nausicaa for violence ahead of time!

excellent production The children and the adults in this family really enjoy and learn from this very good videos.  excellent photograpy.

Revival is the need of the hour Revival is the need of the hour It's the only thing that can give you real power My hear was a dark tower And now its as viberant as a flower.  spurgeonwannabe@yahoo.com Johnny Palmer Jr

Beautiful! So this was probably my 18th viewing of Casablanca. This BluRay version is the best. I wasn't around during World War II when the movie was originally released, but it wouldn't surprise me if this is a better copy than was available in theaters.

A 2 disc set, one disc was missing :( When I opened this i found that one disc was missing somehow out of the factory sealed package..i was kinda upset...i bought this from warehousedeals. I emailed them about this problem immediately afterwards. They promptly responded and appologized and said that they can't give an exchange because their inventory changes alot so they didn't have a replacement to give me so they are honoring me with a full refund even with shipping...not really satisfied with just the one disc but it's ok. I get my money back..thanks warehousedeals..good service (5 stars *****)

the first movie of JAMES BOND. this movie started the craze. sean connery is the best BOND ever to drive the martin db5. or to carry a walter pp5. bond james bond. people say that phase all the time why?

Great Movie Loved it! Great movie for a girl's night! Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds were great in this film together. Enjoyed every minute.

Old Earl Grey? Hardly. This was a good movie. The Indian chick was hot. Wes Anderson seems to like a death in the 3rd act of late. This is a bit lazy, but still, Jason Shwartzman in a moustache. Good times.

009-1 is to cool I am a big fan of anime that relates to other anime and expands on stories.  This kind of hints at what happens after the original 009.  This anime is about cyborg girls, always cool, and has breast guns.  The heroine is the best 009 spy around and she kicks [...]the whole series while exploring who she is and why.  Definitely a superb anime that is at least worth watching for the sexy spy intrigue and all the uses of breast machine guns.

I loved it I can imagine a lot of purists whining about all the parts that were left out, but to get a TP book condensed into 3 hours means SOMETHING somewhere has to get cut and I think they did a great job of deciding what was not necessary to the story. The effects were many steps above previous TP movies, the actors were all great for their roles.  I did miss seeing Death or the Librarian who should show up in EVERY TP event!

Thurgood:  Best one man, one act play ever Thurgood was the ultimate in a one man stage show.  The super-simplistic stage set of a table, chairs, cane, and ultimately a judge's robe adds to the "tour de force" of this fantastic performance by Fishburne as Thurgood Marshall telling the story of his amazing life.  With only a few background slides flashed on a textured wall of the American flag behind him, the performance is spellbinding from beginning to end.  Howard University auditorium is the location HBO chose to film it and it proved the perfect locale.  Fishburne even incorporates a couple of late arrivers to the show into the performance for good effect.  History, humor, humanity and drama blend here in a way you have never seen before and may never seen again.  I intend to buy copies to donate to several local schools.

Great Movie! Great wholesome movie.  You can actually let your children watch this one without having to fast forward any parts.  Wonderful family movie.  It's old, but my 5-10 year olds all enjoyed watching it (the girls, too!) and are now singing "Follow Me Boys" where ever they go. Came in a timely matter in good shape!

Great Movie! This was a great movie. Some language that yunger children might not should hear. This is a keeper! I definitely recommend it!

A classic heart-felt movie Besides being one of my favorite movies at 38 years old, this is one of my 8 year old niece's favorite movies. She is a big king kong fan. She has this movie so memorized it's amazing. I think movies from the 70's and 80's especially monster movies have the charm that all the computer generated movies of today lack. Back then film makers actually had to be creative and that is what gives this movie such charm and character. I like that they made this king kong take place in modern times in relationship to when it was made. Jessica lange was by far the best portrayal of kong's mistress. My niece calls this the One King kong as compare to King kong lives which she has called the Two king kong's. This movie has brought her and I much joy in watching it together. Thumbs way up!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rise Of The Animals, This is a good movie. i have to give props to the filmmakers. this was a first time movie for these guys and they did not do a bad job. the storyline is pretty good. but like everyone says you can tell that all the special effcts are bad. what else can you do on such a low budget. i did not find this movie scary at all but i found it funny. and thats what i think the filmmakers wrere aiming for. this was something they wanted to do out of fun and to see if they could get anywhere with it. i give all my respect to indie films and thier creators. the acting was pretty good i think those actors might have a good future ahead of them. this movie is not intended to be a hollywood blockbuster. i love indie films. if you have not seen this movie then i recommend you do. and p.s. this is alot better than some hollywood movies.

Excellent Movie I was tentative to order this movie, but the reviews were so good (Ebert & Roper) that I had to try it.  I am so glad I did!  I was on the edge of my seat for the entire movie.  I have never heard of the director, but I am aware of the actors...love Blair Underwood.  What a waste it didn't get the attention it should have when it came out in 2007.

Joe Travels the World I hadn't seen this movie without an English subtitle in a long time until now, I understood what the dialogue is all about.  Tom is so funny!  I loved watching the traveling movie because I love fun vacation very much. I enjoyed it.

can't get enough... APES!!! I'm a huge fan of the planet of the apes series since the 60's and have to say this is a refreshing watch, i mean i've watched the original over and over along with the others, plus the tv series and also the cartoon which are all nice, but i can't see why alot of people are bashing this new film, i mean at least it's bringing the interest back to this day and age, so what do all of the bashers want it to just go away forever, besides i also enjoyed watching the newest film: rise of the planet of the apes which i also enjoyed... keep'em coming while i'm still alive!!!

Superficial Similarities Do Not Make a Bad Film If the previous reviewer 'Dave' was familiar with plot structure, he would realize that the similarity to Heat is mostly aesthetic, and any similarities to The Departed are uh... there are none. Other than the fact that it's about Irish criminals in Boston. Kind of like the way Valkyrie and Inglourious Basterds are 'basically the same movie' because they're both about a plot to kill Hitler...  The Town is a thrilling and dramatic crime picture, with great acting, directed by a steller artist. The critical praise is well deserved. It's a character focused piece, with some stunning action set pieces, and great realistic Boston-Irish atmosphere. There is one scene in this that got me so tense in the theatre that... well that actually happened, that never happens to me! Affleck knows how to build tension, is what I'm saying.  Shades of 'Heat' are surreal, but practically subconscious, they are entirely different movies. If you can get over VERY superficial similarities (bank robberies, some of the costumes, the realism) and look at the finer points that make Ben Affleck's film unique you will not ruin your experience with this one.  Next time I would suggest that Dave actually watch the three movies he is comparing before comparing them.  I don't want to give away the plot, and there will be plenty of synopsis in the future I'm sure. If the worst you can say is 'It reminds me of other crime epics, and most people say it's good.' To me that basically sounds like a recommendation, no? Look into it if you're a fan of the genre.

Winnie the Pooh DVD My 4-year old granddaughter asked Santa for earrings and "the Tigger spilled the medicine" movie.  It took a while for me to narrow down the Winnie the Pooh movies, but this one has the episode she wanted.  She loves her movie and it made me and her grandfather heroes in her eyes.

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Pure Classic! Having a father who served in World War 11, this movie has a special meaning & brings some lighter side of what our troops had to endure. Hearing many stories from a B17 Bomadier & Tailer Gunner, my dear Father, this movie brought smiles to my fathers face, that was enough to make it one of my favorites.

Fantasia Great addition to our DVD collection. We needed this classic. Now knowing we own this Disney Favorite we can continue to build upon our Disney DVD's for our toddler.

A Perfect, Complex Film Casino features a vast and rich cast of characters, all of whom have pitch-perfect arcs, which are accentuated by spot-on performances, and a cinematic style which is both engaging and masterfully paced. Every element of the picture, superfluous though some may seem, adds to the grandeur of the characters, the scenery, and the Scorsese-ian tragedy which inevitably befalls them.  Casino is my favorite Scorsese picture, and one of the best films ever made.

GREAT CLASSIC ANIME I love this anime and also "Armitage Dual Matrix" they are great and well animated, in my opinion, and I believe that any fan of anime should own this one.  Great classic anime!

Vintage Munch and Boston In a word: thrilling. Neither the mono sound (well balanced and detailed as it is) nor the vintage black and white video imagery can detract from the significance of this release. The rare opportunity to experience visually as well as sonically the great Boston Symphony Orchestra under Charles Munch, one of its finest music directors, trumps any shortcomings. The 1958-1961 footage features Ravel's Ma Mere L'Oye Suite as well as Debussy's Iberia and La Mer. Munch's profound empathy for this repertoire is everywhere matched by the superb playing of this great orchestra. Witness the masterful maneuvering of the complex and challenging transition to the last movement of Iberia (Le Matin d'un jour de fete). The subtle dynamic shading and rhythmic plasticity produced by the strings in movement II (Petit Poucet) of Ma Mere L'Oye is extraordinary. The exaltation at the conclusion of La Mer is palpable. The list goes on and on. Refinement and excitement in perfect equilibrium.  68 minutes of pure joy. Annotations are excellent.

Errol Flynn Collection I have always liked Errol Flynn and very happy to find that there was a DVD with 4 of His films on them. I have seen all four of these when I was younger.  This DVD was in great condition and I am very pleased with my purchase.

Steve Mcqueen at his uber cool best Steve McQueen at his uber cool best is `Bullitt' the cynical case hardened cop who works in a world of mafia hit men and political intrigue. A good supporting cast including Jacqueline Blisset (girlfriend) and Robert Vaughn (political wannabe) add depth and character to this twisted tale of mafia murder and police pursuit with its legendary signature car chase. Although the locations appear familiar: the cars, fashion and music produce a late 60's San Frisco nostalgia trip for the viewer. You simply can't make `em like this anymore. Check other reviews for DVD quality and format. Otherwise five stars.

Courageous A wholesome Christian movie showing some very realistic stresses individuals and families often confront without much support or self-awareness. It encourages one to become emotionally mature in the Christian faith and to be supportive of others who have not matured from a born in selfishness to a mature caring supportive human who gets pleasure out of helping others.

A classic This is one of my favorite movies of all time. I watch this 3-4 times a year. The acting is great, the screen play is great just a beutiful movie that everyone should have the honor of seeing.

Best vacation... This vacation movie will make you laugh so hard you'll end up in Walley Word. From Aunt Edna on the roof of a car to a security guard held hostage this is a movie well done for fans of Chevy Chase, Beverly D'angelo, Christie Brinkley, Randy Quaid and director Harold Ramis. With a movie this funny who can go wrong.

jesus is lord Excellent movie about our risen LORD and SAVIOR, a must see if you are searching a realtionship with the LORD, Robert Powell was a excellent choice for the part of JESUS, thank you for your prompt service in sending me this product, may GOD richly Bless you all.I purchased this product through amazon .com a great place to shop. Shirley Huff

Elf We have always enjoyed this classic Christmas story.  The order came in on time and in good condition, and now we can share it with our Grandchildren whenever we want.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn I fell in love with the first book.  The Twilight.  Then New Moon, then Eclipse and Braking Dawn. Even though these bookswere meant for young people I could relate to it.  A young and simple girl falling totally in love with the guy that every girl wanted but couln't have.  The books brought those caracther come out of those books and made them real to us.  They could stand on their own.  The stories continue and I could not get enough of the.  All of tese books are very special.  The writter took her time to work her magic and it inspired all of us.  All of the books are very special in their own way.  I was full of wonder and joy every time I read one.  This is The most special because ultimatly their love won and they would be together forever.  The fact that she was getting married and was going to consumate her love with this beautiful man(vampire) and she loved him so muchthat she was not scare of dying just to be with him, was amazing.  That is the kind of love that as women we all want to find.  A love that is worth it all.  I am in love with the writer and the characters in this book. I have 2 sets of each of the books in the Saga, 2 DVD's all the audio books and all the movies in my computer to watch whenever I want. It is the best love story ever. Love conquers all. I learned that you could love 2 people at the same time in different ways but that there is one love that holds you fast to this earth and that love is worth fighting and dying for. Some people think it is a fairy tale but we all wish that we would be fortunate to find it.

Liberal or Conservative...you will love this movie! For those of us who like to read and know what's going on in this great country of ours...you probably won't learn alot that you don't already know.  However, the movie is so well done, articulated and filmed that I guarantee whatever your political persuasion you will find this movie more than worth your time.  D'nish does a great job of explaining colonialization and why it has affected Obama the way it has.  His brother has so many of Obama's mannerisms, it's earie...but is very articulate and looks a lot like his famous brother. He is in favor of white influence in Africa and explains why he thinks S. Africa is doing so much better than his country, Kenya.  I also thought Obama's family dynamics (absentee father, step father, mother, grandmother, grandfather and his mentor) were interesting and how this inspired Obama...  If you think Obama is great and really do believe this to be the case, you should LOVE this movie because the words are taken directly from Obama's books...much of it recorded by Obama, and they are just telling you what you must be for...and if you're conservative, perhaps Obama's words are such that you are inspired to get others to see this movie.

Exellent Movie; Children Must Be Informed About The Issues Of The Real World I just wanted to see just how "atrocious" Cars 2 was. I loved Cars 2. Positive message about being yourself. Fun storyline and action. Designate politics to the adults? Children are our future, people. Storyline of Cars 2 too difficult for young children to comprehend? Well, so is the storyline of just about every other G Rated movie. Every movie has some darkness in it. I mean if everything in the movie was happy, the movie would not be interesting. I personally would watch Cars 2 over The Overrated Incredibles anytime. I mean, it's not like Cars 2 is a scientific documentary, or is forcing anyone to agree with what it is trying to teach.

Different Speed of Life Love Dear Chelsey Documentary shows what a Childhood cancer family goes through- and 1 man's trasformation. Grab a box of tissue.

Fantastic.  Brings back great nostalgia. I hadn't watched Yu Yu Hakusho in several years until I came across Funimation's release of the seasons on blu ray.  I remember the series as a fun ride, though I didn't recall many specifics of the plot.  I ended up purchasing the first 3 sets on blu ray.  There was a pleasant sense of familiarity as I watched the sets.  I can say with definite certainty that I will also purchase the last set as well.    As for this specific set, I believe it is my favorite of the 3 thus far.  The action is intense from the very beginning as the set starts off in the beginning of the final round of the Dark Tournament.  The fights are very exciting/over the top and take up the whole first disc of the set.  The only negative I have is that I feel the final fight with Toguro draggs out a bit too long, but it is still epic an battle nonetheless.  The disc wraps up with a fitting end to the arc.  As for the rest of the episodes, they center around the Black Saga arc.  Going into these episodes I didn't really know what to expect, for I had stopped watching the series before the final fight with Toguro for one reason or another.  I found myself pleasantly surprised to see that this new arc was as good, if not better, than the last.  There are less fights in this arc, yet the tone gets geared to an even darker shade as things begin to take the worst possible turn.  Some new characters are introduced and they're all rather interesting; especially the new main antagonist.  That's all I'm going to speak of the plot in this set, but needless to say, it was a joy to be immersed in.    I find myself excited to see what happens in the final set.  As for the blu ray upscale, I find the animations to appear very nice.  For the time it was released, and to see it look this sharp, I'm very pleased.  I believe it actually looks better than the first season, for the animations in general seemed to have gotten better and more established by this point.  I never owned the DVD sets, so I can't compare them.  I imagine these are noticeably better, especially if you're viewing this on a larger HD TV like I am.  The set also sounds very crisp at high volumes.  I always did enjoy the soundtrack as well.  All in all, 28 episodes for just over $20 (off of Amazon, at least) is a steal in my eyes.  If you have any interest at all in this, (or any of the other sets for that matter) then go for it.  You won't be displeased.    5/5 stars.

Beautiful beautiful movie Just a wonderful moving movie. Fantastic music also! Highly recommended. You'll find out what C.R.A.Z.Y. means at the end of the movie if you don't figure it out before hand.

MST3K STILL MAKES ME LAUGH. MST3K VOL.XVIII IS VERY FUNNY THIS TIME OUT,THE FOUR SHOWS THIS TIME ARE AS FOLLOWS,THE LOST CONTINENT WITH HUGH BEAUMONT THE SAME ONE,AND CEASAR ROMERRO THINK OF ROCK CLIMBING AND YOU WILL LAUGH A LOT,CRASH OF THE MOONS A ROCKY JONES TV SHOW PUT OUT AS A MOVIE IN THE 50'S JOHN BANNER FROM HOGAN'S HEROES IS IN IT AND THE SPECIAL EFFECTS WILL MAKE YOU SMILE AND LAUGH,THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS WITH TOR JOHNSON A MOVIE WITH NO DIALOUGE JUST NARRATION AND SOME FUNNY STUFF FROM THE GANG AT MST3K,LAST BUT NOT LEAST IS JACK FROST A RUSSIAN MADE FILM WHICH A MAN IS TURNED INTO A BEAR YOU WILL LAUGH UNTIL YOU CRY,THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST BOX SETS HIGHLY WORTH IT!

GREAT FLICK THIS MOVIE WAS GREAT, WOULD RECOMMEND IT TO ANY INDIVIDUAL OR FAMILY FOR WATCHING A GOOD MOVIE THAT HAS GREAT ACTION AND HUMOR, BUT ALSO REFLECTS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF VALUES.

Mouse Hunt Mouse Hunt is about the funniest movie I have seen in quite awhile. My grandson has watched it  about 3 times already .   Well that little mouse just about had the house torn up by the time the movie was over. It is really a good movie,I could tell you the whole show but that would take away the thrill of watching it.   It is really a good movie for the whole family.

Being Together Reunited James Garner & Julie Andrews,they meet one night & have to stay in a cabin that can keep them alive.  They get along real well & made a date to meet at a restaurant.  When she came in, he was not there as long as she was in there.  His daugther is having a baby & Julie is a doctor. When they meet again, he said he was there, but he got called away.  She does not believe him, & isn't very friendy.  Julie ask his daugther, how was her mother.  She said she died, the day that James & her were to meet.  So she knew that he was there.  He ask her to come with him & they got stuck in the snow again.  They headed for the house, it was empty, so they went in.  He told her he brought the house & they kissed.

Dracula Its a classic for me, It would be in your's collection, all the movie it is so funny and its for the family, great

Finally the truth came out! My Father and all of his brothers were Cristeros, one of them was killed. But the goverment hide all about this horrible truth. I am glad that finally came out and people knows about it. This is a wonderful one of many, but many terrible things Calles did. I am proud to be from a family of Cristeros.

Moonlight series was great I am a Alex O'Loughlin fan because of Hawaii 5-0 but after watching Moonlight, I an a huge fan. I loved the series but am disappointed that it did not get a second season to explore the relationship between Beth and Mick. Maybe someday while Alex is on break from Hawaii 5-0, he can do a movie reuniting the characters and wrapping up the storyline?

Amazing I bought this DVD for only 1.50 so I didn't expect it to play all that well. However, the movie played perfectly, theres not a scratch on the DVD. The case was a little beat up but that was part of the discription before I bought it. I would buy something again from this person because they tell you exactly what you are getting!

a pleasant romp through Merrie Olde Englande First, this is a comedy, not a documentary, or serious work. It is a romantic comedy, and by those standards it succeeds wonderfully. It is smart, semi-historical (Marlowe, and John Webster, who did grow up to write some pretty macabre plays) although the first scene where Will is getting psychoanalyzed should tell you not to include anything from this movie on a term paper.  But the acting is fine, the plot is delightful, and the directing is suburb. Geoffrey Rush gives a wonderful performance, and Ben Affleck does a pretty mean Ned Allyne. It is interesting to see Imelda Staunton of Harry Potter fame (Dolores Umbridge) and Jim Carter of Downton Abbey (Mr Carson) in very different roles.  This is a great date night movie, smart yet entertaining. It does not try to be more than it is, and what it is is pretty good.

One of the twenty top North American comedies ever made! Ernst Lubitsch was one of the most talented and daring filmmakers of his generation. Accustomed to make provocative and fearless scripts, he achieved a honor place with this acidic and laughable comedy against the Nazis; specially when just two years ago Charles Chaplin had throwen his hat top ring with The Great Dictator and perhaps for many everything had been said aboiut this awful issue. Tha's why when Lubitsch assumed the task of directing the 1942 political satire classic To Be or Not to Be, the normal expectations turned around what was going on behind stage and the surprise was majuscule for crictics and audiences; the film  marked the final screen appearance of comedienne Carole Lombard. In Warsaw at the beginning of WWII, Maria Tura (Lombard) and husband Joseph (Jack Benny) perform anti-Nazi plays with their theater troupe until they are forced to switch to Shakespeare's Hamlet. Lt. Stanislav Sobinski (Robert Stack) falls for Maria and meets up with her during Joseph's famous "To Be or Not to Be" speech as Hamlet. When Stanislav is eventually dispatched for war, he implicates Maria with Professor Siletsky (Stanley Ridges), who has a secret plan to destroy the Warsaw resistance. The Polish theater troupe is then forced to use their theatrical skills to ensure their survival. Eventually, they turn to impersonating Nazi officers -- and even Hitler himself -- in order to outwit the enemy and keep the resistance safe from spies. To Be or Not to Be opened to a controversial release in 1942, when the U.S. was still very much involved in WWII.  Watching it one may note why Mel Brooks bet for making The producers in 1968 and finally to undertake a remake in 1983.  A timeless movie that has acquired a cult status among the most origianl exponents of its genre.

AWESOME SERIES I JUST FIND THIS SERIES GREAT TO WATCH, GREAT ACTING, STORIES. ONE OF MY FAVORITES. CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEXT SEASON TO ARRIVE

Excellent We were delighted to receive Gaither's 'The Best of the Booth Brothers' promptly and in faultless condition. The production, the quality of the songs, and the joyfully sincere spirit of these men are excellent.  We highly recommend this production. As usual, Amazon.com handled this order with high expertise and service.  Thank you everybody!

Excellent movie, not for atheists so dont give it a 1 star I first saw this movie when it hit theaters and i thought it was epic. The action was intense, the story wasnt half bad and the characters, costumes, special effects, and shoot locations were perfect, the only reason anyone could hate this movie and give it a 1 star is if they are idiotic atheists who hate life and anyone but themselves.

Great Movie for kids This is a great movie for when I have to put something on that the kids and I can watch together. It is really enjoyable to watch in 3D

Great fun This DVD was great for my grandchildren.It introduce new character's  and it was lots of fun.My grandchildren are 5 years old and 2 years old and they both love it and ask for to see again and again.

Charlie I remember this movie when I was a kid so I was excited to get it. We need more cute, little, wholesome shows for kids.

Movie This movie has always been one of my favorites, and I could not find it in any of the local shopping centers.  I paid a total of six dollars, including shipping, for this awesome movie!  It is a great love story, but it will definitely make viewers cry!

Bourne to Tangier, MICHAELmATICIAN to Algiers Jason Bourne goes all-out in this film, and finally discovers why he's a deadly Frenchman. From Berlin to Moscow, then Tangier, back to London and even Madrid, Bourne tells it like it is. It is quite surprising that he didn't cross paths with MICHAELmATICIAN (often in Algiers). Bourne spends a few nights on Coke binges and other nights trying to uncover the conspiracy that created him and his new identity.  This is a film of boundless action and international intrigue, it is the stuff that nightmares are made of. Director Paul Bluegrass does a superb job of delivering a gritty yet concise view of a world divided by borders and McDonalds franchises covered in blood. Jason Bourne has no problem overcoming trained assassins and mercenaries, but continues to struggle with cell phone reception. The pacing is such that Bourne hasn't a chance to eat, sleep or shave. This film is a must see for the citizens of Algeria.  2.342

Songcatcher So very realistic.  I loved the music and the actors.  Some of the songs my Grandfather sang to me when I was very young.  I am from the Missouri Ozarks.  Lots of the same kinds of people lived here at one time.

Really good Vampier-Zombie film. While not really a "zombie" film, the vampires in this film are essentially at a zombie-state-of-mind.  Kind of a Vamombie.  Good cinematography, appears that it was shot on film and with some good acting.  "Mister" kept reminding me of Warren Oates, a favorite actor of mine.  Well worth the rental fee, this should not disappoint horror fans.

Gabin's Comeback Vehicle "Touchez Pas au Grisbi," ("Don't Touch the Loot,") (1954).  In another triumph of classic French cinema, Jacques Becker's tight - 94 minutes--black and white action/ crime thriller/film noir stars Jean Gabin( <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0780020707">Grand Illusion - Criterion Collection</a>,<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002E01M9W">Essential Art House: Le Jour se L&egrave;ve</a>) as Max, called le Menteur, an aging, world-weary gentlemanly gangster who believes he can retire after he and his friend Henri Ducros, known as Riton, make a big score: eight bars of gold, then worth 50 million francs.  But he soon discovers that a competitor has his eye on the takings: brutal crime boss Angelo Fraiser (Lino Ventura ,<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002FKCAVU">SICILIAN CLAN (1969)</a>), who heard about the job from round-heeled chorus girl Josy, (Jeanne Moreau - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007989ZC">Jules and Jim - Criterion Collection</a>).  Becker (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006HC0GY">Casque d'Or - Criterion Collection</a>,<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005NFZA">Le Trou - Criterion Collection</a>), is known to have enjoyed making gangster flicks, and he made a few.  This one, filmed in a Paris that seems to sparkle, is, in fact, as dark, gritty, and exciting as any he made.  It was a hit when released, despite the fact that, at that time, it was considered to have no stars.  Gabin had had a number of flops, and was perceived as being washed-up: this movie proved his comeback vehicle.  Ventura would go on to make more than 50 films, but this was his first--someone had recommended him to the director as a man who looked like a gangster; at the time, having been a wrestler, he was working as a wrestling promoter.  Moreau was very young, and if it wasn't her first film, she hadn't made many - she hardly looks like herself.  Daniel Cauchy, who played Fifi, a young member of Angelo's gang, was also making his first movie: he'd been an illustrator.  But someone had recommended him, too, to the director as a man who looked like a gangster.  He would go on to do 20 years of gangster pictures, including <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000633SC">Bob le Flambeur - Criterion Collection</a>.  This film was, to be sure, highly influential on the crime films that would follow.  It's absorbing, character-driven, with considerations of love, friendship and morality at its heart.  The script is faultless: the picture is hard-charging and hard-edged, tough, yet it has an evocative, romantic atmosphere.  The director's treatment of the crime milieu is matter-of-fact, his tale narrated with great understatement, then, surprising violent episodes.  Gabin turns in his usual man of the people performance: hardened, but humorous. It's a powerful movie that works its way to a shootout on dark, empty country roads, with an ending no viewer will soon forget.

awesome i recieved this blue ray movie in great condition. i also recieved it fast. the price was a steal. and i am very satisfied with it. im a collector and this movie is one to have.

The definitive edition, everything you'd want in one package. As an owner of the previous 'Complete Dossier' DVD version, which omitted the 'Hearts of Darkness' documentary and split the 2 versions of the film up across 2 discs, I was happy to find that this release corrected all of those issues.  This edition comes with both versions of the film, both the original masterpiece and the inferior-but-interesting 'Redux' version with added scenes, both restored and both with an excellent excellent HD transfer that looks nothing short of amazing. This is undoubtedly the best the film has ever looked. No digital fiddling, no unnecessary grain removal, it simply looks astounding, and is a big improvement over the DVD issues. The audio is similarly excellent.  The included documentary is a big plus for fans, as previously it was only available separately.  Given the wonderful transfer, the abundance of extras, and the rather nice packaging I would not hesitate to call this this best available version of the film and an absolute must-have for your Bluray collection.  EDIT: Also, why the devil has Amazon lumped the reviews for past DVD releases together with the Bluray release? This Bluray release is totally different from all past DVD releases. When reading other reviews make sure the reviewer is actually talking about this version, and not an older DVD issue.

Well done! Love this series- beautifully filmed and well done.  They summarize the key events in each major era of our history and it feels like a history book come to life.  I'll be using these episodes with my 7th grade US History students this year- they're perfect in length to show an entire episode in a class period and I know my middle schoolers will find them interesting.

The Three Musketeers It always amazes me that Hollywood never gets tired of doing remakes of some of their films, always trying to get it right. In fact, I was recently reading about the obsession of trying to make the best "Great Gatsby" version of them all, with new one of them coming out soon.  All these feelings came to mind when watching the newest remake of "The Three Musketeers." And let me tell you that I quite enjoyed this movie. It is what we go to the theaters for: it is exciting and fun and I couldn't take my eyes of the screen, as the production is majestic and quite colorful.  The story is simple, but you can tell that a lot of thinking and planning went into designing it for the screen. The opening is fascinating, as a voice, using a map with miniatures, tells us that "It is the dawn of the 17th Century and after the assassination of his father, the young king Louis XIII ascends to the throne." We are also told that the king (Freddie Fox) is surrounded by enemies, including his advisor, feared Cardinal Richelieu (Christoph Waltz), who is developing a plot to overthrow him. Enter Athos (Matthew Macfadyen), who makes an amazing entrance like a ninja; Aramis (Luke Evans), who does the same as sort of Batman; and Porthos (Ray Stevenson), who will remind you of the Joker. And this I say in a good way, as their appearances immediately tell you that this is great casting and that we are in for some fun. We also meet Milady De Winter (Milla Jovovich), a sexy, talented partner, who we will sadly discover is also a double-agent. The four of them team up to steal a blue-print of a DaVinci invention from the DaVinci vault in Venice. They succeed, but Milady fools the musketeers, and we learn that she was working for the Duke of Buckingham (Orlando Bloom). Enter, then, D'Artagnan (Logan Lerman), who we meet while saying farewell to his parents, because he is leaving for Paris to become a musketeer. As fate has it, he does meet the musketeers, who at this time are down on their luck and fame, or, as Athos says, "obsolete." However, a valuable necklace with diamonds is stolen from the queen, and D'Artagnan convince the musketeers to get their act together and get the necklace back, And that is when the adventure begins.  It is understandable that some people do not feel right about how the classics are taken to the screen in a certain way, especially if the ambiance or the story doesn't reflect the environment of a given historical period. But modernization brought special effects and other things that make the studios compete to see who outdo each other. And that is what we get with this new, dynamic version of the Dumas' novel. I truly had a great time watching the action sequences and the great production design, which generates a great mix of history, due to its scenarios, and remarkable cinematic techniques. The way the movie ends, opens the possibility of a sequel, which is uncertain, given that the film sadly did not fare well at the box office. However, I hope that they find a way to do it. The DVD includes audio commentaries by cast and crew, making-of documentaries, deleted and extended scenes, and more. (Germany/France/ UK/ USA, 2011, color, 110 min plus additional materials)  Reviewed on March 13, 2012 by Eric Gonzalez for Summit Entertainment.

Excellent This is horror filmmaking of a higher order. Smart, witty, engaging, jolting, and never boring; what a pleasant surprise it is to be reminded that real horror films still do exist.

Nostalgic I purchased a couple of the TCM Classic Film Collections of musicals for my husband for Christmas.  We just love them!  No complaints whatsoever!  Casablanca, An American in Paris, and Mrs. Miniver are our favorites.  Great collection and makes a wonderful gift for anytime of the year.  To the younger generation, they may seem corny and lacking much of a plot, but for those of us who are old enough to have seen the original movies, it is a trip down memory lane.

Extended Cut Blu-ray I can put up with Malick's love affair with blades of grass, the crawling pace, and all the faces staring off meditatively because the rewards are great. He's not perfect, but the guy somehow hits me with a cerebral sledgehammer while remaining a gentleman towards his subject.  I think that's his great gift.  This movie is a typical display of Malick's tone and style.  I'd rank it as his least great film.  Which is to say I'll still watch it once a year till I die.  The first 45 minutes and last half hour are fairly amazing.  The middle takes more patience.  I can't say where the extensions are because this extended version is the only one I've seen.  I figure if I'm going for a Malick ride, may as well settle in for the longest version.  The Blu-ray picture is stunning.  Even my friend who hated the movie said the cinematography knocked him out.  I don't have a big enough tv to spot artifacts, edge enhancement and so forth.  But the folks at blu ray dot com say this:  "Honestly, it would be easy to overlook a variety of technical flaws with cinematography like this. Thankfully, I didn't have to. Warner's 1080p/VC-1 transfer is simply magnificent, faithfully capturing the vibrancy, depth, and richness of Malick's visuals, and presenting them with polish and proficiency."  Anyone can be forgiven for finding this film boring.  It's crazy slow and many of the shots are superflous unless you are determined to like them, which I admit I was.  But if you slow your mind down and surrender to it, in my opinion you can experience something rare.

best one yet i think after listening to this the Priscilla had the real take on  Elvis and  i  understand  her points of  view alot better... She understood the real  Elvis and  it matches what i thought about him...she lived it...he was talented amazing gorgeous and tough to  be married to ..but  loved  always  perfectly balanced between talking and songs and the truth  about those lousy movies  and music..contracted out  for $$$ by  col. parker...

Another hit for Film 4 Back in the day before moving to the States there was BBC 1, BBC 2 and ITV ( that's independent Tv, the one with the ads !!!!!)  Then Channel 4 came out in the 1980s on Tv, and because they were attracting away from the standard fare, ratings etc...... they did the usual programmers but if you could stay up all night they streamed one good movie after another all night long. Once established they merged into lesser fare but initially they also set up Film Four , put some thought into it and produced a lot of cool Tv dramas/ films. True to form here is one of them. A lack of contrivance or flake. Just the best of British cool when they pull it together

hope I really appreciated this movie. its not a happy movie but a hopeful one. Robin williams did an excellent job

Great film, but it is from 1949, not 1933! Please update the product info, Amazon! Just so people are not confused by the incorrect year that amazon lists this film as being from... It is 1949, NOT 1933. Starring Orson Welles.

By far the best exorcism film ever The film is about Isabella Rossi. She is the daughter of Maria Rossi, a woman who killed three people while they were performing an exorcism on her. To know the truth about her mother, Isabella and her cameraman, Michael, start doing a documentary about exorcisms with the help of Ben and David, two priests that perform exorcisms on people that need it without the churche's permission. The film itself is very creeeeeeepy, especially Rosa'a exorcism, it was scary and bloody in some parts. Regardless of the ending, in the car crash, it's fantastic, and it really fits the movie, because at the beginning, in the exorcism class, they mentioned that in the case of multiple demonic possesion, the demons can jump through person to person. The idea of putting a link at the end of the film wasn't that neccesary, but it makes you feel the movie was real, which is very good. So overral, the film will "be home of moments that will shake, scare and disturb you", until the very ending. Recommended.

Awesome! My son and I loved it! Has to be a good movie to keep his attention considering that he's only 3. He loved everything about it especially the drumming!

Fantastic classic Horror Movie a must see I really enjoyed watching this movie its such a classic. Its really tame compared too todays horror movies but back then there was just nothing quit like it. The 2 disc ultimate edition is a no brainer and for the price you cant beat it.For a really low budget movie i was really impressed with what I saw this movie is scary at times.Theres 1 or 2 points that are quit startling like when you first see LEATHERFACE and when he comes out of the woods and attacks the unsuspecting Teenagers.This is a movie that you will want to watch over and over and over again.I found it too be much more scarier then Halloween and it had more gore then that movie well this is one of my new favorites in the horror Genre along with of course DAWN of The DEAD. This is the type of movie that will make your stomach turn and you might not want too turn the lights off the first time you see it its that scary.The STEELBOOK edition is fantastic I never new before this that you could buy a steel book edition well you can and its a must buy. This is not a movie that you rent and return too Netflix this is a movie that you buy cause its that good. If I could have given  this ten stars I would have its that good of a movie.

Equal to a cake;compleely fullfilling This movie had every element that is included to make a blockbuster:good action packed scenes,a dash of romance,and an alter to the protagonist's normal setting,all wrapped together to form the perfect package! If you are seeking a movie that will make you laugh,contains action and mystery,with a hint of romance and an altered girly setting,this movie has a chance at becoming your favorite!

Great A terriffic film.  The story is good.  New stars in early roles blending with the long standing actors.  Very fun.

Stumblefoot very well written, the music and characters are great. I loved it. Some sex alot of violence and language. But y'all knew that.

AWESOME THIS IS THE ORIGINAL CLASSIC CHRISTMAS CAROL. MY FIANCE WATCHED AT LEAST TEN TIMES OVER AND OVER. EXCELLENT FIVE STAR MOVIE.

Awesome! Great behind the scenes story of today's top Rock and Roll band.  I would recommend this product to any true Foo Fighter fan!

SAVE YOUR LIFE! Want a jump start to a healthier lifestyle?  This is it!  Inspired me to immediately buy a juicer.  I don't even have a weight problem but have a medicine cabinet full of heavy duty prescription drugs!  I am looking forward to spending the rest of my life without them!  Great Inspirational movie - if this doesn't do it for you, nothing will!

Best War Movie, Best Video Quality! If you are even just a hint of a fan of this movie, this Blu-Ray is a must, Stunning quality that will leave you satisfied!!

Why are they calling this The Second Season? Why are they calling this The Second Season?  1st ... Spartacus: Blood and Sand 2nd ... Spartacus: Gods Of The Arena 3rd ... Spartacus: Vengeance  ????

Great movie to see over and over. I have always loved this movie. Now, as a professor who occasionally teaches a professional selling class the movie is even more poignant. My students can learn a lot from it, good and bad.

Dream This is one of the mosst beautiful voices I've ever heard.' She sounds like an adult, I was surprised to find out how young she is.

Great movie!  Be prepared to laugh and cry! This was one of the best movies I have seen all year!  The cast was wonderful and at times I felt as though I really knew these people.  I laughed my head off most of the time and of course toward the end I cried my eyes out.  Loved this movie!

5 star portrayal of a dying art form I heard a few people raving about this film so i thought i'd check it out, and it far surpassed my expectations. I'm not a wrestling fan but found the film gripping and captivating through-out - it's a unique viewpoint, and it's brilliantly executed. Wrestling fans will no doubt be attracted as it features some big names, but non-fans like myself will also find it enjoyable, and perhaps make them look at the sport with more of an open mind. I highly recommend it! 5 stars!

Top notch movie This was a great movie.  Based on actual events makes it even better.  Powerful story with a good reminder about respect, integrity and teamwork.  Worth watching again.

A vision of the furure Quite changed from the book but amazingly prescient about what actually happened in the Vatican after the book was published. A Pope that was prepared to give away the riches of the Church (supposedly what John Paul 1 wanted to do), an Eastern European Pope (Russian/Polish). Very much a film of its time (1968) with the rise of China and food problems and possible nuclear war. I agree with the other reviews about Faber's dalliance being somewhat out of place but it did enable 'The Pope As a Man of The People' scene to have relevance. A good film but read the book as well for a similar but different view.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1902881834">The Shoes of the Fisherman (Vatican Trilogy, Book 1)</a>

Greatest Documentary of the Twentieth Century Given all that has been written on this series, I can't find much more to add.  But let me simply say this, I am a history wonk, I also love the documentary format.  This particular documentary (or set of documentaries, if you prefer) was created when I was merely in diapers but greatness endures.  This is the greatest documentary ever filmed.  Period.  I am particularly fascinated by the Stalingrad episode and the other episodes focusing on the Eastern front, as that was the focal point of the war.  But, in any event, this documentary encapsulates in perfect form one of the most profound eras in the history of man.  Don't miss it.

Great Saga The clone wars sage (season one) is a wonderful excursion into CGI reality. After watching it hit-or-miss on Cartoon Network, I decided to purchase the set. I caught it "on sale" but even then it was a tad pricey for me.

Fiddler on the Roof I am very happy with the merchant.  The product has sent promptly and there was nothing wrong with the dvd.  I would buy again from this one.

It's a wonderful buy! Now we don't have to wait for NBC to tell us when we can watch it! We can watch It's A Wonderful Life anytime of the year because we purchased our very own copy. A Christmas classic everyone should see; a clean, family-friendly movie starring Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed.

20 years and an excellent audio remaster makes this movie shine even brighter Much has already been said about this movie.  Excellent visuals and character development, basis for Avatar and on blu-ray the visuals are stunning.  The audio track is done exceptionally well.  This is a good movie made even better through technology.  Great on blu-ray.

Must See Movie! This movie should be a requirement for everyone to see. Just watch the movie, its Good!! Seriously you get lost in this movie. Montana is one of the greatest characters in film history. I find myself repeating a lot of the lines in this movie. Oh yea its fantastic in 1080p!!

Outstanding! Definitely the best show that came out for the whole season. Edge of your seat suspense! Can't wait for the next season. Hurry up already!

funny!! Very funny and adorable film! my little one loves this movie , so I found it at a very affortable price and was delivered at my door within just a couple of days , which was great !!!

Movie is Ok. 3D is the best there is I have seen a lot of blu ray 3d films and this one is the best. Things pop out, depth is great. Looks like a pop up book. It is better then Avatar blu ray 3d. I read that they went back and re did the 3d for the blu ray and I hope more studios do that b/c it worked. As far as the movie it is just ok. I mean come on its Tim Burton you would expect much better.

Fabulous! They did a great job getting the dvd here and earlier than I expected. It was used but they put it in shrink wrap for shipping. I will use them again!

Fast Delivery, Good Price, Awesome Movie I personally love this movie, I know a lot of people don't, but it's one of those hate it or love it kind of films.  As for the order, It came 3 days earlier than estimated, It was packaged well and was exactly what I ordered.  Now if you excuse me, I awesomeness to observe.

A Bigger Boat Jaws is an amazing story which, even decades later, has the power to suck us in. I've seen this movie more times than I can count, and I watched it again fresh for this review. Yes, on one hand it's a "thriller" about a giant monster. However, there is so much more here. The interplay of the characters. The amazingly quotable dialogue. The sense of balancing a community's needs against what - at first - seems to be a vague threat.  The movie is definitely a "much lighter" version of the book, and it's well worth reading the book to see just how much more there was in the original story. Still, the movie richly deserves its #48 spot on the AFI top 100 - and it goes up against many heavy hitting dramas to earn that rank.  The pacing is perfect, the music draws the atmosphere into focus. And there are all sorts of fascinating facts about sharks sprinkled in and around.  I also love the landscapes. I grew up in New England and have visited Cape Cod many times. It's a gorgeous area of the world, and it's great to get immersed in that beach-side world atmosphere with the quiet streets and seaside homes.  One thing I was curious about was how Jaws would fare on the Bechdel test. This test is simply to see if there are two named female characters who talk with each other about something other than a man. Even with all the times I've seen this movie, it was hard to remember any meaningful female characters here. There's the police chief's wife. The bereaved mother of the chomped-on kid. The secretary at the police station. And really, that's it.  On my rewatching, the only scene I spotted with two women talking was when a random woman teased the captain's wife about never being a "real" islander because she wasn't born on-island. But since the random woman wasn't named, it doesn't count.  Still, despite that minor complaint, this is great from start to finish. The characters are amazing. The dialogue is great fun. The story hooks you from the start and has you enthralled until the very end.

awsome` this movie is a classic! I remember watching it in mexico city, and now my children can enjoy this wonderful film.

Justified Is a great series This is a great series, I can't believe I didn't see it while it was on the air.  Thank goodness for DVD.  Timothy and the reset of the cast are fantastic.  I have all 3 seasons so far and want to watch it a third time around!  Love it.

Eloise at the Plaza Wonderful for kids of all ages! Extremely fun movie!  My grandchildren watched it many times.  Follow up movie is Eloise at Christmastime.  Julie Andrews is the nanny.

Information we need In my opinion, the most informative movie I have seen to date. If you are 30 years or younger, you don't remember how it was. When I was growing up we didn't have restrictions on all the things we said and did like we do today. There was no political correctness. We didn't have a need for a fence on our southern borders then, because our laws prohibited anyone giving jobs or helping illegals to break our laws. Therefore they didn't come to the U.S. Our government wasn't as far into our lives as they are now. It takes a very lazy or stupid person to want the government to do everything for them. I want to keep the money I make and not give it to some lazy ass sitting on his couch, watching a big screen TV and getting fat eating junk food. I want GOD to be a household word again, and not a dirty word. I want prayer back in the schools as it should be. I want teachers to teach not brain wash our children. I want our politicians to mean it when they swear to uphold the Constitution of these United States. People should be aloud to make their own choices without government interference. I don't want the government owning anything and putting it out of our hands. I don't want the government telling me what I can and can't say or do. GOD gave man his rights and freedom and government should not be allowed to take it away. I want this country to be safe again to walk down the street of a big city without fear of being mugged, raped, or murdered. We need to take our country back, and with the help of GOD and guns, we can. Please let other people know about this movie and movies 2 and 3. It is something that a GOD fearing free individual needs to see. GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

MESMERIZING AND TERRIFYING  10 OUT OF 10 I remember when I watched The Exorcist for the first time and I hated it. At the time I thought it was boring and didn't rewatch it for more than a decade. But after a  number of years of my taste in horror and films in general got a lot better, my brain began nagging at me to give this film another shot. I had seen many other horror classics and loved them, but why did I not love this one at first? So now that I'm older and wiser, I'm glad I gave it another shot because this is currently the finest horror film I've ever seen and also among my top twenty favorite films. Perhaps this is one of those films you have to be older to fully appreciate, but I sure do feel stupid for hating it when I first saw it and not being able to appreciate its greatness. WHAT IT'S ABOUT: The story starts off with an archaeological dig in Iraq with a priest known as Father Merrin finding a small statue of a demon known as Pazuzu. The story then focuses on a woman named Chris MacNeil who is an actress living and working in Georgetown, who begins to have problems with her twelve-year-old daughter Regan, since her behavior is becoming erratic and dangerous, with all sorts of strange events occurring around her. Chris then begins to believe Regan is possessed and begins seeking help. The story also focuses on the faith struggles of a priest known as Father Karras and also deals with the troubles of his aging mother and people around him. The lives of these characters come together, all in the pursuit of trying to remove the demon Pazuzu from Regan's body which turns in a terrifying nightmare. MUSIC: The music is eerie and frightening, but unfortunately it does not appear often, which is a bit disappointing. ACTING: The acting and dialogue are simply superb. Ellen Burstyn does a fantastic job at portraying a mother in conflict and terror, and seeing her life fall to pieces around her. Though Mercedes McCambridge is not widely acknowledged enough, she proved to be essential to the film's terror by providing the voice of the demon Pazuzu (Whoever knew you could develop such a frightening voice through chain-smoking and vomiting?), which is why I feel it's such a shame she isn't credited enough for it. Jason Miller was excellent as Father Karras and was very believable in the struggles he portrayed, particularly in the ways he conveyed the emotions of the faith-shaken priest. Linda Blair did a terrific job playing a possessed girl, which no doubt gave people nightmares for years. Max Von Sydow was terrific as a hard-edged priest who never seemed afraid of the demon Pazuzu, but like the character Father Karras, he also has personal struggles in his faith. All the other actors were terrific as well, and I have no complaints about their performances. ACTION: This film is mostly about suspense and building tension, which works incredibly well. Even after all these years, this film is still pretty damn scary which comes as no surprise since it had people passing out in terror during its original 1973 run in theaters. Every performance makes you feel for the characters, every scary scene is frightening, and it was never boring. OVERALL: I feel bad for today's modern generation (Which I am unfortunately a part of...sigh) because in this day and age, we will never get any horror film to match this one or the classics of yesteryear (Or at least very few that compare). Don't watch this film if you're expected something fast-paced or dripping with violence, because that is not what this is about. If there's one thing I have left to say, it's this: I sure as hell hope that Hollywood DOES NOT remake this film because it would only end in failure (Which is saying a lot by me because I have enjoyed many horror remakes like the films of Platinum Dunes and some other notorious remakes like Black Christmas and Halloween). If you have not seen this horror classic, I recommend that you do so, but only if you're mature enough for a proper viewing, otherwise you will never appreciate it. THE GOOD: Everything. THE BAD: Could use a little more music.

the children loved it This was a really nicely done movie. My son had just studied the book and all of the children thoroughly enjoyed it from ages 5 to 13.

Great Addition to our Harry Potter DVD collection What can we say. So glad that we got a copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1  on Blu-ray. Loved the extra features. Can't wait to get Part 2.

I love this film... Honestly don't get why so many hate it! This film has it all- swarming aliens, predator technology and humans caught in the middle of all the brutality. It has the thrills and kills that I would expect any Alien or Predator film to have.  The Alien franchise is my favourite sci-film franchise, so to see our old foes battling it out once again (I think) is awesome. I felt that AvP lacked a lot of 'true battles' and action that AvP:R really delivered. AvP also felt really clean and clear- hardly a scary film (like the original Alien films). AvP:R, on the other hand, felt gritty and harsh- a much more immersive experience.  I'll agree that some of the acting wasn't great and that chunks of the action were quite dark, but that just enhanced the excitement and danger for me. If we're really honest with ourselves I'm sure that we'd also have to say that some of the acting in the Alien and Predator films was hardly Oscar worthy... (Think of Hudson's banter about illegal aliens or his girly crying... (I love Hudson as a character though... Don't get me wrong)!  I guess the best advice I can give is 'don't expect a cinematic masterpiece, just a load of other-worldly-inflicted carnage in the U.S. of A!'

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel One of the best movies I've seen in a long time.  The cast was excellent.  I bought this film because I'm a big Judi Dench fan, but I must admit Maggie Smith stole the show.  I would highly recommend this movie to anyone who is tired of the violence, strong language and the pure trash that is coming out of Hollywood today.  It's refreshing to see a film that is tastefully entertaining.

Wonderful film for its time I will never bother with watching the modern re-make; people who miss this version are really losing out on a warm and witty love story, not to mention pre-Spielberg monsters that are pretty impressive given the era.

Harry Potter It's a great movie. I have all of the Harry Potter movies.  These are a must see for all age groups.

ANCHOR BAY=BEST BATTLE ROYALE RELEASE ON BLU, ARROW SET=WORTHLESS Finally, Battle Royale comes to America on Blu ray! Americans have been waiting for years! Previously if you wanted this on blu, you had to buy the region-free LE Arrow set from the UK. It was a limited run so if you didn't pick it up in the 6 weeks it was on the market, you would be paying $100 or more on ebay for just the first movie. The arrow set had an awful blu ray transfer and the PAL extras made it unwatchable for the American market. Now with this anchor bay release, the Arrow BR set is WORTHLESS.  This is the best and most complete collection of BR anywhere in the world. You get 4 disks, both movies, NTSC extras, and the theatrical and director's cut of BRI. If anyone has any doubts about the PQ/AQ of this release by anchor bay, just know that everything made in the USA is always the best! Buy it and Enjoy it!  EDIT: AMAZING 1ST PRINT ONLY DIGIBOOK!!!!!

Loved it Exactly what I needed and asked for. Brad new in the box. Exactly as advertised. will be ordering from again. thank you. Mint condition.

LENNONYC I AM FULLY AWARE THAT I AM VERY PREJUDICED WHEN IT COMES TO MOST THINGS BEATLE ORIENTED. THAT BEING SAID, BEING ALLOWED TO VIEW INTO NOT ONLY  THE MUSIC THAT CHANGED MY LIFE, BUT THAT I HAVE GROWN UP AND GROWN OLD WITH. ANY DECENT OPPOURTUNITY TO GLIMPSE A SLIGHT HUMAN SIDE TO THE STRUGGLES AND PAIN AS WELL AS THE TRIUMPH IN THEIR LIVES IS A GIFT THAT NOONE NEEDS TO ALLOW. JOHN NEVER STOPPED TRYING TO EXPAND HIS LIFE ON ALL LEVELS WHICH I HAVE MAJOR RESPECT FOR. HIS DIFFICULTIES IN HIS MARRIGES, HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH JULIAN, DRUGS, THE GREAT OLD USA, HIS QUEST FOR WORLD PEACE ON A HUMAN RATHER THAN POLITICAL LEVEL, HIS CONSUMONG LOVE OF HIS WIFE AND SON SEAN SHOW ALMOST PAINFULLY HOW THE WORLD SHIFTS AND AGAIN LANDS ON ITS TRUE SOUL. ANYONE WHO WAS NAIVE ENOUGH NOT TO SEE AND FEEL AND RESPECT HIS LOVE FOR YOKO ARE PITIFULLY LACKING IN THE MOST BASE HUMAN EMOTION! THIS STUDY INTO GOOD TIMES, BAD TIMES, AND ULTIMATELY THE DEATH OF A HUMAN BEING THAT WILL ALWAYS BE MISSED IS POIGNANT, FRUSTRATING, LOVING, FILLED WITH PATHOS AND LOVE.  FOR ME IT'S A KEEPER !

Great message! I had seen this movie previously, but it seems whenever I mentioned it, no one had heard of it. I ordered it and think this movie is wonderful. It's message covers family, love, racism, tolerance, friendship, loyalty,hope  & forgiveness. It should be seen by everyone. The acting is wonderful. I highly recommend it!

Tall Tale Shelley Duvall Series I teach English in a middle school. Part of the curriculum involves American lit: tall tales. I have purchased the entire Duvall series to show once my students have read the tall tale. The videos are well done, include humor, and, for some students, include actors the students have seen elsewhere. These videos enhance my lessons.

Awesome Breakfast Club Flashback Edition DVD I recently saw the breakfast club and absolutely loved it. It now ranks number 5 on my top 10 favorite films. It's a true classic! So I just had to buy it! So I browsed around and I found this flashback edition. It seemed well priced and had some interesting special features so I made my purchase. I was completely satisfied! The price was great and it came 2 days later. The audio and picture quality are great! The special features were super cool! And the box was in great condition! The menu was also pretty sweet! I love this DVD! I highly recommend it!

Best Arnold movie behind Terminator 2! Best Ah-nuld movie behind his Terminator 2, ever! movie always is a favorite to watch, even when it has comedy mixed with action-packed loaded with fun!!!! =)

Jennifer Aniston Unleashed Perhaps this is partly due to the very vocal and very packed theater I saw Horrible Bosses in, but I have to say that it was one of the best experiences I've had watching a comedy in a long time. This movie is funny, really funny. The writing is vulgar and clever, often at the same time. There is not one weak link in the cast. Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis play the three main guys getting pushed around by their evil bosses. They then hatch a plan to kill each others bosses. Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston and Colin Farrell play those three evil bosses. You also get other big names like Jamie Foxx, Donald Sutherland and an unexpected cameo from Bob Newhart. Everyone is great, but I have to give a special props to Jennifer Aniston. We finally get to see her in a role that showcases more of her talent than everything else she has done combined. She's funny, sexy and pulls of some nasty lines with ease.  I didn't plan on seeing this today, but I got bored, read some really positive reviews, felt spontaneous and headed to my theater. Best decision I've made in...well today. Forget the latest Hangover and check out one of the best comedies for grown ups in a long time.

Facing the Giants My Monday night Bible study is using this DVD.  It has good, thought provoking questions in its study guide that can be downloaded from the film website.  My husband and I have watched this movie several time and love it.  Good moving to have in ones library, especially if you have children.  Good life lessions.

Hachi It is a true story and a must for every dog lover. There has never been a more loyal and faithful dog than this Japanese Akita dog. Very few people will watch this DVD and not cry when they see it, especially the end.

Great family DVD, rockets, teenage boy growing up in late 1950s WV I read Homer H Hickam Jr's Torpedo Junction, The Dinosaur Hunter and Rocket Boys (also titled October Sky)....all 5 stars. Plus I bought 4 more of his books I still have to read. Homer is a great author, retired NASA engineer who helped train the shuttle astronauts, a diving instructor, a decorated Vietnam Army officer and an amateur Paleontologist. My family and I watched the October Sky DVD for our family night. Everyone liked it.  Here is a great movie. Just don't take my word for it. Hundreds gave it 5 stars on Amazon.  Here is a heartwarming movie about Homer Hickam Jr's memories about teenage growing up in the rural coal mining town of Coalwood WV in the late 1950s... 1960.  There was only a little swearing and only one scene of a man smacking a teenager around.This is a good movie for the whole family to see.  The actors and actresses did a great job portraying the characters in the book. Homer's father is a strict management type man in charge of a coal mine. We see the problems management and the union are having as well as the parent company wanting to shut down the mine as it becomes less productive. We see Homer's brother Jim a HS football star getting a football scholarship to a college and getting out of being a miner. Homer's dad wants his son Homer to work in the mine as a mining engineer but Homer wants to become a NASA rocket engineer and work with Dr. W von Braun.  We see the effect the Russian satellite Sputnik had on the town of Coalwood and Homer. It starts his fascination with rockets and wanting to become a NASA rocket engineer.  Homer forms a rocket club and after many attempts with the help of the mines machinists develops a rocket that flies high. We see the club entering the science fair and Homer winning the gold medal for the club and town. Homer shows the medal to his sick Physics teacher Miss Riley in the hospital. She dies of Hodgkin's Lymphoma at age 31. Homer's mom supports him in his rocketry saying "Just don't blow yourself up". Finally Homer's Dad arrives and launches the last rocket and finally shows his love for Homer.  The movie was great 5 stars but I liked the book Rocket Boys better 5 stars plus. The book was more detailed. The movie missed a lot of character development, Homer's entire teenage sex life and the plot was not as well developed. That said I liked the movie and recommend it 5 stars. Buy the book first and read it. The book Rocket Boys or retitled October Sky INMO was even better. 5 stars plus.

review jesus christ superstar CD I was happy to find this CD available at Amazon because my old VHS brokedown and I could only play CDs.  I found it reasonaby priced at Amazon. THANKS!  GM

Harry Potter - The complete series So happy to finally be able to own this set.  I purposely purchased a blu-ray player for this series.  All 8 discs played perfectly.

Great satire/war movie Even after a decade and a half, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UAFDP2">Starship Troopers</a> is still exciting and entertaining. The plot portrays a future in which a militarized planet earth is fighting against a race of alien bugs. Simple enough - and actually not unlike <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00012FXAE">Aliens</a>. For an action flick, the characters are surprisingly likable and really grow on you. However, what makes this movie worth watching even now is its element of satire. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UAFDP2">Starship Troopers</a> parodies the senseless violence of war and the effect it has on society. The troops are all good looking (particularly Denise Richards!) and the officers are dressed like Nazis. Best of all, throughout the film, the narration employs a series of 1930s-style newsreels with propaganda clips and infomercials. It's a great study in contrasts. Of course, it's not really clear why they don't just rely on aerial bombardments and nukes (after all, the U.S. does) but I guess that wouldn't make for a good movie. Recommended.

Cosby lover Cosby is the epitome of good, timeless humor.  I watched him when I was younger, the Cosby Kids show, and have laughed at his life stories every time I hear them.

just awesome i cant wait till season3 did anyone else but me notice that they r making Darryl into the Tyreese roll from the comics and they r going to kill him off i love Darryl he my favorite character i dont want him dead

comedic fun This movie will help you unwind from a long tiring day.  Will Ferrell is, as always ready to catch you off guard with a line to definitely make you smile or bend over with laughter.  My only caution would be that it contains a lot of adult humor and I would not recommend young children to view this. Just enjoy and you will catch yourself repeating some of the catchy phrases that are said through out the movie.

LOVE IT yes,yes,yes, I love this movie, keeps you going the whole time. the old lady will have you crying and laughing at the same time, this movie is sooooo intense. Do not watch it alone if your scare of horror, the sound effects is excellent.

Well, wow. I did not see Eyes Wide Shut when it came out, and remember it got very lukewarm reviews. But I gave it a look recently, expecting little.  I was not prepared for what I saw, which was nothing short of brilliant.  When my kids watched Animaniacs cartoons, all they saw was the slapstick and broad humor. But those cartoons contain a whole second layer of meaning aimed at adults. "Helloooo, nurse!" So it is with Eyes Wide Shut, which is not really about sex, except as a motive force which propels Dr. Bill Harford into realms he doesn't belong.  I'm amused by the many reviews which relegate the infamous orgy scene to some kind of fantasy or dream state. It isn't, not in the least. Kubrick is being completely literal there. With a magician's flip of the cape, he shows that our 'real world' is the fantasy, a lie we tell ourselves to avoid seeing the ruling elite who live above our laws and outside our view.  "But now we're awake," says Alice, and tells her husband they should be grateful for having survived their brush with dangerous truths.  If you need to convince yourself it was all just a dream, go ahead. Just don't look up in the trees. There might be giant spiders up there.

Sweet movie One of my favorites from disney. Would recommend to any and all people anywhere. So creative and loving. So amazing.

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Superb Beautifully told. I am not generally a fan of costume dramas, but this one was splendid. The acting was wonderful.

Great for the kids! I bought this mainly for my girls, but of course I was excited to see some movies that I remember seeing as a kid.  My daughters love it!  Especially my 3 year old.  She wants to watch it all the time over and over again.  The only complaint I have is the option they give when playing all the films.  It bugs me that they have the long and short version playing right after one another when you hit 'play all'.  It bothers my 3 year old too.  She'll say, "I just watched this one Mom"!  Other than that it gives great entertainment and even though it's not identical in every way when we first watched these as kids, they did a great job of recreating something that isn't out there anymore.  We all love them and I'm glad I bought it.

heart warming The best movie i have ever seen I watch every time with my 9 year child Its a great movie

awesome on blu ray i just finished watching alien on blu ray and for a movie over 30 years old the picture and the quality is amazing.comparing the two side by side i will give the dvd to a friend who enjoys these kind of movies.i have not had a chance to watch aliens on blu ray as of yet but from what i have read the picture is awesome as well as the sound.blu ray kicks it out of the park.five stars all the way.

Great family film I've been a fan of Michael Caine and Robert Duvall since the 70s.  As they age, they seem to get better at their trade and whatta class act they are.  If you want to watch a movie that has virtue, value, comic elements and even surprises in the end-- this is the movie for you.  If you already seen it, I don't have to tell you.  If you haven't seen it, you must.  Sheer delight!!!

Ode This movie is a ode to art- Artists. Should I go back in time and live in Paris with the Surrealists??? Woody Allen's movie better with age.

Excellent Movie No hollywood explosions, impossible car chases, ex or retired 23 year old CIA who happens to look like a model. Just a good storyline with some humor mixed in and some good acting on the part of Jack Black. Very well done movie..

Great movie My 6 year old daughter, absolutely loved this movie and I will admit that I enjoyed it as well. The acting was good and the story line was surprisingly interesting.

Why can't the good shows stay on forever?! My wife and I really like this show and was sad to see it go. I also like that it's one sided disk so you only have to worry about ONE side of the disk. Got here fast and nice packaging for a show that is a modern classic.

Amazing movie!! Movie is about if would have second chances for something terrible that you've done... One of the best Spike Lee's movie that I've ever seen for sure!

Not the best Star Trek ever but Great Price Not the best of the Star Trek movies but none the less a must to complete the set.I paid less than $8 and got it within days, very well packaged. Great Buy!

I agree... I totally agree... "If you can handle it, see it."  Definitely a flick for horror/gore fans.  Not for the squeamish!  A classic "revenge" film.  I loved it...and it may go down as the most gruesome film I've ever seen.  Only for those who enjoy this genre.  All 5 stars!

Long live Jason Voorhees! I have been a lifelong Friday the 13th fan and when I heard that they were remaking it, I wasn't scared at all, it is a formula that is kind of hard to screw up.  This attempt is not perfect and suffers some of the problems that most modern horror movies do (too much CG & too many "stars") but overall I think that it did a good job.  Some people complained about some of the weapons Jason used... I think that that is stupid and if you pay attention it actually makes perfect sense.  I haven't watched it in a while, but writing about it now makes me want to, it delivers on what it is supposed to - mindless sex and violence wrapped around a core of a morality play, those who misbehave get punished.  This was a good movie and a good DVD worthy of the Voorhees family.

Cyclone Featuring the sexy Heather Thomas here's a Movie from the past.i remember watching this way back in the days.i got it on dvd, and yea the movie is okay, but heather thomas looks great in the movie.

No regrets! Saw this movie in the theatre with my 5 and 2 year old sons. This was a 'sure thing'. They love this movie, and it's cute and suitable for children.. and adults that are still children at heart.

10 things  golfer should Know Great video. Many good tips for beginners and the good golfer. Some of the tips I have used. I'm new at golf and can use all of the tips I can get. This video is helpful.

The Muppets Christmas Carol <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ATQYT2">The Muppet Christmas Carol - Kermit's 50th Anniversary Edition</a> This is my favorite movie version of Charles Dickens' classic "A Christmas Carol." Over the years, there have been numerous film versions of this classic tale from Mickey Mouse to Jim Carey, from Basil Rathbone to Patrick Stewart. But, out of all of them, this one stands out as my favorite. I rank this in my top five all time favorite christmas movies which includes, "Miracle on 34th Street(the original version with Natalie Wood)," "It's a Wonderful Life," "Christmas Vacation," and "Scrooged." If you are a huge fan of all things Christmas, this is a must have for your movie collection.

the best superhero i am a superman kinda person.  the first in the series.  Warner Brothers could not get any one to play the part any better.  he was a living superman with his disability.  this movie predates c g i for the age of the movie i would say that it is better then a lot these days.in this movie he meets Lex Luther.  i suggest to any one to watch.

A+++++++ The best of all 5 - hope there are more - Of course there will be at least 1 more

The five pennies A movie I enjoyed during my teens in the late 60s, and went on to have pleasant dreams in it's music and comedy that kept me going. Never thought that I would one day own this movie to watch in the very comfort of my home with my family, which would have been only a dream in those days. Excellant piece of work in transfer to dvd format. As usual Danny kaye in one of his best performance as Redd Nichols together with the late great Lois Armstrong. Great movie.  I will recommend this anytime.

Finally!!! This is what I've been waiting for every since the blu-ray format came out. All of The Matrix movies and extras in one small package. I caught this set on sale for about $27 so it was an incredible deal. If you liked any of these great and visionary movies, then by all means, make this purchase and be totally happy that you did!

Its a must have ... If u miss the players and games of the old, u must grab this. The FLU.... Need I say more. Buy it u will not be disappointed!

Found what i wanted!!! I was trying to find this movie for two year and i got it at a great price. FUNNY,FUNNY and, FUNNY. Just got get enough of it......

Terrific Really enjoyed this Western.  Wonderful John Wayne performance.  It is all that the reviewers have said.  It is definitely a classic.

Casablanca Unquestionably, one of the greatest films of all time. It is often rated number one in movie polls. There are few scenes and lines in it that have not been reprised many times in other movies. I gave this DVD to my son with the thought that you cannot call yourself knowledgeable of movies if you do not know "Casablanca".

BAD BOY This is a KOOL funny movie, specially in blu ray, must own it to wach it. I will be purchasing all the friday movies in blu ray

the town rocks - big time best ben affleck movie since gone baby gone. action scenes were frequent and very well done. loved it all - great video and audio quality throughout. watched it several times already and still not tired of it. a 'must have addition' to your blu ray collection.

Some like it hot This movie is very very funny, especially the scene in the sleeper car. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemon are great together.

Beautiful in Blu! I followed this show during the original run starting with the mini-series.  Back then, I was stuck with standard definition broadcast quality.  For the last season of its run I was able to enjoy it in HD broadcast.  Even at the current price, the complete series on Blu-Ray is an excellent deal.  The picture during these early seasons that I've watched so far has generally been fantastic, although there have been some cases in brightly lit seasons where there is a lot of visual noise in the background.  However, these have been few.  There are very few cases when I will by a television series like this.  This collection is one worth owning and one that I look forward to experiencing again and again over the years.

The mind of a killer can be infectious! The first time I saw James Vogel's The City, I have to admit, I enjoyed it. So, why do another review of the same movie...well, because, it's not really the same movie. Vogel has reedited his movie and added some scenes and taken away others to make this great indie movie even better.  The story remains basically the same, Scott is a frustrated screenwriter who needs to have some 'darker' experiences to flesh out his current work. He meets T.K. who's filled with 'dark' and is more than willing to share. The two soon find themselves fast friends and are up to no good! I won't go into much further detail.  Well, in this 'director's cut', the action remains largely the same, but pared down quite a bit. The action feels tighter that story moves faster and Vogel adds an ending that will make your skin absolutely crawl!

Great service and product quality movie got here on the 6th thats three days earlier than estimated. movie was great to watch, I enjoyed the quality and the story.  I waited with bated breathe for tis movie to get here!

An Unrecognized Classic This is a great movie, and the word 'great' is not one heard often from my lips. It is a classic whether it is ever recognized as such or not. Most movies featuring teenagers depict them as one of two stereotypes: the goofy but lovable airhead or the terminally alienated and potentially murderous creep. Both stereotypes ignore everything else that goes to make up a human being. Home Room starts out with two characters who could have easily slipped into both stereotypes, but are saved by an unusually intelligent script. Alicia is a Goth and clearly alienated. So much so that the police are investigating her to find out if she had withheld a warning before the shooting. Deanna is the daughter of a well to do family, drives a BMW, makes such good grade that she is on track to graduate high school a year early (Alicia is graduating a year late), and smiles at everybody. She has a practiced, almost professional friendliness, as if she is preparing to be Miss Teen USA.  Suddenly fate causes these two to karmically collide like two particles in a linear accelerator. And what happens next is that layer by layer we are taken into the inner workings of both girls. Things are not what they seem. This is where the movie really shines. With almost unimaginable patience and subtlety we are taken into the lives of these two girls. And what we are shown is that they are real people, not stereotypes. They have depths and they suffer shattering conflicts that almost destroy them. They struggle to find answers and what they find is that the answers do not always come easy or pat. Sometimes the conversations boil over, but I never found that to be a self-indulgent theatrical trick, as it often can be. The elements in this film are carefully balanced to a precise degree. And the revelations continue right up to the very end.  There is some merit in what some reviewers wrote about the detective's story being a distraction that could profitably be reduced. I am not really sure at this point why that part was conceived as it was. I think he does in fact serve a purpose in the narrative, but I'm not sure his role deserves all the time devoted to it. To some extent the time spent with the police in their investigation of Alicia does establish the danger she is in and the stakes she is playing for. If she can't pull herself together, she might go to prison, but she isn't sure she cares, and that is a critical point. I think the way the story returns to the detective keeps us mindful of that crucial fact, I'm just not sure that this was the best way to go about it.  Finally, the story does end with a hug, but it did not feel to me at all hokey or contrived. Rather it was the perfectly natural and inevitable point that these girls' relationship had reached. It was what they had given to each other through the long journey of discovery of each other and themselves.  I also want to say that I found the direction of this film to also be unusually intelligent for the most part and where it really counted. Some things might have been done better, but where they aren't does not cripple the experience.

charming and different I saw this quite a few years back and was thrilled when I discovered I could buy it.  It is funny and different from other comedies.  Once again the munchkins prove to be talented.

equilibium Outstanding service, product was as advertised.Picture quality was excellent, arrival time was really short (much appreciated). I would have liked to know if this movie was available in blu-ray.

A Breath of Fresh Air. Starship Troopers: Invasion is a breath of fresh air from the previous from the three previous films. I've been a fan of Starship Troopers since I first saw the film Starship Troopers back when it came out in November of 1997 a few weeks before the very disappointing Alien Resurrection. It wasn't a great film, but it was fun and entertaining with Denise Richards and two of my favorite actors in Michael Ironside and Neil Patrick Harris. Michael Ironside I think is a little known actor, but you might recognize him from his voice acting as he was the voice of Darkside in the Superman and Justice League cartoon series along with his work as Sam Fisher in the Splinter Cell series. Then there is the one and only Neil Patrick Harris who I've followed since I watched him in Doogie Howser. He really is special multi-talented actor who enjoys what he does. Heck was the best thing in the Harold and Kumar films, and the only reason to watch How I Met Your Mother. Though I enjoyed the movie I hadn't read Robert A. Heinlein novel the film was based off of. After the film I picked up the novel and loved it. Starship Troopers had little in common with Heinlein's novel besides a few things like the main character Rico. Seven years later Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation a film that should never have been made was released to DVD. The plot wasn't terrible, but the acting and effects were just god awful. After the crap fest that was Starship Troopers 2 Bold Films and Stage 6 thought it was a good idea to make Starship Troopers 3: Marauder. The film worked out well bring back Casper Van Dien and bringing in the hot Jolene Blalock along with a decent script, good acting, and above average effects, but even with that it was still just an average film, so I was surprised to hear there was another film coming out especially that I heard very little about it, but when I saw it at Red Box I decided to give it a try, and I was very pleasantly surprised.  As I said earlier in my review Starship Troopers: Invasion is a surprisingly really good film. The story follows the starship Alesia and their group of marines as they arrive at The Federation asteroid base Fort Casey, which has been overrun by bugs. It seems like a simple job for Lieutenant Tony Daugherty and his men, but things get complicated when Carl Jenkins the Minister of Paranormal Warfare commandeers the John A. Warden from his longtime Friend Carmen Ibanez and disappears. The Alesia her marines, Carmen and the prisoner Major Henry Varro chase after him on orders from General Johnny Rico. The story follows the universe of the films as it is a continuation. I won't give anymore way except to say the story is great, but better than the three previous films. The only real flaw with the film was the characters. That is a problem with films with a ton of characters like war films. For example The Thin Red Line it's a really good film, but is really hurt by the overabundance of characters. There are a lot of characters in Starship Troopers: Invasion to many for having real character growth. Many don't live long enough for you to care. Still there are some that stand out like Trig the women sniper of the team, and a private nicknamed Holyman. Obviously he is a religious man, and he was a good character. Of course the returning characters were good as well including Rico, Carmen and Carl. I wish studio that made the film had gotten Casper, Denise and especially Neil to do the voices of the characters. Still the voice actors did a good job voicing the characters, and it was interesting to see how the characters have grown and changed. The only character I didn't really like was Major Henry Varro nicknamed "Hero". The writers tried to make you care about him, but it didn't work he just felt like a useless character.  Of course with this movie being a computer animated film I have to talk about the animation along with the action. Now I'm no expert in graphics or animation, so I only go by what I think is good, and in my opinion the computer animation was great. The film was really detailed, and you could see the expressions and emotion along with the pain and sadness in the characters faces. The detail of the ships and bases was really well done as well. Then there was the action, which there was of course a lot of, and it was brilliantly done with the bugs, explosions, fire fights and bloodshed. It is riveting and even if the characters aren't the best in the world the action will keep you glued to the film.  Starship Troopers: Invasion overall is a great film, with great animation and action along with a really good story, good voice acting and decent characters. It is definitely the best Starship Troopers film I highly recommend everyone see especially if you're a fan of the films and book, but is it the best adaption of Robert A. Heinlein's classic novel no. That honor goes to Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles the excellent 1999 animated series that ran for 36 episodes. Sadly it got canceled before it could come to a conclusion. It uses the characters from the films, but takes a different route that works really well along with the animation which was great. The series goes in depth into the character's lives as well as brings some characters from the novel as well as introducing new ones. I highly recommend both this film and the animated series if you're a fan of the novel and films or you're a Sci-fi fan in general.

Great movie! Absolutely love this movie.  Rebecca DeMornay does a great job playing a rock and roll queen.  Great story line and some sexy scenes adds up to one rocking movie.

Cameron Diaz ..  what more is there to say .. Yes, everything you've read is true. Incredibly dumb movie. Foul mouthed. Not even funny. So don't watch it, you won't like it. That is, unless you enjoy watching the hottest 39 year old beauty on the planet earth, walking around for ninety minutes, her perfect slim body in tight dresses and high heels. Unless you are stunned by her chiseled features and blue eyes. Her long blonde hair. Her sassy irreverent talk. Unless you are a helpless Cameron Diaz devotee. And in case you think that she just keeps getting hotter and hotter and hotter, every year. Then you might like it.

Love this movie When I first watched this movie when it came out and love it with some extras on DVD. Makes me laugh every time.

Riveting Psychological Drama This is not an action movie, but an intense character drama. One thing most people can't understand is how an innocent person can confess to a crime they did not commit. Once you watch this movie, you will understand. It shows the classic technique by which police break down suspects into confessing. It is shocking in its own way. This movie did not get a lot of press when it came out years ago, which is unfortunate. The performances by Hackman and Freeman are spellbinding, among their best ever. This is an uncomfortable look into the dark side of human nature and police work. You won't forget it.

Let's do the time warp... On Blu-Ray! The RHPS 35th Anniversary Blu-ray Edition is actually a loving gift to us, Rocky Horror fans. I really love the video transfer, but the DTS HD-Master 7.1 audio blows my mind. Another detail really nice to be mentioned is the fact that this Blu-ray, one of those all-in-one BD-books with photos and a lot of extras, has also Portuguese subtitles I usually don't see when I import something to my country - Brazil. And have you ever noticed how haired is Rocky's chest and body? I haven't until this accurately and highly contrasted edition. We are now honored to finally be able to see both UK and US versions. There's only one thing that makes me sad while I play this BD edition and it's the unhappy situation of my not being part of any cast, or shadow cast, for that matter. As Sal Piro welcomes you in a little inviting card, that comes separately in the first pages of the book, if you haven't seen theater exhibition - with shadow cast, screen talkers and flying food - you're still a virgin. So, I'm still virgin, but one who is constantly introducing the Rocky Horror spirit into other's life. However, let me say I'm still working on a theater RHPS project... And someday it might even come true. Enjoy you BD-book edition; it's not only excellent Mick Rocker photos and high definition video material, but eye-rolling, body-exploring, weirdly dressing and dancing sing-a-long fun... In Abundance!

Shrek Forever After Item as described, good price, fast service, will order from Amazon again.  Always fast and good service from Amazon.

Good action flick with good characters I remember this movie when it hit the big screen, but I enjoy it more today. The characters rival the cool helicopter scenes. Scheider is convincing as a skilled but flawed veteran pilot, but Warren Oates stole the movie IMO. The scene of him chewing out Murphy and Lymangood is one of my favorite scenes in any movie. He shows a full range of emotion and throws in a lot of one-liners, sarcasm and forced grins to make his point, yet you know he still likes and worries about Murphy. A must see.

majicwun This is one of my favorite movies of all time...had it on vhs, so happy to have purchased a DVD of it.It came super quick, especially since I live in HI

The BEST DVD Edition!! This Criterion version is the definitive and the best. Great special features, a brilliant commentary and a little fun booklet to go along with. Invest the money, it's worth it!

the great stay at home movie this is a great move i would recamend to any one also amazon speedy service is out standing this is a action packed film and a great story !!!

Bought its as a Christmas present for a sibling My sister loves the dvd and was surprised to see that it came with a sound track as well. Glad she is happy so it was worth it.

Great movie!! I love the movie!!! It is a true story and it touched my heart.....I recommend this movie to everybody :)

the sound of music A very fine product, with high quality dvd releases, soundtrack, a funny gift, a book with photographies of the movie, all in a pretty box.

gran pelicula si te gusta el cine esta es una pelicula que no puedes no tener en blu ray, buena calidad de video y audio

The last starfighter still shines This is a great old movie.  I still enjoy the performances.  The special effects are dated and a bit crude looking, but hey, someones got to start it.  This is a very enjoyable movie.

Take My Advice. Trust Me (Spoiler-free) I literally JUST finished watching this movie. The credits are rolling. I had to write the review as soon as possible.  I see that on here, ACCORDING TO GRETA has some negative reviews. Quite a few, in fact. From what I've seen (because I wanted to do my homework), most of the issues are that the character is too dark or because this movie isn't very good for our kids. Some say Hilary is too old for the part, and some say the character herself is very unrealistic. Finally, some say that the acting wasn't very good. Listen to my take on this.  AN OVERVIEW: Greta is a troubled seventeen-year-old who is sent by her mother to live with her grandparents because her attitude is affecting her mother's marriage. She has a notebook she carries around everywhere which is basically a bucket list of things to do before she kills herself (This is revealed in the first five minutes of the movie and is not a spoiler). Then she meets a guy (and listen to me when I say that the guy isn't even the point... this is not a boy meets girl love story; in fact, he's only used as a tool to bring some messages and revelations across). I won't say anything else.  THE ACTING: I have to clarify this very instant that I started this movie with an open mind, which is how it is supposed to be watched. Let me make it clear that Hilary Duff's acting is good. There are no 'but's. I find the people who claim that it was poor representation or that the character herself is unrealistic, mistaken, as GRETA reminded me of a friend of mine who is very similar to her (although not suicidal). Hilary portrayed the character VERY well, and I did not think she looked too old to be seventeen, as I am seventeen myself and can say this confidently. Be patient with the movie (not that it required much of it from me), and you will find that the acting is actually more realistic than in most movies, which is why it comes across as unique. Hilary reminded me a little of Kristen Stewart from 'Welcome to the Rileys', although GRETA was released before that. Which actress is better? That is up to you to decide. And speaking of 'Welcome to the Rileys', Melissa Leo is also in this movie.  THE POINT: ACCORDING TO GRETA should be one of those movies that every single teenager in the world must see, as it has lots of morals in it, and does not at all come across as trying hard to show them. Not in the slightest, actually. This is NOT a chick flick. This is NOT a love story. This is a movie about growing up and should be treated as a mature movie. FORGET about any other movies any of the actors have done; treat this movie as something different from the moment you pop it in. I guarantee you will enjoy it.  AUDIENCE: Who this movie is for? O.K., this is VERY IMPORTANT: The movie is rated PG-13. I, however, would advise that the movie should not be shown to anyone below the age of 15. Because just when you think you can keep up with the tone it has set, you find out some VERY dark and VERY deep and disturbing stories. I Loved it because it gave the movie maturity that flowed easily and made it look nonchalant.  ACCORDING TO GRETA really is something special, and I honestly can't wait until I share it with my friends. And I'm a guy. That's saying something.  Five stars. There is nothing I would change. There are a lot of deleted scenes, an alternate ending, and a Behind-The-Scenes featurette, so enjoy.  Take my word for it, people: It's great. Just approach it with an open mind.  I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Stephen I am very happy with my product.  It arrived on time and in the condition it was said to have been in.

Very Good This movie brings the thrill of knights and jousting to life with a great Rock beat. Heath Ledger is great as the hero. This movie is very entertaining .

HEE-YAHHH!!! This is just fantastic if you're a fan of B-Westerns. They're all here, all the stars of the old Cowboy Movies of the 1930's-40's. Buck, Tim, Roy, Gene, Lash, Hoppy, Hoot and the rest of the gang band together via film clips to destroy MYSTERY MOUNTAIN's super villain The Rattler. You get to see 'em all ride into town alone, meet at the saloon together, and engage in one of the best bar-room brawls ever commited to stock footage. This is only topped by the BIG running gunfight throughout town and the rounding up of all the badguys, including several Charlie King appearances!  There's nothing quite like this. It just has to be seen to be appreciated. Super Highly Recommended!

Excellent Family Movie I highly recommend this DVD for family entertainment. We have already watched it two times.  All ages will enjoy this.

African adventure and sizzling romance Clark Gable is an animal trapper in Africa to bring back alive the various animal catches for the zoos. Ava Gardner comes upon him and his crew thru a boating accident and of course, she is smitten by the handsome Gable. But, it does not stop there as Grace Kelly, an anthropologist, and her husband, come to Gable's camp asking him to take them into the land of the giant Apes on a safari. Gable is smitten by Kelly and agrees to take them to the land of the giant Apes, and Ava Gardner shows her jealosy of his intention for Grace Kelly as she goes along on this adventure.    There is great cinema shots of the African safari lands and has plenty of action with the various wild animals in it. The movie is an adventure, entertaining movie even if the love triangle was not part of it.    Clark Gable is intent on luring Grace Kelly away from her husband and has a love encounter with her. The drama intensifies as they get to the land of the Giant Apes when Gable plans to make his move to take her away from her husband by telling him that he and Grace Kelly are in love.    There is great tension and action when Gable's party encounters the apes.    The twist comes at the end as the love triange plays out in a very unique way. A very entertaining movie that has been time tested. And one cannot go wrong with stars of this magnitude including the one and only Clark Gable, as handsome as ever, though older, and two beautiful costars such as Grace Kelly, and Ava Gardner.

wonderful book Anne Graham Lotz's books are always good, challenging, and uplifting.  This is one of her best.  Glad I ordered it.

Outstanding Well thought out, outstanding presentation of virtuoso technique building exercises. A must for any piano student. Fraser's Craft of Piano Playing is excellent as well and should be watched in addition to this, but his is not nearly as inclusive and helpful as this presentation. My advice is get both, but this is the one to get if you can only afford one.

I like Pigs Feet! I had searched and searched the stores for a copy of Friday and then found one here at a great price.  Totally recommend it to anyone who remembers this classic movie

Liked this movie. The Lorax was very good.  I don't like Dr. Seuss, but I liked this movie.  Even my kids who are 13 and 16 liked this movie.  I would recommend this movie to everybody.

S-BETT-tacular! Ugly Betty is an overall hysterical show that keeps you amused from cute peep-toe shoe to Vanessa William's raised brow of doom! Each character is played brilliantly through each season! Nonstop laughter! Let the comedy ensue!

james bond is the spy who can do anything. I love this collection of JB it is very entertaning. plus it gives me a chance to escape for a little time and enjoy a great movie.

Rugged Gold, and Lost in the Barrens I fell in love with Farley Mowat's book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553275259">Lost in the Barrens</a>, when I was just a girl.  Growing up in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, I loved imagining what it would be like to match my wits against the rugged wild winter north of a place much more challenging, the Barrenlands of northern Canada.  The movie follows the book fairly well, although it adds some details like the ceremony for Awassin becoming a man, and instead of the boys hunting during the great caribou migration, it had just one caribou "giving himself" for them to live, which wasn't in the book at all and seemed unlikely.  I wish the movie had spent more time dealing with the actual survival issues, such as how hard it was to build the cabin & get a working fire, and so on, instead of the interpersonal dynamics as much.  I am also a fan of Canada's "Survivorman" Les Stroud, so I would have liked more of the survival aspects of this adventure.  In the book, Jamie & Awassin really did mostly get along, but the movie played up their differences for the story.  Still -- I loved seeing one of my favorite books of all time brought to life on screen, and I highly recommend it!  If you love northern scenery, stories of friendship, and survival tales -- you will love this movie.  I do recommend reading the book first, however.  The movie "Rugged Gold" is based on the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0940055007">O Rugged Land of Gold</a> by Martha Martin, which is loosely auto-biographical based on her own adventures in Alaska.  I loved the scenery and the story of adventure, imagining a young injured pregnant wife alone in the little Alaskan cabin for the winter due to a chain of circumstances beyond anyone's control.  You can't help but admire her courage as she copes with everything from grizzlies to loneliness to childbirth, all alone.  I found this story riveting and highly recommend the movie.  The other two movies are okay, but "Lost in the Barrens" and "Rugged Gold" are my favorites.  Somehow I couldn't really get into "Baker's Hawk" much.

Great workout especially after having been non-active After having my second baby I ordered these dvd's. The 1-mile walk was a GREAT way to get started after having let myself gain too much weight with no exercise in years. Leslie gives great tips throughout the video (you don't have to use weights or do a full motion) and she has a couple of the other people in the video doing modified versions of the routine all the way through.  The best thing about this set is that you can work UP. The one-mile is sufficiently challenging for those of us who were / are out of shape and the three mile walk is a fantastic cardio workout and is something you will be proud of accomplishing if you've been away from exercising for awhile. The moves Leslie uses will never leave you frustrated (unlike other routines like Tae Bo or Zumba or even regular cardio videos). This was important to me - I hate feeling frustrated during a workout, and frustration during a workout sometimes means that I stop working out altogether.  The ONLY negative about this set is Leslie's chattiness with the other people in the video (but do NOT let this deter you from buying the set!). The dialogue drives me crazy sometimes but to be fair, the chattiness didn't get on my nerves until I'd done the routines for quite awhile.

godzilla vs megalon one of the best godzilla movies ever ben waitng a long time for english virsion now all we need is godzilla 1985 and biolante done

Dakota I thought this was a great movie. I watched it over and over again. All the actors did a splended job of acting. Lou Diamond Phillips is one of my favorite actors. There really are caring people of there like in the movie.

One of the best series you will ever watch, good packaging too The show is incredible. There's a reason it's got such a high rating on IMDB and everywhere else. Nothing like it, and I doubt another show will be able to live up to this in the coming years.  That being said, if I had tried to watch it while it was actively televised from week to week, I would have lost my mind trying to keep track of everything. Having the series accessible on DVD makes it watchable and memorable. The show is complex, well-paced, and full of detail. If you have ever followed a television series, you will love this show.  That being said, the packaging is pretty good considering what some companies do in terms of DVD packaging. There are small plastic-looking sleeves on each individual DVD, that is the only annoying bit. Otherwise it's easy to keep track of what is what.

A great film! Bells are Ringing ran on Broadway for years and Judy Holiday made it her own special show, with Sidney Chaplin as her love over the phone. This film version has Dean Martin in the Chaplin role and Dean is a major plus as always. Both he and Judy Holiday mix in so well, it almost feels as if there should have been a sequel, they are so likable and so talented.  The only things missing are at least two pivotal songs, "Long Before I Knew You," and "Tsu Tsu I luff you." There is also the "Hello, Hello There" number when she and Dean are walking down the street. You can tell the song is about to begin and  then the film swiftly cuts to another scene. I have often wondered if there were more outakes, possibly of these songs, as there is of "Is It A Crime?" "Long before I knew You" cannot be replaced by "It's better than a Dream." I do know that Betty Comden and Adolf Greene were having anxiety attacks when "Long before..." was cut, thinking they were in "It's Always Fair Weather" again( a great musical by the way from 1955).Andre Previn was at it again with "Bells.." and thank God he didn't throw out "The Party's Over."  In any case, this is not be missed, and avoid the newer Bdway soundtrack, and try the 1956 sound track for all of the songs, and the 1960 sdtrack for Judy and Dean.

Nana Another great one from Disney.  Grandkids loved it.  We enjoy watching movies with our grandkids.  Some are the same we watched with our kids.

Julia is wonderful I loved this movie!  It brought the viewer through so many emotions we women of a certain age go through.  Now only if we all could make the life choice to live our dreams.

blond with a bitchin balsy beat Blondie can charm your heart or entertain with catty tunes ripping up the scene.  The driving force was Clem Burke's drumming and Chris Stein's guitar licks.  Caught them lasy summer with Cheap Trick and glad to pick up this live set. The power pop eviolving from the NYC punk scene is fully captured here.  It is an economical jewel.... get it

Terrifying, but excellent I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. The acting is superb, as is the cinematography. The story is nuanced and excellent. What I like most about this movie is that it makes you think. You are forced to lean forward a bit and wonder how realistic is the story. Could this sort of disaster actually happen? I couldn't help but think of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307346617">World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War</a> at times. Not because there are Zombie (there are no zombies, just to be clear), but because of the institutional and human response to such a biological disaster.

Two faves in one! I love John Candy and Steve Martin. They are two of my favorite comedic actors ever, and to put them side by side in this adventure about one man just trying to get home to his family for the holidays and another just lonely for company, it was a great treat. It is your basic hate turned into friendship type movie. The ones us girls are suckers for.

Repo: The Genetic Opera Loved it since I first saw it! Absolutely thrilled with price and quick shipping! Box was in perfect condition. Dvd was acceptable and operational. Would order from this company again.

Some of these reviews are making me lose faith in humanity...  this is not a mindless action movie people I cant believe these people giving the movie a one star review are for real here. They write a couple sentences blasting the film because they wanted mindless action scenes, and complaining that there were scenes with little dialog. It bothers me that people will trash a film like this if there isnt something flashing on screen to keep their attention. If thats the kind of movie you really want, then go watch some mindless summer blockbuster like Fast and the Furious where you can see flashy car chases for an hour and a half with no story and cardboard acting. Your brain wont need to work very hard to process whats going on so you can just sit there and enjoy the bright colorful images on screen to keep you entertained.  If, however you can take a movie at face value and can keep an open mind and give some thought to whats happening and read between lines, then give this film a chance because you will not be disappointed. Drive follows the story of a stunt car/getaway driver who manages to pull himself into a dark situation very quickly without spoiling too much. It manages to blend the 70's car chase films with 80's visuals and music along with a 90's David Lynch film plot and vibe. Yes, there are parts in the film where the dialog is light, but you dont need words to convey emotion or to pull you into the world director Nicolas Winding Refn has made. The mix of the amazing soundtrack and acting in this film really is phenomenal and characters talking non stop isnt needed to understand what is happening.

H.A.T.E. The DVD I got didn't look like the picture that's being showed to me now. But anyhow, these shows are great. This DVD is so popular I guess that it is so rare now, that when it is for sale, people have to pay a lot of money for it.  But I had bought this DVD this time around for a very special friend who didn't have it and couldn't find it or afford it, so I helped her out. I already had bought my own copy back in '07. Still running good.

Great I play a number of instruments - but only just picked up a Djembe.  I was in real need of some examples for how to play this instrument and how to come up with some patterns that were more interesting than the very simple banging I was doing on the drum.  This DVD is great - I can work through each pattern at my own pace, trying to copy what he does.  It is really helping me improve and get ideas.

Saw 3 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000LC3ID8">Saw III (Unrated Widescreen Edition)</a>I have had the best luck with all of the products i have ordered from you.. & i hope that i can continue to count on you for more things when i  am ready to order!

A Truely Wonderful and well done set! This set is awsome. I love Planet of the Apes. Roddy McDowell made this franchise. I do strongly suggest all ape fans buy this on DVD or Blu-Ray. It's full of special features. It has a 2 hour documentary of the history of the Apes. The only negative thing I have to say is that the Commentaries lack alot to be desired. They just use pieces of the documentary instead of recording one. Roddy could of recorded one for the first one. But I can't complain, because this set will give Apes fans hours of entertainment I do recommend this to all apes fans. Also the 14 DVD set has EVERYTHING in the apes franchise. It has the complete TV show and Cartoons as well. It also has the re-make film from 01. That's OK too.

Fun to watch! Very entertaining and fun to watch. Great film for Halloween if you are looking for entertainment without the usual gore gushing in every scene.

Brave Acts of Brotherhood Without question this movie was well done. The portrayal of brotherhood and valor is a theme that is carried throughout the entire film. It ilicited visceral reactions of pride and an ongoing appreciation for those who are risking their lives for what is right. Keeping us safe from terrorism. Even the extravagant display of weaponry and warfare did not supercede the overall theme of the film of respect and honor and valor. I highly recommend this movie. The term "damn few" is true about movies like this one.

Classic Cary Grant I heartily agree with the reviewer who stated that Cary Grant was a master of subtle comedy. This movie is an excellent example of his skill in such roles. I know that eventually Grant received an Academy Award for lifetime achievement, but it amazes me that he was nominated only once for a best actor Academy Award when year after year he gave outstanding performances which merited recognition. If you like romantic comedy done by an expert, you will probably enjoy this movie. In my opinion, Cary Grant was the best performer of the Golden age of Hollywood.

Great Comedy Beverly Hills Cop is my favorite comedy movie, Eddie Murphy does a really good job, and the first sequel is good too.

Re: Sherlock Holmes I have always been a huge Sherlock Holmes fan and was excited when the movie came out. I was not disappointed, lots of action, humor, good cast, a very good movie. Highly recommend it!

One of the best westerns ever A railroad magnate named Morton, Gabriele Ferzetti, hires a cruel gunman named Frank, Henry Fonda, to "remove obstacles from the track." One of the obstacles is Brett McBain, who owns some water rich land the railroad must pass through. Frank massacres McBain and his family, framing a local bandit named Cheyenne, Jason Robards, in the process. Unbeknownst to Frank, McBain married Jill, Claudia Cardinale, on a recent trip to New Orleans. Jill arrives to find her new family dead and herself in possession of the land Frank will certainly kill again to obtain. Jill's survival depends on Cheyenne, who wants to find out who framed him, and a mysterious stranger called Harmonica, Charles Bronson, who has his own business to conduct with Frank.  "Once Upon A Time In The West" is perhaps the most beautiful western ever filmed. Employing his signature style, director Sergio Leone uses the wide screen format with the skill of a master painter, alternating breath-taking vistas with stunning close-ups against the magnificent score by Ennio Morricone. Leone lets the story unfold slowly. Characters surrender their motivations only grudgingly, all the while slowly building to a powerful conclusion. The pace of the film, which I credit as one of its strengths, may also be its main drawback today. Many members of the post-MTV generation accustomed to quick editing may not have the patience to let themselves be swept up by this film. That is a pity.  "Once Upon A Time In The West" stands as Leone's homage to the great, and not so great, western films that came before him. "Johnny Guitar" certainly springs to mind and the opening sequence makes an undeniable nod toward "High Noon." However, unlike Quentin Tarantino's recent homage to his roots, "Kill Bill, Vol. 1," this film not only stands on its own two feet, it expands the genre.  These characters are more than a group of archetypes wandering about under the western sun. Jill isn't your traditional victimized widow. A New Orleans prostitute taking a chance on a new life on the frontier, she's an independent woman who knows men. If sleeping with Frank is the only way to save her life, she will, knowing that after a hot bath she'll be the same as she was before. Frank, in a brilliant performance against type by Henry Fonda, is also a man in transition. He envies the power flowing from Morton's money. He would like to become more like Morton, but his propensity toward baser evil deprives him of the discipline he needs to become a businessman. Cheyenne seeks revenge for being framed and pretends to interested in the wealth the McBain land will bring, but he is mainly motivated by growing feelings for Jill. He's the most sentimental character in the film. He's a bandit with a heart of gold, which is more than can be said for Harmonica. Harmonica, the man with no name, develops a liking for both Jill and Cheyenne, but one gets the feeling he would sacrifice either or both of them if there was no other way to get Frank. He is not the classic, selfless western hero of old.  When I originally saw this film, I was disappointed by Bronson. I didn't think he made the most of a role obviously tailor-made for Clint Eastwood. I was mistaken. Bronson brought nuance to the role I doubt Eastwood would have at that stage of his career. In his three films with Leone, Eastwood's "Man with No Name" character tended toward smug amorality motivated only by self-interest. Harmonica has a little more depth and introspection than Eastwood's characters. He plays him with a certain sadness in his eyes; a doomed self-awareness. Harmonica realizes when he kills Frank the remainder of his life will be devoid of meaning or purpose. He doesn't speak much, but he tellingly attempts to wax philosophically with Frank about the nature of men of like themselves and the changing West. In a sense, he knows Frank is the only person who could understand him, since he had to become a gunman like Frank in order to achieve his well- deserved revenge. The characters Eastwood played for Leone were less troubled about their place in the universe than Bronson's Harmonica. This might be Bronson's best performance.  "Once Upon A Time In The West" deserves an esteemed place among the canon of great westerns.

great nature show about the giant squid This is a episode from 'inside natures giants' where each week they pick a different animal to dissect. Ok, that sounds likea  horrible idea for a tv show but it's not. A group of scientists study the body and then they provide animation and even live shots of the animal in the wild. There is a even larger squid that is shown in this one too, the collosal squid! But it's from antartica and the giant squid lives up north of that. They team describes how the animal lives and eats and you see how the squid has three hearts and has copper based blood which is blue! The eyes are better  designed than our by a long shot too. They show you in animation how this animal hunts and mates. And it even shows a sperm whale eating a giant squid for lunch captured in rare footage. You will learn alot from this series and this show is perhaps the most interesting of the series as squids are much more alien to us than a camel , which is the next episode evidently.  The picture looks outstanding and the dvd is worth a watch for sure.

Great Movie This is a great movie about the Korean War.  It takes you to the beginning of the war and shows you the reactions of the common person as the communists advanced.  How the ROK resorted to mass conscription to fill the ranks.  I especially liked how it shows the interactions of the common soldier as they work to get through the war and help their buddies.  I do recommend the korean language version as the english translated version made huge mistakes in the translations.

Timely service, good value This is a DVD of a movie I saw in 2010 regarding MJ's outstanding preparations for his then-planned European tour. There are great insights into his personality, his caring, his interaction with others, and of course his remarkable talent.

A MUST HAVE!! I LOVE this show!  Season three is full of suspence, twists, & laughs!  You won't be sorry you bought it!

The Great Hitchcock I have watched all my movies in this set.  Even the silent ones are good, though I do get a little restless needing to sit glued to the set so as not miss anything.  But as a Hitchcock Movie Lover what could I do.  I found my picture and sound good.  No jumping or uneven sections in the movies.  I totally appreciate companies that produce these old movies.

Excellent even for little kids My son is 2 and he enjoys this movie thoroughly.  He runs around all day talking about dragons and loves the main character "Hippock!" (Hiccup)  I thought he would be too young to enjoy this movie at the age of 2, but he really seems to know what is going on as well as a 2-year-old can and is captivated by this movie whenever it is on.  A definite keeper!

Fast. Efficient. Stay consistent and see results! Got this DVD mid-summer to prepare for an end of summer vacation that I am taking and wanted to look extra good for. I've been doing the workout for about 4 weeks and am already seeing results. I'm more into cardio than strength, so - personally - I'd recommend the combos & drills 20m workout if you're planning on just doing 20m at a time. That section will have you drenched in sweat by the finish! The combos on both sections can be hard to get the first time around just because Violet moves pretty quick from move to move, but DON'T GIVE UP! try it a few times and you'll realize that you actually start remembering the moves.  As far as specific results - the first things to change were my thighs and "back fat". I haven't been using 1lb weights in the power sculpt section so that would explain why I haven't seen any real changes in my arms.

Very happy with purchase I ordered this for my son, who loves Spiderman. I was happy to receive the movie in great condition within just a few days.

Bullitt DVD This was purchased as a gift for my grandson (along with a miniature panarama of the Bullitt cars).. I remember the movie as a teen and wanted my grandson to see the race seens, which I still believe are the best.

Best animated movie I've seen in years. My family had been telling me to rent this for a long time. We finally did and were unbelievably surprised how good it was. It did not feel like it was made for children; as an adult, I was entirely engrossed in the movie. But it is definitely something the kiddies can watch. Bravo! Well done. I seriously would rank it as one of my favorite movies. What a pleasant surprise.

True Grit and Rooster Cogburn are both incredible films!! True Grit is without a doubt one of the Duke's greatest works.  The story, the writing and the acting are superb.  Wayne really brings the drunken, fat, one-eyed crude and obnoxious marshall to life.  However most folk overlook the sequal to this film - Rooster Cogburn  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/078322592X">Rooster Cogburn</a> which the same drunken obnoxious marshall meets up with a bold, sassy independent and tough nun played by Katherine Hepburn.  The interaction between them is astounding.  Both True Grit and Rooster Cogburn are best summed up by the words of an old Sinatra song - "You can't have one without the other"!

One of the best! I love this movie & I can see over & over again. Watching it in blueray is cool but still enjoyable on reguLar DVD format. If you haven't watched this movie you are missing out big time.

Fun! It's one of the more memorable animated flicks I've seen. I recommend it for ages five and up.  It's certainly worth the price of the rental!

Best Movie Ever!!! Man i can watch this movie over and over and it is still funny, i bust a gutt every time i watch it. Can't wait for the second one to come out!

Breaking Dawn Part 1 Great... Part 2 Will Be Fantastic! The DVD arrived swiftly and in perfect condition though as a Special Edition it's pretty bare-bones and unremarkable.  Part 1 (And Bella's 3.5 Book/Movie track-record of Co-Dependent Powerlessness / Depression / Her Complete Using of Jacob set-aside!) was done very well, and, if Hollywood MUST slice The Final Film in-half for both "Plot" / "Production" (Read: Box Office + DVD $ Purposes!) then them doing so At The Precise Moment Bella wakes-up (So we all know that she's OK but also with we the audience not knowing EXACTLY who she'll now look like and be and be able to do become as a Vampire!) and then giving us The Forboding Teaser with The Volturi Elders IS The EXACT Right Place to do it even though waiting until Part 2 will, naturally, be agony for all.  Additionally, You Just KNOW that The Final DVD Release Schedule will look Something Like This:  Standard/Special Edition Part 2... followed-up (and probably with 6-12 month break between releases to maximize the assorted profits) by A Deluxe Four Disc Franchise Set with PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED Material and Newly Incorporated Extended Footage!  If Stephenie is smart (and we all know that she is) she'll also be writing The Next Installment Starring Renesmee to be released at around the same time!  Yes, sigh, alas, I too have become A Member of This Cult and Brewer & Drinker of The Kool-Aid!  However, I don't feel too bad because I recently realized a few things about this franchise:  The tip-off came in Twilight: New Moon when Alice showed a vision-as-proof to The Volturi of Bella & Edward joyously running in slo-mo and sparkling in the sunlight.  I said to myself:  "I've seen this before, but where... Oh Yes, NOW I remember where I've seen this before!"  This film is the final culmination, yet, This ENTIRE Series of Books and Movies is essentially a A Gen-X/Y/Millenium Version + Re-Telling (with an on-screen love-triangle) of A Previously Told Tale of Super-Empowerment at Life Or Death + Love Story that creates an All-Powerful Male/Female As 100% Equals Super-Powered Duo.  1975: The Six Million Dollar Man (Like Edward, himself is created against his will at just such a moment of life or death!) who then goes on to find/create His Ideal Mate via finding her and then upgrading her (At a similar moment of life or death!) The Bionic Woman.  2012: Edward Creates Super-Powerful Vampire Queen Bella who will be as Powerful, Better, Stronger, Faster, and Prettier than everyone (Just as he is!) and she then gets to Cheat-Out + Beat + Friend The Super-Model Pretty but Perpetually Miserable/Barren Rosalie by getting knocked-up by Edward in Paradise with The Edward-Baby, Having Her Make The Best A Woman Can Make Grade Super-Baby with The Edward Baby-Batter, and then, after A Dramatic Bout With Death + Revival By Edward + Taking A Nice Long Restorative Nap while her body Heals and is Vampo-Bionically Rebuilt + Super-Model Airbrushed and Tightened-Up via Edward's Own Venom, thus having Bella Feminist Awaken and thus Emerge More Skinny + Super-Model Beautiful + Powerful Than Ever as well as Better, Stronger, and Faster!  Obviously, the difference in this variation is that Bella WANTED to become a Vampire anyway, but, Renesmee's Pregnancy and Birth made it so She HAD To Become One in order to survive the experience and not die (for more than a few dramatic moments, of course).  And just as what made the SMDM/BW joint + cross-over episodes + follow-up reunion TV movies so fun -- Steve and Jaime In-Love 4-EVA and going power butt-kick with their bionics! -- THE REAL TREAT will be coming in Part 2 when Bella, after 3.5 books and films of co-dependent depression, mooning, whining, and powerlessness gets her guy, has her baby, and then becomes SUPER-Empowered via an Upgrade!  Which is the Life-Journey of many a woman of this species.  This is basically The Story Of The Bionic Woman without the idiotic killing her-off, skipping the 10 years of amnesia, and with her getting married and knocked-up and empowered right away!  If she isn't yet, Stephenie Meyer should be laughing her way all the way to the bank since she's essentially scored a Literary, Film, Pop-Cultural and Financial Estro-Feminist Coup + Touchdown with a retelling with her Estro-Maxed-Out and Default Female Bell-Curved retelling of this story that proved to be such a hit in 1975 and now is again in a meaner and sleaker version.  It's actually my contention that the current spat of Vampire-Werewolf + Love-Story Properties is really the culture having a collective unconscious debate of exactly what the correct mix and ratio of Vampire + Werewolf and Male + Female should be in humans going forward.  People love-to-love Underworld because Selene is a non-whiny/co-dependent butt-kicker and love-to-hate Twilight because Bella took 3.5 books and films to get it together before Powering-Up in Part 3.5!  The one weakness of the book and movie franchise is that it took so lonnng for Bella to become Vampo-Bionically Powerful and Empowered, to lose the co-dependency, and that (In an almost ripped-off the cover of one of Those Ridiculous Harlequin Novels that are much beloved by Team Va-JJ!) Jacob is her Native American Love-Slave whose Final Reward is: To Lose 1 Girl, Not Get A Suitable + As-Good Replacement, and then to Look After Lost Desired Girl's Daughter For All-Time!  This, I would not have minded, if Jacob had Happy-Ending'd with Leah or Someone New FIRST.  However, I think WE ALL have A Pretty Good Idea why Stephenie chose to keep Jacob's Dance Card Open for Later Use...  Note To Studio:  Since you're taking time to Milk This Thing for ALL It'$ Worth, could you also PLEASE Amp-Up and, perhaps, Lord of The Ringsercise THE FINAL BATTLE SEQUENCE so that we the audience get The Battle Royale Emotional Pay-Off that WE DESERVE before Bella ends the Vampiric Arms Race with Her Power and becomes The Queen for All Eternity!

Great purchase! The movie arrived quickly and just as described. This was a very smooth transaction. There were no problems at all. Thanks

Buyer Beware Five stars for the movie. However, the product description for the Blu-ray edition states that the film will be presented in widescreen and not the original screen ratio. In other words, information will be cropped from the top and bottom, violating Welles's composition. Bad idea.

Hilarious, indeed You really can't go wrong with Louis C.K. Quite the appropriate title for this show. Definitely a must for an Louis C.K. fan.

unforgetable disney movie! Pocahontas is an awesome movie from the mid 90's now this time it is dvd celebrating it's 10 yr anniversary with two-disc.The first disc features the actual movie and the second disc comes with lots of extra's and good stuff.Moreover, this movie is really great to watch over and over again so enjoy.

Adults and children will love this Volume 3 of this collection will entertain you and your children for hours.  We have children ages 6, 12 and 15 and they all thought these Lloyd movies were funny.  The two adults in the family thought so too, but we also marveled at the overall excellence of the videos.  Lloyd was a comic genius, though many people have forgotten that.  His sight gags are often extended pieces that build up to a climax -- not just a ten second bit but one that may last several minutes.  The photography in the most famous movie here, Speedy, is astounding for its time -- and the movie gives a great historical perspective on what New York looked like at the time -- both in panorama form and on-the-street perspective.  The Babe Ruth bit is funny, but the whole movie is superior all the way through.  The chase scenes through busy NYC streets are incredible.  The character actors used form this era are gems.  "Hot Water" is a gem, with great comic acting by the cast, extended gags, and a final scene that brings together several themes in the movie in a comedic climax.  Some of the stunts in the movies are breath taking.  Lloyd said in an interview with Harry Reasoner (available to view on You Tube) that he did his own stunts and that in fact he was in dangerous situations in some scenes.  It sure looks like Lloyd was "performing without a net" in some of the scenes.  I was only vaguely familiar with Lloyd, but after seeing this one volume I am putting him right up there with Chaplin for creativity.  Also, Lloyd is someone who you can identify with as he undergoes his travails.

fantastic the bluray is very good!  spectacular image, sound great.  Pena come in a thin line, indeed recommend.

They Nicked my Creedence... Jeff Bridges as you've never seen him before in this Coen brothers masterpiece. When the "dude" Lebowski (Bridges) is mistaken for a millionaire, also named Lebowski (David Huddleston), the dude seeks compensation for his ruined rug. He is given short shrift by the wealthy Lebowski. What follows is a typically quirky Coen brothers movie. One of my favourite films of all time and also one of the most quotable movies of all time! Although due to the language there is little I can quote here!  Bridges is supported by Steve Buscemi and John Goodman who plays his short tempered friend Walter Sobchak. If you're already a fan of the Coen brothers and this movie has somehow passed you by then I urge you to complete your collection with this corker of a film. If you have an open mind, don't mind a bit of swearing and enjoy bowling you'll love The Big Lebowski.

Loved it!! "I loved the Creative Breakout video.  I learned many new and innovative painting techniques and how to successfully mix media.  My work is fresher and more exciting now.  Mary Ann MacL"

Great movie! Loved the whole thing. Can't wait to buy the DVD I have been waiting anxiously for this movie to come out! I saw it in theaters with my 3 sons and we had a great time. With Easter coming up I can't wait to see it again and was even looking online to try to find it. I thought E.B. was a great character and the plot was cute for kids but still fun for me. I am not sure my husband will want to watch this movie more than once, but the other 4 of us will watch it again and again!

Must Have For Serious Dan Fan This DVD is well worth it for any serious fan of Steely Dan.  It provides a nice mixture of member interviews, backgroud info on the band, mixing room clips with Donald and Walter at the mixing board breaking down the Aja tracks, etc.  The DVD provides a nice flow, taking Donald Fagan and Walter Becker from their youth, the formation of the band and their time on the West Coast, their transition to the use of studio musicians and their return to NYC.  The video covers all but one track from the album (the other track "I Got the News" is played in part during the closing credits), covering the various elements that went into the formation of the final product.  I really enjoyed the interviews with Donald and Walter throughout, but also loved hearing from the various studio musicians who were involved in the Aja project.  These musicians provide additional insight into genius of Donald and Walter, and I walked away from it all with an enhanced appreciation of their skills and professionalism.  I also loved watching the guys play live versions of Peg and Josie.  After watching this DVD you will have a better understanding of the evolution of Steely Dan, and you will want to revisit the other albums in their portfolio. Aja was clearly one of the best albums of the 70s and this DVD will be a permanent part of my collection.  This is not a DVD that you will watch once and put it on the shelf... I see myself playing this DVD many times over the years, as it provides a new venue for me to enjoy Steely Dan and the Aja masterpiece.  A must have for Dan fans.... you won't regret it.

Jaws as it's ment to be seen in your home This Bluy-Ray disc is a must buy for any `Jaws' fan. Not only has the film never looked any better but the extras are a true film lover's dream come true. If you don't own a Blu-Ray player then I urge you to buy one so that can truly enjoy `Jaws' as it is meant to be experienced.

Amazing movie!!!! I saw this in theaters when it came out and loved it!!!! When I found out it was coming out on Blu - Ray I was so excited!!!! It looks amazing on Blu - Ray!!!!! :)

Gosford Park DVD Excellent movie! If you are a british mystery fan you will like this alot! I've watched it multiple times and still manage to catch new things in the plot.

Sweet movie My husband and I both love this movie. It is sweet, and funny, and I don't have to worry about pausing it if my daughters happen to walk into the room.

WONDERFUL FILM This is an excellent film.  It is in its original black and white which adds to the mystique of the film.  My students found that this film brought to life the words they had been reading.

This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship I can't imagine anyone feeling something is missing in this box set of "Casablanca". It's simply wonderful.  The commentary is great, and so is the disc of extras. You even get a luggage tag and other little goodies. Sit back and enjoy the film.

not as good as the first but still.... as far as sequels go this one could have been better.. but, it was still pretty good. if it hadn't have been a sequel and was just a movie by itself im sure it would have been a lot better. but overall.. the movie had a great plot, lots of action, and a few twists.. good movie to own

D. VanDyke Dick VanDyke is a natural comedian and this series is the greatest. I wish we could get endless series. He and his companion, Laura, are great together.

Pete's Dragon I had a VCR of Pete's Dragon, but could not find it.  I order the dvd, and now can't locate it.  But I found my vcr.  Long story made short, I am decluttering my house and am sure I will find the dvd.  I am 68, looking forward to watching with my youngest grandson of 3 years .  I love the music.

My toddler loves this movie! My two-year-old daughter loves this movie.  She watches it to the point where I can't stand it.  It's a well thought out dvd.

Harry and the Hendersons its another family move I liked that and my whole Family can enjoy fun and funny movie and toching  this a great movie to add to yor collection

Awesome! Great Price! Great Condition! Shipped Fast! Will buy from again!I've been wanting to get the first season of The Walking Dead for a long time and this was a deal I just couldn't pass up!!

Don't Know What to Watch? Watch THIS--Absolutely a MUST-SEE!!! Whether or not you are a fan of surfing, you will surely become a fan of one surfer, Bethany, after viewing this movie. Her (true) story just moved our entire family and lifted us up in so many ways. We are reminded throughout this movie that God can take any situation, yes even the really bad ones, and bring something better than you could ever imagine out of it. This true story had me crying, cheering, and feeling a deep sense of awe at just how amazing our God is. This is one of those few movies that I can recommend to anyone without the least hesitation. There are so many Biblical truths paralleled and reiterated in the various events in Soul Surfer. For me, without giving too much of the movie away, there is a scene where Bethany is waiting for a wave, while others ask, "What is she doing?" This to me is a great example of faith--believing without seeing. There are some big names and great acting in this picture, and the movie is not shy about giving the glory to Jesus. This story is like this generation's "Joni" in many ways. Soul Surfer would be a great movie for family movie night, or any time for that matter. This is one we want in our video collection, it's that good. Don't know what to watch? Watch this, you won't be sorry!

AWESOME!!! THIS MOVIE IS AMAZING!!! ITS ONE OF THOSE MOVIES THAT DOESNT NEED ALL THE SPECIAL EFFECTS OR TECHNOLOGY TO MAKE IT A GREAT MOVIE. IT IS A REALLY REALLY FUNNY MOVIE AND THE TWO ACTORS GENE WILDER AND RICHARD PRYOR ARE AWESOME AND CAN MAKE ANYONE LAUGH I LOVE THEM!

Son's item I bought this for my son who is handicapped.  He seems to enjoy it.  He saw it advertised and wanted it.

The Complete Season is now in a Combo-Pack which lets you watch this great series on any of your components. What can I add about this very clever and hilarious TV series, which I just discovered even though it's in its sixth season, when there are already 441 reviews posted here? Probably not much but I'll try.  Though the Complete First Season has been released before, a new "Combo Pack" is now out (as of July 10th) with both Blu-ray AND DVD versions plus the new Ultra Violet concept - all in one package. (So you will never be without a chance to watch these episodes again and again.). For those folks who complained that the only "bonus" in the original First Season set was the "Quantum Mechanics of The Big Bang Theory" featurette, you'll be happy to know that they added a gag reel this time. I'm not sure that is enough to replace your earlier set but it's a nice bonus for those - like me - just discovering it.  There's no reason to go into the plot of the show - again, it's covered in other reviews - but I did notice that after the first for or five episodes (which at 22 minutes - no commercials - are like potato chips: you can't stop with just one) the characters changes in odd ways. Leonard seems less nerdy and Penny less overtly sexy (plus she must have lost her job at The Cheesecake Factory because by the fourth episode or so she is serving the "guys" at a local hamburger place in a non-TCCF uniform.  The ONLY thing I found a bit of a downer - and I don't see it mentioned in other reviews - is that the series uses a "laugh track" which was very popular in the 1960s before TV comedies started being recorded in front of live audiences. It is really annoying because it sounds phony and you will hear the same laughter over and over, sometimes even before the punch line. It bothered me a lot during the first three episodes but I guess I got used to it a little as time went on. It's just too bad that they felt need to use these.  So, I'm jumping on the bandwagon for this series and in the process of "catching up". If you've read this review before the others, I hope I've encouraged you to scroll down and read some more. Better yet, just sample an episode and , like me, I'm sure you will get hooked!  I hope you found this review both informative and helpful.  Steve Ramm "Anything Phonographic"

One of the Greatest Love Stories Ever Made Only Colman-Garson could pull this tale of love found, lost and found again. It's one of my favorite love stories that never gets old.

Ahead Of It's Time Before 9/11, this movie was unthinkable and implausible.  After 9/11, it's totally believable and possible.  With all the security in place in this post-9/11 world, terrorists and their sleeper cells would more than likely hide in plain sight by passing themselves off as the perfect next door neighbors.  After seeing this movie, you'll be wondering about the soccer mom you see at the local ice cream parlor or the baseball dad at the local baseball diamond.  The paranoid thought going through your mind will be; "Are they...?"

The Ultimate Animated Film Now On Blu-Ray!! i am such a huge fan of the movie Heavy Metal. featuring the voices of Richard Romanus, John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Rodger Bumpass, Jackie Burroughs, Harold Ramis and Eugene Levy. this film was created at a time when family friendly animation was pretty much all that was in existence. animation featuring dark themes, blood & gore, sex, nudity, and drug use was never heard of but then this film completely broke that mold. featuring some of the best and at that time unheard of animation stylings that forever changed the world animation. based on the popular magazine of the same name (currently owned by Keven Eastman: co-creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) this film has become one of the biggest cult classics of all time. if you don't already own the Blu-ray version yet, do yourself a favor and get this!! hopefully there will be a Blu-ray release of Heavy Metal 2000 (aka- Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K. 2) in the near future.

One of the Best Hitchcock Films!!! "Shadow of a Doubt" is absolutely one of Hitchcock's best films and as a Hitchcock film fanatic, this praise indeed!!  It is not only a "Must see" classic, it is also one of the most perfect films I have ever seen.  Even upon repeated viewing, one is transferred into the story again and again.  And what a story it is!! There are plenty of reviews that go into specifics about the plot, therefore there is no need for me to do that.  This review is intended to encourage persons who either stay away from black and white movies or who may like Hitchcock but have never seen this film. "Shadow of a Doubt" is one of those perfect movies that actually improves upon repeated viewing.  Ms. Wright and Mr. Corey are wonderful together, Joseph Cotton is uncomfortably sinister only when most effective, the entire cast seem perfect for each individual role and even the child actors are totally believable and perform their part so well, the fact that they are acting rarely if ever enters one's mind. This is also one of those rare movies that adults can watch with their children or around them.  The subject matter is certainly serious, but the full force and understanding of it is subtle; though effective, nothing remotely offensive is ever on screen or heard.  Therefore, there is no reason to suspend viewing until even very young children are absent My mother introduced this movie to me when I was quite young, I loved it from the first moment and that feeling has only increased!!

What a fantastic film! I love love this film.  The storyline is very engaging, suspenseful, and funny.  Both actors do superb jobs. Even the supporting actors are dynamic.  The music is rich, and Hepburn's fashion is haute!

A splendid movie It's hard to beat "Bull Durham" for clever writing and excitement that comes from character and not explosions or car chases.

A story from the warm side "The Blind Side" is a drama film based on true events.  Teenager Michael Oher is the nucleus of the story, and he has had a difficult upbringing. He is accepted into Wingate Christian School on compassionate grounds with a view to make a contribution to the school gridiron program.  Oher doesn't have a permanent residence and the Tuohy Family notice him living meekly and offer him shelter. What starts as a temporary arrangement becomes long term and he is adopted by this family.  The essence of the narrative is that by opening their home and hearts to Oher the Tuohys are able to help him realize his potential in sport, academically, and in family life.  The film contains a wonderful cast who present the characters with warmth and authenticity.  It is a movie which allows the viewer to appreciate that giving can change a life, and that the love of a family is the greatest wealth a person can have.  Nicholas R.W. Henning - Australian Author

Really great movie This movie was well done & inspirational. More awareness needs to brought to these issues. Gerard Butler did a great job

Its a 'No-Brainer' for once. If I were to be asked what my favorite song of all time is, or favorite food.  Maybe my favorite Action film or TV sitcom... I would have a hard time picking a clear favorite, it depends on my mood maybe or other factors.  BUT if asked what I think the funniest movie is that Ive ever seen, I would easily recall its CADDYSHACK.  This movie is hilarious.  Line for line, it is funny.  Just about every line.  The stupid little things like, I dont know where to START, like the stupid Regal Trumpets that sound and then the Trophy Table for the Caddy Tournament comes into view, with what had appeared to be a bold and big nice 1st Place Trophy turns out being a dinky little P.of $&%# - and 2nd place is a new pair of white tube socks, and 3rd place is a bag of new golf tees, funny stuff..  Or "Spaulding Get Your Foot Off The Boat!!"  --- Ahhhhhhhhh....  I think this had gotten better with age and times Ive viewed the movie.  Because Ive seen this a lot of times, and its still the FUNNIEST MOVIE - LINE FOR LINE , or any way you see it... EVER!!

A Christmas Story Love this story watch it every year sometimes not at Christmas time, makes a very nice gift for friends and family and easy to order for Amazon.

Great product! I had first seen this movie during the bicentennial year when I was in 6th grade, and fell in love with it!  It's not historically accurate, but it's a fun movie with memorable songs.  Very enjoyable to watch!

My Favorite Pilates Video Hudson's videos are usually too challenging for people who are not already in shape, but that's why I love them. She always picks the best poses. She's very enjoyable to watch and listen to. She gives excellent tips. Mainly I just love the poses and movements she chooses more than any other video instructor I've watched. I've done a few dozen yoga and Pilates workouts over the past four years, and this is still my favorite. I like her other Pilates videos almost as much, but this one is my very favorite.  You get a very well-rounded workout when you do the whole video. It's great that the 10 minute solutions separate the workout into categories so you can customize your workout. And, as I said, Hudson really chooses great, effective, challenging poses and moves. The only complaint is there aren't many modification tips for beginners.

The Perfect Comic Book Movie! Superman: The Movie is a classic. It has perfect casting in Christopher Reeve as Superman. It was directed with great integrity by Richard Donner. But it also has a great story. What Superman: The Movie manages to do is something that few superhero or comic book films have done since its debut in 1978. Superman: The Movie encapsulated every aspect of the character of Superman and his universe from the 40 years that he had existed at that time. The basic origin of Superman, his heritage and his battle of strength and wit against his arch-foe Lex Luthor are all explored here as well as his relationships with his supporting cast. Superman: The Movie gives the viewer an unadulterated, pure and romantic look at what has become one of America's greatest fictional characters and what is now the most recognizable character next to Mickey Mouse. Superman: The Movie is a masterpiece and should be owned by everyone.  There are three other discs in this collection that are very much worth the purchase price. Several behind the scenes documentaries give insight into the production as well as public perception of the character of Superman at the time the film was made. 5 out of 5 stars. Buy this now!

Amazing Movie! This is hands down one of my favorite movies. I never regret watching it. DVD was great, movie looked terrific!

Beautiful This is why I go to the movies. This motion picture is anything but a typical boxing movie. In fact, it's everything but a boxing movie. A troubled woman (Swank) with nothing to lose wants with all her heart to enter the prize fighting game. A grizzled cut man and gym owner (Eastwood) is inescapably drawn to taking her under his wing and training her, against his own better judgment. He is demonized by his poor relationship with his only daughter and they have not been on speaking terms for a very long time, among other scars that he bears. But this veneer is merely the tip of the proverbial iceberg. This movie is not what you expect. It touches every secret corner of the heart. The deepest of buttons will be profoundly pushed. Redemption and sacrifice are destined to bitterly blister the soul. There is only one word for this film: BEAUTIFUL.

Few remakes are better than the original..most don't even come close. There are a few exceptions though. John Carpenter took a good movie and made it GREAT..It's not really a horror film..it's not really a sci fi film..It's a movie about trust, paranoia, morality, isolation...and a a heck of a lot more..  Few remakes...and hollywood loves to make them...even come close to the original in quality..This movie of John carpenter simply called "The Thing" is one of them. Another I can think of but not nearly the "leap" attained by "The Thing" is "Invasion of the Body Snatcher" (1978). The original was sooo good it was, in my mind, not going to be out done..Well, IT WAS!!  If you are on the fence about this film all i can say is you do not have to be a horror fan nor a Sci Fi fan nor any specific genre fan to enjoy..and I mean really enjoy..this film  The blu-ray release has amazing Pic quality..they did their job. And Awesome HD lossless audio which gives you the feeling you are a character in the film..It puts you as close as possible in the movie.The score is incredible  I have both the DVD and the blu-ray...The Dvd is well done so if you do not have blu-ray I wouldn't hesitate to buy it.  For me, this is a movie which can be viewed every once in awhile and thoroughly enjoyed each time..  Worth the purchase..

Loved it so much I am buying another! My son loved this movie when he was 18 months old... by his 2nd birthday he could recognize and say every capital letter of the alphabet. He watched it and played with it so much that it no longer works so I just ordered a new one for my 16 month old daughter.

You've Got Mail DVD This is a great romantic comedy.  Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan are together again after Sleepless in Seatle.  I enjoy this movie every holiday season and recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good romance.

Fabulous Concert I bought this for my husband's birthday after we caught the performance on T.V. and he loved it. We played it for our friends and they loved it.  We are now ordering 3 more sets to give as gifts. A wonderful trip down Memory Lane.

Pretty much what you'd expect This movie has some familiar faces, Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger in Nightmare On Elm Street, the OG ones, not the new one) Lysette Anthony (Dracula Dead and Loving It) and Lucy Pinder (pretty much in any British magazine ever, she's super hot). This movie has strippers (so there is female nudity, yay) and werewolves. While it takes a while to build up to the climax in the third act which is a bit of a letdown, this movie is sometimes goofy albeit dumb. Since it doesn't take itself too serious, I think this movie helps add to the new sub-genre of Strippers vs. (insert supernatural monster here) none of which should be put under too much scrutiny as they are campy and crappy on purpose. It does look sharp on Blu-Ray which is a plus.

Great Movie Rented this from Redbox first, and had to have my own copy. Keeps you on the edge of your seat, the suspense is incredible. Not for children to see.

Dante's Peak I was able to find a old movie that i wanted to watch on dvd, I had a copy on vhs which no longer was able to use

rextras on blu-ray 60th 5 stars for picture quality but extras leave much to be desired.  Extras on two-disc special edition are far superior.  Why didn't WB include these instead of that boring "new generation" documentary.

amazing, happy colors and sounds This is a very colorful harmonious and dramatic TV screen saver. No more looking at a big black dead screen, when the TV is not running. We play it a lot with music , but it can also be played silently, just for a colorful atmosphere. We all love it.

Really enjoyable. This is one of the few movies that left me guessing what was going to happen next. Even my aunt who almost never watches any movie more than once liked it enough to watch it several days in a row. If you ever enjoyed Michael Caine or Robert Duvall then this movie is for you. Also starring a young and talented Haley Joel Osment along with Kyra Sedgwick and Nicky Katt.

Excellent for those of us who have never done yoga and are extremely inflexible I have never done yoga before but have become extremely inflexible due to taking the path of least resistance where pain is involved. This means not doing much of anything to avoid pain. Starting this program has even been painful but it gets better each day that I use it. I am starting to see some of the flexibility coming back very slowly, but at least I'm  making small bits of progress instead of staying the way I was or possible getting worse. Patience in all things is good. I'll get it back for sure then move on the other sections. By the time I'm finished with a session my overall feeling is one of relaxation and find it's a good way to start a day.

True Lies Came to me as the way it was described to me. You guys did a job keep it up and I'll purchase from you again.

Amazing Anime! Now, I had heard so much about this anime, so I decided to just outright buy it without even watching it. Normally these things turn out badly, but this time, it was SO worth it! I went into Haruhi totally blind, having never seen an episode before this DVD set, so I cannot judge based on the special editions or the other season 1 set. I honestly thought this was well put together and loved it. I'm definitely going to buy season 2 (even though that one got mediocre reviews) and I'm going to start on the novels. I loved the UST between Haruhi and Kyon. I really want to know how their relationship develops. As for Haruhi being a goddess...I have my own theories on that, but this was an amazing, thought-provoking anime. It isn't as good as Death Note (nothing could ever be) but it ranks up there in the top 5 anime, along with Full Metal Alchemist.

Wonderful Movie! I loved the story line and the concept of the movie!  I feel like I experienced the same thing ... a little older and without a zoo in the last few years.  What a beautiful movie!  I do not regret watching this one!

Fianlly A great gem to add to the collection of my youth memories.  Waiting for all of the other f;icls from the 80's to come out!

Most Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fabulous Acting,Fabulous Characters,Fabulous Movie! In fact, i will say that it is one of the best films that I have ever seen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1959 this movie has great color for being from 1959. if you liked pat boone you will probally like this movie, if you liked any other movies made by the writer of this movie youll like this movie. it has a classic feel to it.

For the Love of Westerns I love Walker Texas Ranger and most any Western series.  The only thing I didn't like about this product was the fact instead of having the select all to watch each episode simultaneously; you select an episode and it plays through and then goes back to main menu for the next episode in line.  I just wish it had that feature.

Yes, it's really like that I was interested in seeing the film Waiting because I had been a waitress for 20 years, and wanted to see if the film was going to honestly reveal what actually goes on in the kitchen and the server station. After viewing the video and getting tired from laughing so much I can say, YES! IT'S ALL TRUE! IT IS REALLY LIKE THAT!. Speaking as a former professional server, I'm sure this film will open the eyes of (and perhaps frighten) restaurant patrons. It was all familiar to me, from the examples of customers the servers love--or, love to hate, to the behavior of the manager, and onward to the realtionships and personal lives of the employees. Did I enjoy my job and have as much fun and frustration as these workers? Yes, and if you ask anyone who has worked this type of job and seen this film I'm certain they will give you the same answer. I'm not going to be specific in the review because to tell anything about the situations you will see is to spoil the surprise effect of seeing what goes on while you are eating your meal. When we sit down and are served, the type of service we receive is always one of the topics of conversation. This movie reveals what is said when the people being served provide the topic of conversation for the servers. Watch the special features too, because you'll learn about the writer/director. He was a server and uses examples from his experiences. If you decide to buy this video, read this review again before you watch it. It will definitely add another dimention to the humor.

Love this movie I am so glad I ordered this movie.  I love this movie.  I love watching it and trying to figure how who is "it" and who is not.

Receipt of Movie . . . Great delivery service. Saves me money, time and gas to order from Amazon.com.  The movie arrived before promised.  Great service all around!!!!!  Thanks

husband present I bought this for my husband for Christmas.  He loves funny movies and this is one he can enjoy with our daughter

Tosca-pleasing to the eye. La Tosca, a play written by the French playwright Sardou, was Produced in Paris in 1887. In 1889 Puccini saw the play,which he liked. Eventually, it became the opera we know. The original play had five acts and 23 characters. Puccini's opera has nine characters and is in three acts. He was only interested in the interaction between Scarpia,Tosca and Cavaradossi. The opera is set in June 1800,the time of the battle at Marengo, where Napoleon defeated the Austrian forces. The Libretto was written by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica. The two worked as a team and were responsible for La Boheme, Tosca and Madame Butterfly. Illica made the prose sketch of the work and Giacosa then versified and polished it,with Puccini's input. Tosca's premiere  was in 1900 in Rome.  This version of Tosca sounds and looks like a play with singing and music. Set in the Period of 1800,the staging and costumes which are stunning are traditional. The centre piece is of the head ,shoulders and hand with a sword of Emperor Constantine,who first made Christianity a state religion.The symbolism shows the power of the Church and the state. In the Church service  the monks carry the cross and so forth.Cannons are used. I hope your neighbours are tolerant. In the second act, Scarpias desk is shown. The third act we are on the roof of the prison. This opera is staged in the huge open air arena at Verona,with what I call traditional minimalism sets. The orchestra and chorus of the Arena of Verona are conducted by Daniel Oren, passionate and fast tempo when required. Fiorenza Cedolins who is a singer actress, brings out the human character of Tosca,as opposed to the usual over the top rendition of the part.  Marcelo Alvarez is Cavaradossi. Scarpia sung by Ruggero Raimondi, is not the usual evil  police chief, but subtle,charming,sly,and ruthless. What is amazing is that all three are believable. On such a huge stage and theatre,this opera seems intimate. Usually it doesnt. Probably, because Raimondi and Cedolins are Italian, this makes a difference. All the parts fit the whole and works. As I stated it seems like a play, not a opera. The blu ray is amazing,probably one of my best. Worldwide.

Great film, great package. This is really nicely done. The list of extras is not extravagant, it's really centered on the film. The packaging is well designed and feels luxurious for a DVD, but the content is what makes it great. Make sure to see the interview with Peter Sellers where he goes through all the different regional accents in England and compares them to american english. His facility is unsettling, and it underlines his real dramatic skills (Being There) that usually were given a back seat to his his comic work (anything Clouseau)

Best Movie in the Series! Thanks to a great cast of actors "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1" was quite spectacular !   The movie starred Ralph Fiennes as Voldemort, who can be thanked for the bone chilling performance ( that made me regret not shutting my eyes at times ) and deserves credit for making the Deathly Hallows seem even more "deathly" !    The tension never really seems to go away in this movie with special effects that will leave you in awe, breathtaking excitment and action, along with purely deep "heart in their mouth" emotion that the characters were able to produce.  Another thing that surpised me about this movie is how they managed to actually put in a lot of amusing scenes !   It was also nice to see alot of familiar faces as  well !  Who they were you  will have to watch it to see !    Overall,  besides 1 or 2 corny parts in the movie, I think that you will regret it if you don't see this blockbusting film !

Where is the blu-ray? Following the footsteps of other reviewers ... great WWII film. Too bad more people haven't seen it. Really captures the struggle between wanting to survive and doing more than just "your duty."  Funny, as Manning becomes that hero at the end of the picture just so his odds of surviving the next morning's attack would be better. By doing this, he and the other members of his team save lives. I serve in the military. This battle between doing what you must and going above and beyond is always there. Please guys, release this on blu-ray.

Great buy! It was perfect brand new in the wrapping i have had no problems with it and i would buy from this company/person again.! This is a must buy for any fan of the 60's. This DVD is the climax of what hippie culture was. I wish people would still feel this way about the world. I am 21 years old, my father was 18 in 1969 and went to Woodstock. He always says about how peaceful it was and yes they used drugs, but it wasn't to make money like today it was to explore their minds in ways. Sad thing is we're at this point again where people of our generation could make something like this happen with all the war and revolutions going on around the world. Matter a fact it is happening on a smaller scale. Anyone who is interested in going to a Peaceful music and arts festival. Search Bonnaroo Music & Arts festival. I went in 2010 and it was the most peaceful expierence i have ever had 3 days of fun, peace and music in Tennesee.

Great movie The movies came in great timing and this one was amazing. Story line, acting everything about it was great. Definitely would recommend.

I'd give it 6 stars if I could... Let me first start out by saying that I'm not into MMA, and prior to this film, never heard of Anderson Silva.  So obviously I'd strongly recommend this to anyone regardless of whether or not they are a fan of Silva or MMA.  Anderson Silva is one inspirational dude...took a minute to see his full character, but from what the film portrays, he's the best kind of warrior...the humble one.  The build up to the end fight was as good as any Hollywood drama, and given I had no clue who would win the fight, I was yelling at the edge of my couch literally:)  Such an epic end to an awesome film.  I can see how if you already knew this whole story, this film might not be worthy of the review I'm currently giving.  I can't tell you how many times I finally hit the "rent it/buy it" button on a film because it was released by Lionsgate, but they rarely let me down in terms of what they green light.

weeds back to track Season six brings "Weeds" back to track, after the weak season 5. Season six is really brilliant. It is just in the last episode that the quality goes down because things happen in a way that is really forced, just to leave open the option for season seven. Fine by me, as far as season seven is as good as season six.  It is a problem with just about all TV series: Studios after money forcing things when there is nothing else to go on. I think that the only TV series with a good story ending, not studio ending,  is "The Wire".

Funny This movie was full of action, comedy, and aliens that blow my mind. Love this movie I would suggest this to anyone of my friends.

Hilarious I Love John Leguizamo.So funny. Very entertaining. Talented comedian. I could keep on watching. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0031U8OIQ">John Leguizamo's Freak</a> John Legizamo's Spic-0-rama

One of My Favorites I ordered this movie, not realizing how much I enjoyed watching it when it first came out.  The music was great, and the acting was great also.  Was nice ti hear some of the music from back in the day, was before my time, but I enjoy all kinds if music, so my husband and I enjoyed watching this movie together.

alice in wonderland crazy wild movie/ excellent actors/ amazing scenery and graphics/ a keeper for Johnney Depp fans/ he can do those crazy rolls so well.

Game of Thrones. Great series. Acting is superb and the story line is superb. Product came on time and was undamaged. Highly recommended.

Must watch! It is our obligation to be informed if we are actively engaged in improving our country. This movie gives the viewer information to make an informed decision. We must choose the dream for what we want for America. "Is it going to be the 'American Dream' or 'Obama's Dream'."

ET is awesome!! Of course ET is awesome, even after all this time!!! How can you go wrong with ET as a gift! It is one of the movies that you never get tired of seeing! I bought it for my daughters since they have never seen this inspiring, feel good movie!!!

Great edition for a great movie! This edition as great picture and sound, a great expireance for all the fans and for people is seen for the very first time, and is marvelous, no doubt it is listed as one the greatest movies of all time, and the itens the came along with this great movie just mada the edition simply stunning!

The FBI and a serial killer cannibal working together to catch another serial killer; what more could scare you to death! Clarice Starling (Jody Foster) is a star pupil at the FBI training academy when her mentor, Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) pulls her out of training to help assist on a case. Jack is the head of the Behavioral Science Unit of the FBI and he wants Clarice to interview Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) regarding a case about a serial killer. Hannibal is known as Hannibal the Cannibal for his horrific murders in which he practiced cannibalism on his victims.  Jack thinks that Hannibal, who is a psychiatrist, could help in solving a case involving a new serial killer called Buffalo Bill by using his insight into serial killers and psychiatry. Buffalo Bill kills women and skins parts of their bodies. Hannibal is angry that Jack sent a newbie young woman agent to try to entice him to talk. He won't help but when Clarice is leaving and is soiled by one of the other prisoners he agrees to help her. Hannibal's clues lead her to evidence of an old murder and to a possible link between Hannibal and Buffalo Bill. Hannibal's leads help the investigation but also turn into severe complications....  This movie is about the evil that men can do and of a young agent becoming exposed to the world of the criminally insane. Many scenes are macabre and horrifying so if you don't like those types of movies then you should consider if this movie is for you. It is truly a crime and horror classic movie and the acting is superb. The story line is very tightly done and directed expertly and the movie was a box office hit as well as the winner of multiple academy awards.  It is a very good movie and I recommend it to you, just remember it is deep and ghastly film!

Chuck Norris what can you say ?  CHUCK NORRIS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!    one of the greats with bruce lee ,  jim kelley , bob wall , ect...;    loved the movie.

clint eastwood this is a great movie really can't say much more then other reviews have already said about this movie shipped and rec on time would I buy this movie again YES.

I wasn't sure if it was truely new or not? I bought this movie for my son for Christmas.  The seller said it was new.  I haven't opened it, because it's a gift....but there are no title lable sickers on the top and side of the DVD like usual.  It is in wrap, but I think it's fishy that there aren't those lables on the side and top.  You know what I mean, the annoying ones:)  I am hoping when we open it on Christmas that it's in tip top shape like a NEW DVD should be.  It came very fast in the mail though.

Great deal! I just bought this complete collection and SG-1 and paid way more than this. Good price sorry I missed it!

A favorite film of great directors. "The Searchers" is reportedly Martin Scorsese's favorite film and he claims that he watches it once or even twice a year. As a bonus feature on the Blu Ray edition they interview him and he talks about his love and admiration for this film.  Every time I watch it I gain greater insight and appreciation.  So many little things occur that are subtle, like the relationship that is hinted at between Ethan and his brother's wife through the use of visual clues, but not dialogue.  I am beginning to see why it is regarded as a masterpiece by most critics and directors including Scorsese, Spielberg, and Lucas.  The American Film Institute lists it as the greatest western ever made.  The cinematography looks spectacular on Blu Ray.  "The Searchers" wasn't appreciated when it was made, failing to get even one Academy Award nomination, but its stature continues to climb with each passing year.  Highly recommended.

Awesome Movie Great movie, nice twist, and gory enough for horror fans and suspense drama fans alike. The cast was awesome and it moved along nicely.

Under Seige / 2 Very good copies of these two enjoyable stories. Video and sound tracks are very good. Acting is gutsy- must like Steven Seagal to watch his despatching of the BAD guys in both movies. Would of liked to have a video label on this copy in order to pick easily which side to view. Other than that minor glitch- both were top rated.

Mardock Scramble I was stunned by the video quality. I just sat back and feasted my eyes on an awesome piece of work. I was misled by the run time of about two hours. Turns out this is the total time of both versions. Ended on a cliff hanger...bummer. I wish we had more Anime along this line. If you are a Ghost In the Shell fan I think you will like this one.

Cirque Du Freak DVD i love the movie!!! ive wanted it since it came out and my older sister enjoyed it too!!! thanks alot^^

Great Feel Good Family Movie! Maybe some people think this kind of movie is cheesy, but whatever.  I really enjoyed it, and the best part about everything is that the story is TRUE!  You really feel for what Matt Damon's character and his kids are going through at the beginning of the movie, and just the way things develop, purchasing the dilapidated zoo, getting to know the animals, and the zookeepers, and the adventures they go through is pure magic!  Scarlet Johansson is really awesome as the co-star as well.  She sheds her sexpot image very convincingly for this role.  I highly recommend you see this!

Police & Philosophy GITS SAC presents a very sophisticated, intelligent anime. Although similar to police procedurals, GITS has an intelligence theme including complex bureaucracy, corrupt politics, and terrorism. With this basis, the anime is rich in background information, detail of weapons & tactics, complex investigations, and use of technology. Although fictional, the story's events, setting, and characters are very relevant and possible. For example, both protagonists and antagonists are present rational defense for their actions and idealism. Even the "good guy" can understand the reasoning behind "bad guy." Overall, Ghost in the Shell can challenge your viewing of anime so pay attention or you'll stand alone.

I Love It it is truly and ultimate edition.  ultimate material, ultimate packing  highly recommended for any Harry Potter Fan!!!  only the Digital Copy itunes code doesn't work at all

Amazing! I absolutely LOVE this film.  The art style, writing, and voice acting are all amazing.  It is pure fun and I can easily say it ranks at the top of all DC animated films.  Congratulations DC! I really hope we see more silver age style films in the near future.

Good movie This is a good movie and makes you contemplate the "what ifs"  It is interesting to see how people thought the future would look now that it is past us.

great movie about porn and mormons! as resident of salt lake city who lives just blocks from the mormon temple its great to see a movie with the balls to make fun of these people,after all they deserve it they wear magical underwear! funny plot and good acting,i would highly recomend this film to anyone with a sense of humor!

Made a Christmas merry. I was very happy to find this movie and others on Amazon for my grand daughter to give as gifts for the holidays.

Tranformers in 3D! Beyond the in-depth film analysis that you can find elsewhere, it should be noted to any and all considering adding this 3D bluray to their stereoscopic collection that the 3D is just outstanding. Michael Bay and the Paramount execs decided to film this flick in native 3D and what a great decision that was. The first scene depicting the autobots fleeing Cybertron is an absolute 3D spectacle in its own right (granted entirely CGI). The depth contrast between the highly detailed Cybertron and the ships that surround it was a feast for the eyes. Another scene that comes to mind is the wing-suit team dropping in on Deceptacon occupied Chicago.  It also doesn't hurt that UPS did me a solid and delivered my copy a day ahead of the scheduled release so I was able to watch it a day before the rest of the country. What kind of Amazon prime member would I be if I didn't pay it forward with a 5 star review of the product?  Avatar, watch out because you finally have competition in the live-action 3D realm!

Hilarious! I love this movie.  I had a hard time finding it, so thank you Amazon.  Paul Rudd, as Peter Klaven, is adorable.  Jamie Presly, as Denise, is a knock out, even with a horrible hairdo.  John Favreau, as Barry-Denise' husband- is a laugh riot.  Some of my favorite scenes are w/ Denise and Barry.  All star cast was thoroughly entertaining.  Loved Jane curtain and JK Simmons as Ma & Pa Klaven.  Andy Samberg, as Robbie Klavin, is hilarious.  Jason Segal was memorable in his role as Sidney.  I loved the script and the actors were the perfect ingredients for their recipe making a comedy I believe will become a classic.

BEST OF "BIZZARE"VOL.1 THROUGH 9 THESE SHOWS CAME FROM CANADA,WAS UNSENSORED AND MY ALL-TIME FAVORITE SERIES.I OWN ALL  9 VOLUMES.THEY APPEARED ON SHOWTIME WHEN THE BIG 12 FOOT DISHES WERE POPULAR AND ALL SHOWS WERE FREE.THE GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION.WHERE "SUPER DAVE OSBORNE" WAS CREATED BY BOB EINSTEIN. ANYONE WHO DON'T THINK THESE SHOWS ARE FUNNY HAVE NO SENSE OF HUMOR.

Get out of my swamp! This is a great comedy for young and old,it is Smart and Hilarious.You have your action for the guys and your love story for gals,along with GIRL power from Fiona.A thrilling and entertaining movie for all,the sequels didn't get my votes. Then Shrek "forever after" came out and restored my hope of a great finish to the saga. "ENJOY" Thank You

Great! The product arrived within the expected delivery date and was in great condition. I would definitely order from here again.

"I feel the need, the need for speed!" Top Gun is the story of elite U.S. Navy Fighter Pilots and their quest to be the most distinguished graduates from the Top Gun special training school. I first saw this movie when I was eight years old, and a career as a Fighter Pilot became an instant desire. This film is filled with edge of the set exhilaration, and contains some of the best camera work of supersonic jet action for a motion picture. There are several valuable undertones to this movie which includes camaraderie, competitiveness, and professional pride towards military duty. Top Gun is an action packed film that will forever remain exciting.  Nicholas R.W. Henning - Australian Author

michelle shines I read this book and was really excited to see the film finally. The movie moves pretty fast but I found michelle captivating. A lot of actresses have played marilyn over the years and none have done such an extraordinary job as michelle williams. She makes you feel marilyn throughout the film and gives you a sense of what marilyn may have been like. You may like this film you may love this film, I suggest you see this movie either way!!!

Eye opener! This is a very simple documentary about escaping extreme hardship in another country to have a chance at a simple, yet "rich" life in America. The hardest of hearts will soften and the closed minds will open. I first saw it in highschool and well after college, I still appreciate the lessons I learned. I would reccomend it for 13 years and up. Great opportunity to discuss tolerance and appreciation for life in America.

Incredible series! This is the most amazing show that has come out in a long time. I was on the edge of my seat with each show, and it seemed like they were over so quickly because I would get so drawn into what was going on. I loved the writers adaptations of different fairy tales. Well done and well written!

classic I loved this movie as a kid and now my kids love this movie .. its a classic .. if you've never seen it and you like Disney movies this is a must for watching with your kids

Great talent . . . Fun movie with great talent!  Especially suited for young people wanting to be in music.  Like a grown up "Glee" ... Nice family movie.

Johnny Depp Does It Again. There was a few times at the beginning that I was going to stop watching as it seemed slow.  But, it was so freaking hypnotizing; that I just couldn't stop watching.  I am so glad that I did.  It was just great.  I love computer animation movies as I find them fascinating and I just adore Johnny Depp.  There is nothing he can't do, plus he's incredibly sexy.  I totally recommend this movie and give it 2 thumbs up, lol.

I watched the 1997 version in my biotechnology class and loved it.  the whole thing from the plot to the actors was written and picked to be the  best for the movie.

love it I've been a huge fan of p.p for years now and this season didn't disappoint either. It's a little less fast-pace-dramatic but great nontheless, can't wait for season 6:)

Office Space is hilarious...we love it so much! This movie is so funny! The characters are are excellent and  Judge did a great job with the plot too. It shows the epitomy of how office politics exist everywhere in all places people work excellently. The boss is the epitome of a bad boss in most offices, too! You will love this movie, I promise.

Good All Around Great classic SciFi movie, no reason to reveiw. Excellent BlyRay transfer and picture quality(PQ). The PQ was so good for a 30 year old movie it made me feel as if I hadnt seen the movie before. And the blood and gore is crystal clear!

Hilarious Received just what I wanted, the quality I wanted it in! Can't find this in stores and you know you are buying a quality item with no surprise damages! Love the movie super super funny! Couldn't stop laughing! Amost peed in my pants

A Great Drama/Action movie It's a great film.  The story is a fish out of water tale mixed with a traditional martial arts film. The plot follows a Monk who leaves his temple in China to travel to New York in order to parent his nephew after the boy's parents died in a car accident. Once in America the Monk and a former student open a karate school that soon becomes a target for the ire of a local gang.  The contrast between Wushu and street fighting always is intriguing and there is no doubt that Li is a master, and the stunt men do a great job of making very exciting fight scenes.  Li Zhang is charming and has a very likeable personality.  If you like martial arts, go ahead and rent the movie

Wonderful Product! It also contains 8 artcards and hardcover indeed. One of the best musicals ever made. Should be on your must-own-list.

I love the Mentalist! Great show, great cast, and great writers.  My only wish was that there were some bloopers on the DVD set.

One of Audrey's best! Too bad this film had to go into the public domain. It could have gotten an official Universal release, instead of the overpriced Criterion release and all these low-grade un-remastered DVD versions from companies I've never heard of. Since the TGG Direct version was only 4 dollars, I decided to get it, even though I knew it wasn't going to be that great of quality, and even though the audio wasn't that good and the picture quality was very grainy, it still isn't that distracting. In fact, I kind of forgot about it about a half-hour into the film, because it wasn't all that bad, but I do have a complaint about the scene selection being on the main menu. It kind of gives away stuff that happens in the film and the still images from the scene selection make the film look pretty violent and graphic, and, of course the DVD was really low-budget looking, but other than that, it was fine, so if you don't want to get the Criterion edition because it's so much money, I suggest you get the TGG Direct version, or the DVD of The Truth About Charlie (the remake), since it comes with a remastered edition of Charade.   As for the film, it's one of my favorites from Audrey Hepburn. While it may not be as good as "Breakfast at Tiffany's", "Roman Holiday", or "Sabrina", it's still an extremely well done Hitchcockian suspense comedy romance film, where Cary Grant plays her lover. Audrey Hepburn plays Regina Lampert, a woman who's husband has been murdered, and now 4 men are after her for the fortune her husband had. Cary Grant plays Peter Joshua, but his name keeps changing throughout the film because he keeps lying about what his name really is. He protects her from the 4 men that are after her, and they fall in love, but he's part of it himself. "Charade" is a very clever and sharp romantic thriller with a great Paris setting, which is always great for an Audrey Hepburn film (Paris is the location for "Funny Face", "Paris When it Sizzles", and a few others.)   "Charade" is definitely a must-have for Audrey Hepburn or Cary Grant fans, or just old-movie fans, because this movie is an underrated classic, with great acting, music, settings, and it's just a great film altogether!

movie I purchased this movie for myself, I haven't watched it yet, but Kevin Costner is a great actor so I'm sure this movie will be great. Great price, super fast shipping. Seller gets an A+++++++

The television version of Halloween 2 is the second Disc This two-disc set of Halloween 2 is pretty good. I knew i would enjoy it, i liked the commentary from director Rick R and the alternate commentary from Dick Warlock. I got a kick out of the behind the scenes segment as well as the deleted scenes. As a kid i always figured there was something different about the ending seen on TV, but i never put 2 and 2 together. Obviously im talking about the ending inside the ambulance. Anways check out this Dvd if you thirst for more material on Halloween Two original.

Very nice video on the "Quiet" Beatle We always thought George was a great musician and song writer. This video gives a look into the man from the perspective of those who were close to him.

Great Workout! I love working out to these videos! They are challenging, but not killer. I have been doing them for a few weeks now and I already feel stronger and my clothes fit better. I like that they have different skill levels built right into the workouts too.

third season muder,she wrote. i love murder she wrote because her character is smart and not a put on. the whole series is great. here is to Angela L.

Love on Mackinac Island Love this movie.  Saw it years ago.  Going on vacation to the island and wanted to refresh my memory so I could go back in time again.  So glad I was able to locate it on Amazon at a great price.  When we arrived at Mackinac Island it was like going back in time.  At the Grand Hotel we were able to see all the movie collections on display and even saw the famous room.  It was perfect. Of course, all through the town it was easy to know about the movie. I recommend the movie but also a visit to the Island for a perfect trip.

Babe is no Babe in the woods. I had seen this several years ago and recently our  grandson was asked to make a report on the film.  I was only too glad to order it from Amazon and found it even more delightful than the first time my wife and I watched it.  A great story for all ages.

Star Trek The Next Generation Motion Pictures Excellent - enjoyed all the movies very much.  Being on a limited income, I am always looking for a bargain so that I can afford my favorite movies and TV shows.

Extremely Dark Psychological Comedy with Surprising Insight - No Spoilers Ah, Dogtooth.  I'm not going to go into the plot details as the other reviewers seem to have it covered, but if you are already intrigued by what you've heard and still don't know the story I highly recommend just diving into it blindly, which is what I did.  That being said, the only thing you really need to know beforehand is that it can be seen as a very dark, disturbing movie (which hopefully has already been made clear) and contains some of the blackest comedy I've seen (yes, there is some fantastic comedy for those who possess a certain kind of humor).  Not knowing anything before viewing, the first twenty minutes or so may be a bit difficult to follow because of the way the movie is structured, but once things begin to fall into place (and if you haven't already shut it off) you will be glued to the screen for the remainder.  I disagree with a lot of reviewers who view this as some sort of exploitation film created for the sole intention of shocking the viewer; I found it to be extremely intelligent, showcasing a daring (and fantastic) analogy of the detrimental effects of selfish, small-world, fear-based ideologies and displaying the accurate and disturbing psychological effects derived from the attempt to unnaturally restrain and isolate life.  Again, not for everyone, but those interested in psychology will find much to gain here, and this director (Giorgos Lanthimos) is definitely one to keep an eye out for in the future.

WHITNEY HOUSTON MUSIC VIDEOS OF HER GREATEST HITS This is a perfect keep sake, with all of her hits.  The picture and sound are perfect.  It arrived on time, and was packaged securely.  If you are a Whitney Houston fan, it is somethng you will enjoy.  I am very pleased with this purchase.

Please Watch After years of wanting to, I've finally begun learning ASL. What comes with learning this incredibly rich and beautiful language is becoming familiar with deaf culture and deaf issues. I'm so glad I decided to watch this film. I was so disheartened at the talent that was continuously disregaurded simply because the artists were deaf. It is not despite their deafness that they are so good, but in many ways, it is because of their deafness that they are so good. Why it is such a difficulty to celebrate that will surely become a question that frustrates you too after watching this film, but it's a good thing. It means progress. ASL is surely another star of this film, and I hope that if you haven't already become inspired to learn it, you will once you've watched it.

Amazingness Firefly is hands-down one of the most awesome shows I have ever seen. There is definitely something for everyone: swashbuckling, humor, drama, mystery, romance. I love it!

LOVED IT! From the commercials about Brave I was a bit iffy about it.  I took my 2 year old to see it because I had heard rave reviews of it and it would be her first time experiencing a Disney Princess movie in the theater.  My daughter loved this movie.  She has the attention span of a nat and she sat through the entire movie without fidgeting.  There was a bit of adult humor in the movie, but it was really funny and after all the movie is PG.  My daughter went around after seeing the movie telling people that "the momma bear ate fishys" and she always wants the Brave toys that she sees in Walmart.  I think that between Brave and Tangled Disney has officially recover from making that horrible Princess and the Frog movie.

The Civil War My husband loves this.  It is the most indepth presentation of the Civil War out there.  Got to get it if you are a Civil War buff.

Great Movie! Please don't listen to bad reviews. I don't understand what some people are expecting from a movie. This is a really an entertaining one. Just enjoy it.

great I looked every where for a full screen version my mother 93 and cannot see wide screen on her tv to small

Warhorse Though a lot of it was fairly telegraphed, you have to be emotionally dead to not be moved by the movie. Very enjoyable.

Inspector Lewis DVD collection.. I really love the Lewis series......far better than Morse!  Excellent set and full length episodes. Would enjoy seeing more of Lewis and Hathaway. Will keep my eyes peeled in case they do more!

A true classic Great character acting.This is an example of great writing.Though in B&W,low tech,good actors and a good story trump an anemically thought out story dressed up in a hype of tech.I do not collect DVD's' per se,but this one is a keeper.Has cross generational appeal.

I would rate it if I had it. Poor luck with the vendor of this item.  (aleegold@aol.com)  I still have not received the item which was ordered on April 4, 2011.  If I ever get it, I would love to rate it!

As English as scones and tea FROM TIME TO TIME (2009, 95 minutes) is a delightful children's-style movie that is actually a lot of fun. Though it is a sort of wilted storyline, I enjoyed it for its sense of history and the actors, of course.  Young Tolly (the very sweet Alex Etel) lives with his grandmother (a fantastic as always Dame Maggie Smith) in their old family estate. Soon a ghost makes it possible for Tolly to travel backward in time, finding himself in his home in the late 18th century. There he gets the adventure of a lifetime, watching his ancestors as they suffer through one calamity after another.  Though the story abounds with ghosts, the question presented here is whether ghosts and time traveling people can be separate things, or are they the same? The film shows us both possibilities simultaneously. Etel is showing tremendous promise and I truly wish a great success for him in years to come. The first time I saw him was his very skilled, moving performance in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00140PK6O">Cranford</a> which he reprised in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002XTBEDI">Cranford: Return to Cranford</a>.  This film boasts the fantastic lineup including Timothy Spall, Eliza Bennett, Dominic West, the impressive Hugh Bonneville, and the perky, loveable Kwayedza Kureya as Jacob the young black servant who is treated as a family member.  I strongly recommend this quality family film.

AWESOME! I love this movie. It was the greatest purchase that I have made on this website. I got it exactly when they said I would and it was in perfect condition. Very happy!

Pretty hilarious. I'd read the manga on this a few months back, and figured i'd watch the anime to see how it measured up.  I have to say i thought it was very well done.  It's a little ecchi, but that won't bother most people looking to get this anime.  Definitely worth a watch though.

Roxanne - Blu Ray Roxanne arrived from Amazon earlier than promised.  The Blu ray disk was in excellent condition upon arrival. The picture of this blu ray is pretty good and the sound was also pretty good.

Highly Therapeutic! With 525+ reviews already written, there's not much to say (well maybe there is) but a theme that resides in the film that is refreshing and therapeutic, is that humans are very imperfect beings, despite the race for the perfect technology, which, since it is thought of and devised by humans, makes it by definition imperfect technology if not just plain foolish. This film isn't afraid to show humans as the fools they are, or as Shakespeare stated, 'What fools these mortals be.'

a christmas carol am trying to get all versions of christmas carol, this was one that i didn't have. i have not seen this version on tv in a while

arlinda's review this is a great movie. i really enjoyed it. forest whitaker and regina king were great as ex husband and wife. lance gross and america ferrar were also great.

Get A CLUE!! (yes, i had to say that.) i love comedies and i love old fashioned mysteries, so i'm always up for a good amalgam of the genres. and such amalgams don't get much more seamless than CLUE. i know, i know, being based on a board game makes it seem like it won't amount to much. at least it does today, when we've been flooded with not particularly inspired film adapatations of video games. (with the exception of the TOMB RAIDER movies, i'd say run like hell from the whole movement.) you have to remember that this film predates that misguided trend by quite a few years. also, it's not simply trying to reflect the game, it's having fun with a whole new slant on the genre upon which the game piggybacks. an absolutely killer ensemble guides us through a lively farce. can-do-no-wrong actors like Tim Curry, Lesley Ann Warren, Christopher Lloyd, Madeline Khan, Martin Mull, and Colleen Camp manage to add dimension to characters whose original creators pretty much designed them to be simple cyphers. and maybe i'm biased, since i tend to enjoy period pieces, but i have to say the '50s setting is source of some delightful whismy as well. it's marvelously merciless jabs at McCarthyism and J. Edgar Hoover ("can you keep a secret? so can i.") are in themselves worth the price of admission. some might find it particularly cool that the DVD offers a setting upon which it selects one of the three endings. one of the film's more famous angles is that when it was released, various prints in various markets each featured one of the three denouements...and when it made it's way to home video, it was in a form splicing all three together. while i presonally prefer the multi-denouement version - i think it better reflects the nature of the game, as well as the twisty, red-herring nature of old-dark-house mystery films in general - it can still be kind of fun awaiting whichever one is dealt at a given viewing. in short, CLUE has an exalted place among THE SHADOW, THE SEVEN-PERCENT SOLUTION, and DEAD MEN DON'T WEAR PLAID amoungst the greatest films ever not to get the credit they deserved from The Powers That Be.

Dracula 1958 is still Hammering it home! For me this dvd represents great value. This film is the best rendition of Dracula. The film has wonderful atmosphere, elegance and style and the special effects have dated in a way that makes the film a kind of charming and retrospective pastiche of modern horror films. Excellent. Stewart West.

Can't wait for number two to come out! Sequel please! This was great! clean movie for the whole family! Nice action, scenes, plots, characters did well! Our children love this movie and the cartoon as well. We are a family of seven and love our movie time.. This is one of the movies we can all watch together as a family and not have to worry about trash on the screen!  You will love all the elements of this movie as earth, wind, water, fire are powerful forces of the earth!  The acting is great, the customs are great, all parts of this movie are great. The lessons that can be taken from this movie are great especially the ones about messing with the spirits and good vs evil. Certain things you really just don't mess with.  You will see how friendship helps and how if all work together for the common goal and good, much can be accomplished. Fun movie for the whole family, adventure!  We have seen similar movies with the same spiritual aspect before, star wars, matrix, hell boy, batman, superman, spider man, Thor, the avengers, avatar, x men, Narnia, etc no difference as far worrying about spiritual  or good vs evil. This movie has it all and will excite you and your family with clean fun and entertainment!  Enjoy!

CLASSIC! A timeless christmas story that never gets old. Have been watching this movie since I was a kid. Loved it then and still love it now especially since I now have it as part of my dvd collection. Just awesome!

Last Waltz Video Prompt shipment. Great video. Very much pleased with the transition. Picture quality and performances were great.Would deal with this vendor again.

Loving the new Doctor! I enjoyed this ep and it was a nice little end cap to an awesome series - can't wait for series 6  XD

It is a wonderful life. This has been my favorite movie...now I don't have to wait every year to see the movie....or suffer through the commericals.

A Ghost Story with Touching and Sympathetic Ghosts? This is a very fun, entertaining movie with an interesting storyline and first class acting. We were delighted and amused by all aspects of the movie and really enjoyed watching it. This one is a keeper and should hold up well to repeat viewings. Although we had originally rented the DVD I have since ordered a copy for our collection and I already look forward to watching it again.  Ricky Gervais does a fantastic job as a dentist who inadvertently develops the ability to see dead people. Fortunately the dead people he encounters are all touching and sympathetic and delighted beyond words to encounter a living person who can still see them. Each of them has their lives marked incomplete until one last thing is accomplished and that requires the cooperation of a living person who can see and hear them just like the Gervais character, Dr. Pincus.  This is an enjoyable family movie and I recommend it for the entire family.

~Loved This Movie!~ We had some people over..Friends and family members and we all watched this movie and throughly enjoyed it...Not everyone is going to like everything or every movie..I'm glad I watched this myself instead of just relying on other reviews.

Great action movie. This was a great action movie.  Lots of animation. How do they make these movies look so real. If I was a kid, I would believe these things were possible in the world. Maybe I just saty at home alone too much. Thaks fo rsending the movie.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005QYKE2Y">Transformers: Dark of the Moon</a>

the girl who kicked the hornet's nest As usual, the dvd was received in good condition and lived up to all expectations as the final episode in the trilogy. The series, both books and movies, was excellent.

Location, Location, Location Hayden Panetiere, Josh Hutcherson, big stars, but the true star is Carmel California.  Stunning!  Loved the scenery, great story!  Lauren Bacall and Alfred Molina are always spectacular!

All time classic! This is almost always on the list of "best films of all time", and I won't say anything to contradict that. Even if you don't especially like this film for one reason or another, it is a must see. There are so many classic lines from it, which are used in other movies, TV shows, even by comedians (though the lines were not originally comic in nature), that you should know them. How many times have you heard "Here's lookin' at you, kid" ?  or "Play it again, Sam" ? (not the exact words Bogart used, but that is the way they have become popularized). All in all, this is a must see film. That said, in my humble opinion TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT was a better Bogart movie, and it is also a classic, but CASABLANCA is right up there with the best of them!

A well rounded film With all of the attention historical revolutions have been getting since the Egyptian uprising, I was inspired to see all the films made by the makers of Bringing Down a Dictator, which many Egyptians involved in the revolution watched. Not only does Orange revolution excellently document the power and effectiveness of non violent resistance, but it also gives the viewer a wonderful glimpse into the culture of Ukraine. Unlike many political documentaries that can come across as rather flat, Orange Revolution effectively captured these people's thirst for justice. This film looks at the revolution from many different angles and documents the resistance strategy step by step. I would highly recommend this film to any one interested in learning about civil resistance or simply the tenacity of the human spirit.

Classic, Classic, Classic The story finally starts to make sense when we get more of the supporting characters to these main characters, and begin to know who they were and why they were so popular! It's always been nice to see a shout out to some of the most favored toys of my childhood.

Its a movie I would watch over and over again!!! Movie has great action with a lot of twists and turns. Story is very realistic with suicide bombing scenarios. You will not be disappointed

Very Good DVD This is a very good DVD. My grandson loves it. It arrived within the given time. No problems.This DVD was purchased from Amazon.com.

One of the greatest horror movies, ever, if not the best. One of the greatest horror movies of all time. Maybe the best. Deep in the hart of Texas with a family of Ed Geins! If you love to eat meat, try seeing it from the other end. Great diection, cimemetography, characters, music, imagery, and story. A great bloodbath to behold! The bonus features are documentaries and commentary. Dig it!

Inside Job The names Paulson, Greenspan and Bernanke are among the many that have been become household names over more recent years. Even if you have no interest in finance or world events you could not have escaped knowing something about these three. Most often associated with financial oversight and authority, these men have been at the helm during the most turbulent years. So it's not unusual that a documentary about the global financial crisis (GFC) should feature them.  "Inside Job" is not your ordinary DVD. Sure it's rated due to "sexual references", albeit in the context of the apparent behaviour that prevailed over the years. There's no murder, no need for a CSI type investigation but in itself "Inside Job" is a forensic investigation.  But back to the names, Paulson was the former US treasury secretary and also former CEO of Goldman Sachs, a huge US investment house. In early 2008 Paulson said "If you're growing, you're not in recession ... right?"  Months later the bubble burst and even today the world is recovering from the catastrophic fallout from the collapse of investment houses, banks and even the economies of several countries.  It is ironical that the film directed by Charles Ferguson is narrated by actor Matt Damon. Years earlier Damon starred as Frank Abagnale Jr in "Catch me if you can". Yet Damon calmly provides the narrative that is supported by numerous interviews, mainly of people who either sounded the warnings or who have the credibility to comment. It is not surprising that a number of the high profile key players in the GFC "declined to be interviewed".  Hindsight is great and when you see and hear the way the whole pack of cards tumbled you have to ask yourself why? This film is essential viewing and provides a permanent reminder of the events and the people involved. The lessons of Enron have not been learned. Whether there was corruption, complicity or outright fraud can be decided as the story unfolds. The trouble is many people have suffered and it will take the world a long time to recover.  If you had any unanswered questions about the GFC before today, then by the end of the film hopefully they'll be answered. Clearly the 2011 Academy Award for Best Documentary is justified.

The Girl Next Door What a great movie. Someone commented that you would be a different person after watching it. I wouldn't go that far, but I will say I have watched this movie quite a few times, and don't get bored with seeing it again and again. Elisha is extremely  hot and beautiful in this movie. I doubt any other actress could fill her shoes and play the part of Danielle. The soundtrack is very thoughtfully put together also. I recommend  buying this movie. You will want to watch it again and again.

Hitler: The last 10 days Excellent and a must see for any History Buff!Alec Guiness is very believable as Hitler and it really takes you back to that time.

No Holds Barred I love 80's action films and wrestling, so this is a marriage made in heaven. Hulk Hogan plays Rip, the WWF Champion, and is pursued by a rival company. If you're a wrestling fan it really doesn't make much sense but the business was still protected at the time. Hogan does a good job for a wrestling film, Zeus looked good as a villian, and the film had some very funny moments. Is it corny? sure. Is Rip's injuried brother unintentionally funny? yes. Highly recommend this to old school wrestling fans, today's audience may not get it. Current WWE stars even mocked this film in a recent ad. If you like old school 80's macho action flicks, then you should enjoy this.  I don't know who is in charge of marketing at WWE or if they have someone who markets just the dvds but whoever it is, they need to pick up the slack. WWE has always lacked in the speical features on there dvds and this one could have been much better then a measly photo gallery. I know Hogan is with the rival company but they could have added the unreleased, rarely seen match that followed this movie, Hogan/Beefcake VS Zeus/Macho King in a cage. WWE doesn't seem to care what fans think anyway because the money just flows even if the product sucks.

Fantastic results for everyone! Do not let the word "beginner" steer you away from this workout DVD. Jillian is always a challenge depending upon your own motivation and fitness level. She presents excellent instruction on basic and difficult moves in a fat-burning and muscle-building circuit training format. I could do this DVD when I started exercising, and now six months and 60 pounds lighter, I STILL go to this one when I need a powerful boost. I also have other Jillian Michael's DVDs I use, but this one can be modified to any person no matter your fitness level.

Scream 2 Very great movie and i got the movie when i was told i would get it so thanks to all

I loved it Zach Braff's movie Garden state is exceptional. Not only does it have Natalie Portman in it, but it's one of those rare movies which really combines a good story with good, maybe even seminal, humor. It's also full of really amazing observations, an outstanding script, also by Braff.  Different and enjoyable, dunno why it was not bigger. Perhaps because it plays at a slower tempo than movies tend to do these days, but I think it was absolutely the right choice.  I am extremely impressed that such a young man made such a wonderful movie.

A beautiful documentary,full of heart I wasn't bored one second, Joan has always been open and honest and that.. in this world.. is so refreshing.  I could watch this 10 times.  Joan is gorgeous, funny, smart, and has more energy at 75 than most have at half her age.  You win Joan, your amazing.

I can't believe there isn't a 2nd season! The more I watched this show the more I loved it.  I can't believe there won't be a  2nd season.

Cornfield Justice - Not Just Another Horror Slasher Film! I'd like to state right off the bat and for the record that I am not, nor have I ever been, a "horror movie" fan. However, if every supposed "horror" picture were as well done as Dark Night of the Scarecrow, I may have to reconsider my position.  What has become known as the modern type "slasher" horror film (with lots of gore, blood and guts) is to me just a bunch mindless nonsense that gives a quick  "thrill" to those with an unhealthy fixation for evil. The excellent made-for-tv movie "Dark Night of the Scarecrow" however, provides no such cheap thrills, taking instead a much different path. [--WARNING: Movie Spoiler Alert!--] The principal character of the film's title is not the mindless, killing psychopath stalking a bunch of over-sexed, teenage idiots that many such slasher/horror films depict. Instead, our "scarecrow" represents a subtle, otherworldly supernatural avenging force. A force which brings swift justice to the cowards who brutally murder an innocent man in cold blood. A very welcome change of pace for a supposed "horror" film. The "horror" is seen on the faces of the criminals fleeing for their lives! The script, directing and acting are all above-averge for a film of this type. So, if you like your "horror" bloodless (almost), intelligent, with a B-movie feel, and a Twilight-Zone twist, then be sure to check out JD Feigelson's Dark Night of the Scarecrow - you won't soon forget it.  The Blu-ray edition has a nice assortment of extras including:  - A full-length movie commentary with creator JD Feigelson (96 min.) - Bubba Didn't Do It! - 30 Years of the Scarecrow Documentary (30 min.) - DNOTS Cast Interviews with Larry Drake, Tonya Crowe and JD Feigelson (45 min.) - An 8-page booklet insert. - And More!

Surprisingly Accurate Just to add a bit of support for the writer's of this story I too have twice experienced the loss of someone too young to die and I recognized many of the emotions and thoughts portrayed in this story. Some would want to carry, and they should, that memory and loss for whatever time that it takes to heal. The best cure (unfortunately, not explored by the movie) is to eventually turn those losses into a positive by enhancing the lives of others.  I would agree with the controversial idea presented in the movie questioning how a God could allow the youngest and most innocent life to end, and in many instances, quite uncomfortably violent ways. I also agree that the response, "because more angels are needed" is a pacifier in disguise for those still living.

Amazing the first and second time! I saw this movie twice in theatres and it was awesome! Great script, great actors, really funny, great directing. The song at the end was good but it seemed more bollywood and didn't really fit the movie. Great movie overall, and that's coming from someone who is not a big fan of the snow white tale. I really loved this movie and so did my entire family. I would definately recommend.

One of the best musicals EVER. My 3-year old grandson likes to sing the "Good Mornin'" song, which he's heard on TV.  I thought he might want to hear the original, plus see some wonderful dancing.  He was FASCINATED.  Maybe I can get him hooked on other oldies-but-goodies like this one.

Whoever said grim reaping was easy?.... This is really something....if you haven't seen it, you are really missing something wonderful.... Today's crapola crowd wouldn't be able to sit through this one, short as it is, but cinephiles must experience this film. It isn't about any one thing, or maybe it is, but, no matter....the blu-ray is stunning....the Swedish audio is far superior to the English dub....not many films are the equal of this one....must own on blu-ray....cool extras....well worth it.... A game of chess in the depths of the soul of a man fighting for his existence.... A dance of death on the horizon....visions of an actor.... Darkness....a great film....

Great show Thanks for the great service. This is one of the best shows on today. It was here very quickly. Will get season 2 as soon as it is out.

Found It! I could not find this movie "Elf" in the stores. Found it on Amazon and made my daughter very happy! (25 yr. old) She really wanted this movie for Christmas.  AND it came in time even though ordered 3 days before!!

The best of C&C This video is for die hard fans of C&C, as it shows them reviving their most well known bits from their albums and movies. Their timing, their characters, their genius is shown here bare on stage the way they began. This may not be for everyone, but from the perspective of a life long fan I enjoyed it completly and found new laughs. Long Live Cheech and Chong!

this is the best documentary that i have ever seen. This is the best documentary that i have ever seen. It is a must for any business owner to see. You will learn what can take a business down and what can make it a success. You will hear from former employees that were there for over 25 years. It is a must see for everyone.

Funny, heart-warming, good time movie This is a good couples movie. My husband and I have watched it together more than once and I have seen it with a couple of girl-friends before. Make some popcorn and be prepared to feel a lot of emotion throughout this one.

One of the most uplifting movies you'll see This film is a must see. It is all about CHARACTER--from every actor and from the celebrated horse as well. The film is so intelligently done and full of heart--with casting and performances that could NOT have been improved a bit--that at times you'll forget this is a movie and you'll cheer out loud and actually feel the intense pain and angst of the characters. I was so drawn into the story that I felt I was part of the time, part of the events, and the intensity was only heightened because the story is completely true and faithful to the record. One hopes that the character and caring so evident in these heroic people (even in the horse!) are present in our modern world.

The Village Worth watching twice or more - I didn't catch an important detail towards the end till I'd watched it repeatedly.  Now I look at the Village as a place I want to live, fear and all.  The children born there might never know the truth.

Mary Poppins Having ordered items from Amazon in the past, I knew that I would first be getting a quality product sent in a timely manner. I was very well pleased with the whole process - from finding the item and finding the right one that I felt was the one that I knew my wife wanted. Then being able to order the item, using some of the gift certificates I had in my account.  My concern was the timing of the delivery but it came without any delays and I was able to track it's process so I knew where it was at everyday.  I will continue to shop and use Amazon because they know the meaning of customer service!  Thanks,  Don

Why would anyone watch such a weird movie? To appreciate this movie, you need to understand the point of its weirdness. I think David Foster Wallace said it best when describing another David Lynch film, Blue Velvet:  "Blue Velvet captured something crucial about the way the U.S. present acted upon our nerve endings, something crucial that couldn't be analyzed or reduced to a system of codes or aesthetic principles or workshop techniques. The movie helped me realize that first-rate experimentalism is a way not to `transcend' or `rebel against' the truth but actually to *honor* it. It brought home that the very most important artistic communications take place at a level that not only isn't intellectual but isn't even fully conscious, that the unconscious's true medium isn't verbal but imagistic, and that whether the images are Realistic or Postmodern or Expressionistic or Surreal or what-the-hell-ever is less important than whether they feel true, whether they ring psychic cherries in the communicatee."  The important question is whether it succeeds at ringing psychic cherries. I can't speak for you, but for me the scene (beginning around the 20th minute) where Ingrid is trying to "straighten" the bed, and Brad comes and sits on it and wants to play music for her, and the mom barges in with brownies, "I'm just so happy for you both. ... Brad, can't you see that Ingrid is trying to straighten the bed?", the momentary look back before she leaves, "can't she ever knock?", and then she barges in again a few moments later, this time with wine, and then the prolonged, eerily-adoring stare--hoo boy that was one of the creepiest and realest and most magical scenes I've seen.  You cannot watch this as a normal movie, expecting clear answers, logic, or even linearity. It only works as an unconscious examination of who we are, the madness inside us.  P.S. - Other than the straightening the bed scene, the most magical scene in this movie begins around the 62nd minute, when Brad wanders around a crowded outdoor market in Kashgar, Xinjiang province, China. "Why is everyone staring at me?" It's a scene with no narrative ties to the rest of the story but somehow still fits perfectly. I learned from Wikipedia that this sequence was shot "guerrilla style" with a small digital camera because Herzog did not wish to endure the lengthy process to obtain shooting permits in China. So all of those faces you're seeing are genuine and unscripted (and slightly illegal).

Whatever happened to a cake with a file in it? Lara Brennan (Elizabeth Banks) is convicted of murdering her boss. Overwhelming evidence proves this. Her husband John (Russell Crowe) naturally assumes she is innocent of the dastardly deed. They go through the court system and run out of appeals; so that is that.  Well maybe not. No one realizes whom they are up against. John is a junior college instructor and knows a little bit about human nature. Soon he hones some new skills needed to extricate Lara. What looks like bumbling attempts may alert the authorities prematurely. However most of what looks like mistakes may be part of the big plan.  A small but crucial highpoint in the movie is John's father George (well played by Brian Dennehy) who knows about the plot but is closed mouthed.  Can John outwit the authorities and escape their containment skills? We get the thrill of being part of the chaser and the "chasee".

A Classic Forever one of the best classic biblical movies of all time. Being on dvd makes it that much better. Every household should have a copy of this movie. Good wholesome theatrics you won't be sorry with this purchase.

Wonderful A great video with magnificent images and footage. I don't think anyone would be dissapointed, this is among the best quality wildlife DVD. Top dvd for leopard footage!  I became a leopard lover after watching this.  Also highly reccomended: NATGEO's Eye of the Leopard

Wilsooooon!! Who ever knew that loosing a soccer ball can be so sad? Hanks gives us a wonderful performance in this heartbreaking movie. Tears, survival, lost and heartbreak. An award winning movie definately worth watching!

Spectacular movie for all ages Your age does not matter. This Muppets movie is worth watching over and over again. An amazing feel-good story with plenty of fun and surprise appearances.

Clambake Arrived in good condition and well before due date. A great Elvis movie with Bill Bixby, fun, laughter and suspense. Will Elvis get the girl, buy it and find out.

Back Roads DVD I like this movie. I've seen this movie on TV several times and just wanted to have a copy of it.

My Grandson LOVES Elmo and this video! My Grandson, who is 2, just loves Elmo.  If you have a young one that is into Elmo / Sesame Street this is a definite addition you will want to make to your DVD collection.  Includes some musical sequences that my Grandson really likes and he will remain "glued" to the video for its duration.  (I have mixed feelings regarding this.)  Good entertainment for children under 5.

OH NO! I  I SHRUNK ! This is a good movie with good special effects. The man lands on a so called planet and shrinks to their size. (Which is very small}  Yes, this is a dumb plot, but it does turn out very fun to watch.  It has a good & ugly alien in it.  If you like old B-Movies by all means get this one.

DVD - Children of a Lessor God I was so happy to find this movie on Amazon. I  have seen it before on TV and wanted a copy of my own. My movie arrived when they said it would and it was in excellant condition.

worth every penny Angelia Julie is so cool in this movie. It's my favorite movie all the time. It's a must-see movie for every julie-lover.

Superb This is my first movie of Amir Khan. I just want to say it was a superb movie. He played the character role so well, not only it is so thrilling to watch every moment of the movie, I really enjoyed it. The story and sequence is so well played. Amir Khan is a good actor. This particular role suit him well. Wish him all the best...

Beautiful, meaningful, fun This is an all-around great movie.  There is something for children and grownups alike.  The voices are outstanding, especially of Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, and Ben Stiller.  The story is well told.  I find the main idea to be, that villains (criminals) and heroes (cops) are really on two sides of the same business and cannot exist without each other.  The visuals are superb, with incredible details, especially of crowds, crumbles of buildings, and dust.  The sound is as good and detailed as it gets, and it surely takes advantage of all speakers.  Highly recommended for 90 minutes of fun.  I have been smiling for days as I recall some funny lines, and think about the deeper meaning of the film.

Afternoon Adventure This movie was exciting, action-packed, and had great special effects. There was no nudity, no foul language, and it would be good viewing for an afternoon when you have time. Not every movie is, "Casablanca," or even similar but every movie must strive to entertain. This movie accomplished this goal, in my estimation.

Wonderful Old Movie I loved this movie mainly for the main setting in Carlsbad Caverns near my home at that time in Carlsbad, N.M.  It brought back many memories and it also starred one of my favorite actors, Pat Boone!

Even Evel Kneivel is saying, "Guys, seatbelt." Remember back in the day when you were all wistful for Stallone and Schwarzenegger to be in the same movie or, on a subservient level, for Seagal and Van Damme to do something together? FAST FIVE is the best - and biggest - in the Fast & the Furious franchise for any number of reasons, but a big chunk of the hells yeah! stems from the Rock stepping into the series. You knew, you just knew, he and Vin Diesel would be champing at the bit to claim head chair in the pecking order. Adrenalin junkies are accordingly put on alert.  FAST FIVE opens by replaying the closing sequence of the previous (and fourth) installment, with Dom Toretto's (Vin Diesel) being sprung during his transit to penitentiary. This prison - or, more accurately, prison bus - break is masterminded by former cop Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) who has now irrevocably crossed that line. This marks the first time that Walker and Diesel's characters are working on the same side for the entire length of the film. And yet that streak of competitiveness is still there. O'Conner is still earnestly obsessed with proving that he's the superior wheel man. Dom continues to humor him, probably trying not to smirk.  Awesomely, FAST FIVE reunites the core cast of the previous four flicks, and I soaked in the cool factor of seeing Tyrese Gibson, Luda, Sung Kang, Don Omar, and Tego Calderon rub elbows with Diesel and Walker. Now fugitives from justice and finding stateside too hot for comfort, Dom, O'Conner, and Mia (Jordana Brewster) have fled to parts unknown. But when a daring Brazilian train caper goes south and ends up with Dom and O'Conner accused of murdering three DEA agents, in comes a relentless U.S. strike force ramrodded by the determined and growly Agent Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson). And right away you can feel the ferocity the Rock brings to his role. Oooh, I was anticipating the inevitable butting of heads.  But that's just one of the story threads. The central one concerns our likable rogues' planning and orchestrating of one final huge score. Dom and O'Conner have aimed with ambition and with brazenness, targeting the primo drug kingpin in Rio de Janeiro. Except that this Big Bad is one careful, meticulous sumbitch, his stash of $100 million cached in ten holdings spread throughout the city and guarded by an army of corrupt cops on his payroll. The trick is how do you get to all ten stashes without ruining that element of surprise? It's pretty clever how Dom gets around this complication.  FAST FIVE does present several good character moments which ground our cast, sort of. I say "sort of" because, honestly, this franchise's enduring global popularity is built around high-octane, wildly improbable, tremendously entertaining  action sequences (oh, and hot cars and hot chicks in skimpy clothing). But the franchise's stabs at a richer emotional tonality allow the viewer to accept the film's more absurd stunts or at least view them with a more expansive eye. We're treated to three audacious action set pieces (the epic train heist, the chase across the rooftops of a Brazilian slum, the runaway bank vault). We see the brutal, no-holds-barred Rock vs. Diesel fighty fight. We note the film's scorn of the laws of physics. It pays never mind to the logistics involving our heroes surviving a two-hundred-feet plunge into the drink or two cars hauling a bank vault while engaged in a car chase with a troop of police cars. It scoffs at the impossibility of fingerprints being lifted from a bikini. Except that these flaws don't bug me. I only point them out to demonstrate that I'm no wide-eyed daisy. I'm aware of the implausibilities, the ridiculousness of the stuff that goes down, as is director Justin Lin, if you listen to his audio commmentary. This film ain't for nitpickers; it'll be like target practice for them. For my money, FAST FIVE delivers enough solid character interactions, but, no, this isn't a Merchant Ivory production. Instead, it's all about the larger-than-life characters and their dangerous attitudes and it's about the stupendous wall-to-wall action. It's sheer escapism. And, also, maybe you should stick around for the closing credits.  The DVD's bonus stuff: Director' Justin Lin's Audio Commentary; 2 Deleted Scenes (totaling 00:01:39 minutes); Gag Reel (00:04:17 minutes) and three featurettes focusing, respectively, on Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, and Dwayne Johnson and their character arcs: "Dom's Journey" (00:04:53 minutes long); "Brian O'Conner: From Fed to Con" (00:05:53); and "Enter Federal Agent Hobbs" (00:05:47).

Campy and clever A fun and campy take on horror movies, with a healthy dose of 80's references. Very clever.  Suspend your inner critic and enjoy the ride.

Visually Stunning, Perfectly Cast! I've enjoyed most of the Marvel movies very much, but this is my hands down favorite, not only among the Marvel movies, but I mean this is my favorite movie period. I can't say enough about the costumes, the casting, the beauty of Asgard and the soundtrack. Anthony Hopkins is the perfect Odin and since seeing the movie in May when it opened, I have not been able to get his version of Odin out of my head when I read the comics. Chris Hemsworth is perfect physically and in his performance. The rest of the cast is awesome, too, but it would be impossible to say in words how absolutely PERFECT Tom Hiddleston is as Loki. That is the most brilliant casting ever. He brings so much depth to Loki. For me, he makes the whole movie.  My only complaint about the blu-ray is that it just doesn't have enough bonus stuff on it. I was hoping it would have much, much more in the way of bonus stuff. The deleted scenes are great, and the featurettes are, too, I just wish there were way more of them. I also wish they would have added a feature about the comic book history of Thor, maybe something about the Norse myths, and way more interviews and features.

movie buff Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thonpson! Hard to beat this duo and toss in Merchant and Ivory and you have a timeless classic. Well worth the time to watch and well worth the cost.

All aboard!! This is an awesome story for Christmas days. The imagination of Chris Van Allsburg is amazing. You've never seen anything like this.

Biebermania is biebertastic!!!! This movie was far better than I expected!  My granddaughter wanted to see this, so see it we did.  I like that there are other celebrities present in the movie, and the chronicling of Justin's rise to success is amazing.  Dreams can come true for some!  It could give other youtube submitters hope for a future career.

Just like old times I bought this because I had not seen it in years and was not disappointed. Funny as ever with classic lines that I still quote today.

Destination Tokyo This is a great war movie starring Cary Grant and John Garfield from Warner Bros. in 1944. This movie is directed by Delmer Daves and runs for about 135mins (2hrs 15mins). This movie also stars: Alan Hale, Dane Clark, Robert Hutton, John Forsythe, plus others. Overall this is a great movie and I would recommend this to anyone adding to their collection.

Chihuahua: The Movie I did not have a single problem in getting the merchandise ordered .. Amazon is the only logical place to order anything from as they are "secure".  If a problem arises with anything ordered through them, it will be dealt with in a timely manner.  It's wonderful when companies use Amazon to sell their wares because they have to live up to Amazon's standards.  I did not have any concerns .. the product arrived in grade A condition AND it arrived a little earlier than expected.

Shakespeare in love What a great movie. The acting is fabulous.  I would highly recommend this to anyone who likes romantic comedies. Two thumbs up!!

Great Show! Amazon needs to stop with these lengthy reviews on certain products. It's a very intelligently funn show and I personally love watch it. The bundle is way over priced so buy them seperately.

Roger's response I love all the dr. quinn episodes, they are awesome, just wished there had been more, like the soap operas, for instance, I watch them also on youtube online, but can't get all the episodes, and it's frustrating, but in time n finances we're going to own the whole series, ; thumbs up on every episode!

Classic Films Just right to add to a musical collection.  Wonderful musicals that are great to watch. They bring back memories of a more gentle time.

Unlimited Awesome Works This is a great movie.  While the introduction is brief and not all the relations ships are gone over with fine detail this is because this movie is an alternative path to the TV Anime, which has around 26 episodes.  The Japanese Visual Novel on which both are based has three main and very different story paths that focus more on certain characters and so the endings of each path and who was important in the story differ in each one.  Both the anime and the movie are canon since the tv series focuses on the Fate path focusing on Saber's identity and purpose while the movies focuses on the Unlimited Blade Works path which reveals the formerly unknown (to anyone who only watched the anime and didn't play all 3 paths of the game) identity of Archer and focuses more or shiro's development as a hero.  If you like memorable characters, awesome battle and heroes with real ideals and conflict get this show.  And the tv series and then get it for friends and maybe theyl take the time and do an mini season of the third path Heavens Feel.

5 Stars is not enough! I watched this movie yesterday. I bought it on a whim. Today, I'm still recovering! I laughed, I laughed some more, then I laughed until I thought I might pass out. I'm certain that my face changed colors a few times. This movie takes where horror spoofs ( Scary Movie specifically) went wrong and fixes a few things. If you took Friday the 13th, Evil Dead, Cabin Fever, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and mixed them with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, you would get Tucker and Dale vs Evil. On a final note; beer cures everything from depression, bee stings and severed body parts. Now, a word of warning. Be careful when eating popcorn while watching this...you may get choked.

Classic of Classics must have movie Honestly I've never had an opportunity to watch this movie since it was released in 1973 until recently I was assigned to watch it as homework for a particular class. I soon realized all these years I missed an astounding movie. The amazing performance of characters such as Vito, Sonny, Micheal made the Godfather an absolute classic.   If you're debating between the DVD and Blu-Ray Version of the film go for the BLURAY!. Reason is because I've read other reviews of certain scenes being kinda dark and I was worried it might be difficult to understand the film.   VIDEO 10/10  Paramount Pictures did a magnificent job in restoring the film in blu ray. It look's very clear throughout the film no worries at all.   AUDIO 10/10  5.1. surround sound nice crisp quality i suggest turning on the subtitles when watching it for the first time because as mentioned before it was my first time seeing it. So I had difficulty understanding certain accents after awhile I got the hang of it.   ACTING 10/10   Being a first timer I was never bored watching it, I rather watch a classic such as the godfather than to pay for a lousy movie at the theaters. Don Vito character was just astounding especially the first scene.

Belly of the fat mans beast! :D Ok this movie is amazing. It has everything you need in a comedy!. Good funny action! Steven seagal has stunt doubles, which is soooooo funny! A lot of his fight scenes, they show his back and avoid showing his head lol. way funny. The movie has soooo many pointless characters, that just wastes time LOL. And that random naked lady sscene!!! where steven seagal got out his car and followed her and she took her clothes off and made these runic symbols appear hahah. idk what was going on LOL.  ahhhhh If you're looking for a comedy, then look no further. Steven is way funnier than adam sandler and Will ferell!.  WARNING DON"T TAKE THE MOVIE SERIOUS! lol.

Great Scary movie I hardly get scared but this movie made me want to leave my lights on after seeing it, the movie was slow at first but makes up for it in the end!

Dexter Season 4 Brings the Intensity There has never been a bad season of Dexter, just some better than others, all of which were rock star.  Season 4, however, takes it to a whole other level with veteran actor John Lithgow entering the fray.  His amazing levels of creepiness in front of the camera are unsurpassed.  Both he and Michael C. Hall play brilliantly off of one another, and as always, the surrounding cast provide solid deliveries of their characters as well.  All of this ultimately weaves one clever sub-story into another bringing about what is arguably the best season yet of Dexter.

Amazing This is a really cool documentary and some cool live footage of the 1970 canadian tour with great bands like the Grateful Dead,Buddy Guy,The Band,Janis Joplin to name a few. This is a must have if you like any of the those bands. What i like the most about it is Buddy Guys performance he tears it up on stage. Also i love how they all jam out on the train all having fun partying and making music. I wish i was on the that train that would be the greatest time ever they all had a lot of energy and they looked like they were all having fun. Just buy it to see what this documentary is about.

Ben-Hur 50TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION DVD I am very happy with this dvd it is an impressive collection. The DVD is very sharp and clear. The new documentary about Charlton Heston written diary about the filming of the movie was very informative.  DENNIS CANNON

Fantastic Series! One of the best shows ever made for TV.  I'm a sci-fi junkie and love me some battlestar galactica (both old & new) as well as shows like Lost -- but this one blows 'em all away.  Clever writing/dialogue, a huge variety of sets, a fresh cast, plot lines that arc and twist, cliffhanger episode endings and a series finale that's /satisfying/ (not like other shows... I'm looking at you, "Lost").  Buy this.

A Silk Purse from Sows' Ears This is the best animated Batman movie I've ever seen. They managed to take some less-than-stellar storylines and characters and blend them into an action packed 75 minute film that hits all the right notes. Great voice acting and animation. Highly recommended, especially to Batman fans.

Good ol' fun! Very entertaining fun and adventure. Simple plot keeps the movie flowing at a moderate pace. If you are a fan of the genre, you'll enjoy this!

Disturbing and left me rather speechless, but still amazing I ordered the movie thinking it was a horror movie (amazon doesn't give a very good product description) since it mentioned "fantasy land" and "ghost" but its really like a mega drama. It's very "messed up", so in a way I guess it is a horror movie. The beginning wasn't too bad, when it started reaching the incline of the plot, it started getting a bit disturbing... then more disturbing... and a little more... But the ending made it better. I was very afraid to watch this movie after seeing the previews it had (since I'm used to previews being like the movie itself) and seeing all the warnings here on amazon and even from the director at the beginning of the movie. Again, to some this may indeed be disturbing because there is ***SPOILER*** drug use, mental illness, neglect I suppose, sex (though only one scene and its not very graphic like you typically see here in Hollywood), and a bit of pedophile behavior (though the girl is not harmed, she does not use drugs and is not sexually molested or raped or something like that. There also is no physical abuse just neglect really. I was afraid that there would be physical abuse or something sexually happening to the girl, but I was relieved that there was not (I would have stopped watching if there was, I just can't handle that stuff.))  Overall though, I am glad I watched it. It kind of makes me thankful for my life now, and putting myself in the girl's shoes, for me would just be terrible. Other than that I'm just shocked, I guess would be the word.  ***IMPORTANT*** This is not like "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus", I thought it would be but it isn't. There aren't many effects at all (just one scene that is kind of fantasy) and it definitely isn't very fantasy, its more like watching a girl in her own little world and escaping to it than seeing an actual fantasy world.

Excellent! In these modern days we live in, I usually go for the digital versions of all forms of entertainment. It just seems a lot more convenient. But I do save so physical space in my collection for those items that are truly worth it, and this Two Disc Special Edition of Casablanca happened to be one of those, and probably my favorite. It was great to enjoy the movie once again in such a good quality, and the extra features were also pretty entertaining. I specially loved the looney tunes special CarrotBlanca. I don't regret this purchase one bit. It has been wonderful

Hidden Gem of a Movie Great comedy that has slipped under the radar.  Tim Allen sometimes evokes negative criticism because of his OTT brand of humour (as in Zoom). This one is a classic supported by great actors namely Weaver/Rickman and a host of unsung heros. Here in NZ you cannot even get a copy at any price so thank the lord for Amazon ! Only clanger is the cover that reverses the Rickman/Allen pictures.

BACK TO BATAAN Now there's the stuff men were made of during the darkest days of the twentieth century. John Wayne was in his element as the rough and ready type engineering boss. Classic movie with a great story line and some good old shoot em up scenes with the great man himself leading all the way.

Great movie I love the movie Beaches. Bette Midler is awesome. The price was just right. The movie came in nice and fast.

Awesome This was a great movie.  I used it on my Kindle Fire while I was flying to Chicago and it kept me interested the whole time and made the flight go by very quickly.  Since I have it on my Kindle, I can watch it again.  Outstanding movie!!!!

Excellent casting/acting/suspense I was looking for a thriller with a lot of suspense and at least a couple of plot twists. This film really exceeded my wife's and my expectations. Well deserved of 5 stars.

The Mummy Returns Video arrived fast and in good condition, played with no mishaps. Still a bit too scary for grandchildren. wish the duo had made a 4th film, great chemistry together.

excellent The dvd was so good. No issues in the dvd. The sender was able to send the dvd even before the scheduled date, I like it!!!

Great movie Donnie Yen was awesome in this film, as always! Disc worked great! Case was in superior condition! I will buy again

Polar Express Quick service and product matched description!  Considering a holiday with no mail, I was surprised to receive it in such a quick manner! Thank you!

Incredible Movie This movie is incredible. The acting is superb, the art direction flawless, and the casting just right. There are plots and subplots, battle scenes, coupled with beauty. The writers did a wonderful job, editing was quick between scenes, and the director, a genius. Thank you for a real treat!

No Problems with receiving in a timely manner. I had no problems receiving in a timely manner.  It's a Xmas gift for someone else, so I haven't watched it.

So glad it was available So glad it was available. My daughter loves this movie. I have to say so do I. The cast is perfect. Eddie Murphy's character made me laugh. Of course all the singers were right on key too. The movie got here quick. I'll be back for more.

Genius This is not a 'serious' kung fu film such as 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon', but it is awesome. There's great kung fu scenes in here and funny dialogue, and a great cast of characters with some cool lines and actions. I have to say that my favorite character in the entire movie is the landlady.  I only have one quibble - I would have loved to see the cute deaf girl deliver some kung-fu action at the ending, since I felt that her forgiveness was too easy. It would have been cool to see her deliver some cool moves and kick him around before she took his hand. The 'Palm of Buddha' was an awesome move, and if it were real, wow! Overall a great and funny movie with the right mix of comedy and action.

Got it right on time! I truly appreciate the expediency of this order it didn't take very long to receive this item at all. The movie was like new. Thanks!

Amazing! The Godzilla documentary alone on this DVD set is worth the money, add in the 2 movies its a steal!   If you like old sci-fi films and Godzilla then YOU NEED THIS!

Excellent Nostalgia Experience in true Hi-Def quality! This is by far my favorite Sci-fi action film ever.  Bluray quality: video 9/10 audio 10/10 features 10/10 film 20/10  I found the video transfer to have grain to keep up to date in today's picture quality, but still a great picture after 22 years. I remember I was 13 years old when this gem was first released on VHS 1990 and many of my classmate friends used to talk about the nude parts of the film back then. XD  Wow, Nostalgia trip feels like a kid again! I watched this film at least 15 times on cassette VHS, 5 times in DVD quality, now bluray about 3 times on the big home theater PC. This film is a treasure in my movie collection and I look forward to playing the video game episodes on Android OS. Yes, you can use Arnold in the Total Recall android games!

My reviews Excellent movie with one of favorite actors.  Already seen it of course and purchase was simply to add it to my collection.  Shipper did a good job as well.  Bob

Great job My items arrived early and in the promised conditions. I would definitely do business with this company again. Great job.

Top Notch Drama! This is simply put the most compelling Batman drama period. The fact that is animate does not take away from the story. Purchase and enjoy.

good The picture of the movie is of excellent quality. My husband was thrilled of the quality and couldn't believe that the movie was made in the 50's. I greatly recommend buying it.

Why is this my Favorite Musical ? Quite simply - because no other musical so beautifully exemplifies the French "joie de vivre."  I have never watched this film without ending with a smile on my face.  That is why it is so special.  Sure - musicals like "West Side Story", or "Fiddler on the Roof", or "South Pacific"  have something to say about history or prejudice. This one is just "S'Wonderful" ... and that is all it tries to be.  What's the point of deconstructing the plot?  Or the acting?  There is not much plot in "Band Wagon" - but so many enjoy that film for such dance numbers as "Shine on your Shoes" (or) "Dancing in the Dark."  Even "Singin' in the Rain" - another great musical - has a rather obvious plot. Enjoy Gene Kelly or Leslie Caron for what they are - charismatic personalities on screen.  For example,  "Love is Here to Stay" is one of the most romantic songs in the musical genre.  And the way in which Gene Kelly performs "I Got Rhythm" speaks to "his" style of relaxed, joyful dancing. That song and dance number also shows Gene Kelly's marvelous chemistry with children. (Fred Astaire is known for his great solo foot work or romantic moves with Ginger Rogers...but not screen chemistry with children)  I think the extended ballet sequence at the end of the film matches anything put on the screen for sheer color beauty; it also manages to be quite erotic without any of the dancers removing their clothes!  Another factor which makes the film special to me is how well Vincente Minelli recreates the glamour of Paris - down to the look of the delicious brioches on the table, the torn posters on the wall, the stone steps down to the Seine river, the careful arrangements by the flower vendors, the look of the Left Bank Jazz Club. Yes, I remember Paris that way.  Last, but not least, is the timeless music of George Gershwin.  So, when you are in the mood for a happy ending,  you can do no better than watch this delight.

Great documentary of a living legend! No sports figure was as polarizing as Muhammad Ali in the sixties. So it's ironic that one who was so demonized on his religious beliefs and his position on the Vietnam War, which was at that time politically correct, should wind up being the most beloved national sports figure ever. No professional athlet at the height of his career has ever sacrificed as much as Ali,  let alone any entertainer period, especially when he also happened to be Black. Ali was a champion not only in the boxing ring, but also a champion who set an example for those who believed in something greater than himself, namely the human race, and he did it in a time when the price for doing so was not just losing his livelihood, but also his life.  When We Were Kings is Mr. Leon Gast's extraordinary documentary of the hype and preparations leading up to one of the greatest upsets in sports history, 1974's Rumble in the Jungle boxing contest between Ali and George Foreman, who, at that time was perceived by the pundits as virtually indestructible. In this doc we get to see Ali out of his boxing element as he was then: cocky, defiant, funny, as good as a promoter as he was a fighter. We get to hear, in his own words, why he is the greatest, that his fight against Foreman is only a microcosm of the struggles of his people in America and Africa against injustice, winning the sentiment of the Congo people hosting the event by shrewdly characterizing Foreman as a pawn of the White establishment. We see a very young Machiavellian Don King with his black hair (now white) shooting up, building up the hype, bringing in America's hottest Black musicians and entertainers like James Brown,B.B. King, The Spinners (my all-time favorite group), Bill Withers, Big Black,etc. We get to hear the music, which serves as the soundtrack to the fighter's public training camps. We get various perspectives from the most influential writers of that time like George Plimpton and Norman Mailer (and also Mr. Spike Lee), who were both also ringside and provide lots of anecdotes, often very funny,  of a lot of behind the scenes stuff, including ringside blow-by-blow descriptions of the fight itself.  This film is very entertaining and a great artifact for young people who have heard of but have no idea who Ali was, what makes him the great icon that he is, and why he is considered the greatest in and out of the Boxing ring. I can't say enough about this documentary. I've seen it maybe 3 times in the past month. It's that good. Back then, there was a lot of swagger and that's what this film is essentially about. When men, like Ali, were regarded as Kings, as larger than life, who walked among us like giants. Took me a long time to see this film and it was well worth the wait. Think I'll see it again in a couple of weeks.

NOT A HORROR MOVIE - BUT A HISTORICAL MOVIE Mark of the Devil is one of the very very few movies made in Germany that one can actually watch. Usually German movies feature HORRIBLE acting. Not Mark of the Devil, which features some of the best German and Austrian actors. Mark of the Devil, although marketed as a horror movie, isn't really one. Causing much uproar in some countries (being banned in Germany 32 years after its release and being heavily cut in England) this movie has scenes of extreme violence and torture that even can compete with some of today's films in the torture porn genre, still there is much more to it! This one's actually got a story! And a gripping one, too. You care for the characters - which I can't say about many movies. It critically examines the inquisition and all its insanity and the violence shown is never simply exploitative, but necessary to show how decadent the so-called witchfinders were. Another important message this film clearly brings across is that these men were anything BUT religious, often committing their deeds simply to satisfy their sexual desires. I can only highly recommend this masterpiece of the history /inquisition genre, although it is intense and requires some nerve to watch. The US version by Blue Underground is the fully uncut version, dubbed in English. Unfortunately the original language track is not present on this DVD. Both, the picture and sound quality are excellent.

Legen...wait for it...dary If you love the Whedonverse and all that it entails, you will love this movie. Filled with all the campy humor one could want and then some. Fillion, Day, and NPH have amazing onscreen chemistry, and I hope they do something together again soon.

My Wife (& Sons) R Fans of This Series I am not a fan of this old 1970's TV series, but my wife is.  She should be the one to write this review, but she is too busy working while I am retired. So I'll just say this - my wife watches the series over&over&over&over again. Most of the time, while she watches it, she sleeps.

Darabont Zombie Greatness If ever an image sold a product then it was the cover of this dvd! I saw it while perusing Amazom and was instantly drawn to the image of the lone rider on the highway, heading towards the city with all the cars banked up in the other lane! I am so glad I took a chance and bought Season 1 of The Walking Dead, quite simply it is stunning and memorable.I have never been a big fan of zombie movies,sure Night of the living Dead is a great cult movie but the rest of them were more hype than substance! The Walking Dead however is a winner, the production value and special effects are top notch,Andrew Lincoln is a stoic hero and anything that Frank Darabont is mixed up with just has to be good.There are some fantastic television shows coming out of America at the moment,think Breaking Bad,Mad Men and Dexter, its great to see there is more to tv than rehashed police shows that change states but never vary scripts ( hullo CSI!). Roll on season 2 I can hardly wait!

A Jake LaMotta boxing ballad "Raging Bull" is a frank account of the boxing career of Jake LaMotta, which is characterized by intensity to win and some of the mishaps LaMotta faced during and after his career. Robert De Niro plays LaMotta with fierce accuracy and he won the 1980 Academy Award for Best Actor. This is one of the best boxing films of all-time.  Nicholas R.W. Henning - Australian Author

Some of his best These four are some of John Wayne's very best movies. He shows how far he has come as an actor.

BEST ONE OF ALL! Fist of all, we have Saint Bernards, so we have special insight into the humor of some of these thing the dog does!  Of all the different spin offs, this one is our favorite.  It is funny and it has really cute puppies in it!

The Best Wolfman Ever Let me say it upfront:  The 2010 version of The Wolfman is the best wolfman/werewolf movie ever made.  Hands down.  Nothing else even close.  American Werewolf In London? - great picture, but not as good.  1941's The Wolfman with Lon Chaney, Jr.? - not even close.  The Howling - no sir.  Okay, now that a lot of people are calling me an idiot here are my reasons.  The cinematography is outstanding as are the settings and costumes.  The foggy woods are beautiful and eerie, Talbot Manor bleak and dreary.  The asylum and the town are perfect.  However, above all else the acting is superb.  When I first heard that Benicio Del Toro would be portraying Lawrence Talbot I grimaced.  How could anyone be better than Lon Chaney, Jr.?  Well, in my opinion Benicio was.  Some of his best acting in this film is when he is simply reacting to something and not even speaking.  For instance when Maleva is stitching his wounds after he is attacked when she bites off the thread and he screams and nearly comes off the floor.  I felt how bad that must have hurt because of his reaction.  Again, when his father wakes him up by the tree after his first night of killing.  When his father says "terrible things" the look on Benicio's face as he realizes what he has done and then he stiff legs it back toward the mansion in hysteria.  Great.  Or when he's in the asylum and he has been out of it and suddenly his father is sitting there talking to him.  When Benecico realizes his father is there he kind of rolls over with this "Huh?" look on his face.  Perfect.  Or when he is dunked into the water and comes up screaming.  His nod to Gwen.  All kind of non-speaking actions.  Anthony Hopkins:  I thought he was much better than in Silence of the Lambs which netted him an Oscar.  His habit of repeating most of his lines was wonderful.  "Terrible things, Lawrence, you've done terrible things."  "Tis appears you were right Inspector, tis appears you were right."  Also, what's the deal with him playing a harmonica as he leaves the asylum?  He plays creepy very well.  Hugo Weaving:  I loved his take as the inspector.  Many people will always think of him as Agent Smith from The Matrix films but he was wonderful here.  "Ahm not yore enemy Mr. Tallllllllbot!" great delivery.  And in the end when he realizes what's in store for him, yikes!  Emily Blunt:  I had never seen her in anything before so I can't compare her roles but I thought she was great.  And of course the other actors were all very good as well, but maybe the unsung star were the special effects, makeup, etc.  The transformation scene in the asylum was terrific.  Better even than American Werewolf in London or The Howling.  And the way those werewolves run.  Beautiful.

Superman 2 This is an awesome movie. superman 2 leaves off of superman. christopher reeves is just as cool as he was in the first movie. superman 2 is a must see for all superman and superhero fans. if you have not seen this movie then i recommend you do

The most realistic depiction of contact with aliens I hadn't watched this movie in years, but I rewatched it recently and was pleased with how well it's aged. The plot is quite simple: a group of people are inspired by UFOs to meet the aliens who changed their lives. However, the beauty is in how that simple plot is realized in the film. One thing this film gets right is its portrayal of first contact. It's a profound event. The people contacted by the aliens undergo dramatic changes in their lives. This makes the movie all the more emotionally compelling. By the end of the film, you feel like you've gone on an emotional journey as well.   The movie's slow pace and subtle cinematography are a nice change from most movies released nowadays. At over 2 hours, the movie crawls for most of the time presenting dialogue and images. Initially, that sounds like a recipe for disaster (or 2001 Space Odyssey) but it works really well in this context. Slowing the pace down allows viewers to feel like you're traveling with the characters and for the tension to build. It also makes the climax all the more rewarding.  The special effects still hold up pretty well and have been improved for this 30th anniversary edition. I haven't watched this on blu-ray so I don't know how the quality holds up there. I did think some of the blacks could have been cleaned up to remove some of the "static," but I have to say it also gives the movie a nice "older" feel.  Overall, this is a sci-fi classic and still probably the most realistic depiction of contact with aliens ever to come out of Hollywood. Too bad Hollywood just doesn't make movies like this anymore!

Helen Mirren is Awesome If you can ignore all the cussing and just focus on the plot and main characters, you will probably like this movie. In my opinion, it is a great one. I love it because of the plot and, of course, Helen Mirren does an amazing job. I loved her character and she played Grace well. Saw Love Ranch on Netflix when they were streaming it and I loved it so much that I bought it to add to my collection.

Breaking Dawn - Part 1 Breaking Dawn, Part 1 was an excellent book and turned out to be an excellent movie. I was surprised at how well the movie turned out to be and my sister who is not a big fan of twilight like myself, really enjoyed the movie. These movies are for any age, for it is based on a true love story. They were able to pull off a vampire fiction story very well, and the actors were all great. Do not listen to the critics, anyone can judge, see for yourself.

Great I first saw this movie when I rented from another company, I love this movie, acting is good, for me its just simply how they made the film seem like an old movie. If you have not seen it I would say take a look.

The Selection Of Films Pretty good selection of films in good shape but for us hard of hearing, no subtitles. DOA is one of my favorites in the list.

AMAZING! <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006VEFQEE">I AM</a> Must see! Excellent to share with your children and or students! A+++ If only everyone thought the way he does, what a beautiful world we would live in! Thumbs up to Tom Shadyac for all that he does and thank you to his father for all that he once did!

Like I bought this even though I can netflix it because if I ever lose internet I want to still be able to watch this movie, because it just wowed me.

mrs I bought this movie for my husband. We use to own it on vhs, but then we upgraded and didn't own it any more. This is one of his favorite movies, he was so happy to get it!

Better than Clash of the Titans I didnt really have high hopes for this but it turned out to be quite entertaining and better than the remake.

Something Beneath This is a very good movie that I saw.It has gore,creature violence,action,terror,an explosion.And the most important thing a happy ending.So do more good reviews for this movie ok.

Easter Gifts I selected this video as a gift for my son to watch during his spring break from school.  The gift arrived very quickly after my purchase.

best musical ever I introduced my granddaughter to this movie when she visited me last year - she was then 11 years old.  She absolutely loved it and borrowed mine all the time, so finally bought her a DVD of her very own.  I believe she has watched it several times already.  Knows many lines and songs by heart. One of my more successful purchases. It is a funny, clever movie, with wonderful rapid-fire lines in the songs. Imaginative kids should love it.

great DVD Great dvd and very fast shipping. I was very pleased. I love the 3D and the way they made the people in the movie look like the actors who played their parts. Thanks

Adam 12 Season One Love the Show hate the dvd set from Universal I love the show and its a shame that Shout Factory is not able to re-issue a new "Adam 12 Season One" that would be a superior product compared to the Season One dvd set that is presently on the market.  I have purchased this dvd set and have had to return it because who ever produced it did not care or check for defects in dvds. I even ordered from Universal Studios and had the same problem. I would advise anyone to download from Amazon.com or Hulu or any website to watch Adam 12 Season One. I recommend  purchasing Seasons 2-7 from The Shout Factory and for doing a great job of bringing a favorite back on dvd thanks. If you have cable and get Antenna TV watch there.

Better than hunger games. I watched this after watching hunger games and I can officially say that I enjoyed this more than the hunger games movie, the only thing good about HG is Jennifer Lawrence. This movie is more action pack and is not afraid to show death to get the message across of the dangers of being hunted by your peers. All in all I enjoyed this film.

All Time Favorite My sister first MADE me watch this movie when I was about 15. The music is awesome, the story itself is great, and the cast was well thought out. :) This is definitely a movie I recommend to people who don't always want to watch something so overworked.

new When we fail to learn from our past mistakes, we are doomed to repeat them....I think we are well on our way if we continue to go down the current misguided path of the past four years.  The movie does an excellent job of revealing this destructive pattern. We need more movies like this to wake this country up! Looking forward to watching part II.

When I want to feel good I watch it again I had never read anything by Vita Sackville-West so "All Passion Spent" was a pleasant surprise. The characters are as vivid and memorable as anything Dickens wrote. I'm not quite as old as the main character but I get courage from her refusal to obey her children and her determination to live out her widowhood the way she wants. She's gentle and loving and insistent on having her way in this. Listen for the reference to the lilies of the field at the end. I've watched this a dozen times and still choke up. Not because it's a Biblical reference, but because it's so apt.

Best, most clever movie ever! This movie is one of the funnier movies I have ever seen.  From unexpected outbursts and actions to clever plays on animal life, it will NOT DISAPPOINT.  Take some time to watch this movie. It is quite short as well, so don't let time keep you away from it.

Excellent collection I'm really happy with this product.  It has special features, great video quality.  I recommend it 100%.  I'm waiting for the last movie, HP and the deathly hallows part II, to buy it as soon as it gets to the stores.

Great My daughter lves these movies and keep her entertained as well as learning new things. I would recommend these movies!

A Sci-Fi classic and one of the first CGI movies ever made! Alex Rogan (Lance Guest) is a young man about to graduate from high school.  He dreams of going away to college but his student loan falls through and at best he has to go to the local city college.  He and his mom manage a small trailer park in the California foothills and his only diversions are his girlfriend Maggie (Catherine Mary Stewart) and playing the video game "Starfighter" outside of his home and local trailer park store.  One night he shatters the top score of the game and the all of his friends at the trailer park gather around to watch him and congratulate him.  The machine goes crazy and tells him he is the record breaker. Later that evening a stranger pulls up in a futuristic car and convinces Alex to get into the vehicle.  Alex finds out that he has truly been recruited to fight Xur and the Kodan armada....  My grandson came over last night and he wanted to watch a movie.  I pulled this one out of the archives and we enjoyed seeing it.  He saw it for the first time and for me it was the 10th time, probably.  This movie is one of the Sci-Fi classics and was one of the first movies to use computer generated imagery.  By today's CGI standard the movie is hokey but still a lot of fun to watch.  If you have this movie you should get it out and watch it again and if not you should buy one and enjoy it with your kids!  It is worth watching as it is a good story and you will be amazed to see how far CGI has come since 1984.

CAN I give it 10 stars? ********** I JUST finished doing this work out, I love it, I love it, I love it. I when thru the whole workout with a smile, you'll work the whole body, and because it has three levels, you can grow with it. You can take it easy when you feel tired, or kill yourself when you have the enrgy and the strength. THE TEACHERS ARE amazing, excellent cuing. I can't be more pleased. Really buy it, you are not going to regret it.  Did I tell you that it is an excellent price for the product?

Yoga to the Rescue for Back Pain Review I have suffered mid back pain for years due to a herniated disc.  I tried different types of physical therapy with little to no relief or reduction in symptoms and had to significantly scale back on my physical activity.  Several orthopedists told me I'd just have to learn to live with the condition.  That's when I decided to try yoga, and after doing the exercises on this DVD for a couple of sessions, my back pain started to subside.  After about 5 sessions, I was pain free with virtually unlimited restrictions on my activity.  Now, if I do the exercises once a week, I'm able to maintain my pain-free status.  I'd highly recommend this DVD!

"Is it possible for one idea to change the world?" WOW! This is an incredible little film. Thanks to a class assignment in Social Studies, an 11 year old boy, Trevor (Haley Joel Osment) devises a plan he feels might effectively change the world around him. In spite of his own self-perceived failures, he inadvertently starts a movement that begins sweeping across the nation, changing lives one at a time. This movie has many unexpected twists and turns as the life story of many people begin to unravel in explanation of the secrets each pocesses. Incredible performance by a bright young actor in a very well written story. Assisted by co-stars Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt, both of whom portray their characters in their usual professional manner, the story comes to life in a way that is certain to touch the heart of every viewer. A very thought provoking movie which this reviewer finds quite refreshing and unique. There are a few things I would like to have seen a bit different, such as perhaps a little less use of profanity, but for the most part I give this movie a big two thumbs up. Sometimes I think we forget that not everyone's life is the life of a status-quo normal person in search of the great American dream. This film, unlike others does not glamourize drugs, alcoholism, crime and violence. It merely exposes it in a manner that reminds the viewer that such a way of life exists in today's world for a lot of people who have found themselves in situations that went a little further over the edge than they intended to go, and need a helping hand to turn things around. I highly recommend this movie for your viewing enjoyment and dare you not to be touched by it's impact.

Awesome I play it over and over all day at my desk on my second monitor while I work!  The picture is clear and stunning.

Starts out sketchy but pcks up fast A great independant film, damn good acting on part of Rutger. Their are moments that are really cheesey but they are few and far between. This film really pushes hte envelope on what filmakers can show, this has a lot of gore. Perticularly when the Hobo hides inside the body of a cop(like on Southpark when Cartman hid inside the body of Mrs. Chokesondick). You also finaly get to see kids getting killed. I have always hated that maniacs always use restraint in movies that procliam to be hardcore, this film shows a busload of kids getting roasted, and it's awsome. This is a film that's a fun B flick that dose not wimp out.

Three N'Yuks and an Eye Poke! All right, I'm not going to deny it. I'm an unabashed and shameless Stooge fan. I've watched the antics of Moe, Larry and Curly for years and have the first 100 shorts (all the Curly's) on DVD. When I heard about this movie, I first thought, awesome - a Stooges Biography! Then I went to IMDB.com and my heart dropped. Three guys recreating the Stooges? With the cast of the Jersey Shore? I swore never to see it. In fact, I was thinking some form of Inquisitional type punishment should be done to the mental cases who wanted to do it! Then I saw the trailer. And watched it again and again and again. just seeing Snooki get eye poked sold me. But the movie itself was so damn funny, such an excellent homage to the original three, that I laughed from beginning to end. No lie, I was laughing when the movie opened and the Stooges theme was played. Ok, it isn't rocket science, nor will it rend one's heart. But what the Three Stooges will do is make one laugh. And laugh. And laugh. Will Sasso, Sean Hayes and Chris D. (I'm not spelling that!) were perfect as the Stooges. A few gags were updated, Chainsaw on a ladder instead of a regular saw, but all was done with such love for the original Trio that any fan of this has to be happy with it. So with a N'Yuk, N'Yuk, N'Yuk, I'll end this by saying Hey Moe! When does the Blu Ray come out? Woowoowoowoowoowoowoo!

Excellent Images I just have one word "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW" the 3D effects were incredible.  I would watch it many times. It even looks like unreal it was so real.  Best 3D experience.

Blu Ray soon, please?! It's 40th anniversary time and TCM is showing a remastered version at their festival this Spring. All bodes well for a blu Ray edition soon of my favorite musical!  Hopefully there will be new special features, too.

Great Movie Blazing Saddles is one of the best movies ever made a tipical Mel Brooks movie in the comedy and the cast of stars in the movie.  Not many movies you can watch 40 years after it was released and it is as good now as it was then.

BAD Concert is a Life-Changing Experience! The Greatest Concert Ever! You Become Unstoppable! This concert truly changes lives. Someone who isn't a Michael Jackson fan will become an obsessed Michael Jackson fan just from watching and listening to this concert. You will never be the same afterwards. You will become unstoppable after you experience this heavenly performance.  Michael Jackson's BAD concert at Wembley Stadium is not just the greatest concert and musical experience ever, it is the greatest thing I ever ever seen, heard or felt in my entire life! It's a truly life-changing experience.  Greater than any movie, greater than any other concert or performance, greater than any sporting event, the greatest thing you will ever see and experience in your life!  Michael Jackson's dancing and energy defies the laws of physics. His singing and vocals defy all adjectives. The music and the sounds are magical. The heart and the soul is indescribable. You experience this concert and you leave a changed person for the better. The magic gets inside your heart, bones, and soul. I can't stop smiling during the entire two hours and beyond. This concert is greater than anything anyone can imagine. You want to know what it feels like in Heaven? It feels like the way you feel as you experience this concert.  Michael Jackson is truly a Champion and a hero. MJ really cares about inspiring people to go after all their dreams, trust in God, never give up, and become the person you were meant to become.  The greatest singing, vocals, emotion ever! The greatest dancing ever! The greatest performing ever. It's the greatest ever because it truly changes your life. You become so inspired that nothing can stop you from achieving all your dreams after you experience this concert. It is truly addicting. You will watch and listen to it over and over and over and over.  Thank you Michael! Thank you for everything! Words can't describe the greatness. Man in the Mirror, make that change!!! The Truth Always Triumphs! Victory! This Is It!

Still a great show, and looking to watch season 4. This is one great fun show. I think Sky needs to go. She is good looking bad news. She will take him down.  He needs to just give her some big money, and then move on. See the kids every other weekend. And get someone new. She is doing her boss anyway. It's time to end it with her, are get back with her. Not this bit like it is. It will be fun to see what happens in season (4). I do wish they would do more then just 13 a season. maybe 20 are so. More Drugs.. Ha! ha! ha!

The Bridges of Madison County Wonderful read....I had watched the movie but never read the book so it was worth reading. What a wonderful love story...

Couldn't be better I've watched this movie forever it seems and now have it in a colorized version that couldn't be better, unless the whole thing were to materialize in flesh and blood, bricks and mortar. In the colorized version, they've done it in a sepia tone/color effect that closely approximates the tones used in graduation photos during the 50s when I graduated and, therefore, seems appropriate for the period. But for those purists who believe the original must be maintained, there's the black-and-white version to satisfy their preferences. My approach to that argument is black-and-white may have been chosen to suit a budget but we see in color, so why not have it that way if possible. Granted, some movies are shot in black-and-white to instill a mood; Citizen Kane and Psycho come to mind. But Kafka was shot in both in different places to achieve the desired effect. Whichever, I wholeheartedly endorse this combination presentation. Well done.

Great service great movie. came on time. thank you got some scratches on DVD, returned, got new DVD. thanks again. Must own movie.

KING KONG DVD I HAVE ORDERED MANY DVD'S FROM HASTINGS, AND ALL MY EXPERIENCES HAVE BEEN POSITIVE, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS COMPANY AND WILL DO BUSINESS AGAIN-HIGHLY PROFESSIONAL.

Go Ape on Blu-Ray Planet of the Apes collection on Blu-Ray purchased from Amazon is the best purchase I've made. It was great to see these Movies transferred to Blu-Ray.  It's well worth it

Love I love Monty Python so this was a must have for me. I laughed a lot and I will continue to enjoy it for many years to come.

Blu-ray disc, actionn-adventure A fascinating movie showing the Japanese perspective of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.  It is of a similar interest-type to "Das Boot," showing the most sensational and notorious attacks by both the Germans and the Japanese in World War II.

Shockingly brutal, but believable At the onset, the movie starts with bloody scenes and unsettling living arrangement of two guys sharing the same woman. The plot that follows is simple and believable. Two young guys mastered the plantation of marijuana in indoor lab empowered by the best American technical technology and spices by sophisticated branding practices. The Mexican drug dealers followed the same trail of business people of merging and overtaking, yet with ruthless killing and reliance on gangs. The American indies drug dealer could not match the thuggish manpower of the Mexican Curtail, on one side, pressed by the state heavy hands of strict prohibition of certain drugs, and with their desire to build wealth, on the other side, yet supported by a federal drug agent who profits from both sides of the illicit drug business.  The crux of the story is not as important as the outstanding roles played by very capable actors, despite the ugliness of the story. The two American drug entrepreneur were a perfect pick for the story with mellow, well cultured and educated partner working closely with a brash, impulsive partner. The female was also an excellent choice for a naive wasted woman with too liberal outlook on life.  The Mexican side of the drug dealers were also perfect picks, entailing a young innocent child who have strong religious beliefs but forced to associate with murderer to stay alive, which he did not.  With tense actions, engaging plot, and excessive violence, one is left with critical question regarding any good cause that could be served with such under-world of violence and addiction. I must admit that the courage of the moviemaker to tell such story and risk harsh criticism from many over-sensitive people deserves some credit.  On both sides of moral imperatives, the people engaged in such life-style were either extremely impoverished or struggled dearly with unemployment and despair. The federal agent was smarter than the politicians and bureaucratizes in playing around the laws, rather than by them. The viewers are told of a life-style that does exist and will continue to inflict greater suffering if not approached out of the box. Where there are laws that regulate personal liberties based on hypothetical assumptions, the realty turned ugly, bloody, and tragic.  Mohamed F. El-Hewie

Delicious! I came across The Marzipan Pig on cable TV years ago. Unfortunately the visual reception was bad--the picture was all zig-zag and I couldn't see a thing. But the narration was SO lovely that I couldn't change the channel.  I've been longing to see it ever since. Now it is on DVD so I got a copy from Amazon to watch with my 10 year-old nephew and 6 year-old niece. I forewarned them it had a couple sad parts but a good ending. They were both A-OK with the whole thing. We were not disappointed--the animation was as charming as the narrative. My niece was captivated by the dancing mouse. And we all enjoyed the poetry and alliteration of the spoken sentiments.  The Marzipan Pig remains a timeless treat. Highly recommended!

Action packed! Great movie. A little violent at times but nothing too extreme. I'd compare it with the amount of action from any of the Indiana Jones movies. I loved the detail in the characters. Paired with a great story line, this movie can't be missed.

Nearly every little girl loves The Little Mermaid The Little Mermaid was my favorite Disney movie as a child and I love it even more now, 30 years later, as I watch my daughter sing and dance along to the movie.

For Lovers Only *beware spoilers* For Lovers Only is like nothing I've ever seen before. Despite the irony of the affair what beautiful honesty! The love and intimacy between Yves & Sofia was so real and the sentiments and descriptions of love so heartfelt and true. For Lovers Only is everything from beautiful to funny to heartbreaking and back again. It takes you on the most amazingly beautiful journey of love I've ever seen told in a movie.  There is so much heartbreaking beauty and honesty in the dialogue of For Lovers Only. And as a perfect counterpart the amazing humour always hits the spot, and is just as honest as the love and emotion.  The beauty of the black and white really added to the overall feel, intimacy and heart of the story being told and Michael's direction was superb. Every shot told a story and gave you something to look at and added to the emotional experience.  The music fit each scene and moment perfectly. Be it to lead into a moment or carry us through a scene the music was beautiful and became part of the story.  Casting Stana Katic as Sofia was a stroke of genius! The honesty, soul and freedom of her acting are unequalled. It's so completely captivating, memorising and awe inspiring. She captures Sofia perfectly and brings to life a woman who is completely free, with an amazing passion, but also a childlike innocence in the way she sees the world.  Mark Polish was also compelling and captivating as Yves. His portrayal of Yves was so tender and passionate. He is a man who loves with all his heart and then some. He knew Sofia like the back of his hand and Mark portrayed this brilliantly.  Yves & Sofia's love story is so captivating, honest, beautiful, breathtaking and heart wrenching! To build lives with people that never measured up, to have that one person who makes you complete and then have to go back to that life that you never felt like you fit into when your heart belongs to another was so heartbreaking. Yves & Sofia had the most epic of love stories that could never be. It was a heartbreaking case of if only...  I feel like there are four integrals moments that lead up to captivating love story being told and each one delivers perfectly.  Firstly: I loved the moment when they saw each other again for the first time. They didn't need more words then were exchanged. It was written all over their faces. This scene is so powerful, so many emotions cross their faces all at once. I also loved how the music just ceased when they saw each other and in that split second they were right back where they were all those years ago. The fact that this scene didn't change since Mark first wrote just goes to prove that we should all trust our instincts and not second guess ourselves.  Secondly: From the moment they meet up in the restaurant it's like they were never apart and all the heartache they had been carrying with them all those years just evaporated. They never forgot the little quirks and eccentricities that made up the other. It's like every moment, and every memory was captured in their heads and hearts, stored for safe keeping.  Thirdly: The scene where they lay out their cards for the first time, finding out what they have been doing with their lives, realising just how much their separation has affected how their lives have unfolded. The delivery of the dialogue when they talk about what they are doing in this moment is so tender and their emotions just hang between them like a question. Again the music when they first kiss fits the emotions of the scene perfectly and really adds to the moment.  Forth: I love that when Sofia sees Yves outside her apartment she walks right into his personal space and without words they just know... It's like they are intrinsically connected and can communicate just by being in the same space.  The freedom, fun and intimacy between Yves and Sofia were brought to life by the amazing onscreen chemistry between Mark and Stana. They played off each superbly. When one was acting the other was reacting. Be it to dialogue, looks or actions (like when Yves was playing with Sofia's tongue when she was sucking his finger). I loved the tender moments between them when they were playing with each others hands or hair. This was so mesmerising, intimate and tender. And like the dialogue these intimate moments were beautifully contrast with fun moments like spinning around together, lover's leap, the chocolate scene, the motorbike scene and dancing down stairs while knocking on doors. The love and playfulness were intertwined in such a way that we saw just how much these two people loved being in each other's presence.  I also enjoyed the added touches like the use of sunglasses when Yves and Sofia wanted to hide the emotions that their eyes would give up in a heartbeat. Or when Sofia was playing with the flower on the beach, it really added to her feelings as she subconsciously twirled it. I also love that you can tell Sofia has gotten really contemplative at the end of the discussion about their love being made known, because it's the one time during that scene she doesn't bite Yves' finger when he strokes her jaw. The single tear that runs down her cheek is also heartbreaking.  I could seriously go on for pages about all the things I love and fell in love with in this movie.  Watching For Lovers Only was definitely an intimate experience. The connection I made with this film is like with no other movie, and it just grows with each viewing. I have laughed and cried with Yves and Sofia numerous times already.  Thank you so much Mark, Stana and Michael for bringing to life this epically beautiful and awe inspiring masterpiece. It has touched my heart like nothing before.

Blues Brothers DVD just bought....so great!!! This DVD is so great and too original... I did not know it would come so sealed with every lecture material as in the original one. I did not know it was going to be that new. I recommend anybody to buy one from this trusted supplier. It is awesome!! So quality!... I keep watching over and over... thanks. Janet

A Knight's Tale This is more than a tale.  It defines what it means to be a real man. It demonstrates how one can show their love by listening and by following the wish of the one they love over their own will one moment. In another moment one may be required to make a decision that is contrary but proves the pure moral fiber of ones character. It is truly inspiring.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0047WCWYE">A Knight's Tale</a>

Getting this one now. Eagerly awaiting the next one! I consider Atlas Shrugged one of the best books of all times. I was a little worried when I saw they were turning it into a movie because I've seen so many horrible adaptation. This one is very good. The movie was not showen in theaters closer to my home, I had to drive three hours to see it, but it was worth it. The plot line is close to the original, and the spirit of the book is certainly there. The acting is good and the visuals are appropriate. It was a low budget movie but I didn't find anything lacking in it. I only wish they did all of it already! I am happy I'll soon be able to see it again on DVD and I can't wait to see part 2 and 3.

I, robot Quick and easy from the beginning to end. I had it in my hand before I know it. enough said.

Disney's Something Wicked This Way Comes This dark Disney movie's subject matter is definitely for the young teen (PG13) and adult age group; however, it's a unique Halloween story.  The character development is terrific!  You feel and make the journey through every moment with the characters.

Great plot I was a little surprised by this movie. The story was very well written, it had great twists from begining to end. If you are looking for a edge if your seat thriller then this movies for you.

I Had to Turn it Off I first saw this movie in 1968 when it first came out. It scared the daylights out of me! So when I found this original version on Amazon, I wanted to watch it again to see if it was really as scary as I remembered.  It's really as scary.  Within two minutes of turning the movie on, I had to turn it off for a few minutes to collect myself. I wasn't sure I could turn it back on. But eventually, my breathing evened back out and I was able to start it back up.  While some of the acting is a bit cheesy, and you can hear the canned sound from the studio voiceovers, it still manages to be one of the scariest movies I've ever watched. It is an amazing "what-if" scenario, which is one of the reasons I find it so horrifying. It had an "aw, man!" ending; but given the circumstances of the storyline, it was predictable and understandable.  I really thought after sitting through two seasons of The Walking Dead that this movie would not have a strong effect on me. I was wrong.  I'm glad to add this movie to my collection. A true classic horror film.

Trust In Me The Jungle Book is one hour and one hour and eighteen minutes and was released in theaters on October 18, 1967. This would be the last movie that Walt Disney personally oversaw. Basically the movie tells the story about a boy, Mowgli, who is raised by wolves in the jungles of Madhya Pradesh, India. It is ten years later and the tribe of wolves feels that the man cub must be sent to the human village because Shere Khan, a tiger, has return and they feel that they cannot protect the boy. Bagheera, a black leopard, offers to take the boy cub to the man village and that where the adventure begins. Mowgli does not want to live in the man village and wants to stay in the jungle.  Bagheera tries to explain to Mowgli, but he does not listen. Mowgli finds several different animals who would like to get closer to him for different reasons. Mowgli first meet Kaa, a giant Indian Python, and Kaa wants nothing more then to eat the child. Kaa fails in the two attempts when he is with the boy. Next he is met by Baloo, a sloth bear, and Baloo is a care free, fun loving bear who lives one day at a time. Baloo immediately takes a liking to Mowgli and wants to raise him a bear also. Later on in the movie Bagheera informs Baloo the truth as to why he can't raise him because of Shere Khan. While Mowgli and Baloo are enjoying life, Mowgli is kidnapped by a group of orangutans and is brought back to their leader - King Louie. King Louie wants the boy cub to teach on how to acquire the red flower (fire). King Louie plans are crushed when Baloo and Bagheera comes to rescue Mowgli. It is about ' into the movie that the main villain appears - Shere Khan. Shere Khan wants to kill the boy because he hates man and that includes women also. I will not go into how the story ends because of the criticism I have gotten in the past, but I will tell you that the movie had no ended and it was Walt Disney himself that came up with the ended himself.  The movie version of the Jungle Book differs greatly from the book version. In the book version there is no King Louie no vultures and the only resemblance to the book is the names used in the movie. Walt thought the book was too dark for children and instructed his animation department not to read the book. The Jungle Book was nominate for an Academy Award in 1967 for Best Song, The Bare Necessities, but lost out to Doctor Dolittle for Talk to the Animals. Gregory Peck tried to get the movie nominated and win for the Best Picture category, but the members of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Science felt that animation films did not belong in that category. It would not be until 1992 when Beauty and the Beast would be nominated for an Academy in the Best Picture category. The Jungle Book is a delightful movie for all ages and gets an AAAAA+++++.  VHS EXTRAS  Previews 1. The Little Mermaid 2. Flubber 3. Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas 4. Peter Pan 5. Hercules 6. The Toys Who Saved Christmas The Jungle Book: The Making of a Musical Classic

Classic { Alien Creatures } Devouring People /// I Believe This Came Out In The 70's, I Might Be Wrong, About The Time Period, Without Doing The Research / The 1980's, If Not The 1970's / Anyhow, This Movie I Would Consider To Be A Classic / It Has Decent, Somewhat Earlier Special Effects & The Acting Is Ok, Not Terrible { A Little Nudity, Would Have Been Nice } You Could See, One Of The Actresses "Nipples" A Little Through Her Nightgown, Earlier In The Movie / The Movie Is Quite Enjoyable / I Think Of It As A Combination Of The Alien & Parasite, Type Movies ///

Toys story I bought this movie and recievied it a couple days later.  It was in perfect condition and I am glad to add it to my bideo library. This was also a great price at the time.  I compared to other retailers and this was the best deal

Love love love! I am positively OBSESSED with this workout! I am an avid Physique57-er (yes, I just made that a word :) ), and find that this is a great complement to the P57 workout. This will give you a long, lean look, and is also really fun! Tracey is beyond adorable and she doesn't make it seem like it's easy, breezy to do these moves. You can tell she, along with her assistants, are working really, really hard. 80 minutes flies by, and you'll be cleaning the floor with your sweat. I promise you will feel like a million bucks when it's all done! I definitely recommend adding this to your repertoire and making it a point to do it at least 2-3 times per week (depending on your schedule). Have fun!

Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns My husband and I watch and own many films and documentaries. THIS is his favorite documenary! For anyohe who loves baseball, THIS IS THE ONE TO OWN!

A classic martial arts action film! There is only one reason to watch this: the iconic Bruce Lee at his best in an English-language film.  His other previous films were released in Chinese but this was his introduction to the American film industry.  Here he takes on the evil and fallen Shaolin Temple trained student now a crime lord. The plot is decent but the action scenes with Bruce lee steal the movie.  Sadly, the quality of the film has not been improved much but watching Bruce lee dish out justice with his now-classic noises is pure action fun.  Side note: John Saxon fakes most of his moves and still looks like a novice American wanna-be.  Mr. Saxon does add some light humor with his role.

Need a break? If you're a Month Python fan, this is for you.  The way things are in the world today, having hours of laughs at your fingertips is great therapy.  Get the Fawlty Towers set too - classic Cleese.  Enjoy!!

love fin and jake my kids and I are avid Adventure Time fans!! they can't get enough of the show and are now constantly watching the dvd's...I love watching the cartoons with them :)

The best film of 2011 Drive is one of those rare gems that is pretty much indescribable. It's hard to identify what type of film this is. It isn't really an action film or a drama. What I can determine is that it's a character driven film that is unlike anything else that has been released this year.  The film stars Ryan Gosling as a man only known as the Driver. He has a job as a Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver. He gives each person on a deal five minutes and if they are a second too late, he's gone and they are on their own.  The opening of the film is quite impressive as it draws you in and shows how much of a professional the Driver can be. He's very much a loner, but he seems to have a pretty good relationship with Shannon (played by Bryan Cranston), the owner of the mechanic shop he works at. The Driver soon meets Irene (Carey Mulligan), his neighbor who lives down the hall in his apartment building. She lives with her son and her husband is in prison, who is going to be released soon. When he gets out, it turns out that he owes some money to some criminals and he asks the Driver to assist him with the deal. Things go wrong and from there, Drive has you in its grip for the rest of the film. It's a slow burn film that can be calm and then bam, it can turn on you in a second.  The performances are stellar. Gosling is fantastic as the Driver. He plays it calm and cool, with sudden bursts of violence when protecting the people he cares about. He doesn't have a lot of dialogue, but he pulls it off so well. I'm not really a fan of Gosling, but he was really impressive in this. Mulligan does well with the small screen time she's given. Cranston is just as great as he is on Breaking Bad. But the one performance that really stands out from the supporting cast is Albert Brooks. He plays Bernie Rose, a crime boss who you really don't want to be on the bad side of. He's quite calm for most of the film, but when he gets violent, it's absolutely brutal. I'm sure he will be getting plenty of attention come award season. He's phenomenal.  Nicholas Winding Refn does wonders directing this film. He does it with such elegance in each shot. I definitely need to see some of his earlier films. The cinematography is beautiful. The score is great, sounding like something you would hear in an 80s film. It's the first soundtrack I have wanted to go out and buy since Inception. It sounds great.  I have not seen any other film this year that has even come close to this level of satisfaction and excitement. This is a rare film that is just so great and it really sticks with you. As soon as the credits rolled, I knew this was something special that I had just seen.

wonderful, funny, must this is a wonderful movie about a mother that loves her son more than cares about sticking to the rules. it's just wonderful how the movie plays out. the mother and aunt are fantastic. a must see!!!

A Most Unique Horror Movie It's VERY unusual for me to give a horror movie five stars. But then this is a very unusual movie.  Probably most of you know that Gabriel Van Helsing (Hugh Jackson) appears in the Dracula story as the one who knows most about vampires, and is dedicated to fighting them. This is the same character, in a way, but almost nothing else about this is the same.  This Van Helsing, a very attractive and capable young-looking man, is actually some 400 years old. He's also working for a secret order of priests who send him out to kill Dracula (Richard Roxburgh). Along the way, he encounters a variety of nasty creatures, including Frankenstein's monster, a werewolf, Jekyl/Hyde and three Brides of Dracula, who are of course also vampires. Then there is their numerous offspring . . .  Igor, originally Dr. Frankenstein's assistant, is working for Count Dracula by this time, since when Dracula loaned Dr. F an abandoned castle in which to reproduce his original work, the count was paying Igor's salary.  Two more characters are critical to the story. I can tell you very little about Prince Velcan Valericus without spoiling several surprises, but Princess Anna Valericus is a beautiful, strong, fearless young woman who becomes Van Helsing's ally -- or he becomes hers. The Valericus family has tried to kill Dracula for hundreds of years, so far without success, and with major losses. In fact, the family will be lost entirely if Prince Velcan and Princess Anna do not survive.  This is a major high action movie, with incredible special effects, that kept reminding me of the recent Zorro movies: there's a good bit of humor mixed in with all the blood and gore. And there is plenty of blood and gore, but somehow it didn't bother me so much as in most horror movies. I think it has something to do with the entire thing being in the realm of the supernatural, and therefore not nearly as frightening as psychotic murderers and the like that might be real.  Unless you really can't handle horror stories at all, I think you will appreciate this movie. Van Helsing is just the right sort of hero, and even wears a hat rather like Indiana Jones.

This Watchmen fan waited for this version. If this movie inspires the viewer to read the original comic series, then it has done it's job. I think it did it's job very well!;)

I Am Your HomeRoom Teacher This is the first series Negima and i loved this DVD. It was really cheap and you get 6 episodes (2 more episodes then the rest of the series dvd). This anime is about a kid magician professor who goes to teach an all girl school(Basically the Main Plot). I found this anime very funny and a good price. Don't listen to the description though this is not the limited edition so it does not come with the treasure box, stickers, or figure.

A Go-For-Broke Historical Epic That Is Entertaining, Moving, And Unforgettable I really had no preconceived notions going into the Danish film "Flame and Citron." Aside from my knowledge of co-star Mads Mikkelson (frequently seen in U.S. productions, but perhaps most famous stateside for playing the Bond villain in "Casino Royale") and a moderate awareness of the plot, I was a pretty blank slate. Any time you endeavor to produce a fact based epic, there will always be detractors claiming historical inaccuracies. It happens to the best, most well-regarded pictures as narrative films are not documentaries. So I make no claims to the precise balance of historical content versus dramatic license in this biopic based on Danish resistance fighters circa World War Two. I don't know enough to make such a claim valid. I will simply say that from a movie entertainment standpoint, "Flame and Citron" is a thoroughly fascinating, exciting, and riveting drama--one of the best films to catch me unawares in quite some time!  In Nazi occupied Denmark, there is a small cell of resistance fighters aligned with Allied forces. Perhaps the most notorious pairing are code-named "Flame" (Thure Lindhardt) and "Citron" (Mikkelson). Instructed and given assignments by their supervisor Winther, the two target only Danes who are collaborating with the Nazis. Lindhardt is the muscle and the more impassioned assassin while Mikkelson largely works in a supporting role. However, the dynamic of the resistance group starts to change. With a potential traitor in their midst, an enigmatic new love interest for Flame, and a peculiar shift in assignments to target actual Germans--something is amiss. But who to trust and to what purpose? The film becomes an increasingly frenzied game of cat-and-mouse in which it seems no one will emerge unscathed.  Both Mikkelson and especially Lindhardt provide absolutely riveting performances. Mikkelson's increasing estrangement from his family is powerfully depicted, but Lindhardt is particularly devastating as he starts to question every principle he once held absolute. The supporting roles are well developed with Stine Stengade (as the romantic foil) and Peter Mygind (as the questionable boss) really standing out as well. The film looks terrific--this is a seriously well constructed piece. The screenplay propels the action with believability and true emotional consequence. By the time "Flame and Citron" arrived at its conclusion, I was absolutely mesmerized by the sophistication, smarts, and commitment that went into making this a true epic with historical sweep. Unforgettable leads and a tremendously strong finale make this a personal favorite and a whole-hearted recommendation. KGHarris, 12/10

The Mist of Avalon I'm of Celtic ancestry and appreciae this movie.  Better than First Knight, King Authur, the best abotu Camelot.  The musical score is awesome.  The scenry outstanding.  Each and every character, is fantastic.  Angelica Houston was at her best.  Julliana M.  is beautiful and portrays a believeable character.

Great old western musical - a classic Had not seen this since it originally came out. Loved it. A fun California gold rush period musical. Would watch it again.

Masterpiece, but I don't like the ending I don't want to repeat what was already said about this great masterpiece. But I don't like the ending when Jewish people are liberated by a ridiculous Russian officer on a pony. I am pretty sure that if the people were liberated by an American he would look cool and would receive warm welcome. But nobody ever wants give credit to Russians, although they did the most to defeat Nazis.

Great Blu-Ray release The Blue-Ray release is very nice in detail on HD TV. You can see the dark scenes like the wolf / forest much better than in the movie house in my case. Its is a must have for the fan, may be the collector edition with a movie set flower petal from Target mail order. I am in the Twilight universe for a couple years and married for 30 years with my beautiful wife who I met in our high school auditorium with more love over the years; just like Bella and Edward.  This is the last book of the saga and finally see Edward and Bella married after all the angst of twist and turn since they met. The emotion toll are deep and moving. This movie are much closer to the book than the Eclipse movie, a lot more dialog straight from the book. The major different from the book is the wolves and the Cullens had never fought in the book but in the movie. The wedding was held in door vs outdoor. Bella character is all about love with Edward and missing feeling with Jacob. She is back to her original determine personality to love Edward forever than the more independent personality in the movie of Eclipse. I would guess the movie made more sense if you are heavily in the books. Otherwise, you would loose a lot of subtle acting that Kristen and Rob try to portray in the movie.  For those doesn't know. The dying Bella is a mechanic copy of Kristen to make her looks thin and frail. I think they did a good job on the birth segment and mostly accurate.

5 Stars! Awesome movie as expected from Disney.  Loved it!  Great soundtrack, I even downloaded some of the songs to my ipod.

Awesome movie This movie has a great story line that's easy to follow with amazing martial arts stunts and great behind the scenes footage. There are some moments of really bad acting, but really gives you an insight to the life of an autistic girl with an amazing talent.

Thank Goodness For Amazon! I bought this as a gift for my father who lives in Los Angeles. I never knew that he was a huge Johnny Cash fan. I couldn't wait to send this as a surprise via Amazon. He loved it. Thanks Amazon!

The kids love it. If you want a movie that will hold your toddler's undivided attention for 90+ minutes, this is a good one.  Right up there with Toy Story.

Needs / Deserves a Blu-Ray Release! I agree with other reviewers, I think classically-trained actor Patrick Stewart really is the best of best in this role.  He seems consummately comfortable in the role.  Alastair Sim and George C. Scott are incomparables, indeed; but Stewart captures my heart in the watching of the story like none other.  It's disturbing that so much Hollywood gunk is produced on blu-ray, and some of the best things languish on the dying DVD format. (Sorry, just a comment, not a review.)

Love this movie! Wonderful movie, classic story and memorable music. Looks great on Blu-Ray! Stunning picture and great audio. A must own in any movie collection.

Great, wholesome show for kids! Stumbled upon this series on Netflix and my son loves it! Bought this DVD to have on the go, and it is great!

movie review Darling and sweet family film. The struggles seemed to be great, but we were pulling for the success of the family and the zoo. Share this movie with the kids, they will like it too!

LETTERS TO JULIET: A Romantic Comedy Sophie, a fact-checker for The New Yorker, (played by Amanda Seyfried)  is engaged to marry Victor (played by Gael Garcia Bernal) who is opening up a restaurant in a few weeks. Because Victor will be too busy after the wedding with his new business, the couple decides to take a pre-honeymoon to Italy. Little does Sophie realize how much business Victor plans for this trip until after they arrive. Not too discouraged at the beginning, Sophie plans to use her time away from Victor to write. My guess was that she wanted her work published in The New Yorker.  While Victor is off meeting with suppliers, visiting wineries, cheese shops and other places to help his upcoming business, Sophie decides to go off on her own sightseeing where she happened upon an alley. There she discovered Juliet's balcony, made famous by William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. These letters were collected daily and a group of women known as the Secretaries of Juliet would reply back--very much like the US version of Dear Abby only the theme here was issues of the heart.  Sophie, looking for a story, decides to help and stumbles across a hole in the wall where a letter had been left more than fifty years ago. She decides to respond back and believes that the rest will remain a mystery. Imagine her surprise when the lady's grandson, Charlie, (played by Christopher Egan) shows up. He isn't there to thank her either. He's angry because his grandmother (played by Vanessa Redgrave) has it in her mind to find her lost love, Lorenzo Bartollini. Soon the three embark on a sometimes comical, sometimes sad journey about true love.  I loved everything about the movie, but my favorite character was Victor, who wasn't Italian but pretended to be. Though he was made to be the bad guy here, I found his role hilarious. He had such a passion for food, wine, and cooking that was admirable. The ending left me with that touchy-feel good feeling--an important part of any romantic comedy.

Rolling On The Floor With LAUGHTER! WARNING TO THE VIEWER:  It is NOT ADVISED to view this comedy movie with a FULL BLADDER, lest you EMBARRASS YOURSELF. -------------------------------------------------  One of the funniest movies I've ever seen in my life. Very true to life, this flick is about two cultures coming together, all because a boy & girl fall in love with each other!  Laughter is GOOD MEDICINE for the soul (and body)! If you can sit through this movie without hysterical laughter, then you will be the first. It has NEVER been done!  Have you married someone who comes from another ethnic culture? If so, you'll LOVE this movie! Remember when you knew nothing about the other's traditions?  Get ready for the funniest comedy you'll probably ever see! Hysteria, laughter, and possibly losing 5 lbs of fat, and all from merely watching a very funny flick!!

Blu-Ray makes it even better Yeah, it's a B&W movie, but the restoration and Blu-Ray resolution compelled me to upgrade from the regular DVD.  I am very glad that I did.  For many years, I had assumed that many of the characters were invented to make the plot more interesting.  I just learned that Robert Mitchum's character (General Cota) had been at Normandy and had taken charge, much as the movie's character had.  That makes me appreciate this movie even more.

Terrific stories that add to the Beatles' legacy This documentary contains dozens of interviews with everyone from Ben Kingsley and Jon Voight to people you've never heard of, like one of the original "Apple Scruffs" (girls who used to hang around outside Apple Records offices hoping to talk to a Beatle).  Director Seth Swirsky wanted to capture as many stories about Beatle encounters as possible. Most of the interviews collected in the 85 minute movie last for only a few minutes before moving onto the next story. It results in a lot of variety. Some of the stories have been told before, but most of them will be unfamiliar to even the most devoted Beatlemaniacs. Some of the people he talked to (George Martin, Norman Smith - Beatles engineer, Joey Molland of Badfinger, Denny Laine of Wings) had professional associations with the Beatles or an ex-Beatle. But others - like The Bangles' Susanna Hoffs, who happened to bump into Ringo at a party - tell starstruck stories of chance encounters.  If you watch the whole movie and still want more, the DVD has you covered - 30 minutes of extra interviews. Swirsky reveals his methods on the director's commentary. He's a successful songwriter himself, having written songs for the likes of Taylor Dayne and Smokey Robinson (who appears in the documentary). This is his first film and it's admittedly a little rough around the edges, but ultimately an emotionally engrossing trip for Beatles fans.

Income Inequality and the 2008 Economic Collapse Good movie - highlights the role of income inequality in the US in shifting capital from "goods" to "assets" creating the housing bubble and resulting in a huge redistribution of assets to the investor class and the 2008 collapse.  See it to gain a fact-based understanding of what happened.  With income inequality rising again, it isn't over!

Deep Impact One of my favorite sci-fi adventure movies. A little over the top, but just good old fashioned entertainment. Get a big container of popcorn and enjoy.

Mary Poppins how can you not love Mary Poppins!  We went to the Broadway play and then bought the DVD.  My kids love it!

Cinerama Lovers cinerama lovers, this is amazing experience, the sound and image nothing can compare, not even dolby sistem, ant the documental This is Cinerama include take you to the 50s and this great experience saw never again

Phantom of the Opera at Royal Albert Hall (Bluray) The Bluray DVD of The Phantom of the Opera (25th Aniversary) was wonderful and I recommend this DVD to everyone. The singing voices of The Phantom, Christine, and Raul in this stage performance were great! The surprise guests at the end of the performance were also wonderful, with Sarah Brighton and Michael Crawford coming on stage along with Andrew Lloyd Weber. Four other past "Phantoms" sang together on stage, and Sarah Brighton sang, but Michael Crawford did not because he had to rush there from another performane at a different venue. When all the guests and cast joined in to sing together in the final song tho,you could definatly here Michael Crawford's voice singing with the group (especially the high part). Since Michael Crawford was coming from another performance, I'm sure that's why he didn't want to strain is voice or have to practice a song to perform, but there were 4 other past Phantoms who sang together as a group with each one singing part of the song solo. I totally recommend this DVD to anyone who loves The Phantom of the Opera, it is well worth the money.

Extreme Edition is great! A great movie on DVD that comes with extra scenes and extra pictures from the wedding during the movie.  Hilarious!

The Final Season I have to say I just watched the entire season in one day. It's only 6 episodes that are packed with intense emotions throughout. This is probably the most intense season of them all. So many surprises that you'll be asking for more even when it's over. Lots of shocking surprises to see and tears to be shed. BBC has done a great job with this show and definitely a phenomenal job with ending it. I hope everyone enjoys this as much as I did. Truly wonderful, will truly be missed and thank god I have all the seasons on DVD...lol!

Beautifyl Australia The movie is lovely for its music,love story and scenery with wild horses.  Kirk Douglas plays brothers who hate each other due to their love for the same lady.

Dragonfly DVD The movie arrived quickly and was in very good mint condition. The price was fair. Thank you for your service.

Excellent! A friend of mine asked me if I like John Grisham movies two weeks ago. And I had to say that I had never heard of him...well that is now history. This man is a phenomenal writer!This movie will have you glued to the screen and crying at the end. Unbelievable that he spent 10 years as a lawyer...to only find his true calling as a writer.Well done Mr. Grisham...I will watch every movie made by you...I am hooked!

A Good Action Movie, and A Great Drama This movie has a little bit for everybody. If you like action movies, this has that. I'm generally not even a fan of that type of movie, but I thought the action scenes in this were pretty exciting. The reason I liked this movie as much as I did though, was for reasons totally unrelated. If you like movies with real human emotions, this is it. Much like Fight Club, this movie combines the relatable idea of being uncomfortable in your own skin, with scenes that can be found in a typical action movie. It starts with this guy Wesley Gibson, played by James MacAvoy, whose life is totally ordinary, in all the wrong ways. He hates his job, his girlfriend is cheating on him with his roommate, and he seems to generally just be depressed in general; like he is tired of living his mundane life, and he feels completely insignificant to the world. His life changes when he runs into Fox, played by Angelina Jolie, who greets him in a convenient store with the phrase "You apologize too much." Soon, Wesley's life goes from being totally uneventful, to anything but. In the process, he goes from feeling like he means absolutely nothing to anyone in the world, to rising above all of that, and taking the course of his future in his own hands. I don't even want to spoil anything, but the ending is fantastic. This is great as an action movie, and as a drama. This is probably in contention to be one of my favorite movies of the last few years.

lifted Must see movie I never rate or do reviews but I need to do so with this movie. I could not ask for a better movie, yes it is slowat first but it crabs your attention and holds you until the movie is over. My husband is in the Military and this touches close to home, with what military family deal with when the soldier is away we do a best on the home front hold down the house and not worry are soldier while they are away. I came on here to buy the movie and also look for the soundtrack but there is no soundtrack. It has some really great songs. Oh and keep some tissue by you because you will need them :)

Good Family Film My family has been waiting on this film to hit DVD for almost a year.  We were so excited to sit down together and watch it.  It is clean and inspiring and based on a true story about a little league baseball team that inspired Mexico.  Definitely worth seeing.

Wonderful This is one of the best animal rights documentaries I have ever seen. It is set in a way that is more viewer friendly to those who may have opposing views, but it is still in depth and educational. I will be recommending this film to both my meat eating and vegan friends.

A Clock Work Orange and Human Free Will A Clockwork Orange demonstrates how society tries to change the thought process of society's wrongdoers instead of punishing them, but free will is more powerful than anything. The movie raises many questions; can humans be conditioned to fit in society or is freewill much stronger?  A Clockwork Orange tells one that a human's freewill is much stronger and society is unable to condition the mind in order to have them mainstreamed.   The psychologists and government in A Clock work Orange thought they had cured Alex of his evil ways by the use of operant conditioning. It is a response to external stimuli; expected positive or negative behaviors occur when negative or positive stimuli is expected,  however this does not change the inner deep desires that one may have.  The government in A Clockwork Orange could not keep Alex from his deep desires he was still clockwork orange with no free will and only programmed to do the opposite of his thoughts.   A Clockwork Orange tells one that a human's freewill is much stronger and society is unable to condition the mind in order to mainstream back in to society.  The use of the operant conditioning, theory on criminals had failed and an immoral mind cannot be changed and those who have these inner desires should not be included in to society.  A Clockwork Orange shows an extreme use of behaviorist theory and the human mind is much more complex and is unable to be changed by a simple controlled stimuli.  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UJ48T0">A Clockwork Orange (Two-Disc Special Edition)</a>

Best TV Show King of the hill is a great show, maybe before purchasing you should see it for yourself on TV you will not regret it.

Very awesome! The Dvd Yanni Live- The concert Event arrived within a weeks time. It was in perfect condition, and im very happy witht he results as it was receaved. I waited all week for it to arive and was very excited, If your a true yanni fan you will enjoy this till your hearts contint :)

Hopscotch This has been a favorite movie of our family.  We wanted to replace it and have had difficulty finding it.  So good to get it again.  Thanks.

sheer genius Genius is not a word I use lightly, but it is the only word appropriate for Joss Wheedon. How else could you describe someone who could write/direct/produce such a quality series at the pace of one a week for 22 episodes per year. This series was supposedly targeted at female teenagers, I am a senior male and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The wit and intelligence of the scripts, as well as the quality of the acting shines.  Warning: Don't watch the special features until you have viewed all the episodes in the series, since they sometimes reveal what happens in future episodes.

memories Having served on board the USS Ranger CVA 61 sister ship to the USS Independance CVA62 I enjoyed the review of what was and the reality of it all as a form of entertainment.

Awesome and Romantic!!!! I purchased this DVD and I must say that I was not disappointed. The Story stayed true to the book written by Mrs. Jackson I could easily follow along with the story line. I was so enthralled with the movie that I have watched it several time. This movie was definitely the thing to get me in the holiday spirit. I would recommend this movie to anyone who wants to see a great, hot and steamy love story.

At least three movies in one Bush League is a movie about international development wrapped in a movie about soccer, and much more besides.  The film alternates easily between the practical challenges facing a small soccer team and a discussion of classic development challenges like getting community buy-in for a project that serves one group more than another.  Should be required viewing by Peace Corps volunteers and USAID staffers.  Some of the footage -- including the funeral of a five year old -- is riveting, and the discussion of HIV is masterful for its subtlety.

excellent boyfriend very happy with gift. the item came in perfect condition. it plays well in dvd player. it is alot of  fun to watch

The Quintessential Mercenary Movie! An absolute gem of 1970s action-movies, ...and one of those films that is EXCELLENT no matter how many times you've seen it!  Richard Burton is a notorious mercenary leader, hired by a British corporation to spring a deposed African president from a remote military prison. A hard bargainer, the reknowned leader demands high fees and the best gear, ...with the promise that he will get the best men for the job, and carry out that job better than anyone else.  Richard Harris and Roger Moore play the veterans who are his first pick, ...one is retired, ...the other is under a death-warrant by the London mob! They assemble a motley-crew of veteran-Paras. Some are young fellows, recently discharged from active-service, and disatisfied with the sparce prospects for employment in 1970s Britain. The rest are battle-hardened middle-aged men, ...who prove that they STILL have plenty of fight in them, to do what they loved best.  The mission: Rescue Julius Limbani from a prison camp deep in a hostile African nation. Everything goes well, ...until the client cancels the contract at the last minute!

Switch I really enjoyed this movie!  I do not always like Jennifer in movies..but Jason...puts his whole heart and soul.  The boy was wonderful and everyone...was perfect in casting.  A real fun with serious tones...movie for a sunday night

A Great Movie! This movie was so much fun for the whole family! For anyone who loved the original Lorax, this is a new spin to a classic tale. The makers of the film have made a beautiful film that is visually stunning. The colors simply jump off the screen and the characters are fun loving and memorable (Grandma is hilarious). I love the underlying theme of the movie that surrounds caring for the planet. This was an underlying theme of the book too, but the movie hit it home even harder which was great and I had a great conversation with my kids about the importance of this after the movie was done and you can do the same! All-in-all this was a wonderful film that added much to the original story and with a great message, this is definitely a movie I would share with all families!

Riverer of a Lost Coast This is a marvolous DVD of a wonderful time that came and left. Hopefully we have learned from this loss.

Good flick It was a pretty good movie. Lots of action. Sometimes it was a little unbelivable. I did not like the ending. But overall a good action movie. Laim Neeson was good as usual. The wolves were pretty nasty!

Fantastic Movie. Funny with Morals. Awesome This is a highly entertaining movie. Great Writing and very funny. It is a favorite.  Buy it today.

beast movie this movie is an absolute must see, i was in awe of brad pitts performance, casey affleck was powerful as well, same rockwell me laugh my ass off over and over again

Unexpected Great... This was an unexpected great.  I thought it looked cute, but really was not sure.  This was a great movie that flows well, and is a feel good one for sure.  It takes many different topics that have not been deals with before so I really enjoyed it.

The King's Speech Delivers! "The King's Speech" is a wonderful anomaly!  I had a friend recommend it when it first came out. I'm very wary of friends' recommendations because the majority of people are content with the pablum that constitutes most movies these days. But I took my wife to see it in the theater (we watch very few in the theaters) and then again with my 2 oldest children last night!  Wow! On so many levels: "Wow!"  First, there is the authenticity. The fact that this is based on history and in history adds extra texture and depth to the film that most films simply can't achieve.  Second, George VI (before he was King) manifested an incredibly persistent courage, in spite of his baggage growing up, the gravity and importance of his life, and the disability of his stuttering. This is a very autobiographical issue for me (not stuttering but introversion and other issues) and a wonderful example for my children.  Third, the acting is spot on, especially in both the King (Colin Firth) and the speech coach's (Geoffrey Rush) characters. The character of the King-to-be's speech coach is not only humorous but is also a great example of the power and confidence that comes from having mastered one's field.  Fourth, the development of the relationship between the Prince and Lionel Logue (the speech coach) is a joy to watch as it unfolds. There are many details that make it an authentic telling of the unfolding of an unusual and instructive relationship. It was also a revelation, watching the second time, that both of the admirable men in the movie, the Prince and his coach, had loving, supportive, wise wives standing beside them (as opposed to Wallis Simpson in relation to Prince Edward (who looks like a complete fool in the movie.)  It's ironic that this movie received an R rating for language. Technically, it deserves the R rating, for it drops the F bomb as much as just about any movie. However, it's the one movie I've seen where the use of profanity was actually required by the script and circumstances. The contrast between the exalted station of the Prince and his use of expletives also made the scenes where he used profanity very funny.  I've been watching classic films ("The King's Speech" has all the markings of a classic) with my older kids. One of the things I've pointed out, in watching the original "Lord of the Flies," "The Killing Fields," and now "The King's Speech" is that they should notice that great movies don't need a noisy and noisome soundtrack to keep you interested or to tell you how to feel. Great movies can take their time, trusting the story, characters, and actors to tell a truth worth telling.  If you haven't yet seen it, "The King's Speech" is most definitely, on many levels, a movie worth watching

Son Loves Ben 10 My son loves Ben 10--so any of the Ben 10 DVD's I get at Amazon seem to be a big hit!  This Ben 10 did not disappoint; my son could not take his eyes off the TV until it was over!

The Erosion of Hope BURIED is not a film for everyone.  It is a very cerebral piece that requires the audience to enter into a place that is terrifyingly desperate, grow to know the many messages that the main character represents, and be willing to experience a very non-Hollywood ending.  Written with great courage by Chris Sparling and directed with consummate skill by young Spanish director Rodrigo Cort&eacute;s, this film is a challenge for the single character in the film and Ryan Reynolds reaches one of the highest achievements of his career.  The time is 2006 in Iraq and Paul Conroy (Ryan Reynolds) works for a trucking company as a contracted civilian. His convoy is attacked and many of his fellow non-military workers are killed: Paul is placed in a coffin and buried, with only a cigarette lighter and a cellphone.  The film begins in the dark, that same dark that surrounds the entrapped Paul who realizes he has limited oxygen supply and must find a way to escape or meet death. He tries to use the cellphone, but encounters the usual monstrous difficulties we all face daily - automated answering machines, operators who insist on unnecessary information before helping him, futile attempts to connect with his family, calls from his attackers demanding ransom to set him free, contact with the government departments who shuffle his requests until the appropriate person is reached who is unable to correctly assist, calls from his employer in the States who demands he give a recorded message relinquishing his rights  and firing him for groundless reasons.  Throughout the 90 minutes that we spend with Paul in the coffin we feel the terror, hear the explosions, feel the agony as he speaks briefly with his wife, leaves a cellphone video for his son, and says goodbye to his nursing home mother suffering from dementia.  The ending of the film must be withheld, as it is unexpected.  What the writer and the director and the actor have managed to do in this claustrophobic nightmare is point out many facts about the US involvement in the Middle East - both military and civilian contractors - and hear the reasons behind the situation from the Middle Eastern viewpoint.  It is a very difficult movie to experience but one that is a brilliantly condensed statement about the madness of war.  Ryan Reynolds delivers a performance completely solo and manages to create a wholly unforgettable, completely compelling character that will never leave our mind. Grady Harp, January 11

LOVED, LOVED, LOVED this movie!! First off, no, I haven't read the book but I totally loved and enjoyed watching this movie with my then, 10 yr old daughter, who, at 16, still loves watching this! I'm not sure why so many panned it because I totally disagree. No, no movie can fit every god conceivable thing that was so good about the book, into the movie. It would make it too long. Oh well, if you're the type who is (that much against) the variances of books to movies, don't watch it (and be horrified)! Just read the reviews and don't waste your time. How about that?

Wonderful Program I saw Michael Flatley in person in Seattle and purchased the VHS program at that time.  Loved the program!  My tape was getting worn from overplay so I was thrilled to get the DVD version.

633 Squadron If you are a WW2 warbird buff, then this is for you!  I have looked in vain for this movie in the video stores. Here it was all along at Amazon.com.  Great footage of my favorite plane, the de Haviland Mosquito. God story-line too.

Wasn't sure I'd like this one but loved it! This movie had me laughing almost the hole time! My favorite scene is at the daughters wedding, I don't want to ruin anything. But I recommend thhis movie.

LOVED IT HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU is a cute, funny, and romantic movie with an all-star cast - Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, Kevin Connolly, Bradley Cooper, Ginnifer Goodwin, Scarlett Johansson and Justin Long.  There are four couples to follow, each with very different scenarios.  1) He likes her but she likes someone else. 2) She likes him but he's married. 3) She can't find anyone that likes her, but the guy she consults ends up falling for her. 4) The girl he likes didn't like him, but he finds another that has been searching for the "perfect" guy.  So often in movie that involves several scenarios like HE'S SO NOT INTO YOU, at least one of the situations doesn't play out like we hope. That wasn't the case with this movie. Though you were inclined to think otherwise, in the end each relationship turns out as you'd imagined or hoped with a few surprises.  Great movie, well acted with a storyline that will hold your interest from start to finish.

It's a keeper I just happened across this movie being announced that it is out on DVD. It's a good movie. It is staying in my collection.

awesomely fast and furious! as with everyone of Vin's movies I have seen they're great and this one is no different.lots of action and fighting(which is one of the best parts) the cars are the next best thing. I hated to NOT see Michelle in this one but hopefully she'll be in the next one(hint hint to the directors if there making another(and hope they do)). I will be awaiting the next great movie with the cast, they all are good in my opinion.

Riveting Lots of twists and turns.  This movie keeps your interest and is another great performance by Tommy Lee Jones as well as Ashley Judd.  Some language I could have done without, but as a whole, it is a great movie.

Red looks good on you!!!! Absolutely LOVE this film. Not much for horror or for British humor even... I can NOT get enough of this film. Hysterical. The leads are ridiculously amusing. I love the films style and cuts as well. End to end all over good.  I have bought this movie and given it as a gift several times. Go forth and be the Zombie......

Cape Fear on Universal's remastered for Blu Ray Who says old movies can't look good?  Don't come here for a plot summary or my opinions on the cast and acting. Yes, there is a great cast and DeNiro still in his acting prime while Jessica Lange is growing into hers and Nick Nolte still a highly valued actor in his own right and a young Juliette Lewis starts on her road to stardom.  Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck do  small cameos reprising their presence from the original film   This is just a review of the transfer and remastering of this film on Blu Ray.  Since I have not seen any other versions of Cape Fear on Blu Ray I do not know how good or bad the old ones were.  However, this Universal release shows just how good a transfer can be when the company puts some effort into creating a decent product.  Unlike many transfers to blu ray which are only format transfers with no audio or video improvements, Cape Fear is a fine example of what can be done with older films.  The video transfer is great in all ways.  Beautiful color saturation and desaturation where appropriate, absolutely no grain that I could see, nor artifacts and aliasing.  Some of the matte work showing off a red sky was obvious to me but that was not the fault of the transfer at all.  The audio is now DTSHD 5.1 that shows off a fine front stage for the music score.  More dialogue driven than most might expect, the use of the rears is most infrequent but some audio panning along with a touch of discreet directionality during the thunderstorm is still present.  Audio levels are finely balanced so set your volume and watch an older film that has legs even after all these years.  While I do not also have the standard def version of Cape Fear, all I can say is that if you liked the movie, which I did, than you won't regret getting this remastered version on Blu Ray.  Props to Universal  to giving us the quality we paid for.  Hopefully, this review has been of help to you and, if so, please click on the 'helpful' button so I know I have been on the right track.

My favorite movie, but my Amazon order hasn't arrived ...... One month, and my order has not arrived, this must be a record of some sort.... That aside, this movie must be seen in it's 5 hour version, seen this way makes much more sense of the complex the full story.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks Wonderful movie.  Angela Lansbury is a very favorite of mine.  We had this on VHS and definitely want it on DVD.

A step out of real life I know there are alot of negative reviews about this movie, but I disagree.  Since we have to live in reality, why not enjoy a fairy tale that ends happy?  Deep down we all want to have a relationship where we admire and support one another. . . to be cherished and encouraged.  It's just a happy movie in the midst of real life.  A get away and relax.  Laugh and cry.  I think they did a tremendous job.  Wish there were more like this.  I think Kam brings an elegance to the character that Julia didn't have as a "queen-to-be".  She did great in the first one, but Kam is more refined and flows better in this part.  More like a queen, than a farm girl.  She makes it more believable. She has tremendous character and self-control and really shows her love by her actions. I greatly enjoyed this movie and liked it the best of all 4 of them.  Luke does a regal job and is very cute too! I know others will disagree, but if you just want a dreamy, fairy-tale romance, this is it!  Happily ever after!

The Little Mermaid This movie never gets old! I bought it for my 3 year old who had never seen it. We watched 4 times the first day it arrived. I LOVE all things Disney!

Loving Horses This movie is so well done that you do not realize when the real horse is on and when the graphics come in.The story is a very moving one. As soon as we got home I ran to check that the horse was fine.It is a moving story ,and of course animals are so loving, better than humans in many cases. This movie is really a classic.

Thought Provoking Masterpiece My only criticism of this film is that there is zero chemistry in the few "romantic" scenes. However, the storyline, overall acting and thought provoking issues that are brought up more than make up for it. This is hands down in my top 5 films of all time.

Fun Fun My grandson is 3 and he sat and watched this whole video and it was so fun to see him smiling and laughing!  He always asks to watch Micky again when he comes over

It's Buddha 101 I am so glad to have had $0.00 access to this on Amazon Prime because I got hook on watching the program many times over.  It is a very complete portrayal of the Buddah's life and history of the religion.  Documentary is very well produced.

Excellent edition This is an excellent collector's edition. I can't believe that 30 years passed since this movie was released. Steven Spieberg and the movie really deserve this kind of edition. The package arrived perfectly.

Steal Magnolias This was actually a replacement.  I loaned out the copy I had owned for quite some time.  It was definately a must replace for our library, a long standing favorite in our home.  Amazon offered a great price as usual.  It arrived on great condition, also as usual.

GOOD! This product got to me very quickly! My son was very happy! He love's this movie year round! Who wouldn't though?.. Jim Carrey ROCKS! :)

So much goodness I originally was not very interested in this because I assumed it was going to follow in the footsteps of the entertaining yet slightly juvenile Teen Titans...Boy was I wrong and I'm so glad I was. I eventually got around to watching this out of boredom on a deployment and I'm loving it. It's light hearted enough to keep the attention of younger viewers but has serious undertones and features a lot of the DC alumni to keep us older folks interested.  This show is fantastic, well written, well animated, and well voiced. My only complaint is the episode release schedule...what the heck? Few and far between to say the least, not to mention my fear that the show will be cancelled/ended/changed into another show within the next year or so as DC Entertainment is want to do with their animated series'.  This is absolutely great and if you have any interest in comics/superheroes/animation/whatever you should absolutely check it out.

great The product came extremely quickly and came exactly as described. I had no problems with the disc and I am very happy with it.

All Time classic , Great sound tract , Great Movie This is a great Movie Great sounds good directing great casting Buy this Movie this is a keeper.If you like Knights and Jousting and sword fights and it's funny.

I love this movie. I just love BBC's Masterpiece Theatre and any movie based on Classic love stories. Jane Eyre is no exception. I loved it so much when I watched it on Youtube that I bought it. I watch it all the time and I love it. Great story. Great actors. Great movie.

The Doctor continues his travels but finds even he needs a little help every now and again. Doctor Who Series Six part one starts off with a bang and do I mean a bang. Sorry folks I won't give and spoliers away on this one if you haven't seen the first episode or any of them yet. Just get ready for The Doctor, Amy and her husband Rory traveling through time and space. Along they way we meet up with River Song and travel all over the universe and the Earth as well. Watch as events unfold in ways you never thought possable. Watch famed author Neil Gaiman write an episode of Doctor Who and love every minute of it. Learn more about the Doctor and more again. Wow this spolier free review is tough I almost wanted to tell you about....oops sorry I can't tell you. Just make sure you don't blink and be loud when the silence falls. So get ready for Doctor Who series Six part one.

Gettysburg / Gods and Generals Gettysburg is great as ever.  Gods and Generals is not quite as good but still interesting if you like Civil War stuff as I do.

National Geographic Inside 9/11 I have been collecting National Geographic DVDs and I purchased from Amazon.com recently the National Geographic DVD called Inside 9/11 and really enjoyed it.  How everytime this country gets hits in one way or other, how we pull together in order to get the job done.  The embarassing part of it is that we soon afterwards go back to our own stupid way of thinking which is what caused our present grief in the first place.  If we don't want to acknowledge that there is a God and that He loves us, we will continue to have problems in this country.

The best movie! I love this movie! I love the story line and the plot in this movie! This movie is so sweet it made me cry! This movie also has action in it!

Emily Yes Oscar meet all of my expectations and then some I really love it. I also love animal movies, documentaries.

After one episode you will be hooked My girlfriend and I watched the first season over about 4 days. We both like history, and after the first episode, we were hooked. You have to watch very carefully because there are 4 or 5 storylines going on at once. We both loved watching the Stark's wolves grow from puppies to killing machines. I would recommend if you do not mind a good amount of violence and sex.

Twenty stars! I really enjoy the movie. It's fun, although the language is a bit poor at times. A fun '80's movie reminding me of high school.

A very special film I am sure most readers will be on the side of the whales and as this most valuable film makes clear it is an unequal contest with the Sea Shepherd being just about the only mob willing to do much about it. Despite the cheery atmosphere portrayed by the youthful crew of volunteers, (in part very much for the camera I suspect), make no mistake, their task is difficult, very difficult and extremely dangerous and they must know it! One scene deals with a zodiac lost in the open sea for 8 hours. Such a situation is nothing to laugh about. These inflatable craft are quite unsuited to the open southern ocean and can founder in an instant in the huge swells and storms that can arise in minutes. Survival under such circumstances is almost hopeless. Few if any viewers will have crossed these vast and stormy seas or flown by helicopter over such icy waters where again a ditching means certain death. I have had the good fortune to do both. These ships are grossly under-equipped, under-funded and under-resourced. Just look at their equipment, their food, their clothing and consider the enormous limitations imposed by fuel, radar and any meaningful search and rescue operation. Do not rent this disc, BUY IT, (it is worth every penny), and support these courageous defenders of the whales. For those lucky enough to meet and be greeted by a pod of whales in these waters there can be few more thrilling and meaningful experiences. Let it ever be so. The Japanese must be persuaded to stop.

Exceptional in every respect. This production and recording, made in 2002 at Barcelona's Liceu Theatre is a total triumph of imagination and musicality combined. It also benefits from a very fine visual and sonic recording for its period (2002).  The production is presented using an orchestra made up of the instruments that would have been familiar and accessible to Monteverdi. The orchestra is large but is mainly deployed for the sheer variety of sounds that can be created from such a selection rather than the effect of all playing at once. The opening flourishes on brass, cornetts and percussion played from the balcony as the conductor, Jordi Savall, makes his entrance from the rear of the theatre is immediately arresting. A similarly effective, but far less grand, entrance is also made upon the announcement of Euridice's death. These two moments illustrate the telling use of space in this production to create strong changes of mood with the minimum of props. Indeed the production succeeds to an amazing extent to establish the joy of Orfeo's relationship with his new wife, which is then contrasted with devastating sadness at her death. There follows the descent to and return from the kingdom of death and Orfeo's anguish at losing Euridice once more. The opera manages to turn this appalling situation round to one of general rejoicing as Orfeo chooses to join his wife among the celestial bodies with his own early death.  None of this would work of course if the musical values were not of the highest order. In this production the musicianship displayed by the whole cast is simply beyond reproach. One has to mention the superb characterisation of Orfeo as portrayed by Furio Zanasi whose acting is an object lesson in continuous expression coupled with fine singing throughout. Much the same can be said of all the supporting thirteen members the singing cast. It is inappropriate to list them all individually here with a separate comment for each but suffice it to say that is would be difficult to imagine a more perfect delivery by each individual member either singly or in ensemble.  The orchestra plays superbly with total mastery over the instruments of the period and is led with great authority, sensitivity and energy by Jordi Savall.  The camera work is crisp and fully involving and delivers good colour resolution. The excellent sound is presented in DTS surround and stereo options.  The bonus features include the usual illustrated synopsis and cast gallery typical of this label plus a 16 minute documentary where Gilbert Deflo, stage director, explains the ideas behind the staging of this production and recorded in Mantua's Palazzo Ducale.  This is an exceptional production with equally exceptional musical values and granted a high quality visual and sonic recording which was equally exceptional in 2002. On that basis it seems very likely that this disc will give considerable satisfaction to future purchasers and should therefore be rated as a clear 5 star issue.

ET is a cinematic masterpiece ET the extra terrestrial is one of the all time greatest movies in my book besides Jaws. The fact that they are restoring this movie from it's original film elements makes me want to praise Steven Spielberg. I am so happy that the original film version of this movie will live on and hopefully push the 2002 crap version into a deep dark hole where it will never see the lights of day.Hopefully somebody will burn that hole and turn it into a gaping crater with no parts of the 2002 version left. I remember when I was a kid a couple of years ago and my Uncle brought a whole box of old Vhs tapes to my house for us  to watch. I watched it so many times the film wore out and I had to dump it. Ever since then I wanted a new better looking original upscaled print of the 1982 version. Go to hell 2002 version. Sorry for my language for a few of you out there who don't like hearing swear words. But, anyway this film is a masterpiece. It racked up ticket sales for the rest of the summer and became the biggest box office hit of its time. Until Jurassic Park came out 11 years later. Here is some trivia; Mars candy company was originaly asked to put there M&Ms candy into the movie for promotional reasons, but they declined that offer and the hershey candy company got to put in there candy called Reeses's Pieces. There sales shot up by 65 percent. I bet who ever declined for the Mars company was banging there heads for years to come after that. I cannot wait for this blu ray release. I want October to come right now! I love this movie to much to wait until then.For a restored picture and sound and hours of bonus features this blu ray sure looks like it will fly off shelves and be talked about for a while. I feel the same way about the jaws blu ray coming out on August 14th. ET the extra terrestrial is a masterpiece that will live on for many generations!

Jim's Review I am a big Lee Marvin fan and he didn't disappoint.  There are some great comedy scenes in this movie.  A great example of Marvin's verstility as an actor.

Piglets BIG Movie I had this on my DVR but accidently erased it and was happy to find it and add it to our collection....my daughter loves this movie and the music is awesome and love hearing my 2 year old sing-a-long!

Loved it I loved this movie,found it inspiring and entertaining.There were some funny,some sad,some disturbing moments overall it was a good watch.Loved the comparison to the drug addict to the food addict,on the same line you can compare a alcoholic with the same struggles.An obese person doesn't get the same kind of understanding yet in society as other addicts so this was a real eye opener to watch.I absolutely loved the music,if there is a sound track I would buy it!

Dumbo VHS movie I was very pleased that I received the video so quickly.  It was shrink-wrapped and in perfect condition.  Great service!  Thanks so much.

Hilarious, But To Find Out for Yourself You'll Have to Discover the Condition of  Schr&ouml;dinger's Cat! Can I give something six stars????  How does one review a program like The Big Bang? I'm over 70, and sat down one night when my wife was out, and saw a clip. Then I sat and saw a segment. Then I sat and saw the show. Then I waited for my wife to come home, and we watched that over again. I don't remember what the episode was because we were immediately addicted.  We watched 3-5 shows a night with On Demand and it didn't even seem to matter that they were out of order. It's only been six weeks, and we've seen them ALL. We're depressed even though there are a few new episodes coming this year.  The characters do develop and have "quirks" in Season 2 and 3 that didn't exist in Season 1, but it doesn't matter. It's so funny that, once you know the characters, you just sit and prepare to be entertained. And as eccentric as the characters are, they're not "weird." I even knew a few of these guys way back in the 50s when I was a zoology major, when I took courses in physics and never understood them though I sat next to people who thought it was too much like kindergarten. The only character I never met in the 50s (or 60s) was a girl like Penny! (With apologies to my wife who was way cuter.)  If you want to talk "weird" it's the fact that we now watch "Nova" and stuff about string theory and my constant disagreement with the big bang theory (the theory, not the show), and we understand it. Who would have thought that Sheldon and Leonard and Howard and Raj could teach me anything?  Not every episode is hilarious, but 80 percent of them require stopping the DVDR and rewinding either to catch our breaths, listen to a line or lines over, or just to take a break from laughing. Even the ancillary characters are gut busters. The writers have outdone themselves, and have seemingly given every character a sufficient number of laugh lines to make the entire seasons almost "democratic" even though Jim Parsons has the greater share - and deserved the awards he's gotten.  The other thing is that it seems that the characters really like and enjoy each other in "real life," and I've yet to see personality conflicts even in some of the more private outtakes - which are also hilarious. But unlike the atmosphere on such shows as 2 1/2 Men (which jumped the shark two years after Charlie did in real life), there is a camaraderie among all the characters and it shows through. At least I feel that way.  The acting is superb. The whole show could be just "looks" and I'd laugh. For young actors - especially Kaley who's only 26 now - these are professionals. In reading their bios on Wiki, it would appear that they all have lives outside the show which just rounds out their personalities but, to show their professionalism, they put much of their real personalities aside and BECOME these eccentric, uber-smart, nerdy characters. (So much for my psychoanalysis: I'll leave the rest to Leonard's mother.)  Whether you will enjoy this as much as I, well, we'll just have to leave that to Schr&ouml;dinger's cat.  My kids (who are in their 40s) and I have ongoing jokes all based on these characters and the plots. They gave me this First Season on DVD. Unlike Seinfeld and Friends, THESE I can watch move than twice, three times if truth be told.  If you don't, I'll be unhappy, and then you'll have to sing Soft Kitty to me. (P.S. I said that last week after a particularly negative session with my cable provider's rep when she asked if there was anything else she could do for me. After a moment's pause, she said, "You made me spit up on my mic and monitor!)

Waited Forever for this one! I owned this movie on VHS for years and waited a long time for it to come out on DVD. I apparently missed it the first time it was released on DVD. It has always been one of my favorite Christmas movies. I make it a point every year to spend some alone time to watch this and always enjoy it. Since we got a new Blu-ray player for Christmas this was the perfect time to order the set and give it to myself for the holidays!! Happy watching this movie to everyone!

Amazing!!! I thought they needed BluRay or something like that, but I think this is just perfect... Audio and image.  You can feel the energy of 80,000 souls within you...

memphis belle review My husband is a big fan of this movie. It was  great anniversary and Fathers day present.Thank you. It's the best.

Love the Movie The music and visuals are awesome.  Haven't seen the movie since I was in my Tween years.  Totally enjoyed watching it with my family.  Hopefully, they will love as much as I did and do.

EXCELLENT This movie arrived in a timely manner and was great to watch as I had close friends play predominant roles in many scenes of the motorcycle club the NAM KNIGHTS! No issues with product!

Great Movie! I love this movie! It's my very favorite that Drew Barrymore is in! It's the perfect "real" interpretation of a Cinderella Story.

enjoyed the harry potter movies this movie is a good addition to the harry potter series. i cannot wait until the last one is done.

Love this movie I love this film. It starts out with how a rat lives, and there's a GREAT history of rats documentary on here. If you ever want a rodent pet, rats are phenomenal critters. Very affectionate, extremely smart, unbelievably clean-they actually put their food and waste in neat piles-and best of all VERY durable if you have kids. I saved mine from being a lab animal. They can jump 3 feet easily, and can fall 5 stories without injury. They can swim for three days as long as they can see. They smell as a dog does.  Mine was the cleanest rodent I've ever had. Ferrets are stinky!  So, I was willing to roll with the premise from go. This one is as gorgeous as cars, toy story, princess and the frog and up. I'd watch them just based on that. Oh, and Nemo. It's about a guy who a rat controls because the guy can't cook but the rat can, so he controls him with his hair.  This is JUST a BEAUTIFUL movie, and you'd be missing a lot of you didn't have it in blu-ray.  No, white rats don't bite. A cat, on the other hand....I never had my rat bite me.

Entertaining This movie was just plain entertaining.  I've watched it several times and will probably watch many more times. Great characters, story line cute.

This movie rocks.Period. The Hangover is one of my favorite movies, ever. It's just so over the top with everything. I love it.

Smallville 10th season It was just GREAT! It was a gift to my husband and he keeps reviewing it over and over! Great buy! I will order again from AMAZON! Thanks

Flash Gordon is a great romp The 1980 Movie has finally come to DVD after a 30 year wait. This is a great fantasy flick that maintains some of the tacky special effects of the original 1930s serial. The cast does a great job and manages not to laugh at some of the silliness. The DVD also has retrospectives from the producer, etc. and a copy of the first Flash Gordon serial.

Funny and Scary This movie is like the ultimate movie for the people who hate Nazis. x) And there are some parts that were "lol funny". But it was also scary how there's an infinite amount of the Nazi zombies and being out in the middle of nowhere like that, my God.

Rango, Rango, Rangooooh! What a hoot! A bit disjointed, but I had a good laugh at all the one-liners and comic schticks! The characters were rich and the details added to the ambiance.  Easy to fall into the story.

EXTEMELY HAPPY ORDERED PRODUCT ONLINE. RECEIVED PROMPTLY, CONDITON WAS WONDERFUL. MY DAUGHTER LOVED THIS MOVIE GROWING UP. DECIDED TO GET FOR HER FOR CHRISTMAS. THINK THIS WAS HER FAVORITE GIFT.

One of my favorites Dan in Real Life is an amazing film.  Not Steve Carell's normal comedy, but real life comedy.  If you have a family, have seen a family, lived by a family, or read about a family, this movie is about real family; dysfunction and all.  Slower offbeat comedy with an indy feel.

Television Noir at Its Best! Old black & white TV series are not for everyone, especially if HD picture quality is a high priority. But if your viewing preferences are all about the atmosphere, the characters, the plot, and the music; M-Squad is a must have! M-Squad was the basis for Police Squad, the short-lived detective series spoof starring Leslie Nielsen in the 1980's. Yes, the picture quality varies considerably, and it is rarely excellent, but it is always perfectly watchable. There are very few episodes that one even fixates on the video quality. What does grab the viewer immediately is the raw, brutal but very human qualities of Detective Frank Ballinger (Lee Marvin), and the extreme gritiness of the often snow-covered 1950's Chicago urban landscape.This is a formula series-the intro never changes, but the story begins immediately with no fluff, and the Detective begins his investigation within a minute or two into the episode. Lee Marvin does his own fight scenes, and like all police heroes, is incredibly lucky to not get hit by bullets during the almost obligatory gunfire scene toward the end of the show. He is also an excellent marksman, being able to engage in a shootout with the crook,but never killing him-something that rarely happens in the real world. The plots are tight, with an unusually high number of women involved in the crime stories, even as the perpetrators. At the incredibly low price this Timeless Media Group set is selling for, it is nearly worth it just for the bonus Music From M-Squad CD, let alone 15 DVDs in a really quality packaged set. Get it while it lasts, and then pass it on to a friend or colleaque. They will never make anything like this again.

This is a an excellent Gods and Genrals follows the early campaigns and brings the tragedy, loss and hope of soldiers on both sides into stunning relief in a brilliant panorama of emotion and action.

christmas present This was a christmas present for my father. It arrived very quickly and in brand new condition. He loved all the old pictures.

Early DVD Defects Have Been Resolved I was worried about purchasing Season 2 due to the reviews of defective DVDs but my copy of CHiPs: The Complete Second Season worked flawlessly: no playback or navigation issues whatsover on any of the discs.  I personally find the two-sided disks sort of clumsy and I prefer the one-sided style used for Season 1 better, but that pet peeve aside, everything was A-OK.  CHiPs is great fun, hopefully Season 3 will be in the pipeline before long!

Material Girls This movie is hilarious at times. I've watched this movie a few times since it came out. The name Material Girls is the right title for this movie. I'm a huge fan of Hilary Duff's work, and you can see her growth in this movie. It's also great that her sister Haylie is in this movie with her. It wouldn't be Material Girls without the Duff sisters. I think Hilary, and Haylie make a great team in the movie. This movie shows you the ups, and downs to having it all in life, and what can change in a matter of seconds. Don't take life, and what you've for grated, because it could be gone in a flash. You should be grateful for what you have in life, because you couldn't have it at all, because there is a lot of people with nothing in life. In this movie business can be bad sometimes. Overall I really enjoyed this movie, I think it's great.

Cute family flick Not enough of these cute, cozy, feel-good stories anymore...this is worth a buy. If you like Matt D. You will like him even more after this one.

A very entertaining look into wall street sleaze One of the classic Wall Street films, especially fun with the indie edge and Ben Affleck and Van Diesel making early appearances.  Even though the film centers around a small scam-stock selling firm, recent revelations about the big Wall Street firms selling crap they are simultaneously shorting for their own accounts tell us it's the rule rather than the exception these days.  The scammers love living high on the hog while destroying the unsuspecting investors.

Darknight of the Scarecrow movie I saw this back in the eighties when i 1st got cable. i had to record it on VHS so i could enjoy anytime i wanted too. When i saw they brought it to dvd well had to have it. I loved watching this movie again hope everyone else did too. Thank You  Wally

Atlas Shrugged Part 1 My sister and husband have read the book. I have started it, but not very far into it.  Between listening to them talk about it and the fact that in our Sunday newspaper there was an article in the financial section about this book, we did more research on it and found that there is a movie, so we ordered it and absolutely loved it.  Hated it when it ended and can't wait to see the rest of the story!

Elvis - 5 Stars This DVD is a great one to watch if you are an Elvis fan.  It shows Elvis and his "guys" out on tour, and what they went through, as well as the great Elvis music.  I highly recommend this video to anyone that wants to see what Elvis was all about when he toured.

You only fail if you never try I am a vegan - this film is a good portrayal of what social pressure people undergo, and the discrimination, when they attempt a vegan lifestyle.  Do it for yourself, do it for your health, and take no stock in the criticism of others.  Small minds, after all.  Its not easy to change, but people seem to think it has to be all or nothing - and that's bunk.  Start slow, pace yourself, set goals if you must - its almost impossible for a carnivore to go vegan overnight.  I wish the film had stressed that the transition doesn't have to be done cold turkey - if people just start making better choices and work their way towards vegan, then that is positive.  If I had a dollar for every time someone said to me "I can't live without cheese"... well, way back when once upon a time, I had said the same thing.  YES - you CAN live without cheese, and you will live longer and better for not eating animal products...  :)

Repo! The Genetic Opera Great movie! I was not sure that I was going to like it at first. I love musicals and this one has some good twists to it and it rather unusual but very entertaining. I really enjoyed it and thought it was a well-put together film with a great plot and humor. I truly was surprised at how good this movie actually is if you like musicals and I liked the twist to it, not like any other musical I have watched.

Jumping the Broom I am very pleased with the DVD Jumping the Broom, that I purchased.  The product was just as it was described, new, factory sealed.  The price was good and it arrived in a few short days.  I would definately buy from this vendor again.

Excellent!!! Cormac McCarthy is one of the most important writers of the past 100 years. He is writing about very real and important matters that society and culture is facing, including the loss of belief and the debate over religion. There are two strong points of view in this play and they are well stated. Great acting of course from Jones and Jackson! This is a dark play, not for those you want a comedy.

The Jungle Book I remember singing and dancing to The Jungle Book in my kindegarten class and wanted the same fun for my daughter.  She loves this movie, and I highly recommend it to all.

The Toughest of All Film Styles One film style is far more difficult to achieve than all of the others: A simple, understated naturalism that would presume to no more than honestly render a time and place. It is almost never done well, and the usual result is a mockumentary travesty. When a sincere compassion for all the suffering fomented by the encounters between Islam, Islamic fundamentalism and the good heart of Christian monks living side by side with a Muslim community is woven through the film's agenda, the odds of getting it right, of hitting all the grace notes clearly and without pretention . . . well, fulfilling such lofty intentions it is such a long shot, it almost never happens.  Regrettably for Terrence Malick, because he fares so shabbily in the comparison, the evening before, I had screened the Tree of Life, which superficially is as far distant from Of Gods and Men as one might travel on the cinematic band width. Yet oddly enough, and despite their wildly incongruous budgets, Mr. Malick's intensely moral theme is almost identical: the question being how to live a life in harmony with God while continually battered by the insurmountable contradictions of life. Pathetically enough, in this high-aiming realm, Malick's magnum opus comes off as naught but that sound and fury signifying nothing of which Shakespeare well-warned all future dramatists everywhere.  On the other hand, Of Gods and Men, among the lowest of the low-key and even lower budget films at Cannes last year, walked away with THE Grand Prix of the international film world's most intensely observed gathering, and rightly so. The scale is deceptive. It is no small film. This is the biggest movie I've seen in many a year. Everyone in the entire cast and crew deserves our profound gratitude for such exceedingly fine work wherein the end result far exceeds the sum of modest parts. 30xii11

my absolute favorite movie Loved it! Loved it! Loved it! Loved it! My absolute favorite movie of all time! Alice in Wonderland is the best movie in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lots of Memories!! I really enjoyed this movie again after 15 years. It was one of my favorites back then with lots of memorable lines and it's really funny. I guess you either love it or hate it but I think it's great. Picture quality is excellent and lots of nice extras. I would highly recommend to anyone wanting something over the top funny.

This one was worth it Although I'd expected it to be fairly slow paced for an action movie, it turned out to seem even slower, but only because there are many segments without a music score and are just quiet. I didn't mind, since it really built the proper mood for the characters and story. But I would advise not seeing this movie when you are drowsy, you'll likely dose off at some point.  It did an excellent job of building the characters in the beginning, and showing a realistic development of them during the story. It kept me guessing about the end of the story, since I was never sure if it would be one of those movies where the main character dies or even "saves the day" at the end, or not.  This is a movie I'll want to see again for the mood and to appreciate the characters.

Excellent action movie-Mel Gibson at his best This copy was for my son and he enjoyed it. I had seen it on TV and thought it was a great story, based on truth.

Sons of Anarchy If you like Sons of Anarchy, you have to add sEASON 3 to your collection. I have this one and the first 2 seasons on DVD. Looking forward to season 4 on DVD.

Amazing Movie! With movies like this, the whole crime, gangster action film its always for the most part with the exception of Goodfellas or Casino gonna be you either love it or hate it. I love this film, I feel Depp and Bale did an amazing job portraying their characters. When it came out I was so excited a Dillinger film had been produced I went and saw it and fell in love. I forget if the movie was in theatres in 2008 or 2009 i know it was released on dvd/blu ray in the mid second half of 2009 but when it was in theatres id say it was one of the best films produced all year. It does a great job informing you on the events leading to Dillinger's demise however it makes importance almost a kinda love story approach to dillinger and his gf, some appriciate some dont. In any case I highly recommened this movie if your into Dillinger or the whole gangster, crime, romance action movie. you wont be dissapointed. Defanitly go with the Blu Ray over the DVD on this movie guys, youll appriciate the much superior sound and picture when it comes the fights, bar fights, shootouts, car chases just about any action sequence which is most of the movie. Enjoy if you see it hope this helped.

One for the history books. The X-Men animation tv series is one the best if not the best animated comic book tv series of all time!!! Others are good, Batman, Avengers EMH, Silver Surfer. The Justice League tv series is in my opinion the only other series that compares. The quality is good for early 80's animation, but story line and execution of character continuity are excellent. For example,Batman of the 90's is not the same as The Batman of the early 2000 nor Batman The Brave and The Bold. Different writers and illustraters. Not even close to the comic book characters. But this tv series does an excellent job.

Tinariwen, Live in London Great performance from one of the hottest World Music acts of today. Infectious soul driven rhythm that keeps you spellbound.

Justice at last I like all the books and movies showing a person overcoming bad circumstances, but the subject alone does not make a good book or a great movie. You also need style and talent. The King's speech is stylish and has loads of talent, including good music and great editing. This may be your first and last chance to root for a king: don't miss it. In his time, young Bertie, the father of Queen Elisabeth, was often considered like an idiot because of his speech impediment. His older brother Prince Edward was loved by the public. He had a talent for remembering names and he was a leader in men's fashion. People who knew him more intimately described Edward as vulgar, callous, selfish and a drunk. I think that for the first time in the history of movies, we see here the future Duke of Windsor other self, not the man with the aura of the romantic king who resigned to marry the woman he loved, but the unpleasant self-centered jerk. We get justice for Bertie (George VI) who was a decent, courageous man. It is a bonus to a great movie. Finally, Bertie has a voice.  On the technical point of view, this is a beautiful movie: check this interview of the cinematographer Danny Cohen [...]

Awesomr Cant wait for part 2. Part 1 had me going the whole movie. Nothing like a great movie that ends with another part to come out soon!,love it!

Genghis Khan I don't understand why everyone is complaining about.  This move is accurate and I have learned a lot about him.  This movie is good.

A Must See This movie will change your views as to what cultures can preform the classic arts. Damon wayans is a talented actor that supports his cast members in this must see movie.

We Call It, "Mr. Blu-Ray" A classic from the 80s that you must own.  ...and if you buy it, you might as well get it in blu-ray.

Must See! This documentary is amazing.  It took a few minutes, maybe 20, to get into it but it's worth it.  Watch with an open heart and open eyes, then watch Furious Love.  Then tell your friends!

Very impressed I just finished my first practice with this dvd, and I was very impressed.  I have practiced at a yoga studio for over 2 years, but recently decided to see if I could save money by using dvds and practicing at home instead.  I bought the Total Yoga series (also Water and Fire) based on the reviews, and I was not disappointed!  The practice was almost as good as the class I took - and the dvd cost less than one practice at the studio.  I can't wait to try Water and Fire!

loved it! Great action, great acting, great story. A wonderful escape from reality. They've left it open for another sequel, which is great news. I won't spoil it by revealing the story, but if you liked the previous installments, you'll like this one!

Best thing ever! Who can turn down this movie.. No one.. My kids just love watching it and I love watching it with them its just the best

A tense, jolt of a movie ****This review contains spoilers****  This movie is scary, and I can honestly say it shook me to the core. I'm chalking the 1-star reviews up to just mistaken expectations: this is NOT an action film, and it's not paced like an action film. If you expect that, prepare for disappointment. Sad to say, many people (myself included, at this point in the "review") confuse reviews for meandering expressions of baseless opinion. In the interest of injecting this review with some protein. I want to begin with a bit of an aside:  Why does it seem like everyone insists on assuming the climaxes in movies are dreams? Is this the Lost effect? The Inception effect? Isn't claiming it's all a dream merely a cheap fix for an ending that doesn't tie up neatly with our notion of endings?  This movie is about love and loss (of mental health, of family, of a way of life); it's about the epic Real that we cannot explain with our frames of reference but only with silence. It's also a movie about an event that does or doesn't happen. I'm going to discuss certain aspects of the film: the use of minor characters to develop and texture that of Curtis, the main characters, and the interplay between husband and wife during their vacation (the final scene).  Mental illness is capable of being an apocalypse. Specifically, mental illness and natural disaster take us outside of civilization and behavior. Acting along prescribed behavioral lines in both cases is either impossible and/or difficult and not what the situation calls for. We see Michael Shannon's character as someone who first plays it off, then attempts to reject it with modern medicine, and only finally embracing it. They will never understand, I imagined him thinking.  At first I was skeptical of introducing "sideline" characters for one or two scenes (the mother, the brother), only to never mention them again. On second thought, though, the brother showing up out of concern and leaving with the dog was interesting and very well done. Here's why: sometimes having characters come in and out and then totally disappear from the plot annoys viewers because this leaves behind loose ends and questions. In this case, it wasn't a loose end at all: people come in and out of our lives. And in a family fractured by a mother's mental illness, the distant relationship of the brothers is awkward and palpable. It's here we see Shannon's character chase away his brother, his dog ("man's best friend"), then his best friend. He's left at the end to fend for himself and his family precisely because he's severed ties in order to save himself and his family. The ending on the deck shows us a picture of desperation in the face of catastrophic disaster which "ironically" (only insofar as we expect nothing to go wrong on vacation) happens during the vacation taken to get away from his shelter and illness. And yet the catastrophe is always near. Nature knows: the birds always know; the daughter knows, and she feels it. Her signing on the beach illustrates this. She's just felt the earthquake. She didn't feel the storm while they were in the shelter, and it's what gives the father strength to open the door: the moment is expressed with silence, because there's no explanation why they're alive. Just luck. I've written on imdb that this could be a father's wish that his hearing impaired daughter "join the world" and interact with the same "normative" organic interconnectedness that our senses bring about, except that even the minor characters in this film struggle with alienation and uncertainty. Minor characters mention how lucky the family is to have good health coverage, a good job. Several times we hear about risks "in this economy." For the main character and his family, things are pretty good. Until the illness. Letting go and getting away from the shelter, only to have our need to rely on our "illness" come rushing back into focus -- two water spouts, tidal wave, brown rain -- is probably not how we envision a partner or spouse regaining trust in our mental acuity.  The wife's face in the final scene reflects the disbelief that the main character struggles with until he embraces his illness as something more than illness. For a moment, we see the projection of his confusion and "can this really be happening?" in her expression. Who can't relate to the feeling of beginning to understand while simultaneously questioning whether we're not the ones losing our grasp on reality? Coming to this realization is textured by the gravity of what came before: that while being supportive, the wife hasn't understood the husband's illness because to understand it would mean to know that your vacation would lead to your death. There is no *actual* way to prepare and take shelter because disaster is sudden, much like the onset of the husband's illness. So the wife can only frame her husband's dreams as indicative of an illness. She can only do that, until the end. It's this last scene's switch (the disbelief in him to now what we're witnessing) that makes it necessary. I found myself wishing at first that they had just ended it with the family looking toward the ocean, like the blinding light when Shannon's character opens the shelter door earlier on, but my wish seemed even more exaggerated (like the "event" that occurs outside in the beginning of The Road, for example) and leading at this point. Ending it this way, Nichols downplays the event and instead opens the dialog about just how little we know about mental illness. What a mesmerizing film!

Not what you expect, but is amazing none the less! Honestly the first time I saw this movie, I was not sure what to think about it.  It wasn't until I watched for the second time that I fell in love with it.  It is different, and not quite what I was expecting, but it is still amazing none the less.  I love the music and the plot twists that happen.  Like some other reviewers have said, keep an open mind.  Don't go in with any preconceived ideas and you will not regret it.

Vintage Vincent... A double feature of horror anthologies! TALES OF TERROR stars Vincent Price in three Edgar Allan Poe tales (MORELLA. THE BLACK CAT, and THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR) filled w/ madness, murder, and ghoulish revenge! Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone join in on the fun. My favorite is THE BLACK CAT, due to its mixture of the macabre and the hilarious. TWICE TOLD TALES is a bit dry, but still has its moments. These three Nathaniel hawthorne spookers feature Price in rare form as Sebastian Cabbot's lifelong "friend", an insanely "dedicated" father, and an eeevil, greedy relative respectively. Beverly Garland and Richard Denning round out the cast. This is a must for any / all fans of horror and Vincent Price...

A Successful Merger of Concepts I'm going to try to address the many issues swirling about this series without spoiling the plot:  1) Similarities to other shows: There has been a great deal of speculation that the show is a 'ripoff' of Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, or even Lost. While I certainly don't disagree that it bears a striking similarity to Battlestar Galactica, I don't count that as a strike against it.  Prior shows are always going to have an impact on future shows. Film-making (whether it be TV or Feature) is an art that builds upon itself, and stands on the shoulders of those who came before it. The fact is the Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, and Lost are all GOOD shows, regardless of your impression of it or whether or not it struck you the right way, they were the best of their genres at the time, and even bent their genres into something new.  That being said, to call this show a 'rip-off' or 'carbon copy' of any of those shows is grossly over simplifying things and intentionally misleading. Perhaps we should just create a new genre name, like 'Adult Sci-Fi', so we can get over all these intellectual property theft allegations.  2) Dissimilarities to other Stargate franchises: This review will probably take a lot of heat for this, but - past Stargate shows actually weren't very good. Don't get me wrong, I've watched every episode of SG1, and most of Atlantis (still working on that), and enjoy just about all of it, but even while enjoying it, I was fully recognizant of the fact that it wasn't actually good. It's campy. The acting is sub-par, even when there are good actors in the shows. The sets are generic and bland, reminiscent of the original series of Star Trek, the scripting is packed with fromage, and the plots, no matter how original, were all clearly predictable.  But to a niche crowd (myself included) they were thoroughly enjoyable through a mixture of silly humour, sci-fi gratification, and a unique self-aware self-deprecation. But even so, the cinematography was regularly lackluster, the effects unconvincing, and the ratings carried along by loyal fans.  SGU lacks most of these shortcomings. There is the occasional campy humour, though typically coming from the same character. In that way this one character, Eli, has come to be the only vestige of the old Stargate franchises. This is made believable, though, because this character is quite similar to the people (like myself) who enjoyed the camp of previous Stargate in real life.  3) The mood: Many would say it's much too dark, both in production design and in mood. I say that it's about time. In past Stargate series', no matter how far gone a situation was, no matter how much danger they were in, the show was never EVER tense. It never mattered. Nothing ever really mattered. The characters were always too happy and fun and funny and confident and amicable to be capable of expressing any kind of peril. As such, the plots were always completely hollow. Nothing mattered, because it would all be fine in the end.  The only episode in both original Stargate series' that managed to capture any kind of deep emotional commitment or tension was Heroes, which just happened to be filmed in the documentary style similar to that of SGU. I don't solely blame the cinematography for this effect, though, but instead, for just once, the characters were encouraged to be vulnerable and hurt, like real human beings.  When people are in a serious situation, they get serious (mostly), and their flaws become more apparent. This is evident in this series, as it should be in such situations.  4) The set/production design: As for the dark set design, it makes some sense, as the ship is very old, and trying to save power. In past Stargate, no matter how old something was, it always looked like it was cobbled together the day before. The ancient city of Atlantis looking like it was maintained by a team of maid-bots and carpenters right up until the team's arrival. I will admit that the purposeful gloom goes a bit too far at times, but as far as I'm concerned, that's better than skirting the edge of cardboard box grade production.  SGU is simply a great show. Yes, it shrugs off its past franchise for the sake of its artistic intent, but it does so with wonderful results. The acting is largely superb, and even the episodes that in other shows would be considered 'in betweeners' come off as being some of the best episodes on television (like the episode Human).  I definitely recommend this show to anyone, and I absolutely recommend that past Stargate fans try to leave their preconceptions at the door, and respect it as its own show.  UPDATE: You will no doubt notice a massive spree of negative reviews on top of the 'helpful' pile on IMDb. Please take these with a grain of salt, as they are largely spam generated by a select few alienated Stargate fans who are working very, very hard to get this show cancelled. Rest assured, I myself have yet to meet a single classic Stargate fan who doesn't LOVE SGU, and I sure do know a lot of them!

Fun Flick With the Perfect Mix of Horror and Humor Just as the title of my review says, this is one of those fun horror movies that you'll love to watch with a group of friends or even by yourself. It definitely has its good scares and the humor is laced throughout. I loved the ending. Put on the popcorn, turn down the lights, and get ready for a fun ride.

Enjoying it!!! Movie came in on time! Classic forever! Great quality! Will get lots of play time from me and my family.

One of my favorite films. I have always loved the film adaptation of Logan's Run since seeing it on VHS when I was a kid. Would love to read the book if I ever manage to get a copy.

Just wow. This movie was like Chocolat meets the good scenes from Julie&Julia. It was such an interesting look into not only sushi and sushi preperation  at it's finest but into the lives of the men who make it. It was so beautiful to see someone who has dedicated their life to mastering a craft and has fallen in love with it. The entire movie and all it's elements were perfection and it is the first time in my life I have wanted to personally thank the director and everyone involved.Just ....WOW.

Absolutely Outstanding I was unprepared to see such a classic performance by two actors I have never seen before in an MMA related movie. There were so many story lines and plots in the movie, that it completely overshadows the MMA, that wives and girlfriends alike would enjoy seeing this movie as well.. Nick nolte is cast perfectly as the drunk father of the two brothers.. He becomes sober, and trains one of them who has gone AWOL from the war in Iraq.. The older brother is a physics teacher, but is then suspended from his job, as he fights to help maintain his home and family.  If you are a big MMa fan, you would enjoy it somewhat, although the MMA is tarnished somewhat by the Coda Aka Kurt Angle, who does some pro wrestling moves that are too unrealistic for the MMA... It also seemed to be a big promotion for TapOut, which is the biggest producer of MMA apparel in the world. The movie was dedicated to it's creator Charles Mask Lewis, who died in an Motocycle accident two years ago.  At the end of the movie, I said to myself, that this was a highly underrated movie and should have gotten more acclaim for the whole production.. Too bad it did not do well in the box office.. Now people should rent/buy it.. Definitely!

Enjoyable I enjoyed this movie very much. David Tennant was wonderful and charming. I thought it was a cute love story and I could watch it again.  A must for people into romantic comedies.

Great Movie This is one of the best movies that you can watch over and over Demi Moore ,Rob Low and James Belushi make the movie!!

Glee what entertainment This product was bought for a Christmas present and has not been viewed as yet, but it is a much wanted item. I am sure he will enjoy it Christmas.

Gifted I can't give a knowledgable review as I have not personally seen this movie. I bought this as a gift. The recipient says it is a very good movie.

Great Movie for the whole family This was a really good well made movie for the whole family of any ages. We really enjoyed watching it.

Wish I got this DVD earlier than Christmas ! It's amazing to me that no one has ever told me to "test-drive" several dog breeds. I got Ian's World DVD for x-mas, and I laughed out loud when I heard Ian say it, but when I watched the section in the DVD about this stage, I realized that this is a major part of picking a dog. I have always had golden retriever's but we got a yorkshire terrier in December and I wish I had test driven one. LOL ( goldens are much less maintenance but space was an issue )  We Love our "China" but I was going crazy with her getting excited and peeing everywhere and the section on learning from rewards and picking an area, she has already shown improvements .... Although I have already watched the DVD twice, and things you would think are basic, it's helped remind me of some of the things I forgot ... I could have used some of these same tricks on my girls as they grew up ... LOL ... Thanks Ian, for helping me keep my sanity ...

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!! I've waiting for this special to come out. I taped this special way back in 1980. my copy is kind of poor looking now, glad its finally coming out on march 20. dont know what the bonus features will be. MPI has done a great job with lucy's other dvds. as of 2/6/12 i found out one of the bonus features will be bungle abbey a pilot lucy directed in 1981. ive only seen 2 very short clips of it. the pilot is about a group of monks. with gale gordon and charlie callas.

Funny and Fun!!! This is another one of those movies that I love to see over and over.  I laughed so much I cried.  I HATE slasher movies, this movie  snubs those kinds by adding its own type of twist and lots of laughs!!!  I love the characters and the story line.  The characters are 'regular-types' (that you can 'understand'/associate with) and the story wasn't 'stupid' which was the best part.  The surprises were endless, just when when you think you've figiured it out, then something else would happen!!  It was exciting, suspenseful and funny all rolled up into one movie!  I recommend this movie, not to squeemish due to the blood, but to those who want excitement and laughs -- satisfaction guaranteed!

And So It Ends: a look back at why Potter matters When all is said and done - when the eye candy special effects of Quidditch matches and fantastical creatures has been superseded by advances in technology in Hollywood blockbusters yet to come - it is the little moments that this viewer and his wife will return to.  When a friend one time bemoaned the fact that `Half-Blood Prince' gets bogged down in pointless hormonal teen-angst instead of getting on with the story, I smiled... and shook my head.  No, I said, that IS the story and it's what I love about the Harry Potter series: it never loses track of the characters. It never forgets that, when viewed as a whole, these eight movies are a story of growing up, of the transition from childhood to adulthood. Of love and friendship and death. Because without those little funny and touching moments between the characters - if all you want is for the movies to rush from one plot element to another - then all you're left with is plot... and no story. Remember: plot is what happens TO the characters; story is what happens AS A RESULT of the characters.  That's the real gorgeous beauty of these movies, and it's what will bring viewers back repeatedly to their DVD shelves. As Frodo said to Sam in `The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers': "What are we fighting for Sam?" "That's there's still some good in this world," Sam replies, "and that it's worth fighting for."  That's why you need those little indulgent moments, because without them it's just razzle-dazzle special effects and set-pieces. Harry and Ginny's first kiss: they're in the Room of Requirement and Ginny tells Harry to close his eyes while she hides Professor Snape's copy of Advanced Potion Making. And before Harry opens his eyes Ginny leans forward, kisses him and whispers, "That can stay hidden up here too, if you like." That, my fellow Muggles, is pure movie gold. That's what the characters are fighting for. Love. Yes, the PLOT concerns itself with good triumphing over evil, but that only comes to pass as a result of the STORY which is about friendship. Because that is something worth fighting for.  It's why the film adaptation of Philip Pullman's astonishing trilogy, `His Dark Materials', is an utter failure: `The Golden Compass' movie rushes from one plot element to another: and THEN we go here, and THEN we go there. Never slowing down to allow the characters TO BE characters. What are they fighting for? Well, nothing the viewer could care less about...  Ultimately, all of this success comes about because of the brilliant way in which the author J.K. Rowling has constructed her seven-volume storyline. See, `The Chronicles of Narnia' are good - very good - but in the end don't quite fully succeed, and this is because the author, C.S. Lewis, had never envisioned them as a series: `The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' was originally intended by the writer to be a one off. As thoroughly enjoyable as the three Narnia movies are, there is no through-story like Rowling's Harry-Voldermort. Indeed, over the course of the three Narnia movies even some of the Pevensie children themselves become side characters. And although that was entirely the point - part of the plot - in the end it harms the story. It dilutes what the characters are fighting for. It weakens its forcus.  Look at the Harry Potter series: viewed in hindsight it's not just the story of teenage friendships, for it also presents an astounding portrayal of one man coming to be viewed in the end entirely differently by the viewer. Professor Snape. What an astonishing character arc - and yet Rowling had it all there, right from the beginning: Snape using a counter-curse against Professor Quirrell to save Harry during the first movie's Quidditch match. Wait, isn't Snape the bad guy?! We're made to wonder, right from that first movie all the way through to the revelations of the eighth. `Narnia' has nothing on that. It's clear that Rowling has thought her seven-volume story through like a military operation: the first four books may have come out only a year apart, but the author had begun planning them seven years before the first one was ever published.  And the friendships, that's all there too. Look at the Ron-Hermione moments seeded throughout the entire movie series. Harry and Hermione are just good friends, thus all the unself-conscious hugs she gives him. Yet there is a physical tension - a conscious awareness of each other - between her and Ron. At the end of `Chamber of Secrets' Hermione flings her arms around Harry... but, both of them equally awkward and embarrassed, Ron and Hermione only shake hands. In `Prisoner of Askaban' during Hagrid's first lesson with Harry cautiously approaching Buckbeak, Herminone grabs Ron's hand, before quickly letting go, both of them looking around uncomfortably. All, finally, converging in Hermione's emotional outburst at the end of the Yule Ball in `Goblet of Fire' where (like a soul crying out `Look at me!') she says, "Next time there's a Ball, pluck up the courage to ask me before somebody else does - and not as a last resort!" And in another moment of movie gold, Harry and Hermione comforting each other on the steps in Hogwarts, unable to be with the one they want. "How does it feel, Harry, when you see Dean with Ginny?" After Hermione sends her bird charms crashing into the wall beside Ron and Ron flees, Harry replies, "It feels like this."  It's why `Half-Blood Prince' is one of my favourite instalments: not only is it the calm before the storm of the seventh and eighth movies but it allows the characters' friendships to come to fruition. `Half-Blood Prince' does not become sidetracked, far from it. You need that, because that is the story. It's what I love about it: yes, they're wizards and witches but the film makers never lose sight of the fact that they're also young adults going through the most important transitional period of their lives. These movies aren't about fantastical magical events inconveniently interrupted by mushy teenage moments. Instead they're precisely all about those ordinary, everyday teenage moments, played against the backdrop of incredible events. Those amazing events only occur at all because of who the characters are; it's only natural that the plot should play second to the story of their lives. Because they are what truly matters. Because they, as Sam would put it, "Are worth fighting for."  As if that wasn't enough, as if the story of Harry-Ron-Hermione (and, indeed, Snape) isn't in itself reason enough to revisit this whole series, Rowling has also given us an amazing supporting cast of characters. All too often in a series, all the characters outwith the main group rarely hold a reader's/viewer's attention for long. And yet Rowling has created not one single boring character, and what an amazing supporting cast they are: the Dursley, the Weasleys, the Malfoys, Hagrid, Dobby, Sirius, Bellatrix, Luna Lovegood, Neville Longbottom, and on and on. In fact, one of Rowling's most inspired moves, and certainly a wonderful way of keeping things fresh, was to continuously have a new colourful character each year as the Professor of the Dark Arts. Glideroy Lockhart, Remus Lupin, Mad-Eye Moody, Dolores Umbridge. Not to forget the delightful potions master from `Half-Blood Prince', Horace Slughorn, or the Professor of Divination, Trelawney. Then, too, you have the caretaker Argus Filch, the ghost Nearly Headless Nick. Well, you get the idea. Quidditch, the Ministry of Magic, the Dementors. The richness of the world Rowling has created is so rewarding that I can't ever imagine tiring of it.  Watching these characters - and, indeed, the actors - grow up before us is fascinating. I love the fact the first two movies are kids movies; there's no hint, really, of what lies ahead. Until, of course, you get to `Prisoner of Askaban'. Even the naysayer film critics sat up at that one and said, "Hey, hold on a minute..." From the fifth film onwards these were no longer merely kids' movies. It's what accounts for their immensely broad appeal: children will watch them for the action and special effects, teenagers and adults for the humour and the series' growing depth. Even the opening titles change as the story darkens: from bright gold in the first few movies to chipped and crumbling grey stone.  Viewed as one 1100+ minute &uuml;ber-movie the achievement is nothing short of remarkable.  Thank you, Rowling.  And thank you Warner Bros and the cast and crew for the ten-year visual journey of these marvellous books that you have taken my wife and I on.

Rock The Cradle I love Rebecca Demornay in this.  Her character is so evil, it just pours out of her and eminates loathing and digust.  You almost feel sorry for Anabella Sciorras character, she plays a pretty pathetic housewife and gets totally duped by Rebecca Damornay.  It's almost as if you're rooting for Rebecca Damornay but that it so wrong.  This is a good suspence thriller and keeps you glued the whole time.

Great British historical war movie Fantastic, edge of seat film shot on location about a famous British victory over overwhelming Zulu foe. Michael Caine's debut in a starring role playing an aristocratic officer whose demeanor he modeled on the Duke of Edinburgh! Excellent supporting cast and fine performance by Stanley Baker as a dogged officer of engineers assuming his first battle command. Gives a thoughtful portrait of the heroism on both sides in the Zulu wars and the quiet courage of the ordinary British soldier.  Would be of special interest to fans of history, military, and Michael Caine.

the legend of zorro was a good buy. needed to watch this movie.glad i bought it.a good movie for my collection.it arrived on time too.

five star enjoyment It was the best animated movie because it had a good lesson and it was non-stop-action. It does have a few bad words which effects the movie, but the movie was so good that I rated it five stars. -- an eight year old fan.

Great film. I first read about this film in Hot Rod magazine. It was not well received by the known film critics, but Hot Rod said for the car sceens and the music, it will be liked by the rock & roll car people. Time has proved that this is a great addition to your video library.

Good for research I purchased this to research The Buddy Holly Story musical.  It's an interesting look at the life story of Buddy Holly.

truth or dare Great documentary, loved it in 1990 and still love it today.  Every Madonna fan should have this in their collection.

Muy bien Excelente llego a tiempo y fue lo esperado entre el material y la entrega del mismo. Recomiendo la serie es muy buena.

GREAT MOVIE! This is a very funny and heartwarming movie at a very good price. Made a wonderful addition to my DVD collection!

Very very funny--great for the entire family A great older movie that is very funny and perfect for a family movie night! I would watch it more than once.

mrs This is one of my favorite movies!! I got it for supper cheap, and it was a great buy! It came on time, and I watch it at least once a week.

Short But Beautifully Done With only 38 minutes, this film managed to give me yet another peak at my fave artist's life and work.  Having been meserized at the Van Gogh Museum several years ago, this film brought me back there.  I also enjoyed seeing the original venues he painted.  Very touching short film.

for granddaughter Was very pleased with the price of this product, especia;;y since it also came with a necklace. could not believe how quickly we received this product. Granddaughter truly loved her gift

Great Family Movie!! This movie is such a great family film excellent for showing what it takes to be a father! Absolutely would recommend this movie to anyone! Really excellent quality to rent as well

Thoroughly Enjoyed This was the first time I saw this movie. I thought it was very good. I really enjoyed it. Would recommend it.

love this movie I dont know what people are talking about this was a very entertaining movie, its like a jaws only better.  The  blu-ray quality was great the sound was great along with the price.  What more can i say,  I am waiting for deep rising to come out on blu-ray which is my other favorite next to this one.  GET THIS MOVIE ITS WORTH IT :)

Great movie and great print This dvd release has been a long time in coming and its worth the wait. The print is great, the extras give you a lot of information about the making of the movie. I am glad I purchased it.

Wonderful This series, originally on HBO is a keeper. It is much like "Band of Brothers" as to quality of content but obviously about the Pacific. If you didn't see it on HBO I definatley reco. getting the dvd set, it will hold your attention. Well done!!

great movie I purchased two of these dvds - one for myself and one as a gift.  It's a classic movie and was an excellent price on Amazon.

A Favorite Movies don't get any better than Shrek. I always go to Amazon to look for a movie because I know I'm getting the best price and fastest delivery. Always go to Amazon and you won't be disappointed. This is a movie that any age can watch. Absolutely recommend this movie.

The Ultimate Gift The lessons in this movie are timeless.  Something that we all should learn and hold dear to our hearts.

Loved it I really enjoyed this movie but I'm also one of those rare women that likes a good action flick. Beyond the believable blowing stuff up bits, and the scenes all over the world, I was most affected by the idea that the things the characters were doing in the movie are real skills of people walking around among us. I repeatedly found myself saying: "That really happens?!"  I thought it was well-produced and unlike you naysayers, loved that the producer/directors cast real Navy SEALs to portray the characters in the film. I thought the acting was good! It's like you've all never seen an action movie before. The acting may not earn Oscars but the story was made real by the fact that SEALs were the ones doing it.  That scene where the SEALs disappear into the water, then one catches the bad guy as he's shot by a sniper so there isn't a splash in the water? Chills. That's talent, boys.  It actually makes me bummed that I live in San Francisco, where the men are meek and techy. So if any of y'all know some late-20's-30's real men, send 'em my way!

One of my fav soundtracks of all time DVD shipped and arrived exactly on time. What an incredible movie, and impeccable soundtrack. John Williams really takes it to the top with this one. Highly recommended!

Well done! Other have said it better, and more profligately than I can. Surprisingly well made, with a character who's vulnerable, engaging, and above all, interesting.  There are hundreds of bad hustler movies - this isn't one of them. Watch it, you'll be glad you did.

Holiday Inn Great movie. It was preserved beautifully. The added features, including a biography on Bing and Fred,were superb.I has made a wonderful gift for my parents. Love it!

Singin In The Rain... Great gift for my young niece and nephew who need to be exposed to this laugh out loud film. Fast shipping and condition as expected. Thanks!!!

Good movie DVD.... Good movie DVD.......Born Free....I have always liked this movie...I love animal movies....I will donate this to the pubic library so other people may enjoy it also!~

Scooby-Doo Great Movie You will fall in love with this movie. It is a great movie with tons of action and comedy in it. I would recommend this movie to everyone.

MAGNIFICENT ISOLATION! This 3-D Blu-ray has footage so crystal clear of astronauts floating in space thinly attached to protrusions of the Space Station that I cringed in my chair and felt a visceral terror come over me as I looked out at the vastness of space in which they were working. We're so fragile! The 3-D is overpoweringly real-seeming because I knew these scenes were actually shot at the Station and at the launching and preparation locales; I felt (though of course I knew better)I might be in danger of plummeting to the Earth so beautifully pictured below.  Yes, this is a short film, but it's worth every penny for those who can give serious consideration to this amazing accomplishment of mankind. The scenes inside the Station, the many demonstrations of weightlessness, the occasional humor such as the weightless passing along of a woman along with the cargo as everyone (including the woman) smiled riveted my attention on the fact that this is an outpost of humanity in the vast isolation that surrounds us. How easy to feel small in that context.  The scenes inside the Station are so clear, I felt I could reach out and touch things, a feeling that gave me a better understanding of the living and working conditions in such cramped space. This film and the 3-D Hubble film are ones I feel are proud and vital additions to my collection.  This endeavor is a technical miracle, and the filming of it in such sharp detail is a blessing. That humans from different political divisions, philosophies and agendas could cooperate to bring this to pass is a strong and hopeful sign that humanity recognizes its essential homogeneity. Someday we may all be able to come together after all.  I recommend this film highly if you want to feel what it might be like in space and are interested in man's progress to the stars. I viewed it on my 55" LG 3-D TV with passive glasses and with my home theater sound on. As we used to say in the '60's, "What a trip!"

Easy to watch! The Big Easy is a favorite of mine, so glad Amazon had it. Dennis Quaid is perfect as a bad boy cop. Makes me want to vacation in New Orleans just to hear the accents and eat the food:)

A masterpiece about a little known aspect of WW II This is a classic war movie, and the BD edition is great. I had seen this movie years ago when it came out in the theaters, but it was just as moving now as it was then. The human side of the story is just as moving as the historical documentation of a real story of this crew and the historical significance of the war in the Atlantic. Forty thousand Germans sailors fought in U-Boots, and three out of four never made it back.  It is a great movie about war. It is not an anti-war movie as such, and this adds to its value. There is no ideology here: it attempts to document what this particular aspect of the war at sea was like, and it does so with flying colors.  The submarine in question is U-96, whose name was used as the title for the movie in some countries. The film is not always historically accurate. For example the real sub never used La Rochelle as a base, but St Nazaire, and was destroyed much later in the war, in Germany.  I found the bonus disc very interesting, you get a clear picture of the technology for special effects of the time (early eighties).  If you want to get... ahem... deeper! into this subject, you might want to read the book that this film was based on. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0304352314">Das Boot: The Boat</a>  Now if you are a real U-Boot buff, consider getting the non-fiction book by the same author, with many great photos he took while on real patrols in the Atlantic. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/349204042X">U- Boot Krieg. Sonderausgabe.</a>

Best Edition Ever! This is a brilliant and deservedly great movie, and one of our family's very favorites. Congratulations to whoever was responsible for removing that dreadful song in the middle of this 2005 edition! What a great move! I have always had to fast forward through it. It was truly horrid. Such a relief and a real joy to watch now from beginning to end! That song should have ended up on the cutting room floor a long time ago. The Muppets are wonderful, captivating, hilarious, and, in the case of Miss Piggy as Emily Cratchet, sublimely funny, and Michael Cane is a revelation as Ebenezer Scrooge. Timeless.

DVD Transfer is exceptional - Wonderful movie Very inspirational film about pursuing one's dreams inspite of obstacles and setbacks.  Homer Hickam Jr's dream was space and it started with Sputnik streaking through the night sky on October 4th, 1957.  More importantly to the movie, the dream started in the most unlikeliest of places, a small coal mining town in West Virginia.  My wife said Homer stated "there's the book truth, the movie truth, and the real truth, but none of them quite match the others."  Doesn't matter.  "October Sky" is an entertaining movie brilliantly directed by Joe Johnston, the same director of Hidalgo.  "October Sky" came first, but fans of Hidalgo will recognize the director's talents for character development and detailed artistic sets.  All the actors are fantastic.  Heck, even the slate grey color of the coal mine environment is a character itself adding sensation to the dirty, dangerous life of the miner.  Without hesitation, "October Sky" will send you on an emotional rollercoaster that leaves you smiling when the ride ends.  The DVD transfer of the "October Sky" Special Edition Widescreen version is sharp on an HD system, even including DTS as one of the setup choices for audio, in general a richer experience than Dolby 5.1.  Any fan of the space program should include "October Sky" in their viewing library. It is one of our favorites.

Great story great music! Enjoyed seeing where some of the music originated from and how they created the songs.  I also appreciated understanding what all of the drama was about behind the scenes.  And of course loved the music!

Courageous Movie Review I had heard from so many people, from all walks of life, that this movie was heartwarming, heart-wrenching and a great movie. I heard this from men and women alike...but when I was told by several of my law enforcement friends that this movie rocked-I felt like I needed to check it out! So glad that I did! I bought a copy and watched it over the weekend with my niece, daughter and preacher brother-in-law. You know how teenagers are-they said they would watch it-but were busy making snacks and texting on their phones. But when they really sat down to watch it-they were glued to the screen! They laughed, they cried, and were very touched by the entire movie-we all were! This is definitely worth watching and is a great family movie-I don't care how old you are!

U-571 Blu-Ray I have always enjoyed this movie, but the sound and picture quality is so great that I watched it and enjoyed it as if it were the first time viewing it. Definitely a great addition to my movie collection.

Gable for Less I'm a big fan of Clark Gable movies (or any old movies for that matter).  By accident I ran across this 3-movie set at Sam's Club today for only $19.88 which makes this even better when you can get it for less than $20.00.

Good film if your a fan - excellent 3D even if you're not. I enjoyed this movie a lot. I have every one of the Resident Evil films and decided to pick this one up in 3D. If you didn't like the other films than I really can't recommend this one. Nothing new here to change your mind about the series.  If you've got a new 3D TV though, this film has some of the best 3D effects out there. You can definitely use this movie to show off your 3D home theater.

Excellent! Ah James Franciscus is great.  The original Plant of the Apes with Charlton Heston and this one are the best!

Yoga  Good Stuff I found this video very easy to follow and learn Yoga with.  Being a first timer at Yoga, I did find it difficult physically starting out.  I found I could do more every week.  I feel great after I have done a workout with this video.  There are five 10 minute parts and I usually do 3 at a time and it is seems just right.

GREAT GREAT MOVIE i love this movie got this movie not to long ago and it came in package which is great and the dvd plays really well and the one thing i love about this movie is that it have a western type feel to it which makes this movie different from other vampire flicks so if you want to watch something different get this movie but my advice is rent this movie and if you love it as much as i do buy it :) if anyone just order this movie . hope you enjoy it

Never a dull moment Had owned this movie on VHS video and wanted to get it on DVD to preserve the comedic value.  Lemmon and Matthau were a terrific team in all their movies.  The romantic interest for Burgess Meridith gave it a fun tweek.  Will always be one of my favorites.  If you enjoy both Grumpy and Grumpier Old Men, try Out to Sea.  Guaranteed to make you laugh and want to go on a cruise.

A magnificent conclusion! A magnificent conclusion! Exciting, romantic, funny, touching, wise. Pretty much everything a movie can be. Bring tissues. Seriously. You can skip the 3D, though. Doesn't really add anything.

A Magnificent Romance The  DVD came in undamaged thanks to Amazon.com.  I enjoyed the movie.  William Holden and Nancy Kwan were appropriately picked as the main characters.  Nancy Kwan was able to play three women in one person:  first, the proud aristocrat Chinese woman, second,the earthy prostitute and third,the caring mother of her son.  Nancy Kwan as Suzie Wong was charming and funny at times many times throughout the picture-she should have won an Oscar for her role.  For those who are offended by the mores and worldview associated with the book and movie, I will say 'each to their own', and please keep in mind that your beliefs that you think are so right and proper now will probably disdained by people of the future, so enjoy the film as it is.  Films like 'The World of Suzie Wong' and 'A Summer Place' are reflective of an era in Hollywood where Hollywood had to creatively produce fims that stimulated the romantic imagination while under considerable cultural restraint.  This is an era that frankly has been lost since the 1960s.  This movie is definitely a guilty pleasure.

"Silver Bullet" is a must-see for 80's fans! I'm an 80's chick at heart, and I loved both of the Coreys. Corey Haim is very young in this one-he's adorable and gives a good performance, along with Megan Follows, and Gary Busey as the crazy-but-lovable uncle. "Silver Bullet" is a spooky werewolf movie that is fun yet suspenseful, and there are a few gory scenes.

An awesome anime This anime is my new favorite animes. Its definitely worth the price, forget all these negative comments about it. It is a must see. I am not going to spoil anything about it. I will defintely be pre ordering it.

Now the Canadians Maybe it's their traditionally close ties to Great Britain, but the Canadians just seem to be producing better and better television series. I first became a fan of the immortal Red Green show and now Murdoch Mysteries has proven itself another jewel, ranking in my estimation with New Tricks and that's saying a lot. The Canucks are raising the bar for entertainment, maybe someday the moguls in American television will start paying attention.

Bergman's Masterwork Goes Blu--An Extended Version Has Converted Me Into The Cult Of "Fanny And Alexander" Having seen the theatrical release of "Fanny and Alexander" several times through the years, it's taken me a while to set aside time to watch the miniseries from whence it came. The film, of course, won four Oscars including 1984's Best Foreign Film--and is widely regarded as Ingmar Bergman's most personal masterpiece. I've always appreciated the film, but never really put it among my favorites--but having experienced it anew with a 5+ hour miniseries version, that might just have changed.  I'm not going to delve into the plot particularly, but more my response to the viewing experience. The opening takes place during a grand family celebration. In the extended version, this is a full ninety minutes. Within this time, we meet immediate family, extended family, servants, friends--literally dozens of people. You get a sense of relationships, a real feeling of the dynamic within the household--and a true appreciation of the theatrical roots of the Ekdahl clan. Fanny and Alexander play minor roles in all the merriment--no one is given more screen time than anyone else. And while this was all very nice, you might not see the real emotional impact of this opening until the end of the film. In fact, the light tone of the beginning doesn't prepare you for what is to follow.  In subsequent episodes, Fanny and Alexander lose their father. Then a year later, their mother remarries a religious leader forsaking her past and material belongings. It is in these strict, unforgiving settings that the real drama starts to unfold. And while I had taken a break after the first episode, I continued to watch the rest of "Fanny and Alexander" in one sitting. It is absolutely enthralling drama. With nuanced performances, the battle of wills that plays out for the next three hours is like great theater. It's intense, thrilling, powerful, haunting, even at times ethereal--a pitch perfect screenplay with words chosen carefully for maximum impact. Much acclaim has been given to the cinematography and direction of "Fanny and Alexander," and that's all excellent--but the WORDS are perfection.  There are plenty of terrific performances that contribute to the impact of the film. I was especially captivated by Ewa Froling as Emilie, Fanny and Alexander's mother. And Jan Malmsjo, in the showiest role as the new stepfather, is alternately evil and strangely sympathetic. The scenes between these two will resonate with me for a long time. So consider me a convert--I am now raving about "Fanny and Alexander." And while the opening may seem a bit long and uneventful, I promise you'll see the sweetness and impact it brings to the ending. So watch the longer version, stick with it and you'll be greatly rewarded. KGHarris, 11/06.  Criterion Blu-Ray Specs (3 discs) Includes:  The Theatrical Version The Television Version The Making of Fanny and Alexander (feature length documenatry)  Special Features:  Same as the 5 Disc Regular DVD Edition:  High-definition digital restorations of the television and theatrical versions of Fanny and Alexander High-definition digital restoration of Ingmar Bergman's feature-length documentary The Making of "Fanny and Alexander" Ingmar Bergman Bids Farewell to Film, a sixty-minute conversation between Bergman and film critic Nils Petter Sundgren recorded for Swedish television in 1984 Audio commentary on the theatrical version by film scholar Peter Cowie A Bergman Tapestry, a documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew Costume sketches and footage of the models for the film's sets Stills gallery Theatrical trailer Optional English-dubbed soundtrack for the theatrical version PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by documentarian and film historian Stig Bj&ouml;rkman, novelist Rick Moody, and film scholar Paul Arthur

great colletition Quality collection of classic orioles baseball. Product arrived quickly and exactly as described.  Excellent collectible to own for any die hard Orioles's fan

Great workout and results! I would highly recommend this product to anyone. I have almost completed month 1, and I have definite results in my legs. I'm hoping by the end of month two I have more ab results. This offers the best workout I've ever had in my life. I have to say that as it was I worked out about 3 times a week before buyig this. I never did P90X, I figured as long as I want to get those results I'll muscle through the workout. I'm average build, so I bought this product to achieve better muscle tone. I survived the first three days of ouchy muscles, and it was worth it to keep pressing on. It feels completley invigorating to be drenched in sweat and know that you've made it through one more day and are closer to the look you want to achieve. I will say that my knees aren't in the best condition, and I read the other reviews and was a little concerned about using this product. If an exercise seems to much for my knees I modify it, or slow down. I haven't had any problems though that would prevent me from using this product. I also, feel I should say I am following the nutrition guide that comes with it, and I think that is very important. My legs are in the best shape they have ever been in. It's erasing my cellulite on my thighs, and that's something I couldn't even get a cream to do. My boyfriend is even doing Insanity with me, and it's great to have someone to compare notes with. We have recommended it to all of our friends and have even invited them over to try out the Fit Test. I highly recommend this! I can't wait for month two to see what my results are then!

WOW - WHAT GREAT COLOUR MY DEAR WATSON! Like most of the reviewers, when I picked up this set, I was highly skeptical.  These four Sherlock Holmes films from the '40s, because their copyright expired, have been taped, colourized, and generally abused by every midnight basement tape copier out to make a quick buck over the past 25 years.  This set, however, is a professional, honest remastering to clean up the black and white prints and use a state of the art digital colorization process to great effect.  And the results are on par with anything Criterion has done....In a word..."WOW". Even though, I have seen these films many times before, I was riveted to the colourized versions, especially the facial nuances of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.  One could argue the face colouring is a bit dark and perhaps bland, but what a process compared to attempts made in the past.  Crisp edges, beautiful shading and none of that fading to grey during scene changes. And Hillary Brooke....the Woman in Green is drop dead gorgeous.  One tell tale sign of good colouring is the teeth and mouth not turning grey while the person is talking.  By the way, this is the same process used on "It's a Wonderful Life", "She", "The Most Dangerous Game" to name a few.  It opens the question as to whether we should proceed with colorizing some of the other great BW classics.  I know the arguments about artistic qualities of B&W and the Director's conception, etc., but surely, with a first class colour process like this, it does open up possibilites.  Just think about "Casablanca" and "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" in colour.  As many of the other reviewers mentioned, the rest of the Rathbone/Bruce films should follow suit.  Although, I have not heard if there are any plans for this to happen.  Just a couple of points on the performances.  Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce owned these roles, despite the other series produced in the 30s, 40s and 50s,...and they are perfectly cast (although Bruce has been pilloried for playing a sort of buffoon to Rathbone...I disagree.  He plays a typical upper crust Brit of the late 19th century).  Arguably, the best in the entire 14 films is "The Hound of The Baskervilles".  It certainly sticks closest to the Conan Doyle original and has not been colourized.  Of this set, "The Woman in Green" and "Terror by Night" are the best.  We are also treated to 2 different Moriarties.  On the negative side, the Holmes era has been moved from the 1890s to the 1940s with, I think, mixed results.  The price is a steal....you also get the 4 films in their B&W versions, cleaned up and very crisp.  Let's hope the rest of the series starts coming out in "colour".  "The Game's afoot, Watson"........

the Sant Clause This is really a great holiday dvd. I would recommend it for any family. I enjoyed it thourghly and can't wait to watch it again.

Great movie This was a geat historical movie. All the actors did a super job.  The attention to detail was evident through out the whole movie.  I highly recommend it.

Hilarious Road Trip is the story of Josh Parker(Brecken Meyer)and his childhood crush and girlfriend Tiffany Henderson(Rachel Blanchard)As Tiffany leaves for college in Texas, her and Josh promise to keep in touch and commit to a long distance relationship. During his friends party he meets the stunning blonde Beth (Amy Smart), and experience's a night he will never forget. He videotaped his one special night with Beth and accidentally mails the tape down the University of Texas where Tiffany can find it. Now with his mid-term on the Horizon Josh and his friends must quickly travel to Texas and retrieve the tape. With Cars exploding, a black fraternity, stealing school buses from the deaf, and other hilarious road blocks, and Josh's student teacher Jacob (Anthony Rapp) who's trying to get  him kicked out of school because he's jelaous of Beth and Josh's new relationship. Road Trip is one of the funniest College comedies of the 2000's decade. I definitely recommend it.

Greatest reality show on TV The best show on TV! Gene and Shannon are magic and the the kids are the best. Sometimes Gene is the butt of the joke or hijinks but nice to see the demon humanized.

Marjory is a dedicated old school gardener extraordinaire Backyard Food Production is renewing the state of common sense across the land.  It is a very wise project to redevelop both self sustaining food production with the added encouragement of cottage industry for example like the cultures that continue from the old country where self sustaining culture provided both safety and reliability for the necessities of life.

Like these movies I've purchased three of these movies for my daughter who has become a Strawberry Shortcake fan, she loves these movies and I found myself watching them to.

A Time-To-Kill Classic Alec Baldwin, the prosecuting attorney. Whoopi, the avenging wife. James Woods, the accused killer. These characters and the actors and actress that portray them absolutely make this film as heart-throbbing, stunning, and cold as John Grisham's novel-based Movie, "Time To Kill". When a colored radical for the civil rights movement is shot, and the leading trial is dismissed, his wife, portrayed by Whoopi, goes to Alec Baldwin, seeking justice for the mistrial 25 years later. With little to no evidence and half of the witnesses gone, it seems like a lose-lose battle for justice. However, Alec Baldwin's character is sympathetic.  Alec Baldwin's performance is one of many that really stand out and make the film worth listening to when the trials are progressed. Matching Matthew's Jake Brigance in Time To Kill, he is just as passionate as a prosecuting attorney can be. With James Woods' character, Byron 'De La', challenging the witnesses and everyone else against him with careless expressions and cold-hearted comments, the movie makes for an epidemic.  James Woods stars as the killer--no spoiler since the viewer sees it. Byron is as guilty as the justice system can punish him. He is definitely the worst person in the movie, the racist who even ADMITS it several times that he's guilty as charged. Convinced that he's going to go free as he did two trials 25 years ago, his ego is annoying down to the very last comments.  This movie is spectacular, written quick and easy but bares still the intellectual intent that is the trials, civil rights, and the justice needed to be handed. I think it was great. :) Five stars.

An Education in Country Living Released in 1988 and based off the best-selling novel of the same name by Jay Cronley, FUNNY FARM stars Chevy Chase as Andy Farmer. Andy is a sportswriter from New York who decides to retire and move to the country with his wife Elizabeth (Madolyn Smith-Osborne) to write his great American novel. The couple has purchased a home outside of Redbud, Vermont.  From appearances, Redbud appears to be a town straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting (a similarity distinctly mentioned later in the movie). However, the small, rural, Northeastern town has all the charm of the dysfunctional family from MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE. The local mailman is a drunk who by the time he gets to the end of his route at the Farmer residence he's so plastered that his truck is a rusty killing machine that will run over anything in sight. The local sheriff can't drive a car because he keeps failing his driving test, the pond at the Farmer residence is filled with giant snakes, and the Farmer's discover that one of the previous owners of their home buried a corpse in their flower garden. Andy tries to focus on writing his novel, but all he can seem to produce is a mish-mash of genres containing a mixture of clich&eacute;s and tripe. On the other hand, Elizabeth puts pen to paper and discovers she's quite the storyteller and soon becomes a best-selling children's author. Her success and Andy's failure cause for some dramatic friction that leads to a crazy finale.  There are a lot of hilarious scenes. Two of my favorites are when Andy and Elizabeth first buy a dog and take it home and the other is when Andy becomes the new lamb fries champion at a local diner.  Acting-wise, Chevy Chase is at the top of his game here. Also, notable is Madolyn Smith-Osborne as Elizabeth who proves to be a great foil for Chase.  Compared to other Chevy Chase vehicles, FUNNY FARM is one of the better Chevy Chase-driven movies. It's not quite in the realm of the FLETCH movies, but it's just as good and has a similar feel as NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION. Both NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION and FUNNY FARM have threads of nostalgia woven throughout, but whereas NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION focuses on a family trip away from home, FUNNY FARM focuses on a journey to a new house and turning that house into a home.  There is some foul language in the movie which might offend some people. Personally, I didn't mind the language becomes it seems appropriate when it's used.  Also, it should be noted that FUNNY FARM was the last movie that George Roy Hill directed.  Overall, FUNNY FARM is a great comedy that most everyone in the family can enjoy. I wasn't even twelve when I first saw the movie in theatres with my parents and siblings. I thought it was funny then and decades later after re-watching it again for the umpteenth time, I find it just as funny.

YOU HAVE TO GET THIS ONE!! THIS IS ONE OF THE FUNNIEST MOVIES I'VE EVER SEEN. You have to get it!! The blu-ray definition is amazing and the 3D is great. I totally recommend it.

An awesome movie once again we see how much the everyday public likes to pan things they don't understand.  I was never a huge fan of Green lantern as a comic book charecter.  I knew that he had a green costume and a power ring.  that was it.  But what i loved about this movie was that Ryan Renolds was able to bring life into a somewhat stagnant charecter.  We are introduced to the green lantern and the Green lantern Corps.  The corps are an intergalactic police force who strive to keep order in the universe.  Every occupied planet has one Green lantern, who has absolute control over the green energy weilding in this ring.  The ring then can be used as energy constructs, making every creative thought that the lanturn thinks into reality.  The main villian was Parralax, a based charecter who uses fear like the lanturns use creative willpower energy.  The only drawback was that Parralax seemed to be a cloud based monster who chose to act through a man named Hector Hammond.  Hammond was the evil that was battled, and we only see Parralax at the very end.  Please tell DC to make Green Lantern 2!

Slapstick, Wit, and Great Cast Chemistry Honestly, I had never heard of I'M DICKENS...HE'S FENSTER, so when it popped up on my Amazon recommendations list, I was intrigued.  I watched a few brief segments on the internet and liked what I saw, so I ordered it.  And, boy, am I glad I did!  This show is great, and it breaks my heart that we only have one season of it (It was canceled after the first season).  Harry Dickens and Archie Fenster are best friends who both work as carpenters for a construction firm.  Harry is married to Kate, but he dates vicariously through his friend Archie, who is something of a ladies man.  The three leads all have fantastic chemistry and form a seamless ensemble.  The show revolves around their schemes, misunderstandings, and and arguments, and it's wonderful.  The scripts are witty, the acting spot on, and the slapstick is classic.  My favorite episode is "The Joke" which revolves around a disagreement among Harry, Kate, and Archie over the funniness (or lack thereof) of a joke Harry wants to use during a speech he has to make.  It's Brilliant.  This three disc set contains half of the episodes from the first season and disc of special features, including a featurette on the physical comedy that is so integral to the show.  The latter half of the episodes is slated for a second set that can't come out soon enough for me.

great movie one of the most sensitive and caring movies ever made - heartfelt, thrilling, tearful - a delight to watch. A sequel would be nice.

Gandhi- A Man for All Ages This awe-inspiring biographical film about Gandhi - the activist lawyer who stood up against British rule in South Africa and India and became a symbol of peace and nonviolence resistance to oppression. The action in the film starts with Gandhi as a young activist lawyer fighting apartheid in South Africa and goes on until his assassination shortly after leading India in its struggle of independence from the British.  A critical masterpiece, GANDHI is an intriguing story about nonviolent activism, politics, religious tolerance and freedom. My feeling about Gandhi's work in this movie is summed up by Mirabehn in the last few minutes of the film: "I may be blinded by my love for him. But I believe, when we most needed it, he offered the world a way out of madness. But he doesn't see it. Neither does the world."

Cartoons and Real People This movie was very funny.  I thought it was cool that it had cartoon characters and real people.  I like how the cartoon was turned into a classical movie.

It is a movie! This is honestly one of the greater titles by Liam Neeson. People can blab and blab about all the "fake" things in it. But, I doubt they would know. Dire Wolves can and usually do reach that size. A spear could do what they did with them. And it is easy to imitate other animals' noises with practice. But, I think the only reason people complain is because there are no super agent, triple flip, 360 degree, pistol headshots coming out of his laser eyes.

Great Workout This DVD has 2 different workouts (level 1 and level 2). I switch between the 2 to vary my routine, as both levels are great workouts. Although this workout is only 25 minutes, it is a great cardio as well as ab workout. After you do each level a couple times, you will be able to fine tune your moves and really get a great workout.

Something the Lord Made Now, 66 years later, I know more about my dear brother's condition. I was spell-bound by this very informative movie.  My brother was at Johns Hopkins Hospital for 6 months in 1946, just before the discovery of how Blue Babies could be helped. He came home to Manitoba and died 3 months later November 30 1946 age 9. I was 6 and I still pine for him.  Thank you for this movie. And, I am so very pleased Vivian Thomas was honoured as he should have been long before. BRML

Starman Starman is EXCELLENT!  Jeff Bridges plays an alien who through hair DNA reconstitutes his form into that of a young widows husband.  He abducts her, going on a road trip to an unknown destination.  Along the way they both learn much of each other and their cultures.  Did I mention.  She soon learns the visitor will die if he does not reach his destination in time to rendezvous with his people to be picked up.  I LOVE this film?

MUST C 3D veiw this movie for the 3d content,i was amazed at the quality and depth of this movie, i called it the wow factor.my top 5 3d movie.i watched movie on my 55 inch LG 7600 Cinema 3dtv.

Just saw it yesturday I love the American pie Movies. This movie was so funny. non stop laughs!!! Jim's Dad is always so funny along with his wife and the rest of the Gang. I'm Sure that they will not end it there. I hope they keep going.

great buy DVD came wrapped in its original wrapping and case. Shows perfect with no scratches. Wasn't bootlegged. And of course the price was good.

Brilliant ! Simply brilliant ! A little known treasure to discover I just discovered this movie and I was very, very impressed. I simply can not understand why did "Gattaca" slipped under the radar when it was released in 1998. The 90s were not a good time for SF cinema - for a long time I considered that only three SF movies made between 1991 and 2000 were really good: "Starship Troopers", "12 Monkeys" and "Strange days". Well since yesterday it is official - make it four!  When watching this movie I had the impression to make a comeback to the great age of SF, which were the 70s, with "Soylent Green", "Planet of Apes", "Alien", "Westworld", "Andromeda Strain", "A clockwork orange", "Close encounters of the Third kind", "Star Wars", etc., a blessed time in which even "Star Trek" movies could be great (just think about the first one, "Star Trek: the Motion Picture" which opened in 1979). Making this time travel back was a really great experience.  I like spectacular, fast paced movies and I am not really a great intellectual - but when a movie is REALLY intelligent and well done, sometimes I like them even better. And "Gattaca" is an exceptionally well thought, well conceived, well directed, well paced, well balanced and VERY well interpreted movie. It is amazing how much you can do with a modest budget if you have a brilliant scenario and a good idea how to use it, when you keep a good control over your movie and when you hire half a dozen of really excellent actors, who clearly enjoy playing much more than "being a star". The director, Andrew Niccol, managed to do all of it very well (oh, why, but why, couldn't he direct the "Terminal" rather than only writing the scenario).  Ethan Hawke, Jude Law and Uma Thurman gave everything they could in this movie and the result is impressive. Four other actors seconded them impressively well: Gore Vidal (yes, the writer Gore Vidal, in one of his very unfrequent appearances on the silver screen), Ernest Borgnine, one of the few survivors of Golden Age of Hollywood who is still standing, Loren Dean (an actor who for the moment didn't really make a great career, which I find a pity after watching this movie) and finally Alan Arkin, who long time ago played Yossarian in "Catch 22" and who returns here (I am CERTAIN it was made on purpose) as a REALLY smart and tenacious cop.  I am not going to say anything on the movie itself - no spoilers. Let's just say that this is a tale about a horribly unfair society in which a member of discriminated and opressed minority will challenge the fundamental rules which govern this world. It is not gonna be easy and is gonna hurt... But you will have great time watching it.

awesome!!! same experience as we I saw at the movies!!. It does not get old at all, and the HD flavor, makes it better!!

One of the best movies i have seen in the past year.. This movie is up there in the same class of "saving private ryan".  Make sure you watch it in a good player and stereo system so you can hear all the awesome battle scenes. I give it a five-star rating no doubt.  Gave me a feeling that people give their lives away so you and i can sit home enjoy our family and freedom.  Two thumbs up!  Let the rest of world know that we as Americans are not too be messed with!  We will kill u three times before you even know we are there!

Remarkable film, intriguing to the end! I kept seeing this title on Netflix, and keep steering away from it, as I was not pleased with a few movies I had seen from Sweden.  But, I came across it in the "A" section of the library and picked it up.  I was glad I did; otherwise I would have missed out on such a wonderful and beautiful drama.  It's not really a love story, it's a commitment to life, love for a family, and on one side, a deep love for children whose only family is the orphanage.  The film draws you in slowly, first by its beauty from the happy faces at the orphanage, to the wealthy land and mansion of the super wealthy.  The story moves, guides you, takes you on a journey, has you thinking about the plot, and slowly, you are drawn into the reality. With over two hours, it will keep you interested, wondering, deciding, and here see how a great storyline makes you think, accept, respond, only to offer something new to dwell on.  Jacob Peterson, manager of an orphanage in India is summoned to Denmark to become a recipient of a monetary reward that will save the orphanage from financial ruin.  As he arrives in the midst of a wedding, he discovers that conditions come with the gift.  Anna, an old flame is married to the multi-millionaire now, raising a beautiful young daughter who wedding is taking place.  This is my first Susanne Bier film, characters were believable; storyline impressive, and the actors have done the characters justice.  The film was nominated for numerous awards, including the 2006 Best Foreign Film, but it lost to the German film.. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000OVLBGC">The Lives of Others</a>...  After the Wedding is a remarkable film.  .....Rizzo

Great enterteiment Even though I am not a child or teenager I found the films very exited and the preformance of the actors great!  I love that the character were true to themselves as they grew up and were always there for each other.

I still know what you did last summer This slasher film is the sequel to the 1997 film I Know What You Did Last Summer. Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt) is getting over the events of the previous film, which nearly claimed her life. She hasn't been doing well in school and is continuously having nightmares involving Ben Willis (Muse Watson) still haunting her. Approaching the 4th July weekend, Ray (Freddy Prinze Jr.) surprises her at her dorm. He invites her back up to Southport for the croaker queen pageant. She objects and tells him she has not healed enough to go back. He tells her she needs some space away from Southport and him and leaves in a rush.

Family of Spies - Terrific Movie We had seen this movie many years ago when it aired on TV and had missed one or two parts of it. Really glad to be able to get this DVD. Fantastic "true story" and an almost unbelievable event that lasted more than 20 years. I would recommend this dvd to everyone as it shows how a seemingly ordinary family at first, could all become part of such criminal espionage against their own country. You'll have to purchase the dvd and set aside a couple of hours for a truly engrossing experience as you watch in amazement at how the whole plot unfolds and ends. One of my all time favorite movies and excited that I could actually purchase it online, because believe me, you would not be able to find this in any of your local dvd stores or any retail store for that matter. Buy it today, and if you're like us, you'll tempted to view it more than once.

Beautiful treatment of surviving trauma This is a great movie about surviving trauma told from a variety of perspectives.  Each person's response is validated and understandable.

SO cute! I watched this while I was babysitting and I had never watched it before. It was sooo cute! Even in your teens this is a cute movie if you find it on TV or can watch it, I say you do!

Best yet! this movie is one of the best of the Twilight series.  The video I purchased included a special disc that contained deleted scenes and extended scenes as well as behind the scenes look at the production.  I loved it all.  I have watched this movie several times now and every time I am grateful to AMAZON for not only sending it out so fast, but also for the convenience and economical price.  Thank you Amazon for continuing to provide a great service at such a reasonable price.

Wonderful movie about a strong woman and an awe-inspiring horse! You will watch this movie again and again. Others have detailed the pros and cons of the movie, and I am glad we got to see it on the big screen with surround sound. The DVD does not disappoint at all, and the bonus features are everything we hoped they would be, at least the ones that pertain to the movie. This is a movie, not a documentary, but hopefully it will introduce Secretariat to new fans and a new appreciation for the horse and his story. Hopefully, they will seek to know more after seeing the film and find the resources they need in books and on the Internet.  Secretariat captures something that many people do not understand -- why stock men and women invest and risk everything in their animals and decisions, the chance to produce the best. Nothing is certain, though everyone tries for a winner, you never know for sure what you're going to get any breeding program. When you produce a champion, it is a miracle, and when they win, it is cause for so much jubilation. The choice of "Oh Happy Day" was spot on -- Rejoice every time you see this movie. It will lift you up and carry you each time you watch it...

GREAT MOVIE! I started to watch this movie 7 times in the past two years and never got to finish it 'cause something always came up :/ so i finally decided to get the dvd and try to finish it, and now i've finally seen the ending ^_^ (the ending and the beginning and the middle were great by the way)

Evita delivers My Mother and I thoroughly enjoyed this movie on Blu-ray.  The picture and audio are not bad.  Wish there were more special features.

Sound of Music is a classic The Sound of Music is among the top musical movies ever created. The story is based on the experiences of a real family during world war 2. The music, written by Rogers and Hammerstein is wonderful and people can be heard singing or humming along. Julie Andrews was incredible as Maria, a young woman torn between her feelings for the family where she served as governess and the convent she was determined to join. It's a movie the whole family can enjoy together. My family sings the songs when we are together, they lighten our hearts. I will never forget my first time seeing this movie in the theatre. I bet it would still draw a crowd if re-released. Five stars are not enough to rank this movie! GREAT GREAT GREAT<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003VS0CX8">The Sound of Music (Three-Disc 45th Anniversary Blu-ray/DVD Combo in Blu-ray Packaging)</a>

THE LAST ONE... ok, for me ALIEN is a trilogy...This is where it ends...All that came after this is not remotelly close to the quality of the first 3 ALIEN movies...This 3rd part is actually really cool, with an interesting story...Well, this is where my interest for ALIEN ends, but i totally recommend these ALIEN movies that are really cool!

Those missing scenes are NOT in the theactrical version This has got to be one of the most misremembered movies of all time.  ALL the DVD and Blu-ray versions have ALL the original music restored.  Only the older VHS/LD/CED versions have music replaced due to rights issues.  Also, ALL home video version are uncut and exactly what was shown in the theater.  Any extra scenes you may recall were added after the fact, for TV airings.  This is very common of '80s comedies, as almost all of them were exactly 90 minutes, and after cutting scenes for content reasons that needed to fill out the 2 hour time slot with alternative and additional footage.  Fast Times has had several different TV edits and each included a slightly different set of these alternative/additional footage.  The total know TV bonus footage runs about 25 minutes.

love this movie This movie I can watch over and over again...love it.I wanna cross over the wall.so cool.Would give it 10 stars if I could.

Our beloved ANNE!!!! My mom and I spent the weekend watching all of these. They are wonderful! The first one is full of the Anne-ish tales we all love ("carrots!", the maiden lily floating into...Gilbert! and many others..) The second is my favorite...no words to describe it. You must see these wonderful DVDs! I highly recommend watching "Road to Avonlea" before or after you watch these...those are classics as well and have Marilla, Mrs. Lynde, etc. in them. The third one, however, is WAY off of the books! If you're a stickly for that sort of thing, don't watch the third one. I, however, still enjoyed the third one.  Highly, highly recommend these movies for all the "Anne at heart" people out there! Great for families...girls and boys!

truely one of the best i rented this movie from netflix love it. haven't seen a good kung fu flick in a while. plus it was a blue ray dubbed version. I was thinking of buying it here. but it has to be the dubbed blue ray version. most def. adding this one to my collection.

This is crazy! I have the first 4 seasons and have to spend 46.19 for all of them again?  Not a bad price all in all but it is just the principal!  I have been dying to get season 5 and complete my set so I probably will cave.  UGH!  They better have some extras or something to make it worth my while!

Very energized and fun work out! I really enjoy this work out.  It is tough but very fun. The hour goes by quickly and I feel great when it is over.  I think it is a very good cardio and upper body work out, but less lower body intense than some of the other advanced taebo workouts.  I recommend this work out if you like the "Get Ripped" series.

Marilyn: The Movie <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005QVUZG2">My Week With Marilyn</a>  The movie story is based on a real novel that a British film documentary producer wrote about the time he spent with Marilyn Monroe when she was in England shooting a movie with Lawrence Olivier, a famous British actor. The acting and direction were very good.

with a box of Twinkes I gave this movie to my son, inside a box of twinkes, he'd never tasted them before and now he loves them too.  Fun movie up there with Shaun of the Dead.

DIsney Aladdin rocks My son is autistic and he loves this movie but only watches VHS so he can rewind and fast forward... he watched it and has been so happy ...

Thoroughly enjoyed! Movie was extremely well done--completely up to par with an American film.  Also, skipped a lot of the parts of the book that were honestly boring.  No need to see the one in the US now!

Amazing remake of 12 Angry Men. This is an extraordinary work which in good Russian style manages to be both intensely serious and yet quite light, with acute observation, great philosophising and a sting in the tail. It riffs on its original very well with a focus on modern Russia, the war in Chechnya, and the very different motives of the jurors. At times it might be a bit 'talky' for Western tastes--but it is a kind of modern morality play that is as unsettling as it is thoughtful.

Oh btw... I love it! A police officer that you love to like! A average Joe with above average intelligence! It is a must have for any Columbo fan! :)

Excellent Performance - Amazing Sound Like a few other individuals who have posted here, I was able to see Lindsey Buckingham live in concert this year.  The experience was unbelievable - Lindsey is extremely underrated as a guitarist, and as I found out from the show, really should be considered the heart and soul of Fleetwood Mac - without him, I seriously doubt they would have had the same level of success.  This Blu-ray is a must own for anyone who is a Lindsey Buckingham fan (or a fan of Fleetwood Mac).  The sound quality is just remarkable, and the fact that the set list is identical to what I saw in concert really allowed me to experience that night all over again.  There is ample punch with the bass guitars / drums, but also extremely crisp highs showcasing Lindsey's picking skills.  You will see several close-ups of the guitar throughout the performance, and his skill is no more evident than on the track 'Never Going Back Again.'  The highlight of the performance does come from some of the older songs such as 'Go Your Own Way', but I definitely have new favorites in some of the new songs 'In Our Own Time' and 'End of Time.'  As a music fan, I also purchased his new CD 'Seeds We Sow', and while it is still very enjoyable, I must say that I prefer the new songs from this Blu-ray.  Lindsey tends to use some sort of audio filter / manipulation on his audio CDs that allow his voice to come off differently than it does in concert and I have yet to figure out why.  The audio from the concert tops the album CD without question.  If you end up purchasing this, you will not be disappointed, it's one of the best concert experiences I own.

Absolutely Hilarious and Down to Earth I suppose most opinions of this movie will depend upon the kind of sense of humor a person has.  My husband and I laughed hysterically at this movie from beginning to end. The main character and his Mom were very lovable and down to earth. You can immediately relate to them in that they are just honest, warm-hearted, real people trying to get through life, despite it being unfair at times. This movie has a hilarious take on just such a plot. It does have a somewhat dry feel as it is first getting started, a bit reminiscent of Napoleon Dynamite, but don't let that fool you - It is absolutely hilarious!  Personally, I thought it was very original, sweet, and "will have you laughing-in-stitches" funny.

Excellent DVD - especially for those looking for a challenge I'm a Tripsichore Yoga teacher, and have studied with Edward at his intensive.  Much like any other system, no matter how amazing the DVD (and this one is amazing) the subtleties of the methodology are difficult to convey. The sequencing is challenging, but do not let that deter you- there is no other way to learn it than to do it and keep trying until you figure it out.  Some yoga experience is best, and get to a Tripsichore workshop if you can- with Edward if possible. This latest purchase is because my first one was so well-used it has scratches and skips.  Don't worry if it seems impossible the first time you put in the DVD- keep going!  There was a lot of falling, crashing and cursing for a year or so as I was leaning this stuff.  You can do it! Feel free to contact me with questions //LizDoyleYoga.com and check out Edward's website //Tripsichore.com. Above all- have FUN!

We LOVE Mulan! My boys love watching Mulan. While the theme that the movie covers is complex for my children, I have found that they like the action and the silliness.

Greatest movie you will never see, by any measure script, acting, filming, this is the best movie you will never see.  reveals the truth about corruption permeating all aspects of society from the top down, even the very strange family relationship in which we first encounter the remarkable heroine here, with her father, or husband and her son, or brother, and why get away.  reveals the overwhelming power to corrupt which the insatiable appetite in the USA brings  requires a close feminist reading of the disposable nature of beauty, of the human being  this is truly the greatest and most important and REAL film you will never see.

Very pleased I am very pleased with the product. The exercises are beyond my level at this moment but something that I can work at to achieve success.

Animal product... out! How do you delete years and generations of eating habits that are harmful to everyone... well, this documentary did it for me. Amazing research!

Amazing I love Skillet all the way, both new and old and I'm so glad I was able to get this. Love it!!

unusual & Romantic~ Melacholia is the best movie I have seen in awhile. Fresh & disturbing at the same time...how do people deal with an ending? The people you expect to be strong may not be & those that seem flawed might end up being the strongest. I think this movie deals with what we expect to happen & what will actually happen~ isn't that what life is all about? The sisters have a close connection; very lovely in this way. The way people deal with children is also a theme & in the ending most important. It is not a "feel good" movie but is very satisfying. I love this movie!

Toy Story My son loves this movie. It is a great story.  It is a great movie for little kids, unlike Toy Story 3.

Classic Movie. Such a classic movie. Very well made. The video/audio is obviously not up to par with current technology but there's only so much editing people can do to an older film. That being said, the movie is so good it's easy to look past that. Buy it. Enjoy.

Surprisingly good movie. I was kind of expecting this movie to suck, just based on the trailers and the fact that I've never been a big fan of Jake G.  However, I was very pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it.  It just shows that you can't always judge a movie without watching it with an open mind.  The acting was great, the plot was intriguing (and very different than what I thought it would be).  Also, the music was very good.  It had a certain depth that most modern scores don't have.  All in all, I would highly recommend this movie.  You may be pleasantly surprised like me!

Battleship This is the best movie of 2012 I have seen!  Absolutely great acting, great action, comedy, romance- everyone from kids, women, men and grandparents will love this movie!  I recommend it for EVERYONE!

Pleased The DVD was mailed promptly and arrived in perfect condition. As a fan of grindhouse sci-fi & horror films I am quite pleased with everything.

Singing in the rain SINGING IN THE RAIN HAS ALWAYS BEEN ONE OF MY FAVOURITE MUSICAL MOVIES . NOW THAT I HAVE IT ON BLU RAY I EVEN ENJOY IT MORE . I RATE THIS AS A'' FIVE STAR''. THANKS.  HAPPY CUSTOMER .  JIM H.

Great Purchase!!! I love love love this movie!! The amount of detail is fasinating and lets face it who doesnt love Neal McDonough and those pants he wore in this movie!! Ha! All in all it was a great movie and Zooey Deschanel was great as DG with Alan Cummings as the "scarecrow" character! If you liked SyFy's spin of Alice in Wonderland called "Alice" then you will def love this spin of the Wizard of Oz. It has a great storyline!! You will not be disappointed! Its a great addition to my collection and came in perfect condition!

ONE OF THE FUNNIEST MOVIES EVER MADE. NICHOLAS CAGE IN HIS BEST PERMORMCE EVER. A MAJOR COEN BROTHERS DELIGHT!! This is absolute LUNACY. I can always go back to this movie and it is as hilarious as the first time. It is such an unimaginable premise. A loser meets a female cop during booking and love blooms. Here comes love, here comes marriage, here comes mommy with a baby carriage. Only not their baby. She's BARREN!! She is HOLLY HUNTER and she is as HILARIOUS as Cage. Great cast. Everyone is FUNNY, FUNNY, FUNNY. Gotta' LOVE the COEN BROTHERS. A MUST SEE. A 20 plus year old treasure.

Review The item was received on time and as described. It was packed for shipment in a careful and protective manner. I recommend this vendor.

Edge of your Seat Thriller! Went to the video store and did not see this, it was hiding. I love movies based on one solid location such as "Buried". I brought home "Brake". What an amazing movie. This is now my new favorite movie besides "The Game" with Michael Douglas. My heart was pounding the whole time beginning to ending. For such a minimal budget, the creators really made you wonder! GREAT FLICK!

Fast paced, intense drama The movie is over 2.5 hrs in duration, which is rather long by Hollywood standards - but you will not notice the time as the movie clips by at a good pace. The direction is slick, the cast of characters is well portrayed and while some trailers might leave you with the impression that this is a dark movie, it is definitely not. The movie is a murder mystery and deftly combines human emotions and drama with the main theme. Highly recommended.

The Reluctant Vampire 5 stars out of 5 = Masterpiece  Elegant, sophisticated, beautifully scripted, acted, paced, & filmed, "Interview with the Vampire" is among my top five favorite Vampire movies. No other Vampire film, other than Gary Oldman's Oscar worthy performance in "Bram Stoker's Dracula," delves as deep in a character study of Vampires & how it would be like to be a Vampire from their point of view.  A broad 200 year perspective of the life of Brad Pitts Vampire character, "Louie," the reluctant Vampire who finally succumbs to his fate of feeding on human blood, & in his quest for enlightenment of what he is, he finds out, if anything, he is a Vampire.  The story of a surprisingly great performance of Tom Cruise's, "Lestat," who sees "the dark gift" as everything he could ever want, except companionship, what he wants the most, & realizes the least. Cruise steals the show in his glee for sucking the blood out of the living, & his indignation for turning "Louie" in to a Vampire that still has respect for human life, in a barrage of cold blooded murders, & ranting at "Louie" with black comedic hilarity, yet shocking indifference to life, to the point of sadomasochism . Also, a very young Kristen Dunst's, "Claudia", who also steals the show & matches Lestat bite for bite in the quest for blood, & the sport it brings. A hugely great & complicated performance for such a young girl!  "Interview with the Vampire" is a thinking man's horror film, one that reaches down deep, not just to bring you cheap scares & shallow predictable characters, but a rich tapestry of what it means to be a Vampire, & all the consequences that goes with it.

An Oldie but Goodie I really enjoyed this movie.  I am a real "old movie" buff, and this has always been one of my favorite movies.  I loaned it to a friend to watch, and she really enjoyed it too.  I have been shopping with Amazon for a couple of years now and really enjoy shoppping with the Amazon company.  Thank you.

Brilliant Blu-Ray Transfer! Enough has been said about this classic Disney film... Let's move on to more recent news: This absolutely marvelous Blu-ray transfer! The Aristocats has never looked or sounded better than it does here. Every nuance of the original animation is on display for the viewer and I couldn't be more pleased with how stunning the picture quality is! Save for one flickering speck in the earliest moments of the movie, the Aristocats looks like a brand new movie! The colors are bright and vibrant and full of life. The 'Everybody Wants to Be a Cat' scene is a shining example of what I mean! After sampling the mind-boggingly bad way that Disney handled The Fox and the Hound on Blu-ray, I was eager to sample another of these 70s era Disney films to see what the result would be. Boy, did Disney pull through for the fans! Pick up a copy today!

Back To You and Me Excellent movie. Love the movie and all the stars. Good clean story line. I have watched it several times. Love happy endings.

Our new favorite movie! This is my 3 year old son's new favorite movie, and for once it is something I don't mind watching with him! The bright colors and music are fun and even catch the attention of our baby, who will try and hang upside-down off my lap to watch! The story line has some great lessons about respecting nature and how greed can ruin things. We rented this at Redbox first but after the third time my son begged to rent it again I figured I ought to just buy it!  Also, I usually can't tell a difference in blu ray vs DVD- but this one I can. It's vibrant and amazing.

Very Good I have to admit....I am not big on Van Damme.  But he really impressed me in this movie...first as a callous, cold killer and second as an innocent clone.  His acting was better than before.  Michael Rooker put on a great performance as well. I don't feel the need to go into the plot as others have done.  But it is a movie that you will enjoy, if you like psychos and action.

A must have in any sports fan's library I've caught a couple of these when they aired and just purchased the full set. These in-depth stories are "required reading" for big sports buffs and I can't wait to catch the ones I missed. A perfect gift for the sports lover in your family or for yourself, you can't go wrong with these.  Update: Now that I've watched more of the series, it's amazing how far in-depth some of the stories go. As a Baltimore Ravens fan I knew the story of the Colts leaving in the middle of the night and the band, but exactly how the band was able to keep their uniforms and the details of the story are amazing. Also seeing some of the raw emotion that still lingers is just amazing. Hands down, these are the best documentaries I've ever watched.

AWESOME!!! i loved it! This movie is packed with action! From ninjas to fridge magnets there is spying, climbing, and car chases that keep you on the edge of your seat! it is an awesome movie. Whatch it!!!

Great buy! We received exactly what we wanted in a short amount of time. Very pleased with our purchase! Would buy more movies from this seller.

A coming of age tale gone wrong in this alternative zombie film which casts an unsettling mood while taunting moral limits. Right away we are introduced to some high school delinquent--Rickie (Shiloh Fernandez; from the upcoming reboot of The Evil Dead) and JT (Noah Segan; Cabin Fever 2).  Bored while skipping school, they trespass their way into an abandoned mental hospital, drink, smoke and vandalize; essentially earning themselves an unfortunate fate by any horror standard.  Wandering unadvisably deep into the unsafe building they make their way to a long rusted-shut room in the lower corridors in which they find "a dead girl."  The dynamic between Rickie and JT is decently played.  Although besties at initial face value, this thin veil is quickly drawn when JT becomes violently possessive of their "dead girl."  Naked, gagged, restrained and wrapped in plastic on as gurney--oh, right, and in a room rusted-shut and years (if not decades) separated from the world--the girl shows indications of somehow being alive.  After some destitute acts, the moral bankruptcy of both boys gradually becomes apparent, even if Rickie maintains the slightly higher moral ground throughout the story.  Interestingly, we also learn that this girl seemingly can't die.  As the mute "dead girl," new-comer Scream Queen Jenny Spain produces some truly awkward, hauntingly pain-wracked, even quite disturbing (when not brilliantly menacing or unnerving) expressions.  We find everything from hatred and fear to utter pandemonium in her eyes.  On the down side, the film's supporting roles are weak, even unnecessary.  While many scenes take place at the boys' high school or home, this could have been presented much more effectively as an extended one-act since all of the significant character development occurs, or could occur, in the abandoned mental hospital.  However, the inclusion of the Joann character (Candice Accola; The Vampire Diaries) did fact make for some interesting scenes that could not have been established with a one-act.  Given a circumstance that couldn't possibly occur, this film examines sadism and temptation to the extreme.  This serves as the most realistic approach to an undead movie I've ever seen, but includes psychological aspects that genuinely make a real film of it--even if presented with speaking parts that are heavily eclipsed by the story concept and the emotions of "the dead girl."  Really, this is a great (though very sick) idea delivered--because of the maturity of the main characters--immaturely with an appropriate but unsurprising ending.  But it is not without disturbing images, a new take on questioning moral limits, and an alternative take on the undead.  In that respect, this film was a unique success.  There was even some briefly satirical gross-out gore.  This strangely transitions from serious, disturbed and depraved, to satirical.  But, with writer Trent Haaga and his long history with exploitation cinema and Troma films, this shouldn't be surprising.  The inexperience of the directors is also evident.  But overall I'm surprised by the quality of the product, one which employed frequent nudity almost entirely for eerie mood setting above gratuitous presentation.  If you consider yourself any form of horror fan, then you simply must see this.  IF YOU LIKE THIS WATCH:  If you seek another "real film" of a horror then turn to The Living Dead Girl (1982), another film which appears to be nothing more than an exploitation-flick at face value but manages to tell another, very different, moral story.  SIDEBAR:  Not to be confused with The Dead Girl (2006).  CRITICAL ACCLAIM:  At the 2010 Fangoria Chainsaw awards Deadgirl was nominated for Best limited/Direct to Video, Best Supporting Actor for Noah Segan, Best Screenplay for Trent Haaga and Best Make-Up/Creature FX for Jim Ojala.

They Just Keep Getting Better and Better This was the fourth DVD purchased in our household.  The first three we have are wonderful and this one is even better.  Great harmonies, great singing, good entertainment, and a lot of humor make this one worth watching over and over again. These guys know how to have fun and know how to make the people either watching live or watching the DVD have fun right along with them.  They have some highlights from the Cathedrals which make it even more wonderful.  I recommend this highly for any Southern Gospel music fan.

AN INSTANT HAWAIIAN HOLIDAY- WITH PUNCH I have loved HAWAII 5-0  ever since the Pilot which I watched at SUNSET ON THE BEACH in Waikiki. It was really gripping from the first  "BOOM" and the sound of the iconic theme song.I still love it!!The cast is perfectly picked and totally believable as STEVE, DANNO, CHIN and KONO and are very ably supported by guest stars and regulars. This series has it all. Gorgeous actors, great writers,suspense,action,sex appeal and magnificent scenery!!!!In fact it is an instant Hawaiian holiday-with punch !!!!

For the true Beatles fan! I bought this as a gift for a good friend who happened to love, love, love the Beatles but did not for some reason have the anthology.  This is a collection that has so much footage, so much music on it..it is insane! It's a great, great collectors item especially for the price and he was definitely a very happy person when he received it on his birthday.

great stuff a must see for all of stevie's fans. great music and perfect picture, your money's worth for a concert you can never attend. need i say more, get it now !!!

Amazing feel-good movie This is a great movie in every way. It will definitely change your mood in a positive way. It is an allegorical story and you will find a lot in it.  All in all, a great watch.

Gilad Peak Performance The DVD has met my expectations.  I record the workouts on Fit TV, but wanted to be able to have a longer workout time.  Gilad's workout DVD hit every part of the body.

This was frigging hilarious Not everyone is going to like this movie, some people might even get offended by it, but to me its in all good fun. It's just a movie. My boyfriend and i thought this movie was hilarious, we were laughing so hard we almost fell on the floor. If you loved The Hangover, than you will definitely enjoy this movie.

Deserves its AFI Spot Fargo became an instant classic when it came out, because it provides a fresh, unusual scenario which draws you in. So many movies are set in the flashy locations of Miami or Los Angeles. Here we have a female, pregnant police chief in the wintry cold of Minnesota who gets drawn into a triple homicide. She's sharp, and quickly begins to unravel what is going on. Frances McDormand won an Oscar for her portrayal as she figures out that William H. Macy has planned a kidnapping of his wife in order to get his hands on the ransom money. Of course, as tends to happen in movies, the plans go quite wrong and soon there are dead bodies all over.  Certainly the plot itself is fun to watch, but even more delightful is the overall crafting, acting, and dialogue of this movie. The Coen brothers come from up north and you can see their love of their homelands in every scene. The frustration as characters try to chip away at sheets of ice that coat their car windshields. The resignation as they use brooms to sweep away snow before the next storm comes in. Those of us who live in snowy regions can relate to all of this.  It's funny that many reviewers focus on the accents of the characters as being odd. Every region of the US - and heck the world - has its own accent! We watch movies set in New York City and know the people there have an accent and lingo. We watch scenes in Alabama and accept their accent and dialogue. Why should it be any different hearing the normal accents and way of talking of those in Minnesota? It's not good, or bad, or anything else. It's just a normal part of life. We all have accents. It's what makes life fun!  It's fascinating to me that the role of women is ever evolving in films, but films overall still seem to be male-centered. Here we have a brilliant female main character who is smart, engaging, and complex. She is wonderful. And even so, she is pretty much the only woman in the entire film. The wife, who gets kidnapped, barely gets a few lines in before she's hauled off. There are two nameless prostitutes, and another nameless escort. Our real world is half female, but in movies it seems that worlds are made up of mostly men. And prostitutes :). And, I suppose, annoying wives who need to be kidnapped.  It's certainly worth mentioning that there are some quite violent scenes in the movie. Those who are squeamish about blood will have to look away a few times. But even those who normally avoid violent films should give this one a watch. The characters, scenes, and dialogue are fantastic, and there are scenes that will stay with you long after you've watched the movie.  Highly recommended, and well worth its #84 ranking on the AFI top 100 listing.

Review of Brideshead Revisted An oustanding series.  Very true to the book and the acting is extraordinary.  The re-mastered DVD's show no sign of age since the series was first made.

Good Timing/ Good Price No complaints at all. I'd order from here again anytime. Thanks a lot. blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

Big: A Timeless Classic During 1988, there were at least four films that had the same idea of putting a child into a grown man's body.  Only one of them really worked and it was with the film Big.  The film is about a kid named Joshua Baskin.  While trying to impress a girl by riding a roller coaster, he is deemed to be too small and is not let onto the ride.  Feeling depressed, he goes to a wishing machine and wishes that he was "big."  The next morning, Joshua wakes up to discover that he is big but not in the way he imagined it.  He wakes up in the body of a grown adult and spends the rest of the film trying to become a kid again.  He heads off to New York City with his best friend in the hopes of trying to find the machine and figure out how to explain Joshua's absence from his family.  In the hands of lesser talent, this film would have been a disaster.  Fortunately, the film went on to become one of the highest grossing films of 1988 thanks to terrific direction, a fantastic Oscar-nominated screenplay and the performance of a lifetime given by Tom Hanks.  Hanks went on to win a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.  Personally, I feel as though we would have won if Rain Man had not come out during the same year and Dustin Hoffman giving a truly memorable performance.  Hanks is completely believable as a 13-year-old kid trapped in the body of a 35-year-old.  We truly feel for Joshua as he learns about to complexities of adulthood with the longing for childhood.  The film is full of classic scenes such as Joshua using the large keyboard in the department store, his first time having a female over and especially the ending.  The supporting is cast is also terrific.  I personally felt that Elizabeth Perkins and the boy that played Joshua's friend should have received Oscar-nominations for Best Supporting Actress and Supporting Actors along with the film receiving a best picture nomination.  The screenplay touches on a wide variety of subjects such as valuing your childhood, the difficulty and challenges of growing up and really deciding on what you want.  For the kid in all of us, I would absolutely recommend this film to everyone.  It receives my highest rating of 5 out of 5 stars.

Fantastic Fikm i`ve been watching the film every Easter,for quite a while now: This is A great addition to my DVD library

VIN DIESEL IS AMAZING!!!! Besides the fact that Vin Diesel is amazing with his super deep voice and his huge guns, this movie was really great. There was a lot of action and exploding scenes. There wasn't a lot of racing, it was more like speed driving away from the bad guys but it was still incredible!

Outstanding! The beginning, a sermon on grace; the end is an incredible story of a young woman who found that grace in an amazing way!

Splendid Not a fantasy movie. It is a legendary story of it's own version. Not accurate yet told very well for it's own time. Stories grow with time, they transform. I am ok with that. This is a good version.

a classic example of why professional media reviewers are always wrong I bought Hudson Hawk because I am a fan of bad movies for the camp value, and judging by the reviews this is certainly a bad movie.  Well, that's what you get when you pay any attention at all to people who criticize things for a living.  This isn't a bad movie, it is the most ingenious, inventive, well scripted and acted little spoof I have ever seen. Unlike any other movie ever made and ten thousand times better than the cookie cutter trash that critics always say they love, because it is their job to say they love it.  But it all works out in the end - I always only watch the movies I am told not to watch, and they are invariably more interesting than the ones the critics tell me I should like - for one reason or another.

A Fun Film This was a fun and entertaining film about the supposed crash of a mysterious alien airship in Texas during the old west. Filmed strictly for entertainment, and not meant to be serious, but a neat story and good acting.

great movie Christina Ricci does an excellent job in this movie. Prozac Nation is actually based on the book Prozac Nation which the author is actually writing about her life. I found this movie to be somewhat depressing as I watched it but by the end of the movie it got better. I would recommend this movie to parents and young adults, I think depression affects a lot of people and they don't realize it or don't want to be told they need medication for depression. This movie brings out a lot of emotions and is done very well.

Great show! This show is amazing! I was a bit wary when it first came out, but I got over it quickly. As community college graduate, I found a lot of silly little things in the show which perfectly summed up my goofy community college experience.

great deals on Amazon I have been looking for this movie for a while and had no luck finding it locally. So, I did a search for it here on Amazon and there it was, AND the added bonus was the price..

Farscape Lives!! I had and have always been a fan of this Farscape series from the time it was on the air to the very end which is why I have the box set plus the finale with the movie.  I was sad when they took it off the air as well as several of my friends at work that also watched the series.  The Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars dvd had several sad key moments when characters die and these are characters that you have gotten used to seeing in the series but it made the movie and awesome finale.  This is an excellent dvd and I highly recommend it.  I will wait a little while and I will start at the beginning of Farscape to enjoy it all over again.

Great movie. This is a great movie. It has some small scenes of humorous violence but besides that it has a nice story.

Liked the Monsters My granddaughter, 7, liked it because there are three monsters. She also liked it because it has woodsmen and other monsters.

Sex and the City Series I absolutely love this video on the television series - Sex and the City. The characters are hilarious and true to life form. Excellent actors.

Fills the  Absence of "24" and More With its numerous deserved Emmy awards to the show, cast, and directors, Homeland deserves its accolades.  I cannot emphasize enough how great this show is, particularly the very first episode which grabs your attention and does not let it go.  After that, you will be hooked on Homeland.

The Sons of Katie Elder This is a must have for any John Wayne fan. The story telling is strong throughout the movie & it kept my Mother in-laws attention from start to end and she's almost 96.

PERFECT! This was a steal of a deal!  I have watched and enjoyed these blu ray movies over and over!  The ONLY downside is that there is no digital copy, but who is going to watch an ipod movie over seeing it on the blu ray tv screen anyway?  Great investment, no regrets!

Absolutely awesome.... Thanks Don Miller! Absolutely awesome. I also read the book and it was different. Not in a bad way, just so much more that I either didn't remember from reading it, or new things from Don's life. It was well done. Thanks for your hard work Don!

It's a wonderful HUE We'd seen this film many times . It's simply awesome and could put a smile (or set of them , on EVEN Grinch's face) . We read and understood that a LOT of money had been spent prepairing this perennial platinum film for Blu . Boy , were the stories TRUE . This film not only looks scectacular but the Blu pack comes with a colorized version of the film on a seperate disc . I'm NOT a film historian but do LOVE black and white film for many reasons . That said , i own a vhs copy of Howard Hawk's THE THING with James Arness . It's colorized . For what it's worth , i have a HUGE preference for the color film over the black and white dvd i've also got . If that's not your cup of tea , there's a B + W version on a seperate disc with features . We're about mid way through the colorized version . Certainly one of the best gifts my wife and i have given ourselves this , or any other year . The Blu image is as good as GONE WITH THE WIND and ALL ABOUT EVE . Truly worth reinvesting for us . Fascinating and deeply uplifting . What more can you ask for ? Get some old school happy . Come beam with US .

awesome So disappointed this was canceled.  Easily one of my favorite shows.  Super funny and clever- have watched them over and over.

classics I grew up on Reading Rainbow as did many people I know.  To share this with my children is a great feeling. It makes you want to read and learn.  But my only issue with these dvd's is that they are not in HD. Very old school, that was a little disappointing.

Has scenes I've never seen before! I have always loved this movie, and there are many lines from it that I still use regularly like, "Cop a squat" and "slippery little suckers".  This 15th Anniversary Special Edition has a few scenes in it that I have never seen before, and they were great!  Even if I had owned the orignal release, I would want this copy, as well!

Great Doc about a truly great drummer To be fair, I wasn't a huge Hole fan.  I was a teen when all this great music came out in the 90's, so that was my main introduction to music.  So it's only fitting that I liked the Hole songs I heard.  And of course who didn't know who Courtney Love was and all that came along with her.  Had a time where I just didn't like her and it was hard to really like Hole.  Still those songs were good regardless.  This doc is very informative about that time and of this band that Patty was in.  Love the rare footage of the Cobain's and their home life.  Really makes it real and honest, we see how they lived and what their lives might have been like outside the public.  Sorry, off track, this doc is about Patty and her struggle.  Love how honest she was through the whole thing and letting us see the real her.  She was a really great drummer.  You hear another songs by Hole without her drumming, you can tell it's not her!  She left a great mark with that band's music, it was her own.

amazing! A classic movie with a wonderful pack. im surprising with the card scenes, most with deleted scenes. the magazine with what theys have after the movie are coll as well.

Enjoyable Follow-Up, Blu-ray Pop It's hard to follow the original, but this sequel is quite enjoyable with it's own charm. Blu-ray does amazing things to animation.

On Time i pre-ordered this dvd literately hours before it was released, payed for regular shipping and still got it within 2 days! that was great seeing that i was expecting the 7-10 buisness days! :)

Excellent Movie I saw this movie in 1972 at the movie theater.  Have always wanted to own it and have been telling my husband about it for years.  Finally, I bit the bullet and ordered it.  He enjoyed it as much as I did...it was just as terrific of a movie as it was when I first saw it in 1972.  If you like good cuisine, beautiful scenery and interesting cities andgreat acting jobs, you will LOVE this movie!  It's as fresh today as it was when it was made.

Pretty damn good I was extremely impressed way better than the last few films by far and great as hell....seriously i was amazed at this movie.

Scream4 Keeps to the Classic I'm a horror fan...Halloween, Friday the 13th, Scream, all of them. I enjoyed this sequel. It is in keeping with the first three, although of course it's kinda sad seeing the actors getting older...but they did do a good job. The ending was the best part.  If they continue the Scream movies they need to start fresh with new actors. That is sad to say but they are too old now to be playing the part. I DO have to give props to the actors for not trying to act like who they were...nothing more sad than older actors trying to act young. They all very appropriately acted their age. It could have very easily been a bad, bad, movie if they hadn't. It's kinda like the Star Trek movies. After this movie cameos should be their limit (although I love all of them!)  The plot and twists and turns were interesting and kept you guessing. I enjoyed watching it more the second time because I understood the characters more. Not a lot of time to get to know the characters...it's a fast-paced movie. But once you figure out who is who and what they are doing it's fun. This is not a Rob Zombie skip over movie...It will be proudly displayed in my collection and watched.

Stress free Entertainment Regardless of what some critics have to say, I saw the movie to make my own opinion & I LOVED IT!! its a good mix of COYOTE UGLY, SHOWGIRLS & even CHICAGO, its Sexy, has a great looking star cast, good coreography, not bad songs, ever so lovable Cher & talented Christina. yes its not the most original story, but how many recent movies have really original stories ?! ..every movie is partly inspired by some old hit or even some foregin film. So just pack up your troubles, go get energised & enjoy this feel good movie. lets hope the Blu Ray has a lot of extra features & even the Original movie sountrack cd.

one of my favorite movies ever I love this movie I use to own it on DVD and I lost it and frankly I'm glad I did because I only buy blu-rays now and to have one your favorite movies if all time on blu -ray is great.

Absolutely Loved This A wonderful movie! Very heartfelt, as well as being dark, gritty, and hard to look at during some points. It has a pretty cool story line, too. The one where there's the closeted straight boy that's so closeted, no body knows, at all. Has a difficult time accepting his sexuality, but comes across someone he falls in love with that he's willing to do anything for. I don't want to give anything away, so just watch. I think you'll enjoy this.

It Works! I love this tape. I actually have shapes, colors, number's and the letter's. It focuses on mainly on the basics. No added extras or distractions to keep the child mind from wandering or memorizing which you don't want. It only focuses on Shapes or Colors and etc.  What I mean by that is when learning tapes have song or dance, the child becomes so focused on 'singing that song' or 'doing that dance' instead of learning and getting an understanding of what being shown. Now I'm not saying put your child in front of the tv and leave him. NO NO NO. What I'm saying is you want something a little extra to help boost what your teaching.  For example I work at a home daycare. My class consist of 1 & 2 year old. After we go through the flash cards (remember they don't have a long attention span) so doing 2 out of the 4 areas four days of the week and switching up the process like Alphabet + colors or numbers + shapes (flash cards) and you keep switching. Which takes only about 10 minutes to do. Then let them have their play time. Now instead of turning on dora, team umizumi or yo gabba gabba. Play two of the Dvds. And when they see that what's on the tv and what they see on the flash cards they get it faster and better, than in song. And of all the learning tapes I have used these are more effective. And I only use these. The other tapes are decor for my shelf.  Get involved with your kid learning stages. Don't let cartoons teach your kids. Cause the only thing their teaching your kid is to sing and dance. Instead of learning. Keep working with them. And by 3 years old their doing sight words and reading by 5 years old on a second grade level. Believe it, It works!

Great show <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ERVJPY">Here Come the Brides - The Complete First Season</a>  Here is a great set of shows from the late sixties. I loved this show full of romance, action and comedy in one show. It is set in Seattle and the views of the pacific northwest are beautiful. Great stars in this show, including handsome Bobby Sherman and beautiful Bridget Hanley. A great set to watch and remember how good the shows use to be.

Forget it, Jake. In short the Best Movie ever made.  A viewer could watch "Chinatown" forever and ever and not get bored.  The performances are scintillating.  The writing begot more memorable lines than any other picture ever made.  This is Jack Nicholson at his finest peak.  If one could freeze Jack at this point in his life and career, one would have a perpetual national treasure.  If a viewer could only see one movie for the rest of one's life, it would have to be Chinatown.  I recommend collecting as many copies of this movie in whatever formats, packaging, editions, "special collection editions," etc.  This is detective noir at its zenith.

Xxx state of the union Blu ray was delievered before delivery date. Now enjoying my movie for the fifth time works great when delieverd no damage was perfect in condition I would buy again for ny next blu ray Matt

great series! I got my copy today!  Tomorrow, I am having 6 friends over for a GCB marathon.  We just love this show.  It is so funny and well written.  The actresses are a hoot.  Chenoweth is amazing.  ABC, ABC, ABC bring this series back!

TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Western Adventures Three of the four westerns in this Turner Classic Movie collection are indeed classics. Sam Peckinpah shocked moviegoers and critics with "The Wild Bunch" because of the bloody violence. However, the film has stood the test of time for the story and performances of the stars and supporting players alike. It has been a mainstay available over the years in both VHS and DVD. "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" is a classy though oddball western in which cliches are turned upside down and the rambling narrative makes it difficult to tell the good guys from the bad. Warren Beaty is the hero - or is he? "Jeremiah Johnson" is still a pure cinematic pleasure to watch no matter how many times you see it. Robert Redford stars as tenderfoot with ambition to become a mountain man. The tough lessons he learns make for a most enjoyable movie. The fourth in the collection, "The Train Robbers," is another in the John Wayne canon made during his later years. Though enjoyable for the action mixed with comedy, it remains in the same class as others made during that era. Hardly classic in a literal sense, but good enough for fans of the Duke - which includes me.

Dumbo (60th Anniversary Edition) Dumbo (60th Anniversary Edition) is one Disney's true classic animated movies. The story is about a small elephant who is born with big ears and then shunned by the rest of the circus for being different. The scene "Baby Mine" is one that brings a tear to ones eye and yes I admit I cried during that scene. The animation is amazing and the storyline is just as good as other classics such as Pinocchio, Cinderella and Snow white and the seven dwarfs. This movie will be enjoyed by generations of children for come as the message is ever green. Highly recommended indeed. 5/5.

Good DVD Good to be as expected for being a 1950s production. picture, sound quality is good, don't expect dvd or bluray quality.

Might Not Be for You The movie The Sitter might not be for you. But, if you (a) have kids, (b) are culturally broad enough to like both Kanye West and the old Roseanne Show on TV and (c) are not easily offended, then this is the movie for you. I found it hip and moving, a really rare combination. Each kid was a complex comment on our modern world; the five year up old Paris Hilton wannabee, the overly medicated neurotic, and the angry foreigner who was adopted by a seemingly well meaning but uncaring U.S. family. I honestly am not a huge Jonah Hill fan, but the writing was so good that he came through like a true star. There's even some great evolved sexual commentary. Despite holes in the plot, this movie was FUNNY. Nice work everyone!

12 classic television comedies: 1950's-60's This dvd gave me a touch of the old shows I saw as a kid. It included original commercials and sponsor plugs. The overall quality is excellent. I was reminded how live television was created. Lots of fun!

Very happy with their service! The movie came on time and in good shape.  They lived up to what they said.  I was happy

Well done ballet documentary featuring professional and pre-professional grade dancers Fortunately, this is one documentary that does give us what ballet documentary lovers want: rehearsing and dancing. We follow the experiences of several contestants in ballet, modern, jazz, flamenco and tap, but most of the time seems to be devoted to ballet. There are also plenty of sessions with teachers and judges, as well as company directors looking for new talent. The style is very professional and exciting to watch. The only negatives are the image quality which is good but not great, and the aspect ratio is the old one: 4:3, so either you will view it with bars on the sides, or, as I do, just stretch it(I am so used to the stretch that my brain automatically adjusts and I hardly notice it!), unless you still have an old TV set. Highly recommended for those who enjoy ballet documentaries and a variety of dancing styles.

Best Romantic Movie ever This movie has the best romantic/love storyline ever with the best actors to pull it off. Must watch for anyone to know what true love is.

emotionally intense Much of this film is pure and simple Hollywood, set in Africa with all of the Hollywood stereotypes about Africa (vicious rebels, crotchety foreign aid workers, wailing African mothers, etc.). Still, Tears of the Sun works because it is such an emotionally challenging journey. A small team of American commandos decides to try to protect refugees from a civil war in Nigeria. The acting amongst the main characters is generally OK, but the terror the African villagers convey is frighteningly realistic. What makes the film compelling is that they have to decide whether or not to disobey orders, who to save, and when to act. It's a violent movie with lots of fighting and depictions of massacres. However, if you can stomach it, the emotional catharsis at the end is one of the best I've seen in a long time.

The end of the iconic 1980s action hero Total Recall is a cinematic classic that bookends both the end of the iconic 1980s muscle action hero and the end of traditional movie effects before the takeover by CGI. I must have seen this 30 times over years - a strong, well-paced script rips the audience through the basic setup quickly before sending us on exactly the ride that Quaid paid for at Recall.  In a story that has really nothing to do with Philip K Dick's original, it does manage to pack in enough science fiction elements without collapsing under the weight of its own ludicrousness. The script leans heavily towards suggesting it was all a dream so almost anything far-fetched can be explained from this angle.  In traditional Paul Verhoeven style, it offers a level of violence that makes most horror films look like children's TV, and in the DVD extras he gleefully  justifies it quite convincingly. The in-camera special effects are what really gives this film its unique look - the clever animatronics, well designed models and sets all combine to create a mutant-filled Mars that looks great on camera. Although I'm sure 2012's remake will all be CGI, it will lose some of its charm as a result.  Total Recall also had a near-perfect cast. Sharon Stone shines as his double-agent wife, Rachael Ticotin is a great love interest, and Michael Ironside bellows his way through as the psychotic Richter. Even Ronny Cox is perfect playing pretty much the same character from Verhoeven's Robocop. It's a really a classic in so many respects.  As an aside, it's interesting which technologies in this film have become a reality, from the 3D body scanners to the location tracking on a handheld device. Although I don't expect colonies on Mars anytime soon, Johnny Cab might well be the commercial incarnation of Google's self-driving car!

A Must Have!!! A fantastic DVD that made you feel as if you were at the concert. Worth every penny! Friends and family of all ages enjoyed watching it as well.

One of Johnny's best I am a Johnny Depp fanatic.  This movie captures his talents and keeps you guessing.  I don't know any other actor actor that could keep it interesting and not give away the plot.  The ending is the best.

Not Perfect, But Still Fantastic; Fans of the GN Should Be Pleased, Others Might Be Lost DIRECTOR'S CUT REVIEW (This review contains very minor SPOILERS. I emphasize "MINOR". I do not give away the ending, nor any key plot elements. Those that have read the graphic novel will hear about some differences. Those unfamiliar with it will largely be none the wiser. All that being said, if you want a 100% untainted fresh look, you might wish to avoid this review.)  Alright, let's get a few things out of the way. I'm late to the review party here, but felt it necessary to praise this film.  That being said, to those unfamiliar with the graphic novel upon which it is based, I can understand how this might be impenetrable to you. Warner Brothers didn't do the general public any favors by marketing this as a generic "super-hero" movie. It isn't. It's about as far as you can get from it.  Before extolling the positives of this film, I'll first deal with the misconceptions and then the genuine negatives.  Misconceptions and other silly gripes:  -  Again, Warner Brothers tried to mislead the public about what this film was about. Many walked in thinking they were seeing a Batman or Superman clone only to see the protagonists engage in genuinely unseemly behavior. If you were hoodwinked, I'm sorry. But this is meant to be a gritty and dark story. There are no pure "heroes" even though most of the characters have good intentions. Alan Moore wrote a story that emphasizes human fallibility over the god-like cookie-cutter pure super heroes that had been prevalent for so long. In so doing, he revolutionized the genre. No apologies are necessary. If you want an uplifting story, this is not for you.  -  No small measure of griping was directed at Dr. Manhattan's nudity. His nudity is meant to express his growing distance from humanity. As he becomes less human, he loses normal human notions of modesty and shame. I'll agree that it wasn't explained perfectly in the film. That being said, if you have that much issue with the naked male form, perhaps you should seek counseling.  -  The politics are nonsensical. Absolutely true. Contemporary commentary on Watchmen (the GN) illustrated a lot of praise for the "political message". If there's a coherent political message in there, I'll freely admit that I've never found it. Any political message intended to be conveyed falls apart quickly upon any real analysis. Alan Moore, for as much as I admire him as a story teller, was never, in my opinion, a brilliant political philosopher. What is left is a strong tale of ethical and moral quandaries. As far as I'm concerned, that's where the story shines.  -  The "squid". If you've read the story, you know what I'm talking about. If you haven't (and are still reading), skip to the next section. Yes, Snyder chose to get rid of the squid in favor of another plot device. Some fanboys cried foul. I'd argue that they're mostly wrong. The plot device selected in its place works quite well and does not change the impact of the story in any meaningful way.  Genuine gripes (and some that aren't):  - Silk Spectre in Archie: In the GN, there is a scene where young Silk Spectre, attempting to light her cigarette, pushes a button while sitting in an airship. The button depicts an image of flame. She assumes (incorrectly) that it is the button for the cigarette lighter. Instead, she activates the flamethrowers. It is a moment of comic relief in the GN. In the film, due to what I can only guess is the general demonization of smoking that is going around, the scene is changed in a minor but very important way. Silk Spectre is not looking to light a cigarette (because, presumably, that would be bad...despite the film having an R rating). Instead, she impishly pushes a button marked with flame designs on it for no apparent reason. I would have preferred that they cut the scene entirely or stick to the original story rather than transform Silk Spectre from a woman who made an honest mistake into a mischievous bimbo.  - Casting: Overall, it's not bad. Matthew Goode as Ozymandias will disappoint many. His swallowed consonants and underwhelming physique make it tough to accept him as the closest thing to a "perfect man" that the original story indicates that he is. Malin Akerman performs admirably, for the most part, as the young Silk Spectre, but she is still a bit too young for the role (this only compounds the script-writing sin mentioned in the previous gripe). Patrick Wilson also comes across as slightly too young for his character, the younger Nite Owl, but it's close enough. I had initial reservations about Billy Crudup as Dr. Manhattan, but I believe that he fills the role quite well (his relatively soft voice is initially off-putting to anyone familiar with the GN, but the distant and emotionless portrayal (that's a compliment for this role) brings it back). Jeffrey Dean Morgan is well cast as the Comedian. Jackie Earle Haley is absolutely brilliant as Rorschach.  - Rorschach scene changes: Without going into any specific details, there are a few scenes that are changed when Rorschach faces villains: prison cell scene 1 (saw rather than torch) and kidnapper scene (axe rather than fire). Honestly I don't know why the changes were made. They seem rather pointless to me, but I'll freely admit that they're more or less lateral steps rather than improvements or detractions. They seem unnecessary, but they don't harm the portrayal or the story in any significant way.  - Bubastas: Fans of the GN will recall that Ozymandias dabbles in genetic engineering. It makes sense that he has a genetically engineered blue tiger with horns ("Bubastas") as a pet. In the original story, the genetic/bio engineering feeds into the "squid" story line. With the "squid" gone and no mention of Ozymandias' hobby of genetic engineering, we're left with an unexplained mutant tiger. It's a minor point, but an illustration of how this film can be impenetrable to those unfamiliar with the GN. Things have been changed at times with no effort to pick up the slack for the now-lost information that was conveyed by such scenes. It would have been better to cut the tiger completely or to include a throwaway line about how Ozymandias dabbles in genetic engineering. Instead, we're left with what I can only assume is well-intentioned fan service that only serves to alienate the uninitiated audience.  - Director's cut does not contain the Black Freighter footage: In the original GN, the story was paralleled quite well by another story called "Tales of the Black Freighter". It worked quite well in the GN, but I do think that the screen version benefits from the absence of the Black Freighter footage.  Finally, the pros: Cinematography is excellent, soundtrack is mostly spot-on to convey the mood intended, story is very strong, acting is mostly well done, and the director's cut restores some footage that expands on and clarifies the story quite well.  Bottom line: This is a story that has long been considered "unfilmable". I think Snyder proved everyone wrong. This is an admirable effort to portray the Watchmen story that is, while not perfect, better than most fans ever anticipated. I do need to caution that those unfamiliar with the original story may find themselves lost. I think Snyder made every effort to balance sometimes conflicting goals of: staying true to the story, adapting elements that were not really fit for the big screen, and condensing where necessary. At times, exposition to the non-initiated may have suffered as a result of the choices made.

Vampires and Warewolves This movie was great. If youv'e been following the Twilight series this is a must have. As always the Amazon Prime was on time andeverything in great condition.

Family favorite After seeing Annie as a stage play with my girls, we really enjoyed the film version.  We loved Carol Burnett in it.  She is such a good comedian.

A Guy Would do Anything For A Doll this is truley a masterpiece of work. this is one of the best musicals i've ever seen this is a good movie. the cast in this movie is phenomenal. this is a great movie. if you have not seen this movie then i recommend that you do

Welcome to a real blues jam session Keith Richards describes in his fabulous autobiography that the Stones grumbled about playing rock and roll when their real goal was to be the best blues band in London (they certainly hit that mark) but this wonderful DVD/CD record the formal passing of the torch between generations.  The Stones are like kids who found a pony under the tree at christmas and Muddy smiles with the pride of a grandfather.  There seems to be some controversy about Left Dizz's performance and at first it also put me off until I realized that the Stones (and by extension us) are getting a peek at real blues (and jazz) where cutting contests are a key part of the jam culture.  These were an essential late night rites of passage where various players display their skills and showmanship to oneup the others on stage.  This isn't a genteel "after you sir" but a macho competition that Buddy Guy describes as the blues world in Chicago at the time.  Dizz may well be dead drunk but he can sure play a hell of a guitar and it was in rough and tumble competitions like this that many players developed the techniques that later blew us all away.  The Stones wanted the real blues.  They got it and so did we.

great good job with this order. couldn't ask for anything more and Stallone is the greatest action hero ever... watch this movie

too good The movie is a going to be referred to as a classic. cant stop laughing for a very loooong time... but it was good all together.. except for the R rated aspect of the movie

Cassandra's review This is an excellent show.  I can't wait to see season 3!  I will watch out for the schedule so I can keep up with what is happening at Downton Abbey.

A very good Disney movie...if you're a fan of Cars. This is a very good movie if you are a fan of the first Cars movie.  It's a bit on the darker side for little ones with the spy scenario, but is very enjoyable for my 6 year old son--especially the more he watches it.  I think he didn't quite understand it when we saw it at the Drive-In last summer.

Was a mood lifter This movie was recommended to me by a friend when I could really use a laugh.. I truly enjoyed the movie.

Great Idea I never saw one of these matches in it's entirety until I got this.  I have to say this is now my favorite match type next to the Royal Rumble.  This is a great collection.  My other favorite event is the old school Survivor Series where every match was a Survivor Series match.  Back when Heenan, Slick, etc had stables which made it easier to set-up.  Anyway back to the Chamber.  I fount it fun to keep track of certain stats as I watched.  Most overall wins.  Most eliminations by a single superstar in a single match (2 way tie) and over all the events.  It was interesting to see how the tie between 2 participants got broken.  Not too surprisingly it was between the two who shared the most appearances (as competitors - 1 other ties them for appearances in other ways).  That shouldn't spoil it unless you want to research it & spoil it for yourself.  I hope they do a 2nd continuation from where they left off in about 5 years.

wonderful movie My 5 year old loved this movie,and the songs.I'm so happy I found it here for a great price.Shipped fast and we've enjoyed it very much. Thanks!!

Love most of the other DC movies and this is no different. Was excited when I saw the trailer of this. Enjoyed most the DC movies. Love the Justice League (especially Green Lantern) and the Legion of Doom. Great new and updated animation style that's similar to the Young Justice TV series. Great action scenes. Familiar villains which is always a bonus. Kevin Conroy being in it always makes Batman a bad***. Recommended.

EXCELLENT!!! I am now obsessed with Harry. This is awesome. I am now obsessed with Harry Potter. Cheap and totally worth it. You will love them too.

Classic film we remastered This Coen brothers' retelling of Homer's "The Odyssey" is an Academy Award winning modern day classic and the Blu-ray remastering does it justice. My living room theater set-up is reference quality (Integra DTR-50.3, Jamo Concert series surround, Sherbourn 7x200 amp) and I'm something of an audiophile. The ambient sound in this movie has always been in my top 5 and the remastered DTS-HD doesn't disappoint. For two great examples of what true surround can sound like, skip ahead to the scene in which the three escapees are roasting gophers over a fire and a group of born-agains march through their camp like ghostly apparitions to a river baptism. The other great scene is the clan meeting that they infiltrate nearer the end of the movie.  As far as the video I would tend to say it's on par with the audio or possibly better. If I remember correctly this movie was one of the first shot on digital media instead of film back in 2000 or 2001. It gave the Coens more control over the saturation effects they used to bleed out the color schemes of the movie, giving it that dusty, southern summer look in yellows and greys. Even though it was shot in digital I believe they still used a 24 frames per second format (or the digital equivalent, anyway). It seemed pretty flawless to me and thanks to the Academy Award winning cinematography it's strengths are on display.  I won't get into the actual content of the movie and I have only seen a few bits of the extras so I can't honestly comment on those either but for the blu-ray remastered audio/video I'd say this movie should get a 9.5 out of 10 and that's because I don't think anything will ever be a perfect 10.

Great Been waiting for this to come back on the market for sale. Very happy with the purchase and the product.

good super good movie way better than the 2n one which i didnt really like it may even be better than the 1 st one haha

great little entertaining  fun musical movie with two great icons!! <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001FR552">Give My Regards To Broad Street</a>Its great little film fun and entertaining  if not just for the music. remember it as both Paul and Ringo together in this movie!! doing great songs!!  what more could you really want from to of the worlds best of all rock n roll times... I thought the Eleanor Rigby Scene was the best in the movie for me personally the song and movie scene of 1800 hundreds period went very well together. it is one of my favorite Beatles tracks anyway i thought it was quite touching, the orchestra music was very well done which gives the song a hole new emotional lift than it already has.!   HEY ITS PAUL MCCARTNEY AND RINGO STARR.!!   BLOODY GREAT MUSIC..!!   TWO BLOODY BEATLES TOGETHER AGAIN..!!   SHUT UP AND ENJOY.!!   I PROMISE THIS MOVIE WILL BE MORE POPULAR WHEN THERE BOTH KNOW LONGER WITH US..!!

Maybe the best hockey movie ever! i am a huge hockey fan so when I saw this movie ad on facebook it caught my eye. I have seen many hockey movies,there is usually a lot of mushy stuff and little of the game. this movie had the perfect mix. can't wait for it to come on DVD so I can purchase it. If you liked this movie you would also like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00151QYFS">The Hammer</a>

green mile I loved this movie! Sometimes I am very disappointed seeing a movie after reading the book but not in this case. I think this movie was as good or better than the book. Perfect casting and production. The atmosphere was exceptional. I definitely recommend this movie with 5 stars.

The Matrix Trilogy-Amazon Great video transfer to Blu-Ray and HD audio is excellent. Good purchase price and definitely worth owning if you are a fan of these movies. The concept of a reality that is completely computer-generated while your electro-chemical energy is siphoned off like a human battery is freakin awesome! The final battle with the machines in Zion is mind-blowing.

...Are we watching the same movie? This review is intended just to give some offset to all the 1-2 star reviews due to picture quality. I won't be reviewing the actualy films, so let's get to the BD.  I don't know what these other reviewers are watching. The Jurassic Park BD is far and above any of its dvd counters. There is a thin layer of grain, more noticeable in some scenes, but it is thin, and not distracting. I honestly don't know HOW they come to the conclusion of horrible video quality here.. There are a few MINOR issues, which I noticed only a few times throughout the entire collection.  My guess is that alot of these people simply haven't tweeked their TV sets at all, and have sharpness way up, or have their tv's set to "vivid".  To put it simple, and hopefully help you, if you want to own these films, there is NO better version out there. PQ is great, and AQ is OUTSTANDING.  Hope this helps you.

What In The World Are They Spraying For the unknowing of what we are being sprayed with this is a must see. Our so-called leaders are not being good stewards of this earth and its members in it. They will deny and deny chemtrails and call them contrails and we are paying a super big price with our health and that of our kids. Having had cancer in 2001 perhaps this is where I got it from earlier sprayings I can remember as early as 1977 with these chemtrails laid out in sky. A U.S. Senate Bill last on floor was 1807 dealing with Weather Modification which had 2 prior bills supposedly not acted on, yeah right?

Bon Appetit! For those of you who love to cook, this is an amazing movie. Meryl Streep is magnificant! And I like Amy Adams in almost every she's done- there's just something about her... Nora Ephron, the director/writer, does a fabulous job of bringing two very different worlds together. I highly recommend this movie, but be warned- I'm always hungry somewhere in the middle, so have a yummy snack handy!  Alexandra Pauley www.alexandrapauley.ws

Everyone Says Exactly What they Mean I love this movie! ...but only when I'm in the right mood. Otherwise, I can't stand to sit through 10 minutes of it. What I find so refreshing about this movie, at the times when I am ready to watch it, is that everyone says exactly what they mean. They say the things that most people, in that situation, would be thinking to themselves but would not usually say out loud. (If a person in that situation would be clearly feeling a certain way, but not yet ready to admit it to themself, then they do not say it out loud). So it's a breath of fresh air if I have been spending too much time around the kind of people who tend to say one thing but mean another. The kind who pretend they like my idea, and then try to sabotage its success, because they didn't really like it at all. This movie takes the extreme opposite approach. In this movie, characters just say they don't like an idea, and have a completely straight forward conversation about it, which leads to some really unusual and funny conversations. When I am in the mood for that kind of total openness, this movie is absolutely hilarious. I laugh out loud at every scene! When I am not in the mood for it, I realize that there is probably nothing in the entire movie that fits the traditional definition of a joke. Just a bunch of semi-strange conversations between 2-3 people, with no humor at all. Because of this duality, the movie can easily come across as very shallow, and yet I feel that it is masterfully written and psychologically deep. I recommend it for a fun couple of hours spent analyzing human interaction, but not as a traditional romantic comedy.

Holiday Favorite I first saw this movie as a teenager. It's a gently told story about what the holiday is really about which is love and forgiveness. The acting is wonderful and its fun now to go back and see some well known people in what was probably one of their first big roles. Asner and Stapleton can convey a feeling with just a look.   I searched for this movie on TV for years and ordered a version which would not play. I was thrilled when I bought this one and it actually worked. The quality was excellent for a made for TV movie. Next year I plan to share this with my kids who should be old enough to appreciate it. This year it was just for me to take a trip down memeory lane with the Thortons.

Eye-Popping BluRay Transfer!! I may not be able to add much to the reviews, whose praise I agree with wholeheratedly on the content of this magnificent film, but I still felt compelled to offer my two cents on the BluRay, which is equally fantastic. With the full measure of the gloriousness of the sheer granduer of the backdrop for this story now rightfully restored in HiDef, the inherent drama of the storyline now, finally, at long last, has an equally worthy canvas on which to be presented - a fact that's been perpetually lost on every other video presentation of it I've seen before. It is actually an awe-inspiring revalation as to the intended impact of this film and, from any and all previous video editions of it, indeed a transformation from a first-rate adventure of otherwise acceptably good scale to a first-rate adventure and overall a remarkable spectacle! I dare say it didn't approach looking this good to me when I recall seeing it in my local theater all those years ago. For that matter, it looks so good, I don't think anyone would dream, from its appearance here, that this film is in fact closing in on its 50th anniversary. From the opening credits, I see that the film was originally shot in 70mm, thus with far more detail than the more common 35mm films films have. You can expect similar performance in HiDef with other films of the 65 or 70mm variety, like 2001: A Space Odessy or Lawrence of Arabia - IF the disc transfer is good - and here it certainly is. The image within the frame on this disc is always, and utterly, as steady as the Rock of Gibralter. There was only the very most minor amount of flicker, as seen on my setup, but, again, only rarely and scarcely noticable when it was seen - still not sure if the disc was actually to blame or not. Not a hint of moire, anywhere.  The sound is quite good and far better than I had any reason to hope. Although John Barry's superb score was apparently originally in mono, it's by far the best I've heard from it before - it even has a better impression than the original (mono) soundtrack available on CD, if my memory serves. Yet, the sound effects track on this disc is either true stereo, or, more likely, was derived from various isolated sound effects elements and then "panned" during post production. There are even some nice extras: more than two documentaries on the making of the film, film commentary, the theatrical trailer and even a brief, but interesting, interview with John Barry himself, pertaining to the origins of his ideas for the score. But, all in all, I do love it so when such a majestic and monumental movie as this gets the royal treatment that it does here. Sometimes, presentation is everything! Highly, highly recommended!!

Great Family Movie We have watched this movie several times - so I just bought it.  It makes my family laugh and cry every time we watch it!  It is funny, but makes you feel good as you see this family go thru normal trials in life as seen from an 8 year old view.  It is very clean - strongly recommended.

A Fun Movie A wonderful movie for kids around seven years or older, although I've seen it numerous times as an adult and still get a kick out of it. The very different personalities of the dogs and cat shine through from the dialogue. A good dog movie, and the dog doesn't die!

Arise and Go Now I've watched this several times; the nuances are easier to see, appreciate and enjoy on later go-arounds. Naruse films with English subtitles are hard to come by here in the West.  It would be nice if Criterion or even a British distributor would expand a bit on their Naruse holdings.  For Japanese speakers, there's the lovely and expensive Masterworks box set here: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000XB5OC">Naruse</a>

Movie - Courageous This was a great movie and I highly recommend it.  Very uplifting although there is some sadness.  It shows how people can make come backs (the father who lost the child), and how some people have to fall way down before their eyes are opened (the father who was stealing and selling the drugs).

This movie is based on people from Maine. I guess they got some problems up there. This author Jayme Alan Toomey is supposed to be Leonardo Di'capriobut he thought they were all crazy, so he got chased across the country to CA where the police and military are still terrorizing him. I guess they stole his work and passed it out so they could have weight on him, so he'd have to be a rat. i heard they're all real people. I believe it. In late december of 2011, Jayme got Charles Barkley to ask Jesse Jane out on for him on the Jay Leno show. It's true. I saw it. I'd like to hear his explanation for that one. HBarkley mysteriously turned to the camera and said "Pirates" which is one of her movies. i think he should get a chance to go out with her.Look his name up on the internet.

Never Give Up, Have Faith, Trust God, Unity. What a family can achieve with love, faith, unity, and trusting God.. We loved this movie... I cried (tears of joy) at the strength of Bethany... WOW! Powerful! We watched this awesome movie and we were very inspired by the unity and strength of the Hamilton family..  We have movie night, and this was one of the movies our children wanted to view.. We were so happy and inspired by the message this movies delivers. The scene where Bethany inspires the community to go back into the water was so touching to me.. I myself would have been scared.. But God does not give us the spirit of fear, but a spirit of power, love and a sound mind..  This movie Blessed our spirits and household.. I love the spirit of the movie, I love how no matter what negative statements were made, the family never let that get them down or bring them apart.. Many families fall apart when tragedy strikes. I am so glad that this movie showed the strength of family, faith, unity, and love..  If you have not viewed this movie, you are missing out! Purchase this as soon as you can, you will want to add this to your movie collection..  Be inspired... then inspire.....

The Mission What a wonderful movie. It is inspiring and idealistic and yet firmly grounded in the reality of human beings and our natural tendency toward sin. The DVD is great - especially the short film about how the movie was made and how the villagers were relocated and taken care of during the shoot.

Classic I highly recommend this and other instant movies on Amazon--I watched this movie three or four times for only $2. Definitely worth it! Hercules is a Disney Classic and it is one of the best family movies of all time--the music is incredible!

Unforgettable Spoof! I just spent two days in Goblin Valley, and for some reason, I kept finding sites where the movie was shot that came to me and kept me thinking about what a great, silly movie it is.  I just purchased the download to watch as I edit my photos.  I know there have been other movies shot there, but watching bratty little kids abusing the hoo-doos and Darwin Award-winning adults climbing all over them asking for nasty accidents made me wish for a couple of the monsters to jump out and swallow them up!  The late 90s were a time when so many really creative movies came out, and this was one of best sci-fi satires of that time!

Breaking Dawn-A Winner! A must see for all twilight fans!! Very happy with DVD quality! Of course the story is amazing..they do the novel justice and can not wait for part 2!

YES!!! I was doing some last minute christmas gifting and pushing it down to the last minute. i ordered i t friday for the two day deal. It was scheduled to arrive on Tuesday when i needed it already wrapped and ready to give. It came on Monday in the morning! Thank God! I will definately come back to this one in the future!

Thematic depth beyond what most people realize. I actually have not seen this DVD release, and so can't comment to the quality.  The film itself, though, is really quite good and has been one of my favorites since I first saw it at the age of 4.  The themes are profound and universal, and are realized in a subtle and graceful manner.  I actually think the film may surpass the book in expressiveness, which is a rare thing.  There are many gems here, but, for me, it is the story's villains that are most expressive.  Haggard is a poignant and near perfect symbol of all that is bitter and blind.  In the delusion that is jadedness, he believes he can hold prisoner the one spark of beauty he is able to perceive, and he cannot understand that in doing so he is destroying it.  Good stuff.

A Satisfying Conclusion I don't think I can say anything about this series that hasn't been said before, so to make a long story short, this final collection of episodes is nothing short of epic. Quite possibly the most exciting thing I've seen all year.  As a side note, I give props to the English VAs. Emotions really start running high in the final stretch of the story, and the cast gives some stellar performances here.  As far as the actual product goes, the video and sound quality of this Blu-ray is on par with previous releases. If you didn't have a problem with Parts 1 - 4, you won't have a problem here. Apparently the source material wasn't animated in full 1080p, which can be apparent in a few places, but regardless it's pretty solid-looking throughout. The same goes for the packaging: holofoil cardboard keepcase housing an eco-friendly BD case with two discs. Also comes with four more postcards (art cards?) to add to your collection. The inner artwork might spoil the ending for some viewers, so if you haven't seen it or read the manga, you might want to close your eyes when you pop the second disc out of the holder.  The episode count is only 12 this time, and there isn't much by way of extras: 1 commentary track and an outtakes reel. While I haven't listened to the commentary (they're really not my cup o' tea), I found the outtakes enjoyable. With a runtime of about 10 minutes (just an estimate there), it's more a case of the actors ad-libbing humorous lines rather than flubbing them up. There's some adult language that pops up here and there, and Mike McFarland gives the viewers a short warning about it in the introduction, but it's all in good fun.  This is a flipping-sweet conclusion to what has been an amazing series. I highly, HIGHLY recommend watching it, even to non-anime fans. Chances are, you won't be disappointed.

ticklish We do not go to theaters to watch movies, instead we wait for them to come out on DVD, so much cheaper.  The first time we rented this movie, my kids didn't move, they absolutely enjoyed it so much we decided to get a copy of it for our family.  It was well worth the buy.

Very Good Film The movie approaches the idiocy of religion, Christian or Muslim, with an expert hand. Like the original Blade Runner, Scott offers us a happy ending, which does not mitigate the message of the film.

Underrated Movie This movie was promoted as just a low-budget film about stoner high school students in the 70s, but upon closer examination it's much more.  It captures very well an average high school day, where it seems nothing much happens, but yet everything happens.  These characters at first seem like run-of-the-mill stereotypes, but they are well thought-out.  And unlike most movies about teenagers, you feel like you know these kids and where they will end up in life.  Look for Ben Affleck right before he was famous.  And of course Parker Posey as a hazing, bullying girl that you can't help but respect just a little.

Far Superior to "Capote" This is an excellent movie that grips you from start to finish and takes you everywhere you can imagine, from high society New York to the windswept plains of Kansas. Beautifully filmed, wonderfully acted by a great cast. I still can't get over Sandra Bullock as Harper Lee. I had no idea she was such a wonderful actress. Toby Jones IS Capote, that's all there is to it. You just have to see it to believe it.  And, the documentary is wonderful. All the special features are great. I've looked at this movie many times and it grips me every time. I highly recommend it.

Timothy in a different light The unmistakable swagger of Timothy Olyphant is present get ready for a dark character portrayal.  Very good, needs a sequel.

Different While the first 3 Movies stayed somewhat close to the books, "Breaking Dawn-Part 1", has a lot of thing's that are different in it... I know that they can't put EVERYTHING from the book into the movie, but there were a few time's that I found myself thinking 'Why did they do this/that???', 'How did they get from there to here???'  Even with those thing's, it's still a GREAT Movie... One that you diffently want to see... I just hope they release it on DVD soon... I also can't wait to see -Part 2-, I think it's going to be sometime in July or around then...

Fantastic Item Excellent quality item. This items appears to have been repaired from scratches. It plays the entire movie with no problem.

Perfect! This was the exact movie my dad wanted! Very good movie, was in great quality, not a rip-off! Definately would recommend to anyone who wants a good scare!

Excellent - Rob is great! Rob Pattinson is excellent in this role....  So touching yet sexy and raw!   Great acting, Rob!!!  Also, Christina R is a treat too!  A definite must see - will see a few more times at the theater and buy the video!

Still an exciting movie Watching this again many years after it was originally released was still fun. Exciting story and the car chase scenes in San Francisco are great. Too bad McQueen died so young. . .

Awesome! Where to begin... I have to say that I had fairly little interest at first in this movie. I didn't know much about it, and quite frankly, assumed it to be a children's movie. After hearing my cousin saying he liked it, I checked out the reviews and synopsis of the movie. That's when my interest began to pique. I decided to give it a chance because I thought "hey, the worst that could happen is that I wasted 2 hours of my life." I know it sounds kind of cynical but that is my approach to giving movies a chance. I must admit I am so glad that I did. I thought this movie was amazing and very much underrated compared to its big budget counterparts. Regardless, I hope people will give it a chance and not brush it aside. This heartwarming feel good movie is perfect for the entire family!

the nevadan another excellent randolp scott movie the color is good picture is sharp and clear it should be on blueray that would great.

A Wonderful Classic This movie has been a family tradition for us at Christmas for 40 years.  My daughter wanted a B&W like the original, and this was perfect for us.  Instead of waiting for it to be broadcast on TV, we were able to plan a family get together to watch it.  A real classic.

Red River Red River is one of my favorite John Wayne movies.  John Wayne and Montgomery Cliff were at their very best.  Walter Brennan was establishing his acting style and his credentials for the rest of his career.  If you are a collector of movies this one is a must have.  Red River is a classic movie.

Great in so many ways Buck's story reminds me of how much a person can choose to live a good life. I also appreciate all the helpful information about horse sense and horse training. Buck provides a lot of insight into people and why they made the choices they do. Every time I watch this film I learn more. It's a great one for horse lovers but also very interesting for anyone to see.

666 Demon child 666 Demon child to me is just like watching The Omen or Damian the devils child the 1 thing differant is that theres a younger group to protect him.

Loved the Movie Love the Book I was a fan of the movie from back in the day and so I was drawn to the book as well.  How can one not simply fall in love with Lady Chablis. She is a hot mess!

This is a great film. Grabs you gradually and brings you along for the ride. Very well done, The acting is about as good as it gets, the story better. Nice watch.

Truly Inspirational A great example of how taking a chance, no matter how big or small, can change everything. Maybe even change your life.

MC This is a great video with lots of impressive scenery.  I wish that the video was longer than 60 minutes.  Still worth the purchase.

Catch up on all "Final Destination" movies for very low price This four-disc movie compendium is a great way to get caught up on all the previous "Final Destination" movies.  When I saw trailers for the new "Final Destination 5" at the movies and on TV, I realized I had missed all of the previous four films.  Although it is probably not absolutely necessary to see the earlier films to enjoy the new one, I'm sure it helps.  I therefore searched for the movies on Amazon, and found this great set that not only includes all four of the earlier films in the series, but cost less than a single movie CD costs at most retail outlets.  All four movies are made with well-done special effects.  The bizarre accidents will make you not want to leave your house (or it may make you not want to stay in your house!) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003PIUINS">Four Film Favorites: Final Destination Collection (Final Destination / Final Destination 2 / Final Destination 3 / The Final Destination)</a>

One of Cinema's and Kubrick's Greatest What can you say about what is arguably the greatest satire in film, and easily the best dark comedy ever made. A stellar cast, a brilliant director at the height of his powers, and an epic story that actually has you rooting for the end of the world. Now that's something. Peter Sellers shows his brilliance once again, as in so many of his earlier English comedies like Heavens Above and The Naked Truth, by playing it straight, playing in character, like his idol Alec Guinness, with no shameless mugging like so many comics today. But equally good are George C. Scott and the rest of the cast, who find it terribly difficult to keep from "fighting in the war room." This is a classic that even almost 50 years later is still as poignant and powerful in its comic blast as it was then.

The Humdinger Of Haunted House Films Don't expect to see ghosts here but watch this alone with the lights out and you will feel chills like you have never felt them before. This film gave me nightmares as a child and it's my all time supernatural movie favorite, Robert Wise did a fantastic job with this and it still holds up. The scariest black and white film ever made, hands down, making this a must buy. Hill House is alive and come nightfall the living will know it.

I knew I would love it! Game of Thrones is AMAZING!! I read the book and I have to say that this is done excellently!  Fantastic acting! Great characters! Over all nicely done!  LOVE IT and CANNOT WAIT FOR SEASON 2!

The cutest movie This is such a cute movie...The best...I must have seen it a zillion times and can continue to watch it again and again.

Tower Heist This is yet another very good movie with Eddit Murphy.  Eddie plays well in it and it is filmed in NYC.  The story line is good and quite frankly I like it. Why use a lot of words when all that need be said it is well written and good.

Everything you need! Less expensive than p90x and so much better!  I don't dread doing these videos like i have with some of Jillian Michaels.  Thinking about ordering these for my 60 year old mom since the videos show modified versions of each exercise.  You decide how hard or easy you want your workout to be by increasing/decreasing dumbbell weight.  I still get sore from these workouts and I usually workout 5 days a week.

"You're going to die up there." Looking for anyone that can help me find the original cut of this movie. I'm not looking for the Willian Friedkin's 'director's cut' that came out around 2000. I have that version, and, even though it's interesting (especially with the creepy demon face that flashes every so often, which is really cool) I'm looking for the first cut that came out in the theater in 1973.  Which DVD would that be? I have a strong idea, but, because all of the same reviews are tagged on every print, it's hard to decipher which one to order.  The original cut is very special to me in many ways. One being, that my parents took me to see this version when I was only five years old. Twice! (and, naturally, it really freaked me out!) My parents were very young and hip at the time so they took me to see all types of films back then. 'Dawn of the Dead', 'Mother's Day', 'Saturday Nite Fever', 'Lipstick', 'Looking for Mr. Goodbar', 'Friday the 13th pt 2', 'The Funhouse', Italian Splatter films like, 'Deep Red Hatchet Murders', 'Eyeball', etc, etc. The list goes on.  I also saw William Friedkin's (the same director of The Exorcist) gay serial killer movie, 'Cruising'. But that one, they didn't take me to see. When the lobby guy wasn't looking, I darted under the red ropes with my little pal, Joe, from fifth grade, and snuck in to watch it. Boy, did I see an eyeful! That was until some old hag ratted us out and went for the manager. We bolted our little butts out of there so fast and ran back into another theater before he could catch us. I think to watch 'Damnation Alley', 'Fun with Dick and Jane' or 'The Happy Hooker goes to...'. I dunno. It's been awhile. But we did see those films together back then as well. (God! I love movies!)  But needless to say, in time, when I got older, I was able to rent 'Cruising' on tape and really watch it. I fell in love with it. It's so dark and raw. It's what Friedkin does best. With relish!  I always try to show my new friends 'Cruising' whenever they come over. And, usually, afterwards, there's these loooong moments of silence and, well, they just really don't know what to say about it. I think what they really wanted to do was to take a cold shower, or, run up to the top of a hill to sing 'The Sound of Music' to the sun. Sorry. I'll pass on that. I'd rather watch Al Pacino question his sexuality over a 'feel good' musical any day.  Anyway, back to 'The Exorcist'. After seeing this movie when I was a little kid, I truly believed that, somewhere, in every neighborhood, there was another child just like Reagan. Suffering and screaming those horrible things at their parents with those strange, moaning sounds. I'm not sure what age I was when I eventually discovered that this wasn't the case, but, early on, I truly did believe that there was some crazy kid down the street going through the same crap. I guess I thought it was like having the flu, or a bad case of chicken pops. Seriously. And being an only child, in my own little world, without any siblings to set me strait, only made these fantastic thoughts more stronger and believable.  Back to the real point of this review. I'm looking for that version to order. I'm not very fond of the infamous 'spider walk' that Regan does down the stairs in the new cut. I think there was a reason why that was axed from the original. It was more plausible that the 'demon' never left Regan's room. That we know of anyhow. I mean, what did she do afterwards? 'Spider walk' her way back up the steps and right into bed? Or, perhaps, it was only just the demon putting these weird images in people's heads. Messing with her mom to no end. Like it did to the priest regarding his dead mother. Now that theory, I can buy.  Another reason why I would like to get my hands on the original cut is the 'toning down' of the relationship between the detective and the father. I just finished reading the novel and even there, their banter came off as just padding for the story. I really don't mind that, I think it's swell to explore the other characters, but what I don't like is the way it drags down the final minutes of the film. In the new version, there seems to be more chat before the quiet shot of the infamous steps leading down into the street. And, if I'm right, in the old version, the shot comes much more quickly, with the detective looking down at them, followed by the creepy sound of 'Tubular Bells'. Am I right? It's been awhile.  This is why I want to own the original. So, if anyone out there can put me in the right direction to what cut to buy, I would really appreciate it. Like I said, I think I know, but I wanna be sure. In the meantime, I'll pull out my old Ouija board and see if Captain Howdy can help me. (ha!ha! Not on your life!) KeviN BriaN

A must own / simply beautiful !!! I'm amazed at how many negative comments there are ! 1) they speak on their behalf not yours ! And definitely not mine !! 2) don't let any negative comment dissuade you from buying it  The case looks like a wood carved box and inside is beautiful and accurate african drum but not only that , a functioning drum !!! In the center is "Disney the lion king trilogy " - not in big letters but just right  Open it up is amazing , but of course it's somewhat hollow - it has to be , it's a drum The littie wallet is so creative :) - looks like a lion and the Velcro straps look like ears  not shaped like lion though ) It has sinbas sign on it  Disney really took time on this one  Decide for urself !!!

This movie is a must-see for every American I saw this movie last summer and am anxiously awaiting its release on DVD.  Everyone needs to see this movie!  The money that our government is wasting attacking small farmers and people trying to find truly healthy foods for their families is unconscionable.  Never mind the money (OUR TAX MONEY!) that they're wasting - the government has no business keeping anyone from the foods they CHOOSE to eat.  Small farmers are the past and future of this country.  Without them we will fail as a society.

Yes we can. Don't be ignorant. Learn something. I am probably going to read Obama's bio now to do some fact checking. Watch it.

Great Movie It was in good shape after the trip to Afghanistan and the movie was excellent as to be expected.  This is my first classic Western on Blu-ray and it really holds up.

Video quality isn't perfect, but the lossless audio is well worth the price of admission When I went to the amazon page after watching Interstella on Blu-Ray, I expected to see reviews applauding the audio quality of this amazing movie. This audio transfer is in my top 10, if not top 5, of Blu-Ray movies, it honestly ranks as one of the best I have had the pleasure of listening to. It captures every nuance of Daft Punk, completely immersing you into the album.  For that alone, in comparison to MANY Blu-Ray audio only discs, the price is on par.  But this also throws the original animation, which I have incredibly fond memories of, both on my own and through my children, as this was one of the first movies to bring them to tears (no spoilers, but those who have watched this most likely know what I'm talking about).  That alone awards this 4 stars.  Detracting one star for video quality would be fair, but to see all of these 1 and 2 star reviews... It just makes me sad.  This is a brilliant movie, and although the video transfer is not the best, it certainly isn't worthy of this horrible criticism.  Let's be realistic. Daft Punk set out to create a throw back animated feature to bring a bit of life to their album. They focused on high quality audio (the original soundtrack was DTS, which some believe to be a stronger encode than straight Dolby Digital, I am in this camp) and animation pulled straight from 1987. I agree there are jagged edges throughout the film, and no it's not as crisp as I would like it to be. However the colors are wonderfully accurate, and there are minor banding issues, but for the most part the line detail is great. I may not have first hand experience of what Daft Punk initially created, maybe the production company was lazy in the transfer and somewhere there exists a perfect unblemished video copy. However, I do doubt that to be the case.  I love this movie. I love this album. No, the video quality is not perfect, but I honestly do not believe it was intended to be.  I do not believe it deserves the terrible reviews that everyone here is piling on. The lossless soundtracks alone are enough to warrant an upgrade, and I do see that there is beauty in the video transfer. Maybe the beauty isn't enough for some people, but it is for me.  Please think before you just hastily pass this up. If you are an audiophile, you cannot put a price on the lossless upgrade. If you own the DVD and believe that you do not need or cannot hear a difference, then I suggest you keep the DVD version. The DTS soundtrack was very strong indeed, and I thought it was sonically brilliant, but nothing close to what I have now with the DTS-HD MA soundtrack.

Awesome !! I did enjoy my purchase from amazon this is my fist time and I'm completely satisfied and love the smallville series !!

" Who ordered the COde Red on Santiago!!!" (charles mora..same birthday as Tom Was it Scott Rudin or Speilberg....I WANT THE TRUTH!!!! Demi Moore....WHO ORDED THE CODE RED...was it Bruce WIllis..  Demi is a Moore and Chucky is a Mora..and I have the Same exact year and birthday as Tom Cruise  ...Who ordred the Code Red on Charles Mora  why are police 365/24/7 police and firefighters giving me a pillow party abusing me harrassing me violating me  kicking me out  was it David Koch or lloyd blankein....was it Mort Zuckerberg or Bill Clinton....was it some rent controlled Goddess ..that idiot who pulls the wagon around....this is not a neighborhood for white trash ...these rent controlled morons should move to outerboros or somewhere with nicer poorer people not here..  is this kicking someone out of the synoguge or temple ...why doesnt someone kick  out of New York City instead of me..  they got kicked out of most european countries why not New York....Golda Meir was kicked out of NY why not Ed Koch or Mike Bloomberg or Terry Gross or Brian Leherer...all very likeable people ... Kick them out..  Golda Meir was much better person than these scoundrels...  Oh and David Brooks...book social animal proves how stupid voters are that they can predict who will win an election from a picture...how stupid emotions are.....because all politicians are idiots , well all the ones that win elections.  This is like every College movie plot ..some preppy sucessful cut throat backstabbing Frat or  sorority want the land from fun failing good hearted frat...a land struggle basically

Brilliant This episode is quite honestly some of the best TV writing I've seen for quite awhile. As a follower of this show from very early on, I'm very pleased it's still going on, and the writing for season 6 has been pretty good. Now admittedly, the season was a bit rough, and the plot seemed very confused by itself, but the last two episodes absolutely shined, with the finale of this episode leaving me gaping at my television for a good ten minutes. A plot twist worthy of awards, I must say. Great, great work, and I'm very excited for the premiere of season seven next Friday.

An amazing and moving piece of art. I went into this movie without having read the graphic novel,and without knowing too much about its history.Oh man,I was just blown away.As soon as it begins ,you realise you are watching something special,and its about to start unfolding its labyrinthine layers before your very eyes.   It has a curious way of introducing mind-boggling concepts and eye-popping visuals in a very nonchalant manner,which makes the film flow naturally(or as naturally as a movie about Men-gods and superheroes living in an alternate Earth relity can be)My favourite character is Rorschach-a seething ball of (well-controlled) violent energy and rage.But Rorschach is a crime-fighting superhero and hones that violence like a laser towards those he believes deserve it.Watch what happens to the psychopathic child-killer when Rorschach traps him in his creepy shack.Or the scumbag who bothers him in prison,dispatched with a few swipes of a lunch tray and a pan of boiling oil.I think at one point in the atmospheric voiceover, he says"Never despair...never surrender"(against the relentless rising tide of corruption,inhumanity and cruelty in the World),and I think he is one of the most interesting characters to come from a graphic novel.Tortured by personal demons,he nonetheless retains a strange kind of compassion for the masses he seeks to protect,despite appalling abuse as a child by those he trusted.The first time we see Dr.Manhatten is when Rorschach ghosts into the ulta-secure military base where he lives to confront him,and encounters him as a 50 foot high behemoth.-this is a great scene,and already the mind is engaged,being sucked into the story.Fantastic movie.

"I won't play the sap for you..." It's the definative "Bogey" movie, what else can I say?  Favorite line? "You're a good man, sister."

Why should you watch this DVD? Well I cant say enough good things about this film, great ensemble cast.  Robert Carlyle and Marissa Tome are fantastic.  get a box of tisssue handy when you watch it.

just sayin' The 2001 version is free to stream for prime members.  The 1960 version is not.  Yeah, 50 years later and it's that good.  I might have to drop a sawbuck and just own it.

its what i ordered i recieved what i paid for.  the movie arrived on time for my daughter's birthday and it was undamaged. we saw it in the theater and now we can watch it together at home.

Fascinating and cautionary.... Speaking as someone who grew up around people from many different backgrounds, and being born in the early 1980s, I saw all kinds of hairstyles and fashions come and go. I remember, distinctly, looking at some of the pretty, young girls in my classes and on the school bus, who had beaded braids, cornrows and slightly combed out afros. Since I didn't have that texture of hair, I honestly couldn't relate to stories of hair being processed, braided out or woven with tracks, extensions and wigs.  Chris Rock takes a look at the industry, culture, criticism and, ultimately, the danger of processing "good hair" (AKA hair inspired by Asian and European hair texture). We see that the main ingredient in hair relaxers (ammonium thioglycolate) has enough concentrated poison to cause permanent lung damage and melt a soda can (first, turning it to a translucent shade, then, transparent and finally, melting it). Plus, we travel with him to hair salons and barber shops, as he speaks to hairdressers and barbers, and hop on an airplane to India, to find out the route/roots of the industry. Much of the hair we see, that is created into wigs, weaves, and track pieces comes from Asia - specifically, India. In India, young and old women, alike, have their heads ceremonially shaved, at least twice in their lifetimes, give it as a sacrifice, never seeing a penny of the proceeds that hair dealers take to collect thousands of dollars, back in the United States. Without giving away too many subplots or spoilers, we also catch a glimpse of a national hair show that takes place, annually, in Atlanta, Georgia - where hair experts come from various cities to compete against each other, like athletes, in a series of presentations of supermodel proportions - costumes, themes, etc.  Chris Rock's humor comes fast and furiously, his interviews with celebrities like Ice T, Nina Long, and Sarah Jones, are engaging and insightful - as folks recount straightening stories, in their youth. We also learn the challenges of hair - especially, when it comes to social situations and dating. This is a great introduction to a culture I really didn't have much knowledge of. It gives me a better appreciation of what my best friend goes through, on a daily basis.

A great Movie and unique story line one you all might enjoy as well I realy enjoyed this movie and I strongly recomend anyone who enjoys a good Fantasy film to watch this. This movie is dated now but when it was released it was awesome.  the special effects, The story, The acting was all done rather well.  Some parts are rather cheesy but it all fits in and it will have you enjoying this film....I hate those Dogs...

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Great Classic Christmas film! My family and I watched this Christmas day while it was snowing outside, and loved it! If you like Bing Crosby, then you'll enjoy this film. He and Danny Kaye are absolutely wonderful together. Danny Kaye keeps you cracking up the entire movie. Filled with great songs, and even some good dancing, "White Christmas" is the movie to watch during the Holiday season! So, grab a cup of hot cocoa, and enjoy!

I'm ecstatic! What's not to love? Here's the music of my childhood, my favorite stars, and a truly delightful love story. This takes me back to some of the happiest times of my life, and I'm ecstatic. Two big thumbs up, and five bright, gleaming stars!

good basketball action, warmth, and gnostalgia This is an inspiring and heart-warming story about a coach who is given another, but at the same time, last chance to redeem himself and his career; Gene Hackman is the right man for the part of the coach. The boys, in a sense, need a chance to enter the state basketball finals in the spring of 1952. The town people of the small Indiana town do not respect him at first. The female teacher, (played well by Barbara Hershey) the first he meets, is cold toward him as well. And yet, he is able to push his boys to the state tournament. Sheb Wooley is a "good ole boy" principal who is very encouraging toward his long-time friend. Having grown up in the 50's, (I entered the first grade in the fall of 1952) while living in a small central Kentucky town, the gnostalgia did affect me positively. This movie is one I've seen many times, and every time I have I've almost choked up at such a wonderful movie.

Favorite Woody Allen flick of all time This witty, entertaining comedy captured my heart and my imagination. Owen Wilson shined as the lead in this film. Not only romantic, but it seems that Woody Allen transcended cynicism and has come to embrace the present, with all its imperfections. A classic.

Grease in Blu-ray is Amazing! Unbelievable quality in this movie!! This is one of my favorite all time movies and I played a starring role in the musical "Grease" when I was in high school. "Grease" on Blu-ray is worth EVERY PENNY. There is so much that cannot be seen on the DVD. Also, the extras from the "Grease" reunion party is amazing! I would recommend this to any "Grease" fan!

the Phantom Of The Opera At The Royal Albert Hall [Blu-ray] WORTH EVERY PENNY. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. I just bought this blu-ray and,this performance is the best show yet. Ramin Karimoo and Sierra Boggess are the best Phantom and Christine. The end of the is also worth seeing Sarah Brightman and Peter Joback, John Owen-Jones, Anthony Warlow, Colm Wilkinson former Phantom's sing. Thank You Cameron Mackintosh. You can buy this blu-ray now on Amazon U.K.

Best Yoga DVD I've ever used BARKAN Method Hot yoga is awesome.  I use this video in a portable dvd player and do the series in my bathroom which I heat to 92-95 degrees with a portable space heater.  This series is well-thought out and beautifully presented. Jimmy Barkans' narration is PERFECTLY paced; his voice is calm and each pose includes instructions within the narrative on how to modify the pose to your needs whether due to injury or lack of strength or flexibility.  I, too, was a Bikram student who got tired of both the COST and the militaristic attitude.  Jimmy's DVD is calm, peaceful AND a real workout.  IF YOU HEAT YOUR ROOM, YOU WILL SWEAT BUCKETS. Even more wonderful than the workout and presentation, is the built-in tutorial for each pose which you can access either separately OR during the course of the 1 hour class.  I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS VIDEO.

Great drama and suspense! This film has complex characters that hold your interest.  The story unfolds with twists and turns that keep you guessing.  I'm looking forward to seeing The Girl Who Played with Fire and the Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest.

true romance The product I ordered was shipped to me in a timely fashion, it was also in better condition than in the description and all in all I was overly happy with my order.

Romantic Great love story, make you think twice about the time we waste bickering over nothing. Im a big Gerald Butler fan.

Spartacus Vengeance Powerful and unforgettable -- these are the two words that immediately come to mind when trying to describe "Spartacus: Vengeance."  The first one tells you about how hard it hits you while watching it and the second one is the feeling that you have after watching it. Hell, for that matter, I shall also add a third word: addictive - you just can't get enough. And if you thought that the first two installments of the series, "Spartacus: Gods of the Arena" and "Spartacus: Blood and Sand," could not be surpassed, think again. The writers keep it excitingly fresh and honest.  After two seasons, for a lack of a better word ("Spartacus Vengeance" is labeled as the second season), we now find Spartacus and his fellow slaves free, after terminating Batiatus' empire. If you recall, Batiatus (John Hannah) was the mighty owner of the best gladiators in the town of Capua. However, even though the gladiators are free, they are still slaves and the Romans will do anything to get them back. This time, the Roman-in- charge and the new owner of the Batiatus house is Glaber (Craig Parker, who does a great job). Glaber, as we know, is married to Ilithyia (Viva Bianca), who barely escaped the wrath of Spartacus and his followers when they ended Batiatus' regime. In addition, it is also known that Spartacus, who was originally played by Andy Whitfield, who died at the height of his career due to cancer, was replaced by Liam McIntyre. He commands an impressive group of gladiators and slaves - both male and females --, including Crixus (Manu Bennett), Doctore (Peter Mensah), Mira (Katrina Law), Agron (Daniel Feuerriegel), and others. Spartacus keeps freeing and recruiting slaves throughout the region, always telling his people that "an empty hand can yet become a fist" and "even the mighty republic bleeds when stricken."  Of course, along the way we will find new faces and the return of older ones who we thought were gone for good. There are also mutinies within Spartacus' troops, and all is done well. My favorite episode is "Libertus," number five of the season, which by itself could have been a movie. I couldn't believe my eyes while watching it and I was at the edge of my seat. What suspense! What a show! The final and tenth episode, "Wrath of the Gods," is also as good as it gets, and closes the season in a satisfying and majestic manner.  "Spartacus Vengeance" has elements of "Apocalypse Now," Hitchcock, James Bond, "The Godfather," "Caligula" (Tinto Brass' version), and more; you can see the influences on the filmmakers. The violence gets more gruesome (if that is possible) and the sex is more graphic, without being x-rated (or NR-rated?), and I have to confess that, even though I am not a fan of today's brand of violence (especially the new wave of horror movies), this series is my guilty pleasure. Ah, of course there is also the nudity - male and female - which is a delight to any sexual preference. And then there is the matter of Liam McIntyre replacing Andy Whitfield. Personally, I didn't have a problem with it, as the action and plot keeps you busy. However, that said, I was surprised by Viva Bianca's incredible range of acting on this particular season. I was also impressed by Katrina Law, who was a perfect partner for Spartacus. Both of them, I believe, stole the show from the others, including the males.  Now, of course, we have to wait for what is supposed to be the final season of this spectacular series: "War of the Damned."  Knowing Spartacus' end in real life, according to history and in Stanley Kubrick's film, is kind of hard to just think about it, and I hope that the filmmakers have the wisdom on how to give the series a great closure. A hint of that end is given in one of the episodes. The DVD edition includes the season's ten episodes, Starz studios used for Spartacus, a making-of feature, bloopers, a teaser for  "Spartacus: War of the Damned," and much more. (USA, 2012, color, 556 min plus additional materials).  Reviewed on September 11, 2012 by Eric Gonzales for Anchor Bay / Starz Originals.

Twilight DVD I love the Twilight Saga so of course I love this movie!  The move was in great condition upon shipment and works well!  Great quality.  Arrived ahead of schedule!  Get price!  GOTTA love all of those things!

Rio bravo It is a real good movie . The song that Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson sang was realy good . To me its a must have . And I like John Wayne I like about all his movies .

rookie of the year I've been purchasing from Amazon for several years. I've been very pleased with the quality of my items and the quickness in which they have been delivered!  Amazon makes online ordering easy. I always go to Amazon first when I do my online shopping.  For the most part, they've always had what I'm looking for.  My grandson loves the movie, "Rookie of the Year".  I went straight to Amazon to get it for him. No having to dig through piles of discounted CD's or hunting through A-Z isles and then standing in line for ages to purchase it!  I just typed in what I wanted and I got a good quality CD at a good low price.

When being 'naughty' was still nice. The best of British humor with the lovable and witty Alastair Sim who teaches you how to win in life by turning the tables in YOUR direction and against your opponents.  It also shows you how innocent being a bit naughty could be in the late 50's.

Good clean fun! All the fun you'd expect if a whole town decided to go Cold Turkey and give up smoking together.  This was back when everybody smoked, from the local doctor to the preacher and his closet-smoking wife.  We enjoyed this movie back when it came out and it was still funny seeing it again recently.  Some humor doesn't hold up that long, but this movie won't disappoint.

A Riveting and Spellbinding Ride! Hang on tight, this is a full body and mind dive into diverse melodic and rhythmic music!  Percussion, keyboards, strings, electric and stand-up bass all combine for a tasty melange that is better experienced than described!  If you like fusion, rock, jazz, classical, tango, or all the above, then you'll find something to enjoy hear ;D Top notch playing and creativity all around!  Great bonus features too, including much extra music. All together an awesome bunch of music!

AWESOME Very realistic acting, great plot, and the fact that it certainly contains more action than paranormal activity and more scares make this film an absolute recomendation.

A masterpiece I was extremely grateful that the DVD set arrived at my home in Australia so quickly after I placed the order.  The Civil War is a uniquely beautiful, extremely impressive, sensitively produced documentary that changed my life.  Thank you.

Great Movie & Great Service I'm an adult but I remember reading the Felicity books when I was a kid, so this movie has quickly become one of my favorites. Prompt, courteous service and the movie arrived just as described. 5 stars.

Home Alone 2 DVD Great movie and just as good as the first Home Alone movie. Very funny and a great watch at Christmas time. A great movie for family night and a good moral ending.

A CLASSIC! 1968 version of Planet of the Apes, this is the one that started it all.  Received the DVD in a prompt manner.  Enjoyed watching it again after seeing it for the first time when it came out and I was in high school.  Quality of the picture is very good as is the sound.  It's the best of the Planet of the Apes movies, though I really enjoyed Rise of the Planet of the Apes which came out recently.  Charleton Heston is excellent and, for its time, the special effects are outstanding.  If you never saw the movie and want to see it again, this is a very worthwhile buy.

Great workout! I love this workout.  It is challenging and varied enough to stay interesting, and I love the way the different levels (beginner, intermediate and advanced) are illustrated throughout. I am in my 2nd trimester, and after not exercising during my first trimester, I decided to stick with the beginner level and, boy am I glad I did. I worked up a sweat, and my body was sore the next day! I love that feeling! There are plenty of leg and arm workouts, along with some gentle ab exercises, and I especially liked the inclusion of the Kiegel exercises throughout, as I am not that good at remembering to do them on my own. Excellent DVD, and a good length (42mins) which means you feel you have done a workout, without exhausting yourself. Definitely recommend to anyone wanting a serious workout at home.

Fanstic surprise - Lots of extras! I bought this when it was Amazon's Deal of the Day, dropping down to twenty-eight bucks.  Now that I have it, it feels like I stole it at that price.  It's worth the regular reduced price, for sure.  Not only does this set come with the full DVD AND the full, brilliant BluRay packed with extra features, it also offers a CD soundtrack of the music, a hardcover book, a hand-painted music box that plays The Sound of Music, a reprint of the 1965 Theatrical Souvenir Book, snapshot photos from around Salzburg, and an official Letter of Authenticity.  This is a limited edition, numbered collector's set.  This is not just the film.  The box is about the size of a board game, and is packed full of content.  If you're a serious lover of this classic film, this is the set to get.  You will not be disappointed.

Very good Season This disc set is very good.  As good if not better than season 1.  Can't wait for the next one.

No Country for Old Men Review No Country for Old Men is a rare movie that gets every aspect of film perfectly. Every character gives an award deserving performance? Yes. The script perfect? Yes. The cinematography, the directing, the camera angles? Yes, yes and yes.  No Country for Old Men starts with a very creepy Javier Bardem who is chasing Brolin's character (who is very much deserving the academy award). The Coen Brothers nail the atmosphere of a modern western. The filming is done in Texas, and if it wasn't for the cars, you would think its a classic western. The sets, everything from the desolate wilderness, to the run down motels, fit in perfectly with an excellent atmosphere. The script sets up a very tense film, a chase between three different characters.  I am almost positive that you will be entertained while watching this movie. It is one of the best of the 2000's.

yayyyyy I generally don't like dramas, but this was one of the best movies I've ever seen! eye heart ryan gosling!

One of Ken Burns best, and should be recognized as such A lot of people seem to think that America would never had been the same had Long became president, that America would have become purely a socialist country. I don't think so. People seem to become short-sighted when it comes to whether or not Congress would have allowed his ideas come to pass. Considering all of the deals that Roosevelt didn't have go through during his second term such as the NRA, among others, and his attempts of adjusting it and Congress still not letting become law, what would make them subject to someone (Long) who felt that Roosevelt wasn't doing enough? His "Share Our Wealth" wouldn't have happened on a nationwide scale. But enough of my viewpoints on this issue.  Burns does a great job with adding people who supported him (the poor) and the ones who didn't (middle-high class), and that they were still alive a half-century after his death is remarkable, and surely couldn't happen now except from a third-person perspective. It showed all of the good he did with building better highways, bridges getting textbooks for the children at the schools, and improving the overall structure of state of Louisiana. The also showed what he had to do to keep power, which wasn't justifiable in certain cases, if any (for example, the kidnapping prior to the elections) and the puppets he had in office during his term as Senator. It gives you a balanced look at what he did during his time involved with politics. I also enjoyed the looks of his earlier life, and his campaigning with "Every man a King, but no one wears a crown", and you can see how people were drawn to him with more than his promises? It also makes you think was he justified in his actions in order to keep power.  I've seen several of Burns' documentaries,  "Thomas Jefferson", "Prohibition", and the Lewis and Clark documentary, along with this one. Haven't had the time to get around to "The Civil War" or "Baseball" yet, but this should be mentioned as one of his best.

As Expected The product is as expected, a Martial arts film that captured the wonder of the Classics while providing superior production values. The fight sequences were well staged and executed. Overall a very enjoyable bit of escapist cinema. Well done!!

All Americans should see this movie This is a great movie.  If you want to see how the housing bubble burst and who is behind it this is the movie for you.  I have read the book and seen the movie "To big to fail" which were good but the "Inside Job" has more detail and follows the ecomony down to the people who have home mortgages.  This movie shows how wall street and the banks made literally billions of dollars while homeowners are being forclosed.

Great movie! Loved this movie!  I had read the book and loved it too, but Julia and Javier made it even better.

Resident Evil I love the Resident Evil series and have purchased the second, third, and the fourth one just recently.  I had to get the first one to complete the series.  I was happy that it was in such a great condition when I receieved it.

Ridiculously funny I cannot remember the last time I actually cried at a movie theater. This is Rowan Atkinson at his finest!!!!

For Kids and Adults Alike! Though the songs are not up to the caliber of classic Disney, Dreamworks certainly put together a magnificent tale with The Road to El Dorado. The main characters are dynamic, entertaining, and have fun personalities. Kenneth Branagh and Kevin Kline are brilliant. There are plenty of jokes little kids will laugh at, and plenty more that will sail right over their heads and crack up the adults.  (This should be an obvious statement given that it's a cartoon, but don't get this movie if you want a history lesson on relations between Aztecs and the Spanish. This ending doesn't involve butchering and smallpox. Didn't have quite as much of a fun-loving ring to it.)  I am in college and this is still one of my favorites. Highly recommend it!

true grit I was glad to find this, as a gift it was reasonably priced and the person receiving it was just plain old happy.  Thanks

gorgeous.  stunning.  beautiful art a departure in every sense of the word... still blown away as i just finished watching this masterful piece of art.  hard to find the right (complimentary) words to describe how i feel, but suffice it say i am incredibly moved and so very happy to have found this film.  superlative acting and directing,  provocative writing, photographed with genius, "heavenly" score, interesting editing, and indeed all aspects of this production wonderfully choreographed.  thank you filmmakers for contributing a unique experience for us - i remain intrigued and shall happily ruminate over the tapestry of stories as i savor the visual details... the music... the performances... hugh jackman is perfection and grace... awed...

Really Classic! I remember when I watched this movie for the first time. That was 8 years ago and I had not yet grasped the meaning of special effects. This movie blew my mind, just so fun and amazing. I recently bought a DVD of this movie and watched it again. Guess what??? It blew my mind! Well, it's not outdated, even after all this time. The picture quality is superb on the DVD and the special effects don't look terrible compared to now - fairly believable. Even the acting still holds up. This is probably always going to be one of my all time fave films and frankly anything is better than the Tim Burton remake. This version earns 5 and a half stars!

Entertaining We were highly entertained. It is a very well made movie with good acting for the most part. Can't go wrong with it.

The best movie ever! My mother had this movie in the 80s and she would watch it over and over. I was so glad when I found it! Christopher plays a wonderful part trying to get back to the one he loves.

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Planet Of The Apes Legacy I absolutely love this product! I've been a fan of the series my entire life, and I've been looking for a way to buy all of them at the same time. I was so excited when I saw this Planet Of The Apes Legacy box set!

Great BluRay An ageless wonder with hours of extras. Just in time for Xmas. Thanks Amazon for great price, both for movie and shipping(free).

High Noon We purchased High Noon Ultimate Collectors edition and it is great.Much better than we exspected.We did like the early version better than the latest.Good grafect and big Gary Cooper fans also.The price was great and delivery was much sooner than exspected.Our first purchase was very satisfying.Will continue to use Amazon for our needs.  Thanks much  Bob Parris

A must see! Scarface is such an amazing movie. Great actors. Al Pacino has such a powerful performance. Michelle Pfeiffer is so beautiful. Love it!

Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3 This in my opinion, is the best of the movies.  The whold family was highly supportive of it and they do not want to stop watching it.  My 9 year old grand daughter sat in front of our Big Screen TV watching it until she finally collapsed into a deep sleep at around 11:30 p.m.  Congrats on a great entertainment value.

Great Movie A beautiful movie with underlying meanings. A movie that shows love and dreams are important to follow. I was dazzled and amazed by how good this movie actually was. I will watch it again and I will show it to whoever I can. A must see.

Brilliant! Simply the best movie I have seen in years. A real emotional roller coaster and a great story. For me, it was easy to relate to many of the characters in this story and the loyalties they were trying to convey about family, the many types of family and social bonds not just blood but those we develop over time through mutual trials and tribulations, and it also speaks of the struggles that we so often endure and the sacrifices and decisions we are forced to make for those we care about. Furthermore, the actors played their parts perfectly. I couldn't be any more satisfied with the direction of this film, the evolving plot, and each actors performance was phenomenal. This isn't just your average movie about a single fighter who's struggle to the top is the focus of the entire film but follows several people though their journey, each with their own style and personality, and each has their own rich story to tell which unfolds to you as the film progresses. It is full of ups and downs for every character and is testimonial to how not everyone can win all of the time and that sometimes we must just pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off, sometimes with the help of others and sometimes on our own. As I stated earlier, this really is the best movie I have seen in years. I must see!

Intimacy as Power Struggle This movie shows a couple engaging in erotic mind games. There's drama and conflict. I found the acting good. It's a shame that viewers come to this expecting hardcore porn because this film is really  more like a two-actor play.  Since I always seek out diamond-in-the-rough independent films, I've watched a few of the director's offerings. JP Allen starts with unbelievable situations and then breaks through to moments of emotional honesty and literary beauty. The tragedy for the couple in this movie is that they could not stay in that honesty but had to fall back into their mind games.

A Classic! I will always love this funny, funny, movie! I had to rent it for my grandson (11 yrs old). He also loved it!

very Good movie I enjoy this action/drama movie. My husband suggested it to me. I enjoy watching it time and time again. I think Leonardo DiCaprio is very handsome in this movie. I think he is handsome in all movies. I happen to also find Matt Damon very sexy. I like the manly guy he plays in this movie.

one of my favorites has some juicy things that i never saw on the others.. i love this movie and wish there was a #3.  !!  has everything you want in a good mystery.

Outstanding "reform school" drama Let me state upfront that I am a long-time fan of the Film Movement library of foreign and indie movies (in fact earlier this year I finally gave in and started my subscription). I recently was shopping at the foregn movie section of my local library and when I saw this. I immediately picked it up.  "King of Devil's Island" (116 min.) is a 2010 release out of Norway. It bring the (true) story of a reform school located on Bastoy Island in Southeastern Norway. The movie starts with the arrival of a young man named Erling at the reform school. Let's just say that Erling is not suited well in this strict disciplinary (if not abusive) environment, and almost immediately he is planning his escape, almost Alcatraz-like. In fact, Erling does manage to escape! At this point, we're only 40 minutes into the movie. To give more of the plat away would really ruin your viewing experience, but let's just say that there are quite a few more dramatc moments to come.  The real star of the movie for me is the scenery, which is stark, and the photography, which is rich even in the many dark and gray scenes. Thie movie proves once again that a foreign movie doesn't have to be "boring", even if if doesn't have any CGI scenes in it. If you like a sophisticated, spellbinding foreign movie, "King of Devil's Island" is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

Great movie! A very interesting and unusual movie. Fast-paced and one twist after another, definitely worth watching! The ending was slightly disappointing, but other than that was pleased.

Wonderful practice! This is currently my favorite yoga DVD. I find this vinyasa to be a great complement to my running routine. The instruction is low key. The scenery is beautiful. I try to do the full 70 minute vinyasa, but am glad to have the 40 minute routine available as a back up when I am pressed for time.  One comment: this routine is definitely not for beginners...you must be familiar with vinyasa flow prior to attempting this workout. Which is actually one of the reasons I love it so much...no time wasted with explanations...you get to just get down to business!

Meet the Browns Sweet story, with excellent family and moral values. Heart-felt and funny at the same time, along with inspirational message. I really enjoy all Tyler Perry's movies.

20th Anniversary Edition is probably the best version I didn't realize the 20th Anniversary Edition had both versions (new "Widescreen" and the original Fullscreen transfer), so I'd suggest going with that. The new Widescreen is not the true Widescreen, but the color and transfer is better than the previous Rhino release. At any rate, it has both versions so you can't lose. I thought purchasing the Rhino version was the right move, not realizing the 20th Anniversary actual contains both versions, but I'm still happy with my purchase.

My Favorite Show I am such a huge fan of this series. The acting and story is A+. I cant wait for season 2!!!

Great CGI for Snow White Fantasy films have always held an interest for me. This rendition of the "Snow White" story was really wonderful. The computer generated imagery enhanced the story and the performances by the actors were convincing. A worthwhile addition to my DVD collection and warrants a replay time and time again. I would certainly recommend this film for the imaginative more than a fairy tale viewer. Good fun.

Great Item! I bought this movie for my brother and he loves it!! It is.a classic and.he wanted it. It was also an amazingnprice for the whole.package!!!

Best Guy Ritchie movie ever If you have not seen this film you definitely have to watch it. I think it was Guy Ritchie's second film after Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. The cast is superb especially Brad Pitt, lets just say its the most unique and hilarious roles Pitt has ever played. The movie is a great gangster/comedy film and I think it's Ritchie's best film to date. A must watch.

Funny and sad too. this was funny in the beginning when he was getting angry at a ball. Then he comes back from a four year ship wreck and has no one or anything. He lost his wife and everything that kept him alive in the first place.  thats the sad part. Well, at least he still can find the Lord. Good movie that makes you appreciate all you have.

great everything with this product was awsome nothing wrong and it came quick.  Nothing was wrong with the pacage and it was new.

Amazing color and quality There's just something about blu ray that amazes me! I got this for my fiance for Christmas and the color is amazing!

What is light without Darkness This movie was by far the best movie of its era, not many liked it at first when it came out in theaters and on cassette. But after awhile when people began to watch it over and over again they started to really enjoy this colorful fantasy film. This is the kind of film that people need to sum times watch over and over again to see how amazing it is. Excellent acting too.

A really enjoyable DD movie This is the 1957 film version of a successful Broadway hit, and the plot and tunes were transferred almost intact between the two. It concerns an industrial dispute over a 7½ cent pay increase for workers in a pajama factory. Starring worker and head of the grievance committee is Doris Day, well supported by John Raitt as the workshop manager. There are a host of fine tunes here by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross that made the hit parade for many months and some of which are still heard today: `Hey there', `Hernando's hideaway' (a fine comedy number), `Once a year day' (an ensemble number spectacularly choreographed by Bob Fosse), `Small talk', `I'm not at all in love', `Steam heat', and still more. The film was directed by George Abbott and Stanley Donen. This is nearly 100 minutes of great entertainment.

Kudos... This company exceeded my expectations. Not only was the DVD very affordable, its quality is outstanding. I would recommend this company without hesitation.

Good Scare For My Girlfriend.... Absolutely Funny For Me To start, I got this movie 3 days BEFORE the estimated date. It works perfectly. I watched it with my girlfriend who has an EXTREMELY vivid imagination. It was a great time for the both of us. I reccomend this to anyone just looking to scare someone else.

Holy Grail Blu-Ray Review I've been a Monty Python fan my entire life, and a huge fan of this film in particular. This is the best that MP&THG has ever looked, and perhaps as good as it ever will, or even can, look or sound.  Instead of rehashing what has already been said about the film itself and the shiny new 1080p video, I'd like to focus on a few of the extras, and what exactly is different about this release compared to the previous DVD release.  Most of the extras (Holy Grail locations, etc.) were all on the earlier DVD, but the new additions, the Outtakes and Lost Animations, are real gems available for the first time only on this Blu-Ray.  The Outtakes consist of longer versions of some scenes, which were understandably cut or shortened, but there are also some alternate takes and screw-ups with the cast forgetting lines or laughing in the middle of a take. It's all great fun, and a humorous look behind the scenes at an already drop-dead hilarious movie.  Terry Gilliam's Lost Animations are a hoot. We see a few spare parts that may not have had any particular intent, but there is also an extended opening to The Tale of Sir Robin, involving a collapsing cathedral, a stray rock catapulted into the sky and knocking out a flying dragon-like creature which then falls into the title card, impaling its mouth, collapsing, thus creating the "R" in "Robin."  And there is also an extended opening to "The Tale of Sir Lancelot" in which a cartoon Lancelot battles a giant slug. Total Gilliam lunacy at his stream-of-consciousness best!  The only cut scene I wish had been included as an extra is "King Brian the Wild," which is a scene that was written but never shot. It appears only as a pencil sketch animation with sound on the Holy Grail video game that came out during the Dark Ages of video games. Unless it's an easter egg on this disc, or if it appears in the "Holy Book of Days," which I have not had a chance to explore yet.  There are a couple of things missing from the Blu-Ray, including the "Follow the Rabbit" feature from the previous DVD. That feature would be useless here anyway, since the new "Holy Book of Days" downloadable feature promises to be far more extensive and comprehensive.  Also, the false opening "Dentist on the Job" short is not at the start of the film. Not a deal-breaker, of course, but if you are fond of that ephemeral opening gag, then hang on to your DVD.  The Blu-Ray menus are much better than the DVD menus, which I always thought were rather tedious and impossible to by-pass.  The various audio tracks, commentaries and subtitles (including the Japanese language track and the Henry VI subtitles) are all there, but on the DVD the default audio was the original mono track. Here the default is the more recent stereo remaster, including Michael Palin's re-recording of the narration.  This Blu-Ray release is a very impressive return to a fantastic comedy that has stood the test of time.

Excellent Discipleship Tool I love the way the Jesus is portrayed in this DVD series. For once we see a Jesus who displays a full range of human emotion and looks like a Jewish man from the ancient middle east! Andy Frost's commentary is very powerful and convicting. This is an excellent discipleship tool. See also <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006XF2WG6">Jesus Revealed: Encountering The Authentic Jesus (Disc 1)</a>  Beth Miller

Pulp Fiction Pulp Fiction is a very unique movie.  Follow the stories of several different people at the same time. Before your done all of their lives tumble together in a chaotic way. John Travolta, Uma Thurman and Bruce Willis give some of their best preformances.  The soundtrack is also terrific.  It will keep you rocking through out.  This is Not a movie for kids as it deals with some serious and criminal issues.

very good This is a great film and it is from the guy that did "Being There" the best way to look at this movie is to watch "Being There" and then look At "The Landlord" . The movie was made back in 1971. A rich man has nothing better to in life then to become a slum landlord. Yes it is the great white hope in a black area. This movie came out aound the time another movie that is very hard to find now days "They don't Wear Black Tie's "Brazilian film

Bucket List The service and product are exactly what I expected. I received it on the date I was told I would. Its condition was perfect.  Amazon is the only way to purchase DVDs. Everyone should have a copy of "Bucket List". Michael Collins

The best documentary ever on the Amish! (Note: this is a review of the Bluray Version though it is the same program as the DVD)  There are - by many estimates - nearly 150,000 Amish living in the US - mostly in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, but also in Indiana, Ohio and New York State. Lancaster County alone gets 15-20 MILLION visitors each year, who come to "see" the Amish and participate in what they call the "Amish Experience'. I live within an hour of Lancaster County and travel there a few times each summer for the open air and piece and quiet of this beautiful land. I'm not there to "see" the Amish but to support their businesses (fresh produce and farm products) and I get to chat with them at that time. I try to avoid the "tourist traps" like the "Typical Amish Farm" (a commercial enterprise to give the "English" (the name the Amish give to non-Amish.). When I saw this PBS DVD was available I was anxious to see it. It did not disappoint. And I learned a few things I didn't know.  The hardest part of making a film about a sect like the Amish is that they have a rule that they don't want to be filmed. The reason is that by filming them, the outsiders are "taking their image". British Director David Belton found a partial way around this by spending days among the Amish in Lancaster County getting to know them and explaining the purpose behind the film. He was able to get ONE family to allow themselves to be filmed. Other shots are from a distance with faces turned or only audio interviews while nature scenes are shown.  The nearly two-hour film begins with the tourists and the buggy rides and candy stores in Paradise, PA but soon moves on to show us family life and interview both current Amish and a few who left the sect. A few historians, and sociologists are interviewed to provide some background. There is no real "narrator".  There is a section on the 2006 Nickel Mine school disaster where 10 young girls were shot, five of whom died.  A few of the other reviews here - some based on the version that aired on PBS - should provide you more background.  The Blu-ray contains one "bonus feature" - a "Behind the Scenes" featurette with commend from the Producer and the Director. It only runs just under three minutes. (I'm assuming this is on the standard DVD as well.) The beauty of the land shines through in sharp images accompanied by an original score.  As others have said, this well-balanced film is probably the best documentary on the Amish. (Can you imagine the sales of this DVD if every one of those visitors to Lancaster County bought a copy??)  I hope you found this review both informative and helpful.  Steve Ramm "Anything Phonographic"

Excellent Documentary This is a perfect, witty, tiny peak into the blood sweat and tears that have gone into growing vineyards in Arizona.  It is hard not to be captured by the emotions and feel the passion Eric and MJK have for this labor of love and the artistry that goes into developing their amazing wines.

AWESOME MOVIE, MUST SEE! This movie is so great, you must watch it at least once! I dont recommend you watch it with your girlfriend/wife, because Tiffany's twins (you know what I mean), will drive you crazy! If there ever was a deputy in my town that looked that good, with cleavage popping out like that, I would be getting arrested alot,lol

this needs to be in everyone's blu-ray collection!!! if you dont have it. then go and buy it. the picture quality is great. and so is the 7.1 audio.

consistently underrated, terrific performances, uncannily accurate I remember seeing this film about mid-way through the life cycle of my last relationship and thinking "uh oh" because it could have been my life and my boyfriend (who i later unwisely married, instead of sensibly breaking up; owning property in common definitely prolonged both our agony).  It was a wake-up call and i knew it at the time, but I guess it took a long time for me to be honest with myself about my life and my choices.  I can't understand why this production is so often panned.  I think Vince and Jennifer turned out stellar performances.  Maybe this movie hits too close to home for some, whereupon others haven't had the experience to relate.  I wish I didn't.  I cannot understand why this is characterized as a comedy - because there are two actors famous for their comedic performances perhaps?  There are comic elements - as there are to all of life.  But this story is a drama.

Santum Very suspenseful.  I was at the edge of my seat and the movie made me feel like I was actually there.  Would recommend.

hercules I got the movie in great condition and i love this movie. I got it for my nephew but he is not really that into it but it's one of my favorites so i watch it by myself.

eagles - australia Absolutely the best DVD( considering sound quality, song choice, staging, lighting, etc.) that we have ever purchased. We show it regularly whenever we have guests who haven't seen it yet and never tire of it. We have eclectic tastes in music and have a huge library of DVDs but rate this No. 1.

Dazzling! I love this movie. It is, to me, absolutely dazzling. To buy it here on Amazon, it's still close to twenty dollars, so that has to tell you something. Especially since it's over a decade old. If you like different, and you like the tango, see this movie. Sally Potter did a fine job.

One of my favorite movies This a sad, funny, romantic, lovable movie.  It is one of Patrick's best.  Also, it is one that I would have allowed my children to watch when they were young.  If you love Patrick Swayze, this is a "must have" movie.

Stick it This movie is awesome, and this movie came in great condition with no dents or scratches even on the case was perfect.

This review is just for what Special Features are of this Season 7 set... I won't go into depth of why I like this show and the synopsis of the episodes, but this review is just for the special features of the Season 7 DVD.  And I'm not sure about Season 6 or the Season 5 DVD, but I know Season 7 does have subtitles.  Oddly enough, it doesn't have closed captioning.  While I was going through the DVDs to find the exact special features I was starting to get let down by the lack of commentaries showing up.  I was hoping it wasn't a typo, but we do get two episodes with commentary.  Weirdly, "It Takes a Village" and "Hit/Run" I sure would have gotten a commentary, but alas, no.  And I do wanna say that most (if not, all) of the special features of subtitled, too.  Which, is always a plus.  Good job, CBS DVD!  Disc 1: 1- It Takes a Village 2- Proof 3- Dorado Falls 4- Painless (Minds' Eye: Implosion - 5:18 explanation of episode)  Disc 2: 5- From Childhood's Hour (Minds' Eye: The Fall - 3:55 explanation of episode) / (Deleted Scene - 1:39) 6- Epilogue 7- There's No Place Like Home (Minds' Eye: Twisted - 7:12 explanation of episode) 8- Hope  Disc 3: 9- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy 10- The Bittersweet Science (Minds' Eye: Bloodlust - 6:12 explanation of episode) 11- True Genius 12- Unknown Subject (Deleted Scene - 0:43)  Disc 4: 13- Snake Eyes 14- Closing Time 15- A Thin Line 16- A Family Affair  Disc 5: 17- I Love You, Tommy Brown (Deleted Scene - 0:46) 18- Foundation 19- Heathridge Manor (Minds' Eye: Devil Inside - 9:35 explanation of episode) / (Deleted Scenes - 2:29) / (Episode Commentary by Matthew Grey Gubler and Sharon Lee Watson) 20- The Company (Episode Commentary by Shemar Moore and Breen Frazier)  **Fireside Chat with Matthew Grey Gubler - 4:04  Disc 6: 21- Diving Rod 22- Profiling 101 23 & 24- Hit/Run (Minds' Eye: Too Big to Fail - 8:13 explanation of episode)  **Wedding Toasts - 4:55 **Seven Stories - 28:16 **Wheels Up - 2:33 (It's not what you think at all.  It's called "Wheels Up (The Hotch Song)" and it's a Music Video by H.i.M. featuring the CM cast.  I don't even know what to say after watching it.  Although, I do love me some Paget Brewster dancing gangsta.  Lol, whatever type of dancing that was.  It is on YouTube for those who want to check it out. **Gag Reel - 5:22

In Awe! I only watched this once so far but was just in awe and am going to watch it again as it has so much packed into the hour long video. It really will blow your mind!

Blood & Gore, Confusion, more Blood & Gore! This is a movie not for the feint hearted, just when you think you've worked out what's going on...you were completely wrong! I know I Was!! A derranged killer is on the loose, but just exactly who is the derranged killer?? This is for the movie goers who don't mind all the blood & gore but like the intrigue of working out who the killer actually is! The question is, Why all the killing?! This movie is also known by a different title; 'Switchblade Romance', not sure why that is, but for anyone considering purchasing this movie, I'd go for 'High Tension' the 'Unrated Version'. Even with all the Blood & Gore I still enjoyed the movie, speaking of Blood & Gore, if you really like Gory movies, then another movie to consider is; 'Inside' it even made me cringe!

Not your classic fairy tale ... Though it has all the elements of previous versions (such as the poisoned apple and magic mirror) this retelling of Snow White took the story in a different direction. Basically, the queen wants the prince, who starts out as a bit of a jerk, but he is in love with Snow White who is left in the woods where she is taught how to fight and steal by the seven little men who do not work in a mine.  The new twist is refreshing after seeing the same story told over and over again. Some of the humor is more adult then previous versions, but there is still enough comedy to keep kids entertained. (Though some of the black magic parts might scare very small children.)  Overall, I greatly enjoyed this film. It is not mean to be overly serious or even overly silly. It is just a good family film that I can't wait to get on DVD.

Great Packaging The price was RIGHT and the movie is, as always, awesome!  The dvd comes in a (huge) box, which contains, a booklet on the movie, postcards from Austra, the discs, a picture book and a music box that plays "my favorite things". Very nicely packaged.

No-Frills, No Dogma, No Nonsense Look at Prison Vipassana Meditation Program My husband and I watched it last night. We didn't want anything "too" intense because we're both getting over chest colds, and this is not too intense. It's a look inside a maximum security prison located in Alabama and how not just the prisoners who agree to participate in the ten-day-meditation course, but the meditation teachers, the warden, a couple of guards--and a few relatives--of the prisoners--experienced the "idea" of meditation for prisoners and then the reality.  There's no loud soundtrack, no shocking images--though there is some background on the crimes some of the inmates committed and how they feel about their actions, as well as a few locals and their preconceived notions about meditation. There are no bleeding-heart pleas for clemency--not from the meditation teacher, not from the prisoners' relatives, and not from the prisoners themselves. This documentary is just a matter-of-fact look at what meditation can do to concentrate and calm the minds of prisoners--and that can only be a good thing for everyone who comes in contact with them inside, or outside, the prison walls.

The Help The book is a must read for persons interested in trying to understand the social structure of the south in the 60's. While entertaining and well written, the book also causes one to pause and reflect on his own biases in society.

Temple Grandin The movie has language options which came useful in a recent training for teachers in Mexico - The teachers and other trainers loved the movie as it depicts Temple's life experiences with autism and how she came to be an advocate and internationally known speaker.  Loved the movie!

courageous A wonderful, family friendly movie that encourages married couples to be courageous enough to protect and raise their families with loving discipline, care and Christian values including and guided by praising Jesus as Savior. The parents in this movie show courage, love and strength in a realistic setting full of adventure.

"AN INSTANT REPLAY OF THE ULTIMATE WOODSTOCK NOSTALGIA!" As one Reviewer politely gave her opinion that you had to be there to understand WHY Hippies reacted the way they did. Why the Vietnam War lasted as long as it did, why our loved ones were POWs, and why all the protests! As a Babyboomer from the 60s era, I lived to see and realize the answers to the sad questions. 'WOODSTOCK' was a gathering of thousands-upon-thousands to Voice out on the Vietnam War and all the heart-wrenching unresolved issues of that era. A Revolution that made history and not just with Music. A Revolution for FREEDOM, a revolution TO MAKE PEACE, NOT WAR! The many changes that came about for this country did so because of that GENERATION! This film is a gentle reminder of that era, and of course Jane Fonda knew very well the true meaning of Woodstock, along with a generation who pleaded for survival in an uneasy world. This brings Flashbacks for all that was achieved and a deep respect for THE FALLEN for our country. A thank you for changes made and the utmost Respect for all who contributed to make changes for the Better with Respect and deep Admiration for all who served in the Vietnam War, and to my class of 1968, who lost Many! This film is colorful, Bittersweet. Acting Performance Excellent with beautiful scenery as it Portrays what it did back then, Peace! Entertaining, Enjoyable, and Highly Recommended!

Touching and Inspiring! I saw the last part of this movie on TV way back in about the mid 1980s.  I've been wanting it every since.  I just received the DVD of it today.  I've waited around 25 years to finally get a copy of this movie.  I just finished watching the whole thing.  I love it!  It's a very touching and inspiring movie!  I love that heart-warming ending!  :)

added to my collection this movie was awesome. i have all the planet of the apes. hope they make more. sevice was quick and not complicated.

great movie Makes me want to go back to Paris. Kids love it, wife loves it. We watch it all the time. The voice of evil food critic is voice of pope in the English show about Henry VIII

Classic Everyone should own this classic in their dvd collection. Outstanding performance by the great Gregory Peck. A timeless story that will touch the hearts of all that watch it.

Bloody well done ... RRR Unlike Attila which reminded me of Hercules @ Kevin Sorbo, this movie led me to believe it was authentic.  The fights were sanguinary. There was one helluva story about survival. There were a lot of values to learn.  great story telling cinematography believability war scenes love story  He had one helluva wife. ;)

Classic! Classic carbine video from Kelly McCann (aka Jim Grover).  Kelly McCann is one of America's foremost experts on personal and corporate security, armed and unarmed combat, and antiterrorist tactics.  I especially liked his discussion on optics.  He presents a lot of great advice I haven't seen anywhere else.

Cujo I am a long time fan of thriller movies.  This movie with out all the slasher effects is the scariest movie I have ever seen.

Benny and Joon This is a classic in my opinion. I am 69 years old and this is among my top 5 all time favorites! I will watch it over and over.  I couldn't find this movie any place else. Amazon came through and got it to me without delay.

Brilliant and Beautiful! In the 1940's, an exceptionally brave, noble, good, and patriotic young man named Steve Rogers is desperate to join the army and do his part fighting the Nazis in World War II. Unfortunately, he is also exceptionally small, weak, and asthmatic. But, when a particular scientist takes note of his determination and amazing goodness, Steve is recruited to be the subject of a groundbreaking super-soldier experiment that transforms him into "Captain America: The First Avenger". From there on, we follow Captain Rogers as he struggles to take his fight from the home front propaganda circuit to the battle overseas, where he finds himself up against the original guinea pig of the super soldier syrum, the megalomaniacal Red Skull, leader of Hydra, an organization formerly tied to the Nazis, but now running purely under Red Skull's control.  When I first went to see 2011's "Captain America: The First Avenger", I was pretty psyched. I've never been a reader of the comics, but I've always been a fan of the more famous superheroes due to being a huge cartoon and film fanatic. There is a derogatory term comic fans have for such screen-based superhero fans as myself, but I can't remember it just now (for the record, I have always read comics, just not superhero ones; I would like to catch up with them someday). I've been a huge fan of the Marvel films since they started up with the X-Men, Spider-Man, Hulk, and Fantastic Four franchises, and things really got kicked up a notch when "Iron Man" came along as the first in this line of films leading up to the currently in theaters "The Avengers".  All 5 preceding films and The Avengers itself have been excellent to varying degrees, but "Captain America", in my opinion, is one of the best. This is largely due to the excellent casting, performances, retro-styling, music, and great Joe Johnston direction (this is the man who gave us The Rocketeer, another great, retro superhero film, as well as other excellent works like Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, which I still love to revisit on DVD). Now, when I first saw the film, I have to admit, I was more enthralled by the first two thirds than the final act. That's not to say there is anything wrong with that final act, but knowing only a limited amount about Captain America going into the film, both myself and my date expected it to be a bit more superhero-ish than it was. It was really more military offensive type stuff. Totally appropriate and well done, but for us, who are not war movie types, the story of Steve Rogers' transformation into Captain America and the relationships he makes were more fascinating. Rewatching the film more thoroughly on Blu-Ray, however, without being partially focused on how much my date was enjoying the film, ha, I find the later portion of the film much more engaging than I originally thought, and the whole thing is just a masterfully done piece of entertainment. Again, though my knowledge about the characters is limited, they seem wonderfully translated to the big screen. Nothing hokey looking about Red Skull at all, and Hugo Weaving is fantastic in the role! Chris Evans in the lead could not be better, either, and the special affects used to make him appear puny in the first part of the film are just amazing (they look much better in 2D than in 3D, as I remember seeing it on the big screen). Hayley Atwell does a wonderful job as Cap's love interest and military superior, Peggy Carter, and  it's great to see Tommy Lee Jones in the Marvel cast of characters here too, playing a hard (on the outside) Colonel as perfectly as you'd expect him to. There are plenty of other noteworthy cast members (always enjoy Toby Jones in films, and Stanley Tucci as well, he brings so much to this film), but it really is enough to say that everyone is excellent (and one of those Captain America chorus girls always catches my eye, but I won't take the space to try to specify which one).  "Captain America" is a fantastic film, particularly because of the great job it does with the retro qualities and bringing such potentially campy characters to life without slipping into that hole even slightly. Most of the Avengers-fueling films have done a great job with that, and I hope D.C. takes a lesson from this and starts working towards a proper Justice League film (though I have great concern, as they have yet to prove they can get the balance just right, no matter how awesome the Nolan Bat films are). Oh, and on the subject, I just love how all these films have been tied together (who hasn't loved that?), with S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury, Stark Enterprises (Dominic Cooper is a hoot in this as a young Howard Stark, Iron Man's dad),  and Phil Coulson popping up everywhere. The Blu-Ray is a must have if you are a Marvel fan or even just a fan of Word War II era films. It is brilliant in both respects. The movie looks and sounds great, and it comes with a fine set of bonus features: The best of the Marvel One-Shot short films (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer), a collection of featurettes and trailers, some deleted scenes, and a commentary by Director Joe Johnston, Director of Photography Shelly Johnson, and Editor Jeffrey Ford. The commentary is not the most fascinating one I've heard, but still good, and the featurettes are great as behind the scenes material. If you were a fan of "The Avengers" and plan to buy it when it comes out, you need to own this one too, and I certainly hope you've seen it by now. Don't forget to pick up Iron Man 1 and 2, Thor, and The Incredible Hulk as well! That's the Edward Norton "Incredible Hulk", not the Eric Bana "Hulk", though I still say Bana's is a good film too, even if it's not AS good.  PS: As a bit of extra, interesting info I just looked into, aside from animated works, Captain America has been onscreen in two 1979 TV movies (now on DVD), and on the big screen in a 1944 serial and a 1990 film not released in the States except on VHS. It seems the general consensus is that none of these are very good, though I still wanna see them and would love to own the serial if they'd ever release it. Anyway, thankfully, we now have a truly great Captain America film in "Captain America: The First Avenger", not to mention "The Avengers", and "Captain America 2" is scheduled for 2014.

Great for Dickens fans Excellent movie.  No frills like 5.1 surround sound.  But, well acted and entertaining.

Favorite childhood movie!! I loved this movie when I was growing up and was very excited to purchase a copy as an adult!!! Still as funny as it was when I was a kid!!!

Ballet Perfection! I watched this yearly as a young dancer and just purchased it again on DVD. It continues to astound. Mikhail's sheer athleticism is breathtaking alone. XXO

Love this truly disturbing movie I've tried to describe some of the sections of this movie to people who have never seen it, and they just don't get it.  The character Frank, is truly frightening and disturbing.  The singing session in Frank's friend's apartment messes with your mind in an almost Fellini sort of way.  This is a movie which stays with you in so many ways and this edition is an amazing quality difference from what I've seen before.

the VHS is dead - long live the DVD Purchased this for my grown daughter - VHS just doesn't cut it - by the time a new format comes out - she'll have to buy her own

3D image quality The 3D image is excellent when I watch this BD3D movie with my Samsung LED 3D system.  Previouly I owned this movie with a normal DVD, but this BD3D is much much better.

Laughter and Love This movie is as dear to my heart as "To Kill A Mockingbird".  I love them both very much. I watch them often when I need help feeling hopeful again.

PLEASE!! The original Bob Newhart Show is the best show ever produced. I can't believe that they won't release the rest of the series. I would pay a lot of money if I could just get a hold of it.

Singing and dancing in the rain Betty Comden and Adolph Green created this movie idea and script just from the title tune, which originated in the film The Hollywood Revue of 1929. This was not the only song composed by Nacio Herb Brown (tunes) and Arthur Freed (lyrics) taken from earlier films, but there were also two numbers composed for the film by Roger Edens to which Comden and Green added lyrics. Freed also produced the movie for MGM.  The storyline concerns the struggle some stars had in getting used to `talkies' after acting in silent films - here, with hilarious results. The star of the film is Gene Kelly (as actor Don Lockwood) who romances Debbie Reynolds (playing chorus girl Kathy Selden) with competing love interest provided by Donald O'Connor. The singing and dancing are first-rate with many well-known tunes: `You were meant for me', `You are my lucky star', `Would you', Beautiful girl' and others. Add in all the humour and you have a really entertaining film. It may be a clich&eacute; but, oh, how true: they don't make them like this anymore. Kelly's dancing of the title song has of course become a classic piece of cinema.

The Bad Good Old Days This film has Cagney and Bogart, a good plot, a lot of action, and a love story.  Cagney kills the totally bad Bogart, Bogart kills the semi-good Cagney (I know-just see the movie) and you will enjoy every minute of this movie.

Two Headed Shark Attacj Movies produced by the Asylum are either very good or very bad. There's very little area in between. Two Headed Shark Attack is one of their best efforts. The shark f/x were very good. It was a very entertaining movie and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys shark movies.

WOMEN OF CAMELOT REVIEW FAST AND RELIABLE SERVICE. THE MOVIE WAS A CHRISTMAS PRESENT SO I HAVE NOT HEARD WHETHER IT WAS GOOD OR NOT YET.

A masterpiece of hotness! I really just had to contribute to rectifying the problem of this not getting more overall stars. I saw it in the theater and purchased it in every format. Gosling has never been hotter, he's so sexy in a quiet mysterious way, and then in a sweet protective way, and then he goes a little psycho so you wonder if you want to get out of his way, but no, the hotness is too strong. The cast is great, the music is so weird and perfect, and the director keeps churning out great films. I'd recommend "Bronson" by him, while it's very violent, it's got similar music and is very creative. Gosling is superb in every film I've seen him in, which is almost all of them, there's nothing he can't play. His album "Dead Man's Bones" is great too, he can sing! He can do ballet! Really, is there anything he can't do?

I Came Back I saw this movie on a randomly insomniac night.  I've been trying to get it out of my head, ever since.  I won't critique or explain anything.  I watched it once on Netflix, it's no longer streaming, and I'm about to buy it from Amazon to feed my monkey. This is a love story, plain and simple; with a lot in between.  This movie is right up there with the 5th Element, in a very different way.  I can't point to any one reason for this movie's hook, but somewhere along the way, it grabs you by the tale.  If you're curating a collection of visual literature, this deserves a place.  The film looks further than the plotline and allows you to feel a bit more than a normal life... and Oh, that smile!

A different kind of "super powers" movie **Originally posted on "#1 Hits From Another Planet" - 2/8/12**  With Chronicle, 2012 has its first great movie. It's easily the most exciting, watchable action/sci-fi film in months. What first-time director Josh Trank was able to accomplish on a shoe-string (at least by Hollywood standards) budget is so cool that it borders on unbelievable.  The story will be familiar to most who have watched any superpower origin tale. More specifically, the script owes a great debt to pioneering 80's anime classic Akira. Three teenagers, one of them weaker, more socially awkward, and ultimately more disturbed, start to develop mysterious powers after an incident outside of a party. Andrew, the younger/weaker of the three (played by the pitch-perfect Dane DeHaan) finds he's able to control his newfound abilities to a greater and more impressive extent than the others. But, due to circumstances not entirely under his control, the powers prove to be too much for him. And thus, we have conflict.  While the story's familiar, the execution is startlingly fresh. Sure, the "found footage" genre has been around for awhile, but until now, I'm not sure it's ever been exploited to its full potential. Viewing this incredible story through an everyday lens gives the film a naturalistic feel and makes the effects all that more shocking, real and... well... fun. And honestly, "fun" is what this movie's about. Not that it's super happy or anything, but it's certainly a jolt of guerrilla film-making. In a world of polished studio action movies, this feels more like a couple of (ridiculously creative) storytellers playing around. Of course, it helps that they've got a taut, wonderfully human story at the core. For as awesome and exciting as the set-pieces are, Chronicle doesn't take the easy way out. Its characters feel real and completely sympathetic. In other words, it's really got a bit of everything for everyone. And at just under 90 minutes, it doesn't overstay its welcome. What more could you ask for? A-

Riz and Is DVD were brand new so they were in great condition. Love Angie Harmon ad Sasha Alexander together as a team in this series.

Great Movie, Great item This is a wonderful movie, I seen it before I made the dvd perches on Amazon.  I got a new dvd, the quality was great.  Had no problems, arrived on time.  The story is about: "Businessman Yash Raichand (Amitabh Bachchan) and his wife Nandini (Jaya Bachchan) have raised their sons with love and affection, but Yash disowns his adopted son Rahul (Shah Rukh Khan) after he marries a young woman of a lower social standing in this Bollywood classic. A decade later, younger brother Rohan (Hrithik Roshan) heads overseas to search for Rahul with the hope of reuniting his broken family."

Classics I'll always remember.. Very few movies go on my list. While I enjoy a myriad of types, I will always go for the movie that focuses on people. Amadeus is just one of those movies that are just awesome! Despite being one that I saw so many decades ago..  I don't know anything about music. I attempted piano for 10 years. Just not in my genes. I don't get music.. and I stink at it! But the storyline that unfolds in this movie concerning the life of Mozart is just engaging. How much truth is in this movie I don't know. They are missing the part where his mother goes with him as he develops (if you read his true life). But this movie delves into one of the human emotion: jealousy. It also tackles an issue that is very relevant to modern society, the good versus the bad. I think for its time it was way ahead! There was a time when good versus bad was black and white. In this movie, it projects that people are shades of grey. Even the best have their dark moments.. and even the person who has always done right can be overcome with negative emotions. This movie has done a fine job at telling us just that.. people are not really good/bad.. they just need the proper environment to display their real selves. The implications of this movie is many.. and what you get out of it can be an interesting conversation :). Enjoy!

rich man poor man This was fantastic.  I had seen it years ago on TV and had looked for the series to come out on DVD.  I keep wondering how things would have turned out if the sons had been treated fairly during their growing up years.  It showed that everyone had their ups and downs and  they tried to deal.  Some dealt well and others not so well.  No matter how high you were on the social scale didn't mean happiness.  Just when things were looking up they were cut down again.  A must see for everyone.

Cowboy Bebop Can't Be Beat I purchased the Special Edition DVD of this movie, and I've loved owning this movie. I've been a big fan of the series for as long as I can remember, but I've never seen the movie, so I was quite excited to buy this. The video quality and art is crisp and dazzling. The animation was even better than the show (which is hard to beat). The movie comes with a bunch of different settings regarding subtitles and dubbing, which is always important. The plot is good, the action is incredible, and the characters all come back better than ever. If you're a fan of Cowboy Bebop, I'd definitely pick up this version of the film. It comes with a surprising number of bonus features, including interviews, which Cowboy Bebop has lacked on some of their other DVD releases, in my opinion. This is a solid product, and a wise purchase. I'd recommend this to any fan of the show, and even to people just looking for a good action movie.

vintage corman, one of his best a fabulous film from the golden days of b-movies. Corman invests this typical sci-fi tale of the scientist who goes too far with an intelligent script and characters, a fine balance between the obvious and the twisted, and just about the right hint of existentialism and spirituality. Ray Milland lends pathos and gravitas to Dr James Xavier (whose name, academic qualifications and 'cursed' powers must have clicked with Stan Lee and Jack Kirby when they crafted Professor Xavier and the X-Men that same year: there's a pulpy sixties early Marvel feel to the film that's great fun, too), ably supported by the rest of the cast. None of the effects hold up, of course, but this is not that kind of movie - you see X more for its ideas, clever set-ups and seedy weirdness, and that's where it has aged the way good wines age. An added must for movie lovers and aspiring filmmakers is Corman's informative commentary, and there's good value in the deleted prologue to the film included as an extra. Had Corman gone ahead with his original idea on how to end the film (check the commentary to find out), he would have gone too far, but X would have been a masterpiece. Even so, what we have here is a classic, a movie made on the cheap, but with nothing cheap in the craft that made it.

Excellent Quality Great Movie! The quality of the feed was excellent. Very convenient. Since I was using earned credits I liked the price as well.

Addresses the tough questions Michael dares to ask the tough questions about relationships failures, deceit, expectations, intimacy, and commitment. An interview style video that explores the views of not only women, but men as well.

Do not miss this movie! It was a terrible shame that the media unilaterally panned this film before it hit the few theatres that were willing to show it.  Not only did very few theatres feature it, the horrible reviews kept people away, forcing theatres to discontinue it earlier than scheduled.  I was one of the fortunate few to see it on the big screen (and when I say few, there were only a handful of other people in the theatre with us.)  That said, they did a beautiful job bringing this epic to life.  I loved the acting, the scenery and where the movie left off.  I can't wait to see the next part.  I only hope the dvd sales are strong enough to signal to the makers of this film to please, please, please go forward with the plans for parts 2 and 3.  This is a story worth telling, and worth seeing!

Much cheaper than buying seperatly I figured since there are already plenty of reviews on the individual Robot Chicken Star Wars releases, which is what these are only bundled, I will just quickly point out exactly what this set is and how it is packaged, since Amazon does not even have a stock image or anything and very little information in general.  I purchased this for 14.99. What this is is not some separate box set with different packaging. Instead you get all three original Robot Chicken Star Wars DVDs each separate one factory sealed. Those three are also wrapped together and there is a little paper insert on the front that says "Robot Chicken Star Wars Episodes I and II and III" So essentially, this is the same exact product as buying the 3 versions separate. the difference is this is much cheaper. It is around 15 bucks here and at Best Buy, 5 bucks per Episode. The individual Episodes, as of right now, are $9.26, $10.73, and $11.19 respectively. So a total of $31.18. So you are saving more than 50% if you choose to go with this set. Even if you already own one of these Episodes and you purchase this set, you are still paying only $7.50 each for the other 2 episodes and have one extra brand new copy that you could re-sell. So this really is a hell of a deal.

Dante's Peak This video was out of print so it was unavailable at Blockbusters.  I was so happy to see it available on Amazon.  I show this video every year to my students while we're studying volcanoes.

This is a good movie Humor, and drama, this movie is no joke. This movie is def worth watching. The actors and actresses are very good.

Hands down favorite movie of all-time! I was excited to see that Pulp Fiction made it to Blu-Ray...It's an older movie so I'm not going to go into detail on the plot and scheme of things.  I don't think I've ever met a person who's an action movie fan that disliked Pulp Fiction! You have all of the essentials here: Tarintino directing, Travolta and Willis as the typical action guys...not to mention Samuel L Jackson being his typical loud and profane self!  If you've never seen it, buy it and have no regrets later! If you have and don't have a blu-ray copy, BUY IT!

Well Worth Buying! Well worth buying.  I watched this several times because there are sooooo many nuggets and pointers to the truth.  You won't be wasting your $$!!!

camino de santiago great movie about camino de santiago also is better in blue ray, you can  remember places and friends when you watch the movie, the history talks about tom avery, a doctor, he is playing golf when he received  a call from france police station, his son is dead, his son died on the camino de santigo and this is how the story begins... than you must see the movie, enjoy it

Beaches is still amazing! I bought this on DVD since my VHS version is almost completely worn out. My roommate had never seen it, so I wanted her to see it without all the lines from my old tape. Still love it just as much as I did the first time I saw it.

Really cool sci-fi There are no spoilers in this review. "Lost: Season 5" is really cool sci-fi. Season 5 has a lot of intensity, and is at least as good as Season 4. The story is picking up speed, revealing a lot more pieces of the puzzle, and putting a lot of those pieces into place. There are so many pieces now, though, that the story is very complex, on a par with "Twin Peaks", so it does not lend itself to casual viewing. In fact, as I watched I felt as though I should be taking notes. I never did, but I paid very close attention. The science fiction elements are front and center in this season, and a lot of fun. The characters also have a lot to do and a lot of difficult choices to make, so it's great to watch them. I'm very glad I did not give up on this show when it looked like it was going downhill in Season 3. If you enjoyed Seasons 1 and 4, then you should also enjoy Season 5. Reviewed 5/13/2009 after watching the entire season during its original broadcast.

A little gem. I recently watched this as I hadnt watched it for a few years. If your a B5 fan you will like these 2 short stories. There are some really nice dialogue moments in there, and the special effects, especially the dream space battle sequence look fantastic. Some of the acting & dialogue is a bit rough & dialogue, but thats nothing new for B5. (If you ever make a new B5 series JMS, get new directors!"  I found myself musing "What if B5 were remade today in a BSG style with the big budget space battles we are used to now?". After I stopped drooling I then started to watch crusade, and realised how BAD space battles can be when they are not done well at all.  Oh well, we can still dream....

Love this I love this item it was new and sealed the postage was. A reasonable time in coming and was great item. Love it!

A Great Help to Me I have used Bill Myer's Tricks and Tips for Sony Vegas quite a bit with version 10, so I cannot speak about 11 except that I am sure it can only be better. What I want to speak of is what I see as the integrity of Mr. Myers. He delivers on what he says he will do. He explains things in an easy to understand step by step fashion. I am not computer savvy at all. His screen-casts (video demonstrations) are very precise and clear - easy to understand and follow. As others have said, his videos are short and to the point. I like to open his tutorial on my laptop while I execute his step by step instructions on my desktop. For me that really simplifies and facilitates the learning process. I also have been greatly helped by the abundant and practical information he provides on his website. And what has truly earned him 5 stars with me is that he has helped me through some important questions I had through email, and that quite promptly I must add. I would not abuse the privilege however. You can't go wrong with this DVD. One last tip from me. Organize the tips and tricks that you found useful to you in your own document so that you can easily find it with future use. This will really help you if you only use the editor on occasion.

A Must Have Classic New Orleans Jazz DVD I purchased this DVD unintentionally and was so impressed with the performance that I had to listen to it at lease once a week. After you listen to the first song you'll be taken by the musicians, too, because they all had a solo piece to show off their superb skills. Too bad the concert was not recorded in Blu Ray DVD. Otherwise, it would be a perfect DVD. Enjoy it!

Whale Rider The Whale Rider was a wonderful movie that was revolved around a young girl named Kahu.  She was the rightful successor to her grandfather's tribe, although a female had never before been a leader there.  Her grandfather does not feel she should succeed him, so he goes on a search to find a young male for the group's new leader.  She wants to leave but finds the whales calling her back.  Kahu learns how to use the fighting stick and wins a battle with the young man he finds.  After the whales are beached and Kahu gets them to go back into the ocean he realizes that she is the rightful successor to his tribe.  This movie relates to my religion class in many ways.  This tribe has their own beliefs and is a type of primal indigenous religion.  Her grandfather is a type of "shaman" as he is the leader of their tribe.  They have their own form of ceremonies and Kahu is actually told to leave one of them by her grandfather.  It also relates to indigenous religions by having harmony with nature and animals.  They know if the whales do not "un"beach themselves they will not survive.  They use their geography and nature around them to survive.

Flightplan DVD Awesome movie.  Leave you on the edge of your seat.  I love buying from Amazon.com I will always use them over and over again.

Arrived hella FAST!!! Would order from this seller EVERYDAY of the week.  The product was REASONABLY priced.  More reasonable than anyone else to boot. Practically a steal! AND, it arrived damn near 2 weeks earlier than I'd expected.  Can't rave enough about the seller and I am enjoying my DVDS. THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU!!!!!

Excellent value I bought the movie for two reasons.  One I have grandkids and two I was told by several friends that it was a cute movie and well done.  Having purchased a 3D TV I've been trying to purchase 3D movies to watch on it.  I also travel a lot and I take a DVD player with me to watch movies on flights.  This package deal is a great value because not only do you get the Blu-Ray 3D copy it comes with a Blue-Ray, DVD and digital copy so I have all my bases covered.  For me buying all my movies in these combo packs are economical and gives me the formats I need and use.  Plus the movie is really well done and worth watching.

Surprisingly Good Nicolas Cage is a con man with almost an almost debilitating obsessive compulsive disorder. He's very good at his profession but has difficulty functioning outside of that. This off beat, not-your-typically con artist movie meanders a bit in the beginning, but stick with it. It develops into a really good movie. The less you know about this movie going into it the better.

Wow, great WW II movie If your like me, always searching for some little WWII movie 'gem' you might not have seen yet, you'll be very satisfied with this movie about amazing Norway resistence fighter Max Manus. Manus and a few of his friends volunteer to fight for Finland when they were invaded by Russia then watches his own country do nothing when the Germans invade Norway. He organizes his buddies into getting back at the Germans and the film documents multiple attacks and harrowing escapes he manages to survive all very well done. The story moves along swiftly with Max going to England to become part of a Norwegian company of commandos sent back behind enemy lines to harass the Germans. This is a rich & moving film as we see many of Max's comrades be captured, tortured or killed but he himself always manging to get away. Whatever Max was missing in himself in civilian life, he finds it during the war as he emerges as a tenacious, bold and fearless leader who defeats the Germans over & over. And whatever you do don't miss the special features documentary of the real Max Manus talking about his life and his friends lost to the War. The documentary also features his Wife who he married after the War and she describes Max the kind of Man who only comes along "once in a lifetime", very true.

good it was as desceibed. i have nothing else to say, this is very annoying to write this much about the quality of a product, stop it.

Great Movie our family loves this movie! I was so happy when my daughter asked for a copy for Christmas. This item was a great price, fast shipping, and arrived in excellent condition!

Great The DVD is exactly what I ordered. I am very happy. It brings back memories of growing up and watching The Wonderful World of Disney as a small child.

Great Family Movie I loved this movie, great to watch with your family. It was kinda sad, but in all this is was a really well made movie.

Better than the PBS Version? raw current great characters not exactly from books so more stories than just the original books This series is dated 2007 hope the producers are still going.  Story content is up with MI-5/Spooks and Trevor Eve's Waking the Dead.  Wish it cost less for the season

Another Disney Classic I had forgotten why I loved this movie, and the Disney Classics so much until I watched The Sword and The Stone again. It was hilarious, had magical scenes, and there was a lesson. I am a huge fan of the classic Disney films especially the ones I grew up watching. I love when Disney opens their vault and allows us to jump back into our PJs and dreams of what we will one day become!

Downton Abbey Season 2 Fabulous....can't wait for Season 3!  You will love the characters, the scenery, the history, the humor.  Maggie Smith is purely delightful

funny movie I purchased this movie from Amazon and it was exactly as described.  I liked it very much, it was very funny!

Great Buy! I really love the songs on this soundtrack. It was worth every penny. Be careful opening it though. I almost broke the case.

Father and Son time Great cartoons that I grew up on are now something my 4 year old and I can watch together. This brings back great memories and allows me to create memories with my son.

A McQueen Final Classic This was a classic Steve McQueen movie with lots of action and some humor too. Based on a true story.

Unforgettable Film What more can be said about this film that hasn't been said before other than reality TV wasn't around when this went into production so you might say this was almost like reality motion picture, good flick.

Unusually riveting! This is one of the best Christian movies I have seen. It gave me an incentive to research King James and others in this thrilling true story. John Rhys-Davies is superb as the host.

Awesome A combination of Mountaineering, Research, and First ascension. This trek takes on a face and approach that has never been attempted. I enjoyed this movie very much and it has plenty of good climbing.

Great movie A must have for Blu-Ray it sounds great with the effects in the factory part of the movie.. and yes the film grain is noticeable but I rather have that then a soft image.

John du Prey - Classical Review Romantically speaking, the delicate crescendo of unfinished love dominates this powerful classic (easily one of the finest dramatic musicals ever produced). The unfolding of love, passion, and intimacy between Tony and Maria, like the riptide, spills into the soul of this film. Their whispered and orchestrated words on the balcony create nuances beyond the realm of normal drama. Their marriage before God establishes their union, solidifies the romantic crescendo, and allows Maria to mourn her husband's death at the end. It is a complete tragedy on all respective levels.  All meetings between Tony (played by Richard Beymer) and Maria (played by Natalie Wood) are stunning in presentation. The musical overtures are superb, the dancing is brilliant, and the conflict between the Jets and Sharks (women included) has its own originality in classical terms. Yet, Maria alone commands the stage in virtually all tender moments (except those involving Anita); our heroine's softness, intelligence, and untested wisdom establishes her emotive control of the play (start to finish). In as much as her humility does not detract from the other powerful performances, Maria displays honor, sacrifice, depth, and commitment throughout the entire drama. We observe Natalie Wood in her finest hour as a gifted actress.  The principles of romantic tragedy dominant this play in its careful adherence to the plot and character development within Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (who is Maria's unspoken mentor in matters of passion and control of one's lover). She redirects Tony away from secreted romance into the tragic consequences of interfering with the rumble; the deaths of Bernardo (her brother) and Riff (Tony's closest friend) are related (within dramatic irony) to her secret intervention (supposedly on their behalf). In truth, this masterpiece resides in both categories, tragedy and romance; bound (perhaps) by her mournful voice, "Don't you touch him!" Our catharsis is directly affected by Maria's youthful passion related to unfinished love in its most delicate stages.

Love the movie watched it b4 I bought it in blu-ray & prefer this than the part II of this movie entertaining. I've watch this b4 3x b4 I bought it in blu-ray. Too bad it wasn't on 3D. I like this a lot better than the part II of this movie. It's funny. I am a cat & dog lover. It looks great in blu-ray. good price

Great new series and first real zombie tv show I have not read the graphic novel that served as the inspiration for this show. I have read about 30 pages of the comics so I am only judging the show upon the DVDs. I thoroughly enjoyed this series. I began the show not caring for the characters and by the end I was deeply engrossed in the character's lives and their outcomes. Not all of the characters affected me like the main four or so characters. The series centers around the survival of a group of people close to the Atlanta metro area. The group tries to survive the zombie apocalypse with occasional run ins with other human survivors that are also trying to survive. The start of the series is fantastic with Rick Grimes, the main character, awakening in an abandoned hospital with zero survivors. The story only picks up more speed from here and continues into Atlanta and then the outskirts of Atlanta. There are only six episodes in the first season with thirteen slated for season 2 which starts in October 2011. This is a hard review to write because the story is so engrossing that I do not want to give away any spoilers, but from research I do know that the TV series does not follow the graphic novel's plot closely. I enjoyed the story and can not wait for the second season. I would highly recommend this show to any person looking for a new series about human survival. This show definitely made me reflect on some things because the connection between families is very deep in this show. Highly recommend this show.

Muy buenas peliculas Yo mas lo compre porq hace tiempo lo habia visto en VHS, a si es q lo compre ahora en bluray con una calidad de video muy buena.

This ain't no ripple we're talking about.... Eldeberry Wine at its finest! A handsome author falls in love and marries the neighbor of his two eccentric aunts. On the day of their wedding day he discovers his aunts are poisioning lonely bachelors with arsenic laced eldeberry wine. There are NO boring moments in the wonderful dark commedy. If you have never seen this movie you are missing out on a fanastic spooky comedy.

Great family movie with obvious Biblical undertones! My family watched this movie this past weekend (minus my 4-year old son), and we all really enjoyed it. Like the other Chronicles of Narnia movies (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004JND06A">The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003QSGXKY">The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian</a>), this movie was high-quality in production and quite consistent with the original source material (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004VEC2GQ">The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Narnia) Publisher: HarperCollins</a>). The movie has all the hallmarks of a great fantasy movie: magical items, dragons, sea monsters, talking beasts, sword fights, magicians, and explorers venturing into unknown regions.  Like the other Narnia movies, this movie has clear undertones of Biblical principles, the most prominent ones being warnings against selfishness, self-indulgence, and greed, and the inability of people to change their own condition without the transformative power of a savior.  Some of the images in the movie could be pretty scary for young eyes, and I would not recommend this movie for kids younger than 8 years old, as such. Aside from this caveat, this movie is great for the whole family. It will be interesting to see where this series goes next, as this will be the last appearance of many of the central characters if the series stays true to the books they are based on. Hopefully we will continue to get a new Narnia movie every couple of years.

Greatest sequel ever!!!!! I love terms of enderment and I had been looking for this one for a long time.  It was pricey, but very worth it to own.

baby's day out My husband recorded this on our DVR a while back.  My grandchildren absolutely love it.  While there is a little violence (nothing gorey) it all happens to to the slap stick criminals and is done in a way that is funny.  Baby Bink always is one step ahead of these would be thugs.  Decided I needed the DVD in case we lost out recorded version. Very good price for such fun entertainment.

Great Addition to the Pixar Films!!! Let me start by saying that I didn't have high hopes for this movie.  I thought there was no way that they could make it as good as the original and I wasn't sure how they would pull it off.  If you expect it to be just like Cars and have all of the same characters, of course you will be disappointed.  I think that this movie was a great sequel.  They had plenty of action and plenty of Mater's antics.  Most of the original characters have small parts, but Lightning McQueen, Mater, Luigi, Guido, Sarge and Fillmore are in it throughout the movie.  I don't want to say much about it because I wouldn't want to ruin it for others, but I absolutely loved the plot and all of the new characters that were introduced in this one.  There was plenty of action, adventure and fun.  I think that the reason some people don't like it is because it isn't what they expected.  Honestly, I didn't know what to expect either, but Pixar exceeded my expectations, once again!  I think this is a great addition to the Pixar family and I highly recommend it to everyone.

Bizarre and Hilarious What can I say, this film is just loony. Blazing Saddles doesn't hold back in its racial humor, which is intended to make fun of racist people. Richard Pryor had a role in writing many of the jokes, so hold on for a great ride.

Brilliant and funny Cecil Parker is perfectly cast as the idiosyncratic usurper king. Basil Rathbone is excellent as the king's villainous noble henchman. Angela Lansbury offers the humorous love interest, with great aplomb and fine diction. Yet the whole thing is bound together by two things. First is Danny Kaye at his brilliant and musical best. Secondly is the script. If you take the trouble to analyse it, there seems to be not a redundant word, let alone a wasted phrase. Some serious film reviewers marvel at the climatic sword fight between Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone in Robin Hood. The sword fighting sequence between Kaye and Rathbone is not only blindingly skilful but also incredibly funny. It is a sheer joy to watch, again and again and again!  Ian Hunter. Author of `e-Love'.

Abilene Town I love old movies and this movie did not disappoint. The only problem with this movies is that the main character Dan chooses the town floozy over a totally sweet beautiful babe. I would have picked the religious babe.

Classic Entertainment I was looking around Amazon for classic TV programming and stumbled across a seller who had several for sale for $3. I bought four of them, this included. If for no other reason, I would recommend it for the great value. Most sets like this are easily over $20 so if you're interested in the content, there's no reason to pass up this opportunity.

fastest gun alive fantastic, loved it watched it over and over arrived in good shape, it was beyond my exspectations as how fast i received the movie, i truly enjoyed it.  thank you

Fabulous Forever Easy Strenght I have five DVDs by Mirabai Holland. Each is filled with different, unique and very benificial exercises. This video is 55 minutes long and will get you your daily dose of  exercise all right. I enjoy doing each one, because Mirabai is very special teacher, you feel like exercising next with her, and the beautiful surroundings let you feel like being there as well.

whole new movie when watched as an adult...hillarious Plot isnt great but still a sweet(sort of) movie....however you must watch it for the hillarious horse shows. Horse takes off with four white legs and lands with no white...riders change breeches mid stride....a star on another horse's face gets blown down to its muzzle... and Lightning changes breeds and variations of grey several times as well.

Movie Movie was recieved quickly, and was in fact new sealed in plastic not used as listed.  That is a good surprise

This is a great Wiggles DVD I was looking for a DVD that would have all the Wiggles catchy songs and this is it!  My son dances and sings right along with this DVD.  He even likes to get his guitar out and play along with Murry.  We love watching this DVD and you can't help but sing right along too!

Good classic I am a sucker for older movies. Amazon is good at finding your older, classics or new movies for half the price.

An unforgettable story... This 1972 film was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Picture (by Robert B. Radnitz), Best Actor (Paul Winfield), Best Actress (Cicely Tyson) and Best Adapted Screenplay (by Lonne Elder III). "Sounder" is the name of the dog that belongs to a family of sharecroppers; the family pet being closest to David, the eldest son. Times are very hard in the South. Racism runs rampant and completely unchecked. The summer weather is particularly hot and humid. Food is scarce. After a night of chasing a racoon through miles of woods, father and son return to the windowless shack empty-handed. The next morning, however, there is fresh meat frying in the pan... Shortly, the father is arrested for stealing a ham from his employers store, and is given a harsh sentence of one year of hard labor. 13-year old David is now the man of the house, but he is torn between helping his mother turn a profit from their sugar cane harvest, or by attending school. The adventure takes off from this point and the story that unfolds is truly unforgettable. My only hope is that this film will get a Blu-Ray release someday...

A modern film with an instant classic feel. Everything about this film has a classic slasher film to it. However instead of being unintentionally funny like most of the 80's slashers, this movie purposely incorporates a good amount of humor into it. The Caeser and Otto duo very much remind me of a Three Stooges style of comedy. It has a very slap stick, old school feel to it. It's just all around goofy, but being that its SUPPOSED to be goofy and not be taken seriously is what really works for this film. I thought it was extremely entertaining. My favorite character in the film is Dick, played by Deron Miller. Although he has a relatively small part in it, it's very memorable. My favorite part about the movie is the dialog. The interaction and jokes between all of the characters made it very enjoyable. I literally laughed out loud at certain scenes, and I don't often do that. Another thing I really liked were the bonus features. I often buy blu ray versions of movie just for the bonus features they seem to skip on regular DVD format. There are HOURS of extra bonus scenes and commentary. I would highly recommend this film to any fan of horror, or fans of comedy, I think both would like it well. Even though it was just released I feel like I'm watching a movie straight out of the 80's. Its a modern film, with an instant classic feel. There's no better way to describe it.

Excellent movie This movie examines what happens to people when the power grid goes down and no one knows why. Some will stay home, others will form neighborhood "associations," others will try to leave and others go nuts. This is the story of one family who makes decisions during such a crisis and have to live with the consequences. It's an excellent case for disaster planning since no one in the movie planned for one. But then again, most people live under the "it-won't-happen-here/to-me" attitude. It's definately worth watching and discussing with your kids, friends, relatives, neighbors and others.

Horrified and facinated! I saw this film on HBO and was enthralled by the drama, the possibiity, and the fear of this machine of death. This was a machine of death for it's goal would accept nothing less than termination of the life of the young lady it had been programed to end. A nail biter till the end of this science fiction drama. I highly reccomend!

Season One MST3K Pain Machine I really can't even review this episode. First of all, I didn't like Tom Servo's old voice. Secondly, this movie hurts. It hurts bad. Third, while the riffs are funny at times, the movie really tears you down. Don't make this your first episode if you want to get into MST3K. This film is nearly "Manos" bad in my eyes.

BRAVO! BRAVO! I must say in my many years of anime watching, THIS is the best anime I ever saw in my LIVE! You will laugh and you damn sure will cry like never before. This anime is worth the money you will spend on it. I can promise you that. This anime is something EVERY anime fan(and non-anime fan) should watch. If you were not an anime fan yet, you will be after finishing this bad girl off. Watch it with friends and family. Hell, show a stranger. You don't even need to like anime to enjoy this.

Observant and memorable Sweet gem of a film by director Eric Guirado about the simple life in the countryside and the drama that arises between family, friends, and customers.  When Antoine (Nicolas Cazale) returns home to help his father's business after his father falls ill, Guirado shows us the lovely landscapes and people that inhabit his former home and life.  All of the characters are fascinating and full of their own personal problems; everyone has to make sacrifices and work hard.  We meet his brother, Francois, who helped out with the grocer business after Antoine left, and we are introduced to the goofy and lovably harsh customers as Antoine goes around in a van selling their wares.  Of course, there is romance: Antoine is joined by Claire (Clotilde Hesme), who he knows from the city.  Claire is adorable and proactive as she quickly undertakes her new role as Antoine's business partner, painting the truck and joyfully meeting with customers.  Cazale and Hesme are both wonderfully cast and brilliant to watch; had the supporting cast not been as fantastic as they were, Cazale and Hesme could have carried the film by themselves.  Instead, though, we are lucky to have this beautiful film with great direction and filming and an equally talented cast.

Love it! Ordered this for my son and he loves it. Watch it every night. This dvd works great. It is worth the cheat price.

Bossa Nova decoded Great DVD. The three full songs that are taught are beautiful and progressively challenging. Gilmartin is a natural teacher and gifted guitarist.

Essential techniques to help seniors feel better Carol and Kimberly's expertise in guiding people to understand and enjoy yoga movements is why I recommend "Relax Into Yoga for Seniors".  This video demonstrates to everybody how to enjoy stretching, balancing, and strengthening through guided movements with and on the chair.  Their gentle voices help ease seniors into postures that are correct and beneficial for continued wellbeing and improved fitness. '

Norman,OK Native Review I grew up in Norman, OK and I loved this movie. It brought back memories of running to the storm shelter through blinding rain, serious lightening, and a good pelting with hail.  In the movie, when the sky turned a bruised blue-green and the music followed suit, it brought back a fear of storms that I have carried my whole life! Someone really did their homework on this story.  I no longer live in Oklahoma and I really miss the fantastic cloud formations I witnessed.  This film has its critics but I am here to tell you that they captured the suspense and fear connected with living in "TORNADO ALLEY"!!!! When they were making this film, in particular when the farm equipment was blown down the road, the actors were hurt from flying debris.  How real can you get without killing someone!!!  And NO ONE MENTIONED STEPHEN SPIELBURG'S PART IN THE MAKING OF THIS FILM.....

Airplane continues to be a classic!! Airplane has been a favorite since I was younger and still makes me laugh. All of the characters are so well played in this movie and play off each other so well, it will be a classic for a long time. It's a great pairing with the second Airplane was well as the Naked Gun series.

Must Have I bought this cause I want my kids to know how far times have come and to be able to appreciate what it is that they have.

Great movie Great Hi def transfer Hi I love the Film Pulp fiction. The Stories are so nteresting and exciting. I't truely one of Quinten Terentino's true masterpieces. I could no longer wait for the official U.S Blu-Ray release of this Film. So I found out about the Hong Kong Blu-Ray release of this Film. And researched it. I found out that it is indeed a legitamet Blu-Ray releaase. icenced by Pandora home video. Their out of L.A CA. So I decided that rather then wait god knows how long fore the official Marimax releas . That I'd just buy this one. And the Audio and the video quality are both great. I do intend to buy the official U>S release/but not being able to watch Pulp fiction in High def is just plain tortor for me. I hope this review helps others as well

so funny This is the best sitcom ever. I love every minute of big band theory. Its humor unlike any humor on TV right now

An amusing action adventure across America "Midnight Run" is an action comedy genre film with a narrative that focuses on bounty hunter Jack Walsh's (Robert De Niro) cross country escapade with convicted creative accountant Jonathan "The Duke" Mardukas (Charles Grodin). It is a journey of self-discovery for hardnosed Walsh, as The Duke reintroduces him to compassion, and a chance meeting with a daughter he hasn't seen in years. The steel heart of Walsh is continually eroded by the gentle and at times sneaky Duke, and their death defying adventure certainly brings out the best in both of them.  Nicholas R.W. Henning - Australian Author

awesome movie i was told by guys i work with that have been to prison said its very life like in the prison sense, i liked it

Great early version of the play This early black and white version of the Broadway play is more playful and character driven than the updated version from 1998. Robert Donat and Margaret Leighton star, and occasionally try to steal scenes from each other. The main difference between the old and new versions, though,  is the supporting cast and the directing which balances the father's angst with humor. Wonderful character acters like Kathleen Harrison who plays the maid Violet and Jack Watling who portrayed the Bertie Wooster vacuous Englishman long before Hugh Laurie. This is available only on download (there are no DVDs) and it's worth the $10 price just to compare the two versions. Enjoy!

15 year old son liked a lot This is one of the movies that I forgot about because it was filmed long ago.  But - still a good one.  The 15 year old like it as well. Good film.

Elvis best This is one of Elvis's best!Elvis does one of his best acting work in this one..Love me Tender,Loving You,Jailhouse Rock, King Creole, the best of the Elvis movies hands down!!! A MUST SEE!

Nadia Video First I had to check if my daughter still had a VHS player since everyone uses DVDs.  This was totally worth it!  My 9 y,o, granddaughter loved it and went on to place first overall in the final competition this year.

A great classic--well done. The copy that I purchased was in very good shape-like new.  We enjoyed the movie this time as much as we did the first time we saw it.

bluray shines The BluRay edition of An American Werewolf in London is fabulous!  And the "making of" documentary, BEWARE THE MOON is the best making-of I have ever seen!  Greatest werewolf ever!!!

Classic Movie Just got a DVD of this movie from Amazon. Just remembered this film, looked it up and ordered it thru Amazon Prime. This is a classic movie and Mel Gibson did the character well. This was a good look back when battles were fought hand-to-hand.

Wholesome, inspiring entertainment. I love watching this movie.  Ms. Zellweger provides a stellar performance as Miss Beatrix Potter. The portrayal of her is delightful.  The story itself is inspiring for someone wondering if they should take on a dream such as writing a book. The fact that so much of the movie is filmed on location is a plus. England is such a beautiful place.  It is a treat to watch the movie and learn about the historical background of Miss Potter, the lady who wrote and illustrated so many lovely children's stories we've all read, enjoyed and shared with our own children. She inspires one to be strong and insistent concerning her creation, and yet provides an excellent example of honoring her parents in spite of (her mother's) unfair demands.  After watching the movie, it made me want to get out her great works to not only re-read them but to study her watercolor techniques and appreciate them all the more -- all over again!

Bought individually I actually bought these movies individually for my daughter when they first came out.  Needless to say, I paid about double that this combo deal is selling them for now.  However, they are all fantastic Barbie movies and have provided hours of entertainment for my little one (and hours of peace for me!).

Must see. One of the best movies of all time.  It shows the depth of depravity a person will descend to if the don't think anyone will ever know.  It screams volumes about the human condition in a way that defines the logic of Christianity.

Well worth it I saw the original in the Theator and went back several times to view it on the big screen. I bought a copy as soon as it was released for sale. Recently I saw this extended edition that added almost another hour to the original. There are several places that the extra actually completes the sceen. It makes the movie flow gracefully from beginning to the end, and answeres some of those questions like; I wonder what happened there? I highly recomend it to anyone who liked the original. And a very very heartfelt Thank You to Kevin Costner for taking the chance he did, and giving us a movie that is timeless in its historical epic of that time in history. And for giving us the extended cut to enjoy. I'll enjoy it over and over again.

A Classic. Great movie for its time. My mom and i really enjoyed watching this together. Very entertaining even by todays standards.

No, It's Not Edited.  It's the ORIGINAL Theatrical Version! So there have been some complaints that this DVD is edited or censored.  That is simply not the case.  This DVD contains the original theatrical cut of the movie that played in theaters.  The additional scenes with added nudity and sex were bonus features for the home video release in Japan.  It was known WELL AHEAD of time that was the theatrical cut on various anime sites, but Amazon failed to list enough info to let people make an informed decision.  This release is no different than buying the original cut of Star Wars, before all the added scenes George Lucas threw in later.  It should be noted that the affected scenes do not actually affect the plot anyway and are basically just added nudity, sex, and fanservice.  They may also make some viewers uncomfortable as the main character can appear to be underaged to some.  If you feel this may bother you, then this version may be your best bet.  As for the home video version, it is being released on DVD and Bluray in March 2012.  You can currently preorder it here on Amazon and other sites.

Awesome Movie The movie Courageous is an awesome and life changing Christian movie.  It will change your life as it did me.  Every family should see it and put Jesus in the center of their lives.

Completely awesome Buy this if you love Planet Of The Apes movies, they are all here except for the wretched remake... one of Burton's total failures. So you're not missing anything at all. The art book is high quality and probably the best bonus content i've yet to see in deluxe edition offerings. The only complaint is perhaps the disc mounts? they are just cheap gooey gunk hubs that you have to squash the discs back onto, and it's just sad that the edition is marred by such a detail. It's like going all out and giving the best collection, then getting super cheap on how the most important part of the package(the discs) are mounted and taken care of. It's manageable, but could have been handled better.

Best Cop film ever The French Connection is the ultimate movie crime drama, and is now a yard stick by which all others are judged.  Director, William Friedkin strived for realism in this film by shooting it like a documentary. You can almost smell the seedy streets,  and get an idea what the John Lindsay-era of New York was really like. There is absolutely nothing stagy about this film. Unlike the unrealistic dramatic exploits in films like Lethal Weapon, everything in the French Connection is believable. It helps that this film is based on real drug bust from the early sixties.  Gene Hackman, who plays Popeye Doyle, is a tough, unrefined, but effective cop in pursuit of an international drug dealer played by Fernando Ray (called frog 1). In the entire film the French drug kingpin is elusive. The two leads play a cat and mouse game through various location in New York, including the subway.  No effective cop film with be without a decent car chase scene, and the French Connection has the best ever filmed. Arguments can be made that Peter Yate's Bullets is the best, but it lacks the believability of Friedkin's car chase.  For example, the French Connection car case is filmed under a train bridge populated with cars and pedestrians.  In the Bullet car chase scene, the streets seem to a little absent of traffic and it looks more staged.  In the French Connection car chase, Popeye Doyle is constantly dodging cars and people as he pursues the train above. The director here masterfully edits between the car and the hijacked train.  The use of sound is also effectively used here, and the car engine roar adds to the dramatic tension.  The last scene of the film is shot in an abandoned warehouse where Popeye finally corners his nemesis(frog 1). We hear an eerie sound track as the desperate cop walks through the dank corridors. Unfortunately, Popeye ends up shooting another cop, and the bad guy disappears into darkness.  There is no poetic justice in this film.

she wore a yellow ribbon Quality is good, product was what I was expecting, delivery was excellent.  Would reccomend to anyone looking for John Wayne Movies.

Fantasia Fantasia was a favorite among my sons when they were little, and I am now purchasing it for my grandson!  It is a great way to introduce classical music, and the images and interpretations are beautiful.

Summer Fun I'm still surprised they didn't push to release this in theaters around June, but I guess they wanted to do the film release during the Summer. The film itself was extremely funny and just a ton of Summer fun. The bits about the reunion were actually unneeded and many of the original cast members seemed to only be in the fiml as to say, "hey remember me? I was in the original!" However the main 5 guys had the same comrodery and fun that they did 11 years ago when American Pie 2 came out, and it seems like they never missed a beat. The movie was hilariously funny and nostalgically sweet, and is easily the best comedy to come out since the original Hangover. I look forwar to adding the Blu-Ray to my collection and watching it for years to come. I am also excited the film has fared so well at the box office and will most likely warrant another return to East Great Falls to hang out with the boys again.

DVD Review Inspector Morse Sets are good English detective series. Each episode is a good length and not too overwhelming. They are intriging enough for the classic "Who Done It" modes.

A must see if you like westerns! This is a moving depiction of the struggle to settle oklahoma, the prejudices surrounding the Native Americans, and the persistence of a man and woman to make make a relationship survive. Casting in this epic is excellent with Glenn Ford maybe giving us the best performance of his career. Take 2 hours and be part of this wonderful story.

DR NO DVD My son was looking for this in the stores but couldn't find it. I found it on Amazon & ordered it for him. Very happy w. purchase. Thanks! RMAC

So cool This movie is great. It's one that will be enjoyed by young and old. You will watch it over and over.

NBX Combo Pack = EPIC! One of the most iconic films of all time in 2 versions at a great price. What more can be said? Pure eyecandy!

wicked fast Movie came as advertised on time ,actually earlier than expected. What more can you ask for from anybody who does business the Amazon way. Great job folks.

Thank you Bryan Singer!!!!!! In the summer of 2000 my dreams were finally realized. An X-Men movie was released. Going into this I had no idea if they could pull it off, but did they ever. The story was amazing, the acting was amazing, and the visuals were pretty good for the time period. This is the first time I had ever seen Hugh Jackman in any movie. I had no idea if he could pull of the lead character of Wolverine, because he is much taller than him in the comics. But he did an amazing job, and became one of my favorite actors. Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen also nailed their characters of Xavier and Magneto. The story is great as it takes you through Wolverine's shoes while he has to decide if he wants to join the X-men as they fight against the brotherhood of mutants. Wolverine is conflicted on which side is the right side to take, but chooses the side of the X-Men. Bryan Singer did an amazing job directing this masterpiece and Michael Kamen provided the score to the film. This and X2 are in my opinion the best X-Men movies, but they go downhill from there unfortunately.

YES thsi show is amazing.  but if u watch this as an adult, NOT FOR KIDS!!  watch it closer and see what i mean

Awesome!! I Have Always Wanted the 3 Movies and I got it here on Amazon .. for less and new!!  Money Well Spent!

Amazing Family Movie This has been one of my favorite movies ever since I was a little girl and as an adult I have re-watched it many times.  Not only are the musical scores well written and adorable, but the animation is fantastic.  The DVD has lots of fun features, such as dressing Odette for her wedding, a bow and arrow game, and a story book read along.  Inside the tradition of the swan princess, Nest has managed to create an original and clever story, full of laughs and heart felt moments. This movie is appropriate for all audiences, with only a small bit of violence when Prince Derek is fighting the Great Animal.  Nest went on to make two sequels to the swan princess, which are entertaining, although nothing can come close to this fantastic original.  For the small child who has watched and adored Disney movies, don't be afraid to branch out and watch this non-disney film, it will definitely fulfill all expectations in quality and content.

Awesome I bought this movie because I had fond childhood memories of it and had lost my old copy during a move. The picture is great and the movie is just as amazing as it ever was. If you love Legend then you will love this copy. I had to send my first order back tho because the disc skipped on a certain part of the movie, after cleaning it and trying again with the same result I had it exchanged. The process went smooth and my new copy works perfectly. There was no need to take a star off and I'm happy to have one of my favorite movies back in my collection.

Not really a concert movie, more like being with ABBA on the road. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001WPQJ2">Abba - In Concert 1979</a> This isn't a concert tape of a whole concert performance.  It is more a life on the road with ABBA climaxing in ABBA's 5 days at Wembly, 1979.  It does have songs, some of which are performed whole and some are performed partially. Some of the references in the movie are a little obscure.  The fixation with high school football practice in the US (apparently the first image in the minds of ABBA when thinking about America is Friday Night Lights) and, also, when they, celebritorially, dunked the face of someone(I do not know who he was) into a cake (I missed the point). On the other hand, Summer Night City and the visual of a city's night-lit signs, as the car drove along the main drag, reflecteing off the car windshield was good. Also, football drills, juxataposed against Frida & Agneta doing vocal warm up drills was one football reference I did understand and like. Having said all that, I thought it was a fantastic movie, even with it's imperfections.  It is like joining the tour with the 2nd half of the show spotlighting songs on stage.  More songs in the special features, a slide show to the song "Thank You for the Music," the trailer for the West End London Performance of Mama Mia, conversations with the tour promoter and the film director.  I think it is a good movie, worth the money, overall.  To back up the opinion, I have bought 3 copies (1 for me & 2 gifts).

Fantastic DVD Storm by Celtic Thunder is great music, great action and wonderful harmonies and solos. But then I own and love everything that they have done.

A very fun 3D superhero movie! I originally saw the Green Lantern movie in the theater last summer when it was first released, in 3D, and I enjoyed it very much. The storyline was okay enough, and the acting by all was done well, but I thought the action scenes and special effects were great, and the 3D was truly awesome. Ryan Reynolds did a really good job as the hero, Hal Jordan, and Peter Sarsgaard as the antagonist Hector Hammond was really good too, and Mark Strong as the Green Lantern Corps leader, Sinestro was excellent. I hope they make a sequel so that I can see more of Sinestro and what he plans to do with the power of the yellow ring of fear. This movie overall was pretty cool and a lot of fun to watch.  So since I recently obtained a 3D TV and 3D Blu Ray player this year, I've been getting more and more into 3D movies for home viewing and I decided to buy the Green Lantern 3D Blu Ray, which also came with a regular Blu Ray version of the movie, and a DVD version of the film as well, and I placed an order with Amazon because this movie seems to be kinda hard to find in the stores around my area. And I have to say that I am very happy with my purchase. Amazon shipped the item to me promptly and it arrived in great shape.  Let me tell you, if you are a 3D movie enthusiast like I am, then do not hesitate, buy this movie...it looks spectacular in 3D! I enjoyed the look of the 3D effects so much in this film that I watched it a couple of times already and can't wait to watch it again this weekend. It's just an all-around great 3D movie experience to enjoy at home with your friends and family.

Love it! I love this movie just like the first one. I got mine used so the case was messed up just a little but other than that it is awesome!

Wonderful Experience. My grandchildren (ages 3-14) loved this beautiful book as well as the video. It was a wonderful addition to our POLAR EXPRESS (Texas State Railroad) train ride that we took during the Holidays.

Moonphase This is 1 of the best anime's ive seen in along time. The story's pretty well been covered by others so i wont go into that. Let me just  say this is a great show for anyone who likes magic,vampires, comedy, a bit of action, good char development, good story line, and just a touch of romance. Only thing i disliked was that it ended way to soon for me, i really got into all the chars, story and found myself wanting another season by the time it ended. Dont do what i did and pass this 1 by, i hafta admit i had been passing it up mainly becase when i 1st seen the cover it look like something for little kids or young girls i as wrong in a big way. This is well worth the 17$ thats with shipping, for this gem of a animie. Great animation, voice acting is top notch. I really would like to see a 2nd season and the master come in or at least a QVA. Hope it becomes avilble on blu-ry soon to, so if your looking for  good anime i would definatley recomend this 1.

Great series I have watched all 3 in this series and wish there were more coming.  I read the books but loved the movies just as much to put a face with a name on screen. Hope there is more to come.

FUNNIEST MOVIE EVER! You have no sense of humor if you don't like this movie. If you like Will Ferrel you will like this movie. If you were a fan of Dumb & Dumber, you will like this movie. Enough said.

Timeless, Frightening and Thought Provoking This is one of my favorite movies and one that has a deceptively complex morality question deep inside the sometimes kitschy ideas of the future as seen through an early 1970s lens. A whole generation of people have been born and grown to maturity who haven't seen it and I sure hope the large number of reviews and continued sales on Amazon will introduce them to this great movie.  First off, this is one of the "Holy Triad" of Charlton Heston's sci-fi films. The other two are Planet of the Apes and Omega Man, of course. Both very worth a see as well. Also shining in this movie are Edward G. Robinson in his final film appearance (and it is a poignant and beautiful role for him) and Joseph Cotton in a brief but pivotal role.  The story centers on a murder that Thorn (a cop played by Heston) investigates in a near future New York City where over-population and increasing environmental damage have nearly destroyed the modern way of life. Thorn's "Book" named Sol (a type of research assistant) played by Robinson uses some loot that Thorn found at the scene of the murder to open up clues to a conspiracy that is so dark and far reaching that it will shake the world if it comes out. What follows is the exciting, tragic and heartbreaking search for the truth.  Some of the most important parts of the movie are those that are least talked about. If you think about these almost subliminally disturbing aspects of the film, one can be left with a new and very strange take on morality in difficult situations.  One: The question of furniture. In this future, the very wealthy live in apartments that we might see as middle class today and have access to things like real meat (though not great quality) and actual fruits and vegetables (also not great but real). They also have humans included with the furniture and actually call them such. In this case, it is Shirl, a pretty girl whose function is obvious and like a good couch, meant to be comfortable and unobtrusive for the owner of the apartment. For most of us the thought is totally appalling, but is it really? In a world where most won't live to adulthood and death is likely to be drawn out and horrible, furniture live lives of relative security for at least as long as they are young and pretty. Interesting question.  Two: Death and Suicide. In this future, the living are too numerous and it can't be sustained. The plankton that fed such a populous as the world dustbowled have now also died out in the super heated future. In response to this, the government sponsors beautiful places where anyone can go to "go home". It is nothing short of an assisted suicide/euthenasia clinic. It is also one of the only places of peace and beauty left for anyone. When Sol finds out what he does during his research and goes to one he has one of the most beautifully filmed and realized death scenes in movie history. It is perhaps even moreso since Mr. Robinson never had another film appearance before his own death. Thorn finds him and tries to stop him, but it is too late and in seeing how this plays out for those who go there to die, one can almost see the positive morality of such a place in such dire world circumstances. It is, after all, the choice of the person who goes there...no one elses.  Three: Ultimate Recycling. SPOILERS HERE. Most people know the line..."It's made of People!!". Not all of them know that it is from this movie, which is amusing. In the final scene of the movie we see Thorn trying to get the word out that Soylent Green...once made of plankton for protein...is actually made of the people who go to die at the euthenasia centers. We also see that no one is listening. While our initial reactions as this is discovered during the course of the film is one of disgust, it does beg the question...why? The world is too full of humans and there is no longer the resources to bury them all as they leave this world. What do you do with them? In this future, they break them down into slurry...just the basic proteins...and make a type of cracker out of them. When we consider that the FDA has an allowable amount of contamination for food that is human in nature, it changes the metric some. Is it, in reality, any different than the wonderful crops that come in the years after a battle happens on a field? It's equally appalling and thought provoking.  Four: Environment and humanity. One of the most interesting responses I've seen to this movie happens in the first couple of minutes. A montage of scenes depicts real life progress and the pollution that it brought. Most often I hear a comment about how realistic that looks for a 1970s movie. What most are surprised to hear is that almost all of them are real images of real life. How shocking that is to people born after the Clean Air and Clean Water acts. Younger generations have no idea that LA used to be so smog choked that people died or that swimming in a natural body of water could easily kill you or give you cancer quickly. While I'm generally against too much intervention by government I'm often surprised that anyone could ever assert with a straight face that people in business to make money will police themselves and won't intentionally harm the environment. I remember the time before the government forced companies to stop spewing filth into the air and water. Those images of what our country looked like are worth seeing the movie for all by themselves. They are eye-opening.  Overall, there is a great deal of 1970s fashion and style that many today will find laughable and there is always that wrongness that happens when trying to imagine a near future (like the video games), but the movie itself is sound and entertaining. It is also dark and mature in nature. It's an excellent film that will appeal to those who like sci-fi, dystopian movies or classics of the age.

Brand New! New packaging =  New disc, awesome price for one of my favorite movies! It came at incredible timing and was packed really well! Thank You!

Best movie adaptation of Wuthering Heights I have seen several of the older versions of Wuthering Heights, none of which really catch the anguish that Cathy & Heathcliff put each other through.  Tom Hardy is a great actor and really embraced his role portraying Heathcliff.  He had the wild look (though I hated the long hair) and vengeful attitude of a man scorned.  Charlotte Riley played Cathy perfectly! She really adored Heathcliff and you could see the love played out well, but when she started to doubt herself you could see the transformation.  Both actors really nailed it! I am a die hard Masterpiece Classic fan and they did a fantastic job with this rendition!

A Entertaining Female Fighting Gender Bending Semi-Yuri Series To Enjoy This series while very enjoyable has to be taken a little with a grain of salt as while the story is again entertaining it will leave it open-ended and with  more questions than answers in some areas.  The main character is a young high school boy named Natsuru Sen' who for some unknown reason has been chosen to fight in a battle both with others and against female fighters called Kampfers who are given unique abilities and weapons in a unknown war but since only females can become Kampfers he is reluctantly changed to a female form when he has to fight and as time goes on can invoke the change at will.  The series will show us the hijinx Natsuru goes through as he must juggle his life between his male identity and his new female identity now,  and it becomes humorously ironic as his new female form has become the most popular new student at his school getting the attention of both the male and some female bodies vying for Natsuru's affection including his unrequited love Kaede Sakura who to has her own secret that effects Natsuru's Kampfer life.  The series does of course give us our dose of fan service but not as much as you might expect and some of the fan service scenes become quite humorous as Natsuru has to make certain his new little secret doesn't cause him more misfortune than it already has.  The series animation and music match nicely together and the voice cast picked did great in their character roles,  the series only comes subbed so there is not going to be any dubbing here on this set right now though with Section 23 releasing the set it'll probably be dubbed on a later date.  So if you're a fan of series like Sekirei or Ikki Toussen an the like or just like your standard well endowed fighting females with a dose of fan service or just looking for an enjoyable yuri-like harem series here's a great one for your collection,  but if you're an anime fan who has to have their series with dubbed audio than you're going to have to wait for awhile as this series is again only subbed at this time...

A Great DVD for a Great Film The Great Dictator is one of the most controversial and hilarious films ever made.(Its famous end speech is still depated upon to this very day, with such extreme comments as "over-hyped"/"this film is #86 on IMDB's top 250?") This film introduced me to Chaplin and I intend trying to collect more of his films, and hopefully Criterion will release more in the near future. I won't spend too much time on the plot, but basically, Chaplin plays a barber and a dictator, both look alike, and the dictator is obviously a parody of Hitler. Not only is there brilliant dialougue humor, but also great physical comedy. The film cost roughly $2 million and it shows greatly in terms of production value. The film was nominated for 5 Oscars, including Best Picture(Chaplin), Actor(Chaplin), Screenplay(Chaplin), Supporting Actor(Jack Oakie as the hilarious parody of Mussolini, as Napoloni of Bacteria), and Best Score(Meredith Wilson). The DVD is excellent. The audio commentary track alone is worth the price of this already marvelous DVD. To add to the value, a documentary has been included from ten years ago, that discusses the similarites between Hitler and Chaplin.(the similarities don't end at the mustache). If you already are a fan of the film or want to start watching Chaplin films, then I'd say this is a fairly good start.

"Shane" is a Western Classic Alan Ladd stars as Shane in this wonderful, touching, western classic from 1953.  If this is not a 5-star film, there is no such thing as a 5-star movie!  This film meets and exceeds all expectations for being a classic.  There are so many memorable scenes, from the "Shane come back" tear-jerker by little Joey at the end of the film, to the axe-stump removal on the homestead with Shane and Big Joe attacking the stump together.  These are just two scenes of many which make up this remarkable and unforgetable film. The strong supporting cast of Jean Arthur (as Marian in the her last film of her career), Van Heflin (as the simple but trustworthy and strong Joe Sarrett), Brandon DeWilde (Little Joey), and Jack Palance (as the gunslinger/murderer Jack Wilson) give this film the fullness it deserves.  The plot is simple, the homesteaders simply want to farm their land and build a community, but the rancher barons will do anything to discourage them, to keep the range open, even killing the homesteaders to drive them out.  The rancher barons have guns and Wilson on their side, but the homesteaders have ex-gunfighter Shane.  The film comes to its dramatic conclusion when Shane faces down hired gunslinger Wilson and the ranchers in the town saloon, with the future of the homesteaders at stake.  "Shane" is ranked 3rd on the American Film Institute's list of all-time classic westerns.  It is a film for the entire family to enjoy over and over again.  Director George Stevens crafted a true classic in this film.  It is truly a film for the ages.  kone

Classic Movie Making I loved it...better than the first. Guy Ritchie knows what he's doing. The characters are well developed and Downey and Law deliver top notch performances full of fun and laughs. It's built on good writing accompanied with a classic Warner Brothers' soundtrack while the special effects dazzle and add to the realism of 1891.  WATSON "You do seem..."  HOLMES "Excited?"  WATSON "Manic."  HOLMES "I am."  WATSON "Verging on..."  HOLMES "Ecstatic?"  WATSON "Psychotic."   So, this review can be summed up as thumbs up!

Meet Rapunzel: Disney's Newest Princess! Tangled is the 2010 Disney computer-animated hit DVD that introduces to the world, the newest edition to the Disney Princess pantheon: Rapunzel. In this amazing comedy-adventure, Rapunzel is a special princess with seventy feet of magical hair and she is kept in a high tower by an evil godmother named Gothel, and then, one day, Rapunzel is surprised by a handsome but silly jewel thief named Flynn Rider, and together, both Rapunzel and Flynn escaped the tower and journey to a brand new world. Along the way, Rapunzel and Flynn meet tough but friendly marauders, and match wits with a heroic and lovable horse named Maximus. Mandy Moore is at her best as the voice of the new Disney Princess and Zachary Levi is as hilarious as ever as the voice of Flynn. The special features includes trailers of other Disney hit DVD's like Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure, the Re-release of the Incredibles on DVD and a sneak preview of the upcoming Tinker Bell sequel Tinker Bell and the Pixie Hollow Games that will be broadcast on the Disney Channel. Tangled is the perfect Disney DVD to add to any Disney DVD collection!

Wonderful, spiritual, and wholesome movie. This has been one of my favorite movies for years.  Focuses on importance of following your inner voice despite all that may encourage (usually unconsciously) you to do otherwise.  A must watch!

Sound of music DVD First copy was defective.  Instantly received a new DVD.  Love the DVD.  Service for a replacement, excellent.

Lovely classic! Simply a classic movie and my daughter loves it! Highly recommended to the whole family. Glad it's finally in Blu-ray.

Can't Wait I pre-ordered this video since we missed watching it when it was in the theaters. My kids were so excited when the Amazon package arrived today. The video was well protected during shipment. We can hardly wait to watch the movie this weekend. Will be the perfect treat to end the first week of school.

LOVE. This is a beautiful gemstone, yet again done by the wonderful Norwegians.  The cinematography is amazing.  The music by Kado is amazing.  The acting is simple and amazing.  It is a little slow moving..but I think you have to understand the plot:  This man's life career has ended...so life is slow.  He's not on the train anymore.  If you love good films, you best order this immediately.  PLUS, the price is amazing.  When I purchased this, it was $20.  So feel lucky when you buy it :)

I'M A GLEEK!!!! I watched this movie with my daughter four times within a week over Christmas. We are both HUGE GLEEKS! I never get tired of the music.

Pete's Dragon This was my son's faverite movie when he was little. He wonted a dragon of his own. He wore the tape out, so I replaced it with a DVD.

A testosterone filled Man Flick! A hot shot navy pilot, Pete Maverick Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is a wild one.  He flies an F-14A tomcat off of an aircraft carrier and he fights with his heart sometimes more than his brain.  He is really one of the best.  Due to a fellow pilot resigning after losing his nerve, Pete and his flight partner Nick Goose Bradshaw (Antony Edwards) get sent to the elite Top Gun School.  Pete proves his skill at Top Gun school but he also proves his recklessness. He loses his partner, his nerve and perhaps his girl in short order.....  People always talk about the Chick Flick; well this is a Man Flick.  This is constant and never ending testosterone pumping action throughout this film. I liked it for the entertainment factor and for the role of Kelly Mc Gillis who was just a knockout in this film.  If you like fast action military style movies then this one is a must see film that you will enjoy.

TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: John Wayne This is a fine selection of John Wayne movies.  Seeing Natalie Wood, about 7 or 8 years old, in The Searchers-was a treat!  Then I liked the Cowboys, until they killed John Wayne.  But, they got me back with Rio Bravo and Fort Apache. If you love Henry Fonda, this may not be a favorite because he's very military.  As for me, this was a personal treat, considering a couple of years ago I couldn't afford to buy this at TCM.  If you love John Wayne and the people he acted with, or just a good cowboy movie, this is your collection!

Just a Cool Movie I had to have this because it was such a cool movie when I was growing up.  Now on blu-ray?  I'd love a copy, thank you.  I say, jump on it while it's still here, things like this tend to go out of print if one waits too long.

It's a Wonderful Life This has been my favorite Christmas movie since the 70's.  My kids got me a copy of it several years ago for Christmas, and when I went through a divorce I had to leave it behind.  I was very glad to be able to buy this movie through Amazon this christmas, and then was double pleased to find that it is the original black and white copy as well as the colorized version, too.  What a great surprise, and a great holiday for me this year!

wow I rented this simply because Alan was in it.  Now..... well now I have to own it!!  I laughed so hard I nearly wet 'em!

When walking in the deep white valley of the grey shadows of death I shall be scared like hell !! I liked this film a lot, mostly because it is SO DIFFERENT from most of the Hollywood recent offerings in adventure/survival category. This difference must however remain a surprise, therefore I simply can not elaborate, to avoid the spoilers.  The one thing probably everybody already knows is that this is a film about a group of people stranded in northern Alaska in the middle of nowhere, during a winter harsh even by local standards. The way they arrive to the place of departure of their ordeal is VERY well described! The group counts initially eight members - but without providing any real spoilers, I can say that of course not all will make it until the final credits. Another thing I can reveal is that guessing the exact identity of all those who will survive is not an easy task - I for one completely failed...  Another thing probably known to anybody interested in this film, is that some wolves are involved. Here, the only thing that I can say, is that this film avoids both typical "wolf movie" wolf traps. First, there is absolutely NO fantastic elements - the wolves are simply a bunch of very pragmatic and down to earth (or rather snow) hungry fellows, who just happen to be well skilled in their trade... Second, there is no New Age/ecologist wolf worshipping - wolves are animals with all the wonderful and nasty things that it implies. And wolves will be wolves. Period.  Alaskan winter wilderness is shown in an incredible way, in its full majestic, cruel and merciless beauty. Visually, this film is breathtaking and for that reason I advise to buy it in Blu-Ray rather than in classical DVD, as here every pixel counts.  Liam Neeson is GREAT! There is simply no other way to describe his performance. His character is very believable and I found it really likeable. Without revealing too much I can also say that I felt for him a lot, as he is a man in lots of pain, from the beginning of film, as it is shown in the two first minutes - and nothing more will be said...  Other characters are also rather well developped and actors play them well. Most of actors were completely unknown to me, with the exception of Dermot Mulroney, who clearly went a long way since his beginnings in romantic comedies in the 90s...  You should not expect any "Rambo" or other "Great White Hunter" moments. The film is very realistic and all the "heroes" are just ordinary people, who found themselves in a very extraordinary situation. They begin their trek for survival already under big shock and are most of the time very tired, very cold and very very scared - and that means that they make mistakes, which people comfortably sitting in a warm cinema and having all the time of reflexion they want, would probably avoid... I found this vulnerability of all the characters, including the one who is in principle the most skilled in survival, a very realistic touch.  But the thing that is the most impressive is the study of the approach of those people to their very possible future death. In the immediate proximity of death people start to see the world differently and understand things which remained for them a mystery previously. Now, there is no preaching in this film - here, there is no better or worse way to deal with the sound of approaching steps of the Grim (or here rather Grey) Reaper. But there are many different ways. And as far as I am concerned, that was for me the main point of "The Grey" - how scared, exhausted and suffering people face the high probability of a horrible death, when in the same time struggling with all their forces to live another day.  Bottom line, I found this film a very excellent thing, I spend a very good cinema moment and I am going to buy the Blu-Ray as soon as it is available.

I don't know how they did it . . . This was a breathtakingly good, if baroque, season.  But the last few episodes got too convoluted, and my hopes were not high for the finale. (I wasn't wild about the evil Alaric thing, but it turns out it was necessary.)  But they were setting up for one of the most jaw-droppingly unpredictable and brilliant season endings imaginable.  Looking back at the episode (and the season) from its end, the viewer can see precisely why the characters have made the choices they have, and the logic that has lead to the situation that ends the season.  Nothing is arbitrary on the Vampire Diaries.  Unlike so many other supernatural serial TV shows, TVD is scrupulously consistent, thorough, and ingenious with the rules of its mythology, making it the most intelligent, complex, moving and satisfying show on network TV.

life can be sweet Maldonado Miracle, The  This is a lovely film that I looked for  for years, after seeing it on British TV. It gently takes a swipe at human understanding (or lack of), chiding us also for wanting to be self-important whilst losing sight of what is really important in life, but then reminds us that if we stop looking for somebody to come in and make a grand gesture of change in our lives, we can see the small miracles that already have power in our lives. There are some truly fine performances here, especially in the on screen relationship between Mare Winningham and Ruben Blades. Peter Fonda's work here is every bit as crafted and lean as his earlier work in "The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things." Eddy Martin is a gem of a find as the young Mexican boy at the centre of events. Salma Hayek, as a debuting director, is to be commended.

One of the great classics One of the best sci-fi movies of all time. No, there are no big, over-the-top CGI scenes, just good story telling and wonderful performances from some great actors.

Homelnd This was an excellent series. We do not have cable TV and can not wait until season II is released.

Not for Everyone If you love movies that quietly immerse you in a specific time and place, with every nuance possible; and you have suffered from a tragic love affair - this movie will resonate with you in so many ways.  Terence Davies deposits his viewers in the still suffering London, about 5 years after the war's end. Hester (Rachel Weisz), a young woman in a sex-less marriage to the older and wealthy Sir William Collyer (Simon Russel Beale); leaves him when she falls desperately in love with former RAF pilot Freddie Page (Tom Hiddleston). Freddie is no Sir William; but Hester takes a gamble on him with her life. "No dice" for Hester.  James Merrifield and David Hindle are responsible for the gorgeous set design and soundtrack. Especially moving is the scene with the song "You Belong to Me" by Jo Stafford, with Freddie and Hester dancing. It evokes the themes so vividly that I was re-living my own tragic love affair 30 years ago.  The movie did not have the same impression on my two friends who watched the movie with me; although they found it abundant with many of the qualities that I did.  It's one of those films that just becomes a talisman for some people, like myself.

Double Feature I bought this DVD for Smarty because I like Margaret Lindsay, but I enjoyed merry Wives Of Reno very much. Joan Blondell is SOOO good-looking!

Since we're being honest here... This film resonated with me for several reasons.  First, because I am a 3rd Generation Japanese-American and visibly recognizable as an 'Asian', with the resultant consequences in American society. Secondly, because the film was shot in the greater Detroit area and I was born and raised in Detroit.  Finally, because I have been BOTH characters shown in the film.  I was the clueless, withdrawn and shy Asian teenager and after retiring from the Detroit PD after 25 years of street patrol service, I have become the grumpy, conservative old man. I see some of the reviewers who gave the film only 1 or 2 stars, have missed the point of the film completely and for entirely opposite reasons. I saw the words, 'depressing, 'dark', and 'sad' used by some of those reviewers. Welcome to the life of an Asian in America. The young Asian guy in the film may have appeared 'wooden' but he was a fairly accurate depiction of what I was like at that age.  And no, I was never gang-raped by any group of racist cowards. The racial antipathy of some of the negative reviewers towards Asians, is pretty transparent to me. Some people will never confront nor admit their own level of racism toward all Asian people.  Hollywood has contributed greatly to decades of depicting us as the traditional enemy of White civilization.  So it is good that a Hollywood film has done something significant to counter-balance that propaganda.  The film 'Letters From Iwo Jima' was another contribution Mr. Eastwood has made toward better understanding of the other guy's point of view.  Perhaps Mr. Eastwood's marriage to a woman with a percentage of Japanese ancestry has made him more acutely aware of the insane degree of racist antipathy toward all Asians, which is held by millions of folks in this great country?  When I recommended viewing of 'Letters' to some of my friends, who are WWII buffs, to my surprise, they refused to even watch the film, because anti Japanese sentiment is still so pervasive, that they have no interest in even considering the perspective of these former enemies.  Discovering that about my 'friends' was an eye-opener for me. Now I want to close this review by stating the 'real' reason why Gran Torino was snubbed at the Oscars.  It had nothing to do with the racial slurs made against Asians.  It was in fact because there were no black characters in the film with any socially-redeeming qualities and the only ones shown were despicable street gang members, who were addressed by Waly Kowalski with racist slurs comparable to those he used when addressing the Asians in the film.  Here's where the big double-standard comes in.  It is acceptable to laugh about the Gook, slant, slope, Dragon-lady insults, but the Academy wouldn't DARE endorse any film which contains any anti-black language or messages. That is sacrosanct, Holy ground, upon which no public media is allowed to tread. There are minorities in the USA and then there are Untouchable Minorities. Tell me I'm wrong.

Almost as much blood as Shogun Assassin.... If you enjoy bullicide, this is the film for you. The predictable so-so story is not enough to drag this down to four stars: there are plenty of thrills to be had in this somewhat gory matador fun-fest. Just seeing that people actually live like this somewhere in the world is fascinating stuff. And, since it is an Italian film everyone is dubbed- even the bulls. The print is pretty good and the sound is adequate on the blu-ray- minimal extras, but no matter, this one is worth it, even if there are no samurai in it....

Completely Restored with Fantastic Extras! Yes!  The episodes are restored, and they look gorgeous! At last America can say goodbye to the previous shoddy looking dvd release, and enjoy this series as it was meant to be seen.  The extras have all been ported over from a UK release, and they are thoroughly entertaining...25 hours worth!  We get cast/writer/director commentaries, a documentary with wonderful interviews for each of the 5 seasons, the 25th Anniversary documentary, "Upstairs Downstairs Remembered", interviews from the 70's with British interviewer Russell Harty, and most exciting of all is an alternate version of the first episode, with an alternate ending.  My only carp was that there is not an episode guide included, but there is a written essay by star Jean Marsh.  This release was worth every penny to me.

The core of me... There are few films that capture the authenticity of life quite like `Summer Hours', a small and intimate portrayal of family life in all of its various stages yet confined to a simmer.  The film moves rather languidly, floating in and out of `moments' that capture a whole far grander than many films concocted in recent years.  This film is touching, moving and ultimately reassuring for it understands the intricacies that make the finale so profound.  Anti-climactic can be far more climactic than we give it credit for.  `Summer Hours' delves into the lives of three individuals; Frederic, Adrienne and Jeremie, shortly after the death of their mother.  As they all gathered together for her seventy-fifth birthday, they are told that once she passes they are free to do whatever they like with her belongings, including her beautiful estate.  Once she dies, differences in her children start to creep into the way they wish to dispense of their inheritance of sorts. Their values, their futures, their ideals are all called into play as they discuss and compromise with one another over the belongings their beloved mother left behind.  But this film is so much more than that.  This film is far less about `things' and more about people and the way they affect our lives.  As her children are left to sort through all she left behind, it is less her belongings and more her legacy, while barely mentioned, that makes the strongest impact.  Lives move so quickly that our actions can be deceiving, but there are beautiful moments that pick up on the subtle hints that chip away at the truth behind the eyes of these newly orphaned adults.  By the film's end, one is brought to a sharper realization of the importance and enriching fragments of life itself, and one can beautifully grasp the sincerity of every frame.  With fine performances from the entire cast, Olivier Assayas directs a modern masterpiece; a stunning piece of cinema that comes full circle in its own message; closing out with a sequence that says so much about the core of this film and where `life' is headed.

Crazy Love This is a great book for a study.  It is easy to read, easy to understand, and easy to discuss.  I would recommend it to everyone!

underbelly the product was brand new and it is one of the best shows I have seen in years. It took three days for me to watch a whole season

"Please Sir, I want some more." This 1989 VHS of OLIVER TWIST (UK-1948) is a full screen SP speed dub of dynamic visual quality that has Hi-Fi sound. I watched my copy today and it ran flawlessly.  The film has direct connections to my childhood. Saw it on TV one morning when I was Oliver's age. Watched with my mom over WNEW-5 in NYC. She clearly loved this picture, and with good reason.  Director/writer David Lean's superb version is undoubtedly the ultimate take on a great Charles Dickens story.  As for its outstanding cast, Robert Newton makes the perfect Bill Sykes: unwashed, unshaven, sinister, and desperate after he murders wife Nancy, played by Kay Walsh.  The story's central character is portrayed by John Howard Davies, a child actor with a small resum&eacute; who went on to produce and/or direct episodes of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001ZX0I8">Steptoe and Son</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009XRZ92">Monty Python's Flying Circus</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000085EEI">Mr. Bean</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002LFPAUC">Fawlty Towers</a> and other prominent BBC TV series.  Fagin the fence and mentor to dozens of young pickpockets is Alec Guinness, unrecognizable under a gigantic Zionist proboscis prosthesis. Fagin's right hand boy, Artful Dodger, is Anthony Newley. In the early 1960s, Newley starred in the musical play, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000008L6L">STOP THE WORLD - I WANT TO GET OFF</a>. In it, he sang "What Kind of Fool Am I?"  Peter Bull, as landlord of the 'Three Cripples,' has a small role, suited to him, of a furtive type. He's seen lurking around in more than one scene. In 1964, Bull was the despicable Thwackum in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005AUKE">TOM JONES</a>, and Albert Finney's main enemy.  Francis L. Sullivan is Mr. Bumble, the porcine beadle of a miserable orphans' workhouse where Oliver spends his first decade. Sullivan was in another David Lean Dickens adaptation, as Mr. Jaggers in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000F17E">GREAT EXPECTATIONS</a> (1946). He also won a 1955 Supporting Actor Tony in Agatha Christie's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005PJ6Z">WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION</a>, playing Sir Wilfrid, the role that Charles Laughton had in the '57 film.  Ironically, in 1948, OLIVER TWIST was banned in the new state of Israel; for its negative stereotyping of Fagin, and in Egypt; iwhere this same character was considered too sympathetic. In the eye of the beholder, as they say.

One of the best zombie movies of all time This and Zombieland are my favorite zombie movies of all time.  Stripper with "zombie stripping power" what a concept.

Bonanza: Second Season Volume 1 Thank you, Andrew Klyde, Paramount and CBS for putting out Bonanza (finally) on DVD.  I can't wait for Volume 2 and so on.  These beautifully put together DVD's are a joy to watch especially since TV Land cuts these episodes up.  It's wonderful to see them again uncut.  I recommend Season 1 and Volume 1 of Season 2 for anyone who's interested in the show, in westerns or just good entertainment.  Thank you again and keep the seasons coming.  I'll be first in line to buy each one.

Good movie I saw this movie a LONG time ago, but rented it so that my daughter can look at it.  She like scary movies like I do.  No matter how many times I see this movie it seems that I always see something I didn't see the last time I saw it.  Great movie overall in my opinion.

Great Transaction Great transaction, very quick and smooth.  I love the Star trek movies and have seen them all when they came out.

"I feel like something bad is going to happen to me..." I stumbled on this film by chance - I had never heard of it nor knew anything about it, so I had zero expectations.  What a gem I discovered - this is an amazingly good movie.  I might otherwise give it four stars, but chose five to try to correct for some of the one star reviews that might prevent others from checking this movie out.  Pay no mind to those one-star reviewers - their brains have been eaten by zombies.  Lake Mungo  centers around the tragic drowning of a 16 year-old girl, and her grieving family's belief that her ghost is present in the house, perhaps needing to communicate something about her death.  The format is faux documentary - but there is never any doubt that it is scripted.  I don't think the director intended us to believe otherwise.  The real-world rough edges are smoothed out to better draw us into his eerie one.  The performances are wonderfully understated, underscoring the surreal mood.  And it may have been filmed on a low budget, but there is million-dollar talent behind that camera. Most impressive were the "ghost" scenes - they are shot like a disturbing dream, the kind you have when you are unsure if you are dreaming or awake.  Not to get all highbrow, but I was reminded of Igmar Bergman's Persona. There were scenes in that film that blurred the line between The dream and waking worlds that left me with an uneasy, creepy feeling,  just like Lake Mungo did.  I think the preponderance of negative reviews on this site are from those who were expecting cheap thrills.  There are none to be had here, but the patient viewer is left with a more enduring, subtle horror.  There are a few unexpected twists that may leave some viewers rolling their eyeballs, but hang in there.  Not all is as it seems. There's a quote from the doomed girl that still sends chills up my spine:  "I feel like something bad is going to happen to me.  Like it already has.  It just hasn't reached me yet.  But it's coming."

awesome movies! Never seen the Tremors movies before,but I really had a feeling I would like them and enough to own them even. I took a chance and bought the attack pack. Boy was I right. These movies are adventurously funny! A mixture that is not caught on film very often. The only negative I have about the set itself is that it is four movies on two disc, so there is one move on each side. Never been a fan of double sided disc. I was expecting this due to the description saying 2 disc with 4 movies in the set so I did know what I was getting. Just trying to give others a extra heads up. Would recommend this pack for any one interested in 4 funny adventurous movies.

La mejor banda del planeta Que te puedo decir que ya no sepas, son la mejor banda del planeta, si eres fan seguramente ya tienes este dvd o el BR y si no eres fan pues te lo recomiendo por que no hay banda mas premiada que ellos no hay banda con mas giras vendidas en su totalidad que ellos y si est&aacute;s deprimido solo bon jovi te devuelve el &aacute;nimo aunque si quieres seguir deprimido tambien tiene canciones si eres masoquista. No solo te recomiendo este dvd sino todos sus discos.

CLEAR & CONCISE I attend the Salvation Army and conduct a class 'junior soldiers' with young people, so this DVD was really informative in getting helping them to understand the foundation of our church.  I also appreciate the worksheets, leaders guide and addtional information that is included which made my teaching session so much easier.  I also purchased 2 other DVDs from Torchlighters which I intend to use in future classes.  Thanks so much.

Magical! I loved this movie!.. It was beautifully animated, every scene was pure magic and the story was fun and a good learning lesson. A great, fun movie for the family!

Awesome MOVIE! Was a superb acting job by Kevin Costner. Great story and thrilling movie. Action packed and always had you worried about the next upcoming parts.

Fun! My kids love this flick! Especially the music :) Nothing bad to say about something that makes them happy. Can't wait for the 3rd to come out.

THE BEST Baby Genius Vid! The classical music in this vid is exceptional, and the animal scenes are awesome.  This is by far my favorite Baby Genius vid, which are all pretty darn good.  My toddler loves to watch the 'baby animals' as she calls them.  Amazon prices are about 70% less than anywhere else you can find Baby Genius vids.

Great movie This is a wonderful movie which shows how science proves the Bible rather than contradicts it. It shows the true sovereignty of God.

One of the Funniest Classics of All Time This is a great movie, perfect for the times when you just want to watch something different!  When I saw that it was out on Bluray I had to add it to my collection.  Some people might say that the transfer to Bluray doesn't do it justice, but I think that all depends on the watchers tv, audio setup, and so many other factors.  It looked and sounded great on my setup!  I would recommend this to anyone who likes some old school comedy every once in a while.

Great 3d Performance Lord of the Dance is my favorite performance Blu Ray.  I think using 3D help keep "fancy camerawork" that most people complain about down to a minimum. You really get to see the whole performance not just close up cut aways.  The 3d really brings out patterns of the dancing possibly more than seeing it live.  And at $14 it is a steel for both performance Blu Ray or 3d Blu Ray.  And you get both.

Sherlock's In slomo I love the 3D thought/action secquences in this movie.  Sherlock against his greatest enemy - Moriarty.  What could be better.  The duo of Robert Downey and Jude Law works so well in these roles.  I can't get enough.

Beautiful film. I wasn't sure what to expect. I decided to watch it because of my love for Benedict Cumberbatch. But the film, all of the actors, the cinematography, the incredible script, took me completely by surprise. It was so lovely and so sad. I definitely recommend it.

QUIRKY and Very different I read many of the reviews and was almost turned off to see this movie - but VERY glad that i did after all.  It's NOT your run of the mill story or plot - but i enjoyed it thoroughly.  Dont miss it as you will be glad you watched it through!  Kal~

THIS is a great action movie This is my first Korean movie and I was AMAZED. I tend to ADD out during movies but this was so fast paced and well written I didn't have a chance. Not only was it well written and shot but the acting is good too. I would have known what was going on even if there were no sub-titles (ok I would have no clue what was going on, but it would still have looked GENIUS). You can watch this movie for the action and look super-stuck-up smart because its not in English. WATCH THIS! YOU WILL LIKE IT!!! If you watch this and dont like it, there may possibly be something wrong with you. Not something major, but still something ;)

The Writing Better Than Ever I loved David Tennant as Doctor Who and part of me misses him quite a bit; however, it took me about 10 minutes of the first episode of Season 5 to warm up to Matt Smith and now I like his portrayal of The Doctor just as much as Tennants....AND the writing in Season 5 was better and more consistant than in Seasons 1 through 4. There were no really weak episodes, while Seasons 1 through 4 had at least 2 or 3 weak stories each.  And Karen Gillan......oh, Karen!  I received Season 6 for Christmas, but I have not had a chance to watch them yet....but I look forward to more great episodes with Matt.

Fantastic show This used to be one of my favorite TV shows when I was a kid.  They would follow mysteries and stuff.  Very good show.

MJ = Awesome I've watched this on VHS since I was a kid and now my kid watches it on DVD.  Totally awesome. I LOVE this movie and always will.  It's been part of my life since I was a kid and it always will be :-)

Love this show This show has always been one of favorites. I love the family values, I think it's important for children to learn them at a young age. This show does the trick, it's very easy for kids to understand & they're even learning, because the show has real life situations which makes it easier for the younger ones to relate to them. I'm definitely going to be buying more of these DVDs.

Questionable history- but a brilliant movie "Patton" is a perfect example of how great moviemaking and great story telling don't necessarily have to be rooted in fact. This is one of the greatest American movies ever made, withe several brilliant performances from Scott and others, great writing, breathtaking cinematograph, and a score that at times sends chills down your spine. This is truly great filmmaking. Unfortunately, it's also very poor history. The writers relied heavily on Ladislas Farago's biography and Omar Bradley's autobiography, and as a consequence, Bradley comes off almost angelic in comparison to Patton, who is portrayed as a foul-mouthed, near insane fanatic, and he was none of these things.  George Patton was a child of the 19th Century, born to great wealth, who put all that aside in order to devote his life to being a soldier, and he do so magnificently. He actually used a chunk of his personal fortune to buy spare parts for the new US Army Armored divisions between the wars, when there wasn't enough government funding to keep them going. Those who served under him were almost unanimous in their their admiration, and those who fought against him believed he was the greatest general the Allies had. Bradley, by comparison, was often characterized as overly cautious, relieving commanders who showed initiative, and refusing the the British offer of specialized tanks ("funnies") in the Normandy invasion. His public image was largely the product of the writing of Ernie Pyle, who took it upon himself to lionize Bradley.  Unfortunately none of this comes across in the film.  And yet... I still think this is a five star film. It's so well made, so excellent in every way, that I think the question of historical accuracy can be disregarded when judging it. See it, and enjoy it, but don't come away thinking it's a true portrayal of the characters portrayed.

I thought I was at the House of Blues! This John Legend DVD was so off the chain, I thought I was at the House of Blues. Every song on it is a winner. You can not go wrong by purchasing this DVD because it's so exciting you almost believe that you are there with him. If you are looking for some entertainment at home, this is it.

Hilarious Loved this movie. One of my all time favorites. Won't write more as the other 4-5 star reviews give enough detail. Just wanted to balance out the negative reviews which I can't begin to understand. I stopped going to see comedies a long time ago because they're all so stupid (not silly ... stupid), repetitive, juvenile, gross and/or mean-spirited. So glad I made an exception for Mystery Men which I've seen multiple times. The cast is fabulous. I think it's for someone who is intelligent and appreciates good-natured satire, silliness and, parodoxically, subtlety.

Great Effects This was a very entertaining movie with lots of action.  The effects are great.  It was very speacial to see real life veterans and very proud.

A must-have for your Christmas DVD collection! This is definitely a Christmas classic. I love Home Alone (1), and I love Home Alone 2 just as much! Often times movie sequels aren't as good as the original, but that is not the case with Home Alone 2. It's just as good if not better than the first movie. I highly recommend it. Although it plays basically every year on TV, I wanted to purchase the DVD because 1) I could watch it when I want, instead of waiting for it to play on TV, 2) I could avoid watching commercials, and 3) it's edited for running time on TV and I always like to see the full movie.

One of the Best! Reds is one of the best movies I have ever seen!  The acting was superb on all fronts, The storytelling was magnificent, The locations were breathtaking.  It was a very brave film dealing with a subject which is still controversial to say the least.  The Witnesses -- many of them famous people who knew John Reed and Louise Bryant -- is one of the most enthralling and moving elements in any film.  The Special Features about the making of the film are extensive and are also first rate.  I also just saw Chariots of Fire which won the Academy Award for Best Picture that year -- there is no comparison and Reds is by far the finer film.

This will correct the record! Ever wonder why the left had to attack and malign Sarah to the degree that they did?  After watching her record of the last 20 years you will see why she had to be destroyed. She was/is an unprecedented threat to the political establishment on both sides. If at the time the public saw the accurate record, she would have carried McCain over the finish line.  I have my DVD copy and will be holding multiple viewings to further correct her standings.  SP2012!

Excellent product Great DVD of a classic Hawaii volleyball game to relive the 1983 national championship. My parents loved seeing an old game they used to watch.

Loved it! I am new to Kettlebells and not in the best shape.  In the past month I have been going to the gym about 4 times a week doing everything from the eliptical to Spin classes.  I heard about Kettlebells and wanted to give it a try.  I bought the 8 pound Kettlebell from jfit on Amazon (I had debated on what size to get for a long time).  I bought this DVD because of the reviews and I have to say I was not dissapointed.  The DVD starts out with a tutorial to show you the basic moves that are used - I skipped most of this because it was slow.  The workout itself is at a slower pace so I am not sure it really covers my cardio but I can definately feel the burn in my arms after doing the whole thing.  I liked that it was slower because I am new to the Kettlebell and I want to really focus on form.  Angie uses a 15 pound Kettlebell and says beginners should use a 10 pound bell - at first I thought the 8 pounds was way too easy but as the video progessed I definately felt muscle fatigue with the 8 pounds and think I made a wise choice to start.  If I do this on a regular basis, I could definately see myself working up to a 15 pound bell in no time though.  The DVD is divided up into 7 circuts and gets progessively harder.  I was able to make it through most of the DVD on the first shot - there were a few ab exercises that I could not do and I did the modified versions on the few of the moves to get used to them.  All in all, I think this is a great workout.  I would say this is definately easy enough for beginners and if you use heavier bells it is probably great for those that are more advanced.  Highly recommend.

Better Than Expected This was a great show. Not their biggest, but it was a great show regardless. The Live Aid concert was a great addition to the disc as well. I was shocked by the quality of the video and audio for the main feature, considering the concert's date. The band is in top form here. I highly recommend for any fans of Queen.

Made me read the book! I have seen every Jane Austen film adaptation and this one is my favorite. I watched it 2 days ago and went out and got the book. Reading it now!

Good Return for the Money. . . Received produce as advertised and in very good condition.  I'll probably use this seller again if I find anything interesting.

contagion This is a must see movie. It should be seen in shools and discussed, many of the facts are true.

mclintoc I think its the best attempt at humor john Wayne did . AND IT'S IN MY OPINION ONE OF HIS BEST AND I'M A REAL MOVIE LOVER

One of the best movies of all time. I absolutely love this movie!  I got this movie only a few days after I purchased it.  Great service and great movie!

A Plug for both of Chris Carter's big screen efforts I Want To Believe is a true maturation of the character development of Fox Mulder and Dana Scully as the exceptional people in their fields who were introduced to viewers everywhere in the TV series pilot during the 90's.  Some fans found this story disappointing, a filler in the X-Files mythology.  What a terrible mis-perception.  The transplantation of heads onto alternate bodies is a plot snatched right out of the annals of Classic Science Fiction.  I read it first in the Barsoomian adventures of John Carter, Warlord of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs.  The episode was titled Chessmen of Mars, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000O7NHJK">The Chessmen of Mars</a>  (also available on Amazon Kindle) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002KQ6VVO">The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (w/ Active Table of Contents and Chapter Navigation) [KINDLE EDITION</a>]. As a long time Burroughs fan, I'd call this imitation a sincerely gratifying contemporary flattery.  Mulder's best quote I can think of from this epic, is near the end of the film,  "What if DON'T GIVE UP really is the answer Scully?" [!!!]  When I saw this film at the theatre , and Dr. Scully entirely invested herself in the stem cell treatment to save the life of a 10 year old patient, I wanted to stand up and cheer.  And while Father Joe's twisted fight to save his soul and that of an Altar boy he molested (now turned body-snatching-transvestite/international-criminal-mastermind), IS a bizarre counter point in true X-Files tradition, I wouldn't miss it.  To see all those nurses and nuns, alongside of Dr Scully's fellow physicians watching her, a truly exceptional human being in wonder and hope as she arrives to carry out the impossible surgery, IS to understand how each of us needs to hope.  And sometimes a most tenuous thread is the only semblance we're even allowed to grasp.

DVD No complaints with this order and arrived in the mail ahead of schedule.  Will definately do again in near future

Great Movie Wanted is a great movie. The special effects are awesome. I think Angelina looks beautiful and I am totally loving her tattoos in the movie. Specially the one on her palm.

Very cool and awesome disc. You will like it when you watch the scene and enjoy the calm and comfortable music in the background.  Great music for relaxing and meditating.

Classic Western They don't make westerns like this anymore.  Enjoyed the mix of actors and would recommend this to collector's of DVD's.

Extended version of the Abyss from Amazon.com I remember seeing the Abyss where the title wave came and the aliens wrote a warning on the wall for Ed Harris and the world that, if we don't shape up, they will destroy us with title waves. There are 2 versions on this disk, the cut version and the extended version.  Love this movie.

One of the few perfect movies ever... The first time you watch 'Children of Men' you might not get it. Try watching it again and later, again. Eventually, like so many other people, you may come to the realization that 'Children of Men' is about as close to perfection as a movie can get. It is stunning. But one warning. You should watch this film under the right conditions or you may not see the same movie so many others have come to admire. A good deal of the film's punch is packed in its sound design. Pick up a decent set of headphones (which are a lot more inexpensive than a nice sound system), turn out the lights at night and crank up the volume. When seen like this 'Children of Men' can blow you away.

Absolutely wonderful The old movies are the best and now that they can be purchased on DVD, so much the better.  I love this movie.

A newer cult classic Okay, this movie has been reviewed to death, so i thought i would take a different tac with mine. I recently debated the merits of this movie with a friend of mine online. He said that it was one of the best, worst movies of all time, meaning that it was a horrible movie that you just couldn't help but watch whenever it comes on. My response was as follows:  "I actually wouldn't call Starship Troopers a terrible movie at all. If you consider that it was a Heinlein magazine serial in 1959 written (the actual story name was "Starship Soldier", and was published in "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction") that was then published as "Starship Troopers" in novel form at the end of that year (won a Hugo award also). It was written as a response to a newspaper advertisement in 1958 placed by National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, calling for the unilateral suspension of nuclear weapon testing by the U.S.. Heinlein actually founded a group in support of nuclear weapons testing, and then wrote his stories.  So....considering the background of the story, and the fact that Verhoeven kept the movie honest to the book and its intent, which included a very heavy depiction of how propaganda campaigns can shape or threaten to shape national policy and the public mindset and/or acceptance of policies, i would say the movie was actually quite brilliant.  It brought the innocence of the time period it was written in to life while telling an outrageous counter propaganda tale of why we need to arm ourselves more heavily as opposed to ridding ourselves of armament.  p.s. I had a band once called "Games & Theory" back in 1998-1999. Can you guess where we got that name from?"

Hilarious! This is easily one of the funnier movies I've seen in a while. It really captures the spirit of the hippie movement in the 60s and 70s. The ensemble cast works really well. None other the actors shines too much, and none get left behind. It's a good mix of strong personalities and weaker ones. The humor is of course dirty humor, but it seems to fit the plot and characters and is never forced. Personally, I thought this film had much fewer toilet jokes than most modern "so-called comedies" like Hangover and Old School. The toilet humor seems appropriate for and drives the plot. On top of that, you can't beat 60s rock'n roll music as a soundtrack. Overall, 4.5 stars.

great movie Kevin Costner is great in this psychological thriller. Buy it if you can afford it.  You won't regret it.  I swear.

New Digital Transfer---Hen's Tooth Video DVD release This is a review only of the Hen's Tooth Video DVD being released on 2/14/2012. First Time on DVD....James Whale's exciting adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas novel centers on twin heirs to France's throne who are separated at birth. The first-born Louis, is raised as a prince, but Philippe is brought up ignorant of his true identity. When Philippe is arrested with his companions, d'Artagnan and the three Musketeers, he meets his brother, now the king, face-to-face. The tyrannical Louis decides Philippe could be useful to him as a look-alike, but complications arise when Philippe meets the king's beautiful fianc&eacute;e. Whale's film is a swashbuckling adventure tale, full of palace intrigues and thrilling sword fights. B&W, 112 Minutes, New Digital Transfer from a 35mm Fine Grain, Original Full Screen (1.33:1), Includes Optional English Subtitles for the Hearing Impaired.

De Niro and Streep at their best. This movie is excellent.  Holds through the times, realistic, true romance.  Everyone should get a chance to be with that one special person that makes you feel like no one else can.

Zorro at his best!!!! During the 30's and 40's Republic Pictures made several serials and one color feature film featureing pulp hero Zorro or some other variant on the hero.  "Zorro's Fighting Legion" was Republic's second Zorro serial following the excellent modern day (the 1930's)set "Zorro Rides Again" and is the best of the lot.  This is the only serial that is set in the right time period and features the real Zorro - Don Deigo Vega.  All the rest "... Rides Again", "Son of Zorro", "Ghost of Zorro" starring Clayton "The Lone Ranger Moore" while on strike from  TV series and "Zorro's Black Whip" which doesn't feature Zorro himself but a masked female hero the Black Whip were American westerns.  Zorro's Fighting Legion has Don Degio traveling to the newly established Republic of Mexico to aide his uncle in helping protect gold shipments to the new government's treasury.  Sadly, said uncle is murdered in the first chapter and Zorro arrives just in time to take out the murder.  The villian of the story is one of Republic's best masked villians the gold armoured Don Del Lobo.  Don Del Lobo pretends to be a Yaki Indian god and stirs up the natives into attacking the gold shipments.  Deigo takes his uncle's place on the governing council and soon begins to suspect that one of the council members is actually Don Del Lobo.  For 12 exciting chapters Degio/Zorro and his Fighting Legion battle the forces of Don Del Lobo until the villian is unmasked in the final chapter.  The funny thing about these unmaskings in Republic serials is that who the villian turned out to be mattered very little by the end of the story.  Any of the suspects could have been named the bad guy and no story points would have had to be changed.  "Zorro Fighting Legion" was made before stock footage ruled American serials and is still as exciting as when it was first released.  Directed by Republic's best directing team Whitney and English and aided by a top music score and a crack stunt team "... Fighting Legion" is serial making at its best and rarely does the action seem repetative.  Reed Headly (The Adventures of Captain Marvel and TV's Racket Squad) makes for an excellent Zorro.  His stong voice and commanding physical appearance in the Zorro union suit brings the hero to life better than any actor before him (that including Doug Fairbanks) and not matched until Guy Williams wore the union suit in the Disney TV series.  Some have complained that he was a little stiff as Don Deigo but his perfomance as Zorro's alter ego never bothered me.  Zorro's Fighting Legion is one of Republic's finest serial and an excellent example of a lost art form.  NOTE: Following "Ghost of Zorro" Republic made two other serials featureing clones of Zorro "Don Daredevil Rides Again" starring Ken Curtis - Gunsmokes's Festus Hagen and "The Man With The Steel Whip" both featuring tons of stock footage from these earlier Zorro serials.

Great Cop Movie I very much enjoyed these movies. The comedy between these two was very funny. Lots of explosions. Love cop movies? This is a great one!

Story of an uderdog This movie is just downright funny and adorable! A story of the underdog, someone who no one believes in, saves the day.

A Visceral Experience I would like to first make a comment about the experience of having seen "NBK" in the theater at the time of its original release.  My taste in movies goes from animation, through romance and "chick flicks", intelligent comedies (an oxymoron?), to violent themes (with only the "Saw"-type genre being repellent to me).  For me, "NBK" was one of the most immersing experiences in the 50+ years I have gone to the movies, as I was kept so off balance emotionally from Oliver Stone's varied cinematic styles that I remember finding hard to "take a breath" during its entire run length.  This puts "NBK" in a very small group of "unrelenting" movies which had similarly affected me in the theater:  "Silence of the Lambs", "Straw Dogs", at least the second half of "The Deer Hunter", much of both "Sophie's Choice" and the original "Jaws", and (the phenomenal) "Godfather I" being the most memorable.  I have owned "NBK" on Laserdisc and several DVD versions, and have little doubt that the Blu Ray's improved audio codec will provide a superior experience.  Be sure to check out the court room scene with Ashley Judd.  While I can understand why Oliver Stone chose to cut it for the sake of his pacing, I feel that it is among the finest scenes to "hit the cutting room floor".  Having recommended "NBK" to many friends, with widely mixed reviews, I feel that its perspective remains fresh and (love it or hate it) continues to be an example of exemplary film making.  IMHO: the most recent film to create such unrelenting tension is the current "Black Swan" which, in many ways, recalls the best of the efforts of Brian De Palma and David Cronenberg.

Me and my grandfather's favorite movie! Package arrived on time in all original packing. This was my grandfather's favorite movie and i'm glad to have this dvd in my collection.

Great Range for Both Gandolfini and Melissa Leo This was a very good movie, deserves four stars instead of five if we consider crude language that overpowers the theme, but will give it five because of Melissa Leo. There was too much license with trying to shock our sensibilities with crude and vulgar language; the point is that the main character, Kristen Stewart, is uneducated and has no filters when it comes to language and I felt that the language detracted from the film and suspended empathy for Ms. Stewart's character. Otherwise, this was a great vehicle for James Gandolfini to show that he has the chops to move from the small screen to the big screen and the big screen allows him a breadth of emotion that he cannot as easily display on a television series. He not only moved to the big screen with ease, but he owns it in this film.  Equally brilliant is Melissa Leo who plays his neurotic and damaged wife and her performance is the best in this film: Melissa Leo embodies characters and we forget that she is an actress and this film allows her to soar. Watching her face and her emotions is like watching a palette of her range. Returning to Kristen Stewart's role, the crudity of her language became a character on its own and it overpowered her performance; during one scene in a bathroom where Leo's character attempts to help Ms. Stewart there was an opportunity to allow real tenderness, but the scene is sullied by crude language - the language diminishes the depth of character - and our sympathy is stopped short. Melissa Leo's acting turns this film from a good one to a great one and without giving too much away her scene in the diner is the best in the film.

Funniest Comic Ever! Bill Burr is probably one of the funniest comics I've ever seen.  He pokes fun at everyone and everything.  No holds barred comedy!  If you want non-stop laughs, you won't be disappointed with this.  I just bought tickets to go see him live and I can't wait!

Adorable Movie! Great for kids, teens, and adults! I myself have never read the books, but I can tell you that the movie was hilarious! I don't have children, but I enjoy a good family-oriented flick every now and then... This one is great. My husband and I will watch it and just crack up. There are a lot of points in the movie that take you back to "that age". I highly recommend picking this one up! =)

Good movie When I heard Freddy Vs Jason was coming out in theaters I didn't want to watch it. I thought it was going to be stupid. I thought it was going to be like the Mtv show. I don't remember what it is called. And I can only remember bits and pieces of it. But the makers of the show would make stars into I guess you can say 3D. I'm sure it's not 3D, but looks like it. Then they would make them fight each other in a ring.  Well I thought that was stupid. And that is what I thought this movie was going to be about. I bought this movie anyways because I'm collecting all of Jason and Freddy movies. I just finished watching it last night. I really enjoyed it. I was half way done watching this movie when my husband walked in from work. I started it all over again just to watch it with my hubby.

GO GO Green! good story line nice action and wow can you say he's hot! It is even better in HD! Good movie for any generation

Best Movie for motivating students Movie was in excellent condition! Did not see any problems with packaging and the movie played nicely. Excellent film to showcase with students as a motivator to help them as the prepare to apply to college and start to feel the burnout.

Just as I Remembered... I was very young when I first watched Child's Play... most would say far too young to be watching it. But times have changed, and in my day my father didn't know about the possible psychological effects a killer doll might have on a child.. (HAHA) I came across the 20th Birthday Edition when browsing through Amazon when looking to add to my collection of horror movies... What a gem to find, especially at this price!  Child's Play was just as scary as I remember, and still got my heart racing. Not to mention this amazing find; this set offers many bonus features. I would highly recommend for those who remember watching it in the past, or are looking for a classic horror movie.

really like it I had never done pilates and have recently been trying to do the biggest loser work out dvd and am having a very hard time keeping up. I decided to try to find something to do as well to try to help me get in shape. I honestly love this. I really liked the instructer and the way its set up in 5 diffrent sections. I would highly recommend this dvd. Only thing is i had to but baby powder on the band as it can stick together.

Laugh Til You Cry You won't stop laughing until it's over.  It can be cornball at times but it is classic.  You really feel for the Kristin Wiig character but the bride is unsatiable.  Best laughs all around.

A GEM OF A MOVIE... This DVD is of the "gay" genre, & atypically, they're over-priced(supply & demand theory). This DVD however, was fairly priced,swiftly delivered & NEW/sealed as described. Kudos to the seller & amazon.com for your services rendered.A fun-fast paced movie for the select audience it was produced for.

Pretty Good This movie is really great! It reminds me of Mean Girls.  The school year begins with an annual rushing event that happens in order to start off the sorority and fraternity functions.  Katy Parker is a freshman in college and her and her bestfriend are rushing as well, but of course nothing goes as planned when Katy reveals a secret about the head girl of a popular sorority.  A sorority that very much expressed a great desire to have her.  The battles begin.  The main character Katie Parker; who is played by Lucy Hale, is a great actress and she plays the fighting heroine who's so desperately seeking justice when the odds are against her.  Two sororities collide and battle it out in this non-stop rivalry driven college tale.  I definitely recommend, FUN, FUN, FUNNNN movie! :D

Universal 100th Anniversary Bluray's - Extras? First off love the film, and have it on Region 1 DVD.  Was going to buy this Universal 100th Anniversary version, but just noticed Amazon has no details on any Extras / Special Features on this disc? Checked with a few of the other 100th Anniversary selection, and this seems to be the case with a lot of them (Apollo 13, Sixteen Candles and Inglourious Basterds for example).  Can you update this Amazon? As a lot of people buy Bluray's / DVDs for extras as much as they buy them for the movie itself.  Cheers,  Simon

Best SyFy Show EVER... Awesome BOXSET!! The show speaks for itself, so this review is only about the Boxset itself.  I used to have all the seasons on dvd. Bought season after season and watched them. That was a while ago. I sold them all on ebay thinking i really did not need them and would not watch all of them again. Month or so ago i have been watching Stargate SG-1 on TV and decided that i wanted to watch it from the beginning. Came on here and saw this full boxset. Read some reviews, most of them complaining about scratches, skipping, etc....  I bought the boxset anyways, brand new... I am now on season 9 and i did NOT have one problem with the set... No skipping, no nothing...  It is a PERFECT boxset and a MUST for any Stargate SG-1 Fan

great video a video I thouht I would never run down, it is a great story, and great copy of the video. It came in good time abd was priced right, what more can you ask for-

Enjoyed this movie for many years! I used to enjoy watching this movie as a kid at my grandparents house. I was so glad to find it on Amazon and purchase it!! Now I can enjoy it with my husband & children! I love how catchy the songs are and how it can be enjoyable for men & women both!

GREAT MOVIE ~ FOR ALL AGES! I had already purchased "It's Complicated" from Amazon for myself. I love it. It is so funny, poignant, well-written & flows smoothly. Has some great unexpected moments that are down-right funny and truly surprise you! I bought this DVD and had it shipped to my mom as a little surprise...just for the heck of it! She really thought this was a great movie too!

Fresh Fields is still fresh and great We love watch this older TV program.  It's got clean dialog and can make one laugh a lot.  We bought Seasons 1&2 a few months ago and could hardly wait for this one, Seasons 3 & 4.  I just hope we don't have to wait as long for French Fields which is the sequel where the Fields move to France. Other than being in England this could be a neighbor in any town on earth.  It has a good story line and is fun too watch.

A favorite of mine as a child, still holds true I am a nanny to a 7 year old and 3 year old (along with a 3 month old) and I loved this movie as a child so I brought it for them to watch. They loved it just as I had and request to watch it all the time!  There are scary, humorous, and whimsical scenes. An adorable little boy, hillarious and strong adult figures, spooky and interesting villains/bad guys, a snooty princess who comes around, and an adorable pet flying squirrel.  I will not give away the story line but I definitely recommend this for kids, though earlier in the day because it has the potential to cause nightmares.

STRAIGHT FORWARD, NO NONSENSE Very practical, helpful information presented in this book. Recommend that FORKS OVER KNIVES (DVD) be viewed as well.  The two items give you an integrated view of nutritional health for everyday living! Lauren D in Virginia

Delightful, romantic, funny Jom Lindstrom, Wendie Malick and Chris Murrah anchor the entire fine cast of this film.  The story is excellent and told with both seriousness and humor.  It is an unusual and uncommon story of someone coming out in his 50s combined with retirement, new dog ownership and finding romance on a park bench with a younger man.  The subplots of friends, art galleries, disappointing, possibly gay sons and being set up with female dates rounds out the film.  Though my description sounds like a soap opera, this film seemlessly combines all these elements into a hugely fun and entertaining movie.  I highly recommend it.

This is My Favorite Taebo DVD I just started Taebo and this is by far my favorite of the tapes. It gets you moving and motivated. On my very first workout I did about 15 minutes of the tape. The next day, I was determined to get through the entire tape even if it killed me. I did get through the entire tape with slower modifications. At times, I worked at my own pace. Now, I'm almost up to the pace of Billy Blanks and his crew.  I count the calories burned when doing this workout and I burn an average of 551-600 calories. It gets your heart rate pumping.  Billy is an excellent instructor and motivator, I love him. I wish I'd been doing this a long time ago.  Overall rating: 10.0 stars.

AWESOME ORDER CAME IN AWESOME TIMING.BOUGHT USED BUT WAS BRAND NEW . NO SCRATCHES OR TEARS. LOVE FULL SCREEN EDITION. GO HASTINGS IS AWESOME

READ THE BOOK! Good movie, but the book makes the movie seem very watered down. I recommend anybody to read the book before you see the movie, unless you can't read, then I don't know if I should laugh or feel bad for you.

Yummy As others have said, the packaging is a no-go, just get some jewel cases to slap these in. I actually don't mind pulling mine out but, eh. The quality of these are amazing. Like candy and butter. Mixed.

Outlaw Jose Wales is a great movie The Outlaw Jose Wales is a great movie. They don,t get any better. I received it quickly  and was very much impressed the way my order was handled.

A good quality, intelligently written movie - that said, it is NOT a comedy This movie is labeled as a romantic comedy, and as a result many expect that like most romantic comedies, it will leave a warm and fuzzy feeling with the viewer at the end.  Alas, this is not one of those romantic comedies, or really not really a comedy at all.  I think many bad reviwes of this movie really come from unfulfilled expectations for this film.  The Break Up is an interesting movie about life and relationship. It is well written and well executed.  This movie is not a positive movie and is sad in many ways - but there is something to be learned from it, if you will.  The cast is very good.  Vince Vaughn is at his best in this movie and Jennifer Aniston also does a credible job.  With respect to the theme and the process of the break-up, I did not think it was unrealistic and honestly think that sometimes a re-examination of a relationship really can begin over something as small as "I want you to want to do the dishes."/"Why would I want to do the dishes?".  Do not watch this movie if you are looking for a lighthearted romantic comedy with a good ending - this movie is not it.  Do watch this movie if you simply want to watch something entertaining or feel that you can relate to it.

a very sexy movie romance and cigarettes is above all a musical. if you like romance and musicals this is the movie for you. kate winslet stars as tula, a lingerie sales girl who has an affair with susan saradon's character's husband. a thriller of a movie. one of kate winslet's sexiest movies.

So much truth in this book! Seriously one I'll be reading more than once to make sure I fully absorb the truths in this book. Loving it so far and had never connected God with my food issues but am thankful for this wise teaching.

4 hits in 1, can't beat it! 4 hit movies for one great price... I was sold! I bought one for myself and another for my God son!

High Spirits IN AN OLD MOVIE BUT IS VERY GOOD GOOD AND FUNNY I RECOMENDED. IT'S HAS GHOST, COMEDY, IT'S OCCURE IN A OLD CASTEL AND I LOVE IT....I SAW IT FIST WHEN I WAS VERY YOUNG AND WHEN I SAW IT IN AMAZON I SAY I NEED TO SEE THAT MOVIE AGAIN

By far the best live concert of my collection ... and I have many ! ... and also the last concert of Nightwish together with Tarja Turunen, an event not to be missed! I personally think that both Nightwish and Tarja have lost something from their separation : Nightwish have lost a fabulous voice, Anette (the new singer) is a good singer, but she has a different voice, more 'light' while Tarja with her operatic voice gave a sense of epic in songs like 'Sleeping Sun' or 'Wishmaster'. On the other hand Tarja does not have the same compositional genius than Tuomas Holopainen has and I like her songs less than Tuomas' ones. But let's talk about the concert: 'Dark Chest of Wonders' is a powerful start with keyboards phrasing on a drum-bass-guitar base worthy of the best metal bands, the voice of Tarja completes the epic atmosphere: wonderful ! Follows an equally good 'Planet Hell', then the climate changes and move to the sweet notes of the start-up of 'Ever Dream' with the voice of Tarja in evidence, but only for a while: soon it turns into a  fast and powerful song as the previous ones. The following song 'The Kinslayer' is at the same level as the previous but it's in 'The Phantom of the Opera' that Tarja's voice reaches levels unimaginable for many other singers (including Anette): listen to the  end of the song to understand the enormous vocal extension of the singer. The show continues with the excellent 'The Siren', then Tuomas advises the audience to be silent ... you turn on the magic of a 'Sleeping Sun' with the voice of Tarja that creates a unique atmosphere. I've also heard the same song sung by Anette and it is not even comparable ... I do not understand why Nightwish insist in performing live old songs that sound completely different without the magical voice of Tarja. I do not like the next 'High Hopes' : slow and repetitive ... I would not have included it in the show ... but the magical atmosphere is resumed shortly after with 'Bless the Child' followed by a wonderful 'Wishmaster' where Tarja's voice reaches unimaginable heights (listen to the acutes 'Lorien' and 'Starbreeze' of the song ... in the version sung by Anette she is forced to drop her voice to the lower octave ...). Than follows 'Slaying the Dreamer', a song rather 'hard' but nonetheless appreciated and then the wonderful 'Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan', sung in Finnish, with only Tarja on stage in sweet interpretation. The next songs 'Nemo' and 'Ghost Love Score' with its complex beats are wonderful. Then the context changes completely : enters the stage the Indian John Two Hawks for a 'Stone People' played only with voice and flute which leaves me a bit confused ... even if it creates a special atmosphere, it seems a bit boring when compared to the rest of the concert. The next 'Creek Mary's Blood' is much more beautiful : the flute and the voice of John blend with the music of the group and give a great overall effect. The concert ends with 'Over the Hills and far Away' and 'Wish I Had an Angel, a little more catchy songs but pleasant listening. In conclusion ... buy absolutely this DVD or Blue-Ray : you will not regret!

Great movie, this is where they should have stopped. This movie was another great horror movie. This is just as good as the second one in my opinion. The brain surgery scene was one of the most disgusting scenes I have seen in a movie in a long time. This is where I believe the series should have stopped. This would have made a great trilogy, but unfortunately Hollywood doesn't know how to quit when they are on top.

Great for the Whole Family We are kids at heart. We have this show for when our nieces and nephews come to visit and to be honest, we have began to watch it on our own. It has valuable lessons and story lines, and is full of hours of fun.

Excellent! This is an amazing, entertaining, educational nature show. The quality of the film is unbelievable, and it is truly a mesmerizing film to watch. One of the best nature films I have ever seen. Spectacular.

Great Fun I ordered my copy of the series on the 7th of Nov. and it arrived by the 12th of Nov. and is in great shape. I have read other reviews about the poor quality or pixilization of the shows and so far have found no such problems. The quality of the video image isn't feature film quality but then the series was made for TV not the big screen. Every episode I've looked at so far has had a crisp clean image and there have been no issues of any sort.  Either I got lucky and got a good copy or they have improved the quality of the DVD's since the other reviews were posted. This is a great series to watch when you want to enjoy a little bit of Mr. Bradbury's magic.

"I don't know what's good or bad or true.  I let God worry about the truth.  I just want to know the momentary fact of things" Lieutenant Commander Charlie Madison (James Garner), US Navy, occupies an enviable niche during World War II in spring 1944 just before the planned invasion of Europe.  He is what's known as a  "Dog Robber" a personal attendant or assistant to an officer of high rank, is this case Admiral William Jessup (Melvyn Douglas).  Charlie's stationed in England, far away from any fighting and not likely to be, this suits him just fine since Charlie's a self-proclaimed, unrepentant coward.  Whatever Admiral Jessup and his staff needs he can procure whether it's fresh oranges or a requested redheaded young woman for a cocktail party.  Charlie is a cagey, charming opportunist who's riding out the war comfortably, until he begins an affair with one of his motor pool drivers, a young, attractive British widow Emily Barham (Julie Andrews) who has a high moral tone and unassailable convictions about right and wrong.  Although both attracted and repelled by Charlie and his forthright amorality, Emily has lost a husband, father and brother in the war, and doesn't want to get involved with another soldier who could potentially die in combat.  With Charlie, she knows she's safe on that score, what she doesn't count on and neither does Charlie is that they will both fall in love.  Their plans to marry however go haywire, when Admiral Jessup, who is in the throes of a nervous breakdown, gives Charlie and his best buddy Lieutenant "Bus"Cummings (James Coburn) a bizarre assignment.  They are to spearhead a project to film the first navy man to die landing on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day as an exercise in public relations for the navy!  Charlie realizes all too clearly this will put him in harm's way, and that he could well be one of the casualties tries to be excused from this grim detail, but the Admiral in his deluded state will have none of it.  Charlie comes up with what he thinks will be a foolproof plot to miss the fleet's departure.  However his relieved delight offends Emily who feels he is mocking D-Day and the men who will sacrifice their lives and causes her to break off their relationship, and guess what, Charlie's strategy goes awry when Mother Nature tosses him an unexpected curve.  "Black Comedy" is probably the most appropriate category for this film.  For those who appreciate and love words as I do, Paddy Chayefsky's adaption of William Bradford Huie's novel of the same name is a bountiful feast to be savored, eloquent, astringent, richly seasoned with generous dollops of sardonic wit.  This is a far cry from the urban, gritty Bronx/Brooklyn dialects and situations of Chayefsky's earlier scripts, the dialogue very erudite and polished.  There are so many noteworthy quotes; I had a difficult time choosing one for the title.  Although once or twice Chayefsky's speeches for Charlie to Emily, as expressive and powerful as they are, veer dangerously towards grandiloquence, James Garner is always able to rein them back in.  Chayefsky's main thesis is masterfully presented, that wars can be fought for just and right causes, as was World War II, but the glorification of war and the cult of war heroes is wrong since it makes war glamorous and appealing to the naïve and callow young, which may result in more wars, and loss of lives.  With his portrayal of Charlie, James Garner came into his own as a dramatic actor, it's a breakout performance.  He still handles the comic moments well, but there is a new assurance and authority in his playing, plus at times sensitivity as in one gentle scene with Julie Andrews.  His natural, easy going charm, plus his clean cut All-American good looks, cleft chin and all, serve the antihero Charlie well, and are important in securing audience sympathy.  Yet he doesn't shirk from revealing Charlie's less attractive qualities, this is a well rounded, fleshed out portrayal, I think Garner's best in his career.  "Emily" when it was originally released in October 1964 was sandwiched in between Julie Andrews's two most iconic films, "Mary Poppins" and "The Sound of Music". As a result, it was initially somewhat overshadowed and overlooked, especially by those snide critics who dismissed Ms. Andrews for allegedly playing just sugary sweet movie heroines.  However the role of Emily Barham is one of Ms. Andrews's finest cinema achievements, and light years removed from either Mary Poppins or Maria Von Trapp.  This is a contrary woman, of inviolable values and beliefs, yet after the death of her husband, Emily has had by her own admission many fleeting affairs with doomed soldiers on their way to battle.  She delivers a stinging slap to Charlie when he administers a friendly pat on her fanny one morning, yet by the next evening's end, he is nonplussed to find her smilingly perched on his bed.  Ms. Andrews is able to realize and develop the duality in Emily's nature, the way her intense feeling about Charlie pulls in her two directions.  Like Garner, this was a major step in her development as an actress, I like to think that the Best Actress Oscar she received the following year for "Mary Poppins" was also acknowledging her Emily as well.  This film is also significant for the debut of Julie Andrews and James Garner as a memorable screen team.  They are truly wonderful together each bringing out the best in the other.  The charisma and attraction is evident in their scenes together, they banter effortlessly, are amorous and romantic and yet can be fiery and make sparks fly.  Their two later efforts "Victor, Victoria" and "One Special Night" would prove this initial pairing was no fluke.  Incidentally per the commentary by director Arthur Hiller, this is the favorite film of all three of them.  The supporting cast all perform with distinction starting with James Coburn as the lascivious "Bus" Cummings, whose idea of wartime service seems to be to bed as many different women as he can, until he gets enmeshed in Admiral Jessup's wild scheme.  As the crumbling Admiral Jessup, Melvyn Douglas eerily slips in and out of sanity in a very disquieting manner.  Comedienne Joyce Grenfell as Emily's widowed mother excels in one moving scene where she seamlessly shifts from a cheery insouciance at the start to wracked sobs at its conclusion.  Veteran character actor Keenan Wynn has a humorous turn as a drunken sailor on the eve of D-Day who's assigned as one of Charlie's cameramen.  The musical score by Johnny Mandel is evocative, particularly the lovely "Emily's Theme" which both heightens and underscores the complex relationship between Charlie and Emily.  Filming in black and white was a wise choice, and Philip Lathrop's cinematography works especially well in the climactic D-Day landing on Omaha Beach in reliving the horror and terror of the Allied troops landing under severe enemy fire.  Director Arthur Hiller as mentioned earlier delivers a running commentary full of absorbing tidbits, such as the fact that originally James Garner was to play James Coburn's role, but I wish James Garner and Julie Andrews were adding their recollections as well.  Also there is an intriguing short subject called "Action on the Beach" about the recreation and filming of the Omaha Beach landing from the film. The final special feature is the ubiquitous trailer of the film, always fun to watch.  With the USA already stuck in the Vietnam quagmire when this film was released,"The Americanization of Emily" with it's controversial thesis against the glorification of war, seems ahead of it's time.  Today with the unnecessary Iraq War, and the continuing bloodshed in Afghanistan, it's message seems even more pertinent. Hopefully, this film will cause its viewers to consider and evaluate this premise, even as they're being so richly entertained.

Best Adult Movie Simply the best movie of 2012, or perhaps any year for a thinking adult. No need to rely on gimmicks with superb acting and sensational locals.

Great Series We own the whole series and really like them.  They are a lot of fun to go back and watch.  Great show.

Must see movie to ensure your financial security A real eye opening portrait on the staggering degree of wanton but clever and integrated corruption in the US Financial system and Government. Astonishing (or maybe not) that still today little has changed in the form of oversight.

Loved this Movie I loved this movie The DVD came in great timing. It was in Great condistion. Yes I will buy from this Seller again

Great portrayal of teenage sociopaths I used to work adolescent psych crisis management on a locked hospital unit. Michael Perry is the perfect example of a "baby sociopath." If you've ever wondered how someone can make you think the opposite of reality, well, welcome to the world of sociopaths. He was a good one. The other one isn't as good, but you can tell he is one,too. Sociopaths and their existence is why I've changed my mind on the death penalty. They can never change or be changed. Their specialty: making you feel sorry for them. This is a great documentary, pure Herzog...

Outstanding What a great movie. Casting was excellent (Greg sorta looks like Dick Vermiel), as was the acting.  BluRay really added to my enjoyment level. I owned the standard DVD version. When it became defective I popped for the BluRay version, and was very glad I did.

Plot, suspense, quality acting Well worth the time to watch, will rarely enter a review and then only if it worthwhile.  Dark and yet uplifting, paradox of life is rather subtly portrayed; then there are moments of stark and glaring examples.

A good movie by The Duke. This is one of my favorite John Wayne movies. The Duck at his best! In charge of the few ships to get out of Pearl Harbor, & the fruitless search for the Japanese. Of course he always gets his girl. Later involved in actions that I think mimik the Solomons campaign. Has alot of trouble with his son, & later looses him during a major naval battle. A pretty good movie.

Psychopath on Aisle six I was really glad when they put this film on Blu-ray,It's one of my favorite mid eighties slashers. It's closing time and the night workers are being stalked by someone who chops, slices and hacks his way through the store,who will survive the night? will anyone? 'Intruder' offers just the right amount of laughs and seeing as it's set in a grocery store of course there's plenty of Cheese. The Gore is abundant and done really well,eighties style... Bruce Campbell has a cameo in film as a cop and we all love Bruce. The Blu-ray transfer is good and so are the extras like audition tapes, Bloopers ,'the making of' and more..Another big score for us slasher collectors On Blu-ray..

Great Set This dvd set is a perfect gift.  I love to watch it over and over because it's clean, it's romantic, and it's just a great movie!

Works for Grandmas too! My daughter told me this book is a must read before my grandchild is born.  My young mother friends tell me the recommendations work!  Can't wait to put it all into practice!

Awesome Love the action in this movie, I loved the actors and the suspense. I would recommend this movie to all my friends.

its on my top movie list for a reason this movie is amazing. it has an allstar cast, and they all deliver. its hillarious, but subdued. dont expect to fall out of your seat laughing. its more of a hearty chuckle kind of laugh.  just enjoy it already!

AMAZING AND DEEP Shoujo stories honestly are very hit or miss with me, and not just because I'm a guy! But they tend to be much too sweet, too fluffy and indulgent for it's own good. Catering to the daydream love fantasies of both young girls and middle aged women alike, I heard the name Marmalade Boy for a few years, and even considered picking it up at one point when I read an article about the series on another site. But a critical opinion of the show, given to me by a friend made me lose any interest in pursuing this one.   About 2 years later, I took the plunge and decided to give an actual try...and I think it's safe to say that I'm glad I did. Marmalade Boy is a classic shoujo series from the 90's, and it's influence is probably seen in just about every other shoujo manga ever since. There are love triangles galore, angst, hormones, crying, everything you'd expect from a show like this! But what makes MB stand out is the fact that it plays out like a Soap-Opera-- In that it's twist come at such fierce speed that you can't help but go"Wait...what?", and boy is like crack. MB turned out to be one of the most addicting animes that I've seen in quite some time, you can never really comprehend how or why the melodramatic 'drama' entices you so to keep on going.   Miki Koishikawa is your average highschool girl, aside from being rather at first embarrassed by her parents' eccentric and illogical behavior by switching spouses from another couple, then all together moving into one big house, bringing daughter Miki and son(from the second couple of course) Yuu with them. Miki and Yuu soon fall in love together though, and their relationship is challenged and manipulated many times by jealous ex's. There will not be a single moment where you don't think"Why are some of these kids so damn selfish?", but then you realize that that's the point of MB in the first place. It's about young men and women falling in love for the first time, and acting on their emotions, not logic. What makes MB work is that it's so addicting in it's own indulgent little way, but at the same time it shows an innocent and honest side to the human heart.   The animation and art can be an acquired taste-- this is an anime from 1994, and it shows by rearing it's low budget head pretty often, but it's quite manageable once you get used to it. The ost also fares well, my only complaint regarding it is that they use/reuse/remix the main theme way too many times, making the song too tedious to listen to outside of watching. Regardless, I have to say that the final ending theme("Yoake no Etude") really complimented on the events of the final half.   While I may have have enjoyed it quite a bit, like all shoujo-- It's probably not for everyone, especially people who nitpick and complain about as many illogical fallacies they can find in a show. Because frankly, there will be too many to really even count. The best example would have to be the New York City arc that pops up during the 3rd quater of the anime. These kids will infuriate you, baffle you and annoy you at how stupid they can act by being so self-absorbed. But like I said earlier, MB continued to hold a charm that kept me from losing my composure. It may sound like it's not even worth a shot, but in an odd way, it's still worth plowing through.   MB really was a wild ride in the end, so much that after the final episode was complete, and the final credits rolled, I couldn't help myself but feel saddened that I had to say goodbye to this cast of folk that I soon found myself attached to. And I'm confident to tell you guys that I thought the ending tightened up all the loose ends we wanted tightened by the end, so no annoying cliffhangers.  I believe that it's a fantastic anime that provides a lovable cast, and shows us a very sweet and sincere look at growing, learning and falling in love with someone you want to spend the rest of your life with. With an open mind, and despite some of it's issues with the wonky mindsets, MB is a very enjoyable watch for both women and men.

Movie is a classic. . . Movie is so funny, I can't get over how classic this is . . . Needs to be on Blu Ray, real talk mane .

Great Buy I love the movie and the service was great. The best seller I came across so far. 5 star service will buy again.

Touching This is a touching movie that looks at real life issues.  The movie is not for kids but is very entertaining.  The acting is great.

Pulp Fiction My son is an avid reader and enjoys watching a variety of old and new movies. He submitted a great list of books and movies on a wish list for Christmas. Pulp Fiction was one of the items on his list. Amazon.com is the place that fulfilled Santas need to complete his shopping. Thanks Anazon.

Good It came in on time, before it was suppposed to and in good condition. I would use these sellers again.

Amazing! Is this a true story?  I'm not a Kevin Bacon fan, but he blew me away in this!

REFRESH REALLY AMAIZING, BEATIFUL, REAL, YONG, JULIA ROBERTS IS SO BEAUTIFUL, SO REFRESH, VERY GOOD, YOU MUST ASK FOR THIS FILM SPECIALLY IF IT IS IN 3 D THANKS!!

LOVE THIS SHOW! I just love this show!  Watching it always brings a smile to my face! Let me also add that I'm a Christian and had no problem with it.  Its too bad that some people boycotted a show they knew nothing about.  After all, how many prime time shows have a character leave a party for an honest moment of reflection and prayer?

flowers in the attic have always loved this book and I think more books follow this one..........would buy all of them!!! can't say enough good things about this!!

Fine interpretation I appreciated the American version of Lindqvist's novel. I saw the original Swedish version and it was compelling. I noticed some differences, especially in the final scenes. Aside from the CGI effects, which were fine, director Matt Reeves seemed to find two ace young actors that had a chemistry that was unsettling. Pre-pubescent love? Kodi-Smit McPhee is a fine young actor, with insight and passion for his character, delivering a most natural angst and desire for a friend. He is bullied, mercilessly, as many are, at school. His family has fallen apart, and you never see his father or his mother's face. He is isolated. In comes Abby, played by the very brilliant Chlo&eacute; Grace Moretz. Suspicion ensues, trust sorta happens, and they end up friends. There's a lot more than that, but I can't blab too much. You may already know this, but it's well put together by Mr. Reeves, and I admire this re-imagining of a fine film. McPhee and Moretz are magic together. The original Swedish "Dragon Tattoo"  films were fine. And I plan to see Fincher's re-imagining of those, too.

Dawn of the Dead : Ultimate Edition This 4-disc set includes not only three versions of the 1978 classic film but also a fourth bonus disc with multiple documentaries featuring interviews with Geroge A. Romero himself and the cast and crew. If you are a fan of Dawn of the Dead or zombie movies in general this is a must own dvd !

""help"" i have been trying to find the "betty boop" film with the sound track & song "may the road rise up to meet you" by debby boone, pat boone"s daughter, has any body a copy, or any info would be great, my email is  micspen@tiscali.co.uk  thank you.

Took me by surprise, I must say! I purchased Vol. 1 of a number of boxed sets of highly-rated TV series to resell at my shop. On one exceptionally slow day, I could find no "make work," so I randomly selected a dvd to take a look at. The zombies must've been with me that day, for it wasn't more than a few minutes until I was hooked. I had no clue at the time who had produced it or on which cable outlet it appeared. I just knew it wasn't done on a shoe-string budget, nor was it appropriate for television (I wonder what time this program aired on AMC?). Incredibly, I actually found myself getting ticked-off when (much-needed) customers dared to enter my domain!  I finished watching the last episode the next day and, as soon as I got home that night, I went online to order the COMPLETE series. When I found out this was the ONLY one out of the dozen or so I ordered that just had one season under its belt, I almost blew a gasket.  At the risk of ruffling the feathers of the few who gave "Walking Dead" low marks, I'll say this: If you like zombie  movies, there is a 100% chance you will love this series. If you can't stand zombie movies, there is a far better than average chance that you will love this series! The acting is a-one. The subplots are intriguing. Direction is professional.  Guess we'll have to wait until Autumn to see the next episode? Sure hope they get a whole lot more in the can next time around. This thing is Awesome with a capital "A," and I'm being redundant! Let them zombies roll, 10-4.

Disney hits a home run Disney's take on the story of Rapunzel was absolutely fantastic. It's the first Disney movie in a long time that I felt worked well. Everything from the singing, to the animation to the jokes were top notch. It is the first movie my daughter sat down and took notice of a movie. It is also a movie that even I haven't gotten tired of when it has been watched over and over by my daughter. Even if you don't care for Disney movies (much like I didn't) you will love this. I haven't heard of anyone who thought the movie was bad.

Awesome, The Movies Were Really Cute Good shows For The Whole Family. A couple Of Spots The Language Is Bad But Other Then That They Are Real Funny Shows

Great price I bought it when it was $15. I love that it has both the first and second movie. I can't wait to watch it with my friends. We love this movie.

Terrific Collection! I am so glad I found this collection. My mother, who is nearly deaf, very much wanted to see "Kind Hearts and Coronets," which I found online at another well-known store whose name I won't mention for 32 dollars and no guarantee of closed captioning, which for Mom is a must. Amazon did much better -- a collection of Alec Guinness' movies for LESS than one of his movies elsewhere. And free shipping. All the movies have closed captioning; she enjoyed them very much and so did I. Sir Alec Guinness was a wonderful actor and this is a classic collection of some of his best early work. The first four movies are in the original black and white, we were pleased to see. My mother wanted to see the movies as she remembered them and I wanted to see them as they were originally made (I wasn't yet born when these were filmed); we were both happy they hadn't been colorized. The Ladykillers was the only one filmed in color. Terrific collection; thank you, Amazon, for making my mother very happy. I have a feeling we'll be watching these again.

Bud Abbott & Lou Costello in "Hold That Ghost" Bud & Lou are the best when it comes to comedy & if you sit down & relax & watch Hold That Ghost you will just have to laugh. This one of Bud & Lou is good from start to finish even I had to laugh.  It will keep the whole family laughing at this very good put together story.  Of course Bud & Lou's acting as usual is outstanding as no one can make the story come to life as they can.

Justified: The Complete Second Season As season one ended with a bloody gunfight, the second season picked up where we left Deputy US Marshal Raylan Givens and Boyd Crowder.  The relationship between these two men reminded me of the tumultuous friendship between Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday.  Givens and Crowder are cut from the same Kentucky cloth soiled by coal mining.  Their chosen paths would appear to make a friendship, an alliance almost impossible.  However, from The Moonshine War to Bloody Harlan these two men argue, threaten each other but in the final analysis they have each other "backs" for good or for worse.  To me this is what makes this series intriguing.  As well as good production values, riveting stories and plots, good solid acting, and  the introduction of the Bennett Clan with its strong-willed matriarch and her three sons made season two enjoyable.  You could not wait until the next week to see what was going to happen.  The Given's and Bennett's blood feud added fodder to the ticking time bomb.  Sure enough, blood was spilt on both sides as the season progressed.  When you tossed in the Crowder Clan who favored the Givens, you had a mountain still ready to blow.  "Apple pie" of Mags Bennett was a running theme from episode one to its ultimate climax in episode thirteen.  In this case apple pie was distilled moonshine with a kick, sometimes lethal.  The relationship of Givens with his ex-wife, Winona Hawkins, took some twists and turns.  She becomes a target from an unexpected source.  One of the best episodes was Blaze of Glory.  Chief Deputy Art Mullen gets to tangle with an old nemesis who is just as cunning, but is slower.  The chase scene between Art and Frank Reasoner at the airport is priceless.  US Deputy Marshal Rachel Brooks is showcased in For Blood or Money.  When her brother-in-law breaks parole to see his son, she and the team goes after him.  Of course there is a shoot-out, but there's a twist and surprise.  Each episode had its special moments.  Reckoning is sad, but it leads into Bloody Harlan, the season finale.  It was better than last season's Bulletville.  Great second season with some threads hanging for closure in Season Three.  And what of Boyd and Raylan?  I am sure that they will face new challenges, especially with the mysterious stranger and some leftover business with the remaining Bennett clan, and let's not forget the Miami cartel who wants both Boyd and Raylan dead.  For in the hills of Kentucky family feuds are never settled by a few deaths. Moonshine and blood run in them hills.

One of THE BEST movies EVER I have been trying to look for this movie in the stores forever, and also just trying to rent it forever with no positive outcome, because in stores they only have the crappy "Director's Cut" with the horrible American-Version Soundtrack.  Amazon is the only place that I could find the Theatrical Version...

LOVE IT I used to watch this a lot as a kid and now that im older i decided to buy and its still such a good movie to this day! There was nothing wrong with dvd or packaging. A++++!

"What Is So Awful That You Won't Tell Me?"--David Writer and director Sandra Nettelbeck puts forth a piece of excellence, adding to it a musical orchestration by Tim Despic and James Barker featuring a cello with it's hauntingly mournful song.  The cinematography by Michael Bertyl, starts with a little light and grows ever cloudy and dark as does the entire movie.  The character development of Helen is uncustomary and meticulously portrayed by Ashley Judd.  Goran Visnjic portrays David as the most caring, frustrated, bewildered and supportive husband to Helen. Mathilda, portrayed by Lauren Lee Smith has you questioning always if there will ever be a life worth living for her.  Needless to say, this movie is dark, painful and reflective. It explores a topic that some may wish to turn their heads from and others, like myself, are exceedingly interested in.  This is not an easy view, but an intense look into a very pervasive issue.  Helen is a college level professor of music married to her second husband David, an attorney.  She has a teenage daughter from her first marriage.  At first blush, this family looks like your everyday happy trio. Until something happens to Helen which causes her to begin acting completely out of character.  She starts losing track of time, forgetting what has been transpiring with her class and losing the context of the lectures she is giving while speaking. As Helen is walking down the hall in the college, she notices a lit room with a beckening cello being played and walks curiously inside. One of her students, Mathilda, is all upset that she 'just cannot get it right'.  The music isn't to her liking.  Helen has a pull unawares toward her as does Mathilda at the same time.  David is noticing so many concerns at home and is very anxious about Helen's inability to sleep or eat. She's forgotten how to play the piano as she once did brilliantly. David finds her just sitting in her car late at night crying. Helen walked right out of a restaurant during a meal with co-workers for no apparent reason, and begins having panic attacks. These are just a few examples of her changes in behavior.  Mathilda is running a parallel in her own life as they both end up hospitalized.  David can no longer handle all of this at home, even with taking a leave of absence from work. Helen remains close to Mathilda as David's jealousy is piqued. She has completely withdrawn into herself and shuts out David. Only the fragile Mathilda is allowed to share Helen's life now, as they can empathize while going through similar situations.  After leaving the hospital, Helen's life is whirling out of control as the agony she feels cannot be expunged.  During a desperate night of relentless anguish, Helen makes an attempt at taking her life.  This is really just setting up the movie in all that is to follow. With that said, I will leave the plot here as Helen goes on to face the most ruthless combatant of her life.  Its name is Clinical Suicidal Depression.

Not just for guys - this definitive work is for everyone! I'm a female, and I love great movies, whether action, fantasy, sci-fi, or girly tearjerkers. This is a truly great movie, a genre-defining classic, meaning that in the years ahead, students will study it in film courses, and film festivals will give critical retrospectives, and people will ask "Why didn't this movie win the Oscar for Best Picture?" Just as people now appreciate "Night of the Hunter" and "Blade Runner" as visionary works of genius.  What could possibly be visionary in a picture that some call "reactionary", "slow", "throwback", etc.? Well, the attention to warm, realistic detail that creates a completely different, utterly absorbing world where even what cgi there is, is imperceptible. The film is breathtakingly beautiful - Real Beauty, not synthetic gamer aesthetics. The sea, the ships, the colors, even the battles are beautiful and terrible and exciting and heartbreaking. The film explores a male friendship in an intelligent and, yes, sensitive but subtle way. There are no cheap thrills, no throwaways, everything about this movie is golden. The music, the inspired casting, the costumes, the story, the ending, everything is perfection.

The Best Horror Movie Ever As the title. Silent Hill is the best horror movie ever. Not only because it is scary. But because it makes us think. When I've done watching this movie, what left in my mind is not those frightening monsters, but the faith we believe in, the justice we think is right, and the person I loved. Is what I think right really right? Are they the truth?

Never say die I remember watching this movie a lot back in the day.  A two parent household including kids are going to be basically forced out of where they live unless they raise the money they need to give to their landlord.  One of the young men in the film stumbles upon a treasure map and a treasure hunt ensues.  The map needs to be decoded as it's written in Spanish.  The gang finds themselves at a unsuspecting little bar which is actually where the treasure is.  They must navigate through various boobie traps in order to reach their treasure.  I enjoyed the friendship and relational issues throughout the movie.  I thought it was really good.

Good scary fun I love this movie. It has a great twist at the end that you never see coming. The setting itself is spooky and creepy. It is not gory but it is great movie to watch if you like older horror movies.

GREAT MOVIE!! A great classic movie will never get old. No matter how many times I have seen this movie, I can watch again and again.

once upon a time.... so i got the season in the mail very quickly. but i was very dissappointed by the cover for the season. this picuter , the one showing the item on amazon,  was the imagie i was looking forward to seeing once it arrived at my home. but when i opened it, it was not the imagie i had seen, which made me alittle dissappointed. i also, after opening the package i found it to be  unclose able.   all in all the season works and it's a wonderful show! love once upon a time.

ghost busters all time great excellent movies  with the cast of caracters thats in it you can't go wrong with buying them. they will make you laugh all the way to the bathroom

love it its great. my daughter loves it. she watches it all the time. she asks for it by "me me me" it's funny. she already knows the few signs and repeates it couple times daily. recommend it highly.

The Magic is back... Yes, this movie strays far from the book. Yes, the geography has been messed up. Yes, there is a villain that wasn't even in the book. With that being said, this movie, in my opinion, is the best on so far.   I got the chance to see this in theaters about a week after it came out with some of my best friends, and my family. From the moment the opening titles came across the screen, the magic was back from Narnia and I was captivated.   The acting, choreography, and costumes are better than the last film, in my opinion. The action was better handled, there was humor, sorrow, and poignant moments.   Personally, one of the reasons I loved this one so much is because while watching it, it felt like Narnia. It felt like I was living the magic in the book. It takes a lot for a movie to do that to me, and it had the adventure, whimsy, and beauty that made me love the series in the first place.   But really, what made the whole thing for me was the inclusion of my favorite line, "In your world, I have another name." Kudos to the writers and directors for leaving that in. In the ending of the movie I was a complete waterworks, and I was trying to stop crying in time to leave, but then the original illustrations came out on the screen, and I lost it again.   I bought this as soon as it came out on DVD, it arrived quickly, and every time I watch it, I fall in love with Narnia all over again. Anyone who is a true Narnia fan will be able to look past the changes and love this film simply for how they captured Narnia....as the escape from the "reality" of this world, and a glimpse at what is in store for those who follow Jesus.

great movies some of the best movies ever made. Singing in the rain was worth it by itself but getting three others with it ha what a deal.

Now I Can Watch Whenever I Want! I love this movie. Every Sci-Fi movie doesn't have to be serious. This one is fun, sometimes gory, sometimes silly, but always amusing. The characters may not be deep but I enjoy watching them.

Excellent!  Patiently waiting for Blu-Ray edition. This is a highly enjoyable film, and one of my favorites.  I was lucky enough to see the director's cut, which never was produced in the USA and includes the a spectacular alternate ending.

A Labor Of Love This is a most impressive packaging of a show I fondly remembered from childhood. Lots of extras, superb picture quality. Two discs (16 episodes) of the show itself, and a bonus disc containing behind-the-scenes, interviews, commentary, bumpers, and more. I waited years to see this show again, and this did not disappoint. If you were a fan of the show, I most highly recommend this.

Remembering This In the various special features included in this package, you'll hear the assertion (over and over again) that one of the reasons for CASABLANCA's greatness is that the actors themselves (as well as director Michael Curtiz) were filming pretty much on the fly, with no idea what tomorrow's shoot would entail or how the darn thing was going to end.  Makes sense, I suppose.  If the actors were as tentative and uncertain about the outcome as the characters they portrayed, it could only add to the authenticity, right?  Well, of course, and I don't doubt the veracity of this story really, but when you think about it, COULD this story really have ended any other way?  Could Rick and Ilsa really have suddenly announce to Victor Laszlo that THEIR (Riok and Ilsa's) personal desires really did "amount to more than a hill of beans in this crazy world."  Would they ever have been so selfish and crass as to add, "So you just board the plane, Vic old boy and vamoose on out to Lisbon.  After all, you've got your work, your cursed integrity and principles, and you sing a mean version of "The Marseillaise," so take some satisfaction in your mission and leave us lovebirds alone.  We've always had Paris, and now we'll have Casablanca too." In 1942? Not bloody likely.  That point aside,  film scholars and critics have every reason to hail CASABLANCA as one of the all-time greats.  It does what the best movies always have done: tells a great story with wit, sophistication, a sense of intrigue, an expression nobility--and doesn't stint on the romance.  It's got it all, and even better, it's totally unpretentious.  Whether or not Bogart and Bergman knew where the story was headed, it's almost certainly true that they did not know how good a movie they were making.  Maybe Curtiz did: he was framing all those gorgeous shots after all, but I believe Bergman's film critic daughter Pia Lindstrom when she says her mother was absolutely baffled by fans' comments for years afterward that they just loved her CASABLANCA.  Though Bergman was never anything less than professional, it's reported that throughout the shooting, the actress was obsessing about her next big part in the more "literary" (and therefore more prestigious) FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS.  She never anticipated that Ilsa in CASABLANCA would become her signature role.  And it's certainly one of Bogart's greatest too.  As the special feature on Bogie indicates, he was an actor thoroughly dedicated to his profession, and while his range may have been limited (or his casting options "typed") by this point in his career, audiences knew that he was much more than just a screen tough guy.  His Rick Blaine is indeed evert bit the romantic and the idealist that the cheerfully corrupt police captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains) accuses him of being.  We scarcely need Renault to tell us that, however.  If ever there was a sensitive sould hiding under a mask of worldly cynicism it's got to be Rick--and if there was ever an actor capable of embodying those elements (and all the shades in between) it was Bogart.  It's also interesting how much commentary there is in the features about how much an ensemble player Bogart really was.  It's hard to think of a more individualistic screen presence than Humphrey Bogart: yet it's also true that his best roles are in films with brilliant supporting players.  Aside from the aforementioned Bergman and Rains (who is perfect as the prefect),  there are great (co-)star turns by Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre (must have felt like old home week after MALTESE FALCON), Conrad Veidt and the solid, stolid Paul Henreid as Victor Lazlo.  The qualified ending is happy enough...for wartime.  Everybody gets to feel good about themselves in the end, as even Renault finds he's capable of something like nobility after all.  About the only people who lose out in the end are bad guy Nazi Major Strasser (Veidt)--and oh yeah, those "USUAL SUSPECTS."

Inspirational, Takes you into the art and world of sushi This production is suitable for all ages. It is very inspirational and motivational. Learn about what sushi is all about, the art and hardwork behind it. It takes a good sense of taste, smell, patience and passion to be a successful sushi chef. It is team work. The movie also gives an insight to how commercialized sushi has affected the industry, the quality of sushi, and how it has affected the nature.

Tebow rocks! I became a Tebow fan much before I became a football fan.  There was no question about liking the documentary.  If you're ambivalent about him, you'll probably become a fan.  If you're a hater, well, dont you have something better to do?  Its great being able to see the guy behind the media's version of the guy.  What comes through most is his hard work, determination and just sheer niceness - you'd want him as a best friend!  Its also clear how he stays so grounded-being kept accountable by his family and close friends.  The documentary makes no apologies and deals with the tough situations where he's not as successful as well as the happy moments.  Am praying that he is as great in the NFL as he was in college.  We want a Tebow Nation!  His book 'Through my eyes' is a must read too.

Don't go in the shower alone again.... Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is a young woman who is given a good sum of money to take to the bank so a customer can purchase a home, while on the way to the bank suddenly greed takes over and a chance to start a new life appeals greatly to Ms. Crane so she decides to take off in her car with the money. She purchases a new car, has a banter with a sheriff who stops her on a road, then Marion decides to stop for the night at a hotel, The Bates Motel. This is run by Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) who is well troubled shall we say, even after a dinner with Norman Marion still stays the night and this is where the famous shower murder scene occurs and Marion meets her untimely end. The rest of the movie has a private detective search for Marion (only to meet his own sad end) and Marion's sister (Vera Miles) decides to also look for answers.  Director Alfred Hitchcock truly made a great classic here, while it was made in 1960 it does still old up today thanks to Hitchcock's style and ability to show both creepiness and care when it comes to his actors. Perkins is absolutely fantastic as Bates, Leigh does well as Crane and the rest of the performances are also quite good. The shower scene was fantastically done as Hitchcock took special care to make sure no nudity or knife wounds were shown, just did the cuts and shots so well to make sure it still chilled you without being violent.  What's great about "Psycho" is you can appreciate how Hitchcock was able to play on a lot of people's fears and how there no bad action goes unpunished (hence the greed of Marion sadly leading to her end in the hotel). Also Alfred turned the horror/suspense franchise into an art with this film that few have ever been able to recapture. The build-up and conclusion are also very well done and its one of the few movies I can pull out of my collection and watch, just to enjoy some good classic film making. **** out of 4 stars.

Love these DVD's! Our baby doesn't watch much TV, but when she does, these DVD's are all she watches, and they just enthrall her - with the kids, cartoons and songs, she loves her TV time! She doesn't understand the signs yet, but because i have learned them, i sign with her anytime i can.  I believe in the developmental process of signing with a baby and i believe these DVD's are a fantastic product for learning.  I am not always sure how they pick the words they decide to teach - but they cover a wide variety of topics and concepts, in volume 4 it's friendship, playing nicely and sharing, and emotions.  Volume 3 includes weather, moon and stars, grass and trees.  I love these DVD's!

Blu Ray Review Justified Season 2 follows US Marshal Raylan Givens on a roller coaster ride of action and adventure while he tries to keep out of the infighting amongst the waring factions of Boyd trying to regain power and Megs Bennett who controls the marijuana business in Harlan County.  Video-  AVC encoded from a high definition source means the video quality is superb. There are some instances of film grain and a little bit of detail loss in indoor scenes, but over all the video on this set is almost perfect.  Audio-  DTS-MA encoded in 5.1. Generally the show is dialog driven so the center speaker gets the biggest work out on this one. As with the last season, they do use the rear channels but they are used quite sparingly to my ears. You get a lot of ambient sound through the rears, but it's not jaw dropping.  Sounds very good, and much better than when I watched it as it aired.  Extras-  As with many extras for shows and movies, there are spoilers to be found in these extras. You may want to wait until you've watched through the entire series before hitting these up. If you watched it as it aired or re-ran or On Demand, then feel free to peruse the extras to your heart's content.  Extras include behind the scenes, on location of the set for the show where they show you the Disney Ranch and how they go about making this set look like Harlan County. You also have a round table discussion (supposedly a Blu Ray only extra) where Graham Yost and the directors talk about the show, some deleted scenes, outtakes and Graham Yost talking about why the show seems to spend so much time with the "bad guys."  Very good stuff and a great addition to a great show.  Packaging-  3 Blu Ray discs in an double wide case with 2 discs on a hinge in the center. Cover artwork is nice and the rear has a hand full of screen shots from the show. Each disc has a different shot of Raylan, while the see through case shows that there is also a montage of screen shots on the reverse of the cover, which is a nice touch.  Over all-  Justified is a great show and the Blu Ray release compliments it quite nicely.

NARC all I can say is.."unbelievable how this film was passed up for major Awards", the acting, story line was well directed and written. This is a very good film with a twist you won't see coming! I highly recommend this film and the seller I got it from,super fast shipping and high quality DVD-CD for a dollar and change?? unbelievable !

One of the best animal films ever This is a GREAT movie for all ages.  Beautifully filmed and one that can be watched over and over again.  No computer tricks needed with the sometimes funny and always poignant narration.

Great I probably wouldn't of liked it without Robert Downey jr. He's perfect for this role, played tony stark perfectly. My 2nd best marvel movie after avengers.

Kick-Ass ~ Best Comic Book Movie Ever Made Kick-Ass is the greatest comic book movie ever made.  I am writing this review in 2012, several years after Kick-Ass was released. I watch the film every three months. After this month's viewing I felt compelled to express my love for this movie. The superheroes don't have super powers but the slow-mo gravity-defying fights are fantastic, the themes are deep with lots of Shakespearian issues between fathers and their children, sexy wide-eyed girlfriends worship their nerd paramours, things blow up loudly, people bleed, people die, it's sad, it's funny, its deep, and it's all set to a loud non-cheezy rocking soundtrack. The writing is tight, the camera work is beautiful and the acting, especially Nicholas Cage, is world class.  Much has been said about Nicholas Cage's work over the last few years, most of it unkind. In Kick-Ass, as the super hero Big Daddy, Cage, a HUGE comic book fan, found the role that he wanted to play his entire life. I don't know how the producers got away with the exact duplication of the Batman costume, but it brings a whole new level to the proceedings, and Cage does not let the opportunity pass to play a unique, brutal, justice-seeking killing-machine. He grabs it and chokes it to death. Congratulations, Mr. Cage, on your stunning performance.  I just hope that there is no sequel to Kick-Ass, even though it certainly was set up that way. As a standalone film, it may not have made much of a ripple or made any money, but it had its own charming personality and it did set new rules (Why don't super heros bleed? Why not shoot the Joker?). It came on strong without any prior comic mythology to bog it down. Thanks to whoever took the leap of faith and put the huge amount of money up to make this wonderful film; thanks to all those who put in the hard and creative work photographing, writing, directing, acting and bringing this piece to life; and, finally, thanks to whoever remembered that comics started in a kid's bedroom, not a film studio's board room.

She loves it My daughter received this DVD for Christmas, and just recently her little brother broke it! She was very upset. It's nearly impossible to find this in the store when it's not around the holidays, too. So, I ordered a used copy from airportplacebooks, and it arrived quickly and in perfect condition. Better condition than the seller described! She's happy again now.

The biggest 007 production of them all. The Ken Adam sets, the exotic Japanese locations and women, the space ships, and the ninja all look magnificent in this production. And I think the fight Bond has with the big henchman in the office is the best of the entire series. And just look at all those ninja sliding down ropes into the best villian's hideout ever designed. Throw in a great title sequence and song, with the death of James Bond at the beginning and you've got a movie that, inspite of it's size, moves at a fast pace. I rank this in the top five of Bond films as well as some of the best photography of any movie.

Currently, the ONLY edition of Gulliver's Travels you need! Forget about the phony 2009 release, the 60th Anniversary Edition of Gulliver's Travels is the only edition you'll need. WinStar has released compilations of cartoons from the Public Domain before but featuring 5.1 sound with newly added sound effects which has outraged some fans of classic animation. However, this WinStar release includes the original mono mix in addition to the 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo remixes with newly added sound effects (the mono mix is unaltered!). The extras on this release are the same on the terrible 2009 release so fans of this classic Fleischer Bros. film should steer towards away the 2009 release and get the 60th Anniversary Edition today.

Bourne Awesome. This a great action movie, especially if you have a surround sound system. If Jake Gyllenhaal takes over this series I will never see a Bourne movie again. The producers will have to entitle the Gyllenhaal version Bourne Average, or Bourne Dull.

Wonderful!  Everyone needs to see this! This is simply an amazing documentary because it clearly illustrates WHY it is so difficult for ANY (not just a 'famous' person) LGBT person to 'come out' to the world. This video will enable someone who is "straight" to witness and experience the range of emotions, bigotry/hate/ignorance, the effect on family/friends, and the many consequences that LGBT people experience when they finally come out to the world. In this video, Chely Wright also demonstrates the raw courage that it takes to finally break free of societal taboos in order to live your life as your one true self!  Chely Wright is a great singer, song writer and performer, but in my view this video is by far her greatest achievement.  The courage and selflessness it took to create this documentary is a testament to her character!  THANK YOU Chely Wright!

sequel please!!! i avoided CTHD for years because of an aversion to bad wire-work.....how stupid of me....if you love wuxia this is a must have....groundbreaking on several levels...and if Michelle Yeoh wants to get hitched......

Great Workout!!! This Power Yoga DVD includes three separate workouts that focus on stamina, strength and flexibility.  The workout is challenging and I recommend it highly.

Disney does it again! I always love watching movies with my kids that have characters from my own childhood.  It makes me feel nostalgic and closer to them at the same time because it bridges the gap in our generations when we share something in our childhoods. It makes me feel like a kid again in a way that today's new cartoons don't.  Winnie the Pooh is a long loved classic and his popularity has not faded throughout the years.  Even in stores that don't typically sell character clothing you can usually find an exception with Pooh!  He is an American staple and since he's already stood the test of time, will probably be around for future generations.  That is why the much anticipated Tigger movie was bound to be a hit in my home and across the country!  I love that the format for Pooh movies has not changed. It's narrated like a storybook and you get to dive into the story.  The graphics have also remained the same.  It looks just as I remember it.  I love that even with all they can do in movies today technologically; Pooh hasn't been altered as a true classic shouldn't!  While Pooh has always been the main star, Tigger gets his shot in the spotlight and as he states at the beginning, it's about time!! Tigger is a happy go lucky Tiger who loves nothing more than to bounce on his tail all day in the hundred acre woods with his friends.  He tries to get his them to bounce with him one day but they are all too busy.  While feeling slighted by his friends, a visit with Owl makes him realize that he doesn't have a family.  He goes in search of them, leaving his friends behind.  When Tigger's friends grow worried, they go to look for him.  Just like a family, when one of their own is missing they all come together!  Tigger's search is fruitless and just when he sinks into the depths of despair, his friends arrive!  He realizes that THEY are his family and have been all along.  He has been looking for something that was right in front of him.  As usual, a great story with a beautiful moral for kids to learn. My kids have a family but it was a nice opener of a conversation about the importance of friends and how some can be as close as family.  I myself have been blessed with great friends that I'm closer to than some of my family by blood.  Leave it to Disney to hit another homerun with their movie and their message!

GREAT FILM! When it comes to writing/pacing, character development and the building of suspense.....this film has it all. A true Sci-Fi classic on every level.

Cinderella My daughter loved this movie as well. She otra on her tiara and grabs her wand and says "bibidi, bobidi, boo, mommy ur a princess too". She is adorable.

THE BEST MOVIE EVER DONE!!! THIS IS THE BEST MOVIE EVER DONE!!! WINNER OF 13 OSCARS AWARDS!!! TO MY OPINION THIS MOVIE WILL ALWAYS BE NO. 1!  THERE IS NO ATHERE MOVIE IN ALL THE HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD THAT YOU CAN COMPARE TO BEN HUR! IT WILL ALWAYS BE ABOVE ALL. THE BLU-RAY ITSELF HAS WANDERFULL QUALITY. MGM DID A HARD WORK. THIS IS THE MOVIE THAT MADE MGM. IT PUT THEM ON THE MAP. THEY TOOK A GREAT RISK. THIS MOVIE IS A MASTERPICE!! A PEARLE!!  EVERYBODY, EVERY FAMILY SHOULD HAVE AT HOME THAT FILM.  THERE IS A LOT OF GOOD MOVIES, BUT TO MY OPINION: NO ONE UNTIL TODAY MADE A GREAT MOVIE LIKE BEN HUR! EDUCATIONAL: THAT MOVIE ALSO CAN TEACH US ABOUT LIFE, AND SHOULD BE PLAYD IN EACH CLASS SCHOOL OVER THE WORLD.  THANK YOU MGM FOR CREATE THIS MOVIE.

Harry Potter, now 12, returns for his 2nd year at Hogwarts School. Movie will start automatically at 1 min., 13 sec. if you have not chosen an option in menu.   2 hours, 40 mins. Rated "PG". Released November 3, 2002 (UK).   This is the second movie, the sequel to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00003CXI1">Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Two-Disc Special Widescreen Edition)</a> (2001).  Returning: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Richard Griffiths, Fiona Shaw, Harry Melling, James Phelps, Oliver Phelps, Julie Walters, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Rickman, Richard Harris, Maggie Smith, Bonnie Wright, Chris Rankin, Tom Felton, Ben Borowiecki, Harry Taylor, Matthew Lewis, Devon Murray, David Bradley, Jamie Waylett, Josh Herdman, Alfie Enough, Eleanor Columbus, Sean Biggerstaff, Emily Date, Danielle Tabor, Warwick Davis, Luke Youngblood, Scot Fearn, David Holmes, Oliver Lavery-Farag, Amy Pugliam, Geraldine Somerville, Adrian Rawlins.   Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe), now 12 today, looks through his photo album to see his mom (Geraldine Somerville) and dad (Adrian Rawlins) and the friends he misses at Hogwart's School. He is still living with the Dursley's and his Aunt (Fiona Shaw), Uncle (Richard Griffiths) and Cousin (Harry Melling) are still mean to him. At least he has his own room upstairs now. His Uncle Vernon wants him to be very quiet while they have company and no magic stuff. Harry receives not a very pleasant visit from Dolby the Elf (voice by Toby Jones). He causes problems for Harry and his uncle puts rails on his windows. He will never allow Harry to go back to the Hogwart's School.   Later that night, Harry receives a visit from Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and his brothers Fred (James Phelps) and George (Oliver Phelps) in a flying blue Ford Anglias. They are there to rescue him and his white owl.  In the Weasley's house, Molly (Julie Walters) shows Harry how to get back to Diagon Alley.  Back at the school, Harry deals with the Chamber of Secrets and destroy its horror.   Also in the cast: Jason Isaacs, Kenneth Branagh, Miriam Margoyles, Shirley Henderson, Christian Coulson.  Julian Glover as the voice of"Aragog". Leslie Phillips as the voice of "The Sorting Hat".   This was the last time Richard Harri would play "Professor Dumbledore". He passed away October 25, 2002 at the age of 72, before the release of this movie. He had Hodgkin's Lymphoma.  Note: There is a little scene after the end credits.  Option of languages in English, Spanish. Option of Subtitles in English, Spanish, French. Press "Continue", for Harry Potter Website URL and Warner Brothers Website URL.   Disc One: Cast & Crew, Year One At Hogwart's, Theatrical Trailer.   Disc Two: Special Features: 6 Previews of the video game, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.  19 additional scenes.  Lockhart's Classroom.  Behind Hogwarts - Conversation with author J. K. Rowling & screenwriter Steve Kloves, tour of Dumbledore's Office, Interviews with the (cast) students, professors and more. Gallery of Production sketches.  Activites: - The Chamber Challenge (Game), The Forbidden Forest (Game), Golin's Darkroom, tour of Diagon Alley.  Spellcaster Knowledge (Game).   Reminder: Put fresh batteries in your DVD remote control <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002UXRXEG">Duracell Coppertop AA Batteries, 20-Count</a>.   Easter Egg: You must get through and complete The Chamber Challenge.  To tour the Snake Chamber (seen near the end of the movie), Click "up" button once. Then click "right" remote control button once. let it turn to the path. You won't see an "up" arrow, but click your "up" button anyway. Ah! You have found the Secret Passage.   The next movie is: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000W745CU">Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Full Screen Edition)</a> (2004).

Great movie! I love this movie! There is a great story of a character who overcomes an obstacle and it is a feel good story that made me happy that a minority of society can win.

One of the best movies It has romance, comedy and heroism. It will definitely get you started on other Buster Keaton movies. This is one of the best silent films.

PERFECT FOR SUNDAY! This movie is amazing for all runners! I am running the Chicago Marathon this Sunday and could not have asked for better inspiration! I have always suffered from the complicated love hate relationship of running and have even considered quitting altogether. What I love about this movie is that it reminds you of how many wonderful reasons there are to run and ignites that fire yet again.  I cannot recommend this movie enough! I am so glad I stumbled upon this and am excited/prepared now for my Chicago Marathon on Sunday!

Great Entertainment Purchased this as a birthday gift.  Warmly received and has already provided hours of laughter.  John Cleese at his finest!

A Flintstones Scrooge A great Hanna-Barbera classic coming from the longest running series, The Flintstones.  Fred's version of the classic tale of a Christmas Carol, and of course the one playing Scrooge (Fred).  It's a story within a story with Fred struggling to learn his part and not to forget his family's Christmas.

Excellent Collection It was my greatest pleasure to receive this collection. The Quality was superb the content was even better. Best Movie Series ever! Received it much faster than I never expected it to and it was in perfect condition. Very good price too. A++

The Help This movie was really good. I have watched it several times.  I got a great deal on this product, much better than I could find it in the brick and mortar stores. I highly recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys civil rights movies or movies with an old south theme.

Best New DVD These DVD's are what I have been looking for for a long time. I love the little angel charachters and the way they are so kid friendly. My students related to them right away and I love the fact that each DVD is presented so that you can stop for discussions between sections. The children picked up the Biblical references right away and were really excited when they made the connection between what they knew and what they were seeing. We are just waiting for the "1,2,3's" realease.

It's My Party and I'll Be Insane if I want To I have been waiting for a US release of 'The Loved Ones' for quite awhile and it was well worth the wait. The acting was great especially Robin McLeavy who plays the certifiably insane Lola Stone. Horror fans will not only covet this film but want to own it for sure..Xavier Samuel is not only a good actor but he's hot as well..Yes,give us girls some eye candy for a change. The story is so bizarre and far fetched but it doesn't matter,it's makes for a great horror film. There are some very grit your teeth moments as Lola and her demented father torture Xavier's character Brent in most horrifying of manners and the genius aspect of Robin McLeavy's Lola is I hated her so much that I wanted to stab her myself about 50 times and I'm not violent ,I just love to watch it on film or TV..there are some really strange surprises and a great ending .There isn't that much gore but there is a lot of bloody violence and there are some quick gore effects but nothing really heavy..I'm not disappointed in the least though,I was completely satisfied as a slasher freak. Like I said ,it was well worth the wait and I can't wait to watch it again..It has a cool soundtrack as well.

Excellent movie This is a true classic movie and part of it was filmed at the Del Coronado Hotel.  Marilyn Monroe is just beautiful in this role.  Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis are hilarious.

good, solid indie movie The truth is that "Sweet Love Bitter" is a good movie. The acting is solid, the music is inspired, the story is there. Plus, it has humor. It's not a kitchen sink movie. Think what The Man with a Golden Arm could have been without the big stars/corporate flimflammery. I like that movie. But this is more.

A Wonderful Historical Godly Film The story of David & Bath Sheba is such a good story to show us how, even though we love the Lord, we are still in these human bodies that can cause us to sin.  Very excellent film.  Thank you and God bless you for making it available.

Great and fast I ordered this from best buy and They messed up my order and send me the sd version and when I called them and said its not what I paid for they told me the movie in Blu ray is out of stock smh thanks for saving Christmas

Winner We had this video in VHS in Germany. We gave it away and were glad to find it again. Very encouraging.

Bravo! Brovo! I am so happy to have this dvd production of Phantom of the Opera! I was never able to afford to go see the onstage production for the distance and such.. However, I did have the blessing of seeing it with Davis Gaines my one and only time.  I fell in love with it at once. I was greatful for the movie with Gerard Butler because of not being able to go to the live shows. I love the movie and soundtrack still. This live production though at the Royal Albert Hall is so special.. I have longed to see it live again and this is the next best thing to that.. Ramin Karimloo has not only this voice so beautiful I can hardly describe it, he also brings a different element to the Phantom.. I have spent time listening to different phantoms on the inernet and each phantom has a different kind of presentation.. Ramin is the closest I've ever heard to the likes of Davis Gaines.. Sierra Boguss who plays Christine is my favorite of the Christines..  She brings a beautiful voice, and element in which she and Ramin compliment each others charactors perfectly...  This also would be the funniest Carlotta I have ever seen... I very much enjoy also at the close of the show, the mini concert of Sarah Brightman and some of the previous voices who played the Phantom...  It sort of gives some insight into the different ways each singer approaches the charactor of the Phantom.. I am a very happy Phantom fan! My only question is where were you  Davis Gaines? To have had you there with all those other Phantoms would have been so absolutely perfect!

I Like Ike This is a must see film. I've not read the book but this gives you plenty to think about. I like when Kevin Costner looks directly at the camera when he is making his case. You've got to have your head somewhere the sun don't shine if you believe the "Lone Nut" explanation.

Zorro rides again And he's bringing action with him, this movie is more than five stars. Cathrine Zeta Jones as Diego's kidnapped daughter, is stunningly beautiful. Which she always is, and to shoot down one negative reviewer, anthony Hopkins has been on record saying that in his later years, he wanted to do fun action movies. Since all he had done before this was movies like "Remains of the day", and I have to say. He did an awwwwwsome job as Diego, Martin Cambbell directed this film. And just like he did on Goldeneye, He brought us a masterpiece. And to all those naysayers, yes this movie gives us a Zorro to be proud of. Even during all the sword fights, he does all the things Zorro would do. This is an excellent movie to have in your collection.

mulan fan DVD is in excellent condition and it shipped quickly. I would purchase from Amazon in the future. My daughter was thrilled!

a beautifully realized story about friendship Lee Unkrich's "Toy Story 3" plays a little like an expanded version of "Puff the Magic Dragon" crossed with Rankin/Bass' "Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer"  - with a bit of "Stalag 17" and "The Great Escape" thrown in for good measure.  It's eleven years since we last checked in on Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Jessie and all the other occupants of little Andy's toy box.  Only little Andy ain't so little anymore, and as he embarks on a new life in college, his once-beloved companions fret over what is to become of them now that they'll no longer be getting the kind of attention and affection all toys need to be happy (actually they haven`t been getting much play time at all for the past few years of Andy`s adolescence).  Woody insists that they must stay loyal to Andy, but the others fear it may be time to move on to friendlier, more kid-centric territory or face an ignominious end, thrown to the curb so some giant garbage truck can scoop them up and mash them into plastic pulp.  Instead, through a series of crazy misunderstandings, they all wind up in the local daycare-center-from-hell (sort of a more sinister version of the Island of Misfit Toys), where they are placed at the mercy of both a band of overexcited toddlers and a bunch of sadistic playthings who rule the place with an iron fist.  Only Woody manages to escape their evil clutches and, like the true cowboy hero of old, he comes up with a plan to rescue his desperate compadres from this virtual armed camp, ironically named Sunnyside.  It seems redundant at this point to keep heaping praise on these Pixar productions, so let me just say that "Toy Story 3" is a true crowd-pleasing delight, a witty, endlessly inventive, and visually stunning animated movie that works equally well for youngsters who are still playing with their toys and old folks who might well become inspired to head up to that old attic and dust off some long-forgotten buddies of their own.  The voice work by Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Ned Beatty, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn, Estelle Harris, et.al., brings each and every one of these charmingly diverse and beautifully differentiated characters to vivid life.  We're so familiar with them ourselves at this point that they almost feel like they came out of OUR toy boxes.  It's also fun watching the movie make villains out of some seemingly innocuous, even cuddly, toys like the embittered, strawberry-scented teddy bear who runs the joint and a diaper-clad baby doll that serves as his loyal henchman.  In addition to high comedy, Michael Arndt`s script provides a careful balance of breath-bating suspense and heartbreaking sentiment (believe me, there won't be a dry eye in the house at the end), as it explores the universal themes of camaraderie, friendship and the importance of working together in a common cause.  Whether young or old, 2-D or 3-D, at "Toy Story 3," everyone can be a kid again.

Rock On, Chanticleer! In our small family of two, the 'famous' Christmas rule was that you would always get a book, a game and a video.  Even in the worst of times, those three items were guaranteed from Santa Claus because he would never ever let a GOOD little boy or girl go without anything! I found "Rock-A-Doodle" in a bargain bin at some discount store, like Kmart or Walmart.  It looked like a cute movie, and had a great cast -  it was on VHS then; everything was, I believe!  My son LOVED it!  From that Christmas forwardm it became a tradition to watch the movie at Christmas. My son shared that movie with dozens of his friends over the years, until finally, in high school, his biology teacher wanted to see it, too - she, like me, loved animated films.  That year, his Senior year, the entire class got to watch the movie after finals.  It was a huge hit but by then, the VHS tape definitely needed replacing.  So, finally, this Christmas, nearly 20 years after getting him the original, I'm buying the DVD!  I have a feeling it will be one of his 'best presents' ever!  Oh an side note:  Don Bluth is the uncle of one of the elders of our church.  During the young man's mission to Ketchikan, Alaska, he met and baptized my older child, Amber Marie, age 15.  A year later, she was killed in a terrible car accident but had it not been for the younger Bluth and his testimony, I can't imagine surviving her death not Knowing the Truth.  But now I do, and I am always comforted.  We own everything Bluth has ever created or participated in, and pray that Mr. Don Bluth keep on making wonderful family movies like this one!  Also, just in case any Bluth's read this: thanks to the younger one, on his mission, for 'being there' for my daughter!  THANK YOU! I look at the nephew's photo, standing with my beautiful daughter, on the shores of Tongass Narrows, in Knudson Cove, and know in my heart of hearts, our next hellos are forever.

Braveheart is top notch story telling I understand that this movie may not be 100% accurate, but it is 100% entertaining. for those complaining about how accurate it is.. for goodness sake William Walace has a modern day high dollar film telling a entertaining version of his deeds... thats a big deal in my eyes..  So back to the movie most already know the story so i wont go there, i will say that ive almost worn out my DVD copy and just recieved my blueray copy, i havent opened it up yet but im looking forward to spending a evening re-visiting this tale in blue ray high deff !

Caddyshack, one of my all time favorite movies! Caddyshack is probably my favorite movie of all time, I've watched it many times over the past 20 or so years and will watch it more!  Buying the DVD was neat becuase this was the first time I've seen the additional content and out-takes.  The DVD video quality isn't the best, its kind of grainy but I am watching it on a 1080 HDTV which can draw that out in an older film.  I am very happy to own Caddyshack on DVD!!

Great Movie Set This is a great DVD set.  The book that is included with this set is great.  I didn't even know it came with a book.  These movies bring back memories when I was a boy watching these movies.

Classic This is a good movie. A must see movie for family night. It's not scary at all. I think Gizmo is the cutiest Gremlin. I wish he was real so I can have him as my own pet. I would like to also talk about Gremlins 2. That movie is a lot more fun to watch. The Gremlins have a lot of lines. They are funnnnnnnnyyyyyyy!!!!

Keeps the Kids from Texting Speed is right up there with Die-Hard for action-movie thrills that never grow old.  The story is fast-paced and the action is non-stop and believable enough (except for one leap across a highway chasm) that viewers can watch the movie without being distracted by the implausibility of the film.  My whole family (wife, 16 and 13 year olds sons) stayed glued to our seats, and no one even texted!

Awesome This movie was a pleasantly funny master piece. The actors did a wonderful job portraying their character. A must see

Twilight Saga: Eclipse I have to say I loved this movie, I loved where it picked up from. Bella has a very tough choice to make in this one. Not only that, the choice she is forced to make, could very well ignite a war between the Vampires and the Werewolves. This one kept me glued to the screen waiting to see what the outcome would be. You could feel Bella's emotional strings being tugged hard in this one. You won't want to miss out on this one that's for sure. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0042MEQVG">The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Single-Disc Edition)</a>I gave it five stars.

Another Destination with the Grim Reaper! I am a big fan of the Final Destination films ever since the first one. I have watched everyone and they keep the thrills alive in each one. After the first two they start to get a little cheesy but thats what makes them so fun, they dont take it so seriously, they come up with new cool, sometimes very painful ways for people to die. If you enjoy 1000 ways to die, you have to check these out.

This is a great film... ...and deserves five stars.  It is one of those films that grabs you from the very beginning and holds you spellbound to the end.  Your involvement with the film's plot and characters is so complete that reading the English subtitles becomes second nature.  Granted there are violent scenes but these are counterbalanced by excellent acting by the cast.  Impressive and stylish with enough surprise twists and turns to keep your interest.  The script and dialogue are not bellicose or overwrought; the screenplay is well written and the direction is tight and top-notch.  The relationship between the two main characters is so well played as to make the audience really care about what happens to these two.  Highly recommended.

Great Episode It was a great and funny episode to start a show with and was worth buying it. I watched it a few times and still enjoy watching it from time to time.

Vintage Fred Another great Mr. Roger's week. It's wonderful how the shows are written to deal with all kinds of topics that children face growing up. There are the obvious, direct lessons: being responible for taking care of a pet, thinking things over before acting, differences in opinions and preferences. Then there are the more subtle things he just slips in such as when he asks the zoo keeper if she can also go with him to see the elephants. She responds, "well,I'd like to but I have other things that I really need to do...". As an adult watching these as a reminiscence(RW?), I'm always amazed at just how many things children actually need to learn. AS we get older, we just get the idea that we always knew these things but we didn't. We had to be taught and there was never a better teacher than Mr. Rogers. Thanks Fred!

Great movie!! Excellent product, it's a great movie and came in excellent condition, I highly recommend it!! My uncle recommends me this movie, and I look for it until I found it, I have to see it more times.  Some times I do not worth the people as the actors did not.

Enough with the "UV" rant already!  The movie's excellent, why make useless criticisms? Seriously, these "UV" rants are now getting old.  We get it: UV sucks.  Always is and always shall be.  But please, folks, discuss this in forums, not in a review form.  Does not help the film at all. You're making the overall ratings unnecessarily worse.  As for the film (something that everyone should be discussing!), it may not be as good or better than The Dark Knight, but it's definitely one of those sequels that everyone should take a look.  Action scenes are done well, Bane is surprising being taken in a serious role, and the story is great, yet a bit flawed (though, not in a grand scale). Whether or not it has a forced UV copy, it's a must-buy release. 8/10

Braveheart Blu-ray This is how older movies on Blu-ray should look like. Great video and sound, new special features in HD, all old DVD features ported.

Never thought this would happen... I have not bought a Blu-Ray player yet, but I need to now. "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" is my all-time favorite film! I never thought it would see the light of day in an anniversary release, let alone Blu-Ray! That being said, I do not like the cover art. It's nothing but a tacky photoshop job. It would look so much better (considering it's the 50th anniversary release) with the original movie poster artwork...I hope Warner Bros. fixes this before October!

Very Entertaining With Fine Acting The Thorn Birds is a 1980's miniseries (during the heyday of the miniseries) starring Richard Chamberlain (who is the king of the miniseries, starring in this one plus Centennial & Shogun). It starts in the 1920's Australian Outback and tells the story of Father Ralph (Chamberlain as an ambitious priest) and Meggie (Rachael Ward) as his forbidden love interest and goes all the way to the 1970's or so. If you're a fan of the 70's and 80's miniseries then this is right up your alley. Younger people may not be interested, but it is a good story with fine acting. The story was controversial for its time, but that was before all of the catholic priest molestation issues were brought to light. I watched it over a period of a few weeks, but you can watch it in a day if you're motivated as it's only about 10 hours long.

Already in stores for sale and estimated arrival more than a week. I was shocked to see that I could have purchased this movie in the store today. That is more than seven days in advance of your estimated earliest date of arrival. It was also $13.99 which is several dollars less than your costs. I advance ordered this and assumed I would get it right away. I won't do that again. I am very disappointed.

Review for the 2003 AlphaVideo version 1st let me say that this is my favorite kaiju dvd cover ever, very cool and second to none. The film itself is legendary and alphavideo did a great job preserving the originality of this 1965 b&w classic. This version even includes special bonus "gammera gallery"  of posters, lobby cards, & photos!

Worth every penny I purchased this set for $74.99 last year and it was worth every penny.  Don't have cable, so could not see the repeats of this shows as others have.  But, it seems just like yesterday, when I watch one.  They are so well written, so funny, and so NOT politically correct! For those who have no idea how a show can be funny without a lot of sexual innuendo or bathroom humor, you are in for a real treat.

Wonderful A very interesting video showing how Science and Math prove the existence of God and his plan for humanity. I highly recommend this for believers and non believers. Its a must see video.

entertaining! This is entertainment unmatched by today's attempt to entertain. The acting is very good and the story is fantastic and probably true. This movie will live on for many years to come.

Ritchie Valens The life story of Ritchie Valens and his climb up the charts. Ritchie dies in the plane crash that took Buddy Holly and J.P.Richardson (the Big Bopper).  grace2u

If you have a 3D TV buy it I think most people think 3D is a gimmick and will probably fail but if you have a 3D TV and player buy this movie!  Why not?  You get 2 versions of the movie, a 3D and 2D one (its a cool bonus feature).  I personally thought the 3D was cool.

Turn the lights out, and pay attention..... I love this movie. After watching it for the 5 or 6th time, I read the book. Facinating, and Cusak and Spacey are at their best. You won't be disappointed in the flick, buy it and enjoy. It will move you to another culture, and you will swear you can feel the heat, and smell the night.....intoxicating......

Not for the faint of heart I thought this movie was great. Yes, there are 2 scenes where the main character beats up two different women. Each scene is about a minute long, and yes, they're pretty brutal.  However, if you can stomach that kind of thing, then I DO recommend you see this movie!  Basically, the story revolves around Lou, who is a small-town sheriff. He winds up getting involved in some scheme to get a prostitute out of town, but ends up in bed with said women, and then falls in love with her. Their relationship is a sadomasochistic one, to boot. Anyway, even though he loves her...he winds up killing her (and enjoying it), as well as his fiancee later in the movie. Lou "seems" like such a nice guy...but what's great about this movie is seeing his sadism leak out here and there. He truly is a sociopath. We also gets glimpses of his, ahem, disturbed childhood throughout the movie. In the end, Lou's deeds catch up with him, but seeing how it all unravels for Lou is fascinating. I give this movie is 5 stars! Plus, I thought the spanking scene was pretty hot! :)

VERY ENTERTAINING! Saturday Night Fever (Blu-ray) This is a Film Filled with Great Music, that is if you like Disco and the Bee Gees, and I do. I have never seen it before and heard so much about it and maybe I was expecting a little more, specially on the dancing scenes. The Blu-ray Disc is filled with many Special Features:  Besides the Director's Commentary, Catching the Fever A 30 year old Legacy Making Soundtrack History Platforms and Polyester Deejays and Discos  Spotlight on Travolta Back to Bay Ridge Dance like Travolta with John Cassese Fever Challenge 70's Discopedia and Deleted Scenes  The transfer to Blu-ray is very good and with Great Sound to Match. 118 minutes filled with Great Music from those years. Over all a very Entertaining Film! Thank You

A Powerful Film - Spoiler-Free Review I see a lot of mixed reviews for this film and can understand how this would be polarizing but I personally found this to be one of the authentic and intense movies I've seen.  I don't generally watch a lot of dramas, let alone relationship-centered ones, but this movie definitely hit a little too close to home on a lot of levels (which is a positive and unfortunately uncommon; any film that can stir up such genuine emotion is art in my opinion).  Everything about this production was top-notch, with incredible acting, directing, and writing; if you've ever been in a serious relationship that has fallen apart then there's a good chance you've lived through one, if not several, of these scenes and dialogues before.  And therein lies what I believe is the main criticism from those who were disappointed; people might ask "Well, why would I want to do such a thing?  What's the point in watching a movie that will only conjure up such terrible feelings and memories and leave you depressed at the end?"  and, if that is your philosophy towards film and/or you always expect a happy ending to justify your ticket price, then I suggest you skip this one completely as it's not really intended for you.  For others though, this is such an accurate, complex, and beautiful portrayal of the relationship of two ultra-relatable but very different souls and was, in a sense, life-validating for me.  Relationships are so complex that it's easy to feel that no one besides yourself would ever understand the complexity and gravity of feelings you endure but here we are treated to a psychologically-perfect portrait of just that.  There are many things present that I believe a lot of people will truly relate to on at least some level and, once experienced, they may feel less alone in the world with their personal relationships.  Though you may end up siding with one of the leads based on your specific outlook or philosophy, the film is still set up with perfect balance and is never unfair or manipulative.  I've seen an unusual amount of reviewers wrap up their review by strongly recommending you make as many people as you can watch this film; I believe the reason for this is that there is simply a ton of things that you want/need to discuss afterward, as if this movie somehow brings to the surface ideas and feelings that were too difficult or abstract to convey before.  And I highly agree, a very thought-provoking film.

Detroit, Wonderful Detroit! I loved this series.  It showed the good and bad of Detroit.  Detroit is a historical city and does not deserve the amount of bad mouthing it gets.  This series showed the Detroit I knew when I worked there for 10 years.  I still miss it.  The characters were real and the memories it evokes in those of us who lived there for a while, is wonderful.  It is not a romantacized Detroit, but a real struggling city with real people trying to do their best.

The Polar Express movie We have not had time to watch the DVD that we purchased at Christmas but we look forward to having movie night soon.  This is a fun movie and we wanted to share this with our little boy.

They Really Are Magnificent As the other reviews say, the quality of the DVDs isn't what you've come to expect from DVDs nowadays. Check out an episode of M7 on Netflix Instant Play on your computer and that's the same quality you'll get on a 40" LCD flatscreen.  But that's okay if you love this series - and what a great series it is. Two short seasons filled with memorable characters and plots (and surprising emotional depth) which are clean and safe for the kiddos to watch. The costumes appear historically accurate and the M7 are usually covered in dust and actually look like they really live in a desert region.  Michael Biehn does a superb job as usual, but especially so since he's recreating a character made famous by cool Yul Brynner. Eric Close and Andrew Kavovit are outstanding, while Dale Midkiff, Anthony Starke, Ron Perlman and Rick Worthy add their own unique characters to the mix with humor and flair. Laurie Holden as the main feminine presence in the show holds her own though she's not on screen much, while Robert Vaughn guests stars in a few episodes, the only original M7 member to appear in the show.  The series ends abruptly because the network cancelled it, so character development and plot lines are left wide open - which is aggravating because you really want to spend more time in Four Corners, yet it is preferable to end that way rather than have the series jump the shark and descend into the ridiculous, as most series do after the fifth season. Never mind - just enjoy it. You won't regret it.

This is one of my favorites This is one of my favorites-- two great characters, a very engaging plot, and a 5-star conclusion.  I wont spoil it with a description.

What's in the basket? A must-own cult classic Having owned the 20the anniversary DVD since it's release, I was a little weary of this on blu-ray. After all, a 16mm 1:33.1 shoestring-budget film shot almost 30 years ago, would be a hard-sell on high-def. But boy, I am glad I caved.  A young man and his deformed Siamese twin, separated at birth, check into a seedy 42dn Street hotel. They soon plot their revenge against the doctors who separated them. All the while causing some other mayhem at the hotel. This a fun, trashy and gory flick. Made back in the glory of days of true grindhouse cinema, when old 42nd Street was 42nd Street, sleazy, rundown, porno theaters, etc, before the Disneyification. An accurate representation of that era in NYC's history.  Lots of bloodshed in this one, gorehounds take note.(POSSIBLE SPOILERS) A man ripped in half, a woman with scalpels in her bloody face are just a taste of what we get. Again, that wonderful ultra-sleazy atmosphere and feel. Pure guerrilla film-making at it's finest. Lots of good laughs as well,unintentional, well, yes, but that's all the fun of it. It's too bad they don't make them like this anymore.  The blu-ray picture is as good as it's ever going to be. Fully restored to it's OAR of 1:33.1(when it was blown to 1.85, a lot of info was missing)and remastered from it's original 16mm negative, natural film grain abounds. Picture looks cleaner and more watchable than ever. Some blue scratches pop up occasionally, but they did on the DVD as well. Audio is the original mono track, so purists will be pleased. Very clear sound.  Extra wise, we get a new intro by the director, the man himself, the great Frank Henenlotter. For two minutes, he explains why he did this for blu-ray and the long process of doing so. Very nice. Up next, we get the audio commentary lifted from the DVD. Very fun track as Frank and co. reflect on making this movie, it's reception, legacy and many troubles. They even mention how the great Joe Bob Briggs saved this film from being permanently butchered at the idiotic request of the long-defunct Analysis Releasing. Next of course, is the 15-minute feature In Search of the Hotel Broslin. Frank and a friend go to the locations they filmed, including the club they filmed some scenes in. Very interesting and informative. A very nice gallery of outtakes and behind the scenes footage follows. Brief at 5 minutes, but def worth a look. TV spots, trailers, radio spots and still gallery of art are the other features. Now, the blu-ray is missing two extras from the DVD: a radio interview with Terri Susan Smith and a segment showing clips from Beverly Bonner's old TV show,"Laugh Track". Not a big deal. I will hang onto the DVD as well.  This is a must-see/own for horror/cult/grindhouse and of course a must-own for fans and Frank Henenlotter fans. Highly recommended.

Sad This Show Was Cancelled, Happy I Still Get To Enjoy It. The title of my review says it all, I think. I remember watching this show on tv back when I was about fifteen (I'm almost twenty now) and I loved it. I was really sad when it was cancelled, but I ordered this product and now I get to experience the magic of this show with increased appreciation through adult eyes. When I was a kid I somehow failed to fully appreciate the gorgeous cinematography, witty banter between characters, excellent casting choices, and the spectacular romance between the main characters. This full series set arrived promptly and in perfect condition, everything was sealed and the discs are in great condition. Watching the show this time around is even more thrilling because I get to share it with my mother and two younger sisters who missed it when it was still airing. I recently read that the creator of the show is hoping that a network like Starz or Showtime will pick up Pushing Daisies for a mini-series, and if this happens I will be tuning in regularly. In short: order this series because you will love the show and you will share in the frustration of us fans who still mourn it.

Brokeback Mountain is great First I am not writing this review about the film content. Even though I thought it was one of the Best Movie to every be made and showed how love and emotion can eat at you. I had seen the original DVD and had a copy, I wanted the Blu-Ray because of the colorful scenes in the movie. Not sure where it was filmed but, it has some of the best beautiful scenery to find in a movie for a long time. The Blu-ray copy is even more beautiful than the regular DVD.  If you dit bye the earlier version and loved it. Buy the BLu-ray, you want regret it!

Let's all watch....FRIGHT NIGHT!! A fun movie all around. The special effects were great and effective. Still a suprise after all these years. The story I thought was excellent. Roddy Mcdowell turned in a great performance, as always. The only thing that bothered me was the powder white hair, and the gastly white make-up they gave Roddy, could have been better. If you have a vampire collection add this movie, you will not be disappointed.

Good clean family entertainment. In these days of million dollar contracts, walkouts, and lockouts it is refreshing to see baseball being played for the joy of playing the game.  You will find yourself cheering for the parents as much as the players with a good healthy dose of charity and community thrown in for good measure.  While the ending isn't unexpected you will enjoy the journey and definitely come away smiling.

The Last TOS Season Has Just Gotten Infinitely Better In Blu! Fans of TOS rejoice! This long-time trekker is mostly satisfied as we get both the original and the "souped-up" versions here and for me the new versions are very, very good indeed. Both the picture and sound qualities have improved immensely and here in season 3 we have the final season of TOS as best as it can be; finally, definitive versions of my favourite ever tv series! Even the packaging is satisfying as it doesn't take up nearly as much shelf space as any of the other previous releases; in the size of the usual one disc blu ray we get the entire second season in 6 discs. While certainly not the best season many of my favourite TOS episodes are here like: "The Cage", "Turnabout Intruder", "The Enterprise Incident", "The Paradise Syndrome", "Spectre of the Gun", "For the World ... the Sky", "Plato's Stepchildren", and "The Empath".  Otherwise, this blu-ray version of season 3 is by far the definitive version that is currently out there.  As in the other two season sets, the special feature segments are also very satisfying.  Very highly recommended!

One Of The Best Rock 'n Roll Movies Ever! I've heard of this movie forever.I only took the plunge and decided to buy it recently and am I glad I did, this movie is amazing! No kidding around! I really wasn't sure what to expect, I'd heard a lot about Russ Meyer's movies growing up, (I'm 50), but this movie wasn't the least bit "sexist" at all. In fact, I honestly thought it played like "proto female empowerment".The color is vivid, the sets are pure "1969", the clothes are beautiful, the soundtrack is terrific, and the actors are absolutely gorgeous! This is classic late 60s, high camp, rock 'n roll escapism at it's best.I loved it! I rank it right up there with "Riot On Sunset Strip" & "Wild In The Streets".

classic! it is hard to go wrong with this classic movie. The characters are well thought through and great lessons for kids. I enjoy it every time!

Spellbinding I've watched countless times, and am invariably drawn to the characters as though for the first time. Madonna is superb and perfectly cast and Antonio Banderas is equally compelling as the character of Che.  Surprisingly, Jonathan Price is amazingly attractive as Peron.  I saw the original Broadway production and was intrigued by the persona of Evita, but I never expected to be so moved by the film version.

Jackie Evancho This disk is a great collection of Jackie Evancho accomplishments singing in the concert "Dream With Me."  There are songs that I had heard when this was broadcast on TV that were not included on this disk.  For the price of this album, there is no complaint about that.

The Descendants The transition from disfunctional to functional among the characters is wonderfully acted.  I would have voted for this movie to be Best Movie at the Academy Awards.

Heros come in all sizes I grew up in the 70's so this hits home on the Green front.  Imagine that this is our future it isn't hard to do.

Captivating entertainment with a bit of everything - but mostly music! This is one of the most entertaining movies we have watched. I am sure we enjoy it much more because we have seen Steam Powered Giraffe live *many* times this Summer (they perform daily at the San Diego Zoo during Summer Nights!). If you have seen them perform live, you will recognize a lot of the skits/comedy from their performances (a good thing). My 2-yr old really enjoys this - mostly for the music, but also for much of the robots' performances. Most notably, she acts out the performances of Rabbit (this isn't even my house!) and The Jon (I dropped my sandwich!). More importantly, this has inspired my little 2 yr old to play music. She already had a keyboard and guitar, but we have since bought her a melodica and a drum set. I highly recommend this movie - we started with the $1.99 rental and will be buying the dvd. Thanks, Steam Powered Giraffe!

What can you say a classic 2 of the funniest men to ever do a sitcom I hated to see it end but they did a great job tieing all the ends.  If you want some great laughter without the comercials and little parts chopped out get this and share the laughter with all your friends.

Love it I've seen this movie twice now. The last time was not a month ago. Now I want to see it again.  For me this movie is great because a number of things of course.  I really love the interior. If I would to build a new house, this is what it would look like on the inside. It's so, "Space"..  The way they made the "characters" interact with eachother is outstanding. VERY nicely done. You have to look very closley to find any flaws there.  Thumbs up guys, you've done a gret job!  Glenn from Sweden

great movie The price of this movie was fantastic, and the movie itself was very good. The movie was in great condition.

Educate yourself: What YOU eat I give this DVD as a present to friends and acquaintances who still eat everything from all the aisles in the supermarket and have constant issues with body weight and unhealthy lifestyles. A wonderful teaching tool.  Unfortunately, the food industry is suffering in this country like so many other areas of government.

Sweet Clean Fun Michelle Pfeiffer has truly got to be the most beautiful woman ever.  And before he was Ferris, Matthew was a cute little sidekick.  This movie is fun to watch for the whole family.  It has every element: fantasy, action, comedy, lots of emotion, and great music.  The only problem was I thought I ordered in on CD, but it came in VHS.  Good thing I still have my VCR.

Soul Surfer Wonderful family movie,based on true life events. Very inspiring.Would highly recommend. Great group of actors,very clean,no bad language. My boys really enjoyed it. One of their favorites.

Wonderful down to earth movie!! This was a wonderful down to earth movie! Common excelled in his new type of role. Great movie for all!

Sci-Fi Murder Mystery This movie is a sci-fi murder mystery where a former doctor and an F.B.I. agent join forces to find out how people are being turned to stone only to find out there is a much bigger threat to come.

Great movie! This is a really good "coming of age" type movie.  I won't comment on it being "bollywood", there's maybe 3 dance numbers which are odd but the rest of it is extremely well shot and scripted.  Despite the setting and subject matter it actually translates well universally because it's basically a movie showing the impact of the Americanization of Indians right down to the suicide; which is a huge taboo in Hindu culture and a huge part of this movie (kind of ham-fisted but not overwhelming).  They even throw in a bit of class-ism and sex-ism for good measure.  Altogether this makes for an accurate portrayal of society in India and even Indians in America.  The movie feels like 2 or 3 movies in 1 because of length (around 3 hours).  Fortunately, it doesn't drag at all.  Definitely worth a rental.  Cons:  It's in "Hind-lish" a mix between hindi and english which means you'll be reading subtitles and the length as mentioned.

Regarding Virginia E. Mulrooney Review Virginia E. Mulrooney did NOT write the above written review on this product The Road to Avonlea; The review was written by her young children; Therefore, keep in mind, the review is not from an adult perspective but from a child's.

Simply Great! Great set at a awesome price. This set of the dvd/blu-ray along with the seven dwarfs plush dolls go for more than double on ebay. For those with a disney movie collection this is simply a great buy.

Awesome Movie The action was incredible Ryan is an Awesome actor so is Blake! Wow every scene made you want to scream out this is Awesome! The ending were he said now he will go looking for trouble and stuff  that was so lol

Pleasantly surprised We got this by "accident" from Netflix and the reviews there made me worried that it would be a cheesy animal rights movie.  Far from it!  This is the best movie I've seen in years with good acting all around and a fascinating look at the life of an autistic young woman.  Good art enables us to experience a bit of something that we might not experience otherwise and that is just what this movie does.  Its clean and I think conveys good lessons for kids; one reference to sexuality when "experts" think Temple may be self soothing sexually but it's pretty subtle and unfounded. I'm having my kids watch it.  Ages 7-13 are very interested though they have lots of questions and the music/filming style make it tense enough that they need reassurance sometimes.

Hail to the king, baby! I hadn't seen Army of Darkness in about 10 years. Seeing it beautifully restored in Blu Ray made me love it all over again! The scenes are so perfect, you'd think this just recently came out!  The B Movie quality stands out even more now and makes it even more hilarious.  I'd also like to point out that the ending on this is the S Mart ending, NOT the time travel one. The time travel one is on there as a bonus but not as part of the movie. Couldn't stand that ending being tied in when I had the Official Bootleg version of the movie.  There are a couple of scenes that didn't get the fully restored treatment, but it's not a big deal! Also, there aren't a whole lot of bonus features.  Overall a good buy!

Grandchildren love it and that is what counts I have always loved this movie and now it is my granchildren's turn.  I am very satisfied with this purchase.  I gave it as an Easter gift.

An Affair to Remember was a Memorable Gift A tale of star crossed lovers from a sweeter more innocent time made for a wonderful Valentine's Day present. My wife loved it and the movie made me the hero of the evening.

Best series ever! Hi everyone,  Firt of all, i really love this series and enjoyed the Ladies' ending! Desperate Housewives is my favourite TV show. :)  I would like to see how DVD's menu is... Somebody can take a pic? I hope it's not the same as season 5, 6 & 7!!!  Thank you!

The Second Dragonheart movie I like Dragonheart: A New Beginning. I think it's neat that Draco has a son named Drake. I also think it's neat that Lord Osric is really a dragon in human form.

love Rob Zombie movies i really love what Zombie added to the original halloween story. it really shows more of how and why Micheal ended up becoming a serial killer.

Great movie that leaves you feeling good after all the laughs. If you liked "Waking Ned Divine", you'll almost certainly enjoy this movie, too.  It's a story about a community of simple but happy people whose dignity and livelihoods are threatened by economic circumstances.  To preserve their modest way of life, they must attract a doctor to their quaint fishing village, a pre-requisite for securing a bid for a new manufacturing plant that will create jobs for most of the villagers.  There are plenty of laughs along the way, as the villagers think up various ruses (sometimes clever, sometimes touchingly absurd) to win over both the young doctor and the factory officials.  The actor who plays the protagonist reminded me of Topal (as Tevya in "Fiddler on the Roof") or Phillipe Noiret in "Cinema Paradiso" and the brilliantly funny "Les Ripoux (My New Partner)".  It's a movie guaranteed to make you laugh out loud several times and to leave you smiling at the end.  A very charming Seduction.  Be advised:  It's in French, with optional English sub-titles, but well worth watching despite the "inconvenience" of the sub-titles.

I LOVE THIS MOVIE. I LOVE THIS MOVIE A WHOLE LOT, IT'S FUNNY. IT STARTS OUT BAD IN THE BEGINNING BUT TURNED OUT GOOD AT THE END. I LIKE TYRESE'S ACTING & HIS MUSIC TOO BUT LIKE HIS ACTING THE MOST.

Yeah, here's the thing... First, I just want to make clear that I think Blues Brothers is a classic, as evidenced by the five stars. However, except for the few extra bits of great music you get, the so-called extended cut of Blues Brothers is not that good, IMO. It kills the flow of the movie by explaining too much, I think. Who cares how the Bluesmobile gets its powers, or what Elwood's job is like? The genius of John Landis' comedies was that not everything would be laid out for the audience. They're random, messy, chaotic, and sometimes you didn't get a detailed explanation. To me, that's what made them so great! For proof, just compare the first Blues Brothers film with Blues Brothers 2000, which is full of backstory and character motivations and blah-blah-blah. The theatrical cut is a classic, and whenever I've heard someone extol the virtues of the extended cut (which has been the version available longest on DVD), I just shake my head and rewatch the original.  As to the quality of the Blu Ray itself, I think Universal has done a pretty nice job for a comedy that's over 30 years old. I've owned the original DVD release and the 25th Anniversary Edition, and this Blu-Ray beats both of them (as should be expected). I don't know whether the sound has been remastered, but it seems to have a little more oomph to it. My favorite musical sequence in the movie--the church sequence with James Brown--got so loud that my neighbor knocked on the door!  Upgrading to Blu-Ray isn't always a necessity in the case of older catalog releases, but I'd have to recommend picking up "The Blues Brothers" Blu-Ray. Just make sure you watch the theatrical version first, and then go from there!

Wow. Just like everybody else, I'd seen Predator half a dozen times. I consider it to be one of the best action movies of all time. But even classics can be watched only so many times before they get old. I bought this blu-ray figuring it'd be a good start to my "favorite movies" collection. When it arrived and I watched it, I couldn't believe that I was watching a film from the '80s. Why, it looks like it was shot yesterday! Gone is the gritty, dark feel of the original. I find it difficult to describe the upgrade. You find yourself looking at the rich, verdant jungle almost as often you find yourself looking at the pretty explosions. I recommend this blu-ray to anybody with eyes.

The best series out there! Season 7 does not disappoint.  As always, you love or hate the characters, but even the ones you hate you cheer for.  Michael's leaving is cleverly accomplished, and his replacement is almost as cringe-worthy!

Good Cop. Bad Cop. What's the difference between A-list actors and B-list actors?  An A-list actor can be in many different movies, and most of the A-list actor's performances are memorable. However, each performance is remembered for its individuality.  A B-list actor turns in forgettable performances, and is either in a ton of movies as a character actor or isn't in a lot of movies at all (that are good).  Matt Damon, Leo DiCaprio and especially Jack Nicholson reaffirm their A-list status with flying colors in The Departed. How many movies have you seen Jack Nicholson in? How after being in so many movies can you keep your performances fresh? My expectation was that I'd go into The Departed and have an experience where the Nicholson character was unoriginal, familiar or unbelievable because the portrayal would be so diluted by other Nicholson performances. So much for my expectation.  Nicholson's portrayal of Frank Costello was realistic and refreshing. You don't see "Jack Nicholson in another role"; you see Frank Costello. That's an A-list actor.  The movie as a whole was just excellent. A great story. Engrossing. Believable. Suspenseful. And the twists were on target; even though you mostly knew who the rats were and what side they were on, the deceptions effectively keep the viewer slightly confused as to who is really working for who. The movie keeps you captivated from start to finish.  The Departed and its Director have been justifiably showered with praise and awards. The Departed is a classic. It's a collector; add it to your cart.

GREAT Film! This is now one of my favorite movies.  It's gripping, and I really felt for the characters, really held my interest, and has the most exciting ending in any movie!

Surpassed My Expectations! Dark Shadows is a hilarious movie about a man named Barnibus Collins, who is cursed by an evil witch when he refuses to give her his love. Turned into a vampire, Barnibus is locked away in a coffin for two centuries. Now, freed by unsuspecting construction workers, Barnibus finds that his home town of Collins Port has drastically changed. He must learn to fit into the 70s while protecting his family, restoring Collins Port to its former glory and riding himself of the evil witch, Angelique, who cursed him to be a creature forced to hide in dark shadows. I absolutely loved this movie. Johnny Depp, who plays Barnibus Collins, did fantastic! Johnny is one of my all time favorite actors and when he teams up with director Tim Burton, you know it's a film worth seeing. The cinematography was great because of the gloominess that you will often find in Tim Burton's films, but they found a flawless way to thrown in the bright colors of the 70's.  The special effects were great too, especially in the end when Angelique's skin started to crack; she really looked as if she was made out of porcelain. Something that did bother me about the visuals was that the blood in the film looked way to fake considering that it is a vampire movie. My favorite character would have to be that daughter of the Collins family played by Chloe Moretz. One; she is my favorite young actress, two; she played a moody, mellow dramatic, angsty teenager perfectly.  The acting in this film was priceless because there was a lot of over-acting, but not in a cheesy way, it was done very purposefully and it gave a wonderful comedic feel to dramatic situations. I suggest this film for ages 13 and up because of sexual situations, mild drug use and language. On a scale of 1-5 I would give this film 6 stars because it far surpassed my expectations! Be sure to see Dark Shadows in a theater near you with all of your friends!! Review by Raven Devanney, KIDS FIRST! Film Critic (14)

Extremely well done I've recently begun my journey as vegan.  I watched this not shortly after I had started to change my lifestyle.  I found it fascinating as it followed these people going through a process that I was recently through.  I think it hit a great balance to make sure it was educational and not preaching; it's really hard to get people to have an open mind when someone is telling them how wrong they are.  The message is positive, helpful, extremely educational.  It really helped me as I worked through the animal rights/ environmental aspects of being vegan.  While I initially approached from a health standpoint, the documentary really helped cement some things in my mind.  They'd always been there, I wasn't unaware of what factory farm life is or how harmful to the environment, I had just chosen to compartmentalize.  Watching that journey was just perfect in terms of timing for me.  I highly recommend.  Even if not contemplating a vegan lifestyle, the information here can really help inform your life.  And after all, the underlying goal is to make less an impact on the planet.

The Muppets Revisited I enjoyed this movie. The story is about one person making a difference (like yeast) and bringing a community together to accomplish the seemingly impossible (like bread rising). Love of family, the need to choose, and acceptance that sometimes our best efforts aren't enough. Can we learn from this?

Matilda is wonderful I gave this DVD to my Great-Niece for Christmas!  She had seen the movie on television and wanted her own copy.  She was so excited to get it and has watched it over and over.

Great Documentary I've watched this 4 times now. Love it. Seeing the bike at the end is just amazing. This gave me a bunch of ideas for my bike... loved the curved rear fender struts.

Life-Changing! This documentary is life-changing.  My husband and I are now new converts to eating a Whole Foods-Plant Strong diet and our health has improved in just weeks, not to mention the tremendous weight loss in a just a few weeks!  Best purchase ever made!

Scarface Awesome Movie and even better on Blu-Ray!!! Bought the movie for my boyfriend who is a scarface fan...he loved it and the price was great! Will probably order more in the future.

Great Movie I loved every bit of this movie. Great performance by all of the actors. The cinematography was spectacular. I want to live that life.

Exactly as described Item arrived exactly as described.  No damage, arrived right in the middle of the time allotted (shipped internationally so said it might take up to four weeks, I got it in a little over a week).  Can't ask for more than that!

great transaction great transaction. would do business with again. it got here when i wanted it to and since it was a gift it was appreciated. thank you very much.

I know what you feel I really like these movie its a great funny flick you can kinda relate Omg it crazy we all have thoses crazy aunts thay one person that thinks he knows everything those embarrassing parents but you love no matter what. Then what can you do its family.

great love tim burton. I am an avid fan of most of his movies. This is my favorite of them. Very cute, great for during the year or halloween time. Its versatile

Singing In The Rain We were very pleased with our purchase.  The bonus material of the lobby cards and the umbrella with the charm was wonderful.  The quality of the movie on the DVD was excellent. We really enjoyed getting to watch one of our all time favorite movies without any commercial interruptions.  I would recommend this movie to anyone who likes musicals and is a fan of Donald O'Connor, Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds.

Great Film and a Great Transfer I compared this to the original blu ray release of the film and the picture quality was slightly improved overall but the sound quality was much more impressive. It was louder and clearer audio with a much deeper bass and rich audio textures. I also enjoyed the special features which shows the film restoration on a few clips. Plus audio commentary. Great product and a great improvement worth the upgrade to the newer edition.

ghosts of july past as a fiscal conservative. i like the message that there is more than meets the eye whenever people think a chanted slogan can solve everything. the best way we conservatives can respond to the verbal barrage we get from the left is by countering with humor.i believe we don't serve anyone well if we can't have a laugh once in a while. this movie very adequately sums up this mood. leslie neilsen is priceless!    darrell worsfold

Wonderful pair of movies I have always loved these classics.  Many have already said what I wish to say.  I remember watching "Village of the Damned" as a child and later.  Very nostalgic.  Also, if you listen to screenwriter John Briley's commentary on the DVD of "Children of the Damned", you will see that this is actually an allegory for the cold war, the children representing the major countries of the world, and the possibility and the fright experienced by both the Russians and the US of atomic bombs being rained down upon them (either intentionally or accidentally), much as now we have the fear that Iran will perhaps begin a nuclear WWIII by dropping a bomb on Israel, their "president"/dictator having proclaimed openly many times that "Israel must be destroyed".

Fantatic Show Weeds is a fantastic show.  I can't believe that I can buy a TV show on blu-ray for such a cheap price.

thunderdome classic movie when mel gibson was normal master blaster gotta love him best of the mad max movies too bad there wasn't a sequel to thunderdome

classic, best of breed Hollywoodized, of course.  This is a classic story.  I saw it on the big screen, and yes, when I was in Austria, I paid too much money for the "Sound of Music" tour, in Salzburg.  They used the back of one house, and the front of another house, for the Trapp house.  I saw the glass house where they sing "I am 16".  It was a pilgrimage, of a sort.  The tour guide mourned the loss of Jews, because they were really good businessmen, and he felt goods were overpriced.  I think it was genuine.  He also said that Maria was too happy to be in a nunnery of the time, and the nuns were trying to find a way to move this highborn woman off to where she wouldn't upset the nuns.  You can still see the nunnery, from a distance of course.  The first scene is shown 20 miles from the nunnery, so she must have had better hearing than a kit fox, to hear the bells there.  That part of Austria looks just like the movie, even the church where they got married is still there.  The story itself is well known.  This is of course telescoped, the real story is rather longer.  The Nazi sequence is a bit scary for young children, but the story touches hearts.  As long as movies are around, this one will be shown.

HUGE FAN OF SCREAM This movie is a revenge movie. I enjoy the scream movies! I am a huge fan! I would for sure recommend this!

THIS MOVIE REMAINS A CLASSIC I saw this in the movie theatre as a kid and this Blu Ray has perfect picture and sound. Watching it in pristine, original aspect ratio and uncut from start to finish made me appreciate this timeless classic more than ever before. If you have a 60-inch HDTV  it's "almost" big enough to capture this film. If you have a 100+ inch home theatre to watch this in all it's glory I'm jealous ;-)

holmes this was surprisingly in good shape for a vhs, it was of a good price and a great old movie to watch, when we but vhs' we usually grit our teeth and squint our eyes to start with.

Top 10 classic movie No question one of the best classic movies of all time. Steve McQueen at his best, just about as good as "The Great Escape". This movie has the best automobile chase scene of all times using the coolest car Ford ever made..  Wonderful entertainment,  LUCKSTER

This is no good. We're on top of the Monument. Hitchock's ultimate Hitchcock film. Too often is the English director Alfred Hitchcock compared to French director Henri Clouzot. This one will remind you that they lived in very different worlds. "North by Northwest" might be the wildest, biggest, and most American film Hitchcock ever did. Carey Grant's undeniable snark and charm elevate the story and heighten the suspense. James Mason's oiliness is perfect and Eva Marie Saint is lovely and strong as the woman you're never sure you can trust. Then there's young Martin Landau's piercing blue eyes. In many ways "North by Northwest" is more of a James Bond action flick than a classic Hitchcock mystery/suspense. And it might be better at being a Bond film than most Bond films. The DVD restores the picture and all that, but it also includes some very nice documentaries and making-of features (and Eva Marie Saint hosts). It's an economical single disc that measures up without busting your wallet.

Great Western Movie What a great movie.  The movie follows the book very closely which of course is highly recommended as well.  Duvall and Jones were both perfect for their parts in the movie.  I suspect that many of the old time cowboys were a lot like the characters in this movie.

Loved books - movies are good I loved the books. I agree with other reviewers in that the movies are not as good.  But having said that, I have all three and enjoy them.

Wonderful Film Not only is Meryl Streep and Jack Nicolson amazing, Nora Ephron's depiction of her marriage to Carl Bernstein (of All The Presidents' Men and one of the Washington Post reporters to blow the lid off Watergate) is incredible. This is one of the best all-time yet under-rated movies out there. Any movie lover will adore this quick-wit flick. Stock Channing makes a memorable performance, too.

Yeah Benjamin!!!! I was very happy when this came, no scratches on the disk and movie came much sooner than I thought.

A worthy Aida This is a recording of a Zurich Opera performance from May 2006.  I thought the overall staging and costuming were quite attractive. Dressing up everyone as British citizens may be contradictory to the libretto, but the effect is really not distracting at all. The intent was to show Egypt in the 19th c when it was occupied by the British, French, and the Ottoman Empire.  Some comments here have sharply criticized the modernized staging. But what we see in the Zurich Aida is actually pretty tame compared to the modernization done in the typical Wagner production. The practices of Patrice Cherau and Harry Kupfer are far, far more extreme than anything seen in this DVD.  The singing was really wonderful all around. Nina Stemme is very effective as Aida. I had just finished watching Matti Salminen in Tristan und Isolde, so it was great to see his versatility as Ramfis. I had only heard Salvatore Licitra and Juan Pons on CDs, so this was my first chance to see them on stage; both were first rate as singers and actors. Luciana d'Intino was fabulous. It makes you wonder why this opera wasn't called "Aida e Amneris" since Amneris gets almost as much stage time as the title character. The chorus juggled their numerous roles (prisoners, slaves, soldiers, priests) with admirable professionalism.  The DVD uses frequent split screen shots to good effect. The ballet dancers were ushered in quite cleverly as prisoners in cages. And I was impressed by how economically the processional scene was staged: in lieu of an elaborate parade, we instead see sightseers gazing toward the back of the stage at a shadow show as soldiers try to maintain crowd control.  I can't say enough of the pristine recorded sound; you really feel like turning up the volume in some spots. The Zurich Opera orchestra, conducted by Adam Fischer, is marvelous. Audience noise was minimal.  This two-disc set comes with a handsome booklet filled with many color still shots from the production. Subtitles are available in many languages.  Disc 2 includes the documentary "The True False Story of Aida" (52", 2007). This documentary discusses not only the Zurich production of Aida, but also some related history of the Cairo Opera and the Suez Canal. The film includes many scenes of modern day Egyptian life, and even a demonstration of Don Giovanni in Arabic. The documentary, however, never really tells you what the "false" story is.  Disc 2 also includes an interview with film director Andy Sommer (12", 2007).  Both extra features are in French with English subtitles.

One of my childhood favorite movies! So excited that i stumbled across this online and at such a good price.  I loved this movie when I was a kid and I wanted to add it to our collection for our daughter to watch when she gets bigger.  Also made sure to buy the sequel too!  Great kids movies!!!

Among the  Best Mockumentaries ever Among mockumentaries, I'm Still Here holds a unique place. It is brilliantly made, a clever parody of celebrity, and the culmination of a extended real world prank by Joaquin Phoenix as he very publicly announced his retirement from acting and into a hip hop career. As directed by Casey Affleck, it catches the vanity and self-entitlement of celebrity with a knowing sense. After all Phoenix comes from a life in the spotlight, one that took his brother's life, and Affleck, the lesser known than brother Ben, is no slouch in terms of talent and brains. So they fashion a cunning end to Phoenix's prank. At the time this was released, many still believed that he had lost his mind. For a year the public worried that this talented actor had really lost it. All your worst assumptions and emotions about the privileges of being a celebrity are tweaked in this film. The viewer became complicit in the the prank because we were had. It is a brilliant and unique idea. But the film holds up on its own, too. Like 'Exit Through the Gift Shop' by Banksy, it raises wonderful questions on art and life, celebrity and talent, by personally putting the filmmaker's, or artist's reputation on the line. And look for an great performance by Sean Combs (P. Diddy) as a hip hop entrepreneur who brilliantly parodies and plays with our expectations of Diddy himself. The message? We don't know these people, so perhaps we ought to give up the judgements we make of these celebrities and stars with whom we hold no real affiliation. After all, they are just like us they can be flawed - even if they are richer - a lot richer -  more respected, more beautiful, and more privileged that we the huddled masses.

Another Pixar Classic After the imaginative brilliance of "Up" (2009), Pixar concludes the "Toy Story" trilogy in equally memorable fashion. Woody, Buzz and the gang return for a colorful Oscar-winning adventure that manages to top its predecessors. Terrific family entertainment and a refreshing alternative to Hollywood's junk-food cinema.

The Simpsons still rock! This series of the Simpsons is still great, despite what many Simpsons fans say.  This series includes the cloning of Homer, Dr. Hibberts crazy island, Homer goes to rock star camp, Bart and Lisa both end up in third grade, Marge accidentally gets a boob job and many, many others.  I noticed that Amazon currently isn't selling this product while they have it under review for issues, so I'd like to add that it arrived as described in the time it was supposed to.

Loved it - very inspiring I have been a vegan for 13 years. I only wish this movie had been out then so I could have pointed friends and family to it when they asked me questions about my choices. I found the film inspirational and well done. I was completely committed to the 3 participants and their journey. Informational, funny, kind, and down to earth. I loved it!

Better every year--this season is the best It just gets better every year.  Stiles turns in her best performance ever.  "Deb" is one great character.  Dexter is as full of surprises as ever, and the season ending episode is one of the top-5 episodes ever.  Buy it.

well-done I thought this was well done and powerful.  I thought it was recent but apparently it's from 1995.  Pity that, at least according to Wikipedia, it was not a financial success, since it deserves to be more widely seen, in American civics classes, for example.  THE GOOD:  1.  Arthur Miller himself adapted his own play. 2.  Usually when you get a movie from a play, it's got a claustrophobic feel, since plays are usually structured around long indoor scenes, since it's such a pain in the neck to switch props.  But no:  this movie moves around a bit.  THE BAD:  1.  Hard to take Winona Ryder seriously after all her antics in Hollywood.  At this point, it's virtually impossible to lose yourself in her acting. 2.  They never do an establishing shot of Salem Town.  It's seems like we're always at some building on the edges of town.  Ah, budget considerations, I guess.

A Japanese masterpiece finally comes to the US! In the near future in Japan, after the economy nearly collapsed and both teens and young teens were going against the school system for the adults began to worry, the country's government create a program called the "Battle Royale Program". It's where 42 junior high students every year must wear special tracking necklaces that tracks their pulses but would explode if they mess with them and that the students are randomly selected one by one to be on an island where they are armed with weapons including supplies like food and water as they must hunt then kill each other until one remains victorious. However two students Shuya Nanahara (Tatsuya Fujiwara) and Noriko Nakagawa (Aki Maeda) however don't feel like killing as they want to find a way out of the island.  A brilliant and violent as hell Japanese Science Fiction action masterpiece! based on the best-selling Japanese novel, this is a terrific and gory as hell film that shattered new grounds, create controversy and even became a worldwide sensation. The film was a smash hit in it's country, earning acclaim and even being nominated for 10 Japanese academy awards. However it was never released on DVD in the US and Canada except in film festivals and had controversy over it during the post-columbine era and that Toei would not distribute this movie, over the last decade people had to buy R0 import copies at conventions and online and now the time has finally come as it has made it's American debut on DVD and Blu-Ray to cash-in on the similar themed movie "The Hunger Games". The performances are well done including Takeshi Kitano as the creepy teacher Kitano Sensai, there's plenty of unique futuristic ideas, an old fashioned plot about survival of the fittest and some social issues in it as well besides the bloody action sequences. This movie has gained a major cult following even among Quentin Tarantino who considers it his fave movie since 92 as it's that good and influential among many things including the recent "Hunger Games" books and movie which many fans will draw comparisons, this is a must see film.  Although i do own the 4-disc BR set from Anchor Bay, i'll talk about the single disc version which has the 122 minute Special Edition Director's Cut nicely remastered in high definition with a brilliant transfer and perfect sound quality that makes it the best looking version of BR yet around. But if you want the real experience of BR, check out the 4-disc collection.

A good psychological thriller that does not reveal its plot until the end No one can plan anything and be able to carry it out exactly as anticipated; there is no exception. Whether the plan is war, politics, marriage, love, or deception, as it is in this psychological thriller. One always overlooks something or, in, most instances, fate causes something unexpected to happen that disrupts the plan. It might be something simple, like rain, lightning, a fall over an item left on the ground, or the appearance of someone from the past. Fate shows itself in this film.  Kate Vernon is excellent as the woman who begins her deception by taking the uniform of a female sergeant after a night of lesbian love. She travels to the home of a woman, Margot Kidder, her husband, adult son, and teen-age daughter claiming that she was the girl friend of their son who was just killed in action overseas. She says that the two were so much in love they were about to marry. Margot Kidder, the mother, believes her and accepts her into her home. Margot overacts her emotions, but this does not destroy the plot or suspense. Kate seduces the dead soldier's brother and alienates his girl friend who becomes jealous and determined to find out who Kate really is. Kate also seduces Kidder's husband, but does not have sex with him.  Viewers will be intrigued to find out what Kate is up to and who she is.

Double Secret Probation Like in another great Donald Sutherland flick, M*A*S*H, nothing is really sacred. Not the stuckup and officious Omega House rush, whose boring members will run the real world, unfortunately. Not the college, with it's Cretaceous period Rex dean and his thunder- lizard image. Faber's dean hates Animal House and wants to put his foot down right smack on the roof of the wild frat house. What Dean Wormer wants depends on a lot of people--Otter, the stallion, Neidermeyer who is in the ROTC Calvary, Blutarsky, learning about women in a college way and also about cafeteria decor, the happily happily mellow professor played by the late Donald Sutherland. It's important not to leave out Flounder who donated his brother's car. The best 109 minutes I ever spent in college, lots of times. I might add.  I rented this, but it will soon be on the shelf with other fine films of great import ale. A great time for everyone. Will you pass me another?  -.-

Haunting This is not an easy film to watch.  It is challenging.  It will haunt your thoughts days and weeks afterwards.  It is cerebral, it is depressing, it is beautiful.

Love 4 for One small Price! We love that you can get 4 movies for a small price, and even get to see movies we had never seen before! Bought it for one, and have watched all four and like them all! Check out other movies from this seller, and I think you will be happy as well!

BEN-HUR - BluRay Disc Version I just got my copy of the BluRay version of BEN-HUR.  This version is absolutely fantastic or any other adjective that you want to use to describe it.  I was 14 years old when this movie was originally released in 1959.  In the ensuing 52 years I have watched this movie in excess of 600 times.  It would be a gross misunderstatement to say that this is my "favorite movie" of all time.  I have had versions in Betamax, VHS, DVD and now in BluRay.  BluRay is by far the best version of the movie released to date.  I don't see how they can do a better job but with technology being the way it is I'm sure that a much better version will be available in the years to come.  The question is will I be around to see it?  I lived in the Boston area about 20 years ago.  The Wang Center was created about that time period.  The Wang Center contained, I believe, it was a 20 screen, state-of-the-art theatre complex.  To introduce the cinema to the people they had a contest and the top 20 films would be shown in the opening weeks.  BEN-HUR was one of them.  They got a remastered version of it and Charlton Heston appeared on the stage to introduce the film.  One hell of a night.  I thought that this version was superior.  Though it's only a fond memory at this time it doesn't compare to the BluRay version that is now available.  I wish that I could recommend the 50th Anniversary set for $44 but I can't.  When the movie soundtrack was released it came in a package that had an information booklet on BEN-HUR.  I was hoping that booklet would be in this presentation set.  It wasn't and I think they made a major mistake in not releasing the booklet.  Get the disc NOT the package.

Exceptionally creative....a wonderful film!!! This one will keep your attention throughout.....has some very unique creativity, notably handsome actors throughout, and a general theme which all will agreeably relate to.  Even has an outstanding cameo appearance from a favorite actress of mine (I'm not telling who!), and also has a cool song in its soundtrack that I'm readying to buy.  This film was cleverly devised in such a way that it is great for everyone and has something for all...this is definitely one to check out!!!

A gory classic!! This one definitely saved the franchise.  Not that it lacked much, but you can only take a one themed storyline so far, let alone create an entire franchise out of it.  Saw VI is outstanding and keeps you hooked the whole way through and really makes you despise the primary villain.

Have car will travel Great vehicle for Jason of course!  Kate Nauta is a lean, mean killing machine. Francois Berleand is back and is such a natural. I love the interaction Jason has with the child actor, Hunter Clary.  Love the action!

Wonderful A great movie that we enjoy watching again and again.  Very funny!  Some movies are flavored with "trash filler". This movie is not like that.

Warm and fuzzy! I am a huge Richard Gere fan. This movie was funny as well as warm and fuzzy.Although I felt the real star was Jennifer Lopez's butt.

Become entranced... Just as effective as the 1972 original, yet for vastly different reasons, Steven Soderbergh's triumphant sci-fi masterpiece is an intellectually stimulating look at loneliness, love and eventual madness.  The film is stunning to look at, with each set piece moving in such stimulating manners; and the film itself has such a ferocious fluidity that completely takes you over.  It is hypnotic in a way, shifting rather effortlessly from present day moments to flashback sequences.  The film, in a more modern sense, is far more visually captivating than the original film (both films are adapted from the novel written by Stanislaw Lem, so it would be inaccurate to say that this 2002 film is a remake of Tarkovsky's '72 masterpiece).  Both films, while constructively different, are marvelous cinematic feats.  I think that, overall, Tarkovsky's film makes the strongest statement (and it remains haunting regardless of how many times I watch it), but that is no discredit to the work that Soderbergh does with this underrated classic.  Why isn't this loved deeply by all?  Chris Kelvin is a psychologist sent to a space station orbiting an alien planet.  That particular station has stopped all communications, and Kelvin is sent to investigate why.  When Kelvin arrives he is quickly absorbed into the manipulated atmosphere created by the glowing orb lingering outside the space station.  Infiltrating his inner desires, this planet projects Kelvin's deceased wife.  Kelvin's rationality initially rejects this reincarnation but with persistence this planet is able to get inside his head, where he wholly accepts this woman as the root of all happiness.  Soderbergh's interpretation of the source material is vastly different than Tarkovsky's.  Apparently, neither director appeased the novel's author, who was vocally opposed to both film adaptations.  Where Tarkovsky projected a coldness that seemed to highlight the story's more intellectual side, Soderbergh plays to the romantic, creating a more warm and embracive texture with the film.  The film is a visual marvel, and Soderbergh uses that element with such finesse.  The performances here are all top notch.  Clooney really sinks into the role, and while his character can at moments feel more observational than anything else (like a mere canvas for those around him to paint), he grounds his performance in a `felt' emotional resistance.  Viola Davis is extraordinary here, finding a solemn depth of character that lives in the small moments.  Jeremy Davies provides small splashes of humor that break up the film's consistent tension, and Natascha McElhone uses more than just her stunning looks to captivate the audience (and Clooney).  I can understand why some are put off by this film; for it is not the most accessible feature film.  Honestly though, this is a stunning piece of work, and it serves as a complimentary piece to Tarkovsky's version because they tell two sides of the same story, or two variations, so that we can get a fuller picture, which in the end may be exactly what Stanislaw Lem would have wished us to see.

Great 3rd movie This is the 3rd movie of the series and by far one of the best of the series. I love this movie I would recommend it.

Entertaining from beginning to end Spetacular actions, stunning visual and some well time humors.  Reminder of Indiana Jones - Raider of Lost Ark.  Pre-ordered on Blue Ray

movie I had gone more than 10 years since seeing this movie. I looked for it everywhere. The only place I could find it, at a decent price, was on amazon. I never realized how much i missed this movie until i received it

Fiddler on the Roof I purchased Fidler on the Roof from Amazon.  If you enjoy good music with a great story, you will enjoy this DVD. I am glad that I purchased it.

I Spit on Your Grave Review The dvd came in without any problems and played on my set.  Definitely I will purchase products from this seller again.

Just like the Irish The movie starts out a little slow and kind of sappy, then it gets interesting when everything seems to go wrong for this punctual woman (Anna). Once she gets to Ireland it becomes hilarious in the situations she ends up in with this Irish man (Declan). My boyfriend is very picky on movies and he is not the romatic type (neither am I - on Valentines Day we both went to see Wolfman) but he and I laughed and enjoyed this one. This romatic comedy reminds me of "French Kiss" with Kevin Cline & Meg Ryan - another great movie that even guys can be entertained with.

Unnecessary, but a hell of a ride! As a self proclaimed fanboy of Spider Man 2, and the obvious misstep of Spider Man 3, I went into this movie with some very large reservations.  But once the lights returned to the cinema and I took time to realize what I had just witnessed, I was instantly aware that I was wrong.  The chemistry between the leads is impressive and never forced.  The action doesn't distract from the core of the film either, which is the character development and time it takes for us to understand and actually care for the people involved.  This is definitely a case of me being wrong and hollywood creating a movie that is on par or better with a great work from recent cinema aka Spider Man 2

Better than I thought I have to admit that this show was much better than I thought it would be especially considering how I was brought up with the 80s version. The artwork and story design were great. It was cool that they actually went about and told how Prince Adam got the sword since the original didn't and cool how Skeletor came to be. Was disappointed that there were only 40 episodes made since I was left wanting more and to see how they might have branched off into a possible spin off with She-Ra since they introduced Hordak. But overall a really great show that leaves you wanting more.

Absolutely Fabulous! What else can you say?  The title says it all.  Everything you want to say to someone else, and, in my case probably have.  I just love them. I can see myself and a friend in these real life roles. Fantastic!

VERY BIG IMPROVEMENT! this kills the original, the action is better, more gore (the first one wasnt), darker story, it doesnt have the silly humor like the 1st one, and a little improvement of the acting. To me this is more like a reboot. big improvement check it out!

AMAZING I can't stress this, if you haven't seen/bought this movie you should be punished for not supporting amazing stories. Also if at any point you didn't buy/see this movie and instead went and bought/saw Twilight you should be punished again for ruining vampires. The american remake is good, but nothing is quite like this incredible film. Its in my humble opinion the best vampire movie in agaes. It's not scary, just good.

Anything Judy Dench ASIN:ASIN The Last of the Blonde Bombshells  We just love anything Judy Dench is in. And, of course, the WWII timing works for us as well.  Thanks.

All I can say is WOW I just watched Battleship. Oh wow, did I ever watch Battleship! Three times in a row to be exact,  and rewound to the most spellbinding authentic appearing and downright heart rending scenes too many times to count.  After I invested my entire day with this BRILLIANT movie, I then went to Wikipedia to check on how it had done, etc. Well, folks, I was downright peeved. I still am! This movie did the WORST for a movie that cost what it did to produce. Are they NUTS whoever "they" are? I've had this on my wait list since I first learned of it - on the internet, by the way. Actually, via seeing a "drop" which is basically a 10 second commercial, on HULU likely, but I'm not sure. What I notice is this. I didn't see ANY other advertising for it - and wouldn't have located it had I not done my own searching for when it would be out.  Now, with the movie industry making these massively costly boo boos for their box office, don't they get it? Don't they get the fact that most of us want to stay at home now and watch these newly released movies for MUCH less than going out to the theater and dropping a hundred bucks for all the concession nonsense as well as the cost of going? Look, film makers. We are in a real bad place here in the US financially, and yet these movies are still our outlet. Also, we who have a set income, have to limit our entertainment options - and there is much more now available via ROKU and the net. Heck, I haven't had cable for years since I found HULU. It rocks to have the option of watching what I want, when I want to watch it. Also, all the networks have gotten it apparently - because I can also watch CSI or whatever - and when I wish, via their website. Who, in the world, doesn't know this now? I don't know anyone.  Back to BATTLESHIP! My point is simple. This movie is exceptional, as is another movie by the star, Taylor Kitsch who appears in this one - John Carter the movie. It didn't do well at all either - and I just happened on it. On Amazon, of course, and you should buy it too! You won't be sorry. So, all you who are making the mistake of paying any attention to other than what folks are sharing in this forum? Get over it and WATCH THIS MOVIE. BUY THIS MOVIE! BUY BATTLESHIP, pop some popcorn, get some Kit-Kats at Walmart and have fun! Be prepared to be proud of the USA. We are the greatest country on this earth...well, the best of the worst anyway! Anyway, Battleship is absolutely worth it. Now, I think I'm going to watch it again!! Be well, all of you.

Product Arrived as Advertised Not much more to say.  New in box.  Arrived on time and undamaged.  What more can one ask for of an online purchase?

I Love the Overtone of Innocence in Forrest Where do you start? There's a bit of everything in Forrest Gump. But not a film for little kids though. I really believe the film is about going with your feelings and living a simple life. After watching FG, I though to myself how do you shoot all the different scenes? How does Tom Hanks act like someone with a 75 IQ? That's not easy. Forrest Gump is pure magic, watch the movie.

In Love with Loving Annabelle I purchased this film about 2 weeks ago, and I have barely gone a day since without watching it at least once. I love it more and more every time! Honestly, a large part of the reason I love it so much is because Erin Kelly (Annabelle) is so gorgeous in this film. But that's not the only reason I loved it. It's a passionate tale of love and longing, which I can very definitlely relate to. The love scene (yes, there is a lesbian love scene) is the most beautiful scene I have ever watched in any movie. You will find yourself drawn into their lives and feel what the characters feel. It's not the standard teacher/student love affair, you really get the sense that these women have a deep connection, and that's what drives the movie. You want their love to be victorious and conquer all the stereotypes. There is such a great buildup of their love, which makes it so much more intense and exciting in the end when they finally express their love for each other. And to top it all off, the music throughout the movie flows perfectly with the storyline and adds to the overall beauty and emotion of the film.  If you're like me, after the film is over, you'll want to start watching it again immediately. Also, all the extras like alternate ending, deleted scenes, and director/actor commentary make me appreciate the film even more. I can truly say that this movie is one you will be glad that you purchased.

Scarlet & Black DVD Arrived ON TIME & Excellent Condition Having just finished a vacation trip to Italy and learning of Catholic Priests' efforts to help escaped Allied prisoners avoid the retreating Nazis, I searched to find a video depicting this historical event.  I ordered "Scarlet & Black" with Gregory Peck, updated on DVD and was extremely pleased to have the DVD arrive ahead of the projected delivery schedule and in excellent condition at a fair price. The video was a wonderful story probably overlooked by most people and we thoroughly enjoyed it and are loaning it to others in our family to view now too. I would definitely purchase from this vendor again.

Blu-ray? Why isn't their a blu-ray version of this volume, because after epidodes 80 something, the series starts going(Broadcasted)in HD at the time?

The Girl w/ the Dragon Tattoo The first bit of the movie, I guess I wasn't paying attention to or not reading the subtitles fast enough, because I had no idea what was going on. A third of the way through everything started clicking for me and from about that moment on I was completely enthralled. The suspense built up at a steady pace and I was gripping my chair waiting to see what would happen next. I thought it was shot well, the actors acted well, and the whole thing was a great film.

Couldn't of been any more..... PERFECT! This is by far one of the best animated films I have seen in a long time, the story is very well written that keeps close to the theme of the old classic tale WHILST changing certain aspects of the story, which in my opinion was actually an improvement.  Tangled gives you a lot of that old Disney's feeling, while bringing something new, it has beautiful music tracks and just like the old Disney classics, it has songs you could sing along too.  Every character has their own unique personality that you will instantly love, be it Flynn with his hilarious flirtatious behaviour, Rapunzel's cute, caring & clumsiness personality, Pascal the chameleon's sweet yet tough attitude or Maximus; the horse who is completely fearless and has a serious vendetta against Flynn which is extremely entertaining.  The voices were perfect, if someone asked me if I could change anyone's voice, who would it be... I just couldn't do it.  Overall in my opinion this is a master piece, visually the film is stunning and you get a real connection with all the characters, it's just one big emotional roller-coaster. This film will definitely be enjoyed no matter who you are; child, teen, adult, male or female, if you haven't seen it yet, then I would recommend you do so.

Always a good flick It's just like watching a brand new movie - not sure the Ultimate Edition is that ultimate, but the movie was great.

A charming and ever-so-slightly subversive reintroduction to The Muppets [May contain mild spoilers] I used to watch The Muppet Show regularly, and loved the first movie (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ATQYTM">The Muppet Movie</a>).  The Muppets manage to produce a blend of entertainment that is funny and engaging (and appropriate) for kids, while having another layer that makes it equally entertaining for adults.  For example, in this new installment, during one of the opening song and dance numbers, the crowd of singing/dancing people and Muppets move down a backlot city street, and they pass a hippy who looks very much like Willie Nelson, who pipes up to sing the word "high" in the song.  Now, for our toddler daughter this meant nothing (other than a funny looking guy singing), but my wife and I cracked up.  Similarly, during the finale when the Muppets are putting on a show, there is a number performed solely by chickens, and it's a cover of Cee Lo Green's song 'Forget You'.  Sung by chickens.  Chickens who cluck.  As in, cluck you, which is remarkably close to the uncensored version of that song.  Again, that will fly over younger kid's heads, but I had to pause the movie and LOL for a bit, then rewind and see it again.  Classic Muppet stuff.  And it's not just about the subversive bits, or the cameos, either.  The film feels true to the sensibilities of the Muppets, and, frankly, I've been worried about them becoming assimilated by Disney and turned into...well, who knows what, but not what they were.  I am happy (and thankful to Disney) to report that these are the Muppets, as we know and love them, updated for today's audiences but without losing their character or personalities.

i can not remember title! i found that after this particular epsoide, there isn't any need for therapy...the show centers around sheldon's character ( the know it all ) knowing the cricket that is heard by: sheldon, howard and rajesh, is none other than the snowy tree cricket. sheldon, thinking all will just take his word for it, goes back to the conversation they were having, only to be challenged by howard. howard tells sheldon he may know allot but this he ( howard wolowitz ) knows the cricket is a common field cricket. sheldon ( of course argues ) until they bet on who is right. then the fun begins...rajesh brings up the point of having to find said cricket in order to solve the bet. the part where the three get caught in the closet!!!! i still can't watch without pausing the tv so that i can stop laughing long enough to BREATH? i love just about all the epsoides,but i believe the bet on tree cricket's is the best. review by madhattercyn

great i like the addams family :-)thank you everything was great no problem. what do you want me to say everything was great i met lisa loring

Such a great film!!!! Unbelievable film! In fact, it exceeded my expectations as this film explores the history of surfing, not just "black" surfing but surfing in general like no other! It takes you on a journey of consciousness through the African-American experience along with the Polynesian culture that shows you why there aren't more surfers of color in the water. The footage is just down right captivating and I watched it twice so far. Trust me, you will not be disappointed, you have to watch this film!!!

Performance: Journey through the 60s Psychedelic Experience This is THE best film about the psychedelic movement in the sixties. As a matter of fact it's also one of the best movies ever made: period. The plot, the characters, the cinematography, the themes, the soundtrack, the music, the acting... everything about it is genuine and really the way things were happening for many people at that time. I was 17 years old and drawn into the psychedelic bohemian culture as a youth trying to escape boring suburbia and dead end existence much the way James Fox's character was running away from a way of life he couldn't go back to, and had experiences which were like this in so many ways. It is, by design, a very disturbing film. The movie starts with a violent sex scene and we're introduced to Chas, played by James Fox; an enforcer for the London mob and also someone who loves the Playboy magazine lifestyle as so many did in those days. He was a young professional with his whole life ahead of him trying to build a successful career doing what he did best: making people understand that his boss was their boss and that's the way the world works. At a certain point, he runs afoul of his boss by doing his job too well. He crosses the line and suddenly he's in mortal danger and must leave everything behind until things cool down. He has to find a place to stay, and quick. From that point, mounting tension is created through every scene, each building upon the last, thereby also creating urgent questions at the end of each until it reaches a pinnacle where Chas suddenly has a vision, which like a bolt of lightning, ties together his current dilemma and long term life predicament and enables Chas to realize who he really is and where he stands in both worlds. The music is the very best track the Stones ever recorded with some of the most outrageous lyrics you've ever heard;recorded first with Eric Clapton on lead, which was canned, then re-recorded with Ry Cooder, who also does several other tunes in the movie, along with other songs by Randy Newman, Merry Clayton, and others. It was on Netflix for awhile and they took it off recently, probably because of complaints about the nudity and (live, they say) sex, violence, gay sexual themes, drug use, etc... At the time it was made, the industry was clueless about how to rate it. Nudity and sex in films were almost non-existent if barely legal when it came out. I watched it many times on there, just to again admire the still revolutionary (to this day) techniques used in the production of it. This film is a cinematic masterpiece.

VERY PLEASED!! I ordered a DVD and was so impressed with the speedy delivery. I received the DVD just two days after ordering it and that was with standard delivery. The DVD was in excellent shape, we have viewed all disc and enjoyed them so much.

The girls loved it and so did mommy! As with all things Disney, my 6 year old daughter and my 5 year old niece love this movie despite the fact that they've seen it many many times. I watched with them and also enjoyed it.

Wonderful!!! I just received this product in the mail today and I could not be any more pleased! I paid less than $14 for this product and it was worth every cent. I love The Notebook (the movie and the book) so when I came across this product on amazon, I just had to take advantage of such a wonderful offer. I know the WHOLE entire script to the movie verbatim... this shows just how in love I am with the movie. Everytime I watch it, I can't help but cry. No exaggeration. I really can't explain why I love this movie as much as I do, but I do know... that Noah and Allie share the kind of love that people go their whole lives yearning for but never finding. I don't know if real love (like displayed in the movie) is even real or if we are even capable of experiencing, but it must be the best feeling in the world to know that there is someone who loves you unconditionally and loves you just as much as you love them. Anyway, back on focus - this product is worth the cost and I advise all "The Notebook" lovers to make the purchase! You won't be disappointed. :)

Watchmen Blu Ray Arrived fast, new in package. Great film a must see details are crisp clean and the story, look and feel is very loyal to the source illustrated novel..One of the best screen adaptations ever done.. You will like this movie although it is not for little kids as it has some scenes that are for adults..

Scary LOL this may not be scary to most people but thinking back on it now the makeup on the blue guy was pretty terrifying to me when I was small. This was one of those movies I grew up on and it definitely resonated with me enough to have me recall the images in vivid detail after all of these years. I was about to buy the movie Labyrinth and this movie sprang into my mind all of a sudden... Definitely worth a watch, especially for the kids.

Mari's the best I have been doing Mari's pilates for years and I really find that no one else compares.  Whenever I loan out one too many copies, I have to buy a replacement and it is always Mari.  The 20 minute workout is a great quickie and the 50-minute workout is a good overall pilates workout.  She provides enough instruction without slowing the whole thing down, and you are continually encouraged to work at your own pace.  I have recommended and continue to recommend to all of my friends.

They don't make 'em like they used to... With all the films that have been receiving the Blu-ray treatment, I am so glad to see that "Bridge" gets the recognition it deserves.  Fantastic story, acting, writing, settings, and score.  For anyone who only knows Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan, this movie is a great introduction to depth of his talent.  I continue to wait for "Lawrence of Arabia" to  have the same makeover; which incidentally includes another amazing turn by Alec Guinness.  A must own for any fan of classic films looking to rebuild their film collection in Blu-Ray format.  You will be "happy in your work" whether rediscovering this masterpiece or viewing it for the first time.

Great Movies- Pinocchio (1940) 1940 could possibly be the best year for animation, for it saw the release of two of the greatest animated films ever made: "Pinocchio" and "Fantasia", two of Walt Disney's masterpieces. Is either film better than the other? It's almost impossible to compare them because both films are so different from the other.  When it comes to fear and terror, there is no animated film that is scarier than "Pinocchio." Sure, there are several scary moments in "Fantasia" and "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", but neither film is as practical or as frightening as "Pinocchio."  Seeing the film again last night for about the 3rd or 4th time, I was struck by what a great film it is. It could be called the most beautiful animated film in history, with its all of its artwork being beautifully hand-drawn (as were most of the films up until probably "The Jungle Book"). With the aid of computer technology, Disney returned to the great art form of beautiful hand-drawn animation with the standouts being "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Lion King."  But other than its artwork, I was struck by the story. "Pinocchio" is a beautiful fable that teaches a valuable moral lesson. It starts out with the creation of the puppet by Geppetto, and because the woodcutter is a kind person, his puppet comes to life. But to become a real boy, Pinocchio must prove himself brave, loyal, and unselfish, and he sets out to become real.  The mistake is made early in the film by Geppetto to send his boy to school without teaching him basic skills. Pinocchio came to life as a mindless blockhead, so he doesn't know the dangers of the world. As soon as the con artists Honest John the fox and Gideon the Cat see him, they easily persuade and corrupt the puppet's mind, taking him to be an actor instead of school.  This is where a conscience comes in handy. Pinocchio's is in the form of a cricket named Jiminy (who has overtime grown to be almost as significant as Mickey Mouse himself), who is easily angered when his advice is taken for granted. Pinocchio doesn't realize this, and it is too late to call on Jiminy when Stromboli locks Pinocchio in a cage. When the fairy that brought Pinocchio to life visits him and asks for the truth, the puppet spits out lies, and in one of the most imaginative aspects of any film, his nose grows and grows. She tells him that a boy who lies and won't do good might just as well be made of wood. She helps him escape that one time.  As the duo head home, Pinocchio is shanghaied by the con artists to Pleasure Island, where boys smoke, drink, eat, and play pool all day and all for free. The island though, is a curse, which recycles bad boys who skip school into donkeys where they are sent to the salt mines and the circus.  It is at Pleasure Island where Walt Disney's visions of fear and terror come to life. It speaks about our reality today. Kids who skip school and have fun all day will grow up with a poor job (if they are lucky enough to get one) and a miserable life.  As Pinocchio and Jiminy escape, they find that Geppetto has gone to look for his boy, and that he has been swallowed by Monstro the Whale. As the duo find the woodcutter, Pinocchio devises a plan of escape, and in one of the most impressive animated sequences of all time, they escape Monstro, and Pinocchio saves his father and finally becomes a real boy.  Unlike most animated films, "Pinocchio" is not a mindless fairy tale, but a parable with strong moral values. Only "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Lion King" could match the strength of the story of "Pinocchio", which teaches kids to be and do good. It teaches us to avoid temptations. When kids are presented with them, the kids show their true weaknesses, and will give into them, as Pinocchio did twice.  I have no need to discuss the music in the film, which is only rivaled by "Beauty and the Beast", "The Lion King", and "The Little Mermaid."  So what is the moral value of "Pinocchio"? As the Blue Fairy says at the very beginning of the film, "Be a good boy, and always let your conscience be your guide."  To quote Roger Ebert: "And that's no lie."

Inspired improvisations with a great audience To listen to Diana Krall play and sing with bossa nova inspired arrangements is marvelous.  To note that she has recorded many of the tunes previously and that the arrangements are similar, but the improvisations fresh is to move the performance to 5 stars.  The accompanying orchestra and her rhythm section are sensitive and inspired.  It is a joy to see such good musicians so thoroughly enjoy playing together.  And only in Brazil can you dare to invite the audience to sing, knowing that they will keep time and sing in tune!  Excellent production quality and the bonus track is informative, too.

Movie The Mechanic Great movie The Mechanic! The price was right, too. The plot is somewhat different than the original, but I liked it just as much.

Great Flick Its low budget and a sci-fi.  If you can understand that, you should love it too.  A child gets abducted, trained to be a worrior, then crash lands back on Earth.  For me, it's a great movie to get lost in.  And hey, it could happen.

My review of 'The Mask of Zorro' I grew up watching 'Zorro' every week with my Dad when I was a kid. There are many Zorro 'incarnations,' and there is something very appealing and romantic about the masked man fighting evil against impossible odds, and winning the heart of his true love.  "The Mask of Zorro," with Antonio Banderas and Kathrine Zeta-Jones is a suspenseful, humorous retelling of this old story, and keeps very much to the myth of Zorro.  It is set prior to California's statehood, and the costuming and scenery is spectacular.

Craziest movie ever My wife and I saw this move at the theatre and thought it was the craziest movie ever. It is almost a silent film - a lot of physical comedy - a lot a small clever details - and romance. There are a few times when you are sure what is going to happen next but it doesn't happen. Something else heppens instead.

Fun film, dated but still entertaining Certainly dated but it is loaded with class acts.  John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Ceasar Romero.  The heavy hand of John Ford.  Not to mention the beautiful island of Kauai and delightful music. Quick moving with a typical John Wayne ending.

Awesome! Act of Valor is Awesome!  True to life!  Great actors!  Directed fantastic!  Very worth watching!  Great tribute to Navy Seals who protect our freedom, and the sacrifices from them & their family!

It's a work of art. I have a terrible habit of mostly reviewing things I love. Alien is a masterpiece, and will be forever remembered as a landmark film. It ties with "The Haunting" for my all time favorite movie. The two movies only have one or two things in common: the capability to make an audience afraid, a black and peculiar beauty, and the complete lack of sentimentality.  That last characteristic I listed is one of the widely-overlooked features of an awesome horror movie. YOU, the viewer feels pity for the characters, because no one else will. (The only exception to this is another classic-to my point view: The Sixth Sense, which depends heavily on the humanity of the characters.) Despite the fact that I only liked Ripley and Cain, (and that idiot cat) I SOOO DID NOT want any of the characters to run into the alien.  The alien is one very original monster. I love it because it is so original. I sound like I'm an old woman when I say this, however it must be said: the look and feel of this movie had never been done before. Species, V, X-files, and countless horror and scifi movies and stories took on the look of Alien after this movie came around, but this is the real deal. A deadly animal that looks like an animal. A spaceship that looks worn, used: a workplace for a group of blue-collar workers who love each other the only way a co-worker can (which is to say, yeah, they don't get along very well, or have much faith in each other).  Where did it come from? Where did Ridley Scott get this movie and its awesome monster from? How did he put all of these individual fragments of interesting things together to make a whole so seamless, it seemed as complete as the origin of Dracula (like it was based on a myth or something else)? A sweet and beleaguered screenwriter had an idea about an alien that killed you by having sex with you, and laying it's progeny in your body. (Ew. Wow. But on it's own, what would it have been? To be fair to O'Bannon, I like other things he's made, but the movie as it was would have been another briefly shocking horror movie, this time on a space ship.) O'Bannon liked a few scifi artists, and they were good. (But choose one, and not the other, the ship would have been a pretty prop, heavy with the look of the style of the artist. It would not have been a space ship that people would live and work in.) Geiger's art is impressive, and resonates an Alienesque vibe, (before there was an Alien) however his work is static, and does not translate into the medium of film on its own. Lastly, there's Sigourney Weaver, a brand-new, but wonderful actress in this movie. She and Jonsey the cat serve the same purpose: all of the characters kind of belong in the horror but them. They're there for contrast. Somehow, the director makes all of these odd and shiny objects come together as the masterpiece this is.  That gets me to the larger reason why this classic will endure. Why does Ripley constrast so much with the other characters, with the situation at hand, and even with the ship itself? The movie strikes me as an allegory for Hell. The entire movie (as O'Bannon put it) is alien, a place where nothing could escape or live. It's a lot like Virgil making his way through each ring of the Inferno: here in the first ring is Cain, then Dallas, Lambert and Parker...  Really really scary.  It's also a great fantasy. (Just think about it.) Who hasn't daydreamed about all of their co-workers getting eaten by space aliens? Or...maybe that's just me.

nypdblue season 1 One of the best original cop shows. Enjoyed every minute of their cop speak. Also, it is one of the, if not, the first show on t.v. to show nudity. Just an all round good show. The cast was wonderful. So many t.v. and film stars got their start on this show. really enjoyed it and plan to invest in more seasons.

A must-have for Apes fans or any serious sci-fi fan I'll be brief, so as to avoid re-hashing previous comments about this release.  It's the Planet of the Apes films in hi-definition, folks.  If you even just LIKE the movies, this is the only way to go.  And for a fan, well, you get the beautifully-made hardback book (which unfortunately mostly just repeats the highlights of the excellent 1998 documentary "Behind the Planet of the Apes," also included here), and a wealth of bonus features.  Fittingly, the first film gets the most behind-the-scenes stuff, but there are some well-done featurettes on the others.  The other reason to pick it up is to get the controversial unrated cut of "Conquest," available for the first time on home video.  The fourth film in the series was already pretty dark; the addition of some surprising blood and gore, plus a shocking new ending, really makes this one stand out.  As a longtime fan, I'm not sure I actually PREFER the new cut, but I imagine most hardcore fans will find it to be an improvement.  If you have a decent home-theater setup, you'll really get your money's worth out of this one.  Video as is good as can be expected (not surprisingly, the bright outdoor scenes in the first 2 films really shine), and the new audio mix brings out the great music of Jerry Goldsmith (among others).  Bottom line: Just buy it already!  And if you're a fan but have been holding out on upgrading to Blu-ray, now is a great time to do it.

Delightfully quirky romantic comedy Thriller? Drama? No way! This is a quirky, totally unbelievable but totally charming little romantic comedy about an extremely dumb, naive but earnest gay kid who wants to impress his middle-aged terrorist ex-lover by blowing up a flagpole in Madrid, but he gets just about everything wrong.  If you watch this expecting a thriller, you'll be badly disappointed. If you take it seriously AT ALL, you'll be badly disappointed, especially at the end. But if you let Israel Rodriguez's devastatingly sexy and sweet and clueless Xavi get under your skin and work his magic on your imagination you'll have as good a time watching this delightful little movie as I did.  I had seen Rodriguez before only in a short called Doors Cut Down, when he was about 17; it was okay, but not great. Man, has he aged well! The long hair is incendiary, and he's turned from a cute kid into one of the sexiest men on earth. On top of that, he's smart and he's a great actor. Where are the American actors like him? Answer: There aren't any.

A fun watch You can't go wrong with Tim Burton.  This is a mindless fun-filled flick.  Total camp. Well filmed.  Good acting.  And good special effects for 1997.  And for those of you who don't remember,  this movie is based on bubble gum trading cards of the '60's, so it's kind of nostalgic too.  Enjoy.

Can't Beat Disney For The Grand Kids! Grand kids LOVED IT! As always, Amazon ROCKS! FREE! Shipping, EXCELLENT QUALITY! And BEST PRICES! It just doesn't get any better than Amazon!

Thoughtful, Balanced and Breathtaking I must give the highest recommendation to the quality of the Wascinski /Minuteman documentary. The vistas of the Arizona borders transmitted in breathtaking colors.  The piece was thoughtful and well constructed.  One  must marvel at the camerawork and photography; while appreciating the balanced approach to a very controversial subject.  The documentary presented a thorough analysis of the unspoken consequences of illegal immigration: the loss of entry level jobs for legal entrants and citizens, the environmental consequences of gross littering, the loss of livestock to fence vandalism, deaths, and the narcotics trade. Wascinski's documentary explores the solitary life of patriots who cloister themselves away from society, because they firmly believe in a principle.  The watchdogs of the border are, literally, voices crying in the wilderness.  We clearly see and feel the emotions they experience,the frustration, the rewards, the pride. The documentary fairly portrays advocates of amnesty as steadfast, also.  The documentary presents the real human costs of illegal immigration on both sides of the border.  It is simpathetic to the plight of the border crossers, and of the landowners who suffer from the crossings.  This piece is a gorgeous travelouge that captures a pitiful travesty of neglect.

great movie it is one of my favorite movies of all time. it is a timeless movie that is still funny today. `

Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides DVD My daughter has all the Carribean movies and we watch them over and over.  Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides DVD is very good!

HURRY UP AND RELEASE FULL SEASONS!!! I love this show, and Paramount is doing an excellent job with quality and sound. But please speed things up and release the full seasons instead of one volume at a time. None of us are getting any younger. I have all the released seasons and am eagerly awaiting the rest of them.

Poem lover This is by far, the best Hitchcock movie.  Jimmy Stewart is the best ever. This is the only time I've seen Kim Novak, and she's great for the character.  Even after seeing the movie a few time, you want to watch it again.  It's a keeper.

Love, Love, Love it! A must see! When actor & actress's were put on pedestals.  Its great seeing Elizabeth & Richard fall in love on screen.

Holly Martins' European Education The Third Man, 1949 film  The film begins showing post-war Vienna which is divided into four sectors. Holly Martins arrives, he was promised a job (he walks under ladders). Harry Lime isn't there to meet him, he is being buried today. Martins arrives at the graveyard. A stranger offers him a ride and a drink, then pumps him for information. Martins writes "cheap novelettes", the westerns that were popular then. Crabbins offers Martins a job to lecture on the contemporary novel; he will be paid. Then Baron Kurtz calls for a meeting; he was a friend of Harry Lime. Martins visits Harry's girlfriend Anna Schmidt, who acts in a classic comedy. She accepts the loss of Harry, and tries to move on with her life. Martins learns more details about Lime's death: his driver, his friends, and his doctor were all there. Was it really an accident?  Martins and Miss Schmidt return to Lime's apartment. The porter tells about Lime: "he was quite dead", killed at once. There was a third man present at the death scene! The porter doesn't want to get involved with the police. Next they learn the police are investigating Miss Schmidt, and she is brought in for questioning about her identity papers. Martins visits Dr. Winkel, Lime's medical advisor. Miss Schmidt was used to send a message to Joseph Harbin, who went missing the day Lime died. Martins visits the Casanova Club where Harry's friends hung out. Mr. Popescu tells how the death happened. Martins asks about the third man, and tells what the porter saw. Popescu says he doesn't know much more. The porter asks Martins to return that night, but after he closes the window he is startled as if he saw a ghost. Martins tells Anna about Harry, how he could fix things and knew how to fiddle the rules. When they go to visit the porter they find he was murdered. Did he know too much?  Holly Martins speaks to the literary club. He seems to be over his head among the literary crowd. Two hard looking men pursue him, but he flees through dark alleys to escape. Major Calloway explains the racket that Lime organized. Stolen penicillin was watered down and sold for enormous profits. The facts convince Martins. Before he leaves he visits Anna Schmidt to say goodbye. On his way home Martins is startled to see a watcher in a doorway. He reports this to Calloway, who investigates and discovers buried facts. Martins goes to meet Harry Lime to warn him of what the police know. The conversation reveals Lime's amorality, and Lime's ignorance of history. Martins makes a deal to save Anna, but she doesn't want to be saved [symbolism?]. Martins is convinced to help Calloway by meeting Lime while the police keep watch. The trap works, Lime flees underground among the rats while the authorities pursue. A special force searches the sewer system. There is a dramatic ending to the chase that echoes "He Walked By Night". Martins settles his debts with his old friend. [Lime had picked him for the patsy.] The film ends with another funeral, not a Hollywood ending. [This fast-paced film entertains without drawing attention to the improbable events.]  Penicilin was used for more diseases than the meningitis shown in this movie, but that couldn't be mentioned. A watered-down medication creates penicillin-resistant super-bacteria, the real crime here.

A Very Entertaining Movie! I am a huge fan of anything Oz related so I may be a little biased from the start but I can also be objective in my review.  After waiting more than 6 months to see this I was very pleased with the movie.  I read a lot about this movie online and watched the trailer many times before I actually saw it.  Going into it I knew that it was made as a tv mini-series and was not big budget Hollywood movie. I felt it was very well made and I was very entertained throughout the whole movie.  It was an interesting twist and very different from Tin Man (which I loved). This movie may not be for everyone but for me it was well worth the wait! I would love to see the full length mini-series and compare the two.  In the end I gave it 5 stars not because it's an Oscar worthy movie but because I felt it lived up to my expectations and because I was genuinely entertained.

Wonderful book I had read it years ago. I bought it for my Kindle. This was for a coworker who loves inspiring books. The movie also is a great and inspiring thing. Read and watch both.

Hilarious! If your a fan of Simple Plan, then I highly suggest you buy this DVD. It's absolutely hilarious! The DVD shows you behind the scenes of recording their first album, music videos, touring, and just the guys being their usual, funny selves. You even get some postcards and a CD that includes live versions of "I'd Do Anything" and "One Day." Honestly, it's worth buying it. It's become one of my favorite DVDs to watch.

Unique and a Masterpiece Sullivan's Travels is a truly great movie, a screwball comedy of the highest order, but it is also sort of an unusual one.  For one thing, it aims to set forth a justification for comedy.  It has a thesis.  The first half, or more, of ST is the comedy.  Sullivan, a successful Hollywood director, wants to do more with his life through his work.  Having made some very successful comedies like So Long Sarong, Hey Hey in the Hayloft, and Ants in Your Plants of 1939, Sullivan now wants to make a serious movie, O Brother Where Art Thou.  The studio heads are not happy with that, but since Sullivan is their favorite, and something of a pet, they grudgingly agree.  However, Sullivan makes it hard for himself.  Before he embarks on the project, he decides that, because of his sheltered life, he needs to take to the road as a hobo in order to properly experience the vicissitudes of existence.  Sullivan is a sweet man, a simple man, and something of a naïf, and Joel McCrea is just perfect in the part.  Everyone of course thinks he's crazy, even the girl (of course there's a girl) he meets and falls for,  Sullivan has a wild card, his cushion, though.  He's not really a bum, and he can always go back to his pampered luxurious existence whenever he chooses.  Until one day....  Until tragedy befalls.  ST is kind of twp movies.  It's a comedy, then a tragedy, and then it attempts to reconcile the two with the comedy supervening.  Decide for yourself if it succeeds.  It's a gallant attempt, probably Sturges most ambitious movie when it comes to subject matter, and makes for a unique movie experience.  Everyone is A+ in their roles.  The dialog is as sharp as it can be, and of course this being  a Sturges' movie that's saying something. There are eccentric supporting characters (a requisite of good screwball) and the plot keeps developing in novel but believable ways.  Lake is good--very effective, and very believable as the love interest.  You want her and McCrea to get together, stays together, and have a good life.  But it's McCrea's movie, and he  is at the top of his comedy form.  When I was growing up, he and Randolph Scott were the cowboy heroes for older kids (the two together more or less went out on a Western masterpiece, Ride the High Country).  I didn't know until the advent of TCM and the old AMC that he had had this other career in comedy and romantic drama.  Around this time, McCrea was also in The Palm Beach Story (another superb Sturges move), Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent, sort of a screwball spy film, a very fine movie, and The More the Merrier, another screwball masterpiece.  Earlier he had been in two excellent screwball comedies with Miriam Hopkins:  The Richest Girl in the World and Woman Chases Man.  Try them.  I think you will be pleasantly surprised.  McCrea is as adept with drama as he is with comedy.  He's has such a natural easy style.  He doesn't force effect on his line readings.  In fact, like with a lot of actors of the naturalist just play yourself school, you tend to underrate him at first maybe.  He gets his effect; he gives you your money's worth emotional payoff.  And I don't know of many actors who could have so fluidly reconciled the movie's essential schizophrenia.

DVD Oh such fun watching the movie, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007QJ210">The Milagro Beanfield War</a> Very good.  Passed on to my friend who is 94, know she will enjoy as much as I did.  Thanks

The Jesus Film The best thing about this film is the fact that it adheres to the Bible as it is written.  Hollywood took no liberties or artistic license.  You hear the Scripture exactly as it is written in the book of Luke.  The places where it was filmed are real, and the costumes and actors look authentic. It is probably the only Bible film that doesn't take from or add to the Word of God.  Other films, like Jesus Of Nazereth; the Ten Commandments; The Nativity; the Passion of the Christ; etc.  have added to or left things out for the purpose of pushing their own agendas.  There is a strict warning in Scripture itself.  Revelation 22:19  New International Version 1984 (NIV1984) 19 And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.

SUCH A BEAUTIFUL ANIMATION!!!!!! THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN is a nice movie, that may please everyone who enjoys TINTIN[s stories....the animation of the movie is beautiful, with AMAZING graphics....REALLY GOOD!!!!!

Surprisingly beautiful! I have to say I did not expect the film to be so raw, sexy, emotional, and meaningful... judging by the previews. But it totally captivated me... I loved every bit of it!

Not just for boys! This movie is great for boys and girls alike. My two year old was enamored and actually had a CARS party for her third birthday. She became obsessed with collecting each of the CARS. She was also the only girl in her daycare with lightup Lightening McQueen shoes (yes, boys shoes - they make NO girl CARS stuff). The movie is cute and the G rating is appropriate. There is only one scary scene where Mater and Lightening go "tractor tipping" and a large tractor named "Frank" chases them through the field. The story is simple enough for young children to understand the plot, but interesting enough for the parents that will no doubt have to sit through it countless times.

Instant Favorite I watched this movie during my Portuguese class in college. Something about this movie had everyone in the room glued to the screen. The time for class to end came and went and yet the entire class was still sitting there not moving. My car was in danger of being ticketed because I had parked in a 2 hour parking zone and I refused to leave before the movie was over. Is this movie graphic? Yes. Is the storyline sometimes hard to swallow? Sure. Is this movie amazing? YES! It is the nature of a movie like this to display the most violent and dark sides of nature and that is exactly what this movie did in the most entertaining and riveting way possible. The movie contains drama, comedy, action, romance, and coming-of-age then wraps them all into one perfect package. Definitely recommend this movie especially to those like myself who had never learned about the slums of Brazil until I saw City of Gods.

Substitute Given The first DVD arrived and was loose in the package. After emailing seller, I had new DVD in 2 days with a return envelope for the first package. The replacement cam more quickly than the original. Good work all around.

pleased Very pleased with how fast this was shipped. It was cheap, and perfect! Couldn't be happier with The purchase! Thanks so much!

Boardwalk empire Loved this video can't wait for next season. can't imagine what hold Whiskey had on people and how goverment by making a law against it created the crime that consumed so many What a waste of taxpayers dollars. The war on Cannabis is just as costly our prisons are full of drug users because big brother opened the door for more crimanals to prosper and kill for it

Great complement to the Book I've read the Harris books, and was most intrigued by Hannibal Rising.  Didn't watch the movie until just now, purchased here through Prime Instant Video.  Acting superb, film editing A++++ (my big complaint about most films regards editing).  The movie strays from the book at key points, yet depends on you knowing the book.  You get a different idea of the story, if you've not read the book.  If you have, the 'straying' complements the book instead of contradicting it, especially with regard to certain elements in the book which weren't much explained.  Good to see them depicted, here.  It is a brutal movie;  not gory, but the story line demands the brutality shown.  Good restraint in showing it, too.  Some moments were less-than-believable, but it didn't harm the viewing.  Key here is how people deal with trauma.  Like the other viewers, I hope to see a followup prequel covering the period between the end of this movie, up to where Red Dragon begins.  I don't want to give away the plot.  Very happy to have purchased it, as the acting, filiming is so good, I'll want to watch it many times.  Ulliel is fabulous, but so are all the other actors.  Great range given them.  The entire Hannibal series of movies and the books are worth repeated viewing, reading; man's psychological complexity is well explored and ably handled.

Big Fans My husband and I love Two And A Half Men.  We have watched it since the first episode. I bought this for my son so he could enjoy it also.

Wonderful, as expected Have loved this classic for many years -- have special affection for the entire cast of characters, but especially for Mrs. Slocombe and Mr. Humphries.  What a joy to own the full collection of original episodes.  I already had the sequel "Are You Being Served Again" and really like how well they continue their relationship/retirement working at The Manor.  Have introduced both series to my Granddaughters - so we'll enjoy them for years to come !

A Holiday Favorite!! One of my favorite Christmas movies, now I can watch it anytime I want, at any time of the year!!

A slight problem, but I still love it Has anyone had the problem of different content on their dvd? I received the True Blue Friends for christmas but the episodes match those on the 1st disc of the Season 1 vol. 2. I think there are more episodes than the other but I have never experienced a problem like this. I am just not sure what to do if I want to purchase the rest. The label on the disc even reads True Blue Friends so it must be a manufacturing flaw. I am just curious if I am the only one or are there others. A great product though. I am a grown up who loves the Smurfs and my kids love it now also.

Eyes opening A real eye opener. Fast paced and attention grabber. Mr Washington does a superlative job And I think most viewers would agree with me.

an American classic Lucas made a movie filled with American archetypes that was followed by dozens of inferior imitators, which turned them into stereotypes. This was the one that started it all. It still seems fresh today. There are moments of pure corn, sure, but many too of sheer exhilaration - the joy of being a teenager on a night out.

The Lost Prince This is really a precious movie about a little prince that wasn't perfect and how he was hidden away from site during the Victorian Period.  Great scenery and pretty fair acting.  We loved this movie - well done.

DONNIE BRASCO YOU CANNOT GO WRONG WITH AL PACINO AND/OR JONNY DEPP, 2 GOOD ACTORS IN AN AWESOME MOVIE ABOUT GANSTERS AND THE LAW BACK IN THE DAY. AFTER I WATCH THIS I WATCH ANOTHER GANSTER MOVIE BECAUSE IT GOT ME IN THE MOOD.

race to this movie Volume one of this set is the most fascinating account of nasa's early years that I have ever seen. Gene Kranz's crisp memory of these early years allow him to tell the story in such a way that you understand fully how this handful of men were able to pull off this massive achievement. I have loaned these to a few of the guys at work and so far everyone has fully enjoyed it,leading to many discussions. Oh yeah, then there is volume 2. It covers apollo 13 in detail as well as the space shuttle program and beyond.

One of the Best Sitcoms EVER! May sound strange, but I would rate this as the very BEST TV show I have ever seen in my life, in all of my 60 years. My only complaint is that, since the show only lasted two seasons, and each season only had 10 30-minute episodes, they should have released both seasons (20 episodes) in one DVD package. Why release a DVD with only 10 episodes, and then not bother to release the second season? Fortunately, I taped the second season, so I have access to it. But it would be nice to have it on DVD.

BETTE IN BLU! The great things about this movie are too numerous to count.  The screenplay is razor-sharp and witty, the acting is brilliantly performed by everyone, but especially Bette Davis and Anne Baxter.  Even Marilyn Monroe makes a classic appearance.  Throw in intriguing characters and an original plot about the darker side of show business and this 1950 Best Picture winner isn't just a best picture for its time, it's a timeless classic that should be required viewing for anyone who likes intelligent scripts and great storytelling.  Most importantly, however, is that--thanks to Blu Ray technology--watching this 60 year old movie doesn't have to feel like viewing a historical document.  In fact, excepting the fact that it's in black and white, there's really nothing old about it.  Not a trace of film flecks or grain or a shaky transfer.  Every image is very crisp and clear, startling so in most cases.  If you've seen the mind-boggling restoration of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002VWONB2">Casablanca [Blu-ray</a>] on Blu Ray you know the startling sensation I'm talking about.  If you're new to Blu Ray don't think for a second that the HD disc will only enhance new releases.  That's entirely untrue.  In reality, Old releases actually fair better most of the time because they were filmed in 35mm which contains sooo much detail (even more than a 1080p transfer can provide, in fact) so what you're seeing, if the transfer is done right, is exactly what the film makers intended you to see.  As far as picture quality goes, I'd easily give All About Eve 5/5 stars.  Bette Davis' eyes have never looked more entrancing than in true 1080p.  Her performance is absolutely glossy and in more ways than one.  A truly must-own for anybody who is a fan of this movie (and yes, it's worth upgrading from DVD).  The audio isn't as life-changing, but hardly anything to be disappointed by.  It's very true to its original source while still offering some surround sound bells and whistles, but never over-modified.  There were a few soft moments, particularly in the narrative voice overs, but I'm sure that's mostly due to the original source and I'd prefer to have it sound a little soft than altered in some unnatural way.  Overall, if you've never seen this classic film, you simply must.  If not in stunning high definition then I guess DVD will do, but why not experience it in the best possible way technology has allowed?  No other generation has been able to sit at home and look into the glorious depth and clarity of this movie, why would you want to skip out on the experience?  And if you have seen the movie before, and even if you already own a past dvd release, let me assure you that this latest transfer is worth upgrading for.  The blu ray book is stylish and attractive and the extras are plentiful and interesting.  But most importantly, the picture quality.  Oh, the picture quality! That's what it is all about.

Just What I Was Looking For! I really like this workout!  It is fun to do, and unlike some workouts the instructor doesn't go so fast that you get lost.  After doing it I feel I had a good workout, but I don't feel like I'm going to collapse.  It doesn't put too much strain on my knees.  Later, I may get the rest of her workout videos.

Excellent super fast service Excellent fast customer service  and  top notch product in great condition  Keep up the great work  God Bless You  Merry Christmas

Favorite Music Video We had to replace our vhs tape with the dvd.  The quality of this is so much better.  We love it as do our children and grandchildren.  The energy is infectious and we never get tired of watching and listening.

Highly recommend I rented this after being curious about the title for a bit.  I am so glad that I did.  It is a great movie on its own, and only afterward did I explore how it was made, which makes it an amazing movie.  I like it so much I am going to purchase it.  Films like this should be rewarded.

Richard Gere at his best Basically, this is a nasty Cinderella story with many improbable twists. Richard Gere's irreparably coarse character became a USN Officer with no discernable skills, but a Gentleman he could never be. However, all of the performances are superb and the rural Pacific Northwest scenery is beautiful. The OCS scenario is loose and lacking,  but bearable in view of the soap opera plot.  The closing theme song  by Kenny Rogers and Jennifer Warnes remains one of The Greats.  Still one of my favorite films.

BEST MOVIE EVER This is te greatest movie I have ever watched!!! Ponyo is so cute and adorable not to mention rebellious. She followed her heart and tries to get to her true love.

The greatest Western ever made!!! What makes a great movie? The greatest story; a hero saving the down trodden.  A story that flows flawlessly with no time wasting fillers.  And the most beautiful scenery presented with the best picture quality I've ever seen in a Western.  Wonderfully acted, casted and directed. I wish all tranfers to Blu Ray where this excellent!  I saw only one review of this product indicating the transfer was terrible, but it seems perfect to me.

Up To Snuff I have to give five stars. I think this a magnificent rendering of Beethoven's nine symphonies. I watched and listenened intently to the 9th Symphony first. I was amazed at the clarity of the video. My only complaint is that the camera was not on soprano Gundula Janowitz when she hit that other wordly note at 1:02:50. I've always considered this a moment of great felicity. I still can't listen to it without getting chills. She's that good - ethereal, in fact, preternatural. Beethoven would have been proud. The camera should have been there. In general the camera work was very good and the close-ups were highly entertaining, though the cameras could have been a bit more inclusive. But, make no mistake, this is a monumental set. Not to be missed.

The Help All I can say is that this movie was wonderful. I read the book first and it was awesome, couldn't put it down. Watch this movie. You will not be disappointed. For me, it brought back so many memories!

(Mostly) faithful to (the best parts) of the manga I have read the manga and I have watched the anime, and Gantz the Movie is (mostly) faithful to its source material. The first few volumes of the source material. This is a good thing, too, because the manga is great. Or, at least it starts out great. After a while the aliens get so big and bad that it is almost ridiculous. And then the mangaka goes off an a tangent about vampires. And then the really big  aliens arrive and they put our heroes in the circus...  But this is not a review of the manga as a whole. This is a review of a film that does a very good job of demonstrating why Gantz the manga got off to a bang. So, I am giving it a big 5 stars. Now off to review Gantz 2, aka "How In the World is This Gantz???!!!"

My son LOVES these! My son just turned seven.  He was originally given the videotapes of the "There goes a..." series by his older cousin (who is now fifteen) when *he* outgrew them.  He was 18 months old then, and LOVED the fire trucks, garbage trucks and race cars.  We held off letting him watch the tank one until he was a little older, but it is by far his favorite.  My son wore out the videotapes.  We had to replace them one by one with the DVDs.  He now has the options to watch other stuff on Saturday mornings, and some of the shows that he loves to watch (just to give you an idea of his tastes) are Avatar, Justice League, Ben 10, Spider Man, Dragon Hunters, Bionicle, and Power Rangers (yeah, he's old school :).  But, every now and again, he comes back to The Dave.  He LOVES the trucks, he really likes Dave, and he likes that Dave messes up and doesn't always listen and gets himself into trouble (I think he can relate to that very well at his current age :D.)  He gets this big smile on his face when Dave gets in trouble.  I find it very cool that he still loves these after watching them so many times.  He also loves to draw the various kinds of trucks in the videos.  I wish there was one about snowplows.  He loves snowplows, even though we live in Southern CA where there is very little snow...

ENTER THE DRAGON THE DOUBLE DISC SET IS GREAT. IT GIVES A LOT OF BACK GROUND INFORMATION FOR THE PERSON WHO WANTS TO KNOW MORE.

John du Prey - Classical Review A tormented woman's passion and courage - to reclaim her freedom & stature and bring to justice a misogynistic serial killer while befriending, aiding, rescuing, and making love to an investigative reporter in his own exhaustive hunt for the deadly truth - reigns supreme in the now classic Millennium Trilogy (in Swedish with sub-titles). Directed by Danish filmmaker Niels Arden Oplev for Yellow Bird Films; Mikael Blomkvist (played by Michael Nyqvist) and Lisbeth Salander (played by Noomi Rapace); original three novels written by the late Swedish mystery novelist Stieg Larsson and superbly edited by Eva Gabrielsson. We are easily swept up in the complex, hyper-intriguing hunt by our heroine Lisbeth for a serial killer presented in a stunning sequential order of unfolding events and plot twists - that hold one almost in amazement at times.  So much has been written about these tightly-woven films and their positive impact upon women and girls around the world, their influence on the romance-thriller genre in novel writing & screenwriting, their ferocity to tell a high-end story about a pair of fiercely intelligent serial killers and still keep it reigned into a powerful but digestible film storyline, and their tenacity to reel in the sub-plots and multiple plot endings into a precise denouement along a superior crescendo or ascending mode of action with an original wildly-filmed plot. Depth of character, sustained plot tension, and powerful, realistic acting performances dominate each film in such a way - that we want to see them again.  Once in awhile we see these brilliant, pro-women, pro-active film trilogies take off and make their way into multiple languages - as if all along they were meant to be translated at breadneck speed throughout the world - so one and all - women and men - can drive a long distance to catch one or two of these films in sequence at a single movie theatre. And we are talking about movie goers going out in perhaps severe weather condition to see any one of these cinematic masterpieces. Realism, honesty, thorough journalistic practices, true mystery & suspense scriptwriting & storyboarding, sado-masochistic & erotic side-plots that tightly weave like electrifying eels returning to their comfort lair - back into the original storyline - all create an experiential type of cinema - that becomes exhilarating, challenging to the senses, sensual, and intensely played out for our enjoyment and enrichment.

Lost: The Complete Collection I never saw Lost when it was on TV, and then my son bought the DVDs separately and I watched them after he was finished. I was mesmerized; I immediately became an instant Lost fan.  The anticipation of waiting for the DVDs from my son was driving me crazy. After watching the last DVD I couldn't believe there was no more "Lost" to watch. I literally was having "Lost" withdrawal.  And so, I purchased "Lost: The Complete Collection" and watched every minute of "Lost" again.  I just finished, and I am already having "Lost" withdrawal. Watching it a second time you pick up things you didn't in the firsr go around.  The actors picked to play the roles of Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Hurley, and all the other regulars were perfect for the parts they played.  The story grips you from the beginning and you get "lost" in the story.  You can't wait to see the next DVD.  The story led me to wonder what exactly would I have done in a situation like the ones the characters found themselves in. It makes you think about whether you would be strong enough to be one of the survivors.  The product that I purchased is wonderful.  Even the box holding the DVDs, a booklet with descriptions of the different scenes and the game Jacob and his brother played are wonderful.  I would not hesitate in the least to purchase this product, but alas there are no more DVDs to watch, and I know I will be watching a third time because the storyline grips you and holds you interest and attention from the first DVD until the last.

Still rockin after all these years I had all these video's on VHS tapes, but haven't had a VHS Player for several years now. My weight has begun to increase and I decided it's time to reverse the trend. This workout was always perfect for me, low impact on my knee's is a huge consideration. They are just as I remember, fun with a great warm up and cool down. Richard get's my heart pumping. I can increase or decrease the intensity by small adjustments and get a quality workout. The hardest part is my 12 year old daughter laughs at me while I work out, but she's starting to join me so we will both benifit.

Jurassic Park Ultimate Trilogy ( Blu-ray + Digital Copy) I love all the Jurassic Parks and in Blu-ray they are even better. I got them for Christmas and have already watch them. Blu-ray dose make a different I think I love these movies even better. The only problem with the sharpness of the movie some of the animals looks like they are fakes but all in all the set is great.

Great purchase Everything arrived on time and in the exact condition stated. My fiance and I love Psych and this was a great gift for him!

Great Movie This is a great movie for all ages. It is fun, teaches a lesson, has some action and brightens your day.  Through the last couple of years I have given the movie to several friends and they all love it.  I hope you do too.

Amazing yet makes you think. Let me start by saying I am neither republican or democrat.  Just watch the documentary with an open mind.  I think the it was very well done and well researched with President Obama's own word in parts.  It makes you wonder why none of the media has ever reported on any of this stuff. Good movie.

Great Film A great film and another 'down to earth' story about the lives of the folks involved in various relationships. A film about people and not about special effects.

Do You Care Enough? If you care about the environment, the food you eat and the number one most important pollinator in the world, THIS IS A MUST SEE!

Great time capsule. 1984 seemed to be the year of the break dance/rap film. Body Rock was one that went less noticed, however it captured a magical time in NYC. The cinematography is extremely good for such a low budget picture. It's also well choreographed and some of the sets are quite elaborate all things considered. Also the soundtrack is quite diverse and eclectic. No award winning acting here, although Lorenzo Lamas does a decent job in the lead role. It is what it is, and for the most part exceeds expectations.

Very good I rented this movie and was so impressed, I decided to purchase it. I am going to have a dinner and a movie, and invite my family and friends over to watch it. This movie is very realistic, and it is telling us about the times to come. It also relates with Revelation.

Can you find the key in SAW II? Running Time: 92 mins.  You should see the first film, SAW (2004), first to understand this second film, however, SAW II (2005) is a great movie to start with too.  Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Dina Meyer return.  This sequel is an excellent companion piece to the first movie, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EWBKLC">Saw [Blu-ray</a>] (2004), and I will not reveal any of the twists and surprises in this movie, but it is another mind blower. In my opinion, SAW II is the best in the film series.   At the opening of the Twisted Pictures production, we see Michael (Noam Jenkins) wearing an opened iron face mask contraption and he must obey the order of the Jigsaw Killer.  He has only a small amount of time to find the key that will set him free and alive. If he doesn't "retrieve" the key, the iron mask will close on his face and kill him.   Cop, Eric Matthews (Donnie Wahlberg) must bail out his son, Daniel (Erik Knudsen) from jail. He is tired of dealing with his son's behavior and is so stressed out, he wants him to live somewhere else. Matthews must answer to a call of a homicide. The Jigsaw Killer has struck again. He comes face to face with the Jigsaw Killer (Tobin Bell) and Matthews and his team find themselves under timed pressure.   Eight people (Shawnee Smith, Franky G., Erik Knudsen, Emmanuell Vaugier, Beverley Mitchell, Glenn Plummer, Timothy Burd, Tony Nappo) are locked in a room somewhere in town. They must find them because Matthew's son is also trapped in that room and time is running out.    That is just the start of this film. Memorable, shocking scenes you will never forget.  Donnie Wahlberg and Franky G. really are interesting in this film.  They both give strong performances.   I wonder if this role by Donnie Wahlberg helped him get noticed for the role of "Danny Reagan" in the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003UD7JC6">Blue Bloods: The First Season</a> tv series.   Producer, Gregg Hoffman died December 4, 2005. Age: 42. He was admitted to the hospital complaining of neck pain. He died of natural causes.   Full Screen Rated "R" DVD edition includes informative audio commentary with Director Darren Lynn Bausman and actor Donnie Wahlberg. It can be found in "Set-Up".   Featurettes will show you how all traps were created including the oven and hypodermic needles trap.   The DVD container is wrapped in tight plastic, but be careful, there is also a protective see-through cover slip that lifts off that you need to save. Notice the security seals on your container. You will have to peel these or cut them to open the container. I like to leave my seals intact. The DVD itself looks like a saw blade with Jigsaw's face on it.   Followed by:   <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000LPR9ZS">Saw III (Unrated Edition) [Blu-ray</a>] (2006). <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001053038">Saw IV [Blu-ray</a>] (2007). <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001LPWGC8">Saw V - 2 Disc Director's Cut [Blu-ray</a>] (2008). <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00275EHGE">Saw VI [Blu-ray</a>] (2009). <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003Q6D282">Saw: The Final Chapter (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy) (Formerly Saw 3D)</a> (2010).   Update: December 2011. Vice Chairman of Lionsgate, Michael Burns, "I'm sure some day you'll see SAW back in the picture".   Update: August 2012: Lionsgate is "tinkering" with the idea to make a new SAW movie. Very early stages.

Love this DVD - especially post-natal workout As someone who has only dabbled in yoga, I felt these workouts were perfect.  The pre-natal workout was not too hard, just right for someone who is a beginner or intermediate level yoga.  I needed something that was easy enough that I felt motivated enough to do it as my pregnancy progressed.  About 8 weeks after giving birth, I started the post-natal workout.  My goodness!  My body craves this workout - perfect for relaxing my tense, fatigued body.  I feel amazing after doing the workout.

10 Commandments Wow! Great movie made even better! Fantastic image quality and extras. Cool tablet Blu ray case...who could ask for more?! Also fast shipping from Amazon! Thanks!!

scarry!!! i bought this movie for my mother and it scared the hell out of me!!! so worth it if u want a scary movie night but sleep with a light on!!!!!

This One's A Jewel in the Crown! I stumbled across this little gem here under my Amazon recommendations.  I'd never even heard of this series of books or the fact it was an HBO show. I read the synopsis and all the reviews here about the show and I was very intrigued.  I like Sean Bean as an actor, and enjoyed Peter Dinklage from Nip/Tuck, and as everyone raved about his performance in this, I thought I'd check out at least one episode.  WOW oh WOW.... This series just blew me away!  The storyline was amazing!  All the machinations, assignations, intrigue, deliberations, or stunning confessions that go on are incredible.  The sets and locations are gorgeous.  The theme music is very stirring and the opening credits are creatively done.  I can see why each episode runs a cool $6 mil.... I'm afraid I'll run out of superlatives in describing this show.  There were many times in watching the series where I was shocked and stunned, like "wow.... Oh my gosh, did that really just happen?".... You think you may know what's going to happen next, and the show surprises you.  It plays out like an elaborate and intricate game of chess.  I love shows that do that.  You may not recogize many of the names, but you'll recognize a lot of the faces.  Mark Addy (Roland from A Knight's Tale, Bill Miller in Still Standing) is wonderful as Robert, king of the seven kingdoms.  Rightfully on the throne?  Some aren't so sure about that.  Eddard (Ned) Stark (excellently played by Sean Bean, Boromir from Lord of the Rings) is Lord of Winterfell and Robert's friend. Ned is asked to come to Kings Landing and accept the job of Hand of the King, due to the recent demise of the previous title holder.  Some whisper assassination.  If that is indeed the case, Ned wants to know why he was killed.  Lena Headey (Queen Gorgo in 300) is superb as Robert's wife Cersei Lannister.  Talk about a 180 degree character portrayal from her role in 300.  She was amazing, I loved to hate her. And no one could have played the role of Cersei's brother Tyrion, "the Imp" better than Peter Dinklage. He almost steals the show with his performance.  The actors playing two of Ned's younger children are phenomenal, especially Maise Williams as Lord Stark's spunky and scrappy daughter Arya.  This little gal will be a force to be reckoned with in the years to come.  She will definately be one to watch.  Isaac Hempstead Wright plays Arya's brother Bran to perfection.  The actors playing Ned's older children deliver solid performances as well.  Even Natalia Tena (Nyphadora Tonks in Harry Potter) delivers an outstanding performance in a minor role as Osha, a criminal turned new house slave at Winterfell.  Then of course, there is the ominous and massive Wall.  Manned for thousands of years, most have forgotton why they even continue to stand the watch, and where deserting your post still means death.  Yet rumors and frightened witnesses swear that monsters and white walkers are beginning to stir, and icy horrors wait beyond the wall. Dragon lore and direwolves are also spoken of.  Toss into the mix House Taragaryen across the narrow sea. In exile, Viserys Targaryen desires to take what he feels is his rightful place on the throne in Kings Landing, and sells his sister Daenerys in marriage to the Khal of the fierce and nomadic Dothraki tribe, (think Klingons of the wastelands) so that Khal Drogo (Jason Momoa from Stargate Atlantis) will provide the muscle Viserys needs to get the job done.  There are several family dynamics occuring at the same time and it's very involving, so I would refer to IMDB to better understand who was who and where they fit in to the storyline, (thank you IMDB). There is soooooo much more happening than what I've mentioned here, but this review is already getting to be the length of a book itself, so just check it out for yourself.  If you are offended by nudity or violence, this may not be the show for you.  Game of Thrones hits the ground running right from the opening credits where you see a white walker, and let me tell you, they're creepy.  This show grabs you and doesn't let go. It's one hell of a ride. I can't wait for the second season.  HBO, you definately have a gem of a winner in this series.  During the hiatus, I'll be reading the books.  ~ jade ~

Amazing blu ray for a great movie of a time. This is a amazing remastering of The Superman movie into blu ray format. Great picture quality and sound which helps in presenting exactly what the director intended to show.

Too Good This is a great world war two movie, it is well acted by super stars.. I think its intense and the type of movie you can watch many times over...

All Time Great! This must be one of the all-time greatest films ever produced. It is quick, clever and fun. The actors are brilliant (and beautiful). I would suggest this movie for anyone. I have shown it to a variety of other people now, and everyone loves it!

Bat-tastic!!! Awesome collection and great price too!!  Love all the behind the scene extras that come with very feature!!  A must have for every fan of the Dark Knight!!

Maybe enough has been said, yet... Actors Brett and Hardwicke, with the entire production team, produced a thorough and captivating series. In addition to the A.C. Doyle stories, you get the look and feel of Victorian England.

Touching, sensitive, and funny! In City Island, Bronx native Vice Rizzo (played brilliantly by Andy Garcia) is a man of secrets.  He smokes, but doesn't want anyone to know.  He pines to be an actor, even taking an acting class when his wife Joyce (Julianna Margulies) thinks he's out playing poker with the boys.  And one of his biggest secrets, that he fathered a child before he met Joyce, becomes the fuse that lights up an explosion of revelations.  Vince is a corrections officer (not a "prison guard," as he is quick to remind people).  One day during the daily inmate roll call, he notices a familiar last name, his girlfriend when he was 19.  He looks in the inmate's file, recognizes the mother's name, and realizes that he is this young man's father.  He brings Tony (Steven Strait) home under a "release to family member" program, but doesn't tell Tony the reason.  Tony just thinks it's a prison guard getting free labor to work around the house.  In the meantime, Vince's acting efforts go in a surprising direction, as does Joyce's affections.  In the end (probably as expected), it can best be described as "All's Well that Ends Well."  The acting is great, and the scenes at the dinner table will make you glad you are not invited to dinner at the Rizzo residence!  Overall, touching, sensitive, and funny.  Recommended.  City Island, by the way, is a small island in the New York City borough of the Bronx.

Compelling Brilliant...just brilliant.  Paul Newman at his best playing the son of a deceased mobster.  The twisted prosecutor, played by Bob Balaban, tries to manipulate Newman's character into spying on his mobster uncle. Sally Field plays the female reporter trying to save her job and gets mixed up in the mess.  This is a classic movie full of intrigue, twists and revenge.

A truely hilarious movie This has to be one of the finniest movies ever. It has some of the best characters a movie could have. The plot is simple, they find a treasure map in the attic and decide to go on a treasure hunt to save their homes from being torn down to make way for a new developement. I also want to say that this Blu Ray has a bunch of special features and even comes with a Goonies game. Definately worth while.

Review of Game of Thrones: The Complete First Season As a big fan of the books I was looking forward to the TV series ever since I heard there would be one. Since I dont have HBO I had to wait for the DVD release, it was well worth the wait!  Since the books are so epic in scale I was a bit worried about the suitability of this series for a movie/TV adaptation. However, it all worked out great. Sure, there are differences with the book; some characters looked or acted slightly different than I had imagined them, some scenery was different than imagined, and of course a lot of information that you get from reading about what characters think has to be transferred to the viewer in a different way. These things always happen when a book is translated to a different medium, the directors cannot hope to match everyone's imagination. These differences were never disturbing to me.  Ive finished watching the whole season in just a couple of days and Im looking forward to the next season.

Philadelphia Story redux Good showcase for Grace Kelley, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong, but not as good as the original Philadelphia Story.

GLAD IT'S THE AMERICAN VERSION! Very cute DVD with enough episodes to keep my 3 year old entertained. I am glad this is the American version cause I think the British one is kinda dull and boring. Did not know Jonathan Taylor Thomas of home improvement was the voice of spot. He used to be one of my faves when I was younger haha.

WOW! First off, this movie is SPECTACULAR!!! The graphics were great, the special effects were AMAZING, and the characters has a good dialogue to follow. The point is, this is what 2012 (the movie) was built from, and 2012 was worse than this. 2012 had the action moments be short, but many in the movie. The Day After Tomorrow had the action moments ALL throughout the movie, making you glue your eyes to the screen for fear that if you blink, you will miss something exciting!The Day After Tomorrow will not let you down, and I fully recommend it for a good suspenseful movie!

Romantic Russell... This is a fantastic movie, after watching on Amazon I had to have it.. Russell goes from being a "little bit" of an unscrupulous broker to getting back to enjoying life and allowing himself to love..Albert Finney is great as Russells' excentric uncle but I won't give any spoilers about his love life.... You Gotta see it!

Great It's a classic, what else is there to say. We are happy with the product, the condition it arrived in and the ordering process.

HHH DVD The produce arrived on time and at a reasonable cost.  Of course, for HHH fans, like me, this is essential viewing.

Funny family movie is great to watch anytime This funny family movie is great to watch during the Christmas season or anytime. The family of Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) leaves for France for a Christmas vacation and accidentally forgets him.  The eight year old, who everyone thinks is helpless, defends his home against bungling burglars by outsmarting them with inventive booby traps. Culkin is endearing as Kevin, and Joe Pesci is great as one of the burglars. The late John Candy makes an appearance as the Polka King of the Midwest. Sequels were made but are not as good as the original.

Great movie!! Received this item in the time that was promised. I bought this as a Christmas present and really enjoyed not having to fight the crowds by purchasing online.

Piranha 3D will find it's audience and someday become a Cult Classic This flick was great fun.  The movie jacket said, "Sex, Sun + Sea" ...well of course you know there's going to be Teeth, Blood and Gore!  It's Rated - 18 for a reason.  So why are people so shocked and offended with the content.  It wasn't meant to be as Shakespeare or Jane Austin. This film delivers rollicking good laughs, a predictable plot, with loads of skin and gore.  I laughed from the start (with a great cameo bit by Dreyfuss) to finish. Sit down, grab some popcorn, and take it for what it is... a cheesy, grindhouse, summer flick that GRABS YOU and takes you along for a fun, wild ride!

Educational and entertaining My daughter loves it. She's 20 mos old and not speaking many words.  Her language comprehension is fantastic, but she is starting to become frustrated w/ her inability to communicate.  Sign language was recommended to help her learn to communicate and hopefully begin speaking more words.  She Picked up the signs after just 2 viewings. It was absolutely amazing!

Fascinating (some mild spoilers included). This is a fascinating movie in several ways. It's a good story, well and entertainingly told by Hitchcock. Since it's basically a play set in one room and Hitch doesn't attempt to expand it very much, he needs to call on all his directorial skills to stop it becoming tedious to watch. His use of the cameras, pacing and interesting angles keeps the viewer from being bored and the actors are very easy to look at as well.  Next, Hitch and the actors work well together to create different moods. All of them at various times have our sympathy and all of them display unlikeable characteristics as well. It's done so cleverly that you don't realize until afterwards that your own reactions have changed constantly through the film. Milland is a top athlete, a sponger, a cuckolded husband, an unfaithful blackguard, a cunning schemer and blackmailer, an unlucky victim of circumstance, a brilliant improvisor, a dastardly liar and finally, believe it or not, a good loser! I can think of no other director capable of creating such an array of aspects to one character and yet have the character seem perfectly consistent throughout. Grace Kelly is more sympathetically handled and it's easy to overlook her willingness to deceive her husband, but Robert Cummings plays the lover who returns to pick up the dalliance where he left off as an unlikeable lothario and this puts Kelly's behavior in its proper perspective.  There is also the fascination of watching the acting conventions of the day, when 'naturalistic' acting wasn't in vogue. It looks almost as dated as the "Woe is me", hand on brow emoting of silent movies. It doesn't suffer in this respect- the play/movie was written for that syle of performance and understated acting would look bland and boring.  The twist at the end is one of the best in movies and the excellent John Williams, in his finest role, does a wonderful job of setting it up. A very good film, not perhaps a tour-de-force as are some of Hitchcock's movies, but in its way every bit as effective.

Time to roll the DICE! GTR! Dice is back and better than ever in this season 2 collection. This DVD collection comes with every episode that has never been seen on cartoon network. Let's just say that season 2 will blow your breath away when you start watching the very first episode. Two legendary swords, the phantom knight, The Heron knights, and Dice Fortress F-99. What does all this have to do with season 2 you will just have to watch and find out. Season 2 will have you on the edge of your seat until the final episode where everything you thought you knew about season 1 will throw your mind for a loop. All episodes come included in High Def.  Episode 27: The Amazing Heron Knights! Episode 28: Take Off! Dragon Fortress! Episode 29: The Legend of the Sword Episode 30: Battle on Planet Lakia Episode 31: The Kingdom of B-DICE Episode 32: Jet Transforms, Part 1 Episode 33: Jet Transforms, Part 2 Episode 34: After the Malusword Episode 35: Planet of Fossils Episode 36: Brother vs. Brother Episode 37: A Village Named DICE Episode 38: Dinobreakers in Danger! Episode 39: The Truth Episode 40: The Future of DICE

101 Dalmations Love, love, love this movie.  It is a classics in the DIsney tradition.  I wish that Disney would make more movies the quality of this one.

Very Entertaining! I just hope that when this movie releases on dvd and blu-ray that the picture and sound are going to be excellent and not just mediocre...this is a great movie, I saw it twice when it first released years back.

Makes me want to read sci-fi. I want to add to the correction of the 1 star review as having just seen this film I was telling friends about it and they said it had been quite well panned. I watched this with an open mind and after 10 minutes or so I was hooked. As well reported this is another offering from the creators of `Napoleon Dynamite' - `Vote for Pedro' etc., husband and wife Jared and Jerusha Hess. They specialise in off the wall characters that are just this side of being medically sectioned, but who are in many ways life affirming.  This tells the story of Benjamin played by Michael Angarano who writes sci-fi and his dear mum (who designs and makes clothes for the terminally bizarre ladies of this planet) sends him on a weekend literary festival where Benjamin's hero sci-fi writer (Dr. Ronald Chevalier) is not only giving work shops but judging the stories for a possible shot at being published. He makes some friends and his story is picked up and plagiarised by the brilliantly erudite `Chevalier'; played by Jemaine Clements (Flight of the Conchords'.  The story is told and interwoven with the story of his book `Yeast Lords' being played out in the two alternate versions of the book by Sam Rockwell playing the eponymous `Bronco' and alternating as `Brutus with Ballzac' (his inter galactic wolf dog type thing - it was a Lynx in the original version.)  Anyway there are brilliantly comic moments that all tie together in what for me was a really enjoyable hour and a half, so please approach this with an open mind and if you do you will hopefully find that this is a little under estimated gem.  P.S. I have since seen this film again and it really is a grower, one where you get more on a subsequent viewing, especially if you keep an eye on the background action - touch of genius.

Wonderful movie! This movie is a childhood favorite of mine for one reason being that it reminds me of my childhood. It is very cute, well-animated, and has likable characters and excellent songs. People may say that Thumbelina is a wimp, etc. but I beg to differ. She never agrees to marry the toad, and is stronger than people make her out to be. Overall, this movie is vastly underrated and, in my opinion, not as boring as some reviewers may say. Give this movie a chance, it's a real gem!

It can happen to you if you're young at heart The most striking thing of the many striking things in Searching for Sugar Man is the personality of Rodriguez himself. Unspoiled, not bitter, undimmed perceptions, and the continued passion for his craft all make a huge imprint on the viewer. And of course, it is all the more impressive because he spent 30 years in demolition and cleanup instead of filling our minds and souls with his remarkable music. The story is too crazy to be made up; no one would see it if it were a piece of fiction, unless it was written by Kurt Vonnegut or Douglas Adams. But it is a true story, a gripping story, and a rewarding story. The story of a wonderful human being and a remarkable father. A feel good documentary which alone makes it a near impossibility. There is only one qualifier you will notice again and again in reference to Searching for Sugar Man: must see.

Forks Before buying this DVD I was able to watch some Youtube small movies.  It's about the right way to select the proper food for ourselves and family. A responsible choice that most people insist in forgetting.  The DVD is worth every cent. And has a wonderful price.

THIS IS FOR THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT ORIGINAL ONLY This is a marvelous film.  It deals with the interconnectedness of all things.  I can not recommend it highly enough.  I also got a Directors Cut on Blu-Ray due to my eerror, as I do not have a Blu-Ray Player, but I am keeping it for when I can afford one.  The less said about #2 the better, except that the writer and the director should be tarred and feathered and whipped down main street to the town outskirts.  No excuse for this kind of garbage.

Greatest cowboy of all time! How could you not love one of the greatest westerns of all time staring the greatest cowboy of all time!

Funny Very funny animated show. Bought it as a gift for my boyfriend, it is one of his favorites. I like the packaging and disc art

hitch at his best:  a family suspense thriller This is one of my favorite films from childhood:  a family - not exactly normal because Doris Day is an internationally famous singer - on vacation get embroiled in a caper that is unusual and complex.  It starts in Morocco, where they meet a friendly if circumspect Frenchman, who wheedles his way into their room for a drink.  Thus starts an outlandish adventure that is completely believable while you are watching it, leading them back into Europe and into international intrigue.  I was a bit afraid that this wouldn't stand up to my memories, but it was as fun, even as moving, as I remembered it.  James Stewart is an irascible surgeon - intelligent, controlling, and competent, perhaps over-confident.  Doris Day, with her Que Sera song, is a rather hysterical housewife, who when confronted with the situation gets sedated, faints, and then steels herself to the task of finding her abducted son.  They have real chemistry on the screen, even their fights exude an affection and respect for the other.  I think they are one of the best couples in any Hitchcock film.  Their fear and desperation are completely believable as they decide to avoid the authorities and attempt to solve the mystery and face the dangers on their own.  OK, the kid is basically a kid, but he is cute.  Seeing it now, there were a few loose ends that I had hoped would be filled and weren't, including the political motivations of the conspirators.  These are minor quibbles, however:  this is a film of Hitch at the height of his powers, a masterpiece of craftsmanship that should be in the library of every collector.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid This is an oldie but a goodie. It doesn't hurt that the two male lead actors are Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Allie Macgraw is perfect as the girlfriend. Seeing it for the second time after many years I wasn't as sympathetic to the ending as I used to be. My only critiscm is the choice of music but in it's day it would have been cutting edge. It is hard to discuss the storyline without giving away the ending, but if you are seeing the film for the first time, it is well worth the wait.

EXCELLENT  NOT ACCURATE .. this movie was very good. if you like these kinds of flicks then you will really enjoy it. It is LOOSELY based on a true story. I really enjoyed the acting of the mother. she really did look/act like a crazy freak.

Best Godzilla movie ever 2 Words - Jet Jaguar.  Forget Power Rangers, throw away Voltron and say bye bye to Transformers. Jet Jaguar is the original robot butt kicker.

Fun for kids My daughters (5 & 8) just love this book.  They drew all types of things that had simply never occurred to them to draw before, and created many fun little scenes and stories to go along with them.  Simple, fun, and inspiring imagination :)

Love it Always loved this movie and now I am so glad it is on blu-ray. The picture quality is amazing. I would absolutely recommend this movie to anyone.

Easily one of the films I've ever seen. Easily one of the films I've ever seen. Must be one of the movies ever made.  Audiences went to see it.

Great Buy It said it was like new and i would get it within 7 to 10 business days. I got it within 3 and it was brand new not a mark on it. The Work outs are very very tough but i am losing weight each day. Very very good buy.

The perfect gift I got the video for a friend of my brother. I think it's the perfect gift for anyone who really digs the Motown sound. I already have the video so I know it's right for like minded music lovers.

Great, feel good movie! A great movie about a wayward teen whose relationship with her mother becomes strained through a series of events that occur in the teens life.  Grandma becomes the force that catapults the teen back on track.

Quirky Comedy at It's Best I first watched this movie 3-4 years ago.  Other than BBC productions for public television, I hadn't much experience with "foreign" television or movies.  I've watched it more than once and I just loved it.  It was so entertaining.  I loved the characters, the setting (village) and the mischief of the main characters.

No humanity in this film? <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0042U94UQ">Despicable Me (Single-Disc Edition)</a> One reviewer had the nerve to say that this film has no humanity.(spoiler alert!)- Gru's lifelong quest was to have the moon, in the end, he accomplishes this -yet trades it for three orphan girls, no humanity there! The whole movie is really the story of the gradual stripping away of his villainous exterior to reveal his soft center and bonding with his new daughters. This is very well done!  This movie has heart! I love all of the characters! I think it's portrayal of the orphan girls life struck just the right note. It put me on their side from the get go and kept me there for the whole ride. By not showing the home for girls as the best of environments it makes you root for them- what is hard to understand about that? Unintended consequences; -I seem to watch this movie over and over, I want to adopt some too!  While I work on that, I see that a sequel is in the works and I will be first in line for that. Who knows; Maybe this movie it will even advance the idea that men have feelings and make great parents. PS- There are also two new short features about Gru's minions in the works too! Nothing makes me happier than to have another of those rare movies I want to watch again and again. We should support new animation companies, animation is great art and we need more choices!

excelente if you love classic films in this box will have all versions of karate kid what surprised me is the last part with the girl in personal is advisable to have to remember the complete collection of a franchise that a time frame  si eres amante de las peliculas clasicas en esta caja tendras todas las versiones de karate kid  lo que me sorprendio es la ultima parte con la chica  en lo personal es recomendable para tener para el recuerdo la coleccion completa de una saga  que marco una epoca

Thanks This disc was out of it's case when received but came in perfect condition. Thanks for the quickness of this order. Very pleased!!

Iron Jawed Angels Excellent, I hope it helped women to realize what they went through to gain the right to vote!! Certainly made me realize how cruel men were back then!!

Everything you wanted to know, Entertainingly told... This is my favorite of the thousands of Titanic documentaries that seem to pop up on a regular basis.  It tells the story of the ship from its construction to its sinking.  Interviews with the  survivors available at the filming only add to the drama and brilliance of this informative and highly entertaining documentary. If you have any interest in, or questions about, the doomed ship, I highly recommend this!

Despicable Me 3D Despicable Me 3D is even more DESPICABLE IN 3D! I loved the non 3D DVD and Blu-Ray disc versions of this film. The 3D version of Despicable Me is an excellent addition to any 3D Blu-Ray disc library. Perhaps we'll see in the sequel Motley Gru and the Minions band.

awesome... A great movie....great tribute to the original series.....Michael Mann rocks and I have watched it multiple times..  Been waiting for the sequel..

fast!! Wow shipping was super fast!! I am amazed :) thank you, thank you! Ive been looking for this movie forever,cant wait for my niece to watch it with me again:) brings back childhood memory's.:)

Michelle Williams--one of the finest of her generation Michelle Williams deserved the Oscar for her stunning performance in this...difficult ?...movie (describing the movie, which is excellent, is hard to do, at least for me).  Co-star Ryan Gosling was a good "fit" in this movie, imho.  Michelle Williams will one day win the Oscar she has long deserved.

Good movie Movie expressed the ups and downs of women in the dating world what does happen, what can happen in the divorcing world.  It was A point of view that seemed pretty accurate.  It was not a male-bashing flick. Enjoyable movie that stayed close to the story that was written in the book.

More fantastic landscapes! I had no idea there were such alien landscapes in the USA!  Amazing volcanic structures, as well as dream-like landscapes, and plenty of diverse species of plants along the way.  Plus the usual well-paced music and fantastic camera work keeps me enthralled for my morning spinning routine.  So many great rides!  Keep up the great work Bike-o-Vision!!!

"Goodbye To You"?  We'll Let The Lady Decide This Time... The laughs are not so outright and don't take on the foppish, fall over your own feet Meg Ryan tone in this, 'I'm leaving you for a younger woman' movie.  Don't get me wrong, we all adore Ryan for her signature films, although in this (Meg Ryan) Louise gets right down to business with husband Timothy Hutton (Ian) and puts her best (albeit 'slightly' unhinged) foot forward concerning their thirteen year marriage.  Ryan plays manipulative and calculatingly smart with this tour de force of dialogue and cat and mouse game with the hubby.  I had to give her kudos here for stepping up and out of the 'put upon and discarded' wife.  This is not that typical of a movie, keep in mind that this is about a huge commitment.  Entering into their home while Ian is writing the 'Goodbye' letter to Louise, she pulls the rug right out from under that.  Through a few turns of events, Louise ends up knocking him out cold and duct taping him to the upstairs bathroom toilet.  Demanding a captive audience, she runs him through years together involving several interesting methods.  Ludicrous?  Maybe...not.  Refusing to throw in the towel Ryan adds depth and thought to her character, she's in this for the long haul not disregarding all the invested years together.  Louise takes on Ian with a realistic tenacity.  Ian plans to hook up with Kristin Bell (Sarah). At a point he witnesses a brawl right on the floor, with his wife and newly intended dueling it out over him.  Kristin gets her Bell rung learning that in this case, the "I Do" is not an "I Don't" at a later date.  For all the dragging down memory lane nostalgia going on upstairs, the downstairs gets broken into by the ill-intended Justin Long (the neighborhood yard worker) and company.  His role seemed dubious at first considering his past roles, proving itself completely believable in this one.  He comes upstairs from all the noise, pulls out Louise from the bathroom at a point.  She returns roughed up and pulls empathy and sympathy from a shocked Ian.  He begins relenting from the indecisive rat he started out as after going down "The Long And Winding Road" of their union, and their memorable night.  Ask yourself: Was this all worth it for Louise and Ian after going through all of this, when you get to the interesting surprise ending.  It caught me totally off guard, and forced a welcome smile from me.  Hey, "The Things We Do For Love"...

Changed my life! This set of dvd's and the book have truly changed my life. Learning how to control my thoughts has been instrumental in saving my marriage. Joyce is a blessing in my life and has help me become a better wife, mother, and friend...she can do the same for you,  I am a much happier person now!

Super cute and joyful film to watch I absolutely loved this film.  The footage is fantastic and the film was really a joy to watch. Made me want to visit an elephant orphanage.  Animals always cheer me up and watching this film was just what I needed.

Awesome I am very pleased with this collection, the video and audio quality is amazing, the problems with the frames and the box have already been fixed in this bluray version. I totally recomend it if you are a fan of the series

Burner for life Burn Notice is one of the best acted and written shows on television. You feel the hurt in their eyes when the characters are hurting. You feel the joy when they smile. It has a lot of action, yes, but I love the naratting during the show. It adds to enjoying the show.

Gregory Peck's best Movie After having read all other reviews and just watching this wonderful movie again, I want to write about my opinion on this film. First of all why is the length of the movie such a big deal? I just don't get it. Movies from the nineties and after are usually at least 135 minutes long, so 153 minutes is only 18 minutes longer. Not much of a difference. Then there is the great soundtrack by Bernard Herrmann who made the score for 8 Hitchcock movies and for "Cape Fear". I also believe that Tom Rath is not only haunted by his war time memories, but that he sometimes thinks that Maria, his love in Italy, probably would have made a better wife, because she was giving and caring, but Tom's wife Betsy is not giving at all and expects too much from Tom (instead of getting a job and contribute to their life style of which she is so unsatisfied). This is an excellent film from the fifties, at least as good (if not better) as "Strangers when we met", "Peyton Place", "A Summer Place", "All that Heaven allows", "Susan Slade" and "Imitation of Life". Watch the film first, then read the book by Sloan Wilson (who also wrote "A Summer Place", another wonderful novel). You won't be disappointed.  Gregory Peck made some unforgettable movies like "To kill a mockingbird", "Roman Holiday", "Twelve O'Clock High", "Gentleman's Agreement", "Cape Fear", "Mirage" (finally available on DVD) and "The Bravados" (his best western), but "The Man in the gray Flannel Suit" will always be my # 1 Gregory Peck movie.

Great movie! Great movie! Both my husband and I enjoyed it immensely, and that does not happen often. I did find myself yelling at the star many times for making what I would call a bad decision, but the movie was really good and had a very satisfying ending.

Movie Fanatic I remember going with my parents to the local Drive-in theater to see this movie. It is still the excellant "thriller" I remember it being. Fast delivery and excellant condition.  Thanks!

Cute It was a great little video. Kids and adults would love it. My children did and they are 12 and 5.

TOTAL STEAL.. I got this at a great price for the holiday season. My sister loves the movie, so it was the perfect gift at a great price.

Another Vampire Movie Another Vampire Movie it's not.  This is a new take on an old story and is an excellent foreign film.  The acting is fresh, the characters are believable and the main character is chilling.  Not your average vampire movie.  This one is better than it's US remake.

coherent, thorough, and totally wonderful!! I would have to say this should be the proper sequel to Yolanda's first DVD "Simply Yoga." I love that it was filmed in her studio. Beautiful, natural elements. And Yolanda's warm and welcoming smile in the beginning of the practice really sets the atmosphere. The new poses are a welcome addition to the standard array, not too simple, challenging enough to say you did something you've never done before! Bravo, Yolanda! Thank you for bringing us these wonderful DVDs with your gentle spirit.

Excellent very good movie!! would recommend....very good experience first item ordered off Amazon...Tyler Perry movies are so good as well as the plays!!

25 minutes Well Spent I absolutely love Kenny Johnson, so any movie or Short that he takes his shirt off and gets into character is worth my time. And it was a good fantasy story that lingers long after. Thank you Kenny and Victoria for making this film.

How a free spirit raises a sociopath--or, does that free spirit make a sociopath? What's it like to be a free spirit, a hippy in the day, a willy-nilly wisp of a woman who is impregnated during her first encounter with the father? What's it like to have that baby who immediately takes a sharp dislike of his mother? Is that possible? Is it possible that a severely twisted bond forms between mother and son, one that tests everything known and unknown about the maternal relationship?  Such is the story in, first, the powerful novel, then its film adaptation. "We Need to Talk About Kevin" is a highly charged, provocative, powerful film about the evolution of a born sociopath and his defiance of all that is normal.  Why can the reader believe Eva, this reluctant mother? In the book her story is completely believable, but the movie offers another perspective. The casting made this viewer sharply cognizant of the its power. Goldie Hawn would have made a completely different mother, as would Angelina Jolie. But the pinch-faced, intense Tilda Swindon presents that high strung, totally free spirit who is shocked and dismayed at a baby who seemingly cannot stand her. This baby cries constantly from the time the father leaves in the morning until the father returns in the evening. As he grows into a toddler, this same hate/love behavior towards his parents continues.  On paper such a controlling child seems totally sociopathic; on film he perhaps reacts to the apparent loveless attitude of his mother.  "We Need to Talk About Kevin" is a disturbing film, to say the least. Hatefulness, spite, revenge, such emotions to attribute to a child, but it's there. The audience knows this child exists and must watch his hateful acts.  Kevin horrifies the world with his acts of violence toward the end, but, beware, Viewer, that is not the worst of his behavior. As his mother often told the father (in various words): "We need to talk about Kevin." Would it have helped if he had listened and talked? Such is a discussion for our violent culture. What do we do with such children? There is, however, a glimmer of redemption at the end.

Pleased I purchased this DVD for my brother, who is a real car buff, for Christmas - it arrived promptly and in excellent condition - we had a great time watching the famous car chase scene on Christmas day!

It doesn't say extended cut..... so why is this Ultimate edition getting such bad reviews, i own the first 4 of these ultimate edition and i really like them, the boxing is really nice and all of the special features and items that are included really make for a great set. Alot of people seem to be upset that there is no extended cut but it doesnt say any where that there should be an extended cut. I understand that the first 2 years had the extended cuts which was cool, but definitely not the only reason to buy them. Stop acting spoiled, If you've decided not to like this product simply because it doesnt have an extended cut, then dont buy it but there is no reason this product should have an overall 2 star rating, its a great ultimate edition.

Best Movie I have seen in years This is the best movie I have seen in years.  The imagination of the creators is wonderful, the acting is top knotch and I just love the movie.  I don't buy dvd's very often as money is very tight, but I bought this one.  I highly recommend it to anyone who likes mystery and fantasy and dreams.  I was well done!

FREAKING AWESOME megadeth is a great band and trust me if you like these guys then you should buy this dvd concert because am telling you it is amazing and hardcore and worth the money and you will not regret it i gurantee it

Orny Adams is hilarious period! What can I say about Orny Adams Takes The Third! other than HILARIOUS,Shazam what a show. This is not stop laughs,on a variety of subjects all addressed with Orny's unique comedic observations and delivered like no other in a way that has your face aching with laughter.  Orny is a master of delivery and timing,his humour is pure observational everyday experiences and as such as universal appeal. But its the delivery of the material is what seperates Orny Adams from the rest.  To give an example there is a anecdote about "Onstar", here in England we dont have that, yet I still found it mind blowingly funny due to the expert delivery and timing!  If you watch carefully you can make out where the camera man is laughing as the camera is shaking, yes its that good!<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JLW5">Comedian</a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000Q66FJ8">Orny Adams: Path of Most Resistance</a>

LOVE IT! I loved this just as much as the other 3.  I can't wait to go see it again.  I have already seen it twice, once in 3D and once in normal 2D version.  I much prefer the 3D version.  I was not disappointed at all.  I never listen to the critics, I figure that I need to formulate my own opinion verses going on someone elses.  I will be looking forward to a 5th one hopefully!

superb sinatra! I saw a few of the director Preminger's movies and wasn't impressed except this gem, which captivated me from start to finish. Mr. Sinatra gave a riveting performace equally matched by Parker and Novak and the rest of the crew. Amazing how this entire masterly acting came about-- so I presumed the director did a major part, with his legendary dictatorial style. Not only the acting but also the outstanding storytelling and its acute relevance today had made this movie a veritable masterpiece--bravo!

Funniest Movie Ever Made The Blu Ray version looks great and will just keep on repeating since it does not have a menu screen to start with. The Big Country is the same way. You can bring up the menu like other Blu Rays but the first selection says pause.  Oh well. I do believe that under almost any condition you cant be in a bad mood while this film is on and that is saying alot.  I was up early the other day and watching it at 6:30 am and laughing so hard that I was missing scenes because my eyes were shut.  Now this is about the fifth time I have seen it and the last time was about a year or so.  So many stars that are in this film its amazing.  Even though you may not know who they were they still work becuase they all have that x factor that makes them stars.  This is a must purchase and I can only hope that one day someone will discover or come up with this road feature that I hear about that contains the missing footage.  I dont know how it could make it any better than it is but a commentary track would be nice.

Great classic western!! One of the great westerns with Wayne & Stewart with a great story. Wayne is the epitome of a western actor. Truly a great movie!

Great anime with interesting story line The anime artwork was very high quality in this action-filled story about a young girl who suddenly has the ability to leap through time. I showed this video to high school students learning Japanese, and it was well-received. The story contains some surprises along the way, to keep viewers on their toes.  I think this video is probably best for high school-aged students, although anime fans of all ages would also like it. The English subtitles were fairly good as well.

Good Movie...Sad in Many Ways, but realistic in some as well This was a good movie. It presents issues that many deal with and is an eye opener to what is going on across america, whether we believe it or not. It tackles a lot of complex issues and the script and acting was good. I wish the ending gave a better conclusion to what happens to Monique, but other than that it was a great movie.

DNA will Always be a PART OF YOU! As a collector of great movies this is one to have.  The furture might bring great thing or it might have unexpected unguaranteed success that one is not able to control.  This movie just makes a person viewing the movie think about their life, moments, and successful motives.  This is another great movie one can help to believe in one's self.  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0011UF79C">Gattaca (Special Edition)</a>

We both loved this movie. A must see. We watched this when we were locked in waiting for a hurricane to pass. We loved it so much that we immediately watched it again.  The building of relationships between a boy that no one wanted and two old uncles is both touching and hilarious.  There are so many wonderful moments I don't want to spoil the fun for you.  In the end, the old uncles teach Haley (and others) how to be a good man and how to live life with gusto and honesty.  A must see (although you don't need the hurricane to enjoy it!)

Good and Entertainting. Being a fan of bodybuilding this movie was perfect for me. its a good, old classic in my opinion, and anyone that wants to see workouts done right should watch this.

AWESOME! Still one of my favorite movies, very inspiring and a great story! I enjoy watching it every time! Hope you do too!

Old Favorite I grew up watching this movie as a kid.  My 5 year old wanted to watch it so I rented it on Amazon.  She loved it.  Goes to prove that the old classics are still great.

Lorax Great movie,I bought this at last minute for a birthday and it came very quickly. It was also much cheaper than in the stores

great movie, great tranfer This is a great movie, the criterion blu-ray transfer is great.  We got the disc very quickly.  This is consistent with the quality I expect from Criterion and the good customer service from Amazon.

Excellent Movie I rented this from Amazon Instant Video and it was such an easy process and the movie was great.  I can't wait to rent some more!

A nice surprise You take your chances with some of these little-known movies, but this one is very good. I was impressed with the quality of acting with people I've never heard of before. I would recommend this movie to all.

Chariots of the Gods Chariots of the Gods is a book needing little introduction.  The ideas introduced here launched author von D&auml;niken to a certain degree of fame (and infamy) around the world.  The concept of alien gods intervening in the early development of man would live on for decades in the numerous books, films, and documentaries that would follow.  Having been first published over four decades ago, there are parts of Chariots which have not aged well.  Some bits are downright depressing: It turns out that not only did we fail to land on Mars by 1986, as was once a "certainty," but we've seemingly given up the quest entirely.  The writer's optimism toward man's progress, anchored in the early achievements of the space age, simply did not align with a future written by politicians and tax payers.  That said, despite becoming dated, a discussion of technology was essentially unavoidable given the nature of the material.  If I have one fault to find with the writing, it would be that the author tends to dwell on the refusal of the scientific community to consider his proposals.  He tells us, continuously, how historical dogma is accepted without questioning, and how we must not be closed minded to alternatives.  It's hard to fault the man, as he was essentially predicting (rather accurately) the shunning and dismissal his writing would receive in scientific circles.  Still, as the reader, I'm already effectively committed as his audience, and I don't find it entirely necessary to beat the poor horse quite so badly.  A note about production quality: The mass market paperback is a bit disappointing.  The pictures, in particular, are almost impossible to view.  But I guess you get what you pay for, and that does not reflect the overall quality of the source material.  Ultimately I highly recommend this book.  The key, I think, is to focus on the questions posed in the content, rather than the conclusions.  It's the questions which are fascinating, and it's the questions which, more often than not, continue to stand the test of time.  How did ancient civilizations query and transport boulders so massive they would challenge even modern machinery?  For what purpose were giant structures and drawings that could only be viewed from space?  Why did religions spanning the physical earth, and without regular contact with one another, share such similar stories of origin?  How did ancient cartographers gain knowledge of seemingly "undiscovered" lands, and ancient astronomers of planets and galaxies only recently observed with modern optics?  It's amazing how little we know about our own past.  Whether or not one is able to buy in to the proposal of visitation by extraterrestrial intelligences being a plausible conclusion, any sufficiently curious person should be taken in by the mysteries which modern doctrine tends to gloss over.  Rating: 5/5

Jim's Review Great acting, great movie.  There was a lot of suspense here and it kept me guessing all the way to the end.

Amazing! Sad movie but very well executed! Story of how humans can be deceitful and selfish, even from a young age

Great shape!! This was great movie quailty! It was used and decribed but in wonderfull shape. I bought it for my grandma for her birthday and she loved it! P.S. The shipping was verry fast!

Where the Wild Things Are Perfection. The condition of the DVD, the arrival time of the DVD, and the movie itself. I grew up reading these children's books and they had become a significant part of me. Although the movie has a different plot, this is a beautiful depiction of a simultaneously heart-wrenching and heart-warming story. Regarding the suspicion from parents about it's appropriateness, I strongly believe that this is a must-see for all people, regardless of age. Pure beauty.

Anthony Hopkins Does it again Mr Hopkins never dissapoints, if he is in a movie rest assured knowing it will be great. This movie is no exception. He plays a charming character who meets lots of new and interesting friends along his journey to set the land speed record.

The BodyGuard This was one of the best movies. I would recommend that you purchase this movie. Whitney Houston and Kelvin Cosner were great in this movie.

Great service and great movie I had seen this movie on television and really enjoyed it. I wanted this movie to watch whenever I wanted to-instead of when tv wanted to show it. The seller was great-sent the movie to me in a quickly time period. Movie arrived in good condition. Thank every one involved to getting the movie to me.

A great movie to collect I love to collect movie DVDs of some of my old favorites and this one is a keeper. Lots of options and information for an old movie buff like me. The special features are informative and entertaining. I am picky since have done work on several modern movie productions before retiring. Stargate was a lot more fun to make than it was to watch even though it was nine months in the desert near Yuma, Arizona. I can imagine how difficult it was to make Major Dundee in Mexico.

Dont waste your time I will say that unless you just want to see some poor acting by some shallow modern day hack women, and you dont want to have to pay for this movie, then give it a shot. There is some decent TNA by Jenny McCarthy, but like the other reviews said the acting is deplorable and story line simple and poor. Its best to watch this movie when you are somewhat inebriated in order to enjoy the humor. I was stone sober and got 1 or 2 laughs out of it. I will say the best thing about it was that Kathy Griffen had a very small part in it, as she is just a horrible actress all around.

The Cell Review While the visuals are impressive,the film itself is extremely nonsensical and its nature is confusing. It's like watching a WCW Nirto or TNA Impact show. We also get a total lack of character development from Vincent D'Onofrio: The Killer. All we get is a scene of him getting beat up his dad and that's it. I give this film a 1 out of 10.

Great except for the Che Guevara propaganda I agree with what all the other good reviews this movie has gotten. I saw it a couple of years back and wanted to watch it again. I totally forgot the Che Guevara shirt on the middle. If you were ever a victim of the guy directly or indirectly, you'll know he wasn't any better than the bad guys that this movie depicts. In fact, he was worse. If just only because he actually existed.  Again, someone in Hollywood trying to push their propaganda. Because it HAS to be black or white. Otherwise it won't sell. A well made movie is never enough. There has to be propaganda and boot kissing to somebody's agenda behind cameras.  Of course, nobody cares until someone like that steps on their own foot. And then it's too late.

VHS? Never never never NEVER buy a VHS for more than $5. They're completely worthless, and you can most likely find this in a garage sale for 10¢.

Too technical, outdated, unsophisicated 80% of the information is way too technical for beginners. The 10% dedicated to patterns and colors is extremely outdated. Folding and dying techniques for only three patterns are shown, all of which are old fashioned and unsophisticated. eHow videos on tie dye are better.

Oh, Clint... The short review is..."boring".  I mean, you REALLY have to be absolutely bored out of your mind to get any enjoyment whatsoever out of this movie.  I think I'd rather have a root canal than sit through this movie again.  At least with that kind of oral surgery, something new and 'interesting' would happen.  Matt Damon plays a 'retired' psychic who finds his special talent is more of a curse than a gift.  Gee, we've never seen that before.  We have a French woman who really has no business being in an American movie.  And by that I mean, the story itself did not require the character to be French, did not require the viewer to read half the movie as it was spoken in French.  The story, such as it was, would have been perfectly well served had the Marie character been played by another American who spoke English.  And just what kind of a story is it?  Well, given the title and trailer, you might think it some kind of supernatural story about life after death, about what comes next.  But the movie really only glances on the subject, and offers absolutely nothing new at that.  It's really more of a romantic drama than anything else.  Except there's not a whole lot of romance going on...or drama for that matter.  It's two plus hours that only George Costanza could love - a show about "nothing".  In summary, if you have any plans at all to watch this movie, do yourself a favor and call your dentist instead.  Trust me, you'll have more fun.

Ultraviolet/Flixter ripoff Ultraviolet.Flixter is the worst kind of ripoff. I ordered Green Lantern in 3D with a digital copy. I like to watch movies on my iPad while on cross country flights. I returned the first copy because I was unable to download the website.On the second copy the site loaded but there was no app for anything. I attempted to download the movie and was told I had to wait until 12/20. It also appears that you do not actually get a digital "COPY" you get streaming privileges which are useless without a high speed connection. I will never buy any movie with the Flixter/Ultraviolet connection again. I will save the money and get it later on iTunes.

Defective DVD One of the DVD's in Season 4 is defective - won't play due to a crack.  I followed all your online instructions for a return including an appointment with UPS to pick up the package.  They never showed up.  I really wanted to exchange the defective package for another Season 4 but, apparently, that's not possible.  In the meantime, I still have the defective pacage.  At this point, I'm not a satisfied customer.  I don't even have a return address for the package - that was supposed to be on the UPS label.  Can you help?  I thoroughly enjoyed all the seasons that I have watched to date and am disappointed that i couldn't complete watching Season 4.  Thanks in advance for your asistance.  Pam Church

So lame! I really wanted to love this movie! I saw Daniel R. on the Graham Norton show promoting this movie, and Daniel seems Soo like-able. I was really rooting for him & the film ... But omg YAWN... such a sluggish film... slow starting and slow first hour. Seemed to me like a bunch of climactic music and dark corners and candle lights, all building up too... (wait for it) NOthing! Just my opinion.

funny......for the first 10 minutes This standup was about as funny as stabbing. When you have to Ask the audience if it's funny then it's bad. I gave the DVD to my nephew to use as a frisbee. I like his syndicated morning show but this was bad.

Disjointed. Pointless. Boring. V/H/S is yet another cut-rate "found footage" film with little scripting and even less acting. Some segments don't even make sense, let alone hold your interest. Avoid, avoid, avoid!

Murphy's Law and Frankenstein's Stitches If it weren't so pretentious and boring, Babel would have been a good movie.  A Japanese guy takes his rifle - which may or may not have been used by his wife during her suicide - to Morocco for a hunting expedition.  He gives the rifle to his guide as a gift.  For about 50 shiny rocks and a goat the guide barters his rifle to a completely irresponsible goat herder and father of two young boys, one of whom enjoys pleasuring himself while fantasizing about the moments he goes all Porky's on his prepubescent sister while watching her undress.  This, of course, leads to a potential international terrorism scandal when the goat-herder's young onanist tests the weapon's muzzle velocity and trajectory, fires a single round at the front of a tour bus, watches the bullet take a few JFK turns, entering the driver's side about ten rows back, making contact with the shoulder/neck of an emotionally dead American woman who, along with her husband, are on a Moroccan vacation (shortly after their newborn died of SIDS) and in sudden, desperate need of competent medical attention covered by their HMO while their two, spoiled young children are in the incompetent hands of their illegal immigrant nanny who, driven by her irresponsible relative, needs to travel illegally across the border - again - to attend her nephew's incredibly long and inconsequential wedding in what is presumably Tijuana while the original Japanese gift giver's deaf, mute daughter is going commando throughout the day, flashing her unshaven pubic region to every effeminate Japanese man she can find - there are plenty - and attempting to seduce her middle-aged dentist by licking his face.  Speaking of dentists, don't let my first paragraph fool you; the film is brutally long, disconnected, and painful, just like each visit to the dentist.  Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's methods of weaving subplots are tenuous at best, and he could learn a thing or two from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003L20IEC">The Human Centipede</a> about connections and suffering.  If suffering is the primary requirement for award nomination, then THC should have far more praise than Babel.  The only people who suffer worse than the protagonists in this film are the viewers.  The writing leaves countless loose ends, and, my goodness, the editing.  Talk about unbearable melodrama.  A good hour could have been cut from the run-time without a single loss of comprehension.  Nothing more than contrived political, cultural commentary, Babel is self-indulgant, undeserving of an Academy Award, and poorly crafted.  Yes, poorly crafted.  We need 30 combined minutes of a deaf person's interpretation of a disco, and the drunk happenings at a Mexican wedding, but we don't get to learn what happens to the criminal Moroccan kid, the criminal Mexican joy-rider, or how the WASP left baking in the desert were found?  What about the stars you ask?  Star power, shmar power.  Other than when she was popping a squat over a bed pan, Cate Blanchett essentially got a high paying gig for taking a nap.  There were nearly as many lines for Bernie in Weekend at Bernie's 2!  And he was dead the entire movie!  And Blanchett fared better than Pitt, who appeared to be pressing and overacting since there was literally negative emotional connection between the two headliners.

a stinker I hated this movie.  It was well-received by critics, though, so I watched it twice to confirm my belief that it was bad.  I still think it's bad.  Main problem was that they had two sci-fi premises that didn't belong in the same movie.  There was the idea that there hasn't been a baby born in 18 years:  a serviceable idea.  Then there was the idea of a police state based on evicting immigrants:  another quite viable idea.  But what these ideas were doing in the same movie was beyond me.  Either of them could have carried the movie, but shoehorning them together didn't work well.

Não chegou no prazo O produto ainda não foi entregue a data prevista foi 29 de agosto 2011, por isso estou chateado visto que não foi respeitado o prazo.

Disappointed I was disappointed in this boring, highly abstract, rather pointless movie.  No coherent monologue, dialog, story line.  Turned it off after 20 minutes.

Nutcracker, or Natzi-cracker? HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE! Can you ever find a way to butcher a beloved Christmas classic? I almost bought this piece of garbage movie at the store a while back but DVR-ed it instead. Glad I did. God, Tchaikovsky would be rolling over in his grave! Really? Albert Einstein? Freud? A musical...? They only did like 3 Nutcracker songs anyways! How can this possibly watched by children. The Rat King would horrify any young child. Talk about making them hate this classic. The creators ought to be ashamed of themselves...come on, the Holocaust in the NUTCRACKER?!?!

This is Outrageous !!! I was charged for more than USD 40 for this Blu-Ray, I was surprised to see a sticker from Best Buy for more than USD 20, I just can't believe It !!!

CUT The above mentioned running time of 107 minutes (which would be the correct length for the US version, according to IMDB) ist NOT correct! It runs only 95 minutes and 42 seconds. I dumped it. I do not watch cut films.

A review of the Bluray version of the film I'm not going to comment on how good or bad the movie was. By now everyone remotely interested in seeing this has already seen it and formed their own opinion. I'm going to review the video quality of this film briefly: it sucks! The video transfer has some decent blacks but it otherwise is just awful. There is ringing, haloing, and uneven video quality even within the film itself! Aliasing is almost constant (the jaggies) and there is lots of video noise throughout. The audio is actually pretty decent, but seriously if you DO like this film and want to own it, try getting the DVD version instead, or at least RENT the Bluray before buying. Seriously, it's releases like these that make me always want to read reviews before buying!

Stacking the Deck The reviewer who gave this movie 3 stars has reviewed over 1,400 movies. The 3 reviewers who gave it 5 stars have each only reviewed one movie and one movie only. Can you guess what that movie is? Talk about stacking the deck.

I'd rather eat dirt This movie was absolutely horrible. It is not only awful, but incredibly long. I would rather eat dirt then be forced to watch this movie again.

Two Questions... Question One: Why did they spend money making this movie?  Question Two: Why did they spend any money restoring it for DVD?

Not really worth the time and cost We generally like the sci-fi action type movies, but this one just never really got going and seemed to be just too "out there" for our tastes.

Uplifting movie not so uplifting War Horse was advertised as "Uplifting", but I found nothing uplifting about this film at all; though I did find it realistic. There were many people and horses left dead in this film and it was a miracle (if a true story) the horse and it's owner survived, but after all the death and carnage that was left behind I really found nothing happy or uplifting about the ending. Very dissapointed with this movie and I would not suggest showing this film to a horse lover or children under 12 years of age. My wife and I are both horse lovers and from our standpoint this movie was absolutely horrible.

Terrible movie in every way This is the absolute worst garbage I've ever seen.  1) No real character development 2) Terrible animation and CGI quality - think afternoon kids show quality, like Battle Force 5. 3) Horrendous writing - no better written than the 'aforementioned afternoon kids show', but with profanity and gore. 4) Stupid nowhere to go plot. 5) Characters in CGI looked NOTHING like their cartoon animation counterparts.  I have played Dead Space and thought that it was good game.  I even saw the first Dead Space movie, and although not very good, was still far better than this garbage.  It wholly amazes me how anyone could give this movie a good review.  It is that bad.

I wanted to stick a fork in my eye! Could there be a worse retelling of a well-known tale?  Probably, but it would likely involve aliens, about the only departure from fact this mess doesn't make.  A cast of has-beens and never wases delivering bad lines in an amateur staccato that would embarrass any Intro to Drama student, coupled with ridiculous departures from known facts make this mess so unwatchable I actually sought some counsel from a priest to atone for the sin of having watched it. At best, it was a chance to see Errol Flynn's grandson Sean prove that talent can skip more than one generation.  Maybe his kids will have some?  But hey, nice scenery....

Ridiculuos! Waste of time!  Ending incomplete and unfulfilling! aa bb cc dd ee ff gg rr rr rr rr rr  i i i i i i i i

Amazon- STOP THIS STUPIDITY Amazon is now combining reviews from all editions that has the same title, and because of that there are negative reviews here that belong to another inferior edition, and because reviews from this edition appear on the page of the other inferior edition, people bought it and were disappointed. End this crap now and leave reviews the way they were in the past

The Social Network evades the really important issues This movie does not deserve the hype it is getting.  Having now watched the movie and discussed it with many of its fans and read the favorable reviews, it appears the appeal of this movie is a) that it's "smart" and b) that it reveals the grand irony that the founder of the world's most popular social network is in fact a total jerk.  I was not impressed with the movie on an intellectual level. The movie is essentially about the creators of Facebook, and not about the nature of facebook per se, its hidden privacy controversies and the fact of that such a shallow and virtually useless site is so popular in our soulless times. These to me are intellectual issues worth making various movies about, yet interestingly enough they are issues fans of the movie are quite oblivious of. Instead we get a movie about the creation of facebook and the petty controversies over intellectual rights (among the creators) for the site. Mr Zuckerberg as portrayed in this film is indeed a rather interesting persona himself, yet this socially inept, backstabbing cyber genius smacks too much of an antihero, that bad guy you like. Is it any wonder that in a time filled with so many egotistical, narcissistic facebook and twitter bloggers that this movie has been heralded as best film of the year and Zuckerberg as 2010 Person of the Year? That to me is just depressing.  Visually, the movie has nothing to offer. It's just 100% of the time people in rooms arguing. What they argue about (the intellectual rights to facebook among the creators) is only very vaguely interesting. Director, actors and composer do everything in their power to make said talking appear profound by talking super fast in noise-filled clubs, but it didn't help (in fact it made it more difficult to follow). The ending/resolution is abrupt and highly anticlimatic.  In short, this movie lets facebook users feel like they've learned a great deal about the site without compromising their own role in the site. People who watch the film come out saying whatever they like about Zuckerberg, but in the end they'll go home to their computers, mindlessly refreshing their facebook walls, posting status updates that no one really cares about, and adding complete strangers with whom they have nothing in common to their "friends" list, without once questioning why they feel compelled to do so. Nor, moreover, will they come out any more enlightened as to the dangerous role Facebook has played in undermining our privacy. The movie aims the lens at the wrong people (the creators rather than the users), leaving us with little more than a movie about annoying people making money.

Preaching to the choir... Yet another piece of Christian apologetics, this time in a DVD rather than a book. I suppose this DVD will impress those whose minds are already made up; certainly it reinforces their beliefs - which is after all the purpose of apologetics. No real critical scholarship here, just a rehashing of stuff we were all taught in Sunday School.  Nothing more than " I want to believe it's true, so therefore it must be true" and so around and around the self-serving, circular arguments we go...

Don't bother with this heavily edited release. Don't waste your money, if you truly enjoy B&BH, email me. I'm selling the complete series, unedited, + the movie and holiday specials and plenty of bonus material, not on this website, but a different one, I'm sure if I post the link here it'll be edited out, so I will try to include my email in this comment so that you can email me and I may link you. Hiphopologizt at gmail dot com

A Failure of a Schwarzenegger Film. Schwarzenegger is a L.A. fireman who's wife and son get murdered in a terrorist bombing done by some very fictional Colombian militants. The law fails to successfully apprehend the culprits, prompting Schwarzenegger to go to Colombia and go on a rampage. The pathetic storyline actually has the Governator falling for the lead terrorist's (Cliff Curtis, who's talent is wasted) wife. Poorly made stupid film and easily one of Schwarzenegger's worst.  Elias Koteas is the FBI Agent assigned to the case.  1 star.

woman in black this movie totally SUCKED big time...it's a waste of time and money. I couldn't stay awake to save my life.

This is a house that needed some cats I'm astonished to see Guillermo del Toro's name attached to this assured Razzie nominee. It's a scare-free horror that combines cliche, inconsistency and utter stupidity of the part of the characters to end up with something that's slow and predictable.  Some of my favorite inexplicable parts include:  - A gardener is brutally attacked with multiple stab wounds (including one in the eye!) and it's brushed off as an accident. - One person goes missing and there are no questions let alone an investigation. The local PD's asleep at the wheel. - There's a bathtub attack by monsters with razor blades who struggle for minutes to get through the shower curtain. - The creatures are afraid of light until Act 3 when that whole thing is completely forgotten. - The parents are absolutely tone deaf to the series of deadly events unfolding in their home. I know it's a great horror cliche but here it looks like Guy Pearce and Katie Holmes border on negligence. At one point, they completely ignore a series of Polaroids showing the little critters and the corpse of crushed one left in the library. Way to look after your daughter! - Even after all the unpleasantness, the family decides one on final foray into the house of fun, moving around the dark in solitude like they've never seen a horror film before. Naturally, bad things happen.  Many say that the original teleplay is much better which by the sheer law of probability must be true. It's fair to say that any normal person would be out of that house within the first 30 minutes - or they would have invested heavily in firearms. Or cats.

The Sopranos: complete ripoff Beware of ''used'' boxed set.  I have just received my boxed set today and when I have seen the poor print quality, plastic bags holding the DVDs, poorly printed DVDs and even the sleeve holding each seasons not being glued properly I was pretty sure it was a cheap chinese knock off.  I have purchased several HBO products in the past and they were never of such shoddy quality.  My confirmation came when a search for the UPC code would not match anything and i mean NOTHING, if Google, Amazon and everybody else have never seen it it means they've probably never sold it either:  here is my fake UPC code: 26359 92534

Poorly Done A poor version of  a  CSI episode.  I  kept  checking  to see how much time was remaining as it just dragged on. Paltrow appeared stoned in most of her minor appearances while Daimon seemed like he had better things to do like act in another Bourne movie. Kate Winslet's scenes were much better than the rest of the movie.

Pointless and Quite Bad This movie was a complete waste of time. It had no point and was poorly written, acted, directed, and produced. Please pass. The only reason for this review is to try to save others the mistake I made. If you have to see it, you'd be better served by watching the trailer 30 times. The trailer had every good part and saves you the trouble of even trying to care enough. A complete disappointment. You'd be better served with a classic such as Seven.

Bilge Paean to the inverted values of our times. Prancing negation of values. Most of the 1-star reviewers know in their hearts that something's horribly wrong with this movie, but few can say it clearly.  Ok, here's Albert Einstein on Boondock Saints. All human desires and actions can be boiled down to a quest to experience greater happiness, and to avoid suffering. Some of us look for happiness in the wrong places, of course. And BS shows us this, but isn't honest about the consequences. Kill and get away with it and be delighted. This is science fiction.  All religions tell us that expansive feelings, thoughts, and actions increase our happiness (read: love, kindness, empathy, forgiveness, awareness of others' realities, etc.). Contractive actions (murder, revenge, anger, and so on) decrease our happiness by narrowing our awareness upon ourselves.  And, well, no wonder teenage boys love BS. They haven't developed the part of their brains that is capable of understanding the long-term consequences of actions driven by negative emotions, i.e., the prefrontal cortex which doesn't fully develop until the mid-20s or later. Nor are they taught in our schools to expand their hearts to include others.  So, it's no surprise that BS would be praised by 17-year-olds in a state of, let's hope, temporary sociopathy. Or that movie-makers with infantile values and taste would agree.

Terrible! I downloaded this video from my TiVo so I didn't have the benefit of Michael Cerda's review, but he hit all the right points, so I won't repeat them here.  Just that this video is terrible.  I would rate it negative ten stars if I could.  My primary impression was that it was a poorly produced video to show in class.  However, this video is so bad it will suck out any interest a student might have in science.  None of the content is memorable.  I just wanted the video to end.  This video is not of publishable quality and should be pulled from Amazon.

Das Boot I purchased this movie for my husband.  He was so disappointed in the quality of the film, he could only watch it for 15 minutes. Needless to say it was not a good choice.

Bad Quality Hey amazon! I want my money back. The pixels are the size of a postage stamp. A Cam would have been better. 4.99 for poor quality! I want my money back!!!!!

Bad DVD--ONLY PLAYED HIGHLIGHTS I bought this DVD to watch with a friend, so I didn't check it out as soon as I got it. When we tried to play it on two different DVD players, a BLU-RAY player and my computer it only played the highlights side--not the actual movie. It's a 2 sided DVD, and only the highlights side worked on any of the devices. Finally, just threw it out.

Throw the switch I like Eric Bana.  I think Cate Blanchett is one of the great actresses out there.  Jeff Imada - who choreographed the action scenes has been doing that for a long time and is also excellent.  Seemed like a no brainer.  The anticipation and early promise of the movie was so good that I stayed until the end.  Here's what I'd do if I had to do it again.  The beginning is great.  When Hanna throws the switch, you do the same, and you've seen the best of the movie and won't waste your time waiting for something else worth watching to happen.  Trust me - this had to read better as a script to lure in that cast.  Don't make the same error they did.

this was such a nothing movie I was very surprised it had 5 stars again this dvd was nothing but two old men talking about life and death I throught with this two very big stars it would be a great movie but was I surprised

Could not get past the violent beginning Adults murdering children set such a dark theme to this movie I could not watch any further than a few minutes.  Maybe the movie gets better but I have no desire to discover it's value.

Misleading Depiction of Africans I agree with the commenter Fuva: "For instance, Hershberger refers to the apparently substantial participation of "African" elites in the slave trade as "Africans" "selling their own people". This reflects the all too common but grossly incorrect view of "Africans" as a monolith, and contradicts substantial evidence that "African" slave traders were capturing and trading other humans who were BLACK but not necessarily THEIR people (from their "tribe", etc.). Analysis of this phenomenon is seriously lacking in this documentary."  This is true, during the colonial period in the United States, slaves were mostly either Native American or African. (Not enough has been done on Native American slavery, as Native Americans comprised up to 1/3 of all slaves in some cities. But this is another story). These slaves were for the most part obtained via trading, as in Native Americans would sell other Native Americans to Europeans and West Africans would sell other West Africans to Europeans. Most people are somewhat aware of this fact, but this part of history is always told in a very misleading and simplistic way.  Both Native Americans and Africans as wells as Romans, Greeks, individuals in the Bible and individuals in the Koran "owned" slaves. However, the type of slavery practiced by these groups was not at all like the brutal Chattel Slavery that was practiced in the Americas. After the discovery of the New World, the demand for labor was so intense that a very different form of slavery was practiced which was Chattel slavery. Where as not only was the slave property of their master, but the master owned the slave children and the children's future children. This was totally different from the slavery practiced in Africa and other parts of the old world. Throughout African history and outside of Africa you had slaves who became generals and held other high ranking positions. For example, The first emperor of the Mali empire was an "enslaved" African. Why he was technically a slave, he was the leader of his nation. This could have never happened in the Americas.  Additionally, in Olaudah Equiano's autobiography. He describes the difference between being a slave in West Africa and the Americas. He had two different "owners" in West Africa before arriving to the Americas. He stated that his situation became grim only when he got into the hands of Europeans.  Slaves in Africa were basically Prisoners of War from other rival tribes. No one sold their own people. During this time of history there was no concept of race to Africans and Native Americans. Everything was tribal. Tribes at war, would temporarily enslave P.O.W.'s or incorporate them fully into the family. However, this system took a dangerous turn once outsiders begin exploiting it.  It is not out of the ordinary for a slave documentary not to truly address the nature and characteristic of Africa's involvement of the slave trade. However, this documentary seemed to focus heavily on the "evil African myth". This myth is played out at the beginning and then forcefully "crow-barred" in a latter part of the film. This combined with overemphasizing the "good master", caused me not to take this film seriously and question the motive of the film-maker. I can now see why the price is only $4.99, and yet the film is relatively still new. Not only is the film slanted, but the re-enactments reminds of 1980's PBS.  If the point of the film was to showcase White sympathy during slavery, the filmmaker should have focused on the Underground Railroad, The Boston Vigilance Committee, etc... This film is a very incorrect interpretation of history and should not be used in any classroom.  (Partial list of sources) -The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano -500 Years Documentary

UltraViolet holding back an otherwise great purchase I saw this movie in theatres and was more than satisfied with the sequel to the subplot of the first film. Walking out of the theatres I knew I would be purchasing the blu ray when it released. However, that was under the naive assumption it would come with a real digital copy. I was so disappointed when I saw UltraViolet copy next to the title, which like so many have already stated, is not really a digital copy at all. I liked the movie so much I pre-ordered it anyways, but just recently I came to my senses because it's not nearly worth the price as long as ultraviolet is attached to the product. I hope the distributors learn from our reviews because as big a movie collector as I am (300+), I will never purchase another movie with the words "UltraViolet digital copy" following the title.

Major disappointment -- the books are so fun Movies are rarely if ever as good as the book, but this movie seemed to take nothing from the book except the names of the characters and a "get in and out of trouble" theme.  Missed a great opportunity to tell the story as Cleary wrote it.

Fail for Computer Users Hope you don't want to watch this on a computer, because this film (and other early harry potter films) come pre-loaded with the Interactual player, an effort to prevent pirating/limit access disguised as a means of accessing special features.  Interactual is bad software in and of itself (it sends information about how you use it out to the content creator without notifying you) but it's also not compatible with Windows Vista or 7, and the DVDs are set up to block you from viewing them on a computer using any player but Interactual.  While it's installed, it will mess up the graphic display on your other players, and even if it's uninstalled, the DVD will halt playback or only play without sound.  There's no available fix for this and they don't even still make the Interactual player.

Wished I'd missed. I became a fan of Jeff Daniels after his depiction of Chamberlain of the Maine 20th on Little Round Top; those were the strongest scenes (and they better be!) But the rest - I fast-forwarded through an hour and a half of speeches. Who could write this stuff? Or believe that tough-as-nails soldiers from that era would even speak such sentimental drivel? It comes down to a poorly written screenplay focused way too much on myth instead of insight. You end up with a movie that tells instead of shows. Cinema is always better, to paraphrase a Steve McQueen adage, when actors use their their facial muscles more than their vocal cords. Actors know what to do - with proper lines. The raw material was there but the mine was never dug. Maybe the scale was too large for the crucial details to emerge, but if you're going to take on Gettysburg, you better bring it. I appreciate the volunteers' efforts, but many fill out their uniforms a bit much, an impossibility for the rebels after two years in the field fighting and evading the Union Army. Those guys should have been rangy sons of guns. A volunteer cast of thousands explains but does not excuse. At least some Confederates are shown marching shoeless. Another detail: when Gettysburg's cannons fire they don't recoil backward. I noticed in Gods and Generals that the same director got around to correcting this. If there's no recoil (rifles included), then you're obviously firing blanks, a point I realize that's not appreciated by many, at least not consciously. If you're trying to create an impression of shooting to kill, then fool us into believing that something's coming out the barrel, especially with big guns. I have come to the conclusion that the predominantly positive reviews of the film reflect the political split in this country. Many people prefer idealized (and insulting to the men who died) depictions maintaining an iconography of American history, instead of gritty portrayals of flawed humans that inspire and vicariously inform. And when I say inform I don't mean through declarations and cueing string music.

The movie was horrendus, but the deal is not bad This was, without a doubt, one of the worst failures for DC Comics (regarding movies) this year.  Terrible screenplay, cheap production, bad directing, no character development.  Ugh, simply awful.  That being said, I'm going to buy this Blue Ray.  To pay $24.99 for a 3 disc set, plus the Extended Cut of the film is a good deal.  Simple as that.  UPDATE 12292011 ----------------  Thanks to my friends, the vast minory who liked this aberration of movie, I decided that $24,99 for this was still a mock, so I cancelled my order before it came out.  I check the reviews, and it all points out that either the extras nor the "extended" edition worth the money.  Because of that I have to thank a lot of people who attacked the fact that I was going to get this, even when I didn't like the movie at all.  My surprise was great when, during Thanksgiving, the price for this BR went down to $7.  Obviously, I got it.  You simply don't pass things like that.  Haven't seen it yet, but I guess I'll do it another time.  Once again, I thank the people who opened my eyes on this.  =)

Not Just Crappy, But Actually Dangerous Okay, so I've had this pole for a little bit, and as I type, my left hand index finger is bandaged. Why? Because during a recent work out, the stainless-steel paint flaked off at the seam and sliced my finger until I was bleeding all over the place. The worst part is it is NOT the first time. I thought I'd fixed the flaking-sharp coating problem, but apparently not. It's junk. The end. I'm going to contact the manufacturer and send them pictures of the silver-colored razor sharp flakes all over my basement floor! Do yourselves a solid, ladies, and spend the extra money on a Lil Minx or X-pole!

Mind Rot @ Its Most Blatant! I can understand when someone likes a film for reasons others may hate it, and sometimes acting, mood, lighting, sound, and direction all make a huge effect on someone's opinion of something. I believe anything could be better than this 'film', even cutting myself to pieces and filming it would be more fun than this crap!  Danny Glover stars in this. I had to check the main Amazon page to verify that sense I don't own this crap. Isn't that a shock in the rubber parts??!! To think at one time he was doing such GREAT work in classics like "The Color Purple" to sink to doing this. Wow, what a downfall!! I think Danny Glover needed the money. I was embarrassed for him! And, I thought he was embarrassing in "Gone Fishin", but this is the bottom of the barrel. This is unwatchable garbage.  Yes, this is simply nothing more than mind rot at its most blatant! There is no plot, no psychology, no suspense, just gore-gore-gore-and MORE gore just for the sake of showing gore. And to think this film not only is a 'hit', but it has spawned sequels. Now, that to me is psychologically frightening, a lot more scarier than this film (or its sequels) could ever dare to be. If I wanna see someone being tortured, I'll visit youtube and watch some Iraq footage or something, but I really don't prefer to view someone being tortured just for shock value.  This isn't 'horror', nor is it a 'film', but disgusting pieces of footage combined together to whet a poor filmmaker's egotistical fetishes and air them in public for all to see; and, what vile carnal garbage this is, at that. Bilge like this should be flushed down the toilet, along with the people who made it. I couldn't sit through more than 20 minutes of this crap. It isn't merely disgusting, it's PRETENTIOUS JUNK that's pretending to be "art", when in reality it has NOTHING to say or add to the world...except maybe provide viewing pleasure for people who get off on watching torture. And THAT'S scary. We've sunk pretty low. These are some sorry individuals who made this!  The scariest thing is indeed the fact that so many people love this crap. Some are starting to call it "torture porn", meaning that it's pornography for people who love violence, not sex. I think that's an apt description.  These movies are inhuman. People, mostly kids and young adults, are paying good money to enjoy watching inhuman acts. Society is becoming like "Lord of the Flies". And the people who are the sickest are the least likely to see it in themselves, apparently.  I advise anyone with any common sense of decency to stay as far away from these trash 'snuff-porn for dummies' films as possible. They are a plague on our country, and people are sitting in theaters eating them up as they are eating their popcorn and being told 'this is ok to watch', brainwashed like mindless sheep. Treat this crap like AIDS or Typhoid Mary, for it is liken to a very scary virus that's overtaking theaters in place of what used to be great cinema.  I read someone reviewing "Hostel part 2" saying that Hitchcock would love it. HUH??? REALLY???! What drugs are these people on to even remotely try to compare this garbage to anything Hitchcock???! He wouldn't even watch such crap, let alone applaud it. And the same goes for Jonathan Demme (the director of the classic "Silence of the Lambs", another film these 'fans' are comparing this crap to).  Don't get me wrong, for I believe everybody has the right to form their own opinion, but these type of films were hidden from sight and considered illegal just 20 years ago, and now they are being paraded from theater to theater with pride. What the h*ll happened to our society???  If I wanna see someone digging in a toilet, I will watch a plumber working, that would be more entertaining than this trash any day.  And, since I prefer my horror films to be psychological, I will steer as far from this as Humanly possible, and I advise the same for any other intelligent/intellectual film goer out there. Thank you.

not good still haven't received my refund. Had to send the dvd's back because they were set for region 2 import (Europe) so would not open on my computer. Very dissapointed.

Poor execution of a good concept Watched this movie again and still cannot figure out the high ratings. Even with the suspension of disbelieve requried with all movies this is film still has a terrible finish. CGI is good but the finale still makes the movie feel like a low budget B movie. It's so hokey and 1970's type of BS I can't believe it! Very unimpressive! James Franco still gives the same unemotional an wooden performance he's famous for. This may have been his most emotional performance but that's not saying much. He had more emotion and fun in Your Highness than he did in this waste of time. Sorry for those of you who think I've never seen a movie but movies are one of my passions along with reading good books. I've seen thousands of movies. I can usually find something positive in all of them. Turner Classic Movies is one of my favorite channels. Unfortunately this movie still disappoints on all fronts. It starts out great but the last-45-60 minutes of of the movie destroy what could have been a masterpiece. I suspect most reviews are giving this film such a high rating for the first half hour of the film and totally ignoring the last half/two thirds of the film. Still a terrible ending! The action at the end is just terrible!! Makes an A list movie into a low class B-list movie. Still not very good. Too bad people are so influenced by CGI instead of good plots and good execution by quality actors. This is an example of a typically over-hyped, over advertised film that didn't make it at the box office (because it's not very good) so the movie company pushed DVD sales by creating a lot of positive ratings on Amazon.  Not sure what the five star reviewers saw in this movie. The first part of the movie had some promise with some good character developement. Definately had some potential but did not follow thru. The last half of the movie is far too unrealistic and ruins the movie. Where is th US Military when the apes break out? Don't you think at least the Natiional Guard with automatic weapons would have been called out after the damage the apes did? Even without the military how could all the automatic weapons the police had miss the unarmed chimps?In the real world the unarmed apes would have been cut to pieces no matter how smart they are. Do you really think a hundred hunted apes could really take over 750 million humans, even if they are as smart as we are?  They would have to breed litters of 100 plus offspring for a thousand years just to match the population assuming humans continued to have children. Far too many hunters with top notch weapons for this to happen no matter how smart the apes become.  Also, it looked like a major California city so why only one helicoptor with no real weapons? Come on, one guy with a hand held automatic weapon in the helicoptor and it's taken out by a jumping gorilla? Pathetic! Once again in the real world a helicoptor with machine gun would cut the unarmed opponents to shreds. Those that escaped would be hunted unmercifully. Too few apes and too many US citizens with guns to hunt the apes down to make this movie even close to realistic. No matter how smart the apes (and the couldn't have been too smart since the couldn't figure out how to use guns) this movie sucked. No matter how smart the apes, pure numbers ensure their destruction.  I can suspend disbelief but this movie tried to carry it way too far. The script started to develope empathy for some of the characters at the beginning of the film but lost it by the end. Only recommendation I can give this film is some decent special effects and a great performance by John Lithgow.

Awful movie.... I bought this video as a joke for a friend, which went over well....We watched the movie and it was painful to get through.  I am certainly a fan of low-budget, bad movies, but this one is truly the worst.

Busted Case The dvd its self was awesome. Im a huge Stripes fan so of course I loved it. The case to the dvd was busted as if someone had droped it and it landed right on the bottom left corner. The plasic and the paper under the plastic was torn as well. I usually never have problems with Amazon. Even the used stuff I have bought from them in the past is almost in near perfect condition. Idk what happened this time?!

Not Ray Harryhausen films!!!!!!!!! This particular Blue ray release is an insult to the creative talent of Ray Harryhausen. He was not involved in any of the films included in this package (including the DVD extra "The Most Dangerous Game"). The effects created for the film "SHE" were the work of Vernon L. Walker, Harry Redmond Sr. and Harry Redmond Jr. Linwood Dunn was responsible for the for the optical effects. Ray Harryhausen was still a young teenager when this was was released.  "Things to Come" (the classic BRITISH productions) had an extensive visual effects crew which included: Jack Cardiff, W. Percy Day, Peter Ellenshaw, Lawrence Butler, Edward Cohen, Ned Mann, Ross Jacklin, George J. Teague, Wally Veevers, Harry Zech. Again, Ray Harryhausen had no involvement in this production.  And the same is true for the bonus feature, "The Most Dangerous Game".  This is crass marketing, and a big lie on top of it. These films are all in the Public domain, and since that limits their marketing potential, these marketing geniuses, decided to claim that they are, in fact films made by Ray Harryhausen, which could not be further from the truth.  The prints used for these transfers, are fine grain 16mm sources, except for 'Most Dangerous Game" which hails from a badly damaged and worn TV print. Each film shows serious wear(scratches, dirt) especially at reel changes. "Things to Come" looks very soft, with limited detail, and is overly bright, causing some whites to bloom irritatingly. "She" is probably the better transfer of the batch, but only by a margin. Suffering from numerous splices, and horrific scratches at reel changes, the transfer also has a noticeable tape drop out that proves its source was from tape and not film (and possibly a 1/2" master). The colorization is laughably inadequate, adding nothing to the films; and only succeeds in trivializing the artistry and talent within these films.  Don't waste your time or money of this release. It is an insult to the name of Ray Harryhausen, and to the actual craftsmen who made these films. The producers of this disc should be ashamed!

"Look how cute I am!" This is a boring, shallow, tiresome, "Look how cute I am!" movie about boring, shallow, tiresome, "Look how cute I am!" West Hollywood types.  Someday somebody is going to make a movie about real gay people. Real gay people are not obsessed with their gym bodies and other guys' gym bodies. Real gay people don't look like fashion models. Real gay people get older than 23, eventually. Real gay people do not have blinding white teeth. Real gay people do not have perfect tans 365 days of the year, or even ONE day of the year. Real gay people have no idea what an "app" is, don't care what an "app" is, and got tired of the word the third time they heard it.  Whoever made this tiresome movie, and whomever they made it for - those are people I hope I never have to meet.

Stay away 1) Ridiculously expensive. 2) The idea is good (showing what's going on and telling what's happening in that foreign language) but telling it in a narrative way was a stupid idea. I wouldn't say stupid IF you would be able to see the person, and her mouth/lip/tongue moves. 3) The toddlers get bored sooooo quickly. 4) It's way too fast for a toddler to memorize the words. 5) Sometimes (even with the drawings) it is not clear where the toddler should focuse. Is it the eyes, the face, the nose... 6) Buy it for yourself, you can follow it easily, stop and rewind it, take notes then it works, but this is not good for a toddler.  I recommend The Journey to the East: Thr River Dragon King and better Ni Hao, Kai-Lan series.

Bad Transfer Whoever is making these blu rays has no quality control. The picture at tmes on the left side of the screen will disapear...this is not the only blu ray I found that this is the problem. Keep the DVD formatted disc I did. It looks, and plays great. I thought Blu ray was suppose to be better. I retuned the blu ray. Stay away from this copy!

Doesn't work in any player in my house! I guess my first clue should have been ""available action"" .  DVD troubleshooting is one of the options. Go figure. This DVD doesn't work in any player!! I am planning on sending it back but I wanted to give a review first so that no one else has this problem.

Don't bother!! I had bought the dvd set that came with the little mask at a local Best Buy and had to return it because the packaging it comes in causes the dads to scratch. I ordered this one thinking Paramount caught on and decided on better packaging. Unfortunately, no. I just ordered this 2 days ago, got it today, pulled out the dvds and surprise surprise they have noticeable scratches on them because of the packaging. Don't get me wrong, the packaging is cool ands gives great details about the movies, but I don't spend 40 dollars on scratched DVDs. They need a simpler packaging, where the dads won't be sliding on cardboard causing them to scratch. Hopefully somebody will catch on!

In space, nobody can hear you snore. I saw "Alien" on its release over thirty years ago, and was scared out of my socks.  No doubt there were some glaring holes in the story and some obvious issues with the science and technology on display, but it was an ultra-suspenseful gothic horror pic. With the exception of "Aliens", subsequesnt sequels seemed to follow a death spiral of silly ideas and poorly-developed characters.  I always figured that the lack of Ridley Scott's hand at the helm, and 20th Century Fox's "let's bamboozle the movie-going public with amazing special effects so's nobody notices we don't have much of a story to work with, and maybe we can still make a fast buck" ethic lead to the franchise's decline.  Imagine my excitement at Mr. Scott's return with "Prometheus."  I missed the show at my local multiplex, so greedily anticipated the DVD release. What a let-down.  I spotted too many holes in the story to even try to count'em; the primary characters, while purportedly scientists, act like junior high schoolers who'd spent the two year interstellar flight sniffing glue; none of the scientists and crew was even likeable or vaguely sympathetic, with the possible exception of the ship's captain, or maybe the damned robot (was he evil, or just following Weyland's orders?  Just what was his motivation, anyway?); there are few lines of dialog containing more than five words per sentence (I guess somebody in production figured, "why say 37 words when one will do?"); the gothic spookiness of the original "Alien" was sorely lacking yet again, as was any remote hint of suspense; the authors of the script mustn't know a damn thing (the dingbat biologist character says an increadibly stupid line about "...three hundred of 'DARWINISM'...": no biologist would say "Darwinism"-- that's for TV evangelists.  But I pick at nits.  All-in-all, this cinematic catastrophe, while at times spectacular, represents Hollywood's failure to "get" science fiction.  I thought this one might be high-concept, but it's no more high-concept than "Plan 9 form Outer Space." If you put enough efx on screen, the studio hacks seem to think, the lumps in the multiplex seats will go, "OOOOOH, ain't that cool!"  I saw (by accident, mind you) 15 minutes of the latest "Transformers" picture, and I was hard-pressed to tell the difference between that one and "Prometheus": the look (production design), sound effects (including over-compressed booming noises that pummell us from time to time, sometimes just to remind us to be scared), cgi visual effects, action sequences, even costumes, were from the same mold.  Paramount was able to save their "Star Trek" franchise three years ago with that reboot (it has problems, too, but dang, it's Star Trek, ain't it?).  Can 20th Century Fox learn a similar lesson before they release further "Alien"-ish drek?

Whats Clooney doing in this horrible film? Clooney is usually a pretty fair judge of material but this right wing, chauvinistic wanker is over the top. Unviewable; I had to cut out midway through the movie.

SAVE YOUR MONEY The 2 min. piece they show you for free is cute. But overall this is the worst 9 minutes of garbage I have ever seen. What's with the little black child dancing on a table and taking his clothes off while 3 white "soldiers" watch. Not cute! Hugging one soldier while full frontal long kiss on the mouth with another soldier behind his back by Shirley. Not cute!! And at the end where one "soldier" is picking his teeth with Shirley's diaper pin? Not cute!!! Someone produced this garbage and wants your money. Not cool!!!

RRRRIDICULOS!!!!!! The fans of this series all deserve much much better. Let's push the reset button on this one, shall we?

Doesn't play on PC This is for the BD version.  This BD played on my PS3.  I was not very impressed. However, I give this 1 star because it will not play on my legally purchased PC with a legally purchased OS, legally purchased BD ROM drive and legally purchased Blu-Ray player. I'm sure this has to do with copy protection. So I guess the manufacturer is willing to annoy PAYING customers in their attempt to stop pirates? Thanks Warner Bros, next time I will think twice before purchasing any of your garbage.

Misguided and un-entertaining I grew up with the original Winnie the Pooh featurettes.  I loved when they would show them on TV during the fall, and very much looked forward to watching them.  This feature vainly attempts to recapture the charm of the original, and falls short in so many ways.  The film looks nice, and the animation is serviceable (albeit very frenetic--it never stops moving).  But it's the very thin story and the direction that doom this from the start.  The slight idea of the overall picture takes a back seat to frantic animation, a gag a minute, and so many small "homages" to the original that it never finds it's footing.  The problem isn't that it's too long (badly 70 minutes), it's that there's so many ideas and silliness crammed into it's running time that the characters have no time to breath.  That is sad.  Most of the voice actors are quite good--what a shame their dialogue is wasted on such material.  The songs are witless, and charmless--like a third rate barnyard musical.  The score, on the other hand, is one of the highlights of the whole event.  Beautifully lush, and perfectly evokes the mood of the original shorts.  All in all, there are far worse things to watch than this--but there are many better.  Also included on the blu-ray is a very slight short film called Ballad of Nessie.  It has many of the same problems as the Pooh short, compounded by the fact that it completely lacks character of any kind.

A little Spirit would have been nice......... THE SPIRIT OF THE WEST(1932) Directed by Otto Brower.   Starring Hoot Gibson and Lafe McKee.   When wicked owlhoots kill Lafe McKee and then set to stealin his ranch, threatn his daughter and running over Hoot Gibson's brother with Hosses, things look bad fer decent folks hereabouts.  Luckily Hoot Gibson, former Sheriff arrives and disguised as not too bright kitchen hand slowly shows them gosh derns scalawags the spirit of the West.   In spite of the above description, this is a thoroughly average if not below average early 30s B western.  Except for McKee......and he is shot dead in the first five minutes none of the rest of the cast including Gibson can act worth a mangy coyote. The director manages to keep the camera from tipping over but that is about all.  Gibson looks like he has been spending too many long nights at the saloon and has absolutely no screen presence.  I do not understand his career at all.   Not bad. Not good.  Not at all a good example of the B western which could usually be great fun. No regrets I saw it but happy I can get rid of the vhs tape as I can use of whatever free space I can get.    Ho. Hum.

simple basic and just bad This is painful to watch, terrible sets, a soundtrack that makes you want to drink . The plot is predictable and moves at a glacial pace.

Stupid & Juvenile I think this script was written by a juvenile.  Really stupid, gross humor.  I almost had to force myself to laugh.  I'm amazed that they were able to cast such big stars in this movie.

Not a great kids movie and too silly for adults This was just a weird movie- not made for kids at all, and really too ridiculous for adults. Tweens might get a kick out of it, but regardless of who they were marketing this to, it's a lame movie that really isn't worth your time.

A Kids Review ! If someone asked me "What is the worst movie of all time ?", I would say this one. Well why ? Welll as a TRUE Godzilla fan theres alot of reasons. Most likely how they took Godzilla and down-graded him to a stupid 60 ft. tuna eating iguana called "Zilla" or "Godzilla USA" to the japanese. This Zilla freak only 60 feet tall, he can be killed by missiles, and doesn't evenlook like a standered Godzilla (hopefuly it will be better in Godzilla 2014). And you ask Does this even have to do with the japanese ?" ? Well, NO IT DOESNT !!!!!!!! Instead of the japanese testing their new fancy atomic bomb, it's the French who is taking the job (EPIC FAIL) ! And Godzilla, I mean Zilla is attacking NYC ! Which is not Tokyo. Yes, Zilla can breathe fire but not ATOMIC FIRE. And only does ONCE or twice in the WHOLE MOVIE ! And instead just screams really close to something and blows it away which is garbage already ! If you want to get a quaility Godziilla movie, DON'T GET THIS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All of your firends might say its pretty cool. But they are just being idots. In stead on this site type in Gojira/Godzilla, King of the Monsters (2004). Read some 4 or 5 star reviews then BUY IT! Also in the comments type in what this movie should of been called. I think it should of been called "Monster". If it didn't have Godzilla on it. I would of giving it 3 stars.

Nebulously rendered, Vacuous beyond a comprehension; absolute Nausea. What can be said except that I want my money back. If you were to pay me to have watched this I might have walked out. It's astounding to me that anyone could have financed such a project... Cliche after cliche... some kind of a Kubrickian' nausea perhaps? What fresh hell is this. How can anything be so bleak and pointless...? What were the makers (the producers) thinking, are we hamsters? Lab rat's compartmentalized into submission... Lighten up-damn, this is not a horror movie (but it's certainly horrible) I could not stand it anymore, had to quit it; decided to write this review so that I wouldn't feel so completely raped. Weird is not the word... this crap is creepy beyond all recognition, if I ever meet the director of this fim I'm going to take my socks off soak them in rotten milk and slap him in the face with them> because that's how I feel right now... this film is a wet blanket on a chilly night. Lame, lame, lame.... a complete violation of human dignity, nothing about it (spare certain aspects of the set and perhaps elements of the curious cinematography) I'm no film critic; but this sucks. It's not a film it's a montage of spooky skits' centered around a vacuous script which lacks even the most basic story-line... what; ??? Am I supposed to think that this is really deep? ... a commentary on the state of the (new-age) institutional therapy scene...? It's like some twisted rehab in hell or some such holocaust. Whatever; it's boring and vague is what it is... and a waste of money and my time.  There you have it ; my condolences to the editors who had to endure pulling this thing 'together' from the abominable dailies they must have been handed. Good grief... never in my life.  Complete garbage. This should only be sold with a warning. Suicidal people should not be exposed to this material... It's not safe for consumption.  Ghastly stuff - to the makers; I recommend you take a break from whatever trip you've been on because this shit is depressing in a way that words cannot describe... pure sludge... the whole thing is menstrual.  Senseless drool.

Looks good movie awful just Lame I was truly excited to see this film being a huge fan of alien and aliens (not the other two awful sequels) I realized this was not a sequel but a prequel of sorts and went in with an open mind.  I cannotl beleive ridley scott made this film. From the  opening  scene where the engineer drinks blcak goo and jumps in the water I knew I was in for a rough ride. I stayed with it showed some promise but things go downhill from when they awake from hyper sleep. The couple was terrible  flat, all the characters with the exception of the android are lifeless bland and the two guys stuck in the cave belonged in alien vs predator that bad.  Once again the backstory to the space jockeys is less interesting then keeping not knowing the mysterey in the first place.  The aliens were essentailly weapons which was fine and that you could prety much gather from watching alien, the space jockeys engineers are lame uniteresting human like muscular characters. Charlize thereon decides to bang the ships captain, the situations are cliched theres oxygen take off our masks!  Its all over the place convaluted mess,  peaking in naomi rapaces siginifcnt other being killed coming back as some weird zombie monster (WTF)? and then it totally derails, rapace gives birth to a worm like creature in a good scene,  horrible guy pearce makeup guy is on the ship secretly as yukatani, rapace kills her wormlike creature inside her but its still alive at the end end rapes one of the engineers (dont ask) and later a alien is born (wtf?) meanwhile rapace wants to go on exploring the engineers event though they want to destroy humanity. Its that bad I cannot believe scott touched this, if the bladerunner sequle is anything like this pleas eleave it alone!

A Really Bad Way to End the Franchise This review is for the Canadian edition of this Blu-ray.  First off, it's the theatrical version so the Director's Cut isn't included.  I mean, the director's cut doesn't make the movie excellent or anything, but it is an improvement.  The American version is now available and I wish I had waited.  The premise was a good one:  vampires unearth Dracula, the first of their kind, in an attempt to become daywalkers and defeat Blade.  They manage to get Blade on the run and he's forced to team up with a group of resistance fighters.  This new team includes some great talent like Patton Oswald, Jessica Biel, and Ryan Reynolds.  Reportedly Wesley Snipes didn't like that he had to share screen time with a scene stealer like Ryan and you can really tell in their scenes together.  Parker Posey does a fine job of chewing scenary as one of the principal villians.  You're more likely to roll you eyes during allot of the action sequences and dialogue than be thrilled or entertained.  Can't recommend unless you're a die hard Blade fan and have to complete your collection.  If you do though, pick up the American version.

Disney should have been put in jail If you grew up on Disney's wilderness tales as I did, you may be shocked to find them to have been falsified documentaries.  Not only false, but in many cases cruel.  In this particular video for instance a polar bear is actually PLACED at the top of a steep snowy hillside and forced to "accidentally fall" several hundred feet.  Additionally, this is the title that propagated the myth that lemmings commit suicide.  They don't.  Walt's producers actually THREW them off a cliff and taped it, saying they jumped...  Check out Cruel Camera - Hollywood Animals.  No money should be made from the sale of this footage...

more funny than anything else there are no words to describe how pathetic an attempt for a scary movie this was.  i seriously knew it was a dud 5 minutes into it, yet my mom, who was watching it with me, wanted us to give it a try.  less than halfway through, we were both making our own commentary, laughing out loud, and fast forwarding (this thing is soooo freaking slow, adding to the absurdity of the story) to the end just to see what happens.  compared to katie holmes' other movies (this one isn't even comparable to any of her others), it makes one think if she was really hard up for a role when she did this.  avoid like the plague, or rent for a good laugh.

You gotta be kidding Ha ha ha. Whatever this is, it sure aint Beowulf. I stopped watching this "movie" after about 40 minutes. But yes, it was entertainingly bad. And Grendel apparently speaks pure Saxon! LOL.

Route 66 Complete Season 3 The actual product quality was very disappointing - half of the DVD's in the 8 DVD set would not play on any of my DVD players. (playback error codes) After doing some research on line I found a number complaints with others having similar problems... It seems that there's something wrong with the batch of Route 66 season 3 DVD's made for Best Buy. And with Amazon's 50% return policy on DVD's it's not worth my time or money to return the DVD's.

Terrible intro to 3D world If I watched this DVD before I bought my 3D TV, I would have never made that purchase.  The movie is a commercial for Boeing and the Union workers.  An absolute demagogy.  I should have believed the reviews.

useless There is no magic to any of it. When dealing with a baby you're dealing with random chaos. This guy is a jackwagon making tons of money on some things that are common sense, and other things that are questionable. Do not buy the dvd or the book.  The dvd is like home video and basically useless. Use your common sense and consult your pediatrician. And there is plenty of information online for free that is more useful than this.

Popcorn movie for kids... nothing more. This movie simply lacks everything. The acting is so bad that I can't find the words to describe it. Horrible might even be a compliment. I only watched this movie because of the more-than-brilliant CHRISTOPHER WALTZ who is one of the finest actors of all time. I've seen most of his german movies and I cannot think of the slightest reason why he signed up for this crap. Beats me totally.  I actually fast forwarded most of the movie because it became unbearable to watch.

The Oprah version?  Are you kidding? If I had ordered this assuming it was the David Attenborough version and ended up hearing Oprah's voice of illegitimate victimization instead I would have waited to eject the disk from the player so that I could vomit on it before returning it.  But not before wiping boogars on the packaging.

Rambo - Review on Fulfillment by Canada Inc. Not Movie Itself I bought this DVD at the end of last year (2011) and my boyfriend just tried watching it today. Brand-new out of the packaging - as he tried to get it out - the DVD broke. Never had this happen before. Unfortunately it's been too long a period of time from the time we bought it until now to return it. Just be careful who's fulfilling your order for you. Perhaps not this company's fault - but perhaps it is.

Do not buy this disc; you will be forced to watch 10 minutes of advertisements The movie is great. This disc will end up in your trashcan in pieces unless you have the patience of a saint. Universal pictures has decided that you are paying them for the imperative privilege of watching ten minutes of previews. /Dumb/ previews, through which you cannot fast forward and from which you cannot access the main menu. Buy the movie elsewhere or pirate it.

INaccurate description of the product Contrary to what claimed by Amazon, this NOT the uncut version which, originally, lasted 145 minutes. To my knowledge, the uncut version has not been released yet. I remember seeing it when the film was first shown in theatres in Italy and was then withdrawn, some five days later. Those scenes are missing from this DVD.

I thought I liked it Ok, saw this one on sell for almost free. Seemed like I remembered it being good. Boy was I wrong. B O R I N G ! And sadly advertised as a "family film" untill you have to explain to your kids why all those women have their breast exposed...lol Does not list nudity on rating, yet has more "breast" then a box of KFC. And to top of my list of complaints..2.0 stereo sound...what a joke!!!

shaolin Vs The Devil's Omen i did place an order or purchase with my credit card for just one of this item but i was charge twice of the same copy.

Fail Typical right wing fear mongering. D'Souza provides no evidence but some creative editing =. Not worth your time or money.

The waste of time review The worst movie I ever rented. The worst movie I ever rented. The worst movie I ever rented.The worst movie I ever rented.

Blu-ray Version A Let Down Part 2 I'm not going to go into the plot of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, other sites and reviewers have that covered, but here is the deal, Funimation has yet again releases another upscaled piece of garbage.  This Blu-ray set has a number of issues with the video. The images are blurry, the lines are fuzzy, colors washed out, everything as a glow around it, there is noticeable gradient banding, and artifacting during many scenes. If you own the DVDs, stick with them as they are the best quality available.  If you want a HD version of this anime wait for the official release from the studio, not some cheap Funimation weekend project. I ended up returning this because I am not going to pay for this horrible mess of a release.  I added a screenshot to the images section to show how bad this release is. Make sure to look at it full size, as it naturally looks better at a smaller size. Also the screenshot was not altered in any way from the Blu-ray source.  Also don't buy this set, go for the collection if you are going to get it.

This is not eye opening.  This is pandering to commonly held beliefs. This is not a good documentary.  It is a misrepresentation of an industry that spans much further than the interpretation of a narrow-minded do gooder that doesn't really understand the scope of the industry.  I personally found the stereotyping painful and damaging to people who are not at all evil as represented.    There are several issues that I found concerning about the representation here.    America does not have a preoccupation with beauty.  America has an obesity problem.  If the fashion industry is influencing people, it is failing.  190 million Americans of 280 are obese.  The interviewer in this movie, himself, is overweight.  He talks about eating disorders, but doesn't mention that obesity is a leading cause of death, and not bulimia or anorexia.    The criticism of the fashion industry is over one twelve year old girl that preformed in runway shows.  That is extremely rare, downright, unheard of for a girl that young to be on the runway.  It is very rare. Furthermore, runway shows are not promoted for the general public.  Runway shows are made primarily for artists to show their work for other industry specialist. Runway models are not 'stars', and even if they were, the use of one girl pales in comparison to the multitudes of child actors. Most of the clothing on runway models will not be consumed by the general population because it is simply based on artistic principles; in other words, too impractical.  On the flip side-- what the viewer isn't told, is that there are dozens of middle aged female models. Jamie Lee Curtis, Halle Barry (she is 44), Naomi Campbell (41), to name a few.  They are very successful.    It is true that the industry has a problem with promoting very thin models.  There are also plus size models too.  The documentary just ignores aspects of the fashion world that do not fit the stereotype.  There are thousands of PLUS size fashion designers.  If you do not believe me, do a Google search.    The fashion industry is not run by uneducated homeschoolers that had bad mothers.  Homeschoolers do very well in life, but that is beside the point.  To be a fashion designer, you must have at least a four year degree from an art college.  The higher your degree, the better your perspectives.  Degrees in fashion design are extremely difficult to attain because the industry has a standard of accepting degrees from only the top colleges.  We are talking at least $30,000 per year with a total degree costing $120,000 for a BA at most art colleges.  Not only are fashion students well educated--they are some of the hardest working individuals out there, graduating from colleges with impeccably high standards,  and they are also mortgaged up to their eyeballs.  The more the industry is stereotyped, the higher the standards on workers and designers go.    The pair of jeans that you purchased might very well have been designed by an artist that is $120,000 in debt in order to make the things that you wear that you think are causing you to dislike yourself. That is the stigma that workers in the industry face everyday by customers that cannot get enough of the products that they sell, but want to someone to blame for their lives.  Clothing is just art.  Make-up is just art.  (And they have been selling organic make-up in the US for years; no one buys it.) These things are not why people do not value themselves.  Human history had terrible problems for females long before the rise of the fashion industry.  Some of the worst treatment of females comes out of countries where woman have stict dress codes and social restrictions on dress.  The highest suicide rates of females are in countries that denounce vanity.  Don't believe me.  Look it up.    A lot of people say after watching this movie that they want their kids to understand the message.  Why don't you teach your kids to listen to all viewpoints and ask questions instead of telling them that one view is definitely correct.

Shame!!!!! Do not buy this!  Warner stated uncensored version of Justify My Love and this actually has the censored version!!!  Also, has the censored version of Erotica.  The remastering looks terrible due to using single layer DVD's, not dual layer and the sound mix of the Dolby 5.1 is poor sounding.....more like a matrix 5.1 track.  Also, missing many key videos!!!  Warner needs to recall this piece of crap and give it the proper job it deserves!!!  Amazon shouldn't even sell this!!!!

No Extras Really Sony? Why keep releasing blu-rays with no extras? Do we look stupid to you? We buy films mostly because of the special features, not for the film itself. Just to watch the movie, I'd rather see it on cable, Netflix or download.

Dont watch Anyone that has ever liked this series please don't watch this horrible movie, because ever since I have all I can do is block out how awful it was and how the movie made me embarrassed I was ever an underworld fan.

Repulsive It's depressing. It's shrill. It's gloomy. It's disgusting. It's better for you if you rent something else. I actually started to skim through this one after the first 30 minutes because it was going no where fast.

Moronic trash! I am now truly convinced that Hitchcock is THE most overrated director of all time! This movie is about as provocative  as an episode of Murder She Wrote. The music was poorly placed  and way overused! With the exception of Fontaine, the acting was wretched. The plot revelations were so hokey I actually broke out laughing a few times. Other than some interesting lighting and photography (which you can see in probably a million other thrillers), the movie went absolutely nowhere--no real tension, plodding development, and an astonishing lack of credibilty. Perhaps this movie is more an influence of Selznick than Hitchcock, but ironically, a man by the name of Val Lewton, who worked under Selznick, went on to do some of the greatest thriller/horror movies ever!

dvd condition The sad fact is this dvd arrived broken.  The packaging seemed adaquit and the return policy of no returns of opened items is understandable...but...in this case it was unfortunate for me.

disappointment Gave the DVD to my daughter for her 8th birthday, and she excitedly went to play it in her DVD player. A message came on the screen saying "Video is not available in your region". Having never seen a message like that before, I attempted to play it in my blu-ray player. This time I got a "region error" message. We then tried one more dvd player only to receive the same message. At this point, my only conclusion is that the problem is with the dvd itself. Like I said, very disappointing.

the movie got better as time went on Not one of the best movies I have watched,  a bit slow in the first two tapes, do not rush to purchase this one.

This sucked! It was so boring!  I definitely dont want to go to India or hang out with old European hippies now!!!!!! yuck and boring.

the first three were better... i've been watching the repeats on television of this series. i was an avid fan when it was on in the 90's because basically i (amongst many many other women) was living their lives minus the uber expensive shoes and fab digs. i have to admit i still think the first three seasons were good.  having had a few years gone by and gotten married has changed my outlook in a major way. now, when i watch the show i realize how shallow and selfish they all seem and don't wonder that they couldn't keep a relationship; serious relationships mean giving up part of yourself, but then you want to because you love them.  watching it now, i find most of them unlikable. especially miranda(embittered ballbuster) and samantha (total slag)it's amazing that she never caught an STD- so not realistic. i loved charlotte and related to her the most until she divorced trey. i mean they didn't even try to work things out, and then she changed her religion for harry like she was throwing away an old dress. and carrie treated aidan dishonourably. i also think the writers crapped out with the russian; he would have been the only one who could seriously rival big and they turned him into an a-hole- what a predictably contrived plotline.  and when the first film came out(didn't bother with the 2nd); mid age samantha breaks up with smith because why? stupid and unrealistic; like he would even still be with her at this point? come on. if madonna and demi couldn't hang on to their youngin's she sure as heck wouldn't be the one breaking up with such a sweet considerate hot man like smith.  it had it's time but they all should have grown up.

Tedious treatment of a lovely story This movie was way too long.  Marie Osmond is lovely, but her petulant and whining voice was tiresome.  Read O'Henry's classic story and skip this annoying movie.

A Confusing Stupid Mess of a Movie Nick Nolte looked about as confused as I was at the end of this stupid, mixed up movie, seemingly written but a bunch of monkees in a barrell.  That it actually got positive reviews confirms my belief that humanity is on the eve of destruction.  Made no sense, provided no insight into character, motivation, etcetera, start to finish.  A BAD movie.

Eclipse single-disc edition Blu-Ray This item is supposedly a Blu-Ray disc, but will not play on my brand new Sony Blu-Ray disc player? A waste of money.

DVD didn't work Stupid me.  I ordered a DVD from another part of the world, which won't work in our "region".  Stupid supplier and Amazon- I didn't know it was an issue until I got it.

Sad to see the humor in toilet all the time We just didn't see the humor (and yes, we usually do). So much was gutter-based humor, which yes can be funny but not when it's 50% or more. Smart comedy was sacrificed on the altar of say something off-color and it'll get a laugh whether actually funny or not. (And I write this on the day of the multi-car pile-up at NASCAR...and the accident on the track was far less severe than the damage this movie did to humor!)

Yet another Hit M:I-3 delivers the goods, but it doesn't step above anything we've seen before. The bridge fight and helicopter chase were the only scenes in the movie that really felt original

shoddy merchandise It seems there is only one manufacturer for this product. When I received it I unwrapped it and played the very first disc, which was the only one that would play. The back of the discs had dye stuck to them from the cardboard containers they were in. The dye would not come off and the ones that did not have dye on them had other blemishes on them that would not let them play. For the amount of money they cost all I got was garbage. I sent them back to Amazon and was refunded. I even went to Wal-mart.com and bought them thinking maybe they might be alright. Made by the same manufacturer and was the same garbage. Returned them and started recording them from TV and cutting the commercials myself. I highly recommend against buying the Everybody Loves Raymond series. They are very poorly manufactured and packaged and should be taken off the shelves and all sent back to the manufacturer.

Scratched!! I loved Shera as a little girl so excited when I saw it on line I knew I had to get it. Well today i finally got my DVD & it is scratched really bad! I'm so disappointed it's suppose to be new I unsealed it myself so why is it damaged?? If I could get another one I would really appreciate it I am more than gladly would return the one that I have. Please get back to me that way we can work something out.

right wing social engineering Yes. We get it. Meryl Streep is fantastic, and everyone knows that, and we could go on for ages about it and present her with yet another oscar nomination, predictably, but you know what? As Madam Thatcher says in a pivotal scene in this movie, one's life must matter! So I will give it to you straight. Meryl could also be starring in a lifetime movie of the week and it would have equal artistic merit as this mess.  As we all know, hollywood likes to consider themselves quite self congratulatory. They awarded an oscar to charlize theron because she went from so chic and lovely to well...we all know!  They awarded milk and crash because golly gee, social causes are important! This time around, the oscar reasoning behind support for the iron lady will be how hollywood thinks its actually cutting edge/hip to show conservatives as people with feelings.  We see Thatcher in her old age, going mad in her well lit apartment. Why not make it tragic? Instead of even a polanski-lite director at the helm, we have a unambitious style that fails to ever catch fire and instill passion the viewer, and a style that stifles even meryls performance.  Yes, she was the first woman prime minister but the movie of course fails to address her battles with sexism in a remotely compelling way. We are shown that her rise to power was due not to her intellect, but due to her audacity. Unlike say Milk or Bullworth, we see no hints of the wheeling and dealing apparent in any politicians ascent to power.  And it is beaten over our head in this movie that, despite her war mongering, union-busting ways, she was good intentioned toward the everyman! After all, she was a mother! I don't buy it.  But the true reason this movie will fade will be not due to the fact that it thinks its breaking new ground for pulling an ayn rand and showing conservative principles as daring and courageous, no. It will be due to the fact that it has no ambition for itself, which is ironic considering the subject matter. It is literally about nothing. Whatever you say about this woman it's clear that she was quite a lady and she deserves an honest account of her life, at the very least. This is just bland whitewash.

LIFE AND DEATH ON THE MISSISSIPPI There is so much wrong with this disaster I don't know where to start.  SOUND MIXING- horrible.  You can barely hear the dialogue (which may be an unintended blessing).  But if you want to hear the sound of clanking dinnerware, the click of a recording button, or mosquitoes at deafening levels, this is yourt picture! The director also uses lengthy fades to no avail and shot the film in black and white, green and white, sepia and white, and color???  The lighting is so bad you can't see what's going on, and the plot (?) is so incoherent, the movie makes no sense.  And the whole thing is BOOOORING! Avoid this at all costs!!!

This movie sucks If you want to look for the worst movie ever it's this one. Seriously. Don't be fooled by Luke Perry being in it. He's there for a whole 2 minutes of the film, then something happens to his character and you never see him again. The rest of the movie is a dull mess that revolves around a plot of gay whoring and a guy trying to turn his girlfriend into a stripper. The acting is bad but it isn't the worst part, no the worst part is definitely the awful attempt at taming the movie into something that would be embarrassed to call itself a PG-13. There are scenes in the movie where something is either terribly dubbed or else silent while the actor's lips are moving. The premise of the movie is the female lead telling the story while apparently incarcerated. The movie then makes an awful attempt at explaining why she is incarcerated and in the end you're wondering what she did to deserve it.  Her boyfriend is dead by suicide after murdering his gay lover who killed the Luke Perry stand in that appears to take his place (seriously, read the movies information on the back of the box and it's clear that Luke Perry was supposed to be in this a lot more than he was). I went into this movie with my roommates telling me it's the worst film of all time, I may not entirely agree... but it's terrible. I fell asleep mid-movie and on reviewing what I missed realized I missed nothing. So why is the main character in prison? I'm sure you're dying to know. Well as it turns out she wasn't in prison at all, that's right, the horrible actress' character was picked up by a Holllywood company and turned into a star, a star who is playing a prison inmate. He probably saw her at the strip club doing a horrible dance in a bathing suit and knew she was destined for greatness. Well I just spoiled the movie but ultimately saved an hour and forty minutes of your life. Don't bother with this, if you want to watch an enjoyable bad movie watch The Room. You'll get a hundred times more enjoyment out of it and probably get a laugh or two hundred more than you ever will get from this monstrosity.

La Traviata Salzburg This is a piece of trash! It's now playing at the Met. Worst Traviata I've ever seen! Not only is the production simply awful, with bare stage, and characters running around all over it, but the singing is atrocious. Only Anna Netrebko is good. Hampson is terrible, sharp most of the time, and the same with Villazon but not quite as bad as Hampson. It is an angry approach to a beautiful opera, and I feel angry that it was presented to me, and even more that the Met has now degraded itself with, as I repeat, this PIECE OF TRASH!

Read the series by Farmer... Do not waste your time buying or watching this "movie". Read the wonderful Riverworld series books by Philip Farmer. This is a sci fi channel movie, that in a nutshell says it all! Yes, I watched this when it ran originally on the sci fi channel. Thinking that maybe they're going to really make a good movie this time. No way...Peter Jackson needs to do to "Riverworld" what he did with Lord of the Rings. Now that would be an experience.

Waste of time What a horrible movie.  The only thing it was good for was to up your profanity quotient for the year.  No story, no plot and what little there was was absolutely ridiculous.

Awful presentation of worthwhile films I'll leave you to form your own opinions about the films. I'm kind of on the fence about the 1956 version (love Brynner  and Baxter, most of the rest I could do without). The 1923 was interesting more as a curiosity for me. Don't get me wrong, I'm no stranger to silent film--most of my favorite movies are from the 20s. But this one didn't go over too well for me. At least the plot kept me guessing, though.  What I really wanted to say is that the packaging is awful. I mean classically, abysmally awful. I've been thinking about getting blank standard cases, printing my own inserts, and throwing the whole mess away, except that I really don't want to look at the thing again. Plastic tablets hold the discs, if you can get them to stay together long enough. I couldn't.  The Box itself tilts open, mimicking the parting of the Red Sea. I think they were going for "neato," but got off the train long before arrival. The words "awkward" and "obnoxious" come to mind, but even they would rather not be associated with a product so unsuited for human use.  The worst part is, I could tell from the pre-release pictures just what I was getting. But as there was not another version of the blu ray with both films, I was stuck with the monstrosity.  Go ahead and buy the set if you want the movies, but make sure you have a cabinet or drawer you can hide it in so you don't have to look at it.

One of he Worst Movies Ever Made I've finally found a successor to "Plan 9 From Outer Space," heretofore the generally accepted pick for the worst movie ever made. Those of you who ascribe to this premise need to see this movie. The first reviewer hit the high spots. I can only add the ridiculous scenes where the kid is sighting down the barrel of a rifle without using sights, while the camera shows the viewer the victim through cross-hairs of a telescopic scope.  There's no drama, no suspense, and an obvious attempt to save money by having a minimal cast. The "agents" look like cast-offs from a grade B porn movie. After endless scenes of them driving around the D.C. area they just happen upon the killers dozing in their car.  A terrible attempt at movie making.

this review contains no spoilers..because this movie has not plot !!! One of the worst of Adam Sandler movies. I mean you have got some big names in Comedy, like Kevin James, Schnider, Spade and Chris rock, but the movie ended up being as shallow as sink water. the biggest problem is that the movie has not plot, no target or goal. it was meaningless, just showing us chracters reuniting after they grew up, so what ? the acting was also poor, especially from Salma Hayek, Spade and Chris rock, those people really don't know how to act, they are more of performers or entertaines, rather than actors. the jokes were mostly unfunny, silly and at times rude. no thanks !!

Shortened Version The dvd speed was too fast. Sounds like "Ivy and the Chipmunks". May have been more pleasurable if viewed at a normal speed. Waited two weeks for a big letdown.

the chinese connection DVD was not clear and froze in the middle of the movie. Very unhappy with the quality of the movie.

Google the trailer first!!! Confession: I haven't actually watched this movie yet but I always try to watch the trailer online before renting or purchasing movies on Amazon. By the looks of the DVD cover this movie seems to be a really creepy, scary supernatural horror. However, the trailer reveals the same old tricks and effects that horror fans have seen a dozen times before... only on a much lower budget. Girl suspended in air, woman dragged offscreen by unseen force, etc. So happy I didn't jump the gun and rent without seeing the trailer first because it would have been a waste of money.  You should also know that Im pretty easy to please in the scary movie department and will watch almost anything (except for the super cheesy, not-even-scary horror flicks) so for me to be writing this review has to be saying something. Low budget doesn't always equal bad movie (watch Absentia to see what I mean!)  Proceed at your own risk. : )

Chi-Lites Music DVD Disappointing. Very low quality. It gave the impression that someone was in the background audience taping the show instead of it being prepared professionally.

Made for TV Movie This is a made for TV movie with a made for TV cast.  If you want to watch a movie like this just set your DVR to record anything on LMN and you will get the same result.  Don't pay to watch this movie, you can get versions of it all day long for free.  I recognized a lot of the cast from tv shows and must say the ones I recognized were better in their more recent TV rolls.  Don't waste your time.

Drama + Biography does not = Documentary Why does amazon list movies that are "based on a true story" as documentaries? Hey Amazon, Hilary Swank is not a teacher. Perhaps you should use that free dictionary that comes loaded onto your Kindle and learn the definintions of "biography" and "documentary". They're actually different words, with different meanings. Stop miscatagorizing things. It makes trying to use your video service a HUGE waste of time.

Stage Fright HD DVD, Motorhead This is not a review of the product but a complaint about the company that I bought it from by the name of rannie rocks. I did not notice that they had a HD in the list of the DVD's. I was buying it for my son for a birhday present and was not familiar with the fact that HD's could not be played on most players and that they had gone out of use for the most part. I sent it back with a nice letter to see if I could work something out with a regular DVD, but my package which was addressed to the address on their shipment was returned by the post office with the message that no such company was at that address.  William H. McRae

This movie lingers like BO Beware. This is not your average bad and forgettable movie. I saw this monster years ago, and to this day, I still cringe over the memory of it. The awfulness will sear itself onto your synapses and haunt you forever.  Every actor in this movie must wish it would just disappear. If I was Diane Keaton, I would insist that my name be removed and a paper bag digitally superimposed over my head. None of the actors should be required to go through life with this movie hanging over them. It's inhuman.  My brain still shrivels when I recall the scene of the first snowfall. A reverent silence falls on everyone as they look out the window, worshiping each sacred flake like it was holy dandruff from heaven.  I'm sure that [actor's name covered with paper bag] insisted in her contract that she dies in the movie so that there was no way she would have to do a sequel. Is this the best material that Hollywood can find for [paper bag]? She's one of cinema's national treasures, and...this???  I heard that Sarah Jessica Parker still gets depressed whenever she hears the individual words "family," "stone" or "the."  You have been warned.

WAY too depressing! I love the first 2 movies, but this one was so depressing for me. Why did they so badly want to get back to Andy? So they could sit in the attic? It's not like the first 2 movies where they are trying to get back to Andy to be played with. It was just reallyyyyyyyyy sad. The incinerator scene was uncalled for and I can't believe they thought that was a good idea. All the toys holding hands accepting the fact that they are about to burn up........ugh, no, this is a kids movie. I also didn't like the outcome of Lots O Huggin bear. Why couldn't he turn into a nice bear? His story was SO sad and I don't think he deserved to be strapped to the front of a truck at the end. And then at the end Andy gives away his beloved toys to some random girl. UGH. I HATED it. Where is the magic, Pixar? Also don't talk to me about how this is the "real world" and people give away their toys ect...... have you SEEN the movies? They are toys that come alive for Christs sakes. I wanted a happy story like the first 2.

No 3D release again...... Shame again NO 3D release but shown in Imax 3D like the last one befor this one......? Bad choice of releasing Discs.....?

The VHS file has been transfered to DVD, can't watch quality to poor The film......Legendary  Now the release;  All that the studio have done is to take the VHS movie file and transfer that low resolution Image and Audio onto a DVD.  My advice is to wait for the bluray, the dvd is a waste of money and is no upgrade what-so-ever to the VHS release.

Idiotic from the get go! The acting in the movie was fine, but the story is pure crap.  Someone in the movie industry got behind this film and pushed it big time to create all the buzz and hype.  The lead character is schizophrenic, which could have lend itself to an interesting story, if the screenwriter and director had done something with it that was worth telling.  Instead, they thought picking at your finger nails and scratching at your back shoulder blades off and on for two hours was intriguing.  I did not find this movie engaging at all.  I was never drawn into the movie, and wanting to know more about the character.  The story was laborious:  I found myself just looking at my watch wondering, "When is this going to end."  And talk about endings: what a joke.  I have not found one person that I asked, who saw the movie, who said they liked it.  This is not about "ones" appreciation of the arts, artistic expression or lack thereof.  This is about having something to say, something worthwhile to tell if you're going to make a movie.  This movie reminds me of the "Emperor's New Clothes": too many people are afraid to come out, and state the obvious...the movie stinks!  If you like dance, (and even if you don't) and want to see a great movie (based on a true story) with a great story line, and one that makes you care about the characters and what happens to them...see "Mao's Last Dancer"(also made in 2010).  You won't be sorry.  There is no comparison between the two movies.

BAD This movie was BADDDDDDD! Im a horror buff and love lots of the old B rated movies;but this one just fell off the grid.It was campy!

Poor DVR Copy The movie was classic Penn & Teller, enjoyable up to the point where it would freeze up to and start to stutter.  I've got a fairly new LG player that had never had a problem playing anything.  I exchanged what I thought was a defective copy and found that the new disk did exactly the same thing.  From reading the DvD and the packaging, I found that what I had was a DVR disk, not a DvD.  For what ever reason, these disks did not want to operate right in my player.  I'm not sure if the copies were defective, or if it was just the DVR format, but the product was junk.  Wish they would have work, because I was enjoying the warped sense of humor of the movie itself.

Great movie but avoid this Version its Cut and censored drasticly! WARNING SLIGHT SPOILERS.......I Personally love this film and was sent the uncut screener a couple years ago when the film was first released and was completely blown away, from the acting which is top notch to the special effects and the cinematography is absolutely gorgeous, so i ordered the american release of the film with no intentions of it being cut and being its the u.s there was never a film that had any problems being distributed because of content. Apon first inspection of the film i noticed every controversial scene was cut and the film itself Completely lost its power and totally underlined the point the director was trying to make.The scenes in which are cut are the infamous "newborn scene" and the ending which the two hooded victims are unveiled also the tooth extraction suffication is also cut. If you are a fan of extreme horror films I can not stress enough to avoid the invincible pictures/ u.s release and go for the 100% uncut swedish dvd or the holland release even without eng. subtitles, its better than watching a "Mickey Mouse version" of a beautiful piece of exploitation cinema.

WORSE EVER!!! 1st 3 reviews by same person This is absolutely the worst 33 minute movie(is that possible?) I've ever seen.  Had I read the three 5 star reviews, all by the same person (Mark), I could have watched a root canal in progress. I swear it could not be worse.  I thought America had an obesity problem!  Sad to see so many overweight childred. HORRIBLE acting/screenplay/soundtrack/HORRIBLE EVERYTHING!  Even the finale was ever so mediocre at best.  I actually wished a commercial interrupted.  I can't imagine anyone over the age of 4 liking this mess.  I believe they managed to get every unattractive, overweight, untalented British citizen they could find.  Do not watch unless you're under the influence of heavy prescribed medication.  They need to upload it to you tube under "Worst Film ever Recorded."

Teriible, just terrible "Final Destination" was a fun, creepy and unique horror film. The cast was good, including Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Seann William Scott and Tony Todd. The second movie also had Larter, Todd and not much else and the thrid film had more of a no name cast. All three films involved death coming after the survivors of a certain terrible accident that occured in the beginning of the film.  "The Final Destination" has a virtually no name cast and it all starts with a Nascar like event, where a terrible crash happens in a vision by Nick O'Bannon (Bobby Campo), so he alerts everyone he can about the crash and his girlfriend, a few friends and a couple of random cahracters manage to escape.  Of course the typical formula follows, death starts coming after everyone in the order they were supposed to die in the crash. The deaths are sadly not very cool, at least not compared to the others, some are just laugh out loud fake looking.  The acting is very, and I mean very subpar even for a horror film, again the cast isn't very noteworthy, on the plus side there are some attractive girls in the cast, especially Shantel VanSanten. The pacing isn't very good, there is some good humor, even a few laugh out loud moments, mostly at the death scenes. It's really not worth watching unless you have some friends and want to blast it with your own commentary. * out of 4 stars.

Disappointed This is not the complete movie, only selected scenes. Very disappointed. They should make it more clear on the description that this does not cover the entire movie.

Still? I really do want to buy this series, but like most others, I refuse to buy in any other format besides a full season.  Dont know what market exec thinks this is a good idea, but I've seen it done across a variety of shows and its really lame.  Its like they think we have a ton of disposable income or lack the patience to wait for the full season.  Sorry, not buying unless full season.

Disappointment I bought this for my 13 month old daughter. I was excited to add a new Sesame Street video to her collection because she absolutely loves watching them.  This dvd, however, does not keep her attention at all.  She gets bored watching it. What a waste of money.  The other Sesame Street dvds we own hold her attention for the duration of the video. She loves to watch them.  Unfortunately, this one doesn't do the same. I don't recommend it.

Don't buy it, maybe rent it I re-subscribed to HBO soley to watch this series, in the end i didn't even watch the last episode.  Like many others here i was expecting Band of Brothers quality in the Pacific Theater of WWII.  Well, suffice to say, that it definitely is not.  The story is horribly disjointed and jumps around too much to even bother caring about the cahracters, which is why i didn't give a rats *** about the last episode.  The success of Band of Brothers derived from the fact that they followed the 101st from the beginning to the end.  They didn't curve a new story line off to follow the injured troops in their jury back to America, or follow the story of Sobel.  If you were injured and left the story then you left the movie.  That was the way in real life too.  The guys didn't sit around wondering how ole Garnier was doing in the hospital, there was no time for that.  The Pacific jumps all over the place.  One scene you're in current America, the next you're in Australia, the next your on an Island fighting the Japs, and the next your in someones flashback to America again.  The whole thing will leave you, the viewer, less and less interested as each episode goes on.  And i'll agree, the constant focus on Americans plucking gold teeth out of the dead Japs gets to become redundant.  I could keep going, but it's already all been said by other great one star reviews.  Bottom line is, don't take a chance and buy this.  I almost bought it because of the cheap price just to have in my collection, but after reading some reviews and being reminded just how horrible this series was i will definitely pass.  If you haven't seen it, rent it disc by disc.  That way you won't feel obligated to finish the series after it becomes so disconbobulated that it becomes not worth watching.

nasty and derivative I will be completely honest, I only got half way through before turning this trash off. This is one of those sleazy exploitation shockers that were so prevalent in its day. Im all for a gripping terrifying backwoods thriller but this was just unlikable from the start. If you like scuzzy drive in fodder than you may want to give this a whirl, otherwise you can avoid this one.

"The Scarlet Turkey" An embarrassing 1995 "adaptation" of the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel - totally miscast and misdirected. Bombs away! (Amazingly enough, three original scores were composed for this fiasco, with the honors going to John Barry.)

Horrible. This movie was probably the worst of its genre I have ever seen. It wasn't scary. The actions of the characters were nonsensical. And the the continuity was beyond horrendous. I could go into more detail, but I'm so pissed off for watching it that I don't wish to honor it with anymore of my time.

HUGE disappointment......... I had so looked forward to the HBO version of Mildred Pierce. The changes from the movie version were incredibly drastic. Veda lives happily ever after with Monty?  No penalty, no repercussions for incredibly bad behavior? It was, to me, a soap opera.  A VERY, VERY, long soap opera. Other movies in this catagory besides Mildred Pierce are DOUBLE INDEMNITY and THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE. All three revolve around a murder...FILM NOIR. HUGE disappointment.....

The Sting I am unable to rate this DVD as I was unable to play/view it as it is not compatible with the system we have in Australia!!  Very disappointing.

Contains images of animal suffering I wish some reviewer somewhere had warned that this movie contains images (verbal and/or visual) of animal suffering. Evidently so few people care about such things that no one bothers. I am doing it now.  I might have liked this movie otherwise. Most of what other reviewers say about it appeals to me strongly; I just cannot stand even hints of animal suffering in movies, so when Harry started telling about his job in the research lab I hit the STOP button hard, and I will not go back.  I know I will be ridiculed and reviled for writing this, but that is just too bad.

A sad sad commentary on the flight from feminism. This is a Debbie Reynolds or Doris Day comedy from the 1950s "updated" by adding fart and vomit jokes.  Either Kristen Wiig and her writing partner are cynical to a degree that should shame even Hollywood, or they lack intelligent, close friends.  Had men written this reactionary, misogynistic nonsense, women would have rightly been up in arms.  But, apparently Sex in the City has made it all right to once again portray women as lost, self-hating harridans until they are redeemed by marriage to a sweet, sexy, but safe, male provider.  Perhaps, next, Judd Apatow and company can do a comic take on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion -- with, of course, fart and vomit jokes.  I mean, if it's all about making money, why not?

Absentia Should have gone with my gut on this one...  But its par for the course that after reading so many positive reviews that I would let the them get the best of me.  B LIST ACTING .... if that.  And every single scare ( the film actually had about 3. ) in it was all done exactly the same.  I'm all for a slow burner... but when films rely on the dialogue and believable acting to carry the film... and there is none... then I can find no redeeming factor.  Bummer.....

Horrible movie, disgrace to original I cannot think of a word that truly describes exactly how BAD this film is. Seth Rogan adds absolutely NOTHING to this film. The story line is weak. It was like watching a Roger Moore era James Bond film with all the cheesy parts spliced in together.  Jay Chou hopefully got his money up front. I wonder if he took this job thinking, "This will get me good exposure to Hollywood." He played a decent side kick in Cato.  Cameron Diaz, let's face it, was an attempt to have some eye candy to distract you from how bad this film really is. Note to producers, she could have been butt naked and I don't think it would have made a difference.  Do yourself a favor, unless you have 2 hours to kill and there is absolutely nothing else to do. Do NOT watch this film.

Awful animation quality Just because it's a DVD release does not mean that it's ok for the animators to slack off! why not make the animation as good as the original? this DVD is a classic example of why I usually avoid Disney straight to DVD remakes releases because they tend to be a bad copy of it's original counter part, also the songs are not as thought out as the original the story is fine I guess if you just want to watch something that will get you in the holiday spirit, but quite honestly there are better animated films that have Christmas themes if you want to get into the mood for the holidays but I would not choose this film  I saw this version on cable and I thought it looked like a low grade saturday morning cartoon Bells face almost didn't look the same the animation lines were dull looking and as I said the songs seemed less thought out, I didn't like this Beauty and the Beast version at all animators and film makers should not underestimate a child's intelligence either my niece would find this boring as well the only thing I appreciate about this remake is that the original voices returned to do the voice work everything else was awful lol sorry to those that may have enjoyed this version.

Horrible One of the worst sci-fi movies ever. Fails in every way. The pointless quasi-scientific exposition and senseless plot twists should clue one in early of the unsatisfying result of this film. Don't waste your time. For a similar type of movie with much better execution, try Danny Boyle's "Sunshine," which is not great, but far better than this. Neither approaches the quality of "Alien," which still sits at the top of the space-horror genre.

Awful, but the 1962 version instead Bought the Manchurian Candidate from 1962. That is a great, almost timeless movie.  I bought this 2004 movie because I loved the 1962 one so much. I know that remakes normally are pretty crappy, but since I thought the 1962 movie was so great, I imagined that the 2004 version would at least be decent. I was wrong. The 2004 version is awful. Really bad dialogue, disjointed, less hard-hitting story, and has already aged very badly. The 2004 movie is done in a cheap "patriotic" way, lots of flags and statements telling us how great the US is. There is no subtlety in this version. It feels like a bad movie made for television. Even if you loved the 1962 version you'll gain nothing by watching this movie.

Worse Than the Culture it Criticizes The other one star reviews cover most of the pertinent points. This movie fails both as entertainment as well as in its moralizing. Riddled with cliches and contradictions, it mistakes pretension for intelligence. For all the condescension by the movie and its fans, the protagonists' rants and murder montages spoon feed a simple, unoriginal mush to an audience predisposed to agree. As depraved as American pop culture may be, this blood-drenched rampage fantasy is more so.

DO NOT BUY THIS BLU RAY DVD!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't know how long Amazon has been advertising this DVD available for pre order but it seems like forever.  I have the non Blu Ray version and it's a really good transfer so I couldn't wait to see how fabulous it looked on Blu Ray.  Well it finally got here and I watched it...or tried to!  The picture was horrible the film grain was worse than the Zapurter film!  If that wasn't bad enough the sound wasn't any good either and for good measure the DVD locked up on me but only once!  I played the regular DVD right after watching the Blu Ray and without question the quality is MUCH better. The picture isn't anywhere near as grainy, the contrast is much better and the sound is better. I haven't been this disappointed over the tranfer of a Blu Ray Dvd since Die Hard.  Buy the regular version and stay away from this piece of gargabe.

My Teen says this is Garbage! Finally sat down and watched this with my daughter.  Previews seemed to make this movie look pretty interesting - well they snookered us.  Greatest review is when someone from the audience this movie was targeted to just simply states "Dad that was total Garbage, no story, no plot and no interesting characters - can you send it back?"  Buyer beware on this one, get it from the $0.99 bin if its not already there.

What The Hell Was That Ok, so I saw the previews for this movie in theaters and I was so excited to see it. The previews made it out to be this rip-roaring action film, combined with the paranormal and emotionally moving scenes of people coming to understand the meaning and purpose of life and to not fear death.  What I got was a bunch of random nonsense that didnt amount to anything in the end. This movie was boring as hell. It was painful in the way it kept going on and on and going NO WHERE. It is more about the lame old everyday events of the here and now as oppossed to the Hereafter.

Do I really have to give this a star? This movie was awful... Really, I wish I could say something good about it, I saw it twice to try and find something redeeming, but the cold fact is there isn't anything. Begrudgingly, I must list what's wrong with it.  1. Who is Conan and why do we care?  The movie starts out with some stupid action scene where we're shown how awesome little kid Conan is, after being shown that he is the classic runt of the group. This is conflicting storytelling, but I won't split hairs. We then go into a training sequence where we are shown Conan's one character flaw: his temper. This isn't really important because it's never really brought up as a problem in the rest of the movie. The nice thing about Character flaws is that it not only gives the main character something to overcome, but it also gives the audience a way of connecting with the character. If this element is absent, it makes the story foreign a real audience, and ultimately uninteresting.  After the village no one in the audience cares about is attacked, this bad guy gets the final piece of a mask that's powerful, I guess. The father sacrifices his life for Conan, which is as close to touching as you can get in this movie. After that Conan is basically a grown up. He has a group of people with him and he hates slave traders for some reason that's never explained. We, the audience have no idea why adult Conan is who he is. He's just some guy who fights people.  2. Booooooobs  There are a lot of boobs in this movie, and the actors they belong to have the acting integrity of bad porn stars. The most notable boobs.... I mean actress of this bunch is our leading lady, Ms. Idontcareabouthername shewontbefamousanyway. Playing Conan's romantic opposite, they're romantic element to the movie goes like this: Conan kidnaps her, kills people in front of her, tells her she looks like a whore, and suddenly she loves him. You may be thinking that I'm skipping over a huge element of their relationship, but the sad thing is I'm really not; that's as deep as it goes.  3. Oh Jesus.... The tower....  So of all of the plot holes in this train wreck they call a movie, by far the most obvious and horrible is the tower scene. In order to save his lady love, Conan the horrible actor... I mean Barbarian... must break into the tower of the evil guy. So with the help of a pointless character, he finds a pretty exposed door leading into a dungeon, for some reason. Suddenly the find themselves wading through water that seems to be about 4 feet deep. Despite this, this shallow water holds an octopus monster that is huge. The two are dragged underwater at one point and the 4 feet suddenly are 20... I don't think I can make the problem any more obvious than that. So after kind of fighting this monster(Conan just kinda swings his sword a little) they suddenly find themselves at the top of this tower. That's right, the octopus was the only thing guarding the place. At the top of the tower Conan and the other guy look down to see Conan's lady being dragged across an extremely exposed area, right next to the sea. Then he says that he'd better get down there... Okay, so climbing the tower was pointless? Not only was it unnecessary,  but apparently he can get to the bottom just like that?! I was pretty much done with this movie right about at the tower of pointlessness.  But I continued to watch...  4. The mask that does.... Um... Something....  The mask of terrible power turns out to be a mask of terribly boring power. The bad guy puts it on and runs around going "Yarg!" until Conan kills him. That's about all I need to say.  5. The ending.  Literary study lesson for any idiot who liked this movie: When a writer forms a story, he/she is engaging in a contract with their audience. In order to have a satisfying story, you must tie up the loose ends, and give a conclusion that is of an equal value to the struggle your main character has been put through. Ask a professor of literature if you don't believe me. In the end, Conan, doesn't get the girl, no longer has a gang of rag tag rapscallions, and hasn't really learned anything. There isn't really any reason for this, either. He chooses to be alone, and the movie ends with him standing in the ruins of his village. If I didn't think the movie had a point before seeing this scene, the ending confirms how pointless the plot is. I would say this is a spoiler, but I think the movie spoils itself well enough on its own.  "But Blair, I'm only going to this movie for the action..."  Sorry, little Jimmy. The action is just as mindnumbingly pointless as the rest of the film.  There is really nothing good about this movie.  Acting = 1 Special effects = 1.5 Dialog = 1 Action = 1 Plot = "What plot?" Camera shots = Linear and static 3D = -20  I do owe Conan something though. From now on, whenever I go to a bad movie I can always say: "Well, it wasn't as bad as Conan..."

I want my money back A short trailer would have possibly warned you that this movie is worse than bad. But, alas. Amazon.com should pay YOU a $1.99 to watch this short, poorly acted film.

Muy Mala Pel&iacute;cula con malas actuaciones, malos efectos visuales, p&eacute;simo gui&oacute;n. No la recomiendo, no vale la pena ni verla, menos comprarla.

What A Disgraceful Way To Honor Great 70's TV! DO NOT WASTE YOR MONEY! Season 1 & 3 & 4 all came in nice plastic individual sleeves. Although season 1 could have had artwork. It had none. SHAME, SHAME, SHAME on Sony for having no extra's whatsoever in this so called compete box set! They could have interviewed and done featurettes on all the former Angels even putting one together with Farrah using past Interviews unseen or even seen. How about Jack Condon the guy who has probably the most extensive collection of Angel Memorabilia EVER! He wrote a book The Charlie's Angels Casebook by David Hofstede, Jack Condon forward by Jaclyn Smith(Apr 20, 2000). How about including The Movie Condon's book is based on,Behind the Camera - Charlie's Angels Starring Dan Castellaneta and Lauren Stamile (2005)Or Angelic Heaven - A Fan's Guide To Charlie's Angels by Mike Pingel (Jun 29, 2006)or Channel Surfing: Charlie's Angels by Mike Pingel (Aug 27, 2012). Did I mention there are other books as well!  The discs are just stacked on top of one another with no protection except a cheap piece of card board to keep them from falling out of this crap set! Sony with all the money they waste they could have given The Fan's and The former cast and crew the respect they deserve with a stellar tribute in a nice box set! it wouldn't have taken a lot of imagination because Charlie's Angels ignited imaginations all over the world! What a sad way to pay tribute to The three little girl's who went to the police academy, The three who replaced them, Charlie, Bosley and all of their loyal fans! ME INCLUDED!

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worst movie ever..... I got only as far as the first half hour and I'm annoyed already.The storyline is flat, acting is horrible,and special effects....what special effects?It looks like a very bad editing job on all levels.The most annoying thing...Hello...Hello...Hello....anybody there...Hello...this goes on for 10 more minutes ...people talking on a cellphone with no one at the other end,it drags the storyline,a wannabe disaster movie that is a disaster itself...not even worth 5 bucks.Only nice thing about this movie is the movie poster....get that.

Not impessed! I bought this film thinking it sounded really interesting, but I have to admit it is one of the dullest movies i have ever watched! The sleeve notes promised alot but the film delivered nothing. very disappointing!!!

Awful, simply awful I am forbidden by my convictions to commit suicide or I would have done myself in for wasting the $2.99 or whatever I spent in renting this dreadful movie. Bad plot, acting, filming......just bad. If you enjoy things like Chlamydia then this is the movie for you, if not, avoid it.

I really really wanted to like it, but it sucks. I was hoping this was a new 'Falling Down' or at least would be worth watching. This really would have been my kind of movie if it were written better. The preview I saw for it looked great but the movie is shockingly bad.

3 to 4 for the Movie, UV Sucks My wife and I thought the movie was a fill in for the next movie. Lots of action but lacking a good story.  Why do I have to sign up with another studio to get my crappy UV digital copy. Half my digital copies don't show up in Flixster.

This is a scam The DVD is dubbed from a VHS source -- you can see periodic changes of the brightness and picture distortion. The movie is not watchable.

NEVER GOT IT I ordered this product on the 13th of October, it is now the end of November and I have STILL not received it.  How do I find out about when it will finally arrive?

Kenny Chesney  3d I was very unhappy with this item because I thought it was shown in 3d mode.  You really should be more clear in your discription of the foremate.You said summer in 3d and it was not it was 2d.It was very deceiving. I'm not sure I can trust you anymore.

Intriguing Premise Goes Nowhere Slowly As soon as I heard there was a film about escaped serial killers dressed as clowns preying on an innocent family, I just had to see it.  Well the whole film is about as boring and predictable as it gets.  Three young brothers are predictably left alone in their big gothic house after a trip to the circus where the clowns are slaughtered by escaped serial killers.  The three brothers are extremely predictable. The oldest is a bully, the middle boy a nerd, and the youngest a scaredy cat who becomes the hero.  If the clowns' goals are to scare the boys or hurt them, they fail miserably at both. The clowns aren't scary since only we the audience see them. They remain hidden from the boys. And when the clowns do attack, the last 15 minutes of the film, we get the standard silliness of a 10 old boy being able to throw a grown man through a wooden window to his death 10 feet off the ground.  There is not a single redeeming fact about this film. Avoid it at all costs!

A negative energy drain If you: enjoy listening to lots of emotionally violent arguments... like seeing married people shoot daggers at one another as a way of life... find it entertaining to observe people who know nothing about emotional or physical boundaries... have a nervous system which is not over-taxed by incessant negativity... define "entertainment" as being yanked from catastrophe to catastrophe... have no expectation that relationship insights will be offered in a movie about relationships... think it's normal for so-called professionals to have only destructive coping skills when faced with conflict... value seeing movie characters reduced to two-dimensional caricatures... are OK with the fact that the plot seems so loosely strung together, there's hardly a story... then you'll surely like this movie.  I did paperwork while it was on, but was hardly motivated to keep my eyes on the screen.  Several times I had to significantly lower the volume, because the negativity was really getting on my nerves.  There was nothing satisfying about the ending, either (which I had foolishly hoped for, because then the time spent on the movie might have added up to something).  This movie has nothing to do with the Tyler Perry abilities I've seen elsewhere. (Did he maybe hand the script to a porn flick director (?), because that's pretty much the level of "drama" offered in this production.) If I could give this video less than a star, I would.

sucks This movie is amazingly awful. I have attempted to watch it twice and have been disappointed both times. Will forte apparently wants to be Will ferrell with the way he acts sometimes.I know it's supposed to be over done but the manner that it's done is not convincing the actors are horrible especially for this to be a spoof. Macgruber is ok on SNL but as a movie it just completely fails. This movie is really not good at all, see it once and never again.

doesn't seem complete I remember it being longer, until I saw that it's not "Bonanno: A Godfather's Story". Regret spending even 10 cents on it.

I just wasted a 140 min... Waste of time, I knew I did not want to see this movie and I am glad I waited for the video so at least I did not waste my $$ too. Never had the desire to read this book, I think the Author is selfish and needs to get over her self. I hope her ex found a better women to be with one who doesn't leave because she is hungry for pasta!!  Boring movie, really disappointed.

This Cars belongs in the junkyard! Pixar has once again created a marvelous looking film.  Unfortunately, the animation and special effects is about all this movie has going for it.  Aside from the fact that story drags and is nowhere near as interesting as Cars 1, Pixar/Disney thought it would be appropriate to make political propaganda a centerpiece of this film.  It even goes as far as taking numerous jabs at "Big Oil" as referred to in the film - kind of ironic for a sequel spawned by an original movie starring a gas-powered racecar.  I thought Pixar had a principal never to include politics in their films?  They clearly violated that with this film.  Not to mention that Mater - the annoying broken down tow-truck - is clearly the star of this movie, instead of Lightning McQueen - adding to the monotony.  So, a combination of a boring plot plus heavy-handed political drivel makes Cars 2 a loser.  Stick with the original, which has a far superior story and is far less preachy!

10 yr olds with Plastic Swords OMG - even "The scantily clad Princess Tritia of Blue Land" can not save this movie. Perhaps more scantily clad princess warriors that are less clad would help the ogle factor but the movie would still be absolutely pathetic.

lame nothing ever really happens, super duper lame. i would not recommend to anyone, it flashes around a lot but never quite gets to an understandable point

Forget this one The title of this review says it all. The write up for this three story disk was better than all three stories put together. The BUU-RAY rendition was no better. I put this one in a dark place, no no I mean in a drawer.

Wish I could get my money back I didn't like this movie at all it was stupid from beginning to end the plot didn't make sense in the beginning and the characters were stupid. I hated this movie I wish I could get my money back I couldn't watch it all the way through I had to stop it several times because I kept getting mad at the movie. I really hated this movie and would not recommend any one to purchase this DVD.

Terrible Quality Marginally better video quality than dvd which was bad to begin with.  Calling this an "anniversary edition" with 0 extra features to boot is a rip off.

a snooze-fest! I thought I might be in for a good blaxploitation movie but instead I got a French art film full of poetical dialog, arty camera shots and an avante guard soundtrack. The actors are given nothing to do but dine, sit and talk, take strolls and lie in bed. The film does deliver it's racism is bad message but at a cost of being dull. I don't fault Something Weird Video for putting this out because they are an incredible company that gives us b and z grade movie fans crap to watch that never would have seen the light of day otherwise. Here is hoping that the 2nd feature, "Checkerboard" is a step up

Little big man Bought is for my ex mother in law and sat down and watched it with her. I could not wait for it to end and gave up and didn't finish it. She loved it.

Abomination Quite simply an abomination. A disgrace to the legacy of Robert E Howard! Robert is not merely rolling in his grave, he has drilled through the other side of the earth and reached escape velocity!

Got screwed on this one. This order was supposed to contain the Blueray Disc and a DVD. That's what was advertised and that's what I paid for... only got the Blueray Disc. The content is great, I just didn't get what I paid for.

Simplistic story, poorly done This is an amateurish film at best.  The screenplay is awful, but the basic story is pedestrian so I doubt the next version will be much better than this.  And apparently most men in Sweden are secretly crazed rapists (at least according to this trilogy).  Big let down here since I really wanted to see a decent movie from anywhere other than Hollywood.

Garbage, lies and brainwashing. Each and every animal in this film has an evolutionary history richly understood by modern science, and every "argument" it levels against evolution is very simply a lie. They did no real research, they invent many names and they gloss over a staggering number of proven facts to fabricate points against the observable, undeniable realities of evolution, a beautiful process demonstrated by the entire natural world without a hitch, if you just care to look beyond the veil these people want to pull over your eyes.  Exposing children to this is tantamount to psychological abuse and a malicious stifling of their developing curiosity.

This Is Not "Mansfield Park". I don't know why people tinker with Austen, and certainly I don't understand the changes made to "Mansfield Park" for this movie.  The characters have the same names, but sadly that's the only thing they seem to have in common with the originals.  Fannie is no longer abashed, timid, lacking in self-confidence.  She's snippy, physically attractive, and emphatic.  The depth of personality and motive of every character is completely absent, and the whole underplot of slavery is completely out of place and detracts from what should have been the point of the film.  If you're an Austen fan, and enjoy "Mansfield Park" in book form, stick with that.  This is probably the worst adaption I've ever seen, and that's saying quite a bit.

Poor story and dialogue Nobody watches action films for dialogue, but it has to have a solid story and decent dialogue to go with it. That's what made movies like Bourne Identity so great.

Doesn't actually work Hello, I bought this movie for my husband's birthday gift, so it wasn't opened and tested until just recently and we discovered that it is in a European format which will not play in our DVD machine nor another that we tried.  Therefore, I would actually like to ask for my money back so that I can order another copy that works.  Thanks for your help, Kristen

Just awefull What was this movie all about? Did all the funny parts get put into previews? This movie was not funny or entertaining. This is one of only a hand full of movies that I almost stopped watching. It seemed to have no rhyme or reason for anything. I rented this movie because I like Johnny Depp. I have liked a lot of his movies. This was a complete dud!  I cannot in good concise even say it is rentable or a time waster. It is neither. Just skip this one.

movie DUNE movie i think is a copy and not new as the ad says it is. why i thik its a copy is because it is blurry and the sound is just a little off

great series, but dvd does not work from Amazon! Was so happy to receive the dvd, but when I went to put it in and play it, it did not work at all!  It said that this dvd was formatted for a different region!?!?!  I have a multi zone dvd so it should have worked anyway!  Figured it was just a fluke and ordered a replacement...  same thing!!!  Would highly recommend simply buying elsewhere.  Amazon's price is great, but if you cannot watch it, it is not worth it!  Amazon is good about replacements, and lets hope about refunds (since I am sending the replacement back today and requesting a refund).  I have bought many things from them, including dvds, and this is the first time this has happened.  I had also read another reviewer saying the exact same thing about buying Modern Family and decided to ignore and buy anyway...  big mistake!

Ugh I hated this movie. I..hated...this movie. I would rather watch rust...rusting than to watch this movie. As a matter of fact I turned it off after only twenty minutes of watching it. It's a good thing that I only spent a dollar at Red Box. I wouldn't waste my money on this if I was you. Charlize Theron could do better than this. Highly disappointed.

Seeking a Secret Weapon Tarzan and the Green Goddess, 1930 film  Lord Greystoke returned to civilization after joining the Martling Expedition to find the `Green Goddess", an ancient Mayan relic that has a priceless secret formula that must be kept away from the unscrupulous. There have a costume party where they dress like gypsies. A fortune teller looks into her crystal ball and sees Guatemala. This expedition has looted the Green Goddess to take it back to civilization. Raglan found the Dead City and the idol, but the Marling Expedition got the idol. It contains a formula for a powerful explosive. [Really?] Raglan schemes to steal it and attack its possessors. Ula calls for Tarzan. The thieves run away when Tarzan arrives. A thief steals Major Martling's notebook! Raglan plans to get away. Tarzan kills a leopard bare-handed and howls his victory scream. But Raglan reached the river and the paddle-wheel steam boat.  Tarzan and the others must catch the next boat at the river. They search for Raglan when they reach the city. Raglan will meet Blade at Quirigua. George chases a monkey that stole his yo-yo. Tarzan sees Raglan at the hotel. There is a fight, Tarzan loses but gains Matling's notebook. Tarzan follows these men but is attacked and beaten. Tarzan floats in a river, Ula shoots an alligator. Martling and George are captured by men from the Dead City. They must produce the Green Goddess or die! Tarzan is overwhelmed and captured. So too Ula. Tarzan fights with a lion! [The most exciting scene.] Tarzan howls his victory scream. Tarzan and Ula free Martling and George. They get word about Raglan at Mantique. Tarzan arrives at the port and attacks six men by the docks. He retrieves the Green Goddess. Blade is very clever, he is running things now.  The sails are raised on this three-masted sailing ship and the journey begins. They run into rough weather, the storm shakes the ship. Ula sees Raglan on board! Blade takes care of him. The crew attacks Martling and George and ties them up! A storm tosses the ship around. But they saved the formula for a powerful explosive that could destroy civilization! Ula burns the document. Will that make the world safe? [No.] The end of the party ties up the loose ends.  This is another simple low-budget movie that tells you about popular tastes of that time. The search for the most powerful explosive in the world tells you about the politics and concerns in the early 1930s. No mention of the world-wide economic depression.

Life With Father The movie is an all-time classic however this DVD version is absolutely atrocious. Very poor sound quality and a washed out picture with color so bad it looks almost like it's in black and white. I'm amazed that this seller and others still offer this DVD headache for sale, they should at least warn people of the problems or remove it from their inventory!!!

a stinker its true with directors as well as actors, as actor tracy said, when you reach a point the money rolls in, you stop acting, it can fit directors too, he should have seen all the flaws in this, thanks for your early works sydney...............

Wow... Horrible fictitious account of Barack Obama's life. Mockumentary highlights. Barack's mom was a whore who is probably into BDSM. Barack is still a Muslim because he said a Musim prayer when he was a kid. He is also a Communist trying to bring about Socialism in the US.  It's a sick sad piece of fiction.

Stay Away At All Costs!!! Let me break this down as honestly as I can: This movie was so bad my eyeballs wanted to throw up!! I am still traumatized at how lame and sorry this film is in every area: acting, direction, special effects, etc! EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS MOVIE SUCKS AND BLOWS!! Do yourself a big favor and STAY AWAY from this one, you won't be sorry! I just saved you from calling the Poison Control Center for your eyes - trust me! This is nothing more than CELLULOID EXCREMENT! I feel like my Constitutional right against cruel and unusual punishment was violated!

disappointed I was so excited to get the Footloose movie as I was wanting my kids to watch it before the new one came out.  Got everyone together and put it in and it wouldn't play.  Kept giving me an error saying it was the wrong region.  I had never even heard of region codes for dvds.  I would think that would be something that would be pointed out when purchasing the item. I noticed now that since I complained the region code is on there so if you know about region codes I guess you're in good shape. I've ordered movies before and never had to deal with this problem.  When I wanted to return it, of course I had to pay the shipping and handling to send it back, which I didn't do, so now I'm stuck with a movie that can't be watched.  Good thing I wasn't out much money.  I felt it should have been taken care of considering when I ordered the movie it said nothing about what region it was for.  Not giving the movie a bad review just the company it came from!

way too graphic I bought this movie for my high school class. I wanted to combine historical and cultural information with the language in my advanced Spanish classes. I started to preview it, and actually had to stop watching it. It was way too violent and graphic for anything I would watch, much less show my students. I do show R rated movies with parental permission when it seems appropriate, but I would suggest that this is beyond what would be acceptable in high school.

Waste of time This movie was awful, not scary, waste of money and time. STUPID RIDICULOUS PHONY Would rather have a root canal than watch it again

Putrid Filmmaking... Travolta should be ashamed of himself for this one. Just go watch Pulp Fiction again. The director of this movie should never be allowed to work again.

could not view I did not receive access to view the film.  Please resend access so that I might be able to view it.

This is far worst Gozilla movie I am a Gozilla fan.  I own almost all the Gozilla dvds.  This one is the worst.  Gozilla doesn't even move other than Roaring still.  It is a "dead" Gozilla.

Horrid Although TP put together a brand new cast. He got singers who are mediocre actors instead of actors who can sing. If this was a opera musical where the actors sang for 2hrs... My review would be different.  The theme was under developed. Plot melodramatic.  Actors lackluster. In essence "Aunt Bam's Place" is... WHACK! However the non-actors made a decent attempt to be any good with what they had to work with in regards to the script.  In conclusion "Bam" is a sidekick and should have stayed as such. Not worth her own show. This was thrown together to make money from DVD sales (genius btw)  because this production didn't tour.  I can't hate. Until TP has some competition this is what we get. Welp David E. Talbert is bringing it... A great producer in his own right. Let's give credit where credit it due, both men have different approaches. But one has moved away from the "chitterling circuit" while...  Oh gee didn't I say "in conclusion" like 2 paragraphs ago?  Okay... Done!

Beware Video Quality--1080i not 1080p Before I go on, note that I'm not knocking the content of either series in the least.  We all know how amazing the production is, and I do prefer David Attenborough over Sigourney Weaver as well.  I purchased the original Planet Earth set when they first came out on Blu-ray and absolutely loved them!  Apparently I loved them too much, as the 2nd disc in the set got a scratch on it and would no longer play, much to my chagrin.  Then I saw this awesome set for a great sale price on Amazon!  I bought it, eagerly awaited it's arrival, and when it came popped them right into the player.  Something was wrong though... something was... off.  Was this a bootleg copy?  Why was the picture quality lower?  Then I saw on the packaging that it's 1080i instead of 1080p.  If you're not familiar with the difference, let me explain.  'i' stands for interlaced, which means when the frames change, instead of the whole frame changing at once only half the frame changes (in a 'window blinds' pattern), then the next half etc, so that the motion is staggered.  Back in the heyday of interlaced television, when you were dealing with a 19" tube TV with low-definition, relatively static imagery this actually made for a smoother transition.  Nowadays, when you're on a LARGE, HD screen with a lot of motion--which is the situation most people are going to be in when buying blu-rays instead of DVD's--it makes a staggering negative impact.  So you know that awesome shot of that howler monkey flying through the trees?  Well now he leaves behind a stripey trail.  That amazing opening video when it's zoomed in on the flock of birds and then slowly zooms out to show the MILLIONS of them?  Now when it zooms out all the tiny birds are lost in lines and you don't get the sense of the enormity of it all.  If you're not buying this to take advantage of the amazing detail and clarity that normally comes with blu-ray discs, then by all means enjoy your purchase!  If you are, you may want to think twice about this set, do a bit of research through Google to find out which sets are 1080p (and believe me, there's plenty of discussion about it), and grab one of them instead.  To me, when you're buying the newest blu-ray set of something, you're expecting the highest quality video and audio.  The bottom line is that this particular set is the worst quality of any of the several Planet Earth packaging out there.

just look at he's face..... dude isn't funny! wish i never wasted $15.99 on this dvd, i could've bought toilet paper, or anything else. if you want it, i'll send it to you free of charge....the look on he's face...says it all.

Yo Man!! There is lint in my naval!!! THE BIG CHILL(1983) Directed, produced and written by Lawrence Kasdan.   Starring Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly, JoBeth Williams and Kevin Kostner as the corpse.   A group of aging and successful ex-hippies from the 60s get together once again when one of their number committs suicide. Deciding to spent the weekend together, the group of ex summer of love types find their octopus's garden marred by the corpse, the presence of a grasping Jew and an drug addled Vietnam vet who, having his binky shot off during the war, is bitter because he cannot make it with the chicks. Meanwhile the rest of the men who chose not to serve their country get to have sex with as many girls as they like. Except for the grasping Jew of course.   All this potential ungrooviness is resolved by lots of sex, drugs and 60s era rock and roll.   Jerimiah was a bull frog.   A big nothing. Not a bad movie. Not a good movie. Not really much of anything really. Except for some minor points already alluded to as well as Keven Kostner's greatest performance, there is practically nothing to be said neither fer or agin.   If you see it, it will be like you have not. If you do not then you will have basically seen it.   Joy to the world.

Wrong item!!! I placed an order to receive Snatch Dvd and instead the Dvd inside was of Fight Club, which I already own!! These people do not know what they are doing!!!

They don't know what they're doing... I have bought this DVD because it seems to be a really great idea to have three different workouts on one DVD. I usually use one DVD to cardio workout, and have to change the disc to get my strenght training done. The cardio section here is boring, and the voiceover is just horrible! The instructor  seems fake and is just really annoying. The strenght section is the worst one, they all have terrible form and i think it's more possible that you hurt your back or other part of the body than that you get fit! She tells everything what she's doing but there're no one word on form. I have tried to use the workout with just music, but it almost hurs my eyes to see how incorrectly the exerises are done.  I haven't found the flexibility section inspiring either.. Any yoga DVD would do better. This DVD is a waste of money. I'd rather continue to change DVDs during my one workout session than use this one! I recommend one of the Cathy Friedrich DVD`s for cardio and JACKIE for strenght workout. It's safe, funny and professional!!! Not like this one here. Skip it!

Porn If you like audio porn this video is for you it is the first thing you hear when the movie starts OOOOOOOOO joy

Buy Standard Deviants Search in the standard deviants with the same title - Instead of teaching systems plug in Standard deviants.  The Standard Deviants price are cheaper

Classic Western - problem with remastered copy I already own a DVD of this movie but ordered a Blu-Ray copy thinking that it will be a lot better product since it is remastered. It is not any better. It seems like it was produced out of the U.S., possibly Germany. The credits are in German, except for the names of course. The problem is in trying to navigate the menu to go to the English language version. The cursor just will not go where it needs to go. Unless my DVD player or remote is defective (I don't think so), the movie will start in German captioned in English. The set-up process left me frustrated I consider the item a rip-off.

Popcorn& bubble gum film Strictly for teenie boppers who know nothing about movies! Maybe "Crank 2" is better!? Statham was better in "the Expendables"Good Point: Received fast & in perfect condition from Amazon!

Poor video Quality I received my dvds very promptly, great service. However the viewing quality of the dvd is poor at best. The picture is so washed out it difficult to se whats going on. The sound quality is poor too. If you're in the mood for retro viewing stick to the old movie theater serials. The quality if these is much much better. I assume its because they were filmed rather video taped.

Spies Like Us is the full frame version with the top and bottom chopped off. Update on 11/12/11:  There is a comment posted to this review that explains that this Disc is actually the correct version of the movie.  Please read it if this issue concerns you.  'Spies Like Us' is a great movie.  I bought this version thinking that it would have a wider view than my already purchased dvd which I could only find in full frame.  I just compared it to my dvd.  For this blu ray, all they did was chop some off from the top and bottom to give it the widescreen look.  I thought people might to like to know.

Wow...just when you think you've seen it all...it gets worse!! Uhm, the only thing worse than being trapped in a box buried underground...would be being trapped in a box buried underground watching this movie. It was so...and I do mean so lame. I don't want to ruin the plot for you but I will tell you that the title, (wait for it) is the Plot...that's it...besides a lot of yelling....nothing more...nothing less...just buried....I wish I could bury the memory of having wasted 2 hours of my life watching this movie.  Buyer Beware

One of the biggest disappoinments ever I was thoroughly ready to love Prometheus. I mean hey, it's Ridley Scott going back to the future to fill us in on what happened prior to Alien. What could possibly go wrong? Turns out a lot... Not only is the script a train wreck, but apparently no one attached to the film understood Genetics 101, to the point where one of the 'big revelations' toward the end blatantly contradicts the establishing scene (plus vfx title sequence) of the entire stinkin' film! I'm sorry, but if you're 12 feet tall and look like an albino version of a Na'vi from Avatar, then you're NOT genetically identical to a human being.... And what's with Guy Pearce in an old man suit ala the end of 2012? And why the artfully framed but meaningless interactions between him and the incredibly two-dimensional Charlize Theron? And why did Scott think we were SO stupid that he had to show us TWICE (once subtly, once with a massive finger-splash) that android David contaminated Charlie's drink with the black magic DNA goo? And why did the whole show give off the lackluster vibe of Alien vs Predator? One of the amazing things about Alien (and Aliens, for that matter) was it was a genuine surprise when some, though not all, characters got killed. The entire motley crew in this film was pretty well templated out, though; who'd live and die wasn't surprising at all. And going from hack-job C-section to running around doing ANYTHING is just plain stupid. Bad, bad, bad call story-wise. It just appeared to me that Scott short-cut storytelling in favor of on-screen dazzle. It looked great, mostly... I guess. The gaping holes in the story and the bad decisions very quickly ruined this film for me.

I AM THROWING MY COPY AWAY Destiny (Millena Gay) is a successful advertising exec. who is going through a painful divorce with Will (Byron Marc Newsome) a man who verbally berates her. On the rebound she meets Troy (Rich Paul) who is an extreme player, although I never got the impression either men were "thugs." Troy opens Destiny sexualLY as they go to a sex club. Destiny works suffers a little, she talks to a shrink, and sits in a church. Roll credits.  The acting was poor and the writing horrible.  Sex, no nudity

Very disappointed & a waste of money. I was looking forward to the release of this Blu-ray and looked forward to the day it arrived only to be totally shocked by how very, very bad this concert was.  I have a very special memory of seeing them live in concert in quad in the  early 70's, but this blu-ray went in the trash, I would be ashamed to show it to anybody.

A Masterpiece?  More like a total waste of 90 minutes An entire movie of Poitier with a blank stare and one-word answers.  He was supposed to be an ANGEL? Since when do angels need passports or have criminal records? The credits were rolling and all I could think was, "What the hell did I just watch?"  The only thing this movie made me feel was being ashamed of how white people treated black people back then.  Total thumbs down.

Defective for Me I tried to use this DVD about a month ago with my kindergarten class because we were studying habitats.  No matter what I did the video kept starting somewhere in the middle.  I'm not sure if I simply received a defective product, or if my experience is the norm.  However, I'm not satisfied.

Law and Order Season 9 Disc 2 I am complaining that something is wrong with the 2nd Disc of Season 9 will not work it comes up showing the Universal Emblem then goes to it over and over again. the 2nd DVD Does play at all I tried it on different DVD Players in my house. I even cleaned the DVD Players but each time the DVD SEASON 9 DISC 2 of Law and Order would not play. this is a ripoff I want a new dvd of law and order season 9 sent to me asap this is crap buying something on line and this is what happens. send me a new DVD That works. disc 2 will not work.  Lon Hebert

This Green Hornet not a Superhero I ordered the Green Hornet product that had the 3D, Blu-Ray, and DVD inside. This review is from the Blu-Ray disk. I had not previously seen the movie in the theater, so I was going cold into this. I did watch the original Green Hornet (with Bruce Lee), when it was initially shown.  First, the ads, commercials, and previews are taking up more and more time on these disks these days. In this case it was about 20 min worth, half of which were Sony ads for 3D. The Blu-Ray, itself, was ok - nice and crisp, good colors, etc. Amazon delivered it very promptly.  Next, Bruce Lee is probably turning over in his grave about this movie. Superheroes should be superheroes. It's OK if they were initially bad and then realize that they should do good (examples - The Shadow and Iron Man). However, I have absolutely no empathy with this Green Hornet. He starts out as a spoiled brat and then goes around creating excess property damage of innocent people, especially with police cars. He also walks all over Kato and, in general, acts like a creep with his employees. When he tears up those police cars and then rolls them, after a while you ask yourself, "Was anyone hurt?"  I don't know if he ultimately repented, since after a hour and a half I gave up on it.  In this movie they essentially ask the question, "Is it ok to do bad things to achieve a good result?" The answer is, of course, no. This guy isn't a role model for anyone. There are a bunch of other movies out in the theaters right now that are better (THOR?). Save your money on this one. Go buy the animated version of Green Lantern from Amazon and get ready for the live action version this summer. I think it has more promise than this Green Hornet.

Amazon selling discs with expired digital copy codes This is not a review for the movie, it is for the product that Amazon is selling.  The Blu-Ray comes with a code for a digital copy which expired in March 2011.  First off, this is ludicrous that the studios put expiration dates on the digital copies.  This only encourages the use of third-party software to rip the DVD so that one can put it on a portable player.  Second, Amazon should disclose that it is selling products with expired codes.

Rise Of The Stuffed Animals. This movie is sooo bad it isn't funny. All you have to watch is the beginning to see that the rampaging animals are pretty much stuffed animals from some poor little kids collection,believe me it's that bad.I only watched a half hour of this super fake movie and I think that's more than enough for any human to endure.

Painful This movie is the worst I have seen in a long time. It is painfully slow and boring. Don't waste your time.

Formula Bait for Consumers How do we spell studio formula script writing for dummies (aka "Cheap Ways to Make Money")? (1.) CIA agents against German bad guys (later associated with Serb bad guy). Germans as bad guys? Where have the writers been these past decades? (2.) CIA agents have their usual gruff, antagonistic boss; get in shoot out (massive bullets flying everywhere) with the usual, soon to be dead, half dozen bad guys at a big party (without bystanders getting hit); usual slide and shoot or roll and shoot, etc. scenes; usual helicopter on roof top (to save filming costs it just sits there); usual one bad guy escapes with usual paragliding chute; usual someone falls off of roof edge only to last second grab the edge by fingertips (not as good as Cruz in Mission ...) which incidentally is impossible - try it, but close to the ground; usual divorced dad with non-connecting son and ex-wife. (3.) The main hook is that the two CIA guys are on the look-out for females and happen to connect with the same one thus the comedic part except that the script and dialogue were so juvenile Hollywood dumb speak that I was asking myself "Who in the world is the target audience?" Was it the rom-com females or the action males? Could it be both?  We all know what happens to a meal recipe that is cooked to please everyone. It turns out to be mush for everyone. (4.) Usual satellite with HUD identifier info overlay on important locations e.g. CIA headquarters. Thank you Google Earth! Overdone and cheap looking. (5.) Online dating was added to contemporize the movie for whatever age group that is still enamored by the idea. Largely a LA/NY writer's thing. (6.) Poor acting, filming and directing resulting in Pine, Hardy, Handler and especially Witherspoon stuck in predictable acting role ruts. Can they do anything else? Camera angles made car chase scenes look more like what was being done in the '70s and fight scenes that were obviously fakey with punches not even close to their target. (7.) Good movies attend to detail yet, just one example, look at the final scene of the SUV rolling on the overpass then check out the shadows of the SUV, the people and the other vehicle. All the shadows are in different/wrong locations relative to the Sun (or we have a very tricky Sun).

jerry/kenshi This film is in the graphic novel genre, like "300".  The visual quality is excellent, but it is otherwise near worthless as a reflection of the culture and history of Japan at this time.  The clothing is very european influenced (lace-up boots!) , and commoners display  attitudes that would get them summarily killed for insolence.  Architecture is on an  incredibly huge scale, rivaling the scope of the chinese imperial  forbidden city.  I have tried to park my brain and watch this movie a number of times and find its inaccuracies  too intrusive to finish it.  If your knowledge of japanese history and culture is marginal, this  movie will probably be quite enjoyable.  In summary, '300',' Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves' and Roy Rogers westerns  have greater historical and cultural accuracy.  Enjoy it for action entertainment, it does that quite well.

Horrible movie Was pumped to go see this in theaters. Now I just want to add another one star review to help people stay away from this garbage excuse for a horror flick, you have been warned...

Not so good and overrated A typical Katherine Heigl movie. Yeah it is that predictable. The trailer gives away the entire plot.. You are better off watching something better.

disappointment Another disappointment from Cohen; Predictable sketches and worn out cliches make for a dull viewing.  Would not pay money for this product.

MESSED UP DISC WHEN I PLAYED THIS DVD FROM AMAZON THERE WERE AT LEAST THIRTY BREAKS IN IT MAKING ME THINK, AT FIRST, THAT OVERNIGHT, THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG WITH MY PLAYER. NOT SO! ITS THE DVD!!!! IT RUINED THE FILM.

Remake Disaster Let me preface this review by saying that I love the James Bond series and that I think that Sean Connery is the best of the "Bonds", but this movie stinks. It is by far the worst of all of the 007 movies made. The story is of course not original, it is a remake of the fantastic "Thunderball" movie, so there is nothing unique or intriguing about it.  The quality of the movie is awful, in large part because there was no budget. Sean's $1 Million dollar (1st of it's time) contract used up alot of the movie budget.  The special effects were hoakie, there was no chemistry between Kim Bassinger and Sean (She called him old in a Playboy interview, not a good start), the music was not memorable, and Sean's toupe was hiddeous. I would avoid this movie, because if you haven't seen it, you will be very disappointed and even upset if you purchased it.

Boycott UltraViolet Downloads DO NOT SUPPORT ULTRAVIOLET!  Their format is not compatible with all digital and streaming devices. It is not compatible with APPLE TV.  DO NOT SUPPORT ULTRAVIOLET!  I'll wait to see it on HBO or buy it on iTunes.  DO NOT SUPPORT ULTRAVIOLET!

Better than sleeping pills ... Who told the fat, slow Kilmer he would be perfect for the role? Why would a beautiful spy fall in love with this dude? If you don't want to take drugs to help you fall asleep, just watch this movie ...  I'm totally picturing Kilmer in his boxer shorts eating pork rinds in his trailer between takes ...

Please stop ruining my life Buck this stupid movie.  No, really, buck it.  That this Hallmark piece of crap could possibly have been inspired by the truly great novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany" is beyond comprehension. This turd of a movie is about as far from a faithful adaptation of a book as I have ever seen. It's Bonfire of the Vanities bad, and that adaptation was so wrong they wrote a great book about just how and why it went so wrong (it's called The Devil's Candy, and it's well worth a read). Somebody should give this movie the same treatment. How on earth did this movie (barely) manage to get released? It is that bad.  Buck Oliver Platt. And buck Ashley Judd, too.  I trust you understand what I'm saying.

Corn!..cough-cough-gag An utterly stupid story that made no sense whatsoever, there is absolutely nothing to appreciate in this latest installment of a franchise that needs to be put down like the sick farm animal that it has become.  Watching this makes one long for the gonzo days of 80s corn-horror when you got to see someone get impaled by a cornstalk-through the windshield of their car!  I tells you, they don't build cornfields like they used to.  Now, these days, we trade down to a corn shack peopled by Billy Drago who, when he's not slurring his lines that you can actually understand, plays a character that is almost unintentionally ambiguous, reptilian and creepy.  An so, probably like the children of the previous movies who inexplicably weren't in this movie to justify the title, you too will be left with no other option, but to scratch your head and ask what the hell.

Strictly "guy" humor. And annoying. Love RDjr and so wish he hadn't been trapped in this film with a foil whose character is so unappealing you can only pray the movie will end. Don't personally know a woman who would watch it to the end.

Pure Rubbish Nothing else needs to be said about this movie... don't waste your time or money.  How does making fun of someones point of view make you smarter?

Utter Garbage This movie was the bomb before the distributors decided to make only the version laced with the f word available.  What a drag!  I guess I can get a few bucks for it at the half priced book store.  Bummer...

This Gulliver should stay lost! This is the worst product I have ever purchased on Amazon.  You can see it better on Youtube.  Grainy washed out footage worst than any bootleg movie.  Stay away!

Very disturbing If you'd like to be left with a sense of watching a slow train wreck, then check this film out.  Really bad ending.

A movie not worth it... I watched this movie and this is what I think of the movie.  The Acting in this movie was not even B grade and using the word Dude over and over and over realy was frustrating to watch. It was like with the Acting and script they attempted to go cirtian directions but ended up confusing me as to what this movie was all about.  The special effects were Awesome.  The plot line had potentional but I think they tryed to go sevral directions and failed to reach these directions and ended up with a hurry up and get it done movie.  The ending or the last 10 mins of the movie were the best part for me.  I did like the ending I think they were attempting to leave room for another movie but I am not sure.  Over all I was disapointed with the movie and will stick to that. I know there are a few who enjoyed the movie and prolly seen things I did not but thats up to each of us and in my case I would recomend Avoiding this movie B/c this is a movie not worth it.....

Nick Jonas single handedly destroyed this show performance! Why was he cast in the first place?? He isn't even close in vocal talent as the rest of the cast.  He had short breathy phrases and had the same pained look on his face throughout.  I was actually embarassed for him.  I am not sure I am going to buy this dvd because I couldn't bear the thought of having to watch Nick again!!  I think I'll get out my 10th anniversary concert instead!

Terrible Movie American Graffiti was a great movie, the sequel is terrible, I wish I had never bought it and wasted my money.

This guy is a nut!! This guy also directed a move about how Paul McCartney is really dead. He;s a mental case. The fact that a black man was elected President has apparently driven a huge segment of Americans off the deep end. There have been one conspiracy theory after another. People really need to get a grip!! It's sad and shameful!!

Stage play, Not a movie Don't make the mistake of thinking this is a movie, it's a stage play that had been filmed. Overacting is not my idea of good entertainment. I couldn't even make it through 15 minutes.

Kiosk Rating &lt;1 (1.) No subtitles and poor, inconsistent audio levels makes it challenging to follow the dialogue which turned out to be generic Hollywood speak anyway. (2.) Usual  mad scientist operating an asylum/sanatorium while looking for a cure for disease and ends up with a deformed patient (resembles Proteus syndrome often associated with "The Elephant Man") that doesn't take kindly to strangers. This nasty patient (holding up in the, now closed, asylum)  turns out to be his own son after his wife was injected with this supposedly curative drug. (3.) Strangers, of course, and in this case vulnerable young adults traveling in the usual van, with the usual breakdown with the usual rainy day with the usual "no reception cell phone" plot line that is so over used there are web sites that cite all the movies that use it. Usual victims can't seem to make intelligent decisions and find escaping a Hollywood fantasy. (4.) Yes, a few unluckies die but you don't really see that. Cost too much. A few escape - too bad. (5.) This movie says a lot about the intelligence of many Floridians in that in the "Special Thanks Credits" is a shout-out for this educational film's financing to: "Governor Charlie Crist and the Florida Legislature for Financial Incentive". Money well spent! Think how much more educated Floridians are now on the benefits of killers in asylums! Speaking of promoting, I understand that his replacement had an equally embarrassing faux pas while touring Spain on "official" business.

don't bother i wish i could give this negative stars....it doesnt even merit 1. this is a disgusting film. i expected more from Stiller; not in terms of acting but in terms of choice of projects. worthless & crude...not funny... i couldnt even watch to the end. what a waste of my time and a waste of film and money. did the producers have nothing better to fund?

Unhappy This product was poor quality, and didn't play past the 17th chapter - halfway through the movie. I will be returning.

Forget B movie It's a D movie Sigh. I think me and my group of friends could have done a better job at acting then this. It seemed like some of the actors (and I use that term loosely) weren't at all interested in being in this film. They were as they say in basketball "going through the motion"  Natalie Laspina is beautiful, but this ilm was ugly. The killer was lame, the special effects are what you would expect from a lower than low budget film. The random dancing at the carwash with the guys was embarrassing and utterly pointless. I found myself throughout the movie saying "Instead of this, I would have done this.." Basically changing the movie and when I become the writer and editor as a viewer thats when a movie is bad.  I ask myself why would anyone want to be in a film like this? Maybe it looks better on paper, but the acting, special effects just ruined it, with time and some....ok alot of alterations this film could have been a decent B movie.

you'll love it of you love the military If you have been in the military or love the military then I believe this movie will be up your alley. The lingo, camaraderie a la armed forces is believable.  If you loved District 9 for it's sci-fi action and it's portrayal of the complex nuances of human nature, you will likely find this okay to deplorable. I personally found it's dialogue tedious and the trite cliched characters unlikeable. I laughed at some of the one-liners that weren't meant to be funny and found the action sequences interchangeable and honestly they dragged on and on. The special effects weren't bad, I liked the alien  mechanizations of war. The main focus of this flikk is the troupe and it's brotherhood. I just didn't care about any of them. The writers may have been ham sandwiches.

Not as advertised Item description said that this was the Blu-Ray + Digital Copy, the product I received did not have the digital copy...

Arena The movie would not play and I have sent it back to Dee's and I havent heard from them nor have I received a refund

Cheap Hollywood Ruins A Bluray! You have to turn this Bluray Dvd over during the movie!This ruins the whole experience of the movie!  Unbelievable! BUYER BEWARE!

Rampant cocaine use during entire filing I was "around" during the filming of D C Cab and most of the actors and most of the crew were coked up throughout the filming. Most scenes were shot and not even edited because of budget restraints. Look carefully at Gary Busey's eyes during every single scene. He's so high he can hardly slow down his lines. The same is true of most of the other actors who are either conspiculously quiet and speechless  in scenes or are over animated. Coke is the reason that this film has so few close up shots and why, in almost every scene, the actors are just running, jumping around and/or screaming- both inside the cab sets and out. This movie, from my view, is a sad example of a possibly funny movie devolving into a cocaine fueled manic mess of scenes strung together into a releasable product. The project was such a negative experience that few or none of those involved would ever work together again.

Long & Bloated... 1st Note: I saw this movie with XFinity On Demand. 2nd Note: Amazon deleted my original review, so I have lightly edited it.  I saw this film because I was interested in it, as Clint Eastwood directed it. However, the movie is a huge disappointment. It's too long, bloated and homoerotic. I mean homoerotic in that it's heavily implied that Hoover and Tolson were lovers (which was probably true), or that at the very least shared a mutual attraction for each other that went beyond friendship. A lot of scenes had either both of them holding hands and whispering heavy innuendo to each other, and one scene had Tolson kiss Hoover when Hoover mentioned that he'd been intimate with a woman. One scene is enough to imply their sexual perversion or mutual attraction to each other...and it CAN BE DONE DISCREETLY, instead of the shockingly overt manner in which it was portrayed (Hoover saying pathetically that he loved Tolson after the latter stormed out is the only example I can think of where a person's sexual preference can be implied without anything else).  Rated R (a kiss between two men, two uses of a vulgar term for a gay person, one use of the f-word and some violence).

Damaged goods Neither of the DVD's in this two disc set worked at all.  It arrived in a sealed package but we didn't get to see 5 seconds of the movie.  There is absolutely nothing wrong with my DVD player.  I use it all the time.

Not recieved yet but realized the con being played here I purchased the Brotherhood of the Rose from this seller after searching for a while for it to come out on DVD. Before purchasing I made sure that this product, or tried to, was created for this region, not the UK. After I made the purchase I found out that this item is not for the this region even though it says "universal" and the DVD is one disk. Contacted the seller to try to cancel the order but the message I got was that the order was being prepared for shipment and it can not be cancelled.  To the seller (since I received no response from them yet): When you are selling video's regardless if they are for this region or not, please do not try to use deception to so you can sell your product, please make it very clear if the video's being sold are for THIS region, and not region 2. Because I know when I get this disk my husband and I will both be very disappointed, I already know (too late) I will have to return it which means spending more money for a product that your company should have clarified where the video could be played.  Next time I will, if looking for a hard to find dvd, I will get the VHS version and just convert it to dvd. When you sell items such as dvd's, remember to look at the address of the buyer, that should give off a clue as to the WHERE the video is able to be played.

True Grit from Movie Mars Can't even watch it as it is not coded for the USA. It is coded Region 2. I guess I was supposed to watch for those kinds of codes. Had no idea they existed. I have no idea why this is even sold in the USA if it is not able to be viewed here. I understand they ship all over the world, but knowing that it is being sold to someone in the US should qualify for an email to warn you that you won't be able to watch your video. Love the show, but planned to have it for a big party and were not able to see it.

B movie disaster I watched this movie recently and fully knew what I was expecting.  A B movie that was tongue in cheek and that would have a lot of laughs.  I was wrong.  The whole story was a waste of time, the monsters a joke and the characters-better off dead.  The premise is that a director goes into the woods to refilm his movie after he was told to put more sex and violence in it.  However, one by one the cast are being killed off.  I was disappointed with this and would urge you not to buy it-unless you want to waste an hour and a half of your life.

Not a good book. Why would anyone want to read such a bad book that is based on a fake story? If you want to read a good book, look somewhere else...

Cinematic Rubbish After reading Aron Ralston's book Between a Rock and a Hard Place, I wanted to see the film that it inspired.  I'm soooo glad I read the book first, or I may not have bothered to read the book.  Sadly the film version is vastly inferior to the book.  Unfortunately the producers chose to cobble together a slap-dash version that utterly fails to capture the story and character of Aron Ralston and his family, the events that lead up to his harrowing experience in Blue John Canyon, and the significance of that experience for Ralston and for us.  This could have been and should have been an exceptional film, but it is just a "C" grade flick that is destined to be just a flash in the cinematic frying pan. Don't waste your time or money, read the book--I highly recommend it.

Is Amazon selling pirated DVDs? On February 22 I ordered this Blu-Ray (and a couple of others). It arrived in a timely fashion, but the DVD had no label. It was completely blank. I naturally complained, sent it back, and requested another. It too came reasonably quickly, and it too had a blank label. That was enough for me. If I want to rip off movies and use a Sharpie to label it, I can do that. I expected better from Amazon but I didn't get even an apology.  I got a refund. That wasn't what I wanted. I wanted a legitimate Blu-Ray DVD of this movie. Evidenly, Amazon doesn't have those in stock. Maybe they're waiting for another shipment from China or Thailand.  It'll be a cold day in hell before I order another movie from these clowns.

buyer beware I bought this DVD because Amazon lists the aspect ratio as 2.35:1. I've been searching for this movie with this aspect ratio for years. What I got is another copy of the so-called "Full Screen" version of this magnificently beautiful film. My advice is not to buy unless you can be sure of the aspect ratio of the disc.

Rob W. Middle school humor.  Don't waste your time.  No idea why this has 5 stars.  I  wonder if the guy got all of his friends to like it.

Don't waste your time or money on this lousy remake! Wooden acting, stilted dialogue.  Nice set decoration is about the only good thing you can say about this movie.  Very POOR attempt at a re-make of a classic Western.

This should be buried like a mummy This film is just so bad on every aspect that writing any further about it would be considered a complement to the film to give it that much thought.  Honestly, I think this is the single worst film I have seen out of 1000's.  Just where did they dig up that actress who took Rachel Weiss's place? DO NOT....repeat...DO NOT get this film, even if it's free.  Yes...it's that bad.  The only movie I've seen that is worse than this one is Brendan Frasier's FURRY VENGANCE.

Prometheus fails Prometheus had so much hype and promise, but it was an ultimate failure.  It is essentially a new version of Alien except it has MULTIPLE plot holes, horrible characters, horrible decisions made by characters, and it just went on way too long.  What an abysmal experience this was.  The movie was a chore to get through, and the only thing I think about in the end was how I could get my money back.

Cat scratches This product came extremely quick (which was a plus) but when starting to view it, the 1st disc was perfect but the 2nd disc and last disc were very scratched. It looked like a cat had dragged its paws across the disc, and it was completely unviewable.

didn't buy due to lost vatican episode I was going to buy this video as a gift, but refuse now due to them editing out the vatican episode. Here is my dollar vote show time!

Returns From What? Viewed: 8/03, 6/08 Rate: 2  6/08: Since I see Penguin ninety percent of the time and very little of Batman, Batman Returns aptly should have been re-titled as The Penguin Show Plus a Bit of Batman on the Side. That actually reminds me of the moment in This Is Spinal Tap where the rock band gets featured right below the main feature involving a puppet show. Exactly is what happened here for Batman Returns. The film is terribly boring, depressingly slow, and frightfully pointless; most of the time, it is either Penguin or Catwoman. If not either of them, then it's Max Shreck. Obviously, Tim Burton pays homage to the actor of Nosferatu. The first thirty-five minutes, there is probably a total of thirty seconds of Batman. What bothered me about Batman Returns is how some of the dialogues are filled with sexual innuendoes and remarks. Moreover, there is too much violence in the film. I thought Batman Returns is supposed to be okay for kids? Again, Michael Keaton, still in my opinion, is right for the Batman/Bruce Wayne role, but the problem is that he had too little to work with. In my review of Batman, I said, "A slight cleaning up such as recasting Vicki Vale role, getting rid of Robert Wuhl, eliminating the romance and need for revelation of Batman's identity, and emphasizing more on the rivalry between Joker and Batman" is desired for improvements. Tim Burton succeeds probably in all of them. He gets rid of Kim Basinger and Robert Wuhl. Somehow, the romance is a bit there but not greatly focused on, and the identity revelation of Batman helps to move the storyline a bit. Still, does he have to remove his mask at the end? Now, he has to make sure that Shreck is dead, and in a predictable fashion, he does. Burton is able to bring attention onto the Penguin's fight with Batman more than he does with Joker/Batman's. The problem? He spends too much time with Penguin, his red triangle gang, Max Shreck, his son, Catwoman, and Alfred; I dare to say, Batman is perhaps in a serious competition with Alfred in terms of more screen time than one another. I also said in Batman, "As for the cinematography, I really liked parts of them, but there aren't enough of exterior sets as the sights seem somewhat redundant." This time, in Batman Forever, the situation has improved plus there is more participation from the people of Gotham City. Tim Burton may be a visual genius, but he is one of the most mediocre directors alive; all he thinks of is Peckinpah, and he goes one step further: commit the fatality where Kubrick is famous for. As far as the characters go, I don't care for any of them. Batman is what I was looking for; unfortunately, he seems to be less important than the gaffer. The scene where Penguin gets confronted by Batman before he falls down in some sewage pool, I actually overlook that because later I see Penguin just collapse on ground before he dies. I wasn't sure if I missed anything prior to that, so I had to rewind back the film and see what I did miss. Really, that is a lame way to end Penguin after showing that he fell about twenty feet to the water. I am sure he can survive that one. Speaking of penguins living in the sewer, something there doesn't fit in for me. Catwoman's motive is quite confusing to me; I mean, why the hatred for Batman? He didn't do anything wrong. It would have made more sense if she directed it on Max Shreck. The hilarious moment begins when Batman persuades Catwoman not to kill Max but rather take him in to the police. Uh, does that actually defeat the whole purpose of Batman's existence? All in all, Joker's presence is greatly missed. Time to retire, Tim Burton...you no longer can direct. I'm dropping the rating for Batman Returns from `3' to `2'.

Dubbed in English!!! I don't see anything on the product page to indicate this, but... Before you rent/download this, be aware that it's dubbed in English.

What dancing? I'd heard the dancing in this movie was good.  That's why I bought it.  There was only a minuscule amount of dancing that looked like it could have been done by any decent actress, so I don't know why a ballerina needed to be hired to help out.  Also, I'm no prude, but I didn't need to see graphic lesbian sex.  That part was disgusting.  Please! And that guy who played the ballet master, there was something about him that just totally turned me off.  He was a real pig, and it really showed in his face.  Just a revolting person.  I watched it with a friend, who knows a lot about ballet companies, and she hated it too, for the same reasons, but especially because there was no dancing to speak of in the movie and the graphic sex was disgusting.  Natalie Portman's acting was very good, I will admit, and  the woman who played her mother was even better.  If that ballet master was trying to be utterly repulsive, then his acting was good too.

The help I don't want to watch it on the computer, I want the DVD to carry with me whenever I want it, not set on the computer and watch it in the small screen! But you as soon as you ask for it you put this service instead of give us (the costumers) the opportunity to verify if we really want this instead of a real DVD in our hand!

Weak story-bad cop-dumb premise-ending weak I am sorry and don't like to write negative reviews..however!  Mr Sutherland portrayed a alcoholic divorcee chain smoking cop with no apparent redeeming qualities and like all movies of this type, it is because his wife left him. While this is a very common stereotype character for movies like this, Mt Sutherland could not carry it off. The biggest flaw was his weak "magic power" that was USELESS! Finally he sees the killer "through the killers eyes" only because his acquaintance Henry with the same power gets killed standing in front of a mirror so Sutherland can see the killers face.  And of course this friend Henry leaves a "weak" clue on some voice mail as the killer silences him. The story is weak and while I really like other roles played by Mr Sutherland, he and the other actors did not measure up. SORRY!

Grat movie, streaming issues with Amazon server Great movie, terrible streaming. The Amazon server buffered the movie three times in the first 3 minutes and we had to turn it off. Hopefully this was an isolated incident and won't happen again.

Stupidest movie This was the stupidest movie in my opinion. I couldn't even tell you what the point of this movie was. I would not recommend.

This sucks! The action scenes are good, very much like Jackie Chan's acrobatic style, but the colors and sounds and cinematography are just too low-budget quality to like.  The story is too one-dimensional.  There are no character developments.  If you want a martial arts film that has all that, see Ichi -- that is the best martial arts film I have ever seen.

I second the opinion that it's a WASTE OF MONEY !!! I notice that at least one other reviewer said "don't waste your money" and I will strongly second that review.  I always hesitate to watch the History Channel historical programming because they so often seem to be running from an ideological place designed to mold the viewers opinion and here the goal seems to be to replace any respect that you may have for the founders with disappointment. In this case, they dismantle most founding fathers by attacking their character almost as election ads or biased media hit pieces do. The History channel portrayal of our founding fathers in this program says that the men who sacrificed their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor in the name of liberty that we've all enjoyed for generations (corruption aside), were really just a gathering of drunken, rumpled, self serving, low character radicals with a few exceptions. It's almost as bad as their alien life program where they bring through unexplained things in the past and later imply that biblical visions were really space aliens. It's almost as bad as bringing in P Diddy for a intillectual history perspective on the the "The story of US". They also jumped topics in that one and glazed rather than explain the economy under Jimmy Carter. That was a sign right there. Getting back to this disc, most historians used during segments sounded more like writers for the National Enquirer or the Globe than historians. Of course the founders were not examples of perfection (who is), but men of character they were and their words and actions justifiy that opinion. Great sacrifice was made and by the ONLY revolutionaries who stepped up for individual rights, self responsibility and liberty. You would think that "The HISTORY Channel" would give a little more time to their personal sacrifice at each point of the story and less on the trivial, sensationalistic crap. To buy this program and have it heavily be one sided hit pieces against these people IS A COMPLETE WASTE OF MONEY.

Hellish Blue Resulting from Horrific Lighting The lighting technician single-handedly destroyed this DVD.  With the exception of the faces, everything is immersed in hellish blue.  He (she) got paid regardless of performance, and obviously did not give a damn.  He needs to find another line of work.  It is disgustingly unfair to the performers who did their best.  Why did the director put up with it?  This was 2009.  Technology has open the door to visions from an earlier era.  With an imaginative director, this could have been an excellent DVD.  This shortcoming never should have been allowed to happen.  The role of Arturo fits Juan Diego Flores like a glove, especially vocally.  Nino Machaidze is a convincing Elvira, and has great chemistry with JDF.  The JDF-Machaidze third act is unforgetable.  Nino is one to watch in the future.  Besides her voice, she is beautiful and is a superb actress.  This DVD is ruined by the bulb technician and/or the director.  It is inexcusable to deliver such shoddy product in the 21st century.  The lighting/video is no match to the Met version with Anna Netrebko.  The difference has more to do with professional pride than budget.

poor quality DVD The movie is a classic and Jose Ferrer was magnificent but the quality of the DVD was so poor that it detracted greatly from the Film.  I would like to send this one back.

Shaggy dog story I expected to like Glorious 39, it began beautifully, full of promise, full of the possibility of re-experiencing an extraordinary time..."wait for it," I thought as the minutes and then the several hours passed, wait for it, it must  be coming...the point, the purpose, the reason for all of this...oh there's a plot, and a story, improbable, filled with poor logic and people doing things that people do in badly done movies...but in the end, (and I won't betray the conclusion, because if nothing else, I'm not sure its possible to betray the conclusion any more than the film itself does), in the end, it was all EMPTY CALORIES...a shaggy dog story, a pointless exercise, filled with people who no  more than on the surface were able to resurrect another time and another place...  The acting was mostly fine, the direction and writing sometimes brilliant but too often too painfully obvious, similar to that moment in too many movies when we the audience might scream "no no for god's sakes don't open that door!"  This is a film that went nowhere and said nothing, nothing about the heart, the soul, the human condition, about being alive...pointless empty calories, a sugar doughnut of sound and  fury masquerading as history and signifying...nothing...  Quite an achievement, I suppose...

Great Movie - Bad Disc One of my favorite movies of all time. I've had it on VHS and was thrilled to get it on cd but the disc itself is bad and won't play. I"ve purchased many other movies with no problems at all but not so much luck on this one.

Not appropriate for my 3 year old I just bought this movie this past weekend based on all the positive comments I had always heard about it. I can honestly say I truly enjoyed the very beginning (up to the time the toys made it to the daycare) but that rapidly changed. Just like some of the other comments, I felt this movie was depressing and creepy (even for an adult). My 3 year old got very scared of the monkey and told me he did not want to see the movie again. It was a huge disappointment since I was a big fan of the first two. I do not understand why they would make movies like these for children!

Mankind is Evil! Where should I start?  First it is nothing but pro-global warming propaganda.  Mankind is destroying the planet so Mankind should be exterminated.  Let us ignore the fact that mankind has no effect on the tempature of this planet.  Second let us look at the movie from a scientific point of view.  The aliens have nanotechnology.  With said technology they could terraform any planet they wished into a paradise if they so choose.  If the planets they came from were destroyed they could have fixed them with this technology.  They obviously have FTL capability.  The universe is a very large place.  Use the nanotech to send Von Nuemann probes to barren planets and terraform them. Instead of killing mankind, why not help mankind?  You have the technology that is pretty much magic to homosapiens.  If you are really worried about life wouldn't preserving mankind be a priority?  Wouldn't protecting a sentient species be a very high priority?  The acting was wooden.  The military was made to look like nothing more than idiots who like to destory things.  It was a horrible film.  If you enjoyed it or liked it you really need to get yourself checked out.

excellent movie..horrible quality does anyone know which vender offers the "best" copy of this Lizabeth Scott Fem-Fattell  movie? It's a great movie as I'm a noir buff who has stuff on Beta, VHS, and DVD... parts are(scenes) are missing so is dialogue....The video quality is abysmal.... HELPPP please!!!!!

disappointing I saw this in the movie theatre -- it got great reviews and I was very disappointed by this movie.  Basically, there is a lot of nudity and lots of beauty shots of Jake.  Other than that, there is not much to the movie.  I'd skip this one.

Meh,..... All I see is people comparing this to prices, if you wait its so much cheaper and a better blu ray set will come out.I purchased my Smallville seasons last year's black friday on amazon, those were 10 dollars a season, I got all 9 seasons on DVD for little over a hundred dollars, so this set in my eyes is overpriced, your pretty much paying lot for a few timbits, which are cool I bet but not worth this pricetag. Don't get me wrong I love smallville but this would have been perfect with a 150 pricetag 175 tops

DAWNING = YAWNING DAWNING uses the disintegration of a dysfunctional family as the basis for a supposed horror movie.  It also throws in a seemingly demented stranger who warns the family that some "thing" is waiting outside to kill them all---something EEEEEVIL. The movie talks you to death, the acting is pedestrian and it's all boring!  There is no conclusion and during the end credits, it has the audacity to request you go the website and tell what you think IT is. I don't think the writer even knows what IT is.  This movie simply stinks.

Not worth the time I took a chance on this one and I lost. I should of looked into this more I thought this was a documentary. Instead its some lunatic that claims to be 80,000 years old and has alien artifacts from a flee-market in Ohio....

Who knew "awfulness" was a bendable element? This movie had so, so much potential to be good. Unfortunately, it fails not only to live up to the expectations of fans of the series, but also fails to stand on its own as a standalone film. I actually rather like M. Night Shymalan's movies, even the ones that most people hated like "Lady in the Water" and "The Village". From beginning to end, however, this movie was just plain awful.  My biggest problem with this movie is simply that Mr. Shyamalan took an entire season of a very well fleshed-out and developed series, set in a world that doesn't work quite like the real one, with what are very complicated cultural and political structures going on, and tried to jam it into less than two hours of time. The result is film with a barely-coherent story, dialogue that is composed almost entirely of exposition, and not enough time spent with any of the characters to care what happens to them. Had I not seen the series this movie was based upon, this movie would have seemed like a string of completely unrelated events. Having seen the series and being a fan, it was painful to see vibrant and well-developed characters reduced to blank-stared, in-story narrators.  Even the visual effects and action scenes fell short for me. In an attempt to showcase the element-bending effects, the battle scenes featured heavy use of slow-motion. Rather than make the bending more impressive, it just sucked every last bit of excitement out of the action. A movie with nature-element superpowers and lots of nifty martial-arts type moves should not come off feeling sluggish. I wonder how much time would have been shaved off from the overall length of the film had they run the battles at normal speed.  The acting was painful, although I'm not sure I can fault the actors. When most of your dialogue is narration, there isn't much you can do with that. The only character that didn't come off as awkward and stilted in his delivery was Dev Patel as Prince Zuko. Zuko was the only character that really got any attention in the script to his background or personality. Unfortunately, one decently-portrayed character had no chance of salvaging this disaster of a movie.  I really can look past the usual complaints about this movie regarding casting the main protagonists as Caucasian, while casting Fire Nation antagonists as primarily actors with Indian or Middle-Eastern appearances (I expect that predictable sort of shennanigans from Hollywood, really), and I don't care about the changes in name pronunciations (although I don't think the argument that "that would be the proper pronunciation in most Asian languages" is particularly convincing considering that in this adaptation the characters whose names were affected are decidedly not Asian).  For me, this movie failed in story, in dialogue, in pace, and in visuals. As many others have said, check out the animated series, and let's all try to forget that this movie ever happened.

What no 3d? So....no Bluray 3d release? Not buying a 3d movie in 2d. I've searched everywhere and found no mention of a 3d version of this movie. What's the deal with that?

Awful One word can describe this movie....AWFUL... Julia Roberts must be scratching for work! Don't waste your time or money! I wish I could return the dvd, but I gave it to my 12 year old neice.

If you can't get to sleep....... Watch this movie. It is very very slow! I tried to watch the movie 3 times and fell asleep at the same point each time. The acting is sub par and the script is dull and predictable. I would not advise this one.

revolting, disgusting.... nauseating, pretentious, moronic, sickening....and that's just in the first 15 minutes when I turned this vile piece of garbage off....having read the rest of the negative reviews, I am glad I did..I understand animals are also killed in this film....I hate everything this director has ever done. Just the sort of movie that wins awards!! Go figure!....SB

worst script ever This is certainly the lamest script I've ever heard.  The cockney bit is overdone and the casual interactions between possible deadly enemies is ridiculous and entirely unbelievable.  We see grown men with tiny guns holding them in a way that confesses ignorance about how to use a gun - they can be slapped away in an instant.  And the cockney does the routine with a bludgeon where he tries to knock out the right guy who is spinning around with another and of course knocks out the wrong one.  Instead of knocking out the right one he now simply announces that baby done a bad, bad thang and gets beat up himself.  In a real situation if a man couldn't be sure of hitting the right head he could simply dig the handle of the weapon deep in to the big bulls'-eye back of the enemy like a blunt knife and that would get his attention.  A child could have made a more realistic set of fight scenes than what you will see in this "movie" but I recommend that you do not buy it or watch it.  This might now rank (pun) as the worst movie I have ever not quite seen because I can't stick it out to the end. On a lighter note the little girl should have learned that the alternative name for "father" is "dad", not "ded".

horrible The original Scooby Doo movie is actually entertaining but this movie is complete garbage. I would not recommend unless it comes on sale as a double feature with the original film, but even that doesn't make it worthwhile.

Mom's Video never shipped it. I ordered this item 11/12/11 and still have not received it by 12/15/11 Service by Amazon and Mom's Video is atrocious and I am not getting any satisfaction from anyone. As of now I will not purchase anything else on the Amazon site

Beautifully shot with no story The person who wrote the description of this movie, that is on the case and also is what enticed me purchase this, must have read the book.  Because none of the plot described in print is contained in the movie.  The move has long sequences of silent stares into the camera, some gore, and some (oh I am glad the kids are not in the room sequences).  Sadly the movie is so bad I am not even enticed to see if the book actually contains plot. This is my first wrong movie purchase of the year.

Nothing Happens - forget Part 1 Nothing happens except running away from people trying to kill them... part 1 is an excuse to make more money with two parts.  I mean it... nothing happens in this movie.

Hype killer. Such a bad movie, can't believe I had so much hype for that. Everything in this movie was terrible from the beginning to the end, only the animation was worth watching, I could put this movie in Russian with Vietnamese subtitle and it wouldn't change a thing because the story is so bad that it isn't even worth trying to understand wtf you are watching. I wish I could put -5 Stars.

Discs proved to be fine This is the second defective copy of the Shooter in bluray I have recevied from Amazon. I have also received a copy of Worlds Fastest Indian and The Sandpebbles recently from Amazon that refuse to play. The Sandpebbles plays but only the sound. This is really disappointing and appears to becoming a pattern.  ***Update*** the discs proved to be fine and it was a hardware issue. Player was only months old, but using different unit proved discs are fine, thus I recant this review. Apologies to all.

Didn't like it at all. During this movie I kept waiting for something other than the sex, like a story or something of that nature. I was disappointed, if you want to watch a sex addict in action that's what you'll get, and that's all. Bored me to death.

Ended up binning it on Ebay I was sadly disappointed with this movie.  I expected to get far more insight into the French student riots, but in this movie the focus is on the ambiguous sexual relationships between the protagonists.

Seriously???? I can't believe this movie has such a high rating.  Fellow Amazon customers, I depended on you and your opinions when I actually PAID to see this movie!  Seriously, this should have NO stars.  Bad acting except for the last second of the movie!  I could go on and on about how bad this movie is, but it is SERIOUSLY not worth any more of my time!!!!

FROM CHINA They never told me the copy came from China. Just beware from this company. They also said it was a new copy and it looked used to me. I would never trust this company again.

Tries too hard - or perhaps not enough to be campy A waste of digits. Even if you saw the originals this is still a duffus imitation. It starts out bad and gets worse. The jokes are not even off color enough to be bad.  The actors should have been embarrassed. And who would have come up with the money to back this one?  I am not going to waste your time with the finer points (what finer points?) of the film.  Jo I would just say if it were free it would not be worth watching on a bet.  The highlight is when someone tells Frank that he is missing the big picture. We look at a "big" picture and Frank says "That is a big picture". Ha ha very funny and so well thought out.

The Getaway very dissatisfied. after ordering this dvd i discovered it would not play in my blu ray dvd player. after several emails back and forward with the seller decided to exchange the dvd since it did not work in my blu ray player. after several days i inquired to the seller if he had received the one that i had returned to him and to this date as far as i know it was lost in the mail. then the strangest thing happen. he decided he would replace it anyway and sent the same dvd knowing that it would not play in my blu ray player. i email him a couple of days ago and ask him to refund my credit card account and i would return the 2nd dvd. as of this day i have not heard from him. no more purchases from this seller or amazon,  Very Dissatisfied Buyer Gary xxxxx

last full measure I just found out there was no part three to the triogy that sucks I enjoy cc watching civil war movies. Don't get the last full measure NOT part th ree.

This is not a review of the bluray book version, but the Canada release Misleading packaging and specs! Obviously Seven is a great movie but my rating is on the misleading specs. Ok, I wish I had read all the reviews on this before purchasing. The aspect ratio is listed as 2.40:1 when in fact it is 16x9. It is also in 1080i instead of 1080p. Heck the cover isn't even the same one as in the picture. I will be returning this and will buy the bluray book version instead. Blame Canada!

Dumb Dumb, noncreative stereotypes, no story, no acting, no nothing (double negative?). However, if you're an insecure rejected teen this will continue your fantasy stardom and provide the slapstick humor you never grew out of. The usual studio teen themes of alcohol, drugs, hot tubs (or pool), a few boobs and pretend sex, trashing - it's all comic book there.  Four/five star reviewers came from the aforementioned demographic. Three star reviewers safely indecisive.  Kudos to the studio & producers for the latest tactic to squeeze more blood (money) to not include Special Features unless you pay extra. Kudos to the studio & producers for the unimaginative copycatting of the too often used and cheap actor with handheld camera documenting vehicle.

Wroong There are good adaptations. There are bad adaptations. And there are adaptations that rip asunder the source material and gleefully devour its corpse.  This is one of the last category.  I might have been able to still enjoy "The Last Airbender" if it had merely had special effects, a horrible script and actors with the charisma of a plank. But director M. Night Shyamalan gets EVERYTHING ELSE wrong too, from the character motivations to bending.  Southern Water Tribe girl Katara and her brother Sokka stumble across a glowing glacier, and find a young Airbender boy inside. Since all the other Airbenders are dead, Katara figures out that Aang is the Avatar -- the master of all four elements, and the only person in the world who can defeat the powerful Fire Nation.  However, the Fire Nation has already found him, in the form of the disgraced Prince Zuko (Dev Patel). Aang, Sokka and Katara set out on a perilous voyage to the North Pole to find a waterbending master. But the malevolent Admiral Zhao -- Zuko's nemesis -- is approaching the North Pole with the Fire Nation navy, with a plan that may destroy them all.  M. Night Shyamalan had a golden opportunity with "The Last Airbender" -- the original cartoon was intelligent, funny, complex and filled with brilliant martial-arts and strong philosophical overtones. So instead he decided to make a movie with NONE of that -- a witless, humorless, simplistic stumbling behemoth of a film.  The culture, the characters, the climactic battle, the bending, the acting, the action sequences, and even the pronunciation of the names... EVERYTHING IS WRONG. WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. But if I listed everything wrong with the movie, this review would be the size of a novel.  Even from an objective perspective, this movie is a disaster. Shyamalan clearly has no idea how to write an action movie, blasting through incoherent fight scenes in one long pan. The story feels painfully repetitive (how many times is Aang going to be captured?!) and the script is horrendously pompous, humorless and rushed ("We have to show them that we believe in our beliefs as much as they believe in theirs" -- WHAT? You're not trying to SAVE THE WORLD?).  Also, there are gaping plot holes that a three-year-old can spot. So the Fire Nation imprisons Earthbenders, who manipulate rocks and soil... in a friggin' MINE. And the pseudo-Buddhist Aang apparently has no problem with COLD-BLOODEDLY KILLING HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE. Was Shyamalan mocking us with how bad he could make this, or did he just not care?  I will give Dev Patel credit -- even though his Zuko's main source of angst seems to be a mild case of eczema, he does put a lot of passion and intensity into the role.  Sadly, the same cannot be said of the other actors. Aang is wooden and mopey, Katara is weepy and inept, and Sokka comes across as a ticking time bomb. Even the talented Shaun Toub plays the horrendously-written role of Iroh with an air of boredom -- he always looks like he's thinking, "Okay, when do I get paid?" Only Aasif Mandvi seems to be having fun chewing the scenery.  M. Night Shyamalan managed something truly impressive in "The Last Airbender" -- he managed to take a funny, well-written, intelligent series and suck out all the humor, cleverness and likability from it.

this movie sucks This movie sucks bing tiime. similar to bad teacher in some way, but with a very bad and undeveloped script. Do not waist your money on this charp.

disappointing when i think of the muppets i think of escape, not political lectures. i think of animal jabbering on and banging away and not a demagogueic indictment of a free society. extremely disappointing.

This Is Bad First let me start off by saying that up until this point I pretty much loved everything that Rob Zombie did. The first Halloween was a great movie and a refreshing take on a franchise that had seemed to run its course. This movie is just plain horrible, and not in a good way. Why is it that he has to throw his wife into everything he does now. Her part in the movie made no sense and seemed like it was written in so that she could be in this movie. Michael Meyers as a hobo? Come on this is a real stretch. After watching this movie I was actually upset that I had wasted all that time to watch it. I think I'll just stick with House of 1000 Corpses and use this DVD as a coaster.

Awful "movie" with bad lip sync This is not a typical opera performed on stage, but a "movie" where actors pretend singing on a lot more realistic settings, with real water, miniature ship, and so on.  In the beginning, I thought it was a good idea.... but as soon as singing started, oh man....  The singers hardly move their lips! So fake! and the songs are cut to make this DVD to fit in a single disc!  I cannot believe anyone recommends this production!!!

2 Hours and 16 Minutes of Pure Boredom This was undoubtedly the most boring moving I have ever watched. The world comes to an end focused upon one dysfunctional family. Frankly, I was glad when the world ended because so did the movie.  I can't find anything redeeming from the acting to the storyline, except for maybe some fairly interesting graphics of worlds colliding.

Bat Credit Card If anyone saw the Nostalgia Critic's review of this movie, you know he considers it one of the WORST films of all time.  And so do I, for various reasons.  1:  I don't really like George Clooney (especially since I'm not too familiar with him), and he doesn't make a good Batman no matter how hard he tries.  2:  There are too many cliches in this movie, like the sidekick wanting all the credit and Poison Ivy screaming "Curses" as she's getting eaten by her own plant.  3:  While I never really liked Robin to begin with (really, who does), I hate the design of his suit.  It's nothing like the original.  At least Batman keeps the suit from before.  And finally:  A BAT CREDIT CARD, YOU IDIOTS!  WHAT.  WERE.  YOU.  THINKING?!?!?!?!

Utter Crap Terrible...just terrible. Its an improvised movie which in and of itself is a bad idea. When you improvise you should probably NOT repeat the same lines. This movie is just bad. Don't waste your time and money like I did. Shame on me.

I woyld like to get that time back Sadly with such a stellar line up the movie bombed pretty badly. Even Elizabeth Banks was a disappointment. Small funny parts here and there but the trailer contains most of the comedy in the entire movie.

Huge Disapointment, Watch it after reading the review if you don't believe me It's really weird to see so many good reviews, considering it's such a disappointment. The first two seasons were the best thing TV has ever seen, but this third season, if it had been the first, would not have even been renewed. People seem to highly  rate it based on the other seasons. This season is completely predictable throughout, the mood is never quite set correctly, and their attention to detail has severely diminished. If you don't believe me, watch what happens in the first episode of season four when they undo everything they tried to do this season. For instance, they created a nonsense love storyline with Batista to entice women viewers, but did so very poorly. The fist episode from season four starts with a no-name cop you've never seen before awkwardly making smalltalk with him eventually leading to "What ever happened to you and forgettable-actress?" in which he replies "We broke up," followed by no subsequent talk, as the no-name cop backs away, never to ever be seen on the show ever again. I recommend skipping to season four, because nothing of any real consequence happens in season three, and it was terrible to boot. It might deserve two stars, but such a precipitous drop from the first two seasons cemented a one star from me.

Torture of the Naked Eye Double Feature Headache! One star for what could have been a 3 star shlock cheeze fest.Both of these movies are tediously bad ,but I could tell that there might have been potential for a few laughs,had I been able to actually view anything on screen!The material used for transfer is god awful!Washed out and faded!Played out crappy VHS tapes stored in the worse conditions are my guess is what they used when they put this garbage on DVD.Total rip off!One big red and orange blur is all I could make out!I have already returned this rip off back to seller!Don't let the cover artwork fool you into thinking your going to have any fun with purchasing this dissapointing product!

BEWARE! I just sent back my Frankenstein dvds.  Received in the mail and one disc loose.  All scratched up.  Ten minutes into the movie - BAM it freezes.  Disc was rattling all over when I received it and disc was badly scratched.  Yep, a lot of people have said this already but somehow I thought I'd get a good one.  Sad that these classics are treated so poorly.  One thing I have to say...AMAZON makes returning easy and I'm getting a refund.  But I'd be happier if the discs were of higher quality.  Thanks.

No honor in this epic. I thought it would be like Red Cliff.  It was a terrible movie making betrayal seem honorable. It sent message that honor had no value.

VCI VERSION -  CDR COPY This is a warning to anyone considering the VCI version of this title. The one I received was a CDR copy. Same thing with the VCI Phantom Creeps (see my review). Nowhere is this mentioned in the product info. I've re-ordered the Alpha version instead.

Pathetic This is nothing but a lousy, flat, "holywoodization" of "La Femme Nikita" ripped off and stripped of the style, class, and suspense of that film while adding some silly bits.  The Blu Ray version's lousy quality detracts from that to leave basic rubbish.

not worth ur $$$!!! this movie was soo terrible i just forward the whole thing to the end. i felt like i wasted my money. what brought me in was the cover, and i knew it was a B movie, but this was just something you would see if you was really really bored or something. not worth the buy, maybe a rent.

A waste of time I don't understand what this is supposed to be, but it deserve to go directly on the "Bottom 100" of the worst movies ever made, a total waste... There's no story at all, just a non-stop pouring of words for 90 minutes, the acting is so horrible, they probably did 5 takes of each scenes to be certain it would be as horrible it could possibly be... I bought it becauses there's Alicia Silverstone in it, and I figured a Shakespeare story would be interesting, he must be rolling over in his grave... Fortunately for her she's listed on the credit but we see her only about 10 minutes in the whole movie in what could be seen as a glorified cameo...

Useless! DO NOT BUY!!!!  Bought this to use in school for a class I teach.  Won't play on any of my computers which are linked to an LCD projector!  Found a small note on the back of the package..."This disc is expected to play in DVD Video "play only" devices and may not play in other DVD devices including recorders and PC drives."  THAT WARNING DOESN'T APPEAR ANYWHERE ON THE PRODUCT PAGE!  It's USELESS to me!

WOW !!!! Did any body like the bad guy/woman! Charlize Theron (the bad guy/woman) did an awsome job! I had goose bumps! Snow white, um, not so much. Kristen Stewart can play only one role and she does it in all of her movies! Awkward! I've seen the Twilight movies (NOT as good as the books!The books are better!!!)and she did bella playing snow white the best. All of her roles are the same. So... will i spend thirty dollars on snow white and the huntsman to watch again as bella becomes the worlds most awkward queen. UGGGGG!!! No!!! probably not.

bad acting not a very good movie at all, people claim good soundtrack, not really. a couple pieces of the typical 60s anthems. Winona Ryder is terrible, makes you wonder how she ever got more work, oh thats right she's good looking. about the same sentiments for Kiefer and Robert. Subpar. Nothing in the movie seems very believable. Let's see 2 friends graduate high school in late 60s, head out on the road to find themselves, vietnam draft, brother killed in action, bad acid trip, fall for friends little sister, run away to Canada, have change of heart, return home to lead fight against the war, the end. not to original of a story line and very poorly carried out. you might want to consider renting instead of buying. I think I would have been better off never watching this.

TiVo Download Is Corrupted I had to use my Xbox to rent this movie from Microsoft's Zune market, because four attempts to download to TiVo with Amazon resulted in the audio being out of sync, and video skipping.  This has been happening more frequently lately, I suspect that it's possibly the new copy protection codec that Amazon is using?  Please fix this issue!  Not all videos have it.

horriable movie i would not even give this a star if i did not have to. i bought this movie at my local FYE store and it was 0.07 and i got thinking it was going to be good but it is the worst movie ans i dont think it should have been made on blue ray let alone blue ray i think whi ever buys this movie is basically flushing their money down the drain . people let me help you save your money and say DONT BUY THIS MOVIE IT IS A COMPLETE WASTE OF MONEY SND IT WAS A WASTE OF MY TIME WATCHING IT AFTER I WATCHED IT I THREW IT IN THE FIRE BECAUSE IT IS A HORIABLE MOVIE ITS NOT EVEN SCARY IT IS CHEAPKLY MADE AND LOOKS LIKE IT WAS MADE WITH A CHEAP ASS VIDEO CAMERA AND SOMEBODY FELT SORRY FOR THEM SO THEY HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO PUT IT ON DVD NO WONDER IT DID NOT GO TO THEATERS IT WOULD HSVE MADE ALOT OF PEOPLE VERY ANGRY AND PLEASE PEOPLE DONT BUY IT

Tasteless, tactless, and misleading. This movie was far too long, first off. It had no sense of class and the plot was poorly developed. I understand that there was a lot of misogyny during the time of the movie, but the way women were portrayed as weak puppets who love the men that rape and degrade them was just too much. It puts women in an unnecessarily bad light, not at all showing complexity or self-value - rather, they were shown as bird-brained sex objects who have no sense of self worth. I just feel that overall, the movie did not have a strong enough plot or any justified reason for the sex, violence, and degradation present in the movie. The characters with fairly superficial. It felt more like I was watching a terrible day time soap opera that is bordering on sadistic pornography. No wonder I haven't heard of this movie previously - it is terrible and I highly recommend NOT watching it. Be smart and watch The Godfather instead!

Don't bother I am a huge fan of Glee. I own the first two seasons and watched season 3 wanting to like it. I didn't. In fact, one of the episodes, 'On My Way' is so offensive (doesn't even come with a warning for suicide, even though The First Time had a T rating because two male characters kissed) that I rage when people talk about it being such an enlightening episode. I'm sorry, but as great as an actor Max Adler is, his character is not deserving of my sympathy. Especially when it's being used as a cheap device for more viewers, there is nothing I hate more than using SUICIDE as a marketing ploy.  Not to mention the careless way they handled the near death of a regular, and then in the next episode, she's fine and everything is okay, she's just in a wheelchair for a few episodes and goes back to her plotting ways. (because on Glee if you're a girl and not Rachel you are a scheming witch who just needs a guy to show you the right way.)  This show is often praised on the way it handles it's gay and lesbian characters, I would say that they did this well in season 1 and most with season 2, however season 3 is a different story. Season 3 saw Kurt lose a student election to Brittany, who later forgot she even won, have to face the awful Sebastian (the Warbler story line this year was completely unnecessary and just threw everything that was Dalton in Season 2 down the drain), and then not get into the school of his dreams even though he aced his audition. Kurt this year was more of Rachel's gay accessory than an actual character, unfortunate because Chris Colfer is amazing in every scene he's in, a GOLDEN GLOBE actor, and yet, he is off in the sidelines. I would also like to point out that in the episodes Kurt, and his boyfriend Blaine (played by Darren Criss) were in (DwS, TFT) they nail every scene and you can so easily tell they are in love with each other.  Probably why they cut out their Christmas scene of exchanging presents, (a scene that was shown in promotional pictures but cut from the episode because it ran too long, or so the homophobics say at Fox.) because to see Blaine and Kurt's honest and so real relationship and then to see the disaster that is Rachel and Finn, you'd wonder why this show picks to focus on Finchel.  Coincidentally, that Christmas scene was promised to be on this season 3 boxset, but we all know how much Glee hates their fans, and so we obviously see that it is not listed. I will not be spending my money to please the people at Fox that thinks this is the right way to write a show. Especially at an extra $20.  And really, no one gives two cents about Will & Emma, or Sue. These special features are more of a kick in the face than anything else. I'd much rather see deleted scenes, bloopers, the Behind the scenes specials they put on the internet, or anything dealing with the choreography with Zach Woodlee.  So don't waste your money. Buy the 3 semi-decent episodes off itunes or amazon and be done with this. I only hope they get canceled before they make a worse episode than OMW.

DO NOT BUY FROM THIS SELLER! I never received the product and after three attempts to contact the seller for a refund, I had to contact Amazon directly for help in getting my refund.  Very shady, beware of this seller!  Go with another seller, such a hassle, I am very careful not to purchase anything from Classic Cottage now.

RUN, do not walk sucks. save your money. (now i am just satisfying the word minimum...la de da...doo be doo be dooo. oh man!!! so twenty words, or more? YIKES.)

DVD version lacks special features I liked the movie. I don't think blu-ray is worth the money. I like buying these epic effects movie dvds for all the extras you get. Well if you purchased the blu-ray version you get the making of and behind the scenes stuff, but if you bought the dvd step-child format you get the commentary by the director, deleted scenes and a commercial for the 'Avengers' and that is about it. I hate this waste of money. For a price that is a bit high you get the gutted version and find out later that they have the 'deluxe version' for a few dollars more. I have many of the other Marvel movies on DVD and this is the first time they pulled this cr@p on the DVD release. To the marketing exec who did this, may you be constipated for the rest of your life.

Why Not Widescreen? Film distributors are either incompetent idiots or lazy slobs, because they release a film in its original theatrical aspect ratio to cable TV, but they release the same movie only in the fullscreen (pan & scan) format on DVD?  WTF?  Thanks a lot, LionsGate.

Revoltingly bad and not funny. I usually avoid watching this comedian as I feel he is very racist and it becomes tiresome to hear him constantly defending his race and saying why they should stay in United States, even though they are illegally here.  Then he has the gall to make fun of our long-time customs here in United states.  He cannot talk about food without making reference to bodily functions such as burritos are not good unless they make you "fart."  Also complains of restaurants here named Border this or Border that, insinuating that we want them to leave our country.  If he is so very offended by our attitude and customs, why does he not encourage Hispanics to leave United States and go back to their native country.  He seems proud of these people who are only able to cook food, clean hotel rooms and work on farms picking our fruit.  He also makes constant reference to how much the men drink and always making "clunkers" out of their cars, as though this is something to be proud of.  Also says Hispanic men are not romantic and evidently do not care of they make their women happy.  Then ironically, he makes statement that white men are taking the Hispanic women away, because they care about their (women) feelings and try harder to make them happy in bed.  Well George, you just don't get it, do you???  No this performance is vulgar, repetitive from other shows, racist and not even very funny.  I would never recommend buying this unless your mind resides in the gutter anyway.  Then I suppose it would be appropriate for you.

Awful! I was expecting a clever and funny movie, what I got was a totally below-the-belt waste of time! Fine actresses like Rose Byrne had no business being in this rubbish!  I see from the reviews that, though I initially thought so, I am not the only one who just couldn't get any enjoyment from this movie.  There's so much physical 'comedy', which is just the lowest form of it, and very little wit.  I enjoy a good, cheesy comedy as much as the next girl, but this just didn't hit the spot.

really?? Please do not waste your money on this video. It's just boring and not very well thought out. And the ending is totally unbelievable. I can't believe I wasted 90 minutes of my time watching it.

Seriously the absolute worst movie I have seen in my entire life. I am here to agree with another reviewer, I have rarely reviewed movies, but I almost feel like it is my duty as a viewer to express how incredibly awful this movie was. I came into it with an open mind, and I love a good psychological thriller/horror film.  Not only was the acting terrible, and the special effects cheesier than a 1970s low budget film, but the movie did not make sense, and was incredibly hard to follow. For example, a scene reflects back where the main character is remembering being in high school, but its hard to figure out that this is what is going on, because the characters all look over 35. Another scene, the main characters mother comes in, but the acting is so off, you think it is an ex lover, then about 2 minutes later, you realize that the thinking was totally wrong.  I am all about supporting indie films, something unique, out of the ordinary. But this was just bad. BAD, bad. Imagine the things that make awful movies awful, and this movie has all of it. I seriously wonder if this is some kind of experiment by LIONS GATE to see if anyone notices. I am truly in shock. Watch this movie for a laugh, and a disturbing one at that.

flaming turd This is one of the most excruciating experiences of my adult life. 3 hours of waiting for it to become funny and you think "i paid to see it and it got good reviews". Find something else to watch or smoke the pistol now cause this movie SUCKS!

Disgusting and perverse Here's to all the budding serial killers out here, this monumental piece of cr**p is all the more disturbing due to its beautiful cinematography. I assume the book (which I will never read) is equally elaborate prose with the same effect, of trying to elevate murder to an art form. Of all the ways to explore sexuality, love,and the senses, as a species we are becoming more and more decadent, and less evolved. I bailed after the second murder. And of course, this movie (and horrid book) are more than celebrating violence against women. Disgusting to the extreme.

Why SD format on Bluray ? This pre-order says it's Bluray, 2 discs, but 1.33:1 which is SD format, not HD format.  Why?  These were broadcast in 1.78:1 format.....

Unbreakable I don't know if it was advertised and I just missed it but the dvd region is for the UK so ultimately the dvd will be useless to me because you can only change the dvd region on your pc 4 times before it's changed permanently so I am only able to watch the video a limited number of times.

Something has gone terribly wrong.... *SPOILERS*  I am a fan of science fiction, and I especially like BAD science fiction, by which I mean movies like "Plan 9", which is a laugh riot (unintentionally) no matter how many times you see it. I did a little research on this movie after watching it, and discovered that the entire budget for physical production (live actors and the crew to film them) came to only $500,000, and the special effects budget was $20 million. That explains a lot.  So, the main reason I hate this movie is that it wasn't bad enough. The acting is awful, and the script is one of those where you'll be saying the next line before the actor does. But the special effects are impressive.  The ending, where the main character (Eric Balfour) and his girlfriend (Scottie Thompson) are being sucked up into the spaceship to have their brains removed, is really finger-down-the-throat time. As they fly up into the ship, they manage to embrace and kiss. It would have been all right if it ended there... but what happens in the ship after that is one of the most hilariously maudlin, oh-no-they-didn't scenes I've witnessed in any movie of whatever genre.  My recommendation: skip this, or at least make a drinking game out of it with friends. You do a shot of tequila everytime someone says "Dude".

full screen dvd's HEAT, CASINO ROYALE &  BAD BOYS 2 I just did a search on the full screen dvds for HEAT and you have it listed under the full screen. I ordered this dvd and had to send it back because your advertising was misleading.  Please correct this problem so it doesn't disappoint other customers.  When will HEAT be available in full screen?  If you cannot accommodate, please provide me with someone who can!

Danger Will Robinson....Warning Quite simply put, this is the worst films & most inaccurate adaptation of a book.....ever.  I love the Anne Rice book and both its predecessaors (Interview, and Vampire Lestat)  Some of the actors are atrociously miscast and bear no resemblence to the characters, others actually have a certain charm about them and I found myself feeling compassion for them having to act in such a disaster of a production.  This is the Corvair of movies (unsafe at any price).

Paramount's fault, not Showtime's!!! As most of you know, Season 6 is ruined b/c of the unskippable trailer at the beginning showing the last 15 seconds of season 6. After doing some research and sending some emails to Showtime, this is actually the genius decision of Paramount. I have been told that they are trying to resolve this issue for future releases and hopefully a new version will be out soon. Hopefully this helps! I have pasted the email below as well.  Response Via Email(Cameron Green) - 08/28/2012 10:51 AM Thank you for reaching out to us.  Paramount Home Entertainment is responsible for the manufacture and distribution of our Original Series DVDs. We are working together to remove that preview from future prints of the "Dexter" Season Six DVD.  We take your comments very seriously and have passed them on to the appropriate individuals within our organization.  Sincerely, Showtime Customer Service  Customer By Web Form - 08/27/2012 10:13 PM Why in the world would you put the last 15 seconds of season 6 on the trailer of the season 6 blu-ray release? Not only that, but you can't even skip the trailer at all on every single disc? I get that you are trying to advertise, but why ruin the entire season for someone who has yet to watch that season? Please fix this for people who have not bought it yet. EPIC FAIL!

Check to make sure the item will play on your equipment The item was received on time, however, the item did not work on our equipment. Apparently, it only works in certain countries and apparently the seller did state this on his page, but I did not see it. Therefore, we have a DVD we cannot play.

cinderella The condition posted was "Used, Very Good." The movie was to be a Christmas gift for my granddaughter. The box was broken, cracked and yellow. It was in such bad condition that I couldn't send it to her. I would like to have had the condition of the box reported.

Colossal waste of time This movie was, without a doubt, the worst movie I have seen in almost 20 years!  It was a complete and utter waste of time.  It took three days and three attempts to finish it.  I kept giving it a chance, hoping it would finally get better, but it just got worse.

Say it ain't so, Bruce! Bruce Willis is my favorite actor, hands down. All of his films are good, which is why I bought this one.  Within 5 minutes you know he's a way too high caliber actor for this movie. You can tell that everyone else is just going through the paces, as in, they can't act. Bruce apparantly realizes this too, so once he gets involved (on the way to the battlefield) he gives an emotional, powerful speech about the poverty and genocide in the area the film's set in; which will hopefully compel the other actors involved to at least put forward an effort.  No. They give their plot devices away instead. "I'm in it purely to save lives," one says. "[Screw] them, I just need money," says another. "I hear the natives give great [love]. I'm purely here for the [love]," says the typecast African-American, with no qualms for his role. (Ten points if you can guess the first killed.)  Bruce tries to save the movie one last time about 40min. in with an anecdote. "Maybe now you understand the full consequence of war!"  "I hope I get to save somebody," says one. "I'm not leaving until I have enough for that Benz," says the other.  Thankfully Bruce then cancells on this movie (he's in half of a scene then magically gone a second later, with the general idea proposed later that he stepped on a mine). He wisely signs on for DIE HARD: WITH A VENGENCE instead. Appreciated greatly.

Formula, unreal characters Oh yes, another sick wife/dog/_____ (fill in the blank) then you find out there is an infidelity....  And we have to care about these people because well they are rich but nice rich and not spoiled and repulsive with on cue cry scenes and everyone is so ...  so... canned.  Cue fake emotional scene.  Lard on the music.  Oh and it's original because it's quirky Hawaii.  I'm a fan of Clooney but I didn't believe his character was real for one minute.  With the way the snotty kids talk to him and he doesn't claim to have any experience in raising kids...  he just lets them talk crap to him without raising an eyebrow  (yeah right).  really one snotty character after another and Clooney is so ... unbelievable.  So is the script.  About the only thing that part of the movie got right is the overwhelming stupidity of much of today's movie kids.  It makes you wish for the collapse of Western Civilization.  So far movie kids are the nadir.

Read the books, skip the movie (Written by my son - Jesse):  I am a HUGE fan of the "How to Train Your Dragon" book series and this movie is the one of the worst book-turns-movie's that I have ever seen.  If you haven't read the book, you may not care, but for true fans here is my list of where the movie went wrong:  1: Fishlegs, Hiccup's best friend:  In the book Fishlegs is small and timid.  In the movie, he is very big and lots less timid.  2: Camacazi, Hiccup's girlfriend:  In the book, Camacazi is not a Hooligan tribesman.  She is a member of the Meathead tribe.  3: In the book, Hiccup's dragon is in no way big or deadly.  In fact he is a totally unremarkable, small, common breed that can't do much of anything.  4: In the book, the tribe does not fight dragons.  They have them as pets and they feed them and all that.  5: SPOILER ALERT - SKIP IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THE BOOK AND PLAN TO DO SO:  The end of the book involves two sea dragons that fight each other.  Hiccup creates a plan to get them to attack each other.  The plan does NOT work as it did in the movie.  6.  Finally, lots of small parts were messed up as well, but that would cause the list to exceed 50 points.  So, I highly recommend that you read the book.  It is way better.  Obviously, the creators of the movie did not read the book.

WB Does it again! This version has a Digital Copy insert that has expired and there's no possible way to redeem the code. If you are into mobile media, this option is not for you.

The Day Keanu Stood Still The remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" is perhaps the most reprehensible film remake in the history of film-making, showing a complete lack of respect for the original.  The remake is contemptible, pathetic, ridiculous, and an affront to everybody who loved the original.  Please boycott this film to show Hollywood that they will not be rewarded for destroying cinematic classics.

bad movie bad movie save your money... was not worth the time duded plot sucked...bad movie total crap not at all fun or scary

Awful I actually like Mandy Moore as an actress. She is much better than all her pop star turned actresses counterparts. I was really disappointed with this film as I was looking forward to watch Mandy Moore on the screen. I barely remember the plot. All I remember was thinking how bad this film was while I was watching it. I can safely say that this is the worst movie I've seen in the last two years and I watch a lot of movies.

Does not work!!  DVD does not play! I received the Apollo 13 video.  However it does not play (have tried to play in both a DVD TV, and on a computer). Other DVD's that I have will play with no problem. IT DOES NOT WORK & THE DVD APPEARS TO BE BLANK!  I would like to return the malfunctioning DVD & receive a workable replacement.  Please respond.  Thank You, David P. Houck houck.david@sbcglobal.net

Not the worst movie I've ever seen... That award goes to "Rawhead Rex" which is amazing in its horribleness. This deserves an honorary mention though. It's really, really bad. All I can say is, Bruce D., you're way too good for this.

Boring Honestly, I couldn't get past the first 20 minutes.  Just couldn't take the mundane dialog and characters that I didn't like at all.  Didn't care what happened to them next.  Cut my losses and said goodbye to this film.

Zero Stars if I Could This tripe is just someone pushing an agenda, and trying to act like it is a balanced view.  Typical Hollywood style garbage.

Eastwood overrated Totally miscast, script was disjointed and very liberal with truth of actual events. Movies like this drive me back to books where I can recieve some semblance of truth and not Hollywoods interpretation of what is proported to be the depiction of historical events. Not the first time Eastwood interjects his personal theories as what is what when it comes to the historical record.

not using Amazong streaming service again When I signed up for the streaming version of this movie it came VERY pixelated to the point where I could see the picture at all and had only audio. When I attempted to contact Amazon to request a refund of my measly $3 rental fee I was given the run-around both on the phone, in email, and in help chat. I was told to talk to the IT help desk about resolving the technical issue, I said i didn't want help resolving the technical issue I wanted my money back. I was then sent to customer service where I was denied my money back because it was a technical issue that could be resolved if I spoke to tech support about my computer settings or whatever. I said I wasn't interested in resolving the issue by playing about with my computer as I just my $3 back, and I was told NO.  So...I will NEVER use Amazon streaming movie rental again. Good job driving away a customer.

a total dud:  survival of the best looking I made the mistake of asking a group of friends to see this in the theatre and was embarrassed that I wasted all of our time.  I know there are some who like it, but we found it so insipid, so unoriginal, and so unbelievable that it was not even funny enough to laugh at.  The story is that the Soviets were messing with genetic engineering, experimenting on a crew with spiked vodka.  Rather than creating homo aquaticus, it made men into monsters that want to kill everyone else.  Not only are the special effects laughably bad, but the acting is indifferent at best.  Don't bother.

Foul language spoiled this movie I got this movie for free when I bought my DVD player and finally sat down to watch it.  My husband and I turned it off after about 20 minutes because the language was so horrible.  I am not kidding when I say that every other word in this movie is the f word.  I have watched so many movies without foul language and they can be just as powerful and entertaining to watch as the the movies with foul language.  So why ruin a good story with this language?  I wish Hollywood would realize that not everyone speaks this way and that it is offensive.

Can't figure out what this movie was about Can anyone tell me what they were trying to do? Such a terrible script. The actors tried so hard, but there was literally nothing for them to do.

Can't believe I actually watched to the end... There is not a single redeeming trait to any of these characters. I hope they all die in a gigantic plane crash or nuclear war. Self-absorbed, self-loathing animals, that's what they are. Don't waste your time. Watch something else - anything else.

Hollywood Thinks We're Morons I could only appreciate this mindless entertainment for a brief window of my life, and that window has been boarded up.  Please stop making more than one movie every other year like this, thank you.

DVD didnt work i couldnt watch the movie as it was for a different region being USA and im in Australia so its sitting at home in the box still

DVD got corropted within 2 weeks time I have purchased 'Baby Babble - Speech-Enhancing DVD for Babies and Toddlers' through Amazon.com. It was working fine at start but just within 2 weeks time it is now corrupted get stuck after a few minutes I am really unhappy about the quality. Its very bad.

terrible Do not waste your time and money on this turkey. As a big fan of the Pink Panther series, I was offended by this rip off. Not a single laugh in the entire film.

Huge Disappointment. Nothing like the first movie. Huge Disappointment. Nothing like the first movie. Animation was awful--wooden--cheap! I liked Anne Hathaway's voice better as red, the new girl doesn't fit the character. The writing was terrible. Ugh. Martin Short as Kirk was a waste of valuable finances that should have been put towards animation and hiring Anne Hathaway.... Oh, and why is Joan Cusack still around? She is barely tolerable with her brother carrying her, but by herself...just go away. Glenn Close barely sounded like Granny--lazy! Red's poorly animated face annoyed me even more so then her new voice. I had high expectations of this movie, being a huge fan of the first, but they just destroyed the whole franchise.

defective dvd This DVD skips and does not work properly.  I am very disappointed.  Unfortunately, I just don't have the time to return it.

I thought this would be something nice and erotic, instead... ...once I watched the entire movie, I wanted to burn it. It's not what you think it will be, very disappointing and very disturbing, on an emotional, psychological and humanitarian level. The people who do this, (not te actors but the monsters who traffic real human beings) should be all lined up and shot slowly -beginning at the ankles and going up- for all the suffering they bestow for the kidnapped children and young girls. They belong in the pit of Hell. I can't believe human beings are capable of such cruelty. It made me cry. I believe people are good at the core, this is just another thing that which had shaken that belief in my heart.

Absolutely terrible eve Liam Can't help this one. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME/MONEY If I can add 2 hours to your life by helping you steer clear of this one, let me help you out. NO REDEEMING features in this movie. Bad acting, incoherent/ridiculous plot & 2 hours of your life you won't get back. I found myself fast forwarding through the first 30 minutes of 'back story' just to find the action in this movie. Just say no. Liam finally made a horrendously terrible film- actually he's barely present in the movie at all. Avoid at all costs.

Voces inocentes is a science ficiton movie. If you only want to watch an action or a war movie, I recomend yout to watch "Rambo". This movie is based on pure fiction with a sad story that sells. The actors are Mexican and speak Spanish "Mexican Style" they don't speak the Central American Spanish. The settings(the houses, the buildings) do not look like Soyapango not even a bit! And the story about the El Salvadorean Arm Forces recruiting 12 year old youngsters is just disgusting and a big lie. But if you like Science Fiction and Sad stories, you will like this one. Just keep in mind: don't believe everything in this story that was made up to make money.

Paying for commercials is eveil This is an ad for the upcoming season. As an ad it does not really work for me since I see nothing new in the up coming season to make me want to pay for the next few episodes. I like the Dr but I am going to wait 6 months for it to show on Netflix. Also, charging me 99cents for three minutes has made me an angry viewer. Only for the new Canadian Primeval would I pay that......rip off!

Spiderwick Chronicles When I purchased this item I saw no indication that it might not be suitable for young children.  The child I intended to give it to is 7 years old and he was looking forward to seeing the movie.  I like to review movies before giving to my grandchildren.  This is definitely not suitable for a young child!!!  The story itself is interesting but the movie is too graphic and would lead to some children experiencing nightmares.  I think items that you sell should be denoted as suitable or non-suitable for young children.  Of course if you follow the Hollywood criteria for suitability I would reject many PG-13 rated items, since some are too graphic for even a 13 year old!  Be brave!  Design a decent rating system for parents and grandparents to review!

Scary for young children This series of videos is scary for young children.  Do not let the G rating fool you.  I watched the video with my three year old son who loves dinosaurs and he was scared during several of the scenes.  Also there is a lot of name-calling and teasing in the videos.  Not something I want my child learning.  Very poorly done story lines.  Pick Dinosaur Train or Dino Dan instead!

Pretend the movie never happened. Read the novel and the manga and loved them both. The movie however was just not good. Of course it is hard to compress several phone book sized volumes into a 120 minute movie, but realize that the bulk of the material in the manga and the novel were not the killings but the back story for each character. It is the experiences (and traumas) of each character that gave us the context of the decision to kill or not kill that each one made. It is not enough to simply show killings without showing us the motivations behind them. Of course they all kill because they don't want to be killed, but without knowing whether they enjoyed doing it is part of the information conveyed in the manga and novel. This is what made us connect with each character.  In the novel and manga, it was the "match ups" that kept one's attention. Would the martial artist be able to beat a cold blooded killer? Would the beautiful vixen be able to seduce all guys to death? Would the athletic girl be able to fight off a stronger but undisciplined guy, would the semi-trained veteran be able to out maneuver the psycho? All of these were lost in the movie and we end up with kids that don't look, or act any differently from each other. Yes, these are teens and they would not know how to hold a gun, or shoot, or even to survive in the open, but even the main (evil) characters appear to move foolishly.  In the novel and in the manga, the wrapping up of the story is nicely done, like a twist in a mystery novel; in the movie it is boiled down to a "hurry up and let's finish this before we run out of tape" kind of deal.  All in all, I think I will just pretend that the movie never happened.

Beautiful people in a boring adaptation-- It may be partly the stilted dialogue, but the acting in this film is wooden. Gwenyth Paltrow is beautiful as ever but I think she was in the process of learning to act during the film. It is not worth the time. A much better literary movie starring Paltrow is "Shakespeare in Love"

Winner of the 2012 "Rotten Tomato" Award is... Let me say right up front, I llooovvvveee "Disaster" flicks. Being a nurse who has worked at a Level I Trauma Center that sees the 'worst of the worst' of human injuries & illnesses, and having been through many disasters of my own, working in war-torn countries, surviving a major earthquake to having to make an emergency landing in Tokyo when we were re-routed by a cyclone & a few other disasters in between, our family enjoys these shows immensely. Even the "B" movies we love to laugh & take apart the mistakes. But, "Air Collision" is beyond a "B" movie. Is it possible to go down to"Z"? The best part of the movie is the first 30 seconds (NO Spoilers given), then it goes downhill from there.  I wasn't sure whether to give this DVD a 1+ rating for being the worst film ever, or a 5+ for being the worst film ever! It was a hard call. For those who may not be aware, there really is a "Rotten Tomato" Award Ceremony, a spoof of the Academy Awards for the WORST film of the year. Sandra Bullock won both an Academy Award for "Blind Side" & a "Rotten Tomato" Award for "All About Steve" in the same year. But, I digress. This film should truly win a "Rotten Tomato" Award for 2012. Let's just say, none of the actors should give up their day jobs waitressing, valet parking, etc.  To say this had moments of being "politically incorrect" is putting it politely. This will insult every pilot, air traffic controller, flight attendant, and, well, humans who may suffer through its 90 minutes of content. Just how many pilots would be the FIRST off the plane before the passengers if it were finally able to land back on terra firma?! I could name 2, but I don't want to take any suspense away from seeing if anyone survives "Air Collision"! When you're not holding your breath from wondering what will happen next (every pun intended), to falling asleep from sheer boredom, then this is the film for you.  But, don't say I didn't warn you, when you look back on your Life & wonder "what happened?", this film will be the first to come to mind of what a 'wasted Life' you led, by having spent even a moment watching it. I did it for you (you can hold your applause until the end, for the sacrifice I made to all), so you don't have to.  If this film had humor in it, it could be another "Airplane", but, we the viewers are not that lucky. I was hoping the "Special Features" would have some redeeming qualities. Nope. With the Director/Writer smiling at the camera & saying, "I hope you enjoy the movie", I just wanted to take her hand & lead her off the plane...that big step all the way down.  Remember...you were warned.

Sante Fe Trail the packaging was perfect it arrived on time. but, when i finally got around to watching it the dvd was blank

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Faulty blu ray discs I ordered this twice. Both times the blu ray discs wouldn't play on our blu ray player. We even tested other blu ray movies we owned.  Our player works. Disappointing.

A Lesbian-Hating Film, Horrible I don't know how on earth there's been so much hype about this film. I guess it's because of the big name actors.  The relationship between the two women was not at all believable. There is no love between them. There is no sex between them (one scene shows a fully clothed failed attempt, that's all). They seem to be two strangers. And then one of them turns out to not be gay.  There are three gratuitous, full-on naked thrusting mixed-gender sex scenes - between a woman who says she's a lesbian and a very hairy man. It makes absolutely no sense at all. There wasn't even a build up between them. The director just put them together. And outside of the director's bubble world of LA, this reinforces a horrible stereotype. And people, it means the character is not gay. I know that labels aren't really important and sexuality can be fluid, but it's the character in the film who calls herself a lesbian. A woman who has sex with a man like that is not gay. That's just plain ridiculous.  There's another half-the-movie-long extremely gratuitous mixed-gender sex scene between the sperm donor and another lady. Was this film about a lesbian couple with kids? Nope.  I'm not sure what's wrong in Lisa Cholodenko's life that inspired her to make such a horrible film. It is a pity because a story about this type of family could have been interesting. I know that Lisa is together with a woman and they have a child. So it begs the question, is she self-hating? She quite obviously hates lesbians. I can only guess that she's actually straight and trying to turn lesbians straight. Great, the world needs more of that, really.

Terrible This movie, along with part 2, is truly pathetic. One of my friends somehow convinced me to watch it, saying it was so much better than part 2, which I saw first. It is no better. It is just gore for the sake of gore. To people who say it has great storyline: no, it doesn't. The storyline is just an excuse to show innocent people be mindlessly tortured. I guess this film is loved by so many people because of all the sick freaks in this world, because seriously, who gets a kick out of this crap? Besides the sickos in today's society. I swear, mental therapists could make an entire living off of one Hostel fan. If you like this kind of thing, you are sick.

Iron Man 2 Received Iron Man 2 before expected date but found the bluray quality is pathetic, it stuck at the start I cant watch 2 starting chapter and then the 2nd last chapter stuck I have to skip those chapters. I did not write to you about this because this is the second time happened with me last time you people sent wrong bluray of Journey to the center of the earth and when I complained you refunded its amount and then I placed new order with Iron Man 2 this is the reason I did not complained due to your irresponsible attitude next time I must be careful before ordering any product.

Rush I could not watch the movie because it says Invalid Region when the disc is placed in the player. I didn't realize there were specific regions.

Worst movie I've seen in a while.. Let me start out by saying that I did read the book before seeing the movie, and well...that was no easy task. Once I got passed the part where Liz is in Italy, I had to force myself to get through the remaining two-thirds of the book. I never saw the movie in theaters, because I knew I wanted to finish the book before watching the film, but it took me several months to finally get through the book. Once I finished my reading, I was verrrry disappointed and was hoping that the film, which had just come out on DVD/BluRay, would bring this woman's story to life and prove much less painful to sit through as it was to read.  Often, books are made into films that really shouldn't be. Generally, people tend to prefer the book over the movie, but at least the film is "pretty good" and watchable. Not the case with Eat, Pray, Love! I think the main issue is that it isn't another great fiction novel about love, or wizards, or vampires. Basically, the book reads like a diary or journal. This isn't a "story" or a "tale" it is simply the author, Elizabeth Gilbert's, account of everything that happened to her during this period of her life. So there is honestly no beginning, middle, and end. There is no climax, not even a plot. This kind of writing can slide in the literary world (referred to as non-fiction or autobiography) but it's very difficult to translate non-fiction to the big screen unless it's a documentary, like March of the Penguins or something.  I don't know what I was expecting from the film... I guess I thought maybe the filmmakers would add in a plot to make it more interesting. Honestly, the movie probably wouldn't have been too bad if it were simply BASED on the book, not translated verbatim. But no, the movie was filmed the way the book was written, minus all the narrative that made the book at least sometimes amusing or intriguing. It is IMPOSSIBLE to sympathize with the character in the film... basically it just appears that Liz is suddenly very unhappy in her marriage for some reason, and instead of discussing it with her husband like an adult or putting forth any effort at all to save the marriage, she bolts. BAM! DIVORCE! Makes you want to grab her by the face and say "look you dumb bitch, this isn't some casual boyfriend who you don't really like anymore, so you just break it off and move on. He is your HUSBAND!" What kind of a message is this woman sending out? That if you are even the slightest bit unhappy in your marriage, you don't address the problem, you just file for divorce and run away to a different country??  So the film starts out with the main character, Liz, pulling a very selfish move (and practically out of nowhere since the movie lacks the narrative that the book includes to provide a bit of explanation and reason for her actions..), making her rather unlikeable and unable to relate to. A main character that the audience hates... not a good way to start off a motion picture. The part in Italy was at least visually appealing (and appetizing..), however, kind of randomly pieced together like a collage, including various shots of tourist spots, food, Italian people, and Julia Roberts doing the "Julia Roberts laugh." I recall the scene where she claims to have gained all this weight and is struggling (to the point of having to lie on the floor) to put on a pair of jeans, even though there is no visual evidence of this supposed "weight gain." It's like when a 110 lb woman is complaining about her love handles... you just kind of want to slap her.  I was watching the movie with a friend who hadn't even read the book, so I couldn't even imagine how torturous this movie-watching experience was for her. Once it got to the VERY sudden flip flop over to Bali, my friend and I just couldn't take it anymore and fast-fowarded to the rather anti-climactic love scene with Javier Bardem. I remembered seeing him in the previews and wondered which character he was going to portray in the film, but was surprised to see him playing a character who, in the book, was supposed to be much older than Liz. I'm pretty certain that Javier Bardem is younger than, or at least the same age as Julia Roberts, but whatever. Soon after this scene, they run away together and the movie concludes with them riding a boat off into the distance or something cliche like that.  Bottom line: This movie has no plot, the main character is irritating and impossible to relate to, and the last two-thirds of the movie (and the book) are extremely difficult to get through without burying your face into a pillow and screaming. The only delightful part of the film is Richard Jenkins' portrayal of the character Richard from Texas, but sadly his appearance in the film ends very abruptly and the movie starts to suck again. And the brief period in which she dates David, played by james Franco, seems pointless, unnecessary and almost kind of irrelevant to the rest of the film. Unless you're in the mood to watch a crappy movie and make fun of it with a friend or loved one, I suggest not wasting your time or money on this one.

Sad It is so sad that they took a really good tv show and turned it into a very horrible movie.  It's sad at how many people thought it was good.  I watched it to the end just because I didn't want to waste the money I had spent but I would not recommend it or re-watch it.  I cannot believe the former actors from the tv series agreed to have spots in the movie.  I really like Channing Tatum and he is the sole reason I bought the movie and watched it but I think this is one of those movies he should either leave off of his resume or put it at the bottom in very small print.

Wow... This has got to be the WORST film I have seen since Twilight, I didn't think ANY movie could top that one on the c***dar but WOW. This one definitely hit the nail right on the head, such a disappointing movie, I had such high hopes for it. Other then the obviously gorgeous girls, there is nothing to be praised, i wouldn't even give this film half a star if I could.

SAVE YOUR MONEY! I waited so long to receive this documentary, expecting something on par with the great animal documentaries shown on PBS.  Not!  I can't tell you how disappointed I was by this Disneynature Chimpanzee film.  The narration by Tim Allen was dull and slow. His comments were stiff and overly-orchestrated.  Not in sync with what we were seeing.  The comments lacked substance and did not complement the scenes.  As to the scenes: the majority of the shots taken of the Chimps were veiled by the trees and shadows of the forest.  There were no sustained closeups of the Chimps' activities and daily lives. The camera seemed to jump around a lot. I would not recommend this film for purchase.

Didn't Like This Movie Maybe because I'm in my mid-40s, but because the stars are younger and maybe more recognizable to the generation after me, this movie may be more appealing to them.  I just did not care for this movie. It's gotten rave reviews here, but it didn't appeal to me at all. I usually tend to see movies with actors and actresses I like not necesarily because of good reviews, critical acclaim or even awards. That may be the reason I didn't like it.  One of my favorite romantic movies of all time is Bridges of Madison County.  The Notebook didn't come close to Bridges.

DVD-R COPY WTF Just recieved my copy and it is a dvd-r copy of this movie. I should send this to the FBI for illegal downloading. Not happy at all

NO BLU RAY Open the movie, it comes with 2 DVD's and no Blu Ray!!!! The package was not sealed as a new Blu Ray, it was secured with some kind of a seal(??) I know it's not much money. but that was not what I was ordering.

Safe house Didn't get to finishing watching this movie because it kept freezing up every twenty minutes! It's a good movie went to see it in theaters but horrible horrible on amazon

Ed Burns knows he's in a stinker Really bad, even for this genre which is pretty bad, even when it's kind of good. The Asian originals make little sense, getting by on atmosphere; the American remakes make even less. This mash up of Ring, Grudge, Final Destination is an incoherent mess, even by the lowest standards, and it's a shame because I really like Shannyn Sossamon. She's one of those actors who have likability even in the worst mess, and she is professional enough to act, instead of phoning it in the way Burns does (he looks great, but he makes it very obvious to the viewer that he knows it's crap and he's only there for a check, which is understandable, but unprofessional). Avoid this- the worst episode of Supernatural is far better.

Horrible This was horrible! I was so excited to see some of the greats! Holy smokes, i didnt realize the geriatrics Were performing! Spend yor your money on somthing else, this sucks!

not compleate the item is about a mexican tv series but is  not complete so you will see only parts of the history

2nd hand for new price!!!!!!!!!!!!! ordered New Polar Express 3D Blu-ray, but received a second hand one.  Had 2 e-mail chats with M.J. Entertainment.  Best they could come up with was to return it  for a replacement.  Now I see they want me to put more money out of my pocket, for their mis doings. I decided that's not happening. Just keep what I have with out further exspense to my self.  But, would not buy from them again! Or reconmend them to anyone.

Big names can't save this movie Purchased this DVD because Hugh Jackman is in it, and I was glad to see other big names listed as well.  There is no suspense and there is no mystery.  One "clue" leads directly to another. Scooby-Doo had more suspense and mystery than this movie.  Jackman's charisma and Allen's goofiness couldn't save this movie from itself.  My husband and I chose this movie from our to-be-watched pile when we had no internet connection, no TV, and no phone service.  After 10 minutes, we chose total silence instead.

Kiddie Fodder... Crap, crap, crap. Bad acting, big explosions, and video game CGI a good movie does not make. Like a 2 hour Hasbro toy commercial. This film made Star Wars Episode 1 with Jar Jar Binks seem like an Academy Award worthy film. And I'm a Superhero/Godzilla/Monster geek...this is just awful...terrible. At least the first one was semi-watchable--and where's Megan Fox? That would have been the only redeeming quality in this junk-fest...I mean alien robots who change into cars and trucks??? It's a movie based on a TOY for God's sake! A bad toy made into an even worse film. Avoid like The Plague.

Rundown Could not be watched on DVD player. You can no longer even purchase hd players . So I can not  say about the quality.

Whong Region The Blu-Ray product I received would not plat as it was meant for Region B. I live in Region A. The good old USA. I returned the item and am waiting for a credit to my credit card.

never received the movie Never received the movie very disappointed in this company that I was to receive it from. I will spread thier name around so no one that I know ever orders from them.  Linda Evers

Vulgar This film has a promising comic theme and a superb performance by Edward Norton as a corny, gentle, idealistic soul. But the comedy is trashy rather than amusing (let alone witty), and the notion of television as being driven by money-crazed corporate types without a shred of interest in what they're selling is really tired by now, however true it may be. Robin Williams and Danny De Vito in particular are playing wholly unpleasant characters--so much so that they have no way of making them interesting. It's just one ugly act after another.

movie was ok the movie was just ok but the lapdance was really intensely done its not worth ur money  save it for something better

Don't Bother Read the other One Star reviews -- they trash this film and deservedly so.  Let me review it from the legal end.  The court room drama is bogus.  It doesn't matter if the real story took place in Germany, or "based on" in America -- legal procedure does not work as portrayed.  For example, the judge scolds the defense attorney in open court for being late.  That is grounds to request a mistrial (which would be denied) and later used as one of the issues on appeal.  The judge would have called both attorneys to the bench and quietly told them if either one was late they would be held in contempt of court.  By scolding the attorney in front of the jury -- which would not have been called in until both attorneys were present -- it sends a message to the jury that the judge is anti-defense attorney.  More than likely some of the jurors were christian and maybe catholic.  (A good defense attorney would have made sure at least 4 of the jurors were catholic in an attempt to hang the jury.)  The D.A. does everything he can to insult the priest -- thereby insulting the jurors christian beliefs.  Even if the jurors don't believe in the priest's exorcism rites, they do believe in Christianity.  The D.A. has made himself unlikeable to the jury.  He shows the priest no respect and thereby the Christians of the jury no respect.  (It is not uncommon for a jury to side with the attorney they like, regardless of the facts of the case.)  A doctor who can help the defense approaches the defense attorney and says he will testify for the priest.  He is the key that will set the priest free.  What does the defense attorney tell him?  Come to court tomorrow morning!  The first thing she would have done is that night take his deposition in the presence of an attorney from the D.A.s office.  Then when he was killed, she could have entered that document into evidence.  A document does not carry the weight of live testimony with a jury, but it does with a Court of Appeals.  So, the doctor is accidentally killed and she has no great witness nor a document of his testimony.  Half way into the trial, she discovers that she needs an M.D. who can rebut the states M.D.!  Excuse me, she would have deposed this M.D. prior to the trial -- she would have known exactly what his testimony was going to be.  Prior to the trial she would have lined up at least 3 M.D.s to rebut the states witness.  She would not wait to the last minute and have the light bulb go off in her head.  And she tells her associate -- during the trial -- that she knows nothing about exorcisms. So the two of them get a stack of books to study -- and she's due back into court the next morning!  In other words, she did not prepare for the trial.  She works for a huge law firm.  This is a high-profile case.  Everyone in that firm would have contributed to making her defense.  Out of desperation, she reads a book authored by an "expert" in exorcisms.  And what do you know -- the expert is available to testify.  But the expert can only testify as to what people of faith believe exorcisms to be, not if the priest performed a correct exorcism, or if an exorcism was even necessary.  And this is where the D.A. dropped the ball -- he could have (in a polite way) shredded this witness.  He only asked a couple of non-relevant questions.  And finally, the defense attorney gives the worst closing argument in the history of jurisprudence.  Rent the film just to watch that closing argument.  She deliberately makes the case for the D.A.  She continually repeats all the strong points of his case, and underlines the weaknesses of her case.  She concludes by saying to effect, "Hey maybe there are demons -- I don't believe in them -- but the priest did, so you should give him the benefit of the doubt and set him free."  The priest has grounds for appeal based upon his attorney giving up on his defense and surrendering to the D.A., and her lack of preparedness for trial.  He was definitely not represented by a competent attorney.  She should be disbarred.

Crash, Boom, Splash! Likely, your Child will enjoy toy cars in the bathtub more than they will this film and toys can always be played with, right? Why make the $20 investment in a movie about cars when you can buy $1 toy cars that will suffice as fun for many years to come? Just a valid thought from an avid movie-goer. I found the film pretty-yet full of dull moments. The C-word was used at least three times. I DO NOT RECOMMEND TO ANYONE!

Review Horrible this DVD doesn't even work. I sent an email to do an exchange and was never contacted back. This was a horrible experience and yes I got ripped off. Paid money for a movie that doesn't even work

Missing Pieces I didn't realize until I had thrown out all the packaging that I was not given the last DVD disc.  Instead I was give two of one of the other DVD discs.  Very disappointing.

All Of That For Nothing Take one sociopath stalker ex boyfriend, the token nerdy kid, the Australian bad ass girl that tosses out the random sexual innuendos during the last epic battle, the girl-next-door-once-cheerleader, and scary aliens you get this movie.  It was like watching a boring episode of Dawson's Creek with all the lovey-dovey, night attack by psycho-ex boyfriend, and "small town" feeling.  The best part of this movie was the dog at the END when he showed back up!  We had a lot of "Why didn't you do that in the first place?" moments with this movie. It's as if the main male lead (do any of the girls count since they were in the movie so little and did so little to move the plot?) forgets he has powers and just hides for a bit.  The book has to be a completely stellar work compared to this shoddy movie.

Buyer Beware!! This is the version with paper glasses !! I just picked up my 3D Blu-Ray Player and new Samsung 3D Plasma TV and was very anxious to score some cool 3D movies to watch, which are still very rare and pricey. My fault I didn't pay close enough attention to the descriptipn and the reviews.This is a great little movie, which I already owned, it is not the new blu ray 3D version that requires special hardware, it can be watched on any tv, and the 3D is hokey at best. Just be careful when looking and know that any new 3D movie is in Blu-Ray and will say it requires 3D TV, 3D Blu-Ray Player with active shutter glasses.

Sherlock Holmes I recommend this set of DVD's.  The quality is very good.  I wish that more had been made, but I am glad that I made this purchase.  I did have another set of DVD's however I think that I wore them out. My recommendation is to buy this set for your SH collection, you won't be disappointed.

In Darkness Probably a good movie but the entire movie was filmed in darkness. Someone forgot to turn on the lights!! The film had about 3 minutes of acceptable light. I watched it in double fast forward.

The bad list Wasn't good. I'm glad I previewed it before buying the church license. It would have been better if about 30 mins of it were cut out.

Dvd skips!!!!!!!!!!! I opened this and handled it for my granddaughter and she was soooooo excited but it SKIPS!!!!!!!!!!!! I can`t return it because I don`t have a printer and it would cost me 6 bucks for a UPS pickup!!!!!!!

Yawn Anyone can make a movie or write a book about all the conspiracy theories, but it is their words, their twisted truth.  I would never believe that President Bush or our government would kill so many people in the USA to start a war for oil, etc.  Puhlease!!!!  I have heard more cr@ p about steel beams made from a weak compound, etc.  If I believed everything everyone wrote about their "findings", I would literally go mad.  Excuse me....just how do you know how a plane would/should explode when it hits two World Trade Center buildings.  It didn't blow out the right way, it didn't catch fire the right way....shove your theories...unless you caused those planes to kill all those people and that's how you can explain it so well.

This movie was NOT good. People loved this movie because the first two batman's were good -- the actors in it are great, it looks great... But come on. This movie was BAD -- it had way too many VERY stupid things in it.  What about the fact that Bane's plan took five months, and so he threw batman into a jail with no doors, a rope to help you climb out, and he put him in a cell WITH A DOCTOR and a pull-up bar. and that gordan sent EVERY SINGLE COP in Gotham into the sewers AT ONCE? ALL of them. Sewers with no manhole covers, for the cops to get out of? and the world's greatest detective's plan, after following catwoman to find Bane was to... punch him? THAT was his plan? TWICE. and it took the world's greatest detective a year to realize that Bane's weakness was right in the middle of his face. And I loved wayne's big energy generator -- where'd he get the idea? From Doctor Octupus in spiderman II? He must have, since he knew a river would drown it. Is that really a safe backup plan? Putting a nuclear reactor into the city's water supply? and oy, all the Occupy Wallstreet crap everybody's spouting. You can actually tell what month this movie was written. And seriously -- Bane crashes into wallstreet, and hacks the computer in front of EVERYBODY at the exact time that Wayne goes bust -- but they let all of those transactions that day stand? Even from that TIME that day? huh? really? And who's great idea was it to give bane, a guy you can barely understand, thirty speeches in the movie? Some of them through football stadium speakers? And the citizens of gotham turned on each other in ONE DAY after they're cut off. Not just the criminals --  EVERYONE riots, except a couple of rooms full of refugees? (The Rich people, I assume?) You see doormen throwing out their tenants on DAY ONE of bane's siege: "kill this guy, he has an apartment!!! KILL THE RICH!" In one day. After we've been hearing them talk about how calm everyone is in gotham for forty minutes of the movie.  This movie should have been an hour shorter, a lot smarter, and Bane was a terrible, boring villain. Honestly, Burgess Meredith as the penguin was exactly as capable a foe. He would always leave batman tied up, and say - "The bomb will kill you in 24 hours, batman -- now me and all the guards are going to LEAVE! Wawk wawk wawk!!" That's exactly what Bane did. "The bomb will go off in FIVE MONTHS batman!! Now, we're going to leave you here, with the doctor and a ton of rope and supplies!" At least you could understand what burgess meredith was saying.  Batman III was so stupid, it made me hate batman II. Seriously. All I see in batman II now are the stupid silly plot holes in every scene.

Horrible This movie is terrible. Very hard to sit through. I don't understand how some of these old movies are still spoken about. Let's let these old terrible movies go to the dump with the rest of the VHS Tapes!

Gooby gone wild... Gooby was ghetto...enough said. A Definite must skip film. I know what somebody's getting as their white elephant this year!

sound is terrible Had 8 people to watch this much looked forward to documentary and the sound was and is unacceptable.  Did not enjoy the film because of the sound.  suggest you do not get this.  Also, the disc was not wrapped when it arrived.  pskall

Bad Tape My wife and I watched the VHS of "Paint Your Wagon." The tape was well worn and the second one kept "chattering" through most of it. Overall, the quality was very poor. Apparently no one took the time to glance at it before it was sold.

Don't waste your money outside the US Beware this is a region locked bluray which is unable to be played outside the US. I own a multi region blu ray player and this is the only bluray I have ever ordered on either Amazon or Amazon UK thjat was labelled Region A or Region B that would not play. Google if you need to - you'll find this described as a $10 coaster!. It gets one point rather than zero because the extra disc is a DVD that will play - a tragedy for Grateful Dead fans

this book reeks I ended up deleting this book from my kindle before I finished it I just couldn't stand the endless loops of circumstance, and very sporatic action. This book is an absolute waste of money.  Do yourself a kindness and pass on this golden oppertunity

Fort Apache in Blu-Ray I am very disappointed in the blu-ray edition of this movie.  This disk was made in Mexico.  It does not have the original picture ration.  It is only 1:49  I owned this movie on DVD before I purchased it in blu-ray.  The DVD has retained the original movie display.  I will probably try to find someone who doesn't mind but I won't watch it.

Well, the KIDS are all right, but the adults.... Well, yes, the kids are all right - but with little thanks to the so-called adults around them.  I am a huge proponent of same-sex marriage, but that is not what this rather dreary film is about.  It is about three adults who cannot stick to commitments, who are deeply self-indulgent, and who, if they exercised some self-restraint, would be far better parents.  They all show signs of it at times; there is clearly some love and some wisdom buried in these three characters, but it is thrown aside over and over.  I could barely finish the film, and at the end thought, "Yes, the kids are all right, but they might have been a good deal more all right if the adults in their lvies acted like adults.

Too depressing to call entertainment I can't believe this movie has such a high rating.  If you want to see decent people's lives totally destroyed by making poor decisions, class distinction and religious prejudice, this is the movie for you.  The ending is not bad, it is HORRIBLE.  The most enjoyable part of the movie is Kate Winslet in her birthday suit.  If you are foolish enough to get this movie, stop watching after that scene.  If you don't you will wish that you had.

Negative Stars If Possible Poor taste, poor script, poor budget. The only good thing I can say about the film is that Rutger Hauer can be in the worst movie I have ever seen and still put in a good performance. This movie was painful to watch. The characters are just characters that are around merely to be killed off. The script and direction is gratuitously over the top, but instead of the movie being campy funny it is campy cringe. This rates up there with Salo and Cannibal Holocaust, but at least those movies had a plot. It WAS the worst movie I have ever seen.

Minus 5 stars. I would give this a minus 1,000,000 stars if I could.  The very fact that this is a movie about insane seriel killers is bad enough, but then for them to get away with it is tops.  At least show them in a final battle, getting blown away like Bonnie and Clyde.  But no.  Stone had to go one more and in the last shot, I am assuming a few years in the future unless these two are also child nappers,  shows these two sickos driving a van with their kids in the back.  Not only do these two get away with all of their sick crimes,  but they breed and are now going to teach their kids this sick behaviour.  I dont mind horror films.  Or explotation films,  I love the Exterminator from the  early 80's, but at least that has  a hero in the film.  These two are just insane.  Heck, even John Waters had the good mind to kill off Dawn Davenport at the end of Female Trouble.

Don't waste your money..... There is a reason why this is an unauthorized account of Janet Jackson's life:  it's so horrible that Janet would probably think her life actually sucked!  The production of the video looks like it was copied/pasted on someone's home computer into a power-point presentation.  The dry, uninspiring narrative reminds me of when I was in high school and had to watch a documentary on the chemical reaction caused by ammonia interacting with bleach.  In fact, this was probably produced by the same company that creates those incredibly boring movies we had to watch in high school.  I don't know what I'm more angry with:  the lack of quality that this movie contains, or that I spent a whole $2.99 renting this.  BE WARNED!!!!  Save your money!!!  There is so much more you can do with $2.99!!!!!!

Save your money Truly disappointed! The tale is lame, and somebody forgot to pay the light bill. The film is all dark (literally and figuratively) making some scenes hard to see.  It would be of real interst to somebody needing an excuse to watch pornography,sodomy and fellatio.

Don't buy with Ultraviolet Contrary to most beliefs, ULTRAVIOLET does not constitute having a digital copy.  Ultraviolet is merely a copy in an online cloud and only accessible when ULTRAVIOLET deems it prudent to allow access.  This is not to be confused with a digitial copy that you can actually have on your portable device or more precisely, your APPLE device.  The use of ULTRAVIOLRT does not benefit APPLE Corp, but rather, it hurts APPLE users.  Consumers will only be able to change this process with their purchasing power.  Refuse to purchase any item claiming to have ULTRAVIOLET DIGITAL COPY and you will soon see it disappear.

IS BIG-BUDGET HOLLYWOOD SCI-FI DEAD? Headline: "Sci-Fi Buff Endures 6 Months of Hype for Bitter Disappointment." The truth is, the special effects, acting, and "look" in Prometheus are all fine. However (and sadly), the story is shallow, disjointed, and weak. The writing is mediocre-to-bad, the casting (with 2 notable exceptions) is terrible, and the direction is well below par. Had they all been as good as the special effects, acting, and "look," this film would have been a solid 4.5 movie that I would want to own. As it is, it is (or should be) a bow-wow embarrassment to the people who put up the money and to those who acted in it.  This comes on the heals of a string of bloated, over-hyped (relative to the actual quality of the film) Sci-Fi disappointments from Hollywood. I'm thinking specifically of "John Carter" and (dare I say it in public) "Avatar." This suggests that there is something seriously amiss in Hollywood's connection with the genre. Perhaps there is just too much money chasing too few scripts (not to mention, GOOD scripts).  My suggestion: Skip "Prometheus," and rent/purchase/watch: "Blade Runner," "Splice," the first "Terminator," "Never Let Me Go,"The Abyss," "Dark City," "Contact," "The Hunger," "Aeonflux," "Dark City," "Pitch Black," "Bicentennial Man," the first "Starship Troopers," any of the "Alien/Aliens" flicks, and/or the first "Preditor." None of these are perfect, all are flawed... and all are superior movies to Hollywood's latest, vapid offerings.

This movie sets a poor example. I don't mind too much if a movie is poorly-written, because writing requires talent, not just education.  But this movie sets a bad and unsafe example for everyone who watches it, and especially the kids who are its target audience.  No open vehicle is safe to operate without a helmet, and the archaic and ineffective lap belts in this movie only add to the incompetent image of whomever owns the go-cart track.  Lack of knowledge about your subject guarantees that a script will be bad. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1558212280">Practical Outdoor Survival: A Modern Approach</a>

Star Wars Fan--- Left cold with these movies I have these movies on DVD.  No desire to buy the bluray.... unless the entire set was 5 dollars.  Bad acting and boring movies.  No desire to waste my time watching again.  I admit there are some good scenes and enjoyable parts of the movies... and Revenge of The Sith is the best one of them all.  Still not enough for me to buy this set.  As for the original trilogy.... how about releasing the real original movies.  I won't be buying that set either.  I have the DVD special editions with the original films on the bonus disc.  For now that is what I will be watching.

Crap this movie honestly was one of the worst things I have seen in a long time. Terrible. Don't let reviews saying things like "simple" or "Stremlined" fool you..this is Junior High fiml school at it's worst. Terrible acting...really seriously unbelievably bad lines (not in an ironic sense either) ..lack of story....lack of suspense...uninteresting characters....and an ending that will leave you asking why you hung out that long.  Terrible.

Not as good as '83 or '07 A noticeable step back from the both the 1983 BBC and the best version of all, 2007 Masterpiece Theatre, for these reasons: First, it was a very noticeable read-a-line-of-script acting while holding the appropriate pose and meanwhile the person being spoken to waits like a statue for you to finish then they recite their line as if they are reading the script as if it's being held in front of them. Then on the director's cue there is a cut while he adds a comment before we proceed to the next exchange of lines, and so on. Very "Teleprompterish". Second, the acting itself was just bland, wooden. Third, there is something too artificial about period movies that use museum quality clothing, props, building and grounds. No dust, no dirt, no worn out anything - it's just not real. Even the grounds looked so trimmed it was like a stadium's artificial turf. Plus, outside of a couple of brief appearances by indoor servants, you see no one outside doing anything. Fourth, there wasn't a cadence or emotional tone to the movie. It seemed like a placid level lake - just existing at the same pace.

This sucks another stupid movie done with a camcorder. WHY? ANd the stupid aliean, tiny little rock crabs, you see only two times for about 30 seconds each... I am so glad I only had to pay 3.99 on pay per view to see this stupid movie. just as bad as district 9, and that had potential to be good, if the whole thing wasnt done with a camcorder. I wish they had negative stars, then it would be a -5 for sure. hey you have been warned.......

Worse Than A Waste of Time! This movie fails on many levels. The main character prides herself on being a "role model" for girls. The "role" she portrays is that of a vapid platitude spouting mall lover who shops for thousands of dollars worth of clothes with no mention of responsibility for payment. She states without any dissent that what girls do "best" is to go shopping!This is Disney manipulating girls to want to buy more Barbie dolls. Sick. What our girls need to see is how to: complete their education, learn skills for meaningful work, develop virtues and help humanity.

Waste of time. Lugubrious. Just plain bad. Charlize is an amazing actress. This storyline, however, is horrible. It lightly touches on the mental imbalance of a has-been writer with a severe case of narcissism. There isn't enough sustenance in this movie to write a serious review on. It could have easily been culled down into a 5-minute video for a youtube contest. I don't know why Charlize agreed to be part of this DC film.

damaged The video arrived in time & the case was in tact, but when we went to watch the movie, towards the middle it got stuck & kept skipping.  We took the disk out & cleaned it numerous times, but it was so damaged that we were not able to watch the movie the whole way through & missed a lot of parts.

DVD severely scratched The DVD was severely scratched when it arrived.  Got thru half the movie before it stopped working.  It was clear from looking at the cd that it was severely scratched (they should not be reselling the DVD).

We like Music, .....not commentaries about music When the very "creative" dvd producers learn that when we buy a dvd concert it's supposed to be a concert, not an interview. And this last only 1 hour, half of the real concert.

Mediocre Effects Capsize a Laughably Simple Plot As you might expect, a blockbuster disaster movie usually lives or dies by the quality of its special effects. "Poseidon," perhaps embracing this sensibility, storms right out of the gates with its money shot, a flyby tour of the doomed ship's exterior from all angles that might be half as impressive as it sounds. The CG looks like a student reel, amateurish and fake with goofy footage of soon-to-be hero Josh Lucas jogging the upper decks awkwardly crammed in. It's a downhill slide from there as a thin plot yields to the power of impressive post-production effects to bail it out, and the cavalry never manages to arrive. A surprisingly star-studded cast struggles with one dimensional characters, banal "here's what I'm looking at" dialog and plot twists so by-the-book I was able to accurately predict each on-screen death. It's a bland, generic, cash-in of a remake that isn't even afforded the buoy of good eye candy. Don't bother.

Horrible movie! Just when we thought this movie could not get any stranger... It always managed to. If I could have given it no stars I would have.

WTF???? Yes - WTF? That's all I could think of after watching the first 6 songs on this video and then stopping it before it would induce nightmares in my otherwise even-keeled 3 year old. I think the producers put up an ad at the local Piggly Wiggly asking for volunteers to participate in this creepy, hallucinogenic trip disguised as a children's video. You'll be cocking your head to the side in confusion right from the start as the crazy teenager in cosplay who looks like she should be working at Hot Topic can't decide if she should write on her little chalkboard in caps or not - A-B-C-d? Huh? Then the random Halloween face paint begins...and never ends. It's totally CREEPY! Some kid was staring right at me with this flourescent green paint all over his face. I thought someone had slipped something in my iced tea. And how is it that children completely covered in fake cobwebs climbing up and down a 6 ft. ladder is considered a decent enactment of "Eensey Weensey Spider" without invoking the idea that someone should call child protective services? If you want a good laugh or demo for how ANYONE can produce a video, buy this one.

Misleading Anyone who reviews this movie as some girl version of The Hangover, is trying to fool you into watching a terrible movie with them. Perhaps if your idea of a good time is something akin to Sleepless in Seattle or Leap Year, then yes this is an excellent film. The only redeeming factor is Melissa McCarthy, however her role isn't big enough to make this a funny movie. They build up so much to this party in Vegas, and **Spoiler** they don't even get there. Just goes back into a sob story about the main character, who you're supposed to feel bad for the whole time. I would put it on par with Grown Ups in terms of funny...more a character "drama" than a comedy

Sony BD Player? Out of luck! After receiving this and trying to play it in my Sony BD player, BDP-BX1, it would not get past the opening splash screen. Tried it on the other BD player, same model, same thing.  Come to find out, this is a 50hz disc instead of the normal 60 and does not work on Sony BD players. Email back from 2E/BBC, their suggestion was to buy a new BD player.  Gee, thanks!

A red hot dud... Disaster movies can be dumb.  In fact, a lot of them are, and it really takes the collective forces of cast, director and effects to make them forgivably dumb.  Some films understand that and actually stake a claim as superior stupidity.  Look at the 1998 monster blockbuster `Armageddon'.  It is actually really stupid, conceptually, and yet the stellar cast (Willis at his best), the sharply paced action and the special effects extraordinaire make for a really pleasing take on the disaster epic.  `Volcano' lacks all of the above and so the only thing we are left with is the `stupid'.  It seems like 1997 was the year of the volcanic disaster film, much like 1998 was the year of the asteroid disaster film.  In both cases there are two camps.  In the case of '97, it's the `Dante's Peak' camp versus the `Volcano' camp.  Both films have their fair share of the stupid, yet while `Dante's Peak' tends to want to stick its toes in that `water', `Volcano' seems to want to dive right in.  Adding up all the ways in which this film is dumb would be a tiresome episode, and I really don't feel like typing out a manuscript, but from the apparent stupidity of all characters involved to the way in which the heat of the lava can destroy objects yet not people (the ground is 600 degrees, but you can walk on it?) is preposterous and merely makes the audience chuckle and or cringe.  Then you have the acting, which is uninspired to say the least.  I'm not saying that `Dante's Peak' excels in this, but at least Brosnan is a more welcoming presence in his film.  Tommy Lee Jones knows that this is beneath him and so he basically sleep walks through this, and Anne Heche was probably too busy trying to remember whether she was straight yet to worry about actually `acting'.  I mean, her overacting tendencies have never been so glaring.  Her career baffles me, and then I remember that all she is remembered for his her confused sexuality and I realize that that is precisely WHY she did what she did.  I mean, it's not like she was going to become a household name on her acting skills alone.  Then you boil this down to the special effects.  They are decent, but `Dante's Peak' is flashier and more explosive (literally) and so it wins that battle hands down.  I'm not saying that either film is good, because they are both rather bad, but `Dante's Peak' at least tries to offer more.  Sort of.

Region error! Unfortunately, I can't properly review MadMen #2; I can't view the Dvds I received. because I live in Australia (a Region4 DVD zone)& the product I received is a USA/ Canada Region 1 item, which won't play on my DVD - I've returned it for a refund

cinavia polluted audio This title has cinavia in the audio track.  Cinavia plants spurious audio signals within the audio track so some cinaviaprogrammed blu-ray players and devices can detect if you are watching your purchased movie via an unauthorized player (using a copy, watching it form a server system, etc). Educate Sony to concentrate on worthy quality video products instead of wasting our purchase money on their copy prevention paranoia.  Do not buy this title!  Rent it or skip it.

Green Lantern Butchered I'll keep this short and sweet:  -They've butchered the Green Lantern story -This is NOT how the Sinestro Corps happened -Sinestro has a floating yellow power battery that zaps things? -Story is horrid -Character design is horrid -This is a disgrace to the Green Lantern franchise. How could DC let this happen? -Only people who've never read anything GL could like this and I'm sorry for you.

VERY VERY SLANTED. Buy Something else! I've watched the Founding Fathers DVD and now this, The Founding Brothers DVD as part of the Founding of America Mega set. I'll watch the rest, but the primary opinion that I can give you is that I was thoroughly disgusted!  I agree with other reviews that I see here in saying that this is EXTREMELY biased towards the Federalists and against the Republicans, who by the way are not clarified as being the Democratic Republicans, not the modern day Republicans although limited government principles are common to both and the modern party was created in 1854 to go back to the principles written in the Declaration of Independence and live by "All men are created equal", which IS Jefferson. It is technically a different organization. I believe that if you 1. know a fair amount of founding era history 2. are a Libertarian, Republican or Constitution party member ( I mention these because the common, limited government principles that each hold are clearly what is being attacked through a side door here. ) and/or 3. are a legitimate historian of any political persuasion, you will be stunned at the audacity of this slanted presentation disguised as a historical education product!   They also don't even mention the fact that the Federalists took the use of the name from their political opposition (people like Patrick Henry and George Mason) to defeat them, but Jefferson is hammered and hammered for every use of politics. I can tell you this. Because I already know much of this history, I can clearly see how slanted these History Channel presentations are. Luckily, I only spent about 19 bucks for the box set, but that's the LAST money the History Channel will get from me. I will never again view them as a credible source of history. Some of the occasionally inserted "experts" did have some credible input, but not all and most of both founding productions show like structured Hit pieces on Jefferson, glorification of the Federalists and almost obscene glorification of Hamilton. This programming puts great effort into painting Jefferson as a political, slave holding hack who unjustifiably accused Hamilton and the Federalists of being advocates of un-necessarily large government with too much power while amazingly skimming over Washington's slaves and totally ignoring Hamilton's five hour speech at the Constitutional Convention that called for a strong national (not federal) government like England's MONARCHY at the time! Jefferson is ripped apart through 4 DVDs (the founding Fathers discs AND the Founding Brothers discs) and all federalists questionable actions are explained with sympathy or not mentioned at all! There isn't even a mention of the slave "trade" ending while Jefferson was President (only to be expanded by others later, which is why people who believed that all men are created equal started the Republican party to unite against slavery) People, there are FAR better sources of history than History Channel presentations, no matter how nicely these are packaged. I view these as corrupt educational material.  The American Classic series books are a much better place to start if this is new to you. (The Real Thomas Jefferson (American Classic Series)The Real George Washington (American Classic Series)The Real Benjamin Franklin(American Classic Series). The John Adams HBO series is credible too, (including the "facts are stubborn things" feature on the discs) and the "Politically incorrect guide to" books have great info too. Also check out "A Patriot's History of the United States" by Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen. They are all available here on amazon. The bottom line is that you need to read as much of the founders actual words as possible to get the greater picture.

the lorax i guess would be nice if i could get movie to work on my tablet right now a waste of money on the movie

Bad The dvd will not play on any of our devices. We tried on our Wii, our XBox, Playstation 2, and our actual dvd player and it will not load on any of them.

Extremely Boring & Incredibly Stupid The kid actor really sucks, at acting. Like I said it is Extremely Boring & Incredibly Stupid. I know this is about 9/11/01, but the kid was annoying.

Midsomer Murders: The Early Cases Collection Midsomer Murders are wonderful.  Acorn and Amazon are not!  Do not be fooled by this packaging. You may already have these videos under other covers.  Make sure you check before you buy and do not make the same expensive mistake I made.

Don't Bother This is one of the worst things I've ever wasted my time and money on. I'm sorry I sacrificed an hour of my life on this rubbish. Someone needs to make a lesbian movie that actually does us some justice.

Boring movies...... Some of the other reviews of this disc say the quality is crap, they are right. But i dont mind that, its these movies themselves that suck! Its evident that they got them from worn out VHS copies.But i hate when they try to make a old movie look more mordern by cleaning up the picture.Its like old cars compared to new cars, i would take a classic muscle car like a duster over any new plastic computer crap of today!!

Good TV-movie - LOUSY DVD (junk quality bootleg) Once again, Televista, a video/DVD pirating operation, gives us another homemade DVD-R with cruddy quality, color Xerox sleeve art - the usual "high" standards that all of their garbage products exhibit.  Don't be a sucker. Don't buy their junk. And, Amazon, quit letting them sell their illegitimate crap here!

dont bother I like the idea of this movie. The leading actor who is also the director, editor and writer leave much to be desired, like talent for example. This movie is the definition of ignorable, fall flat horror films.

If you want to see Jar Jar in high def... you'll love this set Honestly, who wants to see the prequel trilogy in high definition? I can't imagine anyone except the most hardcore and most blindly dedicated of George Lucas fans to plunk down their money for the entire series on blu-ray, let alone the Prequel trilogy! That's right, because honestly if you're buying the prequels, you're a fan of George Lucas, not Star Wars.  Oh yes I have no doubt the visuals may be staggeringly beautiful, but what about the story? Do you care about the story at all? or for that matter the characters and their roles in these empty, vacuous spectacles? I still see no cultural or artistic values in these films. I almost guarantee if you went into the prequels cold, with no prior exposure to Star Wars whatsoever, you'd hate the prequels, and wonder what the big deal about the Star Wars phenomenon was!  Seriously, the prequels are little more then eye candy that tries to be emotionally moving at all the wrong moments and instead ends up being stupid, silly and very poorly written. The music from John Williams even ends up sounding a lot less than the epic score that we got in all three original trilogy films.  The prequel trilogy is a waste in any number of ways. It's not worth buying for yourself or your children. They are the very antithesis of entertainment and the absolute destruction of one of the most important legacies in the entire history of film-making. Save your money, and avoid.

forgetable It was not at all memorable. There is a very good reason I never heard of this serial or the cast.  Neither the series or cast won any awards.  "Surprise, surprise, surprise."  none of these Saturday afternoon serials were particulary good. Captain Marvel was ok.  Batman stunk too.  Superman was good.

So Disappointing!!!! I am very surprised to see so many good reviews about this movie.  I was looking forward to watching this movie which such a great cast.  I could not have been more dissapointed!  The story line was awful and it just seemed to keep going nowhere.  I actually bought this movie and promptly dumped it in the trash.  It was so bad that I don't even want to pass it along!

Poor Quality DVD I tried to watch the video last night, and while the HDDVD looked clean, it wouldn't play without green screen, gliches, and the sort.  I ended up putting in another HDVDV in because FEARLESS couldn't be watched.  Not good.  I want a new HDDVD please.

3:10 to Yuma - The Short Version Russell Crowe is captured and the gang (including the old man that just got shot) are escorting him to the train station, once Russell Crowe kills one of the men the others hogtie him and leave him on the horse. If he somehow manages to escape and kill the old guy, they BREAK HIS LEGS/ARMS, problem solved. If he's getting into Idiot Bale's head than they gag him so he can't talk. Also for the decoy carriage DON'T let the decoy know where they're taking Russell Crowe, so under dire circumstances he wouldn't reveal anything. Movie over, hope you enjoyed those 40 minutes, it may have been shorter, but at least it wasn't written by idiots.  Also who the f*** hires an Aussie and a Brit to play American cowboys?

Ripped off This DVD will not work. We were ripped off. Do not buy Anything from this vendor. We were surprised that this happened.

2 hours bouncing through a timeline only to have a tragic ending 2 hours of my life I won't get back, the film follows the tragic friendship-but-never-quite-relationship of Emma and Dex bouncing from the 1980's up to present day in 1-5 year steps.  The film just drags on and on with few light spots, only to end in tragedy.  What a waste of time!  Don't watch if you're hoping for a pick-me-up!

DISKS DO NOT WORK I have so many problems with this box set (skipping, disk one missing whole scenes).  Everything that everyone else is saying is true. I can only watch the series on my mom's cheap $20 DVD player in the spare bedroom -- my own expensive machines (DVD or Blue-Ray) at home WILL NOT play them.  I bought the set for $150 from one of the Amazon dealers.  People here are saying there are Chinese bootlegs but let me tell you, I complained to HBO about the first disk and they were very nice and replaced it.  Same problems. IT STILL WOULD NOT PLAY!  This is HBO not China.

For Morons only. I love action films and lots of gratuitous violence, but this insult to human intelligence was one of the worst DVD dribbles I've ever wasted my time on. Horrible script, mediocre acting. In fact, I'm hard pressed to find anything positive to say about this load of garbage. It is not worth the DVD it's recorded on.

atrocious production, a parody of the true work I had high hopes for this performance, given the same directorial team's production of Wagner's Ring cycle. My viewing experience got off to a bad start in being unable to access the subtitles. But this was the least of my worries. This magnificent, though sprawling opera is positively mangled in the Valencia production. There are so many horrors to be encountered on this DVD that a major essay would be required to detail their totality.  The first act has Cassandra being wheeled on in a wheelchair. It is not long before she miraculously proceeds to easily walk around the stage only to reposition herself in the wheelchair on occasions during the act. In the third act Didon is fitted out with a afro wig that makes her look like Minnie Mouse. The action seems to be taking place within a computer and there are suggestions of  Trojan viruses and so forth. The costuming is continually weird and incongruent; echoes of Star Wars,baseball uniforms and what have you. Lance Ryan appears to be wearing the same dreadlocks wig he utilised in the Ring cycle. Given the vast expense this production would have incurred, they must have needed to cut some corners!  The jewel of the opera, the ballet and love scene in act four is virtually a total failure, going down as the proverbial limp lettuce. The only redemption is encountered in some artful dancing where one encounters a rare episode of simplicity. The love duet has the two singers suspended and hardly making eye contact. Perhaps Lance Ryan is not really turned on by a Minnie Mouse lookalike! I could go on but I trust you are getting the message. If this issue has any merit, it would be for the laughs it might generate in viewing the absurdities of the production. To my eyes, this staging is a parody of Berlioz's masterwork.  Given the distractions of this production, the musical values are somewhat overwhelmed. As it is, the saving grace of this enterprise would be the orchestral playing under the estimable direction of Valery Gergiev. The singing is generally satisfactory but there are a number of singers with wide vibratos. To my ears there are no standout performances like those encountered in the Gardiner set.Lance Ryan's French diction is poor and I found his voice unattractive and strained on  occasions.  It was a relief to review the magisterial version from the Chatalet Theatre conducted by John Elliot Gardiner. In this production the sets, costumes and direction are simple, uncluttered and tasteful. The singing is far superior and consistently satisfying. Here one can experience the true majesty of Berlioz's great opera. I would avoid the Valecia issue unless you are after a good laugh at a ridiculous example of Eurotrash. As we would say in Australia, and I mean no disrespect to the noble canine species, this production is a real dog.

Boogie Nights(Region2) I have seen this movie before and I enjoyed it, that's why I ordered it, to add to my collection. I could not view this when I got it. It says INVALID REGION CODE and would not play, I don't know what that means I've never had the problem before viewing a movie. I just wasted my money on this since I can't watch it.

Complete Fan Disappointment! I'm actually in shock that anyone gave this movie a thumbs up.  It is a complete disapointment to the recent remake.  From start to finish each scene (especially the finale) is a constant good set up that just leaves you expecting more.  Time after time it is just a complete let down.  This movie will surely go down as the movie that could have been.  You would have more fun buying a piranha puppet and going to a local pool to scare small children.  If you really must see this movie I seriously suggest waiting till it hits cable or maybe get it through netflix or other prepaid service, cause In my opinion you'll be sorry if you spend your money on it.

5 Star Series in a 1 Star Package Gilmore Girls is in my top 5 favorite shows of all time and Seasons 4 & 5 are my absolute favorites. I was super excited to finally be completing my seasons when these went on sale in December for less than $8.00 each! Sadly I came to discover that this particular "sale" item was not in fact a high-quality dvd season sold at a discounted price but rather just a cheap version of what I wanted. It was very disappointing and a first for me as customer of Amazon for several years.  The quality of the packaging was unbelievable poor. The cover art was completely off, like someone took a really bad picture, copied it and then used that! It was grainy and the colors were muted and faded. Add to that the fact the box was crushed (I don't know if this happened in shipping or at the manufacture) and the inside was in pieces. The hinges that hold the discs were broken into little pieces, when I took the season out of the shipping box, I could hear everything rattle. I thought maybe something had come off the hinge and I could just snap it back but it was completely destroyed. The booklets and pictures on the discs had the same low-quality photos as the case. The only thing that looked of quality was the booklet inside. I was even more disappointed to find out that I could not exchange this item because they had sold out of this particular manufacture's Season 4. I will now have to replace it with the regular priced Season 4. Which, I guess I won't mind if that means that I will get an item that meets the standards I am used to from Amazon products.

An incredible embarrasment This is pure drivel, catering NOT to Christians, but only to the absolute LUNATIC FRINGE.  Ridiculous, on every level, from it's misguided theology and half-baked eschatology to it's high school level script, ponderous acting, amateurish direction, lighting, audio and cinematography. The only good thing about this movie is it's length. Short enough for concerned Christians to critique in classes about heresy and also short enough for atheists, agnostics and non-believers to get a good laugh.  REAL Christans won't find this movie enlightening. It has absolutely NO theological value and is an embarrassment. This movie very rightly causes derision by agnostics, atheists and non-believers because it is so incredibly bogus. This is the "Reefer Madness" of the End of Times

A downer in so many ways A big disappointing 'cheat' from incredulous start to the "say what" ending. To sum it up, a demoralizing blood bath and an exercise in utter futility.  What was the writer thinking?  I know, let's use the first script as a blueprint.  Lets take 6 people down below.  Yeah, great, 6 was the magic number in the first movie, 6 will work again I tell you.  Let's have them deal with another cave-in, let's split them up, let's have the blue men track and eat them...  What?  It's been done before?  Oh wait, yeah, that would be me.  Trust me, they'll never notice. What a cynical way to make a movie, cobble together a few cliches, attach a big price, and move onto The Decent part 3 when the next search party goes down.  Can't use the mine again so let's use a well! I will say the introduction of an idiot sheriff was a novel addition.  As if kidnapping a patient from a hospital is perfectly legal.  And when he handcuffed her to himself just before a dangerous crossing...  Watching this movie helped me make the decision to get rid of both. So little room, so many better horror movies to buy and keep.

Warner Bros lies again on the package... One star for the format. Be advised that the 2010 release, despite being labeled Wide Screen, is nothing of the kind. It's 1.33:1 ("formatted to fit your tv") and appears to have been cropped on either side. This is the second time I've been screwed by WB DVDs. I recently bought The American President in a snap case that claimed to be "enhanced for widescreen tv's" thinking that at last I'd get a picture I could live with unitl the Blu-ray issue (and no, that is not scheduled). But it was the same non-anamorphic disc that I bought years ago in one of those awful keep cases. So: Caveat emptor. Go with the 1999 edition of Badlands, if you can find it, and you'll get both formats Then you can cheerfully ignore the stupidity of a P&S image in this day of Home Theater. Shame on WB for mislabeling, and shame on Amazon for not differentiating.

amazon is bad i bought this wanting to download it because my internet it to slow to stream and it didnt work some content copyright bs i contacted them and they never fixed it its been like a month dont buy their crap i switched to itunes cheaper too

Second time I was sent a "Blue-Ray" copy that I can't watch I saw this film on the airplane on way to Canada.  I thought it would be great to share with friends in my village home in France.  It is a great look at the diversity of Canada.  I ordered it when I was in Canada in March.  Unfortunately it arrived in Blue-Ray version.  I didn't know I ordered it that way.  I don't have that system.  I returned the video. When I got back to France I ordered it once again and once again it came in "Blue-Ray" version.  Totally useless.  It sits on the shelf beside me because I got frustrated and didn't return it.  So....how to get what you want and not what the system thinks you should have.  I do not want to buy a new DVD player.

Diamond edition?It's more like Cubic Zirconia! For the umpteenth time VCI has re-released A Christmas Carol in a,now called,Diamond Edition.They have even enlisted the talent of movie critic Leonard Maltin to introduce the film to give them more street cred and added some extras like silent versions of the film and a new 5.1 Dolby surround sound along with the original mono,and on and on.The print that many others have raved about DOES look excellent,to a point.I actually kind of re-discovered the film all over again,that is how good the picture looked.I even saw for the first time the legendary man in the mirror.If you aren't aware of the story,a stage hand is visible in mirror Sims looks into Christmas morning. Here's the nitty-gritty. Let's start by saying that the menu is not user friendly at all.There is no option to skip Maltin's intro,you have to push forward for that.If you go into the options menu there is a list for the commentary,the different sound options,etc.If you hit one,for example the commentary,there is no way to stop it but to come back there and hit something else like a sound option! The film is shown in a boxed form.There are two black bars running horizontally top and bottom(like widescreen),then there are two vertical bars on either side of the picture,so the film is seen in its original a/r,not an entire full screen format(i.e. fitted to your TV screen).This is alright per se',but I will now list the defects that occur and leave the speculation as to what causes them(either poor film elements,the digital process or a manufacturers defect)to YOU.Throughout the film there are periodic white flashes along the side black bars,at one point on the far right side of the frame a distortion bar appears running vertically from top to bottom of the film,there are constant slight jumps in the film,the scene where Marley's ghost throws open Ebeneezers' door to enter,the door blurs as it opens and Ebeneezer blurs as he quickly steps-back,and finally comes the scene where two women and an undertaker are trying to sell off dead Scrooge's belongings.At one point as the second woman speaks her dialogue it cuts out completely,as her mouth continues to move,then cuts back in as her dialogue quickly catches back up to her mouth.A strange glitch.What is even stranger is that I thought I would watch the movie with the commentary on at that point,and from what I heard there is NO cut out of dialogue at that exact moment,during the commentary.Now,go figure that one out! I can only ask VCI one thing,where is the quality control here? Does anyone there actually watch the finished product or is it just rush it out and cash in?And speaking of VCI,this is the second product of theirs in the last month I have reviewed and the other didn't fair well either because of VCI's cheap packaging which compromised the integrity of the discs inside.If you have seen Maltin's intro you will have noticed(coincidence?)two figurines to his left.They were Laurel and Hardy and the set of their films VCI released so terribly,is what I refer to. So my final thoughts are these.VCI,after repeated releases,have finally released a half way decent print of this film but,as you have read,it is terribly fraught with glitches and defects throughout.My advice is to hold out and hope either 1)VCI gets their quality control act together and releases a much more professional and consumer friendly DVD product or 2)someone else comes along and beats them to the punch.Either way give this one a big pass.

A documentary filled with bad science and "cherry picking" information I'm a biology teacher, so I teach my students what is good science and what is bad science.  This documentary has a lot of bad science, reminiscent of whenever I watch videos that support "intelligent design" over evolution.  Here are a several things that bothered me about this documentary:  *The use of "vegan" or "vegetarian" is barely ever used.  Instead they use "plant-based diet" which seems sneaky to me.  *Casein protein is dairy protein, so the rat study in the film doesn't apply to all animal proteins.  *The makers of the film failed to include that the rats on the high protein diet actually lasted longer than the rats on the low protein diet, whose lifespan was cut in half.  Look up "Denisse Minger Forks Over Knives" for an in-depth review on this documentary.  *You simply can't compare Americans and their health/diseases to the Chinese, Norwegians, Kenyans, and Filipinos.  Think of the different lifestyles, environment, and the food available to them.  It would be wrong to single out animal protein as the main reason why American's are inflicted with a higher rate of heart disease since there are so many other variables to consider.  *Why not show a study comparing two groups of Americans, both eating a healthy diet with vegetables, but one of the groups has the addition of animal protein?  Instead they compare "unhealthy American" to "vegetarian American" and then place the blame on meat rather than on their other choices in diet (like fried foods, energy drinks, coffee, chocolate, gravy, etc).  *Correlation doesn't prove causation.  The doctors in the documentary make a lot of observations, but those are only observations, like the one they make in which the well-fed Filipinos on an animal-based diet had cancer.  I can make the same observation that being rich means you get cancer.  But that's only an observation.  What is done after one makes an observation is come up with a hypothesis, perform a controlled study, and then analyze the results.  That's the one thing that's missing in this documentary which are controlled studies.  The only controlled study that I saw was the rats on the casein protein, but even then, the makers of this film seemed to only cherry pick the information from that study to support their point.  *They mention how bad eating meat is for the environment since land for cattle is attained through deforestation, but they leave out how crops use land as well; so in essence, you do not eliminate deforestation whether you're vegetarian or not.  Overall, this documentary is very one-sided.  It felt like, the filmmakers were thinking "What can I show in this film to make someone go vegetarian?  Let's throw in a couple doctors, some graphs, sciencey terms, report the results of some studies while leaving out the results of others."  I felt like I was being tricked and I feel sorry for the person who doesn't have a discerning eye and will easily be fooled.

Mongol is better... Stick to the Mongol if you want a better movie.  Story didn't make sense and too dramatic for my taste.

One of the worst movies of the year... This film was just an embarrassment.  The characters were total cliche.  The dialog was wooden.  The suspense and action were pedestrian.  And to add insult to injury, the sets and effects were completely fake and cheesy-looking!  The exterior shots were beautiful, but when it came to showing the cave interiors, they were clearly sets, and very poor ones at that!  James Cameron should be ashamed to have his name associated with this awful movie.  No matter how much you are tempted, I'm telling you, don't waste two hours of your life watching this utterly mediocre bore.

An Awful Film about St. Therese I was not crazy about the American movie about St. Therese because I felt it portrayed the characters as too one-dimensional, and everything felt too airy fairy.  However, after seeing this film, the American one now seems like a pure gem.  This movie portrays St. Therese as a demented, neurotic, little creep. It portrays the monastic life as something that is dreary and rather depressing.  It seems to me that the movie was based far more on the director's opinion of Catholic monasticism than on the actual life of St. Therese itself. For anybody interested in the actual life of St. Therese I recommend reading her autobiography, and avoiding this film at all costs!

No Fun, No Fright: A Delightfully Lunatic Plot In A Film That Plays It Too Safe And Too Serious Let's start with a compliment, sort of. The low-budget endeavor "Hidden" has got to have one of the most patently ridiculous premises that I've ever seen. It is so wacky, it is almost irresistible. If you give it any serious thought (and I won't spoil it), it makes your head start to explode. How convoluted is it? The screenplay relies on the most insane method of trying to make sense of it for the audience. At two points in the movie, a computer turns itself on to have a filmed segment explain exactly what we need to know. Huh? Pretty convenient, if not incredibly sloppy and lazy. And it still doesn't make sense! The movie is filled with junk science, venomous insects, mad experiments, and dangerous addictions. It is simultaneously about all of these things and none of these things. If the movie had embraced its lunacy, it might have made for a fun guilty pleasure (still incomprehensible, but fun). As is, though, the movie plays it straight and we're left with a drab and expected narrative.  Sean Clement plays the son of a revolutionary, but controversial, addiction treatment doctor. When his mother dies, he is left an old monastery (of course) where she used to do her work. Naturally, he and seven other people venture off to this remote estate to check it out. Even though it has modern renovations, it isn't accessible by road? Even though the building is immense and unoccupied, all the research was done in tunnels underneath the main building? What a waste of space! None of the characters gets much development, it's not really necessary. As anticipated, they start to get separated in increasingly preposterous ways (I particularly enjoyed the couple who ran off right away to have dank basement sex). You guessed it, there is an unseen danger lurking and our crew starts being eliminated one by one. This is essentially just a variation on an abandoned insane asylum or haunted house thriller that you've seen hundreds of times.  The environment itself is creepy and a few visual effects are nice, but it's hard to muster much enthusiasm for anything else. Who will survive? More to the point, will you care? As we get to the dramatic conclusion, this really shifts into mad scientist territory like from a B-grade fifties film. But even this is so anticlimactic and silly! Listen, I love bad movie mayhem. But "Hidden" begs us to take it seriously as a horror offering when it so clearly should have played up the campy insanity inherent in its own fantastically ridiculous plot! As is, though, it wastes the only thing that might have distinguished it from all of the other films exactly like it. Not good, but more detrimental--not fun either. KGHarris, 3/12.

Cut some scenes out, rather disapointing. One of my favorite scenes was where Dudley Moor was hemmed in by three semi trucks, this scene was not in the version I received. They should state if the movie is complete or edited.

You get what you pay for: keep or get standard DVD of these titles for now Imagine my surprise seeing these two films bundled together on Blu-ray at an unbelievable price! I would have to agree with the other reviewers of the Blu-ray versions that both films seem to have a soft focus and lack in sharpness. I was hoping that Blu-ray would be the ultimate viewing experience but it isn't - yet (I'm hoping for a new issue that fixes this problem in the future). For now, you are better off just seeing the standard definition DVDs of these 2 films upconverted to 1080p.

This movie Stunk. Not worth 1 penny Terrible movie, low budget, stupid, not worth 1 penny. Actually waisted an hr of my life I cannot get back.

Lady Chatterley's Lover Really did not like the movie. It was in black and white and I was really disappointed. Wish I wouldn't have rented it. Do not recommend.

B.A.D. Movie This, my friends, was a bad, bad, movie. Not a bad-ass movie, as it could/should have been, but a B.A.D. movie. Stink, stank, stunk. Probably the worst Marvel-derived movie of all time.  There were hokey special effects, music that kept building to a crescendo but there was no associated payoff in the action, horrible acting (Nicolas Cage looked VERY out of place with his pasty face and his thinning, Grecian Formula stained hair; if they can reboot Spider-Man with a new male lead they could have certainly done the same with Ghost Rider), and a terrible script that made no sense whatsoever.  In summary, this was a complete flop.  As Huey Lewis once sang in one of his pop songs: "Sometimes, bad IS bad!".

Disk Would not play this movie is good but this HD -DVD version has a lot of problems playing, I have a samsung playr with updted software and it still skips in chapters 6-10. I will have to get a regualr version

The Beer Hunter THE DEER HUNTER(1978) Written, produced and Directed by Michael Cimino.   Starring Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, Meryl Streep, George Dzunga and Christopher Walken.   A group of friends in a Pennsylvania iron foundry town drink beer, hunt deer and attend a wedding before three go off to fight in Vietnam. Of the three, two make it home. Everybody feels sad.   While buried with Oscars(always a bad sign) and supposedly controversial and called racist---translation the film briefly shows Communists in Vietnam acting like Communists---what the film actually is is a big nothing. Cimino directs very badly almost incompetently allowing scenes where nothing is really going on to unspool endlessly. While after an hour and 15 minutes of dreary hometown life in Pennsylvania with these inarticulate boobs, the Vietnam War should come as a relief.......except Cimino somehow manages to make scenes of warfare and Communist torture deadly dull as well. The cast method acts something fierce and convinced me that there was no script and everyone was just improvising. All the dialogue consists of A) Inarticulate grunts B) variations of F@#$ you and C) Someone repeating the same line of dialogue over and over again AT LEAST three times louder and louder each time before lapsing into A or B sometimes both.   Though considered a Vietnam War film, the over three hour movie spends a little less than 45 minutes actually there and never is the War explained or discussed in anyway. The film is about the Vietnam War like GONE WITH THE WIND was about the Civil War.   Boring, shallow and uninteresting, the film spends so little time with actual deer hunting as opposed to the characters jugging beer that the film should have been called THE BEER HUNTER.   Yawn.

Cannot play this DVD in Australia I'm sure this is a great dvd, but after waiting almost 2 months for it to be delivered to Australia I have discovered it does not play here (due to the region). Very disappointing and frustrating. Do not buy this if you are ordering from Australia, unless you have a multi-region dvd player or computer on which to watch it (which I don't). There was nothing on the description of the dvd on amazon website to explain that it would not play in Australia.

Bleeding heart, "act on emotion", 1 sided From the very beginning, this "documentary" is an agenda ridden attempt to press one man's opinion that the death penalty is bad, not to mention that it just simply drags on and on. Don't waste your time.

cliche galore What a disappointment! Writers block supreme! they resurrected every villain, acquaintance, and relative of Clarks. They made him face and defeat every one he ever fought and then killed them off again. So many flashbacks the viewer often lost sight of what was actually going on.  More alternate dimensions, got sent back to the phantom zone, the Luthers, on again off again weddings, and any other trite cliche you can think of. Barely watchable and certainly not worth the price.

VHS - "The Third Man" VHS - The Third Man was a failure!  Will return it and ask for a refund!  Film slipped alot and was "fuzzy" on the top.  Could not be adjusted even though I have a good player!  Very old copy -- several generations "old!" Recommend getting the DVD version.  Everything seems "out-of-print" though.  Hard to find!  Makes the consumer -- "subject to exploitation!"

HORRID PICTURE QUALITY Love this movie and was very excited to find it on DVD, i am aware that it is made for tv and that you get what you pay for, but the picture qulaity is fully unwatchable. basically the same as the copy floating around the internet for free burned to a disk. Horrible....do not waste your money.

Good story - Bad film making The story is good actually, but the presentation was horrible, segmented, broken up, has no flow at all.. What the heck is the matter with the filmmakers??  On top of that, the translation was horrible - what? made in China translator was doing it from French to English, that was bloody stupid!!! Or was it a "translator" from Microsoft used ha??

Not as stated This was supposed to be of extra good (or whatever quality that is better than average) quality.  I made more for this than other options due to the "quality" it was rated.  The DVD skipped and had several scratches on it.  Unfortunately it was a Christmas gift and I no longer had the information so I could return it and get my money refunded. I will NEVER buy a DVD like this through Amazon again.

False Advertising! Do not purchase from Viking Gear a.k.a. Salicor Inc. The item I received is not at all like the picture. Do not be fooled. It does not match the Target exclusive versions. The only reason I purchased this item is because I thought it would match my collection but it does not. Returned.

medias negative attitude I reviewed this elsewhere and will try to repeat the exact thought process. The media is using this as their anti war, anti Bush propaganda. They showed very little action, but at every opportunity they were negative towards our war efforts. We rolled over the resistance in record time and into Bagdad before Bagdad expected. The news moderator gave the opinion that our military was poorly prepared for any resistance that came up and that we dealt with it poorly. They reported that "shock and Awe" had very little shock and awe and that it was not very impressive or successful...However we know that it took out the targets that were aimed at very efficiently. One "reporter" in particular was very negative towards our effort and our country continuously throughout the DVD. I remember that most media outlets at the time hired their own negative military experts to criticize our efforts and this is just more of that. If a person really believed all the negative stuff in this DVD he would be surprised that we won at all. This is the medias negative attitude story with little real information. But, if you hate Bush and strongly dislike our military to the point of believing media fiction, you might enjoy this propaganda.

What a let down and by all people . . . Hitchcock. This was nothing more than a Hollywood dramatization of WWII's events. Nazi oppression and Jewish victimization has been immortalized in such movies like this and Schindler's List that few facts even remain in some people's minds. Instead people get their history from half fact and half Hollywood fairytale from movies like this. It has led to an obsession of sorts with germans and hitlet and german jews and the holocaust . . . read a book sold on here called the Holocaust Industry. . . this movie is definitely explained in that book. Hitchcock movies take you away from the world's ills and made movie watching a treat. But not here. And of all accomplices . . . Carey Grant. Sad.

Bear is a fake First of all, he has his own camera crew... secondly... the first thing he does when he gets in the wild is search for food... It's sooo fake! And he DOES NOT sleep outside at night. He goes back to the hotel. That is a known fact.  I would not waste my money on any of his stuff!

The correct aspect ratio Hi guys. I'm from Portugal (Europe) and I collected all the USA Editions of the Disney classics through the years first because the covers are really more beautiful than the European versions, second because I hate the PAL speed up (The Lion King on VHS for example it's awful - it looks like it is running in fast forward compared to the audio CD soundtrack) and third because there is always more special features in the Region 1 DVDs than the Region 2 ones.  One thing I didn't quite understood was why has Dinsey released the previous two versions of THE FOX & THE HOUND (Gold Collection and 25th Anniversary Edition) on 1,33:1 and now on Blu-Ray they released the 1,85:1 correct version. Could anyone tell me if the 1,85:1 refers to the 1st movie or the 2nd in the BLU-RAY edition? Thanks.

have not seen it yet!!!!! it has been a month and i have not received it yet. does it always take this long to get a movie? it might be good if it ever arrives.

Ken Park Russian speaking, no english subtitles. Sold by dvd_from_serge. It won't play on a region 1 dvd player. Ok if you understand russian...

Slow, dark and boring I kept having to "rewind" to figure out who was where - it's very dark.  Finally I gave up about half way through

Don't waste your time This movie isn't even good for kids. Its the sequel to a movie that was full of suck. Why risk it?

Dear sweet lord... It probably wasn't fair that I watched this on the heels of the History Channel's version, but I did, thus my review of this movie might be *slightly* biased.  First of all...it is so historically inaccurate that it's not funny. I can't give too much away here without spoiling it for everybody else, so I won't go too much into the plot. However, very little was accurate in this tale, from the murder of Asa Harmon McCoy to the killing of Ellison Hatfield to the Hatfields' attack on the McCoy family to simply who survived the feud and what worked out in the end. Secondly, the acting ranged from bad to lukewarm. Maybe it was because of the dreadful dialogue, I don't know. But the kid who played Johnse's little brother was memorably terrible, as were the men playing the McCoy brothers. Kassandra Clementi didn't fare any better as Roseanna (but, again, that might be a bias, as I really loved Lindsay Pulsipher as Roseanna in the HC version). Sean Flynn (Errol Flynn's grandson, in case you didn't know) wasn't terrible, but...  "Sigh"  I guess it's entertaining enough if you can overlook the inaccuracies, the bad dialogue, and acting and just take it for what it is - a straight-to-video movie that should easily be accessible in the sales bins at your local Wal-Mart or Target. It sure beat studying for the Praxis tonight. But if you want a good and fairly accurate story of the Hatfield-McCoy Feud and one that actually has great acting (Tom Berenger, I'm looking at you!), please see the History Channel version. Plus that version's Bad Frank Phillips was bad-a**; he bled coolness in the way that this one didn't.

I'm tempted to write Gabriel Macht a letter... ...that goes something like this:  "Dear Gabriel Macht,  You need to have a talk with your agent. He keeps getting you these s*** parts and you're way better than that. You're talented and you have reassuring puppy dog eyes. I love you. Stop making s****y movies."  Whiteout started out godawful and never got any better. After a while, it numbed me with a constant barrage of bad: bad acting, bad writing, bad direction. The word stultifying comes to mind. And, in a film of this "quality", making me wait 35 minutes for Gabriel Macht to appear is just unforgivable. I knew it would be awful, but the promise of Gabriel Macht gets me to watch some awful movies (I'm looking at you, The Spirit). Well, at least what I saw in the trailers and read in the reviews wasn't misleading. It was every bit as terrible as it looked. Bad movie lovers, rejoice; your search is over.

"regifting"; "used"; "scratches on DVDs" -$3.00 Special Return? If people are going to return DVD purchases to get the $3.00 credit*, then Amazon has an absolute moral responsibility to indicate on the web page that the product is used/returned.  *I think this is incredibly stupid.  You should give it to your public library or other do good entity in your community.  I bought the Criterion edition of "Seven Samurai" (kind of expensive for me) but there is no way in hell am I going to return it for a $3.00 coupon!<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000G8NXYG">Seven Samurai: The Criterion Collection (Three-Disc Edition)</a>.  There is a segment where one of the true samurai knocks off 3 or 4 bandits lickity split and the young wannabe samurai goes to him and in Japanese with english sub-titles, blurts out "you were magnificant!".  So, we don't have to ponder how American producers came up with the name, "The Magnificant Seven" for their Mexican based movie.  Amazon people:  When are you going to put a spell checker in the review section?

Dead Man is deadly disappointing What movie did the reviewers watch? It certainly wasn't the farce that played on my TV. I'm an admirer of most of Johnny Depp's films but this stinker will be consigned to my "Never to be watched again" pile. How did an accountant from Cleavland who never fired a gun before become such a crack shot with no practice or training? When did he reload his six-shooter and where did he get the bullets? I counted at least 8 or 9 shots without any new ammo. The story was so full of holes and unbelievable events that I thought it was a comedy, maybe it was and that is why it stunk so bad as a drama.....

Boring, Terrible and not FUNNY I read the reviews, even had friends recommend this movie because it was SO FUNNY.  I begged my husband to buy it, I just knew it was going to be good.  Needless to say it didn't turn out as planned.  Kept hoping it would get better, it never did, suffered through the entire movie.

Bad buy Too bad this DVD is in francais and doesn't even play on America /north American equiptment!!!! I would return it but it's too much of an inconvenience.  C'est Dommage

Dangerous fiction. This movie is tripe.  The author has no sense of decency.  It is so full of lies and misrepresentations only those who love to hate will enjoy watching it.  Lunacy has found a home.  Where is the shame?  Where is the dignity?  This movie is a sick joke!

BORING WITH SENSELESS VIOLENCE Do cinemagoers really want to see  a film with  the violence so over the top and ongoing  that it detracts from any  worth that the film may have had.  Don't believe the hype on the  dvd cover sleeve which  says that the film is loaded with nudity. There is very little and no frontal- everyone keeps their privates hidden. The story is  also over the top and  unbelievable. How could so many students  just disappear from College without anyone wondering  where they are. The film is overlong at 2 hours and  also boring.When you  can't write a  decent story just pad it out  with  excessive violence  as is the case here.truly a worthless  film.Doesn't the director know that less is more. The less you show the  more the audience  get to  see  as was the case with Hitchcock.

fustrated I was unable to watch this movie due to buffering.  Amamzon said it was my internet problem and left it as that,  So I never watched the movie, no credit, no one cares anymore

What happened? When my son was little, we started watching Veggie Tales soon after they came out.  We liked the stories; they were tasteful and funny, and didn't push the religious angle excessively.  "It's a Meaningful Life" was the first I had seen since the late 90s.  The first thing I noticed was the Bible verses right at the beginning.  So the makers have abandoned any interest they might have had in appealing to non-Christians.  That's OK, I guess; they have a market niche, and don't see the point in risking anything.  But it was disappointing.  Another change was the animation.  I remember watching a commentary where the makers revealed that they had chosen vegetables for the characters because they were easier to animate.  At the time, computer animation was in its infancy, and Veggie Tales was cutting-edge.  Now, the technology is so cheap that you can produce cartoons like this on a home computer.  It's no trouble at all to add an "arm" codec, where the characters now manipulate objects with invisible limbs, where before, this was kept to a bare minimum.  What's disturbing is that now everyone is wearing clothes, so they don't look like vegetables anymore - they look like Thalidomide victims.  Maybe the change over the years was so gradual as to be unnoticeable to those who watched every movie, but suddenly seeing everyone like that was disconcerting.  What's wrong with keeping the characters as plain, simple vegetables?  Why did they have to spruce it up?  The main problem, however, is that the cartoon was unwatchable.  I was expecting an amusing parody of "It's a Wonderful Life," a great classic that nevertheless begs to be parodied.  But the story was so changed as to be unrecognizable, and was so simplistic and cliched that I had to turn it off after the first 5 minutes.  So Veggie Tales, once imaginative and engaging, has descended into formulaic tripe.  Maybe this was inevitable; most mainstream cartoon series end up regurgitating the same jokes over and over until someone puts them out of their misery.  But it's still disappointing every time it happens.

Very disappointed The product was listed in "very good " condition. But when it arrived the case was the only thing in very good condition. The DVD was scratched terribly on both sides so it skipped constantly on both movies. And to beat it all there was a small chip on the edge of each side of the disc. This was not a " very good DVD! It was a extremely poor DVD. I am very disappointed because I had bought things from this seller before and things were as they said they would be. So it goes to show not everyone is good to their word.

Alternates between Predictable and Stupid It really does alternate between predictable plot twists and stupid plot twists for the sake of having yet another "exciting" plot twist.  Could Hollywood please hire some half way decent writers and stop this bull&*&* writing by committee?

This is it : terrible I bought this 2 disc version because I liked the HBO broadcast so much. Much to my disappointment, when we played the disc, it sounded horrible. It was very muffled and the sound was not crisp at all. It almost sounded like a 3rd or 4th generation recording. I thought maybe that my sound system was the problem, so I played the Lady GaGa DVD that I purchased on the same order and it sounded great. The only thing I can say is, I only paid $5.00 for this 2 disc pack. I should have known that you get what you pay for.

Bad re-imaging There are several parts of the film when it just goes to a still photo and voice or backround music is heard.  If I knew so much of the original film was missing I probably would not have bought it.  I was disappointed in my purchase. DPrice

Shoddy product I was dismayed when I opened the box of this movie, discovering it was a "flippy" DVD. For those uninitiated, a "flippy" is a 2-sided DVD with both the Widescreen and Standard versions of the film (or maybe the documentary and extras in the back side.  Regretably, this usually is a sign that you'll have to buy another copy in 5 to 10 years; a "flippy" DVD is just an aluminum layer and the necesary data layers trapped inside two thin plastic platters. Your life expectancy of such a contraption depends on the quality of the glue used to hold the thing together. If the glue is poorly applied or becomes porous with age, air will seep in and start oxidizing the aluminum layer... effectively destroying its reflective capabilities, thereby killing your DVD copy.  As expected (I bought my copy in Sept. 2008), the disk's shiny surface has started to darken in a circular pattern around the outer edges, which are surefire first signals of DVD-rot. This blemish will slowly extend all over the disk, and my copy of the "Wedding Singer" will be dead by the end of the year.  If you want to buy a copy of this movie, make sure you're getting a standard DVD, instead of a "flippy"... it will save you the aggravation of having to buy a new copy as years go by...

Hey Hey Hey The premise: a young woman discovers that Mrs. Robinson and Elaine from the book and movie The Graduate were based on her grandmother and her mother. She goes on a quest to find this man who she thinks is her father, and when he says he's not she promptly sleeps with him because he's so charming. So what do we learn from this, that grandmother, mother and daughter can have a hot fling with the same guy? Who writes this garbage? This is just asinine and incredibly sick. This makes no sense.

Very Unhappy THE DVD SKIPPED!  First time I played it fresh out of the box, it skipped through the best parts of the movie and completely ruined the experience, not to mention this was a gift for one of my family members.  I am so unhappy with the quality and even more disappointed that I gave this as a gift.  TOTAL LET DOWN!

A Few Good Men There was no notation on the listing of the movie prior to me purchasing the video that it would not work on this side of the country. When i put the video into the player, all i received was a error code stating that the DVD was not formatted for this area. Unfortunately, the movie is useless to us and to send it back is too much of a hassel to deal with. In all of the years that we have purchased any movies through Amazon, this has been the only time that we have experience this problem. For future purchases, it would be a wise idea to somehow list the areas of the U.S. in which the video works and areas it does not.

BEWARE! MALE TORTURE MOVIE IN DISGUISE The cover of this is very misleading. The blonde is NOT in the movie and the scene on the cover never happens. This is yet ANOTHER of these male S&M torture flicks masquerading as a movie with mostly women victims in order to rip off the traditional horror crowd who, let's face it, likes to see 'women in peril'. Some say it's because of misogyny but it's probably because men and women BOTH care more about what happens to women in horror movies than men. This movie is very 'politically correct' to a nauseating degree. The emphasis is on humiliating, torturing and murdering men, while scenes involving women in danger are very brief. These rip-offs have been popping up quite a bit lately as these politically correct moviemakers use sneaky tactics like this to try to sell their movie to a mostly male audience (who are usually looking for horror movies with women in danger), while avoiding the situation of actually depicting in the movie itself the politically incorrect imagery in their advertisements. If you like the lurid DVD cover here you will most likely hate the actual movie.

Incredibly awful for so many reasons... I was introduced to this musical via the really wonderful CD <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000ID42">Annie Get Your Gun (1999 Broadway Revival Cast)</a>. The songs on the CD are great and very well performed.  So I wanted to see the musical, and the only available video is this one. From Annie's first number on, I was cringing the whole way through and only stuck it out because I hoped it would get better, and I wanted to see how the music I enjoyed on the CD was used for the scenes in the film. It was painful to watch. Here's what's wrong with this film:  1) It completely tramples on the real Annie Oakley. Annie Oakley was an amazing person, besides just being an amazing sharpshooter. She was very intelligent and well respected by her husband and everyone else that ever knew her or knew OF her. This movie lampoons her completely until she's unrecognizable. She is portrayed as a complete buffoon. Watching her in this movie was like watching the hillbilly version of blackface. And if it were any cartoonier it would be a Looney Tune.  2) It is racist. The Indians are portrayed as dim-witted, clownish children. And the whites around them treat them as if they were zoo animals. Even knowing that this was a 50s film, I was mortified.  3) It is sexist. In real life, Annie and Frank Butler joined Buffalo Bill's show after marrying. Frank Butler was fully aware of and greatly appreciated her talents. There was no vicious rivalry between them, as there is in this musical. In the musical, Frank courts Annie but treats her like a servant and wants her to be his `assistant,' and he gets very upset whenever she one-ups him. Finally, Annie loses a shooting match with him on purpose so that he will be happy with her and marry her. And here the musical ends, supposedly with them living happily ever after, he still an egotistical jerk, she still a submissive adoring female. What?? One of the greatest personages in American history has been reduced to this??  4) Those songs I love on the CD are done horribly in this film. I couldn't stand Frank's voice and had to turn the volume down whenever he was singing. (His squinty eyes and buckteeth didn't help either.) There are no subtle nuances of tone or pitch in Annie's songs either; every song by any character is just shrill. And some of my favorites on the CD, like "Moonshine Lullaby" and the slow beginning of "I Got the Sun in the Morning," are not even in this version.  5) Where is the dancing? In a Western musical I'd expect some great dance numbers like in Oklahoma. But there were none. In each song there is just walking (or clowning) around by the soloist, or maybe a group of people singing on horseback. Really, really lame. Could they not afford a choreographer?  As Chief Sitting Bull says throughout the film... UGH!!

Just....no Well... I really wish I did enjoy this movie after spending the money to rent it, but ...no. Bill Oberst Jr's acting isn't horrible, but the rest of the cast is just cringe worthy. So yeah...not worth the money.

Disappointment My mistake  The DVD won't play in our region Perhaps it should be more clearly indicated what areas DVDs can be viewed in Seems pretty strange anyway... such sophisticated technology that won't work in half the world

Wow A Very Sad Almost... Wow, I listened to the NPR interview with Maya Rudolph and Terry Grose and was captivated by the movie's content.  I have two breatuful daughters and a lovely wife.  We have had our beautiful daughters and many tough time that the movie failed to relate to on so many levels. The ending dailog was the worst.  If I had been asked to write the lines I could have saved it but the lines were put to film.  Is there something less than one star.  The one was only for trying.  What I would actually rate this movie was that you invaded being a human with children. Nothing redeeming for those who have childred and love them.

Horrible Show for kids This is not a good movie for kids.  Language, swearing, sexual innuendos, immodest dress.  Really not a PG movie.  Save your money and buy something decent.

Porn, totally disappointing! Was totally discusted by movie.  Will be very cautious about downloading any other other movies that may be pornographic.  Not my type!  Did not watch entire movie.  Could find no merit in producing such porn.

I want my money back! Seriously. In this video Jeff takes to hours of your life away to talk down to you about how to open cans & cut bags. There are less than 10 recipes with names like: Pasta Primavera! ( yes, he uses the exclamation point. No that doesn't make it taste better or more creative.) or Mexican Fiesta. Really? Here, let me save you $24: dump a can of tomatoes, a can of beans, a bag of frozen veggies and some spices in a pot and serve it over brown rice or wheat pasta and you have made ALL of the recipes in this video. Oh, you want variety? Just change the types of veggies, beans and spices and supposedly you have a whole new meal! Genius, right?? Ya, I didn't think so either. Really really disapointed. Total waste of money.

Add to the Garbage Just finished watching 1408 and I have to add this to the "Movies Based on a Stephen King Story that Flopped at the End" pile. The movie stars John Cusack as a paranormal horror author Mike Enslin. He writes books along the lines of "10 Haunted Hotel Rooms" and other haunted places. He doesn't believe in ghosts nor does he believe in God because of the death of his daughter. ("How could God allow my daughter to die" kind of thing)  Enslin receives a postcard warning him not to enter room 1408 of the Dolphin hotel in New York City. The hotel manager, Mr. Olin, played by Samuel L. Jackson gives him a long list of people who have died in that room. One maid was stuck in the bathroom for only a moment and had become blind. When asked about the spirits or ghosts of the room, Mr Olin tells Enslin, "It's just evil."  Scary things happen near the beginning of Enslin's stay, I'll give it that. I was on the edge of my seat once he entered the room. He's given an hour to live. Olin warns him, "No one has survived longer than an hour." The clock beside the bed ticks off the seconds. Unfortunately, as the clock nears 00:00:00, I went from thinking, "What in the world is this?!?" to "Just finish this trash already".  1408 had so much promise. It could have been a terrific horror movie if done properly. It could have been done in a way that scared the living daylights out of you, while giving you ideas to think about. Instead the story became lame and the direction was pathetic. I suppose you can't blame the filmmakers, but I want to.

Under the world undeniabley poor Hold your nose when you watch this one PU No return of main Caricature at least have a replacement nope. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

The Ridges This was the worst documentary we've ever watched. It was so amature and fake, we just rolled our eyes the entire movie. Don't waste your money.

Bootleg cop??! When I tried to play this movie, I could not. The message said I was in the wrong "region". I had to choose "region 2" to play the video, which was not the US. I had to choose region 2 through Belgium. T This looks like a bootleg copy to me. I asked for a new copy like I have purchased in the past. I want my money back!!!

Lunchbox is JUNK! If the collectable lunchbox is a reason you might buy this, think again. The rivets pop out without even touching them and the back side of the box will likely arrive with several dents along the edges. What else would you expect for an American television show product that is made in China, the country where they really take pride in the low quality of their poor worksmanship?

Ending sucked. I was with the piece til the end where batman flies past the falling baby and catches it.  It could have been executed better.  The last couple films have been poor except for "Emerald Knights."

dumb Not the dumbest, but right up there. Lot of tits and ass, but that's not all I need from a movie. A slightly better story would be nice. No, a lot better story. I should have known better, but being a premium member, it was free so to speak.

HORRIBLE MESS DONT BUY THIS BLU-RAY An Ultra Panavision 70 mm Film Should Have Ben A Perfect Source Material For A Stunning High Definition Transfer Instead What Do We Get This Worthless Material Now Get This Line Regarding Print Please Not That Negatives From Most United Artist Films are Long Gone Then Why not State This Fact Before We Purchase This item an Why Transfer it To Blu-ray? I'm Sick of hearing Somewhat of an Improvement over Previous DVD Release That is not What High Definition Transfer Was meant To Be. I For One is Going To Ask For a Refund.

Worse than I had heard.... I had figured that with a cast like this and a story line inspired by the rivalry between skeptics and charlatans(Perhaps loosely inspired by Uri Geller and The Amazing Randi ?) that the movie couldn't be that bad, but I was wrong. It really was that bad. I wish I could get those 2 hours back... and it is sad to see one of my favorite actors, Robert De Niro, reduced to taking shitty movies like this. This could have been a good movie if they had changed the ending to reveal explanations for the "psychic phenomenon" and how cold readers trick people and prey on their weaknesses like Silvia  Brown does...

poor video quality Amazon prime instant video had very grainy images. Very poor video quality. I have always enjoyed the movie itself, but I just can't watch it through the instant video option because of the poor streaming quality.

Really Bad Version (and season) of Dr. Who These episodes don't compare well at all with the last series starring David Tennant.  This Doctor has a TOTAL dependence on that darn sonic screwdriver...he would be toast without it and that's not cool! The stories are just plain bad and I have started going to my local library to check out older series versions, and watch them on Saturday night instead of this season. I think the Sontarans would wipe out this cast quick, HA!  I really hope they change both the characters and writing soon.

no stereo audio on iMac Initially, the Menu page of the DVD plays the musical soundtrack in Stereo, but as soon as you start the movie the sound only comes out of the left channel. I checked other Stereo DVD'S on the iMac and the stereo works fine on the other DVD's. It is very upsetting as the musical score is wonderful. And I love the film and only wish they would release the modern story as it was later released as "The Mother and the Law."  So, I can only say do not purchase this DVD if you plan to play it on an Apple iMac.

No Captions, Subtitles or SDH :( I actually checked this out from the library not ordered on amazon.  I was very much looking forward to this however there are no captions of any kind on this movie series that I can find.  No closed captions, no SDH, no English subtitles.  I really wish it was required for this to be on dvd's.  so be warned there are no captions of any sort on this if you are hard of hearing or deaf and thinking of purchasing this.

Dumb Positives: None Negatives: (1.) First indicator of a cheap film: No subtitles which made it difficult for listeners whether hearing impaired or because of the actors poor enunciation or because of the varieties of English dialects across the world with different phonological rules. For example,  varieties of UK English; Canadian French-English; Aussies; US regional and ethnic; African English, SE Asian English and Indian English. Producers need to acknowledge the uniqueness of each speaking group. (2.) Second indicator of cheap: Settings limited to a few cheap locations that required little effort to incorporate into the movie. Poorly conceived props. (3.) Third indicator: A confused storyline with no identity. It couldn't decide if it was primarily a comedy or a contemporary tragedy. (4.) Fourth: Acting was nonexistent -  just extemporaneous conversational "what-should-I-say-now". (5.) Finally: If the meaningful point of the movie is that another form of discrimination exists then having people running around in chicken costumes and blowing themselves up was a dumb vehicle for conveying that message.

Sucks Knocking to the Heavens Door is completely missing from the video stream. If it is not on DVD too, I am going to ask for money back.

no music I bought this for my 4 year old beiber obsessed daughter. we were very unhappy. we thought there would be some of his songs or even a video not a monotone  documentation i am actually considering calling amazon to see if we can handle this issue as a refund or credit not worth a penny

Film lover's revenge! Dear God!  Did this movie suck ass!  Even Sean Connery's entire coolness couldn't save it!  Unlike Highlander 2, his scenes were some of the worst!  If you can get thru the "Teddy Bear" scene, you are a better man than I!

Incorrect Audio formats Beware of the blu-ray version! The movie disc has only 2.0 audio. The EXTRA's disc is in 7.1 surround!?! Returned it and got another... same thing!!! I'm guessing someone was asleep at the manufacturer's copying machine... someone's should be fired for this screw up!!!

Completely abusive, had to turn it off After watching the trailer, I thought the movie might be good.  The story line was 'okay' but definitely predictable.  I ended up turning it off because I couldn't watch another second of the poor child in the film screaming in distress and terrified.  If she were a dog, PETA would have been all over it and someone would be in jail.  I could go on for hours about how unethical the filming of this movie was.

Will Not Play on 4 Diff. Players .. Four different machines can not read this movie ... Panasonic B.Ray .. Samsung B.Ray .. Philips STD.DVD ... Magnavox Std.DVD  ... New or old, none can read it ????  This is an 'Anchor Bay' version.  Others may be OK ???

Yup, it's that bad. Where is the zero stars option? Is it possible to "unwatch" a movie? I actually felt embarrassed for the people who made this movie. Even my wife, who never reads politics into movies and just enjoys them, thought it was a heavy-handed propaganda piece. I really can't think of any redeeming quality from this film to put on the plus side, other than the penguins being cute. But you can see that in "March of the Penguins" while enjoying the natural world and avoiding all the proselytizing. This is the only DVD we've thrown away rather than donate it to the local library; we didn't want to inflict it upon anyone else.

worse purchase People be aware of this product this video does not work on any type of DVD player in the USA. They do describeb as a REGION 2 DVD But, if you do not know what this mean you will be stock with a DVD that you can never watch. In addition because it comes from out of USA the shipping is high and you end up paying more than if you would have bought it here in the USA at any retail store.. I strongly recomend you not to buy from this company. they wont even accept returns. So there it is you have been warned

Awful!!!!!!!!! This movie is very highly boring, its filled with boring characters, bad writing, filler and a plot that goes nowhere. Avoid this film at all costs. 0/10

WOW....Read Before Buying...What are people seeing in this movie?  I did Not? Watched this movie this weekend......I love movies with a collection 800+ films strong.  I cannot see what people see and rave about in this film.  It is like the worse Grindhouse martial arts film I have ever seen.....the dubbing is sometime extremely cliched and out of sync (reminds me of the American Pie scene after the first party "Their tiger style kung foo is strong, but our dragon style will defeat them, the shaolin masters from east and west must unite... fight... and find out who is number one".... with worse then Saturday B film dialogue.  The action yes is non stop but over and over and over with no real storyline or plot.  And be aware Ultraviolent and bloody here....which I can take (see Hellraiser and Kill Bill series)...but the violence didn't really fit except to string on scene to another to another to another and was there most times to make the movie be sensationalist and bloodier.  C'mon this, as some have said, is the best action film ever made?  The best martial arts film.....wow these people must have a very very limited collection!  Save your money folks!  I wasted $25 of mine...well at least I can get $5 back from a Best Buy trade in.

Janie Jones A precocious young girl played by an up-and-coming starlet is left by her deadbeat mom to spend time with her absentee celebrity father, forcing a familial bond to develop that will lead the father, deeply in need of redemption, to a better place. If the plot of Janie Jones sounds familiar, it's because its skeleton pretty closely matches that of Sofia Coppola's film Somewhere. The difference? Somewhere is worth watching, while Janie Jones is not. So what kept the latter from reaching the heights of the former? I say Janie Jones, which stars Abigail Breslin as the daughter and Alessandro Nivola as the father, is entirely too familiar in its themes and, despite effective performances from its leads, never quite musters the dramatic heft it needs to outshine the others of its ilk.

Virulent and Venomous Propaganda Movie Intended to Lie and Cheat This is a pure, unalloyed and unadulterated propaganda movie shot by the state sanctioned and sponsored communist/neo-imperialist PRC regime with huge financial investment and with cooperation from starry-eyed, hyper-naive, historically ignorant, vainglorious and undeserved bleeding-heart Hollywood star with a sole purpose to cheat and manipulate the world opinion, to brainwash and indoctrinate a false China victim complex and unwarranted sympathy among Chinese and foreigners alike, and to stoke up knee-jerky anti-Japanese animosity. The good rating it has generated at least on this corner is a very sad and unfortunate token which speaks volumes about the intellectual degeneration of the Western society characterized by utter naivety and gullibility. The snickering and giggling of the Chinese regime can be heard in distance.  Again, what an artfully made sheer propaganda movie! A movie concocted and financed by the Chinese Communist/Chauvinist regime to distract international attention from its own heinous record of anti-human genocidal crimes against its own minority ethnicities, political dissidents and religious believers, of its ongoing militaristic expansion and bullying in the Asian-Pacific region and the its neo-imperialism and neo-colonialism in Africa and other areas of the world, and to and deflect legitimate domestic and foreign criticism and condemnations as well as to alienate the US-Japan alliance based on shared values of democracy and freedom --- the largest stumbling block in the eyes of the Chinese militarists to carry out their aggressive wars in future years --- in one of its most masterfully disingenuous and duplicitous deceptive PR maneuverings. Such a movie was aided and assisted by an American actor and applauded by some senselessly dumb and shallow American media and people who in their slobbering hallucination seemed to have mistaken utter ignorance for moral courage.  What a disgusting shame and astounding stupidity! Wait until the day this country and the whole Western civilization are conquered, enslaved and replaced by the vicious and ruthless China dragon hell-bent on world domination with a big club on one hand, and a movie camera on the other. But don't blame me. I TOLD YOU SO!

I should send it back, but its to much if a hasel Did not play extra martial, just showed a picture and had plenty of audio.  I will end up spending the money to buy a good one later on.

Noam Chomsky:  Arrogant, egotistic socialist! Noam Chomsky is one academic for which making a documentary about was a complete waste of time.  Please!  This socialist is the last person I would take seriously and is right down there with Bill Ayers and Michael Moore.  Stop glorifying socialists!  They're idiots!

Too many God placement ads Like all great propaganda the movie starts out by pretending its something its not, a traveling surfing movie. At first it really seems like this with two interesting boys that are given the opportunity to travel the world and surf. But once you are sucked into the movie because of the surfing and traveling aspect then suddenly the propaganda starts and just gets heavier and heavier. Hello? Can I just enjoy the free spirit of these kids, the travel locations and the great surfing without all the Christian propaganda? I guess some church must have heavily funded the movie so they had no choice, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth. This movie is trying to convert people to Christianity instead of just showing the joy of youth and surfing as it should. Maybe it should have been titled Love Your Lord and Surfing instead of Walking On Water.

I am sorry Dear friends: I am sorry I didn't stop this movie after 30 minutes. While any one of us could have done it, it was my house and my responsibility. I had the remote. In my defense, I felt paralyzed, like some sort of reverse stupid-sucking vampire had latched on to me, and was injecting me with stupidity blood. I am also sorry for the previous sentence: it was dumb, like the movie. I will endeavor in the future to recognize that I do not have to continue on a path once I realize that path leads to madness, or at least dumbness.

The DVD seems to be an advertisement for Gerson's institute, books, and DVDs. The DVD seems to be an advertisement for Gerson's institute, books, and DVDs. Throughout the DVD, the narrator talks about many people who were healed by a specific diet, but does not explain in detail exactly what that diet consists of.  It does state what's NOT included in the diet (dairy, meat).  The narrator alludes to a mysterious "drink" that healed many sick people, but nowhere does the narrator provide the contents of this drink, nor how to make it.  The DVD alludes to a healing "soup," but nowhere does it tell the viewer what is in the soup.  Extremely disappointing.

A wonderful world to enter I watch these videos over and over.  Their world is so pleasant to enter and such a pleasure to watch.  The characters seem so real and very likeable.

WEST SIDE STORY - MY FAIR LADY OBITUARY:  On November 15,2011 Blu-Ray consumers bore witness to the still-born deliveries of "My Fair Lady" and "West Side Story".  It was a mournful day.  Clearly, the past promises of Blu-Ray and all that is was meant to be - mainly perfection - has been abandoned and reduced to a text-book marketing ploy for The Emperor's New Clothes and all the off-the-rack deceptions that come with it.  I don't believe for a moment that the corrections needed on the Blu-Ray release of "West Side Story" will ever be rectified by the distributor.  Their so-called variation on a recall of this faulty Blu-Ray transfer will prove to be nothing more than a placating or string-along PR scam; as such corrections, I suspect, could lead to a lengthy and indefinite time period.  Without resolution, a couple more years will pass and, I suspect, we will enevitably discover that our hands will be forced into the realm of triple-dipping to get what we were initially promised on Noverber 15th.  They got your money, folks...and we are stuck.  Don't get me wrong; I am well aware that some of our classic films are in trouble and may never be able to attain the perfection I am addressing; on the other hand, my criticisms of "WEST SIDE STORY" and "MY FAIR LADY" are justified.  BOTH films have received the red-carpet restoration treatment within their 70mm negatives; and the Blu-Ray movement has irreversably proven what was possible with such standard-bearer transfers as "The Sound of Music"; so...all and all, it's much too late for the Blu-Ray movement to begin its retreat.  Such lost experiences include the Blu-Ray OMISSION of the newly discovered Oscar winning 6-Track sound design from the 70mm Roadshow version of "WEST SIDE STORY"; which just further mutes and diminishes the joyous sounds one would hope to hear at a 50th Anniversary party.  The excuses made for the 6-track omission are weak and unacceptable...something to do with costs...but what could be more costly than the mass marketing of a Blu-Ray title that morally needs to be recalled due to its poor supervision and lack-luster transfer?  The same aforementioned morals charge must also by applied ten-fold to the Blu-Ray transfer of "MY FAIR LADY"  I mainly mourn for the restoration team of Harris and Katz; who spent, I believe, up to two years of their efforts in bringing back to pristine life the 70mm negative; which had nearly become extinct.  One would think - with preservation and perfection in mind - that the 1994 Harris/Katz acheivement fused with the possibilites of Blu-Ray would have been a match made in heaven...but CBS/Fox/Paramount did not confer with this source restoration team; leaving each and everyone one of us at the Blu-Ray alter.  The "MY FAIR LADY" supplements contain a fantastic 1994 insight into what Harris and Katz were up against in saving the 70mm negative; ironically, though, we do not get to experience the optimum results of their efforts.  It's not the fault of Harris and Katz...they did their job.  I believe their goal was to preserve "My Fair Lady" for future generations; and, ironially, that next generation of supervisors did not take advantage of the gift that was passed down to them.  This weakened transfer of the restored 70mm print onto Blu-Ray was in the hands of an entirely different team.  What this Blu-Ray team did to this transfer was equal to Higgins charges to Eliza when first hearing her accent; [it was]"the cold bloody murder of the English tounge". Blu-Ray promised to give us the optimum State-Of-The-Art experience in sight and sound...and I would like to experience "My Fair Lady" in all its Loverly breadth and detail.  The Blu-Ray transfer team of "MY FAIR LADY" did little for our Miss Dolittle.  Perhaps, as consumers, we should no longer participate or invest our monies in the Pre-Order Sales programs...as consumers we should simply wait until the Blu-Ray reviews are in.  Perhaps, with a boycotting of Blu-Ray Pre-Order Sales it will ensure that the standards of restoration and transfers onto Blu-Ray remain in check.

Armageddon Has Never Been Less Threatening I can't compare this version of The Omen to the original, having never seen the original, but that's not important. This was a dull, plodding, and nonsensical movie all on its own. The story (an unsuspecting couple accidentally raises the Antichrist) is full of plot holes and inconsistencies, and the film seemed too focused on creating atmosphere rather than creating characters. Atmosphere is important, especially in a horror movie, but it does nothing when the movie is populated with flat, undeveloped people.  The center of the attention, the Antichrist, is a small boy named Damien (geddit) who we know is evil because he glares at things. That's pretty much all he does, except for some occasional screaming. The child has no character to speak of, barely any lines, and is treated as an object rather than a person. He's all but absent for much of the film, and he's talked about rather than to. We don't see him interact with his parents or with the kids he goes to school with, and the viewer is left with the impression that little Damien is severely developmentally disabled rather than the spawn of Satan. Other than that he's the bringer of the apocalypse (or something), there's nothing to him. His parents, played by a passable Liev Schreiber and a horrendous Julia Stiles, often proclaim deep feelings about him, both parental love and fear, but we barely see them interact with Damien at all. This is why when Schreiber waxes sentimental about how he's raised Damien as his son, how he feels paternal love and care for the child, it rings false. Throughout the movie, Schreiber is never home. For her part, Stiles plods stiffly through her lines like a kid in a high school play pretending to be a grown-up, and similarly seems to have no real connection to her son or to much else, least of all the film itself. Mia Farrow appears as a Satanic nanny, and her performance is the best in the film, though her character is so stereotypically evil that it's hard to imagine why she was hired as a nanny in the first place. But again, she only shows up to underscore the fact that something evil is going on. We never see her interactions with Damien, either.  The plot is something about a prophecy of doomsday and a plot by some shadowy Satanists to ensure the rise of the Antichrist. It uses several topical events to illustrate this. There are some ominous dogs, a few spooky settings, and some unintentionally hilarious death scenes. The story makes little sense in many places, and no sense in the rest, and much of the time the actions and plot turns seem too convenient, or simply there as a way to get in some nice camerawork. At the end, all the tension regarding the impending apocalypse is deflated, and we're left with nothing but another empty stare from Damien. Overall, The Omen is a dull, underdeveloped, and unsatisfying film.

Terrible product do not buy The Ultraviolet digital copy does not play on the iPad. Very disappointed in the product it failed to meet my requirement. I hate to say this but should have ordered from iTunes. Old digital copy porcess was easy to use. There is zero help with Flixster and Ultrviolet issues you are stuck with a worthless product.If you wish to use digital copy find another source.

Don't be Fooled! (Blu-Ray) Don't be fooled by the 'professional' reviews on other sites or those here because this release is HORRIBLE!  The packaging is nice and I actually like the digibooks, save for the back slip with all of the info on it that SHOULD be the back cover and not a paper that comes off!  I did not buy this when it first came out because of the price.  I then read reviews and figured that that are just picky.  Many reviews claim that a BD is not the most presentable but they end up looking good enough and HD enough for me.  This one on the other hand...  ALL reviewers were either on the take or they let this one slide because of the moive itself is considered a classic, so they gave this passable scores!  They generally let you know that the picture looks like the '70's' (whatever that means) and that you should not expect much, but they still tell you to get it anyway!  I am here to tell you that this picture quality IS NOT up to ANY HD standard!  It is soft (very soft) and there is grain (can deal with it as long as picture is SHARP), colors are fair, but there is NO DEFINITION, let alon HIGH definition!  Are you used to the usual 'being able to see patterns in clothing and even the stitching' in HD movies?  Well, think VHS (I can be kind and say - SUPER VHS) with the definition on this 'BD!'  Are you used to seeing strands of hair regardless of the BD quality?  Not here!  Hair is but a blur and nothing pops on this disc.  It is sad that with all of the fanfare and packaging - not to mention the price, that this disc is amongst the worst i have ever seen on BD!  The only good thing I can say about it is that it is digitally clean.  Still grainy and no definition, but clean!  I have seen even weaker films look better than this does.  I do not know how Warner OK'd this, unless this is the best that they can do with this?  I hope not!  I won't say avoid it, but I cannot say go get it either.  I can't believe this.  The critics bashed 48 Hours, but even THAT looks better than this!  I guess studios are getting lazy and just letting the conversion (not here) roll without remastering!  I keep waiting for Shaft(s) and Superfly redone with all-new surround sound tracks, but if those reults will be like this - I can wait until they get it right or I may have to stick with the DVD's!  I still cannot believe this!

Not for me Didn't like this movie at all.  I let my 13 year old watch because he begged me and we watched about 20 minutes and stopped watching.

Disappointing If I hadn't read the book first, this movie would have made as much sense as Alice's trip down the rabbit hole.  Characters dart in and out of the action with little context and no explanation of who they are, and the plot is disjointed and confusing.  To make things worse, the audio is horrible and all the actors seem to have perfected the art of mumbling.  I suppose elite "filmies" will consider these factors to be indicative of a cinema masterpiece.  I consider them a waste of time.

Terrible Grit This is the worst remake I have ever seen. It looked like some fifth graders put it together. One star is extremely generous. Story line and casting did not make it for me.I will be selling or trading this.

Who Knew Alfred Hitchcock Could Make Such a Dumb Film? Dumb. Seriously dumb. Even if you make allowances for it being some 70 years old, it's still a dumb movie.  Robert Montgomery and Carole Lombard play David and Ann Smith, who have been married three or four years, and are very much in love. Then a county clerk shows up and explains that due to a hard to believe technicality, they aren't really married. Of course they really are, due to the common law marriage rule. And David is a lawyer, so they both know that is the case. Still they go through this absurd farce of doubting whether they want to get married again. Having more money than sense, they are able to prance around in expensive restaurants with other people (his law partner for her; a cheap floozy supplied by a guy in his club for him), upset parents and other relatives, and behave like a couple of spoiled brats. But then, we knew they were spoiled brats from the opening scene, so I guess the audience deserves what it gets.  It's one of those movies you watch to the end in the vain hope it will redeem itself.

TURRIBLE The action scenes were ok.  Dialogue was terrible; choppy; awkward.  Since I know most of these actors are amazing, it must have been the writing/directing that flopped it.  The word "Yep" was used.  If not for the famous actors, it would have been a "B" movie all around.  Turrible.  Turrible, turrible, turrible.  D'Artagnan not convincing.  To top it all off, the song for the credits was someone singing and playing an acoustic guitar.  One more time:  turrible.

Amazon Sucks I ordered Rocket Man. Nothing in the advertising indicated that the DVD provided would not be compatible with my DVD player. I have two players. I paid for the DVD plus shipping charges.  Ordering DVD's is supposed to be trouble free. i do not consider having to return merchandise that is incompatible with a common DVD player to be trouble free. I qm out money and time. My time is worth something too.  Crap; I might as well go to NetFlix as receive merchandise that i cannot use or enjoy.  Amazon sucks!

not appropriate for family; excessive profanity Several uses of the F word in a short time along with milder (but still unacceptable) profanity  make this movie unsuitable for family viewing. If a rating or a warning was present indicating the presence of foul language I would simply have turned it off.  Since I wasted my money and time on a movie of this nature I feel cheated.  I stopped it after playing only a short time.  It's a shame but this is just another movie with great acting and a real message that's trashed up and it had real potential.

Boring! I like the Osmond brothers without Jimmy. In my opinion he should not be singing lead. His voice is no where as good as Merrill, Wayne, Jay or Donny. The brothers should be singing more than they do.

beware rental/streaming not 3d I only rented/streamed this movie to try out my new 3d Vizio television. The way Amazon has the page set up they lead you to believe that by renting the movie you will stream it in 3d. Not so.  So $1.99 spent that I would not have.  On the other hand, I watched it and enjoyed it.

Don't waste your time if you're looking for a good interpretation! Don't waste your time on this version of "The Tempest", if you're looking for a good interpretation! This one is like a San Francisco "Beach Blanket Babylon" version!  The nudity and silliness is over the top! It should be rated R for sure.  We were looking for something that represented the book, this was not it! I regret not turning it off and tossing it in the trash, but I kept hoping it would get better. NOT! I would be more specific, scene by scene but I would rather not think about those scenes any longer.

wow [in a bad way] well, almost every movie out there, new or old, pop-out or suspense, has scared me. and after i heard about this movie this summer, i really wanted to see it. the imdb reviews said it was scary, so i found it on late night tcm, and gave it a shot. i now wish i had wasted those two hours of my life on picking my nose and stairing aimlessly at the ceiling. thats all.

Fun movie, but not worth buying at this price--my bad! if you are like me and like to go through specials features and "making of" documentary, this is not the BD to buy.  This is the second time I make the same mistake.  The first time I bough Avatar BD when it came out, and it only had the movie nothing else.  It is a waste of BD room space to make such releases without having a single special feature.  Wait for the Special Edition, full feature, BD release!  The movie was fun, but this BD should have been price at $10.00 USD which is the price one pays these day to see just a movie.  I will have to wait for the Special Edition, and give my copy to my young daughter who lives with her mom.  As I said, the movie is fun, but not the price of this BD, and this will be the last time I make this mistake.  I need to be more patient and not fill these mogul movie makers' pocket with our HARD earned MONEY.  What do you think?  Any opinions?

SAVE YOUR MONEY THE ANIMATION WAS POOR COMPARED TO THE BBC DINOSAUR SERIES OR THE PREHISTORIC PARK SERIES.  THE NARRATION WAS BORING AND TURNED MY GRANDCHILDREN OFF. WE WATCHED 2 EPISODES AND PUT IT IN THE BOX TO SELL THE NEXT GARAGE SALE.

Riddler's in the Dark The incompetent writing and (therefore) appalling acting aside --Michael Fassbender's performance is lauded as the exception but an android surrounded by implausible humans would stand out, wouldn't it?-- this prequel --yes, it is most certainly a prequel-- is --to an Alien nerd/ardent cinema-goer like myself-- totally incoherent (much like this sentence with its various anacoluthons).  If you don't wish to be (possibly) spoiled then don't read on. * * * * Given that Prometheus is set before the time when the alien to which we are accustomed actually exists it is indeed puzzling why a certain scene early in the movie --at 39:52-- contains a certain mural which depicts, inexplicably, the alien to which we are accustomed. I watched over and over again to be certain I wasn't hallucinating. Alas, there 'twas in vivid detail, thus rendering Prometheus chronologically incomprehensible.  This along with the film's other faults has disappointed me terribly. What has happened to the Riddler who made the original Alien, and Legend, and Hannibal (I know, but I love it so.)? He has frighted me with false fire. He promised me a gem with Prometheus and instead threw a pot of paste in my face.  And don't bother listening to his audio commentary.  It is a truly disturbing experience.  When the Riddler isn't narrating the film like an audio track for the visually-impaired he's indulging in the most contemptible, the most vulgar self-congratulation.

Couldn't Even Finish It This is one of the most boring, dragged out, non-entertaining movies I have seen in a while and I adore Johnny Depp. If you can watch it for free on Netflix and you have nothing better to do, watch it. Otherwise, don't waste your money.

Insidepulse Movies - Mike Noyes Toy Story was the first computer animated film released in theaters over fifteen years ago and as amazing as that film looked, the technology has improved by leaps and bounds over the years making CGI films look better and better. So why does Alpha and Omega look so amateurish compared to what came over a decade before it?  Read the rest of my review here:  [...]

Kristen Wiig continues her unblemished track record In the movie "Bridesmaids", Kristen Wiig keeps her unblemished track record alive as she continues to show why she's the most unfunny performer on the small and large screen.  I use the word "performer" to describe Kristen Wiig's job skills because the titles "actress" and "comedian" are typically reserved for those who can actually act or for those who are actually funny.  Wiig certainly does not fit into either of those two categories.  "Bridesmaids" has the honor of being listed in my top five worst movies of all time list.  Truly a pathetic movie.

By far, one of the worst film in my life I was stunned how bad this peice of crap is.  I wish I I would get hit by an asteriod so I can wipe this mistake from my mind forever.  It literally has no valid point in the whole file.  To stop this off, one of girls is film defectating and they show everything.  The producer, directors and writers shoul be charged with a crime against humany.

Cars WRECK 2 My 2 year old loved "Cars".  I was so excited when I learned that there would be a sequel.  I decided that this would be his first movie in a theatre.  What a complete disappointment!  Totally inapropriate for little kids.  It was violent with a ridiculous plot impossible for a little tike to follow.  As I watched, I couldn't beleive that this story line was approved by Pixar or Disney.  There are so many other things they could've done with the Cars franchise.  Why couldn't they have kept it simple and sweet like the first one?  As I left the theatre I was upset and felt guilty for making it my little boys first movie.  THUMBS DOWN and a rotten tomato!!!

unwatchable. The video qaulity is horrible. The audio is terrible. Both need remastered. But the kicker? the sound does not match up with the video. A couple seconds off. Take this movie down amazon and try again!

PSP Only Digital Download... Really?!? Only one comment:  You can tell that Columbia Pictures is owned by Sony. Though it says in big, bold type across the front of the cover "BLU-RAY + DVD + DIGITAL COPY", the only digital copy that is available is for the 17 people who will watch on a PSP instead of the 100 million who want to watch on their iPods or other digital device.  Note that you must read the fine print on the back cover before it is pointed out that this is only for PSP. Shame on Columbia Pictures for marketing it this way.  Very misleading and dishonest marketing.  I can't return my copy, so I'm eBaying it to keep Columbia from getting someone else's money.  The only way I can get my money back.

mainstream wishful imagination I bought this lousy flick hoping to see Kim Basinger in full glory--my mistake. Movie dont have actual plot or anything worth mentioning. Two main characters dont have real life problems so they are trying to be occupied after hours. Gee, its right to the point. I've seen this type of nonsense at least 10 times. My benchmark for movies start with "Free ride" and I guess I will continue stick with internet.

Benny01 Wasted a lot of time to only received blank DVD's twice. The company never offered to send a good DVD.

ABSTRACT WITHOUT INTERPRETATION No matter how dreadful a movie is, usually there is something redeeming.....not so here. Really, really bad! Slow, boring, uninteresting, an awful stinker. Made no sense, had no point. Terrible lighting and sound.  Couldn't see or hear what was going on.  Background noise was LOUD.  Some documentary-maker woman goes back to a river basin where she was raised to find out what happened to her dad who vanished while they fished years ago.  Her, camera crew and river man, Jack are weird. Jack and Dave go in the water everyday looking around. The other woman just looks at photographs throughout the movie. The drunk blond guy goes insane after seeing "something" during a diving session. Strange little things happen. Despite this, none of the dummies leave.  The backstory is that in the 1920's, the son of the town's founder fathered an illegimate son with a prostitute. When the wealthy father found out about this discretion, he threatened to write his son out of the will. The son then sets his illegitimate son off in a boat and upon finding out, the boy's mother hangs herself. The movie could have built upon this premise and maybe been ok.  Instead it's a rumpled bumbled messy piece of cinema crap-o-la. I'd give a negative rating if I could.

undesireable I did not like the movie because I don't speak chinesse or spell it. I spent the entire movie trying to read it rather then watch it. If that was not bad enough I had to rewind it to finish reading it because I am not a speed reader and there was not enough time to read and try to keep up with the movie. I felt exhausted at the end of the movie and was not sure what to think of it because I felt like I was missing parts of what was going on in the film because I was reading and not watching. In the end I felt like i wasted my money especially when I spent an extra dollar for the HD. You asked and I'm just being honest with you. I love Kevin Spacey and had yet watched a film of his I did not like till this movie. I would have liked to know have known prior to the purchase that it was going to be a closed captioned movie and I would have passed on it.

SNORE...SNORE...SNORE THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST BORING SNORE FESTS OF A MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN...I BET THE ACTORS KILLED THEMSELVES FROM THE BORDOM...OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!BORING... SNORE FEST

Best watched while asleep. I have liked Jonah Hill's movies, but this thing was nothing but crude, vulgar, and completely without humor. The trailer would have you thinking this would be a really funny movie. It was anything but that.

The Jokes Fall Flat; I Got Very Bored No, this is not "Mame" with all that music. This is a screwball comedy starring Rosalind Russell based on the stage play in which she also starred.  OK, it's funny in spots. And the kid is really cute, and the actor who plays him grown up is also quite handsome. But it's played to such exaggerated slapstick-type laughs that I felt like nobody with a three-digit IQ should watch it.  I'm sorry; I know this is one of Broadway's finest, and so on so forth, but to me, it's just pretentious. Patrick Dennis, age about 10, is orphaned in 1928, and goes to live with his Auntie Mame. She's a wild avaunt-garde hedonist who says things like "Life is a banquet and most of the dumb suckers are starving." I don't get it. She has more money than sense, and is constantly redecorating her posh New York flat. She is also a fake, pretending to be what she's not when it suits her schemes. She supposedly has sympathy and all that, but she's just overwhelming and, in my opinion, overbearing. She's flamboyant and amoral and . . . well, to be blunt, I don't like her much.  Yes, I laughed at some of the gags, and I did enjoy seeing her give the obnoxious proto-Valley Girl that Patrick planned to marry a genuine shaking up. But it was just too over-done, with furniture that went up and down by pulling on cords (or, as happened later, the preppie girl fell against them) like a hydraulic lift in a garage. In fact, that's probably how the set designer did it.

Brave, what you must be to watch this again Pixar proves the dreadful WALLE was no fluke and saddles movie-hungry kids and parents with this sad, heavy handed European fable. In the theatre, I wanted those 2 hours back. I can't imagine watching this at home. Too scary for the little ones,  Brave is another magic-driven plotless morality tale beating you relentlessly over the head, which I have learned to expect from Disney. The heroic Merida deserves better than being cast in this horrible movie that firmly proves that Pixar has lost its way.

Never want to see it again I saw this movie when it came out in the theaters way back. This movie always comes to mind whenever I think of the worst movies ever made. The worst scene is when he welds some 1/4" steel plate around the driver's seat of a bus and drives through a gauntlet of cops shooting at him from roofs. He miraculously makes it through, walks up some stairs and decks a guy. Pretty silly.

It is just advertising Darcy!! not helpfull I bought this CD, hoping to learn something, since I am in the process of re-branding myself through appearance. All I learned is the 6 steps that she briefly mentions about wardrobe cleaning and replenishment. This CD is good to advertise Darcy, but unfortunately you will not learn much from it.

Same problem as everyone else -Ultravoilet Movie is great, love it! It is as good as the first one. Good, fun entertainment. The rest of this is directed at Warner Brothers. Pay attention! Your company exists as long as we the customers are satisfied with your product. We Are Not! You made a mistake with Ultraviolet. Don't compound the issue by going down with the ship.  Cut your ties and go back to the way you used to do digital downloads which worked just fine. I am not going to download 3 different programs onto my computer, sign up for 2 different websites, and then download an App onto my iPhone just to watch a movie that I should be able to just punch in 1 code and have the movie that I paid for downloaded and available on my iPhone, computer and Apple TV.  Fix this and THEN I will buy more of your products.

comically terrible Other than the bright colors there's not much to this film. It's an interesting attempt to make the snow white story fun and new but it fails. julia roberts accent is somewhere between annoying and insulting. apparently the director is known for his music videos, maybe he should stick to that and bollywood films as the number at the end wasn't bad.

the end of the story spoiled the whole movie The story was not bad, until the last 10 minutes, in which the guy was the only one who was condemned and held responsible, while the Moore character who started the affair, went back to her relationship without a problem or any consequences. Who the hell wrote this story? I was baffled AND disgusted by the sheer hatred against the man, that's displayed in it. My stomach got totally upset. I've never seen anything as cold and cruel. I really wish I could flush this story from my memory. Minus 5 stars for this one.

If you are not a firefighter, and no nothing about fire, then you might enjoy. As a former firefighter, who was actually given a free pass to watch the movie in the theater back in it's release, I was excited and hopeful to see a good movie, I was more than disappointed. The story is flimsy, the acting is mediocre, with special attention to that by the awful Baldwin brother. Second is the ridiculous portrayal of firefighters in general, we are neither seeking hero status, or are we so terribly trained that we don't even know how to don our gear correctly while on the engine preparing to engage a fire. This movie does little service to actual firefighters as a whole, and makes the incredibly rare behavior (back draft) seem common. Even if you were the evil firefighter setting these "hits", you would need to spend days creating just the right environment where a back-draft can occur.  If you like bad acting, poor scripts, and over the top action sequences, while using as little brain power as possible, then you will love it. If you have any experience in the fire services, then don't waste your time. The only worse movie regarding firefighters is the one with the very able Joaquin Phoenix playing a firefighter thinking about his family, as he believes he is going to die. That movie was even worse, and when they decided to use a human anchor to attempt of rope rescue, I walked out of the film.  In the end, don't waste your time, or money, terrible movie, from start to finish. The only exception is the fire investigator played by Robert De Niro.

Excellent movie, terrible DVD This is one of my all time favorite movies, that I finally purchased on DVD and expected so much, but got so little.  The DVD quality is terrible, and the special features are screwy.  I am especially disappointed that it does not provide an option to play the movie with subtitles.  I am disgusted I wasted my money, what a shame that Warners Brothers would fail so miserably on such an outstanding movie classic.

Soylent Green This movie was much worse than I remembered. Except for the part with Edward G. Robinson. My husband groaned through the entire movie.

Terrible This is a big disappointment.  I thought I'd catch up on the first part to go see the upcoming Anchorman II.  Wont be doing that!  Not Farrell's best work by a long shot.

NOT AT ALL CLOSE TO THE BOOK! When this came out, I was so excited! Mr. Poppers Penguins was one of my favorite books! So obviously when the movie came out, I was excited! WOW, What a complete let down! And for being a Jim carry movie! The Plot was completely changed. Okay it was a cute movie... But Not at all what I expected! and very disappointed that it was not kept closer to the book! NOT AT ALL! I understand, that yes things get changed in movies from book, but this wasn't even close! Like when you read twilight, and harry potter... at least you can watch and go "I remember reading that" Or okay that's a little different... So bad! :(

Terrible On Blu-Ray Don't waste your money purchasing this film on blu-ray like I did. Restoration is needed for this film, and it should never have been released in the blu-ray format. Be cautious when buying those old favorite films in blu-ray. If the packaging doesn't make any mention of the films restoration then don't buy it.

Bad Copy This dvd is defective and has been manufactured poorly in most of the scenes you can hear a lot of distortion in the backgrond.The picture may be decent but sound in the back is disturbing and annoying to say the least

Blu-ray version is missing Raymond Burr Blu-ray version is missing Raymond Burr!!  I have seen both the American and Japanese versions of Godzilla. The Blu-ray version is missing Raymond Burr.  I prefer the American version of this movie with Raymond Burr, I understand that others prefer the Japanese version.  Postpone your purchase until both versions of the movie are included.

Horrible!!! Horrible, boring, waste of money. I wish I had read the reviews that warn that it's all in Spanish. You shouldn't have to pay that close attention with a comedy.

Sucks out loud! SUCKS OUT LOUD! Don't even waste your movie choice with this one! I was under the inpression that it would be somthing like the 'Animatix' but, not even close! A good 90% of this is not even a motion picture but still drawings which look like a pre-schooler drew. Then they have the audacity to use clay motion that makes Mr. Bill look like break through technology!! Simply horrible!! Sock puppets were even used at some points!! Really??? after the first 4 mins I fast forwarded through it until that even became unbearable!!! LIke I said, SUCKS OUT LOUD!

Good Lord, what has Hollywood wrought? I went to see this with my wife thinking a sci-fi flick and then some dinner would be a nice evening out.  Had I known the movie was going to go the way it did, I would have saved myself the agony of watching it by pouring gas on my feet and setting them on fire.  It would have been just as entertaining and nowhere near as painful.  Seriously, I've never had as many WTF moments in a movie as I did this one.  My wife and I left the theater shaking our heads and the only saving grace for me was that she was the one that picked this stinker of a movie, so I didn't have to listen to ANY bitching whatsoever about my poor movie choices.  In fact, Splice has become somewhat of an "ace-in-the-hole" for me when it comes to getting reamed over a movie she doesn't like.  The plot is standard to start, but then it gets a little twisted.  And by twisted, I mean depraved on a level that even a demon from hell would say "That's f'ing creepy, man!".  A plot overview is really unnecessary at this point and I'll probably try hypnosis to forget this degenerate film fest.  The moral of the story is: Don't stick your pee-pee in the science experiment.  Do not take kids to see this.  Do not take the elderly, faint of heart or anyone with at least a shred of dignity or moral fiber about them as it will stain their precious minds for the rest of their natural lives.  A Lindsay Lohan PSA on the virtues of abstaining from masturbating would be more tolerable to watch than this movie.  Good luck if you get it, but don't watch it on a full stomach.  You've been warned.

Horrid Many of the other negative reviewers have tapped in to my feelings exactly - a complete waste of time.  With actors like these two, it is almost impossible to believe something *funny* could not have been made.  Even something REMOTELY funny.  My initial thought was that it was a sad attempt at recreating Planes, Trains and Automobiles... without the warmth or humor.  Awful.

Over sentimental, not believable Not much positive to be said about this movie. Characters are one dimensional, volves are behaving unrealistically, director is fishing for sentimental reactions every third minute of the movie with some flash back of the wife or kid of one of the rough neck . It all seems awfully calculated and down rght stupid.  Coming from Finland, it's hard to believe that someone would freeze to death, if rivers are running free and sun is shining. Silly movie for silly people.

I want my money back I liked the first one but this is one of the worst movies i have ever seen i want my time and money back DO NOT WATCH!

DVD Doesn't Play The disc I received does not work. I've tried it in several players, and the trouble definitely lies with the disc.

ultraviolet sucks so won't be buying this movie was good, would have bought it but due to ultraviolet crap will not be buying this. don't need another "cloud" service, itunes already does that and don't want to install more crap on my devices just so i can watch or "stream" this flick.

BORING MOVIE... THIS ONE OF THE MOST BORING MOVIES, I'VE WATCHED IN A LONG TIME. IT STARTED AWFUL! IT'S BORING ME TO TEARS! I'M CONFUSED ABOUT WHAT IS OCCURRING. I'M DISAPPOINTED.

Worst kind of tripe Insulting, condesending, preachy. Painful to watch, avoid at all costs. So bad I could only watch the first 30 minutes even though I was stuck on an airplane.

Did not enjoy this film I want to start off by stating that I don't care that there was a gay character.  In fact, I walked out of the theater long before the movie ended.  This movie was just not good.  I started to fall asleep and my 6 year old daughter asked if we could leave.  We love unusual animated films like Coraline and Corpse Bride, so I thought we'd enjoy this one.  Wrong.  The plot was boring and did not hold our interest.  I am surprised by all the good reviews.  To each their own, I suppose.

big bang theory season 3 the season speaks of 23 episodes, but there are 12 missing from box. Now I can't return it? are you kidding me?

cold and flat The psycho doesn't look that mean or even if he's a psychopath  who doesn't look like one that didnt come off either. Highlight of the film was when he turned tables on the good doctor I think because horror then had a frame of reference .  hero or victims seem two dimentional card board cut outs I cant empathise with. This seems to be a recurring fault with Asian horror flicks. The flashing blood and gore ho-hum seen it before. The real crime is there is no real build up before killer comes comes out into the open.  This film is leagues away from " Audition " now that's scary. I wish someone would make a horror film on the life of H.H. Holmes and go into his torture and dismemberment rooms in Howard's Castle that he built under everyones noses downtown Chigago doubled as a hotel at one point in contrast to life as a husband buisness man and doctor. Now that would be a flick. The hero detective boyfriend was true eye candy for an asian man that redeemed the film !!!!!!!!

Avoid Ultraviolet at ALL COSTS! Hangover II is an excellent movie, enjoyed it from start to finish.  However, I regretfully have to give this product a one star review thanks to the Ultraviolet digital copy included with the Blu-Ray.  Until recently, purchasing a digital copy meant downloading through iTunes and sharing with whatever device you pleased.  With that being said, Ultraviolet requires that you download two programs onto your computer and make several new accounts.  Once you complete all these steps, you can download the file in an MP4 format.  Unfortunately, the MP4 wont play in any programs.  I can't even figure out how to play it in one of the programs required for download.  Hopefully, the creators of Ultraviolet will realize the error of their ways and understand that consumers want to choose how they download and view their movies.  Until then, avoid Ultraviolet at all costs.

don't buy this i tried to watch this movie and all i got was volume. no picture.  do not recommend that you buy it.  bad technology

DID NOT WANT BLUE RAY Clearly it states this item was supposed to be a DVD.  When it arrived it was Blue Ray and I do not have a blue ray therefore cannot use it.

Something Terribly Disappointing This Way Comes... Was this made for TV? Having recently read the novel, I was eager to see the 1983 movie adaptation made by Disney. Although Ray Bradbury is credited with having written the screenplay, I imagine the finished product was anything he was happy with. The movie differs from the novel in much regard, with key plot points changed to render the movie a hideous mess of a thing. I was seething as I watched the movie, seeing these plot changes which were vital to the make-up, essence and design of the original story. As I continued to watch this ridiculously truncated, sanitized, and  implausible film, I could not help but feel Jack Clayton (an accomplished British Director), must have been nervously running his fingers through his hair in the editing room as he said to himself "What have I done?" Disney has managed to turn a classic tale of the battle between good vs. evil into a student film with wooden acting (save for Jonathan Pryce as Mr. Dark), slim to little production value, and a cookie-cutter story that is not only predictable but very unsatisfying. Do yourself a favor, read the book and stay away from this forgettable and regrettable waste of time, and pray that the "powers that be" decide to make a true adaptation of Bradbury's masterpiece.

Avoid this loser at ALL costs... First, she sleeps with everybody who asks, even as a teen! Not exactly making good choices. And the only good line in the movie is "Why does the assh**e always get the girl?" Hardly profound since it's obvious that's what this girl prefers! And if you are a dog Lover you will hate the part where the assh**e she ends up with deliberately kills the rock drummers dog!! Very bad since it adds nothing to the story but then there really isn't any story. Too long and too boring. The bored teen-age girls should watch this movie & be really bored.

OH MY ACHING HEAD Bad humor and lots of overacting.  This one lasted about ten minutes but then I tossed the DVD up in the air and blew it into tiny bits with my shotgun. WHEN WATCHED: 1/20/2010; MY GRADE: D minus.

Almost as bad as the modern version Amazon has already provided the plot so I  won't go over it. I hadn't seen this movie since I was a kid and I really wanted to like it, especially since I detested the modern version and have enjoyed many of John Wayne's perfomances in more subtle roles. Alas,Kim Darby was almost as annoying as Hailee Steinfeld and that's really saying something. Having seen both versions, I've come to the conclusion that the plot, the characterizations, and the dialogue were so bad no actors could have saved the movie.

Sadly, Kubrick's Last Effort Let me start by saying, I'm a BIG Stanley Kubrick fan. I thought this movie was one of the worst I've ever seen in my entire life. Howard Stern roasted Tom Cruise about his promotion of this film (rightfully so)Cruise explained to an interviewer (not Stern) how only Stanley Kubrick was allowed on set to film the nude scenes because they were so erotic they had to be kept secret. Stern went on to say..."What the hell is the big deal about the film crew watching the scenes? You're going to be showing the movie to hundreds of thousands of people after it's released in the theaters!!!" That about sums it up. Stupidity, wooden acting, a repressive score, and putrid dialog. I was so upset that this was Kubrick's last film because it was, in my opinion, his worst.

It's rude, too much obscene. This film insults women, a lot. If you want to show such obscene scenes a lot, turn it to be polno. I came to be fan of Steven since I watched his another work. But this film really disappointed me.  And Steven's coworkers really take care of him to sleep with someone. But actually I doubt there're such a nice guy in the world. But if there were, it's wonderful.  Steven's girlfriend is funny and nice. She is always arguing with her daughter who wants to sleep with her boyfriend.

Shallow This is in my opinion a shallow movie. No interesting story line and a predictable ending. It is only worth watching when you have nothing special to do and want to wile away the time. It is to me a Ho-Hum Drum kind of movie.

Worst movie ever made! Pay day for Hollywood. Period. Slow, predictable plot, careless scenes. You will actually laugh at parts they are so horrible. Our kids will think this is a comedy someday.

Nap at home for free... This is clearly not a movie for everyone, judging by the disparate reviews seen here.  As much as I enjoy a good spy film, this one for me was just too dark, too slow, too all over the place, too many characters to track, but mostly, I just didn't care who was the mole.  I wasn't shocked by the identity of the mole and didn't even care that there was a mole!  I can appreciate that people were able to enjoy the film; I just wasn't one of them!  It's one of those films that you have to watch for yourself to judge, instead of relying on the opinions of others.

Unbelievable, stupid and awfully horrible! This movie was awful. Completely unbelievable and lame. Here are some of the MAIN reasons why this was stupid!  1.)  Liam write a letter to his EX with an old school fountain pen.  Really? He is in the middle of Alaska and hes using a fountain pen? He saves this letter in his pocket.....THIS IS IMPORTANT. 2.) Plane crashes and Liam furiously double belts himself in during its descent, yet after the crash he finds himself thrown from the wreckage, unscathed and not in the seat somehow even though he double belted himself in? 3.)  Liam finds the seat that was in front of him (where he put that letter before the plane went to Hell)he was in somehow in the multitude of crazy burned bodies, debris, etc.  and recovers that letter written in ink....yet this letter is completely legible, he puts it in his pocket for safe keeping.. 4.) Wolves actually are MAD at these people, so they are in the middle of Alaska, killing them out of anger and not eating them? really?  give me a break. 5.)  A wolf was actually eating someone (before they realized they were mad) next to a fire, yet now fire scares these wolves away? 6.)  Liam pulls out that letter in the snow, yet still the ink hasnt run and the letter is in perfect codition. 7.) So they run from the wolves, come to a 200 FT high cliff...manage to jump to a tree...descend the tree......yet these same wolves somehow made it 200FT down and across a freezing cold river in 3 minutes so they could attack one of the survivors? Really? So wolves can now fly? 8.)  Liam and his last buddy fall into a freezing river, his buddy somehow gets his foot trapped in a way just not possible given the current... 9.) After being soaked in the river, Liam pulls out that letter again..somehow its dry and legible STILL.....WTF? 10.) Plane crahses, guy still has glasses on, perfectly intact somehow. BUT BUT he loses them while crawling on a rope with a slight breeze....reallllllllllly?????? 11.)  So Liam makes a point to retrieve all the wallets of the killed to honor them and for their families. Its hilarious that EVERYONE has a wallet packed with family photos that are truly sentimental.  This is important so Liam can look at them before he stacks them into a neat pile while the Alpha Wolf patiently watches him (while growling ferociously with yellow eyes) from 30 feeet away.  "Grrrr Grrrr.....I will let this man reflect on his and other's lives before I kill him....grrr....grrrrr" Save yourself time and watch a werewolf movie. 12) I can go on and on here,,this is one of the worst movies of the year....easily...  The director obviously thought that having Liam was enough.....and assumed that the viewers are stupid.  Wolves dont act like this towards humans and they surely dont kill and NOT eat when there is basically NO food around them.  If you liked this movie, I suggest you view it again and add to my list.  :)

A total let down  :-( Not what most people would expect,I purchased this on its release date only watched it twice all these years,and won`t be watching it again any time soon....

Lame! Can't believe I actually wasted my time watching this movie. One of Johnny Depps worst movies! Don't bother watching, it's not worth the rental fee

Odd While the animation and visual concepts for this film are wonderful, I must say that I am very disappointed in the type of humor involved. Bathroom humor and sexual jokes are simply not appropriate for children. The plot is too simple for adults, so I must assume that the target audience of this movie is children - not good.

laaaammmeee Couldn't give it zero star. I just wanted to say that there are sexier and more romantic men in Hollywood that could've played Jack Black's role. We are talking Kate Winslet here she deserves better than this

awful! This was not a good movie at all. It was all about a gay love story and none of it was even realistic. His escapes from prison would have been impossible in the real world and the movie should not be in the comedy genre at all as I can't remember a single funny part in the movie.

bad copies out there bros...i just got my replacement in the mail today and it doesn't work either...that's two "ong bak 3" movies i bought that have no picture or sound...i also tried playing it on my ps3...all 83 of my other blu-ray movies in my collection work great...just not this one...ciao dudes

Still Waiting!!!!! I am. . . unhappily . . . still waiting for this product!!!!! I would love to give you a review, but that would necessitate having received and actually watched the video. Unfortunately, I am STILL waiting!

CRAP... AMATUER TRANSFER... THIRD WORLD? I have never seen or heard such a crappy transfer. The best part of this is the cover art. I enjoyed the series years ago when it was on. The picture was better and the sound was clear. Even turned up way too loud, this transfer sounds like I'm listening through a wall! When I popped this into my DVD player I was hoping for a decent transfer but it looks like a pirated dvd the nice third world lady comes to all the local stores with. It might as well have been transferred using a cheap video camera in a popcorn box at the local itch! DON'T BUY THIS UNLESS YOU WANT TO TOTALLY WASTE YOUR MONEY!!! Oh, yeah, the shipping was very fast. It may go back just as fast!

A jumbled mess of a movie One sequel in and the Iron Man franchise is getting rusty. Iron Man 2 had all the elements of a blockbuster movie. A strong cast, solid direction by Jon Faverau, and spectacular special effects. Unfortunately, the film is bogged down by a soulless poorly written script that's all over the place. One sequel into this franchise and Iron Man is looking rusty.  Iron Man 2 picks up where Iron man 1 left off. Six months after telling the world He's Iron Man, Tony Stark is now dying of the palladium in the arc reactor that is keeping him alive. On top of this, the U.S. government is trying to take the technology for the Iron man armor from him, and competitors like Justin Hammer are trying to replicate the armor.  But somewhere in Siberia...the son of a former Stark employee Anton Vanko, Ivan Vanko has the secret arc reactor recipe that powers the suit. As Stark confidently testifies to the congresss that he's the only person who has the technology, Vanko heads over to France with his powered whips and own version of the Stark's secret recipe for the arc reactor.  After the big display at the Stark Expo, a dying Stark keeps his secret as he heads to France decides to race his own car. This is where the wheels fall off the movie and it becomes a jumbled mess. It's clear this sequence is just conveniently there so Whiplash can wreck stuff and Iron man can beat him up. I rolled my eyes as Happy Hogan drives down the race track the wrong way to give Tony his red and silver Mark V suit to beat up Whiplash and deliver him to the French police. After Tony returns from France, we get more tacked on plot points in his new secretary Nancy Rushman who beats him down in his boxing ring. As he banters with Pepper Potts more convoluted stories are started. Nick Fury shows up with a mystery regarding some element Howard Stark was working on. Ivan Vanko gets busted out of Jail by Justin Hammer. Hammer goes to get his "burd" as the plot meanders to the midpoint.  A few sequences later it's Tony's birthday, and a drunken Stark celebrates by putting on his Mark IV armor and blasting stuff. Realizing he's putting people in danger, Jim Rhodes (again coming out of nowhere) suits up in the Mark 2 suit to stop him. After a big rock-em-sock-em robot fistfight between the armored gladiators, and an repulsor blast explosion that shatters all the glass in Tony's house, Rhodes announces he's taking the suit and flies away. As this tacked on plot point moves the movie forward, Shawn tries to figure out how he learned how to fly an Iron man suit, accessed the pass codes between movies. He also tries to figure out how a suit with no repulsors has them.  As Rhodey delivers the Mark 2 suit to the government to be weaponized, Tony goes to get some donuts, Nick Fury drops by to put Tony under House arrest. In addition to giving him something to do while cleaning up all that broken glass, he's told to figure out the mystery of the element. Tony goes and watches home movies, breaks out a model of the old Stark Expo and begins to solve the mystery of the triangle. Meanwhile Vanko and Hammer are putting together drones. But Vanko has an eleventh herb and spice he's not telling Hammer about.  Meanwhile at the Stark mansion, Tony wrecks his house finding out the secret of the Triangle. As he installs the new coconut flavored element into his arc reactor, his life is saved just in time to figure out what Ivan Vanko is up to with his eleventh herb and spice.  At the Hammer expo, Hammer does the Hammer dance as he reveals the drones and Jim Rhodes as War Machine. Vanko reveals the last part of his secret recipe. As Iron man enters in his shiny new Mark VI suit, he confronts Hammer and the drones start attacking. From here, Nancy Rushman goes into action as the Black Widow, and takes out Hammer's guards to get to Vanko.  But Vanko is long gone and she has to hack the computer codes get control of the drones. All she does is get War Machine back under Rhodey's control. Well, he needs to help tony beat up some robots. After destroying all the drones, Here comes Vanko in his souped up Crimson Dynamo knock off armor. After a heavy metal beatdown, Tony and Rhodey fire repulsors at each other, Vanko is KO'd. Vanko knowing he's beaten decides to make himself and the drones blow up just in time for tony to save Pepper. At the end of the movie, Tony gets a medal for beating up on the Hammer drones, credits roll and we see a hammer and Agent Colson telling Nick Fury he's found it. I'd like to find out what happened to the story in this movie. Somewhere around the fifteen minute mark it stopped making sense.  It's clear there's something missing in Iron Man 2; it doesn't have the heart or spirit of the first film, which had a light lively tone. By contrast this film feels artificial and manufactured. It's clear the studio executives and the toy companies meddled in the creative process for this film to sell as many T-shirts, action figures and whatever merchandise they could imagine. Instead of the plot flowing together organically like the first film, Iron man 2 is jam-packed with characters that serve no purpose and a jumbled plot that goes nowhere. Tony's armor gets an upgrade but the franchise needs a downgrade. This movie is too much like the jumbled storyline of a comic book and nothing like the linear pacing of a movie.  As a diehard Iron man fan I was deeply disappointed with this film. As a Movie fan I was disgusted. Usually the process of executive meddling that ruins a franchise starts with the third movie.  I can't fault the actors here, they were prevented from doing their best with the horrible script they were given. Robert Downey Jr. is solid here but is held down from greatness due to the bad script. Gwyneth Paltrow who was amazing as Pepper Potts last time is awkward here. She and Downey don't have the electric Cary Grant/ style chemistry they shared in the first movie. the Don Cheadle is wooden as Jim Rhodes. Terrence Howard had much better energy and charisma in the role. Cheadle has no chemistry with Robert Downey Jr, and is just flat in the role. Sam Rockwell is solid as Justin Hammer. I'm still trying to figure out what Scarlett Johansson's purpose was in playing the Black Widow. Her part was severely underwritten and underdeveloped. Samuel L. Jackson is passable as Nick Fury. But again, they give him nothing really serious to work with.  Director Jon Faverau does his best to maintain the integrity of the Iron Man Franchise. The shots are about the same, the sequences are consistent with the first film, but it's clear the film doesn't have the same energy. What was once a fun superhero action franchise looks like it's on the slow road downhill like Sam Raimi's Spider-Man franchise after Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3. All I know is you won't see me in line for Iron Man 3. If you're thinking about getting Iron Man 2 Pass on it. This franchise is getting rusty.

You have got to be kidding me! We got the DVD in the mail (living in Ohio we get a ton of political mailers) and my husband and I decided to watch it. Why have they decided that the communist guy is Obama's real father? Because they both have brown eyes and are the same height. Ummm, so what. The eyes are a racial trait (almost everyone of African descent has brown eyes) and I'm pretty sure there are about 1 billion other guys out there that are the same height. We turned it off partway thru the section of the movie where they're metaphorically sticking their tongue out and calling his mother a loose woman. The rest of the video had been laughable with it's baseless "facts" pulled from the flimsiest sources that do not hold up under fact checking (look it up if you don't believe me), but they really crossed the line when they started vilifying his mother with NO EVIDENCE. On behalf of mothers everywhere I hope they get what they deserve for this piece of trash. It's one thing to oppose Obama because of his policy decisions,or even if your just racist. Those are real verifiable issues. It's something else entirely to make stuff up and go after his mother.

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Disappointorama I bought this on a whim because I'm a gambling man.  Incase you couldn't guess by my rating I lost my gamble.  This movie consist of four storylines.  An over-all plot is given in between the other three stories.  The overall plot is something similar to a zombie movie, except the zombies seem pervesion-craving rather than brain-craving.  The other three plots consist of giant sperm, homosexual werewolf-like creatures, and a jewish frankenstien.  Well I watched the first short story (the giant sperm) and slowly my doubts grew.  As I watched half of the homo-werebear plot I gave up.  I like cheesy B-rate horror flicks; however, this was simply boring.  The humor was rarely entertaining to me and the plot lines were boring.  In conclusion I wasted $15.  I didn't even finish the movie.  It is rare that I find something I dislike this much. I realize there are many people who will still buy this even though there are bad reviews.  I was one of these people and now I've learned my lesson.  :(  Let my sacrifice not go in vain.

Music not good, just really bad Watched for about 10 minutes, and some music came on and it was really annoying, and a good place for this movie is the trash.

REALLY BAD!!!! If you liked the first one you will hate this one. Absolutely no connection to the first on except for Cage and the name of the movie. Super poor acting. Cage acted like he was insane. Poor affects. Didn't even have the same bike for the Ghost Rider. Really a disappointment.

memoirs of an invisible man i ordered the movie (cd)-memoirs of an invisible man with chevy chase. i received it here in tulsa,ok and mailed it to baton rouge, la. only to discover it had a big scratch in it. i was very disappointed to hear this and dont know the procedure to follow , to fix this. i would be very hesitant to order anything else from here.

Bad copy of movie I really wanted this movie. I saw part of it on HBO or Starz. So I ordered it from Amazon. The transfer dub from the factory was garbled. There was a flaw in the whole movie. The images would not stay still. Just the video transfer was flawed. Amazon sent me a replacement. The same happened again. I asked for them to call the manufacture to do a make good on my purchase. To find me a decent dub of the movie.  Yes, Amazon refunded my money. But do you think the customer service department would even listen to me. I wanted to buy this movie. So why can't a manager from Amazon, call the distributor of the movie. Tell them the problem and I try to get me this movie.  I rate the movie as good. Amazon's customer service as very poor. Even trying to hear me out to make good my purchase. Yes, the refund is fine. But they could have tried harder to call the manufacture and make good my purchase.

zero stars in a real world This was the biggest piece of crap I ever had to sit  thru.  I thought maybe it was out of order, but no.  It's just flipping stupid.  Travolta is alive.  Then killed.  Then alive.  What the...??? It makes no sense at all.  And the end.  Oh right, I am going to beleive that a killer is just going to reform like that.  Really?  I saw this with a friend at a screening at the  writer's guild.  I did not hold back my disgust.  Worst movie ever. No,  wait.  2nd.  Natural Born Killers is the worst. Then this crap.

Can't believe I watched this whole thing I'm all for food documentaries but this one is awful. This film was so slow! They could have told you everything you needed to know in 5 minutes but it took them a full length motion picture. I kept on watching hoping that it would get better at some point. Nope.  I wasted 1.5 hours and $0.99. I want a refund but I have no one to blame but myself for watching anything past the 10 min mark.

OBNOXIOUS DENIRO This is a 70s movie, so, it would be years later for Deniro's character to be regarded as...a stalker!!!  The first 30 minutes is all about Deniro stalking Liza Minneli, with him sometimes lowering the tone of his voice to what you would expect from some would-be rapist.  Almost 2 and a half hours of such psychopathic nonsense, with one great tune, and lots of cocaine-fueled (?) direction from Martin Score Sleazy (at least one tell all has noted Score Sleazy being on coke in the 70s).  This movie was a major flop when first released---and for good reason.  A lot of Score Sleazy movies have been box office flops, partly due to Deniro being so annoying in some of them.  Deniro only got a mass audience when he played second fiddle to some less annoying actor in comedies.

Big Concern I have paid for a product I was supposed to received two months ago (Green Lantern Blu Ray) and still waiting. I have written once regarding this issue with no answer. This is the second one. Hopefully someone is going to give me an answer.

Bad movie Just watched the movie last night. Bad choice for a Friday night! Bad movie! My wife didn't like it either and she is a big fan of Ryan Gosling. Music score was OK. The movie is very slow going with lots of silent scenes which don't help at all. I'm not against silent scenes in general when they are done right and help the mood of the movie or help audience to understand the character but in this movie it was just frustrating. I was not expecting this much blood and plain cruelty from this movie. It is also very light on car chases, which I actually DID expect from a "Drive" movie. I do not recommend this movie.

Unbelievably bad Please, don't waste your money.  This movie was so bad on so many different levels.  I love scary movies, this was not scary and not in the least bit entertaining either.  Confusing, hard to maintain interest.  The premise of the plot was good, but so horribly executed.  The acting was also very bad.  If I could have given it NO stars I would, but the lowest possible rating was one star.

woman in black I am very upset it said dvd and it is blue ray the main thing is the region is wrong so we cant watch it even on the ps3.

Very Disappointing I was incredibly disappointed with this movie.  It seemed like every other word was an expletive, which is generally used when the script and story-line are incredibly weak.  This movie was NOT worth renting.  We nearly quit watching it in the middle of it.  I was disappointed in the PG-13 rating for the language alone. Kato's gadgets were very neat, but I expected much more from this movie and I was left sorely disappointed.  This is NOT an acceptable movie for children to watch, due to the language alone.

Kids and family? Far from it. This was under the children and family category. It was fine until a couple minutes in when a woman gets savagely killed by a lion. Far from appropriate for my child.

5 stars for the movie, one for the dvd Being a huge fan of the book and movie i bought this movie already having a regular copy of the movie because it said it was the extended version.  i watched this movie carefully cause frankly i was excited to see the parts that they didnt show.  It isnt extended.  Not one scene and ive seen this movie like ten billion times and once just two days before and then i realised there was an extended version. This is the same movie as always, to the minuet. I have been one hundred percent ripped off.

Here's a taste of the writing in the movie FBI Agent Eunice Blum(played by Julie Benz doing a terrible Southern accent) tells the 3 fumbling cops "Im so smart that I make smart people look retarded"  I think that cringeworthy line should be enough to deter anyone from making the same mistake I did.i.e watch this awful awful awful movie!There is so much that is awful about this movie that I wouldnt be able to stop.If mindless ineffective violence,pathetic attempts at John Woo style action montages, nonsensical plot, terrible acting,lame femme fatales, male nudity(but no female) is your cup of tea then surely this movie is for you.  If you want to watch a vigilante movie ,stick with Death Wish 1,2 and Dirty Harry.Really, no need to bother with anything else including the original BS!

Are you kidding?  4 stars??? Where to begin?  There should be a product warning on this dvd similar to those we find on food and drug items.  First warning:  Do you really want to waste 240 minutes of your brief life watching Tom Cruise disappoint and Jamie Foxx excel?  Second warning:  Obviously there was no attempt to edit this monster.  One scene after another is WAY TOO LONG and unnecessarily so.  At times I thought this v-e-r-y long and boring colossus might be for people who know little or no English and need endless repetition of an already v-e-r-y thin plotline. What a waste!

Wrong movie and wouldn't play!! They shipped the wrong movie. I ordered "Singles", but received "An inconvenient Truth:  A Global Warning".  I put the movie in just to make sure it was labeled wrong and it didn't even work. I only paid $3.00, so I guess you get what you pay for.  It's not even worth the trouble of returning it.

One of the worst movies ever THis was boring from beginnning to end.  I can't understand whey anyone like it.  I can't reccommend it.  Not good for kids or adults.

Makes no sense if you haven't read the book, and a bad adaptation if you have. I watched the bluray Dune a few days after I read the book. I can say that the movie is terrible by comparison. As others have said, it seems that they tried to stuff too much into this film without actually going into any details. Most characters seem completely misrepresented in my opinion for what little you are able to see of individual characters, and there is not explanation of the background or process of events. For example, in one scene Paul decides that he must ride a worm, then in the following scene, he does it right away without any indication of being trained or any time passing. This story should not be told in a 2 hour movie. It is impossible to understand what is going on and why unless you have the time to explain and develop ideas. If you enjoyed the book, do yourself a favor and pass this movie up.

TREE OF DEATH If THE WICKER TREE is intended as a black comedy, it misses the mark.  If the WICKER TREE is meant to be a horror film, it falls very short.  Having little to do with the cult classic WICKER MAN, this movie is a dull, flaccid offering, failing to generate any significant response. Main problem is the casting of Brittania Nicol and Henry Garrett in the leading role of the clueless young couple who find themselves prey for the religious cult.  They are simply awful.  Respected character actors Graham McTavish and Janice Richardson can't escape the banal dialogue and horror icon Christopher Lee is wasted in a brief appearance.  Honeysuckle Weeks exudes primal sexuality to compensate for her limited thespian talents. Writer/director Robin Hardy has fashioned a trite and lifeless film, devoid of any real suspense.

OH ALEXANDER I AM GOING TO GIVE YOU SUCH A PINCH!!!! ALEXANDER--simply appalling bio of Alexander the Great that stinks on EVERY possible level from story construction to understanding of history to costumes to acting(Colin Farrell has to be smelled to be believed) Angelina Jolie plays with snakes and has a Russian accent.    The film is WILDLY homosexual themed with the Macedonians being portrayed as a bunch of hysterical garishly dressed Gays right out of LA CAGE AU FAUX. While I do not understand AT ALL what Oliver Stone was about here he DID beat BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN by months on the Gay Agenda train. One is surprised he did not get the credit. Oh and Alexander was murdered by a conspiracy here just for those who are interested. Ah Oliver Stone. Film still stinks though.    Stay with the Burton/Cushing version.

Half-baked and impotent gospel tract put on film... I really can't think of a way this movie could have been worse.  I have to be honest, though, and admit that I only watched half of it. For all I know, it suddenly got awesome the moment after I lost patience and turned it off, but I'm doubtful.  As the the title and the synopsis you've already read indicate, the storyline is essentially the apostle relating his memories of Jesus to a Roman jailor before his execution, except this goofy movie gets a bunch of it wrong... For instance, it has Jesus asking them "Who do people say that I am?", like, two minutes after Peter meets him instead of a short time before Jesus' final week, which, of course, radically alters the significance and meaning of the event-- the significance and meaning agreed upon by all three synoptic gospels. Also, for some goofy reason, it depicts Jesus washing their feet AFTER they eat the Last Supper, which just doesn't make any sense. (And their "Jesus" looks like he's pushing 50 or 60... not sure how they thought they could pull that off, when Jesus was in his early-to-mid thirties when he died.)  And it's not just their butchery of the factuality of the story that I found off-putting. It seems like all the wrong parts are dramatized... like when Jesus washed their feet, they built it up like the audience was supposed to just gush with sentimental awe when Peter stuck his foot in the tub. It was just lame, lame, lame. It was just lazy and poorly written and poorly executed. I say "lazy" because it appears that the movie-makers were just counting on people already being emotionally keyed-in before they started watching, so they didn't bother with all the usual stuff storytellers do to get an audience invested in a story, like character-development, scene-setting/world-building, etc. Because it's aimed at a Christian audience and we're supposed to already love the story of the foot-washing, for instance, we're supposed to be just thrilled when a bunch of actors put on costumes and spout churchy lines while another actor scrubs their feet... In fact, this entire movie (Ok, the half I could stomach) is just a long string of half-considered, superficial church cliches with no depth or gravity or purpose, so it comes across as a crude, even annoying gospel tract set to film. You're better off just reading the Bible for yourself and letting it play out in your own "theater of the mind" than watching this silly attempt.

sounds lame The packaging looks fancy...but really...it sounds lame.  The content for the movies seems inconsistent.  Why only extended editions for the first 2 movies? I agree with others that they should release an edition with all extended versions. Not to mention, you can probably buy all of the discs in this box set for less than they are selling it for.  You just get a fancy box for the hundreds of extra dollars it costs you.  LAME.  I mean i got all 8 films on blu-ray for $32 from amazon UK...its definitely not worth paying over 10x that amount for some dvd discs, 5 hours of extras, digital copies i will never use, and a cardboard box......numbered limited edition or not.

Terrible and profane. Could have been a good story if you can get around the 40 some f-words plus countless other swearing and a sex scene that did not need to be in the movie (or any movie for that matter). This is the farthest from a Christian movie that you can get. It is fouled up so bad. Maybe they should have gotten Sherwood Baptist to film it. To sum it up....here is a quote from Plugged in Online:  Inspiring. Devastating. Heartbreaking. Disturbing. Revelatory. Graphic. Raw. Those are just a few of the words that spring to mind as I ponder how to sum up Machine Gun Preacher, a complex, category-shattering story.  On one hand, director Marc Forster (who helmed The Kite Runner, a similarly wrenching film) has served up a spiritually poignant story that evokes comparisons to the kind of movies Sherwood Pictures is making--movies like Courageous and Fireproof that unashamedly preach Jesus and show the difference He makes in someone's life. On the other, this deservedly R-rated film pulls absolutely no punches when it comes to hard-edged content: obscenity, violence, drug abuse and sex. In these areas, Machine Gun Preacher is much more akin to Schindler's List and The Apostle, both tales of similarly broken men desperately trying to find redemption in the midst of trying, sometimes brutal circumstances.  Forster says of his protagonist, "The fascinating thing about [Sam] is that he is a very flawed character. He has been abusive to himself and to others throughout his life. Those are just facts. At the same time, he has put his life on the line to save hundreds and hundreds of kids. There is this conflict within the character that makes for truly interesting storytelling."  "The movie definitely was not made for Christian people," Sam told me in a recent phone interview. "I should say it was not made for religious people. I feel that every Christian person out there is going to want to hand tickets out. I think it's a great outreach. ... There's no way you can walk into the theater and walk out of the theater, and not be preached to in this movie. So it's like planting seeds. [The movie] shows a conversion. And it shows it in a raw way that most people in the world and of the world can relate to."  He's dead right about one thing: Anyone who watches this movie will be forced to grapple with some pretty significant questions. How do we respond to evil? Can God forgive our most heinous choices? Is violent resistance in defending the innocent ever warranted?  But I'll add one more that's harder to answer than it at first seems: Is a violent, drug-addled and profanity-laced R-rated movie required to raise those issues?

Terrible quality A word of advice, STAY AWAY from this DVD for the quality is so poor it's not even worth watching if they gave it way for free. Hopefully someone will remaster this wonderful version of Dickens adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby. Until then, I give this DVD a zero rating.

This is the film that killed the Aliens franchise. I've only seen this once, in the theater, and that was enough.  For background, I am a HUGE Aliens fan and have collected the comics, trading cards, posters, etc. over the years. Not a huge collection, but it's something I've been interested in for a long time. I just really love the movies. I even like Alien3; I thought it was well done.  This movie was just horrible. SO bad. I could go on at length about the problems with it, but one of my biggest ones was the DE-volution of the alien. Spoiler below:  In the films and comics, the aliens take on traits from their hosts that enable them to survive. Why would an alien wind up with skin instead of exoskeleton? WHAT?  Anyway... I just pretend this one doesn't exist. It's too bad; they could have actually resurrected the franchise instead of killing it. Perhaps if we're lucky they'll move forward with some of the comics, although <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UDYD32">Aliens : sacrifice</a> might be too "deep" for an action film. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1878574280">Aliens: Tribes</a> would be perfect - but it's probably too late.

Weeds Season 7 Definitely the worst season of Weeds, by far. Things started getting ridiculous Season 4 or so, and the show should've definitely been cancelled by now. Nancy was likeable in the first several seasons, and little by little I've gotten to not be able to stand her. Irritating, not funny, and boring, season 7 sucked.

Roll up your window and hold your noise, this film stinks to high heaven! Had it not been for the 4-star consensus rating of this dreadful film, I most certainly would have passed on reviewing it, but I felt some combination of sanity and clarity had to be brought to light regarding "Law Abiding Citizen" and what an absolute train wreck of a film it was. With a script that's implausible beyond comprehension, substandard acting beyond the likes of anything I've ever seen, and a director hellbent on giving a mainstream dumbed down American audience what they love, i.e. lots of stuff that blows up, this film cracks my personal top 25 in worst films ever made.  Most disappointing of all is Gerard Butler, who proves to be a 3rd rate hack of an actor and should never be offered a role by any serious filmmakers. His attempt at an American accent was atrocious and is only rivaled by Lloyd Bridge's horrendous attempt to pull off an Irish accent in "Blown Away".  Quick someone hand me a film, any film, I don't care if it's Madonna's "Swept Away" or Affleck/Lopez' "Gigli", I need something, anything to erase the memory of wasting approximately two hours on "Law Abiding Citizen"!

Maybe it's just a bad dream? For 8 seasons "2 ½ Men" was one of the biggest shows on TV and garnered dozens of awards, including 4 People's Choice wins, and Emmy wins for editing, mixing, and supporting actor. Charlie Sheen was nominated for a Golden Globe in 2005 and 2006 and by the SAG in 2005 and 2010. Then the crash. Then the revival.  Is the new show as awful as some critics suggest? No, not when you compare it to the trash that passes for TV comedy these days (apologies to "Big Bang Theory" and "Two Broke Girls"). But when you look back at the previous 8 seasons, there has been a major drop in the quality of the writing and the acting.  It can't all be blamed on Ashton Kutcher, although one has to question whether or not you can take someone seriously when he continually appears naked and when so many jokes are made about the size of his penis. Really?! The "man boy" thing gets pretty tired.  Poor Jon Cryer has deteriorated not only as an actor, but his character on the show has changed to someone with no redeeming qualities. In the previous seasons he had a job, tried to relate to his son, and did his best to get along with his ex wives even though he was inept. Now he is simply a manipulative deadbeat. There's no humor there.  In past seasons lots of laughs could be counted on whenever Conchata Ferrell (the housekeeper), Holland Taylor (the mother), and Melanie Lynskey (Rose, the stalker) showed up. In Season 9 we never see Rose, rarely see the mother, and the housekeeper's character has also deteriorated greatly. She simply isn't funny anymore.  About the only good thing in Season 9 is that Angus T Jones seems to have come into his own, and his scenes are finally funny, after several seasons of blah.  What can we do? Certainly don't buy this product which is devoid of laughs. And stop watching the show, if you do, because otherwise they will keep churning out this garbage. Unfortunately I can't recommend watching Sheen's new TV series "Anger Management". It's OK - better than  "2 ½", but not up to the old standards.  Maybe everyone can bury the hatchet, and we'll find out in Season 11 that Seasons 9 and 10 were all a bad dream, and Charlie is back. (It worked for "Dallas")

FALSE ADVERTISING This image is false advertising! I bought this DVD and received one that had French translation on the front cover, after returning the first one and repurchasing again, I still received the same cover. So if you want the DVD with the cover in the image, DO NOT buy from here, you will not get that cover!

Be aware of illegal Chinese bootleg edition I received this DVD set this afternoon and I could have time to test some discs just now, and I am terribly disappointed at the quality of discs.  First, when I opened each season box just now, the discs were out of place. That is okay. I can understand it.  But when I placed the first disc (Disc 1 of Season 5) into my DVD-ROM, I thought that my DVD-ROM was going to break. There was incredible rattling and trembling which I have never experienced before. All the disc in the Season 5 showed the same problem.  Then, I went on to Season 4 and discs 1, 2 and 3 showed the same problem. So at this point, I stopped testing because I did not want this box at all. Disc 3 did not read either.  Also, I have found out something that makes me doubt if this product is genuine. On the top of the box that contains the DVD set, there are Chinese letters. There are bunch of Chinese pirated DVDs coming back to the U.S. by some merchants who bring those illegal stuff to the U.S. market.  The same experience is share at the following link: [...]

Let's Hear it for Latvia Crew background: Lead actors credits resemble a laundry list of no-name movies, shorts, animation voices and TV series. Nothing of note unless Hysterical Psycho, Scary Movie 2, 3, 4 & Predators are on your five star list. Even the writers and director have little to show but Tele shows and a few totally unheard of movies. Result is acting that is bland and unimaginative to go along with the script which is stereotypic white middle class party fantasy. Coincidentally the unimaginative movie's story writing was created by none other than the movie's lead bland actor. How appropriate.  Plot: The usual juvenile loser wants to party, get drunk or drugs, have sex with fantasy girl and turn his life around. A script that is so stereotypically redundant that any tenth grader could recite it in their sleep.  Sets, Props & Music: Video store, old cars and house with pool. Some 80s clothing from a Hollywood props warehouse and some really minor royalties for the cheapest and probably least representative of 80s music they could get.  Conclusion: The intelligence attribute of American culture continues it's decline in part due to the quality of it's zombie entertainment. Where are we ranked comparatively to other countries - in the mid 20s, just behind Latvia. Sorry Latvia for depressing the neighborhood.

Awful Movie Lady Ice is, without question, one of the very worst movies ever made. Donald Sutherland should sue to have it removed from his IMDB.  The plot is not to be believed; the dialogue is execrable.

Sick of children shows being used for political views It was a turn off of children's movies. It seems like most children's movies these days are being used to push some political point into my kid's heads. I'm sick of it, and I am going to be more careful of the movies I show my children from now on.

Terrible in every way You kinda get what the director was going for here -- trying to do a reverse role model story with a badass rocker dude as the role model who ultimately redeems himself despite his anti-everything behavior. Did not work at all. I rented this because of the interesting cast and some reviewer called it "hilarious." That reviewer was clearly under the influence of serious narcotics, because there was exactly one laugh in the entire film. And the cast is utterly wasted. Rainn Wilson spends most of the movie in a catatonic state, Natalie Portman is mousey (if you can believe that) and Joseph Gordon Leavitt is doing his best Jesus Christ impersonation, but without the winning charm. Avoid this one too. Nothing redeeming about it.

I fell asleep TWICE My nephew and niece both watched this film with me and they begged me to turned it off 30 mins in to the movie. At first I told them to give it a chance and then after falling asleep twice and having them say things like: "please turn it off so we can watch something that isn't so horrible!" and "this can't get any worse! This is the worst movie ever!", I couldn't agree more and I shut it off. I should have rented it instead if buying the 3D version. I thought it would be good because I assumed that the allegedly false negative reviews on this message board were throwing off the stars given to this film.  I'm sorry, but it really isn't worth buying and I don't see the appeal. The songs were mediocre and the plot wasn't as "stimulating" as people are describing it to be.  Save yourself the money and rent it first before you decide to buy it, so it doesn't end up collecting dust in your home.

HALF a STAR This was so slow and so dumb, I fell asleep. If it ever got good I wouldn't know.I struggled to watch it for 45 minutes and finally lost interest. The acting was bad, the story was lame, and the characters had no chemistry. It was a waste of money and time. Talk about 45 minutes of my life I will never get back. F-

Feel bored and disgusted at the same time. Watching an old man first rape (or pretend rape) then have explicit sex with a young woman made out to be innocent and inexperienced. Then having the woman betray her friends to help the guy she's suppose to kill.  It just leaves this overwhelming feeling of disgust.  It's based off of a book a woman wrote, so if this is really how women think? Makes me feel a bit depressed.  Unless they used advanced CG, the torrid sex scenes seem to be real, and we can't even pretend that it's just a movie. The old greasy man is really having sex with the 20 year old (which wouldn't even be that bad if the writer/director hadn't set her up as an inexperienced virgin at the beginning).  The movie is 2.5 hours long, with drawn out, unnecessary scenes that neither builds plot or reveal characterization. No real tension is built either. So it's a boring long disgusting movie.

Terrible!!!! This wasn't a movie, this was 88 minutes of wasted time. I cant believe the amount of positive reviews this got, unbelievable. John Hughes & this thing should never be in the same sentence. Comparing John's work to Nima Nourizadeh is disrespectful and disgraceful to J.Hughes fans throughout. Warner Bros. should be embarrassed for releasing this stuff under their name. Blind buyers beware, rent first! It wouldn't surprise me to see this in the $1 bin very soon, and even then, it's overpriced.

overpriced very over priced this is far from jim's best and im pretty sure i have seen the not bluray one floating in the 5$ bin at wal mart.

i didn't Like This film that much cause it bits Plotwise Story wise and the acting on top of it all just blew!!!!!! I rented this movie two years ago cause as always i am interested in updating my dvd collection.So I rented the Ice Cream Man  to see if it was worth a buy and i could not stand it at all. I found the plot, acting setting, and scares to be really lame.So basically this ice cream man is a deranged lunatic that abducts kids from there neiborhoods and brings them to his ice cream place. I dont remember much from this film cause it was so bad but what i do remember didn't impress me at all there was only one good actor in this film the guy that plays the ice cream man and one plus to a movie  doesn't save it. i think that this movie Ice cream man is too big of a let down and you wont get your'e time back if you see this film like me so i dont  Recommend this film to anybody other then fans of lets just say unique films.

Hideous Where do I start? Let me start with the ugly, jarring harsh makeup. What happened to SJP's lovely face? It looked like her original face was made of latex and then melted over a gas stove and stretched. Sweetheart--you're too OLD to have long dark two-toned hair. You're also too old to be that thin. SJP had the sex appeal of a dried-out stalk of wheat in this movie. Her character, Carrie, is unrecognizable now. The imperfect bubbly cute Carrie has been replaced by this humorless stretched out elitest shrew. She's the kind of woman now that Carrie would not have liked in the series. She's awful to everyone in the movie--condescending to the other characters. In fact, all of them are incredibly rude to "lesser" people--servents, foreigners (they're only foreigners after all!).  Worst things (for me): -Samantha's wardrobe. WHY do they insist dressing Kim Cattrall like a bad drag queen version of Joan Crawford? She has a lovely figure and they always stick her in these ridiculous hard-edged power suits with enormous shoulder pads.  -Samantha also got the honor of saying the worst line of the movie "Lawrence of my labiaaaa!" which was embarrassing to witness  -Miranda was tolerable, except when she lowered the window of the car in the desert, screeching like she was at a sports bar at the goat herders at the side of the road--just culturally tin-eared and disrespectful and they seemed to rush to herd back the goats who were startled, glaring at this over-privileged moron in a $400,000 Mercedes  -Charlotte gets camel toe. Oh goody. More vulva jokes! Really? Does Charlotte have to be humiliated in some scatalogical way now in every movie? The spoiled entitled American idiocy of her holding out her phone yelling about reception on top of the camel was also atrocious. Again, completely disrespectful and something Charlotte of old would NEVER have done  -Carrie's prudish covering up of Samantha at every turn, but she shows up to meet Aiden (after hilariously kohling her squinty tired-looking eyes to even smaller proportions) in a thigh-baring cleavage-revealing top and skirt.  -Mr. Big, the true virile man's man, posing like a ponce-y English Noel Coward in brown satin pajamas holding a teeny tiny teacup and saucer.  -They ask Samantha what she's eating, even though most normal people, and particularly supposedly sophisticated people from New York City have known what HUMMUS is since like 1991.  I was a huge SATC fan, and I enjoyed the first movie, but this movie was the kind of irritating where you want to kick something or drink. My beloved characters were ruined.

A WASTE of TIME and MONEY! My title says it all. This is one of the worst movies I've ever made the mistake of buying. It makes no sense; the acting is terrible, and their is no plot. Complete waste of time! I bought the movie because Ashley Greene (Twight) who plays an excellent actress (as a vampire in that movie) I thought may be good in this movie. NOT! I really can't, for all sakes and purposes call this a movie! Maybe an exercise in what an actor, director and writers should NOT do.

Terrible Do not waste your money.  So many stars, so disappointing.  How do I get the last hour and a half of my life back?

Unable to review I wish I could review this Blu-ray since I love the movie and have seen good reviews of the disc's AV quality. Unfortunately my order never arrived in the mail.

still great acting, writing still needs work That I continue to watch this show is a testament to the great actors on this show, Laura Linney and Oliver Platt leading the bunch.  Very talented people.  I gotta say, though, the writers are still coming up far short of what this show could, and should, be, with such a great cast assembled.  Shame.

Most Convoluted tie in to Alien This is a prequal to alien, but it was so convoluted as to be rediculous. To get an alien you must: 1) Engineers had to create a race of creatures from their own DNA, ie Humans 2) Create a weapon of mass destruction that kills you, the Engineer, and apparently turns humans, with the same DNA profile, into crazed killing machines 3) Have android randomly poison a human with said weapon of mass destruction 4) The poisoned person must have sex with someone and get them pregnant 5) She must remove the bastard offspring (face hugger apparently) 6) Trick an Engineer into getting impregnated by massive face hugger(which grew 100's of times its original size in hours without food) 7) Aliens are born  WHAT THE HELL!? This was a fair scifi movie that was crammed into an existing universe.  This was worse than the Star Wars prequals.  None of the characters was fleshed out in any way past the character Arch types.  Android follows orders to the best of his ability and makes poor choices.  Rich old man wants to live forever. Rich old mans daughter wants him to die so she can take over. Scientist seeking answers that he doesnt end up liking.  Here are some questions to ask about the movie: 1-Why was the geologist, who mapped the structure, the one who got lost? Everyone else found their way out without any trouble. 2-Why would anyone take their helmets off on an alien planet, inside of an alien structure ever? 3-When lost, why would the Geoligist and random nice guy 1 stay in the chamber full of black flowing oozing liquid and then decide to play with the white snake creatures coming out of the black ooz? WHO THE HELL WOULD EVER DO THAT? "OH ITS SO CUTE LOOK IT WANTS TO PLAY" 4-How was the Engineers head, from an alien dead for thousands of years, "tricked" into thinking it was alive. These were creatures with the same DNA profile as humans. 5-Why leave a map to your chemical weapon factory? A factory which was creating a weapon so deadly it literally broke apart your DNA as it killed you? WHY LEAVE A MAP TO THAT LOCATION? It makes no sense, as it was created to infect humans, apparently. 6-Why was 1 of only 12 autodoctors, things so rare and valueable few people have ever seen them, on the space ship at all, and why would it not be programed for females, and if it wasnt programmed for females, how the hell did it perform a emergency C-section to remove an ALIEN Facehugger?  The only alien seen was at the end, on an empty planet. That is how it ties into Alien.  This movie is horrible. Save your money and either get it from net flix/amazon as a rental or steal it from online.  I feel like they owe me $ 13 and 2 hours of my life back.

Bjorn Lomborg wants attention That's pretty much all it is. The substance is all lost while he whines that nobody likes him and talks about how great he is.

Not well done AGORA was not well presented. The characters were not fully developed, the story misrepresented historical facts, the camera work was not exceptional and the scenes were at times disjointed. The average viewer may find the setting and historical background confusing. I would not recommend this film.

Icing on a Dry Cake Before anyone even THINKS of buying this film, they should at first read books debunking this phenomenon and all the political and secretive factors behind it. One good source I would highly recommend to read is "The Medjugorje Deception, Queen of Peace, Ethnic Cleansing, Ruined Lives." by E. Michael Jones. This film is simply sweet icing over a cake that's stale or mildewed on the inside!

Unrated...should mean PG-13 Guys, if your picking this up because of the cover shot and the Unrated marking, forget it. A couple quick topless scenes and lame story. Buy it for $1 if you're desperate.

Only a sadist could call this a thriller Thei ugly tragedy is truly an abommination.  Only a misanthropic director writer-director could have created such trash.  The only question I have is why Liam Neeson would make this film?  He isn't stupid like the film so I guess he must have needed the cash!

Flashy B movie, typical of today's forgettable sci-fi/alien flicks It's bad.  But if you liked Skyline and Battle Los Angelos, also lousy movies, then you'll like this one.  So, what will you find in this movie?  A pretty good beginning, but after that, it went downhill fast.  It's a cookie cutter alien flick, complete with absolutely ridiculous, leap frogging marine craft.  That's right, they came from zillions of light years away, but have no idea how to build a boat, so they hop like frogs.  And of course, today's audiences don't much care for beam weapons because they don't explode in big fireballs, so these 'advanced aliens' are using armor penetrating, explosive projectiles which tumble in the air and just happen to always land point first.  /sigh/  The entire movie basically centers around the 'bad brother' being forced to "grow up" by taking command in the alien invasion, where his boat is cut off from the the rest of the fleet by a force field.  All of the cliches and nuances of bad sci-fi/alien films are here, including aliens who are constantly switching weapons for no reason.  The actors are cardboard (except Neeson), dialogue reused from the last 50 B movies, special effects are not special at all, ending is predictable, etc, etc.  I think you've got the idea.  If you just like 'cool stuff' and lots of shooting, then this is for you.

ugh! i purchased this film because actor matthew broderick said it is the best comedy ever made. ugh! i can name dozens of films better than this! i have no problem with the seller....the movie just bored me to death! give me frank capra or preston sturges!!

Dont buy WEll, I was looking for a monsters movie and read some reviews. Most of them were good. So I bought it along with the other dvds I really wanted to buy.  I just finished watching the movie. IT IS Sooooooo boring. The movie IS NOT one of the monsters movies that year. Well, if they did not do another one the very same year, then the quote might be correct.  There are hardly monsters to see and the story is only about a photographer who has to bring his boss's daughter back from Mexico to the USA. It is about their relationship and trip back to the US. Nothing really happens.  I am really mad at me that I bought this movie. It is only worth to scrap it! A boring movie, nothing happens, very cheaply made. It will disappear in my dvd collection of dvds which wont be watched ever again..

HORRIBLE!  Big disappointment! I really hate this movie! As a huge Gojira fan, I felt VERY disappointed. Not only that, but as a film in general, it's almost completely, terrible...the script, the acting\dialogue, characters, creature design...the special effects (while not great) are probably the only good thing.  First off, Roland Emmerich\Dean Devlin (Independence Day) turned down the offer to direct the film a few times, simply because they had no interest\knowledge with the Godzilla franchise.  They wanted re-tell the story, with a re-designed beast (by "Face Off's" Patrick Tatopalous), which is basically, a giant iguanna (as shown in the opening credits) and not a terrifying, powerful-mutated dinosaur.  This "Godzilla In Name Only" (aka "GINO") barely resembles it's Japanese beast (besides the dorsal fins and re-sampled Godzilla roar). In fact, it runs away from the military and hides! And for some reason, it can't out-run a taxi cab! Not to mention, it uses "breath" for one sequence, but it's no radioactive. And...it's asexual and lays a bunch of eggs to which they hatch, giving way to a rip-off Velociraptor-like scene from Jurassic Park.  I mentioned the acting\dialogue was crappy, right? Mathew Broderick, Harry Shearer, Hank Azaria, Maria Pitillo (cute, but annoying) and Jean Reno (yes, the "Professional" Jean Reno), to name a few, are all bad in their roles, but I blame the script\directing more, than the actors (but Maria and Mathew really hurt the film). Oh and there are two characters, based on Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, that were put into the film, as somekind of "payback" by Roland\Dean for the bad reviews of Independence Day (yet, the critics aren't killed by GINO).  The script\story is just awful. I can't believe Tristar greenlighted this. Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich should be ashamed and deserve all the negativity about this film. Its a disgrace to Toho, the Godzilla franchise and Godzilla fans.  I'm hoping that Gareth Edwards and WB\Legendary Pictures will make a TRUE American Godzilla remake. "Monsters" was not very exciting, but at least Gareth has stated that he loves Godzilla movies and promises to make the "right" remake.  BTW, watch "Godzilla: Final Wars" for a special, brief cameo by GINO : )

Dreadful... and not in a good way I was sucked into renting this DVD as it starred Ving Rhames so I thought it might have a half decent budget. Wrong! Crap movie... (Spoiler alert.......) Zombies who run from fear to find back up (yeah right), and the fight at the end with the Zombie Tigers is a joke. It is an embarrassment to the Zombie Genre.

Terrible script leads to disaster For some reason, Amazon will not post my lengthy review about how horrible this movie is.  I'm suspecting it's because I'm honest and thoughtful about why this movie has so many problems.  So, I guess I'll have to wrap up my 500 word review with this brief attempt: "Stone" is one of the worst films I've seen in years.  Terrible script, ponderous acting, predictable storyline, and awful editing.  Walk away from this movie!  Anyone interested in reading my full review, let me know.

Product of Second Vatican Council The Second Vatican Council literally and completely revamped the Catholic Church. One result of these reforms, some Priests and Nuns have become militant and start to put their noses on non-religious issues.  Father Dowling Mysteries is all about a Priest and a "Secular" Nun who investigate Mysteries. Most of the plots are lame and uninteresting. Although, Tom Bosley did a good role.

Beware! Astor Studio TV Reissues!! Thought I'd pick this up today at my local Zeller's as the only copy of "Movie Struck" (Original Title: "Pick A Star") I had was recorded off of TCM. I needn't have bothered as that copy far surpasses any of these inferior television reissues. "March Of The Wooden Soldiers" (Formerly "Babes In Toyland" as the Astor reissue title card displays) is about seven minutes shorter than the full version available elsewhere; it is by far the worst print I have ever seen on video! A far superior copy of Bogus Bandits ("The Devil's Brother") is available on a double bill with Bonnie Scotland on TCM's excellent 2 disc set. Have also noticed recently that a DVD copy of "Pick A Star" is available on Amazon (though the front cover does show Movie Struck as the title, so a little research might be in order before making a purchase!) for under $20.  My advice is to avoid this "Laurel & Hardy Triple Feature" set like the plague! I'm just glad I only paid around $3 for this set!! If I had paid the current Amazon price ($12.99), I would of felt supremely ripped off indeed!!  By the way, my 1 star rating is strictly for the really crappy looking video transfers, not for the content!  As I would like to close this review on a positive note, I highly recommend to Laurel & Hardy fans the new 10 disc "Essential Collection" set! It is superb, and it really does the boys justice!!!

disappointed As a history teacher - I was thrilled to get this program. The Early information - from funding to 1961 - done well - Lincoln is given a less the positive review and the 20th century presidents are given the great Marxist treatment - only the American left can provide. Example - The Pledge of Allegiance is quoted - but they take out "one nation under God." Very sad!!!!!! Carter is given the respect - Reagan should get - yet Reagan is treated like a president who failed, when Carter's administration was failure from start to finish. In short - if your a Democratic Marxist who believes in cradle to grave regulation you'll love it - it is a modern political fairytale. If you are a Free market, God fearing capitalist - who believes in equality of opportunity and not outcome - don't bother!!!!!  It is time to tell the left - no more - we will not listen to your lies and historical distortions. Without question - Reagan was the greatest president of the 20th century - and anyone who will tell you different - is a Clinton loving Marxist - who overlooked one scandal after another - his too, would have been a failed presidency if it was not for the Republican Congress that balanced the budget in the 90s - not "I Feel your (wife) pain" Billy! Bill was the reason for the housing market failure in the early 21 century - not Bush - he tried to fix it and the democrats in congress refused to address the issue - check out youtube congressional hearings. Don't waste your money!!!!! If you believe the world would be better without America in it-Obama - then you will love this video. Sad thing about Democrats and liberal republicans - they would not know the truth if it bit them in the back side. Larry

Ho Hum Idiocy If pointless humor is your thing then this is the movie for you! Probably the best place for this movie is in a dark box where box where young people could not entertain any wrong ideas.

I WANT A REFUND I taught this was the game but all this is a bunch of highlights from the season. This is crap and I want my money back.  As a huge NFL Fan, DO NOT BUY THIS BLUERAY ! It Sucks!

Unenthralled.... I found this DVD to be extremely disappointing.  Whereas I certainly appreciate understanding the influences on Tom Waits career, I did not expect a DVD about Tom to be so absent of Tom Waits himself.  The DVD does inform regarding the many artists that Tom has culled from over the years...but speaks so little about the man I was interested to watch about...Tom Waits!  If you want depth, then this is good for you.  However, if you want to know more about Tom, or to expose yourself to more of Tom's own musical achievements, then stick to the other review DVD's out there!

Love and hate I loved iron man so much that I got it in digital format. Little did I know I couldn't use it the way I wanted too. I had to us there service download extra apps and I couldn't save it on iTunes. I could only watch it whenever I had Internet. Witch means it eats up my data package. Costing me money to stream when I shouldn't have to.

Where Are All the UFO's I love documentaries about ufos but this one seemed to presented from a skeptics point of view. The film asks the question "where are all the ufos"?... as if they are no longer around. There are more sightings now than ever before so as a fan of these films I would'nt spend the money. There are much better documentaries about this subject out there.

Worst. Movie. Ever. SPOILER ALERT~ Rented this one on Amazon Instant Video because of the strong cast. The description of this indie film as "a comedic, dark fairy tale" is the understatement of the year. T.J., the stoic boy in the film, has just lost his mother in a car crash and is bullied and abused while the four adult characters are too powerless or self-involved to notice. The father (Rainn Wilson) is paralyzed with grief and his only parenting skill is to send his son to his room. The loving grandmother is too old and ill to intercede. The psycho drifter Hesher (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) moves into the household and his volatile, obscene behavior serves to get T.J. in trouble with the law, who are also strangely blind to this child's plight. Natalie Portman's character, also burdened with a life of woe, makes a weak stab at intervention, but ends up betraying T.J. by sleeping with Hesher. At least she apologizes to this tough little kid for her bad behavior. I kind of felt like I deserved an apology for the two hours I wasted on this depressing mess.

Painful. The spoken words of Kurt Cobain would be GREAT to experience. Fortunately, this doc has them. Unfortunately, they are presented in such a farcical way as to make this film unwatchable.  About A Son would have been fantastic if not for this film's absurd stylizing fantasies. Putting so much farce into the images, it forces a viewer into the mind-boggling conflict of wanting to stay, for the Cobain audio, yet repulsed by the distracting imagery competing with - no, mocking - the powerful heartfelt voice.  Hopefully these interviews are available elsewhere, without the director trying to out-shine the real star. The words of Kurt Cobain are very powerful. Trying to give them even more power is just an insult, Schnack.

This movie is terrible When I was a child I watched this on tv. All I remember is popeye getting socked by Bluto and rolling like a wheel down the docks. This was a movie I started watching many times as a child, but after 10 or 20 minutes I would go out and play. So overall I had no memory of the whole film except that Robin Williams played popeye and he fought Bluto. Apparently even at 10 years old I had little tolerance for the rest of the mess, so if I had actually watched the entire movie, I blocked it from memory.  Recently I gave it another watch, this time the whole thing over 3 or 4 tries. ...yeah 20 minutes is about all I could take in one sitting.  In this steaming pile of(this Popeye doesn't like spinach), there are no funny gags, the entire production is surprisingly amateurish, the songs? it was as though they bought song titles without paying for rest of the the lyrics. This is a real shame because it had considerable talent involved in all aspects of its production, but they are content to just shamble around mumbling and singing.  Just thinking about it hurts, so I recommend<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1560977795">Popeye, Vol. 1: I Yam What I Yam</a>or get the original cartoons if you must dumb Segar"s greatness down at all.  Let me add... I think Altman is pretty great, Williams and Duvall are perfect for the roles, I love the original popeye strips and cartoon, I really like Nilsen, Fieffer is also a cartoonist I respect, so how could all this greatness end up looking like yesterdays lunch?

one of the worst movies i've ever seen. half of the characters are pointless.  the writing and direction is an absolute joke.  the storyline makes zero sense.  i'm serious, save your money, save your time.  don't waste 2 hours on this filth.

Garbage. Bad plot, bad acting, horrible screen play. CHEESY! One of the worst movies i ever watched. If you liked BAND OF THE HAND you may like this junk.

Similar to Plan 9 "Without reference, stupid, unfulfilling and a waste of time," is how I would rate this "paycheck" for the actors. What utter non-sense and intellectual bankruptcy contrived this movie should have titled it, "Plan 10 From Outer Space." It is the farce of Hulu's commercials to turn your mind to mush. I watched it, painfully because I could not believe that such a miscue of adventure could exist.  Lest I forget, it is also very, very boring and oh, on top of that just plain weak.  Hope that clears it up for anyone else foolish enough (like me) to suffer it. I should have been paid to watch it. So don't waste your time unless someone pays you to see it. It isn't worth a dime. Make sure you get some serious cash in the deal.

DO NOT BUY - THIS BLU-RAY IS BUTCHERED!!!!!!! Disney have butchered this release by only including the cut version of the film. It is approximately 4 minutes shorter than the full version - the most crucial song to the plot has been cut out. I for one will not be buying, and if anyone at Disney is reading this, then I implore you to tidy up this mess that has been going on for 10 years now on a future release.

A Horrible Way to Waste 87 Minutes This is the second "suspense" movie from Anchor Bay that I've reviewed, and it will also be the last. This is even worse than the other I watched ("Bereavement").  The product description says this movie is "emotionally raw, disturbingly graphic and brutally real". Wrong, wrong and wrong. This movie is slow, bland and boring.  At one point I got excited when there was an "action scene" ... a woman pours a bottle of booze down the toilet and FLUSHES IT!! Most of the violence that happens is off-screen.  There's also one of the worst sex scenes I've ever seen in a movie. Dark, out of focus, lots of soft lights (those are all through the movie by the way, to the point that I though I needed new glasses), and in such blurry closeup that I couldn't tell an a** from an elbow.  Both of these movies are supposed to be psychological thrillers. If you define that as "coma-inducing", then they're right on the money. And I'm sure this movie really "stunned festival audiences around the world". They were stunned that it was so abysmally bad. And after the movie stunned them, I hope they stoned the director.  "Anchor Bay"? I think this company should change their name to "Boat Anchor".

Gods & Generals I have had three copies of this video over the last few months and they have not played to the end of the film. Iit is not my Player as I have tried them on two different ones.

BUYER BEWARE! I LOVE the movie, let's be clear about that.  I currently own the 15th Anniversary Edition on standard DVD, and wanted to purchase a Blu-Ray to go with our upgraded TV and player.  Unfortunately, the order I placed with third party iNetVideo Fufillment for the BLU RAY version (advertised here) went awry.  Although the description and picture CLEARLY state this is a Blu-ray disc you are ordering, I recieved a STANDARD DVD (definitely NOT what I ordered).  I'm not sure if the company doesn't understand that the two are not the same, or if the workers in charge of packaging do not, but this kind of mistake is certainly a glaring one.  I will be getting a refund through Amazon.  This is either a communication mix up within the company, or deceptive advertising (if someone thinks that no one is going to notice the difference between a Blu Ray and DVD - that's insane - esp. since you can get a standard DVD of the same movie for HALF the price)!  BEWARE!<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004DTLK62">Chaplin (15th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray</a>]

NOT IN the 3D you EXPECT, what a ripoff Who would pay for the 1970's red/blue glasses 3D of any movie??  Much less a movie that is a recent 3D release when people who have 3D Bluray.  In the day where current releases labeled "3D Bluray" I don't expect to get a movie labled "3D Bluray disc" which was created this old 1970's format and put 4 pair of the cardboard red/blue glasses in the box!  Were they too cheap and figured that if they just rolled it out with this type of 3D that everyone would buy it thinking it's current technology and not return it?  This is a joke, glad I didn't open it, it's going back today.  The current technology 3D is available on PPV on DirecTV if you own a 3DTV, so hopefully people will avoid this version like the plague and hope for a proper 3D Bluray!

hollywood attacks another one of our protectors If you were fighting communist then Hollywood hates you. The crossdressing allegation though brought up by an enemy in a Kitty Kelly style book  without basis and rejected even by his enemies is now TRUTH.  And Hollywood can attack the man with no basis.

PORNOGRAPHY!? This is not the type of movie that would be brought out at Christmas, Thanksgiving or when the "folks" are coming over. This is something that would be viewed late at night with the "guys," cigars and booze. Call some of us prudes, call us anything you wish. It will not change the fact that this particular movie is for ONE definite group. Amazon should have a warning on the product page stating that the content "could be offensive to some." My copy was immediately sold at Amazon, and this is my second review written in the last 3 days. Interesting, that the original was included immediately and gone 2 days later. We're told (see to your right) to "be detailed and specific" ... but be careful not to say anything that might indicate that Amazon did anything wrong. If you really want to see what this "masterpiece" is all about, read the other reviews.

Cuckoo Film I saw this film years ago so my memory of the details are no doubt fuzzy but the impression the film made on me is indelible.  When we came out of the convention center, there was a theater showing One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest for $1.00 before five PM. It was then 4:45 PM so I said, "I'm in the motion picture business and this film won five Academy Awards. Let's go in and see it." What I remember:  Jack Nicholson is committed to a modern mental institution. He declares that he has been committed only for the "F" word and for fighting. Soon after his admittance the men on the ward are punished for smoking cigarettes and not allowed to watch the World Series on TV. Nicholson of course opposes such severe punishment - because the World Series means so much to the men.  Nicholson then decides what the men really need for their mental illness (in addition to cigarettes) is liquor, so he acquires cases of booze for the patients to have a wonderful time.  Nicholson has so many clever witty lines that he becomes lovable to those who admire defiant antisocial behavior. One reviewer described it well when he said it was a "gut and soul-wrenching movie, with many moments of high maniacal comedy interspersed."  There is very shy young man on the ward with a severe stuttering problem. Who else has the answer but Nicholson? He knows, without it being said, that the boy's stuttering must be coming from sexual repression; so Nicholson arranges (I don't remember how) for a prostitute to be brought onto the ward and they lock the women in the room all night with the boy who stutters. In the morning after spending the night with the prostitute, the boy's stuttering completely stops! He is now self assured, confident and speaks clearly.  When the head nurse learns about what had happened, she asks the boy, "What would your mother think if she knew about what you have done?"  Immediately the boys stuttering returns and he becomes again the shy, pathetic, trembling person he was before. At that point in the film, many young men in the audience of the theater where I watched the film stood and screamed, "KILL THE BITCH, KILL HER, KILL HER, KILL HER!" Those words and the screaming, I will never forget! Makes me wonder what those boys will think of their own mothers who want them to be moral, and decent.  The film ends when a great big Indian smothers Nicholson (Crucifies the savior of the patients in the hospital and the savior of mental illness) with a pillow. The giant Indian then rips out a water cooler and with super human strength heaves the cooler through the bars and window of the hospital which he runs through to get away. I guess this was supposed to symbolize that patients in mental institutions need to break free from Cuckoo hospitals and from a repressive society that has made them mentally ill.  Jack Nicholson who was committed to the hospital for the "F" word and for fighting was the hero who "flew over" in the film because he was the only one who really understood the causes of mental illness. That's brilliant, isn't it? One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest that won 5 Academy Awards is about as Cuckoo as a film could get.  What did the film really teach? That mental illness is caused by a society that represses indulgence; and that mental health is achieved by satisfying all of our appetites, no matter how base or how carnal; and if anyone tries to dissuade us, be it a nurse, a teacher or a mother, they deserve to be killed!  Academy awards and 284 people giving this film a 5 star rating tells us how sick our society is. Read the comments for a confirmation of this.  See all of my Reviews. I write only about books, events, or motion pictures that have changed the course of history or unforgettable books or motion pictures that will totally change peoples lives.  Darrell Stoddard, Founder - Pain Research Institute

not a dvd that plays on most DVD players had to throw it out.  Only plays on those HD-DVD players that no one has. Regular DVD players don't play this version. I don't think many people ever bought HD-DVD players and as far as i understand they don't make them anymore because of DVRs and Blue Ray players. So if you just have a regular DVD player and don't know much about technology, i guarantee you that you don't have an HD-DVD player, even if you have an HD-TV.  Just get the regular DVD.

So shallow that it leaves you speechless.... ...this movie caused a vacuum bubble in my brain that took several hours to pop. The story itself is of course so devoid of intelligence, logic, wit and creativity that there are no words to describe it. OK, no news here... Obviously, this material can not be accessed with the mind - I have accepted this fact. Since I'm absolutely no fan of the series, that's my first problem. The sheer stupidity and offensiveness of the book/plot have been discussed all over the internet for years now, so I won't waste any time on this. Instead, I'll just focus on the film as a film - which is a complete disaster.  It is slow and tedious, utterly harmless, the dialogue makes your hair curl. Forgettable soundtrack. Even worse, it is a cold, heartless affair, with absolutely no romance or sensuality at all - I had to listen to quite a lot of Marvin Gaye afterwards to get warm again. Even so, what enraged me the most is how it relentlessly rips off scenes from films that are  a hundred times better than itself. My personal favorites :  1. when B. Swan and E. Cullen take their mumbled vows, the wedding guests seemingly disappear, leaving the two of them alone on the screen...   - stolen from "Pride And Prejudice", Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy dancing at the ball at Netherfield Park - unbelievable !  2. chess game on island   - stolen from the original "Thomas Crown Affair", where it is sexy and mesmerizing. Obviously, this effect is not repeated here - why ?   Because Kristen Stewart can't hold a candle to Faye Dunaway.   Because Pattinson is a million lightyears away from Steve McQueen.   Because the characters are in need of excessive therapy to cure their intimacy problems.  3. (the most outrageous one) Bella Bloody Swan opening her eyes for her regrettable return to (some sort of) life at the end   - here the film bluntly rips off the last shot of "Avatar", which I find particularly daft, since this marvelous movie is only 2 years old and every person on   earth seems to have seen it - I'm surprised they got away with that.  There is not much more to say about this thing, since there is so little in it. It lacks any suspense, provides no intellectual stimulation, and there is no feeling or chemistry to compensate for those. It lulls you into a vegetative state. The film itself would have benefitted from an adrenalin injection into it's heart. Or maybe venom, or orange juice, just any kind of fluid.... You couldn't find any humor in it even if you watched it through the Hubble Telescope. It's quite amazing how all the carefully contrived problems, scarce as they are, miraculously solve themselves. Of course, this has to be attributed to the workings of Meyer's mind. Once again, I am in awe of the fact that something so dull and derivative can become such a success. What's the matter with people nowadays ?  The franchise resembles it's creations :  pale, ice cold, with no blood in it's veins, utterly lifeless - and still, it just won't die. Unfortunately, it doesn't sparkle - just like Mr. Cullen seems to have lost his silly glitter somewhere on the flight from Washington to Rio, which in the film appears to be about 2 hours long. Maybe he walked into the cockpit and used some vamp muscle on the throttle ?  An inexcusable waste of time and brain tissue.

needs to give more instructions this DVD does not give you a breakdown of the moves, it is done too quickly and you struggle to keep up. Not like other DVD's that give good instructions and takes the time to show you the steps. No wonder it was so cheap, doubt if I use it again. If you are a quick learner then this would be a good cardio workout for you.

Not for animal lovers I watched the first 5 minutes before letting the young ones aged 4 and 5 see it. Boy am I glad I did. A chicken is taken away from his friends for not producing enough eggs. He's taken to be slaughtered. You see the farmer and his ax. Then the silhouette of the chicken having his head chopped off. Then the rest of the chickens sad and scared. Needless to say I never showed it to the kids.

BEWARE!!! G-r-e-a-t film but: HORRIBLE BLU-RAY "FORMATTING" ERROR!!! After waiting months for this amazing classic on Blu-ray, I received it in the mail yesterday, ripped it open, popped a HUGE bag of popcorn, ordered pizza, and threw it onto my (brand new!) Sony player to watch it with my wife and kids on my (brand new!) 46" Sony bigscreen. Couldn't wait, as the old DVD was substandard (but at least it had correct "formatting"). Let me explain, as that terminology might be incorrect.  First, over Saul Bass's titles, the horses seemed a bit "wide." Optical illusion? Tired eyes? But NO, the real horror hit when Gregory Peck got off of the stagecoach, and instead of looking his normal 6'3", HE APPEARED ABOUT 5'9" AND WITH ADDED POUNDS. My kids didn't notice it as they didn't know what to expect, but when I asked my wife, she squinted, then nodded slowly in disbelief, her mouth wide. Then she looked at me, slowly shaking her head.  Neither of us said more, but watched with jaws in our laps in mute horror as Greg was greeted by a 5'10" Charlton Heston, then was hugged by a 5'1" Carroll Baker and was introduced to a 4'6", chubby Jean Simmons. Something was clearly wrong when Chuck Conners and his brothers looked like a family of slightly oversized dwarfs. OFF! went the Blu-ray (and I had bought two copies, one to give as a Christmas gift)!  *SIGH*  ON! went the "old" DVD, just to make sure we weren't all hallucinating. If you're in my boat, try this: freeze Gregory Peck on Blu-ray after he leaves the stagecoach and walks around it (just before he checks his hat), when he's still in a full shot (head-to-toe). Then freeze the old DVD in the exact same place; you'll see right away that in the "old" DVD Greg looks his normal, lean, 6'3" self, whereas on the Blu-ray he looks less than imposing, like he'd come west on a doughnut truck rather than a stagecoach.  Some of you might remember how the same thing happened (12 or so years ago?) with an early version of a SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS DVD (non-Blu-Ray, of course). Both the brides and brothers looked like, instead of dancing, they'd been hibernating in the woods for several months with stores of Krispy Cremes and egg-nog. We purchasers of it never received satisfaction, other than the fact that about two years later a 2-disc set came out with the ("formatting?") correct.  Not sure who's to blame - there is now a 20th Century-Fox* Home Video logo that appears before the M-G-M lion logo - doubly ironic since the movie was made by neither, but by United Artists (of MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, VIKINGS and GREAT ESCAPE, etc., fame - wonder how THOSE Blu-Rays look - GULP!!)  *Rupert - is EVERYONE there at NewsCorp asleep on the bridge?  Guess this means that from now on whenever we buy a Blu-Ray we'd better rip it open and play it immediately, so that three years from now when we decide to run it, we're not stuck watching a cast from MunchkinLand, with no memory of where or how we bought it, unable by then to return or exchange it. So much for one more technological "advance." Yikes, guys...really?!!  Asked with love...of great films the way they "should" look...!  Sincerely,  -John Hanson, Studio City, CA;  email, if anyone is interested: studiosolutions101@gmail.com

The Birds DVD This DVD was a waste of money. It did not work on any of my players DVD players or on my laptop.

Disasterously dumb Honestly, I wasn't expecting much from this movie... direct to DVD, the biggest "star" in it was Kip Pardue, not even a production credit from Eli Roth... but I had no idea it would be so aggressively stupid and just plain insulting to the intelligence of its audience. Hostel was popular not just due to its gore, but because it played on American fears of that dark and alien place that is eastern europe, as well as themes of xeno and homophobia. In short, it was torture porn that was smarter than it had any right to be and that is why it was such a success. Then along comes Hostel II with slightly less provocative gender themes, misogyny and one of the most disturbing and graphic death scenes to grace cinema theaters in a while. Now we have Hostel III, a movie that is so distant from its predecessors that, as I stated before, it's just plain insulting to viewers.  Hostel III follows the Elite Hunting Club's continued booming business of torture and murder, this time taking us to the U.S. (mistake number one) Las Vegas (what happens there stays there, get it?) to be precise, where club members not only get to indulge in acts of carnage, but also have the option of watching and even placing bets on the dismemberment. A group of guys, lead by hasbeen Kip Pardue (you know how I know he's a hasbeen? cause he's staring in Hostel III!) out celebrating their buddy's impending wedding. While this premise sounds mildly promising, it isn't, not even a little bit. This movie fails for one main reason: it betrays its source material completely and utterly. Even with the limited budget of a direct to DVD release, one would at least expect to see some decent gore and disturbing carnage, right? Think again, instead you'll be treated to some of the most bloodless and stupidest deaths you've ever seen.  Number one: a person does not die from having their face peeled off.  Number two: hissing cockroaches do not crawl into people's mouths by the hundreds to choke them to death.  Number three: why on earth is there an unrated version of this? I didn't see anything that was disturbing or horrific enough to even warrent a hard R rating. I'll tell you why, it's a sales gimmick.  It's crap like this that is so insulting, to think that this garbage's makers believed that they could piggy back off of decent horror films like Hostel and Hostel II, and try to sell audiences cheap toilet paper like this is just a slap in the face. The worst SAW movie is leaps and bounds better than Hostel III, which is a truly sad and accurate statement. I actually feel dumber for having watched this movie. Save yourself some angst and a few brain cells and skip this movie. Rewatch the first two instead.

Very unfulfilled I was hoping that this movie would be funny as the previews had some good lines, but am disappointed.  The movie does have a couple good one liners, but they are stretched between painfully whiny dialogue that goes on forever.

Trying to order it for school. Went and tried to buy the whole movie, and I got a message stating that the video will be in my library if and when my order process. I have to watch this video for my final assignment in my History of Money class.

not that into it My mom had this movie on VHS. I tried watching it a few times with out getting bored. But it didn't work. I decided to give Caddyshak a second chance. I ordered it from here for a good cheap price. I am in the middle of watching it at the moment since I received it. I'm paying more attention to it this time, but it is still a little boring to me. Its just not for me.

One of the Worst...... Nope, the worst movie I have seen in a long long time, and besides not being funny...who's the one with plastic surgery from hell?

Second rate I never saw this when it first came out and for some reason it had good reviews so I thought I would give it a chance, big mistake.  Even though it had some big names in it, it is a second rate production with poor acting, direction and script.  The noble Muslim against the Itaiian oppressors from a very slanted point of view.  I am not excusing what Italy did but this is so very slanted that it has no real perspective to it and since the production values are so bad it just is a waste of time.  Anthony Quinn is a fine actor but even he needs something to work with and this is not it. Don't waste your time of money.

WOW!!!! PARENTS BEWARE I HAVE WATCH THIS PROGRAM DEMAND.  I DID NOT THINK IT WAS TO BAD, NOT GOOD, BUT NOT THAT BAD.  BUT WHEN I BOUGHT THE VIDEO, I  WAS SHOCKED AT HOW DISRESPECTFUL HE WAS TOWARDS RELIGION.  I DID NOT SEE THIS ON HIS TV PROGRAMS. BUT HIS STAND UP COMEDY IN ANOTHER SUBJECT ALTOGHER.  NEEDLESS TO SAY, WE NO LONGER WATCH THIS PROGRAM AT ALL.  THE VIDEO WAS THOWN OUT.

Not For Me I understood the point that was intended (pun intended), but thought this film was a total drag.  Not only was it boring and slow-moving, but I had no interest in any of the characters.  Fred needs to get a life.  And the ending was like, huh?  Absurdly ridiculous.  Sorry I wasted my time on this one and cannot understand how this could have won awards.

Excruciating! I rented this in a 3 for $10 deal along with Law Abiding Citizen and The Informant. I should have rented a different movie along with Law Abiding Citizen and The Informant because this movie sucks. I'm a big Adam Sandler fan ever since seeing Happy Gilmore and I can't believe he went from that to this garbage. The problem with this movie is that it has too much going to have a consistent plot to it. The talents of Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen are totally wasted here. Jason Schwartzman, who I thought was entertaining in Fantastic Mr. Fox, also has his talent wasted here. The part with him being a TV actor on a show called "Yo Teach!" was laughably bad. Rza does provide some comic relief as Seth Rogen's co-worker at the grocery store deli, but the movie is far too horrible for Rza's comic relief to save this movie. The movie is far too long for a comedy or as I like to call it "dramedy." Up In The Air is not even this long and it's a far better movie than this one. If you want an Adam Sandler movie that's part comedy and part drama, then check out Spanglish. That movie is not your typical Adam Sandler movie and succeeds where this movie fails. There are much better ways to spend 2 and a half hours of your life than watching this disappointing piece of garbage!

5 thumbs down I expected a lot more of this movie, but to be honest I thought it was one of the poorest movies I have seen.  It just doesn't seem possible that this could be based too closely on the real story. It was also way too preachy for me, if I knew I would not have even rented it. Thankfully I didn't dump money on it.

Films sick message is that it is better for daddy to murder mommy than to have a disabled child! This horrible films sick message is that it is better to have a murdered mommy with the daddy in prison, than to have a disabled child!  Are you freaking kidding me?  This is what Hollywood is producing nowadays?  That it is better to murder the mom than to have a blind and deaf son?  Wow!  Disgusting, sick, deplorable film with no redeeming value whatsoever!

Poor quality I tried to play this CD in three different players.....it would not work.  I returned it for another one and the same thing happened.  Amazon then gave me a credit.  Evidently there was a manufacturing flaw in this CD.  Other CD's that I ordered were okay.  Returning the "bad" CD was no problem.....Amazon was very helpful and it was easy to return the merchanise.

DO NOT BOTHER This was a great waste of money. I bought it on impulse and was very disappointed. There is a warning for graphic nudity on it and everything is blurred out apart from a brief glimpse of straight sex on a tv screen that these guys are using to get hard. There is nothing sexy or even particularly informative about this documentary. The film makers clearly couldn't get access to the good quality porn makers in Europe so went with the low rent ones.

Showgirls meets Carrie meets Staying Alive If you've seen the three films in the title of this review (and they are all better films than Black Swan BTW) then you've seen Black Swan.  So we remove points for originality right off the top.  Deduct more points for pervasive and corny CGI effects (want to see excellent use of CGI?  See Gaspar Noe's Irreversible).  More points removed for the underwhelming acting by Natalie Portman.  Uggh... the Academy rarely gets best actress right and this year is no exception.  We'll also deduct points for Hollywood's liberal (pun intended) use of female masturbation, girl on girl, instructor on girl,  girl on... well you get the idea. All in all we've got no points left to deduct and so much more bad movie to cover.  So we'll leave it at that.  Darren Aronofsky had made two great films... Requiem for a Dream and the Wrestler.  But this is not a great film.  It's not even a good film.  It's an over the top and convoluted mess.  Hell even the ending was bad.

READ THIS BEFORE BUYING Do not buy this. take my advice.  1) the image is appallingly awful.  it is grainy. the color is horrid. all around crap. it would look better on VHS than this garbage. 2) it is pan and scan. no wide screen. there are parts when two characters are talking and you can't even see all of their bodies because of how badly it was cut off. 3) no matter what DVD player i play it on, throughout the first chapter, i cannot seem to get rid or a little "PLAY" icon on the top right during playback. it is not my players. 4) the audio is off everywhere. sometimes you can't hear any dialogue.  PLEASE DO NOT BUY THIS. LEARN FROM MY MISTAKE.

Very disappointing I don't know whether I just received a bad disc (since no one else has described the problem I have experienced), but I have serious difficulties playing it. The sound keeps stopping and starting, skipping and repeating, while the video itself keeps moving on (yes, in 3D). The feature documentary is only 39 minutes long but I was so frustrated by the poor performance I gave up watching after about 15-20 minutes.  I suspect I am missing nothing, other than the money I wasted on this product, because the documentary is quite boring. It is supposed to be about mummies and the secrets of the pharaohs, but it spends more time showing silly pagent-style re-enactments of what the ancient Egyptians allegedly behaved like. Then it starts talking about DNA and malaria.  I do not know what the rest of the disc shows because all the skipping of the sound just got to me and I could not watch the rest.  As for the 3D everyone else seems to be talking about: Do not buy this disc for 3D. It is overdone, shot with too large an interaxial distance, which makes everything look like miniature models instead of the real thing. It may have worked on the huge IMAX screen, it definitely does not work on a 3D TV or computer monitor.  Sorry, folks, I normally only write reviews of products I really like. In this case, however, I had to make an exception to warn you. Not only is the Blu-ray disc deficient, the 39-minute content comes to about 50 cents a minute (or in my case a dollar a minute since I had to give up in the middle), way too much for something that should have never been ported from the large IMAX screen to a small TV or monitor in your living room.  Get something else!

Booooorrrrrrriiiiinnnnngggggg!!!!!! I wouldn't spend two cents on this movie!  What a total waste of time and acting ability.  Good thing they had supporting actors, this was a flop.

Really? Okay, I want to say it is a good workout, it really makes you sweat, however does she ever shut up? Her mouth is running like a ducks behind with bad diarrhea through the entire work out! It is very annoying and makes me want to turn it off! Plus it makes it hard to concentrate on your breathing and form. After the first two uses I have now learned to push the mute button when I begin and just follow along with a music cd in my stereo. Thank GOD for the mute button, otherwise I would have just thrown this in the trash! I will continue to use this Jillian Michaels DVD, however I will NEVER purchase another one of her workout videos, she is just way to annoying!

The closerm season 7, episode 12 I just viewed the episode 12, of Season 7 and it was the worst bit of writing, acting and directing I have ever witnessed. What a waste of time!  I know it is difficult to remain fresh after so many years, but why not just show reruns instead. Yuk can't even begin to express how awful it was.

a stupid low budget movie This movie was a waste of my time, Amazon should give me a refund. The movie was self center, and to be honest with you, I cant tell you what it was about. Did the wrritten beg you to put the movie on Amazon????

horrible movie This movie is awful. I didn't even bother unloading it on some unsuspecting soul .. I just threw it away.

Good film, weak streaming from Amazon Moneyball is a strong film and one of Brad Pitt's best performances. But Amazon's instant streaming is very disappointing. I'm streamed hundreds of films on Netflix with no problems whatsoever. The Amazon service delivered a low-resolution picture that stopped three times to download the rest of the file. And even though I paid the purchase price, the file won't play on my iPad or iPhone. I won't be buying this product from Amazon again.

No Digital COPY! The info for this product is misleading. It seems like this is the only option for blu-ray, DVD and digital copy but digital copy for the brand new copy of this movie was expired before we even made our purchase. If you are looking for a digital copy this is not the way to go.

BEWARE OF MULTIPLE CUT SCENES!!!!!! I'll start by saying I LOVE "The Great Raid". The movie itself is tense & exciting and the acting top notch. But I was terribly saddened to see MULTIPLE SCENES MISSING from the "Director's Cut" Blu-ray DVD release, scenes which were included in the standard DVD release of this film.  GONE is the scene where Margaret (Connie Nielsen) and Cora (Eugenia Yuan) are attempting to buy quinine from the Filipino underground, and are forced to flee for their lives when they realize they're being set up for a robbery.  GONE is the scene where Margaret is first accosted by the Kempetai officer at her apartment, and is slapped by the soldiers after trying to push past them to reenter her apartment.  GONE is the scene where the Rangers are under the bridge in the dark of night, and the Japanese truck stops so one of the soldiers can relieve himself.  GONE is the scene where Margaret attempts to buy passage on an evacuation truck in the jungle, and uses her watch to buy additional rides for the poor woman & daughter who didn't have enough money.  Can someone please explain to me why these scenes were cut? Granted, there was additional footage included in the Blu-ray edition that wasn't in the standard DVD release. But they were just extentions of scenes that were unimportant to the film, and certainly not worthy of the scenes that were sacrificed to make room for the extended scenes. But why sacrifice scenes at all? Isn't Blu-ray supposed to hold four times the data of a regular, standard DVD? Would it have killed those money-grubbing thieves in Corporate to have included both the new, extended scenes as well as the old scenes that were removed? Haven't we, the hard-working consumers who keep you guys in business, been cheated, robbed, gouged, and tricked enough into buying far inferior products in the name of Corporate greed?  It's funny..but if I walk out my front door right now and steal 20 bucks out of some poor slob's wallet, I can be arrested and charged with robbery and most likely thrown in jail. But if some rich jerk in a fancy suit with a Corporate logo robs me in the name of business (over & over again lol), he's rewarded with huge bonuses and grows fat off the cheated consumer's carcass.  You gotta love it!  PS. I'd send this crap of a Blu-ray back to Amazon for a refund if I thought I stood a fat chance of getting it. What a bunch of crap!

Don't buy Ultraviolet Copy!! I really liked the movie, but the Ultraviolet Copy is TERRIBLE!  Instead of it being a simple download to my computer, it's a complicated sign-up after sign-up to make new accounts for paramount.com and also with Ultraviolet.  Then after all of that, I still can't download it to iTunes.  In order to watch the movie I have to be connected to the internet and use the Paramount Application.  Totally inconvenient.  If you are an iTunes user, just download it from there.  Now if there is a way to download it straight to iTunes, will someone please let me know?  Thank you!

Only the robot was likeable Very disappointing. The only one worth liking was the poor robot that got the crap beat out of him. By the end, I don't even like the kid, as he was more about letting the robot fight than in finding any kind of 'friend' with the robot. Like dad like son. And Jackman's character had like only 1 redeeming quality. Even in the end the kid goes back to the sister-in-law and not with Jackman. So what is the point?

This Movie belongs in the Trash awful awful awful I at first thought when I saw this movie in Target what an interesting movie. Then I looked on the back Eli Roth Stated the most sick and twisted film I have ever seen or something like that. What he should have said instead would be The worst horror movie I have ever seen utter Garbage. But I dont think that would help sell many copies now. Okay the plot gos down like this these two women are in the back woods on there way who nows where I havent seen it in a while so I dont remember all the details thats how bad this film is. This film is bad bad in a funny what was the directer thinking way.So yes it is a human Centipede this sick guy lores thse two woman and some dude too his house no they stumble there and he put some nock out drink in the girls water. So they get nocked out cold.They wake up and realize this weirdo has held them hostage.He explains later on in this film how he wants too make a human centipede  freeky right.What I thought this  movie would be is some human centipede creature terrorizing people in like caves and such. Boy was I wrong this movie is just dumb. The blood and guts was the only good thing this film had to it The sets looked like utter trash.This movie looked like it was made on a $50'000.00 budget not good im all for low budget films if you can make it look good like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre did but this movie is no Filet Mignon on the movie scale its more like a $1.00 Cheesburger from Mcdonalds not good after I saw this film im like I am never going too watch this stupid movie again  I recommend this movie too people who dont care about plot or the acting just want too be freaked out that and see some gore this movie is without a doubt worth only 1 star too me. If I was able too give this movie half a star I would trust me its that bad. Only watch this movie if you want too make fun of it. I really miss the days when horror movies were mostly well put together films these days you have too sort through so many movies too get too the good ones. Well thats it for this review of this trashy film. I did have a few laughs with my buddies after seeing it though so thats priceless but I will never get back the time I spent watching it unfortunately.

A strike out When a film says it has chapter selection and subtitles, but has neither, though it does say it has 2 foreign language sub titles (has neither) then the disc is not any good to me.  I will be returning this film.

It's Garbage When this came out I supported it. I even watched the 2 longer cuts. I thought that the director really loved Watchmen and this was his way of showing that love. I guess he does love it but the bottom line is that Zack Snyder is an idiot who makes crummy movies. I don't think his "appreciation" of Watchmen ever went beyond, "Omigod! It's a superhero comic with violence and sex and curse words!"  Comics don't make good movies. They are their own special medium. Hollywood preys upon a certain segment of "fandom" who need to have their tastes validated by popular acceptance. They crank out adaptations of comics, video games, and old "cult" movies to make fast money, knowing that "fan loyalty" transcends good judgment. That's the only reason the long gestated Watchmen movie was ever greenlit. It's all nonsense. There is no need for a Watchmen movie, especially one as bad as this.  Just read the comic, it's brilliant.  I guess I've just had it with Hollywood pillaging (and ruining) comics. I've especially had it with this shallow, crummy director. He is not worthy of this material.

Taken Taken is an action flick that's both efficient and absurd, and so it's often entertaining -- but only up to a point. The film stars Liam Neeson as a retired CIA agent who learns his daughter has been abducted in Paris; upon receiving a frantic phone call from her, he tracks her down -- and finds himself on the trail of a massive criminal enterprise. Taken is a sprightly piece of work, and Neeson is compelling in the lead role, but the film is weighted down by contrivances and leaps in logic.

Worst Comedy I've Seen Since Cop Out My brother suggested this movie and I probably laughed once or twice throughout the movie. The only reason why I watched the whole thing was because my brother rented this damn movie for Thanksgiving!  The movie is plagued with fart jokes and one-liners and worst of all, the jokes felt overly forced into the movie. Too many attempts to make the movie funny. For goodness sake, instead of cramming a lame joke every minute how about thinking up of one really good joke every few minutes!

One Star or less I've read some excellent spot-on 1-star reviews here of "Eat Pray Love" that I couldn't really improve upon. The shallow, self-centered Julia Roberts character certainly deserves all the vitriol and criticism thrown her way in these reviews and I'm happy to see many are women. The sad thing is, this type of self-entitled solipsistic person really does exist. Don't think so? For a dose of grim reality, just read some of the 5-star reviews in which Roberts' character is seen as inspiring. What a sad existence it must be which leads one to see this character as a role model.

I hated it so much that I shut it off after an hour I should have shut it off sooner. The opening scene of the damage from Hurricane Katrina showed promise to me but the movie quickly went downhill from there. Constant swearing, constant violence -- yes, I guess you could call it a gritty police drama, but one that I hated.  The film is about drug cops Val Kilmer (boring boring boring) and partner 50 Cent (I liked him) and their department which is being investigated for corruption. Michael Biehn plays an FBI agent and Sharon Stone a department shrink, played in a ho-hum manner, at least in the hour I watched. Or should I say 'endured'.  Not worth watching.

How to RUIN a great musical One of Broadway's "best ever" musicals was absolutely ruined by Hollywood's casting of Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons. Sinatra is OK but doesn't really have the acting/comedic chops to pull this off. What the hell were they thinking? If you've ever seen even an amateur stage production of this incredibly wonderful musical, you'll HATE this movie. Even "Adelaide's Lament" is poorly filmed/directed even though the actress is the original B'way Adelaide. Sad... very sad. I haven't purchased this movie from Amazon; I've cringed thru several showings of this bomb on TV and in movie theatres. This is not a comment on the reproduction qualities of the film, it's a comment on the original crappy casting and direction of what should could have been a timeless and cherished musical classic gem (imagine 'West Side Story' if starring Donny Osmond as Tony, Miley Cyrus as Maria and directed by whoever directed 'Caddy Shack'). Oh... the horror!

The Worst Representation of Black Surfing EVER!!!! It shouldn't have even been rated that, but you have to check one. "White Wash" when it was first presented to me, I thought it had a good starting point. Then the project disappeared. It has resurfaced again in 2011 right at the perfect moment, election time. This movie is so horrible in its message (I am not even sure there was a message) and repetitive nature that literally, I had to pause calm down and try it again. I am first hand watching the events going on in black surfing (I am quite familiar with the majority in this movie)and this movie will bring everything a lot of people have worked for crashing straight to the ground.There is nothing inspirational, nothing. There are black surfers all over the world. This movie doesn't come close to representing the true nature of what it means to be a black surfer. This is a group of friends who got together and said, "Let's make the first black surf movie." With the exception of Buttons K, this movie is about the BSA. Who does not help in anyway to work towards the progression of getting more black people involved in surfing. The plaque they show at Inkwell Beach Santa Monica, CA was a result of someone finally stepping forward to move black surfers into the new millennium not take the back of the bus again. They added Kelly Slater, Rob Machado, Sam George, and Sal Masekela for ticket sales. OMG this is a beast of some sickening nature. Hypocrisy is not the new black.

OMG I can't belive this movie got rave reviews.  I kept hoping during the movie I would laugh but sadly it didn't happen.

Sandler should retire! Alright I will keep this short and sweet, not only is Sandler tarnishing his reputation as a comedian but also at the box office.His last 5 to 10 movies have been awful, either kiddie movies or garbage like this one. He acts like if he was back in his 20's but he is just damaging his persona doing stupid movies. His career is going down the fish bowl of crap with hollow roles like these.

DO NOT BUY THIS EDITION!!!!!!! I love empire records. I'm well aware that it is not a particularly good movie and that there are many things wrong with it, but it reminds me of my childhood (I was 11 when it came out) and I loved it back then so I love it now because it brings me back to a simpler, more innocent time. That being said, this version of the movie is bloody awful. They changed soooo many things. Different music, omitted lines, omitted scenes, added scenes (which are all awful and take away from the charm of the movie btw...they were best left on the cutting room floor...). It gives the movie a totally different vibe, which for fans of the movie is like blasphemy. Not to mention taking out lines and scenes and music that are a huge part of what fans love about the movie......???? Travesty. Total travesty. The bigger travesty though is that there is little warning of this. The description does mention that there's 16 minutes of added footage but it does not mention all the other changes/omissions NOR does it clearly explain that this extra footage is plopped right into the movie (as opposed to being available in the special features) or that there's no option to watch the original theatrical version of the film...the version that FANS know and love...and since this DVD claims to be a special "fan edition" its upsetting that they seem to have completely forgotten about the fans. Don't buy this DVD If you love empire records. You're better off just saving your money for the non-special edition DVD and just watching whichever deleted scenes are available on that. This version of the movie is TERRIBLE...definitely not worth the money. I feel like ive been serriously ripped off....I want to watch the movie that i love...not the version that wasn't good enough to release in the first place.....

Different Pilates instructor than advertised on site, cover, and DVD I received this DVD and discovered to my surprise that instead of 60 minutes of Pilates instruction from Ana Caban, there was 40 minutes of Pilates instruction from Jillian Hessel.  The cover and even the DVD graphic art show Ana, but the content of the actual DVD is different from advertised.  I like Jillian Hessel's instruction so will not return the DVD but I'm not happy that the contents were so different than advertised.  From looking at other reviews, it appears that I am not the only one who has received a DVD with Jillian.

Exchanging one dogma for another As I live in Johannesburg, South Africa, Bill Maher is an unknown here and his name meant nothing to us, so we had no idea what to expect from this DVD. When we saw the DVD was directed by the director of "Borat", we did consider not buying it but, as the subject matter could have been interesting, decided to keep an open-mind and purchased it, only to be disappointed by Maher's handling of the topic.  While parts of this DVD were hilariously funny, overall Bill Maher deliberately sought out the most extreme (and kooky) fundamentalists of different faiths he could find. Although Maher suggested that he wanted to have his own thought process challenged, he appeared more interested in finding stooges for his rude and domineering interviewing style.  When he was challenged with ordinary people whose faith clearly gave them comfort, he mocked them. When a highly intelligent person was about to respond to Maher's challenges to his faith with, one assumes, reason and logic, Maher conveniently cut away or interrupted. When the non-Zionist (and admittedly fundamentalist)Rabbi refused to let him get away with it, Bill quickly lost his own sense of humour and stomped off. Clearly he does not like being on the receiving end of the type of treatment he dishes out to others. Who knows what valid points that could have raised interesting discussions around faith were deliberately cut out and left on the editing room floor? His rather abrupt attempt to appear as a serious philosopher of religion (or non-religion) in the last ten or so minutes of the film made little impact because he'd spent so long trying to be funny(at other people's expense.)  I find it rather sad that Bill Maher's taunts and jibes appear to spring from a need to prove to himself, more than to anyone else, that people with faith are crazy. And, in his desire to prove his point *at the expense of other people*, Maher thus lost an opportunity to present a cogent and rational argument in an intelligent, but light-hearted, manner.  While I laughed more than I did in the horrendous "Borat", there is little to recommend in this film.

Disgusting I was initially pretty curious given the title... but after watching it, it has to be the worst movie I've seen. Just totally disgusting for no point, major gaps in logic errors... etc.. To write anymore would involve me having to remember it... would rather not.

Wrong printing of the dvds The films are not burned on the good discs. It means that each film has a wrong name written on the disc. Too bad.

THE BUCCANEER FIRST IT TOOK FOR EVER TO RECIEVE WHEN IT FINALLY GOT HERE  , I WAS UNABLE TO VIEW IT IMMEDIATELY. THE INTODUCTION MUSIC WAS FINE BUT WHEN THE MOVIE ACTUALLY STARTED -NO SOUND- NOW I'M STUCK WITH A DVD I CAN'T EVEN ENJOY.

Another Piece of Unfunny Garbage from Bruce Campbell I loved Bruce Campbell in the original "Evil Dead," "Evil Dead II," and "Army of Darkness," but the movies he's starred in and now produces and stars in are really sickening. They are low-budget (and Bruce is hardly poor as he's one of the original investors in Renaissance Pictures and owns a HUGE piece of land in Oregon, on which this film was mostly shot), trashy, badly written, unfunny and lacking in good special effects or ideas. In an attempt to make fun of his own past, Campbell has the characters repeat his lines from the "Evil Dead" and "Army of Darkness" again and again. The acting is dismal and Bruce comes off as his "Ash" character every time, only he's older and heftier and less funny each time. I've seen enough and could not even sit through all the way through this groaner.

boring Very slow, very boring, very blah.  It's annoying when some writer or director invents geography from whole cloth and also has signs in deep Mexico in English and bad Spanish. To me at least. But the glacial pacing, the insipid action, resulted in such boredom as to obliterate the annoyances.  There is a reason why this went straight to DVD.

"Wh" sound is pronounce incorrectly My four year already knows how to read and was very upset that "Wh" was mispronounced. The remainder of the DVD is well done, just one minor error. Nonetheless, I'm not showing this DVD to my 21 month year old. Complete accuracy is important. I recommend you buy "Rock N' Learn Letter Sounds" and "Rock N' Learn Phonics" instead, along with the Preschool Prep Sight Words DVDs.

Seriously? Ok this review isn't about the movie its about the ridiculous prices these sellers are charging. It makes me sick how these people take advantage about how hard it is to find this title. If anybody reading this has actually paid 129.00 which I see is the lowest price to 250.00 the highest price I would be surprised. I remember seeing this 12 years ago in a bargain bin for 7.99. I'm all for making money on hard to find collectibles but at least be reasonable. My hope is that the studios re-release this so people can enjoy it without spending their rent money. Once that happens I will take this down and write a real review. Rant over.

3811 hxt before you consider before you even consider think about the shadows on your sleeve before the shallow figure is bfore neve 9-9

Horrible Movie I wasted my money on this movie. This was more like a crappy indie film starring actors who should have known better than to make it. Blake Lively is still living off her Gossip Girl fame and Chloe Moretz has been in several hit movies like Kick Ass and Let Me In...I just don't know why they stooped this low. The script was lacking and both actresses were trying too hard to act tough and older. Don't bother!!!!!

Watch on YouTube instead The video and sound are much better on YouTube than on this DVD.  It's unwatchable.  What a shame, because it's a good movie and both Davis and Howard are excellent.

Awful!!!!! My title says it all....Cage ought to hang his head really low for agreeing to do this one..It stunk....the trick is if you don't have a plot or just want to tentalize...then make a film like this. Hang down your head Tom Dull....oh wait...Cage!!! DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY!!!!

I would give 1/10th of a star but Amazon does not have it. For sometime now stand-up comedians have been picked to play main characters in many comedy movies. The trend may be motivated because the producers save some money rather than hiring real actors. Unfortunately the results more often than not, are poorly acted movies, repulsive rather than funny situations, and feeling that strong desire to leave the theater, (or just turn off the TV if you watch at home) in just the first 10 minutes after the movie started. This movie is just one of those, with the difference that instead of 10 minutes you only need 5 to reach that point.  Jack Black may be funny (to some people) as stand-up comedian, but as a movie actor he is really really really bad.  In this movie he uses his body to try to make people laugh, but I could tell that most people watching, did not. With so many better actors available in Hollywood, maybe this movie could have been saved from doom, had the casting crew have done a better job by selecting a real actor for the main character.  Bottom line: Unless you are the devil, and enjoy human pain, avoid this movie at all cost. You'll be glad you did.

DEFECTIVE! Sadly, the BBC sent out more than one of these in a defective format! I've been trying to find one WITH SOUND! But the sound during the movie is missing. Ask the seller to check past the beginning ad for BBC to the movie itself.  The sound in the ad is fine, but there is no sound for the movie.  I had to return mine. And pay the extra postage! The seller told me to send it back - I asked him to open another one to see what I was talking about. He wouldn't, so I did send it back.  Have not been refunded yet, but just mailed yesterday. It would have been helpful if he had opened another copy - I said I'd be happy to let him keep the money if he could send me one he knew had sound, but so sale on that!  Hey! If anyone has ordered one and had GOOD LUCK, please let me know where you got it!

I hate to do this but... I'm reviewing Amazon practice on selling this and other movies. Today, July 14, 2011, Amazon had this title listed as a Gold Box special for $10.92. Click on that same Gold Box title and see a price of $8.07. I have contacted Amazon on similar Gold Box items and have not received straight answers. Amazon has also expanded the procedure of selling DVD-R's as DVD's. DON'T TRUST AMAZON until they stop these practices. I'm sure there are many other problems I haven't spotted as yet.  I used to have a much higher opinion of Amazon and promoted it to friends. Not so much anymore.

Not worth it. Despite having fairly low expectations for it, my cat and I were both underwhelmed.  First off, rather than hearing the birds, squirrels, etc. on the screen, there is very cheesy sounding music. This takes away from the realism and made it difficult to get the cat to pay any attention to the screen.  Secondly, the often-low-quality video clips suffer from frequent panning and zooming. If the images had been zoomed out enough to see the animal and it just happened to run off camera now and then, that would have been fine. It would've been no different than if an animal disappeared out of sight from a window or whatever. In sight, it would have the cat's full attention and when it was gone, the cat would wonder where it had went. That's how it should have been. Instead, there is a jarring experience of the camera attempting to remain centered on the animals as they wander around. That is not a natural perspective, which results in lack of interest from all but the most sensory-depraved of felines.  Save your money. Don't buy this. Your cat will thank you.

Not a good representation of Kurzweil's ideas. I've seen Ray Kurzweil speak at a conference, and it was a life-changing experience for me. His insights about the future, based on what he's learned about the speed of change, are remarkable. But the DVD doesn't capture that well at all. Instead of making his points, providing evidence and refuting key objections that people have raised over the years--which is what he did at the presentation--this video focuses on a few soundbites about his ideas, doesn't illustrate them, and doesn't show you the objections that commonly get raised and his answers to those objections. Instead, it spends a lot of time on irrelevant side trips, such as showing him talking about his father and how he'd love to "recreate" his father via computer technology; and it shows people giving their opinions about his ideas without giving him a chance to respond. Despite the awards this video has apparently won, it is a LOUSY representation of Kurzweil's ideas and his defense of them. Don't waste your time and money. Instead, try to see him talk live. (His book about the singularity isn't totally satisfying either--it's complex material even for a well-educated fan--but it's far superior to this video.)

DVD Apocalypse The Hammer Horror Series from Universal Studios that I bought myself at Christmas has gone the way of a flood of complaints on the internet about the set of two doubled-sided, dual-layered discs that have two Hammer films to a side. That is a total of 8 movies on two discs. Many people complained of the discs skipping, freezing and locking in their players. Some and I now have fallen into this group, have had the discs play fine on the first viewing, but upon a second try, the discs had degraded and freeze and lock.  The second viewing (on Feb. 1) coincided with the trial of a new Blu-ray player I purchased to compliment the new television my family bought me for Christmas. The second disc played fine again, but side two of the first disc, 1963's "Phantom of the Opera" with Herbert Lom and "Paranoiac" with Oliver Reed both froze in both players. The two movies on side one played fine. The vendor I purchased the set from in December said if the discs played fine on the first viewing, they could not be considered "defective." So, as I looked to the new release of "Phantom" as part of Universal's Vault Series MOD DVDs for a new source for this film and then saw a new Blu-ray presentation of "Paranoiac" from Eureka Video available, I breathed easier. I asked my sister if I could have back the DVD of "Kiss of the Vampire" also in the set I had disseminated to her as an extra gift at Christmas, in case that film degraded as well.  Universal Studios for a matter of pennies produced this set, as they have with other of their franchises and provided good films and beautiful transfers but should be embarrassed of this manufacturing decision to go on the cheap, but then turn a deaf ear to disgruntled customers. But then, hasn't Universal been the major studio who opted for exploitation more often than others?  It remains unknown how to replace the other films in the Universal set when they degrade as they are unavailable separately.

Worst. Movie. Ever. Awful. Simply awful. I watched thirty minutes of this slow, unfunny, pathetic excuse for a movie. I think my exact words were "if I have to watch one more minute I will shoot myself in the head". Worst. Movie. Ever. 'Nuff said.

Liars telling lies What dreams may come is based in the lie that all dogs go to heaven.  Maybe dogs do.  This story is a slammed together hodgepodge of smoke and mirrors and I am grateful we haven't invented "smell o vision" because this movie stinks to high heaven.  Sorry Robin, but your best work is still Moscow on the Hudson.

BIGGEST PIECE OF CRAP EVER!!!!!!! I grew up with the original Ray Harryhausen version and I don't even consider that to be the best film of his career. But it was still a "classic" and time has proven that. Yeah, it had its share of corn and cheese, and it even looked dated for its own time. But those creatures that Ray brought to life were truly "memorable characters" that will always live on in our minds. And it didn't hurt that it was supported by some heavywieght actors like Lawrence olivier, Burgess Meridith and Ursula Andress. The only respectable name in this one was Liam Neesin and as talented as he is, he just couldn't save this stinker. When I first heard they were doing a remake, it sounded promising... if done right. But the Hollywood suits like to rake in some extra dough by doing remakes of classic films knowing that the fans of the originals will be guarunteed curious suckers, and sure enough... this one was absolute CRAP!!! First off, these new CGI monsters (with the exception of the "Black Pegasus") were no better than what I've seen in a Playstation video game. The script and storyboard sucked hard. I mean real hard. When they weren't stealing the most memorable lines from the original and delivering them so bad that it made your stomach turn, it was just vomitable adventure movie clap-trap. Not a single clever line or anything that would put a smile on your face. There were also some lines that sounded more like "modern speak". Not at all period correct. Back in the golden days of Hollywood it was standard practice for the actors to sport Shakespearian English accents in these epic-tale movies. But with the realism of modern film making, it just doesn't fly anymore. Remember Colin Farrel as Alexander The Great with that thick Irish accent? Clash Of The Titans is a Greek tale of adventure, mythical gods and creatures. Right? Perseus is an shrimp-eatin' Aussie, Zeus (Liam Neeson) sounded like a Scottish sheepherder... Uggghhh!!! I can't go on... Trust me, it SUCKED!!!!!!!

Stupid Great special effects and creative aliens do not make up for a boring plot, bad acting, and a stupid ending.

Plan 9 From Outer Space Has Been Dethroned Plan 9 From Outer Space had been crowned the worst movie ever made. END GAME, incredulsy, has dethroned and detrashed Plan 9. Wooden hesitant acting, plodding pace and an inane story caused me to END GAME early.

Depends on what your daughter has seen Ok, my 4 year old daughter loves my little pony. So I bought the first season. I was excited to see her face when she started to watch. But then, after the first scene, her face had this big "?" Then she goes, "Daddy, that doesn't look anything like the ponies". I told her that's my little pony. Then I realized she'd seen the new My Little Pony and not the old one. This one is from the 80's and she's comparing it with the new ones. So if you're daughter has seen the new one, she might get disappointed with this.

do not get this movie unless you like horrible films. horrible movie. not worth a penny. they put all thier money in actors and special effects (which suck even for thier time) and not enough in the script. everything about this movie is fail! there is a reason why there was no follow up after this movie.

WORST SCOOBY-DOO SHOW YET!!!! As a longtime Scooby-Doo fan, I must say Shaggy & Scooby-Doo has got to be 1 of the WORST shows I've ever watched in my entire life! I only saw 1 episode of it on the CW  and I turned it off after 3 minutes into the episode. The animation looked too tacky, Shaggy sounds like he has an extremely bad case of laryngitis (they changed Shaggy's voice actor from Casey Kasem to Scott Menville who played Red Herring in A Pup named Scooby-Doo), and Fred, Daphne and Velma are only in a few episodes! A few episodes! Also, I hate Scooby's appearance with just dots for eyes like Shaggy. Overall, after Kids' WB was tarnished with the CW4K!ds, they cancelled this show! (THANK GOD!) All in all, this show sucked @$$ big time and the other Scooby-Doo shows were better (Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, The New Scooby-Doo Movies/Mysteries, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, The Scooby-Doo (& Scrappy Doo) Show and What's New Scooby-Doo along with the new 1 on Cartoon Network, Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated). Don't watch this show, watch a different Scooby-Doo show!

Don't waste your money I bought this movie because I love Cirque du Soleil and I just got a new 3D TV.  Aside from some bright colors this seems completely unrelated to the Cirque du Soleil stage show.  It's set underwater, in the woods, etc.  It is incredibly boring.  The 3D effects are not very good.  I think we got through at least half of it fast forwarding waiting for something good (which never came).  It's so bad I'm just going to throw it out.

BAD AUDIO on BLU RAY Be careful....no bass content and a damaged mix on disc. This has been noted elsewhere. 2.1 mix has bass, but that's it. Don't buy until this is fixed!

Hoped for more from this cast! As a big fan of Arrested Development, nearly all the cast and quirky clever comedies, my husband and I hoped this would fit the bill.  Sadly mistaken.  Great premise, just too overtly nasty and in your face sexual to be sustainably funny.  There can be only so many references to genitalia and sex...and then you are just not writing a script well at all...your just hoping that sex is going to be funny for 1.5 hours and people are going to keep laughing.  Funny cast, more than great possibilities...just to overt to make it happen for me.

At least you'll never be confused The plot of this show is tediously predictable. I'm surprised I managed to watch it through. This movie was so predictable that I had trouble coming up with the 20 word minimum to describe it.

boaring This is one of those movies that are too long. It is very dull and I kept wishing it was over. it is just an old lady telling a story of her life. You can get that by voulentearing at a nurseing home, but as a voulentear you will actually help someone who is lonley.

This movie is freaky and not in the fun way So when I saw this on the Criterion Collection I was pretty pumped because I've come to associate the good ol' CC with some pretty solid skin flicks. When the lady and I are thinking of getting down to business we like to pop in some of these to get ourselves in the mood, because we're some high class people and like that artsy stuff. I've always been a fan of Willem Dafoe and figure he could teach me a thing or two about gettin' stuff done. So when I saw Antichrist pop up and saw that people were describing it as "erotic" I figured where could we go wrong?  Boy oh boy was that a mistake! This movie didn't put the lady and I in the mood for intimate times, and we ended up turning to our old friend and therapist Mr. Sam Adams to console us. After this we needed a cool shower and some Secret Life of the American Teenager. At least the kids in that don't get down for mutilation.  Let's just say there's some pretty gnarly stuff that would make any guy's pasta look like cooked spaghetti, and I couldn't really imagine how my lady felt. Y'know, I can't really think of any redeeming qualities of this movie at all and it's not just because of the crazy couple stuff that goes on. Like I said before we like some pretty high class stuff but I sort of worry for Mr. Von Trier's wellbeing. I'm sure he's a decent fella but if this is the sort of stuff that comes out of his head I'd really like to sit down with him for awhile and help straighten some stuff out. Maybe introduce him to some high class erotica, Belle de Jour, or Salo: The 120 Days of Sodom.  So the point is that if you're looking to feel all right with yourself for the rest of your life, this isn't the movie for you.

Trully disappointing I really expected more from this movie as a Radcliffe fan and after watching the trailer. Sadly the trailer was the only thing that I ended up liking about this awful film. At the theater, as the movie tried to progess, I realized that it would never going to get any good. All my friends felt the same disappointment at the end of the screening. Trust me and do not waste your precious time and money with this garbage or you will be as disappointed as me.

Not what your expecting! I went into this really wanting to love it, my wife and I just had our first child in January so I thought this might be something funny we can relate too. Think again! All those funny parts in the previews yup that's it hardly anything else made us laugh. The 4 main couples seemed really artificial they didn't have any chemistry and felt like they only cast them for star power. The husbands were the stars really but only a few of their parts were funny, Chris Rock is the stand out but that is a given. The other guys were not all that funny and one they tried to tack on an attraction to another guy in the group? Why not just have a gay couple adopting a baby instead of this that would have made more sense and actually added diversity to the group. The girls were all pretty boring personality wise with the exception of the younger couple (Anna Kendrick's character) not even on the cover. Very strange plot too broken up and no character development. This was a pretty weak attempt from Hollywood to cash in on parenting don't rent or buy this garbage I wish I hadn't.

Old ,boaring,not much skin. I was very disappointed with this video. It was almost like watching a Foreign film review. There is very little action and I feel I just threw $2.99 out the window. Do yourself a favor and skip seeing this one.

The Stranger - Disappointing Blu-ray Quality My rating is not for the movie (which I like very much *****), but for the lack of HD quality. Although I was very much looking forward to watching this movie in the upgraded Blu-ray format, I was extremely disappointed in the picture quality. This Blu-ray version is extremely soft and overly bright, and lacks HD image depth throughout. Bottom line - because there is no noticeable upgrade in picture quality, if you already own MGM's 2007 release on DVD there is no need to purchase this Blu-ray version. Let's hope Citizen Kane & Magnificent Ambersons Blu-ray releases will be better!

Disappointed The company I ordered & received this from (dvd closeouts) did not send me a the second movie "Dennis the Menace Strikes Again" & never answered me when I emailed them. The first dvd was scratched in some place. So the movie was just OK!

good example of Sturgeon's Law Somebody once leveled the following criticism of science fiction against sci-fi author Theodore Sturgeon:  "ninety percent of everything written in sci-fi is crud."  To which Sturgeon supposedly replied, "But ninety percent of EVERYTHING is crud!"  The remark took on a life of its own, and now even has it's own Wikipedia page as "Sturgeon's Law."  Anyhow, Brad Pitt's "Troy" is an good example of it.  About 10% is fantastic and really worth seeing, especially if you're reading the Iliad and would just like to get some good visuals:  1.  Achilles killing the Thessalian hero at the beginning. 2.  All the ships sailing upon Troy. 3.  The actual sack of Troy.  But the other 90%?  Crud.

i was so excited i was so excited to see a movie from my childhood i man to be exact it was delivered quickly but when i got it out and put it in the blue ray player it said error wrong reagon so i took it into the other room to try a regular dvd player and the same thing it is so frustrating trying to find something and finding it for it not to work and be back at the begening trying to find that one movie that had so many other memories i hope to fix this issue and post a more possitive comment

Movie makers don't know their audience Let's face it - the only ones who will be interested in watching this movie are preschool-aged boys.  They don't care that the animation is bad and that it may or may not be a ripoff.  The real problem is that it's just boring!  There's very little racing or action at all.  It's mostly just a bunch of cars sitting around having long conversations about topics that are completely out of range for a little boy.  Jealousy, being in love ... forget it!  This movie is WAY beneath any one over the age of 6.  Yet the conversational topics are way above anyone below the age of 12.

Fantastic Movie, BUT Unplayable DVD! This is one the greatest movies I have ever seen, but my review is about the actual DVD release.  I bought this back several years ago and this item did not play on either of my players. I was sent another copy which sadly also did not play. I've tried it on three separate players and each player will not recognise the DVD at all. I contacted the sellers but hear nothing back. I just think others should be aware before buying this product.

Worst kid movie ever, ever made. PERIOD. I saw it in theaters when it first came out with  my older sister. And after watching it, both of us wished we never watched it. The humor is horrible, the actors are bad (mike myers' worst role ever), and the story (Oh, God) is stupid and pointless. The side-characters are very annoying and everything about that movie just makes me hate it even more.  My advice? DO NOT SEE IT. DO NOT BUY IT. IF SOMEONE GIVES YOU THE MOVIE, TOSS IT IN THE FIRE! Just don't watch at all.

3D Really? Very Misleading! Not what I expected, I didn't open it yet because I am thinking of returning it.  It was advertised as 3D but it's not made for new 3D technology.  Although the title states Anaglyph 3D most people can confuse the description and be misled to think they are purchasing a 3D compatible DVD to use on their 3D TV and 3D Blue-ray player.  I guess I would maybe have kept it anyway if they at least sent the cheap old school 3d glasses that the package states comes with it, but it didn't.  I thought it was a deal at $18.99 which it looks like it just dropped to $17.99, but the price is irrelevant if your not getting what you think your paying for.

.... or, how to destroy your own belief in anything This is not one of my normal reviews. Normally, I devote plenty of time and attention to things like cinematography, acting, plot, direction and the overall theme of the story, as well as some of the highlights and lowlights. I'm not going to do that here.  Instead, I will describe simply how this movie will make you feel, and the effect it had on me. And let it be known that I've watched some dark movies. I have watched some bleak movies. I have watched controversial movies.  This movie digs up every vile, disgusting and bloodcurdling perversion you can imagine AND THEN SOME. Amazon will not allow me to describe most of them, and I feel filthy just by even trying to.  It then assaults your screaming brain until you simply curl up on the couch and weep silently into your throw pillows.  This movie makes the "Saw" franchise look like romantic comedies.  It made me feel so unclean that I wanted to scrub off my own skin. That didn't help.  It made me want to hit myself with a hammer so I wouldn't remember it.  It is the most likely film in history to inspire people to stick guns down their throats.  If there was a movie that would convince God himself to wipe out the human race in Great Flood 2.0, it would be this one.  It sucks away all joy, hope and satisfaction out of the world, leaving a nihilistic void of pain, blood and death from which nothing positive will ever come. And that's just how it is for the people watching it.  And in my sole editorial from a purely artistic nature: As far as I can tell, this movie was made entirely to shock and revolt everyone who watched it, just because they COULD. In that regard, it succeeds. I'm sure the people who made it would argue that it had lots of metaphor and subtle layers, but I don't care.  So in conclusion, do not watch "A Serbian Film" unless you are trying to psych yourself up enough to shoot yourself in the head. Or want to come up with an excuse to make war on Serbia. Either way, avoid it like the plague... which would probably make a better movie.

The truth about this movie is that it's bad... One of those films that left me scratching my head, `The Truth About Charlie' isn't so much confusing as it is bewilderingly dull.  The film fails to do much of anything.  It isn't fun, it isn't sexy, it isn't witty, it isn't charming...it just isn't.  The action is problematic in that it doesn't do anything we haven't already seen countless times before, and the chemistry between the two stars is borderline non-existent.  I haven't seen the original yet (although I will one day, considering my Hepburn adoration) and so I cannot compare, but I hope it has more substance and style than this one.  The plot just hangs there here, and the way it is strung along doesn't draw the audience in.  I expected more from Demme, who has proven himself a capable director...and then again, he has also proven himself inconsistent.  This is probably the worst thing he's ever done, and when you consider that it's one of the worst films of the past decade then it really says a lot for Demme's taste level.  Clich&eacute; ridden and uninspired throughout, the truth about this movie is that it's bad.

I can not even make the evaluation I have not received the product (DVD) that I bought. Perhaps the delay is due to I live in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil. Already more than a month that I made the purchase. Once I get the DVD will be happy to do the evaluation and cooperate with Amazon.com. Best Regards. Sincerely, Newsongm. Note: I put on one star rating because the product has not yet arrived. I can not talk about it due to not having yet received.

Woefully Incomplete "Harry Potter: The Complete Collection" seems to imply that this 'collection' is COMPLETE. Far from it. This is a bare bones set with only the 8 films. No extended cuts or special features to speak of.  At least the Lord of the Rings Theatrical set included some featurettes. And then a year later the Extended set was released. These sets happen to be published by Warner, which also manages Potter. See what's going on here? They are trying to rake in money by releasing rubbish collections first with the good one later on.  Warner Brothers even had the gall to have released a trailer for the "Harry Potter: The Definitive Collection" before this set even hit stores.  Please, don't buy this set with a better one on the horizon.

BIG Disappointment!!!!!!!!!! Very, very BIG disappointment!!!!  Not for the movie it's self, but for the fact that I was led to believe that the dvd was a NEW (which in my world means unopened, and unused) to my complete dismay, this particular dvd was old and very USED before I ever received it.  Not very good for Trusting Issues!!!!!!!  Yes!!! It Is going back!!!!!

Not as advertised This product advertises subtitles in Spanish. It only comes with subtitles in English and French. The movie is great though, the rating goes to the seller.

Save your money. I'm pretty sure the other reviewers were either part of this film or family members, this movie was just plain and simply awful. Not only was the acting beyond terrible the whole plot of the film was non-existent, I did not once care about the characters and spend a grueling hour and ten minutes trying to figure out what I was going to do with the DVD afterwards. I would not torture anyone else with this. Put it this way, you sit there and watch a movie put together using various pieces of evidence someone outside the film is watching on a computer, accessing FBI intel. For the first hour you basically see a the main characters run around like a-holes pretending to be scared, when you finally get to see what is chasing them it's over and the film leaves more to be desired. Save your money. I'm on to the next "found footage" to torture my brain with.

I STILL TASTE S*** IN MY MOUTH THANKS TO THIS CRAPPY MOVIE Just watched this the other night for poops and giggles, holy jesus it's awful. You can see the twist the second you meet the character and everyone plays their crappy cardboard cut-out roles like a factory produced them. Really it's so unremarkable, so what's the appeal? Well the first one was a big success, so obviously it's riding on the coat tails, but what is it about dumb kids being underwhelmingly picked off by some guy in a raincoat.  Really it was entertaining to me though just because how stupid and typical it was, from the opening 'jump scare' where the white virgin wakes up in the middle of highschool class, I knew I was in for a craptacular 90's slasher. So white virgin wants to work on school like a good girl until her evil fun-loving black friends have her reluctantly come out and meet up with THE MOST OBVIOUS F***ING MURDERE-I mean sweet awkward innocent JC Penny Model # 12. The implications behind this movie are laughably obvious. "Ohhh she's so sweet and innocent, she deserves to live, but the fat stoner deserves to DIE! Take that people I passively look down on!".  Also in a packed and crowded club the director knows that another cheap jump scare needs to be tossed in or else the mouth breathing teenagers won't be interested, so white virgin sees a shadow reminding her of the killer until she realizes it's just the dark, but wait, it's the corner of a club with couches and everything, and no one's sitting there? Have any of them actually been to a club or did they have to ignore basic club settings in order for the cheap phoned in jump scare to work.  So eventually they wind up on the tropical island for some stupid trivia thing with the worst hosts ever, for CREEP FACTOR we have to have the hotel staff be antisocial and intrusive, the maid for example ignores white virgin, "oooooh, how creepy, she doesn't respond" F*** you that's stupid. Then they meet the hotel owner who glares at them and basically makes them feel as unwelcome as possible, even though his business seems to be going into the crapper. Then they meet Jack Black playing himself, and the guy seems friendly enough, basically offering the guests some marijuana if they need some, then Tiesha is all like 'get away from me you smelly hippie', there goes what little amount of empathy I had for these characters.  So much more stupid crap happens without a shred of thought or time put into the production, even the kills are PG-13 caliber (well by today's standards) and we often cut back to Freddie Prince Jr. doing, something? I don't really know what he just has a bad feeling and runs around, apparently as fan service to the girls watching. Then we get more standard cookie-cutter unorignal scenes such as NO ONE BELIEVING WHITE VIRGIN GURRL, or Token black guy is the first of them to get offed and no one seems to care.  Then later we meed biker chick who runs the bar, and while virgin white gurrrl lives, random biker chick is killed off, because the white suburb kids watching need to know that that lifestyle is looked down upon and you'll likely get murdered if you live like that. Token black girl living was only a treat for virgin white girl because no one else really cared about her character.  So OH NO CREEPY AWKWARD WHITE DUDE TURNS OUT TO BE THE MURDERER, no f***ing s***, who didn't see that coming a mile away? Then he disappears throughout the second half of the movie and only pops in once in awhile to remind the audience "hey I'm still here", then finally shows that he's the bad guy to the last retard in the audience who couldn't tell and puts his EVIL FACE!!! on. This wimp is the least threating villain ever, and his dad comes up and f***s him in the ass or whatever, I stopped paying attention at this point, this movie SUCKS! I put as much thought into this review as they did into this movie.

Boring, banal and speculative. This was the most banal 'prophecy' film I've ever seen. Where are the prophecies? I can prophecy better myself! Most of the film goes over some common Jewish history that about anyone knows. The film incorrectly states that 'Jews' are the most ancient people. Wrong! 'Jews' didn't exist until after Judah begat his offspring. Sumerians existed thousands of years prior to the House of Judah and Israel. Abraham left Ur due to God telling him to get moving (due to the coming collapse of the ancient Sumerian/Akkadian civilization), etc. It mentions the book of Daniel but fails to point out even one alleged future prophecy and so on. They threw in a bit of the book of Revelation here and there and voila...boring junk that you could probably get for free off of any history channel or televangelist channel. You get the picture. Yawn!!! For the love of God, I hope the title is correct and this film is "FINAL"...Please...for the love of God, do not make a sequel.

Worst animated film *ever* While the story itself may have have had some coherence originally. That was quickly stripped away by this total waste of time and money.  I would say that the animation looks like a couple of 9 year old kids found a program, but I know 9 year old kids that could do a much better job at both animation and character development. In reality it looks like Crest Animation was a startup that pulled folks off the street to work the buttons. I really can't express how truly horrible the animation is. For the technical minded, the animators knew nothing about slow-in/slow-out, overlapping, or idle movement.  Character design and development are mostly non-existant, and given only cursory swipes here and there by the producers. Lionsgate, you should be ashamed of yourselves.  If you still think that you should see this, that the trailer wasn't bad. Find the trailer online and watch it 30-40 times. You'll enjoy it more than attempting to sit through this bomb.

Embarassing to watch I don't know how I found the strength to watch this entire  movie.  If you can make it through the glaring historical inaccuracies, you'll still be subjected to Farrells abyssmal portrayal of Alexander. I got the impression that this was his first acting job--ever.  Seriously--it's embarassing to watch, even by yourself.  Avoid this movie and save yourself 3 hours of exposure to this rotten egg of a film.

Great Movie, Ridiculous Price. ^^^ Like I said.  Look, I love the movie as much as anybody else. But when I first bought the movie years ago, it didn't cost nearly as much as these punks are trying to sell it for.  Don't buy it (that was both a metaphor and a serious request).

What do I get when I buy this instant download??????? WTF do I get when I buy this instant download?  Is Amazon dumbing down its customers by not telling us?  What is the file format???????????????  They want us to buy it then discover later what we have to install to play it.  Screw that!!!!!

Cartoonish Character Development and worse I've never seen Sanaa Lathan do a worse acting job. And her husband WAS worse and I didn't think that was possible. These two were the central characters for this story and they didn't pull off the marriage, the marriage problems, or the big reveal. Lathan as the wife was too flatly self-centered to the point of being evil--too much so to be remotely believable and the husband was too innocent and unaware to be a teenage boy much less a full grown man.  The story was worth telling, but it was told badly. Tyler Perry is NOT an expert film maker, so I usually don't critique him that hard. He's telling OUR stories with OUR music and caricatures of OUR people and he's in a learning process going from church plays to film. But this movie was a dud...worst than a dud because...  Worse than ALL OF THIS: There is NO JUSTIFICATION for a man just hauling off and hitting a woman. I'd have had a hard time with that if the characters devolved into a fist fight and that's not what happened. The husband (simple-minded as he was) simply becomes outraged and hits the wife. NO DICE MR PERRY.  If it happens again in another movie, learning curve or no learning curve, I'll be done with all Tyler Perry movies.

Fatal Attraction This video was sent to me and I got half way through and it was defective.  I sent it back and I am waiting to get another copy!!  Carol

could I give it less than half a star? I'm in TOTAL agreement with the previous negative critiques...if not more so. I want back the 15 minutes of my life I wasted on this. Even the plastic to make the DVD was wasted on this.  And who over the age of 6 could possibly rate this 5 stars??  Seriously, don't even look twice at this thing.

Lacks a basic understanding of evolution There was nothing in this movie that a person with the most basic education in evolution could not see the holes in.

swing and a miss. I like most of Smith's movies, but if this is the best he can do it's probably a good thing he's not making movies anymore. It was an ok half a movie, but seemed like a bad attempt to be a Tarantino film.

disgusting movie I can't believe that the director was able to get funding for this trash, and worse, I can't bear to think about how many people enjoyed it and rated it greater than 1 star. Avoid this trash unless you enjoy watching a human chain connected mouth to butt.

A Killer Tomato This Ain't While I won't post it until I've finished the movie, I'm starting to write this at only 30 minutes into the movie. It's like getting a dying man to the hospital in an ambulance; every second saved could save a live.  As always, I love B-movies and will suffer virtually anything to find the nugget in the rough. It's movies like this that make me doubt my own ability to continue doing so.  A guy who loves tomatos wears a red metallic mask to demonstrate his tomato nature. I guess his red shirt is in the wash or, the writer lacked the creativity to even think of that simple step. Tomato Man spends his time creeping around the neighborhood peeping on women, stealing their underwear and taking pictures of them so he can print them off, cut them out and go to bed with them. He finally takes the plunge and starts grabbing girls, puts them in his torture dungeon and kills them. His signature is crushing a tomato on their bodies to get the publicity he so richly desires.  And this plot is the strongest feature the film has to offer. No flesh, no gore, no humor and there's obviously no scripting as his friends (who said what the hell, I'll be in your movie), make lines up as they go along. There's no effort made whatsoever to do anything to keep a viewer even remotely interested.  It's over now. As I watch the credits I expect a disclaimer to pop up saying no tomatos were damaged during the making of this film. It's a pity they can't make the same claim about the damage to viewers. . .

Love Liam, but hate movie. Movie is fit for juvenile audience.  Mature movie go'ers beware. Ending was really really bad in every way. Juvenile. Good filming, bad plot and script. Lots of 'dark' scenes, (just noise, growls, and movement).

don't see This movie was seriously disappointing. The movie tries to be comedy, romance, and drama. It just doesn't work. There is no spark between Moore and Lutz. I find both characters whiney and immature. Whoever wrote this has no sense of how a real mature relationship works which should have been the backbone for this comedy nor does the writer have any sense of what a therapist should look like.

Is this a bootleg? I have purchased many dvds and blu rays from Amazon over the years with no issue.  I am completely appalled by the quality of the Harry Potter blu rays I received.  I purchased them as a gift for family members.  Half of the discs don't work, others skip throughout the movie.  I've tried countless other blu ray discs and other players.  I am confident that it is the discs.  Additionally, the discs don't have menus, scene selection, etc.  Which makes me seriously question the quality from which they came.  I was under the assumption that these were official Warner Bros Blu Ray discs, but the manner in which they appear makes me think otherwise.

It's an Edsel This movie is a dog's breakfast.  I think the audience spoke for itself as half-way through all the kids under say 9 years of age were beginning to wine and talk from the sheer boredom of the movie's thin and unengaging plots.  All the innocence from the original movie is lost to violence, mindless explosives and repetitive use of the word "kill."  Such scenes would be a thrill if your expecting the Bourne Identity, but the mix of genres is just a mess.  I miss the character development from the first movie. Gone is the grand supporting cast of Red, Ramone, Sally, Sheriff, Philmore and Sarge who are relegated to short cameo appearances.  It's obvious the writers tried to do too much with this movie and ended up with a sloppy amateurish mix of parts and pieces.  Verdict: It's a heap.

Good Movie, Poor Playback I rented this for my kids to watch.  The movie had some serious issues playing back on my Tivo system.  Video and sound kept cutting out. For the money we spent for a rental it was very disappointing.  From what the kids saw of the movie, they enjoyed it though.

disappointed again I would not recommend this product.  It does not capture the "world of rhythm."  While the opening is quite nice, it follows the Baby Einstein formula of filmed toys.  Money would be better spent on an actual instrument.

Dull, Man... I always judge a movie like I judge a book -If I can get through it or not.  I didn't get through this one.  Dull flashy opening that lead to a...court room?  Dull dull and duller.  The chemistry between Robert and Scarlett J was, well there wasn't any.  I flicked back on the Roku and finished up Loose Change 9/11.  Like the first Iron Man, this was all flash and little tension.  Don't bother with this one. (How can you make Gwyneth Paltrow as unattractive as I have ever seen her and Scarlett J only marginally sexy? Try this director out...) Awful execution of two very attractive women.

What a waste of good plastic (DVD) This film had a great title and great actors and lots of money thrown at it. So what went wrong? What went wrong, is that someone does not know how to make a movie. You might think that they were trying to be artsy-fartsy; however I think it was a thorough lack of movie making skills.  For those who lived through the era they would be disappointed because nothing of any interest or any of the special highlights of Margret's life was displayed. I personally did not mind what was not shown. It was their hodgepodge chopped up moved back and forth through time inconsistent nonsense that not only ruined this film but any film they would've made on any subject. I put the blame squarely on Phyllida Lloyd - Director, Abi Morgan - Writer (screenplay), Damian Jones - Producer, Elliot Davis - Cinematographer, Thomas Newman - Composer, Simon Elliott - Production Designer, and Justine Wright - Editor.  To keep you from having to guess what I'm talking about and actually watch snippets of this movie I'll tell you. As filler it shows a ditzy old Margret played by Meryl Streep who flashes back in time to have the real story "snippets of her life" displayed played by Alexandra Roach. Alexander does all the real parts in Meryl Streep gets the "Saturday Night Live parts."

Low Quality TV I never write reviews, and it is a shame that my first one has to be negative, but I can't keep quiet..this show is awful. The writing is as lazy as it gets, extremely simple, and will always take the path of least resistance (hey, another Asian stereotype joke, sex innuendo, ect..). I watched most of the first season and tuned in to catch a little bit of the newer episodes..nothing has change.  The overwhelming positive reviews on here baffle me, maybe that's what possessed me to provide my opinion. This is what passes as good TV? I don't understand how CBS continues to dominate the ratings. I would think that the quote "older generation viewers" they have would be turned off by a show like this.  I think the thing that irks me the most is that actual good shows on that are on other networks struggle to get viewers and get cancelled or put on the chopping block every other week.  In the brief time I did watch it, I could tell, there are scenes/stories where it would try to show heart, but again, it's simply too lazy.

Not Good I do apologize to all the Wayne aficionados who like this movie and do understand that this film has its followers.  However, for a film that teams two superstars of the '60s it's a mediocrity at best, and for a Western it is just plain bad.  It is a caper film in an old West setting, which by itself is not bad.  However, in order for the viewer to suspend belief and follow the film, at least parts of it have to be believable.  The so-called "War Wagon," -- a cast-iron stagecoach -- is the first piece of nonsense.  No team of horses is going to gallop pulling a weight like that.  Plus, given the technology of the time, one bump in the road would snap the axles in two.  The only way it could move would be to lumber along like a military caisson.  Therefore, the entire premise of the film is an absurdity.  On top of the absurd premise is John Wayne himself.  Although he could still pull off a respectable Western when he played a character that matched his build and age (see, for example, "True Grit", "The Cowboys", or "The Shootist"), with his missing lung and pot-belly he simply looks ridiculous trying to play an action hero.  At one point in the film when Wayne appears wearing only his long-johns, the viewer can actually see the outline of the girdle holding in his belly through the long-johns.  In another scene, when the characters have to quickly mount their horses, Kirk Douglas deftly leaps onto his horse.  In the background, the viewer can see Wayne run up a stage ramp and slide onto the horse's back because he was no longer physically capable of mounting a horse normally.  Last time I checked, stage ramps were not readily avaialble for use during capers in the Old West.  John Wayne was a good actor but for some reason he was obsessed with the idea that viewers wanted to see him in B-style popcorn Westerns instead of the more serious fare he was capable of.  It's too bad.  I would rather have seen Wayne produce one or two really good Westerns during the '60s instead of drivel like this.

Just Awful Writing Just awful. Grant Morrison was, is and always will be a juvenile hack. So glad he's DC exclusive and not subjecting any character in the Marvel Universe to his infantile writing. The only time in the last quarter century that I stopped reading X-Men was when he and Chuck Austen were butchering the characters. I normally buy all DC animated projects but I'll be passing on this terd.

emperors new clothes If you like movies that are essentially plotless with no character development this is the movie for you.  While the cinematography was pretty it was one diffuse scene after another and very few scenes tied together.  After all the build up from the critics who often raved about the film, I felt really ripped off.  But I can imagine that for people who love artsy symbolism and lots of vague metaphor and who don't care about dialogue or a coherent plot  - this would be viewed as a great movie. To me it was emperors new clothes and the emperor was certainly naked.

The Blair "Faul" Project Ala "The Blair Witch" style:  The film's conceit is Harrison in 1999 recorded two casette tapes while in the hospital recovering from an attack in his home. The casettes detailed Harrison and the other Beatles' complicity in the McCartney cover-up. Harrison died in 2001. The tapes in 2005 were mailed to a small Los Angeles-based video company.  Although, I don't beleve in it, I really like this conspiracy theorie about Paul being Faul and else, but seriously the movie resumes the facts and evidences without talent and covers what you can already get over the internet on that topic, but it is full of mistakes and anaconisms and At least if the intention of the director of this documentary is to make us believe on it, it should be consistent with its own time line.  Furthermore if the documentary had been made as a joke or supposed to be funny, it is a not even a bit funny at all.  In short; Just one "Starr" for that Movie since apparently Ringo is the last Beatles being alive.

Movie Sucks I am a huge Tony Jaa fan i saw Ong Bak and thought it was a good movie. I really just thought this movie sucked from the story to acting i wouldnt recommend buying this movie.

Packaging?  NEW?  Is it even possible? I got this for someone for a Christmas present.  It arrived, open, with no factory seals.  I asked for them to reship it, and the second one arrived today, open, no factory seals.  Once might be an accident, but twice I have to ask what is Amazon doing here?  Based on the other reviews complaining about poor quality, did they just get a load of pirated dvds or what?  You'd think even the pirates would bother to try to make them look NEW.

Not for anyone under 18 This movie was so sexual graphic I would never recommend it to anyone. It was border soft porn. Horrible movie!

It doesn't work! When I opened the video, it told me it "wasn't authorized for my area." Then why did you sell it to me??? Come on, Amazon!  Give us a break with the small print on stuff.

Disliked It I thought this was going to be a good comedy when it was more of a dark comedy that did not interest me.  It was slow and the character building was too long.  Truly disappointed with this movie and was expecting better due to the well known actors involved.

not my best purchase The quality of the dvd was fine. Picture quality was good, case was fine. My son is a fan of the Jurassic Park series. This movie was the worst of the 3. I would not recommend buying this unless you are just interested in having the set.

Terrible! Champlin's gone, Parazaider's gone, Lamm sings just sings a couple of songs, Scheff can't sing anymore, I'm sick and tired of the same on and on again (Scheff and Pankow "talking to each other during one song, and ends up giving each other a high five. It took me a few years to realize that this was actually practiced in the repertoire. Pankow keeps flexing, Lee rises his hands in the air after his trompet-solo, and at the end of the concert it looks like a mental hospital has entered the stage (w/ Doobie brothers). I have been a Chicago-fan for decades, but this is it! Why can't they release the Greek theatre concert from 93 instead? That's when Chicago ruled. Now they just suck. Please don't buy this disc. Whipe your ass with the money instead.

the third man Couldn't play the dvd wrong region What do i do? This makes my whole experence terrible. What can you do to help?

Don't buy this DVD I purchased this DVD entitled "Stars and Stripes Forever" as a birthday gift for my wife.  I received it, tried to play it on my year old Sony Blu Ray DVD player and it would not play/load.  I returned it via the requested procedure and received a 2nd copy.  I also tried to play this one on the same player but with the same results as the first DVD.  Nothing.  I also returned this 2nd copy of the DVD and received a full refund.  I do not encourage anyone to purchase this DVD as it is obviously defective.

Never Say Never Again DVD PAL format. Unfortunately, when the DVD was ordered the Region 2 format did not mean anything to me. On receipt I realized the format was PAL not NTSC which means the DVD is for playing in Europe not the USA. The seller should not be allowed to advertise a PAL format product in the USA.

horrible save the $4 I'll watch most any movie, but this one again. great cast. slow moving weak story line.  lame ending.  gave me a headache

Just a modicum of reality please ... This was one of the most unrealistic, sappy, poorly acted movies I've seen in a long time. I thought the kid who played Evan/August was terrible. In addition to what I thought were generally extremely limited acting skills, he displayed virtually no change of emotion throughout the entire movie, for which I blame the director. Being upbeat and hopeful are nice virtues to be sure, but this was ridiculous. And what kid, who is supposedly a musical prodigy no less, in his right mind would trade a free Julliard education to go back with Wizard? That was a patently stupid contrivance apparently used solely to extend the running time and ramp up the tension for the even sillier contrivance that brings them all together. Speaking of Julliard, do they routinely enroll homeless orphans who possess no identifying paperwork at all? Is that even legal?  Were they appointed his legal guardian by some competent authority or did they just assume the role on their own? Not one character in this movie came across as resembling a real human being in my opinion. Honestly, this movie was worse, in just about every way, than most movies intended for children.

Bait and Switch What I thought was going to be an inspirational education-related movie--because that's what it was billed as--turned out to be an agenda-laden film preaching ubiquitous homosexuality, tolerance towards pederasty, misandric feminism, and wundtian situational-ethics factless values-based teaching. It is only fitting that at one point one of the teachers tells his students to lie on an exam, because this entire movie is a bait-and-switch lie. This movie is not about education or anything having to do with that--the academic setting, and all that goes with it, is just the exiguous vehicle for the driving of a homosexual and pederastic message here. Totally duplicitous. And all the other unrealisms! Sheez! Talk about unrealistic. To wit: The dialogue between the students has no spontaneity, no natural flow; instead, it sounds like a bunch of snappy, overly witty, and obviously memorized lines from actors who've played these roles and acted these scenarios repetitiously to the point where the banter is now mechanically reflexive to them. It is totally unrealistic that only one teenage boy in the whole school shows an interest in females. It is totally unrealistic that the only teenage boy in the whole school who shows any interest in females also turns out to be homosexual. It is totally unrealistic that none of the teenage boys has any problem at all with their obese male teacher groping them. It is totally unrealistic that the teenage boys would get undressed in class and massage each other's legs and recite poetry to one another in lilting, stentorian voices. It is totally unrealistic that the only person in the entire movie who has a problem with teachers making sexual advances on their students is the Babbitt-like heterosexual principal. It is totally unrealistic (not to mention heterophobic!) that the only heterosexual man in the movie is a stereotypical Babbitt (albeit a British Babbitt). I could go on. You get the picture. Suffice to say that this entire movie is a male homosexual's fantasy--to wake up in class and find out that every other male around him is also homosexual and thus, sexually available to him. Wishfully hallucinatory this movie is; realistic it is not. Too bad. It does have an excellent music soundtrack of early 80s British classics, though (and of course they had to include the homosexually innuendoed "This Charming Man" by The Smiths from 1983--ah, yes, how fitting).

Epic FAIL! This Blu-Ray DVD locks the user not only from being able to skip the previews but it also locks the user out from being able to fast-forward through the previews. So, every time I put this DVD to watch the movie from where I last left off, I am forced by the stupid studios to sit through the same 10 minutes of FORCED previews that I can't skip or fast-forward through. This forced lock by the studio not only keeps customers from being able to enjoy their movies but is extremely disrespectful.  EPIC FAIL!

Beyond Redemption This movie was GOD-AWFUL.  The characters and script were shamelessly over-the-top.  The special effects were sub-par.  The ending was only matched in caliber by the joke of an introduction.  Cage must really be regretting this film, but given his performance he deserves regret.  The only (I can't say 'redeeming' because the film is entirely beyond redemption) element was the performance by the "Accountant" sent to reclaim Cage's soul.

"DISK MADE IN MEXICO";  Boo! Amazon The movie is inspirational and very good. Excellent in fact. A large raspberry goes to the customer who gave the story a poor rating because "she ended up . . . making it easier to slaughter an innocent life." She's not vegetarian, and neither is most of the world. What she objected to was the inhumane method used to harvest the animal, not the steaks, roasts, ribs, burgers, etc.  But we're not here to rate the film, we're here to rate the product. This product listing does not mention anywhere that the disk is made in Mexico, or I wouldn't have purchased it (and I don't want a download).  My low rating goes first to Time Warner, then HBO, then Amazon, for outsourcing product manufacture. I'm all for residents of every country on the planet having access to gainful employment, but not at the expense of U.S. jobs; and I'm not against imports of products from firms based in other counties, but Time Warner is based in Burbank, CA., HBO is in New York, NY., and Amazon in Seattle, WA. It is my firm belief that the average American is entirely willing to shell out the difference in cost between a product manufactured by American workers (supporting everything the USA stands for; "I pledge allegiance to the flag . . .") than to pay less (or the same while the seller/investor pockets more)for would be American products, manufactured in foreign markets. It's time for Americans to vote with both our votes and our dollars in favor of our national security; monetary security and physical security are interrelated. How shameful that there exist those among us who are willing to trade our freedom as a people for a few shekels. It may seem like a drop in the bucket and . . . "the ocean is made up of drops."  I would offer the suggestion to Amazon that, along with other product info on your listings, you offer buyers information on origin of manufacture; allowing us to make informed decisions.

Only if you live in a foriegn country This DVD would not work in either dvd player, the ps3, the Xbox, or my laptop. What a POS, I'm guessing the seller copied in a foriegn country, because my lap top told me I had to switch regions, but didn't say which to switch it to.

HE DOESN"T MAKE IT OUT!!!! DON"T WASTE TIME DON"T WASTE YOUR TIME!!!!!!!!! HE NEVER MAKES IT OUT. TERRIBLE TERRIBLE MOVIE. THIS WAS THE WORST MOVIE I HAVE SEEN IN YEARS.

F.U. Chelios If you've seen crank one this is the same movie basically. Really fast, really crazy, unbelievable, perverted, and strange. There's even a weird Godzilla like fight. Can't recommend it.

MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE Can't buy something when I have no idea what footage this includes.  Please add a description and I will consider buying this and other National Archives DVD's.

A Film I Should Have Liked Old guy who happens to be a Vietnam vet shows some smart mouthed punk kid who's the boss. The plot certainly drew me in and the reviews I read here in amazon certainly made it look promising.  I am totally confused as to how anyone could rate this movie a 3 or better. Just glad I rented it and not a purchase.  At the current time Amazon has 8 reviewers rating this a 4.5. I'd advise you to google this movie and see some of the reviews across the web before purchasing.

1-Star for UltraViolet I loved this movie, but am upset that the UltraViolet copy can only be watched on my computer. I did create my flixster account, then downloaded some flixster app onto my laptop so I could get my digital copy. However, I can only watch it on my computer. I need this digital copy in my itunes so I can put it on my ipod (it's an 80GB ipod classic), and although it is downloaded to my computer, it can only be accessed through the Flixster app which does not let you move it to the desktop or itunes.  I contacted customer support and they told me to download the Flixster app to my iphone or Android. I replied that I don't have an ipod that has apps, so I needed to know how to get it into itunes. Their response was "sorry for the inconvenience."  I'm very disappointed that this is not a true digital copy that I can watch while traveling.

This movie just isn't any good.. This movie is not a good Disney product. Try "Song Of The South". Another good non-disney cartoon is "Scrub Me Mama With A Boogie Beat".

dread - ful I do not recall reading the Clive Barker story from which this was adapted. So, I can't tell you if this is a good adaptation or not. I can tell you if it is a good film, and the answer is no! It seems the film took quite a bit of time to make you familiar with and like the characters, (spoiler alert) just to chop 'em all up and destroy them at the end. The thing about torture movies like Hostel, that makes them worth watching, is the victim/hero finally gets revenge in the end, and we cheer when the sadist/torturer meets his demise. The ending of this film was just too dismal and after all that time (over an hour) of character developement, the ending just doesn't pay off. The dread comes when you realize you spent nearly 2 hrs. watching this dreadful movie.

Kiosk Rating &lt;1 Plot: A young female's sister is murdered which results in dreams and hallucinations of seeing her dead sister walking in the park, in the city, etc. She always running after her dead sister's living image or is it her ghost? In either case she never seems to quite get to her without some interference such as a car passes between them or a tree happens to be in the way. A been done before storyline.  Cheapness: Filmed in Prague with mostly Czech actors who speak some English but as far as the film the combination of no subtitles; really poor audio quality and loudness control forces you had to be constantly turning the volume up to hear something or turning it down to reduce the cheap overbearing screams and sound effects. Bad ghost type killer was just someone who painted his face black. A lot of the now overused hand held camera technique. Confusing storyline that just didn't go anywhere - I've already forgotten what it was. You also have to wonder why it's being released into DVD almost four years after being filmed.  Spoiler: Final scene of second sister being stabbed and lying on the floor was so brief that if you blinked you might miss it.

Die Will Ferrell How dare any of you on here praise this trash. I hope EVERYONE involved in this awtrocity gets severe intestinal gas.  These losers took a BELOVED Saturday morning cartoon with MORALS and VALUES and turned it into degenerate TRASH. Thank you CLUELESS Hollywood for yet MORE smut and filth.  Raunchy, awful language with sexual/gay references. I am NOT a liberal and nor do I apologize for my truthful words here. This is a prime example of what is wrong with America.  10 thumbs down and negative 5 trillion stars.  UTTER Garbage.  And WHO was that nasty thing playing Holly??

Thought I Would See Art, Got A Masturbation, Slasher Movie I hadn't seen a movie in 15 months, roared out of long wait in doctor's office to make the noon showing, thought I'd see a gorgeously made movie full of dance, beautiful people and an adult psycholgical drama of girls competing for the starring role in a classic dance.  What I got was:  Grainy picture, handheld camera work so bouncy I had to look away from the screen or upchuck my $6.00 popcorn. Why was the camera man so fixated on the nape of Portman's neck???? and why was ever other scene a severe closeup?  Lots of blood (Lots!) from self-mutilation to hallucinated murders of rejecting lesbian lovers and (I think?) a suicide at the end?  More masturbation scenes than I cared to see. The audience was uncomfortable to say the least.  Unfortunately I got duped by Oscar hype. This wasn't an adult drama, but somewhere between soft porn and teen-aged splatter movies and some sci-fi thrown in (Nina morphing into a black swan at the end.)  And the back-stabbing, gossiping, jealous little ballet cats. Who in their right minds would go into ballet dancing if this is how it is?????? I came away thinking this isn't high art, it's HIGH SCHOOL revisited!!!  A good one to see on TV, not the big screen, but keep the kiddies away!

Hard to follow plot, boring, extremely unfactual. I couldn't stand to finish watching it, too boring, didn't hold my attention though it was colorful. I don't know how children could stand to watch it, if indeed then can at all. It went no where fast.

I hated this movie I was expecting something comical and light, but this movie was just downright disappointing and... stupid.  Bad acting.  Bad plot.  Reese Witherspoon, who in the past I have considered to be cute and entertaining, really disappointed me for even acting in this movie.  The two "guys" who are the leads, were... stereotypical, boring, predictable and STALE.  There are so many other movies out there with some kind of redeeming value, I don't understand what people see in this one.  What a waste of time and money.  I didn't even finish it, I was so bored and annoyed at it's irritating-ness.  Anyone with an intellect.. AVOID THIS ONE!!

what about bob? I ordered this dvd.  Tried to play it and it didn't work!!!!  Turns out the copy is to be played only in region 2----Africa, Europe, etc.  That's no good for the USA!!!!!!!  Can I return it or is it worth the postage.  Am VERY dissatisfied!!!!  Has anyone else had this experience, or or they just picking on me??????

Wow just awful. Well done another food stamp for WB at the cost of a good film, don't watch or buy. The first one was good this was awful.

Pillars of the Earth (Blue-ray) A Bad Joke I've been around for many years and this is a first. Ordered "Pillars of the Earth" (Blu-ray).  Much to my surprise when I opened the bad shrink wrapped case there were two (2) "Memorex" blank CD-R's.  I'm wondering if this was a previous return where someone ripped off the two Blue-ray disks. Needless to say, I'm returning this for a replacement.  Hopefully will have a more constructive review once I actually receive the proper disks.  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003UD7J9E">The Pillars of the Earth [Blu-ray</a>]

Slow, depressing, un-redeeming, and unfulfilling This movie just drags on and on, getting more depressing as it goes. Neither of the main characters have enough socially redeeming qualities to get you to buy in and cheer them on. Instead you are strapped in to a relentless horror show of bad decisions, that you just can't care about. I can't get my 2 hours back, but I can save you the fate that befell me.

Absolutely horrible. I grudgingly watched the first with my husband,ended up loving it.I became a Bradley Cooper fan from that moment on.  However Hangover Part 2. is not worth a re-watch period. Very disappointed in the lack of humor compared to the first,being it was a part 2..I expected a rehash of the first,this was not the case,boring,slow witted(mostly),characters I never gave a care about,husband fell asleep half way through,I dozed off toward the end.  Very glad we only spent $3.99 on this as I would have been upset to pay DVD value or went to the movies at $10 dollars each.

Dumb What an awful movie. Glad I rented it and didn't buy it. That would have been far worse! I should have read the reviews before ordering it.

The remains of the Day I thought this the MOST BORING  movie of all times!  Gag me!  Two great stars, dull movie.

A Waste of Time This was one of the worst rom coms I've ever seen.  Kate Hudson's character was so one dimensional it made you wonder why they were best friends to be begin with. The whole concept of being in love with your best friend's fianc&eacute; and then having an affair with him doesn't seems at all romantic to me. The lead male's character was so weak.  He really liked the female lead, but then dated the best friend for six years (or whatever the time frame was) huh? Who would want to be with someone like that?  I wish she would have ended up with John K. from The Office.  At least he had a personality.  It was utterly ridiculous and totally not relatable to me, but from the other reviews several seemed to love it.

Extra features don't play The video transfer is great and the audio is outstanding. BUT... none of the extra features are available on my LG Blu-ray player. The movie automatically starts playing and there is no way to access the menu. This is particularly dissappointing because I was looking forward to the audio commentary, which isn't offered on the DVD version.

Awful The DVD only played thru first 5 minutes of the movie. Then it stopped, I could go forward or skip scenes. What I thought was a good deal on an older movie was just a waste of money.

IDGI Mmmmkay.  I don't get it.  The premise of the film is a woman becomes jealous when she discovers her BFF has more than one BFF. The Bridesmaids was cute at times but I mainly felt really uncomfortable watching a "mature" (as in older) woman totally humiliate herself over and over again (Kristen Wiigs character).  If she were a teenager or young adult I could see more humor to her character but as it was it was like watching someone's mom have several nervous breakdowns on screen.  Awkward and "ewwww".  Kristen Wiig just isn't charismatic. I also didn't think this movie was very clever.  More like embarrassing and sad. I like movies to surprise me.  I like original humor and there is little of that in The Bridesmaids.  The best part of this lamefest was Melissa McCarthy (who stole all the dogs and badgered the cute little guy on the plane into a relationship).  She was awesome! If Hollywood made a movie about her character I might actually spend money to see the film.  The Irish cop was also a pleasant surprise.  He wasn't Hollywood hunk material which was refreshing.  He was just a sweet, normal, average guy with a good heart and a good sense of humor.  I didn't understand what his character saw in Kristen Wiig's shallow, one dimensional self-pitying character except that he felt sorry for her or wanted to rescue her or something.  I do not recommend this movie and I'm giving it a thumbs down for being embarrassingly bad and unfunny.

wrong region for america .......region 2 ...why sell it here ? I live in America and the dvds we view here are region 1 , the movie they sent me was for region 2 , I can't watch it and have no use for it , I can't even donate it to the library as they too would have no use for it , I wanted to return it but was sent no return envelope or even an address to send it back to , WHY SELL A DVD THAT CAN'T BE VIEWED IN AMERICAN DVD PLAYERS ? I have bought from this company before and never had an issue but now I will never buy from them again as they do not have a care for their customers in the least .  VERY DISAPPOINTED ,

Not a Good show Show ts not the kibd of story I like. Story line not as likeable as I thoght it would be. Nothing enjoyable about what I thought it was. Not what I thought it was.

Not good Too bad it was a boring watch. Did not make good use of a situation that could be scary. It was repetitive and the characters were not good. I didn't believe in it, which is too bad.

DO NOT BE FOOLED BY THE GOOD REVIEWS THIS MOVIE IS CRAP.  The first one, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, was okay, a somewhat slow-paced detective movie.  But an okay movie.  This one, I don't know what it is.  It's a mess.  Slow.  Disjointed.  Confusing.  Boring.  I had no idea what was going on and I didn't even care.  I was too bored.  There's no character development.  Barely a story.  Very little action or suspense.  You learn nothing really new about Lisbeth.  And worst of all she and Blomkvist aren't even partnered together in the movie.  They're not even together, in the same scene, until the very end.  And the end is so outlandish--basically someone surviving something that's impossible to survive--it's like a joke.  Save your time and money and avoid this stinker.

Not letterbox I love this movie, BUT... this version is pan and scan and does not contain the whole screen.  It may have said that in the description, I'm not sure. but I was very disappointed and now have to buy another so I can see the whole movie.

Where's the comedy? Shaun of the Dead is one of my favourite movies, so I was excited when I saw the connection with this film. I was even more excited when I saw the ratings from professional reviewers. When the movie started I had some misgivings but I was willing to give it a chance. About a quarter of the way in I was wondering when the comedy was going to kick in. It never did.  I don't mind the fact that the heroes in the film are thugs and hoodlums at the start. I don't mind that the aliens look like someone's tried to make their childhood soft-toy collection look scary. I understand this is a low-budget film and the acting and camera work are all fine. What I do mind is that the storyline goes nowhere, it's extremely cliched and predictable, there is no character growth, the one-liners are not funny, and the boys from the block are really just crude stereotypes at the end of the day. The only people I can imagine this film appealing to are teenagers who fantasize about living in the 'hood and being "ganstas", that's why I'm mystified that it got such high ratings.  If you're looking for another Shaun of the Dead you'll be very disappointed.

The Farmer's Wife (1928) Format: Movie Director: Alfred Hitchcock Distributor: unknown Release Date: March 2, 1928  For me Alfred Hitchcock has always been a hit or miss director and in this case he is definitely a miss. The film is about a farmer named Samuel Sweetland whose wife dies so he starts looking for another wife to take her place. Throughout the film he ends up asking five different women to marry him which really makes the viewer feel like Samuel is simply looking for a wife just to have a wife rather than him actually having any genuine feelings for the women. The story is really boring and extremely predictable. For the movie being around one and a half hours it really feels like it drags on with a lot of unnecessary parts.  The acting is another flawed part of the film. Jameson Thomas plays Samuel but he really doesn't create enough emotions for the character. He just seems like a guy who keeps trying to go after one lady after another so you really don't feel that he has enough feelings for these people for you to care. He also insults every woman that turns him down which really doesn't help you sympathize with Samuel. Lillian Hall-Davis plays Araminta Dench (a housekeeper) and she does the best acting job in the movie but not as good of a job as she did in The Ring (1927, Hitchcock). All other actors in the film with the exception of Gordon Harker as Churdles Ash (a handyman) do a horrible job which doesn't help this movie at all.  There really aren't any special effects shots in the film. As for the music, it is really bad and is hard to listen to. None of the music seems in the right place and even when it is the music is truly horrible and hurts my ears beyond belief.  Even though Alfred Hitchcock has provided so many movies that I have enjoyed over the years this is one of his biggest duds. The story is predictable and boring, the film feels far to long, the acting is really bad, and the music makes me want to mute the television. So this film really isn't worth your time no matter what your interests are. For a worthwhile Hitchcock silent film check out The Ring (1927, Hitchcock). Score: 2/10

These DVD's Are the Joke To constantly release 12 to 13 episodes each year has become the biggest joke on Family Guy I mean look at the amazon rankings they used to be in the top 5 every time but people have become sick and tired of the greed and stupidity.  The real fans are the ones that lose out they have to wait another year just to get episodes that aired last season always over a year behind.  Just catch up and release full Seasons even if it costs a bit more the fans would appreciate it.

really really sad All of that talent and this is all they could come up with?  I wanted to like this and call the critics wrong, but they were right... this sucks.  And I'm a Ben Stiller fan, I'm an Eddie Murphy Fan, I'm a Matthew Broderick fan!  When I saw the $.99 rental price I had a feeling something was wrong, and it sure was.  I can't put my finger on it, but I was hoping that if it wasn't funny it would be fun, but it wasn't fun.  While I think there were some clever things during the actual robbery, it wasn't enough to save the movie.  Had I seen this in the theater I would've been upset and would've considered asking for my $12 back.  I hope Ben Stiller's "Neighborhood Watch" is better when it comes out.

EXTREMELY BORING: DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME I AM A POLICE OFFICER WHO WORKS IN THE HIGH SCHOOLS TEACHING THEM ABOUT DRUGS, ALCOHOL, BULLYING, DATING VIOLENCE...ETC. AND  I'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET VIDEOS ON JUVENILES GOING TO PRISON, SO I PURCHASED SOME VIDEOS ON SCARED STRAIGHT WHICH WERE GOOD, HOWEVER THIS VIDEO WAS SO BORING I ONLY WATCHED THE FIRST 5 MINUTES AND HAD TO RETURN IT....NO IMPACT WHATSOEVER......

awful I haven't read the book, but i'm sure that it's very good... But the movie is very awful!! It's very boring too, I was dozing off in the first 20 minutes of the movie.

Slow and Boring This movie moved incredibly slow.  These strangers harass this couple all throughout the entire night for no reason in particular.  They knock on their door, smash the car i think, break in but don't really do anything or take anything and eventually chase them outside. I literally had to fast forward through most of it just to get through it. Tension has to build to something and I shouldn't have to wait to the last 10 minutes of the movie for it.

I tried to like this... I have tried multiple times to revisit this film, and find something - anything - to like about it.  Yet, after all these years all I can really praise aout this film is the score by Ennio Morricone (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00020HDA8">The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (Expanded)</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000014RQ">The Thing: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack</a>).  The score is magnificent, full of all the suspense and terror that the rest of this film is sorely lacking.  Performances range from barely serviceable (Linda Blair) to outright hammy (Richard Burton).  John Boorman was obviously striving to make an intellectual film, but the script is such a mess that any meaning the director hoped to convey is lost.  I hate to say it, but this film is a ridiculous mess.  One would be much better served watching the underrated <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000399W9">The Exorcist III</a>.  Now that film, despite problematic studio tampering, is a worthy follow-up to William Friedkin's masterpiece.

I see right through you I'm sure you'll agree that these puritanical diatribes masquerading as feminist propaganda campaigns disguised as horror films are getting rather tiresome.  First there was "The Exorcist," with its crass popey message that puberty comes from the devil if you're a girl. And now we have "Restraint," the first film funded by Sarah Palin's Abstinence Research Institute. Of course, I don't mind that this one falls prey to the same ridiculous tactics as vegans molding their veggie loaf into animal shapes, when they cast a buxom blonde with profound areolas to portray the chastity-craving protagonista.  The viewer is constantly hit about the Adam's apple, base of the spine and frontal lobe with the nerdy message that lust makes men impotent and women just want to play with their Barbie dolls in peace. But they also want lots of money to buy shoes and dinner gowns! And those cute little teeny weensy anklets!! Pass me some of those sparkly foofoos!!!  GAAHHHH!!!!! Can't a wrinkly old gal like me just play dress-up with the whole world in peace?

Read the Trade Paperback - Do Not Buy The DVD Out of all of the DC animated features, All Star Superman is my least favorite. I am a big fan of Grant Morrison, writer of Marvel's New X-Men and DC's Final Night as well as All Star Superman and most of his stories or story lines are layered, quite involved and develop over time. It was not a good idea to compress Morrison's 12 issue maxi-series that ran for almost 3 years into a movie. Watching this movie you miss out on a lot UNLESS you have already read the series. 76 minutes is no where near enough time to even grasp this new vision of Superman. Don't buy the DVD, read the trade paperback because unless you already read it or you have been prepared by a comic book fan, you may find yourself bored, uninterested, lost or compelled to wrap the DVD back up in its original packaging as to try to get a full refund.

Less Enjoyable than Dental Work When I see "All Star Cast" mentioned in a movie description I think of names like Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman and John Travolta- NOT Justine Bateman or Ally Sheedy or (pause to roll eyes) Rae Dawn Chong. But hey, a little hype to pique interest in an obscure movie doesn't mean it's a festering stinkpile, right? Right? But since the mailbox was further away than my TV, I decided to give it a try before walking all the way outside to angrily mail it back to Blockbuster with a terse note to cancel my subscription. Anyway, I really should start listening to my instincts. Thirty minutes later, after becoming criminally insane with boredom, I snatched this meandering yawn-fest from my DVD player. The story... Well, there is none really. The whole thing is little more than a series of parties in which a group of friends meet and engage in "witty", "clever" and often snarky dialogue. It's a character sketch kind of movie but the problem is, the characters are pretty lame, including Ally Sheedy who plays HERSELF, and the "clever dialogue" appears to have been written by drunks or film school dropouts. Or, as is more likely, drunk film school dropouts. It's the kind of artsy pseudo-intellectual dreck that people like to pretend is profound and funny but critical thinking skills will tell you it's rubbish. Couple this with the movie's production cost of around $99.00 and the shooting schedule of a couple of afternoons in poorly-lit houses and editing done by the same drunken dropouts who wrote it and tadaahhh- FESTERING STINKPILE! Get this movie only if you either want to waste 90 minutes of your life and hate yourself for doing it or be a part of the clique of twenty or so people worldwide who think Noah Baumbach is a brilliant filmmaker. Trust me- neither is worth the agony.

A Very Disappointing Sequel I am afraid that I cannot agree with the people who say this movie was a great film. It was not.  I loved the first Sherlock Holmes movie: I thought the depiction of Holmes and Watson by Downey and Law were the best I had ever seen.  I eagerly waited for this sequel to appear, fully expecting to enjoy it.  But I did not.  Now, I am going to discuss details of the movie here, so I suggest you read no further if you don't want to see such details.  First, what was the purpose of having Irene Adler in the movie, only to kill her off in the first 15 minutes?  She played no major role, and was never metioned again.  So why bother to include the character at all?  Furthermore, what was Irene doing working for Moriarty again?  From the last movie she knew he was murderous, could not be trusted and had thoroughly frightened her.  So why in the world would she work for him again?  She was far too smart to have come anywhere near him again, regardless of what he offered.  And speaking of Moriarty---the depiction of the character in this movie was more like a cartoon version of a villain than the dark, compelling and ingenious master criminal I was expecting.  He consistently murders anybody who works for him.  Not a smart move for any master criminal to make-----it does not take long for everybody to learn that you cannot be trusted, and that you kill your hirelings rather than pay them.  Nobody would work for you, for any reason.  Moriarty tries to get to Holmes by threatening Watson and his wife's lives.  He sends men with a machine gun to kill the newlyweds, on a crowded train, in the middle of the English countryside.  Really smooth move, there!  Moriarty comes across more like a low level mafia thug than a brilliant criminal mastermind.  And his big, secret, master plan?  Is it a plot to steal the crown jewels?  Counterfeit European currency?  Steal priceless works of art?  Kidnap a royal prince?  No.  He is going to make money by starting a world war and then selling guns.  I, for one, am underwhelmed.  Many men in real life made fabulous fortunes selling guns without needing to do anything more.  All Moriarty needed to do was sit back and watch the money roll in----completely legal and without all the extra effort. And he would be free to enjoy all that extra money in a world of luxury, not bothered by the destruction of a world war.  The movie wanders around looking for a plot, with an excess of fist fights,  knife fights, gunfights,  explosions and general mayhem.  They start out shooting small guns, then shoot bigger guns, then shoot really big guns, and then REALLY big guns.  All of this action might have looked good in a "Lethal Weapon" or "Mission Impossible" movie, but looked out of place in a Sherlock Holmes story.  It was boring and ridiculous.  Yes,  Downy and Law were great as their characters, Holmes and Watson.  And I loved the character of Watson's wife.  Frankly I think the movie would have benefitted from Mrs. Watson accompanying Holmes and Watson in their adventure, rather than a secondary "gypsy girl" character.  Mrs. Watson had already proven her nerve and intelligence earlier, and I can only imagine the conversation between the three during the adventure would have been thoroughly entertaining.  But I dearly wish these fine actors had been given a far better story to show off their talents in.  Holmes's brother,  Mycroft Holmes is depicted as an idiot and a buffoon.  This man who is supposed to be far more brilliant than Holmes himself,  is reduced to being a bit character and "comedy relief" with no real part in the story.  In fact the entire story staggers back and forth between vicious violence and slap stick foolishness.  Perhaps the makers of this movie thought the "comedy" would be a good element of the film, but they grossly overdid it.  Holmes "disguises" himself as a woman, complete with makeup,  then  gets his dress torn off by an enraged Watson, and spends the next part of the movie half naked,  while sexual innuendoes fly thickly. In another scene, it turns out that Holmes is afraid of horses, and is reduced to escaping the country riding a tiny Shetland pony.  During the peace summit ball, Holmes and Watson waltz together in each others arms in full view on the ballroom floor. (somthing that, at that time, would have disrupted the summit even more throughly than an murder, not to mention get them both arrested, imprisoned or possibly shot.)  The "humor" was such that I was expecting to see people throwing pies and farting in each other's faces.  Comedy needs to be sprinkled on with a spoon, not slathered on with a trowel. Otherwise the result is like something out of  "National Lampoon".  Another example,  Mycroft Holmes (an English gentleman of the upper class) is seen wandering blithely and completely naked through his home in front of Mrs. Watson----another man's wife, who is currently a guest in his home and under his protection.  This scene would not be funny if it took place in modern times---but in a story placed during the time of Victorian England?  It was barely acceptable for a woman's own husband to be naked in full daylight in their own bedroom with her!  But wandering around in the rooms of the mansion, in full view of the guests and servants?  This reduces it to the level of slap stick.  At the end of the film, Holmes is off with Moriarty, leaving Watson to stop an assassin from disrupting a peace conference.  Watson stops the assassination, but the conference is very much disrupted, and we never see or hear of any resolution to the scene.  Was war prevented or not?  We are not told.  And the infamous death scene, were we have Holmes and Moriarity going over the falls completely fails to be either dramatic or emotional.  I heartily wish that movie makers would stop jumping on that weak plot device.  Arthur Conan Doyle had Holmes go over the falls in his original story, because he was tired of his character and wanted to be done with him.  It didn't turn out, and so Doyle had to cobble together a story to bring Holmes back to life.  Doyle did not consider either story to be his best work, or his favorite.  At any rate, this movie was a disappointment. I can only hope that, if another one is made, it will be better than this one was.  Why, so often, does it seem that the first movie is great, and then the next one stinks?  If you are eager to see this movie, as I was, I suggest you rent it and not waste money on buying it.

Not for Christian's Might have been a good movie untill got to the part of having our Lord and Saviour on cross giving the finger and I was gonna give it another chance then just right after a quote on a wall Jesus Saves-----his receipts,,now that did it this movie is stupid and could have been good, so if your a Christian you will be offended, dont watch what a waste of time.

The 1.5 sec nude scene was the best part of the whole movie. A high school kid can make much better movie than that. I enjoyed the brief nude scene though; couldn't help it. So go ahead, set a Contract on my me. But whatever you do, don't watch this movie.

Disappointed, boot-legged copy, not complete This stated the BURLESQUE DVD was NEW.  It was a boot-legged copy and skipped entire CHAPTERS.  I could NOT even see the end of the movie. Very disappointing, now I will have to go to BEST BUY and purchase a REAL new copy.

Surprised How Bad It Was My husband and I missed this film when it was in the theatre, so I bought the blu-ray version last week, thinking this would be a film we'd watch again and again [as we do DiCaprio's other big celebrity film, The Aviator]. It turned out to be one of the worst films we've seen--ever. We're puzzled how it could be so bad. Perhaps designed to create a visually dark mood to match Hoover's reputation, the scenes are so dark you sometimes can't see what's going on. But that's very far from the main problem. The story--a back 'n' forth between old age and the main events of his life--is so choppy that it's often hard to follow. These main events are told as vignettes, such as the Lindberg kidnapping and various hits on Commies, interspersed with guesses about his private life as a closet homosexual with a long-time partner [that may never have been consummated]. But the script was so bad, and even the acting was so bad [except for Judy Dench as his mother], that even the most emotionally painful scenes were just painfully embarrassing. DiCaprio seemed to be so focussed on getting the weird dialect right that nothing else, or even the dialect, rang true. We kept saying to each other, 'When is this going to be over?' Compared to The Aviator, a very similar film in structure, this film is a zero.

Worst treatment of Tesla that I have ever seen. As both an electrical and mechanical engineer, I have always been fascinated with the works and history of Nikola Tesla. His discoveries and inventions were the foundational advancements that paved the way for the 20th century.    That said. As for this DVD...    There is nothing of value here.  The vast majority is interviews of ignoramuses posing as scientists.  The one truly legitimate scientist, Dr. David Goodstein of CALTECH, is shown speaking, not about the inventions and work of Nikola Tesla, but, about the oil crisis.  Dr. Goodstein had done a complete episode of his TV series "The Mechanical Universe" on Tesla and his contributions.  That episode, by itself, is 10,000 times more informative than this entire film.    There is barely even mention of alternating current.  And NO explanation of what it is, or, what its properties and and advantages are vis-a-vis DC current.  No mention of electrical or mechanical resonance, electro-florescence lighting, poly-phase motors and generators vs. commutators, the Tesla bladeless turbine, or wireless remote controlled devices.  A Tesla coil is shown throwing lightning-bolts, with NO explanation of what it is or how it does that. Or, why it is important. Just a light-show. A passing reference is made to the invention of radio. But, no mention of Marconi or the eventual settling of the patents. Nothing about his germ phobia, before the discovery of germs.    Barely a mention of George Westinghouse or Thomas Edison. And none of his friendship with Mark Twain. None of the story that brought him to the U.S. Hardly a mention of the Colorado Springs years.  The "war of the currents" was mentioned. Not detailed or explained... just mentioned.   What you will see is a bunch of cranks, attributing their own ideas to Nikola Tesla to try to give them some sort of respectability.  Nikola Tesla deserved better than this...  The Barbi Twins deserve better than this !

THE WORST MOVIE EVER MADE i never like writing bad reviews but this was actually the worst movie i have ever watched in my entire life.

Boring and unorginal This film was a snooze from start to finish with shallow characters and no plot development. And its attempt to break the fourth wall made it all the more cheesy.

BEWARE: Beats you over the head with Religion Love sports movies about overcoming (Rudy, Remember the Titans, etc). This movie, instead is a movie about God and Christianity thinly veiled in a sports movie. Literally couldn't finish it as the religious "messages" became so pervasive I couldn't continue. Regret the purchase...

Seed Of Chucky rant 1/10 This is the last review of The Childs Play franchise recapping you have the 1st film that's a classic part is a solid sequel as was 3 it's underrated I don't understand the hate that Childs Play 3 gets. Bride Of Chucky I just don't care for it was pretty poor but Brad Dourif is still good. This movie absoultly killed the franchise to me it did & I have no hope for Curse Of Chucky. Don Mancini needs to let it go & let someone else who is a fan of the 1st 3 movies take over that is a capable director & get decent writers. Why I don't care for 4 & 5 is they took Chucky a killer doll that has the soul of a serial killer & is kind of scary & turn him into a comedy act. This is 1 of the worst sequels ever. Made on a budget of $12 million made $24 million it didn't even deserve $5. Directed by Don Mancini who wrote all 5 films & this franchise is all he ever made money off of. Brad Dourif returns as does Jenifer Tilly who gets to play as herself in this movie. You have Red Man, Billy Boyd as the voice of Glen & Glenda, John Waters as Pete Peters. The story is the doll from part 4 is now 6 I guess he's a side show freak for this ventilquist he wants to find out who is parents are he has a problem where he wets himself. Over in Hollywood The Chucky & Tiffany Dolls are used props in movies. You'd think that they would've just burned The Chiucky Doll by now. So Glen or Glenda is watching them on TV he sees on the wrist Made In Japan. Never in the other Childs Play movies did it ever have Made In Japan on the dolls wrist. The doll escapes goes to Hollywood. He finds his doll parents he has the amulet he brings Chucky & Tiffany back to life. Then this effects guy comes in & he is going to work on the dolls Chucky takes a piece of piano wire & he & Tiffany take that guys head off. They meet their son they argue if it's a boy or a girl. Chucky names it Glen Tiffany names it Glenda. Then you have Jenifer Tilly come in she finds the serered head & rins off. Tiffany wants to transfer her soul to Jenifer Tilly great in joke Don Mancini ha ha. They follow her home Red Man's coming over to Jenifer Tilly's house. Cause she want's to be in Red Man's movie he's directing. They decide to transfer their souls to Red Man & Jenifer TIlly but they need a 3rd host for Glen or Glenda you want to know what they have Chucky do beat his m  e  a  t. So you go from that great character the idea of a serial killer in a childs toy to this BS. Don Mancini you say you don't like part3 yet 13 years later you give us this garbage. Red Man & Jenifer Tilly are knocked out. Then you hve Chucky take Glen to go after this Photographer Pete Peters. This was the only scene I liked when Chucky knocks Britney Spears off the road & her car falls down a cliff. Chucky says "Opps I did it again!" That was the only time I laughed at the humor. So they go after that Photographer in the dark room Chucky attempts to kill him Glen tries to warn him he bumkps into a shelf where acid falls on his face in s  h  it  t  y CGI effect. Chucky thinks that Glen meant to do it he doesn't want his parents to kill. Anyway Jenifer Tilly turns up pregnet cause of  what Chucky had done. Tiffany is reading a book 12 steps for addictions. I'll be d  am  n  e  d if this wasn't a quick pregnacy ever. Tiffany calls a drug addiction hotline. HOW DID YOU FIND THIS FUNNY Don Mancini! Tiffany guts Red Man. Later on Chucky attacks Jenifer Tilly they tie her up. Glen dress's up as a girl kills Jenifer Tilly's assistant. They trick Jenifer Tilly's driver Cops show up Chucky decides no to do the soul transfer. Jenifer Tilly is taken to the hospital then you have a really bad finish the finish with The Haunted House ride in Childs Play 3 owns this movies finish. Tiffany drugs Jenifer Tilly starts to do the soul transfer. Chucky breaks in with an axe pops his head in say I have no line referancing The Shinning HAHHA! Chucky hits Tiffany in the head with an axe. Glen goes kung fu on Chucky which I hear nobody complain about but they do for Halloween Resurrection which was actually funny when Busta Rhymes fights Michael Myers. Takes the axe cuts off his arms legs & head. The soul transfer was sucessful Tiffany transfered her soul to Jenifer Tilly I ain't getting to the ending it blew a lot. Brad Dourif as the voice of Chucky  the ideas with The Glen Glenda character are the only things Iliked. There's more to horror than just gore & the gore in this film isn't that great. Likeable characters is important a likeable lead character that lives. Like in 1, 2 & 3. The character in Bride & Seed I don't care about cause they don't feel like real people especially this movie. The slapstick humor doesn't work Chucky is a side character & the romance comedy stuff is bad. Don Mancini go back to what worked in the 1st 3 movies or stop writing Childs Play movies. This is Brad Doufif's weakest performance voiceing Chucky. Jenifer Tilly is just bad actress. Red Man is fine in comedies  he doesn't work here. Billy Boyd was fine voiceing The Glen Doll. John Waters was nothin great.  This has more features than Bride had where is the features for 2 & 3. This sequel killed the franchise  I have no hope for Curse if I see a trailer & it changes  my mind maybe. Anyway I'll do Fright Night next.

Brides maids I wasn't impressed with the movie and only watched the first 10 minutes passed the opening credits. Not one i'd recommend to my friends

Bootleg; Don't bother with this seller Awful bootleg copy; Subtitles + Only two selections on the DVD menu page - PLAY & CHAPTERS. Quality is fine but doesn't make up for the fact there are constant subtitles and the inability to fast forward or rewind shorter than a scene/frame. Really? I would have expected more for half the price of a brand new copy.

What was the point? Really, that was the big deal. I have to say, this is simply a pointless, dark view of life, love and human relationships. This is what a bad over rated movie looks like in 2012. Watch something else.... Let me share a quote from my wife,"this movies sucks."

Don't go near this movie &lt;strong>Don't Go in the Woods&lt;/strong> (Vincent D'Onofrio, 2010)  If I started this review with a pithy comment about exactly where Vincent D'Onofrio went wrong with &lt;em>Don't Go in the Woods&lt;/em>, his first (and, if there is any justice in the world, his last) feature-length directorial effort, we'd end up being here all day, because there are very few things about this movie that are not wrong. But there's one place that does stick out in my mind where it went very wrong indeed--that moment where D'Onofrio decided to take this rather boring slasher film (whether it is a remake, reboot, reimagining, whatever of the 1981 film of the same name I could not tell) and make it a musical. Yes, a musical. Up to a certain point, it could have easily been a bad horror movie about a rock band who go off into the woods in order to get their heads clear and write some new material. There's music involved, of course there is, but it's not a "musical" in the sense that the music is integrated into parts of the script where it would not normally be. Band members playing songs and singing, huzzah, and a bunch of groupies and girlfriends and the like have followed them up from New York and gate-crashed the party, which makes lead singer Nick (Matt Sbeglia) angry, for what should be obvious reasons. He blows up and one of the girls stalks off...and starts singing a riff on one of the songs that was just played while walking through the woods. Oh, god, movie, you did just hit a new low indeed. That would be enough to give it a low rating (it is saved from the lowest because a few of the singers are actually quite good; unfortunately, the guy who plays Nick is not one of them) by itself, but then comes the climax, in which Our Director attempts to come up with some ambiguity, but does so in such an inept, ham-fisted way that the viewer is likely to end up scratching his head wondering what on earth Mr. D'Onofrio thought he was doing. Which is a valid approach to the entire film, actually. *

There are no words to tell... how stupid is this film!!!!!!! I admire the guy who watched it till the end and wrote the long review.  I just couldn't. I kept pressing "forward" button. The story (is there one?) must have been written by a drug addict on huuuuuuge high. How anybody sane could create such dumb thing? Acting is limited to the very limits and so is the action - but I think this won't surprise you. Some of the scenes (like the one at the beginning with all the "cowboy" hustlers) made me laugh really loud!!! And the BIG gun he carried in his jeans - HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA. If you look for hot bodies and steamy action, I will spare your time and money. The sex scenes are as hot as sibierian winters :)

very misleading I was sad so see the version I received was a French copy. The movie is still in English but it's not what is being advertised. The only reason I have not returned the item is because it took so long to arrive in the first place

Sucks Sucks Sucks Sucks Sucks SUcks sucks sucks sucks sucks This movie is horrible. I find it unreal that this movie would have four stars and soem of the reviews of people actually like this. IF you like the same scene 5 time over and over and over.  And your mind is warped and like wasting your time .  This movie should been shown to prisoners of war over and over. They will soon reveal anything you want . The director is lucky they cant ban you from making movies. IF that would to happen  he can always work at that place in cuba where detinees are.  Sucks sucks sucks sucks.  DOnt waste your time. Amazon needs to put better movies on if they wanting peopel to pay 70 a year

mars attacks well a movie with no sound.. not good its was a copy that didnt turn out well.what more can be said

One More Film With An Enlongated Monster!! As a huge Jake Gyllenhaal fan, I had to skip this one because of the snake. Just viewing the preview alone gave me nightmares. You may feel differently, but I definitely do not recommend it. Watch at your own risk. Frankly, I think Jake looks better in suits and uniforms, but this is just my opinion. My youngest sister watched this film and she loves it. She's not scared of them. Like me, she is also a huge Jake Gyllenhaal fan. We can share him.

Aweful film..question Amazon star ratings... This film is bad.  Not in a, "it was almost good" kind of way either.  Whoever is reviewing this and giving it 5 stars either didn't watch it, or was too distracted by the low impact nudity to realize they were watching a terrible film.  The first 5 minutes are solid, but the film takes a turn towards goofy comedy and never comes back from cheesy Viagra jokes and a laughable attempts at drama. Hathaway's  contribution of graceful beauty and nudity can only take a film so far.  I know my review doesn't give a lot of insight into the film itself, but to be honest it's better that way.

Urrrrgh!!!!! Waste of money and time.... Really bad! All the other reviewers who gave it the lowest rating collectively have it right on the "attributes" of this B grade piece of ............ I predict that it will not even make it into the campy category before it is lost, intentionally for sure, in the bowels of time.

Terrible Movie A total waste of time and energy. Could not recommend it to even my worst enemy. Go buy something worthwhile!

BradyLaw I went on a Blu-ray buying spree on black Friday and when I received this item I was very disappointed. It advertises a blu-ray in the package as if it was from a store when in reality what you receive is a COPY in a plastic cd case.... Very lame and misleading to buyers, will not buy again.

Don't waste your money or time This movie was horrible. Horrible acting, horrible plot, horrible script. The film was obviously made to be a recruitment tool for the Navy, which may be fine if all the Navy wants to attract are mindless idiots.

Awful and Scary I found this movie to be creepy and scary for little kids.  I was shocked at how the evil face in the book controls and influences the mind of a young boy.  Very dark and disturbing for a supposed children's movie.

.................... *WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS, PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK*  This movie sucks. Not gonna sugarcoat it. This movie sucks. Bad. I quite liked the first Mortal Kombat movie, I thought it was great, and I had hoped that this sequel would be great too! Oh man, it wasn't, not even close. For one, one of the main, central characters dies in the first two minutes of this movie, and they couldn't even keep all the actors/actresses for the roles (I think they only kept two?)! The story was much more confusing and harder to follow, the actors/actresses they got to replace the original ones were, um, bad... Okay, won't sugarcoat that either, they were awful. The effects actually seemed worse than those of the first movie. Really, this move is the reason I wished the first MK movie hadn't ended in a cliffhanger, because this movie sucks. Badly. -Trent Foreman, Author of Nightmare

Not as impressed There are better balance ball DVD's out there. This one is too fast and doesn't really set you up well enough to get a good workout. Disappointed

SCREEN FORMAT INCORRECTLY SPECIFIED WARNING!!!  This DVD set is specified at the Amazon web site as having been recorded in the Full Screen format (Aspect Ratio 1.33).  IT IS NOT.  Every movie on the DVDs was recorded in Wide Screen (Aspect Ratio 1.85 or higher).  If you have a traditional-size TV screen, the images will appear letterboxed, and will be quite difficult to view.  If you need the Full Screen format, DO NOT purchase this set; your only option at present is to get VHS tapes of the movies, which will be recorded in Full Screen.  I found this out the hard way.  In any case, Amazon  deserves serious criticism for this false advertising.

Awful! Let me say that again, AWFUL! The acting is deplorable and the story line is unrealistic. I am in the Navy currently and none of this seems believable to me. I could get in to every detail that I found bad about this movie, but I've already given to much of my life away to it already.  By all means RENT the movie to see it, but DO NOT BUY IT!!!

Waste of time. Just another brain-dead religous servicem to the cult of enviornmentalism.  Never shows both sides of the issue and tries to ram a belief system down your throat.

good as a commentary on the state of cinema and its viewers The writers tried very hard to make the gory details as disgusting as possible but apart from that very bad acting and story .  Really these Hollywood movies are made for kids , except the subject matter is not for kids . That's the only scary part about this film .

poor quality and not a equipment issue After informing "movies and game store" of an issue of a blu-ray I purchased.  I was told that this was a firmware issue and pretty much have to live with it. The new player firmware is up to date. The used Blu-Ray is either warn out or it's a poor copy. I will never purchase from this company again and will inform everyone I know to do the same. This store doesn't care about customers  But the movie is awesome one of my favorites...all the store had to do was replace it with another

Earth vs. The Flying Ssaucers This has to be the most worthless DVD I have purchased from Amazon. Both color and black & white versions sound track is out of sync with the video. You can be watching the colorized version and it switches to the b/w version

Rating the combo pack not the movie. The Ultraviolet digital download is a proprietary format that expires or eventually this service will shutdown, they all do because the experience sucks.  Having to download extra programs and apps makes it a hassle just to play the movie, why bother?.  Today's technology should be easy, not a hassle.  Provide a iTunes digital code for those who use it as the primary source!.  This will be the last time I will ever purchase a DVD/Blu-Ray/Digital movie.

an abomination of a good anime director should be quartered and shot and the price of the bullet should be charged to the production company. I loved the stand alone anime and am a big fan of the series, but this movie sucks vampire member.

Bad Movie Not much to say about this one. I turned it off about 40 minutes into the film - it was that bad!!!!!

This is Narnia Fan Fiction, Not Prince Caspian I'm doubtful the writers involved in this travesty ever read "Prince Caspian."  Or worse, they DID read it and decided they could write it better.  Whatever happened, this film is a derivative work with virtually nothing in common with the novel beyond character names and locations.  I'd love to say I understand why the writers and production teams would take such extreme liberties with the original story line, but the truth is I really don't understand it.  Too much effort is placed on portraying the Pevensie kids as ordinary kids (perhaps to make them more relatable and likeable to child/young adult audience.)  I found this absurd.  Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are NOT ordinary kids.  They have lived a lifetime as warriors and rulers of an unique fantasyland, grew to adulthood there, and were magically returned to their earthly/childhood forms.  These kids shouldn't be engaging in petty fistfights or rivalries.  Nor should Peter be leading his troops into ill-planned suicide missions.  I found Susan's character more sympathetic but also disjointed.  As lovers of the Narnia series know, Susan is the sibling who ultimately loses faith in Narnia and pulls away from her role there.  "Prince Caspian" provides interesting clues and character development as to why Susan might behave this way.  A light, slightly cheesy romance element is thrown in to emphasize this.  However, Susan is also presented as a truly violent character, and I was shocked by this since it went so against the grain of the original story.  Ben Barnes is gorgeous eye candy.  He's a tremendous actor, but you won't see it in this film because his role requires little of him besides looking young, studly, and a bit bewildered most of the time.  Georgie Henley and Skander Keynes had the most remarkable performances in the film, probably because they were the only stars permitted to accurately portray their assigned characters.  Edmund is indeed "King Edmund the Just" even if he's still a young teen boy.  Clear thinking and mindful of his conscience.  And Lucy's faith and spiritual confidence based upon her closeness to Aslan is wonderful and terrifying to behold.  Her wordless confrontation of the attacking Telmarines on the bridge is possibly the one thrilling moment in this movie.  The Telmarines clearly don't know who they should fear most:  an army of Narnian creatures behind them or one little girl armed with a small dagger and flanked by an enormous lion in front of them.  It's obvious the producers and writers wanted to strip this film of most of its spiritual symbolism and there was nothing else they could do except wreck the film.  I'm seriously disappointed.  Lovers of the Narnia saga know Narnia is a series of spiritually significant journeys.  Take that away and you've got nothing but generic characters and meaningless events.  And that's just what "Prince Caspian" is.  I'm going to view "Voyage of the Dawn Treader" because other reviewers have noted it's better than "Prince Caspian" but if it's similar to this film, I doubt this series will complete itself.

Makes Jedi look like a masterpiece Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Family Guy, but this steaming pile of Bantha Turd makes that other crap-fest, "Jedi" look like absolutely brilliant. I, like Buck, got about 3 laughs out of this. Even though Seth opens with a disclaimer in the crawl, it was not at all meant to be taken as a joke. This-plain-SUCKED. Thank you, Netflix, for saving me from buyer's remorse.

Should be titled transforming your life with raw fluff. I have recently starting eating a raw food "vegan" diet.  Have lost lots of Lbs. and am always searching out more information how to live this new foodstyle.  It is a foodstyle for me, not a lifestyle.  I don't believe that I am saving the world or altering my cosmic consciousness.  If you do, then you may enjoy this video, but there is little information(perhaps no information is more accurate)about doing the raw foodstyle.  There is a lot of testimony about how great the world is when you eat raw food. I am really happy for what Philip has accomplished, but this is really kind of a "religious" new age experience talk and if that appeals to you then this may be a good video for you.  But, if you are looking for real world, pragmatic information about living "vegan", then skip this one.

Lousy drama, worse history This is historical drama at its worst.  There is no sense whatever of being carried to another era or sharing the lives of  its people.  I felt like I was watching a drawn-out costume show, interrupted by exaggerated violence that created no tension and exaggerated sex that had no erotic appeal.  But what's really disturbing about this series is the screenwriter's total lack of respect for his historical material.  Far from being "relatively free of historical inaccuracies" the series is rife with them.  Entire episodes are based on incidents that never happened.  Worse, many of them never would have happened; they contradict what is known about the characters or the era; sometimes they contradict simple common sense.  A guest leaves the table at a VIP dinner for the Pope and Curia, and goes unchallenged into the private quarters of his host to do lethal mischief?  That is no more credible in a Cardinal's palace in 1492 than  it would be in the White House today.  Young highborn ladies travel on horseback and alone across two hundred miles of bandit-ridden countryside and the Appennine Mountains?  The producers of Hollywood's silliiest westerns would shudder at the notion  Those are just two examples of implausible events that never happened.  There are many others.  In the very worst, we  see Cesare abduct Giovanni Sforza, beat him brutally, and take him to the Vatican dressed only in a night shirt.  There, in the presence of two whores, a big bed, and the entire Curia, Sforza is taunted about his virility--or lack of it--while all the Cardinals titter and jeer.  This ugly travesty never happened, either.  Sforza's long quarrel with the pope about his marriage took place entirely through letters.  As for the Cardinals, corrupt though many of them were, they were generally astute.  They were unlikely to risk scandal for the petty satisfaction of humiliating an insignificant count.  I have been reading about Borgias and their era for many years.  Their story--their real story--is rich with drama and complexity.  What a pity it all went to waste here.  But there is one good film around that you can watch: "The Conclave."  It's set much earlier, when Rodrigo Borgia was just a young cardinal, laying the groundwork for his rise to Papacy and power.  "The Conclave" is an intelligent, engrossing movie, and it tells us more about the Renaissance and its church in two hours than we get from this whole sleazy series.

Wrong Product+Rude Service I purchased a Two-Disc Special Edition of "GoodFellas".  When it arrived, it was a single disc (contrary to the picture and description).  The "Special Features" were those of olden-time DVDs where a book worth of dialogue pops up.  What is most disturbing is that the jewel case cover for this DVD is correct adornments on the cover claiming to be the "Two-Disc Special Edition" and descriptions of the special features on the back.  There was only one disc included and none of the special features described were present.  0 for 2 isn't a great score in my book.  When I presented this information to the seller, he claimed that this was the correct edition as with "Warner it is normal for their two disk released with disk one as side A and Disk two as side B."  I am old enough to remember the early days of DVDs so this seemed fair to say, but what he said next was "It is the only way the two disk version exists of this title."  This is clearly untrue.  My brother owns the same edition which has two discs and even the picture that the seller shows as the item description picture shows a version with two discs.  He then tried to get me to send it back to him "at [my] own expense" and he would issue a refund when it arrived.  Not wanting to spend money on TESG's mistake, I e-mailed him back telling him again, that I received the wrong edition of the film and I expected to be compensated without needing to spend my own money in the process.  His reply is as follows...  "I am confused with the fact that you ordered an item, got exactly what you ordered, refuse to return the item for a refund, and file a claim to keep the item wanting both the item and a refund.  Again, I shall issue a refund once the item is returned and until the item is returned I can not take any action on this matter."  You will notice that he still claims I got what I ordered.  He claims that I wanted the DVD, which is untrue.  And his "confusion" is clearly a veiled method for implying that my claim was fraudulent.  By this time, Amazon had already stepped in and refunded my money so thank God for that.  This company was giving me a headache.  All negative reviews of this seller say basically the same thing and if we are saying these things independently then there is little doubt to their validity.  If you buy from this seller, I guess you'd better hope really hard that you get what you purchased because any dissatisfaction with your purchase will be met with rude and accusatory dissent.

where is it? where the hell is my Blu ray? i ordered it last month, i got 15 of what i ordered but I'm missing this one. i wonder where it is?

Ridley Scott goes where no man has gone before... And there's a reason for that. I was so excited to see this when it came out in theaters a while ago; afterall, Ridley Scott has some pretty impressive work under his belt (some of which have even become favorites of mine). However, this movie was a huge disappointment for me. Usually I like movies that keep me thinking long after I've watched them, but this wasn't one of those GOOD thought provoking movies. This movie just leaves the audience confused. I admired the direction that the movie was striving for (where do we come from, who made us, etc.), but this garbage only answers those questions with more questions. It's almost like Scott was watching "Ancient Aliens" on the History Channel (which I do enjoy by the way) and decided to make a movie based on that premise. Furthermore, I thought the creature design was terrible in this movie! Oh! Look! A giant squid! What is this?! 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea?!! I feel like Scott has gone the way of Spielberg and Lucas and began mining his old classics, only to replace them with new Sh!t. The performances in this movie are great, but when you work with a terrible script there's not much that can save a movie from that. Even if you are a fan of science fiction, save your money on this one. It's only worth a rental at most.

BURN ! BURN BURN ! I have the first BHC and it was very good. Good Quality - Good Actors - Good Directing ! But, this second BHC is such a burn ! George Lopez is (I think) the only original Actor/Voice in the movie and I think he should retain them name "Poppie". BUT, EVERYONE ELSE IS DIFFERENT ! BURN ! BURN ! BURN ! If I could get my money back for this movie I would, because I will never watch it again. I had to force myself to watch it once. How can that reviewer say she loved this movie as much as the first ? ? ?

The Hangover was a frickin joke!!!!!!!! The only reason why I even watched this movie was because a friend of mine annoyed the crap out of me until I saw it. This movie to me clearly did NOT live up to its hype. I did not laugh at all, the script for the movie was awful (half the script was the f-bomb). I find it to be unoriginal, boring, and predictable and very cliche. Do not waste your time or money on this movie.

bad movie I got this movie on my evo 3d.  After 30 mins of the movie, my attention withered.  that 30 mins felt like a life time to me.  It was excruciating to watch.  I thought this movie was about superhero, but i was wrong.  Seth's over acting killed it.  The movie lacks of depth.  It is dump, not that funny at all.  It is not even close to comedy. Some scenes are a bit funny, but most of the time, it is just dragging.. weak humor.  Also, the movie has many talents in it.  Jay chou is a top chinese singer, song writer, he played Kato o.k.  Diaz is a good actress, but why the hack she participated in this C- film????  argh, no wonder EVO 3d has it for free because the movie is cheep...

Terrible, just terrible! I really wanted to like this movie, but it is terrible for SO many reasons.  I don't know where to begin so I'll just start randomly mentioning things:  - This movie is an embarassment to the gay community.  It portrays all gay men as shallow, stuck up, phoney, promiscuous, drug addicted and sex addicted.  - The movie is WAY too long.  They could have shaved off a good 30 or 45 minutes of unnecessary and bland footage.  - The plot is cheesy.  I won't give away the ending, but let me just say it's laughable because it's so ridiculous.  - The acting is TERRIBLE!  Oh boy, it was embarassing just watching these people try to act it was so bad.  - It looks like they filmed the movie with a handheld camcorder!  The entire film is grainy, the lighting is poor, and the sound is poor as well.  They should've been embarassed to even use whatever cheap equipment they used. smh.  All I can say is please don't spend too much money to watch this movie - either buy it used or rent it if possible, because I know I wish I never would've spent $22 on this garbage when it first came out.  I watched it once, and haven't watched it again since.

Wreckage Rated Version I saw this movie for cheap and it sounded good. Yea, doesn't all horror movie reviews start that way? Anyways, the story, acting, and timing is good. There is no blood or gore in the r-rated version, matter of fact it's could be pg-13. I didn't know there was an unrated version when I bought it and that is something I can't stand is unrated films. There is a site where you can check the difference between films but this one didn't have this movie up yet. I don't know how gory it could have been. So yea, it's a basic pg-13 horror film with a good cast but very little blood and no gore. The film doesn't really make sense in some scenes but I guess i'll have to wait for the website to get ahold of the copy to see if I missed anything. The movie gets funny towards the end when they find the owner's nephew, Frank. Other then a few dumb laughs, stay away from this movie or at least get the unrated version. Also, the guy on the cover doesn't even appear in the r rated version.

WOFTAM What a waste of time and money! Certainly not in the class of Soderbergh movies I have previously experienced. In fact I still find it difficult to believe that he actually directed this film.  Why do I watch a movie?  To be entertained.  This was not entertainment in any shape or form. It was patchy, it relied on confusing "flash backs" and apart from the few short fight scenes, it was totally boring.  Certainly not what the preview would have us believe. I do not doubt Gina Carano's MMA credentials, but after watching this I sure do doubt her acting credentials. Looking pretty (even after having been beaten up) does not an actor make.  Perhaps the bigger name actors (Douglas and Banderos) were added to try and give the movie some credibility. If that were the case, it failed. Another reviewer stated that he watched the movie the whole way through in the hope that it may get better (which apparently did not happen). I managed to get about half way through it and just knew that it was never going to get better.  But hey, this is just my opinion. There may be some who find the movie appealing. If you do, great.  Just don't hold your breath waiting for it to happen.

Worst Movie I've ever seen I saw this film several years ago, was given a copy of the DVD version which went in the trash where it belonged.  Several adjectives come to mind regarding this film - "revolting;" "nauseating;" a few others.  One can only wince at some of the scenes.  You either like this movie or you hate it; there doesn't seem to be any in-between.  I am not a moralist but have never seen such a tastelessly executed film.  If you like bathroom humor this is the movie for you.  If Cohen's objective was to offend nearly every targeted group in this movie, it is fair to say that he succeeded in that respect.

lots of pouty lips and posing not much plot or brains very disappointing coming from a writer who supposedly created good tv previously; maybe somebody else on that team really deserved the credit.

Watch the area from which your dvd is dispatched! (And I thought I had!) I like this fun romp and saw a reasonably priced copy, so thought I'd add it to my dvd library.  Unfortunately I misread or was misled into buying a version that I think will only play in Europe.  It certainly won't play in the USA.  I'll throw it in with a relative's Xmas gift as a bonus.  Maybe they'll get some use out of it. I certainly won't.  Too bad.  It's a rather sweet take on the genre if I remember correctly.  Not as perfect as 'The Professional', but fun none-the-less as the middle-aged protagonist tries to balance his tricky crime connections with instant fatherhood.

Horrible dvd! Don't buy it... I liked the movie a lot, it's no zombie movie (see the cover art), but a giallo (Italian thriller with lots of gore). But this dvd (on the Eurovista label) is horrible!! It looks like a very old videotape, with scratches, parts missing etc. The widescreen is too wide, parts on top (heads of the actors!) and bottom of the image are cut off. I regret buying this dvd, especially because it was very expensive. I read that there's a much better version (Red Code label), I'm going to buy that one. That version is also expensive, but you get a better dvd!

buy the compendium this is just a single disc...its more economical and entertaining to buy the entire compendium of discs by the 3 Stooges covering the first 10 years because you get all the movies right up until the time Curley left the group and Shemp joined.  Plus in the compendium bonus materials you get a very large number of shorts featuring Shemp and others ...it about doubles the value received for dollars spent......don't buy the single discs........and if Shemp is your favorite Stooge then these discs from the first 10 years up until 1945 are not the correct bunch....you should buy all the disc collection from 1945 to 1955 to get Shemp

Only good thing - Charles Castronovo's voice As much as I love this opera, this production was awful.  I do not mind modern stagings but this one was just too weird.  Such a pity because Charles Castronova has a gorgeous voice and is an excellent actor.  What a waste of such an incredibly talented opera singer.

the Old Curiosity Shop I enjoyed this movie but only received part one.  It was not advertised as selling only part one so the story was never finished.  I have asked it this was a mistake or just bad advertising this DVD.

Worst Burton movie ever I love Johnny Depp and I do like some Tim Burton movies. Had high expectations but was hugely disappointed. Very boring storyline that didn't make sense and wasn't the least bit funny.

Very disappointing DVD. I found this video to be very boring.  I wish I did not purchase it.  I do not recommend it to any person who is interested in dvd's about large busted women.

Bad acting and a silly script Bad acting and a silly script are only two of the problems with this film. It's hard to convert a comic book hero to the big screen, and for every one that succeeds (Spiderman, X-men, Batman) there are two or more that fail (Green Lantern, Green Hornet, Thor, Captain America, Fantastic Four, the Hulk) and that's especially true when the comic character is complex (Ghost Rider).  Bottom line - this film will appeal only to the most hard core comic book fans, and even some of them might be disappointed.

Terrible film on many levels For starters, this film has an excessive amount of product placement in it.  Yes, you read that right.  They use brand name objects for advertisement in a film about the apocalypse.  From Ipod to Dr. Dre Beats headphones, there's plenty of shots of how long lasting these items last in the event of human downfall.  This brings me to my next point.  What causes this apocalyptic period is completely ignored and is only hinted at throughout the film.  They ignore the setting and causes yet the setting itself is trite and unoriginal.  However, they do hint at what causes this era, but this leads to by far the greatest flaw of this garbage film.  The film has such an obvious religious message of Christianity and that by turning away from God and the Bible our society may fall apart in such a fashion as presented in the film.  Spoiler alert: Eli is looking for someone to deliver the Bible to preserve it and feels it can help reestablish society.  Did I need a spoiler alert for that though?  It's so obvious he's referring to the Bible.  Anyway, Eli is meant to be some righteous, god-fearing man, yet he completely contradicts the teachings of his precious Bible.  In the opening scene, he allows a woman to be gang raped because his secrecy and mission is a greater good.  There's no way in hell that Jesus would do something like this nor advocate his actions.  Jesus' ethics were not utilitarian.  Eli's actions are.  The film and the Hughes brothers think they're being subtle and coy with this religious message but it's beyond obvious and feels like they're trying to beat you over the head with their message.  Even then, it seems like they don't know their religion well enough.  They take a more Old Testament route with Eli's character, as well ignore that ethics themselves don't come from God, they misplace and overestimate the value of the Bible to society.  The film just comes off as nearly having an evangelical Christian taint I felt.  Denzel's performance is one of the worst in his career as well.  He's a great actor, but maybe it was due to the Hughes brothers' direction (more likely).  It's completely one-note, dull, and plain unlikable.  The final major flaw (nearly tied for the worst attribute of the film) is its ending.  They give us another horrible twist that rivals M. Night Shymalan for how bad it is.  It turns out all along Eli is blind!  Oooh!  >_>  As if the film couldn't get any worse, they made Eli blind simply to shock us into wondering how he could've done all the cool (ie crappy) action moves and how he memorized/interpreted the Bible (I think he had a copy in braile) for nothing more than a plot device that seemed only to please fans of The Village or Unbreakable.  The ONE positive of this film is Gary Oldman.  The guy is a chameleon and always knows how to make a character come alive.  He makes you really hate and somehow love his character because he's brilliantly devious.  This is due in part to the Hughes brothers too as much as I hate to say it.  They made a character who knows what the Bible can do to people and how it can be used to control the masses.  This was the best thing the film had going for it.  I didn't even scratch the surface though on other poor aspects like the action sequences, its Waterworld-like set and costume design (who seriously rips off Waterworld for anything??), the terrible character Milas Kunis has (who takes Eli's reigns after Eli dies at the end for no important reason other than to make simple people feel sad), and its unfitting soundtrack.  Seriously, this film is horrible.

Racist, misogynist and a total disappointment When Sex and the City first came on the airwaves in America, I was a young woman of 21. I loved the show because it presented `successful,' educated women in a situation in which they were allowed to talk about sex (without being downgraded to typical whore/virgins constructions of their sexuality,) and it seemed to promote feminist viewpoints of equality for women. Of course, the show was not revolutionary; many have criticized the classed, white New York it portrays -- where the only faces of ethnicity were the waitstaff at the uber-posh restaurants that the ladies frequented.  However, the women had complicated personal lives, and they didn't seem to "need" men. The show was witty and gritty, and it explored being single in one's 30's in a culture celebrates coupledom and shuns older singles. The writing itself was clever and employed subtle double entendre as their friendships and sexual relationships were explored. Fast forward 12 years, and to quote this latest monstrosity of a film, "O how the mighty have fallen."  Thoroughly disappointed at a the 2 hour long shoe-and-handbag-advertisement called Sex and the City 1, I vowed there would be no further patronage from me. Alas, a fundraiser for a local mothers/children organisation tugged at my guilt, and I forked out the $20 to go see Sex and the City 2 to support this organisation.  I was secretly looking forward to how cringe-inducing I intuited it would be. Self-directed schadenfreude perhaps?  Cons:  The classism was just oozing off the screen.  What really affected me however was the IRONY. Here were the 4 main characters in Abu Dhabi, feeling pity for the poor veiled Arabic women, spouting aphorisms on the oppressiveness of these "religious arab men," and the womens' "lack of voice."  They criticize the entire culture for domineering women, and being "afraid" of sex. YET, the ladies characters have a religious oppressor  of their own.  From their garish facepaint, and  the brutality of their version of Chinese-foot-binding (strutting around in 8 inch Christian LeBoutin heels,) to the carnivalesque-thousand- dollar dresses, the women of SATC are just as religious and dogmatic as those they are critiquing. Their language and ritual is not of a prayer to Mecca, but a worship of the cocktail, the shoe, the shopping, and a narcissistic self-involvement.  The writing was just ATROCIOUS. Gone was the subtlety of the clever double-entrendres used when the show first aired.  The actresses didn't even seem to BELIEVE their lines, which is fair enough. How could any comedic timing  and believability possibly be appropriated for such clich&eacute;d and clunky lines as "mid-wife crisis, " "Inter-friend-tion?"  At one point Samantha meets a man named  Ricardo Spurtz. "Ricardo is Danish for Richard," he explains.  Oh,  Samantha asks "so your name is Dick Spurtz?" Dick replies to Samantha, "could you be any more American?" And that, my friends, was THE ONLY reflexive moment of the film.  And like Samantha, the film did not feel like it could possibly be any more American, it stunk of an American Pie meets I Dream of Jeannie meets Sorority Girls go on National Lampoons Middle Eastern vacation.  It was JUST SO PAINFUL --So clunky, so groan-inducing, and so  incredibly condesecending to Abu Dhabians. At one point Carrie buys shoes from a local cobbler and patronises him with treatment only a very cute puppy should receive. At best the orientalised world of the Arab in SATC's version of Abu Dhabi is patronising and rude, but at worst, its incredibly racist and demeaning.  One final note, I could not find ANY redeeming quality to this film, and believe me, I wanted to.  Perhaps one moment, the character Miranda in discussing motherhood was close to some sort of "moment," but even that fell flat due to the appalling writing. Despite the 4 women Karaoke version of I am Woman, the film is actually deeply misogynistic. The characters have been reduced to these garish caricatures of consumerism, soulless and loveless, racistly proclaiming their superiority. They are ever-dependent on the men they once claimed they did not need. And sadly, any feminist benefit the show might have initially had, the films have now nullified.  Any integrity to the foundation of the Sex and the City story has now been burnt down to a barely noticeable skeleton. Gone are the moments, the deep questions and sexual conundrums of the show and all that is left is  the  religious fervour of  these walking fashion advertisements bowing down to their narcissism, racism and misogyny, to slip on a pair of $5000 stilletos, cosmo in hand and go walking in the desert.  Oh indeed, the mighty have fallen.

Horrible These Scooby movies keep getting worse. In this latest "cartoon", Shaggy gets into a bar room brawl with a group of motorcycle thugs. One of them even whips out a knife. This is definitely NOT the type of easy going Scooby fare that we enjoyed as younger people. I was rooting for the villains by the time this was 45 minutes in. I'm glad somebody is still trying to keep Scooby and the gang alive; but why can't they keep the stories in the same vein as the originals?

NOT Happy about wrong DVD being sent article 99 I am far from pleased. The DVD would not play as the wrong region was sent to me....so I had to send it back. Have not found another one and have yet to see my credit return....very frustrating and time consuming. Unnecessary postage....yuk  I need region 1 united states I believe

Easily one of the worst big budget movies of the 21st Century I have been sitting here, looking at a blank page for several minutes.  I don't even know where to begin with this absolute horror show of a movie.  I tried to think of ONE good thing about it, and there's literally nothing.  It is the worst piece of garbage I have ever seen with a huge budget behind it.  It undoubtedly has to be one of the worst movies of all time, with a budget of over $100 million.  And for this movie to have done over $300 million at the Box Office is a SIN!  Talk about robbing people.  This had little to no entertainment value, the acting was horrible, script was even worse, special effects were comical looking, character development was poor.  It wasn't funny, wasn't interesting.  I mean, this had NOTHING.  If you can add something negative to this review, please, by all means, do so!  Lol.

Doesn't this belong on the Sci-fi channel???? All the good parts were in the trailers. It was mostly about some people running and hiding from place to place. No real development at all. Bummed :(

Terrible Movie Saw this on the plane during an international flight.  Glad I didn't pay money for it.  If I had known the choice was this or watching the drool fall from the lip of the sleeping people across the aisle.  Drool would have won.

I Threw Up a Little in my Mouth Oh. My. God. If this movie was the most minor surgery, the patient would have died in agony.  The plot is weakly based on "The Day After Tomorrow", with every clich&eacute;, bad script, bad editing, bad dialogue, horrible special effects, and characters you WANT to see die in the most horrible manner possible. Cardboard cutouts could have acted with greater believability.  It even appears that they lift scenes from other movies (or some standard Hollywood special effects stock footage locker).  I weep that I'll never be able to rid my mind of this horrible travesty of a film, nor that I'll get my $2 rental fee back.  At least the DVD was nice and shiny.

Garbage This is third-rate formulaic trash with cheap plot lines and an insipid ending. Seriously, do NOT waste your time. This is nothing more than a boring version of a cheap TV drama.

You're Joking, Right? Looking at the other reviews for this film, I am forced to ask myself if this page is some kind of meme I missed on reddit. Burlesque is the worst film I saw in the last decade. People claim to have been choked up by the performances, but the only gagging I did was after any of Aguilera's lines. Others claimed they cried-- the only cry I had was after Cher's absurdly melodramatic numbers, and my tears welled up as part of the laughing fit that I had to contain so as not to disturb the other poor folks who also made the mistake of buying a ticket to this camp fest. I knew what I thought I was getting into, but this was so ridiculous, it was not any fun. The plague is more favorable than the dynamic duo of divas that comprise the cast of this mediocre piece of trash.

Might be good if dvd was actually in box Ordered three items and received them within a couple days. I opened up the package still wrapped in plastic and no dvd was inside.

Max age of 13? This movie is so terrible that I'd like an apology from someone.  I admit I watched it out of pop culture curiosity and it is vile.  Kristen Stewart has only one facial expression (disoriented anxiety) and I liken it to Harrison Ford in 'Regarding Henry' -- after he is shot in the head.  Why is this person so irresistible?  I suppose this would be cleared up if I read the book but I cannot imagine willingly interacting with these characters again.  There was no chemistry between Stewart and either Edward or Jacob - and I believe Stewart is involved with Pattison in real life.  Perhaps they sleep in twin beds.  The only pleasure I derived was from the hilarity of the werewolf uniforms:  regardless of the temperature, here they come again, clad only in long shorts.  In short, it's awful and should only be seen if you have a crush on one of these actors but not if you have any interest in acting, plot or enjoying yourself.

The DVD is a Copy, not an Original I received the movie in a very timely manner, but it is a copy and not an original.  The print quality of the paper in the case is poor and even cut off.  The DVD has a copy of a label too and is creased and trashed.  The movie plays.  I just feel ripped off.

Horrendous movie! Horrible movie! Nothing but a bunch of mind numbing lameness! The worst part was the ending where a little troll with tinker-bells attached to his hat runs amuck in the childs bedroom. At one point as the little girl begs the cat to make the record player (that the troll is trapped on) to 'Go faster!' the movie looks like a bad childs comedy. I mean seriously? Instead of watch this movie, go volunteer to pick the lint out of your elderly neighbors belly button.

This is a complaint abt the free preview... The free preview of the video is a waste of time... it is 2.xx minutes of the opening credits! Only about 48 seconds are actually the movie, itself! WASTE OF RESOURCES AND TIME!

Huge disappointment I remember hearing a lot about Paranormal Activity when it was first released but comparisons with The Blair Witch Project (1999) left me very concerned. Mrs B in her always infinite wisdom, and to test me, taped the film for us to form our own opinion. I had heard this was a highly rated and frightening horror film so was interested to see if the hype could be believed.  Paranormal Activity has a very simple story. Katie (Katie Featherstone) and Micah (Micah Sloat) are a young couple that have moved into a suburban house in California and become victims of a ghostly presence. Katie has been affected by such a haunting since childhood and claims she is followed wherever she goes. Micah insists on filming the house, setting up a camera in the bedroom where each evening the spirit present makes itself and becomes more pronounced via heavy footsteps, moving objects and eventually attacking Katie.  Like Blair Witch, Paranormal Activity comprises largely of Micah filming the house and Katie, even to the extent that he carries the camera into the bathroom while the couple are brushing their teeth! It is mercifully turned off at one stage so the couple - I suspect - can have sex but other than that we have to make do with some rather implausible events where any disturbances that trigger the couple running round the house to search frantically for the demonic presence must include the camera. We have to cope with a lot of sitting around and idle chit-chat before the best bits of the film play out.  Micah's camera set up in the bedroom records some rather chilling footage including a closing door, a moving shadow and even footprints on the floor when Micah puts down some talcum powder to catch out the sinister presence which turns out to be a demon. The couple are warned not to insult or threaten the demon but Micah persistently breaks the rules, even bringing home a Ouija board much to the discontent of Katie, and she is proved right when the demon moves the planchette and sets the board on fire. There are some curious moments such as Katie climbing out of bed and standing looking at a sleeping Micah for hours before heading downstairs. Micah later finds her sitting outside on a bench and appearing distant. The following day Katie has no recollection of these events!  As interesting as the developing presence of the demon is it doesn't make for particularly scary viewing. Had the film just been a montage of the footage at night it would have been a lot better but having to contend with Katie and Micah's monotonous ramblings during the day was hard work. The film delivers a shocking ending which will surprise most and may make many jump but as good as it is it cannot really compensate for the rest of the film which is a series of minor incidents that will scare some people but I wouldn't imagine many. Critics seem divided on this film with many professing it to be a masterpiece while others have lambasted it. I personally believe it to be in the same camp as Blair Witch, a film that is a victim of its own hype with a much-talked about conclusion while the rest of the film is utterly pointless.  Paranormal Activity has been watched by many and any views of mine will not change that. I had my reservations about this film but gave it a chance and was left very disappointed. The ending is worth seeing but you can easily catch it on YouTube and spare yourself the rest of this film.

Blah Just blah. I only watched the first episode; after reading the synopsis for the second, I was horrified at some of the changes they made. The first installment was just dull, since they left out most of the "good stuff." I can live with dull. What I can't live with is when they take out the good stuff and replace it with "sensational" or, in other words, inappropriate, junk.  The book is my favourite Dickens novel, and I have practically memorized it. I'm hoping the film version to be released later this year is better (although what the book really needs is the same five hour-long, lavish, detailed attention A&E's Pride and Prejudice received).  In short, I would definitely NOT recommend this.

Beautiful but disappointing The scenery was gorgeous, the actors wonderful, but the movie was slower than molasses.  Great storyline.  I just hope someday, somebody remakes this movie into the special story that it is. I like clean,no profanity type movies and this is definitely it.  But it was disappointing.

Worst Movie Robin Williams Ever Made I saw this movie when it was in theaters, and remember laughing very hard. Maybe I'm just too old now. But much as I like Robin Williams, I could not love this movie. In fact, I couldn't even watch it all the way through.  I guess I just don't find slapstick funny anymore. The only good thing about it is Robin Williams, and as far as I'm concerned, this is his most disappointing role.

Hokey!!! I was very interested in viewing The Forsyte Saga but didn't realize it had been updated in a new production.  I was stunned at how really awful the first production was and haven't been able to watch more than 2 episodes.  I would love to return the DVD's I have and exchange them for the newer version which I hear is wonderful.

good movie, but terrible DVD I have seen this movie before, and it is a good one, despite the historical inaccuracy. But the DVD which I purchased was a piece of junk. The disc kept freezing, and then skipping ahead, cutting out whole scenes and making the plot impossible to follow.

Received tw of the same DVD Instead of getting both versions of this movie. I ended up with the same disc. Disappointing as I didn't notice it until after the return period was over.

absolutely awful a really long 5 hour energy commercial. i don't blame the actors for such a terrible effort. i blame the director and screenwriters. if i had seen this movie in the theater, i would have felt like i got ripped off.

Bottom of the barrel Incredibly bad 1950's fantasy/horror movie about an abominable snowman on the loose in Los Angeles.  Everything about this one--writing, acting, production values--is strictly grade Z.  It is beyond belief that a major studio like Paramount was associated in any way with this thing.  What were they thinking of?  Ed Wood would have been ashamed to have his name associated with it.

Bad I really wasn't expecting it to be good as the original version by Kurosawa and Mifune, but this is exceedingly bad.  I guess I was expecting a new interpretation of the characters and updated action sequences. No such luck.  This is almost a verbatim script of the original and worst of all it's as if the actors were trying to imitate the orginal cast down to facial expressions.  I wasn't expecting the masterful camera work of Kurosawa, but this one's down-right amaturish.  The actor playing Sanjuro just doesn't have the maturity, toughness, roughness, uncouthness of Mifune.  When they cast a younger actor, they should have let him reinvent the character.  Bottom line - watching this movie was like watching a mediocre high school production based on a classic movie.

Didn't pay to see it, still wanted my money back. There must have been two versions of this movie released, those that the five star reviewers saw, and the one star version that I and other one star reviewers saw.  I envy those that had the option of walking out of the theater.  Being on a trans Pacific flight at the time, at 42,000 feet I did not have that option.  Other one star reviewers have already highlighted most of the lowlights of this movie.  I will just add what I would think would be some of the comments from a Tom Leykis review, should he ever switch from talk radio to movie reviwer..........  Number one, guys you never date a single mother, ever.  Number two, you don't date a single mother when you find out she's still married.  Number three, you don't still keep dating her when you find out her husband is in prison and is about to get out.  Number four, when he does get out, you don't go to the welcome home party.  Need I continue?  I just question how hard up Allan Brooks, Bryan Cranston. and Ron Perlman were that they needed to take on these roles.  There should be a zero star option for reviewing stinkers like this.

My Goodness - Everyone is Correct Because I didn't read the reviews before Red Box conned me into renting this - I almost wasted 90+ minutes.  But, I happened to be in Amazon looking at other films and brought this one up prior to watching it.  Thank God!!!!  Not one review on the plus side!  So, I popped the DVD into the computer and scanned through it.  What garbage!  This is what somehow passes for film art.  There IS technical knowledge here - just used for nothing.  So, here folks is another one star review.  Oh well........

feather light weight and nothing substantial at all moreover a movie should last at least 1hr 30 min. They stretched and stretched an stretched it and still it ended at 1hr 18. there's no magic between these people. after 1.5 day they make out in a boat the first time. she's dead drunk. What kind of a "gentleman" is he to end up with a gal that's so wasted? I got totally disgusted by the idea.who wants to bone (this wasn't about making love) a drunk woman anyway even if you're a male whore?  And yeah she doesn't even remember if they did it or not... she's made of wood I guess. Makes you wonder why this movie was ever made. it's a waste of time and a waste of money to even rent it.

More Never-Ending Education Drivel - I've been closely following education for about 40 years, and was an early-on proponent of vouchers, teacher testing, more pupil testing, etc. Eventually I realized that both the liberal (more money) and conservative prescriptions (more choice) were wrong. Improving American education outcomes is both very simple and impossible, once one casts aside ideologies and PC blinders.  When I went to school, the best students were almost ALWAYS Asians or Jews. Period. That should have told us all we needed to know. Instead, new complex and tortured theories have been invented to explain why all pupils (supposedly) have equal ability. Meanwhile, more money has accomplished nothing, and the best students continue to be Asians or Jews. Even conservatives' great hope, Michelle Rhee, failed - turns out those 'improvements' were largely dishonest, contrived, and artificial. (If its any consolation, Michelle's far from the first educator to have built their 'accomplishments' on the sands of fact-free/distorted ideologies and sloppy data.)  What eventually opened my eyes was the opportunity to read studies by the late Harold Stevenson, Univ. of Michigan - Psychology, that compared Asian and American pupils, parents, and schools. The most obvious and glaring difference - they try much harder (like Avis), and their parents are almost never satisfied with either their children's' efforts or achievements, or the demands placed upon them by their local schools. So they send their children to extra schooling - weekends, and summers, and never lose focus on preparing for their 'college-entrance exams.' Thus, the simplest 'solution' would be to simply blame our poor relative performance on Confucius and his emphasis on education and hard work. (I thought that was 'our secret' to success, per the Protestant Ethic!)  In addition, other researchers repeatedly and credibly report that the average Asian IQ runs about 12 points higher than the average American; that's two-thirds of a standard deviation, an awful lot!  Bottom-Line: American pupils will never work as hard as Asian children. Neither will they ever have equivalent raw material between their ears. Instead, we'll continue to waste time and enormous amounts of money assuaging our liberal and conservative ideologies. The 'good news' - maybe Kurzweil's forecasted 'great singularity' that merges computers with gray-matter will eventually eliminate our intellectual and work-ethic deficits.

wrong country I received this DVD and was very anxious to show it to some friends.  Come to find out it can only be used with and hook-up in France.  It is absolutely of no use to me.  Anyone want it?

The "ones" were Right! I'm always excited when movies have mostly 5 Star and 1 Star Reviews, this means it's either going to be great or horrible, in this case the latter wins. The movie attempts to be "Arthouse" but only achieves annoying. The infamous Rape scene is vulgar, the only good thing about it is, it eventually comes to an end. The Head Bash scene is almost too hard to see (I suppose that's a good thing too) and the rest of the film is anticlimactic. I'm sort of ashamed that I bought it.

What a Wasted Life This is such a sad story, to see such a talented man trying to find himself in sex,drugs and bizarre behavior.  He needs to get a wakeup call before he goes the way of his brother, and learn to live the life of a plain man without abusing his body, to save himself.  Nothing but tragedy in this film, I wish him all the best.

Extra Features Are The Shortest I've Seen Not Worth Buying Again! I already had the blue ray combo but I didn't have a blue ray player.So I finally broke down and bought the walmart 2 disc and boy was I disappointed.All the features are extremely short didn't time it but I would be surprised if everything totaled more than 30 minutes.Total waste of money and the features leave you wondering what was that.WB really ripped us off on this whole hp release.

Worst movie ever I saw "Your Highness" in the theater and it is the first time I ever walked out on a movie before it was over.  I don't have high standards and I have sat through some stinkers.  The writing and jokes were lame, the plot drearily predictable.  The actors McBride and Franco were sleepwalking through their roles.  Even seeing Natalie Portman naked from behind was not enough to overcome how bad this movie was and keep me in the theater.  This movie was so bad that I am compelled to write a review - something I very rarely do - telling you how bad it was.

I wonder what happened? I hate to say anything negative here but to be fair this needed a lot of work. The idea was promising but the execution fell short.

"PIRATED" / "BOOTLEG" DVD LOOK CONFUSING! The original Swedish-made Michael Nyqvist/Noomi Rapace version BLOWS AWAY this American-made Daniel Craig/Rooney Mara version.  Noomi Rapace is so far superior in the role of Lisbeth compared to Rooney Mara that it's a joke--NO comparison.  It seems like Rooney Mara is some 15-year-old girl playing dress-up and pretending to be Lisbeth in some high-school drama club version of this story.  Mara's supposed Swedish accent is comically bad and her acting is horrendously awful.  She's totally one-note and gives zero depth, emotion or humanity to the Lisbeth character.  Mara's performance made Lisbeth both boring and unlikable.  A terrible casting choice for the remake.  And Nyqvist owns the role of Blomkvist compared to Craig as well, again no comparison.  This American remake is far more plodding and boring, and less intriguing, less suspenseful and less intense than the original Swedish version.  Major, major let down.  Expected a far better remake from the usually outstanding director David Fincher, but Fincher seems to have sleptwalked through the directing of this one.  You can tell his heart just was not in this remake at all.  And the cinematography and editing are subpar as well.  Case in point, there are virtually NO meaningful close-ups of the Lisbeth character (Mara) that last more than a second, the DP and editor keep her at a distance from the viewer so no bond is ever formed between the Lisbeth character and the viewer.  But then again, Mara's acting is so bad and she's so wrong for the role, maybe it's a moot point.  Can't even recommend this poorly done remake as a rental.  Suggest watching the original Swedish version only... As far as the poor packaging, I must echo about a dozen other 1-star reviewers here who pointed out the subpar "look" of this DVD... it DOES NOT look like a professional quality-made DVD like a trusting buyer would reasonably expect to get, no, it appears to be a blank DVD-R that has apparently been "burned" on some apparently low-end duplication machine with the title (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) actually hand-written (scribbled) on the DVD-R in black magic marker.  At first I found it confusing that this low-end "bootleg" quality looking DVD was being sold by a major studio.  I pay for professionally-produced DVDs, not bootleg-level ones.  But now, after investigating the situation online, it appears Sony/Columbia intentionally made the DVD look like a "pirated"-quality DVD for, well, who knows why...  Because Lisbeth is a hacker... ?  Bad idea.  Bottom line is the DVD looks bad and that bums me out.  I don't care why Sony/Fincher/whoever did it, I want a DVD I buy to look like a professional DVD and not pirated junk.  And on top of the bad looking DVD, the one I bought "froze" up twice while playing it.  So looks bad and plays bad.  Bottom line: 1 star for the movie and NEGATIVE stars for the look/quality of the DVD.

i seriously disliked this movie alot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this movie made me cringe alot i thought going into this movie with a open mind and this movie did not meet my expections at all i totally disliked this movie alot in the end tho i actually hated it and despised it do not buy this movie at all buy a book or cd instead of this lame movie

Terrible Poorly conceived, poorly executed, horrific acting, and boring to boot.  I got the feeling that someone looking for a way to write off a boat rental and trip to the Caribbean came up with the idea for the piece of tripe.  Do not waste your time watching this.

Almost Got Screwed and the Seller knows whats up!!!!!! I thought man what a deal on a fisfinder and thats what it says garmin 300c fishfinder. But somewhere in the finest of print its a dvd. You should be kicked out of here so fast it would make your head swim. This is what screws up the internet. People screwing other people out of their hard earned money. Jeff Elmore

Deceitful Garbage Do not rent or buy this movie.  It is unauthorized garbage, full of stock photos and uninformed opinion.  No music, not approved by Bruce.  Get it off Amazon!

Wrong movie I ordered the original 1967 Doctor Dolittle starring Rex Harrison and when the movie arrived this afternoon the case was from the original movie but when I put in the movie to watch it I found that it was the newer Doctor Dolittle with Eddie Murphy..

Your notice says the dvd was bought & paid for, but it NEVER ARRIVED! Hi-Usually Amazon.com has always done a great job re: customer service, but possibly, due to the USPS I never did get the purchased dvd. Perhaps this problem can be corrected.-Thank You, Larry Calhoun (I can be reached much quicker if you send an email to my cell phone's email address at: myahis1@gmail.com)

Human Centipede It was awful and espeacially the end. wheres the storyline??? dont waste your money. Some of it didnt make since

Awful movie, awful acting, don't waste your time I have come to the conclusion that the only reason this movie has highly rated reviews is because everyone enjoyed seeing Cybill Shepherd take her clothes off again, and again, and again...... The town in the film is dying - why? because all the smart people took off and went someplace else. What is left in the town are complete idiots. The only bright spot was Ben Johnson - who was just as real and natural as ever. Even HE left - as his character died halfway in the film. I got a big news flash for Bogdanovich - girls in the 1950's were not amoral as they are depicted in the film. They were amoral in the 1970's (when the picture is filmed). There were a lot of future stars in this film Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms (Randy Quaid was awful in this film, as usual) - and a lot of current stars (70's)(Ellen Burstyn, Eileen Brennan, Cloris Leachman)who actually carry the film....barely. I am surprised that Cybill Shepherd was able to have any kind of career after this movie. I guess it helps when your boyfriend is the director.  Good Lord, don't waste your time watching this movie - it's not worth it.

Original movie NOT included I bought this item because I read a review saying that it contained the original 1982 version of the film. It does not. If you are a fan of the original version, like I am, and want to see it without a cartoonified makeover, look elsewhere. I will be returning this DVD.

This was not the book at all...! Most of the other reviewers were right: This movie sucked! It was bad! These are my reasons: In the book: 1. Lestat was blonde, not a dark red head! 2. Lestat and Jessie never got emotionally involved with one another! 3. Stuart Townsend was a great vampire, but he was not Lestat! 4. Lestat killed evil doers, not young women who liked rock stars! 5. The story was supposed to be about Akasha, not Lastat... that is why the book is called 'QUEEN OF THE DAMNED'! 6. Marias was not Lastat's maker!  The other things wrong with this movie are: 7. It did not follow the book at all! 8. Most of the actors were stale. 9. Lena Olin's character was the only one who matched her description in the book! 10. There was no character development for any of the characters except Lastat!  Overall; This movie was a major let down to both fans and movie-goers alike! Read the book and own (the awesome) soundtrack! My grade: F or no stars!

WORST MOVIE NOT WORTH BUYING. THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE A GOOD MOVIE. THE PLOT FOR THE MOVIE IS STUPID. SAVE YOUR MONEY FOR A DIFFERENT MOVIE.

So disappointing! I read the books and loved them...watching this movie was like ripping out pages to the books one by one. So, so, so bad! not even the same story line. don't waste yoru time and I like movies that suck sometimes - even romantic comedies, but this was bad!

Don't judge by the cover Saw this in a red box and the cover looked cool, and the storyline seemed interesting. It wasn't. Wast of time, graphics SUCK. Now i'm not one to judge, i love a good B movie, but this was just...BAD. 90% is infront of a green screen, save for the beginning and end. Acting was 'ok'. do not buy nor rent this!!!!

Great Flick, Terrible DVD Transfer This score is for the DVD quality itself--the actual product you would end up with here--rather than the movie per se, which would rate 4 or 5 stars. I remember enjoying this movie on TV years ago and was prompted to track it down again when I came across "90 Seconds at Entebbe" in a bookstore. I tried several times to rent it via (you-know-who) but availability was apparently very limited--I would put it in my queue and it would either simply disappear(!) later or would be moved to a separate "unavailable" list at the bottom. So I was fairly excited when the movie stayed on the queue and, lo and behold, finally showed up in my mailbox.  What a disappointment--I'm glad I didn't actually spend money on this, especially with the nearly $20 asking price here. The movie itself is very good, with solid pacing and a reasonable performance by Bronson, Yaphet Kotto and the other actors. What kills this DVD is possibly the worst transfer I've EVER seen--very, VERY dark, from a poor original copy of the film. And did I mention it's REALLY dark in a lot of spots? My disk also displayed a narrow black bar along most of the bottom of the screen, with a tiny edge of original footage visible to the left of the bar; apparently this cropping of part of the original is an artifact of a sloppy conversion that the distributors didn't consider to be an issue. My home DVD-VHS recorder would have done a better job. Hopefully a more responsible distributor will pick this one up someday.

So Far two that were bad This is a great movie, it's not the movie I am having problems with, it's the distributer. I would like watch it at least once from my orders because I ordered the DVD twice and both didn't work and I tried on several DVD players. I am going to try one more time, hoping, maybe for the best, but, probably will get worst, if you get my meaning.

WORST SHARK ATTACK MOVIE EVER!!! JERSEY SHORE SHARK ATTACK may be,,,no it DEFINITELY IS the SyFy Channel's worst movie ever!  Obviously, it was intended to parody MTV's popular JERSEY SHORE but good satire requires good writing and that just doesn't happen here!  Indeed, the only laugh I got was what happens to Joey Fatone!! Everything about JSSA is horrendous--the ridiculous special effects, the purely abominable performances---everything! And what in the world are reasonably talented performers like Paul Sorvino, William Atherton and Jack Scalia doing in this film?  Obviously,they needed cash? Seriously folks---this is one BAAAAD flick!

Is this a remake of the J-horror movie? I'm sorry this is not a review, but I didn't know where else to ask. Is this a remake of the Japanese horror movie Premonition?

An American non-European movie After the problems with the Hrabal text in I served the King of England (see my review), Kundera suffers a similar fate. Lets start with quoting the beginning of the Wikipedia review, which sets the scene as follows:  "The Unbearable Light-ness of Being is a 1988 American film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Milan Kundera, published in 1984. Director Philip Kaufman and screenplay writer Jean-Claude Carri&egrave;re show Czechoslovak artistic and intellectual life during the Prague Spring of the Communist period, before the Soviet and Warsaw Pact invasion in August 1968, and detail the moral-political effects and personal consequences upon a bohemian m&eacute;nage &agrave; trois: a medical doctor and his two women."  This is definitely not the Kundera of his many books, and Jean-Claude Carri&egrave;re, else an excellent script writer with/for eg Bu&ntilde;uel's last six films or so, must have gotten too much under Kaufman's thumb or not have given a damn once he saw where things were going, but must certainly have been paid well. What we more generally have is a money no problem fashion product by a fashion director with international staff. The Czechoslovak atmosphere of 1968 caught by a film-crazy, unrealistically brave youngster (some would call her dumb and stupid), and while most locations would be authentic, the film has nothing Czech about it. It could have been anywhere, mostly New York, the revolt probably in Chile.  I have not found any review of the film by Kundera himself, but knowing his work, I would expect that his comments were not kind. After a positive (but rather shallow and uneducated, very American) first review in the Criterion Collection by Michael Sragow (1/11/1999), twelve years down the line, Mark Lova (31/1/2011), in a very clear analysis, sums up the arguments "It's a good question: Why care what Kundera says? I did assume that some people would care. I think if you want to do more than be a consumer of art, if you think that movies and books are not just things you use once and then throw away, you should care too. Obviously, you might like the book, and not care about the film, or you might like the film, not the book. (etc.) However, if you care about the book, you might at least wonder what Kundera was complaining about."  Where does that leave me? As I have expressed elsewhere at some stage, I do not like falsifications, and Kaufman's film to me clearly falls into that category. If you already refer to the author and title of the original book, you should show more respect - or is it simply skill (as opposed to money)?  62-12 February 2012

MADE IN MEXICO COPY!!!! This movie is a copy! Made in Mexico! Spanish is the only language selection that works - even though the main menu also offers English and French as well. The CD label and CD case label are all copies!  This is a FALSE ADVERTISING item!  I have purchased two of these hoping to buy the movie from a different seller. Nope. It's the same seller!!!

Deceitfully marketed 2nd rate christian propaganda film. I feel really duped.  I found this movie at a Redbox and rented it based on the limited synopsis provided and some glowing reviews I had read on IMDb.  I should have read further.  It is clear that there has been a concerted effort to bolster the ratings of this film as evidenced by the number of "helpful" ratings given to the reviews that blindly praise the movie (often without mentioning that is a christian film), and "unhelpful" ratings given to the much more objective negative reviews.  Last I knew, lies and deceit were not counted as the highest of christian ideals, but hey, if hypocrisy is your thing more power to you.  In reality, this movie is bad, REALLY bad.  It is poorly written, poorly acted (laughably so), completely devoid of intelligence, and serves no purpose but to shove a message down the viewers throat for an hour and a half.  I suppose that the producers of the film hoped that if they could just get people to view the film (by whatever deceitful means necessary) that somebody might be converted to Christianity, however, I refuse to believe that anyone with a mental capacity greater than a six year old could find this movie to be convincing.  Even the apologetics of the film are terrible; in a much touted scene (referred to by some as proof that the movie is a masterpiece) a pastor is asked to prove the existence of God in 30 seconds or less...what masterful thing does he say? What irrefutable gem of wisdom comes bubbling from the pastors learned innards? "Something can't come from nothing" and "We have free will to choose God or the Devil"...yes, really, that's it.  Basically, and in all honesty, it all boils down to this...If you are the type of person who thinks that christian rock music is good, you will probably love this movie and feel compelled to mark my review "unhelpful" before scouring the internet to do the same to all honest reviews of this steaming pile of a film, if you are not this sort of person (i.e. you are a member of the vast majority) you will hopefully heed my advice and skip this before quickly forgetting my review and moving on with your life like the perfectly sane and well balanced person that you are. Thanks for reading!

Disappointing edition I much rather the Anchor Bay edition DVD cause it has so much more to offer. Here we have no extras, just pixalted VHS trailers. That is so sad. The picture quality of the movie is slightly better than the DVD edition, but it is very grainy. No comparison to other blu-ray movies. I wouldn't buy anymore of these IMAGE releases unless I read the reviews first. It was the same as the Echo Bridge Blu-ray released bombs.

Nothing but propaganda Don't waste your time. It's nothing more than a thinly veiled propaganda piece for putting creationism in the classroom, or at least on par with evolution and other actual scientific theories. If you want to teach creationism, fine, but do it in a religion class along side other creation myths, but don't dare put in a science class -- nothing in creationism/ID holds up to the most basic of scientific scrutiny.

Disappointed I ordered this dvd as it turns out my husband couldn't wait for it to arrive and rented it. I have several of Kevin Hart's  DVD to include Seriously Funny and I couldn't stop laughing the entire time. So I really expected Laugh at my Pain to be just as good if not better.This time HE JUST WASN'T FUNNY. It started off with a documentary on his upbringing, the actual comedy show was not that long and after the comedy show it went into a short skit/movie with Kevin Hart and some other characters. ALSO NOT FUNNY. I fell asleep.  There were some funny moments in the stand up portion of the dvd but not that many. Don't get me wrong I love Kevin Hart but I wasn't feeling this one, I plan on returning this dvd and getting something else.

What a disgrace to the Mortal Kombat name! This is absolute crap! Everything about this film sucks.Terrible acting,Ridiculous dialog,Bad fight scenes...and what's worse is this is supposed to be a "Mortal Kombat" movie! The characters are just so cheesy looking along with the rest of this god awful nightmare.I wasn't too pleased with the first film,except for Bridgette Wilson as Sonya *whistle whistle* ;) lol but that movie was ALOT better than this waste of time.If you HAVE to watch an MK movie,than pick up the original and avoid this dvd like a flu bug!

Dangerously bad acting Knightly just screams the entire film. Her accent is also pretty crap. I want my $1.99 and one hour and 40 minutes back.

boring movie this movie has rave reviews yet when watching it, not only myself but three others at our movie night were bored with this slow moving slow unraveling story. never saw the end as i was the last to leave the room and find something else to do after about 20 minutes. sure is disappointing.

Garbage in & Garbage out This movie, like so much put out by the right wing today, is a what is known as a false flag. It tries to change how history really went down to something they find more palatable. If you look at Federal Economic Policy since the time before the Great Depression through today's Great Recession you will see that times of economic growth are triggered by Policies put forth under Democratic Presidents and the bubbles inflate and crash during the times of Republican Presidents.  You should never believe anything that Andrew Breitbart says or releases. He edits away anything that does not support his vision and the vision of his masters, the Koch Brothers. Every one of his gotcha videos has been proven to be not based in what we call reality.

Abysmal. Hot chicks in skimpy outfits, creepy noirish cinematography, cool fantastic landscapes and fight scenes, a dragon and Scott Glenn. What could possibly be bad about this movie?  Other than, like, everything?  This movie was abysmal. Watching someone play UNCHARTED is more interesting than this movie because at least that video game has interesting characters, a good plot and is coherent. Look, COULD this have been a good movie? Yes. But the storytelling is completely incomprehensible and when it's not, it's insipid.  Zach Snyder does action brilliantly, but he is not a storyteller. Here, he even created the story, so it's doubly awful. Dark themes, a mental asylum, girls in danger and a prison escape are all great pieces - as is the idea of a girl creating her own world to escape from the horrors of her reality. But it needs to be cohesive. There is no connection between the real world, the imagined world, and the dreamworld.  In the climax of THE MATRIX, we are concerned about what happens to our characters when they're in the Matrix because we know it will affect them in reality. We're also brought back and forth between those worlds to understand the consequences of actions and decisions made in each world. We see both sides. SUCKER PUNCH eschews these cinematic rules in favor of ten-minute video game fight levels that hold no suspense because it all happens in the main characters mind and no one can get hurt. If these sequences mirror what is happening in the real world, we either never see it or it's so poorly connected that all suspense disappears.  Zack Snyder is not Christopher Nolan. Go watch INCEPTION instead.

I want my money and time back I have never taken the time give my opinion of a movie but in this case I will make the exception.  Do not waste your time on this movie. If you are looking for a slightly maybe scary movie for a 15 year old this is your pick. This is not a horror film, there is nothing scary about this movie.  This movie was a waste of five dollars to rent and my time to watch. The ending was utter crap, watching the movie to get to the end was a chore. I grew up watching Pet Cemetery in 4th grade, I would watch The Grudge before going to sleep.. back when the movie was fun. I love scary movies and this is another movie to add to the latest string of disappointing releases.  ..I've gotten bigger surprises from things dropping in toilet water than watching this movie.

WTF! I previewed this movie for FREE right here on Amazon! I feel bad for EVERYONE who paid for this PERIOD! Worst five minutes of my life! Writing this review to warn all on lookers is the the reprieve from those five minutes. I still don't know what's so great about, as this movie is a testment to the worlds top 5 worst movies every made. A complete joke. To top it off, when asked to rate this movie - it's SO bad, I wish I could leave the stars EMPTY! Please watch the preview before you waste your time or money, you will thank me for doing so!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO This has to be Adam Sandlers worst movie ever. I don't like saying it but the people that gave this movie a good review must be morons or 10 years old. I can't remember a movie that I regreted seeing in the theaters more than this movie. Adam Sandler should be banned from making movies so other unsuspecting movie goers will not be assaulted with such awfulness as this ever again.

Second worst movie ever. This is a 72 minute long plea for donations.  Imagine an SPCA commercial that never ends.  Not enjoyable.  Not informative.  Very boring.  I suffered through this because my girlfriend force me through it.  I highly recommend you DO NOT WATCH this.

Radio City Christmas Spectacular It is time to upgrading your Christmas Spectacular DVD! The curent technology are BLUE-RAY! You have 5 star for the fantastic show and 1 star for the pour DVD quality!

A Horrible End to a Great Series After four great seasons and an incredibly uplifiting end to season 4, the writers totally dissed their fans and created a depressing and outrageous fifth season.  The series 2-part finale went against everything the series had built up over four years.  Each episode, from Morgan's ridiculous use of the Intersect to the final outlandish villain, reeked of the writers' antipathy to the characters.  I will always think of the last episode of season four as the real series finale.

dvd paperweight Dcs will not play, something to do with the reading of the disk. And my dcs playerworks for other dvds so I'm unhappy to have bought a dcs paper weight for my girlfriend

Misleading product description WARNING! IS FULL FRAME! I ordered this trilogy, anxiously awaiting it. I selected this on Amazon over buying it locally (I've bought Something Something Someting Dark Side by itself locally when I found it in widescreen but the other two in stock were full frame) solely because it is listed as 1.77:1, which is 16:9 widescreen.  When I received it, there was nothing indicating aspect ratio on the outside of the packaging, so I was skeptical. I opened it and sure enough it is 1.33:1, FULL FRAME aspect ratio. So, tried the return option and it was eligible for exact replacement only. Really? You're going to engage in fraud and ignore consumer protection laws and not make good on a bad description?  I called customer service and explained the situation to a rep and they assured me they would replace it with the correct item. She put me on hold and made a couple of calls. She informed  me they would open up the replacement and make SURE it is the advertised aspect ratio.  Well, today I received it, opened it (it was still shrink wrapped, which tells me they did NOT inspect it!) and of course, it's 1.33:1 FULL FRAME. The product listing very clearly states the following:  # Format: AC-3, Animated, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC # Language: English # Subtitles: English, French, Spanish # Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.) # Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1 # Number of discs: 3  So, either Amazon is willfully engaging in Fraud, or their staff is comprised of illiterates.  I'll be trying a third time and if they will not resolve it, there will be a chargeback!

Horrible. I was very excited for the movie. What a big downer. Nothing viking about it. No plot, poor acting, lousy screenplay, very, very boring. One of the worst movies I have watched in a long time.

Unfortunately UNCOVERED-  Kate Beckinsale  My my it's been a long time since I saw a movie this poorly put together. The music alone rates zero & the directing, writing & acting is scant above that. It does have Sinead Cusack & I have enjoyed her in a number of things so it was nice to stumble upon her again.  I can't remember ever losing interest in a set of characters involved in a mystery as quickly as I did this one. By the time Kate puts her pert breasts on screen with their perfectly upturned nipples I had already been bludgeoned by the directing to the point I didn't care what happened next. Apparently no one else cared either. You're a pretty woman Kate but it wasn't worth this to see you nude. I give only .5 stars. I do believe this is my first 1 star rating, what a waste of beauty & talent.

I HATE FLIXSTER If you are buying this to get the digital copy DONT!!!!!!!!!!! This is not a true digital copy, wont let you download it without signing up for Flixster. Then you can't even put it on a mobile device but rather have to use there crappy web app. Even if you donwload it to your computer you can't view it with out their app....So whats the point its not a true digital copy I can't use it without the internet or your app. I will never again be tricked into getting an Ultraviolet product again.

Spiderwick Ordered this from Amazon for my grandson.  I gave it to him he was pleased.  After I got home 6 hr. drive from him, he informed me that it dosen't play.  I assume it was because it came from Great Brit., when I get it back I will be returning it. I wish I had known that DVD's from other countrys may not play in the US.  Would it be possible to let us know before  we purchase them?

Would not play on otherwise good player Haydn UPC 80198 13119 Mozart UPC 80198 10259 Beethoven UPC 80198 10829  All of the above were purchased as a gift to my friend, who was greatly interested in having them.  The Mozart and disk #1 of the Beethoven DVD refused to go beyond the "warning" screen on the disks.  And Amazon quickly sent replacements.  ===========================================================  As before, the Haydn and disk #2 of the Beethoven pair worked just fine on her VISIO player.  And as before, the Mozart and disk #1 of the Beethoven DVD replacements refused to go beyond the "warning" screen on the disks.  We have successfully played and re-played the Haydn and several of the dozen-or-so other DVD's that we have for this relatively-new and seldom-operated VISIO player.  And have had very experienced users come over to try to get the Mozart and the Beethoven #1 disks to play -- without success.  Fortunately for the manufacturer, the Haydn, Mozart and both Beethoven's play just fine on my iMac 27 computer.  Given that this is a repeat of the initial problem, I have decided to keep the DVD's for play on my iMac rather than again go through the process of asking for replacements that are unlikely to work on my friend's otherwise working VISIO player.  Which, of course, leaves my friend -- for whom they were intended -- wanting.  =========================================================  There appear to be several re-issues of these same DVD's on the market.  ALL by the same manufacturer.  In spite of the success on the iMac, I still suspect that what I described above is a manufacturing problem and NOT a VISIO player problem.  And would certainly like to see a solution.  ======================================================

Went from 9.49 to 34.89 overnight? C'mon Amazon... I looked at the price of this dvd around midnight last night and saw it was 9.49, then when I went to buy it this morning, it's now a RIDICULOUS 34.95!!!  What gives, Amazon???  I mean, Really?

Hollywood Cannot Stop Making Movies on TV Shows--Blech! It is difficult to predict when the next big blockbuster movie will come out of Hollywood but the bigger question is what kind will it be; a comedy, drama, horror and suspense or science fiction? Perhaps a film based on a popular television show from decades earlier so it can be produced quickly and much more inexpensively. The latter appears to be an emerging trend that has lost the initial charm and nostalgia in the translation from the small screen to the big screen which has led me to believe that Hollywood is no longer capable of creating an original movie. The worst conversion from television to the big screen is `The Dukes of Hazzard,' (Warner Bros. Studio, 2006). The television show stunk and the only reason Warner Bros. Studio decided to make it into a movie was because it was a quick way to cash in on the popularity of singer and actress, Jessica Simpson, by placing her in skimpy clothes in the role of Daisy Duke. There are even television cartoons that got lost in translation by real live actors on the big screen: Scooby-Doo (IMDb, 2002) and the Flintstones (IMDb, 1994). I hope the Disney classics are left alone and remain intact. Hollywood has become lazy and complacent. Some of the other notable flops include; Miami Vice, Lost in Space, and Bewitched (AOL Television, 2009). Many of these films were able to secure top talent in Hollywood which is extremely perplexing. Please make it stop. Has life made everyone feel rushed to do everything? Where has all the originality gone? No wonder there are so many reality shows on television now. Hollywood is tapped out.

This Movie Sucked!!!! Ok I know the characters in horror movies are suppose to have a certain amount stupidity, but these characters were unbelievably stupid. The story was just horrible.There are better demonic vehicle movies out The Car, Christine,even if your looking for killer truck driver Joy Ride is good one. This I would not reccomend to anyone even to kill boredom. Shame on you Fangoria!!!

Please save your money. I wish I did. This movie is summed up in one word. Boring. They make you think at the beginning there will be action, with all the Panzer cops in some dilapidated building. All they do is with there, or lean against the wall. then this guys just spends most of the whole movie doing senseless stupidity. They are trying to be an "art film" with emotional tension, but it looks like some kid took his video camera around and followed two people as they wander aimlessly. If we are to be bored to death, at least the guy could have sex with the woman, but even this does not happen. If you made the same mistake and bought this hoping for an action movie, there is finally meagre action with 25 minutes to go, in the form of a laughably bad (obviously fake) kung fu fight. We FINALLY see the panzer armour with 20 minutes to go, at 1 hour 15 minutes in. He has and MG42 and with this, fights a bunch of guys with painted clown faces. Even the battle at the end is drawn out and they try to make it have "drama". i think the director was hoping to emulate a John Woo film, with balletic violence at the end. It just does not work. even the battle at the end is fake looking. While the outfit is cool, they spend too much time having the viewer "admire" the Panzer cop armour and things move too slowly, even during the final battle. They throw is a little more stupidity with a wandering scene in the middle of the battle - in case an hour and 15 minutes of it was not enough. After the guys dies, they throw in 5 more minutes of random scenery. Even one star is too high praise for this piece of garbage portrayed as a film

Mya is an awful DVD label who doesn't understand it's audience. DO NOT BUY THIS! This is the very sought after, rare Italian Horror thriller cult classic featuring Lara Wendel, Anne Heywood and Marisa Mell. The problem is, the quality is equal to the garbage quality VHS DVD-R you probably already own.  Why Mya DVD doesn't understand that the people who would buy this already own a poor quality copy and if they took the time to track down a good print and remastered it, they would sell 5 times as many copies.  DVD labels like this confuse me. It show how they have no idea how there audience is.  NOTE TO MyA DVD.... listen, we already own poor quality copies of the movies you release... we want high quality copies. We do not need another poor quality copy of your films.  You are not selling these to people who know nothing about the movies. Those people do not want your movies.  The people who want your titles already know about them and want remastered and preferably restored copies.  Releasing this garbage won't help you.  Capice?

another star wars rip off this movie stinks its one big epic star wars rip off this movie is boring lame stupid and totally unintelligent thanks for trying to rip off star wars you failed

Charlie Chan Collection: Dark Alibi, Dangerous Monkey, etc. Only two of the four discs worked in the DVD player.  The other two could only be viewed on the computer.  What a drag!  This is not the first collection to be faulty. Other collections had duplicate discs, or the wrong disc in a set.  Terrible quality control and replication of the films;  A huge disappointment for Charlie Chan fans!  I'm done now!

Not received I have not received this item yet or the rest of this parcel. I don't think I can review something I have not received.

Melancholia This movie made me feel melancholy.  It seemed like a never ending movie and extremely depressing.  After reading more about the creator and learning about their own bout of depression; I now understand why the movie was depressing.  Yes, I am sure it was good therapy for the creator as suggested by his therapist, but the public as whole should have been spared from Melancholia.

Plot okay This show has a good plot, but it is very low budget. I can only say it is watchable ! It was the normal cost for a new release, but the cost should have been half that.

Won't Stream on Playbook I viewed the trailer for this movie on my Blackberry Playbook with no issues. I rented the movie and now it will not play. What's the deal?

Skip the DVD, go for the Blu-Ray There is one enormous reason NOT to buy the DVD pack of Series 15. Unlike the high definition Blu-Ray release, the DVDs only feature the cut down, broadcast-length versions of this series 6 episodes.  There is very little in the way of extra material.  A prime example is from Episode 5; Jeremy made an excellent film commemorating Aryton Senna's 50th birthday that originally aired in the extended, 80-minute form for US television.  You can't view this scene on the DVD, it's completely removed (instead you get 18 minutes of Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz and shameful plugging).  Audio and visual quality is up to par for DVD, but it's disappointing that these two versions are not identical.  Will definitely order the Blu-Ray to replace this inferior copy.

HEAVILY CENSORED I BOUGHT THE DVD BUT WAS VERY DISAPPOINTED FOR VARIOUS REASONS.FIRST OF ALL SONDRA LOCKE IS LIKE A GHOST IN THE FILM.SHE ONLY APPEARS FOR SECONDS IN A HANDFUL OF SCENES AND ONLY MUTTERS A FEW WORDS.NOT TO MENTION THERE ISNT A HINT OF AN EROTIC SCENE-AS HIGHLITED ON THE COVER-UNLESS YOU COUNT A HUG OR TWO.PICTURE QUALITY WAS BARELY AVERAGE AND SOUND WAS JUST AWFUL.ACTING WAS ACCEPTABLE.I REALLY REGRET BUYING THE DVD.

What a dumb movie... What kind of accent was it that Ben Affleck was using in the first minutes of the movie?  And then what did it change to?  The acting was unconvincing in other ways, too, as if neighbors getting together and making a play.  The F bomb was dropped every two seconds like seventh graders, but I didn't feel any of the grit you would really find in the city.  So many machine guns fired but nobody was hit! When "Doug" says "Let me explain!"  What was he going to explain??  Luckily the girl says, "No, Leave!"  so he doesn't have to say anything!! Instead he just backs away out the door.  And then there she is again in that damn pea patch.  And oops! I guess she just decided to quit her job as bank manager.  Not to mention the whole morality issues in this movie.  The main character is somehow supposed to be a "good guy" but he's NOT a good guy! You can't just beat people with pipes and shoot them with machine guns over and over and rob so many banks and be a good guy just because your mother left you when you were 6  and you gifted a skating rink with the stolen money!  The whole movie just got on my nerves.  I don't understand it's being so well acclaimed.  I just don't get it. I didn't like it at all!

Persistant Awful The movie "Resident Evil" was very good and I had very high hopes for this sequel. What a disappointment. I do not even want to waste much time on a review because I wasted far to much time watching the movie. There is not one good thing that I can recommend about this one. It is poor in every aspect.

Forget these authors already. Honestly, don't waste your time with these skinny bitches.  It's really starting to be a joke now.  What "booty" do they have to bounce anyway?  They can't dance, they are ridiculous and are entirely too hokey to be taken seriously.  SAVE YOUR MONEY and DON'T BUY this video.

WORST MOVIE EVER!!!! So here's the story about this movie.  I went to see this with some of my friends.  We knew someone who worked there, so, we were able to get in for free.  Now I've sat through some really bad movies, but none like this.  Mind you we got in for free, but we wanted our money back.  I've never in my life walked out on a before this movie, and haven't since. I caught this being played a few years later and was just curious if it got better. It was still pretty bad.  We are lead to believe that a group of humans, who are 1 generation removed from dragging their knuckles along the ground, can beat aliens of advance tech.  The human race who were beaten in a matter of a few hours when the aliens first showed up were vastly smarter than this group of humans.  I mean these humans were riding horse as their main source of transportation, and now they can fly jets. The writing was pretty funny with the aliens calling their home planet "home station" or something like that.  I often wonder if while making a bad movie if the writers and actors realize what a horrible movie they are making.  I mean do they go to bed at night and think to themselves that this movie sucks, while they are still filming it.  The special effects are worse than a made for tv movie filmed by Syfy channel.

Pooh on celluloid Amazing, in the era of Fundamentalist terror the best this Progressive hack can come up with is a non-existent Christian group?  Just more propaganda against fly over Americans and Christians.  Worthless.

Wrong Region Don't be fooled by the low price. Read the entire ad, especially the fine print. Some sellers knowingly sell DVD's formatted for foreign regions (intended for use Japan, Europe, South Africa, and the Middle East, including Egypt) to buyers in the U.S. When you ask to return them, they send you a two page e-mail telling you (in so many words) that you should have read the fine print and you need to ship it back as your cost, meaning you pay for shipping coming and going.

horrible... Don't watch this unless you like movies that use darkness as the plotline. Complete rubbish. What is the point of this and who gave it 5 stars?

awful I rented this movie on my kindle thinking I would enjoy it. I was so wrong... the whole movie to me was not funny and weird... Adam sandler is funny but this movie was just awful... not his best movie. If you want to see a funny movie of his buy or rent just go with it, or grown ups... dont waste your money or time on jack and Jill...

Wow... Really? This "film" collects together nearly all of the conspiracy garbage floated by the right wing wacko patrol. To be more accurate the title should replace the word "Story" with "Fantasy". I'm betting that this load of fertilizer was vetted and approved by the people that brought us legitimate rape, a 9000 year old earth, and dinosaurs being contemporary to man. It cost too much at free, I should have been paid to watch it.

freaking "HYBRID" Into The 'Wild' ...not quite The guy pretend that he lived in the wild, well not too fast you dumb dumb, or in another words like another customer said: A "hippie" more likely it's what this is, living in the area where there's a lot of snow (where in the wild will you find a school bus and a matress to sleep- that's not wild) and a film crew with a lot of life support does NOT qualify an individual to say it's the wild where he/she lives. To me these are spolied rotten grown-up kids that had nothing better to do with their lives(and money) othar than wasting their lives, what a shame. At least they should had gone and be enlisted in the military to do something meaninful.  Save your time don't watch it, even for free for the Prime Members its not worth-it the time you'll spend.

Leave this mess alone! Folks, if you love Laurel and Hardy, you probably have all of the stuff on here that matters.  Much of this is the ubiqitous public domain stuff you can find anywhere else, with some REALLY BAD silent "comedies" made before the teaming of Laurel and Hardy.  "Lucky Dog," the first comedy with L&H appears, but only HALF THE FILM is shown. This weak collection stops after the robbery scene that marks L&H's debut.  "Utopia" and "Flying Deuces," which appear in almost every L&H DVD collection, are here for the ride (which will be exactly what you'll be taken on if you waste money on this set).  In other words, don't bother. Superior collections of L&H exist.

skip it I bought this movie before reading the reviews.  Big mistake.  I heard it was so good, and Meryl Streep always is, but not in this kind of film.  I watched for the first 20 minutes, maybe less, and came to the computer to read the reviews.  Was it me?  At first I couldn't figure out what was going on, but after a short while I realized they were doing re-runs of her life through a woman aging with dementia.  My mother suffered from Alzheimer's and I didn't want to watch it all over again.  It's a horror.  I will not watch the rest of this film. After reading the reviews, I realized that many other reviews were not good, and though it's Meryl Streep, and she's a great actress, it didn't help. I've recently purchased two DVD's with her in it,Julie and Julia and The Devil Wears Prada, I loved them both. Watched them many times.  She's great in both. The films are uplifting and enjoyable.  We all have enough of our own problems to watch something as awful as this. I hated Doubt as well, but at least I could watch it.  I guess I'm not interested in horror films.  That was what this film seemed to be moving into. Well, that's all I have to write.  I will probably never watch the rest, but I don't think I'll be missing anything.  Why didn't they make a film about the high points of her life and career? That's what I thought it would be.  Who knows?  Good advice.  Read these reviews before you purchase any films.

Two thumbs down I had ordered this dvd for Christmas. I got it before then which was great but when i went to watch it on Christmas Eve. I found it to be not funny at all. The F word is used by every puppet and the jokes could be altered to be funny. I used to like Jeff Dunham but i'm very disappointed in this dvd. I must say i am not so sure i will want to order his next one that comes out. He might be not be married any more but i have to say when hew as married his stuff was A LOT more funny....and AJ  the new puppet reminds me of Chucky. that demented doll from the old movies. I must say this is the first dvd i wish i had known was like this i would not have gotten it. even the extra's are not impressive to me. I must say others might find this funny however i do not and i think he needs a realty check if he is going to continue this career of his.

Terrible Movie Don't waste your hard-earned money.  This movie is so bad, I only got through 25 minutes before doing something more interesting like reading a congressional record.  The "special effects" are like Mighty Morphin Power Rangers meet Godizlla (the old version).  Terrible.

I cant review these items havenot received yet Ordered in July and at this stage have not received so how can I review  the items still waiting when I receive items will than comment

Not good This video was very disappointing. if you expected a guide type of video you will learn nothing after watching this video.  * Home made video packaged with some background music  * video quality is poor.  * some cryptic aerial views shown in between I am disappointed that amazon would sell these types of poor quality videos. I wish they would review some

Buy the 1997 version, this one is bootleg Don't buy from this seller. The menu system does not work right and the quality of the image is poor. It appears this version is a bootleg copy from Canada. You can see that the menu system is homemade and at the end of the film, you see digital artifacts that prove it's a copy of the original. Had I known this I would not have bought it. I wasted my money. Now I will go back and buy the 1997 version that's listed for $22+. By the way, the dating on this is also wrong. The film was made in 1993 and released on DVD in 1997. This DVD is dated 2008 - don't buy it, it's cheap for a reason.

this movie is uber lame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! & uber boring!!!!!! this movie stinks i hate this movie and this movie has ripped off rambo yes this movie ripped off rambo this movie stinks the director the producers the actors and actresses all stink!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is easily one of the worst movies ever made!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

worst movie ever This would have to be the worst ever film. It was so boring it sent me to sleep. Never bother watching this film. I threw it straight in the bin.

Utter Garbage Who are these idiots, anyway? What possible claim to fame do they hold? I kept watching, wondering if it would get worse, and I was amazed by how much worse it became. Not only is the acting and writing idiotic and stupid, they seem to go out of their way to be disgusting and distasteful. I wish I could rate this with negative stars. I don't know what Amazon's protocols are for these reviews. Is one allowed to use obscene language? I will not, but this movie has gratuitous obscenity, violence and vomit-inducing attempts at humor involving human excrement. Did someone actually make money doing this? Who in their right mind would have financed such a complete travesty of moviemaking? Please don't watch it! It is a complete and utter waste of time. Time that would be much better spent contemplating suicide, for example.

Another dull Oscar winner, determined by people who would be entertained by watching a leaking faucet all day I swear, when an actor is portrayed as a gay or a retard, the actor and then the film is up for Oscar nominations.  I watched this movie for the first time to see what all the hype was.  It wasn't so great.  Dustin Hoffman utters a few grunts of words and maybe speaks a few lines, and Tom Cruise shows himself as a successful but greedy brother claiming that he wants to bring his brother back into his life, though he never knew him before, but you can see that he's basically appreciating his brother's candid card counting skills.  So, of course, they are on their way to Las Vegas.  I will say though that this movie does support why I don't gamble.  Casinos love it if you blow your money on chance.  Empty your wallet on gambling and then just go home.  But, if you're someone who has mastered card counting (which I'm sure all casino dealers do), than you are asked to leave.  Even in the movie "21" this has been shown to be true.  Anyway, this movie "Rain Man" is a slight hint above mediocre or boorish.  This proves again that I should never put my confidence in Oscar winners ever again.

Not worth it! I would say that I am at an intermediate level of yoga and in my first trimester, and I did not find this dvd helpful at all.  The poses are very simple, but I didn't find much of a stretch in them.  The biggest problem is that they jump from one pose to another without any transition.  One second you are up against a wall standing, freezeframe switch screens, and the next second you are sitting in the middle of your mat.  I was constantly stopping the dvd, moving all of the stuff and repositioning every few minutes.  Also, there were way too many props needed: mat, 2 blocks, 2 rolled blankets or pillows, chair, etc.  I got more of a stretch and workout from moving all of the props around inbetween each pose.  Very disappointed!  I also bought Sara Holliday's Prenatal Yoga First Trimester, and I really enjoy it.  There is a natural flow between poses with good stretch and just the right amount of intensity for my first trimester.

Terrible! This movie loses a lot in translation into something more "urban".  It is no longer a movie for young children as it contains visual imagery of prostitutes, drug users, and what appear to be pimps instead of horses changing colors.  I actually had to cover my granddaughter's eyes while Dorothy was leaving Munchkinland to find the Yellow Brick Road, because she ended up in what appeared to be the "Red Light District" of Munchkinland, which is filled with graffiti and trash.  This is a terrible, unnecessary remake with a mottled message.

Terrible film- and I am a Hrithik Roshan fan! Although Hrithik Roshan heads the cast and the film is in Hindi, I would say this film attempts to be an American story,and I don't respect many films coming out of Hollywood these days.  Kites was terrible.  I love Bollywood and other Indian film Industries, have watched hundreds of Indian films, and this is the worst I have ever taken the time to see.  Violent, disheartening, and without value!

SPANISH SUBTITLES??? I WILL GO TO BUY THIS DOCUMENTARY BUT I DON'T KNOW IF SPANISH SUBTITLES ARE INCLUDED, THESE DISCS COME WITH SUBTITLES IN SPANISH?... THANKS FOR YOUR ANSWERS

THE WORST MOVIE I'VE SEEN IN A WHILE... HORRIBLE. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME. IF YOU WATCH THIS YOUR BRAIN WILL ROT. IF HIGH SCHOOL KIDS REALLY ACT LIKE THIS...SMH... EVERY 30 SECONDS THE MOVIE FLASHES TO A SLOWED DOWN MOVEMENT DANCING SCENE AND IT SUCKED.

unhappy I couldn't wait to receive the Cinderella movie. I knew my 3 year old twin girls would love it! I was very disappointed when we started watching it and it skipped. I was hoping that it was just one time. Well, it wasn't. It skipped through the entire first half of the movie and then it finally stopped and had a black screen.

Terrible - Don't Waste Your Money This movie is terrible. I expected more from the Buddies. The bad guy is a Warlock, and he is the worst Warlock ever. The old Hocus Pocus gag plays out with the Warlock thinking the kids in costumes are all demons. The gag goes on way too long unless this is the dumbest Warlock ever. Then the grave digger has the kids safe in the church with the book. He states that the Warlock cannot get in there AND that he needs the book to complete his spell. Ok, stay in the church. He can't complete the spell, and all will be good in the morning. Nope. They take the book to the Warlock. Really? Come on. The story line is horrible, the movie is hokey, and it was a huge waste of money. It seems like they tried to remake Hocus Pocus, but they missed terribly.

Skip Was very disappointed. Made it about half way through and it started skipping bad. I tried every trick I could think of to make it play. I even tried the other side(theatrical version) same thing. Cut out 20 minutes of the best part.

Dumb & Dumber Discover The Origin Of Life On An Alien World!! Then Got Eaten... Everything is in this title. But they had to change it at the last moment for copyright infringements reasons.  The title "Prometheus" may actually be the only thing they didn't cut & paste from another previous story, if you except the Greek mythology that's been going on for a while now (like 4000 years or so). Seriously it felt like re-heated food from a couple of days (maybe weeks) ago. A constant sense of "deja-vu" spoiled every single moment of the film, with reoccurring "subtle" references to Alien(s), and other films of the same kind. I mean forced feeding references, like a good alien would do, you know what I mean...  Talking about food, I guess the only thing that they didn't dare to do in this grotesque farce, was to cook an alien just for fun "to see how it tastes". They actually came close to it by having a team member drink some alien goo without reason in a cocktail!! Jackass, here I am!! The team of dumb scientists is absolutely irresistible, I have to admit. But not in a multi-billion production like this. Maybe if the film would have been made by a group of sexually depraved high school students with their mobile phones, it would have been an interesting concept. Not here sorry...  I have to say that this film creates a category of its own, mixing top notch CGI, low grade trash, Z series sci-fi, tainted comedy, gory horror, and (cough) hyper cheap phi-lo-so-phy. The best of ALL WORLDS!! At the end of the day you get a CGI team who struggled to do its best (and I admit that they achieved well), with a seriously degenerate scenario, terrible acting and, OMG, the worst dialogs of all times, at least since the Earth was colonized by aliens. The dialogs made me wish the film was dubbed in the alien language. I almost suffered head hemorrhages at the vacuity of the phrases. But wait, maybe that's what happened to the alien's head by the way!!  Editing, as someone said, is nightmarish, and the argument which consists in saying "just wait for the director's cut", makes me puke my (alien) diner in advance. Two hours of this painful joke was way too long already. It's even laughable. In fact even the scientists, the aliens and the android laughed their heads off during the course of the film!!  I would have loved to hear what the Great George Carlin (not Lucas) would have had to say about such a "gross misunderstanding" of a movie. Personally, I feel sick...

Michael Bay destroys your childhood memories This isn't really transformers, it's a military action movie with lots of explosions and helicopters, with some giant robots in the background.

Not good at all... --- SPOILERS ---  The amount of times people were captured without a weapon or real threat was unbelievable, if you tried to kidnap me that way you would be dead. Then the husband and daughter go missing, meanwhile the mother keeps calling the cell phones casually asking where they are, she then thinks someone is in the house so decides to walk the house IN THE DARK.. Hmm, two members of my family have gone missing, and I have a crazy tenant, let me turn all the lights off, leave my baby and walk around the house with no weapon. SO UNREALISTIC.  Also you wouldn't leave your baby for a second if you felt under threat, yet the baby was constantly left alone to get kidnapped 3 times, you didn't learn the first time around? Then the car the baby is in which is driven by a teenager with no weapon at 5 miles an hour drives by you, and instead of chasing the car you scream and cry as if it's hopeless, really??  I want my $3.99 back, I want the 2 hours of my life back and I need a new date as mine left after I picked this movie..

Most Horrible movie! Not only was the acting and humor poor, it was not a possible believable story and was in fact ridiculous.  Anniston look rough nearly naked as if she had stopped working out just to play the old lady harasser unless she has gone down hill more since her previous flick with Adam Sandler.  Then again, it is difficult to picture her as a whore type when she has played mostly wholesome characters in the past.  There was a few funny parts but difficult to picture in mind when you have images of some actor scrubbing his butt with a tooth brush....oh that DNA!....lol.  Maybe ok to rent, but would never want to own it.

I kept waiting for the big battle, action - never happen!  Boring!! This movie was so slow and boring!  For being at a critical location during the battle of the bulge, there was almost no fighting except a few shots here and there.  There are so many better movies out there pertaining to this exact battle that has action and heart.  The script was bland - and acting not that good...came across as a poor B movie with tight budget.  You want to see a good war movie with heart, see saving Private Ryan - and the acting is great in that movie.  Overall, poor movie - wish I could get money and time back.

Not as Advertised: This Film is Heavy with Anti-Military Agenda I saw this film when it first came out at a premier in Boston.  It advertised itself as "no politics, no agenda" and nothing could be farther from the truth.  This film was produced by an anti-war producer/director during the worst crunch point in the recent Iraq War.  The producers of this film gave cameras to about 18 souls in the NH National Guard unit sent to Iraq during those difficult times.  Then she choose the three guys of the 18 who most fit her agenda and anti-war perspective and shamelessly appropriated them and Lord only knows what her editing of their hundreds of hours of tape would have told in another person's hands.  The advertising and false representation of this cut-and-paste job of film footage into a "movie" is nothing less than gross dishonesty.  I served in Iraq with the Marines in 2003 and little of what the producer-directorial team depicts is an accurate portrayal of men and women at war today.  Anyhow, if you want to be spoon fed a liberal anti-war agenda that unfairly appropriates three innocent Army soldiers to do the dirty work, fork out you money for this flick.  If not, and you prefer your entertainment without a heavy dose of someone else seeking to enlighten you and manipulate you into their world view - - then get Quentin Tarentino's INGLORIOUS BASTERDS and be truly entertained and satisfied with your purchase.

TERIBLE I think this may be the worst movie i have ever seen. Following a great movie like the first boodock saints this is terrible.

"Bad shmaltz" or "I should have expected it" How naive of me to have expected this movie to show any depth when it was made after all by the same director who gave us the infamous "Murmurs of the heart", a "beautiful", "sensitive" movie about incest; this last tabu being broken and commercially exploited by Malle, should have warned me to stay away from his other "oeuvre" bearing the same superficiality and immaturity with a seasoned eye to commercialism. The film does reflect the inbuilt hypocrisy of the boys to their religion, but the dialogue shows very little reference to the war going on and the constant references to sex are there to amuse rather than to portray a picture of the times. Based on the well known French Antisemitism, the friendship between the wealthy French boy and his Jewish class mate had very little reason for it and was hardly credible. The Germans were not portrayed as savages in their dealing with the caught Jewish boys, and would surely have never allowed the boy to pack his suitcase. All in all a boring superfluous movie about a terrible period in history. Both should have been avoided at all costs.

Terrible. Horrible. Awful movie. Much too long, excruciatingly boring and all Shia LaBeouf does is scream for over 2 hours. I made the horrible mistake of actually BUYING this movie.

Simply horrible It dragged and dragged and dragged...very dissapointing since Brad Pitt and Sean Penn are in it, would have never expected such a confusing, are you serious type of flic. That is all....

Quality was bad! The DVD arrived without the customary shrink wrap, so I'm not sure if I got a new or used product, even though it was sold as new.  There were multiple light scratches on the disc, but it plays.  The quality of the recording is bad, make that awful.  The images are pixilated on my TV.  I can't imagine how bad this would look if I tried to show it to my class projected onto the big screen.  I don't even consider that an option, even though that is why I bought the DVD.  I'll never buy anything else this video company produces.

Probably the worst movie ever made. Honestly, this is probably the worst movie ever made.  It is so bad that I bought it.  Why buy the worst movie ever made?  Because it's funny, that's why.  Not intentionally funny.  Bad funny.  Over-acting.  Exaggerated gestures, intonations of voice, etc. make this one of those films that so bad you want to watch it more than once.  I actually bought this years ago and watched it with a friend.  To this day we occasionally look at one another and say, "Can I have the pink ones Damon?" and "Yeah stick him Frank!"  If you enjoy the B genre and go into this expecting it to be terrible you'll probably enjoy it as such - a terrible B movie with bad acting, stupid dialogue and a ridiculous plot.  Call up some friends and force them to watch it with you.  They will either hate you for it or you'll bond over the absurdity.  If you're looking for a GOOD film that includes neo-Nazi skinheads might I suggest "Romper Stomper".  If you're looking for a bad film then look no further, you've found it!

What does Ultimate actually mean? I have received an official response from the WB store and have verified that this is not "the extended edition."  I knew that there were no extended cuts in existence for 3&4, so I bought those anticipating that to change for at least OotP.  I do find it frustrating that the "Ultimate Edition" of a film who's director has repeatedly stated that WB made him cut nearly an hour of footage, does not receive the same treatment as the first and second installments of the "Ultimate" collection. I do love the packaging, and the extras are kind of cool, but the real reason I started investing in this set was for the extended versions. Thanks for a big tease, WB.

so many gaps in the plot I think this could have been a fun and entertaining movie, but there were just some major holes that left the character motivations pretty weak.  It made the whole thing seem pretty unrealistic, and I felt unattached to the characters.

~Hacked~ This was not done by me... my acct. was hacked and I don't want this item associated with my account!

didn't work Well, I remember this movie from a long time ago.  I saw it and ordered it up, a bit surprised by the price but ordered it anyway.  I didn't open this movie right away and much to my disliking, it doesn't work, a blank, unreadable!  Oh well, guess I'll chock it up to experience.

Really? I love how they are re-releasing the orange bricks on blu-ray, but with like half the amount of episodes as the orange brick season 1 box and for pretty much around the same price (actually I think you can find season 1 for pretty cheap now). If you are looking for DBZ boxsets, I highly recommend the dragonbox sets. They were cleaned up and still in 4:3 (none of that "remastered" wide screen crap that ruined the film quality in the orange bricks) with the original Japanese audio and english dubs. You get way more for the price range of the dragonbox compared to this blu-ray crap thats most likely the terrible orange bricks just thrown onto a blu-ray disc and has less episodes on it.

Don't Believe The Hype!!!!!! The other reviews would lead you to believe that this film should not be mistaken for poop. The other reviews are wrong. This movie should not only be mistaken for, but is in fact poop.

Very disappointed This 2 DVD set is a mess.  I kept sending it back, one was in Japanese or wouldn't play at all and the other had almost no dialogue, just spanning around the city you didn't know what they were showing.  I found it impossible and ended up returning it. I recently returned from Barcelona and this beautiful work deserves a much better showing.

rip-off I bought the blu-ray unrated version and it wouldn't play, my Samsung blu-ray home theater system with updated firmware said the disc was not playable. Well I let it sit too long and couldn't return it. So, I bought another copy and tried it, and it didn't play either. So I exchanged it for another copy and it didn't play either. Either something is bad wrong with my blu-ray player (it plays every other blu-ray disc I own), or a whole batch of bad blu-ray upconversions were made of this movie and so few people have bought it that they just aren't aware. Stay away from the blu-ray version!!!

Disapointing I was looking forward to viewing this movie, a favorite from long ago. However, the old pan and scan method appears to have been done by an amature. Meaningless scenes, as people talking are thrown out of the picture and a table and two pairs of hands are in the scene (an example). Also, the sound was muffled. I realize this is one of the older movies, not made yesterday. But many movies much older than Bullwhip, do not have the muffled and distorted sound as this version of Bullwhip.   Althought I enjoyed the story line, and the beautiful Ms. Fleming's acting, the obvious defects took away from the total enjoyment I might otherwise have discovered while viewing this film.

Basicly review of this movie's plot. -In the view of a white person towards the black: Black guys are good.  -In the view of a black person towards the white: White guys are bad.  -Black is right, no change needed,  -White is wrong, change needed.  And the story ends with the white guy hopping over to join the blacks.  If this story hadn't been focusing on so much PR, it might have been very good.

Very Disappointed The picture was VERY bad in places and mediocre overall.  My old VHS had a better picture. Wish I hadn't given the VHS away before viewing this DVD.

Needs a Crystal Ball Clint Eastwood has to his credit a long list of great accomplishments. This film, which he produced and directed, is not one of them. Oh, it has its moments. The opening depiction of a tsunami striking a populous shore and a few other touching scenes scattered throughout the film do little to balance what is a confusing jumble of disparate story lines. An egocentric French journalist, twin boys trying to care for a substance-abusing mother, and a young woman haunted by her abusive father stumble along toward a nonsensical conclusion.  Matt Damon plays a genuine medium (oxymoron?) who is trying to break away from a lucrative career as a psychic consultant because of the pain it all causes.  Damon is not convincing. Perhaps he should have worn some exotic headdress. A long beard that glows in the dark?  A high-tech crystal ball?  I predict.....a big disappointment that will take up about two hours of your future if you watch this film.

Didn't get a chance to watch it.. When i ordered it from Amazon i had no idea they would send me a DVD case with NO DVD in it..so i couldn't tell you how the movie was...be careful what you order...

DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY Save your kids and your money from this movie! One of the worst sequels ever made! Very disappointing experience on the theater...

After.Life Great cast and story,eerie yet the ending made me throw out everything it had going for it,complete waste and predictable.

A really bad movie The acting in this movie was so bad, I was wondering if it was all done deliberately to make some kind of a joke.  This has to be one the worst films of the year, no make that the decade.  Amazingly horrible.  The Samurai sayings made no sense whatsoever, the Italian gangsters were all ready for the old folks home (was there anyone under 70 years old?), and when anybody got shot (actually that was everybody) the frantic death scenes were comical.  Was this movie directed by an 8th grader?

If I could put 0 out of 5, I would. Do not buy this from Amazon! ****(see 2nd paragraph)***Believe me, this has NOTHING to do with the actual movie. Casablanca is by far one of my favorite movies and I love it more the more I watch it. However, I just purchased it (for the second time in about a week) from FRONT ROW ENTERTAINMENT LLC, fulfilled by Amamzon. Both times I received it, there was a terrible gash on the back of the case that went all the way into the hard plastic of the case, a problem that had been "coincidentally" covered by extra stickers on the wrapping. The first time I got the movie, I was appalled and, while I only paid $7.something for it, I wasn't going to accept a hideous case. I sent it back and gave them the benefit of the doubt and ordered it again for relatively the same price...and ultimately the same result. I just received the case about an hour ago and I can tell you that I am FURIOUS with this company. My assumption is that someone took a knife to the back of the case and cut it all to hell by accident and therefore resolved to cover up their mistake. Well I'm not going to pay for this atrocity. I am sending it back ASAP and getting my money back. I am NEVER ordering from this company again. I'll take my chances buying Casablanca elsewhere, even if that does mean I have to pay more money. For such an amazing movie, it deserves to be encased in a practically perfect case. I'll reserve judgement on other companies on Amazon selling this movie. As for those who don't care about the case of a movie, feel free to order from FRONT ROW ENTERTAINMENT LLC, just be prepared for a mangled case. I honestly hate to write a review so terrible in relation to this movie. But I paid good money expecting a pristine, undamaged case and I received a pathetically covered up gash instead. Twice. Take my advice please, don't waste your money on this company, it may be cheap, but believe me, it looks cheaper. ****UPDATE!*** I decided to give it one more try considering it was from a different company and it was coming by a different shipper. Same exact damage! What fresh hell is this? Absolutely dumbfounded. In fact, the damage is WORSE from this one! I got this one from what I believe is PONOS and fulfilled through Amazon. I now have reason to believe that the common link is Amazon, and therefore, I believe all cases fulfilled through Amazon are damaged, if I'm wrong I'm wrong, but considering this is the 3rd time this has happened, I feel it is only fair to update my review and now go after Goliath itself! DO NOT BUY THIS FROM AMAZON WHATSOEVER. I don't care if it's from a different selling company, amazon fulfills it. Save your money and go out to your local Walmart or Target, chances are they'll have it in the 5 dollar bin so it's a better buy elsewhere. Shame on you, Amazon!

Wow...just wow. This movie was bad on so many levels.  I've already wasted time and money on this movie and I refuse to waste much more than a couple of sentences here.  This movie sucked.  I second just about every criticism listed here already.  Wow.  Don't waste your time or money on this one.

POOR PICTURE QUALITY, FUZZY "JPEG" STYLE PICTURE Just ordered this product recently, bought directly from Amazon, LLC (the seller and the shipper were both Amazon LLC).  Horrible picture quality. What a disappointment.  The picture quality was extremely FUZZY, BLURRY and/or GRAINY for virtually every tape in this huge collection (except maybe the last 2 or 3 seasons).  I'm not exaggerating either.  The video quality resembled a hugely compressed JPEG image (as you probably know, compressing JPEG images makes them grainy, blurry or fuzzy around all the details).  Some seasons were BLURRY but not grainy (slight blur on the whole screen, not a lot but enough to irritate my eyes to the point I didn't want to watch it).  While other seasons were very GRAINY and FUZZY, like watching a moving JPEG image which had been highly compressed.  Seasons 8, 9 and 10 seemed to be okay picture wise, but just okay (not as crisp and clear as most other non-HD videos).  All seasons were technically "watchable" if you don't mind squinting your eyes to see certain details constantly, but I'll pass on that option myself.  Anyway........I wound up throwing the entire series in the garbage, since it wasn't worth the effort to ship them back after opening every box (money is not a huge issue to me, so I just tossed them out).  I have watched other JAG episodes on DVD before (last year) and never noticed these same problems, so it's clearly a problem with the method used to create these particular DVD's.  I'm not sure if this problem exists with all new JAG DVD's or just some of them. But buyer beware.

B-Movie Worst movie I have ever seen! I thought it would be a movie with good quality, but I ended up tossing the dvd in the trash, after the first viewing.

Obviously NOT George ...Any body who has EVER heard George Harrison's voice can tell that it isn't him... And if the voice was taken from a cassette, why does it sound like it was recorded in a fancy studio? ...Anywho, it's really badly made in any csae. Any real Beatles fan won't get through the whole thing without HAVING to turn it off.

I want my money back! Won't go into detail about how unrealistic this movie is (read some of the other one-star reviews).  Horrible!  A movie for stupid people. One of the worst movies I've ever seen.

Total disappointment I was so excited to buy this movie. I saw it years ago and wanted to add it to my library . It took so long before I got it and when I tried to watch it it wouldn't work. Had some some strange code that an American DVD player didn't recognize. I feel ripped off and so disappointed!

ideal movie if you are 10 years old. Absolutely no plot -something about stolen US monetary plates-by Iran while fighting in Iraq- that only the A Team can solve.  Lots of exploding cars/tanks/drones/helicopters and noise.  According to this movie, The A Team is capable of fighting the entire wars in Iraq and Afghanistan- solo.  The dialogue is ridiculous and someone please explain  what Jessica Biel's character is doing in the movie. Her part is so unbelievable-that her actual function within the movie is a big plot mystery.  The entire movie makes absolutely no sense.  Add 1 star if you are a 10 year old boy.  If you are an adult, check your brain at the door-prior to watching.

Bruce is King! This is Robbery. I too forked out the $100 + bucks for the lavish box set when it came out.  Now Bruce / Columbia gonna try and squeeze another $15-$20 out of me so I can get 5 songs not in the original box?  Come on BRUCE ... WTH ...

This is NOT part of the Godfather saga, at least shouldnt be! Saw Godfather I & II 15 years ago. After that, read reviews about the III and wasnt really sure to watch it or not. Bought all 3 -then found out theres a 4th and a 5th- and sit down for a godfather weekend marathon. Really regret watching it. Its like having a great steak and a great wine and the worst desert youve ever tasted, washed the whole dinner. Really wonders what Pacino was thinking when taking the job. Bad dialogues, bad script, bad dialogues BAD MOVIE. Simple as that.

Ugly Mess Movies like this are ugly and not entertaining. In the 1940s, noir movies had a manner to separate the good/bad guys from the bad/bad guys, and keep us from leaving. For example, in 1947s Kiss of Death, Victor Mature is a crook who eventually goes good, while Richard Widmark, as the notorious Tommy Udo, was not only bad, but probably created a role that dogged him his entire career. (Just check out how Tommy Udo deals with "Rat fink" grandmothers in wheelchairs.) In Contraband, a vile drama, much like The Departed, Man on Fire, and 52 Pickup, we must endure enormous cruelty and gratuitous violence merely for the sake of a self-indulgent director and badly written script. The stories are not made more clear, the characters more understandable, the dramatic resolution at least satisfying. Instead, Thank God, that's over! A real waste of talent and money.

bland and BORING... This show seemed to prove me wrong from the get go. Cast is slow moving and the show is very bland and very boring. I couldn't seem to finish watching the first season...nor did i want to. If it started upbeat and interesting, I would have continued watching. Wouldn't recommend on purchasing this. The cover and advertising were all the best parts!

europe Truth or dare! For me a sentimental movie of my youth and childhood. Iam living in the Netherlands and this regioncode does not working in my country. We have in Holland regioncode 2 and this movie is regioncode 1 USA. I contacted with amazon but a reaction have not received yet. It was very disapointing. I have a blue ray disc and it does not play yet.  Maarten Schriks the netherlands

DURHAM COUNTY THE FIRST DURHAM COUNTY WAS FINE BUT THE SECOND NOT SO GOOD. LOST INTEREST IN THE FIRST 30MINS. OF THE MOVIE

Nonsense - Don't be deceived This show is 100% anti-God. The stars and galaxies so clearly demonstrate God's creation and awesome power, yet the scientist and producers of this show go out of thier way to deny Him. I literally got ill watching this show.  I do not recommend it.  The show 'God of Wonders' is SO much better.  I would rate this show lower if possible.

Good audio, terrible video! This review is on the quality of the blu ray transfer, not the movie content.  First the good: There are Dolby-Digital 5.1 and DTS-HD audio tracks. I selected DTS-HD and have to say the audio was very very good. I was playing through a 3.1 speaker system, so do not know how good the surround tracks are. Will know that in a week or so when I finally hook up the rest of the speakers.  Now the bad: The video is terrible! The picture quality is grainy throughout the movie. This is worse than DVD quality. It looks like low-resolution JPEG images.  I see that Amazon carries two versions of this movie on blu ray, so I'll return this one (the one that indicates english subtitles) and try the other one. Hopefully the transfer is better on that one.

Horrible. I love campy flicks and adore showgirls, but this isn't even enjoyable. Bad acting (I mean BAD), bad camera work, bad sound (you seriously can't hear what people are saying sometimes), AND it felt like it was 100 hours long. After reading a review about how awesome this movie was, I can't believe I wasted money on this trash.

Self indulgent garbage from Torentino Of the two movies in "Grindhouse", "planet of terror" was fun and "deathproof was boring, too talky and had a terrible resolution.  It's one thing when Torentino utilizes excessive dialog in a high quality movie where story and plot turns are imperitive components to the movie.  But this is "Grindhouse", not an English art film. There needs to be lots of mega-action and a rational limit on dialog, especially sprawling, philosophical, who cares what you think, rambling talk.  You know what this movie is? (sorry about the "spoiler alert" but there's really no plot to spoil anyway!). They focus on a group of girls, there is a development of character and then they are killed off...run over! And then the movie starts all over again, with a new group of girls, with the expectation that they also will be run over. An these girls talk, and talk, and talk, and talk, and talk, etc. What a borefest!  There's so much talk about the 1970's chase movie 'Vanishing Point" but there's no big deal car chase in this movie!  Torentino was too full of himself for this flick.

Lame premise,horrid finale The lameness is not  in the hpypothesis that aliens somehow aided humans evolution, but in the manner it was presented, worthy of a B-Movie. The aliens seeding Earth with life having their DNAdisperse in a river? A rough star map thousands of years old exactly matching some group of stars somewhere not visible with naked eye? Stars move, you know! And why would they point at a desolate planet where the mismatched crew found a bioweapon cache base? And of could theDNA human and of the engineers match oerfectly after thousands of years? The crew sent by a geezer tycoon who believes the "Creators" engineers will give him immortality (?) is composed by one utterly amoral robot who finds a strangge black goo in one capsule and proceeds to put that goo in the drink of a crew  member for an experiment and a mismatched, bumbling crew. Two of said crew map the tunnels in an alien "pyramid", then get lost, encounter a pool of the black goo from wich a nasty looking snake thing emerges, and try to make friends with it. Disaster obviously ensues, in a movie best called Alien Reloaded.The engineers' ship is identical to the one in Alien, and after a thousand years of inactivity it functions perfectly with stunning holographic effect, maintaining one of the Engineers in stasis. When they manage to reawaken him, he acts like Godzilla, killing everyone in sight and setting the ship to go to Earth to destroy humanity. Why? Maybe we`ll know in the sequel, after ship collisions, horrid surgical operations, giants Chtulhu things that grow from smallcalamari to gigantic squid a few hours without food who conveniently manage to engulf and mouth rape the mad Engineer.The only survivor then takes the other ship she learned to fly God knows how to search for the real Engineer planet. I`ve seen Star Trek episodes far more plausible and mind challenging than this drivel.

Hated it. I'm a big Horror nut. I've seen all sorts of horror movies from all decades. So it's really hard for me not to like a cheesy horror movie. This movie found a way. Granted I like how it tried to pay tribute to older horror moves, but holy hell it was so SLOW! Nothing really happened for 97 % of the movie. It just dragged on and on. I was waiting for something good to happen and it didnt. Finally the last 7 minutes you see what's going on, but by then I was gone...not caring what happens by then. It's not even a good build up. Its just this girl walking around the frigging house. It's like the director had a good idea that lasts only 6 minutes so he made a movie about nothing just to get to that one scene. I will never see this again and cant believe people like this. To each their own I guess.

A Poor Sequel To An Actually Good First Movie I remember seeing the first movie when it first came out in the theaters and actually enjoying it. The first movie's ending really had us fans of the MK series wanting more since the first movie's ending left us on a cliff-hanger with Shao Kahn coming to threatened the hero's of the first movie.  I remember reading about the sequel to the original Mortal Kombat in a movie magazine (the Internet was only available to a select few, and I wasn't one of them) and I remember being excited because I am a fan of the video game series and the original movie kicked butt...So when opening day came for Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, I went there opening day with my best friend at the time and since the movie theatre was packed, we had to stand for the ENTIRE movie....but we didn't mind because we thought that this movie was going to be as good as the original....once the opening sequence happened, it began to roll down-hill from there.  Where do I start?  Well aside from using the original opening sequence from the first movie, we see that they have REPLACED most of the main characters with different actor's and actresses; Raiden is played by an actor who skipped puberty, Sonja Blade is replaced with a 40-something, and Johnny Cage is replaced with a look-alike. Rumor has it that the guy who played Johnny Cage told his agent that he wanted his character to be killed-off immediately because he didn't want to be apart of this bomb. Well, he got his wish. Johnny Cage is killed off immediately by Shao Kahn.  The dialogue: It is VERY low-grade dialogue. The dialogue in this movie makes the first movie's dialogue look like Citizen Kane compared to the sequel. Some of the lines are SO BAD they are kind of funny...I mean, what were the writers of this movie trying to achieve? Apparently they either didn't care about what the people would of thought, and they just decided to write something that would easily be consider a rough-draft script. To me, this is NOT the final draft of a script, this is EASILY a rough draft script.  The fight-scenes: The fight scenes were actually pretty good in the first movie....with this....I don't even know where to begin, so I guess it's best to start from the beginning. Johnny Cage dies when he did his flying high-kick (which the special effects look like they were done by a fourteen year old who is just learning how to add effects in Final Cut), and of course Mr. Cage dies. The fight scenes between a yellow robot and Sonja Blade is just BAD; they are jumping around like they are in a jump house with laughable high kicks. Once the fight is over, the place blows up to the WORST green-screen explosion in the HISTORY of film. Now it's Liu Kang's time to fight, but wait...who's that? It's Scorpion (who is coming back in this film...but wasn't he killed off in the first film?) and now he wants to fight Liu. But wait, Sub-Zero comes into the mix and fights Scorpion (again, wasn't Sub-Zero killed off in the first film also?) and now they duke it out to fight moves that would be laughed at a martial arts studio....It turns out that Scorpion is there to kidnap Katana, and Sub-Zero actually tells Liu Kang that he killed his brother....So, Sub-Zero had a brother that we didn't know about? Hmmm....  The characters: A lot of the characters are introduced, but are killed off rather quickly, and some characters are talked about but never given any screen time: Stryker and Kabal. As for the on-screen characters, talk about POOR acting and POOR direction. One of my favorite characters from the series Baraka is fighting Liu Kang, but his blades look like spray-painted cut-out cardboard...again, he is killed off in like five minutes.  Shiva is introduced, and again, has LESS than five minutes of a fight scene, and is killed. Most of the bad guys like Rain (which is interesting because he didn't debut in the MK series TILL AFTER MK3 if my recollection serves me correctly....) and again he has less than three lines of dialogue, and is killed by Shao Kahn. Wow, these characters are killed off quicker than innocent people in a teen horror flick.  The final fight scene: Everyone has someone to fight (except Raiden who is basically cheering the hero's on from the side-lines)...Shao Kahn and Liu Kang fight and eventually they turn into claymation animals which looks SO AWFUL it looks like it was done by a 2nd grader with nothing to do over the weekend. Eventually, Liu Kang wins, and Shao Kahn turns into a box and the world is back to normal....The End...  Even before the credits started rolling, people were starting to throw popcorn and whatever they could get their hands on to throw at the screen...we left as soon as people started throwing stuff which was after Shao Kahn turned into a box.  Bottom Line: Ignore this movie like the plague, this movie takes awful to the next level. It shouldn't have been made, and it makes other video game movies look like masterpieces....Just stay away....

I wasted my $2.99 I Should have read the review before watching.  As a fan of Brian DePalma, I was sure this would be worth watching.  The ending is such a disappointment.  This must have been a low budget firm.

Not even worth $12.50 I want my $12.50 back from when i saw it in the theatre.  There's no way I'm giving them any more money for this garbage.

Pure trash! This is one of only a handful of movies that I have been unable to finish. I have been enjoying movies for 50+ years in all genres but this movie only fits one genre ... trash! No redeeming qualities whatsoever. I watched the first 20 minutes in a state of disbelief as my mind began to shrink from having to assimilate this piece of cinematic crap. Twenty-one of 101 people who have written reviews thus far agree with me and for the other 80 individuals who saw something in this movie; all I can say is, no wonder America is falling apart from within.

El Dorado movie did not work, have emailed both amazon & movie wars but have had no response from either company regarding refund

The Worst Movie I Have Ever Watched - I Want My Brain Cells Back This appears to have been a pilot for a television series that wasn't picked up and then turned into a movie.  The premise is that a Judge chooses from his court files people and cases that can serve as life lessons for the viewers.  In this morality play, the Judge chooses the case of a rich criminal defense lawyer who misuses his law license by defending people accused of crimes (aka the scum of the earth). There is not a single thing about this movie that makes it worth watching.  From the repulsive characters, to the hammy acting, to the inane plot that completely falls apart at the end, this movie is a one star stinker that should be avoided at all costs. I want my seventy minutes back!

BORN TO WASTE 90 MINUTES OF MY LIFE Trust me.............this movie had some potential with the initial premise but in the end if falls terribly Flat. The Storyline had this movie trying to be to many things . At one point it sorta tried to be a comedy. Nothing worked to well. It was a concept made into a movie . The storyline was lacking as much as the acting. Trust me ....Pass on this pointless tale. It was Bad and should of been called BORN TO WASTE 90 MINUTES OF LIFE. The only thing I would RUN from is this Movie. AWFUL!

No English for SDH on the DVD?? The only reason I gave one star for this product is due to the advertised "closed captioning."  I enjoy this show immensely but didn't start watching it until season 4.  So I started with catchup by renting the DVDs on netflix, only to find out that there are no English subtitles for SDH.  The DVDs are advertised as "closed-captioned"  but that has never worked with any DVD player I ever owned - I even tried it at a friend's house - he is a super geek and couldn't determine how these alleged closed captions were supposed to work.  I finally broke down and paid the extra on Netflix for streaming the show on my PC, which thank God, does offer the subtitles in English.  But my computer's not the greatest, so either way, I'll be forking out additional $$$ for either a Blu-Ray or a new computer.

The Rescuers Down Under (1990) "IMPORT ONLY" Yes, thats what the title should say. region 2 dont work in the USA. this product is deceitful. Shame on vendors selling this product.

Movie did not work I purchased this movie on DVD so I would have it in my movie library as it is one of my favorites.  I did not decide to watch it until 3 months after purchase.  This was my mistake.  The movie does not work and it was a waste of money.  Very disappointed that someone would sell you a DVD that looks perfectly fine but then doesn't work when it comes time to watch it.

Very disappointed with quality Some of the disks "stall" if you will and some episode won't play at all. Not a lot of them, but none of them should. Whomever created these discs and sold them should have to go good for them! Don't buy this collection!

Save your money and your time A poor follow-up to the Muppet legacy. Overly long songs by Segel that aren't funny. Not worth the time or money.

no kid is stupid enough to watch this the plot could pass for a kids movie, but the actors could not pass for anything don't be mean to your children don't let them watch this c..p, they will watch it to avoid doing their homework, but that's about all it is worth, don't do it.  love German Shepherds - despise the movie, avoid this movie like the plague,

Garbage this documentary is pure garbage and propaganda. Robert Spencer is an ignorant Kafir. I watched this film on Netflix and was quite disgusted.

This Movie Sucks (Overrated and not funny) First of all, this movie is not funny! A bunch of bridemaids completing for the one spot. This movie is no where near the hangover either. If you are an old person, it might be funny. THIS MOVIE SUCKS, PERIOD! I wouldn't rent this movie, waste of money!

Misleading You get what you pay for with this set. Only contains maybe an hour of classic stooge fun. It may fill the gap in someones collection, but mostly contains fillers and short dvds. It appears to be a collection of videos that no one else wanted. One full DVD is the lame three stooges cartoons. If you are looking for classic stooge comedy this set contains very little.

not worth a dime or the time someone thinks to highly of him/herself in writing, and acting in this flick.  Gratuitous swearing and lost the plot well in the beginning.  Wish I could get my money back, I should be compensated for the poor performance and story line!

Sound was AWFUL Garbled whispers and sometimes no sound at all!  Totally not worth a single penny!  Not even worth the money to send it back to get another one!  What a waste!

Pretentious pap I chose the film because it was supposed to be about art and love and set in beautiful Tuscany.  Also, the presence of Juliette Binoche promised that it would be good.  I sat through about twenty minutes and quit and came here to see what others had written about it.  From the few reviews I scanned it seemed that there was a surprise coming which would make the film interesting.  So I went back and sat through another fifteen minutes.  The acting was so bad...it seemed that Binoche was improvising and doing it very badly.  The man was just wooden.  I couldn't figure out why the Binoche character was so incredibly annoyed at her son.  She seemed terminally angry about everything and I failed to care what happened to her.  Their conversations, about the value of an original over a copy were ridiculous....was this supposed to be deep stuff?  Yikes....I don't know the work of this film maker...maybe he should have stayed back in his own culture.  This seems like wannabe French nouvelle vague that was very fashionable a half century ago...when it was stylish and well done.  There are always those who fall for anything that seems arty, especially if its in another language.  If you fall into this category, then go for it.  Otherwise, don't waste your time with this nonsense!

Meh... Not so great, really was mildly entertained and although funny at times, it was really just overly crude. I was expecting more from Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman.

Horrible! This movie absolutely Sucks! I love the Holloween movies. But this one really is a waste of time. I couldn't wait till it ended. Michael went from being Evil, to a hippie being driven to kill by his dead mother. Save your time and money. This will be on Free movies on cable in no time.

Hollow Four Christmases is the least endearing Christmas movie I've ever seen. It has a poor story with characters that you are supposed to like but only end up hating. Unlike, say, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, where the family was crazy but we ended up loving them anyway, the four families in Four Christmases are all without any redeeming qualities whatsoever. Whereas Christmas Vacation showed how important family was even when everything around them went wrong, Four Christmases basically supports the notion of the two main characters that they're better off avoiding them.  Basically, all their parents (except maybe her dad) have no parental qualities at all. There is no reconciliation between anybody. What exactly was supposed to be so funny about all the over-the-top things that happen, if there is nobody to like? There are no family qualities to any of them, to the point when it was just downright offensive. I didn't feel the least bit like laughing. I just hated their families - and eventually Brad, too, a loudmouthed and ultimately selfish man. Reese Witherspoon's character was the only character I felt for, but eventually I lost my respect for her too for choosing to be with that man.  The message is extremely heavyhanded and clumsy. How are families as awful as theirs important when they don't care for them in return? In NP's Christmas Vacation, you came to care for the family. Not so much here, I just hated the lot of them. Me and my parents made a mental note to keep this film on the shelf in the future.

Man on a Ledge I rented 3 movies over a week. All 3 stalled mid movie numerous times. After following Amazon's instructions for a streaming the movie,the problem still occurred. I'm not sure I will use this service again.

I love Hal Holbrook but this movie is bad We kept waiting for the story to develop but it never seemed to come together.  Don't bother.  This was just a confusing waste of time.

disappointed This is definately NOT up to the standard of Bruce Willis' acting ability or past movies. I buy DVDs to keep and watch again but this one I passed on to our local Library just in case someone else may want to watch it.

Not Good Great disappointment - Movie has NO SOUND - This was Xmas present for my Dad!!! Now too late to re-order.  Not happy at all!!!

Pure dreck, avoid at all cost Thankfully, only $1.28 was wasted at Redbox. I must admit that I ceased viewing this movie after about 15 minutes, although I fast-forwarded to the end. Just an awful, cheap,inaccurate attempt at moviemaking. In the first scene, we see a small group of U.S. soldiers, and a "Sicilian" guide on the beach, led by a captain in the 101st Airborne, who did not see action until Normandy in June, 1944, yet this is supposedly Sicily in July, 1943! Also, the captain was overweight, and appeared to be about 55-60 years old! Some paratrooper! When this old soldier was captured by the Germans, the inevitable heinous, black -uniformed SS officer shows up, to interrogate/torture him. Yeah, right! This abysmal film is on par with science fiction movies produced by the SyFY channel, with the same type of laughable production "values." I wish I could rate with minus stars!

another bad movie another bad Jim O'Rear movie he acts the same in ever film at least Christian Slater my act the same in all his films but he is easier on the eyes Jim please stop making films everyone now a days think they are a film maker or a actor to all the film makers if you do not make your money back on a film it is only a hobby the only one that is getting paid is people like JIM o'Rear

BEWARE OF OTHER PREVIEWS PRESENTED ON THIS DVD Rented on DIRECTV and have to say enjoyed and appreciated the 1970's humor.  BUT the first 5 minutes was of a drag queen movie preview.  It's not that we feel "to each his own" but we feel movie previews need to be appropriate for all ages, and in our opinion this was preview did not meet that standard.  We Called DIRECTV and they said studios who own the movies are responsible for such previews.  We are now afraid to purchase the dvd and just feel that people should be aware of this fact.  And we also will not support a movie studio that takes such liberties.

a disaster Watching this movie is like looking at a rock for two hours. There's no need to go into any sort of detailed analysis. There's nothing funny in this movie. There's nothing of interest. All of the acting is bad, and the writing is worse. It is literally 2 hours of nothing. I can't believe it got made, and it is shocking that anyone found it to be even tolerable. That people exist who found merit in it is absolutely terrifying - it suggests that there are people around who are more idiotic, more vapid and vacuous, than one might ever have imagined.

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo First of all I thought I was ordering the Daniel Craig version. I got the original Swedish version instead.  Always a chore switching languages. Then, I had to deal with the fact my normal DVD player would not play it. Thankfully, we also have a Blu-Ray player.  Very disappointed.

Wasn't what it said... Was fooled with this! When I bought this item it showed the newer rollerball, since then it's been changed. I meant to return it but never got around to it.

PATHETIC Embarrassing that a studio would even put a piece of garbage like this out.  What a rip off to everyone who paid money to see it.  Did anyone involved with this travesty actually read the script?  There's not one funny moment in this so-called "movie."  A class of sixth-graders with a $99 video camera could have made something funnier.  And I'm sure the production values would have been better.  I've seen better "sets" in high school drama club productions.  Black and Cera (both usually good actors) stumble through their lame roles, but their characters suck and there's zero story for them to work with.  A true embarrassment to all involved and any poor sucker who's had the misfortune of gritting their teeth through the mess of it all.

He shoulda finished high school! Even the IDEA of the Nazis having a need for a "Jew Hunter" is egregiously facile, revisionist, and offensive; by the time they got the whole country implicated in what they were doing [along with multinational company I.G. Farben and, later, I.B.M.] -- with dissenters either exiled or facing being reported on by their (former) neighbors -- all those people had to do was FILE a MEMO, if that's what they wanted!  Ditto the idea of American soldiers attempting to "scare" a group of people in the grips of a mass psychosis; as Wilhelm Reich saw happen to his horror (and later delineated in his book, "The Mass Psychology of Fascism"), people after people(s) just, y'know ... TURNED ... going "bad" like milk left out in the sun will go "bad" (and equally as irredeemable -- at least, in THAT life!).  By now it's come out that the "ending" Tarantino couldn't seem to come up with (as he related in a 2003 "Playboy" interview) has been filched from some so-called "grindhouse" movie (as though there ever were such a genre, as opposed to Romero/Argento on the one hand, and Corman/Samuel Arknoff on the other, and the crap in-between nobody noticed nor particularly remembered until a post-POST-modern "niche" emerged: celebrating crap!).  So ... that leaves us with WHAT, exactly, to recommend?  Or: to NOT cringe at, just to get to the "action kicks"!)  Samuel Fuller took 35 YEARS to write/film the novel/movie "The Big Red One," and he was TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS OLD at the time he went; all in all, this "penultimate event of the Twentieth Century" (as Dan Simmons, rightly, called it in the "Introduction" to the recent reprint of his horror masterwork "Carrion Comfort") took a greater toll on folks than most could cop to at the time, or for some time after . . . isn't Tarantino pulling the same crap most gung-ho military types do nowadays, hoping for as "enemy-able" an enemy as the all-too-UN-understandable Nazis?  Well ... sorry, Q.T.!  Methinks you've "over-clocked" yourself, with this one! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOR FURTHER REFERENCE ON THE REAL NAZI "RESISTANCE(S)," PLEASE SEE: [1.] <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002U1LGSW">Flame and Citron</a> [2.] <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1616080795">The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War</a> [3.] <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006FD9P">Enigma</a> [4.] <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1851685367">Sophie Scholl and the White Rose</a> [5.] <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140183337">Blood of Others (Penguin Twentieth-Century Clas)</a>

for god sakes If its too sick and criminal to show people being skinned alive for real don't show it happening to dogs. For it is only a movie after all. PERIOD. MOVIES ARE ENTERTAINMENT THIS SHYTE IS NOT UP FOR GRABS.  What's more I did not appreciate the warning at start of film not being more explicit about disturbing images since the word peta was last word at bottom of the screen. Just put it after the word real footage at the top of the screen Another concern incase I cannot mention names I found this film trawling through a 10 000 movies plan. What if a kid found it like a needle in a hay-stack.? Needle in the kids brain very damaging. Cable is more censored at least.  Sick upsetting RUINED my night. Now i got to join p.e.t.a the only good thing. Hateful entertainment. Go do it for real on an actor first.  In hindsight I give it 5 stars as the dogskinning was obviously free advertising for the anti-fur campaign in full swing around the time the film was made. To anyone else traumatised by this footage the word from p.e.t.a is there is a bill in the making since 2009 to enforce humane treatment for animals for fur and meat etc. IN CHINA.. still to be passed but the pressure is on especially since more awareness from consumers not to fuel retail demand

Bootleg DVDs are everywhere I have tried twice now to purchase the 90 minute DVD, R-rated, released by Bell Canyon, and both times have been sent the heavily edited (75 minute) NR pan-and-scan bootleg produced in China (by some entity calling itself Digiview Entertainment). It doesn't seem to matter which of the various Amazon pages you order from, or that the product is described as the 90-minute original. Seems as if a lot of vendors don't know about or care about the difference. I wish Amazon would be more scrupulous about getting vendors to sell exactly what they advertise, and linking up to the proper page. At any rate, beware if you order a DVD of this excellent film. Getting a real one seems to be quite like buying a ticket for the lottery...

pitiful if you want to laugh and think this is great , then do not watch this. nothing more to say, no talent here or at least no material unless you have the mentality of a moron, duh!

Sad remake Just saw this movie and was very disappointed.  As many others have said, it doesn't come close to the humor or poignancy of the original.  I only know Russell Brand as Katy Perry's husband so until I see more of his work I won't be too critical but I believe he was miscast.  I had a hard time telling if he was drunk or sober or when he was supposed to be one or the other.  Hollywood is braindead most of the time and can't seem to find original material. Making remakes is easy for them but also risky. Some movies should just be left alone.

Wrong Format for DVD Natarajbooks shipped me a Lagaan DVD that will not function in my DVD player, apparently it is not formatted, as indicated in Amazon's product information, to be used in American and Canadian DVD players. I have sent a return request to Natarajbooks for a full refund and expect to update this review based upon Natarajbooks' response to my request. Update: Natrajbooks promptly refunded my money.

Big Bad Mama Angie is beautiful,the Brunette is Beautiful,the music great the action when it's on good. but it is slow paced and on top of that little jabs at Rockerfeller,Free-Market/Open Market/Capitalism and taking pot shots at Organized Religion specifically Christianity(Of course the biblethumpers in the movie are accurate,being they are protestant sects and not Catholic.)But nonetheless Corman as most hollywood Resents people of faith as if having Faith is a bad thing.This is one of those Movies you wait to see on skinamax instead of being praised for a good movie it's a sub-par B-Movie that dares to invoke smug elitism,and Who can stand Shatner except a Trekkie? or Skeritt(Cousin Strawberry in Up in Smoke.)This is not a hoot,I prefer Six-pack Annie.

Head-shakingly stupid The only thing more shocking than the complete and utter putridity of this film is the fact that there was actually a Hobgoblins 2, although I'm pretty sure no one actually saw the sequel - certainly not anyone who had suffered through the original.  The fact that it took director (and I use that term loosely) Rick Sloane twenty years to scrape up the money for the sequel tells you something, especially given the fact that he apparently made Hobgoblins in 1987 with the loose change he found stuffed in his couch.  Hobgoblins should be hilariously bad - you've got grown people wrestling with hand puppets, for Pete's sake - but it's not.  It's just bad - really, really bad.  The Mystery Science Theater 3000 treatment is really the only way to go here - no one should watch the original movie all by itself.  For Kevin (Tom Bartlett), our dope of a hero, getting a job as an assistant security guard at an abandoned movie lot actually qualifies as a step up in the world, but it still isn't enough to impress his whiny prude of a girlfriend - nor is a rousing match of rake fighting against his military pal Nick (who, unless I miss my guess, couldn't even spell Army if his life depended on it).  If only something would happen in his miserably boring life, something that would give him a chance to prove his manhood.  Unfortunately, nothing of the kind takes place.  Instead, Kevin finds himself trying to capture a bunch of hand puppets (I mean hobgoblins) he accidentally released from a vault on the studio lot.  Old man McCreedy (Jeffrey Culver) has spent the past thirty years guarding these furry creatures that came from outer space to make people live out their dumbest fantasies and then kill them for no apparent reason, only to have Kevin ruin everything on his very first night.  Personally, I don't think Kevin should get all of the blame, given the fact that McCreedy apparently never thought to actually lock the vault holding the hobgoblins at some point over all those years.  Before the night is over, Kevin and his friends will have all gone toe to hairy toe with miniature hand puppets, the worst of 1980s fashion will be put on display, a moderately attractive woman will perform the worst striptease in history, and many other things far too stupid to mention will have taken place.  Hobgoblins won't make you gouge your own eyes out in agony, but it's truly an embarrassingly bad movie.  I could tell you more, but I really don't want to relive all the worst moments of Hobgoblins over again in my head.  You'll have to look long and hard to find another movie as stupid as this one.

worst movie ever! and that is some statement, but it really is the most dire movie in movie history. No pace, no script, no direction, no story, no plot, no acting.........i actually pressed the speed forward button after 60 minutes as i couldnt take anymore but i thought id see what the conclusion was............and that was laughable!......how on earth do people get away with being able to make such a bad movie!.....hollywood is going from bad to worse. Please avoid this movie like the plague!!!!!!!!...you have been warned

A waste of time.. I only watched a few minutes of this movie and quickly decided that it was a huge waste of time.  I wouldn't recommend this to anyone.

Defetive DVD's I was psyched to watch a classic game, it even included pre game stuff,but 30 minutes in the dvd started to crap out.  It happened again with the second dvd I tried. I am too frustrated to try to watch the other DVD's.  It's sad that there is no quality control on a the dvd's

Uhhh......HOW is this POSSIBLY related to the original "Cars", & NOT a KID movie! Ok, so they kept the same characters, but the relationship between the original "Cars" (which I LOVE!!) and this one is, well, almost nonexistent! My 3-yr-old daughter (who also loves the original "Cars") and I TOTALLY LOST INTEREST within 5-10 minutes, and NOTHING brought us back, despite sitting in the same room with her father (who DID like - but not REALLY like - the movie!) throughout the rest of the movie (she went on to play with her Legos, Play-Doh, etc, rarely peeking at the screen)!!!! Yes, as one reviewer commented, it's VERY JAMES BOND-LIKE, so if you like that crap (I don't), then you may like this movie! But James Bond movies have a much more COMPLICATED PLOT than any kids movie, so......how's a kid supposed to be able to follow that - or CARE TO?? DUMB DUMB DUMB idea for this movie!! Definitely NOT a movie made for kids (unless they're so hooked on the characters from the original "Cars" movie that they're willing to sit dumbly and watch them zip around on the screen for an hour and a half)!!

what a disappointing rip off This Dvd is terrible!!! The production quality is substandard to say the least. It sounds like it was put together in someones garage.The story of Susan's life should be told with respect. She deserves only the best.This dvd,in my opinion, was made for the"money"using Susan's name.The pictures and video segments look like they were copied using cheap equipment. Several pictures chosen were in poor taste.The word "pain"in the title is what consumers will experience while watching this dvd. Save your time and money.Don't buy this dvd.

Sorry for you if you purchased this movie, if you received it as a gift OMG!!! The first Movie was Great. This second one was totally stupid. I forced myself to laugh once. The acting was lame, story line had promise, writer and producers should be embarrased. Mike Tyson singing!! Give me a break. I am most thankful that I waited to rent this from Redbox. Only out of a buck and change.Not stuck with a movie that even Goodwill would refuse as a donation.

You've got to be kidding Don't mistake this film "Sahara" with the excellent 1943 film starring Humphrey Bogart. Instead, this is a pathetic waste of money in a film that has poor acting, and a ridiculous script. It stars Matthew McConaughey and Penelope Cruz, two actors that have yet to produce any memorable performances, in a failed attempt to reach the "Indiana Jones" franchise fans. Of course everyone's reaction to films is a personal issue, but it can be noted that the film received no major awards or even nominations for awards in a year (2005) that didn't exactly produce an outstanding list of films. Bottom line - give this one a miss.

not happy I received a dvd from this company that I can not even enjoy. The disk reads can not be viewed in this regional. I have tried to notify them in order to exchange the disk, my daugther needed in-order to write a paper for her class. Its been over a month I believe that I'm just stuck with the dvd's. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00003CXTS">Save the Last Dance</a>

NOT for anyone under 21; as an adult it still haunts me...most disturbing movie I have ever seen! This is the most disturbing movie I have ever seen. It depicts sexual, deviant violence against women. Just thinking about it still bothers me years after seeing it. A young person should NEVER see this movie! I wish I had not seen it.

Wrong Region Again.... This is the second time I've ordered a DVD from Amazon or one of its affiliates and been sent the DVD for a region other than mine in the USA.  When ordering, it never says what region one is ordering for and thus, one assumes it will work on a USA DVD player... Well, never assume and you'll won't be disappointed in Amazon.com!

Wasted Time I rarely think that a movie is a waste of time, but this is just a two hour long stroke of the director's ego.  There are some good performances and cinematography, but it doesn't overcome a terrible script and premise.  Beyond that, M. Night Shyamalan casting himself as the visionary writer who will change the world is just insulting to the audience.

NO subtitle!!!!seriously!!!?? I always order novelas from amazon just because they have subtitle since I dont know spanish!!but this DVD really surprised me because there was no subtitle,so I could not watch the novela and it's still in my DVD box!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pathetic copy Honestly, put kids to play and take out all the originalities of a Martian colony world in a classic, what do you get ? ..........a low quality play ! Any of the 3 main actors are far away from a Micheal Ironside or a Sharon Stone. Not to mention that Colin Farrels has a comedy style play in the movie, far away from a serious movie. Basically, don't waste your money.

This film deserves a better presentation. This DVD is awful. The colors are terrible: the greens and magentas are all out of whack, and the colors seem to constantly flicker and shift, as if they cannot maintain the correct hue and instead change slightly every few frames. It's a difficult thing to explain, but it's terribly obvious in the video. Aside from the distracting color issues, the video is grainy and blurry.  The audio is sufficient, but only just so. It's decent quality only considering how old the source material is. It certainly won't impress anyone, but it's serviceable, and less abusive than the picture.  It's upsetting that a film like The Quiet Man doesn't get a better home video presentation. What it really needs is a complete restoration (and an expensive one, unfortunately). I've heard people say that the VHS release of this movie is technically superior to this DVD. I'm inclined to believe them, having seen this disc.  Buy this only if you REALLY need to have this film right now on DVD. If you can stand it, you might want to wait and see if there will be a restored version in the near future (hopefully on Blu-Ray). The technology is there to make it look like new (they did it with Casablanca, with impressive results). I'll keep my fingers crossed that something similar happens here someday.

DISAPPOINTING!!!!! What should I say about this.......it's crap!!!!!!!  I'm actually still watching it (I order it on cable), I thought it was the actual recordings, I think it's just the audio that is real.....the rest is so lame.  When I did the preview, I thought it was the real deal, then a few minutes in to this movie (which again, I thought it was the actual thing, documentary), I was like this can't be.  This a total mess.....The Last exocorism was way better than this crap!!!  Very disappointing!!!

Bad Movie This movie is low rate with poor plot lines and no character.  They ruined Sarah and made this crow lacking in character.  The ending was horrible.  A lot of the nudity was unnecessary.  The few things going for it is the gangsters were at least not cartonishly stupid and the movie's darker setting of depravity and hopelessness was believable.  Not worth watching it.  It is a shame because the original was so well written, had character was believable.

SHORT! There are only 2 episodes on the DVD. My 6 yr old loves the two episodes, but most of the DVD is contained as clips for FREE on the website for Ninjago. Very displeased. Someone else reviewed that there were 4 episodes. Which ones were those? I am confused by the comments that were made before the release date as well.

Not as "clean" as we expected From reviews we had read before purchasing this DVD, we thought we would not need to worry with language at all in this video.  However, the word "hell" was used several times as a slang word. I know in this day and age this would not be critical for most families, but we have chosen to refrain from watching anything with any foul language whatsoever.  Our children are ages 7, 5, and 2, and foul language is just not something we want to listen to with our young boys, no matter how "tame" the word might be. Normally we would use Clearplay to filter out the questionable content, but a filter does not exist for this particular DVD.  Though this was surprisingly tame for something that originally aired on Comedy Central, it still did not meet our standards of "family friendly" entertainment. We were very disappointed that we could not watch this together as a family.  NOTE:  This review is not about feeling or proving my own "righteousness."  It's not about legalism.  And it's not about being judgmental of others who choose to watch it. It's about preference.  And it's about being honest in how I feel about others saying this is clean, wholesome, family-friendly comedy.  After kicking the habit of foul language myself (in large part by refraining from listening to it), I do not want to hear the unnecessary cursing that is commonplace on network television.  So... I turn it off.  And I let others know I turned this one off, just in case they are in a similar situation.

disappointing movie This movie was so disappointing to me that I did not watch it through to the end. I wish you had the movie back and I had my money back !!!

Awful Movie! I cannot believe Justin Timberlake has not given up acting! This movie is dull and you will get bored immediately!

Have not yet received this item I have yet to receive this item.  I ordered on the 14th of November.  I wanted this item for my children for Christmas, doubting it will be here. Very disappointed.

If Ed Wood Was a Blu-ray Manufacturer I am a huge Ed Wood fan and this is one of my favorite films simply because it has such an awful beauty. BUT I am not a fan of colorization so what I say here only has to do with the black and white version on this blu-ray. First of all, the dark blacks in the film have all been washed out so they appear as dark grey. The whiter portions of the picture, especially the actors faces and other areas that show skin produce a fuzzy halo effect, almost like a filter was over the camera. Or maybe all the actors/actresses in the movie are actually angels. Some other weird effects, caused by who knows what, is the perception of an almost rain-like effect as though lines of grain are falling from the sky across the film....even weirder is the presence of 2 transparent horizontal lines on the left and right sides which look like the Klingon cloaking device effect which causes distortions on the picture. Like when a car drives across the screen when it passes through the lines, it's almost like you're seeing it through a window pane with rain drops running down it. I am not a video expert, so if you are one, please can you come up with the tech terms for the effects I have described?  ONE improvement is that all the picture snap, crackle, and pops from my DVD version seem to have been corrected. The DVD version I have is the Image Wade Williams Collection edition. There's no reason to get this blu-ray since that one is still the superior version of this film. The weird lighting and distorted lines in this version make it unwatchable in my book.  Don't waste your money on this blu-ray. It is a joke. I'm sending mine back to Amazon.

Pushing Socialized Medicine We got this movie at the suggection of our liberal nephew. I believe it is subtly pushing socialized medicine and a "doctor Kavorcian" attitude towards the elderly in America. Not surprising since it was produced by the liberal media.

Couldn't Watch I don't know if Helen Hunt was sick or dieted until she looked terrible, but I found it so disconcerting that I could not enjoy or finish watching the film.  She should have played Bet Middler's mother - not the other way around.

It Doesn't Get Much Worse than this After seeing PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, I wanted to see more ED WOOD films. GLEN OR GLENDA? seemed like a place to start. I have seen lots and lots of films in my life and this film has to be in the top 10% of bad and bizarre films. There is not much to praise in this rather off and somewhat purposeless film.  GLEN OR GLENDA? is billed as starring Bela Lugosi yet he has no place in the film. He sits in a chair surrounded by skeletons appearing like the host of a horror film show. His words often make no sense and seemingly no connection to the film. He talks on and on about dragons eating little boys. Is that a reference to men who want to be women? After Bela, we have a stern announcer trying to explain the idea of some men needing to dress as women. There is a pseudo-documentary approach for a while. Is this going to be a lesson in acceptance and an educational journey?  Ed Wood stars as Glen or is he Glenda? He actually is a pleasant looking man whose acting skills are not bad. I could imagine him as a comedic actor in the 40's but Ed Wood would eventually be known as the director of bad films. Wood's real-life girlfriend at the time, Dolores Fuller, also stands in as his girlfriend Barbara in the film. Here is someone who was miscast on all levels.  The story cuts back and forth from a scene of a police detective and a psychiatrist talking about the inner workings of a man wanting to dress like a woman. The detective genuinely seems concerned about "transvestites" and wants them to be safe in society. Again, there is an educational feel to part of this film that doesn't quite fit the story.  As Glen decides whether or not to share his "secret" with Barbara, a serious of bizarre scenes ensure. Odd images of beautiful women as seductresses or women being attacked by men or othe women. What on earth is going on here? There is no dialogue and it goes on for several minutes. Do things work out for Glen, Glenda and Barbara? You'll have to watch the film to see.  The film is divided into two segments. The second segment is much shorter and deals with a man who actually decides to become a woman through surgery. In his case, this desire is not just psychological but physiological. He is a pseudo-hermaphrodite. Externally he has male parts but internally he has not fully developed female parts. Although this segment is short, there is several minutes of stock footage of WWII images as our hero is drated as a male soldier.  Does any of this make any sense? It certainly does not and this film is so bad that it is not bad enough to be funny. It is actually painful to watch. If you want to see a "good" bad film, try Ed Wood's PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE.

Lame, boring, predictable. Watched it on a flight, and almost still couldn't bear it!  To those who complain about no subtitles on the online viewing rentals, NO WORRIES!  You can just watch the movie and figure out all the dialogue yourself--it's so stereotypical that you're just about guaranteed 95% accuracy.  Within the first 5 minutes you know exactly how the whole movie is going to end.

Tries to be THE SAME as Southpark...it's gotten boring and predictable There was a time when Tray Parker's and Matt Stone's humor was something fresh, something new that pull laughter out of the most unexpected places. This is laughably the SAME THING as South Park. With the SAME VOICE overs and TOO MUCH of the same crass humor. I should have listened to the reviews that say that some people never mature past 16, it looks more like 12 to me.  It's just South Park with marionettes. These guys should call it quits. It has become boring. Their creativity has expired when it comes to making this kind of thing. Yes I looked for the nuances and the smart humor "hidden" within, yet is done so tastelessly that I cannot say I enjoyed it.

Horror? Not! I laughed at the first few deaths out loud. Then the stupidity of this whole thing set in. Red neck on fire is hilarious.

Pirated Movie???? Bought this DVD thinking it was a real movie. However, the supposed DVD will not play in a DVD player. It only plays on the computer. Upon further inspection the movie has a homemade sticker label. It is very evident that this movie was copied onto a CD instead of a DVD. Which leads me to believe that this was illegally copied and sold as real. I am very unhappy as I have always trusted Amazon to sell quality items.

Buy it individually!! First off, I have to say that I love this show. So why the 1 star rating? Because this set is not worth it!! I just bought these items individually at about $12 each!!. These 4 seasons come out to about $17 each. I'm trying to save some people money!

landfield waste This has to be one of the worse sequels I think I have ever seen. Who ever wrote the screenplay must have a flesh eating bug inside them. It is horrible. No one with ANY maturity could like it. The acting is undiscribably toxic. The graphic scenes are almost as bad. The more I watched. The more I realized. Somebody owes me 86 min's of my life back. I can't believe the people in charge of this junk were proud of it. PLEASE!!!!! don't waste your time with this junk unless you want to get back at your worse enemy and give to them as a birthday present but don't let them know it was you who gave it to them.

Hmmm Somebody Hates God Nonsensical and not well done....it deserves all of the poor reviews by Christian and non-Christian alike! Enough said....do not waste your time....unless you just have nothing else to do in the next twenty years

is it worth it I did not care for this movie, if I wanted to read the bible, that would cost me nothing. And if I wanted to own the bible, I could own it for free. So, why pay for it, reading cost nothing but your time and eyesight, the DVD does not disclose anything more than you can find out for yourself!

movie El Dorado with John Wayne After the purchase i waited over 30 days for it to arrive. When it did i noticed it came from Italy, and the jacket cover was in Italian. I slid the DVD into our system and it rejected it and said no disc. I tried it in several other players withe the same result.There is no movie on the disc. So I'm out 20 bucks, and will never buy anything through Amazon again.

utter trash I just saw this piece of horror on MGMHD.  Why I stayed to the bitter end is beyond my own comprehension.  There are no redeeming features here.  The one star I have awarded is one star moe than it deserves, but the system would not accept no stars.

Ghastly film Hard to watch this simplistic barf. Money and time were spent on it, but I fast-forwarded before long, just to get through the embarrassing parts which run from start to finish. I won't waste money or time on it. Redboxed. Ghastly ! Instead watch or maybe purchase: City of Life and Death by Lu Chuan

Bootlegs Dexter is a great series. I love the show. I'm writing this review because there are bootleg 4-packs floating around. I wouldn't even care, if the quality of the bootlegs was good. Dual layer dvd's would have been fine. As it is, the video quality of the shows are poor because the discs have been compressed to single layer DVDs. My advice is to buy the shows separately or buy the 4-pack directly from Amazon. Amazon has taken action to get me a refund. They've done me right. Just be careful what you buy. Non bootleg Dexter gets 5 stars.

Poor No good...  as bad as the Curse of the Pink Panther..... unwatchable! Frankly there is only one Peter Sellers and no doubles can compare just as there is only one Herbert Lom without whom there is no Pink Panther either! If you are a fan get the S.Martin remake, it is rather good and Dryfus is well defined. But do SKIP this one!

Deceiving Movie Title I bought this movie for my children thinking it would be a live action movie of the HIT children's series "Arthur" instead Its about some alcoholic from England being well, an alcoholic. My children already have to deal with alcoholism in real life from their father, Step-mother, grandparents, older brother and Basketball coach but on this "children's" DVD is where I pull the last straw. We all remember growing up singing the theme song to Arthur or singing the spelling out of Aardvark A-A-R-D-V-A-R-K while doing the dance with T.V. I Just Wanted my children to have a good childhood. Now I expected this Movie was real because by now Arthur should be an adult and out of Mr. Ratburn's class. Needless to say This DVD was sent back and a full refund is expected!

Disappointed I was very disappointed as the DVD was defective.  I had ordered another movie from another place at the same time that was just fine.  The player was brand new and this is the only movie that did not work.  I was very disappointed as just as we were getting interested in this classic movie, the DVD messed up.  Skipped that scene and the next scene also messed up....it sucked as this was one of my favorite movies growing up and would have like to have in my collection.  You think a company that gets over $34 for a DVD would make sure it was of good quality.

Bad dvd Dvd that I got skips during play...scratched up..how do I get another one???? Delivery was good..item not so much!!  Luckily I only spent a few bucks..

Frenemy - what is that all about Pretty damn dire.  Some people watch movies like this and like them because they're 'artistic'.  I never liked a movie described like that.  'Mainstream' is what the general populous like, which is most people.  If most people don't like a movie, it's not artistic, it's just rubbish.  That's what this is.  Disappointing because I like Zach Galifianakis which is why I got it.

DIGITAL COPY for PSP (PlayStation Portable) Only! I paid $5 more for the DIGITAL COPY, and turns out, it's only for PSP!  Who carries around PSP thesedays? RIDICULOUS! Just wasted $5!

DVD was fake I purchased DVD back in November and I just gave the gift this past weekend.  The DVD will not play and upon further investigation the DVD is a fake and there is nothing on it.

Great Concept. Movie is Awful! Space Balls meets Blazing Saddles. Should have kept it serious. It had promise but you missed it. Would like to see a more action packed with some serious overtones. The conspiracy theory has always intriqued me.

The poor little rich girl, how lonely! The poor little rich girl, how lonely! And it doesn't help that she gets to chauffeur her college friends at the taxpayers' expense on Airforce One (just for the bunch of friends), with Secret Service agents as butlers. Poor little girl!  This is a paparazzi People-magazine type of schmaltz about a poor little rich girl's search for happiness.  How vulgar and silly can you get?

Oasis of Bad Movies The movie is so bad that it even has bad cinematography! However, it is a must have if you collect these old zombie movies. Night of the Living Dead wasn't in Panavision either, you know!  It is a fun movie that you can watch with friends and make sarcastic remarks about!

Poorly Made Product Theses blu ray discs will not play, and they freeze my blu ray player. I returned to Amazon and received a replacement. The result was the same. I will be returning this yet again for a refund. Disappointed because I was looking forward to watching this show in hi def. Yes, my player is new, and updated to latest firmware.

Beyond awful... How can a movie with Robert Deniro and Forest Whitaker POSSIBLY be THIS bad? Well, it does have 50 cent in it... I guess that should have tipped me off.  As far as dirty cop films go, this one was as bad as Training Day was good. I want 95 minutes of my life back....

I would rather rub onions in my eyes Doing anything else than watching this movie is better.  I do not understand the people that eat this stuff up and feel as if they recieved any type of entertainment from it. How do these actors get jobs???? Please, if you haven't seen this movie yet and are on the verge of purchasing it, please stop and pick up a book and read it instead.  Perhaps waiting for a bus and taking a ride on it just to waste time would be more enjoyable.

Couldn't finish watching it was so bad. I couldn't take the low quality plot, idiodic action scenes (why do they always enter a building so much faster than leaving?!?!) and real lack of anything interesting.  MI1 and 2 kept my interest, this one did not.

Actor's reading lines with no emotion Like a 4th grade play.  Any good reviews are plants from the studio.  I've seen Theresa Randle in other films, I know she CAN act, but maybe she was directed not to.  MONOTONE throughout.

The product information is not correct The information says: Volume Two 1952 In this Volume from 1952 must be a short Movie with Barbara Stanwyck (Title: Gaslight). A parody for the real Movie Gaslight with Ingrid Bergman. But in the product here there is only one serial from the year 1952. The other three serials are from the yeas 1954-55. So the fact is: this is a very uncorrectly and bad information, because You mean, the serials are all from the year 1952 and Volume two of this year. But this is not true. Where is my Barbara Stanwyck?

I Spent How Much???? Can't believe I spent my hard earned money on this movie...I wish I could see the manager and ask for my money back!!!  Only saving grace is  the popcorn and soda I had watching it didn't cost me $20.  Spend your money on the Dollar Menu at your local fast food joint...it will be a much better buy!

Is this Legal? All packaging says it's Sleeping Beauty, 50th Anniversary, Platinum Edition.  DVD says the same, but it's the Aladdin movie!  Needless to say, my daughter was very disappointed.  How can this happen?!  How nice the seller was to let me know I can return it, but I pay for the shipping.  Will NOT be using this seller again.

Don't waste your money Never before that I went to see a movie and found myself in the place that I kept lying to myself that the story will getting better.  At the end of the movie, I have to apologized to my friend since I dragged her see this movie. What a waste!!!!!

Our Idiot Brother Normally, I love Paul Rudd.  This movie had the potential to be something really funny and cute.  However, it stinks!  Not funny at all.  Very slow beginning middle and end.  What a bomb!

ANNOYING EXCEPT FOR TORTURE SCENES Tuesday Weld is a sick looking junkie who probably has lots of sexually transmitted diseases.  Michael Moriarity is her nerd husband.  Nick Nolte is a war vet who makes the mistake of not kicking these two losers to the gutter.  The best parts of the movie are when Moriarity is tortured---really!  One of his torturers is an actor who was a regular on the tv sitcom RHODA, so there's nothing cynical about that. And nerd Moriarity not only definately gets what he deserves, for messing with heroin smuggling, he has an unintentionally funny look on his face when he is tortured.  Spoiler alert: junkie Weld and her nerd husband don't get killed, though if you watch this annoying movie you might wish they had been shot by Charles Bronson in some other movie.

One of the worst movies I've seen I had high hopes for this movie because it has garnered so much praise from critics and other reviewers.  I can only remember seeing one movie that was worse, about 25 years ago.  Definitely not my thing.  It was so boring that after watching the first hour waiting for something to actually happen or for there to perhaps be a plot I might be interested in, I watched the next hour and 15 minutes (it's not only boring, but long an boring) in fast forward just in case something actually happened.  Finally after 2 hours, they got to the point of the movie which was pretty uninspiring.  And the ending was so cheesy, everyone lives happily ever after, even the bad guy who miraculously gets redeemed, that it was just painful.  Plus I actually found the cinematography that so many raved about rather annoying.  I really don't need to see little things floating around in the air whenever I'm in the train station, or bizarre camera tricks.  Save your time and watch something else, or read a good book.

What a disappointment I thought this movie would be on the level of Despicable Me and Puss in Boots.  I was wrong!  This movie is not funny; not endearing; not worth the price being charged for it.  I should have known as I had never read the book, and we are huge Dr. Seuss fans.

DVD did not work! My children wanted to see the original version of this move so I ordered it but we were all disappointed to find that this DVD did not work in any of my DVD players.

HARRASSED BY REVIEWERS . . . NEW REVIEW I wrote a simple review a few days ago. I was excited when I saw this video ready for purchase. I mistakingly thought this was the NEW GREEN Lantern movie that apparently has not even hit theaters yet. I left a review as a courtesty for other parents . . . busy parents that may not have the time to read every inch of the description. Since that time, I have received numerous comments that degraded me personally. Apparently the people that have left comments and responded to my review think I have no brain and am new to Amazon purchasing. Neither is the case. What is true . . . free speech is not allowed in the review of an item. So, since my simple but true review of the product was deemed unacceptable because I had not watched the video . . . I watched it and basically not impressed with the video any more after watching it than I was before I watched it.  Here is my review:  PARENTS, this movie is not for children. I have read some of the reviews and a woman asked if this movie was appopriate for her six year old. NO! My younger children (under 14) will not be watching this video. The language is inappropriate and begins almost immediately. Why is the language even necessary? No crude remarks or comments needed . . . I know what the rating of the movie is . . . however, I have purchased several movies with the same rating that didn't have the unnecessary language.  The timing of the release of this movie along with the release of the movie in theaters leads people to assume they are one in the same. A great ploy for the company that is selling the movie . . . not so much for the people that buy it not realizing it isn't the movie they think it is. And before I get any more rude comments about read the description first . . . read the reviews, etc. There were no reviews to read when I first posted . . . mine was the first.  I am certain this review will once again enrage supporters of the Green Lantern Animated movie . . . but the last time I looked, I live in a FREE country . . . with FREE speech! If you don't want to read my review, then don't!

save your money I bought this expecting to learn something and didn't.  The video coverage is very old, poor quality, and really lacked the motivation and push to want to do it.  I wish I could get my money back.  Chose a different DVD if you want to buy one of these type of informative videos.

Wrong DVD The DVD that was sent to me was not what I ordered.  Possession with Gwyneth Paltrow was what I ordered but did not receive.

Sequel as welcome as a wet fart This was a free rental from redbox... In tron legacy young Flynn goes into encom through a large door while stating to himself "thats a big door" however the door is about 1/4 the size of the door in the first tron where Bridges states "Now that's a big door" to his two companions.  It was clear from this pale imitation of a scene that I was in for an underwhelming experience.  The original tron had a lot going for it, it had charm wit and exuberant acting, some great costumes and visuals by mead and moebius.  This one has nothing going on, recycled dialogue, flat acting, no story, no sensible motivation, no semblance of reality, no humor, no excitement, the computer generated Bridges is jarring and unnecessary, his son is a complete cipher who just staggers around with a beatdown look on his face.  In closing this is a stupid film in which actors playing computer programs do a lot of stupid things.  Check out new rose hotel if you're interested in what it would be like to be a computer program in a well written film.

Big Disappointment!!!  :(  Cho Dependent is Awful!!! I wanted to like Cho Dependent and even set aside a Saturday night - something I don't do that often - just to drink some wine and laugh with Margaret.  She was over-the-top and seemed almost angry, at times.  I have been a huge fan for at least 10 years, if not more, and have always laughed with her, marveled by her talent.  Yes, she sings in Cho Dependent, but the songs were too long.  Also, as much as an advocate for the gay life as anyone, I didn't need to hear about the anal-ness.  I have always celebrated her as a woman but I think she may be upset with her own life, somehow, to promote so much gay as opposed to any other orientation.  There were a few moments that made me chuckle, but perhaps she's done. I think she's brilliant, but unhappy, and that's my two cents.  Huge Disappointment!!! IF I could have given it half a star, I would have.

STUPID! Never in my life have I ever seen such a stupid movie! Sorry I wasted 2 hrs of my life on this piece of crap! Wish I could give it 0.0 Stars. Harrison Ford is such a grandpa, he needs to retire. He is ruining his image by still playing in movies.

don't buy this Don't buy this product. The dvd I bought was scratched and wouldn't play at all. It was a complete waste of money

Kubrick fan, except for this movie. I am an avid Kubrick fan, hell I even enjoyed Spartacus and Eyes Wide Shut, but I cannot bring myself to recommend this based on the name attached alone.  Although his directorial presence is still very much active in the cinematography and style of the work, the entertainment value to be found is nonexistent.  The way I would describe this film is, Gone With the Wind without any of the interesting bits.  A boring film about Irish aristocracy, the only people who could possibly enjoy this movie are cinematographers and film snobs.  Do not be enticed by the intriguing DVD cover, for even the most die-hard Kubrick fan this movie isn't worth your time.

Great potential but disappointingly not family-friendly Being an avid fan and buyer of period films old and new, I was greatly looking forward to this production. Such fabulous actors, scenery, costumes, and more. However (SPOILER) the graphic portrayal of a same-sex relationship in the first episode makes it definitely not suitable for our family's entertainment preferences. Really a shame.

No thanks... This was painfully, brutal...ugh...I couldn't stop playback fast enough...Pretty disappointing, because I actually think her tv show is ok...oh well!

Horrible I have no idea how or why a show like this was ever put into production. Absolutely ridiculous...Amazon please take this show off

Dark & Depressing This movie makes NO sense.  An incomplete story, very frustrating to sit through all the agony and despair for nothing!  I am amazed that ANYONE liked this movie.  I am just thankful that I didn't see it in the theater...what a waste of time and money that would have been.

bleh I rate this "write" down there with Ghost Writer.  Huge fan of both Kinear and Brosnan, but this was a lot of nothing.

Very boring Borgias This series is incredibly boring and stilted. Jeremy Irons looked like he was bored to tears acting his part. Very disappointing, especially after the recent series of " the tudors"

another Sony title with a cinavia polluted audio soundtrack This is another Sony blu-ray release that has a lossless audio track that has been polluted with the cinavia corruption. Don't buy it.  Tell Sony to spend our hard earned dollars on increased features and top quality pq/aq instead of harming the lossless audio sound that we value in our blu-ray purchases with hidden audio signals that can are reproduced by speakers and able to be recorded via a microphone.

A horrific MESS I sat through this painful mess of a movie when it was released in the theatres. Honestly, I thought it wasn't possible to ruin a Muppet movie, or anything involving the Muppets for that matter, but this director and screenwriter managed to pull it off. It was so terrible I don't know where to start. Oh, let's try right from the beginning.  Almost THIRTY MINUTES to develop a main character who is a Muppet playing a human being who wants to be a Muppet? THAT'S the big lead in? It should have taken 10 minutes of screen time, including the horrific song and dance which should have been shortened by two thirds. None of these characters, the aforementioned Muppet human, his human brother and his brother's fiance' are interesting in the least. This is the best story line the author could come up with? My girlfriend and I came up with 3 better storylines, which included much more screen time and jokes for the Muppets, during the 20 minute drive back home.  The best parts of this movie required no thought, and that's exactly what it appears the author and director put into actually putting it on screen. A recreation of the old Muppets show (again, which could have been MUCH better), didn't have nearly enough gags (where was Lew Zealand? The Electric Mayhem? Pigs in Space?!?!), and wasted what could have been a GREAT guest star slot with Jack Black. The whole "Telethon" bit falls flat on its face. The best parts of the recreated show and this movie in its entirety are remakes of scenes lifted straight out of the Muppet Movie. The old songs, like the wonderful Why Are There So Many Songs About Rainbows, are also the best in this film. For all those who love the Muppets (including me) this was a travesty and an insult to Jim Henson and all the memories he created for us. Muppet lovers are better served by petitioning for the release of The Muppet Movie on Blu-ray and buying up copies of Muppets Take Manhattan (a disappointing second Muppet feature that is worlds away better than this mess of a film) and Muppets In Space.  When I first saw the trailer for this film, I was ecstatic. I never dreamed that someone could take a beloved franchise like the Muppets and destroy it in roughly two hours.

Bad, bad movie. Don't buy it. The worst effects ever. The worst acting ever. The worst storyline ever. Take my advice, don't watch it.

DREADFUL TRANSFER BY ALPHA VIDEO! While collecting these old must-have noir classics, I've learned the hard way how important it is to look for and, if available, purchase the film's own studio release. Warner, MGM, Fox, Universal, et al, have remastered and rereleased hundreds of these gems, taking them back from Public Domain and restoring them properly. My copy of the non-remastered Scarlet Street was a "bargain" at under a dollar, but when I received it and tested it on more than one player, I was completely stunned at the poor quality of the transfer by, in this case, the outfit Alpha Video.  It's great that many reviewers discuss the films' storylines and performances, although I think that the quality of the DVD transfer is just as important to explain to consumers. This DVD transfer of Scarlet Street is wreckless at best. Since there is not (yet) a Criterion version of this film, I have gone ahead and purchased the 2005 remastered release and will return this scrappy Alpha Video piece of junk immediately.

Awful Story, but love Natalie Portman This was the worst movie I have ever seen. Not really worth the review except to express my disgust for the movie! I love Natalie Portman, but I couldn't wait until this movie ended! It was gross at parts, sick, twisted, confusing, and boring! If you want a good movie go see something that will make you smile like Burlesque! Now that movie was worth every penny!

Movie, :Knocked Up" First of all, I did receive the movie in a timely manner and it was in good condition.  Secondly, I would like to add that this movie is gutter slop and I would NOT recommend it to anyone and I don't mean anyone, regardless of how low your standards might be...

Total trash Total trash, as if being directed by a 10 year-old. Don't let some big names on the cover fool you. This movie is just annoying and stupid.

Great movie, but why price so high here??? I love this movie and used to watch it all the time with my children. I want the movie as well as my sons again. I cant for the life of me figure out why this is selling here for 69.99 when other online stores have it for 14.99? I have seen the price here on Amazon as high as 149.99 for this dvd. What is going on with these sellers here Amazon? Why do you allow this to happen? sorry if not appro[riate here,, but to bad!!! I am sick of the GREED in this country, and this is a perfect example!!

Full of subliminal messages, boring. Yawn! This movie is not only boring to hell but packs a plethora of subliminal messages aimed at the young and dumbed down generation. I guess "uncle" sam aka big brother is using this movie as a front to boost army enrollment and promote fear against a possible alien encounter (be it friendly or not). If you get thrills at this type of propaganda this movie was made just for you.  Just think, why so many movies lately about alien invasions (Battle LA, Skyline etc?) The government is up to something and as always we're "entertained".

Dreadful & Dismal Dreadful script + Terrible director + Needless remake = Dismal film. Absolutely one of the all-time worst remakes ever brought to the screen.  Zombie completely misses the mark (as usual) on what truly makes a film scary and horrifying, instead he parades his usual cast of gritty, scummy, trailer park trash characters onto the screen for what is a dismal example of bad film making.

Missed The Point - Missed The Boat This movie is a re-imagining (as is the popular term) of an earlier film of the same name.  As such, it is logical to compare it with the original to understand the differences and improvements (or lack thereof). If well done, it can surpass the original in value, and if poorly done, it will disappoint.  In this case, it disappoints because it misses the points of the original in favor of popular cultural mish-mash ideas that are not well thought out and it uses clich&eacute; for common sense.  The 1951 movie "The Day The Earth Stood Still" was a groundbreaking science fiction film with brilliant performances, and characters which have become indelible in the history of the movies. Who can forget Klaatu? Who can forget Gort? The movie used a minimum of special effects and had a musical score no one could forget by Bernard Herrmann.  That movie had a significant and timely message. We were in the beginning of the cold war with grave concerns of atomic warfare destroying humanity and possibly all life on Earth. The movie was a cautionary tale, advising us to give up our warlike tendencies and learn to live in peace. It was a hopeful message because peace among people is achievable through human effort, it's just not very likely to happen any time soon.  The point of the film was that we had a choice. We could control our destiny. That if we did live in peace, there would be benefits, and if we did not, there would be consequences. Don't we teach such values to our children?  Fast Forward to the 21st Century and this remake, and we get to see how it missed this point and others, making a poor film that dishonors itself and the original that inspired it. In fact, I can't imagine WHAT inspired this remake - it wasn't the original film, that's for certain.  Characters:  We have Klaatu again - poorly scripted and poorly acted, nothing like the Michael Rennie role of the 1950's-- along with sidekick Gort -- who this time manages to be not a robot but a gigantic complex being made up of tiny voracious insect-like life forms waiting to eat the planet.  We have Helen Benson and her son. Only now, Helen is a scientist and her son is almost excruciatingly annoying.  The rest of the cast is utterly forgettable, hard to imagine as the main characters are so unappealing.  Missed Point One: Klaatu's Relationship with Gort  The Original:  There was a relationship between Klaatu and Gort. In the original movie, Gort was Klaatu's protector (he wasn't very good at it, since Klaatu gets shot and eventually killed) and it was hinted that Gort was also a policeman so he actually was in charge of Klaatu. This all was a bit murky, but Gort looked cool and had a major cool death ray. Gort is not necessarily bent on destruction. When Gort uses his death ray in the beginning of the film, it is only to destroy weapons. After Klaatu is killed by the military, he takes a different tack and vaporizes weapons and soldiers alike. But he also very kindly carries Helen Benson into the super space ship after she tells him the now famous line, "Gort, Klaatu Barada Nicto" which I assume means, "Gort, Klaatu is dead."  The Re-make:  There is no real or discernible relationship between Klaatu and Gort. Klaatu appears, Gort appears. Klaatu starts out as a gelatinous mess that has to become human. Gort grows into a 50 foot tall behemoth that the military tries to contain. The line "Gort, Klaatu Barada Nicto" is never said, and Helen Benson never gets on board that space ship, which now looks like a giant glowing bubble or balloon. Gort eventually decomposes into a swarm of voracious insect like things that are going to eat the planet. Who needs a death ray?  In space, size matters, or is Klaatu compensating for something with the giant Space Ship and giant Gort?  In the 1950's, robots were cool. In the 21st Century, swarms of mindless voracious insect like creatures are cool. So now we know the reasoning behind the new, and pretty forgettable Gort of the remake. The only thing cool about him is how much he looks like the original Gort, so give the original a thumbs up and forget the re-imagined mess of a thing, whatever it is.  Missed Point Two: Klaatu's Relationship with Helen Benson and Bobby.  The Original:  Klaatu escapes the military and goes to live among humans to understand us better. He is kindly, amused and sometimes amusing, and forms a touching bond with Helen Benson and her son, Bobby. It is Bobby who really teaches him the most about humanity as seen through the eyes of a child. Klaatu develops as a character as a result of this interaction. He is also personable and likable.  The Re-make:  Klaatu escapes the government (which is controlling the military) and goes to live among humans and wonders what makes us so screwed up. He is distant, cold, and determined to wipe out humanity to "save the planet" (forgetting that we are natural denizens of the planet). He has trouble forming a bond with Helen Benson, and her son Bobby is the most annoying character in the movie -- who couldn't teach a duck to swim, let alone an alien about humanity seen through the eyes of a child. He's a total brat. The re-make totally misses the point of the relationship of the three people. They make a good trio. None of them are personable or likable.  Missed Point Three: Klaatu's Message of Hope  Original:  Klaatu has a message for all mankind. Live in peace when you go out among the stars. Blow yourselves up on your own planet if you must, but don't you dare try to blow up Mars or anyplace else! Let us help you learn to live in peace among yourselves and your alien neighbors. You might like it. We leave you to make your own destiny and make your own choices. We may be available to help you out if you ask us nicely. However, if you show aggression among the planets, robots like Gort will fry your -- well, you can guess what Gort will fry. Gort will do it without our intervention, so don't mess with Gort or his fellow robots, they are running the galaxy. You've been warned.  Re-Make:  Klaatu has a message for all mankind. You are a plague upon your own planet and must be eliminated for the benefit of the birds and the bees. You are trashing your environment and since life bearing planets are so rare, we of the planetary whatever are going to wipe you out. Oh wait, you're part of the life that this life bearing planet has created. Oh well, we're still going to destroy you. You are very, very naughty. Oh, and Gort is going to do it no matter what, so you have no hope and no choice. You've already committed the unpardonable sin so there you have it, dommed, dooomed, doomed. Sorry about that, you're toast.  The Big Picture:  In the re-make, humanity is judged "in absentia" by an alien race with no defense. It's an all or nothing deal. Klaatu takes a sudden turn of sympathy and manages to prevent Gort from destroying humanity, only human technology (the REAL evil!) throwing us back into the dark ages. Yeah, that'll work. And Gort (or the "things that once were Gort") is the one who actually kills -- or almost kills, I'm not clear on this part the movie was so murky --  Klaatu. Yeah, that's a nice new touch.  The main failure of the movie is that it has a message of hopelessness. Now in fairness, hopelessness is a very popular trend ion modern films. We love to get depressed.  Worse, it is judgmental in the extreme, looks at life as black and white and does nothing to inspire hope or even an effort at change. Judgmentalism is another popular trend.  The end result is that this film -- as a re-imagining --  is really a nightmare of one sided thinking with nothing much to recommend it. Some of the special effects are interesting. None of the characters are.  They could have re-made the original with a message of "stop polluting or here's what will happen" and given us a taste of life after global warming (as a demonstration, as the original Klaatu did) and maybe even offered to work with humans to teach and guide us (yeah, like that would ever happen!) But the producers opted for the cheap and sensational, and thus missed making a movie every bit as groundbreaking as the original.  They missed the boat.  And I missed the original so much that I shut this one off, and went back to the original, and had a very good time.  Thank goodness the original has been preserved and the new Gort insects weren't able to eat it.

buyer's remorse I purchased the video while out of town for a conference and assumed that the video would remain available until viewed.  I learned a $4 lesson the hard way.  The Internet at my hotel wasn't reliable so I had to wait a day and a half to watch it at home.  It had expired.

The Boring!!!!!!!!!!! I was really excited to see a new zombie movie coming out and with all the good reviews it was getting, I thought alright......finally one that might actually be good. But to my dismay, this movie was BORING....no plot, no character development, no NOTHING!!!!! The only good thing about the movie was the few really good special effects scenes in it. I couldn't believe I sat through an hour and forty-five minute movie that just literally bored the hell out of me!!!! Yes it was that bad!!!! I would not recommend buying this movie...if you want to see it, rent it through Redbox before you do, so you don't waste your hard earned money on this crap.

Since my baby left me Filmed in Palm Springs in an exotic t desert location. Roxy (Marilyn Manning) almost runs over a man (Richard Kiel) with an enormous uh...err...club. She tells he father and tacit boyfriend Tom (Arch Hall Jr.) who of course believe her (yah sure).  The father plans to make a novel about this novel person. To do this he dawns a "Call Me Bwana"  African kaki outfit with pith helmet and takes a helicopter 10 miles to mysterious Shadow Mountain. There he disappears.  To the rescue are daughter Roxy, Tom and Tom's dune buggy.  Roxy gets a good look at the giants club "Eagan" and cannot get over thinking about it. The giant gets a good sniff of Roxy and cannot get over thinking about it.  Will true love takes its course between beings form different ages or will it end in tragedy?  "There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown." Genesis 6:4 KJV  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000M53GN6">The Spy Who Loved Me</a>

to the producer Hello producer,  Next time you get the idea to make a movie, have a story. You know, a plot, a point, something that helps the audience. This is a tree that falls in the forest with no one there to hear it.

Sniff sniff I was really disappointed in this film.  I have watched every movie and tv episode of the old series and was hoping this movie would bring that back.  The problem was that the old series was a drama, not a comedy. As much as I love Johnny Depp, this was a failure and a waste of money

How Could Anyone Find These Films (or Books) Enjoyable?? I am fortunate in the fact that I rented this. I am however, unfortunate in the fact that yet again, I wasted my money. I have slogged through both the books and movies in this series in an attempt to understand the fanbase (many of whom are my friends) and have come away feeling like I have done nothing but waste my time and money. The good news is that because I rented it, it was cheaper for one and I had the option of fastforwarding through vast portions of this yawn fest.  First of all, this movie is of course only part 1 of the last book, although I agree with most reviewers in stating that the book really doesn't have enough substance to qualify needing two movies since most of the dialogue in the first portion of the book (before the climax), is internal.  About the only good thing I say about this movie is that the backdrops are elaborate and visual eye candy (especially since the rest of the film is boring).  The acting is stilted (but I guess I can't expect much when they have crappy books to work with in the first place) and very wooden. This isn't much of a departure from any of the other films.  The wedding was obnoxious. The overextended kissing scene was unnecessary. The honeymoon portion (which I know takes up a lot of the first part of the book) was so boring that I ended up fast-forwarding through it (hey, there was no real dialogue, so why do I need to slog through it?).  The special effects for the 'wolf pack' are laughable. Are you seriously telling me that with the special effects the movie industry possesses and with the vast amount of money that this stupid series raked up that they couldn't afford DECENT SFX to make the wolves believable? Especially when you consider that the werewolves don't even mimic classical werewolves, but instead look like overgrown wild wolves! I do not think it would have cost much more or been that difficult to make them believable.  And oh, the birth scene.. It was graphic in the book, I think less so here, honestly, but still gross. This portion really only serves to scare the crap out of underage girls from ever wanting to have sex. It was like watching a really demented version of "The Miracle of Life". I personally think it would have been better (in both film and book) had Bella died and the story continued with her daughter and Edward.  And do I even need to go into how entirely wrong and/or disturbing it is that the teenage werewolf "imprinted" on a newborn infant? Pedophilia comes to mind.. also, lack of free will on the part of the imprintee.  Also, baby Renesmee (stupid name, BTW) = creepy!  There is just so much wrong with these films (and the books) that I can't understand how anyone could give any of them more than 2 stars. And to be honest, I think you could probably find better things to spend your money on.

disappointing and disgusting This is not a family film. It is not ok to kidnap someone, and it just got worse from there. Lie upon Lie, the dysfunctional family is full of dishonest relationships. It is disappointing to think this is considered a family film. The homosexual relationships are a contradiction to family values.

Waste of Time and Money Waste of time and money. It sucked from the first minute to 15 minutes later. I could not watch more.

Pedestrian An intensely slow, boring, and superficial look at what should have been a very interesting and exciting character. An utter waste.

NO DIGITAL COPY! I received two of these and amazon wanted to send out another one....they advertise that this has a digital copy and neither one of mine did! The movie is wonderful. However, I am disappointed. I wanted the digital copy and that's why I purchased this rather then in the store. I didn't find one in the stores that had a digital copy!

Ultraviolet is NOT a digital copy! You can't download it to your devices! Be warned, ultraviolet "digital copy" isn't downloaded to your computer, you have to download it every time to watch. IF their website is up and you have a compatible device. I have NEVER been able to successfully watch an ultraviolet movie. I have a BA in computer information systems, macs, pc desktops, Mac laptop, pc laptop, iPads & iPhones and I've literally never been able to watch one ultraviolet movie due to numerous errors and download failures. I'll buy this movie at iTunes if they won't sell the true "digital copy", on a disc that you can install on your computer.

Good Cast + Good Director = Awful Film Gus Van Zandt's remake of "Psycho" would be awful even without the Hitchcock Masterpiece to compare it to. Figuring out exactly what went wrong here isn't easy. Maybe it's the colorization that makes this seem like an ordinary slasher film. Or it could be that Van Zandt has tinkered with something so familiar that the result feels forced and out of place. Anthony Perkins was the perfect Norman Bates - but Vince Vaughn is terrible. Bloated, wildly effeminate, and wearing too much makeup, Vaughn  overacts badly and his masturbation scene is just gross.The sight of Vaughn in a flowery nightgown and blond wig is so ridiculous that it brings laughter instead of shock. Anne Heche fares nearly as bad as Vaughn. Bringing none of Janet Leigh's vunerability or sympathy to her role as Marion Crane, you will find yourself cheering when the shower scene finally comes. The Supporting Cast is slightly better. Julianne Moore, in the Vera Miles role as Lila Crane, is tough and crude to perfection. Viggo Mortenson is sufficiently studly as Sam Loomis but the best performance goes to William H Macy as a nosy Private Dectective who makes a hilarious ascent up the stairs and meets "Mother" in the worst possible way. This film seems longer than it is.

What is wrong with you people! Honestly, I don't get why this movie has so many stars, it's really frustrating to me.  I was PUMPED for this movie to come out at least a year before it was released.  I even told everyone about how pumped I was whenever it was mentioned!  I was eating crow after finally getting to see it opening night though.  The beginning had me wanting to find out more but after the second or third action sequence I had to hold myself back from walking out of the theater.  There's not much story or substance to what's going on here.  The CG, costume design, music, and scenery are stunning eye candy but they do absolutely nothing to hide the horrible non-existent storyline and overly long playing time.  I wanted SO bad for this movie to succeed but in the end I just couldn't muster up the courage to admit I picked a bad one.  "Main" story line had ton of plot holes and is truly idiotic.  PLEASE don't waste your time with this one not even for a laugh, it's THAT bad.  I wish I had my GF talk me into seeing a chick flick instead of me dragging her along for this hot mess.  At least one of us would have been happy!

Hauntingly stupid It's official, Clive Owen will do anything. Worthless mishmash has contrived elements of countless other bad spook movies and thrillers. It needed "The Beginning...?" at the end for a cliche capper cliche but otherwise these leftovers are starting to ferment. This makes Darkness Falls look like Citizen Kane. Usually I end my reviews with a quote, the only appropriate I can think of is "Why did you lie to me".

Horrible movie.  Totally depressing, nuts and depraved. We strongly suggest you do not watch this awful movie.  We made the mistake of doing so last night.  Worst movie with the most depressing feeling after.  It's about a super rich family (mansion with own private 18 hole golf course and lake and horses) who are unbelievably nuts,  dysfunctional and awful to each other.  A planet called "Melancholia" comes in and smashes into the earth and kills everyone.  The whole movie is filmed on the estate.

Ugh...! I loved the original Merlin movie/mini-series with Sam Neill and Miranda Richardson, among others. However, this movie is less a sequel and more an insult to the original. The endings of the two movies wage all out war. Perhaps if this movie was created as a separate story instead of a sequel, it would be better. But this is one of the few movies I've watched that's actually pissed me off.

Comedy It is a comedy without meaning to be.  The worst film and acting of all time. Do not waste your time.

What my husband doesn't know....Boring!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!! I mean what can I say about this play....hmmm.....boring, boring, boring. I'm not putting the seller down because it arrived ontime, and in new condition. It's just this movie is so boring, my fiance and I fell asleep on it woke back up and fell asleep on it again. Michelle Williams is a horrible actress...I'm sorry, Beyonce defently out does her in looks and acting,lol. I thought this movie would be good like Tyler Perry plays...no no no.....I'm sticking to my "Madea"...don't waste your money, go and rent it from Blockbuster's or borrow it....you can have mine if you want, but don't spend money on it. I'm trying to sell it for $2.00 at a garage sell,seriously this play is sooooooo boring!

Read The Book Instead! One of the things I truly hate is when Hollywood *&^%-up a good story! In the book there is NO Wylie or his grandmother!And there was NO doll replica of Coraline,either. The rats spied on her and reported to the spider witch.  Coraline and the cat both defeat the Spider Witch and Coraline later tricks the spider hand and throws it into the well along with the key.But in the movie Coraline needed a GUY to save her bacon.  Wylie was riding a motorbike and not a white horse but the idea was still the same.:(  All through this film I kept wishing that it was live action and not claymation or whatever the "special effects" were.  The movie was boring and about as interesting as watching paint dry. I feel sorry for Neil Gaiman...it must have been painful for him to see what happened to his book.  Especially the parts with Miss Spink and Miss Forcible and the near pornographic performance of the Other Actresses. I can only assume that that was meant for the adults in the audience.  They made this film 3-D so you can REALLY see how bad it is.  I have to give this piece of crap one star because there is no 'thumbs down' option.  I shudder to think what they might do to The Graveyard Book if they decide to make it into a film as well.  So I heartily recommend the book but NOT this cheap flick. And I am also very glad that I checked it out of the library and didn't waste my good money buying it.Now I just wish I could get back the hour and forty-one minutes I spent watching this.  p.s.Coraline didn't lose her green stone and she returned it to the Real Miss Spink and Miss Forcible after her adventure.

the grapes of wrath the dvd received in The Grapes of Wrath was most unsatisfactory as it jumped and jammed - please acknowledge this comment as I have already sent this email to you. Susan Smith  I don't understand as I sent a most unsatisfactory review please reply to my comments

Irritating This movie has a definite agenda.  It takes information from the bible, and discusses how some bible stories are based on actual events. For example: The Jews being captives of Egypt, et al.  It claims that many secular scholars refuse to believe that any of these things happened because the source is the bible. This is simply not true as The Bible As History is a class that is taught in many Universities.  Then it jumps to the conclusion that if you believe any of the stories (regarding historical events in the bible) that you MUST believe the bible came from a divine source...when this is absolutely not a conclusion you must make. If you do make it, fine.  But it's not necessary to believe in a divine source if you believe some of the stories of the bible. Next, it goes into prophecies made by Jesus Christ and discusses the statiscal probability that any of these things could have been predicted by chance. I'll admit that the prophecy about the Jews losing their land and being scattered to different countries, only to reclaim it at some point in history, was pretty compelling. They make the claim that if this is true, than future prophesies must be. However, the offer no counter arguments over views to be considered. It offered no experts to make counter-arguments, which makes their claims suspect to me. Next they talk about globalization (which, I admit,doesn't seem like necessarily a good thing to me) and jump to the conclusion that extreme tolerance of religious views is a bad thing. One narrator even states that if you believe in everything that you believe in nothing...and that if could lead to...god knows what.  His argument made me think of people who claim that if you tolerate homosexual marriage...next you will be expected to tolerate people marrying their goats. Utter silliness.  The overall message was that if you rejected Jesus Christ, you were doomed.  So..this is a religious flick.  I admit to find prophecies interesting, but I resent a back-door way of trying to threaten others with damnation. In addition, I thought these peoples' conclusions of relating historical events that could have completely natural origins to the divine. What I was most irritated with was their attitudes that seemed to convey that if you couldn't see it, you must be an idiot.  Very faulty logic here...and no counterpoints to balance out their arguments.  Irritating flick.

Coraline AWESOME. this version- suck my review is about this particular set since Coraline is an excellent film and in blu-ray is absolutely BEAUTIFUL! however, i bought this version with the digital copy in mind (trying to stay on the legal side) and universal, unlike other companies who have extended the valid dates for their digital copies, are not so nice about it. customer support was completely unhelpful jovially saying thanks! but providing no alternative for the digital copy aspect of this set for which i paid. highly disappointed in this version and universal's inability to work with the consumer.

no gracias while there were some notable cameos, this film takes itself far too seriously.  even The Net is better than this.

Maudlin muck Boring, stupid, and cringeworthy.  I gave the saga a chance after the decent first movie but it has gotten worse with each episode.  Embarrassed that I went this far into the series.  Won't bother with the last.  Beyond fantasy...just crap of the lowest order story wise and disappointing effects for the resources devoted to it.

Episodes 60-80 NO ENGLISH SUBTITLE!!! This is a bootleg edition of 20 episodes and no English Subtitles. I was lucky my seller was honest and respectful and did a fast even exchange. DO NOT BUY! I cant go Lower than 1 star or I would.

Parade of The Brain-Dead, Part II It's a sad reflection of today's society that trash like this is successful.  There's nothing but obscenties thrown around by barely-literate apes and trailer trash girls.  These guys and gals (if you want to call them that) were simply in the right place at the right time and found stardom via this putrid vehicle.  The girls (and most of the guys, save for Vinnie and Pauly D) don't even have good looking faces! Just surgically and chemically enhanced bodies.  I feel bad for the next generation, being weaned on this nonsense.

Truly an awful waste of film This was one of the worst movies I've seen in years.  A tired story, horrible acting and a lead character who looked like he had brain damage through most of the film.  Some decent acting or a decent story could have saved it, this had neither.  A few tweaks and this could have been a Mad Max spoof though.  I know this was a low budget B-movie, but this just set the bar too low for the rest of them.

Non-working Disc The disc arrived. It does not work. the word bad appears on my dvd player. Someone ripped me off.

Dreadful! The idea of this movie would have been okay if it had been done as the cover implies it would be. Instead if creepy shadowy figures we get poorly done CG monsters so early in the movie that they are more boring than anything by the end.

Whats with the release date> Ads on TV have this DVD being released yesterday, 10-18-11 Why is Amazon not selling till November? I find this to be a bit odd.

Bummer Maybe it was over my head, but I thought it was pretentious, and actually repulsive.  Sad to see Binoche in this part, and in this movie.  Artists don't set out to make bad movies, but they do happen and to me this is one of them.

Jacket Cover Since when did they have Blackhawks during Vietnam?  I don't think I'll even attempt to watch it if the DVD jacket cover isn't somewhat historically accurate.

Jason Statham fan I bought this movie without watching it first.  I enjoy  and watch most of his films numerous times.  This is Statham's worst film and maybe the worst film I have ever watched.  Low on action.  Smaller plot lines within the movie went nowhere.  Waste of money and time.

Helicopter Fetishists Also Go Snowboarding Sometimes One star for the riding, which was great. But great riding just isn't enough any more. We've all seen a lot of great riding. I was disappointed with this film mainly because of the extensive use of slo-mo shots of helicopters. It seems that the film makers were short on actual snowboarding footage, and used nearly as much B-roll as A-tape. A narrative arc would have helped viewers enjoy the rare but fantastic bits of snowboarding. Many of us in the snowboarding community were excited when Jeremy Jones swore off helicopters a few years ago and vowed to learn how to mountaineer. I was hoping that would spark a movement. This film is a huge remission from that sentiment. The carbon footprint must have been epic. Using three helicopters in some shoots and cruising around for days on extremely dirty snowmobiles does not set a good example and really makes those of us that care about nature disgusted. I've read some reviews that say if you like nature you will like this film. I offer the opposite: if you like nature you should hate this film. Please just learn how to climb already and get to the summit on your own steam. Otherwise you are just wasting resources and really don't deserve to be in the mountains. I also have to give negative points for the dialogue, which was unintentionally funny at times and nauseatingly trite throughout. Basically we have a collection of slo-mo helicopters taking off and some sweet snowboarding action interspersed. Not bad, but not nearly what I was expecting from this over-hyped group of riders. I also would have appreciated some new talent in the film. How about some women? Maybe if the crew didn't have such a helicopter fetish they could find some ladies to ride with! There are many riders out there that are also good mountaineers. The riders in this film come across as bumbling idiots in the mountains. They should learn how to climb mountains or else go back to the park. This is the same snowboarding film we've seen a thousand times but with more slo-mo shots of helicopters. I was uninspired and even a little angry. The ending was particularly blah; I guess that's what happens when you stumble through 90 minutes of self-obsessed B-roll and never have a plot. I hope this is the low point for snowboarding films and that in the future we can watch a film that uses a $2 million dollar budget to create something worth watching. Is it asking too much for a film that advances the sport rather than showing off toys, offering nothing new, and reinforcing all the negative stereotypes?

Face Palm! I like super hero movies, and after reading the synopsis on the movie, thought it may have potential.  WRONG!  First of all, the filming was done in the style of "The Blair Witch Project" and "Cloverfield".  Almost the entire movie was jumpy.  The actual story line was plausible but unfortunately the script was a total failure.  The little bit of action in the movie was a total failure as well, though I think some of that may have been due to the filming style.  The acting was surprisingly bad also.

Please, please read this review before buying this movie. This is by far the worst movie I've seen this past 40 years. It is so boring and trite that all the 1-star reviews should be a warning to you. This movie lacks in the most basic human experiences truisms - for example, one cop (walhberg) trows hot coffe on his partner (Farrell), the partner, sorpricely doesn't get angry. Then if the coffee wasn't enough, the same a**hole partner points a real gun at his partner (Farrell, again), but he acts like no other human being would act being a cop and being in the police prescint and like a fool goes along for the ride with his partner. Anyone else would have acted differently... like maybe: run. All of the sudden, out of nowhere, Farrell - yes, the same pussy-cop - surprice, wants to fight all the bad guys with a wooden gun - yes, a wooden gun. AGHHH! The whole thing is just too unbelievable and unimaginative to be entertaining. Another example, imagine two veteran hard nose cops who get to the 20th floor of a building and decide that to get the bad guys they have to jump to the sidewalk, yes, from the 20th floor roof! Do you believe that? neither anyone else. What a lousy waste of talent, time and money... my money!

Not worth a Buy I expected explicit images of sexual activity. No "bottoms" down viewing was available during a sexual activity. It was a sheer waste of money

The people need their throats ripped out! Just horrendous!!! That a few fingers and a leg are worth more than the lives of these dogs.  Guess that's the single digit IQ mentality behind Sarah Palin's popularity.  And it was all over some rocks for jocks doc's rock?  You know what those of us with real doctorates call geologists?  The quarterback who failed out of art history.  If this is really based on a true story I want to know where these "sub-humans" live so I can go and kick the living daylights out of them for just leaving those animals.

Great Idea - Poor Actor Performances Having grown up with the Arnold version of Conan, as well as the comics, I had high expectations from this movie, given that it's about 30 years later.  The original not only had Arnold, but James Earl Jones as the enemy.  Now while Jason Momoa looked the part, his voice didn't match the character.  I expected not only a slightly deeper voice (like the one he uses in Game of Thrones) but, I don't know, MAYBE an accent?  Also speak a little slower, it's not a race to finish your lines.  Maybe knowing how badly the movie was going to turn out, they felt they had to get through their lines fast in order to get out of there. And the people who watched it before release...you were OK with it?? I'd avoid buying this movie and just rent it if you want to watch it....or better yet rent the Arnold versions.  This only succeeded in making me want to watch those older movies anyway.

BEWARE THE DIGITAL COPY SCAM Great movie.  Hilarious movie.  But DO NOT BUY THE DIGITAL COPY VERSION unless you DO NOT WANT TO WATCH IT ON APPLE MOBILE DEVICES.  That's right...you cannot download it to iTunes to transfer to iPod, iPad, or more.  It's a joke, plain and simple.  Horrible.

Damaged I had to return the DVD, because the disk was loose in the case, and had been cracked and scratched. I wasn't able to exchange it for a new DVD but had to return it and buy a new one. I hope the second one doesn't come in the same condition.

The worst ever. The worst movie ever. My IQ decreased by 30 points after i saw this awful movie. It is a real disgusting.

Capitalization on tragedy Actually I never saw this,I boycotted it like any sensible person.capitalizing on terrorism and tragedy is disgraceful.aparently most people thought so since their hasnt been many films of this tragedy except documentaries made.

Disturbing, tasteless, lacks anything redeeming I like super hero movies, so the trailer for this one totally hooked me.  The first ten minutes, setting up the premise, continued to hook me.  Then came wave after wave of senseless dismemberment and murder, often at the hands of a disturbed 11 year old girl.  In the end, I'd say the movie was tasteless, it had plenty of shock-and-awe-via-violence-and-gunfire-and-decapitation, but lacked an actually inspiring character, an actually moving story-line, or anything else that balances such portrayal of violence to actually uplift you ~ the way you often feel uplifted at the end of a super hero movie. Nothing like that here. I was just left disturbed.  If you have kids of a conscience, or a love of good movies and inspiring human stories, stay away from this one.

Another Matt Damon Failure My goodness, I would have thought something better with the story, but Damon is just one horrible actor and ruins everything he's in, there has only been two good shows with him: Bourne and Good Will Hunting, and the stories saved him.  When will he be ran out of town?  His attempt at an accent it laughable.  Any producer should refuse to have him on the bill.  The movie itself is very slow, and not very well put together.  Better than some of the hold "Westerns" but still not worth the money.

The dvd doesnt work!! I'm completely frustrated with this dvd and I don't know what to do. I got the dvd and it started working and half way through it completely stopped. I really want someone to fix my problem, so could you please tell me how to get a new video. I'm really agrrivated and if this is what amazon is about I want no part of it. Kathy

Sucks First ten minutes (at least) are long looks and awkward periods of silence.  It's liek they couldn't be bothered to write any dialogue.  the preview makes it look like an action flick but it's not. The end is a bit better but I was happy when the movie finally ended.  My friends wanted me to rate the movie a two because Ryan G was in it... :

Haha This movie was so horribly filmed and made. The videography was totally grainy. I recommend that you should only watch this movie for the sake of laughing at it's flaws. It seems as if the actors are blind, and cannot see anything eye level. Also, it is violent too! Alas, it is embarrassing to have fallen for the cute preview and actually spend money on it because that was $4 that we regret spending.

Do not buy this I bought this copy of Lady Windermere's Fan from Synergy on DVD and I was very upset to learn that it is an edited version of the original Lubitsch film. If you are interested in getting the real version of this film, buy More Treasures from American Film Archives 1894-1931. It costs a lot more than this version, but it's the real untruncated version, and the musical score is much better.

It STINKS! I understand they're looking for new concepts, but Paramount seems to have forgotten why people watched Star Trek in the first place: because it teaches us about ourselves.  All they have to do is go back to the ToS intro: "These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before." That statement changed as we did, growing and maturing with us. Sadly, Star Trek has stopped maturing.  Instead, Star Trek has become something darker, sinister, and violent. None of the light-hearted fun of "The Trouble with Tribbles". None of the camaraderie of "Amok Time". None of the Humanity of "Measure of a Man". Star Trek left this behind to become more war-like. And I think that's why people stopped watching.  But there are lots of ways to bring Star Trek back. Show what life is like at Starfleet Academy. Take us through a 4 year course, following a group of people. Bring back the 5 year missions. Bring back light-colored ships and interiors. Bring back character development. Bring back light-hearted fun with crew members who care about each other while reminding us that we are Human and still have a lot to learn.  But above all, turn down the violence. We don't want Star Trek's heart cut out just so Paramount can squeeze in yet another dramatic space battle. Star Trek is supposed to be Star Trek, not Star Wars.

Jr High This was an absolute joke of a horrible movie.  It seemed like it wanted to be as funny as an old school Happy Gilmore with the whole rough-guy hockey thing, but there was ZERO creativity with it.  They also used the F word in nearly every sentence.  The F word sounded forced, largely unnecessary, and in a desperate attempt to make something funnier than it was; add some shock value.  It didn't work, and it just made the movie seem even more stupid. I would MAYBE have found it entertaining in Jr. High, but not high school or even college, unless I was inebriated somehow.  But, even then my time would've been better spent seeing something else. There has only been two other movies that I have ever not watched all the way through in my 32 years on this Earth, this is now the third.

Do not buy widescreen edition I got this, but you should NOT. Audio is about 5-6 seconds delayed, video is very grainy. I watched a regular copy and the video was no where near as bad as this and audio was fine. The packaging and top menu smacks of bootleg, but I don't know that for a fact. All I know is if you want a copy that is viewable DO NOT GET THIS ONE!

Wow I don't usually write reviews but I watched this today and couldn't not write something.  I rented it from my library so at least I didn't pay any money, just wasted my time.  I've held off renting it til now because something about the write-up on the back of the dvd told me I probably wouldn't like it.  Today I figured, what the heck; how bad could it be?  Wow, is this movie bad!  Johnny Depp and Aaron Eckhart must've needed some extra pocket change when they decided to do this movie.  The writing's bad through and through and actually manages to make Depp look like a bad actor.  At least Eckhart was his usual charming self, even with a terrible script.  I kid you not, this is one of the worst movies I've ever wasted my time on!

Don't waste your money! If you are thinking about buying this to get an idea of what it would be like to ride these coasters, don't waste your money....they don't stay on a point of view shot of the rider for longer than a few seconds.  They seem to be fixated on showing you the reaction of the riders rather than what the rider would see if they were riding the coaster!  You can do better by just going to most major theme park websites and viewing their rider POV for the coaster of your choice.  Dear Video Producers...your audience for this video is the coaster freak..they want to see what it would be like to ride these coasters...they do not care how other riders react to the coaster....for your next attempt, spend more time showing the rider POV so we can feel like we are there, and less time on the reaction of tourists riding these coasters.

Bad!!! If you read the book don't ruin it for yourself by watching this movie! Keep the images you had in your head because this movie does it no justice!!!

Boring Movie I got the movie in great condition, but was horribly disappointed with the most boring movie I have ever had to endure.

not likeable vulgar, gross and I never wanted to root for the main character. She has a personality I do not approve of

GREAT Movie, AWFUL DVD... Well, it seems that a new generation of PAN AND SCAN is now dedicated to destroying movies.  In the past we would loose the sides of our favorite films in the interest of creating an artificial "FULL" screen, and now that our T.V.'s have changed shape we now get to loose the top and bottom instead.  Hooray for progress! It was a bad decision before, and it is a bad decision now. DO NOT SUPPORT THIS RELEASE.  I love this movie, and it's a shame that Xenon won't let me see all of it.

Great movie, poor presentation I'm a huge fan of this movie and I was looking forward to the Blu-ray release, especially since the DVD transfer is pretty lousy.  Unfortunately, the Blu-ray isn't much of an improvement, and in some ways is worse than the DVD.  First off, the Blu-ray is totally bare-bones.  The only extra is the theatrical trailer.  There's no top menu, only a pop-up menu which lets you select scenes and toggle audio/subtitles while the film is in progress.  This makes setup a real pain, since you have to start the movie, choose your settings, and then restart the movie.  There's no recall function, so if you need to stop the film partway through, you'll have to restart it when you return.  In addition, you'll need to manually skip through the 20th Century Fox logo and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" ad every time, since there's no top menu to jump to.  As for the film itself, the jumpiness/flicker from the DVD version is gone and the colors are bolder.  However, there's still a lot of digital noise--graininess, specks on the screen, etc.  Overall the picture looks like something that would be found on a DVD, and compared to the crystal clear Disney Blu-rays, it's extremely disappointing.  The bigger problem is that the Blu-ray is presented in widescreen format, despite "All Dogs" being filmed in 1.33:1 aspect.  So, the top and bottom of the screen are cut off, and large segments of the background art are lost.  Granted, people have always complained about black bars on their screens, and including a cropped-in option isn't a bad idea.  But why isn't a matted version there as well?  Surely there's enough room on the disc for both?  If you need to get a copy of this film right now, I recommend the DVD version: the picture quality isn't quite as good, but it's in the correct aspect ratio and it has a top menu.  Otherwise, hold off until Fox releases a true high-def restoration.

Will not buy due to UltraViolet Digital Download UltraViolet digital download is a useless technology. I don't want movies stored in the cloud only, I want movies I can really take with me on plane trips and such to view on my iPad. Further, I don't want a new cloud service that splinters my movie library, I already have Apple iTunes with iCloud service. I fully intended to buy this movie, and would have, had it offered Apple iTunes digital download. UltraViolet is a non-starter for me, so I will not be buying The Amazing Spider-Man.

They changed the packaging. Please note that I love Naruto.  This is not a negative review of the show.  All of these episodes are fantastic.  You should know by the 21st Naruto box set whether or not you like the show.  This is a negative review of the terribly cheap packaging Viz decided to start using.  This is exactly the same thing they did to the Bleach releases.  It's a slipcover for a standard size dvd case that holds three discs.  I would have even been somewhat ok with this decision if they had made it when they first started releasing the Shippuden box sets.  It's absolutely unacceptable to me when companies change packaging mid series.  My Naruto collection used to look fantastic on the wall.  Now, with these releases it will look awful.  Frankly, if Viz doesn't care about their customers then I don't care about Viz.  I will not be buying another anime from them again, ever, unless they fix this problem.  I understand the economy is tough and they are trying to save money. However, making your customers mad to the point that many of us refuse to give them another penny is NOT the way to save money.  They can't be saving much money on packaging per set.  I would have gladly paid an extra dollar or two per set if that's what it took to keep the fantastic packaging they were using before.

Horrible Most long, drawn out convoluted movie ever. Didn't help that the movie kept starting and stopping. Finally just gave up after one hour. Don't waste your time unless you want to get depressed.

Very disappointing Considering all the information and documentaries out on the subject of Frank Lucas and his Harlem Heydays, this one is extremely disappointing. Amateur and uninformative, this one was a stinker.

Quo Vadis The video wouldn't stream continuously. We never saw the entire film. We watched *The Robe" in wide screen with no problem at all.

Purchased DVD Never Received I wish I would have been more diligent in reading reviews prior to buying from this individual.  Not following through and sending purchased items seems to be a standard practice based on other reviews. Amazon continuing a relationship based on this poor practice doesn't put them a good light.  My grand daughter is the one losing out as Cinderella is her new favorite.  I will make that right by dealing with someone else more trustworthy.

I actually walked out of this movie This movie was one of the worst movies ever made. Cliche' after cliche' happens in this ultra dumb movie. First of all, where did Samuel L. Jackson's charachter get a fully automatic M16 from? Then, on top of that, what makes the lawyer think he is innocent? The killer layed in wait until he had a clean shot at the victims, shot them and then wants to plead not guilty?  Then there is jury selection where SLJ says "that's a jury of my peers" because the jury is all white. Well, where in the law does it say that someone is entitled to a jury made of his/her peers? It doesnt.  And then the final scene where the little boy comes running out and screams "he's innocent"? Juries dont find people innocent. And that lame closing statement? Its hard to believe that this movie made it to publication.

Worst movie I've seen this year! As a gamer, I was really looking forward to this movie. I figured it would be a bit corny from the trailer, but I had hope it might be at least approaching the fun and humor The Guild, or The Gamers. This movie was awful. Maybe if you aren't a gamer, or you like movies with main characters who have NO personality or redeeming qualities, you'll like this. There's no in-jokes, nothing that makes me think the makers of this film are gamers, or have ever met gamers. Watch The Guild, seriously. That is gamer humor. This is a waste of your time and brain cells.

Too Dark This movie might have been scary, but it was filmed in almost total darkness- too dark to see any action.  Three thumbs down!!

bad trip very stupid movie, wish i could get a refund or a replacement rental. this movie should be taken off the market. no one should buy or rent this movie.

Poorly Directed and Written A circus owner, very knowledgable about animals, has an elephant poorly trained, so the animal walks off into town instead of performing. He decides to enter the elephant's cage-in-railcar hours later, and beat it mercilessly. This is supposed to be believable. There are noticible gaps in the logic most humans use when communicating in this movie. You would have to watch the movie with me to point them out, but the dialogue ranges into stupidity from characters who gave signs of intelligent life in just a few scenes before.  Pattin walks around likes he's drugged with a "gee, i'm such a rube I cant think straight" look on his face for way longer than necessary, Reese Witherspoon does not come off as very attractive physically, and her character suffers from a mail-it-in insipidness, but who can blame her? The dialogue and plot are embarrassing, and she's lit in a way that makes her nose look like it could cut cake and there was simply no chemistry between them. Weltz stands out and steals every scene as an oftimes stupidly monstrous human being, but you see someone with screen presence at least. You can see the director's clodding footprint everywhere: Francis Lawrence first tips his hat towards all "Occupiers" by letting the banker be the kind u want to string up, then here come "the hungry real people" who try to rescue humanity. All business-owners must die, etc. A clumsy foray into hi-calibre wannabee movie-making demonstrates what letting yet another music-video director loose can bring. I couldn't finish watching it.

Loud, Long, and Predictable This is America. You have the right to love this movie. I have the right to hate this movie. Screamingly loud music, numerous riding scenes (filler), beyond unrealistic, terrible acting, "Pretty Boys" with "Cool lines",....I could go on. Just suffice it to say: I really hate movies like this.

A Stinker !!! A big ripe stinking hunk of cheese !!!  The Amazon editorial for this states the following;  "Frank Sinatra took on the role of a psychopathic hit man in this taut, low-budget film noir. The choice shows how interested Sinatra was in serious acting during the mid - to late '50s" -- LOLOLOLOLOL !!!!!  The only thing anybody involved in this POS was interested in was a payday.  Frank musta been short the day he signed the contract cause this isn't a B movie, it's an E if there is such a thing.  Surpasses so awful it's funny straight to jaw hanging disbelief.  Sinatra was well established at this point as a crooner but his acting career was just beginning without any stand out performances to date and from the looks of this, he was taking anything thrown at him.  God awful !!!!!

Trailer was better than the movie I finally caught this movie at a drive-in as part of a double feature. It is a fairly similar telling of the Snow White fairy tale; however, it has too many flaws:  --Some of the background stories were vague and confusing. --The Huntsman "awakens" Snow White and before she bites the apple she claims the prince is her "true love". --Kristen at times acts well, but in some scenes she looks distant and uninteresting. --The Huntsman is a lonely drunkard who longs to be with his dead wife, but instantly becomes sober and strong and in love with Snow White. --The movie is very dark and cold.  Because we were at a drive-in theater when we saw this movie, we ended up poking fun of it and talking instead of watching it.

This sucks get with times I want to rent this online Whos cage do we have to rattle I dont want to drive to the store and rent this not like theres to many blockbusters left

This is NOT Rod Cameron Obviously these people don't give a damn. They didn't even look at the movie they were putting out. They didn't even look at the movie titles before putting it on a DVD. They didn't even look at it. This is the Charles Starrett version. It is inferior to the Rod Cameron movie. The quality is about as bad as it gets. Besides, you can get this crap movie on cheap public domain western compilations. If only we could get real Rod Cameron movies, especially those B+ (A-?) ones from the late 40's and the 50's. If that happens, let's hope someone has cleaned them up, enhanced and sharpened them a little.  Update: OK Amazon, you can stop sending me emails suggesting that I might like to buy this movie.  Update2: So instead of releasing the real Rod Cameron movie, they stick with this totally bad quality Charles Starrett movie that you can find real cheap along with lots of other movies in western movie packs, and they want us to pay $[...] plus shipping and handling for it? How can I trust a company like this? I would like to because I'm a western lover and like to promote them and those who sell them. But this? Jeez.  Derek

Joe Versus the Volcano I have never taken the time to review before but simply had to for this movie. I love Tom Hanks and couldn't imagine this being so bad. This was sort of like watching Harrison Ford in "Mosquito Coast"--how is it possible that such a good actor could be in such a bad movie. I kept thinking this would turn but it never did. I loved the line from another reviewer, "if you only have 2 hrs to live watch this movie because it will seem like 2 lifetimes"...so true. Not a clever plot, not funny acting, not even funny sight gags. Painful...

Man on a Ledge Pathetic waste of money. The supporting cast was just one stupid guy-girl sexual tension Hollywood cliche after another.  Don't watch this, thank me for taking one for the team!

expected better This blu-ray collection is very poor picture quality. The companies that produce these (such as Goodtimes) don't really care about quality but only want to make a buck. I started to watch "Mclintock" but stopped it after watching the opening credits. I'll wait for the official release from the Wayne library onto blu-ray. Till then don't waste your money.

Lacey!  You Are Much Better Than This It is so sad that actress Lacey Chabert has lowered herself to this level of film...if you want to call it that.  I always thought she was a budding star and would emerge among the cream of the crop some day...definitely not in this dreadful low-budget bomb.  It was slower than a crippled snail...horrible script...high school calibre acting.  I hope Lacey emerges in a much better role.  I won't hold this one against her.  I'm her fan forever!

The BIG SNOOZE I very much like Meryl Streep, too, but this was one of the most BORING and negative films I've ever seen. I was determined to see it through to the end, but I was able to do so only by repeatedly putting it on "pause," then leaving the room to wash dishes or make a snack or read my horoscope. The film's structure - incessantly jumping back and forth between Ms. Thatcher's memories and her present mental state - did not make the story any better or more interesting either. That technique just made it harder to follow the story. I understand that Ms. Thatcher was perceived as a leader and a very strong woman (iron-willed), but this film presented a very unflattering portrait of her as a selfish and self-centered woman, whose attitude seemed to be "it's my way or the highway." The way she dressed down Geoffrey Howe (Anthony Head) at a cabinet meeting was brutal, rude, and insensitive, and just plain bully behavior.

Too Pricey for Such a Yawner 40 minutes into the story, it was as hard to pay attention to it as it was in the first few minutes.  British suspense flicks are often taught and compelling, but this one moves too slowly and has too much aimless dialog.  You pretty soon stop caring what's going on.  Helen Mirren is a great actress, but you see little of her and way too much of the male lead who seems to have to hold the entire movie together.  Advertising Mirren as primary is deceptive.  Do yourself a favor and skip this one.

lame and boring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this movie seriously does stink i hate this movie with a strong passion this fred charecter seriously is annoying dumb and stupid and unintelligent you want a real movie look elsewhere because you will not find enytertainment in this lame and boring movie this is the worst sequel ever made and fred = epic fail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dang that was some bad movie making Wow that writing was atrocious. The editing as well. Conan felt like a made for TV movie it was so poorly done. It's hard to give specifics without giving anything away but dang....I can't think of a worse action movie I've seen in a long time. Not even worth renting IMO.  Watch the original, Conan the Destroyer, if you want a Conan movie. It might not be the greatest movie ever but at least it's got some tension building and some memorable lines.

Whole Lotta Shaking Going On--Why Make A B-Movie That's Not Even Smart Enough To Be Dumb Fun? Anyone that watches a SyFy Channel original movie on occasion knows that they rarely offer real chills. That doesn't mean that some of the films don't have a demented sort of charm. Grade A cheese, the best of the bunch tend to be hysterically unapologetic creature feature schlock. And who doesn't love bad B-movie mayhem? I certainly do and there aren't enough genetically mutated monsters to satisfy my cravings. However, sometimes there are movies that fail to accomplish even "dumb fun" and these can be painfully uninteresting. Unfortunately "Behemoth" falls into this category. "Behemoth" features a couple of sci-fi veterans that I have enjoyed in other programming, and they were the primary draw for me. Ed Quinn, late of "Eureka," plays the stalwart hero and William B. Davis, "The X-Files" terrific cigarette smoking man, is on hand as his nutty but wise father. Neither fares particularly well here--but with this material, I can't really hold it against them!  "Behemoth" has something to do with an enormous underground creature. Before you get too excited, though, you don't see too much of it--and when the big reveal comes, it is surprisingly underwhelming. Easily ninety percent of the menace and danger in "Behemoth" is provided by the ground shaking. That camera is rattled around so often, you'd think it would have knocked something loose. So if you love tremors and special effect rocks falling, this one's for you. Davis provides some mythological mumbo jumbo, there are geological ramblings, and some sort of government response is explained--but none of it makes much difference. It all boils down to killing the creature. The monster is represented most of the time by disembodied rubber octopus legs slapping around. The single most inspired moment, however, involves a marriage proposal and a big eyeball! Eventually, it is revealed that the beastie has a crusty baby bird head with a snapping staple remover jaw. Please, give me more scary shaking!  Quinn, who was so appealing on "Eureka," is the master of understatement. Stoic and humorless, Quinn utters such proclamations as "He's dead!" or "He's barely breathing!" with the same emotional intensity he'd employ when asking someone to pass the butter. That's the undeniable problem with "Behemoth," in my opinion. It is so patently ridiculous and cheap looking--but way too earnest for its own good. I just wanted to have some fun--any fun--even if the film wasn't traditionally "good." For me, "Behemoth" was a resounding misfire from the SyFy team who are almost always good for a giggle. KGHarris, 1/11.

I really wanted to like this show  :^( I really wanted to like this show.  I liked all of the comic actors but the writing was dreadful. I'm glad it was free on Comedy Central.

Men In Black (Purchased on June 17, 2012) Do not download from Mac. Instruction said it is no problem in Mac environment but.....I didn't even download any video files and I didn't get anything. I waste my money.

Ridiculously stupid movie. This was about his daughter he did not know about in Japan, from an old girlfriend when he was a spy there (I think).  It was hard to follow, and the teenage Japanese girl was just too hard to take.  The rest of it made no sense and I gave up watching halfway through (this was on my Iphone while flying, so it had to be pretty bad not to finish).  Jean Reno is a great actor but this was not one of the good ones.

communicating between the material world and the antimaterial world... This movie is lame.  Two golfers dressed in white hold a family hostage and ask them stupid questions/tasks.  The stupid questions/tasks is considered playing a game.  The two golfers are so whitty!!  They are actually rather annoying.  They are not frightening which I am guessing is why they are suppose to be frightening but they fail to do so...anyhoo...I don't want to give away who dies and who doesn't considering that would be the movie but if you want to watch a "home invasion" movie I would go with Kidnapped, Last House on the Left (original or remake), Them, The Strangers, Restraint or any other one but this one.  The "twist" was just stupid.  We just sat there and stared at the screen dumbfounded at the "surprise".  Also, the fascination with wanting eggs wasn't address nor was the reasoning why the two golfers liked to have philosophical conversations addressing communication between the real world and the antimaterial world.  Oh and if you think there is going to be gore or violence....there isn't any.  A couple of gunshots is about it and a burrial at sea so to speak.  Not much variety in the killing spree.  I wish could turn back time so I could unwatch this movie.

A failed attempt at dramatic action. The only redeeming qualities about this movie are the tech advancements suggested for future aircraft.  I like the idea of an autopilot feature, and believe there are several advantages to a remote control for commuter flights.  I am not sure why counter-terrorism measures would accompany a passenger plane.  Teleconferencing with the cockpit is also a great idea.  The idea of an aircraft out of control falling in an urban area would make a great adrenaline pumping drama if it was executed better.  The action, complications, and conflicts all seem very unnatural.  I would not have a problem with the campy special effects if the plot were better.  Events seem to jump around, trying to answer for exceptions at the last minute.  Character development is also very weak.  Meredith Baxter is a good actor, but it is hard for her to shine with such a contrived plot, and poorly written script.  Lindsey McKeon is sexy and courageous in her portrayal of an overqualified babysitter for a VIP pilot.  I do not feel the same animosity toward the "bad guys" as I do toward the poor result of this film.  The good guys are not even well-developed despite the suggestion that complex relationships exist between the characters.  Londale Theus, lead investigator for the FBI, does a good job salvaging his shallow character too.  I do not place the blame for this on the cast; I think it is more of a script or budget problem.  According to IMDb, filming spanned only 12 days.  I don't know what the average is, but I believe more time is dedicated to filming an episode for a prime-time sitcom.  Producer and director could have also made greater efforts on this one.  It is clear to me that the budget was also limited.  I cannot find any record of how much was spent on making this film.  I am glad I rented this rather than bought it.  I also never saw it at the theater.  It would definitely have been more disappointing in that format because of the cost of an in-theater experience.

A Long Trip To Nowhere--Don't Expect Either Great Biker Action Or A Satisfying Conclusion I'm going to start things off on an uncharacteristic note. I'll talk about the actual movie "Born to Ride" in a bit, but I find it necessary to address the inherent misrepresentation of the DVD packaging first. For good or bad, this B-movie is what it is--but one thing it is not is a hardcore biker epic. The cover art on the DVD is designed to evoke a completely different movie. On the cover, there's a busty biker babe holding a shotgun with two nasty looking characters in the background. On the back, there is a team of bikers equipped with fire arms--one is even shooting while driving. While colorful and hard edged, these images do not represent ANYTHING even resembling the content of the film. It is not about renegade bikers and there are no armed and dangerous riders. The central characters just happen to be a part of the biker community--but the movie really isn't about that. To further distort the truth of the movie, its tag line is "Anarchy Is Their Middle Name" (clearly an effort to draw parallels to the much more authentic feeling TV show "Sons of Anarchy"). But once again, the characters are law abiding and rather respectful. Anarchy? Huh?  If you watch this, and I don't recommend it, you'll see exactly what I mean. The lead characters are played by Casper Van Dien as a sensitive biker with daddy issues and Patrick Muldoon in full surfer dude persona. These aren't rough and tumble types at all. The film has several plot threads, the most significant involves a corrupt politician. He is involved in some vaguely nefarious dealings with bad guy William Forsythe. Want more explanation than that? You won't get it in this sketchy screenplay. When two low level hoods try to blackmail the congressman, they end up on the wrong side of this very bad man. They drop the evidence used in the blackmail in Muldoon's bag, and before you know it--Forythe's comedic henchman are in hot pursuit. They might have just as easily put the tape in a girl scout's satchel and called the movie "Born to Sell Cookies"--that's how thinly drawn the plot is.  Really, it's all rather harmless. It's not funny or campy enough to be a guilty pleasure. Theresa Russell does the best she can as Van Dien's mother, and both the boys are pleasant and engaging. The film, however, is an unqualified disaster in my mind for one reason--the lazy screenplay. Just as you've followed the silliness to the inevitable confrontation--you get nothing. Zero. The biggest tease and most pointless conclusion you're likely to see. Heck, it's not even a conclusion--it's so unforgivably anticlimactic. It invalidates and dismisses everything that you've spent the movie watching. Did the budget run out? Ultimately, the film is so unfocused and so random and so meaningless. I wish I could say this was any kind of fun, but the ending dissolved any trace of good will I had left. Maybe you'll like it better than I--just know beforehand that it is rather lightweight and totally misrepresented by its marketing. KGHarris, 7/11.

Poor recording This has to be the worst DVD in the Yes achieve. Must be recorded from a TV showing the picture not from the arena. I love yes but very disappointed in this DVD. Don't buy this one.

Think before you write Why can't people understand that movies are almost NEVER as good as the book. A great example is Lords of the Rings. Three movies but they still did'nt make it as good as the book and had to leave alot of important parts out. Why can't people enjoy the movie for what it is. This also might be the only time some people will watch a movie like this, but then change thier minds because of this kind of reviews .

Not as described...... The ESPN 30 for 30 Collector's Set Blu Ray [Blu-Ray] (2011) is not the same as the "Limited Edition Collector Set" in the DVD format as described in the Editorial Reviews of both products.  The Editorial Reviews for both are verbatim the exact same.  I had purchased the Limited Edition Collector Set in the DVD format as a gift for my son.  A couple of days after I had received the item, I received an e-mail from Amazon about the Blu Ray version.  When I compared the product descriptions, ie., the Editorial Reviews, it appeared to be the exact same product only in Blu Ray.  I returned the DVD format and ordered the Blu Ray.  Upon receipt of the Blu Ray version, I was terribly disappointed!  It does not include the "collectible box" & the "retro ESPN hat featuring the company's original logo".  I don't know who's at fault, but I'm not a happy customer!

Suprizingly bad movie, un watchable It does not help that I just got down reading the novel, which was excellent, but this movie was terriable, the acting, the plot (crowded and lacking a red storyline or character development).  The sexual overtones were annoying and did not help the story. There was little to like about this movie.

Bad Teacher = Bad Movie I just finished watching this really bad movie and thought I'd jump over to Amazon and see what others thought of it. Not surprised that there are more 1 star ratings for this than 4 stars. Can't believe C Diaz actually read the script before shooting this and still continued. Her career is really in a tailspin after this kind of crap. There's the good part of Hollywood, and then there's this. If Amazon had a way to award 1/2 star that's what it's worth. Maybe not even that much. What's next for Diaz... a TV sitcom? Wouldn't be surprised.

Ugh...I wish I'd read the reviews I really wish I hadn't let my kids watch this movie. My 3-yr-old has never cried like that at a movie and my 6-year-old keeps talking about the "night train" and how scared he is now and that we need to tell the people at the library about this so they know this scary thing is in their movie. Most kids who are interested in seeing this movie will be Thomas Tank-engine aged which is pretty darn young. Kids at this age still can't distinguish well enough between fantasy and reality, so I don't believe it's a good idea to show them such frightening images.

HD DVD has an playback error I bought two discs of this movie and both had the same error.  I get a playback error about 15 minutes into the movie and the entire disc locks up.  I have the Toshiba HD-XA2 and I believe I have the most up-to-date software.  The only thing I can think of is this error slipped through the cracks at the end of the life of HD DVDs.  It's kind of suspicious because Warner Brothers does not offer this movie as a trade-in on their Red2Blue website.  My only advice is to stay away from this movie because it won't work.

Slow moving and vulgar My first exposure to Steve Carell's work was "Get Smart." My family enjoyed this movie very much and so we started to search for other movies. The 40 Year Old Virgin was the 2nd movie we attempted to watch. This movie was agonizing slow moving through tiring and vulgar scenes. The vulgarity was so offensive, we had to stop the movie perhaps before it became funny.  I paid a penny for this DVD and it was under $5.00 with shipping and handling--even that was overpriced.

Disappointing to a fault While the total review carries a 2.5 star score (I checked--it comes out to about 2.59), if you look at the spread, it's canted quite a lot more heavily toward the lower score.  I'll spare the world the mathematical descriptor of that, but it is telling.  What a disappointment....

Amazon needs to do its job correctly This isn't a review of the movie but a review of the info provided by Amazon. I bought this bluray copy after I did an advanced search on Amazon for movies subtitled in Asian languages. However, when I got this copy the back cover clearly indicated that it was only subtitled in English, French and Spanish. Now I have to go through all the hassle of returning this bluray. THANK GOD I didn't just open it and pop it in the bluray player like I did with some other movies I purchased from Amazon (which Amazon also provided the wrong information for) because then I would just be stuck with this bluray too. PLUS this bluray didn't have the white seal on the top like most blurays usually have, leading me to think that maybe Amazon just sent me an old or used copy and that's why the bluray doesn't match the info provided by Amazon. Seriously... very very annoyed.

Poor carbon copy US politician Robert Thorn (Liv Sieber) and his wife Katherine (Julia Stiles) just had their baby while visiting Italy but it turns out their baby just died so in turn a Catholic priest named Father Spiletto (Giovanni Lombardo Radice) gave them an orphaned baby who's mom died in birth. 5 years later in London where their adopted son Damien (Seamus Davey-Fritzpatrick) lives with them and they hire a nanny named Mrs. Blaylock (Mia Farrow) to watch over him sometimes but it turns out some strange and bizarre things have occured over the last 4 days, it turns out that their adopted child could be the son of the Devil.  A pointless and dumb remake of a 70s classic! it's preciously the same movie with an few small changes like the monkey-house at the zoo but mainly it's a shot-to-shot script-by-script carbon copy much like that horrible Psycho remake from 1998. The acting feels flat exception being Mia Farrow and Giovanni Lombardo Radice (aka John Morghen of Italian horror explotation fame) and there's nothing scary about it like the original. It just feels like one epic fail here as i should say that some movies like the original and Psycho just don't need improving upon and if their plan of attack is to remake an already successful original by using a shot-to-shot script-by-script carbon copy clone remake then don't be surprise when they fail miserably, if we wanted to see the original movie we'd watch it. Plain and simple.  This Blu-Ray contains very good picture and sound with extras being featuretes, a BD exclusive known as "Devil Tracks", commentary and trailers.

No audio! Tried to watch but there is no audio. Had to watch another film on Amazon Prime instead. Very disappointed. Can someone at Amazon please help?

Just. Plain. Awful. I saw this movie at a pre-release showing at C2E2 this last year, and I have to say, this was some of the worst voice acting I've ever heard. I wanted to walk out, but the room was too crowded and my friend wanted to stay and watch the end. The entire movie's plot was totally predictable, as I was practically reciting it to said friend a half hour before the event would happen in the movie. I believe her when she says Dragon Age games are great, but I don't know if I'd want to play them if they are anything like this movie. Even all the DA fans in the room were wincing at every awkward, failed joke and lame plot twist. Plus, it didn't help that the movie's visual quality looked as if it was slapped together in the early 2000's. Trust me, don't see this movie. It's an hour and a half of your life you'll never get back. You could spend it doing something better. Like actually playing a Dragon Age game.

dont waste your time we saw this and it is really bad. steve carrell and paul rudd usually hilarious, BOMB in this film. save your money and by a Slurpee.

don't even bother, seriously this is a really weird, not terribly scary waste of time. I didn't know it was foreign until afterward, but that helped it make some sense.

pelicula es censurada pelicula es censurada, varias escenas esenciales que demuestran la glorioso de la historia de la pelicula fueron canceladas en esta version a pesar de que es unrated, mintieron en la clasificacion, mejor espere a que salga la verdadera version sin recortes (uncuted)y espere a ver los reviews antes de cometer el mismo error que yo

I really wanted to give it a chance...but please save your $$ bad story fake looking set bad acting  not worth your money, I expected much more from a movie with Julia Roberts and Sean Bean!

World's Worst Movie By far the weirdest movie I have ever watched. Shut it off within ten minutes. I do no =recomment this movie at all.

Patheticly bad This cartoon is worthless:  Rocky and Bulwinkle have more realisic drawing.  The writeing is geared to six year olds.  I can't believe that the good reviews weren't fixed in some way; the movie I watched isn't the movie I suffered through.

POOP That's all I can say about Tom Cruise and this joke of a movie a piece of poop like him and the movie!!!

not playable here I was extremely disappointed in this product. I tried to watch it & it says it cannot be played in this region. Evidently it is only for sale overseas? So I am left with something I can't reven return because it is opened.

Too long I was looking for a Tai Chi routine I could do everyday but this dvd is way too long.  He explains each move over and over in their own segments. Instead of being a nice concise 40 minute workout it takes hours to watch the dvd and learn each section poses.  There is no real choice of different Tai Chi routine options with different time lengths.  I was very disappointed with this dvd and it is not at all what I was hoping it would be.  The reviews are rather misleading, and so is the description.

Do Yourself a Favor - Skip It Not only does this movie last for what seems like 15 years, the extremely talky end scene feels like another 20.  Which wouldn't be so bad if the movie wasn't a boring downer. The "secret" of the movie is obvious to anyone over 7, and is even revealed 1/3 of the way through. And yet it plods endlessly on, like a truly bad opera. You've got better things to do with 35 years. The choppy flashback structure breaks up the story so much you never get an emotional connection with the characters. Which would be difficult anyway, since they're all repulsive. Not a protagonist among the lot; you're practically rooting for them all to come to a terrible end. The Instant Video rental is especially annoying as the movie is extremely dark and almost impossible to see under home conditions, while the sound is muffled and nearly unintelligible for large sections. I only paid $2 and I feel cheated. Avoid.

Review of the 5-disc Collectors Set not the movie itself. I bought this DVD because I wanted the 3D version along with the regular blu-ray and the original Tron. Thought the identity disc looked cool so I splurged and bought it. But I'm extremely disappointed with it. I was not aware that the identity disc (which is actually only as big as a DVD) is the case for all five discs. It's made of cheap plastic and the stand for it is not even shaped to hold the case properly. What's more, the case's clasp is cheap and ineffective, so it doesn't stay closed at all. Also, the button clasp which holds the discs in place is too tight making it very difficult get the discs out. Plus, the discs are stacked on top of each other which means if you want a particular disc you'll have to take out all the discs in front of it. This item's design was not very well thought out, especially for how much it costs. DO NOT BUY THIS COLLECTOR'S SET. You're better off buying all these DVD's/blu-rays separately, EVEN IF IT'S MORE EXPENSIVE. You've been warned.

Terrible! Well...highly rated and that is why I paid to see this. Disapointment from the start. Camflicks not my bag for one and this is sssslow moving. Some action but certainly not worth the $$$. Juvenile with no decent continuity and novice plot.

Shamefully Bad Terrible acting, lousy script, well that just about sums up Dark City, a retro-science fiction disaster that has a trite story line and characters so flat you could slide them under a door.  I have no idea why this film is popular with anyone.  Please don't waste your time with this poor attempt.

Less political propaganda, please? While the original story has an ecological theme. This movie takes it to a whole different level. From a back-handed slight to believers in God, to demonizing all corporations and thematically denouncing entrepreneurs and profits. Such as the idea that the president of a corporation is intentionally polluting the air so his company can make a profit by selling people clean bottled air. Finally the city walls are destroyed presumably so that the "healing" can begin. I always liked the story of The Lorax.  This just felt like a propaganda film by some Earth-First organization. I just wish I hadn't bought the electronic version so I could at least throw it in the trash.

Deserved all the bad reviews, and even a few more--! I avoided seeing "Green Lantern" when it hit the theaters, because the trailers looked bad and most reviews were harsh. But as the months went by, I became oddly curious to see this much-maligned film. Could it possibly be as bad as I'd heard...?  The answer to that question is, of course, yes - it really is *that* bad. So if, like me, you dodged this turkey initially but have a strange itch to see it now, I can confirm that this itch need not be scratched.  The film has so many problems that it's hard to know where to begin trashing it. First of all, despite the massive budget, it looks awful. The computer effects have an unconvincing, video-game feel to them, while the aliens are universally corny. Overall, the film has a hideous aesthetic sense - unless you happen to be fond of lime green, canary yellow, and fuchsia. The action scenes, meanwhile, have the hectic and totally unexciting quality of most contemporary action scenes. (How I long for the days when Hollywood knew how to properly thrill audiences with stunts, extras, and physical effects...)  Needless to say, the script is awful as well. The writers never give us any reason to like Hal Jordan, who is depicted as a self-involved creep (and played with zero depth by Ryan Reynolds). Another problem is that the relationship between Hal and Carol Ferris is poorly developed, as is their mutual connection to Hector Hammond. These three characters form the emotional core of the movie, yet their collective backstory is very sketchy indeed.  Also, I don't think the movie does a good job of "selling" the concept of Green Lantern. Alas, the idea of a superhero who creates green energy shapes out of pure willpower strikes me as a little too strange even by Hollywood standards. Plus, it raises all kinds of questions for me; if Green Lantern can really create *anything* with his ring, why does he settle for bland stuff like giant fists and (yawn) guns? And finally, all the chatter this movie serves up about the conflict between "willpower" and "fear" strikes me as abstract and silly. (Compare the baloney you get here to Batman Begins, which used the concept of "fear" in very intelligent ways to develop both the plot and the characters.)  In short, this thing stinks. Indeed, it's a textbook example of everything that's wrong with contemporary cinema. Compared to Green Lantern, the Thor movie is a masterpiece - while a real masterpiece like Amadeus exists in another universe entirely. So, I strongly advise you to avoid Green Lantern, just as you would avoid a poisonous yellow cloud of...erm...tangible fear, or something like that.

has no bite Review:  The movie is about a group of teenagers going somewhere remote to celebrate and have fun on a weekend.  Sounds familiar?  That's because it is.  Followed that by clever foreshadowing such as "I don't think we will have cell phone reception out here" and then you got yourself a standard, teenage flick with predictable outcomes.  Of course there is an ethnic representation in the movie, an African-American male and his Hispanic girlfriend.  Guess who is the first to go in this movie?  That I don't have to answer that question says something.  Yup, the both of them.  Guess who stays alive?  The nerdy white kid who wants to talk to the popular girl but she gives him no time of day until the end of the movie where they both stay alive in which I imagine a typical future with picket fences, soccer van, and 2.47 kids. On to the plot which was most likely written by fifth graders with down syndrome.  Sharks infest the saltwater lake in Louisiana as the group of friends are out in the waters having a grand old time.  One of them gets hurt by the shark and need to take him to the hospital.  They try to use the boat to go there since there is no cell phone reception but naturally the shark stops them from leaving, causing a gas leak and the boat blowing up.  Now they're stuck.  They get kidnapped by a couple of racist locals who admit their scheme behind it all - they planted the sharks there to make money.  How?  Because everyone loves Youtube clips of sharks eating humans and they figure they can sell their clips to the highest bidder when filming them in underwater cameras and they also tagged each shark and their species.  Pretty sophisticated stuff for two men that share five teeth between them. So I would suggest other activities that are more fun than watching this movie, such as joining a pottery class, drawing blood, or attending a funeral.  That is where this movie should be to never be seen again.

Bled Sai, Royce, Kerra and Eric are four pretty people living together in a loft in LA (and by pretty I mean they're not that pretty, but I'm guessing they were supposed to be). Sai is an artist, while Royce is her unofficial photographer. Eric is the carefree one who gets his share of the rent wherever he can, while Kerra . . . I don't know, her character was never really developed. Anyway, as 2009's BLED opens, everyone is attending a gallery showing of Sai's latest collection. A mysterious stranger, Renfield, shows interest in a piece and Sai invites him back to the loft to see her newest newest paintings. It's there where Renfield tells Sai about this crazy new drug he's got. It's the bark from a very rare tree, and it's covered in little red pustules that, when cooked, emit a smoke that, once inhaled, takes the user on a wild ride.  He invites Sai to try it and because Renfield has told her this drug will open her mind, she says why not. What the drug actually does is transports Sai's mind to a creepy enchanted forest in a dream reality where she is stalked by an incubus who looks just like Royce--the true object of Sai's affections.  The next day, Renfield is gone, but he's left his twig behind, and when Sai tells the others about it, she explains artists and writers use absinthe to spur their creativity, and this drug is like a super form of that. This was the educational part of the movie because I had no idea I'd been doing it wrong all these years. Silly me, I've been trying to write using my ACTUAL imagination and, hopefully, talent. Now I know, and knowing is half the battle.  Anyway, she offers some to the gang, but only Eric, the carefree one, is eager to try it. He likes what he sees and ends up stealing a bit of the twig from Sai. Meanwhile Sai tells Royce how she feels about him and Royce, the dense one of the group who sees what's going on, knows something's not right with Kerra or with Sai, but turns a blind eye, confesses his love for her, too.  The truth of the matter is, the more of the drug Sai takes, the more trips to the creepy enchanted forest and the more encounters with the incubus that lives there, the further Sai slips into that reality, becoming a succubus herself.  In the end, Renfield shows back up to reveal his master plan. Draw the incubus into the real world so he can steal its blood and extend his own mortal life. And all it costs is the lives of the four not really that pretty people from the loft.  Will love win out and keep Royce and Sai together? Will Royce ever open Kerra's bedroom door and discover she's been lying dead in there for the past few days? Will Eric finally get his act together and get a job? Will I ever in my entire life, even if I lived to be 100, have cause to watch this movie again?  That last answer is a hell no.  BLED is written by Sxv'leithan Essex (hey, I'm just reporting it as it is in the credits) and directed by Christopher Hutson, who had an uncredited role in the X-FILES pilot as well as one in DIAGNOSIS MURDER before going on to write and direct such classics as DARK REALITY and BUTCHER HOUSE, and if BLED is any indication of the kind of pace and bad editing that comes from either of these two, I think I'm good as far as seeing any more of the movies they've worked on.  At only 95 minutes, BLED felt more like 150. Every scene just dragged on and on, as if the actors had all taken huge doses of Robitussin just before shooting. And then the film was slowed down after being coated in honey and syrup. I got so bored I ended up playing two or three games of pool on my phone, and I didn't miss one detail.  Essex's script isn't bad, but the smarminess of the actors coupled with the viewer having to pretty much guess at what's going on stifle what little enjoyment this movie may have offered. And the third act just dissolves into a mess of incomprehensibility the likes of which I've seldom seen before. I don't know where the writer and director were during the screening of their movie, but obviously they think it makes a lot more sense than it does. In fact, what little I was able to discern of the plot I got from reading the back of the DVD case and the IMDB synopsis. And I read those before I saw the movie, so I can only imagine how little sense it would have made had I gone into it cold.  The movie is set in two primary locations, the loft apartment and the creepy enchanted forest, and both sets were constructions, and obviously so. The forest scene is shot so as to disguise just how small the space really is, and the loft is shot in bedrooms only, no common area is ever established--in fact we really only see Kerra's, Sai's and Eric's bedrooms. For all I know Royce sleeps on the couch or in the tub or on the floor. Maybe Royce never sleeps. Don't know. Don't care. I'm just glad it's over. The problem is, this lack of establishment makes the characters feel less like real people and more like characters in a badly-constructed movie. Which is exactly what they are, granted, but still...  BLED was one long, boring nightmarish mess of a movie. I'm sure the intentions were good, but the execution was just sloppy and embarrassing. This isn't even a movie I'd recommend on cheese merits alone, it's just bad.

South Beach Flawed. Just bad grainy video of live performances from the worst rappers in my Opinion Jay-Z(no talent-Pac was Right),Ja Rule,Beanie Segal,Diddy Pitty and Lil Kim(nasty) and Badboy, then you have some annoying "Lola" as host, And it's not even on South Beach(I am a Native I know you out of towners your not welcome)The Suntrust building in the background? Downtown, And it's at Bayfront Park. Watch it on Netflix, it's boring and it's not Hipohop.

Not worth the money The is the worst movie I have ever sean.  It had subtitles (UGH). it did not contain what was promised in the commercials.  DON"T wast your money on this film.

B Movie It really scares me that so many people thought this movie was funny. If your IQ is over 80, don't waste your time.

The worst movie i've ever seen in my entire life This was easily the worst movie I've ever had the misfortune to see. 0/10. After the success from X-men 1 & 2, imagine seeing a sentinel in a trailer for the new x-men movie! It was a great feeling, and anybody with an understanding of the comics/tv shows knew what that meant! The war was going to start, Bishop's appearance in a subsequent movie, Asteroid M was going to raise, which would then potentially pave the way for apocalypse, which, if done right, could amount to something unspeakably epic. This was buffeted by members of the four horsemen of Apocalypse (angel as one chief member)appearing in the trailers. Therefore, I had nothing but excitement for X-Men: the last stand. Then i saw the movie. The beginning scene was all the danger room. Everything i was advertised about was a lie. It's like being presented with an all-you-can-eat buffet, only to arrive and be told that all they're serving is Mashed Potatoes (which turn out to be rotten, just wait). So i was let down from my hopes that they would take the series in a direction that would be monumental for superhero movies at the time (Avengers became what i was hoping the X-Men would be). Still hoping that it wouldn't be too bad, i was let down again and again in this movie. Rather than vent my loathing into it, I'm just going to make a bullet list of defects when making this movie. This is not going to be chronological because i haven't seen the movie in 6 years. This is because i'd rather hear fingernails on a chalkboard for 1.7 hrs than watch this garbage. -They killed Cyclops in the first 10 minutes. I can understand if you didn't like his character, that's fine, but really? Havok could have been a great addition, but he then because impossible to utilize because you killed off his only connection to the Xmen. Their origins was a very interesting story too. Oh well, now you'll never now. -Juggernaut was done atrociously. Also, he's not a mutant, so he wouldn't lose his powers when near the kid who neutralizes other powers. He actually gains his powers from a gem he found on the verge of death while in a war. Did you know that he's Xavier's brother? Again, now you'll never know. -Making the beginning scene a danger room facade. I've already ranted on this so i won't again. -Magneto walks out on mystique once she loses her powers. Magneto is much smarter than that, and wouldn't have just abandoned her. This was a spit in the face to the relationship they built, and wasn't realistic at all. The alternative? Begin working on a anti-serum for 'the cure'. Instead he decides to take over an island. Really? An island? Great idea magneto, two missiles on a simple plot of land surrounded by water and you're dead. "But he would just reflect the missiles" Oh yes, that's not hard to get around >_> It's not like nuclear torpedoes can do any damage. Also, i think it would be a little taxing if he never slept because he was on missile watch all night. -Also, magneto wouldn't be stupid enough to spend all his efforts and resources to take over an island (no matter who's on it) He just put all his eggs into the phoenix basket, then they all went to hell in a hand basket. Remember how he always had a plan? Not this time. He tried it without a backup plan. Oh, apparently he forgot that. Whoops. -BTW: You know the phoenix entity? Yeah, the amazing cosmic force? It was actually looking for some kind words and wolverine as a martyr. Btw: There is no explanation of its origination or purpose. Did no one ever question this, or is it just me? -The love triangle between ice man, rouge, and kitty pride (shadow cat once she grows up) doesn't have a beginning, end, or purpose. It was just there for no reason, isn't resolved whatsoever, and felt like a filler for what should be a more important story line. It wasn't realistic, emotionally involving, or even entertaining. It was a waste of my time. -I must confess i do like Kitty pride, and she was played well in the move by a good actress. Sadly her role was confined, she was unexplained, and had, at most, 2 paragraphs of dialogue. Was that dialogue about current events? No. Again, unrealistic and unhelpful. -The actual story line wasn't more important, it was skin-deep and purposeless. Well, i will say this. It's purpose was to kill or damn every mutant in sight. Unexpected? Yes. Is that a good thing? No. There were too many flaws and problems to even pretend like this plot is workable. -Similar to the bullet above, i would like to point out that with the addition of a host of new characters (nothing is explained about them. Why? Becuase if it works in a previous movie, we don't want to repeat successful techniques) will have one of two fates. 1. Power loss. 2. Disintegration via Phoenix. Don't like it? Well, that doesn't matter because the CGI is cool. >_> I swear, you'd think people liked pretty explosions and soft-core pornography more than innovative story lines, cohesiveness, and imagination. Perhaps that's how they keep getting the money to make more transformers movies... -Remember how the movie is called X-Men? Yeah, now it's just going to be called "The Immortal Wolverine!! (featuring his lackey X-Men)" -Magneto (talking to Phoenix) "Do you remember the first time we met?" I literally heard people laugh in the theater when he said this. Why? Because it felt like he's throwing pick up lines at her. *sigh* -Hey, did you ever wonder how rouge became able to fly permanently, with the addition of super strength? Well,once again now you'll never know. -Some of the positive reviews of this film applaud the story line and plot. Trying to defend this movie's story is like trying to defend against an army by using astrology and mirrors. It's fake, it's cheap, and it's going to get you run over. Want proof? "Dear Magneto, You know how you've killed hundreds and threatened thousands in the name of eugenics? Well, because you no longer have your powers, we're going to pardon you of all faults! Of course we're kindly asking that you don't contact any of your previous constituents, or try to find a mutant who amplifies the powers around him (that type of character exists btw), that may or may not still have their abilities. Anywho, Congratulations! Enclosed, we've included a metal chess board because we think it'd be funny to mock you. XOXO, The United States Department of Defense" -Anybody who said this story was "more realistic" than the plot i was hoping for didn't read my last bullet. Or even think for three seconds about the movie for that matter. -Now, i now what you're thinking, you saw the movie only once, why not try again now that you're older and see the movie a second time? My answer? I did. Dumbest decision i ever made. Like, dumber than trying to pick your nose with a powerdrill dumb. Mooning the police dumb. I've never tried either of those two things, but by giving this movie a second chance, I've clearly done dumber. -If you're idiotic enough to watch this movie after reading this review, look for Nightcrawler, and count the amount of times you see him in this movie. The moral? If a character is a threat to what fragments of a story you have left, sweep him under the rug and hope people don't notice. What if he's popular? Doesn't matter. Don't include him in the next movie. Also, don't mention him a single time. Give absolutely no explanation whatsoever. Idiots made this movie, so Disney buying Marvel was the best thing that ever happened to Marvel studios. It also doubled as a great play for Disney. Sadly, they sacked the main man who made that move, and they should all feel pretty stupid about it now that The Avengers had made them immensely rich.

Pointless This movie delivers nothing in a grey jacket.  Even Liam can't carry this wandering, pointless script.  If only there were a way to go back in time and skip this.  I only hope that I can save others from this self indulgent, sophomoric lullaby masquerading as a movie.

Episodes all mixed up This review is about Amazon's hosting of the fourth season, not about the season itself.  The fourth season is a great one, but the way Amazon has bungled this makes it hard to enjoy it.  It is really annoying that they have messed up the episodes by putting them in the wrong order and mislabeling them.  Half the tension in the episode they list as first is confusing if you haven't watched the THREE episodes that predate it.  The occasional mislabeled episode in the previous seasons was easy to overlook, but in this case, its flat out unprofessional.  Also, I bought the season, and yet still had to purchase two of the episodes separately.  If Amazon really wants to make their video streaming the place to go, they'll have to avoid these things in future.

flawed and disappointing Shifting scenes make it impossible to really 'get into' this period drama, the editing is obvious and rough leaving you with the sense that you have 'missed something'.  The costumes are lacking in true Edwardian detail, however this is minor compared to the abrupt ending. I enjoyed Gosford Park which was far superior in all respects, the only comparison is the connection between the lives lived upstairs and those downstairs.

This is BS As I understand it, this DVD is an experiment to see if there are enough people willing to pay for a Zim DVD to warrant a revival of the show. The only problem being that there are already millions of people who have every episode on this set on one of the two whole series sets that have been released already, there is no reason for a hardcore fan to own this DVD except that NICK says that they might bring back the show. As an owner of the original DVD set, I really can't really justify paying for this item, not with my income, and I can see many other fans having this problem. If you do have the disposable income, and especially if you don't have the series dvds, then seriously buy this, because a shot at a renewal is so sweet. My low score is for the idea behind the DVD, not for the quality of the product, I havn't seen the DVD, nor do I know what episodes are on it, though for all of you who don't have the dvds already, I'm sure they are awesome, they are all awesome.

this pretty much sucks I was really excited when I ordered this. Finished the first season with a couple of cd's having scratches but since they still played I let it go. Now I am on season 2 and the amount of scratches on the cd's are so bad some of the shows won't even play.  I'm going to have to return it and hope they can send a good copy back to me.

very disappointed I waited anxiously for this movie to come out on dvd, as it is hard for me to go to theaters with young kids in the house.  I am always eager to have a laugh, and I am not too sophisticated for low-brow and slap-stick humor, really, anything will do.  This movie was just sad, and the parts that were supposed to be funny were just awkward.  I do not understand what other people thought was funny.

Unspeakably awful and fails on every possible level ... This SUCKS.  I saw it the other day and I HATED it.  It was as if the CW remade the original.  No personality at all, a HORRIBLE cast (Rooney Mara may be the single most un-charismatic actress I've EVER seen).  Terrible make-up and effects work, Jackie Earl Haley looked and sounded as if he was speaking through a Halloween mask.  The character of 'Freddy' is supposed to be played in the manner of a sadistic court-jester, Englund was clearly having a blast with the material and threw a lot of himself into the role.  Haley's not doing any of that.  As fine an actor as he is, he's horrible here.  There hasn't been a film in awhile that I can't think of a SINGLE THING to compliment it on, but this one falls squarely into that category.  It's awful, outside of a morbid sense of curiosity, there's honestly not a single reason to waste your time on it.  Front-to-back, EVERYONE decided to phone this in and it shows.  If the production crew didn't care at all, I don't see any reason that anyone else should.  Even at it's worst point in any of the original films (sequel's included) I was at least under the impression that people were trying.  I can't even say that here.  It's a complete train wreck.  The only "nightmare" is the threat of a sequel ...

Snikt you! This movie is cliched, dull, full of one liners and unnecessary cameos; gambit, xavier, emma, cyclops, blob, and... will.i.am.? are you serious? WILL.I.AM?!?!?!?! Who the hell was responsible for this atrocity? The movie is rather disrespectful to the fans and an insult to my intelligence. Wolverine origins is the equivalent of jaws 4 in the way of how they decided to screw up a franchise in the name of greed. If I could, I'd give this movie 0 out of 5. Unacceptable.

Are you kidding me? Ridley Scott made this? This is an utterly ridiculous movie considering the greatness Ridley Scott is capable of and has offered in the past with "Blade Runner" and the original "Alien." The characters are no more than cut-outs. (The android is the only affecting and emotional character in the film!) Scientists? My ass! Good gracious, the Indy-500 exit speed from the spaceship into an unknown landscape: really? I guess the word "caution" at this point would not have entered the mind of a sensible scientific team. Also, "oh, yea, let's just ditch those helmets because it appears to breathable in here:" a lovely logical and educated assumption by the team. I made it to the end of the movie only with the sincere hope that the "aliens" would devour the inane characters.  Please, Mr. Scott, I hope you reedit the movie and salvage something from this mess...if at all possible. (The script is an absolute disaster so the latter may be impossible. Maybe the way to go--since there are so many great visuals--is to just get rid of the dialogue.) I remain a very disappointed fan as I had always hoped for another outstanding Sci-Fi movie from this truly great director.

One star too many Let me start by saying that I am a HUGE fan of Billy's workout dvds. This one, however, was a big disappointment. I didn't even break a sweat. My heart rate barely made it above 100. If you cut out the endless talking he does, it'd be about a 30 minute workout and 10 minutes of that is the supposed 'warm up'. Like other reviewers, I stood around wondering what to do while he jabbered on.  Owning other Billy workouts, this one is going straight back. If I paid to go to a session as poor as this, I'd be wanting my money back. Billy needs to either get back on track or come up with something new, or just leave it be now. He has some excellent workouts out there, I shall be sticking to those in future.

Trash......cleverly disguised trash. I am an avid fan of horror, thriller, and important message movies. These are what Megan is Missing appears to be from the outside, however beneath the surface lies a disgusting mess of torture porn which destroys the intended message. This movie is meant to raise awareness of internet predators, but the last 30 minutes of the movie are so vile that any take home message is lost and you the viewer are left highly disturbed and ready to throw up. This movie is utter trash and should not be seen. BEWARE.... the unrated rating should be R or NC-17 as disturbing imagery of young girls in sexual torture devices is shown as well as a gut-wrenching and utterly vile graphic rape scene of a 13 year old is shown. This movie had potential, but lowers itself bellow slime with the approach taken.  DO NOT WATCH!!!!!!!! DISTURBING AND VILE FILM.

a very disappointing movie. whats up with hollywood? what a big disappointment. I want watch another movie that Peter Farrelly directs or if he's even is involved with it.

got robbed Could not watch dvd as its format is for Australia and I will not change my player as I did not order  an Australian DVD. Got taken, but will not happen again as this seller is on my crap list.

ridiculous! What type of audience were they planning for with this.  It is not kid friendly content, with a heavy emphasis on boy/girl relationships, stealing boyfriends, vanity, etc.  Even though the "bad" girl sees the error of her ways in the end, it is not worth traveling the road of inappropriate messages to get there. And didn't we already do a fashion/fairy theme with the last movie?  Not the Barbie our family loves.  Were they trying to put out a quicky for the Easter baskets or what?  It won't be in my little one's.  Glad it was a rental, if I could get my money back for that I would!!!!

Totally unwatchable-and I only watched the first episode. Fame and fortune ruins many lives and it has totally ruined the lives of these four young women as well as the show.  I loved the first season of Teen Mom because the people on the show were totally relatable; it was a lot more realistic.  Most teen moms struggle financially for a long time and would never be able to make it without the help of their families or the government.  The first season really shows that, the second not as much, and the third not at all.  First there is Maci who moves to a new city with no job or roommates, which I guess leaves her plenty of time to fight with her baby's daddy and date her BF.  Then there is Caitlyn who moves out on her own with Tyler, supposably for their safety.  Neither one of them works and they eventually get evicted for not paying their rent.  Does MTV offer these young women financial counseling?  And there is Farrah who got loan money for breast implants, but lives with her mom rent free.  I sort of think that MTV exploits these young women because they actually showed the surgery and everything.  Finally there is Amber who spends her days not working or getting her GED, but screaming at Gary.  I can't believe that I wasted forty minutes of my time watching this crap.  And it got me thinking that these women would be better off if fame and fortune didn't happen to them.  Maci wouldn't have moved and her friends and family would tell her that they don't want to hear about her baby daddy dramas without cameras following them.  She would then try harder to get along with him.  Caitlyn would actually make plans to do something with her future other than being a reality TV star.  Farrah would not get breast implants and would try to make things work with her mom.  (Or her mom would kick her butt to the curb and sue for custody of Sophia without getting judged by the viewers).  Even if that happened, Farrah would still be better off because this experience would force her to grow up.  And Amber would have to shack up with another BF or get on welfare because Gary would dump her for good without any feelings of guilt or regrets. (Gary is sort of like Jon Gosselin.  Even though people couldn't blame him for leaving Kate, they still made him feel guilty because Kate was the star of the show.)  Amber's behavior would totally change if she had to rely on herself.

BORING. I paid $10 to get this as Video On Demand and the only good thing is that we didn't have to drive to the Blockbuster or movie theater to discover that this movie SUCKS.  Oh sure, you can see and hear that they tried to make it clever, witty. And got some top notch actors which is why it caught our (my wife's and my) interest.  But it's just flat.  Never engrossing.  Yeah, I get the jokes, but they are just not funny enough to make me laugh.  Okay give it a while, it's gotta "pick up".... No? Went to the toilet, walked the dog.  Still not over, oh well... turned it off well before finish.

AVOID ULTRAVIOLET COPIES You can not stream the Ultraviolet copy stored on you iPhone/iPad to the AppleTV.  With the old Digital Copy technology you could stream movies in your phone to your TV for viewing.  The main reason I bought the Digital Copy (or UltraViolet) was to be able to stream it to the AppleTV when I was at home and watch it on the device when I was on the go.  Digital copy worked, UltraViolet DOES NOT.  With digital copy you had chapter selections and etc.  Ultraviolet does not allow you to skip chapters, etc.  New technology is supposed to improve upon the old not go backwards.  Please, bring back Digital Copy, UltraViolet SUCKS!!!

Babettes feast DVD received is not formatted to play on my machine. Needs to be Zone-4 format. I am unable to play the DVD forwarded to me.

NO STARS This movie was bad.Really bad. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes bad. Forest Gump had a higher IQ than every male actor in this movie. Good luck if you decide on watching it.

Unwatchable transfer This early John Wayne western is my favorite, but this transfer is squashed down and cannot be altered. If you get it to a form where the characters are not compressed, then the sides of the frame are cut off.  Get any other version but not this one.  James Bryant Wiser.

Teenage Cinema Aghast of 80's. Viewed: 6/12 Rate: 1  6/12: Getting off the Sixteen Candles trip just right before, Teen Witch is fairly the same kind of a film but this time with disastrous results. The cinema of 80's was filled with awful, corny films that seemed to embrace bad fashion, retarded dance-like mannerisms, chopped-up hairstyles, mindless music numbers, and loud colors. Teen Witch is no exception to this. It is also one of the worst pictures I've seen. Only if it would start off with a music video with Tawny Kitaen, it might have gotten a `2' from me instead of a `1'. Maybe...maybe not. Well, there is nothing good or much else to say about Teen Witch, so I'm just going to end it with a quote from wiki which pretty much sums up the film: "The production budget for Teen Witch was $2,500,000. The film was released in the US on April 23, 1989 and grossed $3,875 in its opening weekend at the box office, and only $27,843 total in its entire run." All in all, I would say that you are better off drinking a glass of hydrogen peroxide and deal with the Poison Control Center afterwards.

... It hasn't come yet so why do I have to do a review? ... it's a bit hard to do a review on nothing...

Mediocre at Best, not Much Oomph, if you ask me. 1 star only for the effort. I agree with other's assessments regarding this 3d blu ray. I have a high end 3d TV. Viewing this 3D blu ray wasn't eye popping high that I had expected. I bought the 3D video based on other's reviews, which was a mistake. Maybe others don't need to be WOWed by 3d to consider something decent, but for me, it was typical History Channel production, converted to 3D. IMHO, I'd rent this in 3D before deciding to buy. Just my two cents. I'm thinking of selling my copy.

Boys who never grew up I am so sorry I wasted my time on. I turned it off 1/2 way through.  The first was maybe okay but the boys have gone overboard with idiotness.  I guess this is true with most sequels of our time.  This one is bordering obscene and some of the pranks are cruel.  I would love to see their doctors or chiroprator bills after they experience abuse.  It is abuse what they do to each other.  I can see these men as boys years ago abusing animals and getting a laugh out of it. Only thing is they graduated to people and other people are paying to see it. Think twice before you buy.  There are other ways to get a laugh.

Crackers and cheese - the soft, smelly kind Other reviewers are being generous to talk about this film as having five characters, because I saw some people wandering around on the screen, sometimes in slo-mo, other times in no-mo, but there wasn't much character there.  Cody Deal, who is he, by the way?, has the body for Thor; too bad they kept it covered up most of the time with a Wal-Mart quality costume.  He doesn't have the voice for this kind of hero, however, and I kept waiting for him to just stop talking.  Richard Grieco has acting skills, which unfortunately he left back in the 1980s and neglected to bring along to this film.  The rest can go without mention.  As for the plot, well, it is hard to talk about plot here.  Thor is supposed to save the world by defeating the evil devil-god Loki in the back alleys of Los Angeles, and every other low-budget location that could be had for a hundred bucks and some coffee-shop coupons.  Round this out with computer animations and enhancements straight off of my old Commodore 64 computer, and you get a major horror film, but perhaps not the kind of horror really intended.  Someone was channeling Ed Wood here for sure.  We just needed burning paper plates doubling as UFOs to complete the effect, and hey, there's an idea for a sequel!  Syfy and Asylum were looking to cash in on the bigger Thor picture in theaters now (apparently this Thor auditioned for that role, too; in what universe was that going to happen?) but apparently Brannagh's Thor isn't hammering the crowds, either, in real blockbuster fashion.  Well, I guess this is the season for Worse rather than Norse.

bummer...insulting...small...so glad we can do it. Provocative from the beginning, disgusting, filthy, violent, brutal, primitive and insultingly simplistic.  I am so glad we have he freedom to make trash like this, and that I was able to view it and to write what I think about it; I'd not have it any other way.  Freedom of speech is so important to all of us...however...this film is a joke.  It seems to have been designed for those with the smallest of brains (and penises) and greater interest in war and conflict...than peace and understanding.  I can see this as a sort of twilight zone episode, if it were tweaked a little, but this is too severe and caustic for my senses...far too thin to be of what the bible speaks of or what it has spawned in man and culture.  I did not find much here of any value.

The Worst Bruce Movie In Decades! This movie is embarrassingly bad. The jokes are not funny, the story ludicrous, and the ethnic slams, are close to offensive. Kevin Smith is probably to blame. He was never funny in my book to begin with. I bought a copy of this used, and threw it in the garbage after one viewing.

Lousy Print 1 star for the dim, fuzzy and unwatchable print. And what ever happened to trailers? Come on, Amazon. You know you can do better.

Terrible A very poorly directed movie with a few moments of special effects. I expected much more from this movie than it delivered. Don't rent it or you will regret it.

I thought it was pretty bad... I just didn't think this movie was very funny, as someone who loves both Pegg and Frost AND Seth Rogen. I'm all for lowbrow humor, but only if it's humorous. Just didn't feel like anyone was trying very hard to make a decent comedy. I was disappointed that so much potential fell so short.

Not what it says This was not new. It arrive ing Alternative Packageing and the dvd was scratched so bed my dvd player wouldn't play it.

Game Is Over. This is another horrible remake.  I hate action movies and chalk this one up as trash.  I can tell Jason Stratham is a one trick pony.  Why is he even an actor? He will probably be limited to these type of action movies.  It was boring and all the characters sucked.

0 STARS: Pure unadulterated trash! This movie does not try to be scary, it knows that it is hopeless and pathetic and it is just a complete and utter joke.  Nothing scary, atmospheric or moving in any way, shape or form.  In fact, even the lame attempts at comedy fall flat.  Just a complete waste of time of a movie that is about as scary and as intriguing as watching reruns of "Gomer Pyle USMC". Need I say more?

Jack and Jill Jack and Jill is one of the worse movies I've ever watched. I don't usally watch Adam Sandler, but thought the movie was good. Boy was I wrong!

Right DVD, Wrong region! I was looking forward to getting the DVD for Christmas, but was very disappointed to find it was for region 1, rather than for region 4, as I live in Australia.I can't play it and did send an email of complaint, but have received no answer. I think it is only fair that I am sent one for the right region. Otherwise, I would never consider using AMAZON.COM again.

Embarrassing If this is what Steve Carell left The Office for I feel really bad for him, embarrassed. This is a bad movie. Unlike The Office or 30 Rock I felt like they were "acting" - horribly! I got to get this movie out of my mind or I will never be able to watch Steve or Tina again!

Another Sandler bomb I couldn't make it through this movie. It's one more in a series of crappy Sandler movies featuring his poor acting and a weak plot. The cast is sound but obviously everyone needed the money on this one. What a ridiculous film!

Wish i could say something nice.... Normally I try to find something nice to say but I just cant' find anything in this movie worth recommending. Poor story-line and poor acting. Some very nice CG but I think we are all past the "gee whiz" stage on that front.

This movie is unwatchable. I don't understand. This movie is unwatchable. The acting is bad, horrible pacing, most of the special effects are sub par. I don't understand why the rating is so high.

D for depressing If you like depressing stories about smugglers with terminal illness, druggy X, bad situation and bad scenery. This is for you- just not my taste.

My First Amazon Purchase Disappointment <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000F1HWI2">The Exceptional Auto Series - Volume 1</a>  Over the years, I have purchased many items from Amazon.  This is my first disappointment.  I purchased "The Exceptional Auto Series - Volume 1" Vintage, Antique and Classic Automobile Enthusiasts; DVD;  for $59.95.  The video was to include three shows.  I only received Show One: 100 Years of the Automobile with its retail price of $24.95 printed on the video case.  Show Two: Ride of the Century and Show Three: The Orphan Car Video were represented to be included at the $59.95 price, but they weren't.  I am a "car nut" and enjoy almost any car video.  The received video was of poor quality.  The video was not much more than an amateur home video.  Toward the video's end, the DVD froze.  Even the printing on top of the video was smudged.  The Amazon delivery and product both come up far short of expectations.  The product certainly was not what Amazon represented in its listing.  Since there was not an easy route to list a private complaint, this review is submitted.

Unintentional Comedy Reuniting two Corleone Brothers - 'Elite' stars Robert Duvall and James Caan as a pair of security contractors, aka mercenaries, who have a serious problem.  Duvall's character, George Hansen, has decided to answer to a higher paycheck. And he begins his newest career move by planting a bullet through their client's brainpan and leaving Caan's character, Mike Locken, alive but crippled. His former best buddy spares him, apparently payback for having previously saved his life, but makes sure that retirement is his former friend's only option. He shoots Mike's elbow and knee; injuries so severe that the company they work for has offered him permanent disability for as long as they're in business.  'Cept this is James Caan - and his character has other plans.  So begins an arduous and deeply humiliating recovery back to a semblance of health, and a chance to hunt down his old friend.  And had it kept that tone in the production, this might've been a half-way decent action flick, not unlike '<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006FDAP">The Mechanic</a>' with Charles Bronson. But it doesn't keep that tone. From that point in the movie things really start to spiral toward the ceramic latrine's dark hole.  Overall, 'Elite' is a half-baked, plot-hole filled, laughable bit of 1970's nonsense striving to be a high-octane thriller. However, the always irrepressible James Caan is just so dang engaging, it's hard not to endure this bit of ridiculous trash through to the bitter end.  Movie Notes:  - I believe this is the first time Tai Chi is seen in an American movie.  - Starting at the 1:19 mark in the movie, and lasting a stunning five whole minutes, is one of the most inappropriate movie scores I have ever heard. It's so out of place it's actually funny. Yikes. But you have to watch the film from the get-go to really appreciate how surreal it is when the moment arrives.  Additionally, during this part of the flick, ya gotta love how this is supposed to be happening over quite a bit time - from late afternoon into the evening darkness. But notice how Duvall's scene is constantly in daylight? &lt;lol!> X-D  - "I'm a virgin." Just trust me on this one. I was literally laughing to tears when this bit of bizarre inappropriateness comes up. No pun intended.

Disappointed - not as good as the first one. Just finished watching it and I was so disappointed.  Too much negative drama. I expected it to have more funny moments and less over the top drama.  The ending was SO DISAPPOINTING!

Wow Absolutely terrible.  No original humor - just recycled potty humor.  I like Family Guy as much as the next person, but this humor is not smart, and it's not funny.

The same plot of Armagedon ! Ok it has a ggod graphics bla bla bal... But, its the same plot of bruce willis Armagedon!!! The loser guy who is in love with the coronel daugther , a close fammily memeber died!  and , the happy couple save the world!, and their romance got aproved ! Are there more stories in holllywoodin theses days?.

elitist racism for 2011. There is a reason Oker wants nothing to do with this dribble. Pointless, untrue, stupid pandering. I guess a couple hundred years of racism, slavery, etc can be justified or even forgiven because a bored, rich white woman takes in a homeless black kid...and teaches him to play football.

stupid movie this movie does not worth writing review on it. it is a waist of money to buy it or rent it.

Boring and weird end This movie was frustrating and boring and couldn't keep my interest.  The end was unexpected and didn't seem to match the rest of the movie.

ATTENTION! NOT WHAT YOU THINK! The movie itself is FANTASTIC BUT beware that this is NOT the original 1986 movie. It's the Special Collectors Edition that's been remastered and includes foul language. The only way you'd know that is if you happened to mouse over one of the extra thumbnail images (and who does that?!).

Lasted about 15 minutes If it had not been for the two star actors, this film would not have hit anyone's radar.  Lasted about 15 minutes hoping that it would get better, clearer, interesting. It did not.

worst movie This is one of the worst movies I've seen in a long time...  It is terribly boring...  I kept trying to stay awake through the whole movie..  About on half hour before it was over, I just couldn't handle it anymore...  What a waste of time and life... BORING, BORING, BORING....

Makes the acting on Noah's Arc look like Oscar worthy work No...just no. This is what happens when someone receives a new camera for Christmas and believes they can make a movie. This film was flawed from beginning to end. Just because the production budget is low doesn't mean the acting has to be so subpar. I could barely find the message behind this travesty due to characters (the main one) just butchering the delivery of scenes. Seriously though, let the kid take some acting classes besides those in his high school drama class and try again.  I'll admit, most shows/movies targeted towards black gay men aren't exactly blockbuster hits (i.e., Noah's Arc), but at least that series got somewhat progressively better. This train wreck should have never been produced. It's so terrible that they've been relegated to making episodes with a camcorder and posting them via YouTube. I suggest searching there and watching as much as you can stomach as opposed to wasting money and time on the film. Definitely do not recommend.

One star because nothing's lower This is the most boring movie I've ever watched. (SPOILER INCLUDED IN REVIEW). The director is big on silence, close-up shots, and long shots of nothing but black. It could have been saved with some kind of resolution, but it ends abruptly with no rhyme or reason. An abandoned mother can't support her two small girls (seven and four?) and after being kicked out of their apartment, Mom leaves the girls with her sister-in-law while going off to find her husband. The treatment of the older girl is very realistic, showing her anger, hurt and confusion. The magical aspect of the piggy bank has been covered elsewhere, and the scenes of the girls waiting at the bus stop are heart-breaking. Then sister-in-law gets a letter from Mom saying things haven't worked out with husband, and Mom can't take care of girls, so please take them to Mom's parents' farm. The girls are duly dropped off at the farm, where grandmother is kind and loving. They all go out to the forest to look for wood and other things, then we see a field, then the girls, hand-in-hand are climbing a hill and singing a folksong, and then the credits roll, leaving one with the feeling that surely there's more to the ending than this.  If you're teaching a class on how not to make a film, buy this one. If you want a good Korean movie, buy "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring." Also atmospheric, but not pretentious, like this one.

gundam seed I bought gundam seed expecting it to be like the rest of the gundam series such as 0083 or 08th ms team, but it is not even close to similar. gundam seed is weird anime with no action at all. it is soooo boring to watch, you can tell that a bunch of horny Japanese guys made it because you see more anime girls in short skirts than gundam battles and action.

Not happy with 1080p transfer quality I have the regular DVD in 4:3 Ratio and was looking forward to this Blu Ray release.  I even bought a new Panasonic blu ray player just for this movie. Upon first viewing, It seemed like everything is too dark with poor shadow detail, even after color adjustments. I have a Panasonic 1080p plasma HDTV and I can tell when picture quality is not there. It is sharp but I think there is something wrong with the transfer to Blu ray.  Maybe there will be a REDUX/REMASTER version released next year.  The movie itself is excellent all the way through, no problem with the movie itself.

A Big Disappointment This is another movie that I was anxiously waiting to get my hands on. I watched the DVD a couple of days ago and I have to say it was a complete let down.  Meryl Streep is a fine actress but the storyline was very disappointing. I'm sure someone will make a better movie of the Iron Lady in the future.

Very disappointed If you are purchasing this to put the digital copy on anything else, don't bother. The company will not allow for the digital copy to go in iTunes at all. It will only work with the Sony download on your computer. The company was no help either. I will not purchase any DVDs from here again.

I wish I could get my money back I hated this movie. It is overrated. If this is the funniest movie of the year, well then I'm just going to stop watching movies because this wasn't funny at all.  It feels like one of the reality bad girls tv shows, except suppose to be funny. This movie wasn't even so bad that it was good.  It just was horrible. I rank this in the top 5 of the worst movies ever.

Sound is crap - old DVD was better Where did the thunderous crash on Bonzo's drumming go? It was there on the original DVD.  The sound on this remastered Blu-ray is flaccid. Was it remixed? A Rip-off.

Very Poor Quality DVD. A complete waste of money. The quality of this DVD is very bad. Some of the night scenes were completely black, just sound. Don't waste your $.

Low budget The products arrived on time in good condition.  I think these two movies are not well made, cheap, and poor acting.  I will not be watching them for the second time.

This is the worst of the lot Lion Witch and Wardrobe really could have been straight out the book and when I watched that I remember thinking if they are going to make all seven books into movies like this it will be great and I was anxiously awaiting the next movies.  Prince Caspian strayed way off and it became more and seemed to only be loosely based on the book it was though it was still an entertaining movie.  Dawn Treader though really is the worst of the lot and while it starts off well but then it slowly starts to go downhill.  The book is supposed to be a search for seven lords which is started out as but then that all changed and it became a search for seven swords which had to be placed at Aslans Table to stop some kind of evil mist non of which are mentioned in the book. The Book of Dawn Treader really had alot of potential to be transformed into a good movie especially with modern day effects but it was a complete let down.  Effects were good but so many changes in the story for the worse and areas where that had potential to be very impressive visually such as the first island where they are saved from slavers was just rushed and plot changed. There really were so many things they could have done well but didn't and in the end we just got a movie that had some great special effects but the storyline was spoilt which is a pity because the book of Dawn treader is one of the best stories in the Narnia series.  If FOX do feel that Dawn Treader made enough money to justify making the next book in the series the Silver Chair I really do hope they can find the magic again that made Lion Witch Wardrobe such a great movie.

not a winner but passable This is a decent B movie.  Interesting because of some of the early roles of some now-famous people - Liam Neeson, Patrick Stewart,Helen Mirren, etc.  The acting was pretty bad across the board.  Storyline was OK, but how could that be screwed up? Interesting because this King Arthur seemed to be a weasely guy with few redeeming qualities.  A lot of clanking armor plate without any reality of what wearing armor does to weigh down the body.  Knights going about the countryside in armor without anyone to help them get the armor off or to get it back on.

Questionable Treatment of Children at Green Chimneys For everyone and anyone who is interested in this non-profit organization.  Please continue your research into this org. There is a facebook page "Green Chimney Survivors" as well as a Petition online to get Green Chimneys closed for good.  There are multiple accounts from children in the 70's up until the 2000's about massive abuse by Rich King and the founder Mr. Ross as well as many others. We all know after the scandals in the Catholic Church that coming forward after years of abuse is difficult, especially when it took place at an idyllic place like Green Chimneys.  If any of these accounts-if even ONE-is true-Green Chimneys needs to be held accountable.  Unfortunately, very horrible things can happen at places where very wonderful things can occur as well. But people need to start asking questions.  I too loved and love the ideas of this place, however after reading the accounts online, I cannot turn a blind eye.  Eric Lau, Philip Zagarella and Eric Napoletano are 3 dangerous men who raped and killed people and all came from Green Chimneys.  "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." ~ Edmund Burke  Please I beg anyone reading this post, don't do nothing.

One of the most boring and stupid movies It's just a waist of time. The plot is obvious from the very beginning, the action (what action???) is one of the slowest ever, characters are so exaggerated that they are unrealistic in anything they do, and the movie itself gives a wrong impression that american teenagers are just a bunch of silly girls and stupid guys. DO NOT WATCH THIS. IT'S ONE OF THE WORST MOVIES EVER.

god awful then, god awful now I saw this movie in the movie theater and it sucked so bad I wanted to shoot myself. it's not funny or entertaining in any shape or form. Use your money to support a small business instead of this awful production made by a million dollar industry.

stupid Wish I could give it more stars- I like Eckhart, but this movie is not good. Just a remake of Independance Day. The movie just stays on the same track of killing aliens (nothing exciting).

dutch2much Again very disappointing to get this product and find that it is not compatible with Australian DVD players. Perhaps there should be some sort of message on the website when a person orders from overseas. Return policy makes it hard to return something that has already been unwrapped.

Bad movie My husband and I watched Rango for some lite comic relief.  We were sadly disappointed! Hideous, nauseatingly ugly characters. Nonsensical story line.  We can't imagine what age group this "cartoon" was designed to reach?  Barf.  It's going in the trash.

Boring It's almost all party and very little killer so this Troma Team release makes for a rather boring thriller  1.5/5

obnoxious sound This is one of those movies you constantly change the volume from one extreme to the other. It either startles  you or you can't hear it, no medium ground whatsoever I watched about 15 minutes of it  and chose another movie. My brother would like it as he generally listens to everything too loud!

Pathetic! Very bad acting and even worse plot. One of the worst movies I ever tried to watch. I tossed it in the garbage after the 1st viewing. Ten minutes into the movie they have an extended scene showing a 16 year old guy masturbating. Yes, they have an extended scene showing the guy masturbating. I DID NOT WANT A SNUFF FILM!

I've Already Seen Gremlins, Thanks Movies like this have been rolling out of Hollywood for years, and for the life of me I've never understood who finds them scary.  Gremlins, Chucky, Puppet Master and any number of movies featuring pint-size bad guys are always laughably unimpressive.  It doesn't matter how much money you dump into special effects.  Six-inch high bad guys are not intimidating.  The plot is full of obvious holes, and the decisions made by the characters are mind numbingly moronic.  The sets are nice, the effects are nice, but that's no reason to see a film.  The actress playing the little girl was very competent, I hope she gets a role in a movie that isn't stupid someday, I think she will do quite well.  But I recommend giving this one a miss.  As with the earlier attempts at this subgenre best left unattempted, the film just isn't scary, and it becomes just terrible once the creatures start talking.  Definitely not worth the money.  There are many excellent scary movies out there, I recommend you look into something else.

No, No, No!!! My husband and I have been doing the Kettleworx training for about 8 weeks now.  We decided we wanted to try something different and the Jillian Michaels Shred-it tape was recommended by a couple of friends. The first level was fine.  Not a great work out, as she doesn't focus on any one muscle group and work til exhaustion.  At best, I was breathing heavy and I never felt like I was cutting muscle.  The Kettleworx was far and away better at targeting specific muscle groups. The second level is just downright dangerous!!  Her form is terrible and the moves she uses are sure to cause injury.  After doing the level 2 tape three times now, I have spent two days in bed and been to the chiropractor once.  If you talk to any kettle bell trainers, they will tell you to steer clear of this tape unless you enjoy back pain!! Don't do it!!!!

Worse than I thought it would be Really disappointed.  Thought that it would be a good laugh....didn't happen.  Not worth the effort of ordering, which is not much.....

If You Loved JUNO You'll Love YOUNG ADULT If you loved the film "Juno" - which is from the same writer and director, you'll love "Young Adult" but the rest of us non-hipsters will be scratching our heads and kicking ourselves for wasting our money. It's about a woman who writes young adult novels, and goes back to her hometown in a funk and tries to seduce her old high school boyfriend, now with kids and a wife. She is an annoying, snarky character, much like we've seen in Cody's other films. I won't spoil it for you, but the characters are dull and lifeless. The worst thing a movie can ever be in my opinion, is boring and this film committed that. This film was beyond atrocious. Everything Diablo Cody does is trying too hard and this is displayed in this movie, canvased on-frame in just about every scene. Look at the pink cover trying to look like a book! How ironic since the character writes young adult novels! Please. It's practically JUNO II. I would have liked to have seen a warning like this before I actually watched the film. 1/10 stars, avoid.

this is almost an horror movie for a 5 years old! I don,t know why waltdisney include more and more scary part in their movie. I do not beleive this is appropriate for children in young age. More and more desappointing purchase. I don,t know why would they make so terrible story! they used to be so good! less than one star

Disappointed I somewhat enjoyed the first series mainly due to the performance given by the actors. Cumberbatch and Freeman are brilliant.The script let them down. The writers took too many liberties with the second series, went to far and, turned it into 21st century schlock. Maybe the story line they went with would be fine for "z" movies but, not to use Conan Doyles Masterpieces and turn them cheesy, cheeky, garbage. I guess it's just a lack of imagination. It's easy to write about sex, gore, and blood. Just look at what Hollywood puts out. Give em a thrill, make a buck and, make some more junk like another remake of an old movie that made money. Too bad British TV went the way of Hollywood and put out this trash instead of the quality they were known for all these years. From the positive reviews I've seen on this site, it further shows me 90% of the viewers have never seen the classics as they were written and enjoy trash. Thinking is not involved to watch this. I guess you've won Hollywood but, the Brits are stealing your style.

In the name of Dolph Lundgren (spoilers) Two minutes and sixteen seconds. That is exactly how long it took me to realize that "In the Name of the King 2: Two Worlds" was going to be an epic suckfest.  Specifically, that was when a Xena-style sorceress eluded a pair of Robin Hood ninjas, and ran right into the street of a modern city. In his ongoing quest to make my brain melt, Uwe Boll has churned out yet another ghastly sequel to one of his horrid movies, dragging a perpetually befuddled-looking Dolph Lundgren back into Ye Olde Renfaire surroundings.  Grizzled veteran Granger (Dolph Lundgren) is pulled through a vortex by a mysterious sorceress, who then dies after proclaiming that he's part of some prophecy. He finds himself centuries in the past, where hooded assassins are trying to kill him. King Raven (Lochlyn Munro) tells him that he's the destined Chosen One of a prophecy who is the only one who can kill the Dark Mother (Christina Jastrzembska) and stop the Dark Ones, blah blah. It's all very generic.  So he's sent out on a mission with a bunch of soldiers and a sexy lady doctor named (I kid you not) Manhatten (Natassia Malthe). Does she have sisters named Brooklyn and Harlem? Anyway, Granger and the soldiers fight the Dark Ones on their way to where the Dark Mother is, but soon Granger discovers the truth about the Dark Mother and King Raven -- meaning he must now fulfill the prophecy in a different way.  "In the Name of the King 2: Two Worlds" is a lazy, LAZY movie. Everything about it is halfhearted -- the acting, the plotting, the backstory, and even the fricking prophecy that the whole plot revolves around. Even worse, there's a MASSIVE plot twist that completely invalidates most of of the stuff that happens in the first half of the story, and leaves vast gaping plot holes behind it.  The entire movie has a grimy, dirty air, as if Boll rented a long-abandoned RenFaire ground for the setting, and both the Dark Ones and King Raven seem to have armies consisting of about two dozen guys. The scripting is absolutely abysmal, made even funnier by Natassia Malthe's hilariously stilted, breathless delivery ("It was an honor to fight beside you and lie with you as your woman!").  And I honestly believe that Dolph Lundgren was drunk during the production of this movie. And I cannot blame him. He puts no visible effort into any kind of acting. And at the beginning of every scene, he has this slightly befuddled expression, as if he's thinking, "Aw man, I'm still in this turkey? I need another drink."  Sadly, Lundgren himself is the best thing about his character, who is 150% Gary Stu. He's a Special Forces supersoldier who is also the chosen one, has a secret past, and has a prophecy revolving around him; soldiers who initially hate him randomly become his biggest fans, and women who have exchanged two sentences with him want to have awkward sex with him.  Oh, and the ending? Copout. I assume that Boll's RenFaire lease expired, because he never really shows us what happens to the Dark Ones... and instead we get a lame, strangely abrupt one-on-one battle.  I thought fantasy couldn't get more hackneyed than the first movie, but "In the Name of the King 2: Two Worlds" proves that you can always make a bad fantasy series cheaper, dirtier and more halfhearted.

What is this? Horror, romance, feel-good family feature? This film was very disturbing. A confused mix of Steven King's Pet Cemetery crossed with Sandra Bullocks sappy romance "All about Steve". What a waste of talent!

Hollywood Should Finally Stand Still Unutterably stupid.  Hollywood's overpaid dimwit writers, producers, executives and actors should really keep their moronic NewThink to themselves, and leave the Earth alone. Simply one of the worst conceived movies I've seen yet, and that's saying something in this age of 2012 and Spielberg's War of The Worlds.  This movie actually thinks it's ending on a happy note, now that after coming face to face with destruction from without, but being saved from "the brink" by it's evil ways, humanity will now have to start all over again sans technology.  I guess the filmmakers applaud the thinning out of the human race that would quickly take place in such a world.  Not enough bad things could be said about this trash. One final word about John Cleese (who has a meaningless cameo)...though once a genius, this now seemingly sad man should retire from the world of entertainment. He no longer entertains.

Enviromentalist youth indoctrination Bad corporate type leader keeps trees from growing so he can sell his bottled air. Bad money hungry businessman has cut all the trees down to make more money. Really? Plus the music is really cheesy. Wasn't a fun movie to watch at all the 3d animation was cool.

A Team I bought this for my friends birthday. When we watched it- it started getting stuck and scrambling all over the place- right at the exciting ending. We tried taking it out- inspecting the back of the disc, and wiping it- but that did absolutely nothing. Complete waste of money...

Warning I tend to rely on customer reviews when choosing to order something online. In the case of this DVD set, I should have only paid attention to the user review which stated that this product doesn't work. I attempted to play the DVD on 2 separate DVD players AND my X-Box and it just wouldnt play. The DVD player said "loading" over and over and finally said "unable to read disk." I don't know how other customers were able to view this product (maybe on your computer?) but if a DVD doesnt work on a DVD player I don't think it's worth purchasing.

DVD broken The DVD arrived totally broken on half, It arrived so late, it was expensive and I waste my money for nothing and if I'd returned it it would cost me like 20 dollars more or so, no way. Not recommended at all.  P.S: You should secure the article really well the next time, this kind of things cannot happen. Just an advice.

was terrible What can I say about this film? It was horrible. As a Christian I find this movie appalling. I say through till the near end and the whole time I was grieved in my spirit by this blasphemy. There are some good Christian movies out there but this was disgusting. Has cursing, blasphemy, adult content, drugs and alcohol.  Instead of watching this trash I could have spent the time spending time with the Lord but I kept thinking to myself "this filth is gonna turn around" Well unless that happened in the last 20 minutes.. I just wasted my time.

packaging Packaging is a disgrace. Discs are hard to remove and are scratched. How i regret the purchase of this box set.

Noo Way! Not a good movie. Creepy, weird, hard to understand. Story line was all over the place. Gave me nightmares. Looked to be low quality, just plain BAD.

No English Subtitles! We absolutely LOVE the movie (5 stars), but the lack of English subtitles (for the hearing impaired) is a HUGE disappointment (0 stars) -- Portugese subtitles only...

Who buys partial seasons?  Smart people thats who! Anyone that buys half seasons of any show, or incomplete seasons for that matter is just plain dumb. In buying partial seasons, you support higher costs offered by the producing company. They do it to make more money. Be a smart shopper and demand the abolishment of partial seasons. By not buying them, they cannot make money and thus could end our suffering of partial seasons.

wow this moviw was... What a horrible sequal.  A hollywood blunder, bad acting, bad plot, no movement. Just Bad! Most of the actors phoned this one in.  They should have put nicholas cage in there too.  Choko, from Domino, was a horrible choice for Aries.  It lacked too much to list.  And Kronos, what was that.  what about the other titans.

One more naked emperor... This is a frustratingly dumb, contrived and tedious movie masquerading as an intellectual thriller.  Helen Mirren is a crime-solving former drug addict and blues singer who pretends to be an Eastern European countess and art connoisseur in order to avenge the death of her best friend's father.  It's not clear why she steals a weapon which is NOT the murder weapon and doesn't just tell the police what she knows.  Instead she goes on a "Pretty Woman"-style shopping spree (complete with Nicole Farhi product placement), and runs around spouting a very suspect Russian accent and bidding on things at auctions. The whole film feels like a vanity project for Ms. Mirren.  Every male character encountering her must ogle her like mad and/or have sex with her.  Even the background research for this film is shoddy.  One character corrects another, saying an image is not of Diana, but of Artemis.  Diana was the Roman name for Artemis, for crying out loud, and the "art expert" is talking about a 16th century Italian painting.  If you're going to make an inane, pretentious movie about hijinks in the art world, at least get the art history part right.  The preposterous plot ends as nonsensically as it carried on.  The only good thing is a chance to see Franco Nero, who played Lancelot in the 1967 musical "Camelot".  He's possibly even more handsome now, but still not old enough to have been 20 in 1947 as the story requires.  What a mess.

convoy DVD was for the wrong area, up until this point I knew nothing about areas. Will never buy from this dealer again.

amateur hour i am really trying to find something out of this that i like.  "camp" is not sufficient for me to overcome the poor pacing and obviousness.  after three episodes, i'm trying to find some part of the show to keep me engaged.  i'm a huge fan of science fiction but this seems to be written and acted in a way that leaves little to the imagination.  it's not that it has to be smart necessarily but this is so bordering on the un-intellligent that there's no place for subtlety and sloppy direction is turning these characters into mere caricature.  if you demand a bit more from your science fiction, i'd say look elsewhere or adjust your expectations.

One of the Worst Movies Made. Viewed: 3/06 Rate: 1  3/06: I've had the biggest misfortune to have seen Alexander because certainly that was one of worst pictures I have ever seen in my life. If I had to see it again, I couldn't be persuaded to think twice because that was one of the, if not the, worst ever. Alexander also has me questioning the greatness of Oliver Stone as a director, and I will have to be compelled to take his name off the Best Director list. How in the world did Oliver Stone go from awesomely made Platoon to totally wretched Alexander? Everybody was awful in Alexander, and the movie was so frigging long and utterly pointless in the sea of fogginess and confusion. A lot of cliches ravages Alexander as already the official prostitute, Angelina Jolie, reprises once again a slutty role; Colin Farrell, being a lame, pretentious Irish actor, plays in a non-Irish role; Anthony Hopkins plays an extremely pompous narrator and overly philosopher; Val Kilmer is acting like Jim Morrison once again; and Oliver Stone's overabundance of 70's atmosphere used in Doors, Natural Born Killers, and U-Turn. Natural Born Killers was bad. Any Given Sunday was worse. Alexander was the worst Oliver Stone picture of all time, seriously ranking one of the worst pictures of all time. It's a true hall-of-shame and a true hall-of-worst-pictures.

It is a Motion Comic - Not worth the money If you are expecting a comic book with little motion, then this is what you will get. It is no better than watching a picture moving back and forth. It is not a cartoon, it is not a movie. Very disappointing.

Great movie, DVD packaging sucks I loved The Social Network, saw it 9 times in the theaters. Just got my 2-Disc Collector's Edition DVD, and the packaging is terrible. The outer photo slicks come right off, and they're not keep-able. So you're left with an awkward, black slipcase that takes time to open. I would greatly prefer the traditional plastic case, which preserves the case artwork and titles and credits. Whoever designed this DVD package is just dumb.

We will bury you! CONTAINS SPOILERS! The Hollywood left has apparently ceased believing that allegorical screeds have to be entertaining to the masses.  This plodding, monotonous fable makes its message clangingly clear:  capitalism is uncannily evil; the U.S. military is diabolical; Westerners are greedy, vulgar, and weak; Middle-Eastern terrorists are simply poverty-stricken people driven to desperation.  And the West will collapse, buried by the symbolic sands of the third world. Worst of all, this film's creators imagine its audience to be so obtuse that its one character is scripted to scream out every dawning revelation that his own wicked employer and incompetent government care not a whit for him and would rather see him die than risk lawsuits and bad publicity.  The presentation of the amorality of these institutions is, in fact, so over-the-top that it totters on the rim of surrealism. Trapped in a primitive wooden box but totally dependent on modern technology, the protagonist utilizes a cell phone, flashlight, glow stick, and lighter.  But does he investigate a snake's burrow that likely leads to the surface or attempt to use a broken board to dig through a presumed three feet of loose, sifting sand?  Alas, there's no American ingenuity in this first-world everyman, who merely downs liquor and nerve pills and waits lamb-like for rescue.  He's metaphorically unmanned by an Arabian snake down his pants and his compliance in cutting off his own digit.  He haplessly shouts obscenities at helpful-minded females on the phone and even seeks hollow solace from his senile mother.  In his tomb-to-be, he embodies the liberal vision of Western society's doom.

made for tv quality movie not at all the hardcore battle movie i had expected.  - casting is not very good; the actor for the young conan is not even the same nationality as the adult conan nor even the actors playing his father and mother. plus, he's way too smallish to believe he'll grow into the giant body of conan. The mature Conan is even worse, looks like a model for JC Pennys  - Production and Direction is poor, from the opening sequence when a eleven year old conan at 70-lbs beats and kills a party of battle hardened barbarians....  the unrealism continues through the battles as you see a horseman get shot with an arrow the horse is thrown backward from a full gallop; in another scene a heavily armored wagon is thrown thirty feet into the air when the harness from the team of horses is broke in battle... 110-lb women throwing around 250-lb barbarians in battle, who knows why they couldn't cast better actors; these directors didn't even try.  - Make-up, and FX are poor; throughout the movie you'll get the feeling the actors all just got out of the salon... hair-do's are all heavily shampooed and conditioned, and after months pass in the story where the characters continue their quest, they remain clean and freshly shaven...  this looks like a movie made for television.

What a terrible Movie Without getting into too much detail, this movie was horrible.  It makes the first Ghost Rider look like a masterpiece.  If I could, I would send it back for a refund.

Defective I would rate zero.  Used item did not play and was defective. I sent it back to the wrong vendor and don't know if I will get it back for exchange.  My advice, don't buy used DVDs.

The worst of the worst. First, my credentials are that I am a second degree black belt & self defense expert with many years of Kyusho/Dim Mak experience. I teach only self defense techniques that really work.  I spent about $267 on this whole DVD series, but thank God I was able to get my money back! Every single thing about this series is even worse than substandard. I kid you not, there was even an attack demonstrated with a soup ladle!!! The techniques & the instruction were terrible. Even some of the Kyusho point locations were incorrect.  For those interested in qualty DVD instruction, I strongly suggest the DVDs by Evan Pantazi &/or Scott Rogers. Dragon Society International also offers good instruction, but the DVDs are expensive & the video quality is not so great. I had no intension of being mean spirited with this review. I am just trying to save someone some money & disappointment. I hope this advice has helped.   Sensei Glenn

worthless This disc wouldn't play in anything! we tried playing it in multiple devices such as dvd player blu ray ps3 xbox all said disc can not be read, very disappointed about this purchase.  As long as it took to get here and to not even work.

Troubling..... As someone who has seen loved family members die of cancer, I find the easy with which most of the other reviewers accept this crap is very troubling. I'm not saying you shouldn't try to lead a healthy life (eat well, maintain healthy weight, don't put weird crap in your body). I'm saying the logic they employ is faulty. I beg that anyone out there that is sick and thinking about forgoing modern medicine to pursue this type of treatment thoroughly research each aspect of the treatment BEFORE switching. And by research I mean, look up each of their claims. For a start, try Googling "Kirlian photography" and reading some of the sites. You might just find the "auras" they refer to can be created with non-living things like coins too and that this method was mostly used as parlor trick decades ago. I'd also like to point out that CBS's 60 Minutes did a report titled "21st Century Snake Oil" about the treatment center in Mexico.  If you do nothing else, at least research how new treatments are studied and approved. Look up and read about cancer research centers like MD Anderson in Houston and familiarize yourself with the clinical trial stages. After trying "Gerson Therapy", clinical trials might be your last chance to save/prolong your life.

It's definitely worth...avoiding I like zombie films.  I like comedy films.  I like horror/comedy films.  So I was predisposed to like this, especially after reading all the positive reviews here.  I knew going in that it was no Shaun of the Dead.  But I was under the impression that it was going to be a cute clever little low budget flick.  Unfortunately, I found it to be astonishingly bad.  Not tongue-in-cheek knowingly wink-wink bad.  Just bad.  Not so-bad-it's-good bad.  Just bad.  The script and the dialogue are awful, and the acting is so amateurish and godawful it's painful to watch.  I couldn't even make it through the whole film, and I never not watch a film through to the end.  I took it out of my DVD player and threw it in the trash. Don't get the wrong idea.  If someone dislikes something so much, that in itself might pique your interest.  You might think it would be worth a watch, just out of curiosity.  Don't waste your time, and don't waste your money.  Let me reiterate.  This is not a so-bad-it's good sort of film.  It's just bad.

Cornball So cheesy. Even the cover is lame. I'd rather watch paint dry. Or better yet, use this as a coated (shiny side up).

Run Away When I stop watching a movie that means it was just that bad. I believe I might have made it through about 15min of this movies before I could no longer sustain the mere thought of wasting any more of my life. This was just terrible on a whole other level. Every aspect of what makes a movie good was not at all incorporated into this movie. Just dont even bother.

Stupid Very, very sorry I paid good money to see this movie; the word 'stupid' is all that comes to mind. My cousin and I watched for about 30-40 minutes then couldn't take any more. It's an insult to the intelligence, NOT funny, juvenile, and the catty relationship between the protagonist and another bridesmaid (the bride's husband's bosses wife) is just embarassingly sophomoric. Save your money and your time.

Crap It's not a movie.  It's a couple of people with a camcorder.  And it's not funny or profound.  Can't believe I wasted this part of my life.

I'd rather be eaten by wolves than sit through that again. I think someone was trying to make a cerebral, modern day version of "Deliverance" and somewhere, something went terribly wrong. What an incredibly lame, illogical film. Skip skip skip it!

There is absolutely no conflict in this movie what. Seriously. You'd think in a movie about incest between two half brothers, you'd get loads of conflict and obstacles.  Not so much.  Honestly, they could've been next door neighbors with how no one ever confronts them about their relationship. I'm not even kidding. They act as if it's entirely normal in public and not one person asks them about it or ever and they never seem to feel like there's anything wrong with it, which is why I'm not entirely sure why it matters that they're related. And even when the one father and the mother worry about it, neither or them ever approach the kids about it so it's all pretty much a wasted opportunity in the conflict and character development department. Neither character really overcomes anything or changes because they're fine with their relationship in the beginning and fine with it by the end.  Game of Thrones handles an incestuous relationship ten million times more interestingly than this does.  Also, everyone seems to think their chemistry is great but I completely disagree. I've seen better chemistry between actors playing gay characters on soap operas. These guys are kind of awkward to watch.

Rated PG???  I DON'T THINK SO.  BEWARE TEACHERS! This movie is rated PG.  I previewed it the day before showing it to my 7th graders and it has female nudity--female without her top on--full view of both boobs.  Thanks a lot!  I can't show this to my kids in class.  What the heck.  I purchased it for nothing--unusuable.

Unedited...liars! I had the tape long ago, and seemed to have misplaced it.  So when I saw they had an unedited version of this wonderful childhood memory I bought it up.  After all, it seems many of the other versions have many flaws. Well, so did this one.  It seems to be heavily edited, sometimes in the middle of a song.  Also, it seems very dark, as if they used a bad version of a overused VHS tape.  There even seems to be commercial breaks - you know where it goes black and then they repeat the last scene before the TV ad.  Of course it could be that I just have a bad DVD but it seemed to be more edited choices than DVD problems. The end result makes me want to search for my old VHS tape or even go buy another.  Why screw up such a classic?  How hard was it to find a good, clean copy and to copy it on some good DVDs?  Unedited?  UNEDITED?  Liars!  LIES!  This is a horrible, butchered version of The Hobbit. Do not get unless you can find a DVD that is truly unedited!

Won't play I ordered this for my husband for Christmas and it would not play in our Blu-Ray player.  Called Amazon and they were nice enough to send us a new copy in case it was defective, second copy also won't play.  We did an update for our Blu-Ray player and yet still will not play.  Very disappointed, blu-ray player is only a year old and plays all other blu-rays but this one...why is that??

Disturbing.. My mom and i have seen both this, and the 2nd season at Freddy's a few times, and as it was written by the same author that did Anne Of Green Gables decided to give it a try. (never read the books, but thoroughly enjoyed the Anne of Green Gables movie mini-series.)  So far, my mom and i have only made it through the first 3 episodes and it's disturbing.  To sum it up:  Emily learns this weird spirit ritual incantation stuff from her young indian friend, and while it's done in a 'cute' kid way, there's still something obviously wrong with it. When her father dies she refuses to leave and attempts to 'call on the spirits' to bring him back. When she's forced to move in with her relatives, (and leave her indian friend) she apparently gives up this incantation stuff, however from the very beginning of the show she sees and talks to the dead, and also to 'herself' in the mirror.  Emily's aunt Elizabeth is shown as being very cruel and intolerant to her niece, (and her niece's cat,) yet she claims to love and serve GOD, and is constantly throwing the Bible in Emily's face, so-to-speak. Of course some of her aunt's cruelness comes from past regrets, but it still leaves a bad impression of what Christianity is.  While Emily is portrayed as a spunky, nice, cute young girl (who yells too much), she is indeed a bit of a rebel, and this show leaves much to be desired. The music they picked for the show, fits the overwhelming ghostly creepiness of it, but is rather annoying. I find myself turning the volume down, during the music parts when there's no one talking.  After watching the first episode i had hopes the series would get better, but the only redeeming quality the 2nd and 3rd episodes have are Emily's other lovable relatives Aunt Laura and Cousin Jimmy. However i'm not sure 'redeeming' is quite the right way to describe it, considering they both fear Aunt Elizabeth, and respect her to her face, for the most part, yet they do things behind her back, to reach out to Emily.  The main characters are well thought out, and differ in their personalities, that they clash, yet meld together quite well. However, most of the minor characters are harsh and mean, so it only adds to the darkness of the show.  As a Christian, i find all the talking to the dead, and the spirit incantation stuff rather dark, creepy, and in fact, un-Biblical.  After having read all the reviews from others, i doubt this series will get any better, and will probably end up selling it back somewhere else, due to the fact that at Freddy's when trying to buy it, the system didn't even recognize it, so had to go to a ton of rigamarole just to buy it.  No, i would not, in a million years recommend it to others, but that is merely my opinion, and i'm sure others will disagree with that, but that's your opinion, and i respect it. We're all different. =D

NOT A Horror Movie I'm a horror film junkie, & have watched some bad ones in my time, and I'd like to say this is one of them, but it's not, as it's just not a horror at all. I bought it on the premise it'd be spooky & have atmosphere, when all it ended up having was a couple of bangs in the night ! It is the worst excuse for a horror movie I've ever had the displeasure of wasting my precious time on, as well as my hard earned money, neither of which I can get back. If your like me & want to be spooked, don't buy this as it wouldn't even scare my cat !

Do not let your children watch this. Do not let your children watch this, unless you want them to be mentally stunted. SUCH a cheap grasp at recovering some of the original vigor and well polished cgi, not to mention scripting of the original happy feet.

The most undeserved Oscar winner ever! 1 star because there was no Zero. I won't rant, so I'll say it simply. This movie sucked. I saw "Chariots of Fire" in my late teens and like that better than this one viewed at an older, more mature age. This is the kind of movie the critics would fawn over-it's pretentious, over indulgent, and slower than glacier movement during the ice age. You give the Academy an English accent, and they need a cigarette after the flick. None of those things individually makes a bad movie. It's the way all are done together. I seriously think people liked it either because that was the trend to appear to understand film, or they were bought in by the sappy TV trailers that alone had women grabbing their hankies. The only thing worse than the movie, was watching the crowd view it. Years after this won, only "The Blind Side" came so close to insulting the intelligence of movie goers by disguising itself as quality film, backed by a good marketing team. But this is still the King of Crap for award winners. It's bad in general, but it has no place in the "Best" anything categories.

Hostel 3 very lame I love the gritty feel of the first two movies. This movie was way too septic and clean. A bunch of wimpy rich people set at a table with a computer terminals and bid on how the torturer victimizes his victim. They don't even have the nerve to do it them selves. This movie was terrible. Unless Eli Roth comes back please let this be the last one.

Terrible Movie! This movie starts out great - but falls apart within the first 15 minutes - what could have been a great plot turns into a spaghetti bowl cheesy lines, trumped up hero scenes, and you see actors flipping charactor attributes almost on a whim - I'd call it a bi-polar plot line - might have worked for the scene but you have to have charactor development - if I could get my $3.99 back I would - don't waste yours on this movie!  THis is the type of movie they out on SciFy channel - late at night to fill in white space  - wallpaper would be more enjoyable to watch!

Lousy print. For all the talk prior to release that this was restored, SADLY IT IS NOT. The print is only marginally better than the Image release of 8 years ago. A restored Technicolor film is sharp with solid colors unlike this washed out mess. Check out WHVs Robin Hood as an example of what this should look like.

Disgusting. Grotesque garbage.  Sick in every way.  I can't imagine the motivation to even make a movie like this.  I lost respect for every actor in this trash.

Christmas Cottage CHEESE This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen! Worst!  I was forced to watch this while on a plane. Made the flight seem twice as long.  Peter O'Toole hams it up as if he's doing a parody of himself. He looks like he belongs in a horror film playing the crazed mad scientist. His acting is so bad, I literally thought it was a joke at first, but apparently he was serious.  The plot is trite, the acting is horrible and the sets are cheap.  A junior high school drama class could have made a better movie.  This movie is now a Christmas tradition; my friend and I watch it together every year just for laughs.  Save your money; this is pure Christmas Cottage CHEESE.

B-O-R-I-N-G Emergency! was my favourite program back in the 70s.  I loved all the characters on the show.  These movies, however, were horrible!  Only Johnny and Roy were in them, and they weren't about Station 51 and their rescues at all (well, except for the flashback movie, and flashback episodes, while inexpensive to produce, are always boring).  As someone in a previous review pointed out, even Johnny and Roy weren't in them much.  I couldn't care less about any of the characters in these movies. Yes, by this time the writers must have been running out of ideas, but I'd still rather have seen Marco, Mike, Chet and Hank.  Some of the other reviewers pointed out things I didn't know, such as one or two of the movies as pilots for new series, and that's all well and good, but the story lines and characters were still boring.  If you're looking to buy this set with the idea of seeing Station 51 team at work, forget it.

Darn it I ordered three of the Mission Impossible DVD's but from different places. When I tried to watch this dvd, it would not play. It arrived in on time just wasn't able to watch it. Darn it.

Insulting to my intelligence This video is awful. It is a shame that people out there consider anything on The Discovery Channel to be informative. The whole video is based on the premise that the general public thinks the Freemasons are a "secret society" with "pagan" and "satanic" rituals, cryptic codes, and "influence" dangerous to the establishment. I find it hard to believe that any American could be this ignorant. Worst of all, the voiceover/narrator guy speaks with a sppoky, creepy, suspenseful vibe... it's just insulting to anybody's intelligence.

What a disaster I was so looking forward to this movie and then was slowly and badly disappointed.  For some reason I didn't bother to see who had directed it, but I should have known after finding out it was Tim Burton.  This is just my guess, but here goes.  The original movie tended to make people quite mad at what they were seeing.  To see Apes treat "humans" like we treat animals was both humbling and maddening.  I think many that watch the original think of ways to "get back" at the apes.  This movie came across as just that.  As a way for the human character to "take charge" and "get back" at those dirty apes.  Totally missing the entire point of Taylor having NO POWER to do anything about the situation.  This was their planet and Wahlberg's (probably didn't spell his name right) comment about him being in charge soon was just so utterly arrogant and stupid that as soon as he said that, the movie was over for me.  Then there is the general jumping around like a monkey - what??  No, again, Burton knows nothing and learned nothing from watching the original, if he ever did.  The ending was just so OMG stupid, there was no shock to it, no drama to it, just total nonsense.  Please do not waste your time with this total piece of crap.  Do yourself a huge favor and stay with the original.  Burton needs to retire and stay away from doing any more films.

Very Sad I ordered the Undertow foreign film from 2010.  I got an American Undertow from 2004 which had nothing to do with the movie I really wanted.  I did get full credit for the dvd & I was told I could reorder the dvd.  I figured I would go thorough the same situation and ordered it form TLA Video that specialized in gay and cult films.

Review of the actual case - not the movie themselves I love The Lion King trilogy, I have no complaints about the movies. This review is reviewing the box set it comes in.  The outside of the box is very lovely, with wood-like carving imagery on the outside. But once you open the case it comes in, you are in for a disappointment. The discs are in thin cardboard! There are no cases to hold the discs. You just slide them out of their "file" type thin cardbard. I can see this set getting very scratched in the near future if you watch these a lot. I only bought this set because I wanted all 3 movies. I suggest everyone wait and buy each separately in a appropriate blu ray case release. I would have rather had all three movies in actual blu ray cases inside this nice box, than this cheap, crappy drum. I expected much more, Disney...

review Does not play in any dvd player I have found. I would like to discuss exchange or other options available.

Oh my! This is a movie with a good message, but it is so full of foul language that we will not watch it again!

Awful. I couldn't even watch the whole thing, one of the worst movies I have ever seen in my life. I gave up within the first 20 minutes or so. Meant to be a family film?!?! No. I couldn't even sit with my 11 year old sister and watch this, it was that un-family friendly. So many things wrong with this, I didn't laugh once. Please don't buy it.

Bad movie Half Nelson is a long, boring movie that doesn't accomplish anything. There's a lot to do in life. Save yourself two hours by avoiding this film.

Horrible movie based on a great book I really did not like this adaptation of Stephen King's wonderful novel.  The acting left a lot to be desired and the screenplay strayed so far from the book that I almost wouldn't have recognized the story.  I don't even think I would have liked it if I hadn't already read the book.  I usually like to read the book that inspired the movie, or watch the movie that was based on the book, so I can get a full experience, but in this case I wish I had left the movie alone.

Great movie, crap quality disc Sat down to watch my new DVD of Hot Fuzz and lo and behold, it only plays about two-thirds of the way through before seizing up.  I tried playing it in three different devices.  No dice.  Crap quality.

How do you know if you shouldn't watch this? this is possibly the worst movie I've seen in as long as I can remember. And I'm a sucker for sappy, pointless love stories. This is just really bad. The dialogue is awful, the story line is worse. There is really nothing redeeming about this movie. Nothing.

Wrong item I ordered this item in England and expected an English version of the DVD but I got the USA version which of course does not work on my DVD player. I have tried to explain this to you without success. May i have my money back please.

awful A third of the movie is a mediocre remake of the 1st Spiderman movie. Another third of the movie was a bad teenage soap opera. The few action scenes were cliche and predictable. The Lizardman looked cheesy as hell. I didn't see much humor and fun in the film like I did in Sam Rami's Spidey movies. It was boring,

BUYER BEWARE... If you are just looking for a few random episodes, this DVD is peachy. However, the episodes you get are apparently different depending on which Rifleman Volume 1 DVD they decide send you - will you get 3 or 4 episodes? Which episodes will they be?... Who knows. Good luck.  This DVD was supposed to have 4 episodes: "The Sharpshooter", "The Marshall", "End of a Young Gun" & "Home Ranch", two of which written by Sam Peckinpah. Those are on the OTHER Rifleman Volume 1 - which is the one I ordered. But what is really on the disk I received is 3 episodes: "Mail Order Groom", "The Outlaw's Inheritance", & "Day of the Hunter".  Looking through the customer reviews, there are reviews from people who got the 3-episode disk, as well as the 4-episode disk, and then one review from someone who got 5 episodes! Ridiculous. Apparently, somewhere in the system, there is a drunk monkey randomly assigning which Volume 1 you will get. Just be aware, you might not get what you think you are getting.  I wanted 4 episodes & got 3. If you want the 3, you might get the 4. If anyone wants to swap, let me know.

Boycott - demand fullscreen treatment This is a delightful movie that merits a 7/10. But the shoddy treatment by the studio merits no stars. Movies should be released in the aspect ratio in which they were shown in the cinema. When's the last time YOU saw a movie in a theatre (or theater) that was 1:1.33?

Completely ridiculous and not based on ANY actual facts or science Don't waste your money on this junk.  It is not a factual science based documentary and there are SO many good REAL and TRUTHFUL DVDs out there.  The fact that this DVD completely IGNORES the science of nature is just SO FRUSTRATING.  PLEASE don't allow your children to watch this as you don't want them to grow up ignorant...they need REAL education based on REAL science.  Buy National Geographic's Journey to the Edge of the Universe instead!!!  A MUCH better and FACTUAL option.  This is simply a ridiculous sales video for religion and should not be taken seriously

Worst Movie I Have Ever Seen!!! This has it all if you like bad acting, boring stupid plot lines, and horrible direction.  This 84 minute movie is the WORST movie I have ever seen...And I do enjoy horror and suspense movies...I kept watching just to see if it got any better...it didn't!!!

Pathetic Being a vampire fanatic I was really looking forward to this movie. I was so disappointed. It was just pathetic. The voice overs were pathetic and boring. It wasn't bloody at all or scary, it shouldn't be considered a horror movie. Sooo happy I didn't buy it, only borrowed.

Christmas downer Just watched this with my 8-year-old daughter and she could not reach the Delete button fast enough when it ended.  It was so negative and filled with yelling, destruction, and anger.  I understand that conflict is required to move a storyline, but this is movie has only the thinnest thread of a storyline (Forte the organ wants to ruin Christmas and run Belle off, inexplicably), so the entire movie is Belle and castle creature friends trying to make Christmas lovely and Forte talking Beast into destroying the efforts.  Of course it all works out in the end but truly in about the last 90 seconds.  Nothing like inviting children to sit in front of an hour or more of almost non-stop hostility (with peppy interludes) and a last-second Christmas-is-saved moment.  Yippee and a Cranky Christmas to all....

bad copy Even though others have pointed this out, Amazon is still selling a terrible copy of this movie which contains commercials.  And not just commercials, but commercials that play across the top of the movie while the dance numbers are going on.  The copy I got was sent by Dancing Dolphin(Lola's Dream), and I will never buy from them again.  You can tell if you've gotten a bad copy by the following:  If the upper right-hand corner has "Movies on Demand" written on it, and the back has the words "Akai"  and "Air-Tel" written in red, then just send it back without opening it.  Also, the dvd case is cheap cardboard rather than plastic.  There is such a problem with some copies of Bollywood movies, that I hope people will describe what the outside cases look like when posting reviews so that others won't be stuck with cheap copies.

Flaws that are not allowed in any court happen in this movie How could it be possible that while the accused Louis Roulet is testifying, answering his lawyer, could speak straight to the jury, crying and making the statement of his innocence(while crying), and there's no objection by the disctric attorney or interruption from the judge himself?, big flaw in the movie screenplay. Behaviors that are not allowed during a trial are seen in here.

Very Stupid Movie This movie must be over-hyped by someone connected with the movie itself.  It is incredibly dumb.  The Stars promoted John Cleese, etc.) have very small roles in the movie.  John Cleese in only in the movie for a very very few minutes, and is not funny at all.  The main characters are the Little People (Midgets).  Its a total waste of time, very stupid, and certainly a waste of money.  Buy ANY OTHER MOVIE on Amazon.....it will be at least 10 times better than this VERY STUPID MOVIE.

Your typical apologetics... nothing new! It is very interesting the amount of strawman, ad hominem's and even deliberate dishonest tactics being used in this so-called documentary. During the beginning of the documentary they try to equate the higher criticism was liberalism and then attribute the thinkers such as Strauss as antisemitic. Anyone who has read Frederick Strauss work that he attributed much of the Gospel accounts of Jesus as mythic creations. The earliest mention of higher criticism being equated with antisemitism is in an article titled "Higher Criticism, Higher Antisemitism," written by a rabbi who is complaining that the Higher Critics do not allow for Jewish Scholars to lay claim to the authenticity of the rabbinic claims of Jewish origins.  In many cases their conflation of Higher Criticism with Liberalism is based on a modern understanding of liberal politics, when in reality liberal politics in the 1920s had very many of the same traits that conservative politics have today.  They also make the most astounding use of an appeal to authority by claiming that this one fringe New Testament Scholar says that all the books of the New Testament could be dated before 40CE. And the most ridiculous claim being made above all is this conflation of this notion that of a scholar is going against the mainstream of his own school of thought he is to be taken credible on face value, and they use an analogy of law to get this across. Of course the difference is that in legal courts an expert is taken in to give information about evidence they deem to damning and then they bring in a second expert to verify independently of the other expert that this is what the evidence seems to point to and on the defendants side they bring in an expert to dispute the evidence. It may be one or the other. That being said however, these experts are in no way trying to convince other experts of their errors, they are in fact trying to convince the judge or the jury. In peer-review, you are supposed to provide evidence, interpretation of that evidence and a conclusion based on a follow of examination of the evidence through methodology to convince your peers who will rip it apart piece by piece in an attempt to falsify or find any errors. There is a huge difference in method and presentation of evidence and the crowd in which they convince between the legal system and academicians.  Another issue with this is that having a fringe academic and those who agree with him does not make him credible. What makes a case by a fringe academic credible is the evidence, method and conclusions they come and how many have been convinced by his case.  Basically, a bad DVD to buy if you are a skeptic, a good documentary if you are an apologist and wish to use bias to interpret evidence and would get a feel for the various strawman arguments to use in a debate to convince the gullible of your case.

One of the most boring Movie The Movie is super boring. I was expecting more coming from Adam Sandler!!! I regret buying this movie!! He has had great movies but this would be one of the worst movies I've seen. Makes me just want to return the movie since I wont be watching it again!

Absolute Rubbish!! This DVD is just an expensive cocktail coaster.  This movie is so bad- the Trailer will put you to sleep.........

DON'T EVEN BOTHER RENTING IT This is one of the best acted BAD movies I have ever seen. The problem is with its stupid script and inept direction.  For those who know anything at all about airplanes or wolves or survival skills, YOU are way ahead of the ignorant twit who came up with this film's script.  Time and again there are huge plot holes regarding these three facets of the story of a small group of men attempting to survive in the arctic after their plane has crashed and they are being attacked by a pack of wolves.  Virtually no attempt is made to keep bare hands covered and warm ... and oddly none of the men seems to suffer from the cold to any major extent. Probably the stupidest scene is where two people went into a stream, and when Liam Neeson's character got out in soaking clothes, he wasn't cold at all - he just wore his wet clothes till they dried out from his body heat ... or whatever, never even shivering as he strolled along.  There are only two short "good" scenes in the whole film. In one of them, Neeson's character helps a dying man get through his ordeal. In another, a depleted man sits down and makes it clear that he will go no farther, because back in civilization his life is just crap. A few scenes try to be "philosophical" about religion and God and faith, but they fall flat, chiefly because they are too one-sided towards atheism.  The ending leaves one rooting for the wolves, who seem to have the mindset of the worse apes in PLANET OF THE APES. Why? Because the men are basically a disease in their territory, and perhaps in every territory, and are best eradicated.

Lousy film vaccine, please! *** SPOILER ALERT ***  A terrible and shockingly dull film with ZERO emotion that plays like a medical text book slash PSA (public service announcement) and has blonde, white American Gwyneth Paltrow contracting a scary virus in Hong Kong because she ate pork and touched the chef inappropiately (i.e. his hands). Oh, my: those filthy, dirty Asians infecting good, clean Westerners!  Shame on Soderbergh and the cast for committing to this project. I wasted $3.50 renting this DVD and I want a refund from the producers.  P.S. I'm white, female, American and not of Asian origin. And I'm truly mortified.

What a waste... The first 10 minutes or so I was thinking this movie wont be too bad, maybe the critics got this one wrong as they do with many films, but nope they were right this movie flat out stunk.  The acting was awful, the script...was there a script???  was flat out lame and the special effects were not impressive. I cant believe they actually shot this in 3D, ouch. I personally started to fall asleep towards the end. If you want to see this flick just hit up the local red box. Forgive me Father for watching this film, have mercy on my soul.

Love.  For Sale. Really?  This is why I shun nearly all musicals anymore.  Sing what needs to be sung; speak what needs to be said.  And this might have been more enjoyable... just maybe - if that had been the case.  The songs were just awful to begin with.  The forced rhymes and lyrical stupidity.  The checklist of one of each type of expected broadway song.  The bad bad acting.  Idina Menzel baffles me.  She is truly frightening to look at, like a shark in leather pants, and her voice's nearest approximation would be a cat strangling itself.  The whole story is as thin as onion skin and not one of the actor's invests any energy into their character - the exception would be Angel.  And not one of them made me care one iota.  Bleh.

bad the disc blu ray 3d do not coming. I regret having purchased. should review the package prior to dispatch and minimize inconvenience to customers.

Not happy with the packaging Although the movie worked just fine (I tested it) the packaging of the DVD box itself was horrible.  The cover was wrinkled and crumbled and had half of the protective plastic hanging off of it.  This was a Christmas gift for my husband, but I instead gave it to him early so that if he decided not to keep it, the choice would be his.  He decided that since the movie played well we would keep it.  I don't think anyone should have to receive a gift that looked all wrinkled like that.

Dolphin dvd Unfortunately, I didn't play the dvd until almost 2 months after i purchased it.  But it doesn't work.  I have a new blueray player and every  other dvd/blueray works.  I have lost my window to return it.  I am very disappointed.

5 star movie but 1 star for garbage ultraviolet I hope the message is loud and clear by the reviews ultraviolet is not a true digital copy. I don't want to have to be dependent on an internet connection for a "digital copy." I really wanted to purchase this blu-ray but refuse to purchase due to ultraviolet replacing what should have been a true digital copy.

Not what I thought When I first discovered this title, Brain Dead, I thought it was the long awaited expos&eacute; of liberal intellectuals in America.  It was not.  Bummer.  Just another run-of-the-mill fantasy romp.

What and what Hahahahahahahaha, my wife and I tried to sit through this movie. and Alas, WE MADE IT!!!!, barely. First let me say this Harrison Is looking reeeeeeeeeeeeeally Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally old, second of all. Daniel Craig, while he did and incredible job in " Casino Royale" was apparently told in this movie, to do what he did in that movie. I'm sorry, but his expressions never changed in this movie. Except at the end, where he showed briefly a smile as he rode off into the sunset. Secondly, the plot and yes I'm going to spoil it for some of you, aliens show up in the old west for.................. wait for it............................. Gold. Oh and the girl in the movie, is also an alien, only she's tracking the other aliens after they destroyed her planet. She's here to help, and that's the movie. Yep, now while I like Harrison ford, and Daniel craig. They seemed miscast in this movie, well Ford at least, he looked like he was going to have a stroke or heart attack at any moment, craig just seemed misused. But the big problem with this movie was that it didn't know what it wanted to be, and Sci-fi mixed with Westerns never work out. Go look into the archives, they're called B-movies. And yet somehow, alot of people thought this was awsome movie, nope nope nope. It wasn't, not even close.

Typical Hollywood Drivel Yet another failed attempt by Hollywood to use beautiful animation and graphics (which the movie does have)in an attempt to overcompensate for a lackluster performance in every other area. Also, it leaves out a few important aspects from the book.  This movie is a shell of the Sim or Scott version. I doubt I will watch it even a handful of times through the coming years.  If all you care about is animation, this is probably the film for you and your family. If you appreciate cinema for character development, acting, and realism, this is not the movie for you.

it is actually the movie that is horrible awful, i really couldn't finish watching it, it was that bad. although i do enjoy a good three stooges film, this is just moronic and truly a waste of ones time.

Not correct dvd Was expecting dvd but received a double feature dvd.  Item misrepresented.  Have to be more careful of items ordered to be sure same as displayed. Wil watch out foe\r anything sold by Icydeals.

Seabiscuit --HD DVD Although we have an HD Sony LCD 46" TV and Sony BluRay DVD player, the HD DVD will not work on our system.  We learned that an HD DVD player is required to play Secretariat.  With a $500 Sony BluRay player, we will not buy another unit--a disappointing situation.

Not worth a moment of your time... This pov(point of view) camera technique is pointless and just relentless to the point of destroying any semblance entertainment.  Gets in the way of the movie. Build an Ark, better use of time.

What a waste of time This is a horrible movie. Jonah Hill is terrible (as he is in almost everything) and channing Tatum is just plain bad always. The movie is hokey and lame, and patently not funny. this is 2 hours of my life I wish I could have back to watch, well, just about anything else. Save yourself the time - don't waste it on this garbage.

Wish it was the original Some of the voices have been redone and lines changed. I quit watching as soon as I noticed that it wasn't the original. My Blue-ray disc copy will become a Christmas present for family and my VHS copy just became more valuable to me.

No iTunes Digital Copy :( I enjoyed buying the BluRay + DVD + iTunes digital copy versions of movies.  Mainly wanted the iTunes version, getting the BluRay disc was just an added bonus.  If I can't play the movie on AppleTV or iOS devices, it is useless to me.  Guess I'll just have to buy the digital only versions from iTunes.  Oh yeah, saw the movie in the theater, pretty funny.

Awful! I'm so disappointed. I absolutely love Jennifer Aniston, and I've always enjoyed her movies, so I assumed I'd like this one, too. Alas, this is one of the worst movies I've seen in a long time. Ms. Aniston's performance is OK, as is the performance of Brooklyn Decker. However, the other main actors' performances are awful. The script is horrendous. I really wish I hadn't wasted my money. Just really, really bad.

Unable to obtain this DVD from Amazon I have been instructed by the live chat line to submit a feedback about this product in here. I tried to order this DVD but it will not send it to my address. The issue is to do with the region of the DVD.  The DVD is region 1 and I am in Australia region 4. This I know, but why does the ordering system REFUSE to send it to me? I HAVE a region free player, I HAVE ordered region 1 DVDs from amazon before... So what is the problem?  Something has obviously changed in the way the program cross references items to areas but I think you need to fix this problem! Why is an ordering system restricting me from obtaining a DVD because of different regioning? Is it trying to prevent me from making a silly mistake? Or is it just poor programming?  I can play that DVD here, please send it to me!!!

Boring ,bad and not sexy. It is very much lacking for this to be called a good movie.The main problem for this movie is the story. It is totally absent.Another thing is the acting performances. It is far below average grade. But the worst of all: I was bored.For after watching 20 minutes of the movie, I pressed the fast forward button on the remote control. I had seen enough.  So do yourself a favor.Save your time and money on this film.I can assure you that there are better movies in this category that are worth a purchase.Try Gregory Dark`s "Mirror Images 2" with Shannon Whirry.It is so much more sexier than this rubbish movie.

To avoid This is the perfect recipe for turning a fascinating and dramatic piece of History into a Hollywood non sense. The next movie "Marie-Antoinette" starring Kirsten Dunst was not better, music was awful, and the lead actress dreadful to watch...

Scooby Doo: Curse of the Lake Monster We love Scooby-Doo...But this was horrible.  The acting was really bad. Freddie was a brunette...what's up with that?...Freddie has always been a blond.  All the costuming looked horrible including Shaggy's hair.  I give this a one star because there was nothing lower.  I would suggest renting it before purchasing it.

Extremely biased documentary - do not watch unless you are a Fatah or Hizbolla fan What can you expect from an extremely left wing organization that has promotion of self-hate as its core agenda? What a waste of time. A great platform for Jew haters (and self hating Jews) that can lash out under the guise of humanitarian concerns. It's the new antisemitism, no less.

I terminated it at 32:31. What's going on?  Why should I care about these characters?  Then I found myself asking why I even care how it ends.  Seriously, try to see this movie without any additional incremental out-of-pocket expenses before you plunk down real money and take up valuable DVD shelf space.

Not good The Case was torn up the movie had lots of scratches and had somthing on it I did not like the condition it was in did not play the movie to see if it works because I dont want it to mess up my dvd player

Pathetic Not funny.  How does this dude get booked?  In my humble opinion, a total waste of time.  Sorry, but this guy is a loser.

Goofy! The video is goofy, the setting is pathetic, the music is terrible, and they hardly work your arms at all.  The front girl can't dance for anything, and the two in the back are too busy trying to look cutesie!  This is the stupidest video I have ever seen!

Awful Don't know which is worse, the book or the movie.  Premise is ludicrous.  Characters are one dimensional. Want to learn about economic theory?  Start by not wasting your money on this.

The most disturbing, sick, abomination ever to make it to the screen. I am 53 years old. I grew up with horror films. It has been one of my "guilty pleasures" since I was a kid. Zombies, ghosts, serial killers, goules: I love'm all. All that being said, this is the only movie I have ever actually had to get up and leave the room over. It is nothing more than cold, detached, brutality. It is like putting on the bloody clothes of Jeffry Dahmer, and hugging your kids while wearing them. Indeed, this movie makes me feel like some sick voyeur tagging along with the kind of person who would molest children, kill them, and dismember their body. It feels like what it would be like to stand by, powerless to intercede, while the entire act is played out before your eyes. If it were possible, I would erase every memory of ever seeing this film. I am tempted to write the NetFlix company and make a STRONG complaint for not making a stern warning part of the review (or even stocking it at all.)  If you value your piece of mind, just pass this film by. Consider me a friendly time traveler warning you about making a dumb future decision.

Disappointed! I'm sure the subject content is good, but I haven't seen it. I reordered the correct cd version from another supplier and had the replacement delivered. My dissappointment is with JJoyBooks; this was a Christmas present ordered in error for someone out of state. I have requested return and credit info three times  through Amazon with no response from JJoyBooks.

God. I see a lot of movies. This is one of the worst. Let me put it at this-if you like this, much like if you're a fan of Disaster Movie, Epic Movie, Bucky Larson, Jack and Jill, Meet the Spartans, etc-you are an idiot. Your brain capacity is too low to handle funny comedy, and I think that this is a seriously important issue, that there are people out there not smart enough to enjoy Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. Everybody who likes this movie is an idiot, and you need to stop watching movies until you are forced to see The Godfather so many times that the definition of a great film is implanted inside your brain.

Dishonesty at it's best! The fervor with which people create dishonest "documentaries" like this is just incredible to me.  That he would pack so much BS into this to scare the public is just insanity.  Most people lack the critical thinking or life experiences to see thru his veil of lies.  He did not just supersize his meals.  Most of the meals he would take away two cups of something.  It stands to reason that one cup was a soft drink and the other a large shake.  You can also see him eating many sundaes.  To someone who has not had food allergies, you might not recognize that his chest pain and vomitting are signs of a food allergy.  Also, if you are allergic to foods, your body reacts to them much like poison, so your liver is going to work overtime to get them out of your system.  I would expect the doctors to have told him that.  If not, they are not very good doctors.  If they did tell him that, then he editted that bit of information out of the movie.

The Worst Western EVER Made This movie defines AWFUL. In fact awful is a polite term for this rotten film.  Michael Madsen must have needed money REAL bad to be in this turkey. Despite being listed as the "star" of the film, his character has no real involvement in the film.  The script is atrocious. The "acting" is merely horrible in comparison.  The special effects are neither special nor effective.  I've been better cinematography in an amateur YouTube video. You also have an 1887 library with paperback books and a town that looks way too modern with streets that aren't mud but instead have crushed rock.  Finally the container for this DVD shows an entirely different film by its pictures and descriptions than what you wind up seeing.  Some reviewer named Stuart Alson says this is the best movie Madsen has done since "Reservoir Dogs". My response? Mr. Alson needs to be given a drug test - several in fact. I want to know what he was drinking, snorting, and/or smoking to make that comment.  Even though I got burned by buying this thing, I'm glad I got it second-hand. Some other fool made Lionsgate a few bucks, not me. I concur with other reviewers who say avoid this film at all costs. Wish I had seen those reviews before entering my local Hastings Entertainment outlet. Furthermore, I would think twice before buying ANYTHING from Lionsgate based on the trailers available on this DVD.  This film is without question THE WORST WESTERN EVER MADE. If you have someone you don't really like, give them this turkey of a film as a gift. Their misery will give you the best joy from this indescribably lousy film.

Television History TV History reveals new and fascinating facts, either hitherto unknown, or previously ignored.  Viewers are informed, twice, that at least two general officers in the Continental Army shaved with cold water, one of them being the army's commander-in-chief.  While Treasury Secretary, Alexander Hamilton became legendary for his hospitality, and especially for the generous helpings served to guests on a groaning dinner table. His expertise in carving a roast may have originated years earlier in a small cabin on the outskirts of Trenton, New Jersey, where the inventor of American banking put aside his duties as colonel of artillery to slice up a half dozen Hessians.  Colonel Rall, commanding the Germans, certainly took his time getting dressed for work. All those enemy troops storming past his bedroom window don't seem to have distracted him from getting his necktie on straight.  By contrast, Colonel Glover is portrayed as somewhat of a fashion emergency. And at the pivotal conference prior to the Battle of Trenton, he makes a scattered, rambling, speech on wig etiquette.  Among the hardships suffered by the Continental Army's rank-and-file, a shortage of pipe tobacco appears to be a close runner-up to the shoe shortage: They're reduced to toking up cornsilk.  Bookseller turned ballistics expert Henry Knox is relegated to comic relief, a sort of Oliver Hardy in period costume.  And those poor Hessians can't seem to escape the slur that they were hung-over on duty. Not much truth to this, ditto for the "mercenary" label these hapless losers can't seem to shake. When it comes down to it, they were shanghaied. But never mind, movies are about entertainment. Whoever choreographed their antics must have had a sense of humor: With those outlandish uniforms, they pass for Keystone Cops. And the extras really seem to enjoy hamming it up.  After an hour and a half of loopy dialogue and low-budget props, I did manage to score a few laughs. But wait. Something was missing. This film was shot up in Canada. So why isn't there any snow and ice? Wasn't that the whole thing about Trenton? The harrowing night march and daring assault in the dead of Winter?  There is a redeeming moment. Reality intrudes when one of Washington's staff suggests that all wars are basically about money. The famously stony Father of His Country nods in grudging agreement.

Digital Copy Warning Loved the movie, saw it in IMAX when it came out.  Giving it one star due to deceptive and inaccurate listing by the studio and Amazon.  Amazon and the studio failed to disclose this is an UltraViolet digital copy.  You cannot load this into iTunes and can view it only by streaming. This means if you want to watch while you are not on wi-fi, you will be chewing through your data plan.  To access the digital copy, you will are required to open a Flixster AND UltraViolet accounts, link them together and allow they access to all activity and information when accessing either account.  I am returning this movie and purchasing my digital copy from iTunes directly.

Missing footage and poor video quality Well, you know what they say, "You don't miss what you've never had." That's so true. I thought this was a great set, and I gave it three stars, only because of video and audio quality. Until I dug a little deeper and found quite a few key pieces missing. To see exactly what's missing, look here: http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=3839  For the most part, the video quality is ... OK... Livable... but on several of the DVDs the quality is grainy. As if some DVDs had greater compression than others. I'm getting pretty sick of over compressed and poor quality video DVDs.  Two episodes had, for lack of a better word, "jumps" in them. For example, in 'Biggles Dictates A Letter', Biggle is repromanding his secretary for calling him "Se&ntilde;or Biggles". He proclaims, "Don't call me se&ntilde;or! I'm not a Spanish person. You must call me Mr Biggles, or Group Captain Biggles or Mary Biggles if I'm dressed as my wife, but never se&ntilde;or." but in this DVD it jumps, "Don't call me se&ntilde;or! I'm not......ary Biggles if I'm dressed as my wife, but never se&ntilde;or." I've written A&E asking for replacements but never get a reply.  On three of the DVDs, the 'PLAY ALL' feature doesn't cue properly and skips the middle episodes. One must go into the main menu and play the individual episode.  These DVDs do have subtitles, which is good, because many of the A&E releases don't include subs. A&E needs to address this problem. Although many of the subtitles were just plain incorrect, these subtitles DID make this set much more understandable to the ear.  None the less, A&E is a far cry from the company it was in the 80s. Stop over compressing the video. Stop cropping the frames. Stop leaving out subtitles. Stop advertising a product as having "every single skit" (if it doesn't) and START producing quality DVDs worth watching. More QA ! If need be, charge the extra $10, or whatever, and do it correctly. They will STILL sell.

Can't ever get those 2 hours back This was clearly one of the worst films ever made. Whenever my wife suggests I have made a error in judgment (daily), I reminder that she insisted that we go watch this movie.

Awful. I had high hopes for this movie since it appeared to be in the vein of the other recent Grindhouse releases (Death Proof, Machete, Planet Terror), and it had Quentin Tarintino's name slapped on the front as Executive Producer.  Sadly, this movie lacked everything.  Larry Bishop seems to be trying way too hard (his acting is just awful).  The plot is weak and hardly makes sense, the characters are undeveloped, and it was all around boring.  Big name actors here, but none of them could save this film.  This movie is not worth even the $7 it costs here on amazon.  If it was free, it still wouldn't be worth your time.

Not good This movie makes Cars 2 look like a grand cinematic achievement. This is the same formulaic sequel garbage that movie studios keep pumping out in order to keep the cash flowing.

never recived my movie :( i never recived my movie i guess paying low cost means no movie im so sad about it never got a email saying that it would come so i guess that was my first clue

terrible movie It will be a waste of your time and your kid's time. Get something else!!! Not worth the money. thanks jeepers media!!!

Pirates of Penzance This DVD was totally unwatchable.  It appeared that it was a negative print - everything was dark and reversed.  I will not buy this product again.

BEWARE - TV VERSION instead of Movie version. Blade II was 2.35 on DVD but this version is the 1.85:1 TV version. The same as the ALLIANCE version from CANADA last year. The new BLADE and BLADE 3 are in the correct format.

Needs warning; Bad Movie How on earth did anyone find a reason to give this total waist of time and money anything more than one star? A 'nowhere man' enters a drug trial that makes him think he has super powers. Looks like it was filmed on a home cell phone. Drug company tries to silence him to save money. Grass makes you think of pizza. Camoflage makes you immune to a hit and run. If this post seems a bit disjointed, you are getting a sence of this senceless plot. DON'T WAIST YOUR TIME OR MONEY.

Kate! How could you? Negatives: (1.) Just in reading the liner notes on the back cover of the DVD without knowing a thing about the movie I knew it was going to be a white middle class professional love triangle centered in NY (and most likely, like all others of this genre, would have overhead shots of Central Park and of restaurants and bars and parties) and guess what? Demographics for this genre also marginally exist in LA and elsewhere of course but the inspiration can know only one source - the cloistered nor'easterner. (2.) It was going to be another in a long line dating back to the '20s and put out every four years because human memory of blandness is short and so another chick flick (and a few guys I'm sure) NY centric romantic comedy survives to infect again. (3.) More of the same misunderstood love triangle with the usual fourth unappreciated advisor type who is also a potential love interest (known only to the audience of course). Boring. So, is this yet another example of American creative decline?  Positive: (1.) kate is creatively capable of a much more substantial role. (Shouldn't that be a negative you ask? NO, because she will learn from her mistake and also use the money for some great humanitarian greater good.)

Just Pitiful I love Phantom of the Opera so much and the music is beautiful. So I just knew this was going to be awesome. Well it's not, it's pitiful, there is not one good song in it and the story line doesn't fit with what happened in Phantom. I would not recommend this movie. Don't waste your money or time. Sad to say it simply is not worth it.

Quality is key I wish I'd seen this site before I purchased this beloved classic. I wouldn't take this DVD from Alpha Video if they gave it away for free.  They should be made to return the money of all who purchased it.  I am sincere in stating that the picture/sound quality is less than a 3.  The movie itself deserves so much better than this trash release.  The one star I've given is only for the movie content(which itself is 5 star)

Sorry Movie If I could have rated it a NO Star I would have. Terrible script, sorry volume control, no information that isnt avail. online.  Would LOVE to have my money back so I could rent something worthwhile.  Dont waste your money.  Go to Netflix and see more, better, NOW and free.

Don't Buy Anywhere! I bought this movie from Target and I wish I had checked the reviews on Amazon before I purchased it. I am so unhappy. I saw part of Life with Father on Turner Classic Movies and the sound a picture quality were sooooo much better. Avoid buying this movie ANYWHERE!

not Universal Studio copy - poor copy This DVD is not from Universal Studio as is claimed.  It is a marginal copy from Good Times Video.  The movie is good, but this copy is not.

Painted blue? Not Scary.  Boring.  Disappointing.  Grudge by far better.  Supplement yourself with, A Tale of Two Sisters, 3 Extremes, or Audition instead.

One word "starlost". Enough said. this series was so bad I can only compare it the atrocious canadian series "starlost." I actually wanted everyone to die. It was that bad.  nothing like ending a wonderful franchise with a fizzle.

Calling A Film "Carrie" Without Carrie Is, Well...Scary! I flat out refused to even view this tepid turkey for several years on principle alone. Carrie White DIED at the end of the film "Carrie", so I have to wonder how in the h*ll can there be a sequel?!?! Anyways, I finally let my morbid curiosity get the better of me when I came across a copy of this on VHS a few years ago for only $3.  When someone goes to Hell in a burning house in the first film, that ought to be pretty sequel-proof, don't you think? And you'd think Amy Irving (whose character is the lone survivor in the first picture's slaughter finale) would run screaming from a follow-up. But no, we have to go through the Carrie Thing again, with Irving playing a school guidance counselor and Emily Bergl playing Rachel, a Different Kind of Girl with the ability to send coffee cups flying. Only reason to watch this: the grisly reward Irving receives for being in this picture.  "Carrie" was genius. This is trash! No Sissy Spacek. No Brian De Palma. No Piper Laurie. No "They're all gonna laugh at you!". No characters called Carrie. No soul. No pulse. No point. As generic in every aspect as Brian De Palma's original was inventive.  How dare someone give this piece of garbage 5 stars???!! I believe that everyone has the right to their own opinions, but the prints to this film should have been burned by the studios before it got released on the unsuspecting public. This is considered one of the all-time worst films ever. But, if people like it, more power to them, but don't ever question MY taste in films just because I don't.  As for "The Rage" (I refuse to acknowledge this garbage as "Carrie 2"), even Stephen King hated this trash so bad that he remade his novel "Carrie" so people could have a modern day version of the Carrie story. However, "The Rage" had NOTHING whatsoever to do with De Palma's classic horror film "Carrie"! I know, they wrote that Rachel is Carrie's half sister, but how lame. That was also done in "Halloween 2", another useless sequel.  The current edition uses the original as a blueprint, but leaves out all the wit, sympathy and bravado. Though ideas and scenes are shamelessly recycled from "Carrie" and other horror pics - including gratuitous inserting of some 1976 clips - "The Rage" seems hellbent on diluting every exploitable aspect.  Maybe there's a real use for this film after all. Stand it up against the original, and you have a pretty good lesson in what's happened to the movies in the last couple of decades.  This simply repeats the story without extending it; it's little more than "Carrie" without the embarrassing '70s threads and puffy hair, and with some "hey dude" updating of the teen dialogue. It's also "Carrie" without the skill, intensity or excitement of the original. It's a prime example of the pointless remake, adding nothing substantial and only making its predecessor look even better.  Even among the misguided, unethical, numskull ranks of so many, many film producers, it's hard to believe anyone had the idea to revisit Brian De Palma's "Carrie", which enjoyed a certain perverse perfection and narrative completion.  "The Rage" is the kind of film that gets unintentional laughs. They happen when Sue takes Rachel to the site of the burned-out old high school, where nobody has even cleaned up the rubble after 20 years, and every time there's a flashback to the original movie, mostly showing Sissy Spacek covered in blood. Yes, the central character visits the scorched wreckage of the old high school, which, for no discernible reason, has been allowed to stand for 20-odd years. Of the many clumsy sequences in "The Rage: Carrie 2", this one was one of the lamest.  The original "Carrie" helped launch both Stephen King and Brian De Palma into their respective big leagues and kicked off the whole gutted teen genre. Unlike the truckload of horror flicks that followed it, "Carrie" didn't rely on knife-wielding bad boys in scary masks for its frights, but on a gawky little slip of a girl - which was, in lots of ways, much scarier.  What makes a movie like "The Rage" difficult to pull off is that its entirely lacking in suspense. The bad kids may pull their cruel stunts, but we all know that once they really piss her off, their puny spear guns will be no match for Rachel's Incredible Hulk anger-management style. Because the movie's all about bad coping skills, Rachel can't let her anger leak out a little at a time - she's got to grit her teeth until she finally, cataclysmically, loses her cool. What this means is that most of the action takes place in the last few minutes, as bodies are impaled, castrated, decapitated, drowned and creatively dispatched via flying CDs in such rapid succession it's hard to tell what's going on in all the grisly mayhem. All that's certain is that it's really gross and it's over really fast. Before then, and for a huge chunk of the film, "Rage" actually bears no resemblance to "Carrie" whatsoever! Best to avoid this garbage! Thank you! :>)

Which movie are we talking about here? What could be more confusing than this listing. Is this DVD The Immigrant or is it Eric McDonald's documentary about Eric Campbell?

So Bad It Actually Made Me Sick I would love to give this movie 0 stars, but that is not an option.  Having said that, this is by far and large the worst movie that I HAVE EVER SEEN.  In fact it was so horrible that the editing actually physically made me ill.  (YES I BARFED)  If you have seen the movie then I am sure you understand, if you haven't seen it then you really don't want to know what I mean.  I have never dropped acid or eaten any magic mushrooms but apparently the director overdosed on all available hallucinogenics while making this movie.  WORST MOVIE EVER!!!!! YES IT IS THAT BAD.....

Does not work I have ordered multiple items from Amazon and have never had a problem with any of the items I've purchased until now.  This "Office Space" DVD will not play in either of my DVD players.  I'm greatly disappointed in this company and will be sure to avoid Amazon purchases through them in the future if I'm unable to rectify this situation.

One star, because there aren't zero starts Most god awful movie I've seen in a long time.  Painfully bad.  Wish I could get my money and time back.

Group should be renamed Sorry, the purile crap produced by these "musicians" surpasses the term "bites" as might be associated with the creature named the eel. I think the group should rename itself "Remora", because for the love of GOD this group and its music SUCKS! This is definitely America where everyone can truly make a substantial living even for producing irritating noise. The limited success of this group also illustrates that people will buy anything no matter how dreadful the product. The existance of this group should discourage all efforts to eliminate the pirating of music because the crap produced by these people certainly doesn't justify the expenditure of any money.

no no no to ultraviolet digital copy, no no no if it doesnt have regular digital copy i will not buy it. im used to putting my digital copies in my iTunes and i have no use for something extra just because they wanna be childish about it trying to keep Apple out of the loop.  no no no.

Really? This doesn't try to "answer" anything.  It is a disjointed piece of maudlin garbage.  There is no understanding of how imagery is supposed to work.  Don't waste your time, wash clothes or something.

Worst historical depiction ever With certainty, others may have more egregious nominees than this one; however, this is perhaps my least favorite film ever.  Which is not to say it is the least historically accurate, but it would win my vote for that distiinction as well.  Jeanne d'Arc is my patron, and I watched the film in the hopes that it would provide insights that cannot be depicted in words alone.  What we do know of her is that at the very least she was humble, not only in origin but in practice.  She also only spoke when pressed to do so.  Having met understated practitioners of humility, none of them scream like a lunatic, which is exactly what Jeanne does in the movie for the entirety.  The thought that a raving lunatic would sway nobility from a local baron to the dauphin that would become Charles VII is laughable.  I really cannot provide further detail because every scene entices such cringing from the woeful depiction that I conside having watched it an act of self mortification on my part.  If you want a less distasteful, less distracting, less painful depiction of Jeanne d'Arc, look elsewhere.

OK Good movie not worth the 3.99 to rent it the video quality was sub par and it is the only video from amazon that I have rented that had to buffer

what a stinker We like family oriented movies at times.  We love Under Dog, Cats and Dogs and ect.  However, we were sorely disappointed with this movie.  It looked funny and since I grew up reading the Marmaduke comic strip...it should have been funny.  It had the voices of some rahter famous people including Keifer Sutherland, Sam Elliot, George Lopez and Owen Wilson.  However, whoever chose Owen Wilson to voice Marmaduke must have been beat with the stupid stick.  Wilson's voice is not "big" enough plus his flighty personality is not what one would get from a Great Dane.  Scooby Doo had a more masculine voice and personality than Marmaduke.  Also, Carlos (the fluffy cat voiced by George Lopez) was hardly in the movie?? I have the same problem with the "Chupadogra" character (Sam Elliot).  The viewer gets one lecture from Chupadogra then that's it??  Plus, like other reviewers, why did the movie start and end with a fart joke??  Is that the movie's idea of coming full circle???  Scooby Doo had a fart joke in it and it was a rather long one but at least it was a bit different....this had the same fart joke.

Incomplete Can't review it as the streaming would not work.Got my money back,didn't see the film to the end. So, how can I give it a decent review when my experience with Amazon video is frustrating to say the least.

Horrible quality for a DVD. After reading other reviews and paying special attention to Alexis Ray's (the first review in the list) suggestion about which DVD to get I bought the Collector's Edition. At first I thought that maybe I got a pirated copy, as if someone had video taped their TV while this movie played off a VHS tape. Other reviewers thought that the transfer to digital was satisfactory, I disagree. Bright colors bled into whites. The whites were harsh. Movement was blurry. I tried adjusting several display factors with some success, but have never had to make any adjustments with any other DVD. The quality of this product is just so poor. I couldn't watch the whole movie, it was giving me a headache. Amazon makes returns easy, so that's what I did and will receive a refund. I look forward to possible remastered and even restored version of this film. I hope they don't remove that little hair that pops up in a couple scenes... it reminds me that I'm watching a classic.

Wish I couldn't see this movie through the fog.... When a small town decides to make and present a statue dedicated to people that helped establish their town, its usually a joyous occasion. However for Antonio Island off the Oregon coast, the people are about to pay tribute to four men which will lead to events that will bring terror to the entire island. A couple of people (who are descendants of two of those four men) seem to be troubled by a mysterious fog that has begun to roll in and engulf the town, oh and there's some murders that occur that may or may not have something to do with this fog.  Later in the film its found out that back in 1871, the four guys in the statue betrayed some guy named Blake who had purchased part of the island to help some lepers, but of course it doesn't just end there, oh no sir. This fog and the murders are the result of Blake and his lepers who were killed years back and now they want revenge on anyone on the island and especially those related to the four guys.  This is a remake of a 1980 film starring Jamie Lee Curtis, which was far, far better than this film could ever have hoped to be. This version stars Tom Welling (TV's "Smallville"), Maggie Grace ("Taken") and Selma Blair ("Hellboy") who are all very mis-cast here, there's not one moment of suspense, terror or anything redeeming. The conclusion is laughable and really I was just thankful it ended when it did. * out of 4 stars.

Great if you've never seen a crime movie in your life. Seriously, this movie had every cliche in the book. An amalgam of every crime movie I've ever seen, this film offers nothing new or entertaining. the dialog is unnatural and the progression of the movie is predictable. worst of all there wasn't a single character I really cared to relate to.

WTF!!!!!!! This movie is probably one of the worst movies I have ever seen!!! Don't waste your money on this one...

I like cruise but these movies suck. Mission impossible is about a TEAM of professionals who go after the enemies of america. This movie and the rest are abominations that even Tom cruise can't save. The plot is thin which I could forgive if this wasn't a HIGH budget movie.  And of course there is no team in this movie. Instead it's a lone action hero, if this was called "man impossible" then I might give it a break. It's excrement though as a movie; that is based on a good premise that is not here barely. Even worse the whole idea of fighting bad guys has to always include the american government. ??? It's not related to mission impossible. AND HORRIBLY there are going to create another one of these monstrosities. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!!!!!! let me guess, evil americans are out to get tom cruise. who can't be killed of course. which is fine if this didn't have the misssion impossible NAME ON IT. I do like cruise. he's good but these movies are a disgrace.

Garson & Olivier I thought this version of Pride & Prejudice was terrible.  It was silly. If Olivier would have played more of a subdued confused man capitivated by Garson's character of Elizabeth instead of the silly role he played it would have been great.  A character as one he played in Wuthering Heights.

Sinister Ending for a Romance Movie At the end of this movie Janet Jackson's character drives her soon to be ex-husband to his death and winds up grinning at the end of the movie as she gazes upon her next sexual prospect. This movie ended like a horror movie. It is a terrible example for any Black women who might be watching. That kind of aggressive, sadistic behavior is what you might read in the news, not in a romantic comedy or drama or whatever this melodrama was supposed to be.   I hope Black women do not watch this movie and think this movie ending was okay because it was quite sinister. The Black men also seem unusually weak while the Black women appear dominant. No man really wants a loud mouthed, dominant woman, no matter what Tyler Perry says. This movie gave me nightmares.

It's about PROFIT not Prophet First things first: this review is about the so-called Explorer Pack 2-Disc DVD. I'm not reviewing the film. Fox has a list price of $29.95 or so on this and let me tell you that adds up to RIP OFF!!! Reading the list of features on disc 2 of this set one would think they were getting some info on the making of the film or something along those lines- well no, what you get is about 45 minutes (if that) of clips from the film with some voice over comments in three to four minute mini-features. And the new animated adventure or whatever it's called is what- 5 minutes or so of minimal animation? I won't comment on the included kiddie game; maybe it's fun to play once or twice... Believe me, I've bought lots of Special Edition and 2- disc sets and this has got to be the WORST of them. I wish someone had written a review like this before I WASTED my money on this particular DVD release. I hope I'll save someone else their money.

way too expensive I hate giving a review of one star but the asking price for this series is ridiculously high.  I give the show itself 5 STARS.

Like a train wreck you can't stop staring at... Did they REALLY expect us not to notice that they used a Vietnam era UH-1 helicopter in the desert of Afghanistan post 9-11?  I watched this all the way through to see where it was going but it ended up going off into some 60's style psychedelic mess...I guess that's where they got the Huey.  Their so-called special forces unit bears no resemblance to an actual military unit with squad members asking, "You sure that's a good idea Chief," almost every time they're given an order. And special forces do NOT shoot randomly into the air at an enemy that nobody can see...I hope. The "special effects" could have been done on my laptop from 20 years ago and likely were.  There was no real explanation of who or what they were encountering in the desert and they showed zero survival instinct after getting lost without provisions.  Other than that I really liked it.

Not for U.S.A. It would have been nice to know that this DVD was not formatted for the U.S. It was useless to me since I couldn't watch it! I have now learned to look for "Region" so that I don't make the mistake again.

WHERE IS THE ORIGINAL!! Maybe 30+ years ago I saw a movie titled "Quest For Fire" and thought it was EXCELLENT.  The subject came up in conversation and I wanted to show it to my wife and some friends. I went to Amazon(dot)com and immediately found this title.  When I saw the the movie, I was TOTALLY DISAPPOINTED!  Apparently, this is a modern re-make of the original by that God-forsaken Michael Moore.  The plot of this crappy re-make very loosely follows the original, BUT, has been added to in VERY WEIRD and crazy ways that totally detract from the original.  A bunch of very juvenile voodoo crap along with extra violence that does not add to the original plot at all.  VERY DISAPPOINTED!  Would LOVE to find a copy of the original.  Anybody know where I could find it>>

Streep's dumbest movie. This lamebrain stinker is pathetic, illogical, and ridiculous. Streep should be ashamed of this one but she probably needed a payday. Among the many laughable moments is near the climax when the husband miraculously manages to get miles and miles downstream on foot along a rough, cliff enclosed, wild river far ahead of a raft running the rapids. He must have flown, taking his dog with him.  Absurd. Then he sets an unlikely trap with barrels on the cliff that Streep rows the raft over to from mid river, then she fishes a gun out of the river with the little boy, a true Hercules, pulling a cable to bring the raft through the rapid water over to the gun. Whoever dreamed up this joke of a film must have been smoking a lot of dope, and made a dopey movie for dopes.

Bad Based on the title of this movie, I thought this would be a good movie.  The acting was good, but nothing was happening in the first three quarters of the movie.  Perhaps the problem was that there was nothing new here. The movie consisted of cliche after cliche about Nazis. Yes the Nazis burnt books, yes the Nazis were trying to create a strong nation with fertility programs, and yes they tried to euthanasia the weak and the crippled to reduce their health care costs to reduce tax burden and create a stronger military, and yes they had concentration camps.  After becoming part of the SS, the protagonist tried to save his friend Maurice.  But this plot was much better done with the movie Schindler's List.  The ending was so sudden that I was taken by surprise.  We never find out what happened to Maurice.  If you like movies about characters and their feelings towards each other, than you could rank this movie two or even three stars.  Much more satisfying movie about Nazis is 'Inglorious Basterds' with Brad Pitt (although very violent).  Granted I am comparing apples to oranges here, but that movie was 'Good', this one is not.  My humble opinion.  :)

Restored? Not!!!!  DISCOLORATION, POOR SOUND, FLECKS IN THE FILM!!!!!! This movie was not restored! It is the same quality and sound as the DVD I purchased from the dollar bin at WalMart several years ago! What a disappointment! I would like to return it, but I am guessing that since the bluray is open Amazon will not take it back. The special feature lasts one minute tops. I can't understand why they would release one of the best movies of all time in such terrible condition.

Horrible If I could give less than 1 star I would,  Worst movie ever!!  Do not waste you time or money on this onem it has no plot and the acting is way below standard.

Sincerely Disappointed There was a lot I had in mind, in terms of expectations, as to what this movie could offer in beauty and landmark expression. I believe Film as a medium is more or less a tool for the artist and all artists (actors, musicians, etc.) to create sincere art. What I found in "Enter the Void" was not what I expected and I was not pleased by this at all.  There are a ton of experimental films, films about drugs, films about Tibetan Buddhism, and films about death that are less cohesive and still give the viewer/audience something to walk away with. I feel as though in some ways, "Enter the Void" was an exploitation of the audience as dumb. Movies like "The Tree of Life," "Pi," "Waking Life," "Pulp Fiction," even "Fight Club," work with a non-linear or experimental form of media to create their overall "point" as a piece of art. What I found in "Enter the Void" was excessive use of genitalia, flashing lights, hovering cameras, and flat characters to create a "point" that entering the void just happens and can happen at any time. I won't spoil anything, but the excesses of sex at the end of the movie don't really provide except for in that semi-symbolic way that some scenes do in other movies.  Most of the scenes in this movie repeat to the point of nausea, and it's a wonder why anyone would sit through the same four scenes over and over and over again. There is a car crash which is repeatedly used as a crutch for the two "main" characters, which really doesn't add to their character as much as it does to the plot. Those two characters whose parents die end up becoming 1) a drug addict and 2) a stripper. The characters in this movie seem victimized by life and in a way, don't provide anything for the "Void" in terms of meaning.  What I'm trying to say is that there is a repetition in this movie that makes you feel stupid: gratuitous sex that's supposed to be artsy because the genitalia is glowing (I'd frankly rather watch an artistically made piece of pornography); glorified, short-term drug use that really doesn't do anything for drug use or the expansion of consciousness (movies like "Trainspotting" do a much better job, even if they don't intend to); finally, pseudo-philosophy as well as pseudo-spiritualism (I don't get the point if you're taking both reason and faith out of the film) that comes probably unintended from the lack of dialogue and blandness of the characters.  It is certainly worth testing the waters on, but I frankly don't like the film. If you're absolutely set on watching it, go ahead, but be prepared to understand where it is going. There isn't any wonder about the film. Everything is given away after the first hour. Then you are left vegetating in front of the screen. It seems to be one of those postmodern statements about the audience, how we're willing to watch anything as long as it is done differently. I expect more from this medium and not to be considered so simple to please.

Hate speech This movie advocates the murder of conservatives, the rich, patriotic Americans, FOX celebrities, Mormons, and anyone else Goldthwait thinks the world would be better off without.  Goldthwait is clearly not a deep thinker.  While many of his victims are politically on the right, his main character instead justifies killing them because they are "mean."  That is code for "right wing."  The Hollywood liberals that Goldthwait is transparently trying to please fancy themselves as caring and rational, and see the right as mean and selfish.  Goldthwait kills off apolitical but entitled and bratty teenagers as well, failing to realize that this entitlement culture is the product of decades of the left's efforts to inculcate value-free thinking.  In order to make the main character seem less of a monster, he is made pathetic by losing his job and having a fatal disease.  (Ironically, he loses his job for unintended sexual harassment - for which we can thank the left.)  The only moral compass he follows is in refusing to kill people "who don't deserve to die" (i.e. are polite - I guess crying babies aren't polite) and his refusal to sleep with the teenaged girl.  That's something I suppose.  It is obvious that the majority of viewers find this blood bath liberating.  They say they wish they could do the same.  Their hatred is a product of the leftist Hollywood and public school propaganda.  One wonders if the Aurora shooter was inspired by this movie, which was released only months prior.  If this movie had been about murdering left-wingers, it would be condemned in the MSM as hate speech and there would be prime-time specials on the looming threat of right-wing violence.  Congratulations to Goldthwait in winning the race to the bottom.

Item never arrived. I ordered this item a week before Thanksgiving and was given a week or so shipping date. It is now the day after Christmas and I haven't received a thing... This is one of my favorite shows and the prices for the week before Thanksgiving sale was too good to pass up. But, I guess that meant not receiving items.

Huh, what??? How could anyone have liked or made sense of this stupid movie. Horrible from start to finish! Never really been a fan of Christina Ricci's but I love Liam Neeson as an actor. Why he choose to be in this mess of a movie is beyond me. Was she dead or wasn't she? Someone please explain it to me. What was with that creepy kid who actually proved of no use to anyone. And the boyfriend who was supposed to be the night and shinning armor but actually ended up getting killed to by Liam Neeson. This was a complete dud! If you haven't seen it yet please dont. You'll just be left scratching your head.

***** I walked into this movie feeling hopeful. Like others have said, slasher flicks these days are more or less laughable. I wasn't expecting a run of the mill horror movie---I knew this was going to be a film that relied heavily on suspense. I've seen Hitchcock movies, I was even one of the few people who was able to sit through the hour long opening of The Deer Hunter without being bothered by it. So believe me when I say I can tolerate (and even enjoy) a buildup of suspense or excessive character development. This movie didn't have any of these things, at least not in a way that could be called interesting. I'm not a huge fan of Radcliffe, however, I will say he did what he could with what he was given, which was one of the few redeeming factors of the movie.  The lead character (Radcliffe)---I've actually forgotten his name because it didn't seem worth remembering---was predictable and boring. It felt like endless scenes that were sloppily melded together with no real connection or meaning. It was very obvious from early on what was going to happen; I think that is what disappointed me most. This whole film was using an old idea, one that has been recycled in various ways, however with the right direction it could have been an interesting and powerful film. It had a dark atmosphere, which unfortunately wasn't used for the better of the movie. It came off as cliched and overdone.  The worst part, is I left the theater about halfway through the film, returned 15 minutes later, and I didn't even have to ask someone what had happened. Why?  Because nothing had happened.

Heroes of Freedom: Stories of Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks I cannot rate this product since I have been waiting over a month to get the product.  If I do not recieve the item by this Friday and I am going to request that my credit card company credit back by account.  I would have never order from this copmpany if I realized it woud take over a month to get my item.

I've made a Terrible Sin Watching Original Sin. Original Sin does not make sense,Antonio Banderas(Who has been involved with A Che Guevara Movie and therefore lost my respect,Whom I have never liked and has a horrible accent.)Plays a really Idiotic So-called "Titan Of Industry" falls for a Charlatan or Lady of the night,A lot of Nudity from Angelina Jolie who by the way makes me sick(She kissed her brother and not in a kiss between Siblings but Incest,Gross and she has a Che Tattoo.)Also despite it being "Entertainment"(So-called) and Fiction.It goes beyond that,It is historically Inaccurate Cuba does not Look Like Mexico and Several other but typical of Movies and Hollywood and popular mindset in General about Cuba.The movie is just sleaze,a Notch above Skin-a-max flick.The acting is horrible and the buy a wife storyline is worst.

Great laughs -- if you're a bully I watched this movie a couple of nights ago.  I am a mischievous sort of person, so it sounded like it would be right up my alley. And it was... for the first twenty minutes or so. But then, I began feeling a bit sad.  Peter and Ray were clearly suffering from the debilitating effects of alcoholism and, while I understand the anger and frustration that Sausage and Mitch must have felt as their neighbors some 20 years ago, that time has long past.  Peter and Ray are dead and yet Sausage and Mitch are still promoting, (and profiting from), Peter and Ray's disgrace. I found the movie tasteless and opportunistic and think that Sausage should transfer his copyrights of everything to Alcoholics Anonymous so that they might use the unethical recordings of Peter and Ray's violent outbursts to educate alcoholics who are still suffering. I think it would benefit alcoholics still "out there" to see how ugly and horrible ones life can become if the disease is allowed to progress.  I went through a similar problem with a methamphetamine addict neighbor. We called him "P'@pper Pete", (on account that he was p@pper sprayed by the cops). He was a scary chap, about 6'5", maybe 250 lbs, wandering the neighborhood at all hours of the night, talking to himself.  He made frequent visits to our door asking questions like, "Did you put antifreeze in my pond?"  Of course we hadn't.  We didn't even know he had a pond.  On certain nights he would have violent outbursts, furniture crashing, doors slamming, loud screaming.  I installed a security camera and began recording him in case he decided to hurt me.  I also called the police and bought a weapon. Eventually he was arrested and, a couple of years later, we moved.  As far as I know he is out of jail and recovering from his addiction.  If I were more of an entrepreneur, I guess I could make and sell DVDs from the tapes of Pete telling jokes to his dog and wearing silly hats past our front window at 3 a.m.  Unfortunately, I don't really enjoy or find humor in making fun of other people's afflictions. But, I guess that's just me.

Pure utter filth, and not in a good way. So I am not a prude by any stretch of the imagination. I am very open minded to pretty much everything, and I love horror movies and violent gory movies. This however is a blight on the art form that is movie making. I have never hated a movie so much before in my life. It is absolutely disgusting and repulsive and a waste of film. I cant believe someone thought this was a good enough idea to make into a movie or that people actually like this. And like is said I love violent movies, "Inside", "Martyrs", "High Tension", just to name a few but those movies are actually well made and GOOD. This movie I cant even explain how depraved it is, and just talking about it makes me angry. However my biggest complaint is the utterly horrific amounts of animal cruelty in this movie, it seriously breaks my heart what these people did to REAL ANIMALS! They did not use prop or fake animals in this movie, they killed and butchered real animals on camera. The part where they completely butcher the turtle made me want to snap the DVD in half and cry, its was utterly appalling. My biggest fear is that people will want to watch this movie because of all of the bad things said about it and the extreme nature of the movie but trust me if I could erase this garbage from my mind I would do it in a heartbeat.

Steaming pile of incoherent BS EDITED TO ABIDE BY AMAZON STANDARDS CONCERNING LANGUAGE AND INSULTS  Many years ago, practically in another life, I learned how to deactivate infernal devices.  Back in the 1980s EOD training focused primarily on unexploded ordinance rather than IEDs, and the stuff the IRA and PLO was putting together back then was downright primitive in comparison to some of the newfangled stuff our guys are facing now.  To put this in perspective, when I was at AIT cellphones hadn't even been invented yet.  Even back in primitive times, one of the most basic and fundamental rules you learn is to consider the MANY possible anti-handling devices you might encounter.  Often, even a simple mil-spec device such as a landmine could have several anti-handling devices in place, and with an IED it could get downright devious.  I'm not going to go into any detail here, but anti-handling devices are designed to kill anyone who discovers the device and attempts to render it safe.  Any entry-level Combat Engineer knows you're not supposed to lift, roll, jostle, or shake a suspect device without a complete and detailed inspection.  The genius in this film is dragging 50 pound shells out of the dirt by their wires and prying open the trunk of a car to expose the bomb inside.  In real life, bad guys use tamper resistant bombs.  Pull it out of the dirt?  BOOM.  Open a boobytrapped trunk, hood, or door?  BOOM.  Snip random wires?  Holy collapsing circuit!  BOOM.  These were the first things you learned 25 years ago!  Today, EOD school is three times as long and you are practically qualified for an electrical engineering degree when you are done.  This idiot would have washed out halfway through the first phase.  Risktaking is one thing, foolhardy bravado is another, but what this guy was doing guaranteed him a Darwin Award.  It is glaringly obvious that no-one with any actual EOD experience was used as a consultant for this film.  Wanton stupidity abounds, and to make things worse it isn't even an entertaining movie.  Unlikeable undeveloped characters, idiotic subplots that go nowhere, and no sense of reality.  Oh, I loved the scene when they are working the Barnett 50 which is a precision sniper rifle and they're sighting it in like an artillery piece, cleaning blood off the rounds to prevent it from jamming, and completely forget that there is an entire belt of ammo in the turret gun . . . but I digress.  Apparently, no-one who actually fired a gun was used to consult on this film either.  Ending sucked too.  Altogether, this was a dismal failure as a war movie.  Of course, the soulless drones in Hollywood and the Press Corps all think it is movie of the year deserving of numerous high awards.  This movie made me want to vomit.  I want my two hours back, as well as the two bucks I spent on the rental fee.  Full of suck.

A terrible adaptation This seemed like a fairly solid idea for a movie--a young, unwed mother in the Era of Shame trying to change her life and go to college, despite the odds.  The biggest problem with this movie is the "protagonist" Beverly. There's nothing that comes even close to making me root for her. All throughout the movie, it seems like she just regards everything that's gone wrong in her life as her son's fault, while taking absolutely no responsibility. None. Not even a glimmer of "It's not his fault that he was born."  Paradoxically, Drew Barrymore does a really great job of portraying an embittered and selfish young woman.  I read once that Penny Marshall's motivation for the direction this movie takes was to avoid glamorizing teen pregnancy in any way. I think it's safe to say she's done that in spades, but she could have done that with a more tolerable protagonist.  Such as, for example, reading the book it was based off of--now the author of that book did stupid stuff before and after her pregnancy, but eventually wakes up and realizes she can and should do better...for her kid and herself. That was a good story. This mess...not so much.

The Killers  -  Blu-ray Would not load in Sony Blu-ray player.  Got message "Unknown Disk".  Tried Blu-ray players (2) in computer and would not load.  This is probably "made-on-request" DVD, and not a normal studio release.  DO NOT BUY.

All kinds of bad... Just a really poor movie. Non-sensical story used to jump between sci-fi action sequences. It made little sense, was misogynistic in nature, and just boring. It's like a 1970s "women in prison" movie without nudity. Even adding nudity would not have saved this clunker.  What I wonder is who's spending millions to make junk like this? Why not just donate 1/100th of the film budget to me. I could write a better script.

Misleading The 5 episodes on the DVD were already on our DVR.  I was under the impression this was a Doc McStuffins Movie of some sort....Big let down for my 4 year old...  I feel like I paid $16.38 for the stickers that came along with this DVD.

stinker. this movie was so bad....  dont want to waste time explaining it...  good concept?!?! but ultimately really really awful.  thank god it was free.

Lovely Molly is...not very lovely. (SPOILERS!!!) The sound editing was fantastic. Great, creepy atmosphere. And, well...that's about it. A few pretty nice ideas thrown around here and there but they ultimately build to nothing.  I hated this movie. When are filmmakers going to realize that you cannot get away with setting up a really solid atmosphere and then...nothing? You can't make a quality movie without a good script. Hell, in this case, without a good story.  It was pretty decent to start. The beginning was fine. EXTREMELY creepy to begin with. The atmosphere, the sounds, the music...all SO effective. I began watching it in the middle of the night and had to shut it off...to be perfectly honest. When I finally finished it, I was left very confused because the movie has no idea what it wants to be. Is it a found footage film? Is it a paranormal film? Is it a psychological horror? Trying to cram all 3 of those into one without much of a story line is just not a great idea. The big problem is that the movie isn't very clear on what's happening. I had to google for explanations and I came to realize that it revolves a lot around the occult and symbolism. Besides seeing one symbol near the beginning...you could have fooled me because I did NOT get that at all. I have no idea what was haunting her or what she was possessed by...was it her father? Was it the demon with the horse head...that, apparently, I should have seen at the end of the movie but all I saw was darkness? There was really very little explanation to anything...was her dad summoning a demon? WAS the demon her dad? Was it all in her head? What the hell was going on?? And the ending was HORRIBLE. I also keep seeing people talk about the amazing performance from Gretchen Lodge. It was not that great. Meryl Streep that girl is not. What is it? Is it because she got naked a lot? Or dirty? She got dirty and looked like crap a lot. She isn't afraid to get ugly, which is great. But she really shouldn't open her mouth very much. Very mediocre performance, if that. Bad acting all around, really.  From the guys who did The Blair Witch Project...one of the most overrated films ever. The only reason it was so big is simply because it was the first found footage movie and people just HAD to see it. I was never and am still not a fan of it.  I'm all for symbolism but you have to give even the slightest explanation as to what's going on and what things may mean. I should not have to google a movie to find out what I just watched. There is a reason this movie didn't get a theatrical release...or at least not a wide one. It's bad. Really bad.

BORING AND VERY WEAK After a good opening scene this cheap 'movie' descends into boredom with a quickness! I love cheap horror movies but only the ones that are entertaining! This is one seriously boring crapfest. Only watch this thing if your idea of a good horror movie is: 1 - watching a bunch of lame people stand around talking at a party for a long time (small talk - nothing of substance), 2 - watching people lounge on a boat for a long time. 3 - watching people running endlessly through the woods for 10 minutes at a time with occasional shots of a killer's feet walking only to end in a cheesy shot of a murder weapon being raised and then a cop-out cutaway with no FX! Absolutely NO effort is made to entertain the audience. This is one of the really crappy ones folks.

Do not watch this movi This movie was terrible. It was difficult to understand the point of the entire thing, even after it ended... do not waste your time.

A total disappointment and disrespect to French History Sorry for my bad english in advance   I thought it was a period drama but it ended up being a chick flick. On top of that a bad one.  PRO: The costumes were gorgeous. Some historical details were present and quite amusing if you know about this time  period.For example when she had to leave everything that is Austrian behind, her clothes and even her mothers ring. Then  her hate for Madame Dubarry or her husbands liking in building locks. The scenes were opulent and music for the eye.  CONTRA: The phrase "let them eat cake" never left her mouth. This phrase is from Jean-Jacques Rousseaus "Confessions", written when she was still a child. The movie had a good start but you just come to know about her opulent lifestyle, make-up,gambling, costumes and et cetera. I missed Comtesse de la motte, or Cardinal Rohan the leader of the "Affair of the Diamond Necklace". I missed the finesse in speech and gesture, the ambigous little intrigues Versailles was infamous for. The movie let's you see the rebels as mindless villians and without deeper view on their live, experience and hardship.  Ok, some people say that this is a movie concentrating on feelings rather than to be a history lesson. Then why were the deaths of her two children portrayed in a collage of Portraits? And what is about her two miscarriages? The "lost love" scene as Hans Axel von Fersen leaves for America and you see her running through Versailles and then laying on her bed is far to stretched out. In comparison, the death of her children must have been not interesting enough for the director.Shouldn't that be better emotional material for a movie about feelings?! How can a lost love be more important than the death of your own children?  This movie was much to shallow and I had the feeling that Farmfolk tried to imitate the dekadent french nobility in a cheap stage-play(meaning the actors). Well, the supporting act's were quite good and I even think that Kirsten Dunst is a good actress. She proved that in "Interview with a Vampire", but her performance in this movie is weak. I don't blame her but the script.  Sophia Ford-Coppola is just plain dissapointing. She should have pointed her attention to the Rokkoko in France, the live in Versailles, the historical persons,the French people in general and the little details, not just the Fashion and style. She wasn't really interested in the historical figure that Marie Antoinette is but rather in the myth. She wanted to compare the Hollywood life with Versailles,and Marie Antoinette with a tragic new pop star. It was worth a try but it failed big time. Those Societies (Hollywood and Versailles) are far to different to compare with each other and I think it is insolent to even try. Hollywood has nothing to do with Versailles. Hollywood's existence is unimportant and has no real influence. The Royal Family and French Nobility had Power over life and death, they had responsibilities, the nation was dependent and had to follow their whims. To think that Hollywood's Society is similar because of the arrogance,fortune and extravagant lifestyle, is ridiculous.  The music choice is not to my taste either, but shows that it is supposed to be a style-movie. But you can't pull this off with every theme you come across. The French Revolution was devastating for France and Europe. The French revolution is to much connected with Marie Antoinette's life to play a little side-part at the end of this movie or any movie about this.  Well, this movie can be enjoyable for people who don't know about this period and didn't get in touch with it through other mediums. For somebody who knows about this part of history and engaged themself with it, will not like this movie.  We see what happens if a rich Hollywood-Kid makes a movie about her own life in Rokkoko-style.  And why is Madame du Barry brunette in this movie. she was blond.  In short: no substance   shallow and one-dimensional characters   unimportant and boring scenes are far to long   historical inconsistencies

Worst dvd transfer i have ever seen Buyers beware dont buy this Heat dvd .It has an awful dvd tranfer.How can they release a dvd with such print quality,simply awful

Sapranos DVDs The product took more than a month to be delivered.  Half the videos didn't play.  Displayed only an error message.  Working on exchange or refund now.  Hoping for a better experience.

Absolutely Horrible! If you don't mind jumpy, shaky, broken and distorted camera footage, edits and inaudible audio at every single moment that something "important" is supposed to be happening then this movie won't bother you and you'll probably enjoy it. Also, were we supposed to forget or ignore the fact that there is less gravity on the moon and in the Lem? They don't even TRY to give a sense of the difference in gravity. How could astronauts have forgotten to bring a flashlight with them to the moon? The only thing they can do to see in the dark is use flashes. How lucky for the director - another good excuse to create a bad film. If this was made by a high school student for their graduation project I'd give it an A, but since it isn't I say shame on the director for not taking more care and pride in their work and settling for cheap gimmicks and tricks.  In their defense, they did create a pretty good "moonscape."  Don't waste your money (or time)!

Terrible, Terrible, Terrible! Viewed: 11/03, 5/08 Rate: 1  5/08: Imagine my surprise when I discovered a VHS copy of An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn at a flea market some years back. It was like finding plutonium in the middle of a desert. All right, the first time I saw the picture, I remember falling asleep. Now I see it again, and I thought initially that maybe it couldn't be worse than the crap that Hollywood has been churning out these days. Well, guess what? It's that bad. There is not one single part that is deemed to be good about An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn. It's unpretentiously boring junk about bunch of losers talking about whether if a film gets made or not. It doesn't make sense. Why not just sue the director and make the dough from insurance? Regardless, I personally couldn't give rat's ass. When Whoopi Goldberg made her cameo, the crap started to hit the fan. Then the rubbish talking and more talking made the fan greases its wheels a bit more. The two black nitwits show up, and the fan starts hurling crap further than never before. When Sylvester Stallone agreed to take part in this piece of junk, I seriously thought his career was over in a flash until he made a recent small, albeit lame as in nothing-new-with-him, comeback. Ryan O'Neal already kissed his career good-bye decades before An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn got made, so why bother beating a dead horse? Most of the actors and actresses, probably all of them, who took a part in An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn should never work in a film ever again. They were all terrible and should be shot. In what was supposed to resemble the message of Sunset Boulevard, An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn goes far off the cliff and disappears in its entirety, breaking an old chemistry law "matter is neither created nor destroyed." The claims on the VHS box of An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn said that it was "Hilarious!," "Outrageous!," and "One of the funniest movies in ages!" Excuse me if I yawn...interminably. By the way, I saw Jaws: the Revenge not so long ago, and I read somewhere some comedian made a name for himself by mocking the film. I hadn't realized that this guy, Richard Jeni, is the same schmuck who plays the opposite of Ryan O'Neal; perhaps he had killed himself because he finally found out that he quite sucks in life?

Among the absolute worst the anime genre has to offer.  1% I've heard a lot of things about High School of the Dead, but mostly how it's a combination of zombie horror and anime fan service. I wasn't really expecting anything good since a few respectable anime fans confirmed that I'd hate it, but out of morbid curiosity and the fact that I was able to watch this for free, I spend a day watching it and holy moly, this is among the worst of the worst in anime.  I loathe this so badly, I now consider it the second worst anime I've ever seen, right behind Elfen Lied.  STORY  High School of the Dead focuses on a group of teenagers in a high school that soon find themselves in the middle of a zombie outbreak in Japan. They must band together to survive and possibly even find the truth behind the zombie outbreak.  TONAL INCONSISTENCY  This is one of the most tonally-inconsistent anime titles I've ever seen in my life. The tonal inconsistency is the biggest "death sentence" for this anime. There's so many scenes in this anime that switch tones and visual styles at the drop of a hat. At one moment, you'll see really gruesome killings at the hands of zombies and right afterward, you'll see dumb, over-exaggerated faces, nosebleed gags, and way too much ecchi comedy. It's like the writers that created this anime couldn't decide between making a zombie series or a high school teenage dramedy, so they took the worst route imaginable and mashed the two together, and they mesh about as well as two ferocious streetdogs fighting for dumpster scraps.  I swear it's almost like the people who wrote this anime were trying to outdo Elfen Lied in terms of horrible tonal shifts. Among the worst examples of the bad tonal shifts is the episode where all the female characters bathe together and aren't the least bit hesitant to grab each others' unmentionables and spraying each other with shower heads. Aside from this not being sensually appealing or funny, it's followed by a man and his daughter trying to hide from the zombies, and the dad gets killed, followed with the girl crying over her dad's dead body. Another example of odd tonal shifts is that the nurse has a brief fantasy of herself as a maid cleaning her friend's apartment, which doesn't fit in with the fact that there's zombies all over the place, killing people. Even worse is that there cartoon-ish "bouncing" sound effects and other sound effects that are more appropriate for a Looney Tunes short than a "mature" anime centered around a zombie outbreak. The tonal shifts and changes in serious to silly visual styles harmed this anime so badly, that I was totally unengaged by anything else and was just waiting out until the end.  CHARACTERS  There was no creativity in the way the characters were made. None of them have much nuance beyond the most base stereotypes, and this makes them unlikeable and especially uninteresting. Among the worst characters in this anime is the nurse (characters are forgettable to the point of not remembering names). She's dumber than a coffee can full of nails and whines a lot about everything, yet the students take her with, despite the fact that's she's practically nothing but dead weight. This shows that this anime is without much logic, either, as the nurse is beyond stupid yet is somehow holding a job healing minor ailments that befall students at school. Another among the worst stereotypes is the chubby geek (I think his name is Kota), as he represents all the worst stereotypes of ostracized kids due to his unhealthy fixation on guns and his choice to wear black clothing. Easily among the most annoying characters is the pink-haired one, since she has an ego bigger than Kanye West's (she's always claiming to be a genius) yet proves to be useless in 99% of the anime, and is further damaged for the fact that she's just a cookie-cutter caricature of over-achieving honor students (uptight, belittling others, and constantly harping over her intellectual prowess).  PRETENTIOUSNESS  Aside from the fact that this anime is rampant with bad tonal shifts, it also doesn't help that in terms of its themes and overall story, it wants to have its cake and eat it, too. So much of the time is spent in this anime trying to be a constant vehicle for fanservice to appeal to teenage male anime fans, yet there's hints of it trying to be higher than what it is as it also tries to make commentary about whether or not the real monsters are the humans or zombies (highlighted by the hysterical school teacher who tries to form a cult with some of the surviving students). Instead of adding depth to the anime, it just feels like tacked-on social commentary thrown in there to make this anime seem smarter than it really is.  This anime goes even further into pretentious territory where there's a segment that tries to tie in the storyline of this anime with Mutiny on the Bounty. This scene didn't make the anime anymore "artistically-developed," but just trying too hard to be more than something stupid.  LACK OF ORIGINALITY  One of the things that struck me the most about High School of the Dead is that it's nothing but a salad bowl of all the most base cliches from the anime genre.  Lots of jejune violence? Check. Majority of female characters are schoolgirls? Check. Unimaginative character personalities? Check. Lots of unfunny ecchi comedy? Check. Half-baked storyline? Check. Lots of redundant fanservice? Double check. Half-baked ending? Check.  It's apparent that none of the people who made this anime wanted to make something that was a labor of love or to add anything of artistic merit to the anime genre. They just looked at all the most lucrative aspects to anime and mashed them together.  ACTION SCENES  With this being an anime that's supposed to be heavy on zombie-slaying action, this didn't deliver at all. Despite the plentiful action scenes, the absolute dearth of quality character development or character personalities stripped away all tension in these scenes. The way these scenes are made are so predictable, as there's plenty of scenes where you think one of the main characters is going to get eaten by the zombies, there's a "deus ex machina" moment where the zombie(s) in question get slain before they can infect one of the main characters. I should have kept count when these scenes occurred, but there's more than enough to take away any tension. Not that this would have helped out a lot since the clashing tones damage this anime beyond repair, but it would have helped if the writers were more creative and had one or two of the main characters die off. I should also point out how absurd some of the action scenes are, since there's a scene where one of the guys runs out of ammo during a fight with the zombies and grabs the brown-haired girl's gun, but because of the strap attached to her, he has to push her down and sandwich his arms between her chest.  Does there really need to be this much blatant fanservice?  I rolled my eyes at least twice when this occurred.  BAD HUMOR  Now you must be saying "Can't you just get over yourself and enjoy the action and ecchi humor for what it is?" I answer with a gigantic "NO!" The humor in this totally lacks creativity, since these types of ecchi jokes have been repeated ad nauseum in previous anime, and they don't do any good (especially for folks like me, who have a giant disdain for anime comedy as it is). If I wanted humor, I'll go watch some Angry Grandpa videos or Dumb and Dumber. Speaking of that, I swear there was a gag that was ripped off from that hilarious movie. There's a scene where the group leader saves a little girl from the zombies and is carrying her on his back, and she has to go to the bathroom, and because she couldn't hold it in, she wets herself and the guy's back. That scene was funny in Dumb and Dumber, but not in this.  APPEARANCE  The animation and artwork certainly had a lot of time and effort put into it, but good visuals alone NEVER make a worthwhile anime. Despite being a huge technical achievement, this is easily Madhouse's worst creation thus far. To think the same studio that cranked out Perfect Blue and Battle Angel also made this.  SOUNDTRACK  The background music in this anime was pretty forgettable, and the music in the intro wasn't any good. It's just pop-rock that doesn't fit at all with an anime centered around an apocalyptic zombie attack.  MATURE CONTENT  There's a great deal of gore in this anime. There's plenty of bloodshed and of people getting eaten by zombies, and even some dismemberment. The nudity and sensual content isn't at all extreme for me, since there weren't any female parts totally exposed, as the animators were chickens and conveniently covered up any private areas, in which the scenes are as absurd as the comedic censoring in the Austin Powers movies.  Since there's so many scenes with fanservice and absurd female behavior, this anime totally reeks of misogyny (no points were added or deducted for allegations of misogyny, these are merely observations), yet I'd bet a dozen Snickers bars that the anime fans gushing over High School of the Dead would quickly smash Doomed Megalopolis for allegations of misogynistic content.  FINAL WORD  If you're looking for Japanese animation to feed into your most personal fantasies of women, man up and get some Bible Black DVDs instead (or watch BB on the internet). Bible Black goes all the way with its "mature content" and as a whole, is much more enjoyable than HOTD since even though its animated erotica, it still manages to maintain a pretty serious, consistent tone and with semi-competent story and character development.  If you want adult anime containing artistic merit, check these titles out instead.  Shigurui: Death Frenzy Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne Doomed Megalopolis Perfect Blue Battle Angel Wicked City Ninja Scroll Ergo Proxy Ghost in the Shell Armitage III  High School of the Dead is horrifying for many reasons, but actually being a scary anime series isn't one of them.

wow...maybe if this was made in 1985? Now that PIxar and Dreamworks have placed the bar, this movie almost hurt to watch, the animals looked and moved awkwardly, the animation lost resolution whenever there was fast motion, the in general this was the quality that I would expect to see in a bargin bin at target. Really, I was so disappointed in this movie, my daughter was mildly amused, and my wife wanted to leave the theater.

I hate this movie I truly hate this movie. It disgusts me. I'm not sure how else to put it. I felt like the movie tried to somehow glorify the character of Hanniabl Lecter and that was extrememly offensive and unsettling to me. I've sworn of all other horror movies because of this one. It touched on things that were way too real for me.

Citizen Kane I see the 70th edition in Blue Ray has been issued.  If this movies was in "Gold Ray" and "3 D" it still stinks...how in the world this movie.  has received all the critical acclaim that it has gotten over the years is a farce.  It was given to me as a Xmas Present, I sold it back to the Trade In Stores for about 2.50... Save your money .  This movie based loosely on Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies Love Affair is so outdated and boxed in by the Hayes Office which was in the by gone era the keeper of morality and Hearst power to control the government is laughable

What a bad theme and total let down! We rented this movie, and it was a wast of $4.00!!!!!!! First it totally promotes cheating on your loved ones wich is what is so wrong with marriages now anyway.  Second, I usually watch "chick flicks" with my wife because they set a nice happy feeling for a romantic evening.... We went to bed anoid and completely unable to set a nice mood after watching a bunch of cheaters!

100% CRUMMY This movie was most disappointing.  I thought it was going to be a story about the Navajo code talkers and their significant contribution to the war in the Pacific against the Japanese.  It never once told why the Japanese wanted so desperately to capture a Navajo in order to break the code for them.  Nor did it even delve into why this code bedeviled the Japanese.  The movie mostly was just battlefield shooting, blood and guts, and Nicholas Cage and his flashbacks.  Save your money on this one.  Buy instead the History Channel's show on the Code Talkers.

PUTRID AS A DEAD FISH I would agree with another reviewer here--I paid $1.20 to rent and I was robbed. Dont waste your time with this piece of crap.  I liked the first Piranha 3D. It was fun, gory and not to be taken seriously. This one..well, it's another example of when Hollywood no-talents (writers, directors, producers I'm talking to YOU) need a paycheck there is no level to which they will not sink to. Somebody related to somebody else who is friends with so and so has a few bucks. Let's make a SEQUEL!!!  Stupid "jokes". Dumb scenes wasting the few B list actors present. Decent production values but anyone with a computer can do that nowadays. Lots of crappy rock music and scenes of topless chicks. Late in movie crowd in pool attacked by piranha but far far less than the pandemonium that occurred in the first movie attack scenes.  Absolute, total, pitiful, boring, mindless, uninspired dreck. I suggest sending your nasal pickings to the writers courtesy of the film studio attached to this horrible, unwatchable thing.

White Lightning I bought this wanting a copy as I watched when it came out in the theaters, the one dvd I picked came went to watch it and it's in the region 2 not region 1 so now I have to return it. Now I have to return it and pay for that to only to get the price of the dvd not postage both ways they knew US is region 1 and they sent region 2? anyone think they will return my postage to this was their fault for not sending the right product I may ask amazon to help if only the dvd price is returned bummer to buy it wont work and have to send it back. So when I did watch it years ago it was a good movie for action. So do not buy form pbshopus they will not work with you or do a change for this dvd to region 1 I was cheated funny how all department store sell only region 1 here in the us and these people can sell anything they want. I may not buy on amazon any more so all these other compnays who sold me the right region dvd's may lose on this also why would I come back here if these people can sell what they want knowing it will not work here. So boycott this place to show them we the buyer have the power of the truth and word.

Wrong Item The seller sent the wrong item and has never sent the item ordered.  Said I needed to pay to ship the wrong item back but that he did not have the item ordered.  Very disappointed.

Terrible This film felt like a getaway for Depp and Jolie from filming difficult films. It's nothing more than a huge advertisement for the city of Venice.

Sorry. They didn't make a ZERO available for me. "Red Dawn" sucks. It's that simple. Unrealistic, comical, horrid acting, horrid script, comical depictions, cliches and stereotypes all come immediately to mind. I won't try to to come up with other adjectives for fear of wasting time. That military minds find this plausible is a scary indictment on our military. That some find this a quality movie with great acting is an indictment on our movie industry, which' thrives on a "give them what they want" mentality. Poor Lea Thompson. She has both this movie and "Howard the Duck" on the 80s section of her resume forever. And don't even get me started on Patrick Swayze, the Ted McGinley of his era. Don't believe the rave reviews posted by dimwits or right wingers who don't know quality film. This movie sucks. It's really that simple. I did my best to warn you to save you some time and money.

Nonsense This is utterly ridiculous. Ranks with the most absurd, crackpot nonsense I've ever seen. Not even entertaining, just a waste of time and money.

What a disappointment Wow. What a waste of an interesting plot. Great special effects (what little there were) wasted in the effort to create a melodrama of teenage angst filmed on a hand-held camera rather than a sci-fi/fantasy film.  The question "what would it be like to gain super powers?" is answered by this production like this: "Waste those powers stupidly because some people are messed up and teens are not that bright".  Gee, thanks, that's entertainment?  If I were a teen today I would not find this film enjoyable, I'd find it an insult.

just awful While Robert Downey mummbled his way through the entire film, the director inserted one silly acton scene after another - ruining the whole movie. There was no mystery or plot - just a bad script and embarrassingly Americanized characters. Downey came off as a half-deranged ne'er-do-well, and McAdams' character was unlikeable and superfluous. Law did a good job as Watson - it's just too bad he got stuck in this stinker.

Waste of money This movie is biblically wrong and it sucks. I would recommend this DVD entitled Acts. It is word for word scriptures and accurately and well done.

Beware Beware, Amazon Videos CANNOT be Downloaded to a Mac!  I recently bought this video to watch on a plane trip and I must first download it to my Mac (for obvious reasons).  Well, you can watch it instantly on your Mac but, Beware, you cannot download any video from Amazon onto a Mac.  I cannot rate this movie but I can rate the service.  :-(

one of the best shows but horrible packaging very very good show. Had to give low rating based on packaging. Will have to put discs into a binder because packaging is not good for storing. Also it was quick delivery time but the way it was shipped was very poor. The dvd box set was taped together from the sender so the the box set box is ruined as well it was all dinged up and bent out of shape. It was shipped in a small box with none to very little padding or paper to protect the dvd box. Now to the box set itself. 1st each dvd comes in a thin plastic sleeve which is stored in a cheap cardboard fold out with a place to put each disc. Also disc condition is not great. I owned the third season of the wire before and that box set packaging was superb, HBO should have spent a little bit more to do the same with the complete set. I wish i would have read the reviews instead of just looking at the seller rating.

Discs skip and have errors. I was looking forward to getting this and watching it for the first time. Im only on Disc 2 and already an episode freezes; the voices of the actors arent in sync to the visual picture. If this continues I will return it.Shouldnt happen at this price. I have a new state of the art blu ray player which plays everything else.

Young Adult I thought this movie was horrible. I ended up turning it off before it was over. I like Charlize Theron as an actress, so I thought this might actually be okay. I would NOT recommend it.

Horrible Yet another Exorcist knock off. Terrible acting, terrible plot, and even more annoying camera instability ( apparently, this is to add a "documentary" feel ). Did I mention this is horrible? Please do yourself a big favor and skip this one.

Goes on and on and on and on... This movie creators just wanted to add a second movie to the first one, just because. It wasn't a good idea at all! They totally bombed on this one!  The first one "Clash of the Titans" was good and well-made, but this one had a fading plot, HORRIBLE acting, and a never ending story.  They should have just ended the first one the way it was and not have added a second one like this, because it was a waste of money, time, and just energy of everyone who helped make it and everyone watching it.

What a funny movie! I thought that "Clash of the Titans" was so unintentionally funny. The fact that Sam Worthington's character had a shape up and also the fact that the storyline was so predictable that five minutes into it I knew exactly what was going to happened. This movie was riot, if you want to laugh a lot than rent this hilarious movie. Storyline: F- Special Effects: D- Action: F Acting: F+ Laughs: A+

One Giant Dud For Mankind I hardly know where to begin with this ridiculous movie, but it's impossible to give it an adequate review without including a few 'spoilers', but I doubt they they will diminish the extremely predictable 'twists' in the plot, most of which have been lifted straight out of other films anyway...Well, the premise is that some anonymous whistle-blower sent some 40 year old footage to a website, and it is described as being taken from the supposedly cancelled Apollo 18 Lunar Mission whose tragic end has been covered up all this time for (of course) 'national security' reasons. It's basically the Blair Witch from Outer Space, combined with the worn out theme of infectious crazy zombies (yep) and silly killer moon-crabs of some sort. The director throws a very dry bone to the conspiracy-theorists when the 'astronauts' stumble upon the remains of a Soviet space craft and it's crew, but it's really pretty  dull, as conspiracy theories go, and only serves to set the stage for the ensuing selenite crab-attacks on the American mission. All this footage somehow makes it's way back to earth and then finds it's way into an incredibly dumb movie. I won't give away the ending, but after an hour or so, I personally didn't care how it ended, as long as it ended. I guess the reason why I'm so dissapointed with this film is that I am interested in America's brief period of moon missions, and I've always been unsatisfied with the standard answers about why a project that had cost so many billions of dollars was brought to such an abrupt halt. This producers of this film squandered a golden opportunity to make an intelligent 'what-if' pseudo-documentary about all the reasonable and unanswered questions that have been raised by researchers over the past four decades. What a shameful waste of such a fascinating and controversial subject. As for the attempted realism of this 'documentary', it's pathetically bad, and makes the Blair Witch seem like Shakespeare. The acting is truly a painful thing to experience...the sort which leaves you squirming in your seat with discomfort. The effects are serviceable enough since the original moon footage was so fake-looking itself, but the actors and aliens are so lame they shatter whatever illusionary effect the film tries to create. Naturally, the reviews of this film are beginning to turn into a referendum on moon-hoax theories rather than the actual pros and cons of the film itself, but I hope some producer takes notice and perhaps one day, attempts a serious, intelligent and REAL documentary dealing with the continuing controversy over the validity of the Apollo lunar missions and their sudden termination. Anyway, whether you're a conspiracy buff, or just a genuine fan of sci-fi, this film will almost certainly leave you wishing for your time and money back.

killed the series If they had just named it something else.  This movie p*ssed on all Clancy fans and that was the problem. Please! Neo-Nazi's? Can't offend the Arab's.  It's dead to me.

Not good. Quite possibly the stupidest anime show I've ever attempted to watch.  Girls flying around in their underwear shooting aliens.  It's like porn, but without the actual porn.  I honestly don't see how anyone could enjoy this.

B-movie, falls flat, no chemistry, tired formula, implausible plot twists This is a sub-par romantic comedy with an implausible plot that *maybe* could have been saved with (a) a better script and (b) more engaging actors (think Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks).  But no. Instead, it's a B-list script with B-list actors (Greg Kinnear, Ashley Judd) that simply fails to make any kind of impression.  Here are a few of the things that are wrong with this movie:  Ashley Judd had ZERO chemistry with either Greg Kinnear or the delicious Hugh Jackman.  The kissing scenes were cringe-worthy.  Nobody kisses like that, with their lips scrunched up and smushed against someone else's lips.  Ashley Judd's character develops this cow/bull theory to explain why men aren't faithful, then her best friend played by the talented Marisa Tomei, who happens to be a men's magazine editor, persuades her to write an article about it.  She doesn't want to use her real name, but rather than just using a pseudonym, she invents this persona of an elderly German professor.  Then they take the photo of a recently-deceased piano teacher from Astoria, Queens, and use it as the photo of this professor.  Did I mention this movie is set in MANHATTAN?  Where people might recognize this woman's photo? But no, that never happens.  Anyway, in a completely ridiculous plot twist, this ONE article becomes a huge media sensation, with supposedly Oprah and Barbara Walters vying to interview this mysterious professor lady.  Oh, and Ashley Judd's character is a booker for some hard-charging talk show host played by the delicious Ellen Barkin (who is completely wasted in this movie) who early on in the movie talks about "the ungettable get, that's what I want you to get, some guest nobody else has already got, got it?"  Ugh.  So this professor becomes the Maguffin, the "get" they have to get.  Seriously?  On the basis of ONE magazine article?  The fact that Ashley Judd's character and Hugh Jackman's character are destined to end up together is signaled from the first scene where they banter.  Yet when she finally realizes she loves him and she's been wrong about men after all (because her brother-in-law is loving toward her sister after she has a miscarriage, like she's never seen a faithful man before) ... I wondered where the scenes went that showed these two people falling in love, because they certainly didn't make it into the movie.  Toward the end of the movie, Ashley is getting ready to go on set as the guest and reveal that she's the professor, and who's doing her makeup?  Her mother Naomi Judd in a three-second uncredited role.  Which is so bizarre, it jolts you right out of the movie.  When I see a movie like this, I compare it to such hits as "Sleepless in Seattle" and "You've Got Mail" and "When Harry Met Sally" and "Sex In the City" and "Hope Floats" - all of which pulled me in and had me rooting for the heroine.  There's something about Meg Ryan, and Sarah Jessica Parker, and Sandra Bullock, that is sweet and vulnerable and makes you want to root for them.  They're America's Sweethearts.  While Ashley Judd, who is very pretty, simply fails to connect with the audience.  That, and a stinker of a script, sank this movie for me.

worst movie in a while Boring  Unrealistic  Seen way better movies with both actors  Actors are still good individually but they don't make up for the bad movie!  Love Kathy Bates

Movies They sent me a DVD that doesn't work in my DVD player. When I emailed them about it they sent me one website that was supposed to decode my DVD player so it would play it. There instructions didn't work. I even researched my own instructions and they did not work. I contacted the company again and there only response was as long as I paid for shipping back they would refund only the price of the movie and I needed to pay for all the shipping. The shipping is over $7 and the movie was only around $4.

Simply horible I tried to watch, promise... but acting is so bad that I had to stop after 35 minutes. In one episode you can actually see a typist moving fingers in mid air for the lack of a typewriter. That is how all movie is - it is like a cheap school theater.

Totally Unsatisfactory <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004WEJZ">Never Say Never Again</a>This product was shipped from Belgium.  It arrived one day AFTER the last return date.  The DVD will NOT play on any DVD player I have....it is imcompatible or not allowed on this continent. I am unable to find a way to contact customer service at Amazon.com. This is the pits.

What a joke of a live show Just watched this and I had to laugh at how mediocre this performance was. For all the windmills and other gyrations by Pete Townshend the music doesnt rock very hard. Keith Moon looks bored and Daltrys vocals are flat. If this is one of their greatest shows they are very overrated.

The Unhelpful Resentment Of Oprah, Based On My Helpful Review! The Truth; Fictitious nature fans, give disgraceful racist reviews of Oprah Winfrey, while completely overlooking the wildlife. The true eminence of the 'Life' nature series, is being undermined by the imaginary importance of narrator David Attenborough. The racism and sexism stacked against Oprah Winfrey, has driven David's significance, to a larger-than-life prominence, which overshadows the 'Life' series itself. Oprah was belittled for the mere sound of her voice, even though she made no guest appearance on the show. Oprah's familiar voice and speaking ability, made following her commentary very easy. Oprah is a thought-provoking speaker, a seasoned journalist in most speaking engagements. Are we really supposed to be so incredibly stupid, and believe this lying nonsense is about her voice, and not about her color? The voice they swear sounds too unfit to do mammal, reptile, fish, and bird narratives.  I was very pleased by the informative knowledge that she presents to attentive and enthusiastic viewers. Oprah used proper pronunciations, she sounds articulate using educated expressions, and her commentary is clearly intelligent. Personal resentment of Oprah by the uneducated, can explain why they despise, disrespect, and have complete disdain towards her. The listless focused entirely on Oprah's color, but blamed her voice for their mental inability to absorb this documentary. True nature enthusiast being very mindful individuals, would never become distracted by an unseen speaker, show a low IQ, exhibit complete illiteracy, and display symptoms clearly diagnosed as (Attention Deficit Disorder).  Those with this syndrome then collectively agreed with other lying brethren, and made-up fictitious helpful review results, by pretending that serious minded true nature enthusiasts, had found their reviews helpful. After my analysis, it becomes evident these people are too hateful, and incapable of basic human decency to be true nature enthusiasts. Any true nature enthusiast, who has seen this series, would never overlook the importance of these creatures being introduced, to suggest that David is the main star of this series. The exclusive emphasis and main focus of the 'Life' series is to present the mammals, reptiles, fish, and birds as the absolute focus of attention. So for anyone to personally suggest and promote David's Life, as the more enjoyable Life, than Oprah's Life, denies the obvious intent of the cinematographer's goal, of targeting these animals exclusively, to highlight only. Instead the apathetic, give undeserving admiration to David, an unseen narration individual who serves as an unimportant, and inconspicuous personality, analyzing the events in the background.  Unnecessary lies are implied, and amplified, as the extremists speak in racially coded language. After observing this entire documentary for myself, it doesn't take a genius with a P.H.D. to determine, these negative reviews are completely exaggerated, and based on; absolute bigotry, revenge, untruthful complaining, from insecure, obscure, insignificant adversaries of Oprah. Every true nature enthusiast who observed this series gave truthful and realistic reviews. Everyone withholding the truth continues this travesty by prolonging this review hoax. Do not let people like this misinform and deceive you, who will not be bankrolling for you their suggested version. David's voice alone will not make 'Life' the most incredible, unbeatable, and engaging cinematic experience imaginable. These individuals are attempting to prevent online shoppers, from freely making their own choice.  The color-conscious even posted their one star views, without actually seeing this series in it's entirety, and just eagerly joined in denouncing anything featuring Oprah. The true nature enthusiasts, who enjoyed this series, took the time to share their compassion. The irrelevant rogue reviewers took the time to give numerous rude remarks, full of disrespectful nonsense, and inappropriate sarcasm. These people are under the impression their intolerant hatefulness, cannot be seen for what it is. So I ask: How can a true nature enthusiast declare love to The Almighty; "He whom you have not seen", swear love to creatures that creep along the ground, yet deny a brother or sister, whom you have seen?

Cracked dvd It was a used video which is fine. Problem was DVD was cracked and would not play.. Very upsetting..  Still want to see movie.

why liam you are so much better than this I usually love Liam films but Dont waste your time on this one. The plot is terrible. bad character development.

Pretty LED Light Sticks Positives: None, except, well instead of mercury we have broken crystal/glass shards for dying people types.  Negatives: (1.) Ripped off fighting light sticks and hand held slashing spinning disk weapon form countless other movies. (2.) Martial arts skills were so bad I thought I was watching a '60s Hong Kong knockoff. (3.) Wire routines were just as bad- cheaply and unimaginatively done. (4.) Script and/or dialogue was arcane, trivial and robotic (yes, even for the humans). (5.) Storyline was equally unimaginative - evil vs. good versions of oneself. Please - redux. (6.) City and landscape architecture looked like what an unimaginative school child who doesn't like science and would fail Engineering 90 (That's Engineering for basic math people.) would create. Lots of nonsensical weird shapes with pretty LED lighting. (7.) Typical, and I mean really typical, Disney superficiality for a quick buck. Haven't the Disney people discovered Avatar yet?  Neutral: Movie reminded me I need to go to the grocery store and buy another LED backup light.

Talk To Me For some reason, I just didn't find this interesting to me!!!  I threw it out!  Don't waste your money on this on!

Don't go to film school Save money.  Don't go to film school.  Watch Batman & Robin and then The Dark Knight.  You will know how to tell the difference between greatness and garbage.

Total waste of talents The story of the movie appears to have been improvised on the go or after the shooting started. There is no coherent theme or clearly defined character that could inspire the actors to believe in their roles in the movie.  Apparently, the moviemaker opted on the catchy title of Spiderman in order to drag kids into the movie theaters. The slow flow of narration and the confusion of the actors on what to do or show was further aggravated by the lengthy and irrelevant acrobatic shots which were done in haste and with the slightest appreciation of the viewers' right to see reasonable flow of motions.  At the onset, some secretive and serious scientist disappeared after leaving his son with his aunt. The departure of the father and his wife was cold, irrational, and inexplicable. The orphaned boy now grows up and retraces his Dad's scientific work which took him to a colleague of his father working on crossing species to produce powerful humans.  With such lousy scientific proposal, the son got bitten by an experimental spider which lent him the advantages of the crossing of Homo sapiens with the Arachnida class. Because the story was carved recklessly, there was no logical explanation on how such lousy draped human spider produces strings or overcome gravity.  The role played by the scientist amputee was also confusing. Early in the movie, the scientist works in a private laboratory. Later, he works in underground bizarre lab. After being converted into a lizard by virtue of a drug he manufactured, he seems to change his mind and returns as human, back and forth.  The most annoying aspect of the movie was the slow flow of dialogues with irrational transitions to irrelevant scenes. in a high school science class, all actors appeared in their thirties, the main female girlfriend, who claimed to be 17 appeared in her late thirties.  As the story turns cold and boring, the NY Police department shows up only with sirens and amateur fighting skills in dealing with fictionally threatening scenario.  Even if one assumes that the movie was intended to keep kids occupied during the summer, most of the scenes in the movie are no match to most electronic animations available free on the Internet. Compared to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0040YR546">Kick-Ass </a>, The Amazing Spider-Man merely squandered the talents of its actors by the sloppy writing of the story and the sleazy short cut in graphic animations.  Mohamed F. El-Hewie

Reaffirming My Faith in Mankind I have to say that all of the one-star reviews destroying the abomination that is THE GREEN HORNET has reaffirmed my faith in mankind...or at least the American movie-going public.  I will admit I was a little skeptical when Michael Keaton played BATMAN in 1989, but that movie was a pleasant surprise.  No masterpiece, mind you, but Tim Burton's funky visuals and Jack Nicholson's daffy and sinister Joker made it worth seeing.  But Seth Rogen as a superhero?  Come on!  He has all the charisma and star quality as the Grape Ape cartoon.  And which genius thought it would be a good idea to let Rogen help write this monstrosity?  His schtick was getting old in teen stoner movies!  But reading all the reviews of people WHO LIKE SUPERHERO MOVIES who couldn't even finish THE GREEN HORNET has made me proud of my country again, like after 9-11.  (I love how the recent commercials pushing the DVD release feature Rogen in only one shot.  Kato gets about three or four.  I think the car gets more.  That, ladies & gentlemen of the jury, is my last exhibit for this stinkbomb).

Seriously? I remember a few monthes after this film came out on dvd in early to mid 2008 of that year before I turned 16. We watched this terrible movie in Health class and all I could do was roll my eyes while everyone else laughed. I don't know if it was because they thought it was funny or if its because of how stupid this movie was and what a joke it was and still is. Its about a teenage girl named Juno who gets pregnant by stupidly having sex with a friend or boyfriend whoever he was to her. At first she wants to get an abortion and then she decides to give it up for adoption. When she tells her parents about how she got pregant their expressions were like they didn't care at all. They were like how thats aweful in monotone voices. But then their attitudes were like, "Whatever lets go out to eat." I also hate how this main girl is a smart alleck who makes this whole pregnant and giving up your child for adoption like a joke. I never understood how this movie got good reviews at all from critics. Whats really ridiculous is at one part of the movie was when Juno said that Chinese people sell their kids like ipods!!! Thats a very stupid thing to say since shes comparing human babies to things like ipods. This movie really glamorized teen pregnancy (so did Jamie Lynn Spears pregnancy) because I remember not long after this movie came out teen girls were getting pregnant on purpose. And a couple of them said it was because of this movie. I warn whoever is reading this not to watch this film.

Unable to watch I never watched it because apparently my 5meg internet connection is not powerful enough for Amazon...but Netflix plays just fine. And no refund or any way to say that I couldnt watch the video.

99 problems and this movie is one. Now, upon scrolling through my movie options in the horror section, I came upon this and its vague description and figured why not.  A HUGE MISTAKE. This film is completely ridiculous with a plot and execution of dialogue that was unbearable. A married couple are held captive in their own home by a sadistic killer and forced to reveal "secrets" to each to survive and complete a puzzle of sin. Its an awkward combination of Saw and Captivity but with no gore to hold your attention and the two main characters seemed far to relaxed about having a serial killer watching over them. Even going as far as to pull out a board game to kill some time. WHAT?! Anyway, its a piece of garbage and the twist at the end wasn't even shocking enough to make 5 minutes of this film worth it.  PLEASE, go find something else to watch.

Boring The twist to this plot . . . for 5 seconds made this movie interesting. Besides that it was just boring. It was as if I had seen this movie in several other movies.

Horrible movie Very crude & distasteful.  I tried to watch it with my almost 13 year old, since I was told it was very funny, by a cousin who had seen it twice. We turned it off after a bit.

Not As Advertised I purchased this item thinking I would receive the ENGLISH version, as it was advertised. Instead I received a bi-linqual edition (Spanish and English).

Way Too Much I've been trying to find Hollywood or Bust, on DVD, alone-not a 'collection' for awhile now.  I'd buy this collection if it was reasonabily priced.  It's clear to see that whoever owns the rights to these films is trying to make a killing here.  Packaging several rather poor films with one a lot of fans really want, and at this price, is not very good.  M & L films started going downhill and that trajectory is made up of the films in this collection.  'Hollywood' remains popular with their fans because it was their last one.  I imagine the owners are going to stick it to us fans one more time.  Something tells me Lewis is the guy calling the shots on this effort.  In the meantime, I'll just catch it when it's on tv.

Gosford Park A lot of great stars but I did not like this movie - felt it was a waste of my money.

Ugh! I just saw the last five minutes of Eragon on TV and was instantly reminded of why I shut the DVD off after 5 minutes into the movie. The casting was terrible, the movie script was horrible and the acting was wooden. Christopher Paolini should have waited for a better funded offer before he sold the movie rights. Hopefully this is one movie they'll redo. It's a great book that deserves a much better movie.

terrible fake british and german accents - over the top acting - two dimensional characters and an unbelievably bad story, being a woman  jennifer aniston in a bathing suit didnt improve the movie for me, unlike it apparently did for the other 1 star reviewer. I love a chick flick as much as the next girl but this was just bad from start to finish, surprised aniston and kidman agreed to act in the film

Disappointment Too expensive for the items included. The photo shows a brown rectangle image that I mistook as a "cupboard" for the key and figurines; turns out to be a cheap cover for the VHS movie. Indian in the Cupboard: Gift Set (includes 5 figurines) [VHS]

Watch the region this DVD is for...it may not work in your player. Was excited to find this concert in the height of his career.  This DVD will not play in the eastern United States.  This was a waste of money.  Ask this question before purchasing.

March of Penguins This is an HD DVD and is unplayable on anything but an HD player.  Regular version and Blu Ray will play on almost anything.  Not so with this DVD.

Awful Seriously one of the worst movies i've seen in some time.  Heigl's acting was horrible and the plot was childishly overdone.  Don't waste your time!

Writer & Director Combination makes a Hiddeous movie This movie is only one in the technical sense. Typically when you have the writer and director in one package, as you do here, there is no other sense of editorializing or editing to improve on it, because there is no objectivity. So a very twisted idea of the writers mind becomes an agonizing venture into a demented world whose point is to gross-out and offend than it is to entertain. In fact, the director probably forgot about that last element in film making.  This movie has no actual point. Sick surgeon seeks to create a human centipede by sewing three people together. Add lots of morbid cruelty and torture. And make sure to have no sense of balance between suspense and horror, good over evil, or any subtlety.  Then this film has the nerve to end badly on top of all that. No sense of relief, and no sense that the writer-director had an idea of where this was going to end up. So he just wastes our time to get to the end and then abandons the audience, leaving us with a head-shaking "What the...?"  I am so glad I did not pay for this movie. It would not be worth any money to see it. You have been warned.

I wish I bought this VHS so I could record over it! I bought this movie for $1.00 brand new... Worst $1.00 ever spent.  I would rather have used that money to buy a bottle of peroxide and poured it into my eyes.  I am a fan of bad movies but this isn't even watchable.  I couldn't even follow what was going on and the script...  I don't think there was a script.  For the ten minutes I saw, I could barely tell what what being said. It's just a bunch of friends who got together one night, picked up a VHS Camera and started filming random ideas they came up on the spur of the moment.

Left me in the lurch I purchased this DVD to show to a small group.  When I tested the DVD, it would not play.  Wound up calling Blockbuster (they didn't have it) and finally located a public library that had it.  Lot of time wasted - and a more wary man in the future...

I should learn from others. I was very excited when I saw finally this group had a blu-ray concert available. Unfortunatly, I thought ; Maybe the two previous reviewers had it all wrong, being they posted about PS3. I too had the same problem. I tried it on three diferent blu-ray players. Panasonic, Sony and a computer. I requested an exchange, thinking... Perhaps was just a bad disk. When the new one arrived. I played both back to back on two players. Sound but no video or at best intermitent. I checked cables,firmware and zone. Very dissapointed. So I returned them both today for a refund.

I've done better 8 min core workouts We were not impressed with these 8 min core workouts at all.  We were actually hoping this would be a great replacement & comparison to a VHS tape we used to use and really liked.  However, this didn't compare at all. The quality of the recording is really bad, the exercises change to frequently to even start to feel a burn, the buns exercises were the same exact ones they use on the thigh workout.  Was not the least bit sore the next day. Didn't even feel like I worked anything. Would not recommend for the money. Going to keep searching for the 8 min Abs with Jamie Brenkus I used to have on VHS.... Ten times better workout & results!

Not why I go to the movies I finally got around to watching this stinker, and yes it is a stinker. The special effects are excellent but that's it for the compliments.  The script is bad, the dialogue banal, the acting talent wasted. The only point of this movie is to watch the special effects devastation. In between that devastation are some of the most boring or ridiculous scenes in all of moviedom.  Others have explained the problems with this movie in far greater detail than I am willing to exert, but I will explain my biggest complaint. They went to great expense to make the catastrophe scenes visually realistic, which certainly could have been interesting. But at the same time they are doing that, they are unloading some of the stupidest action sequences. While you watch the realistic earthquake scenes and are almost being pulled into the movie, they jerk you right back out, for example, by having a motor home jump a crater. The sheer stupidity of the action scenes takes away any pretense of realism.  And one observation- massive earth movements do not and cannot all result in huge yawning fissures in the earth. Some are going to simply move the earth horizontally with no fissures and others are going to result in elevations in the earth (have these folks heard of mountains?) But every time they want to put someone in danger, here comes another fissure. That got old.  And weren't they aware that it actually is dangerous to fly through ash clouds?

5 star movie one star for the crap ultraviolet the movie was great laughed all the way thru it but the one star is for the crap ultraviolet "digital copy" doesnt work with itunes is not a digital copy its a streaming only but i bought the region free copy off amazon.co.uk which comes with a true digital copy and price works out about the same

R u kidding me? This is like a 20 minute movie! I'm glad I rented before buying but I can assure u I won't even rent it ever again. This movie is a total joke!!! I truly LOVED how to train your dragon. It is one of mine and my kids favs and couldn't wait to watch this one. I won't waist my time next time. Stick to the first movie and save the dissatisfaction!

Paranormal Activity 2 This would have to be without a doubt the worst mvoie that I have ever seen.  How was this allowed to be put on the shelves for sale.  Terrible, Terrible, Terrible.  Jaws had more jumpy moments.

Boring Stoner Movie Rented this one via on-demand after hearing so many good things about this supposed cult favorite.  Wound up being bored by this forced, stoner movie.  Funny film if you are a middle-school boy or high.

No Class Unless you are a real Clooney fan (and I admit I am not), there is no reason to see this film. I guess liking soft porn might be a second reason, but the last. While the scenery is amazing, there is no psychological depth, or any other depth, to be seen here.

Fullscreen. Certainly it is up to the purchaser to read all the details. So it is my fault that I purchased an inferior product. But, I feel that I should warn others. This is fullscreen. It looks horrible on widescreen tvs. Be warned.

So much potential leads to a heavy letdown Looking at the cast and concept of this film, it's understandable to expect great things.  Unfortunately, weak writing and poor direction pushes and pulls this movie in every different direction and down every different rabbit hole.  Before long, you find yourself an hour in, mired by subplots you don't care about and then there's a pointless sex scene on a staircase.  You're better off watching Gigli.

Beneath all of this elaborate feather bedlam lies a Hitch cock-and-bull story that's essentially a fowl ball. The premise is fascinating. The idea of billions of bird-brains refusing to eat crow any longer and adopting the hunt-and-peck system, with homo sapiens as their ornithological target, is fraught with potential. Cinematically, Hitchcock & Co have done a masterful job of meeting this formidable challenge. But dramatically, The Birds is little more than a shocker-for shock's-sake.  Evan Hunter's screenplay, from Daphne du Maurier's story, has it that a colony of our feathered 'friends' over California's Bodega Bay suddenly decides, for no apparent reason, to swoop down en masse on the human population, beaks first. These bird raids are captivatingly bizarre and terrifying.  Where the scenario and picture slip is in the sphere of the human element. An unnecessary elaborate romantic plot has been cooked up and then left suspended. It involves a young bachelor attorney, his sister, their mother, and a plucky, mysterious playgirl whose arrival from San Francisco with a pair of caged lovebirds for Taylor coincides with the outbreak of avian hostility.  Aside from the birds, the film belongs to Hedren, who makes an auspicious screen bow. She virtually has to carry the picture alone for the first 45-minute stretch, prior to the advent of the first wave of organized attackers from the sky.  Of the others, Tandy, a first-class actress, makes the most vivid impression. Taylor emotes with strength and attractiveness.

The Vanishing Awful.  I sped it up to see how the story ended since I got bored watching it but wanted to know how it ended.  Creepy - which might be a good thing for a serial killer film but not in this case.

Just Plain Disgusting Being Serbian myself, and hearing that this was a horror film, I was interested. It was, what, the first Serbian horror film after Yugoslavia broke up? So I borrowed the movie. It was disgusting and perverted and then some. I turned it off halfway through because it was so depraved. This is supposed to be some "political allegory", but what allegory is hidden in 90 minutes of rape, molestation, necrophilia, etc., is beyond me.

$3 Bucks Down the Drain - Just Awful I started the movie and could not get past the cheesy presentation or the music. Fast forwarded 7 min and the cheesy presentation was still going with the cheesy music and some cheesy person trying to speak over it. No way I could get through any more of it and turned it off. I generally wait until the end of a movie to give it a fair assessment. In this case I did not need to wait till the end; two minutes was as long as I could stand. Save your money!!!!  TOTALLY TRASH

Not very good This movie, although original in the storyline, isnt a good scary movie. No frights, or scares of any kind. Definitely shouldve waited for it at the $1 rental case.

what laughs? this movie was not funny at all. i did not laugh at alllllll. this is one of the worst movies i have ever seen in my life. if this is the standard of todays humor, then please take me back 20 or 30 years ago.

No digital copy Great movie which is why I bought it, but there was no digital copy. Nope, neither a disc or a code to redeem online. All it had was the blueray itself. It even says on the packaging that it has a digital copy, but nada.

One of the worst movies I've ever seen. Proof positive some movies are a business model instead of an artistic creation. Not one single iota of talent or finesse went into the making of this film. This is essentially the poor man's Black Hawk Down meets Independence Day, while borrowing cliche plot points from just about every major war movie ever made. All things that could be overlooked if it weren't for the awful script; not even Ridley Scott could have saved this film.  I could write a lengthy review pointing out how awful this movie is on every level, but it's not even worth me wasting my time. I'll settle for this:  Dialogue is 95% consisting of marines grunting or yelling "Staff Sergeant!!!!" Dialogue is cheesier than dangerously cheesy Cheetos. "I'd go to hell and back for you." .....really? Lets not even get into the pep-talk scene near the end. Some of the worst writing I've ever seen. The aliens are laughable, at best. Seeing them evokes no sense of fear or dread, they look like rejects from a Star Wars droid casting call. I could care less about any of the characters, they're all hollow and rarely speak more than a sentence at a time. Plot has poor pacing, makes no sense, is uninteresting and totally disjointed. This is more video game than movie, minus, you know, you actually playing it. Cliche's at every level of the film. I couldn't find one original idea or plot point. It's as if the director said, "omg hay guyz, lets make a terrible mash up of every successful war movie and add aliens because that would appeal to teenage boys who play Halo!"  Given how interesting this film could have been and how insultingly bad it was, I find it mind boggling that there are actually positive reviews here. The only person I could see liking this movie, in any capacity, is the type of person you ask what they think is the greatest film of all time, and they respond: "Armageddon!"

Nothing New This was a DVD about Ann Rule not about Ted Bundy. We gain no new insight into what made this monster what he was. This is an embarrassment of a DVD and should be avoided.

shower of blood Horrible. I couldn't understand any of it' the acting was terrible! Just another skin flick. I wouldn't recommend to anyone.

UFC 119 "Whoops!" Boy, having just watched this one I can honestly say it was top ten worst cards ever. It was maybe worse than ufc 9  While the SHerk vs Dunham fight was solid, and the Serra Lytle fight was a watchable but rather boring and pointless stand up battle, the other fighters rarely got it on at this show. Save your money

Complete crap! Watch this nonsense at your own risk.  Designed to play to the emotional underbelly of the psychologically damaged.  Not intended for intelligent human beings, please avoid this garbage!

Complete Waste of Time This is a tale of bored people with no ethics, morals or hope. Heavy on blood and violence, very light on storyline or characters. Gah, don't waste your time.

bad acting, bad script not much to say, you have to see it to really know how bad it is. Sometimes, it is beyond me of how these movies find legit budgets

Trash movie - Jen can't pick scripts anymore This movie belongs on the same trash heap as Brides Maids and the like. I really loved Jennifer Aniston in Friends and so much wanted to be a fan of her movies, but most of them just aren't any good. Few exceptions - I really liked The Breakup. Though I found The Good Girl depressing and wouldn't watch it a second time, her acting was good. But why is it that lately anything labeled as a romantic comedy is just crude and trashy? Is that really what most people want to watch? In my opinion, this sort of script is for actors who are on the way out. It requires no acting skills, and little in the way of real vocabulary. I used to be willing to rent or buy a movie just because Jen was in it, but no more. I don't trust her ability to pick good scripts. Is she really going to be proud of her work when she looks back on a carrer filled with this kind of trash script? If she's just in it for the money and doesn't care, then I guess it doesn't matter as long as the check doesn't bounce.

Working parents, you don't want this book. My son (who is five and in kindergarten) borrowed this book from his school library yesterday and we read it for the first time last night.  We love funny silly books (e.g, the Elephant and Piggy series), and this one is NOT one of those.  Like other one-star reviewers said, this book is about a boy who will not get out of bed no matter what, and I admit that it's funny reading through the drama throughout the book of people trying to get him out of bed.  BUT THE ENDING!!! [Scream of a working mom!]  The ending is that the mom basically gives up and the child wins the day.  He stays in bed.  THE END.  Are you kidding me?  Dr. Seuss must not be a working mom who has to get 2 kids out of bed every morning for school ON TIME.  No, I have not lost my sense of humor.  I am all for funny witty books and we buy plenty of those.  But it's not funny (to the parents) when the story of the book defies the rules or principles that you have in your house---all parents out there know that it takes a tremendous amount of effort and persistent to teach your child good manners and routine.  And what they read influence their behavior.  This story is not just a fantasy (like other 5-star reviewers) suggest IF YOU CHILD ACTUALLY FOLLOWS THE BOY AND TRIES TO STAY IN BED!  Yes, kids are full of energy and wouldn't really stay in bed all day.  But for us working families, it's not IF you get up, it's WHEN you get up.  This is the worst children's book ever in that it undermines all your effort to create a consistent, orderly, calm morning to start your day.  Way to go Dr. Seuss. For those who think this is just so funny and those who don't get it need to loosen up, I challenge you to read your child the following books "I am not going to eat my veggies today" or "I am not going to share my toys today" or "I am not going to wear my seat belt today" or "I am not going to wear my helmet riding the bike today."  C'mon, it's just a fantasy right?  A five-year old knows better!  p.s. So afterward the story, I had to rehabilitate the situation.  We first talked about why the story is funny.  Then we talked about isn't that just nice sometimes if we can stay in bed.  But then, I followed up with questions like, what if EVERYONE stayed in bed, what would happen.  Just so that he gets it that this is just a story.  But surely, the next morning, he said the exact same line as the boy.  "I am not going to get up today."  Still think that funny books are just to be funny and there's no message to learn?

lacking value or substance This movie was very disheartening (and literately too). It portrays a man who breaks up, falls in love, breaks up, in the midst plans to propose more than once, and in all of this have a female friend that supposedly doesn't but does like/love - even he doesn't know. Has a child who is very hurt about the divorce and somehow wants her dad to hook up with another girl. this doesn't happen in real life! Furthermore it isn't even enjoyable - who enjoys watching a guy and several girls get hurt over and over and feel lost and get pregnant. Apart from that if the premise is based strictly on emotional love then why do you write in the story about a girl crying about her dad and mom one moment and then as if it doesn't matter at all.  I am a guy - so this review may have salt on it - however my girlfriend and I watched it and she said at the end 'i can't find one morsel of good from that movie'

The Naked Truth No book, either the Bible or even The Urantia Book that I am a student of, can ever take the place of one's personal experiences involving the spiritual reality of God. This same concept applies to movies as well. So my faith in God was not altered one way or the other when a little over a minute into this episode about Prophets, they show (for three to four seconds) the back side of a naked man walking down a dirt road as the narrator tells us about Isaiah walking naked through the streets of Jerusalem for three years. But my faith in the producers of this show headed in a negative direction from this point on (that is to say that I tuned out even though I tried to watch the rest and listen with an open mind). It's not that I am particularly offended by nudity since from what I've been told, that's what I was wearing when I came into this world...absolutely nothing. And if the show was about how to join a Mesopotamian nudist colony or how to get an even suntan all over or perhaps even how to get arrested before you even have a chance to get an even suntan all over, then I would not have been so surprised by what seems to me to have been a poor choice of visual imagery considering the subject matter. But I did assume that a documentary produced by A & E TV about the Mysteries of the Bible would be a family-friendly production suitable for all ages of viewers especially when it is rated TV-G. Apparently, my assumption was invalid. Perhaps Coppertone was one of their sponsors when this first aired on March 17, 1995.

I don't get the hype Sorry. This may be deemed a classic but I just couldn't get into it. Perhaps it is because it is the early days of movies. I think they sped up the reel so fast that it made people seem as if they were talking fast. Or maybe they were not acting but just reciting lines. I have no idea. But I can't understand people during this era. And the men . . . they seem too painted up . . . too . . . dracula like or something. I dunno. Not my cup of tea.

Does Not Age Well Some series just don't lose the excitement and enrichment of watching no matter how old the series is. However this is not one of those series.   Yes, we all love Flipper, the dolphin, but the storyline (even for the young) isn't well written and extremely boring and predictable. It's hard now to look back on this series as anything but a long drawn out boring series that probably could have been made into a 3 part mini-series. Meaning; totally over priced for the quality of a series.

Boring This movie started out boring, became nauseating, and ended predictably. A waste of $3.99. The humor is aimed at those who call shows such as Roseanne and Jerry Springer entertainment.

One Oompa-Loompa While watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory I kept wondering why there was only one Oompa-Loompa, sometimes made into several using what looked like 1960s trick photography.  Tim Burton's other effects were good, as usual. Depp's acting was all right - he always goes for something original and he usually succeeds - one of the all-time greats; but Depp did come across as acting in this one, rather than as convincing.  Gene Wilder was too hard an act to follow without doing Willy in drag, or something.  The reason I would not bother to see this film a second time was the odd decision to use one actor to play all of the Oompa-Loompas (165 of them).  What motivated that decision?  Every Oompa-Loompa scene (and there are many) got monotonous.  I can find other ways to be bored ... for free. I give this film one Oompa-Loompa. That's all Tim Burton gave us.

Hard to stomach. The truth is, I'm sick to death of anything Obama. Despite the title, this is nothing but propaganda about the very worst president in US history.

Interesting Fabrication Rather than trying to learn about history from movies or TV shows, perhaps we should study history books written by scholars and ancient contemporaries.  We would then discover that Theophilus did not call for the destruction of a library but of centers of idol worship.  The Alexandrian "library" did not at that time contain any scrolls--they had all been destroyed centuries earlier (either before Christianity existed or while it was still a small, illegal sect). The last remaining great library of the ancient world was preserved by the Christians in Byzantia (Constantinople).  Although we would all like to blame the Christians for the sunset of a golden age of reason, fires were the great destroyers of ancient libraries.  That, however, doesn't make for very interesting movies. Also some of the other "reviewers" should remember not to judge a faith when some of it's followers do something bad.  It's like blaming Buddha for Pearl Harbor.  That would be reasonable if religious adherents always acted in perfect conformity with the teachings of their founders.  Unfortunately, they do not.

Insult to a sci fi classic "Prometheus" is a prequel to the great classic sci fi film "Alien" (1979). It sets out to explain what the spaceship was doing, who was the big guy in the driving seat, and what the alien creatures were designed for. The film does a pretty job in these objectives, but the rest leaves a lot to be desired. This film is so bad I hardly know where to begin. But here goes...  * Guy Pearce appears as an old man in makeup. The old man looks like Guy Pearce in old man makeup. Surely with a plethora of old men who are excellent actors (Mickey Rooney, Ernie Borgnine, Peter O'Toole), one of them might have been chosen. Or if the writers and producers had some real imagination, how about an old woman?  * If it hadn't been for "Snow White and the Huntsman", I could say that this was Charlize Theron's worst performance to date. She is simply terrible. This very talented actress has shown what she can do, but none of it is apparent here.  * One of the chief virtues of "Alien" and its sequels was the dark foreboding, almost claustrophobic atmosphere. The brightness of this film is a stark contrast.  * For a space ship on a 2 year mission to explore an alien environment, there is a stunning lack of military preparedness. Surely at the end of the 21st Century we have more lethal weapons at our disposal than a shotgun, 2 flame throwers, and a few .45 handguns.  * For a group of so-called scientists, most of the participants act in a very unscientific manner and take chances that are unacceptable. Of course this gives us the drama we are looking for, but a more clever film would not have it originate in the unscientific behavior of the scientists. For example, in the late 21st Century why are they walking without their helmets on into this unknown environment prior to the mapping technology completing the task. And where are the remote probes which exist in 2012 and by the end of the century will surely be more advanced?  SPOILER ALERTS (if it's possible to "spoil" a terrible film)  * There are many incredulous plot flaws. For example, the giant alien walks from his crashed space ship through the poisonous atmosphere to confront Dr. Shaw. But it's already been established that he can only breathe in the "earth-like" atmosphere in the cave; otherwise he needs a space suit which he leaves behind. How did he do it? Did he hold his breath? Think how big his ship was. How long would it take him to go from his gigantic ship to the survival vessel? How would he even know there was a survival vessel and where it was? etc.  * Since the earth spaceship is equipped with a robotic medical center, why would the center be configured only for male patients, especially when Weyland's own daughter is aboard?  * It's also been established in "Alien" that the big guy died in the command seat in his spaceship. So if he died elsewhere, who was in the seat? It was established that everyone else was dead. Or maybe there was another spaceship also with a giant engineer guiding it also equipped with alien creatures that also crashed? Yeah, maybe!  * The robot chooses to kill Dr. Holloway by putting some alien substance in his drink, but there is no rationale for this since the robot's mission is to help Dr. Weyland meet the "engineers". Killing Dr. Holloway does not advance this agenda and in fact puts the mission at some peril since Holloway is a valued member of the crew.  * As a prequel to "Aliens" there is an abominable discontinuation between that film and this one.  For example, there is a vast difference between the means of impregnation in this film (a gigantic creature) and the impregnation in "Aliens". What comes out is also vastly different.  * If the start of the film is accurate, the alien engineers have enormous technological capabilities. They create the humans in our world with exquisite engineering. So why would they be wasting their time with the type of killing machine which the alien creature represents?  The film isn't completely worthless and there are some nice touches here and there, like the sterile Shaw getting pregnant with an alien, or the mapping technology. But these are few and far between.  Given the talent and resources that went into making this film, it's a big disappointment.

4 year olds laughed at this more than they laugh at clowns if you thought this was scarie, or it made you jump out of your seat, then if someone farts you would jump. this movie and the 1st one are movies based around the whole "did you hear that" kinda thing. so if you watch it with the sound off, it will put you to sleep.

Typicaly terrible Ben Stiller movie Ben Stiller has some talent...unfortunately his movies are always slow, boring, and unfunny. I was told by a bunch of people that this movie was great, so I went against my better judgment and rented it. After about an hour, we turned it off. I recognize the attempted satire and over-the-top intent of the movie, but the movie just isn't funny. It had potential but it just drags on and on and never really gets anywhere.  There were a few funny scenes but it took forever to develop, and so much of this movie could have been cut out. I give major credit to Robert Downey Jr; he tries his best to save this movie from itself, but even he has trouble with it. The only other notable acting was Matthew McConaughey and Tom Cruise who did well playing their roles, but those roles were mediocre; and Brandon T. Jackson who played the actual black soldier had some good moments with RDJ.  Overall, this is typical Ben Stiller. If you like his brand of comedy (outside of Something About Mary...his only real gem IMO), you might like it. But if you have been bored with other Ben Stiller movies like Zoolander...you will be bored with this one too.

A Total Ripoff! Dumbo is a classic that most of us saw as kids and have fond memories of as adults.  Yes the movie is great and this review is not so much about the Movie a it is about this version of the Movie being sold!  So, with that out of the way I'll move on to what I dislike about this product.  INTRO  This pack as it notes comes with both the Blu-Ray and DVD Copies of the Movie and that is pretty much as expected, no faults there but this package has a few surprises that I'm going to focus on as these comments are in no way limited to just this product as there are many the feature these same flaws.  DVD  The DVD is pretty much the same version you would get if you just bought the DVD alone and there's no markings of any kind to differentiate it from past copies of the DVD.  The image quality is what you would expect from such an old movie and that's okay if you're just looking for Dumbo the Animated Classic to show your kids.  You know, there's really not a whole lot more to say about this.  BLU-RAY  The Blu-Ray version is where all my issues are pretty much found.  You see, we purchased this 2 disc version for our Grandson expecting a better over all experience but that's not what Disney presented.  They used higher resolution scans of the original film but really didn't do anything to improve upon them!  Sure they cleaned up the sound, changed the menus and added a few special features but, is that really why we buy Blu-Ray versions of these classics?  No!  Look, Disney makes a killing on these movies every time they re-release them or put them on moratorium and everytime they're marketed in some way to convey special new must have features!  Why waste all this time on marketing and screwing your customers over?  Why not just give them what they really want?  Seriously, Disney should spend the money and completely convert the images into 3D Digitally Generated Graphics?  Why is it that these classics will be long passed over by future generations because they're showing their age?  Even more, why are we expected to pay $20+ for a copy of a movie that is marginally better than their previous releases?  CONCLUSION  Don't buy the Blu-ray version, you don't get wide-screen format, cleaner frames, better color or anything you would expect from a High Definition Experience!  Again, I've seen other companies do this but with Animated Classics there's no excuse as you can enhance and use the same sound track over layed on the new graphics and still keep the same classic feel.

What a Joke The Inns in this video may very well be haunted, but Cathe the "psychic" tragically ruins any reputable evidence these Inns may have collected prior to her "investigations". Every time they take a photo you can see her deliberately kicking up dust; touching the dirt floor, then smacking her hands together, telling spirits to "sit down on the chair" as she dusts off the [clean, padded] chair for them. A complete joke.

Ignore this warning at your peril As a few others wrote, this disc did not play well. I tried it in two DVD players.  The first episode was fine.  The second one broke up, skipped parts, then froze.  The third one froze until I opened the disc drawer.   I love this show, started watching in the second season and wanted to catch up.  I can't believe this company didn't listen to the complaints and fix their production problems.   The good news is that Amazon makes returns very easy, with downloadable package labels, full refunds, and free return mailing.

Perhaps a top 5 worst movies I usually don't write reviews unless a movie is really good or really bad.  This is the later.  Lame and stupid.  I can't believe this script got made into a movie!!!!

Don't Bother The version i bought here was severely edited down even from the version that aired on cable, and since i didn't really buy it for the acting, the cinematography or the special effects, it was like buying a candy bar and only getting an empty wrapper.  If there was an unrated or director's cut version of this, i would recommend that you grab that instead.

Would a chick enjoy this flick? Really! The movie's screenwriters are probably gay writers who really thing straight people actually talk this way. Best friends do not continue to drop the "F" bomb every other word! If today's screenwiters had to write a script without it, they couldn't.  The storyline was intriguing, and I would've given it a 3 if not for the profanity.  And the previous writer had it right....the last line is supposed to be a turn-on????  Ha!

Cabin in the "Weeds..." This movie was horrible. It reminded me of a cheesy 70s B-movie. I would rather watch "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" again than sit through another zombie movie like this one.

Kid's Movie!? This movie is just plain bad.  This is a kids movie?  I had gotten this out of the library to watch because I missed it when it was in theaters and I am glad I did.  The previews made it look fun and entertaining, but the movie as a whole had a dark side.  With the smoking and cussing... not to mention the snake and "where he came from" made for one horrible movie.  The creators and everyone involved could have easily taken it down another road and made it a true kids movie - light and fun and full of laughs.

Something in the air... I dont know why exactly but this film just makes me cringe inside. Its almost like despite the best efforts spending zillons of bucks on an all A-List cast and on marketing there is something very very very wrong about this. I feel as though by watching this, I will be dragged off to some far away land to face some existential nightmare not of my own creation.  I feel so sorry for the penguins they seem to be a victim of their own blissful ignorance. They seem oblivious to the onslaught of polar warming, bears , Orcas the list goes on (life must really suck to be a penguin right now) Maybe thats the whole point , this film is to make kids ignorance of the world around them like the little penguins! Maybe they'll learn to accept what the world around them is doing and ignore certain MPAA attempts to control the internet and the world for their own benefit!!! Seriously this SUCKS!! Send your kinds to see Pokemon, Cool Japanese Manga something that is different; independent. You never know they may thank you for it one day

Not worth a penny because you can't play it in America!!! This was money down the drain because it won't play in our region.  The person who sold it to me said you have to reset some codes yadayadayada.  That's a bunch of BS when you are ordering something in America you would think you could get it to work in AMERICA!!!  I was totally screwed on this one and am very dissapointed with Amazon that they would allow anyone to sell there product that is not going to work here in AMERICA!  I have ordered many things on Amazon but I think maybe those days are over because once you open it you can't send it back and how the heck are you going to find out if something doesn't work unless you open it!  What a load of crap this was!  I recommend not buying this unless you feel like screwing around with entering in a bunch of codes or playing it on your computer.  I give this two thumbs down!

Hawaii Five-O... Blank Discs? There is a major quality control issue with Season 11. The discs play as far as the WARNING, do not copy, do not pirate... And from that point on show NO CONTENT. I may as well have bought blank discs. The same problem exists with Season 9 which I bought as seasons 1-9 of this show. As for Season 10, which was bought at the same time as season 11... I have yet to receive that. So tell me what is really going on here? If you are looking for Seasons 9, 10 or 11 of this amazing TV show, chances are you will either not receive it, or will end up with blank unplayable media. Have been in contact with Amazon to try to get this resolved, but truly getting a run-around which is somewhat unsettling... I would rate this as ZERO stars...

very original great movie, but it eventually bored me to death... I understand all those people who liked it or over loved it.  I thought it was original and kind of fun. But there was absolutely nothing that I loved in this movie.  In the end... I was just bored to death. Actually, even before the end, right from the beginning, but somehow I was expecting something to actually happen in this movie. Nothing happened. It's just a loser who's 22, going out with high school girls he won't even kiss, and who "kind of falls in love" with a weird girl who's way too cool for him...  I guess this movie was way too cool for me. Eventually, it kind of sucked... :-/

Cheap packaging and no extended cut! This is just like the Azkaban Ultimate edition, no extended cut of the film and really cheap packaging that came ripped!  Sure it has some great extra docs, but after creating ultimate editions that include extended editions of the film with the great docs, this is a total let down and a rip off for the price. You should just be able to buy the extra documentaries for a much lower price since anyone who is buying this already has the film on blu-ray.  After this debacle I will not purchasing any more ultimate editions, and these, unlike the first 2 films, this disc is not an ultimate editions at all.

Check before you buy I loved the low cost of purchasing the DVD unfortunately we are unable to watch it.  The CD is formatted for the UK which is different than the US.  And to be quite honest, not worth the hassle of returning because then the cost of shipping (to and from me) would be more than what I paid for.  So, I'm stuck with a product that doesn't work and that I will end up throwing away.  Once bitten, won't let that happen again.  Check before you buy.....is the product for the US or another country?

Poor trope for a nihilistic age The film takes nearly two tedious hours to babble about what Shakespeare said eloquently in MacBeth in a few breaths[Act 5, Scene 5]:  "Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."  If one is going to portray that bleak, life sucking emptiness is all there is, at least have the soul of wit to do it.

I thought it was a Hostel-like movie, very wrong Dont watch this movie, if you're looking for a scary movie to watch, just get REC or REC 2. I like scary movies and they are usually bad but entertaining, this was neither. Dont waster your time or money.

Not what I ordered I know I should have written this awhile ago. However, the movie I received turned out to be FOUR movies, three of which I DIDN'T order in the first place. Also, the disc of the movie I wanted to see just so happened to be scratched! NOT COOL! Wicked Waste of money!

I feel exploited...... I wanted to like this movie so bad.  As someone who grew up in Wisconsin hunting and now lives in Houghton Michigan (in the UP), I really thought that this movie would appeal to me.  I love the UP, and I love deer hunting.  But this movie, well, it just went from making some lame caricatures of deer hunters and people of the UP in general, to being flat out bizarre and weird (and not in a funny way).  I'm sorry, I understand how people want to like this movie, simply based on it's premise, but when a movie supposedly about deer hunting starts bringing in UFOs and hallucinations--it just makes things strange.  Yet, the wackiness could be tolerable if the movie was actually funny; but sadly it is not.  I feel like my love of deer hunting and the UP in general was exploited by this film.  Save your time and money and don't bother with this trash.

Waste of money and time. I may have bought the wrong show, as I saw a play called Beauty Shop long ago and really enjoyed it. This couldn't have been it. I was disappointed in this production. It seemed poorly put together. There was no real plot or point, and most of it was boring and lacking depth. Some parts were just plain unnecessary, but apparently put in to create excitement, but it didn't even succeed at creating any. The acting wasn't too bad, for the most part, but I question the intention overall. The play seemed to end almost abruptly without any real resolution to any issues brought up. I only paid about two dollars for this, but it wasn't even worth that, in my opinion.

Region code error - not as advertised on the box Heads up for anyone in a (blu-ray) Region B area -  The packaging is clearly marked Region AB.  This is a mistake, the discs WILL NOT PLAY in a Region B player.  Unfortunately I bought this over the counter in Canada while on holiday and cannot return for a refund.  Sony as yet have not returned my email re this false labelling.  If you are in a Region B area treat this as Region A locked and unplayable.  I note Amazon have listed it as a (DVD) Region Code 1.  Pity, I was really looking forward to this set...

Sad rental service... Same complaint as everyone else here. Can't watch movie either because of amazon's sad rental service. I'd better get to watch this in the next 48 hours or get my money back. Really not in the mood for getting ripped off.

Worst POS I've seen in a while Low low low budget garbage. I read a review and I was very curious. She isnt shown nude nearly as much as she could have. The rape scenes are G-rated at best. The acting...what acting? SFX what SFX? Gore....cheap and not enough. Tame in violence and nudity which is a shame since the main chick has an awesome rack! Trash. I cant believe Troma put their name on this. AND THAT IS SAYING SOMETHING. Avoid or you will toss in the trash or sell back on here, like me.

Incredibly scary for a youngster We only made it until Percy went to the Diesel Works before we had to turn it off.  Way too dark and scary for a toddler.  Should have assumed as such with scary Diesel 10 laughing menacingly at the end of Misty Island Rescue.  Incredibly disappointing.  Even the fire at the beginning was a bit much.

Please stop making these movies. If they must be made get different writers and directors!  I loved the games and the first movie but the further this series of movies goes the worse they become.   Please just stop...

poor quality How you anyone charge people to watch this?  Poor image quality, poor screen shot overall.And it is very short.Does not make you want to visit those places.

Very Anti-American/ Pro Arab Movie This was a Very Anti-American/ Pro Arab Movie in my opinion..I hate that Matt Damon played in this movie, because I liked him. I expected it from George Clooney. Our Country isn't perfect, but we do more good than harm in the World. I hope all those that watch this Movie don't believe everything (or even half) of what this movie portrays. Movies like this try to kill American Pride.. F U Clooney and Damon.. Just my take on the Movie.

Bored To Tears By the time I got to this episode, after watching all seasons, I was so sick of all the abject misery that can befall one human being.....jeeeze.....Its all about him and all his MISERY, what an absolutely depressing show.  Very sad considering the talent Mr Branagh has, but one can only take so much selfcentered misery.  I feel like I need a HUGE hug and some therapy  LOL.

Horrible DVD transfer!  Do not buy!  Great film. This is a horrible DVD transfer and it's unwatchable.  It's a 4x3 letterbox format and there are too many artifacts to even watch.  I had to turn it off before the opening credits were finished.  I love this movie but I can't watch this transfer.

3 stars average rating, really?? Just a terrible movie.  Quite possibly the worst Uma Thurman has been involved in.  Rating it on its own merits, it's not that bad of a movie-- just kind of silly and dumb and totally forgettable.  Comparing it to the Peel-era shows is what makes this very hard to watch.  First of all, Uma Thurman looks nothing like Diana Rigg.  Jessica Biel would make a much better Emma Peel.  Secondly, this is set in modern day.  So much of Peel's persona has to do with how she twirls her flip or wearing those white gloves.  Without that hair and clothing goes much of the essence of Emma Peel.  Sealing the tomb is a barrage of crappo CGI which makes the whole thing look like the graphics on a fast food cup set to motion.  For a dumb film of a similar flavor which actually succeeds at being a comedy, just rent "Austin Powers".

Just... bad! All I can say is that my favorite French friend was right - this was a BAD movie. It was beautifully shot but slow, pretentious and just lame. Sure, lots of boobies but beyond that, few redeeming qualities. If you don't understand French, don't rent this one - you have a choice of French, or dub-over in English or Spanish but they didn't have the common sense to get subtitling so it just looks BAD. It's like a very long photoshoot.

Pure Nonsense Worthless The behavior of the problem horse in this movie is totally Hollywood nonsense. The horse training showed in the movie was pathetic.

no good i purchased red before christmas for christmas present but found out it was not going to be delivered till janaury so spoke to advisor online asking if this was correct and they confirmed yes so when i said it would be to late they knocked 50 pecent off which was good and i also received it before christmas afterwards which was good .i give it to my nephew for christmas and then i found out it was the wrong region and would not play in uk ,so i was not happy the advisor i spoke to did not make this clear to me ,they of just mentioned it seeing that it was going to uk address

Shocked & Disappointed by Offensive Joke in Nickelodeon Cartoon The dialogue went as follows:  [Dorkus starts laughing, but stops in the middle of it to notice they were seeing him laughing.] The Emperor: Dorkus, I'm not feeling the laugh. Sheen: Dude, I thought you swallowed your tounge or something. Dorkus: Let's just go! Sheen: Do you have a history of seizures?  This was highly insensitive & inappropriate, not to mention false. "Jokes" like this further perpetuate a myth regarding people living with this common disorder, one being my own son. I was shocked, but mostly extremely disappointed that Nickelodeon could be so insensitive. My son is 12 yrs old and has grown up on Nick shows. :(

Doesn't live up to the title... With this type of title and watching the preview, I figured this would be full of sex and nudity.  Not so.  There's a few topless shots (very few), mostly on tv screens in the background.  No real sex stuff.  I was very disappointed.  Its either dubbed in English or the sound track is way off...

Not About The Movie - Paramount & Amazon Should Be Ashamed First, let me say that I like the movie.  But if you don't like it, then ignore it.  If you don't know, check movie reviews or rent it first and decide for yourself.  That aside, this review isn't about the Movie - but rather the media.  So, I'll admit that I'm a little late to the HDTV party.  I've actively shunned Blu-Ray - price has been too high and also I have substantial DVD content.  When Amazon offered this title with the Triple format (Blu-Ray, DVD, AND Digital Copy) - and - the price was $19.99 (pre-order) I thought it had to be a mistake.  That's close to my personal 'price point' - and the DVD includes a Blu-Ray and Digital copy.  I've moved to streaming, use  both the Amazon Cloud as well as Amazon Digital Content and have setup my own DLNA Media Server.  This would be a perfect addition to my digital video library - and High Def.  Boy was I wrong.  After Amazon shipped, I started checking my Amazon Digital Library for my new purchase to show up.  Finally, the package from Amazon arrived ON FRIDAY !!! - New releases are on Tuesday, and previously w/Prime, Amazon has shipped on Monday.  Usually, I have the package on Tuesday or Wednesday.  I'm  Amazon Prime, pre-ordered weeks in advance, it's not like it was a surprise or something.  But, ok, I can live with that.  I drive by Wal-mart, Target, K-mart, Blockbuster, Costco & 5 Redboxes every day - If I really needed it on Tuesday or Wednesday I can shop there instead of Amazon.  When I finally GET my 'triple' play - I read on a little insert - that the Digital Copy is a Download from Paramount.  Oh, not quite what I was expecting, but again I can live with that.  So, off I go to the URL to download the Movie.  There is an ITunes option - but I don't do business with ITunes - I have Amazon.  First, you must download and install the Paramount Download Manager (great more crap-ware on the PC).  Only then you can download the Movie.  Transformers-DOTM runs 2:34:40 to watch.  The download file is 2.1GB (the maximum Amazon Cloud Video file size allowed is 2.0GB) - and the download took 4 1/2 DAYS.  The download manager would stop, apparently at random sometime after about 8 hours every day.  The download rate - when it was working varied between 20-50kb/s (old dialup modem speed).  Now, after 4 1/2 days, the resolution on the download is either 720x300 or 320x136 (a second 800mb version) - so It's not 1080 HD anyway - and is no better than the DVD.  They are Windows WMV files that carry DCP - so they don't work with the Logitech Revue - Google TV or the Google Chromebook and I and can't recode them to something else that is compatible - or even split it in 1/2 so I can upload it to the Amazon Cloud.  What a lousy mess - and terrible experience.  To be fair - I did find (too late) - a Amazon FAQ that gave some warning - and did clarify the Digital Copy didn't go to the Amazon Digital Media Library.  Believe me neither Paramount or Amazon will get me to waste any money - ever again on a Blu-Ray - Triple Play or anything else with the deplorable utility of the Digital Copy.

Just a Bad Movie What a mess this movie is. It's not a prequel to the first Alien movie as most people think, so did I, but rather a re-boot. Even so, I had such high hopes and was looking forward to seeing it. It does have some truly excellent visuals and the story-line had great potential but it falls flat, and quickly. Here are just a few examples from many  *****Spoilers Ahead*****  On the alien moon the ship's crew enters one of the `pyramid' rooms which is really inside one of the Engineer's ships. David the android makes a quick comment that the atmosphere is `clean', and pretty soon everyone is taking off their helmets. This would never happen, especially with supposed field professionals; they only know about the air in one room. There's no regard for pathogens, no regard for trapped gases that are toxic and other things that might not show up on routine tests. This scene shows the incredible ignorance of the writer and Scott. Any team would first search and test thoroughly EVERY room before even thinking about removing their helmets.  The Geologist and Biologist, oh my, the horrible writing behind these two. These guys are in the movie only to be killed and to provide Abbott and Costello style comic relief. First when they encounter a dead alien body they suddenly transform into whiny little girls- just awful. Then later while possessing a 3-D map of the whole area and being in contact with the Captain who also has a 3-D map (of a ship that's U-shaped!) these two somehow `get lost'- ridiculous. Finally the pair encounter a hissing snake-like alien that is OBVIOUSLY dangerous, but suddenly they've lost all fear (and intelligence) and proceed to try and play kissy face with the monster- then they get attacked and die- unforgivably bad writing  The Engineer aliens themselves. This race is supposed to be an incredibly advanced people but when the crew finally encounters one he acts like a mindless rhino. Oh and the `Engineers' play little flutes to startup their ships- seriously. In the end Mr. super advanced engineer guy tries to fly away but the cartoon characters left piloting the Prometheus decide to ram his ship. So super advanced Engineer with his super advanced ship can't detect, evade, or stop this ramming and down he goes. His reaction is priceless, he knows there are other Engineer ships he can use, and perhaps even other survivors of his race but instead like a big moron he runs after our young Sigourney Weaver clone with the intention of killing her with his fists! Bad, bad, just bad  How to get an Alien creature: so to get an Alien creature like in the other movies it appears there's a whole new process: first a human male must be infected with a near magical bio weapon black ooze. Then he must have sex and impregnate a human woman who in turn must give birth to a squid creature who then must parasitically infect an Engineer alien. Stir it all up with an exploding Engineer torso and 'B-L-A-M-O' you have the acid blood Alien we all know and love.  This movie is a friggin mess complete with infantile dialog and derivative cartoon characters that insult the audience and expose the writer and director, with this project anyway, as being both incompetent and out of touch.

A Suspenseful Romance...Not Really a Family Movie This movie was a suspenseful romance leaving you guessing until the end.  It was one of my Amazon movie recommendations along with other romance christian movies so I thought it might be "clean".  However, minutes in to the movie, I realized it wasn't as "wholesome" as I would have liked it to be.  The movie includes a bar scene, drinking, 3 "intimate" scenes, and some bad language.  The photography and scenery were nice, but I would not recommend this movie for family viewing.

triumph of the will the picture on this DVD is beyond horrible. i'm shocked that they would even attempt to sell something this flawed. on most of it you haven't a clue what it is your watching.  mark lombardi  reno

Cartoon actors suck I like Robert A. Heinlein and the first two REAL movies.  If you are a cartoon buff, then maybe this is for you.  I like people in movies - computer generated characters more or less advertised as real actors are very poor.  It works for special effects in high budget movies, but the graphics are not that great in this one.  I will look much more carefully at the credits and whether there are actors or cartoons starring in the movie.  I would have given this a "0" if it was available.  I watched 10 minutes and turned it off it sucked so bad.

Great TV Show. But Time Life in Cheap! NO CC are SDH. A great TV show.. But Time Life in cheap. NO CC are SDH  for the Hard Of Hearing.. I will get it when it comes out season by season with CC are SDH on it. I did just get season one. from Universal.. It has SDH on it... And will get season two when it hits the store.. Got the Bionic Woman also...;)

Really... a MOTH?! Least scary monster in film history - absolutely hilarious! Victorian babe morphs into a killer moth! Hammer really must have been running low on ideas that month... this woulda been perfect for MST3K!

The Hollywood Apocalypse All I can say is that is one of the worst movies ever made. For anyone who's seen it, the movie doesn't need much description, and to be honest, I can hardly describe it myself. It's like describing a two-year-old's brain from the perspective of a forty-year-old. I could literally do better in my sleep, as my dreams are better entertainment by far.  Brief Synopsis: Batman and Robin, the harbingers of justice in Gotham City, suit up to take down their newest opponent, Dr. Freeze. Apparently his wife has a terminal illness and Dr. Freeze decided to, you guessed it, freeze her. The antidote, conveniently located on Dr. Freeze's person, is not referenced until the end of the movie, but by then it is too late. I know you may be asking, "Why did Dr. Freeze not use the antidote on his wife?" or, better still, "How could no one making this idiotic movie figure out that the entire plot was completely baseless?" Trust me, the fact that Dr. Freeze has a change of heart and gives it to Batman and Robin for their dying butler will only make your "Joe Schumacher" psychosis worse.  Brief Review: This movie could easily be considered a weapon of mass destruction for the massive brain damage it causes. All thought processes are literally overloaded with such vast amounts of illogical and completely irrelevant thoughts that the mind ceases to function. Personally, I don't get why LSD and marijuana are banned in most countries when this mind-boggling hallucinogen is still legal. Well, that's the end of Hollywood for you. Good night.

Poor imitation of "The Island" I just painfully sat thought this movie and I wish I read spoilers before purchasing this movie.  For one thing this movie made almost go asleep.  For the outside of movie, I thought this would be good love story, in fact it does not leave much sympathy for any of the characters. I could understand this if this was taken place in the future - but in the past just makes it so unrealistic - why didn't these characters get up and leave - or complain to some orgainization of something.  In todays world this would never have been allow which makes the movie pretty stupid.  Recommend the following movie instead. [...]

1 year squeezed in 2+ hours WARNING Spoilers  Read the trilogy and then got to see the first movie.  Compared to the book the script is horrible.Sorry people but it's the truth. The simple reason is that they squeeze a years events in a time-frame that doesn't appear to be more than a week. We literally jump from one scene to another with extremely vague connections between events. I don't know who gave the go ahead for shooting these movies but it was a vary bad decision to do 3 movies where the facts of 1 book should be a mini-series of at least 24 episodes.  The casting is also bad... With the exception of Noomi Rapace that would fit our heroine's role like a glove...if the script wasn't so messed up as to steal from her salander's "silent suppressed anger" and "terminator mode" moments.  I'm afraid it is overall a very poor result.Hope these guys had a much bigger budget to do the shooting properly.

Silly What starts out as a pretty standard clone of umpteen other similar home invasion movies, quickly becomes a ridiculous series of supposedly 'clever' plot twists. They aren't clever, but just silly and the movie quickly spirals into utter nonsense.

Skip It! A lot of people reviewing this film are defending it by saying it's just like TROMA or movies from the 50's - 60's. Well what I say to you is I like those films I just don't think this film is any good period. I don't care what feeling they are going for.. its just plain bad. Basically what they do is create an anthology with movies that would have come out in the 50's, 60's or in the case of "The Diary of Anne Frankenstein" the 30's and just throw in a bunch of ludicrous TROMA jokes. If you have ever met someone who tries to be really funny and just come off as being annoying that is this movie in a nutshell only luckily you can actually avoid that entirely by just not watching the film at all.  The plot is pretty straight forward really. There is a wrap-around story called "Zom-B-Movie" that takes place at the Chillerama where they are showing 4 different movies. Yes some of the reviews here left out the worst film of them all "Deathication" probably because it doesn't play all the way through because the reel gets knocked off. But the other films are "Wadzilla", a take off on Godzilla and the Blob, "I Was a Teenage Were-Bear", basically a beach musical from the 60's, and lastly "The Diary of Anne Frankenstein", which is just a rip on classic monster movies. None of which have any kind of redeeming value.  The sad thing about this film however is how much real talent is behind this film that was entirely wasted. Joe Lynch (Wrong Turn 2), Adam Green (Hatchet, Frozen), Tim Sullivan (Driftwood, 2001 Maniacs) and Adam Rifkin. These guys are really great directors who completely wasted there time on this effort which could have been used making a real decent "Tales of the Crypt" style anthology. How often does talent like this get together to make a movie? Not often due to conflict in schedules and all other kinds of things. So if you are a fan of these guys and this movie piqued your interest.. do some research before watching it. If you don't like TROMA, don't even think about checking this one out. It is definitely an acquired taste.

NOT the game I expected it to be. LEt's say this. I own the game JUSt4play which is also an interactive dvd game and I can't even compare this game to that game. Lucky lovers is pg13 game. There are no words like oral sex or even sex. (yea, they use lick and make love) Very very gay game. Lot of times they ask you to go to a kitchen and get some supplies like cream or something cold. Im sorry, but by the time this will happen your lover will completely lose interest in you. lol Very uninterested and boring. Lots of questions are a repeat, no levels, the whole games take like 10 min per game. If you really want to get excited and stay this way throughout Never buy this game. Get Just4Play instead or better get BLISS games for couples which you can get online and pay like 30 dollars for it after a free trial.

green lantern blu-ray the blu-ray disc did not work after attempted playing several times. I just updated the firmware recently because other purchased discs did not work as well. I did not play disc until this week which was past date to return so I am stuck with it.

Oh Jennifer...I'm disappointed in you! Hate to say this since I'm a huge Jennifer Aniston fan but didn't like this movie. I didn't buy the plot at all and thought it was uncomfortable watcing Aniston and Kostner together. The "original" movie, The Graduate, is so excellent making this one all the more disappointing.

Review of Transforming your life with Raw Food Dont waste your time, this movie is horrible, its just a video of the guy on the cover telling his story at a small gathering. You can spend your money on way better self help videos.

This film is best  left in the tomb Rather poorly done flick about a mummy's resurrection and the curse that was on anyone finding or disturbing it. Sound familiar?  Boring with little action and a rather disjointed plot line. Louis Gossett, Jr. is the only member of the cast you may have heard off and he was not the lead.  Suspect he regretted making this flick.  Save your money.

Hey Gang! The basics of this movie are like a Judy Garland/Mickey Rooney plot: "we need the money, and let's put on a show!"  It doesn't get any worse.And it doesn't get better, either. Seth Rogan without clothing isn't anything to marvel at. Neither is the plot, the lack of empathy or the predetermined ending. Subtle as a brick.

don't bother Boy, what a stinker, this could be one of the worst westerns ever made. I am a huge western fan & have seen my share of bad ones, but this one takes the cake. Save your money & don't even see it for free. You have been warned !

Worst Musical Ever This is the worst musical every. Cher is boring as usual. would have been better with a real star like Cathrine Zetah Jones. Xtina is just ok. if you want a real musical check out the classics like annie get your gun, gypsy, or mame.

Terrible Terrible. That's the only word I can use to describe this movie. Nobody in my family, not even the younger kids liked it. The music and dancing were also a bit suggestive and I wish this had never been made. And they call this a kids movie.

Pixar's First Terrible Film My family loves Pixar films - we've seen each film in the theater, own the entire collection, and our boys have grown up loving the characters and stories.  I'd argue that many of Pixar's films deserved best picture - Wall-E, Up, and Toy Story 2 especially.  I'd even say that the first Cars film was sweet, surprisingly well developed, and a fine story.  But Cars 2 is... garbage.  Complete and utter garbage.  The plot, such as it is, could have been written by a computer.  Other reviewers cover it well, and I agree with the points that the plot was derivative, simplistic, and utterly predictable.  The morals taught in the film were so pedantic, so... trivial, that they seem as an afterthought to the endless series of explosions, frenetic and spastic action, and even poor voice acting.  Man, this film was awful.  This should have been a straight-to-DVD Target stocking stuffer, instead Cars 2 is now the cinematic abortion that will be remembered as the low point where Pixar remembered that story is important, not just animation.  I hope that somewhere, Steve Jobs is throwing a fit and trying to bring Pixar back to its roots.  After firing the folks who approved and wrote this film - and sending them to Dreamworks, where they belong.

Not Good One of the MAIN people in this docudrama got zero air time. The whole reason I ordered this was to learn about Jeff. The guy wasn't even in this Youtube my friends search hard, don't WASTE your time/money. This video sucks, Go watch Heimo vice mag. Or patagonia vic mag. 180 south anything but this trash.

not much reality in this reality show The narrators claim that Mark and Olly are going to find one of the most "mysterious" tribes of the Amazon. Unfortunately, the Machigenga are not mysterious, because they've had a long history of interaction with Europeans that is full of horrors. So staging a supposedly unrehearsed meeting between the whites and unassimilated Machigenga would have been dangerous. Every scene was clearly set up, nothing was spontaneous. When Mark and Olly were told they were going to enter another "ordeal", like eating monkey meat, they never looked surprised. The whole thing reeked of phoniness. Sometimes you could see that the natives wore green nylon shorts under their cushma robes.  Instead of a "reality show" they could have spent the same amount of time and money making a documentary that actually showed how the Machigenga live and asked them about their lifestyles, beliefs, etc., supplementing this with some history, but instead they feebly try to entertain the viewer with a false sense of immediacy (it's all happening now) and the standard shock situations that have now become cliche in reality shows. If you're a fan of reality shows or of Mark and Olly (though I'm not sure why anyone would be) perhaps this DVD is for you, but anyone wanting to learn more about Amazon natives will be disappointed.  Even the special features were disappointing. In a question & answer section Mark and Olly seemed bored and at a loss to say anything good about the experience. Most of the other special features, including "Further Reflections on the Machigenga", were nothing more than a series of commercials for the show. Not very reflective.  Instead of this I recommend <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003JTHUUW">The Storyteller</a> by Mario Vargas Llosa, a fictional account of whites studying the Machigenga.

This is NOT for beginners! WOW! This DVD is truly hard! I have done other Pilates DVDs and this is NOT for beginners, it was very difficult and she does not explain things well. This would be great for advanced people not new-comers!

The series jumped the shark I thinked the first two but this one was just lame!  I would not recommend this if you were a fan of the first two because you will be really disappointed with the ending and storyline.

Forgettable NY Rom-Com Still another example of the psychologically distorted lives of NY writers both in book and movie script formats. Is it environmental damage to their collective genomes or are they attracted like moths toward a romantic flaming self-immolation? Ninety percent of what comes out of that region of the country is the same, repeatedly redux, self-absorbed, romantic misadventures with low level comedic interludes to keep from getting bored to death. Story: Guy gets cold feet just before wedding and girl gets depressed. Looks for alternative feel good activities and parents are a comedic lack of help. Usual male friend whom we (viewer) can't quite decide if he's the substitute she needs.  Help! NY - secede from Earth. Please!

CENSORED!?! Are you kidding me right now?!?! OK, like most other people here - Love the series, but for some reason the DVDs are CENSORED!?! HELLO!? Are you kidding me? Was looking forward to having this fantastic series uncensored but the bleeps are still there. Sent mine back for a refund. I don't want my comedy censored thank you.

Not a vampire movie This isn't a vampire movie.  It's just some strippers.  I really wish that I had read the reviews or watched the preview before I bought it, but I didn't.  I was looking for a cheap horror movie and thought this was one.

Pissed Off I lost the movie Treasure planet when I was younger. When I was finally able to reorder the lost dvd, I was overjoyed. When it came in the mail today, I was greatly excited to pop it into the dvd player. As soon as I put the dvd in, it did not play. I thought maybe the player wasn't working cause I left it for a bit. No matter how much I tried, the dvd wouldn't play. I checked the disc to find that it was beaten up with scratches! I ordered it "ACCEPTABLE" thinking it would be exactly as it says and still able to play. This is not what I wanted and I can't even watch it! I am very pissed off right now! Thank you for making my day ruined. Now I want my money back!

Junk Complete junk and waste of time. It is Boring. It is Uninteresting. Starts out cool but after 5 minutes totally loses it.

Utterly horrid with a side of minor giggle Rented this movie this weekend. Comedies are supposed to bring you up not slam you down face first like this one did for me.  You do (or at least I did) get attached to some of these characters and can relate to them. However, the cheating/open relationship part really blew the movie up in my face.  They could have presented that scene any other way and it could have worked or even been funny but I just felt so gross watching that moment that I wanted to vomit. Comedies are not supposed to make you do that....unless from laughing so hard, which I have before. (Not with this movie).  The only saving grace were the bloopers at the end reminding that I was just watching a movie, it was real and actually had me laughing. Too bad the rest of the movie did not.  I think this was supposed to be a comedy but I think it was anything but. It was closer to a wild west movie or even a foreign film than it was to a comedy, that's how unfunny it was.  I give it 2 thumbs down, I'd give more thumbs if I had any.

Excellent Film; Awful Blu Ray Disc I had never seen The Artist and eagerly anticipated its release on DVD and Blu-Ray.  When Amazon offered a pre-release purchase, I went ahead and ordered the Blu-Ray version.  Well, playing it is sheer agony.  I own three Blu-Ray players, all high end.  On one player, it played the movie without sound (yes, I know it's a mostly-silent film, but it wouldn't play any of the background music at all).  The extras, however, played perfectly well.  Player #2 simply wouldn't read the disc and ejected it after repeated tries.  Player #3 played the disc.  However, getting to the movie is an ordeal.  First of all, the upload time is maddening and then moving through two separate sets of previews is frustrating.  Finally, when the movie was ready to play, it took what seemed like forever to begin.  And then when you stop, it doesn't remember where you left off (as it does with DVD's) -- you have to go through the entire nightmare again.  So, the movie is wonderful, but the Blu-Ray is terrible.  (There has happened before with Blu-Rays.  It's not worth what they say is a better picture.  I'm sticking to DVD's next time.)  Hence, my single star rating.

Good Singers, Boring Show Though I have not really seen very many full episodes of this program before, the ones that I have seen have bored me out of my mind. The plots are awfully dull, even though I do enjoy the music a lot of times. The performers are fantastic at singing and I enjoy many of the songs that they have covered, but the plots of the episodes are awfully bland to me. Other people might think differently, but that is just my opinion. I like the singing; just not the series itself.

danny glovebox should be punished for this danny glovebox portrays the most hateful character ever in movie history - his idiotic policeman is literally incontinent with rage, splashing it over all the other characters and his own trousers in every horrible scene he is in. this is 2 hideous strike outs for glovefinger what with his lethal weapon abomination. seriously, this guy should be banned for life from ever scarring people's eyeballs again with this painful crud. i'll tell you what though, if they ever bring out a director's extended version of this i will be first in line for a copy provided that the extra extended scenes are all of glovebox being tortured and made to say sorry for what he has done. i'd pay a million dollars for that and i just don't have that kind of money. in summation, predator the original, yes sir; predator the glovehole abomination, dear god please, i'm begging you, punish glovefinger or i will know you do not exist.

HORRIBLE! Don't waste your money on this movie!  It is absolutely horrible and redolent of bad Italian horror films of the seventies.  I'm not sure what the director had in mind but it is all wrong and has nothing to do with the real Sister Smile.  The Belgian film "Souer Sourire" is much better in every way!

Horrible Don't waste your time or money watching this movie.  Stop thinking about the people whining about the DVD packaging and read the 1 star reviews about the film they say it all.

interesting premise ... terrible conclusion The cast was awesome, the premise interesting, the potential great, but in the end **SPOILER** the main character reducing his character's development to wanting to have sex with a girl he hasn't been attracted to for the duration of the movie is idiotic and deplorable at best. The entire movie is about his transformation to seeing his best friend as his true love, and the only words he finds to sum up his realization is "i want to !@#$ your brains out." It's a great movie until the last 45 seconds ... and that was enough to ruin it for me.

Steve jobs Propaganda! I have always been an Apple fan...but come on...the Steve Jobs worship has really got to end! Steve didn't invent a damn thing! And, the documentary compares him to Thomas Edison and says he has 1 up on Edison...complete GARBAGE! Edison INVENTED lots of things...Steve Jobs "marketed" a few trinkets.  Edison's inventions had a much more profund impact on life and society.  Lay off the the Steve Jobs propaganda..and read some history people!  The inventions of Edison made it POSSIBLE for Steve to market make his "hip contraptions".  Steve invented nothing!  A few of Edison's inventions:  the parallel circuit, a durable light bulb, an improved dynamo, the underground conductor network, the devices for maintaining constant voltage, safety fuses and insulating materials, and light sockets with on-off switches.  Will the next real Edison please step up!

They should have just said it doesn't work in the United States... I never would have purchased this video I would have known that it wasn't going to work in my DVD player.  This was a REGION 2 DVD, this means that is doesn't work in DVD players that are sold in the United States. This should have been made clear on the seller's page.  Now I am stuck with a worthless DVD because I opened it.  I am an elementary school teacher and I had planned on having my kids watch this movie during their last few days of school but due to being sold a worthless REGION 2 DVD that didn't happen.

El Zed Caveat emptor!  This review is specific to the twin-VHS set of EL CID (Italy/USA-1961) manufactured by Best Film & Video Corp. It is a total dog!  Recorded in ELP mode (the worst for quality) and with only a linear audio track (no HiFi), there's just a smidgen of tape in each cassette. In the EP mode, two EL CIDs could've fit on a single tape, so this is also a space-waster.  Definitely thumbs down!  Worst news of all: there isn't a good VHS version available of EL CID. Despite the numerous Ammy listings, all are from fly-by-night outfits like BF&VC.

such a disapointment,really wanted to love this movie i was waiting for this blu ray for a long time and couldnt wait to get home and relax and watch 21 jump street. i was a fan of the tv show and was hoping that this movie would stand up right along side it, boy i was wrong, it wasnt funny,it seemd to drag on, the story and plot was weak and boring. even the gag reel they have in the extras section wasnt even funny. the only thing that i thought was cool about the movie was they had a few of the org. cast playing they old roles. other then that, this movie was a big upset in my eyes.

What happened Bryan Calln? He always was funny.  This was one of the worst movies I ever saw.  I had medium expectations and it was shocking.  So bad.

Train wrecks and petty souls I'm not among that class of human being that would enjoy slowing down to see a car crash, or sit secretly delighted at the tears of Tom Sizemore in a Celebrity Rehab episode. When I hear the tale of an iconic figure that has fallen, I love nothing better than a "phoenix rising from the ashes" third act ala Robert Downey Jr. and Ironman. To see that bit of forged steel shine in a shattered soul is inspirational, it reminds me that greatness rises from simple human souls that aspire to be more than their frailties. Masked as self-effacing self-reflection, this documentary was chock full of the same smugness you'd expect from a brassy barfly telling the other barflies about her shot at greatness between drags from her cigarette. In her own way, Fisher glorifies and excuses misbehavior as if this is part of the price an artist pays...and if no actual greatness surfaces between these serious misjudgements then well...there is still a good laugh to be had. We recently lost a real talent, Amy Winehouse, to this penchant for equating "bad girl" behavior with being an artist. I think enough is enough. Let's pass shining examples to our children who will someday face their own dark moments. For every Carrie Fisher children, there is a Helen Mirren, filling the theater with true talent, not endless cautionary tales.

Jeff Dunham is an Unfunny Racist, Like His Fans There is nothing good about Jeff Dunham or anything he does. He is probably the least funny "comedian" that has ever reached that level of stardom. It makes me physically ill to listen to his thinly-veiled racist jokes. I use the word jokes pretty liberally there, it's really just "who's the dummy" brand schtick with a bunch of catch phrases thrown in from the racist stereotype characters he has created. The fact that he has achieved such a level of success makes me weep for the American viewing public that swallows this ugliness up and begs for more.

Absolutely terrible. This Mission Impossible was the nadir of the series. Previous installments had compelling action sequences, decent acting (see: the last one with Phillip Seymour Hoffman), and a dynamic, interesting story where the characters had at least limited interest.  This one has none of these. It was even worse than the over-the-top John Woo-directed installment. Brad Byrd seemed as interested in getting laughs all the way through as in creating a compelling movie. Instead he creates a terrible cheese of a movie with cheap laughs and zero compelling elements.  This movie is a joke. Don't waste your money.

AWFUL!!!!! I thought this movie was going to be a female version of The Hangover although I have to say that there was nothing funny about these women.  It was slow and uneventful.  I quit laughing at the beginning of the movie when the main charactger left her "boyfriend's" house and got stuck on the fence.  Downhill at that point.  Save your money and see something else.  If I could rate it -5, I would!

oh my god... &lt;strong>The Room&lt;/strong> (Tommy Wiseau, 2003)  There are those who will attempt to tell you that &lt;em>The Room&lt;/em> is the worst movie ever made. Don't listen to them. While there is no possible angle at which you can look at this movie and call it "good", or for that matter even "adequate", it is unintentionally hysterical, which gives it enough value that it's become a midnight-movie sensation. Trust me, if you tried that with &lt;em>Zombies Ate My Neighbours: The Movie&lt;/em> or the recent horrific &lt;em>It's Alive&lt;/em> remake or &lt;em>Shopping Mall Jihad&lt;/em> or... you get the idea. This is crap, but it's at least somewhat watchable crap that--probably, anyway--won't make you want to tear your eyes out and reinsert them incorrectly.  Plot: Johnny (director Wiseau) is a banker who seems to have everything going for him--he's in line for a big promotion, he's engaged to Lisa (&lt;em>Ghost Shark 2&lt;/em>'s Juliette Danielle), he has a circle of solid friends he can rely on... well, he thinks all this is true, anyway. Lisa no longer loves him, and is determined to get some excitement into her life, mainly by seducing all of his friends.  All of which is well and good. Just written out like that, there's no real indication of much about this film (save the absolutely accurate implication that Ms. Danielle, who is almost supernaturally gorgeous, spends an astonishing amount of this movie out of her clothing). A synopsis won't tell you about what may actually be the single worst soundtrack I have ever heard in a film. It can't clue you in to the inept acting displayed by almost everyone in front of the camera, especially Wiseau himself. It can't indicate how badly damaged this script is. In order to find these things out, you have to see this towering monument to bad filmmaking yourself. And as awful a movie as this is (perhaps if I say "this is worse than &lt;em>Birdemic: Shock and Terror&lt;/em>, you'll get the idea?), I'm still going to tell you that you really do need to see it. It's a burgeoning midnight-movie classic for a reason. ½

Disappointing What a missed opportunity.  This misguided Blu-Ray can't make up its mind. It never decides if it's a register of the concert or a documentary on Grusin and ends up being neither. As other reviewers have stated, it can be infuriating when you get spoken words overlaid on the music track. For instance, Grusin's narration spoils the effect of the gentle, sparse notes during the beginning of "On Golden Pond". Adding insult to injury, his fabulous solo from "The Firm" is relegated to the end credits scroll.  Also, the Blu-Ray itself has several problems, like the lack of chapter stops and the fact that it won't display the timing during playback.  A sorry release that reminded me of "Lalo Schifrin: Movie Music Man", another documentary/concert combo that was released a decade ago and also undermined the work of a great artist.  Buy one of Michel Legrand's concerts instead. They are way more enjoyable than this one. Grusin deserved better.

Quirkiness for the sake of quirkiness, from the title to the credits An outrageously unfunny comedy that tries way too hard to think outside the box.  I literally did not crack a smile the entire movie.  Yes, a few lines were perhaps amusing, but definitely not laugh-out-loud funny, and simply not enough of them to make this a good comedy in my book. I found it to be a really bad movie all around: the story is not plausible, the characters are not believable, the dialogue was horrific, and I did not much care for the soundtrack.  Now, the acting was not bad (I actually walked away from this movie respecting Jennifer Gardner as an actress for the first time), but that is not enough to save the movie. I have to agree  whole-heartedly with all the reviewers who stressed that the movie has horrible, HORRIBLE dialogue.  It seems they tried so hard to make every line provocative and edgy, they ended up sucking every ounce of life and credibility out of them, for the sake of quirkiness.  The plot of the movie felt half-baked in its unexplained contradictions: 1.  Like many other reviewers said, Juno sounds like she's 30.  How does a girl that mature, who knew so much about abortion clinics, who did not have any religious imperatives not to use contraception, who did NOT have sex in the throws of the passion, etc. not think to use a condom, to begin with?  I just don't buy it.  And this undermines the entire premise.  2.  Juno discusses peeing on a stick with a convenience store clerk (in a small town!), with a somewhat hostile clerk at that, in the presence of others, as well, and then, at some point, she complains that she is the target of looks and gossip at school?  This does not seem to compute.  Either she's such a free spirit, or so out of touch with reality, that she does not care, in which case, she should not care about the rumors, either (and I understand that teens can be cruel and could get even to such an aloof person, but we see no real nastiness going on in the movie).  And if she does care about her reputation at school, has she considered not waving the stick in people's faces?  If she cares, would she really want everyone to know that she had a pregnancy scare, if it turns out to be a false alarm?  3.  There was 0 chemistry between Juno and her "love".  He had the appeal of a half-dried jellyfish in the movie.  Their relationship was not at all well penned, I felt not progression, no eye-opening moments, nothing.  Sure, not all love is at first sight, and sometimes you do realize that you're in love with someone who's been around for ages, but in that case, it'd be nice to at least get a glimpse of why this guy is great for this girl, and we get next to nothing to work with here.  4.  There WAS relatively believable chemistry between her and the adoptive father.  However, it really annoyed me that when she discovered he was going to get a divorce, she was SHOCKED, even though she was slow-dancing with him and putting her head on his chest as he was revealing it, and she came over to begin with knowing full well he'd be home and his working wife would be away.  And she can't even claim being oblivious, because her stepmother spelled it out for her earlier.  5.  In front of the abortion clinic, Juno tells her classmate of a girl, who OD-ed on her meds and lost it at the mall pool.  The classmate responds by saying "I heard that was you".  So, Juno has a major depression problem, but that is the first and last time we hear of it.  Why even mention it, if you will just wave it away later?  I could nitpick more, but these are, in my opinion, crucial points, and they all were unrealistic, unexplained, or underdeveloped.  While I actually liked the characters of her Dad and step Mom, I found their reaction utterly unrealistic.  While it could be refreshing to have an alternative to the mandatory freak-out session that usually ensues after such an announcement in other movies, no amount of leniency, open-mindednes, and hipness can vaccinate you against this game-changer.  Even if you do not intend to disown your daughter, and are ready to back her, no matter what she decides to do, it is STILL a health risk (especially for a clinically depressed teen!), a potential detriment to education, a financial burden on everyone in the family, etc.  So, I feel like the movie went too far in trying to downplay the gravity of the situation.  Same goes for the best friend.  We hardly know why they are best friends, and I do believe that the best friend was supposed to be a cheerleader, and yet, she hangs out with an "outcast" (and don't even get me started on Hollywood repeatedly attempting to convince us that beautiful smart girls can't fit in), sticks with her through the entire pregnancy, when others, supposedly, avoid her, AND joyously and actively participates in the birthing of Juno's child!  Are there friends like that, at 16?  Perhaps, I hope so.  But it's just one perfect character too many.  I rarely feel compelled to write a movie review, because, unlike a Kindle or some other tangible object, what works and what does not is not always something verifiable and reproducible, or even "explainable".  Still, more often than not, I can recognize the merits of a movie even when I don't like it.  This movie was just so far removed from what I expected based on the hype, that I decided to add my two cents in support of those who found the movie weak and undeserving of the praise (and I found out here - an Oscar for the screen play???  really???).

Skip it Save your money.  May well be one of the worst films I've viewed.  Could not wait for it to be over  Painful.

I generally expect SNL movies to be lousy... ...and this one didn't disappoint.  Seriously, has there ever been a decent SNL movie?  Why do I keep putting myself through this torture?  The humor was brain-dead, the script was ill-conceived, and the acting was thoroughly unconvincing.  Even the sight gags and physical humor fell flat.  I'm so drained from sitting through this slop that I can't even summon the energy and wit needed to write a proper scathing review.

Huge waste of talent I suppose Tom Hanks and Paul Newman signed on for this wreck in the wake of Medes' Oscar winning "American Beauty."  I have to wonder what they thought when they viewed the outcome.  Yikes!  Each of these men is so charming, if left alone, it takes some effort to make them look as bad as they did here.  Newman gets away with more because he is still so handsome and he doesn't have as many scenes as Hanks.  Hanks' method of acting here is to furrow his brown (see the DVD cover) and never let it unfurrow for the rest of the film.  When he shoots people his brow is furrowed, when he gets shot, his brow is furrowed, when he is hugged by his son, his brow is furrowed...you get the picture.  The cinemetography is striking but even that looks overly pretentious in this callow, stupid film.  Mendes has greatly over-reached here and he failed big time.  I have to say a word for Daniel Craig who does a very good job as the bad son.  Jude Law, a favorite of mine, is so creepy that he's laughable.  He does a wonderfully elegant fall though.  The ending, supposedly a heartwarmer, does little to make up for all the bloodletting that you have to sit through to get to it.  Maybe just fast forward to the last two minutes...and spare yourself the rest.

Long and depressing I may have laughed twice during this endless film.  It seemed way to long.  The movie really dragged on and on.  Was a very depressing comedy.

Atlas Shrugged Failure....disk fails early in Chapter 12.  Will not continue to provide video.  Tried on two separate players...fails in chapter 12.

Disappointing This movie is bad. If you're informed enough about Iran, this can be a refreshing look at things but if not, you got to read a bit more before seeing this movie.  The first 20 minutes of the film is to bash the former Shah of Iran and his late father Reza Shah the great as most ex-Communists and leftists do these days and mislead the viewers to believe that Reza Shah the great was a product of British control over Iran at the time which is an utter nonsense and it just goes to repeat the same old cliche of conspiracy theorists in the Iranian society. Yes, the vast majority of Iranians still believe that British had something to do with installing Reza Shah to power and they're unable to see the facts of the past and accept that Reza Shah was not installed by the Brits, yet he disliked the colonial powers and was an extreme nationalist who cared for nothing but his own shattered country. The other shortcoming of this animated film was to repeat the same terrible anti-Shah nonsense that you can hear in most Marxist-Islamist circles today. The first 20-30 minutes were badly wasted to tell the clueless western viewer that the Shah was wrong to prosecute the Stalin supported Azeri separatists of Iran in 1946-47 who had orders from Kremlin to disintegrate Iran from within. Yes, according to Ms. Satrapi's accounts, it was okay for a Stalinist group to seize parts of Iran but it was wrong for the government to stop them. One has to remember that Ms. Satrapi basically comes from a Communist family where his uncles and father are/were proudly anti-Shah Marxist activists.  What disturbed me most through out the entire movie was the fact that author really failed to mention the source of oppression in post-revolution Iran which is/was Islamofascism and the mullahs who enforce that ideology. No mention of Khomeini in the movie is a mystery to me. Ms. Satrapi portrayed the late Shah as a commie-hating brutal dictator, yet she definitely failed to show who the real evil was represented by in post-revolution Iran. Yeah, I saw the moral police behavior towards western clothing or late night parties but who enforced that? Satrapi failed to tell the viewer. If I wasn't from that country or didn't know much, I'd not be able to guess who enforced a ban on alcohol or western music.  The graphic novels which this animated movie is based on are truly reflective of the lives of many Iranians who like Ms. Satrapi suffered a a lot but again one has to remember that the story told by the author represents a tiny minority of the Iranian people. And the novels are the memoirs of one specific person and don't really tell us the whole story and I, for one, didn't expect her to talk about my story or stories of others. Persepolis is the story of Marjane Satrapi and for that, it is nothing special. She got to go to Europe because her family could afford it while me and tons of people like me had to suffer under the war of the cities and put up with the Islamic regime oppressive system. She got to leave Iran in mid 1990s again when she got depressed after a short time living under the mullah's rule but millions and millions of us had no choice but to stay there and soldier on. Persepolis animated movie is just about Ms. Satrapi's complicated life and has nothing to do with the vast majority of the people held hostage by the Islamic regime of Iran. Kudos to her for making money by selling her story but it really doesn't change much for those who still live inside of the country and have to suffer a great deal due to the mistakes Ms. Satrapi's communist father and uncles made in pre-revolution eras. You need to be informed about the history of Iran before watching any Iranian related movie, otherwise you might run a risk of being misled or misinformed.

Wasted opportunity Loved the series and all the weird mysteries and characters it brought forth.  Fire Walk With Me was extremely frustrating because Lynch actually got a company to finance a Twin Peaks movie and then wasted this opportunity to create a proper send-off for the fans of the series. I would have much rather had a TP movie that moved forward from the events of the Season 2 finale which had all sorts of great possibilities. Even if the movie wouldn't have had Cooper (due to the actor not wanting to take part at first) the story could have easily focused on Sheriff Truman and others like Major Briggs or Gordon Cole or new FBI agent(s) being brought in to advance the plotlines.  I finished this movie feeling really frustrated and wishing it could have been more. I don't mind symbolism and don't expect all loose ends to be neatly tied up from the series, but I think if this is the final chapter in the Twin Peaks universe then it leaves me feeling pretty upset. What a wasted opportunity.  I would love it if in this day and age of so many sequels being directly released to DVD/BluRay that a proper Twin Peaks follow-up could be made for fans.

Not in English very violent In my opinion this movie was senseless.  It was set in Brazil because they wqere speaking Portuguese.  I lost interest in less than 15 minutes.  Lots of violence and no real plot.

Buy the song,  Burn the movie. I HATED this movie.  They took a beautiful story and turned it into UGLY.  It almost totally ruined the 'Phantom of the Opera' for me.  It was a bad ending for every character.  Buy the song "Love Never Dies", but please don't buy this horrible movie.

It Should Title "The Lame Exorcist" It's a Blair Witch Project wanna be.  At least the Blair Witch Project has its originality. This hand-held home-video movie is a mixed soup of stolen ideas.  It's not scary, and it's not original, what's left ?  Not many people believe the storries in horror movies can actually happen anywhere.  And not everyone believes in exorcism.  But everyone would enjoy a good horror movie that packs with good story lines, great art and performance.  This faux-documentary horror movie is is not it, it's really horrible !  The cover looks complelling, and you might be compelled to spend $22 to buy it just to find out it's worth no more than $1 (to rent at the Redbox and avoid the ache of owning it).  I give the movie plot 1 star, perfomance 3 stars, therefore 2 stars.

bad dvd there is something wrong with this dvd, despite it being sold as new. the audio doesn't always come on at the beginning and needs to be prompted by re-starting.

Alexander Disc 2 NOT Included As others have indicated, Disc 2 is missing, and I want a refund!  Not that I really want to see the 2nd half of Alexander, but this is false advertising.

A bit too spooky and not enough buddies We have all the movies in the series and this was the least favorite.  Our 4 year old was scared by several scenes.  We pre-ordered this months ago in Blu Ray.  I wish we had waited and just rented it.

I wish I had saved my money I was very disappointed with the camera angles She made mistakes and laughed and went on I would think another take would be the professional way to go I thought she spoke to fast I think she forgot she was making this DVD for us her customer viewing at home I really didn't care for the part where she had her class I thought hey who cares I bought this DVD for me all in all I thought the dvd was poor it was annoying to watch the first time I tried for a second time but got ticked and out came the dvd back in the case and no desire to watch it again...I am so sorry I wasted my money on this...I don't care who it is I don't care who you are and I'm not interested in cutsie cutsie all I want is a solid dvd with good info I want what I paid for...I don't think she's a good teacher sorry great dancer yes I agree I would never buy another dvd done by her sorry impress me the first time

GIRL'S RULE This film combines the grindhouse style with "Sex and the City" as it examines the lives of four young girls over a weekend. It starts with Shannon (Ophelia Lovibond) who comes home and discovers her mother is leaving. She desperately needs to talk to her girlfriends who suddenly don't have any time for her. We discover why as the film examines the other girls' lives from their point of view.  Cassandra ( Tamsin Egerton ) has left to go to NYC for a piano audition and to lose her virginity to her Skype friend. Things don't go as planned. Kerays (Shanika Warren-Markland) is from Brazil and prefers girls. Joanne (Emma Roberts) is working the night shift at Ted's grocery mart where much of the action happens. Toss in the fact they cross path with some unlikely jewel thieves and you got the bare bones outline.  The film appears to be designed for older teen girls as it combines the more hip grindhouse style, but makes teen girls the heroines of the story. The film blends aspects of comedy, crime drama, action, and thriller but unfortunately does each very sparingly. It is a story in which you can lose interest.  Parental Guide: F-bombs, sex, brief nudity.

DISAPPOINTED I was disappointed.  This dvd drags and drags.  He is too long with each dummy, without much humor.  I had to turn it off half way through to watch the rest at another time.  There is excessive bleeping which gets annoying quickly.  There are too many close-ups of the dummy where the viewer wants to see Jeff doing his craft.  Don't send for it.

Lame After starting us within the supposed 'real world', we're exposed to layers of narrative dross that conflates actual experience with what I can best describe as South Asian Hindu yogic crappola.  Not sure what the disease of thinking should be called.  Nice visuals, but think of the implications.  -r.c.

Not very relaxing This DVD is not relaxing at all in the sense that you expect yoga to be. The instructions and poses are rushed. You're so busy trying to keep up with what she is saying you're MORE stressed by the end of the video.

Dracula is NOT Judas! This seriously hurts the Dracula myth.  Dracula is NOT Judas.  The very Dracula novel will tell you that he 'must be the Dracula who fought the Turks'.  That's Vlad the Impaler, born 1431 and died 1476.  NOT Judas.  And I find the attempt to justify Dracula's limitations to tie them to the Judas story to be flawed at best.  Okay, so he was paid in silver when he betrayed Jesus so he hates silver, he hates the sun because he tried to kill himself at dusk... O...kay... and he hates crosses because of Jesus being crucified (long held guilt?).  So how do we explain his aversion to Garlic?  They had Italian at the last supper?  Also I do NOT like the idea that Jesus would condemn anyone to be a vampire.  Jesus forgave Judas.  And why would he come to save humanity only to unleash the world's worst vampire on the Earth.  That's a Messiah who gave us Count Dracula?!  Some Messiah unleashing a monster on us. Thanks a lot!  Gerard Butler is physically attractive as this so-called Dracula but this is NOT a Dracula story and the attempt to tie Dracula to the Jesus story is pathetic at best.  I like the idea of Van Helsing capturing Dracula because he can't actually kill him.  And I like the twist of Van Helsing having a daughter and becoming addicted to infusions of Dracula's blood to keep himself alive.  That's interesting but that's the only interesting thing about this movie other than Gerard Butler's haircut.

Huh.......? There are so many inconsistencies in this movie, I don't know where to start. Wait till this movie is on your local cable network.

Boring dumb plot **REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS**  Antonio Bandaras's character is so dumb that even after Angelina's character has played him over and over, he still comes back to her. One part of the movie especially annoyed me, and that was the scene where he is having a poker game and Angelina is giving him hand signals to show what cards they have. Does anyone else think it is really stupid that they thought the men wouldn't notice she continually walks around the table over and over and over, and he keeps looking at her? Seriously that must have been one of the dumbest things I have ever seen. As far as the ending, really dumb, she is acting like she is playing both men throughout the whole movie and then all of a sudden she is in love with him. The movie was boring.

One out of three... This is a collection of 3 stories - the first one is so shallow and the characters so vapid that it almost discourages you right then and there from watching any of the rest. The 2nd story unfortunately does little to revive your interest, its only slightly better than the first in that you do feel something for the bufoonish chracters and do get a feel for the atmosphere of life in a working-class Tel Aviv neighborhood. But the 3rd story more than makes up for the first two - its funny and engaging and suspensful all at once. If you get this movie just skip past the first 2 parts.

Bizarre Premise Realized Clumsily I'll give the film makers credit for an incredibly bizarre premise, however the movie ultimately disappoints.  Is it shocking?  At times.  Does it gross one out?  I suppose.  Is there a real satisfying twist, and or resolution?  Sorry, for me, no.  Certainly if you're looking for a bit of 'torture porn' or out and out weirdness, this flick may deliver for you, but if real scares and spine chilling fright are your goals - look somewhere else.  Lead actors are good - most notably the sick doctor and the Japanese "centipede" head - but the material is so straight forward, to the point of predictability, that I found myself wishing for the end credits merely to alleviate my boredom.  I've heard a sequel is in the works.  The Human Millipede perhaps?  Ugh.

Umm ...Okay. Did We Really Need This? Right out of the shoot, I need to say that I read everything I can get my hands on ...and I'm also a movie-buff. I'm not an addict, mind you, but I have been known to read plastic table mats in restaurants and go to midnight showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (squirt gun and umbrella in-hand). Don't judge me!  Okay. Now that I've got that off my chest, let's talk about why you're reading this: to find out what the heck this movie was all about.  Never heard of it, you say? Not surprising, says I. It didn't get a wide release upon it's opening for unknown reasons (perhaps because, like later Shakespearean plays, it didn't get much notice from fans).  Although I'm both a Ralph Fiennes and Gerard Butler enthusiast, I simply could not get past the 16th century language coming out of their mouths as they fired automatic weapons, blasted each other with RPGs, and screamed at armored military vehicles. It was just too absurd (a sort of period piece taken out of it's period and plunked into our own ...yet keeping the language unchanged).  I will give credit, however, where credit is due. Both Fiennes and Butler played their roles well (frighteningly so in terms of the violence they bestow upon one another and those around them). But that's where my praise must end, I fear. And here's why...  Besides the language being ludicrously out of place in a war-torn world of mythical today, the story itself stuttered. There were repeated scenes where explosions, gun battles and general gratuitous violence raged, and then abruptly stopped so that Shakespearean lines could be delivered. Then we get more violence and ...ooh ...stop. Stop! Gotta get those "nethers" and such in there.  If you're going to try and be original (and I'm sure that's what the thoughts were behind the production of this film), I'm fine with that. But don't be original just for the SAKE of BEING original. Make the film flow evenly. Make the language match the action and times.  Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go read The Tempest!

Utterly Grotesque The Black Plague is sweeping across Europe. No one knows where it comes from or how it spreads, only that it leaves rampant death and destruction in its wake. Fearing for her life and hoping to escape "God's wrath," beautiful Averill (Kimberley Nixon) chooses to leave a town that has only recently fallen prey to the illness. The man she loves, a novice at the local monastery, refuses to go with her but she tells him she will wait for him for five days at their former meeting place in case he changes his mind. Young Osmund (Eddie Redmayne) is torn between his love for her and his devotion to Christ, and sees an opportunity to reconsider when a group of men arrive at the monastery on a mission from the bishop. Rumor has it a village in the wilds has not yet been touched by illness and is guarded over by a necromancer.  Ulric (Sean Bean) has been dispatched to find the witch or warlock and execute them. But in the woodland between the city and the village lie many perils and at the far end, rampant paganism and other evils await them. The script is surprisingly solid for a B-movie and certainly has enough creepiness and horror to make this an unusual period drama. It has a great cast and decent costuming and design, but it's also unpleasant at times to watch -- not merely for its cruelties but also its rather harsh view of Christianity. Neither Christians nor atheists nor pagans are cast in a very good light, because it all boils down to an entwined series of events built around revenge. Osmund seems the most faithful but in a twist is revealed to have forsaken his compassion for pursuing the slaughter of innocents in God's name. Without revealing too much, in the village they encounter a woman professing to be (or faking it) a necromancer and the villiagers offer them life if they renounce their faith in God. (Of course, they don't intend to keep their promise.) The villiagers believe that killing Christians will keep them safe from the plague.  Numerous times, the plague is referenced as God's judgment on all people. Ulric takes his role seriously as a man who kills in the Church's name, and they tote along a torture machine. Supernatural elements are present -- Osmund is haunted by visions of someone he loved haunting him, drenched in blood and full of accusations; it appears that a woman has been resurrected from the dead (later, it is said it was a trick, but the audience is never quite sure). The R-rating is well deserved for moments of explicit violence and intense thematic elements. The scenes in which the men are killed one by one and asked to renounce God are hard to watch. And the script is quite clever in constantly keeping us guessing as we try and figure out who the bad guys are here -- is it Ulric? the witch? the villiagers? Osmund? The ambiguous nature of the story leaves it open to interpretation but at the end of the day it's the lack of inclusion of any sort of moral governing force that leaves a bitter taste. It's a very dark, rather sick, and depressing look into an interesting and horrible time in European history.

Well made but average Shaw Brothers Kung Fu flick with several fairly creative deaths Well made but average 1976 Shaw Brothers Kung Fu flick. Production values are very good for the time and the movie features most of the major actors working for Shaw Brothers when it was made. The highlights are actor Fu Sheng fighting spinning wooden men in tight corridors and several fairly creative deaths.

Didn't Improve On Its Second Viewing Talky, boring western with little gunplay and too much chasing back and forth.  Rock Hudson is stiff and Phil Carey smiles too much.  Both Neville Brand and Lee Marvin are wasted in small roles as bad guys.  Only perennial bad guy, Leo Gordon, (here in an atypical semi-good guy role) stands out in performance and characterization.

Happy? I think not. I'm an optimist, and was looking forward to seeing a movie that promoted having a positive attitude (not the most common view in the world today, especially considering how lucky many of us are).  But I was extremely uncomfortable at how such "happiness" was displayed.  I think that Poppy used her humour like a bludgeon, and although she showed compassion at times, this was definitely countered by moments of thoughtless (one hopes) cruelty.  And why did the actress, in order to show her constant glee, have to come across as such a mouth breather?

Would not recommed We expected the movie to funny. There were parts but not as many as we had heard. It would have been better if it we set at the theater the whole time with shows like the tv show.

Elvis 3 set dvd - comeback tour I was very happy with the fast delivery service but disappointed in the fact of the 3 dvd's as they were very repetitive. Seems like for price could have been cheaper for basically the same dvds.

Original Sin Movie has one or two steamy scenes with two great actors, but i didnt really care for the story.  I would rate this movie as one thumb up.

Beware Ultraviolet digital copy First, please understand that the movie is great! Robert Downey, Jr and Jude Law bring new life into the franchise and their portrayal of this version of the Sherlock Holmes saga makes for some great fun.  The problem I have is with the UltraViolet digital copy.  It is still a very fussy system and to me not worth the money, time and effort to acquire. I am still not sure what I have and how long I might be able to access it. You can download to UltraViolet - or perhaps Sony - or to Flixster,  and watch it on UltraViolet - or maybe Flixster, but if you download to UltraViolet, Flixster might not be able to find it...and each account requires a new setup and password and you must be sure to use the same signin to each account or you will wind up with multiple accounts that can't be merged . . .just not worth it right now.  I like the good old download once to iTunes and there it is forever. Very simple and easy to use.

Wrong Van Damme is more like it Out on the town with his wife and new neighbors, Bobby (Rob Van Damme) relies on his Navy Seal skills to sidestep a knife-wielding, coked-up wannabe named Ethan who falls on his knife.  Ethan's brother just happens to be connected to organized crime.  If only he were affiliated with a glee club or performance arts society.  A $100K hit is placed on RVD's head, mostly for his poor acting...and not being JCVD.  Expecting great acting from a film that has a wrestler as the lead is unfair.  And to be quite honest, he's not really that bad all things considered.  Probably on par with Keanu Reeves.  Either way, RVD and Batista still do a better job than Ja Rule and Omarion.  Besides, it's the action that actually bugs me.  The filming and lighting don't help; the combination accentuates the worst aspects of the poorly staged fights, making the moves look like fight scenes from The Warriors.  But without the roller skates, makeup, and baseball bats.  Choppy choreography, can you dig it?  Can.You.Dig.Iiiit!?  Wrong Side of Town is quintessential bargain bin fare.  Aside from one strip club scene, this is recommended only for wrestling fanatics.  Jason Elin

Dissatisfied I could not play this movie on my DVD player.  It must have come from a different country because none of my DVD players could read it.  I was not happy with this product.

Not what I expected This is the second time that I've purchased this movie and it still does not work on my Blu Ray machine. I don't know what's wrong with the movie but it will not play. And it's not my machine.

the bible i GOT the charlton heston presents the bible he doesnot give the total bible he gives bit and piece the filming is very good but it needs the full content......

Might Have Worked Better as a Short Film When it comes to low budget movies with a funny premise (i.e., elderly grandmother takes revenge on a gang of Neo-Nazi surfers), this is, unfortunate what I've expect (also see, for example, Jesus Christ: Vampire Killer)--the idea is better than it's execution. The film seems to focus on meaningless interactions between characters that do nothing to move the plot along, and all of the action takes place in about the last 10 minute. There are several places where you may think things will start to pick up, but it never does. Edited down to about 20 minutes, this could have made for a mildly amusing short film; as it is, it's just overwrought and boring.  Of course, if you're like me, you are going to watch this movie no matter what you read about it--and you should! But, this is not a "so bad it's good movie," it's more of a "What the hell did I just watch?" type of movie.

uggh..not again,,great discs destroyed by cheap cardboard. Once again, like STAR WARS, ALIEN, INDIANA JONES, and BOND 50, fantastic restoration efforts are undermined by cheap penny pinching cardboard crap.  Once again I have to watch the same movies twice because brand new discs come pre-scratched and have to be sent back in order to try to win the 'good disc' lottery.  Dracula was glued to the page and glue stuck to one side of the disc.  Scratches on The Mummy made horriffic audio squeals.  Studios have no qualms about letting films go out of print; shouldn't they at least TRY to give us discs that stand a chance of lasting more than a year?  These sets are not cheap and for the money and support I give the LEAST they could do is pachage them safely.  But I guess it saves a rich corporation pennies while consumers send back set after set.  I'm FAR from the only one who feels this way.  Too bad...the picture and sound are the best ever.  The Creature from the Black Lagoon is widescreen and comes in both 2D & 3D.  My excitement is halved every time one of these cardboard disc destroyers is dropped at my door.  I'm not spending a dime on $H!##& flavor of the month streaming, Hollywood, so stop wrecking our discs.  ENOUGH!

It Is So Bad The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor joins movies like Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as movies that are slightly enjoyable but should not have been made.  Brendan Fraser returns as the hero, Rick O' Connell who has retired from active duty (mummy hunting).  Jet Li stars as the Dragon Emperor. Wasn't he supposed to be done with films?  The story goes, Rick O'Connell's son is all grown up and following in his parent's footsteps. He's in China digging up dead people when he discovers the Dragon Emperor.  There are the token villains who want to bring the Emperor back to life and the O'Connells have to bring the crazy people back where they came from.  This third film has some special effects that we didn't see in the first two films. This mummy has some crazy abilities. He can turn into a three-headed dragon, some kind of monster cat and he can shoot fire from his hands.  The filmmakers tried to add "kiddie" humor in the story and it just made the dialogue worse.  So 2 stars for this dried up series.

I did it for Devon. The writer(s) on this film must be the most laid back people in existence. I don't know what other type of person could write characters like this because they do NOTHING.  There's a mangled corpse in the road, should we do something. No lets just wait it out.  Cops (Military Rangers?) have shown up should we go over there? Nope Should we speed off into the desert as to not get caught? Eh, sure but no hurry.  A huge hole just opened up in the road ahead of me, should I avoid it? Nah just drive into it.  Friend goes missing, look for him? Nah, call his name a few times and move on. Strange figure in the distance; investigate? Nah, that's just our missing friend, he always carries a cape and hat in his pocket. --- I bought this movie because of my Devon Sawa obsession (the fact that I have seen C.O.D more than once is a sad testament to this). Devon and a few laughs (at the movie, not with) was really the only thing going for it. Devon and Matthew Lawrence seemed to be the only ones that ever bothered to act, for even a fraction of the time. Kevin Alejendro's performance was surprisingly bad.  Bad writing, cheap effects, minimal plot. I'm not surprised that it took a few years for this movie to be released. Thank you, Devon, for not doing anything else this bad.

Edge of Your Seat? Why so many reviewers said "edge of your seat" might suggest they all have connections to the same paid reviewer or they all have really small seats. And Hitchcock comparable, please, not even close. As far as acting it was typical TV acting which is what the cast's collective filmography credits amount to. The storyline about the human fear of losing control combined with our fear of the night has good storytelling potential but this story had too many improbable coincidences, one after another, to elicit nothing more than a "sure" reaction. A well repeated plot of everything pointing to the sleepwalker as the murdering police suspect when we know it's the wife's husband (and sleepwalker's close friend) who will ultimately be found out. Then there's the dead wife's long lost sister suddenly showing up and developing a relationship with the sleepwalking suspect. Add the frequent break ends with knife/blood plants in the sleepwalker's apartment; the unlocking of handcuffs while he's asleep all by the husband killer. The eventual meeting of the husband tries another knife plant on his long time buddy to make him think he's killed again was not believable. Really, how many times can the same routine be used on someone? In the final scene, as the police conveniently arrive during the anticlimactic struggle between the two guys, the husband kills himself with the same knife that he used to kill his wife.

What!? This was a bad movie that I con only imagine the writers were hoping the audience was as dumb as the script. I am only giving 2 stars for the 3d only but the movie and acting itself gets 0 stars.  I already wasted my time watching this movie so I don't want to give any more of my time to it in a long review, I just wanted to let others who may be thinking of purchasing this movie to NOT. Rent it if you must but I would still say skip this one all together.  For the 3d owners , yes it was clean 3d decent depth, not great, but even if the 3d jumped out and slapped me on the face I still would hate this movie.

Bad English Dub This is such a good story but Yuki's voice was beyond annoying- Why did they let Yuki's English voice come off as some stale emo character?  Her inner monologues are so painful to hear I will never watch this again.  The voice actress does well in situations that require stoic emotion (like Ein in Phantom) and that is not Yuki.  I'll stick with the manga on this story.

weird movie Trying to understand why this movie is/was so popular... must be just the Cruise/Pitt/Banderas factor? If you're looking for vampires different from Twilight, I guess this might be for you.

Where are all the great bonus features? Cars 2 was an Ok movie, but I'm really disappointed in the bonus features. I use to love watching the hours of great looks behind the scenes Pixar use to include on their DVD and Blu-rays. With each release they become skimpier and skimpier. One Mater Tale, which is only a commercial for the new Pixar show "Planes", the Toy Story short, and a director commentary, that's it! I feel short changed. We use to get tours of Pixar, got to sit in on story conferences, deleted scenes, concept art ect. I guess they are saving that for the double dip. Pixar use to be all about bang for the buck, since Disney took over they seem to only be about the buck.

One big step back... This film took one bug step backwards.  The original one was the best and they began going downhill from there.  This was no better.  Yes, some cool FX, but story was pretty much idiotic and too far out there to even be believable.

Botched transfer The blu ray is underwhelming to say the least.  It is no improvement over DVD played with upscaling.  Grain...lots of it as if you are looking through constant haze.  Poorly placed subtitles ruin the picture.  Pass on this blu ray.

Hot blood sundae and Ice scream The origional movie was called Ice Scream and it came out long before this one. Exact same plot, same charactors, only the origional had Conrad Brooks in it. I wonder why that one is not on dvd. I wonder why the total rip off?

What a mess this is Episode 50 had the potential to be an awesome movie - but it isn't.  And why not?  It's because the filmmakers made numerous bad decisions along the way.  Bad editing, confusing premises, grossly inaccurate set design.  Heck, these filmmakers can't even figure out the frame of reference for the dadgummed cameras.  I'm willing to bet these filmmakers couldn't tell you what POV means if you looked it up in the dictionary for them.  The whole movie's just a complete mess.  So here's the setup.  The Paranormal Investigators team, up-and-coming reality TV ghost hunters, finally gets the chance to investigate the proverbial "gateway to hell" but something goes horribly wrong.  Not only is their super-hyped 50th episode never aired, their show is summarily cancelled - and no one knows why.  Until now, that is.  So we've got another entry in the "found footage" genre, right?  Well, yes and no.  Some of the footage comes from the team's cameras - but most of it comes from normal third person camera work.  This does not work at all, especially since it's not always clear just who is doing the filming in a particular scene.  What kind of neophyte director lays out a "found footage" plot and then proceeds to film everything like a normal movie?  Joe and Tess Smalley, that's who.  They further exacerbate this mistake in judgment by throwing in lots of quick shots of cheesy, "scary" CGI ghosts doing things in places where no characters or surveillance cameras are located.  The P.I. team is a little unusual, as they go into investigations trying to debunk any supernatural explanations.  Their logic never made a heck of a lot of sense to me: they don't believe in ghosts or spirits, yet they are trying to prove that the paranormal is real and deserving of scientific study.  Presumably, they believe that things that go bump in the night do exist, but they're just some kind of weird electromagnetic phenomenon or something - certainly nothing related to those who have died or to the demonic.  Ironically, they are surprised to find themselves sharing this investigation with a completely opposite yet equally confused team of investigators.  Let's just call them "Team Jesus" because their main objective is to find and exorcise demons; they apparently do believe in ghosts, although their logic for doing so escapes me - and they employ a medium.  As for how both investigative teams ended up there together, let's not even go there because it's an incredibly flimsy premise.  Let's talk about the investigation site for a minute - the West Virginia Lunatic Asylum.  The writers make up the history of the place, but it's obviously based on the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia.  As their made-up history goes, no one has been allowed inside the place for years, not since several homeless people sought shelter in the abandoned buildings and died of fright.  Strangely enough, though, the place our two ghost hunting teams investigate is remarkably neat and clean - no dirt, no dust, no cobwebs, nothing.  It's a far cry from the real Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum.  The place is remarkably well-lit, as well; given all the light coming in from the windows, there must have been one heck of a full moon the night of this investigation.  All of the mistakes and bad judgment calls wouldn't be so bad if the storyline actually held together.  The movie jumps around like a kid playing hop-scotch, including plenty of interview clips thrown in willy-nilly to mix things up even more (it's not always obvious when a given clip was shot).  Then what I think anyone would consider to be an incredibly crucial scene is quickly passed over with very little explanation.  Finally, as we approach our disappointingly cheesy ending, all vestiges of realism are thrown to the winds.  It's like some entirely new director took over the film in those final moments to make sure that absolutely no one could possibly enjoy the viewing experience.

Horrid? Big fan of DC not much of Superman but still a fan.....except this movie! He is being portrayed as a complete weakling that is so clueless about everything, maybe this script would have worked in the 50's but not now. Stories jump from one spectrum to the other without reason, voices are not up to par with the characters and the score is unemotional and weak the artwork is great however too bad it was wasted on this story.  Sorry guys I am dissapointed on this film, Superman was better portrayed on Public Enemies and other movies.

The Unrated version isn't much better than the rated one I rented this from a local Redbox, only to discover it was the rated version.  So I kept looking for the Unrated and, I can tell you, the added nudity (which is plentiful) and a few extra scenes of gore don't make this movie any better.  It's saving grace is an over-the-top performance by Yancy Butler, but that's it.  Even Micheal Ironside phoned this one it.  Avoid at all costs, unless you're a big Yancy Butler fan.  She's terrific, but you'll see the same performance in the rated version.

Nothing's happening...Nothing's happening...Nazi's burn down village Made 40 years after the end of "The Great Patriotic War", Kilmov's 'Come and See' is often hailed as a "masterpiece" of "realism" and "fact", regarding German actions in Russia during the war. Unfortunately, real factual atrocity notwithstanding, I found very little in 'Come and See' to be factual at all, because the director chose to shoot the film in a shroud of arty murkiness, rather than as a clear historical document of atrocity and for the vast majority of the film, there is very little going on.  Essentially, viewed through the eyes of the young protagonist, Florya, the viewer is presented a singular Russian view of WWII. It's simplistic, with little grey area and it absolutely subtracts any homegrown Russian atrocity in favor of the bog standard foreign invader type. There are no complexities available in 'Come and See', there are no questions on the nature of war, or atrocity and there are no honest appraisals of the conduct of the people involved in the conflict. It's simply a short film about an atrocity, wrapped up in a much longer film about nothing.  In the first three quarters of the film, Florya and his young naive female friend, Glasha, go on an insipid odyssey, leading him to seek out a partisan band and "join up". The kids dance in the rain, babble on inanely about nothing, go deaf from explosions and look up at a FW189 recon plane that drones around the sky above their heads. Eventually, after a terribly tedious amount of time detailing very little, we get to the point of the film, the German's burning down a village barn and killing the inhabitants.  These scenes at the end of the film are quite hard to watch and are handled well, for what they are. But, it takes so long for the film to get to the point that the danger is that the viewer might not care any more. I really cannot emphasize enough how little actually happens for the bulk of the running time. It's a film that demands that the viewer be extremely patient with it.  But, there are also issues to be dealt with regarding 'Come and See's central scene. The "nazi's" are presented as some sort of wasteland warrior types, straight out of a 'Mad Max' film, or something. They absolutely do not represent any historical counterpart, though the film attempts to suggest that they are the 15th Einsatzkommando. They are the "Russian" view of the "Germans" and in that bracket alone, the viewer must be careful of what he's being told. The "Germans" are cardboard villains, not people. They are sadistic, vile, rapacious, murderous and cowardly. The lead up to burning the barn is also filled with ridiculous shots of surreal nonsense, with people doing extraordinary things for no reason. The "Germans" herd the Russian villagers to their doom, while playing music over a loudspeaker and saying things like "Germany is a civilised country". They laugh and goof around, drink alcohol, make stupid faces at the camera and get ready to enjoy some good old slaughter.  On the other hand the Communist partisans are playful, comradely and righteous in the way only movies can portray. They are completely contrasted to the "German" savages, with neither portrayal of the opposing sides containing any real truth or fact and the view of the Germans is bordering on racism.  It's clear what this Soviet commissioned film is trying to do.  As a surrealist horror fantasy, 'Come and See' has some merit, if only for the 20 minute barn burning sequence. The rest of the film though, is a real chore and very tough going. It's filled with absurd imagery too, like the female nazi eating shellfish while she enjoys the view of the burning barn. She looks like she's come straight from a nazi fetish website. One also never gets the sense that the director is inviting the viewer to do anything but get bludgeoned over the head by his visuals and overwrought tone.  In the end, I'm left with mixed feelings about 'Come and See'. The mechanics of the film are dreadful at times and it certainly is in need of a much better script. The acting is decent throughout and the last quarter of the film, though heavyhanded,  is rewarding...if one can call such visuals "rewarding". However, while it's important to remember man's inhumanity to man, when it's constantly portrayed as coming from certain quarters only, one can get a little jaded. Films with purpose, like 'Come and See', can also leave a bad taste in the mouth. While its comments on Hitler and Nazism as a vile entity are entirely correct, it quite conveniently leaves out any comments on Communisms own atrocious excesses.

Less Than You'd Expect The less said about this, the better; therefore, I'll keep this review short.  Synopsis: Lucas altruistically pilfers (and loses) $9,000 from Joe, his employer at Empire Records. Joe, who surely must be the most understanding boss in the history of gainful employment, also oversees half a dozen other hip, zany and damaged young adults at the store. Joe can't bring himself to either fire Lucas or call the police, so everybody at the store bands together to find a way to raise the money, lest everybody find themselves hittin' the bricks in search of new jobs.  That's the whole thing! Certainly, Hollywood has done more with less; unfortunately, "Empire Records" consistently delivers less than what you'd expect. Case in point: the DVD case boasts "one of the most dynamic song scores ever." Ha! "American Graffiti" it ain't. Another thing: for a lighthearted romp, it's rarely actually funny.  I could go on, but I did say I was going to keep this review short.  Despite a number of promising situations scattered throughout the movie -including shoplifting, true love, pranks, promiscuity and a disasterous publicity visit by teen heartthrob Rex Manning - overacting and poor timing ruin everything. And, no matter what the filmmakers tell you, SPLASHING WATER ON SOMEONE'S FACE WILL NOT CURE HER OF AMPHETAMINE ABUSE/ADDICTION!  If "Empire Records" has a single redeeming feature, it is the very occassional display of skin by Ren&eacute;e Zellweger and Liv Tyler. Alas, even that ain't enough to elevate it about the two stars I already feel too generous in giving.

Faithful to the book, but drab and uninspired on the screen I am a big fan of the books, so while I think it is a great story and HBO reproduces it accurately enough, this series just feels cheap and a bit dull.  I don't claim to know anything about the actual financing of the series, but it feels like there was cost-cutting and perhaps rushed production in almost every episode. The cities and castles look fairly dumpy and all of the exterior or crowd scenes are shot close up so we only see a few people and part of a set.  The book (and the opening credits) is filled with great locales, but we never get a sense of any of that in the series.  The Dothraki "horde" appears to consist of roughly 10 horses, and many scenes that occurred in Vaes Dothrak or on the big grasslands are now staged inside a tent.  Winterfell, where Bran was portrayed climbing high in the sky and surveying the Northland looks tiny and cramped.  The battles are completely absent - afterward someone just appears and announces "we won", and even the big duels don't manage to even appear dangerous.  Two solid exceptions are The Wall and the lone jousting scene which actually look pretty cool, but the only actors who seem to having any fun are Aidan Gillen (Littlefinger) and Peter Dinklage (Tyrion).  Mostly everyone else delivers their lines as is they can't wait to go home. I think the inevitable comparison of this remake will be to the Lord of the Rings movies and whereas those films occasionally seemed to make Middle Earth spring to life, this series makes Martin's world seem smaller and rather ho-hum. Overall, nothing is terrible about any episode, it just manages to make a sweeping and suspenseful plot seem almost boring.

tinker tail...  whatever I marveled at the ever-so-long 5-star analyses/critique/comparisons of this current version to 6 hours of Guinness. Not much of this is easy on the eyes or the brain. Oldman's robot-like performance, the garbled mumble of most of the British, Hungarian, Russian, etc articulation, plus the dreary venues/cinematography brought this equation to mind- slooow + confusing = boring. A huge yawn for me and for anyone wanting this thing to get off the ground, I wanted to be entertained, not burdened by a bunch of unremarkable talking heads being 'intellectual spies'. But then you have to be a major Le Carr&eacute; fan to find this even interesting, much less entertaining. I returned the rental after 45 min. into the film.

SO MUCH POTENTIAL HERE BUT NO DICE Yes, there was so much potential here but no dice. What an awesome cast they got together and they let it all sink down to a mediocre film at best. The biggest problem was that a good chunk of the humor just wasn't that funny. In fact, the gags running at the end were funnier than half of the humor attempts in the actual film. Tale focuses on three male friends who are under the thumb of horrible bosses and come up with the idea to have them all murdered. In the end it doesn't turn out as expected but they all get their revenge and yeah most of us saw it coming this way. Yawn and lawl. Good soundtrack. It cost $37M to make and yielded over $200M at the Box Office. This is one of those rare moments when I agree with the critics over the masses. CHARACTERS/DIALOGUE: B minus; STORY/PLOTTING: C plus; HUMOR: C to C plus; WHEN WATCHED: yesterday; OVERALL GRADE: C plus.

Not up to par with other leapfrog videos My 2 year old loves leapfrog.. Numbers Ahoy really wasn't as upbeat as the rest and doesn't get his attention as much as the rest. The 3 best ones you really should get and I HIGHLY recommend. Let's Go To School - Letter Factory - Talking Word Factory.

blu-ray skips This review is for my mom, whom and three others she works with, who purchased the movie on blu-ray. Some part into the movie, it stops and skips in the same place. Her co-workers reported this too. Skipping and stopping in the same place in the film. My mom had to eject the disc and and put it back in the blu-ray player for it to work again.

Nice Cast (Including Simon Baker, Paz Vega and Chloë Grace Moretz) Wasted in Thrill-less Thriller Simon Baker ("The Mentalist") is Jack Bishop, an ordinary businessman and father of one daughter. He is living in a quiet Texas-Mexico border town, happily married to his beautiful wife Amaya (Paz Vega). One day his daughter Tobey (Chloe Moretz) goes missing, perhaps kidnapped by someone, or perhaps involved in an accident.  Time passes by and Jack starts investigating on his own. He soon realizes that his daughter's disappearance has something to do with his past.... Well, actually, there are lots more in the slow-moving story, like some supernatural elements and a lengthy torture scene using a broken bottle, but to be frank I lost interest in whatever is going on about 30 minutes in.  With the pretty impressive cast including Chole Moretz, or Chloë Grace Moretz, better known as "Hit-Girl" of "Kick Ass," the thriller "Not Forgotten" should have been much more interesting. Sorry, but what you get here is a confusing mess of a movie that does not know where and how storytelling should be done. So many hints are dropped in the earlier stage, clearly trying to set up some big surprises for the later part (and I admit I couldn't predict them).  However, with a story that is told clumsily, there is no mystery, no suspense, nothing really intense in the film's slow-paced narrative. "Not Forgotten" never generates tension, perhaps except the last chapter. By the time we get to the film's conclusion, however, most of us would lose interest in whatever is going on before us.  Simon Baker does his best as Jack, a mild-mannered guy who begins to show a totally different side as the story unfolds, and surely his fans will be interested, while fans of Chloe Moretz would be disappointed as she looks terribly bored, given no chance to show what the talented player can really do.

Not moving This is okay. If you want to hear people talk. Is it great!!! Not at all. it is a lot of interviews with 6 different Celebrity & Expert interviews.

Disappointed I was looking for prenatal yoga dvds at the recommendation of my doctor, who said that I shouldn't attend my usual hot vinyasa classes during pregnancy. I ordered this one based on the reviews and had pretty high expectations. What a disappointment! The production was terrible - looks like it was shot on a handheld camera in someone's living room, too many closeups and bad angles (instead of showing good views of some of the poses). I could have somewhat overlooked that if I found the routines whatsoever challenging, but I didn't. I should note, though, that I've been practicing hot power yoga for about 8 years and don't often come across videos that I do find as challenging as a good class. For now, I'll stick to my favorite free podcasts rather than risk wasting any more money on dvds.

Tea: Great idea, missed it entirely. Overall, this was a great idea for a movie, sadly it failed miserably for me. I understand the movie, is based on a book (written by the guy who wrote "The Notebook" which was made into a movie, which I have not read. I would be curious to read it now though, and see how it compares to the movie. So, the overall gist of the movie, is that it is a love story, with a twist of one lover being a soldier in the U.S. Military who ends up being deployed right after the infancy of the relationship, leaving the young girl pining away in college,  they began a letter compaign, to help keep the relationship going, and to share about each other (since they hadn't had much time to spend together before he was shipped out). I will first discuss the story issues, and then tackle the military issues. The story was poor on screen, at best.  It did not have the depth needed for a true love story, nor did the characters, which has me looking squarely at the script writer (since I haven't read the book I can't speak to the author).  Take a look at any of the major love stories, and they all had GREAT stories and characters that drew you in, compelled you to watch such a moving relationship.  This one, did not.  It hinted at it, but fell flat, which is really unforunate because it was such a great idea, unique too for a story. I found John's relationship with his Dad, rather distracting. The best scene, out the whole movie, for me, was not between the two lovers, it was in the hospital hallway with John and his Dad.  If they could have brought that emotion to the rest of the story, and the shots, it would have been phenomenal. The story was confusing, especially the end, of them at the coffee shop.  Poor job at an ending. They started numbering the letters they sent each other, and then they stopped. The story was jerky at best. I found the character of John lacking, seriously, in depth and development. He should have been so alluring and interesting, like a layered onion, whose layers were slowly peeled back to reveal more engaging and enticing character and personality to the audience.  That would have had women swooing! I did not mind Amanda being cast, but I am not a fan of Tatum, and had a better character been created, I believe a better actor should have been cast. The directing was very unique and edgy at times, and then it fell plain flat, which I found distracting as well. Now to the military issues.  I don't know who the "Military Advisors" were, or how much influence they really had, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't hire them. I don't know why it is so hard for Hollywood to get simple things like a uniform correct.  I have been around a few soldiers, and men in U.S. Army Special Forces, and happened to watch this movie with one, and well, this movie did a horrendous job at accuracy and portrayal of such an elite group of heroes.  They are such an interesting group of men, with such diverse and intriguing personalities with their vast unusual experience.  It's a shame, and a disservice the movie failed horribly at capturing and telling any part of that story. First, just because you're a soldier, or in Special Forces, doesn't mean you walk around like a brooding anger ball.  There is no "standard" demeanor for a soldier.  In fact, if you met them at a BBQ, you wouldn't be tipped off as to who they were.  And yeah, they also don't walk around with identifying rings and t-shirts on, or bumper stickers, for that matter.  The alleged Special Forces ring John was wearing, wasn't even an SF ring (and it should be noted just because you wear a ring or t-shirt or even profess to be Special Forces or anything else, doesn't mean you are, lots of people lie about being something they aren't for their own personal gain. When in doubt, you can check them out through local Veteran Organizations or for U.S. Army Special Forces, the local SF Chapter).  The uniform, well he has his rank upside down, and in the next shot it was correct.  When they're deployed, they don't walk around in identifing t-shirts.  Hello!  They also tend not to shave, as to blend in with the locals.  I have never seen such clean shaven men, and clean uniforms, on deployed men out in nowhereland.  It's almost as if, they walked into the Hollywood Back Lot, isn't it? A total pass for me, not to include this one in my library.

Great movie horrible condition! I ordered this movie as a birthday present for my sister who used to love it as a kid. The case was cracked and the disc would not stay clicked in, was completely scratched before i even opened the case! i was so Embarrassed to give that to her after i opened the box to see that. At that point it was too late to replace considering they do not carry it in stores but i am very disappointed.

Florida Rails This DVD was ok for the beginner. It covered only the major line and left out the small working systems and it only touched base on a couple of railfan roads. This DVD seemed very amateurish and not well thoughtout.

Warning!!! NOT FOR KIDS! This was a pathetic excuse to make a western cartoon!!??? The story line was completely unbelievable. Oh well, you win some and you lose some.

Bleh. This movie was both boring and way too complicated in a way that didn't make sense. The acting was tepid at best, probably because the screenplay was a huge yawn. The production looked cheap, and the female protagonist was usually dressed like she was going to some yuppiefied cocktail party, whether or not she actually was doing so. I suppose it's better than staring at the wall, or picking at your nails, but I can think of a lot of better ways to spend your time than watching this movie.

Review of the Night Tide- - 50 years anniversary edition. NOT THE FILM If you think the Night Tide- - 50 years anniversary edition offers a clearer print as compared to even the lowest budget DVD productions of this film, forget it. This edition is NOT remastered. The product description doesn't mention remastering but the fact that it is an anniversary edition was enough to make me purchase it and check. The sound is crisp and clear but the picture is grainy with jumpy film splices and spots on many of the moving images. You would be better served purchasing a version of the film which costs less than $9.99.  As for the film, it is an excellent light horror film which works better if thought of as a mystery story. The more you think about this film after seeing it, the more of a mystery it becomes even though, on the surface, most of the story appears to be answered. After thinking about some of the characters, their possible motivations for doing what they do, the mystery surrounding Mora only grows.  The acting, direction and especially the script which is beautifully written with all the characters sharing the common thread of loneliness is all well done and it recommends itself so much more than any Roger Corman film. I highly recommend this film and it deserves to be remastered in a REAL 50th Anniversary Edition and not what Amazon is offering for sale here for $9.99

hardly heroic The byline, "This time the gay guy's got the gun," may be the only clever aspect to this movie. After watching this film I found the few reviews here on Amazon (which initially convinced me to give it a try) to be rather misleading.  In reality, this movie is just one step away from being awful.  The story line was widely implausible, and the majority of the actors were amateurish and flat.  Many of the filming angles in certain scenes were just bizarre.  The narration during the beginning and the end was merely compensation for poor story telling, and the violence (mostly unreal) seemed far out of character with the rest of the tone of the movie. The movie does depict a moment or two where the lead characters show heart, and for that reason I give it two stars.  But a successful "gay action film" this is not.

bad quality The movie is not in HD, but since I like the movie, I ordered the standard definition. DVD picture quality looks as if it was recorded from vhs.

GREAT STORY RUINED BY AWFUL ART The story open with a cool retro-pop-art credit sequence using images from the Super-friends cartoon.  Then its followed by a  mock kiddie Superman cartoon done in a very cartoony style.  I thought "Wow, very creative!"...  Then the actual story starts... and the art is awful.  Not just awful - amateurish. Superman's face is often mis-shapen - not in any creative way - it looks just sloppily drawn. The ironic is that this is probably one of the most adult and well written scripts in the DC Universe animated films.  I'd recommend renting it and not buying it.

didn't love it I stayed awake for the whole movie, but if I didn't pay for it I probably would have fell asleep. It was mildly entertaining at parts but all in all I would not recommend watching it for 3.99. Just my opinion though.

Bored me for 28 minutes Slow moving.  I think I remember some interesting points made about the movie, but why the slow, boring start?  Perhaps it gets better.  Right now, I'd like to enjoy my evening with a good film.  === Next day: Okay, I finished it tonight.  Another boring scene with the wife and then it picked up.  Although still slow, at least things happened.  It's about a black magic cult with which the couple separately rubbed shoulders. All that you can take from it is the existence, power and evil of such practitioners, and know why teachers warn to avoid them.  That's it.  I raise my rating to a two.  It could have been made exciting and enjoyable.  It definitely has a French flair, if you know what I mean.

Another Dang Disappointment In the last few dang months, I've pondered if I should just stop watching modern horror films altogether. After watching El Monstro Del Mar, I've thinking that might be a dang good idea. Well, at least until Scream 5 comes out. Or Friday the 13th, Part 69. El Monstro Del Mar, like many in recent years, is a dang horror film that looked fun on paper. But after viewing it, I only found about ten dang minutes that were fun. The gore is about the only good thing in this cheapie that wants to be as dang good as those old Roger Corman movies, but it just can't pull it off. There ain't even any dang nudity in this film. How can you make a modern day horror movie that's set on the dang beach, and there not be any dang nudity? Even Jaws had some dang nudity, and it was rated PG! The bottom line is that I wouldn't want to sit through El Monstro Del Mar again, for all the dang hemorrhoid cream in the world.

Too dark to see I think the title says it all.  The plot was lame and the film was shot so dark that it's difficult to make out a lot of the action.  If you haven't seen this movie, don't bother.  You didn't miss much.

Boring - This film is an infantile knockoff of the 30+ year-old original, a weak Ocean's 11 version. Its main purpose is to serve as a nearly 2-hour commercial for Mini-Coopers. Key words - double-cross, revenge, unbelievable.

I never seemed to find it funny. I never seemed to find this movie funny. It was full with adult humor which didn't appeal to me. Yes, I have seen the first movie, but it wasn't as sexually humorous. And the language in the movie is definitely not what you go to a movie theater and expect to hear. Yeah, I'm okay with a couple 'he**' and a few 'da**' some places, but I definitely never would let my child see this movie. It just doesn't seem funny. I am not saying that you shouldn't see this movie, I'm just saying that you are now WARNED! DO NOT SEE IT IF YOU DON'T LIKE SEXUAL HUMOR AND/OR A LOT OF CURSING/CUSSING!

this House needs a cleaning I finished watching the first season on March 30th, 2012 and I'm certainly not a fan. I don't totally dislike the show, but I lean mostly in that direction.  It's about Gregory House: A gruff man with a damaged right leg and a cane, in denial of his Vicodin addiction, who's a likely mentally-ill doctor with antisocial behaviour and a God-complex. He's had trouble in his personal and family life and deals with things by trying to solve patients' medical problems that others supposedly beneath him can't -- all while being a total jackass (which comes naturally and is nothing he struggles with). He loves only himself, only wants to help a patient when there's something unique or interesting/mysterious about symptoms so it's not 'boring', never cares if he upsets anyone, believes he's never wrong and tries to rationalize how it's someone else's fault when he is wrong, and tries his best to never have any interaction with any patient. Sounds like a great character and cheery viewing, right?  His crassness is surely not hidden when he's basically made to have one-on-one time with a patient at the walk-in clinic. He's always trying to get out of that. This specifically reminds me of people I've dealt with. My experiences were horrible, but in different ways. For one example, House uses a portable video game system and ignores you. Mine told me that my reading a book by a doctor about my epilepsy condition was "bulls***" (but I bet House probably did that to someone in another episode).  Concerning the show, I appreciate the unusual cases but it's just not enough for me. Now, I don't need to hear anything about how a reader would rather have a competent doctor with a crappy attitude then the alternative. I believe still that it is possible to have both; I hope they exist. In my experience, which has been extensive, there aren't as many of those and, fortunately, nobody's been as bad as doctor House. Certain ones have been close, causing harm to my mental health and violations of HIPAA rights, but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and imagine that they haven't done it weekly to multiple patients. I have made my complaints without reservation against others and successfully proclaimed the incompetence of humanity in the 'helpers'. It's really a shame.  See "The Doctor" with William Hurt or read the non-fiction "A Taste Of My Own Medicine" (which the movie was based on) to hear of a doctor who learns to be a better practitioner by understanding what patients go through and that it's okay to be human with them. Someday, the callous doctors will encounter their own and maybe feel regret for their own behaviour.  Still on the air as of April 2012, we're at the final season for HOUSE. I haven't watched television programming, besides DVDs due to word-of-mouth, in at least a decade. I have no interest in watching anything beyond the second HOUSE season I am borrowing from the library at the moment unless I hear that Dr. House became a somewhat better doctor by becoming more human and having some character growth. . .but I assume that hasn't happened or else it would have been off the air years ago. It should have been over after the first season. It would have been alright for a few TV movies, perhaps, but as a series I think it's rather tame and disappointing.  Again, I'm not a fan. Would I have been if I hadn't encountered rude doctors so many times over the years? Perhaps...but then again, Dr. House is just a jerk anyway and who would be fond of them? To me, I could never give this show a great rating because of my past and present. Loving the show would be like if I was a lifetime criminal reviewing and describing how much I enjoyed COPS; it wouldn't make sense. Doctors have been bad to me in reality, so I'm not quick to enjoy a show featuring them or hospital facilities...and one with doctors quick to violate patient rights and just cause harm? That's a no-brainer.  Many shows are hits because viewers can relate to someone on the show or an aspect of it. As a person who could somewhat relate to this, in that I've had crappy doctors, it never will be liked. Let's hope that it didn't become popular because many people just love being able to identify with the terrible attitude of the House.  I hear there's supposed to be a 'medical consultant' present (perhaps plenty of people with medical backgrounds to help with plots), but -- as to be expected for dramatic effect on TV -- there are falsifications. As a person with epilepsy, I hated that it seemed like in almost every episode there seemed to be a person with a seizure. They do not always hit a person immediately and are NOT always life-threatening as the public is led to believe. They are dangerous when, during a 'grand mal' (where you lose consciousness), the afflicted would be in a harmful area (like on the steps) or if the episode stops but then starts again repeatedly. That would be known a status epilepticus and is serious. Now, even if a 'grand mal' looks scary, the person's not in pain and not every seizure requires a hospital visit. The first-aid is to merely get the person to a safe location...put them on their side...wait for it to finish...and stay with them until they are back to normal. If they are hurt or if the episode isn't ending, then it's time to get them to a hospital.  The stupidest representation of a seizure was one where this patient had an 'absence' seizure, which was the term the doctor used. He said it in a way like the person was dying. They made a big deal of it with the dramatic music followed by emergency procedures. There's nothing that needs to be done! Absence seizures almost always occur in children and are so minor that even the person who has one might not even know it. You just space out and are 'absent' for a moment or so. They could happen dozens and dozens of times a day. Teachers at school frequently let parents know that a child is not paying attention in class and it might be from such a condition.  The final episode of the season, where Dr. House basically experimented and made this patient take a mixture of drugs to see what would happen was offensive. He was mentioning right to the patient that he couldn't do anything to stop him because he was paralyzed. The patient didn't want it and House's assistants, who were all there, knew that. They even stood in the doc's way to prevent him. House did a little distraction and ended up injecting the 'cocktail' anyway. The patient had a horrible reaction and almost died, but this showed that House was right and the correct cure was begun. We're supposed to cheer the doctor? Sure it's TV, yet is just makes me more disgusted at the 'sick care' system. Shame on all of the assistants for not helping in bouncing House's a$$ right out of his little domain.  Also, how about the frequent times when a member or member(s) of House's team illegally break into the homes of patients to find clues to possible cures? Scary & ridiculous! Neither House or his assistants should be a part of any persons' care.  In closing, I'll say HOUSE has a few well-written episodes. I have had some laughs, but as a whole it's a pretty-depressing show that's even caused me to be angry and offended at times. Many of the episodes are just dull and the formula is too similar over and over.  House is a horrible character and his inner residence requires a thorough cleanup.

Lame Vampire Flicks I got this 4 DVD set for 5 bucks at a local Wal Mart. Overall, I thought all four flicks were lame, but worth seeing once or twice. I wouldn't recommend it. Dracula's Guest, especually has a pretty generic looking vampire.

Is ok Well I start saying, I am a big fan of Angeline Jolie. I always like her strong face features, even when she was slim I can still believe her role, example Lara Croft not really great movie, but love her acting. Here ahh.. I think Angie needs to start eating. Is my same comment for Maggie Q, and I totally dislike her. But you can't do a role of violence when your body does not look the part no way, it looks silly. Male actors tend to work there body really for that type of role, females should do the same. I want a woman looking like Michelle Rodriguez body at least... but I guess she is to latina for the role, but she does look the part, or Angie please start to eat. It was passable but it also have to many unbelievable moments, to many of them, there is no way she can jump so many cars without breaking any bones, no way. Or jump down the elevator like that, or even fall from the Helicopter without actually aiming to fall in a correct way and survive after that fall, specially in the Potomac in plain winter. I do like her fight scenes, they were better when she didn't have to do anything out of the ordinary. Chiwetel Ejiofor oh man... he is bad.. really bad actor, I just couldn't care less about him.

Disapointed I had missed this movie when it first came out.  While it has Johny Dep in it, who I love as Captain Jack Sparrow, this movie was so so.  I have loved all the Pirate movies, but this one was a cash grab  using the Pirate name.  It was nothing like the other movies,  and it lacked the gusto the others had.  Sadly speaking it just did not live up to my expectations.  Stranger Tides yes I would say strange, but Pirate's it was not.  Lack of a good plot and just thrown together action scenes just made this movie boring.

Poor DVD Received item very timely.  When watching DVD, it would keep stopping.  Had to skip over a lot of the movie.  Very displeased with quality of DVD.  The price was cheap (guess you get what you pay for).

Clearly Jillian is not a yoga instructor.... I have 5 of Jillian's work out videos and 'typically' is a huge fan. However, this video falls short for Jillian. I've taken yoga classes for about a year and decided to try this video.  As someone who has taken beginners and moderate-level yoga classes and who works out regularly, this video does provide a decent workout... HOWEVER, this is mediocre yoga at it's best.  Clearly, Jillian is not a yoga instructor and if she is, she's a very poor one..  She doesn't break down the poses very well and decribe what you should be doing.  I found myself stopping and watching the video a number of times to figure out what she's talking about with the variations of the more traditional yoga poses. It was frustrating. Also, she gives no regard to how important correct posture is with the different poses and how they can result in injury if inproperly done.  She also chooses ridiculously diffecult poses for the Level 1.  Who in their right mind would teach a beginning student the Warrior 3 pose is just beyond me. It's very challenging for a more advanced student, let alone a beginning student. I'll admit I did break a sweat with this video but was very frustrated at the stupid variations of the yoga poses.  Save your money and take a real yoga class.  It'll be worth it in the long run.

Somewhat good, almost not Don't get me wrong, I am a big fan of zz top but was a little disappointed in this release.  The 1980 concert from germany is good but disc 2 I really did not like.  The camera jumping all over the place with weird shots and fading I just did not enjoy.  Not sure what zz top was thinking maybe they wanted to do something different from the live in texas yet it was a big turn off for me.  If you are a zz top fan be sure you see it then you can make a judgment.  Peter J. Miller

Angst There's so many films with vampires who suffer angst about being a vampire. This is one of them. The best scene is easily obtainable on YouTube - where Elizabeth (Irena A. Hoffman) extends her fangs and ALMOST bites Keith (Corey Sevier).  When the best bit is where the bite never actually happens you know you can give it a miss. Unless you like seeing Christopher Lambert look really old

Great movie but really bad HD-DVD I hope that the Blu-ray is better than this HD-DVD that is just an insult. 1080i (why ??? the HD-DVD supports 1080p), a horrible compression in mpeg2 (why ??? the HD-DVD supports the h264 and VC1 too), the picture is full of artifacts and very noisy. The worst, the transfer has been badly done, the picture is blinking. The sound is ok but I doubt it's a DTS HD. For a great movie like this, it's a shame than the AV technicians didn't understand the HD-DVD specifications...

DVD extended cut missing -The Town  / unsatisfied I ordered this specific item, the movie disc, The Town, because it stated it was the extended cut version and had both the Blu-ray and DVD discs included.  When I received the product, only the Blu-ray had the extended cut version.  DVD is NOT extended cut.  I feel deceived from the information I had when I placed the order with Amazon.

Poor Video Quality I am a high school English teacher and was excited to see that there was a  "made for television" movie that closely follows the plot of the book.  I was shocked at the poor video quality; while the story is very good, and the acting is "totally 80's", the video quality is very, very low.  Additionally, the video quality degrades even more as it is played on a SmartBoard device.  While there is little to no alternative to this product, and I don't think it is the seller's fault, I had hoped for a better product.

Pretty bad Characters I couldn't care less about, weird filming, large bits of time missing, wtf moments and an incredibly strange ending equal one bad movie. So disappointed.

Blu-Ray has none of the DVD extras. Does not include any of the amazing behind the scenes content originally released on the 5 Disc DVD.  Why would a studio release a film of this magnitude and incredible production values on a format that can hold so much information, and fail to include the extras?  Lucky I held onto the original DVD release for the extra 3 disks.  Movie - A+++.  Blu-Ray value - FAIL.

"Jaws" Wannabe Lacks Dramatic Teeth "Shark Night"  is the tale of vacationers whose fun weekend at a lake house turns into a nightmare when they become victims of a series of shark attacks.  When Sara (Sara Paxton) and her pals arrive at her parents' Louisiana lake house, the party is in full gear.  Everyone is having a wild time until Malik (Sinqua Walls) loses his arm in what initially appears to be a tragic water skiing accident.  Concerned with getting him to the nearest hospital as quickly as possible, it isn't until they're far from shore that they realize the lake is teeming with hungry sharks and a small speedboat isn't about to stop them from getting their next meal.  In addition to the sharks, Director David R. Ellis ("Snakes on a Plane") has thrown in some backwoods "Deliverance"-style rednecks and inept law enforcement.  The film has its share of "Jaws"-inspired scares, but lacks the polish and genuine fright factor of the Spielberg classic.  The plot device is improabable at best and serves only to offer up a number of bloody shark attacks every few minutes to keep us from dozing off.  The Blu-ray edition contains several featurettes and a Digital Copy.

Not as seasons 1 and 2 Not in spanish language nor spanish subtitles as seasons 1 and 2 do, so it's a stop thing for a lot of people. It must be said before purchasing.

It skips Despite being as "Good as New", the DVD skips in every player I put it in. I several-minute blocks of content, and it takes forever for the player to try to find the next readable data. It's a great movie, but I expected to get a disc that at least mostly worked.

Typical American pornographic movie about misery Yup life without God and chastity brings this kind of existence, this movie makes a mockery of the Sacraments of the Church as if they don't mean anything, they only don't mean anything if you don't have any respect for them! This is a sad but true movie, even won awards, what a miserable Godless loveless culture produces this kind of movie

Bogart as a wife killer <span class="tiny"> Length:: 5:37 Mins  </span>If you like this type of film you'll also enjoy...  * The Letter 1940 - Bette Davis and Herbert Marshall * Notorious 1946 - Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains * Double Indemnity 1944 - Barbara Stanwyck and Fred McMurray * Mildred Pierce 1945 - Joan Crawford and Zachary Scott * The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 - Lana Turner and John Garfield * Shadow of a Doubt 1943 - Joseph Cotten is a serial wife killer * Sorry Wrong Number 1948 Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster * Dial M for Murder 1954 Ray Milland and Grace Kelly.

Moonlight Mile I really did not like this movie at all.  The reasons for the characters doing the odd, or on the verge of stupid things, were all because of really dumb routes of logic that they used to evaluate their situation.  I guess you could say that the movie was okay because the purpose is to get a reaction from the audience, but if these were real people I could not see being their friend because of how strange they are.  More like they were not written as believable characters.  The movie came in good condition as promised and i recommend buying from this seller, but I did not like the movie that I bought of my own rotten decision.

dark knight falls short its a shame. not a BAD animated movie by any means.. just Far from great and im sorry but  Peter Weller as batman did NOT WORK.  he sounded the same thru the entire thing!!  monotone , no emotion.. it took me right out of it

Slow moving and silly I wanted to watch a little vintage horror, and came across this moldy oldy. Basically there is a teenage girl who comes to stay with her grandma, who has converted her deceased husband's funeral home into a bed and breakfast.  People turn up missing who have been a guests at grandma's place, and a local rookie cop is trying to unravel the mystery.  The teenage girl is dating the rookie cop's brother, and they have their own investigation going on. Nothing much happens in this movie until the end, when there are some ungraphic gore effects and a mummified corpse. The transfer of this film is abyssmal. You can barely make out any details when it is dark. Overall, boring and with a ridiculous ending. Avoid.

Standard B western "The Desperados" is a 1943 western starring Randolph Scott, Claire Trevor, and Glenn Ford with Edgar Buchanan, Frances Ford, and Big Boy Williams. It was directed by Charles Vidor and was Columbia's first Technicolor film (they were the last major studio to adopt this technique)  Handsome Randolph Scott  (1898-1987) started in silent films and made a name for himself in the 40s playing a variety of characters in a variety of films - "My Favorite Wife" (1940), "To the Shores of Tripoli" (1941), "Captain Kidd" (1945), "Home Sweet Homicide" (1946) - but by the 50s he was appearing exclusively in B westerns . He amassed a fortune from California real estate investments, and retired from film making because he considered his performance in "Ride the High Country" (1962) to be a good note to go out on. In this film Scott plays a sheriff.  Quiet and handsome Glenn Ford (1916-2006) appeared in more than 100 films from 1937 to 1991. He was nominated for a Golden Globe 3 times and won once ("Pocketful of Miracles" in 1961). Ford could do light comedy (e.g., "Teahouse of the August Moon", "Courtship of Eddie's Father", "Don't Go Near the Water") as well as drama (e.g., "Blackboard Jungle", "3:10 to Yuma"). He enjoyed playing the everyman and said that "it gives the audience someone real to identify with. I never play anyone but myself on screen."  Ford plays an outlaw. He was still not a leading man yet, but soon he would become one of Columbia's biggest stars in the 40s and 50s.  Claire Trevor (1910-2000) was dubbed the "Queen of film noir" because of her roles in films like "Street of Chance" (1942), "Murder My Sweet" (1944), and "Born to Kill" (1947), but in fact she had quite a varied career in multiple genres and was nominated for an Oscar 3 times ("Dead End", "Key Largo", "The High and the Mighty") and an Emmy 2 times (1950, 1954). She made more than 50 films before transitioning to TV in the 50s. I liked her best in "The High and the Mighty", one of 4 films she did with John Wayne.  Trevor plays the owner of a saloon.  Big Boy Williams (1899-1962) stuck out in more than 200 films, often as a comic sidekick in films like "Dodge City" (1939), "Santa Fe Trail" (1940) "The Alamo" (1960), and "The Comancheros" (1961). He transitioned to TV in the 50s appearing in "My Friend Flicka" (1955-6) and more notably in "Circus Boy" (1956-7). He plays Ford's sidekick and comic relief.  Evelyn Keyes (1916-2008) plays Ford's love interest. She was the wife of director Charles Vidor and had recently achieved some note playing Scarlett's sister in "GWTW" (1939). She made more than 40 films, 3 of them with Vidor. She was also married to director John Huston.  Edgar Buchanan (1903-1979) plays stagecoach driver "Uncle Willie". His gruff appearance and gravelly voice adorned more than 100 films ("Over the Hill Gang", "McClintock", "Ride the High Country", "Cimarron",) and he later appeared on several TV shows including Cade's County (1971-2) and most notably "Petticoat Junction" (1963-70) and "Green Acres" (1965-9) as Uncle Joe.  Charles Vidor (1900-1959) made more than 30 films between 1929 and 1960, and was twice nominated for a DGA ("Hans Christian Anderson" and "Love me or Leave me"). He's best known for "A Song to Remember" (1945), "Song without End" (1960) and "A Farewell to Arms". The direction in this film is OK and he does a good job with the outdoor locations, but it never rises to a standard to set it apart, as did films from people like Ford, Hawks, and Hathaway.  The film is a standard B western, marred by the acting of Scott and Ford, both of whom seem to be going through the motions without any real conviction. Claire Trevor does her usual good job, as does Big Boy Williams and Evelyn Keyes. The standout is Edgar Buchanan who grumbles his way through every scene, stealing it along the way.  The star of the film, in its time, was the 3 strip Technicolor. Although in use from 1929, the costs of the process limited its use, especially during the Depression years. The first feature film using this process did not appear until 1935 ("Becky Sharp" from RKO) but it was the success of "Snow White" (1937) that propelled its greater adoption. Even so, it wasn't until the 1950s that color films became commonplace, largely as an attempt to undercut the popularity of TV. For example, Oscar winners in 1950 like "All About Eve", "Sunset Boulevard", "The Third Man", and "The Asphalt Jungle" were all shot in black and white, and top grossing films like "Born Yesterday", "Father of the Bride", and Martin & Lewis' "At War with the Army" were monochrome.  1943 was an OK year in films - The top grossing films included "This is the Army", "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "Song of Bernadette", "Coney Island", and "Stage Door Canteen". Other notables included "The Ox Bow Incident". The big Oscar winner was "Going My Way", and other winners included "Gaslight" and "None But the Lonely Heart"  Western films were particularly popular in the early 40s - "Mark of Zorro" (1940), "Santa Fe Trail" (1940), "Virginia City" (1940), "The Westerner" (1940), "They Died with Their Boots On" (1941), and "The Ox Bow Incident" (1943) were some of the classics made at this time.  Apart from the historical role of Technicolor, this film has little to recommend it, especially considering the fine westerns that were made at the same time.

The Weatherman review: Chance of clouds, rain, snow, sleet, Aka, Bad Weatehrman movie. Really? Are you serious? Unless your really bored and cleaning your house because its sleeting outside, dont bother watching this movie. I enjoy watching the rain at not better when I cant see it than seeing this movie. Enjoy.

a train wreck that just keeps getting worse... Academy Award winner Kathryn Bigelow (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00275EGX8">Hurt Locker</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004OBQDHK">Point Break</a>) co-wrote and directed Blue Steel (1989), a violent and very pretentious crime drama that loses touch with reality quite early, pushes matters to extreme levels, and by the finish has completely flown off the rails.  There's plenty of action, and bold attempts to pump up the tension, but few signs of any intelligent thought, in the poorly written screenplay that incorporates nearly every trick in the book, to feature a badass female cop.  Fresh out of the academy, New York City police officer Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UR9QHQ">Halloween</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00026ZG10">True Lies</a>) is on patrol with her partner, when she discovers a robbery occurring in a store.  She confronts a man who is holding a gun on a cashier, and shoots him when he fails to put down his weapon.  The robber's revolver falls on the floor, where it is secretly taken by stockbroker Eugene Hunt (Ron Silver, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0783225520">Timecop</a>), who was shopping in the store.  Hunt leaves the crime scene with the weapon.  Lacking physical evidence, Turner is suspended, but after the mentally unbalanced Hunt kills a stranger, and leaves behind bullet casings with Megan's name scratched on them, police detective Nick Mann (Clancy Brown) has Turner reinstated with the rank of detective, so she can work the case.  Firmly fixated on Megan, Hunt begins a relationship with her, while he continues to kill in her name.  The movie takes a dramatic turn near the halfway point, when Hunt unexpectedly reveals himself to Turner.  The remainder of the film features Turner and Mann attempting to bring Hunt to justice, as the stockbroker displays an uncanny ability to stay several steps ahead of the police.  Credibility is an early casualty, as Blue Steel is built upon a series of unlikely events, that become increasingly ridiculous, as a green rookie cop with a bad attitude, almost instantaneously has the confidence of an experienced detective, and the balls to break protocol when it suits her purpose.  Things get increasingly personal after Hunt reveals himself, as he zeros in on her friends and family.  Turner is incapable of saving a friend from harm, but she's like a manic when she has a gun in her hand.  Being able to cut loose and overplay their roles was probably a blast for Silver and Curtis, and the movie is entertaining for a while, but if reality matters, at a certain point, it all gets to be too much.  Not unlike a myriad of other violent crime dramas from the era, Blue Steel entertains in a superficial and pretentious way.  Featuring a female as the lead character was different for 1989, but the implausible clich&eacute; heavy story, fails to make Blue Steel the groundbreaker it might have been.  The film has kind of faded into obscurity, but if Jamie Lee Curtis making like Harry Callahan and administering vigilante justice sounds like fun, this is definitely a must see.  Rating: 2.5 stars.

Would not recommend Too basic no real insight into what they do and how they do it. No interesting interviews with former SF-operatives. Well a bit of a disappointment. I gave the DVD to a friend.

Warning for Jean fans this is not up to his usual caliber. This movie is just not good. The plot is overly simply and uninteresting.  Jean is usually such a good director it is very hard to imagine what happened here.  I don't usually write reviews but I thought it was necessary here.  Fans of Jean beware this is not him at his best or at any level really.  If you have to see it rent it but this is not a movie to see more than once, if even that.  I would simply recommend skipping the experience in it's entirety.  I tried to make myself like it and really wanted to but there is nothing there.   Another reviewer mentioned Fantastic Mr.Fox.  This film is nothing like that.  The plot involves trying to take down arms dealers.  That's not really comparable to fighting to survive or steal from farmers.  Ignore that comparison.

4 stars for the movie - 2 stars for this release = 2 stars total While this is an excellent adaptation of the first 24 chapters or so of J.K. Rowling's book, the initial Harry Potter home video releases continue to disappoint with their stunningly skimpy bonus materials and lack of documentaries. It's obvious that this film, including its current special features, will be released eventually as: 1. An "Ultimate Edition" with new special features, 2. In a "Complete Movie Collection" with all the other films, and 3. Possibly as an "Extended Edition" combined with Part 2. So why in the world would I be foolish enough to pay $15-25 for this now? If you're a die-hard fan who just can't wait to have this, I suppose I understand, but you should just rent it and save your money for later. Otherwise, this is a blatant attempt by Warner Bros. to continually screw people out of their money. And that's not cool with me.

Don't Peep I only bought this because I am a huge fan of Michael C Hall. The story was very disjointed and weird.  When it ended, I found myself thinking, "Huh?"

not the best The play has very strong actors, but the performance left a lot to be desired especially by Dustin Hoffman. Lee J. Cobb gave a better performance and his fellow actors. Hoffman's portrayal of the main character, Willie Loman leaves you with questions about what is actually going on. The play with Cobb is clear and to the point. I really enjoyed watching the play more and came away seeing why the play is such a classic.

Lacks grit and character This really looked like my kind of movie: a bleak, repressive future with a strange anti-hero protagonist. Unfortunately, the future just didn't look all that bleak, and the protagonist was not very compelling. While there is some gratitous violence carried out by government thugs, the people in this dsytopian future seem more bored than repressed. The future is dark, but it lacks the grittiness and character of such movies as Blade Runner, 12 Monkeys, or even Brazil. The protagonist remains too much a mystery and there are too many unexplained and unlikely details about his life to make him a believable character. And it is really hard to identify with a character in a mask. Even the best actor can't express much emotion using only a muffled voice. The female costar also has issues of believability and motive. Her actions seem driven soley by the plot. Similarly, the character of the hard-working cop is such a plot driven role, he actually seems bored with the whole affair. And for a plot-driven movie, there are several holes big in it big enough to drive a truck through.

Good potential ruined by bad writing This is the kind of movie I tend to like, in which not much happens but interesting characters interact with one another in quiet ways that draw me into their world. Unfortunately the formula does not work here. The problem is the screenplay.  The basic story is fine; the characters are a decently varied assortment of potentially interesting folk; the actors are good enough (although Stewart is the only one who really shines, and even the two old pros, Dern and Ashley, are embarrassing only because of the awful screenplay); and the direction, photography, etc, are competent; but the dialog is awful. Really, really bad.  I suppose it is trying to be deep and meaningful, but it is just painfully stilted and artificial: from beginning to end, not one word any character speaks sounds like a real human being talking. The extremely awkward title is a good example of what the dialog is like. The Cake Eaters had good potential but was torpedoed by very bad writing.

Minimal facts and without provocative insight... To be fair, a reviewer must be inclined to view the entire documentary before writing his review and I did not.  However, this is because the first half of the film was unbearably uninteresting... and Goldhagen has a voice best suited for print.  Goldhagen takes the viewer on a world tour of recent genocide.  But he merely fingers at the surface of these events.  The viewer is left to wonder about much of the context of these atrocities, and their political or social causes.  I've traveled extensively in Cambodia and seen lasting effects of the Khmer Rouge there.  On those travels I wondered how, why, where humans convinced to exterminate their fellow man?  Goldhagen seems to tell us that humans are capable of horrible acts, of inhuman cruelty.  But this is self-evident by the existence of genocide. What is the trigger that leads us into this capability?  How does a Cambodian soldier turn in to a beast who killed infants?  Goldhagen seems well intention but fails short of delivering true insight.  Furthermore, his voice is, well, best suited for print and the first person nature of the documentary comes off as pretentious and conceded, whether it is or not.  Goldhagen would have been better off hiring a proper narrator and taking himself out of the center of the film.

More Like a Star Slog This 1979 motion picture, based on the Star Trek television series, was intended to be the answer to the prayers of the heartbroken fans of the television series that was canceled in 1969 after three seasons on NBC.  The film has basically the same cast as the television series but was a high budget motion picture undertaking.  This is a very slow moving film which seems to last considerably longer than its 2:16  running time.  It shares certain similarities with earlier science-fiction theatrical films, notably Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968).  To say that the acting is generally stiff in this film would be an understatement.  William Shatner embarrassingly overacts in this production to the extent that his character, Captain James Kirk, is thoroughly obnoxious through most of the film.  The story seems to be of a seemingly endless  journey through the Universe to reach a source of energy that is suspected to be a threat to the security of the earth.  The star ship Enterprise passes through strange formations and lights, reminding one of the psychedelic light-effects seen in "2001: A Space Odyssey" but taking much more time and having none of the artistry and imagination of the earlier film.  The ship finally passes through what can only be described as a galactic sphincter into a cosmic colon which contains this alien energy force which turns out to be SPOILER COMING UP! the space probe Voyager Six originally launched by NASA some 300 years prior to the time setting of the film.  This is apparently the "Director's Edition" running  slightly longer than the original release.  The film, in Blu-ray, looks and sounds very impressive but must be, with one exception, judged from the standpoint of direction and acting as being significantly inferior to the five films having the same cast that would follow it.

Lame I may not be qualified to speak about Green Lantern since I feel asleep for half an hour in the middle of the movie. But that says quite a bit in itself, because I have a high tolerance for terrible movies. I'll give Green Lantern credit for having one of the best lines ever uttered in a superhero film:    What do you mean? I've known you my whole life! I've seen you naked! You don't think I would recognize you because I can't see your cheekbones?  Of course, it is said by Blake Lively as Carol Ferris, ace fighter pilot and successful business woman. Blake tries her hardest, but she's not very convincing as the tough-as-nails Carol. She comes off as a bit of a marshmallow. As for the central character . . . Hal Jordan has never been my favorite Lantern. And the movie takes way too long to make Hal seem like a good candidate for the ring. As for the daddy issues everyone in the film is suffering from: Iron Man did it better.

Ripoff Of Shutter Island but takes place mostly outside an asylum.  Even the CGI is identical at times.  The protagonist seeks answers like: What is my real name? Why do new characters know me? What did they see?  Who is real?  Who is a mirage? Am I a murderer? If not, who is?  Why am I engulfed in flames and not coughing or hot?

Shameless Copy Of "The Burning Plain" Their opening sex scenes, hospital scenes, and abandonments are virtually identical.  Even if I hadn't seen "Burning Plain" this script keeps the main character far too mysterious.  When a mom leaves a baby, there has to be reasons way deeper than "I am the way I am."  She's much too intelligent not to have have more self awareness than that.

Worst Bonus Disc EVER Don't get me wrong, I am a HUGE fan of Quentin Tarantino, and I think this movie is great. Except for the second disc. The second disc is just full of so much CRAP! 15 second soundbites, interviews with people you have never heard of, people reading reviews of the movie aloud, chapters of books?! Who the HELL is gonna sit there and read the squished text of chapters of books on a tv screen? Not me. And the K-Billy interactive radio is pretty pathetic, except for the last button. And the poster gallery....it only has 3 posters! And the style guide doesn't exist...you'll see what I mean. Avoid buying this!

Eh... Eh... I didn't care for this movie at all. I like the first two Alien movies and the first Predator movie, so I hoped that I'd really like this, but alas I did not. The story was confusing, I had to watch it multiple times before I actually got it (or I'm just slow...), I didn't care for hardly any of the characters at all, and I didn't feel a sense of suspense throughout the whole movie. The acting wasn't great, either... I just didn't really like this movie. -Trent Foreman, Author of Nightmare

NOT for beginners and REALLY, REALLY FAST! Admittedly, I only got through about the first 15 minutes of this video.  I have some yoga experience and know most basic poses but the narrator moves very quickly from pose to pose without any instruction as to how to move easily from one to another.  Once in the pose, there is some instruction on perfecting the pose and breathing but I spent most of the time getting into the pose just in time for him to change it up again. I gave up when he said it was time to pick up the pace and start "flowing", by which he seemed to mean go faster.  There may be a word for the particular sequence of poses he was doing but it reminded me all to much of having to do squat-thrusts over and over in gym class in high school, just sort of a yoga-version. I like yoga to be centering and relaxing while also providing a workout.  This was just a workout.  *I will qualify this by saying that up until 6 months ago, I was a couch potato.  I have been exercising and doing yoga since then but am still far from being in shape. If you are very fit and quick on your feet with a foundation of knowledge in yoga poses, this might be exactly what you are looking for.

Another Dumb One. Viewed: 6/03, 2/05, 7/08 Rate: 4  7/08: Basic Instinct generated outrage from females because of something onscreen that was so offensive. To be honest with you, as this was my third time seeing the movie, I made sure to myself that I would observe more closely, and once again, I fail to see anything that's merely controversial. Hell, Lassie Comes Home contained some horribly sickening graphic scenes that should have been the talk of the town. Maybe I am a dumb guy, but I don't think so. Anyway, Sharon Stone got her fifteen minutes fame only because she flashed her beaver for about five seconds. Actually, it was slow enough that blinking won't miss a thing. Besides the shaven part, she finally acted better than she ever did in any film, but it's as good as anyone in a soft core porn flick. Michael Douglas wimped out big time in this one. He was merely a puppet who got to bring out the...rough physical aspect of himself from Fatal Attraction and waltzed into a bad trap. Although it's obviously clear that his character was becoming something that he was not, Michael Douglas looked rather stupid. I thought the film noir quality in Basic Instinct was a good try, and the story wasn't that bad. Yet it's a dumb movie where every piece neatly perfectly falls into together without a problem. That was the irritating thing when following through as everything happens. Worst of all, the movie was long, boring, and almost pointless. It would be nice if a half hour was cut out to ensure tautness. Oh well...it's a good try for Paul Verhoeven. All he can do was keep trying and searching for his identity. I had no doubt in my mind that Catherine Tramell is the real killer, but I feel insulted that the characters in the film were dumb as rocks, being stringed along without critical and rational thinking, thus leading to that manipulative ending. Come on, the visible Catherine Tramell (and confirmed not a stunt double) killed the dude way early from the beginning. Hello!? Anyhow, it didn't matter because I am not going to lose my sleep over it. Surprisingly, given the high level of nudity, it wasn't a sexy picture like 9 ½ Weeks; in fact, the sex scenes were bland. All in all, it would help if Basic Instinct was less boring and more intelligent. The rating for Basic Instinct remained unchanged.

Disappointing and cynical I had high hopes for this movie.  The trailer looked pretty funny.  I'm a big Paul Rudd fan. He was actually really great in this movie, but the story line SUCKED.  It had a bazar cadence, with disheveled emotions.  The end is especially stupid.  What turned me off the most, is how this movie played on the stereo type that all earth friendly, hippy types who live an alternat life style, are in a cult.  The leader of the commune in this movie is an egotistical jerk - right from the beginning.  This is just such a main stream, cynical view of free thinking, spiritual, alternative, vegan, type of people.  This movie just leaves a bad taste in you're mouth.  The only reason I didn't give it 1 star, was that Paul Rudd and Jenifer Aniston were really good.

John Ford's message film with over-the-hill cast Ford gives his take on how law and order came to the western frontier and it is believable if you don't know much history except what you have seen in Westerns. It may also be his answer to High Noon and the theme of one man having to take on outlaws without help from his friends and neighbors. A statehood issue is shoehorned onto this theme. John Wayne is in his usual western character and costume and James Stewart plays his usual B movie character; both are too old for the parts they play; but do give their usual very professional performance. The doctor and newspaperman, as in most westerns, are the town drunks. The plot and subplots are stale, the townspeople are stereotypical of early to mid-20th century westerns. Sadly one scene even confuses the Declaration of Independence with the U.S. Constitution.  This movie is vastly over-rated by most reviewers on this site.

I wish I could have the time back! I think Edward Norton is an underrated actor. The problem with this movie is the script. Boring to say the least, I should not have relied on the 4 star average. Some wrote about the comedy of it all...where? This movie downright SUCKED!

obvious After watching this documentary it showes Christianity True again.  The show did present a wide range of views.  But either all the views are wrong, or one view is right and the rest are wrong, they all cannot be right!  If someone says all views are wrong they are giving a TRUTH claim, if they believe in TRUTH, they believe in ABSOLUTES, therefore where did those absolutes come from?  It cannot come from humans because I can say it's ok to lie and someone else can say it's not ok to lie.  This is false because if you believe in contradictions, you believe in truth claims, therefore you should believe God exists.  Which God?  The God who has revealed Himself (youtube in search for the real mount sinai- where moses met God)  There is evil in the world where did that come from?  Man makes up truth because we are a liar, and the main reason why many people don't want the God of the Bible is because He's authentic.  I don't have to go into "complex ways to get you to believe" that's not my job, the fact is Jesus came Not to condemn the world but to save the world however you have to ask Him for forgiveness in this lifetime.  Following Him can be hard but if you want to live and become a new person, and have peace in hard times and really love others read the Gospels would be a good starting place.  Hell is real, Jesus is returning soon and like the woman at the well who was pretty much committing adultery with 5 people, Jesus forgave her and she never went back to that lifestyle, Christians aren't perfect but they are forgivin and they have the power to say no to sin.  The Heavens declare you are God, hopefully someone takes this message to heart but if they do great if they don't then maybe a seed is planted and they'll come around next time (who knows when you are going to die though)  and if they don't accept it the ministry that convicts is Glorious.  There's only one way to Heaven, Jesus said, I am the Way the Truth and the Life NObody comes to the Father accept through Me, this cannot be interpretted anyother way.  I love all who read this and Truth will set you free, my name is john mcdermott out of Grand Island Nebraska I'm 23 and if you want to add me to facebook about Bible questions or concerns feel free to because Absolute Truth isn't afraid of Any question but encourages it.

I almost made it half way through this And that was a huuuuuge accomplishment.  Maybe about 1 in 10 of her jokes actually made me laugh.  She just comes off as a horrible person to be in a relationship with, and it seems like her life view is from the 90s or 80s.

yuck!!! This movies started off gtreat. Then the e3nd. The ending ruined the whole movie. It was almost like they got tired of wrikting and just wanted to end it. The end was cheap and poorly nwriten. It made no sense and would be equal to one of those old "B" movies. Daarn it that was unfair to the "B" movies because those movies had some thought. bPlease don't buy it is a waist of money. Wait till it's free.

The ALIEN series gets its own "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" My experience of seeing Prometheus in the cinema ended like this:  The final scene finished, cut to black. A few audience members chuckled. I sat there for a few seconds, processing what had just transpired in front of me for the last two hours, before rising from my seat and making my way toward the exit. I bumped into an older man in business attire--I must have looked as crestfallen as he did, because the first thing out of his mouth when we made eye contact was "Jesus, wasn't that awful?" I nodded in agreement, not really sure what to say. As we staggered out of the cinema together, my companion continued "I love Ridley Scott, but that really was his worst film. I can't believe how bad it was."  I wouldn't say it's Ridley Scott's worst film, but it definitely is a disaster.  There was a point about twenty minutes into this film when, despite all my reservations, my fannish adulation welled up and I was fully prepared to love it--the original ALIEN is perhaps my favorite film of all time. I was handing myself over to Ridley Scott on a silver platter. The scenes introducing David were wonderful (minus the clunky Shaw dream bit). The score was better than I had expected, with lots of excellent passages not featured on the terribly assembled soundtrack album. I suddenly felt a rush of hope from it all.  I don't feel like I can accurately assess Prometheus, because I don't think what I saw *was* Prometheus. What I saw was an extended two hour *trailer* for Prometheus. This film features one of the worst edit jobs I have ever seen in a theatrical film. It has clearly been brutally hacked to ribbons--entire scenes are obviously transplanted from elsewhere in the plot, sliced apart, and haphazardly thrown into the midst of other scenes without any thought toward narrative whatsoever. Shots jostle against one another seemingly at random, and the entire film is without any sense of momentum or dramatic tension. Worse still, several scenes are obviously sloppily rewritten, last minute reshoots (the Shaw/Holloway bedroom scene, the Janek/Shaw infodump in the third act--check the deleted scenes section on the upcoming Blu-ray for the original versions that were better written and inexplicably cut).  As for the rest of it, this movie is essentially one scene of idiocy leading into another into another into another:  Janek abandons his post to have sex with Vickers, and even though there is a huge crew on this ship (most of whom mysteriously disappear for the entire runtime until it is time to get killed later on--seriously, where the hell do all these people go for most of the movie?!) there is NO ONE who bothers to keep an eye on the two crew members trapped in an alien structure--no one even records the feeds and watches them later before going in after them the next morning.  This stupidity leads into the infamous Hammerpede scene, in which Milburn inexplicably waffles between an atrocious Southern accent and a normal American one, touches a clearly threatening alien snake creature like a total idiot, screams like a frat boy getting hazed while it attacks him, and then reduces the audience to hysterical laughter as it rams itself down his throat in comically OTT fashion.  This then leads into Holloway waking up, seeing a clearly freakish and horrible tendril coming out of his eye, and then telling no one, because he is not just an insufferable jerk, but, like everyone else in this film, an insufferable moron as well.  This depressing inanity extrapolates to pretty much every scene in the movie.  The alleged story itself is merely a line for Ridley Scott to hang his stunning visuals upon, but even those cannot be enjoyed due to the madly rushed pacing; we are not allowed to absorb ourselves into these gorgeously production designed corridors or alien spaces, because Scott refuses to let a single shot last for more than two seconds. The plot is wafer thin. Characters are wholly uninteresting or outright idiotic, and Elizabeth Shaw is so poorly developed that despite her eye-rolling Hollywood backstory, this Ripley expy amounts to nothing more than Noomi Rapace running around looking winded for most of the proceedings. The only cast member who makes a solid impression is Michael Fassbender, whose work here is stellar.  The tired, ersatz plot points come thick and fast (many of them alarmingly reminiscent of AVP, and at least a few of them shamelessly lifted from The X-Files--the Mulder/Scully dynamic, Shaw's scientific background and her faith in God, her crucifix becoming a plot point, the Black Oil...), and the silly new "mythology" is woefully ill-conceived -- the Engineers started all life on Earth...and then sat around for billions of years waiting for it to evolve into something like them? And apparently Jesus was an Engineer? And the reason the Engineers decided to wipe us out 2000 years ago was because we crucified Space Jesus? (Seriously.)  With all this cringe-inducing material, the best thing about the film then is how completely inconsequential it is--it provides no direct link to ALIEN, and therefore hopefully spares its masterful forebearer any ill aftereffects by association. "There is nothing", says Peter Weyland when he finally meets his maker, another one of the script's faux-profundities that does not so much say anything for life itself, as it does more accurately sum up the film around it.

At last: Peace in Japan A mix of animation and live actions, reality and fiction, people and monsters, the movie hides its sense too deep beneath the screened as for this ordinary viewer while superhero resurrecting victoriously after being steadily beaten by out-of-this-world-destroyers was finally somehow spirited away by good monsters establishing a peace on the Earth-in this Japanese location definitely.  A very short work allows recalling afterwards as much as buggy suits of characters revel.

Athletic Highlights From 1993 "Sports Illustrated: 1993 The Year in Sports" is a 45 minute encapsulation of athletic highlights from that year. For sports lovers this could be an exciting reminiscence but more casual fans will probably not be interested. The presentation is heavy on football, baseball, basketball, hockey, and boxing, though a few other very brief clips manage to sneak in too. The video promotes "Sports Illustrated" heavily, to the point you will likely want to fast forward through the exceptionally long introduction. Also feel free to skip the preview ad for "The New Dodge," which highlights the truly homely then-new Dodge Caravan.  The material varies in quality dramatically, and the introductory segments and supporting music are trying. There are numerous short interviews, some of which are quite enlightening, while others are padding. I enjoyed the segments with Charles Barkley (1993 NBA MVP) in his Phoenix Suns glory days the most, and thought the coverage of the Suns versus Bulls series was well done, especially the coverage of game three which went four quarters and three overtime periods before Barkley and company finally won. The big story of that series was the rivalry of Barkley and Michael Jordan, and while the Bulls won the series, here both players come off as respectful but confident rivals.  Also gratifying was Alabama's Sugar Bowl victory over Miami; it's always encouraging to see a distinct underdog best a favorite but cocky team. In my favorite blunder of the year, I was enthralled by the excessive overtime taken by the Miami Hurricanes resulting in a novel play: I don't want to spoil the moment for you, but believe me that the resultant play (and color commentary) is one of the most entertaining moments in the history of the game. Racing is largely ignored, though Rusty Wallace's spectacular dual crackups are shown. In the conclusion the champions of the year are listed in a variety of sports including collegiate and women's leagues.  If you have a fanatical affinity for sports or events from 1993 in particular, this is probably about the best short synopsis available, but if you are less of a diehard sports historian the cheesy production values and uneven and superficial coverage will likely be a disappointment.

Something Evil, Something I Heard Before "The Unborn" (co-produced by Michael Bay) is a supernatural thriller written and directed by David S. Goyer, writer of the "Blade" trilogy and director of its third installment "Blade: Trinity." One interesting thing about the film is its cast: Odette Yustman, Cam Gigandet, Meagan Good, Idris Elba, Jane Alexander, Carla Gugino and Gary Oldman. Sadly, aside from some fairly creepy images, this is the only thing that I found interesting about the film.  The story is serviceable, if not very original. A young student Casey Beldon (Odette Yustman) is tormented by weird dreams and visions. She also witnesses strange behaviors of her neighbor's five-year-old boy while babysitting. Then a series of events turns her life into a nightmare, and Casey turns to an old lady Sofi Kozma (Jane Alexander) before realizing some evil forces are after her, but for what?  "The Unborn" suffers from the clich&eacute;d scares and lack of pace. The film also tries to cover so many things (themselves not very original) in its short running time while a simpler storyline is more effective. Some visuals strongly remind us of such classics as "The Exorcist," but not the finesse and impact of the William Friedkin film.  Finally, as to Gary Oldman as Rabbi Joseph Sendak, though he is second-billed, his role is not a big one, just an extended cameo.

Started off somewhat strong then... I had an idea of what this movie was going to be before I watched it and i was right.  It started off pretty strong for me. I enjoyed watching the first 30 minutes.  But after the lead character grew into adulthood the movie became unwatchable.  Poor acting...poor writing...very predictable ending.

The New twenty A group of friends. Very PC group of people. There is a gay, there is an asian girl and boy, there is somebody handsome and there is also somebody less handsome. So we have this mixture but does it "taste" good? Well, it doesn't :( The plot is average. The director apparently was too afraid to present the whole spectrum of gay relationship including sexlife (although, he shot several scenes of straight sex...). Are the characters likeable? To some degree. Unfortunately, I couldn't neither associate myself with any of 'em nor I give a damn about their problems. And the cover! Was it supposed to be a candy for gay viewers? Don't let them trick you. Rent before buying.

Few laughs, but mostly mediocre I'm a huge fan of Will Ferrell, but I was disappointed in this movie.  It has a few laughs, but it was mostly mediocre.  I will say Will Ferrell's Spanish was pretty good and he has the Mexican accent down very well, though.  But otherwise, it falls short as the humorous comedy I was hoping it would be.

Pretty Poor Stoogery Features have never been a strong point for the Stooges, who seem to thrive in the short subject department.  MEET THE BARON is simply awful and unfunny by modern standards. Essentially, the film is about a lying poseur (Jack Pearl) prenteding to be the legendary tale-spinning Baron Munchausen (sort of the German version of Uncle Remus and the Arabian Nights) with his crooked partner (Jimmy Durante) as they try to get rich by bamboozling the public. This stuff will make you hard pressed to crack a smile. Pearl did this kind of shtick on radio and for some reason that makes no sense today, audiences of the time would crack up at Pearl's catchphrase "Vas You Dere Sharlie?" ("Were you there Charlie?" A reference to Pearl's radio partner Charlie, who would challenge the validity of the rouge Baron''s grossly exaggerated pontifications, as shown in the film).  The only light spots above the antiquated corn are the Stooges. There is a delightful sequence of the foolsters of fun as janitors at a women's college and as a sort of reception committee for the for the pontificating pretender. The "Tramp Tramp Tramp" scene upon the exposure of the BSing "Baron" (which also involves the Stooges) are good for some yuks. The ending (which I won't get into here) is weak, cheap, and purely lazy writing which shows how stuck the creaters were for a finale.  As for "The Gold Raiders," it has Shemp, and not Curly. Need I say more?  If you need coasters or something for target practice at the rifle range,  or if you just HAVE to see every inch of existing filmed Stoogery, then I could recommend this DVD. Othewrwise, forget it.

blue rays region coded i saw the movie red at the cinema and thoroughly enjoyed it, as i saw it on amazon out earlier than australia and a lot cheaper as well. The only blue ray player i have is my ps3 but i thought it would still be ok! alas i was wrong it is region locked and will not play at all, in future might have to stick to just dvd format.

wweak The film was disappointing in every way. Pathetic , weak, unrealistic, garbage. I knew better and didn't finish.  Good luck with this one.

Another trilogy gone to ruins We've seen this time & time again people, classic movies that had 2 good releases only to end with a sorry excuse of a thrid part. Movies that come to mind would be the Godfather Trilogy, Home Alone Trilogy, Jurrasic Park trilogy, Ninja Turtles, & even some with 4 parts such as House Party & Superman. Why is this an ongoing trend you ask? I really don't know honestly. Well the same format applies here to the X-men triology. The first 2 films were pretty good with the second one being the best out the three in my book. While the first 2 had its flaws this third 1 is a total train wreck & isn't even worthy of being its own seperate film let alone part of a trilogy! The story revolves around the government coming up with a "cure" for mutants to permantely disable their powers or alien like physique so that the humans will be in favor. A good idea for a story but it didn't actually help to break off into a another story with Jean coming back from her alledged death from the second film & merging with pheonix. The latter story is just stupid for many reasons. For one, when will these movie directors/producers stop using insanely powerful heroes or villians in these movies? Pheonix in the comics is actually 20 times more powerful than depicted in this film so much more powerful that it was able to hold its own with a mid fed galactus. Also pheonix is a being from space who chose jean as a host it had nothing to do with her mind. & why would they kill off cyclops & professor x 2 prominent character in the x-men series? thats just plain retarded. I don't recall either of them getting killed off by jean in the comics rather transported to an alternate dimension or something but not killed off. Of course Magneto & his now much larger band of evil mutants are still at war with Prof x & the x-men as well as the human race. While attempting to Free Juggernaut & Multiple man from police custody (yeah picture juggernaut being held captive by police)one of the officers manages to shoot & inject Mystique with the "cure" which results in here losing her mutand powers & blue streak appearance. Magneto then disowns her & seeks out Jean whos power is off the charts thanks to phoenix. When Magneto & his crew finally reach Jean they are also come face to face with the x-men in which a fight breaks out between Juggs & logan & Storm & one of magneto's newer mutant henchwomen. Speaking of Juggernaut, why are they disregarding the relationship of Prof X & Juggernaut? They're supposed to be step brothers with Juggernaut aka Cain Marko having a burning hatred for his brother yet they never even interact or acknowledge each other. Thats something simple they still managed to get wrong arghhhhhhh!  Prof X & Magneto both try to win over Jean with her new found powers & she ends up killing the professor & going with Magneto. Now that Magneto has Jean on his side hes going to official strike at the human race only to have Jean get power hungry or something & turn on him & the other evil mutants making her the greater threat. Once again the x-men & magneto & his crew hunt down jean whos causing havoc in the city &. A Big showdown breaks out & Jean even ends up killing some of the mutants. Eventually Jean unleashes some surrounding energy that vaporizes anybody within reach so wolverine decides to take her down given his healing factor (yeah that'll happen).  This Movie was just a big mess, 2 stories with rather confusing plotholes, alot of useless characters (why is rouge on here again? she completely sucks easily the worst adapotion I've seen of her character even worse then x-men evolution's version), & they disregard simple aspects that make up x-men storyline. They even leave out some of the characters from part 2 such as the ever loveable nightcrawler. wheres gambit? even sabertooth was absent here. One good thing I can say about this movie is Fraiser as the beast, he did an excellent job & the makeup looked well to.  This movie would have went better if it had a story involving the Sentinels I mean they are a pretty important part of x-men but obvioulsy the film makers didn't think so. The plot should have involved the X-men & Magneto & his brotherhood still at war with the humans finally getting fed up & has a scientist create the sentinels & mastermold but of course this will never happen. To This movie I say 3 thumbs down!

FATHER KNOWS WORST WASHINGTON SQUARE (dir. Agnieszka Holland, 1997, 115 minutes) is a story/film with which I wasn't familiar. I know nothing of Henry James, who wrote the original novel (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199559198">Washington Square (Oxford World's Classics)</a>). The movie looked too good to miss, and recently I managed to watch it.  What little I learned about James, indirectly from this film, is that it all reminded me a lot of Nathaniel Hawthorne's work; it is no surprise that Hawthorne was James' hero. James himself was an American-born English writer of the mid- to late-19th century.  WASHINGTON SQUARE is centered around old Dr. Sloper (Albert Finney), his goofy widowed sister Lavinia (Dame Maggie Smith), his mentally retarded daughter Catherine (a dreadful Jennifer Jason Leigh) and the weird young man who comes a-courtin', distant cousin Matthew Townsend (the repulsive Ben Chaplin).  The good doctor is an odious, arrogant man who hates his daughter; he blames her for her mother's death (the mother dies after giving birth). While Catherine is devoted to the crusty old doctor, he seems devoted to making her life a living hell. He merely tolerates her and becomes expectant of her slavish, childish attention to him.  Suddenly there appears Matthew, the proverbial and literal "poor cousin" suddenly chasing after Catherine, with heavy designs on her. They will be designs Catherine can hardly comprehend. While the nasty old doc absolutely despises young Matthew and rejects him, it seems the whole clan is itching for Matthew and Catherine to marry.  Is Matthew after her only for the money? Is that the reason Matthew is more obsessed with the old doc than he is with Catherine? Stay tuned! I found this movie to be strange, tense, disturbing and of very low quality. Perhaps that is Henry James' fault ultimately, but I have a feeling it is not.  Though the film is visually rich and true to the era, it is a wicked waste as is the fine talent on offer. Albert Finney never looked so lost or hollow as he does here. Jennifer Leigh as I said is absolutely awful; I'm no good judge of Ben Chaplin because I find him so revolting and unpleasant.  Dame Maggie of course does great, brilliant justice to her role. Another painful example of a wicked waste. While this film may or may not have conveyed some of James' original intentions, this depressing film is utterly loveless (except for the love radiating from poor, simple Catherine). It is lackluster and predictable, with no good use of soundtrack, cinematography or anything. As I say, a wicked waste.  Director Agnieszka Holland is best known for the equally wasteful, depressing <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00001YXH8">Total Eclipse</a>. Looking at some of her other offerings, I wonder why Wallywood or Eurowood doesn't see these disasters coming from ten miles away - and why they aren't stopped.  An earlier version (1949; DVD release 2007) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000KGGJ1I">The Heiress (Universal Cinema Classics)</a> starring Olivia de Havilland is widely thought to be superior, as it is based from an earlier play. Something tells me I might enjoy this version a lot more, and you will, too.  I give WASHINGTON SQUARE two stars for its efforts and performers. I wish it could be a half a star, but I couldn't do that to Finney or Smith.

Transformers:  Revenge of the Fallen This sequel is a film that both benefits and suffers from a complete disarray that reaches, literally, cosmic proportions.  Fueled by a surprisingly minimal number of sequences that exhibit exhilarating robot combat, Bay nonetheless succumbs to his own temptations and injects a conglomeration of worthless subplots and back story that are the sole culprits for an obnoxiously long running time.  In direct comparison to it's relatively fat-free sequel, "Revenge of the Fallen" is a cholesterol-ridden cacophony of disjointed elements that worked surprisingly well in its predecessor, albeit in efficiency and moderation.  That, unfortunately is put to the wayside in favor of an air of undeserved justification after the prequel's success upon Bay's part to explore whatever he wishes, even at the cost of what the audience desires most.  That said, despite crippling this blockbuster by establishing a series of exhausting and excessive plot foundations, Bay has, at least, paved the way for a subsequent finale film that will, hopefully, be lean and slick in it's comfort zones as it wraps up the pseudo trilogy.

if stupidity is erotic then this is the flick for you OK, this apparently is an erotic thriller. Well, let's start with the eroticism part. Amanda Seyfried--very cute. Julianne Moore--uh, no. Liam Neeson--uh, double no.  A thriller where Liam Neeson does not get angry and chase down bad guys. Remind me why he's in this.  Also, the dialogue is beyond ridiculous. The scene where Seyfried (who is playing a prostitute) describes a sexual encounter with Neeson's character is beyond classic. It's as if the scriptwriter, Erin Cressida Wilson (because three names are better than two!) was afraid of actually saying any medical, let alone slang, terms for the actual body parts used to have sex. There's no need to bleep anything for any Christian market they want to reach with this movie, to put it mildly. It's about as erotic as shopping for chairs.  The DVD "making of" extra is worth watching to see how pretentious the producers, director and scriptwriter are about this project and the Torontonianess just oozes out. Look, we get it, Torontonians think their city is important being the financial hub of Canada, but people like yourselves once you open your mouths make the rest of us Canadians laugh at your own inflated sense of self.  Oh, yeah, the movie is mainly shot in the winter probably because of its "glacial" pace. The entire first hour makes watching yacht racing on TV look like the Stanley Cup playoffs. Of course, the epilogue (metaphor alert!) is in the bright sunshine of spring.  Now SPOILER ALERT, only Atom (Ant?) Egoyan could actually think a movie where a woman hires a prostitute to seduce her husband only to have her end up doing the horizontal mambo with said pro instead...and then have the pro sleep with the mom's son in the parents' bed, fall through a window and die...and the dysfunctional family is all happy at movie's end would make for a plausible story. I kid you not. This is the story. It's hilariously over-the-top dumb.  I'll also mention that Moore is a gynecologist (of course, she is as we're dealing with stunted adults who green-lit this script), Neeson a university prof and their confused (probably by this story) son a classical music prodigy.  Even more hilarious is Seyfried, as a "high-priced" prostitute who frequents high-end hotels with her clients and yet rides a bicycle in the winter in Toronto...and not in any sort of winter cycling gear but in a dress and stockings with high heels on. Hey, everyone does in T.O. when it's 15 below, don't they?  It's as if a bunch of Hollywood North types who like softcore porn but want to be "artistes" came up with their idea of what would make for an edgy and sexy thriller. Sorry, it didn't work. It comes across as complete pretentious nonsense.  Oh, and Ivan "Ghostbusters" Reitman is part of the producing team. Your large set of teeth should be embarrassed to be seen in the DVD extras. Stick to comedy, Ivan.  The only person who comes out of this mess intact is Amanda Seyfried whose lips are most definitely erotic and whose giant wide-open eyeballs seem like she's permanently on some thrill ride the rest of us are unaware of. I think mainly she was probably in shock she signed up for this mess.

Pointless movie I thought I was going to watch an uplifting movie about a man who helps a fatherless teenager.  Uplifting, inspiring, motivating are the words I would like to use, but the  movie was disappointing and boring.  And Paul G's character is really pathetic.

poor use of Liam The Grey is slightly entertaining mostly because the wolves are terrifying. The script is weak in enough to make one feel they are watching a first draft of a bad dream after eating some suspicious Korean food. One where the dogs eat you. The choices the characters have to live with due to the writers lack of thought make the film hard to swallow. Unless the intent was to say if you made enough bad decisions in your life to put you at the arctic circle, you probably will continue to make disastrous choices and you will end up as food for more organized, more strategic packs. Hey, maybe this is about the war between western civilization and "animal" jihadists of the middle east. It is all about oil. Now it makes sense.....

Up in the Air It's ok:  got to LOVE big corps that want to save on the very labor that built them. Save for a rainy day by the fire.

Boring! I've only done the first trimester section of this video, which I would think would be the more vigourous of the three, and I was bored out of my mind!  There is a lot of sitting and breathing and putting your chin to your chest.  There a few poses, but they seem to be mainly stretches with a few (very few) squats thrown in.  The whole time I kept thinking...."well - I guess we're warmned up now, when's the real work going to start?" I am not by any means a super fit person.  Prior to becoming preganant I did yoga about once a week, and other types of exercise sporadically.   This seems more for someone looking to meditate or do some mild stretching than for those looking for a real workout.

Shock Schlock over Substance, but what did you expect? In "Hannibal", I was looking for an epic battle of wits between the escaped, brilliant Hannibal and the focused, brilliant Clarice. Instead, for most of the movie we get Clouseau vs. Hannibal. At the same time Clarice is getting steadily beat down within the ranks of the FBI until she is finally put on suspension. Then we find that for some reason not well explained, Hannibal regards her in some sort of fatherly way ... though a predatory father to be sure.  While this movie had less gore than I was expecting it to, it made up for it with some very unpleasant forms of graphically displayed death. This includes not one but TWO sequences of people being eaten by hungry boars. I suppose that is fitting, since hungry bore could well describe the director and screenwriter for what essentially became a waste of time for an intelligent viewer.  Into the mix is thrown a horribly disfigured, extremely wealthy man with a grudge against Hannibal, and Hannibal didn't even exactly do the disfiguring, though he did encourage it. In the end this man's aide turns on him to gruesome result, and the motive for THAT is as thin as it gets too.  While "Silence of the Lambs" was riveting, this film was drivelling. Hannibal's actions were all too predictable, and the general fates of everyone involved were telegraphed virtually from the beginning of the film. After 30 years of increasingly graphic violence in film, even the "gross out" scenes in "Hannibal" brought nothing really surprising or audacious.  After the energy put into this role by Hopkins in "Silence of the Lambs", in "Hannibal" there was surprising little personality put into the character. Hopkins played him throughout as smug, thoughtful, and vindictive, but with none of the smarmy charm or sudden outbursts that in his first performance made the character engrossing if, well, gross. Moore is no Foster, either. In only a few scenes does she try to raise a real emotion, and those seem quite subdued compared to the circumstances which are meant to provoke them. Liotta brings some real reverse charm to his character, but it is so entirely unbelievable that his efforts are wasted. Even Gary Oldman is held back to smug in a mask. How do so many fine actors fail to deliver on the promise inherent in such meaty roles? I'll have to blame the director, who was evidently going for a feel that just didn't work in the finished product.  Sadly, Hannibal is likely to put you to sleep, sans nightmares.

Russian Revisionist Der'mo. The movie takes artistic licence with real events. Polish troops are thrown back from Moscow. Yet they actually held the city for two years. Poles are depicted as murderous barbarians.  Anyone who knows Russian History (not the other reviewers) from Ivan the Terrible to Stalin know otherwise. The only thing they got right was the Polish Winged Hussars were the best cavalry Europe ever produced! If your ignorant of history then you'd like it.  Otherwise watch Ogniem i Mieczem for a historical action/adventure movie.  Not 1612 trying to encite anti-Polish propoganda to peddle a new "Soviet" styled Russian holiday. Unicorns? GMAFB!  Biased? Yes. I am Polish American whose ancestors were Winged Hussars and fought in the Polish-Muscovite wars. (der'mo: Russian for crap)

Well it started out interesting, I'll give it that much. Bit Boring... I wanted to watch this movie despite what negative reviewers said. I was even going to look past the cons and try to appreciate the pros. It started out interesting and then towards the end I couldn't stay interested. I wouldn't say it is a terrible terrible movie, it just didn't do the Snow white tale any justice. Not really worth a rental in my opinion. It's like hollywood just wanted to make a movie with the snow white title for recognition and then cast a few well known actors to make it worth your time. Then failed to deliver a great movie. Acting was a bit forced and weak. Well thats my opinion, don't get hurt.

Three is bearable for me but this one gets two stars If I give a movie 3 stars it is because I could bear to sit through it. This movie starts out great. But the poor direction and poorly performed action scenes, once she shows up on the underside of a Humvee, were tiring along with an almost intolerable soundtrack. I was surprised at the low quality of action tolerated by the director. I believe Saoirse Ronan has the ability to perform the action scenes as well as Angelina Jolie did in SALT. That would have made this a real movie. What they saved on this garbage soundtrack could have been invested in better direction and higher quality action scenes. In fact, just leave out the soundtrack altogether. Even the phone conversations sounded acoustically raspy and unnatural, as if they were rushed.  About a third of the way thru I began to think that the director was looking for an "Alice in Wonderland" effect. The props etc.... were so poorly done. I wanted to give the director the benefit of the doubt.  I just lowered my rating. I skipped thru the movie. What a bore.

Boringly inaccurate CGI fest that's not worth your time. Lots of action, not all that much plot. Most of the story line gets lost within what action sequences that take up the majority of the film. Originality is definitely lost in the beginning of the movie where an actual youtube video of a guy breaking into a store is "remade" into comedic relief for this flick. I couldn't believe it. Shot for shot, frame for frame. I hope the criminal who suffered through the original robbery actually got some money put on his books for it. Or perhaps the convenience store that first posted the video got some sort of royalty. I highly doubt it. This movie is also considerably inaccurate about shipboard situations and how sailors actually react in the Navy. But then, It's a movie. You only need 3 people and a couple extras to simulate a ship run by hundreds of people on a daily basis in a movie. Right?

Too Many Cooks; A Hard Boiled Turkey I've now seen all three of the Cain novels that made the screen, from "The Postman Always Rings Twice" through "Mildred Pierce". You'd think this one would be the best--what with Billy Wilder directing, and him writing the script along with Raymond Chandler (not every hard boiled noir writer gets a Chandler treatment) but in this case, something went terribly wrong.  Yes, this is one suspenseful film, but most of the suspense is found waiting for the absolutely awful story line to unravel.  Fred MacMurray is not exactly the scrappy type, even if he can talk the talk; he was much more believable in "The Cain Mutiny" (ah, the irony), yet he made himself known to a generation as the quintessential Mid-Century father in "My Three Sons", so of course he steps off the deep end into a pool with a hungry shark, and then--trying to plan the perfect murder, from the experience he gained working with an old time Insurance Man with an actuarial table in his gut--he does stuff that even a dime store pulp writer would try to avoid, and naturally things go wrong.  Too wrong for the audience to bear.  There isn't anyplace in the movie where the audience has a chance to warm up to anyone, other than Edward G. Robinson--which is good, because it seems he's the only good guy in the film.  Yet, if you're one of those people like me, familiar enough with Los Angeles to recognize it in movies, and you watch older movies to see what's going on in the background, and where it might have been shot, then you'll like this one.  A lot of it is filmed on location, and many of the locations are still standing, so while the film is not all that terribly good (the other two films are better, and "Mildred Pierce" very much so) it's not awful.  It's kind of like the inexpensive wine you buy when the one you like is sold out, and it's too late, or you're too lazy to hike up the hill in the fog, to the big market on California street:  It's drinkable, but after three bottles of the other stuff, you'd still know you were drinking it and wish you had the other one.  Now that I've seen it, I'll watch pretty much any other noir film I've seen before, rather than come back to this one.  I rented this one, here, and that's probably the best way to see it, unless a local theater is doing a double feature with one of the other, better films.

No narration or subtitles Photography is beautiful and the music is appropriate, but without any narration or subtitles, it is not a very useful DVD.  I wish the product description had clearly stated this.  It's just too cumbersome to have to read the enclosed booklet that describes what is being viewed.

Reality is way different I agree with another reviewer about the reality of this movie.  There are so many problems with this movie being accurate in a military sense that I didn't really enjoy this movie much.  Having said that, the acting is good and it is tense.  I retired from the U.S. Navy  I've never heard of or seen animals on ships  People have to stay in shape.  Not only do you have to pass a physical test every 6 months(doesn't seem like much), but you can't be obese either.  Supply Officers are restricted, and cannot be put into a position to where they could take command. They don't have the training to do so.  It's too hard to believe the mutiny.  The weapons drill after the fire was unbelievable.  A fire on a ship is too dangerous and unpredictable to have crew be doing any other major event at the same time or even shortly after. The captain would have to KNOW the fire event is completely resolved before doing something else with the crew.  Besically this movie requires you to believe that a person has come through the ranks and is near the top of their game while ignoring common sense.  Maybe this happens in the civilian world, but it's too hard to believe in the military after serving for a long period of time and being exposed to many commands.

Disfunction Junction, What's Your Malfunction? I'm predisposed to like a Lars von Trier movie. He is one of the most challenging directors working today and I like a challenging movie. But, while I can appreciate what von Trier attempted with "Melancholia", for me, it didn't succeed. I can empathize with the extreme, debilitating depression portrayed. I recognize the metaphor of Melancholia destroying the world. I can recognize the good performances portraying severely damaged (but still not very interesting) people. The special effects are breathtaking without being oversold. There are a number of stunningly beautiful shots. A story, however, needs to be about something important and this attempt to reveal something important by focusing on the excruciatingly trivial, sadly, fails. It left me wanting to watch another movie about people I could care about facing the situation.

Meh! (Sorry, Miley fans) While I admit I'm not a Miley Cyrus fan, the film could have been good had I not first seen the original French film "LOL (Laughing Out Loud)" which was released in 2008. This 2012 remake is basically an attempt to recreate the French coming-of-age film practically frame by frame and line by line in some cases, which made watching this film completely redundant, disappointing and even annoying as I was constantly forced to make mental comparisons about how much better the acting (and casting) was for the main characters in the original French version.  Sophie Marceau was fantastic as Lola's mum, Anne in the original while Demi Moore was, sadly, a mediocre version of the endearing character that Ms. Marceau brought to life. The supporting cast of the original was also far better (especially the sweet and hilarious kid siblings of the featured teens in the film).  Even the same music that accompanied particular scenes in the original version was reused (Keane's "Somewhere Only We Know" during the train scene as one example) again underscoring the complete lack of imagination and originality that could have been infused into this one. What the filmmakers are banking on to carry this film is the popularity of Misses Cyrus and Moore as well as the undeniable beauty of Douglas Booth (Cyrus' romantic interest who happens to be the best friend of her character's ex). While I enjoy viewing and re-viewing angsty teen dramas as much as the next person, alas, this remake was not enough to convince me to see it a second time. If you haven't seen the original film, this version could be deemed OK but if you already have, I would suggest that you skip this one; you already know which version is far better and more worthy of your time, subtitles and all.

Poor movie, great actor *****SPOILERS******  This would have been a much better movie if:  1. They had set this in the 60s or 70s (even the 80s!) to make leaving the site of the plane wreck a semi-viable option. Saying they (the airline/authorities I assume) don't care about them so won't search for the wreck is just the first piece of the big pile of BS in this movie. They left shelter from the wind, a fuel source, and a supply of food (gross, I know, but all too true). Wolves would not have been a concern in the real world.  2. Get rid of the unrealistic wolves. (In this day and age, the fake looking wolves are completely inexcusable!) A brief encounter with a wolf pack might have been believable, but no wolves are going to follow you like that. Or attack like that.(btw, a pack generally consists of a mated pair and offspring.) Read a real scientific book on wolf behavior before spouting nonsense in a movie, Hollywood. Heck, you can wiki more reliable info than they used here. I am also unsure of how the wolves cross the ravine later in the movie. Perhaps they briefly sprouted wings.  3. No one gets in that kind of water at that time of year and makes it out. They would have been dead from the cold. It took all of ten seconds to look up that info. (two minutes in freezing water and you begin to lose the ability to even move)  This could have been an awesome movie about facing death, etc. Instead it was drivel. Even Liam couldn't save this one. One star for the wonderful Liam Neeson, one star for the surprisingly good poem.

Important safety tip! Hazardous waste is dangerous! Despite the superb acting this movie just did not cut it. Here are some of my random thoughts after watching it.  Is it just me or is that the most miserable and unhappy town in America? Midway through the movie I was ready to stick my head into one of those toxic drums.  The fact that a warehouse full of deadly toxic waste was being guarded by a couple of beer drinking Mexicans in lawn chairs was laughable.  The scene where Auntie was suddenly overjoyed to move out of the only house she ever lived in was a mystery in itself.  The weirdest part of the movie though, was when the toxic waste boss suddenly realizes that toxic waste is.......toxic.  At the end when the guy announces he was quitting, Auntie is overjoyed to be moving out and everyone is in love, I was expecting a giant Wizard of Oz rainbow to be there when she opened the door and announced "What a beautiful day!"

On a Par with Bloodthirst (2003)! It lacks a good story but all in all it was well put together. I know there is a lot of hate towards this movie but for such a low budget I thought it was superbly done! I have no idea why people have to be so hard on this movie.... put the directors in your shoes... it must have been as back-breaking and complex to make as "The Evil Dead (1981)" was! My main concern for this movie is how many movies it rips off!  Plot: four friends and a guide go for a little adventure in the quiet solitude that the dense thick woods of Camp Blackwood (A.K.A. Camp "Blood") provides even though they heard of a missing girl in the same area and they were flat-out warned about it and told not to go. But as they settle in for a night's rest they hear screams in which they also ignore but come to find out that there guide has been barbecued in there illogical fire that can engulf in flames by just throwing a match in it! Now the four friends are being stalked by a lunatic and are being picked off one by one.... who can survive the long day of the Camp Blood nightmare!  Review: As I said earlier this film rips off many movies mainly being "Friday the 13th Part One" and it even has ghost tales around a camp fire about there being a lunatic in the area just like in "Friday the 13th Part Two"! Another film that really inspired the ending scene for this movie was "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"! It really copied a lot from that ending as seen the killer slices at the girls back with a weapon and the "SPOILER ALERET" killer is hit by a truck and there are two killers that chase after her in the end "END SPOILER"! And what is with the extended nudity scene that inquires no actual sex but just her looking all seductive towards a man that clearly is as dumb as they come! This film was well put together which I had mentioned earlier and it was. But it doesn't make it superbly excellent! It only gives it a little under decent score in my book. This film will be forgotten in 10 more years more than it has already been and that is a crying shame but for films like "Avatar" that will be remembered because of how cool it looked but in my opinion I thought it was stupid! To end this on a good note I will say that although it was on a micro-budget it still did what it set out to do and that is give us something cheesy and entertaining!  Acting: The screaming girl played by Jennifer Ritchkoff (and yes I had to look that up because this and Camp Blood 2 were pretty much the only real movies she played in and that makes her not well known) is wicked annoying but she does show how much she is into acting and I can appreciate that... the other actor I'd like to point out is Tim Young (Whom also acted in Scarecrow "2002") who plays Jay the fowl-mouth jerk that his girlfriend (who is played by Betheny Zolt) pretty much only puts up with it because he has money! I wish more was put into this not just acting wise but script wise as well!  Gore: a gory impalement with a machete, a body with cheap bloody cuts all over it, a really weak and fake decapitation, a machete sliced into ones head, a bloody eye gouging (but after the eye gouging the eyeballs seem to be intact just with the eyelids shut), some stabbings, and little more! It looked unreal but hey at least they had money for blood and gore!  Bottom Line: Director Brad Sykes is a great director and therefore I give him the upmost respect... I do believe that each camp blood movie was better than the one before it and for that I give him even more applause because he directed all three of them! The film wasn't that great or even decent but it was watchable and entertaining/funny and that is hard to do with a script that looks bad and sounds bad. It seemed like Mr. Sykes didn't like where it was going so he added a little humor to help boost the film along! In the end it was a little under decent!  Suggested MPAA: Rated: R for strong violence, language, sexual content, and some nudity  Is it worth the Buy on a scale of 1-10: 2 For the Movie itself on a scale of 1-5: 2

Saints, Soldiers and Cliches I don't mind telling you I really wanted to like this movie. As a guy who grew up watching WWII flicks and tended to enjoy even the bad ones, I have found the loss of interest in this subject by Hollywood to be somewhat depressing. So you can imagine my joy when I passed by this film in the local video store. This joy persisted for some minutes into the flick - it was obvious from the opening frame that the producers, despite their modest budget, had taken their jobs very seriously, and were trying to deliver a very authentic, very professional work. In a certain sense, they succeeded. From the purely technical angle, the angle of cinematography and editing and production value, SAINTS AND SOLDIERS is a solid achivement. It's only when you break that shell and look at the less tangible but no less important qualities of characters, storytelling and so on, that you begin to encounter problems.  SAINTS opens strongly indeed, showing a large group of American prisoners being herded into a snowy field by victorious German soldiers, while some expository radio commentary tells the viewer that the Battle of the Bulge is in full swing, and America is losing. In a scene clearly inspired by the Malmedy Massacre, the Germans open fire on the unruly prisoners with machine guns, slaughtering all but two men, who manage to flee unarmed into the woods. These survivors, wandering about the snowy Ardennes, soon link up with several other homeless soldiers. While trying to find their own lines, the little group, now five or so strong, unintentionally learns the whole battle plan of the German Army, and has to reluctantly change their mission from simply avoiding Nazi capture to getting the vital information back into American hands, though it will mean crossing the German lines to do so.  The plot of the film is supposedly based on a real-life incident, but it feels horribly cliched and uninspired, so much so that it entirely lacks dramatic tension.  Somehow the idea that this little group of soldiers is carrying the whole wieght of the battle on their shoulders never translates into any feelings of anxiety for the audience. What's more, nearly every character is a sterotype right out of Central Casting. You have a pacifist, an embittered Jewish fellow, a British pilot who says things like "cheerio, lads!", a dumb-as-nails Southerner, and a German prisoner who - gasp! - turns out to be just a regular guy, no different from his Allied counterparts. Not one of these characters is anything more than a walking, talking amalgom of 50s-era war movie cliches. And while the whole premise of the movie is that the soldiers are ordinary men put in an extraordinary circumstance, the concept goes to hell at the film's climax, when our ordinary men suddenly take on the fighting characteristics of  Audie Murphy and tackle about 100 German soldiers who, in the great tradition of Hollywood Nazis, cannot seem to shoot straight.  SAINTS is not a terrible movie by any means. It is not even a bad one. It is merely disappointingly mediocre, a great deal of honest, sincere work sunk into a predictable and unimaginative story and flat characters. War movie buffs will probably enjoy it for the snappy, well-directed battle sequences and the loving attention to historical details, but anyone else is likely to wonder what all the fuss is about.

Depressing The movie was depressing with no redeeming quality. Could have gone all my life without seeing this. Don't waste your time.

The beginning, n+1 to the end ... That's pretty much it.  With the first clash these two duel it out!  But then nobody wins so they do this and that and fight again! ... but nothing comes of that so they do this and that and fight again! ... but nothing becomes of, but wait! now we see some flashback stuff and now we know why they are so pissed off!  Mad! mad!  So lets fight again with justification and determination! ya, ya ... there's only a few ways this kind of crap can end and I won't spoil the fun for you.  Zero character development and too many name brand actors.  Why is it when lots of famous people get together for a movie they always go for the bad plots?

bad, probably because I've only paid a cent I have paid just a cent and because of that it gets messsed up at the end.  I know better....now.

The idea is good, but not the movie The idea of getting a 'Hall Pass' from marriage sounds great, who would not like that?  After watching the movie my wife told me 'absolutely not!', there you have it.  There were few parts that were funny, but I would not consider this movie a comedy.  Maybe it was the script that was bad.  It really is not a family movie to watch with children.  For those of you who have idealistic opinions about marriage with children, you should see this movie to see how it is like in real life.  Yes, men will do all of those things portrayed in this movie (perhaps women too, I wouldn't know), except the crass conversations.

Not my cup of tea.... After reading several reviews about  this product...I decided to give it a try....well I really didn't like it...to childish about everything....I understand that he's a boy going through puberty, but honestly it's the same thing over and over again....panty this panty that....and seriously with all the cursing...yeah they are in school blah blah....but hey if you like this show than awesome it just wasn't what I'm looking for in a show :)

Some fun...and lots of no Fun I dont mind musicals...if they are done right...but some of the numbers here were very painfull to watch. Not everybody likes stuff like Glee. But take away the crap then you have a bit of good stuff to watch for...

Winona Ryder is adorable, but that's it. Other than Winona Ryder there's not much to recommend this film.  A 38-year-old guy (Mark Polish) returns to give the commencement speech at his old high school. He's now a successful author (we're told), though no one seems smitten with his celebrity. Indeed, when he says, "I'm not a celebrity," we believe him. But then, why'd the school ask him to give the speech?  This is an oddball story, in that all the characters seem stuck in time, sort of, all except Polish and Ryder. I say sort of, because there are some odd inconsistencies.  Polish's parents treat him like a child. Dad (Michael Gross, from TV's FAMILY TIES) seems like a mental case, as do many characters. Gross seems to be in love with his car. Seriously, emotionally, in love with the car. I suppose this is meant to be funny, but it's just weird, in a non-funny way.  You'd think the principal (Chevy Chase) would be thrilled to have a celebrity author return to give the commencement speech. And he says so, early in the film. But then, inconsistently, Chase later treats Polish like a child, suspending him from ... class? Calling him and the coach into his office for fighting (really, just arguing), and treating them like children. And Polish and the coach sulk in Chase's office, like children.  How is it that Chase no longer treats Polish like an honored guest? Why doesn't Polish just say -- Screw this! -- and leave? He's shown that he can behave like an adult (even if other characters can't), and he has no motivation to stay; he's not interested in giving the commencement, only in seeing Ryder, the cheerleader he tutored and secretly loved. So why does Polish became a child in Chase's presence?  The film's conceit may be that "going back" to high school forces us to become children again, but the film failed to convince me of that premise.  These characters are not childish in a surreal, GET A LIFE/Chris Elliot sort of way. GET A LIFE was a hilarious sitcom. STAY COOL is more toned down, so that these weird character mannerisms (adults behaving like high schoolers?) is not weird enough to be funny. Just a little weird, just enough so that the characters fail to engage or connect emotionally with the audience.  The story is just a haphazard sequence of events as Polish meets people from his past. He dates Ryder. He deals with her angry ex (the coach). He goes to the prom (something he didn't do when he was 18) with a high-schooler 20 years his junior (Hilary Duff).  Sean Astin is the obligatory gay friend. He's a broad caricature, who works as a hair dresser. I'm guessing that his character's main purpose is to show us that Polish is a decent guy, because he's not homophobic. Lazy writers will sometimes give a white male lead a minority friend just to signal that he's a decent guy. Astin's character has no depth, so that seems to be his only reason for being in the film.  In fact, all the characters are flat caricatures. Ryder brings some emotional depth through her acting, but there's not much she can do with this material.

Pure country 2 This movie was not at all as good as I thought it would be.  Don't waste your money.  No where as good as the first.

No SUBTITLE No Subtitle for special feature.  I would give it 5 stars if they provide me A SUBTITLE! I want to see web video and delete scenes but there is no subtitle for it.

Really disappointed in this Judging by the other reviews here, I thought this movie would be good... or at least watchable.  The acting isn't bad at all, but that's really the only bright spot.  The storyline doesn't make much sense.  The protagonist isn't particularly smart or skilled, so it doesn't make much sense how he continually is able to get the drop on the bad guys, and as messy as he is it makes zero sense how he continues to not get caught by the police.  This movie is NOTHING like Taken, by the way, which is a far superior plotted movie.  I wasn't expecting big budget effects or anything, I just really had a hard time finding the plot to be believable.  For most of the movie, I did not see the protagonist as the good guy at all, and actively was more on the side of the 'bad guys'.  Why?  Because unlike in Taken, or similar movies, the 'bad guys' didn't actually kill/kidnap/torture/murder the guy's daughter at all.  She voluntarily engaged in a homemade porn movie and then afterwards died of a drug overdose.  Not a snuff movie or even a bondage movie, just casual badly shot group sex porn with 3 or 4 guys (also, I doubt very seriously that a movie like that would sell or be appealing enough to package into a videocassette that would be for sale).  Yet the girl's father, after learning about the porno, goes into a rage (which I can somewhat understand) and decides to kill (and in some cases torture before killing) everyone who might have been involved in the porn shoot.  I'm not claiming that the guys who were involved in making the porn were good people, actually they seem kind of like dirtbags.  But they weren't serial killers or murderers, just regular scumbags, and I had a really hard time believing they deserved to die just for being the type of douchebags who would engage in group sex on a poorly-filmed porn.  I especially felt bad when the protagonist tortures one guy and then while he's tied up murders his brother in front of him, and then kills him next after the 1st guy is emotionally broken from watching his little brother die.  These were not nice guys, but they didn't seem like evil bastards who deserved to die in such a way.  Now, later in the final set piece, it is revealed that one of the guys who organized the porno shoot actually is one of those totally sick/evil/murdering evil bastard types who deserves to die (I guess in a way of revising history to make the father seem more justified in killing the other guys who were a whole lot less likely to deserve death) but by that point I have barely any sympathy for the father.  It is revealed that the guy who was in charge of the porno very likely drugged the daughter out of her mind, so she didn't entirely voluntarily participate in the porn (though it's not clear that any of the other guys would know this) and also may have given her more drugs when (she asked for them) so that he facilitate her overdose (even knowing that he's an evil murdering bastard who deserves to die, it's hard to say he's 100% responsible for the girl's overdose).  Anyway, the ending doesn't make up for the rest of the movie, and I was seriously disappointed in this (I don't know what movie the other reviewers were watching but it must have been different than the one I saw)

Not impressed ! I am in my mid 40's and only exercise lightly once to twice a week.  Although I am not considered active at all, most of the movements in this DVD were way too slow and easy for me.  I'd like to re-visit this DVD 10 years later for it might help me then.

Gets some laughs but too similar to the first The idea of a sequel to the 2009 film The Hangover was a welcome one after having caught audiences off-guard with its hilarious situations in Las Vegas while raking in the cash to become the highest grossing R-rated comedy of all-time. The characters were likable on their own and had great chemistry together so the thought of following them further absolutely made sense.  In the lead-up to The Hangover: Part II however there was concern regarding the appearance that the plot would be a carbon copy of the original. Unfortunately that was largely realized, and despite a number of big laughs the movie feels uninspired and all too familiar.  The setting has changed to Thailand but the scenarios are largely the same. A bachelor party spins out of control and the guys wake up not remembering a thing about the night and realizing someone is missing. From there it is a race around the city as they try to put the pieces together. Substitute monkey for baby for easy reactionary laughs and so on.  The majority of the developments parallel what took place in the first film to a frustrating degree. Being unable to overlook that it made each and every reveal feel forced. Surprises really didn't feel as though they were surprises and ultimately they all led to predictable conclusions. Even the new locale didn't really add much to the story but to provide the backdrop as they raced around without largely inhibiting their efforts.  If just one unexpected thing took place it's that I came away having really enjoyed Ken Jeong as Mr. Chow despite not having cared for the character in the first movie. All the other actors were playing their roles identical to the first except for Alan (Zach Galifianakis) who was quite mean-spirited early on and that felt somewhat out of place and distracting.  As much as its familiarity hampered its potential The Hangover II was still full of laughs and I can't overlook that entirely. The main problem is that these characters just can't shock me anymore regardless of what they get themselves into. In fact by the end I started to dread the prospect of them in a third film attempting to top the first two. The photos during the credits sequence though were genuinely funny yet again and almost made the whole thing worthwhile on their own. When the credit sequence is the highlight that isn't a sign of a good film however.  You pretty much know what you're going to get with The Hangover II, an enjoyable but unoriginal follow-up, and for such a popular comedy that may be just enough to entice audiences and satisfy the masses who don't necessarily care for anything more.

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Hilarious Hilarious. The first Twilight movie just sucked but this one was worth watching for the unintentional humor every time Robert Pattinson came on screen. Seriously, I think they overdid the sensitive thing if that was what they were going for with his character....Anyway, I gave it two stars because I don't think it the movie was well made but I might have given it more if I were just judging things based on whether I enjoyed the movie or not, because it genuinely did make me laugh.

A Silly Movie This is a silly movie that could not decide what it wanted to be.  Is it an Art Film?  Is it a mystery?  Is it a love story?  What a waste of actors!  The plot was dumb.

HITCHCOCK IN A BOX I don't see credit given to the true experience of Roy Hallums who, in 2004, while a contractor in Iraq was captured by terrorists and buried alive.  His incredible story is worth finding and reading.  That said, the movie version of this similar story is a masterpiece of clever filmmaking.  Everything takes place inside a coffin-like box.  Ryan Reynolds is terrific as the encased victim and director Rodrigo Cort&eacute;s captures everything with a creative use of unexpected camera angles and masterful lighting, sound design and editing.  The move never cuts away to flashbacks or actions above ground.  As one might expect, this taut tale is extremely claustrophobic, and utterly terrifying.  In many ways, this movie, though confined to a single location, kind of reminded me of an Indiana Jones set piece.  But it's really more like a Hitchcock murder mystery about a victim in a box instead of a locked room.

So Glad I Saw This Film for Free! First, let me say that I thought the special effects in this movie were pretty impressive.  Okay, now for the bad stuff (which is the rest of the film).  This movie is a near total rip-off of Steven Speilberg's remake of "War of the Worlds."  The writing is incredibly bad, especially when characters are actually speaking to one another (as opposed to screaming or grunting).  I was especially offended by a brief scene where party goers use a telescope to spy on other condo tenants.  See, they have a camera hooked up to their telescope so they can watch their peepshow on a big screen TV.  Anyway, they spot a male neighbor who appears to be receiving sexual gratification.  Well, surprise!  It turns out that he's with another guy.  The film's editor then goes out of the way to show multiple looks of disgust on the faces of the crowd.  So, this is a PG-13 film, but I wonder if it would have been if the gay men were here for more than a fast, cheap laugh that has absolutely NOTHING to do with the rest of the film.  "Skyline" was written (and I use the word very loosely) by Joshua Cordes & Liam O'Donnell.  And I'd like to thank them because there was a very real danger that I might have made it through my day without remembering to despise myself.  So, in that vein guys, let me also express that it must be hard to be cursed by having your name attached to something like this.  I guess there's more than one "Irish Curse" Liam.  Right?  It's all starting to make sense now.  Put away your telescopes boys & take a few writing courses.  I saw this flick as a free rental & I still feel that I paid too much.  Fortunately, I won't be spending any money to buy this DVD or any sequels they make.  I hope the studio that released this gem is listening.  I'll just spend my money on better films.

Dumb and Dumber This show is really silly. Cliched, predictable. All the jokes are cheap jokes. The two main characters do a good job with what they're given and thus, it's watchable in small doses if you keep your expectations low.

It's just not good. Unfortunately, the episode on this DVD (Pisastro's Private War) is the SAME episode featured on Captain Fathom Volume One!  So, if you own volume one, don't bother purchasing this DVD.  "Pisastro's Private War" is somewhat entertaining: these two leaders of small nations have a misunderstanding, and as a result they "attempt" to wage war on eachother.  With the exception of Captain Fathom and his crew, all the characters in this episode are absolutely silly and even obnoxious.  I simply could not take this episode seriously. This DVD does feature 2 amusing Clutch Cargo episodes, but you can get Clutch Cargo episodes just about anywhere.  Besides that, the DVD is entitled "Captain Fathom," not "Clutch Cargo."  Do you see my point? I don't recommend this DVD unless you are absolutely desperate, and DON'T PAY MORE THAN A DOLLAR FOR IT!  If you are looking for a variety of Captain Fathom episodes, then Captain Fathom Volume Two is better.

More closer to dated period piece than great work of art *** This review may contain spoilers ***  Rating: 2.5 out of 5  'Colonel Blimp' is a difficult film to explain. First of all, 'Blimp' has little to do with its protagonist who's named Major General Clive Wynne-Candy. Colonel Blimp is actually a comic strip by David Low which was popular when the film was made in 1943. The comic features a stereotypical Englishman, known for his pomposity and was written by Low to satirize what he perceived as the reactionary views of certain politicians of the time (including Winston Churchill). Director Michael Powell indicated that the film is really a tribute to those who maintain their dignity, in their old age.  The film begins awkwardly in the present time of 1943. Wynne-Candy is now the leader of the Home Front, staffed with civilian volunteers and retired military men such as the General himself. Wynne-Candy is about to get his comeuppance at the hands of 'Spud' Wilson, the young lieutenant who also happens to be the boyfriend of Wynne-Candy's driver, 'Johnny' Cannon (role #3 played by Deborah Kerr). Spud breaks the rules by using Johnny as an unwitting spy, gathering intelligence on the General's plans during war games between the General's group and his. We then flashback to the time of the Boer War in 1902, where Wynne-Candy is on leave and receives a letter from Edith Hunter (Role #1 played by Kerr), a friend of a friend, who is now working as an English teacher in Berlin.  Edith complains to Wynne-Candy in the letter that a German, Kaunitz, is spreading lies about the conduct of the British Army in the Boer War. Against orders to intervene in a diplomatic matter, Wynne-Candy confronts Kaunitz in a caf&eacute;, who slaps him, and then Wynne-Candy manages to insult the entire Imperial German Army Corps. He ends up in a duel with a German officer, Theodor Kretschmar-Schuldorff, played by an excellent Anton Walbrook, and they both end up hospitalized. An unlikely friendship develops between the two men at the hospital, despite Theo's limited grasp of the English language (the running joke is Theo's response of 'very much' to almost every comment he responds to). At the end, Edith falls for Theo and we never see her again. All this would be mildly interesting (and/or entertaining) except for the fact that the scenes are drawn out for way too long and is done in the style of the typical drawing room comedies of the time.  Now a Brigadier General in the First World War, Wynne-Candy ends up meeting a young nurse, Barbara, (Role #2 played by Deborah Kerr) who he eventually marries. There's an interesting scene where Wynne-Candy finds out that Theo is now interned in a British prisoner of war camp following the Armistice. Theo refuses to speak to him presumably because he doesn't want to appear as a collaborator in front of his fellow prisoners. But later, about to depart for Germany, Theo calls the General, who brings him out to meet his various cronies, all a bunch of stuffed shirts. This group collectively personifies the title character. They all act as if the war never happened and want to be immediate friends with Theo, who after leaving the party, speaks of the group contemptuously, indicating that the British are 'weak'. Wynne-Candy is no different from his colleagues in their naive belief that the enmity between the two nations will soon be forgotten!  In perhaps the weakest part of the film, time passes in a series of montages. In one instant, a newspaper clipping from 1926 notes the passing of Wynne-Candy's wife. When Theo re-appears at an immigration hearing in 1939 in England, he reveals that Edith too is dead. So Powell manages to ensure that we learn virtually nothing about each of these female characters. Meanwhile, Theo, who looked like he was fast becoming a hardened Nazi when he gets on the boat back to Germany in 1919, now is a virulent anti-Fascist, after presumably softening up, following the death of his wife. Unfortunately, all of this plays out off-screen. Had the duel machinations perhaps been a bit shorter, there could have been some scenes, effectively depicting Theo's transformation.  Following Britian's entry into World War II, Wynne-Candy's dark moment comes when his BBC speech is canceled. Acting like the pompous Blimp, Wynne-Candy wants to employ 'nice guy' tactics against the Nazis and argues that the British shouldn't stoop to their level, when fighting them. The 'gentleman warrior' is deemed irrelevant and is forced to retire from active service. Theo also lectures Wynne-Candy on the necessity of pulling out 'all the stops', in the war against the Nazis.  We're now back to the present time, in the middle of those War Games between Wynne-Candy's Home Front and the regular army. Wynne-Candy is literally caught with his pants down, while he enjoys himself in a Turkish bath. While at first, he's humiliated by the young lieutenant's 'below the belt' tactics, and plans on punishing him, he recalls his own youth, when he disobeyed orders and confronted the wretched Kaunitz in the caf&eacute;. Realizing the error of his ways, he decides to invite the lieutenant to dinner. The older codger is not so bad after all, finally realizing his error in not adapting to the new times.  Deborah Kerr was a beautiful woman who sadly here has little to do in her three roles. Roger Livesey is saddled by the weak character of Wynne-Candy, who is both noble as the principled soldier and buffoonish, in his desire to ingratiate himself with just about everyone he meets. Only Walbrook as Kretschmar-Schuldorff, steals the show, with his nuanced performance as the bad guy/good guy Teuton.  'Colonel Blimp' will keep your interest more as a period piece than a great work of art. In the earlier scenes it needed to be more compact and at the mid-point, more detailed. At the end, its message is spot on, but comes off as agitprop, rather than compelling drama.

Not in the same league as the original Like comparing champagne to soda pop. The Mechanic 2011 has all the fizz but not nearly as much character as the original. The new movie is mildly entertaining but pales in comparison to the point of anemia when compared with the original version starring the all time champion of movie tough guys Charles Bronson & his co-star Jan-Michael Vincent. The new upstarts just don't have the pizazz the old pros had.

I've seen worse Yeah there are worse movies but you have to look to find them. I gave this thing two stars because it was filmed in the real Ohio instead of Southern California but that's about all it has going for it. I admire any film maker who films outside of Southern Californis no matter how bad his/her film is. If you like what looks like a direct to video movie starring some chubby girls and some smelly looking guys driving around doing nothing you might like it after 18 beers or so.

Just OK ~ SPOILER ALERT A different spin on the whole princess happily ever after thing.  The huntsman, not the prince breaks the spell?  Could have had a better cast. Special effects were alright.

Just Dumb! How this one rated 4+ stars is beyond comprehension. I kept watching thinking it must get better -- well it didn't.

A study of one sided love. I don't know how this could be a love story.  Maybe my idea of love is old fashioned but definately must include, trust, understanding and a strong affection and personal attachment. The woman in the story was self-indulgent and completely selfish.  Most of the other reviews give you the narrative of the story.  A woman wanting to escape her family, and a man trying to drown his sorrow accepts a proposal of a non-personal marriage from the woman.  His heart turns to love, but her heart turns inward toward her self.  Self is her only primal force, from beginning to end. It was a waste of my time.  It you want to see debauchery 90% of the time, then it's okay.  I wasn't offended, just bored.

leaves a lot of questions My three-year old loves these kind of dvds.  This one has very little explanation of things.  For example, you watch a factory making potato chips.  It doesn't tell you why they shake the potatoes before frying them (to get the dirt off??) or why they shake them after they fry them (to get the grease off??) or why they are spraying them (to put flavoring / salt on??).  That is just one example, but there are questions hanging all through the dvd.  If you have an inquisitive toddler like me or you want what your kids watch to have educational value, this dvd is probably not for you.  I am not a farmer so I did not know how to answer a lot of the questions.  My mom and husband work on a farm and they did not the reasons for why some of the stuff was done in this video.  They would love to know the answers to some of my toddlers questions about the dvd.

Definitely the worst Ernest movie. I gave it two stars for Varney's performance because he always put his heart and soul into the Ernest character, but not even that could redeem this mess of a film.  There are two styles of comedy going on here and they don't mesh together real well. First you have the Ernest character who is a comedy gem all by himself and needs no enhancing, then you have the fantasy element of the Arch-Angel of Basketball giving Ernest the "Magic Sneakers".  The best part of the movie was Ernest's early interactions with the other guys on his clean-up crew and his attempts to be one of the guys. Instead of solving things with sneakers they should have have had a series of scenes with Kareem Abdul Jabaar as a sympathetic gym owner or even a janitor teaching Ernest how to play ball, now that would have been hilarious.  This is only a must have if you want to get them all, otherwise just get "Scared Stupid" and "Goes To Jail".

Disappointing I enjoyed this film a little. The music is amazing and the best of the three films. Also, Tony Jaa acts a bit more in this film and you can see him growing as an actor, but fights a bit less in exchange. The Tony Jaa fights were still great but extremely limited for 1 hour 40 minute film.  The paranormal aspects of this film were the biggest issues in my opinion. They only played a minor role in the second film, but play a larger role in this film. For a film series that had some of the most amazing, realistic fights, this film brings the most unrealistic fights with the Crow villain; don't expect the realism that was evident in the original. A lot of talk about curses, by the way. The supernatural parts of this movie probably could've worked if this was a standalone film, but it's a direct sequel. Also, a significant amount of time is spent on repetitive training and dancing montages. If they were a little shorter, then maybe the movie wouldn't feel like it was dragging.  Ong-Bak 3 does some things right, but it does most wrong. Fans of the first two will most likely be disappointed by the third. They'll definitely be disappointed by the limited Tony Jaa fights. I don't recommend it unless you have time to kill. (available on Netflix streaming as of 6/13/12).

A lifeless rehash of low concept, 80's teen trash. I suppose you could view this remake as a reminder to those born yesterday that smalltown values are as retarded as ever; but it's probably better served up as a project that should have been red-lighted by dimwitted Hollywood execs.  One thing is for sure, it probably would have had better box-office receipts if most of the cast were butchered by a hick, fundamentalist psycho who held sexually charged rave parties in the local barns.  As it stands, it's just delirously dumb pop culture for rubes.

This movie needs to be deleted - I have seen it in the loom The reviews of this movie seem to be roughly divided in two categories: 1. I like the action of the movie and 2. I think it's stupid. For me, despite some funny ideas and decent action (I liked the train scene close to the end), the movie certainly fits into the second category. Because there is just too much stuff going on where I didn't want to follow (mild spoilers ahead): the main characters believe that fate is written in a loom, bullets can fly in circles, some men can accelerate to 200 m/h by foot and slow down their subjective time but don't see crosshairs on the floor, etc., etc. My suggestion: save your time and money for better superhero movies like Spiderman, Batman, The Incredible Hulk, X-Men, etc., etc.

Santa Fe Trail Do not buy from this vendor.  I have seen this movie on TCM and been very impressed with a number of shots.  When I watched this copy I was convinced it must be a warn VHS tape recorded on DVD because the last time I saw such a bad picture was under those conditions (on the tape not recorded to DVD).  It has the light showing on screen throughout the whole movie.  Also the great B/W scenes do not have great contrasts.  I received the tape promptly BUT that's all that was acceptable in this transaction.

debacle I don't even know where to begin on this one. I love Hindi films, and I own many, but this one is just ridiculous. Way over the top. Every scene seems contrived, and there's so much poor acting. Clearly there's no accounting for differences, so try it if you must, but don't say I didn't warn you.

Best western, worse blu-ray. Unfortunately the best western ever is not the best blu-ray ever. The blu-ray version is the extended cut which is a huge downgrade from the original theatrical cut. The 17 or so minutes that are added to the 161 minute theatrical cut really ruin the pacing of the film. There is a reason they didn't make the theatrical cut. The blu-ray ONLY CONTAINS THE EXTENDED CUT while the dvd that comes with it has the theatrical cut. Why they couldn't have both on the blu-ray I don't understand but it is really to bad.  I give the Theatrical cut 5 stars, the extended 4 stars, and the blu-ray 2 for being so stupid and not including both.

Ridley tries, oh boy does he try... but he can't save a truly awful screenplay. In Space, no one can hear you yawn...  I should have learned by now the better the ad campaign, the more disappointing the final film. I, like so many, was utterly DYING for this film to come out - and what a truly dreaful mess it turned out to be!  If you've seen the trailer, then you've quite literally seen all but the last five minutes of the movie - there is no surprise left for those who attend the full film, other than the fact that at the end, this isn't even a whole movie, but just a "part 1" of a new franchise to come.  Noomi's "Shaw" leaves earth to find her creator - by the end of the movie, Shaw is STILL looking for her creator - in purely Campbellian terms, the hero hasn't completed the cycle - which leave us, the audience, scratching our heads wondering what in the gods we just paid $12 and two-hours for.  The problem is a script that cannot decide if it wants to be an ALIEN prequel (which is what this started out to be) or a reimagining of 2001: Space Odyssey.  As we move from scene to scene, I can visualize the various writers wresting the screenplay from one another saying, "wait a minute, we should add THIS scene in there!"  If you manage to stay awake for the first hour to the point that the creature-feature actually begins, you will realize that, if this is what you came for, you are about to be horribly disappointed.  The "scare" factor is barely there - again, thrown in almost as if "well, we have to have SOME aliens in this movie, or people will feel cheated."  So, we get a rudimentary spacesuit invading alien worm scene.  Then, fully out of nowhere, we learn one character is "pregnant," with an alien, and literally within minutes of learning this news, the same character suddenly starts to feel the pangs, leading to a self-induced abdominal surgery, after which she literally jumps right back on her feet and walks off like nothing serious just happened.  And this is how these scenes continue to play out.  Long exposition that leads nowhere, long exposition that leads further from nowhere, clumsy creature scene, more expostition that leads nowhere.  In the end, when Shaw FINALLY finds the "alien" that can answer her questions, she shouts a litany of questions at him.  His response?  Kicking the ass of all the remaining team members - this scene in itself encapsulates the entire movie - tons of questions are raised, but rather than answering them, we just start throwing creature attacks at you instead.  And what a list of unanswered questions!  What is the black goo intended for? Extermination?  If so, why did the alien ship cease to complete its mission 2,000 years ago, only to immediately pick it right back up after our team arrives?  Why does the resident android decide to play scientist?  Why hide the presence of one of the characters until the very end of the movie?  Why have a young actor play an old man in terrible makeup instead of just hiring an aged actor?  About all the movie has going for it is a beautiful visual style (an area in which Ridley never disappoints) and a very good performance from booth Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender - all deserve a better screenplay to work with.  A thoroughly frustrating exercise in futility, proving for the (lets see, ALIEN3, RESURRECTION, AVP, AVP 2...) fifth time that this series should have ended in 1984.  Too few scares to be ALIEN, too little action to be ALIENS - this movie suffers from an identity crisis - audiences are best off not to attend.

1970's TV-type movies The picture and sound qualities are fine. You can read Amazon's hyped descriptions of the movies. I did not enjoy the plots of either of them, and returned them.

Much slower compared to its predecessors. My daughter loved the first Tinkerbell film and also enjoys the second one (though not as much). The third film was a miss. It moved way too slow. Was way too dialogue heavy and seemed to waste time explaining things to the audience that were reviewed in the previous films. The biggest surprise was the fact that while Vidia's character shows some growth (coping to getting Tinkerbell stuck in the toy house)while Tinkerbell's character seems the same brash character from the previous films. The film simply spent too much time explaining things when it should have been doing things. I'm hoping the next film reverses this trend.

"Hollywood Squares" Goes to the Movies Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Bros. pooled their resources to create a perversely watchable disaster. Running nearly three mind-boggling hours, producer Irwin Allen's "The Towering Inferno" (1974) represents the cinematic equivalent of "The Hollywood Squares." All that's missing is Paul Lynde. Inexplicably nominated for Best Picture, this skyscraper soap opera makes "The Poseidon Adventure" look like "Battleship Potemkin." A blockbuster cast generates "take-the-money-and-run" embarrassment - except for the inimitable Fred Astaire, who exudes class in the cheesiest of surroundings. (Few things are cheesier than William Holden's red velvet tuxedo.) Stirling Silliphant's ludicrous script includes the most unintentionally hilarious dialogue this side of Ed Wood. The film's strongest asset lies in its much-touted special effects. Seen today, "The Towering Inferno" exists more as a pop-culture artifact than a compelling piece of cinema.

Weird Movie This movie certainly has great actors in it, and they did a good performance, but I didn't really care for the story. I would not recommend this movie too highly. I would be interested to read the story it came from. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0573630224">Agnes of God</a>

Don't waste your time. No spoilers. What is it that draws studios to keep remaking and reinventing the Arthurian saga? Over and over, productions big and small keep getting made. I can only imagine that it's because it has instant recognition and they don't have to pay a license fee to anyone.  I've probably seen most of them and read a great many written tellings and re-tellings of the story. We've now come to the age where these stories are attempted to be told as semi-historical rather than fantasy. I suppose they feel that makes them more grown-up. Why they simply don't make Bernard Cornwell's trilogy to achieve that is beyond me but this review is about this cancelled Starz series.  This show had potential but got lost. If not for the single episode where Excalibur is acquired I would have given this an even lower rating. Had the entire series been like that I would have given it 5 stars.  Without spoilers I will explain the problem.  The problem is that the story and characters bear no resemblance to anything Arthurian other than a few names. The entire story centers not around Arthur but his half-sister Morgan. It centers around her undermining Arthur's attempt to be the heir to the throne. We get characters we've never heard of and don't care for or about introduced and have episode after episode dwelling on and on about them and their insignificant side-plots to the story.  I'd balk less if they were entertaining but they aren't.  The stories give you no satisfaction to watch. I understand series with a big story arc but the good ones have episodes that stand on their own. I was so fed up with the story I fast forwarded much of the last two episodes just to finish.  Have you ever seen a movie where the entire story falls apart if two characters ever talked to each other as you would expect them to in real life?  Relationships would get saved, the victim wouldn't go into the garden where the monster is still waiting. Someone doesn't do the simplest check if they are being lied to, etc. There is a lot of that.  And Arthur and Guinevere? You won't buy it for a second that it's in this Arthur's nature to give up his womanizing for nothing more than a pretty face.  And as far as Merlin's character, it's clear they were undecided which way they wanted to portray him.

Not much here A Horrible Way to Die is an average film.  Very artsy and low-budget feel to it, but the build up is so slow and the end is not the payoff you expect.  The cinematography is grainy and tinted, making a cool visual effect.  The film looks different from other thrillers.  The unsteady camera, crazy angles, and focusing/unfocusing was interesting at first, then disorienting, but ultimately annoying.  The crazy slow pace and dull story is covered by this distracting visual effect.  Nothing much happened throughout the film.  The slow pace made details of the plot slow and deliberate.  Good story telling measure, if there is a story to tell.  But this one lagged on until finally, the crazy camera tricks stopped and the climactic ending quickly twisted into the end.  It was rather quick and simple compared to the build up and the intense preceding scene.  The acting was good, but nothing stellar.  And the story was the same: like so many others, it is an interesting take on a well-known concept, but it is not so revolutionary.  It is a quiet film of mostly dialogue and little action with only a few scenes of violence and nudity, just so you know.  I recommend it to those who really like low-budget/independent films or serial killer films, but not to general audiences.

Brutality is not entertainment Let's see... after you get past the scenes of oral sex (forced), rape, torture, mutilation, casual sex, and sodomy (forced), there's a really good mystery story here... until you're treated to even more graphic pictures of even more victims. The body count is too high; the sexual violence is horrifying. The story itself was buried in the excessive violence, for my tastes. I can understand the reviews; it really is a riveting story. There are simply too many reasons to look away and not look back. Sorry.

Not good I'm a huge Sex and the City fan, I loved the first film and expected to like this one too, but I don't like it that much, I found really disturbing and dangerous the publicity it makes (through one of my two favorite characters) to Suzanne Somers' hormone theory (or un-theory, which is what it, in reality, is), I'm really, really disappointed, I'm not giving it one star only because the other parts of the film aren't too bad.

One of the craziest movies I ever watched!!! I bought this movie and watched it and I was like "WHAT??" It was one of the craziest movies I have ever watched. Was not scary to me. Didn't make much sense. Just didn't like it.

As Much Star Power as "Outbreak."  Significantly Less Plot Everyone has already brought up the star power of this movie so there's no point in mentioning it again, but what I will say is that it doesn't hold a candle to "Outbreak," a similar movie with a similarly impressive cast.  "Contagion" lacks any sort of a clear story line and becomes more of a playbook for the government if a virus were to spread across the country.  Every major plot point occurs extremely abruptly and when the movie is suddenly over, you'll be left with more questions than answers.  This isn't to say "Contagion" is a terrible movie, it just had the potential to be so much better than it is.  It is a rental at best.

Similar to a vasectomy... no really... What the heck did I just watch?  This movie is senseless.  In a nutshell, the hero does various dirty dance routines (presumably - because we never actually see the dances) in order to distract people so that her friends can steal a series of items in order to escape some sort of mental institution that doubles as a brothel.  Got all that?  Why don't we see the dances you ask?  Because whenever a dance starts our hero goes into a fantasy trance and we are transported into a dream sequence where her and her fellow dancers take on zombie Nazis, dragons, robots, etc.  For example, one of the items that they need to steal is a lighter.  Therefore, the fantasy sequence involves the squad of women cutting the throat of a baby dragon, ripping out two fire crystals, and then a chase sequence with the mother dragon.  I'll admit that the fantasy parts are pretty well done.  However, after the first two I found myself asking - "Is this all there is?  Do I have to go through this two or three more times?"  In that sense, I suppose Sucker Punch is a lot like a vasectomy.  The first one is a bit of a surprise, but the second one usually hurts a little more.  Party because you know what to expect... partly because... well... it's a vasectomy.  Sucker Punch was just like that.  The first cut scene was a bit of a surprise, but then you get through it and have to endure the second one.  Unfortunately, there are more than two in this case and no warm towel to soften you up!  This movie made me want to spend two days sitting on an ice pack.  In the end, I just wondered what the point was.  This movie was just barely good enough so that I didn't turn it off.  That's the only reason it gets two stars instead of one.  One star is reserved for absolute trash like GI Joe.  You know how you can really tell how bad this movie is?  By how much many of the 5 star reviewers spend their time defending it.  Uhhhh... If it was five stars, it would speak for itself, right?  Apparently not, because many 5 star reviews spend time advising everyone how they "don't get it" etc, etc.  Yes, yes, yes... the critics were wrong, the poor reviewers are wrong... blah, blah, blah.  You, my 5 star friend, are the only genius to see the magnificence of this film and the rest of us are just inbred and toothless dolts. Now give me a Bud and let me go sit in my recliner.

Perdictable and Sappy Sappy and perdictable. This is Tyler Perry's sad attempt to show the interworkings of four married couples, all of whom are having marital issues that are revealed once they arrive at their vacation spot in Colorado.  The disgusting and inappropriate ways in which Mike treats Sheila, his wife since their teenage years, makes it painfully clear as to where their relationship is headed. At the start of the film, she is kicked off the plane for being too large to only occupy a single seat. Mike, being the pig he is, simply hands her the car keys and tells her to drive up to Colorado alone. Mike remains on the plane with his supposedly platonic female friend, whom he decided to bring along for the trip.  Next is loud-mouth, overly-demanding Angela and her unemployed husband, Marcus. Constantly accusing her husband of cheating (since he's already committed adultry once), Angela is obnoxious and demeaning towards her husband. In the meantime, Marcus continues to deny being unfaithful again, only come to find out he has indeed been sleeping with another woman. Their arguements come to a head at the dinner table in front of everyone, in which Angela nearly kills Marcus.  In the meantime, Sheila has grown close to Troy, the happy-go-lucky cop who gave her a ride up to the friends' ski lodge after she had driven several hundred miles only to be stuck at the base of the mountain. He later gives Sheila a job at the family store he owns and runs himself, and she develops a crush on him. Eventually, she invites him to dinner, if only to irritate her controlling husband, Mike.  Third is psychologist Patricia (Janet Jackson) and her husband, Gavin. Just a year after suffering the loss of their young son, Noah, these two hardly communicate at all. Pat refues to acknowledge her own problems even though she's paid to analyze and solve the problems of others; Gavin is left to suffer alone, as Pat has remained emotionally closed off since their son's death. She later confesses her guilt to her husband.  Last but not least is Diane (Jill Scott), a lawyer, and Terry (portrayed by the writer-director himself), supposedly happily married for ten years, with a young daughter. Diane is a workaholic, constantly on her cell phone, leaving no time for Terry or their daughter Amaya. In the meantime, Terry wants a son, but questions Diane's unusual behavior on the subject; he later learns she's been harboring not one, but two secrets from him regarding their ill communication and her lack of desire to have anymore children.  The couples eventually leave vacation early, after everything has been put out onto the table. Feelings are hurt, hearts broken. Troy and Sheila end up happily married, while Denise and Terry, as well as Angela and Marcus have sorted out their problems. Pat wins an award for her latest advice-giving book about marriage.  This film is a waste of time and money. From the beginning, its plot and characters are perdictable and, in some cases, laughable. Perry leans heavily on the stereotypes of relationships, and then wraps it all up in a neat little package with the fairytale ending, the villan getting what he deserved and the princess marrying her prince.

WHY???? WHEN???? I cant believe that another DVD comes out about the Greatest Steel Cage matches??? ever???? And two of the most awesome matches are nowhere to be found again........Of course I am talking about Ric Flair vs Ron Garvin(Starrcade 87... and Dusty Rhodes vs Lex Luger(Starrcade 87)...I have seen a few of these sets come out now and there is no sign of these matches anywhere.. I was even hoping that when the Starrcade set came out they would put these two on there...Of course.. no such luck. I am so tired of dvd sets coming out with the same matches that they have released before over and over...it is so tiresome.... How hard can this be??? With all due respect, i will pass on this set.. again... Maybe the wwe should put someone in charge of their video library that has some clue of what the old school fans and even the new school ones would like...

waste of time This movie was great if you like bad acting, predictable plots and teasing girls in revealing shirts.  It reminded me of a trip I took to a strip club back in the early 90's.  The girl worked me up and then left me hanging at the end.  No resolution.  Thank goodness I borrowed this from the library.  But I will never again get those minutes back that I sat through watching this.  If you like Ms. Olsen, check it out, she's kinda cute and built, otherwise, go with a better movie.

Designing Women Season 5 packaged differently than all the others? <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005M5OSBU">Designing Women: The Complete Fifth Season</a> Received Season 5 of Designing women today. I have seasons 1-4 so I noticed right away that it was just in a plastic case. No cardboard cover like seasons one thru four have. No nice colored coordinated sleeve that looks good on your DVD shelf. Just the plastic case. Disappointed and will not get any future season sets.

Not the best This film is not a thriller by any means.  Very slow with some action thrown in to wake you up.  It seems like an artsy European film that you need to be very patient with.  If you love to just watch George then watch the movie.  The plot is OK but could have been done much better.

Good for One Watch at Most; Drink First! At most, YOUR HIGHNESS is good for one watch. The humor is crude and not all that funny. I can only take so many penis and fart jokes before I get bored. The plot is a spoof on every medieval fantasy-quest story ever made, but that was the point, and the end is loaded with special effects that aren't very special. McBride and Franco tried to add humorous delivery to not-so-humorous lines, and Portman gave us her best buxom badass babe impression. In the end, I only laughed at this because I'm a complete fantasy nerd, and even then I found myself ready for the credits. Some great one-liners, a few good funnies, but otherwise a pass. Maybe if I'd had a few drinks...

bblltwnty1 I dont like how they show, intermedidate and advanced in little windows on the side of the screen.  You should be able to choose beginner, intermediate, and advanced workout on the menu.  The workout was ok

Is That All There Is? While the actors were brilliant, the scenes themselves were too long and drawn out...almost to the point of making me want to get up for something to eat or drink.  Too slow-paced.  In addition, I found a specific part or two to be a bit unrealistic.  I'm very close friends with a sex addict.  It's as if this film wants audiences to believe something tragic will cause pause in the sex addict's behavior.  I personally haven't found this to be the case whatsoever.  Michael Fassbender and his member are marvelous in their roles, giving incredible performances...but this movie just doesn't live up to the hype.

opinion does not reflect the seller when we reviewed this video, we had forgotten how much rated "R" material was in it.  Foul language was a turn off.  this product arrived as promised with out a hitch.

DVD case was in bad shape The movie is great and the price is too. However, the DVD case has tons of ripples in it and the security tape was stuck to the paper DVD cover. DVD was in perfection condition and was a good price though.

The Worst Pirates Here is a rule of thumb. Each Pirate movie is exponentially worse than the one previous. The first being a classic, the second being highly entertaining, but not quite as special as the first. The 3rd was a bloated mess. The 4th was worse yet with a pointless plot and phoned in performances by most of the acting core. I fear for the 5th, and based on my infallible observations, it will be less than garbage.  Do not buy this unless you are a DEVOTED fan of the Pirates franchise.

I love Cowboy Bebop, I hate this movie I really love Cowboy Bebop, it's in like my top 10 favorite animes and I've watched a lot of animes. But I really don't like this movie, it doesn't fit the feel of Cowboy Bebop, the new characters are uninteresting, and really they just didn't take advantage of the full movie format. The UMD itself is fine, menus are nice, etc, but I just don't like this movie, sorry.

I propose you not buy this one Great movie, but they advertised a digital edition I could use for my PC or IPAD.  However, the code for it had expired last year... Bad advertising and I paid 10 extra for that feature.  :(

sucks this movie sucks it is not good at all the incrediable hulk is way better the only thing i like about this movie is that the game for it is good but overall this movie sucks i would not recommend this.

Not worth watching Well.. I am somewhere between "hated it" and "did not like it". I watched it on my tv and thankfully not paid for it. The whole movie is in a split screen and though it started out as interesting becomes annoying later. Then the too much talking part.. its just that..talking between two people in close shots and its plain boring. There is no story line as such and I am not sure what they wanted to show or tell. Don't watch it.

Meh... I didn't really care for this movie at all. It didn't have as much action as I expected, it actually seemed kinda slow and boring. I had a hard time following the story, too. And I didn't care for any of the characters. It was just... Meh... -Trent Foreman, Author of Nightmare

Mystery Classics Vol.6 Frankly couldn't enjoy because the sound was not clear enough to understand.  The film may have been good but when the sound is difficult to hear you lose in the interpretation.

Somewhere goes Nowhere. Is Sofia following in her father's footsteps, starting out strong and slowly weakening?  Lost in Translation was a true sleeper.  It came out of nowhere and delighted viewers all over the world. Somewhere exposes us to a very dull guy, hanging out with his daughter, doing little or nothing.  One clue to a weak script is how much time is devoted to traveling scenes; enroute,walking, driving etc.  You might say Somehere is lost in transportation. The daughter is the only character with any appeal or animation.  Made me think a script about her and her troubled mother would have been the way to go. I still admire Sofia Coppola and the fact that she attempts to deliver originality. I think she is a truly creative force to keep watching. I wait for her next one...to go somewhere and take us along.

Kubrick was obviously not feeling well It's funny, but film critics and film fans are almost afraid to criticize Stanley Kubrick. Most of the critics feel that "toasting" a Kubrick film makes the critic look "avant garde" and film fans are afraid if they say something bad about a Kubrick movie they "appear dull and stupid". This movie is disjointed, Nicole Kidman is terrible in her role and Tom Cruise is just barely better, (Cruise really can't act). The movie jumps around so much you can't fathom that it is all happening in one night; the scenes in New York City (filmed on a stage in London) look unrealistic and fake. Some of the scenes are a total waste of time and make no sense at all (Tom Cruise bullied on the street because some local college toughs think "he looks gay" has nothing at all to do with the story). It is as if Kubrick were throwing a bunch of darts at a wall to see what sticks. The acting is mediocre, with Sidney Pollack miscast (one wonders what Harvey Keitel could have done with the role, he was cast but later cut). Kubrick either hit big with his films, "Full Metal Jacket" is terrific--or missed "Barry Lyndon" was terrible. This movie was neither, which is a sad finale to a career.

Great movie, pathetic package Everyone in the house loves the original movie and likes the first sequel. The last production stinketh mightily, but I have it on DVD and knew that when I bought this package. My rating isn't against the movies, they're first rate quality, it's for the poor excuse of a package. It might look good from the outside, but inside is a cheap cardboard drum and the discs are stored in an even cheaper cardboard holder.  My question to Disney: does it really add that much cost to use the latest plastic slimline bluray cases? I can see the discs getting scratched with repeated use by sliding in and out of their sleeves. Plus, I can't store the discs in my rack with all of my other movies. This box is cute on the outside, but will join my ever growing collection of "collector packages" that I have no room for and are sitting in a closet. The discs will be transferred to normal cases and I'll make my own lables. SIGH! If there were an option to get all of the discs in a more standard package I'd jump on it and get Amazon to swap it out.

Not what it's "cracked up" to be! I am super surprised.  Usually I can get a good idea of a product by the reviews on Amazon.  That was not the case here.  For one, when I typed in clean comedy this product came up.  Not something I can watch with my kids, so to me, not so clean.  Another thing is the talking to himself he does.  It's a little funny here and there, but drove me a bit batty after a while. I am a christian, but don't hold that against me here.  I only audibly giggled when he actually talked about Jesus. For instance, Jesus getting socks as a gift or when Moses may have said "tada" after parting the Red Sea.  If you want some great laughs, check out Tim Hawkins.  His latest "insanitized" is awesome and can literaly be watched by anyone.  Tim does not use language or innapropriate innuendoes, like Jim here.  Doesn't have to.

Just plain bad What an amateur written, boring movie even for such a mediocre director as Allen. The only entertaining scene (lunch with parents) is in the trailer, the rest is a digest of cliches reminiscent of a high school play. I wonder if Allen fans ever seen movies by the really talented American directors like Robert Altman and Todd Solondz? Allen's iconic status with intellectuals is puzzling.

2 1/2 stars not a bad watch. Not a must see tho This is a Japanese Women in prison (wip) flick with a little supernatural thrown in.  Sadistic warden and his corrupt staff of guards torture female prisoners.  Our female star gets chained, whipped, beaten in an effort to break her,  but she refuses to yield and gains supernatural power.  This film does contain topless nudity and a sexual situation (japanese softcore) between a female prisoner and the warden.

Annoying Voice - Tanja I just bought this DVD and feel as if more than 1/2 of it is wasted.  More than 1/2 of it is led by Tanja Djelevic who uses countless cliche little workout phrases and a cutsy little voice which is cute once but not all the way through the workouts.  Many of the routines seem to have beens stolen from Karen Voight who is a professional trainer.  Rodney Yee and Suzanne Deason are professional and are the only thing that saves this DVD.

The absolute worst quality dvd transfer i have ever seen. I was extremely disappointed at the poor quality of the DVD transfer on this title, very blurry soft images, shaking picture, pixelated and extremely annoying to view. It is like viewing a non HD television channel on an hd Television. The quality on my VHS version of this film is much better which is ridiculous. The people who transferred this film should be ashamed, they have ruined a great film by doing a cheap low quality transfer. Beware if you enjoy a good sharp DVD quality picture, this title fails completely as a DVD!

Superargo beyond pan and scan! The movie ia as silly and fun as it gets but the print used for this dvd was so panned and scanned that there was literally scenes where you know people are there talking but all you see is back ground. It takes some getting used to. The movie was what one should expect of a sixties early seventies euro film. The plot is silly and the actors are over the top. The quality of the transfer is a real bummer!

iIt was ho-hum..... If you are like me,and watched Maximum Overdrive when it came out, then this is NOT FOR YOU! It's really crappy and somehow,the continuity isn't the same as in the aforementioned movie. Keep looking....let this one go.

weak...very weak Don't waste your time or money on this movie. The storyline was horrible and the acting was worst than horrible. Lots of unnecessary scenes and terrible effects.

Two Dimensions of This are Enough Actually, I didn't watch this masterpiece in 3D.  Two dimensions of it were sufficient for me and I'm giving it one star for each dimension.  We have a story in which Brendan Fraser's scientist brother Max has disappeared and Trevor (Brendan Fraser)  is setting out to search for him.  But he gets saddled with having to care for Sean, Max's son played by Josh Hutcherson, who starts out as a bratty teenager and, of course, is initially p......d-off at the world.  (Actually, I was suspicious that Max simply couldn't stand Sean any longer and just took off).  But, no. They follow Max's trail, aided by pretty guide, Hannah (Anita Briem) who causes Sean to drool a little, to the mouth of a volcano. They all begin to fall down a rabbit hole and finally land on a heap of sticks  and dry leaves -- no, I'm sorry, that's in Alice in Wonderland.  The volcano's hole turns into a water slide and they enter into a world that resembles a defective ride in a theme park.  They discover that Max had died there, of boredom no doubt, and encounter gigantic Venus flytraps (I  never saw any gigantic flies, though), dinosaurs stomping around and birds that glow in the dark.  They also get to ride in a mining car which turns into a roller-coaster that manages to jump across a ten foot gap and land on the tracks on the other side, the chances against that happening being about 30 billion to one.  At another point on their raft, a sharp-toothed fish is getting closer and closer to taking a bite out of Hannah's rump as Sean is watching and his lips seem to be saying "Go for it, go for it!"  Even though I was watching this movie in 2D, it was obvious that it was shot in 3D because actors are seen pointing out at the camera or shooting a yo-yo out of the frame at you or some other shenanigans, which simply stalls any continuity this film might have had.  By the time it's over Sean has transformed into a smiling puppy, licking his uncle's hand or whatever.  The 1959 version of this story is a much superior film, having actors such as James Mason, Arlene Dahl and Pat Boone (Pat Boone??  Yes, it is Pat Boone), it's rather antique special effects notwithstanding.  Some shots were actually made in Carlsbad Caverns, I believe.  Now, you can't get more realistic than that.  The backgrounds in this new film look very much like painted scenery flats and the dinosaur chase scene with the characters running in the foreground on a treadmill is clearly a green screen process not particularly well executed.  I had completely forgotten that Brendan Fraser had done a really nice acting job in the fine film "Gods and Monsters."  What did he do to deserve this mess?  Presumably he was well paid for it.

Wanted Filet, Received Oatmeal [Cold] These are amazing actors. Unfortunately, it makes my disappointment that much worse. Glenn Close is no Katherine Hepburn, but she's wonderful in her own right.  Had she gone after this role in her own way (rather than attempting to conjure Kate), Lion2 could have been slightly more successful. I kept waiting to see the haughty and diabolical Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil [Dangerous Liaisons], but she never showed up.  Heck, Patty Hewes from Damages would've made a fabulous Eleanore, too (although Patricia wouldn't exist for a few more years).  Patrick Stewart should've killed this; he's perfect for the role. But at least he attempted a different flavor of Henry. Instead of O'Toole's cantankerous bluster, Stewart's Henry was infinitely more weary. There didn't seem to be a shred of victory left in him. An interesting choice. His delivery of the Lear comparison and 'deciding which peasant gets a cow' forces us to change our view of the salty old king. Not as much fun to watch, but I suppose that was the point. Notable: Rafe Spall (son of wonderful character actor Timothy Spall) has his father's fearless approach to being revolting. His version of loathsome Prince John actually left Nigel Terry in the dust.  Spall single-highhandedly kept this from being a 1-star review.  Also, Jonathan Rhys Meyers was a delicious young Philip.  Nothing will compare to the original 1968 Lion. But if you like historical costume dramas and it's a rainy Sunday afternoon, this will do.

Please give me Rosalind! You can take "Mame" and give me "Auntie Mame" with Russell any day of the week. The latter movie has better sets, costumes, and most importantly acting. I have no idea why the decided to remake it in the first place. Lucille Ball had so  much life on "I Love Lucy"! What happened? Shes so absolutely lifeless and monotone in this. Terribly disappointing.

Watch the first 30 minutes, then fast forward It must be nice to be able to take off half a year from your job at Patagonia and have a film crew document your eco-slacker vacation to Chile; where your boss is hanging around in a shack drinking tea for several months waiting for you and the crew to show up so you can get lost climbing a hill.  The photography is beautiful and it was enjoyable enough, although not believable, for the first 30 minutes or so.  then it became an infomercial about Patagonia clothing and an eco-rant against corporate culture that made their never-ending vacation possible.

Lame High School Dark Comedy This flick is strictly dullsville.  Unappealing characters and boring and derivative plot.  You know you're in trouble when you constantly look at your watch during an 87 minute movie.  Sole redeeming point is a performance by the Donnas, an all girl rock band from the Nineties, at the senior prom. "Heathers" covered similar territory ten years earlier to better effect.  It would behoove you to check that film out along with "Mean Girls" instead of this dog.

No tea for me, thanks Good Lord, where to begin?  OK, the film has got some great shots of Tuscany and that is worth something, but who the hell wrote the screenplay for this movie? I mean, I like a lot of chick flicks but this . . . .  Where to begin? The---disjointed---plot revolves around a group of dotty old English ladies who have made Florence their home. In the ten years or so that they have lived there, not one has learned a single word of Italian. Then they get interned during the war and for some, unstated, reason a young man dresses up as a woman instead of being interned with the men. Then you have Luca an Italian boy/young man who has a thick British accent who in the middle of the war returns after a few months wearing a British uniform and is apparently part of a British unit. Then you have a vulgar American Jewess (as described by one of the other women), played by Cher, who is later interned but who escapes by going . . . . ? Even the history is messed up: America did not declare war on December 7, 1941. And when she did, she declared war on Japan. Italy and Germany declared war on America afterwards.  And it was boring.

Nonsense The acting's great, the music's great, but the plot, such as it isn't, makes no sense whatsoever. No scene in an endless series of unrelated scenarios makes any sense at all. Everyone associated with this movie must've been stoned out of his or her mind. And it's 3 hours long! I screened it because some other stoned out person gave it a 4 star review, and the only reason I sat through the whole thing was I kept erroneously thinking this has got to get better. Ha! They were stoned!

If you're hard up for 3D There is so little to choose from in 3D that I doubt I'm alone.. I've bought almost everything there is to buy on 3D. Unless you're bonkers over Tim Burton, I recommend skipping this one. Sure the 3D is awesome but everything else is forgettable. 3D for the sake of 3D.

bad movie The movie was brand new when it came to the house.  I have no issues with that.  Couldn't get into the movie.  20 minutes into it, I stopped it and then threw it away.

terrible What a waste of time. We have probably seen every dog movie available. This one is so formulaic, boring, and over-acted.  We never laughed.

Extremely Christian Science Fiction Devout Christians are not often known for their subtlety and this film is certainly not subtle. Like countless others it forces their scripture and morality down the audience's throat with all the finesse of a bull in a China shop. Preferring to ambush the audience rather then tease them and make a slow reveal. A nice concept, well done on the technical end for a low budget film, but about as artistic as a can of beer.

The Kids are NOT All Right Excellent cast. Spotty script. Viewer must be prepared for inclusion of porn. I thought the way porn was introduced was too direct and detracted from the storyline. However, I may just be a fuddy-duddy.  Anyway, it became apparent at story's end that "The kids were not all right".

stupid movie my gut told me not to buy this movie, I am not a Woody Allen fan, I think his stuff is stupid!  the service of getting the movie was great but the movie was terrible, I gave it away immediately.

comedy Too much vulgarity!! Was not as comical as I thought it would be, however I would have enjoyed it if it weren't for every other word  ----.

A Routine Thriller Continually Undermined By Illogical Character Decisions As a straight-to-DVD action picture, my expectations were fairly grounded for the high-flying adventure "Hijacked."  Meant as a vehicle for UFC Heavyweight Champion Randy Couture, he channels his best Jason Statham and comes off as a serviceable action hero.  If you are approaching "Hijacked" for him alone, this might be worth a look (but I'd still be hard pressed to recommend a buy).  If, however, you are looking for non-stop action, suspense, and a plot that makes sense--there is less that I can say.  This is an action picture that assembles the requisite cast of good guys and bad guys on a luxury airliner and allows a battle of wills to play out.  Unfortunately, though, every major plot point revolves around seemingly random choices involving both the terrorists and the hostages.  At one point, Couture takes out one of the three bad guys and leaves him unconscious and unsecured to rejoin the fight later on.  Another time he leaves his gun sitting in front of an unsecured villain.  From the bad guys, they don't make much sense either.  Although their plot is to extort money--they instantly kill two of the richest passengers on the plane.  But others, like a flight attendant, they allow to live and escape several times.  I'm not sure that the plot really matters with "Hijacked."  It's really just a red herring that has little to do with how the movie unfolds.  A spiffy introduction speaks about an international organization called The Tribe, but it's all so over-the-top as to not have much impact.  Next we meet Couture in a cursory mission, a job gone bad.  But before he has time to breathe, he joins his ex-fiancee on this luxury flight as she has just been hired by a wealthy (but suspicious) Vinnie Jones.  I love Jones, I must admit, but he has little to do here.  The movie spends lots of time with character introduction, but it really isn't of consequence as you wait for ANYTHING to begin the action.  In a series of repetitive captures and escapes (seriously, cable ties are cut about 24 times in the movie to free hostages), "Hijacked" aspires to be a clever variation on "Die Hard" lacking any of that picture's excitement, humor, or smarts.  But if it all isn't bad enough, the movie attempt to surprise with a twist that is cobbled together from several better movies.  I didn't hate "Hijacked," I just didn't find it very involving.  Trust me, you've seen it all before and I guarantee you've seen it better!  It gets off to a slow start and then most of the action just made me roll my eyes at the silliness of it all.  If you were sitting at home and "Hijacked" came on TV for free, I'd say give it a look if you like this sort of thing.  But I can't imagine wanting to own the film for repeat viewing.  For Couture, he may not be bad but he needs to shop better scripts if he attempts to become the next action break-out star.  KGHarris, 7/12.

A+ Concept, C- Execution A dissertation on liars, cheats, counterfeiters and forgers by Orson Welles that never settles on a subject, shooting style, genre or personality. Is it a documentary, a fantasy, a historical drama or an art film? Welles employs a crazed guerrilla documentary style, splicing half-conversations with notorious scammers on top of one another while concentrating on awkward close-ups, unflattering angles and incomplete thoughts. Orson handles most of the narration himself from a seat at the editing table, apparently in the process of chaotically piecing the final product together. It's a manic blend of jumbled thoughts that seems like something thrown together on a whim, after filming every instant of a lavish European vacation and poring over the footage for its most quizzical moments. For what it's worth, I could watch Orson carry on conversation with nobodies for hours at a time, and on the few occasions the film delivers just that, it reaches a certain peak. If Welles could've let this story tell itself without overproducing every instant, and later forcing himself into unnecessary dramatizations, it would have had my rapt attention. Instead, the second half nearly put me to sleep. A solid concept that's been overcomplicated and spoiled.

Insipid "It's not the house that's haunted," the ads tell us, and how right they are. It's "Insidious" that's haunted by every possessed-by-another-world melodrama ever made. Even people who seem to like this misfire confess they recognize it as a hodgepodge of "The Exorcist" and "Poltergeist" with a little "The Shining" thrown in. That professional critics (granted, of the radio variety) could have found something admirable here gives you a pretty scary idea of today's critical standards. The ten-thumbed direction is by James Wan, who has sawed his way through half a dozen pieces of low-grade lumber, and his screenplay is by Leigh Wannell, the producer/writer of what is commercially called the Saw franchise. This ill-conceived plot concerns a young couple with three kids who, moving into a new house, are disturbed by all sorts of specters and strange occurrences. It gets so bad they buy another house; and how Dad manages to casually buy various houses on a teacher's salary is not explained. As it turns out, the second house is spooky too, so of course they consult an expert in the paranormal.  (Actually, these houses don't need ghost busters so much as they need a can of three-in-one: you've never heard so many squeaky doors in all your life.) It seems the couple's young son, who's supposedly in a coma, is really out among the ghoulies on "the other side" and must be rescued by his father, who has been there himself as a boy. Derivative? Well, yes, there's even a visual reference to the steak scene in "Poltergeist". Suspenseful? Not at all. Having sat through "Insidious" (I tried to watch it again to verify my impression, but I just couldn't make it), my belief is that James Wan should be sent back to film school with M Night Shyalaman.

Highly overrated Soap-opera Let me preface these remarks by saying I am an avid fan of Japanese movies and culture, having lived there for some years. But I am not sure what movie the "Editorial Reviewer" saw, but this movie is in no way "lyrical" nor is it "graceful" as they write.  Rather the atmosphere is harsh overall.  The ill-directed actors show no acquaintance or even what I would rate as professional sympathy with their assigned characters.  Despite the high reputations of several of the actors, their performances here are perfunctory and wooden.  Now, of course Japanese roles are often seeming much more austere that Western ones, but here the margin is too great for comfort or enjoyment or edification.  The whole product is too cool for its own good: more like a Noh theatre performance of stylized gestures, and shouting taking the place of acting. If you want to see true Japanese families, who show traditional poise and yet operate with what all families must share in terms of care, affection and natural human warmth....look to Ozu's masterworks instead of here (or Naruse or better yet the recent "Departures").  I regret to say it, but this is a very disappointing movie.  Not recommended except for the exceptional color cinematography.  However the sets are too prepared and polished and contrived to seem real.

It has been said here I also wanted to to like this movie "remake". But as others said, it is an exercise in implausibility in so many dumb and displeasing ways.

Disappointing!!! Disappointing!  The movie promises sooo much when one reads about the movie, when one sees the preview BUT watching the whole movie I was very disappointed -  Lots of effects but that is it - it is a movie one watches  BUT will not watch again....not worth buying, not worth keeping! if one wants to see it ONLY AS A RENTAL!!!  Therefore VERY DISAPPOINTING.

polar express is siderailed i do not like this 3d. nothing comes out at you. i thought it was the one that took special 3d tv and glasses but came with the cardboard ones. i am disappointed and do not recommend this version.maybe the other one is better but i do not know. to me it was a boring movie.

Missing the best song An incredibly disappointing thing that everyone should be aware of:  the DVD version of this film is lacking the scene with Belle, and the song, "When Love is Gone" -- the whole thing is just yanked out.  If you can find the VHS, go with that -- at least that is the complete movie.  Even when you rent this movie now, you get the DVD version, missing the scene.

The Escape (VHS) I've written to the seller twice with no response because I would have preferred a better copy. During the viewing of 'The Escape', pop-ups appeared throughout the film.  I would have given the film more stars but the pop-ups were very annoying.

I can see why 2.5 stars gets the grade. "Skyline" has some cool moments, such as when witnesses are realizing that the "debris" that is being sucked up from the earth is in actuality hundreds of humans, but those cool moments don't save this movie from a displeased reviewer's fate.  That the ending of the movie is not a conclusion and does not point to an obvious conclusion may be brave but it is also extremely unsatisfying.  The air of claustrophobia that the film tries to achieve is offset by the blue hues of the movie (blue doesn't lend itself to a claustrophobic feeling of "everything's closing in on me").  The individual aliens, full of flailing tentacles and with the inexplicable seeming ability to fly, are kinda cool and kinda rip-offs of ID4.  The larger aliens that rove the streets are like bar room bouncers and they are cool.  But the ship that is able to reconstitute itself is something right out of the superhero comic books, and so is the possessed human-turned-alien.  I could give "Skyline" a B for effort, a D for execution, and a D- for its derivative and conventional storyline.  That equals out to 2.5 stars, and makes it easier to understand why so many people actually loathe the movie.  My wife is one of those loathers...but it was good enough to cause her to dream troubled dreams....

Something happened in Barcelona... There are spoilers...  That's the theme of the movie, something happened in Barcelona. No one seems to know what happened but everyone wants to know. I'll tell you what happened in Barcelona, she didn't like loose ends. Which of course means she'll chase someone for about 15 minutes through the streets of Spain, after being shot at by said person, all so she can hit him a few times and leave him alive. In the end she tells her team mates who ask, 'where'd you go?', that she doesn't like loose ends... Cause when I think of tieing up loose ends, I'm talking about punching someone a couple times then walking away after they took me on a 15 minute chase... Fail. So much more but I won't ruin the rest in case someone wants to watch it for an action flick. If it was intended to be a cheesey comedy with a little action, then it was...acceptable... But a rock your sox off action flick of epic proportions...no.

Slow and disappointing Even with the modern special effects, the movies still has that 1980's feel. Maybe that was intentional. The plot is slow to develop and kind of limps along to the predictable ending. It's kind of an empty film: lots of special effects but little of substance to actually draw you in.  Not recommended.

Considered by some to be a comedy, more like a drama... maybe a mockumentary Will Ferrell is popular as a comedian, but I've yet to find him in a movie that's particularly funny. This one was well-received, so I thought I'd check it out, especially since it has Sasha Baron Cohen in it, as well as John C Reilly, an actor I like very much. I'd say that of the three, John C Reilly is the funniest, with his good ole boy routine and his optimism that he can steal his best friend's hot wife and still remain buddies. Ha ha ha... Still, there are some good lines in the film like "[The French} invented democracy, existentialism and the beejay." Cohen, while not particularly funny here, does an interesting job portraying a "happy" Nascar driver. The gawks on commentators' faces when he introduces his husband are priceless. Sponsor's wife is lovin' the wall vibrations, that's pretty funny. Kenny Rogers scene is kind of funny. Nice use of a Monster Magnet song, "Space Lord", as well as AC/DC's "TNT", and Pat Benatar's "We Belong". Biggest car wreck ever. There's also a sort-of-funny "I want to picture Jesus as a..." running gag as well.  The gag reel shows a great collection of Ricky and Cal's public service messages: kids on leashes, plastic - the silent killer, cardboard is edible, children reading too early, shopping cart safety, fare safety (kids wrapped in newspaper, sleep in a hammock, don't drink gasoline), shoplifting's fun, don't steal fireworks, packs of stray dogs that control most of the major cities of North America. Interviews with the actors in character are cute and sorta funny. The trailer shows scenes that are not in the actual movie (Ricky as a 10-year-old, for example).  There's also a great French version of "Paint It Black" played in the film. Good soundtrack, so-so film.

A Born Star, but not a Star Born This movie has a kind of "Valley of the Dolls" kitsch appeal that's hard to resist, even if it isn't very good ("Dolls" is flat-out ludicrously awful; "A Star is Born '76" doesn't rise above mediocrity). The score is mostly the kind of music your mother listened to in the 70's on AM radio. (Do people really love "Evergreen"? "Love--soft as an easy chair." Do they think those are good lyrics?) I'd thought the picture was a gigantic flop when it was released, but I've learned recently it was the second highest grossing movie of the year. And the soundtrack is the biggest seller of Barbra Streisand's career. Baffling.  Steisand is, from the moment she appears onscreen, the fully formed singer and fully self-conscious celebrity she had been for almost 15 years at that point. Which kills the whole point of the movie. And everybody who meets her character immediately just loves her. Which also kills the whole point of the movie. For this story to work, we have to see the awkward and ignored girl with talent grow, gain her confidence, convince people of her talent, and become the star who is born in the course of the movie. That doesn't happen here.  This is a vanity project. We're not going to see Streisand slaving as a background singer and told angrily "We heard your voice to loudly!" the way we saw Garland playing an extra and told angrily "We saw your face!" (Even in the very first scene, when Streisand's a nobody, the two black girls in her trio are already just backup singers.) We're not going to see a woman unsure of her talent, or that she can go further than the marginal position she holds at the beginning of the movie, as we saw with Garland. (Streisand is hesitant when Kristofferson first tries to push her onstage, but they've already cut an album for her; it's the awkwardness of the situation, not her lack of self-confidence, that holds her back.) We certainly aren't going to see Streisand accidentally slapped, and publicly humiliated by her husband, as we saw with Garland (Kristofferson's character only embarrasses himself; and intentionally punches a photographer).  Well, at least being a vanity project it looks beautiful. The cinematography is gorgeous onstage and off, and the leads look great. (Knock Streisand for wearing clothes from her own closet if you want, but they look good in that very 70's Annie Hall fashion.) I do wish she hadn't insisted on incessantly being shot with a halo of light around her head.  But the movie also has huge gaps in credibility. Kristofferson is a country singer, not an Alice Cooper (though off the music stage, he gives the only convincing performance in the movie). And why would Streisand's character be attracted to someone from that particular world? Streisand isn't remotely a rock singer, and trying to be, she seems silly.  Then there's the weirdness that the people who make up the audience for Kristofferson's character would fall in love with Streisand's sound, or that the exact same people would want to handle them both. The movie doesn't take place in anything like reality, and doesn't succeed in convincingly creating its own reality. After Kristofferson's death,  Streisand runs through the house when she hears Kristofferson's voice on a tape. She's really not familiar with tape recording? In a house with it's own private recording studio? The source of sound is a tiny portable cassette recorder. How can it be heard across the mansion? A workman in the house turns out to have turned it on and asks helplessly "How do you turn this off?" Um, you press the button marked Stop instead of Play? It's the kind of player everyone owned at that time, not some confusing piece of high tech machinery. But they needed some feeble excuse for her to momentarily think he was back again, and then have her hopes crushed. What drama!  I was always under the impression the movie was a giant flop when it came out. Yet, bizarrely, it turns out to have been the second highest grossing movie of the year. And to judge by most of the comments here, continues to be loved to this day. I can't figure out why.

Terminator Salvation needs salvation I had actually watched his forgot about it, rented it realized I had watched it and thought very little at it. Basically the series lost all momentum, in this movie.

Read the book Much of the story never gets told.  The book provides the details that make the story much more real.  The movie also adds some parts to the story line that just didn't happen.  After you read the book you'll realize how poorly the movie captures the essence of Ralston's adventures.

Not that funny... I don't really get what his bit is... All he does is take puppets out and sing popular songs. That only goes so far, you can't just do the same thing several times in a row and expect me to laugh at it. He had a few funny jokes, but most of the act is just singing awkwardly. If you're looking for a good comic who does puppets, just watch Jeff Dunham.

The Entire Point of this Thriller Rests on a False Notion of Privileged Information This movie starts out showing us that Mcconaughey plays a smooth, tough as nails, street wise defense attorney who is as good as it gets in criminal cases.  Then it rolls into a pretty good story with a high profile case.  Don't be seduced by the flashy trailer and synopses, this movie is no such thing.  It's a very, very bad thriller that hinges on an implausible and faulty notion of the meaning of attorney client privilege.  Shall I explain?  Attorney client privilege only applies to what the client says about the case!  If a client confesses a crime or says he's going to commit one, that is not privileged, in fact it's your ethical duty as an attorney to notify the police if you believe your client is going to commit a crime, has committed one, or is going to otherwise harm himself, and no, you do not get disbarred for doing so.  It's the same thing you do as a psychiatric counselor, and no, your headshrinker wouldn't lose his license either!  The conflict of this "thriller" is that Mcconaughey's client confesses to a past crime in which a former client of Mcconaughey's is in prison for, confesses to breaking in to Mcconaughey's home, to threatening harm on Mcconaughey's family, and to having Mcconaughey's partner killed, and rather than hold its screenwriters to accurate representations of what attorneys do, they tell us that Mcconaughey's going to lose his license if he brings any of this to the police which is indeed his duty to do so.  Huh?  Did the writers actually ask an attorney what attorney client privilege means?  I guess not.  At this point of the film, it just turns to trash and I'm told the novel is the same.  Excuse me for being so critical, but I'm sure you're the same way.  You want your sports movies to accurately represent the sport your watching.  You want racing movies to accurately use car talk.  You want medical movies to plausibly show what doctors do, but why can't we have such high profile crime thrillers like this accurately show an attorney?  Mcconaughey is over all the smooth, brazen, and cool Mcconaughey we like watching, rather than the watered down one he usually is in his Rom Coms, but all that is wasted on bad writing.

IMAX: Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk [3D] [Blu-ray] Provides an adequate demonstration of the 3D feature on the new TV, but only during certain scenes. The narration is riddled with extremely one sided points of view that the Sierra Club would tolerate, but I hope the rest of us understand it to be pure propaganda. Not a total waste of money, but when we finish showing clips to the friends who want to see what 3D TV looks like: we'll be happy to part with the disc.

Not Worth The Money I am a fan of their work. Their studio albums feature music that is well produced and dynamic when listened to on compact disc. The Blu-Ray version of their concert greatly lacks the visual quality one expects from the medium. The sound options are for 2.0 and 5.1 Dolby. Even when listened to via the 5.1 setting the sound was awful compared to the many other Blu-Ray concerts in my collection. Please rent this disc first if you can and then decide how much, if at all, you should pay to buy it.

Not very accurate to the Biblical account This production was not as true to the Biblical account as I anticipated from reading earlier reviews.  The liberties that were taken, presented Moses in a near fanatical light or with thinking that was riddled by doubt & sometimes even outbursts of anger over his internal struggle to respond to God's direction.  Neither depiction supports the deeply loyal and humble Moses of the Hebrew scriptures. For me, there were too many Hollywood inspired embellishments in an attempt to bring more drama to an account that needs no drama added. It's only my view, but...I was not very impressed.

Avoid this Awful SEQUEL !!! Did the writers of this movie see the previous versions???  This was awful. I can see why Orlando and Kierra decided to pass on this . I do not understand why Pennilpe C. did it .  Something I am sure she wishes now would not be in her resume.  Pass on this if you can!!!

Grainy and blocky The movie was good, its the video compression that stunk.  Any time the screen moved the image was very blocky.

Absurd Sprawl When a putatively serious medieval fantasy merits catcalls of lines from "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005O3VC">Monty Python and the Holy Grail</a>," something has gone deeply, seriously wrong.  When the supposedly terrifying climax has the audience laughing out loud, the problem is irremediable.  This movie might be good if it weren't pathetically earnest.  As is, this execrable cross between LOTR and an Exorcist sequel makes me angry that a legitimate filmmaker put it before me.  Behmen and Felson (Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman) deserted the Crusades when they realized the church no longer followed God.  To clear their names, they escort an accused witch to a distant monastery that can purge her tainted soul and end the plague she's created.  But along the way, they inevitably doubt the accusations levied against her.  Mutual distrust divides their company, until the truth proves worse than anybody anticipated.  A script that might make a decent B-movie instead has name stars, elaborate special effects, and international shooting locations.  This must certainly be the most extravagant bad movie made in many moons.  Sprawling and ambitious in design, but intellectually numb, the story is only a thin premise designed to link shots.  Which makes me wonder why so much of this film was shot in murky tones and indecipherable soft focus.  The whole way through, my honey and I laughed at all the wrong places, heckled the actors relentlessly, and provided a full MST3K commentary track on this movie's overwhelming wrongheadedness.  Such films should be cheap, feature no-names who act for love of it, and wink slyly at the audience, inviting us into the campy ethos.  By taking itself seriously, this one alienates its most loyal audience, and looks absurd besides.

Your Highness Silly me hoped for another <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000TJBNHG">The Princess Bride (20th Anniversary Edition)</a> or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AQR3IU">Stardust [Blu-ray</a>], but what I got was far from the normal fantasy movie. It tries hard to be funny and vulgar and mostly ends up vulgar. The trailers shows the best scenes of the movie and hides it's true overall nature or I would not have bought it without renting it first. Fans of the movie <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001J9KJ4I">Pineapple Express (Single-Disc Unrated Edition)</a> may enjoy it or those that like strictly crude and vulgar movies without much of a funny script. This is certainly not a family movie. My guess is it won't do particularly well in a broad audience because it caters to a select few young stoners. The language is almost non-stop R or worse. It could have been so much more if the script wasn't so full of foul mouthed obscenities it treads far from any believability as a medieval period piece or even a far out fantasy. I recommend you rent it if you have any interest in it whatsoever. I'm donating my copy as I have no desire to see it again. By the way hanging someones genitals around the neck wasn't funny unless you take lots of drugs. I don't need to in order to know true comedy, so I wasn't amused. If you like this movie see <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000J4P9P8">Talladega Nights - The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Unrated Widescreen Edition)</a> and  CA Luster

Good fight scenes, no plot The fight scenes were pretty good... And that's about the best thing I can say about the movie.  Carano does ok in her first film.  She has potential but I don't think the filmmaker actual gave her much of a chance.

outdated I purchased this video to show my class on diseases and history.  The video is so out of date I didn't even finish watching it myself, let alone show it to my class.  If I know more than the video does, it doesn't help me.

Nice camera shots but lacks substance Maybe my expectations were too high, but this film just doesn't compare to today's standards for nature documentaries.  Also, the little narration it has is hard to understand.  It sounds like the guy is talking through a tin can or something.  The movie consists mostly of birds flying, which sounds cool but lacks depth as gets kind of repetitive.  I do appreciate the effort it took to make this film, but it's for bird watchers only.  A rental at best.

Not Hitchcock's Best I must preface my review by saying I am not a horror fan, but I am a Hitchcock fan so I wasn't sure whether I'd like The Birds.  I tried to watch it with an open mind.  Even with the dated special effects and annoying electronic bird squawking, it was scary-- especially the scene where they're trapped in the house just waiting for the next bird attack. However, the script and characters in this film are severely lacking.  The romance between Melanie and Mitch is not only far-fetched but annoying.  What does he see in her?  I usually disagree with Hitchcock in his choice of women; he likes the icy blonde ditzes.  'Tippi' Hedren is a Grace Kelly clone, and I didn't care for Grace Kelly.  Worst acting award goes to the girl who plays Cathy.  I have never seen a more wooden performance in my life.  Amazingly awful.  The rest of the characters weren't much better.  The mother was scarier than the birds (sidenote: there are a lot of creepy characters in this movie- the elevator man is another), but at least she didn't like Melanie either.  Who could like someone with an IQ that low? "Hmm, Lydia told me to pick up Cathy from school immediately, but they're singing a horrible song.  Should I rescue her?  No, I'll smoke a cigarette outside." "Hmm there's a million birds outside.  Let's go outside children!" "Oh my gosh, the gas station's exploding and birds are attacking everything!  Let me just go outside and get a better view from this phone-booth!  Ooh, maybe I can open and close the door randomly!  Here come some birds: open.  Here comes a man who desperately needs my help: close."  "Huh?  I hear vicious birds upstairs?  Why don't I just explore the house alone?!" Hitchcock overused the green/blue screen in this film.  I can understand using it in the scenes with the attacking birds, but for a quick boating trip across the bay?  It makes Hedren seem impossibly prissy.  "No, there's no way I'm going to actually get on a boat.  There might be some wind that would blow my hair onto my obnoxiously large forehead.  I'll just sit here in the studio." I think I was more upset that this movie didn't have a point than that it didn't have an ending, although that didn't help things.  It doesn't take a genius to write a story with a million loose ends; it takes a true genius to tie those all together in a believable storyline. You can hyper-analyze this movie if you want and read into it all sorts of deeper meaning and how the bird attacks are symbolic of the women all fighting over Mitch, but I think that's going too far.  I think many times people read too much into films and turn them into something they're not.  (Though even if the attacks ARE a commentary on the relationship between Melanie and Mitch it still is not a poignant film-- it is too stilted, too wooden, too melodramatic.)  My advice: skip this one and watch Rear Window or The Man Who Knew Too Much instead.

As useful as expired 1983 milk The reason I looked back at this was because I grew up with it. I saw it in the theater as a child in 1983. Its interesting to see alot of early 1980's culture and Christopher Reeve is a very good actor to watch regardless of the productions mess. The scene with Clark fighting the evil Superman is worth it, otherwise clear off! Very poorly made! It may have worked then in 1983, but it clearly does not hold up. There is no evidence of director Richard Donner's touches (1 and 2{Donner Cut}). The silly producers that fired and cut off Donner, cut the life off of the Superman series. Why did they think Superman is a comedy? What fools! Seeing part 3 makes you long for 1 & 2(Donner Cut).

Somehow never made the Jump to Cult Classic... ...it's obvious why. This has got to be the worst movie I've ever sat through, but it has some surprisingly redemptive qualities. The most obvious is getting to enjoy all these reviews afterwards - the best laugh I've had in a while. The story itself had potential (conceptually if not in how it was realized), and could perhaps be great if done completely differently (and I mean completely!). As it is, it comes across like a high school film project (conceived in committee from a mishmash of immature friend's psychedelic experiences) with adult actors somehow hoodwinked into donating their time....(oh, those oblivious parents).  But amid the disjointed Dadaist surrealism there is something remarkable and worth seeing here, and that is the Humpback Whale mother and child footage. These are some of the best close up whale images I have ever seen - seriously. While the rest of the movie is ponderously satiric and inessential these whales are the real deal. Like the sweet and perfect lotus arising from a sewer filled swamp they are sublime and unlikely - amazing in themselves, and perhaps even in what they are used to signify here, whatever that is....

Beautiful action, but just did not satisfy The best I can say about this movie is that the sound, action, and special effects were WONDERFUL!! Oh, and there were a few parts that almost made me jump out of my seat.  But, honestly, I really wish I could just have those three hours back.  The film opened up with what I thought was the best opening ever.  Right from the beginning the aliens attack and I'm thinking, "This is awesome, right into the action!" and then, boom!  Fade-to-black and then flashback.  ARGH!!!  I should have known!  Please, Hollywood, don't flash back.  Start at the beginning of the story and don't get my hopes so high and leave such cheap tricks to the television shows.  The problem from there is that things just got so unrealistic.  For instance, (**WARNING: small spoilers, nothing plot specific**) there is a scene were the main character is taking some pictures.  He's standing there, no tripod, bouncing all over the place just hitting the shutter button.  When they review the pictures later they come out beautifully.  The color is perfect, there is no blur despite taking pictures of things from miles away, and the focus is spot on.  Then they turn on the TV and all they show is an empty studio.  Several empty studios.  Right.  There was NOBODY in all of America commenting on the events at hand.  Some of the action shots are near-misses just leave you flabbergasted and annoyed.  Something akin to "they hit everything except that one small spot that would have ended the movie."  And then you reach the jarring ending.  Setup for a sequel?  Oh, I hope not.  Please don't make another one of these.  Start there story where it beings, end it when the story stops.  Oh, I did like the actors.  As a computer geek I've always like Eric Balfour who basically played me on 24 (though he shows off a whole lot more muscle here).  Donald Faison is very comfortable in front of the camera and he cracks me up on Scrubs.  It was even nice to see David Zayas, who masterfully plays Batista on Dexter, though he plays the exact same person in this movie.  Anyways, if you are into special effects and stuff blowing up, get this movie.  If you are into plot and story, avoid this like the plague.

DVD quality is not as good. The story is very touching, but the DVD quality did not match with the price that I paid. There were several stops occurring while the DVD is being played. The price has to be dropped a lot more so as to match with the quality.

Psst! Anyone Wanna Buy The Brooklyn Bridge? Last night's bargain rack DVD movie was "it Could Happen To You" staring Nicolas Cage and Bridget Fonda. Only Hollywood could come up with something like this. A NYC cop lacks enough money to tip a waitress, a total stranger, so he offers to split a freshly-purchased lottery ticket with her if he wins. She graciously agrees and they part. Well, folks, I bet you can't  guess what happens. You're right, he wins 4 million dollars the next day. Then he's forced into telling his money-grubbing wife that he gave away half of the lottery winnings to a woman he doesn't even know and she doesn't even know who he is or that he won, but that they had agreed and it was a matter of honor that they split it. Did I mention that the waitress was married to a money-grubbing husband? Well, I'm sure you could have guessed by now. Sappy?  Well, that's only the beginning. Then the financial vultures swirl in and by the time they're done neither the cop nor the waitress have anything but one another. Again, you probably guessed. But not all was lost, because of the generosity of the cop and the waitress, the wonderful people of NYC send them bundles of five and ten dollar donations to the point where they have over six hundred thousand dollars and they lived happily ever after, or something like that.  So, what did I think of this wonderful uplifting fantasy movie? I think it was the sappiest movie I've seen in the last decade, maybe more. The cinema was okay. The acting was okay, but Cage looked embarrassed at his own efforts from time to time. It's hard to imagine any of the cast members taking the script seriously, yet it certainly wasn't a comedy. Or maybe it was a comedy and the joke was on the public who paid good money to see it.  Gary Peterson

Disgusting aberration from the actual story I realize that some things must change when you adapt a book to the big screen, but what was done to this particular book is appalling. Over the years the book to movie transition has steadily declined with this series and here the story is almost unrecognizable. I believed, I hoped, that splitting this book into two parts the powers that be would use the time to set right what they had failed in the other movies. To go back and explain key elements of the story and characters that they had glossed over before. But no, what they did was give us two hours of post-apocalyptic feely-type imagery and 3 teenagers roaming witlessly around the english countryside apparently without a clue between them - and very little magic either. JK Rowling wrote pages of clever dialogue in which these characters wrestle with their deepest fears and struggle with the smallest of clues that Dumbledore left them to unravel in order to defeat Voldemort. They planned and discussed and sacrificed. Harry went head to head with the minister of magic on moral principal. It took Harry months to convince Hermione to go to Godric's Hollow. But in the movie they do everything on a whim. It's all based on luck. Yates makes them look like idiots. This is the thing I find most offensive. And for a movie based on a magical world it seemed oddly lacking in magic. The Sorcerer's Apprentice had more magic in the first 5 minutes than the entire HP film. I will see the final installment because I need to finish this, but I am sorely disappointed. It's like watching a Cliff's notes version of a book you love. The heart and soul of the story is missing. The characters have been reduced to their lowest common denominators. If you haven't read any of the books do yourself a favor and don't start now. You will only know what you are missing. Wait until you have seen all the movies. Then read the actual story.

Almost as bad as Michael Moore Only the willfully gullible would regard this as a reliable reconstruction of the Obama story. I've read the one-star reviews, though, and looked in vain for a decisive refutation of the claim that the Dunham family lived in Lebanon during the 1950's. That claim is oddly pivotal, though, because it runs entirely counter to the narrative about Gramps being merely an oddly peripatetic furniture salesman. So I give this two stars, instead of one, because it left me with the sense that the many lacuna in the Obama biography are intentional, and that the orthodox narrative likely embodies some intentional falsehoods.

Unfortunately the movie is rather dull despite good acting I honestly wanted to like this movie.  I truly did.  But I found it terribly dull.  A military movie should have some action.  Instead, the movie tended to drag and I was barely able to pay attention half the time because I started to lose interest.  The actors are great, but something was definitely missing.  It's unfortunate.

what the...?! Now there is 90 min of my life that I could have spent scrubbing the staines out of my tighty whities than watch this crap. Is Nicky that broke? I only gave it two stars because the Accountant was ill, and Piper was sexy and tough. Shame on you Nicky. I did like the gun battle in the motel room though.

Boring for adults, dangerous for children First of all I would like to say that while I'm not a psychology major, it is a hobby of sorts, and I have probably logged more hours of psych and socio hours in my college years than most people have hours of education as a whole.  Not bragging, just stating that.  I usually tend to support the idea I'm thinking this movie was going for.  Kids, especially in today's times, need something to help them through tough situations.  Certain issues are starting to emerge that are having to be addressed at earlier ages.  But this movie, in my opinion, is horrible.  Not only is it confusing, but it has bad messages and promotes violence.  I also find it quite disturbing and scary, very dark and sinister even in the eyes of someone my age.  I can only imagine what younger children think.  This is not the storybook I loved as a child and parents beware!  Max is horribly out of control.  In the book he is portrayed as being a rowdy kid, in this movie he clearly has some mental issues that need to be tended to.  He runs away (after physically and verbally abusing his mother) and falls into the fantasy of this island inhabited by these large furry monster-like creatures.  After he finally lies and convinces the monsters he is a king, they decide not to eat him.  Max being king leads to more and more lies.  All the monsters begin to turn on Max and each other.  Max usually remedies this by encouraging drop kicking, dog piles, and even suggests they have a war with each other that is won by bashing each other in the head with dirt clods.  One monster becomes injured during the fight and Max eggs him on to continue throwing rocks at the creature, taking out his legs and then knocking him head over hill even after he has announced surrender.  The monster falls in a very brutal manner and receives a huge gash.  When Max has a falling out with Carol (the main monster) he chases Max trying to eat him, forcing max to hide in the belly of another monster.  Carol even rips his best friend's arm off! Sure there is no blood, but you can clearly see the severed arm and sand comes pouring out of the creature's body.  He replaces the arm with a stick.  The movie is just dripping with violence.  The emotional state of Max, Carol, and all of the creatures is really confusing.  I was very uneasy because of this.  It kind of disrupted everything the movie was aiming for.  I think this is a horrible example to children because the monsters sometimes love Max, but when he doesn't do things exactly the way they want, they start to lash out on everyone.  More importantly, in the end there is really no clear resolution to all their problems! Max finally snaps back into reality and goes home smiling.  Heck, he was a happy kid at the beginning of the movie! He would smile one minute and the next jump off the dinner table, bite his mom, and then run away wearing a wolf costume into the woods and scream blood curdling screams and slam sticks around.  Seriously, my thought was "Is this kid worshipping the devil?!"  The images of the movie are freaky and horrid and disturbed me, an adult!  Even some of the sounds in this movie are morbid and sadistic.  Parents, if you're just itching to give your kids nightmares, this is the movie for you! I'd let my kids watch Child's Play before this! At least they could understand there was an absolute evil being rather than some monsters with schizophrenia who hate/love/hate/love you.  I would suggest letting kids watch this when hitting about 7th grade, but its just too screwed up for a lesser age!  Its that confusing and damaging in my opinion (and like I said, I think kids do need to mature faster now and address difficult problems but this is not the way to handle it!)  As far as a movie for adults, Where the Wild Things Are is still a flop.  Boring, stupid, lame, and all covered in a stench of someone who tried too hard to relay messages through a movie.  Ruined a classic that children and parents used to enjoy together.  I walked away shaking my head.  To quote someone who watched it with me "I don't know where the wild things are, but I know where they can go!"  This movie was not for me and will NEVER in my eyes be a children's movie.

Hated It! Okay..I didnt exactly hate it, but I was let down as, tho i should know better, I expected this to be different from the overly produced overly hyped style of films today. It started off slow but promising, but it quickly turned into a cliche. The 2 main "maids" were just fine in their roles, but in contrast, almost everyone else seems cartoon like. The synopsis of this film sounds great, but, if I want to see something involving the civil rights era, I will watch a documentary, or "A Raisin In The Sun", with its amazing acting and modest look. I admittedly am NOT a fan of films where the production values are so "perfect" that it becomes Disneyesque, and the desire to get it authentic and "real" actually has the opposite effect. Okay..I'm going to say it, I greatly disliked this film, the several good performances aside. It's of the Oprah/Color Purple school, that beats you over the head with a huge budget, sweeping emotions, schmaltz, and sweeping score to accompany it all. Sorry, but this just leaves me cold. I much prefer indie, "little" films, where the message and the ability to genuinely amuse or move you is much more possible, at least to me. OH!!..and, I could have come up with 10 better, funnier ways to express the fired maids frustration and anger at being unjustly dismissed, rather than the vulgar, gross, juvenile, predictable making of a pie made out of her own crap..I found that not only gross but it had the opposite effect on me, I found it non sympathetic and demoralizing to her character. STUPID. As far as the popularity of this film, well..there's 2 possible explanations: Either I am not only hopelessly behind the times but also have lousy taste, Or: The masses are asses. I'm leaning towards the latter but that's just me.

fab kotex commercial talk about absorption power, bullet wound to thigh, carotid artery might have been more interesting but that would def blow her cover as long as she had that black hair dye...i luv cartoons n superheroes, but not some mangy skeletor who flies, ack this was a mess and i am a big fan of jolie, GIA, Mr n Mrs Smith, etc., have a burger babe, put a bit of meat on them bones n then we can take on an army of super agents and run up a wall like Matrix n skip bullets, least they splained that one w/mental prowess...i dunno ya kiss a ring a day, keep the bad guys away??? PAthetic

Sub-moronic Another ninety minutes blown away through ill-advised curiosity.  2005 was a wonderful year for 35mm FujiFilm. What kind of cam rig could you put together for $3500? Possibly one good enough for Asher to use on his next project.

Not worth the price Didn't realize this was only a collection of shorts.  Wouldn't have been half bad if I had not already seen some of the other shorts in other collections I already own.  Animation and story on the main title were as expected for a Superman video but I really only want to buy this sort of thing when it contains a feature length movie.  Would not recommend on Blu-Ray (because of the price) and certainly not worth $25.  Pick it up if you haven't seen any of the shorts before and you can get it for less than $15. I would have liked it much better if it was an hour long feature.

Not as expected We have seen many Cirque shows & this one was not nearly as interesting as the live shows.  The 3D effects weren't very good either.

perfectly awful, though Lugosi rises above all others This is a war spy film about a group of Japanese men placed in the US as a fifth column, taking the place of businessmen.  I was intrigued by it because it sounds like "the hundred days of the dragon" that was an early Outer Limits episode.  Unfortunately, the film has simply terrible acting, with the exception of the mysterious mastermind as played by Lugosi.  The men are like sleeper agents, waiting to be activiated by hypnotism.  It comes off as both unbelievable and unbearably slow, with wooden dialogue and the crudest stereotypes of "the enemy" that one can imagine.  Not recommended.

Captain America: The Story of Underwhelming Theatrical Outcomes There was nothing but excitement as I waited in the midnight showing line for Captain America. It didn't matter if I had business in the morning (this movie would rock!). Unfortunately, that was not the case. In the end, I found myself trying to convince myself I didn't waste my time or money.  In my opinion, the movie failed to capitalize on the great cast and instead went for a very safe route or what the movie executives perceived as 'safe'. The dialogue was quite boring and there was not enough time devoted to developing the characters. In the end it felt rushed and underdeveloped. There were little character I could relate to and Tommy Lee Jone was pretty much had the only memorable moments. There is no replay value. Very sad. I really wanted to like this movie. I could give a second movie a try but I will wait to after I read reviews this time. The Avengers movie doesn't have me too excited but hopefully it will rock.

just ok heard alot of hype about this film and i saw it recently and i didn't find it funny or that memorable. things were obvious from the word jump and it was all long winded and drawn out before it got to the obvious.  the acting was ok as well, nobody stood out and this film has been made 499 times already and about 480 times better as well. the storyline was sad, but the formula of the film was just kinda there.

Good intro to Twain's darker, stranger works -- but for kids? Will Vinton brings his creative genius to the task of bringing complexity and depth to the work of Mark Twain. He does this via putting his Claymation Twain on a hot air steamship to rendezvous with Halley's Comet in 1910, the year of Twain's death. Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher stow away and are subject to Twain's wry observations and humor. Unbeknownst to the kids, Twain's evil twin is also on board, trying to scuttle the journey. The confusion between the works and words of "light" Twain and "dark" Twain account for some of the journey's dramatic moments.  I would have expected a Twain film to highlight Twain's great works - Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. But these are mostly missing, except for a terrifying cameo by Injun Joe. Instead, Twain's lesser known, more difficult and adult-oriented works are highlighted - Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven, The Diary of Adam and Eve and Letters from the Earth. The last, with a terrifying Satan playing life and death games with little clay people, is extremely dark and creepy.  Kudos to Vinton for trying to being the "real" Twain to life. And kudos with bringing Twain's more difficult works to public notice. Bravo for putting Twain's own sayings into this character's mouth -- though some, like "as surprised as a Presbyterian in Hell" are dated and almost impossible to comprehend. Congrats also with showing a man in his humorous and evil-tempered sides. Congrats also for daring to poke pointed fun at Heaven and Hell with any audience.  But is this a kid's movie? The subtitle, "Where dreams become reality," seems to suggest this, but is pretty misleading. There is nothing in the story about dreams becoming true -- other than Twain's morbid expectation that he would go out with the comet as he came in with it. And the odd choice of offbeat Twain material makes this a poor choice for introducing kids to the great author. Not to mention that what was included would be nightmare materials for many kids. I think even some 12-year-olds would find this stuff too much to handle.  Yet "The Adventures of Mark Twain" is extremely well made and innovative, if a bit pokey in the dialog. If anything, it will give non-kids a sense of the mature (and often religious) themes that obsessed Twain. Watch the movie, then pick up "The gospel according to Mark Twain" to get the full treatment of his often funny, often insightful musings about religion.

Good Movie...Not So Good Playback This was a good movie.  I laughed almost the whole way through.  The only problem I had was the playback.  The movie would buffer every 10 minutes and I had to restart it on numerous occasions.  As I said, good movie...not so good playback.

meh. I wanted to like this film ... but it was just too over-the-top in trying to be "grindhouse." I loved the Grindhouse films of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UAE7O0">Grindhouse Presents, Planet Terror - Extended and Unrated (Two-Disc Special Edition)</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000R7HY0K">Grindhouse Presents, Death Proof - Extended and Unrated (Two-Disc Special Edition)</a>, but this one -- despite its excellent cast -- just didn't do "it" for me. Especially shoddy was Jessica Alba who made me wonder if she really had to try hard to be that bad of an actress. The action is plentiful and the gore is hilarious; and I realize that that was Rodriguez's aim. However, there's something about it that I wasn't too taken with. There's absolutely no "rewatching" value to this film even though it delivers on the action. Whereas "Grindhouse" pulled off the cheesy acting along with the action superbly, "Machete" just feels like a wasted exercise in trying to reach the same goal. Plus, it hits a little too close to the real-life border wars that are going on right now in the south/Mexico. I'm not political at all which is why I think I didn't appreciate Rodriguez taking a political hot topic and using this film (of all films) to make his own political statement (albeit in a cheesy fashion: "We didn't cross the border! The border crossed us!") It's good for a rent but I wouldn't buy it!

Pretty Bland I purchased this movie after reading the reviews and I must say I was extremely surprised that so many people had so many good things to say about a movie that had so little to offer. It was like watching a bad high school play. Both the acting and writing were on a pretty bland level. I would not recommend it at all.

Bored through out it. Watch the original. Not necessarily better by defenition, but this made me nearly fall asleep, then play video games later. At least I played some TF2 while attempting to watch this.

Disappointing Quality This was not their best performance,is not a complete show, and the video and sound quality leaves much to be desired.

They forgot that great humanitarian and vegetarian ... Adolph Hitler.  Most of his victims were non-violent people. (WOW! did I just prove Godwin's law first?) IMPORTANT POINT -- We'd all be a lot better off eating far less meat and fat.  I suggest you do it. [My own BP, weight & cholesterol are admirable.] See, I can be a real pain in the ass, just like this movie.  Other than the excellent point about eating less crap, the film is a crock.

go tell the spartans The movie was everthing I hoped it would be. But the quality of the video was a little disappointing.  At about mid way it would stop for(sometimes a couple of minutes) a length of time then would start again only choppy, After a bit it statred working fine.  I tried this a couple of times and it always did the same at the same point in the movie.

Horrible DVD This DVD is awful! Do not waste your money. Whoever created it doesn't know much about children. I have two kids and babysit two kids. Their ages range from 18 mos.to 5 years old. None of the kids liked it. They would not watch it past the letter C! The music is bad, the exercises are mostly silly & useless and the guy in it is strange & creepy. His voice is actually very annoying. There's nothing fun or catchy about this DVD.

My favorite movie of all time...only kinda The following review is of the blu-ray disc itself as a product and NOT of the movie. When I was a wee lad of 13 a friend of mine loaned me an long-play VHS tape with a whole bunch of Anime on it. After skimming through a project A-Ko movie and some Dragon Ball Z episodes I decided that I did not care for Anime as a whole and was about to turn off the TV when the first few seconds of AKIRA came on and....  ...blew my teenage freakin' mind.  So you can imagine my joy when I discovered that Akira was out on Blu-ray and I could now watch my favorite movie of all time in stunning HD awesomeness. Only problem was that once I popped that bad boy in...it wasn't the same movie.  For reasons I do not understand the original dub of Akira was never even transferred over to DVD (to my knowledge and if you know otherwise....help a brother out). So the movie that I fell in love with doesn't exist anymore except on VHS. Why? You're guess is as good as mine. The original movie had awesome voice acting and is literally ingrained in my subconscious. So yeah...the fact that there are not only new voices in the mix...but new dialogue as well = not ok with me. There is no reason that the original dub should not (at the very least) be included. I want to watch the Akira I "grew up" with. I don't care how accurate the new dub is to the original translation and neither does anybody else I think.  Sure the old dub was a little goofy at times, but there are parts of the new dub where characters mouths are moving without any dialogue! WTF?!? I wanted to see my favorite movie of all time - not a "different take on it". I was able to watch the Japanese version without getting too worked up and it was interesting to see the differences in the dialogue that honestly help the movie make a bit more sense with respect to the book...but I don't want that. I want the Akira I knew and loved.  I don't understand this phenomenon of re-releasing movies that were perfectly fine to begin with new scenes and dialogue (Suck it George Lucas BTW). Do we need a high-def version of the Mona Lisa as redone by another artist?  No. Why? Because the original has a charm and uniqueness that can't be replicated and the minute you do you remove what makes it special.  Same deal here.

Disappointed with Bluray quality The movie itself was simplistic in its story. Acting was good all round. Still definitely not worth more than one Oscar at the most. Think about this: the number of characters were a handful. Nothing big on costumes. No special effects at all. Shots could have been done with a good handycam. Wonder why the Oscars? Regarding the product itself: the bluray quality was awful. Don't waste money on the bluray. Probably the regular DVD may have a better resolution. Worst bluray resolution I have ever seen.

I saw this movie in 3-D I really don't think I would buy the blu ray dvd movie, but when I saw it at an IMAC theater in 3-D, it was increadable. That's the only way to see this movie. Without the 3-D effects, it's not that great.

American Anthem I rated it low because I thought I was getting a DVD.  Otherwise I would rate it as 5 stars because I love the movie.

Great For Laughs, Not Intentionally In his movie book, Leonard Maltin calls this movie "A Mawkish Sudser" which is TOO kind. Perhaps, it's when the movie came out (1963) and the country was still coming out of the "feel good" 50's and hadn't yet see a young president assasinated, or that the writer Earl Hamner was getting us ready for The Waltons, but the movie is perhaps, TOO unrealistic.  I will say though, I laughed myself silly watching it... really. Wally Cox in a serious role, a snicker- James McArthur as Clay-Boy, solid laughs-Henry Fonda in an idealic setting with no demons to frustrate him, rolling on the floor hysterical!  Yeah, I'm jaded, but I actually enjoyed this movie for the unintended humor. There is BEAUTIFUL scenery... but then it gets funny again when Wally Cox walks in with a fedora six times bigger than his head. And if you really like it, hey that's cool, taste is subjective.

Elementary Insanity I have to agree with Terry Sue's earlier review. Both my husband and I are cyclists and we were excited about watching this award winning film. It is not anything like the Tour de France. It is biking insanity and shows no real value of the rider's pursuit. We hailed the rider who decided his family was more important than his obsession. Also we felt the film was home made - do not understand the awards given - ??

You people must be Noobs First Off, i will be buying this set out of loyality to my favorite show of all time.....BUT! that being said Beavis & Butthead 2.0 is mediocre to down right crappy. Here are a few of my points:  1. Reality segments on Beavis & Butthead BLASPHEMY!!! 2. Notice how they cant say any music video sucks anymore. They have to be smart asses and insinuate it sucks instead, like a true generation y'er (yuppie). First off, old school beavis & butthead werent smart enough to insinuate anything THEY JUST FLAT OUT SAID IT and secondly Beavis & Butthead will always be generation x'ers (a high point of the 90's (which was a great decade in general)) 3. Where are all the cool, totally inspiring, or totally ridiculuos videos?!? ive seen 1! (its so cold in the d, reminds me of the stupid/absurd videos of the 90's) 4. The new episodes in general are pretty weak. with only 1 good and 2 mediocre, the rest of em' how you say SUCK! (there's a reason the cornholio episode was used as a promo, being that it was the only truly worthy episode of the season. And believe me when i say this, im NOT a huge cornholio fan (I like about 50/50 of the episodes where beavis breaks him out) but this one was a good'un) 5.etc....  In closing: I wish Beavis & Butthead would of just died out with the 90's, along with phish, and along with ministry, cauz none of them have been very good in the new millenium.  Excuse My Poor Grammer (Written In A Rush) -Robert

I Was Rooting for Tong Po. Viewed: 5/12 Rate: 4  5/12: Kickboxer is Jean Claude Van Damme's second film, and despite the excellent looking poster, it isn't a very good film, acting wise or kickboxing wise. Sure, the film has its moments, but they are too few and far between. Tong Po is the better villain than Bolo Yeung in Bloodsport, but he is largely wasted in the poorly choreographed final fight. The fight looked to me, for the majority of the time, that Tong Po had Kurt Sloane in his grip, but somehow, Sloane finds enough to overcome his physically damaged body and manage to improbably defeat Tong Po. It's just not a very good film. Meanwhile, it had too many cheesy, corny scenes, especially with Eric, Kurt's brother. The story is stupid as hell. It just doesn't make any sense; you are in Bangkok, stupid. Things shouldn't translate into common sense there. All in all, if you have to pick, go with Bloodsport. By the way, that heavyweight belt looks absolutely fake; in a fact, it's probably a weightlifter's belt for all I know.

DVD PURCHASE OF SEVEN POUNDS DVD arrived in reasonable time. It didn't work until I cleaned it. The mailing price was thirty per cent higher on original postage. The selling price was very good. I would buy again from this seller.

I did not receive my resistance band I received the dvd but I did not receive the resistance band that is suppose to come with it. I'm disappointed about that. It says that it the featured item with this video is the resistance band. If they send me my band my review will be higher.

REVIEW IS FOR DVD 3D I got the 3D dvd several years ago  when it was on sale  only in Japan.The 3D  was not that good as one had to  wear  a type of  glasses that no other 3D dvd ever had.  One did not know which scenes in the  film were of  the actual titanic wreck or  made in a studio.No doubt the forthcoming bluray will be far superior but I would not buy it as  I don't want to see  studio  sets of the  wreck -only the  actual  wreck.

Embryo Most the video was dark and it was really hard trying to see the picture.  The audio was good but overall, I would rate the quality of the picture as bad.

Thuddingly Dull CHAMELEON, we are told at the beginning of this film, is based on a true story about a French lad who disguises himself as other people as a way of gaining attention and 'love' which is apparently missing in his life as a near orphan. Written by Natalie Carter and writer/director Jean-Paul Salom&eacute; it misses the opportunity to use a factual story and transpose it to the screen in such a way that we care enough about the characters to become involved in the unfolding of this charade.  Unfortunately the writing and the casting and directing work against this and the result is a surprisingly uninvolving, fairly boring tale.  Nicholas Barclay (Marc-Andr&eacute; Grondin) has been missing since age 13, for reasons unclear to the town's people in Baton Rouge. LA.  Nicholas shows up in Spain after an auto accident, is treated for PTSD and is mutely amnesic until he suddenly talks and lets the hospital people know that he is Nicholas Barclay, a missing person. He states he was kidnapped and forced into a child prostitution ring that involved rape, abuse and torture - the reasons he gives for his lack of memory. Nicholas's sister Kathy (Emilie de Ravin) spends her last money to fly to France to pick up her lost brother and return him 'home' - to his chain-smoking depressed mother Kimberly (Ellen Barkin in a surprisingly monotone, phoned-in performance), Kathy's husband Brian (Brian Geraghty) and his sociopathic brother Brendan (Nick Stahl).  Nicholas's identity is not clear to his family, except for his sister Kathy who offers compassion and fights for Nicholas' rights: the others doubt that their Nicholas is alive because of events they know to be true. The FBI in the persons of Tory Kittles and Famke Janssen investigate, doubting that Nicholas is who he says he is.  After a dysfunctional attempt to relate to most of his family, his story starts to unravel and the true story of what happened to Nicholas starts to emerge: 'Nicholas'  is  Fr&eacute;d&eacute;ric Bourdin, who after having plundered all the centers for runaway minors and delinquents in Europe, even though he has come of age, now passes himself off as Nicholas Barclay, shaves his body hair, and attempts to a carry off another 'chameleon caper' in the US.  The cinematic aspects of the film fail to make the story involving: the colors are so washed out that it appears to be made on cheap film, the story is disjointed with such scenes as Nicholas shaving his body hair really adding little to the tale, the surprisingly dull performance by Ellen Barkin is a shock, and Marc-Andr&eacute; Grondin is simply not up to making us realize the potential of this fascinating story.  Famke Janssen and Brian Geraghty make the most of the roles they are given, but otherwise the cast is unremarkable.  Grady Harp, August 11

Just like an audio book In terms of substance, it's just like an audio book. The narrator tells the story from the beginning till  the end. The video clips are very brief. Each is about couple minutes long. Therefore, they don't show enough details about the Romans' clothes, armors, etc. The same problem happens to the Barbarians. The fighting scenes are very short too. They fail to give me a feeling of the battles. The video is blurry and looks washed out. It seems it was transferred from tape to DVD. Its shoestring budget is clearly exposed. As another reviewer said, it covers the Romans' invasion of Britain. So the barbarians mean only the people living in Britain at that time.  This DVD has 2 advantages.  1. There are some maps which help me understand the story a little better. 2. They interviewed an authoritative person on this subject, Dr. David Chandler from Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. I guess that makes their information dependable.  In short, it's boring. I prefer to read a book with illustrations than watching this.

THINK 1980S CINEMAX Yes, it's been decades since FOR YOUR EYES ONLY and Bunuel, and Carole Bouquet has no butt, but it's still nice to see her in this movie, even if it is for just a little while.  The star of this movie is a George Castanza type who really knows how to down some beers (not wine), and the bars in this French movie are kinda sleazy, not quaint.  Despite some classical music in the background, this movie comes off like some 1980s direct to Cinemax movie, and that's not a bad thing.  This movie is more like THE HITCHER or SOMETHING WILD than any Hitchcock or Chabrol, though of course name dropping those two directors is better advertising.  The scenes of drunk driving on a 2-lane road at night are scary/moody enough, there's the cliche of radio music interupted by news of a prison escape, and the cliched evil hitchhiker.  No great thrills, but it's mostly fun, with a long episode akin to a trippy BARFLY.

Much ado about nothing Two very fine actors with a script that is far less than worthy of them. Tedious, too long, too verbal, not interesting enough and the ending a disappointment

If you don't follow the game don't get the movie I was very excited when i recieved this video in the mail as i am very much into the AC saga. The movie does have some rough lines and CG is noticable at times. It's not a big screen "movie" so it's somewhat expected. i opened the case put the movie in and sat back to relax and watch. I was severly let down when the movie came to an end just over 30 minutes. WARNING if you do not play or know much of anything about the game do not get the movie you will have wasted your money. Grant it the movie is a little behind where the game is but it really dropps you off expecting more. If you do know about and follow the game then dowload the movie for free, borrow it from a friend but i wouldn't pay for it. $8 for 30 minutes of movie it's not worth the money.

Instant download Ip Man Free and instant download. What's not to like? I saved it to watch while I was in the hospital, and then couldn't find it or how to download it. Frustrating at best.

Not what it seemed This was a surrealistic look at Margaret Thatcher and the trailer is totally misleading.  It cut in and out of her life which I suppose was as an elderly woman, portraying her somewhat with dementia and delusions with some info from flashbacks? to the time that she was Prime Minister and how she got there.  There were four of us watching this we all came away wondering what that was about.  It felt like a Dali painting you know its supposed to be a woman but the parts are all over the place.  Margaret Thatcher was a fascinating woman she deserved better....Meryl Streep, the real selling point in the trailer was, as usual fabulous.

Disappointed I always get so hopeful when I hear that a Christian movie is coming out and then view it and once again, disappointment.  When I finished it, I was so glad I didn't pay money to see it in a theatre. It is completely predictable(not nearly as good as Family Man).  Now, I think a lot of Christian movies are cheesy but still enjoyable.  Not this one, sorry.  And also what constitutes a Christian movie?  clean? moral? or a gospel message that is Biblical?  This one passes on the first two but the Gospel message is lacking if not completely missing. Definitely a social gospel if anything.  In my opinion, if the message of Christ is not present then don't call it Christian.  Call it family-friendly.  I'm still hopeful that someone will put out a decent Christian movie with a Gospel message that is quality and entertaining.  Still waiting.  Another movie marketed to the Christian crowd that happens to have a church in the setting.

Thumbs down.......Where's the showmanship they are known for??? I was disappointed this DVD shows hardly any of the tricks that they are known for. I had to go to you-tube to show my son what I was talking about. When I was a child I remember seeing them on TV performing.They were so funny and impossibly talented !! I actually didn't know the history of them so I guess that was nice, but without showing them perform it's pretty useless. I wouldn't recommend buying it, I would just go to You-Tube and watch.

Flawed and pathetic CONS: the series touts Paul Revere as the hero and spreading the word of the British advances. Talk about a major error in fact. If the History Channel had done its research they would learn Mr. Revere was captured and that other Patriots would make more heroic rides and actually warn of the English advance.  There are numerous errors such as this throughout the series, but the thing that bugs me the most is that slavery is brought up in almost every episode, I'm not exaggerating. And not just a mention of it, but several minutes of almost every episode talk about blacks and their mistreatment throughout America's history, however the American Indian and the mistreatment of Asians on the West Coast are barely spoken of. Also forget about hearing about the Korean War and the Pacific Theater of combat from World War II.  Also the series is supposed to give a serious look at American History, so why are actors, like Micahel speaking about it?  PROS: -Brings to light little things in American History most people wouldn't know (i.e. how barbed wire came in existence) -Has several notable guest speakers who are well versed in their fields (Colin Powell, A Marine First Sgt. who has clearly seen a few things) Stirring and motivating opening sequence  RECOMMENDATION: Please don't waste your money on this. If you want to see it, check it out at your local library. NOT WORTH YOUR MONEY

DH Lawrence is weird For those of you not familiar with DH Lawrence, he must be really strange.  I thought the move was weird, though it probably means it very accurately portrayed the book.  I don't know, as I never read the book.  I did not care much for the movie, since it is strange and in places very depressing.  For example, a young couple who are in love drown for no apparent reason.  As far as I was concerned, the highlight of the movie was Glenda Jackson taking off her shirt and showing her breasts.

Thumbs down on this movie! I am glad I did not pay money to watch this junk  Hollywood keeps churning out sinker after sinker. The plot was so poor I had to stop and watching it  over several days  10 mins here 25 there. Acting and movie's pace was way to fast. The alien bad guys just like Aliens, Independence day and all the rest of them never do find out were they come from.  I am being kind when I give it a 2 stars. It could have been better and as the kids say producers need  a do over.

Disc skip So the reason why I gave a 2 star is cause the order took alittle linfer that I hoped and one the the discs would freeze half way into the movie. I would have to fast forward threw it or the hole movie would freeze.

Bad Bergman, Better Ullmann... finally available on DVD First off, there is no more devoted Ingmar Bergman fan in the world than I... but this is a really bad movie. Bergman came to see it that way himself--I know; he told me so. I had the good fortune of spending a few days with the Swedish master as he was finishing up "Fanny & Alexander," and he considered "Face to Face" a failure. For those calling this a "masterpiece;" what are you smoking? I hadn't seen this since its theatrical release in the U.S. and have long lamented the fact that it's never been available on DVD in this country. There's a reason; it's very weak Bergman, despite the fact that he and Ullmann got Oscar nominations--and many other tributes at the time. I suspect that part of the problem is that--like the far superior "Scenes from a Marriage" and "Fanny & Alexander"--"Face to Face" started as a Swedish TV mini-series. Surely lots of motivation and back-story got lost in the editing down to feature length. As it is, Ullmann's Jenny, a psychiatrist, gets bummed out while her husband is away, goes to a cliche-ridden party full of gay stereotypes, meets a bisexual Erland Josephsson, rescues a psychiatric patient and nearly gets raped in the process... and then swallows a bottle of sleeping pills. The second half of the movie is Liv Ullmann's master class in cinematic acting in close-up. The problem is that with such flimsy motivation for her "nervous breakdown" histrionics, it doesn't add up to much. We then get lots of "Mamma, Daddy, I love you, I hate you" to try and wedge-in some unhappy childhood explanation for her current despair. It just doesn't add up.  And it's really sad to see the Bergman/Nykvist team, who had created some of cinema's best dreams/nightmares from "Wild Strawberries"[not Nykvist] through "Hour of the Wolf" and "Cries and Whispers"... drop the ball with these lame nightmares in "Face to Face."  I'm still glad I got to see it again after all these years.  I was at last year's Berlin Film Festival, which included a full Bergman retrospective--and even then they couldn't get an English subtitled copy of the film.  People have complained her about the quality of the transfer for this DVD, but it's much better than I expected.  No, it's not Criterion Collection quality, but it's OK.

Well. Let's see here. I've seen all the spidey movies. The old batman and Christopher Nolan's batman trilogy. Also seen Great super hero anime movies like Hulk vs. and the batman anime movies along with the punisher war zone, thor, Blade's movies, arnold's movies (all of them, action that is), Matrix, Transporter 1 and 2, Michael Jai White action flicks, the list goes on. I'm a big action and i have a very large movie collection. I must say though that this movie just doesn't do it for me. It seemed boring, kind of slow, just didn't have enough/much action in it and what was there was not that big of a deal. Really. My friend likes it and i don't see why. The story is really nothing to get excited about and isn't what you would call captivating. I rate this by far 2.5 out of 5 stars. To be honest, on my first watch i couldn't even finish it it was that weak. Maybe 3 stars, but check out all the other ones first or buy them. They are worth you time and money. Check out my Listmania's

Meet Dr. Christian  Synergy seller version I will only point out that in the version of the dvd I bought from Synergy, part way though the film there is a jump cut to a later scene in the film (I didn't understand what had happened until I had viewed the entire film and then realized that this jump cut belonged much later). I may break down and buy the film from another company to see if there is only one apparent source print or if it is Synergy's version that is faulty.

attended the premier from the Plaza in NYC...woohoo and there the excitement ends...Drew is sooooo beautiful in person vs her screen image and of course the Clooney magic is never ending, cept for this borefest...geez louise, maybe I can blame the editor and GC had tons of useful celluloid and was too busy courting some hot cupcake to oversee the final product, I REALLY wanted to see him excel given his fine performances on the other side, I rermember the banal existence portrayed with Barris's original fructose fodder and learned at an early age to eschew the small screen, curious who wrote the fav reviews, Fincher...Soderbergh...Stone...Griffiths????  guess if I wanna watch discombulated unrealistic lotsa loose ends fare I will enjoy Memento, a high class roller coaster ride... but thx GC for trying, what's next, don't tell me!

Lights out on this awful film I went to see this with the hope of getting Revenge of the Fallen's bad taste out of my mouth.  Fission Mailed  Where to begin? The plot, while being nowhere near as "immature" as ROTF, still suffered from being clogged with too much filler and not making much sense. It's an overlong mess with the CGI eye candy being the only redeeming factor of this film. It's clear that Bay knows how to make a big budget action film with explosions aplenty, but he cannot write a decent script for these movies to save his life. It's not his fort&eacute; and hasn't been since The Rock. The movie peaks with a huge, final battle in Chicago that is nuts, but you will just be wanting it to be over with by the time it finally takes place. The 3D is well used in spots, but that cannot make up for the fact that almost everything in it is just a letdown. Do not buy unless you really want to complete your collection.

Not entertaining, funny, or dramatic The movie wasn't really bad, but it was bad enough that I couldn't take it and turned it off before it was over (and I rented the movie).  It was very slow and was not believable.  Some movies are like that but are still good, but they make up for the negatives with genuine drama or special effects or something.  The acting was good, I can say that.  I like Luke Wilson.  He was outstanding in The Marvelous Tenenbaums.  I'm very surprised this film got a high overall rating.  The fact that the rating was so high for THIS movie makes me distrust customer ratings on Amazon for any other movie.

the colors are weird Whoever "enhanced" the colors in this version of Sleeping Beauty ruined them.  The Princess either drinks too much or spent quality time with solar radiation because her skin glows pink - when it is not disconcertingly changing color.  You can see an example of the type of completely awful skin discoloration I mean in one of the pictures posted above on the listing: the three fairies looking into the cradle.  Okay, so maybe fairies have unnatural skin, but everyone else?  Notice that in that picture the wood of the cradle is pink too.  I know little girls love pink, but did they have to tint EVERYTHING that color?)  If you watch the commercial for this where they show the original coloration and the "enhanced" version side by side, it's pretty obvious the original colors look more natural.  The enhanced stuff looks florescent.  It would be bad enough if that's all that was wrong, but they didn't keep it even.  Things change tint at random, sometimes when all they're doing is just standing there.  If you have a choice, get the older version of this - skip the "new, enhanced" hack job.

Poor quality recording Firstly let me say that I did not buy this product from Amazon, but from a different supplier.  Just thought I'd share my experience here in case it helps someone else.  Although this is a beautiful movie, I'm awarding it 2 stars because of the very poor quality of the recording, and only because of that.  It almost looks like the movie was re-recorded with a handheld camera, before it was written to DVD.  The sound quality is poor, as is the video quality.  And when titles appear on screen, you can actually see the text moving around / floating.  To me, a sure indication that this DVD wasn't printed from the original film.  I've contacted Arrowfilms for comment (the distributor), but haven't heard back yet.  I'll try to update this review once/if I do.  There does seem to be different prints available of Indochine DVD.  Maybe the others offer better quality.  For a movie that promises so much in terms of the audio-visual experience, I cannot recommend this version of the DVD.

it's a made for TV movie I watched this the other day - I wouldn't rank it as a big screen movie, but more like a made for TV movie.  Try to find it on TV rather than pay for a DVD.  Not that good, I wouldn't have even kept watching it, but already saw it on here and it got good reviews.  I would have passed on it otherwise.  I expected a lot more.

Not horrible, but nothing relatively good either Directed by modern day schlock-meister Dominic Sena, Season of the Witch stars Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman as crusade deserters that are reluctantly tasked with escorting a young girl (Claire Foy) to trial by monks after being accused of being a witch and bringing the plague to the land.  Their party also features a few other characters, and naturally, things don't go particularly well on their journey.  Let it first be said that Season of the Witch is nowhere near as bad as I thought it would be when I first caught wind of it.  Cage and Perlman are good in their roles, but the unbelievably predictable script (granted the bit of a twist towards the end is a surprise) and overly brisk pace don't help matters any.  For all its flaws, Season of the Witch isn't all that bad really, and warrants a look as a decent enough time-waster on a rainy afternoon.

Northern Exposure dvd's 4th season A while ago I purchased the entire series of DVD's of Northern Exposure.  Most of them are all right, but some of them are defective and break up into little squares when you try to view them.  They simply cannot be viewed.  They were all new and unused.  This is very disappointing.  So far the only problem seems to be with the 4th season.  They were not all purchased from the same source and I no longer have the paperwork.  Any suggestions?

March, die, or just be bored to death The poster says "The Foreign Legion - they were the greatest fighting force of all time and they obeyed but one command - `March or Die'". That'll give you the basic idea of this 1977 film produced by block buster makers Jerry Bruckheimer and Sir Lew Grade and starring an international cast from the U.S. (Gene Hackman), France (Catherine Deneuve), Italy (Terrence Hill), England (Ian Holms) and Sweden (Max van Sydow).  Time: After the Great War. Place: Morocco.  Gene Hackman (1930) plays a Major haunted by memories of the Great War in which he lost all but 200 of his 8000 man Battalion, and reluctant to act as the guard for an expedition which will likely result in armed opposition from the locals. Hackman is a two time Oscar winner ("Unforgiven" and "The French Connection") and earned 3 more nominations ("Mississippi Burning", "I Never Sang for my Father", "Bonnie and Clyde"). A veteran of nearly 100 films in a career that started in 1961, personally I liked him best as the blind man in "Young Frankenstein" (1974).  Beautiful Catherine Deneuve (1943) was nominated for the French "Oscar" 10 times, winning twice, for "Indochine" (1992) and "The Last Metro" (1980). Some of her most memorable roles have been in "Umbrellas of Cherbourg" (1964), "Repulsion" (1965) and "8 Women", but I enjoyed her best in "The Hunger" (1983). Deneuve plays the film's love interest, but it's hard to get too excited as Deneuve is so seriously depressed throughout the film.  Terence Hill (1939) is best known for his 1970s westerns like "My Name is Trinity", "My Name is Nobody", and "Trinity is Still My Name". Hill plays a Legionnaire who smiles no matter what happens.  Ian Holms (1931) plays an Arab leader who is opposed to an expedition to unearth a 3000 year old lost city... Holms appeared in more than 100 films, although he's probably best known today for his role as Bilbo Baggins. He was nominated for an Oscar for his role as the coach in "Chariots of Fire" (1981), and received 6 BAFTA nominations, winning twice ("Chariots of Fire" and "The Bofors Gun"). He's probably most famous as Bilbo Baggins in the "Lord of the Rings" films, but I think his performance in "Greystoke" is his best. He gives one of the few adequate performances in this film.  Max von Sydow (1929) is best known for his outstanding work with Ingmar Bergman in classics like "The Seventh Seal" (1957), "Wild Strawberries" (1957), "The Magician" (1958), "The Virgin Spring" (1960), and "Through a Glass Darkly" (1961). He was nominated for a Golden Globe for his work in "Hawaii" (1966) and "The Exorcist" (1973), and an Oscar for "Pelle the Conqueror" (1987). Max plays an archeologist willing to risk the Legionnaire lives to investigate the hidden city.  Writer, producer and director Dick Richards (1936) was nominated for an Oscar and a BAFTA as producer for "Tootsie" (1982), the only other film he produced. As a director he made only 7 films including "Farewell My Lovely" (1975) and "The Culpepper Cattle Co." (1972).  Executive Producer Jerry Bruckheimer (1945) is the powerhouse behind so many mega hits in film and TV it's impossible to list them all. Here's a list of my top 10 - "CSI" (2000-2011), "Cold Case" (2003-10), "Without a Trace" (2002-9), "Pirates of the Caribbean" (2003), "Black Hawk Down" (2001), Armageddon" (1998), "The Rock" (1996), "Bad Boys" (1995), and "Crimson Tide" (1995).  FWIW - Bruckheimer's first 4 films as an associate producer/producer was with Dick Richards on "Culpepper Cattle Co." (1972), "Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins" (1975), "Farewell My Lovely" (1975), and this film.  The beautiful photography is by John Alcott, the Oscar winning photographer of "Barry Lyndon" (1975), one of the dullest but most beautifully filmed movies of all time. Alcott's credits also include "A Clockwork Orange" (1971), "The Shining" (1980), and "No Way Out" (1987).  The French Foreign Legion has been covered in dozens of films, the most famous of which is "Beau Geste" that was filmed a half dozen times and featured Ronald Coleman (1926) and Gary Cooper (1939) among others. Other notable films include "Morocco" (1930) with Gary Cooper, Adolph Menjou, and Marlene Dietrich, "Under Two Flags" (1936) with Ronald Coleman, Victor McLaglen, and Claudette Colbert, and Jean-Claude Van Damme's "Legionnaire" (1998). Of course we can't forget the Abbott and Costello 1950 comedy and the "Carry On" satire in 1967. Of this entire group, my personal favorite is the 1939 "Beau Geste".  The big block busters in 1977 were "Star Wars", "Close Encounters", "The Rescuers", "Saturday Night Fever", and "The Goodbye Girl". "Annie Hall" picked up 3 Oscars (Picture, Director, Actress) and "Julia" picked up two (Supporting Actor, Actress). Other notable films that year were "Equus", "Eraserhead", and "New York. New York", and "Smokey and the Bandit".  The film was a box office disappointment, with a budget of $9 million and a gross of only $1 million. The NY Times' Janet Maslin disliked the "peculiarly listless all-star cast" and called the movie "extraordinarily wooden" and "static". In fact, I would go a bit further and say the film is downright depressing from the very first scene.  As with most films of this nature, the lead up is to a climactic scene in which a small bunch of soldiers is attacked by a much larger force (e.g., "Zulu", "The Alamo", "Lost Patrol", "The Spartans", "The Wild Bunch").  All things considered, this is probably one of the poorest versions of that type of scene.  The film is not without merits. The photography is excellent, and the machinations inside the Foreign Legion are certainly interesting. The sly homage to Marlene Dietrich brought a smile to my face.

Really not that great.... So we have a guy moping around feeling cursed at being blessed with a gift.  Then there's the woman who briefly experienced death while being overtakened and nearly drowned by a Tsunami.  She then has visions of the little girl she tried to save. A boy, who loses his twin brother in a horrible accident, and has a drug addicted mom.  The movie starts out great as the three stories are introduced.  I was hooked and looking forward to all the possible angles, theories that could have been analyzed about death, dying, and our ultimate stop.  It didn't happen.  It was a story about how death affects three people and the emotions that go along with losing someone, even if that someone is you.  Very slow paced, and the ending left alot to be desired.  The last 5 minutes turned into a romantic love story, with our guy Matt practically drooling while he fantasizes like a school boy about kissing and holding a girls hand.  I expected a little more from this movie.

Insidepulse Movies - Mike Noyes The way Blood Junkie starts is one of great promise. It captures the look of old '80s horror films very well and even manages to get the pace right, which most modern slasher flicks miss out on. However, despite these two key ingredients, Junkie fails to provide a satisfying meal...  Read my full review here:  [...]

Too  dark  to see I  have watched all the Potter films and I just finished watching Hallows Part 1.  I know the plot was darker in tone than the others but why make the film so hard to see.  Maybe its my eyesight - but frankly I could not see much for most of the film.  Either nighttime or in the dark.  Oh well - I listened.  Very disappointed.

Not what I was expecting This is not the Mickey and The Beanstalk that I remember -- this one included creepy marionette howdy doody-ish puppets live action that my toddler was afraid of!  I was even slightly skeeved by the puppets, and seriously, why was this little girl alone at a party with an adult male puppet weirdo?  Ok anyway -- whenever the live action sequences came on (which is pretty often) my kid would cry MICKEY!  MORE MICKEY!  We had to do a lot of fast-forwarding.  Definitely not worth the 1.99 download.

Stock Footage From Republic Track down Republic's memorable "King of the Rocket Men" (1949) and skip this cost-cutting chapterplay. Despite new visual effects from the Lydecker Brothers, the lackluster "Radar Men From the Moon" (1952) relies heavily on Republic stock footage. Roy Barcroft and Clayton Moore (who temporarily left "The Lone Ranger" in a salary dispute) provide solid villainy, but George Wallace's heroic Commander Cody is a total stiff. Though more sci-fi oriented than "Rocket Men," the routine exploits of "Radar Men" mark a regrettable decline in the Republic serial tradition.

Didn't do much for me Have really been enjoying watching Donnie Yen act and perform, but this drama, just had to much setting up of characters. Bruce Lee and Jet Li have played the popular character, but did not really see a need for another version. The early war, combat scene is amazing. But suddenly it gets into drama and very little else. There are fights and conflict, but not really caring about any of the characters. Also all the different bad guys were a little difficult to follow. I'm on the fence recommending this.

The Brain That Wouldn't Die (VHS) This is an edited version of "The Brain That Wouldn't Die." I strongly recommend the Full version, especially if you are a Horror/Suspense Movie fan. Although this movie is considered "campy", the scenes edited from this version are "gorely" missed. I do not recommend this version because it is not the way it was meant to be seen. The Full version is a much better bargain for your money.

This is a CHICK FLICK, not a man movie Came up as a recommended movie for me.  I like military movies, especially movies about snipers.  This turns out to be a chick flick dressed up as a man movie.  So SLOW.  No action.  Protagonist who is supposed to be some kick-ass specialized hunter turns into a mangina pussy and cries about scoring his kill.  I am pissed about losing two hours of my life I will never get back.

Legacy of Bleah ALPHA VIDEO is a provider of vintage programming that's often unavailable elsewhere. Alpha's prices are fair, but so is transfer quality of some of their offerings. None have undergone restoration, yet the relative obscurity of their titles and its reasonable cost make these a worthwhile purchase.  . What's that indelible stain on the TV screen? Why it's.... LEGACY OF BLOOD (1971).  In a bad late-career move, John Carradine has a minor role as the elderly relative whose demise sets in motion a series of murders. A proviso of the old millionaire's will states that his four adult children must spend a week at the family estate if they want to grab their share of 30 million simollians. BUT if any of them dies, their 4th goes to the survivors-- and if ALL FOUR should accidentally on purpose "croak," then (SURPRISE!) the geezer's servants will get all his money.  (yawn) Hasn't this story been done many times before?  Remember: in order to inherit YOUR share of Carradine's bucks you must stay awake for the whole 90 minutes it takes to see this turkey. Lots of luck and pass the NO DOZ, please....

Lazy Script about 1970's bent catholic school boys.  The last 10 minutes is a pathetic avoidance of character development.  I also found the exact details of the teen girl's sexual history impossible to believe.  Finally, the nun and priest were bland cardboard cutouts.  The animated scenes are great but way too short.

BORING MOVIE I bought this dvd, thinking it was going to be intertaining. Well, it wasnt. Far from it, dosent have much of a story, the actors are ok. Wouldnt waste money on this movie.

Not good copy I expected a remastered copy but it was a film copy, you can see the scratch from the original film. Its the same to buy the old DVD o VHS.

No Thanks I love Kristen Wiig, so I was excited to see this movie, but now I wish I had the 2 hours and 11 minutes of this movie back.  2 stars for being painful to watch (mostly Kristen's character) and having gross humor for the sake of being an "adult comedy."  I didn't give it 1 star because I did like Megan and Rhodes--good characters, but not enough to redeem the other ones.

Beware " No 2nd CD with the music" I was wondering why people gave this 1 to 3 stars. Now I'm in that boat too. I ordered the special 15th anniversary Special Edition. Just because it states you get a 2nd CD with all the songs from the movie(The ones that are not on the regular movie soundtrack) The one with JT and Flash singing to the wife etc.. That never came with the package. There was no mention of a 2nd disk on the cover or back packing etc.. That was the only reason I purchased this. I've seen the movie 100 times I just wanted the full movie sound track.  What really pissed me off was this was to be a birthday gift for my brother. This is the 2nd time Amazon has done this to one of my orders. I don't know if there will be a 3rd time. The only reason this gets 2 stars is that it's a great movie.  * Disk 1: * Deleted Scenes * "Meet The 5 Heartbeats" * "The director's process" * "In the studio" * Includes the "I Got Nothing But Love" sessions * "The Look" * "The Nomination" * Michael Wright - "What Else?" * "In Between Takes" * Easter Egg: Behind the scenes on set: During a break, a drum circle with the actors drumming, dancing and having fun * Original Publicity Campaign * "The Five Heartbeats" Original Featurette * Robert Townsend Profile * TV Spots: "He," "Harmony,"& "Special" * Theatrical Trailer * Disk 2: * Bonus Movie CD Soundtrack  _ THERE IS NO $#@!#$@#$$% 2ND CD.

TREJO SMELLING FLOWERS? SERIOUSLY? The is nothing like a "bad" Danny Trejo movie. And when I say "bad" I mean "good." Unfortunately this is just a bad Danny Trejo movie with no quotation marks. Danny plays an Eastern holy man/healer who likes flowers. He gets killed in the first scene, but unlike the movie, he doesn't completely die. He can't pass over because there is still work to do, so he occasionally resurrects and helps others along the way.  Danny is killed because his peaceful village, where young girls bathe topless in the stream, is raided by Gary Daniels to abduct girls for the sex trade. Meanwhile, John Edward Lee is getting ready to die and has a brief case full of money. He wants a woman. Together Danny and Lee fight against the bad guys (with some police help) to save Nana (Krystal Vee).  The film is rather boring. While there is killing, there are not any of the "walking tall" action one would expect in a Trejo film. This is far from a grindhouse, although it makes you think it started out as one. A rather lame role for Trejo in this weak action-drama. The film takes place in Pali, an imaginary Asian city/country near India. Might be an interesting film for Buddhists who are Trejo fans.  F-bomb, sexual situations, brief nudity.

Plot? Where? My wife & I watched this last night and just laughed at how bad the lines and plot were.  There are some nice action sequences but some of the scenes are just TOO fake to be believable.  It's maybe worth a rent, but I regret purchasing it b/c I know we will never want to watch it again.  If you are okay with bad lines and totally impossible action sequences, then you might like this one.  My wife would be mad that I actually gave this 2 stars instead of 1.

Donttttttt get it! Sad. Oh so very sad. I love this show, it is amazing, and when I saw this complete series box set on this website, I was sooo happy! It's so cute! It's a box! Haha. It's colorful, and reallllly nicely packaged (the only reason I gave it 2 stars) but when I put it in my DVD player and realized how much of it wouldn't work (be it episodes or special features) I was so upset. I already had a few of the seasons on DVD, and realized they had some glitches.. I figured they would have redone the discs for this box set, it wouldn't have the same problem, and id have the complete series! So when I had returned it (got a refund, they wont rip you off on that, thankfully)I was so upset. I also hated to see that there were so many customer reviews telling me not to buy this.. why I didnt scroll down and read customer reviews before hand, Ill never know. I also hate to see that this website, as well as others, are still selling it. IT DOESNT WORK. I say take it off store shelves, and take it off websites until they remake the discs to work properly, and rerelease this set. Sucks to.. I loved it.. even made room on my shelf = ( = P.

Great Content...if the disk wasn't defective We ordered the Blu-ray from Amazon for delivery on the release date because the price was better than anywhere locally.  Imagine our disappointment when we put the disk in to watch it and it stopped working after about five minutes.  We watched the DVD version, but went out and replaced it the next day from C****o; cost a little bit more, but we knew that we could get an exchange or money back if it didn't work (it did play just fine).  Amazon handled the return and refund just fine, but I have decided I would rather buy locally so that if there is a problem I can just swap it immediately instead of waiting for a replacement through the mail.

I was there at the making of the film My name is Carlos Rosaire, I am a Circus Artist and at the time of making this film I was performing in the Circus Orfei in Rome where the Circus shots were filmed, one of my family actually appeared in the film, after the film was completed, I saw the version in Italian and I very disappointed in the version that Amazon sent to me as it had been cut quite a lot and most of the scenes that I was looking forward to were missing, apart from this it was still a very good film, it was with great joy that I saw my old friend Giuliano Gema again, I have not seen him since the film was made. I hope this has been of some help to people who will have seen the film or will be doing so in the near future. Yours Carlos Rosaire Spain 28/09/2012

something to watch out The story revolves around four guys (Shreyas Talpade, Javed Jaffery, Aashish Choudhary, Vatsal Seth).The chemistry between the guys is something to watch out for. It seems like the scenes between them have been shot without any retakes. There is a scene when all of them are drunk and cursing Asrani and he is standing right behind them, which is one of the funniest scenes in the movie. Shreyas and Javed are natural actors and occupy more screen time than the other two.  The other characters in the movie give a decent performance too. Chunky Pandey plays a stuttering goon, Johnny Lever as his sardar brother and Dilnaz as Jhonny's gujarati wife. Dilnaz's dialogues have been nicely written and superbly delivered.

Bad acting poor script, dull characters, disconnected relationships, overall it was unbelievable. I mean that in the strictest sense. I didn't buy one relationship, one actor, one moment. I finished it because I paid money. It was dull and senseless in the truest form. Visuals were nice, but they too never really connected. The best parts were the maps. In short, this movie was a stew created by a first time cook. Nothing mixed well.

Stiller tries too hard to be 'serious'... fails miserably. This was supposed to be Ben Stiller's 'break-out' performance...NOT!!! He just tries too hard to be "Roger Greenberg" - recently released mentally-unstable 40-something man who visits his brother in L.A. to do "nothing". Not to give away the plot, but Roger is a jerk throughout the movie and I don't understand why Greta Gerwig's character fall in love with him!! "Only in a movie" as they say...  "To go further" (as Greenberg would say), I don't even know why Greenberg still has a friend!!! There's absolutely no chemistry between Stiller, Gerwig, and Rhys Ifans (who plays Greenberg's 'only' friend), they look lost. That said, I do like Gerwig's performance of the 'free spirited' girlfriend(??) character but Stiller just doesn't deliver! He should stick with that comedy of his he does so well. And the plot doesn't help either. It's too thin and doesn't develop into anything. I mean is this supposed to be a romantic comedy, drama, etc...? Either way, it's not funny to be a comedy and not 'profound' enough to be a drama.  Good thing I rented this dvd at a library, if you are planning to buy it, I got one thing to say... "DON'T"!!!

Awful I was really looking foward to see this and was so upset with it. Half of it is completely boring and the other half is so shaky you can barely tell what's going on. Not worth ten bucks!

Not worth it, unfortunately First let me say, the West ladies were very nice and I truly believed they knew their way around the garden. It was a nice video and actually seemed to me the unscripted family project of the summer, with Mom and the girls as the stars. That being said, in this video these ladies have an enormous garden, full off all sorts of flowers, vegetables, and herbs. How long is this video? 49 minutes. I really felt like they could have chosen to show many, many more vegetables and tips, but for some reason chose to focus very narrowly on a few subjects. I did not doubt their expertise, but I just felt this very short DVD did not live up to its title.

Pray harder The message is powerful. However, the actors did not portray the story well at all. I was dissapointed and wish I could return it.

Insipid, Over the Top, Horrible The movie is built around three guys having ridiculously horrible bosses - actually horrible to the point of being beyond reality. It's lowbrow comedy at best, one of the worst films of 2011 at worst. Save your time and money - watch or do something else.

Frost: don't confuse him with Foyle Was looking for another UK show that would be of the quality of Foyles War.  Read reviews from other purchasers, and noted that the show is in something like its 15 season, so it has obviously attracted a loyal audience.  It's a nice show, but nothing to approach the quality of Foyles War.  We won't be buying any more episodes past this one.

Good video, poor disk quality These Families of the World videos are great, educational tools. However, they use poor materials and are overpriced. For only 2, 30 min. segments, $30 is ridiculous! New, professionally made movies are not that expensive! Taking advantage of educators like this is beyond belief. I own several of these and the material used to make them is very low grade. For this price you would expect better quality DVDs. My copy of Puerto Rico families was only played 2x. When I went to clean the disk it cracked down the middle. I looked at the back and the disk quality is that of a burned disk copy, not the professional grade you expect from a DVD purchase.

Mr. Bentley in 1984 England The only thing that I liked about this movie is the creative set and the imagery. The movie drags on and on, and is just another example of how weird the British are. I would categorize this as more of a weird British musical.

Poor sequel to a great Troma flick two years after the events of the first movie, Tromaville has gotten a new college called T.I.T Tromaville insitute of Technology where it's owned by the local nuclear power plant that was held responsible for the high school incident. It seems like a nice campus loaded with booze, bikini girls, jocks and being yourself as there seems to be a weird humanoid race on campus who look like human beings but have mouths for bellybuttons created by a scientist (Lisa Gaye) who would do pleasure as they are called Subhumanoids but they will melt into furry toxic critters if no obeyed or harm someone as they programmed like that. Ace reporter Roger Smith (Brick Bronsky) falls for one of the humanoids and is on the verge to find out about these mysterious meltdowns.  A poor sequel to the 1986 Sci-fi horror comedy cult classic from Troma known as "Class of Nuke'Em High" as this time it has more knockers, self-referential material, weird product stuff, no gore, nudity and goofy humor that feels tasteless. The acting is quite bad as usual and lacks the charm that made the first one a cult classic but i admit the killer giant Toxic squirrel beast Tromie was nifty, nice try though.  This DVD contains extras like audio commentary, trailer to the trilogy, Toxic Avengers cartoon episode, and the usual troma stuff from other Troma DVDs.

Stylish But Vacant Just your run-of-the-mill spaghetti western also-ran, complete with a joltingly simple plot, one-dimensional characters and the worst dubbed dialog this side of Pulp Fiction's basic cable edit. Django himself, an opportunist without much in the way of personality, is only likable in direct comparison to the cookie-cutter roster of villainy he mercilessly cuts down at every opportunity. Even the scenery, which normally delivers a heaping portion of a western's aura and mystique, falls flat in Django. Here the wide-open promise of a broad, sweeping landscape is reduced to dreary patch of mud, a fistful of thin, trail-weary horses and four pathetic, lifeless wooden shacks. If a steady diet of ricocheting bullets, heavy drinking and utterly pointless double-crossery is what you're hungry for, by all means chow down - this is ninety solid minutes of just that with little variation. Those with an appetite for more filling material, on the other hand, should just keep on walking.

How Accurate the Title! I love indie and art films and I consider myself to be an avid film fanatic.  But this movie was absolutely painful to watch.  The first ten minutes I was thinking "Okay, what great visuals!"  Who doesn't love Wagner?  What a combo! Then.....what the H---?  A beautifully wrapped package with absolutely nothing inside.  I turned it off, and the next afternoon, forced myself to watch the remaining hour.  This thing moves at the pace of a snail with a sprained ankle.  Were you supposed to empathize with ANYONE in this mess?  A more snobbish, self-centered, boring group of characters has never been assembled into any other movie, and I found myself loathing each and every one more and more as the minutes crawled by.  I have always enjoyed Kirsten Dunst and Kiefer Sutherland, and I wish they could make this movie disappear from their resume. And JOHN HURT.....what was he thinking?  I had a teacher once who said, "Just because it's Shakespeare does not mean it's good."  This is the cinematic equivalent to The Emperor's New Clothes.  Remember how all the sycophants were telling the king, "Wonderful! Beautiful!", and, of course, he was naked--nothing to see at all.  That sums up this pretentious bore.  PS:  To the people who say that those who don't like this movie are the ones who would run to a Transformers film....I really dislike almost all popcorn films, so I guess my critique can stand.

Too Slow Lifetime Quality As the other reviews indicate, I agree this movie reiterates an all too critical message in our current generation on the need to be very careful when engaging on-line anonymous people.  Clearly is a grave threat, especially toward young people unaware of the realities.  My challenge in enjoying this movie was in its pace and believability.  Its frankly very slow and takes at least 50%, if not more of the movie before anything of substance starts to occur.  Everything else is meaningless teen chatter, albeit with some preachy, socially deviant behavior.  Then, the story focuses largely on a group of girls that do just about everything wrong - bad relationships with their parents, promiscuity, drinking and drug use, etc.  Clearly the film is trying to send a message, but I'm not sure an 1.5 hour movie is the best medium for it, especially given the numerous PSAs we're bombarded with frequently on the topic.  On a positive note, the movie was shot with a creative flair.  Almost all of the footage is reproduced (seemingly) from video chat footage, so the screens are often split (as you observe the live video chat), or from hand-held camcorders.  It was actually pretty creative and interesting.  Just be sure you're in the mood for this type of film.

Not good This movie was so disappointing and I was shocked that so much of the story was either changed or just left out. The raz-ak monsters were killed inside Helgrind; not the forest. There was so many facts changed I'm surprised permission was given to make this movie. The books are awesome. A LONG miniseries would be appropriate or at least 4 three hour long movies to include the MANY interesting and beautiful details of the books would have better captured the great story of Eragon. The Urgals in the movie looked like dirty, greasy body builders with crooked teeth. No horns, no monster-like appearance described in the book. Roran just walked off in the movie and he was a huge part of the actual story. Sorry, but do not waste your time with the movie.

Does not have deleted scenes The sale was not a good deal($13.74). Mistakenly, I thought I was buying the DVD set with deleted scenes. Honestly, how can you call this a special without deleted scenes.

Didn't Reach Its Potential This film could have been great, but I'm sorry to say it rarely came even close to its potential. First of all, it seemed to be unable to decide if it was a comedy or a coming of age drama. The script tries to present some characters, like Eli (the porn-addicted best friend of the protagonist Matthew) or Kelly (the pornographer villain) as both funny and serious, and so they come across as neither-- Eli is frankly pathetic through most of the film and Kelly seems to operate in an alternate universe where even very public felonies such as abducting a high school student from his classroom in front of two dozen witnesses never elicits a response from the police. Matthew himself spends most of the film just bouncing from scene to scene, and spends remarkably little time actually developing his relationship with Danielle. So there are hijinks that are lost in the general confusion as the plot wanders aimlessly, never really seeming to know where it wants to go.  This is unfortunate, since the basic premise of the film, that a socially awkward young man discovers meaningful love with a woman with a past that his family and society might disapprove of, and along the way is forced to confront his own prejudices about sex and porn, could work as either drama or comedy. But such a story would require a much more carefully written script than this movie has; if you want to see how such a film can be done in a comedic vein, take a look at the old Tom Cruise film <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0018QPPXW">Risky Business</a>.  A second, minor quibble: the unrated version of this film made extensive promises of more skin and more sex, which in a movie about the porn industry really ought to be obligatory (see the brilliant <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004TQF7">Boogie Nights</a> with Burt Reynolds for an excellent treatment of the highs and lows of the business), but in fact delivers neither; the nudity in the unrated version is actually less than many R-rated films I've seen, and I don't recall a single actual sex scene apart from a few brief glimpses from Eli's porn collection. If you're going to make a movie about porn, you need to include some sex. Freed from ratings, they could have here, but chose not to.  I do give the movie two stars for the ending, which does pick up and have a nice, clever twist to it (as well as a good message for young people), but this alone is not enough to save a film whose script I think needed to go through a few more rewrites before being produced. The acting and production values are fine, and Elisha Cuthbert is quite lovely, carrying off the dual role of girl next door and seductive porn queen extremely well. So to repeat: This could have been a great movie; what a pity it wasn't.

Disappointing I had high hopes for this film since the book was so great, but it was a let-down. The directing was sloppy; there were too many poor transitions. Not to mention that Zeus, the dog, disappears at the end of the film and never reappears again. How do you forget to include the dog in the ending? The chemistry between the two main characters wasn't great, and neither was Zac Efron's acting, although I know he's capable because I've seen him act well before. This leads me to question again whether it was just the poor directing, and not necessarily Efron's poor acting abilities.  I feel like directors sometimes view Nicholas Sparks's stories as a guarantee for instant box-office success (and understandably so, since most of his novels are terrific), however in doing so they fail to actually put in a solid effort when creating the film, which is a shame because the story-lines have such potential.

pretty bad Pretty bad. Seemed like I was watching a poor remake of Transformers. Same sound effects I think. The video was pretty stunning. The story lame, old and tired. Funny lines at times. Very disappointing overall. With Peter Berg you either get insanely awesome like "The Kingdom" & "Very Bad Things" or you get this. Not worth a view.

Romance that suprised the world This year seems to be the year of Wallis Simpson.  For some reason, there were many books nad movies made about the American woman who was twice divorced and yet managed to marry British King.  He had to abdicate his throne in order "to be with the woman he loves" and he did so probably without fully realizing the consequences of such decision.  Historians consider Edward as a kind of royal that would make an inadequate king: he liked to party, he was always surrounded by women and he had uncanny affinity towards Germans, that in late 1930s made many nervous.  Wallis on the other hand, was from humble background.  Growing up,she always depended on her rich cousins and her goal in life was to marry good, financially stable and reliable husband.  Her first marriage was tragic, because her husband, a professional soldier, turned out to be a drunk.  Her second husband who had business interest in England was boring yet well of and reliable.  It is through his social circles that she met british royalty.  This movie gives parallel stories of Wallis and Edward's affair compared to the modern day couple: a successful NYC doctor and his young and beautiful stay at home wife who incidentally bears the name Wallis.  Modern day Wallis is fascinated with the other Wallis woman and she ha romantic view of the relationship that many labled as the "biggest romance of the century".  Isolated, lonely and largely ignored by her husband she finds solace in researching the life and love of Wallis and Edward.  In her pursuit to learn more, she goes to the Sotheby's auction of Wallis Simpson's personal possessions.  Madonna directed this film and seems to have tried to make it an art film.  But other than realy nice costumes and make up I found movie disappointing.  There is no depth in any of the characters.  If one did not know about these characters from other sources, film would provide very limited information.  During the film action switches from the current events to the past and at times it all appears very confusing.

Yawn, yawn... The following is a synopsis of the movie (warning, spoilers):  * Boom * * Crash * * Boom, boom, boom * * Tough guy taunt * * Gun fire * * kick boxing * * Tough guy taunt * * Sexy woman * * Boom * * Crash * * Gun fire * * Sexy woman again * * More gun fire *  I'm pretty sure there was more botox in the movie than you'd find in a plastic surgeon's office, and I know there was so little storyline you actually forget at times that this is supposed to be anything more than a tough guy's playground. This can be an entertaining movie at first, but it grows to be rather boring. There are lots of gun fights, explosions, action stars, one-liners and tough guy taunts...so many, in fact, that by time you're half way through, you're ready for it to be over.  Or, maybe it's a guy-thing. Most of the guys I know liked or loved it; most of the girls felt like I did...it was ok at first, but had so little actual storyline that it quickly got old.  This was ok once...if you're in the mood for a testosterone overload, go for it (and, botox aside, the cast is more-or-less easy on the eyes...Jet Li and Jason Statham were particularly popular with me and my female friends, and the main character girl [don't know her name] was a hit with the guys). 2/5 stars

B western B westerns were all the rage from the late 40s through 1960, and no one symbolized them more than Randolph Scott. He averaged 3 per year from 1946 through 1957, making as many as 5 in 1951. His friend Joel McCrea averaged slightly less, with a peak of 4 in 1957. The A list actors were also busy. Jimmy Stewart and Anthony Mann produced more than half a dozen films in the 50s, most of them B westerns ("Winchester 73", "The Naked Spur") and Stewart managed a few without Mann ("Broken Arrow", "Carbine Williams", "Night Passage"). The Duke was busy too, although his westerns were usually considered A films ("Rio Grande", "The Searchers", and "Rio Bravo").  "Return of the Bad Men" is the quintessential B western. It was spawned by the success of 1946's "Badman's Territory", also starring Randolph Scott and Gabby Hayes and also involving a plethora of famous gunslingers.  Handsome and rugged Randolph Scott is the Marshal. Randolph Scott (1898-1987) started in silent films and his early career involved playing a variety of characters in a variety of films - "My Favorite Wife" (1940), "To the Shores of Tripoli" (1941), "Captain Kidd" (1945), "Home Sweet Homicide" (1946) - but by the 50s he was appearing exclusively in B westerns - "Sugarfoot" (1951), "Carson City" (1952), "The Bounty Hunter" (1954), "7th Calvary" (1956), "Westbound" (1958) - most of which were directed by Budd Boetticher (7 films) or Andre de Toth (6 films).  George "Gabby" Hayes" (1885-1969) plays a Bank President. Hayes was John Wayne's sidekick in dozens of films from 1933 ("Riders of Destiny") to 1935 ("Rainbow Valley") when Hayes moved on to partner with Hopalong Cassidy and later with Roy Rogers and then Gene Autry.  Hayes made nearly 200 films between 1929 and 1950. This was one of his last films because he started his own TV show which ran from 1950 to 1954.  Robert Ryan is The Sundance Kid.  Ryan (1909-1973) made nearly 100 films between 1940 and 1973. In his early years he often played a villain especially in film noir dramas ("Crossfire", "Act of Violence") then transitioned into the tough guy with a good heart role ("On Dangerous Ground").  My personal favorite Ryan role is Deke Thornton in "The Wild Bunch" (1969).  Anne Jeffreys (1923) plays Scott's love interest and the niece of one of the outlaws. She's best known from her TV series with husband Robert Sterling as the couple who are haunted by "Topper" (1953-5). She was nominated for a Golden Globe for "The Delphi Bureau" (1972) and played David Hasselhoff's mom on "Baywatch".  Robert Armstrong (1890-1973) will always be best known for his role as hunter Carl Denham in "King Kong" (1933), as well as "Mighty Joe Young" (1949) even though he performed in 160 films including "Palooka" (1934), "G Men" (1935). "Man of Conquest" (1939) and "Blood on the Sun" (1945). Armstrong plays Wild Bill Doolin (think of the Eagle's song "Doolin Dalton").  Steve Brodie (1919-92) is Cole Younger. He made more than 100 films between 1944 and 1988. In "Badman's Territory" (1946) he played Bob Dalton.  "Sexy Lexy" Lex Barker (1919-73) plays Emmett Dalton. He's best known for his 5 Tarzan films (1949 - 53) which he got on the basis of this film.  Ray Enright (1896-1965) directs. He made more than 70 films between 1921 and 1956, mostly for Warners, and mostly westerns.  This film came out in 1948, a year in which Bogart and Huston teamed up to make the #4 top grossing film of the year and went on to win two Oscars (Director, Supporting Actor). Other top 10 grossing films were "The Red Shoes", "The Three Musketeers", "Red River", "Easter Parade", "Johnny Belinda", "The Snake Pit" and "Joan of Arc". "Key Largo" came in at #12 and also won an Oscar for Claire Trevor.  1948 westerns included John Ford's "Fort Apache", Glenn Ford in "The Man from Colorado", Howard Hawks' "Red River, John Huston's "Treasure of the Sierra Madre", and Gregory Peck's "Yellow Sky". There was even a western comedy from Abbott & Costello- "The Noose Hangs High'.  "Return of the Bad Men" did so well that RKO put out a 3rd film, "Best of the Bad men" (1951) which starred Robert Ryan, Claire Trevor, and Jack Buetel with an all star supporting cast including Robert Preston, Walter Brennan, Bruce Cabot, Lawrence Tierney, and Barton MacLane.  If you're a fan of B westerns, this one is for you. But there really isn't anything special about it.

The emperor has no clothes I agree with bits and pieces of all the reviews. I also wanted to like Season 5 because I love and have watched and rewatched Seasons 1 through 4, and while there were a few episodes that are some of the best Mad Men has ever done, overall I found Season 5 as a whole to be weak and thrown together.  I never felt attached or particularly interested in any of the new characters that were introduced and many of them felt more like caricatures rather than characters.  Right out of the gate I found the marital trials and tribulations of Don and Megan irritating, tiresome, and endless.  I agree wholeheartedly with the reviewer that said if episodes 1 and 2 (which were linked together) were a pilot, the show never would have gotten off the ground.  By episode 13 I didn't know how much more I could watch of Megan emoting after every single line of Don's, and wondered just how much more screen time Weiner could give Jessica Pare.  I was never bored by Betty and Don, Megan and Don just made me yawn.  At the end of each season I was almost depressed to see it end, I was so hooked and wanted it to keep going.  By the end of Season 5, it almost was a relief.  Considering that this is one of the best shows ever done, I could almost feel Matthew Weiner's boredom grinding out these scripts.  And when I read the reviews that say this is the best season ever, I wonder if we have been watching the same series.  Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and again, there were a few episodes of brilliance but not enough to make this season an emmy winner.  Also, how is it that no one remembers at the end of Season 4, Megan standing on the balcony telling Don, "I don't want to be an actress!" and all we have heard out of that mouth is nothing but drival about acting?  I'm going to vote with my wallet and not buy Season 5.  To me, comparing Season 5 to the previous 4 seasons is like comparing Rod Serling's Twilight Zone to his later Night Gallery.  Yes, I think Matthew Weiner is a genius but am amazed so few people are willing to say "the emperor has no clothes".

Mountain Sighted. Sank Same. Ho Hum. 633 SQUADRON (1964) Directed by Walter Grauman. Score by Ron Goodwin. Script by James Clavell and Howard Koch based on the novel by Frederick Smith.   Starring Cliff Robertson, George Chakaris, Katy Wild, and Harry Andrews.   Spring, 1944. On the eve of the Invasion of Normandy. The British discover that the Germans are planning to bombard the Invasion Force with V 1 rockets. However the only factory that can produce the unigue fuel mixture to propel the missiles is at the base of a mountain at the end of a Norwegian fjord.  Using small Mosquito Dehaviland bombers, the British hope to use earthquake bombs upon the mountain thus bringing it down upon the factory. However to do so the squadron will have to fly through the fjord in the face of multiple anti-aircraft emplacements below and the Luftwaffe above.  Squadron 633, with the assistance of the Norwegian resistance, is chosen to perform this apparently suicide mission.  Can they do it?   Considered one of the top 100 greatest WW2 films, this is a film whose reputation is inexplicable.  Considering the writing talent involved, the dialogue, characterization and several plot elements are, by turns, banal, unoriginal and just plain clunky.  The film lifts bodily from 13 RUE MADELINE, THE HEROES OF TELEMARK, THE EDGE OF DARKNESS, COMMAND DECISION, TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH and THE DAM BUSTERS and in a bizarrely inappropriate scene anticipates ILSA QUEEN OF THE SS.  Robertson's love scenes with a Norwegian girl go nowhere and is dead screen space. Grauman's direction is low grade TV episode level. The experienced viewer can even predict what camera angle he will chose next. His idea of blocking of actors is like a  grade school play.  It is pleasant to spend time with the cast of familiar faces but that is all it is.   The film's great strength is its spectacular flying scenes with nifty genuine WW2 vintage aircraft. In many respects the film is an early version of TOP GUN. Spectacular in the air. A crash on the ground.  The film has a large ample budget and looks good. The score is memorable but incredibly inappropriate to the film's ultimate tone. Its one positive which is conversely also a negative is the film's jarring cold bloodedness and ruthless ending.  It is a plus because it does disturb the viewer with its unexpectedness but it is a negative because it violates the film's previous 90 minutes of low grade B film plotting and characterization. It leaves the viewer feeling generally unhappy and betrayed. Like watching a MGM musical where everyone gets cancer and dies in the last scene.   George Lucas has stated that he lifted the ending for STAR WARS.   Hardly great but certainly worth a look.

Very disapointing! I would have to say this was the worst Underworld out of the series. The story line was terrible. To me is seemed more of a Resident Evil movie than Underworld. The flickering lights that are in most of the movie are annoying. The film and graphics also seemed to be low budget compared to the other three movies.

zzzzzzzzzzz I'm at a loss to describe the 5 star ratings for this film. I mean, really, 5 stars? That must be one heck of a fabulous film! But no, it really isn't.  I saw this before it was ever released in theaters during a sneak preview channel I have. I was excited to see it for a couple of reasons. 1: I love any film with a corset, and 2: The all-star cast. So first thing's first-the scenery, imagery and costumes are beautiful. Very authentic looking. However, the actual film is quite a snooze-fest. There is no life in it, no spark. Like a bland meal, it leaves you wanting something better. It's a pity really because it's brimming with stars, but they just wander aimlessly throughout the film.  Rob Pattison gives a respectable performance as a young man who arrives penniless in Paris, and quite quickly, through a string of luck and good fortune weaves his way upwards through society. In fact, he has no qualms about seducing anyone he feels he needs to, to get ahead. That includes Uma Thurman, Christina Ricci, and the almost-always flawless Kristen Scott Thomas. Aside from the poor accents, these actresses all look fantastic here, but lack personality. It's quite puzzling and I can only attribute the lack of interest to the dry-as-toast script, and barely-there plot. Rob Pattison doesn't have much to do here besides smolder, and flatter-which he does quite admirably, but his character's charm quickly wears off and he becomes just another pretty face with not much else going for him. It was frustating because he CAN do better, given a better director and script. Just look at Water for Elephants as an example.  I was left dissapointed and bored especially after the rushed, stupid ending. For all those hoping for a great period drama, don't bother with this-there are so many other, better options out there.

Blue Ray DVD I thought the DVD I was getting was one that could be EITHER regular or Blue Ray. I don't have a blue ray player so it's useless to me. But since I've already opened the package, I guess I can't return it. The gift card I used was a Christmas present from my son.

Hollywood Pictures needs to fire their subtitlers. You would think a Blu-Ray release would have excellent subtitles..  You want to see what Julieta & Carlos are talking about, in the black & white movie playing at the beginning.   &iexcl;Carlos, ten cuidado! Te quiero, Carlos, te quiero.  NOPE...  (Speaking in Spanish)  You want to sing....  Requiem aeternum dona Evita Requiem aeternum dona Evita Requiem Evita, Requiem Evita  Salve regina mater misericordiae Vita dulcedo et spes nostra Salve salve regina Ad te clamamus exules filii Eva Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes O clemens o pia....  NOPE... (Choir singing in Latin)  Hollywood Pictures, get off your mickey mouse butt & release a proper Blu-ray release of EVITA.  Evita: The Criterion Collection on Blu-ray. And don't forget to include the complete Subtitles..  We want to sing along, Damn it!  I only bought this for the Making of... featurette, & a better picture...

Funny but not very informative I must preface this review by stating my own biases: 1. I am a history teacher and have taught the major religions of the world for almost 10 years (I am nowhere near the level of a priest or rabbi in my knowledge but I know by s**t:} ) 2. I am an agnostic Jew. Translated, this means that I empathize with many religious people as I still have hope that there is something beyond this life, but I highly doubt whatever may be "out there" has much if anything to do with any man-made religious dogma. That being said, I do have a great respect for many religious beliefs and practices as long as they do not hurt or harm anyone. As for the film: Positives: You will laugh your a** off.You will also get a cheap thrill from watching really stupid people be made out to look like the idiots they are. Negatives: This is not a documentary despite its title. If it were, there would have been a much more balanced approach. Rather than simply finding the nutjobs in each major world religion, he could have shown the positive sides as well. For example, the Torah, which is the basis for not only Judaism but Christianity and Islam as well, has been a major driving force behind Western civilization for several thousand years. Or that religions provide many people with a sense of identity, community and hope. Even for the non-religious, I cannot tell you how vital the ritual of a shiva has been for some of my friends and family. The fact of the matter is that no one knows what happens when we die or what came before the Big Bang. For anyone to claim otherwise is full of s**t. However, there is a HUGE difference between someone who creates a museum with a saddle on a dinosaur and people who gather together to pray for a loved one. Unfortunately, this film does not seem to distinguish between any sort of religious belief or behavior which is a pretty big flaw for a "documentary". Finally, he never points out that there are MANY ways to interpret religious scripture. Only the insanely ignorant take any scripture literally- that's how you end up with humans riding on dinos. If you take read them metaphorically, you can get a hell of a lot more out of it. Many people seem to think because the Torah and Bible are full of things such as stoning people for not obeying the Sabbath, the whole thing is BS. However, you have to keep in mind its historical context. These books were written thousands of years ago when slavery and stoning were quite common. Simply because we know better today does not mean that we need to dismiss the entire Bible. Rather, we should find it incredible how despite being written so long ago, there is plenty of sound, ethical lessons that we can take from it... which Bill fails to even suggest.

Tired of video "editing!!" I am tired of getting disks (DVD & Blu-Ray) with missing material on the top & bottom. I maintain a very large collection of movies recorded from my Dish Network DVR recievers to external hard drives. On many of these recordings the broadcasters creat a "TV close-up" by "enlarging" the picture verticaly thus cutting off the video material on the sides.  However the material at the top and bottom of the screen are retained.  When I compared the picture of this Blu-Ray (and way too many other DVDs and Blu-Rays) to the copy from Dish it is immediatly apparent the black lines at the top and bottom are really covering actual video material. Anyone can generally see this cheat-editing when they notice the tops of actor's heads and/or what their hands are doing are lost in the black lines.  This cheating by disk producers should not be confused with honest disks made in true cinematic widescreen where the black bands do not edit out actual video material.  Unfortunatly these quality products are few and far between.

Amazing show, terrible packaging with scratched disks The Wire is one of the greatest shows ever made for television. It is thought-provoking, complex, and incredibly well-done.  The packaging this set of DVDs comes in is absolutely terrible. It is flimsy and completely incapable of protecting these valuable disks against damage during transport. I've gone through most of the DVDs in the package so far, and out of about 20 disks that I've tried, at least 7 of them have given me read errors. I have had to use special software to recover the data and make these DVDs watchable.  Do yourself a favor and watch the Wire in another manner. I don't know if the single season DVD sets also suffer from the same problem. If not, they may be a better solution.  I cannot believe that such a fine show is being distributed in such a shoddy manner.

Caught off guard! Well as some other people, I went into buying this blind and came out disappointed. I understand that it wasn't suppose to be filled with action but the least this show could do is try and keep the watcher watching. The only reason I kept watching was because I felt that maybe "something" might happen in the next episode but nothing came. I am open to new anime and seeing what they bring to the table but I was sadly upset with the show "genre". Left with alot of questions at the end...thanks for reading my first review :D

yep, pretty bad. I really wanted to like this, despite all the bad reviews.  But yeah if you're a fan of DB, DBZ etc... you will feel this really misses the mark.  for those not familiar they will get lost and lose interest.  I give it 2 stars out of respect for the source material and passable special effects.  everything else from casting, acting to story is a miss.  don't know if it's the worst movie ever but it's definitely in the conversation.

Missing key facts and twists the truth. Before we go on, I want to explain something. When I say Japan/Japanese in this article, I am not meaning Japan/Japanese as in today. I am also not speaking of its citizens at all, whether in the past or present, with the exception of one citizen who was interviewed. When I say Japan/Japanese, I am ONLY talking about the Japanese government in power during WWII. Just as we would not denounce today's Germans but we would when discussing the Nazis instead. There is a very clear difference and I want this to be flatly stated before moving on.  All that said, this is NOT a two-disc set about Pearl Harbor. This is one disc which contains one documentary which is instead entitled TORA, TORA, TORA: The True Story of Pearl Harbor. While it is in two parts, it is ONLY on disc one. The second disc has no direct relationship with the Pearl Harbor attack, but is instead about Nimitz and his leadership of the pacific fleet. Already, you have been tricked into believing it is a two-disc set about Pearl Harbor, when it is very much NOT. This is your first clue that something is amiss.  After eagerly popping in the DVD, I noticed something within the first few minutes that grated on my nerves. For whatever reason, the narrator repeats "as a result" time and time again. I lost count after six times, I believe. It reminds me of the incessant "Jack!" that Kate Winslet yelled throughout Titanic. It's not the narrator's fault (just like it is not Kate Winslet's fault), but it is the writers fault, which is another warning bell. Simply put, sloppy writing is never a good thing in a documentary.  My first suspension of disbelief however was when the narrator actually says that Japan's reason for its invasion of China was that Japan felt Asians should be ruled by Asians and not by European colonies. Sounds good on the surface because everyone would agree with the logic in that, after all that's what our own country was borne from, until you remember the other part... such as the Japanese slaughtering Chinese women and children. Sure, that was so much better than colonial rule, right?  Of course this does not mean that they do not touch on the subject of the Japanese attacks on Chinese women and children, because they do, for a second.  As they discuss the effects of the a-bomb, they air an interview of a Japanese man by the name of Zenji Abe, who nefariously proclaims that Japan only attacked the military at Pearl and it was unfair for America to target civilians. He even goes further to say that for the Japanese civilian deaths, America violated international treaties.  While a part of that may be true, though hotly debated by some, there are still so many things wrong with what the wretched man says, that I hardly know where to begin. Add to that the History channel's audacity to even include it in a documentary such as this and you have a very badly tarnished documentary on your hands.  What bothers me most about this is not the stupidly naive accusation Mr. Abe spews forth, but that many viewers will watch this to learn more about the Pearl Harbor attack. This video will falsely give an impression that America reaped what it sowed, when in fact it is quite the other way around. The Japanese government is solely responsible for all the effects of the war onto itself; to include the a-bomb. End of story.  For the learner, here are a few facts this documentary plotted to leave out: * Japan did kill civilians in Hawaii, it was not only friendly fire. * Japan raped Chinese women and children in the streets, in front of their families. Do NOT forget the AND children part; eight-year-olds were raped in front of their families. Mr. Abe conveniently forgot about this part. Surprised? * Japan tortured many American POWs in the same way that the Germans tortured the Jews. This is a fact that is not even in most history books, but Google it for yourself. This is something no one wants to bring up, but why? This too would be in violation of international treaties. This was not a rumor, but pure documented fact. * Japan knew the consequences of war, but elected to make war anyway, thus putting their civilians at risk. Yes, they leave that out.  So now I had to ask myself: why would the History Channel add an interview with a man who clearly had no idea what he was talking about? There is only one conclusion. They wanted viewers to believe it to be true. Shame on them.  Another <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000NHHE04">documentary</a> (source is below) sums it up very well, "Japan, broken, defeated, awash in blood spilled in a war of its own design, would look back at December 7th, 1941 as the day that destroyed its dream of empire and conquest."  That right there is the end result of Japan's entire situation in WWII. It was all about greed without any regard for life, liberty, justice nor any happiness whatsoever. On the contrary, they wanted what they wanted and they wanted to destroy anyone who got in their way of getting it.  This isn't to say that this documentary never pointed out that Japan was, in fact, greedy for China's resources, but it is clear that this documentary makes America out as a bad guy here. They are clearly defending the WWII Japanese government, who deserves absolutely no defense, whatsoever, for its actions, period. Japan reaped what it sowed. End of story.  For all of these reasons, I could not possibly recommend this to anyone with a straight face. I would have given it one star, but I'll give it another star (=2) for the interviews of victims from Pearl Harbor. However, I would instead highly recommend the documentary I touched on above, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000NHHE04">Attack on Pearl Harbor: A Day of Infamy</a>; it has some of the same victims in interviews as well.

Does not have lossless DTS Master Audio In this barebones edition, Summit decided to give us only lossy Dolby Digital, not DTS Master Audio,  which is on the 2 disc special edition. I ordered this movie because of the low price and when I received the movie today, I was upset about the inferior audio on this disc. If I knew about the difference in audio, I would not have purchased this movie and would have waited for the price to drop on the 2 disc special edition. I am writing this review to help warn other audiophiles about this stupid decision by Summit. The rental discs at Netflix and Blockbuster will also have the inferior audio. You have been warned!

Another depressing movie... What would ever prompt someone to write a screenplay that ultimately leaves you feeling depressed? That's never a useful reaction to anything in life, much less a movie. Aren't movies supposed to be entertaining, and therefore not make you want to go drown in a bottle of vodka and eat a heaping helping of narcotics to end the day? Well, they failed with this movie. There is no happy ending, and the beginning tells you why. Gosh I hate this movie. It's right up there with District 9.

A Cinematic Time Capsule "Abar: Black Superman" is a film that could have only been made in the 1970s: nobody (well nobody in mainstream Hollywood, anyway) would dream of touching this today. The basic theme of Frank Packard's masterpiece revolves around the disaffection felt by minorities in the 1970s, and the perception of radicalization as a solution. The film is interesting to watch and does make some valid points about race relations. It also goes wildly out of control and gets into truly bizarre science fiction territory before it's over.  Dr. Kinkade (J. Walter Smith,) a brilliant scientist, moves into a very exclusive neighborhood where he is made to feel decidedly unwelcome, first and foremost by hysterical next door neighbor Mabel (Dee Turguand) whose over-the-top dialogue and performance cheapens the social and artistic value of the film immeasurably. The Kinkade family (and their amazingly cool house) are targeted for reprisal through various means that I won't get into here (sadly, I suspect that a real cat may have paid the ultimate price for this piece of art,) most of them fantastically unrealistic for 1977. (Really? A coffin on the lawn?) Tobar Mayo as Abar (I don't know which name is more compelling) and his gang of radicals comes on the scene to protect the Kinkade family, and manages to radicalize Kinkade when his son is killed in front of uncaring neighbors.  Kinkade resists every attempt to root him from his home: the homeowner's association even offers to buy his home with Kinkade getting a 50% profit. Of course even the minority members of the government are accused of being traitors, with poor councilman Mr. Dudley (Art Jackson) bearing the brunt of the assaults. Most of the film is extremely unsubtle, from names for political hacks like Dudley, to having US flags shown with the "evil" bankers and politicians (contrasted with the flag of Abar's gang, just to make the point clear.) Perhaps most amazing is the radio news bulletin that you just have to hear yourself to believe.  Dr. Kinkade perfects the bulletproof rabbit (don't ask) and asks Abar to drink an experimental serum that will make him indestructible. Up to this point the film has been mostly a tedious exercise in culture clash, but the serum drinking is really the turning point from political commentary to even weirder political sci-fi. Abar at first refuses to drink the serum, then in a wholly nonsensical scene has a change of heart. Weirdly, Kinkade has been trying to get him to do this very thing for a while and as soon as he does he decides he has to kill Abar. I'm not even going to try to explain this, but it's one of the more ridiculous twists in any film I have ever seen. After the transformation Abar dresses in a suit and mutely controls weather and matter itself (bombs, mice, etc.) with his mind, for justice, of course. The final twenty minutes are highly disjointed and frequently don't embrace any kind of reasonable logic, but at least they are entertaining. This brings me to a major problem with the film: it's plodding. The first hour of the movie is extremely slowly paced and it is frequently downright boring (we get it: Kinkade is persecuted because of his race,) while the ending is vastly more interesting and more compelling (if more logically ill-conceived and confusing.) The film concludes with an amazingly implausible apology and spotlights the major learning point of the film accompanied by Martin Luther King's famous "I have a dream" speech (a frequent reference in the film, for understandable reasons.)  The problems with the film are many: the screenplay can charitably be called amateurish with tons of ridiculous dialogue and even more ridiculous acting (at one point Mabel gets the vapors and faints just by looking at her neighbors.) Many plot devices are odd, especially the Wild West dream sequence which must be seen to be believed, and the direction and editing are abysmal. The hit and run incident in which the Kinkade's son is killed is highly spatially-challenged, to say the least. (Just watch it and try to explain the geometry involved.) In short, numerous errors made it into the film which should have been either excised or reshot. Flubbed lines and stilted dialogue are everywhere (at one point Kinkade pleads to his wife "Please Beth, don't persecute me," for instance.) And I'm not even going to mention the worm eating.  The good news is that despite its faults, the historical value of this film makes it interesting for people interested in a genre of film that has become unbelievably tamer in the last forty years. While it's not a good movie in any conventional sense, its value resides in its status as a cultural artifact. It has the added advantage of having a genuinely unique plot twist which has learned from many movies preceding it and formulated something wholly different. If you can get past the atrocious script, direction, acting (only Mayo is remotely convincing here,) this is a viewing experience like no other. As for extras, it even has previews for "Dolemite!" If you watch it for the right reasons, you may be pleased, but this one will definitely be a matter of individual taste.

Stay the Movie When i got this movie the plastic cover was torn on the back like it had been used but was suppose to be NEW. I would not buy from this person again.

If you need an antidote for a good mood, this one's for you I was hoping that I would like this movie more, but I found it almost unwatchable. Only Daniel Radcliffe would have gotten me past the first fifteen minutes.  I'm not a big horror fan, which may be part of the problem; I'm probably out of synch with what horror fans like. But I always feel that well-done horror has some kind of point beyond nihilistic unpleasantness. Often it's a very moralistic point, which you could argue is the case here, with the evil ghost being a "wronged woman." But the victims of her wrath are wholly blameless of any complicity, past or present, in her sufferings, and there's never any resolution to her pain or theirs.  On top of this, the events of the film are less horrific than merely sadistic. I don't like stories that exploit the suffering of children or animals and the people who grieve for them. That's just cheap manipulation and disturbing on a whole other level--writers and filmmakers who do this seem more pathological themselves than their characters.  The movie works very, very hard to be "scary" and it's so obvious about it, the artifice shows. The scary old house is a really, *really* scary old house...but why was it so decrepit when its owner had died so recently that her papers were still in probate and being sorted out by lawyers? Just how long had that house been empty? Then, not only is the house already scary, it's out on a sort of point which turns into an island at high tide. Why would anyone build a big expensive mansion in such a location, and why didn't it just sink, since it's surrounded by quicksand? There are lots of scary bits with ghosts (or visions, at least) suddenly appearing or sneaking up behind, but it's like a carnival funhouse. The ghosts literally "leap out and yell boo," and even as you're jumping out of your seat, you have this annoyed sense that you're just the butt of a practical joke. Since this is a movie about dead children, of course we have lots of Scary Toys, too. The contrivances are just too apparent.  I didn't read the book on which this is based, so I don't know how much the scriptwriters are to blame. You could extract a psychological mystery out of this; the protagonist, Arthur Kipps, lost his young wife when she died giving birth to their first child. Four years later, he is still so consumed by grief that his son draws pictures of him wearing black and crying because "daddy always looks like that," and his bosses are fed up with him and about to fire him if he doesn't get over himself. But if Kipps has conflicted feelings toward his son, which might cause him to unconsciously hate children, the movie never implies this, so the sudden uptick in child deaths after his arrival in the village has no explanation. I won't spoil the ending, but let's just say it's a head-scratcher, and ultimately frustrating. You also see it coming from miles away.  I only watched this movie because Radcliffe is in it, and unlike some reviewers, I think he does a great job. If he seems a little monochromatic, it's the fault of the script, not his performance. He works hard but he's given nothing to do except be grief-stricken, scared or desperate. He's choosing unusual roles post-Harry-Potter, and while that can be a good thing for an actor, he needs to allow himself more range than *The Woman in Black* allows him to display. There are some other fine performers in this movie, especially Janet McTeer and Ciaran Hinds, and all the cast does a good job, but most of them feel wasted. The movie is so grim, pratically the only emotion anyone is allowed to show is grief.  This movie is one of the new offerings from the revived Hammer Films Productions, and it reminded me of a few of its earlier, sadder movies, in particular *<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001Q58KXW">Blood on Satan's Claw</a>.* It's also very reminiscent of *<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004BZIY">The Sixth Sense (Collector's Edition Series)</a>.* But unless you're suffering from crippling happiness and euphoria and need to bring yourself down (and this one will do it), I can't recommend *The Woman in Black.*

Your interested in the movie for the wrong reasons Producers were not necessarily looking to make this film memorable for the leather-clad costume Patricia Laffan wore. However it has attracted people to help aid this mess into cult-status. Its not to far withdrawn from a fifties greaser and it fits perfectly as it is 1954. Though the real issue is that she is not compelling, shes distinct because of her costume sure, but you don't have much character development or personality all you have is a back-story to rely on and the way Patricia Laffan potrays her is cold and withdrawn that you don't trust her even if she is telling the truth there is just no sincerity. One of the only lessons I ever learned is that aliens have the same sexual fetishes that some of the most twisted and amoral individuals in society have.  Laffan incorporates her thespian persona from years of studying theater and stage acting but its in the wrong context for a science fiction film. Though in truth it must of been hard to find work elsewhere considering her rather gaunt and intense facial features and flamboyant stature. One wonders how she got into a leading dramatic role within Quos Vidas with those less than appealing features. Sadly it is once again the costume that is the only distinct value that Laffan has no sex appeal without it. You really don't want to take this film seriously on the part of the main character. The redeeming qualities lie in the other cast who are more compelling and much more sympathetic as they have qualities that are actually human. They save this from being an atrocity but the focus shouldn't be on a character that is hard to understand or be developed.

Snow White meets Twilight! Mirror Mirror on the wall, is this the greatest Snow White movie of them all? The answer to that question is no. And I had a feeling that this was going to be a pretty bad Snow White movie. But I gave it a chance because who knows it could have been a really great movie.  Pros: Visually the fantasy was great I loved seeing the magical creatures and the forest and I liked how there was more of a back story to the Evil Queen as to why she became evil. The only good actors that shined were Chris Hemsworth (as the Huntsman)and Sam Claflin(as Prince William)and both actors were nice to look at too! But thats all.  Cons: We already saw the best parts of the movie in the previews. The acting from Charlize Theron was over the top and she acted like a hormonal woman rather than an evil Queen. Kristen Stewerts acting as Snow White was terrible but not surprising. She had her mouth open a lot and didn't speak a whole lot except grunt and make sounds. She also had 2 looks on her face being confused or looking annoyed. And her british accent was akward and not believable. I also found out that many other actress's were considered for the part of Snow White but the director was probably desperate to make a movie. And the love triangle between her, The Huntsman and the Prince was ridiculous. It was like Twilight all over again. Sorry Twihards Edward and Jacob took a break from Bella! Can't we just have one main girl and one main guy be together? Enough already with the love triangles. Even with the love triangle when her true love kissed her YOU KNEW who he was and you knew who she was going to end up with. Even with the love triangle there wasn't enough romance.  I think if the director wrote a better story and he had better actress's to play Snow White and the Evil Queen this movie would have stood a chance at doing great. But for people who haven't seen the movie yet I suggest you wait to watch it on t.v. or just rent it and then you decide whether its worth the buy or not. Just don't expect this movie to be an academy award winner or the acting to be believable.

Great scenery, if nothing else Predictable and shallow plot, some good acting by Anthony Quinn, but not much else.  I'm glad I rented this and didn't buy it.  Kenau Reeves isn't much of an actor anyway and the script of this picture didn't help him out much.  The settings were beautiful, but some of the scenes were very unrealistic, even by "romantic comedy" standards, i.e. the fire in the vineyard.  Unless your a fan of wine country flicks, give this one a pass.

Could of been great This movie could of been great. However all the times you saw the evil queen in the movie were what you already saw in previews. Also Kristen Stewart sucked as usual. I never liked her ever as an actress. The only role I kind of like her in is twilight but still she is just so annoying. In my eyes she will always be a horrible actress. Story line could of been a lot better. Previews make it look like you are going to see a different type of movie then what it really is.

Fast-acting nonsense The action is impressive, the stunts fantastic. Great movie as long as the viewer's mind is kept in check. If not, the fact that the story makes no sense becomes evident. The defection at the beginning in particular is inexplicable. And since someone was obviously hired to prepare occasional Russian dialogue, how did the movie makers miss the fact that Chenkov is not a woman's surname? As in other Slavic languages, males surnames end in -ov, female in -ova. This is the sort of elementary blunder which ruins the suspension of disbelief.

Very disappointing It just drug on, and on, and on. There was so much potential for the story to get good, so I hung in there till the end, but it never did get good.

Left Me Feeling Sad & Angry I really want to embrace this film with open arms.  From the time that I was a child, I sat captivated by various Superman incarnations (most notably the first two Christopher Reeve movies), then got into the "Supes" spirit again when Smallville hit the airwaves on television.  When I saw this movie in the theater on its premiere night in 2006, I thought it was absolutely incredible.  With a bit of reflection, however, it is clear that "Superman Returns" is little more than wasted potential.  For a basic plot summary, "Superman Returns" sees the Man of Steel (Brandon Routh) returning to Earth from a long hiatus of searching for the remains of his home planet Krypton.  Upon his return to Earth and re-entry into the Clark Kent persona, he notices some major changes afoot.  Lois Lane (Kate Bosworth) is now married (husband played by James Marsden) and has a son (Tristan LeBeau), as well as a Pulitzer Prize for the article "Why the World Doesn't Need Superman".  One thing that hasn't changed, however, is Lex Luthor (Kevin Spacey) being up to his old nefarious deeds.  I could prattle on and on about why this is a sub-par movie, but that dialogue can be summed up in two key bullet points:  -First, is the utterly inconsistent plot/storyline.  Though director Bryan Singer wants us (the viewers) to believe that the world has "moved on" from Superman, it is as if nothing has changed whatsoever.  Clark still gets a job at the Daily Planet, all the characters act/look the same, and even the typical "Supes vs. Lex" rivalry is renewed with little to nothing new interjected.  The only addition?  A potential child figure in the life of the returning hero.  Without giving away any major spoilers, this is a TERRIBLE addition to the movie and only serves to complicated things more (as opposed to adding any real emotion).  -Secondly, the writing/dialogue is atrocious.  Spacey is not a good Lex Luthor (though whether by casting or given dialogue I am not entirely sure), Bosworth is a middling Lois, and Routh can only channel Reeve (again, a failure to "move on" in the storyline).  The two actors who really stand out are Frank Langella (playing Perry White) and Sam Huntington (Jimmy Olsen), and even they are not on screen all that much.  Simply put, "Superman Returns" is a movie for its time...and nothing more.  It was made to capitalize on the burgeoning success of Smallville, which had thrust "Superman mania" back into popular culture once again.  Singer does an okay job of playing to those who just wanted to see the suit, cape, Reeve impersonation, and flying scenes, but other than that he turns in an utter stinker.  Ironically, while the cannon established in this effort wipes the events of Superman III & IV off the map, "Superman Returns" will likely not ever be considered cannon in its own right.  For rabid Superman fans, this is frustrating considering the massive potential that could have evolved from a truly great film at that time.  The final verdict: Unless you care about nothing else but the visuals, this will be a severe disappointment.  You'll want to love it, but it doesn't ever give you a chance.

Battle : To make it through this movie I didn't 'hate' this movie. The concept was there, but it could have definitely been much better.  I started watching this movie without reading any descriptions or having any clue of the storyline.  That being said I assumed it was a human conflict movie. I did not realize it was an alien invasion movie.  The movie starts off pretty quick with you finding out it is aliens that are invading. I'd say about 10-15 minutes in.  After that its 2 hours of a group of american soldiers dodging an astronomical amount of enemy shots.  How any of them are eluding the onslaught of alien projectiles is beyond me. It took away from the realism.  Also, because of this account, it made the aliens seem unintelligent, which in turn didn't make you feel uneasy seeing them.  It was more like 'oh boy...there goes another dumb alien.'  I felt more uneasy watching the movie Signs, when the alien ran past the window for 2 seconds near the end.  The movie seemed forever long and I found myself longing for the end to come after investing some time into this movie.  Also, I didn't feel a connection to any of the characters. So whenever a character died, as dramatic as they were trying to make it seem, it wasn't.  I feel they definitely could have made this movie shorter and it would have helped make it a better movie, but it was too drawn out.  As I said, I did not HATE the movie per say. But it is not one of those movie where I feel the need to ever see it again.

disappointed This film started out ok but lost it's mojo about half way through. It sdeemed  Tim Burton was tired of this film about half way through and gave up on making a good film.  You really should have tried harder, Mr. Burton.  The orginal Dark Shadows movies were something to be proud of.  They still give me the chills.

Not one of Tim Burton's Best I really wasn't happy with this movie, it was slow and hard for me to get interested in it. The scenery and use of colors was awesome though.

soul kittens cabaret it was boring somebody else told me about its not one i would keep or watch again. i will probably give it to one of my family members

Outside the empty box Every now and then a movie comes along that seems like the writer had just sat through several old movies and tried to blend them together.  The Box is a great example of a lousy job of that. The advertised premise caught my interest... regular people given the option to gain $1M in exchange for the death of someone they do not know. But, I get the funniest feeling of ... deja vu... Past movies of a similar money-for-death choice:  "The Lesser Evil" (1997) and "A Simple Plan" (1998) Past movies that start with seemingly true-life, then switch to sci-fi aliens: "The Forgotten" (2004), "The Thing" (1982), "Independence Day" (1996)  These were all gripping, well-done movies (except maybe the most similar, which was The Forgotten).  Past sci-fi movie that makes less sense the longer it plays: "Phantasm" (1979)  This freaked-out movie had that SAME put-your-fingers-through-to-another-dimension thing.  Too weird and too hodgepodge for me.  "The Box" could have and should have stayed within true-life.  Real life tension stays way higher than opening the anything-goes floodgates of aliens-among-us.  Keep the creepiness of Langella (how can you not?), but had the story stayed "real," it would have been a Box-buster movie!

What's wth the 'lightning action scene' edits? Love Daniel Craig.  Love the modern, more serious Bond.  Hate the ultra fast edits during the action sequences that can't allow the viewer to process the drama.  Booo!!!

Wrong number for Liz While Elizabeth Taylor is visually beautiful in this film the script is extremely dated and hackneyed. Women are all sluts or as blindly devoted as dogs. Being a "fallen" woman means you have to die dramatically. The searing scene where Taylor reveals the trauma that made her what she is is the only dramatically realistic minutes in the movie. Everything else is cliched dialogue and overheated acting. Better to remember Liz for A Place in the Sun or some of her other better films. The believability of scriptwriting and acting has improved light years since this quaint early 60's period piece.

Dissolute to the point of being plotless I can really think of two reasons why "Contagion" is held highly in some circles.  It is realistic (for a Hollywood movie) not only in showing events as they happen but also it has no real heroes or villains, only people and the choices they make.  It also doesn't dumb itself down for the audience (such as the scenes in innumerable science fiction movies where the crew of a spaceship get basic science and physics explained to them so the audience can get it).  This remote storytelling, almost a coldness, draws you in.....and then does nothing. No one is all good or all bad, and the menagerie of actors each step in for their part, return a few times, and then leave.  This is "real" in the sense there's not a grim horror show or heroes running to save the day and rescue the antidote, but it's also unsatisfying.  When the credits roll the feeling is what was the point to this? Were we supposed to learn anything--believe in anyone?  In the end it's as dry as a documentary, and shows only enough to get us to the next scene.

In home, but not mine. I'm sure it is a great program.  I live in a rural area with no gyms nearby.  My home is the  only option; however, I live in a small farm house with only 8 foot ceilings.  Unfortunately, this is totally useless for me because of the jumping involved.  I'll be returning it and getting some band aids for my knuckles.

Save your money I fast forwarded through most of this movie and didn't miss a thing.  All I can say is the stars must have needed the cash. I give it two stars because Michael Nyqvist looks awesome in black leather.

One of the flatest storys I've ever seen I bought this movie as a deal, I didn't read the reviews, as it has a great quality of animation I never though that the story were so bad. If you are looking for amazing animation, buy this product, if you are looking for a good story do not buy this dvd.

Serious Disappoinment We purchased this movie with great anticipation after seeing the first installment. Let me start off by asking the question WHY BLACK AND WHITE?...In my opinion this really detracts from the enjoyment of the graphic nature of the flick, which was supposedly its calling card. This movie has no coherent plot and almost zero dialog from the actors. The main character does not say a word almost throughout the entire movie. This flick exists for the sole purpose of gore and it does not even do that right. Save your money.

False Advertising This reality show was a landmark TV show. It had never been done before--following a family, warts and all, with TV cameras. It had recently been shown on PBS--I missed it. Was thrilled to see it in a DVD. BUT BUT no where on the order page did it say that this was a summary of the show.  IT IS NOT THE WHOLE SERIES.  The whole series ran about 20 hours --this runs two.  Buyer beware.

soap opera style movie Well, I was expecting a bit more entertainment. Instead, the action proceeds much like a soap opera and never reaches any suspenseful or frightening climaxes. Example, young girl being used as "bait" for vampire waits nervously unaware that the vampire is advancing upon her from behind. The camera pans down so you can see the advance of the vampire from under the couch the girl is resting on. What should be a terrifying, suspenseful scene is undermined by the view of blue slippers and the bottom of a dark blue cloak on the "creature" (an attractive but blah, middle aged mom) walking up on her. Ridiculous, and not even funny! On the positive side, it is a nicely shot movie, has good sets, good costumes, and there is one good fencing scene. So, two stars. Other than that, pretty uneventful. Not worth a second viewing.

Stolen Time from Watching This Film At first, I thought I'd really like this film as it had some engaging aspects.  However, it soon became annoying as h.  Yes, I understood the childhood rejection and abandonment, as well as non-nurturance from her caregivers.  But I was unable to feel anything for this girl aside from wondering if this would be as predictable as I thought it would be.  The actor who played her boyfriend was totally annoying, but what finally got me totally bonkers was when they tried to inject a soundtrack in spots.  It was distracting and didn't fit at all.  This film was a waste of time for me.

YOUR dog is more interesting.... I'm somewhat late to the board, here, but just watched this movie and found it very disappointing.  Moreover, I do not understand why so many people here are giving this movie high ratings.  To the point, there was nothing remarkable to this story.  Marley was a badly misbehaved dog, causing property damage and even hurting people.  While watching, I was waiting for something to happen. Was the dog going to go through a transformation and somehow become well-behaved?  Was the dog going to somehow be the catalyst that helps the married couple through their difficulties?  Was the dog going to be a hero, save a life, chase away a burglar, etc?  Would the couple split up, only to have the dog bring them back together? I was waiting for some plot, anything, to develop, but none did. Furthermore, there are many scenes that seem incomplete, where you'd expect something else to happen, but nothing does. (For example, as the dog barks out the window, Grogan runs outside to find a neighbor girl stabbed. He calls the police and conforts her, but then the scene ends.  Maybe it would have been fun to see the dog run down the street and apprehend the assailant.)  More importantly, the dog was not an endearing character.  Throughout the movie, the dog was self-centered, distructive, and harmful, repeatedly destroying property and scaring people.  The dog had almost no redeeming aspects.  Furthermore, the owners did not seem to even attempt to discipline this dog, other than those no-longer-funny chase scenes that we've all seen in about a hundred other dog movies.  I would compare Marley's destructive nature to a screaming baby in a restaurant.  While there are some people who would find it "cute", most people find it very obnoxious and even angering.  The movie ends, of course, with the dog finally dying, in a scene that is clearly aimed at bringing tears to the audience.  However, two more common reactions should happen.  Firstly, you may be relieved that this self-centered, awful dog is finally gone, or, secondly, you may have a "what's the big deal" moment, as almost every dog owner has gone through the experience of having to put their dog down.  This is an unremarkable movie with very little plot.  The dog is not a sympathetic character at all, and while the married couple do go through some character changes, the dog contributes very little that is positive. Not a "one-star" movie, because it is not as bad as National Lampoon's "Gold Diggers", but not one that I would bother seeing again.  There are also scenes with strong language and some sexual references, so it would not be suitable for small children.

Creepy but aimless The atmosphere and scares were effective toward old fashioned gothic style horror - my favorite kind. The movie had a different feel to it than most horror films; quiet and intentionally slow moving. The camera work really kept me interested but in the end, the drudging pace and lack of any point kills this movie before - in the last 20 minutes -  it has a chance to redeem itself which it fails at. Why? Becasue there is absolutely no reason for anything in this film. Not the ghosts, not the ghosts' stories not the guests and not the freeking inkeepers! Pat Heely as Luke was fun to watch and I love his acting in this. He's amusing but I can take him seriously. I think his quality gave this movie that different edge. Sara Paxton's [main character] acting was mostly good but at times, her attempts at 'cute, geeky and quirky' were cringe worthy and took me way out of the film. Ultimately, this movie was all dressed up in the trappings of gothic horror but nowhere to go=[

Disappointment! After watching best of elmo's world, I expected more out of this DVD video. Half of the videos are outdated, made in 70's. This DVD doesn't hold my 18 month old daughter's attention expect for the initial song Honker Duckie song. Don't waste your money. For $9 its not worth it.

Very historically inaccurate, but beautiful What I liked about this movie is beautiful costumes, scenery, castles, etc. What I didn't, that many historical facts were missrepresented. Mary didn't visit her sister before her death; even though Anne was accused of incest, that was just a way for the king to marry his mistress with hopes to have a male heir. The king is shown as a guy overcome with passion for the evil calculating woman, but he had his motives for the male legite son in mind, when he anulled his marriage to marry Anne.And he married a few times after that too. Ironically, he did get his male heir, but he died too early to actually rule- even though officially he was a king for a while.   To sum up- too much drama, too little historic truth, but lots of beauty.

Could have been... To quote one of my personal faves (A Bronx Tale), "The saddest thing in life is wasted talent". Actually, no scratch that. It was not the "talent" that fell short in this film. More like a missed opportunity. I watched this movie knowing nothing about it except for the short description given by "On Demand". The movie steadily lives up to its namesake! I was like a clenched fist for about an hour of this movie, and then- ugh... The director just backed off! The whole plot "twist", and I say twist with irritated scorn. In reality the ending felt so trite, my first thought was "...director must have altered the ending under pressure from the studio? distributor??? Huh? Did I really just waste an evening watching that?!"

Choppy - could have been better... I agree with other reviewers - 2 hours is insufficient. It seems like the movie is broken into 3-5 minute segments of the most important scenes in the book. It's very choppy, rushed, and doesn't really explain anything. If you watch this (and haven't read the book), you're going to wonder what the hell happened between certain scenes. I thought the cast was great, but the movie just didn't flow. If you're looking for a good adaptation, check out one of the BBC/Masterpiece Theatre productions; they never disappoint.

Too Slow Paced for Me There were four of us who watched this movie for awhile but then we all agreed it was moving along at such a slow pace that we should stop it before it was finished. I don't know how it ends, I'll admit that, but the sad part is I'm not even interested enough in the characters to care what happened to them.  The situations seem very contrived and caused me to lose interest in their dilemma and any possible outcome. I suggest you watch this one before you buy it. Some other reviewers seemed impressed and I'm happy they found something in it to like but it just didn't work for me.

poor quality transfer I loved this version of Dracula however the DVD video quality is terrible. Many scenes are very dark. Scenes are so dark that skin tones are nearly dark orange. I would love to have this movie in Blue-Ray!

Disappointing and frustrating I was very excited to get this DVD.  When its too hot to run outside with my son, I have to squeeze in a workout during nap time, so I am very attracted to the quick and fast workouts like the Shred. The first disappointment was the tutorial.  You pretty much should go through it unless you are an avid kick boxer.  Having taken live instruction kick box classes I thought I would be fine without it, but I had to go back and watch it which limited my actual workout time. Second, this workout is super fast with zero learning curve.  You are expected to know the moves and go right into complex combinations, which just led me floundering around trying to get the steps correct.  If you are not already well versed in kick boxing, I think it would be hard for most people- and the tutorial didn't do much to help. Third, the workouts seem "one sided", which bothers me- I seem to be working one arm and leg more then the other.  I don't want end up lopsided. Fourth, there are WAY too many extra people in the video, half of which are showing off or not going in time with the others or Jillian.  It is very distracting and makes it hard when you're trying to figure out who the heck to watch and what you should be doing. The plus was that it goes super fast when I'm motivated enough to flail around to the DVD for 20 minutes I'm not out of shape- I work out 4-5 days a week, but I am definitely not a "kick boxer".  I am interested in getting a pretty good workout in a short period of time.  I just thought this would be a fun change up, but it wasn't.  If you're looking for what I was looking for, I would look elsewhere when it comes to this DVD.

Don't watch this if you are a fan of the original! I was so excited when I learned that Tim Burton was making a Dark Shadows movie. And when he said in an interview that he'd been a fan of the original series, even better.  I thought he would be respectful of the original and do it justice.  Now, I should mention here that I was absolutely addicted to the tv series when I was growing up. The show came on at 4:00 pm every day.  My bus didn't drop me off until 4:10.  I would literally jump off the bus and RUN up the yard into my house so I could watch the last 20 minutes.  We had one of those huge Sylvania black & white console television sets in our living room. I think I watched all the seasons in black and white, even after they started broadcasting in color. I had a mad crush on Jonathan Frid when I was in middle school.  Sadly, this movie is bad.  I mean really, really bad.  It alternates between gory violence and campy humor and doesn't really do a good job at either one.  I ended up turning it off about 2/3 of the way through because I just couldn't bring myself to watch any more of it.  If you were a fan of the original series, you will not want to watch this movie. I'm both sad and disappointed.

Boring All the funny clips are in the trailer. And the rest is kind of boring.  I wouldn't recommend it. Also, has nothing to do with the book (but I figured as much beforehand).

Not a WWII Classic For Sure. I'm giving this film two stars simply because it was suppossed to address WWII and for the many big stars in the movie. Stars one will recognize are: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia O'Neal,George Kennedy, Henry Fonda, Carrol O' Connor and more. Basically this movie seems to lack focus. I watched this movie wondering where it was going and trying to figure out what the general themes were. It's hard to figure out what this movie is really about because most of the ideas in the movie never quite have much of an impact. First, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. It was unbelievable in how the characters in the movie are not surprised at all by the attack. Where was the shock? And there is very little of the attack. Battleships ar sunk in the harbor, all is lost and the film just glosses over all of this. The attack is over and done with before it really even developed. In the battle with the submarine John Wayne breaks his arm. I couldn't believe how FAST three months passed in this movie. In one scene he reports to his superior with a broken arm and then suddenly it is three months later and soon after the cast is off. And the movie is hard to follow because of the pacing and the lack of development. And it may be me but Patricia O'Neal just doesn't cut it at all as a love interest for John Wayne or for anyone. I see this slow talking homely nurse, smoking a cigarette and I feel just like getting away. A romance between these two suppossed battle tested adults just doesn't work at all. But of course this movie has the two adults jumping into the sack before John Wayne is shipped off on assignment. And this movie has Pat O'Neal pursuing John Wayne. She asked him out. She came to his house and initiated SEX. Sure, this sort of stuff happened but the times too were often a lot different in the 40's. As others have said the movie injects sixties attitudes into a 40's set movie. An independent woman pursues a man and initiates sex. That is more of a sixties theme than a 40's theme. And Kirk Douglas's character is just a cliche. Kirk plays a drinking, fighting navy man with an unfaithful wife who dies after having comitted adultry. Later Kirk relives his wife's unfaithfulness when he has a flashback with the young nurse. So Kirk rapes a young girl who then commits suicide. To redeem himself Kirk goes on an airborne reconosance mission which was a suicide mission to atone for the rape, because afterall he was headed to prison anyway. All of the island battle that was to take place with the Japanese is poorly developed. Other than the naval battle there was no fighting on the island. John Wayne loses first his son on a PT boat and then his own leg. Wayne awakes on a hospital ship to face his creepy love interest Pat O'Neal. One of Wayne's fellow officers or a superior says that Wayne "Is a hard man to kill".  Really, this is a poor WWII movie with some big stars who seem pretty bored with the script. Wayne particularly seems to be unipressed with his dialogue and the script, but even Wayne at his best could have not saved this hodge podge of ideas. Some of the main ideas of the movie were: the attack of Pearl Harbor, the adulterous wife, a father who never was a father to his son, a rape and two suicides, a jealous admiral who tries to take credit for another's work, a man with a disentegrating military career, a son who comes to respect his father as he matures as a man, teasing a man can lead to rape, some confusing island warfare, etc.  Some of the special effects are quite good as in the sinking ship with the gaping gash in the side. The car going off the cliff has a dummy that is on fire whose head hits the windshield a few times. This scene is really out of place in movie that wants to be an epic drama. The car scene is straight out of a bad B movie. A simple head on collision crash without a body on fire in the car would have sufficed. In a 40's movie the car would simply have plunged off the cliff on fire or exploding on the rocks below. This movie injects a b movie car crash that is simply out of tone to the rest of the movie.  All in all this is pretty lame and long movie, but two stars.

Sound Engineer Scuttles Solemnis What a great disappointment!!!!  A monumental choral work is made anemic by a faulty sound track. The chorus and male soloists sound distant from the  dominating sound of the orchestra. When the soloists sing in quartet, the male voices, especially the bass, are almost overpowered by the soprano and alto; not that the men don't have powerful voices. It is due to poor sound engineering. On blu-ray, the visual is sharp in detail. If only the sound were!!!!

tries too hard I really did not like this show at all....I am an alcoholic that has been in recovery 13 yrs....so I know the life of an alcoholic....for the most part the alcoholic is very secretive about being an alcoholic.....we don't think we have a problem and try very hard to keep everything secret....every aspect of this show is way too far over the top and not believeable....in almost every scene it is trying to shock us....it tris way too hard to shock us.....what a waste of Macy's talent.

WOW!! AN AWESOME DRAGON, AND THIS MOVIE?? Umm. . . Uh-oh. Ok, when I was reading books years ago, I found time to read Eragon and it I loved it to pieces in the same way with the Harry Potter series. I even read the books that followed after that, Eldest and Brisingr. My problem with this movie is, in terms of adapting a succesfull book, its just lazy. It barely takes time to fully flesh out the story like the book did after the opening. We barely get to know the characters that exist here.  The story follows into Alagaesia as its called, about a young man named Eragon who unintentionally finds a blue stone containing a dragon, and soon finds himself in a whirlwind of Dragon Riders, Elves, Dwarves(at least elves and dwarves were suppose to be in the movie), and an army consisting of the major elements ready to oppose an evil king.  I won't lie. I did like the cast selected to be in this, but despite that: I still hated this movie. Its a real shame that Christopher Paolini sold out his work like this for it to become a movie, and for this to become an hour-and-a-half long disaster. The acting wasn't terrible at all. The bad dialogue was the major issue and the movie was playing away like it didnt care about the story. In terms of directing, the movie certainly does not lack for visual flair, but the another problem is the movie felt incomplete. The reason its getting an extra star from me is my thanx does go to the cast who attempted to bring this life, but this movie is a prime example of how Hollywood has so much money to sometimes take something like the book Eragon, break it, and just give us something they think we wanna see.

Too confusing to be enjoyable... Great cast, acting and directing, but I really never knew what the heck was going on.  If you thought Memento and Inception were hard to get, you won't like this either.

Do You Enjoy Shakespearean Dialogue ?? Sorry to be a party pooper here since everyone seems to love this film very much.  Yes, the theme is exciting, the action is superb, the acting is great, but I can't seem to get over this Shakespearean dialogue!!  True to form, the actors speak in poetic lines to each other, creating stiff and impersonal dialogue.  Even as bombs are exploding and bullets are flying everywhere, the characters under siege seemingly have time to think their lines so to express their sentiments in poetic rhythm.  Viewers really have to be hard-core Shakespeare fans to feel this poetic dialogue of late 1500s England adds something to the film.  This would have been a much better overall dramatic production if standard English would have been used, even if it would not have been true to the original work.  Don Quijote de la Mancha was written by Cervantes in Spanish, yet we all enjoy it in English.  This type of consideration should have been made for the film production of this classic work, Coriolanus. On the other hand, by setting the TV volume at zero, viewers bothered by the unconvincing dialogue can pretend it is a silent film and still enjoy all the action (oh, yes, switch off the subtitles as they appear stiff too).

"They do not value my work!" I don't recall Captain Nemo (as played by Patrick Stewart) being this pouty, petulant, or quite as childish.  I also don't recall his being relegated to a special guest star role.  And while I'm at it, that bandana was a bit off-putting.  Even his man servant Joseph (Roy Marsden) was more sinister.  This was more like the absentminded professor living in Jurassic Park. Even more unsettling was the jokey approach used throughout, even while a praying mantis was biting the head off the confederate soldier. Daffy pirates in never ending supply, an island that looked tiny from the air but boundless on the ground, humongous monsters roaming freely (and their food supply was?); this was the Classics Illustrated version of the novel (for those who don't recall or aren't of a certain era, Classics Illustrated were comic book versions of great novels published in the 40s through the early 60s.  Think of them as Cliff Notes with pictures). I won't say this was the worst version ever made of Jules Verne's work but it certainly wasn't the greatest either.  To say a great deal of license was taken is putting it mildly (under the circumstances, maybe their license should be revoked?).  It was watchable, I'll give them that.  I don't believe, however, that should be one's goal when making entertainment.  No one involved seemed inclined to aspire to anything higher.  Hallmark aside, this looked like something the SyFy channel routinely showcases. Not a keeper but I'm not sorry I watched it this one time.

Wrath of the ... Immortals is better this movie is not expected to great since the last one was not well made. So if you like movies of people walking around in 3-D (sounds awesome i know right...) then get it.

if you can't sleep... OK, film buffs, I guess I'm not sophisticated enough to appreciate art. i.e. very slooooow moving movies w/ simplest plot,nothing going on, but with, (oh-yeah), a lot of facial expressions - I recommend this movie if you have insomnia. Give me a old Hitchcock movie any day over this one.

Poor Follow Up to a Great Movie We loved Iron Man! We thought Iron Man 2 had a weak story line with so - so characters. Although the Black Widow is introduced as a character in this movie - there is nothing to tell you who she is or what her history is. The story did not set up the villin (M. Rouke). Although he plays a good 'bad guy' in other movies, you did not know his story other than a few second of something about father-vs-father. Very disappointing. We thought it was worth two stars for the Iron Man costume alone.

Deffective Disk "Catholicism DVD Box Set" The set included 5 disks with two videos per disk. The 5th disk was deffective with visible voids beneath the surface on outside edge of disk. This caused the first part of the ninth video to stall at the beginning. If you fast forward to skip over the defect you lose the first several minutes of the 9th video. I want a replacement for this disk to fulfill the terms of my original purchase.

Expected Much Better Very disappointed. How this is considered a childrens movie will be mistaken, too long boring with poor story line.  Beautifully made scenic wonder, but at the end should have been 40 minutes shorter.

SLOW DOESN'T DESCRIBE IT When I heard about this series coming to television I thought it could be interesting. When I heard that Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton were starring I definitely wanted to see how they did. My DVR wasn't working at the time so I was glad to hear it was coming to DVD. Unfortunately the series didn't live up to my expectations.  We all know the basics of the story, two warring families in the West Virginia/Kentucky area in the late 1800s. This show goes a little more in depth than any we've heard before starting with the original men who were friends only to become deadly enemies later in life.  Anse Hatfield (Costner) and Randall McCoy (Paxton) are seen fighting for the Confederacy as the show opens. Tired of the killing and battle, certain that they're working for a losing cause, Anse decides to quit and head home. Randall disagrees and stays only to be captured while the rest of their unit is all killed.  Anse returns home to start a lumber business and work the land with his family. Randall comes home after years in a battlefield prison, a beaten man and one who won't forgive Anse for leaving him behind. Added to this is the fact that Anse' Uncle Jim has killed a relative of Randall (without witnesses) and the feud between the two families is started.  Along the way various arguments and battles between the two families continue. With as many members of both as are seen here it makes you wonder if there were any other families living in the same area at the time! Bloodshed sways back and forth, hate festers between not just the two men but their families as well and no happy ending is in sight.  So why was it a disappointment? It was boring! The movie moves along at a snails pace giving us details of each and every incident that happens between the two families. The smallest slight is given screen time and the eventual outcome is evident from the start. Perhaps the makers of this series were hoping to give some depth to the story we've all been told, but do we really need the amount of depth they offer here? I found myself on more than one occasion checking the time display on the DVD player to find out just how much was left to watch and that was just on the first disc!  The acting is all over the place. Tom Berenger as Uncle Jim does a good job of being dislikeable. Costner does a great job at trying to bring harmony to the situation, trying to resolve problems only to be stopped dead in his tracks and forced to change into the mean old SOB he becomes. Paxton, an actor I've always thought highly of, just seems to be a one note ball of anger throughout.  The locations used here look drab and unattractive. Having family in West Virginia (thought I haven't been there in some time) I know that the area looks much better than presented here. Perhaps the idea was to show it in the worst light possible to go along with the way things were in those days.  The biggest problem with this show remains the length and the fact that it is boring, taking far too much time to tell the story. Great mini-series have always taken time to unfold a story but those have always held our attention from start to finish. While this isn't the worst mini-series ever it does offer little entertainment value except for pure history buffs.

Campstravaganza Very campy and B movie quality. Useless flashing lights, odd campy close fitting uniforms with a tight fitting cap, and it is out of sync or a dubbed, possibly french movie. I didn't care enough to look it up on IMDB or anything. Hard to believe this came out the same year as Star Wars, but Star Wars did set a new standard so I will not use it against this film. Dialogue is really bad: "Captain two bright points of light approaching!" and "It might be two asteroids" as a goofy projection of two ships up real close is in the view-screen. Just as a couple of examples. Opening credits of a star field looks like a disco mirror ball projection.  I don't really go for camp but here are some good points here. There is a mind to mind interface, (for making love), with cheesy moaning running concurrent as they are laying on their "space couches", and Captain Hero seducing the Fem lead without it telling her she lost herself due to the influence to machines. In that scene she has the most awful haircut. Looks like a space mullet without her skin tight space cap on, lol. And a ship AI. But they made the AI have a booming dramatic over top grandiosity.  So if you like camp more than I you might check it out. Streamed on Prime. It is very campy. I actually laughed a time or two and I watched it all so not a one star.

Good Concept and Back Story, Bad writing and Execution This movie took a real screwed up story and had a decent concept for it, but they butchered it by not providing a good outlet for it. For example, they took a real true story about a woman who tortured her slaves and attempted to make a documentary/ghost story out of it, but they failed because they had it take place in a house where she "may" have hid for awhile. They should have had this take place in her actual house (or a house that was supposed to be it) and scared the crap out of the kids and viewers, there were tons of ghostly things that could have happened to them with the idea of Madame's slaves in mind.  The characters were all likable other then the Psychic who just annoyed the crap out of me and made me want to shut it off.  For a much more in depth review for this stinky movie, please check out my horror movie/book review blog Shivers of Horror. Link in profile.

Pre-Teen Shoot-Em-Up Rollercoaster This a simple movie - all flash and no substance - just like the cartoon. If you're one of those pre-teens who embraced the animated version in the 80s, you'll probably enjoy this thing, because it shovels out the same formula: beefcakes, big guns, explosions, dumb dialogue, cheesy jingoism, massive property damage, and militarism without consequence. If that's not your thing, run away. Hollywood is cashing in on an old, ugly pop icon.

OMG, this is a slow starter...zzz...zzz I like all kinds of movies...action, drama, comedy, romance, documentary, etc. I have an attention spam beyond that of many. But when I watch an action film I want action and it took 90 minutes to get there on a thin plot line. Painful. .

More Exercise and Less Talk This DVD would be great if only they did more actual exercising and less explaining of why exercise is helpful for arthritis.  I bought this DVD to use for an exercise group I facilitate at work, but there is so much time devoted to explanations that most of the group participants were asleep before long, and couldn't benefit much from the limited physical activities it included.  These people are already sedentary, they do not need to listen to lengthy explanations, but to keep moving in order to stimulate their immunity and boost their metabolism.  This DVD misses that mark by miles!

Trailer was better than the entire movie After watching the trailor, I was expecting a great mystery, but was very disappointed.In fact I nodded out a couple of times

Am I back in the 80s? I am usually a big fan of Leslie Sansone, and I own several of her walking DVD's, but this one missed the mark.  She strayed from her usual 4 basic moves and incorporated some new moves and very simple combinations.  I appreciate her effort to create more variety in her workout, and I can  enjoy a good dance workout DVD (which this was NOT), but her end product but was boring, rather cheesy, and reminiscent of a bad 80s workout video.  More importantly, I did not feel it was as hard of a workout.  I did not feel the "burn" in my muscles that I have felt in her other videos, and I was able to do nearly the entire DVD the first night I owned it without hardly breaking a sweat (and no, I am not in that good of shape!).  I wanted to like this DVD, but I am quite disappointed.  I wish I could return it.  Her "Ultimate collection" is much better.

The Shining The Shining is an older made movie. Jack Nicholson was really young and begining in his career. Jack is a father looking for a job to supply his family. He found an outlook hotel deep in the top of the montains. His son Danny would have visions of someone telling him not to go to the outlook, but in the end they decided to go. Everything seemed ok when they got their but they were going to be the only ones their since during the winter months that it would close only the caregiver and if he choose his family would stay there. Little by little Danny the child started seeing things that he couldnt explain, but his parents wouldnt believe him. He was always lead to an especific room where a father had killed his twin daughters and wife before killing himself. The surprise turn happens when his father Jack is the one going crazy from the isolation that he to begins seeng people. The difference between them two was that jack had really become possesed by the hotel and decided to kill his wofe and danny. They outsmarted him and he ended up deying. The is also a book for this movies and the book is a lot different than the movie is. Its and Ok moie but i wouldnt recomend it to anyone.

Huge Disapointment! This was poorly produce movie. The producer obvious intent was to make her look as bad as possible. They focused on the end of her life instead of the time she was in office. The political intent was obvious.

Absurd trouser role for Horne I am beginning to think that opera should be heard and not seen. It is bad enough that trouser roles still exist in the 21st century but to cast a 56 year old stubby fat woman played by Horne as the young male lover is painful to watch. I do not care how beautiful her voice is...and to make matters worse she is the long lost son of her love interest...come on she is old enough to be the mother of her love interest. The MET did the same with Price in Verdi's Forces of Destiny. It is extremely annoying. I see no reason why these young male roles cannot be sung by young attractive tenors. Only in opera is everyone oblivious to the absurd in miscasting it seems. Along this line I refuse to watch a 60 year old Sutherland as a daughter of the regiment.

Fringe 2.0: Not the same show as before Entering this season, you need to know only one thing: this is not going to resolve seasons 1-3, this is now an entirely different show and though it references seasons 1-3, you need only have seen the recaps in order to be up to speed.  I did not like season 4.  I'll admit, it got exciting in the middle, but in terms of this season on its own, there were a number of pacing issues, inconsistencies, and unexplained/plot-hole-like elements that dragged it down. Fringe has always been guilty of introducing a number of exciting things midway only to change their mind on a lot of it and introduce something else towards the end, that suffers from not having a sufficient amount of set up.  Every season of the show is guilty of this, and with the exception of season 2, has never truly paid off.  Now, in terms of season 4 and its place in the series as a whole; I hate it. I feel insulted, as an audience member, cheated, to now know that everything I had followed in the first three seasons; the characters, the plots, everything I had invested in, has been abandoned. There are those that will argue that season 4 could not have existed without seasons 1-3, and I understand this, however, season 4 is its own entity and the universe, the story, the characters of the first three seasons are gone - inaccessible, and the further season 4 goes the more it solidifies this fact, ending the debate once and for all with 'A Short Story About Love'.  Here is my warning: for those who have watched seasons 1-3 for the story and characters and wish to see that resolved before anything else, my advice is to treat the season 3 finale as the end of that series, and consider season 4 its spin off. For those who just want entertainment, by all means proceed.  I unfortunately will not be tuning into its fifth and final season, for one simple reason: the show I began watching and became invested in ended in 2011. This latest incarnation represents nothing else but a "what if?".

Crime Story This was not my favorite Jackie Chan movie at all. It was OK but I found it kinda hard to follow and it really didn't keep my interest. I wouldn't recommend it. Never saw it before and probably not going to watch it again.

Not what I was hoping for. I didn't realize from the description that it was only a selection of episodes, in no particular order, or concern for continuity.  It also didn't use the theme song that was most popular in any of the episodes, which was the reason I bought it in the first place.  All in all, I'm glad I own it, but it wasn't what I hoped for.

Tolerable I am sorry to offend anyone, but I find this situation comedy rather bland and dull. The jokes are a bit corny, and each time an episode tries to educate people or contains a "life lesson" sort of moral, it seems a bit as if it is being forced down the viewers' throats. There are many other educating programs that teach lessons while being humorous in the process out there, and Steve Urkel does not redeem the rest of the series enough for anybody else. I apologize to the creators of "Family Matters" and every single member of its fan base.

Good but tiring at times We got 3 of these DVDs, Maria - the host, will get on your nerves as she is trying to hard to be "warm and fun" - it's also very slow. This is a good option for a non bilingual home that is looking to learn Spanish. Too annoying for any native Spanish Speaking home....as it's slow and forced at times. The only good thing is the singer and the songs they feature.

Wrong region DVD would not play. Wrong region would display. This information was not in the description of item. Returned for a full refund.

A review just for the DVD For the movie itself I would give a 4-star rating, but then, I am a little biased as a big fan of the Alien series.  Unfortunately, the DVD release of this film is very lackluster.  The bonus "Deleted and Alternate Scenes" does not include all of the neat stuff you'll find on the Blu-ray edition: no alternate beginning, no alternate ending, no behind-the-scenes docs.  I guess this is Scott's or FOX's attempt at forcing us to finally upgrade to Blu-ray players.  It would have been nice to have known this information upfront, though.  I would've spent the extra $5 on the double-disc edition and watched the extras on a friend's player.

Good Story, Not worth the dollars This is a group of 4 shot cartoons. One of them had already been released on another disc. I enjoyed the new short Superman/Shazam but was very disappointed that these short cartoons cost so much more than they should have cost. They saw me coming and they got me. Next time I will spend more time reading the box.

drags Not very good. The movie has good characters that never take off. I was bored and considered many times turning it off. Disappointing.

Pretty forgettable... I liked the 1818 setting, but this movie just isn't worth watching multiple times. "An American Haunting" gives off that witchy-feel to it. It has a certain element of creepiness, except the thing is, it's not really scary. At all. It seems like some of the scenes where the invisible entity attacks the girl are trying to be as outrageous as the 1973 horror classic "The Exorcist". I didn't like how it shows the modern-day sequences, either. That was pretty cheesy and poorly acted. There are a few pros, but there are more cons. It was a poorly directed film. That's what I have to say about it.

Great movie, POOR bluray I'll keep it simple. The audio and video quality of this Bluray release are the pits. My advice is to buy the regular DVD version, as the quality is much better. The audio of the big gun battle was such a let down on the Bluray, I may never put it in my player again. Whoever mixed this for Bluray oughta be ashamed of themselves!

Mediocre to the Core Team America: World Police (2004) is Trey Parker and Matt Stone's ambitious attempt to create an R-rated comedy composed of puppets and marionettes. Like the South Park Movie, Team America is a satire on American politics. And like that movie, it is simply not funny. In most cases, it's not even good.  That's not to say Parker and Stone don't deserve credit for trying something new. In fact, Team America tries to be everything: a satire on the Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer blockbusters, a swipe at the bloated action epics of Michael Bay, a comical reflection of jingoistic patriotism from Bush-Era America and a vilification of liberal Hollywood celebrities. And yet, with the exception of the first, TA fails in its supposedly satirical message and delivery of jokes.  Many fans have compared Trey Parker and Matt Stone to the iconoclastic comedy troupe Monty Python. I beg to differ. Python were a group of sophisticated intellectuals whose mixture of cerebral humor, political incorrectness and witty dialogue helped produce seething, intelligent and increasingly relevant television episodes and movie satires. Parker and Stone are two practical jokers who think that going after virtually everybody is equivalent to smart satire. No, it does not, especially in a frustratingly haphazard movie like this.  And what a frustratingly haphazard movie this is; an audacious idea that falters in uneven execution. The opening sequence, where Team America assault the terrorists and, in turn, annihilate Paris, is extremely funny and perfectly executed, both exciting in its action and mocking of the Bruckheimer productions that Parker and Stone are going after. The sequence where Gary tries to uncover terrorist information in Cairo and is caught in a car chase between the terrorists and Team America is both a loving homage to the Mos Eisley scene from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006VIE4C">Star Wars</a> and an effective jab at the gung-ho American politics of movies like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002WZTOI">Top Gun</a> and the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015XHP4A">Rambo</a> movies.  And yet even with these two or three great sequences, the movie doesn't work. Team America is an irritating blend of unfunny jokes ("Matt Damon", showing loyalties via oral sex, the body part speech in the end), uninteresting puppeteering, mediocre screenwriting (you know this movie's in trouble when it needs to sing about Michael Bay to kill some time) and the longest vomiting scene of all time, which would be funny if it wasn't so tedious. Oh and there's a puppet sex scene. Ha ha ha. Not.  This also leads to another problem with TA: the liberal Hollywood celebrities. Why are they in the movie? Why are they portrayed as villains? To be made fun of? That's it? That's not satire; that's grade school mockery. Instead of just mentioning it, why didn't Parker and Stone use Sean Penn's visit to Iraq as a political motivation for aligning themselves with Jong II? That would have given the movie's satirical message a greater edge and the movie more bite. And, sure, there is a subplot where Gary idolizes Alec Baldwin and is shocked to see him revile Team America as the scum of the earth. But it's never fully realized. The actor caricatures seem to exist to be made fun of and that's it. Just because you poke fun at something doesn't mean it is good satire. Yes, it's funny. Ha ha ha. But as satire, it's childish.  It's unfortunate that so much talent was wasted on such a feeble movie. Besides Parker and Stone, the movie was photographed by Bill Pope, who did cinematography for <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ICXQOM">Army of Darkness</a>(1993) and the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000OPPBEQ">Matrix</a> movies and the music was composed by Harry Gregson-Williams, who is also the conductor of several Metal Gear Solid video games; to speak little of the puppet operators, who had their talents squandered due to a lackluster script.  TA deserves praise for being bold and trying to be creative. It's just too bad that the script couldn't deliver the goods. For a pair of supposedly iconoclastic comedy writers, it's depressing that the best jokes Parker and Stone could come up with involve hammers, oral sex and vomiting. If you want better satires, you're better off checking <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000055Y0X">Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Special Edition)</a> (1964), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001LMU19G">The Exterminating Angel (The Criterion Collection)</a> (1962), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006RCNV">The King of Comedy</a> (1983) and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6305922756">This is Spinal Tap (Special Edition)</a> (1984). This movie will pass as a nice time-waster but nothing more.  Recommendation to avoid.

Boring little mutant monster baby. First let me say that I personally do not have any problem with remakes so I am not holding that against the movie. I would however say that in this case the original is definitely far better. Now this movie and the original is very different so this is not a scene for scene remake, the story have some of the same premise but it is a completely new story, which is usually a good thing, the problem is that this story is quite boring. It's Alive is about a young couple who is expecting their first child, unfortunately however this child happens to be a mutant with teeth and claws and the baby go on a killing rampage from the doctors in the delivery room to squirrels and policemen. Now here is where the remake differs from the original, in the original the baby looks monstrous, and the police know it is the killer and is hunting for it while it run around killing everything in sight, eventually however the parents meet their mutant child and to a certain degree begin to protect it. In the remake however the baby look completely normal so it takes a while before anyone notices that there is something wrong with it, then we have the baby killing and the mother covering up for it, and that is the entire movie.  There is very few special effects, very few story elements, very little of anything other than seeing the mother Lenore become more and more neurotic. The first It's Alive was a slasher, and while I do appreciate horror movies that go for mood over gore, this movie fails to build up any mood, it is just drawn out, slow and boring. The end scenes are a little better, at times they manage to be creepy, but generally this movie is just bland and that is I guess the only thing I can say about it. It's Alive is not bad as such, it is just bland.  Some of the problems with this movie is that they try to make the baby as strong and scary as in the original while keeping it looking like a normal child, the problem here is that I believe the little mutants in the original could swing around and murder people left and right, however how do a normal looking baby who yes seam to be able to sprout claws and teeth at will, but who still have a normal baby body manage to do that, it do not get scary it just get silly. By all means make a movie about a killer baby who look innocent, but then have the baby be dangerous in some other way that brute physical force.  I also think it is a little silly that they changed the reason why Lenore have a mutant baby. In the original movie series these mutant babies where born because of pollution, yes I know that is not realistic but in the context of the movie it was believable, here it is abortion pills bought online which is the cause. It is like Hollywood found out they where to liberal and decided no we can not have pollution be the big bad let us have abortion be so instead. I mean why would they change that, pollution is just as much an issue today as when the first It's Alive was filmed?  All in all I did not hate this movie, but I do not think it is a good movie, it is like I said just bland. If you love killer babies movies then you might enjoy it, but for most I do not recommend It's Alive the remake, there are far better horror movies out there, including the original It's Alive, go watch that instead.

Just OK This is the first production of Jane Eyre I've seen.  I was rather disappointed in the story.  If you like the story, the presentation itself was good. Seemed a little long and boring. Also, they said several times that the Timothy Dalton character was not a handsome man--but then they should have gotten a less handsome actor to play it. This is not a movie I will watch again and again.  Maybe once every 5 years.

Just the boring... The title is right, it is just the facts but it is also just plain boring.  I tried to use this video for a criminal justice class on courts and it was a snooze fest!  Yes, it had some good info but was delivered in a monotone fact and picture way that made the students stare blankly.  I did like how it went over in plain terms details of the supreme court through the course of history but GEEEEZ, even I wanted to fall asleep!  I would recommend maybe using the video with a lesson plan in a start/stop type.  Do lecture and activities then use the video to drive home a point in 2 min increments.  The hard part will be that it does not have a scene selector so you will need a program to cut and take what you want.

lame Skip it. This movie lacks nearly everything fun. I wanted to like it but I just couldn't. My wife and I were ready to shut it off about half way in.

"HUSKERS" I saw this movie on the SyFy channel and be prepared that very soon a cornfield of "plant" reviews will turn up.  Keeping with the theme of this movie, let's call these reviewers "Huskers" but a "plant" by any other name is still a "plant".  Husk is not the worse movie about deadly doings in a cornfield(Children of the Corn and its gazillion sequels retains that honor) but it's not the best and although the movie does have a few good kernels, most of the kernels remain un-popped.  The start where a van of 5 gets stranded at the edge of the cornfield is pretty standard but its how the van gets side-tracked that's pretty cool as a flock of crows kamikazees themselves on the windshield of the van. Four of the friends make it through the field where they come across a crumbling old house. 1 of the friends has already disappeared and the rest of the movie involves the house and the cornfield but as usual the group as a whole are morons and venture out alone.  One of the friends is a nerd who has visions of long ago events at the house but he explains everything using a chessboard??????  The explanation for the cursed house/field is a modern take on Cain and Abel except this time the older brother is ok while the younger brother is the useless one.  So, the movie is pretty lame but for two salvageable events.  The kamikazee crows and someone uses a PITCHFORK. (maybe it's just me but I like pitchforks in horror movies).  Final thought.....the movie as a whole is as tasty as a bowl of creamed corn.

Good creature, bad movie. I saw this movie at the theater when it was first released. I liked the creature costume then as I do now, but the movie stinks otherwise. What a waste of an excelent creature costume. The film has bad acting, bad sound, stupid story line. Had to have it for the creature though.

Only Die Hard movie I really didn't like that much. If I could just teach Hollywood one thing, it would be this: stop making movies about technology.  You don't get technology, and that's okay, but every time you make a movie about it, you end up looking completely clueless.  1.  You can't typically cause an explosion by "rerouting gas through gas pipes".  Those pipes are designed to hold gas under the pressure that the pumps can provide.  Therefore, they already have gas flowing through them.  This could have been easily fixed just by saying you were rerouting gas to a generator that's still under construction (and thus, the gas pipes aren't hooked up), but no... you had to do something absurd.  2.  You can't turn a cell phone into a satellite (SATCOM) phone by reconfiguring it in software.  It's completely different hardware at every level.  All you had to do was make up a top secret cellular communication system, but no... you had to choose an acronym that actually means something.  3.  Why the superfluous act of moving a keyboard from one place to another?  Does this keyboard magically do something different when you slide it across the desk?  *confused*  Just cut out those bits where they move the keyboard.  It's almost like they were trying to hide a continuity mistake.  :-)  4.  A power grid, by definition, is a grid.  All the power in the U.S. most certainly does not go through three hubs.  Not by any stretch.  Three thousand, maybe.  And transmission losses make such a design highly infeasible.  You could cause a cascade outage that would ripple across roughly a third of the country fairly easily (and this has happened before), but you wouldn't do that by clicking a few buttons and turning off chunks of the grid.  You'd probably do that by taking huge chunks of the generator capacity offline very quickly.  Either way, that's another couple of lines that should be deleted.  5.  An emergency management strategy in which banks upload all of their data *after* a serious attack has occurred is just mind-numbingly stupid.  It's like having a line in your will that says that if you were murdered, you want your executor to buy a handgun and bury you with it to protect you in case it happens again....  Delete that bit.  6.  What's with the ridiculous card readers?  You can't upload a program onto a card reader by sliding a card through it?  They're dumb devices that just read a handful of numbers off a magstripe.  It's like some graphics designer said, "Hey, I know.  We could draw a cube... with some numbers...."  It just doesn't make any sense at all.  You could have fixed this by leaving out just one or two really, really obviously wrong lines....  Replace the card reader with a smart card or similar, and this would be a little more plausible, though you probably wouldn't see anything on the screen other than "card accepted" or some such....  7.  Why was the geek so concerned about the cop making a call with his cell phone?  Your phone checks in with the cell towers every few minutes whether you make a call or not.  If they were going to track him by his cell phone, they would have already done so.  I mean, it could have been an "Oh, crap!  You're carrying a cell phone?" moment if they had written it right, but as it was, it was just a "Huh?" moment.  8.  The one spot where Bruce Willis was baffled by the geek's technobabble, that was pretty much my exact reaction.  It was gibberish.  Was that line really necessary?  9.  There is no possibility that anyone could get pinned between a van traveling at a high speed and a concrete wall and retain use of her legs.  Even if it didn't paralyze her by breaking her back and neck, and even if it didn't cause a serious concussion when her head hit the wall, the bones in her legs would have literally shattered.  Yet she was kicking the crap out of him just a few seconds afterwards.  Seriously?  10.  Jumping a car into a helicopter?  Yeah, right.  If the helicopter had been on the ground, this would have been a plausible scene.  Why the needless absurdity?  11.  Jumping on top of an airplane?  Jumping off the airplane fifty or a hundred feet to a damaged bridge, then sliding down, and walking away from it without being completely paralyzed?  Yeah, right.  Don't get me wrong, it wasn't nearly as painful as Wargames 2: The Dead Code, but it was way up there.  The overall action was good, and the plot was okay on the whole, but the technical details stank on ice.  Every five or six minutes, there was a major facepalm.

Average at best movie First of all, I saw this in theatres. I did not buy the blu-ray version. I don't know extra stuff you get for blu-ray. That being said, if the movie is no good (which is the main reason why you would even buy this) then its all for not. Well, how can I put it? This movie is no good.  I was really looking forward to this movie and went with a buddy to see it opening day. I was really hoping captain america would save the summer from so called blockbusters that sucked (im looking at you green lantern). It's very hard not use the word bland when it comes to this movie, but thats exactly what it is. It is not a bad movie in the regular sense, but i ceases to do much or take any chances. Some may qualify that as bad. Putting all semantic discussions aside, this movie is frequently boring and sometime down right comical for all the wrong reasons. It was directed by Joe Johnston. Hes a done a few good movies that I enjoyed from my childhood like Jumanji. I was hoping he would keep it interesting, but fails. This movie follows the super hero story cliche without missing a beat. A loser nobody finds himself blessed with new incredible abilities, must overcome personal obstacles, have a fleeting meeting with villain only to fight again at the end and don't forget a love interest thrown in for good measure. Of course, these are how all superhero stories must be told. However, the recent SPiderman and the Batman films have done this so much better. In the batman movies, there is a real struggle going on with bruce wayne. Spiderman 2 also creates an interesting conflict among the characters. All of this is absent in Captain America. Worse than this is the amount of time it takes for the movie to get going. The film doesn't really get going until the second half with only one fight scene up to that point. After an early chase scene after Steve Rogers gets his powers, he is sent to sell war bonds instead of fighting the germans. Apparently, the military thought this would be a better use of a super soldier, to send him around doing song and dance routines to build up moral. This feels like such a waste of time. Finally, the movie eventually starts, but lets you down again. The majority of the action scense are too short and cheesy. Captain America has no problem going behind enemy lines and sneaking into a german base hiding american pow's. A few quick punches and he is inside. Remember that action montage during the commercials? That is the same thing in the movie. That does not take place in any kind of actual fight scene. In the movie, the same montage is used to speed up the story to get to more important parts. Here, Captain America has become more famous and goes around busting up german locations.  Not to mention, they totally blew having Hugo Weaving in this movie. They give him nothing to do other than to look angry and brood over the magical blue ancient Nordic orb. This is a glowing rock that has magical properties. The Hydra (Nazi sub group) are trying to somehow harness the energy to of course make a super weapon and take over the world..................sigh. I never read the comics, but i assume this is a part of it. Nevertheless, it just could not look any more silly on screen.  Thus, in captain america, we have a movie that has sub par action sequences, cheesy humor, an unexciting plot, and an underutilized villain. I can't really even recommend renting this. Its just not that exciting. As I said, the action scenes never go on long enough and there is too much boring plot filler in between. For some reason, it is highly popular right now at Redbox. You may have to wait awhile to see it. However, definitely do not buy this even on DVD. You will never watch it more than once.

Silly and ridiculous Okay, I saw this movie and was pretty disappointed. The storyline is that this young girl is visiting her father on island where he is a researcher of some sort. He gets lost at sea, and the girl, alone on the island, must do what she can to survive and also locate her dad. She communicates with a writer, played by Jodie Foster.  Now, don't you think that this guy, being a man of science and living on that island for some time now, would have been astute enough to see that there was a storm coming and to not go sailing on that particular day? Also, this island has a mountain on it which is quite steep and treacherous, yet, this girl walks up and down it as if its a 12 foot hill.  The Jodie Foster character is an agoraphobic who hasn't left her apartment for months, yet she is able to find her way to the island in a matter of a couple of days, when she has never heard of it before, and only has a vague idea of where it is located. I didn't understand why she was in the movie anyway. I thought her character was going to help the girl find her father, but that wasn't the case.  It insulted my intelligence to sit through this one, and avoids the one-star designation because I like the cast and there are a few cute sequences when the girl interacts with the animals on the island.

What luck? The promo for the DVD sounded good. I usually like UK stories about WWII esp Foyle's War. This started out to be intriguing then it became boring and totally lost me in trying to understand why these women joined this force. Although some glimmer into their lives offered some clue. The story moved very slowly. Scenes were trite & cliche. Reduntent? I was not able to relate to or connect with the characters in the story. I returned unopened the rest of the series.

Couldn't Believe What I was Watching... Leave it to the Europeans to think up new perversions; new ways of out-grossing each other out. Oy!  Aside from being completely illogical and medically impossible, it took a powerful amount of imagination to come up with this story. I give it one star more than it's worth for sheer audacity.  Acting was about as hammy as could be; the crazed doctor was a cross between Hogan's Heroes and Schindler's List.  Watch at your own risk. Nightmares may ensue...

Did not hold my interest As a lover of the suspense and thriller genre "Man on a Ledge" looked like a good Saturday, popcorn, late night movie.  It was more of a Lifetime Movie Channel kind of show, very amature.  The plot was predictible and trite.  The skyscrapper scene, "I'm gonna jump - here I go..." crowd gasping...nevermind, just give a cigarette from the gorgeous, I-can-toss-my-hair New York negotiator played by Elizabeth Banks was comical.  After watching excellent productions such as "Breaking Bad" made this difficult to continue.  The movie was stopped midway through.  I was very glad I only wasted $3.99 and not more.

perpetuating the myth It is a somewhat stuffy film because it explores so little of the relationship between the queen and John Brown. The plot runs along the lines of bare historical fact filled out to give a sense of her reign. Meanwhile don't look for in depth tete-a-tete scenes between them. Queen Dench veers across starchy hearty and needy and Mr Connolly never leaves his post as faithful hound. Since the film is exactly supposed to be about their relationship why is it so skimpy ? Because it duitifully seeks to follow the accepted history. This is strange because the queen's over-familiarity with a servant hiding away in the highlands was contentious in its day .  This film must have been  written and produced by pro-monarchists meanwhile the British take a leery delight in Royalty as with the poor present day Queen made to parachute into the Olympic stadium recently . There is of course a flip side to the dashingness of parachuting because in a dress it would in theory show her panties to any subject peering upwards. That is all the thanks she gets for being  an utter professional. So in this day and age Queen Victoria's " lechery" is hardly a national trauma  Peering back in history the question still remains.....well did the queen or didn't she ??. The film swerves in this aspect  by a short scene which alludes fleetingly to its possability. Here the Queen and Brown visit Mr and Mrs Grant in what could be their game-keeper's lodge...... far from the prying eyes of Balmoral castle.  It is mind-boggling to watch the queen lay the table but point taken. It is remarked on her return that she smells of whiskey looks flushed and might be drunk. " Don't even think of it.!!!" snaps her advisor to the retainer. It is the film's advice to us the viewers .Although her biography is not ashamed to write she liked a drink. Not merely wine but mixed with whiskey. That's a stiff drink. Naturally the film doesn't hesitate to show John Brown supplementing from his wee flask. Who taught her to add whiskey? Him of course because they drank together. Everyone knows how dis-inhibiting and an aphrodisiac alcohol is to the most cognitavly organised and prudish After the first shagg the unthinkable had been breached and having lost her virginity in this respect she did not renege because she wanted to be close to a man again after her husband. With the stirrings of republicanism the establishment closed ranks. Not to have done so would have created anarchy. Even her Doctor's records were destroyed. The aristocracy and royalty through the ages throughout Europe were forever sinning openly or out of public eye. To her peers Victoria was no anomaly (even if extra-naughty being female) In this day and age it is hard to see why a film like this would go through the bother of painting another Virgin Queen. The only true ones are Elizabeth 1st and 2nd. Everyone understands it does not necessarily mean the poor woman was a nymphomaniac meanwhile this film does not even bother to beat around her Bush.

Action good-Story bad It didn't follow the story line that the first two universal soldier movies had created. Even with that aside the story within the movie jumped around and at times was confusing.  Now if you just want to see action - gunfire, explosions, hand-to-hand, this is your movie.

tv image I was disappointed that the DVD picture was a strip across the tv screen with large black margins top and bottom, and did not fill my big screen tv.  I checked back on the original ad for the DVD and there was no indication that it was that type of DVD.  I know there used to be two kinds of DVD's; I don't know if that is still the case.

More of a drama than a thriller So this is one of those movies that slips by the public. I guess they can't have every movie in theaters. Anyway, there is some recognizable names in this one. Alfred Molina, Hayden Panetierre, and Josh Hutcherson (coming off the successful Hunger Games) lead up the cast. Also, they have that one guy who was one of the hobbits in lord of the rings. And this is how his career has turned out??  Ok, so Hutcherson is supposed to be 15 in the movie. He looks boyish enough to pull it off I guess. They are stretching it though. Panetierre is supposed to be around the same age although they hint at her being a couple years older than Hutcherson. Nevertheless, this is a pet peeve of mine. Why does Hollywood always hire actors in their 20s and 30s to be teenagers? In this case, we lucked out. Hutcherson is 19, but panetierre is 23 which is my age. In my opinion, teenage girls never looked like adults when I was in high school. Nevertheless, we continue.  So Hutcherson is a homeless teen. The typical homeless teen scenario plays out. His mom ran away and he never knew his dad. He knows the social workers more than anyone else and he has no friends. But he can draw! A local artist discovers his abilities after Hutcherson breaks into his house to make a sandwich and take a shower. Hutcherson stumbles into the basement and completes a painting the artist was working on. Then, we learn that the artist is actually a forger who wants to use the kids abilities to make money. And this could have been a really great premise for a movie which is exactly why I wanted to see it. Also, panetiere is in it to remember?  Well, hutcherson does not like that the artist is a forger. He is only slightly on board with the plan to do a couple more forgery jobs. He really just wants to skip town because I guess that is what all the homeless kids want. He carries that attitude through the whole movie and there is little redemption. A couple meaningless side stories transpire. The case worker tries to find his mom. Panetierre is sort of his friend. However, it is unclear why they would be close because he keeps hurting her every other scene. Well, she is in their to be a love interest. However, she does not have any real impact on the story. The movie is not really about art forgeries even though it is. Its about Hutcherson searching for some peace. There is no mystery or intrigue behind the forgeries. No high stakes scenes. No consequences until the end of the movie. Even then, we don't know what happens to the real forger, Molina. The movie just kind of ends and I was disappointed.

It was not what I expected - didn't like the ending I think Ginnifer Goodwin is adorable.  I love Kate Hudson.  I think I was expecting something different from this film and I guess I got what I expected.  It was different.  2 women, best friends forever, lots of cheating and lying going on, broken hearts, more cheating and in the end, it's all a-okay. I was disappointed.  Kate Hudson gets excited in the end to have a baby with a total spaced out grown up who acts like a teenager.  Really?  It just didn't fit. I think I have to watch it again to look for a reason to like the film.

should have released all of the songs from the Carousel show had Bruce released all 11 of the songs from the show instead of just 5, this would have been a more worthy re-release.

poor packaging All in all the DVD is good. My complaint is that upon arrival the DVD was loose in the case and sliding and bouncing around. This left a small scratch and the edge of the DVD is chipped. It is however still playable. Should have been packaged better. I paid for a brand new, undamaged product. First time ordering movies from amazon so we will see what happens next time.

not worth it Very disappointed in the movie, never saw a movie that could not keep my attention until this one. I do not recommend this movie to anyone-sorry.

Hmmmmm this would be something only a hardcore Britney fanatic would enjoy. i am not one but was curious to see how the show compared to other artist's recent shows... needless to say this show was quite boring. yes, i understand the whole thing is lipped with pre-recorded vocals but whoever mixed the audio did a really bad job. on my 5.1 surround system i had to turn the center channel up all the way to match the blaring left and right channels pumping out the studio tracks and background vocals. on certain songs u can hear her pre-recorded "live" vocals thru the center channel speaker, but faintly. i found that odd. the mixing also lacks bass to the subwoofer. i thought hey even if the show sucks i can hear the older revamped songs in great 5.1, another let down. over all the concert was lacking the old energetic "wow" factor she used to deliver with her dancing and choreography. the video interludes were creepy and lame. lip syncing expected but the sound still isnt that good. and it shouldve included the entire concert.

Poor production values I am not sure if this is good stuff or not. I can't get past the poor production value. This is a Chinese product that is overdubbed in English. It's easy to understand and follow along, but the cheesy backgrounds are sooo distracting. It's shot mainly on green screen and then stupid stuff is put in the background to make it more interesting. I would have preferred just keeping it simple and focusing on the content. I have only watched it once because I can't take it. Good thing it was only $20.

Fake accents, lots of swearing, women taught lessons OK, I can keep my opinions to myself and not get lots of "not helpful" votes or I can say what I think even though it's different from the other reviews. I'll choose the latter. So here it is:  Lots and lots of swearing, really bad, fake accents, really dumb idea of the lower class, lots of unexplained situations.  A father leaves his wife and three daughter but takes his son. The males do really well, while the females do really badly. Why were the children split up? Why would the wife not take financial support from her ex?  We never find out. The main lesson of this movie is how women who don't fully appreciate men are taught lessons.  A father who hasn't seen his daughters in decades says to his son "I can't believe you would do this" and "How dare you!" for inviting them. Then, we learn that he's really the good guy who tried to see his daughters but was obstructed by his ex-wife who apparently had the ability to stop him from seeing them even as adults with children of their own. Why would she not let him see the daughters but would let him have the son - even though she seems to love the son, is another mystery.  He tells the daughters that his ex-wife could have been as successful as he was if only she wasn't so bitter. Instead she drives a school bus, babysits her grandchildren, has a heart attack, suddenly longs to see her son and asks her daughters to go and find him, and then, though the heart attack was supposedly mild, dies. I guess that's lesson #1 for uppity women. Don't worry, there's more.  The future mother-in-law of the son is taught a lesson by her husband - for saying that the sisters can't sing at the wedding - by refusing to drive her home and leaving her with no transportation, in the suburbs at 11:00pm.  One of the daughters who dares to be angry at her father is lifted up by her brother at her mother's wake, put in the bathtub and soaked in her clothes, then told off by her sisters.  This movie is supposed to be a tear-jerker. I enjoy a good tear-jerker now and then. I found this movie to be full of caricatures, and to be sexist, manipulative, tripe.

Have We Seen This Before? Although riveting, and well acted and directed, CASE 39 falls short in a few significant ways.  Playing out like an extended episode of the X-Files (without Chris Carter's gift for economical exposition), Case 39 presents yet another take on the possessed-child-from-hell scenario.  Complete with shrieks and screams, Renee' Zellweger does her best to battle with the unseen force inhabiting the little girl's body, but to no avail.  Not only does the plot challenge us to suspend our belief in even a borderline rational story, it has the Zellweger character absolutely defying logic in her decision making.  Why does she take in this child?  Why does she experience murder upon murder, yet stay with the child?  Why does she answer the frickin' phone?  Why does she think burning down her house will extinguish the evil presence?  Why does she think the evil, once escaped from the burning house, will acquiesce and stay put in a submerged automobile trunk?  Oh, I get it!!  You have to DROWN the Devil!!  While this movie is indeed suspenseful, it degenerates into yet another remake of The Exorcist, sans enough exposition to explain the genesis of the girl's possession.  Neither the nature and length of her possession, nor the extent and range of her powers are ever explained.  The director expects us to go along with the premise, content to enjoy the unbelievable ride.  In the end CASE 39 is shallow and lacks even remote believability.  Why can't the Devil ever do mundane evil things like make cheesecake taste like cow manure or cause it to rain non-stop for three months?  The dude is ALWAYS killing people.

skip it I thought this would cover pete maravich through his time in the nba and perhaps through his untimely death. It only portrays his childhood through high school. In addition, I did not realize that he or a voice which was supposed to be him is narrating the movie in the background. Perhaps there's an option to eliminate that. I'm not sure.

No Mad? The epic story was set up beautifully.  You had a people, a prophesy and a deadly enemy trying to keep the prophesy from coming to fruition. A baby is born and as he grows begins instruction as the prophesied warrior that'll vanquish the enemies of his Mongolian people.  Like these mongolian tribes, I couldn't wait to see the child become a great man-warrior while adding to the great settings and costumes of this movie.  Then it happens. The child grows up in this beautiful asian land full of beautiful asian people practicing ancient asian customs. Immediately I notice the huge fault in the movie.  The child, who's destined to lead his people, has grown into what looks like a young caucasian male, the least likely actor in the movie to play the role of "Golden Child" in an asian land.  Heck, his sidekick who looks Puerto Rican, would've fit the role better than he.  I tried but couldn't continue to suspend belief while watching. If I felt like this, I wonder how asian peoples must feel when viewing this movie.  I'm sure the Mexican-American actor playing the role questioned why he was chosen as the lead over say, Jason Scott Lee, the asian looking seer and teacher in the movie.  The movie had so much potential.  It had me hooked early.  Until Nomad turned out to be America's next male model. From there the hole story seemed to lose its luster and go into superhero mode. Sorry folks, but this movie is a step backwards for race relations in film. I still can't believe the asian cast agreed to go along with this major fault in the film.  The money must've been......Nomadic!

Overrated, but not necessarily "terrible" I love "Wuthering Heights" as a book and I enjoy comparing adaptations. What is it about this psychologically dark book written by a brilliant but ill-fated young mid-19th century parson's daughter that compels so many to read, watch and continually adapt it into films, or even write songs about it?  Is it just the need to try to capture the essence of this fascinating yet somewhat repellent story about revenge, twisted love, greed and hatred?  Or is a desire to top other productions, some kind of contest to come out the winner of the best interpretation of Emily Bronte's colossal (as described by her sister Charlotte) masterpiece?  After coming across the 1992 Peter Kosminsky film these questions came to mind even more so than before. Promoted on the back of the DVD cover as the only theatrical movie version to cover the novel's entirety (if only skimming the surface, as completely would be impossible), for me this interpretation of the Bronte novel fell short in many areas and had a less than authentic feel.  While the house representing the Heights is obviously fake and constructed specifically for the film, the locations, as appealing to the eyes as they were, did not seem to fit the description in the novel.  Along with the usual grumbles (the actors being too old, the timeline for when situations occured in the book), Ralph Fiennes, while undeniably a formidable presence in film, was miscast as Heathcliff - singled out by some as being too "refined" for the role, he comes across as being brutal but lacking the rough and uncouthness of Bronte's anti-hero - especially in the early sequences.  Juliette Binoche, as lovely and competant an actress as she is, was undone not only by her French accent, but the fact that she was saddled with playing two complex and difficult roles - that of the elder Catherine (Cathy) Earnshaw Linton, and her daughter, Catherine Linton Heathcliff Earnshaw - undermines the movie even more.  Was it done for budget reasons? The blonde wig she wears as the daughter is an irritating distraction, not to mention that the younger Catherine is not supposed to resemble her mother.  Jonathan Firth as the sickly, annoying Linton Earnshaw is pretty much stuck with a thankless role as Heathcliff's effete son with the silly, and ultimately equally ill-fated Isabella (played by Sophie Ward). Edgar Linton (Simon Shepard) is even more weak and pitiable than in the book or any other film adaptation I've seen. But he still seems rather colorless (pardon the expression) and seems to be trying his mightiest to stay awake during the proceedings.  Jeremy Northam as Hindley isn't seen nearly enough (add me to those who feel he should have played Heathcliff instead). Northam, Janet McTeer (as faithful servant Ellen "Nelly" Dean) and to a lesser extent, Jason Riddington as Hareton were the saving grace of this film for me.  I don't know if the rest of the cast tried too hard or if the director did (or perhaps a bit of both?), but for me their efforts, while admirable, can't elevate the project to what they were trying to achieve. It does seem that Fiennes himself has less than kind words for this production - an unpleasant experience, one that almost turned him off of working on films.  To look at, the movie is pleasant enough. There is a feeling of a tight budget regarding costuming, hair (wigs) and interiors, but the absence of staginess that often prevailed in many of the earlier BBC televison productions is a plus, as is the music score and the interesting casting of Sinead O'Connor as Emily Bronte herself, taking over as narrator which in the novel was put to Lockwood and Nelly.  I do feel that this interpretation of WH is overrated, and while it covers more of the book than the classic 1939 Olivier/Oberon picture and the 1970 Dalton/Calder-Marshall production, both of those earlier renditions (speaking for myself) were far more enjoyable and better paced.  If you want to see a better depiction of WH (especially the second generation comprised of younger Catherine, Hareton and Linton), check out the 1998 and 2009 Masterpiece Theatre presentations. (I'd recommend the BBC 1978 miniseries if I had seen it but it's unavailability on region 1 DVD makes it difficult). While both of those made-for-TV projects take liberties, for me they captured the book better in many respects.

Romeo & Juliet I love the story of Romeo and Juliet, BUT this version is not my cup of tea, it seems to comical, nothing can compare to the Leonard Whiting / Olivia Hussy version, which is a classic.

Kind of a flop No wonder this was not a big hit. Who wants to watch a two-hour love story about two quite old and unattractive gay men? That's what the filmmakers chose to make this bio-pic by aiming at the relationship between Hoover and Clyde Tolson, his right-hand man. And while it's essentially accurate, it still does not make for compelling viewing. We like our movie heroes to be people we can root for, but the Hoover on show here is very bipolar. So we never really decide if we like or dislike anything about him. This Clint Eastwood directed vehicle was scripted by a very young man, so maybe that's one of the problems. I also wish they had included some extras of the real Hoover so we could at least make a direct comparison. Leo diCaprio seems to get Hoover's intensity, sexual ambiguity and ambition in droves. They also manage to encapsulate almost 50 years of one man's career into just over two hours. But the scene where Hoover tells RFK, "The president is dead," and then simply hangs up, was probably a bit over-dramatized. RFK, in reality, was having lunch outside at Hickory Hill in Virginia when that call came, not in his Justice Department office, as seen here.

Exciting for those who haven't read the book. Maddening for those who have. I just finished reading the book by Stieg Larsson and, wow what a fantastic book. Very well written, full of interesting characters and plot twists that will have you reading late into the night. This adaptation changed many of what made the book great and changed a significant amount of it. There are scenes in this movie of which are not even in the book, and it tries adding it's own twist towards the end, while it would have been clever if this was an original screenplay, it wasn't. The acting is great, the two main leads that is, Rapace especially does a magnificent job portraying Lisbeth. But there are so many characters left out and so much of the investigation that made the book so gripping just tossed aside to get a reaction from the audience. For those saying this is better than the book or just as good, obviously have no read it. The movie was well made with decent production values and the sweeping landscape of Sweden is a beauty to look at, this movie does not do the stellar book justice. Read the book, skip this movie.

Good print of a forgettable film To me, it is surprising that anyone would bother to re-master this movie.  Although the result is a print that looks quite first rate, the movie itself is thoroughly forgettable. It is a routine, low-key crime story with bland actors. Even the villains are non-descript.  And it is marred with far too much "comedy relief", especially because the theory of comedy here is "idiots are funny".  It does not even convey much sense of the time in which it was made. Except for the cars being driven, it might well be a 1950's TV production.  It does have one claim to fame though: it re-unites the team of Louis J. Gasnier, George A. Hirliman, Lawrence Meade, and Sam Diege, who had pooled their mighty talents to create the immortal "Reefer Madness" in 1936!  Unfortunately, no trace of the insanity that permeates that production is present in this one.

american godzilla I bought the monster edition of this movie, Im not sure when it was that I last saw this movie, but Im sure Its been awhile.Watching this movie from beginning to end I kept thinking well this is a load of ****.I guess what I wanted was a realistic godzilla movie, what I like is the design of this godzilla(american godzilla) Its more reptilian shape gives it more of a creepiness than the japanese gojira.But mainly the problem sometimes is I had a hard time taking the cast of characters seriously, I mean this is a giant monster destroys the city movie, and the characters sometimes dont act like it. I should note that in making the movie the actors all acted there parts with an invisible/ghost godzilla in there scenes and afterwards The CGI was put in, the special effects are preatty awsome, CGI godzilla looks preatty outdated but still enjoyable.But again Its the cast that just didn't deliver for me, the movie can be a bit of a joke because of this, goofy character design, corny dialogue, And the group of military that have to deal with godzilla seem like a bunch of imbeciles.Its just not a very well executed godzilla origin film.So my final verdict= 2.8 stars out of 5.  EXTRAS= All the monster edition dvd of this film has is 1. All time best of godzilla fight scenes wich isnt even that great trust me 2.Three episodes from godzilla the series and the episodes are=1.What dreams may come2.MONSTER WARS PART 1 3.Where is thy sting, these episodes are also available on seperate dvd media.And finally a production art gellery that has about 20-25 art pieces and I only liked abut 4 of them its not that great.

Flawlessly and intricately connected, but is a drama that lacks depth The tagline for Magnolia Pictures "360" is "Everything comes full circle." That's really about the only thing "360" has going for it. "City of God" director Fernando Meirelles is at the helm with a cast that includes Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, Ben Foster, and Anthony Hopkins. The unfortunate thing is these actors really only feel like they're filling a void and don't really make themselves totally useful.  "360" jumps all over the world; Vienna, Bratislava, Paris, London, Colorado, and finally Phoenix. Seeing how all of the characters connect to one another is really the only drawing factor of the film. You're mostly left feeling like you could've spent a lot more time with certain characters instead of being introduced to so many. Ben Foster is a great example. His character just begins to get interesting when you only see him briefly in montages for the rest of the film. Anthony Hopkins has one really emotional scene during an AA meeting, but mostly feels underused. Jude Law and Rachel Weisz are criminally under-featured. Weisz seems to be rehashing her performance from "The Deep Blue Sea" except Rose is a watered down version of Hester Collyer. Meanwhile, Michael Daly (Law) mostly just acts suspicious and then kind of just admits to everything in the long run without much effort. It all just feels so fruitless.  How these characters are connected aren't really all that interesting the majority of the time. More often than not, somebody is cheating on somebody else. Aside from Tyler (Foster) and the Older Man (Hopkins), being unfaithful or using sex to make a living is an underlying theme for everyone else. It's just really disappointing. "360" initially has this "21 Grams" meets "Closer" kind of potential and yet isn't nearly as good as either of those films.  The drama is edited in a really unique way though. Its execution is a little odd, but is also really intriguing. At certain points in the film, the camera will show several characters on screen at once despite being in different areas of the world. So the screen will be divided into four vertical strips that are devoted to one specific character. Later on, during a phone call, the screen is divided into two horizontal strips featuring both individuals on the phone; one in each strip. The most interesting is when Sergei (Vladimir Vdovichenkov) is driving through a tunnel. The lights in the tunnel begin swirling around the screen which eventually transitions to the side of a parked car. It's just a very unusual editing technique.  "360" feels a bit too overzealous for its own good. While connecting so many characters to one another is extremely impressive on one hand, the characters themselves mostly feel very flat and underdeveloped overall. The film makes good on its promise of coming full circle, but there are so many half written stories in between that the experience leaves you feeling like there's no substance whatsoever.  "360" comes off as introductory without much filling. The intersection is one thing, but what about the road that gets you there? Shouldn't you have time to admire the scenery and get to know at least one person at more than face value during the adventure? "360" is a carousel that gets caught up in its own whirlwind and doesn't utilize or know how to appreciate its talent properly.

Sumptuous costumes; lousy music This movie is undoubtedly a "chick flick."  That doesn't make it inherently bad, just a bit of a strain for older couples who like to enjoy watching a film together with interests for both parties.  What is so amazing about this movie is how a fortune must have been spent on costumes, scenery, and rights to film at Versailles and yet so little was really produced.  Moreover, the background music (hard rock) was totally inappropriate to the tone and flow of the movie.  My wife and I kept waiting for some storylines to emerge that would justify the enormous expense and trouble the producers went to in making this film.  Compared to other historical dramas on Elizabeth I, the young queen Victoria, and the like, there was almost nothing of significance here.  All that results is a disbelief that the French royal couple would stay at their palace and wait to be captured and murdered by rebels.  If that's the way it was, fine.  But was it really that simple?  Were these people so removed from reality that they felt they didn't need protection from the starving mobs?  Wasn't there more intrigue with Robspierre, et al?  Where was Napolean Bonaparte and the French army when all this was going on?  If you want to see a film where form triumphs over substance, this may be your ticket.  But if you want to learn something about what really happened in the French Revolution you'll have to look elsewhere.  We can't rate the movie more than two stars, despite its lavish scenery and costumes.  Too bad as it should have offered much more.

No "I Will Find You" I am very upset with this version of Last of the Mohicans.  I love the movie, but the song "I Will Find You" is not in this version.  Why is that?

Redundant sequel - feels dated. The surviving cast members are all back, along with an interesting cast of new faces... Hayden Pannetier, Mary McDonnell, Adam Brody and others threaten to bring fresh perspective 4th time round. Plotwise - well, more of the same, if you've seen the previous 3 you're in for no surprises, and if you haven't seen them, go watch Scream 1 instead of this one..  It does feel as if Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson between them have mis-stepped here.  Or more precisely, after stumbling somewhat on Scream 3, this feels more like they've fallen on their faces.  There's more of an emphasis on satisfying fans with references both within and outwith the franchise (the existence of the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002R3G912">SAW Complete Horror Collection DVD BOX 1.2.3.4.5 Unrated, Uncut I-V</a> franchise and its ilk are acknowledged), and seemingly a bit less on scares, although a few moments work in an unsurprising sort of way.  On the plus side, an introduction satirically shows the absurdity of ever more sequels on the same franchise, and there's a  `new and updated' angle on the formula here, revolving around the social networking - youtube generation. On the down side, this just isn't enough to stop the movie from proceeding to walk through every yawn inducing clich&eacute; of the genre, in a singularly unironic way.  Sadly, a franchise which was once a refreshingly new angle and breath of fresh air for horror movies, has become oddly dated and irrelevant. I don't remember hearing a clamour for this sequel.. especially 11 years after the last one.  But if you are in the mood for a little nostalgia, you'll perhaps enjoy the routine slashing, and also the familiar faces (albeit with the help of a little more makeup) of Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox and David Arquette.  At the end of the day though, with the best will in the world, after years of parodying and new fads in horror coming along, this feels kind of stale straight out of the tin.

Ouran High School Wuss Club I'm glad I didn't buy this anime. I couldn't get into it. The host club is full of stuck up helpless young men who act like girls. That kind of thing really makes me go YUCK! It's not that the anime itself is bad. The characters are just way too sickening. The main character isn't a gay acting guy, but she's not interesting and treats everything in life like it's a bother.  The animation quality and voice acting in this series are really good. I like all of the voice actors in this one, but the show makes me feel like I'm stuck in an Abercrombie store with the members of that old boy group 98 degrees. Except the guys are more wimpy than most boy bands. I think if you're a girl between the ages of 13 and 16 or a gay male you may enjoy this one. Otherwise rent it before you buy it. It's probably not for everyone.

All About Action - Not Much Story You would be wasting your money if you are looking to be immersed into a typical intellectual Sherlock Holmes mystery.  Although the actors did a good job, I thought the material they were given to work with was sub-standard.

A bit of a let down I love Shrek and I was so sad to hear they were going to end the series at Shrek Forever After rather than with 5 movies (like originally planned).  I bought the short Shrek The Halls Christmas movie and loved it.  I really hope they keep Shrek alive, even if it is with shorts like this.  Scared Shrekless isn't completely horrible, but I'm very disappointed in it.  I paid $10 for a slopped together Halloween special.  At best, this should be a $5 DVD.  I will say this, Scared Shrekless isn't for very young or sensitive children.  There is no axe murders or anything like that, but there is a lot of material that I myself believe would scare a younger child.  As one reviewer said the "Shreckcorist" part of the cartoon was weird and creepy, to a child I can only imagine what it could seem like.  The little information booth in Dulop castle has the puppets singing things like "We'll chop off your head then laugh when you're dead" and has a burning priest/judge puppet.  If you think you kids can handle it, I suggest watching it with them and gauge their reactions.  There really is no target age for this.  Too scary for young kids, to short and goofy for the older ones.  It just lacks the magic of Shrek.  On the upside, there are a lot of parts that made me laugh.  I enjoyed it to some extent.  It wasn't a complete loss and I'm just thankful Shrek is staying alive.  However, I felt the need to caution parents for their children's sakes and inform you that it just isn't worth the money.  I'd download it or watch it on Netflix (if they have it) anything to keep from being robbed of $10.

Murder of the twelfth degree "The Black Dahlia" is a mess.  Everything's impressive and nothing is right.  It seems like Aaron Eckhart's character should be played with more darkness, like Josh Hartnett's character should be played with less boyishness, like Scarlett Johannson's character should be more emotionally complex.  The story is convoluted and the storytelling is awkward.  I can explain the film's core storylines, but to tie everything together is a task beyond me.  There is one person involved who deserves praise: Mia Kirshner, who portrays the thin, secondary character of Elizabeth Short with surprising emotional depth.  Brian De Palma's original three-hour cut supposedly was a horse of a different color.  The cut with which we're presented is boring, absurd, and unpleasant.

Too Dark - Can't See Anything Okay, first of all this movie is rated R, it's a horror movie, and it's based on 7 previous films (6 of them were full of blood, violence, and language). This means: blood, language, violence will be the highlight of Aliens vs Predator: Requiem.  After the first AvP came out with a rating of PG-13, many fans felt cheated. They wanted to see the gore they had come to love and expect whenever the predators showed up to collect some skulls.  The cast is made up unknowns so I won't even attempt to give them any kind of recognition. (see later in this post why*)  AvP 2 picks up right where AvP left off. There's a predator who has an alien inside it. The alien bursts out of the predator while it flies off into space. This alien happens to be a hybrid of Alien and Predator. An attack follows and the ship crashes back on earth.  Elsewhere, on the predator homeworld, a buddy locates the downed ship and travels to earth to "clean up" the mess.  We now have aliens running amok in a small town and a predator trying to fix everything.  *Basically, the humans are in this movie to provide the deaths. Heads explode, faces dissolve, arms get blown off, people get impaled against the wall. You can understand that this movie is ultra violent.  The sad part is that this movie, nor the first one, live up to the original Alien and Predator movies.  Too much stuff to keep most people away from this movie, but then again, it is rated R for a reason.

Failed at both Tim Burton tried to make this funny and scary and failed at both things. Do yourself a favor and skip it.  As a sidenote. Why did everyone in the 1970's dress as if they had lost a bet that involved them dressing like clowns for the day?

Great story, mediocre movie A great inspirational story but a mediocre, predictable script and listless directing. My dog could have written that hackneyed script. I guess Helen Hunt and Dennis Quaid need a paycheck.

Imagine a Steven Seagal movie without Steven Seagal... This movie isn't shy at all when it comes to showing its "influences."  It has shades of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001EC0OQI">Dirty Harry</a> (tough, violent cop takes out tough, violent bad guys in a tough, violent manner, and is warned by his Captain (a less-than-healthy-looking Tom Berenger) that if he "goes too far to the dark side he may not find his way back"), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001EBV0L2">Lethal Weapon</a> ("Emotionally scarred" loner cop teams with more stable cop with pretty wife and great kids, and even though he's drawn to the sense of family, he MUST keep hos emotional distance), Michael Madsen's sick, twisted malevolence from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001DM1V52">Reservoir Dogs</a>, virtually every Steven Seagal film you've ever seen, especially with the inclusion of Russian Mob characters, and in terms of cinematography, FX Network's legendary series <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002M2T1UO">The Shield: Complete Series</a>. And as if that's not enough, it's set in a post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, with characters making reference to "bodies floating by and no one cared" and sharing about how they would rather live in downtown Baghdad than the Big Easy.  Of course, like every other bowl of gumbo, you'd better plan on chewing a few mouthfuls of slimy okra before you hit the bottom of THIS bowl.  The film WANTS star Jimmy Strong to be a memorable and dynamic lead figure, but the elaborate tattoos, close-cropped beard and consistently deadpan, moody demeanor just add up to "I've seen this all before, and when I saw it before, it was done better."  Five minutes into the movie, your're knee-deep into the first semiautomatic weapon gun battle. They whip these out every ten to fifteen minutes throughout the film, especially when the paper-thin plot begins to sag. The characters jump from gun battles to exposition, rather than letting the events of the film unfold naturally, so that when you hear the sound of gunfire, you breathe a sigh of relief and think "at least he stopped talking for five minutes."  It's sad to see Tom Berenger in the film. He just doesn't look well at all. I know he's no longer a youngster, but I can't tell if his appearance is due to illness, plastic surgery, or both. He just doesn't look or sound good at all (although his character IS supposed to be a "grizzled veteran" of the N'awlins PD...maybe it's secretly an Oscar-worthy performance with great makeup. I personally think he looks like he's under the weather).  The bad guys take Michael Madsen's riff from "Reservoir Dogs" and run with it, to new levels of sick extreme. Will it turn you off or make you want to watch the film a second time? You'll know when you see it.  Even though the box art carries the four star, "An Outstanding Action Thriller" recommendation from "Film Threat," if I wanted that kind of entertainment, I'd probably head to my all-time favorite, the Brian Bosworth / Lance Henriksen biker epic <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000OPOAR0">Stone Cold</a>, or maybe the aforementioned Lethal Weapon series, or Die Hard, or...  And when the movie ends, it's hard to care. The screenwriters / director do their best to wrap a tidy little bow around the preceding 104 minutes but it's very, very hard to care. I'd have to say that this was a mildly amusing film to watch once, but for this kind of entertainment, you have FAR too many other choices...like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000U1ZV6C">Steven Seagal Collection: 4 Film Favorites - Under Siege / The Glimmer Man / Above the Law / Fire Down Below</a>, for instance.  Caveat Emptor.

New characters, leaving the core humor This season was dramatically less enjoyable for us. I am surprised the other reviewers are not mentioning that the new characters did not add new angles to the story... instead, they simply pushed out some of the other characters more and expanded the story cast so much that the core four people simply are not together in one scene nearly as much as the earlier seasons. When they are together, the show rocks. It seems as though they took the best part of the show and cast it aside.

Liked the idea I liked the idea of this show in the beginning but only watched a few episodes before dropping it from my list of shows. Not into all the sex junk which sucks because I love the idea of all the different creatures etc! Not for me or a friend of mine. I hope they put out another good show with less of that crap! Syfy has many other shows I love and I give 5 stars so it's all good!

Misses the Mark A successful fantasy requires more than special effects, action, dwarves, white horses, evil villains and pretty women. I felt like the director really wanted this to be comparable to Lord of the Rings.  It's so very much not.  Without a good screenplay, the remaining elements are merely window dressing.  This story was sloppy, flat, predictable, and tedious.  The dramatic pans, sweeping landscapes and musical score couldn't prop up what simply wasn't there.

Who is the real Charlton Heston? I have heard and read about people with more than  one identity, but this guy drives me nutz!. The vhs I viewed was not good quality, but Sophia looked great! In retrospect, I would not recommend this movie.

Implausible and Predictable Russel Crowe's wife is sentenced to life for a murder she says she didn't commit, so Russell decides to break her out of jail. Appeals are unsuccessful and she declares that she'd rather be dead than spend the rest of her life behind bars. Crowe then seeks help from an ex-convict (Liam Neeson) who had broken out of prison himself, and prepares a plan.  After being beaten-up seeking false IDs, sneaking and shooting his way into a drug house and killing a few meth-labbers, learning a ridiculous means of picking locks, creating false laboratory reports to get his wife transferred to a hospital, Crowe (English teacher at a local community college) springs her and we're off on a long chase scene.

Dont buy, Crank 2 doestnot play I bought this set. Crank 1 (Disc 1) was good, but Crank 2 (Disc 2). It had the same issue like other reviews (showing 2 inches square box) Thanks for Amazon's Customer Service Return policy.

dull I am a huge fan of British historical dramas and was disappointed.  I read a few reviews that compared it to Pride & Prejudice -and how that our male hero Mr. Thornton was akin to Mr. Darcy.  I found the story went no where and it showed the dark side of the Victorian era - If you do get it, just do not expect to see grand dresses and beautiful scenery.  This is not going to show that. Boo.

Another Poor Overblown Seuss Movie from the Big Studios This movie was an overly commercial piece of garbage, which has a trite corporations are evil message funny enough, that desecrates a classic book and cartoon.  The original book and cartoon did more in 70 odd pages and 20 odd minutes than this turd did in it's hour and a third.  If you're pro-environment, it paints environmentalists as whiners with no consideration for the needs of workers in their fight against the.. ooo.. evil corporations who are only in it for greed. The book and cartoon in their short time provided a far more complex and far less black and white worldview.  Plus it adds characters and scenes of characters that might not fit the book. Did we really need to see the Once-ler as a kid?  Why does he look so similar to the boy? The first trailers I saw I thought it was the boy who grew up.  And they add all kinds of fluff supporting characters out of generic kids movie stock too.  So much unless padding to add needless details to a perfectly fine story.  Nowhere near the worst Seuss adaptation, but another misfire from Hollywood that tarnishes his name.  Do yourself and your kids a favor, get the original cartoon.  And it goes without saying, have them read the darn book.

So annoyed that only the first episode was available to stream! The show was only okay.  I recently watched "Threads" and sort of expected something similarly gritty.  Watching this show was like looking at a J Crew catalog.  The characters are pretty flat, but none of the houses were flattened.  There was no blast after the mushroom cloud.  And the characters were all parading around like they weren't the least bit worried about fall out.  The looting and rioting took an unrealistic amount of time to get started.  I'm not completely sold on this show.  If I could stream the whole season I'd be able to find out if the show fleshes out more realistically, but now I might never know.

Not complete episodes on Christmas & Do It Yourself ! I have waited to buy this box set on DVD, as the first box set didn't include two famous scenes. On the Christmas episode, the turkey weighing part was missing(one of the funniest parts). On the Do It Yourself episode, same thing! Missing part when older lady gets trapped by crazy recliner due to Mr. Beans intervention! So, I hung onto my old VHS copies, that are un-edited. I saw this newer version that includes both Bean movies and hoped they had listened to past complaints and re-did the editing on the t.v. episodes. OH NO! They are just copies of the original, badly edited first edition DVDs!Terrible, expected much better. I'm sure Mr. Atkinson and his fellow writers would be appalled!

As a film... If I hadn't read the wonderful book by Lloyd C. Douglas I would probably have given this a higher rating. But this purports to be an adaptation of the book and so I judge it as such. The book was the first adult length novel I read when I was about 10. I loved it. The first time the film was televised I was in high anticipation that Easter. But the longer I watched it the deeper and deeper my disappointment and disillusionment became. The screenwriter didn't do just the usual tinkering, he changed personalities and basic relationship, eliminated the best episodes, not just one or two, but five. Yes, that may have made it too long for theatrical release as one film, but basic integrity should have dictated that either the producers ought to have committed to one long feature or to two of more conventional length and spared us the dreary sequel about Demetrius. They probably could have counted on a good box-office either way since this was a wildly successful best-seller. Also, while Burton and Mature were fine actors, neither we're suitable to portray the book version of the characters, already much distorted. In other words, I think that as an adaptation it must be among the worst ever made. The film has little in common with the book except the title, the names of characters and the core premise. If this film had not been an adaptation, I would think it a very fine movie. But, unfortunately, it is an adaptation so I think it's awful. I think that the use of the book's reputation made it at the very least false advertising and IMO actually a kind of fraud.

Totally agree with Roxanne F's review While I did enjoy the movie in a low key way, I found everything Roxanne F said in her review to be true.  And the ending was badly done.  I felt as if Amir was thrown with the friend's sister, sort of like a teenager being made to attend a dance with his mother's friend's icky daughter.  The problem wasn't the actors themselves, but the writing.

Its was ok....... I really did not care for this movie....just wasn't what I expected...it was ok...my husbnad liked it more then me but he even said it was just ok...sorry won't watch this again...donated it already!!!

Brad Pitt Wasn't Always Brilliant Never thought I'd give a movie starring Brad Pitt such a low rating, but this is one very depressing story based on a real crime. Juliette Lewis plays Amanda Sue Bradley, who by the age of fourteen had been repeatedly raped by her step-father, abandoned by her mother, and set adrift. Billy Canton (Brad Pitt) picks her up and sells her for a dirty dancer, fills her with drugs and uses her most brutally. The problem is, the character he plays is a very realistic one: I've run into a few like that in my time. Good looking enough to be alluring, but bad to the bone.  One day a soldier named Mike (Michael O'Keefe) is in the bar and defends her when Billy starts hitting her. He's older, and shocked to learn she's only 14. Recently divorced, he takes her home to his two kids. He tells her he's not going to sleep with her because she's too young, but instead she can stay and be housekeeper. That works OK until one night she slips into his bed to ask him to hold her when Billy has called her and frightened her.  But he's a soldier, and eventually his commanding officer is informed of the underage girl living with him. He's forced to toss her out to avoid being court-martialed. Of course Billy is right there to pick her up and regain control over her, giving her harder drugs than before.  The movie opens with her arrest for murder, but it takes awhile for the story to come out as to (a) who she's accused of murdering, and (b) whether or not she is guilty. But the title of the movie may give you a clue: much of it is based on the fact that Oklahoma has a death penalty, and the DA wants to try her as an adult.  Too young to die? Yes, in my opinion, she is.

Aronofsky tries this fascinating tale, but seems to much an outsider, and gives this the usual performance based drama! Shame! Note: Few spoilers, but the sixth paragraph has a pretty major spoiler, but is vital to the comprehension of this review. AND believe me, I loved Aronofsky, and just couldn't enjoy it as I should have. Peace!  Darren Aronofsky usually has a set of routine characters who have lost their way in life. From the drug dealers in Requiem for a Dream to Randy "The Ram" Robinson, this has been a common theme in his work. However, here, he is trying to establish a different central dynamic, and the weakened character is the secondary character, Beth, the Prima Ballerina, who will be soon retiring. Many may claim that Ryder's character is vastly unimportant, but it just may show that Aronofsky cannot separate himself from his long held familiar themes.  Aronofsky 's film centers on ballerina Nina who, along with countless other ballerinas in her company is auditioning for Swan Lake.  The Director, Leroy, wants to cast the same person as the Black and White Swan. White so many options, he eventually chooses Nina despite having better black Swan candidates, such as Lilly played by Mila Kunis. Apparently, Lilly is filling for another ballerina, and as so, Nina, is not very familiar around her, nor comfortable. Nina is very shy, reserved, committed to her art, and extremely focused who has no concept or understanding of Lilly's offbeat sense of humor, her directness, her strange and sudden attempt at friendship. Their conflicting attitudes, if nothing else, are evidence of arising problems.  One of the main complaints of the film is how unfit a protagonist Nina is. As a shy, reserved character living at home with a mother, played by Barbra Hershey, who creates abstract and nearly identical, in form, abstract portraits, and is intrusive, Lilly seems to have the perfect arsenal to bring out the Black Swan. If the Black Swan is supposed to be emotionally crippled and vulnerable, it seems strange that Nina fails in this regard, and actually succeeds at portraying the White Swan. Stranger, however, is that Lilly succeeds at portraying the Black Swan better, even though she would naturally seem as better suited for the Black Swan. Another oddity is how oddly different Nina is compared to all of Aronofsky 's other characters. They all seemed extroverts, and displayed more overt emotions than Nina. Maybe this adds to the mystique of this character as we don't know what she will be capable of as the film develops. She expresses a lot of emotion, but all of it is internal, and that makes her not only mysterious, but capricious.  Aronofsky is without doubt one of the most talented directors of the last decade, but here he is of his element. With the Wrestler, most of us westerners have watched wrestling and sometimes laughed at and admired their countless shenanigans that is labeled at times sport and other times entertainment. However, not most film viewers are going to have gone to the ballet or have a deep understanding of it. As such, we do not accept the details of this art, as we might with a film centered on Wrestling, boxing, football, but his film delivers none of the intricacies of ballet. Many may claim that no film is responsible, or must dwell in the details of the craft they are set in, but Black Swan is different.  Leroy consistently haunts Nina about the imperfections of her Black Swan, her inability to be "flawed," her lack of necessary aggression,  talking about how Lilly is better prepared for this Swan, but none of this is actually show clearly. Aronofsky would have done better showing Nina attend a performance of Swan Lake, so that the audience can gain, at least, a little insight into this world. In its current state, it is quite certain that this was written by authors who had no deep knowledge of the ballet world, and just wanted to create a film. That is fine, if this film was mainly an acting film, like Winter's Bone, but Leroy and Lilly's interaction make this much more than a character study, and with some study it could have successfully turned in to a "limited" study of Swan Lake. Leroy's complaints of Lilly is confined to her lack of ferocity, aggression, and inability to "let go," give credence to the claim that these writers knew very little about the details of a ballet performance, or were simply uninterested in giving multiple angles to the performance and its preparation. We see lots of kissing, groping of breasts and crotch between Leroy and Lilly, and it would be sexy, if it were not part of Lilly's preparation; and with this knowledge these scenes become quite depressing, considering that these are the only advice she gains from her instructor. There needs to be more insight to Leroy's character than his unashamed seductions in preparing his ballerina. Sure, ballet is very sexualized, but the advice and period of preparation must not ALL be sexual.  There is a line between what is real and what is a fantasy, a dream, or works of the imagination. There are many directors who cross this line, and then there are those that mock it, like Aronofsky does in this film, for the benefits of paranoia and obsession. Nina's obsession is very well understood from all the physical injuries she suffers, but it is the paranoia that Aronofsky is quite inept at capturing. He begins to play a horror game which involves a monster, with the body of a man, having sex with Lilly. Actually, when the paranoia seems to become quite intriguing, it has more to do with drugs than Lilly's altered personality. One especially offensive scene occurs near the very end when Nina and Lilly fight, and Nina pushes Lilly in the path of a large mirror, and stabs her with shards of glass, and drags her to another room; leaving her alternate for dead, while she begins her performance. When she later returns to the room, she hears a knock on the door, and of all people it's LILLY. As it turns out she was fighting herself, and so it can be presumed she pushed herself in the mirror! This is where Black Swan becomes even more ludicrous, because at this point Lilly finds the shards of glass in her body, and finds that she is bloodied. So, get this: The NINNA VS. NINNA match occurs, then Ninna does part of her performance (as the Black Swan), she returns to the room, and suddenly the shards of glass that punctured her body take effect. This is like a Western where two cowboys shoot at each other, and none of them are injured, but after ninety minutes the bullet exists from their body, causing incurable harm, and we are supposed to be believe and accept that the bullet, and in our case, the shards of glass manifested till the right time came, and then it started to cause observable bleeding. This is not paranoia, but desperation of the filmmaker.  Natalie Portman will be undoubtedly nominated for Best Actress for her performance, and considering that there are no veteran actors competing this year who are without an Oscar-Kidman, Berry, etc have won at least once-she might win her first Statue. But God knows this is the wrong performance. This is a good performance, but it is not an exceptional performance, as Ninna is not subdued, but simply nervous and hesitant to trust anyone. Unlike Winter's Bone where a subtle performance was cleverly done by Jennifer Lawrence, Portman's performance is miniscule in comparison. Her character is so jumpy that it could be played as well, if not better, by most actors. The performance is quite one note, because the character is designed as such.  The rave reviews that Kunis is getting are simply baffling. She plays the sweet tempered, yet clever opportunist who seems to be plotting for the main role of Swan Lake. Again, this performance is not a stretch for Kunis and she bring a familiar and monotonous charm to the character that is deeply reminiscent of every other performance she has done-be it on TV or film.  Vincent Cassel's performance:  WOW! Now here is a performance that deserved a nomination, but received none. Despite my problems with the sole sexualized advice of Leroy, Cassel plays this character with so much confidence and grandeur, creating a captivating instructor admired by all. Cassel's performance is exceptional because Leroy is open to much analysis, and is not as one note as the female roles that occupy this film. Barbra Hershey gives a respectable performance, despite her limited screen time. Bound to get an Oscar nomination.  Overall, this is an below average film from a great filmmaker who is just of his element, and is dealing with an issue that he does not have extensive and exhausting information. However, considering the crap in theaters, this would be recommended for Portman, Kunis, and Aronofsky fans.

A Curmudgeon Review I didn't know what to expect when I started watching this movie. The gore factor is high.  It should be listed as a comedy rather than a horror movie, though.  It reminded me of the British "Bean" movies.  I am glad that I didn't buy this movie. Shaun of the Dead was a comedy that worked. This one went right past the fairway and into the woods.  Don't watch it with little kids around, or if you are queazy.  Enjoy

The Secret of Moonacre I did not really enjoy this movie. The book it is based on is quite lovely, and bright and positive, whereas the movie has changed the story to a dark, slightly depressing tale. The characters' personalities are very different as well - they are generally angry, sad and annoying. Though there are some very good actors in the movie, I found the standard of acting to be quite poor. As an adult who loved the book "The Little White Horse", I did not like the changes they made to the storyline and characters as I felt they were quite negative. The book had the contrast of light and dark, good and evil, however the movie just seems to be very dark overall. A young friend however (a 5yo little girl) quite enjoyed the movie and found some bits quite funny.

interprative filmaking I have attended many shows at the Mass college of art film devision and I have to say this reminds me of a student film project, just by the way its all put together,lighting effects,sound and acting, its all kind of interperative. I am a die hard gorehound and after reading many online reviews I thought I was gonna be in gore heaven (or hell,giving what this film deals with), but alas it just didn't deliver enough for me, the make up effects were good not great, there was some attention to detail missing and there were really only two gory scenes in the film, they kept going back repeatedly to show the same scene over and over, I would have liked to have seen more different scenes of bloody violence...all in all at the end I just sat for minute and thought "that's it", I don't see what all the hoopla is about this film. In my opinion, if you want alot of gore like me check out the older films of Olaf Ettinbach, he delivers plenty of the gory goods on a low budget.

Great [partial] bundle... It is nice seeing a bundle package with all three Lion King movies included, but even with the current price incentive--50% off for a price of $49.99--I cannot convince myself to pull the trigger.  Strike 1: Based on the reviews & photos (of the package's contents) here & elsewhere on the Internet, I cannot fathom why Disney would package the discs in cardboard sleeves. These are, after all, kids movies. And anyone that has kids knows that these discs could very well be pulled out of & inserted into these sleeves hundreds of times over the course of time. If your kid(s) are well trained in careful disc handling, this will result in extra wear & tear on the discs' surfaces. I would have much rather seen some type of standard plastic tray for each disc. And given Disney's history of micromanaging their product lines, I am honestly disappointed with their decision here.  Strike 2: The only Lion King movie that currently has a Digital Copy disc is the first movie. This means that I have no choice but to bring the Lion King 1 1/2 & Lion King 2 discs along on road trips which easily translates to more wear & tear on the discs. Given the state of today's electronics this is almost unforgivable. It is not like it took Disney from The Lion King's release in 1994 until 2012 to pioneer new technology & encoding to present that movie in a Digital Copy format. In fact, I am willing to bet that in some double top secret room, there is a pristine copy of each film in its full digital glory. I will go just a little bit further to almost guarantee that if some Disney executive said, "Give me a Digital Copy version of Lion King 1 1/2 & 2." that some IT-type person could probably provide prototype discs for each movie within the hour...with time to spare. (Go re-read the last sentence under Strike 1.)  Strike 3: This one goes hand-in-hand with both of the previous strikes. Given the security encoded into Disney's DVDs, it is nigh impossible to "rip" these into video files like MPEG4 (.MP4), as an example. This makes them almost impossible to upload to a portable device like a tablet or back-up to a PC or NAS. By eliminating my ability to back-up the movies, or provide a digital copy that I can at least use on some select few portable devices, you leave us no choice but to carry around the source discs. I cannot help but feel like Disney is determined to help my kids destroy these discs. That way they (my kids) can pester me into buying yet another copy of the movies some time down the road...further lining Disney's proverbial pockets. Thanks. (Yes, that was sarcastic. And while you are here, go re-read the last sentence under Strike 1.)  Strike 4: The home market for 3D products is a slow, but consumers are rightfully reluctant. 3D technology is still undergoing changes that could lead to many previously (and current, for that matter) released 3D products to be rendered obsolete. However, if you are going to release a 3D version of one movie in some type of "all encompassing", "cat's meow", ultimate package, why would you not develop & release all of the movies in 3D? Here again, I feel confident in saying that these movies are already digitally mastered & stored in some super secret Disney location. And while it may take a computer some time to render the 3D-capable version of each movie, the state of today's technology pretty much assures that Disney could have released 3D versions of Lion King 1 1/2 & 2 with no delay to this box set's production & release dates.  This is one of those cases where the consumer needs to read. This is an attractive package...on the outside. The current discount to ~$50 makes it even more attractive. But, as soon as you start looking at the actual contents, the educated consumer will quickly see past the facade. Bought separately (and in the same formats), the movies would cost $77.97. At least this way, the consumer gets bona fide cases with disc trays for their movies. This may sound like a premium price, but it is a small up-charge when compared to the replacement cost of worn & scratched discs. Overall, I think the package has a "rushed to market" feel. Disney could have drastically improved the box set by completing the collection & putting a little more thought into the packaging...and ultimately, the target audience...kids.

convoluted Watched this the other night with high hopes, but they were unfulfilled. It's confusing and slow in the begining, and the end while not totally predictable, was not too much of a surprise. If you liked snatch by Guy Ritchie you will probably like this as they are very close cousins (Snatch is more American as this movie was English).

2 1/2 Stars - An assured classic of its kind Disclaimer: I viewed this film as a streaming rental, and as such, cannot comment on the audio or visual quality of the product.  My review is concerned with the entertainment quality of the film only.  Those viewers who consider the lawnmower slaughter scene at the end of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/157362408X">Dead Alive</a> to be pure cinematic brilliance, or chuckled at the gold-standard black comedy of Danny Trejo rappelling down the side of a building using the entrails of his last victim for rope in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002ZG98C8">Machete</a>, will doubtless find all their movie needs met in 'Hobo with a Shotgun', a film that really needs no introduction because...well, because the title sort of gives the whole thing away anyway.  Both the title and the cover art are important here: this is a definite 'what you see is what you get', so if exploitation and trash cinema do not appeal to you, THEN YOU SHOULD NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE.  If, on the other hand, you feel as though 98% of films do not go far enough while exploring the limits of sadistic gore and violence, then don't wait, run to your nearest outlet and feast on the utter lunacy of 'Hobo with a Shotgun'.  For what it is, I really can't think of any other film that I've seen that tops 'Hobo'.  I can't claim to have seen all the classics of trash cinema, but I have seen a lot of bad exploitation, and as far as acting abilities and effects, 'Hobo' is at the very top.  Rutger Hauer is as good here as he's ever been, and even if some of the rest of the cast can't quite measure up, that's no more than usual for the standard formula for these films.  Molly Dunsworth also acquits herself well as the hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold, though Nick Bateman (looking like a clone of the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0790732203">Risky Business</a> Tom Cruise), as well as Brian Downey, as father and son, are so unrestrained as to be annoying as well as evil.  But it's easy to overlook such inconsequential matters like those when considering the overall effect of the gleeful carnage that ensues.  As the unnamed Hobo, Hauer leaves the rails and alights in Hope Town, where crime is out of control and the local police are all in the employ of a sadistic crime lord named Drake (Downey).  After witnessing a horrific execution put on by Drake and his sons, Hauer sticks around long enough to save Abby (Dunsworth) from the depraved lust of one of the sons, and turns the boy over to the police, expecting them to do their jobs.  Well, it wouldn't be called 'Hobo with a Shotgun' if that plan had worked out - suffice it to say that Hauer's final buttons are pushed, and giving up his dream to finally settle down, he picks up a shotgun instead, intent on cleaning up the town.  As I say in my title, I think this will be a classic of its kind, but I have to admit that it went too far for me.  Somewhere in the beheadings, mutilations, stabbings, dismemberments, castrations, torture, lawn mower attacks and putting a loaded school bus to the torch, there was a line that was crossed.  It does, however, remain staunchly uncluttered with any faux-moral justifications for its violent images - it is what it is and isn't making any excuses for itself, nor should it, as far as I'm concerned.  Far worse, to my mind, is a film that uses violence to argue for a certain ideological point-of-view - 'Hobo with a Shotgun' is more a succession of images that probe the limits of the filmmakers' imagination and as such is gore-soaked black comedy.  It's just a little too black for me.

TIVO OWNERS BEWARE For some reason, TIVO owners don't get wide screen for this movie... WHY???? It's boxed all the way around, so the movie is 1/2 the size of your screen :-(

ABSOLUTE FAILURE - SAVE YOUR MONEY Being an avid fan of James Lee Burke I was honestly looking forward to viewing this particular movie. In anticipation of watching the movie I had invited 4 friends, all "hardcore" fans of the Robicheaux series.  After the scene featuring Dave's conversation with The Colonial the CD player was turned off, no point in going forward with this abomination. For the longest I could not understand the shortening of the title, dropping the "With Confederate Dead" portion.  Now I would imagine it was an attempt to seperate the movie from the book.  If one had not read the original book they would find it difficult to follow the plot of the movie.  The actors all appeared to be reading their lines, there is no emotion shown, and a awful lot of mumbling.  On the back of the CD box it states that the movie is based on the book, they should add LOOSELY based on the book. As much as I look forward to James Lee Burke publishing another novel I truly hope there are no more attempts to bring them to the screen if this is an example of finished product. So in ending this I'll say buy the books, they are all excellent, great entertainment but stay away from the movies.  They are not only a waste of money but they are a waste of time as well.

This movies make the first one look better now I never did finish In the name of the King...but now after being tortured by this movie, i think i will give the first one another chance...at leat it had fighting and lots of cgi effects.  \ In the name of the King 2, you dont get much ...you get Dolph...brought to the past but is unable to change his clothes through the whole movie...you get actors/actresses speaking like they did in the past...but the way it came out in this movie is not they way they probably expected it. There is lots of talking, yapping but barely any fights or big scenes.  The King's part is not very well acted...(they surely did'nt pick the right actor).   What saves this movie from being a total embarassement is at least there was a dragon that came in the movie near the end and saved me from falling into that deep sleep pattern. Dolph Lundgren.....he's a good action character...but for a main character..hummm

HH Holmes documentary I found this video a little boring and repetitious. It does present a wealth of information about the serial killer and his case. I can see this video as something a viewer might watch on the Arts and Entertainment network one time, not a DVD to purchase.

not so good... well, the first THE HULK from some years before is real bad....the story is uninspired, and the film is confuse and silly....well, it's hard to make a movie with a green giant monster that destroy everything and can't speak rational words....this one, THE INCREDIBLE HULK is a little better than THE HULK, but still is not so good...These HULK movies got amazing visual effects, but got uninspired dialogues, characters and  story....

Failed attempt "Beat the Devil" is a tongue in cheek spoof of Bogart's famous films of the 40s, like "The Maltese Falcon" and "Casablanca". It comes in 1953 near the end of Bogart's career. Although he still had a few good films left ahead (e.g., "The Caine Mutiny"), generally speaking his best years were behind him, and his performance in this film ranks among his lesser roles, exacerbated by the fact that he had been in a major auto accident during production (there is one scene near the end of the film when his injuries were not adequately covered up by the makeup).  Bogart made 80 films, was nominated 3 times for an Oscar and won for "The African Queen" (1952), and is considered the greatest male actor of the 20th Century by many. His list of outstanding performances is too long to list. Director John Huston said of him - "He was endowed with the greatest gift a man can have -- talent."  Bogart has his long time friend Peter Lorre (1904-64) along for the ride. They did 5 films together, beginning with "The Maltese Falcon" (1941). In addition to his work with Bogart, Lorre is most famous for his terrifying role in "M" (1931) and his "Mr. Moto" films. Director John Huston said of him -" Peter Lorre was one of the finest and most subtle actors I have ever worked with. Beneath that air of innocence he used to such effect, one sensed a Faustian worldliness."  Lorre is joined by fat and jolly Robert Morley (1908-1992) instead of his usual partner in crime, fat and jolly Sydney Greenstreet who retired in 1949 for health reasons, and died in 1954. Morley was a wonderful actor, a lovable pompous windbag who graced film and stage. He was nominated for an Oscar for his film debut in "Marie Antoinette" (1938) playing a shy Louis XVI, and was nominated for a Golden Globe for "Who's Killing the Great Chefs of Europe" (1978), but personally I thought his best performance was as the missionary in "The African Queen" (1951) with Bogart. Incredibly, this film was the only pairing of Morley and Lorre.  The two female stars are Jennifer Jones and Gina Lollobrigida. Jones (1919-2009) was a terrific actress and was nominated 5 times for an Oscar, winning for "A Song of Bernadette" (1943). Her best work was in the 40s ("Since You Went Away", "Duel in the Sun", "Portrait of Jennie") but she continued to work and was nominated for a Golden Globe for her final film, "The Towering Inferno" in 1974. Jones is a riot as the wife of a pretentious Englishman, and she steals every scene in which she appears.  Gina Lollobrigida (1927) is simply beautiful. One can hardly get past her beauty and enjoy her good acting in this film, which was her breakout role. She gave good performances in films like "Trapeze" (1956) and "Never so Few" (1959) before her film career went into decline.  Look for Bernard Lee (1908-81) in a brief appearance as an inspector from Scotland Yard. Lee would later gain fame playing "M" in the early James Bond films.  Director John Huston (1906-87) apparently conceived of the idea for this film as a spoof of his previous films like "The Maltese Falcon". Huston was one of our best directors, nominated 5 times for an Oscar for directing, winning once for "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948) that starred Bogart and Huston's father, Walter Huston (who won his only Oscar as Best Supporting Actor). Huston was also nominated 8 times for an Oscar for writing, and once for acting.  This was his last of 6 films with Bogart.  Huston co-wrote this film (as he did with many of his films) with Truman Capote (1924-84). Capote was best known as a writer of novels ("Breakfast at Tiffanys", "In Cold Blood"). "Beat the Devil" was his first of two screenplays he wrote, and he got the job because of his work with Jones' husband, David O Selznick, on "Indiscretion of an American Wife" (1953).  Despite the quality of the actors and the director and writer, this is an unsatisfying film. It lacks a solid base. Clearly it isn't meant to be taken at face value (a thriller), but nor is it very funny (like "We're No Angels") or even sly (like "The Lavender Hill Mob"). The original novel was a thriller and it was Huston's desire to turn it into a comedy, but it ends up being neither. Bogart himself disliked the film, said "only phonies like it", and his production company (Santana Productions) failed to renew the copyright. The NY Times said -  "A potential treat emerged as a wet firecracker" and "For all the studiedly suave professionalism, though, Beat the Devil ends up beating itself."  There are some good things about this film. Jennifer Jones is terrific. Supporting performances by Ivor Bernard (the homicidal Major) and Mario Perrone (ship's purser) are brilliant, and there is the occasional plot point that will get a rise. But all things considered this is a monumental waste of talent that could have created a much better work.  Some reviewers will claim that it is a great film, a camp film, a cult film, etc. Perhaps. I'm sure the film will appeal to a small group of people, but generally speaking, if it failed at the box office, failed at the Oscars, and was trash talked by the people who were involved in it, chances are most people aren't going to enjoy it. Fans of the actors have so many better films they can choose from, why would you waste your time on this failed attempt?

so so it was ok. lots of repeat footage from his other movies, but there is a good amount of pre-"famous" steve-o.  if your a die hard steve-o fan, yeah, you can buy this, but if not, save the cash.

Disappointed :( A story of an unlikely rebel inheriting a massive fortune and control over a mega corporation. The lines were predictable, the acting boring and the plot somewhat disconnected. It was fun to see Kristen Scott Thomas speak flawless French though! Sorry I wasted my money.

Good vs. Bad This is a somewhat embarrassingly corny 1½-hour, "hero(in)es vs. villains" type of movie that tries to portray - - the potential synergy of spiritual energy in all of us, - that by being spiritually connected we can be protected from "evil", - that spiritually inclined people may have "synchronicity" with each other (i.e. be brought together at the right moments by divine intervention), - that heaven & hell are nowhere else except here on earth, - and that we, as humans, have an evolutionary higher purpose in the universe.  If I didn't know that what was being portrayed in the movie is conceptually feasible, I would have given it only a 1 star rating for the mediocre acting and poor plot alone.  The problem with attempts to portray ethereal matters visually is that ethereal matters are simply not apparent in the material world and only reflect in our subjective perceptions of them. Spiritual phenomena are subliminal in most people, and the visual portrayal of spiritual perception in this movie would be unreal for anyone having spiritual perception. But hey, it's only a movie, and it could possibly stimulate novice spiritual aspirants to seek "the light" in some way or other.  I would give it 6 stars for bringing to the attention of audiences the possibilities of enlightenment by spiritual endeavour, which is a difficult yet admirable attempt by the movie makers, but minus 4 stars for the poor plot and mediocre acting of the main actors. (Only the movie's army General gave a convincing performance). I haven't read any of the books on which the movie is based, so I have not compared the movie with the books.  Even though spiritual concepts are almost impossible to portray visually, the movie makers could have done far better, because the performances give one the absurd feeling that it is a "happy-clappy" Christian movie in disguise, with the main characters wearing the proverbial "rose-tinted spectacles", and that Christ was going to burst out of the sky at the beginning of this century in South America somewhere.  Best give this DVD to your kids to stimulate their interest in spiritual matters.

If finale would be different, I would give it three stars The plot is described well enough in the overview and reviews of other viewers. The movie is a watchable, especially for woman, sitting by tv all by herself with some ice-cream. Story that can happen, still characters are rather week, especially Dexter and scenario lacks depth. However, I watched it and even would give it three stars, if not the last minute of the movie.  If this would end up to be Ethan  which is character played by Krasinski  it would make it all more or less good and logical, at least for romantic comedy/drama.  But when you see who you see - there is no any twist, it doesn't make sense, you can not help but feel sorry for Rachel. So, you can watch it - but it was total disappointment in the end.

Too easy and disjointed This is one of the worst exercise dvds that I own. I like Tanja as an instructor, but all of her workouts are way too easy and only for beginners. This dvd was way too disjointed because all the segments are really short, such as two exercises per workout on some segments. My heart rate never went up and I just felt it was a waste of time. If you really are new to exercise this might actually be a really good start and I do recommend it for beginners.

Barely scratches the surface of the book Generally an undeniably visually stunning film, sumptuous in appearance, but look a little closer and the CGI is just too obvious - the film almost feels like a cartoon in that respect. Worse still, the film is killed by an unseemly rush to get from the first page of the book to the last. The story is compressed to the point of ridiculousness and, much as the fans of the book would have hated a more ruthless abridgement, it would have been better to have lost /sections/ of the story rather than to try to cram them all into a 2 hour playing time as the director, scriptwriter and editor have done here. It really makes a travesty of an epic, rich and detailed story. Contrast this with Peter Jackson's seamless treatment of the even more immense LotR trilogy.  The acting is barely acceptable, despite the all star cast - no-one really seems to care about their characters. Disappointing, really - Ian McKellen is just a big teddy bear, Jim Carter is capable of far better, Sam Elliot is... well, Sam Elliot again, really, and Dan Craig should probably stick to his Bond character (d'you see what I did there? Stick to... Bond. I crack myself up. Really I do.)  This is one to pass over, I'm afraid.

Disappointing interpretation of history One star for special effects. One star for Terrence Howard and a good supporting cast of Americans of African descent. Watching Gooding was painful. He used to be a fine actor. Also, they should have hired a script writer. Most of the lines were trite, especially those of the white pilots. Great subject matter turned into a comic book, replete with obvious plot devices.

Anticipation of death is worse than death itself Horror franchises typically stumble when they get to Part Fives. Friday the 13th Part V: terrible. Saw V: awful. Halloween 5: appalling. Strangely many of them use 3D as a way of pulling in the punters for gore effects that splatter into three dimensions. Final Destination 5 is nothing new and no exception to this rule despite not being completely awful.  A bunch of cronies on an office retreat survive a suspension bridge collapse after one of the group inexplicably has a premonition (sounds overly familiar) of said disaster. Death doesn't like to be cheated...Tony Todd...ironic accidents...blah blah...exposition...you're all going to die...yadda yadda...one by one...blah blah blah blah. It's the same old rehashed plot, recycled dialogue, and overdone deaths that seem to defy logic and physics. As usual there is a last minute twist, which by this point you're just waiting to be revealed and get it finished with, that doesn't quite add up for many reasons, but coherence has hardly been a strong point of the series.  Basically, all this film offers are a few scenes of dread and tension which are all undone by cheap, fake, quick, deflating CGI gore effects. Not once in my life have I ever been horrified by computer-generated blood. Give me some tangible gore by Chris Walas or Tom Savini any day over something half-heatedly cartooned onto the movie in post-production.  This series has been cheating death for 12 years and it's high time that Final Destination reached its final destination.

Scary? - Just the Case Cover Is this a story about a family cursed by some unknown demonic possession or is it a story about mother and daughter's psychological issues resulting in hallucinations? Single mom keeps her daughter close to home by telling her stories that make her fearful of the outside world and when she wanders too far, chaining her to a post inside the home. The plot deepens when someone dies (off screen), but does it stem from a curse or an hallucination? The writer played with both ideas with brief flashes of a cheap makeup and costumed witchy looking woman who basically just stood a few times in the background. D- The acting, although over-the-top and not too believable, effectively got the story message across. C The editing/directing needed help with really bad audio that made even a conversation intolerable with one person's voice too loud and the other not even audible. At the same time a bird chirping in a tree would drown out both. No subtitles. The switch between scenes was often just a disruptive few seconds of black screen. D- A potentially interesting script for an often used plot but which lacked a budget to really pull it off.

Never Underestimate a Slow Dead Guy This movie begins with some promise.  A couple of girls are wandering through an oasis.  We see close-ups of their behinds trying to sneak out from under their shorts.  The next thing you know, it is zombie feast time!  Then we see a flashback to World War II.  Germans travel to the same oasis.  Allies are hiding at the Oasis.  We see a big battle.  We see lots of shooting and blood and other war related stuff.  The director had an array of actual armored vehicles, which impressed me.  We move into the future and see the former German commander dying and suddenly everyone is after Nazi gold left by the Germans.  There is only one minor obstacle.  Nazi zombies are guarding the gold!  From this point forward, this movie is a lot like watching someone grind meat.  Only instead of stuffing the meat into the grinder, they very slowly move the meat toward the grinder, and then they very slowly stuff it into the grinder.  Yes, this movie is much like the awful B-movies of yore where everyone is in great physical shape and can run like the wind, yet the slow, shambling zombies with various body parts in various states of decay always manage to catch up to them.  Since this movie is European (I am unsure whether there was a particular country involved; the beginning said Eurocine), there has to be at least some nudity, and there is.  We see some brief nudity in the desert and then there is a somewhat torrid love scene.  I was thinking that zombies might eat the two lovers during the love scene.  I leave you to learn whether they did.  Before I forget, one line from this movie is highly memorable.  Near the end of the movie the zombies are attacking a group of college students (have you ever noticed how frequently college students manage to get themselves into these situations?), and one of them brilliantly says something along the line of "Let's get some bottles and make Molotov cocktails, like in school."  I am wondering what kind of school these kids attended.  There are some good scenes in this movie.  Considering that the zombie makeup alternated between some junk slapped on faces and full masks, the zombies looked okay too.  The problem remains that a dozen or so slow, shambling zombies managed to "sneak" up on healthy young adults and have people sashimi.  Another problem is that group after group go into the oasis, none of them getting the hint that the oasis has a zombie problem.  Many horror movies seem to work only because people keep denying the obvious until something bites, claws, stabs, eats, etc., them.  I should also point out that the movie drags a lot too.  I guess the naked women were in there because the director was running out of victims to feed the zombies.  Unfortunately, the few good or interesting scenes in this movie are unable to overcome the boring scenes and the general silliness of creeping zombies "chasing" people and catching them.  The plot has more than a few holes in it.  I know, you cannot expect Shakespeare in a horror movie, but at least some coherence and excitement would be good.  This movie gets two stars because there are a few interesting scenes.  Otherwise, this movie would be a one star movie.  If you are a huge zombie movie fan, this one might be for you.  Otherwise, I am unable to figure out who might like this movie.  Therefore, I can only wish you...  Good luck!

Tarantula Women! There is one thing about this movie that stands out in my mind.  The music is awful; really awful.  The music is so awful that even if the movie content had been five stars, the music would have knocked it back to two stars.  The combination of repetitive, annoying guitar and a spinet or piano that appear to be out of tune, poorly played, or playing bad music, is terrible on the ears.  By the time the movie reaches its final seconds, you are thankful for the end of the music.  The whole movie is a flashback of a guy brought out of the desert who wants to go burn something.  This fellow's ravings are so intense that you think this movie has promise.  Now we go to a flashback.  We meet Dr. Leland Masterson (Harmon Stevens, appeared in a relatively small number of roles in his 15 year film career) who willingly goes to Zarpa Mesa to see Dr. Aranya's efforts.  Dr. Aranya is played by Jackie Coogan, a long-time veteran of television and movies who many may remember best as the original Uncle Fester on "The Addam's Family."  Dr. Masterson sees how horrible Dr. Aranya's experiments are, and he refuses to help, and then goes bonkers, turning into some sort of weird ultra-goodie for much of the rest of the movie.  Dr. Masterson shoots a woman who we know is one of the super spider women, and then climbs on board a plane to head somewhere.  The engine conks and the passengers land, by happy coincidence (can you see this one coming?), on Zarpa Mesa.  Evening falls and passengers are picked off one-by-one with weird puncture marks.  Finally, the few remaining passengers are taken to Dr. Aranya's laboratory, where a big fight ensues, there are flames and an explosion and we are returned to the present.  Wow.  Such excitement.  Such danger.  What an awesome movie.  This movie is so bad that it is bad.  There is minimal charm to the movie.  I like Jackie Coogan, but his role could have been played by anyone.  The music was awful.  The best part of the whole movie was the plane crash, which I thought was reasonably realistic.  With movies like these I try to either be at least a little frightened, or amused.  I was neither with this movie.  I wish there was some way to put this movie into perspective so that you have an idea of whether you should buy it.  Since I cannot, I will say that if you like a movie that is about tarantula women, with minimal appearances of any real tarantulas, and you can handle the awful music, then by golly, this could be just the movie for you.  However, I will note that this movie is worse than anything comparable by Ed Wood, so you can go from there.  Good luck!

Not a love story! This movie is touted as a love story, and that's what I was expecting to see. HOWEVER, it's a disappointing story about a man desperately in love, a woman who doesn't return his love but uses him when her life hits a snag, and the relationship problems such a coupling encounters. The dialogue is lousy, and there are a few degrading sex scenes thrown in for good measure. I definitely will not view this movie again and do not recommend it.

A bit disappointing... my opinion mirrors another reviewer who said it was good until the teenage nigel shows up. he started out as an elitist little snot and i was hoping for a bit of maturity and understanding from nigel and his stepmother to come out as the film went on.  i didn't know this was based on a true story until the end; even so, i still don't get why he was so mean to her. it's not like she really abused him in any way and she obviously loved his father very much. i can totally understand why she was that way to him because he was just a little sh*t to be around who obviously looked down on her from the very beginning.  anyway, hbc totally rocked and nigel as a boy was well acted. just didn't care for the end and honestly if this is a true story, nigel slater doesn't come out in a very favourable light.

Hilarious! For the laughs alone, this one's worth renting--for a dollar. Indistinguishable from its predecessors except for its premise, which begins at a race track. There, a group of obnoxiously moronic, attractive, foul-mouthed college kids are the focus of a catastrophe about to happen. One of the boys has a premonition of a disaster, which begins as a multi-car mashup culminating with vehicles and various auto parts and even the stadium itself becoming shrapnel missiles attacking spectators.  In a blink, everything's back to normal the way it was just prior to the accident. It was a vision but suddenly everything in the vision prior to the disaster is identical. From here, the film becomes a menagerie of how creative can we see someone die. And the basic question is this: do we control our fate, or does fate control us? Also, what happens if we thwart fate by intervening and saving a life? The answer in these films seems to be: fate gets really pissed! I've found these films to be a good mindless excursion, actually funnier than films that are made to be so. Maybe these films should be labeled Horror/comedies. Definitely fun for the whole family!

Typical Gilbert fare Joel Gilbert specializes in "hoax" videos. Whether it's claiming he's found Elvis alive or claiming that Paul McCartney is really dead (two other recent Gilbert DVD's you can purchase) his flicks are always well-edited, slick, in very poor taste and generally made with the express purpose of riling people up. Whatever your feelings about the President are, I wouldn't exactly trust the information being presented here. It's assembled well and it's a step up production-wise from his Paul Is Dead video but the real entertainment value in Gilbet's work is in watching people online get all hot and bothered over it. I'm seeing a lot of reviews from people on the right who've taken this thing seriously and some very disturbing responses from people on the left who swear the GOP is behind this. I've got news for ya. You've both been had....but maybe that was the point after all.

This never happened in the book series. If this and the first moive were stand alone movies and had nothing to do with the Princess Diaries series, then I would have liked it. But they are trying to make this part of the Princess Diaries series so I can't like them as much. While I adore Anne Hathaway, her version of Princess Mia is nothing like the spunky kind of outcast like girl (who might I mention has blonde hair, not brown hair) that was presented in the books and I grew to adore. It starts after Princess Mia graduated from college and is getting ready to take over for her grandmother as Queen of Genovia, that in itself is a false thing because in the book Genovia was a pricipality like Monaco so they never took up the title of King or Queen just Prince or Princess. Then they state that Mia and Michael who which was the central romance of the series were broken up because they just wanted to be friends (Spolier Alert: In the later books Michael and Mia did break up for a couple of years and it caused Mia to have so much emotional stress that she had to go into therapy, I don't think that the way that Anne's Mia took the break up was all that realistic to Mia). When she arrives to Genovia they find out that some outdated law states that Mia has to marry before she can take up the throne (Spoiler Alert: If you read the books you would have known tha the history of Genovia started when a woman strangled an evil military ruler with her own braid and the head of Italy or France gave her a small piece of land that she could rule on her own as Princess and she was single when she became Princess, a rule like that in a country like Genovia was just silly). Not to mention that her grandmother was running the show since her husband died in the movie and things weren't falling to ruin. So Mia decicdes to get with the first guy that seems decent and they decide to marry, I would think that women like Mia and her friend Lily would have had some very strong objections to a thing like this if they were true to the books. But Mia was alrihgt with that aside from the fact that she starts to secretly swoon for her rival for the throne and all Lily seems to care about is all of the fancy stuff that she got to have by being the friend of Mia, the real Lily would have jumped onto her soap bow and told how it was unfair that the royalty of Genovia lived a life of decadence while there were people who were starving to death and they it was stupid that Mia was expected to follow this Medevial rule when women proved that they could rule on their own. I didn't enjoy the romance of Mia and Nicholas at all, especially after the book version of Michael was such a great guy and was perfect for Mia. So if you know nothing about the book series you might enjoy the movies, but if you love the book series like I do, stay away from this movie and the previous movie.

Cue Yakety Sax Starring Hamilton 'Ham' Porter from Sandlot, Topanga from Boy Meets World, Tatyana Ali from Fresh Prince, the Sherminator from the American Pie films, and the guy from Can't Buy Me Love who got a bag of poo thrown on his porch, Dorm Daze is a goofy mish-mash of the typical "eliminate virginity" plot and a overly complicated case of mistaken identity - a case that mixes-up a French foreign exchange student and a hooker.  What's the difference, right?  The mix-ups are really elementary.  Same phone on the same table.  Identical handbags.  Dropped notes picked up by the wrong people.  At times it all feels like a Benny Hill skit.  In the end, it's too shallow and too long.  Way too long.

Great horse, mediocre movie Hollywood tries really hard to create drama and build the story around Peggy Tweedy, the 'housewife' turned horse breeder. But it's a forced effort at best. Diane Lane is stiff and John Malcovich horribly miscast. The horses did a better job of acting than any of the humans. It's sentimental, predictable, and boring. "Seabiscuit," this ain't.

Interpretation of story misfires; terminally boring Sitting through two hours of this film is sheer torture, because it is terminally boring. It is based on a novella in which not much happens, and perhaps if it were a 90 minute film it might have worked. Despite the length and camera shots lingering over detail if you're expecting to see much of Venice you will be sorely disappointed. I think Visconti's interpretation of Mann's story is off the mark. First of all the character, Gustav von Aschenbach, is a writer, not a musician, leading a markedly solitary life. The story begins in Germany, where he takes a walk and decides to go on a trip. None of that is in the film. What is in the film are element that don't appear in the story. There are flashbacks of a wife and child who passes away but there is no child in the story. In the story it is only briefly mentioned that he was married, had a brief period of happiness, and that his wife died. The emphasis is on a man leading a solitary life. In the film there are also flashbacks of a pointless, obscure discussion about the meaning of art that don't appear in the story at all.  In the story Aschenbach's attraction to young Tadzio is much more subtle. In the film it is overwrought. The hotel scenes are visually captivating, but excruciatingly slow for modern viewers. It works more as an evocation of Mahler rather than Mann. There is a short documentary called "Visconti'sVenice," that treats the director with dubious awe, which is the only basis on which one could possibly approach this film as a masterpiece. It isn't. It is a pretentious bore.

not recommended I was impressed by the setting and actually watched the whole thing. Too much killing. And the story line kind of boring. It's just an ok movie - I wouldn't recommend it.

Vision's look alike This video tried to use the "Visions" template but fails. Although the videography is not bad, the transitions are non-existent or are very poorly done. There is a pre-occupation with Irish music and dance with long boring shots of expressionless musicians droning on with monotonous Irish music. Not enough narrative to keep your attention. Also many shots are repeated in the three discs. Content seems to be from the the early 2000's and does not reflect conditions in Ireland today at all. Just there last year and the Celtic Tiger is dead!! Would not buy again and will make someone a good deal if they wanted to buy the series!!

Jerry lawlers piledriver was nothing compared to Paul ordorff, and george the animal steele hammer lock is not here Jerry lawlers piledriver was nothing compared to Paul ordorff's.second where is george the animal Steele's hammer lock the was brutal.Kerry Von Erich the claw ? Wher is barron Von Rasctke? Underwhelmed by the list

God would not have cared any less The problem with docudramas is that these at times fail to create the dread, the fear, the disgust and the sympathy which a darker form of movie making can. In this Brazilian movie, about the eponymous Rio De Janeiro slum of the 70s, the central character, who is the narrator too, fails to evoke the pathos in the viewer, which the movie should have. In fact, at the end of the goings on, one does not feel too strongly about the violence in the movie either. It could have been a very impactful movie had the drama been made more intense and powerful. Ram Gopal Verma-ish treatment of this script would have created a wonderful movie. There were many moments in the script which could have been nail biting had its (the script) treatment been more feature film like.

No Real Beginning and an Abrupt Ending This movie could have been much better if the film had been either written or edited so that there was a true beginning and ending. Instead, you're thrown into the battle without any background or scene setting, and at the end find yourself staring at the credits and saying, "That's it?" If this had been a movie with some heavy thoughts or weighty substance, and if I felt the director was trying to make an artistic statement by starting and stopping the movie like this, then I'd give the movie credit for that, but such is not the case. The script itself is weak and the characters poorly developed, so I can understand why someone said "cut it here at the beginning" (snip) "and here at the end" (snip) "and let's this story over with." My advice: if you really must watch it, don't spend the extra $2 for the hi-def version, since that's just a prettier picture of a problem. I gave the movie 2 stars because I like science fiction, some of the action scenes were fun to watch, and there was at least some potential for it.

Dissapointing Actor's performance, direction and art direction was exceptional.  Story line is a bizarre attempt to combine martial arts, video gaming, and music videos that left me with a jaw agape for much of the movie.  Seems to target 16 year old boys as an audience.

Keanu Reeves I cant really review the movie as I fell asleep less than half way through but one thing struck a cord with me... Keanu Reeves finally in a role that is good for him... An allien with limited facial expression... what usually is what makes his performance horrible suddenly plays in as a strength..... Maybe he should be typecast for roles like this for the rest of his career

Ridiculously Sappy.  Major Bummer. Seems like Sally Field has to always play a role where the character is perky - even as she's dying.  This film was hard to get through.  Not only is it a major bummer to watch someone die over the course of weeks, but to watch a film with bad acting and scriptwriting is a downer as well.  Waste of time.

Didn't meet expectations As much hype as this movie received, I was expecting more.  The acting was good, but I felt like the characters could have been better developed.  I'm sure there was a point behind the styling of dialogue, but it just felt forced. Overall, it was decent entertainment to compliment a lazy afternoon of folding laundry and ironing.  I didn't hate it, but it's not something I would bother to watch again.

Not bad...lots of gun play....so so story Not too bad....did not fall asleep, lots of gunplay and violence.... but by the end i wanted the movie to end. And sometime the music did'nt fit the mood of the scenes.. good to see once....not a keeper.

Great Video, Horrid Music The video was of very good quality, and Douglas Fairbanks is always incredible!  The story is so different than most modern versions of Robin Hood, it was very interesting to follow.  However, a happy honky tonk piano played the same tunes throughout the entire movie.  When the mood should have been somber, or tense, or melancholoy, the happy honky tonk piano would not shut up!  It really ruined the experience.

spoiled little boy all this movie is about is this boy wants an action figure and the dad drives all over kingdom come just to got this stupid action figure.  as if they can not just say we are getting you something else.  he ends up in the parade just to give his son what he want because he gets to give it to any kid.  really what parent will waist there weekend or day just to get there kid what they want even though every where you go out of order.  he ends up stealing from his neighbor's son to give to his son.  at a certain point i think it you got to call it quits.  no matter it they want it or not.  this movie is still funny but come on now honestly.  the whole way through the movie he is just trying to get an action figure and that is about the story.

Disappointing Up to now, I've really enjoyed the Underworld series. This one, however, is disapponting, to say the least. I agree with other reviewers' comments that the Lycans are cartoon-like, there is no plot development or exposition, the characters are caricatures, and the movie is too short to develop any story line. I believe the goal of any sequel should be to improve on the story and continue to develop the characters, rather than to simply exploit the popularity of earlier installments to make a buck. The door has been left open for another sequel. Let's hope it's better than this. I feel like I wasted my money this time.

Not Impressed Even for a B-horror movie, there is little to like about this film.  The actors are mediocre, the characters are annoying, the killer isn't scary at all, not much blood, lame kill scenes, and the reveal at the end is lame.  I have seen worse, so i went with 2 stars, but this one isn't really worth it to even dedicated horror fans like myself.  I just had a hard time finding anything in this movie to get excited about.

Meh I have to say that I didn't feel this upgraded DVD was so superior to the original to justify the expense/ duplication in my collection. Won't buy any other rereleases unless I see ecstatic reviews.

DVD won't play When I start eclipse, which is a blue ray movie, in my blue ray Sony player it won't go past the title. I have to select the chapter in order to watch it. I have never had a problem with any other movies.

Justice League Doom This movie is okay.  I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as Superman/Batman: Apocalypse.  The action scenes were much better and the plot kept me on the edge of the seat.  The only thing in this movie that was good was the Batman's plan to neutralize the Justice League members.

Boring Cenci This is not a bad movie, yet is a quite dull movie. Beatrice Cenci conspires with familiar relatives to get rid of her mentally twisted nobleman father. As a consequence, several of these people get tortured and killed by some team of inquisitors. The movie some scenes of torture that are well achieved as you might have expected for a Lucio Fulci, very little nudity, not a good pace of action, and a dull story. So, I honestly cannot recommend much here, except may be for those who seek to watch a no terror and not very gory Lucio Fulci film.  Technically, a good, region free, DVD widescreen image transfer by Sinister Cinema. The feature runs for about 90 minutes. The  film comes with English audio (dubbed) no subtitles.

The great Sci-Fi explosion of the 50s starts...inauspiciously *** SPOILERS AHEAD (not that you should care in this case) ***  Released in the first week of 1950, and thus beating out ROCKETSHIP X-M and DESTINATION MOON for the honor of being the first American science fiction film of the decade that more or less defined the genre for years to come, THE FLYING SAUCER probably doesn't deserve to be remembered for any reason besides that.  I suspect that this low-budget thriller, with only minimal "science fiction" elements, which was written, produced, directed by and starring the obscure American actor Mikel Conrad - in the only film he made as director - sank pretty quickly, but it does have some fascinating portents for the future of the decade in this genre. It's a rabidly anti-commie film for one thing, and it's got some vague religious overtones; and there's a sense of paranoia and fear of the unknown which is certainly endemic of the genre's early years.  The story involves playboy/writer Conrad getting sent up to his hometown in Alaska to check out reports of a flying saucer, and to make sure it doesn't fall into the hands of those dirty Russkies.  It's not spoiling much to say that we quickly find out that the saucer is not, apparently, anything from out of this world, and there are no little green men in rubber suits to be seen (wouldn't be in the budget).  Along the way he finds love, and participates in two of the very worst fight scenes I have ever seen - really you have to see them to believe how poor fight choreography can actually be.  The film is pretty poor all around, though it is notable for actually being filmed in Alaska (one of the earliest features that was, and that got a wide release), and it's short and sweet, and the bad fights and dialogue do give it enough laughs to help keep it from being utterly tedious.  This DVD is quite mediocre but we're unlikely to get any better.  For total science fiction completists only.

The forgotten era Why forgotten? Well, most fans and even the creator of the series would rather forget about it - and when even the creator admits that it quite frankly sucks, you're not off for a good start.  Hokuto no Ken 2 represents some third quarter of the original manga, and some ten years have passed since Kenshiro finally defeated Raoh for good, and the little peace he managed to bring upon the wasted earth is in ruins once more as various mad conquerors-to-be are once again repressing the poor old working class...basically, things are just as bad as they used to be, but this time things are a little different. Bat and Lin, the children of the original series, have now grown up and lead an entire army bearing Hokuto's name to fight the oppressors, but they still wait for Kenshiro's return...which eventually happens, naturally.  The Imperial Capital under the rule of cowardly Jakoh is out to destroy the little legacy North and South stars still have upon the world, and helping him is a powerful new warrior, Falco, who is the master of Gento Koken - Fist of the "Source Star" or Polaris - or rather humorously, the *actual* North Star. One event leads to another and soon Kenshiro finds himself sailing off to the land of Shura where strength is everything and we are revealed more of Hokuto Shinken's mysterious past.  And that's where things start to go wrong with this show. While the Imperial Capital arc is somewhat watchable, most FotNS fans will agree with mee that the series, both the manga and the anime, goes downhill after the timeskip. The revelations about Hokuto amount to massive retcons and frequently blatant contradiction to what we have learned in the past; while even the original series had a habit of doing this, Hokuto no Ken 2 cranks it up to eleven (along with a lot of other things), resulting in a story which is often difficult and sometimes almost impossible to follow. Even the primary antagonist is a rehash of Raoh, down to sharing the same voice actor, and he still comes off as a lesser character because of his ridicilous backstory. There is also a lot of filler, particularily towards the end, although it does introduce some interesting concepts (such as a group of Magnificent Seven-inspired freedom fighters). With the exclusion of Bat after the Imperial Capital arc, Lin is reduced to a bit player and the entire plot goes to a direction that isn't "anyone can die" but "everyone WILL die".  HnK2 isn't absolutely terrible though - there are some impressive fight scenes, the battle between Kenshiro and Han in particular comes to mind, and I personally find "Kill the Fight" to be far more effective than "Heart of Madness" when it comes to getting me all pumped up.

DVD - French Kiss I am an avid video collector and have recently pared my collection of about 1,000 videos down to a more manageable 450 and have replaced many of my retained VHS releases with DVDs. I also have a big screen Samsung HD TV (beautiful picture quality) and enjoy my videos on that bigger wide angle screen.  For sound, I have a Bose home theatre system ... got it all ... but I HATE 2.35 aspect ratio films ... the video producers give you the hype that you see the total width of the image, but I have still yet to see a picture that I would have been upset about if it were done in anamorphic 1.85 or straight 1.33.  Bottom line, the new DVD (this product) of French Kiss is done in a 2.35 aspect ratio ... but the bars are so thick/wide and the picture is so small, that you need a magnifying glass to enjoy it ... THEY WRECKED THIS MOVIE with the 2.35 presentation ... Thank goodness I saved my VHS copy, which shows full screen on my HD TV but not with digital clarity of DVD/HD.  I'll keep it because it only cost a few bucks, but this is another way of manufacturers ruining a good thing and telling you to take what they give you.  If you have to have this movie, buy it ... but if not, don't frustrate yourself. For me, it's too bad, as this is one of my favorite movies.

Should Not Have Been Made... The Green Hornet is an outdated character.  It was probably cool and exciting back in the days when a guy wearing a halloween ballroom mask was cool,m but like Superman, they cannot fly in this era.  I would say pass on this all together. They had too many 1960's references from Kato's clothes, to the cars to the music although it was supposed to take place now.  This movie sucked and the cahracter was not one that people wanted on film.  Bruce Lee's The Green Hornet may be old, but at least you would want to see that because his career was cut short, and his superior skills.  At least this film was funny.  That is the ONLY thing that saved this for me.  Is it just me or is Cameron Diaz an ugly broad?

No Trashy Town Should have read the reviews, but trusted the description of the video.  Never again!  Bought this for Trashy Town.  Amazon should check info before having it on screen.  Kids love Chicka Chicka, but that was only one reason for purchase!

A Mixed Bag of Other Horror Films HUGE SPOILER ALERT!!! ~ ~ ~ Do Not Read This Review If You Have Not Seen The Movie!!!  I stumbled upon this movie on cable TV having not seen it from the beginning. My first thought was this effort is clearly an EYE CANDY movie for Jessica Alba fans because she is young and pretty and apparently single, "in this movie." But on the whole, I have 10 good reasons to support the title of this review:  Check out what we are treated to in THE EYE:  [1] SCREAM: The leading lady, Jessica Alba, is named "Sydney," just like back in 1996 when we saw Neve Campbell play the role of "Sidney Prescott."  [2] CARNIVAL OF SOULS, HALLOWEEN, FUNHOUSE, TOURIST TRAP, THE FOG, THE RING, HOUSE OF 1,000 CORPSES and very many other classic "horror" movies ALL have a young, pretty, single girl as THE leading attraction.  [3] A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET: We have the REAL cut on the arm that comes out of a dreamlike sequence ~ AND ~ The idea of showing a pretty young girl in a nightgown in a darkened public hallway.  [4] THE EXORCIST: The quick-flash use of what some people call "Subliminal Suggestion" occurs right before Jessica Alba notices the cuts on her arm ~ just like the dream sequence sufferd by Damien Karras in THE EXORCIST.  [5] PSYCHO: Alba takes a shower and we see her naked feet step onto the floor and we also see a shower curtain in the sequence . . . at one point in the movie, Alba looked like the little girl in THE RING. There were also some camera techniques used that reminded me of THE RING.  [6] POLTERGEIST: There is the "eyeball mirror" moment with Alba which reminds me of the guy in the bathroom in that chilling sequence from the 1980's classic.  [7] THE EVIL DEAD: The trap door in the floor idea.  [8] CARNIVAL OF SOULS: Alba and that guy with the glasses are driving along and you see the moon through the far passenger window ~ a visual technique used in CARNIVAL OF SOULS.  [9] The 1975 novel AUDREY ROSE: The girl and the flames idea. ( . . . and/or Stephen King's FIRESTARTER?)  [10] SPEED: The bomb on the bus idea.  So you see, this movie was entirely DESIGNED to brainwash the viewer into thinking it is a good movie via the success of past Hollywood efforts ~ ~ ~ THERE IS NOTHING NEW HERE.  One physical body walking through another physical body has been done before, the use of a linguistic translator to heighten mystery or suspense has been used before; really, it just goes on and on and on.  In the end, I belive it might have been (or perhaps could still be?) an interesting choice to attempt this effort in the form of a story by classic British horror novelist Graham Masterton ~ though that idea merely describes my silly little fantasy version upon the matter, and that is all.  Enjoy the movie!  (But why buy the DVD? Jessica Alba did a good job of acting in a flimsy and weak screenplay.)

What where they Thinking?! This movie was sub-par. It was just called Terminator to sell tickets. I didn't enjoy more than half of this movie. It was OK. But the other three where so much better. For those of you who scoffed at T3, I think after you saw this one you where probably more grateful for T3 than you had been. Let's hope, since they did take in a little bit of a profit, if you factor in the worldwide total, let's hope the next one is better. Let's hope they get better writers and a better director and a better soundtrack. I'd hate to see the Terminator franchise meet its own Judgement Day.

Gripping special effects in some scenes but look obviously fake in others. The plot is an exact copy of Apocalypto I went to this movie expecting it to be a fantasy; therefore, I suspended my logic. I just wanted to enjoy the special effects. They turned out to be a mixed bag. They are riveting, and look real in the scenes where the doldos (giant birds) chase and kill the men. The mastodons look impressive and convincing too. However the saber-toothed tiger look obviously fake. The ending scenes where the pyramid was being built are one of the most spectacular I ever seen. It looks huge, lively and beautiful.  The plot is an exact copy of Apocalypto. Yet this film does not have the suspense and intensity of Apocalypto. The acting is not convincing either. At the end, a few people laughed when the female character was resurrected from her death but I didn't mind. I had already expected it to be a fantasy.  Overall, it's worth watching once for curiosity. Everybody who likes dinosaurs will certainly wants to see this picture. As for me, after seeing this, I pulled out the DVD copies of "Walking with Dinosaurs" from BBC and viewed them. They look real and much more interesting

Bad movie, cool cinematograhpy This movie was hard to watch because of the constantly intrusive and annoying zither music. The acting was wooden and the absurd plot moved very slowly. The cinematography was good however. This might be better as a silent movie: turn off the sound, you don't bother with the silly plot, just enjoy the images and shadows of post war bombed out Vienna. A best friend of a corrupt man learns of his crimes, betrays him, and finally shoots him. Just like real life.

No Throwing Pie Scene? I don't have too much to say about the movie.  The plot was very simplistic.  There were a bunch of funny moments, but most of the slapstick made me cringe with embarrassment as to why I was watching this.  The actors did an amazing job of capturing the spirit of the 3 Stooges; however, the forced jokes, bland dialogue, and Jersey Shore antics ruin the experience.  They would have been better off making 3 mini movies with different plots instead of one.

sorry but mostly a snoozefest i wanted to like it and was def in the mood for a good comedy and i like matthew but it just didnt come together for me and i really didnt care about these ppl. and never believed the Jina actress (i never heard of her b4) was a english doctor of fish or whhatever she was suppose to be. wasnt even amusing to me, just boring. i got up so many times to get a bite to eat and to type this as i was that un interested in this flick. guess it will go with the other 100 for sale in the used section.

Poor HD quality video Could not appreciate the whole movie due to HD quality resolution, I pay for HD and got less than regular DVD quality, very, very poor quality.

What the hell was that?!?!? Director Zack Snyder has a keen sense of visual style. His films are a visual feast for the eyes: 300, Watchmen. Sucker Punch is no different, but for me, where it has a lot of style, it is missing substance.  Browning plays Baby Doll, a young girl institutionalized by her abusive stepfather. She dreams an alternate reality in which she is in a dance hall/whorehouse, and devises a plan of escape. What makes it more crazy, is she creates another alternate reality, within the alternate reality. Whenever she is supposed to be dancing, she's actually fighting alongside her fellow inmates against hordes of demon Nazis searching for the things she needs to escape.  I can see how writers Snyder and Steve Shibuya are trying to make something out of all of this, how we sacrifice for those we love, but it's just an excuse for a creation of another fantasy world where all the sexy girls are dangerous assassins, carrying big guns and samurai swords. They kill demons, fight a dragon, and blow stuff up.  These action scenes are pretty cool, but as they exist as a coping mechanism of Baby Doll's incarceration in a mental institute, they are incidental and unnecessary. Just an excuse for action scenes.  Ultimately, Sucker Punch feels like two different movies jammed into one. But, unlike peanut butter and chocolate, they just don't go together.

A disappointment I can't for the life of me understand the almost 5 star rating for this DVD. I got about 20 minutes into this mess and stopped the movie. I like all the actors in it too. I guess it will make a good coaster. Sorry Coen Brothers.

Swing and a miss I will start out with the positive.  The movie does has a couple of laugh out loud moments.  That is about where the positives end.  What is odd is that this is a raunchy comedy that is actually trying to be a message movie.  We have 3 troubles kids, Jonah and a female friend.  For some reason the writer decided that by the end of the movie the main character needed to solve all of the problems for the 3 kids, his mother, his girlfriend and of course, himself.  Trust me, I did not rent this movie for some good lessons on life.

Not the worst, but far from the best Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer was created in his 1947 novel "I, the Jury" at the very peak of film noir and he went on to be featured in numerous films including "I, the Jury" (1953), "My Gun is Quick" (1957), and "The Girl Hunters" (1963). He was played by Biff Elliot (1953), Ralph Meeker (1955), Robert Bray (1957), and even Mickey Spillane (1963). The character is most associated with Stacey Keach who played him in film (1983, 2003) and on TV (1984-7), although personally I prefer Darren McGavin's interpretation (1957-8).  Unlike his fellow literary gum shoes Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, Hammer tends to be more pragmatic and brutal, and the film is true to the novel in that respect, as it is with Hammer's secretary being more than a pretty face. But the story has been updated for the 40s to the 80s, and given a slick James Bond type opening, and I'm not sure this works as well.  Tough guy Armand Assante (1949) plays Mike Hammer. New York born Assante is best known for his gangster roles in films like "Hoffa" (1992), "Chicago Overcoat" (2007), and "American Gangster" (2007). He was nominated for a Golden Globe 4 times and won an Emmy for "Gotti" (1966). Unfortunately he mumbles so much in this film it's really hard to understand him.  Sexy Barbara Carrera (1945) plays the femme fatale. She is best known for her role as Fatima Blush in "Never Say Never Again" (1983) for which she received her second Golden Globe nomination. The film has Carrera in full frontal nudity, as well as lots of soft porn elements which may offend some people.  Lovely Laurene Landon (1957) plays Velda, Hammer's loyal secretary. She's probably best known for her role as a female wrestler in "All the Marbles" (1981) and the stewardess in "Airplane II" (1982).  Paul Sorvino (1939) plays Hammer's detective friend. Sorvino is best known for his recurring role on "Law and Order" (1991-2) and as the mob boss from "Goodfellas" (1990). He always gives good performances - I like him best as Henry Kissinger in "Nixon" (1995).  Comedian Alan King (1927-2004) has a small part even though he is billed third.  The film is directed by Richard Heffron (1930-2007) who is best known for "Futureworld" (1976) although he worked primarily in TV ("The Bold Ones", "Banacek", "The Rockford Files"). This was his last film.  The NY Times liked the "spectacular chases and ingenious gore" and said Assante's "charming half-sneer and easy registering of delight and pain are almost irresistible."  The top grossing films in 1982 were "E.T", "Tootsie", "An Officer and a Gentleman", "First Blood", and "Rocky 3". Oscar winners were "Ghandi" (Picture, Actor, Director), "Sophie's Choice" (Actress), "An Officer and a Gentleman" (Supporting Actor), and "Tootsie" (Supporting Actress). Other notable releases were "My Favorite Year", "Personal Best", "Fast Times at Ridgmont High", "Victor/Victoria", and "The Verdict".  The plot is kind of crazy, with sex therapists, CIA agents, sex fiend killers, mob bosses, corrupt police, and who knows what else. Since the sound is so poor, you can barely understand what's going on anyway, which is probably a plus.  Bottom line - not the worst Hammer film, but certainly far from the best.

deadsnow Aside from the gore ,and the zombies this b movie was very borning.during the whole movie, these college students are being attack from these german nazis zombies from ww2.And for what ,treasure that has been buried for 50 years and not even belong to the nazis.I wasted and 1 and 30 min.

Just wasn't good in my opinion. Overall just wasn't a good film to me. I watched this years ago, but couldn't remember much about it. I didn't find the acting to be very believable at all by either Wayans brother. There was a laugh here and there, but not enough to cover up the bad acting and raunchiness of the film. Double dutch scene was probably the funniest.Lol I though it was almost like making fun or a mockery of the "hood" life though. Just not a fan of films like this. Depending on your taste in movies you could either find this very hilarious or just a total joke. I won't say that it is the worst, but I definitely won't be adding it to my dvd collection.

Broken! Just received season 5. Opened up package and plastic casing smashed up. So buyer beware! You would think at the price they charge for each season they would at least spend an extra buck or two on protective casing. Well I guess I'll find out if DVD's are scratched once I start watching them!

P&eacute;sima edici&oacute;n compre el CD para que mi madre disfrutara de sus novelas favoritas. Cuando me comenta que la novela fue editada de tal forma que ella la entiende porque la vio pocos d&iacute;as atr&aacute;s. Y lo comprob&eacute; al ver los primeros minutos del CD, no pude seguir la historia por no conocerla.

Not sure what this was or who would like this I don't really get this movie.  If your ultimate goal in life is to have an epic party and have the cops show up in force only to have your party goers throw bottles of beer at the cops to make them go away then perhaps you will like this.  But this movie has absolutely, 100%, no redeeming value whatsoever.  I'm not sure why people think watching a party is any fun.  It sucks.  Anyone ever been to a cool party?  Really fun.  Anyone ever watched footage of a cool party?  Boring as hell.  What the intention was of this director is beyond me but based on the decent ratings this thing gets clearly the audience he was targeting got the message.  The scenes with the people getting the dog high were clearly unnecessary.  There are even scenes of people peeing in some dude's face.  WTF.  What excites and interests the current generation of kids is downright scary.

Pathetic attempts at humor, overall bad writing. I generally enjoy watching old movies, but this is not one of the good ones.  While Hitchcock managed a few decent movies, I think he was LARGELY overrated.  The story is thin, attempted humor is more annoying than funny (as is Peter Lorre), in general the writing is bad and the acting not so great. Our war spies end up getting credit for a job they couldn't/didn't even do - they were pathetic and so was the whole setup which makes the USA look foolish and incompetent. In fact, the more I think about this movie after watching it, the more I dislike it.  I cannot recommend this movie to anyone. Sorry.

Not Up to Par This special lacked the magic and charm of the others. Maybe because I didn't remember it or maybe I didn't remember it cause it wasn't very good. I love Rankin & Bass but the songs and story were kind of meh. I did think the color palette held up well.

Disappointing, especially given this movie's pedigree This review is for the movie itself, not for the actual DVD/Blu-ray packaging of the product.  When I heard that this movie was being released, I was excited.  So excited, that I actually avoided all reviews/previews/etc. so that when I saw it, on opening night no less, I could see it with my own eyes and not through the filter of other's opinions.  Well, lets start with the good; this movie has great production values. The cinematography, the special effects, the acting, all good. I really liked Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, and even Charlize Theron (whom I usually don't like) in this movie.  I also like Logan Marshall-Green as the boyfriend, as he struggles to make his parts in this script seem believable.  The problem is the script. This movie is flawed in basic character action and motivation. It looks really good, but it doesn't make sense.  It's kinda like a music video or a dream sequence. There's just no reason for the characters to act the way they do in the movie. All actions are done in a forced, very artificial way to advance a bone-headed plot. The geologist/mapping expert gets lost. Someone takes off their helmet just because there's oxygen in the atmosphere. A biologist is scared of a dead body, then tries to pet an obviously hostile space snake.  It's not just the human characters, either, there's no reason for the Engineers to do what they do in the movie. Still, the "monster" going around eating/impregnating/infecting people makes more sense than a woman not realizing she should get out of the way of a massive moving object about to squish her.  If you're looking for "hard-science" sci-fi, look elsewhere. Black goo as a evolution accelerant is really the least of the scientific problems with this movie. You've got corporate-owned light-speed vehicles in only a century? In real life, we can't even fund the space shuttle!  And then there are the subtle, overall themes of the movie. Yes, I've read the Dec. 31, "space-jesus" explanations of the movie; again, it's forced, and it still doesn't fit. And high-brow ideas don't make up for the deep flaws elsewhere.  Overall, there are just too many holes in this movie, and not just the kind left on purpose for a sequel, or even the parts cut out like the TED speech. This was a very expensive disappointment. This movie is worth renting for the acting and visual effects, perhaps worth buying on sale, but not worth buying or paying full price in the theaters.

Very disappointing movie "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest," is the third in a trilogy of movies based on the three  novels written by Swedish novelist Steig Larsson; the first two being "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" and "The Girl Who Played With Fire." All three novels, were written by Larsson before being shown to a publisher and were released after his death. As, of course, were the three movies.   Right off the bat, "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest," which was directed by Daniel Alfredson, is different from the first two movies, because in "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" the bisexual/hacker/punk-rock heroine (or anti-hero if you like) Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Repace) had a huge dragon tattoo on her back, and in "The Girl Who Played With Fire," Salander, does in fact, set her wicked father Alexander Zalachenko on fire, scaring him for life. But in the "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest," there is no hornet's nest, not did I hear any reference to a hornet's nest, or even a single hornet. I didn't read the novels, so there may have been a reference made to a hornet's nest there, which doesn't help, or explain the reason for the title of the movie, except that the producers must have felt the need to be true to the written trilogy.   So much for the nitpicking about the title. The movie is even more confusing.   "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" is by far the least  interesting and least exciting of the three movies.  In the first two movies, Lizbeth Salander is a piece-of-work, scheming, fighting and sometimes even torturing people. But in "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest," Salander spends the first half of the movie under arrest in a hospital bed, recovering from the injuries she received at the end of  "The Girl Who Played With Fire," caused by her father, who she finally managed to kill, and her half brother Ronald Niedermann, who looks like Ivan Drago from the "Rocky IV.  The thread that kept the first two movies flowing was the bond between Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist). Yet in "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest," the two don't even meet until the last five minutes of the movie.   The movie starts with Salander in the hospital, recuperating from her wounds, while a group of evil old men, led by a lying son-of-a-cockroach doctor, try to have her either jailed for the murder of her father, or committed to a mental institution for the rest of her life. While Salander wallows in bed, Blomkvist and his sister (who is Salander's lawyer) try to figure out a way to save Salander and put the cranky old men out of business, whatever that business may be, because it certainly isn't clear in the movie. Then there's Salander's trial, where she goes from wearing drab hospital garb, to donning a weird punk/rock leather costume, with her hair piled up in the middle of her head, looking like a female version of  Edward Scissorhands on steroids.   The only excitement in the entire movie is when Salander catches up with her menacing half- brother Niedermann. After escaping his death clutches in a warehouse, Salander somehow manages to acquire a nail gun, from thin air no less, and from behind, nail Niedermann's feet to the floor. This scene, which is supposed to be frightful, is actually funny, because Niedermann has an affliction where is his incapable of feeling pain. So instead of screaming, writhing and trying desperately to extricate his feet from the wooden floor, Niedermann looks  mildly quizzical and greatly confused, as he shuffles his feet slowly, and not too desperately. Salander then phones a biker gang, who have a score to settle  with Niedermann. They supposedly finish him off, which we don't actually see. That was very disappointing, because seeing Niedermann whacked would have added some excitement and finality to a very dull movie.   I gave "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" 5 out of 5 stars. And I gave "The Girl Who Played With Fire" 4 ½ out of five stars. The best I can do for "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" is a very weak 2 stars, and only because Noomi Repace is a riveting actress, who deserved a better screenplay than she was given in this thoroughly disappointing movie.

Overrated with a terrible story There's all the things the plot draws from: 1. "The Dark Knight Returns" (batman comic story) 2. "Knightfall" (batman comic story) 3. "No Man's Land" (batman comic story) 4. A mission impossible escape scene in the beginning, actually my favorite part of the movie 5. A James bond Goldfinger/Thunderball type "find and stop the nuke before it explodes" plot line 6. Some weird imaginary pit prison that seems like a leftover from inception. Here batman must have a vision quest to escape (it is supposed to be the worst prison on earth, maybe Nolan needs to watch some Oz if that's what he thinks) 7. Some half hearted attempts at an analogy between the villains and the Occupy wall street movement 8. A tie in to the first Nolan batman movies villain, who to be honest I didn't remember much about 9. I think there's also a kitchen sink in there somewhere  Of course, trying all of this together is impossible, so we have some really dumb stuff like Joseph Gordon Levitt's character finding out who batman his just by shaking his hand when he was a kid, the police all going into the sewer at once, Bruce not really caring that his fingerprints were stolen and are obviously going to be used against him, Bruce seemingly having wolverines healing powers, etc.  Because of the over abundance of material, nothing really gets the attention it deserve and the movie can't focus on anything. For instance, Bane had the potential to be a great villain, but nothing is really developed with him and in the end he's just a lackey and he has one of the most anti-climax defeats in movie history. As for Batman himself, Nolan seems so bored with him that we barely get to see him, and when we do he is so wimpy you want to go watch a brave and the bold episode.  There are good things in this movie, but don't go in expecting anything above the level of your typical summer blockbuster movie.

Embarrassingly Innaccurate Let me begin by saying that it would have been a real pleasure to be able to give this film a rating of either four or five stars. Unfortunately, I think it's important to give an honest review of this type of film which involves both military and aviation history as well as film making.    This is a military aviation history drama that makes extensive use of Computer Generated Imaging. CGI particularly lends itself to this genre due to the prohibitive costs involved in using actual equipment, either original or replicas, as well as the associated costs, insurance, safety hazards, etc. That said, CGI also allows the replication of actual incidents and events that would be extraordinarily dangerous to recreate.    Another factor with the cuurent technoligical development of CGI is that it still doesn't look "real". This is not a problem as long as the film makers are able to present as accurate a representation as they can of the look and feel of the events and actions, that they wish to present to a viewer who would be intersted in this type of film.    While the appearance of the Boeing B-17 (medium) bomber, the "Fortress" is very well done, in most of the scenes there is a minor innaccuracy in the takeoff film sequences. The film shows the fully loaded B-17 aircraft taking off with the speed, elegance and grace of a partially loaded fighter plane of that era. In reality, the word that best describes the takeoff of the fully loaded World War Two bomber is "Labored".    The depictions of the bomber stream when the bombers encounter Flak are well done. During their approach to target the bombers are attacked by enemy fighter aircraft and the film producers got the sound effcts wrong. The film depicts the sound of the bombers fifty caliber defensive fire against the fighters accurately but the attacking fire of the fighters is all wrong. The later model Messerschmitt (BF-109F) fighters shown, like all of the 109 fighters, were equipped with either fifteen or twenty millimeter cannon, one in each wing. These weapons had a slightly slower rate of fire combined with a much louder and distinctive report as each round was fired. The airmen who flew the bombers have always spoken of being able, by sound alone, to know when an enemy aircraft was firing its' armament. This type of innaccuracy could still be excused if the rest of the film was true to life in its representation.    The scene that is the real "Howler" occurs in that part of the film where the enemy gunfire flashes are shown. This scene also has an interception by Americam P-40 fighter aircraft of which more later. The scene shows the Luftwaffe aircraft using their smallest (7.62/.30 caliber) nose mounted machineguns to attack the bombers. Firstly, even if a german fighter pilot was literally able to attain 100% accuracy with these weapons, after firing all of his ammunition into a B-17 and having nothing left, the bomber would have proceeded onward as if nothing had happened. It would be like a single bee trying to drop an elephant. Secondly it was a not uncommon practice for Luftwaffe pilots to tell their ground crews not to put any ammunition in the nose guns as they were considered useless in aerial combat and the weight saving was a bigger positive for the overall performance of the fighter.    In the interception scene the B-17 bomber crew, under attack by five BF-109 fighters, call for help from any American fighters in the area. Help arrives in the form of two P-40 fighter aircraft which, in the film, shoot down three of the enemy aircraft and drive the other two off. The P-40 was one of the main fighter aircraft that the U.S. went to war with, having been designed and in production before the war. Due to USAAF guidelines, the P-40 operated at low altitude (below 12,000 feet); above which its performance, in all regards, rapidly fell off. As a consequence it was used either for ground attack, against bombers operating at low level or against other aircraft that had equal or inferior flight characteristics. A more important factor was the qualitative difference between the P-40 and the BF-109. The BF was superior in speed, rate of climb, ability to operate at higher altitudes and firepower. In this latter case the P-40, being equipped with six .50 caliber machineguns had to get in closer in order to be able to hit the enemy aircraft while the BF-109 could stand off and fire at greater ranges due to its cannon armament. The P-40 was equal to the BF-109 in dive and superior to it in turns. In the real life situation depicted in the film the P-40s would have attempted to draw off the BF fighters using a series of feints and mock attacks, assuming the American pilots had some experience and training. Unless American pilots flying P-40s  had an overwhelming advantage in numbers at favorable altitude they would not have tangled with the Messerschmitts. Why the film makers did not depict the use of the P-51B or even P-47 as American fighters, which would have been more accurate and believable for this scene, escapes me.    Overall this is a watchable film that suffers mostly from lack of research by the film makers.

Silent snore Just couldn't really get into this movie. It was slow and I found myself pretty bored. The effects were not very impressive and they seemed to want to just rely on the effects and gore more than the lame story. Lots of gross out moments, few actual scares.

Rather Disappointed First off, like the actors, love ireland, but the script was a terrible let down.  I really wanted to like this but ended up feeling like this film was trying to be comedic and serious without doing a sufficient job of either.  The two main characters are people with problems that prevent them from finding happiness.  This would would have been plenty to start with but the script ended up forcing slapstick moments on them that, truth be told, were not that funny.  There were glimpses of depth but never enough to support the full load of the story.  Anna (main female lead) has been with a man for four years and the most she can say about him is that he's a cardiologist (but she seems oblivious to the fact that the man has no actual heart himself).  No real reason why she has stuck with him for so long in a relationship that seems more a business merger than actual love.  The only reason I could see was her almost pathological need for predictability.  Declan, the male lead, has been soured in love which accounts for his surly attitude but rarely displays any open tenderness towards Anna.  There's more passion between them than between Anna and her cardiologist but I kept feeling that the two of them would have their work cut out for them to make a future together.  The "comedic" moments were just painful.  Had the writers spared that or even just reined them in a little it would have been better.  As it was all I felt was humiliation for the main characters.  I did like the ending in that both were taking a leap of faith towards each other.  But it wasn't enough to salvage all that had gone before.  If you want a romantic comedy set in Ireland, see <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000714BW">Matchmaker</a> with Jeanne Garafolo.  It does a much better job with the humor.

should have been sexy A film about a French brothel should be delicious, but this one was a horror movie. Certain excruciating images from the film have gotten stuck in my head. The advertising is somewhat misleading, because underlying the sexy outfits is complete negative judgement. Made me feel like I was covered in something slippery and sticky all the time. If that was the goal, then it worked well. Just depends on how you like your self-torture.

not worth to spend time for no story-lines. .. just a accumulation of erratic thought..not a good movie at all..funny how Travolta gets everything only at last moment..

Random, light on content, still enjoyable This documentary had the oddest organization. The narrative is made up of snippets of information/opinions woven together in a mostly  incoherent way. Pretty videos, though. Just wish the presentation had been given more thought and structure.

I Had Hopes I had so many hopes for this; I was among the first in line on opening day to see it in the theaters. And immediately afterward, I tried to convince myself that it was great. But there were some things about it (and it applies to a lot of other horror remakes) that gnawed at me and, after a while, I accepted that it wasn't anywhere as close to good as the original. It wasn't because of Jackie Earle Haley's performance as he gave a very interesting interpretation to the character Freddy. Here's why it fell apart:  It tried to be so different from the original that it even excluded all the charm that made the original so popular. In 1984, Nightmare was displayed, at least in part, as an imaginative fantasy with a daydream feel. The remake instead opts to displaying it as a damned established mythology right from the very start. The mythology is the main character. Freddy takes back seat to it. Telling "The Story" is the main point to the remake and thus they make it boring. In the original, the story is incidental and is only revealed in enough an extent as to keep you held to the screen until the next kill/confrontation scene. This is also why the Halloween remakes sucked.  The original movies weren't held back by the pretentiousness of having to Tell It As A Story.  I know you Hollywood guys see remakes as the new big thing and there's no way to talk you out of it. But just remake the damn movies and leave the self-important mythologies at home.  In the original, Nancy pieces it together that the injuries Freddy inflicts on her in her dreams carries over to real life. So we see an actual linear, logical deduction take place during the course of the film. In this recent version, there is no gradual realization of the horrific circumstances. Quite literally in one scene, out of the blue, the nerd guy just says, "Stay awake! If Freddy kills you in your dreams you're dead for real!" We did not see him gradually learn how this could be true. How did he make such a logical leap from the few fragmented pieces of information we saw him discover?  It was lazy writing. Or perhaps they tried so hard to be different from the original that the logic suffered.  My only other gripe (as a fan of the original for all my life) is that they made the Nancy character a hollow, peripheral husk of the original. She was in a couple of scenes here and there at the beginning to establish her existence (as a moody emo kid no less), but she wasn't even the main character until halfway through the film. But then the film makers expect me to have an attachment for her as she gets caught up in the craziness of the last half. This is like anti-writing 101. I can only have an emotional attachment to characters I've been through good and bad times with, which for an average movie, requires she have more than two scenes before the halfway mark.  Despite the ostentatious attitude, and the handling (mishandling?) of the story and characters, the movie wasn't /terrible/. If you've never seen the original then it might serve as some good, mindless entertainment to pass the time on a boring evening. If you're a fan of the original, it might serve as some amusement to see how they handled things in this version--just don't jump into it with your hopes too high like I did.

Disappointing I was disappointed with this film. When I saw Liam Neeson starred in it I thought I couldn't go wrong but he really did not have a starring role. It had good special effects and alot of action but I just didn't think it was worth buying. I regret my purchase and I am a sci-fi/horror/war/action flick fan!

needs help from heaven I turned this turkey dark after an hour. I debated if I should finish it. but some videos get better. this one for example. the last half was sort of good... what was wrong?. the guy playing Jesus was inadequate. the musical numbers were like me singing in the shower. the fight scenes were worse that spaghetti westerns. from some reviews  I thought this movie would be an unknown gem in the ilk of REPO MAN or 6 string samurai..alas  it was not to be. this flick will be re gifted.

Worse than the first Ok, I am convinced sequels can't outdo the originals.  This tried to tie the 2 movies together and did an ok job with the plot.  But how far can you go with a storyline of 'ghost whom you never see, terrorizes family'.  Take that and see what you come up with.  I think the Blair Witch Project was scarier.  Pretty lame things went on, it seemed rushed, and like it was grasping for something scarier than the original that it couldn't get a hold of.  Save your time and skip it cause it sucked.

Disconnected I think I'm one of the few people who didn't care for this movie who didn't mind that it was a tad slow. What bothered me was that, according to the director, the movie was supposed to relate that depressives deal with disaster in a different way than those without depression.  It was very surprising to me, then, when an hour and a half of this movie did not deal even in the slightest with a sense of impending doom. Even when Melancholia comes to the forefront of the film, it still takes awhile before it is revealed to the characters that the planet will hit Earth. In the end, one gets about 20 minutes of the characters reacting to what will be the end of the world. It makes the wedding, the depression, and the dysfunction all seem unimportant. The whole purpose of the film was contained in the last twenty minutes. It was awfully rushed, and you had the feeling watching it that the director had a vision for the movie, wanted to set up an elaborate backdrop for the real plot, and then realized he had too much background and near none of the meaning the movie was to bring.  I simply cannot understand how this movie was about how people deal with tragedy or disaster. If it really was, I can't understand why the first hour of the movie was necessary.  All in all, this movie was disconnected. I felt like the director was caught in multiple minds about what the film was supposed to be about, and it made for a poor movie.

Little Orphan Esther... Sometimes a film will impress the heck out of me upon a first viewing, but then when I view it again later, it seems to fall flat and I find myself questioning what ever made me like it in the first place.  I just rewatched this last night, and I must say that I am so surprised that I ever liked it. Ok, sure, it is well acted, well lit, and well shot, but the story is so preposterous it isn't even funny. Plus, it's edited very poorly, and has an entirely wrong feel for the story that is being told here.  Yes, everything good about it, like the good lighting, color schemes, acting, etc etc, all work against the mere simplistic evil child storyline here. And nothing is ever really established as to any of the main character's motives. Yes, it shows that the mother suffered a miscarriage (in the over the top gory opening scene), but that doesn't really explain to me why they would want to adopt a child (who is almost fully grown, mind you), when they already have children. ?  I could understand if they were childless, but they already have two children. Plus, if they really wanted another child, why not adopt a newborn baby? ? Anyways, enough about that lapse in logic.  And, as for things not ever been really clearly established, well, that also goes for a lot of other scenes in the film. Namely, it is never explained (or fully explored) why the children react the way they do around Esther at school. Plus, the early scenes of little orphan Esther at school had me rooting for her, because it was the other children that came across as the bad seeds, and she was just some innocent outsider. And the whole scene in the playground, I found myself way too distracted wondering why the little girl was so afraid of the orphan girl, that it robbed the film of any form of suspense that it was trying to build in the moment.  And the entire "bad seed" plot is kind of well forgotten by the third act, because the tone of the entire picture has shifted so dramatically that it in no way no longer really resembles what it was when it started. Plus, this was such a confused story. I don't mean confusing, but confused, in that it didn't really know what it wanted to be: Was it a thriller, or a horror movie, or was it an erotic thriller that happened to have the "good child is really evil" subplot? (Oh, yes, did I mention that this had way too many over-the-top erotic scenes in it that served absolutely no purpose what-so-ever.)  And the entire thing was so way way way over the top it isn't even funny. Ok, well, maybe it is, but not in the way the filmmaker would want it to be. I found myself laughing at the movie so many times I lost count. And I was laughing at them, not with them!  Everything is handled in such a heavy handed way, it robs the film of any genuine thrills it should have. There were some scenes that were shot so well, and so well lit, I could watch them over and over, if they were in another film. This may have been better serviced if maybe shot on a lower budget. ? But, as it is, there are way too many well crafted shots wasted on this kind of story.  And don't even get me started on the father in this. He is possibly the most irritatingly stupidest character in all horror film history. And especially when he actually broke down and cried in front of the orphan girl, LMAO, how pathetic was that! I wanted to kill him myself!  And that leads me to yet another problem I have with this movie (matter of fact, I had this problem the first time I saw it): The extremely over-the-top, gory, gruesome murder of his character. The way it was filmed made me feel like I was inside a snuff film, because it was just too gritty, and again, completely out of tone with the rest of the film.  Plus, I almost felt like by that time in the movie, no more characters really needed to be killed off. It was such a blatantly bad decision in plotting in my opinion. And, then, this leads me to the extremely bad, over the top (notice a theme here, lol) ending. Wow, could "Halloween's" ending be ripped off anymore??? You know, the thing that would not die, no matter what you do to it, you know, like, stab it, set it on fire, stab it some more, shoot it, drown it, stab it some more, and IT STILL KEEPS COMING BACK FOR MORE!  This is definitely a "shut your brain off at the start" kind of movie, and even kind of good for a first time viewing, if all you're out for is some kind of cheap, dumbed down quick thrill, but if you're like me, and like your movies to be a little bit more cerebral and challenging, then you may wanna skip this one. I sure wish I did! Thank you. :>)

Just Plain Awful! I was thinking about buying this and borrowed it from NETFLIX first. It is just awful!  I own Denise's Yoga Body Burn and I like it alot.  This is not really yoga at all!

So Disappointing Since there is so many great reviews already written, I will just give a brief suggestion.  I've read all the books at least three times each and never get bored and actually have discovered a new detail I missed before.  It's like a treasure.  I think why this movie, as well as the Half Blood Prince fail us is because the lack of important dialogue!  Seriously the beauty of the Harry Potter series is all the discussion between the characters that draw us in and make us a part of the story.  A small example in this movie of lost valueable script: In the book, when Harry is digging the grave for Doby, he is making the most important decision between Horcux or Hallows(hense the tittle of the book!)but in the movie there was no reference to it.  I saw the movie with my family, that have not read the book but are fans of the stories and movies, were absolutely lost when the movie shows Harry digging the grave and "He who must not be named" taking the wand from Dumbledore.  Couldn't the movie producers added a short conversation among Harry, Ron and Hermanie explaining that?  Really they added a bunch of other parts that are absolutely meaningless, like the dance scene.  Through the whole movie I had to constantly explained what was going on so the movie would make sense to everyone else.  It was so disappointing, and they too lost interest in watching the movie.  It's so simple.  All the last two movies really needed to make them as great as the first three was more dialogue!  I'm not even sure we're going to bother to go to the theatre for the final film.  We'll just wait for in it to go on DVD.  I'm tired of the emptiness in the films when the books give so much more.

What?!? I can not believe some of the positive reviews on this site like the one below. This transfer is INEXCUSABLE for Blu-Ray. This fantastic movie deserved to be properly remastered. The sound was hallow and tinny. The picture quality was poor, appearing quite grainy. People can refer to that as a "look" or a "style" all they like, it is an excuse for a completely botched, poor transfer.

Very Grime. Depressing. The basic plot is about a contagion that quickly spreads and kills, while the medical community races to stop it and create a vaccine. Unlike in the movie Outbreak, Contagion has no needed moments of comic relief. No smiles. No bits of humor. It is grim and depressing throughout. Though that's how things would be in real life should a pandemic breakout out, it provides agonizing entertainment. Despite the many stars, including an appearance by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, I didn't care about any of the characters.  Though I'm glad I only rented this DVD, I feel that I wasted my money anyway.

Not a good movie I did not enjoy the movie at all.  The plot was weak, it was slow to develop and I found myself watching my watch as much as the movie

His Bark Is Worse than His Bite This movie is set in a kind of reform school for wayward young women.  Of course, with all the pretty girls running around there must be a wolf, or in this case, werewolf, running around somewhere.  You know the drill.  The werewolf waits until someone is alone, but preferably with someone close by, but not close enough to save the victim, and then the werewolf attacks!  Pretty scary stuff, eh?  Well, this movie is not all that scary.  This movie is more like a soap opera with a cheesy werewolf in it.  We have some illicit making out by an older married guy with one of the reform school girls.  We have some mysterious comings and goings.  We have all sorts of strange things happening in this movie.  Then there is the mystery of who is in which grave?  For a while, I thought there was some hope for this movie.  When the werewolf attacked and we saw claws and blood, even though it was obvious that the skin was unbroken, I thought things might turn out to be interesting.  Then it turned out that the variation on a theme was not about werewolves so much as about who is in love and making out with whom, and who is not making out with anyone.  Then, there is the new teacher who killed someone, but the court acquitted him.  It seems like the killings did not start until he got there.  Strange, hmmm?  If you must have all the movies with werewolf in the title, you probably have to get this one.  The original title was "Lycanthropus," so you know you are dealing with a bona fide werewolf movie as opposed to something with Lassie or Cujo in it.  Another title for this movie is "Ghoul in a Girl's Dormitory," but there are no ghouls in this movie, so I have no idea where the ghoul enters.  Of course, there is the mystery regarding who is in which grave and that is somewhat ghoulish.  Random thought here, ever thought how much ghoulish is like goulash?  No?  Never mind then.  I find it difficult to recommend this movie when there are many really good werewolf movies around.  "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" is better.  So are "An American Werewolf in London," "Wolf," the original werewolf with Lon Chaney, Jr., and "The Howling."  I even liked "Cursed" better than this movie, and that movie gets a bunch of negative reviews.  So, if you buy this movie and wonder why you did, just remember what I said about the movie.  Good luck!  Arooooooooo...

What happened? I really, really wanted to like this movie. It's got so much going for it. Awesome concept, awesome source material, high-budget, experienced director/writer, and a stellar supporting cast. But it all gets derailed when it betrays its core foundations.  The acting is below average. The villain sucks (Wes Bentley, that means you). The villain's lackeys suck. The fights have their punches pulled. There's no edge. There's too many jokes that don't work. Sam Elliot's role couldn't be more cliche if it tried. It's predictable, and worse: it's derivative. The final sequence is a complete rip-off of the original Blade film, complete with spirits ramming themselves into the main villain's body so that they will grant him more power. It literally plays out almost the same way - but it's far from the previous standard thanks to Wes Bentley's cardboard acting.  Two stars for Nicolas Cage and the great effects (seeing the Ghost Rider ride down the side of a building is spectacular). Could've been great cult-classic material. Instead, it comes across as a mainstream sellout that falls on its face.

Don't waste your time This was such a terrible movie. It was like a straight to video high school film with great special effects. So So acting with teen cheesy lines. I'm glad I didn't purchase this movie, I rented it from Netflix. lacking in Special features as well, only the standard "Deleted scenes and bloopers" reel. You would think with Blu-Ray disc being able to fit 50GBs of data that most movies would have a behind the scenes documentary. I will say this, if you are going to get it be sure to get the Blu-Ray because there is a huge difference, The animation was amazing. I will give the movie that.  I like this director D.J Curuso, he did Eagle Eye which was a great film. And Timothy Olyphant was good in this, not his best role but he stood out.  In short: Waste of time, but if you really want to see it rent it.

Drive is one movie that you can miss This could have been a really good Movie. The problem with it is that the main character is protrayed as a smart quick witted driver, fast on his feet thinker. That us , until we see his social skills. It almost like Rain Man, when he deals with people. The Soundtrack was good. there was good action but the movie falls short. Skip the rental , skip the movie. Perhaps the director will be better in a few more projects. I get the sense that Jeffory can act but it was not in the script. Some good actors have some bit parts but it just falls short of good , into almost there, might have been good catagory. Who needs to see movies like that - I vote skip it.

Not that great This dvd was listed under Blue Ray movies, it wasn't, it played very grainy on my new player..so I sent it back, haven't been reimbursed as yet..but I know I will

good movie bad bluray I received a Bluray player for Christmas and had a list of movies in mind for immediate purchase. I really like 2010 the movie and wanted to see it in closest quality to the original release. The blue ray remastering of this movie is one of the worst I have ever seen. Grainy, blurry. The extras shot on HD were often better quality than the movie converted from film. I watched this right after watching 2001 which is one of the best blurays I have ever seen... which made the movie look even worse.

Cheap thrills/gore with a Huge Budget! The Budget of this movie was $43 million according to IMDB (International movie data base) and that in my book is huge for an R-Rated movie especially a horror movie and what amazes me the most is that it made $186 million worldwide... how is that possible? This film wasn't even that good.... it is basically the biggest money maker worldwide in the Final Destination Series yet it In my opinion and I am sure I am not alone that this is the worst Final Destination of the series... but it was much better than Halloween II and I only say that movie because they both came out on the same day!  Plot: After a horrendous racing accident a group of survivors must fight death in an unoriginal and overdone story that lacks a lot of things..... Death after death the survivors soon realize that there is a pattern to the deaths according to where they were sitting the higher up you sat and survived the longer you would have to live!  Review: Boo.... I expected more from David R. Elis. Especially after his impressive "Snakes on a Plane" and this years decent creature feature "Shark Night 3D". The deaths were cool but looked completely fake especially the CGI blood that looks like it was made by a 9th grader while he was goofing off on a computer in a study hale for an hour!!! There is very few decent quality from this movie... the acting was okay.... the soundtrack was cool, and the death scenes were actually I have to say that I was only impressed by the creativity of a few death scenes the rest were unoriginal and stupid!  Acting: I only recognized Krista Allen ("Silent Venom" and "Feast".) She is a decent actor and the rest were as well but none of them really stuck out above the rest!  Gore: lots of fake blood and gore, people get crushed and burned several times, a rock has a rock blast through her eye, decapitations, and impalements, and lots more... I just wish it looked more real but I do believe this is the goriest/bloodiest out of them all!  Bottom Line: I don't know about this movie.... it was pretty bad but I didn't absolutely hate it.... it was a little under decent all in all.... but it was too unoriginal and cheesy that deducted a point right there!  Rated: "R" for strong violent/gruesome accidents, language and a scene of sexuality Is it worth the Buy on a scale of 1-10: 4 For the Movie itself on a scale of 1-5: 2

Merely decent If you are going to defy Hollywood conventions by not having a traditional cathartic resolution to the plot development - as was done in this film - that's great. That is something I welcome, even encourage. However, what you need to understand as a filmmaker is that if you choose to go down that path, then you need someting else to keep the viewer interested. Primarily, you need characters that you actually give a dang about. I, for one, realized fairly early in the film that I really couldn't care less about what happens to these neurotic, whiny, self-important privileged white people (and by white I also include the characters whose skin happened to be black, but for all they added to the cultural depth of the film they could just as well have been white, if you catch my drift). I figured however that, although the characters were uninteresting, I might at least be entertained by how the plot unfolds. And when that wound up not happening, I just felt hugely disappointed. Granted, there were some entertaining scenes with amusing dialogue, as well as plenty of scenes of tremendous visual beauty (I am mainly referring to the wedding footage). There was also plenty of great music, although they should have put a lot more of Robyn Hitchcock in there in my opinion. Those good things aren't, however, quite enough to make it a good movie. It wasn't terrible, it was decent and watchable. I would have expected a lot more of Jonathan Demme, though.

No Japanese audio on the Blu-Ray ?  What gives Disney? I very nearly tossed the disc, ala frisbee style after being unable to switch to Japanese audio.  Only French or American dubs on the Blu-Ray. And the American dub is NOT good.  There are a few good voice over roles, but the instant Ponyo starts talking, it's like nails on a chalkboard.  So I wanted to hear the original Japanese.  Hum...  So I checked the box, and it listed Japanese audio for the 2nd disc.  DVD.  Not Blu-Ray.  Hum...  So then I put that disc in.  And found that I could not switch automatically to the Japanese.  I had to go through several menus, then restart the film.  Then skip manually to the chapter I wanted.  Then the subtitles were off (knowing quite a bit of Japanese, this was obvious), so luckily I was able to put the correct subtitles on (instead of captions).  A one star rating is kind of harsh, but I balanced the rating out to two stars.  It really deserves one star because:  YOU CANNOT WATCH PONYO ON BLU-RAY WITH THE ORIGINAL JAPANESE AUDIO!!!!  So that makes getting the Blu-Ray version of Ponyo a huge mistake for purists or true foreign film aficionados.  The other reason that I gave a one star rating is that the film isn't good enough to warrant raising the star rating.  I would give the film 3 stars normally if not for the huge slap in the face to those of us wanting Blu-Ray quality with the lossless Japanese audio.  Being a huge fan of Miyazaki, I can see that perhaps his creativity began running in a different direction in the end.  This was his last directed film, and though it was a decent film, even the newer Ghibli film Arietty (written by Miyazaki but not directed by) was much better.  It's not a bad film, just Miyazaki's weakest link.  Compared to his other masterpieces: Nasuicaa, Totoro, Laputa (Castle in the Sky), Kiki's Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, and Howl's Moving Castle, one can safely say this film falls short compared to all of these.  It's a film about love and friendship, and it seems to start as a film against humanity's pollution of the seas.  But this never really pans out other than a few early shots.  It's the lack of depth that is the problem; the deeper and more complex stories are what raised the bar of his previous films.  In the end, Totoro is probably the most complex film with the subtle and hidden meanings which remind me of Spirit of the Beehive and Pan's Labrynth (and better than Pan's I think).  Kiki might have more in common with Ponyo than the other films do, but even Kiki has a little more to it, and more likable characters.  The animation was stunning.  I liked that Miyazaki wanted to go back to colorful, hand drawn animation with storybook looking backgrounds.  This was a huge plus.  But the positives can't outweigh the negatives.  Film - 3 stars Failing to include the lossless Japanese audio on the Blu-Ray - 1 star  If you want to see the Japanese audio, then save money and get the DVD only.  Sadly.

Not enough dinosaurs The description of the video is deceiving. This is more a plain documentary about the archeological discovery of dinosaurs with very little actual 3D animation of dinosaurs.  Kids will not enjoy this. This is really just a 2D documentary that happened to be shot in 3D.

something exaggerated This movies is ok. But just that! It is a comedy through exaggerated. The end is pretty much predictable. Good actor though...

A decent show, but nothing's accomplished. As a huge anime and fantasy fan I preordered this limited edition dvd set when I first heard about it.  The story is basically that a young inexperienced knight named Cecily Cambell comes into contact with a blacksmith named Luke Ainsworth.  After she is rescued by Luke from a psychotic swordsman, she begins to pester him to make a katana for her.  They quickly become occupied by fighting mysterious monsters that begin appearing, and from here the story really picks up.  Unfortunately it's dropped off a cliff by the ending. Cecily begins as a somewhat annoying character, it doesn't help that most of the jokes in the series focus on her breasts, but ultimately you do start to care for her.  Ultimately though she doesn't accomplish anything.  The ending seems like they were hoping to get a second season to continue, but they really should've focused on making the first one something that fans would want to come back to.  However, if you don't mind the fact that the series is really open ended, or that most of the humor is really sexist/perverted, then I'd recommend it.  If you have the option I'd recommend the limited edition for all the neat extras (the art booklet and artbox).

Pretty much what I expected In 1984, David Carradine starred in "The Warrior and the Sorceress."  He shouldn't have.  In the TV series "Kung Fu" we all had an appreciation for David Carradine.  It ended there, for those who have watched this movie.  You watch this movie because Maria Socas shows her upper self as the captive sorceress, because Cecilia Narova has two pair, and because Liliana Cameroni skinny dips.  Eva Adanaylo shares a little too, and that's as good as this movie is going to get.  David Carradine sword fights and generally elbows his way through 3 different armies single-handedly killing a hundred trained warrior swordsmen or so.  Luke Askew does a fair job of portraying an idiot tyrant Zeg, and Guillermo Marin is a perfect slob of a weenie tyrant Bal Caz who should have had Jim Henson help him with his lizard pet/familiar.  Anthony De Longis is the previously most feared (before David Carradine) swordsman captain of the guard, and the only part of this film women will enjoy.  The acting is worse than B-movie here, the special effects barely exist, and the fighting is as believable as when somebody says they owe you a favor, or they'll meet you halfway.  The film was made in Argentina and A.K.A. "Kain del planeta oscura."  I'm not necessarily looking for a documentary on owls, but this film needed more hooters.  Definitely not a family film, and probably isn't going to work well as a "date" film.  Surely David Carradine regrets being in this film.  Having said that, I'm going to watch it again; not for the action, but because of the scenery.

Low Budget Jungle Flick Greg Lambert (Robert Lowery) is missing.  Where did he go?  Jean Preston (Patricia Morison) is off to India to find him.  The trail soon leads to Africa, where the searchers encounter a male chauvinist and the Queen of the Amazons.  However, by the time you meet the Queen of the Amazons you will likely be either puzzled or annoyed that you watched this turkey.  The movie begins auspiciously.  I thought that this movie might be in an Indiana Jones vein.  We are soon distracted by stock footage of Indians riding elephants and doing various things, interspersed with Jean and her fellow travelers positioned against generic set walls.  The intensity is increased when someone hiding in the curtains murders an Indian girl about to reveal important information.  The Indian population is soon fighting, ostensibly because of the murder of the Indian girl, but who would know about the murder so soon?  The travelers escape to Africa, encountering a guide who dislikes women.  Jean, being a crack shot, impresses the guide, and everyone sets off into the bush.  Lions attack, locusts fly prodigiously, and then there are those mysterious Amazons.  Once we get to the Amazons, who seem more like hot, scantily clad babes that need rescued from bad white hunters (as opposed to the good white hunters), I was sorely disappointed.  There were only a few Amazons.  The Amazons looked out of place in the jungle and in Africa.  The Queen of the Amazons looked like a 1940s movie floozy, standing around waiting for the white hunters to duke it out.  Did I mention that the Queen of the Amazons wears makeup?  The local Avon sales representative provided the makeup, no doubt.  I think that having movies such as this one available is a good thing.  These movies give those seeking a certain genre or the movies of a certain actor the opportunity to see much more of their portfolio than was once possible.  However, I think this movie is sixty-one minutes of low-budget film that must have been matinee filler leading up to a main feature, because I think I would have been unhappy to have paid a nickel or a dime to see this when it was released in 1947.  Good Luck!

Disappointing What was once a great video game has been turned into a big money special effect movie.  Unfortunately the movie falls flat and gets boring fast. I'm into action movies, but it's got to have a good story too, which this does not.

too easy Too short too easy get something else: there is no way you get flat stomack by doing this every day

Almost, but not quite While the concept of Udo Kier as a horrific serial killer who chooses his victims to express his "art" sounds promising, the execution end up lacking. There is something about the notion of Udo Kier, at his age, being capable of running around, slashing and in this movie killing his way through his victims. I did like the main setup, of a group of relative strangers, stranded in a dark building, being hunted by a sadistic killer. Sadly, other issues derail what was a promising movie.  For starters, the script was obviously written by somebody who knew nothing about police procedures. Not many cops would choose to hole up in a building, with a killer, instead of using their superior firepower and numbers to either get to safety, or track him down and kill him. Instead, in the name of a generic horror movie, they chose to split up, the better to allow them to be picked off one by one. This is a case where suspension of disbelief becomes impossible after about the tenth stupid decision by the characters. While I can accept this to a certain extent, it became far too prevalent to ignore.  Dominique Swain was probably the one bright light to be had here as she gave yet another consistently solid performance, particularly for being in such a poorly scripted movie. David Carradine was so goofy and over-the-top, that the whole bumbling night security guard role he was portraying became a lesson in overacting. The rest of the cast ran the gamut from bad acting, to uninspired and I wasn't able to make a connection with any of them. Udo Kier is always creepy and can say anything in a chilling fashion, sadly in this case his dialogue was mostly drivel and his presence was anything but terrifying. He would be walking with his blade out in once scene, only to have to pull it from his pocket and re-open it in the next frame.  The movie had a run time of one hour and thirty-three minutes, which felt about 10-15 minutes too long. The pacing felt off and the ending was cheesy and fairly anti-climactic. To ask the audience to believe you could be thrown off a building and simply walk away? This was not a supernatural slasher film and it felt out of place within the confines of the movie that I watched. If you want to see this, give it a rental, but avoid the purchase.

Predictable as Obamas idiocy Nothing new. Not scary, not particularly well done. Almost not worth viewing. It isnt the worst movie I have ever seen but it is very, very forgetable. I do not recommend it to anyone.

Something Boring This Way Yawns Lots of people love this film, but I just couldn't get into it.  I have seen it twice now and I hate to say that I find it boring, although I watched it the first time thinking it would be great.  I liked the premise of it (two young boys, small town life, a mysterious and sinister carnival, etc) and I liked the look of it (the sets, the costumes, the atmosphere), but the film wasn't really scary (perhaps it is scary for children), the pacing was slow, slow, slow, and the presence of Jason Robards made me want to yawn. I know Robards was considered a big deal when he was alive and he has won awards, but he just bores me to tears in everything I've seen him in (three films, including this one), plus he looked old enough in this film to be Holloway's grandfather, not his father.  He never seems genuinely frightened in any of the scenes either.  For me, the best part of this film was Pam Grier as the Dust Witch.  I think I want to be her for Halloween.  I agree with the previous reviewer that she needed a bigger part.

Not really SciFi The only sci-fi element is an unexplained device that can shut down airplane motors in mid flight. It's somewhat entertaining from a late 30's, second-feature on a Tuesday night, type of movie. If it was a TV show today, it would be a second-tier dramady on Spike. The "classic sci-fi", "sci-fi", and "fantasy" tags should be removed. The "disaster films" tag should stay even though it doesn't fit the genre. I'm sure you'll know why once you've watched it. Enjoy.

dirty dancing i was disappointed ... i wanted widescreen presentation... i got full screen... very very angry of you.... the box said widescreen movie.. the best way to see any movie... i love this movie ..

Total Recall in Berlin I think a lot of reviewers missed it on this one - although it's based on a novel, the structure of the film, it's characters, situations, and actions, have been cobbled together into a poor remake of Total Recall.  I realized this as soon as his wife didn't recognize him after he left the hospital, then it was easy to see where everything would go from there.  I like Liam Neeson and he was adequate as was the rest of the cast, but the movie as a whole was a misfire.

Rent from redbox Stay away from purchasing this movie not like the first one. The first ghost rider was awesome in graphics and the sweet bike, in this one the rider was tight but the story line was a joke to make. They tired to hard to make more modern time and failed do not buy rent at the redbox for $1 a day.

Outdated. Viewed: 9/12 Rate: 4  9/12: Ironically, Quo Vadis means "Whither goest thou?" And that was what I was asking myself in terms of the film's direction. Before I was going to say that Quo Vadis is a rip-off from Ben-Hur, Quo Vadis wasn't because it was made eight years earlier. The Ten Commandments? Not for another five years. So, Quo Vadis was sort of the originator although there have been silent films. After the two were made, Quo Vadis had paled in comparison and been rendered as outdated. It truly is an outdated picture. The acting is quite awful, and the lines are corny. Of anyone, Robert Taylor's is the worst. The lines...my goodness. My favorite is when he says that he will sacrifice a "dozen of doves" to proclaim his love for Lygia. Yeah, Lygia is a looker...NOT. She's ugly, and there is no chemistry whatsoever between the two. Leo Genn's Petronius and his syncophant...all-around poor acting. On the other hand, the interior sets were very good. That's one of the fewest saving graces of Quo Vadis. The other one was Peter Ustinov. He was good but not that good enough for me to go crazy over his performance. I mean, he was the only reason why I survived the three hour borefest. Yet I thought that he could do so much better for a try to create a defining moment. There was one with the personal note, but that was a letdown. The final part where the Commander and Lygia were thrown in the ring at the Colosseum, after me seeing so many to die, it would be natural for them to die as well. But no, they miraculously survived and changed Rome for better. Pure Hollywood crap, not to forget its attempts to rewrite history. Hey, thanks, but no thanks. Finally, for the massive points deduction, Quo Vadis is largely a Christian propaganda. One can't have the girl unless he believes in God and Jesus Christ...zzzzzzzzzzzzz. People will let themselves to burn because God and Jesus Christ are worth dying for......zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. All in all, Quo Vadis is very outdated.

An hour of a girl screaming in the dark followed by 15 min of oh, thats neat I guess. Overall not that good. I say C-. "Who are you, why are you doing this to us?" After being left alone Sarah (Olsen) begins to hear strange noises in her house. Little by little things begin to get stranger and more terrifying to her. When she finds her father in a pool of blood she runs to find her uncle. After they find her father missing things get worse. This movie had a neat gimmick to me. One long continuous shot and filmed in real time. That sounded like a cool idea. But like most movies lately the idea's are much better then the actual thing. It may be because I am an older age then the movie is targeting but to me this movie was just one long boring scene after another. The movie is pretty much Sarah in the dark screaming. The twist at the end was pretty neat and made me like the movie a little more then I had been but still not enough to recommend it highly. Overall, a disappointing horror movie that again is geared toward the younger crowd. Not for me. I give it a C-.

It's Hollow, Man. They say everything's better with Bacon; however, in the case of "Hollow Man" that saying rings a bit, well, hollow. Kevin Bacon stars as an obsessed scientist on the verge of an earth-shattering breakthrough: it seems as though he has discovered the key to invisibility. After successfully turning himself invisible, he harasses and haunts his co-workers in their secluded underground lab. The crew, fed up with his shenanigans, seeks to find a cure but that only brings the monster out in him, turning things from bad to worse.  Director Paul Verhoeven's time-waster is heavy on special effects but light on characters and originality. Bacon chews the scenery as the arrogant scientist on the fritz, while co-stars Josh Brolin and Elisabeth Shue seem like they belong in a better film. Verhoeven does the best he can with an anemic script, but eventually the special effects take over and the film becomes a bloated b-flick with a budget. There are at least a few genuine thrills to be found, and the film carries such a mean-streak and perverted air about it that it at least never gets dull. Unfortunately, like many of the director's latter-day films, "Hollow Man" takes things a bit too far and the end result is a sloppy, botched experiment, much like Bacon's science project.  While there are certainly worse sci-fi flicks to be found, "Hollow Man" is an example of great potential failing to live up to expectations. In this film, you have a solid cast and a director who knows how to entertain within the science-fiction and action realms. There are redeeming qualities to be found, but they are few and far between. For lack of a better term, "Hollow Man" is pretty hollow.

Poor picture quality Picture quality leaves alot to be desired. My DVR recording from TCM was 100% better. Will research more before I buy older movies.

Going... going... nowhere "Winter's Bone" is about as dry as one. It's a plodding, poorly-paced movie that did nothing for me.  It earns a star for the performances, which seemed natural throughout, but the actors are portraying undefined characters. Few of them have known, clear motives and practically none have any back story, and it turns out to be the movie's main weakness. That mystery of the character's intentions, rather than intriguing me, made scenes confusing and disjointed. You learn very little about the other players, and by the end (well, probably 25 minutes from the end), I had stopped caring entirely.  It's not a thrilling thriller or a dramatic drama. There are moments in the movie that work, and I did end up feeling for Ree and her struggling family, but when it was over, this movie was wholly forgettable.

A silly, silly movie Imagine that a group of high school students are taking a science fiction class.  As a final project, they are told to write a story based on classic dystopian visions.  They come up with a pretty decent concept that's a mix of Fahreneit 451, Brave New World, 1984, and THX1138. Unfortunately, they top it off by infusing elements from their favorite movie, The Matrix; namely, ultra-cool fashion sense and highly stylized martial arts and gun play.  I'm a big fan of post-apocalyptic and dystopian movies, even when they're unbelievable and totally derivative, but the best of these are fundamentally cerebral exercises, intended to make the viewer think.  Equilibrium could have gone in that direction, but by focusing instead on extended and completely nonsensical action sequences, it just turned into a cheap ripoff of the Matrix and all the other cheap ripoffs of the Matrix.  It's silly enough to watching Keanu Reaves...eh, I mean Christian Bale, armed with only two pistols and a bad ass stare, take on several dozen guys with machine guns and full - but apparently only decorative - body armor, but when every inexplicably drops their guns and switches to swords, I just said "Give me a break here!".  Then there are the many mistakes, from a very wrong-sized Mona Lisa (hasn't *anyone* involved in this movie been to the Louvre?) to a pivotal plot error so glaring I immediately rewound to make sure I'd seen it correctly.  In the end, I gave it two stars because it is decent eye candy, and in spite of everything, Christian Bale is a good actor, so it's worth watching if it's free.

phantom + maury This is so awful it is family guy maury mash-up bad.  It starts with this whiny kid they have when did they sleep together ?  Wait isn't the year eighteen hundred women running around with guns and fornicating back then. I'm a huge "Phan" but my gosh this was a disgrace between all the little people dancing and the vocals were nearly dreadful what happened to the ballerinas?  It was supposed to be romantic and forbidden love but it turned it into a Jerry springer episode. The only thing that made this movie worth it was the song "beautiful" and the cinematography was pretty. This was like a bad comedy almost like a spoof.  The bathing beauty  skit really ? turn it off somewhere around there. I bet Gaston leroux is flipping in his grave you know that guy who actually wrote the real  book version ? Save your money and re-watch the first one.

1 GOOD 2 GREAT 3 NOT SO MUCH I think after seeing all 3 Paranormals this one was a let down... big let down.  What happened?  Who dropped the ball?  I thought the second one was the best and should have stopped while they were ahead.

not what I thought I thought this was new material from the upcoming series or something to do with the movie. But, this is a collection of previous cartoon appearances. Was I decieve into thinking this was new material by the advertisement? Or was I overeager to get the newest DC comics cartoon?

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 My husband and I thought this was very boring, compared to the other video's. Obviously a very good PR campaign. Now we have to buy the Part 2 so we can see what happens, hopefully it won't be as boring. Sad to end the series this way.

LOST BUT NICE RACK Lost in the beginning, lost in the middle, figured it out in the end, But what saves the movie is the pretty women with the nice rack! lol

Mad Mel occasionally entertains as he takes down implausible corporate & govt villains *** This review may contain spoilers ***  Rating 2.5 out of 5  After eight years of not appearing in pictures, Mad Mel finally returned in this remake based on a 1985 BBC television series. It appeared to be a good vehicle to restore his public image which Mad Mel did great damage to after getting arrested for a DWI and spouting anti-Semitic epithets while inebriated. The setting is now Boston instead of London. Mad Mel plays Thomas Craven, a police detective who witnesses the murder of his daughter, Emma, on his front porch. At first, the authorities believe Craven was the intended target but Craven concludes otherwise.  Craven soon discovers that Emma was working for Northmoor, a private research and development facility, contracted by the US government but surreptitiously developing nuclear weapons made to look like Jihadist dirty bombs so they can't be traced. One wonders why Northmoor loses confidence after attempting to kill Emma by poisoning her with a radioactive substance and then awkwardly murders her in plain view in front of her father (why didn't they kill her before she met up with him?) What's more, you would think that the first person a young woman who fears for her life would contact, is her father. After all he IS a police detective and given her level of fear, I hardly believe that their purported 'estrangement' would have moved her to accept a gun from her boyfriend for protection instead of calling on the one person she knows could really help her.  Speaking of the boyfriend, I also hardly believe that Northmoor would have accepted the results of that 'lie detector test' as they were quite aware that he was intimately involved with Emma and knew what was going on. Simply put, if they were such a nefarious group who had no scruples about killing Emma, they would have simply disposed of the boyfriend at the same time as they decided to dispose of Emma.  The plot picks up again when Craven visits Jack Bennett, played by Danny Huston who is utterly believable as Northmoor's menacing CEO. There's an exciting scene where Craven escapes from two Northmoor goons by breaking out a glass panel in a rest area bathroom but too much of Mad Mel when Craven cuts off Bennett in his limousine on the highway and almost shoots him with his gun, inside Bennett's vehicle.  As for the shady 'fixer', Jedburgh, I can't agree with many critics who found Ray Winstone to be compelling as an urbane assassin hired by the government to prevent Craven from finding out what happened to Emma or even kill him. First off, Winstone mumbles most of his lines and it's difficult understanding half of what he's saying. Worse is the fact that whenever he appears, he ends up having these long-winded conversations with Craven, and slows the action down considerably. Finally, Winstone's character is not at all convincing. Supposedly an amoral character, he somehow acquires a conscience and gives Craven a free pass. Oh yes, he's also suffering from a terminal illness and I suppose that's the other reason he 'softens up' and eventually turns against his employers.  Craven obtains more information about one of Emma's contacts from one of her friends. They meet in a secluded spot inside his car but when she ends the meeting, somehow a Northmoor employee has secret psychic powers, as he's aware of the exact moment when she steps out of the car, so he can run her down (the car would have had to be parked right next to and a little behind Craven's car since we never hear the sound of the motor running as he hits her!).  Perhaps the most ludicrous scene in the movie (even more ludicrous when Mad Mel does the bad guys in at the end) is when he's set up by his police pal and is captured by the Northmoor goons. Why don't they just kill him on the spot? Instead, Craven (or should I say 'Mad Mel') uses super strength to rip apart a gurney that he is handcuffed to and then easily escapes from the maximum security facility! We're led to believe that Craven ends up poisoned by drinking milk tainted with a radioactive substance (just as was done to his daughter). This despite the fact he had a mini-Geiger counter (found in his daughter's effects) at his ready to check any of the food or drinks in his refrigerator. Somehow, it doesn't occur to the clever detective that Northmoor could have easily broken into his home and poisoned any aspect of his food supply.  Mad Mel is most dramatically compelling when he picks on the unprincipled 'ordinary citizen' who betrays the victims here for a few 'pieces of silver'. It doesn't matter whether they work for the sleazy Northmoor Corporation or the government--Mad Mel pummels both Sanderson (the attorney) and Robinson (Northmoor employee) with his fists but chooses not to kill them (at one point, he states that his daughter wouldn't have approved!).  The Edge of Darkness denouement proves to be as implausible as a good deal of the rest of the film. Somehow, Craven (channeling Mad Mel), is easily able to gain access to Bennett's private residence, dispatches the two goons (one who killed his daughter) and kills Bennett with a shot to the throat (before dispatching Bennett, he forces him to drink the radioactive milk!). Jedburgh (also channeling Mad Mel), dispatches the government goons (including the sleazy Senator Pine, well played by Damian Young) by also shooting them.  Despite illegally taking revenge on the bad guys, Mad Mel joins his murdered daughter in heaven as he succumbs to his injuries. Craven aka Mad Mel aka Mad Mel the Saint, proves for the umpteenth time, that he's 'one of the good guys' and that God is definitely on his side! If you can ignore all the cardboard cutout bad guys plus Mad Mel's sermonizing, you may find all this somewhat entertaining.

DVD watcher I had enjoyed (the first "season") Witchblade when it originally aired. After rewatching on DVD, now I wonder why. It's very violent, there are way too many annoying "artsy" shots/cuts-edits & unnecessary strobe flashing (I don't know why directors think this is "cool", it's just very annoying! you can't see what's going on.) With all the fast cuts & unnecessary strobe flashing, I think it helped to accentuate the violence, & like most people (at the time it aired) I was probably just desensitized to the violence. And there's too much annoying music. Now I am sorry I bought it when I could have bought something else that was more enjoyable & entertaining. I will probably be donating this to my local thrift shop.

Trailer is better than the movie From the way the trailer set it out, it seemed that this was going to be an <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JMYI">Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Unrated Widescreen Edition)</a>-style send up of a martial arts school. This movie falls flat on its face, and honestly the trailer is better than the movie, and a better use of your time.

Warning: Needle is letterboxed Both movies are on one side of this DVD.  Gorky Park is anamorphic, meaning the picture expands to fill the screen on a flat panel TV.  However, Eye of the Needle is letterboxed, even though that is not indicated in amazon's description of this DVD.  Letterboxed movies play as a small rectangle in the center or the screen, which I find very unsatisfactory.  You can use the zoom feature on your TV, but that results in diminished picture quality.  Had I known the format of Needle, I never would have bought this disk.

Hot, not so hot. Really outdated.  We had a difficult time even getting this item to play.If you want this film, buy an updated edition

This Is Only Half a Movie and Not Much at That Jeremy Renner is brilliant. I can not say that for the rest of this film, however. This film is slow and methodical to the point that the viewer actually begins to lose interest. It finally picks up the pace and brings a lot of pieces together to what I imagined to be an explosive finale of drama and heroics and discovery of who is who in this complex film. But, that never happens. The film ends in in the middle of the story in my opinion, and the opinion of many others I spoke with.  This film had a good idea, but the filmmakers could not pull it off. Basically, this film lacks the narrative flow that it so desperately needed to entertain and draw the viewer in. Jeremy Renner gives an interesting performance., but he can't save this film alone. My expectations were much higher.

nice color footage..too bad the History Channel narrated it For the price of these documentaries,,,the color footage is definitely worth 5 stars.(if you pay under 7 dollars).The quality of the color footage is very very good..and not seen in other documentaries I have seen (I have seen most of the ones on Amazon).  HOWEVER....  the History Channel takes the footage and mixes it with its USUAL propaganda and more propaganda stories than talking obectively about WW2. and what happened in the war. so much of the time you will be watching a propaganda story and footage associated with it..and not hearing about the stages of the war.  nice if turn the sound down and just watch what there is interesting only.

First Look Pictures DVD First off I'd give 4 stars for the movie itself which is a fun & re-watchable movie but the First Look Pictures DVD is a 2 star at best.  The movie is in fullscreen which is pointless nowadays I think everyone would want widescreen and the picture quality isn't very sharp.  The title screen only offers 2 options "play movie" or "trailer" that's it no scene select!  In the end I'd probably try another release of the film.

Not Recommended I've purchased/used several yoga dvds and this is by far the worst. I would describe it as "pre-beginner." It's very slow-moving, with a lot of religious overtones. If you're a Christian, I suggest you pass on this. It's also over-priced.

Not quite another dreaded Hollywood "LAFF RIOT" The "Cedar Rapids" storyline was good enough to maintain interest, provided one ignored over-the-top performances and a tendency to drift towards being a dreaded Hollywood "LAFF RIOT".  Tim Lippe (played by Ed Helms) seemed miscast and was one of the worst offenders. With Sigourney Weaver as a prime example in "Snow Cake," many actors see being drunk, mad or under the influence of drugs as an excuse to depict all three types of behaviour, at the same time, and more of their own invention thrown in - without restraint. In short, "anything goes".  In this vein, Tim Lippe was able to wheel in predicably unrestrained impressions of being over-pious, tongue-tied, retarded, autistic, childlike, extraverted, introverted, chaste and sex-crazed as the whim took him.  I don't actually agree with criticisms elswhere that the  script was "lazy," (apart from its over-use of foul language)but I'd certainly criticise the movie's various sub-plots for being extremely lazy.  The themes of over "religious" people being hypocrites, prostitutes having hearts of gold, paragons of virtue being led astray and supposedly comic characters getting "high" are totally "Lazy" and have been absolutely done to death in low-grade comedy.  All this is a pity because, with a little more sophistication, the movie is mildly memorable and had potential to be much better.

Too Slow-Moving To Ever Let Interesting Plot Develop Being directed by the Master of Suspense, "Topaz" indeed contains an interesting plot.  The trouble, however, is that it moves at such a glacial pace that it requires a bit of effort to finish.  For a basic plot summary, "Topaz" is an espionage tale focusing on Andre Devereaux (Frederick Stafford), who (along with wife, child, Latin lover, and national government) finds himself in a mess of government secrets involving the Cubans, French, and Russians.  The actual espionage portions of this film are quite interesting and compelling.  Hitchcock keeps you guessing up until the very end, when he then throws twist after twist at you until the ultimate climax.  Though the overall plot is a bit slow to develop (like everything else in the movie), by the end you'll really want to see how things turn out.  The trouble, however, is that "Topaz" is far too slow-paced to generate any really momentum from plot point to plot point.  There is none of the usual witty Hitch-style humor or snappy dialogue in this one.  Instead, it bogs down in sappy romance and erstwhile character development.  Thus, I consider "Topaz" to be a weak Hitchcock film.  Though the overall kernel of story is interesting, it lacks the usual Hitch suspense & tension.  Unless you are a die-hard Hitchcockian, this one can easily be skipped.

Empty Eye Candy There are some creative writers who shouldn't direct. Though I like "Love Actually," the lengthy romantic comedy would have been much better with a director other than Richard Curtis. There are also some creative directors who shouldn't write. Visually dazzling as it may be, "Sucker Punch," for which director Zack Snyder himself wrote the original story, needs a better writer.  After the film's introduction that tells the back story of a young girl nicknamed "Baby Doll" (Emily Brown), we are ushered into the Lennox House, a mental asylum where Baby Doll is locked up by her abusive step-father and will have to undergo a lobotomy surgery. There, as a way to escape from the grim reality, Baby Doll creates a fantasy world of her own, where she and four other heroine (or "dancers") - Amber (Jamie Chung), Blondie (Vanessa Hudgens), Rocket (Jena Malone) and Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish) - will fight the WWI German zombie soldiers and dragons.  The screenplay by Zack Snyder and Steve Shibuya looks like a whimsical assortment of ideas they came up with brainstorming. It does not even try to explain why Baby Doll has to fight three giant samurai in Japanese temple. Scott Glenn shows up as The Wise Man, telling her to collect five items to be free, and that's all. Well, I really don't care these things as long as the film offers some creative and original ideas, which it fails to do.  Let's face it. For all nice costumes of the heroines, most things you see in the noisy CGI-heavy battles are derivative. The idea of Baby Doll fighting a giant samurai, which should be given more originality, soon becomes stale with unimaginative combat styles that you saw somewhere before. A bigger problem is that initial excitement fades soon because in the fantasy world (or the "real" world) there is no one to root for. The visual extravaganza is like watching someone playing the video game.  Clearly the players did a considerable amount of training for the stunt, and you can see that in their fight sequences. They deserve a much better film.

Very Mildly Amusing Three Oscar winners and one nominee are in a caper comedy "The Maiden Heist." Morgan Freeman, Christopher Walken and Willaim H. Macy are security guards in a Boston museum, who plan to steal and keep their beloved artworks to themselves when it is decided that most of the exhibits will be transferred to another museum in Denmark. Marcia Gay Harden plays Walken's wife, who suspect something strange is going on, when she finds $ 800 is missing in her cookie jar.  It is reported that the distributors of "The Maiden Heist" went bankrupt before its release, so probably its straight-to-DVD status is due to the financial trouble. Even so, I don't think the film could have been a success, critically or commercially, had it been released theatrically, because, for all the solid acting from the leads, inept and unimaginative "The Maiden Heist" is at best mildly amusing.  The opening "action" sequence is completely out of place. The heist plan itself is not very interesting, full of plot holes (cameo Breckin Meyer's painter making an exact duplicate of the painting in just five days? Without asking any questions?). But what is the most disappointing thing about "The Maiden Heist" is the lack of creativity and believable characters. With such iconic actors like Freeman and Walken, all the director Peter Hewitt ("Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey" "Thunderpants" "Garfield" "Zoom") does is let them deliver the lines and move on to the next scene.  With four seasoned players, "The Maiden Heist" is a missed opportunity for a much funnier crime comedy.

Bad ending to a possibly great film. [WARNING: spoilers to the movie in this review.]  It started with a great creepy build-up. The cast performances were exceptional, especially for a low budget movie, actually the performances were better than some big productions with mega budgets and "A" list actors. The girl was especially amazing in her "possession" portrayal and her general appearance fit the bill to a T, as far as I am concerned. The casting director deserves an award just for the impeccable choice in actors and their aesthetic appearance.  The whole thing follows the "mocumentary" formula with great effect. It is a tale about a preacher who has lost his faith until, of course, he encounters the real thing with this family of backwoods people.  Then movie fell apart when "the truth comes out" and it seems there's a "Satanic cult" behind the whole plot. Oy vey!! I mean what a cheap way to end this. Who gets scared by "Satanic cults" anymore, aside from hardcore Christians and Fox News? It seemed as if the writers were pressed by their producers and/or budget and had to "wrap-up" the movie in any way they could. And that they did, and it simply killed anything good the movie had. Toward the end, in the scene when the "documentary" crew goes to rescue the possessed girl from her father, the "Satanic symbols" on the walls are some of the worst in the history of the genre; one can even observe the creators did their occult homework when you see a "punk rock" anarchy sign, the old "666" and a cheesy upside-down pentacle -of course, and even some junior high school level geometry symbols trying to pass off as "occult" designs. It was laughable and pathetic. And then, obviously, everyone gets killed, so who knows how the "film" was found for our entertainment. Maybe Satanists are forgetful of such things.  This could have been a great low budget, even a classic film, like Night Of The Living Dead, or something akin, but unfortunately it ended abysmally, but not by "the devil" but by a bad last third of a script. I don't hate this movie, there are certainly worse, but as stated, the ending was so horribly done that all the atmosphere of the film was completely gone and I was left bereft of any of the "horror fun" movies like these are supposed to invoke.  I would like to see the actors in better films, they certainly deserve and earned it so.

Raunchy Raunchy slapstick juvenile improbable situations.  Interesting view of some who have become name stars.  Situations and language not suitable for youngsters or the easily shocked.  But funny for those who aren't.

Payback-The Director's Cut I purchased the movie Payback (The Director's Cut) for my husband.  He was very disappointed with this version because it was a lot different than the original Payback.  I guess neither of us realized that because it is "The Director's Cut" that it would have so many differences including the ending than the regular movie.  I think it would have been nice to have the options when starting the movie to choose which version you wanted to see.

Stick With the Book 1.  Some of the best scenes in the book are omitted from the film...why?  2.  Danny Glover acts like two old people screw.  It's just embarrassing to watch and you know you'll never be able to wipe it from your memory.  3.  Marky Mark is grossly miscast.  4.  See title of this review above.

Ornella Muti is not nude in Forbidden Passion I was disappointed in Forbidden Passion.  From the box cover, I expected to see a nude Ornella Muti.  She keeps her interesting bits covered or off camera during this film.  It is the story of a young girl hired as a secretary to her father's boss, becoming his mistress, and earning the family a better apartment and more money.

One of the best first 10 minutes of recent movies.. and.... then Ryan Reynolds showed up. The CG, music, and composition of the first 10 minutes of the movie had a build up that had me off my seats wanting to yell "woot".  Then intro Reynolds and I could help think that he's going to have to dig deeper to give us a compelling character in this (and his other) movies to make him memorable.

Tea: If I hadn't tasted the earlier version, I might think differently Overall, this movie missed the mark entirely for me in the story department, despite the incredible visual effects. Unfortunately, I saw Iron Man and I thought it was a great movie. It had a great story, excellent action, fun dialogue, etc.  So it set a pretty high standard for the franchise. Iron Man 2? Was a dud for me. The story follows Tony Stark, about six months after he confessed to being Iron Man (the end of Iron Man, the first movie). And he turns out to be a pretty arrogant cuss, thinking he's all that and a bag of chips. Enter the "Bad Russian" who is ready to take him on (for some hokey revenge issue about his dad). And of course there's a big final blow-out battle at the end. Obviously, visually, the movie is great. The acting is great. Mickey Rourke did an excellent job. But it gets a little hard to keep track of all the senseless and distracting subplots going on that do nothing really, for the story. The subplots they had going on in Iron Man, seem to have been dumped into the waste basket for the 2nd installment, which is confusing as all. It's a shame really. They poured a ton of money into this movie, and yet all those visual effects and great acting skills, do not a good script and story make. I would not buy this movie for my collection. Though I would buy the first movie.

Inappropriately and poorly Titled I realize by not giving a "glowing review" to any depiction of any human affliction is risky and will most likely invoke the emotional wrath of those that are emotionally caught up in the subject matter, the title and described subject matter for this documentary is poorly realized. While the actual subject matter of this Documentary is inspiring on an emotional level, the subject matter is poorly indicative of the subject title and falsely lures the prospective viewer.  This documentary, while emotionally charging, gave very little reflection of the "human-canine bond" and even less of a reflection, (other than very subjective, human inflections) of the view through a dog's eyes as the title implies. The reflection here is, from the people of Canine Assistants Training School.  This is not so much of a critique of their heart-felt intentions, which could be described as misguided, but more of a criticism of the title and implied subject matter.  Had the title and description been more reflective of the school and or the schools intent, this review wouldn't exist.  I so had hoped for a "Documentary that explores the human-canine bond" as the title and description would have one appreciate but ended up seeing reflections from the `Canine Assistants Training School' along with their subjective interpretations and emotional charging.

uh' oh...I smell Cheese!!! good movie. but low budget. should have been better. good plot. but tried to imitate tears of the sun but fell way short. love scene was unnessary. wait for movie to come out on FX or Spike Tv..imagine someone trying to imitate the soul singer James Brown on a youtube type program, and you will get what this movie reminds me of..... overall a good opportunity for a first time actor who may be trying to build their resume for future work. but thats' all...

disappointment by sending blu-ray to Australia should advise,that region A is not playable on australian blu-ray players, after ordering and receiving  few blue-ray disks,we discovered,that some of them recorded in region A(Rio,Girl,who played with fire),and could not be played

Lacks cohesion and direction, adds nothing to the ongoing debate. Despite the host being terribly boring, this is still a mildly interesting documentary, but only because it would be hard for this subject matter to not elicit one or two intriguing opinions.  However, there was no reason to talk to the "folk artist" about his broken tractor and alligators. Nor do I think the Christian wrestler or the drag racer serve any purpose other than showing some people apply their faith in strange and prosaic ways.  These kinds of interviews don't add to the discussion about the nature of existence; they are simply short biographies on people who believe things without giving any good reason to believe them.  If I made a documentary about global warming, I wouldn't include an interview of a farmer who just says, "I'm a farmer and global warming is true."  It's irrelevant.  In the same vein, filming your obviously-coached neighbor's 7th-grade daughter makes your film seem amateurish and cheesy.  Then there's the goofy man "Aha" who answers "Where do the voices in our head (like our conscience) come from"?  with: "From the place where the birds make their sound."  Aha is an unkempt, obese, "awakened being" who has several props like a crystal cane, an ankh cross, bead necklace and tarot cards. The filmmaker speaks briefly to scientists like Dawkins and Susskind and skeptic Dr. Shermer but most of the conversations are either with spiritual figures or complete laypersons who give one-liners and there's often no follow-up question to elaborate on what their platitudes mean. E.g., "Truth is what the Torah says."  Gee, that's profound.  My biggest criticism of film making in this style is that too often, directors try to cram in dozens of interviews instead of having a few good ones.  When someone says something like "Electrons don't really exist," the filmmaker should ask for deeper explanation.  Otherwise, it's like saying "Parthenogenesis is possible," and then moving on to another question. I think it's better to watch a debate online between, say, Hitchens and David Wolpe or Sam Harris and Deepak Chopra, because at least there is an opportunity to elaborate on claims with deeper explanation.  Overall, this documentary does not add anything original or particularly memorable to the conversation about the nature of existence. This filmmaker's final statement is something akin to "No one knows anything for sure about existence, but learning is fun and we should keep trying to figure out why we're all here."

Buyer Beware when purchasing  DVD's from Franklin Supermart Franklin Supermart (seller profile)Shirley Co,  in Alhambra,CANADA, make me so unhappy.  I ordered Shaun T, Insanity the Ulitmate Cardio Workout & Fitness DVD Program and some of the DVD's I couldn't play on my DVD player here in the United States because the disc said "Area Limitation". So now I have to resend those DVD's at my cost back to them (Shirly Co in Alhambra CA) to do whatever they need to do. When I emailed the seller (Franklin Supermart) and asked what the term "Area Limitation" meant, there was no explanation, instead I was told in the email to send the DVD's back to them. on my dime.

Not one of the better B films My attraction to this film was for the people involved in making it: Corman, Cameron and the actors.  The story itself is cheesy and the creature shown on the case cover is not in the film.  On the other hand, the scenery that makes up the world is nicely done.  But, now that I've watched it once, I don't care to see it again.

Read the Book Instead I read almost everything written by Ray Bradbury before I ever saw this...I wish I hadn't. My imagination and Bradbury's excellent descriptive style clashed entirely with this B-film version of his story!!! I made the mistake of sitting down with my children to watch this, telling them that they were in for a treat. I didn't argue with them when they begged to be released from the torture of watching more than 45 minutes of this. I gave the film away.

Bimbo movie:  Gorgeous looking with no brains The movie looks outstanding but that is not enough to sit through the movie when the story is awful.  There is a reason it did not make much money: the story is missing.

A Waste Of Time I'd heard mixed reviews on this movie, some saying it was excellent, others just the opposite. So I decided to give it a try.  The movie title says it all. This story is the female equivalent of the raunchy male bachelor party and the events leading up to it.  Now humor is very subjective, so keep that in mind as you read my short commentary.  The movie was very difficult to watch, not because it was gross--which it was--but because so much of it was flat-out boring. I found it torture to wade through some of these long boring scenes. I'd end up fast forwarding through them, but then I'd feel obligated to go back and plod through them.  That said, there were some funny parts that had me laughing, but they were too few and far between.

Basic This is a basic massage video.  You watch the couple give a basic massage.  Nothing you wouldn't already know how to do in the first place.

A Big Country Mess A couple of weeks before its opening, Shana Festa's Country Strong was gaining hype.  Gweneth Paltrow was making appearances on music awards shows left and right, and the film itself was being promoted as kind of a Country "All about Eve". Before viewing the film, I felt that this would be about the unbridled rivalry between an upcoming and fading star.  Now that I have seen Country Strong, I realize how unfitting that description is. Country Strong is not really a film about the dying and replacing of a star but rather the process (and self-pitying) that comes with ressurecting one. This could've been an interesting film about today's country music scene. But Alas we are stuck with a group of unlikable characters, a screenplay that is more interested in slogging through unneeded melodrama and back stage cliches, and a floundering mess of a film.  If I could describe this film in one word it would be aimless. This film literally had absolutly no idea where it was going. The majority of this film is spent in  1 repititious cycle. 1)Someone plays a song 2)Kelly gets upset 3)Kelly gets better 4)Goes to different town 5)Repeat! In between that we are given meaningless conversations, sparks between stars, and absolutly nothing insightful about life in the music business. I wasn't expecting Altman's "Nashville" but at least something a tad deeper then "who's going to fall in love with who" or "will Kelly triumph in the end". I will give this film credit for some good performances. The whole cast has singing talent, and some of these songs rise above CMT fare. My only problem with this is that the script doesn't do much to make us care about the singers behind the songs.  We want to like Kelly, Beau, James, and Chiles But this script doesn't know how to take them beyond one demension. Even in Kelly's most heartbreaking states, I could not feel sorry for her because this film refused to show us a side of her that wasn't selfish or shallow. The film doesn't want to go into detail about her alcohol abuse or rehab troubles, only wanting to skip to the heartwrenching scenes where Beau has to the tear the bottle away from her.  All of the other characters try just as hard to win our hearts, except for Tim McGraw; who oddly reminds me of a supervillian here (his Kyle McLaughlin hairstyle says it all), But all of this comes to no avail.  Throughout Country Strong I kept  hoping for interesting scenarios to happen, anything more interesting then this. Maybe James and Chiles could have an affair, or Beau could be pretending to swoon Kelly to raise his own stardom, or James ends up being a member of an evil conglomerate trying to hypnotize the world with country pop. Hell anything to break the long driven  road we've all been on before. Not to mention the meandering string of endless backstage scenes and trips to each cast member's hotel rooms. There are a few shining moments here: The Make a wish foundation scene and the 4 second train sequence, but they are only mere reminders of Country Strong's lost potential. It is not the film about fame it was probably meant to be, it is a film about a famous woman who can't do anything but pity herself and the people around her who can't do anything but pity her.  That is what I received from this film anyways, many others will have different opinions. All I know is that this film didn't give me any new insights on fame or the country music scene. Instead it made me realize just how many times a storyline can be re-hashed before its dead. I will give it 2 stars for some good music, Beau's cover of "Silver Wings" was a hit for me. But overall the film was a misfire, and far from the Country "All About Eve" this film could've been. Trust me if there's anything this film needed, it was a few Eve Harringtons.  Overall rating: 2/5  Pros: Sub-Par Acting, Some good songs. Cons: Cliches, Bad script, predictable, unlikeable characters, overall forgettable

Would Have Been A Better Action Movie Than Comedy If The Ending Wasn't So Terrible Synopsis:  The guys are at it again, as Stu (played by Ed Helms), Phil (Bradley Cooper), Alan (Zach Galifianakis), and Doug (Justin Bartha) go to Thailand to celebrate Stu's upcoming marriage to Lauren (Jamie Chung); who happens to be a far better person to him than his previous fiancee.  Though he's hated by Lauren's father's (Nirut Sirijanya), Stu is adored by her brother Teddy (Mason Lee), so he includes him in their partying plans in Bangkok (much to Alan's chagrin.)  Well, once again the boys party to hard, and once again they lose another member of the party (though it's not Doug this time, as he spends most of the movie hanging out at the resort being the boring married guy.)  The difference is that Leslie Chow (Ken Jeong) is now responsible for some of the trouble the boys are involved in and a chain-smoking monkey has engaged them on their travels.  The group goes through a bunch of ridiculous scenarios in an attempt to retrace their steps and to explain what occurred the night before and to find their missing comrade.  Will they get back to the wedding unscathed and intact?  Will Stu earn the respect of Lauren's father?  Will Alan ever grow up or will he always be a man-child?  While the first Hangover was laugh-out-loud funny, this one wasn't nearly as humorous.  However, the action sequences were far more intense than what you saw in the first film, so if you were watching this as you were any type of action movie, then it could have been very enjoyable.  However, the ending of the film killed any redeeming factor that the movie leading up to it would have offered.  When Stu told off his previous fiancee, it was one of the moments where everyone in the theater stood up and cheered him on.  Now when he stands up to Lauren's father at the end, the nonsense that comes out of his mouth (and the father's subsequent reaction) is actually less believable than everything else that occurred leading up to it (and believe me, their misadventures in this film were certainly more ridiculous than the first film.)  Part of a movie is wanting to see it again, not to kill 90 minutes of buildup with a weak climax during the last 10 minutes of the film.  I think I read somewhere that Todd Richards is going to hold off on a Hangover 3 movie and frankly, that's probably a solid plan if they want to inject the franchise with some fresh ideas.  If you were a massive fan of the first film, you can check this out for continuity purposes.  If you're expecting this to be above and beyond the first film, however, prepare to be disappointed.

OMG DONT  !!!!!!!!!!!! FIRST OFF I LOVE BROOKE HOGAN...BUT MY DAUGHTER IS IN LOVE WITH SHARK MOVIES SOO I WAS LIKE WE HAVE TO GET THIS FOR HER... SHE IS 5 AND EVEN SHE HATED IT .. I HAVE TO SAY THE BOOBS IN THIS MOVIE AND THE GRLS KISSING WAS A LIL TOO MUCH FOR MY KID BUT ALL IN ALL SHE LOVED THE SHARK BUT THAT WAS IT THE MOVIE IN SOME SCENES HAD CARTOONISH QUALITY. I LOVE THE FACT THAT BROOKE HOGAN LOOKS BORED THROUGH THE WHOLE MOVIE AND ALOT BITCHY..LOL.. IM GLAD SHE DIDNT DIE BUT PLEASE DONT LET YOUR KIDS WATCH THIS MOVIE OR EVEN YOURSELF... IT TOOK 2 HOURS OUT OF MY LIFE...

"A Modicum of Value" There is little to recommend in this film other than the "cuteness", effervescence and physical attractiveness of the adolescent female and her mother. Although the plot does have a modicum of redeeming value and entertainment value, they aren't really enough to warrant going out of one's way to view. 2-Stars is about right for this one.

Is this the face of modern cinema ? If you were ever groping for a reason to look back at older films (say pre 1979) , here's another excellent reason to abandon the slick ocean that is most mediocre (or less) modern film .

A pretty movie that's pretty empty Tron: Legacy is an empty film with no ideas, almost a retread of the original with updated graphics but much lower stakes.  It's almost an insult to the original film, which, while not a classic, at least brought up some heady subjects like the nature of reality and free will.  Tron never took itself too seriously, but it wasn't just playing around either.  It had a good mix of action, story, solid acting, and the cool visuals of what a 1980's computer network might look like.  Tron: Legacy makes some noises about being about something, but it's full of undeveloped ideas, a complete idiot plot, and, aside from the grid games in the beginning of the film, some pretty dull visuals.  The action stops for a good 2/3rds of the film while the characters explain, explain, and explain some more in an effort to make the plot make sense.  They fail.  Nothing that happens in the film makes any sense if you think about it for 5 minutes.  The only good parts of the film are the score, which really is outstanding, and the grid games that happen about 20 minutes into the movie.  Other than that, the film is 30 minutes too long, and the ending is hilariously absurd, essentially invalidating most of the ideas that came before.  It's such an empty movie.  The stakes are so low for a film that seems to think it's "about something", when really it seems like a cynical cash grab from Disney.  Save your money and your time.  Rent the original and play the Daft Punk Legacy score over it.

A Trip to the Hollywood Candy Store: All Parade and No Circus Although some writers can get away with this patched together pastiches of quick movie star turns, the combined committee writing of Katherine Fugate, Abby Korn, and Mark Silverstein can't, and even under the policing of good old reliable Garry Marshall  this movie is merely a showcase of some top movie star names to have a bit of fun before they dash off to a serious film.  If that doesn't bother the viewer then this movie will serve up a holiday treat.  ''More than a dozen Angelenos navigate Valentine's Day from early morning until midnight. Three couples awake together, but each relationship will sputter; are any worth saving? A grade-school boy wants flowers for his first true love; two high school seniors plan first-time sex at noon; a TV sports reporter gets the assignment to find romance in LA; a star quarterback contemplates his future; two strangers meet on a plane; grandparents, together for years, face a crisis; and, an "I Hate Valentine's Day" dinner beckons the lonely and the lied to. Can Cupid finish his work by midnight?'  That's the way the PR runs.  Not sufficient interest to merit watching?  The add the likes of Jessica Alba, Kathy Bates, Jessica Biel, Kara Monahan, Bradley Cooper, Eric Dane, Patrick Dempsey, Hector Elizondo, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Topher Grace, Anne Hathaway, Ashton Kutcher, Queen Latifah, Taylor Lautner, George Lopez, Shirley MacLaine, Emma Roberts, and Julia Roberts - among many other more minor actors  and voila!  A taste of what everyone is looking like these days!  It is bound to delight as many people as it is destined to bore others. Depends on your mood... Grady Harp, November 11

Did I hear her say she's a "professional belly dancer" ?? I really wanted to like this, but there's an elephant in the room and I just can't be silent any longer...professional belly dancer? The instructor may understand the mechanics of basic belly dance moves, and may be able to execute them technically, (and maybe even kind of explain them), but devoid of the spirit of belly dance: she is the most ungraceful belly dancer I have EVER seen. And Belly dance *is* grace. I nearly ejected it from the player when she was demonstrating a step with arm movement and her arms were just FLAPPING like a CHICKEN, literally. It was painful for me to watch. I gave it a chance, though. She seems friendly, sweet, and her heart is in the right place? But it didn't get better for me. In the end I  just don't want to learn anything from an instructor I'd be embarrassed to dance like.

Missing Ingredient: Tension After recently watching such classic Hitchcock films as "The 39 Steps" and "The Lady Vanishes", I had high hopes for this effort as well.  Unfortunately, the end product (while nicely polished) lack one key ingredient that would have automatically ratcheted it up a notch: tension.  For a basic plot summary, "Young and Innocent" sees a young man named Robert Tisdall (Derrick De Marney) wrongfully accused for the murder of a woman found on a beach.  While eluding the police through the England countryside on a mission to exonerate himself, Robert enlists the help of a young woman (Erica Burgoyne) who also believes in his cause.  From a cinematic point of view, this 1937 effort is very polished and slick.  If you were sitting in a theater at that time watching this movie unfold, you would more than likely have been entertained.  However, its key fault is that it lacks any sort of dramatic tension whatsoever.  For starters, there is never any doubt about Robert's innocence.  Just adding some ambiguity to his character would have added a lot to the overall plotline.  Plus, it doesn't help that the "chase" for Robert portrays the typically farcical cop who can't do anything right.  Never for a second do you believe that he will be caught.  Thus, while "Young and Innocent" isn't outrightly terrible, it is not one of Hitch's better endeavors.  Only in the final climactic scene do we get a glimpse of the master director at work.  Other than that, boredom seeps in through the cracks.

Get the book It pains me to disagree with most of the reviewers because I am a big fan of Diarmaid MacCulloch's books, "Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years" and "The Reformation." The DVD collection is little more than MacCulloch traveling to sites and chatting about what he sees. The videos seem rather low-budget and poorly edited. They are filled with meaningless contemporary scenes depicting people merely sitting or standing on the street with voiceover that has nothing to do with what is being shown. It seems like half of the episodes are taken up with this "filler" material. In the end, these videos are excellent narcotics. Staying awake until the end of any of them is a challenge. On the other hand, I strongly recommend MacCulloch's books. They will keep you up all night.

Too depressing for me. When this painfully slow moving film started out with a missing (later found dead) pet dog, I knew I had made a mistake by watching it.  It did not get any better that is for sure.  Told in, what was for me, a very confusing series of present day scenes interspersed with flash backs, this story of a couple falling in love and later learning the boring reality of every day life, just left me cold and sad.  I suppose it is about the bad guy from the other side of the tracks marrying the girl from a nice family.  Maybe it is supposed to show us how hard it is to keep a marriage happy and thriving.  I did feel sorry for Dean who seemed to be really trying to please his wife.  I don't know why she doesn't love him anymore, it really isn't clear in the film.  This is the sort of film that critics love and aficionados of modern independent films enjoy greatly.  I tend to watch a movie for escapism and fun.  I guess that the directing is creative and certainly the lighting creates an interesting mood.  But over all I found this confusing, boring and painful to watch.

Extremely disappointed The beginning of this movie had to much time trying to build the characters up. I almost got to the point of just turning it off. Even when the aliens started attacking I was still not into it. Finally the climax was getting closer and I really REALLY! enjoyed the last battle. But then the ending was to overdone as well. I feel like everyone was just trying too hard in this movie. After hearing all my friends tell me how good it was I'm very disappointed.

Beautiful and Colorful Scenes + Enthusiastic Artist + The Singing and Music can hardly be heard = Bad Music DVD I love Jimmy's personality. The video shows he's enjoying his life and singing. His happiness spreads to me from him while I'm watching this video. However, in terms of music, this DVD is bad because of 2 reasons. First, the music and singing are drowned out by the shouting of the audience. For example, I can hardly hear he sing and the music in the first song "Cheese burger in paradise". Ironically, I bought this DVD after listening to that song on a CD which was recorded in a studio, not in a live show. The main purpose that I bought this is to enjoy the music not just to watch the picture. Secondly, after the first two songs, I found most of them sound very much like each other. Consequently, I became bored.

Will Sampson movie? Found this when looking for his movies. Don't believe he was in this one! Never wanted to see this one when it came out, and don't think i'll be buying it!

Pretty with nothing else Just boring.  The only thing that kept me going was Cavill's abs.  The conversations were slow, and the relationships were just dull.

The GF made me, and that's the only reason I watched. My gf made me watch this because it was filmed in Alaska and she is from Alaska. That was about it to this movie. Hippie Drew Barrymore was pretty annoying, and the only part I enjoyed were the two Minnesota guys who made the de-icing machine.  Dont watch unless you must. This movie is really sappy.

A conceited television version exactly where it deserved to be. It's amazing how the mediocrity of this really comes out without John Barry's insidious music score.  Goldman's play easily satisfies as a medieval WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, but it lacks the punch of that masterpiece, instead going for a sitcom approach to satisfy a bland, bourgeois boxoffice.  On top of that, Close and Stewart play with all the expertise of TV actors, and that really hurts this version when you compare it to the hothouse histrionics of O'Toole and Hepburn in the 1968 movie (also much overrated). If it had to be, then maybe PBS could have given this a try.

Zero Chemistry There is no chemistry between the leads and the whole film is missing a spark.  Something is just missing.

Flat and Dated. I commend Kubrick for first bring Nabokov's novel to the screen. However, I have to recommend director Adrian Lyne's version, with Jeremy Irons, Melanie Griffith, and the controversial debut of  Dominique Swain as Lolita,  over Kubrick's. This version reminds me of a Leave it to Beaver episode, no pun intended. For me, it had neither the poetic passion of Nabokov's novel or the sense of nervous guilt that Jeremy Iron's so perfectly displays in Lyne's version. Irons was perfect for the part of Humbert Humbert, you get the sense that he was obsessed by a true love for Lo. Humbert Humbert may be an anti-hero of sorts, but many people misinterpret the theme of Nabokov's novel and I can't really say that Kubrick's version did it any justice. I found it flat and dated. Nevertheless, it is worth a watch. However, I think true conesuers of Nabokov's work will find Lyne's version to be no less faithful and far more empathetic to Nabokov's vision.

Blind Climb This is a nice story about a blind man who climbed Mount Everest. But, a better DVD of this climb is the documentary called, "Farther than the Eye can See". It is so much better to see the real thing. He and his dad are amazing people. Buy it.

Walken Best Thing In Ridiculous Film Christopher Walken is absolutely mesmerizing as Mr. Smith or Mr Jones or whatever they call his shadowy character.  His evil swaggering bad man falls in the category of characters you love to hate.  Too bad he doesn't have a decent movie to accomadate such an inspired turn.  The plot is ludicrous, far fetched, laughable, and just downright silly.  Think about it.  The murder plot at the center of the film is so far reaching and elaborate.  Why is it that they have to pull some poor schmuck off the street(Johnny Depp)and threaten to kill his daughter if he doesn't pull the trigger?  Couldn't they just do it themselves and leave nothing to chance?  Even Depp seems confused and his performance shows it.  The end credits pronounce this as a John Badham movie.  I guess calling this piffle a film is too elevated a term.

Had lots of potential This movie had all kinds of creative sci-fi ideas in it, and ultimately, that is what caused the movie to fail. There was just so many competing ideas mishmashed into there together - this weird vampire dream, pocket dimensional technology, viruses, etc etc. If a more coherent/unified story had been wrought, this movie would have been a lot more.

another disappointment Trying, slow moving, boring, takes forever to get anywhere... very disapponted in this one..  wish I'd saved my money.  I trend towards BBC and British fare...this one is not up to par.

Who's the target audience for this? Two stars may be a bit harsh for this workout. It's not awful, but it's slightly less than average. I can't see myself ever doing this dvd again. While it's not irredeemably awful, there are too many better options out there to waste time on this one. Hence, two stars.  I could not figure out who would benefit from this workout. While it's not difficult, it's probably too much for true beginners or those out of shape. The pacing is awkward, and modifications aren't given until a sequence is practically over. Anyone above that is going to be bored as the routines are nothing new (knee lift repeaters, anyone?). While I normally like Kathy, in this workout she's very annoying--lots of whoops and screams. She seems almost crazily cheerful, in a very off putting way.

surprisingly not good for such a good cast I did not like this movie. I love Rachel McAdams, she's stunning and a good actress. I think, that yes, though she was extra perky in this movie and constantly swiping at her bangs, she played her character well. I was disappointed with Diane Keaton and Harrison Ford. They are such great actors and their parts were reduced to sniveling and snapping counterparts (especially Ford). For the talent the two of them have, I was very disappointed, as Harrison Ford was one of the main reasons I watched this film. Also disappointing was the language. Good grief, this is PG-13? That and Rachel's character hopping into bed on her second date. In the movies, sex is always carefree and no strings attached. I was ready to stop watching, but I figured there just had to be a good ending, and I was correct. One of the few things I liked about this movie was the father/daughter relationship that emerges between Rachel and Harrison Ford and the ending was perfect, touching and even a tad humorous. Worth the time I put into the movie? No. But at least, the film wasn't completely a waste. Final verdict? Don't bother.

Quality of movie is beyond horrible! The item arrived on time with no problems.  I was so excited to open it and watch it with my kids but when the movie started the quality was so bad I wanted to turn it off about 30 seconds into it! Horrible, horrible, horrible! Its as if they held a video camera up to the tv set in 1980 and hit record! Not even wasting my time returning it for 10 bucks!

Mediocre Capra I just saw this movie because I am into watching Jean Harlow movies at the moment....her performance is OK in this film but nowhere close to the great acting she did in later MGM comedies.  The thing that really surprised me was when I realized I was watching a bad Frank Capra picture.....I did not know this guy made bad pictures, but this one is no It Happpened One Night, Mr Smith Goes To Washington, Mr Deeds Does To Town, etal.  In fact I was TOTALLY bored....I fast forwarded much of the rowdy party scene and was happy it ended is less that 90 minutes.  Not recommended.

Super Shark Is Dy-No-Mite! OK. First things first: I am giving this movie two stars solely for the presence of Jimmie "J.J." Walker as DJ Dynamite Stevens. More specifically I am giving it two stars for his impressive collection of hats, which range from a simple yellow fez, to a purple sombrero (which is paired nicely with Bootsy glasses,) to a simply sublime metallic green and gold metallic sack of some sort which makes him look more like a psychedelic bag of Jiffy Pop than anything. When you combine that with the fact that he says "Dy-no-mite" a lot, I couldn't face giving it a single star, which is what it otherwise richly deserves.  If you haven't seen many Fred Olen Ray movies, let me clue you in: they are filled with decorative bikinis (which is by far their best feature,) ludicrous special effects, terrible scripts, and lack of acting ability as a rule. This one does not disappoint if that is what you desire. Besides J.J., the only thing in the film worth watching is Rya Meyers as lifeguard Cali, the shy lifeguard in the one-piece who looks better than all the other women in the film combined, yet is inexplicably the one with self-confidence issues. The film starts with a rollicking theme song by R&B legend Harvey Scales (an extra of the hilarious music video is included) and a flashback device that utterly gives away the entire film. I don't understand that directorial choice, but believe me it's safe to stop watching there: you have seen the good part. I particularly liked the walking (and kicking) Army tank, and the associated CGI.  After the titles our time is split three ways: there's a deep sea oil rig that's pumping bad chemicals into the ocean and is subsequently devoured by a very large shark; there's a rogue government investigator on a mission of vengeance; and there's a bikini contest. Guess which one is most interesting? Surprisingly, it's not the bikini contest, because Cali didn't (deservedly) win, and there is much gratuitous footage of a very unappealingly endowed contestant. The investigator from the "Oceanic Investigation Bureau" is Dr. Kat Carmichael (Sarah Lieving,) a zealot who oversteps her bounds often and commits a felony repeatedly (impersonating a federal officer.) She is insufferably self-righteous and makes the movie's political statement clear when she says that sharks "are just like oil companies: mindless eating machines." After some painfully contrived backstory, she enlists the aid of "Skipper Chuck" (Tim Abell) a charter boat captain, to take her to where the oil rig was destroyed. She takes some water home in a thermos and presents it to oil company bad guy Roger Wade (John Schneider!) He is mesmerized with her ability to squeeze a lemon into the water and alter the reading on a pH strip toward the acidic end of the scale. She, of course knows this is due to the presence of potassium feldspar, which is actually an alkali mineral more commonly known as moonstone. She claims it is a chemical used in chemical weapons; it is of course actually used in a lot of cheap jewelry (and is the state gem of Florida.) In other words, scientific accuracy is not the strong point of the movie. Not that you were expecting it to be.  While a US Navy submarine is getting destroyed by the shark, Wade calls Kat "Catfish" in one of the worst lines of dialogue in film history. The nickname is repeated several times, and never gets better. Not that Kat deserves better: every line of dialogue she delivers is utterly wretched. If you think John Schneider's dialogue will improve with running time do not be fooled: he shortly gets to say "Oh, if only I had a moustache to twirl!" There is a bunch of even sillier science-babble about the shark being attracted to radio ("plasmotic signals," etc.) A senator is concerned that the beach stays open for the upcoming July fourth weekend ("the local economy depends on it!") in a subplot that seems familiar for some reason.... Arguing against that is the fact that the super shark now knows how to walk on land and fly. It defeats an F-16, and comes ashore to eat several people, including the unrightful winner of the bikini contest: "They say it came out of the water and walked on its fins"..."It ate the Queen of the Beach!" And her tiara! When it eats the F-16, Kat comments "It flies," to which Captain Jackson (Randy Mulkey, who is way older than most Army Captains) replies "That's bad." Yes, folks. That's what the dialogue is like.  We learn in rapid succession that the shark is a prehistoric beast that spent millions of years in suspended animation, and is a Department of Defense priority. Because it's so important they deploy the following to deter the beast: four soldiers, one F-16, a walking tank, and a boombox playing J.J. Walker's drivetime show, which is, it turns out, what really disturbs the shark. Ponder that for a second. After some terrible acting and some even worse special effects, the film comes to a moronic conclusion with John Schneider quoting Sarah Palin, making the laughable political moral that much more ridiculous.  The credits roll over the great "Super Shark" theme song, and it turns out that everybody gets a credit: Key Makeup was done by Dawn Subhasiriwatana, while Bikini Contestants included Kylee Nash and Harmony Blossum; the producers even extended a special than you to the Elks Club, Van Nuys, CA, in what turned out to be my favorite credit. My point here isn't that any of these people did anything wrong (in fact the makeup was actually quite good) but that when the credits are the most interesting part of the movie you know there is a problem. And there is. The movie reeks of chum. It has its moments of camp classic eye-rolling amusement, but it is not one of the better giant sea creature films from recent years.

The DVD Cover is More Interesting than the Movie There's really no other way to sum it up, Red Hook is easily one of the least interesting horror movies I've seen in years. It's a scavenger hunt gone wrong, with a predictable ending. The writers attempt to misdirect the audience halfway through the movie to lead up to a twist ending, but they try a little too hard, making the conclusion obvious.  The film's production quality is poor, and the directing is below average. The cast does a decent job, as most were relatively experienced television actors. I have no idea why the word "unrated" was thrown on the cover, as the kill scenes will only make the average horror fan yawn. The only reason I gave the film two stars instead of one was because I enjoyed the movie's score.  I thought it was painfully boring, and not paying for to watch online.

A Mediocre Maria muddles up this Turandot As the other reviewers have noted, this is a dazzling production of a brilliant musical score, but if your lead is not up to snuff, why bother. Much praise has been given to Maria G., the lead, but I found her singing mediocre and her pronunciation non-existent. The other soprano who sang 4 performances at the Metropolitan Opera House at the same time was Lise Lindstrom and she is magnificent as Turandot, vastly superior to Maria G. If you must get this production, you are better off buying the original one with Placido Domingo and Eva Marton. It may not be in HD, it may have a a few glitches here and there with the singing, but it is totally superior to this particular version. Sorry Maria G., learn how to enunciate.

Big on Special Effects, Little on Story This movie is like watching a 2 and half hour long video game with nothing but big giant robots fighting each other and thats about it, there really isn't a story there, the guy and megan fox are fighting mostly, you got stupid jokes with robots humping legs and bad acting. The special effects are cool to look at but I fell asleep 3 times during this movie. special effects are not everything, you need a good story like the first film which was so much better.

Defective DVDs Several episodes freeze in the DVD players of my computers and the one attached to my TV.  Am not returning the product because I paid only $17.99 and don't want to re-package and go to the post office for this amount of money.  Most of the episodes are OK, and worth to me what I paid, but will probably not take a chance on paying full price for more seasons because of the possibility of manufacturing defects.

Came up short The beginning was more of a slap stick comedy with Alan being more of an idiot than previously believed to be. Disappointing......

Nearly two hours of Fudderwacken Tim Burton really needs a high-profile failure or two to bring him back to earth and get him to engage strong again; sadly, this movie didn't do that. It's an interesting-looking mess, but it's completely a mess, even by the standards of an Alice movie.

Watching Stupor and Misery make Me Miserable. Don't Rent. I agree that Tilda is a good actress, but her constant shock and miserable expressions were not enough to hold this movie together. I didn't feel any sympathy for her character, which seems to be a necessary component to liking the film?  And I wasn't a fan of the costume design for her post-incident wardrobe.  If you are on the fence about renting, I say pass.

DVD WAS DAMAGED CAUSING VIDEO DISTORTION . I SENT A E=MAIL TO PROVIDER LETTING THEM KNOW THAT THE DVD WAS DAMAGED AS I SAID THE AUDIO WAS OK, BUT THE VIDEO WAS VERY NOISY ( SIGNAL TO NOISE) LOOKED LIKE WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT IN A BLACK AND WITH MOVIE VERY GRAINY IN PLACES THE VIDEO JUST WAS BAD. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME READING MY COMMENTS. REGARDS W.A.TALLEY

Be Careful When Ordering This DVD/Region Problem When the DVD was ordered it was not for usage in the United States. When ordered it did not say anything in the description about this DVD was unable to use in the USA. After being received the DVD did not work. It showed up as a region error. When the seller MOVIE MARS, was contacted they refused to give a full refund. They claimed that one should know about these things. It was pointed out by customer service from Movie Mars that only when clicked on the picture of the DVD a different region other than the USA appears.

For completists only Just like the manga, Fist of the North star's true ending comes with the resolution of the final conflict between Kenshiro and Raoh, and also just like the manga, what follows is mostly ill-advised filler. The story skips ahead by several years and finds Kenshiro's kid companions, Bat and Lin, grown-up and leading a band of revolutionaries against an oppressive empire. Just as things look their most dire, Ken returns and puts considerable foot to ass -- as one would certainly expect -- but the initial run's narrative thrust and key conflict is no longer to be had, so the remainder of the series is essentially a series of tired tropes -- long-lost twin relatives and retconned history for Kenshiro and his brothers, among others -- and it all just fizzles out after growing yawn-inducingly tiresome. The series didn't even bother to finish adapting the manga and the sad thing about that is that it's no great loss. Even the manga's co-creators have publicly stated that the stuff they came up with after the series'intended ending was so bad, they now consider the subsequent parts of the series to have never happened.  The episodes found in this set do offer a few elements that may be attractive to fans, particularly a greater explanation of the origins of Hokutu Shinken and the true family connections and origins of Ken (which were retconned yet further in the prequel manga, Fist of the Blue Sky, and some of the super-powered fights and new characters are interesting (the conflicted Falco being a standout), but the real narrative magic is gone and what remains is just a case of going through the motions. I say all of this as a hardcore Fist of the North Star fan who first watched it religiously when it originally aired on Japanese TV (obtained sans subtitles on VHS during the mid-1980's on a monthly basis from Japan, and then later via Chinese-issued DVD boxed sets of the full series), so I'm not posting this as a hater. If you enjoyed  what came before and don't want to have your opinion of it possibly colored by the mediocrity that followed, I suggest very strongly that you stick with the first three boxed sets and move on.

I Agree it's a waste of money, Honest to God being of the Woodstock generation I had Great expectactions from this releaase, and was very dissapointed with the resolution and the editing of this version. I was really loking for something that looked like the original theatrical release and this fell very short. Plus the contrast in part was just poor, and no it's not my set, I have never had this isssue before, except on vintage not HD films. I could not see anything about this being HD Nothing.

a bit disappointed but optimistic first - this review is simply on the unavailability (so far) of digital copy without having to buy the 3D disc along with it. sad marketing ploy if you ask me. we deserve the choice of getting a digital copy without being forced to buy a 3D disc we will never have a use for. im fine with the dvd + blu-ray combo though..i just know without a shadow of a doubt i will never purchase anything 3D related. im optimistic that they will put out another package option before release date hits...i hope.  second - it was only shown in 3D near me at theaters, so i wasnt able to go see it. sure i could have but I refuse to perpetuate 3D as a good thing, because its not. 1 in 4 people get sick, or get headaches when they watch a 3D movie. not to mention some people already have to wear glasses to watch movies, and dont want to wear another pair making the first uncomfortable. along with the other obvious problems such as increased PRICE because thats all 3D is: just another excuse to increase the price of something.

Not for Finn fans!  This is a sophomoric soap opera with Lapland thrown in... One always lives in hope, perusing DVD's for a good night's entertainment.  Both the title and book cover indicated a film focused on Lapland, specifically Finnish Lapland on the Arctic Circle, with an old Finnish tango song to introduce the film.  No, this film focuses on the selfish and broken families of modern Spain, where after some break-ups, a new family is formed where the "brother" and "sister" are the same age.  They fall in love with each other as children and become real lovers by their teenage years, right under their "parents" roof.  The film is trying to present a very strained version of Pan's Labyrinth, where people are walking around in pain and suffering and loneliness all on their own, hence making those around them also very sad and lonely.  The viewer is supposed to root for Otto and Anna,  young lovers/siblings, as true and loyal.  Naturally, things fall apart.  They each go their own way for years, cannot find each other, won't communicate through the old father or the new mother on the wearabouts of the lost lover.  Ultimately, in a fit of pique over a finished live-in relationship, the daughter Anna, now a teacher, decides to take off for Lapland in the summer (thank God!) to see the Land of the Midnight Sun.  It never sets on June 21st, imagine, and she dreams of reindeer for reasons unknown to any of us viewers.  The son Otto, knowing that his grandfather had been a German pilot in WWII, decides to become an airmail pilot and fly to Lapland on a regular basis.  Yes, they're both fixated from photos seen in a schoolbook years ago.  The film hops and skips all over, until finally the two are reunited in Lapland, only to find that ...well, there's been a terrible accident on the streets of Rovaniemi, capital of Finnish Lapland.  I found myself fast-forwarding constantly through long staring sessions of these characters, waiting for some kind of real plot or resolution, or at the least, something about Finland and Lapland.  What we see of Finland is an absolute minimum.  I had spent a long time in Lapland and wanted to see it again in film, but what does one see?  One street scene in Rovaniami, and one lake scene , and some trees along a road.  That's the Lapland they've dreamt of, and that's all, folks!  A DUD.

my girlfriend loves it my girlfriend bought this because she said it's one of the best shows on TV...I would have to disagree. It's boring,I don't remember laughing at all but maybe it's just not my type of show. it's just about a bunch of 40-50 year old people that drink wine n think they're funny.wasn't feeling it at all

how can this movie have 5 star review This movie is a 3 at best and i am being kind. Insane plot and horrible characters. If someone is breaking into your home while you are there several times a week and the police wont stop them i might consider ... I dont know maybe shooting him 50 or 60 times in the head. the only decent part was the plot twist at the very end.

Whatever Happened to Jane Eyre? For all of Mia Wasikowska's delightful acting, I was honestly expecting a great plot for this Jane Eyre. In the 1996 version, William Hurt and Charlotte Gainsborough gave stellar performances in a movie that stuck so close to the book it amazed me. Even in the 1997 Jane Eyre starring Samantha Morton and Ciaran Hinds there was more liveliness and passion between the hero and heroine.  This movie begins near the end of the story. And then it brings in enough flashbacks to leave the viewer confused. My daughter and I waited for action that never came: like the more dramatic scene in the 1996 version where Mr Rochester suddenly appears through the mist and his horse is 'bewitched' and throws him. There is no scene where Mr Rochester tells Blanche to her face that the lady is only after his money. Also, there was NO 'fire' scene whatsoever, only a droll tale of Mrs Fairfax's version of what happened...  Regrettably, even the ending left me to see that 'yes, the characters have reunited' but as we true Jane Eyre fans know, in the XXXVIII Chapter: Jane says: 'Reader, I married him. A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and clerk, were alone present...' Such a scene would have done wonders for this rather passionless movie...  Scenes dragged on so that I wished for a powerful ending that was never to be! For, wouldnt the viewer have wanted to know that in two years, our hero Mr Rochester regained some sight so that: 'When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes... On that occasion, he again, with a full heart, acknowledged that God had tempered judgment with mercy.'    Can YOU imagine this 2011 version having such an ending? Don't alot of us wish! In all honesty, as Jane would say, this is not the best Jane Eyre movie.

The Hangover: Part Deja Vu "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". That seems to have been the mentality of director Todd Phillips on set. The sequel for the surprise 2009 smash hit "The Hangover" was inevitable. How Phillips would tackle such a sequel, wasn't quite as clear. "The Hangover Part II" uses the same formula that brought the first film such success. The EXACT same formula. Here's the opening: It's wedding day, the bride is anxious, and an exasperated, beleaguered Bradley Cooper sputters from his cell phone: "We did it again". OOPS! This movie suffers from the "Sex and the City 2" conundrum, in which the screenwriters basically say, "Let's make the same exact movie.... somewhere else".  Part II takes place in Bangkok, as opposed to Las Vegas. Stu (Ed Helms) is getting married there, and he wants no issues, nothing that could even possibly recreate the horrifying events from the first "Hangover". All he wants is a "bachelor brunch" at ihop, but is eventually coerced into having just one beer down at the beach with the guys. Cue the timelapse, cut to the morning after, then to the emptying of the pockets, then to the ensuing hijinks. The biggest problem with "The Hangover Part II" is its inherent predictability. By following the same cookie-cutter formula, we as the audience aren't shocked by anything, no matter how much they try to raise the stakes (and they try constantly).  Everything is bigger, if not necessarily better, in "The Hangover Part II". Someone gets shot at one point, kidnappings and gun shootings are commonplace, drug deals, monkeys, transvestites, riots in the streets. They even have Stu strumming a guitar, singing a song about their absurd misfortunes, much like in the first Hangover! The first Hangover's charm was the insane but legitimate spontaneity of it all. We genuinely cared about what happened, how it happened, and where their friend Doug was. In this one, it's just distracting, and frankly embarrassing watching them go through the motions of the first film in a new city, as Ed Helms tries to contort his facial reactions in new, unique ways.  It probably sounds like I hate this movie, but that's not the case. I found myself laughing throughout, so it's definitely an effective film; the guy next to me certainly thought it was "way better" than the first one. "The Hangover Part II" will probably be very successful in the box office, but it will have no lasting imprint like the first one. Unfortunately, the project was doomed from the start; by following the same formula, they were setting themselves up for failure. I know I keep harping on the same point, but it's one that defines the whole movie. I truly would have liked to have seen these characters in a different scenario, but not the same scenario somewhere else! That's just absurd! "I can't believe this is happening again!" screams Stu at the top of his lungs. Neither can I Stu, neither can I.

Personal Option! Everythings Already Been Done, Only Reason I Gave It 2 Stars Is Because Wes Craven Did Write It, and They Used The Beverly Hills Cop Theme As Dewys Ring Tone. Buy It Used Its Only A Time Waster Compared To Scream 1, 2, and Even The Rediculas Part 3. Lame Ending.

This movie is an embarassment to the book Everyone in my family loves the "Polar Express" book, but when we saw the movie, we were just disappointed.  For one thing, they did the story all wrong.  The book never mentions some creepy hobo who rides the top of the train.  That character is just too scary for young kids and doesn't fit the story.  And one of the main themes mentioned is "seeing is believing."  That cynical message does not belong in a magical film like the Polar Express!  I also must say something of the animation.  When this film came out, everyone was excited because it had 3D animation!  Whoopdedoo!  Because 3D animation was so new, everyone was willing to overlook the fact that it made the kids in this movie look like martians.  Nothing looks realistic: the facial expressions, the way the wind doesn't ruffle their hair, the way their mouths move, e.t.c.  Besides all this, the songs are just ultra-cheese and made me laugh out loud, and the MC does stupid things like almost getting killed just to save a train ticket.  And was the nerdy, so-obnoxious-you-want-to-turn-off-the-movie character really necessary?  Maybe he was meant to add humor, but he's just annoying. All this being said, I really wanted to like this movie because I love the book.  And I'll admit, some of the scenes are pretty magical.  And who doesn't love a movie about Santa and Christmastown and Elves?  But this movie had too much stupid dialogue, cheesy songs, and lousy animation on the people characters to be enjoyable.  Along with the unwelcome of the creepy hobo and the nerdy kid (who has a voice like nails on a chalkboard) and a few not-so-relevant messages, this movie is one you can miss. I only gave it two stars because its entertaining and fun to mock.

No suprises. Was an ok attempt for a "Hey-lets-get-our-pals-and-make-a-zombie movie". Just wish that they didn't always have to just happen to have a garage band buddy to supply the soundtrack. Also, heads up, its a 20 min. short film. Hope they keep trying.

Why? I remember being disappointed when I bought this. I had even pre-ordered it and kept watching the release date. After the great Budokan and Score DVDs, this is truly embarrassing.  I tried watching it again today, but it's really painful. Even though you get lots of songs and original jams, most of the video footage looks atrocious, both quality-wise and the handling of the camera. The sound is not great either and Labrie sings very poorly, but at least you do hear Myung on this one. The presentation, menus and extras are all very nice, but the main feature keeps this package down. I really don't see the point of releasing such a DVD.  Also, I thought that the old idea of putting little pointless interviews between songs was over. It's truly annoying when you're trying to get into the music.

Uninspired and Forgetable I was hoping to introduce my nephew and his family to the VeggieTales series of movies and I selected this as the starting DVD to give them as a gift unpreviewed.  Unfortunately it seems this was the wrong place to start and there may have been better choices available.  First off, my nephew likes the music CD I gave him the prior year so it seemed like a good time to give what appeared to be a Christmas themed VeggieTales DVD as he is now around two and a half years old.  We all sat to watch this gift DVD and I could tell it wasn't being received well by anyone in the room including my nephew.  The adults were yawning, one actually fell asleep watching it, I tried to enjoy it as it was my gift, but found it hard to like this story as well as the jokes all fell flat and the story and characters were all hard to like.  My nephew kept asking to watch Mickey Mouse instead while this was on.  A clear disappointment and it will be hard to give any future gifts in this series after this poor introduction to the VeggieTales movies.  Avoid this one and go with the Rankin and Bass version which I found to be a much better Drummer Boy story told with a heart and better representation of the true meaning of Christmas.

SAVE YOUR MONEY first of all, I'm a big comic fan. gl was one of my favorites growing up. that being said, I'm willing to overlook a few things. BUT THEY F'D UP IN THE FIRST FEW MINS OF THE MOVIE. SINESTRO IS BACK!?!?? REALLY? kind of stupid to do first flight where he betrays the corp then make a 2nd movie he's back. we'll just gloss over the point they talk about the first lanterns and completely ignore the manhunters but at least stay with the concept of green lanterns have a problem with yellow. nope, not in this movie. now let's talk about the all over the place script. couldn't understand why it was so bad when I was watching it until the credits rolled. it was 4 stories rolled into 1 movie. they aren't even that good and rambling on like a term paper that needs to be 30 pages is a waste of my time and money. final peeve, you're not allowed to go to the main menu EVER. even during the movie my player displayed the disallowed symbol. I'm annoyed when studios force you sit thru previews of stupid movies but even at the end, same issue. do not bother with this crap pressed into dvd. I'm fine with the premise of creating more buzz for the movie but they had how long to get a decent dvd out and we got this crap? I'm trading this movie on a site after 1 view, opening week. never done that so quickly in my life

Alien movie Not satisfactory Was looking forward to this movie for sometime, did not get to see it this summer so I waited and waited, for its release this last week, and found I was waiting for a bomb of a move, Not up to par as the aliens movies its suppose to be! I rather have watched alien resurrection, now that was a great movie, This was not. special effects were great. but I could of wrote a better plot! even the first Alien movie was better than this it had a story. the ending was weird, and was hoping for a better flick. Sorry, but was not worth the wait or the money.

Another Full Frame rip-off!!! Burt's directorial debut is a winner as a film. Action, provocative scenes (Lauren Hutton is always a winner) and a good script with a terrific supporting cast, including Mike Douglas, no less, and even a cameo appearance by the english literature teacher from Palm Peach Jr. College who guided him toward acting, Watson B. Duncan, III, provide a great time for the viewer. The RIP-OFF, is, as usual, a full frame presentation of a film shot in Panavision!!  What is it with these studios that can't leave a film alone? The full frame picture cuts off several of the actors in scenes, and leaves the viewer wondering what is going on outside of the full frame shots. We buy DVDs to get the FULL PICTURE the way it was originally shot! TCM also showeed this film in full frame once, and I turned it off because I was so disgusted.   I'm not asking for a full restoration, for Pete's sake, just a faithful presentation of the film. The full frame presentation offered presently is an embarrassment, and Burt should use some clout to stop this abomnible practice on his films.

Disappointing I suppose it's a matter of taste, but I think Swing Parade is the worst Rifftrax I've seen to date. The movie itself is excruciatingly boring. The Stooges aren't funny in this. The best Rifftrax comments seem to be in the beginning and mostly at the end. The bulk of the middle of the film is painful to watch. I guess we can't hit a home run every time.

WTH!!!!!!!!! Awful Don't get me wrong this play had a great message, but that was not enough for the amount the DVD cost.. Tyler really dropped the ball on this one.. It was beyond dry, a waste of time, & money. Don't buy this DVD just borrow...

Interesting first but... I saw this movie because the actors have familiar faces in other good movies.  First 45 minutes went pretty well; a mix of poetry and war scenes gave it a unique touch.  Then the movie got really boring for my taste.

Not that I was quite old enough, but this isn't what I remember the 70's like. When this movie first came out in 1993, I remember so many other saying it was the coolest stoner coming of age flick since Fast Times.  Well, I didn't see it like that.  I was actually kind of turned off by it.  I mean, the main thing that stood out to me what the characters.  For the most part, all sucked, from the acting down to the lines they spit out.  So bad.  Most of these kids couldn't act there way out of a paper bag.  Seriously, it was like a high school project filmed.  Three were a couple that did OK, like the football quarterback Jason London and the brief appearance from Matthew McConaughey, but that's about it.  The main kids Wiley Wiggens, Rory Cochrane and Adam Goldberg were almost unwatchable.  Painful to see act on the screen.  I understand this was basically an independent film, but come on.  I get it, it was a small town with nothing to do, but really?  The plot, or lack of.  Not unlike an episode of Seinfeld, this story never really goes anywhere.  No witty lines, jokes, characters or story to make it great like Jerry's show.  First it seems to be about a jock, then about a freshman boy, then a girl, but nothing really happens to make sense beyond stupid antics and week growth.  Just bad acting and lame actions.  The sound track was a good selling point, but basically if you have a radio that can pick up a classic rock station, you're not hearing anything you don't hear everyday.  I really wanted to like this movie.  It was part of my youth, but just couldn't get into it.  I didn't hate it, but wouldn't buy it.  Maybe if it was on TV, I would recommend watching it.  If you want to see what life was really like back in the late 70's / early 80's, I HIGHLY recommend Over The Edge and Fast Times At Ridgemont High.  The closest true to what I remember teen life stories that made sense, told a good story and had great music.

Despicable DVD producers I rate the movie 5 stars, the product 2 stars.  Despicable DVD producers slap a 5 second loop of the incredible, heart-breaking climax of the film on the intro menu screen.  It's like showing pictures of the Grand Canyon to someone before they are just about to see it.  WTF is wrong with people??  Whoever did that is either a SADIST or a genuine MORON.  They don't give a sht about the art, much have any respect the viewer.

A Stone-Cold Rip Off! While looking for a movie gift to give to my mother for Christmas I was excited to see this oldie offered in Blu Ray. I even bought her a Blu Ray Player to watch it on.  I don't need to tell you how disappointed and angry I was to find out it is only done in a 4:3 aspect ratio. The ad says "widescreen" but the black bars placed vertically on each side beg to differ. It is so aggravating after carefully scrutinizing every last detail only to find one huge one omitted.  Why include the fancy book, the features disc, and all the vintage hoopla but neglect to provide the biggest asset of quality transfer.....a theater-like widescreen picture!  It's sad when my mother says the version she recorded off of the TCM network a few months ago is widescreen, but the $26 movie I purchased with all its trivia and trimmings is "made for TV".

A terrible movie, but not in the good way you were hoping This movie is crap.  It's not worth watching not even for the cheese factor.  The first half hour is very funny, however, after that the movie starts trying to take itself seriously and then it nosedives.  Yes there are pretty girls in bikinis, yes there is some deliciiously awful acting, but after awhile these things just aren't enough to carry a movie.  They certainly weren't enough to carry this one.  A friend of a friend described it as a bad porn with no sex and this seems to be an apt description.  Rent it if you must.

Review This movie was decent. I'm not a movie critic... but I would have to give it a 5/10. I really loved Resident evil 1 and 2. The 3rd one was just ok. If you're wanting to see it for milla jovovich, then it's worth it. She did a great job along with ali larter. The over-all movie plot had a bunch of kinks... renting it would have been a better choice.

Not Impressed Was pretty disappointed.  Great actors, decent story, but the direction left a bit to be desired.  Choppy flashbacks and forwards, confusing instead of leading you into the story.

No redeeming value to this movie! "Road House" starring Patrick Swayze is the greatest movie ever made.  Unfortunately, this review is about The Dicktator and Deep Jaws, two of the worse movies ever made.  The Dicktator is the story of a world gone mad due to overzealous population control through a male birth control pill that made men permanently lose fertility.  The Dicktators are men who somehow did not take these pills and are doing their patriotic duties one woman at a time.  The Asian Dicktator is played by a hispanic guy and one of his geisha conquests is a caucasian.  So, what happened?  Asians soft porn actors and actresses did not exist in the 1970s?  The accents of the "foreign" characters in the movie are awful.  The suprise ending is the US President is a robot.  Deep Jaws just as awful.  The premise of the movie is that a failing movie studio is going to use a government contract to shoot a moon landing film to finance an adult movie to save the company.  Needless to say, hilarity does not ensue.  Even burlesque star Candy Samples has performance standards and kept her clothes on the entire film.  I still don't understand the nurse, tennis player and turkey baster storyline.  The DVD extras have some redeeming value.  Each gets one star for a total of two.

Not good at all Don't waste your time.  The historical figures were just name dropping, rather than introducing any interesting facts or stories.  Both my wife and I did not like it.

WTF This movie had no theme ,pointless shots and some of the worst acting in any independent movie I have seen. The only reason I even give it 2 stars is that I got some laughs out of just how ridiculous it was. I spent most the movie poking fun at the stupidity of it all. But I support the local movie scene so enjoy the money from my purchase.

too little horror  --  too much New Age spiritual mush Based on PASSENGER's marketing, I was hoping for a scary supernatural tale.  Instead, this was a case of too little "horror," too late.  Indeed, not so much horror as squishy, New Age mush.  If you like spiritual pseudo-horror like THE FORGOTTEN or DRAGONFLY, you might enjoy PASSENGERS, since it's the same old, same old (with borrowings from THE SIXTH SENSE, THE OTHERS, GHOST, JACOB'S LADDER, and the original TWILIGHT ZONE TV series).  This is not really a spoiler, since the marketing (e.g. DVD box blurbs) kinda give away the premise...  Passengers survive a plane crash, but then begin vanishing. Like that TWILIGHT ZONE episode about astronauts who survive a mishap in space, but when they return to Earth, they begin vanishing...  Something they had encountered "up there" didn't mean for them to return, and is correcting its mistake.  PASSENGERS had scary potential.  Why are surviving passengers vanishing? What's being "corrected"?  A rip in space/time?  Some Supernatural Order (e.g., FINAL DESTINATION)?  No, instead PASSENGERS borrows the more familiar explanation, found in THE SIXTH SENSE, JACOB'S LADDER, GHOST, and THE OTHERS.  If you know those "twist" endings, you'll guess early on what PASSENGERS is about.  PASSENGERS is slow and boring.  We're nearly TWO THIRDS into the film before it gets ominous.  A horror film should be ominous 10 to 15 minutes in, then get scarier. Instead, PASSENGERS's "horror" starts late and remains tepid.  In its final 10 minutes, the film shifts from weak horror to "feel good" New Age spirituality.  Horror fans will be disappointed.

Good quality disc, rubbish film I actually really enjoyed the first film apart from the final act that seemed rushed and wasted. This sequel while very high quality (esp on bd) visually contains a convoluted plot, rubbish characters and a didssapointing tale. There is nothing I actually liked in this sequel which was a great shame.

Funny The DVD was in perfect condition. It was not as funny as Friday but was fun to watch.Friday was the best when they sat around the hood. Friday after Next was better than Next Friday.But it was good to see all three.

Bond, Jane Bond The producers made a mistake casting Daniel Craig as Bond. I mean a BLONDE James Bond? Whatever happened to tall, DARK and handsome?  Perhaps, it is not Craig's fault but more the producers' and directors'. Craig's Bond is kind of a perfunctory action figure. There are plenty of kicks and punches but he is strangely cold and lifeless, just like someone who's had a lobotomy. The previous characterizations by Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan are full of British wit and humour to say the least.  Finally, there was a shot of Craig in the earlier movie rising out of the sea in square trunks ala Ursula Andress and Halle Berry. What are the producers trying to do? Capture a slice of the pink market? I mean, Bond is as straight as hell. Jane Bond anyone?

7 KIDS, A SERIAL KILLER AND AN AMERICAN CONDOR. Why and how the condor fits into this story doesn't make sense but then again nothing else does either. The first ten minutes or so are tense and exciting fooling the viewer into thinking they are in for a fun thrill ride-it doesn't happen, even so within that ten minutes is one of the dumbest sequences I've seen in a long time.  Would a policeman fire multiple shots into a knife-weilding maniacs back when that policeman knows that standing in front of and facing the madman is a 6 year old girl?  The bulk of the movie is badly paced, all fits and starts-kinda like an arthritic chipmunk on crutches. 7 children are born the same night the serial killer "dies" and 16 years later his spirit returns to off the birthday teens, even his spirit moves between them so one or more of the kids is murdering the others. But which one? Maybe it's the one who has a fascination with American condors-maybe it's the oddball-maybe it's, who cares?  The climax of the movie is ok but ruins itself by slowing down and going on too long making one think something is going to make you jump but just like that arthritic chipmunk it just limps off.  And I have to confess I didn't understand all the importance of the American condor in the film.  I guess maybe there is supposed to be some connection between a condor and a serial killer.  A very disappointing film from Wes Craven--but Scream 4 will be released soon.

One important feature is missing... I recently purchased Make it or Break it Volume 2 and automatically assume it should provide closed caption or subtiles but to my surprise, this volume 2 dvd doesnt but the first volume does. So why stop there? And plus I know that on tv, it provided closed captions.  I am deaf myself and this bit of information would have been helpful.

Nothing special I could write a big review of this movie, but there's not much to say beyond the fact that it is a run of the mill musical about Broadway.  The star is hurt.  A rookie steps in and becomes a star.  There are a couple of songs worth hearing and a dance or two.  Nothing more.

It's raining Jacksons Director Gabrielle Burton heads FIVE SISTERS PRODUCTIONS, a corporation her sisters Maria, Jennifer, Ursula and Charity are part of. Maria co-directs; all appear in this film, as do their parents. (Mom wrote the script.)  In the Burton family's MANNA FROM HEAVEN, a bundle of counterfeit cash blows out the back door of a step van and onto the lawn of a dysfunctional extended family. Years later one of the recipients (who's now a nun) convinces the others they must somehow replace their windfall. To do so, they get involved in various money-raising schemes, including a less-than-honest raffle and a dance contest.  A good cast is unable to save this not very amusing comedy.  Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 imdb viewer poll rating.  (5.5) Manna from Heaven (2002) - Shirley Jones/Cloris Leachman/Louise Fletcher/Seymour Cassel/Frank Gorshin/Jill Eikenberry/Austin Pendleton/Shelley Duvall/Jerry Orbach

Meh. This movie is meh. The action scens are a bit too few and far between, the plot of it doesn't go well with the super hero main characters, Martian Manhunter looks weird and the animation is okay. This film has some appeal, but isn't really worth checking out in my opinion. 5/10

A Soulless Movie That Sucks Every Good Genre Film Dry Priest is god-awful. I haven't written many movie reviews on Amazon but I've rated nearly 4,000 films on Netflix. I love good film. Occasionally, I love bad film for the laughs. If I still drank, I'd have created a great movie drinking game called 'Cliche'. The Rules? Every time you see a cliche shot, lighting, stunt, acting, or hear a hackneyed line, or predict a done-to-death plot point, ending, etc. yell "Cliche!" and name at least one good film it was ripped off from. The other players then have to drink. Simple.  Watch 'Priest' and play. You'll be 'faced within the first 20 minutes. The sheer number of cliches in this film is overwhelming to the point of hilarity. The cliches are actually layered! Cliches from different genres are slammed together in a completely straight-faced manner. This film gives the impression it was made by people who grew up watching film and tv but have no other life experiences or real imagination to draw upon, so when they "create" something all the elements are scavenged from the film and tv they watched growing up. Just watch the movie and ask yourself, "Where have I seen or heard this before in a movie?" In no time you'll find yourself yelling, "Bladrunner! 1984! Road Warrior! Star Wars! The Good, The Bad And The Ugly!" and so on until finally the credits roll.  So, if you're the kind of person who values your time and thinks two hours is a lot to give up then pick another flick.

ok its ok...good idea but could of been way better if it was longer and taken a lil more serious glad i didnt  buy it

excellent the BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY movie is one of my favorites.  i had a copy to use with a VCR which just broke.  so i needed a dvd.  i love it.

Weak I enjoyed the first one much more.  Not as clever and less innocent.  I thought they relied on sexual jokes too much... anyone can do that. Disappointing.

Death By a Thousand Cuts I'm well past being simply sick and tired of some calculating corporate flunky telling me what constitutes the "best" of anything. The complete Dean Martin shows have a natural ebb and flow, and the "lesser" sections are just as important to the experience as the highlights. By concentrating solely on the celebrity appearances, these kinds of collections reduce a beloved memory to an aggravating series of fits and starts, as if nostalgia is having a stroke.  The "best" of the Dean Martin Show is Dean. Missing from these clip jobs are all the little winks and mumbles (not to mention THE SONGS) that gave the program such a welcoming quality in its day. And until the complete programs are released as a piece, casual viewers will have no idea why these shows were so fun. It was the casual humanity and warm sense of fraternity that an HOUR of variety at it's genuine best could deliver. People didn't tune in every week for highlights back then, and I won't anytime again in the future.

UltraVilolet Digital Copies suck Didn't mind the movie but the UltraViolet Digital copy that came with the movie is not worth the extra dollars.  Just go with the Blu-ray one.  Shame on you UltraViolet, you suck!  I'll never buy another movie again that has the UltraViolet Digital Copy.

The Stand - DVD I bought the movie after I finished the book.  Stick with the book!!!  This (TV) movie is sooo bad.  What were they thinking!  Granted, it was 1994.  I think they should re-write and remake this mini-series with today's technology.  Of course no movie is as good as the book!

Not as bad as you would think This modern retelling of the classic Moby Dick is a bit cheesy. The problems have more to do with all the information we now have about whales.  The writer had to create a super monster that would never act like a whale. So they made it a combo between a shark and a whale and used recent stories about a humpback whale breaching that took down a small boat. The acting is fairly good a nice combo between the book and Crimson Tide. The problem becomes when they get to an island the story quickly becomes a unreal unstoppable monster against humans movie. It can breach onto land and crawl around can take gun fire and a rocket powered harpoon. Finally they nuke the island, which being so close to Hawaii would cause people to glow in dark and the scientist survives we presume to get cancer later. The whale survives to kill again. This would have been a much better story if they had done it on another planet, it just doesn't work as a modern retelling.

slowwwwww Most of the action was in the dark, which is usually meant to mask really bad special effects. I found myself bored fifteen minutes into the film, advancing it, with hopes of improvement, better acting, effects, something, but it never came. If you have really nothing better to do, don't watch this movie still, just sit and stare at the wall, it's brighter and more entertaining.

For a "found footage" horror, it was disappointing. I'll be honest, I'm not much of a horror affictionado, though I do enjoy a good scare once in a while.  I do enjoy sci-fi, for what it's worth.  This movie.. while nicely filmed and acted, was just.. not.. very.. scary.

Great acting, poor story It takes a lot for me to write a bad review.  Watched this last night on Netflix and I was pretty disappointed.  As you'd expect, the acting was good but the plot/story left a lot to be desired, unless you enjoy boring movies about people leading lives of quiet desperation (only way I can think of to describe it).  Unless you're extremely bored, I would pass on this one.  Ryan Hoover, author of Immortal Implements

All Talk and No Action That really says it all "All Talk & No Action". Very disappointing. I thought this would be at least "soft porn"-dull.

Poor video and audio quality I purchased Sky Captain through Amazon and enjoyed the movie's video and audio quality thoroughly.  Both were high and sharp.  Very impressive.  Assuming, for the same price, I would get exactly the same quality when I bought "Ca$h".  I was robbed.  Low quality video, and smaller frame video size; poor mp3 low-quality audio (low quality audio usually have less range of frequency spectrum playback, while with a hissy, noisy, offensive sizzles.  Really unpleasant to the ears).  Lame.  I liked the movie, wish I could keep the movie but, get half the money back.  it would only seem fair this way.  Very disappointed.

Watch for your "region" The movie itself is great, I bought this as a gift for my mother. However, the "Region 2" aspect is a complete flaw. US is "Region 1" and therefore the disc will not play in the US. As I purchased this DVD, I didn't know what "Region 2" meant, and I guess I should have looked into it, because now I have to return the movie and get a proper region. What a pain.

Drab and Dull With a title like "I Bury The Living", this certainly is not what I was expecting - this was basically like a longer, more drawn-out version of one of the less thrilling episodes of "Twilight Zone" or "Alfred Hitchcock". The characters were pretty uninteresting, which is really what made this movie unenjoyable for me - very drab, boring, wooden acting. And even the supernatural element in the story was ruined by a terrible "twist" ending. I like lots of older horror movies, many way older than this 80-minute sleeping pill. I would only recommend this to people who saw it when it first came out and are interested in it for nostalgia reasons.

A mediocre copy of 2009's "The Road" There have been a lot of post-apocalyptic films in recent years, with most of the big budget ones being pretty awful. The Collapsed is one of many low budget takes on the genre, and while it's far better than anything released by The Asylum, it's still nothing more than a mediocre copy of 2009's "The Road", which was done on a small budget but had the benefit of a quality actor (Viggo Mortensen). If you enjoy post-apocalyptic films, you might like this. Just be prepared for a mediocre product.

Good movie with an improper ending I enjoyed the movie all the way to the end. The ending was really inappropriate. The movie depicts boys who grow into men following the Catholic faith. There is no way a Catholic priest would ask to have his ashes scattered. It is against the Catholic faith. The body is to be maintained as a unit and buried. Whoever was responsible for this error should have done some research.

another modern fiasco I am beginning to despair at Opus Arte opera on Blu-ray. They started off with some wonderful offerings but with the exception of Billy Budd recent productions have mostly been terrible bombs. I did not think they could do much worse than their first Meistersinger and Dutchman but I was wrong. This muddled fiasco is even worse. It is not the singing or the playing which is wonderful but the incomprehensible production. As Strauss matured his operas required increasing attention to understand and this magical fairy tale especially so. This placed an extra responsibility on the stage director to help the audience follow the ever more complex plots. Rather like a Chinese classical story one needs to have it interpreted to make sense of the words. The infamous chicken before the egg! Here we start off with what might be a concert performance with singers reading the libretto and wandering about in a somehat disorganised way in suits and dresses. Minimal staging and lighting, and none of it bearing any connection to the on screen libretto. Yes there is some excellent facial acting but not much else. One needs to have done a lot of preparation to be able to work out who is who and what their relationship is.  If I had paid the hefty ticket price to see this in the opera house I would have been furious. I regard too-clever-by-half bare bones productions like this as an insult to the audience and to the composer alike. Some of the cast are even required to smoke, a disgrace in this day and age. The playing and singing is very fine but it is all ruined by the quite ghastly production. What a shame.

Unmoved By Telekenesis Comedy What do you call a comedy that's not funny?  A must to avoid.  This film struggles desparately to make you chuckle.  I laughed maybe once in a scene where Chevy Chase's character, an air traffic controller with newfound powers, induces an orgasm in his girlfriend (Patti D'Arbanville) without physically touching her.  A lot of the blame for the film's failure is in the performance of Chase.  We are told, by other characters natch, that he is a cold heartless manipulator.  There's nothing in his performance to suggest that.  Chase's work here is pretty bland and one note as though he wishes he were somewhere other than here.  I can relate because you can do better than watching "Modern Problems".

A Little Clarification. Ok, so first off, something that is failed to be mentioned anywhere on the product page, this IS a DVD-R. The artwork even has the audacity to have the "DVD" logo on it, but it is the purple back disc we have grown to dislike since they seem to not hold up as well as the silver back DVDs. Also, this movie is known as "Inside Amy" which is a decidedly less lurid title so I'm sure that has a great deal to do with the name change. I'm not going to go into the details of the movie itself, but I have gotten a bit annoyed with the majority of the DVD reviews here on Amazon as time and again people fail to mention the specs of the DVD itself, which I can't be the only one who finds that info important. This is a full screen transfer as indicated in the product notes. It's maybe slightly better than VHS quality and a bit better than most PD titles. If you are looking for a fun, even paced slasher flick, look elsewhere. You don't see much of the few kills that are presented, but the aftermath of the kills can be a bit gruesome at times, but nothing that wouldn't be trumped ten fold a few years later by Tom Savini. Any ways, the title was misleading so I felt the need to clarify that AND the fact it's a DVD-R. You are now armed with more knowledge than I had when I purchased this.

Same sort of failure... Well , I think that this trial of making a film by a indian producer , with some indian actors , including a big star , using the occidental way of making movies didn't result at all . As a BD or even a DVD the product is very good . Hrithik Roshan continues to be one of the biggest dancers in India , but nothing more . The story is absolutely boring.

Not Quite, Chris Rock. This 'documentary' is a passable introduction to black hair culture, but I found it to have a quite biased and shallow take on what is actually a very deep and complex subject. Chris mainly concentrates on women (and men) who use relaxers and weaves, his commentary on these subjects is often derogatory in nature, and he barely -- if at all -- mentions the notable amount of black women who wear natural hair, braids, dreads, etc. resulting in a very narrow perspective. Rock blatantly ignores anyone who does not contribute to his thesis: Natural black hair is not considered 'good hair'. Minus one star.  There is also far too much (somewhat boring) footage of a hair show in Atlanta that very loosely relates to the documentary topic. Minus one star.  What really rubbed me the wrong way about "Good Hair" was that Rock makes no mention of the fact that MILLIONS of women of all races and income chemically alter and change their hair with dyes, irons, relaxers, straighteners,  blow-dryers, bleach, rollers, extensions, etc. It is simply part of being a modern woman. Rock chides black women for using "dangerous" chemicals to change their hair and "look white", when the truth is that most women use some type of hazardous tool to seriously alter their hair -- whether it be the hydrogen peroxide in bleach, 300 degree flat irons or a bit of hair relaxer. When used in a careful way these products can have stunning results. There is nothing wrong with using lab-tested chemicals with common sense and caution if that is a personal choice. Minus one star.  It is good to talk about these issues, and the documentary is worth a watch if it is a topic of personal interest, but take it with a grain of salt. I kept hoping Chris would show some more positive clips of people who loved and enjoyed their natural hair -- I never saw it.  Two stars for bigotry. If I showed this to a friend who knew nothing about black hair culture, they would leave with the wrong idea.

This Movie is Shoddy at Best I just finished watching "1408," a film I had high hopes for, not only for the good creepy trailer but for the talents of John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson there to bring Stephen King's book to life.  I liked to be creeped out when watching a good horror/drama movie, and this movie never produced anything that made you eat your popcorn that more quickly.  The bulk of the movie offers mild waves of the ghosts of former tenants of Room 1408 showing up to spook Mr. Cusack, and the occasional visit from his specter of a daughter who died of cancer.  Is the movie a bittersweet drama of Cusack's character coming to terms with his daughter's death, or is it a spookfest trying miserably to produce some scares?  It fails in both accounts.  Want to be really scared while watching a movie?  Buy "Paranormal Activity" and sit back for the ride.  Now THAT is a creepy flick.

Bad Widescreen Format I see lots of reviews from fans that love the movie, and the actor. However I don't see a lot of reviewers, especially videophiles, making any comments about the DVD itself. Mainly that this particular version *the red cover with his silhouette* is encoded in what I call 'bad widescreen'. Usually the DVD player puts the black boarders on the top and bottom. However on this edition they are encoded on the disc. That means they wasted valuable space on the DVD that could have contained more video information. It may look good on your little video monitor, but this DVD does not stand up to large format TV or digital projectors. Even through my Blu-Ray player, there is no upscaling because the information on the DVD is so limited.  So what I am saying is avoid THIS particular version unless you are going to watch it on a CRT screen.

not Unrated This is one of my favorite movies, very well acted, the directors other movie 12 and Holding is also excellent,I was looking forward to viewing edited moments but there are none, I advise buying new copy R rating

Missing some listed extra features, the rest is simply ok Slingshot's DVD Edition of this classic is a mess. It includes the original Kodascope 65 minutes tinted cut transferred from supposedly the only known 35mm prints (even though I think some reels are from 16mm source). Image quality is good, but not excellent, even though this is expected from a 1925 movie, no problems with that. The problem is that this release includes a list of extra features that are NOT in the actual disc. Examples:  - The cover says "2 Audio Tracks: Music & Sound Effects or Music Only". FALSE: There is ONLY the Music & Sound Effect track. - The cover says "Little known fascinating insights about The Lost World are revealed in an in-depth essay by Scott McQueen". FALSE: There is no essay by McQueen to be found. - The cover says "A special still frame supplement presents rare production stills and recreates the legendary missing scenes from the original 10-reel version". FALSE: The still frame section only includes blurry stills from the shooting of the movie and NOT a single picture from the missing scenes. - The chapter list inside the cover lists Technical Notes, a Ray Harryhausen Letter and an article about Willis O'Brien. NOT ON DISC either.  I have contacted Slingshot about this but I have got no reply. How disappointing from a (supposedly) professional company.

The Devil's Disciples 328 Reviews of this movie is way more than enough. I am adding to that number only as a means of supporting those few brave souls who found this cleverly choreographed mayhem devoid of morality and humanity. It was good to see so many of them wiped out as the film progressed. The trouble is that it is difficult to tell who kills whom. All of these cardboard pastiches look alike, think alike and act alike. It could have been worse: it might have been made in Hollywood.

I Survived this Movie! I nearly gave this 1959/1962 movie one star, and had second thoughts and generously gave it 2 stars.  It probably deserves 1 star, but I was feeling generous.  This movie seems to have a combination of English and German speaking actors in a thin plot designed to expose as much flesh as possible.  I pondered including the pedigree of some of the actors, but was never able to get enthusiastic enough to do the research.  There are some pretty awful B-movies about, and this one is one of the worse.  Supposedly a couple is hiring a bunch of dancers to go to Singapore.  After some mildly racy scenes at the beginning of the movie (as in you see some panties - or bikinis, or both), everyone hops on a twin engine propeller plane to head for Singapore.  Somewhere along the line the plane gets four engines, and the plane then crashes in flames.  Miraculously, the dancers and the couple survive.  The pilots are conveniently died.  Personally, I think that any pilots that can magically change a twin-engine plane to a four-engine plane should have been magical enough to survive.  The survivors reach an island where they quickly discover a professor in a giant spider web, which yields the original German title, "Ein Toter hing im Netz," which is, roughly translated, a dead one hung in the net.  Sadly, that scene was probably one of the high points in the movie.  Soon women are shedding clothes, but the only living male on the island wanders off to be attacked by a giant spider.  The giant spider was probably mutated by the uranium that may have been on the island, which is what the professor was seeking.  Remember that in the 50s and 60s radiation explained nearly everything, including dandruff, bad breath and male dysfunction.  For the rest of the movie we see the now mutated guy looking sinister and occasionally killing someone.  The rest of the time the movie focuses on the hot babes wandering about the island in various states of undress, including some nude scenes (depending on which version of this movie you have - some versions delete the nude scenes).  The food starts to run out and things are looking grim when a couple of fellows show up.  What follows is steamy romance.  The spider guy appears again, there is some running around and screaming and yelling, spider guy kills a couple of people, the movie ends, and you wonder what the heck it was all about.  This silliness seems to be an excuse to see the ladies in their undies and skinny-dipping in the ocean.  The plot, what little there is of it, is very thin.  We hardly see the spider guy once he is created, and we only see the spider (which looks very sinister) a couple of times at the beginning of the movie.  Mystery Science Theater 3000 did a lampoon of this movie, but I have yet to see it.  I have to believe the lampoon is better than the original.  I have seen many of these movies.  Many of them are weak, or outright bad, but most of them have at least some redeeming characteristics.  This movie is just too bland and boring to be very interesting.  The picture quality is also poor.  Watch the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version and skip this one.  For those who like trivia, this movie has apparently been released under a variety of names according to imdb:  "Ein Toter Hing im Netz" "A Corpse Hangs in the Web" "Body in the Web" "Girls of Spider Island" "Horrors of Spider Island" "It's Hot in Paradise" "The Spider's Web"  The years vary with the release and re-release.  I would think that some of these releases were to fill space in drive-in theater billings.  The one positive thing I can say about this movie is that I survived it, only to watch yet another B-movie.  Good luck!

Not worth viewing Most have been said here regarding the content. I found this movie highly predicatble, boring with a weak overall story. The only one that provides some kind of aura and class to the movie is Richard Geere. Other than that the movie is a waste of time. Comparable stories like this one has shown on TV seen a million times; the russian spy motive is outdated in my opinion anyways. In terms of Spy Movies nothing comes close to Bourne Trilogy in my opinion, "The double" is light years away. An episode of Criminal Intend is more exciting.

Low budget, but OK. I had just finished the book, In His Steps, which was written by Charles M. Sheldon and was later called What Would Jesus Do? for the movie. I can't quite say what was missing, but the story line was still there. I kept this DVD, but I am not sure why. The book was so good and the movie was so average. I think it was the fact that they put it in modern days instead of using the correct era it was written in.

added nothing to the older version This is a remake that shouldn't have been done. While the special effects were better the story is essentially the same and the acting is no better. If an HD version of the 80's movie were available I'd recommending watching that instead.

Horrible crosstalk, horrible movie (despite great effects) Okay, first of all, since there's a laughable number of reviews here that seem to expect wonders from the normal Blu-Ray (i.e., not Blu-Ray 3D) movie, I need to mention that I purchased the Blu-Ray 3D edition, the one intended for viewing on 3D televisions and active-shutter glasses (or whatever is applicable to the technology used - point is, no Magenta/Cyan or anything like that).  The most damning problem with this movie is that there is a terrific amount of crosstalk. I've viewed several video games, and at least half a dozen other 3D movies on my TV, including both animations (such as Despicable Me or How To Train Your Dragon) and live action (possibly mixed with animation; including a couple underwater documentaries, and Avatar, courtesy of HBO on Comcast cable). I've never seen ghosting this bad in anything before. In many places it was beyond distracting, and I kept messing with the equipment, trying different pairs of glasses, etc, to try and correct the issue. It's not correctable. Given that I already expected the movie's content to be mediocre at best, this was a big let-down.  The story and script are pretty bad. Not the worst horror movie ever written, and probably pretty average for slasher movies (which is why I don't really watch them often), but basically devoid of any creativity or intelligence.  The one positive point is that the special effects are extremely good throughout, and when combined with the 3D in one of those rare moments when the ghosting isn't horrible, it can really be very striking.  I'm sorry to have purchased this movie, as I'm quite certain I'll have no interest in seeing it again. The only reason I got it was because it's currently the only 3D horror movie aside from (I think?) Saw 3D, but it's difficult to enjoy the 3D through all the many scenes with doubled images (it's really almost constant, and as I said, very very distracting).

Mission: Product Placement (Some minor plot details are revealed below)  It's hard to know who the Mission: Impossible franchise is aimed at any more. On the face of it, this is a children's movie, with very little in terms of plot or character development to give adults anything to get their teeth into. On the other hand, there is a scene right at the start of the movie with an implied kicking to death (off screen, mercifully) of a prison guard, and people being graphically shot multiple times. It's a mark of the skewed moral compass of Hollywood these days that "foul" language is not allowed, but extreme violence? That's fine in a PG-13 movie.  A common theme amongst most of the reviews of this film is that you need to "suspend disbelief". It is evidently possible to make a thrilling action movie that doesn't insult the intelligence of its viewers - The Bourne Ultimatum is proof of that - so why does Ghost Protocol choose to throw in such flimsy nonsense that requires everyone to forget about basic logic and the laws of physics?  The plot, such is it is, doesn't hold up. Got your top rank movie star? Check. Throw in some exotic locations with no real reason to connect them? Check. Come up with some ridiculously implausible gadgets? Check. Job done! Who cares about a story arc? The central theme of this movie actually may be product placement, so blatant is it. I understand the reasons for product placement, but when it's so comically obvious as it is here, it takes the viewer out of the film. Canon, Dell, Apple, BMW...it's like being bludgeoned by a marketing company.  There are so many silly scenes in this movie, I almost don't know where to begin. How about having a set of characters regroup independently in a central location, then showing that they are all wearing clothes that exactly match the dark grey shade of the walls of the room they're in? What are the chances?! How about another scene with members of the public walking by, who all - gasp! - happen to be wearing clothes that perfectly match the set design colours? Did the director think that people wouldn't notice this kind of thing? How about throwing in a giant sandstorm where people can't see see each other when they're chasing each other on foot...but can have a car chase inside the same sandstorm? Yeah, that works! Or have an item that can be tracked using "isotopes" with pinpoint accuracy from a distance of half a mile away...no matter, let's just assume that the audience is stupid, get the characters to mutter some mumbo jumbo, no-one will notice, right?  The character writing is also paper thin. Simon Pegg's character is a Mr. Bean type moron - obviously he's there for comic relief, but it stretches credibility to breaking point when a bumbling twit is supposed to be part of the world's most highly trained secret agent team.  Even the CGI work is often sub-par, with the CGI elements standing out like a sore thumb on a number of occasions - the camera pass over the tall building in Dubai where much of the central action takes place (the building itself is a hugely obvious render), water surface effects that look like they've come out of a computer game circa 2002, a dropped aluminium suitcase that's about as convincing as a singing goat.  Having said all that, Ghost Protocol is not completely without merit. The scene featuring the approach of a giant sandstorm is genuinely tense, even if that tension disappears when it actually arrives. The climbing of the Burj Khalifa is very well handled. The problem is, the good parts are thinly dispersed amongst the bits that require a monumental suspension not just of disbelief, but of one's entire brain...and you know what? I'm done with suspending this much disbelief.

Eagle Eye Review The only reason I like this movie is that I was in it.  The story itself was loosely written from the book The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.  It is a little bit too long.

The Fall Continues The two best things about "Godzilla vs. Gigan" is that it's better than "Hedorah" and it features one of the most interesting and menacing-looking foes in the entire Godzilla series. A bird-like cyborg with a buzz saw for a chest, sharp hooks for hands and a menacing red eye and metallic beak on the face, Gigan is the main reason why this movie is nowhere near as bad as "Hedorah" and "Final Wars".  The worst thing about "Godzilla vs. Gigan"? Everything else. Here, it's the budget more than the creativity that ruins the movie. Simply put, everything looks cheap. King Ghidorah, who also appears in this movie, is such a shadow of its former self that it looks less like a terrifying dragon and more of a flea-bitten Halloween costume (In contrast, "Gigan" looks great). There's a scene after Godzilla destroys the Godzilla tower where the Big-G is taunting Gigan and you can clearly see the costume falling apart. And then there's the stock footage: scenes from "Ghidorah", "Monster Zero", "Destroy All Monsters", "War of the Gargantuas", "Hedorah", "Rodan", and "Ebirah" are used to show Gigan and Ghidorah's destruction of Tokyo and the military and the monster battles. Even the soundtrack is composed of stock footage: all Akira Ifukube scores from various Toho monster movies, from "Mothra vs. Godzilla" to "Frankenstein Conquers the World".  The sad thing about "Gigan" is that despite the blatant financial woes and some head-scratching moments like Godzilla and Anguirus talking to each other through thought bubbles (in the American version, they literally speak through distorted English), it actually has a very interesting plot and that it could have worked had it not been for the budget, boring human characters and sluggish pacing. The head of an amusement park hires a gifted comic book illustrator to create monsters for the museum. Suddenly, the illustrator is caught in a mystery involving a woman, her brother and the theme park's executives, who are revealed to be Spacehunter Nebula aliens in human disguise. An intriguing premise receives a shoddy execution due to factors beyond the filmmakers' control.  In addition, "Gigan" has a couple of things to recommend: besides the villainous title character, there's a scene where Godzilla is getting the daylights beat out of him but not just Gigan and Ghidorah but by the Godzilla tower that fires a devastating laser beam at him. Godzilla is so brutally beaten down that you actually feel bad for the guy. The monster battles, while ridiculous and ruined by the overuse of stock footage, is still pretty enjoyable to watch, particularly the part where Anguirus uses his spiny back to assault Ghidorah and Gigan. And while the use of stock music may seem annoying, in hindsight, it's actually a treat in disguise since it serves as a greatest-hits collection of many Ifukube scores not heard in America at the time, due to meddling American studio executives replacing some with their own stock music.  "Gigan" is nowhere near as incompetently directed as "Hedorah" and "Final Wars" but it still ranks at the low totem pole of Godzilla movies due to blatant use of stock footage, undeveloped human characters, some blatantly poor special effects and unrealized plot. Unfortunately, things would get much worse for the Big-G in the next movie. But that's another review for another day.  Strong recommendation to avoid

Boring!!!! This video is so boring and not motivating at all! Lisa is superimposed into the video (it's like she is in a mirrored ballet studio) which is annoying all by itself. Then, she does one exercise at a time, counts reps and gives you these 20 to 60 second breaks and calls it "interval training". Not my definition of interval training when you are doing nothing for 20 to 60 seconds.  I started doing 30 to 45 second planks in between just to keep busy.  She just moves from one boring exercise to the next and does not mix it up at all. If this were a "class" at a gym, I would never go back.  She does have excellent technique, I will give her that.  And, some of the exercises are challenging, but she just didn't motivate me to want to do any part of this video again.  I did 2 out of the 3 workouts as the first workout requires two kettlebells.  The double kettlebell workout did appear even more challenging (I just watched it since I didn't have two kettlebells of the same weight), however, once again, Lisa just does one exercise after another with an "interval break" in between.  Not my cup of tea!

Crazy Stupid Movie This movie will bore to death even the most romantic people. Nothing makes sense or click in this movie. The only parts that entertained me was the lounge scenes, but the screenplay was equally bad as the rest of the movie. Not sure how Ryan Gosling decided to take part in this movie.

Slow Very slow moving. The problem with this film is the writing itself. The story is just dull. The dialogue is just dull. The movie has competent enough actors, but they tended to over act with a lifeless script. The climax is pretty good, but I have seen better. But I don't know if I would want to sit through this just to see a 5 minute climatic scene.  Good for a Redbox rental if you have seen everything else in the box.

Should be called "Bang my head slowly" I'm a transplanted Yankees fan, and heard that this was a good "Sports" movie.  I've tried to watch this movie 4 or 5 times, and always with the same result.  TOTAL BOREDOM!  It's almost like they are hiding the fact of his disease from everyone, including the audience.  It's just really bad, and really slow and doesn't convey genuine loss or triumph.  UPDATE:  8/26/2012  I watched the movie again a 6th time, and it's still one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

Good idea, bad idea, bland idea Technically there's really nothing all that wrong with this film. It uses the "found footage" format (crudely shot amateur video from a single limited point of view as if someone captured it on a home movie camera), which is fine and in this case fits the overall intent of the story.  Nothing much wrong with the acting either. In fact the performances are quite passable.  The visuals and effects work okay as well. Nothing too spectacular was required but what there is works just fine.  The problem isn't even with the story itself, though there's nothing really new here. An Apollo crew goes on a secret mission to the moon and encounters alien creatures.  What sinks the entire enterprise is the overall of the project. It is unrelentingly grim, certainly not the sort of thing you want to watch for entertainment.  You get the feeling it is something rather dark and unpleasant just by looking at the poster. A previously unknown Apollo moon mission that you've never heard about before which, logic tells you, must have been lost with all hands. That's kind of depressing to consider and it's what you realize just from the poster.  Not that it couldn't have been a tragedy, like one of the Shakespeare plays were everyone dies in the end, like Romeo & Juliet or Hamlet. Both of those are great works, full of engaging thoughts and idea.  But what's missing in Apollo 18 is any sense of heroism or transcendant sacrifice. Basically it's a trio of ordinary guys who got lied to by those they work for (NASA, the US government) and callously sent to their deaths in the interests of... well, we never find out why (another problem). Mostly what we get is three guys in a tight spot struggling to stay alive, even though we already know they are all going to die in the end.  And they do exactly what real people in such circumstances would do... panic, rage, totally freak out, try anything they can think of to survive. None of them have any kind of epiphany about the need to sacrifice themselves, none of them do anything particularly noble. They're just a trio of already doomed guys wasting their time and effort trying to stay alive. That's not what I would call entertainment. You get about the same feeling you would if you stabbed an animal in the gut and then just watched it suffer and slowly bleed to death.  I could consider it an unsuccessful attempt to do what others managed to pull off in the original Director's cut of "Butterfly Effect". For the theatrical release of that one the studio required the filmmakers to tack on a silly "happy ending" which totally negated the entire rest of the story. In the original cut, the lead character dies. But he does so willingly because he understands he must to help or save others, which elevates it to a kind of heroic, nobel self-sacrifice. True, it's also pretty grim to watch but there is a feeling of something transcendant going on (despite how unpleasant the outcome is.) In the case of Apollo 18 there's no such "moral" or "point" to things.  If you really want to get the major feeling raised by this movie, watch the TV news for the next story about a bunch of miners trapped alive in a collapsed tunnel, where they make it plain there's no way they're going to ever be rescued. It feels a lot like that. And the miners would be a lot easier on your wallet, being TV news and thus free.

Boo you whores, this sucks... It would make a great movie on it's own - but the fact its called "mean girls 2" makes you think it's a crappy remake rather than a proper movie; how on earth can you create a sequel with none of the original actors or plot? It's fab for a girls night in (I thoroughly enjoyed it), but bear in mind it has NOTHING to do with the actual "mean girls" film.

Adult movie disguised as kids movie If you are looking for a movie for your young child this is not the best choice...    Antz has nice animation, and a okay plot, (even though the movie gets into the plot too soon in my opinion). Definitely not a kids movie, Im sure kids hear bad words from strangers, TV, ect, but if you try to monitor what your children watch (especially toddlers and young children) DO NOT BUY.    If you decide to buy this movie, I recommend that you watch this movie with your kids and explain that certain words are not appropriate.   Sample of words throughout the movie, hell, bi#*%, crap, idiot, dam* and a$$.   I expected better from this movie, however it is a reoccurring theme throughout Pixar, Disney & other so called kids movies. With adult jokes and an inappropriate undertone in certain scenes.

Major disappointment Cars 2 was a major disappointment.  I don't know if the writers for the movie changed from the first one to this one, but the first Cars movie was delightful and well written and targeted for children.  The Cars 2 movie had a story line way too advanced for smaller children and couldn't even hold the interest of our older grandkids.  Our younger grandkids had no real interest after we watched half the movie and the older grandkids were bored to no end and so were we, and we were huge fans of the first Cars movie.  If we decide to "preserve" a copy of this Cars 2 movie, we'll just wait until it comes on Pay for View and record it, we sure won't be wasting money to buy it.

Vanity Project This movie is simply a bad, vanity project. John Aglialoro, businessman and Rand fan, financed the movie and and co-wrote the script with an "experienced writer," Brian Patrick O'Toole, whose past writing credits include mostly B-movie horror films like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002I41KX2">Basement Jack</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000RW5BZ0">Dog Soldiers</a>.  The dialogue is the typical stilted and nonsensical writing of bad horror movies.  Characters jump between topics randomly.  If you have read the book, you can follow the dialogue because you know the story lines. Those who have not read the book will be confused or miss out. None of the better aspects of this movie redeem it from the bad script. Taylor Schilling and Grant Bowler do decent jobs acting as Dagny Taggart and Hank Rearden, but you can see the actors struggle with the script often. In a few scenes I think I could see Schilling give up on even trying to make the script work and just read the lines. The movie also fails to deliver on some of the mystique of the novel. "Who is John Galt?" becomes awkward and annoying rather than intriguing. The John Galt trenchcoat scenes are also weird and creepy.  The one major redeeming factor is the cinematography. The shots of landscape and trains are very well done. I hope most of the budget went to the cinematographer. I'm giving the movie two stars instead of one because of the cinematography.  Other aspects of the sets are also well done. I enjoyed seeing Rearden's foundry, but I think more could have been done with it.  I hope those who gave this movie a five star review give their reviews a second thought. Rand's philosophy was based on the individual achieving great things. I don't think bandwagoning with an ideological collective to praise mediocrity does any credit to Rand's ideas.

nothing hopeful about this movie Wouldn't it be great if Hollywood had a great idea and then made a movie from it instead of making a movie to force what they feel is a great idea? This movie is yet another movie that attempted to tell the same love story we have seen many times by now in a fresh, unique, campy way but failed. It was just the same love story told in a weird way. I don't know if the attempt was trying to give VT some culture. It reminded me of Runaway Bride where the folks of the setting--a MD town--were all shown to have unique personalities--quirky. It reminded me of Sweet Home, Alabama, where the Alabama town folk were all shown to be to have unique personalities--quirky. It reminded me of . . . well you get the idea. In the end all these people in VT, MD, and AL seem just like each other and like they are from the same town--Hollywood. The love story part just wondered into oblivion. I mean the ending was kinda cute that the "cousin" came back and why. But what was the British chick still doing in town? What was that about? What was the deal with the family tree? That fell flat. It was like it had many false starts at trying to wrap itself up and find its way to an ending. But, it ended and I'm glad.

horrible! I use to love this movie! Definately does NOT stand the test of time. I bought for my husband to watch with me and I gotta say I was embarrasred that i picked it.

Poorly made..annoying...disappointiing This movie "Christmas Romance" is a poorly made movie.  The actors are wasted with such a low budget film. The "marching" music is annoying, and the kids and the adults seem to be yelling and arguing throughout the whole movie instead of talking in a normal tone of voice - poor acting.  Too bad.  I wanted to enjoy this film.

It's just not good I was waiting for this to come out to watch and I wanted to buy it before it came available for rent and I'm glad I did not. I love Nic Cage but the story, the movie, everything in this movie is not up the expectations I had from the first one. And I have to say the first one was better, way better. Make of it what you want, but for all the fans of Nic Cage I would recommend to rent this and than decide if this is the kind of movie you want to spend your money on to have it in your movie library. Two stars are only because I really like Cage. But otherwise would give it one star.

Not Gettysburg Watched the first hour and had enough, its not very good. Just watch gettysburg instead. I know i watched for one hour, but for me a history buff not to keep going it means its bad.

Brother Bear Brother Bear, produced by Walt Disney in 2003, is a movie about a boy named Kenai that kills a bear in revenge due to the death of his brother, Sitka.  The great spirits are angered by what he did, so they turn Kenai into a bear.  Once he becomes a bear, his brother that was killed, Sitka, who became an eagle, tells him that he must travel to the Northern Lights to change back.  On the way, he meets Koda, a cub who is full of energy and is constantly talkative.  Koda is going the same direction as Kenai because he is trying to get back to his home.  The problem they face is that Kenai's brother thinks that this bear has killed Kenai, so he is chasing them. Throughout the journey, they meet new animal friends.  They also encounter mean human, which Koda is very scared of them.  This makes Kenai realize how he mistreated the bears.  Once they finish their journey, and Kenai falls for another bear, Kenai realizes that he loves being a bear. This story relates to World Religions, and in particular, indigenous religion's respect for the circle of life.  The belief that all living things have a soul and should be respected run deeply in this movie.  In addition, the movie illustrates that man is no higher up in the scheme of life.  The emphasis on the respect for the shahman, and other Native American beliefs makes this film certainly not mainstream, and many Christians had issues with some of the ideas presented.  It is adapted to those who beliefs line up with indigenous beliefs, and the kinship they have with all of creation.  To destroy a living being means that there is a price to pay for all life.  Although humans are negatively depicted at times, the movie does bring to light some of the missing respect for the environment.

HOLLOW WOOD THE OXFORD MURDERS is typical British cinema--cerebral, pondering and tedious.  While BBC's WAKING THE DEAD is excellent, this movie doesn't compare on any level. An interesting mystery is shrouded with mathematical mumbo jumbo which rises above the average viewer's knowledge or interest (like TV's NUMB3RS). LOTR's Elijah Wood uses his soulful eyes and little else in his wooden performance; John Hurt is excellent as always, and Julie Cox chews up the scenery. The movie's twist ending is surprising but gets anti-climactic execution. Primarily, it's just all rather boring.

Constantine A very nice movie. Overall audio is okay but the center channnel is soft on output. Whisper can hardly be heard. Dolby TrueHd is average. Switched to Dolby Digital, less compressed. Gabriel wing flaps can be heard. Now the center channel is much better. Visual just okay. Its a 50G disc.

Why is the movie popular at all? I did not laugh 1 time through the whole movie. The only way i could see this getting high ratings is because of kristen wig who was spectacular and the other girls are all gorgeous other than that it's just potty humor hands down! And apparently from all the 5 star reviews people really like potty humor! I only watched this film because it was in the most popular category on here and on the zune.net website. I downloaded it and watched it with my wife. And when all was said and done i wondered why this movie would be even in the top 100 most popular. I am a movie buff and watch tons of movies. This one i gave a 2 because it had some funny, entertaining moments. But i found it overall very crewd, improper, foul and mostly uniteresting and boring. I do not recommend this movie. But if you got to watch it for free and you absolutely have nothing better to do I guess this movie would be ok otherwise skip it! But i did find it to be somewhat like the "hangover" and i am not a big fan of that movie either. So if you like the hangover you might like this movie too!

not as funny as advertised i watched the whole movie, not real funny, hard to stay interested in it. would not reccommend buying this movie.

Painful on the ears and a bit tedious Julia Roberts who I enjoy as an actor killed her character for me with the in and out faulty accent from no where. Though the story is pretty good I felt it was inconsistant and often tedious rythmically. The humor was also often more painful than funny. I enjoyed the minor characters the most!

It was "ok" but I won't watch it again I watched this last night. And I don't remember enough of it to give it a indepth review. But it wasn't as bad as people are letting on nor was it as great as people are letting on. If you don't like your killer to be supernatural then don't bother with this. Its about a guy that comes back from the dead. His whole storyline is kinda silly and there are plot holes all over the place. The acting wasn't bad at all, and neither were the deaths. In fact it was kinda gory. But that doesn't make a great movie. The flashbacks were a little confusing as well. I wouldn't watch it again. But its far from the worst movie I've seen.

Not the worst, but still not worth the time. 'Gun,' which was written by Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson and directed by the guy who did 'Soul Plane' (need I say more?), tells the story the city of Detroit's crackdown on a gun-running organization run by the criminal Rich (Fitty Cent). Rich then teams up with his friend Angel (Val Kilmer) to expand business. This leads to even more problems beyond his business. . .  First things first, most people will be drawn to this film based on the supporting cast. While Val Kilmer is on a serious run of crap movies (joining the ranks of formerly talented stars like Cuba Gooding, Jr.), he still maintains at least a mild following, even if his last solid flick was 'D&eacute;j&agrave; Vu' a half-decade ago (okay, 'Felon' was also pretty good, so I'll let that pass as well). Alongside Kilmer, 'Gun' also includes a few other well known actors like John Larroquette, James Remar, & Danny Trejo (though Remar is the only one of the bunch who is featured enough throughout). Regardless of the reasonably notable cast, 'Gun' doesn't have a lot to offer. Now, it's not the total disaster that one would expect from the writer/director combination. Keep in mind, 50 Cent grew up in a life of crime with a teenage coke dealer for a mother (who was murdered when 50 was only twelve), and his own time as a dealer in both guns & drugs before he became a rapper. Therefore, he's pretty well versed in street crime, so he knows how to set up a realistic story about it. Unfortunately, even though the story does have the gritty realism of the Detroit crime world. . . it's just not implemented well by director Jessy Terrero at all. Not to mention that the overall story is completely overdone and the "twists" are anything but shocking from the early parts of the film. This makes for a bit of a lag in the thrills of the crime, and a total lack of surprise by the end.  Overall, the film isn't a complete & utter disaster. The story is interesting enough to maintain interest, but the director's failure to fully exploit the dark themes forced the film to fail. To be honest, a story chronicling 50 Cent's ridiculous life story seems like it'd be a hell of a lot more interesting than any of the movies he stars in.  Final Verdict: 5/10.  -AP3-

To sleazy for me When I picked this out of the rental bin, I thought 'Hey, this ought to be fun.'  With that ridiculous title, I figured that the movie would be an over-the-top exploitation/comedy, which is an acquired taste, sure, but it takes all kinds, right?  Asun Ortega stars as Sister Sarah, the nun on the cover, who, after taking her vows finds that the Lord's work isn't exactly how she pictured it would be.  Forced by the church elders to pack cocaine (and do so in the nude, of course), she then acts as a mule to transport the drugs to the local distributors, a motorcycle gang known as Los Muertos.  The deal goes bad, and Sister Sarah is sold into prostitution and hooked on heroin.  During one of her trips, she evidently (it's never shown) hears a message from God, one inspiring her to seek vengeance for herself and for her sisters.  Like I said, I expected a comedy, even if it was going to be a sleazy one, but everyone plays it straight here.  You get a lot of nudity, rapes, murders, lesbianism; as much as possible for the director (Joseph Guzman) to throw on the screen it seems, so if that's your thing, then you are going to love this movie.  That probably won't come as a surprise if you've already watched his first film, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003YP79VG">Run Bitch Run</a>.  He also gives extra attention to disrespecting the church's conventions (again, not surprising given his previous movie), even over and above the little synopsis I gave, so if you think that would make you uncomfortable, then you should avoid this film at all costs.  With the title, you might think that was obvious, but the amount of anger leveled at the clergy's corruption is beyond even what's suggested there.  Here's the deal: If you're into exploitation movies, you're probably going to watch this.  I am, and did, and I wouldn't discourage anyone else from it, if they are also into this sort of thing.  But it all feels pretty flat to me.  For some reason I never could really get on Asun Ortega's side, which is a must if you're going to root for her when she starts wreaking holy vengeance.  And in the final act, as the members of Los Muertos meet their judgment day, it was just bang-bang-bang, and then it was pretty much over, except their leader's shrinkage moment.  I was at least expecting some inventive death scenes, but it's all pretty conventional  Most of the women in this film are rarely dressed, so there's that, except they aren't really all that attractive.  Actually, they look like they fit the part, either as skanky strippers from biker bars or as plain jane nuns.  David Castro, as the leader of Los Muertos, has a fairly commanding presence in the movie, kind of like a more grizzled Antonio Banderas.  At least he (Castro) looks like he was having fun in the process of filming.  And I have to admit that Ortega looks pretty sweet in her avenging angel garb.  Obviously the movie sets up for a part II, so we'll see what new nunnery depths Guzman has in store for us.  Or not, depending on how sleazy you find this first installment.  And it is, without a doubt, one of the more sleazy movies I've ever seen, barring some rough blue movies from the seventies.  That's probably what this film comes closest to, with a dose of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004MPJZ1O">I Spit On Your Grave (1978)</a>.  The difference is that the director of the original I Spit On Your Grave, Meir Zarchi, had some sympathy for his main character.  Guzman, not so much.

It had potential.... I think the story had potential, but it completely fell apart toward the end.  I haven't read all the other reviews, so I don't know if the cat has been let out of the bag with respect to how this movie ends.  I won't mention any specifics about the ending.  What I will say though is that I was left with the impression that the writers simply didn't know how to end it, so they came up with some totally whacked, nonsensical ending that did not wrap the movie together.  As for acting, I'd give it a 5 out of 10.  I've seen better, but surely I've seen worse.  Overall though I could only give it two stars b/c the writes completely bombed the ending.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? I really wanted to enjoy this movie but I'm sorry to say that watching an ice cube melt would've been more exhilirating. As usual when having white Liberal jackasses who are motivated by political correctness in every scene where the Marine Corps Infantry 'make up' is concerned, it was absolute B.S.! For some strange reason after watching this crappy movie I had a hankerin' for tortillas and fried chicken. As far as I'm concerned this was a wasted 16 bucks.

Major League Disappointment Onk Bak established Tony Jaa as the most talented martial arts star around. "The Protector (Honor of the Beast)" was also excellent. Both films have good story lines with amazing fighting. Onk Bak 2 was billed as a pre-quill to Ong Bak but it actually has no connection to the original Ong bak story line other than the name and Tony Jaa.  Ong Bak 3 is a major let down. There is only a thin plot. Tony Jaa's character "Tien" gets beat up and tortured at the beginning of the movie till he is near death. He then spends 3/4 of the film getting healed, then he seeks revenge late in film. The only real fighting takes place in the last 15 minutes. If you do get this DVD skip directly to the end. You won't have missed anything.  From things I have read on the internet Tony didn't want to make this film but was contractually forced to do it. Since Tony himself is listed as the films director he could have at least tried to come up with a story line that made sense. Unless you are a die hard Tony Jaa fan, stay away from this or look for highlights of the final fight scenes on YouTube.

Disappointing Blu Ray transfer This review is entirely about the Blu ray version  The transfer is absolutely shameful  Part of the grandeur of the  landscape was lost, and there were close ups which looked amateurish and artificial  And the Universal fiddly menu screens and extremely slow start up  If you want to this kind of fake Blu ray disc, don't bother . It's an insult to the movie and the paying customers  Shame on Universal, its a sacrilege !

Don't Waste Money on a Blu-Ray If you like slasher movies, you will enjoy this one.  The only problem here is that the quality of the print is so poor that any extra money spent on a Blu-Ray disc is wasted.  If you want to add this movie to your collection, buy the DVD because the Blu-Ray is not going to get you any better quality (certainly not 1080P quality).

Disappointed I was happy to see this item available at such a reasonable cost however, when viewing the episodes, some of them had problems - skipping sections of the video or just stopping for 10 - 20 seconds and them continuing.

Japanese Star Wars? Really? Miyazaki really missed the mark for me in this one, and here are my reasons why: 1. While I understand the theory behind the concept of finding balance in the "Force" in regards to Star Wars and Princess Mononoke, the hero simply came off as wishy washy in deciding who to help. He couldn't commit to anything or anyone. Where's my hero that stands up to the bad guys or leads us to a better way? 2. Following up on my #1 reason, the hero who helps people to destroy the earth is simply unacceptable to me. It is like saying that Darth Vader was the good guy after he killed all those kids in Jedi training. 3. While I understand that every side has their reasons for doing things, doesn't he know his Machiavellian philosophy: the ends do not justify the means. "Saving" prostitutes from their trade at the price of entire species, benevolent gods, and the environment is not hero worthy in my book. They chose that profession to begin with. There is always another choice - unless their parents sold them into the slave trade (of which that concept is unexplored and ambiguous). 4. I gave it 2 stars because at least it elicited an emotional response, albeit a negative one. This movie lacks the mature writing style of his later movies. In other words, this movie is not for kids of any age (in your heart or otherwise).  I love anime that brings me to another world that is beautiful or exotic, uplifts my spirit, or makes me yearn for more in my life. This movie left a sour taste in my mouth.

What was the point of the movie? WARNING SPOILERS!!! What was the point of the movie? That's the question I kept asking myself after the movie. What was the point of the movie besides making money and gearing up for the obvious sequel a few years down the road.  Terminator Salvation in my opinion is by far the worst terminator movie mainly because there is no point to the movie. No big secrets are revealed nothing new was done that hasn't been done before and better, and the story went no where except to make money and to get ready for more movies down the road.  The only actors that had any impact were Sam Worthington and Moon Bloodgood. They were the only two that felt alive during this movie. Christian Bale did a terrible job, and he's a good actor two. Which reflects badly on the director McG. After all he did direct the two bad Charlie's Angles movies.  The only real good thing about this movie were the special effects, but if that's the best thing you can say about a movie that isn't animated than that's not saying much.  Overall: A real disappointment, just skip it and wait for it to come out on DVD and rent it.

Average The movie wasn't to bad just needed better acting, the plot wasn't bad either zombie's makeup poor. I would rate 2 and half stars due to budget costs, something you could watch on redbox.

Mediocre and potential to teach racist language The songs and story line were a dud, not very interesting. Or perhaps it was just the racist language on both sides that distracted me.  "Savage" "White man" "injun" "demon." My daughter is only four and so didn't seem to pick up on it, but an elementary-schooler might pick up on some of the language.  And it didn't help that Mel Gibson, who can't sing, is the male lead and is known to have some racist views in real life.  Finally, Disney was unable to keep any deaths off camera and implied and so it was the first Disney movie which she asked what happened to this or that character (who was killed).  Pass on this one.

Could have been a pretty good keepsake? The editing in this feature left a lot to be desired in terms of what the actual show must have been.  The concert is inter-cut with a bunch of subplots of fans and their reactions to certain characters on the show, which is fine. Only in the process, actual performances were cut short or cut out altogether. The editing on some of the performances themselves was badly done as well. There was a whole jitterbug performance by Britney that was ruined due to bad camera work and editing.  Based on some other 3D live performances I have viewed, I found that less is more. Fast cutting and insane camera moves only help to pull you out of the feeling of actually being among the audience. I love get bird's eye views, but not if the camera is literally swooping on stage and past the actual performances.  The extra features included a bunch of intros to performances by Sue Sylvester that were disconnected that if actually part of the presentation, would have made more sense and made the show feel like a complete package.  And where was Mr. Schuester?! I mean if Holly Holiday (Gwyneth Paltrow) can have a cameo, where was he?  Was this whole production handled by a Fox intern?

The Guy Who Made Two Prior Pieces of Crap Couldn't Make A Competent "Halloween" Film... Go Figure. Once upon a time, someone decided it would be a great idea to let Rob Zombie make a movie: the result was a piece of crap known as "House of 1000 Corpses". Oddly enough, someone gave him money again and he came up with an even worse piece of crap: "The Devil's Rejects". Though showing no real talent nor any real distinct vision, someone decided to give ol' Rob the reigns on a "Halloween" remake and he delivered... yet another piece of crap. Only this piece of crap is destined to be compared to a rather simple, yet effective modern horror classic and what many consider to be the springboard for the modern slasher film.  People will say it's unfair to compare this remake with the original film that inspired it, but then those are probably the same un-thinking clowns who thought this whole enterprise would be a good idea anyways. Look, it's a film called "Halloween" with a storyline that mirrors a previous film called "Halloween" - how do you not compare the two? More importantly, this remake is so inept that you really can't help but think of the original and what it did (or didn't do) more effectively. If you were doing a remake of a small foreign film that no one ever heard of, you could probably get away without much comparison, but when you remake a film this well-known, you're pretty much asking for it... and crying foul when people do so seems a little ridiculous on your part.  Side Note: that particular criticism never makes any sense because the basic argument is that you should be open-minded enough to accept a new interpretation on an old idea, but the argument really works both ways. If you tell someone the remake sucked and the original was better, they often counter with how the original sucked and the remake was better. Aren't the people who champion the remake just as guilty of being closed-minded as those who deride it? Talk about a pot/kettle moment.  With that being said, Zombie gives us almost an hour of unnecessary backstory before propelling us into the by-the-numbers slasher plot that most viewers are accustomed to. Here it is in a nutshell: Michael Myers is a pudgy demented kid who has an equally annoying family and is taunted by even more annoying bullies. One day he snaps because this is pre-Jerry Springer so he can't go on television to get it all out of his system. After an hour of this, it's more-or-less Carpenter's original film as Michael, now a human tank, hacks and slashes his way back to Haddonfield in order to do... um... something. Zombie's script combines elements of the original "Halloween" and elements from "Halloween II" and tries to make you more sympathetic to Michael's mental imbalance. There's a lot of psychological mumbo-jumbo that doesn't really go anywhere and there's lots of ambiguity concerning what Michael's ultimate goal really was.  In the meantime, you get plenty of bad acting, multiple amounts of T&A (sans Mrs. Zombie - sometimes it pays to be married to the director) and no real scares. To say it's all rather unnecessary is putting it mildly. The only real fun to be had is by hardcore horror buffs who can make a game out of spotting-the-C-list celebrity (is that Mickey Dolenz? Hey, Ken Foree! Oh, it's Dee Wallace!) This is the only cheap thrill that the film seems to muster and aside from some clever casting, the movie really doesn't have much going for it. Since it's clear that the main focus of this film is Michael Myers, all the other characters are largely ancillary. Scout Taylor-Compton proves she's totally incapable of playing a convincing teenager (hired because Zombie felt she "wasn't too actor-y" - truer words were never said), though it's not entirely her fault since Zombie feels more at home writing scenes that feature the worst of cussing white trash than scenes of actual believable people. Laurie's friends are largely forgettable, but it is fun to see Danielle Harris (particularly if you remember her from previous sequels to the original "Halloween"). Here, she's mostly unnecessary and you sort of wish she was playing Laurie, though that would just send the fans of the original "Halloween" films into a mental geekgasm tailspin.  It's always fun to see Malcolm McDowell and Danny Trejo in nearly anything, but here they don't serve much purpose. Donald Pleasance may have only served the purpose to spout a lot of jargon about the nature of evil in the original films, but he chewed the scenery quite nicely and he's sorely missed here. Michael's nemesis, Sam Loomis, is largely underdeveloped here - so much so, that he's practically unnecessary, which is a shame because there's only so much you can do with a film centered around a walking slaughterhouse who's mute. Speaking of, there's Daeg Faerch, who plays young Michael Myers and he's horrible. Some people praised his performance, but I'm not sure they saw the same kid I did. He's unpleasant to look at (which you think would help when playing Michael Myers) and he's unconvincing. Apparently, he filmed scenes for Zombie's "Halloween II" but was cut because he was too tall, so they got another kid. This automatically makes "Halloween II" a better movie, but that's a whole other review all together.  Also, since this is a Rob Zombie film, Sherri Moon Zombie is in this and plays Michael's mother in the rather-lengthy backstory. Strangely, she's the only seemingly likable character in the whole film and seems to be the only character somewhat fleshed out (pun intended, cuz see... Michael's mother is a stripper in this film. However, paradoxically, Sherri seems to be one of the few female cast members who isn't nude in this film. Go figure.) The rest of the cast isn't of particular interest, so there's no real point in talking about them.  So, aside from some bad acting, what else makes the film seem so shoddy? Well, it's crystal clear that Zombie has an obvious affinity for late 70's horror films reminiscent of Wes Craven or Tobe Hooper, however, most horror fans won't admit that most of the horror films of that particular era just weren't very good, so it seems a somewhat odd choice of era to emulate with a film that's trying to appeal to today's youth. At any rate, there Zombie goes and succeeds in making us not like a single character on the screen. Quite a feat, really. Unfortunately, by doing this, we have no one to really sympathize with (sorry, I don't sympathize with Michael Myers either. Yeah, he had a bad childhood, but he seems just as likely to end up as Marilyn Manson as Michael Myers - the unstoppable killing machine.) With no one to sympathize with, it doesn't really matter what happens in the rest of the movie and, quite frankly, this film doesn't try really hard to generate any suspense. In that sense, I guess Zombie did succeed in emulating the likes of something like Wes Craven's original "The Last House on the Left": things just sort of happen and they film it, but it's not like you care about it too much.  There are also several other issues you seem to think about while watching this movie that cause you to not really care for it. For me, it was the following:  1.) What timeframe do the two halves of the movie take place in? The first half seems like the late 70's/early 80's, but the second half - supposedly taking place only 15 years later, has a clear post-2000 vibe.  2.) What is with the long hair? Nearly everyone in this film has annoying long hair (even Malcolm McDowell for quite awhile)... and it usually hangs in front of their face. WTF? This isn't scary, just annoying.  3.) If I have to watch one more horror film that features Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear The Reaper", I will spend my own savings to buy the rights to that song just so I can not license it to anybody and I don't have to hear that song in another horror film ever again.  4.) How come Michael emphatically kills some people, but lets others live for no discernable reason? Zombie establishes earlier that Michael has no boundaries (seemingly, the reason why Danny Trejo is killed), but then he lets Danielle Harris survive and Sam Loomis is only incapacitated. Guess you can't kill fan favorites in case there's a sequel.  5.) What's Michael's plan? He kills one of Laurie's friends and places the Myers tombstone above her and then abducts Laurie and shoves a picture at her that she has no idea how to interpret. Is his plan to kill her or just resume being a family again? Sure, things are just as ambiguous in the original, but here, they went through all the effort to explain Michael, yet his motivations are still entirely unclear.  6.) In both this film and the original, how come kids (and teenagers) running down a suburban street yelling "Help! Help!" never elicit any response from any neighbors... ever?  7.) When Laurie called 911 to help her friend Annie (Danielle Harris), the cops show up at the house Laurie runs back to though she called to get to help at the house that Annie was in. Later, Loomis and the sherriff (as well as an ambulance) show up at the house Annie is in and seem to ignore the patrol car (with lights flashing) at the other residence that Laurie went back to. How does the emergency crew know to show up at different houses?  8.) That "Trick or Treat" title card... really? What was that for?  Maybe I'm too meticulous in my nitpicking, but with a boring movie, you tend to think of these things. All in all, there's nothing to recommend this movie and you're not missing much if you never see it. I would recommend picking up the original. Though it's definitely dated, it's far more effective and really utilizes the theme of the holiday (the original film used traditional Halloween lore and activities far more extensively thus making the title appropriate. In the remake, it really doesn't matter if it's Halloween or not - these events seem like they could have taken place whenever.) In the end, I'm amazed this remake got made, but then again, Zombie made two previous films before this one and I'm really amazed that those got made, so I guess this shouldn't have been too much of a surprise.  If you're a fan of Rob Zombie, you'll love this film. If you're a fan of John Carpenter, you'll definitely hate it. If you like angry rednecks yelling and swearing at each other every five seconds, you'll love this. If you like fleshed-out characters and actual acting, you'll hate this. If you enjoy gratuitous nudity and incomprehensible story plotting, you'll love this. If you enjoy competent filmmaking and a script worth being filmed, you'll hate this.  Maybe Zombie will remake "Halloween III: Season of the Witch" next because that... well, that... I'd be curious to see...  "Five more days till Halloween, Halloween, Halloween. Five more days till Halloween... Silver Shamrock!"

Disapointed I read some pretty positive stuff about this movie so i ended up renting it, glad I didnt buy it. It was supposed to be really gory and have some real questionable material....meh. Its very rare that I give a horror movie a negative review, even the low budget crap ones but this movie just didnt do it for me.

Hard to like I had a problem with the premise of this movie.  Love George and Brad, but the idiocy of the plot and the unexpected and almost gratuitous violence ruined it for me.

2 1/2  stars for well acting but brutal film It was a coincidence that I watched this film from 2010 right after watching "Psycho" for the umpteenth time.  It is a slightly veiled horror film with similarly high production values but with disturbing images far more cringe worthy.  It also has a psychopathic killer at its core played all too realistically by Casey Afleck.  He is deputy sheriff Lou Ford in a west Texas town and like Norman Bates, has deep dark secrets.  Mild and cool on the outside, brutal on the inside.  Unlike "Psycho" however, we get to witness a full scale brutal attack on women who love Lou.  The director doesn't let up as Lou uses his fists to beat to death beautiful women.  Mercifully he only kills men with bullets.  I'm no shrinking violet to movie violence and I also realize this isn't real.  But am I entertained by such realistic brutality?  No.  The point can be made without it. The director chose to annoy his audience.  Hell, even the conclusion doesn't satisfy except to say that this mess is over.  I kick the overall grade up a notch because the actors are convincing, especially Casey Afleck.

Crappy sound I'm not about to go into the detail another reviewer did regarding Sensurround, etc. on this release but I just recently purchased the Universal 100th anniversary edition of this release, which apparently is the same one which was released in 2006! And while the picture is fine, the audio is not.  The volume level of the center (dialogue) channel is very low in the so-called 5.1 version (I didn't even bother to listen to the so-called 3.1 Sensurround track).  I really had to crank up the level on my receiver way higher than normal.  The low frequency effects which were there weren't at all impressive and I didn't hear any surround at all.  Of course, this movie was made before the days of Dolby stereo in theatres.  Also, I didn't remember that this was such a bad movie.  The cast seemed to almost limp thru their parts, the plot was a bore and even the earthquake effects weren't all that exciting, although I kept hoping that Ava Gardner would be hit by a giant falling slab of concrete.  Even Chuck Heston was off his mark.  This film was part of the disaster movie wave which was sweeping thru theatres in the 70's and had it not been for the great Sensurround effects which were played back in equipped theatres, it might have just been a .1 on the Richter scale.

MOMMY, I THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO BUILD A SNOWMAN The movie irritated me with the over abundance of first person narration and asides. It appears this was written as a play and no knew how to adapt it to the screen. Character is not built for you, but is read to you. It is easy to figure out "how she does it:"  1) Super mom has better organizing skills than most people. 2) SJP has no trouble lying. 3) She takes short cuts. 4) SJP totes half of the world's possessions in her bag. 5) She has both an educated nanny and husband who support her.  That is how she does it.  Everyone in the movie will look into the camera and say "I don't know how she does it." SJP's character's name is "Kate REDDY." Get it? Her arch rival among the other mommies is Wendy BEST. These authors could write porno with imaginative names like that. We could name the husband "Richard Reddy" wink wink nudge nudge. Oh, they did!  Sarah is struggling to keep up with everything when her job requires her to travel from a Hollywood version of Boston (one where no one has an accent) to NYC even though they have wide screen teleconferencing. Her idea is to develop a retirement account for seniors built upon foreign high dividend paying stocks. (My advice would be to use closed end funds. Some have the high dividend, pay monthly, and have less risk than emerging world stocks such as GOF or GLAD.)  I wasn't able to laugh at this comedy. I found out that if a woman signs her e-mail "XO" that means "I want you to enter me" or for a guy, just the reverse. There are also the typical family disappoints due to work.  This is a "chick flick" for a married woman...the one that doesn't cheat on her husband with James Bond when she has the opportunity. Perhaps high octane working moms might enjoy this film as they are shown as incredible super heroes who strive for the heart warming ending. The asides of Christina Hendricks toward the end of the film deal with the stereotypes of women in the workplace in an attempt to give the movie meaning. I was only mildly entertained.  No f-bombs, sex, or nudity. Mild swearing. "S" word but not as much as a certain South Park episode.  XO Mike

How Many Minutes Left? that's what i kept asking myself. the characters have no redeeming qualities, and do not evolve. borrrring! Benning's character is a caricature.

I enjoy a story w/political intrigue...but this isn't it. Thrones is dull. Every episode costs $3. It's overpriced. The scenery is lovely, and the series has one or two good actors. However, this story lacks irony and true character development (they're all "ordinary joes", which is supposed to make them identifiable-meaning they don't have true swings of temperment, ambitions, anything...) I don't care that that one is a king and this one is a little boy who is crippled for life because of an attempt on his life, or another is a car salesman from Toledo. There is never any doubt what any one of them is going to do. I can honestly say that after 2 episodes, that I know for certain that the aforementioned boy will somehow wreak violent revenge on the guy who pushed him off the tower-but only after much time (and viewer patience) has passed, and only for the death of his dad, which I foresee... I know the sister sold as a bride will wreak violent revenge on everybody for the death of her husband with the eyeliner. Yeah, I haven't seen the episode where he dies, but I'm quite certain he will. The car salesman from Toledo will have sex with somebody that is considered sexy because it's somehow violent itself (it's a rape, or it's incest, or something else gross). Then the salesman will plot dire revenge (which will only be death) against somebody for doing the very same thing he did. I envision more tournament battles amongst two characters to the death. I envision the discovery of many creatures that never play a significant part in the development of the plot, but will somehow be the deciding factor in some epic finale. (Maybe the white walker thingie? Or will the white walker thingies be a persecuted minority?) Anyway, after I post this, I'm gonna Wikipedia the series to see how many of these predictions were true. I might have missed one or two, but on the whole, I think I rather have the thing figured out. As one commenter put it, (who gave it 5 stars, by the way-wish I'd read her post before buying it) "it's renaissance porn with gore".

Maybe the director was trying to do the Cops TV Feel This review is mainly about the quality of this blu ray. Too bad no remastering was done to the video for blu ray. Just like some of the reviews there are scenes on this Blu Ray release that have too much grain. Could not believe the Blu Ray case has Hi Def experience listed on the insert. I thought I was watching an upscaled DVD of the movie. On some of the night shots there is so much present of grain the picture looks very bad and unwatchable. Just be warned before you buy.

Panoramic story squashed into a little box I have to admit disapointment in this movie. I did not realise it was edited from a much longer mini series. Whoever cut this, should hang their head in shame for I'm sure the original edition was much more worthy of praise. This film was ruined by shambolic editing. Their was too much going on over a long period of time. It could not be crammed into 130 mins. Arn and loved one was going through trials and tribulations at 100 mph. The makers of this film should have done the entire mini series on DVD - that, I'm told, is over 5 hours long. It would have been much more gripping - of this I'm certain.

HAMMER TIME This production has all the look, feel and quality of an 80's slasher film. It takes place during those obscure years tucked in between disco and Big Hair bands. America was still recovering from the shock of having elected an actor as President, an actor I would say was far better than any that appeared in this roughly edited film.  The movie uses the "killer's point of view" technique which means they jerk the camera around during some of the scenes, but they don't use the technique effectively. There was no character build-up and while we saw the killer, they didn't drop clues as to why he was knocking off the girls.? What was that line dance thing? And did we have to see the whole thing? Sex and shower scenes with no nudity and they dare to compare it to an 80's slasher film. It falls short of an 80's style slasher. Roger Corman laughs in your face.  F-bomb, sex, nudity (Riana Ballo)

Shoulda held out for Criterion Ick.  Burned again by Janus and the lure of a $20 DVD from B&N. Heads cut off, bad sound, bad picture... why didn't I hold out for Criterion?

An Okay Sequel There is a lot about the movie that I just don't really care for. The characters being probably the biggest problem of Hell On Earth. Terry Farrell was annoying as the lead and the slime ball club owner who you are supposed to hate just wasn't that interesting. If anything, he was just as annoying as Terry. The story itself isn't that memorable either. Out of the four theatrical Hellraiser movies, this is my least favorite.

Yet another unnecessary sequel. Bad acting, bad writing, neat idea. Best of series though. which is sad. I say C- "The locals are piling up outside, so let's just make this short and bloody."  Rayne is back, and this time she is trying to stop Hitler from being injected with her blood and becoming immortal.  For those that have seen the other two movies there is really no intro needed for this movie.  For those that haven't...Rayne is a half-man/half vampire that fights against full vampires.  After watching the first two movie in this series (1st one I suffered through, and the 2nd I couldn't finish) I was not looking forward to this one.  For those that know who Uwe Boll is you will know what I mean when I say he has a certain style (mostly meaning horrible movies).  The opening to this one was actually almost like a real movie, great music, camera work and made you want to keep watching.  Then about 20 min in you remember what made the first two bad and brought you back to earth.  This is pretty much badly choreographed fighting mixed with a lot of blood and nudity, a lot of nudity.  Once again it seems like a good idea falls very, very short and this movie is a struggle to get through.  As you may have noticed I start each review with a quote from the movie that sums up what it is about.  The only one that was applicable is one that contains short and bloody.  To be fair this is the best one (film making) wise of the three.  Overall, If you are going to watch any of this series this one is the easiest to get through.  That's about it.  I give it a C-.  Would I watch again? - Nope  *Also try - Bloodrayne 1 & 2

Cliff Hanger and Outcome Too Straightforward I honestly got bored of the SAW franchise a long time ago. With movies like these, the movie industry wonders how come piracy has increased?  Reason 1: The overall price to watch movies has increased. I use to be able to watch a movie at the theater for about $3.50-5.50...now with 3D it's like...what? $13-15?? Per person? The DVD of this is sold here for $19~ and the blue ray is $30?!  Reason 2: Decline in movie quality. Remakes....remakes of remakes...drawing a movie or tv show out until it is literally boo-ed off and can no longer be milked.  Reason 3: Higher availability of high quality pirated material.  Saw: The Final Chapter, can be a good example that fits into reason 2. I admit, it's not a horrific sequal/finale (...no more please...) But movies that have 3D in them seem to be using 3D as a clutch, substituting good plot, acting, and general movie quality for cheap effects. The term "ain't how it use to be" applies somewhere here. My problem with this final is that it is now literally a movie for people that get a kick for watching other people suffer...and that's it.  SPOILER ALERT!! SPOILER ALERT!!  After the "victim"  fails the second time and not being able to save the second person, I already got the impression that this movie has no other objective, but to thrill the viewers with more and more scenes of gore and torture. Usually there's a surviver or so that tags along and makes you feel "oh okay, maybe they can survive it!". This movie is too predictable.  Let's see.  Who here predicted that Sean Flanery aka Bobby (the main victim of the movie) was going to get captured and that he would be the main victim of the movie? Who here predicted that the cops, etc, that entered the 'torture' base where Bobby was being kept were being led into a trap and would die? Who here predicted after the second victim's death that this movie was not really about the possibility of survival, but a gore fest...one after another? Who here predicted that his wife would die in the end? Who here predicted that Jigsaw's wife (ex? forgot...) would die even while under police protection?  If you were the ones that were able to predict those, then congrats, you have a brain or you're experience in watching enough movies to tell. If you weren't able to predict all that and still made a review on here...well...  Anyway...gore and torture is fine with me (even though that's a sick thought altogether) but I would like a good movie to go along with that. Please do not make anymore SAW movie.  SO TO THE MOVIE INDUSTRY, IF YOU WANT PIRACY TO STOP, STOP MAKING CRAPPY MOVIES AND LOWER THE MOVIE PRICES. BY RELEASING LOW QUALITY PRODUCTS, YOU ONLY HURT YOURSELVES IN THE END.

Only the cars shine in this movie!! I saw this movie today and I thought what a thin plot. A guy just trying to get home to see his wife deliver. Kinda thin but hey I watched it anyway. The acting was so so but the best acting was by the radio guy Jason Priestly if that says anything. The car chases are really the only thing that keeps you interested in this movie if you're a Mopar fan. Still for the price they want for this movie I could find 5 other car chase movies that are all better. I'm glad I was one of the ones paying this outrageous price or I might have committed suicide.

Disappointred Having read all the Sharpe novels, I was excited to watch the DVDs.  Not knowing how they were going to be, I ordered a few and just watched the first one.  Sharpe's Rifles.  Where do I start?  The acting is horrible.  Sean Bean and the writers catch  none of Sharpe's personality.  The battle scenes which were small ones in this story were terrible.  They looked like what you'd see in a high school stage production.  I don't even know what to say about Wellington except that was not a good portrayal.  Sgt Harper is off by about 6 inches and 100 lbs.  Did I mention how flat Sean Bean is?  It needs to be mentioned twice.  I hope the others are better.  Thankfully I started with only 3.

Where did all that blood come from? My biggest complaint about this movie and the reason I gave it such a low score all revolves the setting, which also happens to be major motivation factor for 75% of the characters of the movie, I feel compelled to reveal that I was vastly, VASTLY disappointed with the plot twist revealed at the the end of the tv show; that the alchemical gate leads to an alternate universe , IE the historically identical to our own or "real" world, mostly because taken in context of the setting of the rest of the series, it doesn't make sense: not geographically, not historically, and not in terms of how the mechanics of alchemy work according to this twist.  Just for starters, Eastern Europe isn't well known for its vast deserts, a religion that is 15 centuries old and followed by almost everyone on one continent, half of another, and large chunks of a third at the time when the two realities split hardly qualifies as an easily dropped "cult" as Dante terms it in the series, and if the souls of the real world fuel alchemy in one world, then what do the dead of the other world fuel in the real world? Another flaw in the stupid mechanics of alternate world death fuel: how is alchemy supposed to work for the Thule society again if there's no alchemy in the real world? And DON'T say "physics" because the basic laws of physics clearly exist in the FMA universe as well.  Also, why would Ed, all limbs intact, cross the gate completely and show up on the other side missing limbs again?  That's never really explained.  ANYway, setting all that aside, what about the movie itself?  Well, it, ah . . . kinda blows.  The plot is clunky, character motivations are shaky, and I never understood why the Thule society thought that the alternate world would be paradise.  They had Hohenhiem right there to tell them that actually it was just as war torn and messed up as their own reality.  And they knew about the power of alchemy in that other world.  What made them think they'd have any chance at world domination when they didn't even know how to control, fight with or defend against the most powerful weapons that alternate world had to offer?  This will seem silly, but my second biggest complaint is Al's outfit.  Did he find Ed's old wardrobe?  Couldn't they give the poor kid his own set of clothes and not make him a clone and a painful/confusing reminder to all those for whom Ed is basically dead?  I know he lacks four years of memories and physical development, but that's no excuse.  Why does he have to have the same outfit as Ed?  It's lazy.  It's a stupid thing to be annoyed by, but I didn't need the red coat to remind me that I'm watching an FMA spin off.  I'm not even going to start on his ability to transmute without a circle when he doesn't remember the gate, the knowledge and memory of which is clearly shown to be the enabler of said ability.  So also, I guess there are some plot holes.  On the whole, the movie just raises more questions than it answers, which since it is a series ender is kind of a problem. The only thing it really resolves is whether Ed and Al ever get to meet again. (Spoiler alert: yes.)  Oh, and also I guess you learn how the characters who die end up.  And where all that blood comes from.  On the plus side the animation is pretty good.  So there's that.  All in all, it was neither satisfying nor entertaining.

Get Me To Another Movie I can honestly say that this was a movie I did not enjoy watching. I sat through the whole thing only because I wanted to give it a chance to become more entertaining for me. Sadly, it never happened. There were some very brief moments in the film that were mildly entertaining for me. Not enough to make me want to give this movie more than a 2-star rating. I usually like Jonah Hill's comedic range. This movie was just a little too out there for me. I'm not trying to bash the movie in any way. I am merely saying that it did not live up to my expectations. I didn't really know what to expect when I started watching it. It probably had more to do with the actions that took place in the movie that I didn't particularly enjoy seeing. This is the first review I've ever written here on this site where I really do not feel like recommending this movie at all to anyone. It's the kind of movie that people will see if they want to see it.

Disappointed I was very disappointed in this video.  I thought it was for the Tonight Show but it was very early Johnny Carson.  Some of it was funny, but it certainly wasn't what I thought it would be.

HO-HUM, ANOTHER HORNY GHOST STORY Ghost tries to rape young woman - how sickening and unoriginal.  Samantha usually sleeps in some type of p.j. but the night the ghost is going to attack her, she's in her Victoria Secret undies?  Give me a break.  And listening to Tom's winded breathing all through this movie was annoying. In one scene, she's screaming topless in a bathtub - while wearing jeans? THEN, we finally see the real subject of the movie.........HER BOOBS!  Actually, the movie was MERCILESSLY boring until the end so, I gave it two stars for the end.

Not happy.  Read the book.  Much better. Very disappointed by this movie.  The book was great and so I anticipated the movie would be as well, especially after seeing who was going to star in the movie.  Very disappointed.  Slow moving movie - lots missing...

Sorry This for me was an unnecessary retelling and remake of the 2002 version. The 3d is underwhelming and the movie is colorless. The Spider-man suit has now been darkened as Superman's was in "Superman Returns" and the upcoming 2013 Superman (which is actually darker), making the overall movie dull. The Batman reboot was supposed to be dark; he was a dark character, but Superman and Spider-man should be portrayed as bright lights in a dark world. Maybe if it was made as another Spider-man episode, and not a remake of a movie just out in 2002, I might have felt differently.

If you like carbon copies then you'll love The Fright Night remake 3.5/10 That is a play on the tagline of The Original Movie. The Fright Night remake which is better acted than the original better effects & in all instances is better than the original. IF YOU ARE HIGH! I know that's mean & rude but that's how I feel. I'm going to tear this movie a new a  s  s hole. This was just another pointless remake just like The Halloween remake just like The Nightmare On Elm Street remake & so many others. As I have always said we all have our likes & dislikes when I hate on a movie it's not against the fans of that movie it's against the movie. This is a rant so don't leave mean & rude comments or I will reply in kind if I mispell things in this rant well it's a RANT. I don't hate every remake. I like The Thing from 1982. The Blob from 1988, The Fly from 1986. Even remakes made the past few years like Dawn Of The Dead, The Hills Have Eyes & The Friday The 13th remake. Before I rant on this pos let me tell  you 2 ideas that would've made this unique. Todd Farmer had a script that would've had Tom Atkins & Jamie Lee Curtis star in incresingly bad remakes of Fright Night they work The Horror Convintions & Jamie Lee would've been written as a money hungry coward. Jerry Dandridge's assistant Billy would've fought Derek Mears at a Horror Convintion. The structure would've been the same as the original but would've had different situations that were diffent & more violent. Charley would tell Tom Atkins what he saw Tom Atkins would've been amused & just played along cause he had nothing better to do. Another script would've taken place where Fright Night is just a popular movie the main character believe's a Vampire lives next door he wouldn't seek out the help of anyone named Peter Vincent. He would seek out the help of Chris Sarandon who played Jerry Dandridge in the original Fright Night who would know better if there is a Vampire next door. If you wonder why this got rejected everyone in the board room loved the ideas I think they were brillant. Head Executive Of Screen Gems Clint Culpepper the same studio who gave us The Prom Night remake which is a CW version & an insault to the original & The Stepfather remake said "Duh I don't get it." Yeah but you thought that The Prom Night remake was an awesome idea you dip s  h  i  t. It's The Clint Culpepper's of the world why movie quality is down from the 80's & 90's they should be cleaning out the toilet's at the studio not making the decison's Dreamworks had a hand in this movie at 1 time they wanted to make it family friendly which explains the low body count & cartooney gore. Anyway let's get to this Teeny Bopper version of Fright Night. Made on a budget of $30 million made $18 million in The US. internationally it made $23 million so worlwide it made $41 million but it was a bomb cause do you know how much extra money goes into the marketing & advertising & the gross share of money among theaters. Directed by Craig Gillespie he directed Mr Woodcock & Lars & The Real Girl on top of directing episodes of Untited States Of Tara. He had about as much credibility directing a horror film as George Tillman did directing a action movie. It stars Anton Yelchin as Charley Brewster, Colin Farell as Jerry Dandruff I mean Dandridge I say that cause he has the hair cut that's straight out of Twlight. David Tennant as Peter Vincent, Toni Collette as Jane Brewster she was on that show UST so that's how she got the job. Imgoen Poots as Amy peterson & Christopher Mintz Plasse as "Evil Ed". Story is Jerry Dandridge kills this family. Then you have a joke orf an opening where Fright Night pops up it just looked so cheap. So you have The CW version of Fright Night that takes place in The Suburbs Of Las Vegas so they can relate to The CW crowd. Your introduced to Charley Brewster & his Mom Jane & Charley's Girlfriend Amy that looks straight out of The CW & their relationship isn't believeable. Charley's Mom looks straight out of The CW. I mean when I was growing up not very many of the kids I knew had hot Mom's they looked like real Mom's even in the older horror movies most of the Mom's looked like real Mom's they weren't hottie's. Charley is just so unlikeable he turned his back on his friend Evil Ed to be popular & hang out with the cool kids & be a tool. The kid at the beginning that is killed was friends with Evil Ed Charley used to hang out with them. Your introduced to Jerry Dandridge who looks like an older version of the lead dork in The Twlight movies he has the pale skin & the hair cut. You haved Evil Ed tell Charley that his neighbor is a Vampire. I was like wtf it didn't make sense. They take a stab at Twlight which I'm thinking this movie has a villain that looks straight out of Twlight. You also have homage after homage like Jerry eating an apple like in the origina. Evil Ed talks smack about Charley's girlfriend & calls him out on why he's became jerk. Charley shoves Evil Ed & tells him "You know when my life started getting better is when I stopped being friends with you."So I'm suppose to root & care about this a  s  s hole. Wouldn't have been bettter if Evil Ed was the lead since he seems to know about Jerry being a Vampire & Charley is unlikeable there is no likeable characters& I will say until the day I die "When I don't care about the characters I don't care about the movie." There's a scene where Jerry asks Charley for some beers & Colin Farrell in this scene just kept talking & talking & I was like dude STFU. Charley seeks out the help of Peter Vincent who is a Magican & an expert in the occult & that makes him an expert in Vampires & his parents were killed by Jerry Dandridge & he doesn't help Charley. You have them do another homage to the original where Charley is looking out the window & not paying attention to Amy & he falls asleep & wakes up when he hears screams from next door. Jerry leavs the house so Charley breaks into his house he picks a lock to get in he looks up how to pick a lock on his i phone the director needs to google how to direct. Charley finds these secret rooms he finds this lady from next door. Jerry returns wow that was a quick trip. Jerry bites her . Charley tries to rescue this chick when they get outside the girl dies due to the sunlight. Which that was the quickest turn from human to vampire & she died in a horrific CGI effect. Later on you have Jerry go to their house Charley won't let him in so Jerry digs us a gas line & sets the house on fire they get out of there. Jerry throws a motorcycle into the back of the van. The effect of the motorcycle going into the back of the van is really shoddy CGI. Everytime taht Jerry rams the van with his truck & the glass breaks in the van in a cartoon CGI effect. Jane runs Jerry over & he hides under the van. You know what this reminded me of the episode of The Simpsons where Side Show Bob hid under the car. He starts punching holes under the van they stop the van. Then you have scene that made me mad as fire you have Jerry in his Vampire form which is done in some horrible CGI he kills a motorist played by Chris Sarandon the original Jerry Dandridge. To say were the new Fright Night I seriously wanted to find Craig Gillespie & yell the right act at him cause this movie is an insault to the original.  & The CGI for Jerry's Vampire form is awful. You mean to tell me that practical effects can't be done anymore cause they can I've seen direct to DVD movies on $5 & $10 million budgets do it. Practical effects like the make up effects blood squibs can all still be done. They just don't do it cause there lazy. Jane takes a Century 21st sign & stabs Jerry in the back was that suppose to be funny or suppose to be a moment to make you yell yeah get him. Either way it fell flat. Was Century 21st sponsering this movie btw.  Jane faints I don't know how or why she did. They have Charley act sorry for the way he treated all his old friends which I didn't buy just like I didn't buy Charley & Amy's relationship in this movie.  Perter Vincent calls Charley they go to his place. Then you have Evil Ed come in to try & kill Peter Vincent now the original Peter Vincent was afraid of The Vampires nut his reactions felt real & he had great moments like when he fights Evil Ed in the original or when he kills Evil Ed in the original or when he fires that gun at Billy or helps Charley fight Jerry Dandridge in the original. Even in Fright Night II Peter Vincent has more to do than Peter Vincent in the remake plus you had Roddy McDowall who was great. Charley & Amy kill Evil Ed. Jerry chases after them all the way to a Night Club like in the original Jerry puts Amy under a trance & bites her like in the original. I'd rather watch the original. Cause when they constanly referance & homage a previous movie I'd rather watch the original. Charley goes off buys stuff to kill Vampires when he suits up it's not cool like Alice in NOES 4 it's laughable it's like The Ghostbusters version of a Vampire Killer. I'm going to skip ahead basically Peter Vincent fires a shot gun at Jerry Dandridge & he can't shoot to save his life. Charley puts on a fire suit sets himself on fire & when he puts on the mask Anton Yelchin looks so goofy I just paused & laughed at it. I mean this dude is on fire for over a minute I don't think a fire suit can last that long you'd probably be a crispy critter. Anyway Charley catches Jerry on fire he burns up in a atrocious CGI effect then Charley puts the stake into his chest & he dies in some of the worst CGI i have ever seen. Charley & Amy get it on at Peter Vincent's place & I'm glad this movie was over. The cast was terrible imo. There was nobody to root for. They got picked cause they had pretty faces not on acting ability. I'm tired of this CW look in horror movies. Jerry Dandridge looks like a Twlight dork. The CGI is atrocious. The score is forgettable by Ramin Dsueadi it has nothing on the great scores from Fright Night 1 & II. I'm glad this movie tanked I doubt there's going to be a Fright Night 2 Electric Boogaloo. Craig Gillespie you should be ashamed. Anton Yelchin  I don't blame him for doing bad in this movie I blame the writing. Colin Farrell was horible & he went on to ruin another classic Total Recall which was another reamke that he's done & it tanked. Toni Collette was bad. Imogen Poots replace the T with a P & that sums up what I thought of her perfomance. Dabid Tennant wasn't any good & The Peter Vincent character was pointless in this movie. Christopher Mintz Plasse was ok. Just watch the original & part II this movie just blows.

Another mediocre gay comedy... I honestly wish I could say that "Bear City" is not your typical indie gay comedy--and indeed some elements of the film differentiate it from most of the other gay indie comedies that seem to sprout up like toadstools these days. But those very elements that distinguish this film--the focus on bear culture, the bashful twink who "comes out" as a bear-lover, and the depiction of love and sex among gay men who do not resemble Abercrombie & Fitch models--are so thoroughly transformed into standardized gay tropes that the movie is ultimately stripped of its originality and settles into a formulaic, plot-less pattern of mildly amusing vignettes with no real focus or story structure. We are ultimately left with vapid platitudes assuring us that bears don't need to conform to queer norms of beauty in order to find love and happiness. And it takes them only 90 minutes to deliver this profound and provocative message (YAWN).

Probably not what you are hoping for... I'll make this short - I rented this because I love "found footage" horror movies. This one operates on that premise, and the trailer looked pretty good. The first half of the movie delivers a promising setup - the last half is a complete and utter disappointment. By the end, I guarantee you'll be asking yourself, "is that all there is?!?"  It's like the filmmaking team simply quit at the halfway point and just figured they could throw in any predictable, boring ending. And that's what they did. I suggest to my friends that they not waste their money on this film, despite the packaging and the trailer.  SPOILER ALERT:  Al least half the movie is spent wandering aimlessly and (with one very very brief exception) through a disused outdoor plant "labyrinth" utterly without any kind of surprise or "horror" or, really, anything interesting. You WILL fastforward several times during these tedious scenes.

Okay. The movie is okay, but it left a lot to be desired. It had potential, but didn't quite reach it. Save this one for when you're truly bored and anything will do.

What an annoying movie I guess those who enjoy movies from a box-seat of film-critiques find this movie superb, and I kind of get their points. It's a classic in its theme, content and emphasis on the story. But acting itself was centered on one person--the male protagonist. The female character was lacking in her skill as an actress. Also I find it annoying the way most French movies keep ranting about love. Give me a break! Love this, love that, yak yak, dreamy intellectualism and what not. I suggest you pass, unless this is a required movie for your Film 101 class.

Lost potential This movie had all the right ingredients: All star cast, good plot, great location. Some how the result was less than spectacular. That is 103 minutes of my life that I will never get back.

The Worst Avengers Movie Yet I've been amped for Marvel's tie-ins to The Avengers next year, but this one is a real stinker.  Yeah Iron Man 2 wasn't the deepest movie, but the plot here is completely superfluous.  They spend waay too much time showing what a wimp Steve Rogers is, then basically throw him into WWII with almost no exposition or real plot.  Somehow the Red Skull has gotten a hold of the Cosmic Cube, but with no idea what to do with it, and Cap has even less idea what's going on.  It's like a condensed version of what the movie should have been, but with just a beginning, and an end.  The pay-off for the epilogue is almost it's only saving grace, which is basically another trailer for Avengers, then an actual teaser trailer for Avengers.  Enough hype already, just bring on the main event.

PG? Not! I loved this movie as a kid, but now ordering it for my 9 year old, I was shocked to watch it again and hear not only several profane words, but the "f" bomb, as well as many sexual references. I think they were a bit lax in their rating system back then-- definately more of a PG-13.

Midsummer Night's Dream We were dissapointed to discover that the DVD that we got was the same format and picture quality as the original VHS. I believe there is a restored version, we streamed a good quality full screen version from Netflix and I will be looking for this on DVD.

Sound is really bad The shipping and handling time was reasonable. The price was not bad to be a "brand new" movie, however,  the audio is very poor. I had to turn my tv's volume up really high and still the audio wasn't good. Also, throughout the whole movie, the audio randomly goes on and off completely, this happens constantly.

"Wrath" of hollow film making. After the great special effects laiden but terribly done remake of "Clash of the Titans", it was expected a sequel would come. Now with "Wrath of the Titans" it has, in this flick Perseus (Sam Worthington, "Man on a Ledge") is asked by his father Zeus (Liam Neeson, "Taken") to help the gods before Hades (Ralph Finnes, "Red Dragon") releases the Titans from the underworld and they along with their demonic leader Kronos can wage war on the earth and the heavens.  Thats about it for the story, the sets are lush and impressive, and much like "Clash" there's not a lot of good acting (which honestly isn't what people go to these movies for). A few other characters in the cast are Ares (Edgar Ramirez, "Vantage Point"), Agenor (Toby Kebbell, "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time") and Queen Andromeda (The beautiful Rosamund Pike, "Die Another Day"). As we all know with these type of movies, the main focus is the action and special effects which are the only good parts of the film. The creatures are impressive especially Kronos but like the Krakken in "Clash" it makes a big splash but isn't on for long.  Of course if you don't turn your brain off before watching this you'll be bored 10 minutes in, sadly I did this and it still got boring. This should've been called "Wraith" not "Wrath" cause any tension, suspense or caring for the characters is as transparent as a Wraith. "Immortals" to me was a perfect example of how to do a swords/sorcery/gods themed movie, "Clash" missed the mark and "Wrath" does also. So "Wrath" is great to look at but just so hollow. *1/2 out of 4 stars.

Unacceptable DVD quality Have I purchased a cheap pirated version or is this what passes for a studio quality release? Give me a break. Are my wife and I are hostages to this awful vertical blur on the entire season, just because we're big fans of the show?  We rented the first 3 seasons from Netflix and there was no quality issue at all. What the hell?  When I purchased the "brand new" Forth Season Volume 1 from Ebay, I had to return it, because I thought it was just a bad pirated copy. Then we bought volume 2 from a different supplier and experienced the same thing. How could CBS do this to their customers. We continue to watch the episodes because we love the show. But the quality truly sucks!

Below Average Well, as it usually happens with continuation of the original brands, specially in Hollywood, the follow up parts tend to be worse than originals.  I am a huge fan of the 1st movie, and the 2nd/3rd while not as dynamic as the 1st, was still good watch. The 4th movie however is just a mess of running around, rampage, things falling, out of place "humor", etc etc etc. There were a ton of characters and "sides" that participated in this so called "adventure" yet essentially resulted in nothing. The main villain, the Black Beard was far less fearsome and impressive than main villains from the previous movies. Barbosa was plain out of place, and Jack Sparrow was running around trying to fit in every scene, and drop few lines, before running off to next. Overall I was bored and disappointed. =(

dissapointing end to an otherwise entertaining series... The Saw series has had it's up and downs... Mostly it has retained enough entertainment to keep viewers coming back.  The weakest of them being Saw V.  Saw Vi came back with a great amount of steam...So I anticipated the end of the story to be just as good.  But no a dissapointing full circle plot.  This film was condensed from two films and rushed.  Jigsaw has a minor role in the film though his cameo is a pleasant one, it does not feel like a Saw movie.  It feels like a watered down version of a flashy slasher flick.  I hope they do make 8 just to make up for how uncreative this installment is..

what the hay!? ordered this movie on blu ray new and when i got it the disc was new but the case had been warped from heat damage and looked obviously recycled. kinda a big deal considering it was advertised as new. i wouldn't recommend this seller. if your going to reuse a case or disc then you better have the decency to give me one in great condition and not warped and wrinkled. i would not recommend this seller nor use them again. i was excited to get this and was disappointed at the results. what a bummer.

B movie The movie was kind of low budget and more like a college film class movie/project than anything. Some disconnects in it where the story didn't make sense. The overall concept was interesting, using greek myth to drive the theme. B movie when you're bored.

Not the Book A loose adaptation of Ken Follet's novel that concerns the lives of various people involved in and around the building of the Kingsbridge Cathedral. Set against the backdrop of civil war in medieval England, the story includes elements that capture the violence and confusion of the times, including rape, murder, arson, war, and political intrigue.  Despite its length (nearly 1000 pages) and minor imperfections, the book is far more worthy of your time.

Actually pissed off after watching it Maybe I take on the mood of the film, but this left me angry.  First it runs on way too long during times when it is unnecessary. You have to listen to the churchgoers go on and on and on spewing their hatred - it takes up most of the movie. Yes, the characters were great, the acting was fantastic. I absolutely loved John Goodman. Damn it, though I wish the movie told me something I didn't know. Instead it just worked real hard at converting me into a cultist through exposure. Oh, and how the hell is this a horror movie?

Slow This movie is slow.  It does not progress very well and has a predictable plot and ending.  The acting is bad.  I was hoping for better but I was disappointed.

Blackmail Boys If you buy this film (DVD) based on the Shumanski name, and were looking forward to a film, as creative and cutting edge as their other film `Wrecked' save your money. This title should be rented only, if you buy it, my guess is you will only watch it once.  If you are a hard core Shumanski fan, you might watch it twice.

Not very good. I am a history buff. I was disappointed in these. Same old archival footage that you have seen a hundred times before, and not any new insight on the battles. Boring. My advice is don't waste your money. If you know nothing of history, you might find them useful for understanding a history class, but very little here.

Movie 5 stars -- This Edtion 2 stars The review from Naked Truth "KC" is true.  Even though product is advertised as "UNCUT", it actually is the uncut version but certain scenes are CENSORED which is very annoying.  This version comes from Korea, and compared to the (original) version from Italy (which I later bought from VECOSELL) video quality is slightly worse.  So considering the price + the censored scenes + worse video quality, I would not recommend it.

Boring is a compliment Very slow moving film. To say it is boring, is kind. Great premise, but horrible execution. It's almost like they took useless scenes that any other director would cut out and discard, but this film is as if most of it is composed of scenes that should have been tossed out. They add very little to the story.  Many of the potential plot points are barely developed. If this was a Film School assignment, I would give it just a C for at least keeping the camera in focus; the rest would get a D.  I would avoid this one unless you have nothing better to do than waste the time.  I know there are those who will be all angsty about negative reviews like this. That's OK. Not everyone agrees with Ebert all the time either. Let's keep this in perspective: I think most will agree the film is not of the caliber of Dracula, Halloween, Carry, Elm Street, The Shining, or similar 'films'.  It's a B movie at best - something worth a watch on a Saturday afternoon TV movie. Most video games are more entertaining. Do yourself a favor - watch a good horror movie. It could also tell you something when they have this DVD marked down to $10 at some retail outlets. Even Amazon has it half price.

Silly story I saw this when it first came out. Maybe because of all the explosion and shooting, I didn't realize how stupid the story was. No wonder it totally bombed at the box office, even with Clooney and Kidman. This ain't 007 or Die Hard, so don't try to be one. I just hope that the real peacemakers are smarter than this. If you are not ready to simply turn off your brain for two hours, skip it. But if you still want to judge it for yourself, then stop reading.  1. The fighting scene on the bridge is ridiculous. Is this how US army works, I mean sending one person down to kill all the enemy, then the rest of the team joins him? 2. If you know a nuclear bomb is coming into NY, you don't sit in the office and wait for someone to tell you the flight has already landed. 3. You have an FBI team to capture someone, do you send everyone to his room, leaving nobody to watch the exits?  This just goes on and on.

Confusing Okay, the movie is called "King Arthur" and opens with the statement that historians feel that King Arthur was a real person. Presumably that means that the story will be about the real King Arthur. This is nothing like the Le Morte d'Arthur. The timeline of events are mixed up. The backgrounds are distorted. The geography is odd. Who dies when and how is also in dispute. The familial background of the characters is distorted. The step-up for the love triangle is completely destroyed. Merlin is discounted. So, just from the standpoint of the audience's expectation by the title alone, this is a disappointment.  The characters are empty, one dimensional and not very interesting. I like a lot of these actors, so it's really too bad that they weren't given anything to do. Poor Kiera Knightly is herself in everything. If she added, "Mr. Darcy" to the end of her lines, should could have been saying many of her lines in Pride and Prejudice. There wasn't anything period about the writing or the style of acting- not just by her, but by everyone. And when she starts shooting arrows with her broken fingers and no clothes on in the snow, that was about all I could take. I got tired of watching this about halfway through. I want to be entertained, but you either have to make the story so good that it's easy to suspend reality or you have to make it seem real. This did neither.

Sorely Disappointed Book came in very poor condition, despite the fact that it was promised to be in good shape by the seller. There are large sections that are highlighted and the barcode on the bag is almost completely faded. I am disappointed,especially after being deceived by the seller's inflated ratings. I encourage the seller to take more care while reviewing his or her product before listing the product's condition an d before shipping it to customers.  Sincerely, Unsatisfied

Exceptional Story - Unecessary Gore and Violence The story line is exceptional. Movie stays true to the comic and has flashes of greatness that COULD have been enjoyed by the whole family had the director not felt the need to include large amounts of gratuitous, unecessary, and ultra-gruesome violence. I think it would have actually been MORE effective to have left much of the violence to the viewers imagination. Without the graphic violence, this would easily have been a five star review. Love the movie, but cant stand to watch it. What a shame.

Empty Empty and boring.  Having a famous actress in the lead role does not save one from the boredom of the movie.  I guess since I gave Robin Hood two stars this one deserves the same.  Why not one star?  Believe or not, I have seen worse.

Movies are OK, but full-frame only... These movies from Lionsgate are available at a fair price, but they reuse old transfers (likely from original video sources). They are not remastered at all, and are all presented full-frame only. I would not recommend the set unless you are a fan of one of the films. I don't expect perfection from older films, but if Severin, Code Red or even Anchor Bay had released these, they would probably be properly framed at least.

Safe House Hype Sorry my wife purchased this movie.  Denzel is a great actor, but while watching the movie I had to check to see if we were having an earthquake or if I've had too much coffee.  I almost got seasick watching this. The camera work is terrible, always shaking and moving all around.  Maybe the camera people had too much coffee ? What were they hiding ?  A poorly developed screen-play I guess.  Characters are poorly developed. Even Denzel couldn't save this flick.  Don't waste your time.

Emma Smith My Story Production values are good (I believe this shares some scenes with "Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Revelation), but the narrative is painfully slow and the message heavy-handed. This is unlikely to appeal to many but the most devout mormons. Others looking for a movie about mormon history would be better off with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007WQHQ2">The Work and the Glory</a> and its sequels.

will not play in an xbox or an xbox HDDvD player I absolutely adored this movie when I was a child and jumped for joy when I saw that I could get it on dvd, only to be absolutely crushed that I could not get it to play in the xbox's at our house. In very small print it says on the back of the case that this movie is 'protected' and will not play in some players equipped with a recording device...  for such an obscure movie I think that this is a bit overboard and no where in the item description does it mention anything about this at all. And I just can't afford to go out and buy a dvd player just to play one movie :(

Two & 1/2 stars; worth a rental, but ... Negatives first, or positives first? OK, get it over with.  Negatives: If you're still into comics books then this movie is a natural. Comic book visuals' knockoffs i.e. interspersed throughout the movie are cheaply drawn, within multiple rectangles, snapshots of different events unfolding at once - done before, boring; frequent graphics with a cheap world map showing a little airplane and dotted lines as it moves from city to city (a cheap way of not filming in those cities but pretending to); similarly are lots of comic drawings introducing each character. Examples, a sketch and brief bio is shown for each of the following characters: The Ukraine Enforcer, The Boss, The Pervert, The Loner, The Extrovert, The Exhibitionist, The Survivor, The Seeker, The Assassin, The Client. You can tell by the list that the characters are weighted heavily toward stereotypes.  A not too creative plot of the usual Eastern European bad guy losing his incriminating hard drive to his girl friend who has run off. A hit girl is hired to get it back and kills a lot of people in the process. Interjected into this well worn plot are a couple of searching-for-themselves guys who start a detective agency and guess who they're hired to track down - yep, the girl with the hard drive.  Props a bit hokey like manequins and green screen for people who lose a body part or two; bullet hole decals that always seem to be precisely placed in the middle of the forehead. Usual unlimited ammo. Not a good flow in the directing and filming - disjointed.  Positives: Nudity (but not cover model level) for the guys, and one for the girls. Acting was, for the most part, worth the rental despite the overly stereotyped roles. Action scenes were written, filmed, acted and propped well enough to overcome the been-done-before syndrome. Enough minor twists in the story to be entertaining and to keep from dozing off.

way too long The premise is good and I cared about Hugo, but too much was put into this movie - it was way tooo long.

The Nine Lives Of Fritz The Cat It's not funny, it's not interesting so what's it supposed to be? I wouldn't buy it if I were you... unless you found it for $4.00 or less. This movie is way overrated. It's no fun. I don't like it.

Future eventual freedom fighter. This DVD based 1970's TV movie seem plausible and the man named Dylan Hunt who seek freedom from enslaved men in female dominated community from female controllers.

Unoriginal and Safe. **Some Spoilers**  I've seen several of the old Planet of the Apes movies. They were original and a little philosophical, the movies made you think about what really makes a person a person. These originals gave me a look at cultures very different from my own. The apes were people yet not people. Not that the old movies were perfect, the special effects were iffy and the dialogue not the best.  Saying that I went in to this movie not expecting much, I knew the ending and understood this would be a very character driven story. I didn't expect a lot of deep thinking in this summer blockbuster but at least I thought the movie would draw some creative characters and maybe some interesting ideas. The movie disappointed on both accounts. The entire time I was watching the movie I felt I had seen all these people before. The scientist who's trying to cure a loved one with an experimental drug, the boss who's all about stockholders and money, the girlfriend who was purely there to support the main man and the misunderstood subject who, thanks to the experiments done on him, is able to break free from his captors. I could go on and on, not one person is unique to this movie. Not only that but these characters are woefully inconsistent. For example: one second the boss would never think about bringing an experimental drug back for more testing and the next he won't stop the testing for anything. What?!?  The characters were not the only thing lacking in originality every plot device and even most scenes had been done before and better.  If a movie is not going to be original in plot and characters than at least they need to create an interesting version! I didn't care about what happened to anyone in the movie. I didn't relate to the scientist, the monkey, the boss, or any of the other characters. The movie just didn't give me a reason to care; the characters were just too poorly developed. Caesar didn't develop as much as make huge changes in his character. He acted like a human. Not like an ape becoming more human like but just a human in an apes body. Everyone else was just b.o.r.i.n.g.  I also struggled to believe the world was real at all, too many incredibly stupid and unrealistic things happening. A company that is in the business of experimental drugs lets someone who was possibly exposed to a drug just keep working as normal? The scientist keeps a monkey in his house for five years and no one says anything? This same scientist is able to steal many doses of this drug to give his father for several years without anyone noticing? The monkeys are able to battle people with guns and win with very few casualties? The virus which is, I assume, transferred by blood only is able to wipe out the population of the world? The movie didn't convince me these things were plausible.  I've read the reviews and I feel like I really missed something in this movie. What made it great? The characters were awful, the story clich&eacute;d, and the action dull.

Creepy and Sometimes Inappropriate In a house with two younger kids, we watch our share of animated movies. We just finished watching Rango and I have to say that I wish I hadn't seen it.  While it was professionally animated, the characters and dialogue were really odd.  The main character, Rango, is cool enough, but Bean is (as my 8 year old says) 'creepy' with ringlets and bloodshot eyes. The rest of characters are a modge podge assortment of things that are often hard to discern. They live in the town of Dirt where water is just about non-existent. So how do they all survive? Really? Day after day of no water. They should all be dead. But I guess I'm too literal on this one since, let's face it, it's a movie about talking critters.  The town mayor is creepy and easily set-up as the bad guy. Animals are killed all throughout the movie - good characters and bad. There's a comment about having an enlarged prostate and a character whips out his latex glove and asks, 'Who's ready?'  But the line that really got me was when the rattle snake grabs Bean and screams, "Sign the damn paper woman." Now I know the snake is supposed to be a bad guy but this line was really over the top for me. There were a lot of small swear words and way too much gunfire and violence for my liking.  Not a movie I would ever watch again.

An Absolute Waste My gosh people! This is the most horrendous pile of steaming dog crap ever composed. It's nothing but silly scenes, way too long, about nobodies doing nothing of consequence. I like Korine's work, and own 'em all. But this I wish I left alone. To those who describe this as "genius" and "masterwork" should seriously have their heads examined. I felt my IQ dropping trying to sit through this mess. No plot or direction. No reason to feel or sympathize with the characters one way or another. Every dumb scene was obviously agonized over, that much is clear. But the whole question is why? Seriously, this is the biggest waste of time, money, and space ever created. If a Hummer came along and mowed 'em all down, it would have got 3 stars at least from me. Too rank amateurish to even be considered stupid. And to those who say I don't "understand", or don't "get it", just save your pretentious opinion. My movie collection is as bizarre as anyone's, and I would put this movie down the trash compactor before I'd put in on one of my shelves. JUNK!!

from ok to rushing about It seemed to be a well put together blah middle of the road movie. As the plot was winding up to its conclusion there was hysteria in the air yet with the action too rushed for suspense to build before the next aggressive act. All round the film lacked any character development. The only character who seemed human was one of the dads . Although even he acted like the family dog got shot than his son. I was ready  to give it 3 stars for a certain professionalism  for 2/3 of the way through.

Listen to Ten Minute Podcast This movie was horrible but I bought it to support Bryan Callen and the Ten Minute Podcast by clicking on the Amazon link on their page. The spoofing movies are really lame but Bryan is still funny.

Should have stayed in Vegas! This is not "Casino," or "Ocean's Eleven," or "3,000 Miles to Graceland."  It is not even "The Hangover."  I just love Las Vegas -- thus, the two stars!

Not So Hot We love Liam, but as much as the family wanted to enjoy this movie, it was just lacking... something (we all agreed). Because it is Part II to Clash of the Titans, most of you will eventually watch it out of dedication. If for nothing else your OCD will get the better of you as if it were unfinished business. All I can say is, don't say I didn't warn you. Personally I'd wait until it is released on cable.

Ungodly I was not impressed by this movie. Yet another 300-type attempt with a little Clash of the Titans, but it just didn't excite or intrigue me. The effects were very good, but nowadays effects are mostly good all the time, so I'm no longer in unbelieving awe. I still love great effects in movies, don't get me wrong, but it's the norm now. Now I need good acting and story and characters. This seemed to be made just to show off extreme violence with gods and titans. That's it. At the end I felt nothing. In my favorite movies I'm looking for something profound to remember and talk about, and a reason to come back. Did not get it here. These movies that have tried to imitate 300's effects method still fall short of that movie. However, I did like Henry Cavill and Mickey Rourke's performances. This Zeus pissed me off though.

Boring and overloaded with usual Left Wing propaganda I love Johnny Depp and will watch anything he's in.  I was so disappointed that half the movie has constant references to Nixon-Kennedy and what a bad guy Nixon was, and what a saint Kennedy was. . .the usual story-line from Hollywood.  But that said, Johnny Depp is good in this but the story is deadly boring.  I had to give up on it about half-way through.

Slow, boring, and odd I didn't know what to expect, so I tried to be open minded. I just didn't "get" this film. The girl seemed depressed at times, but most of the time she just seemed very out of touch with the world around her, and yet not delusional or schizophrenic. (SPOILERS to come...)  Why bother with a wedding if you are the type to take a bath when you should be cutting the cake and then screw a temporary coworker after leaving your intended husband? Wow, guy, you really picked the wrong girl. I am open minded, but gosh, there is just no explanation for that kind of behavior, unless we were to say the planet affected her mind. (Maybe it did.)  This movie sort of reminded me of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0064NTZQ2">Drive</a>. The main character is certainly odd but not so odd as to seem insane. It leaves me wondering what to think.  I wouldn't watch it again. It was very boring to watch what was meant to be a wedding. Nothing really made sense. The girl seemed depressed at times but not enough to really sympathize with her except maybe at the dinner table. I was trying to get an idea of where the film was "going" and didn't.  I would have been better off just watching the last 10 minutes.

when watching these you will be the first out . . . of the room I certainly wasn't expecting any lurid, overtly sexual context in this set. I was, however, expecting more than the nebulous contact noticed here. A little more heat would be desirable for any future releases by those involved in this production. It was a good effort. simply one that fell on its face and never got up.

I am amazed by all the glowing reviews I will start by saying that I did not like this movie and continue to be surprised by the overall glowing reviews that it receives. I do not think that it has much in common with The Hangover. A few of my friends who really liked this movie and I have discussed this a couple of times. I think my overall pessimism going into this film contributed.  The movie itself is about a group of girls, each with their own personality disorder. Without the need of a spoiler alert, the main character has situational depression issues, other characters have issues such as friend stealing and insecurity. I found these personality issues put me in an overall uneasy mood and made it difficult to laugh even at the funny parts which I felt worse few and far between because they were so predictable.  I would say if you go into this movie thinking that it is going to be extremely funny you will be slightly disappointed. if you watch this movie thinking that it will be mediocre or bad it will probably be worse than your expectations. I am glad that it did so well because it has women in traditionally male roles, but I cannot recommend it.

Comedy?? I was over 10 minutes into this movie when I realized it was a comedy and I hadn't even cracked a smile, let alone laughed. Horrible pacing, wooden acting and the cast had no chemistry together. I love my comedies, I love to laugh. This is not one of those movies. I hate to leave a bad review for anything but this one just screamed out for it. Whoever gave this script and casting the greenlight seriously made an error.

Sometimes to create, one must destroy.... Prometheus as originally intended was supposed to be a prequel to Alien, but "took on a life of its own" according to its "makers." In saying that, it loses its way almost immediately. Prometheus is a confusing, uneven film with a plot that might make sense, but is beset by characters that make even less sense. An example, the Captain and lead scientist Elizabeth have encountered unbelievable hardships, terror and death, but in the very next scene they're chatting as if nothing has happened. The actions of the android are even more puzzling. Why does he `spike' someone's drink, knowing full well the possible repercussions?  Is it just because of his affinity for his favorite film's main character? Obviously the Three Laws of Robotics don't exist in this Universe. The film eventually devolves into silliness with medical systems that have no knowledge of female anatomy, to self surgery and then into guessing games as to why the aliens seeded our planet and why they're not so happy about it now. Yet, those questions might easily be put to rest if rather than referring to the name of the vessel Prometheus actually refers to the god who brought fire to earth. If so, then the storyline might make a little more sense, but the characters are still damaged.

How long can you tread water.....or endure this POS? I made it exactly 30 minutes, then bailed. I thought Jaime Pressly('My Name Is Earl'), Jason London('Mallrats'), what the heck, why not? Pressly is on the cover of the DVD, but is actually the next-to-the-last person billed, & London is 3 spots above her. What a waste. I hope my library didn't pay for this. 'Joe Dirt' was much better than this POS, but at least it's better than The Biography Channel's bio of Sarah Palin(if you're into White Trash)

cast of tens = must-see train wreck Who knew Kris Kristofferson was "Friends" Rachel's (Jennifer Aniston) father? Who knew the youngest bride in "Big Love" (Ginnifer Goodwin) had a thing for the Mac ad guy (Justin Long)?  Trust me, you'll be doing this during this movie and wondering why when you have Scarlett Johansson in this movie, why Ginnifer Goodwin gets more screen time. Oh yeah and what happened to Jennifer Connelly since "Career Opportunities"? Jennifer, eat a burger or something, please!  Anyway, any movie where Drew Barrymore says "He 'My Spaced' me" cannot be taken seriously. If if she's supposed to be a techno ditz, who uses "My Space" anymore in the Facebook era and who wrote this line? If you can't even get the lingo to sound remotely believable, it's pretty hard to laugh "with" it rather than "at" it.  A total train wreck of a flick that is worth watching just to laugh at how bad it is and the ridiculous cast of thousands (tens actually).  Extras are nonexistent so forget buying this DVD unless it's less than the cost of watching it on demand or some such.

WRONG REGION The DVD was shipped promptly and in excellent condition BUT when I tried to play it the error message "Not suitable for this region" appeared on the screen.  When I looked at the cover I saw that it was for distribution in USA and Canada only (Region 1).  As it was shipped to me in Australia I expected that a version that was suitable for Australia would have been sent. So now I have a useless copy of Henry V.

Warning : This is done on a set like a play and not like a movie. This may be well written and done as far as plays go. If you are expecting a traditional movie you may be disappointed.This is done on a college type set with some props etc. The picture posted is misleading. I should have read the reviews but made a quick decision. Oh well, if you like school plays you might like it as long as you know up front what it is.

Rent it on Amazon before you buy! What can you say about this movie? Glad I rented it on Amazon prior to buying. I am a HUGE fan of this genre, anxiously awaited its release and I love the stars (I fell in love with Ron Perlman back in Beauty & the Beast, and I still watch the Phantom) but felt their immeasurable talents were wasted on a less than great script. It doesn't feel right from the beginning and goes downhill from there. Rent it first!

My kids asked to not continue watching..... My 9 year old loves reading the Sugar Creek Gang book.  However it was painful to watch this Movie "Swamp Robbers."  I felt like we were watching a bad '80s show - the acting was mediocre, and the special were effects horrible.  My children asked to stop watching this - I could not convince them to finish the show.  We are a mostly TV free family - our kids are not in the habit of spending hours watching the Disney Channel or Cartoon Network - so they don't expect super fast moving plots - this movie was just very slow - perhaps Senior Citizens would enjoy it more. *My 9 year old's assessment of the movie is this:  "It looks like some kids made this movie using a camera at home."

I wish I could get my 2 hours back... I watched this the other night, and while its not awful, I'm not sure why everyone is finding it so dramatic or great.  Yes, her acting is good, but the story itself is not; i actually found it to be very blah and wanted it to end soon after it started. I don't see how this is a psychological thriller... she's just messed up, nothing thrilling about that. Now that I have seen this, I truly believe Nicole Kidman should have won an Oscar for Rabbit Hole - much better story and very dramatic with superb acting all the way around.

Couldn't Even Finish It Watched the preview and it looked OK but after watching about 20 minutes I couldn't take it anymore and had to stop it even though I paid $4.99 for the rental.  Just awful acting and script.

Pretty Damaged This product came fast but was pretty damaged compared to the other seasons of Will & Grace I ordered used.The front and back cover are ripped and disc 1 and 4 are significantly scratched.Disc 4 is completely scratched.

No one goes nowhere Perhaps it is given away by the fact that Channing Tatum looks like he's half asleep for the whole duration of "the Son of No One", Al Pacino, in a glorified cameo, also looks tired here. This makes sense though, not only does the movie move at rather slow pace, but the story and it's script are such worn out police procedural cliches that it is boring for all involved, the actor's wear it like a make-up effect. Without stars, a movie like this would never get a green light from financial backers, because it is clear that no one would much care to see a movie that's no better than a TV cop show from decades past.  Written and directed by Dito Montiel, who previously worked with Tatum on his vastly superior first two movies <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000KB489I">A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002E01LL6">Fighting</a>, the story structure here resembles the former, but without any of the interest or (real) human drama. A first rate cast is on hand mostly to do nothing, completely wasted here are Katie Holmes and Juliette Binoche playing the only women in the story, they get to be angry a lot of the time and yell dull dialogue at Tatum. Ray Liotta, playing a cop for about the millionth time, just when did his career get sidetracked into type casting as the authority type, I swear I saw him as a cop half a dozen times in the last year alone, Liotta gets his lines out and then leaves the movie as often as he can. Tracy Morgan, in a rare dramatic turn, comes off best mostly because he's not bad, he's far from good, but he's not bad. Montiel showed great potential with his earlier efforts, but here he shows signs of already burning out by repeating himself in themes and characters that seemed to have been already used up.  Finally a plea to Al Pacino. Pacino, sadly, in recent years seems to have abandoned all dignity as an actor. Now 71 years of age, the Oscar winner and legendary actor, seems to take movies that could never have sounded promising even on the page, the duds are compiling like a string of dominoes, that when they fall I fear could take all or part of his legacy with them. One could never doubt that <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000NTPDSW">The Godfather Collection (The Coppola Restoration) [Blu-ray</a>] or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0019N94X6">Scarface (Limited Edition) [Blu-ray + Digital Copy</a>] have been canonized as the contemporary masterpieces that they are, but similarly to the way cheapo horror films tarnished the good names of Ray Milland and Joan Crawford before him, films like "88 Minutes", "Righteous Kill", "Jack & Jill", and this one are already taking a huge dent out of his legacy, and younger generations may grow up knowing him only for this kind of drivel.

Bad...just bad I bought this for a friend and watched it with him. I knew it would be bad and it was. I guess if you like this kind of thing then it would be good for you. I on the other hand have taste.

Worst Pirate Movie i Can think of This film has a couple good things going for it today: a)Its easy to love in a purely Nostalgic way and b) the subject is awesome: who doesn't like RLS and His masterpiece, Treasure Island? I know its certainly my favorite book of all time.   But why dont i like this film? Simply because of the way they portray the story. When originally written, Treasure Island was meant to be , first and foremost, and adult adventure novel. I can hear the grumbling voices in protest already after writing that, but its true. Jim Hawkins is not capable, as a boy of 9-12, of making such adult decisions and performing such physically exhausting activities (ie. launching Ben Gunn's Coracle and paddling way out to the moored ship at night and all the brutal things that happened to him after that, like defending himself against Israel Hands. I could go on and on...). When you put him in the line of young adults, say 16-18, then you have more credibility in completing the hardships he had to go through. The kid in this version looks like a dumb overgrown mouse with bucked-teeth. He is so gullible and naive, its sickening. And the acting!!! Ha what a joke. If you want a real pirate movie, check out Frasier Heston's version from 1990 (recently out on DVD). In this one, you dont see sailors clean and neatly shaven. You do not see sliver with perfect teeth and clean fingernails. The whole time during the Disney version i could swear everyone pooled their money together and had a run at the dry cleaners.

Sandler and Pacino make me cringe The failings of the movie Jack and Jill are already well documented here.  As with most recent Sandler product, bathroom humor is the main plot device; the vast majority of this comedy centers on Sandler in drag having constant issues with gas, diarrhea, and profuse sweating.  But I must admit I laughed a few times at this (even if I immediately felt guilty about it).  But the scenes with Al Pacino drag this movie into two-star territory.  And not because Pacino is a bad actor, but that he is a great actor and it literally made me cringe when he had to portray having a meltdown on stage, slobbering over Sandler in drag, or lovingly burying his face in Sandler's sweat-soaked mattress.  When a scene that is expected to make you laugh makes you squirm in your seat instead, that's not a good sign.  And Jack and Jill made me squirm far too much to call it anything other than a failure.  Mr. Pacino - what the hell were you thinking?  Edit - and BTW, I want to give a Special "what the hell were you thinking?" award to Katie Holmes, who turned down the role of the love interest Rachel Dawes in The Dark Knight to star in movies such as this.  WTF?

Would Love To Judge The Film On Its Merits, But Can't Get Past The Transfer Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes 2 has always been a guilty pleasure for me. My mother was never fond of my watching horror movies while growing up and the VHS cover was too catchy to ignore. Because of this, I was bound and determined to enjoy it no matter what. Is it the most original for a sequel? No. But the story did keep me watching to find out who'd live and who wouldn't. And yes, the flashbacks from the dog's perspective are quite amusing. One strength the film has going for it is Harry Manfredini's score, which I hope one day sees an official release.  The difficult part in reviewing much more about the movie itself is actually getting to SEE the movie on this Blu-Ray disc. This is remastered? The audio quality is okay, but the picture quality is simply awful. The grain is ridiculous, the picture is dark to the point where I'm not convinced it's better than it looked on VHS and it appears the entire film was simply thrown out there to make a quick buck. Granted, it probably wasn't in terrific shape to begin with, but this is hardly a worthy effort on the part of Horizon movies.

ATM Just finished watching it, and don't have much to say other than it was very disappointing, and I should have listened to all the ones who rated it low on the IMDB board. Too many stupid things occurred to keep count, and I don't even have enough interest to recall the events to explain. None of the characters were developed very well, and they all fell flat, and felt superficial. If you want to see a suspenseful thriller where people are trapped try "Frozen" or the european version "Inside".

Quality core turned bland and dull by poor execution Judge Daryl Loomis, DVD Verdict-- Family is an intriguing concept, but a pretty terrible movie. What amazes me most, though, is that it was made in 2006 and not 1996. The only thing that distinguishes it from a 20th Century movie is the kid playing with a PSP instead of a Gameboy. Otherwise, everything appears as it would have for a B-movie from the 1990s, and that's not pretty. It appears to have premiered on the Lifetime Movie Network, which makes plenty of sense, given its TV-friendly aspect ratio and generally cruddy look. Confirmation of this is difficult, though, considering that any online searches for the movie reveal mostly lists for the best family films available and, clearly, this is not what I'm looking for. By all indications, however, Family was made for television and comes with all the poor production that entails.  In its core concept, Family could easily have worked. The story of a criminal forced to do good in the face of greater evil, a kid in peril, a crazy rant-filled villain, it makes plenty of sense. I like the core idea, but the execution of the film is terrible. It runs at a plodding pace with poor performances and obvious motivations. As soon as we see the stash of cash and the New Orleans police badge in the back of the SUV, we know something is wrong, and once Cole declares that he's really named Jeremy, we know the whole scene. It could have been better, but ultimately, Family is a lazy, worthless film.  Continuing this sense of time warp that I experienced with Family, MVD's DVD makes me feel like I've walked into a Hastings in 1998 and bought a six dollar budget disc. The full frame image is awash in digital artifacts and blocking, poor colors, and weak black levels. The sound is generally better, but nothing great. It's free from noise and the dialog is audible, so I won't complain too much. The only extra is a trailer, and the fact that I don't have to watch how this movie was made is the best thing about the disc. -Full review at dvdverdict,com

Stick with the Swedish version...Hollywood trashes the story This version is a mess, the characters are not at all like the ones in the book.  Daniel Craig is nothing like Blomkvist.  This is best seen where he fist meets Salander - In the book (and the Swedish movie) he comes to her place and wins her over (just a bit at first).  It the Hollywood version he comes swaggering in like a cowboy, Salander would have hated him and the rest of the story would have never happened.  This is just the most obvious example.  The ending is completely trashed and does not even make sense in this movie.  The American cut of the movie is badly done and does not make sense and drops some critical story elements (like the ending !!!!) so do yourself a favor and watch the Extended Edition of the Swedish version (it has an English dub or Swedish with subtitles).  I'm not saying the acting in this movie is bad, it just has nothing to do with the book.  On the other had the editing is horrible and the cinematography is not well done.  (the Swedish version is much better technically as well).  In short, another "foreign" film trashed in a Hollywood remake.

videodrone A domestic affair between a Victorian Era (or slightly after) mental doctor and patient that happened to have a great affect on the development of the pseudo-science called "psychology" sounds interesting. This film is kind of boring, tedious, arguably miscast (Fassbender is solid as Jung) and the cgi backgrounds are fake looking too. Also, I desired a more penetrating script probing the philosophical differences between the mystical yearning Jung and Freud's desire for everyone's insanity to revolve around genitalia. Which he thought could be more scientifically respectable psychoanalytical work than exploring witchcraft and the occult. Cronenberg is an old man now and old men usually don't shoot more impressively better movies than when they were young, working hard for success, rising talents. I read Christoph Waltz was initially cast as Sigmund Freud, but was replaced by Viggo Mortensen due to a scheduling conflict. Christian Bale was "in talks to play Carl Jung, but he too had to drop out because of scheduling conflicts". And.. the role of Sabina Spielrein in the screenplay was written for Julia Roberts, who I think would've been more interesting, especially if teamed with the previous two actors(!!). In any case Roberts has played a sex worker (and what's the difference between paying a shrink and paying for sex other than the latter probably isn't a rip-off). When watching this film I thought it would've worked better, much better, and simply made more sense, as a play. Turns out a play called "The Talking Cure" at the Royal National Theater was made into this movie, basically. Ralph Fiennes (of archetypal villain- Voldemort notoriety played Jung- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0057QC3CK">Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 7" Series 2 Voldemort Action Figure</a> ). I recall Derek Jarman's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0016QNSFQ">Wittgenstein (Special Edition)</a> and believe Jarman's approach would have worked better for this play about Freud, Jung and a freaky Russian chick. Jarman's approach to his subject was more captivating and consisted in a few intelligently selected props, good costumes and a perfect cast all shot in close-up indoors with pitch black background and the dialog.

Literary chewing gum I clicked on the review button for the book "Regarding Ducks & Universes"  but somehow it got credited to the DVD "Unlocking The Mysteries Of Life" .  This DVD was Great ( 5  stars) , the book was as mentioned in the title, just chewing gum for the mind, and old chewing gum at that.  The review that follows applies to the book, not the DVD.  Sorry for the confusion.  This book is well written and the concept is interesting for fans of SciFi .  After reading half the book I began to lose interest and couldn't figure out why but eventually realized the story moved at such a slow pace that there must not be enough basic story line to move it any faster.  This is mental chewing gum for sci- fi fans but little more.  Just not enough substance to justify the reading time.

Too Salty A bit over the top on human action capability. I felt like I was watching a mix between Spiderman and Matrix. Movie was somewhat entertaining but a little too far fetched. Bourne Identity much much better....believable and realistic.

Depp's darkest shadow Compared to other Depp stuff I have seen this is on the low end. I watched about half of it before I turned off the TV.

Movie was fine, Amazon Video, never again. The movie was what I expected. I needed to watch it for class, but I'm never wasting my money on Amazon Video again. It froze three or four times through the movie, and the quality of the video was really bad.

Like An Extended Twilight Zone Episode Review: Apollo 18  For tonight's movie night we watched Apollo 18. I went in with relatively low expectations since there are very few found footage movies that actually entertain me. Going all the way back to The Blair Witch I have found the technique more annoying than anything else.  In this case it was used quite effectively as they cut from camera to camera to show footage of the crew as they encountered... strange happenings on the moon. But the fundamental problem remains which is that it's distracting from the story.  I spent a lot of time thinking about the cleverness of how they mimicked the 70s film reel look and the graininess of this sort of footage. It also distanced me from the characters because I was always conscious I was looking at them through a camera.  The idea was clever, the acting and script more than serviceable and at times there was a fair amount of tension. But it felt overlong. Like a 45 minute Twilight Zone episode expanded to movie length.  I'd stream it on Netflix or rent it from RedBox but I think that's about all it's worth.

Mediocre B action thriller "The Chaos Factor" is a 2000 action thriller starring Antonio Sabato Jr., Fred Ward, and R. Lee Ermey.  Time: 1997 Place: Cambodia  25 years ago terrible things happened in a prison camp which was destroyed to eliminate the evidence, but 25 years later a soldier stumbles upon the camp and a journal with evidence condemning a top adviser to the President.  Antonio Sabato Jr. (1972) plays the soldier. He is best known from his continuing role as Jagger Cates in "General Hospital" (1992-5). He moved from TV series to TV movies and then the big screen, then back again.  Cult favorite Fred Ward (1942) gave us memorable performances in films like "Tremors" (1990), "Henry and June" (1990), and my personal favorite "Miami Blues" (1990) but he's probably best known for his role as Remo Williams (1985). He plays the Presidential adviser.  R. Lee Ermey (1944) is everyone's favorite Marine drill instructor, a role he played in real life as well as in films ("Full Metal Jacket", "Boys in Company C", "Toy Story"). Ermey plays an Air Force Col. involved in the scandal, but he is in the film far too briefly.  Hot Susie Park plays a karate chopping spy who comes to Sabato's assistance, but who has an agenda of her own. Primarily a TV actress, she is best known from her recurring role as Joss Nakano in "Level 9" (2000-1)  This was the first time directing for Terry Cunningham who previously was an editor at MGM/UA and wrote several screenplays. He made a few more films then transitioned to TV where he's worked on various series.  This is your standard B action flick with nothing very special that stands out. There are plenty of car chases (maybe too many), lots of shooting and things getting blown up, etc. But neither Sabato nor Ward fully embrace their roles, so you'll all too aware that you're watching a film rather than enjoying it or participating in it.

Another planet? What a tedious film. I bought this film thinking it would be interesting - and I love a mystery. It took me a while to figure out the characters are in HS because there is never a scene that takes place in class.  What was that theater group about? And that strange Halloween party with the cryptic "performances" - where did that take place? Some rich kid's house with the parents gone?  Half the time I could not hear, let alone understand the use of English...if it was English. After the first 15 minutes, I started fast forwarding through the movie and just watched the scenes. You can pretty much get the idea of this movie without hearing a single word. It was like a bunch of young Californites with too much money and time on their hands decided to make a film that would piss of their parents.  The main antagonists in the movie are masochists doped out on lithium or pot - maybe both. The only parent is portrayed as an oblivious  "Leave it to Beaver" pleaser.  The only other authority figure is a vice principal who comes across as narcotics detective negotiating with his street contact. I hate to imagine meeting any of the characters portrayed in this film. I obviously do not fit into the category of audience that this film targets. Thank goodness I only paid $3.00 for it at the local Big Lots.

The real mysteries are why would anyone watch it or why was it made. Well...someone else's review convinced me to buy it, but I may be able to help someone else avoid it.  It was silly at best, as the actors (a term loosely used) waste their talent and time as they sleepwalk through this film before going out to kill their agent for getting them into it.  It is meant to be light fare, but it is so poorly written and acted that the humor of the farce becomes pathetic rather than witty.

The Lame Picture Show The best thing about this movie is Bo Hopkins as the sinister sheriff.  He's reminiscent of a lankier Vic Morrow with a slow Sothern drawl.  Other than Hopkins there's nothing else to recommend the film.  Lackadaisical direction by Jack Starrett.  By the numbers script.  Unimpressive acting by anybody not named Bo Hopkins.  Seen it before action and car chases.  Perfect drive-in fare for those not interested in watching the movie.  Except the scenes Bo Hopkins is in.

In order for a work to be art, must audiences suffer? I'm in agreement with other Amazon reviewers giving The Dark Knight Rises one or two stars.  Another aspect of the movie that disappoints is its main theme, which seems to be nothing more than making audiences feel the extreme physical pain inflicted and suffered by various characters.  Artists need not starve in order to become great, and audiences need not suffer for a work to be considered art.

Not quite... This was a film that I watched based purely on the synopsis; which sounded totally off the wall and interesting. Every now and again a super low budget indie film will fly way under the radar and end up being a gem... this is not one of those movies. I have no problem with the production value at all, this movie wasn't good because of the way the story was told and the acting. The premise was so cool and promising as the springboard for a quirky dark comedy, but instead it turned into an incomprehensible mess.  The film ends up being overly confusing and convoluted... it just loses its way after about twenty minutes. Additionally some of the acting was quite suspect. Normally I'm not one to complain about acting, but a few spots of blatant cringe-inducing overacting forced me to take note. Such a disappointment, it's really too bad because this one could have been special if done right. 2/5 stars.

Support Ipad, PC and Mac ONLY! I take Trigonometry course and my instructor required this book. It's alway cheaper by renting an kindle version of the book than buying a real one and then sell it back. The reason why I give this 2 out of 5 because it ONLY supports Ipad, Mac and PC, which means the student who have an android tablet and Kindle Fire like me cannot access it in class; or I have to bring my old model laptop, double heavier and easy run out of the battery, to class, just in order to use the book. And i'm sure that I'm not gonna do that cuz I ride a bike, not a car. P/s: If it lets me use thru my android tablet, I'll give it 4 stars: I buy this book cuz my instructor often picks some problems to solve to practice. It's really weird when everybody working and you do nothing. I know almost the material before the course so the content is not a big deal for me. Just piss off cuz exclusive Ipad is ridiculous!

Lady in the Water (Widescreen Edition) Lady in the Water (Widescreen Edition) is a strange fantasy movie that centers around a handyman (Paul Giamatti) at Philadelphia apartment complex who discovers who discovers a naiad like creature named Story. The acting is not great and the storyline falters. The movie seems really long even though it only is 110 minutes, it seems much longer. It was universally panned by critics and was nominated for worst movie at the Razzie awards. It is not a 1 star movie but a since I can not give 1 and a half it gets a very weak 2. Not recommended. 2 out of 5.

my checkbook is scarier Scenery was beautiful; the house was beautiful; acting was good.  Plot - predictable.  Not a thriller. Not scary at all.  Watching Kim Kardashian on tv - now thats scary!

Fall of the Roman Empire It is a great movie when I saw it when it first came out: BUT this BLY-RAY is only to be seen on a REG "B" player, and I did not see it in the promo that it will only play on Reg "B" which Amazon may have left out? Was it a mistake on sending the wrong type or was I not looking in the right place before I purchased this procuct? By the way it did get here on the 16th of July, which was great, but sorry to say,- I will not be able to see it on the 19th of July my birthday!    SHAME ON YOU ALL!?! OR    IS IT SHAME ON ME!?!  No rating I have seen the movie, Blu ray yet.

Oh the horror... This move is for YOU...If you love movies about 40 year old guys talking advantage of  serious instructors i(im guessing in exchange for free pub) in a half assed attempt to make some amateur golf tour that nbody knows exists.  In his first ever tourney the guy wins...shooting an 84?  Iit  goes downhill from there  Production is pretty solid and earned that second star though.  So, It seems the director has loaded the amazon reviews with shills.  Anybody giving this sucker 5 stars is either a friend or stoned, very stoned.

Total meh. Zero character development and zero suspense equals zero interest. Too many talented actors with too little to work with. Total meh.

The Plot Was Dull But Tom Sturridge's Acting Was Talented, Moving, and Excellent! The plot and suspense of the movie was downright dull and boring but what keeps this movie alive is Tom Sturridge's lively and brilliantly talented performances as a street entertainer and the magic tricks he can do from juggling with apples and baseballs to fire sticks in the air. He was absolutely moving, lovable, charming and touching. I'd give him all the stars for his performance in this. But the rest of the movie was just...eh...nothing to really write home about.

Big yawn... Average at best. Nice cinematography alone does not do the trick. The few action scenes felt like slow motion. If you like to watch Jolie or Depp, this may be something for you. Otherwise, do not waste your time.

Routine Spaghetti Western. Routine Spaghetti Western.  Roger Ebert's 1969 review includes this canny observation: "Van Cleef's face, in closeup, has the lean, hardened, embittered expression of a man who has either (a) been pursuing his lonely vengeance across the plains of the West for 30 years, or (b) realizes he will be making spaghetti Westerns the rest of his life."

Like Twilight without the pseudo sexiness I thought why not continue the series, and tried. Having loved the first film after I read the book, I thought--what fun. And it was. But by now the fun is gone and the predictability is the storyline. Thank heavens for DVD technology so you can zoom past the long, dull scenes...to cut to the limited storyline. I know I'm one of the few, who wasn't happy with it. But such is life. Boring.

Not Closed Captioned??? Amazon sometimes does a pretty poor job of letting us know that the DVDs they sell are not captioned.  I found that to be the case with this one. The original shows were captioned but for some reason the distributer chose to release the DVD without that capability. Since I had to try and play them in order to find that out they are not returnable. So I guess they will spend time collecting dust on my shelf until I can find someone to give them to.

Be Warned:  This movie is NOT FOR CHILDREN! Please be warned! This movie is NOT FOR CHILDREN! The PG-13 rating is no lie, here. There are images and themes in this movie that could easily give any sensitive adult nightmares. Here are some EXAMPLES of only a few of the scenes children would find deeply disturbing (as did I):  The evil queen tells her newly married husband, the king, of her hatred of men, who "use women," just before she kills him on their honeymoon bed.  A few scenes later you watch as her brother kisses her shoulder as he and the queen hint at an incestuous relationship with each other. In order to preserve her beauty, the queen eats the hearts of an animal or bird of some sort, which you see cut open at her dinner table, as she digs the heart out and puts it in her mouth.  The queen pulls the heart out of one of her subjects after he attempts to assassinate her.  No child should ever be exposed to such horrors.  You can definitely cross this movie off your Christmas list!

mediocre attempt at captivation The Open Road is definitely a disappointment for a couple different reasons.  For one thing, Jeff Bridges plays a fairly annoying father character more often than not.  Alright *sometimes* he's not so bad, such as -to mention the storyline in small detail- whenever Bridges son tries forcing his father to come back home and visit his ex-wife (the sons mother) in the hospital, and the character of Jeff Bridges constantly finds sneaky ways to get out of it such as sneaking off to a bar, sneaking into a bathroom, or just putting on an unexpected disappearing act.  Or was that woman supposed to be his *current* wife?  Who knows.  The storyline was hardly ever specific enough because it never developed to its full potential.  The film is supposed to be a light comedy with a sprinkle of drama elements to make you feel satisfied by the end of the movie, but well... the "feel good" moments are more like "feel like total crap" because they aren't actually any good either.  These particular segments focus on the teenage boy bringing his girlfriend to the location of Jeff Bridges, everyone getting into needless fights with each other in the middle of nowhere, and bringing the father back to the boys mother.  In addition to that, the storyline focuses on the confusing relationship troubles between both the son and his girlfriend.  So if anything, the film is supposed to show viewers what it's like for two adults to have relationship difficulties as well as two teens.  Yes that's right- I mention a trip.  Jeff Bridges, his teenage son and the girlfriend all travel across country on a road trip (and mostly find themselves in the small towns and fields of Kentucky).  Now I've seen my share of "country road trip" type films over the last 10 years, and this one is CLEARLY inferior to most.  It's one boring trip, that's for sure!  Jeff Bridges just never came across as an interesting enough main character to keep my attention very long.  Throughout the entire film, the only time I laughed was the moment where he got into a fight with his son, stormed out of the car, and fell over on the ground.  That was the ultimate moment of humor there... and it stunk.  I don't even recall any mention of why the mother was in the hospital to begin with.  Just that she insisted her son bring Jeff Bridges to her NOW.  I won't spoil what happens at the end, but let's just say, it was extremely melodramatic, making the build-up and the whole road trip very unsatisfying and pointless.  All the frequent baseball talk was pointless too.  The film is extremely brief at just over 80 minutes, and feels undeveloped and lacks focus most of the time.  A pretty big letdown.

a Woody Alan Vanity Project. and  A Big Up to and all you Optimists out There! This is a solid 'back to form' Woody Allen movie, very funny in places, and all that, and so fans will be happy etc.. That's great, however, I will just like to review the pseudo-nihilistic ideas in this film, which to me sounded like the scribblings of a succesfull rich guy with to much time on his hands, trying to be an existential philosopher, with his philonthropic supporters and his barb wire fence.  Some Greek wrote this cheerful plot about our sorry state on this planet around 2500 years ago...Woody Allen and Larry David should take note...  `oy you there! Wretched ephemeral race, random blots of chance and misery, why do you force me to tell you what would be best for you not to hear? The best is utterly beyond your reach: not to be born, not to exist, to be nothing. But the second best for you is this; to die soon! .... Let's see if Woody Alan, who fancies himself as an intellect, can do any better?  Firstly, this is a very funny movie and Larry David is great as ever and so we enjoyed it; my girlfriend and I, however, my girlfriend reckons that Woody Allen isn't as smart as he thinks he is and I mostly agree with her. Let me attempt to explain our reservations (for all you fan-boys wishing to defend rich beyond your dreams Woody Allen, remember that he doesn't care about you, so go support another team), now for our diatribe.  This film is an attempt to show off Woody Allen's capabilities as a brain-box and his existential thoughts; he being the Woody Allen we used to love. In the movie, Larry David is brilliant as Boris Yellnikoff, a Nobel level thinker with an IQ of 200 (if you enjoy Curb, you will like this). Boris' massive IQ has stripped the veil of idiocy from his eyes and he can now see the rock-hard reality of our wretched state. Boris therefore sounds angry and opinionated, but that is only because we are hearing him wrong, and he will now share his insights with the dumb viewers (there are some imaginaitve and very funny straight to the camera talking scenes which I found smart). So what profundities does the string theorist have to throw at the cinema audience? Sadly, not much. The words escaping the mouth of the genius are not the thoughts of a man with a massive IQ, but the thoughts of Woody Allen's 2lb of brains. In other words, any baboon, or first year philosophy student, can write this stuff! But you may be wondering, how do I know what a 200 IQ would sound like? Well many genius scientists and philosophers have written their anger down for posterity and I'm a fan of 'nihilist' ideas; having read the masters like Arthur Schopenhauer (Einstein's and Erwin Schrodinger's favorite philosopher), Tolstoy, especially his very depressing Confessions (Tolstoy became intellectually unglued after reading Schopenhauer and committed suicide) and the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (with the depressed robot. The robot was a brilliant satire on all things gloomy), all have something to important say. So I know the 'horror of being a crap extreting anus' or 'the zero meaning to existence' industry very well and I was hoping to be entertained by this Woody Allen movie. My reason for having high hopes is the fact that, even though Woody Allen's been slowly  drudging along for years now, it's rumored that he's a very intelligent guy. Woody Alan knew Marshall McLuhan, youthful Woody Alan made very funny existentialist standup Jew jokes, and he once made a reference to Ernest Becker's Denial of Death in one of his movies and he's even read some Nietzsche (inspired him to invade Poland apparently).  Maybe, just maybe then, the young Allen was a tortured genius inside, but for fear of being shunned by the herd industry, he kept most of his thoughts hidden until the day when he has nothing to lose (he's near death himself, so the time is now).  Now that time has arrived and so Allen will give us the fruits of his brains. How about this scenario? Woody Alan is an existentialist intellectual who sees no escape from the fleeting meat-hook of our rubbish existence and after producing rubbish for a few decades himself, in order to earn the trust of human kind you see, old age Allen is at last going to let rip with his own brand of nihilist truth. Why not? If Schrodinger, or Tolstoy and the others did in their later life, then what's Woody Allen got to lose? (by the way, I'm not laughing as Allen's age, because Allen has read Denial of Death, and if he understood it, he should be immune from rampant narcissism in old age)  Allen is a millionaire establishment figure after all, and so he's license to let rip, like my hero Ricky Gervais brilliantly let's rip in his work and Larry David brilliantly did in Curb Your Enthusiasm (Larry David is miles funnier than Woody Allen, but not the Allen from the 1970's)). Gervais and David however do not have genius IQ's, so what Boris Yellnikoff has in store for us should be profound..  Albert Einstein once said that genius' is an escape from everyday life, with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness. Can Boris Yellnikoff, with his IQ of 200, do any better? Well for a man with an IQ of 200, his sophomore moaning about the universe being indifferent to our whims, and people being mere atoms, screaming through the hollow glass void of emptiness blah blah blah has been done a million times before by first year philosophy students. If you ever watched The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, there is a depressed robot who does the Boris act to a T. Douglas Adams meant his robot as a satire, so after Douglas Adams' robot, any would be smart arse with pretensions to clever pessimism has to do better than the robot. Woody Allen failed. I'm a fan of Larry David, and he's probably an intelligent guy too, but he and Allen are both establishment starts, that is, the establishment is the machine they exist for, and so they are not going to rock the boat with truth. You don't make it to a ripe old age in Hollywood by being an Outsider. Here is an example of Allen's conservative head. Half way through the movie, Larry David's character is near the Statue of Liberty, with the young girl, and he lets rip with a politically correct 'culture wars' left wing rant about white Americans being racist and all that. However, at the start of the movie, David makes clear his detatched resignation from life and his distain for the lumpen herd. A genius would be above the street scuffle of culture war academia anyway, especialy party political careerist behaviour. There are many contradictions like this in Boris's dialogue. For example, the best he can say to the idiot girl is, 'your an idiot'! An idiot girl is not a good interlucotor for a genius to shine on anyway. The reason for this infintile lack of insight is because Woody Allen typed the words, not a genius and so Boris the string theorist ends up sounding like a puppet. Allen should have plagiarized the genius' of history. He should have stole the best bits from Schopenhauer or Sophocles or even Nietzsche, and he could do with some Buddha jokes. Imagine a cinema character talking the truth to a dumb cinema audience! They would all choke on their popcorn!  P.S. Don't let Hollywood nerds and producers depress you. The cleverest people in the world never sounded like Boris Yellnikoff. Yellnikoff is just the figment of a small imagination. It's a meaningless universe indeed.

pelham123 I like the movie but when I went to redeem the digital copy it expired.Not to happy with that.I wish i can get another digital copy so I can download,that would make me happy.

WHAT!? I can't believe this movie was even written. As I was watching it I wondered if the dad raped the daughter and got her pregnant. This is the WORST movie EVER. The dad deserved to die and I believe the mom deserved what she got because she just let it happen. What's worse then having one woman in the shed it turned out that there was another human in the barn treated like a dog. You want some advice DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE EVER!!!! there are better movies then this.

Worth buying at all? Umm... no. This review is about the season itself, rather than the "bonus" features.  I'm a big fan of Star Trek, I have been all my life. And don't get me wrong, I really like The Next Generation. However... the first season is just not very good. I think the best episodes to come out of it might have been Encounter at farpoint, Symbiosis, the Arsenal of freedom, Conspiracy, and maybe 1 or two others. And even those are hardly good episodes! Bottom line, ask any Star Trek fan and they'll tell you the first season was easily the worst season of Star Trek: The Next Generation.  To give my review a little more perspective, Maybe you should take a look at the season 1 show "The Neutral Zone".... you know, the show where Picard states "People are no longer obsessed with the accumulation of things"?  From a Trek fan standpoint, it's not worth plunking down your hard earned cash. Honestly the only way I can see myself recommending this is if you have ungodly amounts of cash and MUST own everything Trek, even if it's barely better than your average season of Star Trek: Voyager. Seriously and honestly, I don't know why this set is getting so many five star ratings. Maybe it has some great special features, maybe the remastering and new special effects shots look like the most glorious thing you've ever seen, but if that is why you're buying this set then you're missing the point of why Star Trek is so great.

Could have been a lot better Given the single review I thought this would be a good addition to by collection of gay genre films.  Overall I was very disappointed.  I have seven other Philippine movies that are well made.  This one was disjointed, hard to follow, subtitles would fly across the screen with not enough time to read.  Overall, it felt like a high school production.  I think I understood what the writer was trying to communicate, the circles of life, but he did not execute well.

Less Monsters, More House. I thought this was going to be a great haunted/monster house movie. I was sold that Del Toro produced it as I am a big fan of his work, but for some reason this film did not deliver. It felt too much like an Adult "Are You Afraid of the Dark" episode. I also didn't like that the monsters were so in your face through most of the third act. One's mind makes a movie scary, but seeing the terror over kills it and take away from the audiences own fears. Not to mention to CG looked really bad. Katie Holmes was terrible and the kid was unlikeable, so two out of the three main characters suck......  Anyways, all this movie did was make me want to see the original because I hear that is a lot better. There was a lot of missed potential I felt. But hey, you win some you loose some right?

Wah wah wah Found the main character very annoying--unlike Ferris in "Ferris Buellers Day Off," the narration by the lead found me liking him less and less.

Great intention but bad science As I a cardiologist, I believe there is value in a vegan diet, but it is not for everyone. I do think there is scientific evidence, mostly from Dean Ornish, MD, that  strict adherence to this with almost no fat can reverse coronary artery disease, or hardening of the arteries. However the scientific evidence presented in this movie is limited at best and at worst defies common sense and logic. If consuming moderate to high amounts of dairy protein caused liver cancer, as the movie maintains, then this form of malignancy would be more common than lung, breast, and prostate cancer combined world wide. Furthermore the Maasi Indians in Kenya eat a diet rich in meat and dairy and have almost no heart disease. However, by far the worst omission of this film is to toss fish into the same purported deleterious effects of meat proteins. This is so far from the truth as to be almost laughable. Study after study affirms the benefits of fish in a well rounded diet world-wide. In fact in Japan, which has one of the highest per capita fish consumptions in the world, coronary artery disease is unusual.  Finally, little practical advice is given to a Vegan should they travel, dine out, or eat at a friends' home.  Again, I am all for less processed foods, fats, salt and sugar in our diets. But this movie is  more of a vegan zealot expose than an intelligent discourse on a very important subject.

So Bad it's Laugh-Out-Loud Funny. This movie is one of the funniest 80s thrillers I've ever seen.  It's full of soap opera stars, most notably Ronn Moss of Bold and the Beautiful and also the band Player and his ex-wife Shari Shattuck. This silly movie centers around two sisters:  Leah Ayers Hendricks is country mouse and Shattuck is city mouse...or should I say be-otchy, backstabbing, sleazoid rat.  She works as a big shot at a record label, and plays nasty games with so many people that someone cuts her up and throws her away like a rotten watermelon.  No loss, but little sis is all upset and employs a salivating horny cop to help solve her murder.  Number one suspect is the stupid looking bi victor/victoria resemblant Caran who's music career is on the skids.  Poor misunderstood Caran; he doesn't even understand himself, and he has droves of company among anyone watching this campy soap bubble that desperately needs a good prick.  While we're on the subject, there are tons of those in this movie too.  So, who killed big sister after Caran is also offed?  Gee, was it the bartender?  The blond guy with the creepy eyes?  Do we care?  I'm afraid not.  Unless you like lots of tacky 80s clothes, an average soundtrack, smut with strong bi-sexual overtones that aren't even convincing, and a badly written script in which all the actors perform as if they're being held at gunpoint, rent it or get it cheap for the hilarity of its blatant campiness, because you WILL laugh.  One of the funniest parts for me was when the cop deliberately pronounced Caran--enunced pretentiously as "Cah-rahn"--like Karen.  Is it any wonder few people ever heard of this flick?  I found my copy years ago in a markdown bin for 2 bucks, and the price was still too high, but it's awfulness stayed with me for free.  I knew I should have bought those batteries instead.  Buzzzzzzz...

Self Torture If you have no imagination, and want to suffer intense boredom for a couple of hours, by all means watch this movie. I suppose it might have been the thing in 1956, but now it's drivel. I expect it to show up on Mystery Science Theater 3000 any day now.

Not worth the time ... I can honestly say this is one of the most boring movies I've ever seen.  Children may enjoy it, but it doesn't provide much in the way of adult entertainment.

Missing Something This movie doesn't know what it is. There's funny situations but its not funny not even in a clever way. There's action but it's more bad boys 2 than Mr. and Mrs. Smith. There was dynamic plot twists, however it was more ridiculous than italian job but with none of the background and character development that makes it fun or suspenseful.  This movie has smuggling, Drugs, fights, a high end art heist, good actors, a hot chick (they made ugly?!), decent budget and camera effects, all things I love and anticipated and its still falls on its face. It must have been a combination of written, produced, and directed by too many people that didn't get along.Everyone on set had uncontrollable attention spans. Fell short of usable material so only able so they brainstormed and added in what everyone wanted to fill that extra 45 minutes that should have never made it past editing. If there is a directors cut I hope its nothing like what I saw in theaters.

Not for the faint of heart... If you're use to the TV series you'll need to reset your mind to enjoy the movie.  Much darker and more difficult to get into, the basics for the series are there but very well hidden.  Watch it without expectations and you could be impressed.  After years of the series I found it difficult to follow, but found it added some history to the characters that I had missed.

Cliche-Ridden John Wayne Western John Wayne westerns do tend to take on a lot of similarity. I don't have a good enough memory to specify which picture(s) each of these cliches came from, but there are quite a lot.  1. Yankee and Confederates who end up fighting together after the war. (Just saw that one very recently in "The Undefeated.")  2. Pretty girl who takes up with the young and handsome guy that Wayne is partnered with, and treats Wayne as a fatherly figure. (This is a later development, but it is in almost every one of his later films. Earlier they took up with Wayne himself.)  3. Old geezer who's too stubborn to sell out to or give in to the land-grabber who uses dirty tricks of various sorts to take over a whole town.  4. Corrupt sheriff who is in the pocket of said land-grabber.  5. Shoot-out in which Wayne's side is outnumbered considerably, but win because they are better shots and because they are clever and do something unexpected to foil the villains.  6. Holing up in the sheriff's office and/or jail, wherein at least one person, and probably several, call out "You! In the jail!" to get their attention so they can parley.  This one had a few original elements, but that could almost be number seven on the list, because none of the stories are really without original elements. This one starts off with a very daring and original train robbery. In fact, it's so clever, I wonder if it is historical, taken from a real robbery at some point during the civil war.

Overrated, not Coen's best product.  And awkward speech! I can not see how this is a good movie.  The characters in it do not speak with contractions.  They always speak in full words, "won't" is "would not" and "isn't" is always "is not" and that is not--I did an online investigation--the way people spoke in the old West.  It makes for a painful ride, as it sticks out like a sore thumb.  Every character in the entire movie speaks in this very unconventional manner, and it detracts from the film.  Oh sure, True Grit has tons of other pitfalls--Jason Bourne miscast as a wimpy Texan with moustache like a dime store Charlie Chan, and Haille S. acting like a cardboard cutout in her first onscreen role.  Hey, just because she's a kid doesn't mean she can act. And of course, the biggest blunder, the buffoon Lebowski now playing the buffoon Rooster Cogburn. Bridges has some talent, but not enough to carry an otherwise Saturday matinee quality movie. The plot is thinner than a snakeskin coin purse, and gallops along at a meander with little or no tension (sure there was tension when the Texas ranger went to the shack and the bad guys were riding up behind him, but then we had to hear for 30 minutes how the ranger hated Rooster for shooting him when he saved his life.  I'd have been kissing the guy!).  Overacted, understoried, straight ahead western with little going for it... a cast off in comparison to other superb movies in 2010 (e.g Black Swan, The King's Speech).  A rip-snorting western this is not, it's merely a straight ahead tale of revenge with comedic moments that fall flat, and of course, the damned stilted language.  The characters in this sleeper could have used a couple lessons from Geoffrey Rush's Lionel on how to speak like a human being.  Loved Fargo.  Enjoyed No Country. But True Grit... Messiers Coen--thumbs down!

So Disappointing I love Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds, and I have no problem with crudity, nudity, foul language, etc...but this was a train wreck.  The humor and the plot were tired and obvious.  Stuff you've seen a million times before.  The F-word is fine, but it seems like they went out of their way to cram it into every sentence.  It got annoying.  Everything was so over the top.  No one, anywhere, ever, would act the way the Jason Bateman does in front of a child.  Even for a dumb R-comedy, it was unbelievable.  You know those two 15-year-olds down the block who think they're funny but really just bug the hell out of everyone?  This is the movie they would make.  The worst of all is this: because of the body switch, each actor is playing a part better cast for the other.  I don't buy Jason Bateman as a womanizing dirt bag, and I don't buy Reynolds as a corporate attorney, but after they switch bodies, that's what you get for the majority of the movie.  It would have been better to cast the actors in opposite roles at the beginning and then switch them.  They would have been much funnier in their roles.  There are a million other things wrong with this, but I'll save you the time.  Save yourself the time as well and skip this.  Watch "Waiting" instead.

Awful. Couldn't Finish. The acting is awful, the script is terrible, and the plot is completely predictable and uninteresting.  I didn't like anything about this film, and it vies for first place as one of the worst I've seen.

Good Cinematography, but Mostly Speculation "2012: Obama's America" was created by by an Indian Immigrant named Dinesh D'Souza. Dinesh is a conservative, Christian writer who was president of the Christian University, King's College in New York. He also served as a policy advisor for Reagen. He thinks colonialism is a good thing, and that all countries that have been exploited by colonialism simply weren't occupied long enough to be saved from their ignorant indigenous ways. His movie paints Obama as a communist as well as an anti-colonialist.  Essentially, Dinesh claims that Obama's mother glorified and asserted his father's communist ideals onto Obama, and in order for Obama to reconcile his lost relationship with his father he had to fully and indiscriminately internalize all of his father's racist, communist anti-America and anti-colonialist ideals. His father was also a collectivist, who believed in socialist policy such as 100% taxes and strong government oversight. Dinesh goes on to purport that America only elected Obama because the white majority didn't want to feel racist, and that the only reason why Obama ever got as far as he did was because of white guilt, handouts and people projecting their own unfulfilled hopes onto him. He lists a couple of crazy people that Obama had associated with in the past, such as Frank Marshall Davis, Reverend Wright, Bill Ayres, and two others. He uses these five guys to justify Obama being a secret communist, who is out to destroy America by getting rid of all of our nuclear weapons and throwing us into total economic collapse.  Everything in this film regarding Obama's personal family relations is speculation. Dinesh never gets to interview a single person from Obama's nuclear family, just one half brother and a friend of his father's who could barely speak English. Dinesh thinks he's also in the right position to make these assumptions about Obama because he's foreign, and roughly the same age as him. Turns out Dinesh's father was an executive for Johnson and Johnson over in India who was present much of his life, so any connection between him and Obama's past is unsubstantiated.  Obama only met his father once, and personally, I find Dinesh's psychoanalytic assertions onto how Obama internalized his father's beliefs to be EXTREMELY offensive. I find it disgusting that Dinesh would assume Obama just absorbed everything he heard about his father's thoughts, and processed it all into some life-long agenda to destroy America. Obama's perception of his father was a human process, with many complex levels of conflict and resolution, and to try to spin that into an absolute explanation into why Obama is secretly a racist communist anti-American is just sickening. No facts within the whole thing. Just lots of Obama dialogue manipulated in a fashion to make it look like his daddy issues are somehow controlling his mind.  Don't watch this movie unless you're looking for a flurry of assumptions claiming Obama to be a racist socialist thug out to take away your freedom and turn America into the world's biggest joke. I love the part at the end where he tries to say that Obama's trying to take away all our nukes and let everyone else have nuclear dominance over us, which is the most bizarre and ignorant claim of the whole film. We have been adhering to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons for decades now, mutually reducing our nuclear arms at the same level as other countries. He also makes an absurd claim that we are doing "nothing" to stop Iran from gaining an nuclear weapon... It's not about America "losing", it's about global peace and balance of power. War is not the only solution  This Dinesh guy is smart though. His movie is making big bucks, and will likely rally more hate and bias against the president. This is easy to do with political rhetoric as tense as it is with the comming election. Dinesh did a bang-up job exploiting the current climate for maximum profit. This movie will surely energize isolated conservative subgroups who already have xenophobic suspicions about Obama, fueling the conspiracy cult that's existed since the 2008 election. It's saddening though, because this kind of speculation is hurtful to America. In an era where truth, compromise and cooperation are so hard to find, people continually push this garbage out, exacerbating our country's inability to collaborate and solve important issues together. Instead we get crap like this that makes millions of dollars and stratifies our country into two disgruntled sects. This man will make great profits from his artful piece of propaganda, but America will continue to bleed, as hate and prejudice stifle America's ability to unify and progress.

Was Hoping for More..... As I am sure with many reviewers of movies whom have read the book - I was hoping for more along that story line contained in the pages.  The video just didn't drag me in the way the book was able too. Not enough backdrop and the life the "aliens" had left behind to completely gring the viewer into the picture of just why they were there and what the reasons for same were. The acting is acceptable more focused for the teenage crowd.  I felt that with a little more aged theme the movie could have come across much better. Have read the sequel "The Power of Six" and enjoyed it as much as the first - but will not be waiting with baited breathed if a movie sequel is made.

Not so funny bridesmaids... I'm a chick therefore I must be able to understand the emotional plot behind this "hillarious" movie. But unfortunately I did not. I can count with one hand the moments in the movie where I might have had a laugh out loud moment. The movie was almost entirely a bad drama. Why any body would compare the Hangover to BridesMaids is beyond my understanding.   So if you saw the Hangover, you know it's just incredible and mostly unbelievable situations that are just to funny to be real. That's the point. The fat chick was by far the funniest but way to much almost reminisent of high school drama. This movie had more drama than it needed. I wouldn't recommend to own.

Not Too helpful I have just returned from a trip to the eastern Sierras and was looking forward to the information and tips contained on the DVD.  The info is old, often referring to film issues, not digital.  Some of the locations visited don't show the conditions the Mr. Gale describes.  For instance, he talks about getting a reflection in a mirror surface lake while he is standing in front of water that shows no reflection.  I get the point, but it would be better, in my opinion, to illustrate your point with what you are speaking about.  My copy was defective as it skipped chapter to chapter and I returned it without asking for a new copy. I just didn't find it that helpful.  Somone else may find it much more useful and interesting.

disappointingly disappointing I had a rainy, gloomy, dreary day off and was going through netflix on-demand when i noticed that the entire trilogy was featured on there.  So, i decided to watch the first movie to see what it was all about.... INCREDIBLE.  i loved it; it reminded me a lot of one of my other favorites; se7en.  Very creepy and original.  I got all excited and said "this is great!!"  "I'm gonna watch the whole series!!!"  So i watched 'The Girl Who Played With Fire" and was incredibly let down... I was so so disappointed that i decided to post a negative review; my first.    To this movie's credit, it would be a decent movie if it didn't have to follow "dragon tattoo" because it is absolutely a completely different film than the aforementioned.  Gone is the dark, creepy, brooding, slow paced, and quite realistic(for a movie at least) detective story.  This is a bourne movie.  It's even lit like a bourne movie.  It's incredibly fast paced, has multiple story lines involving less than secondary characters(some random boxer dude and lisbeths girlfriend), and it totally abandons the original plot halfway through the movie.  This is not a creepy serial killer mystery like the first installment.  This is a movie about Lisbeth Solander and her dysfunctional family.  Unlike "Tattoo"  you know you are watching a production here and at parts it feels a little contrived and has very little realism.  They shoulda stayed with the original director!  Speaking of SE7EN, David Fincher has signed on to remake the trilogy, and considering the mans past work, i'm very interested to see what he brings to the table regarding the second and third parts of this series....  Sorry for posting a negative review, as i now a lot of people liked this movie.  I honestly tried to and feel a little let down...

Came-not-a-lot I love King Arthur and his legendary knights, whether it's gritty "historical" stories or a pile of medieval anachronisms a la Malory.  But the once and future king has really gotten more than his fair share of rotten movies and TV, and the latest disaster is "Camelot." No, not the Broadway musical or the movie adaptation -- this is Starz's attempt at updating the timeless Arthurian legends (which don't NEED updating), which just turns into a silly, sloppy and overly PC mess.  The evil princess Morgan (Eva Green) murders her father Uther, exiles her stepmother, and allies herself with her dad's enemy King Lot. But Merlin (Joseph Fiennes) is having none of this, and hunts down Uther's secret illegitimate son Arthur (Jamie Campbell Bower), who has been raised by an adoptive family in the country. With Merlin's guidance and training (in rock-climbing), Arthur claims the throne --and gains Morgan's wrath.  He also falls in love with Guinevere (Tamsin Egerton), the beautiful young wife of a loyal knight, and is deftly manipulated by Merlin in decidedly unmagical ways, sometimes with bloody outcomes. As young Arthur struggles to unite Britain under him, he must deal with Morgan constantly trying to undermine his rule and his power -- but with little idea of just how far she will go.  The idea behind "Camelot" is not a bad one, and even the rewriting of Arthurian lore (the origins of Excalibur) aren't that bad. The problem is in the execution. This series wants to be a plot-heavy, gritty, authentic "Game of Thrones"-esque story, but it's actually more of a silly, anachronistic BCC "Robin Hood" (complete with multiculturalism and modern feminism, which makes it doubly ridiculous).  Yeah, this is one of those series where the costumes, sets, perfectly-coiffed hair and even some of the beautiful scenery all feel like they were lifted from a Renaissance Faire. There's no feeling of timeless grandeur, epicness or awe -- instead, it sometimes feels like "King Arthur: The Legendary Journeys." Additionally, the main storyline is.... rather weak, especially since the straightforward Morgan's plans for overthrowing Arthur get downright silly.  As for the acting, it's a mixed bag. Fiennes is wonderfully conniving and Machievellian as Merlin, almost to the point of being villainous, Peter Mooney is dynamic as Kay, and Green is brilliantly wrenching as a destructive yet wronged young woman.  However, Bower's Arthur is a massive twerp, with zero presence or charisma. He's a skinny surfer-dudeish kid whose appeal is honestly a total mystery. I mean, his Arthur only decides to become king because HE CAN SCORE WITH GIRLS. Who can take that seriously? As for Egerton, she's painfully awkward and rather flat, and her character is Mary-Sueish to the extreme.  "Camelot" is a painful experience -- not just because it's a lackluster, weakly-plotted series, but because it could have easily been so much more. Give it a pass.

Blu Ray is barely an improvement This is a great epic.  However, the extreme graininess of the blu ray makes it no different that the DVD.  My system indicates general bitrates of about 15 mbps...compare that to 33 for the recent star wars.  So for blu ray...not worth it if you already own the DVD.

Review When they lie on the back of the box in order to get people to watch your movie, no one should! That is exactly what was done. "When a mission in Iraq is derailed by an explosive ambush, a small band of U.S. soldiers find themselves fighting for their lives." That happened in the first 15 minutes of the film, and although if you want to argue philosophically that the rest of the movie also fits this description, I don't agree.  Perhaps if the company was honest about the film and told the truth. That after leaving Iraq four soldiers go crazy and have to deal with their mental problems, leading to a doctor becoming an alcoholic who rips out his son's lip ring, another invades a business and holds a group of people hostage until he's shot dead, another who lost her right hand, dumps her old boyfriend because of her hand and finds a new one and the last one after smashing up a car re-enlists because all he can do is work at a movie theater.  The acting was credible but the movie put me to sleep.

Misleading product description I am so glad when this dvd along with my other orders came two days ahead of the delivery date.. But when i began watching it i began to be disappointed that the movie subtitles are only in french and spanish when the product description in your site states that it has english, french and spanish subtitles. If i like a movie, i watch it  twice. First with the subtitles on to concentrate on the dialogues ready with my pen and paper to scribble down some intersting movie quotes and twice without the subtitles to concentrate on the actors' acting. This dvd doesn't even have the special features it claims to have  namely: 1. Collectible booklet, 2. Exclusive interview with Dustin Hoffman and 3. Behind the scenes and making- of documentary. It even has a poor audio quality in  such a manner that when characters are talking i have to turn up the volume to hear what is going on in the scenes and when the soundtrack is playing the music of simon and garfunkel, i have to turn decrease the volume because that is when the audio is at its highest. Quite disappointed.

Hokey Piece of Crud All I seek is middle of the road entertainment, but this was subpar, boring and contrived.  I'm only grateful that it wasn't peppered with over exaggerated, gratuitous teenage sex and raunch.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0083GPDBO">Chronicle</a>

A/P - Book of Love I have all of the other American Pie movies so I thought I should purchase this one.  Really wasn't all that impressed with it.  If I had seen it before buying it, I probably won't have spent the money to buy.

A very disappointing movie There is a magnificent tale to be told about Mrs Thatcher and the pivotal role she played in her times, using her own words, but sadly this is not the film that tells it. Astounding liberties are taken with the ordering of the historical record, and despite some fine moments (the first meeting with the public image consultant stands out, and the final scene) the script's dialogue consistently fails to rise to the challenge of convincingly conveying the ideological texture and trajectory of the times. I don't think any 16 year-old could watch this and leave the cinema feeling truly enlightened about the achievements brought about in the 1980s by Mrs Thatcher's ideas and personality, other than a vague memory that Thatcher was a strong woman. Because of this key failure in the script, the movie has to fall back on confusing jumbles of over-strident music and aggressive TV news footage to try to convey the mood. It simply fails in this, often painfully so. Having recently re-read Mrs Thatcher's two autobiographies, I felt the film failed very badly in conveying her core philosophy. The scene where she challenges Al Haig is a good example in this - it comes across as very weak tea, if you've heard the powerful and convincing way it's dealt with in _The Falklands Play_. At other times the film becomes, frankly, a little boring. It's perhaps visually that the film is most excellent, with very strong costuming and hair, set off with excellent lighting. But that's just not enough to make a great film. Despite all the polish and the fine performance from Streep, and workmanlike performance from Alexandra Roach as the young Margaret, _The Iron Lady_ really can't compare to other depictions. I'm thinking here of the excellence of the radio version of _The Falklands Play_ (in terms of the power of the dialogue to fuse ideas and drama), or _The Long Walk to Finchley_ (in terms of conveying the complex combination of human personality and political ideals). I really wanted to like _The Iron Lady_, but it won't be on my list of movies to watch again.

DVD skipping 2 parts ... broken The DVD is not working .. it was fine through about 30 minutes of the MOVIE. The physical apperence was as perfect as any I have seen. BUT somehow the DVD skips 2 parts of the frames.  i am trying to find the way to return and get a new one.

Adrenalin the hard way Nothing goes right for the whole movie until the last couple of minutes.  By then I didn't care what happens to the bad guy or why.  And the explanation of the "rabbit foot" is anti-climactic on purpose, like a joke on the viewer.  I had to put on another movie just to remember that movies are not about all frustration all the time.

low budget, very high school one act Most of the short films had no clear begining middle or end. The stories were okay but it was hard to form an opinion on something so short. I really thought since I was paying for this that it would be of a higher quality than the webseries girl/girl scene which is free. Although I do like the last short film in this movie.

Sleeping Beauty VHS The movie is okay, but the box the VHS came in is really bent, wrinkled, etc. It really bothered me. It definitely looks like messy children messed with it.

Couldn't Finish This film was just awful, and I decided not to waste my time finishing it.  Everything about it was bad, from start to finish-  at least to the finish line that I chose.  A real stinkeroo.

If they are going to manipulate us, the least they could do is make it entertaining You remember that scene in the preview where they throw that little remote airplane in the air to surveil enemy territory?  That was awesome.  Or how about the moment where a Seal catches a guy shot in the head so he doesn't make a splashing sound?  Those scenes made me want to see this movie regardless of the fact that I knew it was going to be barefaced cheerleading for American foreign policy.  While there were a few other cool moments in which you felt like you were playing a video game, and some of the gear and tactics were interesting to observe, they really didn't put enough effort into this.  Without enough special effects to make up for it, I was nauseated by the glorification of the wholesome, family-oriented American special ops guys, and the unsophisticated characterization of the shifty-eyed terrorists from hell.  You may as well re-watch True Lies instead of wasting your time on this.

Region Code Error This is probably me being ignorant of these types of things, but I would have liked a more visible warning about the region code upon purchase, as it makes it impossible to play the DVD in Norway. The concert is probably fabulous though.

tedious I was very disappointed with this movie.....i expected much more. It was painfully slow.....yes some good gore scenes....but too few and too much dead air inbetween!  Unless you want to sit down and really watch a "movie" , as if its some drama...then this is not for you......there are so many better horrors out there......  Atmospheric yes......cute girls..yes......some sex ..yes....some blood..yes but sadly in a rather boring drawn out package....  You are better off going for "Inside" its a well paced gory French movie....hardly a dull moment from start to finish....and tons of blood!....That was a unique concept and worth every penny!  Good luck..gore fans!!!

Another Zombie Movie How many ways can zombies eat humans?  I do not know but there seems to be a preference by some of the zombies in this movie to go for the kneecaps first.  I have just given the movie away.  Whoops!  If you have a need to watch zombie movies, you might as well watch this one because it is not much different from those few I have seen in the past which were supposed to be cult masterpieces.  There must be a market for these films; otherwise they would not continue being made.  Perhaps zombies who are on a diet are the ones that buy these films in much the same way steak lovers will eat salads for a short period of sacrifice in order to lose a few pounds.  I have not eaten a human since watching this film, although it has not been a real test of my willpower. This was a Vine product that I accepted for review without spending time to find out more about it, but I was in a hurry.  I am sure I will get a comment telling me that I should not have viewed a film if I knew it was one in which I would not like.  Why not?  That's the same as saying I should not view a film because I knew I would like it.  So, my zombie friends, I believe you have a responsibility to improve the level of the art because it remains silly and full of gore for no artistic reason.

"Okay, I give up - what is this stuff?!" With his days of theatrical releases behind him, Chuck Norris' career revolved almost exclusively around <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0030Y12AU">Walker, Texas Ranger</a>. His extracurricular output (i.e. DTV movies) seemed to consist mainly of favors to his sons and brother, but at least those were still technically Chuck Norris vehicles, unlike this one. "Logan's War" is a film with an identity crisis, wanting to be an action/revenge/mafia thriller on one hand and a quasi-inspirational drama on the other...but without Chuck Norris in the lead. I'm not a diehard fan of the man, but even I can tell that this would've been a better movie if the man featured most prominent only the DVD cover was also the man most featured in the movie.  The story: after his family is murdered in a mob hit, Logan Fallon (Eddie Cibrian, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JNJ1">Third Watch</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FOPPBA">Invasion</a>) is brought up by his uncle Jake (Norris) to be a soldier and a man of honor. However, upon returning home as a military hero, he pursues his lifelong ambition to seek vengeance on the man who made him an orphan (R.D. Call <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000399WE">Young Guns II</a>)...  Not unlike his role in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001BFXCUI">Sidekicks</a>, Norris plays the role of mentor to his fiery young prot&eacute;g&eacute;, whom this film really is about. Norris is consistently present for the first half of the movie, and then practically disappears until the very end. The false advertising of this one's cover - highlighting Norris' visage and billing him over Eddie Cibrian - is pretty disappointing: Cibrian is a decent leading man, but even at this point in his career, Norris would have been more exciting to watch. The mixed morality of the tale (i.e. Logan is raised to be a good man but can't be separated from his anger) is surprisingly mature and less black & white than most movie fare tends to be, but it contrasts inharmoniously to the motivational themes of unconventional families and military glory: scenes in which Logan rescues an officer under fire and befriends an abused boy, his mother, and their dog almost feel like they're from a different film than the ones in which he schemes his way into the mob and beats up various enforcers. There's also a part thrown in about Logan being psychic, but it's an unnecessary addition and could've easily been left out of the movie.  There's not a lot of action in "Logan's War", I'm disappointed to say. A couple shootouts and three mostly short hand-to-hand fights comprise the adrenaline centerpieces. Cibrian is surprisingly adept with his spinning kicks and sweeps, but just when you're starting to appreciate this guy's athletic ability during an encounter, the fight ends. Norris gets the coolest move of the movie by copying the flying kick through a car windshield of his own <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004XMV4">Good Guys Wear Black</a>, but a couple acrobatic takedowns by his character are clearly performed via stunt doubles. Slow motion is excruciatingly overused. The film's production is clean but clearly of made-for-TV quality, what with the aforementioned red filters, slow motion, and the opening credits stretching throughout the first fifteen minutes of the movie. The acting is passable, but no single character is all that interesting.  There's nothing very wrong with "Logan's War", but it's just not intriguing enough to get a higher rating. Norris fans can do better, and they would probably be the only ones who'd be interested in this movie in the first place. Keep looking.

Completely lacked direction..... Let me start by saying that I used to loooove this show, that is before the writers of season 6 completely destroyed it with dreadful writing, abrupt character introductions/exits, and poorly developed storylines! This season was all over the place, never really took off, and lacked a solid plot driven storyline. As a matter of fact, the best episode of the season was the last, an episode in which I nearly missed due to the hollow, vacuous, and mindless nature of the rest. I mean seriously, being on the run and taking an unexpected road trip should have been easy for the writers to work with. They could have introduced the reporter storyline earlier and developed it throughout the season (would have been entertaining seeing Nancy/Natalie manipulate that situation to her advantage)or worked in Celia's character instead of Doug's; Doug's character is annoying at best, and Celia...well Celia's character has always been entertaining, nonetheless. Perhaps they could have, in some complete twist of Weeds like fate, come across Heylia James and/or Conrad. That would have been interesting and I can only imagine how that would have played out. Oh, and then the whole thing with Silas and Judah??? Seriously, give me a break. Keeping the above in mind, while considering the weakness of the previous TWO seasons(4&5), I can't believe this show hasn't been pulled yet. It's truly sad to see such a great show like Weeds go down in flames simply due to indigent, lazy, and idle minded writing. I'll still watch season 7, but only because I'm certain it will be its last. SO WITH THAT SAID,GOODBYE WEEDS: MAY YOU BE REMEMBERED FOR WHAT YOU ONCE WERE, AND NOT WHAT THOSE PISS ANT WRITERS AT SHOWTIME ALLOWED YOU TO BECOME!!!!

I'm only giving this junk 2 stars because so many gave it one-star that my review wouldn't get read This movie isn't a horror film anymore than "The Love Boat" was about nautical stuff.  It's a boring film for people fascinated by eating crap. Unless you think about eating other people's crap when you masturbate, you will find it boring and pointless.  It isn't scary, it isn't edgy, it isn't BDSM, it isn't embarrassing, it isn't ironic, it isn't confusing, it isn't shocking, it isn't "camp", it isn't social commentary, it isn't funny, it isn't serious, it isn't "art", it isn't anti-women, it doesn't make some subtle point, it isn't shameful,  it isn't a movie for gays, it isn't "mondo", it shouldn't be censored, it isn't metaphorical,it isn't engaging, it won't make you turn away while watching it, it isn't oh-so-clever, it isn't "controversial", it won't make you angry that it was made, it isn't interesting, it isn't worth wasting the time it takes to watch because now you're curious, it isn't porn, and since no sex organs are shown, it isn't even "scat" porn.  If you still don't understand, here's a subtle distinction.  This movie isn't  disgusting like a used diaper in the dumpster; it's disgusting like the cat throwing up again.  It's just a boring niche movie for guys who get a boner when they see that someone else didn't flush the toilet.  If that's you, then, by all means, reach in and eat some.  &lt;-- metaphor for watching this movie.

Didn't do it for me Good acting and so much promise in the plot but the ending, or lack thereof, will leave many disappointed and wishing they hadn't paid the price of admission.

GREAT BEGINNING AND THEN NOTHING The movie starts out like a great action film as a group called "The Takers" pull off an elaborate heist of $2 million from a bank robbery. Meanwhile a cop, who does not use proper police protocol (imagine that in L.A.) is in an apartment building performing a bust. The Takers like fine drink, fine automobiles, fine cigars, and fine women. After the action scene the movie slows down. They exploded the helicopter too soon. Andy Sidaris says it has to be near the end. The cop was unlikable as we root for the bad guys. Unfortunately the movie never picks up to where it was as good as the opening heist. The story had nothing new to offer and I found myself getting bored with it.

Poor plot I must say that I was disappointed in the movie. I saw it at Cinemark XD-RealD 3D, which I believe may be like IMAX 3D. The 3D was super, and I enjoyed the visuals. I felt that the acting was more than adequate.   However the plot was a complete mess, from beginning to end. I could not understand the beginning of the movie, the middle, and the end. It is hard to be detailed because I am trying to avoid spoilers. I could not understand the motivation of the characters and the story was not easy to follow. I was shocked that the plot was so poorly written.   I love science fiction, the Aliens franchise, and Ridley Scott. Believe me that I was looking for reasons to like the movie. I would rate this movie a C-, which I define as viewable but would not be motivated to buy the Blu-ray. The movie felt like it was motivated from the Aliens franchise but did not really add anything to that universe. It also was not drawing on enough of the Aliens movies. It was worth seeing in the theater, but not more than this. The Amazon rating of 3.5/5 is probably fair.

Should've "listened" to the reviews I purchased this after reading the book, which I found charming and was anxious to see it on screen. I am a fan of both Colin Firth and Reese Witherspoon, so despite some of the poor reviews of their acting in this film, I went ahead and purchased the movie. I should've listened to those reviews however, because Firth plays a horrid Jack Worthing! He plays Worthing the same way he played Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, which is all wrong for Jack's character. And as much as I like Reese Witherspoon, she just didn't catch the essence of Cecily at all. The dialog - which was sharp and witty in my head reading the play - is just dead in this movie version. Too slow for sure, but it's missing something else, almost like the actors just didn't "get" the humor (maybe forgivable for Witherspoon, who is American, but what is Firth's excuse?), or maybe it had to do with the director, I don't know, but the fact remains this movie just doesn't "work." The tattoo scene, especially, which is not in Wilde's play, struck me as a bad attempt at perhaps adding a little sex appeal to draw a younger crowd. Was there anything to smile about in this movie version? Rupert Everett played a pretty good Algy, as did Tom Wilkinson as Dr Chasuble and Anna Massey as Miss Prism. The sets were beautiful, but none of this makes up for the lack of spark among the main actors (particularly Firth and Witherspoon) and the mishandling of the dialog.

WAR HORSE This was a good story, but the production was almost amaturish.  In the scenes where the horse was leaning to plow, unlikely things happened such as having the whole town coming out to this remote farm to watch the horse learn. Really now. Just too Disney like.  They looked like they were about to break out in song.

the movie is great, the dvd is not This Dvd is labled as a collector's edition so I had hoped that it would be superior to the copy I bought some years ago.  It is not.  The movie is fuzzy and faded and badly in need of restoration.

sloooooooooow! this movie was not my fav.  way too slow.  be prepared for a long movie.  It is very long and very slow ... this should be 20 words.

Saw this movie prior to my order and liked it Saw this movie on TV prior to my ordering it from Amazon and really liked the movie.  Unfortunately, when I ordered it so that I could have a copy for myself, It came damaged and I had to return it. But I highly recommend this movie to anyone interested in a nice, lite holiday comedy.

Not the greatest movie by any means. I thought it notable that Josh Brolin was embarrassed by this movie, and he is the star. It is more of an eye candy flick, with enough violence and shots of prostitute playing Megan Fox, but other than that, the movie was lackluster at best. This was not the best effort from Malcovich, who is really a fine actor in most movies i've seen him in, IMO. The action seemed a bit too contrived, the humor forced, the story gutted. Not at all the way to pay homage to the comic book series.

Only For Fans Of Surrealism, Simians, And Whistling Marco Ferreri made some of the most peculiar, idiosyncratic, and controversial films of the twentieth century, and his first film in English, "Bye Bye Monkey," definitely fits those three criteria. Ferreri's films are generally compelling if difficult exercises in surrealism and social commentary. This film is rife with symbolism and interpersonal conflicts, and serves as a commentary on the changing social mores of the 1970s, and particularly focuses on the changing perceptions of women in society. Apparently. Some of the symbolism and content is quite opaque, and there is plenty of room for interpretation. Another interpretation is that it's a film featuring long boring stretches of nothing and a monkey. (That just doesn't sound as good.)  Heading the cast are G&eacute;rard Depardieu as Lafayette and Marcello Mastroianni as Luigi, two eccentric immigrants living in a New York City that is even more pretentious and rat-infested than in reality. Lafayette lives in an apartment that is apparently half service station bathroom and half rat farm judging from its ambiance, and works as a stagehand and production assistant for a very off-Broadway women's theater group. The seven actresses have a distaste for men in general and Lafayette in particular (though his boorish behavior rightfully earns their scorn,) which leads to my question: if they are all about feminism, why didn't they hire a female stagehand? After Lafayette unwittingly assists in the most distasteful actor's workshop ever, he and Luigi find King Kong's body lying next to the water in front of the World Trade Center towers (the film was made in 1977.) They discover a baby chimpanzee nuzzled up to Kong, and in one of Mastroianni's worst fits of overacting ever, Luigi explains that Lafayette should adopt the chimp because he has allergies to ape hair. (!) When consulted on the issue Andreas Flaxman (James Coco, who steals the show) advises Lafayette to ditch the monkey: "You must get rid of this quadruped immediately....Forget the dictates of your heart!" Thank goodness he doesn't take the advice, as the chimp is by far the most appealing cast member.  As the film progresses Lafayette gets into a weird relationship triangle (I dare not call it a "love triangle" here) with two women. This plot element is truly offbeat, and his decisions are definitely not where my own would have been. Not only does Lafayette not get rid of the monkey he takes it to a registrar and lists it as his child, named "Cornelius Lafayette." This attachment to his chimp is oddly noble, but ends up costing him dearly in the end. I suppose that's a commentary on the nature of love and the fragility of the mortal world, but you interpret for yourself.  Some of the plot defies simple description, and some of the techniques are painful to endure as a viewer. First there is the whistling. Lafayette uses a referee's whistle to scare the rats, his eternal foes, away. He becomes so fond of it he begins to use it to communicate instead of dialogue. This is a bit of a mixed blessing, but I found it profoundly annoying. Along the same grating lines, the film features intermittent musical numbers, the less said of which the better: my only comment is that after the singing you will probably be glad to hear the whistle again. The film also incorporates many other cultural artifacts, mostly through Flaxman's wax museum dedicated to Roman antiquity. I actually enjoyed Coco's part in the film more than any of the other (human) actors, as he is passionate and intense, while still being loon crazy. In a tribute to the big government conspiracy theories so popular after Watergate, Flaxman is visited by a psychological agent from the government who wants him to modernize the look of the wax statues for a more modern time. He demonstrates how Caesar should be made to look like JFK, while Nero is made to look like Nixon in a bit of symbolism that's hard to miss. ("You put Nixon's head on Nero's body!") Nixon is also given a zither (it's not a fiddle anyway) of some sort to hold. This didn't surprise me, as Ferreri's Nixon predilection is seen in some of his other work as well. The film concludes in a genuinely dismaying manner, and careful observers might have seen it coming. In retrospect I should have, but didn't as by the time the ending rolled around I was a distinctly disinterested observer.  The DVD has a difficult menu to get to work correctly, and the disc didn't want to play on one of my DVD players at all. There is a bonus feature of a short snippet from the documentary "Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came From The Future" included (other parts are scattered all over other works in his catalogue.) The image is fairly good for this vintage of film, and the photography is stunning. Imagery overcomes substance in many places (white gas masks, James Coco bursting into flames, etc.) and from a purely visual perspective the film is interesting. That the plot meanders all over creation and frequently approaches senselessness are its biggest problems, and while fans of 1970s surrealism, Ferreri, Depardieu, Mastroianni, or Coco may glean pleasure from it, "Bye Bye Monkey" is not a film for most viewers.

Fragmented This movie must have been written by someone who has the attention span of snail. It was like they filmed a bunch of unrelated scenes, and then decided how they could cram them all into a long, strange, mindless arrow shooting party.  One strange scene, has the King of Locksley asking Russel Crowe to tell him about himself, so he might receive him as his son. Then not long after, the King is telling Crowe all about his father??? Made no sense.  It was hard to understand many conversations in the movie. I think the accents were so fake, and maybe the microphone wasnt close enough, that it didnt work well.  I was disapointed in the movie, and I only rented it for $1 at redbox. I wonder if they have refunds?

Not great The instructor is competent, but she talks so slowly - it makes the video boring.  It was difficult to stay motivated.  Also, when she does moves on the roller, the camera should zoom in on her legs and the movements so it would be clearer.  Hoping to find a better video than this.

sorry to go against the grain here I grew up with the many adventures of winnie the pooh and got this as a cheaper alternative. It is so annoying I could not stand to watch it. The first part is a past paced remix of the many adventures of winnie the pooh only the songs are wretched and not the least bit enjoyable.

Interesting for comparison...and that's it I happened to get to see this one on TV before I could buy it and I must say...its one version I'd rather not own. While the cast is surprisingly familiar from the casts of many other lower-key films I enjoy (and extras from more popular ones) the acting is unusual and disjointed. Personalities from the novel are over-exaggerated or not present at all. My largest dissapointment was with not deemming it worth owning, since it has been my goal to own every TV/theatrical version of all of my favorite Jane Austin-era novels, but this one I don't want, unless its for "bad movie night".  I do commend Gweneth Paltrow's efforts at playing a role for a story she's probably never heard of and an era never she's bothered to act for. I appreciate her efforts, but the older versions have outdone them.  **I know I did not comment on the story line, but I'm certain another reviewer has written enough on the matter...along with Jane Austin.

Could have been a great film Normally I would give this film 4 stars for having a great theme told through a  well crafted story with solid acting. It loses a star for being racist, and another for an unnecessary plot development that spoils an otherwise enjoyable experience.

Not like the classics Lot of action in this one with very little thought going into the storyline. Not near as good as the earlier ones, this one falls flat on its face, gets a big thumbs down.

Thank GOD Fidel Survived COMPANY MAN was really just not my cup of tea. I am game for almost anything - especially a goofball comedy but this thing just falls flat. The occasional laugh here and there will give way to more 'interesting' set-ups rather than funny ones. (An example is the vivid portrayal of how Mikhail Gorbachev 'really' got his purple birthmark.)  In short, bumbling, slightly funny grade school grammar teacher Alan Quimp (Douglas McGrath, who wrote and directed this travesty) is yanked into the CIA, sent to Cuba with the purpose of assassinating Fidel Castro (a much funnier Anthony LaPaglia). The result is an odd cross between the worst of Jerry Lewis and a quaalude.  You'd think with the kind of star power McGrath commanded here - Sigourney Weaver, Woody Allen (oh! funny as hell as CIA field director of Cuba), Ryan Phillippe (as Petrov, the sweet despondent Russian danseur noble), Jeffrey Jones, etc., etc., well ... yet it is not funny overall.  Alan Cumming does a fall-down hilarious turn as General Bautista, and Allen after being cursed by a waiter with choice words involving his mother replies, "Ahem ... ah, yes, your ... your mother suffers from the same condition," equally drop-dead hilarious, well, it just isn't all that funny. Dennis Leary among others did not help the comedy and Phillippe, as talented and rich as he is, simply flails dramatically with his role, not knowing how else to act.  Ultimately I think that is the real problem with this, and that kind of thing is ALWAYS the director's fault. I wouldn't bother to watch this unless it popped up on cable - and then only for Phillippe's and Allen's appearances.  Otherwise pass on this and get something much funnier, like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000Q76K24">The Good Shepherd</a> ....

Very poorly pieced together I went back and forth quite a bit about whether or not to give this one 2 or 3 stars, but after running through it again I decided I had to go with the lower. There is a bit of good information here, but it is overshadowed by the choppy editing job and the writer's less than satisfactory grasp of the English language. The film goes off on many short tangents as well that add nothing to the story, a whole lot of speculation is  presented as absolute fact, and quite a bit of information that is used is just flat out wrong. If you are dead set on watching a documentary about Belle this is just about your only choice, but there are plenty much better documentaries about similar subjects available if you are just looking for 19th or early 20th century murders.

PROMETHEUS This movie is a good visual sci-fi movie with good acting by some really good actors . It ends there. It was intended as a prequel to the Alien Franchise and failed horribly. I had hopes for this movie being under the original director, but it failed. James Cameron set the ALIEN franchise out of everyone else's reach apparently, since every Alien film since has utterly failed. Mainly because the fans want more of what James Cameron gave us in ALIENS. Hollywood can't seem to grasp that notion. I do not recommend paying over 5 bucks for this movie.

quirky The film was the usual oddity by the director, with a number of humorous vignettes: The fight with his analist wife during her session with a patient, a visit to the lowest level of hell to visit satan and bump into the inventor of aluminum siding, and a serial cannibal.  I don't think that it will make any top film lists.

Costume drama fails to deliver Robert Pattinson escapes his vampire character into the primary lead in this 1890 Parisian costume drama.  Pattinson looks the part as an impoverished son of a farmer who elevates his social status by seducing powerful women or wives of powerful men.  Unfortunately he doesn't have the acting chops to pull off such a centrist role.  Directors Decian Donnellan and Nick Ormerod don't help as seemingly half the movie focuses on Pattinson various facial expressions.  Most of the time it is that blank look he perfected in the "Twilight" movies but without the glitter.  The supporting cast is first rate.  Christini Ricci is the young wife of a powerful businessman who is rarely at home.  She falls for Georges (Pattinson) but her marriage precludes much beyond regular dalliances she arranges in a rented apartment.  Her young daughter, upon meeting Georges, calls him bel ami (beautiful friend).  Kristin Scott Thomas is the wife of a political leader and newspaper publisher (Colm Meaney).  She eventually succumbs to Georges.  Uma Thurman is Madeleine a behind-the-scenes political writer for her husband, and Georges boss, at the newspaper.  Yep, eventually he even marries her.  We see all of this coming of course, along with the responses from the various ladies in Georges' life.  Outside a little skin from Ms. Ricci and Pattinson, there's little romance or titillation which would seem to be the point.  Ultimately, in spite of some interesting secondary characters, the film is a bore.

Zumba Buns, Thighs and  Abs When I ordered this DVD I thought it was about  Zumba dances and I was very dissapointed that  it only contained floor exercises. Just because of the word Zumba on the cover, it was VERY expensive for the contents and duration, only 30 mins. and a few seconds. The only "Zumba"-related thing was a latin music on the background. It should plainly say it is about floor exercises and eliminate the word Zumba from it, it is misleading. The exercises are good, but have nothing to do with Zumba.

SEEN IT ALREADY... i just happened to be flipping through channels and stopped on BET and noticed MARQUES HOUSTON and OMARION in a movie together, ONCE AGAIN.  i didn't realized that i was watching THE SEQUEL to SOMEBODY HELP ME, PART 1.  i could have sworn the first was titled, CABIN IN THE WOODS, but anyways.  i watched a good 45 min of this movie, and the ACTING was more frightening than the storyline.  it was like a VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY BAD version of HOSTEL.  i would definitely say that the first is better.  this was so low budget.

By the end, I wanted them both to die! There are moments where this film rated a 4 - possibly even a 5. But these moments are overwhelmed by a few negative factors.  1. The length. This is too long - especially for what the movie accomplishes. The last 1/2 hour was too drawn out, and this allowed for unnecessary melodrama and overwrought performances.  2. The ghost. This is possibly the most annoying ghost I have ever seen. Rather than being a sympathetic character, I began to loathe the ghost. Her method was embarrassing, confusing, dangerous and not even suspenseful, because this story has been told over and over again.  3. Stereotypes. Filled with gender stereotypes: The woman who gives up her career and settles into homemaking. The rich folks with only trite things about which to worry. The man - stuck in his career and ignoring his beautiful blonde wife. The man who has an affair. The man who is violent and kills the mistress. The mother grieving because her daughter leaves for college. Seductive young college student pulling in male professor (which we learn about through a possession experience). Bleh.  4. Completely bizarre behavior.  Well this comes from the stereotypes. The hysterical woman showing at the husband's workplace and making a scene. The sad woman getting drunk on white wine. Having a saence with a close friend -- so bizarre and unexpected.  Visiting a psychiatrist for ghost issues. Psychiatrist offering a hot piece of candy to adult patient - which she spits out. Not knowing that your husband of at least 20 years is an abusive murderer.  Question: Why was the daughter even necessary? She was in the film for about 20 seconds.  I wanted to give this a four, but it deserves the two it received.

Visuals are best selling point (some spoiler). I saw the Trailers, and noted the overall rating here on Amazon so I decided to give it a shot - despite some bad things I'd heard.  This is somewhat a fairly dark/creepy (insinuated sexual abuse) Movie right from the start. It's a bit difficult to follow at times as it's a somewhat disjointed venture.  You've basically got three themes running throughout this picture, and it takes a bit sometimes to see where they're connecting or overlapping. You have reality, which is really pretty dark and not totally logical, an altered/enhanced (dressed up?) reality which is the main theme hooking in the fantasy reality theme.  Reality: It's dark and a bit disturbing as I mentioned at the beginning, but it's also not really logical - to me it's really quite a stretch to see how she ends up being committed to an Insane Asylum.  Altered Reality: Not quite as dark, but it's presented as a managed brothel where the girls are essentially slaves with no say or way to escape. This brings in the dancing thing, where whenever she dances we hook into the fantasy part which impacts reality/altered reality - I guess her dancing is supposed to hypnotize everyone or something, I don't know.  Fantasy: This is what you see in the Trailers, and is the real draw of the movie, with the only drawback being that this girl just suddenly becomes some super uber Martial Arts/Fighter without having any training/exposure to it what so ever - maybe all that was cut on the editing floor, who knows, but it was a disappointment.  [Spoiler] The plot in the end, doesn't even end up about her, she's just a vehicle to help someone else escape. In the end she end's up getting an Icepick Lobotomy (without Anesthesia no less) - like they still do those these days, especially after only five days in the Asylum.  I wasn't really crazy about the music. A fair amount was some shreds (maybe shredded would be more accurate) of better known songs, where I'm guessing the target audience is more of the Punk scene - just not for me.  The two star are primarily for the Fantasy portions of this movie, they were decent, it's just too bad they couldn't have been wrapped into a better package than the overall Movie. I've no doubt this will probably end up with a Cult following, it was too dark and had too many holes for my liking though.

Juvenile humour in this "comedic"yawn fest I got my advanced copy of Bridesmaids(theatrically released May/11),through a store which mistakenly released it too early,anticipating great things according to all the hype and reviews on it,and of course the big bonanza at the box office.Boy was I disappointed;gags that a one year old could see coming even before the movie rolled.It stars Kristen Wiig as Annie who also co wrote the screenplay along with Annie Mumolo.Jill Clayburgh who I hadn't seen for far too long plays Annies mother.It is a shame she passed away late last year before the movie even opened as she gave as best a performance as she could considering the inane material given to her.There is even an outtake where one actress apologizes for making her having to say the lines that she does.Add to this,in Canada at least,a terrible layer change hesitation on the disc,the length of which I've never encountered. Anyways on with the plot.It involves the aforementioned Annie who had a bakery business that went bust and like the business,her romance department is in equal doldrums.She is going with a self absorbed twit named Ted(John Hamm) and she lives with two totally off the wall characters by the names of Gil(Matt Lucas) and his sister Brynn(Rebel Wilson).Thrown into the mix is Annie's life long friend Lillian(Maya Rudolph)who is getting married and Annie is picked as her maid of honour. One of Lllian's bridesmaids Helen(Rose Byrne) doesn't see eye to eye with Annie and the two from the get go pick at each other and try to out do each other at every turn.Helen is married to a well off banker exec so she can afford the luxuries to throw Lillian's way and at the same time impress the heck out of everyone else.Things just go steadily downhill for Annie who manages to get everyone sick at a restaurant they eat at and on a flight to Vegas for the bachelorette party she becomes drunk(in big part due to Helen's advice)and gets the plane diverted to Wyoming. Back home Annie flirts with and eventually sleeps with a local Irish born cop named Nathan(Chris Dowd).However due to the stress of everything she shy's away from getting too deep and backs off any further personal interaction.Annie travels to Chicago to attend her friends bridal shower only to find that Helen has stolen the very Parisian theme she had envisioned for it.When Helen offers to take Lillian to Paris for a dress fitting with the designer himself she melts down and trashes much of the table settings and leaves.Annie is banned from the wedding by Lillian. On the way home Annie's car breaks down,and that being the final straw,she retreats into her apartment.Fellow bridesmaid Megan(Melissa Mccarthy)comes around and gives Annie some much needed advice and gets her out of her depression.Annie bakes a cake to makes amends to the cop but it remains on the doorstep where she left it.Helen then shows up saying Lillian has disappeared but also apologizes for her behavior towards her.The search for Lillian ends at her apartment and the two reconcile.Annie is reinstated as the top bridesmaid and the wedding goes off without a hitch,with Nathan arriving on the scene to also reconcile with Annie. Some of the best moments in this movie come from the unexpected places and not necessarily from its' two main characters.Melissa Mccarthy plays the over weight but plucky and steadfast friend/bridesmaid and she is given some worthwhile moments on the flight to Vegas and her heart to heart with Annie.The brother and sister Annie live with are almost alien like and quite creepy but so off the wall that you have to shake your head more than once.Ben Falcone as the "no I'm not an Air Marshall" gives an understated but decent performance,as does Franklyn Ajaye as Lillian's dad.And watch for a brief appearance by Terry Crews who played Gerard Butler's nemesis in the great action film Gamer. However over all the so called gags are strained and quite,QUITE shallow.It starts from the very beginning where Annie is leaving Ted's place and the motorized gate is closed.Of course this wouldn't happen in real life as it would be obvious the gate would have to get opened in order for her to leave,but yes I know,this is just a movie.Who couldn't see that once she climbed that gate to get over it,it would somehow open with her on it? We then find Annie talking sexual humour with her friend Lillian...whoopee.The scenes where the bridesmaids get sick is quite gross and WAY too obvious.Her roommate Byrne is on the big side and when she shows Annie her tattoo on her back of course this is time to show all the fat folds and the butt crack...been there,done that.*yawn*.Chris Dowd's lackluster performance as Nathan is no where near believable,so I cannot suspend my disbelief long enough to believe why a good looking lady like that would ever fall for a milk toast guy like Natahan. Annie and Helen's attempts at getting Nathan's attention by her constant driving by his squad car are just plain childish stuff and very unfunny.And Wiig's over all performance as Annie is far from ingratiating.It's underplayed too much and the spark just is not there. Technically speaking the film is in its a/r of 2:40:1 and the picture is clear and crisp.This release comes with the theatrical version and the unrated version.There are deleted scenes,extended and alternate ones,a gag reel,commentary and more.There is also(at least in the Canadian release) a terrible layer change hesitation.The scene goes from Nathan and Annie sleeping together to a shot of Annie laying on the bed.I counted at least an eight second hesitation which is the longest I have ever encountered.The disc I checked and it is pristine.This is obviously a manufacturing error and not as a result of a disc scratch or film flaw.Universal take note. All in all a disappointing movie from this reviewers perspective.The humour is oft times of the toilet brand and quite juvenile,so shallow you can see through it and it is telegraphed way,way ahead.It's the old "when you can't think of something smart,go for the lowest common denominator".The main characters did nothing for me but I got the most kicks from the more "minor" co stars.If this is your thing then I recommend it but if not put aside all the hype you've heard,save your money and give it a HUGE pass.

Don't watch if you want to see an after life perspective I went to see Hereafter with enthusiasm, since I have always liked the life after death and near death experiences topic. Once the movie ended, I was rather dissapointed.  The topic was barely touched, leaving most of it to your imagination and to make your conclusions. But, the three separate storylines were also sort of boring, and how they all intertwined felt sort of forced. I wouldn't say the movie is awful, just plain boring.

Complete Series on Prime?  NOT! I was so excited to see that the complete series was on Amazon Prime.  Until I found out that it was only the first 4 episodes of the complete series.  Amazon needs to get all the episodes into prime or break them up by episode.  I loved this when it was on PBS Mystery, and would love to watch the rest of them again.  I'd give it 5 stars if this is fixed.

Creates a great atmosphere but the plot fails to deliver This story is set up fantastically--and in the beginning it seems to have promise; but it is very slow with no real big scares. The climax of the movie should have been a bit more drawn out and just utterly fails to deliver. At the end of the film all I could think was: "what the heck just happened...seriously, that's the end?!" Not very eloquent, but if you rent this movie, you may find yourself saying the same thing!  Regarding the acting, I thought the male lead did a credible job but I did not like the female lead. Her acting seemed a bit forced and her character was somewhat annoying--which was not her fault but made it hard to watch.

Disappointing I so wanted this to be a new, interesting workout, but I am disappointed.  The same old moves with only slight variations and even the same old phrases!  I have been working out with Leslie since the 1990's.  My very first workout video was "Basic Stepping with Walk Aerobics".  It was great.  Bet very few people know Leslie has made 2 step videos!  But, fast forward to 2012 and she is still talking about posture and juice in the joints and how important it is to warm up.  That's what is bugging me the most, her comments never vary.  And while I'm working out, I don't want to be told what a good workout it is, I already bought it, you don't have to sell it to me!  This is the kind of thing that should be stated in an intro, not the workout that people will be doing weekly if not daily.  Having said all that,I do think her workouts are safe and effective. Most of the music is different, but there are still some of the oldies she always uses in there.  The set is different and gone are Mary Kay, Jo and Carol. I miss them. Not that the girls in this workout are in any way annoying, they are not but it's like working out with old friends when the same folks are in the workout.  I do love her positive energy but I can't listen to the same thing over and over any more.

Special Edition? Really? I'm pretty bummed about this version, the special additions to this package do not include any extended scenes, outtakes, or deleted scenes.  I don't think the promoters of the Twilight Saga truly understand the fans will buy the movie, on a simple disc with nothing else on it without marking it as Special Edition which insinuates there's something special, or different than the ordinary version?  About the movie itself I give the MOVIE 5 *'s I think it's awesome. For those who hate it remember this is HALF the book. So we only got half the story it's a huge cliffhanger all that's missing is the ....to be continued at the end. Don't hate until you see the 2nd half.  I'm for sure glad I preordered this at a discount, because had I paid full price I'd have been pretty peeved.

Not the Same I am a huge Pink Floyd fan but I have to admit, this movie lost something since I was a kid, although I suspect I'm just getting old:(  Very strange movie, hard to follow, but great music & I must admit, Bob Geldolf did a great job as Pink.

Loathesome...and Tedious I've watched many noirs, and this being a Billy Wilder picture, I had high expectations.  LW now stands as the only Wilder film I have hated.  I definitely felt Don's self-loathing; I loathed him too.  So much so that I felt robbed when he was diverted from suicide-- his demise truly would have ended his misery and mine.  Sure, Wilder was probably forced to do the "happy ending," but it totally undermined and negated everything that led up to it.  I know all the enthusiasts will gig me for this review, but this really is an overrated flick.

for those who need this to be a prequel first of all, and you will encounter this to the end of time, the script of the film is so vacant, illogical and overreaches so badly, it is nearly all holes, thinly edged with actual storyline.  alien fans, sorry, but although alien allusions are forced into the film, it is no prequel if you want it to be dedicated to a development of thnonsense it fails to develop ANY theme or characters.  that said, i feel the reasons there is such division of opinion about this thing are 4.  1.  critics have praised it all the way up the level of mediocrity, setting aside fanatical and inevitable contrarians such as bob ebert who have salaamed it to heights of quality it has nothing whatever to do with.  2.  in 3d, it really is one of the best visual displays i've seen of a film.  3.  the "alienation" of what plot there is has attracted masses if 15 year olds who are determined to force meaning upon them no matter how.  4.  unforgivably, scott seems to have imported the dubious damon linderllof expressly to transform what might have been a coherent script into more than two hours of obscurantist tease, only too reminiscent of his constantly and consciously ambiguous Lost.  for those of you who are familiar with blade runner, you will recall ridley's unicorn "puzzle" dream.  prometheus is made up almost entirely of such unicorns, except you are expected to wait for prom II for them to mean anything.  simple stupidity aside, that is one film too late for me.

Cheaply made set... Avoid if your looking for quality Just got this set a few days ago and man is this thing cheaply made.  I'm not sure who approved the design of this box but it is extremely low quality. Each green plastic tray contains 2 dvds and all the trays are held together with just 2 strips of packing tape!!! The tray itself is brittle and when i received it many of they had chipped pieces of broken plastic lodged at the bottom of the box.  Some of these pieces were actually lodged between the dvd and the tray thereby damaging the discs....  Many of the discs them selves were severely scratched because of the poor construction of the trays and I would estimate that no less than 70% of all the disc had moderate to heavy scratches on them. Also the discs themselves were of poor quality as there was protruding plastic nubs on the side of many discs where i guess they were left from when the disc was being molded.  I had to physically file down at least 4 discs to avoid damaging my dvd player.  It short this is a overpriced box set that is definitely not worth the money. If your a collector just spend some extra bucks and get a better set.

Froze The movies great if you get the chance to watch the complete film. As others have stated the film gets stuck halfway through and you cant finish watching it. This cd is the first i've had that has actually failed halfway through and i use the slim 360 to watch movies.

Fraggle Rock Season 2- Dvd problems I love fraggle rock as a show and have been happy that all of the dvd's I've bought previously have worked.  Recently I received Fraggle Rock the complete set Season 2.  One of the Dvd's in that set would not play in any player.  I wanted to share an email address to other customers who have had the same problem as myself.  I have contacted Lionsgate customer service at: lionsgatecs@orderassistance.com to get help with the defective dvd problem.

"OK' film but it could have been a lot better- REALLY!!!! I remember watching this movie in the mid 80s, having rented it at the local EROL's in excitement after reading the FANTASTIC & ScArY novel B4hand (countless times in fact). I occasionally watched it years afterward when it plays on looping cable. Let's just say this is NOT one of Carpenter's best!!!  Don't MISinterpret me as a Carpenter-"basher"! He used real creativity in directing two of mi favorite horror/suspense classics, HALLOWEEN & THE FOG. But those were vehicles (pardon the pun) of his own creation, along wi Debra Hill. In the case of CHRISTINE, it looks like someone just gave him a script, said "here U go, direct this!!!" & he did so withOUT reading the book or its elements!  Thus the movie is a letDOWN compared 2 the book as it CLEARLY WAS MADE 2 appeal to fans of Stephen King! It seems almost lazily cheap to imply that Christine is an "animal-force" with a life all her own when in fact (the book) she was nothing more than a conduit for the REAL EVIL villain- her prior-sole hateful & sinister owner: Roland Lebay who projected his rage, fury & menace onto & into the car like a storage battery over his lifetime thus her rampage was really a reflection of HIS rage. But Carpenter transposes those two elements (BIG mistake) 2 make it seem Lebay was just another victim of Christine's.  Other weaknesses R the acting which is FLAT & with no real emotion, the actors woodenly reading lines rite out of the book. The attacks R dull & lack the horrific violence that demonstrated the car's power in the novel which was told in a suspensful drawn-out type of story-telling that the film neglects. That radio playing is a lame gag & that final scene ("U two R heroes, U kno...") is a joke. Junkins was killed off in the story, BTW- a "post"reporting by the narrator that is left 2 the reader's imagination!  Nice try bi Carpenter.....but this is a story that NEEDS 2 B remade, definetly!!!

watch on youtube don't waste money well looks like these were family guy, american dad rejects that seth macfrlene did'nt use so he decided to throw these lame concepts on this cd it would have been funnier if they were used on american dad.the wile coyote skit is cool but anything else.

dissapointed I have to say that Prometheus was one of the biggest let downs in film for me in years. I was expecting it to be a true prequel to Alien and was beyond disappointed after the film ended. The horrible acting, numerous plot holes and general lack of scares had me leaving the film with to many unanswered questions and a general feeling of being let down by what i was hoping to be one of the greatest sci-fi movies in years.

not too good...... ALL of her other DVDs are much better! In this DVD, she can't stop laughing and talking about the ladies behind her, completely ignoring the fine men in the DVD. It's just not a very good workout compared to her other ones.

disappointed! obviously not up to quality of previous Jesse Stone stories.  Concentrates on Jesse's problems, not the case he's on. Too much of "same old, same old". Poor imitation of Robert Parker's work.  If not for Tom Selleck presence, nothing!! No good feeling after watching this.

Not very original or Interesting I didn't find Max Payne very interesting and thought the script was just kind of weird.  The movie really did not make much sense to me and could not get into it.  Don't get me wrong, Mark Walberg is a fine actor but this is not one of his better films.  Peter J. Miller

There you go  suckers...gimme your money I dont mind a bit of a shaky camera, but rolling , unfocus , scratched effects are good if used once in a while, but for this movie you get it all the time... Hey ..why buy this in blue ray...when there is no reason to want to have a better picture ...because the picture has all these effects againts it.   So after falling asleep  4 times on this, i was able to finish it. 1.5  stars go to the actors, which did a good job with what they had.  the rest goes to those little creatures. Its surely not a movie you will want to watch twice.

Disappointing, didnt finish it. I love the actors in this, but couldn't finish the movie.  I tried twice and each time got bored.  I really wanted to like it, it sounded like a good idea, but wasn't very well done in my opinion.

Didn't get what the description said. I ordered this item thinking it was a 2-disc special edition. When it arrived it was in the special edition box, but only had the first disc. I was down a Christmas gift and just very upset I didn't get what I ordered. I will be sending this back.

One Lame This movie fell way short of my expectations, was totally predictable and had some of the worst acting/actors I've seen to date. It's only merit is that it is more entertaining than Hangover II which I also bought and watched right after this one. I had just had surgery the day before and was pilled up and still this film failed to provide any real humor. This is destined to be a Walmart $1.00 special, so just wait until then if you think you need to see it.

Repetitive Patterns. Viewed: 9/11 Rate: 4  9/11: Yeah, The Wraith...I remember it from the old days of HBO. It is the black car that survived every time in a race after the loser heads for an inevitable crash. I wanted to view the movie again and see if it got better over time. Sadly, no. The plot, albeit a very interesting one, is very minimal, and it gets real boring after getting know the characters for a few minutes. Then, the same pattern repeats until each of them is dead. Same goes for the scenes. It's just a cycle of races with a different character and a different car each time. The result is as predictable as it gets. And that's about it of the movie. Charlie Sheen is lucky to escape the film because he had the best character that was mysterious and intriguing who happened to have the best looking car. Sherilyn Fenn isn't so bad herself playing as Keri Johnson. Poor Randy Quaid, what is he doing in it? All in all, The Wraith is a one-time flick that had a lot of promise.

THIS IS NOT A CODE 12! An experimental drug called "Round Two" which revives dead people in combat, irregardless of what they died from, somehow winds up in Canada. While being transported, the truck has a minor accident where a container with a squirt top gets left at the residence of Dan (Dave Montour) a less than sanitary tattoo "artist."  The town has a struggle between the clean cut looking crowd and the tattooed skate boarders who all like to drink at the same pizza place. Pete (Chris Waldick) the owner of the establishment, in a bad plot point, opts to get a tattoo at Dan's, who by now has said drug/chemical which looks like tattoo pigment. The rest you can figure out.  The movie was shot with a fake grainy "grindhouse" on top of the super clear DVD, giving it an unusual, if not ridiculous look. The blood and head rolls were also very fake looking. The film consisted of bad dialouge and a bunch of swearing that would have an eighth grade appeal to it. The movie also introduces some token female characters that don't play a role, other than to be in a film. Gee, guess what that was all about. Not worth a $.99 rental.  Parental guide: Excessive F-bombs, no sex, magazine nudity.

Fairytale Fail! I really wanted to like this movie but I couldn't get past Kristen Stewart's awful acting and the substandard plot. Chris Hensworth manages to carry a good deal of the movie but he couldn't carry a crazy script and an unlikeable leading lady. It was visually stunning but the rest fell short in execution. This movie bit off more than it could chew and suffered greatly for it.

Boarderline Awful I think the online price for this was high; however, I am glad I did not pay to see this in a theater.  It was plodding and the only value in watching was some of the special effects and costumes.  I doubt if this film will be in theaters long.

I can see why it didn't get wide release You know going into a movie like this it won't be Oscar-caliber, but you at least expect a Hollywood production.  This was barely that.  Danielle Panabaker is smoking hot, and an enjoyable actress, but this film is 50,000ft beneath her!  I loved the remake of Friday the 13th, so I figured this sequel would be up to her standards.  Nope.  It was terrible, and like so many Hollywood films these days, it could have been SO MUCH MORE!

Good I like the video, but not as good as the biggest loser 1. The video is broken down differently had hard to set up a total workout, also the woman instructor in the video is half dressed and I have a hard time looking at that while I'm working out.  I try to set up the workout with Bob Harper leading them even thou they are designed for the men.  Like it ok, but would chose the first one over this one.

"The Good" with "The Bad" It is a good thing that these two movies are being sold together otherwise the movie  "Absolute Zero" would rarely get sold. I had never seen this disaster movie before. The characters in this movie are so unbelieveable that you lose interest. The scientist are so uninteresting that they are boring.  No explanation of the pending disaster which is going to occur. Which, by the way, is a shift of the poles, causing an ice age in the southern part of the US. Very little science in this movie and even less acting.  "Volcano in New York" is a good disaster, science fiction, movie.  Truthfully, I've seen it several times and would not hesitate to watch it again. Good science, good acting and it's never boring.  Very believeable. Good story.

Sad Testament To A Once Promising Career I'm not going to judge the whys or attempt to analyze the events, only to note that the career of Anne Heche is certainly one that remains memorable for its incredible downward spiral. Despite her talent, which in my opinion is still considerable, this is one of the best examples I can think of when someone denies there's a conspiracy within Hollywood's surprisingly cloistered mental and political compound. And for a talented actress once teamed with Harrison Ford and Johnny Depp, punishment for "breaking the rules" is meted out with projects like this.  It's stunning irony that the very industry that proudly decries The Blacklist, used against creators like Dalton Trumbo and Lionel Stander, willingly continues to do so on the sly against current artists they deem "inappropriate". Will they feel shame 40 years down the road? I think so.  My hope is that there will be another Tarantino, a renegade filmmaker who will scoop from the so-called bottom and uplift solid talents, bringing them back into the light. Not so much rescuing careers, as acknowledging and revealing the new Hollywood shame and hypocrisy.  'Skies' is essentially a SciFi Saturday filler. The day they set aside for their Disaster & Creature Weekends, fairly innocuous direct-to-video cheapies that offer the gamut of disasters, aliens and monsters. Sometimes, like this flick, a government conspiracy.  Tells the story of medical researchers and doctors who are battling a new plague - but whose origins seem to be less biologically based and more chemical; less a natural mutation of a known disease and one more likely linked to an artificial source.  A bulldog reporter and brilliant physician seem to be working toward the same conclusion - that the government is collaborating with various chemical companies for a sinister purpose. I won't spoil the reason for those interested in viewing the production.  There are standard fare action elements that Director Andrew Erin is attempting, including the '24' multiple shot composition. But the flick's timing is molasses slow and, ultimately, wasted effort. Sadly, one of the key 'characters', the disease itself, seems to be a background player when it should've been one of the leads. It's not all that expensive to show people collapsing, blood being vomited, scared and terrified medical personnel refusing to go into trauma centers, etc, etc. But that dramatic energy is only hinted at, not delved into. Definitely a missed opportunity.  Interesting premise unfortunately told on multiple doses of Valium. Slow, slow, slow. The movie endless drags out the story and cannot gain traction. Much tighter editing and this might've worked. It happens every blue moon that a SciFi Saturday Special hits the target. But not this time.

Not worth $25 This video was ok. Not one of the people in the video could actually keep up - So it seemed like a waste. You basically just jump up and down for 20 min. I can do that on my own.

where's the beef? for starters, I like the movie.  The movie on its own is worth 4 stars.  For me it was just shy of 5 stars because it felt less than the other 3 movies.  What bothers me is the way Disney is releasing the movie, in fact how a lot of home releases are being done this past year.  It seems if you don't have a Blue Ray player you're not going to get all the bells and whistles companies used to release on their DVDs.  I remember not too long ago when multiple disc DVDs were jam packed with special features.  All of a sudden the special features seem to be for Blue Ray owners only.  Not only that but they are pushing Blue Ray + DVD releases.  I've looked in the stores and only find the 2 disc Blue Ray + DVD copy of this movie and I hear the special features aren't even on that.  The 1 disc DVD only edition comes out a month later.  You need to buy the 5 disc edition that also has a disc for Blue Ray 3D to get the extra Blue Ray special features disc further denying the DVD only group.  It feels like DVDs are going the way of VHS tapes.

Love this set...........but! I got this set at a good price and great service from Amazon. The transfer is fine......good video and audio. I find the episodes refreshingly fun and sometimes still scary to watch.  But I also am having issues with some disks, in particular some episodes having freezes, skips etc. The Zannti Misfits episode would only play about 3\4th through before skipping and freezing till it was not watchable. The Mice episode played about halfway through, but when I restarted it now it wont play at all. The packaging is ok and not the problem........I think some of the disks have errors from the factory. I have no idea how many others are going to be a problem since I am only starting the third disk.  It is really too bad people are having problems and cant count on the Outer Limits set to play as expected. I don't think its worth the shipping cost and hassle to send them back. We Outer Limit fans can only hope that someday a reliable set will be released.  Update:Ive watched the rest of this series and haven't had any further problems with freezes etc. If your a sci-fi fan of the older series you should seriously consider adding this boxed set in your collection. It really is a classic from the past and worth the investment. They dont or cant make these kind of programs anymore.

its not bad, but not good either Ok I watched this movie and Ill give it 2 stars. the story line is somewhat interesting, realistic, but kind of dragged on after 2/3 of the film. the ending was there tho so you should watch the whole thing.  sadly not alot to say about the characters cuz they never really gave any impression at all that would contribute to the movie. even right now i dont even remember anybody's names.. friends family whos who. thats how much I was paying attention to this film.

Wrong format for my dvd players This dvd would not play in any of my players.  It is an HD DVD which is not compatabile with modern blue ray or dvd players bought at walmart or players on any of my computers.  The dvd is not even recognized.  I guess I should have read the offering closer.  It was so cheap that it's not worth trying to return it.

Rushed Sequel Can't believe this movie cost 150 million dollars.The only good thing was the mythological creatures.Too much talking and not enough action.Not even Fiennes and Neeson can save this movie.There was some fighting scenes with weapons and they were badly edited with too many quick,close up cuts.  Save your money and if you're curious to watch it.Wait for the dvd.Only good performances were from Toby Kebell which was the comic relief.

Rickey Smiley DVD - Casket Sharpe This DVD was very disappointing to me and a waste of my money.  It's the 1st DVD I've ever purchased and will NOT watch it again.  I'm a die hard fan but do not like this DVD. I'm so sorry.....

British accents don't necessarily mean that a movie is artsy good! Excited to watch this movie, thinking I'd found a diamond in the rough, I sat down with my girlfriend to watch.  Within five minutes we were giving each other the 'Are you sure you want to watch this?' looks.  We're patient people, and decided to give it another 20 minutes.  But it stinks.  Maybe, maybe, somewhere in there these characters develop compelling personas, or the production values suddenly take a turn from the only-slightly-better-than-high-school-amateur feeling, or the random cuts between scenes make sense... but we decided not to wait around to find out.

Not sure how best to rate this This movie is very good... it was definitely worth watching... or so I thought until it came to the ending. If you aren't the type to judge a movie by the whole of it, than this choice would not be one of your bad ones. Unfortunately, the ending was entirely too anticlimactic for my liking and more or less ruined it for me. Johnny Depp is very entertaining, and there was nothing wrong with the acting in this movie... all things considered, no complaints.

Darker than I expected. If you're looking for lighthearted entertainment, keep looking.  The Jonah Hill character goes through some strange stuff.  And the over-the-top things which the Jonah Hill character says detracts from his likeability (to his girlfriend: Big deal that you're a doctor.  That doesn't mean you're a good person.  There were Nazi doctors.)

BEWARE: blu ray is 4:3 format!! I love this series, but I have issue with the Blu ray version being 4:3 format, without the capability to zoom or stretch.  I even contacted funimation about this and they said it is not an error... It looks pitiful on my widescreen tv. :(

Creepy I just watched this. There is some interesting stuff in it but at times it was downright creepy. Whoever made this doc is a flaming homosexual with strong pedophilic leanings. Nobody that watches it will disagree with me on this I have a feeling. Probably the worst is there is a scene where Minsker is laying there shirtless with several shirtless young boys laying all around him while he is talking about having sex. There is lots more along those lines in this. Broken Noses is like legal child porn at times. I don't think Minsker is a pedophile or even gay but he isn't exactly the brightest lightbulb in the box either. I think the people that made this doc took advantage of his sense of vanity and he was unwittingly manipulated into being in a film like this. I give it two stars only because of the good content about Minsker, his life and boxing career but there is stuff in this that borders on child porn which creeped me out and disgusted me. I'm not a sexual prude or an overly judgemental person but leave the kids alone for gods sake.

Kind of dry and slow... This is a great story, and very moving. But it isn't nearly the movie I expected. It feels like Meerkat Manor more than a feature length movie production - with voices (unknown) letting us know what the various characters are thinking and feeling. And for younger children, it is definitely too slow-moving and dry to hold their attention. My five and three year olds will watch most movies all the way through - especially my five year-old who devours movies. But this just didn't hold their attention and barely held my attention.  I was honestly disappointed.

save your money It was predictable and not that interesting. I sat through the entire movie and wish I could get that 2 hours back....Save your money on this one and wait until it comes out on cable.

Only for those who earnestly seek hope Perfect Sense is perfectly awful. It's about a chef (Ewan McGregor) and an epidemiologist (Eva Green), two people who go for each other but who have major relationship problems. They find themselves in the middle of a worldwide epidemic -- after crying a bit people lose their sense of smell. Then taste. Then hearing. Then sight.  What can the world do? What can humanity do? What can Michael and Susan do? The answer, my friend, is written by a deeply earnest screenwriter and filmed by an otherwise interesting director: Love each other...take care of each other...trust each other. All this is accompanied with a deeply serious voice over that makes sure we understand the importance of what we see, along with a music score that drips with tragedy and then hope.  To watch an infinitely better movie by the same director and also  starring Ewan McGregor, try the excellent and unpleasant Young Adam.

Harmless non-fun A friend recommended this as a wholesome compendium of family fun.  Well, at the small price I paid, I jumped on it.  In the event, the DVD shows family life with the huge brood and the overworked parents.  As it was unscripted (it appears) there is no magic moment of comedy or pathos.  It really is 'cine verite' as they say in France: true filming of simple reality.  If you find the travails of a huge family funny or enlightening--perhaps you miss The Waltons--then buy this.  Otherwise, save your pennies for the gumball machine...

Unhappy with Condition The condition of the disc stated that it was supposed to be in 'very good' condition.  When my daughter put it in the video player it stopped within seconds after the opening credits.  Much to my surprise when I looked to see what the problem was, there were some major scratches on the disc.  I cleaned it with the disc cleaner we use for damaged/dirty discs, and still it will not work without stopping. I paid a few dollars more for this disc - using the 'condition indicator' as my guide to which disc I will purchase...has always worked for me in the past as I have purchased many used movies and audio books online.  Very disappointed...

Wrong fact's, important event's ignored, in all too short! I am from Europe and i am interested in History and having lived in the US, this DVD box was a must buy for me.  This could have been so much more! First of all, it is obviously difficult to cover about 400 years in history in less than 9 hours on digital media. They should have done this big and important project in several parts. WWI and WWII alone should have filled 4-6 hours at the least, WWI has been almost entirely ignored and so was the Vietnam war.  What's even worse: History Channel presents wrong fact's! It wasn't American Technology that invented and developed the Nuclear bomb but German and Hungarian instead! Albert Einstein of Germany and the Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard were the brain child's of it, and even Oppenheimer, who developed the final Product was of Jewish, German decent who's parents fled from Europe in the turn of the century and immigrated in to the US.  Also in my opinion, the entire presentation is a bit one sided, always talking about the great things the US did and stood for, but leaving out questionable motivations to start/join wars for the reason of profiting from it and the resources that would be harvested. Such as Operation desert storm and the gulf war, where the US had only one interest! The much needed oil that was there to be taken and the billion's of Dollar's in profit along with it.  A bit more critism and objectivity would have provided a more realistic picture. Luckily, it was mentioned that the American land was virtually stolen from the native American's and that as a result, the vast majority of the Indians were wiped out. Or what about the Mexican's, having lost half their territory to the US in the mid's 1800. That topic was barely touched!  One obvious fact remains; The United States of America wouldn't have achieved what they did if it wasn't for the land they had stolen from the native American's and the vast land they acquired from the Mexicans. (such as California and Texas)  Also, the motivations to invade and declare the war on Vietnam are left out in the open. America lost that war and the world realized that the US was not what they would have liked to have been. An all-mighty, undefeatable superpower. For the world to function we need a healthy balance between nations and their inhabitants. And even more important; a non selfish approach to the earth's resources. Luckily, we will soon run out of oil and we all are forced to find alternative, environment friendly way's to power our so beloved cars!  The first DVD of the set covering the first parts of the American history is clearly the best one, and the best told.  Would I recommend this DVD box set? If you are looking for a fast food dinner that fill's your stomach, go ahead. But if you are looking for a fancy dinner in style, look elsewhere!

This is kid's stuff!! The action is for kids 10 and under!!!It got pretty boring half-way. It's just a waste of my money that could have spend in some more entertaining way.  But if you are a kid, you will love this movie!

Angel Indeed he main flaw of the love story is that you simply don't connect with the characters individually, or even when they are together. The graph of the narrative is low as the film begins and is the same till the intermission point. Just like Sonal's condition, you desperately want the film to get better. And it does! After the interval, the twist shown elevates the narrative to a great extent. Just as you feel Ganesh has finally steadied the sinking ship, it plummets and again goes haywire. The hurried climax doesn't help.  There are flimsy scenes like Abhay taking on several policemen single handedly. Don't the police officers have guns? Then there's Sonal doing a Mere Khwabon mein jo aaye tackily. The numerous songs, most of them shot in foreign locations don't add any value. Amjad Nadeem's music is passable. Aseem Bajaj's cinematography is decent. Nilesh Naik's editing is good.

Confusing and Drawn Out This is 2 hours I will never get back of my life. The only people coming out ahead are the people involved in this movie since it made a major profit. I personally think they should have stopped at the third installment. This movie is NOT good at all. It's confusing, generic and VERY long. Thank goodness I rented this and did not buy it. I gave it a 2/5 because the mermaids were neat, but that's about the only thing that was neat. I don't even think kids would have the patience to watch all the talking in the film, let alone understand it. Thank goodness this is the last one. You have been warned.

Cringewothy mangling of history and a Hollywood plot contructed largely of cliches While they got a few factoids correct about one of the most notable battles in US Army history, the overall mess this movie represents puts it at the bottom of the list of big budget WWII films.  With a decent cast, but terrible writing and effects.  Usually you can at least say, "well the special effects were good", but this dreck doesn't even reach the level of 1960's Japanese monster movie quality.  The tank battles are laughable with American tanks standing in for German (which is understandable), but WHY didn't they use Shermans to represent Shermans???  It's not like There weren't M4 tanks available in Europe.  Others here have already said that sunny Spain is hardly a suitable venue to represent the snow and forests of Belgium.  If you love history or are a tank enthusiast, this is a movie to skip.

Not funny. This is such a weird performance. Its pretty terrible and mostly not funny. Hes really rude to one guy in the audience and not in a hilarious way like you can find in his BTWN 2 FRNS. BTWN 2 FERNS is actually HYSTERICAL and this is bad - hes not a good standup comedian judging from this. I saw him on SNL doing some standup which was actually really funny. this leads me to believe that he was too nervous or just didnt take this performance seriously at all. i was disappointed. he is however one of my favorite tv personalities and if you wanna check this out because youre a ZACH G fan then by all means see it, but i dont think this will be one of your favorite works by him.

OK The dual pack has the Movie in DVD and Blu-ray, but you can only view the extra features on Blu-ray,very disappointing to my kids.

2 sided DVD (movie is split across each side) I guess this DVD does not utilize any high compression because the entire movie is not on one side, but rather it is split across each side.  I think I remember buying DVDs like this years ago, but I assumed that any sold these days would not require one to manually flip the dvd over in order to continue watching it.  Then again, it's a 1994 movie so perhaps the DVD was manufactured back then.  In any case, I am buying another edition and hopefully the next one will have the entire movie on one side.

Interesting but confusing, flawed and overrated. The film promises a lot more than it delivers, and it makes the mistake of blending too many genres which sets up a confusing and often pointless narrative. I've seen other filmmakers take this concept to better results. It's not a waste of time, but its nothing to get that excited about either. I thought the performances were just so-so.

Cash Grab Release! This is the fourth release of this film on blu-ray already. There is the 2006 original, a 2009 lenticular cover version, a 2010 blu-ray/DVD combo and now this 2011 blu-ray book. While I won't debate the merits of the film itself, MGM is currently in the middle of bankruptcy proceedings and I assume this is the primary reason for this new release. Unfortunately, they haven't bothered upgrading the original MPEG-2/LPCM 2006 mastering of the film itself; all the versions contain identical disc content. If you don't already own this film and want a fancy book style package for a 5 year old blu-ray master, go ahead and pick this up. Otherwise, you're better off finding a less expensive older version.

I am so angry I paid to see this movie. This movie moves forward and looks like a horror mystery video game. That pretty much sums it up.  If I had to see it, I would have chosen the Extended version which answers questions created by the Theatrical version I saw.  However, I still have the stink on me from sitting through the theatrical version yesterday.  I agree with all the negative reviews but because of the youth and beauty in this movie and derivative styling, this movie is going to sell, no doubt.  It's this awful Alice in Wonderland meets the Matrix reality or fantasy in the asylum kind of story with tatty unartistic attempts at being arty and dark gothic sensibility - not even in the irritating Tim whatshisname from Betelgeuse really does it well.  Orcs, zombies, monster samurai, schoolgirl dresses on real life anime bods, yeah, that's going to sell. But I don't have to buy it.  It was kind of a waste of the actresses.  This is bubble gum disposable entertainment or is it?  This could have turned into a franchise if they had stuck with the fanboy path but one truth is that delicate girls are NO match for the monsters of this world.  I HATED this movie.

I wish I didn't spend so much $ Being a HUGE fan of Santa Sangre I bought this movie on a whim. Although it was entertaining and much of what I expected a film by Alejandro Jodorowsky to be, I think $22 was too much to pay. In hindsight I would have been satisfied had I paid $10.

Not All That Sweet This is a lower budget revenge flick with just not enough going for it.  Here's the scoop. A Russian crime syndicate imports girls to Toronto for the sex trade but the girls think they are going to perform maintenance duties. Some disappear and the mute sister of one of the disappearees is headed for Toronto to do in all the bad guys.  The schtick here is that you have a pretty, shapely, mute girl doing the violence. Other than that there is not much new. She weedles her way into various places and situations involving the traffickers and, when the time is right, does her thing. Only one of the kills has any degree of cleverness to it so don't expect anything to tickle your grey matter. There is one twist in the plot near the end that is both interesting and ironic but it's not enough to redeem this unremarkable movie. Most of the acting is not very good. The production values are lacking. One of the cameras had a lens that was either dirty or pitted. In either case it was a distraction. The sound editing and mixing was OK but nothing notable. There was a reasonable amount of nude female flesh on display and my guess is the producers figured this would get them in the door. I guess it did because here it is.  It doesn't hurt to watch this movie, and it clocks in at just under 90 minutes so it won't tax your time, but unless you need to see every revenge flick ever made you won't hurt yourself by giving this a pass.

Where's the second disc? The cover says "2-DISC SET!" and lists 16 episodes, but when opened it's a single-disc case containing what's labeled "DISC 1", which has eight episodes on it. Where's the other disc with the rest of the episodes?

Buzz and Hype didn't quite help this Flick After reading all the hype and hearing all the buzz, I was completely let down by this movie. I guess the movie hipsters and scenesters loved this flick because David Bowie's son directed it and Sam Rockwell sports a beard and long hair at the beginning of the flick.  Sam Rockwell does give a pretty good performance, although not great and Oscar worthy like some of these reviewers cry out about. Did you notice that at times when Sam stressed a certain word(s) at the end of his sentence he sounds a little bit like Owen Wilson?  The plot was decent but really not all that intriguing to warrant the movie a 4 or 5 star rating. And yes, I get what the story was about and understood the plot twists and what not. But there were a few plot holes and unexplained situations and/or seeings that hurt the movie and actually made me annoyed. For a slow moving and not all that visually stunning movie, you really have to have a great and intriguing storyline with little to no plot holes and also great acting. Moon was somewhat there but not quite.  And yes, if you haven't already noticed - "I just don't get it" and my favorite movies are probably: insert here a brain-dead/popcorn-flick/run-of-the-mill/cheese-ball movie here. Obviously the previous sentence has my tongue (errr... fingers) firmly planted in cheek. Just stating this for the sci-fi geeks and pseudo intellectuals / movie critics that whine and complain when a reviewer gives his/her unfavorable opinion about their movie.  I give Moon 2.5 moons, errrrr...stars.

Great FX (for the time), Annoying characters I hate to rain on everyone's tornado here, but to me--the special effects of "Twister", however formidable, are undone by a juvenile script and characters who range from smug (Paxton, Hunt) to shrill (the incessantly whacky band of storm chasers). Ironically, the only character that came close to being "sympathetic" for me was the one I was supposed to hate--Jami Gertz (as Paxton's square fianc&eacute;). Never mind that she is supposed to be Mrs. Wrong--uptight, unadventurous, etc. Her intelligent portrayal of a not-so-intelligent woman gives the film its only honest laughs as well as its only pathos, and I'll take her any day over Hell-Yeah Helen and Damn-Straight Bill, or their band of sycophantic cheerleaders who practically shake pom-poms and do victory splits every time either character speaks.  Their Greek Chorus-like function, I suppose, is to remind us who we're rooting for, but personally it turns me off to be dictated to quite so transparently. Don't TELL me who to like--MAKE the characters likable and I'll like them, okay? The whole rowdy ensemble is thrust with such gusto down our throats, one hates them on principle alone.  That bitch-fest aside, the twisters are obviously the main attraction here, and they produce a few powerful moments. Take the atmospheric opening scene-in which the cyclone is personified as a malevolent predator, like an evil Santa Claus who instead of leaving gifts, comes to rob you of that which you love. The idea of the twister as a character is  especially effective, but the film makers never really carry that through, and so the film misses its chance to be poetic. However, spectacle is the compensation, and  in much the same way as the sinking ship was the payoff in "Titanic", the whirling dirt funnels--whether they are characters or just random vacuums-- are still exciting and are the real stars of "Twister". And as long as they're wrecking lots of havoc,  the movie cannot be totally sunk by it's cast, script, or even the misguided direction that constantly threatens to pull them all into its suck zone.

TERRIBLE VIDEO QUALITY & mediocre audio all but ruin the experience Buyer beware of blu-ray version!!  I'm a huge fan of David Gilmour, and certain segments of this concert could've been incredible. Unfortunately, I just could not get passed the highly distorted look of most camera shots on this blue ray. They put super low-resolution onto a blu-ray, and it just doesn't work. I'd rather watch low-definition cable on my television than this blu-ray. Trying to sit through it actually gave me a head ache (that isn't an exaggeration). The other thing is that the audio seems to really favor the mid-range, which just doesn't sound quite right and gets annoying. I get better audio quality through my digital cable concert channel. Everything about David Gilmour and Pink Floyd has been perfection to me... up until this blu-ray. I really feel like I got cheated out of my 30 bucks. I suggest you pick a different Gilmour concert with decent video and audio!!  I wanted so badly to enjoy this blu-ray that I ignored some other reviews saying the same thing as me. Big mistake!!!

Stiff, plodding, overwrought from time to time, but basically about as interesting as a slab of yak butter *SPOILER ALERT* Now, don't get me wrong. I'm a big fan of yak butter. But, I never was much of a fan of Simenon, mostly because his plots tend to make no sense. So I really should not have been surprised that this film was so flimsy.  Basically, the story goes something like this: A girl is murdered. The inspector believes that the murderer is M. Hire, because "nobody likes you."  (Which is code for: "You're a Jew." Remember the Dreyfus affair?) M. Hire, a tailor (who would have guessed?), is a quiet man given to spying on his beautiful neighbor, Alice, with whom he falls in love. Because M. Hire spends so much time spying on Alice, he knows that it is her worthless boyfriend who is actually the killer, and that Alice is an accessory after the fact. But he protects her because he is in love, which the histrionic soundtrack and perpetually frozen expression of M. Hire prove beyond a shadow of a doubt. The worthless boyfriend eventually escapes just as the police are closing in on him, leaving Alice holding the bag - literally.  Alice, like any good shiksa, plants the dead girl's handbag in M. Hire's apartment, framing him for the murder. The inspector (because French detectives don't take fingerprints, use forensics, or have brains) informs M. Hire that the murder will be blamed on him. (So why were the cops closing in on the boyfriend?) M. Hire does not rat on Alice, but instead remains loyal to his love, and decides to take the fall for her - again, literally.  All the neighbors gather round the dead body of M. Hire, probably curious to see if Jews bleed red. One little girl feels bad. The detective eventually discovers the truth, because M. Hire has left him a letter explaining eveything.  The detective feels bad. We don't feel bad, because M. Hire has not had a facial expression in 81 minutes, and Alice has spent most of her time undressing (this IS a French film after all).  Eh, voila.

disappointed loved the original. cars 2 lacks heart. lets hope if there is a 3rd it is more like the original.

A Batman movie minus Batman I am a HUGE Batman fan and had nothing but excitement in mind when I saw the previews for this. Unfortunately, Christopher Nolan decided that the worst movie he ever made would be his third Batman film. What went wrong? (No major spoilers here...if you've seen the "I'm Gotham's reckoning" previews for the film you know as much as I'm going to share)  1. No Batman. You are 45 minutes into the film before you see Batman for the first time. After that, he's in and out for a grand total of about 25 minutes of screen time in costume. In the third film of a trilogy about Batman, this is pathetic.  2. A boring villain. Yes, Heath Ledger is dead and it would have been a mistake to try and replace him, but to decide you've had a charismatic villain in the previous film so it's time to go with a plodding boring one in Bane for the second is stupid. Everything that made "The Dark Knight" interesting is lacking here. And thanks for deciding to make Bane's voice so hard to understand. It's just like in the comics...no, wait, it's not anything like the comics. It's just a stupid plot contrivance to be artsy. Oh, and the whole "rich people are evil" plot point was unnecessary.  3. The sudden introduction of a major character for convenience's sake. Remember in the third Lord of the Rings movie where Sam picks up Frodo and carries him the final steps to Mordor? Now imagine if we'd never heard of Sam before the third film, and suddenly he has more screen time than Frodo. Nolan decides to conveniently take Alfred, Commissioner Gordon, Lucius Fox, and even Batman out of the film through one circumstance or another and put all the focus on a brand new set of characters we don't know or care about. Yes, Blake was an interesting character...but he should have been in all three films if he was going to be that important. And if you haven't figured out who he really is within the first 15 minutes of the movie you aren't trying.  4. The plot. Trying to combine "The Dark Knight Returns", "Knightfall", and "No Man's Land" into one film seemed too grand...and it was. He should have taken something like "The Long Halloween" or even just ONE of his three choices and made it a movie.  The only plus in this is Catwoman. Anne lights up the screen when she's there with the missing action and charisma we get from absolutely no one else. She needed Blake's screen time though.  All in all, I was incredibly disappointed. Yes, I understand the whole thing was "Batman is human"...but why in the world did Nolan decide the way to end his trilogy was to make it this horribly plodding film that should have had at least 30 minutes cut out of it. I'm sorry to see DC's movie franchise falter like this after Green Lantern. They just can't catch a break.  If Nolan comes back for another Batman film, I'll give him another chance and definitely watch it. I mean, seriously, it couldn't get much worse than this.

Licensing woes? Why would I buy a digital copy of the movie if I cannot view it after February?  That is really going to make me think twice about buying any digital content from amazon in the future.

Stay Away Joe - Elvis I have a collection of all of Elvis' movies - this is one of only two that I didn't particularly care for. Doesn't show Elvis' talent at all and frankly I just felt the movie lacked substance. Elvis could have been an excellent star if he would have been given roles to play that tapped into his dramatic side.

Don't bother; read the book on which it's based I purchased this DVD because I'd read Jeffrey Deaver's gripping book on which it's based  - A Maiden's Grave - four times. It was intelligent, subtly witty, and the main characters were unique people about whom I came to care very much (in the case of the criminals, I was surprised and guiltily gleeful upon learning their fate). In fact, one of the pleasures of A Maiden's Grave was the deluge of surprises and the insights into the workings of hostage situations.  In the DVD, virtually everything about the story changed, including the title. The situations and character descriptions that made the book a fascinating page-turner were missing. The actors seemed to have little interest in making this a stimulating story (screenplay or direction challenged, perhaps? These are excellent actors).  Sad, because they had one hell of a story to tell.  My suggestion is to forgo this sad attempt and buy the book.

dark shadows -SEIZURE WARNING i wanna b fair in this review. i do hv a chip on my shoulder. i bought this thinking it was the original. that said...lets get to it.  there were many things i liked abt this film. i think the acting was good. i think the director gets some style points for certain things....but overwhelmingly fails. i think he conveys the message that these survivors were basic folks. not so military as the original. to be fair....i thought he was quite edgy with the communication between distances. and there was some charachter development. my chief complaint was that i think this DARK night scenes were somewhat effective at the theater.....but it really makes it hard to see whats happening when everything is g.damn obscured.....well....dont let that bother you....100 MPH zombies are hard to fathom when they re speeding from dark scenes.  i guess thats what the director had in mind....instead it just gives you a headache trying to focus on olympic caliber zombies. this usually happens when the director is getting bad coke. that affects his judgement. he needed to listen to the others who told him that its not fun to watch half second shots of speedy zombies....this director is not alone on this. if anyone remembers "the 300"  the director of that movie made the same error in one part of that movie. he made a (what seemed like an eternity)10 min. isolated shot of 1 spartan dispatching 1 opponent after another in some kind of isolated weird black and white footage. its hard to explain... but trust me...10 min of that was awful.  same here. also he blows it at the end of the movie. was an interesting idea but like a smart ass....this director wants to share his "idea"  of what its like to be on drugs like he is....you know....how everything just sorta comes at you and then its black for a half sec. then its black again and then there s what looks like a half eaten baby...and then its black again....get the picture? drug addiction while directing the movie. if you dont believe me...just look at him in the directors cut. could ve  made something really good but just wishes to share his drug experience w/ the viewer....a real letdown.  ALSO....WARNING TO PARENTS....thanks to the directors desire to show you how it feels to be on crystal meth....keep a good supply of anti-seizure meds on hand. when he starts that black screen flickering crap...YOU will need it......NO joke

Alien and Predator fans deserved WAY better! After so many years of development hell, Fox FINALLY greenlighted one of the most anticipated "versus"\sci-fi films and unfortunately, the result was a big disappointment.  Starting with the rejection of Peter Brigg's script (which was based on the Randy Stradley "Aliens vs Predator" Dark Horse comic series), Fox hired Paul W.S. Anderson (hack director\writer of Resident Evil, Soldier, Event Horizon, etc) to write\direct a new script, based on an idea he had, which basically, retains the Predators hunting Aliens, as a right of passage from the comic, but this time, the setting is in Antarctica, inside an underground pyramid that was co-built by Predators and an extinct Mayan race...following?  Charles Weyland (Lance Henrickson) creates a team of explorers, from around the world, and joins them to an expedtion in Antarctica to investigate a strange heat signature, under the ice, that one of his company sattelites picked up.  Sanaa Lathan plays Alexia Woods, an experienced mountain climber,  is the "Ripley" lead  and does a good job with her role. She is joined by a group of actors that are not well known, but do ok for the dialogue given.  As for the Predators, they are too bulky and muscular. They lumber around and barely resemble the fast, cunning hunters of past films. The Predator helmet designs are neat, but the rest of the suit, including the extended-gaunlet blades look a little silly. The face of Scar (main Predator played by Ian Whyte), looks and moves differently than the creatures, from Predator 1 and 2 (this was a design choice by ADI to make Scar look more "heroic").  The Alien designs and suits were ok. A little too non-biomechanical, "fleshy"-looking, but better than "Alien Resurrection", but the black\silver tones were a nice change, as opposed to the green\brown colors. I did like the lips quivering effect. Unfortunately, there were more CGI Aliens used in this film, than previous films (including the Queen and "bullet-time" facehuggers). There are still a lot of pratical effects, with CG enhancements, but showing the Aliens in full CG and in bright light, really takes away the scare-factor.  As for the battles, it was kind of exciting to see the two monsters fight, for the first time and it is a lengthy battle, but the way it's shot is not fun to watch. It seemed more like a bad wrestling match. The Alien kills two Predators (out of the three in the film) in less than 10 minutes! I'm sorry, but the Aliens are not THAT powerful.  There is a human\Predator alliance in the film (just like the comic) and surprisingly, I think it works and makes sense, given the situation. I can understand (and to a point, agree) with those that complain and oppose it, but these Predators are not hunting humans and only kill humans, if they pose a threat.  One of the absolute, worst mistakes that Fox\producers made, was the PG-13 rating! And it shows. Lack of human gore in THIS film is a joke (where's the blood on the chestbursters?). Sure, there's some violent scenes and blood-splatters, but it's not close to the other films.  As a big fan of both franchises, watching this film was a huge let-down. John Davis\Fox waited so long for the "perfect" script and THIS is what we get!? : \

It's the fondness for the actors that saves it from being complete torture. I love Rachel Weisz, and yes, Tom Hiddleston.  However, this movie is dreadfully slow and confusing.  You could mute it and still understand as much with the volume on. I compare it to another movie that people just raved about that sucked me in and immediately made me regret it - Melancholia.  Overbearing score, confusing dialog, confusing scene set up, etc. What is the purpose of this movie?  Are we to learn a lesson that emotional immaturity and to-hell-with-anyone else really do matter, it's not just something our parents lie to us about? You have a woman who is married to someone that on an intellectuality level, they're a great match.  But intellect doesn't keep your bed warm at night, even with someone in it.  Enter the dashing young man who has a passion for living life and fulfills and creates potential for what the woman finds lacking elsewhere, and doesn't stand still observing.  Unfortunately the man is stuck emotionally in a time of his life before he was forever mentally altered.  The woman is helplessly drawn to such passion and it consumes her, thus destroying her in the process as she herself neither understands nor has the ability to sustain it on her own.  The true lesson of this film, from what I was able to glean from it, is learning that you cannot enter into a relationship hoping that you can harness and tame the other participant's life to form it more like your own, or expect them to uphold the entire emotional foundation.  A single act of emotional inexperience destroys everything this woman has built her new life on by proving to her lover that he is incapable of giving her exactly what she wants and needs. Exit a husband who is clearly in love with his wife enough to let her go. You want to take this woman by the shoulders and either shake her into her senses and slap her if needed.  Men are not objects to be played with as if they didn't have emotional needs as well and serve as robots to fulfill our ideals.  That made sense with Freddie yelling  "I can't always be Romeo!"  I strongly disagree that this is the "role of a lifetime" for Weisz.  In all honesty I liked her much more in the "Mummy" franchise.  It was a great opportunity to see a broader range from Hiddleston beyond a comic book villain and limited smaller roles, but his career is only beginning to take off and I'm sure we'll see his skills showcased better elsewhere.  I feel for Simon Russel Beale because this character is so very limited that it only serves in portraying the faults of someone else that you don't even know who he is!  This is now three "artsy" movies in a year that did not live up to their hype.

Why are the Afflecks in show business? And I thought Ben Affleck was a bad actor. At least he has good looks going for him (actually that is the only thing he has). Ben took a great film series (Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, CIA) and destroyed it. Sum of All Fears was terrible. Patriot Games, The Hunt for Red October, Clear and Present Danger, and The Sum of All Fears are all movies made from Clancy books featuring Jack Ryan. The first three were Great movies, the last was terrible. The difference? Ben Affleck as Ryan. Why am I talking about Ben Affleck. Well he directed this movie, and I suspect that is the only reason Casey Affleck got the lead role. Casey is not particularly compelling appearance-wise, but his acting is worse than Ben's, if that is possible. How does someone who is so inarticulate and mumbly get a lead role in a big movie? Oh yeah, when his good looking but bad actor brother is the director. The only thing that saves this movie from being terrible overall is the supporting cast: Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, Michele Monaghan and Amy Madigan. Actually, the story is quite compelling, but Casey Affleck's flat, inarticulate delivery and acting are so bad that it is drudgery to force yourself to keep watching just to find out what happens/happened to the kid.  There are so many talented newcomers trying to break in, it is sad that nepotism and good-looking/ bad actors have to keep the newcomers from getting their shot.

2 stars = Kindness on some levels This is a review for Video on Demand. This, in no way, is meant to say that the service is lacking. It is a great one. this is reviewing the movie.  In the city, strange things are taking place. At first it seems like nothing more than some shadow play and a bit of urban migration, but that turns to panick as the numbers go up. Overnight, people literally leave their homes and vanish, taking nothing. As the mystery here deepens, so too do the reasons to why this is taking place.  When I first saw this advertised in the pages fof Fangoria, I was immediately shopping for a venue to watch it. That was a couple of weeks ago and I should have written a review then, perhaps saving some people money. I apologize for that but I normally do not do the negative route. Still, this is a terrible way to fleece peolple with a good idea and terrible execution.  What you have here is a tale of two proverbial cities, with one going off greatly in the storyline department and then taking a sudden turn and going down boring Street. I know - I have been there before and recognized the signs. I watched it with two other people as well, and they concurred. A lot of things went wrong and made this awful.  You start with people going away in a weird way and people asking why. The main actors hang in there through this, and it all seems good. Then you have some of the scenes that try to keep people out of the shadows, some that made it seem as though the world is really hard to understand, and even when the vanishings start to make sense it hurts to watch it progress. The writers are at fault in a lot of this, and the direction hurts as well. What you have is an " o no, avoid that shadow" story mingling with a really boring output from the actors. Overacting is a theme as well as trying to make you scared of the nothing that is really not menacing, and it gets old fast. Really fast.  I wish I could say something better but, in the end, I don't know how. What I do know is that you should not et this and, for 10 bucks, you should heed all the warnings out there. This is about a 1.5, with the .5 coming from the beginning. Hopefully that says something aobut it, and hopefully you feel safe and avoid it.  It isn't the dark you should be afraid of, after all. It is a movie about it.

Disappointed with vendor, purchased NEW, received Used movie Purchased NEW movie, received obviously used product.  no outer case, no Manufacturer seal.  Fortunately the movie was not damaged.  Loved the Movie, disappointed with the misrepresentation of the product.

Hardbodies Collection It wasn't what I thought that it was supposed to be would be.  All in all it was not too bad, it was okay though.

Flowers In the Attic In this story, the ideal mother, Victoria Tennant takes her four children to live with her dying father in a big creepy old mansion. The kids all get confined in the attic while she attempts to get past their horrible grandma  and win her way back to the old man's heart and fortune. "Flowers in the Attic" is sort of a slow and senseless film that lacks motivation, and flawed by embarrassingly flat acting and directing in my opinion. I would recommend you "skip it".......

Xtreme let down. After working out to Jackie circuit training, which I enjoyed and got immediate results, I was not happy with this work-out, I thought Jackie did too much talking and not hanging in there doing the work-outs, I hate trainer who do that, that is why I don't do Julian Michaels workout's. This workout just doesnt seem effective and I cannot see myself getting results only sore and tired muscle with no results. I think this will be my last purchase from Jackie I have most of her dvd and the circuit training is by far my favorite and I will stick to that one, YOU ROCKED!!!in that dvd Jackie you hung in the and the workout was Killer it shaped me up quickly.

Ruined Christmas Day I won't go into the level of detail as to who was in Darkest Hour nor who made it. I will tell you that in my, and my family's opinion... this film was bad. The effects were great up until the Aliens were actually revealed... then they looked like a bad SyFy channel rendering. I loved the fact that it took place in Russia. The characters who seemed to be "in the know" as to how to avoid, and deal, with the aliens were too conveniently placed leaving the main cast really nothing to uncover for themselves. I would have much rather seen these people figure it out on their own... vs hiding out in a bunker... while others figured out everything before these people decided to come out of their cave.  I realize that if the story followed the people who are in the thick of it all... the ones who developed the "Resistance" and the "electrician"... the budget goes up... but, this is, or rather was an original idea... and shudda been better.  I will tell you this, as well, LOL I really wanted to like this film! Maybe the sequel if there is one will do better, because you can only go up from here.

Content Contradicts Title A previous review back in 2002,(it is now 2011), by "flickjunkie",  was most accurate! This movie left me totally frustrated for ALL  the same reasons that he listed:  poorly-developed plots, unconnected relationships, POOR depiction  of dad, terrible racist commentary, absolutely un-realized  potential in script...etc.  I, personally, LOVE golf....but I HATED this film's filthy language  and insinuations which were portrayed as a seemingly necessary part  of the playing of the game and of its participants. My favorite uncle was a (PGA) professional golfer my entire life  (I'm now 71), and he is in the Arkansas Hall of Fame, yet he NEVER   had such an unsavory environment in which to perform his trade   as was depicted in this movie.  In addition, in all my years of golfing, I have never been partnered   with golfers nor had to endure such attitudes and dispositions as   shown in this movie. Certainly, there are times of great frustration in the process of  golfing... but for this film's directors, producers, etc, to presume  upon a viewer of this movie that those individuals experiencing  these frustrations would allow them to lead to such reprehensible  behavior before or toward others is unforgiveable.  They violated the very PREMISE of the title of the movie...   that, "Golf Is A Gentleman's Game"!!! Such a disappointment!   No REAL man, no true 'gentleman'   would EVER behave in such a manner...   especially before, much less toward, his own son! nor allow others in their group to do so.  Therefore, I would never be able to recommend that this movie be   viewed by anyone who might be vulnerable as to its overall impact   on them deciding to take up the game.

The Grey = The Bad I giving the movie 2 stars I'm really contemplating 1 star. I decided on 2 stars because there were a couple of one-liners I liked  ***Spoilers*** For almost 2 hours, I watched this and at the end, I realized I would've been better off spending that time trying to figure out why water is wet. After crashing and taking refuge in the wreckage where they at least had some sort of cover, they live it behind for a destination unknown and unprotected - THE WOODS. It was kinda obvious someone was always about to die as they were picked off 1 by 1. A couple of the standoff scenes were a bit far-fetched in my eyes. On one side, there are a group of unarmed and unprepared me visibly shaken and on the other side are about 8 sets of wolf eyes and the wolves don't attack. One could only wish that would really happen.  What probably bothered me the most was the end or lack of ending. There's so much time spent showing the other crap but when there's a chance for a big finish and/or action sequence, the credit roll. Are you kidding me? Who wins? If stick around after the credit, there's a post scene that implies Nesson wins. Assuming this is true, what happened after that? Did the other wolves back off? Was Nesson ever rescued? Maybe I want too much that ending was just lackluster at best.

No Thanks I couldn't finish this.  For one thing, it bored me to tears.  For another, I cannot fathom rationalizing vandalism by calling it street art.  As a lifelong taxpayer, it's people like me spending money to clean up the vandalism.  Watching this movie just reminded me of what I can't condone under any circumstances.  Find a new way to express your artistic tendencies the way the rest of us do.

BEST artwork i have EVER seen on a movie. Okay, I am a Carnival addict. I Love going to carnivals, i have since i was a little kid. I Know everything about ANY carnival ride, and Every rides manufacturer. Obsessed much?!?! lol! And i LOVE Horror Movies. I Was in my video store the other day, and i seen this an i was like..OMFGGG.... This is the PERFECT combination for me. So, i imidiatally HAD to get it. I put it in, as soon as i got home. I Wanted to Love this SOOOO MUCH. Unfortunatally, i didn't. The Movie doesn't make a lick of sense. I was confused throughout the whole movie. Some parts, were so dumb, they were actually HILARIOUS. Everytime something happened in this movie, it turned out to be a vision they were having. It is ASHAME, that someone, would ruin a movie, that had so much potential. The Artwork is FABOLOUS!! That's the only reason this movie gets Two Stars. The Movie itself, 1 STAR. Please...RE MAKE this movie. Please.

over-rated If you prefer simplistic answers to complex problems, this movie is right in your wheelhouse.  Please note:  simplistic is not the same as simple.  If you don't know the difference, look it up.  The Great Depression, when this movie was made, certainly qualifies as complex.  Mr. Deeds' solution is a literal sock in the jaw for anyone who crosses him, and he never even gets arrested for assault.  In fact, the fisticuffs are treated humorously.  It's akin to Dirty Harry's solution to crime.  And Mr. Deeds tries to give away farms, purchased by the money he inherited from an uncle he scarcely knew existed.  For this, he is taken to court to test his sanity.  Naturally he tries to explain his way out of it, and I'm not giving away any great secret by saying that he is successful.  He gets the girl, socks the bad lawyer, and goes home happy as Ole Lonesome Rhodes.  It's all as simplistic as that.  The director received an Academy Award for this draught of pablum, and I can't imagine why--except that in the ethos of 1935 this went down as smoothly as a vanilla milkshake.  Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur are the hero and his turtle dove, walking through this mess hip deep.  They don't do much for it.  The dialogue is sappy, and you come away sugar coated, but not enlightened about the difficulties of the era.

Horrible!!!!!!! As my title said "horrible" Ving Rhames and Christopher Lloyd returns in minor roles the only part I liked is when Rhames has the shotgun legs and when I first thought Gary Busey would have a big part but no (SPOILER!!! he is eaten at the very begining) this is a definite insult to the franchise.

A raging narcissist Look, I know if you are a "fan" of Katy Perry and the image she projects, you'll think this "movie" is Citizen Kane. Me, being a Seventies and Eighties kind of guy, I actually like several of her songs, and she doesn't look too bad on stage. However, she isn't John Lennon, Bob Dylan or even Madonna; she just isn't that interesting outside the music. All I want is a full-blown concert video without all the "part of me" stuff. This is the third DVD she has released that is mostly about her life, her fans and what people say about her. She's had one decent album and a half-dozen hits to her credit, and that warrants all of this??? I don't want to know Perry the narcissist, I just want to see a dern concert film.

Region 1 error. First off, frankly I'm not interested in all of these people leaving reviews for the MOVIE rather than the PRODUCT. Apparently everyone on here believes they're a bona fied movie critic. If I was able to see reviews for the PRODUCT instead of the MOVIE, I would have read that people in the US were unable to play this DVD--yes, I realize it says it somewhere up there, but I was TRYING to browse through reviews to figure out whether or not this thing worked. Instead, customers are treating this page as a homework assignment for a film class. Frankly, if it does not play in the US or Canada, why is it not only listed in Amazon.co.uk or in other country-affiliated versions where the DVD WOULD work? I had no idea there was even a region issue when it came to playing DVDs until this product and its reviews wasted my time and money. It appears other sellers are more careful about what US-faulty products are viewed by US populations.  If you live in the US or Canada, DO NOT BUY THIS. IT WILL NOT WORK ON YOUR DVD PLAYER. I'm sorry all of these idiots think they're movie critics, and I hope the right people see this before clicking the check-out button. I'm sure it'll get buried by even more 3-friggin'-page-long mediocre movie reviews before anyone is able to benefit from it. At least I've learned users on here are self-important amateur movie critics and that I need to scour every line of product detail to avoid getting duped. Thank you for being of little help, fellow reviewers!

Just not a good film, a one time watcher I have been a big fan of Adam Sandler over the years, and seeing the concept of the movie and the previews for it, it looked like it could have been another one of his classic style of comedies (Like Billy Madison, Mr. Deeds, Happy Gilmour), but after watching it, it just didn't come together.  They have a good cast, great material for the twin thing to work, but huge story gaps at times that make the film jumpy, and script wise, it just didn't deliver on the laughs for me.  The character development was set up enough, but it just wasn't there.  I would highly recommend renting this, or catch it on a premium cable channel so you don't have to have this collecting dust on your shelf. A one time watch, then discard.

another dud with Reese Reese has been having a tough time picking and choosing movies as of late...  This is yet another example of her poor choices. Don't bother watching it!!  You can imagine the story line.... as boring as the movie jacket suggests.....  Reese needs to start taking advice from Kate Hudson, who stars in similar story-lined movies.... but she makes better choices, usually.  Again, do not bother wasting your time watching this movie!!

Scarface: Platinum Edition For some, "Scarface" is the quintessential 1980s movie. It may very well be, but not for any great cinematic achievement. Brian De Palma's 1983 gangster epic put a face, namely Al Pacino's, to the undying quest for an elusive American dream. Glitzy, bloody, in your face and over the top, "Scarface" encapsulated the greed, frivolity, and, above all, the excess that pervaded the "Just Say No" era. It is in every way a product of and for its time, at once a Capitalist fantasy of rising from the dregs of society to the top of the food chain and a cautionary tale of paying the price for extravagant narcissism.  With a screenplay by Oliver Stone, the film is an update of Howard Hawks' 1932 classic, which starred Paul Muni as Italian gangster Tony Camonte who rises and falls as a result of his own lust for power. Stone successfully moves the story from Prohibition-era Chicago to Miami after the Cuban Boat Lift that saw the immigration of thousands of Cuban refugees. The basic skeleton of Hawks' original is followed, as Tony Montana and his friend Manny Ribera take on small time crime jobs and slowly work their way up the ladder of the drug underworld. Their association with drug kingpin Frank Lopez introduces them to a flashy world of luxury and wealth, the dream they have been longing for all their lives.  Over the course of his rise to power, the one thing that consistently eludes Tony is love. He is rejected by his mother because of his corrupt lifestyle. His self-absorption prevents him from being able to relate intimately with anyone else. Even Lopez's mistress, Elvira, whom Tony pursues and eventually marries, only serves as another luxury, a beautiful decoration to parade around, but they lack any kind of connection other than a mutual love for cocaine. The only person Tony has true feelings for is his kid sister, Gina, though his overprotection of her suggests something beyond just brotherly affection.  What "Scarface" is best remembered for is its lavish grandeur. Everything in the film is exaggerated--the performances, the violence, Mastrantonio's hair. Pacino brings to his role an intensity that is devoid of any subtlety, a deliberate and wise choice for a character who sees the world in black and white. The opulence of the art direction and set construction is beautifully captured by John A. Alonzo's cinematography. In near operatic form, the action scenes explode in storms of machine guns, pistols, and even a chainsaw, all to the sound of a fantastic score by 80s synth master Giorgio Moroder.  The over-the-top excess of the film takes it to a level of camp that reaches its apex in a scene where Tony plunges his head into a heap of cocaine and loudly snorts as much as he can in one breath, lifting his head to reveal a small covering of powder on his nose. The image is enough to inspire outright laughter, and has indeed been parodied endlessly. "Scarface" could be the male moviegoer's answer to "Mommie Dearest," and like that film, when it's not grotesquely melodramatic, it somehow manages to be incredibly dull. Director Brian De Palma has built his career on flashy set-pieces and fluid camera movements, but he has been guilty on more than one occasion of neglecting the story and characters in favor of creating memorable visuals. The problem here is not so much that he neglects the characters, but that they simply are not that interesting to begin with. Tony Montana is an arrogant jerk from beginning to end and invites no real involvement from the audience. He simply lacks the moral and emotional complexity of, say, Michael Corleone.  After releasing what should have been a definitive edition in the "Scarface" Deluxe Gift Set, which included the Anniversary Edition as well as the 1932 film, Universal Home Video decided to release the 2-disc Platinum Edition. The 2.35:1 widescreen aspect ratio is preserved in an anamorphic transfer that looks relatively clean. There are a few specks here and there, and the colors are not always vibrant, but the print is apparently an improvement over the previous release. Reds certainly pop out radiantly on this transfer. The image is sharp and crisp, if not overly bright. Black levels are solid throughout. All in all, it looks quite good, but it falls short of exceptional.  Audio comes by way of both DTS and Dolby Digital 5.1 mixes. This is where it really shines, as the action scenes receive quite a punch from the surround distribution. You will literally feel like you are being ambushed as the sound of gunshots whiz back and forth from all sides. Giorgio Moroder's music is also done a great service here as it pumps feverishly from the back speakers. Dialogue is always clear and clean, with no detectible hiss or distortion. Well done, Universal.  The only bonus on disc 1 is a "Scarface Scorecard," a pop-up feature that actually counts how many times the F-bomb is dropped and the number of gunshots fired. I won't reveal the final number for either here, as that would spoil the fun, but the final results are staggering.  Disc 2 contains the rest of the special features, beginning with roughly 22 minutes of deleted footage. Much of this is actually unused, raw footage that was apparently never edited into the movie to start with.  Next is the 12-minute "Making of Scarface: The Video Game." This serves primarily as an advertisement for the game, focusing on the voice casting and character design. Unless you are a gamer yourself, this feature will probably hold little interest for you.  "The World of Tony Montana" is somewhat more substantial. At nearly 12 minutes, it boasts interviews with actual Drug Enforcement Administration agents and experts on the crime world who discuss the mindset and personality of someone in Tony Montana's position and how well the film depicts them.  The next three featurettes are all basically parts of one making-of documentary. The first one is called "The Rebirth" and examines how the story was adapted from the original film and what inspired the filmmakers to do it in the first place. "The Acting" features interviews with Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, and Robert Loggia and covers the casting and performance motivations. Finally, "The Creating" offers a good overview of the production.  The last feature is a brief look at "The TV Version" of the movie. Uncut scenes of violence and profanity are compared to the edited versions for TV, proving just how ridiculous overdubbing profanity can get.  With the exception of the video game promo and "The World of Tony Montana," all of the features on this release were available on the Anniversary Edition. Aside from the improved picture and sound, there is not a lot here to entice owners of the older edition to upgrade, but this is definitely the way to go if you are a first-time buyer.  Whatever its cinematic shortcomings may be, "Scarface" has permanently carved a place for itself in the collective memory of American male audiences and attained an enduring position in pop culture. Its absolute lack of restraint is an indicting reflection of 1980s excess. With his full-throttle performance, Al Pacino pushed his level of screen immortality to a new high that has yet to be topped, by himself or just about anyone else. In spite of the film's dramatic emptiness, indeed perhaps because of it, it is an immensely fascinating depiction of an unquenchable thirst for power. Tony Montana wanted the world, but for a desire as vast as his, the world may just not have been enough.

My 1st screw up I got this and it skipped not sure what i am missing in the movie guess i should've bought it at the store instead

The name of the film labels the plot - all haywire Once again we must ask how a cast as fine as the one assembled for this mess of a movie signed on to be associated with it.  Surely there must be a reason because if they had read the script (which could have been more than two or three pages of lines in length!) they would have seen that there is no plot to speak of - just a series of poorly executed incidents, each they response to a newly identified character whose background is so ignored that we are left without a clue as to how the characters are interrelated. Lem Dobbs is credited as `writer' and the big surprise is that this is a product of Steven Soderbergh's direction.  The plot is summarized as follows: `Beautiful freelance covert operative Mallory Kane (Gina Carano) is hired out by her handler to various global entities to perform jobs which governments can't authorize and heads of state would rather not know about. After a mission to rescue a hostage in Barcelona, Mallory is quickly dispatched on another mission to Dublin. When the operation goes awry and Mallory finds she has been double crossed, she needs to use all of her skills, tricks and abilities to escape an international manhunt, make it back to the United States, protect her family, and exact revenge on those that have betrayed her.'  The supporting cast, most of the characters are so ambiguous that we forget their names, is carried out by such fine actors as Michael Angarano, Channing Tatum, Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas, Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender, Bill Paxton, Maximino Arciniega, and some other very talented but misused actors.  Even the special effects are poorly executed.  Apparently this film was created to feature the MMA (that's Mixed Martial Arts for those who don't follow sports) champion Gina Cardona. An actress she is not.  Pass.  Grady Harp, May 12

WRESTLEMANIA 27 - ONE OF THR WORST I was glad to see Rock back. But did he need to talk for so long? That's what I didn't like him about him. His long promos, aside from the long promo he had on his return.  Edge vs Alberto Del Rio for the WHC - I was shocked when they had a Title match as the opener. And ADR was in it. Whatever happened to the RR winner going for his chosen Title in the last match. I could understand why it wouldn't if there was a anticipated match with lots of hype & buildup (UT/HBK II) but beyond that, it'd be nice for WWE to go back to tradition. Anyway, I was surprised, but happy when Edge won. I was even happier than he won when I found out he had retired. It wouldn't have been great as an Edge fan to see him lose his last WM match. Del Rio's time will come. But I'm glad it didn't come at Edge's expense. I still miss Adam Copeland in the ring. It was a very diffult choice, I'm sure. But I'm glad he chose to retire (something Flair should really think about if he still had the brain required to effectively think) as it came to a battle between his love (WWE) and his life (health).  Rey Mysterio vs Cody Rhodes - Just like Rey's match at WM26, good but not enough time.  Kane, Big Show, Kingston, Santino vs The Corre (Barrett, Jackson, Gabriel, Slater) taking on Kane, Big Show, Santino Morella and Kofi Kingston - I'm not gonna even dignify this with a rating.  CM Punk vs. Randy Orton: 1 of the 2 matches that saved this event. Just a GREAT match here. Wish it was given more time. Worth the watch.  Then, the HOF Class Of 2011 came out. It was truly something to see as it is every year. The fans of the new generation get to see some, just some of the individuals, a small hand full of those who helped make WWE what it is & remain in business and that's putting their contributions mildly. The fans who were around when these individuals were active in WWE get to see some familiar faces they always saw on their tv screens.  Jerry Lawler vs Michael Cole: A WASTE OF TIME. I'm all for King finally having his WM match (thought it came too late). But Cole as his opponent??!!! It would've made sense for Riley to be his opponent. Now granted, I don't know if Riley was ready for a WM match or not, but from a storyline standpoint, it did make sense because King was feuding with Miz, whose apprentice is Riley.  The Undertaker vs Triple H in a No Holds Barred match - I thought the video package was very well done. For those who are wondering, the bgm was In Time by Mark Collie. It is on the OST to the 2004 Marvel film, The Punisher (which I think Kevin Nash had a part in). Anyway, there's some stuff here that's edited from the actual ppv. "For Whom The Bells Toll" (used for HHH's entrance) and "Ain't No Grave" (UT's entrance theme at the time) were edited out. I'm glad. Especially for UT. Ain't No Grave, it may have fit him lyrically, but musicially/sound wise, it didn't match the effect his previous theme had so I'm glad they put that theme into the DVD. Match Of The Night. It's the second match that saved this event (IMO, third time in a row UT's done this at WM. Of course, his opponents are to be credited too). Watch it. What else can I say? UT wins & goes 19-0. But he didn't leave in the same fashion he normally does.  Cena - Miz - One of, if not the WORST WM main event in history.  Should be watched for UT/HHH & Orton/Punk.

Not good Just comes down to annoying characters with their moral high ground every 5 seconds. The main character is annoying, his girlfriend is annoying at the end, etc. Also a medocre story. I do like Ed Harris's job though.

A Parable about Society Blindness, 2008 film  The traffic light turns to green but a car does not proceed. The driver can't see! One passer-by offers to drive his car home. The man gets out, the driver takes off with his car! Is it "psychosomatic"? A couple speaks in a foreign language. "Where are the car keys?" Patients are taken by priority, not by appointment. More tests are needed at the hospital for this unusual condition. The next morning the Doctor can't see! It must be infectious. Other people have this problem. The ambulance operators are dressed for protection. The TV news tells of the "white sickness" that blinds people, they will be quarantined. Two men fight in the ward, one of them is that car thief. A young girl has to go now. A man falls and is bleeding. More patients arrive at the hospital. They do not provide care for that injured man, and threaten to shoot the doctor!  There isn't enough food or medical supplies for this ward. People get the news from a small radio. The blindness is spreading. There are car, bus, and airplane accidents. People refuse to travel. Loud noises scare the sightless, the guards shoot three patients who leave their ward. They must bury the dead and also share the rations fairly. The car thief knows the Doctor's wife can see. She forgot to wind her watch. One patient goes outside and is shot at. Ward 3 wants to take over and loot the other patients. The patient who was born blind has an advantage. [The man who is armed is superior to the unarmed man said Machiavelli.] How can they survive with less food? What can they do? The leader of Ward 3 has a new plan. "Have a nice day." Any volunteers? Will they starve to death? An individual choice? Some women volunteer for this duty.  The women enter Ward 3. "We love you." They return bearing the body of a young woman. "What happened?" A man was killed. They can get food now. Or will they submit? The men decide to fight for their rights. What can they do? A fire breaks out. That woman calls the guards. They have disappeared! The patients walk outside. There are signs of chaos in the streets, but no people! What happened? A small group goes to an apartment house to find a home. They wash in the bathroom. What kind of life will they have now? What happens when they run out of food? One man suddenly recovers his sight! [Then the story ends abruptly.]  The credits roll. I didn't recognize the city used for the background. The story of a plague that comes upon the people echoes the Great Flu sickness of 1918 (which led to the end of the Great War), or the cholera epidemics of the 19th century. Gathering people into a small space echoes the concentration camps of WW II and other times. The only problem with this story is the lack of an ending or an explanation for this sudden outbreak of a new disease. [In WW I the Germans confiscated all of the butter in Denmark for their domestic needs. This was followed by an epidemic of blindness which disappeared when butter became available in peacetime. The scientific research led to the discovery of Vitamin A. People knew then that eating butter and eggs were unlikely to get tuberculosis, a disease of poverty and poor nutrition. It was a fatal disease until the discovery of antibiotics.]

ENOUGH ALREADY! ROCKY V may have tanked at the box-office, but that didn't stop Sylvester Stallone from reviving the Apollo Creed character from the original film and spinning him off into his own franchise. By the time this THIRTEENTH installment was released, the series had run out of gas. The film is probably best remembered for it's tagline, "Yo, Houston! It's me, Rocky..."

Oh...You Best Suspend Your Disbelief. Viewed: 3/12 Rate: 3  3/12: Oy vey! Talk about dumb. The Gate certainly has it all. Mmkay...Glen randomly decides to launch a mini rocket inside of his home to save the world? I don't know where he got the concept from, and I don't know how it all ties into together. I felt the demon were too far lenient with the kids, and if there were demons around the house, the best course of action might be...get out of the house and go to another place? What a stupid film The Gate is. Speaking of annoyance, how about these female kids? Yeah..that was bad enough. How did they all survive the Gate? Stupid film. The very slow build up didn't help it either. All in all, avoid The Gate like the plague.

boring I love Kevin Costner. I hate this movie. I wish this movie was about baseball. Instead it is mainly an extremely boring love story. There is no chemistry between Costner and milk toast Travolta, whatever her name is. Their romance is dull. I didn't much care about what happened to anybody in this movie. The only compelling character was Costner's and everytime he got back around Ms. Boring, I didn't care what happened to him either. This movie is two hours that feel like ten. I was hoping all the characters would kill themselves.

So What? The problem with Fast Food Nation is that it is a film that really doesn't know what it wants to be. There are three story lines, more or less related to the fast food industry: illegals working in a meat packing plant, young men and women working in one of the franchises, and the corporate executive trying to look into the whole fast food process, from processing to selling. Unfortunately, only the first plot line comes even close to being developed. About two-thirds of the way through Greg Kinnear (the executive) just disappears from the film! Unlike the book, there is certainly no sense of expose in the film - it's not like people don't already know about corporate greed, that fast food isn't good for you, that in real life the bad guys win most of the time. Sadly, there is a lot of talent involved in this film, but the feeling at the end of the movie is a big "so what?"

Adrian Brody?Gimme a Break! This is a tough guy movie so why put in Adrian Brody?What a disapointment. Like putting Jack Black in King Kong. Who told that guy he can act? Stick with the original 2 predator movies for tough guy action, and the first AVP.

mental-masterbative-headache If you like being punished by eye-crossing, computer generated, neo-psychedelic imagery, this movie is for you.  If you are into mental masturbation...this is a hit!  I was interested in the film, and found the commentaries to be interesting, but the producers RUINED this film with all of the aforementioned crap.  I couldn't even look at the screen after a while.  Hope this helps!!

TV movie To be short and sweet, if you enjoy TV movies ala Scyfy channel type of movies then by all means rent/buy this.

It had potential The beginning of the movie seemed like it had potential. I think some of the ideas in the story could have been developed into a more interesting film, for example, the concept of enhanced beings and plant growth taking on a life of it's own.  However, ultimately, the movie was short on story, plot, and character development. We don't get a good feel for who Agito and Toola are, and what they stand for. Alot of the film seems to be Agito screaming "Toola!", and Toola screaming "Agito!"  I really did not get the point of it and I didn't like the ending either. If you ask me, the ending was rather inconclusive.  My favorite part was the beginning song with the flying dragon-plant thing.

Meh. Another hollywood war movie. There is little positive to say about this movie. It does show a different front of world war II, which is always an interesting diversion from the typical 'Mericans vs. Nazi or Japanese plot. Also, choosing to focus on a sniper other than a generic soldier was a cool concept. Unfortunately, that's where the positives end.  Actors who are suppose to be Russian or German don't speak their respective language, AND speak in English with British/American accents. Rough transition between scenes and plot points left me wondering "wait, did I miss something?". Shallow characters that make me feel indifferent whether they lived or died. A stupid, stupid love triangle that took focus away from the overall plot and served as a cue for over dramatic, generic score. Predictable battles, predictable ending, overall lame.

Great Set but Wonderful set, but Disc 4 doesn't work for me either (except in my Playstation 3). The picture quality is awesome.

Literary metaphor does NOT translate well to film Jose Saramago's Nobel Prize winning novel BLINDNESS is an extended metaphor about the human condition.  We are all blind, Saramago says, and then he shows us in graphic detail what he thinks about human nature.  We are violent, selfish, greedy, weak, and ultimately we will fail each other.  His story, about the sudden onslaught of some unexplained contagious disease that renders everyone (or almost everyone) blind, is metaphoric; it was never meant to be taken as realistic.  This is not a science fiction novel, or a horror story, or even a psychological thriller.  It's a brooding, depressing castigation of the entire human race.  So is it any surprise that the movie doesn't work?  Metaphors are very hard to translate to film.  In the movie, we actually SEE the blindness take over, from one character to the next - and we want to know why.  We see one character apparently immune to the blindness - and we want to know why.  We see the unnamed and unexplained fascistic government throw all of the sick people into some sort of run-down asylum where they are kept away from the "seeing" population by an armed militia - and we want to know why.  We see the filth in the hallways (these people begin defecating on the floor about 30 minutes after arriving at the facility), the brutality, the grotesque violence - and yes, we want to know why.  But Saramago wasn't interested in the details of his plot (thin as it is) - he was interested only in the brutal metaphor he was developing over 300 pages of text.  And the film isn't interested in the plot, either.  I was able to enjoy some of the visual elements of the film, especially after the core characters leave the asylum and venture out into the city.  There is a feeling throughout the film that something important is being said, and I was willing to give that a chance; but beyond a general condemnation of the human race, I'm not sure what that point really is.  Overall, the "plot holes" so many viewers are complaining about are there because the plot doesn't matter.  If you're looking for a movie about what would really happen if everyone in the world suddenly went blind, this isn't it.  If you're looking for a movie about what total pigs we all are . . . well, this will be right up your alley!

Too Many Twists, Not Enough Straightaways David Hyde Pierce stars in this odd, twist-heavy home invasion thriller, in which he suddenly turns the tables on both a desperate assailant and the unsuspecting audience. It's a cinematic contortionist, so desperate to shock and surprise that it gives every single cast member a chance to swivel one hundred-eighty degrees. Unsurprisingly, that trick quickly gets old and we're left to make bold predictions on a shallow, random plot while the puppets perform their jangly, awkward little dance. Pierce is loads of fun as the ludicrously demented straight-lacer with a secret, but the film isn't particularly well-acted and the greater story arc makes almost no sense. It looks terrific for a low-budget production, but desperately needed a few more rounds of screenplay revisions and the caring touch of a proficient editor.

2002 in film Austin Powers Gold Member review & rant 4/10 I finally reviewed both Austin Powers movies & those 2 movies are full of laughs start to finish especially the 2nd movie they have so many rememberable scenes that are funny. I saw the 2nd movie twice in theaters in 1999. I mean I could go on & on about how great the 2nd movie is. Austin Powers Gold Member isn't I may have gotten a few grins & a few chuckles out of it but their is a lot of bordem in this movie & a lot of humor that doesn't work & when you have a comedy or a parody movie that isn't funny it fails. So I am going to rant some & this is the 1st rant of my 02 & 20 years ago reviews. So you know if you like this film that's cool my dislike is against this movie not any fans of this installment cause every movie has a hater & a fan. Jay Roach returned to direct & this is a step down from part 2. Mike Myers comes back as Austin Powers, Dr Evil, Far B@  s  +  ar  d & he added a new character Gold Member. Also stars Seth Green returns as Scott Evil, Michael Caine as Nigel Powers, Verne Troyer as Mini Me & Beyonce Knowles as Foxxy Cleopatra. The story is you start off with this movie being directed by Steven Speilburg Tom Cruise is playing Austin Powers, Kevin Spacy is playing Dr Evil & Danny DeVito as Mini Me. The opening features Britney Spears who turns out to be a Fembot. Cool opening the rest of the movie however is half a  s  s  ed. You get to Dr Evil who has a new headquarters under The Hollywood sign. Dr Evil is going back to 1975 & bring back Gold Member who developed Cold Fusion so he can pull a metor into The Polar Ice Caps & flood The Earth he calls the plan Preperation H which yeah I did chuckle at that. Unfortantly for Dr Evil Austin Powers & some agents come in & arrest him & Mini Me. Austin is Knighted by The Queen his Dad wasn't there & the people in attendnce laugh at him. I was thinking is this a comedy or is it trying to be dramatic. Austin finds out that his Dad has went missing he questions Dr Evil about it & they Parody Silence Of The Lambs I liked that. Frau vists him in prison she tells him Scott has taken over the Family Business.  Austin has to go back to 1975 then we are introduced to Foxxy Cleopatra who is undercover going aftert Gold Member & she happend to be 1 of Austin's Girlfriends. She tells him where his Dad is at. Then you have Gold Member who takes his Dad I just didn't find this charter funny at all. Gold Member takes his Austin's Dad through time to 2002 so Austin takes Foxxy with him. You have Dr Evil convince the prisoners to help him escape & you have sing Hard Knock Life it's not funny like in part 2 where he's singing Just The 2 Of Us or What If G  od Was One Of Us. Anyway they escape & then you have Austin & Foxxy go to Japan & FB has became a Sumo Wrester I mean it's a real forgetable scene. You have a really dumb scene Michael Caine wants to see Mini Me's junk another bit of humor that I didn't laugh at I was just indifferent about it I was like whatever. I can say that 1 of the scenes that I laughed at was when Austin & Foxxy were going through this building is when Austin is hiding from the security. He finds his father where they try & chase after Gold Member he gets away Austin & Nigel blame each other & they go their seperate ways. Scott who is now going bald joins his Father & he got him sharks with laser beams. Scott becomes Dr Evil's favorite Son & Mini Me is kicked to the curb so to speak. He becomes a good guy when Austin gets to his room he loses it & beats him up that's only the 2nd time where I busted out laughing mainly cause it showed a flashback from the last movie. Austin is told by an inside man in Dr Evil's organization that he has derected so Mini Me helps them. Austin's car becomes a sub & they get on board Dr Evil's sub. Austin & Foxxy split up & then they really tried to recreate the tent scene from the last movie it just wasn't as funny I did get a bit of grin out of it. Austin & Mini Me are caught Austin throws Mini Me down a vent where he escapes. Austin is taken to the control room where Dr Evil is ready to launch Prep H. However Foxxy has the key. She frees Austin & he's ready to shoot Dr Evil then from out of no where Nigel comes in & he reveals that Dr Evil is his Brother. Scott runs off he wants revenge. Gold Memer is going to finish the job Foxxy tries to stop him but she is taken at gun point Austin & Dr Evil work together to reverse the polarity & the metor is destroyed. I'm sorry if I did a poor job explaining the plot but this is a poor sequel it felt like they tried to add dramatic elements or some kind of message & that usually hurts a comedy especially when it's a sequel to 2 really funny movies. The humor didn't work this time there were way too many cameos & it's forgettable. Jay Roach I mean I don't know what went wrong cause it's the same director of the 1st 2 movies. Mike Myers was sort of funny as Dr Evil & FB but The Austin Powers character wasn't & The Gold Member character was lame. Maybe that was a problem playing 4 characters. Beyonce I thought did fine. Michael Caine did his best. Seth Green is fine as the smart alec but he's not funny as a villain. Verne Troyer was good again. I know there are talks of an Austin Powers 4 & Mike Myers is all for it which I wouldn't mind a 4th movies as long as it goes back & has humor that works.That goes for the crude humor & is an actual comedy  So next will be my last review in this series for The Month Of July 20 years ago Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

Disappointed in Clamp I have watched this series from the beginning...or at least all of the DVDs for the TV series.  These stories took a lot of twists and turns and ended up being ridiculous.  Maybe it's because I like happy endings. This one was not a pleasant ending and I thought the twist was very unfair to both Sakura and Shaoran.  I don't know what to say without giving away the ending, but if I watched this video before I saw any of the other episodes, I would never have continued the series.

There is worse... Once again the extreme negativity that reviewers are giving this film is going to generate alot of interest (or, curiosity as it may be) for this sequel (actually more of a follow-up...). I can say however, I personally find that the decision to film in B & W totally works against this film as since I knew what I was going into from the get go I would much rather have seen the proceedings in color. Let's get this out of the way also...I'm not a psycho, degenerate, and I certainly don't need the powers that be flagging me for a film I choose to view...Ha, Ha, come on now, Look at what's happening around you in this world and tell me that those who choose to view a certain type of film (YES, there ARE exceptions that we won't get into) need's big brother interference...please, will I still have my choice of slurpee flavor at the concession stand in the next year or so? Yes, there's certainly a fair share of naughty business that splashes on the screen through out, but there's many more out there that are way more graphic. Again, if this had been released in color, we'd be viewing a film with 10x the impact that you get as it is. Essentially, as with anything you do, know what you're getting into before you take the plunge. I highly doubt anyone would accidentally find themselves watching this film and then proceed to continue watching it for the next hour and then follow up the experience with a scathing review. I, personally, would have rated it higher but I hated the B & W concept and being that I'm a huge fan of the horror film genre I know what I'm getting into before I viewed this or ANY other film. That way, there's no surprises for anyone. Yes, it's not going to EVER be anyones favorite film, and the lead is so scuzzy and overall disgusting you may just get sick of the long repeated viewing of his sweaty nasty self, but it's what this film IS trying to accomplish and it succeeds very well. There now, you know what you're getting into...choose wisely. Aw ok...3-1/2 stars.

What in holy hell? Once upon a time, I blazed through this book called Eragon that I thoroughly enjoyed. I was a sophomore in high school when I discovered it and I loved on it hard, waiting with rapt attention for each succeeding novel to come out. When they decided to make a movie, I knew I would never willingly pay money to see it on the big screen so I waited for it to make it to the little one.  The first time I watched it, I caught it about midway through the movie. Five minutes later, I was flipping channels to settle on a Lifetime Movie.  Tonight, I decided to watch it again and was slapped in the face with why I didn't watch it the first time.  I understand that Paolini manages to shove a wagon-load of information about the races into the first book. Elven and dragon lore, human history of the divide between Galbatorix and the Varden BLAH BLAH BLAH. I get that. But MAN. The creators of the film took the basic premise of the book and SPRINTED WITH IT. And not towards the finish line!!!!  His interactions with Brom before he leaves his town are almost non-existant. That I could have put up with - okay, they didn't know how to fit all of that in. They completely cut out the Roran & Katrina backstory. That I raised an eyebrow at because it becomes the focal point of a book down the line and the resulting events are a key twist in what starts to separate Eragon from the rest of the human race. So I blinked and excused them with the thought 'hey maybe they just wanted a single movie'! Then my next question was where's the all important relationship with the rest of the townspeople? That goes hand in hand with the Roran & Katrina backstory. That's also gone for no reason! Ooookkkaaayyy, they really want to shrink the movie time.  The mega morphing of Saphira on her first flight? My inner sense of outrage began to build while I sputtered some nonsense about 'ah, they need to make her grow quickly and establish that mental connection a.s.a.p.' Okay. Alright.The first flight after the Razac found him? They took the liberty of having her snatch him up on his way to find Uncle Garrow and then sort of hold on/toss him around and have an actual conversation which included "They'll kill you" and "You're ridiculous" and "Stupid boy" all in one go. Here's where I started to lose interest and gain a healthy measure of disgust for the movie.  That. Is. Not. How. It. Happened.  It ruined the integrity of the movie for me. She's not supposed to be coherent, Eragon is supposed to be in lots of pain, and the delay in getting to his uncle combined with the pain was a HUGE catalyst for character growth! That's the first time he's honest to goodness angry at Saphira! The rest of the movie passes in a blur of uninteresting riding scenes, tepid fighting scenes, and countryside stills. Saphira's sarcasm and Eragon's everpresent curiosity is compromised. There is no rhyme or reason explaining why the screenwriters pulled events out of thin air to insert into the plot line, or why they altered things that were pivotal to a later scene that lessened its impact. Eragon uses magic without knowing the hows and whys, gains experience out of nowhere in swordsmanship, mourns his uncle for about two and a half seconds, thinks about Arya for about the same length of time before he meets and falls in love with her, thinks about his beloved cousin Roran...NEVER, and just sort of stumbles his way in and out of nonsense for the remainder of his time on screen. Why smash the events of a book and a half into a single movie if you have simply butchered the thing? Did they even send their script to Paolini to be okayed before this entered production?  The answer is clearly no.  No wonder Paolini is saying 'Fu^% no!' to signing over the rights to the rest of his books! Ed Speeler (Eragon) does his best to try and even out the strange plotholes and twists and turns that the screenwriters created but he can barely keep up himself. So does Brom. Everyone else is doing too much or too little to make the audience believe what they were watching, including the dragon.  About the only good things to say about this movie refer to the good looks of the male cast. Ed Speeler has that whole adorable thing going for him which is nice. Garret Hedlund as Murtagh is spot freaking on! His hotness ALMOST made me finish the movie and that's saying something. Fifty-five minutes was more than enough torture for me.  This was better left as book. There is far too much lost in the translation.

Difficulty watching Blu Ray on Samsung player This is not a review of the movie but of the blu ray. I have a Samsung player (firmware is the latest version) and when I inserted the disc the bonus pop ups would display regardless of any settings. I have now found the post in the forums entitled "Blu-ray bonusview problems" which has a successful workaround. I also had a rough time navigating the menus as the selection color is difficult to be seen so it took a few times to apply the workaround successfully.  My issue is that I needed a workaround which I didn't find until I went searching. I've had this issue before with a different disc and it's frustrating to me to have such a terrible out of the box experience. If I was my mom or someone who is used to movies just playing they'd have a terrible time trying to watch the blu ray.  Before I knew of the workaround I watched the DVD but it was with a fair bit of frustration and disgust in the product. I paid for blu ray and want blu ray.

Tired replay of first movie Two stars for decent production values and a few good lines. The story was a rehash of the first Nanny McPhee plot, told against the backdrop of WWII. What was charming in the first movie, upon replay, became flat and disappointing. Not even Maggie Smith could overcome a poorly-written, poorly-directed script. She became just another cartoon character. Over-reliance on stock characters (e.g. the deceitful brother-in-law) made it a cartoon instead of a movie. Magic, plus slow pacing, made this movie a tired attempt to earn money off the McPhee franchise. The ending relied too much on special effects to draw it out like some sort of fireworks-like grand finale, but it became boring halfway through.

The bonus wig won't even fit my child I bought this item because my kids saw the commercial and they wanted the rainbow afro wig. My youngest child was going to wear it for Halloween and I was going to make her a zebra costume. When the item arrived, I just knew this wasn't going to end well. For starters, the wig was in the same size box as the DVD combo. I was hoping it would fit them, but wasn't sure. After we opened the box, it became readily apparent that the wig was a joke. It is thin, poorly made and is not an afro, as much as it is a pale imitation of one. My child tried to wear it, but it only covers the top of her (9 year old) head like a sad toupee. She finally did figure out that it fits her one doll, but the disappointment over the bonus wig is the reason we haven't even watched the movie, yet. I know the review is mainly about the wig, but, the wig is the reason I bought the movie. It says its for ages 3 and up, but I would bet that the wig wouldn't fit a child much older than 3.

Lacked Heart The characters in "Heaven Can Wait (The Criterion Collection)" were just about as dry as toast can be. I couldn't care less about lead character, Henry Van Cleve. His life, like this movie, was really pretty boring for someone who thought he should go to Hell. The only person who had some appeal was Henry's grandfather. Don't waste your money on it.

Same ole stuff Just a mix of the first three.  The 3 second blurb of the monkey was the best part.  Wait til it is on sale for $5.00.

Way too cheesy. As a fan of the Resident Evil series since the beginning, I was very disappointed here. Besides the fact it wasn't scary, or spooky, or even startling, it just came up short all around.  The first thing I was really annoyed by in this movie is it doesn't go 5 minutes without having a lame scene that was obviously put in just for the benefit of people watching in 3D. Objects are thrown right at the screen and the whole movie slows down. Even when watching in 3D, this is just obnoxious and really breaks the atmosphere of the film. It happens in every hand to hand combat scene too, and I think it really takes away the awesomeness that could have happened in some of those scenes.  The second really annoying thing was the abundance of lame one-liners our hero Leon spouts at random times. It made the entire movie feel cheap and corny.  The third annoyance I found was, during the credits, it was playing scenes from Resident Evil 6.  I won't even go too into the story and how crazy it was. Even compared to the live action Resident Evil movies, this one made very little sense.  Lastly, and I mean this, *SPOILERS*  There were barely any zombies?! It was pretty much an hour of one guy with the ability to control lickers using the lickers to fight a bunch of T-103 Tyrants. And Leon was there too. Roll Credits.

Mixed review I've been doing yoga for about 4 years primarily for the stretching and strength needed because I am a runner.  I was using recorded David Ross Inhale episodes  on Oxygen tv) - which i really liked, but thought I'd try something new. Bought this and 2 others by D Yee, and I'm not quite as impressed as I thought I would be based on the reviews. I am by no means a yoga expert, but I feel like he goes way too fast and doesn't allow much time for sufficient strength and stretching...especially if this is supposed to be for beginners (which I thought I was, but i found this workout to be fairly easy, so maybe I'm a bit more advanced than I thought).  All in all, I suppose if you've never done yoga, this might be fine as a first step,  but you'd have to really pay attention - or keep your remote handy to pause! - to be able to keep up.  More advanced people - look for something else.

Low quality Broadway musical Generally speaking, in the 1950's and early 60's, musicals were all about spectacle. It didn't matter whether the dialogue was shallow or the characterizations thin as long as it entertained the public. My Fair Lady is a perfect example.  Eliza Dolittle, a flower girl in the lower caste of England aspires to become a lady. She goes to Mr. Higgins, a speech therapist to rid herself of her cockney accent and learn the ways of aristocrats. Mr. Higgins hurls class warfare and chauvinistic insults at her during lessons and regards her as an experiment rather than a person. One day, she becomes so fed up with his ways, she leaves him and returns to the slums where she finds a love-struck aristocrat named Freddie Eynsford-Hill. She enters an engagement with him but for some ludicrous reason only Hollywood can trump up, chooses Mr. Higgins instead.  Audrey Hepburn (Eliza) transitions from street vendor to sophisticated lady well and Jeremy Brett (Freddie) does what he can with his thankless role as Eliza's second love interest but Rex Harrison's (Mr. Higgins) performance is pure oscar caliber--oscar as in Overacted Self-Conscious Annoying Role. His method acting was so narcisstic he didn't seem to be truly aware that anyone else was ever in a scene with him.  With the possible exception of "I could have Danced all Night" none of the songs are particularly memorable. The photography is lovely and the costumes and sets are razzle-dazzle but the 'outside' scenes are horribly fake.  Two Stars.

Hostel Closes: Spoiler Alert For all you big fans of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EHRVP6">Hostel (Unrated Widescreen Edition)</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UJ48P4">Hostel: Part II (Unrated Widescreen Edition)</a>, including myself, you shall be very disappointed in this film.  The betting on how people are killed is ludicrous and ruins any chance this film may have had.  If the face peeling killing isn't enough for you to turn it off then sit and see how this franchise is put to death.  I bet you'll be glad it's now dead.

If You Like Cursing, and the "F Bomb" If you like cursing, and the "F Bomb" you can enjoy this. Frankly, I see nothing comical about including cursing in comedy. There are funnier comedians than Kathleen Madigan who never use a curse word. I am no saint, and I can use expletives, but if I were a comedienne, I wouldn't use the disgusting expletives (publicly) that Kathleen uses. It's as if you are telling the world, "I have very few morals, and I want  the public know...I am proud of that."  It's as if the comedians like Kathleen  think that the  more they use expletives the funnier they are...NOT so!  Two very funny, and clean, comedians are Brian Regan, and Henry Cho.  I am sure I am going to get a lot of mail admonishing me. Please save your time. Thanks!

don't bother mildly amuzing-that is all there is to say-acting-probably one of Jennifer's worst-she must have needed a paycheck-was fun to see Alan Alda

Interesting, but Inaccurate As a pagan, I found this film interesting.  It was maybe 40% accurate about actual pagan beliefs.  The rest was just, well, bushwa.  Not all that suspenseful, although Edward Woodward as the Christ obsessed cop was an intriguing character.  Toward the end, I kept thinking they should have made his character a priest.  Probably not one I will watch again.

Good Start, Awful Finish I bought this DVD years ago in a sale, and recently rediscovered it on my shelf.  What starts out as a poorly produced but ultimately harmless concert turns into a dreadful combination of overdone remixes and embarrassing para para dancing. Ishida Yoko does fine with the singing, but everything else was just cringe-inducing. Shame too, because she is one of my favorite Japanese singers.

The Dead Man. More like The Dead Season. Season 3 had its moments but overall it is by far lame. The first and second season are hilarious and full of witty remarks and shows great character. It also helps in identifying what makes Dethklok; Dethklok. The third season just has a bunch of lude, crude and grotesque comments and the dialogue is supar at best. It also has an extreme amount of adult content. What made the other seasons so great was the blurs, the bleeps and the run around on what they were actually referring to. I absolutely love this show and have the first two season memorized by heart. I was thrilled for the third season and when I finally got to see it was throughly disappointed with it. I know these guys can do better.

Say what? Robert Downey looks great (nice shirts, Sherlock), but he swallows most of his hastily delivered lines and is often incomprehensible.  My wife and I would turn to each other laughing after he'd spoken and then exchange gibberish in imitation of the vocally impaired detective.  (I suspect that Downey, insecure about his British accent, decided to enfog most of what he was forced by the script to say.)  Lord Blackstone emerges as the hero if only because he's about the only significant (male) character whose lines can be comprehended.  Bring him back!  In fact, give him his own franchise (and it's hard to believe this Sherlock will become one).

low budge but a bit entertaining...... well lets see where do i start LOL....its definitely low budget but it almost seems like it was a B+ college project or an "A" high school project.....the writing & acting was very remedial but for some odd reason it was entertaining....there were quite a few moments that were meant i'm sure to NOT be funny but i found myself chuckling but still kept watching....again something i found was entertaining.....the acting was a bit laughable too but i did give them an "A" for effort.....overall a bit cheesy & corny but again something made me keep watching.....but i do give the movie credit for being a clean, smooth, & moved along at a good pace movie....for a low budge movie they did a decent job with the killings & some of the effects with the scarecrow at the end werent bad.....i think the crew had heart & soul with their little movie....if anything it was oddly entertaining :):  a typical story of a guy whos not all there who gets picked on & dives into the occult to bring his scarecrow friend he made to life.....big halloween party happens.....revenge takes place on those who made fun of him.....& oddly enough a tiny twist at the end....i say twist cuz i didnt think it would end the way it did...surprise for my 1.99 :):  anyway dont expect much but have fun watching it :):)

That movie means only money to the makers What kind of stupid comedy is that?? Negative: 1)Blend of cheap animated CGI animals through almost the whole movie. 2)Directors made animated animals do cruel jokes on main characters.That supposed to be funny. 3)Humans treating animal kingdom like garbage. 4)If you analyze it further, there is some parts which you could consider as animal cruelty. 5)Very stupid music video at the end make me consider that this was done for the small children. 6)Actors smiling in inappropriate moments(when they suppose to scream or do other expression of the faces). 7)The main plot of the movie is similar to many other movies on the market today. Story:family moves to another town, kid hates his dad for moving to this new place,wife and kid leaves the husband for some time when he gets ''crazy'', kid falls in love, everything stands back on it's place,happy end and everyone loves each other. I wouldn't advice you show that movie to kids, it's just plain bad. But it's your choice. 8)Other stupid moments, like when the dude dreams at night, his wife turns to him and he sees poorly made raccoon's face. And other moments which you can find in the movie, yourself. Positive:I laughed whole 3 times.

not top notch My daughter loves the movie but I hate the noise it makes while playing. I don't know if it is unbalanced or what but it makes a semi loud humming noise when it is being played. Only movie in her collection that does that so I am assuming it is the disc itself. I belive it is an extremely old copy of the movie.

This asylum needs a bit of discipline. This looks like a routine whodunit in which the cops must figure out which of the characters inhabiting a so-called mental clinic killed one of the staff.  But the clinic's jaw-dropping incompetence or lack of interest in controlling its inmates kept distracting this viewer from getting into the basic yarn.  The patients seem to wander around unrestrained and unattended, engaging in such recreations as firing bows and arrows and sharing beds with one another.  One unbalanced chap simply takes the stairs to the top of the building and flings himself off.  Throughout all this, the place is crawling with cops, who have their own problems just getting the cuffs on the murderer, who manages to skip away down to the seashore, where he becomes mired in a bog, relying on commander Dalgleish to pull him out.  And then there's Roy Marsden as Dalgleish.  As reputable British actors go, Marsden ranks well down on the charisma scale.  He's tall and well-spoken but has almost no affect at all, rarely changing expression or evincing any emotion.  I've not read any of P.D. James' books, but I gather that Dalgleish is styled as a published poet.  It's hard for me to imagine Marsden's Dalgleish mustering the emotional involvement to compose much of any sort of poetry.  Perhaps that's why the TV scripts only infrequently allude to his poetic bent.

No Commentary Track on Screwhead Edition I can't believe they chose the Screwhead Edition for the Blu-ray release of this movie! This edition HAS NO COMMENTARY TRACK. It's the original theatrical version (which I prefer), but there are hardly any extras. What good is it? Love the movie, but love the filmmakers talking about it more. Have to get the DVD version -- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005QW4K">Bruce Campbell vs. Army Of Darkness - The Director's Cut (Official Bootleg Edition)</a> -- to get the commentary.

A Tale of Two Exorcisms Plot: A young seminarian with all the knowledge and none of the faith it takes to make a Roman Catholic priest travels to Rome to be the understudy of a master exorcist. The young priest passes from doubt to Faith only when a demon has a hand round his throat - but he *does* pass the test. The End.  The Rite is the sort of film Hollywood would produce regularly if there were a powerful Roman Catholic bloque in Tinseltown. Like Mel Gibson's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00028HBKC">The Passion of the Christ (Full Screen Edition)</a>, The Rite is a movie ideally suited for Roman Catholics and the majority of Christians. Unlike The Passion of the Christ, The Rite is not a powerful film. Unlike The Passion of the Christ, I feel The Rite could have been much better with a little more attention to detail. Attention to plot, for example.  Since I'm engaging in rampant similes in this review, here's another: The Rite is similar to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005DNO7MQ">Gladiator</a> with Russell Crowe in that both films really hang upon the outstanding performances of the lead characters: here, Anthony Hopkins. Anthony Hopkins is superb in this film. Without Sir Anthony, this film would merit a single star.  A good film, though really lacking. It could have been so much better.

Not Region 1 This item is not for region 1. It did not work on my laptop, but did work on my DVD player. So you might have problems.

Surprsingly FUN!  And great DVD transfer. This film is really unfairly maligned, at least when seen in it's proper aspect ration. Some writers have complained about running time, the movie is presented in its original theatrical version (109 mins) without all the excessive and boring drama tacked on for network television. believe me, you don't want that TV version. Overall its much better than many of the mainstream special effects would-be blockbusters being premiered today. Great image quality on this DVD, looks superbit. This is the version to see.

Parts are funny Parts are funny but based on others reviews I thought it would have me laughing the entire time.  Not close to being in top 10 stand-up performances.

boring loved the original clash of the titans - hated the remake. still, i had high hopes for this movie. special effects were good but the story dragged and was bland at best. very disappointed.

Different than what is advertised. I did not got what I ordered. The information on line said there were 2 discs and when opened it there was only one disc. Another thing, right after I paid for the blue ray I was offered the same blue ray at $5 less than what I paid for. This is unacceptable, so I returned the the product.

BD has mastering error Film: ***** BD: ** The Blu Ray has not been properly mastered. The black level is all wrong and often way too high, resulting in milky images and gray opening credits. It did not look like that in the cinema.

Canadian Blu-Ray Or Bootleg Disc I don't believe I ordered the French or Spanish edition of Eclipse, however that's what it reads on the box and case i received. Unable to tell whether it's in a widescreen format as well. I guess I shoud've got the French and Spanish Rosetta Stone as well. This disc is clearly from Quebec, Canada. I just hope this editione speciale works cause it's for my girlfriend who is not French or Spanish. Lesson learned...Do not buy from Optishopper, LLC even if it's fulfilled by Amazon for shipping.

What 3D-VERY VERY Disappointing I thoroughly enjoyed the movie in the theather which is why I decided to purchase this movie.  I recently purchased a 3D TV & 3D Sony BD player and thought this would be a great movie to try out my new equipment, "WRONG". I thought my TV was malfuctioning; apparently the extreme majority of the movie was shot in 2D, save your money and buy the BluRay version.  The cover jacket is more 3D than the movie.

The Unfunny Guys I just knew that I wouldn't find The Other Guys funny. But I don't know, maybe my sense of humor is just slipping, because the reviews with the most amount of helpful votes are the ones with 5 Stars.  What happened to good cop comedies like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6305252572">48 Hours</a> or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JKCB">Beverly Hills Cop</a>? Does a funny cop movie require Eddie Murphy in the lead? Can no one make a funny cop movie anymore?!? I get the fact that Will Ferrell and his Director buddy Adam McKay were going for of an intentionally over the top spoof like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000B5XOWA">Airplane!</a> with The Other Guys. But I knew Airplane! And this, sir, is no Airplane!  Airplane! was funny. Beverly Hills Cop was funny. 48 Hours was funny and realistic. The Other Guys is unfunny and unrealistic. Okay, Okay...there were some funny lines and humorous moments, but very few and far between. The Other Guys is a "there is absolutely nothing on late night cable and I feel like staying up" kind of movie. Don't buy this. Don't rent it. Watch it on cable if you must torture yourself like I tortured myself.

Undelightful Fight Scenes!! Story line and acting was decent, fight scenes were not! I watch these types of films mostly for the fight scenes, in this flick they are slow and fake looking almost to the point of being funny. I think the fight choreographer must have fallen asleep too.....

DVD The movie itself is great, however the company sent me a European DVD that can only be played in a European DVD player.  The company is in the USA and it was sent to me in NJ, USA so why send a European DVD?  There was too much paperwork to return so I just took it as a loss.

Don't bother, wait for the next version! I thought the lead woman did a terrible, wooden portrayal of Anne and was mis-cast for this part. It was the only time I really didn't want the hero to "get the girl", she wasnt' worth getting.  Her young sailor was wonderful, but there was no evident love or sensual tension between them.  It made the ending abrupt and unbelievable.  It was also filmed very darkly, literally, not figuratively.  But rather than being moody and setting period ambiance, many of the scenes were just dark - making the characters hard to see.  This was annoying.  I hope someone attempts this script again, only with a new lead woman, better lighting and with more visible tension between the leads to make their love story believable. This copy went to the Good Will.

Bootleg I received my copy of The Mechanic in no time. After ordering on Friday, I got my copy on Tuesday morning, Great! Only problem is, the copy I have is the most bootlegged piece of media you could get on Amazon. The case is very basic(it has actor name, and movie title). The DVD menu has one option-"play". I can live with these disappointments, but at about the 1 hour mark the movie jumps ahead about 30 mins to the final 10 mins of the film. Its like someone took out a few scenes(Yacht) to fit it on a DVD. I am not happy with this purchase.

Pretty much like the original... While I love Michael Flatley, I found that this DVD was almost identical to the original "Lord of the Dance".....It's entertaining, as was the original, but nothing really new....

Too Much Gore, Not Enough Originality Instead of a television signal that induces a tumor in the viewer;s brain, driving him mad and inducing all kinds of mayhem (David Cronenberg's VIDEODROME), we have here an old, once-seen movie that drove the audience mad and induced all sorts of bloodshed.  The protagonist, on the trail of the movie, encounters one unpleasant episode after the other, which, instead of building tension, turns out to be monotonous.  Although John Carpenter did good work on THE THING and IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS, this Master of Horror runs out of steam at about 10 minutes into its 58-minute run time.

They lost me at the critical moment for Langdon It all depends on if you read the book....  If you did not, this movie is pretty good. Well paced, well- explained with timely exposition, well cast and well plotted. No dangling loose ends. Highly entertaining.  ***SPOILERS***  The problems are only for the people who did read it   ****LAST CHANCE TO AVOID SPOILERS*******  Ron Howard (One of my favorite Directors) appears to have made way too many arbitrary changes that don't advance the plot. Here they are in the order that they occurred to me while watching the film.  1st, CERN does not bring in Langdon, the Vatican does.  This cuts out the entire CERN Director 11th Hour Samaritan plotline. The first brand is not actually a brand but a fax copy of the Illuminati ambigram. I can argue this either way due to time constraints but I did not like it.  2nd, Olivetti is no longer the Swiss Guard commander for reasons that make no sense at all. This makes Richter the new Swiss Guard commander with Olivetti in a support role. The film lists this as part of the jurisdiction nightmare that is Vatican City. Since Olivetti dies on schedule, this makes no sense to me. Richter could still have done his part. But without the CERN director Richter takes that role in trying to unmask the Camerlengo with a new character taking Richters place as the second person to die as an Illuminatus in the Papal office.  Since the director is no longer in the film this has to be done by someone. Might as well be Richter.  2nd a. It is made clear that the events unfolding are after the DaVinci Code not prior as it was written.  Again I am sure that this was to avoid confusion to the people who had not read the book.  3rd, Changing the professional killer from an ASSASSIN from the Middle East with Misogyny issues to a paid professional actually worked for me. Right up until this paid killer actually takes a vehicle, prepared by his employer, which is supposed to have his final payment. No way would that happen. A hired hit man has to worry about his employer as well as the authorities. Someone who did that job for a living would not just walk into that lame trap especially after all the other payments had been EFT to his Isle of Man Account. If I am not mistaken, the Isle of Man is a tax shelter that has very strict banking laws about giving account info to anyone. Cops included.  Since this guy is no longer a misogynist that takes away the entire Vittoria has been kidnapped for immoral purpose plot. This takes away Langdon's more personalized reason for wanting to find the Temple of Illumination. Okay that means we never hear about Yoga or that Landon never gets his carnal reward by having hot, wild, intense sex with a Yoga Mistress.  For personal reasons, I will say that is something not to be missed if the opportunity is available, BELIEVE ME.  Also, no fight between the Assassin and Langdon & Vittoria. I wanted to see it.  4th, Langdon saves the fourth preferiti, Cardinal Baggia. I will refer back to this because it allows a major change. One that serves no purpose that I can tell.  5th, they removed all reference to the Illuminati Diamond. They changed the sixth Brand into a set of crossed keys to indicate the Papacy. Why?  This change served no purpose.  6th, as a direct result of the 5th change, we get a condensed version of the Camarlengo's divine revelation of where the Antimatter is.  Again I believe this to be a time constraint versus Plot pacing. Could be argued either way.  7th, Langdon does not get into the helicopter with the Camarlengo.  This COMPLETELY removes the saved by possible divine intervention sub-plot. One of the things that I truly wanted to see in this film was Langdon's Fall and Survival.  This is where the filmmaker lost me. That scene is pivotal to this story.  The Camarlengo is SEEN using a parachute rather than the appearance of Divine Intervention which also negatively impacts the story, in my opinion.  8th, Instead of an audio recording of the conversation between the Director and the Camarlengo, we get video from Richter's office.  I won't quibble about this except to say I preferred the scene as it was written in the Sistine Chapel.  9th, We don't get to hear the Camarlengo defend his actions to the entire College of Cardinals. Granted we do see him try to justify himself to Richter so I guess the exposition is in there but because of the way it was done we lose the entire Pope as actual parent to the Camarlengo due to artificial Insemination of his former Nun mother sub-plot.  AS stated in the book, the use of artificial means meant that the Pope was still celibate and therefore not in violation of church law. I can only assume that this was removed to keep the peace with the Catholics since they don't seem to be very reasonable on this issue. This is just my opinion and is not meant to offend but merely clarify. Reasonable people can disagree without reducing their opponents to evil caricature.  A direct result of this revelation to the Camarlengo was his self-immolation. Instead we have a priest who is running from authorities and decides to kill himself. I prefer the book version.  10th, in a direct result of 4th change, Cardinal Baggia is elected Pope instead of the Great Elector cardinal. No reason given. No reason for this change that I can see. Totally arbitrary and without purpose.  Mr. Howard and Mr. Hanks had me until the helicopter and from then on I was extremely disappointed in how the story plays out. I am truly sorry that these changes were made and will continue to prefer the book.

HIGHLY PREDICTABLE STORY WITH A GREAT CAST The biggest appeal of CRAZY STUPID LOVE is its wonderful cast of talented actors,. What could be better than a movie with Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Marisa Tomei and Kevin Bacon? Sounds like a cast created in heaven yet this magical casting totally falls apart in a totally predictable and tedious story. We've seen this story over and over again. The marriage of a seemingly perfect middle-aged couple falls apart. Steve Carell again plays his typical nerdy, insecure but strangely loveable chracter. He's the jilted husband unsure of what went wrong. Enter sexy hunk and notorious lady man Ryan Gosling who offers to teach his older friend the ways of the world. Gosling's character is an over the top, somewhat sleazy, ladies man who spends his evenings in the bars picking up woman. It's not hard to guess who he ends up with. The story goes wrong from the beginning. It's hard to respect characters who don't respect their fellow human beings. I expected a fun and silly comedy but it was a big disappointment all the way.

Could have been funny Love the actors, but the acting (probably because of the script) was horrible!  The babysitter did the best acting job - seriously.  Some say it makes the men look like idiots, and somehow the women 'win' in the end.  Honestly, I'd have to believe someone in this movie was real before feeling offended.  There is gross out toilet humor , a couple of boobs, and what I think to be (but who knows) a fake male body part.  If you're of age, and that sounds good to you, save yourself some money and just rent it.  Obviously not for kids.

NOT HD This is a review of the disc, not the movie. I think we all know the story, Rio Bravo IS a GREAT movie, the re-mastering is AWFUL. There is nothing HD about this disc. It may have been re-mastered in 1080p, but it loks awful. I have seen this movie on Netflix thru my Roku & the dvd is no better. I have seen El Dorado on Dish (saved it on the DVR) & it looks OUTSTANDING. Really disappointed with this disc. Good thing it was only $10.49, I guess you get what you pay for.

Good but not that good it was a decent movie, part goonies, part ET but those movies are classics and this one is not.  i watched the whole thing but i am sure glad i didn't waste any money on it.

Not a western fan Clint is good, there are interesting characters but the pacing is slow, I don't like westerns, could do without some of the cussing.  If you like old shootem ups, then this might be for you.

NOT GOOD I bought and received this DVD as new...but it did not work with my PC...it only work with DVD player and the sound is really bad i barely can hear anything.

A Colossal Bore! First of all I love Meryl Streep, just not in this! The only thing I recommend in this tedious film is the beautiful African photography and a top notch score by John Barry. Otherwise, for this reviewer, it's a snooze fest.  This was made at a time in Meryl Streep's career where she only seemed to appear in films that required an accent, which she was very good at, however, in this film I feel that she over does it to the point where it becomes a major distraction, and for me at least, unappealing! There's a stiffness in her manner that is off-putting, and her romance with Robert Redford's character seems forced and unconvincing!  I've become much more of a fan of hers in recent years, mainly because she doesn't seem to feel the need to impress us with linguistics in every film, although I loved her in "Julie And Julia", which she deftly kept from being a cartoon character.  If you're a die hard fan of Streep and Redford, regardless of the material, you'll probably enjoy this anyway, but I wasn't impressed.

NOT WORTH THE VIEWING TIME, OR THE COST TO PURCHASE Much of the filming was done in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, where we own a summer home. The filming was done in the summer of 2009, and we have been anxiously waiting for the DVD to come on the market. What a disappointment! We did not even watch the entire film. Very boring!

Depends on your point of view The actors were good but there is only so many times that you can watch knowing someone on one side or the other is going to get killed.  I'm not a slasher movie fan.  My husband loved it and I stopped after the pig problem.

Why? lots of action and blood- a good story about giving Jerusalem back to the Muslums. Would not watch it again.

Region code not free I use to by opera BD and DVDs from many countries, all region code free. I do not understand why this BD is restrict to region A. Opera lovers are usually international minded people and so the consumers.

Strange Were we supposed to root for this dysfunctional family against Family Services?  Those kids are messed up for life.  The movie is visually appealing, but nothing more.

Boredom is NOT suspense Let me explain myself first.  I love horror movies.  I love atmospheric horror movies with a minimum of gore and a ton of suspense.  This is NOT one of them.  I don't need a constant body count or blood or guts to keep me entertained.  However, I need SOMETHING to happen.  It's a shame, too, because the 80s vibe, the casting and the directing were great.  But they are wasted on this weak script with absolutely NOTHING happening for a good 30 minutes.  I actually started falling asleep and that NEVER happens.  The ending is okay, and I dig the retro vibe and the obvious nods to "Black Christmas" but that film actually had something going on.  This movie has a girl snooping through a house and finding almost nothing, dancing around to bad 80s music, calling her friend 4 times and getting her machine (yes, we hear all 4 rings all 4 times) and getting gradually paranoid.  There is no method to the madness.  This is the second time I have almost been put to sleep by a Ti West film, but it will definitely be the last.  The first time was "The Innkeepers" which was another complete snoozefest that was critically applauded for some reason but had NO action at all.  Skip this.  Don't waste your time.

the previews are longer than the show Waste of money.  Seriously, the previews are longer than the show, including the 4 shorts (very short shorts) they add to the show.  I got this on sale and I still feel like I wasted my money.

doesn't bring spanish language Hi, those who wants this movie in spanish language, don't buy it, because the description said that have it, and it doesn't . My family loves the movies of Harry Potter but not everybody understand english, so they will not enjoy this movie

Some nice moments, nice scenes from back when There were a few things to like about this movie, the nerdy surveillance experts, the girls they pick up, somehow, at a surveillance convention, the tricks they play on each other as they try to figure out each other's methods, but the music was dreadful -- it was loudly overused to cue the watcher to feel apprehension or whatever emotion they wanted you to feel. Extremely annoying and loud at the end. The story itself is dull and the directing is also kind of obvious with sudden cuts to things meant to shock. It's dated in that respect. Modern movies do this much better. The main character, played well by Gene Hackman, is not that exciting and the filmmaker would have done better to accept that and let it be more low-key instead of trying to, literally, jazz it up with jazz and your basic Jaws-like theme. Very weird to try to watch a serious movie with that music! <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000OVLBGC">The Lives of Others</a> is the movie to watch instead.

Very poor representation of the Parks I have visited these parks several times over the last 40 years and was very disapointed in these dvd's. I returned them for credit.

Charlie Should Have Given Her Up For Adoption A word of caution: This review contains spoilers. I actually knew this was going to be a bad movie before seeing it. AND I knew the ending. I heard it was a worthy view anyway - scares and all. Bearing that in mind, my criticism is directed towards Dokota Fanning's annoying character. She stares ahead, talks in a monotone if she responds at all. It's not creepy; it gets old very fast. Despite whatever horrors have happened and are going on around her, she has a disrespectful attitude that is entirely her own. I couldn't believe she threw Elizabeth Shue's books on the floor when she gave them to her. There was no malevolent evil causing her to do that. She's also to blame for not preventing the injuries and deaths of two people. Cop: "What are you drawing?" "You. Dying." Why don't you tell him what's really going on or tell him to leave? Also, why does she try to explain to her dad? Shouldn't she run away during the day? The most glaring anomaly in the movie is her insistence to her father on Charlie's existence. "It was Charlie." Why doesn't she say to her dad when he's himself, "Daddy you have multiple-personality disorder. Let's get you help." Instead she yells in his face annoyingly, "CHARLIE! CHARLIE! CHARLIE!" I really would have given her up for adoption. Her character made no sense - "Charlie's doing this and that". You know what's happening! I am fine with the switch - but not her reaction to it. It is done solely to fool the audience.  Robert De Niro's acting is fine, the switch is fine. The scares are minimal. The transformation is a common one in scary movies - audiences shouldn't be annoyed. They should be annoyed at being manipulated (not sure why anyone would watch "Funny Games" - it's the epitome of what I'm talking about). They should be annoyed at poor dialogue and poor direction on the part of Dakota Fanning. She was not the movie's saving grace - she was its downfall. A saving grace would have been Charlie killing her.  Side note, as I'm male: Famke Janssen and Elizabeth Shue are extremely hot!  If you want to see psychological scary movies at their best, there is no beating my two favorites: "The Shining" and "Session 9". All scary movies have similar motifs - it's the execution that differentiates them.

Sigh.... Why can't they just simply write an edgy, classic murder mystery, where you try to figure out the murderer, along with Holmes, in which he reveals near the end, exactly who committed the crime...how much more fun and interesting that would be.  International plots and conspiracies and action are simply not as succulent, other reviewers have likened this movie to a Bond film, I agree, and its not what I'm looking for. Did anyone care about the capture of the so-called villain?  No.  Was the villain even remotely fascinating? No.  Were any of the characters?  Again, no.  I would prefer to see Holmes and Watson on holiday somewhere along with nine or ten other people in a far away location, where, coincidentally! a murder occurs which only he can solve--formulaic, sure, but, you see, it works, such a storyline can be diversified and differentiated....   Ironically, Downey plays a pretty good Holmes, if only the storyline was great he could truly shine.  I can watch the film "Evil Under the Sun" time and again, because its compelling, it possesses all of the elements necessary to exalt it, yet the Holmes sequel was dull, contrived, predictable, silly, unmysterious...a failure.  I give it two stars only for the actors, the chemistry between Law and Downey is quite fine, how sad that that's the only thing the film has to offer.

freeze up this is the third sons of anarchy season 3 that i have bought and all three of them freeze up. is this a normal problem for season 3?

ehh, scares too cheesy I usually like somewhat dark movies, but this was definitely not one of my favorites.  The movie seemed to go for screaming in your face type scares instead of trying to be a deeper psychological thriller.  It had the makings of a good movie, but the scares were too heavy handed and not thought provoking.  This reminded me of going to a carnival haunted house.  Not really my thing.

Tries hard to recapture an era, but just feels derivative **1/2  J.J. Abrams' "Super 8" hearkens back to the days of early Steven Spielberg (who co-produced the film) - a time when summer blockbusters could appeal as much to the heart as to the eye, when a group of intrepid suburban kids could unravel mysteries and take on evil forces, when the military-industrial complex was clearly up to no good, and when tear-stained characters could look in wide-eyed, tight-shot amazement at wonders unraveling above them in the heavens.  Set, appropriately, in 1979 - in a time before digital cameras and CGI technology, when children had to express their creativity and imagination with what was then the technological equivalent of chewing gum and baling wire - "Super 8" centers on a group of nerdish preteens who are attempting to make their own amateur zombie-splatter film for an upcoming contest. While filming one night, the kids are witness to a horrifying freight train crash, the repercussions of which go far beyond just the mass of mangled, twisted metal strewn across the area. For it seems the Air Force has taken a more than casual interest in the event, and soon strange and inexplicable occurrences begin happening in town.  The focal point of the story is Joe Lamb (Joel Courtney), a young boy whose mother has just been killed in a tragic factory accident, and whose grieving father (Kyle Chandler from TV's incomparable "Friday Night Lights") serves as the town's deputy. Joe also has a crush on the pretty and alluring Alice Dainard (Elle Fanning), who has been brought into the boys' film project at the last moment.  The similarities between "Super 8" and any number of Spielberg - or at least Spielbergian - films (most notably, of course, "E.T.") are both so numerous and so obvious that they really don't bear repeating here. Yet, while I admire much of what Abrams is trying to do in this movie, so much of it falls flat that I really can't recommend it in the final analysis. What's actually missing is that special Spielberg touch, that almost Quixotic visionary conviction that could turn even a simple work like "E.T." into a timeless classic. One never questions Spielberg's belief in his material, but I'm not sure one can quite make the same claim about Abrams, at least not in this particular instance. Abrams' story lacks the streamlined clarity of an "E.T." and, by extension, the emotional resonance that comes along with it. "Super 8" seems to be going off in so many different directions at once that it winds up going nowhere. And, frankly, the sci-fi aspects of the story feel awfully stale at this late stage in the game.  In addition to "E.T.," there are bits and pieces of "The Goonies," "Stand By Me," "Gremlins," and "War of the Worlds" in the film as well. And that, in the final analysis, is what's most wrong with "Super 8." It's made up of so many borrowed parts that, in the end, it's left with nothing it can truly call its own.

Iceberg Orfeo To be irresponsibly brief, let me say that doing Monteverdi's chamber opera Orfeo--performed in 1607 in a room in the ducal palace in Mantua--on the scale of the La Scala stage poses challenges to any director in terms of movement within volume. When Robert Wilson staged Puccini's Butterfly and Wagner's Parsifal, his iconic style could work against huge surging, attention-dominating orchestral forces that spilled over bar-lines and through the souls of the singers on stage. Monteverdi's score has lively dances and text-connected solos in recitar cantando--speaking in a singing voice. Wilson adapted his usual glacial movement meant to represent congealed inner feeling, but the 1607 opera is all about verbal ex-pression, not repression. (The signature 90-degree head snap from Einstein on the Beach is here, too.) The result of Wilson's familiar stylization here is, oddly enough, not "modern" or "moderne" at all, but an external, early 20th-century, monumentalizing of the work that only fills it with cold air and slow, symmetrical friezes that no amount of energy pumped in by Alessandrini can animate. Think of Emily Dickinson stretched horizontally to Whitmanesque size.   The chorus does not really dance. And don't ask about the chimp or the white rabbits.

Eddie rehashes the big momma bit Here's one for the lowest-common-denominator crowd that still has an interest in Eddie Murphy movies.  Murphy milks his nutty professor cash cow by actually playing a bovine babe.  The vulgar humor is strictly for those who get a kick out of smelling their own gas.  You may bust a gut, but your lardass date probably won't crack a smile.

Book better than movie? This might be a case in which the book is better than the movie. I hope it is.  I like good romances, and the premise of this one has potential. But I never get a sense of why Clare loves Henry. It's easy enough to understand why Henry would fall for Clare: She is beautiful, intelligent, and she loves him unconditionally, from early childhood, in fact. It's been said that Clare must learn to love what is "essential" about Henry, no matter what his age. But I couldn't get any sense of what was essential about Henry. I couldn't even figure out how he managed to work as a librarian, since he can disappear without warning at any moment. In fact, how does he manage to hide his problem from any of the people he knows and works with?  Spoilers: In order to introduce some kind of pathos into the story, Clare has a series of miscarriages. Henry's intentions are good, but he stupidly gets a vasectomy so that he and his wife no longer have to go through the anguish. He should have realized that Clare could still get pregnant from his pre-vasectomy self. The movie does not explain why Henry never sees his future daughter until after she is born. Neither does the movie explain why he only seems to go back and forth between being with Clare or being in a back alley or in the snow. Well, one time he shows up in a lion's den at the zoo, but that is the exception.  I've heard that the book doesn't get into explaining the mechanics of the time-traveling, and that is fine, but I would hope that it provides more insight into Henry, Clare, and that biggest mystery of all, Love.

You're killin' me... As a big fan of Ms. Paltrow and after seeing her on Oprah with Tracy Anderson I thought I would try her videos.  I ordered this video and the Mat workout video.  I really like the Mat workout a lot.  It's different from anything I've ever seen, and I'm already seeing results after a week.  Then this video came in the mail.  Pros:  Great music, visuals, and I like that she does the routines from the front and back so you can follow along whatever way is good for you.  Cons:  I'm almost 43 years old and don't have the strongest back.  Bouncing up and down for 45 minutes is not gonna happen, at least not right off the bat.  I think this video is good for intermediate to advanced level women who have a dance background.  Sorry Tracy, but until you create a low impact cardio dvd, I can't work out with you just yet.

Good to put you to sleep. I did not like this movie at all. That is saying alot because I try to find somrthing to like in all movies. I have tried to watch it a few time with same results. I could not stay awake. Only buy this movie if you are looking for a sleep aid.

Will I ever learn? ****This review is for the Region 2 (Carlton) release****  Every blue moon (or leap year) I give this movie another go - it's a Carry On film after all!......and after a couple of drinks to get me in the right frame of mind I sat down to watch it at a friend's house. I thought that maybe this time something would finally click, I would at last see the 'light'.......same old story I'm afraid!  Its a flat viewing experience, most of the cast appear uninterested (who can blame them). It's like watching a bird with clipped wings flapping around, trying to get off the ground, the poor thing never stood a chance. In retrospect, the cracks in the series were beginning to appear in the previous 'Carry On Behind', and the wheels finally came off in this chuckle-free zone. Its hard to believe that only 4 years seperate this offering from the cheerful warmth of 'Carry On Matron'.  The story is set in 1940, with the introduction of an experimental mixed-sex air defence base, where surprise, surprise, the recruits are more interested in a bit of hanky-panky than defending the nation. Those responsible for the threadbare script should have been horsewhipped. With the departure of regular writer Talbot Rothwell prior to 'Carry On Behind', it was pretty obvious that the new writers had no understanding of the ethos of the series, or what constituted a typical Carry On production. The usual cheerful blend of saucy double-entendres and corny but amusing gags have regrettably been replaced with juvenile smut and inappropriate nudity.  Some may bemoan the absence of so many Carry On regulars, but even the great Kenneth Williams would have struggled to salvage anything from this lamentable affair. Despite this, a decent roll call of performers (who deserved better) were signed up to appear, which begs the question: why did the cast allow such a dubious entry into their C.V.'s?. The characters are shallow and uninteresting, the mostly feeble dialogue is often delivered in a raucous manner, while the misfiring gags are mostly blanks. As for the cast, only Windsor Davies emerges relatively unscathed, thanks to an energetic performance (straight out of 'It Aint Half Hot Mum'). Kenneth Connor battles bravely but has little opportunity to shine, the legendary Joan Sims is barely allowed a look in. Patrick Mower and Judy Geeson are miscast like the proverbial fish out of water, and one-trick pony Jack Douglas treats us to another round of his irritating blink/twitch gymnastics (yawn).  'Funniest' moments of the movie?...... the 'ball-squeezer' gag, and the scene in which Kenneth Connor swallows a uniform button propelled at high velocity by Diane Langton's expanding bosom - says it all really doesn't it! When recalling the Carry On's at their best, I find it rather sad to see a great British institution sinking to such a regrettable low.......That's it, I'm finished, I will never EVER watch this dismal 'comedy' again. Up next we have 'Carry On Emmanuelle', surely things can't get any worse..........can they?  This Region 2 (Carlton) release includes the director's cut, with a commentary by Patrick Mower. Picture and sound quality are OK, which when considering some of the classic movies still awaiting a decent release, this limp affair should feel flattered.

Dumber and dumber.. Wow, this series has really gone downhill.  I suppose there are very few 'facts' left that haven't already been covered & now they're just milking it.  Jaws of steel consists mostly of shark attack re-enactments or worse - 'mockumentaries' which are so obviously scripted and artificial that they are painful to watch.  Everyone involved seems to be so doped up on energy drinks that they can barely contain themselves, I guess the producers figured if they could convice the viewers that what they were watching was like.. OMG THE MOST TOTALLY AWESOME INSANE MIND BLOWING THING EVER!!! that we wouldn't realize that we were getting very little in the way of actual information.  Another thing that annoys me is when they show the divers underwater speaking via their underwater communication equipment - it's obviously overdubbed and the divers are gesticulating wildly like some kind of rabid morphin power ranger.  It's just humorous to see and drives home the fact that this series is being marketed to the younger, caffiene addicted & attention deficient x-treme generation.  The awe and majesty of nature and discovery is gone.  The only item I really found of interest in this set was one of the bonus features "Sharks Under Glass" which detailed challenges faced by keeping sharks in aquariums.  The first Shark Week - even though it wasn't perfect (Anatomy of a shark bite?) was still a hell of a lot more entertaining and educational than this dreck.

illogical Wasn't impressed with the movie.  The reasons the wetlands are disappearing, we're told, is lack of new soil being deposited due to levies, and the canals which bring in salt water from the ocean.  The rest of the film we're subjected to watching the cajun musician and the fiddler zipping up and down the canals in their speedboats.  Then, once Katrina devastates New Orleans, the film makes a point of noting that the broken levy, which caused flooding, had thankfully been repaired.  For most of the film I was wondering, okay, so how do we save the wetlands?  The answer, revealed at the end, is more man-made engineering.  Okay.  I give it two stars because the music overall was fun to listen to.

Ham on wry Whatever satirical value Richler's book offered is lost in this schmaltzy film translation that plays like it was made for TV.  Giamatti hams it up like his goal is an Oscar, so reviews praising his work are puzzling; sloppy casting continues with some heavyhanded female characters.  Pike is particularly unsuitable as his bourgeoise soul mate.  There is also a bit of Hoffman nepotism that is risable to say the least.  Sadly, the stupidity of the protagonists marital progress undermines any rewarding wit or cynicism inherent in the subject matter.  It is a minor effort by all, especially Giamatti, who is more of an orangutan here than he was in Burton's PLANET OF THE APES.

Melodrama spoiles an interesting show Spectacular footage and interesting information. However, it is almost ruined by the melodramatic, fatalistic narration. Depicting the earth as something with "weapons and bombs" loaded and ready (volcanoes) marching us all to our demise. Perhaps the creators felt that earth on its own is not exciting enough so they needed to add Hollywood drama but for us, it caused us to turn the program off after a while.

The description on Amazon.com is WRONG The movie is great -- that's not why I gave this only 2 stars. The problem is that the special features listed on Amazon.com's description includes a director's commentary.  However, THERE IS NO DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY.  That may not mean much to many people, but for me, I honestly wouldn't have bought it had I known this mis-information to begin with. I had already seen the movie; one of the main reasons I decided to buy the DVD was for the director's commentary. I was quite disappointed once I received the DVD to realize the commentary was not included on this edition. Of course, I had already unwrapped it by the time I realized there was no commentary, so now it's too late to return it to Amazon.com  Amazon, I have bought so many things from you in the past.... I use -- or USED -- this company for 99% of my purchasing of books, DVDs, electronics, toys, just about everything besides food and clothes.  No longer, Amazon.  I'm switching to eBay from now on.  Sorry that you are losing my business over a $15 item, but that's how frustrated I am over this.  Bye-bye!!!!!!

just a warning I thought this was gonna be about the alien more then anything else. The alien actually took a back seat for most of the movie, while the rest of the movie goes into character development mode a little to indepth of that as far as I'm concerned. When a little alien action finally comes to play it seems a case of a to little to late to save the movie. It also didn't help that the story revolves mostly aroung young teens. I wanted a frigging alien movie not Monster Squad (which I would say is better then this). Renter at best, had I known what it was going to be like I'd never even bother renting it. (oh that's right I went ahead and saw it at the movies).

Short and sweet I did not enjoy this movie.  I thought it was overlong and unnecessarily deep compared to what it needed to be.  Not only that, but Eric Bana was pathetic.  I did not think Incredible Hulk with Edward Norton was fantastic by any means, but I did think it was much better than this.

ugh, i hate these movies. I was curious to see what this movie would be like because Tom Cruise was in it, and I love Tom Cruise films, but this is kind of like a mixture of glee and american idol. The two shows i hate the most out of any show... i payed 19 bucks for it on Vudu, wish I could take the money back....

Almost as bad as JJ Abrams' Star Trek Star Trek: II The Wrath Of Khan is easily the most over-rated of all the Trek movies.  Ricardo Montalban replaces the frightening believability of his Khan in the Space Seed TV episode, all restrained intellectual and physical energy, with hammy, scenery chewing bravado.  Instead of the majestic and ambitious 2001-esque Star Trek: The Motion Picture, with it's so Roddenberry-esque tale of different life forms communicating, understanding and actually combining, we have big spaceships firing laser weapons at each other and plenty of boring running, jumping and falling down - if TMP had the ambition to take Kubrick as it's model, WOK settled for the considerably inferior Lucas.  Even the - admittedly VERY moving - Spock death scene means absolutely nothing, because he's back in the next one.  If you prefer George Lucas to Stanley Kubrick, you'll love it.  Mind you, compared to the horror that was JJ Abrams' movie, it's a masterpiece.  But then again, so are most movies.

unwatchable nothing on the packaging that says its REGION 2, and since I don't have an all region player no good to me. However in the description of it, it does mention it, but it should have been in bolder print

Less than expected Good for rainy day when both of your legs are broken and you can't reach the sleeping pills. Well acted, beautifully photographed. Story line barely believable. In this movie's society, for people to know the horror of their fate and not act upon it stretches reason to the breaking point. Had this been placed in a Sci Fi setting, or a Nazi prison camp, it might have been a riveting drama. As it was, the only riveting moment in the entire film was when the headmistress comments on why the children submit their drawings for review. You keep asking yourself, "Why would anyone put up with this"? All of the actors deserve a better story line.

Lame For a movie set in the early 18th century, everything looks clean, new and more technologically advanced than it really was.  All of the matrix-like slow motion and dull dialogue really made this a mediocre movie.  After watching this movie, I am convinced that Milla Jovovich can do no better of an acting job than that what was already done in her the Resident Evil movies.

Boring inside Hollywood comedy Normally, I like Henry Jaglom's brand of films. But this one is so incestuous about what it's like to be desperate in Hollywood that I tuned out for most. The two gay movie producers are somewhat comedic, but the rest, especially the lead actress, are very tiresome. She cries at everything, mostly her own desperation. It's really not that funny. Watch at your own peril.

Liza as Mama.....sort of..... It's Liza Minnelli's show.  DeNiro seems to be an afterthought.  They just don't click.  And he's sooooo effing rude and boorish throughout.  We tend to forget him as who should be rude and boorish to Liza Minnelli?  Robert DeNiro is.  That's who.  My main complaint of the film is the startling attempt to make Liza Minnelli look so much like Judy Garland.  Even the snow scene conjures up "St. Louis"-esque visions.  Liza dresses as Judy in "For Me And My Gal", "Meet Me In St. Louis", "The Clock", et cetera.  Granted, this is a 40's style musical and a 40's style wardrobe should be the order of the day.  But how much is too much?  This is too much.  Even her "Happy Endings" number is all too reminiscent of "Born In A Trunk".  In fact, the whole film reeks of "A Star Is Born", but without the elan.  And elan is so sorely what is needed here.  Thankfully, the score is wonderful, and if you listen to the soundtrack without seeing the film, you'll know this.  (Later on, in her concerts, she would take the intro to "But The World Goes 'Round" in a decidely awful direction).  But here, looking like Garland in a recording studio, she nails it.  It's her best rendition of the song.  Ever.  The title tune is performed in a nightclub owned by DeNiro but it may as well be "Judy At Carnegie Hall".  The effect is stunning and uncomfortable.  You almost long for Mama.  Sidney Guillaroff, the hairdresser who did Garland's hair at MGM, supposedly did Liza's for this film as well.  And supposedly Liza had her mother's old dressing room.  So, while it isn't Liza's version of "Mama", it is still eerie nevertheless.  Stick with the soundtrack.

A truly ordinary film... Great cast but the movie is just a drag. A tad bit clich&eacute;d and just plain boring at times. I love independent movies but "An Ordinary Family" was rather disappointing.

Poor Quality dvd The movie was very good. A good story about two brothers coming up in 1930s Germany, and through 1945. However, the quality of the dvd was not good. To me it looked something that was copied off a VHS, (by an amateur) onto a dvd. The movie quality was not professionally restored. I have a top of the line Plasma TV, and I could not improve the picture with my remote by changing picture modes, size, contrast, etc. If this was a quality dvd restoration, it would be excellent.------Don Sawyer, Rochester, NY

FAILS AT WHAT IT IS TRYING TO BE If this movie had been a buddy bonding movie I would have given it three stars.  This movie tries to be a buddy-nerd bonding movie and it fails in that sub-genre.  To be a movie about nerds or geeks the characters have to have dialogue that is ecclectic and esoteric.  The characters have to say things that other geeks and nerds would understand and find interesting but that most people wouldn't.  In this movie there are no references to STOS, STNG, STV, Star Wars, Soylent Green, Planet of the apes, Thunderbirds, Dark Shadows, Night Stalker, et al.  There is one running gag about a fictional writer.  There is also a long diatribe agianst Christianity(although oddly nothing about Islam.)  For a movie about UFO's I wonder why they didn't have Art Bell do a cameo.  The protaganists in this movie might be geeks but we don't know because they never talk about anything that would be vaguely interesting to another geek.  They never mentioned D&D.

Seriously!!! This movie could have had less violence. Pixar has jumped the shark on this film.  It was almost as if we had a completely different company create this movie.  As a parent of a 2 & 4 year old, I was really excited for the sequel but this was over the top with guns and violence.  As a adult I grew tired of the reused spy movie scenes.  The original left off with so much potential for a follow-up in the USA.  Say like the gang visiting family in NY, Sally and Lightning having a baby car who turns out to be a go-carting protege,... ok you get it.  Lastly, I don't see the same discovery my family has had with the original's attention to detail.  Seems like everytime we watch Cars we pick up a new detail in the background which is ingeniously place.  Still love the mountains made to look like old 30's sedands!  Basic ratings:  Pros: * Animation * New characters, John Turturro was great addition * Held my 4 year old son's attention (albeit, lots of questions about the guns which was a really disappointing)  Cons: * Tired Spy plot * Wasted the usage of Michael Caine * Violence * Guns, Guns and more Guns * Too much Mater

Did We See The Same Movie Five of us, of various ages, watched this move together.  We all had five thumbs down.  After reading some of the glowing rewiews here on Amazon, I do wonder if they mean anything or are written by the production marketing detartment.  This movie was quite lame; poorly written and the acting was uneven.  We gave up counting the gaps in the plot, such as it was.  Here we have a massive train wreck; yet the colonel walks right up and picks up the film wrapper. I could go on, but why . . .

just ok did not enjoy this dvd. i have his "am yoga" dvd and enjoy that so much better. this one is just "blah" and some of the poses don't seem to flow. this dvd, like his flexibility, cd is too rushed.

A well-made movie with a repugnant message. The two stars are strictly for the good production and acting in the film.  The lack of three others stars is to signify how much I dislike the plot and its execution.  First, I should say that the movie seems to lend itself to a variety of interpretations, much like the Bible itself.  I don't know if this is intentional, but it's an odd feeling to watch a movie where the central idea seems to morph back and forth as the movie progresses.  I suppose it could be a mark of the writer's brilliance to juggle contradictory ideas so well, but personally I found it distracting and unpleasant. There were several ideas at play, and here are the ones most obvious:  - The United States was devestated by a religion-fueld catastrophe of some sort; therefore, religion is dangerous.  - Now that religious books are almost nonexistent, along with their attendant moralities, the United States is lawless and ammoral. There is no source of morality outside of these books.  - Religious books are only dangerous in the wrong hands; otherwise, they are filled with the spiritual necessities of healthy societies.  - People who would pervert the power of religious books are blind to the truths inside of them.  - Only men of strong faith are able to rise above their baser desires, possess true courage, and have a deeper meaning to their life beyond mere existence.  - Men of strong faith who listen to their voices are beyond reproach; they have no burden of evidence and their path is true for them because it reflects their inner guidance.  - The defense of religion can sometimes supercede its perceived tenants of love and compassion.  - The rebuilding of a civilized society can only begin with the widespread availability of the Bible.  I could probably think of a few other themes, but while watching The Book of Eli I had a hard time figuring out the main theme, but by the end of the movie, it seems clear to me that the movie was primarily promoting The Bible as the lone source of morality in the world, and that strong faith is necessary to sustain a person's happiness, virtue, and purpose.  Gardy Oldman's character, the one who sought to use the Bible as a weapon and a controller over the masses, is portrayed as completely villainous and obsessive.  It seems to indicate that people like him are not pruduced by some of the Bible's more unsavory messages (slavery is permissable, women are to be subservient to men, etc.), but arise indpendently and in spite of the Bible's preferred messages, such as the Hollywood-friendly variety that deal with love and peace.  The most troublesome aspect of the movie is that it idicates that the Bible's real meaning has nothing to do with all the wars and terrors that it has seemingly inspired in so many individuals and groups. It pretends that the Bible is a tome of love and peace, yet it ignores-- once again-- its condonement of slavery, its inferior treatment of women, its suggestions of severe child punishment, its Old Testament genocides commanded by God himself, its vacuous collection of commandments (not just the main ten) that mostly have nothing to do with real morality, and so on.  I could continue to ramble on for some length, but I will just summarize briefly my sentiments about the movie.  It is basically a boring, well-produced movie with brief spurts of bloody violence, whose message would most appeal to fundamentalist Christians who fancy their own R-rated Tim LeHaye-type story to prove to secular friends that they're not entirely "uncool", and that a Biblical world view is regaining significance even in the largely secular and liberal atmosphere of Hollywood.  And to top it off, after all this pandering to the fundamentalist, at the end of the movie there is a shot of The Bible being set right beside the Quran on a book shelf.  I wonder how many Christians who tote this movie as their new cinematic honor badge have noticed that neat little extreme liberal stroke right at the end.  p.s. since multiple interpretations of this movie are inevitable, I understand that some may not agree with my view of the movie's meaning.  But, as I said, I personally sensed most strongly the message dealt with above.

A well-produced show....featuring unlikable characters & repellent situations! AVOID!!! Boris Karloff's THRILLER is without a doubt a very well-produced show with top quality scripts, fantastic acting, impeccable direction and stellar production values--yet I HATED IT!  I watched every episode in this set and found it impossible to care for ANY of the repellent characters who inhabited every episode.  THRILLER is no where near as good as ANY incarnation of THE TWILIGHT ZONE or THE OUTER LIMITS.  I sold my copy of THRILLER after I was done watching it--I will never watch this thoroughly unpleasant TV series again!

Maybe Not Quite Rage...Maybe Barely Even Anger Imagine a chase scene in Italy with boxy little 1970's vintage European cars.  The chase scenes are sort of like Steve McQueen's "Bullitt," only without Steve McQueen or muscle cars or the class.  Imagine a hit man whose one unique feature is that he periodically sees psychedelic images because he is incredibly angry that his brother was murdered.  Of course, his face mirrors his anger, much the same way Spock showed emotion in "Star Trek."  Imagine a prot&eacute;g&eacute; who seems to want to be a hit man, but without the class of Jan Michael Vincent as Steve McKenna in "The Mechanic."  Once you recognize that this highly derivative movie slaps together the elements of multiple, better movies, and brings nothing new to the genre, you pretty much have the essence of this movie.  This movie begins with a lot of promise.  After all, we have the late, great Yul Brynner as hit man Peter Marciani.  Brynner had finished a string of movies that had audiences begging for more, especially "Westworld" and "Future World."  Brynner has great motivation for being angry, or in a rage.  A mobster murdered Brynner's brother and of course, Brynner wants to kill the men behind the murder.  The movie immediately gets complex as Brynner falls for beautiful and naked Barbara Bouchet (if ever there was a reason to watch this movie).  Then there is the aforementioned supposed prot&eacute;g&eacute;.  Add to this stew the local gendarme seeking to find Brynner guilty of some kind of wrongdoing so he can arrest Brynner.  My head started to spin with the sub-plots.  Then there were the periodic red-flashing scenes that indicated Brynner's "rage," because Brynner apparently was unable to demonstrate rage with his face.  Then the scenes that were supposed to be exciting, like the chase scenes, were funny after having seen movies like "Bullitt" and "The French Connection" and many other, better movies.  The problem with this movie is that it never gains traction.  There are brief moments where you think the movie is about to redeem itself, and then it loses all the ground it gained.  Most of the movie is boring and there is little that Brynner or Bouchet can do to save it.  Side notes:  The sound quality was okay with modest issues.  The picture quality is poor on an HDTV.  Both the sound and picture would benefit from being remastered.  If you are a huge fan of Brynner or Bouchet, then this movie is worth a watch.  If you are collecting all the movies about hired killers ever made, then this one should be on your list.  If you have wanted to see a cheesy chase scene in Italy to compare with the well-made chase scenes you have already seen, then you should probably get this movie.  If you are looking for a great movie about a hit man getting revenge for the murder of his brother, this movie is not it.  Good luck!

Amateur Hour I didn't make it very far into this movie. This is a true B movie - paper thin characters, marginal acting & a ridiculous plot. If you can watch it for free via amazon prime it might be worth it, but I certainly wouldn't pay to watch.

Settle down John Woo What ever happened to allowing an actor to build his/her character within a scene ? The world's microscopic attention span has affected director's and editor's to an alarmingly annoying level. I got dizzy in the first five minutes, Vertigo in the second five minutes, and was vomiting blood by the ending credits.  At least the chicks are hot.  Hugs, Kenny

Bad on so many levels After seeing the trailers, I thought Snow White and the Huntsman would be an interesting film. Boy was I disappointed. I am actually quite shocked there are so many good reviews of this film. This may mean this review gets "unhelpful" by many of the committed. Worth the risk.  First, the script is so bad you can't suspend belief and enter the world of the film. This is necessary to get any sort of attachment to any of the characters. It is so bad that Hemsworth's shining moment sparks, at best, a small emotional thought. With a better script, there wouldn't be a dry eye in the theater. Multiple characters die and it is like watching coworkers eat. Boring. The characters has less depth than the average cartoon character. And there is no real sense of peril for any of the characters at any time in the movie. Ho hum! At best I can call this an interesting twist on the Snow White story that falls flat.  Second, I find it really hard to read reviews that have positive things to say about the acting. Christine Stewart is so bad, I found myself wishing she was a mime in her scenes. Charlize Theron, who has been given kudos for the role, is only good if you regard someone who can scream convincingly a good actor/actress. Hemsworth is more eye candy for the ladies in the film, but does win for the best acting in the film. Unfortunately, his moments are short in the script, so you don't get to see much of his acting. The rest of the characters are pretty much throw away.  Third, the cinematography and editing are nauseating. Not only figuratively speaking, at times the use of camera trickery and fast cuts (to enhance the action?) almost make you want to vomit. Parts of the battle and chase scenes are shot using a badly implemented "Saving Private Ryan" camera trick that simply makes your eyes boggle. Private Ryan used the narrow slit trick to give the feeling you were watching something that felt unreal, while this film uses it in a way that makes you want to shut your eyes to stop the madness.  With so much bad, I guess the fault falls on the director, Rupert Sanders. I hope his craft matures, as this film is awful.  The worst thing about this film is it had so much potential. The idea of taking the Snow White story and twisting it with a queen who possessed so great a chip on her shoulders is quite fascinating. Handled by better scriptwriters, it would have been magnificent. Directed by someone who understood a bit more about subtlety, it would have possessed far more intrigue. This is extremely important when you already know the story. And the battle scenes could have done without the badly implemented "Private Ryan" type of "unreality". In fact, being a bit more subtle in camera work and proper "painting of the film canvas" would have made the ride far more enjoyable.  Are there any shining moments? Certainly. It is interesting to see Ian McShane and Bob Hoskins as dwarfs. The CGI to accomplish this is far better than the hobbits in Lord of the Rings. And there are some nice battle scenes (when the camera trickery is not overused). The costuming is wonderful and the lighting is done very well. If the script held up the story better, you could appreciate the world more.

One big cliche How could this movie go so wrong?  It has a nice cast, headed by Jack Black, who can carry a movie with humor and charm under certain circumstances. It is sumptuously photographed with wonderful special effects and rich colors.  It also has a miserably cliched story further dragged down by obviously intentionally wooden acting. For some reason the "creative forces" behind the movie thought that the wooden acting was some sort of comedic tour de force. The truth is that it is just wooden acting.  Jack Black is charming and funny when he's not TRYING to be charming and funny. Here he is trying very hard to be charming and funny, with predictably miserable results.  There are a few bits here and there which could have been really funny. Intellectually I could see the potential humor. However, they are completely mismanaged and dry as presented in this film. It is all a very sad waste.

Cheap Imitation This third implementation of the great classic does have its moments but overall, it is no match to the 70s classic with Donald Sutherland. Perhaps worth a view but not a purchase.

horror story I hate the ending of this movie so much I cannot overstate how much I hate the ending of this movie. The resolution of the story makes me feel like killing myself. Jesus, why? Why would you tell this story? And I like a lot of dark stories like Melancholia, a movie that made me feel bad but then afterwards really good. Cathartic release and beautiful images haunt the mind after a piece of art like that is experienced. But this "The Hunter" movie.. no. I wish he'd put the gun is his mouth and pulled the trigger. So, 2 stars for the acting, location and I don't know, I'm felling generous. Oh and the premise of the story is patiently absurd to begin with. The tiger can be used to make an awesome drug. Whatever. Overrated film.

Macho Clint This early film of Eastwood's is so bad that it's funny.  You'll roar at the cop and Indian stereotypes, the nude babes, Clint's fistfight with six guys, the duelling motorcycles, the bullets in the windshield, Clint in the bathtub, the villain who, no matter how hard he runs, returns to the hero's grasp.  And all that glaring, flinty swagger.  It's an unintentional parody of every macho film a 15-year-old male could possibly desire.  Don't miss it.

horrible packaging, poor disk quality The Wire series was excellent.  The disk quality was average/poor at best.  But the packaging was a joke.  Had to place all dvds in my own holders as the so called box fell apart.

Exhausting gab-fest Tom (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) arrives home all eager to celebrate Valentine's Day with his girlfriend Sara.  He even plans on asking Sara to marry him and has gathered four of his closest buddies to witness the occasion.  Much to his dismay, however, he discovers upon entering the house that Sara has packed her bags and left him a Dear John letter, effectively putting an end to Tom's vision of eternal marital bliss.  Further complicating the issue is the fact that one of Tom's friends, mistakenly believing he's going to a party, has invited a bunch of hot young ladies from his bar to join in the festivities.  You could be forgiven for assuming that "What Love Is" began life as a theatrical work, since writer/director Mars Callahan has filmed it in the form usually reserved for stage-to-screen adaptations.  It all takes place on a single set, with the characters declaiming at one another in that histrionic way that stage actors alone are wont to do.  The result is an inert, talky, claustrophobic work riddled with heightened dialogue, pseudo-profundities, long-winded speechifying and manic performances.  Each character is given his moment in the spotlight - whereupon he proceeds to air his grievances concerning women, gays, straights and each other - then hands the microphone off to the next person, who pretty much does the same.  Then we get the distaff view of things, as the ladies who arrive for the party barricade themselves in the restroom to discuss at exhausting length the outrageousness and inadequacies of men.  Finally, it all comes down to the mixing of the sexes as the party moves into high gear and the characters engage in verbal jousting about the problems and pitfalls of romantic relationships.  The movie indulges in any number of requisite stereotypes, ranging from the loudmouthed, homophobic misogynist to the lisping, swishing homosexual (played by Callahan himself) and just about everything in between.  In the final analysis, a game cast - which includes Matthew Lillard, Sean Astin and Anne Heche, among others - is let down by inferior filmmaking and material.

Laughable I started out liking this movie as I thought it promising.  Wow, was I ever wrong!  The only positive is some of the scenery as he "swims" the Hudson.  I almost laughed out loud a couple of times.  The dialog was very poor and contrived.  At times, preachy.  The acting, horrendous.  The characters, after the first half hour, were very annoying.  I marveled at how the producer would think that it looked even remotely like he was really swimming.  I kept wondering, who swims like that?  Mary Tyler Moore was painfully bad and hard to watch.  It was funny to see her "drive" as she didn't even have her eyes on the road and it was an obvious fake car ride.  And when did he swim against the current?  Honestly, I was happy to see him make the decision he did.  Too bad it wasn't an hour sooner.

Not great Not a very good movie. Predictable & lame plot. We had to force ourselves to continue watching. Acting was not very good and was not believable.

Unglorious bastard "Morning Glory" seems like a despicable film.  It's the brainchild of seasoned rom-com pro Aline Brosh McKenna, who was also responsible for writing "Laws of Attraction," with Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore, "The Devil Wears Prada," with Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway, and "27 Dresses," with Katherine Heigl.  McKenna knows what makes today's Hollywood rom-coms, but more importantly, she knows what gets today's rom-coms made.  "Morning Glory" is a well-constructed script: it follows the tried-and-old formula of the modern rom-com, while also leaving the possibility of snagging big talent (and thus a bigger audience)--in this case, Diane Keaton and Harrison Ford.  Rachel McAdams stars as a 28-year-old working for a New Jersey morning show, who's dreamed of getting into big-time broadcast journalism since she was 8.  She gets fired from her Jersey morning show and receives a brutally cold lecture from her mother, but she immediately begins a desperate search for a new job.  She gets one, by impressing a big-wig exec played by Jeff Goldblum: she's the new executive-producer on the cruddy morning show Daylight.  There's no need to waste time explaining what happens from there, or the challenges she faces.  One can see it coming.  What I didn't see coming was McKenna's wrong-mindedness.  Harrison Ford plays a Walter-Cronkite-quality news anchor who gets fired and winds up contractually bound to Daylight.  He insists on covering real news stories, things of national or international importance.  He's supposed to seem an "a--hole" for doing so, for not providing the trivial, superficial entertainment Daylight viewers expect.  McAdams informs him that the battle between entertainment and news is over: "Entertainment won."  Are we supposed to laugh at the declaration?  How can any intelligent person see Ford's ideas as being that of an old fuddy-duddy, as McKenna does?  McAdams' character's achievement is raising the ratings for Daylight and turning it into a show about which people care.  She does so by transforming the show into an entertainment hour, in which the weather forecaster is forced to endure a new rollercoaster or skydiving and Diane Keaton's character has to sumo wrestle and kiss a frog.  She's raised the ratings, which makes her some kind of success, and that's nice because Rachel McAdams is a likable actor--but she's done so by shirking journalistic duty for sensational, goofy entertainment.  Why would we applaud this?  McKenna's script just gets more simple-minded from there.  Characters have sudden, inexplicable changes of heart, for the sake of convenient plotting.  She spends an hour showing us how stubborn and obnoxious Ford's character can be, then gives him an apparently complete turnaround in 15 minutes.  We get a nice shot of McAdams' character's mother, the insensitive, cruel one, proudly hanging a news clipping about McAdams' success.  Why do we care?  Does this really make us happy?  She isn't proud of McAdams: she's proud of McAdams' success.  Why is McAdams' character attracted to Patrick Wilson's lazy upper-level magazine series journalist?  McKenna tells us it's because he puts up with her, but aren't there tens of thousands of men in the world who would be willing to put up with McAdams' character, let alone McAdams herself?  Isn't it possible someone might not just tolerate the character, but love her for her drive or her eccentricities--you know, the human stuff?  Not in McKenna's manufactured world, which fortunately has little to do with life as I know it.  Rom-coms are usually devoid of characters or storylines with human quality, since the genre itself relies on superficial targets to elicit its audience's pleasure.  But they can still be lively ("Bridget Jones's Diary"), or clever (anything by Judd Apatow), or even meaningful ("Definitely, Maybe").  "Morning Glory" is none of the above.  It's as familiar as the formula of "Sesame Street," without such good intentions.  It seems as though one owns the piano score on a dozen different soundtrack CDs.  There is one redeeming feature of "Morning Glory" (although there should be two: Diane Keaton is surprisingly misused): Harrison Ford, whose performance is unfathomably fun, funny, and emotional considering the shallowness of the material.  Hollywood is really enjoying itself, milking Mr. Ford for his Grumpy Old Man quality, but in this movie, his sulking curmudgeonly performance makes all the difference in the world--the world being the thing about which "Morning Glory" doesn't know a thing, nor care.

Wow. Boring. I found this film predictable, tedious and not very smart. I don't watch a lot of romcoms, but gave this one a go since Jennifer Anniston is in it. Her last five movies received very poor ratings and this one was touted as one of the better ones. I gave it a shot and just didn't enjoy it and that sums up why I refuse to watch romcoms; most of them suck. The one romcom I can recommend is 500 Days of Summmer - that's a good one.

i'm sorry to disagree, but it's not that good. look, i know a lot of people really like this movie, i honestly, think it's junk.  while the dvd is nicely done and the extras provide the only valuable insight into true history, the actual film drags down the quality to revisionist (outright fiction, more accurately) storytelling at best.  and where the story is concerned, i'm sorry, but it just isn't approaching convincing these days.  while this may have passed as entertainment for the same bicept-and-blood-addicted audience of the 80's that thrilled to the antics of tom cruise in topgun, anyone hopeful of catching a glimpse into one of the most inspiring times in all of human history would be better served spending three hours reading about the nasa space program on wikipedia.  the wonder of uncovering the exploration of space doesn't require the imagination of film makers who seemed to be more inspired here by NASCAR than NASA, it only requires the telling of the true story of these magnificiant times and the willingness to go a little outside of this hollywood refuse.  even the technical consultant on this film addmited he knew nothing about space or nasa let alone the intimate details of the mercury 7 or the events this film pretends to reveal.  please, if you must venture into space via hollywood, watch Apollo 13, or From the Earth to the Moon.  while not completely historically accurate, at least they were technically assisted by people who actually knew something of the subject.  my experience?  i've been interested in space exploration and aviation from my earliest days and have spent a decade and a half working in the field.  believe me, the real story is far more fascinating and rewarding that this trite.  do yourself a favor and be inspired by the real men and women and leave this garbage for the pop culture rabble who know more about snookie than science.  by the way, if i hear one more person flipantly use the phrase "pushing the envelope", i think i'm going to hurl.  if you're going to grab a catchphrase from your technical advisor, at least take the time to ask if you're using it properly.  JEEZ!

Too Unnerving To Watch Again This movie was too much to watch. My understanding is that this movie is based on a book and the book is based on true events. There is much lost in facts in all of these versions. I guess artistic license plays an important part. Two orphaned siblings (young girls) move in with a family headed by a mother and her sons.This mother... and I mean "mother" (you know the word mother that I'm talking about) is frightening. The horrific events that take place in this household, all condoned, instigated and carried out by this mother are incredulous. Without disclosing too  much of the plot, the oldest child is subjected to unbelievable torture (the younger child is also a victim) by the mother, her sons and (can you believe it) some neighborhood kids. It is all so horrific because most of this really happened and it preys on the mind, these thought of how could this happen with so many participating. The performance by Blanche Baker is sometimes a bit over the top, simply because her actions are so incredulous. The performance of the older sibling, played by Blythe Auffarth, is effective but at times her vulnerability and humanity was not easy to watch. After viewing this film, you may question what we as human beings will do to one another and more importantly what we will do when we know that terrible things are happening to our fellow humankind. Simply put,this is a one time viewing film. If it weren't mostly true, I would have hoped that it was made up, but it is true (mostly).

Not that good With a good cast and a big budget with a great locale, this one should have been a lot better. The music is good and the action scenes are well done but that's about it. The plot is okay but the dialogue is just horrible. Most of the characters seem content in just looking good and style is definitely emphasized over any substance. How does a vice cop afford a designer wardrobe anyway? And why do they cast a Chinese woman as a Cuban? Yes she is atractive but she also looks Chinese. Other than water, the Miami locale is mostly wasted. They do have land there also but they seem to miss that. Too much of this movie looks like they are posing for still shots. I'd only give it 1.5 stars.

The God of Phfffffft It's hard to believe I watched the same movie everyone else did. The great mead swilling Norse God, warrior born and bred for what could have been a great movie had the grit been piled on by the ton. Instead what we get a film part X-Men (the opening fight was more danger room than anything else with characters acting more like inexperienced 20 somethings rather than gods) and part Love Story. Throw in the girl power performance of Portman, the near instant transformation of a God of War suddenly in touch with his soft and gooey side and enough over the top 'oooh shiny' and you've been delivered the latest in bland crowd pleasing hollywood bile.  Seriously it was like watching Superman Returns all over again. This film was just another case of Follow the Money Makers. Romance, a shallow plot and a green screen. Here's to hoping Captain America doesn't (completely) follow in this piece of garbage's footsteps...

Not an action movie. It is a high school love story with a guy who has power to use gravity to fight. I am not great movie at all. Lets just say this is a horrible high school drama crap movie with a 30 min action scene. Not the greatest movie to spend 3.99 on. I just did not enjoy this movie. I have to say that the special effects look nice other than that its not that great. Its a waste of time even to read or write a review for this movie. I am writing this review for the people out there. This movie is like a huge mix of Twilight and any super hero movies which did not come out that great. The squeal might be better than this since the book seemed a lot more interesting than the movie.

They Didn't Keep to the Story Enough I have read, and taught, the Raymond Carver short story several times. Everytime I read the story, I get the easy, and I think obvious, inference that the protagonist's wife has simply up-and-left, and the story does in fact explicitly state that it was the protagonist himself who has decided to bring all his stuff out onto the front yard. I believe this is a CRUCIAL element to the story that has to be there in order for the story to work. Why they didn't construct the movie this way is beyond me, because it undermines the title of the movie, at least for the first four-fifths of the movie when Ferrell's character is loathe to get rid of anything. If the moviemakers changed this crucial detail for the sake of prolonging the story (which was an admittedly extremely short story, as are nearly all of Carver's stories), then it was a ploy that didn't really work, in my opinion. Whereas in the story, the protagonist had obviously had life destroy all of his hopes and dreams, he was able nevertheless to become a master over it all in a way, by moving his stuff out onto the front yard, by himself, for a huge "everything must go" sale, and also to recreate outside what he had had inside, for some sort of nostalgic self-punishment; and he just sort of resigned to it all--he drank of course, but he did not ever become visibly upset. Never. And that, I think, is key. In this film, you see Ferrell being visibly upset for far too long. The film makers needed perhaps to have studied the deadpan reactions of old Buster Keaton films to learn how effective and funny this sort of character can be. This, I think, is the sort of character which seems to always show up in Carver's stories, not the character we see here from Ferrell. Ferrell's character is not funny at all. Neither is the movie. And as a drama, which this movie in fact is, it's only so-so.

Not worth the $5 I spent We love Where the Red Fern Grows (2003 version), and we were excited to find this video as the sequel, even though it's much older.  It was pathetic.  The acting was lousy.  The storyline was so jumbled and disjointed.  Even my kids agreed that it was not worth the $5 from the movie bin at W--mart.  This will be donated to the library.  I also noticed that it got the Dove Family entertainment award (said so at the beginning of the movie), but I wasn't too thrilled about the inappropriate kissing between the sister and the friend.  In a kids' movie?  Really?  Totally unnecessary.  And I'd like to know what the sister's romance has to do with the story about the dogs?  It just didn't fit into the story.  What a waste of an evening.  Note that I'm giving it 2 stars rather than 1 star because at least there was no foul language and it wasn't necessarily offensive - just lousy.

Amazing Actors, Unforgivably Bad Dialogue The best thing about this film is the chemistry between Necar Zadegan and Traci Dinwiddie. Unfortunately, the film's dialogue is so cringe-worthy it makes this movie truly difficult to watch at times. I really wanted to enjoy this movie--it is so rare that there are lesbian films with genuine sparks between the leads. Which is why it is that much more tragic that this film is ruined by musical overkill and dialogue that bludgeons you over the head: "Every time I think it's impossible to love you more, I do, ever deeper."  I was surprised at just how many four and five star reviews this film has received. This movie has acquired amazing actors who have signed up for an excruciatingly bad script. Soul mates? An angry pastor? "Twin flames?" Fainting? Really? Was the self-help guru an attempt at humor? Finally, there is one strange plot wrinkle that I couldn't make heads or tails of: how is it that a Pastor allows his son, who seems to still be in high school, to have a live-in girl friend?  Stock up your bar and watch this with some of your lesbian friends. Drink every time you hear the clarinet or a piano solo.

Saved By The Pecks 1313: Haunted Frat is another David Decoteau peck fest. All the male actors in the film are shirtless at some point, and most of them are seen in their underwear or in the shower. And that's where the good news ends. This is definitely not one of Decoteau's best. The first fifteen minutes consists of a guy in his underwear walking slowly throughout a house. Very slowly. Glacially slow. And the film only runs 75 minutes, and still is too long just because of that opening 15 minutes that bored me to tears. And the ending is so abrupt that I said "Huh" when it was over. I was thinking that I had missed something, so I rewound it a bit. But no. That was how Haunted Frat ended, rendering the whole movie pointless. Well, of course expect for the pecks.

Uh, ok. I didn't think I would find a Cage movie as bad as Captain Correli's Mandolin but I guess I have. I don't know what was worse, the set or the writing... or the bad imagineered demon, which reminded me too much of the alien I hated from Independence Day. Sure, there were a few nail-biting moments but really, only very few. I now know why I never heard of this movie when it was released. Was it in the theater? I am upset about wasting $5 renting this through my On Demand. I would have been pissed spending $11 at the theater. Weird. I just feel weird about it.

Disappointment It certainly was not your typical Horror movie and it certainly wasn't good either. It kept me interested enough to watch the whole thing to try to understand what was going on but it just got worse and worse. Once you get "it" at the end, I was left greatly disappointed.

Nahh.. I'll Pass. Linda Blair, is the Queen of Horror. I jsut don't like this movie. I have seen movies like it SO MANY times before. If you Like Linda Blair, nad you wanna watch a movie with her in it, go with Summer Of Fear.

Not so good. Like a so so TV comedy. Tired dialogue delivered with the best of intent by capable actors. Barf me. Choose something else.

Curtain...? Throughout most of its runtime, this audacious sci-fi flick benefits from fine performances, nuanced characterizations, credible CG and exceptional makeup. Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley star as a married pair of accomplished yet marginalized genetic engineers who create a humanoid life form (Abigail Chu, Delphine Chan&eacute;ac) of rapid growth and unprecedented adaptability. Although the leads are undermined by sloppy and abrupt editing similar to that of a sneak preview cut during the film's first twenty minutes, their efforts are nonetheless complemented by first-rate effects in aid of an unnerving, compelling, knotty, sexy story that's most effective when reflecting the tensions and shifting sympathies of the wedded scientists in regard to their creation and one another. During the final fifteen minutes, these cultivated characters become disposable targets because neither director Vincenzo Natali nor his co-authors knew how to conclude their tale as thoughtfully as they developed it. Ah, well.

seen one you seen them all I think the first one was the best...then it was sort of rolling down hill from there, just a lot of gore and that is about it. Fine for some folks I am sure, just not my liking.

Bog Average Slasher This flick doesn't hold up as well as it did thirty years ago.  Back when I was an impressionable undiscrimanating seventeen year old the body count was good enough for me.  It was also pretty cool watching it with an urban audience who shouted at the screen imploring in vain for the victims not to open door or closet.  Now it's no better or worse than any knockoff of the classic original "Halloween".  Events take place on the same evening as the original but it's more preposterous.  They open things up by having the action set mainly at a hospital but that makes it more ludicrous.  This has to be the darkest most sparcely staffed hospital I've ever seen.  Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis reprise their roles from the original but that only adds so much cred.  Proceed if you must but be prepared to be disappointed

Wrong Aspect Ratio The movie is fantastic.  It is a wonderful romantic comedy with hockey and skating.  The soundtrack during the skating sequences is pretty bad, but all in all this is a very good movie.  The problem is with the DVD.  Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1?  What kind of an aspect ration is that... it seems like it is made for a 4:3 TV then a letter box widescreen?  It is not 16:9 and appears stretched.  My TV (new model) could not find a watchable format other than the 4:3 look.  too bad.

Poor Organization First off, I appreciate the condition that our education system in America is ethnocentric.  I hold a Bachelors of History, a Masters in Education, a teaching certificate from the state of Texas, and I will continue with a Masters of History in Asian Studies.  Trust me, I know how hard it is to cover even half of the bases with any depth.  I have gaps in my historical knowledge and sought Hidden Colors as a way to begin to fill it.  I bought this DVD based on the customer reviews and seeking an introduction into African History.  Instead I received a rambling litany of factoids and wish I could return it.  Assuming everything is factual and conspiracy theories (of which I'm not a fan in any flavor) accurate, the organization is terrible.  Yes, it is broken up into chapters based on for instance Religion.  However, within each chapter one fact, person, or story is presented and within 30 seconds another factoid flies out of the documentary.  The conspiracy theories are the exception with the time.  Yes, I know Jesus was at the very least brown, but there is no long chain of artistic study to track the change to a white Jesus.  Pictures and artwork slide in for a few seconds between the constant switching between speakers.  This brevity for each subject leaves the audience with hollow empowerment.  The very charismatic speakers, as one reviewer pointed out, drew me into their subjects very well.  They even brought up pocket psychological (some were actual mental health professionals) insights into human nature and control, which I agree with.  But their charisma was wasted as the pocket psychological insights began to dominate.  Their dominance is based on the director Tariq Nasheed's intent of break that control by telling another side of History.  His whirlwind production though left me in curious confusion.  The factoid grab bag needed to be fixed with either depth in particular area or a trackable introductory narrative.  I bought Hidden Colors months ago, so I'll keep it as a visual bibliography of sorts.  Overall, I'm very disappointed and give it the second star for sheer volume of information.

Bad packaging! I love this movie.  I remember watching it when I was younger.  I haven't watched the DVD that I just received yet, BUT...the CD case was busted up when I got it in the mail.  I have to watch the movie to make sure the DVD is ok.

self-fulfilled prophesy If you watch the Tom Snyder interview with John and Keith, John keeps saying it's a company, not a rock and roll band 'doo-dah'. And several years later, as this video proves, it's become just a business. I am a big fan, and i can't believe (Lydon even says he's bored, halfway through) how dull this is. I wish there were some live Husker Du 'concert' footage from this era.

poor quality The picture quality is very poor.Ive been watching it on my Sony Bravia 1080p 120hz lcd tv with my bluray player and it looks like im watching it on pre digital tv when STNG first came out in 1987. The dvd holders are made of very very cheap plastic and are held together with packaging tape. the only saving grace that rates the 2ND star is that i love this series and i can get the entire 7 seasons in 1 package.

Smells real bad I was very sad to see such talented actors in such a poorly done movie. I hope they all got a good payday for being in this stinker of a movie.

skipped several times What a disappointment for this old movie to skip several times throughout the movie.  I would return it, but it's a pain to go through that process...

Seriously? CENSORED??? I love almost every band on this DVD. Kiss, Godsmack, Sambora, Uncle Ted, you name it, these guys ALL kick ass, and the fact that they did this show says a LOT about their dedication to this country. The best of the best performances, and collaborations here. Just awesome!!!  The ONE (huge) drawback to this? Censorship. You'd think I would have bought this thing at Wal-Mart. You just do NOT censor rock concerts, period!!! This takes a HUGE part of the experience from it!!! Sure, you get the idea, but what, are we 12 now? Censoring performances like this is just tacky!!!  Petty? Maybe, but let's get real here, I have been to countless shows over the past 10 years, and its just WRONG to censor this stuff. Yeah, maybe taking the nudity out of 'em (flashing) is needed, but seriously, WTF???  Do NOT buy this if you're after the REAL experience. Talk about a HUGE disappointment !!!

Precursor to Petrified Forest and Bus Stop "Heat Lighning" refers to the faint flashes of lightning that appear (usually on the horizon) and do not have thunder accompanying them. It also refers to this unusual 1934 Mervyn LeRoy film starring Aline MacMahon, Ann Dvorak, and Robert Preston. It was based on a Leon Abrams/George Abbott play of the same name. Abbott (1887-1995) wrote and/or directed such memorable plays as "Twentieth Century" (1932), "Pal Joey" (1940), "On the Town" (1944), "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" (1951) and won 7 Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize.  "Heat Lightning" has many of the plot points of "The Petrified Forest" - a gas station in the middle of nowhere, a girl who wants to experience more, and wanted hoodlums who arrive at the station at the same time as wealthy travelers. Both were based on plays, but "Heat Lightning" is the less well developed of the two.  Ann Dvorak (1911-79) plays a young girl stifled by life working in a gas station in the middle of a desert (think Bette Davis in Petrified Forest). Dvorak started making films in 1916 when she was only 4 years old. She played bit parts until her acquaintance with Howard Hughes launched her career. She signed with Warner Bros. where she made dozens of films, but unhappy with the scripts, she moved to England, but unlike Bette Davis, Dvorak was not lured back.  Aline MacMahon (1899-1991) plays Dvorak's controlling older sister. MacMahon was known for his wise cracking demeanor and was popular in the 30s and 40s and nominated for an Oscar as the Chinese mother of Katherine Hepburn in "Dragon Seed" (1944). This was the first film on which she received top billing.  A very young looking Preston Foster (1900-70) plays MacMahon's former boyfriend and a man on the run. Foster appeared in over 100 films, and is best known for playing in the "Northwest Mounted Police" (1940).  Lyle Talbot (1902-96) plays Foster's sidekick. Talbot is best known for his films with Ed Wood ("Glen or Glenda", "Plan 9 from Outer Space") or his role as Commissioner Gordon in the 1949 "Batman and Robin" serial. In the 50s he transitioned to TV where he had recurring roles in "Green Acres", "The Beverly Hillbillies", and "Ozzie & Harriet".  Glenda Farrell (1904-71) plays a wealthy woman who arrives at the station. Farrell was a popular actress in the 30s ("Little Caesar", "I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang", "Gold Diggers") and transitioned to TV where she won an Emmy in 1961 ("{Ben Casey").  Frank McHugh (1898-1981) provided comic relief to over 100 films. He was part of the original "Irish Mafia" and appeared in a dozen films with fellow mafia member Jimmy Cagney and 13 films with mafia member Pat O'Brien. McHugh plays Farrell's chauffer.  Look for a cameo performance by the great Jane Darwell and Edgar Kennedy as a quarrelsome couple who show up at the gas station at the beginning of the film. They are a riot and a film could have been built around them.  Mervyn LeRoy (1900-87) directs. He started out directing with "Little Caesar" (1931) and went on to achieve an Oscar nomination for "Random Harvest" (1942) and DGA nominations for "Quo Vadis" (1951), "Mister Roberts" (1955) and "A Majority of One" (1961) and a Golden Globe nomination for "Gypsy" (1962). Among the nearly 80 films he directed were "I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang" (1932), "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), and "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" (1944).  1934 was an OK year for films. The top box office slots went to "Viva Villa", "Cleopatra" and "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" and "It Happened One Night" was the big Oscar winner. That year "The Thin Man" series began, Karloff and Legosi appeared in "The Black Cat", Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers danced in "The Gay Divorcee", Laurel and Hardy laughed it up in "Babes in Toyland", and Howard Hawks' "Twentieth Century" came out.  The NY Times' Mordaunt Hall called it "a drab melodrama with occasional flashes of forced comedy" and said that director LeRoy "was not in an imaginative mood when he handled his scenes."  One of the problems with the film is that it is very stagey, showing its origins as a play. Another is the cheap production values, one of the inherent qualities when making a film in less than 3 weeks.  Bottom line - interesting as a precursor to films like "The Petrified Forest" and "Bus Stop", but of little interest by itself.

I Want my Two Hours Back I expect so much more from Clint Eastwood. As another reviewer accurately pointed out, the opening sequence is amazing and draws you in, making you believe that this is going to be one amazing movie. But it rapidly goes downhill from there. Slow moving scenes with mumbling, boring dialogue that never really reaches a valid point. Short scenes where Matt Damon's character is whining because he doesn't want to be a psychic anymore. And perhaps one of the most disappointing scenes is where for nearly 20 minutes there is nothing but French dialogue between two principle players in the movie and NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES. I was like, what the heck?? Really? The movie ran snail slow and never reached the level of excitement that the opening sequence does. I wanted to love this movie. I love Clint Eastwood as a director but this piece of cinematic fluff just didn't do it for me. What an atmospheric mess. I want my two hours back. Sorry.

Move on if you are heterosexual... One reviewer says this is not a sex movie. The next reviewer says the sex scene between the two women is 'smokin' hot'! I guess sex and 'smokin' hot' is in the eye of the beholder, then. Thanks, ladies, for telling me this is a movie for lesbians. That's important information and should be stamped across the title in big letters to alert those might have thought it's a romantic story, the kind heterosexuals might enjoy.

I have expected much better for such famous actors!!! Well, I was pretty disappointed. There's maybe a lot of beautiful faces, but that's it. Very stupid story.  I thought, since Vince Vaughn is playing in this movie that it would be a great movie. perhaps there's great acting too, but not more then that.

Good film with one important technical issue This regards the Criterion Blu-ray edition. This is a great film and I highly recommend it, but I cannot recommend the Criterion Blu-ray edition of it. In nearly all respects it is excellent: visuals and color, the audio is lovely and made me wish I had a better audio system. If you understand Portuguese or you can tolerate alternate English dubbed track (I couldn't) this will be a great edition to buy. However if you want to use the English subtitles you are out of luck. The subtitles are good when you can read them but that is the issue. They are white, thin and with an even thinner black edge. When the background is white or light, they cannot be seen, and in about 35 to 40% of the film background is frequently white. It really is annoying. It makes you squint, guess and struggle to understand what is being said. At times you just miss it. In some films the script isn't that important but in this film there are parts where you really have to know what is being said. Why an outfit like Criterion would have such frustrating and hard to read subtitles is a question I cannot answer, but it made what should have been a highly aesthetic experience into an extremely frustrating one.

Nicely filmed but utterly boring... I was so disappointed. From it receiving awards to looking promising, this ended up being a boring plot line that really went nowhere and left me wondering why I spent my time watching it. I love stories that make you think and give you insight into life or end up being funny/quirky/interesting. It really held none of these. And if you care about it having Jude Law in it, well...he barely makes an appearance. It held no charm the way an adult's fairy tale should. What a shame. It could have gone so many good ways, and instead fell flat.

i felt it was over rated the film moved really slow. so much that I got up to bake cookies during the boring scenes, which, by the way lasted way to long.i would have rather spent that time watching "Far and Away" with both stars in that.

They REALLY want me to watch Lady Vengeance I ordered this box set and was so excited to start watching them.  Only problem was rather than getting what is offered in the set, it's missing Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance altogether and instead has a complete duplicate copy of Lady Vengeance.  Otherwise I would rate this item more favorably, but I'm sitting at a 2-stars until I get this issue worked out with Amazon.com

Don't buy in 3D If you like  "B" Horror movies then you may like this movie.  Don't buy it for the 3D effects.  I am more interested in the 3D than I am in reviewing the movie so I don't recommend it in 3D.  As for the story, lot of chasing, dying and some suspense but if you want to see it, rent it or don't spend your money on the 3D version.

Yes, I do hope this will be the last film of exorcism Warning: SPOILERS AHEAD.  - The only good things about this film are Patrick Fabian's acting, the twist at the end and the surprise ending.  - There's no suspense, horror or climax at all. Patrick Fabian's engaging acting kept me interested for two-third of the movie even though there was very little material for him to play. Then it became boring when it turned out to be another story of Satanism worshipping. It also showed that a beast or a monster or a devil might have been born by the girl. I said "might" because that moment was just shown in seconds. It's too short to see things clearly. The movie ended when it looked like all the film crew had been killed or some of them had escaped with their lives.  In the end, I think it is more annoying than entertaining.

it was ok Didn't like the ending - while it had some twists, I walked away with the feeling the movie just lacked something - just gave an incomplete with how it ended.

Does He Know When You're Bored? This is one of those early 80s slasher films that I was just never able to see....until now. As a fan of the genre, I try to see as many little or obscure films that I missed. That you just don't see airing anymore. This is one I have always heard about. I liked the premise, the title was classic, and Tom Hanks made his debut feature film appearance in this. It's gotta be one of those little slasher gems, right?....right? Well, not so much. Here we go....  "He Knows You're Alone" tells the tale of a serial killer who targets young women who are about to get married. So far, so good. After a great opening, the detective picks up on the killer's trail (and an explanation to the detective's connection to the killer is made). We then meet future Bride Amy (Caitlin O'Heaney), who is having doubts about her upcoming marriage, especially since her ex is always hanging around. It isn't long before the killer sets his sights on Amy, and she and her friends become new fodder for the bride killer.  Released in 1980, the movie came out at a time where Halloween had already exploded, and Friday The 13th was released the same year. This was the beginning of the slasher boom. The movie definitely stole heavily from Carpenter's 1978 classic. The killer coming into view, the music, etc. The idea of the movie seems to be pretty new, but everything else comes from someone else. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, especially since these slasher movies are supposed to be fun and entertaining. The problem is that this movie doesn't do anything, and isn't all that fun, except for the opening minutes and finale. Star Caitlin O'Heaney(who later went on to star as Snow White on the short lived 80s sitcom "The Charmings") is a likable "final girl", but there isn't much else to offer. There are some decent mood settings here and there, but you get the feeling that the director isn't really in his genre. He knows the beats, but doesn't know exactly how to execute it, or work with a slasher script. Most of it is handled kinda clumsily, and the suspense and tension doesn't ever register too high on the fear meter. It's all photographed in the most workman-like way.  What brings the movie down? I never liked the kinds of slashers where you see the killer as a human being. The killer here is dressed normally, and we see his face every time. For me, that has always lessened the impact whenever there are suspense and tension scenes. He isn't interesting, nor is there anything made clear about him. Pretty boring, laughable killer. Reminded me of the drill killer in "The Slumber Party Massacre". Then there is the 'slasher' aspect. The movie is relatively bloodless, the kills(with one exception involving a fish tank) are mundane, the killer stabbing comes off as comical and fake, etc. It doesn't even really succeed on being just a fun, mindless slasher. It's really a dull affair all the way around. The only moments of excitment and interest is in the opening and closing minutes of the movie. And, if you are expecting a lot of newcomer Tom Hanks, forget it. He's in two scenes and that is it. Another familiar face in the movie is Paul Gleason, principal Vernon from "The Breakfast Club", as well as other 80s classics such as "Trading Places" and "Die Hard".  Interestingly enough, Caitlin O'Heaney has never married in real life. I guess the movie scared her too much.  "He Knows You're Alone" starts off great, and it has a fun ending. It's the drab, boring, bloodless stuff in between that makes it tough to get to the decent climax.

Check carefully which version you're buying Not all the reviews on this page are for the same version of Keaton's The General. The Allied Artists Entertainment edition has no soundtrack whatsoever, even though the back cover of the product features the 'Dolby Stereo' trademark. Silent films were not silent in theaters; musical accompaniment with a score carefully designed to match was an integral part of the presentation. We returned our AAE purchase and got the Kino edition instead.

In The "Red" Red has an all-star cast that includes Bruce Willis, Hellen Mirren, and Morgan Freeman, and was well received, so I expected better than what I got. What I got was just an average film with not enough action or comedy, and I thought this was supposed to be an action-comedy.

Oh, and one more thing... Sucker Punch was a long awaited film(at least since Christmas for me)especially after the endlless string of mediocre, dud films that were released this last summer through fall.I was hoping for more, but at the same time I wasn't entirely surprised when Sucker Punch didn't measure up to the hype of the trailer. Personally, I'm getting a tad tired of the "alternate reality/mind game/Matirix" plot driven films.  Sucker Punch (as anticipated)was visually stuning, but it was largely left to the viewer to translate the rest of the film as it stalled and dragged on from one mission to the next.It seems that this film was largely depending on the "exploitation" of the female cast to "sell it" and fill in the blanks where the film lacked substance.  When in doubt, dress a hot girl like a porn star,put her in lingerie or something else tight and/or revealing and have her dance around to maintaim the male audience's interest.Kind of like what I call the "Michael Bay soloution", except this film uses "skin" and allot of "suggestion" instead of bullets and explosions(although there is plenty of that too).  Granted,I have to give credit where credit is due.It had originality and potential and some good art style/direction.It borrows heavily from "Steam Punk/Heavy Metal fantasy and Samurai/Japanese film/animation, but the "you have 5 tasks" to complete plot and the mysterious,"only you know the answer to the riddle" question to win your freedom has been done to death a hundred times.  Boiled down to its basics, Baby Doll is sent to an asylum by her evil step father where the girls are used(or sold) I should say to the highest bidder as sex slaves and/or objects of affection.Baby doll creates her own fantasy world to win her freedom and escape for herself and others to ultimately keep from being labotomized. Guess what happens?  I liked the the visuals, but a film being "visually attractive" isn't enough.Just because a film has fantastic CG and visuals doesn't make it an outstanding film let along an entertaining one.Often it played out(or reminded me) of some elaborate video game as the heroines pranaced around dressed up like Jappanese Anime characters and who (miraculasly) had super human strength and intricate knowlege of  martial arts and warfare. I know that was "part of the fantasy" and that being part of the gag, but it can only work for so long.In the end,I found myself wanting more from this film than it was capable of giving.  Sucker Punch will be worth renting and certainly when released on Blueray and viewed on a large Plasma/LCD screen it will look great.However,if you are looking for a storyline that will keep you going, this one is left on auto pilot virtually from the begining hoping to bedazzle you with pretty faces,tight bodies,over the top action and CG. I wouldn't pay to see an evening show at the theater,and watching a matinee is really pushing it.  The title itself has no realtion to the film at all,its just "catchy" and looks/sounds cool. What I can say is, "don't be a sucker" and pay to see it in the theater let alone buy the film when released on DVD.While I thoroughly enjoyed Sin City and 300, Sucker Punch can't deliver what is promised, not even on a strictly "entertainment level" which both 300 and Sin City were capable of doing. Simply put..."don't believe the hype" because in the end, all it ends up being is just a cool movie trailer.

Absurb Flick While it does have a few moments of humour and some pretty good special effects, it's still an absurb flick and plot line.

A Bit of a Let Down I have always loved the idea of retellings and sequels of the classics. I really wanted to love this film, but it just wasn't possible.  The story revolved around a little girl named Elizabeth who lives in an orphanage and believes she's Dorothy Gale. This in itself was not believable as fifty years have gone by and she hasn't aged.  Then the Scarecrow and Tin man show up in really corny costumes. I understand this is a low budget film, but really, I could have made better costumes myself.  I can't even say that I was impressed with most of the actors. The only one who was even slightly believable was the woman who plays the head of the orphanage. Most of the movie is a flashback of the travels of the tin man and scarecrow. Random people help them in their search for Dorothy, never wondering why these two guys are dressed like characters from the book. Everyone else if the world believes they are the real thing, yet the people at the orphanage think Elizabeth is crazy.  I really can't find any redeeming qualities in this film. I just can't recommend it.

Love the movie - not happy with DTS-only soundtrack I don't have the best sound system, but it does have Dolby Digital but not DTS. Therefore, I cannot watch this movie in surround sound. I either have to watch it in French or listen to the commentary if I want any sound through my sound system. Otherwise, I'm stuck listening to the movie via the TV speakers (yuck) or I have to get the standard def DVD out to listen to it in 5.1.  Not sure why they did this. I mean, come on. It IS Blu-Ray and you have 50 gbs of space on a dual-layer, so I cannot see it's because they were strapped for space. I love the movie, but the release on Blu-Ray is not very desirable. I may be in the minority of those that don't have DTS decoders, but come on! All the other movies I've gotten on Blu-Ray all have at least a 5.1 if not a 2.0 Dolby soundtrack.  The movie gets at least four stars, but this release on Blu-Ray gets a 2 star for me.

Boring I did not find this to be entertaining.  Horrible acting.  To me it was a waste of time.  Would not suggest this movie

Disappointing Disappointing. Rodriguez can make really good movies but this one is pretty routine pandering to an undemanding child audience. A good movie for kids doesn't pander and thus succeeds better at entertaining kids and adults. The cast is wasted on this movie.  Jessica Alba in her black spy outfit looks great, though, and I kind of wish she had been cast as either Natasha Romanov or Selina Kyle in the Avengers or Batman movies respectively. She doesn't embarrass herself in this sub-par film and I've been impressed with her growth as an actress the last few years. I think she could have pulled off either role and looked amazing doing it.

Video Review This is very outdated! I do not recommend it for training purposes. It does not cover the history and current changes. I used it for a College class and was  very dissapointed. Need to find a new video on history to date.

The House that Crumbled After having watched season eight, I was thoroughly disappointed. The caliber of writing was dumbed down to cheap jokes, hookers and lost the intelligence and brilliance that once made this aging show shine. Storylines were not followed through properly or were just hastily dropped. As much as I love Hugh Laurie, he just wasn't given the material this season to really showcase his acting capabilities as had been the case in previous seasons, even "Twenty Vicodin" fell short of that goal. The arc at the end of the season was overplayed and overamplified in a last ditch attempt to add some melodrama. What made it more disappointing was that it focused more on Wilson than House, which was off-putting as the show crawled to a close.  I did make a valiant effort to try and embrace the changes (both the expected and unexpected)but something continued to feel off for me.(The loss of Lisa Edelstein as Cuddy was a presence very much missed and basically served as the giant elephant in the room for the entire season.) The show just lost its overall spark and appeal and fell terribly short for me. The new characters added to this season reduced the show to an unfortunate grade of "C" in my opinion, as Charlene Yi's lack of acting abilities were blatantly obvious and Odette Annable's inability to add nothing of substance to her character was just frustrating. There were a few good episodes in the bunch, but overall it was a lackluster season. Even the finale was a bit of a disappointment as it was far from an original concept.(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would be shaking his head.) It was almost a recycling of previous ideas the show displayed to garner interest with the addition of borrowing a page from the writer of Sherlock Holmes himself. Frankly, I found the retrospective "Swan Song" to have been far more interesting than the finale. Of course, Hugh Laurie produced the retrospective so there was no surprise that it would be better than the finale.  This will be the first season season set of the series that I don't jump to buy right when it's released. I'll probably wait a year when the price drops drastically to what the season was really worth and even that will still be more than I'm willing to pay. Alas, I have all seasons though and I'll probably complete the set without ever opening it or watching it, because there is nothing worth re-watching in season eight for this avid viewer. It's sad, because I was addicted to this show and loved it so much. Unfortunately, the "House" began to crumble mid-season seven and collapsed completely in season eight. Definitely not worth the money you're going to pay when it gets released.

Could be better Anthony Hopkins is a good actor, but he has remained the same for quite a few movies, including this one. Story-line was weak. The supporting actor was actually good; I expect to see him in more movies. In general, you won't miss much if you pass this one.

My Christmas By Andrea Bocelli The video and audio quality is not really good compare to most DVD should be. Feels like cheap production or those bought in pirated store quality.

Unconvincing clash of ideas In some ways BLUE VALENTINE is two films. On the one hand is a naturalistic look at what happens when a relationship breaks down. On the other (told in flashback) it's a sort of quirky romantic comedy that tells the well-worn story of kooky, lost girl finds equally lost guy: together they compliment each other and live happily ever after... except in this case we know they don't.  And that's essentially what's wrong with the film. It's a clash of ideas but writer/director Derek Cianfrance can't resolve that clash in any meaningful way.  By definition rom-coms are a type of wish fulfilment fantasy (think of something like LOVE ACTUALLY - where the PM falls for the tea girl). They work perfectly within their own context but held up to realistic analysis fail dismally. And it's the naturalism of the second strand that forces the viewer to consider the whole realistically. I was left utterly confused as to what I was watching. Or how I was supposed to.  Although the acting is first-rate, this is also a deeply uncomfortable film to sit through. The rawness of the split up was too much for me. Add in some gratuitous sex scenes and implausibilities (if an ex-boyfriend of mine asked if I was unfaithful to my husband I'd be deeply offended not coquettish) and the result is a film that fails to convince or engage.  I suppose BLUE VALENTINE wants its cake and to eat it too. It might have worked well either as an off-beat romantic comedy or as a serious drama, but by combining the two it fails at both.

Chronicle Review I had really high hopes for this movie.  I got my popcorn and plopped down in front of the computer for an evening of entertainment.  Unfortunately, I found myself getting real bored.  I paused it and went and did something more interesting.  When I completely ran out of other things to do I came back.  Amazon took away my privileges to watch the movie.  I have never had this problem with Netflix or Redbox.  Anyway I learned much from the experience. 1) Don't rent a movie about a bunch of dumb kids called "Chronicle" and 2) Don't rent movies from Amazon.

bad 2nd disk It took 8 days to receive the first video.  The second disk had a 1 inch groove that made it inoperable.  Returned it and received replacement 6 days later.

Patience is not a word I use for art. The DVD transfer is good with no flaws.  I spent the first hour of this film trying to turn it off.  I did finish the film and decided that if you are patient, sit still for the whole film and ignore the plot failures there is some reward.  However, plot failures do exist and the biggest one is the absence of the motivation needed for Joel(Jim Carrey) to fight the memory erasing process he has volunteered for. You see, Joel has received a note telling him that his girlfriend, Clementine(Kate Winslet) has had his part of her memory erased.  So, Joel decides to erase Clementine from his memory.  Make sense?  Sort of. Most of the film are clips of Joel clinging to rapidly disappearing memories.  However, none of the memories justified themselves as something I would want to keep, just some stoner's fractured view of life and love.   To make this film work the way so many reviewers have painted it, Kaufman(writer) and Gondry(director/writer) should have given us a least a part of the relationship to cling to.  The viewer must have some sympathy for the loss else the loss is nothing and this is where the filmakers leave us.  I'm all for post-modernism but I'm also a film addict and historian.  I can tell you this is not a romantic comedy at all but, rather, a self-indulgent film that gets lost before it gets started. The filmakers are much more concerned with method than substance.  However, it takes these efforts, short of definition as this one is, to help define the movement by telling us this is not the direction we need to go.  Rent if first before you buy.  You might just love it, many do but, then again, many of us would rather have spent the money on something else.

A crash course into food snobbery. Though there is some shock value in this film, do not forget this film is made to entertain and to boost book sells by the author Pollan. Instead of refusing to eat off plate not made of gold, it seems Pollan refuses to eat anything not grass-fed.  I can see him pointing his nose up in the sky and saying, "Nope, I won't eat it, it has to be labeled 100% organic.  Hmmm, to be shamed by the elite because of where you get your food, or even which food to eat is almost like a nightmarish sci-fi movie.  Pollan sure goes out of his way shame the lower-class laborers by telling them they are not eating the right foods.  A (possibly migrating) family arrives in America only to be harassed by food snobs, where these snobs also obscurely mock people about weight control.  This movie does not have any beneficial standpoints on how to change the standards to govern food safety.

Billy Elliott - The Movie Bought this video as a gift for my 10 year old boy, who is a dancer.  Had heard good things about the Theatrical Version so thought would see the video.  Heavy British Accents and lots of profanity not suited for a young child...

Alternatives If you want reliable information on the subjects covered in this book I recommend: Astronomy Magazine, the free frequent NASA articles on the Internet, The Planetary Society, Carl Sagan's (the most outstanding astronomer of the 20th century now deceased) series "Cosmos" to name but a few.  Andrew Swanson seswan2@comcast.net

Nowhere near as good as the play. Oh dear, they just cannot get this one to translate to film.  I love this play, I've seen it in London three times and really, there's no way to translate the brilliance of three actors, very sparse stage design and an old theater. The story is extremely simple and effective. The use of disturbing sound design and ONE ghost is used sparingly and with very creepy results. It works brilliantly and always sells out. I'm clearly biased. My bad.  The original movie isn't particularly creepy and this one is only slightly better. They should have kept this story pared down. The more superfluous embellishment you add onto a story like this, the more weighed down it becomes. I don't like the addition of the clairvoyant, a ressurected carriage, ghost children, or the body. It's all so unnecessary. An effective ghostly tale makes your mind wonder at what's in the dark? What are the motives, when and how will the next manifestation begin? You have to use more than just visual senses. Goading the imagination, sound and keeping the story tight are so important.  Anyway; great sets, costuming, acting: that kind of thing. If you're easily scared, like spooky or love Daniel then you may enjoy this.

Not awful, but not very good. It's a well made film, good gore, kills and all that. but I don't know, there seems to be something missing. Kind of a empty copy of the old films... like they watched the old ones and just copied it without the 'feeling' of the old ones. Not that the originals were deep films or anything, but they still had something that this one is missing. Nice to see Jason again though, and the guy playing him does a good job.

satan bug d 14 years old this movie was very good for me,but when I saw it again,not the same like before...

Superficial Movie with an Insipid Plot Line and an Unsympathetic Protagonist. Awful Acting. The way they hyped up this movie and book - whose premise I really do like - I expected a nice piece depicting someone's journey through self-discovery. Instead, it turned out to be a trite two hour movie depicting the shameless self-indulgences and superficiality of a vain person on the quest for the elusive "finding yourself" mantra she undoubtedly read up upon in the self help aisle at Barnes and Noble. Because of how the character acted and was portrayed, the audience just never gets to identify and empathize with her and her "problems". For two hours you sit there and watch her whine about her life, how it is/was so unhappy and unfulfilled and what have you, but you never know why really. If the goal is to have the audience empathize with a character and identify with it, they have to know what's bothering them, be let in on their pain and unhappiness. That is what makes a great movie. The writers in this one seemed to want the audience to just take their word for it that she was unhappy and unfulfilled - despite all evidence to the contrary. Someone once said if the problem is in one's head, it still is a problem. But in this movie, we never get to see what that is - imagined or real. The worst thing a movie maker can do is create unrelateable characters.  Julia Roberts did a lousy job and her character is both unlikeable and unrelateable. This movie is supposed to tell us that material things and money are not the source to happiness and that there are other sources of happiness unrelated to such external things. Yet the main character (Roberts) spends a year travelling around the world living in great places that cost a lot of money. Later on, this movie promoted a lip-gloss by Lnacome or something. Yeah...way to send a message about material things not mattering. They should have pointed out that trying to find yourself when you are broke is much harder to do. Luckily, Roberts in this movie didn't have to worry about that "tiny detail". One should be so lucky to have so much money that it is not worth mentioning anymore - even though it still is used to buy you all the sanity and self-discovery trips in the world.  But it is not just that. The main character was annoying for other reasons as well. I mean her spiritual guide is a self-announced medicine man in Bali with amnesia. Yes amnesia, as in brain damage. She turns her life upside down because of the random crap he made up and told her, and then a year later when she goes back, to tell her "mentor" what she did, he doesnt even remember her!! It was hilarious. I thought they were kidding and that at this point the movie would take a turn; that her character would finally realize how immature and insane it was to do all those things to herself based on the random musings of a silly, old man who doesnt even know her. But NO. It stayed. That was it. Oh so conveniently, the shaman starts suddenly remembering her after she is about to burst into tears at the realization that she might have screwed up her life based on the words of a random, senile man.  That's deep.  The movie went downhill from there at an alarming rate. I have never seen so much substance-deficiency and implausibility of both story and characters packed into two hours or so of narcissistic screen time for a middle-aged actress. The supporting characters were unlikable too and Julia Roberts just seemed too old and burned out for some of the "boys" she dated - like James Franco. They wanted to make it look like her relationship with Franco - which she started 5 minutes after her divorce by the way - didnt work out for other deep reasons, like she loved him, but it is obvious that it didnt work out cause she is too old for him and he a vacuous moron.  And then Javier Bardem. Obviously both of these people are on rebound, especially Bardem (who is 39 and has a 20 year old son but ok) but still after a couple of weeks of humping in the tropical hut, he confesses his ever endearing love for her like a starry-eyed 17 year old teenager. I seriously thought she knew better and would respond that she didnt feel the same way, that she didnt love him. But ta da, it turns out - despite all evidence to the contrary and what we see - she is in fact madly in love with him but (how original) is too scared to admit it cause she is afraid to get hurt. Yeah right. Could they have packed any more lame cliches into that?  They could and they did because in the end, just like any other woman I guess, all she needed obviously to get out of her funk was love and riding off into the sunset (literally) with her man.  Coming out of this garbage they tried to pass as a "wonderful journey" I figured that not only did I not get anything out of this movie and the supposed journey, but that obviously neither did the protagonist. Just as we never found out why she was really having a crisis and was unhappy, we also never find out why and how she got happy again. This movie is based on the premise that she lost her mojo and needed to find it, but looking closer it seems that she never had it. After that one year of travelling and exploring and meeting all these supposedly cool and enlightened people (quitters is more like it, see Bardem's character), she doesnt seem to have found more purpose in life than before. She doesnt look and act changed, enlightened or as if she had gained some insight into who she really is and what she really wants out of life. She spent a year travelling around, "hanging out" and having a good time and all she got to show for is a man. As expected, because by being a self-absorbed, spoiled brat who never had to do a hard day's work in life and doesn't listen to people you are not likely to gain insight into anything. Spiritually, she could have been Carrie Bradshaw's sidekick when she went into hysteria.  In the end, she is exactly where she started: nowhere, drowning in her own superficiality and shallow-ness. The only exciting thing in her life will be a long distance relationship with Bardem between Bali and New York until she gets bored again and leaves, thinking that maybe the answers in life are to be found in the elusive wisdom of this one medicine man she read up upon on her last trip to the self help aisle - this time at Borders.

Can't Decide What to Be The "Brothers Bloom" has a great cast and fine acting.  It has lush, amazingly varied scenery--St. Petersburg, Prague, Mexico, Montenegro, Japan, etc.  It has decent direction.  But it doesn't work.  The problem is the writing.  The movie can't decide whether to be a Romantic Comedy, a Romantic Tragedy, a Caper movie, a Rival Brothers movie, a Character Study, or any of several other things.  It ends up trying to do all these things, and doing them all badly.  Throwing in quirky characters helps, but only temporarily.  Ultimately, the movie lacks energy.  Lacks tension.  Lacks conflict.  Lacks suspense.  Lacks coherence.  It has lots of ideas, lots of (paper-thin) plot, lots of beauty, even lots of interesting lines, but none of these work together.  Pity.  It is no accident that by far the most interesting character is Bang Bang--who has no lines.  Without a coherent script, no movie can succeed.

Brave attempt. Lacks grounding in meaning or storyline. Vera has probably thought this through by now.  She should be congratulated on her brave attempt at such a difficult subject.  But the final product seems more a loose string of glimpses into someone's difficulties within a tight Christian community than a cohesive narrative that keeps itself on target with clear objectives.  Vera should have studied films like the Apostle, by Robert Duvalle, more closely.  In that movie, although it does not come to any intellectual conclusion, it depicts another human beings struggle to maintain integrity with their beliefs while the tension is maintained through the story of this individual committing a crime and then evading the police until they corner him.  There is also the other tension of his relationship with his ex-partner or his attempts to ground himself in a community.  Each of these are clearly developed and keep the attention of the viewer.  Vera's failing is that she did not have a well conceived idea of how to make her spiritual explorations work probably because she has not worked these things out for herself on a personal level.  It would have been valuable for Vera to have come to some conclusion about these issues herself on a personal basis, through the guidance of a competent psychotherapist or a grounded spiritual guide.  I believe the movie exposes Vera's own lack of a cohesive framework about her own spirituality and she tries to make a case for it's OK to muse over these things ad nauseum, but movies are about the resolution of crisis and not about it being OK to wallow undecided.  Vera fails to commit to any side of the battle on so many levels and so the film goes nowhere and the viewer does not experience any transcendence or resolution at any level.  She brings up the important question, but then offers no opinion but that it's OK not to have an opinion, leaving the viewer with nothing but a collage of vaguely related religious thematic scenes in this woman's life.  Her characters are also trivialized and her religious thinking so superficial, based mainly on her feelings and her attachment to the materialization of her expectations in the world; a very childish notion of what religions belief is about.  Vera is beautiful, but does not appear to have personally suffered in ways that Charlize Theron has for her art (see Monster).  I had hoped for so much, but this project fails to deliver for all the reasons mentioned.

One of the best movies of recent years The NTSC region 1 blu-ray looks terrible. too much noise reduction smeared it's colors and contrast completely and created ugly artifacts... Get the pal region 2 version. it's way better than this crap. 5 stars for the movie.

No English subtitles I only select operas that have English subtitles, so it was very disappointing to find out that Les Troyens did not have English subtitles even though the product description clearly lists English subtitles.  Since I didn't know what was going on, I can't review this product.

The only good ting about this movie is Sandra Bullock Sandra Bullock and tom Hanks out act the rest of the cast. This makes you watch the movie yearning for more Sandra and Tom. Besides the kid is written just way too weird!Don't waste your time, buy Flight 93, it is the best made regarding that September day.

Love Dies in Love Never Dies Spoilers ahead.  I was so looking forward to the sequel for The Phantom of the Opera - Love Never Dies, which only ran in London and Melbourne for a limited time. I've seen all of the movie productions of The Phantom of the Opera and on Broadway a few times. I preordered the sequel and read the 4-5 star reviews, some proclaiming it to be Andrew Lloyd Webber's best score ever, and I was excited to see the continuation of the story that has enchanted millions. My daughter and I watched it on the heels of The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall (2012) with Ramin Karimloo as the Phantom and Sierra Boggess as Christine, which was a beautiful production.  Then we began the highly anticipated sequel. The opening was promising, with the Phantom's belching of "Til I Hear You Sing," although even at that point I was not too convinced with the actual performance from Ben Lewis. The rest of the musical was comical, even hilarious at points. The storyline is horrible. There are musical remnants from the original score that remind us it's supposed to be Phantom and Christine Daae, but the casting is all wrong and warps the characters as we knew them. All beautiful technical singers, but they do not embody the spirit of the original story.  The setting is in Coney Isle (Island) ten years later. It lends from a "Cirque du Soleil" feel due to the context. The Phantom (played stiffly by Lewis) is sanitized in this performance, and loses his mysterious and magical appeal. The Phantom, Madame Giry (Maria Mercedes) and Meg Giry (Sharon Millerchip) are established in the freakish heart of the oddities and curiosities of the place. The Phantom laments the decade without his muse, and is able to entice, under guise, Christine (Anna O'Byrne) and her family with an invitation to journey to America to perform at the theater Phantasma.  Christine is visually striking enough, but she is a lot more bland and I did not feel her character develop much throughout the story. I could not relate to her at all or felt sorry on her ultimate demise. Raul (Simon Gleeson, whose performance was ok) is a drunk and gambler, losing all his fortunes, and ignores his 10 year old kid, Gustave - a son that is actually fathered by the Phantom with Christine, unbeknownst to Raul. I liked Raul, especially in the 2004 edition of the movie, despite his somewhat selfishness to put Christine at risk in order to draw the Phantom out to capture/kill him, but this story completely destroys it. His gambling is the reason why his wife must now be the breadwinner and conveniently take the assignment in Coney Island. Raul makes a bet with the Phantom on whether Christine will sing, finds out that he has been fathering a bastard child that is not his, loses the bet and is supposed to leave Coney Island broke and without his Christine.  Meg Giry looks like Madonna minus her mole from the Material Girl days, and tries too hard vocally to be the "Ooh La La" girl. She and her mom, Madame Giry (whose voice is dry as sawdust) vie for the Phantom's affections. She becomes deranged when he doesn't show up after one of her best performances on stage, and then kidnaps the Phantom and Christine's love child in a rage against the Phantom for overlooking her talents. Since when did the Phantom care about Meg? She realizes that it's always been about her bff Christine, and ends up "accidentally" shooting Christine instead of herself or the Phantom, as she threatened. Gustave looks like any ordinary early 1900's young chap, nothing like his true dad, but inheriting his musical abilities and "hearing sounds in his head." The kid will grow up messed up - not only does he witness his mother's childhood friend shoot his mother, but his mom reveals that his dad is the Phantom on her last breath. He runs off blindly looking for his fake dad, screaming Nooo!!! for the second time in the musical (first time when he saw the Phantom's face). The ending scene has the two men and the boy surrounding the already dead Christine, some awkward transition from the Phantom holding her to Raul holding her, and then the boy taking off the Phantom's mask, petting the mutated side of the face as the Phantom sings about love never dying.  My daughter had to shut it off half way because the singing was literally giving her a huge headache. I forced myself to watch the whole thing. I really tried to like this, but it was huge disappointment. I had very mixed feelings about the Phantom and Christine having a love child in the first place. Maybe it would have been different if Karimloo and Boggess played the parts, or if I did not associate it with the original masterpiece.  The production tries too hard to hypnotize through beautiful sets and gorgeous costuming, but fails with annoying and lackluster melodies. The story about the Phantom has always been about love at its core, but this is a tacky rendition of what was a heart-wrenching emotional and captivating storyline.No doubt I may offend hard-core Webber lovers who are able to overlook these glaring failures, but I cannot...  Andrew Lloyd Webber, who was your muse for this? You have lost your craft, and no wonder it did not make it to Broadway. New Yorkers would have clamored for their money back.  Sad, sad, oh so sad.

eh.... This movie has equal parts entertaining moments with boring moments. The movie speeds to a screeching halt half way through. You go from undercover stuff, to twenty or so minutes of just some thrown in romance to build attachment to those characters, but fail at it. I mean I really want to like this movie, but it so hard with some idiotic decisions being made towards the end. It's all been done before, and they don't really try and make the story interesting.  The story, as I said has all been done before. The same old premise of police going after the drug dealers and the bad guys. I know it's a cop drama, but they don't really bring anything new to it, or any twists. The acting in this movie isn't bad, but that doesn't save them from the mediocre story. Even with good acting, the characters they portray seem to make more stupid decisions as the movie goes on.  The setting the movie takes place in is the best part. The beaches are well filmed, and the water looks amazing. I have lived in Florida most of my life, and I feel like they captured it well. Along with the setting, the only good thing this movie does is SOME tactics they use. With those rare scenes, they actually use smarts, and plan out the method of attack.  The music in this movie is pretty decent. Some songs play during the fighting and it works well, and makes it entertaining. These moments are rare as well, mainly playing during the parts when they decided to use smart tactics. Gun fire is believable, and the noise of boats racing over the ocean feels like your right next to it. But again sound doesn't make a movie, it is only part of it  The special features are not too bad for this movie. The commentary is more entertaining than the movie itself. He talks about real life events he tried and recreate during the movie, and that was interesting hearing about real undercover cops. They also show the typical behind the scenes, and how they filmed parts of the movie.  Overall I say pass on this movie. I saw this in theaters and was sorely disappointed, and only bought it because it was really cheap (got it when Circuit City was closing down).  ~ Written: July, 2010  Positives: * Some smart tactics * Ok music and sound effects * Great location  Negatives: * People get more stupid along the way * Same story you've seen a thousand times * Gets boring at the half way point * Lackluster ending

no balance had there been any balance in this film, i could have spared a few more stars.  as it is, this is nothing more than tim alexander's big chance to share with us his distaste for black women.  pitting a truly good man against a crazy woman for this kind of documentary was a very bad idea.  actually, there was something objectionable about the personalities of most of the characters portrayed by actresses.  the guys, on the other hand, all come off looking like beaten down, beleaguered "good men" who've been done wrong by their shrewish lovers.  almost none of the men who appeared in this film had anything good to say about black women.  i noticed that whenever a woman said things that didn't mesh with the interviewer's opinion, he was quick to ask, his voice oozing judgement, "do YOU have a man?"  a woman who doesn't have a man isn't necessarily without one because she nags or puts men down.  we're supposedly in the wrong if we stay with a man who isn't right for us or denigrated if we refuse to get involved with a man who doesn't meet our needs or to whom we're not attracted.  we're either too picky or not picky enough.  and there's certainly something wrong with a woman who helps her man out when he's in need but ends up getting screwed because he sees her as weak and a patsy.  whatever choice a black woman makes, it will be seen by someone else as a bad choice.  this documentary doesn't hold men and women to the same standards.  women are criticized for having children with more than one man, but i don't recall hearing the same criticism of a man who has randomly sprinkled his seed from one end of the country to the other and has more kids than he can count, let alone support.  furthermore, if so many children are being raised in single-parent (mother only) homes, which is pinpointed again and again as one cause of the "angry black woman syndrome", it could be because the men know they don't have to stay if they don't want to.  it was mentioned several times that tonya's friends should not have been involved in her relationship with james.  these women were not always in favor of the way she handled her marriage, but the negative aspects of their opinions always took center stage.  still, it was because of their friendship that one woman narrowly escaped being beaten to a pulp by her man.  sometimes a woman's girlfriends are her only link to sanity and her only source of strength.  this isn't to say that such involvement is always right, but it certainly isn't always wrong.  i was intrigued by mr alexander's definition of "strong black woman", a term i have come to hate for my own reasons.  to him, it means, "i can give you grief and you can't shut me up and i'm gonna wear you down until you just wanna hit me".  is this a clue to the character traits of the women with whom he's been involved?  if so, he should consider this:  black women were, several times, accused of making bad choices and "attracting" the wrong kind of man, which can only be translated to mean that if her man's a jerk it's her fault.  but the male interviewees who made these claims were not all chosen by their women.  most of them scoped those women out and got what they wanted based on what was important to them at the time, usually looks, status, financial gain or sex.  maybe mr alexander needs to take note of that and be more discriminating in his own choices.  as a result, he might be a better filmmaker.  the editing process for this documentary probably eliminated lots of intelligent input from black women, and even black men, who have a healthier understanding of why we are the way we are.  maybe mr alexander will put those together for a different story when he calms down.  (clarification:  the two stars are not for the documentary;  i'd have given no stars if amazon allowed it.  they're for that magnificent work of art, jimmy jean-louis.  he's worth five stars all. by. himself.  my, my, my.)

Disappointing Blu This movie took a very long time to make it to Blu Ray.  So when it did I couldn't wait to upgrade this film from dvd to blu.  Imagine my surprise to find this elegantly written, and beautifully photographed film to be quite grainy, overly contrasty, and drab.  At one point I actually put in my old dvd to compare.  Although it was softer in comparison the blu isn't that much of an upgrade. Heavy sigh.  I believe the marketing term that they used is newly 'remastered'. Extremely hard to believe.  John Toll deserved the Oscar that he won and the film is worthy of a better 'remastering' than the one that is offered here.  Its a huge disappointment to see this movie in Blu.  It is one of the poorest discs remasted in the medium.  Buyer beware.

Even the best actors can get stuck in a stinker! I bought this film based on other reviews and the fact that it featured one of my favorite actors: Chad Allen.  While he did a good job, I can only imagine how it felt for him to be stuck in such a "less than stellar" role.  May I suggest that you will really enjoy any of the other films he appears in.  The "Donald Strachey" detective mysteries, (any of the four), or even "SAVE ME".  These allow him to command the screen with a presence that is not unlike a young James Gagney! As for this film, I'm glad that I saw it, but do not need to repeat the experience!

A movie that toys with it's reality Clearly the people making this movie thought that displaying Christina Ricci's naked body (I hope that a warmer was placed in the porcelain mortuary table) and confusing the viewers about whether she was alive or not was sufficient to make a movie.  A note to the director: cadavers do not breathe, and cannot fog a mirror.  This, however, is one of the ways in which the director attempts to trick the viewer into thinking that the Ricci's character may be alive and the prisoner of a psychotic undertaker, not one who can communicate with the dead. Creating this ambiguity is the "shtick" of this movie. Confusing the viewer by creating ambiguity about is real and what isn't in the context of the story a gimmick that been used before, and it's one I detest. It's is equally unsettling - a sad ending for the Mac person.

Very Boring Movie I am trying to watch this Movie from 4 days and got sleep after watching 30 min. It is a never ending Movie for me

Lean Back and Smell the Carnage A proudly British post-apocalyptic sci-fi / fantasy / action / adventure flick. Seemed like this one couldn't settle on a specific movie to rip off, so it just grabbed a fistful of mismatched favorites and crammed them all together into one big, horribly jumbled mess. I think it's safe to say this is the first time a film has ever transitioned from Outbreak to 28 Days Later to Children of Men to Escape From New York to Lord of the Rings to Gladiator before finally settling into Mad Max for the big finish. By the third shift in cast, setting and theme, I'd written the whole thing off and was content to just sit back and enjoy the train wreck. If you've ever been browsing the shelves and thought to yourself "I'm really in the mood for a cannibalistic, choreographed, ska-based dance number set in the charred remains of the Thunderdome, but there's nothing here that fits the bill," well, look no further. High marks for the visuals, though, which were about the only reason anyone should give a second thought to tuning in.

A kiss does not a theme make I tried to stay with it, but ultimately -- I drifted. Another Asian movie about homosexuality without any homosexual sexuality.

last Night Kiera knightly normally has selected excellent movies to star in.  I found this one very dull and boring-a complete dissapointment

More reliable sources are available Kent Hovind is not a scientist, biologist, or archeologist. He was a Christian school teacher who begain collecting and compiling information and theories about creationism and evolution into a series of lectures and sermons. Some of what he has to say is good, while some is rejected by even creationists. Dr. Hovind is also a believer in conspirarcy theories about the UN, the US Government, and 9-11, and is a tax resister (which led to his conviction on tax evasion charges). While this has little to do with his work on creationism, it does call into question his credibility.  If you want to research or study creationism, I recommend that you pass on Dr. Hovind's work and check out material by organizations like Answers In Genesis and Creation Ministries International. They employ real scientists and are much more reliable sources of creationist material.

A wait that wasn't worth it It took a little longer to get in the mail than I thought it would, but the movie was entertaining .  I can't say I would recommend it though.

Bored stiff. I'm glad I only rented this. I admit this sort of movie is not my cuppa tea. I won't be buying it. Owls are messengers according to some Amerindian beliefs. Is this why they were represented? I didn't get anything out of this. Certainly no fright. It takes something extremely scary to do that. Movies generally do not have that factor. Not for me anyway.

Boring movie I found the approach of focusing on an elderly Margaret Thatcher in her declining years and flashing back to events in her life very unpleasant and disjointed. This was a Lady who had an enormous effect on her country and it would have made a compelling film to present her life story in a normal progression with minimal emphasis on her post prime minister days.

Buyer Be Aware There are two different versions of this epic.  One of them has 1212 minutes that is put out by ABC and the other has 1392 which is put out by Warner Brothers.  I bought the epic that was 1212 minutes and was very disappointed.  It was heavily edited to where it rendered the whole epic butchered.  I watched the entire mini series in the 80's and love it.  But, when I received the current version and started watching it I realized that a lot of the love scenes were missing.  It had been heavily edited to where it didn't make much sense in places. It made the whole story line disjointed and you wound up having to guess what was going on between the actors.  That is something I do not like doing. It ruined what was a terrific mini series for me.  It was in my opinion a complete waste of money. I feel like I was sorely had by the company that put this travesty on the market.

Ok, so what was this movie about? Promoted as "A psychological duel" and starring Robert De Niro and Edward Norton, 'Stone' tells the story of a parole officer on his final days prior to retirement trying to see his pending cases through the end.  Among those pending cases is the one of a guy named Gerald Creeson (who wants people to call him 'Stone') who was convicted for accessory and arson. I think the major problem I found with this movie is that it tries to cover plenty of ground and fails to deliver when the movie ends. Each of the three main characters have troubles of their own, but the character development, despite the excellent acting from De Niro and Norton, does not satisfy at all. I am not going to give away any spoilers but reading a pamphlet (the movie relies heavily on spiritual references)or witnessing a violent act can barely be considered as a major turn or conduct for an epiphany for a character as the one involved in these two cases. This psychological  thriller builds on many things towards the end but leaves whatever resolution ambiguous, when the movie ended my wife and I were ... well, surprised with the way it ends... surprised in a bad way...  For those who may have seen it and want to own or perhaps those interested to watch it to form an opinion of their own, the DVD is presented in anamorphic widescreen 2.40:1, the video presentation is nothing that should stand out in Bluray so you may want to save a few dollars and get the DVD version instead; the only language option is English Dolby Digital 5.1 (the movie isn't really going to use your sound system that much anyways) and with English and Spanish subtitles. No special features other than the trailer and a making of documentary that lasts about 6 minutes. Trailer for other Anchor Bay titles are included.  I knew when released this movie got a mixed reception but I wanted to give it a shot, my recommendation would be to try and rent it first. If you are a fan of any of the three protagonists I don't doubt you may enjoy at least their acting like I did, as a movie, I can see now why this movie flopped in theaters.

The Sin of Apathy It's not very often that a post-apocalyptic flick with heavy religious undertones comes by, as such a project has the fascinating potential to make observations or comments on the role of religion in society. Yet, "Priest," while starting out strong, sadly doesn't take full advantage of it's source material to make a compelling tale.  "Priest" takes place in a post apocalyptic version of earth, where, for thousands of years, humanity and vampires have been at war. After the introduction of Priests, humans with seemingly supernatural powers, the vampires were defeated. But now, years later, the priests, disbanded, must move again when the vampires start to rise again, only to find that the church they once supported now will seemingly do anything to keep the vampire menace a secret.  While it has a fascinating premise, "Priest" finds itself in the situation where it's fictional world is more fascinating then the story being told. The idea of a super-corrupt church trying to maintain it's power at any cost while a vampire menace threatens to kill everyone is fascinating, even more so if some of it's powerful soldiers defy it. But the story doesn't go into these ideas too deeply, mainly focusing instead on a chase plot line that's not as compelling, and didn't get my attention emotionally. However, the film does offset it somewhat with some great visuals (the absolutely gigantic desert vistas are beautiful) and an exciting third act set mostly on a giant train.  In the end though, "Priest" is something of a missed opportunity. The potential for a really interesting story isn't taken as far as it could have, and while we have some exciting set pieces late in the film, for the most part everything else is familiar "Powered uber-soldier goes on personal quest" territory.

Uhmmmm......... Quoting another reviewer : ¨One need not be a Christian to enjoy and, even, embrace the unspoken messages of these wonderful pieces¨.  On the one hand, the messages are all BUT unspoken; they're VERY outspoken if you care to listen to the lyrics. Don't get me wrong; I own a sizable chunk of RW's music work, and practically all of his dvd releases, even the sparser, piano-only ones which are always a delight to watch and listen, and could not care less about his religious or political beliefs. I am one to totally dissociate these kind of things from the music I listen, and totally LOVE Rick's ¨grumpy old man¨ cynical humour and anecdotes. But the whole atmos here reeks SO much of christianism it's overwhelming. I don't appreciatte bible bashing.  Technically, sound and pic are very good. But that's as much as it goes IMO.  This DVD just doesn't cut it for me. The piano playing is lazy and unimaginative, like a rushed excuse to convey the religious message. Wife and daughter's vocals never spoke to me on other releases, merely getting the job done, and were totally off on this one.  Bottom line I ebayed it after the fist listen. But if you're a hardcore lover of the catholic gospel, it may appeal to you in at least that level. Buy at your own risk.

Lacks character I liked this movie but the ending ruined it. Minor spoilers ahead. Although the sets were fantastic and the watery setting was very nice, all the people in the film lack character. Oh, sure you learn about their pasts, but no one develops or changes much.  This is especially true for the movie's main villain. It's just an evil thing. Sure it has motivation, but there's no chance for redemption or resolution. The first 90% is good spooky entertainment. The last bit is high budget indie laziness disguised as high concept. It's more a record of events than a story.

not what I was expecting It came as advertised but I was expecting a few more dances and longer dances than the disc had on them. They were still fun to learn but I am glad I didn't buy these at full price else where.

Same old same old Same jerky movement and fast flips and flashes . Tired of all the haunted movies and shows going to this type of filming its gotten too old .

propaganda film In the old days of the so-called"greatest generation" Hollywood used to churn out the sort of John Wayne,god-bless-america,flag-waving propaganda films that were designed to make us proud of who we were and what we represented..This was particularly the case when Hollywood chose to produce a war film...The enemy was always the other guy,and our soldiers,sailors,marines and fliers were always the good guys..Sure,we might have a few cowards or bad apples in the bunch but overall we represented freedom,justice and the proverbial"american way"...   ..All that has changed and"In the valley of elah"is a prime example of this change..Instead of portraying our guys as the proverbial good guys this film paints a portrait of sadism,cruelty,drug addiction,fear and wanton,unnecessary violence,and all of that alledgedly represents who and what our military have become... As a propaganda film smearing the military and,at the same time making a low-key statement about who we are and what we are doing in Iraq "In the valley of elah" has been praised by the same elements within both the film industry and those paid to critique and review films for the public.. ..but in the end it is a propaganda film and little else,in that it takes what at the begining of the film it identifies as"actual events"and extrapolates them into a narrow and self-serving statement designed to cheapen those who serve while questioning why they do so... While I personally cannot claim to support the Iraq war neither do I view our military as the wantonly sadistic,confused,lowlife bottom-feeders that this film has painted them to be... One can only wonder why Hollywood cannot make a war-oriented film that is neither a flag-waving pie-in-the-sky pile of flapdoodle or a negative assault of who we are and everything we stand for?

20-something wasteland If you were 18 when the first Harry Potter movie came out (as Justin Timerlake's character claims to have been), you might be able to relate to this movie...if you are also emotionally shallow and think the world revolves around your feelings.  Otherwise, you will probably find it to be predictable, trite, slow-moving, and just plain silly.  Its only redeeming quality is that its overarching message focuses on the importance of starting romantic relationships as a strong friendship.  Oh, and be prepared to watch Kunis and Timberlake have sex about 500 times.  While both of these people are attractive enough, after awhile, it just gets plain tedious.

Can't even spare a full show opening? I love Johnny Carson. I can understand truncating the shows, and I can live with the horrible fade-outs in mid interview, but, couldn't they at least give us the complete show open? Would it have killed them?  We have to have a horrible fade in as Ed is saying 'and now, here's Johnny?'  i find the editing and fade ins and outs to be very amateurish.

The Paul Gross show This film actually put me to sleep. I watched the "Road to Passchendaele" feature on the DVD and it seemed to go on forever. One thing is quite clear and that is Paul Gross seems very fond of himself and his abilities. The film is heavy-handed and slow. It alternates between battle scenes and scenes on the homefront. I never believed the far-fetched romance with the Canadian nurse nor her brother with asthma who manages to enlist and winds up being looked after by Gross's character of Sergeant Mann, ala Saving Private Ryan. Yes, the battle scenes are gruesome and well filmed. It is just that the rest of the film is not on a par with the action scenes. I much more enjoyed The Red Baron and Flyboys. Perhaps maybe if Paul Gross had not tried to dominate every possible part of this film the results might have been better. The actual events on which this film is based were very significant and the Canadian forces made a great sacrifice and contribution. It is just a pity that this was not more obvious than Mr. Gross trying to carry the film solely by himself. He should at least have left the writing of the screenplay to someone more capable and objective. Then he would have been left with only top-star billing, directing and executive producing. Has anyone outside of Canada ever heard of Paul Gross before or since this film was made anyway??

Not what I expected I just received I am Legend collectors Edition but I only received 2 of 3 discs!!!!  The Digital Copy of the movie is missing and it was one of the main reasons i bought this edition.  Also the movie does not have Spanish Subtitles as advertised. The movie is exceptional BUT this edition does NOT include all the items advertised by Amazon!!!!!!! Be aware of this

Awasome Movies, terrible edition! The movies are old, but im a big fan of DBZ, so when i see it in BD i buy it in a blink. But i really dont understand why nobody say this is NOT a remaster edition, the japanese audio is horrible, and the image is just and upsacle of a dvd. I live in onether country, so i can not demand a refound, but f you read this, wait for a real remaster edition. I recomend you search in a japanese web store first, if you can find it there, forget to gat it here. I am very disapointed.

the worst ok this wm was a joke and i was sooo pissed off whn i sent the org themes for hhh and takers entrances was edited like i took the damn cd out wtf wwe y would u edit out the org theme music for that night yet the chairshot 2 the head of taker wasnt edited out guess the themes were not pg but the chair shot which is suppose 2 be banned that was alright wow wwe is just full of shtt more times than not dont buuy this dvd the show regardless  ...

Ugg... Really? This movie was absolutely horrible. I'm still trying to figure out why a "shoulder cam" movie has mood music. The shakey camera movies have been done to death since mid 2000. The story was cookie-cutter with an almost carbon-copy "Blair Witch" ending. Save your money, or, if you're curious just rent it to save yourself a few.

CORNY,BUT SOMEWHAT ENJOYABLE. ONLY WATCH THIS IF YOU ENYOY WATCHING PEOPLE FALL TO THEIR DEATH OR GET KILLED BY HUGE PIECES OF BUILDING LANDING ON THEM.AWFUL IN A GOOD WAY.....NOT GOOD SPECIAL EFFECTS ,BUT IT WAS MADE IN THE 60'S

bad film Gossip is a terrible movie.  It's about what happens when you spread rumors involving rape and murder, however the execution of the writing and storytelling leaves me scratching my head and wondering how anybody thought such a concept was good enough to actually release to movie theaters across the country.  My biggest complaint is that none of the characters were interesting enough. Actually, there's more of an issue here than simply "not interesting enough".  It's like every single actor and actress in this film was totally wrong for the part, so their role came across as either awkward or boring.  I found myself caring about absolutely nobody, or anything they had to say.  The poor writing was probably mostly responsible for this, however.  I suppose the ending is decent which is why I'm going to be nice and give Gossip 2 stars instead of 1, but other than the ending, the storytelling, lack of suspense, and lack of interesting direction really was a major distraction for me, and it's plainly obvious Gossip would flop right from the unbelievable nature of the characters in the beginning of the movie with everyone hitting on each other at a nightclub and acting like it's perfectly normal to act this way.  It came across as just really weird to me.

violence on steroids Can you say violent?  I lost count of the bloody murders after the 15th slaughter in this movie.  I'm no prude, but when you have killing for the sake of killing it gets a bit ridiculous.  And using f**k every other word gets a bit tiring after the 100th usage of the word. Even Michelle Pfeiffer's character agrees with me.  At the end it said the move was dedicated to Ben Hecht and Howard Hawks.  It should have been dedicated to Quentin Tarantino.  Hawks and Hecht would turn over in their graves if they saw what passed as a "slight" remake of their classic.  This movie is like the original in only the title.  Al Pacino is a great actor, but compared to his classic jobs in the Godfather and Serpico, he should be ashamed, and this was almost 30 years ago this bloody joke was made.  The gore was way over the top(the blood fests by Tarantino were Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by comparison).  If you want to see a classic, don't rent or buy this movie.  It isn't worth it.

Disjointed with fantastic performances Set in the 1950s, The Deep Blue Sea is the story of Hester Collyer (Rachel Weisz). When you're first introduced to her, she's seen recovering from a suicide attempt and it's slowly revealed that she's torn between two lovers. She was originally married to the wealthy High Court judge Sir William Collyer (Simon Russell Beale), but was cheating on him with the careless former Royal Air Force pilot Freddie Page (Tom Hiddleston). Hess had a mutual affection for Collyer, but fell into deep, passionate love with Freddie. Now on a path that will lead her to her own self destruction, Hess now finds herself at a crossroads that even she has difficulty deciding which direction to travel down next.  The frustrating thing about The Deep Blue Sea is that it takes about thirty to forty minutes to fully grasp the story the film is trying to tell. The romantic drama is mostly told through a series of flashbacks, but it's frequently difficult to distinguish what happened in the past and what's currently happening in the present. As the film progresses and Hess is shown with Collyer right after just having an argument with Freddie, things become a bit easier to process. Earlier on though, especially when Hess is first getting up and around after her suicide attempt is when you feel kind of lost.  Part of me thought the entire film was going to be Rachel Weisz standing in front of a curtained window smoking the entire time and in a way it kind of was. There was suicide, cheating, and a really stuffy and uptight woman (Collyer's mom played by Barbara Jefford) that you wanted to slap for being so obnoxious, but the entire point seemed lost. It all doesn't really click until Collyer walks in on Hess' phone call with Freddie, the car ride Hess and Collyer share immediately after, and the scene where Freddie finds the letter in Hess' pocket.  Even though the film itself didn't exactly sit well with me, the performances didn't make up for the film's shortcomings but were easily the most enjoyable aspect. The three individuals involved in the love triangle are downright exceptional at times. They're all capable of telling the story of the film with that look of despair in their eyes; that one that looks like they're about to burst into tears but the men never do.  The relationship between Hess and Collyer reminded me of a former relationship my mom had where someone was so deeply in love with her, but she just didn't feel the same way about him. She had a fondness for him and cared about him, but didn't love him in that way. Simon Russell Beale does a really fantastic job portraying a man just trying to wrap his head around that. Freddie is a man who enjoys drinking too much, is a bit too proud of his accomplishments as a pilot, and a jokester with an immature sense of humor. He's very passionate about everything that he does and Tom Hiddleston does a great job bringing all of that out on-screen. His outbursts were some of the highlights of the film.  The real treasure in the film though is Rachel Weisz. I can honestly say that I've never seen a better performance from her. She wants to make it work with Freddie so bad, but at the same time doesn't enjoy being the cause of Collyer's anger and sorrow. Weisz's facial expressions give life to the emotional game of tug of war she's putting herself though more than simple words ever actually could. It all masterfully comes together in the final scene of the film where Weisz finally breaks down and the amount of despair that she feels drops down on your chest like a 35-pound cinder block.  It seemed like every sound effect used in the film was being done into a tin can. Spoken dialogue sounded fine, but every sound had this echo effect to it. Doors being shut were the biggest offenders, but the scene at Collyer's mother's house where they're eating supper was littered with the noises of utensils being used that seemed too loud or there was too much of an emphasis on them or something.  The Deep Blue Sea was not meshing well with my cinematical tastes and opinions when it first began. Its disjointed technique of storytelling took some getting used to. However once things got going the film reminded me of my life back in 2007 as I watched my mom go through something similar. While it was honestly one of the worst times of either of our lives, it made it easier to connect to the characters in the film and understand what they were going through. Rachel Weisz has never been better as The Deep Blue Sea is her best performance to date. At the end of the day, The Deep Blue Sea is worth giving a chance based on Weisz's performance alone.

Why Did They Escape? The movie dates from 1979, so by now it's more than thirty years old.  Having watched it last night, I can only say it shows its age.  In a way Escape From Alcatraz is as revealing of the 1970s as a typical 1950s movie would be revealing of that decade.  Consider first of all that the film depicts not just a state prison, but one that houses criminals from the entire United States, and the toughest ones at that.  That's got to be one interesting community--though the viewer will note that African Americans are significantly under-represented, relative not only to the percentage of the US population that was black, but especially to the disproportionately large percentage of African Americans that are in prison today.  Apparently the most dangerous and most incorrigible criminals in the early 1960s were overwhelmingly white.  And that is only the first of several surprising historical facts that await us in this movie.  After an admittedly unpleasant altercation in the shower on the first day--with the one truly rotten apple in the entire prison--the movie goes on to open a window onto a world full of gentle and mutually supportive inmates, ready to open up about their pasts even to newcomers (with stories that invariably reveal them to have ended up in Alcatraz due to extraordinary bad luck), and not afraid to show their sensitive and vulnerable side.  (The Clint Eastwood character stands out as the tough guy mainly because he looks brooding and cultivates a reluctance to speak.)  Also, refreshingly, nobody smokes--making Alcatraz one of the very few smoke-free environments you were likely to encounter in 1962.  These inmates are offered amenities that make Alcatraz a veritable paradise, at least as compared, say, to your average Medieval monastery, or to prisons in less developed countries around the world.  In fact, one reason why the movie is so unbearably slow is that the prisoners seem to be spending endless amounts of time just relaxing outside, basking in the sun, playing baseball, or strolling around.  And that is not even the best part of their day.  There is a well-stocked library at Alcatraz, with books and magazines brought to you daily on your doorstep.  There are regular movie nights.  There is a prison jazz band.  There is a workshop with all the tools and materials you can ask for, in which you are allowed to make anything your fantasy chooses to dream up.  There are painting privileges, which means having an assortment of canvases, paint brushes, and an oil paint kit in your very own cell.  (The prisoners consider it a grave injustice when these privileges are suddenly denied to one of the inmates, and the movie encourages us to perceive this as cruel and unusual punishment.)  Oh, one more thing: the Clint Eastwood character casually mentions at one point that he is going to "order" an accordion. The next thing you know he has one in his prison cell, with no obligation to play it, let alone play it well. (Nowadays you can't get a decent accordion for under $300.)  All of this at taxpayer's expensive: I wonder how such a prison system would go down with American voters today.  In fact I wonder how any prisoner could have been desperate enough to want to escape from Alcatraz.  I'm sure it sucks to have your freedom taken away, but that is not necessarily an injustice if the years you spend in prison are the dues that society exacts, and has a right to exact, after you committed armed robbery or multiple homicide.  Maybe a person of more than average intelligence might even come to accept that society must do something about the kind of violent crime he committed, and that he cannot expect the system to make an exception for him.  But although the Clint Eastwood character is said to have an exceptionally high I.Q., reasonableness of this kind is not among his strong points.  From Day One he is thinking about escape, as if it were somehow a basic human right, even for a career criminal like him, to walk free among the rest of us, no matter what danger he might present to society.  Whatever made him so determined not to pay his dues to society, it cannot have been conditions at Alcatraz.  A word about the guards.  Let it not be said that these are completely oblivious to anything suspicious going on. In fact they come close to discovering the plot on a number of occasions.  That it nevertheless remains undetected is due not to the prisoners' cunning, or their ability to not act suspiciously, but rather to the guards' extraordinarily readiness to give them the benefit of the doubt.  For a maximum security prison they do seem unusually trusting. Does it smell around the main character's cell like he has been doing some DIY welding? Sure it does, because he's just had to light several hundred matches at once to reach the required temperature. Yet the guard who remarks upon the sulphur smell, a few minutes later, is quickly reassured because the prisoner himself declares convincingly that "I don't smell nothin'." Is there a loud noise coming from the corridor above the cells?  Sure there is, because our escapees are busy cutting through metal bars with the help of an air fan turned electric saw. Yet the guard who hears it decides, after listening more carefully for a few seconds, that it was probably nothing, for no sound is genuinely suspicious unless you hear it a second time.  Yet in a way all this makes the movie kind of endearing.  It dates back to a time when this depiction of prison life seemed totally realistic, and perfectly unobjectionable, to American movie audiences.  The film did not provoke an outcry about wastefulness in the prison system coupled with a demand for lower taxes. It shows a kinder and gentler world, in which even the toughest criminals were nicer than most of your colleagues in the workplace today, in which inmates were treated well, in which they were encouraged to develop their creative faculties, allowed recreations of all kinds, lived relatively stress-free lives--and in which even the few who repaid these kindnesses with the cynical affront of a prison escape came off looking like heroes in the end.  Treasure this movie, folks, for those days will never come back.  Not within your lifetime anyway.

Maybe Love Dies After All A sequel to Phantom of the Opera may have been an impossible task.  This was certainly a disappointment.  Raoul has certainly gone downhill fast.  Also, it appears that the Phantom did a bit more to Christine then just sing to her.  You'd think that she might have figured out he was a man and not an angel a bit faster in the original.  In any event, except for "Devil Take the Hindmost" the music wasn't all that good, and I liked neither the plot nor the ending.  The author of the book is certainly rolling over in his grave.

Bait & Switch DON'T DEAL WITH THESE FOLKS....ARCHIE-BBUNKER......I ordered a DVD of Fiddler on the Roof "Collector's Edition" (a two disk set) not once, but TWICE through Amazon from a company called Archie-bbunker. BOTH times they sent me a LESS expensive Fiddler on the Roof "Anniversary Edition" (a one disk set). Now I do not have what I wanted & have paid a LOT more money to have it!!!!

Massive second hand embarrassment while watching this Hugh Jackman was paid $9million to act in this movie: maybe he should take that money and hire a better manager that can get him decent scripts.  This was just sad to watch - Jackman, usually a pleasure to watch, decided that his character should be shouting out his every line. Probably to distract the audience from just how bad this movie is.  Zero character development, thinnest plotline ever, stereotypes vs. actual characters, and a truly, horrendously painful russian accent.  The robot, Atom, is very cool though. I would have been happy to watch more of it.  They should have just cut out the "estranged father/son bonding" stuff, and just put in more robots.  At least THEY could act; which is more than you can say about the actual human actors in this movie.  Please don't spend your $4 on renting this: just wait till it comes out on tv.

I must be a philistine because I did not like this. I have been meaning to see this film for years ever since reading a review by Roger Ebert where he raved about it.  So when I saw it was going to be shown on cable, I tivo'd it and began watching it with fairly high expectations.  But my interest in the story (which remained high until the narrator arrived at the restaurant) evaporated when Andre began to talk...or more accurately babble about his wonderful experience in Poland with forty people who didn't speak a word of English and "beehives" and the like.  Frankly, I found Andre unbelievably annoying and felt like shouting "get over yourself and go do something worthwhile with real people" at the screen.  Andre came across as someone who was so privileged and spoiled, he didn't even realize that he lived inside a world that had little to do with that of 99.999 percent of the rest of humanity.  As such, I found him impossible to relate to and not someone I would have listened to if I met him in real life.  So I deleted it.  I have no problem with dialogue driven movies, but I need people in them who I can relate to and Andre did not fit the bill.  In contrast, I found Aaron Eckhardt and Helena Bonham Carter in "Conversations with Other Women" a LOT more interesting and sympathetic and "real."  So I'd recommend you watch that instead of this.  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000JJ5G4W">Conversation(s) With Other Women</a>

have to agree with some others... Just saw this, and while it's certainly easy to appreciate what Ralston endured, it just didn't make for a compelling film for me. Franco was excellent within the limitations of the script, and the camera work was superb. That being said, though, before his accident, Aron came off as a kind-hearted, likeable guy, but also a bit of an airhead.Still, what he went through was hideous, and while Boyle managed to convey a lot of that, I also totally grasp that while the flashbacks were the only way to develop Aron's character, a number were either too long, too confusing, or simply not necessary. It's also true certain facts from the book would've really helped the film. The last was there were several scenes, particularly some of the "wandering" or long, panning shots that went on too long. Again, I understand Boyle was trying to convey the vastness of the canyon and the area, but we all got it after the first or second camera sweep. No need to keep revisiting it. To me it was a well-shot, well-acted film that was almost sunk with an overambitious but weak script.

Do some drugs first This movie is clearly a great example of why I stay away from "art-house" theaters. Another reviewer said "if you want a linear plot, blah, blah, blah". If I wanted to experience a brain-bending psycho-trip I would just drop some acid (but I don't, so I didn't). The movie has plenty of good special effects but the pace is really slow and the acting does not carry it through (over, past?) the overly abstract story line. If you decide youi like this movie, good for you. Most people won't make it past the first 20 minutes. My recommendation is to not waste your time, unless your time isn't worth much.

Bad acting, cheesy story line... Not all the acting is bad in this movie, but the story line is pretty cheesy. At first I thought adding cartoon scenes to the movie was funny and creative but then it just got ridiculous; especially during the dog attack and and trolly scenes.  Watch if you can for free, but I wouldn't pay for it. :(

Not Dread Just Dreadful Although this film is very well produced and Bill Paxton does a nice parody of Jimmy Buffett, the collective-effort script by Broken Lizard never rises above paint-by-the numbers scenes which in the end are the same as a bad painting. The major problem is the feeble attempt to be a comedy-horror-spoof film. Unfortunately, the comedic overtures are never funny unless you are fifteen years old and the horror scenes are not funny nor scary unless you are thirteen years old.  Sixteen and seventeen year old boys will like the extended version for the brief scenes of girls topless or nude but they are gratuitous like most of the scenes. It seemed like I was watching skits from a comedy workshop which were well performed but nothing more than acting exercises. I was left wondering why so much effort was put into making this film because the script is nothing but a collection of lame situations for cliche characters.  Young men will enjoy looking at Brittany Daniels but her character is pedestrian and she is never more than eye candy. Unfortunately, she is never exploited as a sex symbol and in the end is simply an attractive girl in a bikini. She like all the characters is not enough to sustain your interest. You can talk on the phone or go to the toilet while watching this film and never miss anything important. It simply is a feeble attempt at comedy and horror which explains why used DVDs are selling for a penny.

Disturbing Very sad situation.  Definitely filmed to show a family isolated, but I'm sorry - isolation does not mean that you can't leave.

Review of Criterion's packaging, NOT the movie itself. This review is strictly in regard to Criterion's packaging. The film is incredible, and the Blu-ray transfer is fantastic, but the packaging is absolutely terrible. It's the same cheap cardboard Digipak case and sleeve that considerably lessened my enthusiasm for the Blu-ray release of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003KGBISY">Seven Samurai (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray</a>]. Albeit cardboard, at least Seven Samurai was appropriately sized and moderately sturdy, whereas The Night of the Hunter is ignominiously offered up in a cheap cardboard case which is oddly over-sized, loosely constructed and therefore wobbly, and will not sit comfortably amongst other Blu-rays or DVDs, Criterion or otherwise. Anyone familiar with the shoddy packaging of the recently released <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0057R5XRG">Jurassic Park Ultimate Trilogy (Blu-ray + Digital Copy)</a> will know exactly what I'm talking about. Considering the enormous respect I have for The Night of the Hunter, and the excitement leading to the Blu-ray release, this is seriously the biggest disappointment ever. Why they couldn't release this in a plastic keep-case, e.g., <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005D0RDNY">Island of Lost Souls (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray</a>], or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00393SFU2">M (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray</a>], (both of which are excellent examples of Criterion getting it right in every regard) is beyond me. This greatly anticipated release is ruined by cheap, ill-conceived, clumsy packaging... Thanks a lot Criterion!

Poor Storytelling The visuals in this film were stunning. The storyline was bland. Things did not make sense. I think it could have been good if they had given more background to the Queen's story. Actually not enough background/fleshed out characters throughout.

Style over substance Simply put: Style over substance. There are some excellent sequences, but that is all this film seems to be, well planned and executed sequences - but with nothing coherent gluing the whole thing together. The `aeroplane near crash and last minute rescue' is extremely impressively realised and the machine gun ammo slamming off Supe's chest followed by the bullet in the eye are magnificent. My jaw was dropping and I almost wanted to cheer. That is what Superman is about: seeing him defeat the bad guys in new, engaging - even amusing - ways. But that was where the fun ended. As what Superman is not about is love children and ridiculous heroic dabblings with kryptonite. I find both to be so hideously implausible that they must both be ridiculed. As Brodie (ably played by Jason Lee in Kevin Smith's Mallrats) points out, "It's impossible! Lois Lane could never have Superman's baby. Do you think her fallopian tubes could handle his sperm? I guarantee you that when he comes during sex, he probably blows a load like a shotgun blast... right through her back." So aside from Lois Lane being alive post coitus, you would then have the impossibility of a human being conceiving and bringing to full term an alien's child. Do not forget that just because Clark Kent looks like and ostensibly acts like a human he is an alien. He is a different species entirely. And entirely different species cannot mate. Just think of the havoc it would cause in the animal kingdom if a lion fell in love with and mated with a crocodile. Or a guinea fowl.  The other issue that makes me quiver with anger is the whole cretinous concept of Superman being physically able to lift an entire continent of kryptonite into outer space. As internet blogger dpogue21 so proficiently phrases it (much better than I could - so thank you dpogue) in his imdb review, "My next major complaint [is] that Superman lifts a continent made out of kryptonite up into outer space. It doesn't take comic book guy from the Simpsons to point out what's wrong with that. I don't know how many comic books Bryan Singer has read, but when Superman is exposed to even a small amount of kryptonite he barely has the strength to stay on his feet. Whoever had the idea to have him fly a large island made out of his greatest weakness into space has no business being associated with any Superman-related projects ever again. The concept is as ridiculous as making a Dracula movie where the title character has a stake through his heart and still manages to fly a spaceship made out of garlic into the sun. Why not just have Superman eat kryptonite? He can eat it and then brush his teeth with it, and then go to sleep in kryptonite pyjamas. That's not any more absurd then having him hoist a continent of kryptonite into space and then fall powerless through the atmosphere without burning up in re-entry or splattering all over central park when he hits the ground." Need I say more? Didn't think so. ** [...]

that thing you didn't do That Thing You Do! was a major disappointment for me.  I believe the only reason the movie became so successful is because it includes Tom Hanks and Liv Tyler, two top name actors and actresses.  The ironic part is that neither one of them is actually involved in a main character moment.  Tom Hanks is the record manager for a young aspiring band called the Wonders, but he never does anything particularly interesting.  Liv plays the role of the girlfriend of a band member but her presence was never really noteworthy or interesting either.  They were both *there* but could have easily been replaced by other actors.  The main problem however is that the storyline never does a single exciting thing.  Ever.  Normally when a young band makes it big and releases a hit song, we know where this is going- a crooked manager is going to come out of nowhere and offer them a deal they can't refuse, so they sign it with the assumption that they will remain on top of the world forever.  However Tom Hanks was more or less an honest straight forward man.  He was never someone whose intention was to screw the band over so they never had to suffer the consequences of signing a contract.  The band dissolves when friction arises and one key member eventually quits.  From there the band falls apart.  The problem?  It takes over *90 minutes* for this to happen.  All the stuff in between is total fluff involving the band members becoming big, touring, performing concerts, and meeting their idols and other famous people to help their career rise even higher.  It was totally boring.  Overall, not one of the more interesting "aspiring young band makes it big" type movies out there.  In fact it's one of the worst.  Don't let the big name Hollywood actors that star in the movie fool you.

Boring and a SHAMELESS cash grab... This is by far the most boring of all these movies. More than half of it takes place in the woods where nothing really happens.  All this could have been condensed to 5 minutes and there would be no need for the second movie.  J.K. Rowling should be ashamed of herself for splitting this book into two movies and sucking her fans dry.

Ordered new, received used. I ordered this DVD, paying a little more because I wanted a NEW one, not used. It arrived in a case wrapped in plastic that was definitely NOT factory sealed- it looked like someone used a cheap wrapping machine.  And the DVD had scratches on it. If I had wanted a USED one, I would have ordered it that way. Didn't bother to return it, because it still works. But I won't order from Movie Mars again- they obviously use false advertising.

dvd Both dvds were scratched. I will have to take them to the local video store to refinish dvds at 1.99 each.

Fun, shallow, campy nonsense with lots of cute girls... Yes, yes, two of the sororities on campus are actually covens of witches.  That's normal behavior.  Anyway, that is more or less the plot of this fun, campy, flick.  If watching a lot of drop-dead gorgeous young college co-eds run around pursuant to a silly plot about witchcraft, sacrifices, etc. appeals to you (it did me) then this film too is for you.  The acting is endurable, the dialog is fun, and the plot is one-dimensional but so what?  Every now and then some of us want to take our critical and cognitive facilities off-line and just have fun.  This film is perfect for that.  RJB.

A Dismal View Of Brazil Over The Last Quarter-Century. 'Lo There All N' Sundry,  This rather involved review was born out of a comment I made on another 1 star review. I figured if I went to all the trouble to explain my aversion to this film, then I might as well make it into a full review, just to validate all my hard work in writing it.  I'm going to be nicer and give it 2 stars, but I will qualify that later as to my justification for the other added star, even though I would never recommend this flick if you're looking for a good time. There are easier and far funner ways to get lucky than to view this film.  I don't believe this film was meant to be fun or to be "enjoyed." I think it it is just another way for Gilliam to pontificate his pet peeves of the moment, and espouse his own particular tedious brand of world view. To say that Terry and I don't see eye to eye on what are really the portentous dilemmas facing society, way back in the 80's or now for that matter, is a gross understatement. Some souls out there may see weighty prognostication in this film, but then some see Jesus in a grilled cheese sandwich. So what does that tell you?  I know I'm going against the grain here, considering all the favorable reviews that have gone before, but I really don't care for Brazil. Never have. Even after multiple viewings. Yep, even the title irritates me as completely inane, but maybe that was Gilliam's nebulous point. The country of Brazil deserves better that to have a film graced with its name that has nothing to do with that beautiful land. I mean come on, folks, a film named Brazil with no samba dancing at Carnival on the beaches of Rio by beautiful caramel skinned sweeties in dental floss bikinis? For shame! Such a misnomer is... Well, that's a bloody bollocks of false advertising right there, Terry, you adopted limey boy.  Okay, let's get on with it.  So look, it's fine if you think Brazil is all that and a dumptruck full of spuds. That's peachy keen with cream in between for you, but here's the deal-ee-oh, yo'. It seems that when somebody doesn't like this film, and puts up a dissenting opinion, a certain segment of the Brazil lovers pounce on these persons as heretics against the Cult of Gilliam.  Just so you'll know where I'm coming from; this ain't my first (nor the second, third, fourth, but fifth) boring bull-ride with the Brahma Beast called Brazil. (Oh, how I wish those had been 8 seconds or less, but anyway...)  See, the first time I saw Brazil, I was 16, and it was at my friend's house. There were 7 people in the room, 3 boys, 4 girls. I don't really remember what predicated us renting the movie, but somehow it ended up in the VCR. The 3 of us boys were best friends, and what educators now call "gifted but unmotivated." You know the type. When we weren't out doing our level best to relieve our ever-present tumescence with some willing sweetie, we were talking about the books we read or the flicks we saw, while we worked on our cars or whatever filled our free time. Schoolwork was always merely an after thought.  Summers were filled with hangin' out, gettin' a lil' buzzed n' baked, cruisin' in our rides, and watchin' flicks, before gettin' some sugar. The night we watched Brazil the first time, well, we were a little distracted, but most of us ended up asleep by the end of the film, except for me. With a girl tucked in the crook of my arm, I blearily finished the film, and my first thought was "What the Effin' Eff? What a bummer, dude!"  Okay, I hadn't caught all of the film. I don't have any excuse, other than that I was otherwise more pleasantly occupied for long stretches at a time, but I still had the film for two days, so the next day I watched it again with one of my buds from the night before. He fell asleep watching it, and that was in the middle of the day! And no, we weren't drunk or stoned. He just so bored slumber just came naturally. I was totally bored as well, but I watched it again all the way through, and again thought "What the Eff?! Holy Shist! This sucked!"  Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was an idiot teenager. What did I know? Well, I knew I loved Monty Python and Benny Hill. I thought Brazil would be funny like that British fare, but except for a few ridiculously farcical moments, I did not even see anything remotely amusing. Now at 16, I was fairly smart and artistic, but not very culturally savvy. But I knew what I liked. I loved <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UBMWG4">Blade Runner</a>! I loved <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0790729342">The Road Warrior</a>! I loved <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003UESJJC">Apocalypse Now</a>. I loved <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000055Y0X">Dr. Strangelove</a>. I did not love Brazil. I was baffled by the title, and by the plot, and the message. What can I say, I was young and inexperienced.  In the years afterward, I have been subjected to viewing the film 3 more times. I went on to college, and I eventually went into film production. In that creative community, there are Brazil fanatics, and when you say that you don't like the film, some of them come unglued and almost foam at the mouth as bad as if you say you're a Republican. Anyway, after a few times of this happening, a friend talked me into another go, so I checked out the film again, just to see if I had been viewing it with adolescent sensibilities, and had been too obtuse to understand the finer points of Gilliam's creation.  So I watched it as a 27-year-old, and guess what? I totally understood what Gilliam was saying. I got it. Even where the obscure title came from. I also saw the artistic choices, and the dystopian vision. I was no longer that testosterone-driven juvenile. And, well, lil' campers, I still was bored. Bored-Bored-Bored. See, to me, being bored with a film is far worse than hating a film. Hatred is a strong emotion. If a film makes you hate, well, at least that's something, but boredom? Apathy? Well, that is inexcusable in my book.  But then you'll say, why did you, dear Jimmy, watch it two more times? Well, I can assure you that it was not by my choice. No-no! Not at all. But cinephiles will do as cinephiles will do, and over the years since my third viewing, I have been at conclaves of production folk that have for one reason or another put Brazil into the player, and I've had to either be rude and leave, or I had to sit through it, and roll my eyes at all the gushing platitudes to Gilliam's so-called brilliance. I expect, before I molder in the grave, that I'll have to likely sit through it again at some point.  The last time was a couple of years ago, when I was 40, and I still was not feeling the supposed mojo of this "sublime satire." In fact, I have a friend who teaches film appreciation at a local university. The department chair is an avid fan of Brazil, and makes my friend show it to every enrolled class as part of the curriculum. I asked my teacher buddy once about how much of a percentage of his students really love the film, and he told me about 10%, while on the other hand, about 65% feel much like he and I in our take-or-leave-it attitude, and last 25% absolutely hate it, usually because they find it so pointless. Now, of course, that is just one small sampling, in Podunk University USA no less, but to me it is indicative of how most Americans feel about the film, and I have to admit, I feel slightly vindicated by his assessment. Of course, that could just be my ethnocentric xenophobia seeping through my charming veneer.  It does seem that Europeans love this thing far more than Americans, but then we Yankee Gringos have always been a bit boorish and infantile, no? Bunch a rootin'-tootin', gunslingin' cowboys are we! Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-Hawwww! Seriously, go to Cannes, and you'll see a good segment of the Continental industry perceive Americans (especially Western ones) exactly that way.  Regardless of that sentiment, here's the thing. It's only the artsy fashion police types that really, Really, REALLY dig this film. The hoity-toity art elite who think the rest of humanity is a teeming mass of unwashed hoi polloi, and only they, The Rarified Enlightened Ones, truly know what constitutes refinement.  Most of us in the biz are just like myself (or maybe it only seems that way from my bias viewpoint.) Our reaction to Brazil is "Meh. Whatever." It doesn't matter what best-of lists the film is on. It just isn't our bag of ex-patriot-American-turned-British tea. Most of us don't care if Gilliam stuck it to the studio system. So what? Most of us know that he has a reputation for thinking he is an avant garde genius, and pretty much saying so regularly, when we all know of course he does have a certain expert skill set, but his schtick is getting pretty old and tired. He's a surrealist, with a dystopian bent; a man boy with severe leftist leanings. (That could describe a passel of folks in Hollywood, ya' know?)  So what's new about that? And in a hundred years will the world, if it survives, look at Brazil, or Gilliam's entire filmography, and go "Bloody, Effing Brilliant!?" Who knows, maybe the British will, but I doubt this opus will be such a monument to his prodigy or a lasting statement about western civilization. It'll just be a movie footnote somewhere, and people will pull out the film infrequently, watch it, and go "People SURE were weird and boring way back in the 1980's UK."  But if this film makes your drawers all gooshy and gives you that certain tingle, or causes you to giggity-giggity-goo in your slickety-slickety-slacks, wow, who am I to deny your illicit pleasure in watching it to your pink parts content?  I just don't like it. The message is stale. It's repetitive. It's boring. The story is neither enlightening, inspired, nor revolutionary, and is actually (to me) an exercise in nonsensically depressive nilism. Life will crush you, no matter what you do, and the only way to escape is death or to sink into your fantasies; thus it it is better to be mad then live in a mad world. (At least that's my take. I'm sure there are other extrapolations from it, but I really don't care. Whatever thay are, they would be just as boring to me.) It's about as exciting as watching an avalanche of molasses rolling down hill in an Alaskan January. Oh, to have the thrill of watching paint dry, or a sward of grass grow, while simultaneously self circumcising yourself as you bludgeon your skull into a boulder, just to relieve the malaise of torpor gripping your brain. I'd rather watch a slide show of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3791329448">Salvador Dali</a> paintings in an endless loop. 'Cause THAT goofy wingnut was an ACTUALLY mad genius.  You want surrealism? Then watch <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005Y71F">Joe Versus the Volcano</a>. (yeah, I know it's romantic comedy. So what?) At least there's a volcano in that one, and it's funnier (and I mean the volcano.) You want dystopian? Watch Dr. Strangelove. It's much funnier, and strangely (no pun intended) still relevant. Hey, but if you're like me, and want a quick cure for insomnia, then watch Brazil. You'll be out like a substandard filament. Crack, pop, bing! Now change that shee-ot, boy! That is, unless you are with a gaggle of effete sycophantic snobs extolling its virtues through the whole freakin' runtime. (By the by, how many arty-farty critic types does it take to change a blown light bulb? None. They have to call somebody from maintenance who actually knows how.)  It's all subjective anyway. But that said, even though I expect it in the future, I could really do without another viewing of this "masterpiece." Bleh.  Even after all that palaver, I'll be fair and give it two stars for certain artistic aspects and nice scoring. Actually, it's more like a sputtering 1 1/2 dark dwarf stars. I'd give it an entertainment value of a big fat, self important, ego-bloated 2 on a scale of 1 to 10.  Hey, but that's only my opinion, and everybody's got one.  8^\

More action, less talking! It was an okay movie.  I was disappointed that all the action seemed to be in the last twenty minutes.

What should have been This looked like a cool action flick.  It looked like a movie that would keep me on the edge of my seat.  It looked like something I might want to buy after renting from Netflix.  It wasn't, it didn't and it ain't.  This is the dullest, most boring movie I have seen in a long time.  With all the stars in the film you would think that there should be something going for it.  There isn't.  It starts out really good for the first fifteen/twenty minutes.  Then it slide downhill into pure boredom and you are just waiting for the movie to end because there is one question you want answered that you know will get answered at the end of the film.  The problem is that this movie so boring that you forget the question you had at the beginning because you just want the movie to end.  It's incredibly slow paced, plodding to its lame conclusion.  This is the most boring, dullest film I have seen in a long time.  Stay away from this movie.  I am not sure but I think that it is based on an old Steve McQueen film.  If I am right, I can guarantee you that the original is light years better than this.

All pounds are prisons and other tired tropes I saw this movie playing on TV a while back. I thought the title and previews made the concept fun to check out since I happen to love any movie about dogs, even silly little kid movies. I didn't expect to be so annoyed and horrified by the depictions. I'm not going into great detail about how the kids act like petty thieves and crooks and never get reprimanded, since there are plenty of other reviews talking about that. No, I'm going to talk about how this film handled their depictions of animal shelters and pet overpopulation.  First the annoying part. Nearly all the strays are purebreeds. It was like seeing a lineup for the best in show at the AKC. Wikipedia has a very accurate list of every single dog that appeared in the film, and there were only two mixed breeds in the entire movie(a puggle and the other an unidentified mutt). This is pretty unrealistic since most dogs in shelters are mixed breeds, and the purebreeds that do show up typically are not obscure breeds like Wirehaired Pointing Griffons (Coco) and Beaucerons (Henry). So the lack of mutts as strays bothered me a bit. At least the dogs used were actually shelter dogs, so that's one good thing. Still, I do wish this movie would have tried to split the difference (maybe half purebreds and half mutts; or the leads be purebreds since they need identical doubles to film, and the rest of the non-important background dogs be mixes).  Next, the horrifying: The screenwriters of this film seriously need to spend some time working at an animal shelter and be properly educated on what shelters do versus pet stores. Pet stores do NOT adopt out cats and dogs. They SELL cats and dogs, and the dogs they get are from backyard breeders and puppymills. No responsible breeder would EVER give their pups to a pet shop. Yet some of the hero kids work at a pet shop that sells (again they call it "adopt") puppies. The pet shop and the kids working there are the good guys, the ones who "truly care about the dogs" and want them to get good homes. Was it too hard for the writers to turn the pet shop into a no-kill rescue group instead and have the kids be junior volunteers? Why did they think it okay to make heroes out of a business that ends up hurting animals in shelters and adding to pet overpopulation?  Speaking of overpopulation, two of their rescues fell in love and it was implied that they reproduced. And this is all portrayed as a heartwarming moment, instead of an unfortunate accident that will just end up sending more homeless pets to the shelters and eventually to be put to sleep.  The animal shelter workers on the other hand are portrayed like typical Disney villains. They hate animals and their only joy in life is catching and killing them. They practically cackle in glee as they terrorize strays, mocking them as they prepare to haul them to "doggy jail". People who actually work in animal rescue love animals and do everything in their power to get them adopted into good homes. No one likes euthanizing them, but is is an unfortunate task that comes with the job due to mass overpopulation. But with TV shows and movies like this portraying people who work in animal shelters as descendants of Cruella DeVille, I'll bet plenty of kids will never want to adopt a dog from Animal Care & Control because "the workers kill animals". They'll probably want to "rescue and adopt" a puppy from a pet store. Too bad for the animals stuck inside the shelters.  If this was just a cute little movie about some kids and dogs doing fun and silly tricks and such, I wouldn't care about some inaccuracies. But this entire movie is just irresponsible and straight up misinforms children! The main protagonists are idolized crooks and liars, the pet stores are portrayed as animal lovers, animal rescue people are villainous animal abusers and murderers, and dogs falling in love and producing bunches of new puppies is shown as a good thing. I can think of dozens of ways that this movie could have been tweaked to still maintain the main storyline, but be a little more honest and educational.  Don't waste your time with this movie if you are not prepared to sit down with younger kids to explain the truth behind all the inaccuracies of this film. I'd rather parents get the Disney movie Bolt instead. Bolt is a heartwarming and exciting dog movie that portrays a more realistic view of shelters without turning the hard working people there into monsters.

Disappointing I was so excited to get the fifth season of Gilmore Girls in the mail! I thought surely this season would be better than the fourth season (which wasn't terrible, but had more cons than pros, in my opinion). But it's been a major disappointment. The only good thing about this season is that Luke and Lorelai are finally dating. Rory is no longer the smart, innocent girl we liked in the earlier seasons. Instead, she's only interested in trapping herself a boyfriend and sleeping around. Her relationship with her mom is extremely two-dimensional, and the witty banter that was such a delight in other seasons is now slow, lacking in references, and just plain boring. It seems the writers have exchanged the intelligence of the show for a soap opera feel.  While there were a few good episodes in this season, I wouldn't recommend buying the entire set. It just isn't worth it.

Innovative Is it real? Is it fake? The simple fact that this movie has blurred the line so effectively makes it successful in its purpose. When was the last time you saw a movie and actually had no idea whether it was real or fake? I believe this film is ahead of its time, and in the future we will be seeing more movies that will make us ask this question. This will be looked back on in twenty years as being the first. That being said, the film is completely unenjoyable on every level. Bonus star for originality.

A joyless Disney film- bleah The Black Cauldron is based, very, very loosely on the first book of a 5 book series about Taran, an assistant pig keeper in the land of Prydain. It was Disney's first PG rated cartoon and it is a prime example of the sort of animated films that nearly destroyed the Disney studios in the dark time between Walt's death and when they made "The Little Mermaid." I loved the books when I was a kid and finally got around to viewing the movie. I'd heard all the rumors but thought `they just didn't get it, I understand the books." Wow was I wrong.  Lloyd Alexander's series is great childrens' adventures and good reading for someone in that age group. In the book Taran is the assistant pig keeper to a wizardly type who is the keeper of a magical oraclular pig. As the land is threatened by an evil 'horned lord'  Taran stumlbes into an adventure where he find personal growth and makes new friends all of whom help each other to become better people.In theory it should have been a wonderful transition to a Disney film. however they badly bobbled it. The head pig keeper in the books comes across as more of a wizardly type while the cartoon makes him into an almost clueless tavern keeper type who somehow thinks sending the oracular pig Hen-wen into the woods will keep her safe from the evil Horned Lord. It doesn't work and the assistant pig keeper goes on a series of adventures with friends he picked up along the way.  The problem is here the film dropped characters, changed some things around from later in the series, added characters, and completely denuded the magic pig and the chief pig keeper of all their significance from early on.  Add to this the animation is not up to the standard one expects of a Disney film. The style looks more like Bakski's rotoscoped films and has none of the whimsy of either Walt's style of animation or what we would later enjoy in films like the Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast or the Lion King. It was just dark and drear and the final effect is, a somewhat confused mess usually remembered by any who saw it in the theatres, and there weren't many, as Disney's worse cartoon feature ever and they weren't off the mark.

Not worth watching I was advised that this DVd was not worth getting and I did not listen. My grand kids and I thought it was a waste of time.

How did I know... I predicted it in my review of the book: Breaking Dawn, the movie, will be a train-wreck.  Wouldn't you know it, I was right.  Ignoring for a moment the scathing reviews this film has received from critics everywhere, the story itself was predictably over-dramatic. While this chapter deals with more adult issues (marriage, children, etc.) the movie failed miserably at any and all attempts at maturity. In fact, I found myself laughing more than anything else during this movie, which I'm sure irritated the Twihards to no end.  Let us begin with the positives... Oh, wait, there aren't any. Sure it was funny, but something tells me that wasn't entirely intentional.  So, the negatives... Well, there are too many to list. From the anti-climactic wedding, to the disturbing honeymoon, all the way down to the unsatisfying ending, Breaking Dawn Part 1 is a bad setup to what will be an even worse conclusion. That's my prediction, and I'm sticking to it. See it for yourself, but don't say I didn't warn you.

Not any full season It's not going to be a whole season or anything on DVD, it's just going to be a bunch of episodes.

One of Jet Li's WORST Movies Ever Before continuing with the review, I would like to note that I am a huge fan of Jet Li and Jason Stratham.  However, I am not a fan of crappy movies with a horrible plot and storyline that doesn't make sense.  If this were Jet Li's first English speaking movie, maybe I could excuse his horrible lines and limited character development.  However, this is like his 20th movie in America and this is several steps down from where he should be  I saw this movie when it initially came back, so most of it is a blur. But I do remember my negative feelings about itand I'm certain this movie is not worth buying or watching  DO NOT RECOMMEND

Didn't particularly like it somewhat informative but the way they present the info is merely meant to entertain. I have seen most of the newton workshop videos and some we like some we don't. This we don't. I don't think presenting science in a way only to entertain really teaches kids anything but silliness and foolishness.

Please don't buy! Well this is my second review (don't know what happened to the first)... This dvd is at the moment gathering dust on my shelf...very dissapointing - alot of nothing new from "Industry Experts" for die hard fans - and despite the title (made for you to depart from hard earned cash) it HAS very little to do with Mick Taylor!! Big rip off! Just a three minute interview by Taylor himself (can't even remember what he talked about!) and just (thank god) - two interviews from John Mayall- and I'm ashamed to say I can't even remember what he said because at this point I was A: Bored Rigid and B: peeved off about watching £17.00 going down the drain - all I can remember is other "experts" (all non musicians) boring the pants off me. Basically NOTHING that was discussed was what we didn't ALREADY KNOW. Oh before I forget - one "Expert" took great relish in dissing "It's Only Rock' N' Roll"  - should never have released it , what were they thinking of?,blah, blah, blah,. Well I think the opposite...by releasing it they were moving with the times...a very intelligent move to make if you think of it , they had no choice and they did very well with it's debut (remember the bubbles? plus made by a top end director which you would only expect from a group like The Stones- worked well and was a hit)-so whose wrong ? Them or these stupid critics? You decide.. but please don't buy.

Highly disappointing I'm a Cage fan, and i feel compelled to say that even he doesn't save this mediocre production... Poor acting across the board, predictable plot, supernatural powers should be awesome, but instead they came out unconvincing and not believable in this one, almost as a farce... not worth $3.99, maybe $0.50

disappointed This plot should have focused more on the historical aspects of her accomplishments and some of the fluff should have been cut out.  unremarkable performance by Swank, Gere & McGregor

Very Disappointed I know that there are lots of people that really enjoyed this movie, and I am not knocking them for it.  Many will agree with me and many won't. I really looked forward to seeing this movie.  I was under the impression that it was about two girls competing for the same part and doing whatever it takes to get it. Actually, quite a few people I spoke to thought that. So I rented it.  Let me just say that for those of you that are considering watching it, be warned.  If you are into graphic sex scenes every five minutes, then this is your movie.  The main character Nina is a mentally ill ballerina that seems to completely loose it upon getting this role that in real life she would never even be considered for.  I found myself more confused more than anything. I do think that it had the making of a very good story, but then someone took it in a whole other direction.  Natalie Portman was good, but I found her character to be very annoying at times.  Mila Kunis was awesome and very likable.  I felt that the sex scenes were very over the top for this particular movie.  The scenes left nothing to the imagination and were unnecessary.  The part of Tomas, the instructor, although very well played, was creepy.  The way he talked to Nina, and his advances on her were out of line. But his telling her to go home and touch herself was ridiculous.  Then she does it, not realizing that her mother was in the room and had fallen asleep, while watching her sleep all night. Her mother seems aware of her mental illness, but doesn't seem to do anything about it except cut her nails so she doesn't scratch herself, paint creepy portraits of her and watch her sleep. It seems that the illness goes all the way back to her childhood, but her mother just hovers and watches her every move as if she is eight years old.  Not twenty eight.  It struck me as odd that no one around her noticed her odd behavior.  In the end I was left wondering what was real and what wasn't.  I like movies that make you think.  But this one left me asking "huh?"  I felt that they could have clarified a lot of things. I am not a prude.  But I felt that this movie should have gotten an NC-17 rating.  The reason being that many people have seen or are going to see this movie not expecting the scenes to be so explicit.  If this had been Sex And The City, it wouldn't have bothered me, because the movie is all about that.  Actually Sex and the City was pretty tame compared to this.

PROMETHEUS is a watchable mess -- it makes little sense, but it looks good Ridley Scott's PROMETHEUS is a mushy mix-up of science fiction, horror, and new-age spirituality.  The film, set in the year 2093 (29 years before the action in the 1979 film ALIEN takes place), suggests that alien humanoid beings "seeded" the earth with their own DNA (or a combination of their own DNA and manufactured DNA) in order to create intelligent life.  These alien humanoid beings are the "space jockeys" first seen in the 1979 film - they are the pilots of the derelict space ship Ripley and her crew discover on the surface of LV-426.  As Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) concludes in PROMETHEUS, they are the "engineers" of humanity, or the architects of our intelligent design.  This all sounds very deep and complex and earth-shattering, and it could have been.  But it isn't.  Because very little is actually revealed about the "space jockeys," their purpose in the universe, or their ultimate connection to life as we know it.  This is a story created backwards.  Scott and his cohorts (including LOST's Damon Lindelof) are doing the "reboot" thing in PROMETHEUS.  They take the known Alien universe and re-engineer it to set up a new legion of films.  These won't be films about Aliens . . . or even about space.  These are films about creationism.  Who is our father, this film asks.  Who created us?  And why do we ultimately want to destroy our creator, just as our creator wants to destroy us?  Basically, PROMETHEUS is about a team of scientists on a corporate-sponsored mission to discover the origins of humanity.  They follow star charts discovered in ancient cave drawings to a planetoid (or moon) light years away, on which they find the remains of a humanoid outpost - the "space jockeys" of ALIEN fame.  Once they get there, they behave in very unscientific fashion, making every mistake in the book (why, oh why didn't they watch a few sci-fi movies before venturing into that freaky bunker?).  Again, there are cool visuals . . . and a few heart-jumping action scenes.  Bad things happen and a lot of people die.  But it all feels very formulaic, very reminiscent of the other movies, almost as if it was put together from a targeted list (infected crewmember wants back onto the ship, check!; creepy worm thing plunges down someone's throat, check!; someone is "impregnated," check!; someone else is chest-busted, check!; water drips everywhere, check!).  And not one character is particularly likable or memorable or interesting in any way.  Corporate hack Meredith Vickers (Charlize Theron) is a cool icy blond with little to do in the film but walk around and act like she owns the ship (which I guess she does) - she is part of neither the action nor the spiritual heart of the film.  She's just there, and she's dull as dirt.  Shaw (Rapace) is supposed to be the Ripley character, the strong, resourceful woman with the guts to survive.  But she's weepy and silly, making bad decision after bad decision - the worst of which is to get too close to equally silly boyfriend Dr. Charley Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green).  Robot David (Michael Fassbender) is what we expect a robot to be - he alternates between sounding like Hal from 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY and Data from STNG.  We know what robots are like in these films - they're either evil corporate stooges (like Ash in ALIEN) or friendly protectors of humanity (like Bishop in ALIENS).  David is more like Data, I guess - he is intrigued by humanity and by his connection to his creator, corporate honcho Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce, in a horrific old-guy suit).  I guess you could say that David is the most interesting character in the film . . . but that's not saying all that much.  He brings little to the franchise that hasn't already been seen a hundred times.  The problem is, Lindelof is doing his "Lost thing" here.  He throws out just enough intriguing stuff to get his viewers scratching their heads.  What planet do we really see in the opening scenes of the film?  There's a gorgeous waterfall and breathtaking vistas.  There's a cool saucer-shaped ship, and something really strange and portentous happens.  Is it Earth?  Is it?  And what planet (or moon or planetoid) do our intrepid band of scientists visit?  Is it the same planet on which ALIEN and ALIENS take place?  Or some other planet in the same system?  So does that mean two "space jockey" ships crash land in exactly the same way on two different planets?  And what's the black goo all about, and those tiny worms, and the octopus thing?  And why does the technology in 2093 seem light years ahead of the technology in 2122?  Ask all you like, because there are no answers here.  There are "suggestions," of course.  And you can make of them whatever you like.  It's the easiest kind of screenplay to write - don't worry about it all making sense; the viewers will fill in the blanks for you!  Ultimately, PROMETHEUS is a watchable mess, a conglomeration of stuff that could, in less fractured hands, have come together into a truly great film.  As it is, Scott bows to Lindelof and we get little more than a watchable mess.  It's a gorgeous film, and it's worth seeing.  But it makes little sense.  Wait . . . the sequels will clear everything up for us!  Sure, Mr. Lindelof.  That's what you said about LOST.

Just Add Water...... and you get a real movie. Normally, with this many reviews already written, I wouldn't bother but I feel the need to tip the scales here. I've read all three books and loved them. I saw the 'Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' prior to reading the book and I liked it a lot. But when I watched it again after reading the book it no longer seemed very good. These books are simply too dense in plotting and contain more nuance than can be communicated in the running time of these movies. Even with clever script writing it would take for sure two, maybe three movies to cover each book.  This movie begins moments after the second movie ends. Lisbeth is in the hospital with gunshot wounds. She'll be treated and put on trial. Micke is working to get her off the rap and expose the bad guys who put her there. This is a hefty book. It has a lot of characters and an involved plot. As hard as they tried there just isn't a way to pack all this into a two and a half hour movie. The courtroom scene alone could easily eat up that much clock.  The producers were able to keep all the principle actors in their rolls and have introduced an entire stable of new ones to fill in all the rolls that pop up here. All do well with what they have to work with but it isn't much. The characters and plot points are little more than sketches. David Fincher is (as of this writing) in post-production on 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' and I'm really concerned if he can pull this off. He's one of my favorite directors and I'd hate to see him turn in a stinker.  I realize I'm at a disadvantage having read the books. I cannot bring a fresh perspective to the viewing experience of these movies. If there are any out there that have seen these and not read the books I would enjoy your take on them. Maybe they're better than I give them credit for. But as of now I'm sticking with the two stars.

Keep it Moving- Not Much to See Here- Don't waste your time. I am a huge MotoGp fan and figured I'd see some great up and coming footage of my favorite MotoGp hero's here, which is why I eagerly bought this one as soon as it came out. I dare admit I actually pre-ordered it here at Amazon. Ulitmately was pretty disapointed. Although somewhat interesting at first as they go through the current field of MotoGp riders starts it doesn't really go anywhere from there or show how they developed from there to where they are at now. I had big hope for this video, assuming fullishly that it might take us nearly up to date or close to where these top riders have made it since their earlier days, but it really doesn't and disappoints because of it.

movie is scratch the movie was the one i wanted and it was working fine but the end of the dvd is scratch at the end so we were not able to watch the end.

I didnt like I wanted to see more of Betty White and Cloris Leachman act together. I will wait for second season of HOT IN CLEVELAND. I gave this movie away.

The series is becoming tired I have very much enjoyed the former movies in this series but Innocents Lost was a big disappointment.  It has become stock and cliched.  Parker had his characters show some development.  By the end of the Jesse Stone series of books Stone had gotten his drinking under control and had resolved his issues of dependency on his ex-wife and  the character in the books was always more complex than Selleck's performance in this latest movie.  The unrelieved gloom, the same dialogue rehashed from earlier movies, the same old scenes with Dr. Dix, with Gino Fish and with Sister Mary John, the same staring matches with the dog are all getting very tedious and frankly, unbelievable.  It's hardly credible that Tom Selleck's character can't even pat his dog.  Also, the scenes with Dix, Fish and Mary John seemed forced.  It's as if these actors have a run-of-the-series contract and have to be written in.  Speaking of writing, perhaps writing is not Tom Selleck's greatest strength. The latest movie in the series is to be broadcast this coming Sunday night.  Based on the movie I just watched I have serious doubts that it will be worth watching.

Like Watching Bad TV I don't know why, but I am surprised by how sitcomy and amateurish "This Means War" is.  Director McG is not known for particularly well-made or subtle films ("Charlie's Angels", the sequel,  "Terminator: Salvation"). But his films make a lot of money. And his name is on a number of fairly successful television shows. So he continues to work.  FDR (Chris Pine, "Star Trek", "Bottle Shock") and Tuck (Tom Hardy, "Inception", "Warrior") are CIA Agents and best friends. Returning home to Los Angeles, Puck decides it is time to start testing the dating waters again because it is time to find someone and settle down; everytime he sees his ex-wife and son, loneliness hits him like a ton of bricks. He posts a profile on a dating website. Lauren (Reese Witherspoon), the head of a "Consumer Reports"-like service also recognizes it is time to do something other than work. Her pushy, salacious sister Trish (Chelsea Handler) puts her profile online, against her knowledge. When Lauren finds out, anger gives way to curiosity when she spots Tuck's profile. Tuck gets nervous and asks FDR to tag along. He agrees to wait at a nearby video store, to provide an out if necessary. Lauren and Tuck meet at a nearby caf&eacute; and get along great before they decide to go on a second date. Lauren leaves, to find a video and spend the night alone. At the video store, FDR starts hitting on her, unaware she was Tuck's date. Before you can say "meet-cute", both friends realize they are dating the same woman and turn it into a competition, using their CIA resources to try to one-up the other. And a terrorist (Till Schweiger) also wants to extract his revenge.  Written by a slew of people and directed by McG, "This Means War" is a silly, completely unbelievable and unromantic "romantic comedy".  Nothing about "War" works like it is supposed to. The initial date between Puck and Lauren is sweet and seems like it could lead to something. But she ends the date, so she can rent a video and spend the evening alone. Huh? If I were on a first date that was going as well as this one seems to be going, the last thing I would do would be end the date so I can spend the evening alone.  But this is, of course, a necessary plot contrivance designed to get her near FDR so he can spot her and they can begin flirting. They don't really seem to have any chemistry at first, but oddly, they agree to go on a date.  There never really seem to be any moments of actual romance in "War". Both men begin eavesdropping on Lauren's life, with the aid of CIA resources and electronics, and begin using the information they gather to make them seem sweet and thoughtful and to make their buddy seem like a cad. FDR takes her to a warehouse to view original Gustav Klimt paintings. A nice, sweet idea, but he learned of her love for the artist by eavesdropping on her. This robs the gesture of any goodwill and only makes their relationship seem creepy. Also, why a warehouse? It would be far more romantic to view these in a dramatic museum or art gallery. The warehouse does nothing but raise a series of odd questions. Rather than build any romance, these gestures only serve to establish a rhythm of FDR and Tuck trying to one up another. Maybe they should just get a room and end the misery for the rest of us.  Pine and Hardy don't really act in "War". They are more similar to guys who are watching a football game, rooting for their team and throwing barbs at the people who root for the opposing team. I guess it is supposed to be funny.  Reese Witherspoon has more to deal with... err, work with. She feels some mild (very mild) trepidation about dating two guys at once. This 'conundrum' gives her character two-dimensionality. But that really isn't enough.  This is also a major stumbling block for the film. After she has what seems to be a pretty terrific first date with Tuck, she leaves the date so she can go to the video store and find something to watch that evening. Alone. Wa - haaaa? I know I have already mentioned this, but it is just a ludicrous plot point. If you are on such a great date, why wouldn't you stick around for a while and get to know each other better? But she must meet FDR, and soon, so she doesn't have time to build any overly romantic notions about Tuck.  Worse, since her date with Tuck was so memorable and they seem such a good match, her initial meeting with FDR is completely the opposite. He comes on very strong and she decides to spar with him. The filmmakers are trying for a Cary Grant - Rosalind Russell type of thing. Actually, that's probably too advanced for the filmmakers. Maybe Goldie Hawn - Kurt Russell? Nope. Julia Roberts - Richard Gere? Closer. But there is simply no connection between them and it is all but impossible to understand why she would agree to go on a date with this guy. Mila Kunis - Justin Timberlake? Bingo.  Even worse, because FDR and Tuck are CIA agents, the filmmakers have cobbled together meaningless business involving a terrorist (Schweiger) who comes to LA to extract revenge for the death of his brother at the hands of the two CIA agents. Throughout "War", there are moments tracking the man's movements, to remind us of his existence, so when he pops up in the big finale, we will remember who he is and accept him. But all of this is handled so poorly, these moments only serve to stand out like a sore thumb. Most episodes of "Chuck" balance the romantic subplot and the spy business much better. McG was also one of the producers of the television series, so it seems a little shocking to watch these moments which are handled so poorly. Was he trying to use material he had leftover from the TV show?  Worst of all, Angela Bassett plays FDR and Tuck's boss, entitling her to pop up a few times, always cross and glowering at her two subordinates. Is this really the best work Bassett can get? If so, that is an extremely sad indictment of Hollywood.  I don't get Chelsea Handler. I've never watched her show and have seen her twice-in two different things; I watched the first episode of "Chelsea, are you there?" the same one everyone else watched before tuning out. And now this film. In both, she seems to be around simply to nag people. Not very interesting or pleasant.  "This Means War" is a confused mess. It wants to be a romance. It wants to be a spy caper. It wants to be an action film. But it doesn't do any of these things well enough to compensate for the shortcomings of any of the other elements. In the end, it just ends up resembling a big screen version of a bad episode of "Chuck".  If you want to pay to watch bad television on the big screen, be my guest. Consider yourself warned.

Not really good acting I saw this movie just because I really like Alex in I am number four. I don't believe neither of these movie are really good to be honest, acting performance is rather mediocre, and storyline very much boring. But I believe this young actor has potential, I find that he actually make the movie I am number four entertaining. In Beastly, he seems to be acting like he is in a Play, I don't really see him connecting with his character. I believe that he probably was not really comfortable with the role, something I like about his acting in number four is that he is effortless attractive. What I mean, is that he seems not to be that vain, his beauty doesn't distract me from his performance, he seems to behave like the boy next door, and that for me is what make him better over others actors. Is my opinion. In Beastly, he just seems not to fit in the role, the idea that there is a guy that will deliver a speech on how Good looking people are the leaders does not seems to fit really, and don't get to hate his behavior, I feel sorry that somebody actually is that silly to said that out loud. And the girl, well she was forgettable, she is beautiful, but her acting was forgettable. So I guess it wasn't for me.

Not great picture, incredible sound The HD picture is not up to the standard I was expecting. High contrast, poor skin tones. The remastered sound is absolutely incredible. They should remaster the picture to bring is up to par with other HD DVDs  out there. For example, Sound of Music HD has amazing picture and sound.

Disappointing.... This was not the entire film.  It was missing several scenes that were in the original release.  I am somewhat disappointed.

The Bum Diary Say what you will about "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" at least it provoked a response, negative or positive, from the audience and it was true in spirit to Hunter S. Thompson's work.  This film for the most part is two hours of ennui.  It seems to me that they were trying to offer a watered down version of Thompson to attract a larger audience and failed miserably in the process.  This is hands down the worst performance I've seen given by Johnny Depp.  The character he's playing, a besotted writer, should be edgy but Depp renders him as harmless as Bozo the Clown.  The good points of "The Rum Diary", few that they are, are Richard Jenkins turn as Depp's harried editor, breathtaking Puerto Rico ambience circa 1960, and Amber Heard for just being a dish.  I thought this film laid a box office egg because it was inacessable.  This mainstreaming of Thompson will please no one but the most hearty of Depp fans, my wife.

Respectfully Dissenting Review I know this is a miniseries beloved by many, so I'll try to tread lightly here.  I had heard about "THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN" for years, as one of the "jewels" of British television.  I enjoy period pieces, "Masterpiece Classic" dramas, and have a healthy curiosity about India (where I have traveled).  This is all by way of saying that I'm not a teenager with a short attention span who would dismiss a dated production based on age alone.  That said, I found "THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN" to be disappointing at best.  Boring at worst.  I'll not go into detail as to how entire story threads and characters are introduced then abandoned without resolution, or pace, or cinematic sweep (yes, I know location shooting is expensive, but they were clearly there, and largely failed to capture strikingly compelling imagery) as that is not the point of this review.  The point is to disagree strongly with the Amazon.com Editorial Review above which states, "Twenty years later it has lost none of its power."  For me, it had very little power.  I write this not simply to be contrarian, but to warn others that sometimes, the Mughal emperor has no clothes.  Nor the television Raj its crown jewel.

booooring. makes you yawn Intro: I do not usually review movies on Amazon. It would take forever... But some of them are so dumb, or dull or clear examples of propaganda.  1) this movie has mixture of factual boloney, anti-Catholic and anti-Christian rants.  2) boring and predictable for the most part story.  I've read and watched DaVinci Code. It was not as bad storywise, considering you DO KNOW the history and watched it as fiction. This one however not just wrong on history, it is boring and dull. Honestly, I was expecting better. From the most retarded phrases imaginable (22m:20s "science obliterates religion") to idea that Illuminati were persecuted by anti-science Catholics scientists, to idea that there are such thing as "five element of science" (which happen to be fire, air, earth, wind...) and all in between is seems like Dan Brown ONCE AGAIN failed to do his homework.  There's another episode, which makes you think "what was that?!". When the hero symbologist walks in Vatican (or where ever it was) with other person, he sees naked male statues along the wall with their genitals covered with leaves. Symbologyst gives of course tour of history as some pope in the past took a hammer and chopped off the genitals, and covered them with leaves. Now, the guy who was accompanying symbologyst asks "do you have something against Catholic Church?" to which he replies "No, I have something against vandalism". This of course should make you think, 'hmm, is this symbologyst some sort of a queer?". Why in the world, would any man would want to see male genitals on statues? :D Look at this different way. If statues belong to Vatican, and they decide to chop them apart it is their business. If I have inherited a statue from my grandma, it is not for symbologyst to tell me what to do with it.  Now, Illuminati. If you have heard this word before it is most likely it was not associated with science. This is rightly so. To say Illuminati were closeted scientists is ridiculous. Illuminati were/are(?) a typical secret society. And as all secret societies the main reason they exist has to do with rituals and perhaps secret 'knowledge' only for initiated, and perhaps mutual obligations of members, and perhaps strive to control masses of people. To be honest, when I heard word Illuminati mentioned in the movie first time I was sort of excited, expecting some interesting insights. Alas, my expectations not just failed. Illuminati presented in this movie about as accurate as Christianity is presented by Hollywood - that is COMPLETELY wrong. If you share my interest in knowing about secret societies perhaps you may look at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003H23KSM">Invisible Empire: A New World Order Defined</a> which is sort of informative.  And what with the 'elements of science'? So-called elements are nothing more than vestiges of alchemy or some sort of witchcraft, or pre-Socratic philosophy... nothing more.  Considering boloney that Christianity is anti-science, Dan Brown should better do his homework. From, popularizing usage of codex, to printing press, to founders of scientific disciplines (as in genetics for example)... one has to be completely illiterate to believe this.  All in all, I paid $1 to watch it. It is about it's cost. Of course time spent is a different issue...

Eh It was good enough to finish watching once. But I wouldn't touch it again. Glad I waited until it was free on TV before seeing it too. Not worth any amount of money to rent it.

Dazzling to look at, boring to watch With its Candyland color scheme, videogame graphics, and surrealistic backdrops, "Speed Racer" definitely has the look of an anime series come to life - not a surprise given that the same team responsible for "The Matrix" movies, the Wachowski brothers, served as the creative force here. Unfortunately, the cartoonishness extends to the characters as well, and that's where an adult audience quickly loses interest.  This gruelingly long film - an absurd two-and-a-quarter hours - features Emile Hirsch as the title character who comes from a long line of racecar builders and drivers, including his father (John Goodman) and older brother (Scott Porter, of everlasting "Friday Night Lights" fame), the latter of whom may have had ties to some mighty shady characters and died under mysterious circumstances on a cross-country rally. Now Speed Racer is going to compete on the same course in the hopes of expunging the overwhelming corporate influence that is corrupting and destroying the sport.  At least I think that's what the plot was about.  For to tell you the truth, the time-shifting narrative is confused to the point of incoherence at times, and the villains are strictly from cartoon-ville in their over-the-top two-dimensionality. There's even a precocious kid brother and an annoying anthropomorphic chimp around to serve feebly as alleged comic cutups. And, worst of all, the race scenes themselves are so abstracted from reality that they fail to generate any tension or interest in the viewer.  We never find anything or anybody to root for.  Ultimately, "Speed Racer" leaves us with the question: how can something so impressive to look at be so boring to watch?

Loud.  Very, very loud. ------------------------------------------------ "Battle: Los Angeles" (2011) ------------------------------------------------ This is a very loud movie, with a pretty clumsy script.  Meant to be sort of a sci-fi update of "Saving Private Ryan," with a grunt's-eye view of an alien invasion of Earth, seen from the perspective of a Marine unit sent into the battle zone to save a handful of civilians.  The "War Of The Worlds" premise is appealing, but the delivery is leaden - the constant screaming and on-screen mayhem is quickly monotonous and numbing, none of it delivered with the directorial grace that would make it worthwhile. Plus the script is corny and riddled with inconsistencies, such as the indestructible aliens getting easier and easier to kill as the movie goes on.  I watched the whole thing because I'm a sucker for this kind of stuff, but I didn't really enjoy it much and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.  I suspect the title, "Battle, colon, Los Angeles" was chosen because they thought -- hopefully -- this could be turned into a franchise, with the battles of New York, Paris, being made as sequels. Well, that could be okay f they get more skillful producers and way better scripts.  This one was kind of leaden and uninvolving.  Axton)

What a mess! I wonder if ami mann was drunk during the meetings in the editing room , it starts out promising for the first 25 minutes then just serves up a series of vignettes , yes there is always a central theme around trying to catch a serial killer but the film cuts don't gel it just seems to jump from scene to scene leaving u dumbfounded , it does recreate certain atmosphere if u like dark police procedurals , possibly a rental , but forgettable and doesn't even compare to some of the best in the genre

The Other Guys The relentless nature of comedy that Ferrell and McKay deploy is starting to wear on me, as I recall the defining moments of my time with The Other Guys.  While good-intentioned, this duo is progressing down a path that will place them perilously close to comedic irrelevance.  Something new needs to emerge and interrupt what seems to be an almost systematic disintegration of an otherwise great pairing.  The Other Guys MIGHT be an improvement to what is otherwise a re-imagining of their preceding project, Step Brothers, and even Talladega Nights before that, but it still just that:  A ritualistic adherence to the "buddy" theme that I'm pretty damn tired of seeing.  I'm being unnecessarily cruel, but it's only because I care.  There's some real class present here, and it feels as if it's being buried under an insistent barrel of paper-thin jokes that quickly lose their welcome.  Where this movie needs to be slick as oil, it's essentially syrup, and this applies to its comedy as well:  Simply a trudge through the matter of a humorous concept rung through to its limits for us to see for a minute longer than what is appropriate.  Even the plot feels monotonous and excessive, acting as an uninspired impression of corporate heisting and all that over-your-head nonsense.  It's convoluted, and not really worth analyzing in the first place.  The real story applies to our duo who, despite the predictability of each ones' characteristics, have a surprising amount of depth that leads me to believe that Wahlberg and Ferrell could work together again.  While the comedy may often overstay its welcome, it is anything but conventional when Wahlberg and Ferrell are on the screen together, and this is when the film sparkles, even if it never really shines.  Their joint efforts usually make it work, and their genuine commitment is admirable.  In fact, if anything, this is a movie chock full of recognizable faces, from Mendes and Keaton to the backseat duo in Jackson and Johnson, both of which are responsible for some of the most hilarious scenes in the entire movie.  Despite all of this, The Other Guys still feels like a bruised horse that's tired of being flogged, and deservedly so.  I feel that this could be seen as a significant point in time for the professions of McKay and Ferrell:  Either reinvent oneself and move on from past tradition that has now proven to be obsolete, or fall in the pit that Robin Williams is still trying to find his way out of.

Not as advertised I gave this a 2 star because it is not what it says it is.  The cover of the DVD says Yoga for Tennis Elbow and Bad Knees but in reality it is just a regular yoga session. There's no specialized poses for the elbows or knees; in-fact, some of these poses won't be possible for people who are hurting from tennis elbow or bad knees. As a long time yoga practitioner and teacher; I don't like it when someone says it is one thing and turns out not to be. Remember the integrity of yoga when you make your DVDs.

weak... and confusing... The DVD box says the wife disappeared, but toward the end of the story we learn from the husband that the wife is dead. The story is weak and confusing. About the only thing worth seeing are the gorgeous sets and scenery in Milan...and London's magnificent St. Pancras train station at The End.

what the heck on the price i bought the movie when it came out for 17.99 and now they want 112.99 for it that a rediculous price that you be dumb to pay for  wait it will be releace again

The Wrath of Watching a Bomb I was terribly disappointed, shocked in fact that this sequel with its star cast could be so awful.  Thrilled I didn't go see this at the theater, I would have been steaming upset.  It's not worth the current price to pay on Amazon either, wait till it's free.  At least you won't be upset with yourself that you spent money on this, just be upset that you bothered to waste your time.  Oh well, you've been warned.

What the hell is this If you have friends at your place and want them to leave put this show they should leave in a couple of seconds. How would you like to hear classic mixed with heavy metal that`s what you`ll get. For Fans only cause for newcomers like me who thougth this would be mystical and magical due to the cover of the DVD Stay Away. Go to Amazon Uk and listen to the MP3 version of the show, Don t put the volume too high you ll be in for an unpleasant surprise.

Flawed story and horrible casting This movie was good but the main leads were cast wrong. First there were two Chess brothers not one. Second (and bare in mind that I love jeffrey Wright as an actor) but he was all wrong for Muddy Waters. Especially considering that had him sing his own parts. Jeffrey can hold a tune but he doesnt have real soul pipes. And how powerful Muddy's voice was is not really shined on in the movie b/c Jeffrey can't carry the right tone. But he can act and he pulled off the dramatic part its just that with that voice you never buy him as Muddy Waters. Secondly, Beyonce can't act. She can sing but she can't act and watchingher try to be dynamic is just pityful.  Now the good things: Mos Def, Columbus Short, Cedric the Entertianer, and Eamon Walker nail their roles as Chuck Berry, Little Walter, Willie Dixon, and Howlin' WOlf. The problem is that they werent the main characters and the movie was anchored on Jeffrey Wright and Beyonce. And there was too much story to cram into a movie. A mini series would have been better or maybe a really detailed documentary  But the movie does introduce people to Chicago Blues and the men that laid the foundation for Rock n Roll

Left Confused I'm making my way through the "house" videos, late in the game, but PBS didn't come in very well to our house when these things aired.  Thank the library, now I can watch them!  I watched through this series in a matter of days while sick, my husband seeing a few episodes and asking how things were going.  He asked some questions that I couldn't answer, and I was confused by too.  Why did people not try to work together? What was the purpose of the show?  Even the "players" didn't seem to know. Why was there no movement toward stocking food and prepping the ranch for after the cattle drive? What's up with the buying horses instead of wages thing?  My husband's take - that some people were actors to stir things up because, why else would they act that way?  I didn't think along his lines, but I think that people lost focus quickly on what was the purpose.  Granted, we only saw bits of their lives and a lot was edited out.  After poking around at some interviews, one of the issues that bugged me was clarified.  I was bothered that the cowboys didn't help the Cook girls out when they needed it and the narrator saying that real cowboys would help women in need.  When in reality, the cowboys on the show had been told not to help because the girls needed to do it themselves.  So that made me look at this a little differently.  I also tried to figure out what the ground rules of the show were, but there was nothing I could find on the PBS site.  Were the people actually getting real wages?  If so, then the buying- the- horse- thing would make sense.  But why negotiate and get so upset if it really won't matter in a few weeks?  Each time I thought over the events of the show, I just got more confused.  Even talking it out loud with my husband, we'd bring up more things that didn't make sense.  There didn't seem to be much accountability for the people to get anything done but earn money on the round up.  Not much was explained about the goals for the women, for example.  They had a well built home and an already growing garden but they didn't do much with it according to the videos.  I would have liked to have seen something on how their day's work was, and not so much the infighting.  So, my review is kind of meandering around, sort of like my thoughts and confusion on this show.  There's lots more I could mention but all in all, I was very disappointed.  I wanted to see what it was maybe like for people in that era, to learn something about it and see people struggle and adjust to their roles and all that.  Instead, I feel it turned into a soap opera or a Survivor realty show.  I'm really glad I watched this 2nd (after Prairie House) so that I wouldn't be put off them all together - and that there are much better ones to watch in the future.

this is not the "I Am" documentary from the Oprah Show Oprah did a piece on Tom Shadyac's I Am which I was immediately interested in.  I purchased this DVD thinking it was one in the same, but it clearly was not.  This I Am was poorly scripted, poorly acted and, frankly not particularly relatable.  I do applaud the effort to begin a dialog regarding this topic and hope it gets people thinking about their lives.

Not funny I didn't really find this DVD very funny - it was more like a guy on stage talking to you then somebody making you laugh.  I thought his part in Grandma's Boy was funny but I think this is a guy who needs to stick with movies.  The high reviews for this are from fans of Nick and not people who actually like good comedy - that much is clear after watching.  This is a download - watch once - then delete.  The only reason I didn't give it 1 star is I did laugh a few times.  If you are interested in good comedy I could give you a huge list but I would start with Stephen Lynch, Louis CK, Bill Burr and the late Mitch Hedburg.  That should keep you busy.

The original should be remade, but not like this The film itself was directed by Donald P. Borchers who also ended up taking Stephen King's original short story to adapt into the screenplay that produced this wreck of a film. Children of the Corn is Borcher's third time behind the director's chair but from his first time having worked with horror as he has worked as both crew and producer on a large amount of horror films in the past including a few movies you may have heard of (and loved or hated) such as Leprechaun 2, Highlander 2, The Fog, and a personal favorite of mine - The Howling. Did I mention he was also one of the producers on the original 1984 release?  The 2009 release of the classic Stephen King's Children of the Corn should have taken a few queues of the 1984 release that had come before it. This movie trumps almost every other re-make that had come out in 2009 in teaching the lesson of what not to do while re-making a classic horror film. I'm actually shocked it came out as bad as it did with how easy of a concept the film actually has but it seemed that everything they could do to make it wrong was what they went with for the story. With Borchers past experience in the horror genre I really have to question how this film turned out as it did. Even the actors felt underused as the film went out.  We open the film with Burton Stanton (an actor you will easily recognize from a slew of television shows) and his wife Vicki (Kandyse McClure of Battlestar Galactica fame) are driving across country and it's this initial scene that blows the movie as Vicki is really just more cruel than necessary and doesn't seem to play the part right. The problem is after Battlestar you know Kandyse has the acting chops she just doesn't seem to come off as believable hateful as she is supposed to be in this film. When the couple finally hit a child in the car and have to find a town they come across a nearly deserted city and find it full of only children with Issac (Preston Bailey who ends up playing Cody on Dexter and Nicholas in the 2010 remake of The Crazies) in charge.  For those that don't know the basis of the plot, the children have taken over the city killing all of the adults and using them as sacrifices to a creature that lives in the cornfield whom they worship as a God. The big bonus of being able to see what is ruling these children's lives never happens as there is no payoff that shows what it is and the ending felt both rushed and unnatural with how Burton falls into having flashbacks that overlay the horror he is experiencing.  ScyFy has put together some impressive re-makes in the past. Their production value on the Dune (yes I know not horror) miniseries comes to mind. However I will quickly admit that all I am doing right now is looking forward to the Dimension Films re-make that will be coming out in the near future to wipe this abomination out of my memory. With being involved in the original release of this film I don't quite know how Borchers was able to steer this in such a wrong

Not worth watching I read John Steinbeck's novel with my class of tenth graders and then decided to show them the film version.  I wanted them to pay attention to the differences between the book and movie since there are always some.  However, it turns out that there are more differences than there are similarities.  It was as if they wrote a whole new story line, and I didn't see the purpose of doing so.  If you plan on showing this movie in conjunction with the book: don't.  Maybe the movie is alright on its own...hard to say since I read the book and it paled in comparison.

Lesbian Love? I am so tired of Hollywood, and indies, getting on the bandwagon for lesbian rights, showing them to be so, so Normal.  Give me a break; lesbians raising two kids is NOT normal. I'ts wierd.

Weakest Entry of the Series Nearly ten years have passed since the original "Spy Kids" hit the screen in 2001. After two sequels, one so-so and the other pretty bad, the fourth installment of Robert Rodriguez's family picture series arrives.  In "Spy Kids: All the Time in the World," a retired spy Marissa Wilson (Jessica Alba), now a mother of one daughter and two step-children, is called back into action once again, when the world is threatened by a mysterious villain "The Timekeeper." Her husband Wilbur Wilson (Joel McHale) and two step-kids Rebecca (Rowan Blanchard) and Cecil (Mason Cook) know nothing about Marissa's true identity until they too get involved in a fight against the evil organization.  With so many familiar story elements, "Spy Kids: All the Time in the World" almost makes us feel like watching the original, but with less imagination. All the freshness is gone out of the franchise. The story doesn't make much sense (and honestly I couldn't understand why or how the entire world is in danger). Cheesy special effects are acceptable (in fact, welcome) if gadgets are fun. No such luck, as they are only recycled ideas from the past "Spy Kids" movies. Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino might have saved the unoriginal plot development. No such luck, either. It's nice to meet Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara again as grown-up Carmen and Juni Cortez, but their presence only reminds us of the original.  Of course this is an opinion from an adult. But I think not many children would follow the unnecessarily complicated storyline (and its confusing wrap-up). They may find the film's toilet jokes very funny. I don't know. But when there is a better "Spy Kids" movie made ten years ago, what is the point of making an inferior one?

Disapointment totally I had seen this many years ago and truly had forgotten how not entertaining it was.  I did not like the film and neither did my husband.  It was not clear what was happening in the film.  Wish I could give more stars, but I can not.

An Epic That Could Have Been The fact the I give this picture only two stars does not keep it from being one of my favorites, as I've always been partial to many things Russian, but this film, given its monumental subject matter, could have been handled much better.  For one thing the pacing can be quite sluggish at times. Granted the last tzar and empress were pretty sluggish people in their own right, but they shouldn't have dragged the film down whe way they dragged imperial Russia to its doom. There are also a great many important people missing, such as Anna Vyrubova, the empress's devoted friend and a liason between Alex and Rasputin; the slimmy and utterly inefficient Minister of the Interior (apparently the Russian equivelent of the FBI); Rodzianko, the Duma chairman; Pobedonostsev, the tzar's arch-reactionary tutor who had the greatest influence in Nickie's own reactionary way of thinking;and a few Romanov family members who also figured promently in this drama.  The picture prefered to concentrate on Nicholas as the extraordinary family man, but this precluded a lot of events and bits such as Nicholas' lackluster method of governing: how he preferred the life of a country gentleman instead of being Tzar of All the Russias. Including such details could shed more light on how this kindly man could have been so ruthless to his own people. (But then something in the Russian people themselves must make them resent being ruled by "gentleness" and prefer a more forceful ruler, like Stalin.)  Some reviewers have found fault with the casting of Michael Jayston and Janet Suzman in the lead roles. I found Jayston to be as true to life as I've known about the tzar's character: a shy gentle man who didn't want to be Tzar. The problem is with Suzman, who portrayed Alexandra too subtly, too reservedly, when many described her as rigid, harsh, imperious to the nth degree, unbalanced, and hysterical. As I said, this was not the way Suzman portrayed her. Something was also missing in Tom Baker's (DR.WHO himself) portrayal of Rasputin. The rest of the cast is rounded out by the elites of the British and American stage and screen, including Irene Dunn as Nicholas' mother the Dowaqger Empress, Eric Porter as PM Stolypyn, Michael Bryant as Lenin, and Lawrence Olivier as Witte, one of the greatest statesman Russia ever produced.  Produced by Sam Spiegel(LAWRENCE OF ARABIA) and directed by Franklin J. Schaffner (PATTON no less) with a lackluster script by James Goldman, it is suprising they couldn't have done better. It's as though the film was in the hands of people who had really no great sympathy with its subject. For a much better telling of the last Tzar of Russia check out the series FALL OF EAGLES, which features a strong performance by Gayle Hunnicutt as Alexandra and more closely follows the Massie book. With the award-winning sets and costumes NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA is certainly a lavish picture to look at, but in its execution has fallen flat. (But is still one of my favorites.)

All over the place I started watching reruns of the Gong Show with my boyfriend, who told me Chuck Barris said he worked for the CIA. After seeing him on his show and hearing about the premise for the movie I thought it would be really interesting. It wasn't. It was just boring and all over the place. Sam Rockwell did really well for what it was.

Corny I dont like this at all...i didn't think it was fun at all and the girl that leads the work out is annoying to me

Did they run out of time at the end? When we finished this movie, my husband turned to me and said "I (expletive) hated that movie."  I understood the reason why.  The movie could have been pretty good but it ended up being extremely frustrating because it didn't explain things and then it had a really lame, unrealistic ending.  Throw in some random cruelty scenes such as blowing fish up with fireworks, smashing fireflies with tennis rackets (showing kids how to do both) and a completely unrealistic sex scene.  There was a shift in one character's demeanor that was very drastic and never explained.  We kept waiting for them to explain how she went from one personality to a complete opposite personality...they never did and so that change never made sense, just was very confusing.  I'd skip this one.

was savage viewing way back when...... I actually saw film at my local cinema way back in the late 60s..on general release.....I was 17 and it had an X rating(adults only)..remember it being upsetting and vicious. Ive been looking for it since then (curious only)and only just found it here........wont bother to see it again in these unshockable days...........would link as similar and shockable as the BBC documentary "The War Game" ...out on release about the same time...

rann movie The movie and acting is good, but the volume kept changing on its own on this dvd which is very annoying.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003Q84HXY">Rann- Amitabh Bachchan, Ben Kingsley (Hindi Film / Bollywood Movie / Indian Cinema DVD)</a>

Disappointment Wow. What a disappointment. I could not agree more with previous reviews on the poor quality of this DVD. No Booklet, No Ric Flair or Hogan commentary and no The Bobby Heenan Show. The Documentary was under an hour the extras were sparse.  Won't get fooled again by WWE!

I love B movies but... Where to begin? I love 'B' movies but this one is just too damn bad, from the poor script to the acting. The poor green screening, CGI, you name it, it was horrible.

Another Bloody Sandbox Fantasy  (this time with swastikas) The actors are dolls. The director is a little boy. He makes them say clever and confusing things. Then he makes them kill and torture each other. He plays kitschy music in the background.  This is every Quentin Tarantino movie ever made. And they've gotten less and less imaginative as the years have progressed.  In Basterds he just puts swastikas on the sandbox. Take away the violence and sadism and all you have is a bunch of long-winded machine-like speeches which hold your attention only as a precursor to the violence Tarantino has conditioned you to expect, something like an 80's porno flick without the sex.  If you enjoy the victim/victimizer paradigm, or have a deep-seated psychological need to watch simulated torture, this will be enjoyable for you.  If you want to see a half-decent Tarantino flick, rent Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs.

A weak attempt at best... First and foremost, there are no such things as ghosts, demons, angels, witches, sasquatch, wizards... You get the idea. I enjoy supernatural horror for the same reasons I enjoy zombie flicks, crappy alien movies, etc., because they are an escape from the every day reality of life. This entire series of movies was mediocre, with painfully delivered dialogue and only your basic boo-and-jump moments scattered through. This one was easily the worst of the three as it brought in the element of a coven of old lady witches to explain the "origins" of the fictional villain. The parallel was unnecessary in that it brought no additional believability or involvement to the story, much like the map arguement in Blair Witch.  All told, if you're a fan of the genre the you should watch it. Maybe you'll get something out of it that I didn't.  But rent it, don't buy it. It's not a watch-more-than-once type of a film.

Sub-Titles The reason I gave this movie only 2 stars is that I hate sub-titles. I prefer to have movies translated in English.

Why watch it? Firth and Kingsley and no other reason at all Colin Firth and Ben Kingsley could read a dictionary and keep me entertained but their being cast in this dreadful movie cut it really close. The movie is and will always remain a dreadful waste of the $2.99 I spent renting it. Dull because of possibly one of the worst scripts I have ever been witness to. Honestly, this is a dreadful movie that must have paid some of the very popular cast members quite a bit for them to appear in a movie based on the really horrid script. Perhaps they all got together and tied one on and signed a contract to appear in this mess while inebriated.......I dont know. Incredibly poor movie. While watching it I experience my first desire to kill a young male actor in my entire life. Perhaps the kid will get into something more suitable for him, like child prostitution. This really was and always will be a purely dreadful movie.

An ok movie... at best! OK, I saw this in theaters. Thank GOD i didn't have to pay for that ticket. This movie just, isn't all that good. I mean for teens i guess its all that but you kinda see everything coming. She's crazy and wants people to like her. And to make it sexy they throw in some girl on girl action for about a few min. I hate movies when you know how it ends before you sit in the seat at the theater.

Simplistic and shallow This movie was so silly and contrived. How many people have toilets just sitting around to  donate?? Come on! Like the Blind Side, just another simplistic "feel good" movie with no substance.

American style crap! What a complete utter utter load of bollocks! The visual effects were good, in a computer graphic generated sort of fashion, but the over the top dramatics and the absolutely unbelievable plot line, not to mention the Americans being the "centre of the universe" as usual...... well what can I say. It was patronising and offensive to just about every other country including China, Russia, the UK, India..... pathetic!

Really? I caught parts of this show on public television last night while I was channel surfing.  Who did the casting for this?  All the talent in the world available and this was the best cast they could come up with?  Three (three!) of the leads don't sing at all, they spend a considerable amount of time just speaking on pitch (not the same thing at all).  I am almost at a loss for words.  Yes, the acting was acceptable, but this is musical that is all about the music.  Yet they couldn't find a cast who can sing?  Really?  The reason I only caught parts of the show last night was it was so poorly sung I found myself squirming until I just had to change the channel.  Not an exaggeration.  Granted I am a classical musician, maybe if you have a wooden ear you won't care, I don't know, it looks fine and seems well acted even compared to the 10th Anniversary show, but the singers from the 10th Anniversary show can STILL sing circles around this cast 15 years later.  Bottom line: For my money, if you are looking for a Les Miserables DVD to buy, this one is simply not it.  Get the 10th Anniversary.

poor quality The quality of the DVD was disappointing.  It stopped many time through out the movie, we finally gave up and sent it back (we did play another DVD to make sure that was not our machine's problem).

Lacking It seems that all the Underworld Movies are leading up to another sequel. Kate Beckingsale is undefeatable as always even against a giant silver immune Lycan. Yawn! The plot was predictable. At the end of the day, it was back to Vampires against Lycans and both of them against hybrids. It was okay for action with the usual gore in every other shot. Same old cliches...oh well, that is what is expected from the 4th installment of any series.

not as good as the TV series (2.5/5) though i thought this movie was OK,in my opinion it pales in comparison to the Television series.i have nothing against any of the actors,most of whom were just staring out or barely known at the time,and are now well known.but,in the TV series,the actor are a better fit for the characters.the movie isn't as clever as the TV show either,although there are some moments of dialogue brilliance.Elliot Gould and Donald Sutherland do have good chemistry together though,and that counts for something.however,something else that really bugged me was the opening theme song.in the series,it's all instrumental.in the movie,we get to hear the lyrics which to me,overpower the piece,and take away its impact.plus,the words don't really make sense and they don't fit with the melody.that may seem like a minor point,but to me it's a major faux pas.as for the movie itself,it's not horrible by any means.it's just no masterpiece.for me MASH (the movie)is a 2.5/5

Could have been great This film has a good story line and a great leading actor. This could have been a great film were it not for the budget, direction and writing. This is such a low-budget film that I suspect it was filmed in one or two weeks at most. Many of the scenes are skimmed over and left to a voice over to explain all the missing scenes. Michael Douglas does a very good job in his role, but he is a professional, who has been performing for many years. The other characters needed more direction but did not get it. Very little time was spent developing characters or plot. I think the primary problem with this film is the budget. I don't think the director or writer had time to develop the film due to time constraints as the film has the feel of being rushed.  This could still be a good film with the right personnel and budget but it will probably never be remade.

Different from the original The Cell 2 is different from the Original, which is not all bad.  It has an interesting villain, who keeps "killing" his victims and then bringing them back from the brink of death.  While it does not have the name stars that were in the original, the actors do a competent job.  Unfortunately, the movie lacks any suspense, and in the end, is a disappointment.  Watch the original for great acting and an interesting premise.

Celebrating Wrong Priorities? The characters (except for Donofrio) are compelling and endearing. But I'm troubled by the way Donofrio is viewed by women as something of a hero for putting her ambition ahead of her child. He's not a baby; he's a person. I can't help wondering how her son feels that his mother didn't want him from the start, continually made it clear that he was in the way, that her was a bother, a burden, an obstacle for her and made life ever so much harder for her. She had to manage him, put up with him and basically get over him so she could pursue self-actualization in New York. She's one of the most narcissistic characters I've seen in film.  Raising her son was an awesome responsibility. She was caring for, teaching and shaping a human being who would then be a huge influence on many, many others whose lives he has touched and will touch during his own lifetime, not to mention how he raises his own children, and the lives they'll touch. His worldview, his sense of self, of society, of honor, of manhood, of responsibility, and of relationship to others all come from his mother. But her focus seemed to be on feeling sorry for herself. As the son's character says in the movie, "everything happens to her, not anyone else." As she's discussing whether to go to California with a former classmate, she says she wishes she wasn't smart, so that she would be satisfied "being here". How insulting to those who are smart enough to realize how important it is to help a person grow up well.  I encourage everyone who can to go to college, and I'm glad that Beverly kept trying, but it seems to be that her son was not as important to her as her own self image and ambition. How sad for him. And for her. To think what she missed out on during those years. I agree with those reviewers who view this as a cautionary tale, not only for urging girls not to seek love by sleeping around, but also for urging young mothers to think hard about what's really important, and to embrace their role as motherhood, not to resent it.

More misinformation Centurion passes on the old myth of the disappearance of the 9th legion after it marched north into Scotland. In fact there are records of the 9th after the period of the movie.  It apparently was stationed on the Rhine where it was probably lost due to attrition. The inspiration for the movie is an old children's book.  The myth of the 9th legion is popular in England and Scotland for obvious reasons.  And the fearsome female Pict warrior seems more based more on anime films than any historic precedent.  The acting was good, but I never believed this script for a minute.  If I wanted to see false British history, I'd watch a King Arthur film.

Great idea, poor execution I apologize for being vague but if you want to know the story, other reviewers will fill you in.  Too good to be a bad movie by a long shot.  Sadly, it lacks in elements that would make it a good one. Never the less, it is a decent horror picture if you ignore certain inconguities and cliched attempts to frighten.  For the most part the acting is solid and some very well done visuals but then again, "some" is the operative word here.  A wonderful idea that could have been more fully realized.

boo Didn't like this movie, didn't realize it was animated; guess I will read movie description more carefully next time I rent a movie.

Satire Lite A comparatively weak entry in the mockumentary category, 'Who's the Caboose?' tries to carry the baton passed by Christopher Guest and company with a behind-the-scenes skewering of the stand-up-comic/sitcom world for the 'Whatever' generation. The project's glib humor and sense of dispassionate self-satisfaction (evident in scenes both written and ad libbed) date it unmistakably to the mid-late '90s, the Seinfeld era, when passive-absurdist observational comedy was king, which wouldn't necessarily be a problem if it could come up with wittier gags or more interesting characters (most of the cast, while likeable enough, lack the chops to manage the heavy workload of improvisation demanded of them). Instead the whole affair just feels like a patchwork of familiar, semi-amusing notions, its storyline adrift beyond the concept stage, its lack of focus on a satiric target increasingly obvious as the cardboard plot limps along (is it really a sendup of the Tinseltown dream, or an attempt to revisit 'Swingers' documentary-style?). Though it features comedians it isn't about stand-up; though it stars Sarah Silverman it isn't really about her either, or about L.A., vapid Hollywood players or the pursuit of fleeting success in a town without pity. It wants to be about all these things-- an ambitious order-- and falls short in most respects.  Note:  I viewed and reviewed WTC? on Netflix streaming, and while the picture and sound were acceptable, I can't comment on the technical quality of this DVD release.

good but not great. Technical quality of movie was very good, but movie was only fair. I found the story line less than great. I felt a Sherlock Holmes movie could have provided a better story.

"Victoria" - not happy!! This is not what I expected.  All the scenes that I liked from the "Telenovela Victoria" were deleted.  What made "Victoria" a great novela for me was Jeronimo's way of winning Victoria's heart and THAT was missing from this DVD.  You probably will like it if you did not see it on TV.

Don.t bother As a horror fan I watch this genre as often as possible. This is NOT a movie for horror fans. Terrible story line, poor acting and never a truly scary moment. Pass on this one.

what a waste Okay...I'm sitting here watching the entire series as a marathon on Chiller.  The first several episodes really aren't bad. The killings are interesting and the suspense credible. The confusion over what is actually happening is cred Then it goes totally stupid.  All of the characters start doing stupid stuff like splitting up and not shooting the bad guy when they have the chance. At this point all of the women become incredibly dumb and apparently can't remember how to fire a gun. Yeah, let the guy with the knife take on the guy with the machete while you wave your shotgun around pathetically and then shoot through the door without hitting anyone. In fact it appears all they can do is scream and run. And the kid has to be one of the most poorly written kids I've ever seen. Apparently all the kid can do is look wide-eyed, ask stupid questions and pop up with additional information at the most inappropriate times.  She's like 10. Tell her that her dad is dead.  And the bad guy is worse than Jason when it comes to popping jup. And how many episodes do we need of this? I can see why this show was cancelled.

Destroy Unions, protect adult educators, forget the children!! Seeing this documentary made me feel "useless" as a teacher who's job is in the arts, specifically music. That was one of the programs to be "cut out" in an "Elite Academic Independant" Main Line school outside Philadelphia. Starting next year (2011-2012) "No orchestras at all levels will be offered"(K-12). I was told "this" on January 6th, 2011, no explanation nor reason given! So, next year this very special school will no longer offer orchestra as part of their curriculum.  Most people, including our goverment consider "arts" as a useless non $$$ dividend subject. Your investment does not double/triple your dollares with Arts; arts takes time to develop in any school setting, and the dividends are for the students, not for the CEO's and super-Intendants of school distric's pockets. This documentary is all about the ADULTS!! nothing about the students, which is what it claims to be talking about. Results by an unfair testing system,... by bias ideas; it only pertains to the ADULTS involved including parents (who need someone to "babysit" their children while they work) and directors who need more money every year. It miss-leads everyone about the teachers in the classroom; makes teachers look like "guilty babysitters" in a system/culture in which the teacher is no more than a "servant" that any smart mouth parent and student just call us that!! I have been called "you are nothing but a servant, so you have no right to tell me how to do anything" that is the mouth of a fourth grader.........and you have to take it if you need to keep your job. This is just a very narrow glimpse of what it is, and what it's yet to come. I am sorry for the next generation of educators who will work for nothing, and will have no rights like any other human being!! "You will be nothing but a sub-class of humans"  Still, I strongly recomend you watch the film and make your own decisions. It is the intelligent thing to do, specially as a teacher. Please work hard to make your own personal view; it is just my humble recomendation.  Mr. Federico J. Piantini jr. Violinsit and Orchestra/Ensemble Director. (40 plus hours a week for $11,000 a year)

So much missing in the black The quality was a huge factor in viewing this. We had a great laugh with the pacing and plot - a sinister lesbian hitting on a not-so-innocent virgin? Yay!! And many of the details in the rituals were realistic and nice to see without the overt demonization that it usually inspires in films. Didn't like the implication that the gay woman was against nature but otherwise lots of fun and not just a little bit of tongue in cheek.  However the quality of the film really let it down - the contrast was rammed up so high in this version that all the blacks were complete black and all the whites absolute white and no amount of fiddling with the TV settings was going to make anything in the black areas become more then black. It meant that anything done in the dark/night (which was most of the climax and well, most of everything else) was impossible to see. I felt like a blind person struggling to make sense of the noises I could hear.  The movie was working well enough to really ruin the last scenes which we couldn't see at all. If there were a better version out there, I would spend extra to buy it - the still on the box cover promises some beautiful full colour images which we simply did not get in the film. I wish it were so much more - I really was having so much fun.

"The Magnificent Seven" with swords instead of guns Well, the product description had that right: "A Medieval Magnificent Seven..."  Except not nearly as entertaining. Now I can see why this flick went straight to video.  There were some interesting scenes. When Paul Giamatti was on screen tearing up the scenery as King John, that was interesting. The same with most of Brian Cox's scenes.  Other than that, this flick didn't really have much going for it. A lot of swordplay VERY loosely set in a historical context. A bunch of actors I didn't recognize, many speaking in such deep accents I had a hard time figuring out what they were saying, swinging a bunch of swords around amid a lot of MTV-type jittery camera work.  Ummmm... yeah. If you're really desperate to kill a couple of hours, I guess this beats dental surgery.

The Pacific is NOT family-friendly I purchased this series hoping that they would be like Band of Brothers.  In their graphic depiction of the horrors of war, they match up well against that earlier series.  I suspected that, like Band of Brothers, there would be some profanity and obscenity and probably a sex scene.  But I believed that the overriding benefit would outweigh those factors.  To those who are thinking along those same lines - be forewarned.  The Pacific includes literally hundreds of uses of the F-word and S-word, at times peppering the dialogue in every single sentence, especially during the fighting scenes.  There are also at least three graphic sex scenes, two with extensive breast nudity and movements, and references to pornography and masturbation.  Whether these will dissuade you from watching this series is up to you, but I want to ensure that you are aware of this before you set your family in front of the television.

PORTENTOUS FLIM-FLAM I was drawn to this series by the numerous glowing reviews and the mystery that it seemed to behold.  However, appearances can be deceiving, and this series certainly had me fooled. The pilot is full of portent, and seems to announce a truly remarkable adventure into the mystical struggle between the here-and-now and the forever after.  Don't be fooled.  This is Hollywood, where hokum rules.  Instead of an adventurous leap into the turbulent world of good versus evil, were are treated throughout the whole of the first season, and much of the second, to an infuriating series of episodes where virtually nothing happens and everything is repeated ad nauseum.  This series contains some of the laziest scriptwriting I have ever encountered.  I lost count of the number of dream sequences where the subject wakes up to find (for the umpteenth time) that what we have just seen was nothing more than a nightmare. You can just see it coming - like so may other highly repetitious scenes and endless flashbacks dotted throughout the 24 episodes. This is an extremely imaginative concept and beautifully produced - but the whole thing, unfortunately, fails to live up to its initial promise, and in fact rapidly degenerates into what the carnival itself is: flim-flam.  I am still left wondering why the creator of this singular series was happy to let it meander aimlessly along, going precisely nowhere, for so many long episodes. What is the point of a good idea if you don't develop it? Apart from the atmosphere, which is beautifully captured, the story line is so weak as to be virtually insulting. If you like pretty boxes beautifully gift wrapped with almost nothing inside, this is the series for you. Others beware!

Poorley Made I loved all the actors/actresses in this movie: Djimon Hounsou, Dakota Fanning, Chris Evans, Camilla Belle, and Maggie Siff, but even seeing there faces dids't make this movie enjoyable. In my opinion I think the creators of this spent all there money on the talent and left nothing for the producing. It seemed like a cheap movie.

Not what I expected...very boring. This DVD is not what I expected. I love to dance, but this was very boring & repetitive. I'm very disappointed that I actually paid money for this. I would not recommend this video.

Young babes showing off their bodies The plot of this movie is very simple (and rather stupid); come up with an excuse for the young babes to show off their beautiful bodies.  To correct the top reviewer - Betsy Russell does not ride a horse bare back; the horse had a saddle (and who would care anyway).  Betsy Russell rides the horse TOPLESS.  And as well endowed as she is, there is definitely a lot of bouncing.  There is also a shower scene later in the movie that provides a whole group of young babes the opportunity to show how beautiful they are.

Put it in the yard sale box Set in turn-of-the-century London (with a side trip to Colorado), this is the story of two stage magicians locked in a bitter rivalry.  We found the story hard to follow.  It often seemed unclear who was who and who was doing what to whom.  The story at times veered off into love interests, but they too were a little confusing, poorly done, and bland, adding nothing to the story.  Except for Michael Caine's supporting role, the characters never came to life, and we had no reason to care about them.  My wife's reaction:  watch it again someday to see if it makes more sense on a second viewing.  My reaction:  Put it in the yard sale box.

Visually Interesting Yawner This movie wasn't outright terrible but once the visuals have settled in, this flick has little else to offer.  The concept of a reality that exists only in the character's minds is potentially interesting but despite the opportunity for depth and creativity, it ends up a mere vehicle to bring us to the over-the-top action sequences.  This is certainly not of the same caliber as 300 even if all the parts seem to be there.  The pacing is monotonous and the danger is fake.  I didn't feel that the characters were actually in a fight for their lives until an hour had passed and by then I'd already become a bit numb.  The high points of the production are in the costumes and sets.  These factors alone might warrant watching this movie once.  In the end, I simply felt that I'd seen all this done better before, just not all in the same movie.  Nothing new and not enough done well.  I expect to see this all over the place for years as the movie of choice for selling high definition television sets.  The density of the action and the stylistic direction are great a few minutes at a time.

Beginning of the End for Korn This is that last album with anything I want to listen to.  Still wasn't great, but looking at what's been out since it ain't all that bad.

While the plot line is clever, and timely even today, the script and acting are tedious and obvious THE MOUSE THAT ROARED is a color film starring Peter Sellars in three roles.  The movie is a comedy, but it is only moderately amusing, and it will not evoke any laughs.  The plot is clever, but in the hands of the scriptwriter and director, the movie is slow-moving, obvious, repetitive, and dull.  The subject matter was timely and relevant during the 1950s, and it is just as timely and relevant today, when North Korea and Iran repeatedly threaten to blow up other countries with nuclear weapons.  The plot of THE MOUSE THAT ROARED involves the following elements.  A tiny country in Europe, the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, has an economy that depends on making Pinot Grand Fenwick wine.  At the start of the movie, we learn that an American winery has started making, "Pinot Grand Enwick."  As a result, Americans switched to buying Grand Enwick wine instead of Grand Fenwick wine.  Ordinarily, the best approach would be to file a lawsuit for trademark infringement.  However, in this movie, royalty decide to declare war on the United States.  In deciding to declare war on the United States, royalty is hoping to lose the war, and is counting on losing, so that they can receive economic assistance from the United States. (It helps if the viewer is aware of the Marshall Plan, used after WWII.)  The viewer of the film is treated to scenes where actors, dressed in medieval archery soldier uniforms, take a tugboat across the Atlantic Ocean and invade New York City.  The invaders in their medieval archery uniforms captures the Q-bomb, as well as its inventor, Dr. Kokintz and his beautiful daughter.  What makes the movie especially tedious and obvious, is that a segment of the movie, lasting on and off for about 15 minutes, copies from the plot of WAR OF THE WORLDS, performed on radio by Orson Welles.  The Orson Welles broadcast was October 30, 1938.  Again and again, actors in the movie refer to the invaders from Fenwick as men from Mars.  But this is a boring running joke.  The actors wear medieval armor that, as any viewer can see, does not in any way resemble an imaginary man from Mars.  Again and again, the actors in the movie feign alarm about the "men from Mars."  But I did not find the actors, dressed in chain mail and helmets, to resemble any "men from Mars."  Another boring aspect of THE MOUSE THAT ROARED is a running joke where two men in bare feet are trodding on grapes, making wine.  The irony, intended by the scriptwriter, is that royalty in Grand Fenwick picked one of the least capable of the Duchy's citizens, named Tully Bascombe, to lead the attack on the United States, with the hope that his team of archers would lose the invasion, resulting in economic aid from the U.S.  But the result, as shown by the acting and the plot, was that the Duchy's invasion succeeded, due to the capture of the Q-bomb by the invading army from the Duchy of Fenwick.  To repeat, the irony used in this movie is that a person chosen to perform a task, who was chosen on the basis of his incompetence, actually succeeds in performing the task. This is a clever plot element.  But it could have and should have been handled much better by the scriptwrter and actors.  I saw THE MOUSE THAT ROARED when it first came out in 1959.  I remembered two parts from the movie, namely the part where the U.S. military man demands that he be fed with tin plates, and the other part where the actors toss the Q-bomb to each other in a football game.  Thus, upon this second viewing (in the year 2012), I started to watch THE MOUSE THAT ROARED with optimism.  Unfortunately, my initial optimism continually shrivelled during the hour.  I was doomed to spend the entire hour in boredom.  The question that arises is as follows.  Why did I like this movie when I first saw it at the age of eight?  The answer is as follows.  Little children are easily impressed and captivated by shows such as TELETUBBIES or THEODORE THE TUGBOAT or THE BIG COMFY COUCH (from the current era) or by CAPTAIN KANGAROO or ROMPER ROOM (from a previous era).  Thus, my advice to potential customers is as follows.  If you find yourself captivated by TELETUBBIES, or by similar shows for infants and toddlers, then you will likely enjoy THE MOUSE THAT ROARED.  But if you are not captivated by TELETUBBIES, then you will likely find THE MOUSE THAT ROARED to be boring, obvious, and slow-moving.  The film that comes closest to the type of comedy that was intended by the writers of THE MOUSE THAT ROARED is TOP SECRET.  TOP SECRET is a 1984 comedy film directed by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker.  TOP SECRET succeeds marvelously with its many sight-gags.  THE MOUSE THAT ROARED also has many clever sight-gags, but they are brought down by the heavy weight of tedium that is provided by all other aspects of THE MOUSE THAT ROARED.  Therefore, I suggest the interested customer purchase TOP SECRET instead.

Don't Bet On It Player 5150 is close to the top of my "Eject Immediately" heap of flicks.  It's a wonder to me how a movie like this gets past a pitch meeting! Maybe an explanation is the lowering cost of actually making a movie - something excruciatingly evident in the low-budget look and feel here. A patchwork of cliche-rich dialog and awkward borrowing from other films, this DVD is barely watchable. NoPushover recommends not gambling on this one.

Booooooriiiiing I turned this movie off half way through. I was bored to tears with this drawn out story. Gave it two stars because the acting was good

Don't say its based on the book if it isn't!!!!! The book this movie was about was just amazing. it was the real life story of true hope. The movie is both dis-respectful to the writter and just plain made up. if your going to make a movie about a book respect it. The writter went through hell to get home and the movie maker just made it hollywood. Don't bother

Somber look at a dysfunctional family When Matt King (George Clooney)'s wife goes into a coma, he realizes how distant he was from her and from his two daughters.  Then he learns his wife was cheating on him.  George Clooney plays against type as a clueless father and husband with baggy eyes and a beaten-down face.  He slouches through the story and generally looks pretty ordinary. He's good in the role, but not good enough to save the movie.  My first problem with it is the constant profanity used by the two young daughters; it's off-putting, to say the least.  Second, the story is a real downer, dealing with death, infidelity, and family struggles.  Third, it's relentlessly tedious, so monotonously depressing that it gets old fast.  And lastly, I didn't like or care about any of the characters.  The Hawaiian scenery is beautiful and it represents unvarnished reality, but it's just not my idea of entertainment.

This season made me sad :( The only reason I am giving this 2 stars instead of one is because I genuinely am a huge fan of the cast and their work. That being said, this season had a few great moments, but really felt like it was lacking. I wish Kaitlin would have taken a break this season instead of parading around preggers. I applaud her for continuing to work through her pregnancy but it left a bad taste in my mouth as it felt like they were using her unborn child to sell the season. The last episode made me want to vomit. It was incredibly formulaic. It makes me sad that every episode was entirely predictable. One of my favorite things about the show was how shockingly funny it was. Instead I wish I could erase this season from my memory. I tried to tough it out to the very end, clinging to the frail hope that they would WOW me and it fell flat. If I were that child I would be furious and feel used.

Hopefully, There's Not An Ocean's Fourteen. Well, let's see. First there was "Ocean's Eleven" and it was a mildly interesting, mildly entertaining, mildly amusing movie. No big deal, but above average. Then came "Ocean's Twelve" and it was just not a good follow-up. Well, what are you going to do? I've got this three-pack of Ocean movies so I bit the bullet and put "Ocean's Thirteen" on for late night entertainment.. Well, it was back to Las Vegas and that was a relief. Hmmm. The soundtrack seemed to be better and was actually more interesting  than the movie in a lot of places. Well, maybe that's trying to tell you something about the movie. That's right, folks. It was a snorer. The photography was good enough that it actually made Las Vegas look rather good. How do they do that? Have you ever been to Las Vegas? Have you ever looked at the city out and away from the tourist area? Well here I go drifting away from the movie again. I guess that's just how the movie went. Boring. I just couldn't keep my mind on it. My wrist watch seemed to be more interesting. It was something about stealing diamonds and such. And there was a lot of effort devoted to shorting the casino. And there was an earthquake machine. Oh hell, The production values were high and everything was well done. I just wish some more work couldn't have gone into the script. Also, I got awfully tired of watching Brad Pitt feeding his face. Hopefully, there's not an Ocean's Fourteen.  Gary Peterson

Still seeking for the adaptation of this great classic Ms Cooper wrote a classic. An enchanting tale, very magical and although pure fantasy it had an inner logic. With many pointers to old legends, myth and lore, it was a great story of good versus evil and wisdom versus ambition.  I still believe that this series is a perfect script for a trilogy of movies, but somehow, in trying to make it a single movie and more "modern", the director managed to lose almost all magic.  It still has good moments and it's perfectly capable of entertaining a family for a couple of hours, but the odds are that this isn't a film you will remember fondly.  The action scenes are quite weak and the characters are substantially different than originally imagined...but this could be forgiven if it benefited the story. But unfortunately it became much more childish and naïve.  There are fine interpretations, a fine Viking raid (the reenactors are very good), very good scenery and on location props, good FX, decent featurettes...it has so many merits that it would be so easy to make this film memorable. But it is just...average...without magic.

Crazy, Stupid, Dirty I watched this movie because of all the good reviews and I love Steve Carell. He should have stayed in his office at Dunder Mifflin. I have yet to like any movies he's been in. Not that I'm blaming him for the two hours of crap I just watched. I liked all the actors but the story was poorly written, in fact the idea itself was junk. They could have sent a clearer better message. I got bored as the same old parts of alcohol and girls with no respect for themselves dragged on. Ninety percent of the jokes were dirty which IMO are never creative, not funny and just plain gross. I agree with another review that said the whole son bit should have been taken out. Shudder. Why do I always waste my money on the dumb movies? But please by all means, if you like uncomfortable dirty jokes, lame uninspiring dialogues, and a bunch of people sleeping around, watch this. Sadly I know many of you out there will.

quirky This story is purely 70's... It's about a neglected rich kid seeking attention and an old lady that notices him. She shows him how to look at the world instead of thinking only of himself.  She gives him the ability to 'live life'.  It's very quirky and I wouldn't recommend it for those that want a 'fun' entertaining film.  It's not my idea of 'entertainment'.

Lowered Expectations I love this woman's work - she's incredibly warm and funny, and manages to really get us for the shock value - but I think the dramatic difference in delivery technique that stands between a roast and general stand-up is what manages to not only elude her, but also kill her performance.  The show tended to drag on, and the material wasn't fresh - it was rehashed and not very funny. How long is she going to talk about the size of her new husband's testicles?  She always insults the audience to laughs, but this time her insults were predictable and ho-hum... and many aspects of her approach to this show made it an overall lackluster performance. In fact, it wasn't until 50 minutes into the show, during which she actually did her own little roast that I actually found it hilarious. Ironically, she was reading from a script.  I hope she gets it together, or just realizes what her limitations are as a comedienne. I look forward to her next roast.

Not Worth It I thought this movie was going to be funny, and I couldn't be more wrong. Story was slow, and not even my kids were into it.

went horribly wrong I gotta say thank god I did not buy this movie as intended and waste my money, instead I rented and phew, so glad I did, cause what a waste of a an hour and a half. That's really all I have to say about it, waste of my time. Sorry I can't be more helpful, all I can say is if you think you really need to see it then catch it on Netflix or something, don't waste your money, unless your a die hard and will anyways, there is no stopping you then. But just remember I did warn you.

Bad Movie that could have been good! If there was ever a movie that needed a lil TNA, this would be it.  It had all the makings of a decent flick, but needed the random TNA.  Im sorry, but this was not a good enough movie to warrent not having it.

very tough to watch Grant it I saw this movie on VHS when it came out in 2000, I was fifteen and definatly too young to see this movie. Please don't judge me or my parents! But ten yrs later this movie has stuck with me. I just can't get past the rape scene...its awful. And what's worse, is what her father did. Which was absolutly nothing,it was disgusting. As a woman and as a military member, I pray that something this awful wouldn't get cover up. Anyway the 'who done it'detective part was well done, but I can't see this movie again. Too difficult to watch. If you plan on purpchasing this movie please but aware that the rape scene is gruesome.

Watch only the first 1/2, then walk away! I was horribly disappointed. I love Liam Neeson, and I was so looking forward to this move. But it sucked.

I really wanted to.... Like this movie. But after the "party" I couldn't wait to find out what happened next only to be greatly disappointed.  The rest of the movie wasn't really funny, and was predictable and reminded me too much of the back up plan even though they had different story lines. I usually like aniston and bateman but this movie just wasn't good. I couldn't wait for it to end once the Aniston's character moved back to NYC which was 1/4 into the movie. Rent before you buy.

Totally Awful I really thought this would be a funny film.  Wrong!  It was completely awful acting, scriptwriting, plot, etc.  I liked nothing about it; it was a complete waste of time to watch.  I've enjoyed Sandler in some things in the past, but not this time.

So-so Action Needs Better Choreography "Tekken" (meaning "Iron Fist") is a live-action film of popular fighting game series. Some of you will say "Not again." Back in the 90s we saw terrible "Street Fighter" starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, and more recently, equally terrible "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li." Good news is that at least the leading star of the new film Jon Foo can do martial arts action, if not as charismatic as Jet Li. Bad news is, well, none of the filmmakers seems to know how to shoot action scenes.  "Tekken" is set in the near futuristic dystopian world. North America is under control of the powerful Mishima Zaibatsu, which also hosts a martial arts tournament "The King of Iron Fist Tournament." Having lost his mother Jun (Tamlyn Tomita), a young fighter Jin (Jon Foo) enters the "kill-or-be-killed" competition, seeking revenge on the man who is responsible for her death: Heihachi Mishima (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa).  The story is silly, I know. But all we want is exiting action, and the film has a few decent set-pieces in the first half of the film. Luke Goss as Jin's manager is pretty good. Kelly Overton as Christie Monteiro, a fighter and love interest (yes, she is) is not bad. I also admire Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa for not refusing to do the character's unique hairstyle.  [Minor Spoiler in This Paragraph] However, the film gets worse as it reaches the film's underwhelming wrap-up. Action scenes become repetitive. Characters tend to repeat the same moves, and worst of all, martial arts sequences, which should be the center of the movie, are interrupted by gunshots ... twice! And as to the Williams sisters, one of them just stands and does nothing else. I don't see the point of turning a video game into a film in this way.

Buyer Beware The product description here is misleading - this product is not the movie that features Dolly Parton.  Personally, I think that this point - that the video is not the movie - should be in the product description. Instead, the product description makes no mention of this, and the seller chooses to make the point in a product review.

A lot of talent and good performances go to waste When you have a cast like this (Hackman, Cusack, Hoffman, Wiesz, Beals, Dunn and many more), and base your movie on a top author like Grisham, you should be able to come up with something better than this. All the cast are good in their roles, especially Hackman as the jury fixer. Given this, one would expect a movie that is well liked and successful. What happened? They decided to make a "message" movie changing the villains in the book from the tobacco industry to the gun industry. Some people may not like that but personally, I'm okay with the film's message that maybe some really powerful weapons shouldn't be so easily available. The way they make the case for their message is just embarrassing and completely one sided. Everyone associated with the pro-gun side, whether it be the many attorneys, gun company execs, jurors on their side are all presented as totally evil people who will break every law in the book and will stop at nothing to win their case. While Dustin Hoffman and the other gun control characters are presented as heroic and above trying to buy a jury or break any laws. They may as well have handed out pitchforks and horns to the "bad guys". Keep in mind that I agree with the cause they are pushing but they are never going to convert anyone with such a heavy handed, biased and one sided appeal. I'd say 2 to 2.5 stars- it should be double that.

A really tough movie to watch.... I bought this movie because I've been to Thailand 10 times, and I'm a fan of Nicholas Cage, that is, I used to be. This movie was just as bad as the critics said it was, and does not leave a good impression of Bangkok or Thailand either. Liked getting the digital copy. It will give me something to watch next trip to Thailand. Nick, you can make better films than this. Try harder next time.

Fun episodes, but Mill Creek video terrible I picked this up for $4.99 from a DVD bin and thought it would be a cheap way to have the first season.  I am not grading the older, higher-priced release issued by the studio, but this newer one from Mill Creek.  The video transfer is as cheap as the price, and that is unfortunate. The image is grainy (in a bad way).

Couldn't Keep My Attention I've been an XMan fan for years.  When they made the first 3 in the series, I didn't mind the changes to the original story because they were close and had the spirit of the original.  I enjoyed all 3 of the original movies, so I was eager to see this one.  To say I was disappointed is an understatement.  I disliked that they changed the original Marvel universe (Sebastian Shaw was a Nazi who killed Magneto's parents ???  Emma Frost is Xavier and Magneto's age?  Beast is part of this first class but Iceman, Cyclops and Marvel Girl are not?).  But worse than being frustrated that they strayed so far from the story we all know, the movie was just plain boring.  They lost me during the 2nd half of the movie.  I would not recommend this movie.

Average Film A bit slow and the plot wasn't very interesting. Whenever the gods appeared it was more exciting; however, those moments were very very few and far between. The movie lacks any real emotion and comes across as your average film with lazy writing.

Kristen Stewart ruins yet another movie Blockbuster was out of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0098VXE50">Snow White & the Huntsman (Extended Edition)</a> so I rented it from Amazon VOD, I wish I would have waited for Red Box- that's how awful it was. I'll try not to spoil any "surprises" in the movie.  The special effects were alright in my opinion. I'm not a huge action/adventure guru so I'm probably not the best at judging what makes amazing or terrible effects but some parts, like on the trailer when she turns into crows, were pretty neat.  My biggest bugaboo was Kristen Stewart. Luckily I never entered the Twilight craze, haven't read the books or seen the movie. What I do know is each movie I've watched with her in it is basically ruined by her nonperformance. They could replace her with a 2x4 wearing a wig and it would be the same effect. She has zero acting ability, it is like a younger, female William H. Macy.  The plot is nothing like the Disney movie, obvious before renting, which is why I wanted to rent it. The plot was pretty good, a little predictable, but most are. I do enjoy Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth, both major draws to renting this movie. I found their acting a little short of what I have seen them in previously.  Overall, this movie seemed to be reaching and came up shy.

BOMB! & I love the original DARK SHADOWS! Finally bought & watched this (on iTunes) and it is god-awful. A romantic scary icon turned into an unwatchable BOMB. Some of the original story is there but so much wasted time spent on cheese (that could have been spent on story): the Barnabas/Angelique hookup, the Barnabas/Julia hookup (?), Barnabas looking for a safe sleeping space, the Alice Cooper songs and scenes, and the over the top ending (Ridiculous)! SPOILER ALERT: I was devasted to see the home  destroyed. I also did not like Eva Green as Angelique. Or Helena as Julia. Total waste of $$$$. What I did love: most of the visuals -- except for Barnabas's makeup and hair. Sets, clothes, & CGI Collinsport were all great. Too bad the story was treated with so much disregard. (Who cares about the cannery? Not me.) Actors that shine despite the writing: Michelle, Chloe, Bella (not in the movie enough), Gulliver. Even Depp had moments. All in all a failed attempt to revive a beloved iconic show. Better luck to the next time!

Disappointing Production values - great.  Character development - not so much.  Plot - even less so.  The characters are cardboard cutouts moving through their set pieces.  Don Bescimi in the title role - it's like Don Knotts playing Don Corleone, for pete's sake!  Lots of gratuitous nudity, but it's not enough to save this series - glad I'm only in for the first season.

Another typical Val Kilmer movie. Boring, not very good and makes you feel sorry for him. What happened Val? I say C. "A tragedy struck this house 100 years ago." After a group of strangers arrive at a house to stay the night they begin to experience strange happenings. After learning that a terrible event occurred 100 years ago in that house they wonder if that is the reason. I am old enough to remember when Val Kilmer was a real actor. Movies like "The Doors", "Batman Forever", "Top Gun" and my favorite "Tombstone" seem like a long distant memory. This movie is not the one that will break him out of his drought. While it did start off OK it quickly turned in to a forgettable movie. I'm not sure if Ving Rhames just didn't care or if he was trying to be over the top in this knowing that it was lame. Either way it was a little annoying. I know there are still some Kilmer fans out there that will like this but for me watching him lately just makes me feel sorry for him. Overall, another (what has become) a typical Val Kilmer movie. I give it a C.

5-star movie,  2-star blu ray for less than high resolution The limited edition 45th anniversary collector's set purchased is disappointing.  Stopped after viewing the blu ray for the first 10 minutes.  Regret to have purchased this collection's set.  The blu ray is less than high resolution.  Most of the screens of landscape show many flickering points which are rare in blu ray.  Horizontal lines all over the screen are obvious which are common only on VCDs and not normally found on DVDs, and the first time seen in blu ray.  The music CD is contained in a plain paper CD holder without the track listing anywhere.  The music box sounds less than 8 seconds even with a full wind and can hardly be heard if the cover was not removed.

Didn't like it It was not like the originals and the story line was different. I would give it away as a present if I could.

This Conan should have been better I did not enjoy watching this new Conan the Barbarian movie as much as the original with Arnold.  In this movie the photography, sets, special effects, costumes, movie, stunts and acting are all better than the original.  But for some reason I had liked watching the older film version of Conan The Barbarian better. I think it's because the original version told a better story.

A good, family-oriented comedy Chuck Norris is back with a roundhouse to the face, Holy Spirit style. And you'll enjoy every minute of this gut-busting spoof (or is it?) about three guys, a town full of devil worshipers, and a family-approved message to keep on keepin' on. The main character is an archangel in the form of kung-fu master Chuck Norris. Chuck the Archangel is the only ticket out of this one-way town, using the power of God to light lamps, unlock doors, erect walls of 3D computer generated fires, and preach the Gospel with an astounding "you can do it, boys" all before the sun sets in west Texas. The battle is against the mayor of the town, who has a bloodthirsty lust to exterminate all of the "ambassadors of the Gospel who must be stopped...[yes, master]" so he can continue draining the souls of the little children in the town and holding his 'harvest party seances' in the town square. (...Nice. Who thought of that one?) Everyone fears him. The man literally disappears before your eyes and then reappears with wonderful white smoke and sparks. (...Magic trick.) Chuck Norris can talk him down though, simply by telling them to get off his property or he'll have to bust them up, Gospel-style. But before Chuck can flip to Corinthians the devil leaves and the boys are left with Chuck to do some hard training. Chuck trains them right so they can be fit and ready to meet the devil in the town square, to fight him off in a battle of faith and wits.  Now for the other characters. The stereotypes are vividly clear from the get-go. We have two guys who both love Jesus, and one is on the fence. The one who is on the fence is an alcoholic and lost his daughter and is feeling horrible about it. From the time they crash the plane and arrive at the town, this guy is going through alcohol withdrawal. Really, does anyone got a beer, man? No one seems to...at least not in this town. Wait, did you ask Chuck yet? Chuck's got the hookups. As he lights his cigar, he gives the man a beer. Oh wait, no, that's a PROP of a beer. TBN says we can't have any alcoholic paraphernalia on the movie set!  If you've always wanted to see what angels look like, you can watch this movie and find out for sure. I know when I get to heaven I'll see a thousand Chuck Norrises and they will all welcome me in with a spinning roundhouse kick (because they can fly). Aside from the message this film has absolutely no redeeming qualities. But, it does make for a great night with popcorn and some good laughs. It is honestly one of the cheesiest movies my wife and I have ever seen.  Chuck really can do everything, including saving souls from the devil's grasp in the process.  I just have one last question - when I die and go to heaven, will I see Chuck Norris welcoming me at heaven's gate? 'Cause if not, I want my money back!

Not For Me I knew nothing about this film except the brief synopsis. I'm surprised I stuck it out until the end.  Frankly, if I wanted violence and anger, I would have stuck to a Hollywood production. I look to indie films to find a bit more of a plot and substance, but in this case, found neither.  Had a hard time understanding the dialect at some points, and really didn't connect with the characters or plot.  Very forgettable film.  Sorry I didn't cut my losses before the end.

Underwhelming Despite its length , huge cast, lavish sets, gigantic processions, all showing Indian culture, it was too much for me to cope with on a TV screen.  It really needs a cinerama or cinemascope sized screen, to show the film to its advantage.  I think the story got lost some where in all of the above.  Ben Cross didn`t appeal to me either as the hero.  A good working actor but not really leading man material.  Amy Irving, lovely to look at but colourless in her role.  The sets, costumes and especially the wonderful accessories for the elephants, make for a colourful and eyecatching sight, but as I said, on a much bigger screen.

Where's the 140 minute version of the Bluray? I have the extended cut of The Punisher and I want to upgrade to the Bluray but not this one so until the extended cut is released I will not upgrade!

Weak Adaptation of Galouye's Novel and Underwhelming. I finally watched this movie, hoping for a more CGI version of Fassbinder's remarkably great movie "World on a Wire" (1973), or even something that was respectful to the original story. It was neither; I was astounded at how bad this movie was.  Notes before reading: 1) I read the Galouye story, "Simulacron-3," BEFORE watching either Fassbinder's adaptation or this one; 2) I am a fan of Armin Mueller-Stahl; 3) I enjoy sci-fi immensely. I really, really attempted to like this movie, mostly because of the numerical ratings it has received here and on imdb (and I don't read the written reviews beforehand).  The beginning really made me believe I was going to be awed: the great 1930s landscape, a film noir look, interesting-looking set designs, and (to top it all off) the GREAT Armin Mueller-Stahl! But what brought me awe quickly turned into balderdash. The story merely relied on 1/3rds of the original story, with the characters changing their original literary roles that gave the story so much depth. The questions of "what is real" in the original story was not the cynical plot of this adaptation. The special effects were the equivalent to those of a rock concert, with laser lights in fog, glowing eyes, and (straight from television's "Stargate SG-1" - but even less graphic) wormholes! I don't know what the budget was for this movie, but I guarantee that Fassbinder's wonderful adaptation was even less than the budget for this movie.  The story follows Douglas Hall and his attempt to find the killer of Fuller, his partner. Dennis Haysbert plays, with little depth, a detective (who has an entirely different role in the story) attempting to find the murderer. Vincent d'Onofrio looks and acts like a slightly-overweight John Malkovich, playing the most interesting character, the Simulacron-3 technician, but, with how interesting the other characters were, this really isn't saying much. Basically, you have a huge cast of TV actors and actresses, and there is a reason that they do TV (even though some have "touched" cinema, off and on).  I really don't know how far to go in the scenario, but I felt like I was watching a really bad, B-grade, made-for-cable-TV sci-fi that was relying more upon capitalizing on the success of "The Matrix" and others of its ilk than being true to Galouye's story. I tend to believe that the filmmakers were wanting to "jump on the bandwagon" at the time, regardless of the cost to the original story. Perhaps many of those reviews that give this movie such high marks were done by those anti-"The Matrix" fans. I really don't know. Maybe times have changed, and many of the reviewers may want to go back and replay this movie with some more objectivity.  Even more aggravating is that the movie must be so bad in the producers' eyes that they can't even stand to release the DVD in WIDESCREEN!!! That really tells you something!  I commented to my wife that more money was probably spent on the helicopter shots than the rest of the movie. I really wish Galouye's original story would be given the credit and respect it is due, along with the ability to do so with the CGI effects that are now the mainstay of cinema.  I give 2 stars for Mueller-Stahl (always a great screen presence, even though his acting is wasted here) and for the quite breathtaking ending effects of the future in the end - the end being the closest to that of the novel, but too late for the rest of the movie to be good.

This movie was not as good as Cars I really didnt' like this movie.  I can't put my finger on exactly what I didn't like about it, whether it was the silly plot, or the heavy handed message, but it just didn't do it for me.  I liked Tangled much better.

Not my cup of tea Was not interested in this film at all. I watched the whole thing and kept hoping it would end soon or that something would happen that would make me enjoy it. The story line was weak and the characters got on my nerves. I did find the acting was done well.

Betty's Big Moment This was "it" for Betty Hutton.  A huge, Huge, HUGE MGM musical from the hit Irving Berlin Broadway show of the same name.  This was a dream come true for her: Betty Hutton at MGM.  She was very vocal about how happy she was about getting the role.  VERY vocal.  Of course, she got it at the expense of somebody else and that's the rub for me with this movie.  The Irving Berlin score is among not only his best, but some of the best ever delivered to Broadway.  And Betty Hutton can't sing.  Nor can she dance.  You have to wonder what Betty Hutton is doing in a musical in the first place.  She's crass and brash and more cartoon-ish than a living, breathing woman.  But here she is folks, center stage, aiming at the bulls eye of film immortality.  And misses.  Big time.  The film is a bit long, which, had Judy Garland been in the role, wouldn't be a bad thing, but Hutton doesn't have the personality to withstand it for the long haul.  The second half of the movie clearly drags, enlivened by a couple of numbers by the non-singer: Betty Hutton.  It's a big, expensive, splashy musical and it's a shame that Metro put the kibosh on Garland and went looking elsewhere for their star.  I think they should have waited, for in the few snippets of footage that we have of Garland attempting the role, she was clearly "getting there".  Rumors abound: she couldn't work with Busby Berkely (true), she was so drug addled that she didn't know where she was at any given time of day (false) and that she REALLY wanted the role but wanted to rest up before tackling it (true).  But it all fell apart for Judy.  She was out and Hutton was in.  Berkely was out (he never should have had this choice property in the first place) and Charles Walters was in.  Then Charles Walters was out and George Sidney was in.  The whole production was troubled and not all the fault lay at Garland's feet.  A big, important musical needs a big, important musical star and Hutton just doesn't cut the mustard.  Sadly, this will always be her "big" moment; had Garland done it, it would have been HUGE.  Dammit.

Overrated Its a very very overrated movie. I thought it would be funny from beginning to end. I started dozing after....10 minutes. It does have some funny scenes (Melissa Mccarthy) and it does have some touching moments...but other than that...it was very bla. I wouldn't watch it again or recommend it to anyone.

BE WARNED, a good version, but very disapointing DVD quality. Seen on TV many years ago, this Captain America version stands up very well today, however, the master that this DVD is made from, is of very poor quality. OK, this is an Authentic " Region O " import, but most (not all) DVD's made available this way, that I have seen, are from top quality, crystal clear, source material, but this is a disappointing, dark, grainy version on the DVD, similar to the lowest VHS picture quality, you could possibly imagine, maybe 1 out of 10 & the sound is not much better at 3/10. Overall, a very disappointing DVD, of so poor quality that it won't be added to my collection. The day's when buyers & collector's, like myself, would accept inferior quality material, just to own your very own copy, are long gone & I won't lower my standards, as rubbish is still rubbish, no matter what format it is presented in. BE WARNED, don't waste your money! ( The 2 star rating is for the DVD quality only! )

Too Violent "Big Jake" was the worst western John Wayne ever made. There was way too much violence and the actors that played his sons were not believable. Bruce Cabot was good in the role of an Indian scout but needlessly was killed off right at the end of the  movie along with the dog. The dog was probably the best actor in the entire movie but his actions were not beleivable. This was one of John Wayne's Batjac productions and was a total failure just as "The Alamo" was. Better to watch "True Grit" or "The Cowboys."

I wish I knew what I just watched? WOW how to rate this HORROR flick? I can honestly say I watched this twice just to be sure I'm not that stupid but I still can't answer that question because after 2 times I still don't have a clue what the heck happened in this movie. Is it good or bad I don't know it it entertaining, sure I guess so, does it keep you on your toes, that's an understatement. I just wish I knew what was going on, what's the plot, how does it end? Did it end? I know it stopped and I'm glad of that but you can be I won't watch it a 3rd time...

Wanted to love it, but too contrived. I had been looking forward to watching this movie for awhile. I'm a huge fan of 80s movies and I liked that this movie had intentionally modeled itself after John Hughes' successful formula. If they did it right, there would be more movies like this in the future.  To put it simply, this movie was too unbelievable and clich&eacute;d to be enjoyable, even by John Hughes' standards. Beautiful girl who's supposed to be an outcast? Check (by the way, for an "ugly" invisible girl, she spends most of the movie successfully advertising for Victoria's Secret). Giant, rich high school where all the students look like they're in their twenties? Check. Christian fundamentalist stereotypes, just because? Check. Huge expensive pool party for high-schoolers? Check. Bland, perfect guy who gets the girl because the movie said so? Check. Nonstop overly-clever quips from precocious teenagers a la Juno? Check.  This annoyed me in the same way "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" did. The formula behind this movie was so blatant. If you're dying to mash up John Hughes and Diablo Cody and line your pocket with teenagers' allowances, can you be a TINY bit subtle about it? Maybe Penn Badgley really could be our generation's Ferris Beuler/Lloyd Dobbler, but making him stand outside a window with his iPod speakers blasting Peter Gabriel, just short of winking at the audience, is ridiculous. Yeah, we got it, even without the 80s movie montage.

Poopetheus Prometheus came out with high, high expectations, so it's no biggie that it didn't live up to that hype. No, there were many different problems, but the biggest one I had with it was that it awkwardly shifted between horror and sci-fi, and doing neither effectively.  Actually the horror aspect wasn't so bad, I got truly scared when I first saw one of the scientists had a pink mowhawk and tattoos. I was really scared for how the movie would turn out. So a crew is sent on a trillion dollar mission to search for life on a distant planet, judging by the sheer enormity of the mission you'd think they'd send only the best and brightest right? Well no, not at all. Almost every crew member makes completely baffling stupid decisions throughout the movie, and the ones that don't make stupid decisions are completely underutilized.  Once they arrive on the planet, they drive down one little valley to the 'tomb' or whatever is located, so that's all you see of the planet, that little valley and the one tomb, ok whatever. So they get into the 'tomb' and one of them decides to pull off his helmet because the air is breatheable. Ok? So what if it's breatheable, what about alien viruses, toxins, bacteria, aren't you guys supposed to be really smar-oh great now they're all removing their helmets. So Ridley Scott made this movie to appeal to mouth-breathing neanderthals, ok whatever maybe it'll be a good horror movie.  So the Punk Scientist (I can't believe what I'm typing) and his ambigiously gay friend go split off from everyone in true bad horror movie writing, and can't find their way out for plot convience. Eventually they get trapped inside the tomb because of a storm and the ship is monitering them. Well only one guys is monitering these two idiots stranded on a planet and all he says to them is 'sleep tight' then laughs at his gay joke. Don't worry it gets dumber. Charlize Thereon, who's made out to be this cold calculating badass captain decides to sleep with the only guy watching the two stranded crew guys, and I think it was at this point where I started chucking candy at the screen. This was directed by the same guy that did Alien, Black Hawk Down, and Gladiator?  So the two scientists are scared s***less about the crew finding other signs of life in the tomb, but when some snake-like creature comes out of the water they're next to, what do they do? Well the choice is obvious, stick your arm out and try to pet it. Then goofus and gallant get picked off in admittably creepy ways while the whole crew on Prometheus is busy f***ing each other. Later in another scene the captain realizes that one of the crewmembers is contaminated and can't come back on the ship, however later when one of the idiots who's been missing for like a day comes back the crew just opens up the hatch without checking him out first, not realizing that the guy is now some angry giant mutant straight outta the Hills Have Eyes.  So it seems like this is going to go for to pure adrenline-rushing horror, but instead Prometheus takes a left turn and brings Guy Pearce in a cheap old man costume out for no reason other than to throw in a tweest, and none of the crew members seem to care, I sure as hell didn't. The rest of the movie turns into some stupid social commentary, such as "they ain't stupid 'nuff to build weapons of mass destruction on their front doorstep" or "what did we do to deserve to die"? Great, now this movie thinks it's smart.  So Prometheus could've been a solid albeit dumb horror movie, but instead it tries to expand upon it's vague half-baked typical self-loathing hollywood message that humans don't deserve to live. Then Ridley Scott shoves his 'working class good, corporations bad' message AGAIN. We see the white collar members are up to no good, scheming behind everyone's back while the cool down to earth blue collar guys are the good guys. The crew don't even get picked off in a tense cool way of getting hunted or anything, they ram their ship into another ship, dying in the lamest way possible. See kids, Prometheus is too smart to be fun.  So later the crew with Old Guy pearce meet up with the engineer who was sleeping and when they wake him up, does he want to communicate with the beings that he supposedly created? Does he want to assess the situation to know there's a giant ship outside ready to ram his if he tries to escape? Nope, he goes on a gorilla rampage beating everyone then jumps into his ship. Then after the multi-cultural blue collar folks ram into his ship the two leading ladies are being chased by the donut-shaped ship rolling along, only one of them realizing that you should move out of the direction that it's rolling in.  Prometheus is a flat out disappointment. Nice set designs and atmosphere don't erase poor script-writing and a geniuenly lame story, Prometheus is made for idiots who want to pretend that they're smart.

No Shadow Johnny Depp was worth the rental.  Found his role amusing but not enough "camp" to save this movie.  Watch the original to enjoy the drama and humor.

Stick with the DVD, pass on the blu ray I love this movie.  It's a long Cowboy Bebop episode and as such it's just fine.  It has the humor and drama that one can expect from Cowboy Bebop and our beloved bounty hunters are back and in fine form and the stakes are higher than ever.  My review isn't so much about the movie itself but about the blu ray transfer.  The video is very nice, better than the DVD, and the new font they used for the subtitles is very clean and I thought easy to read.  The main menu is VASTLY different and does not use music from the movie like the DVD's menus do.  It's rather nice and simple to navigate.  Those are the positives.  Now for the negatives:  This blu ray only has 2 channel sound while the DVD has 5.1 surround.  This blu ray is missing all extras,  not even trailers.  If you want the interviews and the storyboard comparison, stick with the DVD.  In at least two places, the subtitles takes perfectly good translations and makes them wrong.  I speak enough Japanese to be able to tell the difference, but one of them I verified with a native speaker.  In several places near the beginning of the movie the subtitle is at the top of the screen.  A couple of those relocations made sense, but the rest were inexplicable. If you watch it subtitled, stick with the DVD.  I only gave this 2 stars for my massive disappointment in the blu ray release.  It would have been better if they charged a bit more for it and gave it parity with the DVD.  The product description DOES say that there are no extras, but it doesn't tell you that the audio is only 2 channel.  I've watched this movie at LEAST a dozen times and I expect I'll watch it another dozen times, but it will be the DVD.  The blu ray will gather dust if I don't sell it.

Ego-gratification piece for Max Fleischer After Max Fleischer feel behind Disney at the wake of technicolor and Snow White Max still wanted to seem relevant still seem worth just as much in the industry. Both him and Paramount feel behind the industry and essentially wanted to make products that perpetuated that they were still ahead of everyone else. Paramount said they were still relevant by commercially exploiting everything they had including the Fleischer's which made the Fleischer's technically fall behind others because they were so focused on commercialization by the early forties the Fleischer product is so tasteless that not even Popeye can sell some of the poor production quality.  Essentially with Gulliver's Travels Max says that he can produce a superior Snow White by adhering to the New York mentality of doing things, that it is more of a commercial trade and not artistically inclined or bearing standards such as Snow White. It is futile for him to believe that he could have made a better Snow White by being dependent upon production methods that were far more inferior.  This film is so over-focused on trying to out-merit Snow White by being stylistically the same. Had he been more focused on what technologies and resources he had at his disposal he would have made something superior to this train-wreck exceptionally far from the zenith of what their studio produced. The narrative is not very well fleshed out nor are the characters, the narrative revolves around this musical feud no sub-plots its as if your trying to sustain a seventy five minute movie without proper story structure or sub-plots. This once again comes from their New York mentality of not building to much story structure around a film but focusing more on the gags.  Walt Disney set standards such as personality animation, story structure, motion study that this film does not display. Characters are horribly fleshed out the spies Sneak Snoop and Snitch are of malevolent intent yet hardly sophisticated or well developed and in many cases have to many comedic elements to be taken seriously. The feud cannot sustain a seventy five minute film as elaborated before due to the fact that you need a more fleshed out narrative in such a format, it is a kin to trying to make a feature centered around a series of gags which is what New York Cities silent animation production system did in short subjects.  One of the reasons the quality suffers is a short production period to avoid competing with Fantasia and Pinocchio two of which are light years ahead yet were commercial flops due to the European market being shut out as a potential place to distribute the film. Gulliver supposedly suffered the same fate according to Paramount who acquired the company by saying that Gulliver was in the red and hadn't made a profit. Based on Ray Pointer's wonderful research it turns out that Gulliver was distributed over in Europe. Much of these profits may have been enough to by back the loan they borrowed from Paramount and then some.  I'm sorry to any of the cult-followings this film has received but honestly this is a disaster. Max could have made better out of it by exploiting certain technologies and focusing on their own strengths but he is so over-focused on trying to out-merit Disney to gratify his ego that he still relevant and ahead of everyone in the industry. Max was only relevant in popular culture because of Popeye by 1939, this film does not prove that he is ahead of Disney.

Don't waste your time... I was anxious to get this one when it first came out. I spent almost 15 dollars at that time to order it by mail. But i was really disappointed. Sure it was Felix from the 50s. But the original title sequence had been replaced by some generic junky looking title, and then an sloppy cut to the original cartoon. So, I see you can pick it up for cheap now. And if you're not too picky, then go ahead. But you were warned!

The Wolfman There's a muddy, cracked, ancient path that winds and delves into the chasms of the the B - movie catalogue.  It's a risky, perilous road to take for any director, especially in this day an age.  It requires playing cat-and-mouse with cardinals sins of cinema without really knowing the position you're taking until it's too late.  To be sure, You won't be a critic's friend should you actually accomplish revitalizing this black sheep of a genre if there ever was one.  It's just too easy to sail over the heads of any practical audience as something unbelievably dim-witted; the tongue in cheek is completely wasted.  I really don't know what Joe Johnston had in mind while he was directing this twitchy, pseudo-grand rebirth of a classic B-grade creature feature.  It's a dichotomy of high brow surrealism and chuckle-inducing absurdities, to the point where the two often converge into something wholly ridiculous and only intriguing for the smallest of reasons.  Being a child of the new-age era, I have always fallen firmly in the party that favors the "manwolf" over the "wolfman"; Think Remus Lupin, as opposed to Claude Rains.  This is where source material gets in the way of contemporary expecations:  when you take Johnston's wolfman out of the shadows, he/it simply isn't threatening enough to warrant thrills (something that this film is almost entirely devoid of, which is insulting).  When a character in Hogwarts is giving me more chills than Del Toro's depiction, something is going terribly wrong.  The excessive and undeniably exhilarating gore-fests that come up every half hour or so attempt to offset this, but it ultimately isn't enough.  One is just left with a hollow admiration for the crew to pay respect to the film's foundation which doesn't translate into the raw entertainment that these films live and die by.  Fortunately, effective atmosphere is timeless, and Johnston's team nails it quite well.  The stark, minimalist nature of the wilderness and countryside is perfect, easily making up for a dragging, uninspired middle that has Del Toro raging throughout an insane asylum and other urban environments.  It's a great cast, too, with Hopkins stealing the show and Del Toro showing his more versatile side.  As father and son, the two make for an enigmatic and intriguing duo, leaving Blunt and Weaving in the dust - not an easy task, by any means.  To their credit, the two pick up the slack easily enough, but their roles are just leverage for the relationship between the leads.  But for everything that goes right, there's the recurring issue of a real lack of foreboding and immediate danger that could have been achieved by following a man who's slave to a celestial object.  All the potential terror and chills are instead replaced with tacky, psychological humdrum and a pacing jerkier than a rat on a paint shaker.  It's a functional title in its own right, but the passion is absent, and the spirit is yet to be found.

One and 1/2 Stars: Curious Failure for So Many Familiar Faces You're not going to find a bigger fan (on Amazon) for any studio bringing back the Western than I am, but vanity projects like THE LEGEND OF HELL'S GATE will probably do little to bring new fans to the classic oater.  I love `em, through and through, because I think that they're (largely) the only truly original form of American storytelling.  While I'd love to see more and more of them released theatrically, I certainly understand that the dynamics of Hollywood accounting make producing them fairly costly these days.  Still, I'll embrace any of them, even one so curiously flawed as is HELL'S GATE.  By appearances, THE LEGEND OF HELL'S GATE is meant to tell the story of the fabled Possum Kingdom Lake in Texas.  While it clearly establishes something took place that led up to its name, what the viewer is left with is mostly a mishmash of vignettes strung together by the weakest narrative I've ever seen in a Western - a genre that's usually rich with peoples of immense character and symbolism too vivid to escape detection.  Instead, the film delivers a handful of scenes artfully photographed, but these characters seem to have very little basis in reality.  Who knows?  Maybe they've all been drawn from `legend'!  (insert `rimshot' here)  Unfortunately, the main story doesn't begin until 45 minutes into the feature, and therein lies the biggest problem at the heart of HELL'S GATE.  In order for anyt audience to appreciate any film, there has to either be (A) characters you can identify with or (B) a very clearly establish narrative with a discernible beginning, middle, and end.  For the record, HELL'S GATE has neither until the 45 minute mark, and I'm strongly inclined to believe the writer/director Tanner Beard realized this when all that he shot came into the editing suite.  Why do I think so?  Because at that point someone (maybe it was Mr. Beard) concocted the bright idea to take a sequence from later in the film and tack it on to the beginning (it "sets up" the characters only visually, and it repeats later so as to "cement" the story) yet, at the beginning, it's given absolutely no context.  So, as it stands, the film begins with people running and racing about a forest, carrying bags of something that's entirely unknown.  Are they villains?  They're being shot at.  Are they our heroes?  We're never told.  Stylistically, this is like reading a book and having the author - for no explainable reason - take Chapter 07 out of the novel and, instead, re-label it as Chapter 01, while then also leaving it intact AS Chapter 07.  Who are these characters?  What are they doing?  Why have they not been established?  That's what happens here, which is an astounding disappointment.  Seriously, I found that the first 45 minutes made very little sense UNTIL the film is viewed as a whole, and that's a dementedly flawed idea, whoever came up with it.  That's only part of what I found so disappointing about the narrative.  While the film was chocked full of familiar faces from TV and motion pictures, these characters are given little more than a few convenient `beats' to act on.  They're never clearly defined.  Some of them are incidental - they turn up, and then they're gone without a moment's notice OR explanation.  While others found this an interesting moment from history, I kept struggling with the context: why are we being shown these events?  Why are there so many familiar names from wild West history (Abe Lincoln, John Booth, Doc Holliday), and what's their grand connection?  And - for a film subtitled "The American Conspiracy" - I saw very little mystery or even mildly `conspiring' for that matter ... so what's up with that subtext, Tanner?  Sorry, but, outside of some excellent production values, this pistol fired one big dud.  THE LEGEND OF HELL'S GATE was produced by 4Go West Productions, Flatiron Pictures, and Phase 4 Films.  DVD distribution is being handled by Lionsgate.  The disc looks and sounds as well as it could, and there's a handful of respectable special features for anyone seriously interested in exploring it more.  Not for me.  RECOMMENDED WITH STRONG RESERVATIONS.  The essential problem I had with a film named THE LEGEND OF HELL'S GATE is that I see absolutely no basis for there to be any legend associated to HELL'S GATE or the people depicted in it.  In fact, there's nothing `legendary' about it in the slightest.  Excellent production qualities get overshadowed by the slim pickings of a story that's hatcheted together on a narrative that, at times, defies logic.  It looks good, but, as an oater, it lacks ... well ... it lacks oats.  POST-SCRIPT:  And, just for the record, there's a stunningly horribly tracking shot very early in the film where the camera comes across a homestead that's been decimated by fire.  I believe the tracking shot is actually a combination of two separate tracks, and, frankly, it's just horrible.  It's a herky-jerky shot so poorly done it really doesn't even qualify to be called 'amateurish.'  It shouldn't have been included in the motion picture; yes, it's that bad.  I'm stunned that the rest of the picture looks so well; in fact, that's the only reason I'm giving the flick any recommendation at all.  Technically, it's very impressive, but otherwise it's a failure.  In the interest of fairness, I'm pleased to disclose that the fine folks at Lions Gate provided me with a DVD screener copy of THE LEGEND OF HELL'S GATE by request for the expressed purposes of completing this review.

Painful To Watch This is a real stinker. Story was weak and not "believable", editing was not great, characters were one dimensional and worst of all this is one of those movies where they try and make every viewer happy and just end up making it no good for anyone.

In the Land of Bad Movies, This Movie is King! Wow...what a stinker! I thought the campiness of this would make it fun, but I was mistaken. It's just bad. This is the basic storyline of "Armagedden", just with a giant military engineered "sharkoctopus". There are no words to describe just how mundanely bad this movie is. I predicted virtually every single line uttered by the characters. If I want to watch a truly entertaining bad movie, I'll stick with Ed Wood, or at least Mystery Science Theater 3000 reruns. Now THAT'S entertainment. Still bad movies, but the difference is that you can laugh at them instead of groaning. THIS movie is a groaner.

And this is good because???? I see quite a few positive reviews of this movie and I simply do NOT get it.  There was no depth to the characters, nondescript acting and way too much blood and gore.  Oh, and the plot was what????????????  I love horror and I love vampire movies, but these  creatures looked like a cross between zombies and vampires.  I like movies with vampires that look like vampires, not ones that look like half-eaten undead.  And that touching music along with all that spewing blood and gore simply did not go together.  All this movie did that was positive was what it did for the producers, which was set up everything for a sequel.  Wish I could get back the time I wasted on this piece of trash.....

If I wanted to See a Steven Segal Film... This movie is watchable, and does contain some clever plot devices (the way Sean Connery uses the dead man to elicit witness cooperation is particularly engaging).  But on the whole, it just induces groans of incredulity, starting really when our last action heroes, in order to thwart *one* drug deal, enlist the help of an *army* of Canadian Mounties, giving rise to the clich&eacute;, "It would take an army of Canadian Mounties to...".  From there, this movie devolves into a mindless flick about gunslingers and explosions.  This would be fine if it were done honestly or well, but neither is the case.  First, billing a shoot-em-up action movie as a historical drama about interwar gangsterism in Chicago is a bait-and-switch, and profoundly disingenuous.  Next, the action is not of the vintage Harrison Ford variety, but of the cheesy Steven Seagal variety.  The characters are one-dimensional and have no motivation or distinctiveness other than being "good guys" or "bad guys". (This would be bad enough if they were *fictional* characters; it's a travesty with historical one.s)  The "good guys" perform absurdly impossible feats of battle that elicit ridicule from any reasonably discerning audience, such as single-handedly outgunning dozens of gangsters attacking simultaneously, Rambo-Style, (again, in a historical drama!) all to save one child from falling down the stairs in her stroller in the definitive act of perfect heroism (Elliott Ness!).  Such exploits are too farcical even for children's fiction, let alone historical fiction.  I have no problem with dramatic license, but this is like a Civil War movie where Ulysses S. Grant has X-Ray vision.  I may be naive, but I always thought that part of the fun of a historical drama was the depiction of life and times of the period, such as the challenging of clch&eacute;s, the filling in of little details, and the way they shoe those subtle ways in which that those times are the same, and yet different, from ours.  Compare this to a *good* DePalma film, Scarface, where you see background, demons, and drive of the main character, Tony Montana.  You see the web of politics and criminality that make a guy like Tony possible, and you sense the chilling irony upon Tony's realization that the world, the world that Tony would stop at nothing to own, was already owned and not for sale, and that he was nothing but a well-paid stooge.  All of this is *fiction*, but fiction accurately depicting and effectively engaging reality.  As opposed to the supposed story of the "real" Al Capone, which is nothing but a pointless, ridiculous fantasy.  And by the way, I rarely say this explicitly, but anyone giving this five stars has no idea of what they are talking about.

Not what I expected. I love all the "Alien" movies, and I have to tell you that this one is not one of them. Maybe as a separated story will be fine, but the fact that it has being related to the first one makes it a complete fiasco. Yes the special effects are good, and some of the actors have a very nice performance, but the way the story was handle is wrong. They should watch the first movie one more time before they made this one. On the first one there were eggs with those nasty "hands" we all love. On this one they have pods with some black goo stuff that does not add any suspense to the film. The big alien with the broken chest was found inside their ship sitting on the control chair, not inside a human vessel next to a squid like creature. I could understand all the discrepancies if the creator of Prometheus was some one else. But this is not the case. In any way this movie is not what it claims to be. I am really disappointed.

Movies not new as advertised I ordered the HBO OZ series as new and when I received them they were definitely not new.  They had scratches on the disks and while watching them some of them continuously skip. The last disk of season 1 did not play at all.  I have had much luck ordering from Amazon but from this merchant I would not order again as I did not want to pay for new disks and get used ones.

Dumb movie about self-pitying, self-centered hetero jerks There must be a demand for movies like this, since they get made. There must be people who like movies like this, since they get good reviews and win (or at least get nominated for) awards. Maybe the good reviews convinced me to watch this movie, but it was a mistake.  This movie is stupid and irritating. The story is stupid, and all the people in it are irritating, self-centered, self-pitying jerks. Who cares if such obnoxious people are unhappy? Besides, they're all straight. No wonder they're all screwed up: they're trying to have sex with the wrong sex. How could that make anybody happy?  It's time to take a break from watching movies when I start watching dumb, irritating movies about heterosexual angst like this one.

Weak Story Plot and Acting I rented the movie because it had a 5 Star rating initially.  I've learned my lesson!  I'm a fan of both lead actors but this film was 99% DIALOGUE...and dry at that.  It has as much intrigue as a "soft package" gift under a christmas tree.

Pearl Harbor Redeux Do you remember the movie Pearl Harbor with Ben Affleck? Great eye candy but a truly bad, bad movie.  Well, Hollywood did it again.....Battleship. They took what could have been a fun popcorn movie and turned it into a mashup of ridiculous motivations, unbelievable emotional situations, bad acting, bad writing, and bad direction. If you watch the movie without fast-forwarding when you finish you'll feel like you need a shower and will desperately want your 2+ hours back. Really, it's not even worth a bucket of warm spit!

Fun but don't count on instructions I'm working overseas so I'm kind of stuck with the fitness DVD's I came out with. That explains why I'm still working out with this DVD--it's taken me about 2 months of one and off use before I can 'mostly' do all the steps. Yes. I have other videos that have a seperate section where steps are explained. Not this one! Just try to pick it up she says! And this is fast-paced, complex choreography too. The music is good, so once you learn it, it's fun. It just takes a while to learn it. Be warned.

Amelie on Acid This pic reminds me a bit of Amelie, but much better.  Amelie was cutsie and this is an action pic.  Unfortunately, the running does get a bit tiresome, though it is interesting for much of its running time.

Hey Warner Home Video, we want the EXTENDED episodes!!! I'm a huge fan of "Friends," in fact it's probably my favorite TV show of all time. Interestingly, I didn't start watching the show until it was in its 9th season. I dismissed it as a "chick show," but when I finally started catching re-runs when I was in college, it had me rolling! It was right at this point that they began releasing the full seasons on DVD. So every time a new season was released on DVD I went right out and bought it. The first time that I saw many of these episodes (probably 80% of the series) was on DVD. For those of you that don't know this, the DVDs actually contained longer episodes than what had been originally broadcast on NBC. Each 20-minute episode contained another 2 or 3 minutes of dialogue/story. And it wasn't excessive stuff that needed to be cut, many of my favorite lines in the show were in these extended scenes. In fact, when I go back and watch re-runs of the show now I can't believe how much of it is missing. I still love my DVDs though, special features and all! But when I watch them now on my 47" TV I notice that they look pretty rough. There's lots of pixelation and fuzziness, and the episodes aren't formatted for widescreen. Certain channels have been showing the episodes in HD and they look gorgeous! I thought to myself, "I would actually buy the whole series over again on Blu-Ray if it had all the extended episodes and bonus features from the standard DVD set."  When I learned that "Friends" was coming to Blu-Ray I was so excited, I couldn't wait to get my hands on it. Then I learned that this Blu-Ray boxed set would not contain the previously released extended episodes, but would instead have them as they appeared in the original NBC broadcast. Warner Home Video's reason for this is as follows: "The extended cuts were special versions created for the DVDs and no longer exist in a form that could be used for a Blu-ray release."  ...What does THAT mean? You can transfer the short episodes but not the long ones? That makes no sense! Whatever was done to clean up the episodes that they've been showing on TV in HD, they can do for the extended episodes. I think someone just got lazy and decided this would be good enough. While I desperately want my favorite show in HD, I will not fork out over $200 for an inferior product! I know these (extended) episodes like the back of my hand, and I won't be able to truly enjoy the show with the absence of so many great scenes and lines. I'd rather watch bad resolution "Friends" in its entirety than watch a cleaned up abridged version. The only reason I'm giving this 2 stars is because it's still an awesome show, and for casual fans this might be enough. However, for fans like me this will simply not do. This reminds me of George Lucas only releasing the versions of Star Wars that nobody likes, or Peter Jackson putting out The Lord Of The Rings trilogy on Blu-Ray but waiting over a year to put out the extended versions. Warner Home Video won't be getting my money this time. Try again, guys!

Disappointing. . . . Although some of the cinematography was very good; the story line was not good.  To me, it seems as though they took a lot of video clips of animals and edited the clips to try and make a story out of it.

Sub-par mediocrity, 1946 style This movie starts out promisingly, with a new police-beat reporter being introduced around at a aging police headquarters, with brief glimpses of a variety of the problems that bring people there.  Then it shifts gears and becomes about a politically important murder, with an election looming and a powerful publisher making attractive offers to the cop in charge (William Gargan).  But about 25 minutes in, it makes a right-angle turn into stupidity, with the publisher managing to get the medical examiner to do something ridiculous, then descends into door-slamming farce.  It never recovers. The murderer comes from way out in left field, and is discovered only by chance.  This is not a spoiler, because the prime suspect (Carole Landis) is so pretty and noble that it is inconceivable that she could be the killer.  People who watch this because they are curious about Carole Landis, as I was, will be disappointed.  Despite being top-billed, she has very little screen time.  Furthermore, her sole outfit includes the lumberjack-esque shoulder pads that were the style in 1946, and a very dated hat, which she never removes throughout the picture.  The script does not give her any real character to play, and aside from being easy on the eyes and seeming like a nice person, she does not establish one.  William Gargan, on the other hand, despite seeming more like a character actor than a leading man, carries the picture competently.  I wouldn't say he had star qualtiy, but he managed to seem like a real person doing a real job, within the limitations of the script.  The movie is not really a film noir, despite taking place entirely at night.  It is much too set-bound for that; virtually all of it takes place within the confines of the police station, giving one very little feel for what 1946 looked like.  It might have been made at any time from 1936 to 1956.  From what we can see, 1946 looked pretty run-down, which seems reasonable after 15 years of Depression and war.  For example, almost all of the phones in the police station Press room were candlestick types, dating to the 1920's  In 1946, this movie was the equivalent of a very average one-hour TV cop show today; it is not really worth your time now, even as a period piece.

Gives the Microphone to Mostly Unrepentant Former Terrorists I don't have a problem with doing a documentary about the Weather Underground.  I don't have a problem with such a documentary featuring many interviews with former members of the group.  What I do mind is that the documentary pretty much consists of these individuals making statements that the documentary makers don't bother to challenge.  Also, the documentary makers don't give any biographical information about these former "urban guerrillas" lives which might give some context and understanding about why they embraced violence.  I also didn't see any dialogue between the documentary makers and their subjects where they got asked hard questions.  I would have liked to have seen them put on the spot about all the murderous communist regimes they idolized (like Mao's China ... then in the grip of the Cultural Revolution or the North Vietnamese, or the Soviets).  I guess I just question the overall way this project took place.  Like I said above, the Weather Underground was certainly a worthwhile subject for a documentary.  But I can't help but think that the film that resulted from this effort reveals a bit of bias to the violent left that some of our nation's elites have.  After all, it's not like this is a companion piece to a similar project about the Ku Klux Klan (which would feature members talking with nostalgia about the days where they "fought for the South").

too much comedy for a very serious topic... I could not believe how much Bullock's character played to the annoyance of having to do rehab for her abs despicable behavior...yeah well I'm a writer is all she will cop to?? and that rehab is abhorrent, who could ever find a path to recovery in that environment, everyone just blaming their childhood to behave irresponsibly, just having a chat with ur Mum bout how they feel is so far removed from addressing the issues of addiction I am shocked anyone found this film useful... always the clown Gwen has to be in comic scenes which I find she reaches for at all times, cleaning a filty bathroom with a HUGE mop bucket on crutches, gimme a break and writing the big exit finale of Santa Cruz with like 8 lines, and littering like crazy, champagne and bottle in the river, pills out the window, had no hope for her when she completed her required 28 day stint... the saving grace is always my beautiful Viggo and the quickie love scene and the woods confession were the best scenes in the film...thank you again Mr. M!!!  if you are an addict many blessings and hope for recovery if you have to do this sort of process, watch Dr. Drew instead...

...You Can Get It... ..At The Box Store for $10..I Did Yesterday..1-14-11..My Only Complaint is they are double sided discs..Hate That...So i carefully made back up copies and put the master away..!...p/s  You will find it in the $10 section not in a bin...Of Course You Will Then Have a 10 disc set, But the Master will stay scratch free..!..Good Huntin'

Crap movie that had potential It could have been great but it was not.  The cast was great.  The concept could have been great but it took most of the movie for the cowboys to get to and attack the aliens and the aliens themselves were a letdown.  I hear the graphic novel was better, if no less cheesy.

Audio Surround Sound Problem, Movie looks great. Quiet Audio: I watched the movie using my home theater system.  The 5.1 surround audio is soo quiet I had to turn up the volume to the maximum setting, the voices were still very quiet and hard to understand, the action was loud but not crazy loud like you would expect.  Subtitles Broken: I tried to turn on the sub titles so my girlfriend could read along as it was too quiet and some of the accents are hard for her to understand, but the subtitles don't work either.  The only time the subtitles worked is when there was a German sign being translated like 'No Jews', and at the beginning of the credits a subtitle thing came up telling you what company or whatever you should thank for the subtitle that didn't work.  I am very unhappy with this, I love the movie but this is basically unwatchable.  I did not try switching the audio off the 5.1 surround, maybe that would make it louder if it was just in stereo.  Also, I'm a movie and a home theater buff so I know for a fact there was nothing wrong with my setup to cause this to happen.  I watch at least one movie a day and have experienced this problems with a few other movies before.

Silly Hill At the time of this writing the average rating on Silent Hill at Amazon was 4 stars. What a gip. If Silent Hill is a 4 star movie then something is broken. Either that or there are a lot of Horror movie fans with very low standards.  Silent Hill isn't scary. There's no suspense. It's based on a cool video game, but it's about as believable as Donkey Kong (a stupid 80s video game about a gorilla that wears a tie).  If you like good Horror (like Wolf Creek or the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead), or if you like good sci-fi (like Aliens or Terminator), you'll be bored silly by Silent Hill.  Silent Hill is a dumb The Ring meets witches in the Twilight Zone kind of story that is not up to par with either of the media in my analogy.  Paul S. Anderson (the guy behind the Resident Evil movies) needs to write a book that aspiring video-game-to-film directors need to read that explains how to turn a good video game into a good movie. Because other than Anderson's films, I can't think of another movie that's been a good film adaptation of a video game.  Pass on Silent Hill.

Tries too hard... I love Emma Stone.  Unfortunately, there is a lot to be desired in this effort.  The acting is too forced, as if everybody is in on the joke and trying to be funny without really succeeding.  The film is too stylish with a heightened melodramatic sense of reality.  I wasn't able to suspend my disbelief and assume this was a typical slice of adolescent life in Ojai, CA.  The costuming was too revealing and "high school" actors were far too adult to really convince me.  It works as a companion to The Scarlet Letter, but I doubt it resounds with today's teens.  Maybe if I were younger, I would get it, but it is far too tongue-in-cheek.  Believe me, I wanted to laugh out loud and ADORE this movie, but I merely giggled and was distracted by its slick presentational style.  It lacked heart--actually having to reference stronger teen films of the 80's to get its point across.  It is a great commercial for Ojai.  And Emma Stone delivers.  But just not what I expected.

People Actually LIke This? I can't believe how many good reviews this movie has gotten on Amazon.  The acting is terrible.  The storyline is absurd.  The ending is extra absurd.  I can do a predictable fairytale love story, but this was terribly done.  The only reason I didn't give it one star is that there are actually movies that are worse and it's not THE worst movie I've seen. But again, it's not a good movie.

One that I thought was going to be good This was one of those movies that I thought was going to be really good. I waited for it to come out on netflix and saw it. I kept trying to watch it but there just isnt enough to keep your interest. There are quite a few funny parts throughout the movie but overall, I dont believe it is worth buying. I'd recommend renting or borrowing it first, then decide whether or not you want to buy it.

Puccini: Turandot It is only OK since this is the only Turandot on Blu-ray. Yes, BBC Music magazine and Blu-ray.com give this one a 4 of 5 stars review. Except for 1080i and DTS-HD sound, the performance is just OK, nothing special. I would take Mazzal's Vienna production or Levine's Met performance in a heart beat. But since both of them are on DVD only, there is no choice if you really need to see the logo of DTS-HD being shown on your receicer screen throughout the performance as it was my original intention to try it out in the first place. But if you don't care about being trendy, stay with Eva Marton on DVD instead.

Meh... This movie honestly bored me to tears. There wasn't anything thrilling about it. There wasn't anything exciting about it. It was just boring... Trailer was very misleading. If you want to do a lot of thinking, then sure, watch it. If not, then just turn away. -Trent Foreman, Author of Nightmare

Dont buy this DVD! Dont buy this DVD. Not very good. But Music in High places is smoken hot! Its unplugged Collective Soul. Wish they made a CD of it. Saw Collective Soul on TV 6 months ago playing at an outdoor venue live. That was really smokin hot too! But this DVD? Too many cooks in the kitchen and it didn't have the "collective soul" or essence they play. Guess you had to be there.

Bypass Season 1 & 2, Get Season 3 Judgement: RENT, don't BUY Season 1 and 2. The episodes are too uneven, two boring one and two average ones for every good episode. I normally transfer my DVDs to digital files to run directly off my computer's huge 2 terabyte hard drive used for storing videos; this gives me more freedom to choose what to watch. After watching Season 1, only 2 episodes remain (judged re-watchable). Season 2 has four episodes remaining on the drive.  Rationale: David Madison reminds me too much of my most obnoxious students - who badger and annoy when they are told NO as they try to get you to change your mind. Gee, am I describing a BRAT? When Maddie says NO to David, off he goes into his badgering - sometimes he is funny (in Season 3 he is funny) but most times NO. Personally, I feel no empathy for Maddie since when David starts his brat mode it is a sure thing that she will give in.  Comedy: Physical comedy is the show's major comedy strength; most of the verbal comedy seldom works (the quips remind me of the style used in the Die Hard movie series by Bruce Willis). The absurd seems to be the key to the better episodes - greater absurdity often leads to fun.  Detective Strength: No sleuthing depth, it is just a facade for the interplay between the characters. This is not Columbo!  Acting: The leads are good actors and what they are asked to say is the weakness. David trying to be extra cute with his quips seldom works. The support actors, especially in the Blue Moon office are excellent and add fun to the episodes.  Buying Suggestion: Season 3 is outstanding! If you rent it, I am certain you will end up purchasing it.

ENDLESS EPISODES FOR ADOLESCENTS Have not and will not purchase any boxed set of this 3rd rate attempt at science fiction entertainment. After viewing several episodes I am left with the desire to be again 13 and chewing bubblegum.  I could then enjoy this embarassing waste of talent and time.

The Search for the Iceman Another 48 Hours, 1990 film  They say the sequel usually isn't as good as the original. This is not an exception to that rule. The reason is the story. Overall it is an interesting plot, but seems to intense at times. It has a lot of action and killing, maybe too much for a mystery story. Who is the "Iceman", the person behind the illegal drug trade in the San Francisco area? The answer lies in uncovering his identity. The original seems to have more humor. This one seems to have too many cardboard characters. The final scenes have a lot of shooting, as if that alone would make a better movie. The premise of this story seems unbelievable to me.  The lack of daylight scenes outside of the desert suggests a low budget production. I don't think there will be another sequel. Note how their looks tell about the characters, as if that was true in reality.

Should have stayed in The Wild The move was more like a copy of The Lion King and Madagascar than an original move but was good enough to hold the attention of my 5 and 3 year old.

An Unusual Twist on Cinematic Time Travel That Doesn't Seem to Understand Itself An odd twist on time distortion in which, due to the inexplicable appearance of the aurora borealis over Queens, a New York cop is able to communicate via ham radio with his long-dead father thirty years in the past. Completely ignoring the warnings of Doc Brown and Marty McFly, he immediately spoils the upcoming World Series and dozens of important life moments for his father, before the two decide to pair up in search of an unresolved string of historical murders. The film can't decide if it wants to do the sappy paternal bonding thing or follow a more suspenseful path, and its main plot mechanism is clunky, under-explained and inconsistent. It's also routinely telegraphed from beginning to end, with a narrow scope limiting its potential escape routes and an overdose of father-son baseball allegories. Hackneyed, hammy and haphazard, it plays like a bloated sci-fi short story in desperate need of revision.

Boring, Tried giving it a chance for Adam Sandler and Anniston but not worth it. Don't waste your time... I'm a big Adam Sander fan and I tried watching this on an airplane ride and I fell asleep. I suggest you do the same. Or watch another movie.  Funny People was way better, and felt genuine compared to this crap.

In color but not good. I've seen most of Sonja Henie's movies and often they have very clever plots and are well done.  So why, out of all of her movies, this one is on DVD is beyond me.  Yes, it is one of the few that is in color, but it features one of the worst plots I've seen her movies have.  She's a doormat to an alcoholic no good husband.  We are expected to believe that she has a positive effect on him, but there is never a real reason for her to be so madly in love with him.  She "mothers" him, which they tout in the film, but it seems ridiculous given that most wild men don't want to be Mothered. And the "other" woman is quite evil, though not for any clear cut reason.  Other than she doesn't want anybody else to be happy.  Which is realistic, but a drag in this film.  Furthermore, while Sonja has a charming smile, her ice skating is awkward with broken lines and hunched over shoulders.  While a worldwide champion in the art/sport multiple times back in her day, nowadays her skating leaves much to desire.  I recommend several of her other films, but this one is a waste of time.

Unrealistic I believe that there are plenty of true stories about the Holocaust that are riveting enough for the big screen. Why make one about a story that is so unrealistic? I don't often review movies so I hope the reader can forgive me for an incomplete and sub-par review but I just watched this movie and felt moved enough to share my thoughts.  First of all at the party with all the pomp and circumstance for the German commander when he gets promoted, would they be playing American Jazz? Were Nazi's big fans of the Jazz movement? I'm not even sure how music that 'jazzy' would have been recieved in the States for the time period, maybe I'm nit-picking there. Here is a quote from Wikipedia, took me 3 seconds to look up: "The Nazi regime pursued and banned the broadcasting of jazz on German radio, partly because of its African roots and because many of the active jazz musicians were of Jewish origin; and partly due to the music's certain themes of individuality and freedom. For the Nazis, jazz was an especially threatening form of expression. An anti-jazz radio broadcast From the Cake Walk to Hot sought a deterrent effect with "particularly insisting musical examples." It's hard for me to believe at such an official and elegant party they would be playing jazz/swing music anywhere in the world, let alone Nazi Germany.  Secondly did children in concentration camps have time to lounge about? Were there large area of fence that were not under watch from some sort of guard on foot or tower? If someone were caught stealing they would just get hit in the face and told not to do it again?  Thirdly didn't the Nazi's tell relatives that they were gaurding over a prisoner camp, that the people in the camp were prisoners? It seems very unrealistic that the Grandparents would have the details that it was an extermination camp for Jews, from what I understand very few people knew beforehand exactaly what was going on and it was naturally someting that the Nazi's wanted to keep secret. I suppose a spouse of a commanding officer could have found out, but the whole way it came about in the movie seemed fake. Would the wife really have been shaken by the fact that there was a crematorium on the grounds and it was used on occasion? I would have liked to see someting a little more realistic; the husband arguing that they are prisoners and that a lot of people die in war time, maybe the wife buying that for a while and then confronting him when the creamatorium operates day and night and having her say how many criminals are there in Europe?  I know the film had an important message and a powerful ending, but I'm not happy that such liberties with reality were taken with this story.

An OK movie made worse by the acting and ScyFy channel effects.  I have seen worse though.  Not impressed. I say C- "We got word that something big was supposed to happen this week. We know that there is a skeleton crew here but everyone else is off site. I'm beginning to understand why." A small town that is home to a psych hospital is having a problem. The citizens are disappearing and dying gruesome deaths. A reporter is sent to investigate the mystery. To say this movie is bazaar is an understatement. To talk about this at all is going to lead to me giving something away. The only thing that I can say is that the acting and effects are not that impressive, and neither is the movie really, but it kept me watching. I have seen worse, but in the recent string of psych hospital movies this one is toward the bottom. If you are big into horror then you may like this, I though "The Ward" was better. Overall, I'm not sure if the acting and effects had an impact on how I felt, but I wasn't impressed by this. I give it a C-.

NOT for kids! contains guns, violence, beatings, brutality This movie started fine -- nice artwork, baby/mommy horse, those kinds of things.  Then it had my 3 year old son screaming and crying inside of 15 minutes, when the soldiers come and tie the horse up and start dragging him around. Then he is repeatedly beaten, then starved, and shot at. More screaming and crying, more of me hurriedly pressing skip, skip, and trying to explain what was going on...  OK, this is supposed to be a kids movie, I kept telling myself, surely there would be something a little "scary"... but then it would be over.  As soon as I thought that, then out come the guns -- really? The protagonist cartoon horse in a rated G movie has to get SHOT AT?  The horses get beaten/tied/up/captured just about every 10 minutes throughout the movie.  Because there is also a Native American theme to this movie, we get treated to a cavalry charge slash indian massacre slash redirect into the horses getting washed down a river until you think one of them is dead...  I was so disgusted with this movie that I will now stay far away from any kids product with a Dreamworks label.

Not Special Edition DVD advertised as "Special Edition" Got "Holiday Inn/Going my way" DVD. Not what I wanted but to late to return it is a gift. Shipping was very fast.

Deceived Said it was a the 2 disc collectors version but only had one disc and the sender gave us a free movie of something we did not ask for.  Very disappointed.

The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage Nobody in this movie IS NORMAL. Portman's character is insane at the VERY least, Nina's mother is WAY over-obsessed with her child...in fact she EVEN undresses her. Her mother gave up her career as a ballerina to have Nina. It appears she is trying to live through Nina and is always smothering her. The people in Nina's life are WAY too creepy and just freaking weird. This whole damn movie felt as if I were drunk. Weird, creepy hallucinations are fun for a short while but done so much you have no idea what's real and what's not. I understand what the writers of this movie were trying to say, but me personally I don't want to view things from a psychotic dancer point of view. What's the deal with porno-type content? Seriously. Do NOT buy this movie, unless you LIKE crazy. Personally, this movie was way TOO hyped up and just doesn't come close to expectations.  So from my perspective this gets a 2 out of 5 stars.

Excellent Video and Audio Quality Please describe the audio and video quality of any Blu-Ray you review.  Thanks to those who do this.  Both the 2.40:1 (or 2.35:1) video and DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio are excellent in this Blu-Ray movie.  I have not complaints about the audio or video quality.  The movie is full of action, but I found it boring anyway.  Some movies I wish would never end, but I thought the end of this movie couldn't come soon enough.

A Departure I started reading the Vampire Chronicles after watching "Interview With the Vampire" when I was about 11. "Queen of the Damned" came out when I was in high school and, at the time, I was really into that type of music. I was disappointed that the movie was so different than the book, though I understand that the several different story lines in the book would be hard to translate to a movie, it would have been nice for some of the main plots to be seen. Stuart Townsend definately depicts the modern Lestat in the same way that Tom Cruise was able to embody the 18th-19th century Lestat. All in all, it's worth a watch once or twice, but it was a disappointment. Anne Rice should have been allowed to write the script for this installment as she did for "Interview With the Vampire" and I think we would have been more pleased.

not the best I was disapointed in this last installment of the american pie franchise.. It just wasn't that funny.. Good think stifler was in it or else I would have given it 0 stars

This movie is acompletely ridiculous Myth Busters could do at least an entire episode on this movie.  In fact, they have busted many of the things shown in this movie.  None of the stunt scenes make any sense at all. Let me pick three examples, but there are dozens.  Vehicles have bullet holes in them but when the heroes are riding in them and bullets hit, they spark but don't leave holes.  A fiberglass boat repels bullets on some parts but not on on other parts, it even repels bullets from a Jeep mounted 50 cal.  They "pull a Panama" and the boat blows up, which it would not have blown up especially that fast, and it blows up one of the bad guy's boats.  The other bad guy boat is clearly visible and untouched but they swim to shore with no pursuit.  They also look like they are standing on something in the water and they are all together even though one of them bailed out about 200 yards before the others.  But that's the problem, I could fill five pages with the goofs or careless science.  I can do this with almost any Hollywood movie, but this one is completely over the top.  I could ignore this but the plot was stupid and not interesting.  So it's just a series of impossible stunts.

rather disapointing Hatred spills over in nearly every frame of Hatfields and Mccoys, a sprawling 290 minute History Channel original production, arriving on DVD and Blu-ray July 31. I suppose this is to be expected seeing as this is a dramatization of the most famous feud in American history. But the fact is, it makes for an often somber, somewhat painful, rather tedious, and frequently boring tale of mean spirited men who we wish would just kill each other and settle their damn dispute already. How much killing can one family take, how much of it can any viewer be expected to sit through.  A good looking production for sure, in recent years the quality standards of television programming has often been able to match and even on rare occasions eclipse those of theatrical films. This picture is no exception, it looks theatrically ready even if it lacks the fluidity of one so as to be worthy. No matter how good a production looks it must fill in the cracks with something of greater interest. We do get some excellent cinematography by Arthur Reinhart and a fine musical score including a lovely song sung by HATFIELDS AND MCCOYS Alison Krauss played over the closing credits, as well as good attention to detail. This all aids in the relatively minor success of the telling of this epic tale.  Hatfields and Mccoys greatest failure it would seem lies in it's over zealous ambition to be the length of three movies, it played over three nights when it aired. This isn't a sprawling epic in the tradition of How The West Was Won or grandiose in the way that John Ford used to deliver or even quaintly charming like so many overlong spaghetti westerns. This is movie is long, long in the way of a TV miniseries back in the days when we only had four channels to choose from so we stuck it out with whatever was on.  Here we are given four and a half hours of bitter hatred and unpleasantness. Occasionally the picture wonders off into distracting subplots involving uninteresting supporting characters. The movie is never worst than when it veers off into a clich&eacute;d Romeo and Juliet style romance that takes up a good chunk of the early proceedings. Blah. The screenplay by Bill Kerby, Ted Mann and Ronald Parker is not particularly engaging, it's tone is all over the place, the plotting uneven and disjointed. The movie as a whole feels very drawn out. The second part is by far the weakest and could have easily been edited into the first and third chapters, which by themselves are fairly decent.  The greatest interest of the film will be for it's star and co-producer Kevin Costner, one of the biggest movie stars of the last twenty-five years,  however recent years haven't been too successful for the actor and I suspect that this is just the beginning of the last act of his career which will find him on television a lot more. Costner is good playing "Devil" Anse Hatfield, but nothing exceptional, like most of the time with a new Costner film he doesn`t deliver much more than necessary. The star has had a long and successful history with the western genre, but here is perhaps his biggest failure of the sort. I wish I could place this one alongside my favorite Costner oater Open Range, or the bloated, but much loved Dances With Wolves, or the goofy charm of Silverado, but it just can't be done. Hatfields and Mccoys doesn't even rank alongside the ponderous Wyatt Earp.  Costner's fans should be well aware that this marks his fifth collaboration with director Kevin Reynolds.  There previous collaborations are Fandango, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Rapa Nui, and the infamous Waterworld, on which Costner allegedly had Reynolds "replaced" towards the end of it's legendary troubled production and finished it himself. These two should really stay away from each other if they have any idea of what is good for their fledging careers. Fire and gasoline, yes it's a clich&eacute;, but so are Costner and Reynolds.  The movie does offer a fine, sturdy supporting cast that includes Bill Paxton as the McCoy patriarch and Tom Berenger, in his best role in years, as the movie's only full fledge villain.  Powers Boothe, Mare Winningham, Jena Malone, Andrew Howard (as the tenacious "Bad" Frank) and Roman Vibert turn in solid performances in lesser developed roles. The actors look good and feel comfortable, even if you realize that Costner and Paxton are portraying men in their mid-thirties when the film begins. For a movie produced by the History channel, audiences may be taken aback at the many dramatic liberties the picture takes. Especially since when it all comes down to it the movie's conclusion is anti-climatic and seriously lacking in any satisfaction. If your going to play fast and loose with the facts, do it for a good reason, to entertain.  In recent years the History channel has moved away from the historical documentaries that there name was once synonymous with. Of late they've been specializing in reality shows primarily aimed at rednecks with short attention spans. Hatfields and Mccoys doesn't venture to far away from the redneck territory, but it does mark their first fiction production to be aired by the network. They did produce a well received mini-series The Kennedys, but declined to air it when it received some harsh criticism from the Kennedy clan. As for length, don't get me started again. While, this is a very uneven film, I still see potential for this kind of programming in the future for the network and look foreword to it. With just a little bit of help like a better script, sharper direction, and a more taunt running time, they could hope to fill the void left by the fact that HBO can only have so many original films and minis.

Just not interesting First of all, don't be fooled by the cover art.  Other than one quick, largely anti-climactic scene, there's no correlation with the cover and the movie contents.  Second, while the concept was generally interesting, it completely lacked punch throughout. The movie was definitely professionally done and has high production values, but the film just meanders scene to scene without bringing it all together, resulting in one blah bit after another.  Additionally, the film tries to create a sense of constant confusion due to the siren affecting the characters thoughts.  While this idea had great promise, it also fell flat.  Rather than creating dramatic confusion and unease, it created simple actual confusion that unnecessarily and completely devolved the film into a incomprehensible narrative.  To some degree, its almost worth a rental, especially if you've gone through the usual fare, just don't expect a great story.

Darkness done wrong I just finished watching this film and it was quite a strange ride.  This movie takes advantage of your emotions and is completely hopeless.  Actually what it tries to do is produce a doubt in God (seriously) and the spiritual world.  Gloom runs rampant in the film and the purpose it seems is to try and get the audience to hope only to dash them to the ground in the next scene.  It was very uncomfortable to sit through and the ending was nothing but a shot at Christianity and religion in general. Really I cannot see what point exactly the director was trying to get across.  Is it: "Nothing in this life has meaning?", or: "Don't hope or have faith because you will only be disappointed"?  Still not sure personally, and I don't think the director is either.  It does have pretty good acting, cinematography suffers because of the dark atmosphere, music is almost nonexistent, the fight scenes take place off camera.  Dialogue is weak and the scenes feel forced.  All in all, not the worst movie I have seen this year, but definitely one of the most convoluted and hopeless.

Jonah Hex This movie was one of the worst movies I have viewed in a long time.  The acting was so poor I can see why it bombed at the theater.  Even Megan Fox could not help this movie.  She, by the way, is not a A, B or even a C actress.  Her best stuff was in the Transformer movies where action was better than dialog.  I was disappointed in my purchase but there was some enterntaining qualities I think John Malkovich is an underappreciated actor.  Josh Brolin is an ok actor but the action sequences lack realism.

Slammin Salmon - Not quite what I expected I generally LOVE Broken Lizard's movies but this one failed. The plot is quite weak and I feel that they did this movie simply so people wouldn't forget about them. It's been a few years since the success of "BEERFEST" and "SUPER TROOPERS" and given how fickle the American public is I just think that they didn't want to be forgotten.  The movie is based on a Miami Restaurant that is styled after boxing legend "Cleon Salmon". He is in debt to the Japanese Mafia and needs to pay them before the night is up. He starts a contest and the waiter who brings in the most money will win 10,000 (which is the amount he thinks he owes the mafia). The loser will get knocked out by Cleon. Befor you ask... Cleon is NOT good with money.  There are some bright spots to the movie Jay Chandrasekhar plays a waiter named "NUTS" and he is great once he starts to freak out. Cobie Smulders is smoking hot (as usual) Michael Clarke Duncan - has some funny lines and made me chuckle a few times  overall, this movie isn't their best output in comparison to Super Troopers and Beerfest. This at best is a sophomore effort and these guys are not that green.

Very Amateurish The fight sceens were stupid, could have been much better had they tried a bit harder.  Sex sceens were marginal, but much better then the fight sceens.

Incorrectly rated vudeo The acting is well done, at least the part we watched. The beginning said it was rated for all age audiences, but...finally had to turn it off because the bad language increased as it went along and permeated it and distracted from what would have been a good story. I would not have gone past the first few minutes if a young person or teen had been present, but I stuck with it for about 25 minutes. Wish I hadn't! I cannot believe HBO rated this as acceptable for all audiences. I also cannot believe that a professional doctor who is worth anything would lower himself to continual gutter language. Don't buy it unless you are somehow immune to trashy speech. I really resent the fact that the title leads one to believe it is a Christian video, but it is not.

Awesome movie, packaged in a VERY low quality disc case. I'm not going to talk about the movie that much. The only thing I'll say about the movie is that if you're a huge FF7 fan, you'll love this movie for sure.  I just want to give a warning about the Blu Ray version. It seems that Sony is using very cheap Blu Ray disc cases now. They're called "Vortex Eco-Lite" cases. These are VERY VERY low quality. They're made of a very flimsy plastic, and the one that specifically arrived to me seemed to be damaged in production, as the case was VERY scratched up and ripped underneath the vacuum-sealed plastic and the front of the case seemed deformed because it bent inwards towards the actual disc.  If you're a die-hard Blu Ray collector who wants your discs to be perfectly protected and/or wants a clean looking movie shelf, these new disc cases will disappoint.

Justified season two The show Justified is my favorite. The DVD from Amazon, however, has a flaw, which rendered the third disc unviewable. This is the second time I have received a bad DVD from Amazon. From now on, I'll purchase my DVDs from Barnes and Noble because they accept returns at full value. I've given the DVD two stars for the two discs that were not damaged.

Stupid and annoying A man spends the entire film on an adrenaline high smashing and killing everything in sight in order to keep his pulse up so he won't succumb to some mysterious "Chinese" poison. There is almost no dialogue here. The only relief is the man's dumb blond girlfriend who doesn't notice all the violence all around her until it hits her in the head. This was made by a couple of camera operators more into the angles and weird stop action than the actual plot, script, soundtrack and storyline. There, it's lacking.

I want full screen movies I almost like this movie, but not worth buying if not in full screen. I paid way too much money on my tv to look at the black bar top and bottom  to buy movies "Sorry Charlie".

Postmortem review This movie could have been awarded five stars because Charlie Sheen was in it. However, two stars were given in the interest of fairness. Charlie's performance was dragged down by a lacklustre supporting cast and a plot which was mildly interesting at best. I loved the scenery though and the fact that Charlie got to drive around Scotland in a hot car (was it a black Lamborghini?) My review, however, may not be worth the paper it was not written on because I would happily pay good money to watch Charlie Sheen recite the alphabet.

This movie made NO SENSE!!! How in the world does UFOs ships able to fly light years away to get to this planet, but their ships are so easily damage by human weaponry?  Aliens weapons can wipe out whole cities with ease, but they don't know how to make a shields or defense weapons???  Somehow, the aliens ship weapons are so powerful that they can take out human ships and cities with few shots, but their defenses are just like human battleships. Yes, that pig can fly, but it can't land! Ridiculous!  Also, they had to dumb down the aliens a truckload to make the story keep on going. Otherwise, the Aliens would had won when they landed.  Somehow, the aliens want to fight the humans in the old fashion battleship game situation. Why in the world would they do that? I don't know, but they thought it was a good idea. Yeah, that's stupid. But, we need to move on or the movie would just stop. Aliens won't fire on the humans unless, they fire first. Stupid. Again, but, we need to move on or the movie would just stop. Somehow the main male lead and his crew mates can't get killed or die, even though everyone else gets blown up with the ship, these guys manage to find 3 boats to keep on trying. This thing should had been a comedy. lol  Also, the aliens must had been really stupid at the end because they are able to take out so many destroyer ships, but can't take out a dinosaur battleship. What???  Then, instead of just firing at the battleship at the start, the aliens actually waited to see what the old dinosaur would do???  Why doesn't the aliens just fire at it when it started moving? Who in the right mind would just let an enemy advantage towards them in a full frontal attack postion like that? A super intelligent being would had just shot at it and blew it up and be done it with it already. Heck, even humans would had done it like that. Full on advance with no gun shots what so ever. Come on!!! BS!!!  Hell, that battleship could had been destroy back at the dock!  Don't tell me their guns can't reach that fire to shot at the enemy! Aliens guns can shot all the way to Hawaii and beyond!!! That's thousands of feet away. Don't tell me they can't shoot hundreds of feet away, because that's just BS!  This movie doesn't make any sense. And should be burn to ashes! Don't waste your time with this one. You won't light it unless you just in it for the special effects, which aren't that great either. Go see Transformers, it's the same effects.

Glory Days? This movie is pretty interesting.  Ben Affleck as a college student is a stretch, considering he tried to go to college in real life.  This movie does not really go into glory days of college, but a look at four guys future after college.  Pretty lame.

Fantastic acting, great visual style, atrocious writing. This is a movie that is allegedly a comedy, but is, in fact perhaps the saddest most depressing motion picture I've ever endured. And it's not really sad in a good way, where my heart goes out to the characters. Instead I was just left felling incredibly melancholy and depressed. It's a movie about sad people being depressed. It's not funny. On the other hand, it'd be a pretty damn pathetic drama. Because the film is focusing on so many different and unrelated stories, and because it takes a very leisurely pace establishing the stories through the first hour of the film, a couple of the stories seem to miss most of the "third act" and jump right to an ending without feeling earned. The acting, particularly the performance of Kevin Hart, is really first rate, and the film has a distinct, consistent and memorable visual style. Unfortunately, these are all drowned out by the mess of a script. I hope to see Brian Jett direct more movies in the future, so long as somebody else writes them. As it is, Let Go is not worth seeing.

A Big Let Down This film is a World War II drama that lacks romance and the action one might expect of a war movie.  Even the isolated attempts to be humorous fail, as a retired group of veterans volunteer to board three German freighters, anchored off the coast of India. One has been transmitting locations of British shipping to a predatory German U-boat.  The story is true and the plot is sound enough. However, the screen writing and direction wastes the acting talents of Gregory Peck, Davin Niven, Roger Moore, Trevor Howard, and Patrick Macnee and reduce the overall film appeal to much less than what is otherwise could have offered had these actors been given a free hand. (And it was clear they did not have that luxury).  Roger Moore has a romantic scene or two with Barbara Kellerman that is non-romantic, dull, and without either purpose or expectation. And so goes the entire movie.  Do not listen to attempts to compare this film with "The Guns of Navarone" or "The Dirty Dozen". Those were great movies, and although the theme of "Sea Wolves" could have offered the same interest, it didn't--it did not.

Planet Dull I suppose upon release this might have been a passably watchable movie, but cutting edge features from DC Comics (eg. Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Batman: Under the Red Hood, and All Star Superman) and Marvel (The Avengers: The Earths Mightiest Heroes) have made this movie obsolete, almost painful to watch. The animation is choppy, the character designs are too simple and repetitive, the story is dull and predictable. Most of the characters are tired cliches (eg. the weak, sniveling, cowardly character who manages to "find his courage" by story's end; the tough-as-nails-female fighter with the heart of gold and the troubled past). This isnt even the most appealing incarnation of the Hulk himself -- he's kind of a cross between a brooding, introspective, birkenstock-wearing philosophy professor at Hofstra University, and a frontal lobe-deprived MMA fighter. Okie, thats a bit of a stretch, but you get the picture. This one is a definite pass, at this point not even worth a rental.

This movie is too 'hollywood' for the tragedy that occured. Used to really like this movie for what it was: a Hollywood production to make money. How sad it is when tragedy strikes (no matter how many years) Hollywood is going to reap the rewards. If you want to see a somewhat more of a documentary type of a VERY low budget of the Mexican 1976 version SURVIVE! instead. Amazon has a decent copy really cheap and it's not the terrible dubbed American cut. This film is cheaply made but gets to the heart of the situation at hand. This movie to me is more disturbing than the Hollywood re-make. Don't know how many friends of mine tell me what a great film ALIVE is, but I have to disagree. It is like watching Hollywood making war movies that look 'too polished'. Check out SURVIVE!<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00009MGGA">Survive (Supervivientes de los Andes)</a>instead. It's not the great Hollywood show stopper, but it does get the message across!

I wanted it to be so good... I had such high hopes for this film and I was SO sad to be let down. I love the actors and they normally do so well and actually the acting is very good! They play their parts well and they totally become the character. It's the story that let me down. The story begins well and is rather exciting but it sort of dwindles at the end and you're left a feeling that there should be more to it.. but there isnt. Please rent this before you buy it or you may be sorely disappointed.

joan rivers  a piece of work I think I might have enjoyed this more if i had not just seen My life on the pink carpet.  Not really what i was expecting from Joan Rivers..thought there would be more of her act and less daily mundain things...However I remain a fan of hers..totally enjoy her when she is "on"  I probably recommend renting rather than buying.

Too slow, too poorly directed. I have tried on more than one occasion to like this movie. It is beautiful to look at of course and worth seeing it just for the scenery.  But, Redford just missed the boat on directing it. It just doesn't hold the interest. The pace is so slow most of the time that you could doze off and there seem to be odd things thrown in for no particular reason. Brad Pitt was too young, with too little depth as an actor to put everything into the role that needed to be there.  He just comes across as a rather delinquent personality with no real depth.  Pretty much a tragedy looking for a place to happen from the time he was just a kid. I think the test of any movie is "does it grab you and hold you from the first scene?". This movie does not.

What's scarier than something?  How about anything The first Paranormal Activity won points as much for its originality as for how scary it was. Sadly PA2 is neither very scary nor very original. The film has all the same things that scared us in the first one and as usual everything occurs off camera so we don't see much that is very scary. I laugh at these people who let their video cameras do all the talking and don't consult with anyone who may know more about the issue.  I would tell people to avoid this movie because it is very dull and not very scary.  Watch The Exorcist if you want to see a really scary movie!

Bleh... The Smurfs... Well, it wasn't the worst movie I've seen, but not near the best... Far, far from the best. It had a couple funny parts, but other than those funny parts, I wasn't entertained by this movie at all... -Trent Foreman, Author of Nightmare

What a cast!!!!!!! too bad terrible script If you like the cast, thats all you get.  The script is just so poor.  I imagine these actors just said what the hell they are paying us, but this movie is not the quality you expect from these artist.  Rent it cheap if you still want to see it any other option will leave you feeling cheated

Hollywood commercial violence-porn. But Angelina is cool This is a typical Hollywood commercial "product" (as opposed to a work of art) which is cynically designed for one purpose, to get people to buy movie tickets by offering what the audience is thought to want; violence-porn. So a lot of bloody beatings and shootings, car chases and special effects, a hot babe who can beat up guys, and a lot of fake techno talk. The 'plot' is so absurd and implausible as to be funny in parts; something about Russian sleeper agents in the US, and absolutely everyone working for the US government eventually turns out to be one of them. Or something - they lost me on the details. Hasn't anyone told these people that the Cold War was over, er, some time ago?  But viewers don't seem to care. From a business angle, this piece of dreck brought $300M in revenues against a budget of $100M for production. I find this offensive. In no other industry (ie, honest hardworking industry) could such an indifferently conceived product earn two hundred million in a year. Hey, following the porn model, why not just give up any pretense of a story and film pure violence for two hours? Sad commentary on the Hollywood business model.  Now that I got that off my chest, Angelina is kind of fun in this movie, playing the James Bond instead of the James Bond chick. Pretty good for a scrawny 36 year old mother of six, although to keep her lips puffed up like that they must have brought in a 55 gallon drum of bee venom. Liev Schreiber is an excellent actor. And it was clever of her to steer the runaway police car by systematically tasering the driver; taser left to turn right, taser right to turn left, taser front to stop, taser back to accelerate. Creative, although the poor cop is definitely going to need some extended disability leave. So turn off your brain and watch for escape value.

2012 2012 is a 2009 science fiction disaster film that puportedly is about the end of the world. The special effects are quite impressive and the music is quite effective. However, here the praise ends. The script could have been written on a wafer. The acting is often over the top and the storyline is both predictable and silly. The dialogue seems that have been written by high school drop outs. If one loves great special effects then this film is passable. Otherwise, I do not recommend this thoughtless film. Not recommended. 2/5.

Public Embarrassment Poorly conceived and executed, this flashy mess is for die-hard collectors only.  There is little story to be found here.  What meager plot exists is juvenile, poorly scripted and designed merely to string together a series of disappointing action sequences.  It's obvious the writers were thinking "Wouldn't it be cool if Batman and Superman had to fight the entire DC Universe?".  Regrettably, that's as far as they thought things out.  Still, the insipidness of the story could be almost forgiven if the action sequences delivered. They don't. The fights are only adequately staged.  Additionally, the power levels of various characters are altered willy nilly to serve the plot.  Superman gets Nerfed while Batman gets a serious buff anytime the writers can't think of a way for him to save himself.  On top of the poor concept and writing, the character designs are overly cartoony, thus sapping any drama that might still be left on the screen.  The seasoned cast and the fans certainly deserved better.  Do yourself a favor, save your money.  Or, better yet, pick up a copy of Superman/Batman: Apocalypse.  Now THAT is DC animation at its finest.

Dropped the ball Would have easily been a solid 4 stars were it not for the ending. That's too bad. Loved the idea of revealing the scam which is religion - (hate me, don't care. That's my opinion. Deal with it.) But then they dropped the ball at the end. Watch it and you'll enjoy the first 80%. Then they ask us to forget all that which we just watched and jump on board with the "voodoo" believers. Really? That's how you lose both audiences. You never gain the "paranormal" believers by doing a "reveal all" story and then you lose the logicians in the last 20 minutes.  I give you credit for trying...2.5 stars for failing.

bitter sweet I received this dvd real fast, just in time for the release of the new movie. I enjoyed it until I saw they stole scenes from Matrix at the end of the movie, it was very dissapointing seeing that they run out of creativity. Oh well.  It is enjoyable.

I guess u get what u pay 4 dvd gets stuck alot and skips, I still watch it but its pretty agravating.  wont order from them again! thanks

Anachronistic and Obsessed with Toilet Jokes This film purports to recreate, as it says in the opening scenes, 1966, a heyday of British rock'n'roll.  Pirate radio was shut down in late 1967.  So it is baffling that the movie is loaded with references to the late 60s and even the early 70s--in its characters, clothes, and songs, esp.  (one Dj is an ancient, apparently 55-year old hippie, as though he teleported in from some 1990 film).  Two songs associated with American top-40 radio in 1969 (released in late '68) are used as signatures of British Pirate Radio--the Turtles' "Elenore" and  Tommy James' "Crimson and Clover."  Yeh, when I think 1966 English rock, I think of the Turtles and Tommy James.  Uh, no.  These weird anachronisms are potentially forgivable, but the script is too full of other inanities to list: it scarcely has a plot, but is a sort of collage of idiotic, disconnected scenes and jokes.  The film's real downfall is its script:  80% of the humor--I am not overstating the dumbness here--is a kind of reality-show, babbling toilet/ sex humor that would probably be abjectly eliminated from a Jackass movie.  The often sundrenched, high contrast photography is nice and poignantly suggestive of what the film might have been, so I give this two stars.  But the script is a no-star, frozen-dog-in-the-night "woof."  I have no idea how Philip Seymour Hoffman ended up in this thing. This movie is beyond disappointing: it is rock-solid stupid.

Fright Night I seen the first one, this could have been better, they left out alot good stuff, it's really not worth the 3.99,

Don't waste your time or effort Quite simply a bad movie and not even worth the rental. Should have gone directly to Amazon Prime for free viewership for those members and even then I doubt if most viewers would have watched the entire affair. I watched every second because I screwed up and spent money for the "honor" of watching the movie. Thank goodness it wasn't very much money but a nickle is too much for garbage like this.

I've Seen Worse! To be perfectly honest, THE UNBORN offered a few momentary, jump-up-out-your-seat chills & thrills -- all of the sort you've sat through (and survived) countless times before -- and to far better effect! -- in other vastly superior horror flicks.  However, one cannot easily dismiss the pleasure of admiring 70-year-old Jane Alexander's sympathetic performance, or the nail-biting uncertainty that derived from wondering whether Gary Oldman's Yiddish/Hebraic accent was polished enough to weather the storm.  Feel free to skip this middling horror flick without any enduring qualms of conscience.

Drive In Type Movie While watching this movie, I suddenly felt as if I hopped into a time machine and was transported back in time to the sixties. This is the type of movie I recall watching at the drive in. That is pretty much my review. I gave the movie 2 stars for the good feeling I got from memories of better days.

Destination: Skank Town! [Teenage Hitchhikers - 1974 (not '75) - Widescreen - directed by Gerri Sedley] Look, I'm not here to argue or belittle the other reviewers for this flick, to each his own, right? The film does not disappoint when it comes to abundant female nudity, carefree 70's shenanagins, silly humor and grindhouse ettiquette - but couldn't you come up with a few women someone would actually WANT to see naked? Therein lies my problem; these chicks are skanks, not worth rustling up after last call at your local watering hole back in the day. I lived in bars and topless joints during that time period, and these chicks wouldn't get hired to clean the bathrooms in said temples. Sorry for my bluntness, but someone's gotta call the shot. After a while, I'm sitting there hoping they'd put their clothes back on, or encounter some chick farther down the road who was just a bit higher in the desirability department.  No one seemed to notice that that one chick was Claire Wilbur (Radley Metzger's 'Score') who played (what else?) a lesbian and didn't have enough screen time to counterbalance the mediocrity of the two lead actresses, and the third girl they added to the mix was even more unlikable and unbedworthy. Yeesch. During the film's 'climax', the orgy, I noticed both Marc Stevens and Eric Edwards (neither got screen credits), two guys who were porn superstars back then, and they looked too stoned and bored to care, while I was sadly just the latter.  BTW, if you bothered to sit through the film, make sure you stick around for the trailers afterwards, it's the real highlight here - there are well over 15 trashy transgressive treats, any of which are better than the main attraction on this disc. DO NOT miss these...I've seen 'em all, and I'm still not certain if it's something I should be proud of or embarrassed to admit. Aww, who am I kiddin' - I loved these flicks!  So, if you want to see an indiscriminate bunch of nudity and bad humor, feel free to indulge in this narcoleptic nostalgia; if you're looking for fine women prancing sans garments for arousal and enlightenment, please look elsewhere. Why do you think they didn't use the real actresses on the posters or dvd cover??? Marketing's a cruel mistress...

Tried to... I tried to like this workout. I just couldn't get into it, the instructors were either to over the top or didn't seem all that interested in their class. While I like that the workouts are shorter in length, I just felt it could have also been more intense. I have a busy life so I like quality workouts in the amount of time I have to workout.

dumber by the minute I got dumber by the minute watching this.  got so dumb I forgot what it was I  was watching.  With time my brain cells slowly twitched back to life.  Time spent itching the top of your head will have been better spent.

Make way for depression I had to watch two upbeat movies after this one to get the depression out of my system.  What a ride down the road of despair! What in the name of Home Entertainment did the other reviewers have in mind when reviewing this epic downer!?  "Beautiful"?!  WHAT'S so 'Beautiful' about an elderly couple losing their home and being forced to live separately with relatives who want nothing to do with them!?  And talk about overacting - mostly on the part of the mother.  This movie lacks more than other viewers neglect to admit. On the positive side, and on a historical level, it does show what audiences in those days were able to stomach.

Population five and dwindling. Well, I rented this movie hoping for an action film and - I kind of got that. I didn't really expect an artsy killer wolf movie.  I love Liam Neeson (usually) but really felt his acting was wooden and one-dimensional in "The Grey."  Another problem - I rented this on Amazon as a 24-hour rental and as such, I don't get Closed Captioning. And with Neeson's heavy accent and my poor hearing, I had to keep backing the film up so I could catch what was being said.  That took a lot of the spontaneity out of watching the film.  This was a crazy story.  Neeson is the hunter, keeping the wolves away from the oil workers - and kind of "wolf whispering" them into the next life as they die.  He does the same for the airplane crash survivors as they die during the film (kind of odd for a self-proclaimed atheist).  The scenery was beautiful, the wolves were spooky, and the acting was so-so. So unless you just have to see every Neeson movie made, I would skip this one.    Once more into the fray,   Into the last good fight.   Live and die on this day;   Live and die on this day.   - written by Joe Carnahan, director of "The Grey"

Cronenberg's least "A Dangerous Method" is a beautiful film to look at, a handsome production design for the period, glorious Vienna landscapes all shot wonderfully on location by cinematographer Peter Suchitzky. I thought I would get that out of the way because my kind words must stop at this point. "A Dangerous Method", the new film from the talented David Cronenberg, isn't the beauty of a movie that it looks.  Coming from the usually inspired Cronenberg, who since the turn of the new millennium has been on a roll much the same way he had been on at the dawn of his career in the late 70's and early to mid 80's, re-teaming with his go to star Viggo Mortenson, playing Freud and is about the only actor who comes across well here, and a subject with great cinematic potential, it comes as a down right shock for it to end up as such an inferior piece of work. It is hard to pin point just where this train skidded off it's railing, because as I've already pointed out, it looks great. Somehow I feel much of the problem lies in the casting, otherwise great actors, Keira Knightley overacts her character's mannerisms and thick, and I do mean icky thick, Russian accent. Michael Fassbender, who I predict will become a huge star and is already a fine actor, can't give his Carl Jung any electricity to the point of tedium, watching him you feel as though you would rather watch anything else, he is the cinematic equivalent of paint drying in slow splotches. Still, the major fault of the picture, I think, must be laid at Cronenberg's feet, even though he tackles themes close to him and his other films, he just seems unable to work up much enthusiasm for the subject mater, this is something new, dull Cronenberg.  Adapted by Christopher Hampton from his stage play, unseen by me, working with rich material that unfortunately goes nowhere. I do not doubt a fascinating story could and should be told in film about Carl Jung and Siegmund Freud and the dawning of psychoanalysis, but "A Dangerous Method" seems more interested in the inner desires and illicit affairs of Carl Jung, rather than the relationship with Freud or the pursuit of psychoanalysis. Frankly, I do not care about his love life, in fact if Knightley's character, Sabine, had been dropped from the story, I think we would have already had a vast improvement. The movie runs only ninety-nine minutes, but it feels twice as long, a movie can anger me, frustrate me, offend me even, but it must never bore me.

OO EE OO AH AH TING TANG WALLA WALLA BING BANG There's a moment more than halfway into THE DEAD where the movie it could have been rears its head and I'll get to that in a moment; but, up until then THE DEAD pivots between two poles - the good: locations and effective (and a welcome return to slow moving) zombies and the bad: the story.  The story for THE DEAD is another by the numbers plot painted onto the bleak but interesting landscape and serves only to get in the way of the zombies and the collapse of the world.  Two men on the run, one wants to get home to his wife and daughter, the other wants to find his son after finding his wife torn apart by zombies.  Together they lay aside all mortal differences to make their way back home, back to the ones they love...but will they?  Well, as the film is told mainly in flashback the suspense is rather muted.  Most of the action and surprises that would have had impact are lacking as we already know just how far they're going to get; the only question is how will it end?  To my surprise it ends in a near cliffhanger fashion that said to me that the makers of the film may have been banking on THE DEAD to be popular enough to warrent THE DEAD 2 following on the "do they or don't they" ending they give us.  This is nothing new in zombie films.  Both DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978) and DAY OF THE DEAD (1985) end with a "do they or don't they" ending and both feel right in line with their stories, but here, the ending feels as it was written first and the film then crafted around it to make its point.  It's not a bad ending, it has some pull, but it shies too near to vauge to make any real impact (the ending, to me, is like trying to decide between two types of white paint - eggshell or snow; either or who can really tell difference and what's the point?), it lacks a boldness I think that would have pushed this film up another star for me.  What does work for me is the shift in location to Africa and the nearly all black cast that adds a whole new freshness to the tried plot; though it's a POV that rarely gets its due sadly given that the outbreak of the zombies comes in the middle of a tribal war.  We join this battle well after the zombies have been established and it another missed oppurtunity to create something original, instead the age old tensions that kicked off the war are wiped off the board just because zombies are walking around.  The location work hums, only overstaying its welcome towards the end as the Ford Brothers don't vary their shots much; but they do create a sense of creep and tension with close-ups and zombie crowding that can really be distrubing when you think that the zombies are not so much ambling, but intentionally following people.  But for me, the moment in the movie where I would have said to the Ford Brothers; hey, here - right here is your star player, you're turning point, something never seen before in many a zombie film, it's this guy: the witch doctor.  Shot mainly in long shots and in the dark and only on screen for a handful of moments, the witch doctor to me would have been a fantastic, original companion to travel with across Africa dodging zombies and exploring the ideas and barriers between life and death.  There's a depth there, I think, that would have turned this film upside down and created a dynamic duo not seen before.  There's is a ghost of this in DAWN OF THE DEAD (78) when Peter (Ken Foree) talks about voodoo, but here in THE DEAD is a true missed oppurtunity and maybe if there is a THE DEAD 2 we might pick this up guy's footsteps and see just how far he got knowing as much as he does about the dead.  Overall THE DEAD, like its zombies, crowd the screen more than drive the plot, there's enough here to warrent a look and a jumping off point for a far better movie from the Ford Brothers down the line, but for now you can add THE DEAD to the growing pile of zombie films on the market and keep on walking.

Frustrating when sensors don't work It is very hard to get in a good workout when after a few lunges the system suddenly can't read what you're doing and stops to try to tell you to "put the nunchuck in the pocket,hold the remote facing up ..." when they haven't moved.  It's just not good when the program prevents you from doing straight reps and adds stress instead of reducing it.  This was a complete waste of money for me.

Didn't Stand Up to the Hype It's slow in the beginning and middle, and doesn't get good or interesting until towards the end. I just felt like they dragged it on, and on. The first hour and a half is just about the main character trying to lay a bunch of women. I won't ruin the plot for people who are still interested in watching this, but consider this a heads-up.

a rip off i would not advise any one to waste their money on this blu-ray package for one main reason. sound track IS NOT 5.1!!! the entire movie soundtrack played out through my center speaker ONLY! the regular 2 disc 50th anniversary has the dolby sound. so if you have that stick with that and forget the blue ray until they decide to include a good sound track. i mean if you are watching a movie on the big screen don't you want surround sound too?

rewind the tape! I give this movie "2 TAPES DOWN"...**DID YOU REALLY GET SCARED?** (I also believe some people will get scared by this movie...it has VERY elaborate death scenarios and camera tricks to control the viewers focal point).  ummm...what else?...oh, I'm sure this was how BLAIR WITCH 2 was suppose to look, but fell short of that.  "horror" movies don't scare me anymore...but if one ever did, I'm sure it would scare the living daylights out of an ordinary citizen.....

two bottom drawer 1950s sci-fi films Many put down low-budget 1950s sci-fi films but a number of them are fun to watch today, partly from nostalgia of growing up in the period. Those made by studios like American International did a fine job on low budgets but others, such as these, are among those that give the genre its bad reputation. The "acting" in "Beast" is especially bad, making Ed Wood look good by comparison. The soundtrack hilariously is a "Wagner's Greatest Hits" medley. "Phantom" is considerably better by comparison.

Malfunction One of the disks malfunctioned and will not play. The film is just okay but much too much profanity for no practical reasons.

Look Away! Here's the deal, Mirrors 2 is exactly what you think it is so I'm going to cut right to the chase and let you know why I can't recommend this for rental or purchase. You've seen this a thousand times. There's nothing new here, not one single thing, it's your typical paint-by-numbers horror film. You know the kind: somebody "comes back" from death and can "see" the dead, a spirit murders the cast all the while unnecessarily warning our hero of their impending doom and eventually the hero and heroine run about trying to root out the main evildoer and bring him/her to justice so the ghost can rest in peace. Everything about Mirrors 2 was so stale they didn't even bother changing the profession of the lead character.  I will admit to enjoying the death sequences as they were creative and surprisingly bloody but they don't even come close to saving this sinking ship. The actors were all adequate enough in their respective roles but Nick Stahl is an ugly and unlikable hero, the beautiful Vaugier doesn't get much screen time and veteran actor William Katt's character is nothing more than a bloated plot device with a ponytail.  At times the CG, don't act surprised you knew it was in here, is acceptable and other times it's just downright silly and amateurish. If any film deserved a direct-to-DVD release as a penalty for being bad, it most certainly is this one. It's a shame to see a director who, at one time, had so much potential like Victor Garcia helming something as insipid as this but a paycheck is a paycheck, right? Garcia shouldn't take all the blame though as Matt Venne, writer of White Noise 2, wrote the screenplay for this steamer. There's more than enough blame to go around.  Mirrors 2 is terribly weak and forgettable so don't blow your money renting or purchasing. I suppose if you're desperate to own an R1 version of Sung-ho Kim's infinitely superior South Korean original film Into The Mirror than you'll want to purchase this as it has been relegated to playing second fiddle as an extra to this mediocre flop.

A substandard remake Other than the opening credit sequence and Carter Burwell's score, there is little to recommend this ill-advised effort. Compared to the spare elegance of Fred Zinnemann's original, this film is yet another instance of Hollywood's addiction to overblown crap. It is small wonder that Zinnemann tried to prevent any reference to his movie by this inferior film.  Where to begin? Willis's use of a gigantic gun that is remote controlled rather than a weapon that was concealed within a crutch in the original movie. A wildly miscast Jack Black. The testing of a gun that blows up a van sending a gigantic fireball into the sky; how inconspicuous. Willis buying a yacht to cross the longest undefended border in the world. And since when has the FBI had jurisdiction in Russia?  It just goes on and on. Watch the opening credits and then shut off the machine.

How to Be "Thor" Without Being That Other Thor The Aslyum is infamous for makng "mockbusters".  While they also release monster, horror, comedy, and other genre movies, their mockbusters are the most obvious and controversial. The Asylum's challenge is making a movie called "Almighty Thor" that does not infringe upon the Marvel Thor.  OVERALL That said, this movie is a fair-to-middling movie.  The script is a bit thin in spots, and the characters' growth and development are not believable.  However, the movie is watchable, and my mind can create its own fixes for the poorly-written script.  Overall rating is a strong two stars.  CHARACTERS/ACTORS * Odin (Kevin Nash) - Kevin Nash's real-life physique and fighting moves are downplayed, but he makes a believable warrior-Odin.  Unfortunately, Odin dies in the first 15 minutes. * Baldir (Jess Allen) - The actor's name is unfamiliar, but the acting is solid.  Baldir is a no-nonsense tough guy.  Without spoiling too much of the movie, Baldir also dies early. * Thor (Cody Deal) - Cody Deal has the innocent face of an 18-year-old and a well-toned physique.  Both aspects fit the young, untested, unskilled Thor of this movie.  Thor is a man-child who is stubborn beyond all reason. * J&aacute;rnsaxa (Patricia Velasquez) - Patricia Velasquez is a wiry, tough-looking warrior who protects Thor. * Loki (Richard Grieco) - Richard Grieco looks evil, undead, inhuman, menacing, and condescending.  THE GOOD * Thor is stubborn enough to ignore good advice and make tremendous mistakes.  He does not learn from his mistakes but accepts the consequences.  And Thor almost literally shapes his own destiny.  This type of character is unusual; Thor had me wincing at his unwise decisions. * J&aacute;rnsaxa is Thor's equal and possibly his better in every way. * Loki is evil and a master of illusion. * The movie has some good swordfight scenes.  Guns are also used.  :) * The disaster scenes are good.  THE BAD * The romance between Thor and J&aacute;rnsaxa is not believable.  Comrades-in-arms, perhaps.  Romance, never. * Thor's fighting improves without any training.  How sheer stubbornness overcomes reality is another problem with this movie, even though individualism is the entire point of the movie. * The early CGI monsters are a bit rough and look like CGI. * The hammer designs are atrocious; they look like they were designed by the Bedrock Quarry's legal department.  DVD EXTRAS: * The "Bloopers" are run-of-the-mill with nothing too exciting. * The "Making of Featurette" is on the minimal side.  [Edit:  Here's the URL of an interview with Cody Deal:  [...]  Apart from the interview material, Mr. Deal says that Almighty Thor was filmed for $500K in 12 days.]

When the monsters are better actors than the humans Well, this movie was so incredibly bad & cheesy at the beginning w/horrible cliched acting & a crappy script that I stuck it out only because I'd paid for the silly thing.  Most of the CG was horrible & was stuff that even I can do better (my hobby is 3D graphics).  But I guess I'll give a marginal pass on the graphics since they were done in 1993 and CG was still a relatively new art form.  Roughly mid-way through this turkey, however, the action picked up & it was actually kind of fun watching this battle between the Predator & Alien.  Of course, none of it really made any sense since there were a bunch of Predators running about, but only one is shown doing this epic battle with the queen Alien thing.  And then there is the matter of the cheesy relationship between the black chick & the Predator.  Very smaltzy & horrifically awful; it's just so damn B-grade Hollywood in conception doing something like that; so typical; so predictable.  Still, as awful as it truly was, the battle scenes helped at least to partially make up for an incredibly lame movie; kind of like the old King Kong vs. Godzilla movies I watched as a kid.  Those were just as cheesy & silly as this one was; except that here you had the fun of lots of slimy stuff & acid spit with Alien vs. Predator. Of course, having the little baby Alien shoot out of the dead Predator's stomach at the end simply begged for a sequel.  I suppose if it turned out that this movie actually became popular, it would leave a nice lead-in to the next one in the series.  Hopefully, this particular Alien will simply & finally die a very fast death.  Having seen it, I never want to see it again.  I certainly could not recommend it to anyone unless, or course, they were really into major cheese.

not my kind of action if i had saw this in the theaters, i probably would have walked out.  maybe if i liked blood splattering and heads and limbs being chopped off then i would give it three stars.  i love good action movies, but, movies that are bordering on horror and gore (Ninja Assassin comes to mind) are not the way i like my action.

Beautifully filmed, but overlong and very slow - read the short story instead Is beautiful cinematography enough to make a movie? This was a beautifully filmed movie and a joy to watch from that standpoint, but it was also overlong and very slowly paced and offered no real character motivation or development. Brokeback Mountain is based on a 20-page short story, and I learned more about the characters in those 20 pages than I did in this two plus hour movie and that bothered me. The other thing that bothered me about the movie was while it took place over the course of nearly 20 years, there were really no visible signs of aging in the two main characters. Longer sideburns and a mustache on Jack and that was supposed signify the passage of time?  In the short story it's very clear why Ennis is so hesitant to pursue his relationship with Jack and I really think they needed to do more in the movie to make that information known than the thirty seconds they gave it. For whatever reason, they decided that information wasn't important, or maybe they wanted us to try and come to our own conclusions, but as a result, the tragedy of the love story is completely lost along with all the social issues surrounding their relationship. I can't deny the movie was emotional, but I think with some character motivation it could have been much more that it was. It could have been a love story that was remembered for the relationship between the two principle characters. As it stands now, it will be remembered, but only because it dared to deal with a taboo topic and that's not only unfortunate, but insulting.  I thought Heath Ledger was very good in the movie and I think he deserved the Oscar nomination. After seeing the movie I wouldn't have been unhappy had he actually won, but maybe that's based more on my bias of rewarding actors with Oscars for doing impersonations in movies, as opposed to acting a character. Jake Gyllenhaal proved to me that he's nothing but an average actor who's yet to move beyond his work in Bubble Boy.  Brokeback Mountain wasn't a bad movie, but it also wasn't a very good movie, or a movie that made a lot of sense and I think most of the attention it received was because of hype. Too bad, because, as I mentioned earlier, with some character development and motivation this could have been a really good love story.  I understand how the movie won the Oscar for best screenplay from previously published material since the writers had to take a 20 minute short story and convert it into a 2 hour and 10 minute movie.  I recommend Brokeback Mountain only to someone interested in seeing beautiful cinematography.

ho hum It is not a great movie, we all know that going into it, it is actually quite bad but, I am not going to talk about what is IN the movie...I am going to talk about the remaster, it is AWFUL, the picture quality is decidly low res....why bother with BlueRay, standard DVD would have produced more than enough bandwith for this..the sound 5.1, should have been left Mono, the remaster of the MMT CD has far far better sound quality....no, I was hoping that this would at least be a decent remaster but not...my expectations should have been lower after buying Yellow Submarine, but, sadly, I was hopeful....this is a dreary and dull remaster of a not very good film...no matter how much I love the Beatles, this feels like a money grab...

eh the only one who i laughed out loud to on this dvd was George Lopez..The other acts including Paul Rodriguez were kind lame....sorry

misled I was expecting some music.  Boy, was I disappointed!  These are documentaries.  No music except a very, very few partial (I do mean PARTIAL) song choices.  If you want biographies this is what you'll get.

Too Bad . . . . Well, "too bad" sums it up, unfortunately.  Too bad to enjoy, too bad to watch, too bad to buy, et cetera ad infinitum.  The other reviews cover most of that.  But I'd just like to add, "Too bad the photography director wasn't also the writing team, the main director, and at least half the actors."  I really do regret that I'll miss the wonderful photography because I absolutely cannot stomach the puerile efforts of the writers, director and actors trying so hard to achieve success by reducing Camelot to two-dimensional soft porn.  What a waste.

Sorry I spent the money - want the time back. Don't bother with this movie if you think it's a movie that does justice to same-sex couples. First this movie insults lesbians by insisting that they really want men and what men have to offer anatomacally.  The only way that Nic and Jules can have sex with one another is by watching gay male porn.  I wonder how many lesbians the writers bothered to poll to come up with that nonsense.  After Nic and Jules' children decide to track down the sperm doner who spawned them, in typical straight person fashion, no lesbian would be a lesbian if only she had the right man to show her....blah.....blah....blah.  Because we all know that a bored lesbian is going to jump the bones of any man who has a conversation with her.  Right?  Yeah, because that happens all the time.  In further ridiculousness, they end the movie by insisting that Nic shouldn't toss Jules' back side to the curb because they're too old to find anyone else.  So, it ends happily ever after.  Give me an F-ing break!

Self-Plagiarism, alive & well "The Five Year Engagemnt" is basically a re-hashing of "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" BUT LESS FUNNY. Jason Segel repeats his roll as the nice, sweet male character victimized by life & a powerful independent woman. He slides down from a successful career minded position in life to the basement level of loser-ness only to pick himself back up at the end; when he again realizes he's the person responsible for his life, which of course was & is a good one, in-fact better than most. ( And on a side note, what's with Jason Segel's need to write himself naked in all of his movies. He's not really eye candy for the women & us men sure as H_ _ _ don't need to see it. )

Don't waste your money Heavy on CGI, lots of blood and guts most of which are unnecessary, fairly well acted, poor story line. Very predictable. Don't waste your money wait for free view on cable then watch something else.

They've ruined this movie This movie has been among my favorites since I first watched it as a kid. The dialogue, pacing, humor, and music has made it a complete package for me.  Unfortunately, the remastered version now has new music playing during familiar and popular scenes, causing the tone and mood to be thrown off balance with the rest of the movie.  I wish I had known about the new soundtrack before I purchased this edition.  While it might work for those just discovering this movie, it falls flat for this fan.

DANCE A GO-GO There could have been more instructions as the moves were so fast it was hard to follow.  The dance moves should be slower so you can watch and do them easier.

Comedy was good I got this for the comedy...  And he was very good. But the other part (75%) was a documentary. About him

Great condition but the show itself was not great show was very disappointing couldn't get past episode 2  before i couldn't stand the bad acting amazon delivery great as usual on time and  in great condition!

Too much low humor ruined the movie. I like some of the actors in this so I checked it out. I gave it two stars but I would have given it more if they would have shot Harland Williams in the head in the first scene...I mean for real not for pretend. (okay, I'm not really advocating any physical harm to Mr. Williams, just that he never step in front of a camera again.) What a way to destroy a movie by including that type of very low humor.

not a fan I tried Insanity and loved it until my knees started to kill. Tried this work out with my fiance and this is by far the most dysfunctional workout Ive done. The videos training is lame and she doesn't really stress on working out the other side. Obviously its my own opinion but I could see it being fun if I kept replaying the tutorial to learn the moves.  Over all it seems ok but way to cracked out for me. I was more frustrated after the 2nd time I tried it.  overall opinion : MEH

Boring and disappointing. I really thought any movie with will farrell would be at least a pretty funny one.  Turns out I was wrong.  Maybe it was Walberg and Farrell's lack of chemistry IDK but this movie was so disappointing.  a waste of time to watch, really.

'Taylor' in a bad movie There was something about Charlton Heston that made him perfect for the role of Taylor in "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0053EZWZQ">Planet Of The Apes (1968)</a>" (1968) and "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0053EZTWC">Beneath The Planet Of The Apes</a>" (1970), two of the greatest sci-fi/adventure flicks of all time. So it's no wonder that the producers of 1971's "Omega Man" chose Heston for what is essentially the same role in this film about the supposedly last man on earth living in L.A. after a war waged with biological weapons, loosely based on a book by Richard Matheson. Unfortunately the third time's definitely not the charm and the film holds little interest beyond an early 70s period piece or nostalgia.  I remember catching "Omega Man" sometime in the 90s and expecting a great early 70s sci-fi flick with a great protagonist and all I remember was being extremely disappointed and (I think) not even finishing the flick. Well, I decided to give it another chance last night, fully braced for an underwhelming experience, and my original impressions were pretty accurate. The film starts off well with Taylor, I mean Neville (Heston,) wandering around a deserted Los Angeles, muttering to himself, watching "Woodstock" for the 100th time, etc. but the horribly dated 'hip' score is the first bad sign and then night comes down and these cloaked albino vampire-zombies appear, which is what turned me off the first time I caught the film. Just listen to their dialogue.  I wanted to run away in horror, and not in the good way.  But, from there, I hoped, that the film would settle into its own groove, as long as I overlooked the bad music and corny villains or just accepted them as a part of this period oddity. "Omega Man" does settle into a groove, it's just that it's not all that engrossing. And what's up with Heston taking off his shirt every 8 minutes? The flashbacks to how this apocalyptic scenario originated were interesting, as well as Neville's run-ins with others, but the film never rises above the mediocre and heavily dated.  One might argue that "dated" is an unjust criticism given the film's age, but all good or great films are able to transcend their eras even while clearly being from their eras, like "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00003CXB2">Lawrence of Arabia</a>," "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000056BP4">Ben-Hur</a>," "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EHQTZO">King Kong</a>," "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004TDTO">Jaws (Widescreen Anniversary Collector's Edition)</a>," "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6305609705">Apocalypse Now</a>," "Night of the Living Dead," "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004WGAK">One-Eyed Jacks</a>," "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0792838424">Runaway Train</a>" and "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00008AOTN">The Blue Max</a>." "The Omega Man" miserably fails to accomplish this.  Overall the film feels more like a mediocre made-for-tv flick than a theatrical release of its time. It almost has the look and feel of the original "Star Trek" series, but without the great writing and characters. The albino villains with their dark hoods and cloaks are reminiscent of the 'villains' in the episode "The Return of the Archons."  In fact, believe it or not, the average Syfy flick is more interesting than "Omega Man."  But it has its points of interest: a black female protagonist (Rosalind Cash), a worthy sidekick of sorts (Paul Koslo) and the desolate scenes of L.A., but its main appeal is as a period piece.  The DVD I have (dark blue cover with orange lettering) features a 20-minute `making of' piece, a trailer and a couple other insignificant features.  The film runs 98 minutes.  GRADE: D+ or C-

Not what i expected This dvd is mostly about las vegas and the EFX show, starring Michael Crawford. This film is not what i expected at all. A majority of it is about the efx show which is highly unknown. Plus, the plugs that are put in to promote Las Vega are just strange, especially when they show a clip of a nude pole dancer.... Have no idea why thats in there. They briefly refer to his other work and lightly touch on Phantom of the Opera which has to be his most popular and noteworthy work. All in all this film is confusing and would only refer it to die-hard crawford phans. He is interviewed throughout the whole film and he is simply enchanting.

Not as good as it should be The ideas in this movie could be good, but this movie did not hit it on the head. Half of the movie seemed campy, kind of very cliched...I frequently found myself rolling my eyes or saying "duh!" while watching it. It also left with somewhat of a cliff hanger. This definitely did not do anything for the acting abilities of McAdams and Pena.

19 min. and I Was Bored Before I start this review it should be pointed out to everybody that All-Star Superman is not your  in continuity Superman but a retelling of the Zeus of Comic Book Characters.  This movie has many flaws. First is the voice acting. The actors that were selected for this film do not match the characters they are portraying at all. Andrea Romano who is known as the best voice actor director in the industry, totally dropped the ball on this one. But then again, she was probably rushed to hire people, as this DVD seemed very rushed itself. There are no special features on this DVD unlike the other DCUA (DC Universe Animated) movies, nor commentaries. I am sure there was more material in the 12 issue run of the series (It is not a Graphic Novel! It was a mini-series. Get it right people) and things needed to be cut for a 75 min. movie. But some events in the movie just seem silly or pointless to have in there. It is bad writing to add a random line of "Robot 7 is malfunctioning." And then 40 min. later say "I expected something was wrong when Robot 7 was malfunction." Maybe show Robot 7 doing in between or mention it in between. This is just being lazy to try to cover all your tracks in a short amount of time given.  Keeping with the tradition of sticking with the source material, we get see what Frank Quitely's artwork would look like animated. Not being a fan of his interior work, all the character and set designs was an eyesore, but on a plus, at least none of the characters had the facial structures of a toad. This is something to be expected from the DCUA movies. Superman/Batman: Public Enemies had Ed McGuinness' artwork and think it was across the board nobody was impressed with what they saw visually. But then again Superman/Batman: Apocalypse had Michael Turner's art style and that was beyond amazing and beautiful.  For people concerned whether Grant Morrison's material could be adapted due to his very bizarre but unique writing style, do not fret. All-Star Superman was easily transferred to this new medium. It is just ashamed that this was one was done over many other great stories, and was done so quickly, instead of the proper time to be perfected.  2 out of 5 Stars.

Boring The trailer looked good and made it seem like the movie would be fun.  In reality, it was boring and totally unrealistic.  I didn't bother to finish watching.

Boring, Could have Been a TV Movie I am not a huge horror genre fan, but I love suspense and really enjoy good haunted house movies, but this one doesn't satisfy on either front.  I had seen the star in a Lifetime movie called "The Blue Eyed Butcher" and was eager to see her in something else, but at the end of this one, all I could think was, the Lifetime movie was so much better.  In fact, this could have been one of those TV-movie attempts at a haunted house flick.  I agree with the other reviewers that it is quite boring (I had to stop and start it several times over the 48 hour rental period just to get through and that's very unusual for me.).  There are only one or two decent scares and the suspense just isn't good enough to make that OK.  And in the end there isn't enough of a story to make the lack of scares and suspense OK, either.  I definitely regret paying to stream this one.  Wait for it to come on cable if you want to give it a try.

slow, boring, irritating, not that challenging I've never tried yoga. I've been a runner for almost 15 years, and when I got pregnant everyone in the world told me to try yoga. Based on all the positive reviews about this video, specifically about its difficulty level, I thought I'd give it a try.  I finished the entire dvd and was about to keel over and fall asleep. Granted, I am an adrenaline addict. I like speed, and hard workouts.. ones that get me sweating from every pore of my body. I completed Shaun T's Insanity series for fun last year and still did it for maintenance aside from running before getting pregnant, so I like intensity. Maybe yoga in general doesn't jive with me, but having had no experience with it before this dvd certainly didn't keep my interest. All the poses were fine, some were more challenging than others and yes, I felt 'stretched out,' but not worked out in the least. Didn't even sweat a bead.  It felt like a long, drawn out version of all my post run cool down stretches. Yawn.

Much overrated This is a clumsy film, even for 1934, showing above all that the British had little money for movie making during the Depression and that Hitchcock was just feeling his way to becoming a great director.  The opening scenes are especially confusing.  The stunt on a snow jump is just  crude.  Then, after a half hour of nameless people smoking and leering into the camera (Peter Lorre is a parody of himself), the flimsy plot begins to unfold.  At one point, the hero is surrounded with villains carrying guns and throws chairs at them.  Moreover, the secret paper the baddies are after is in his pocket, but not one of the villains had thought to search him.  In the final scenes, police  surrounded a house and are pumping many rounds of lead into a single window...in which stands the two major villains firing back with pistols.  The acting is mediocre at best; the young woman playing the kidnapped girl is especially unconvincing.  This DVD has not been remastered, and it emphasizes the black over the white.  The sound is often scratchy.  In short, what an unpleasant movie experience.  It would help to be a professor of "fillum," I suppose, to know how to enjoy this very weak film.

Columbo I am disappointed due to the fact that I received two of the same discs of a three dick set.  I am not sure whom to contact to fix this.

Not memorable I just thought this movie was boring. I enjoyed the parts about the old couple but when it switched back to the young couple I just didn't find them appealing or believable. It is not a movie I would keep in my library or ever look at a second time.

Turn of the century romantic drama "The Sisters" is a romantic drama set in the early 20th Century starring Bette Davis, Anita Louise, and Jane Bryan as the sisters with Errol Flynn, Alan Hale, and Dick Foran as their respective spouses. It was based on the best selling 1937 novel by Myron Brinig. The film was originally to be advertised as "Errol Flynn in the Sisters", but Bette Davis demanded equal billing and also objected to the obvious sexual innuendo.  Bette Davis (1908-89) is a film icon. She appeared in nearly 100 films, was nominated for an Oscar 11 times and won twice ("Dangerous" in 1935 and "Jezebel"  in 1939), nominated for an Emmy 4 times and won once ("Strangers" in 1979), 3 Golden Globe Nominations, and for "All About Eve" (1950) she won awards at Cannes, in Italy,  and the New York Film Critics. According to AFI she is the #2 female screen legend .  Errol Flynn (1909-59) got his break out role as "Captain Blood" (1935) and the rest is history. By 1938 Flynn was a top star with such films as "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1936), "The Prince and the Pauper" (1936), and "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938). He is listed #35 by AFI in the 100 greatest actors of all time.  This was the first film for Flynn and Davis, who didn't get along (partly because Flynn got top billing). They worked together again in 1939 on "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex", but never again. In this film their onscreen chemistry is much better than it was in "Elizabeth and Essex", where, at one point, Davis smacked Flynn so hard in the face his ears were ringing.  Flynn was unabashed in his praise for Davis' acting skills. He called her "the greatest thing in movies" and said "she was a far better actress than I could ever hope to be an actor."  Beulah Bondi (1888-1981) was nominated twice for Best Supporting Actress ("Of Human Hearts" in 1938 and "The Gorgeous Hussy" in 1936) and won an Emmy in 1977 for "The Waltons". She is best remembered for playing Granny in 1948s "So Dear to My Heart".  Bondi plays the Davis' mother.  Alan Hale Sr. (1892-1950) marries Anita Louise, the youngest sister. Hale was part of Flynn's "Corps of Actors" and a frequent sidekick to Flynn in films such as "Robin Hood" (1938), "Virginia City" (1940), "The Sea Hawk" (1940), "Santa Fe Trail" (1940), and "Gentleman Jim" (1942).  Donald Crisp (1882-1974) appeared in more than 150 films from 1908 through 1963. He won Best Supporting Actor for "How Green was My Valley" (1941) and gave memorable performances in films such as "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935), "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1936), "Jezebel" (1938), "National Velvet" (1944), and "The Long Gray Line" (1955). Crisp plays a family friend.  The film was directed by Anatole Litvak, a Ukranian born Jew. Litvak is best known for his work on "The Snake Pit" (1948) for which he was nominated for an Oscar and a DGA (he lost to John Huston for "Treasure of the Sierra Madre"). He was nominated for a second time for "Decision Before Dawn" (1951). Given his background Litvak liked to make anti-Nazi films (e.g., "Divide and Conquer", "The Nazis Strike", "The Battle of Russia", "War Comes to America", "Night of the Generals"). This was Litvak's first film upon moving to the U.S.  Austrian composer Max Steiner (1888-1971) does a great job. Between 1935 and 1956 he was nominated for an Oscar 19 times, and won for "Since You Went Away" (1944), "Now Voyager" (1942), and "The Informer" (1935). He was so well known that he appeared on a 33 cent stamp (1999) along with Dimitri Tiomkin and Alfred Newman. The San Francisco earthquake scenes use footage from "Old San Francisco" (1927)  Variety said the film was "a virtual cavalcade of early 20th-century American history" and added, "Davis turns in one of her most scintillating performances" and said that "Flynn's happy-go-lucky reporter is a vivid portrayal." Life Magazine said "Bette Davis acts with such extraordinary grace, sensitivity, and distinction that hers is already being acclaimed the movie performance of the year."  1938 was a pretty good year for films. The top grossing films were "You Can't Take it With You", "The Adventures of Robin Hood", `Boys Town", "Alexander's Ragtime Band", "Sweethearts", and "Marie Antoinette". The Oscars were to "You Can't Take it With You" (Picture, Director), "Boys Town" (Actor), and "Jezebel" (Actress). Other notable films released that year were "Algiers", Cagney and O'Brien in "Angels with Dirty Faces", John Garfield's film debut in "Four Daughters" and Gable and Tracey in "Test Pilot".  If you like 30s romantic dramas, this film will appeal to you. It's also a nice peek at turn of the century small town America. That being said, personally, I find it funny when Bette Davis took a role as a "beautiful" women, which she clearly was not. And I never cared for Errol Flynn sans moustache, nor in this type of film. Nor do I care for Alan Hale and Errol Flynn playing independently of each other - they were a great team, but in this film they rarely share any scenes. And Bette Davis is pretty demure in this film, something that really doesn't cater to her remarkable gifts.

Nolan, please stay away from Batman The story was falling apart bit by bit as it went on to the point of seeing how ridiculous and unbelievable it could get was more entertaining than the movie itself. And how can you call this a Batman movie when he is only in the movie for 20 minutes at most? It's a 2-hour 40-minute movie which could have easily been cut shorter. And they ruined the Bane character with the final reveal of the mastermind, also the way he was killed just made him look like a joke. The fight scenes are some of the worst choreography I've ever seen in a major blockbuster. Don't get me wrong, it has some great scenes like the first face-off between Bane and Batman, how Brcue Wayne eventually climbs out of the pit. The score was loud and really gave the movie an epic feel. Anne Hathaway's Selena was the standout character, very cool and sexy. But all these cannot even make up a decent movie.

Well made, but could have been better... This could have been a very good movie, but IMHO goes off the rails in the final act.  The tone of the film shifts dramatically in a way that jerks the audience around more than it tells a good story.  First you are laughing, then you are elated, then you are horrified and sad.  It's more manipulative than it is creative and to me it felt a bit condescending.  On the upside the premise is solid and the performances are strong.  If it wasn't for the final quarter of the movie I'd have given it 3 1/2 stars.  I expect many people will enjoy this movie more than I.  However to me there is little more here than a generic thriller.

Near-copy of "The Ghost Writer" Like Roman Polanski's "The Ghost Writer," this British show is a spy-thriller railing against the U.S. ties to the British government.  "Page Eight" also has a sinister Tony Blair surrogate.  The similarity between the two films is so great that even most of the same locations were used - including a roadside diner (probably in Germany).  They were probably filmed by  the same people, at the same time, for the same political purposes.  Despite all of these cookie-cutter similarites, "Page Eight" is somewhat subtler, and therefore more tolerable.  The cast is also stronger; for example, Ralph Fiennes replaces Pierce Brosnan as the evil-Blair.  Besides the U.S., this British production also targets Israel; a sub-plot involves Israeli culpability for the cold-blooded murder of a Palestinian-British woman's brother.  The silliest aspect of both films is the British self-portrayal of duped innocence.  Battalions of British writers have made a good living by writing espionage novels about the moral compromises inherent in intelligence work (Le Carre inevitably comes to mind).  Here, we are supposed to believe that the British are dragged into a quagmire of American brutality, torture and mayhem, only to finally realize - when it is far too late - that perhaps they should have held back.  Amusing stuff coming from the country that invented the term "concentration camp."  Thanks, Lord Kirchener.

Wait, what's our plot again?!? I had high hopes for this movie - the trailer looked pretty slick, Clive Owen is an awesome actor and the story line seemed a step above the usual boogyman, candyman, ghost-lurker-child-stealer mish-mash out there. I really thought it would be an intelligent thriller because of Owen. But alas, the plot was the equivalent of a five car pileup. First off, you can kinda guess that there is nothing supernatural going on after about 30 minutes. Turns out the "twist" wasn't what I thought but I wasn't that far off. What really irked me though is this is one of those movies that introduces characters and includes scenes that are completely useless, you think they're going to be part of the plot or be of use later in the movie but no, that was just an 8 minute scene that meant nothing whatsoever. Also, I'm not the type that needs a movie spelled out for me, I like a little left to the imagination or up to my own interpretations but this movie explained NOTHING. NADA. ZIP. ZILCH. and that was just annoying. When you build up to an ending the way this movie did, there needs to be a background flashback or an explanation of some sort - you are literally left with nothing. Total waste of $3.99 for instant viewing. I do not recommend.

The Gray I was looking forward to seeing this movie.  I am sorry to say that I was disappointed.  There was some good scary moments but I did not like the ending.  I think it could have been made better.  I am glad that I did not spend the money at the movies.

DVD unreadable I bought the DVD/Blu-ray combo. I never played the Blu-ray, but the DVD was unreadable on my PC and DVD player. I returned the item.

Beautifully animated, but not worth watching I read the books when I was younger, though I haven't kept up on the more recent releases, so I was excited when I found they were actually making a movie from the first three books in the series.  The trailers looked promising, though some things were clearly added or removed. The reviews were mainly favorable, so I bought the DVD, hoping for something that at least resembled the characters and events I'd read as a child.  No such luck.  The story was warped horribly - even though I can't remember details clearly from the books, I'm pretty sure St. Aggie's was not founded by Metal Beak.  Kludd certainly didn't fall out if the nest, nor would Soren have been showing off like that.  The flecks were shown as some sort of electrical magic...something, and even the main characters were turned into horrible caricatures that are almost nothing like their originals; Twilight, Digger, Otulissa...even Skench and Spoorn.  But alas, even if you ignore the books and let it stand on its own, it still wasn't worth it.  They kept just enough elements of the book to ruin the story it might have been had it been made independently.  Its character development was poor, the story was weak and predictable even if you don't know the books.  The movie feels rushed, yet never seems to go anywhere.  I wanted so badly for this movie to be enjoyable, but in the end, the only thing I can say for it is that it was beautiful.  Its incredibly well done animation is the only thing holding it up from a one rating, though I'd never recommend it to anyone.  Don't waste your time or money.  This movie isn't worth it.

"Glee Season 2" or better, "Pod People High" First let me say, I am a devoted Glee fan despite my disappointment over the "character abductions" that occurred during season 2.  And now to my two cents:  COMPLAINTS:  First off, I'd like to know why the characters of Glee have been replaced with alien lifeforms?  I miss Sue!  The REAL Sue!  The one who is awful all the way until a kid is in legitimate danger or personal pain at which point her heart is revealed to care after all!  The new Sue is horrible... what a waste of the perfect balance of wicked and sweet achieved in season 1.  Now... she's just mean.  Her jokes are still worthy of a laugh, but without the Sweet 'n' Sour thing goin' on... they don't work nearly as well.  There's no more, "yeah right, we know how awesome you really are y'old bully"... now it's, "I bet you would."  Sad sad.  Next up... What's with the cheatfest?  Over half the characters on the show cheat now?  And what about Kurt?  Um, why has the lovable Kurt gotten so stereotypically prissy?  His character was better in Season 1.  Lastly, the music...  SERIOUSLY?  Once the Christmas episode was over, the music went down the drain (and it didn't compare to Season 1 to start with!)  What the heck happened?  Showtunes so obsolete (and for good reason) that they're unrecognizable?  And I have to say... I LOVE music.  I love love it, all kinds of it, all genres even, but the music after the Christmas episode was so astoundingly painful to listen to I actually fast forwarded through most of it.  Sad.  COMPLIMENTS:  Some long overdue attention and focus on Santana!  Yes the girl can SING!  Yes she can DANCE!  Yes she's gorgeous!  Yes she's hilarious!  (My personal favorite character!) Santana?  Just YES!  Can't wait to watch her story unfold further!  Got another one (compliment that is)... Coach Beiste!  FANTASTIC new character.  In fact... is that what happened to Sue Sylvester?  Because, it seems like her Season 1 character has been put into the new Season 2 Coach Beiste (again with the pod people thing!)  LOVE her!.. (still lamenting the alien abduction of Sue though.  Sniff.)  CONCLUSION:  I love Glee and will continue to watch it but I was very unhappy with the character mutilations.  The music, as stated above was horrendous as well.  But... it's Glee and when it's good it's so very very good, it's worth the wait to watch it.  Here's hoping Season 3 gets back to the awesome sauce.

Terrible!! With the cast here, I was hoping for something at least good, but this wasn't it for sure. Just IMPOSSIBLE things, and jumps all around. I don't dislike many movies, but this was one of them I'm sorry to say.

Just okay It passes the time, but it lacked a good flow in my opinion. The end was so abrubtly back together it didn't leave you with that happy feeling like most romantic comedies.

No Color No Way, Will only buy Colorized Versions Notice they show a nice color picture on the cover?  Of course the set is all dreary drab b/w, not the beautiful color you see on the cover.  I will only buy this set if they colorize it.  Colorization done with today's modern technology can make it look like it was originally shot in color.  Refuse to buy until it's colorized.

Tacky proposition Margaret (Sandra Bullock) is an aggressive executive in a publishing firm, about to be deported back to Canada because she violated the terms of her visa.  She tells her astonished boss and a very skeptical INS agent that she is going to marry her assistant Andrew (Ryan Reynolds, a very engaging actor), a dogsbody whom she bullies and overworks.  He thinks fast on his feet and extracts the promise of promotion to editor as a condition.  Then he takes her home to meet the family.  In Sitka, Alaska.  Up till then it was passable, although where have we heard this premise before?  But then it gets so formulaic and silly, it was barely watchable in spots.  The scene where the two actors accidentally get tangled up together stark naked was stupid and cheap.  Betty White is always a joy, and I'm glad she's getting work; but you could see how they used her in this.  Of course Margaret softens and becomes lovable, and of course Andrew falls in love with her.  Why, is not exactly explained.  Reynolds was 33 when this was made; Bullock was 12 years older and looked it.  It would have been a better movie if the writer had made a point of it, I think. You know, wasted her youth on her career.  Sort of like Bullock's having wasted hers making too many films like this.  Remember the chapel scene in While You Were Sleeping where Lucy (Bullock) stops the ceremony and confesses that she's been deceiving the groom's family?  Yup.  She does it again.  The really irritating thing is that they thought we wouldn't notice, or if we did, it didn't matter.  The expendable, disposable audience. Bullock was a producer of this and frankly I'm turned off by this dame's gimlet eye on profit.  There's no accounting for taste, and I know I've loved some films many others hated.  But some of these 5-star posts are just bewildering.  "The chemistry!  You can just tell these actors like each other so much!" Well, why shouldn't they like each other?  And even if (for some reason) they loathed each other, do you really think we would know?  It seems to suggest these actors couldn't act if they had to.  A number of posts mention the gorgeous Alaska scenery.  I mean, I've never even been to Alaska and I knew at once that house was not in Alaska.  How easy it is to fool people, after all.  It makes me feel jaded, that's what.  I won't rent this film again.  I'll certainly never buy it.  But if it came on tv some night, even without commercials, even if there were nothing else on, would I sit through it again?  No.

The Price is Too High The debt must be paid, but the price for watching it was just a little bit too high?  This is a story that needed to be told, to someone who can't live past the holocaust.  Just be glad that Nazi Germany is gone, and that you don't have to relive it by watching this movie.

Eh, Payday for Liam Neesan See above.  Intriguing idea, lost in the wilderness with a wolf pack stalking you, but just poorly executed.  Sorry Amazon, it doesn't take 20 words to say 'this movie is a dog.'

Not really worth reviewing, but worth a warning. I'm not sure that this could be considered a movie as much as a total and complete waste of time and an insult to intelligence. I detected nothing that even resembled a story, nothing that would qualify as acting and a total lack of creativity. There is, however, lots of footage of the leading man/director/cameraman & editor driving down some of America's nicest highways. Filler no doubt. The scenery surrounding said highways being the only interesting feature of this "movie?". The "star" of this flick plays a man, no, a worm wallowing in gross self pity while wearing a demented facial expression throughout, ending up on a bed in a fetal position and sobbing like a fool. Watch this flick if you have absolutely nothing better to do. I do mean absolutely nothing.

Well I bought this movie because I'm a huge Lance Henriksen fan. The movie is kind of mindless. I would have gone a different direction with this movie. I'm not wanting to reveal anything about the movie. But it seems when a movie lacks its because of the poor writing, not the wonderful acting by Lance Henriksen and others. Danielle Harris was wonderful in this. Worth watching as long as you dont expect the movie to Wow you.

Great Movie, crappy delivery I love this movie... the fly-fishing scenes are very realistic and take me back to when I was a child... a wonderful movie about how even the best of people can go astray, and the consequences not only for themselves, but for those who love them the most. I had this on DVD, this was an upgrade to Blu-ray. I don't know what has happened to Amazon's free (non-expedited) shipping, but it's gone from being very good last year to being abysmal. In general, it can take a week or more before they are even shipped, and then they use shippers like Lasership or USPS (USPS? hey, there's a reason why they've been gradually going out of business!)- no real tracking for USPS (the only time they can tell you anything specific is after the shipment has been delivered, and even that is not accurate). On one occasion, my order shipped part way by UPS, who then handed it off to USPS for the last few miles of delivery. After that, USPS 'lost' my order, and I had to file a claim and wait even longer for it to be settled. I don't know why Amazon thinks this is the right way to treat their customers- how much to they save and is it really worth it to PO their customers to save a few extra cents? All of my shipments used to arrive in 3-5 days like clockwork... now it takes 1-1/2 to 2 weeks for delivery on average, and in some cases over a month. Maybe their free shipping was too good, and they weren't selling enough Prime memberships... I've pretty much had it with Amazon.

it could have been hilarious. before walking off to see this, i consulted amazon reviews.  5 for 5 stars, and comedy.  damn, i walk the several miles with a light step.  but - what should have been a laugh filled revel, the ingredients were there.  some superlative supporting roles, madeline the gallery owner, monroe the "almost there artist" with the unreal real life name, and perhaps best of all, among so many, the gallery assistant who reprises the male assistant in PRADA, only perhaps better tho it took me a while to pick up on this.  one problem, supporting WHAT?  the star can suck the humuor out of banana skin.  { i give up trying to spell that.}  you have so many phonies, music, and art, and those who pay to it, but you rarely end up laughing other than politely obviously.  there are small slips here and there in this and that, but they are easy to forget, but the fact that the star is about as funny as a day old slice of dark rye is too much.  if you dig the art scene, tis to be enjoyed, and modern music, but you may end up as i thinking what might have been.  coulda been a contender, and cult laugher but it ain't.

I so wanted to like this movie....I tried....I just couldn't! I read all the positive reviews on this movie and I love Rue Maclanahan.  Based on those two things, I got it from the library.  I'm glad I didn't pay money for this one.  I feel like I'm even being generous giving it two stars.  I settled in last night hoping to watch a good romantic, feel good movie.  OH MY!!  I don't write many reviews on the movies I watch....everything has usually already been said and I'm not good at writing reviews, but this movie was very bad and I knew I would come here this morning and give my opinion.  It may save someone else from disappointment and they will choose something else to watch instead. Acting is good and believable when it does not LOOK or FEEL like acting....this movie was so mechanical.  You knew what was going to happen almost as soon as it begun.  That wouldn't even be so bad IF the acting was good and believable.  I've watched other movies where I knew what was going to happen, but the plot, acting, characters, etc. were worth watching the movie for.  Not this one.  The only good acting came from Rue and the secondary characters.  The main characters were not believable in any form to me and there was no on-screen chemistry between Lisa Hartman Black and Dale Midkiff at all.  The whole thing was so "paper-like" and it all looked forced to me.  It was a very disappointing evening and I ended up watching something on a news channel.  I gave it a really good chance and watched it through until about 15 minutes before the end and I just had to turn it off.  I was inwardly moaning and groaning so many times and kept hoping something would change and catch my interest....nothing did.  If I had bought this movie in VHS format, it would be one I'd tape the tabs on and record over.  Nothing redeeming ever came in to save it.

A big disappointment Let me start by saying I have never read any of the old comics.  I am vaguely aware of who Thor is supposed to be, but I have no previous experience with his story so went into this movie with no expectations other than Marvel's prior movies.  I was hoping for something fun, interesting, and with a few unexpected twists--much like Iron Man, Spiderman, or even the newer Hulk, all of which I did enjoy.  This movie, sadly, was nothing like them.  I was mostly bored, just waiting for something to happen.  There were a few halfway decent special effects (most notably the watcher at the gate, peering out eerily from behind his temporary prison of ice).  But the acting and the characters were completely one dimensional.  The blue villians hardly even had one dimension--they were like cardboard cutouts.  Their planet made no sense, and they seemed to have no purpose other than running out for Thor to beat up.  Loki almost had a little depth, but his story seemed to be half untold.  The highlight of the entire movie, for my family, was spotting Stan Lee in the pickup trying to pull out the hammer from where it fell to earth.  There is a hint of potential for a good story here and there, but it remains largely untold.  :(

Originals Are Better If your children have never seen a Thomas video before, this movie might be a cute choice for them, especially if they're preschoolers who play with Thomas trains.  HOWEVER, if your children already enjoy watching the older DVDs, the original productions that don't feature Alec Baldwin as Mr. Conductor OR any people who aren't wooden, then I'd skip this movie. It confused my younger children and irritated my older ones. As a parent, I expected a "new and improved" version of our older Thomas movies but, honestly, the only thing Thomas And The Magic Railroad managed was the "new" part.

terrible l video transfer The synergy DVD looks like it was shot directly from a projector showing, e.g like a VERY bad VSH tape Too bad, the creepy film can be quite effective and deserves much better Rating is for product quality only

I don't get it. Here's the thing, this show is lacking in any of the usual Bette Midler scintillation and sparkle. I am thinking of Diva Las Vegas, The Bette Midler Show, and Art or Bust as highlights of her finest moments.  She seemed pissed off to have to be on stage throughout most of this show. The most off putting thing of the whole thing is listening to her complain about being tired. If I had flown from Boston to Vegas to see this show and she was complaining about being "so tired" after I paid $120 to see her I would be FURIOUS!!! The other issue, why the hell is this so short? with so LITTLE singing?  To give a reference: if you saw the episode of my life on the d-list where Bette was a guest and she seemed to lack any genuine interest in what was going on to a degree which she seemed irritated and bothered, it's kind of like that, but with an audience, and no Stay With Me.

Thought it was the movie! I just didn't pay close enough attention to what I bought. I thought I was purchasing the Blu-ray movie version of Victor Victoria not the Broadway play. With Julie Andrews on the cover, who would have thought? I can't even find a Blu-ray of the movie. Oh well, its ok, just not what I wanted.

Had potential... Without being too wordy and too boring, "Red Tails" had the potential of being a very good movie. Unfortunately, it just didn't deliver. "The Tuskegee Airmen" was much better. It tells the story without all the really dull moments and really boring dialog.

Thriller So Incredible An ambitious local TV reporter C.J. Nicholas (Jesse Metcalfe) needs a big story to boost his career. And he believes - we don't know why - that high profile District Attorney Mark Hunter (Michael Douglas) is planting false evidence to maintain a high conviction rate. So, in order to expose and publicly humiliate the DA, C.J. devises a contrived plan to set a trap for Hunter by making himself look like a prime murder suspect!  Well, things terribly wrong for C.J., as you expect. This is so terribly wrong that you may start scratching your head wondering why characters including the DA's assistant Ella (Amber Tamblyn) keep doing silly things throughout the film.  The whole premise could be pretty unbelievable back in 1956, when the original "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" (directed by Fritz Lang) was made. In 2010, when most people in America have an easy access to the internet and digital technologies, the story looks simply absurd. In short a reporter doesn't need this elaborate scheme. Of course, everything will be explained in the end, but by the time that happens, most viewers would stop taking the impossible story seriously.  OK, I know this idea, "willing suspension of disbelief," and we often need it to enjoy some classic films. But for the storyline this incredible to really work, we need something - like more round and believable characters, atmospheric cinematography, and most of all, actors and actresses as charismatic and skillful as, say, Humphrey Bogart or Barbara Stanwyck.  Finally, I have been a fan of director Peter Hyams - I still like many of his film in the past, "Capricorn One" and "Narrow Margin" for instance. They may not be winning Academy awards, but surely thrilling and entertaining, but whatever happened to him?

2 Star Stretch ..... I really enjoy Charlize Theron but this movie was one of her worst, it felt like a movie that really had no point. As one reviewer wrote, I kept waiting for the movie to pick-up, to get better, but it just left you hanging with this empty feeling of 'is that all there is'? The movie never takes the approach that she is going to get better mentally, emotionally, or that she even understands her own short comings. I had anticipated (or hoped for)some humor, but there turned out to be none. Don't waste you money buying or renting this one! If you have any interest in it wait until it is free somewhere then you too can wonder why Charlize Theron would do such an empty movie.

Trust me, don't buy this one I bought this one along with "Journey to the Edge of the Universe".  I watched that one first and put this one in and I had to turn it off 30 minutes in.  It does not even come close to the first Blu-Ray.  If you are looking for a astronomy lesson with cool graphics, buy "Inside the Milky Way" but if you want possibly the greatest space documentary created to this date, you really cannot go wrong with "Journey to the Edge of the Universe".

MAYBE SOMEONE WILL SEE THE FIRE This is a fairly cut and dry story. Two young couples go into a remote part of the desert to shoot photos of Mercedes McNab in a bikini and most of them don't make it out. Noelle (Lacey Chabert) is moody because she has morning sickness and is having second thoughts about the maturity of her boyfriend. She reminded me too much of my ex and I wanted her to shut up and die, while Mercedes reminded me of the woman I will only dream about. The film is compared to "Open Water" and indeed it is just as boring. This is a ninety minute movie that should take you 30 minutes to watch. We simply don't see enough of Mercedes McNab to save the film.  No sex or nudity.

Just a bunch of theory This book is about how to read and understand scales, build chords, and understand chord progressions. The "playing" aspect isn't there, even though there are a few simple songs sprinkled throughout.  I really wanted a book that I could open in front of me and sit down with a guitar and a notebook and immerse myself in playing jazz guitar. This isn't that book. This is more of a dry, cold, classroom study on music theory.  I don't mean to imply that this information is useless. Actually it's quite valuable. It's just that I want to play the guitar right now, and this book wants me to sit and think about scales and keys and chord progressions before I even touch the instrument. No good.

Half unintelligible I watched the beginning of the first episode on PBS and found it annoying in general. Most of the heavy regional and class accents used (for 'atmosphere' I suppose) were only partly intelligible and this added to the fact that it is far from the best work of Dickens caused me to turn it off and go to bed. BBC productions of Dickens don't have to be only partly intelligible to US audiences as the Martin Chuzzlewit and David Copperfield adaptions make clear. It depends upon the actors and the direction I would think. PS I went to university in the UK (two years at Cambridge) so I am not an American unfamiliar with the UK or English speech. Of course at Cambridge most English was the Queen's English which presents no problems to Americans.

With every great actor there's always a flop. During the 1990's, Will Smith was getting started on his major career as an actor. He was featured in the television sitcom Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air. I'll admit, I was never too fond of the show, however any time it came on while flipping through the channels, I would leave it on because of how funny Smith was. Anyway he soon starred in the film Men In Black, which was a big success and is what got him jump-started on his major career.  With all of that in mind, in 1999 he starred in a film known as Wild Wild West. As a kid, I had no clue there was originally an old television show in the 60's called Wild Wild West that the film was loosely based on. I later learned from my parents while at Universal Studios in Hollywood, CA when we were sitting watching one of the attractions, which was a live-action Wild Wild West reenactment, which blew my mind away. (it may have been Knott's Berry Farm, I don't remember)  But anyway, this is about the movie with Will Smith. There isn't really much to say, other than this will probably go down as the ONLY western film Smith will have ever done. The story and plot is decent, nothing new or spectacular, but good enough for a movie such as this one. Minor sub-plots such as the one concerning Salm Hayeks character seem out of place, but then again it's the "Damsel in Distress" that it's supposed to be portraying, however executed horribly. The acting is not great. As stated, I've seen Smith in almost every film he's ever been in, and this was probably the worst has been in. Though my guess is he did try with the script he had to work with. Kline was ok, just not the best. And seriously, the only other film I saw Salma Hayek in was Dogma, and she did far better in it than this. Again, I imagine the actors had a massively hard time making this.  What really drives the movies grade down for me however, is the elements. Ok, it's set in the late 1800's in the old west, so there will of course be trains powered by steam. There will be guns, there will be horse-drawn carriages, and of course saloons and cowboy boots. Since when were there motor-powered penny-farthings, giant mechanical spiders and other sorts of machines that either shot giant razors that would home in on a victim or otherwise? Well it is true most of this movies plot centered around inventors, gadgets and such. But it is blown out of proportion and really taken to extremes. The special effects were good though. With that, and the story/plot, those are the only things giving this film it's stars, it's like one star for each piece.  So why watch this you might ask, if the acting sucks, elements and overall final product are stupid (not to mention it had nothing to do with the original show despite character name similarities and the being the same name as the original show)? Well, I would say so that you can tell other people, that yes, you were able to sit through this. Otherwise there are FAR BETTER western films. I haven't seen too many though, I would suggest either Dances With Wolves or Back To The Future III ANY DAY before I EVER suggested this one. Actually I would never suggest this one. I would suggest any Clint Eastwood or John Wayne westerns instead.  If you must see this, be it only for the purpose of saying that you saw this film.

Ugh...wht happened to Hollywood writers? This is a horrible way to re-spark the Conan saga. I thought that Jason Momoa was great in his role as Khal Drogo in "The Game of Thrones" and that would have been a great way portray Conan, but I'm afraid this Conan movie is a little too soft. Like most movie re-makes, the story was a bit weak. I think that if the writers had stayed true to the Conan graphic novels/comics, it could have had brutal potential. The acting left much to be desired and the fight scenes were so complex, they seemed staged. Brutality folks! That's all a Conan movie needs. Better luck next time.

For Elvira-fans only? "Blue Sunshine" is a serious nice little Thriller. "Monstroid" is pure trash as trash can be.It's a shame for some great actors to be in it. But anyway,no one buy these DVD's for the movies. Only for the Mistress of the Dark - ELVIRA!!!

Interesting Premise But Poor Execution And a Plot Inundated With Huge Holes *Possible spoilers*  "The Lazarus Project" is a movie with an intriguing premise, but a not so intriguing execution. It is about Ben Garvey (Paul Walker), an ex con, who tries to live a straight life after his probation has finally ended, but who gets laid off from his job because of his criminal background and, desperate for money to support his family, agrees to go on a heist with his brother and steal gold in dust from a laboratory. The mission goes awfully wrong, however, and three people end up dead, except for Ben - who survived only because he was in the back packing up the stuff. Somehow the jury convicts him for being responsible for the deaths of those three people and he is sentenced to death. When he wakes up, he finds himself in the town of Dundee, Oregon, working as groundskeepers and being told that he needs to leave his past life behind and move forward. Strange things start happening and that is where the story unfolds.  As mentioned above, while this was an interesting story with a truly titillating premise, it was poorly executed and Ben wasnt the the only one for whom things didnt quite add up. There were just a lot of inconsistencies in there and huge plot holes that ultimately resulted in making this a totally unbelievable story.  First and foremost, no one acts like you'd expect them. I mean who gets executed, even in the state of Texass, for accessory to second degree murder and fails ALL appeals? Ben Garvey didnt even pull the trigger, he didnt even have a gun, yet he gets _executed_ and everyone talks about what a horrible criminal he is who needs rehabilitation - like he was some serial killer or rapist or some other demented violent offender, even though clearly he went stealing out of necessity and not because he is a psycho. Speaking of which: who turns to a life of crime and risks serious incarceration and losing his family because he lost his job. Why didnt he just collect unemployment and went talking to his parole officer to find him a job? That just didnt make sense. Maybe that wasnt an option but if that is the case, the writers should have somehow put that in there instead of just ignoring it and hoping it will go unnoticed.  It is a sign of bad acting and bad writing when characters in movies dont behave like you would expect a person in real life to behave. Yes we all know this is a movie but some resemblance to reality helps increasing the credibility and quality of said movie. I mean, who greets a person they believe dead and whose funeral they attended, like he just came back from vacation? If someone I believed dead stood at my door, I would pass out, not give them a tender hug.  If this is a rehabilitation facility, does that mean an entire town has been dedicated to it? Since there were no guards and everyone could roam around freely and had internet access etc., how did they imagine to shield people from their old lives? Since the the mother and daughter at the cafe are the same mother and daughter in the second set up video about real estate, then the whole town must have been in on this. But, how is all this funded? It seems like a huge undertaking and you do wonder who would fund such a thing,  especially in a state that is notorious for harsh incarcerations and where people are apparently executed for robbery.  There seem to be hidden cameras everywhere but if they had a camera in there filming him, wouldnt they have found the picture that slipped under the cabinet? How is it rehabilitation to brainwash and manipulate a person into believing they are insane and imagined it all? How is that helping anyone? The exchange Garvey has with the project leader in the end was unintelligent and touched the issue of rehabilitation of criminals only superficially. In fact, it was done so poorly, it made people advocating for rehabilitation of criminals versus execution appear to be nothing but insane, deluded nut jobs themselves. That certainly didnt help the cause or accurately outline the debate. And what's up with the "demon" we see in the shadows? Arr you telling me that people in the business of rehabilitating criminals put on costumes and lurk on dark corners to scare the "inmates" from leaving by making them believe some demon will go after them if they leave town?  This movie is full of such inconsistencies and a lot of it just didnt make sense. Suspending disbelief is ok, but not to this degree. This was an interesting and suspenseful movie but I think it didnt do a good job at creating an even semi-solid, coherent and believable movie without gaping plot holes. I dont get why anyone would give this 4 or 5 stars as the immense plot holes and inconsistencies were staggering.

Disapointed You can't beat $9.99 for most DVDs and I am always looking for tools to help me teach my children new things. But I was disappointed in this product. I assumed it would teach all the letters AND their sounds. It doesn't. It only teaches letter recognition. I personally feel like they should be taught together. What good are letters without their sounds? I will still use the DVD but I will now watch it along with them to teach them the sounds. It would have been SO simple to add the letter sounds. Not sure why they didn't.

As bad as I remembered! Good things about this film: The deco sets are beautiful! The cast is stelar! And the idea is basically OK.  But sadly, with all this talent, the writers and director put together a script, and insult to injury, direction, that reduced all of these fine talents to cardboard cutouts. Yes, the cast was strangled with piano wire! The only exception is Tim Curry; He is his irrepresable self in this film. Tim Curry doing Tim Curry, and doing Tim Curry to the hilt! Nuf said.  The absolutely bigest insult in this film comes in the last few minutes, when Jonathan Winters has the line, "What he hell is that?" They didn't even show him giveing the line! In what could have been a 'grity/camp' movie, with plenty of opportunities to showcase the casts talents, viewers are given cold grits.  And if your going to hang an 'A' bomb from the cealing, don't let it swing around like its held up by fishing line!

What a disappointment! When MIB1 debuted in July of 1997, I've loved it. It was funny, action packed and managed to squeeze in just enough science fiction folklore to create a genuine sense of wonder. So, my expectations for MIB2 were high, much too high. I hated it. Everything I had loved about the first movie had been neglected or ignored. Where the hell was Linda Fiorentino!?!? Okay, I'm a realist, in all likelihood the studio and her agent couldn't come to terms. And since I hate the movie anyway, its just as well that they didn't recast her character but still, what happened to her character? All right, bottom line is, if you like MIB1 then skip right over to MIB3, it is not great either and does seem to totally disregard the character's back stories from the first movies, what happened to Agent K's wife? But, it is entertaining, Josh Brolin is priceless as a young Agent K, and a lot more fun than MIB2. I give MIB2 two stars because any movie where Lara Flynn Boyle appears in Victoria's Secret is worth at least two stars. I know it's been 15 years and you've all ready been exposed to the horror that is MIB2 but, for the sake of future generations, Please heed my words of warning.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00177YA1K">Men in Black</a>

good movie, bad language This could have been a very good movie if the language from one of the cops could have been censored.  A shame a movie with a good thought behind it couldn't have been shared with the whole family.  Not suitable for children.

Howard Hughes what were you thinking? Bad acting is never so fun as when it's done  by Ernest Borgnine. The movie is pretty lame, but still kind of ironically fun. I guess it was a big budget movie at the time but the arctic sets are not convincing. Howard Hughes must have been senile as well as schizo to go ga-ga over this movie - I really can't recommend it.

Thin Acting, Thinner Scripts Ah the 60s - thin acting, thinner scripts. Rented because I'm a huge fan of heist capers. Unfortunately, 'Merry Go Round' is a rather fragile piece of filmmaking. Trying too hard to be clever and failing. Too coy to be slick. Too plastic to be real. And infinitely too convoluted to make any sense.  In this film, Coburn plays Eli Kotch, a con-man and Lothario thief who uses his skills pursuing housemaids in order to pry his way to the goodies; both literal and figurative t&eacute;ndr&eacute;s des marchandises. It's a decent scam, but he has eyes on a much bigger prize. He's tired of making just enough until he has to do it all over again. So he plans on a heist that will set him up for life, one big score that will allow him to walk away and drink margaritas on a beach forever.  Seems pretty straight-forward, but the filmmakers pursue a plaintively obtuse and twisted path to reach that simple goal.  One issue I had, and it's only one to illustrate a point, was why Eli needed to recruit his 'assistant' from the east coast, only to have her relocate to the west coast? It's not explained, and I sincerely doubt there is an explanation. Not a reasonable or logical one at least. Again, that's just one issue. There are many more like it in this production.  It was the Sixties, and this kind of plot hole seems par for the course for many B-movies that did not go straight for the easy money via sexploitation or sensationalism. The mid-60s were a transitional period in Hollywood, a time where things were about to creatively explode as rogue filmmakers and independents were about to shakeup the industry for the next twenty years. And flat films of the old guard, like 'Merry Go Round', in many ways helped prepare for the coming new wave of cinema; a tepid calm before the amazing storm of unique vision and incredible exploration.  I have nothing but respect for Coburn, but his talent during this period is sketchy. Given the right role, he could compare favorably with the top stars of his time. But often, the weaknesses of his abilities revealed themselves as ridiculous overacting and overreach. He was always most believable as a carefree wisecracking hipster or a laconic cold manipulator. The effusive gentleman thief was never his game.  Overall, a convoluted mess with little action, poor characterizations, and a deeply unsatisfying end. I will say this though, due to the sheer length the film takes to finally execute the heist, there's a nice bit of building tension as you wonder if they get away with it. But that's not nearly enough of a payoff, much like what Eli himself receives, to recommend this to anyone but to the hardest hardcore fans of heist films or James Coburn.

for the slow beginner This is very slow, and good for the very beginning student. But it is a bit boring. I find that it didn't hold my interest.So, I haven't used it much.

What a let down.... If you are a Bruce Bruce fan...I would highly recommend that you do not pick this dvd up because you will turn in your Bruce Bruce card!! I love this dude but "WOW"....this routine sucked!! Alot of the jokes were recycled.....he was not up on his game on this one....maybe he needs to gain weight again!!

Miss information I felt that this product was miss represented -- it said it was a 2 disc collectors set.  I thought I was getting both of the movies #1 and #2.  All I ended up with was the first movie done in wide screen and full screen.  I'm sorry I wasted my money.  Also it stated that it was a "NEW" copy - but it had already been opened - how do I know if it hadn't already been used or played before it come to me.

Bad Sequel I was expecting this movie to take place in a cabin just like the first one but instead ut takes place at a prom?WTH?This one definitly didn't have the same feel to it as the first Cabin Fever wich I liked.This is one seems like it was aimed more to the younger crowd.You really don't feel anything for the characters in this one and it wasn't as scary.It seems like the virus spread to fast here.In the first Cabin Fever you saw the girl slowly wasting away.I heard they had a different director or producer on this one.He sure didn't know what he was doing.

Really too silly I love old movies, but this was beyond silly.  I know that it was supposed to be a comedy, but besides the hilarious Uncle Teddy, the rest of it was beyond ridiculous.  Cary Grant's performance was even disappointing.  He had to overact to pull off the script.  I just didn't care for it at all.

Disappointing Why go w/ a bad guy mil. , this is not the 90's. Film could of at least tried for something original.

Hokey Reginald Owen's doddering portrayal of Scrooge will make you cringe, and the overall hokeyness of the movie is just too much.  Did you chuckle when the priest outrageously decided to slide on the ice like the kids?  Neither did I.  The excellent performances of Gene and Kathleen Lockhart as the Cratchits is to be noted, but even they can't save this version of A Christmas Carol.  If you are reading these reviews for the purpose of choosing a version of this movie to watch, do yourself a favor and buy the 1951 movie starring Alistair Sim, far and away the best iteration of this great story.

House: The Complete Sixth Season The sixth season of House starts off good and ends on an interesting note, but past that, the injection of new blood appears to show the patient not fully accepting the diagnosis. Laurie still brings his "A" game and the cast wants to match the effort, but they're still hampered by the way the episodes lay themselves out on screen. Worth watching for the opening and closing episodes but past that, newbies should start with an earlier season to get oriented.

I wanted to like this movie I really did. The premise was good, and I enjoyed the trailer. For me, where it went wrong, is the casting. Bruce Willis and Mary Louise Parker have absolutely no chemistry whatsoever. That made the lines fall flat and turned this movie into a complete dud for me. The secondary characters (Helen Mirren in particular) were great, but it wasn't enough to carry the movie.

High Adventure and Action Cliffhanger, 1993 film  The story begins with two men and a woman on a snowy mountain. [Anyone underdressed for the cold weather?] A helicopter rescues them. "Don't look down!" There is a crisis, Sarah slips away! [Not a good beginning?] Eight months later Treasury Agents prepare to ship paper money by aircraft from Denver to San Francisco. Gabriel still feels guilty about that death. The airplane with the money shipment sees another jet following it. There is a surprise action on board! Can the lockers be transferred in flight? Yes. There is an explosive event to end this scene. Can those lockers be located? The jet lands on a snowy mountain top then calls for rescue. [Would those government agents discuss confidential matters in public?] The villains await the rescue team. They want to find those lockers and recover the money. [A well-planned operation?]  [Nobody wears a hat in cold windy weather.] The villains shoot at the rescuers and create an avalanche! Gabriel throws the locker over the cliff, it opens and spills its contents. Gabriel climbs to the station to get warm clothing. The find those $1000 bills and remove them from the locker. One villains uses nigh vision goggles but Gabriel overpowers him. Burning paper provides warmth. The story runs on with the usual dramatic threats and escapes. Can Gabriel and Jessie escape the overhead bomb? Yes. The rescue helicopter is decoyed into landing. Another killing. Gabriel and Jessie escape a booby-trap. One of the villains is sacrificed for power. Another one dies trying to kill Hal. The renegade agent follows a false lead. Travis complains about his choices. Gabriel escapes by jumping off a cliff. Travis walks on ice and meets his doom. Qualen has Jessie in the rescue helicopter and offers a trade. Qualen tries to get the bag of cash and gets a surprise. "Run!" Hal shoots at the helicopter, it falls. Qualen and Gabriel fight, only one survives. "I'm out of here." The good guys survive, of course.  The credits show a great number of names of those who worked behind the scenes. This is at best an average action adventure movie (or morality play) where the good guys triumph over the villains. It is an example where a better story would create a better movie. This background is unusual. [It reminds me of a 1940s film set in the mountains where bad guys try to recover hidden loot; I can't remember the name.]  When Nixon devalued the dollar in August 1971 he ordered a wage and price freeze and banned the production of currency that had a face value of over $100. McKinley was on the $500 bill, Cleveland was on the $1000 bill, and Madison was on the $5000 bill. The $10,000 bill was not in general circulation. In 1965 Johnson ended the use of silver in dimes, quarters, half-dollars, and dollar coins. The debasing of the currency usually occurs in wartime.

Insufferable Weak points:  * Everyone looks plastic * The pace is constipated * The writing is insipid  Strong point:  * Kevin Spacey?

Very dark and not for younger children Not my favorite Harry Potter movie and is definitely NOT for young children. Dark theme with very few light moments. Is there any reason why the final book couldn't be covered in one movie? I anticipated greatness but feel extremely disappointed eventhough I read the book. Did the 48 hour rental bit and thankful I waited to see it. If I'd seen it in a theater, I'd want a refund. Gave it 2 stars(1.5 for actors and .5 for movie) because I've become a fan of some of the actors and not because it's a good movie. The cast did a great job with the poor script they were given. If a 1.5 star was available, that would be my rating. I'll watch the final one only after it's video release. Hoping it's better than this one.

Terrible rendition of a life full of drama Just terrible terrible story-telling. Nothing dramatic. No suspension. No greater-than-itself meaning. Just a plain old tear-jerker, following the templates of 1950's Classic. Don't know who should be called out for this, the screen writer or the director? But it is just such a lame movie.

Better than the first, but that's not saying much You'd think considering how much I disliked Rob Zombie's first movie, House of 1,000 Corpses (http://www.amazon.com/review/R14U6XXLU4JCWZ/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm), that I wouldn't watch the sequel. Well, I did. I don't think this was a particularly good movie, but it was certainly a lot better than the first movie so that's something.  In The Devil's Rejects, Rob Zombie stopped the choppy editing and the funny colors and he upped the gore a little bit. He also eliminated those goofy little heavy metal musical interludes and added a Southern Rock soundtrack. All good improvements in my book, but it only means he's maybe becoming a better filmmaker, not that he's necessarily making better films yet. Zombie still hasn't given us a real story or plot and in this movie he's just assembled a long montage of torture and murder scenes. Like his first movie, there was nothing in the way of horror or suspense here and the end result was little more than a bore.  While Zombie may be improving as a director, he needs some help with his writing. Too much of the dialogue sounds forced and rehearsed and not words that real people would be saying. He also needs to find a substitute for the "F" word which, I think, may have been said more in this movie than in any other movie I can remember, including Scarface.  I also found the characters confusing. For the first half of the movie the three Devil's Rejects are the bad guys and the sheriff is the good guy. Then, for the last part of the movie, the roles reverse for no reason (okay, you're right, there was a reason, but it was never treated as a part of the plot until it was needed) and the sheriff is the bad guy and suddenly you're kinda hoping for the Rejects to make it through to the end.  Speaking of the ending...  **** BEGIN SPOILER ****  The Vanishing Point ending did absolutely nothing for me. The only part of the ending I liked was getting to listen to Lynryd Skynyrd's Freebird (which should give you an idea of how long that scene lasted!).  **** END SPOILER ****  Maybe when Rob Zombie stops trying to pretend he's a writer of the caliber as Quentin Tarantino and stops trying to make a social commentary on the level of something like Natural Born Killers, he'll finally make a good movie that will pass for horror (however that's defined today!).  The Devil's Rejects gets two stars from me only because Danny Trejo was in the movie and he's worth watching no matter what he's doing. I also enjoyed seeing ex-pro-wrestler Diamond Dallas Page and ex-porn star Ginger Allen in small roles. I wouldn't recommend The Devil's Rejects to anyone unless they like these kinds of movies and even then I'd be hesitant.

Poor presentation for the "Robocop" films is truly inexcusable--image quality mediocre at best and no special features The Blu-ray release of the "Robocop Trilogy" on Blu-ray is disappointing; while the films look marginally better with slightly improved sharpness, the older HD master is riddled with edge enhancement artifacts and suffers softness. The second and third films look a bit better than the original film but, again, it's a marginal improvement over all.  Audio is decent sounding although dialogue can get lost with the first film and that could easily have been remedied during the transfer stage.  There are no special features which is inexcusable given that there were special features that could have been licensed from Criterion's edition for the first film or even ported over from the DVD boxed set.  Over all the presentation of all three films is careless and sloppy.  I'd wait to see if this is reissued again unless you can get it for very little money.

"Get Rid Of This Movie," My Wife Pleaded The Good -- This movie looks like some money went into it -- not much money, but the production values are high for drivel like this.  The Bad -- This movie put me to sleep about fifteen minutes in. Luckily, I've seen it before. Literally and figuratively. This movie rehashed every other monsters-from-some-other-place-are-trying-to-take-over-Earth story so much so that one could construct their own movie by just reading the synopsis on the back of the DVD box. And their movie would be better.  The Ugly -- Some movies just click on all fronts. From acting to pace, things click. Nothing clicks here. The acting is tolerable; no one stands out as being either decent or not. The direction is passable. The script is what it is. But nothing gels with the other resulting in a prime example of cinematic weakness.  But this disconnection doesn't make this movie unwatchable. Sure, I don't recommend it, but there are worse movies out there, which is all the kindness I can direct to this movie.

Missing My Favorite Body By Jake Workout Without Steve Maresca's full body workout, this video isn't worth it for me.  It does have his abs workout, and Marco Reed's full-body workout, but Steve Maresca's full body workout is the best of the series for me, and it's not on the video.  Therefore, I don't recommend it.

A 'Can't miss'...that does. As a lifelong fan of Andy Kaufman, as well as the bizarre circus known as pro wrestling, I remember being very happy to hear about the then-upcoming biopic, 'Man on the moon'. When I heard it was directed by Milos Forman, creator of 3 of my favorite films ('One flew over the cuckoo's nest', 'Amadeus', and 'The people vs Larry Flynt'), I started chomping at the bit. I saw an early clip of Jim Carrey's astounding imitation of Kaufman, and at that point was prepared to give it early entry into my 'Top 40 films ever' list, without even seeing it! This, to me, appeared to be the definiton of a 'can't miss' movie.   Sadly, I was way off. Just as Forman and, in the end, Carrey himself were in the making of this huge disappointment. In the 3 Forman films I listed above, as well as 'Ragtime', another critically lauded picture of his, the last description i ever expected to attach to the Acadamy Award winning director's output would be "by the numbers". But that's exactly what this formulaic, phony feeling effort is.   Besides numerous gaffes, which is unforgivable in as bland and distant as this film feels, the movie does the one thing Kaufman himself NEVER did-become predictable. In the end, the only memorable thing about the entire project is Carrey's impression of Kaufman, which is a sad statement indeed. Andy deserved better.

Amateurish This video does not seem very professionaly done. Looks as if someone was sitting in the audience with a camera.  Grainey on HD TV.  Audience shots do not fit in very well. Did not hold the interest of a 2 yr old Gabba fan.

There is a reason why this prequel never was made before and it has nothing to do with the special effects There are some big ideas in this film about science, ethics and money that are interesting. But that's it. Ideas. And a movie needs more than ideas in order to touch us. It needs emotion. "Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes" has none of it. I was left cold. Never did i care about any of the characters who were devoided of all depths. They were unidimensional and walking cliches. Their actions and their dialogues served only one purpose: to make the story go forward. I was only curious about how this all came to be, this ruling of the Earth by the apes. A scientist blinded by his father's illness tests a new discovery on apes. The animals become intelligent and the new discovery kills almost everybody on the planet, thus enabling the apes to rule it. The film could have lasted 20 minutes and that would have been more exciting. There is a reason why there's been a lot of movies about these talking apes but never one explaining how it all started: it's not that interesting. Not for two hours. And you can talk all you want about the quality of the special effects but i never bought the character of Ceasar in the first place. He always looked fake to me. Always. And how am i supose to care for the hero when i know ultimately that his experiment will fail and cause the end of civilization? At one point in the film, we get a glimpse of astronauts going to Mars and even getting lost in space. That was even more interresting than the story of the apes itself! I'm guessing without being an expert about this franchise that a possible sequel would involve these astronauts coming back to Earth and being up for one gigantic surprise! Now that's the movie i want to see. That's the movie they should have done. And this here movie, this "Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes" could have been a 5 minutes intro for that movie.

Zzzzzzzzz This movie does not deserve the hype. It is dull, emotionless and rather pointless. I kept waiting for something, anything even remotely interesting to happen. I wish I had pulled Field of Dreams out of my collection and watched that again instead.

Not The Best Of MGM Musicals A strange Esther Williams vehicle in that she doesn't seem to have that much screen time, and very little of it is spent in the water! The focus is more on Howard Keel, and he is in fine voice. Unfortunately, the songs he has to work with are completely forgettable. Nice Hawaii photography (even though the film is supposedly set in Tahiti). Pretty predictable story (granted, most stories behind most musicals are pretty predictable). In light of the better Esther Williams showcases (Neptune's Daughter, Million Dollar Mermaid) and the great MGM musicals, this entry, unfortunately, seems like a poor country cousin.

A horrible transfer - Image needs to fix it (this movie deserves better) When it comes to Chushingura (this version), I've read a few things.  First, this is from all accounts a very, very good movie (maybe even great).  It may be long, and not exactly fast paced, but it is a very well made movie from every comment I've come across.  Second, and this is the most important part as related to the DVD, the transfer and mastering job that Image did on this release is terrible.  It's non-anamorphic, and non-progressive (so the interlaced scan lines are prominently seen when there is motion on screen).  There are other gripes about the transfer as well, but those two are the big ones.  Ten years after the release of this DVD it's time for a Special Edition - with a reworked anamorphic, progressive transfer.  Whether Image does it themselves, or they sell the rights to someone else (or just let them lapse so Criterion can pick them up), this movie deserves MUCH better treatment than it got here.  I'll buy it as soon as a better DVD is released.

Lame This is the type of movie you produce when you have a car payment to make. Val oh Val, where fore art thou Val???

No widescreen!!! I have watched this show in widescreen on satellite. Why buy a DVD with half the picture missing??? This does not make sense! Offer a widescreen DVD or Blu and then I'll buy! The show in widescreen gets 5 stars.

THIS ONE'S A DOG! For me, and this is just me, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a clunker. The plot is slow, plodding, and the whole storyline just kind of lies there. I received my copy in brand new, pristine condition, but after one viewing, I gave it to our mobile home park's "trash and treasure" auction. The book just HAS to be better than this one.

1:78:1 presentation of a 1:33:1 home video.. One thing that I think prospective buyers should know is that the original 1997 direct-to-home video was created with an aspect ratio of 1:33:1 (4:3). This current Blu-ray/DVD release presents the film in (and only in) an aspect ratio of 1:78:1. They've accomplished this not by restoration/enhancement but by trimming a fair amount of each frame vertically. (This is essentially the same effect that you can achieve with most modern widescreen TVs when viewing 4:3 content; the picture is zoomed in and the top and bottom of the frame is hidden behind the TV bezel.)  I personally would have preferred that Disney kept the original aspect ratio and gave the user the option to enhance the film with Disney View (like the Blu-ray version of Snow White).  How bad is it? If you've seen the original (or the 2002 special edition release) you'll notice immediately that the frame now tends to appear crowded in the mid to close shots - especially with the camera focuses on the characters faces.  If you've never seen the film before you'll probably be satisfied with your purchase. It's a great story with memorable songs and the original cast. If you find that you really do enjoy it I would encourage you to track down a copy of the 2002 special edition release (or borrow it from a friend for a few days) to see what you missed.

Not the 5th Race, after all Nope, we humans aren't the 5th Race, after all. Perhaps race 10^5. Science fiction without wonder is simply television. Science fiction that dwells on who is smarter than whom is infuriating. I understand the underlighting. It saved on sets because it obviated detail. But the cheesy user interface? A race capable of designing such a ship would not use a button-driven UI or the analog devices. Neither would the have industrial doors that clanked. In Stargate, everybody and their Asgard cousin had cloaking devices, yet Destiny's designers didn't. In battles, Destiny had to be turned to aim its primary weapons. In combat, the weapons were controlled by humans, not by much-faster AI. There was no device that synthesized food, water, and fuel from elements. The show lacked imagination that elicited awe. I can think of nothing novel. Not the aliens. Not the lesbianism. Not the de rigueur civilian-versus-military cliches. Not the tedious marital spats. Not the aliens, who were bisymmetric, as usual. SGU reminded me of a WWII submarine movie. Sweaty and melodramatic. Stargate deserved a better Destiny. Yet as much as I disliked the series when it aired, I now miss it.

This movie misses the boat The third installment of this series continues to miss the boat. While staying somewhat truer to the novel than the horrendous "Prince Caspian," Voyage of the Dawn Treader continues to suffer from the filmmaker's insistance on injecting 21st century teenage angst into this piece. Edmund nursing an inferiority complex to Caspian and stooping to Eustace's level are inconsistant with his character, as is Lucy's envy of Susan. Caspian is portrayed as a fop. The scene where the film jumps from Narnia to 1940's Chicago is jarring and unnecessary.  Worse still, instead of being satisfied with an exploration adventure to discover the fate of 7 lost lords, the film injects a video-game like villian (green fog, no less), and a quest for seven lost swords. C.S. Lewis was teaching a voyage of self discovery, not trivial quests for trinkets to vanquish a vague unspecified evil. The film stumbles over this with contrary consecutive scenes where Caspian and Edmund speak against hoarding treasure, and then immediately continue on their sword quest. And if the Chronicles of Narnia are a Christian fable, would Jesus really wait until a collection swords were retrieved before swooping down and vanguishing the enemy?  The series consistantly underestimates its audience. Instead of the Chronicles of Narnia, we get Lord of the Rings Lite. It got so goofy and heavy handed that my kids were cracking up during the film.

Not what I was looking for I like hard cardio workouts and this won't even make me sweat. It was a waste of money.

Dated graphics.  Scared my 6 and 8 year old Graphics are really dated.  Its a 3D break through for animated films for sure.  Creepy neighbor was so scary my kids made me turn it off.

This Film doesn't do anything to stand out above other zombie films When it comes to zombie films, there has been no real innovation in the genre since George A. Romero pretty much invented it and the rules they all seem to follow with his "Dead" films. In order to stand out, you really have to do something special and spectacular. The newest film to enter this genre titled The Dead, doesn't do much other than place the action in the beautiful African landscape, which certainly creates a new landscape for the characters to interact within but does little else to help the plot.  Directed by The Ford Brothers and shot on previously unseen locations across Burkina Faso and Ghana, West Africa, the story focuses on American Air Force engineer Lieutenant Brian Murphy (Rob Freeman), the sole survivor of a plane crash, who must make his way across Africa to get back to his family, fighting off the living dead along the way. He joins forces with local military Sergeant Daniel Dembele (Prince David Osei) who is searching for his missing son. Together they must overcome their differences in order to survive the flesh-eating menace that attack them at every turn.  The film follows all the rules of the zombie genre with no surprises. It has slow-moving zombies, that eat flesh and pass on their infliction through biting you, they can only be killed by a shot to the head, and yet, somehow, despite their lumbering movements, people still manage to get caught by them.  The bottom line is, if you're looking for something unexpected and exciting in The Dead, you're looking in the wrong place. Why do zombies seem to attract our attention so often? Some could say its just the current trend but others would argue (and this reviewer would agree) that zombies are something we can relate to. Unlike most movie monsters that we've seen zombies are tangible, we could visualize an actual plague of such creatures. The idea of defending ourselves against an impending onslaught seems to trigger a long buried survival instinct or perhaps we just love the idea of letting out some aggression without any consequences.  Now on DVD, The Dead looks good on screen; unfortunately this was a standard version not Blu-ray but quite frankly there wasn't within this film that would have benefited from Blu-ray. As for special features, there are 3: first a commentary from the director, second a behind the scenes look at the film and last some deleted scenes.  So for die hard zombie film fans out there, you may want to grab yourself a copy of this film otherwise this time around you're better off popping in Zombieland for a good laugh. No thanks are needed.

DISAPPOINTING SERENADE This is a great movie, an old favorite but I was very disappointed in the DVD, it was not restored well. They also deleted a very important scene when Cary Grant appears before the judge. Had I know the quality of the DVD was not good and the scene was deleted I would not have ordered it.  The film arrived on time and was packaged well

Can't I just get the DVD? I love FMA, and I have seen the OVAs. I would love to get them, but really... does it have to be a Blu-ray combo pack? Seriously. I just want the DVD... the only reason they make the combo packs is to force people to buy them, cause no one buys them on their own. They do it with the Disney movies, and now they are doing it with this.  Seriously. Just the DVD please.

SOMEWHERE WITHIN THERE'S A BETTER STORY Somewhere within there's a better story but it's in need of some revising.  Tale focuses on some shallow LA types who are living it up when the city is attacked by a swarm of aliens.  Think INDEPENDENCE DAY gone horribly wrong.  There's some nice special effects here and there and moments when the story gets interesting but in lots of other parts it feels like they ran out of money or the people creating it got tired and decided to end the pain fast. The ending was somewhat lame. CHARACTERS/DIALOGUE: C to C plus; STORY/PLOTTING: C; CGI: B minus to B; OVERALL GRADE: C plus; WHEN WATCHED: today (streamed); OVERALL GRADE: C plus.

Never quite found its connections The script was poor. The story took so many directions that never made sense. The dialogue was boring and had no depth. The main characters had no chemistry. All in all it was a waste of time to watch.

Much better in the recording studio than on stage. I was a radio deejay in the early 1980s (a very adventurous time for pop music). I loved The Human League and electronic music in general. So it pains me to say that THIS concert was pretty darned disappointing, but then again I shouldn't have expected much from a group that relies more on slick studio production than anything else. After a needlessly long and self-indulgent introduction, we get a rather tepid and frequently off-key performance by a group that are WAY past their prime. What hampers this DVD the most is really poor sound design: Phil Oakey's vocals are front and center, but the vocals of blonde Susan Sully and brunette Joanne Catherall are tragically downplayed. Susan fortunately has some engaging stage presence, but Joanne does little more than waggle her hips back and forth, and Phil walks around the stage like he's bored. During the performance of the hit "Human," Phil badly mangles one high note and later asks the audience to forgive him, which seems rather pathetic. There is SOME interesting extra material on this disc, particularly scenes and behind-the-scenes footage from the groups last big world tour; the performance of of "Don't You Want Me" for an enthusiastic crowd at a Big Gay Mardi Gras Event is particularly memorable. But the concert itself, filmed from beginning to end at the Brighton Dome, is marred by bad sound engineering and lackluster performances by singers who would do better to stay in a recording studio rather than getting on stage.

Not formatted for proper region! Attention potential USA buyers: This DVD is not formatted for Region 1 or Region All. Therefore it may not play on your DVD player, although it may play on your computer.

Completely terrible but in a wonderful way Wow this movie is bad....I mean baddddddd... Oh god it is downright putrid.  It does essentially everything wrong that a movie can possibly do.  It has horrible acting, awful effects, a nonsensical and ridiculous plot, countless technical errors, etc.  The screenplay and dialogue is horrendously awful and the characters in this film; they  don't even act like people, they're like weird space aliens without a hint of personality or human presence.  Uwe Boll shows a complete lack of common film-making sense on essentially every aspect of the film.  This film is just such a mess in every conceivable way...AND IT'S HILARIOUS!!!  Oh man! I have rarely seen a movie that has unintentionally made me laugh so hard.  Seriously this movie is so easy to riff on, in basically every scene you can find something to make fun of and its a great movie to watch with friends if you wanna have a bad movie night.  If you're the kinda person who likes to watch bad movies to laugh at them then I actually recommend you check this out.  If you're instead actually looking for a good movie; STAY FAR AWAY!!! I'll give it two stars because while I do love it for how unintentionally funny it is, I think I should be rating it more on how good of an actual movie it is and from a pure film-making standpoint this doesn't even deserve one star.

HMMMM This movie was super sluggish at times, dark, and definitely not for the faint of heart, or.....other parts of your anatomy. Twisted ending for sure.

The message is sad but not that deep I found the show entertaining and watched it all the way to the end. For some reason though, I kept thinking that I was holding out for an ending that would convince me the time wasn't a total waste. Didn't happen. I enjoyed Redford & Newman in Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid but the acting was much better - this show doesn't meet the same standards.

Lesser horror film from the Golden Age Films about vampires have been around since the silent days, fueled by the popularity of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel which itself had been inspired by a flash of vampire stories in the mid 19th century, the undercurrent of which was that European immigrants with different customs were  a  threat to England's way of life. The most famous film treatment from the silent era was German director Murnau's "Nosferatu" (1922) which remains, to this day, a terrifying film. Bela Lugosi's 1931 "Dracula" was a critical and box office success, placing #6 in the box office for 1931.  Horror films in general were hot in the early 30s. Frankenstein was #1 at the box office in 1931, and Frederic March won the Oscar for "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" which came in at #8 in 1932. Other popular horror films were "Doctor X" (1932), "The Mummy" (1932), "Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1932), and "Mystery of the Wax Museum" (1933).  "The Vampire Bat" was produced mainly to take advantage of this trend. It borrowed sets from "Frankenstein" and "The Old Dark Horse" and recycled Fay Wray and Lionel Atwill who had just appeared in "Doctor X" and were scheduled to star in "Mystery of the Wax Museum".  Lionel Atwill (1885-1946) was the king of the B horror films and best remembered as Inspector Krogh, the man with the wooden arm, who hunts down the monster in "Son of Frankenstein" (1939) while managing to get in a game of darts with Basil Rathbone.  Atwill appeared in 5 of the 8 Universal Frankenstein films, and also had time for "Mark of the Vampire" (1935) and "House of Dracula" (1945) as well as several Sherlock Holmes films, the best of which was  "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1939). Atwill plays a physician treating villagers for a suspected case of vampirism. Unfortunately this is one of Atwill's weakest performances ever.  Fay Wray (1907-2004), of course, is everyone's favorite damsel in peril as the movie actress s who is kidnapped by "King Kong" (1933). In a career that lasted nearly  60 years she appeared in more than 60 films, including "Viva Villa" (1934) and "The Countess of Monte Cristo" (1934), but nothing every equaled the power and appeal of the big gorilla. Wray plays an assistant to Atwell and love interest for Melvyn Douglas. Wray does a good job and manages to get through the entire script without a scream.  Melyvn Douglas (1901-1981) appears as a police chief. Douglas won the Oscar twice ("Hud" and "Being There") and was nominated a third time ("I Never Sang for my Father") but lost to George C. Scott for "Patton". He also won a Tony for "The Best Man" (1960) and an Emmy for "Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night" (1967), making him 1 of only 5 performers to win the so-called "triple crown" of acting. This was Douglas' seventh film and he does a terrific job.  Dwight Frye (1899-1943) has the distinction of appearing in the classic 1931 version (as Renfield) as well as this film. He was also the hunchback from "Frankenstein" (1931) and appeared in more than 50 films with titles like "Bride of Frankenstein" (1935), "The Crime of Dr. Crespi" (1935), "The Shadow" (1937), etc. He plays a bat loving lunatic, and does it exceedingly well. Don't expect a traditional vampire film. "The Vampire Bat" is more on a level with "Cat People" than it is with "Dracula".  Director Frank Strayer (1891-1964) made several early horror films including "The Monster Walks" (1932), "The Ghost Walks" (1934) and "Condemned to Live" (1935). In 1938 he got his break and made "Blondie" and stayed with the series through 1942.  Majestic Pictures was a small production company that put out a few dozen films between 1931 and 1935. They had no special focus, making westerns, crime films, and horror movies with equal zeal. Head honcho Larry Darmour (1895-1942) later merged his company into Republic and later Columbia where he specialized in westerns and the Ellery Queen series.  As a poverty row production the film has pretty good values, especially for the early 30s. In addition it has the benefit of good performances from Douglas and Frye. But real fans of the vampire films will find it disappointing, and fans of horror films in general will find it lacking the gusto of most horror films. While the film has some atmosphere, it falls short of the kinds of atmospheric effects from films like "The Mummy" and "Cat People".  In short, there are so many excellent vampire and horror films from the 30s, why would you spend your time on this one.

Stupid Waste of money on this movie. The title doesn't fit the movie at all! This movie will put you to sleep, and that is why I shut it down.

SONS OF LIBERTY review SONS OF LIBERTY (1939) Directed by Michael Curtiz. Written by Crane Wilbur.   Starring Claude Rains(as Hayam Solomon), Gale Sondergard, Donald Crisp(as Alexander McDougal), Henry O'Neill, James Stephenson, Frank Reicher, Vladimir Sokoloff, John Sutton, Wilfred Lucas, Moroni Olsen, Egon Brecher and Montague Love as General George Washington.   After waiting two decades to see this technicolor Warners 20 minute short about famous Jewish patriot Hayam Solomon, I am extremely saddened to report that it turned out to be quite poor especially considering the talent before and behind the camera . Besides achieving the duel feat of being both too short(the Revolutionary War is gallaped through in an astoundingly cursory manner) and too long(except for raising money Solomon really did not DO anything worth a film even a short) the film also manages several hamfisted historical mistakes both externally(Wilbur's knowledge of dates is practically surreal and the film blames the post Battle of Manhattan burning of the city on actions by the Sons of Liberty which historians are unnanimous in that it was likely an accident) and internally(the narrator identifies a group of VERY English calvalry men as being Hessians!!   Worse still this was apparently Warner's big effort to show America that Jews were the bestest peeples. However unlike something like THE JAZZ SINGER or DISRAELI which allowed their characters to be recognizable human beings, this film opts to portray Jews as being practically living saints who probably never even go to the bathroom. There is not a single Jewish character who shows up who is not immediately identified as being the pinnacle of human goodness. The film also opts to deracinate the Jewish characters to practically waspish extremes. The film has to identify its Jewish characters as being Jewish because there certainly is no other way to tell.   Rains as Solomon gives the worst performance of his career playing him with an eternal smile on his face and as if he were in some narcotic induced haze. What?? Were Sam Jaffee and Sam Levine busy that week?? Sondergard as his wife is worse. Love with an appalling nose prosthesis is not this viewer's idea of George Washington.   Worth sitting through but Thank Yahweh that Warner did not go ahead with plans for a feature length film.   Oy!!!

Hammy and Boring Julia Childs is haunted by the ghost of Bud Melman (or was that Harry Carray?) and dreams about being the PM in the UK. Overacting meets overarching melodramatic plot device.  Snoozer.

Not worth the $$ I was a little disappointed because I thought it would have had more pics of earth and other planets etc.  Was however very interesting seeing the inside of the space station and how it works.

Awful movie for kids! I'll keep this to a few main points that really bother me about this movie, since it appears I may be beating a dead horse with some of this.  Cars 2 retains none of the charm of the original Cars.  Last I checked, the target audience for this series was kids.  If that is still the case, then the utterly ridiculous "British Spy Movie" theme that the Disney people decided to go with is probably completely lost on their target audience.  Unless children have completely oblivious and irresponsible parents, then there is no way that any kid seeing this movie should know anything about James Bond.  Next, the over-the-top environmental messages that the audience is bombarded throughout the duration of this are nonsensical and have no place in what is supposedly a light-hearted kids movie.  I don't appreciate Disney trying to indoctrinate my kids with the idea that "gasoline is EVIL!!" and we should all be trying to use "alternative fuels" to power our cars.  Lastly, what in the h*ll is with all the guns, explosions, and violence?  Disney, have you forgot that you are a (thinly disguised)left-wing organization?  Have you forgot that left-wing people HATE guns?  Especially when it comes to guns and kids?  Yet somehow, it's perfectly acceptable for a supposed KIDS MOVIE to be FILLED with guns and violence.  Don't get me wrong, I love guns.  I'm a lifetime member of the NRA.  But, there is a time and place for guns.  A "G"-rated kids movie is neither the time nor the place.  Really Disney??  Mater with two gatling guns strapped to him blasting away at a room full of cars??  Unbelievable.  I give it a 2 star rating only because, as usual with Pixar films, the animation is stellar.  The story line sucks, the message sucks, the violence is appalling, and it is absolutely NOTHING like the original Cars.

Much less interesting than the original Nowhere near as good as the first one.  The first one was funny, witty, clever, and fun.  This movie is just a lot of animated kung fu, and fight scenes that seem endless (not in a good way).  I rarely write reviews, but I was truly anticipating watching this movie with my kids - we had so much fun watching, and re-watching, the original Kung Fu Panda. Sure, there's a little back story about Po, but there is none of the newness of the first. In short, skip it - unless you are really into the kung fu - in which case you'll appreciate the long long long fight scenes.  For my money, I'll re watch the first one, or any of the solid older films in the genre (Incredibles, Madagascar (1 or 2), Ratatouille, etc)...

Two Stars Only Because Of Bruce I love Bruce Willis, easily one of my most favorite actors. He's also one of the few rare, conservatives in Hollywood, and being a conservative myself, that's a good thing. He's also a classy human being, he doesn't spout off his political convictions at the first sight of a microphone the way the libs in Hollywood love to do (and it's always the regurgitated rhetoric they hear the other libs bantering on about, you know how war, Bush, big business, capitalism, and the military are bad, bad, bad!). So it is with a heavy heart I must pan this movie, but really, a good actor in a bad movie is still a bad movie, and that's what Surrogates is, a bad movie.  First of all, there are a few things that left me scratching my head when I watched this movie. For one, at the beginning of the movie they talk about the dramatic decline in violent crime due to surrogacy, but why? I would think violent crime would escalate, as the criminals would be able to command a robot to do their bidding, with zero fear of injury to the operator. Just because people would use surrogates does not mean the criminal mind would disappear, it would just take a new form. I can see the same people who rob a convenience store, break into someone's home, mug someone, or rob a bank would be no less inclined to so do with a surrogate, they would be more inclined I think. It's also never explained in the movie how the violent crime reduction through surrogacy comes about, it's mentioned once at the beginning of the film, and that's it, it's never mentioned again and we the audience are just supposed to take it as the gospel. Well I think it's a fallacy, and I think the reverse would happen if surrogacy was to become a reality. Prove me wrong with logic if you can.  Second, I find hard to believe that the husband and wife team of Bruce Willis and Rosamund Pike, Tom and Maggie Greer respectively, would never see each other in the flesh, only with their surrogates. In one scene Tom unplugs from his surrogate, and walks by his wife's room, ponders opening the door, and does not. Sorry, I don't buy it that people would become so disconnected from other people that they wouldn't continue on with a "real" relationship in their homes. If anything again, I think it would strengthen the bond. Instead the real Maggie in the film becomes addicted to prescription drugs, and looks worn out and haggard. Sorry, were that my wife I would never allow her to hide up in her bedroom all alone, and if she couldn't make the break from her surrogate in the home, would divorce her in a minute. I mean what about sex, I don't think the surrogates have sex with each other, and I don't see the desire to have sex suddenly disappear because you're jacked into a robot.  You see it's the little things like that, the little questions that never get answered that bugged me about the film. Another one, midway through the movie we learn that the character the Prophet is just a surrogate himself, yet he lives on a humans only reservation where people are routinely scanned to insure they are human, and not machine. Excuse me, but how would the leader of a human resistance get away with being a machine in such a guarded, fortified society? I just don't get it.  Lastly, even without the logic fallacies, the movie is pretty boring, it moves at a slow pace and rarely picks up steam. The last 20 minutes or so provide some excitement, but other than that, it's pretty boring. Bruce Willis even looks bored, as though the movie was just another multi-million dollar paycheck. The plot is somewhat interesting, but it's delivered with very little enthusiasm. The special effects are sparse, and while billing itself as a sci fi flick, do not expect a James Cameron effects extravaganza. A couple of explosions, and the occasional surrogate who has his/her face ripped off, exposing the machine, is about all you get.  There are worse movies you can watch, but I really can't recommend this one. I saw it for free on HBO, and I was okay with that, but I would not have been happy if I had purchased this movie.

Disappointed I've seen the movie several times over the years on TV and had bought the VHS tape many years ago.  Since I no longer have a VHS machine I thought I would get it on DVD to add to my collection of classic Christmas movies.  My wife and I still enjoy the story, but were very disappointed with the quality of the picture/recording.  It was like a copy of a copy.  With todays technology I would think they would do a better job.  I would NOT recommend puchasing this DVD due to the poor picture quality.

Kind of funny? I was expecting much more from this movie. It did not have very good acting, and the bear was just stupid. I almost felt like I should laugh at parts just because I knew that was were the joke was.  This movie is a good time waster so rentable, but not buyable.

Ehhh I thought this movie would be good but for some reason I just couldn't get into it. Maybe it's bc the story of Romeo and Juliet simply doesn't translate well into a kids movie.

Is it safe? I've long suspected that most dentists harbor sadomasochistic tendencies, so watching Lord Laurence Olivier throw down some Third Reich dentistry skills, did not drum up that much fright for me.  In fact, director John Schlesinger and actors Olivier, Dustin Hoffman, and Roy Scheider are all above this material. 1976's "Marathon Man" is rather a bad film for all concerned, and surprisingly, the actor who made it watchable was the late, great Roy Scheider. I kept waiting for this cat to be brought up on larceny charges, for he stole every scene he was in...Scheider's Doc Levy is a smart, cool, secret agent sophisticate who shoulda known better than to bitch slap a Nazi near the Lincoln Center. I mean, c'mon, he shoulda taken him to Belmont Park. Who doesn't know that?  Film casting made two critical missteps in my book: Hoffman was already 40 yrs old in 1976, so the idea that his Thomas "Babe" Levy was a history Ph.D candidate was indeed stretching it. I found the restaurant scene in which big brother Doc threatens to order a McDonald's hamburger for his little bro unintentionally funny. Hoffman's character is basically treated like a dim 12 yr old kid wearing a beanie on his head.  The second error was hiring the towering Marthe Keller as Hoffman's love interest. Poor Keller not only has a speech impediment which makes her sound like a German Elmer Fudd (see also "1977's "Bobby Deerfield") but she is also built like an NFL linebacker. The Hoffman character looks like he would prefer to cower in a far corner rather than engage in any midsection activity with Helga. Sorry, I mean Elsa.  I am well aware that "Marathon Man" has its legion of fans, but ultimately, watching this film made me want to do something else...like nothing. Hey, sometimes the tooth hurts.

CRANFORD;  RETURN  TO  CRANFORD I  WILL  TELL  YOU  THE  HONEST  TRUTH  ABOUT  THE  DVD  RETURN  TO  CRANFORD,  NOT  WHAT  I  EXPECTED, IT  WAS  LIKE  THE  FIRST  PART  OF  CRANFORD  WAS  THE  BIGINING  AND  THE  END  OF  A  MOVIE  ALL  BY  IT'S  SELF,  THEN  THERE  CAME  RETURN  TO  CRANFORD,, THERE  WAS  NO  DOCTOR  AT  ALL,,  IT  SEEM  LIKE  THEY  DID NOT  HAVE  A  CLUE  WHAT  WAS  GOING  ON,  NO  SENCE  AT  ALL,, PEOPLE  WOULD  JUST  LEAVE  AND  YOU  HAVE  NO  CLUE  WHAT  HAPPENED  TO  THEM ,   AND  I  DO  LOVE  BBC  MOVIES  I  GAVE  RETURN  TO  CRANFORD  TWO  STARS,,  IT  REALLY  LEFT  ME  CONFUSED, AND  THESE  MOVIES  ARE  NOT  CHEAP

Utterly unbelievable! We are asked to believe that a Nazi war criminal would rather accept the total blame and consequent long prison term for a monstrous crime of which she was a willing participant though not the instigator, allowing that person to escape a similar lengthy punishment, merely to disguise the fact that she is illiterate.  I'm sorry but history shows that Nazis war criminals did virtually anything in their power to escape detection and punishment.  Moreover, we are also asked to sympathize with her plight because she has a love of literature which she has never been able to indulge because of her illiteracy and because she once behaved kindly (if that is the most appropriate word!) towards a boy who was previously a stranger to her.  These are not the only facets of this pointless concoction to stretch the bounds of credibility to breaking point but it would involve spoilers to reveal more.  I haven't read the book so I don't know if the film is an accurate reflection.  Perhaps I will as it is sitting on my shelf and I am not illiterate (or, completely, naïve and gullible!) although, doubtless, because I have given an honest view of my reaction to it, some will accuse me of an inability to read the subtleties of the story.  For a much truer reflection of the gross abuse of power and the seeming powerlessness of the individual in the face of state sanctioned indoctrination I would thoroughly recommend the marvellous, The Lives of Others.

Bruno I expected the movie to be funny and stupid because of the creator, but it proved to be a little too extreme for me. It was funny and unbelievable at the same time. I couldn't believe that people agreed to participate (knowingly or unknowingly). I didn't like this film that much.

Ehhh I'm actually shocked at the number of positive reviews this movie is getting. I feel as if it could have been sooo much better, but the movie seemed a bit overdone. It could have been so much more. She just wasn't a believable character.  The reason I gave the movie 2 stars is because I liked the ending. The rest of the movie was a bust.

What the .... I know this flick is a light-hearted comedy aimed at, perhaps, uplifting cynical gay men in metropolis, but still.... a hunky Texan, a struggling newspaper columnist... is this for real?...

vampire`s kiss sucks I turned it off after 38 minutes.  Too slow and boring. I had to watch with subtitles because much of the dialogue was low and hard to understand.

Not That Hot A Ride For Me I basically kept waiting for some high quality footage of bull riding and I was still waiting when the movie ended. I can't really comment on its merits as a movie, as I wasn't really listening to the dialog.

Fooled by storyline review on tv I saw the ads for it and it sounded interesting.  Certainly not something you would reach for a second time review.

NOT ENTIRELY FAMILY FRIENDLY Some of the reviews I read here described this film as clean and family friendly.  The vast majority of it is cute and family friendly.  But, for what ever reason, those who made this film, (which is obviously a Christmas time film aimed at families with children),decided to toss in one God-dishonoring profane phrase in one, and only one, scene. Why?????  I hope this film is not just the first of a new wave of cute "Christmas time family movies" that are ruined by the entirely unnecessary use of hard profanity in Christmas movies!

Ridiculous Courtroom Drama In the courtroom dramas, there are certain cliches which the screenwriters felt needed to be inserted in order to make the proceedings more dramatic. In some ways, this is a smart move as real trials tend to be rather dull affairs with witnesses talking in monotone and grandstanding never quite going beyond "if the glove does not fit..." rhyme shemes. However, these overtly dramatic renderings of court proceedings become pretty hackneyed with repetition and one gets tired of the cliches.  Even though this particular courtroom drama was made well before Law & Order, Matlock, etc., etc. it contains all of the tired and sad cliches which would become so dull in the following decades. Jimmy Stewart portrays himself as "just a country lawyer" which was parodied so well in Futurama. At almost every revelation the court breaks into applause, laughter, consternation, etc. The defense is all based on a Not Guilty by Temporary Insanity plea which means that the client would be in a mental institution upon "winning" that case (but of course in this movie and almost every other one it is a Get Out of Jail Free card) and there are so many inconsistancies in the Defense's case that it's obvious that the guy is guilty as sin.  Still the performances are pretty good and the jazz score is Duke Ellington. This movie is a waste of time but it's a mostly inoffensive waste of time.

REAL LAME AND SILLY ,GLAD  DIDNT BUY THIS GARBAGE!!! The Last Exorcism is a textbook example of how a film can start off very promising and completely fall apart in very short order. Scripters Huck Botko and Andrew Gurland and director Daniel Stamm create a very engaging and solid old-school horror film that utilizes all the mockumentary background of all three men very effectively in the first two acts. The performances of the two leads are solid in Patrick Fabian as faithless minister Cotton Marcus and Ashley Bell as the possibly-possessed Nell Sweetzer. The tension builds nicely for about an hour, effective without resorting to cheap jump scares or gratuitous blood and gore. Unfortunately, the final act is goes completely off the rails and the sublime becomes silly and overblown in the extreme to the point that it seems as if a much inferior film's ending got tacked on to pad the running time. In many cases this would not completely ruin the experience, but unfortunately for The Last Exorcism this amounts to a full one-third of the film. The end result is another horror mockumentary that has a lot of promise but falls completely flat, leaving the audience deeply disappointed with another lower-tier entry into the subgenr

Muddled and odd I love a good kid's fantasy movie as much as the next person, but this one lost us early on.  Overlong and tedious. And why does the teen heroine's dresses get more and more low-cut with each scene? The ending seems rushed and slapped together with the special fx particularly cheap.

The Descendants I was disappointed in this movie.  I expected more because of the rave reviews it received.  Just a mediocre plot with a disfunctional family.  I wouldn't recommend it.

2 1/2 stars for formulaic romantic comedy This clunker of a romantic comedy lacks both romance and comedy and manages to waste such likable actors as Jenifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart.  They have no chemistry here and Aniston pretty much just stands around looking cute.  The film begins OK with Eckhart's character a motivational speaker of sorts who brings together people who have lost loved ones.  He, himself lost his wife in a car accident.  There is a big secret however as to how it all occurred.  I was expecting that he was actually driving drunk or on drugs or in the middle of a fight.  Actually the big secret, only disclosed at the end, was that he was driving and not his wife.  Wow!  Big deal.  The movie is formulaic and includes a "his and hers quirky best friend".  Also included is the "you're too good for me/you don't understand me break-up".  And of course, we know what's going to happen.  I bumped this movie up ½ a star because of a nice supporting performance by character actor John Carroll Lynch as Walter.  He is one of the seminar attendees who lost his 12 year old son in an accident on a construction site.  He has several memorable and touching scenes.

Wha...who...why?? This is not a "comedy."  Anyone using that word should a.) examine the definition of comedy - dark or otherwise or b.) get some counseling.  Very little amusing in this pretentious chracter study.  The acting is fine, but no one is realy likeable or given much depth.  WAY too much is spoken and not enough is shown.  Cody and Reitman are critic darlings, but this film is just wholly flat and leaves you wanting something - anything - more.

poor workmenship So far there has been a couple of disks  that the plastic coating on the face of the disks are on the readable side, can't get it off so certain parts are unreadable.

Amazon is idiotic It appears that the computer system at amazon is dumb. When I live in Australia but amazon sends me discs regularly that are not for my region, you would have to say "useless service" I will NEVER use this service again

Nothing Special About It In my opinion, great (or even just good) movies must contain some facet that goes above and beyond the other fare, whether that rests with the characters, plot, direction, or any number of different things.  "Torn Curtain", despite being a Hitchcock production, stands out in absolutely no area.  For a basic plot summary, this movie focuses on the unexpected defection of American scientist Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman) to Soviet Russia.  He is followed by his assistant (and subsequent love interest) Sarah Sherman (Julie Andrews) as she tries to ascertain the reasons for his strange behavior.  There is nothing abhorrently wrong with the overall plot of this movie, but it just doesn't generate any excitement in any facet of the experience.  It is a very typical "Cold War spy" tale that could have been written by anyone from amateur to seasoned film veteran.  Seeing Hitch's name attached to such a pedestrian project makes one pause considering his other incredible works.  The only thing that can save a mediocre plot, of course, is terrific acting, and this film fails to deliver that piece of the puzzle as well.  Newman is decent as the leading man, but Andrews is pretty much a blank slate as the female lead.  I don't even think it is the "Mary Poppins/Sound of Music" typecast bias here, either.  Her role is just not crafted very well at all in the script.  Overall, then, "Torn Curtain" is one of the poorer Hitchcock movies I've seen (even the middling "Topaz" packs more thrills than this one).  It isn't "bad" in the traditional sense of the word, but it isn't "classic Hitch", either...not by a long shot.

Not for small kids My two year old twins loVe buddy and marly the puppy years. But lost interest in mins on this movie. Thankfully that was the case because I was about to turn it off. Too scary for small kids and hardly saw the puppies.

A Clunker for Sure! I found this movie emminently unwatchable. I'm surprised that none of the reviewers mentioned the exteneded scenes of the nazi war criminal, as a gynocologist in E. Berlin, making polite conversation with the heroine as he gives her a pelvic exam. Not only do they repeat this scene at least 3 times (what was her purported problem anyway?), but the scenes are spoken in German so you don't know what the hell they're talking about! Then there is the scene where the heroine, woozy from just being knocked out by the the escaping nazi, shoots said nazi in the back using a pistol from about a block away, perched on a fire escape no less. A shot like that is simply not realistic. The interpersonal dynamic between the characters is wooden and uninteresting. This movie is badly directed, badly written, and a waste of acting talent.

Not funny, not sexy so what's the point? This indi-film opened recently with a thud, and is now available on disc.  I'm not sure what has happened to Uma Thurman's career but this adds to a list of her clunkers.  The set up isn't a creative one.  Twenty three year old geeky children's book author Sam Davis (Michael Angarano) isn't having much success and he's recently dumped by the statuesque Zoe (Thurman).  Now right there we have a problem.  Sam is about 5 foot nothing and Zoe is about a foot taller, not to mention well on her way to 40.  Don't get me wrong, the problem isn't there physical differences, it's that there is no chemistry or attraction for the audience.  Sam and his best friend Marshall (Reece Daniel Thompson) decide to get away to rekindle their bromance (strictly hetero).  They run into Zoe who is about to get married on the beach.  Foolishness ensues. The film's not sexy or funny so what's the point?

Just a thought in passing One review stated "Greatest movie ever made", another "one of the funniest movies ever" and, "I laughed so hard it hurt", and another more accurate comment "I found this video in the CHEAP section of the OLDER DVD's"...daa it was in that section since, while humorous, it must have been made for kids; Limited killing (that's ok), limited love interest (so so), SUPER kick boxing (looked animated), with a cute mangy dog that liked donuts. The story used every gag to hook the unwashed. The cranky "sweet old man" gets killed first thing, the likeable little kid who like to jump his "cool" bike, the fuzzy dog, the stereo typical drinking, loner bad ass cop and nasty boss, villains wanting to take over the world and kill all minorities etc. Watch the staged fights then return the video back to the rental store.

Decent movie, but not great This is a decent movie (definitely a Disney-fied attempt at great movie making), but not a great one. I didn't see the movie in when it was in theaters, and, in truth, I don't think I heard much about it during its run. I decided to watch the movie because of the low $1.99 price and the ratings. After watching it and reading some of the reviews, I wondered if many of the reviewers had watched another movie or have not seen a great sports or horse racing movie to compare it to. That said, if you want to see a great horse raising movie, and I do mean a great one, watch Seabiscut. It has all the elements of a great movie. It causes you to get emotionally involved with the characters, not just the lead actor or the horse, but with pretty much all of the characters. There is no comparison between the two except for the horses.  No with that behind me, here is my critique of the film. John Malkovich is a terrific actor. I've seen him in many films. Having said that, he should not have been in this one. At the very least, he should not have played a French Canadian. And if he did play a French Canadian, he should not have tried to speak French. Having seen him in several movies,it's clear that accents and languages are not his forte (se Rounders). He cannot do them convincingly. Instead, they become annoying and you want him to stop speaking.  Diane Lane was not very believable as this housewife suddenly cast unawares into the world of horse racing. As it turns out, there is good reason. It seems that the real owner was not new to horse racing or even owning winning horses. The movie tries to hit every emotional note, but fails. It almost seems as if there should be instruction telling you to cue the tears, or the laughter, or the nail biting. Let's take a look at this for a moment. Diane Lane plays a fictional character (I have to say fictional because she was nothing like the character she portrayed) who is willing to lose everything and possibly lose her family and make them "beggars" simply because she wants to and feels that it is right. She makes decisions for the entire family then gets upset when they don't agree with her. This kind of ego and hubris is fine if you are single and you're the only one who suffers,but it's kind of hard to cheer for a character like that. I had the same problem with Will Smith's character in The Pursuit of Happiness. Yes, things turned out fine in the end, but how many other people with children who may try the same thing won't have the same success. The Diane Lane character, in my opinion, shares the same self focussed determination, not caring who suffers in the process.  Another problem with the movie is the choice of music. I like gospel like a lot of people, but the movie wasn't very stirring and it needed some better music. Again, it just seems like the makers through in every gimmick they could thing of without thinking of continuity or how well the pieces would fit together. Oftentimes, Hollywood (or Disney in this case) is more concerned about quantity, and much less about quality. This is a case where the latter should have been given more attention. It would have made for a better movie.

very old fashioned As I said before , the only interest is to see the couple Kajol-Ajay Devgan on their early movies .

Piano This movie is not as good as the new Whitney Houston "Sparkle" movie.  The story is better told in the new Whitney one and also the music.

Held my interest for minutes at a time Some really nice animation and some segments that held my interest for minutes at a time, but mostly disjointed and tiresome. The talented cast improves the quality of the film, but not a lot.

Does Little with a Great Concept The concept behind this film is a fascinating one, but sadly, the film disappoints.  Gaping plot holes make this movie hard to take seriously. The passage of time is utterly unrealistic, with characters repeatedly running distances of several hundred yards in mere seconds. A nearly two-hour sprint is not enough to cause one of the characters to break a sweat.  Poor dialogue causes frequent chuckling throughout serious scenes. As an example, in one scene, after a few minutes of running together, one character stops, says "follow me to the other," then resumes running.  The acting is not strong, but it isn't laughable. Quite frankly, I expected worse out of Justin Timberlake, but he held up okay in this role. (Don't expect Oscars in the near future, however.)  The movie's redeeming points are its concept and how it encourages the viewer to consider how they would choose to behave with only a day to live. Overall, however, I had a hard time justifying even the dollar or two I spent to rent this one.

Slow Slow Slow and Slow If you want to watch a slow movie with a script that was written by someone with ADD, this the movie for you.  It has great visuals entwined with chaos.

the glass is half empty : (  but doesn't have to be : ) Thank you Michael Rapaport, for taking the time and energy to film this documetary about the very talented and soulful ATCQ. I've loved ATCQ since the early 90s. As a kid, their albums were the few that my mother would purchase for me, as they didn't have parental advisory warnings on them. I assumed that this documentary, directed by Michael Rapaport, would re-visit and re-open those days and this music that was so positive and so absolutely refreshing in contrast to ATCQ's less creative less optimistic 'hip hop' contemporaries Unfortunately, this documentary has a very negative overtone which overshadows the uplifting and healing music that ATCQ produced in the 90s. As a fan, I understand, through having read countless articles, that Phife and Q-Tip have had a rocky relationship: so what? This should not have been the bedrock, the foundation, of this film. Perhaps this was unintentional. A little more work, however, could have revealed a less abrasive plot line to follow. I felt the abrasiveness of this documentary from the beginning, as Phife spoke about his relationship to Q-Tip. This continued to the end of the film, when Q-Tip was not present at the film's debut. Michael Rapaport, this did not have to be your plot line. I wish you'd picked a more positive narrative to follow.  I think that I speak for a lot of ATCQ's more astute fans, when I say that we would have loved to have learned more about how the brilliant Ron Carter came to work on "The Low End Theory." Or how the Q-Tip, Large Professor and Pete Rock combined their powers for their various projects. Or what about the very "purrrrrrty" (says Mos Def in Black Star liner notes) Vinia Mojica? What about the Ummah? What about the Soulquarians? Where did Consequence come from? Did Ali Shaheed Muhammad contribute to album production? And Christ, how about we get into Neo Soul, a little bit. ?Love (in "Fantastic Volume 1"'s liner notes) says that "Midnight Marauders" was responsible for giving birth to the entire neo soul music movement, which continues, fantastically to this day. Michael Rapaport, I wish you'd have taught me; taught me and made me feel fantastic like ATCQ's albums always did.  There are great and beautiful parts to this documentary: animation, great interviews, great shots, video clips, etc. They are, however, unfortunately overshadowed by the plot line.  This music, and these three (sometimes y) talented men have touched a countless number of people through soul lifting intelligent music. They did not deserve to be cast in this light. I don't think that things should have been left out. I just feel that this film's through-line should have relfected, without blemish, their beautiful and positive music. It's not too late, Mr. Rapaport. You can always make a sequel : )

Great Movie for my son My son use to watch this movie almost everyday on a *internet streaming company* then they took this movie off the instant streaming que so i had to purchase the movie. Was not pleased when with in the first 10 minutes of the movie it started skipping. It skipps 3 time threw the whole movie but never skips more than 30 seconds of the movie and my 6 yr old son doesnt notice, so he is happy either way, but i was not happy to pay for a movie that skipped.

No Substance This documentary was a wasted opportunity.  It portends that a massive crime was perpetrated on the country in the crisis, but it fails to name the crime other than the tangential use of prostitutes and drugs by some bankers.  Not to minimize the crime of prostitution, but, that whole bit was so completely asinine, it shows the lack of understanding that the film makers had of the issues at stake in the crisis.  The fact is that no laws appear to have been broken in arriving at the crisis.  The banks generally acted within the regulatory frameworks and laws that were in force at the time.  It is true that the banks tried to, often successfully, modify the laws that governed their businesses, but this is not a crime, nor is it different than any other industry.  Moreover, while the compensation arrangements are not designed to result in long term thinking, it is true that a number of senior executives, such as Dick Fuld - Lehman's CEO, were hammered by the crash.  The fact of the matter is the banks did not do well in this crisis, which is why they needed to be bailed out.  Put differently, the banks did not profit.  If they had, they would not have needed the bail outs.  To me personally, the story of the crisis is incredibly complex and simple at the same time.  It boils down to greed.  Home buyers were extremely greedy and bought houses that they could not have reasonably expected that they could have afforded.  For example, the one homeowner in the film that describes being put into an adjustable rate mortgage that screwed them fails to describe that the loan amount was well north of $500,000.  Not many people on salaries less than $200,000 per year let alone less than $100,000 per year could reasonably expect to pay that type of mortgage regardless of whether or not it was an adjustable rate mortgage.  The fact of the matter is that they decided to buy something that they could not have expected to be able to repay.  This greed stretched up and down the social chain from the middle class home buyer, to the mortgage servicer, to the mortgage bundler, to the CDO purchaser.  Everyone was greedy and we all paid a collective price for that, but no one is willing to look in the mirror and take personal responsibility for it.  This film further perpetuates that mentality, by demonizing certain easy targets in the crisis, but it fails to take a more circumspect view of the crisis.  In point of fact, the SEC complaint against Goldman Sachs for the synthetic CDO that it sold (Timberwolf I believe) was complete crap.  A synthetic CDO is comprised of cash flows from Credit Default Swaps (CDS).  By definition, a synthetic CDO has to be made of bets against the mortgage securities underlying it, and if you look at the offering documents for this synthetic CDO it actually has a diagram showing that someone is betting against the underlying mortgage reference securities.  Nonetheless, the SEC and the news outlets, and the film, make it out as if this was some hidden fact.  The only reason that I did not give the film one star is that it did put the role of academics under a microscope, which was helpful.  It was potentially slanted, as the rest of the film clearly was, but it is an important footnote that should be understood.

Beware! Beware when buying this product!  I bought it specifically for the digital copy.  What the product description does not tell you is that the code used to redeem or download your digital copy expired in 2010!  So, if you just want the movie, fine, but if you want the digital copy, don't waste your money!

Confusing story, bad acting, hammy accents... C- at best Seriously boring flic... About 15 mins in, you cease to care about anything whatsoever... save your money and more importantly save your time and give this old clunker a wide berth...

Bad Ghoulies IV is the worst movie I've seen in a long time. I feel it is a wasted effort. Prom Night stars Jamie Lee Curtis.

Laudable intentions, but the result is a mess of a film. Three young men find an online dating site where an older woman is propositioning guys for sex. But the advert is a trap, and they find themselves prisoners of a fundamentalist Christian cult who are trying to purge the world of what they see as amorality brought about by sexual permissiveness and tolerance. When their activities draw the attention of law enforcement officials, the stage is set for a violent confrontation.  Kevin Smith is best-known for his string of comedic movies based on pop culture and lowbrow humour: Clerks, Mallrats, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and so on. He is also known for his interest in religion and theological debates, which, combined with humour, have formed the basis for arguably his most interesting movie to date, Dogma. Red State marks Smith's return to examining religion but this time around there are no laughs: the film is a straight-up drama.  After almost twenty years spent making comedies, it's good to see Smith trying out new ideas and breaking new ground for himself as a film-maker. It's such a shame then that Red State is a flat-out mess of a film. Many of the movie's weaknesses are also present in Smith's earlier films, but comedies tend to be much more forgiving of long run-on scenes and structural imperfections. Dramas, especially those with an undercurrent of psychological horror, are much less tolerant of such issues.  This problem can best be summed up by the movie's first half-hour. In the first fifteen minutes we are introduced to our three main characters, about whom we virtually learn nothing at all. Aside from their physical appearances, they are interchangeable and do nothing to attract our sympathy or interest. These scenes also establish the presence of a fundamentalist nutjob community in the town, that the town's sheriff has some personal problems and that these three guys are obsessed with sex. The following fifteen minutes form one, incredibly long and tedious scene in which the film's antagonist rants on against the evils plaguing America. Because of this John Goodman, the movie's biggest name, doesn't even show up until halfway through the picture.  The initial half of the film plays around with the ideas of psychological horror, such as the idea of the three prisoners being tortured or forced to watch the execution of other captives. But Smith doesn't have the patience for this and it isn't long before he ditches the idea in favour of a massive Waco-style shoot-out. Any attempt to engage seriously with the issues raised by the film are thrown out the window the second the shotguns and machine guns start being handed out and it isn't long before we are in the middle of what feels like the longest siege scene in American film history. Because of the failure to set up the action scenes in more depth, they also feel rather trite and manipulative, with Smith borrowing the visual imagery of religious cults and sieges such as Waco without actually engaging with them in any substantive way.  The movie does shine a few times: Goodman is great as normal and gets the best characterisation in the movie. Michael Parks is also excellent as the antagonist preacher leading the cult, even selling some of the worst-written scenes and dialogue in the movie. Kerry Bishe isn't given a lot to work with as the preacher's morally-divided daughter, but gives a solid performance as well. Pretty much everyone else in the film is forgettable. The script has potential, but is overwritten with dialogue scenes that go on for far too long after their point is made.  Smith does attempt to introduce some moral complexity to the film by shining a light on the dubious activities of the American government in dealing with terrorism, but again in such a ham-fisted way that it comes off as both crushingly obvious and an excuse for more shoot-outs and deaths. And the less said about the ludicrous ending, the better.  Red State (**) shows Kevin Smith trying something new in his career, which is laudable, and also has a few good performances and ideas in it. However, it is also not very well-written, its structure and pacing is shot to hell and the serious issues it attempts to raise come across as paper-thin excuses for scenes of violent carnage. The film teeters on the edge of exploiting real, serious and tragic news stories for cheap thrills, which I am certain was not the director's intention.

What's the opposite of a good movie? This one! This movie tries too hard to deliver a funny, quirky movie. In the end, it's neither. I found the characters to be boring and one-dimensional.  I hated the way Christina Ricci's character was always crying and complaining about everything. I hated that once Pecker became "famous", everyone from his original town started to hate him and his photography.  In short, I guess you could say I hated this movie just because of all the whining and crying by every single character in the movie.

Movie was Great, however... I loved the movie it was great, but I bought the three pack,Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy, because that is what I wanted. The fact that I can't use MY digital copy on all MY devices, really fracks me off. Just rude and really upsetting of the company to pull such an underhanded move.

Nothing like the book It is an alright movie but nothing like the book.  Read the book before you watch the movie.  The screenwriter did not read the book before he wrote the screenplay for the movie.

Acting is poor The idea that some secret development using the Bubonic Plague virus went out of control was fine.  Then the zombie theme is the same as every other zombie movie and that is don't get bit and shoot 'em in the head.  I do not mind watching a good zombie flick even if it is the same theme but when the acting is as wooden as it is in this movie, then I have a problem of keeping my attention in the movie.  I made it about half through the movie and then I had to give this one up as dead on arrival acting and it was never going to get any better for this movie.  Don't bother to see this thing.  It is too bad the zombies could not have gotten ahold of the director and script writer before they were able to get this movie to market.

True Kubrick fans should refuse to buy this blu-ray release Say that someone decided that the aspect ratio of the Mona Lisa should be tampered with.  Are you going to reward such behavior with money?  I think I'll stand firm on this one and wait for the studio to finally get it right.  The disrespect shown to Kubrick should not be rewarded, on principle.  Kubrick fans should protest this release.  I remember back when MGM did releases of Ingmar Bergman films and for no reason took Persona's 4:3 ratio and changed it to 1.66:1.  After people raised a fuss, they corrected that situation.  The same idea can and should apply here.  They need to go back and put this in 1.66:1 as Kubrick specifically intended, and put the black bars on the sides.  I don't see what's so hard about doing that.  1.78 aspect ratio is catering to philistines.  The picture doesn't need to fill up the whole TV screen.  If that principle applied, then 2001:ASO would have to be cropped to 1.78 to 1, which would be ridiculous.  But this *is* a matter of principle, so the black bars are just gonna have to go on the sides.  This is how the perfectionist, detail-obsessed Kubrick would have wanted it, yes?  (5 stars for the film, 1 star for the release, averages out to 3.  Would you shell out money for a 3-star product?)

Indecent Proposal, decent film If nothing else the film asks an interesting question.  Would you sell yourself for sex for 1 night for $1 million?  Here we have a successful young couple played by Woody Harrelson as an up-and-coming architect and a never more splendid Demi Moore who is a high end real estate agent.  When David (Harrelson) loses his job, their dream house is put in jeopardy, so they head for Vegas to win some money.  Uh huh.  There, Diana (Moore) is spotted by a suave billionaire (Robert Redford).  After meeting at the craps table, John Gage (Redford) invites them to a party in his penthouse suite.  John makes the offer and the fun begins.  Realizing how much the money would help them with their dream, they eventually agree.  One proviso.  They would never talk about it again.  Uh huh.  Wracked with guilt and jealousy David presses to the point he drives Diana away.  Where does she go?  Well Gage is no fat old billionaire.  He is good looking and wears impeccable clothes.  He is sophisticated, romantic...and well he knows how to treat a lady.  And he wants her.  The biggest problem with the movie isn't the premise, it's the casting of Woody Harrelson in the young hubby role.  For the life of me I can't figure out what Diana sees in the lout.  Harrelson just can't pull it off and his over the top rants don't help.  The film also kind of lumbers along with lots of sex talk but the action is all off screen.  We're not really sure what Diana and John did that night.  For all we know, they just talked.  Oh, and what happens to the $1 million?  Beyond stupid.  Still I give the movie a mild recommendation because of the provocative theme and beautiful people all in some beautiful sets.  The movie also has a damn fine soundtrack highlighted by Roy Orbison singing his rarely heard "A Love So Beautiful" over the closing credits.  And back to the original question.  Would you?

A mixture of war and romance At the onset of the invasion of South Korea by North Korea, an Army Colonel (Robert Mitchum) and a U.N. worker (Ann Blyth) clash. But when the Colonel is wounded in battle and sent to Japan to recuperate, he and she renew their relationship but this time romantically rather than hostile. Surprisingly, Mitchum and Blyth have a very nice on screen chemistry together. While the film itself is decent enough, it's really not more than a WWII propaganda war film but this time with the "Commies" substituting for the Nazis. The aerial sequences are quite good (which is no surprise since aerial enthusiast Howard Hughes was a co-producer) but where the film is really strong is in its almost throwaway portrait of the waiting wives and the emotional stress they go through. The film utilizes documentary footage interspersed with filmed footage without much effect. Directed by Tay Garnett (THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE). The score is by Victor Young and his love theme for the film became a hit song once words were added, When We Fall In Love became a pop standard. With Richard Egan, William Talman, Margaret Sheridan (THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD, Roy Roberts, Eduard Franz and Charles McGraw.  The Warner Archives MOD DVD is a nice B&W transfer in its appropriate 1.33 aspect ratio but the audio which lacks clarity could have been tweaked a little.

Delightful way to spend 1-1/2 hours in filmland.... The movie - "Where the Heart Is" is an absolute sleeper! This is a delightful story that intertwines family dynamics, relationships, aging, and painful real life experiences into one fun and entertaining movie.  You will find many of today's top talent in this film when they were younger.  Dabney Coleman, who dominated films for so long, does a fabulous job as the father to 3 spoiled kids.  The rest of the known cast is absolutely delightful and Christopher Plummer is exceptional as the magician.  The story will hit home for individuals of all ages.  It hits on many of the important aspects of life, problems, and change.  There are also some incredible artistic moments where the story combines real live characters and integrate them with outstanding artistic (drawing and painting) aspects.  Quite something to see. Unfortunately, this movie didn't make it under the radar of the "hollywood elite", so it has slipped into a bit of undeserved abscurity.  If you want some wholesome, fun entertainment...pop some popcorn, get a box of theater candy and slip this film into the DVD player, sit back and enjoy this entertaining and surprisingly good film.

Great movie, not so great on the deal American Graffitti is and likely always will be one of the greatest Americana movies ever made.  I had already owned a copy for a long time but was attracted to the offer of a digital copy I could take along on my laptop or even better on a memory stick.  I naively expected the digital copy to be on a DVD packaged with the original. Not so, it involved downloading the movie on line, something I was unable to accomplish successfully depite spending about 3 hours trying.  I think it successfully downloaded, but I cannot get my computer to play it.  It simply gives a a dialogue box telling me it is copywrited material.  I now own two copies of the same great movie, niether of which will play on the computer.

Good entertainment on a rainy night -- since you can't go out anyway! For the most part, "Sneakers" is an entertaining movie. If you really want to enjoy, you must first get yourself in the mindset of a 15 year old boy. While the acting is fine for most of the movie, there are some scenes that should have been re-shot for less-than-perfect performances (I've seen MUCH better performances by Poitier). Other than sub-par acting, some of the action scenes are VERY unbelieveable (but 15 year old boys will buy them). Redford, as always, does a great job in this movie, and it's good to look back and see River Phoenix in one of his way-too-short-career performances. If you haven't seen her in earlier days, Mary McDonnell provides some great "feel good" for the eyes!

Solid Overall, this movie really does deserve 3 very solid stars.....it's pretty good. Yes, I was thinking it'd have the "magic" that "The Hangover" had (it didn't)....but that was unfair of me to expect that.  Overall, is watching this more fun that having a Brazilian bikini wax?  Yeah, probably it is.

Mediocre for Woody Allen "Manhattan" is good, and a must-have for Woody Allen film collectors, of course.  It's not one of Allen's best, but enjoyable.  I especially liked the many shots of New York City, many at the start of the film.  Gershwin's music was highlighted; very nice.  I rate the photography and muscial score a definite five star.  The storyline, however, was tedious--and immature, I thought, for Allen.  He obviously froths over young girls embarking on womanhood, not only in his film but in his personal life as well; I don't think this quirk needed to be brought to the screen.  Acting performances were so-so, and intellectual "streams of consciousness," typical in most Allen films, lacking for the most part.  Well, to each his own.

A Fine Music-Industry Movie If you're looking for a movie about breaking into the music industry, this is a fine one with a country flavor. I like these kinds of movies and I like these specific actors. This is nothing to write home about, but is, well, fine.

Interesting With Some Unexpected Twists If you enjoy sci-fi flicks you will probably find this one interesting enough to watch it all the way through. Although I am a dedicated sci-fi fan I've never really had much interest in time travel stories but I'll quickly acknowledge that this is simply a matter of personal preference.  As time travel stories go this is not a bad one and has some plot twists and turns which are rather clever; in fact it's pretty good for a 1989 movie which had only limited special effects capability.  Kris Kristofferson and Cheryl Ladd both do commendable jobs in their roles and the movie holds together reasonably well straight through to the end. The pace of the movie is good and there are not any serious slow spots; this is due in large part to the origin of the script being a novella by John Varley called "Air Raid."  This would probably be a worthwhile addition to any sci-fi enthusiast's library.

Camera angles... I enjoyed the plot of the movie for the most part, but way it was filmed drove me nuts. It's like the way Cloverfield was filmed. Overall it was worth the watch, and but if I would have seen it in theaters I would of been disappointed.

Priests 5 -- Vamps 0 This is a "Priests-vs.-vampires" movie from 2011.  I saw it in the theater in 3D.  Although the 3D added to the visual effects of weapons flying through the air and things exploding, I think you can enjoy the movie without it.  It is about 1 ½ hours long and is adequately entertaining.  We begin in the Sola Mira Hive (a huge bee-hive looking home for vampires in the rocks).  The Priests are on a search-and-destroy mission when one of their own is taken away, screaming.  Fast-forward many years and we learn The Priests were a group of elite trained vampire killers, working for the Church.  Their skills were unsurpassed and the vamps didn't have a chance against The Priests.  (Priests 5, Vamps 0)  Now, in a futuristic post-war society (as another reviewer put it - a "Mad Max" type landscape), the remaining vamps have long ago been herded away and locked into a big determent camp.  Since the Church no longer needed The Priests after The Great War with the vamps, the Priests became outcasts of society.  Meanwhile, we hear "The church protects you" being broadcast to the people in the streets as they go along with their daily lives.  In Sector 12, a family sits down to dinner as they hear a thundering noise coming toward them in the night.  It seems the vamps have been pro-creating like crazy and are breaking out into society again.  They do their vamp thing and grab the young daughter, Lucy.  This is really where the story begins.  The family man is The Priest's brother.  The local sheriff is another brother.  The head vamp is not a bad looking Dirty Harry type guy (for a vamp that is) and he has grabbed Lucy because he wants The Priest to come after him.  So, think of this as a vamp coming-out party.  An interesting sub-power-play is with The Church. Comprised of a board of about 5 Monsignors, the lead of which is Christoper Plummer, is reluctant to reinstate The Priest because The Church has told all the locals they are safe and does not want to admit the people are NOT safe.  They forbid The Priest to go after Lucy stating that "To go against the church is to go against God!"  The Priest is hoping to get his relative back, before the vamps "turn her".  Paul Bettany does a good job in his role as The Priest.  The movie is a little bloody.  Most of the vamps are weird looking.  Lots of CGI and some of that fly-through-the-air fighting.  The movie definitely makes way for a part II.  It's a decent movie, but not my bag. I don't feel like I wasted my money, but not a movie I would watch a second time.  But that's just me.

The best of the Jason movies: ***1/2 In a much-needed change of pace, Jason is brought back to life once again and he finds his way onto a cruise ship full of high school graduates heading to Manhattan. This is the closest that any of the Jason films ever came to being a good movie. Hell, this one is actually entertaining as there's not really too many dull moments in this one. Kane Hodder's performance here as Jason is the best of his four appearances as the iconic serial killer and Jensen Daggett does pretty good as the leading character here who's haunted by a past encounter with Jason as a child. Although this may very well be the tamest of all the Friday films, This one is easily the most thrilling and exciting chapter of the entire series and there hasn't been a better Jason film before or after this one. This one is also very underrated as many Jason fans over the years have completely trashed this movie [mostly for the fact that Jason actually leaves Crystal Lake for once and for the fact that most of this movie takes place on the cruise ship instead of Manhattan] but i don't know how this movie managed to be one of the lowest grossing Friday's in the series seeing as this Friday was the most enjoyable of the bunch. Definitely give this one a chance if you've never seen this before! Seeing that this and Part 7 grossed a lot less money than its predecessors, Paramount would sell the rights to Jason to New Line Cinema [Although they retain the rights to the first eight films] making this the final film in the series that would be released under Paramount [Until the 2009 Friday The 13th remake which was jointly released by New Line and Paramount]. Followed by Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday.

was a little disappointing. Unfortunately, even with the CGI of today, it is not as well done as the Thing with Kurt Russel. The story was changed around, with the wolf being chased from a helicopter at the ending. It just lost a lot of the intense suspense. It was an okay movie and was okay to watch, it is just not as good.

Lots of conflicts Liam and company are in a plane crash and must contend with the snowy wilderness, a vicious pack of wolves, very little to eat, injuries, and more conflicts as they try to get out of the mess and back to civilization.  Lots of intensity along the way.

2 1/2 stars for a comedy of unlikely events This movie contains a collection of characters that seem impossible in real life even if I actually do think they exist.  I do wonder how many find each other.  While this may be a passable comedy, it wasn't very entertaining.  I found myself cringing when the Paul Dano character holds up a bra as if seeing if it fit. His door is open at his college office.  Now you just know he's going to be found out.  That whole cross-dressing story line seemed terribly unnecessary.  The real focus should have been on Henry played nicely by Kevin Kline.  He was interesting.  Katie Holmes, making a rare appearance as an actress since she became a mommy, plays her small role with low key elegance.  The movie, while a modest time waster, is well made from a production standpoint.  Just not my cup of tea.

Get regular DVD! The only reason to get this over the standard DVD is for the deleted scenes. The quality is simply not Blu-Ray quality, perhaps because of when the original film was made. But the extras don't justify the Blu-Ray price and YES we have both.

What a damn shame Disney did a pretty excellent job with the Audio quality but when it come's to the picture you'll find that it has really good colors and you can see the difference between a SD and a HD except it's not in either wide screen or full screen ?!!  Thanks for ruining one of your best masterpieces .

Disappointingly average I was a bit sorry that this film didn't pick up on the major arcs of the series, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Neither great nor terrible, but if (as seems likely) this is the last that we hear from Mulder & Scully it is a disappointment. They deserved a better finale than this. Thank you, Mr. Duchovny & Ms. Anderson, for an enormously entertaining show.

It Will Make You Think, and Probably Make You Cry I generally like movies based on true stories, and this one is well told. But the story is so incredibly depressing that I simply cannot give it more than three stars. If anyone can see this film and continue to support the death penalty, I don't want to know about it.  Sister Helen Prejean (Susan Sarondon) got a letter from a prisoner on death row, Matthew Porcelet (Sean Penn). She answered, and he asked her to come visit him. His family never came to visit him. So she did. He asked her to try to get him a lawyer, so she did.  Understand, this was not an innocence project. He and another man raped and murdered a young woman and murdered her boyfriend, leaving their bodies in the woods to be found a week later. But the older man got a life sentence, while Matthew got a death sentence. It was honestly speculated that the older man had more money, or his family did, and could hire a better lawyer. As Matthew himself pointed out, there are no rich men on death row.  So Sister Helen embarks on a project to try to get him an appeal, a pardon from the governor, something. She goes to visit his family and those of both the victims. All I have to say on the matter is make sure you have a full box of tissues before you start this one.  One reason I got depressed with this movie is that Helen is, after all, a nun. After Matthew asks her to formally be assigned as his spiritual advisor, the chaplain (a stuffed shirt) advises her that it is her responsibility to try to get him to confess his sins and seek forgiveness. So some of the most emotional scenes are about religion.  I used to be a supporter of the death penalty myself, but I have changed my mind. I used to feel the death penalty was actually less cruel than keeping a person locked up in prison literally all his life. Now my idea is we should give the worst criminals life without possibility of parole and an option for suicide. If in fact death is less cruel, then let them choose that for themselves. Give them a capsule and let them decide when and whether to take it.

A WANNA BE THAT JUST DOESN"T QUITE HANG WITH THE BIG DOGS Really not too much to say about this movie, except it, for me, was pretty much a waste of time. Didn't hate it--didn't like it. Would not recommend it.

Fair to Middle Story Ok movie... had great potential but limped home... left out keys pieces like why his Dad was always so angry... safe for family but no very inspiring.

Sweet if innocuous comedy British comedies from the 1950s never were my cuppa tea but this little film is rather sweet in an innocuous sort of way despite its disturbingly unethical ending. A young couple (Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna of BORN FREE) inherit a broken down dump of a movie house from a deceased relative. Their idea is to appear to be renovating the theatre so that a rival film house will buy them out but circumstances change that force them to actually make a go of it. Margaret Rutherford as the cashier, Peter Sellers, playing much much older than he is, as the projectionist and Bernard Miles as the usher co-star. Somehow I was hoping that the film, directed by Basil Dearden (KHARTOUM), would convey a passion or at least a fondness for movies but its attachment to cinema is quite perfunctory.  The Anchor Bay DVD is a decent anamorphic wide screen (1.66) transfer.

HAPPY BISSEXTILE DAY Louis Ives (Paul Dano) has a fascination with women's undergarments, and on occasion likes to wear them. This issue causes him to leave his teaching job and go to New York where he gets a job with an environmental magazine where he develops an interest for vegan Katie Holmes. Meanwhile, Louis takes up residence with the extremely quirky Henry Harrison (Kevin Kline) who enlists Louis to be an "extra man" i.e. a non-sexual cultured escort for older women of wealth. The job doesn't pay, but you do get to meet rich people and go to expensive places.  The part of being the escort I found entertaining, more so then the cross dress fetish. I expected Louis to have gotten "introduced" awkwardly to Katie Holmes on one of his assignments, but such was not the case. The writers tried to be too cute and clever by introducing too many different themes...i.e. let's toss it at the wall and see what stick. If you like indie films, worth a view.  No f-bombs, sex, or nudity

My son loved it Its Barney.  What else can I say? My son (17 mos at the time) loved it.  He loves Barney period.  This is one of the older Barney productions.  If you watch Barney as frequently as we do...you know what I'm talking about.

under sea in some locales... ...briefly, for now, i give this a 2.5 rating for entertaining action cuz its boring/plain except for the cinematography, letterbox format, the few on surface explosions & moray eel.

entertaining, but flawed The plot is engaging and one develops an interest in the outcome and the characters.  A captivating historic glimpse of the time period is an attractive feature.  The events are based upon a true story.  However, the power and abuse of the psychiatric profession are grossly exaggerated.  Shock treatments in reality were not used as punishment.  The patient had to have an empty stomach.  Thus, ECT was scheduled for early morning before breakfast to prevent choking. Placing patients in isolation was done only to prevent them from harming themselves or others.  Restraining a person required extra manpower and there is little motivation to do needless work.  Still, this fictional portrayal offers an informative warning about the potential for the abuse of power in a Therapeutic Police State. It also shows the powerful role clergy can play when they speak out against injustice.  The script lacks comic relief and the soundtrack is mediocre.  Angelina Jolie's heavy makeup at times makes her look more like a cartoon than a human.  The redeeming features of this show make it worth watching.

Interesting I like Noah's story the best.  The Creation story was on the slow side and garden wasn't as vibrant as I would envision Eden to be....because Adam and Eve were naked, the actors were mostly shown in dark shadows.  Abraham looked real phoney in his hair and make up...as did King Nimrod.  Very 60's and funny that Noah spoke in old English found in the KJV bible.  An interesting dipiction of Genesis but not the greatest.

Cannon Fodder In an alternate universe of H.G. Wells, it began on Christmas Eve 1940 with searchlights sweeping the sky and rumbles of remote explosions.  Fortunately, this initial raid was turned back.  The populace scurries in calm-panic to make ready for the dreaded inevitable war.  Nights later, the bombs begin to fall; in return, the soldiers fire their feeble cannons . . . .  Year after year the war grinds down the pillars of world civilization, until all that remains are the relics of man's machines and a few scattered communities fighting each other over scare resources.  By 1970, a pocket of civilization in the Mediterranean began spreading its wings over the world, conquering all with their airplanes and the gas of peace.  With the consolidation of this new order, its leader directs the construction of vast underground cities, leaving the ruins above to stand as monuments to the old order.  Technical advances were made: radio-television, wrist radios, networks of transportation, life-extension, and the space gun.  Not everyone was happy with this progress.  By 2036, the rumblings of the populace, turned to rebellion after a man makes a speech railing about the sacrifices of the young being made for science.  He demands a halt to shooting two young people around the moon.  After the speech, he leads the rebels in a mass assault on the space gun to stop the autocratic government from firing its powerful cannon . . . .  Overall:  Many scenes are over the top; in the opening, almost every shot has Christmas theme with a war theme in the background.  The film is preachy throughout.  The rebellion's motive doesn't seem credible.  Special Features: the best is the Sci-Fi Toy Commercials.  Picture (DVD): 2.5 to 3, fuzzy.  Colorization: 3, satisfactory, but obviously colorized.

Angus - broken noses The Film was produced in 1995. But nonetheless it's still up-to-date. Popular actors you might know from other films like American Pie, are Chris Owen and Arianne Richards, who plays in Jurassic Park. The Film is about Angus a fat kid who loves Melissa a popular kid. As you might expect 'fat'and 'famous'don't fit well together. That's the reason why you can look forward to a lot of fights and broken noses. Eventhough there are aggressive scenes, it  is also a romantic and consistently funny film. Intrested in this mixtue of content ? You will enjoy watching this movie.

Meh ok im a huge fan of shaun of the dead and all the movies with nick frost and simon pegg. and i still love this movie but honestly the special edition steel case is not really special at all. the only thing special about it is the case there are no extra special features and no cool bluray menu. the menu on this is really dumb the one on the dvd is wayyy cooler. but if you find a cheap used copy and you dont have the bluray then its worth it otherwise just get the regular bluray version.

An interesting look at hecklers In some ways it must serve as a cathartic expression for Jamie Kennedy, a comedian that has been the butt of many jokes and critiques.  The film centers on Kennedy confronting many of his critics - who generally remain anonymous and crave that power that comes with anonymity.  The film serves to remind us to be more gentle towards society in general.  All in all it is an interesting look at hecklers from the perspectives of comics, and a reminder that those people that we have put upon pedestals are, in fact, human.  My one critique is the sound editing - it would have been better if the volume was universal throughout all of the interviews/comments/etc.

If they're not having fun, how can we? The photography and scenery are vivid and attractive. The orchestra is fine, the singers are talented and on pitch. But no one is having any fun. That is the unfortunate look and feel of this production. Elena Mosuc, especially, looks put out having to suffer through curtain call. This production illustrates how many elements must come together for art to succeed.

princess mononoke The movie was as good as always but the video quality was really weird. like when I have rented the movie previously the quality was WAY better, Leading me to believe that this was a poorly made digital copy.

Criterion Screws Up Again! There is no excuse for the exclusion of the English version from this DVD. After all, the lead actors (Karina, Constantine) did their own dubbing, and it was terrific. In the 1970s, the English version sporadically appeared on network TV in New York (always on Saturday afternoon, for some strange reason). It was always enjoyable, and I looked forward to finding it here in pristine quality, but no dice. Fortunately, I own a VHS copy.  Criterion keeps messing up stupendously on their supposedly "definitive" DVD releases. For example, The Last Emperor was a 4-DISK release that OMITTED THE DIRECTOR'S CUT, which included over 50 minutes of previously unseen and totally exquisite footage, although it included the (useless) television version. WTF? I would ignore this as an anomaly, but the same was true of Godfather II (Criterion actually deleted footage, if one can believe that)!  Usually, I'm no fan of dubbed movies, but when the lead actors dub their own unique voices, it's unforgivable to exclude the English version, especially when one considers Criterion's prices. If they're trying to put themselves out of business, they're on the right track.

Reviews??? How can there already be 32 reviews on a product that won't be released for another two months? You can review the band. You can review the show. But you can't review the DVD if it isn't out yet.

informative but disappointing the dvd came in record time, I was impressed and grateful to Amazon.  I was not impressed with the video.  In dealing with cancer, I think everyone is hoping that "this" will be the miracle you have been looking for.  Those damn illusive miracles are fewer and farther between than a fancy video whining about Burzynski's patents on his treatments and meds.  I was impressed with Amazon, but the product was less than impressive.  And, like Daddy always said, "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."

Liars Marathon = Suspense? The second season is good entertainment for the money. I just found at some point in the series it gets bogged down with all of the principle characters becoming chronic liars to the other characters to the point of losing any empathy for any of the characters. The show becomes a circular quagmire of deceptive lying which is overused by the producers in order to produce the primary suspense in the series.

I kinda feel cheated...... I've been a fan since January 31, 1999.. Bought every DVD including the random DVD's they release so Seth MacFarlane could make some extra cash (like he needs it). But now I'm starting to get a little upset with these half season DVD releases.. I really feel scammed. I almost feel like not buying anymore. Between netflix, hulu, and amazon prime I'm starting to realize that people like Seth MacFarlane cant hold my arm behind my back in order to have their shows on demand.. Let alone the fact that family guy has kinda gone downhill the past 3 years... Maybe a handful (2-3) are memorable. Lets take a stand and maybe they will go back to trying to make us happy instead of filling their pockets :)

Star Wars: Episode IV I received this dvd very quickly after I ordered it. However, the dvd case was not in good condition. the snaps holding the dvds in the case were broken, which could have caused serious scratching to the dvds. Excellent delivery speed, bad care for dvds.

Zoey 101 why is the first season only 10 bucks and the other seasons are 30. I already have the first season. I love zoey 101 im starting watching them alot on teennick now. I said i wanna see how much they are on amazon.

Good Concept, bad execution Granted, this is an old movie but even based on the technology at the time it could have been much better in the conceptual elements and visuals.  A pair of cheap sunglasses did not do it for me.  They should have found some other element there.

GET A CLU If you missed the first movie, don't worry, Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) tells us the plot in the beginning as he describes things to his son, a skeptic of his world. Dad goes missing. The company is taken over by the "evil" partner who actually wants to sell software than give it away, which on the surface is a better business model, but in this movie it is a terrible evil. Years later Sam Flynn, the son (Garrett Hedlund) discovers his father's secret lab and accidentally crosses over into Tron land. The reason why we watched the first movie was because of the graphics. No one really cared as much about the plot as we did the cycle races.  During said cycle races, Sam is rescued by a girl Quorra (Olivia Wilde) in a Batmobile and is taken to see his real father. Quorra has the ability to wear her hair slanted to either the right of left (shades of Tina Majorino in Napoleon Dynamite!)  Like the first movie, the graphics are great (amazing what a little strip lighting will do) and the acting was bland as was the plot. The plot is at times metaphoric. The user, or program creator (humans) are gods. Sam is the son of god and is also a god. The programs want to revolt against the gods and take over their world. Meanwhile Jeff Bridges has discovered ummm, bio digital isos that will change the world. The plot is overwhelmed by the graphics.  The movie is more about Clu than Tron, but "Clu" movies seem to bomb.  The film is programed for the younger crowd.

Informative movie but DVD production is terrible! This video covers a lot of information about an EMP event. It's great for getting people to think about what they would do in a massive power outage that could last longer than a day or two.  The two reasons I didn't give it 5 star was the for the production of the DVD.  The production value of the film itself was great, but there is no menu on this DVD. It just starts into the movie and that's it. For $20+ I expected A LOT MORE!!!  This DVD had NO CLOSE-CAPTIONS!! We have a hard-of hearing person in our household and not to even have close captions through the TV CC was difficult. This is great information, but why National Geo didn't put them in is beyond me. I think for the price of the DVD, they could have done this. I will not be putting out good money on anymore of their DVDs because of this issue.

With Many Losses, Probably the Best They Could Do. Giving you a brief rundown of where I stand, I didn't much like 1. (2 stars) I thought 2 was A LOT BETTER. (4.5 stars) And I thought 3 was better still. (5 stars)  I would have been happy to 3 end the saga. But I suppose a mediocre 4th film is better than none at all.  Depp and Mr. Gibbs find themselves on the run again, and are captured and forced into the service of King George II. Rush seems to have found his way into a safer job in the service of King George II. (For the record, King George II was the last king to lead troops into battle, and was known for his bravery.)  To make a long story short, Depp escapes, but Gibbs is caught and Rush forces Gibbs into his service to find the fountain of youth. And later, Depp is forced into the service of Black Beard to find the fountain of youth as well.  Ian McShane as Black Beard had a very difficult (if not impossible) hand dealt to him. This film is dealing with the loss of Orlando Bloom, Kiera Knightley, Pintel, Rhagetti, James Norrington, Tia Dalma, and Davy Jones. McShane had the difficult task of  filling the shoes of Davy Jones. But in all honesty, he really did the best he could with the bad hand he was dealt. It is interesting that he played Judas Iscariot in "Jesus of Nazareth" (1977). This gives a real chilling irony when he talks to the young and untainted religious man: "Do you want to know when I think of God? When I see suffering, pain, and anguish." Also when he comments on how some souls are doomed and don't have the luxury of choosing their fate. This is an irony only someone who had played Judas Iscariot could have given. As someone who remembers him as Judas Iscariot (and thus having been close to Jesus and exposed to his teachings), one moment I found especially powerful in a dark way was when he told the young and untainted religious man: "Well, here's the chance to prove the worth and powers of your prayers. Pray that he may be delivered from...evil?"  You'll probably notice that the film drags more than 2 or 3. It does appear at times they were trying to make Rush evil again. But it really doesn't work to do that. Once a villain makes it to a 3d gray character, you really can't push him back to a 2d villain.  Cruz is an interesting character in that she appears to be a villain, but we are allowed sympathy for her in that she was an almost nun who Depp corrupted. And she does love her father. Funny that she plays a former almost nun, and the actor who is her father had played Judas Iscariot. I should probably add that he played Judas in the most tragic and sympathetic way possible.  The final fight lacks the fun energy of 2 and 3. But it's decent all things considered. There are some Shakespeare techniques as well. Like Laertes, Rush kills with a poisoned sword. (from "Hamlet")  Cruz's final pleas to Depp are not unlike Joan of Arc's final pleas in (1 "Henry VI"). And Black Beard has a Macbeth moment when he knows he will probably lose, but bravely fights.  Overall, I enjoyed it better than 1. But not as much as 2 or 3.  But it was nice to see Depp, Gibbs, and Rush again. And I do applaud Ian McShane for doing the best he could with a difficult hand. He provided an irony only someone who had played Judas Iscariot could have.  If you're a major POC fan, you will of course want to add this to your collection. If you're only a so so fan, I suggest you borrow it before you buy.

False Advertising Was so excited when I received this video to watch all the oldies with my 2 year old son.  Especially the year without a Santa Clause, with the heat miser and snow miser characters on the front of the box.  Loved the first disk and when we put in the disk for a year without a Santa Clause it was not the original version but a human edition of the movie.  I hated it.  I tried to watch it but was so frustrated that they put the old characters from the movie on the front but really did not have that movie in the video package sent.  So I ended up buying the classic version a week later seperate from the classics I bought.  very dissapointing.

Great but very short Great WordWorld that my kids love as usual but only 33 minutes long.  I'm sure the DVD duration was listed somewhere but I just expected it to be longer like the others I've purchased.

Too much death I don't like that my 6 year old son had to ask a number of times, "Is that car dead?" throughout this movie.  I really bothered him that cars kept dying.  I agree with the reviewers that state this movie is more for the older 8 and up crowd, it was just too much for my little guy to comprehend.

Worth it for Rob Pattinson I won't lie, I ordered this video, because I love to look at Rob Pattinson.  If you feel similarly, you won't be disappointed.  He's beautiful, and you get to see lots of him.  As you might be able to tell from the title "Haunted" - this story follows a sinister and spooky line which is really not bad....except it doesn't go anywhere.  The story meanders along with the general stuff, sleepless nights, spiders, a sinister doctor, the guardian aunt (who is way too old for the Pattinson character), etc.  If you're into those endings that let you come to your own conclusions about what they mean, then you may love it, cause that's exactly what it does.  I'm sorry, I really didn't get it.  However, as I said, if you want something to watch RPatz in...in period costume, looking great, using his normal accent, (sans Bella), then it's worth the time and money.  I'll watch it on rainy afternoons just to swoon over Rob.  I also decided the guy's not a bad actor either, he holds his own mighty well, in my opinion.  I haven't read the story, so I don't know if this follows the original idea or not.  Won't give away the ending, will let you form you own opinion.  Robert Pattinson is one good looking guy and that made this DVD worth it for me.

Movie was OK The movie was OK.  I expected better.  It wasn't all I expected it to be.  It wasn't all that funny. I would definitely do business again with the seller.  Product came fast without encountering any issues. Movie rating: 3/5

A Failed Movie, With Some Interesting Parts. Last night's bargain-rack movie was "Timeline." I'd say it largely failed as a movie, but had a few interesting parts for which it could be commended. The acting was marginal, at best. The photography wasn't bad, however. The story was, well, unbelievable. Let's break it into two parts. First involved the sci-fi mumbo-jumbo of time travel from the present back 600 years via someone's idea of a hokey time-travel machine. Just relax and throw away all your scientific background. Of course, they were having problems with the machine and one problem was they lost the good professor on the last trip back and now had to go on a rescue mission. Yaawwwnnnn!  Well, they managed to get back 600 years only on the day of a major battle in the French-English 100-year war. Bad timing. Now we went into the second part of the movie and that was at a castle in Northern France which was about to engage in battle. Here, the costuming and set was actually rather good. The action was brisk and violent. There were a lot of brutal killings, but such killing was with clubs, swords and arrows. Remember, this took place 600 years ago. The main battle scene was actually quite interesting, particularly with the use of long-range ballistics (catapults), the high-tech weapon of the day. The hand to hand fighting was brutal and rather well done. In all this part, the time-travel crew faced a deadline in having to get back, if you believe in that drivel about time travel, and the reliability of their machine was in question because of a previous misuse. Yaawwwnnnn! Let's face it. The movie was a failure with a few well-done parts.  Gary Peterson

so/so was alittle disappointed,given how much i love this chrecter in the shrek movies.maybe some charecters just should stay as "supporting"role.

Tea: I drank it but didnt love it. I wouldn't go for seconds. Overall, there's a lot of action in this movie, some great visual effects, but seriously lacking in the story department (development) and characterization. The story follows a comic book character (which I haven't read) Thor as he has some disagreements with his father (the King) on leadership styles, gets exiled to Earth, meets a girl, finds out his brother is a bad dude, and ends up saving Earth and his world from certain doom.  Well, that's kind of the story, generally. First, the issues I had with this. The main character, Thor, wasn't all that interesting. He didn't hook me, interest me, intrigue me with who he was, what he was about and what he wanted. Main characters and villains are critical in the story. I think the villain was slightly better developed than Thor. The world he came from, was just plain hokey, the way they portrayed it. It came across ver unrealisitc (all the armor was too perfectly shiny, the capes were unnecessary). It didn't feel real to me.  Fine if you want to take me to another world. Ok. But you have to make that world "real" to the audience. If we don't "buy in" to the world, it's going to be hard to sell the story and characters. The subplot love story was really pointless. I'm not convinced it added anything to the story, or the characters. It felt more like a high school crush to me. I still don't get what the bad brother was trying to do. It didn't made sense to me. Not very well developed either (not sure if that's bad writing on the comic book series, or bad writing on the script or both). The good things, I did like some of the visuals, and some of the directing was nice. Obviously they spent some money with VFX. It would have been great if they had put equally the amount of effort in the story and character development. If you're looking for an action movie, don't care much about story, this might be the perfect movie to watch. I was left wanting more, than it delievered. I would not buy this for my collection.

Will make Darwinists uncomfortable Since I haven't read the books, I can only give my impression of the movie, and here it is: Darwinists should squirm in their seats while their kids are watching this. I don't know if this was the author's intent, but it was pretty hard to miss.  The story is about some Hitler-type owls wanting to rule over all the other owls due to their supposed species superiority. They call themselves the "Pure Ones", hinting again at their claim to genetic right. Although the name itself smacks of religiosity, and had me wondering if it was supposed to be a hit on the Inquisition, etc., the script made it clear that the underlying idea was Darwinism's ugly stepchild - the idea that the superior race should rule by right. Although there has been a concerted attempt (and a flurry of popular books) to hide this unintended legacy, it is the logical implication that Hitler understood. In fact, Hitler justified his course using the language of Darwinism. (Although Darwin himself abhorred slavery, his theory was in fact used to further the mentality behind slavery - for example, the horror of aborigines hunted down in Australia to serve as museum displays of "lower races." Darwinism was also the inspiration for Planned Parenthood - most people are still unaware that Margaret Sanger started it to reduce the numbers of black, Asian, poor, uneducated, and other "undesirable" populations.)  Although rarely discussed, this implication of Darwinism still stands mutely in the corner ... hoping to be ignored in public discourse, but waiting one day to be reawakened.  (Richard Dawkins himself admitted he would not want to live in a Darwinistic society. Why? "Because it would be fascism.")  There was also a message about faith and belief in what you have not yet seen, and the importance of intangibles such as love and courage. Since these are understood by Darwinists as mere chemical illusions conserved for survival value (just as some evolutionists have argued that gossip, rape, adultery and murder also have evolutionary "value"), I would take this as another indication that this movie is on the other side of Darwinism.  Regarding the prophet echidna, it's hard to say without having read the book. At first he looks like a scam artist inserted for comedic effect or even to warn against religious hucksters. However, later he seems like the real thing.  Artistically, the movie cannot be much faulted. Almost every frame looks like a beautiful painting. However, in many scenes this quality of detail makes it hard to see what's happening or what's important. Since every feather and background element is rendered in detail, sometimes it's hard to see the owl for the feathers. More care should have been taken to balance the visuals. The battle action is fast and furious and - perhaps intentionally - unintelligible.  For its warning against the unstated dangers of Darwinism, it's worth a watch, although its ending seemed too deus ex machina with a convenient forest fire handy.

Not Great, but ok! The movie isn't as good as the two previous installments but part three's usually aren't in general. I was saddened by the death of the little girls and Michael Biehn's character but hey it's life! Ripley should be the lone survivor. I liked the storyline and the climatic ending!

Dead zone The war in Iraq relied on several faulty assumptions and evidence, either gathered incorrectly or simply manufactured. Then there were the beginning days of the war, where we were almost on the verge of complete victory but a few strategic mistakes such as the dismantling of the entire Iraqi army brought chaotic results. Green Zone chronicles these events through the eyes of Matt Damon, who tries to navigate his way in the chaotic early days of the war. His persistence at getting to the bottom of the secrets is futile and eventually frustrating. I thought the movie was just ok, but Damon is amazing and certainly shows us the reason for his continued presence in top films. The movie highlights some of the nerve racking missions the brave soldiers go on and the selfless service for our country, which is remarkable. The movie not so much...three stars. 6/18/2011

A Pretty Bland Comeback!!! I love 'The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh' but Winnie's return was kinda weak for me. This movie had the spirit, but not the soul of the original. It had a few cute scenes and I loved Zooey Deschanel's version of Winnie's theme. Zooey has such a beautiful singing voice! I didn't like Christopher Robin's voice, he sounded too childish. Throughout the movie, Pooh and his pals help find a tail for Eeyore, search for honey, and rescue Christopher from a fake monster believed to be called the 'Backson' because they couldn't read his note in saying that he'd be back soon. If you love the original, you might enjoy WINNIE THE POOH!!!

3 1/2 stars for an imperfect romantic drama This story opens when an old man (roughly 102 based on my calculations) is standing in the rain between some 18-wheelers and the entrance to a circus.  He is played by the great Hal Holbrook.  The circus manager (under-appreciated Paul Schneider) brings him into his office.  He begins to reflect back on his life in circus in 1931.  As his narration begins, the voice changes and Jacob is now in his early 20's and taking his final exams at Cornell University.  Young Jacob (must be amusing on the Twilight set) is played by Robert Pattinson.  Jacob's Polish parents are killed in an auto accident.  Left penniless, he drops out just short of getting his degree in veterinary medicine.  Jacob catches a train passing by and it turns out it is a circus train headed to its next town.  He is hired on by the owner and ringmaster, August (Christoph Waltz) to help take care of the animals including the horses ridden by his wife Marlena (Reese Witherspoon).  Waltz manages to pull off the internal conflict facing August.  He is doing his best to keep the circus afloat during the depression and sometimes seems to have the best of intention.  At the same time August can be cruel, especially when drinking or provoked.  He mistreats his wife, although he loves her.  He mistreats his animals (including the star elephant who is bringing in the audience) even though they are his livelihood. He mistreats his employees, even to the extent of tossing them off the train rather than pay them.  You can figure out what comes next.  Marlena and Jacob start making goo-goo eyes at each other and start dancing after a few glasses of booze and of course get caught by August.  Witherspoon and Pattinson look great together especially in formal attire.  Unfortunately, something is missing in their romance.  There is no passion, no chemistry.  Ultimately, disgruntled employees allow the wild animals to escape during a show which dooms the circus's survival, but the lovers begin a long life together.  Overall, the story is well told, but does swerve into melodrama a bit too often.  The film is beautifully shot and the Blu ray transfer is perfect.  Great colors combined with some nice night time scenes really sparkle.  The DTS-HD Master Audio is very good, distributing the audio around the room during the action sequences.

Shows its weaknesses on video. When I saw Prometheus in the theater, I thought it messed with the entire mythos of Alien, and pretty much undermined most of that amazing film -- but that Ridley Scott had crafted a science fiction experience unlike any other in years. It was quite mesmerizing to watch, and anything that has to do with discovering hyper-advanced Alien technology is sure to have me hypnotized  -- and there's a lot of that here.  But take away the set pieces and this thing is a cobbled-together mess of a film. Not only is it totally new-agey, but it comes across as a juvenile recreation of 2001; the visual cues and themes are all over the place. And we all know that Scott loves Kubrick (just check out The Duellists). The plot winds up pulling some pretty clever tricks out of its hat with its total re-imagining of the Alien universe, and I think it should be given credit for some brilliant ideas particularly regarding the development of the species.  But for me where the wheels come off is with the characters. Aside from the outstanding performance and subtext to Michael Fassbender's character (David), no one else in the film is anything better than standard Hollywood fare. Noomi Rapace is okay, but Charlize Theron is positively godawful and Guy Pearce is poorly misused.  The rest of the crew is totally throw-away, and as many other have pointed out, only seem to exist to serve the plot contrivances.  So on the positive end of the spectrum you have some of the greatest, jaw-dropping (and thrilling) effects work in years taking place on a planet light years from earth, involving Alien technology, mutated viruses and androids -- while on the other end are weak characters, a gimmicky plot, and an underdeveloped metaphysical theme. Not the first time for Scott with that. The first film said everything that needed to be said, and only had to hint at the larger and more frightening aspects of the material. The biblical allegories are all over the place here -- just look at what he's saying about the development of the planet itself.

good & bad I love Vincent Price in Last Man on Earth. It's no wonder it would inspire not one but two remakes. I have not seen Omega Man yet (2nd remake) but this original version far surpasses Will Smith's version for me. Or course it's hard to dismiss any of Vincent Price's work as bad, but the direction of this movie is excellent; the fact that you only hear him think and not speak is clever and wise.  This movie is a must see.  As for Panic in Year Zero, I could take it or leave it.  It's an interesting plot, without being a gory horror movie. But the cheesy 60's swing music really throws off any malaise the film is trying to project.  The fear, worry and isolation the family experiences isn't nearly as much as it should be.  I'd rather see this split with Last Man on Earth, and Omega Man, as an interesting comparison of the two, which have been reviewed as both worth viewing and remembering.

Cazalets -- Ok I had read a number of Online reviews so I checked out THE CAZALETS at my local library.  So glad I did not waste money on purchasing it.  Not the greatest but not the worst.  I was though intrigued how all the adults in the film chained smoked and yet one of the few non-smoker females was the one to die from Cancer.  Huh? -- Go Figure.

excellent cast, average script This was a good flim that never seemed to get the publicity it deserved. Its a crime film about events in Cleveland during the 1970s. They had a story and a cast on par with "goodfellas", but not a script at that level. The criminal-pov narration device that goodfellas used would also probably have improved the film (but admittedly would have also made it look derivative). Ray Stevenson puts in an excellent performance. Especially in the early union related scenes.  The biggest flaw in the script and the film is that it is too sentimental in its treatment of Danny Greene. These sorts of films are better when they can show both sides of this sort of character. They needed to make the point better that his behavior was often foolish and self-destructive. Val Kilmer's narration doesn't work well because its done alone from a outsider point of view within the story. Greene is the center of the script. Far too often friends and family come across as cyphers. And the hit-man who eventually kills Greene is too much of a terminator type robot character. Local mob guys go to New York. New York boss summons the terminator. Teminator ruthlessly stalks and kills.  In a year full of bad films, this was an interesting if not perfect film.

oldboy this movie in my opinion was crazy, but even crazier and so unexpected to me was the ending!!!! it had me shocked!!! if u can handle the dark tones this movie has, see it...or just see it 4 the ending.

Lake mungo Not a bad movie . Different type of horror film . Has you wondering what will happen til the end. Give it a try like I did and I don't think you'll be disappointed .

Twisted movie Is this really a bad movie? No, not really. It is definitely a movie with a twisted premise and the it might have gone ever wierder if the Doctors last name had benn Mengele and he was the son of the Nazi medical experimenter Josef Mengele. Even though the movie stretches ones imagination to the point of breaking I must admit I did find a few suspenseful moments scattered in here and there, and the actors and actresses did a reasonably good job -  considering the roles they had - and played them fairly well. I certainly hope they were paid well for the positions they had to assume throughtout most of this...movie? Nonetheless it is a troubling movie that could only have been made by a warped mind. I really wish I could figure out why I watched this to the end; maybe it was just a case of perverse curiosity on my part but I beleive it might have been more a case of "OK, I watched this much of it I might as well see how it ends." Wish I hadn't, should have gone to bed and spent the time more productively.

Review for serious fans.... Ok.. to try to give this a fair review... we need to go back and look at the work of one Louise Ciccione born this way if you will in Bay City Michigan in 1958  if you have never heard of her you seriously need to look her up-in short all of this so music, dance moves, costume and hair trends, concert production, sex, controversial videos ,books and shock value -hell you name it- this has been covered originally at least 30 YEARS ago. So the question is weather or not the above artist being Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta is a legit artist/performer , tribute act, or plain copy cat riding off of other peoples success, genius and originality. If i really need to give evidence of what I am talking about I will name a few instances; for example: In Book form: Sex, In Live Performance on Award Show: MTV 1984 - Like a Virgin, Controversial Videos (just 2 named here) Justify My Love, Like a Prayer. Concert(s) (name em but I will just list 2 of the real thin here- no paws raised, so super fans just a Blond with an ambition to have a real FU attitude) The Blond Ambition Tour and The Girlie Show. Now the Media Appearances,Media shows (yep and some topless appearances at that) and everything else should be well known by now-forget about the media attention, rumors, scandals, controversies ect ect- they are legend now- been there and shes done it all-...Now If you have seen any of Madonna Louise Ciccones Concerts and then you the Monster Ball (if you have then you will know exactly what I am talking about/ for those who dont know-go ask some one about Madonna or better yet Google her name) How can you not come up with anything but an artist that is deliberately copying (and no this is no tribute act here..trying to image herself into a artist who has done all of this 30 years ago and still going strong. There is a difference of incorporating  musical influences and straight out being a tribute band or copying an artist.. (Prime Examples of this would be Jeff Lynne/ELO being influenced by the Beatles- Alan Parsons and Pink Floyd- The artist manages to capture their OWN Sound while their influences in their music showed through but copying or imitating  not a chance they found their own persona's- and there in lies the problem here.) Now to this performance itself (putting this in to cliff notes version) Production- been there and done that much better, Performance: talking way to much- I know its important to reach out to fans-but she over killed this and it did not seemed sincere-even so way over kill. Letting the Fans Know that they were in MSG, 5th sold out more than the F Bombs were said in Scarface... the Dancing - been there done that- The talking and lack of original production (see Sticky N Sweet and Confessions on a Dance Floor tours among others) makes The Monsters Ball lackluster performance from a woman who-if really with her beautiful voice, musical talent ( yep she can play the Keys and Bass) could really be something special instead of a clone of an Icon. There is no problem paying homage to your mentors and hero just be original while doing it and Lady Gaga if she put the effort in to it could just might pull it off.. But not this tour or DVD.

Great casting but problematic adaptation "Gaudy Night" is by far the richest and best of Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane books. Unfortunately, this television adaptation is the weakest of the Wimsey/Vane series with Edward Petherbridge and Harriet Walters.  Unlike "Strong Poison" and "Have His Carcase," which were very faithful to the books, this adaptation of "Gaudy Night" hacks the book to pieces and makes some significant changes in the plot line, not for the better.  One wonders why the producers devoted four episodes to "Have His Carcase" but only three to the much superior "Gaudy Night."  Surely with a fourth episode they could have included Lord Peter's nephew, Lord St. George, and some key scenes like the chess set episode and Wimsey and Harriet punting on the Charwell.  Also, whereas in the novel the city of Oxford is almost another character, in this version it is almost completely absent.  Still, there is much to enjoy here.  The casting of the Dons of Shrewsbury College is excellent; these character actresses really capture the eccentricities of the Senior Common Room members.  Lavinia Bertram is a standout as Annie Wilson, very powerful in her big scene at the end.  And of course, Walters and Petherbridge are outstanding as usual.  What there is of Sayers' magnificent book is well done.  One just wishes we had been given more.

STOP, DROP, AND ROLL. The movie opens with a woman looking like she is preparing to go out, but instead hangs herself. After the opening credits, which are done in red so we know it will be a good movie, 2 women decide to go on a holiday. Their car breaks down. This is the first car I have seen overheat because they were trying to start it. Phones have dead batteries (they work later) and they can't read a map. One of them decides to go back to the service station for help while the other remains with the car...because they don't want anybody to steal it? European title is "Engine Trouble." But since "Junior" did so well in 1994, they opted for it.  A mechanic fixes the car with duct tape. Rebecca (Cecilia Bergqvist) drives back to the station but there is no Sandra (Marlene Simons). The sounds from within the gas station suggest that there is the proverbial man-creature locked up. Not much to figure out from here. All you have to do is to connect the creature to the suicide woman, have him get loose, give him a signature murder weapon or default chainsaw,  add a gratuitous shower scene and you got yourself a hit slasher film. But NOOOOOO! Apparently in Belgium they have a different idea on how to make a Slasher film, there is no shower scene! Otherwise pretty much what to expect from a slasher.  F-bomb, good sound track, no sex, no nudity, chained up women.

I love this film, but the full frame transfer is a shame A group of young actors put on an updated, radical version of the passion play, and find new meanings in their lives, spiritual and otherwise along the way.  At the same time, they battling the hypocrisy of the Church that asked them to 'freshen up' the text, but are unprepared for a questioning, complex work of art.  Sometimes the symbolic references to the Bible are too literal and heavy handed. And some of the satire of Montreal's shallow bourgeois art lovers and sell-out advertisers is way too on the nose. But there's something powerful in the film's moments of ambiguity and in the fragile humanity of it's characters.  And the actual passion play itself - full of doubt and using archaeological history to question more literal, fundamentalist interpretations of the Bible is both intellectually fascinating and moving.  Flawed enough that it possibly deserves a lower rating, but it haunts me.  This US realease in full-frame, not wide screen, which drives me crazy. However, the Arrow import release is listed as all-region, and has a nice, widescreen transfer.

Quite a tree "The Tree of Life", which I recently caught on DVD, drops an epic sequence depicting no less than the creation of the universe and the rise and fall of the dinosaurs, smack dab into the middle of a serious drama covering the joys and tragedies of an American family from the 1950's to the present. I just wanted to warn you: yes, you're getting an Art film here, with a capital A.  Many of the individual sequences of the film are involving, well acted, and- in the case of the "creation of the universe and all life on earth" sequence- quite spectacular. But some may find the lack of a traditional story, and the way the disparate parts of the movie don't demonstrate obvious connections with one another, a little frustrating.  Myself, I admired more than enjoyed "The Tree of Life", and have no real desire to watch it again anytime soon. But I'm glad that movies like this can still get made, even if I found this particular movie to be a little dull at times. Anyway, maybe next year I'll check out the film again, after its images and juxtapositions have been percolating in my brain for a while, and see if I have any new impressions.  And, yeah, I already have some ideas about how the creation of the universe stuff ties into the scenes of Brad Pitt yelling at his kids in his backyard, but in the end they're just my ideas. You'll probably have your own. And if that's okay with you, you'll probably like the movie at least as much as I did. But if you prefer all your movies to clearly communicate what they're about, do yourself a favor and steer clear of this one.  "The Tree of Life" is available in all manner of formats for your home viewing pleasure.  I have to say that the standard DVD I watched looked and sounded terrific.

Appearances Can Be Deceiving? It's an interesting story that's well-told with well-placed flashbacks and cleverly left out details that are revealed later. But I struggle to find a message to the story.  It's essentially a chase to see who ends up being the good guy out of the two.  Is the new guy going to take the lessons taught by the seasoned guy and take his job as well as his girl? Or is the seasoned guy too good to be true?  The reveals at the end are believable but fall onto rather uni-dimensional character archetypes.  And the good guy only ends up being the good guy because he's just not as ridiculously bad as the other guy.

expensive looking, but.... Did you enjoy "The Sopranos" and "The Wire"? Well this is about half as good. I received the complete set of Wire and couldn't stop watching it. Boardwalk- I kept flipping over to watch something else. In other words - it was faintly tedious. Buscemi is just ok, but I got irritated in the number of scenes opening with him drinking coffee or whisky or champagne or whatever or lighting a cigarette. Too many shots in darkened rooms, too few strong actors amd a slooooow moving plot add up to a lesser HBO product. Not as dreary as Deadwood, but really a C rating only

Off the mark Wild Target is an off-beat dark comedy about a hit-man who changes his ways when he encounters Rose, a beautiful woman who was intended to be his next victim. After failed attempts to kill her, he can't seem to shake her, and soon finds himself connected to her. With the mission failed, Victor finds himself with Rose and a young slacker (Rubert Grint), as they are now the intended victims.  I don't mind understated comedy and love dry humor, but this film just didn't hit the mark (pardon the pun). Some comedies work at an understated level, but the story here just seems so stilted and dead in Wild Target.  If there is any comedy ,it barely has a pulse, as many of the jokes are mistimed. Most of the acting seems uninspired and the script really lacks anything creative.  I differed from most in that I detested the film during the first half, but it kind of grew on me a little when we find more about the characters as they are hiding out in the second half. What I didn't like was that the resolution felt a little forced, and the main character's transformations a little contrived.  There were some enjoyable moments, though. I did think it was interesting to see Rubert Grint in a different kind of role, and there are moments when Victor actually is a bit of a sympathetic character. Over all, though, Wild Target is a bit average.

not to happy The movie was good, but while I was watching it there was an interruption and the movie froze.  I had to fast forward pass that part.

Can be boring. Comment: Even though this was supposed to be a 3D "event", there is no Blu-ray 3D available to order at this time (02/2011). Being an adult I only buy these "cartoons" to experience the 3D. I found this movie to be... around the middle, boring. That is not to say it is a bad movie... but rather it is technically quite good. So are all the rest that have come before. So I must say that without the "bang" of the 3D effect... it is just another cartoon using the same old tried and true formula. Ho-hum.

magnificent but....the sound engineering wrecks it! This is (or rather, could be) the best Figaro I have seen on video.  Haitink's control and tempi are superb, the principals could not be bettered (Hagley a revelation, sad that she left the stage so soon) but alas, alas, how could they have passed the terrible imbalance in sound engineering?  As one reviewer remarked, no way could Haitink have drowned the singers as the recorded sound does, at all too many moments- particularly during the ensembles. An utter disgrace for the production company, and a betrayal of all the brilliant musicians involved.

ROAN VS. IMAGE!!!!! Can't choose on this one.  Both releases have splicy dialogue and missing snippets of footage here and there.  These issues are in different scenes and if they would just do a little restoration they could easily make one good print out of two.  I expect better from Image and Roan, but am often disappointed.

Legend Blu-ray a Disappointing Mixed Bag, Not a Definitive Release Since volumes have been written about this movie elsewhere, I will not rehash the plot or provide any sort of analysis of the movie here. This review is focused on the quality of the Legend Blu-ray release.  As a huge Plan 9 fan, and aficionado of badfilm and exploitation in general, I was both amused and pleasantly surprised to see this hit the Blu-ray format courtesy of Legend Films, and my curiosity was piqued enough to pick it up just to see what Plan 9 would look like in hi-def. However, upon viewing the B&W version on this disc, and making a side-by-side comparison with the 2000 Image/Wade Williams DVD, I was disappointed that Legend's edition is unfortunately a case of one step forward and two back.  First, the good news: the detail and sharpness are noticeably improved in the 1080p Blu-ray transfer, bringing out the textures of skin, hair, clothing, backgrounds, etc.; the framing of the movie reveals a little more information around the sides; and virtually all of the speckling present in the Image release has been cleaned up (or a much cleaner print was found).  Now for the bad news: the contrast is so flat as to make the movie nearly unwatchable without dramatically pumping up the contrast and then adjusting (lowering) the brightness of your TV/monitor. In my direct comparison of the two editions, the tonal values (much deeper blacks, brighter highlights, and richer grayscale) of the Image disc blew the Legend Blu-ray out of the water. Legend really dropped the ball in this department. I had to switch the A/V settings of my 60" Sharp LCD to my custom "low-fi" mode, which I created specifically to pump up the contrast of flat-looking discs such as this one, in order to approximate the superior picture of the Image disc. (Media Blasters' Destroy All Monsters Blu-ray exhibits the same problem; see my review under that title.) Another small disappointment (a very minor point, I know) is that the Legend release is missing the Distributors Corporation of America screen credit that opens the Williams/Image DVD before cutting to Criswell's intro.  So, the bottom line is that there is still room for a truly definitive, Blu-ray-worthy transfer of this movie. Sadly, this isn't it. I will probably keep the disc, mainly for the (color) home movies (2:06) of Ed and Kathy celebrating his birthday and Ed in drag next to their Christmas tree, and the generic B&W TV commercials (3:45) for used cars, boots, jewelry, and men's clothes, the latter starring the director himself. I'm not that big on the Rifftrax/MST3K concept, colorization, or trivia tracks, but they might be worth a watch/listen, and a few laughs, for those who are. I did skip through the colorized version out of curiosity, and it actually doesn't look too bad (kind of like an old tinted postcard), especially compared to those 1980s colorized abominations. But since Legend bastardized the colorized version by actually digitally altering a few shots within the film, I can't imagine why I'd ever watch it in its entirety.  Let's hope Williams and Image pick up the gauntlet and put out a superior Blu-ray edition some day (yeah, right). This one just made me think about what might have been. What a disappointment!

Good As An Intro, Not-So-Good Academically I'd dearly have loved to give this the highest rating, but I cannot, due to the fact that Michael Wood commits one of the big "No-No's" of historians: he is pushing an agenda. It took me all the way until the final (6th) episode to realize what that agenda was: namely, the history is candy-coated and designed to leave an impression that everything is just peachy, the future is wonderful and optimistic, and everyone is happy. As an example of this, it is how almost all National Geographic articles are written: they're almost more like tourist brochures than actual history or geographic studies.  This clearly comes out in the final episode, when Wood discusses the British relationship with India, and the Indian struggle for independence. The final few minutes of the series left me feeling like I was having a large chunk of super-sweet candy shoved down my throat. It's not that what was said was necessarily incorrect, but it was NOT BALANCED. Along with the good, the bad was glossed over or used only to show how wonderful it is that people managed to overcome certain obstacles.  However, on the other hand, this series clearly presents many important aspects of Indian history for the novice, and for that I do have to give it some credit. I am certain that if someone who knows very little about Indian history were to watch this series earnestly, he or she would come away with a much deeper understanding of the history of that region, as well as a better appreciation of the contributions to world culture that India has made.  So, it's a good starting point for someone interested in the history of South Asia. But by no means should it be the stopping point in that pursuit.

The Incomparable W.C. Fields! W.C. Fields was an American original performer in many fields including juggling, comedy, acting, and writing. This second volume of his film collection is all black and white and treasures to be behold.  If love him, you'll love this collection of his five latter films with "Never Give A Sucker An Even Break" as his last film appearance and a Canadian documentary honoring his contributions to the entertainment industry. Although they could have gotten another documentary since the two hosts display his comic genius, timing, and his ability to manipulate the audience. The documentary does help us understand what made him different from other comics of his time like Sir Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, or Harold Lloyd. Fields never played sympathetic characters--he was playing con men and crooks but he did it genius and a smile. You liked him anyway.  In some of these films, he played the father figure since he wasn't young at the time. I loved him in "You're Telling Me!" with Adrienne Ames and a young Buster Crabbe playing his future son-in-law. "The Old Fashioned Way" was fine about a man running a touring show with his daughter. "Poppy" was about his daughter falling in love with a suitable gentleman in town.  Of course, the last "Never Give A Sucker An Even Break!" is his last hurrah but worth it to watch the car chase that begins innocently enough around Los Angeles over 7 decades ago. W.C. Fields made millions of Depression era Americans and the world laugh at himself and others. In the documentary, W.C. Fields's favorite co-star and collaborator was the incredible Mae West and a scene from "My Little Chickadee" is worth watching.  Unfortunately, I don't understand why they needed 5 DVDs for five films and a documentary. They could have used only 3 DVDs with both sides for all of them. Second complaint is that the film, "The Man On the Flying Trapeze," didn't work on my DVD player. That's why I deducted a star for it's 5 DVDs which I felt was an evironmental waste and the one DVD that didn't work at all.

Was Quit Good NOT THE Best But Good I enjoyed it. it was cute funny. the cast were cute. Only thing i didn't like was it seemed to short. Also it was a tad confusing. Other then that its a good type of movie when you have nuthin else to watch but you will still enjoying watching it. sooo yes was good but not fantastic =]

Didn't watch it. This was purchased as a gift for a 4 year old relative. I haven't seen it as of yet, but since he'd specifically asked for it, I'm sure he's happy.

Literally This DVD was purchased for my daughters as another source for science studies.  The presenter was very dry, and used the word "literally" in nearly every sentence. I do not recommend this video for current students; patient adults may benefit however.

Check It Out Not a bad, harder to find title.  It was more than watchable and worth adding to your collection as a horror collector.  Decent gore, action and acting.  Better than most of it's type, although it's strikingly similar to the newer House of the Devil, which is better.

Just a review The movie was really good, but the connection speed was awfull to watch it with.That is all I have to say.

It's ok but... Great movie, good story.  Bullock delivers a believable performance.  Well worth owning.  Now, on to the produect review. This came with a Digital Copy disc, code expired. That's really annoying. No, it wasn't sold as Blu-Ray+Digital copy, but clearly it was one.  Digital copies should have an expiration date (in my opinion) but if they're going to expire, release the movie without the copy please.

Too much hype I thought this was going to be better. It didn't have a good storyline, things were predictable, and wasn't really that funny.

Classic! This wasn't as funny as I had heard it would be.  But if you're looking for a movie that you don't have to pay much attention to, in order to figure out what is happening, this movie is it.  Woody Harrelson, as usual, delivers a solid performance.

Existential Waking Dream I liked this movie very much, but with reservation.  Ghost Dog is a man in a lonely place and without hope of anything but the good death that he sought. He lives on a tenement rooftop where he raises passenger pidgeons as a hobby and as a means of discreet communication, necessary because of his profession, murderer.  Having been rescued from death and living on borrowed time, he serves his rescuer as an assassin following a philosophical code from a book written by a Samurai. Some passages from that book, short pearls of wisdom, appear on screen and are read by Dog periodically throughout the movie.  Dog's master is part of an Italian mafia family. An extremely dysfunctional family. This is the part that was mediocre. The men of this "family" were portrayed as complete imbeciles. Their world was punctuated by low grade television cartoons in the way Dog's was by Samurai philosophy. They were so goofy and idiotic that they became comic relief. The film would have been so much better had the Italians been taken seriously.  Therein lies the primary problem that I had with the movie. It was certainly racist in intent. All of the white people in the movie were so stupid and destructive that it was better for them to be dead.  There is one scene that I don't want to spoil by describing completely. It was very strange, apparently completely disconnected from the plot, and the type of scene that one usually finds in a special feature. Dog cruises in his slick ride, dressed in a stylish suit, along a dirt road in the woods and comes upon two "white" guys in camo who had just killed a big black bear. Get it? Well, if you are a little slow on the uptake you need only recall that Dog's friend thinks of Dog as a bear. This scene must be very important for the very reason that it seems disconnected.  Ghost Dog is not a nice guy. He a murderer for hire and a thief, but we are lead to believe, as he does, that somehow it is alright because he lives according some ancient code in a little book. A gentle, intellectual, remorseless mass-murderer. Whitey probably made him that way. Too bad he didn't find a different little book.  What I liked a lot about this movie was the pacing, the relationships he had with the ice-cream guy, the little girl and the dog, the bird's-eye viewpoints, the score and the mystical nature of the Ghost part of Dog's persona.  Ghost could hide in broad daylight, move amongst people unnoticed unless they were soul-mates, even steal the license plate off a car with a clear line of site to the owners of the car sitting nearby at a picnic table, indicating a sort of divine (or diabolical) providence at work.  The pacing was slow and steady. Nobody moved too fast. Everyone seemed resigned to the fickle finger of fate. Dog himself always walked and moved as if he had bricks strapped to his shoes, even when practicing his martial arts. There were long, but not too long, lingering close-ups of facial expressions, even of a dog, and they were great.  The score was well suited to the images to achieve the appropriate mood.  Dog's relationship with the ice cream man was great. Dog speaks English, the ice cream man speaks French, neither understands what the other is saying, but they have conversations and shared experiences.  There's a man building a large boat on the roof of a tenement building, perhaps a symbol of the frustrated longing to be somewhere else, anywhere else, to have a different life, that, time and circumstances conspire against and an attempt to keep that dream alive, at least in spirit.  Definitely worth watching once, maybe twice. A unique and captivating dream that you are drawn into. When it ends, it is like waking up.

Its OK but nothing memorable I just have to say that I was impressed with the way the good reviews were bringing this movie up, however, when I watched it I was hardly laughing until my cheeks hurt and it was TOO MUCH STORY to be any real fun.  This has been compared to The Hangover.  Sorry but I would rather watch the Hangover rather than this any day.

Fair, although not great, adaptation of the book I usually refrain from comparing movies and/or television shows to the books that they are based on. I make an exception when it becomes clear that the producers and/or director are deviating from the story not for artistic purposes or for purposes of condensing a work to fit into about 2 hours (give or take). This is one such exception. Almost every deviation from the book is a cheap attempt to dumb down the story and to pander to more contemporary audiences (the book is set in the mid-90s...which may as well be the dark ages, as far as these folks are concerned).  This is the story of a young man who, after a series of foibles, ends up spending time with an adolescent boy and they both end up changing each others lives in unexpected ways.  Marcus (the boy) is meant to be depicted as utterly clueless when it comes to contemporary pop culture and trends. In the book, Hornby uses Marcus's lack of awareness of Nirvana and Kurt Cobain as a key point to establish this fact. In the movie, the makers decided to update Kurt Cobain with some random hip-hip artist to change with the times. Ordinarily, this wouldn't be a big issue but for the fact that Cobain killed himself, sparked a general feeling of malaise and despair among his largely teenage audience, and then set into motion the events that build up to the conclusion of the story. When you take away Cobain, you need to rewrite the penultimate act of the story...and the writers of this film did...just not in a way that felt organic.  The end result (of this and other changes) is that the story suffers, the depiction of Marcus suffers, and a great book turns into an enjoyable, but average, film.  Bottom line: Decent and fun movie, Hugh Grant is well cast, but a pale imitation of the original story.

No digital copy but Blu-ray looks good Disappointed that the activation code for the digital copies no longer included or available. Still a good price for the trilogy. Great surround sound demo disc.

Demonic Toys 2.....Playtime is over! Having been a Full Moon fan for years(Starting with Subspecies and Puppetmaster), I thought I'd never see any more films on any of their properties. In the last ten years, I've seen less and less of their films in video stores. You can imagine how happy I was to see this movie in my local Redbox. After giving it a watch, I ended up hunting it down and purchasing it.  In Demonic Toys 2, Dr. Lorca from the movie: HIDEOUS! is back and continuing to collect strange oddities. Along with the help of Caitlin and her boyfriend, David, they collect the mysterious pieces of the last DEMONIC TOYS. They continue their search at a mysterious castle in Italy where there have been rumors of a mysterious, ancient puppet alive and walking around, which is under the control of a mysterious demon. That demon takes on the human form of a little woman named Lilith. The puppet brings the Demonic Toys back to life and, as we've seen in previous Demonic Toys movies, chaos and murder begin again.  I'll admit, this movie may not pack quite a punch as the previous movies has but it is still a fun movie. It's a worthwhile sequel to the series. In the end, that's all that really matters anyway. Full Moon's pictures has always been fun. I hadn't seen one movie of theirs that ever took itself too seriously. They are meant to be that way. It is headed up by B-movie veteran Charles Band, you know. Seeing this movie gives me hope that I'll see another Subspecies movie from Director Ted Nicholau. With this movie, we know that Full Moon isn't dead...that the company is still alive and kickin'. Give this movie a look, you just might like it. I did.

Decent flick Movie had adequate action scenes and a catchy overall plot.  I wish that there was less of the "under dog" trend. Overall I liked it.

Need to update product information The movie is good--but the DVD I received was a double sided DVD (half the movie is one one side, have to flip it to watch the other half of the movie).  If I had known this I would not have purchased it.  I'm not a fan of that format.  I don't see anything in the product information about this format.

was not 3d format it was a waste of money I own the blu ray movie I do love this movie and so does my grandchildren.But it was a big disapointment.I was so excited to see it in 3d it was not 3d.I do not recomend this in 3d.

Familiar War Drama With Solid Performances One of Nicholas Ray's least personal efforts, "Flying Leathernecks" (1951) benefits from the director's humanistic touches. John Wayne and Robert Ryan display solid chemistry in this routine WWII adventure, with good support from Jay C. Flippen as the resourceful supply sergeant. Unfortunately, William E. Snyder's impressive Technicolor cinematography makes the aerial stock footage stick out like a sore thumb. "Flying Leathernecks" does not belong in the pantheon of great war movies, yet the Howard Hughes production is worth seeing at least once.

not so good for Liam This could have been a very good movie seeing how it had Liam Neeson and a decent cast. But, alas the ending was a total letdown. Not near the caliber of what I expected from his past movies. Yes, I know he didnt write it but, just putting it out there that there is that disappointment coming at the end.

Inconsistent Movies, Bad DVD Case I still have fondness for the Kettle clan from my childhood, but some of the later movies did not hold up well for me.  But my major objection to this set is the bad dvd case, as well as the abhorred double-sided discs which I have read are typically of inferior quality, and more vulnerable to handling.  DVD's are not supposed to be flexed due to potential damage to the micro-metal film inside.  The inflexible spindle holds on to the discs so tightly that I would have had to flex the discs way too much just to pry them off.  I actually had to break the spindle apart in order to release the discs, then replace the case with a decent replacement.

DVD why don't you have this on DVD?? I was just wondering why this is not on Amazon on DVD.... I buy 90% of my dvds from Amazon....

disappointing I was disappoited this did not have the colorized version also. The Ultimate edtion I had purchased earlier was much better. This edtion is probably satisfying for B&W pureist.

Yawn While the acting is quite good, the story line has already been done before, rewind to The Bourne Identity.  Man gets in a car accident and wakes up can't remember who he really is and guess what?  Turns out he's an assasin and now he doesn't want to be one and hooks up with a pretty girl to help him get out of the spy ring.  Sound familiar?

"I have come from emptiness. I will return from emptiness" In my opinion, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002XTXG1Q">Ong Bak 2: The Beginning</a> and its trilogy-ending sequel here should have been made as a single movie. For "OB2," this would've done away with its frustrating cliffhanger ending, and it would have ensured that "Ong Bak 3" here would not have been as ultimately boring as it is. I can only theorize that writer/director/star Tony Jaa took the criticisms of the last one's lack of story to heart and decided to have this one focus primarily on furthering the plot and expanding both major and minor characters - at the expense of its two predecessors' excellent fight scenes. It's not a bad movie but definitely a step down from every other Jaa vehicle in recent memory.  The story: maimed by the vindictive Lord Ratchaseina (Sarunyu Wongkrachang, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00118T61O">13: Game of Death</a>), Tien the rebel hero (Jaa) is rescued prior to his execution but now must find a way to regain his strength to stop the ascension of the demonic Crow Ghost (Dan Chupong, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000K2V7DW">Born to Fight</a>).  The movie introduces several new thematic features into the storyline, the most prominent of which are dark magic and lessons in Buddhism; both clash, but while the latter aspect manages to assimilate itself well enough into the plot, the former goes over as well as a chili pepper mixed in with cookie batter. It's just too jarring, and it's never explained why it suddenly shows up in a story that's mostly been played straight until now. Sadly, when Crow Ghost isn't inexplicably giving people headaches or making tattoos glide across his body, Tony's rather boring rehabilitative scenes take point. Training scenes have been a highlight in any martial arts movie since <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0783114885">Jean-Claude Van Damme's own visit to Thailand</a>, but it just isn't fun watching Tony learn to dance (yes, he dances) and reacquire his flexibility, regardless of how hard the orchestral score tries to make you take it seriously, because it just takes too damn long. Less is more, Tony!  As far as the fighting goes, I'm even more disappointed. Rest assured, "Ong Bak 3" remains one of the better action movies of 2011, but it's still officially the first Jaa solo outing in which he doesn't outdo himself. There are six fight scenes, at least one of which is very good but of which at least two are mediocre, and sadly, these latter ones include the climatic showdown between Tony and Dan Chupong. You'd think a fight like this would be a given showstopper, but in the end it's a surprisingly short, contained, and one-sided encounter wherein Tony's waving arms somehow trounce Dan's chops, knee strikes, and capoeira kicks (in press releases, co-director Panna Rittikrai spoke of a fighting style developed for the movie that could be practiced "bonelessly"; if that's what Tony's pseudo tai chi is supposed to be, ol' Panna needs to be slapped). If, as I suggested earlier, these scenes had been mixed in with all the kick-butt fights of the earlier film, they'd be easier to forgive, but on their own and by comparison, they lack ingenuity.  One good thing the film acquires from its predecessor is nice art direction, and the hermit character of Petchtai Wongkamlao (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0019F02U8">The Bodyguard series</a>) is also expanded a bit and gets a couple funny lines. However, this is where the river runs dry, and I can only conclude that the filmmakers took themselves way too seriously in the making of this one - why else focus on a drag-along story when there were better action scenes to be had? If you watch Tony Jaa for the reason most other people do, you'll almost definitely be disappointed, but hopefully not too much. I mean, "Ong Bak 3" isn't great, but at least it's not <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UVV2AG">Battle Warrior</a>, right?

Average movie They mixed a lot of humor into this story.  Personally that detracts from an action/adventure movie imo.  The acting was great, the story line was decent.

Sappy but good I first watched this movie on cable and recently I bought the DVD at Wal-Mart, I thought it was sappy and full of what I call "cheesy" romantic stuff that I doubt HRH Prince William would do but as a huge Royal fan, I'd pretty much put up with any movie having to do with the royals. The acting was at best decent but I think that the scriptwriters should have put better lines and more facts in the movie but with all the hype the Royal Wedding caused they had to make the movie into some sappy romance.

*Please note* Please note - Amazon's description of the extras is for the standard DVD. The blu-ray's only special feature is the Director's commentary. Still great fun but if you want the behind the scenes extras you need to buy the standard DVD.

The 1925 version is not in HD. Whatever they want with the very good quality of the bluray in the 1959 version and additional gifts but the 1925 version of Fred Niblo is not in High Definition. A Waste of edition. With all its  drawbacks related to its restoration, Paramount released a very good bluray edition of The Ten Commandments; all in Full HD. Warner, learn from them!

A so -so adaptation of Shakey's Comedy of Errors This 1989 Stratford(Ontario)festival production(taped by the CBC)of Shakespeare's Comedy Of Errors has a solid cast of Canadian actors,once more taking to the stage for our enjoyment.This very abridged version(most of the Bard's presentations,especially on film,VERY unfortunately,are abridged),comes to us in a kind of musical version.The interludes between scenes have incidental music mostly sung by the actors either on stage or off.There are even moments of dancing thrown in for good measure.Also bothersome are inter titles on screen,which tell us whose home we are at,who is on screen or where in town we are.Shakey's plays TELL us all these things,there was/is no need for someone to walk across the stage with a sign giving us an obvious visual cue.Shakey would be turning over in his grave at that faux paux.While,in this case,it seemed a good fit,I prefer my Shakespeare delivered straight up with no chaser.This production treated us slightly like little children,which I didn't like. The plot involves a father who is parted from his wife and his twin sons,who each have a twin servant,after a ship's sinking.He searches for his family for roughly five years and ends up where the play begins at Ephesus.Being Syracusian he is arrested and brought before a magistrate who hears his tale of woe(all those from Syracuse must pay a hefty fine or face execution).Instead of instantly executing him for the lack of a thousand ducats,he allows him time to gather the sum.Meanwhile in town,one son is married and resides there,while the other coincidentally arrives in town,just passing through.From here the mix ups pile one on top of the other throughout the play,making for lots of laughs.In the end there is a gigantic reunion as the entire mess is finally resolved and all live happily ever after. Shakey was a genius at comedy writing(either writing all out comedies like this or interjecting comedy into some of his more serious works)and this is one of his better works.But this quite abridged version(barely 76 minutes)might serve better as a good primer for school students and others not familiar with Shakey's works;whereas Shakey vets like myself will find it quite lacking;little meat on the bones,as it were. Technically there are no extras,but the picture here is much better than in The Tempest I recently reviewed.The master video tape seems to be in better shape,with not so much degradation. All in all a fancied up and shortened version of A Comedy of Errors.Solid acting and performances,but with a musical twist.

Starts off good, ends weak The first 1 hour of the movie is very good ...  Friends going on a yatch, hit by a storm and getting on to an abandoned ship.  After that, it tapers off very badly - seems like an endless repetition with no end and no meaning.  Maybe the producers had some idea, but whatever weird that it is - it seems meaningless and repetitive.  Unlike movies such as Matrix, Sixth sense which have complex themes behind them, but have been so well directed to put the story out.

Great cast but not quite there! Films of comic book superheroes seem to be a necessity of cinema at the moment especially when competing for the coveted title of summer blockbuster. I haven't seen many of them I have to say but do intend to in the near future. Louis Leterrier's The Incredible Hulk is one of the more recent adaptations of a Marvel Comics hero and was intended to make up for Ang Lee's version from 2003 which didn't go down well with the critics. Trying to keep my anger in check I sat myself down to take on the Hulk.  Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) is the subject of an experiment at the outset using gamma rays to increase the healing time in soldiers. The project is overseen by General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross (William Hurt) and his daughter and Banner's girlfriend Betty Ross (Liv Tyler). After the process begins Banner turns into a giant green monster, destroying the lab and leaving both General Ross and his daughter injured during his violent outburst. The film picks up years later where Bruce Banner is leading a surreptitious existence in Brazil working in a soft drinks factory and thanks to martial arts training has learned to control his anger and prevent a transformation into the Hulk for many months. General Ross is still desperately seeking Banner and turns to ageing soldier Emil Blonsky (Tim Roth) for help.  After a destructive opening with Banner's transformation into the Hulk the film quickly moves onto his time in Brazil where he has not turned into the Hulk for months and is in contact via the Internet with Mr Blue about a cure for his condition. Banner's location is revealed when he cuts himself at work and a drop of blood, heavy set with gamma rays, ends up in the bottle of one of the soft drinks shipped to the United States. When the unfortunate victim drinks from the contaminated bottle he is rushed to hospital and General Ross is alerted to Banner's whereabouts. British soldier Blonsky leads the raid of the soft drinks factory and witnessed the Hulk taking out his men though he doesn't realise this is Banner transformed after being overwhelmed by rage and anger. General Ross tells Blonsky the truth that Banner was deceived with the experiment on him, the real purpose being to develop super soldiers. With Blonsky now 39 and no longer the soldier he once was he volunteers to be the next guinea pig in the same experiment, the hope being he is fit, agile and strong enough to face the Hulk.  Though Banner escapes back to the United States he has to cross paths with Betty again and the inevitable romance plays out. With the army hot on his trail Banner faces more regular transformations into the Hulk. After hooking up with Betty it is time for Banner to locate Mr Blue and to take steps to curing himself of his purgatorial life. The army has other plans, however, and in Blonsky they have a secret weapon that is initially defeated easily by the Hulk leaving the soldier with nearly every bone in his body shattered. Blonsky, however, is no longer the same as a human and his body quickly repairs itself to fight another day. As with many guinea pigs of scientific experiments, Blonksy comes to face an ordeal even greater than that of the Hulk but this is one of his own choosing as he desires greater strength and power to face his formidable enemy.  With such acting talent as Norton and Roth I was optimistic that The Incredible Hulk would be a great film but I was left disappointed by the end. There's nothing wrong with the performances of Norton and Roth, I just felt this film wasn't a worthy vehicle for them to show off their respective talents. Norton, in particular, is one of Hollywood's finest given such a role as Fight Club or American History X but I didn't feel that same memorable performance coming through here. Hurt and Tyler provide okay support while Tim Blake Nelson makes a noteworthy appearance as the mysterious Mr Blue. The film's effects are good but the ending was somewhat unsatisfying with a final showdown between Banner and Blonsky being a little flat. The opening half of the film is better than the second half and although this isn't a bad film it's certainly not the great one I had hoped for.  The Incredible Hulk is a pretty average action superhero film, getting decent performances out of Norton and Roth, despite the material they have to work with not being spectacular. Though the effects are good they're not stunning and the film feels like everyone is treading too carefully trying to avoid the same mistakes the 2003 Hulk film made. In the end it's an okay effort but not a memorable one.

SAY SALAAM INDIA is an honest attempt. the tracks playing in the background [music: Gaurav Dayal] are in sync with the mood of the film. Special mention must be made of the background score ' Gaurav Dayal [effective], cinematography ' Fasahat Khan [appealing] and editing ' M. Rafique [crisp].  The performances spring a pleasant surprise. Sanjay Suri, a dependable actor, is in top form yet again.The film has a bunch of new characters, but the ones who stand out are Aditya Seal [playing Siddharth, the rich, spoilt brat], Mandhar Subhash [Viru] and Anuj Pandit [Guri]. All three are excellent. Prateek Jain [Mahipal] and Madhur Mittal [Shakeel] are alright. Manoj Pahwa is fantastic yet again and provides ample laughs. Sachin Khedekar is alright. Vinay Pathak gets limited scope. Shraddha Nigam is effective.  SAY SALAAM INDIA is an honest attempt.

Good film - poor video transfer i always wanted to own a copy of Seijun Suzuki's Taisho Trilogy of which this is the first film. As I don't understand most Japanese language I have to watch a subtitled film a few times to get the full experience. I had to watch Ziguenerweisen several times to get the story straight. But I was "technically disappointed" because the video transfer is poor. I would not buy the rest of the trilogy from this series. I recently bought Yumeji, the third film of the trilogy, from another source and the video transfer was much superior to this offering.

Good but short This vid is a nice little piece cut from one of those nostalgia PBS shows I guess.  The performance is good, the sound is good, but the length is short-certainly for the price.  But...if you like Peter, it's still worth it!

Nice but... The DVD arrived on time, but I could tell it had been rattling around in the case. Not good when it's being shipped across the country. Also, the outside of the package looked like it had been sliced - possibly with a box cutter

Sounds hilarious, I'm going to get it! I'm a new Dirk Benedict fan. I started watching old tv shows online, including Battlestar Galactica, and now the A-Team. Now I'm looking for Dirk Benedict movies. I laughed out loud all the way through anim8rfsk's review, it's hilarious! I'm going to get this movie because of your review! I sort of wished he got a girl too. I'm pre-rating this based on your review. Please suggest more Dirk Benedict movies for me! I like him best so far as Starbuck.

Media Wag the Dog is an honest portrayal of how the media "fixes" situations for the public to see.  The cast is believable.  What viewers should take away from this movie is the fact you cannot believe anything the media/news provides us.  It is what they want us to see and know, not what is the truth.  I love that Amazon has a library of the older movies.

Red Shooting Hood (spoilers) Most werewolf stories are either done very right, or very wrong. "Red: Werewolf Hunter" hovers somewhere in the middle -- a story that's compelling and some great acting from Felicia Day and Kavan Smith, but the werewolf hunters are inept and the werewolves don't have a lot of dimension beyond "RAR! WE'RE EVIL!"  FBI agent Virginia "Red" Sullivan (Day) brings her fiance Nathan (Smith) home to meet the family. Then a man is brutally murdered, and Nathan is injured while searching for the person -- or animal -- who did that to him. It's then that Virginia reveals everything: for centuries, her ancestors have been werewolf hunters -- and so is she.  But now a new werewolf has come to town, promising the local lycanthropes that he'll teach them to shapeshift at will, not just when the moon is full. The plan to kill him becomes a lot more personal when Nathan turns out to have been bitten -- and the werewolf plans to kill or turn the whole Sullivan family.  "Red: Werewolf Hunter" is neither the worst nor the best werewolf flick I've ever seen. It has a nice atmosphere, mixing the gothic, wintry quality of a small town with leather coats, silver and harpoons. Yes, there is an actual scene where Felicia Day stands on a rooftop and harpoons werewolves. That is awesome.  Unfortunately, both the werewolves and hunters are... not handled well. The hunters come across as inept, stumbling into obvious traps that seasoned werewolf hunters should have seen. And the werewolves are pretty 2-dimensional -- we never really see any of them being anything except bloodthirsty savages, and none of them have any doubts about what they're doing.  Also, there is a HUGE continuity error late in the story. Without revealing too much, we're told that if they kill a werewolf who infected someone, the victim will be cured. And it DOESN'T HAPPEN.  So what compensates for this? Well, the rather shocking ending, which adds a bittersweet note to everything that happened. It's more realistic and raw than I expected, and that's good.  Also, the cast is quite solid -- Felicia Day is a bit weepy at times, but she's otherwise excellent as a buttkicking werewolf hunter, and Kavan Smith is a solid, believable FBI agent (although it was trippy to see Codex smooching Deputy Andy). And there's a round of great performances by Stephen McHattie, Rosemary Dunsmore and the sexy Greg Bryk.  "Red: Werewolf Hunter" could have used more fleshed-out werewolves and competent hunters, but as cheapo werewolf SyFy movies go, this is a decent one.

If a look alone could kill, Statham would never have to fire a shot I was expecting just another Transporter type of Jason Statham movie, but there is a bit more depth here to go along with the typical action storyline. It's all about a hitman getting wronged by his employer and seeking revenge. Wow, so original right? Okay, I just now found out that The Mechanic is a remake of a 1972 film starring Charles Bronson, so don't expect me to compare the two here.  Jason Statham is probably the biggest active action movie star right now. I'm not really a fan of his, mainly due to the fact that he always looks, acts and sounds the same in pretty much everything he does. The man does know how to sell toughness, especially during the fight scenes. Also, the "I'm going to kill you look" that he likes to shoot at the bad guys is quite effective. Ben Foster has more acting range and is quite good here, even though the character as written on paper is nothing special. After his father is killed he gets trained by and then teams up with Statham.  What really surprised me were the action scenes. There were a few good hand to hand fights and shootouts, but this character is all about making deaths look like accidents. So instead, we get a lot of fast kills rather than ones that are drawn out like in the Transporter films.  Overall, I would definitely recommend this as a future rental. It's not outstanding, but I would say it is one of the better action flicks I've seen recently. In fact, I would watch this over The Expendables any day.  3 and 1/2 out of 5 stars

Actors are great but story is too silly The actors are all wonderful here and they can all sing, too.  But the story is silly and the direction is lacking, and they cannot rise above it.  I skipped through the scenes with a predictable church group challenging a rock nightclub, and the two main characters' romance is not all that interesting either.  The music is the real star here.

poor ending a terrific movie until it was spoiled by having a young girl see 2 gay men in a bed. it"s a christmas movie not a social awareness movie.

them idiots I was somewhat disappointed with Larry the Cable Guy's performance in this show. Other works of his have been better, particularly his "Only in America" series on the History channel.

Nostalgic When I saw this movie as a teenager it was very effective for me, but after seeing again years later I realized it's not nearly as good as I thought I it was. The only reason to still like it is pure Nostalgia. It's full of great actors who unfortunately aren't that great in it. Sutherland is reviving his role from The Promised Land, he plays pretty much the same character and Downey is playing his character from Less Than Zero dropped off in the 60's, (bad place for that guy to be.) they're just running over alot of the same ground.  Ryder is just the girl. She doesn't have much to do or say but to be the girl and be there for her man. The 60's were shovanistic but geeze. The only other women in it, fight with ther husbands, worry about their kids and can't wait to have sex with bruce dern??? come on!.  The affair side-plot between the adults in the movie isn't needed and although Bruce Dern is one of my favorite actors ever, he's not particularly effective in this.  Ultimately I think the movie is just too unfocused and filled with too many standard 60's movies cliche's. For movies like it and for a movie very much of it's time it isn't bad, but I certainly think that it can still be done much better.  Also, There's no way it's worth 32 dollars!!!!! buy a vcr and get in on vhs.

Entertaining reboot, but the villain lacks visual style I've been a mild fan of Spider-man since the 1970s.  That was when I read the British reprints of the classic 1963-67 Marvel originals.  The Lizard, Doc Octopus, the Kingpin, even The Living Brain all thrilled me when I was a kid.  This movie is a well-made and impeccably acted tribute to those originals, updated to a contemporary setting.  The dialogue, costuming, lighting, FX, sound are all fine.  The music knows its place in the movie, and it generally works well.  The one thing that did annoy me was... the main villain here just doesn't look right.  Ditko's original 1960s comic-book version of him is so memorable. Yet it's not as if the film-makers changed the villain to make him more scary.  Because he isn't that scary.  He's an unconvincing cobbled-together blend of the Hulk, Dragon-man from the Kirby's Fantastic Four, Gozilla, and a guy in a rubber suit.  As a super-villain his visual style simply lacks the all-important Marvel sense of _style_.  But I wonder if that change was deliberate?  The movie probably works really really well for the 12 year-old who is 'new to the whole Spider-man thing'.  If those people are the intended audience, then the film-makers probably didn't want to make the villain too scary - because that would risk all those over-protective moms freaking out and renting _Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3_ instead.  Apart from that fairly heavy central flaw (the other is that Spider-man does Web searches using Bing, and yet is supposed to be intelligent) the first two-thirds of the movie are interesting and generally great fun.  Even the 'luv interest' sections are watchable, mainly for the comedic teenage awkwardness.  But towards the end the movie gets very choppy, and the audience heads into the most predictable of formula finishes. But overall... _Amazing Spider-man_ is nicely made and worth seeing, and is certainly vastly more entertaining than the first reboot.

Average I'm a huge Jackie Chan fan for many years but this movie wasn't quite as good as some of his other ones.It was more serious/darker,with not as much humor.Didn't enjoy the fight scenes as much as some of his other movies.(I know he was injured and had a double)plus I'm not much into racing,that being said it did have it's moments.Overall I would say it an average movie.6/10.Maybe if your a guy and are into cars and racing you would enjoy it more.I would say it's definitly worth a watch if your a Jackie Chan fan.

Good meaning. This movie has great meaning to it but to me personally, who isn't a believer in god is too religious for me. If anything, this movies make god seem even more made believe.. it makes me feel god is entirely made up for people to remain sane in emotional stress implying if he didn't exist.. they would do something bad to themselves. After all, no one has ever been able to prove he is real. How is god a he anyways? who made that part up? Haha.  Overall, decent movie but too religious.  I won't lie, I enjoyed it though.  (Purposely refuse to capitalize god for all the Nazi grammar people)

An Art and science  mystery that may - or may not - have an answer Important note: this review contains a SPOILER - So I'm alerting you NOW. Do not continue to read this review if you want to be kept in suspense.  This 55-minute episode of the PBS series NOVA was co-produced by National Geographic and shows how the art world and scientists and inventors can work together to solve the mystery of whether an art work POSSIBLY painted in the late 15th Century - and purchased in 2007 by an art collector/speculator - is a an original by Leonardo da Vinci or a fake (or painted by one of his students).  As the film progresses you are drawn into the story as pieces are revealed. We watch as the painting - worth either $20,000 or $20 million - travels to Paris where experts on both art and art materials (what the portrait of a young woman is painted on) spend many hours trying to find the answer. I was really looking forward to the answer. Alas, the film turns out to be a "shaggy dog story" which really has no definitive ending. You will not learn the painting's value. Granted, the director of this film, didn't know where his story would lead or end when he started this project. This is standard for real time documentaries. But, unless new events occur - and the research is resumed - neither the director, the owner of the painting or we, the viewer, will know.  I can only recommend this to those interest in either the life and art of da Vinci or those with a fascination for forensic research, who won't mind not knowing "how does the story end?".  I hope you found this review both informative and helpful.  Steve Ramm "Anything Phonographic"

Good Movie, Not Great Condition Bought this used, said it was in "very good" condition. Not true. Hopefully the disc is in decent shape, as I haven't watched it yet, but the case was pockmarked and bent. Unlike the condition of other "very good" used dvd's I have purchased. Shipped promptly and arrived without hassle.

Difficult for beginners The DVD does everything that it advertises, but the lessons are very short (maybe about 2 minutes for each song). If you have a lot of experience playing guitar, then you may like the quick lessons and then watching him play the song. For the beginning player, though, it's not very helpful. For example, he explains in the lesson that Scottie Moore uses a pentatonic scale when soloing in Jailhouse Rock, and then shows you how to play the pentatonic scale. Yet, he doesn't really show you step-by-step how to tear through the solo the way Scottie does. It's hard to learn and develop technique this way. I recommend for beginners "Getting Started on Electric Guitar" the Fender DVD with Keith Wyatt.

Angry Hulk fans SMASH stabby man; Hammer man okay "Hulk Vs." consists of two films featuring "Hulk vs. Thor" and "Hulk vs. Wolverine."  As you can imagine, these two confrontations strike very different tones.  The action begins with "Hulk vs. Thor¸" and it sets the bar quite high. Odin goes into hibernation every winter to regain his strength for a week, during which time Asgard's enemies attack. Thor (Matthew Wolf, reprising his role from "Thor: Tales of Asgard") along with the Einherjar rally to defend Asgard each year.  For accomplished fighters like the Asgardian warriors, they consider the seasonal raids to be a fun exercise, making a mockery of their enemy's efforts.  Loki (Graham McTavish) is not happy about this state of affairs and crafts a plan: Using the Enchantress' (Kari Wahlgren) sorcery, he captures Bruce Banner (Bryce Johnson), turns him into the Hulk (Fred Tatasciore), and then extracts Banner's soul.  Without the calming influence of Banner, the Enchantress turns the Hulk into Loki's puppet, making him the ultimate killing machine.  Ignoring Banner's pleas, Loki sends the remote-controlled Hulk into Asgard.  The Hulk makes short work of just about everybody, including Thor. When Thor manages to wrest control of the Hulk away from Loki, the Hulk goes berserk and nearly beats Thor to death. He is saved from death's door by the Enchantress, who has a crush on Thor and betrays Loki by explaining his plot.  When Thor confronts Loki about his nefarious plans, he discovers Banner dead, murdered by Loki in a fit of pique. Banner's death in Asgard condemns his soul to Hel, one the nine Asgardian realms.  Thor convinces Loki that if they don't reunite Banner's soul with the Hulk he will destroy all of Asgard.  Loki commits his forces to delay the Hulk while he and Thor descend to Hel to retrieve Banner's soul.  But the Queen of Hel, Hela (Janyse Jaud) is in no mood to release any souls from her embrace.  This is where "Hulk vs. Thor" really does an excellent job of fleshing out Bruce Banner, who is normally just an irritating side character whining about getting angry.  Unlike the other souls tortured in Hell, Banner has finally found peace, living a fantasy life with Betty Ross (Nicole Oliver) and even raising a child. In short, Banner doesn't want to be reunited with the Hulk and it's hard to blame him.  Conversely, "Hulk vs. Wolverine" is just a bunch of Weapon X characters slicing each other up, with the Hulk occasionally in the middle. There's cigar-chomping, "bub"-spouting Wolverine (Steven Blum), grim Russian Omega Red (Colni Murdock), the angry Lady Deathstrike (Janyse Jaud), the prickly Sabretooth (Mark Acheson), and joke-machine Deadpool (Nolan North).  Wolverine's out to catch the Hulk and the Weapon X team is out to catch Wolverine at the behest of mad professor Thornton (Tom Kane).  Unlike "Hulk vs. Thor," "Hulk vs. Wolverine" features a wimpy Banner whom everyone looks down on, including Wolverine.  His only purpose is to be goaded into turning into the Hulk, which ignores a major facet of the Hulk persona.  Throughout "Hulk vs. Wolverine" are intermittent flashbacks to Wolverine's origin, which is peculiar because it shifts the focus away from the Hulk.  On the plus side, the film lets Wolverine really let loose with his claws, slicing off limbs and stabbing people in great gouts of bloody gore.  Still, the attacks are meaningless - the X factor healing ability of the entire Weapon X team means such wounds are temporary at most. Deadpool is the sole standout if only because he makes light of the absurdity of a top secret facility populated with nobody but killer mutants.  As the titular character, only "Hulk vs. Thor" gives the big green guy his due.  The first installment is basically "Wolverine vs. Hulk," which is fine if you're a Wolverine fan but if you're a Hulk fan, not so much.  It's enough to make Hulk fans angry...and you wouldn't like them when they're angry.

Review: Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies Someone fetch Lincoln his parcel. He's got some ghoul heads to chop off.  "Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies" just might be the boldest move from The Asylum to date (though perhaps not as bold as their 9/11 movie, but, you know). The Asylum has received some pretty substantial hate over the years for their shameless direct-to-video rip-offs of big budget and theatrical horror remakes. (Depending on where the lawsuit stands, they may or may not currently have "American Battleship" on shelves while the real "Battleship" is currently tanking in theaters.) The Asylum's defense of this tactic has always been that they were/are merely doing the same thing big Hollywood was doing - giving audiences a movie they've already seen, but with a similar sounding title. Using that argument, there really is no excuse for "Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies," their take on the bigger-budgeted "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer." To rip off such an absurd concept and title...that goes above and beyond simply pointing and laughing at a major studio-produced remake.  With that said, "Lincoln Vs. Zombies" is the best film from The Asylum's hovering-somewhere-over-100-film archive. I've seen a lot of The Asylum's films, and they've all left me in various levels of coma. But this one, however...it was pretty watchable. I don't think I was left injured at all.  The title should more than clue you in what it's about, but the year is 1863, and we find Lincoln dealing not just with the confederacy, but a growing army of the undead. And he's not the only one fighting the battle. Joining Lincoln are General Stonewall Jackson (leader of the confederate army), Pat Garret (infamous assassin of Billy the Kid) and even a very young and completely unnecessary Teddy Roosevelt, among others whose names the more learned of you should recognize. When word reaches Lincoln that soldiers "infected" with some kind of disease are all over Fort Pulaski, eating faces and committing all sorts of zombtrocities, he dispatches a group of 12 men (with him at the helm) to visit the fort and see what's the what. Well, they see what's the what, all right. GHOULS. Wearing old-fashioned Civil War-era garb and huge bow ties.  As the 12 men begin to die off, one of them begins to doubt Lincoln's tactics. He thinks the problem could be better taken care of. He's an actor, you see...with a great big bushy mustache and a small, wooden Derringer. If you stayed awake for five minutes during your American history class, you can see where this is going.  "Lincoln vs. Zombies" is perfectly disposable entertainment. Bill Oberst Jr. plays a convincing Lincoln, and while he's forced to spit out some cheesy dialogue, his performance is rather straight forward and feels quite genuine. He approaches the "character" as if he were in a more legitimate project. It doesn't stray too far from all the other Lincolns we've seen over the years, but it shouldn't have to. Plus it's genuinely fun seeing him lop off heads with his switchblade scythe, which impossibly fits into and disappears within the confines of his suit jacket as if we were in a cartoon. And I guess we are.  Some of "LvsZ" might make you groan. Even though the film's concept is as subtle as a sledgehammer to a bucket of testicles, Lincoln handing young Roosevelt a shovel and telling him to "speak softly and carry a big stick," or swinging a scythe at a ghoul head and bellowing "emancipate this!" is still obnoxiously on the nose. If your audience is groaning during a movie with this as your concept, you may have gone too far.  The ending is rather poignant ending and definitely not what I expected from what was otherwise silly and over-the-top.Not bad for a movie that has something like 50 severed heads and some truly horrendous fake beards.  For a more in-depth and uncensored review, please visit The End of Summer by clicking my username.

A fine western, but a travesty of history I have seen many westerns, hundreds actually, and this is one of the best from Hollywood's Golden Age.  There is very fine acting from all involved and many excellent special effects.  One almost feels sympathy for the James brothers while despising their targets.  It is no wonder why this movie was released in 1939, Hollywood's greatest year.  This alone makes it one of the more memorable westerns.  But, this movie does have some major flaws, most of which concern the historical accuracy of the story.  One major distortion is the portrayal of Jesse and Frank James as honest farmers whose hatred for the railroad drove them to become outlaws.  The fact is that the brothers were members of Quantrill's Raiders in the Civil War.  They were no strangers to stealing and killing.  Actually, they were already old pros at crime even before the war ended.  Another major distortion is the role of Bob and Charley Ford.  In the movie, the Fords are shown as having been members of the James Gang from the beginning.  The movie also portrays them as betraying the gang by informing the Northfield, Minnesota authorities of their arrival.  In truth, the Fords had no part in the Northfield disaster.  They did not join the gang until after the fact.  I don't understand why Hollywood has to embellish history to sell movie tickets.  Is the truth so boring that they have to resort to the practice?  I was a history major in college and can tell you that real history is far from dull.  It doesn't hurt to do the research.  Many great movies can be made from the facts and not fantasy.

strange and twisted, Icelandic slasher... Set mostly at sea, in the waters around Iceland, Harpoon: Whale Watching Massacre (2009), is a strange little suspense thriller, that probably won't do much to promote tourism to the small north Atlantic republic.  The film follows the adventures of a group of tourists, who unexpectedly find themselves in a grim struggle for survival.  There are a few messy kills, some tense atmospheric moments, and even the appearance of a semi-frisky killer whale, but overall the film isn't as cohesive or nearly as frightening as it could have been.  A bit hard to follow in places, and with a few plot twists, the movie's unconventional finish leaves many questions unanswered.  Spoilers follow, so abandon ship if you feel the need.  An assorted group of tourists board a small boat with the hope of catching a glimpse of some whales.  The party of ten includes three middle-aged female tourists, and a Japanese couple and their aide.  Out in the open sea, the captain (Gunnar Hansen) is has a spear run through his chest in a freak accident.  Upon hearing the news, the criminal-minded ship's mate disables the craft, and then departs in a rubber raft, leaving the tourists to manage on their own.  Icelandic hospitality seems to be seriously lacking, until a small boat arrives, and ferries the survivors over to a larger fishing boat.  When the visitors are gathered on deck, the crew of the whaling ship, a mother and her two sons, suddenly whip out weapons and begin attacking the tourists.  Two of the middle-aged women are the first to go, one takes a hammer through the skull, and the other is tossed overboard after having her throat slit.  Tryggvi (Helgi Bjornsson), one of the whalers, tests out shooting skills, sinking a harpoon into one of the tourists attempting to swim away.  The rest of the tourists have scattered inside the ship, and the remainder of the film is mostly a game of hide and seek, as the crew attempt to hunt down and kill their prey.  There doesn't seem to be any motive behind the carnage, although Siggi (Stefan Jonsson) the other whaling brother, has more than a casual interest in Annette (Pihla Viitala).  The survivors manage to get things together, and begin to take action.  Endo (Yuuki Nae), the aide to the Japanese couple proves to be rather resourceful, turning her employer into an incendiary device that manages to partially roast one of the attackers.  Fortunately for those on the run, the whalers aren't very efficient at hunting, and some of the survivors even manage to escape from the ship.  There's not a lot of cooperation among the group, but Leon (Terence Anderson) does his best to save blondes Annette, and Marie-Anne (Miranda Hennessy).  When the authorities arrive on the scene, it looks like the game is over for the killers, but there will be several twists more before this tale is over.  With the whalers proving to be such inept killers, Harpoon: Whale Watching Massacre isn't quite the splatterfest that it could have been.  Except for being set on a ship, this is a rather routine little slasher, that doesn't quite live up to its name, or make the most out of the situation.  The various plot twists, feature some of the tourists being killed by others in their group.  The brief and not particularly impressive appearance of a killer whale, is the only instance of whale watching, but frankly doesn't add very much to the film.  The production values and cinematography are good.  The screenplay has bits of humor, but mostly plays it straight, and the acting is generally very solid, with native Icelander Gunnar Hansen, Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), probably being the most recognized name.  It's not an outstanding entry into the genre, but if you are into hunt and kill type thrillers, you may want to give this a look.

Interesting concept When I read the films synopsis about people exploding, it amused me enough to watch it....not a common film theme! But the film evolves into a fascinating plot: the human race cannot become stressed. If we knew we would die under stress, is it possible to erase it? It could make for a more peaceful world, but a happy one? The film leads to the concept of eradicating individual thought (but doesnt delve into that sci-fi direction) as a solution. This story runs slowly and can lose your attention or depress you at times, but stick with it. The ending is a wonderful surprise that really put a smile on my face. It changes the entire mood of the film and the directors message shouts loud and clear. This movie will leave you thinking....that in itself deserves a good rating.

Crazy/Creepy Just trust me! I won't casually open the door to anyone at 4 A.M.! This movie was not too bad but it lacked some common sense when it comes to protecting oneself! The setting is eerie/creepy. The acting lacks a bit! I didn't really care for the way it ended! In terms of picture quality and sound, both were excellent!

You know the routine Think Like a Man isn't as grueling as most ensemble comedies about the battle between the sexes -- it's no He's Just Not That Into You, in other words -- and it's good-natured, occasionally even funny, in the way it reduces men and women into simple stereotypes. Men, as you may have heard, are either cads, mama's boys, or slackers, while women are blameless, tormented creatures who are doomed to put up with men. If that sounds familiar, you must have watched a sitcom at some point in the last 30 years.  Inspired by comedian Steve Harvey's relationship-advice book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man and turned into an overlong screenplay by Friends with Benefits duo Keith Merryman and David A. Newman, the film is based on the principle that men will never do what women want them to do -- which is, by definition, what they should do -- unless women trick them into doing it. The women in the movie, who all live in Los Angeles and have jobs that do not permit them to have money problems, treat Harvey's book like a bible. No matter what kind of gal you are or what kind of fella you're dealing with, the current host of Family Feud has a list of tips for you!  Dominic is a dreamer who flits from job to job with no long-term goals; his new lady friend, Lauren, is a successful business executive with high standards who must motivate him. Michael is too attached to his mother to make a girlfriend a priority; it befalls his latest, Candace, a single mom herself, to show him how. Jeremy has been with Kristen for several years and shows no sign of popping the question; Kristen, obviously, must take matters into her own hands. Zeke, a smooth ladies' man and total player, meets Mya, who has decided she's not going to have sex with him until they've known each other for 90 days.  These four guys have two other friends as well, a newly divorced one and a happily married one. The former character is included purely for comic relief, enjoying his new liberation by spending too much time at strip clubs. The latter is here to remind everyone of the ideal relationship they're all hoping for. I'll try not to read too much into the fact that the guy is hardly in the movie and we never see his wife.  The four main couples' ups and downs provide some modest laughs for a while. Directed by Tim Story, the film might best be viewed as a glossy showcase for several likable performers who don't often get leading roles. Facile and shallow though it may be, it's breezily inoffensive.  But it's also drastically overlong, burdened by too many stories about too many couples who are too one-dimensional to be relatable. Even when the women's suggestions are good ones -- Jeremy really should stop being complacent about his career; Michael really is too focused on his mother -- the men would rather lie to their girlfriends about improving themselves than actually improve themselves. Why? Because men are liars, duh. Meanwhile, the most serious flaw that any female character has is that she's too good at her job.  And the overarching plot doesn't make any sense. The women think the Steve Harvey book is a secret, even though it's a bestseller, and are angry when they find out the men have been reading it, too. Why? Well, because it got to be that point in the movie where the women were supposed to get angry and the men were supposed to feel bad and apologize. You know the routine. You've seen sitcoms.

a laugh a trailor trash a rauchy ride through the coming out of a young gay man to his texas trash family, at his grandmothers funeral.

The Killing Machine-Shorinji Kenpo I had seen this movie many years ago,and thought that it did a fairly good job of portraying the art of Shorinji Kenpo.It was truly one of Sonny Chiba's best. For the action, it is worth watching.

Poorly packaged For such an expensive item, Anime Works has certainly spared every expense. for your $59.95 list price, you get 8 discs stacked on a single spindle so the discs are pre-scratched for you when you open the case. Packaging is skimpy and cheap looking.

A pretty tense but also very repetitive thriller that is worth watching. If you liked "Phonebooth" check this one out. I say B "Why is he doing this?!!" After finally getting up the nerve to talk to the girl he likes David (Geraghty) is excited to be driving Emily (Eve) home. When his friend Corey (Peck) crashes his date and asks to stop at the ATM machine he is counting down the minutes till he can get Emily alone. After getting out the cash they turn around and notice a stranger starting at them. Their night takes a deadly turn. To start with this is not a bad movie at all. I like the movies like this where it takes an everyday activity and introduces terror into it. The big problem with this is that after a half hour it seemed to run out of ideas and kept repeating itself over and over. The one thing that really saved this and made it enjoyable was the end. This is not a typical "Hollywood" ending and that helped the movie a lot. If you liked "Devil" or "Phonebooth" then you will also like this one. This is worth a watch. Overall, a tense but also repetitive thriller that is worth watching. Ending is great & disturbing. I give it a B.

Interesting artwork; tries its best There are a few facts people should consider right off the bat when examining this movie: Bakshi is best known for having directed adult cartoon films, he had intended to make two films out of the three books but the production company only let him make this one for whatever reason, and this is obviously a product of the 70s.  So, what worked in this film? Well, the animation is astounding, everything that was hand-drawn was interesting to look at. Also, it managed to tell a lot of the main story (notice I say main) and does a good job of going through the action in Tolkien's tales than the Rankin/ Bass adaptations. It's an hour shorter than any of Jackson's versions (although it can feel like just as long at times) and goes through a lot of material in Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers (ending during the Two Towers storyline). Also, Aragorn is voiced by John Hurt, who most moviegoers today will probably know Mr. Ollivander in the Potter films, but the man is in a lot of cool films and he provides a cool character for this film.  ...Then there's the bad.For me, the thing that ruined this movie was Samwise. He is so annoying, so weird, and so weak. I can't imagine this character being Frodo's strong guardian in Return of the King (the Samwise in the Rankin/ Bass Return of the King is one of the film's perks). Also, they call Saruman to Aruman a lot (which I didn't mind all that much). The rotoscope (live action people being drawn over) was a cool concept, just poorly executed and distracting. Also, Aragorn and Boromir are hard to take as serious, skilled warriors when dressed in fur and a cape. Plus, some of the action scenes (especially when the Ringwraiths chase Frodo) are slow and drag things down. All of these might sound small, but collectively they're enough to be extremely bothersome and are enough to overpower the positive aspects.  This is a decent film to check out if anyone is nostalgic about the animation or if kids want to see a LOTR movie and aren't allowed to see Jackson's films(yes, this is a Bakshi films kids can watch).

Good for kids of all ages I had the vhs on this movie and wanted to upgrade.  It is a perfect addition to my dvd collection.  It is a heart warming twist to history that every age will enjoy.

Hold On This film seems to be a quickie made to cash in the `British Pop Invasion'.  Harmless fun but not up to the quality of &Agrave; Hard days Night' or `Help'.  Songs are far better than the story but as a souvenir of this era it is worth adding to your library.  The film is in 2.35:1 (correct format) not 1.77:1 in your product description.  Transfer is very good and trailer is included.

Hunt For Red October review 7/10 Before I review Patriot Games for my 20 years ago series I'm going to review the movie that came before it The Hunt For Red October. Directed John McTiernan he directed Predator, Die Hard & Die Hard with a Vengence. It stars Sean Connery as Marko Ramius, Alec Baldwin as Jack Ryan, James Eral Jones as Vice Admiral James Greer, Scott Glenn as Commander Bart Mancuso, Sam Neill as Vasliy Boradin, Tim Curry as Lieutenant Melekin, Joss Ackland as Ambassador Andrei Lysenko & Fred Thompson as Admiral Joshua Painter. The story is Jack Ryan a CIA analyst has been sent photos of a Sunmarine called The Red October by British Intellgence. He goes to The CIA to tell The Deputy Director about it. On board The Red October Captain Ramius kills The Political Officer. Jack Ryan has met Captain Ramius before. He believe's that he just wants to defect to The US. Ryan sets off to The North Alantic. Meanwhile you have a Soviet Ambasador Andrei Lysenko tells American Officals to sink The Red October he tells them that it is a renagade sub. Jack Ryan wants to get to The USS Dallas to stop Commander Mancuso from sinking The Red October. He goes there by helicopter. Seeing this movie again it's some good stunt work when how he gets aboard. Ryan tries to convince Commander Mancuso to contact Ramius. On board The Red October the stelth equipment goes out & they want to repair it. Ramius wants to continue on course. Another Soviet Sub fires a torpedo at The Red October. Ryan goes with the others in a rescue sub they get to The Red October crew where Ramius asks for asylum in The US for him & ship mates. The cook of The Red October reveals himself as the sabateur cause he is  GRU agent. Ryan goes after him & he kills him. The USS Dallas helps The Red October evade the torpedo where the torpedo hits the attacking Soviet Sub. That's pretty much the movie. It has more to do with Captain Ramius Sean Connery's character than Jack Ryan. The next movie Patriot Games has more to do with Jack Ryan & Harrison Ford takes over the role which I prefer him over Alec Baldwin. Baldwin does alright though. The cast is good along with Sean Connery. Scott Glenn did what he could. Fred Thompson was ok. It was good to see them. Nice to see Tim Curry in here another good actor. John McTirenan did a decent job directing. Not much else to say but next will be 20 years ago Patriot Games.

Slightly disappointing, but not awful. As other reviewers have said, the lead character in this film is now played by Izabella Miko, not Julia Stiles. Immediately this ups the credibility of the ballet dancing - and gives us a less able actress in the lead role. You win some, you lose some.  Miko actually isn't that bad, she's just not a patch on Stiles.  Given that the action has moved to New York and "my boyfriend and I decided to see other people", this means we lose any real continuity with the first movie.  Columbus Short however as the love interest is easy on the eye and pretty good in the role, though the lead couple don't really have the chemistry to make it completely believable.  Jacqueline Bisset is formidable as the scary ballet mistress who makes Sara's life a misery, and there are some other good supporting performances.  To watch, it feels like a long-ish movie, even though it's just 80 minutes long. I think probably because of a worn out plot and no huge surprises or plot twists (there's just the one, which I found pretty unbelievable, so it didn't really hit home).  All in all, it's an OK movie: for a chick flick or a teen night in, you could do better but you could also do SO much worse. However as a sequel to a strong movie like Save The Last Dance, it falls rather flat, and certainly doesn't conclude nearly as strongly as the first did. It would have worked better as a stand alone movie, although of course you can understand the desire to build on the success of the hit.  Overall, it's fine: some good music on the soundtrack, some decent performances, some good dancing and a couple of really clever shots cinematically. It's reasonably rewarding to watch. Just don't expect anything of the calibre, thematically or in terms of the quality of performances etc, that you saw in the first movie.

Great movie but cut Simply put this movie has some great action, and a good story. If you like modern day martial art action films this will not disappoint. The reason I did not give it four stars is that it is cut. Its only about 10 min. but if you watched the full version you'll notice. sadly dragon Dynasty does this from time to time, yet some of their movies come with both the english cut version and the uncut version with only the original language. Why these movies are cut I do not know.

A chick flick that is a struggle for guys to watch.  Funny in parts but way too girlie for me. As it should be I say B- "How many relationships do I have to have before I meet the right guy?" Ally (Faris) is having a bad day after breaking up with her boyfriend she loses her job.  While on the way to her sisters she reads an article in a magazine that says the average number of men a woman sleeps with in her life is 10.5.  When she finds out her number is higher she makes a plan to not sleep with anyone else until she meets "the one".  With help from her neighbor Colin (Evans) she tracks down her old loves.  Going in I was actually expecting a lot worse then what I saw.  There were some really funny parts in this, but for me this was way to much of a chick flick to fully enjoy.  I can't be too hard on it though because I am a guy and the movie was not meant for me, but this was hard for me to get through.  On the other hand my girlfriend laughed but also wasn't that impressed.  This is worth a watch though, but after one time that may be enough.  Overall, a chick flick that will be hard for guys to make it through.  I give it a B-.

this movie is ok this movie is ok for a cgi movie wish i waited tell it was a 1.99 though.i want even go into detail on the story line its just if u seen one starship troopers u seen them all in this one is no diffrent...

All too real, and all too depressing SPOILERS  This movie is so indicative of our times. Our "heroine" is a girl who started having sex at 13 and admittedly had 20+ partners by the time she's 20.  The romance is based completely on emotion with no logic involved (e.g., mutual interests, etc.).  It's no surprise then that, ultimately, Cindy wants a divorce because she has "fallen out of love" with Dean.  Ever heard of committment? Sex, "relationships," and divorce today all center completely around whether one is "happy" or not or the emotion du jour.  No one ever wants to work through anything or go through any discomfort. It's just easier to ditch that and move on to something that feels good.  I don't think this is the intended message of the movie, but it's what I got out of it. It's a sad, realistic commentary on "love" and marriage in our society.  So, the movie is well-made and well-acted, but I can't say that I would recommend it unless you can take a concentrated dose of pure reality.  If you're looking for a love story, though, rent a movie based on a Jane Austen novel instead.

Great movie collection This is a great opportunity to get the complete collection of the Rambo movies, so popular during the 80's and the recent production from Stallone of the last Rambo movie. Is a very nice package of 6 cd's with a lot features like interviews with Sly, documentaries, etc. The package I got is not the metal box, guess it might not be available anymore. The bad part about this kit is that it includes a cd with a copy of the last Rambo movie to be downloaded to your itunes or computer windows so you can have it available to watch anywhere or your ipod, unfortunately the code provided to download the movie is already expired so you end up not been able to use the cd, Itunes won't let you download anymore. Thats is the reason I did not give this kit 5 stars. The rest is ok.

Basic This video series is about as basic as it comes and only shows you the exercise a few times. This isn't exactly something you could pop into the XBOX and start doing but it's better than nothing.....

Cutesy It's the best word I can think of. It certainly is not an awful film, though it is definitely 'chick flick' and not for those who abhor chick flicks. J. Lo does a decent role as a single, hard-working mom who is trying to get a better position for herself. The romance feels somewhat cliched, but Bob Hoskins does a nice job in his role. overall allright movie.

great movie, bad video transfer Love the movie, and I believe there are enough reviews on it that I don't need to reprise. But the video is grainy, and the sound is "canned" and lacks dynamics. I compared the vid to a few reference Blu-rays that I keep on hand from the same time-period, and this one is sorely lacking. They will probably re-issue it in a year or two with a better transfer. until then, this is better than nothing!!!

too sad I feel bad for rating this documentary 3 stars because it is really sad. I remember seeing this years ago on PBS and it really scared me, but made me aware of the effects from AIDS. These two men showed courage, humanity, humor and yes, love for one another.

Hate to disagree but... I loved "Fat Sick and Nearly Dead" and saw an add for this movie on the JointheReboot website. I was expecting something more like that. I don't disagree with the ideas discussed here, I just didn't like the format. A lot of the clips were repetitive, there were only minor allusions to some of the speakers' personal stories - which sounded like they would have been some of the most compelling parts. I also didn't find the little vignettes of the diet-soda chugging lady necessary, it was a cheesy and distracting story telling device. I wanted to see more personal stories and more specifics on healthy eating and juicing and whatnot. Disappointed.

I'm just wild about Harry. Great movie.  There was a lot of action in this continuing saga.  This particular movie, however, did not have English subtitles.  For anyone hard of hearing, this is not the version of the movie you want to buy.

beware of sound cut out This is a review about the sound quality only,the video is great.The sound in the jungle episode cuts out several times.

More is Less I read the previous reviews of this DVD and can't agree less.  This lavish production seems to me to be a monument to Zeffarelli and the Met to how much they can spend on a production and get away with it.  It is opulent and overblown.  There is so much unnecessary, fussy action on statge that it distracts from the singers.  The Chinese dragon prancing in the middle of the first act was distracting and incongruous.  It is as if Mr. Zeffarelli put in everything he could think of that was Chinese regardless of whether it was apt.  Everyone seems to be singing at top volume with no subtlety or grace.  I felt sorry for Paul Plishka having to waddle about like Attila the Teddy Bear.  Domingo is the only one in this cast who seems to redeem himself.  I like Eva Marton's work but amplifying her voice destroyed any beauty.  "In questa reggia" may as well have been spoken through a microphone.  Levine's conducting is superb but there has to be more than the orchestra to redeem a production.  I'm sorry I wasted my money purchasing this recording.

DVD skipped :( I remember looking at all of the different used DVD sets when I was looking to buy this, and trying to figure out which one was the best deal for the best quality. This one said that the set was missing the paper cover thing, but that the DVDs were in perfect quality, so I got this one, even though it was more expensive than others. You can imagine my disappointment when the DVDs skipped so much that I missed entire chunks of episodes. And when the episodes are this short, you end up missing something important! Having not seen these episodes in ten years, it's not like I could just say, 'Oh, that's okay, I remember what happened.' So, really, I was pretty disappointed in the inaccuracy of the quality report. I could have paid less, if I wanted to get DVDs in this condition.

Strong Attempt, But Middling Result The filmmakers behind Watchmen faced the difficulty encountered by all brave souls who endeavor to adapt a much-loved work of literature to the screen: how to rearrange the narrative to a filmic structure of approximately two hours.  Those who practice the relatively new task of adapting graphic novels face an additional challenge: how to interpret visually what has already been interpreted.  Though a literary work will often have precise visual descriptions of the narrative's world, there are scores of equally valid possible interpretations of Tolkien's Middle Earth or Dickens's London.  The challenge faced by adaptors of graphic novels is that the narrative is already laid out for them frame by frame.  When the graphic novel is not widely read before the release of the film (such as in the cases of Ghost World or Road to Perdition), this poses less of a problem to the filmmaker.  But with a work as widely read and beloved as Watchmen, it is as if a filmmaker's storyboards were devoured and studied by the public years before the release of the film.  Though it would still be a treat to those who have viewed the storyboards to see the film, much of the visual impact would be stripped away.  Such is Watchmen's cross to bear.  Watchmen has long been thought of as an "unfilmable" work, in the same category as scores of novels with long, interweaving plotlines, shifting narratives, and challenging themes.  Zack Snyder used the clout he gained from directing 300 to tackle the challenge, and he has turned in an admirable effort.  Those who have loved Alan Moore's creation for two decades (check time) understandably expected the worst: a soulless superhero film devoid of the numerous mature themes of the original (see the adaptation of Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) Snyder exhibits a strong appreciation of these themes, and valiantly attempts to pack in as many as possible in the film's bloated 162 minute running time.  It is this very dedication to the original that gets Snyder into trouble.  While staying faithful to a masterpiece is rarely a bad strategy for adaptation, Snyder fails to offer much in his screen adaptation that was not present in the original graphic novel.  While he has made changes to the narrative, some significant, had a director offered a perfectly faithful interpretation, the emotional and intellectual impact of the film would be much the same.  What is particularly discouraging is that early in the film, Snyder shows a moment of extreme engagement with the original work while using the medium of film to differentiate his work from the original.  After the opening scene, the opening credits offer a beautifully shot and edited alternate history of a world with the film's characters, set to Bob Dylan singing "Times They Are A'Changin'."  While the original work slowly allows the reader into the alternate universe, allowing the discovery of the differences in the story's world to unfold throughout the graphic novel, Snyder yanks the viewer into the world in the length of time it took Bob Dylan to redefine popular music.  This suits the filmic medium well, and offers the film a promising start, but for the rest of the film's runtime, Snyder is unable to match either the kinetic energy or the original interpretation of the credit sequence.  Alan Moore has never been happy with a film adaptation of any of his works, and I suspect he is the least unhappy with Watchmen, as Snyder shows a reverence for and understanding of the original missing in other interpretations of his work.  But while he may have kept Mr. Moore and die-hard fans of the original mollified, he did a disservice to the work by offering audiences little that could not be gained by a re-read of the graphic novel.  It is difficult in adaptation to be faithful to an original without being reverent, to honor it without it becoming an albatross.  While the initial thrill of seeing the beautifully rendered Dr. Manhattan, the flowing mask of Rorschach, and Watchmen's countless other iconic visuals is great, Snyder's decision to use the original as little more than a storyboard does a disservice to the revolutionary spirit of the original, and makes the adaptation of Watchmen something that the original never could be: boring.

An alternative but rather dark vision is offered here This is a well-recorded and performed production of the Nutcracker. However, a word of warning needs to be put for those expecting a 'traditional' production. This is a new staging and interpretation dating from 2001, with a completely different conceptual emphasis for many of the characters and their roles. The costuming and staging is bright and effective and works well in this production. The music is played in a refreshingly fleet manner and this accompanies effective steps in a modern way that I find a little ungainly at times but understandable in the circumstances - Clara is an unloved child at a transitional age in this production for example. Unsuspecting loved children expecting a kind artistic experience might find this rather unsettling although there are many unloved children in real life of course.  However there are fine alternatives. There is one for those who would prefer the 'traditional' Peter Wright version familiar to the Royal Ballet followers and which has been filling Covent Garden for years. For those who are familiar with this production there is nothing unexpected about this version and all is danced with the utmost skill within a lavish stage setting. The sound is excellent as is the camera work. This will be the perfect version for huge numbers of people and as such comes with the highest recommendation. It would be a Nutcracker of choice for many people.  There are others available which may also appeal. My personal favourite is the Bolshoi Ballet production with choreography by Grigorovich who has a wonderful sense of the epic and knows how to make the most of the large spaces provided by his theatre at the Bolshoi. Anyone who knows the Spartacus ballet for example will be aware of this. There are many breathtakingly beautiful sequences throughout his production - the corps de ballet in the Waltz of the Snowflakes being but one example. The character dances in Act two are refreshingly imaginative while remaining essentially traditional. The Pas de Deux of the Prince and Marie towards the end of Act 3 rises to climatic lifts that do not disappoint emotionally. One could go on and on .......!  I also like the San Francisco American setting of the ballet as an alternative version which is largely traditional in flavour and which has a refreshingly different selection of character dances to offer. The Arabian Dance is especially effective in my opinion.  Currently we are spoiled for choice, there being well-recorded versions to suit a wide variety of taste as described above. This is one of the least safe in my opinion because of its relatively dark concept, although very fine in its own way. Safer, more 'traditional' options would be the Royal ballet version along with the excellent Bolshoi version. The San Francisco Ballet is also worth considering.  For my taste I would choose this as a good alternative and rather dark view. However, I find the San Francisco production kinder and would choose either the new Royal Ballet or the Bolshoi version as my favourite single best buy - essentially traditional, well performed, well recorded and crucially, a kinder experience.

Original is a classic,Colin and 3D saves this one The remake when compared to the original doesn't come close to adding up.Colin trys his best to save the movie and he was the only character that even came close to making it interesting..The new Peter Vincent..pathetic...the new Evil Ed..pathetic and stupid looking,not scary at all.No evil zombie bodyguard protecting the vampire,no good transfermation scenes.like Evil Ed turning from vampire to wolf to dead human with stake in the heart like the original.HOWEVER....after all those negatives..the 3D kinda saved the day and made it watchable.Amy's part at the end when she turned was creepy,and again...Colin tried his best.And the 3D was pretty good.

A Competent, But Familiar, War Epic That Plays To Expected Cliches I was really looking forward to "Age of Heroes" based upon the real-life World War II exploits of James Bond creator Ian Fleming.  I've been a huge fan of Sean Bean for decades (not just since Lord of the Rings as is fashionable).  1988's understated gangster melodrama "Stormy Monday" is wildly underrated to my mind, and the long running Sharpe series is one of the most ambitious productions ever.  I also like Danny Dyer whom I find inexplicably hilarious in even the worst of films.  So I was intrigued to see these two actors, who have wildly diverse styles, collaborate again on a war film after the fascinating, but flawed, crime drama "The Outlaw."  There is nothing particularly bad about "Age of Heroes," although it certainly would have benefited from a larger budget.  It is, unfortunately, so utterly familiar.  With so many World War II epics available on the DVD marketplace, nothing about this film particularly distinguishes itself as unique or special.  It's competent, but exceedingly by-the-numbers.  Sadly, as a fan of the genre and of the actors, I'm relatively apathetic about the film.  Bean plays a seasoned officer, Dyer a brash upstart.  Through sheer determination, Dyer convinces Bean to allow him to join an elite squad of Commandos.  I would never disrespect the actual people the film aims to represent, but I will say that (as depicted) this is one of the least special "special squads" I've ever seen.  The intense training involves marching and learning to shoot a German Luger.  Nothing is revealed about any of the soldiers to indicate just what makes them different from any other fighter.  They are given a mission to surreptitiously invade occupied Norway and capture vital radar technology.  They cross the country with the assistance of an unlikely ally, and face the enemy to try to accomplish their goal.  Along the way, we meet some innocents caught in the crossfire and a preening German General fulfilling every villainous cliche that you might expect.  Again, I offer no commentary on the actual situation--just on the film.  As presented, the movie screenplay just hits every familiar bit and plot developemnt that you've seen in countless other films.  None of the characters is developed beyond a cursory introduction.  The squad itself isn't particularly interesting, the mission isn't overly interesting, the action sequences are fine but not exceptional.  I thought the movie was fine, I was just never emotionally invested in what happened.  War films can have the power to devastate, inspire, horrify and/or excite the audience.  "Age of Heroes" just didn't move me.  I feel like I've seen the same story played out innumerable times, and often with more impact.  So as much as I wanted to love "Age of Heroes," I can't really rave about it.  I liked it well enough once, but it's not something that I'd go out of my way to revisit any time soon.  KGHarris, 1/12.

Pleasant, slightly uninspired viewing Will Ferrell, 70's hair styles, drugs, booze and a basketball team that dances in costumes rather than play ball. A 2nd-rate movie, really. Seems Ferrell kept the sports-star thing going, which produces some laughs, but the dialogue and plot aren't that great. Most of the fire power comes from "Ed Monix", a dedicated, tough-talking experienced player who talks some sense into the "Flint Tropics", though the side-plot about him getting back together with his ex makes an hour of tele-commercials exciting.  Shame Monix couldn't talk some sense into the turkeys who wrote this thing. Or maybe their mothers never washed their mouth out with soap, which is a shame, seeing half the time jokes are Ferrell and co just standing around swearing.

Red made me blue All the actors in this were likeable and entertaining, enjoyable to be around. The story is pedestrian, and suffers from the idea that it is clever, creative, and a load of fun. After too many facile escapes the story loses it's credibility. Morgan Freeman, OK, she shoots him causing a distraction. But then show the hoard of FBI agents pursuing the good guy escapees. Then a close-up of the now forgotten Morgan Freeman's face. An eye pops open, rolling back and forth, and seeing nobody around. He gets up. knocks on his bullet-proof vest (gotten from Richard Dreyfuss's hidden room armory)...and  walks away. His death didn't belong in this lighthearted story, and he could have been greatly employed in later scenes. The idea of retired agents kicking butt, intriguing, but needs a more worthy story.

A mix of good and bad. The Da Vinci Code (2006) is a very interesting story and idea. But I'm not sure the film was executed as well as it could have been. Director Ron Howard just wasn't able to capture me in his storytelling quite as well as he usually does. I haven't read the book, so I had no bias or expectations for the film, other than I had heard mixed reviews of it over the years and wanted to see it so I could see what all the fuss was about. I actually watched Angels & Demons (2009) before seeing The Da Vinci Code, and my review here of The Da Vinci Code pretty much applies to that film as well. I give both films 3 stars out of 5. They are both worthy of viewing once, but I'm not sure there's much that would compel me to watch them again beyond that.  I'm not going to bore you with a synopsis of the film's story since you're probably aware of it from reading the book or seeing the film. Plus the plot is one of the main problems with the movie as I see it. I really don't want to waste my time trying to rehash it or understand it since it didn't do much for me. Read Roger Ebert's review if you want more detail and another opinion on this film. While Ebert gives this film higher praise than I think it deserves, I do agree that Ron Howard and his team bring their incredible filmmaking craft to this story and they do their best to make the movie compelling on a cinematic level. I just wish there was a little more tightness in the editing and storytelling that would help the pacing and action of the film move along more like The Bourne movies.  The acting by Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen and the rest of the ensemble is good. But it all felt a little too stiff and staged to me. There are some really good scenes in The Da Vinci Code, but there is a lot of filler too. I just kept looking at my watch while viewing the extended cut blu-ray version. This is one film that didn't need to be extended. The "thriller" aspect that was supposed to be what moved this film forward, just wasn't thrilling enough. And I'm at a loss as to why.  The film looked spectacular on bluray, with excellent cinematography and production design. And Hans Zimmer created a perfect score for the film, culminating with his top notch track "Chevaliers de Sangreal" for the final scene. I listen to that track all the time now, and it has become one of my favorite pieces of Zimmer's music. I think the best part of The Da Vinci Code is the final scene with Hanks following clues around Paris to his final mysterious discovery. The editing of that scene is fantastic and Zimmer's music makes it all work. I just wish that the magic that's in that final scene was in the rest of the movie. If I do watch The Da Vinci Code again, it will be because of those final few minutes. Sometimes a second viewing of a film with a complex and "absurd" mystery plot like this one can make the film better. Maybe in a few years I'll watch both The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons with a new appreciation...you never know!

"Man of the Forest ... Randolph Scott ... Henry Hathaway (Director) (2011)" Paramount Pictures presents "MAN OF THE FOREST" (1933) (60 min/B&W) -- Starring Randolph Scott, Verna Hillie, Harry Carey, Noah Beery, Barton MacLane, Buster Crabbe & Guinn `Big Boy' Williams  Directed by Henry Hathaway  Clint Beasley (Noah Beery), who is after land owned by wealthy rancher Jim Gaynor (Harry Carey), plans to kidnap his daughter, Alice (Verna Hillie). Two-fisted frontiersman Brett Dale (Randolph Scott) gets wind of a plot and kidnaps her himself. When Gaynor arrives to retrieve his daughter, Beasley kills him and makes the Sheriff arrest Dale for the murder  Scott who later became exclusively a western star received his start as a western leading man in a series of Zane Grey films, these were B-Westerns from Paramount his original studio. This is one of several Grey stories that Scott filmed at in the early Thirties.  A must for Randolph Scott fans who are a loyal group of his films. It's a fine chance to see him in his younger days before those post World War II B-Westerns that he is now a screen legend for.  Based on a Zane Grey story, Man of the Forest was re-released as Challenge of the Frontier (1933)  Special footnote: -- This release from Alpha Home Entertainment is shorter in running time than the original and the film copy is just good to fair.  But that being said, this is probably a better copy than most -- and it is a rare release.  BIOS: 1. Henry Hathaway (aka: Marquis Henri Leonard de Fiennes) Date of birth: 13 March 1898 - Sacramento, California Date of death: 11 February 1985 - Hollywood, California  2. Randolph Scott (aka: George Randolph Scott) Date of birth: 23 January 1898 - Orange County, Virginia Date of death: 2 March 1987 - Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California  Mr. Jim's Ratings: Quality of Picture & Sound: 3 Stars Performance: 3 Stars Story & Screenplay: 3 Stars Overall: 3 Stars [Original Music, Cinematography & Film Editing]  Total Time: 60 min on DVD ~ Paramount Pictures ~ (January 31, 2011)

kilos I have become interested in the career of Glen Plumer since his breif appearance in the Sean Penn Vehicle Colors, but more Note wothy South central. I purchased Kilos on a whem not knowing much about it,  but I like the little underated movies he's appeared in so far, so I decided to give it a chance.  there's not that much to the story but the movie does have it's moments. I think his movies don't always have the A list as far as production gos but its far above a B movie as far as acting and production. So I recomend renting it first, but I must say that I'm not sorry that I purchased it.

So So I bought a used Cinderella DVD. It worked fine. The cover seemed like copy paper. It did not have a barcode. Decent Shipping.

an all-out 50s epic, with all the strengths and flaws of the genre I got this because of the contrast it would make with the Dreamworks cartoon version, which my kids love.  In particular, I remembered the tension between Ramses and Moses as potentially murderous rivals for the throne, which is almost entirely absent from the Spielberg version.  Brenner is absolutely brilliant as the ruthless Ramses, who wants Nefretiri for the power, not for love.  (We regard these stories as living myths in our home, to be enjoyed but also to be compared and discussed.)  From the start, the kids were far less interested than I was, a sure sign that the film is dated - me preferring almost dinosaurian versions, they the slick new ones with flawless effects and more modern scripts.  What struck me right off was the stilted dialogue, so over-the-top melodramatic, and the stylized acting, not at all in the method-acting tradition but rather a caricature of the flourishes from the silent screen.  (Moses, for example, saves his mother by chance, who later cannot deny that he is her son, even at the cost of his position.)  Oddly, I did not remember it that way, though the last time I saw this was in the mid-80s - I didn't watch it every Easter.  This stylistic aspect really put my kids off, whereas I enjoyed it as a kind of relic from the films of my childhood.  Nonetheless, the narrative did carry us all along and we enjoyed discussing the Egyptian empire, the way that slaves and Jews were treated, and the character of Moses as a leader of his people.  It is a great story, a timeless classic, and there is no question that this film taps into that, however dated it appears.  The setting and sets are also wonderful, evoking the wonder of human history.  I also like the entire generation of actors in it, e.g. Yvonne de Carlo.  The second half of the film, when Moses becomes something not completely human after the encounter of the burning bush, is much less interesting in my opinion.  Heston makes a really good human hero, particularly in his signature role of Ben Hur.  But he was not nearly as interesting as a demi-god.  His miracles felt a bit ho-hum to all of us, though with all due respect we are not watching it as believers.  Recommended for film buffs.  This was a great film when it was at the cutting edge, but that is now over 50 years ago.

I wish the cuttlefish had done the editing too. I love those cuttlefish, but there's something about the cheesy editing techniques that cheapen this entire episode.  Why do I need to see the cuttlefish researchers walking in speeded up motion through the halls to their offices?  Why do I need to hear a throbbing synthesizer whenever the cuttlefish puts on it's predatory light show?  The cuttlefish is an amazing creature, and it doesn't need any assistance from human post-production people to hold my attention.  I watched this once, but probably never again.

Another caveat on physical quality assurance As a Dr.Who newbie, it is difficult to compare this incarnation of the Dr. with others, although I do find David Tennant's acting engaging, just a bit 'over the top' which seems to fit the persona.  My main complaint is that one of the six disks sent in my product was unreadable by two different DVD players. Looking at it, it seems as if nothing had been written on the disk. It looks 'blank', compared to the others. My warning is that you check your disks as soon as you receive the package and request a new set before any "grace" period expires.  I am also a bit surprised that there are only two or three episodes per disk, when many TV dvd editions have four episodes on a disk.

Entertaining heist flick that wears out its welcome at the denouement *** This review may contain spoilers ***  'The Town' refers to 'Charlestown', once a predominantly Irish-Catholic section of Boston known for criminal activity. Crime apparently reached its apotheosis around 1995 in Charlestown when a series of bank robberies were committed. In more recent times, however, the area has become gentrified and probably most of its residents now would express surprise that Charlestown is currently associated with the serious type of crimes depicted in this film. Nonetheless, the filmmakers advise their audience in the trailer that "there are over 300 bank robberies in Boston every year" and "most of these professionals live in a 1-square-mile neighborhood called Charlestown." According to Wikipedia, however, there were 23 reported bank robberies in the entire Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the first quarter of 2010. So much for verisimilitude!  'The Town' works best when depicting the dark underside of the criminal underclass in Charlestown (albeit, a depiction that is decidedly anachronistic, as discussed above). My favorite character is 'Fergie', played by the late character actor, Pete Postlethwaite. He's a local crime boss who runs a floral shop as a front for his criminal activities. In perhaps the best scene in the film, Fergie confronts Ben Afleck's 'Doug MacRay', insisting that MacRay participate in the next bank robbery he's got planned, despite the fact that MacRay now wants out. MacRay is practically left speechless when Fergie reveals that years ago, he got MacRay's mother hooked on drugs in retaliation for his father wanting to leave Fergie's gang. The kicker is that the mother committed suicide. Fergie ups the stakes (like all good criminals) when he threatens to kill MacRay's girlfriend, Claire, the sweet bank manager turned hostage. Postlethwaite is perfect as the scraggy-faced long-time tough guy who'll stop at nothing to protect his turf.  There are a few other good things about 'The Town' including the excellent performance of Jeremy Renner as 'Jem', Doug's boyhood friend, who's now Doug's right hand man. Renner is utterly believable as the hot-headed psycho who always wants to take things a step further than Doug, his level-headed comrade in crime. There are also a collection of local Boston characters in the form of armored car guards, police officers and Fenway Park workers, who all show up, adding to the foreboding atmosphere. Blake Lively also acquits herself well as the McRay's jealous ex-girlfriend who can't accept the fact that she's the odd woman out. Should I also mention the first two bank robberies are neatly shot and edited and add to the overall fast pace of the film's narrative?  Unfortunately, a good deal of the rest of 'The Town' is typical Hollywood claptrap, which disqualifies it from being in the same league as that old chestnut, the gritty 1970 crime drama shot in the Boston area, 'The Friends of Eddie Coyle'. At the outset, it doesn't make a lot of sense that Jem decides to take Claire hostage as it soon becomes apparent that she lives in the neighborhood and could perhaps identify one (or all of them) as the perpetrators of the bank robbery.  The hostage 'faux pas' is a necessary contrivance in order to allow Doug to hook up with Claire. Many have criticized Affleck's performance, arguing that he seems out of place as a local boy from Charlestown. Maybe so, but Affleck is really saddled by a script that calls for a character working at complete cross purposes. The screenwriters want us to believe that McCray is on one hand, a bit of a psychopath who doesn't hesitate to join his pals in committing bank robberies where people are killed (although McCray insists he never does any killing himself). But when his chivalrous heart is offended after girlfriend Claire informs him some local bully has been harassing her, he has no qualms in breaking into the apartment of the bully in question and beating this guy (along with psycho buddy Jem), to a bloody pulp. As long as he's doing it for 'a good woman', McCray's violent outbursts are 'justified'.  Rebecca Hall is equally saddled by the film's unconvincing script. In one of the worst scenes in the film, when Jem intrudes on Doug and Claire's luncheon date, no bells and whistles go off in Claire's mind after she meets him. It's quite obvious that Jem is not only from 'the other side of the tracks' but is also thoroughly unsavory, and Claire ends up saying nothing to Doug afterward about him. You would think that that it might occur to good girl Claire that Doug's 'buddy' also puts her new boyfriend in a bad light too. The films' scenarists also lose points when they have Claire and the FBI agents standing at an open window where Doug can easily see that they're forcing her to entice him to her apartment. Hey, how about standing inside the living room, away from the window, where Doug can't draw any definitive conclusions as to whether the FBI is at the apartment or not.  'The Town' wears out its welcome completely in the final (third) bank robbery scene. While the first bank robbery was quick and for the most part fairly believable and the second one featured some comic relief with the gang dressed in Nun masks, the third heist appears to be simply derivative. Doug and Jem simply dress up as cops and rob the payroll room at Fenway Park. There is the obligatory shootout, with Jem doing his 'suicide-by-cop' routine. Meanwhile, Special Agent Frawley, stares mindlessly, as Doug makes his getaway in a cop car, right in front of his eyes. In a nod to the 'Shawshank Redemption', all's well that ends well when Claire digs up the stolen cash in her garden and donates it for the renovation of a local kids' hockey rink.  There you have it. 'The Town' manages to entertain in some respects but ultimately must resort to the tired trappings of the heist genre. It's a mixed bag that should at best, engender mixed reviews!

Not as bad as the negative reviews would lead you to believe Could have been a lot better, although the actors seemed sincere with their roles.  Maybe a little more suspense, more scenes in darkness, etc.  Pretty good for a Fearnet.com free movie.

A fine horror flick for a rainy night. I am at a loss to understand why so many viewers are bashing this movie so rabidly.  I looked up the reviews before watching the movie; they were so overwhelmingly negative that I almost decided to return it to Big Lots and get my $3.00 back. Yet, having never seen an Uwe Boll's creation I was curious, and thought that at only $3.00 I wouldn't lose much. Also, it was supposed to be so incredibly pathetically awful that I became eager to discover this contender for " world's worst movie". In that respect I was sorely disappointed: Alone in the Dark is an honest B horror picture, and certainly hardly half as bad as purported to be by so many.  Certainly it is not on par with Alien, but in such a comparison the overwhelming majority of science fiction horror films fall short. As with most horror flicks, one should not expect a masterpiece of world cinema nor an Academy Award winner. Alone in the Dark is not a masterpiece and never pretends that it could ever be one, but it is certainly not an awful movie, nor even a bad movie in this genre. It works well for what it was supposed to do: provide 96 minutes of escapism.  Unlike many reviewers, I found Alone in the Dark coherent, never lacking in continuity, easy to follow and understand (but then I never needed Dune to be explained to me by a flyer!), suspenseful, fast-paced and attention grabbing; I was never bored a second.  The flashbacks illustrate adequately all connections with the past, and they are very intriguing in themselves. The close combat scenes are fascinating and perfectly choreographed. The creatures are quite impressive and disquieting if not absolutely original; one will also notice a definite Starship Troopers' influence in the combats between creatures and 713 agents, but it doesn't spoil anything. The sets are completely satisfactory and perfectly complement the action. The special effects are flawless and well worth being replayed several times. All of which is highly laudable when one remembers that it was a very modest budget movie. The twist and turns of the story, although not always unpredictable, work sufficiently well to let one go with the flow. The ending might leave some a little bewildered or unsatisfied, but it has its own logic and I respect that. This is a movie that some time from now I will watch again with pleasure.  The extras or special features are numerous and very interesting. I will be looking for other titles by Uwe Boll. I certainly do not regret having bought Alone in the Dark and not having let myself be deterred by the negative criticism; to amateurs of unpretentious honest horror B movies I would definitely recommend it.

It's not all that.... With all due respect to folks, young and old, who love these movies I must say that I do not get all the hype about it.  It was not that good, not at all scary and a bit over the top with Bella's ridiculously sick pregnancy.  And, as in all the others in this series, Bella USES Jacob to the hilt.  She cannot make up her mind who in the heck she wants.  I can make it up for her....Jacob is the much better of the 2 men Bella has been involved with.  And, as ever, Kristen Stewart cannot act!!!

Simple, Fun & Entertaining "Kung Pow - Enter the Fist" is simply goofy fun. I'm not sure what the negative reviewers were expecting? Basically Steve Oedekerk spliced up, redubbed and added some new footage to an old kung fu flick to create a fun little comedy that will get you chuckling. Oedekerk stars as The Chosen One who sets out to avenge the murder of his family by the evil Master Pain, along the way he has to fight a cow, meets a one boobed mystic, and trains himself to fight in some unusual ways. Oh, and I forgot to mention that his tongue has a face?! Again, if you are looking for high comedy, this ain't it. But if you want a fun little movie that will get you chuckling, then give "Kung Pow" a try.

See it for the acting, but the story didn't work for me Spoiler warning.  The acting is  good. I found Gillian Andersen's character interesting, but she just disappeared after the first act. I guess her role was just to establish McAvoy's character as a womanizer and set up for his affair with Kay. What a waste of a good character. And the fling with the woman on the bus at the beginning of the movie obviously serves the same purpose. But it doesn't work. Because even a womanizer can't possibly be so stupid as to put his life on the line for an affair. Worse yet, this woman on the bus is such a foot on a snake, for most of the movie I wasn't sure if the doctor was having an affair with the woman from the bus or Kay. Because one the two women do look alike, two, again, how can the doctor be so stupid to get involved with Kay. As a result, I wasn't sure whose body it was on the table, and whether the death of this unknown woman is reason enough for the doctor to kill,----he was a man with moral standards after all, as Amin asserted. The scene where the doctor prepares poison probably could have clarified the plot, but alas, it was cut.  So in summary, it was a contrived story clumsily presented, and the editing didn't help.

Coriolanus Coriolanus to me was boring. Gerry's part was not as dramatic as Ralph Fiennes. They did have a good fight scene together. If i had seen the movie in the theatre i would not have purchased the DVD.

Great Movie, Poor Picture & Sound Great movie that put Bette Davis on the map; her breakout performance.  The problem here, and it's a serious one, is the picture and sound quality, which are both poor.  A shame.  I had trouble making out the dialogue.  It would be great if this film could be remastered/restored someday, but in the meantime, I think buyers should be made aware so they can at least make an informed decision re: whether to purchase.

Good pieces but they don't come together The synopsis for this film says "KILL LIST is ... being called the #1 Horror Film of the Year." O RLY? Called that by whom? The director's BFF? If you can't tell me who said that, it seems like little more than hype.  I really wanted to like this, but its a blah film. I have to blame the writing, because the filming was artistic, the music perfect, the actors great, etc. All the pieces were there but it just was too slow to be compelling until the WTF? moments of the final act. Sadly that was too little too late. I would have rather more clues to the ending were dropped along the way.  I'm a fan of slow bleak films with ambient doom music (a very specific sub-genre) but this bored me. A shame too because the few moments of tension are really well done. The first 30 minutes are soap-opera worthy family drama, screaming and little else. It took some doing to get thru it.  All that said, I look forward to the team of KILL LIST's next film. With a few tweaks they will rock it for sure. This however, falls short.  Larry Nocella Author of novel Where Did This Come From? Available on Amazon Kindle!

Kept it This is a great movie but the DVD had a couple of ditgital break ups. I have noticed with some Eastwood, Wyane, and MGM films this is pretty common.

Adopting Psycho Parents! Adopting Terror aired on Lifetime earlier this year, in which I didn't watch it because I don't care for most of the channel's programming. The movie was made by Asylum Home Entertainment, whom I have reviewed a few DVDs for this year, and they nicely let me view an online screening of Adopting Terror through Fordela.  The movie stars Sean Astin and Samaire Armstrong as Tim and Cheryl Broadbent, who are proud parents of their newly adopted daughter, Mona. Just when they are adjusting to being a family, a stranger shows up at Mona's first birthday party. The stranger is Mona's birthfather, Kevin Anderson (played by Brendan Fehr), who was released from prison on a technicality.  Kevin follows Cheryl while she is grocery shopping, he shows up at their house, and he even shows up at their friend's home to mow the yard. The police can't help them as there is no real proof that he is stalking them. The social worker, Fay Hopkins (played Monet Mazur), tries to give them advice on the situation, but nothing seems to helps as Kevin is determined to take back his daughter.  Desperate to protect his family Tim buys a gun despite Cheryl's objections, and he may have to use it as Kevin is not the only person who wants to take Mona away from them.  I can see why Adopting Terror first premiered on Lifetime before hitting DVD as it has the typical "inspired by true events" plot that most of the channel's movies are about, but the movie is slightly more intense than most. Typically Asylum's plots involve ghosts, zombies, disasters, sharks, or mockbusters, so I was surprised that the studio would release a melodrama thriller with actors that I have actually heard of. The movie started off slow for me, but the realistic plot kept me interested. There are a couple of twists that occur in the later half. I kind of saw the twist involving the social worker coming, but I didn't know if the writers would go that way or not. Despite a decent cast, the acting was average at best. There are of course a few plot holes that were probably caused by a rushed script. Like, why did the parents keep postponing the court date? And I guess the writers didn't know what a baby thermometer is. I'm still wondering how Kevin got out of the trunk of a car alive! Adopting Terror is not going to win any awards, but it is not as bad as you may think.

I was entertained The Tourist did not fare well with the critics despite having Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp as the film's leading actors.  Jolie plays Elise, a beautiful mysterious English woman.  Depp plays Frank, an aloof American tourist.  As the film opens we quickly learn that Elise is being followed in hopes that she will lead investigators to her former lover Alexander Pearce.  The film has a few twists and turns, but it is described by its director as "a travel romance with thriller elements."  I enjoyed it.  It isn't like the usual big buck American blockbusters, but that is what I enjoyed about it.

a disappearing indigenous people This documentary tells the history of how there were 1/2 million Native Hawaiians in the late 1700s and there may be no fully Native Hawaiians in 2042.  I thought this would focuses on the spread of diseases.  The work spoke of measles and chicken pox; it said nothing on leprosy and syphilis, however.  Instead, it speaks of the marginalization of this group generally.  Like many outlets, this work said missionaries were some of the first Europeans to travel and move to the islands.  In a sociological text called "Native Men Remade," it seemed to say that evangelical Native Hawaiians don't want to pursue any activism or activities that would make anyone question Christianity.  Thus, I was surprised that this documentary revealed the wrongdoings of these travellers.  The narrator sarcastically stated, "[By stealing land] The missionaries who came to do good did well."  Another example of religious suppression was how the hula was drained of its religious import.  When the work laments the dwindling numbers of Natives, it focuses on the "full-blooded."  I thought biracial Natives might resent this.  However, the narrator herself is Native and biracial.  They also show an image of Haunani Kay-Trask, an impressive activists who I encourage others to read.  I thus assume this is friendly to viewers of all blood quantums.  I learned important things here.  The narrator recalls a racist education system that seemed much like the Indian boarding schools on the Mainland.  Hawaii had a problem with the US practicing warfare on one island; this is very similar to the recent Vieques controversy near Puerto Rico.  It makes sense that the DVD cover is a black and white image as the work shows only such images until 3/5 into the work.  The narrator's voice is slow, perhaps island-y, and this may grate on some viewers.  The work has the Hawaiian language as a listening option.  Since there are few Native Hawaiians left, I assume there are few or no people left who only speak Hawaiian and don't speak English.  Thus, this listening option just seemed like exoticism.  In thinking about Hawaii, I also think about current US territories.  As far as I know, there is no person of full indigenous blood in Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands.  The way this speaks of dwindling numbers may be of interest to those in Guam, Samoa, and Palau.

interesting, but not great Be warned - this movie is not a full telling of her story.  It is a non-linear reflection of choices made by this amazing woman against the backdrop of her senile senior years, in which she comes to realize what she gave up to pursue her chosen path.  In short, she neglects her family to serve the free world.  Only, the movie doesn't really develop the high points of her career - for example, the Falklands get some attention, but the Cold War is all but absent.  I enjoyed the real-life footage that seems to have become standard fare for biopics these days, but I was disappointed at the lack of historical context for her achievements.  At the end of her life, all she - and the viewer - is left with is a profound sense of regret and irony, with no recourse available.  Perhaps other viewers had a better experience.

Disco 3D no tiene subtitulos en espa&ntilde;ol La calidad gr&aacute;fica es impresionante, pero el disco 3D no tiene ni audio ni subtitulos en espa&ntilde;ol como describe amazon y la misma caja del bluray

Brave and interesting I thought this was a very brave and interesting movie - twisted, yet intriguing in a perverse kind of way!

Noir "light" The movie has all of the elements of decent film noir. A serviceable but unspectacular story--bad cop kills self, leaves suicide note revealing prevalent corruption, alienated wife secrets note in exchange for payoff from local boss, clean cop continues investigation into suicide despite increasing pressure until his own wife is killed in car bomb explosion meant for him, cop turns in badge and relentlessly works to expose corruption and ID wife killers. A workable story, but a synopsis pretty much does it justice, which is not a good thing. Yes, there is a fairly interesting bad guy (Lee Marvin) and his decent girlfriend (Gloria Grahame) and the requisite staff of good cops, bad cops, thugs, stoolies, and so on, but nothing really happens to set the story apart or make it especially interesting or memorable.  As to the atmospherics, the movie lacks the grit of really effective noir. It's noir on a freshly painted Hollywood back lot. Even the "subterranean" world of shady nightclubs and B-girls seems a bit like a run-down Holiday Inn.  And the brightly lit "happy home" scenes with Glenn Ford, his wife and child, and their banter of wedded bliss might be interesting if shaded with a liberal dose of irony, but they are not. They play more like beer advertisements for a carefree life in the suburbs and seem laughably out of place. Yes, we understand the contrast with the "dirty streets" (which actually look quite clean and safe) but these cheery scenes are a bit much.  The casting is quite good. Grahame is one of the best things in the movie and Fritz Lang gets a lot out of all his actresses.  Lee Marvin is typically imposing but for me, despite a couple of famous incidents of violence (the hot pot of coffee in the face of Grahame, for instance) I just don't feel that uncontrolled brutality  verging on insanity boiling just beneath the surface, as say in his performance as Liberty Valence.  Close, but not quite.  The biggest downer, however, is Glenn Ford. I have never understood Ford's attraction as a "leading man," at least a young one.  The qualities he brought to the screen allowed him to grow and age well as an actor,  but as a younger man, he is not that interesting or compelling or even that good of an actor. Admittedly, his performance here far outshines his turn in "Gilda," a catastrophically bad performance.  Here, he is likeable and believable enough and, wisely, Lang doesn't ask him to do too much emotionally, as on the murder of his wife, because range is not one of Ford's strong points.  Still, he is not really interesting enough to carry us with him through the movie and, when he is tempted by "the dark side," in a hotel scene with Grahame or violent confrontations with various wrongdoers where he might overstep Hollywood hero propriety and wield his personal scimitar of justice, well, we really don't believe he has the kind of fury within him that it is a victory to overcome to remain among the righteous. Finally, the film has been praised as one of Fritz Lang's Hollywood masterpieces. On this count, I was disappointed.  Very possibly Lang was working under a number of constraints he never faced in his early, groundbreaking, brilliant career in Germany.  But I found nothing especially memorable about this film from a directorial perspective.  It is reasonably well paced, the actors give decent performances, he did a decent job with only a fair script, but there is nothing visually exciting about the film, combined with a singular lack of the kind of atmosphere that makes noir special--that dark, haunting sense of dangerous uncertainty, suspense and menace.  All in all, a good enough movie, but hardly a classic of the genre.  Call it "noir light."

Harold and Maude would be proud, and then confused as I am The first time I saw the trailer for this, I really wanted to see it.  As a fan of "Natural Born Killers," "Idiocracy," and "Falling Down," I was pleased that another of these films were being made, but I'm not entirely pleased with the outcome of "God Bless America."  The story is simple and at times, a bit far-fetched and convenient to the plight of the main character.  He knows that the things he hates are all around him, yet he refuses to change anything about his living condition, entertainment options, or his job.  He feels the only thing he can do is drink and commit suicide...or is it?  His sidekick in frustration, a 16-year-old, antisocial girl who looks like a younger Christina Ricci, is OK, but her love for all things to be obliterated gets really old.  I kind of wish he would have taken his own life because there really is no point in killing off a handful of people who don't subscribe to his version of being civilized.  It was good seeing cameos by Mo Gaffney, Larry Miller, and Tom Kenney, all comics who probably met director Bobcat Goldthwait back in his prime comedy years.  I hated the diatribe about Alice Cooper, but I loved the gag about the flaming rag falling out of the girl's gas tank (which the lead was trying to blow up).  The lead made me think of Phillip Seymour Hoffman in "Happiness," which is a good, creepy-guy role to play, in my opinion.  If you like movies about vigilantes who take out their agressions against the blind American society, this movie's for you, but it's pretty simple, and some of it feels forced and pretentious.  The inclusion of numerous modern targets makes it feel like an immediately dated film, even for the current year.  I grew up seeing Bobcat on TV, so it just felt good to contribute to his current project by renting this movie through Video On Demand. Goldthwait mentioned in a current interview on The Nerdist Podcast (#193) that he felt that the current attitude in society right now is one where everything has to be "extreme."  I disagree (in fact, everything is so boring and Disney-esque, compressed and marketed directly for certain groups), but I would say that I felt he made an extreme movie, which is exactly the thing to hate.  I'm still on the fence with this one.

lol This movie would have gotten a higher rating from me if Johnny Knoxville wasn't in it. I simply have no respect for him after the Jacka** movie and TV show that he created. This story is funny and over the top, you're not supposed to take it seriously (just look at Ursula Udder's chest!) The storyline is a little weird, and if the storyline had been a bit more coherent, this would have been a better movie, like Orgazmo.

Must watch and not listen Arrived on time and was eager to watch. Must be committed and not involved in anything else.  Would have enjoyed better in the theater.

Interesting It was OK, I didn't really like it much, I mainly bought it to see what it was all about since making this movie Brad Pitt of whom I love as an actor left his wife.  I wanted to see what triggered his unfaithfulness to his wife.  M

Where Was The Writer? I purchased this disc after seeing the trailer on various other discs.  The trailer is better than the film which only has one saving grace -  it looks cool.  Unfortunately the director and the writer expected the viewer to suspend all forms of logic to get through it which makes watching more than twice nearly impossible.  The script/logic holes are canyon sized.  Also many of the 'dark' indoor scenes were too 'bright' a missing mental tool that both the writer and director desperately needed.  For example why would the sheriff go outside to 'save' the screaming girl surrounded by ravenous vampires with superior strength, only to find a bitten neighbor and kill him?  Don't bother to watch this disc if little things like this bother you because there are many more just like this throughout the film.

Interesting ideas, hard on the eyes The story was good, but it was really hard to follow. I sometimes felt lost while watching this movie. The acting was really good, which is a plus. Whatever film this was shot on really made it difficult to watch. The grainy grey gave me a headache. I am a fan of his films, so it didn't bother me as much.

Borrrrrrring! OK, so I knew this had nothing to do with Final Fantasy... big deal, it still looks cool right?  Right.  But I have to say that despite the incredible visuals which still stand up in 2011, that this movie has one major issue.  It is just boring.  That's it.  It was so boring that I had to force myself to finish it.  It is probably worth watching for the astounding visuals but that's about it.

Gringo Not up to what Mel can and has done. It seemed to me that it lacked a believable story line. It is not a movie that I would ever watch twice.

Decent movie, not the best but not the worst. The movie was not bad. Worth renting, not buying. There is decent action but it's not like a Borne movie or something.

Three No closed caption, hard to hear, do not like flashback movies, too much money for what you get Amazon needs to place high importance to getting the streaming movies with CC

Why? Just Why? I first caught an episode of this on TV Land early in the morning back in 2004 I think and it was OK. It was no Bewitched but it was OK. Now after seeing it seven  years later it's still...OK.  But if they were going to do a spin-off, shouldn't they have at least stuck to the actual history of the show? Quite a few writers from Bewitched worked on this show and the show was probably in reruns (I wouldn't know, I wasn't born yet) so they shouldn't have been able to screw it up. I'm not talking about the fact that they aged Tabitha, soap-operas do it all the time, I'm talking about, of course, the fact that Adam is now the older child. Even though it's only mentioned in the first episode when he calls her his "kid" sister, it's never brought up again in any of the following episodes! She never refers to him as an older brother, so for all we know she still is the older child. Also after the first few episodes, he never seems to care or notice about her doing witchcraft and hardly features in the show at all in several episodes. Also this disregard of Samantha's side of the family seems odd. He mentions it once but it just bugs me. How could someone with a mom as a witch, who probably taught him growing up to accept witches and other than their powers, are just like everybody else, end up so spiteful? Even if Darrin tried to interfere, I'm sure her relatives would've had a thing or two to say about it. I know we never see the five years in between Adam being two and twentysomething but it's a stupid thing to do just to have a Darrin-esque character. Especially when it was revealed he had powers in the first place! Aunt Minerva I enjoy but not as much as Endora. You see a hint of antagonism between her and Adam but it never amounts to much. I know, I know, twelve episodes and all but consistency would've been nice. She also isn't as confident as Endora, who would obey the Witches' Council but I never got the feeling that she outright feared it as Minerva displayed in the Halloween episode and the final episode. The mortal characters are just BORING! They try to make Paul the romantic interest but for one or two episodes, she never admits that she has a thing for him. She's always pushing him away when he hits on her so what was the point? Would she have eventually liked or fell in love with him had the show continued? And I don't know if anyone else caught this or not but in the final episode, Mary Wickes' character states Samantha and Darrin had been married for 25 years. Which means since they were married in 1964, then the show would take place in 1989! The disco era lasted a little longer than I thought.  The actors are OK, there's nothing special to write home about but I am glad they went with Lisa Hartman as Tabitha. She resembles Elizabeth Montgomery and pulled off her mannerisms very well. Everyone else was just alright. Having Dick Wilson, Sandra Gould, George Tobias and Bernard Fox make guest spots were good and they should've had a couple other original characters pop up. I know Elizabeth didn't want anything to do with it, Agnes Moorehead had died and Dick York probably didn't work much after he left Bewitched (I don't know if he did or not) but what about Dick Sargeant? David White and Kasie Rogers? The only thing from the 70s I saw David White in was a fleeting cameo in a third season episode of Wonder Woman!  The effects seemed dirt cheap compared to the superior effects from Bewitched (it's like Superman IV but on a mircoscopic budget). Other than the continuity issues mentioned above, the writing was OK. I think the only episodes that captured the feel of Bewitched to me was "The Arrival of Nancy" (William Asher directed) and the final episode. It was good, however, for the Witches' Council to progess and accept mixed marriages. I don't think enough time had passed between Bewitched and Tabitha. Maybe if they had actually waited until the 80s or when Erin Murphy had gotten older. The writing could've been a little fresher too, most if not all episodes feel like bad rehashes of older Bewitched episodes (even the rehashed scripts from Bewitched were better).  I guess I should also mention the original pilot. I couldn't get past the first 10 minutes. Liberty Williams (the voice of Jayna from the Super Friends) didn't remotely resemble Elizabeth Montgomery. I think the only thing they did right was keeping Adam as a warlock and having him encourage Tabitha to use her powers. It makes sense when compared to an up-until-now never heard of Aunt (though to be fair, Samantha had many relatives on Bewitched who popped in and were never mentioned again).  It's an OK spin-off but it could've been better if they had just waited a little while longer.

Unbelievable.... I'm not quite so sure what others find in this movie - the gal that plays Jane gets on my nerves SO very badly that I just can't wait for her to get out of the scene. What a terrible actress! Honestly, I could have done better! In no way whatsoever does she make you believe that she's Jane, or anyone else for that matter. And, to pair her with Timothy Dalton, well, upstaging is the obvious result.  Many people have written in here that they think this version follows the book to the letter. Well it doesn't, although I must say that it is better than the rest of the movie versions of this book. If you're not familiar with this version, it is filmed in a soap-opera type way, no full movie version here. It's very low budget and the actors, well. To be blunt, if you're wanting to know the story of Jane Eyre but don't want to tackle the book (by the way, that's the ONLY way you're going to understand what Miss Bronte was trying to say), then grab the 2007 version with Toby Stephens and Ruth Wilson as Jane. No, it doesn't follow the book hardly at all and should actually be called, "A story based on Jane Eyre," but the acting is tremendous and you WILL be forced to read the book after watching that movie! It's hands down, just awesome.  What bothered me a lot about this version is that the screenwriter has Dalton telling Jane to leave after she comes back from Morton and finds him injured and blind. He NEVER says that in the book and quite frankly, is so overwhelmed that she returned to him that he asks her to marry him within the day. You just cannot take away from Miss Bronte's writing of this story or you'll mess up the whole meaning of it. Creative writing of a classic just looks foolish at best and gets in the way of what might have been a fantastic movie.  Again, move on from this one and get the Toby Stephens version of Jane Eyre. You won't know the book very well after watching it but you'll be so drawn to the story and sucked in that you'll not only HAVE to read the book, you won't be able to put it down.

underwhelming The stars go to high production value and stunning visuals. The storyline just seemed like more of the same...group of rag tag scientists, technicians venture into deep space on what they think is a scientific expedition, but the calculating corporate executive and duplicitous android have other ideas. Sound familiar? As much as I liked Noomi Rapace in the Millenium Trilogy, she seemed miscast for this role. Or maybe the role itself was just not written well. The humanoid alien was kind of interesting and from a technical standpoint done well, but all I could think of was Dr. Manhattan from the Watchmen.

Effective, But Boring Sure, it's effective; swinging a heavy weight back and forth for an hour is bound to be. But after the first couple of times doing it, the whole thing becomes so repeptetive and boring that it's hard to stay motivated. For me, it's just as important for a workout to be fun as it is for it to be challenging. I recommend The Firm 500 Calorie Workout as something that manages to be both.

Percy Jackson After reading the books the movie was a bit of a letdown. Most of the stuff that happened in the movie did not even happen in the book, or happened in the 2nd. NOT the first. 2nd of all, they used older characters. Instead of Percy Jackson being portrayed as 12-13, he was 16. The age where he is supposed to end up dying or living according to one of the prophecies. So now, they are either going to have to start from scratch and come out with another first movie, or they will just have to improvise. (They will most likely choose the second) Also, Annabeth's eyes were GREY. And I think Percy's were green... Not that that matters, but when your basing a movie off of a book, it is probably best to go by the book. Although, if you have not read the books then you would like this movie. Percy Jackson & The Olympians was a good movie by itself, but basing it off of the book, it was a rip-off.

It was okay It was a good movie, but would recommend watching when you have the energy, otherwise you may find yourself falling asleep!

Censored US Blu Ray version of the movie BEWARE. This is an excellent action movie that is right now a Best Buy exclusive for now. I had seen this movie in theaters when first released and owned the dvd version of this movie also. There is one problem with the US release of this movie. On the rating marker on the back of the disc case it says some scenes were altered from the original version. What happen is they cut and shorten certain scenes in the movie to be after 911 freindly. You can do a search online to read on the various forums on what was taken out. This is a movie that was shown in theaters back in 1996 why would Warner Bros release a chopped up version of the movie onto blu ray is very disapointing. What I read was they took the censored overseas cut of the film and just released that version onto blu ray in the US. The original dvd and vhs release of the movie is the only uncut version of this film in the US. The good news is if you don't mind the minor edits the upgrade to blu ray is well worth it over the standard dvd. The picture quality is clean and sharp and looks like the movie was filmed recently for an older movie of the 90's. The sound and audio is also a big plus for the upgrade. The soundtrack to the movie was done by Jerry Goldsmith and sounds excellent on a good surround sound system.  Wish movie studios would leave these older films alone the way they are instead of years later after the movie was released in theaters and dvd to censor the movie which is the reason why I knocked off 2 stars. Hope this helps with making an Executive Decision whether to purchase this movie or hold out and see if Warner Bros decides to release an uncut version of this film. Just wanted everyone to be informed for there are not many reviews out there on the US blu ray version of the movie yet.

Informative but not entertaining Whether you will like this movie or not depends on what you expect of this movie. It's very informative, but very low production value and not really entertaining. Treat this as an oral presentation.  The pros are that the movie introduces you to a lot of new information in the field. And this is a big plus, since most of the movies and shows on the subject just regurgitate the same old information with different graphics.  The cons are... very cheap production value. Minimal old fashioned 3d, too reliant of photo use. So if you are looking to kill two birds with one stone, i.e. entertain yourself for the night while maybe learning something... this is not for you.

Stress reliever I love watching this after a stressful day at work. I'll watch the fish & burn a scented candle for 30 minutes; the video really helps to re-center.  The blu-ray is not as vivid as some may demand, ( no where near avatar sharpness)however, it fits the purpose- to de-stress re-energize for the evening.

This is a dram not a thriller This was an interesting drama...worth watching not real happy to pay 6.99 to stream it as it will probably be free on net flix soon. There was nothing exciting about this movie. The acting was good..fiction based on recent events. The traiers call it a economic thiller...Don't expect to be sitting on the edge of your seat...

Great movie, dumb double cd The movie is awesome but the double cd, one blue ray the other digital version, wasnt what I thought it was. I thought that I would be able to play both on my dvd player in my car but was unable to do so because it doesnt recognize blue ray or the digital cd. I thought that the digital cd would be readable on any device, but that is not the case, just a pc will play it.

MOST IMPRESSED The package arrived within 5 days of estimated arrival ! , the actual product was as described , overall everything is went well with this round of DVD purchases THANKYOU AMAZON !

The ending of the Neon Genesis Evangelion television anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion Collection 0:8 contains the final three episodes of the Neon Genesis Evangelion television anime series, and these final episodes are a trip.  The final angel reveals itself, and the interactions that Shinji has with it really affect him.  The final two episodes of the series are basically psychological case studies; while the main focus is Shinji, there are also studies for Asuka, Rei, and Misato.  These studies seem to be related to the Instrumentality Project that Commander Ikari has alluded to earlier in the series.  The final two episodes help the viewer to better understand some of these characters, but there's not much in the way of action.  However, if you've made it this far into Neon Genesis Evangelion, then you should watch this final disc to see how the series ends.  There are three features in the "Extras" menu.  The first is labeled as "Character Bios"; the bios include a picture of the character and a brief text write-up.  The characters included in this feature are: Young Asuka, Seventeenth Angel, and Second Angel.  The next feature is "ADV Website"; all this selection does it to take you to a screen that has ADV's website featured on it.  However, since ADV no longer exists, this link is rather irrelevant.  The final extra in this menu is the DVD credits.  There are also trailers for other properties that ADV was promoting at the time on this disc as well.  If you're a fan of Neon Genesis Evangelion and haven't either already picked up this DVD release or one of the DVD box sets that were released for the series, this could be worth adding to your DVD library if you can find it for a reasonable price.  I wrote this review after watching a copy of this disc that I checked out through the King County Library System.

It didn't capture me, but it was well done. The movie was good but if I adhere to full disclosure my opinion is influenced by the fact that I used credit card points  to rent it. I always say that not paying to see a movie will greatly change how the movie itself is viewed. That being said the acting was above my expectations with some B movie madness here and there. The set pieces were amazing, when the kids fly through the sky it looks really great in HD, especially the storm scene and the finale. The ending was predictable but none the less satisfying, I appreciated that it didn't set it up for an obvious sequel. Would I recommend this movie? Yes if you can rent it cheaply, otherwise I would wait until it is on Prime.

Can't compare to the beginning The movie had great special effects; however, the story content wasn't that great.  It does expand the Underworld world for future movies and I think I'll probably watch them, but I'd say this is my least favorite of the movies.

CAPONE Unfortunately I was not able to view the DVD CAPONE as there were no sub titles.  Waste of money for me.  Toni Hipkiss

Excellent movies, but beware of faulty transfers The movies are masterpieces and there is no need to add anything to reviews you can find all over the net. Easily top movies of the 1990s.  However this Criterion release has serious faults. Blue is misframed. In one scene you can even see microphone getting into the frame, but the whole movie is affected (not just select scenes). White has an audio fault, where the encoded surround will not play properly. Criterion has released corrected White disc, however it is unclear if the Amazon stock has been replaced with the corrected one. While Criterion has acknowledged the framing issue in Blue, there is no word on the corrected release. Apparently the error was made by a company who prepared the master - the issue also applies to the UK release by Artifical Eye based off the same master. Everybody interested in the movie should contact Criterion and ask them to correct the issue. These are masterpieces and deserve proper transfers and not botched ones.  By the way, there are now some reports online that now the set comes with Blue disc misprinted as "Secret Sunshine" DVD, however it indeed contains Blue (however misframed). Someone is really not doing their job right at Criterion.  UPDATE: apparently now Criterion refuses to admit it's a problem, much less fix it, and says "it's artistic choice". Boooooo, Criterion. Artistic choices are made by film's authors, not some knob turners in the scanning room.

Not too bad from Seagal's most recent release Very much a typical Seagal movie, lots of shooting and suspense yet guess I was hoping for not as much violence/blood this time around.  Did not think was a good as The Keeper but much better than some of his previous releases.  Appears he does his own fight scenes, and maybe just a little voice dubbing, or maybe his own voice pre-recorded before it was shot.  Really can't figure out why he does voice dubbing anyway, could be his voice gets tired from all the movies he does, not sure.  Overall, it's worth a watch for the average Seagal fan.  Peter J. Miller

Just Okay I've always been a fan of Jim Hensen and his amazing imagination.  Seeing this for the first time, I had no expectations and knew nothing about it.  From the plethora of great reviews, I did think it was something special. Perhaps it is and I just don't see it.  Or perhaps I am jaded by all the progress in animation and CGI since this film's debut in 1984.

The egg and Godzilla! Mothra VS.Godzilla(released April/64) was the fourth in the Godzilla series.Classic Media presents the original Japanese version along with the US version.I always have found the original Japanese versions in this series much more compelling than the US versions as they emphasize the origin/cause of the monsters much more(nuclear testing)and the plots are filled out much better. This story involves the washing up of a giant egg onto the shores of Japan.An unscrupulous business man purchases the egg and sets about to exploit its upcoming hatching...of whatever it is going to be.However two diminutive representatives from Infant Island arrive;a place that has been devastated by the outside worlds testing of atomic weapons and their uncaring attitude in general.The local populace there worship the creature called Mothra and it seems these two short ladies are there to retrieve what is really in fact Mothra's egg. Of course greed for a short time wins the day and the egg is put on display in a park for all to see.The girls messages fall on deaf ears and Godzilla,who was also washed up near the coast in the storm,emerges from the water and starts on a rampage.Mothra who comes looking for her egg also discovers her old nemesis and both begin a prolonged fight.Godzilla gets the upper hand and Mothra falls dead onto her egg.The egg,with the help of the two reps from Infant Island,hatches and out comes two of Mothra's offspring...caterpillars.Both immediately crawl into action and in their pitched battle with Godzilla they finally manage to cover him from head to toe in a thick webbed substance.This causes Godzilla to fall into the sea and flee.The Infant Island reps climb onto the backs of Mothra's children and they say goodbye as they travel back to their Island,and it is hoped,with a new found bond of trust. As with all the Godzilla/Toho films,I always marvel at how well they were able to blend the real with the unreal...that is their mastery of special effects.It is sometimes hard to tell if you're looking at a real tank,plane or whatever,instead of a miniature.Of course this was due to legendary S/FX man Eiji Tsurburaya.On the other hand sometimes it is very easy to tell what you're looking at as those pesky wires can show up from time to time,especially in the fight scenes.And speaking of fight scenes,they can be a little on the amusing side from time to time as Godzilla will say shake his head,flail his arms and yell at his opponent like some WWF wrestler.As the franchise continued,funnier the fights sometimes got.As suspenseful as they may have been in the early 60s,here in 2011,they don't hold up quite as well as they used to. This single DVD comes in its' original w/s a/r...in TohoScope!The transfer is clear and crisp.Extras include:audio commentary,slide show of posters,biog of Shogo Tomiyama and the trailer. A recommended release.I would give 4 1/2 stars for the release itself(the transfer,extras,etc) but just 3 1/2 for the story.

His WHAAAT works? This was one of Woody Allen's final, or maybe the final film he shot in New York City before decamping to Europe and beyond.  As such, it is a paean to the city's power to change ignorant hicks into sophisticated urbanites.  It has to be the city, because the Larry David character by himself would drive any self-respecting hick back to Hicksville or wherever they come from.  Predictably, David plays the Woody Allen character, a hypochodriac, bitter, offensive boor whose dialogue consists mainly of insults.  We learn that he's a brilliant physicist, at one time short-listed for the Nobel Prize, but I've noticed that in most films where a character is repeatedly described as brilliant/brave/badass/wonderful, the more talking about this superlative quality, the less evidence of it there is on screen.  Fine, I'll take his word for it - he's a genius.  And Allen's studio must have inserted a clause in his contract requiring an elderly man and a pretty girl one-fifth his age to fall in love in every film - Allen should just make a film chronicling his own romance with Soon-Yi Previn and just get it out of his system.  The main characters are parodies of themselves, with Evan Rachel Woods as the impossibly good-natured waif who marries him, and Patricia Clarkson and Ed Begley, Jr. as her (initially) ignorant, racist parents.  There's a pat ending - and I mean pat - it's one thing to tie up all the loose ends; it's quite another to tie an eight-year-old's shoes so tightly that his eyes bug out.  After all that invective, the insults coming from all sides, the endless pontificating on the futility of it all, we learn that only love is real - it's as if Allen has just joined "A Course In Miracles."  A few of Allen's "serious" films, "Hannah and Her Sisters," "Interiors," "Crimes and Misdemeanors" are masterpieces of the filmmaker's art.  In "Broadway Danny Rose," the extraterrestrials advise Allen to "make funnier movies."  What they had in mind was "Sleeper," but many years ago, Allen settled on a tragicomic or bittersweet or dramedy.  Despite the repeated breaking of the fourth wall by Larry David, while the other characters remain in the film ("who's he talking to?"), the  "deep" philosophizing (nothing more advanced that what you would hear at a junior high school lunch table), there's nothing of the gravity of those other films.  It's funny enough, and anything Larry David does can coast on the sublime "Curb Your Enthusiasm."  Whatever works.  "Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday Today i-is Friday, Friday (Partyin') We-we-we so excited We so excited We gonna have a ball today" - Rebecca Black, "Friday"

SUPER SILLY SUPER SHARK is another entry in the never-ending series of mutant killers, so  you know you can't set your expectations high. This particular shark can walk around on the beach and even fly!  It is released when drilling at an oil rig causes an earthquake.  Of course, a seductive marine biologist shows up to investigate while the shark eats up most of the cast.  Sarah Lieving (MEGASHARK VS CROCOSAURUS) plays the biologist; John Schneider from TV's Hazzard county is the shady oil company chief; Jerry Lacy (Rev. Trask in the original DARK SHADOWS) has a small role as Schneider's boss; and B-movie action hero Tim Abell plays the renegade boat captain who helps Lieving.  Jimmie Walker shows up as a deejay at the local club who hosts (what else?) a bikini contest. The shark effects are appropriately cheesy and notorious director Fred Olen Ray obviously didn't take the movie seriously either. It's all Saturday matinee fluff but worth a few laughs.

Not what it could have been, but not a disaster, either. When I first heard of this my initial thought was that it was from Starz, the same network doing the Spartacus series, so I had very high hopes.  See, for the past three years I've been watching the BBC show, "Merlin", which is a fine little show about the Arthurian legend (although they've totally buggered the original story into something very different than any telling of it I've ever heard).  But that show is obviously FOR KIDS.  And "Merlin" is a nice show, FOR KIDS.  I had hoped the one on Starz would be a more realistic, true to the time version.  Sure, there are things I like better about Camelot.  "Merlin" completely left out Sir Kay, Arthur's brother.  Camelot doesn't make that mistake - and that character is one of the ones you really end up liking.  I have to agree with some of the other reviews here that the show simply didn't go to where it could have.  It doesn't have the gritty realism I was hoping for.  It does, however, have some interesting characters - Merlin, Morgan, Kay, Gawaine and others.  Unfortunately, Arthur is not one of them.  I think the guy they cast for that part was chosen for something he had to do with "Twilight"????  Sorry, but I never watched any of the Twilight movies, so I'm not sure what he did in them.  Anyway, a show like this really has a problem when it mis-casts its leading man - and they did that.  It's too bad they can't go back a re-do that casting decision before season two starts.  However, because of the good characters they do have, the show still has potential to be something better in the next season.  I hope they get their act together and achieve the potential that's there.  I gave the first season three stars because the first season of a lot of shows is kind of rocky.  Look at Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  Who would have known how great that would become just after watching the first season?  I hope Camelot can similarly grow into its own skin.

Watch the second half The first half of this movie was uneventful in terms of moving the storyline. While I think Nicole Kidman is a good actress and Jude Law is handsome to look at, not much was going on in the movie. The second half of it got considerably better, right around the time that Ruby Thewes (Renee Zellwegger's character) showed up. I think Ruby really stole the show, the movie became a great deal more interesting and relatable with her in it. Renee Zellwegger won the best supporting actress academy award for her portrayal of Ruby Thewes and I think it was well-deserved.  Other than that, there were so many ways they could have made a Civil War movie more entertaining.

Husband loves this movie..not my genre Lots of action but predictable. Husband loves this movie and I bought it for him. Not my favorite movie genre.

Next time stay in Asgard Kenneth Branagh does court intrigue well, so really, after Thor was banished to earth, the film should have remained in Asgard and documented the local politics (you know, like a period piece).  Asgard, with its starry backdrops, was a happening place. Idris Elba was cool. My daughter put it well: "I want to go back there!" But no, sweetie, I had to explain, Kenneth wants us to return to the earth, the boring place with two dimensional characters that made us rent this video in the first place, so we could listen to Thor, God of Thunder, ask "Deal?" and then wait an aeon to hear Natalie Portman reply, "Deal!" No shortage of painful nonsense sapping the life out of this film faster than a Yodenheim frost jacket.  I agree with the other viewer that the opportunity to show Loki's mischievous side was lost. All we saw was hurt, spoiled & vengeful.  Maybe Ken's a busy guy... but c'mon, he did Henry V! I keep expecting more from him.

Good Film I enjoyed this film.  It was very real and fairly interesting.  They sort of remind me of my parents so it was an interesting film to say the least.

Difficult to Watch Although I agree that a person has the right to relieve their misery, it was still very difficult to watch a person end their own life.  I debated whether to watch this documentary or not.  Well-done film, and quite unusual in its subject matter.  I wonder if Mr. Ewert ever started believing in God at any point at the end.  If nothing else, I'm sure it would provide some comfort?

Pretty Good Pretty good move, gotta watch it again thats why I gave it 3 stars......I fell asleep (not because of the movie though)

Not Gilbert & Sullivan I find the added laugh-track annoying.  But, even more so, I find that the music director has re-orchestrated the entire score of "Mikado" for Xylophone!  Brian Macdonald is a great choreographer.  But, he has insisted on directing Gilbert & Sullivan operettas as though they were ballets!  The sets, costumes, and choreography are great.  But, I think the choreography is so complicated and constant that it is distracting to the art that Gilbert & Sullivan created.  Richard McMillan is an awful Pooh-Bah!  He and the director have absolutely no idea what Gilbert & Sullivan operas are about.  McMillan (as Don Alhambra) ruined the Stratford "Gondoliers" in the same way he ruined this "Mikado."  And the character of the Mikado is acted as though Japan was ruled by a lunatic.  Both Gilbert & Sullivan would have hated what Stratford has done with this "Mikado."

Sort of ET meets Close Encounters meets ALIEN Even though this film was written and directed by J.J. Abrahms, the film oozes with Spielberg-ness. The film centers around a group of kids who have much more insight and wisdom than the adults, much like ET. The military branch of the US Government moves in, trying to hide whats really happening, much like Close Encounter of the Third Kind. And there's a large hulking space creature that I guess is not quite as malicious as the creature from Alien but he's tearing up a small town. As you'll see, some of the creature's victims are treated similarly to Alien.  The film involves a group of kids of junior high school age in 1979 shooting their own zombie-horror flick; one of whom has just lost his mother. The director Charles (played very convincingly by the young and talented Riley Griffiths), a sort of 12-year-old throwback to Orson Welles, replete with pipe, is the obsessed and ambition filmmaker doing everything he can to make a great film. He is constantly speaking of "production value". My guess is his character may have been somewhat based on the young Steven Spielberg who pressed his friends into little film projects shot with his super-8 camera back in the 1950's. The two other characters which emerge as the main focus are Joe Lamb (Joel Courtney) and Alice Dainard (Elle Fanning) two people thrust together because of their involvement with the film project who become somewhat intimate in a way that only 12-year-old's can. A supporting character of note has to be Cary, played by Ryan Lee, who carries around fire crackers just to make the older folk cringe.  The group is shooting a scene at a train station with the boy main character and the only girl in the movie. Their production literally becomes derailed by a train wreck which obliterates everything in sight, not to mention the station, although the super-8 camera which continued to film was surprisingly untouched! Of course, this is not just a train derailment: the whole train looks like it was in the middle of the front lines in WWII. A man in a busted up pick-up, looking half-dead, who may have intentionally derailed the train, tells the kids to run for their lives. The kids escape in their car, which was also surprisingly untouched, before the military guys show up with flash-lights and guns.  The story then moves on several fronts: the mystery of the train wreck, Charles' obsession with completing his movie, and the relationship between Joe and Alice and their parents. Eventually, when more of the mystery is revealed, the film becomes largely about a kind of reconciliation between the two kids and their parents. At a certain point, the movie-making aspect takes a back seat to the relationships of the two kids and the two adults. It seemed like Charles, the director, at one point, seems more like a supporting character.  Although I definitely enjoyed this film, largely because of the believability of the kids which is first-rate by any standard, I was frustrated on a couple of points. I thought the movie was trying to do too many things given its parameters. To me, the relationship between the two main kid characters and their parents distracted away from the really interesting idea about the kids trying to make their movie. Also, I thought there would be a lot more about the footage which was gotten at the train wreck.  The one character who I felt was slightly under-developed was Charles, the kid director. His screen time was sacrificed in order to develop more about the adult relationships, which I found less interesting, some of which seemed just a touch clich&eacute;. I wanted to know more about Charles, why he was shooting his films and other information. Only late in the film do we learn more about him and why he was engaging in this project.  Two stories which are very similar to this film, Spielberg's ET and Stephen King's IT, focus almost exclusively on the kids, who they are, and what they are trying to accomplish. If a story begins about a group of kids, I think it is better for the story to stay on them rather getting off on tangents. Super-8 started out that way, but then took a bit of a side turn and focused more on a couple of the adult characters. I was sort of expecting the kids to be on the lead and in the forefront for most of the story, and I wanted them to be the ones who solve the mystery without intervention from dear-old dad. Still, a very enjoyable movie, and the acting is first-rate to take you all the way. One surprise is at the end during the credits, which was actually my favorite part of the film, but I won't give it away!

Great for beginners I took my first Kundalini class at a studio, liked it so much I decided I wanted to do it every day for 40 days straight. But how? I live 50 miles from the yoga studio, and there were only two kundalini classes in week, so I bought this video.  This Kundalini video includes sets, mantra chanting and Kundalini background music.  If you are used to going to a studio you may notice that Maya does not cover her head and that she does not end with "Long Time Sun" these are small details.  The exercises themselves you would find at any Kundalini class.  It doesn't seem at first like it's that much of a workout.  I had been doing regular Hatha yoga for about a year and a half before I stumbled on Kundalini.  This entire workout is sitting or lying down! You can do it in a small apartment.  You can do it on your rug with out any props, not even a mat.  Which is cool.  After 40 days in a row of doing this, I must say it WAS a work out, because I was powering through the Hatha yoga classes with strength I didn't know I had.  After finding this video I bought Gurmukh's video and also some by Ana Brett and Ravi Singh.  Gurmukh's was really hard for me, I still struggle to finish it.  Ana Brett and Ravi Singh have a convenient option on their dvd's called "matrix" so you can sequence your own workout length.  Because of that feature I started using their dvd's more often than this one.  I would still highly recommend this video - and encourage you to try doing it for 40 days in a row! Sat Nam!

Fun but not her best This is another in Hemalayaa's series of Bollywood-style dance workouts. It's divided into a warm-up and cool down, each 5 minutes, and two 20 minute dance workouts. The first one, Wedding Party, is the easier of the two. Depending on your level of fitness, it might be too easy. The Bollywood moves in both are fun and not really difficult from a choreography standpoint. Unlike her earlier videos, she cues "live" and not via voice-over and as a result I do think the cuing is better. Hemalayaa tries to pair the moves with motivational thinking ("Shake your finger here at all your negative thoughts") which didn't really work for me because my heart rate wasn't high enough to have that giddy kind of "I can do it!" frame of mind but to each his own. The set would be borderline cheesy in other circumstances but it's perfect for a workout video as it helped hold my interest. There are some mildly high impact moves but they are easy to modify. There's also a chest pump move that she does a lot that made me a little sick to my stomach.  I have several of the Hemalayaa workouts now and the best one I've tried thus far is Bollywood Dance Workout and I'd recommend it over Bollywood Party Workout-or that you try it if if you liked but weren't totally sold on this one. Bollywood Dance is a more well-rounded workout and includes a separate abs segment and two background dancers. The only ab work here you'll be getting from the standing dance moves (including the kind of dreaded chest pump move I mentioned.) I liked this but I was a little bored at times so I don't know how often I'll really use it. Hemalayaa as always is very sweet and graceful.

Great workout IF you can keep up. This is a fun workout if you are in the mood for dancing!! To be honest, it is very difficult to keep up and get right about and I have 15 years of dance experience. This is a great workout to do thought to get your body moving in a different way and get out of the boring old gym routine. I'd say it was worth the eight dollars!

Intimidating to an Amateur Quilter This is a PBS documentary of a show that was done by four national quilt organizations to choose the 100 best quilts of the 20th century. I remember seeing a book of the entire collection back in 2000 or 2001. Of course there are some marvelous quilts here, although I would not necessarily agree with the judging in all cases. For one thing, there is a decided emphasis on applique, and I am more fascinated by piecework. Nevermind; they are all exceptional, that can be said for sure. I don't think the entire 100 quilts are shown here; I didn't count.  There are a few from the earlier part of the century, but of course quilting exploded as an art form late in the 20th century, so the majority of the show are fairly recent quilts. They also express a wide variety of techniques, design concepts and themes. There is much on which to feast the eyes.  I suppose some quilters would find this film inspiring, but I find it intimidating. How could I ever hope to do something as exquisite? The answer is I can't, and in fact I'm not interested in making art quilts as such. I love the old piecework techniques, and the only quilt top I still have to work on is done with paper piecing, a technique that was not represented in the show at all. It is often called English paper piecing, and I suspect it was indeed invented by the English. In fact, I remember a story about a soldier who either invented it or made it popular who put together thousands of small hexagons from wool scraps from military uniforms. Paper piecing is about the only good way to work with hexagons, although it also works with other geometric shapes.  If you're a lover of art and appreciate hearing artists talk about their best works, you will love this documentary.

The Phantom Empire -  (Timeless Media Group - 2011) Fully Restored? I believe there is some expectation that a film which has been "Fully Restored" to be just that, as close to perfect as can reasonably be expected. I've come to accept some flaws as the restoration process can be a painstaking task.  It would take a labor of love to get films such as this one to the level which we all could appreciate.  In the real world, there's a balance between quality of the restoration and the amount of money someone is willing to pay for the restoration. At some level there seems to be a compromise between both. This version is not nearly the best available copy, this one and all others will eventually be surpassed...the question is when?  If you need a better version right now...I suggest going to the Serial Squadron website and purchasing theirs!  I've had it prior to this one, theirs is not the purest rendition but beats this one hands down.

been there, done that Not bad, good effects, etc., but who cares? The original was the best. Why is Hollywood playing it safe by only re-doing the classics? Where are the new ideas?

I'm mummified an entertaining movie, bought it because the price was right.  wouldn't buy it again unless it's less thank 5 bucks.  Out of all the Brendan Fraser Mummys' I like this one the least.  The first one and the one with Jet Li I thought those were pretty awesome.  But "returns" needs to be returned something was lacking.  So beware the Mummy better to rent than to buy.  "nuf said

average thriller good blu ray. At this point most of us have seen about every type of horror and thriller out there. Still this is a average one featuring teens who go looking for ghosts in a funeral home  , there's a psycho in there of course and bodies etc. Dennis Quaid plays the bad guy. Which he has rarely ever done (if ever!), but he was a major leading man back in the day , so he was usually cast as the hero. This was only at the theatres for month in a limited release. But that's still better than most 58 year old actors get. The film looks great on blu ray and there is a documentary on the making of this movie. This is a average thriller or horror flick take your pick. It's ok and cast does a good job with a average script too. In fact we do have one supernatural scene in this movie where a kid sees death take his sister away. (in a flashback) but other than that this is a straight thriller and  you know who the killer is from the first scene. So it is what is. Nothing special, and I think dennis did a good job with his role.

Portrayal of Civil War Fredericksburg battle After watching this film, I thought yea, "War What's it Good for Absolutely Nothing." Lots of carnage here, including at the end General Stonewall Jackson of the Confederacy. I think Jackson was offered the job to lead the Union by the President at the beginning of the movie, if I wasn't hallucinating, I never knew that part of history.   Lots of Jacksonin the movie, as playing a God,or General etc. another annoying part of war. Not much of a movie you can make with war, many people die in close battle, oh what fun, but it gets better we can even see extremities blown off, oh what a good time. Maybe as a history film this works, for we see in this movie, Fredericksburg appears to be the end of the war for the confederates after they lost. The Yankees whipped them with more money and higher grade weapons. I love that a killing machine. Jackson treats everyone as human, and it's God's destiny that slaves serve the white folk. Jackson has a morphine dream at the end of the movie as he is dieing from getting shot up. I don't think a wonderful way to end the movie, but whatever. Overall Boring, light on the historical and political points, not once showing Lincoln's face, and thus putting the North in a bad light-- appears to side with the rebels and make them look good; I was generous with that 3 rating.

Tossing Pennies For Fun And Profit It surprises me to learn that this is Woody Allen's favorite among his films, because in my opinion he has made many movies that were much better, with some of his best work of all appearing in the last decade*. Watching this film reminds me of reading a first draft of a manuscript in that it came off as roughly sketched and unfinished, and the ending, a surprise I admit as well as being admirably bold, seemed to come along in place of an entire missing act in the story. (OK, I understand perhaps WHY The Purple Rose of Cairo ended as it did but should it truly have ended WHEN it did?) My words here are meaningless, I know, since those who love this film have their reasons for loving it, it's obviously long since too late to change anything, and I'm not here to discourage someone from seeing it, but I will say that this wasn't the movie I was expecting and it wasn't one I came away from feeling like I'd want to see it again.  *Midnight in Paris is brilliant!

Not the best of choices........... First of all, I openly confess I'm not a fan of colorized movies, even less if they're somewhat "classical", as this is in the horror genre.  But even if you concur with me, you still have the B&W original version on the side, so it's not so great a loss.  What made me sorry of buying it is that (and it's not the firs time it happens) the product description clearly states "subtitled in English". I'm perfectly fluent in English but it's not my mother language, now I've become hard of hearing, and there are some actors I can't understand for the life of me what they're saying, so captions or subtitles are important to me.  If you need them like me, avoid this version, it hasn't any, notwithstanding the product description.

misLeading product image my review is based on the limited edition edition of WANTED.  if you want a review on the movie. go ahead and read someone else's review. theres plenty of them written.  the reason i bought it was because of a sentimental experience i had when i saw it in theaters. and ok, i admit that i am an angelina jolie fan.  i decided to buy the limited edition version because the image pictured for the product seemed nice. i dont really care for the film cell or the assassin's booklet that came with it. i do like the graphic on the dvds, and the card that was holding them inside.  what sold me for the limited edition is that the box looked nice and appeared to have a plastic cover that fitted over the "book." the book box itself is built to feel like the old fashioned encyclopedia texture and feel. however, the plastic cover was nowhere to be found. the product came in plastic saran wrap, and the plastic case that was in the product image whether it be hard clear plastic or  just a plastic sleeve was nowhere inside.

Worth watching Definitely an important and current moral issue, but just adequately acted and developed.  Predictable.  Language a little difficult to understand.  Think they could have done even better with the glorious setting.  A good film, not a great film.

if you're looking for a high body count - go for it There was so much to expect with Catch.44 - especially with the likes of Bruce Willis and Forest Whitaker as leads. And while Forest especially provides a convincing, if not disturbing portrayal, ultimately the weak script doesn't provide enough leeway for even these seasoned actors to overcome.  Throughout the movie, I kept waiting for that breakthrough moment where something deeper, more unusual emerged to bring the story tracks together. And, ultimately I was disappointed by a fairly simple plot, with a focus on high body counts and violence than any sort of depth of character. It's as if the filmmaker was trying to reach for a "Pulp Fiction" level of cult delivery, sadly missing in delivery.  So, that being said, if you're looking for a high-body-count movie with the guys, some brilliance from Forest Whitaker's disturbing portrayal, and nothing more than go for Catch.44. Otherwise, move on, don't even look, you're going to be left disappointed.

Zomedy This was cute.  I liked it.  It was budget, but any real zombie fan is used to this.  It was sort of Seinfeld meets a Sante Fe Tourism public service announcement.  Bottom line is, if you get the humor, you will like this.  If you don't, you won't.

The Anti-Asian Situation Really Bothers Me In 2011, Breakfast at Tiffany's starting Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard turned fifty. I had never gotten around to watching this classic, so I sat down with my boyfriend to see what the fuss is all about. Note that there are spoilers in this review!  The tale is about Holly Golightly, a gold-digging woman, who runs into Paul Varjak, a writer / gigolo who lives one floor above. She throws wild parties for people who really don't care much about her. Her sole aim is to find a rich guy to marry.  One of the first things that caught my attention was the almost cruel, racist portrayal of a Japanese man by Mickey Rooney. Mickey Rooney is clearly not Japanese, so they used (I'm not kidding) buck teeth and tape at the edges of his eyes to pretend he was Japanese. I realize this was 1961, but even then I can't imagine that this kind of racist laughing was really kosher. Apparently it was so bad that on current DVD releases they have a long documentary attached with the movie specifically talking about this portrayal. Every time the character came on screen it made me uncomfortable.  Still, I knew this was a classic, so I tried to look past that. The first scene with Holly and Paul was actually sort of sweet. She's innocent, in her way, and lost. He takes her in, a fellow castaway in the roughness of life. I began to feel for them as she curled up in his arms, crying due to nightmares.  And then came the wild party scene. I'm not quite sure how others find this scene to be amazingly funny. I found it full of very drunk people acting badly towards each other. They press cold objects against each other and laugh. They let people fall face-first down onto the ground and laugh. Maybe it's supposed to be slapstick, but with other parts of the movie aiming towards touchingly real, it plays a false note for me. I don't like to see drunk people hurting each other. It's just not fun for me.  She chases after one guy. He marries someone else. She chases after another guy. He won't marry her. She decides to keep working her way through guys.  It turns out she was married at 14 - **14!!** - to a middle aged doctor with 4 kids. That right there was really creepy. The doctor wants him back. I would turn him over to the child abuse authorities. Were his own kids the age of the teen girl he was bringing in his house to sleep with??  There's an abused cat who is flung at walls, flung on floors, and near the end, tossed out like garbage on the street by its owner, the heroine Holly. I realize they wanted to show she was lonely and damaged, but even so, it hurt my appreciation of her. There wasn't much left for me to root for here.  So then the world gives up on her, and she's all alone, and she thinks, "hey, this being alone sucks, let me at least go back and get this guy here to take care of me." And she finally thinks about her cat who is shivering and miserable in the rain.  What was disappointing was that I really wanted to like the movie. I like the idea of a woman who wants to be wild and free, who resists being caged. But her whole purpose in life was to find a guy to make a gold cage for her! That was her aim.  Also, what kind of a guy takes a woman out to a strip club for an evening, as a way to help her get over a painful loss? Was that really the only place he could think to take her to?  I do give Audrey Hepburn credit. Given the script she had to work with, she did an amazing job with her acting. There were some scenes where you could just look into her soul, see the lost, scared, uncertain person within.  So well recommended for that - but especially given its incredible racist bent, I just won't be watching this again.

Too many problems crammed into The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" sounds great.  It's directed by John Madden and stars a laundry list of fine British actors, including Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson and Bill Nighy, as well as Dev Patel from "Slumdog Millionaire."  The premise seems promising as well. A group of British retirees decide to move to a seniors hotel in India to live the good life. But the hotel turns out to be a ramshackle wreck and they are soon strangers in a strange land.  All of which is fine, but then the film hits the screen and it's not.  Ol Parker's screenplay, based on a novel by Deborah Moggach, veers all over the place, with so much going on that none of it seems believable.  First, the residents: Wilkinson plays a gay magistrate who's returned to India to find the boy he loved and left as a youth. Nighy plays a retired bureaucrat with a nagging wife whose savings has been wiped out by a daughter's wayward investment.  Dench is a recent widow who has never fended for herself in the world. Smith is a woman in need of a hip replacement, and of course there are a couple of randy swinger types to remind us that old British people have sex, too.  Providing unneeded background clamor is Patel, as the young Indian who is trying to revive the hotel. He has romantic problems. As do Nighy, Dench, Wilkinson and pretty much everybody else. So many problems.  Too many problems, really, and some of the relations and pairings here seem awfully stretched.  Basically, there's just too much crammed into "Marigold Hotel" for any of it to have impact. It may work as comfort food for old folks, but a bit less may have yielded a great deal more.

Not sure even what to title this I honestly have tried to find this movie to watch ever since it had been released  in the states. I refused to just buy it because I've never seen it before and the reviews from it are very mixed. I finally found it online from blockbuster, surprisingly. Anyway, this film was the first of Lars von Trier's collection that I have dipped my feet into. I've also heard many mixed things about him as a person and all, but I'm not bothered or offended easily so I was interested in his work. I heard he was controversial, in your face, yet that his films can be beautifully executed and portrayed. I will admit I was smittened by the artsy feel for this film. The black and white prologue and epilogue were unique and well worth a watch just for these, the slow motion settings, the surprising CGI the Danish director used in the film. All of these aspects made this film "watchable" for me. I put the word in quotations because it is not easy to say this film is watchable. I personally think many, if not most will strongly dislike, maybe be offended someone can even direct this. There are many gritty scenes and painful scenes to view. Honestly, I was very bothered by the child falling out of the window at the beginning. I am expecting my son to be here within a month and some change as  I write this and I cannot fathom losing my lil man in a situation like that or at all to mention it. This is what the director wants, though. He wants you to feel what the only two actors in the film feel; grief, anxiety, despair and the three beggars (symbolism for the fox, deer, and crow). Another scene that many will not be able to look at is the infamous "decapitation of her clitoris". That is correct...I warn you only because I was warned, yet still for some reason felt I needed to see this film to understand what others were saying about it. Do I regret it?...No not really, as I'm glad to have checked this film off my list and move onto others. Will I want to watch it again?...probably not, I think once was enough for me personally. Others may be determined to understand this work of art and view it more than once, I on the other hand can just leave some things unexplained...  The film is no "feel good" movie. It is PURELY and ONLY ment to watch as an ART FILM. If you do not understand that concept, then go watch Xmen or something lame.  I honestly hope I've been helpful, I put some thought into this review..  -Cam 4/4/11

Numb is a good movie The movie is good for those of us who need to understand why we prefer to be alone and the difficulties experienced in overcoming this affiction. The actor's drop the F-bomb alot and there are sexual situations which really have no bearing on the subject matter. With that being said, it is like a chick flick for dudes.

Not a horror movie or thriller This is not a horror movie. It's far more frightening, if considerably less entertaining. It's not a suspense thriller; its agonizing tension comes from the dread of witnessing the inevitable.  I don't know whether to envy or pity the reviewers who found this "boring," "slow" and "dull."  Since "Silence of the Lambs," we've become slowly inured to the titillating entertainment value of the serial killer. (The current nadir is the incredibly bland, implausible and desensitized TV show "Criminal Minds.")  "Snowtown," by contrast, feels horribly real. Killings happen not in stylized torture chambers but in the same dreary, downtrodden homes the rest of the movie takes place in. Nearly unbroken, subtly handheld camera shots take us from social backyard bonfire to bagged and barrelled corpses, from front porch on a balmy day to kill zone, with a documentarian's unblinking eye... as if murder is one more mundane thread in the fabric of everyday life. For John Bunting, it probably was.  The scariest thing about Daniel Henshall's Bunting is his chipper, everyman banality. Bunting was no loner. He recruited at least 3 others to help carry out his killings. The complaints about numerous peripheral characters drifting in and out of the narrative unannounced are valid, but these interactions show us Bunting's disarming camaraderie, moving him out of a loner's hovel and squarely onto the throne at Jonestown or overseeing Manson's commune. The consensus Bunting cheerfully bullies out of neighborly, impromptu kitchen-table tribunals (we've all been at one) becomes, in his mind, the razor-thin justification needed to act on his obsessions... and to groom accomplices.  Jamie is also a unique character in films (and real-life cases) such as this. The movie successfully forces us into a struggle of conscience over Jamie. We condemn his choices throughout, and we valiantly resist the special pleading of the Rousseauist, 'product of his environment' case for social determinism that "Snowtown" could be construed as arguing. Only long after the film was over did I find myself conceding that Jamie is a special case. He's not a serial killer himself, for whom nature vs. nurture wouldn't matter... psychopaths will be psychopaths. There IS something about his personality, about his victimhood, which multiple abusers sense opportunity in and exploit. And we can't help but notice it too... alongside Bunting, creepily enough.  The film chooses to exclude the cruellest and most horrific details of the real-life killings, which I only learned about after googling it online later. I for one am very grateful NOT to have endured their portrayal in this film. The details we do get are excruciating enough. Their necessary dilution (if not, who could bear to watch?) is not just an act of mercy, but part of the film's strategy: all sensationalism has been methodically drained from this account, leaving us no other option but to bear witness to the awful potentiality of human impulse.  I appreciate why, but this approach bound me in a moral dilemma for days after seeing "Snowtown:" SHOULD the film, by soft-pedaling the truth, allow us to care more about Jamie?  I never once felt sorry for Jamie Vlassakis. You could argue the film never asks us to. But "Snowtown" never holds Jamie accountable for his weakness of character, either. It starkly observes, but never evaluates, his pitiable lack of resistance. At a key turning point, Jamie is asked: "Do you like to get [raped]?" For a split second we're not sure the incident in question was rape or not, so passive was Jamie's endurance of the assault. The question itself feels like an assignation from a new abuser, and it is... in far worse ways than Jamie can fathom at the time. Bunting is the vampire invited across the threshold. I found Jamie's complicity just as disturbing and haunting as Bunting's sociopathy... and somehow, against all my instincts, I can't quite call that complicity indefensible.  Is it the film's achievement or its failure that I can't put into words what Jamie is or does? To me, his choices ultimately don't wash. Never mind that they actually happened (although many aspects of the true-life case remain sealed, and for all we know Vlassakis is a psychopath himself). They weren't just atrocious choices, they were hideous actions. They ended innocent people's lives in horrible ways, people that Jamie knew, sometimes at Jamie's own hand. The plot may want us to buy into a classic tragic arc... to believe Jamie is struggling inside more than his behavior belies, right up until a point in the film when a perfect opportunity for escape, rescue and salvation is decided against and squandered. But contrary to the script's possible intentions, we begin protesting Jamie's decisions before he is even a witness, let alone an accessory. And our questions keep piling up.  Why, Jamie? The answers aren't to be found either in the unfilmable truth or the euphemized "Snowtown"... and perhaps there are none. Consequently, I thought at first that perhaps it would have been best if this story was left unfilmed (or at least unwatched!). In the end, what redeemed "Snowtown" for me (if not its characters) is how it re-injects serial murder with all the senseless ugliness it deserves. It's a sobering antidote to absurd modern antiheroes like Hannibal Lecter, whom yuppie audiences (financially insulated from real-life violence) relish as the ultimate arbiter of manners; or Dexter, the equally ridiculous "serial killer with a conscience."  John Bunting doesn't have a conscience. That's why he's a serial killer.  For all his public rants of righteousness, he never killed for justice. Bunting is (like most of his kind) a sadist who tortured for pleasure and preyed on the weak. His "moral code" is a pathetic attempt to justify his compulsions in his own mind. John Bunting killed more innocent people than anyone else in Australian history. "Snowtown's" Bunting leaves many of his wounded victims alive... Jamie; Jamie's family; and now us, the audience.

Charlie Chan Nice movies with small errors in dvd ,freezing up for a sec on all dvd being watched,but charlie chan moviers are 70 years old and quality of DvD picture very very good 4 stars<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001ARDBXK">Charlie Chan Collection, Vol. 5 (Charlie Chan At The Wax Museum/Murder Over New York/Dead Men Tell/Charlie Chan In Rio/Charlie Chan In Panama/Murder Cruise/Castle in the Desert)</a>

Wait for HBO In a nutshell...Number Four is fourth in a series of nine aliens who have fled to earth to escape but now there are only six aliens (Loriens).  Number 3 gets killed early on and Number Four a.k.a John Smith is made instantly aware due to a brutal brand that appears on his leg (oh...this happens during a night of wild partying on the beach).  Apparently, all Loriens receive the brand as the others are killed in numerical order.  Now come the "killers" the alien hunters or Mogadorians.  Okay...stick with me here...since the killings are sequential, #4(Alex Pettyfer) knows he's next, so with his protector, Henri (Timothy Olyphant), they instantly pack up and take off, burning every souvenir, photo, even the license plate off their car which...duh...is metal, so of course there's that tiny scrap of evidence that will lead the Mogadorians right to them.  Confused?  So was I.  There was a Gecko that snuck into Henri's bag and then turned into an adorable puppy when they reached Paradise, Ohio and we hear the words every parent dreads, "Can I keep him?"  Henri, for all his Yoda-ish knowledge, of course has no idea that the puppy is some sort of alien.  We know it's not a Gecko and we know it's not a puppy...but what the heck IS it?  Okay...still with me?...John decides the second he sets foot in their new house that he's bored (whine) and wants to go to school.  Henri reminds him to blend in, not stick out, not give any clues to help the Mogadorians find him.  Day one at high school is a nightmare of bullying in the First Degree.  Why on God's green earth would a kid, who recently narrowly escaped with his life, knowing he's some sort of "chosen one," and going through major teenage angst WANT to go to school...and, after meeting the butt-head, big man on campus, WANT to go back?  I think that may have been something they covered in the book...but got left on the cutting room floor.  The whole time people are being slammed into lockers, having their locker explode with red goop, you know...typical bullying stuff, I'm thinking, "Just LEAVE."  But...ah-ah-ah...the allure of school and the daily humiliation is Sarah (Dianna Agron)...who, wait for it, is the ex-girlfriend of the Head Bully.  This movie had so many clich&eacute;s (OF COURSE Loriens only fall in love once in their lives and that just so happens...wonder of wonders...to be our heroine) and confusing plot lines (why were the evil aliens chasing our Number 4?).  I just never got into it.  Fortunately, Number 6 (Teresa Palmer) shows up and then there's some pretty good fight scenes that liven things up.  But, if you took any really cheesy romance/alien/teenage angst movie and combined it, you would have "I am Number Four."  I think that the only redeeming value of this movie was the very end with the fight scenes (enter cute puppy alien who actually is one of the good guys).  Those were entertaining and almost helped make up for the other hour and a half of boredom.  They did hint at a sequel...after all, here was Number 6...he was Number 4...all that's missing is Number 5 and 7 through 9.  But please, dear Touchstone, hear my plea.  Let "I Am Number 4" be the last...unless you want to do something wild and crazy and make an ORIGINAL film that is fun from start to finish.  My advice?  Wait for it to come out on HBO or regular t.v. and learn from my mistake...don't waste your money.

arrived on time, but DVD was defective The DVD arrived on time, but it was defective.  the sound sync was totally off what their mouths were singing.  As this is a concert DVD it absolutely renders it unwatchable for my 5 year old. but when I contacted them, they emailed back right away, were very nice, and said they would refund me immediately.  so I would recommend this seller.  I only rated it 3 instead of 5 because of the condition of the DVD not the service.

Very nice Group but the quality is poor The group is amazing!!For me , this is the New Pink Floyd.. The quality of BD is not covered my expectations.The concert took place in a small place -maybe in a club - and the quality of audio and video is not so good. Maybe the lighting of the club is poor.

Beware: Memory Can Be Selective I was watching Acient Aliens on The History channel and it reminded me of Chariots of the Gods which I had not seen since it came out. My memory told me of this great flick, great visuals, great concepts (even if a little wild), and a flick I remember caused me to really think about this topic for a while.  What my memory failed to remind me of is just how aweful the music is, some of that horrible late 60's pseudo-Jazz that nearly ruins the best of movies. By todays docuimentary standards this would be rated -5 stars, it really is that bad, not in 1970, but time did not treat it well and in 2012, well this is one unless you need it for your collection then there are far better treatments of this concept.  Now if you want to see the origins of the material on all shows of this type that followed, then this is still a must see or must read. The one redeeeming quality is that all of the footage of the ruins and symbols, rock carvings/art, and such are all raw footage, no enhancements, no computer simulated look, no clean of up the images, it is like you were there and looking at the stuff and there is something to say for that, not a lot, but something.  I have been to about 20% of the places they highlight and will say that they give you a view you will never see unless you go and one no tourist brochure will ever show you, you know, the stuff that when you go makes you think, and this is all it is?  I must also credit this flick for mainstreaming, so to speak, the notion that the Earth was populated or at least visited by aliens.  If you want to see the flick that started the UFO visited the earth seed movie then this is still one to have in your collection.  One last note, no documentary review would be complete without at least a glancing review of the presentation of the material, their "proof" so to speak. This is old style, there are no opposing views in the flick for the most part, radical claims are made with no support in the film and you are asked just to accept it as fact.

The Expendables I like movies that I can escape from the real world for a few hours. The Expendables was a great waste of time, had no redeeming features and was enjoyable to watch. What more can you ask for from a movie.

Slow paced but fun I had hoped when purchasing this DVD that the workouts included would have a great aerobic benefit and add a little variety to my workout regimen. They are fun, but surely not aerobic. The routines are simple to learn (I have very little dance experience) but are very slow-paced. This is a fun addition to my workout regimen when I am bored of my regular workouts but is most definitely for a light workout day.

Another "Warner Home Video" Cop-out !!!! First, I was 12 years old when we last won the Stanley Cup. At that age we were all addicted to street hockey and would play after each game pretending to be Bobby, Derek, Gerry, and Phil. Great memories! And it only took 39 years to feel this euphoria again.    THANK YOU 2010-11 BOSTON BRUINS!  Second, who is the #ss whole at Warner Home Video who decides these DVD releases. Releasing 5 disc's of just the four Stanley Cup victories (and Eastern Conference Championship game seven, one of the best games of the playoffs, to that point) is a complete travesty.  This was a very "lively" Finals that inspired great passion in both teams and their fans. Each game was a critical chapter in a much larger epic story. Where is the "the Bite"? Where is the "The Taunt"?  These releases are for the fans. And I am a die-hard Boston Bruins fan. I want to be able to look back on this huge event with the WHOLE story. And "Warner Home Video" screwed me out of this.  So I give this disc 5-stars for what they did give us divided by the 1-star I give "Warner Home Video" for selling out and providing the barest skeleton that they could to fleece money out of our pockets.  PS - Where is my 2010 Winter Classic DVD between Boston and Philadelphia? The 2011 games is on disc....whooops, my bad....silly me,...anything attached to Mr. Crosby gets packaged pronto.  "Fear The Bear"

It's all bleak to me Disclaimer: The version of the film that I saw is included in the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002ID098A">Midnight Mysteries Collection</a>.  As such, I cannot comment on the audio or visual quality of this Alpha Video release.  My review is concerned with the entertainment value of the film only.  It's strange to see Edward G. Robinson in the role of milquetoast, but that's exactly what you get in SCARLET STREET - at least for about the first ninety minutes.  Joan Bennett, on the other hand, is the tough dame she always was, save for her characteristically inexplicable poor choice in men.  As the out-of-work model Kitty, she tweaks and twists Robinson's mid-life crisis into knots of equal parts pleasure and dismay, reeling him in for the money she thinks he has, all at the behest of the true love of her life, the low-life con man Johnny (Dan Duryea), who esentially pimps her out for the easy cash.  But Fate steps in and deals these three characters a difficult hand - especially Robinson, with whom we at least understand and sympathise as he steals from his employer to pay for the whims of Bennett and, unknown to him, Duryea.  Sympathetic or not, it doesn't matter once he crosses that line - director Fritz Lang lays a heavy finger on the scales of justice, which then metes out a harsh reward for our three actors.  It's a cruel story, even a little sordid - it was banned in New York for indecency, though modern viewers are likely to be puzzled as to why.  Still, it holds to many of the bleaker conventions of Noir filmmaking, and Robinson's doomed little man reaches a dead end as soon as he steps onto Scarlet Street.  This is another story in a long line which seems to relish the twisting in the wind of its characters while Fate delays its final sentencing (Shakespeare made a killing at it - Sophocles before him).  Honestly though, these sorts of stories leave me feeling frustrated by their unfairness (I know - who ever said life was fair?).  It isn't so much the outcome, but that our sympathy is courted and won over, and those characters to whom we become attached are funneled into one critical, though usually justifiable, mis-step; from that moment, we vicariously watch as they are utterly destroyed.  It is as if the storyteller is taking great pleasure in assuring us that if Fate takes notice of us, we are sure to be dashed to pieces from that attention.  Well, if you like that sort of thing, SCARLET STREET's a pretty good example of it.  I like all the performances here, really they all come in top-notch.  Noir fans as well as those who appreciate classic tragedy should be quite pleased with Lang's version, and once again, if this is your bag, I feel it's recommendable.  Perhaps a little too bleak for me, though.  Once again, this PopFlix production contained on the Midnight Mystery Collection was entirely serviceable for me.  Presented in 1.33:1 and with a runtime of 103 minutes, the specifics seems to tally in general with the other versions out there, though undoubtedly the Kino <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006GVNHMA">Blu-ray</a> is the edition to get if your already a fan of the movie, or think you would be.  Otherwise, if you are looking for a cheap version of the film, you can't really go wrong with the PopFlix, whose audio and visual quality were average, but watchable.

How nice Costco has its limited edition of 81,000 of the 70th anniversary of this movie while Amazon has its limited edtion of 50,000. Come on.

Monkeys in the wild It's a very slow movie so you have to love monkeys to enjoy it. It was not an exciting movie but it was an interesting movie.

Titanic Lackluster Sequel Sequels tend to either surpass or bury their original photoplay but rarely do both.  Director Johnathan Liebesman's 'WRATH OF THE TITANS' does just that.  Utilizing mostly the same cast from last years 'CLASH OF THE TITANS', the filmmakers did what the original fought against, overpowering the audience with CGI eye candy and taking away from the performances thereby having the characters as nothing more than game board pieces moved around according to the technicians whims boosting the lame screenplay. Mythical creatures not included in the original such as Minotaurs , Cyclops and two headed fire breathing canines complete the catalogue of Mythological Who's Who between both films. Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes stand around and posture while our hero played by Sam Worthington is more wooden than the original which is not his fault, its what the script requires by sledge hammering the next CGI action montage down the audiences throats.  Poor Rosamund Pike and Danny Huston who are always excellent suffer the same fate as they are also engulfed in the proceedings.  Overall, not a bad time waster but it looks like the producers may make another sequel involving Perseus's offspring.  The DVD transfer is nice but grainy in its 1.85 aspect ratio probably due to the 3D theatrical format and the 5.1 surround sound gets a trite muddy during dialogue scenes crammed with music and loud roars being forced through the sub woofer.  This 'WRATH' may become tiresome but it has one thing going for it, its never boring.

Sexy Harrison Ford in a Rather Predictable War Movie I love Harrison Ford, I really do. So I was prepared to love this film. And Christopher Plummer is also a favorite of mine. Still, it was just a little too predictable.  Margaret Sellinger (Lesley-Anne Down) is a volunteer at a military hospital in London in 1943. David Halloran (Harrison Ford) is a Yankee soldier who meets her trying to get on an over-crowded bus, takes her to tea, and predictably falls in love with her. She falls in love with him, too. She wouldn't even tell him her first name for quite a while, eventually says it is Margaret. Just Margaret. What she does not tell him (although apparently he guessed) is that she is married to Captain Sellinger (Christopher Plummer) of British Intelligence. And they have a bright, charming daughter. Still, Margaret meets Halloran on Hanover Street, they go to out of the way inns and make love.  Halloran is a pilot. So when British Intelligence plans a very dangerous mission inside Nazi-occupied France, they decide to ask the Yanks to help them, since there is obviously a leak in their organization. (For awhile I thought perhaps Captain Sellinger was the leak. He's not.) Obviously, Halloran ends up being the pilot on this dangerous secret mission.  Predictably, Captain Sellinger takes the mission himself (to impress his wife with his courage), and he and Halloran end up in trouble in France. No, I'm not going to tell you whether either or both survive to return to Margaret.  Still, it is a pretty good movie, even though it's rather predictable.

Great idea for movie Jamie Kennedy makes an interesting film here exploring what a heckler is and how one should deal with them. There is a good deal of fascinating material here. I really enjoyed the clips of comedians and others dealing with actual hecklers. However, the movie is somewhat superficial in its exploration of this topic. It lumps crowd hecklers together with movie critics and online reviewers. I think this is a mistake. A crowd heckler is disrupting a show that people have gone there specifically to see. These people are being rude and inconsiderate. An online critic or a movie critic is not interrupting anything. They have an audience that they are writing for and while what they write may be rude, it is not inherently more wrong than a comedian making rude jokes. I think Kennedy does get that you can't do anything about hecklers. People will have opinions and you just can't allow yourself to get upset every time that happens. The movie does start an interesting discussion. I just wish it had dug a little deeper.

So it's silly... This is an example of a Showa Godzilla done on the cheep, it's not the best of the first series but by far not the worst and it does introduce one of the popular "villians" of all the films - Gigan, the Bionic Chicken and also brings back Anguirus for a rare role as Godzilla's buddy.  It's a bit campy and the alians, and their plan, are silly, but it's still fun to watch now and then.  Good bargan for the collector.

season 3 One cd was not snapped into the case correctly so in transit it scratched the heck out of it .  The others in the case correctly were fine

Some Very Rare Access to the Inside of a Very Closed Enclave Interesting even if you're not a Catholic, or even a Christian. The art treasures, the attention to detail in ritual and mundane work alike, and a pretty rare look inside a place that is off limits to most people most of the time.  The Swiss Guard are examined in detail through preparations for a swearing in ceremony. The whole process of beatification through the lives of five prospective saints, especially the first one from Puerto Rico, a study of the life of the pope. Did you know, for example, that the Sisters of the Poor (the ones founded by Mother Theresa of India) run a soup kitchen inside the Vatican? Or that the Pope has his own personal photographer, who apparently serves for the life of the pope at least, if not his own life. That there is a program underway to digitally record and restore old documents in the Vatican archives, including a letter written in Leonardo DaVinci's own hand? It seems that iron in the ink he used has eaten away the parchment or paper (don't remember which; think it was paper). There are three major art restoration laboratories: stone, tapestries, and paintings. As a needlework enthusiast myself, I stopped breathing as I watched a nun meticulously cut away a few threads on a tapestry which were a previous and not very skilled restoration.  These people think not in years or decades, but centuries.  We got to watch the Vatican Choir practice and then perform. Boys enter at the age of nine, and leave when they turn 13 "or their voice breaks, whichever comes first." Discreetly, no mention was made about the castrati of previous centuries.  But some negative things were included, especially an explanation of how the Holy Roman Empire became so terribly corrupt, with popes who made land grants to their bastard sons. The one that commissioned a particularly fine basilica pawned the priceless tapestries to pay the builders. The trial of Galileo is mentioned, and the Inquisition -- very briefly.  2001 was in the reign of John Paul II, the Polish pope. He looked so bent and feeble in these pictures that after the film was over I looked him up in Wikipedia. He lived until 2005, so I guess he wasn't quite as bad off as he seemed.  It's interesting history and culture, and Catholics will probably find it priceless.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles case of the killer pizzas The tracking on it was better than the one I already have but it too had some bad spots in it.

The Lincoln Lawyer Rather indifferent towards this movie. The plot progression was a little jagged and I thought that Ryan Phillipe's acting was less than enthralling. It was entertaining, but not nearly as much as a thriller as I was expecting. Matthew McConaughey gave a good performance but overall I was unimpressed.

not a review This DVD is being re-released early next year, so please do not spend 30.00 on this issue. The rerelease will also feature many special features. You can find out more about the offical release by checking out this website [...]   However I can understand if you can not wait that long for this movie.

Visually stunning and well acted movie almost overcomes the lousy script and some miscasting. Tron Legacy (2011) is a worthy successor to the Disney movie it eulogizes, bringing up to date the cinematography and CGI visuals that made the original such a breakout movie. Jeff Bridges, Olivia Wilde, and Beau Garrett put in terrific performances and Bruce Boxleitner gamely stands in as the corporate good guy who provides a tangible link between the past and the present.  The plot of Tron Legacy, with some notable exceptions, is almost identical to the plot of the original. E.g., a User is beamed into the game grid of a rogue server and he fights his way across the electronic landscape in lightcycles and other vehicles to the uplink so he can return to the real world to put things to right. A megalomaniac administrative program stands in his path, unwittingly doing the bidding of his corporate masters by keeping Flynn out of the way while they plot their evil machinations on the unsuspecting public.  It helps to put things in context by understanding that Tron Legacy is not really a sequel. It is true that the in-movie gap of twenty-nine years is the same as it is in real life and that some aspects of the plot extend from the original. But Tron Legacy is more of an homage, and not just to Tron (1982), but to a number of other science fiction classics of the last forty years. Obvious homage sequences include a turret defense scene with Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund) taken from Star Wars 4: A New Hope (1977) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003), an extended bar scene with Zuse (Michael Sheen) taken from The Matrix Reloaded (2003), and the movie's final scene taken from Bladerunner (1982), itself ironically an invention of the Warner Brothers bosses implemented over the vehement objections of Ridley Scott.  The visual effects are sumptuous and detailed, lavishly created by Digital Domain studios and mothered over by the director (and former architect) Joseph Kosinksi. It is here where Tron Legacy excels, from innovative lightcycle designs to stunning background detail that includes clouds, lightning, myriad buildings and structures, and a digital shoreline. The effects immerse the viewer in the Tron universe, drawing us in and filling the imagination with the possibilities of more. Although the visual effects of the original movie are mocked in the modern era, most forget that they were quite revolutionary for its time. It was one of the first movies that abandoned matte paintings and model miniatures in favor of fully digitized sequences with live-action performers. It was Tron that helped Hollywood understand the potential of CGI film making, and it set the stage for The Last Starfighter (1984), a movie in which fully a quarter of the running time was shot in CGI. Tron ultimately made movies like The Matrix (1999) and Lord of the Rings (2001) possible, and in Tron Legacy thirty years of CGI artistry comes to its full potential.  Jeff Bridges brings to bear his considerable skill, acquired in the intervening decades between the Tron installments. He plays three characters in the movie (current day self, self fourteen years earlier, and his alter-ego CLU, a rebel program in the Grid), two of them digitized to look younger, and he really stands out in the persona of his older self untainted by the touch of graphic artists. The much ballyhooed digital head animations look stiff and unnatural in spite of Bridge's art. This was done considerably better in The Social Network (2010) (the simulation of the Winklevoss twins), albeit not a full digitization. Nevertheless it was nice to see Bridges take his role seriously, something that he clearly did not in the original Tron. Olivia Wilde, an actress better known as a doctor in the TV series House (2007-2011), is wonderful as the self-evolved program Quorra, bringing together the necessary child-like innocence, conflicted loyalties, and subsurface femininity that the role requires. Former Guess model Beau Garrett has a wonderful cameo as the duplicitous program Gem and Bruce Boxleitner reprises his role as Kevin Flynn's partner Alan Bradley. Although Boxleitner also played the title character Tron in the original movie, he does not in Tron Legacy.  Michael Sheen gamely plays bar owner Zuse with a foppish flare, clearly intended as comic relief. Sheen (no relation to Martin Sheen and his brood) is an accomplished stage actor with an impressive resume in both TV and film, but here he is horribly miscast. In fact the casting of Sheen is so bad it actually makes the otherwise fine performances of the rest of the cast look unnecessarily wooden and stiff. Considering that casting was done by Heike Brandstatter, Sarah Finn, and Coreen Mayrs, a trio associated with a lengthy list of schlock, kids movies, and comic book adaptations, one should not be overly surprised. The same role was done to supreme effect by Lambert Wilson in The Matrix Reloaded and Kosinski would have done better to cast an actor similar to Wilson that could pull off the comedic qualities required without disrupting the feel of the movie.  Garrett Hedlund is typecast (see also Troy (2004), Friday Night Lights (2004), and Eragon (2006)) as the young and virile, but rudderless, stud son Sam Flynn. He works his way through the lines of his character with the necessary gravity and seriousness, thereby avoiding the type of damage that Sheen does to the film, but is not really up to the part. In spite of Jeff Bridges being on board the Sam Flynn character was the one role that would make or break the film. Hedlund does neither, clearing the way for the movie to make a profit, but doing little to keep critics from excoriating the movie. A performance that properly conveyed the anguish of a son abandoned by his father only to find the man immersed in the environment he preferred would have elevated Tron Legacy from mere fanboy film to an award worthy sequel that may have spawned new movies in the same milieu. Alas, it was not to be.  The music is a synthesized compilation by Daft Punk and does a good job of enhancing the modern, but moody, atmospherics of the film. The modernity of the Daft Punk soundtrack is even more startling after the hearing the silly early 1980s hits screeching out of the jukebox in the Flynn video arcade at the beginning of the movie, and it is with some relief when Garrett Hedlund closes the door behind him before descending down to the secret computer lab underneath.  The script is just awful, albeit at the same quality level as the original movie. Stereotypical and hackneyed dialogue march their way through the plot, encompassing everything from things that evil corporate executives say to the pseudo-mysticism mouthed by Bridges in justification for his abandonment of his son, employees, and family. The plot itself, although basically the same as in Tron, rejects the original subtext of industry-rampant intellectual property theft in favor of the anti-capitalist, pro-anarchic sympathies popular in the Hollywood of 2011.  The ham-handedness of the writing might cause the viewer to overlook some nevertheless interesting plot elements. Quorra represents a digital offspring of sorts of Kevin Flynn, and he gives her to his flesh-and-blood son Sam to take with him back to the real world. Kevin Flynn clearly prefers his digital world over that of the non-digital world, and who is to say that one world is more real than the other? But he needs an agent to work on his behalf in the non-digital world so he can perpetuate the conditions necessary to continue to work in the isolated environment of the Grid. In the end he chooses to stay in the Grid during the escape of his progeny in spite being able to escape with them. His continued presence means the destruction of CLU and the Orwellian world the rebel program had created, and in this destruction the Grid is swept clean and returned to the blank canvas he needs to start anew.  The movie was a resounding commercial success, with a world-wide box office of $400 million versus a production budget of $170M. Considering marketing costs, merchandising, video game sales, and the movie chain take, it made a tidy profit for Disney. The original Tron booked $33 million at the box office versus a $17 million budget. Even accounting for 29 years of inflation, the second movie did better than the first. But Tron Legacy was not an unqualified success, so it is unlikely the franchise will see another installment for another thirty years. Still, Tron Legacy did serve to fire the imaginations of a new generation of kids who will, like those that saw Tron in 1982, inspire them to make innovative and visually alluring movies in the future. For that we can all be thankful.

Interesting, with some technical issues. If you already know anything about Go//Weiqi and the ranking system and the Chinese training schools, listening to the game and ranks being explained may be tedious.  It is worth sitting through for some of the more interesting and entertaining interviews later, though. The trip to the park, and watching and chatting with the street players was particularly interesting. All in all,  this was worth watching, especially if you are interested in Go, China or both.  The disc has some technical issues. It was a DVDr (I knew that when I bought it.) The biggest problem was that I have a fullscreen tv, and instead of letterboxing the image, like normally happens with widescreen DVDs, the sides were cropped, cutting off part of the subtitles. No idea why. As annoying as that was, the disc played properly on the computer, and on the Blu-ray player/widescreen projector at work.  It might also have been cool if someone had proofread the subtitles. And frankly, for the few English-speaking interviewees, it would have been useful if they were also subtitled, as the accents were very hard to understand.  Still, great to see someone making this kind of video!

Let The Flame War Commence. I really find it amusing how these movie snobs get on here and shoot down others reviews when they don't see it the way they do.the point of making a review is giving you're "opinion" wither it's good or bad it's still an opinion and everyone has a right to it, I've seen The Proposition a couple of times and it's far from being poetry in motion, have these geniuses ever thought maybe no one "got it" cause there's nothing to get? this movie is dreary and bloody and half the time it doesn't even know what it wants to do. the main character walks and stands around in a trance for most of the film, he didn't appear to be a man on a heated hunt for his elder brother to save his younger one. in fact they found him half dead, after that the movie just started to make less and less sense, in the final act we are treated to the senseless beating of a man and even more senseless attempted raping of the mans wife, the other brother who finally decides to come out of lala land long enough to put an end to the other twos bloody rampage once and for all. long after the credits are rolling you try to make sense of this thing, but no matter how hard you try it just does not add up, I'm not exactly sure what the director was going for and I'm not too sure if he knows himself but it certainly didn't seem to project on the screen too well. however I'm giving it 3 stars for the many scenic shots of Australia they were quite lovely to look at. and now may the film mutts be let out of their cages to tell me the error of my ways and that I just didn't "get it"

THE GORILLA WAR. MARK OF THE GORILLA IS A FAIR JUNGLE JIM OPUS.A NAZIS TREASURE HAS BEEN LOST IN THE JUNGLE,AND IT SEEMS THERE ARE GORILLAS OUT KILLING PEOPLE,PRINCESS NYOBI CALLS ON JUNGLE JIM FOR HELP TO FIND OUT WHATS GOING ON.WE HAVE EVIL AND GREEDY TREASURE HUNTERS WHO WILL DO ANYTHING TO STEAL THE GOLD.THE GORILLAS ARE MEN WHO DRESS UP TO MAKE PEOPLE THINK GORILLAS ARE DOING THE DIRTY WORK.THE MOVIE IS WHAT IT IS AND WILL KEEP YOU ENTERTAINED FOR 68 MINUTES.JOHNNY WEISSMULLER IS JUNGLE JIM AND HE FIGHTS ANIMALS AND PEOPLE TO MAKE IT ALL RIGHT IN THE END SO KICK BACK AND ENJOY.

Disc 1 fantastic,  disc 2 ruined by canned disco beat. I guess when I ordered this cd set I only paid attention to the list of songs and was sold.  After receiving and listening to them,  disc 1 was wonderful.  Then I listened to disc 2 and couldn't believe my ears.  Song after song,  with the exception of the last 2 tracks,  One Moment in Time and The Star Spangled Banner (  thank God they had the decency to not ruin that !! ) , had this annoying,  canned sounding disco beat getting in the way of that incredible voice.  I never would have purchased this set had I known.  Who would think that would make those songs better ?  I still can't believe it!!

MIxed Bag - But Still Worth a Look Ok, I read all the reviews before buying this, so I knew what I was getting into, but I had remembered seeing this as a kid and really enjoying the rollicking good action, so I took a chance and ordered it.  First of all, the DVD quality was certainly lacking.  The studio is listed on Amazon as Tgg Direct (ASIN: B00005BI96), and the back of the case says "Fully Restored and Enhanced Digital Masters", but honestly, it looks more like this was just picked up off the floor and run through a projector.  Lots of dirt, scratches, and for the most part very light.  Disappointing to to say the least.  However, the worst parts were at the first and when it came time for reel changes.... so it wasn't all terrible.  Now for the film itself.  I guess when I watched this as a kid I didn't pay attention to the politics, I just enjoyed the action.  Viewing it these many years later I was initially taken aback by the odd viewpoint being represented...... however..... like many films, I think it's important to keep things in perspective relative to the time period when the film was produced.  It's easy for us to look back on history and try to place our morales on those who lived then, wondering how they could possibly have thought like that..... but it's harder to try and place yourself in their situation and understand that things weren't so clear cut back then, and I mean both during the period being depicted in the film as well as the period during which the film was made.  It was mentioned numerous times during the film that the army was simply an enforcer of the law, and that they would pursue either side of the slave issue that tried to use violence to further it's cause, and while many historical liberties were taken, let's remember that these films were meant as entertainment, not as vehicles of historical fact.  So yes, there are some questionable scenes, but taken in the context of the time this was made, I see this film more as a time capsule of cultural ideas of the period and worth viewing, if only to raise awareness of how far we've come ..... and possibly how far we have to go.  And for the record... even with all it's flaws, both in the quality of the DVD and the questionable plot line, I still thoroughly enjoyed seeing this film again after all these years.

Good war film - good video copy, awful audio Although the film print is good, the audio is horrific. Within two (2) seconds as the music swells under the titles, there is distortion.  You also have to pump up the volume of your device on this transfer. The audio throughout the film is all over the place, worse with music, sometimes with explosions (its war), and a bit ugly with dialogue and music under.  No one at Warners took the time to Q.C. this. I assume it was farmed out. Of course, "they" may say it is/was the best print available. Perhaps I just got a terrible copy since these are "allegedly" made to order.  Also, the original price was $15.99, not $19.99 (as of this writing).

Love the movie, just not Amazon's instant video... I'm willing to try just about anything once, so I downloaded this for $10 from Amazon's instant video section. It was quick and easy, but a red flag went up when I saw that it was a .wma (Windows Media)and only 2.3GB. A DVD file is normally around 4GB, so this was twice as compressed and used a mediocre file format. WMA is fine for making youtube videos and homemade slideshows, but its very bad for compressing professional video. It would freeze up every 10 minutes or so, and then suddenly rocket forward to catch up with where it should have been. I normally don't have this problem with other formats. I believe it has something to do with keyframes. Anyways, knowing what I know now, I would just get the DVD/Blueray. You pay the same price, but you can use it on any device with a DVD/Blueray drive, and you can rip it to a quality unprotected file that you can use on any device (not just a kindle).

It's ok, disturbing but doesnt break any new ground. Parents should definitely keep track of what their children do on the internet and one of the ways in doing that is to disable most of the crap that's on it. Or not giving them a computer at all, and there are ways to monitor what goes on in the cyber world. You can't really protect and shelter them from the world even though we'd like to. The movie does touch base very well on the concept behind sexual predators online. But it really seems to lack capturing the real feel and emotional damage that it does. Clive Owen is a great actor, but this role seems all wrong for him, as it does with the young girl Annie. It's just very slow paced(to slow pace) about a subject that is very serious. Also the girl seems to actually be in favor of protecting the man who assaulted her in the fist place. In a way it kind of portrays teenage girls as being stupid and naive. I imagine that most kids today if confronted with an older man that they meet offline, they would say omg, you sick pervert etc. That's one of the reasons the movie just doesnt go anywhere. I was expecting more of a stalker situation, who wouldn't leave the girl alone, but instead you get a slow paced bunch of talk, and very little tension. So while Trust isn't horrible, is certainly doesnt break any new ground, and will become a Lifetime Special at best. I think it's a bold brave step for David Shcwimmer to direct a movie such as this, but i also think it will be his last.

Good is you get past the anime speaking off rhyme voices. Good  stories. The animation is brilliant and crisp while the Japanese style anime voices throw it off. Only happens in some particular stories. Each story has a different Bat suit which is sometimes really nice and just strange.

Rocky says farewell in style Otherwise known as Rocky VI, this Stallone driven drama is not too bad at all. Having milked the franchise over the years Stallone is still able to pull the heartstrings. This one focuses on Rocky's comeback from retirement in an exhibition match with cocky prize fighter. You are on Rocky's side all the way as this capitalises as the battler making it good against all the odds, in other words the same formula as Rocky's I to V. Somehow it still works and this one is quite different than the others as Stallone really is getting too old so there is no denying where the agenda of the film lies.  The fight sequences are suped up with music video style jump cuts, slow mo, razor sharp edits and some chilling camera work. It again works fine. Rocky is reduced to a shell of what he used to be since his fighting days but the drawcard of the film is to see how he overcomes the odds to get back in the ring and make a contest of himself. The acting is top notch, Adrian is featured in dream sequences showing how Rocky focuses on the past. It is great to see old timer coach Burt in his reprised role again. I like the scenes where Rocky is making friends with a new girl and her son, he seems genuine and is very honourable in his intentions.  It is a likeable film, no swearing at all, and just a bit of blood when they get in the ring and slam each other into kingdom come. But that is expected. The final credits are fun showing many ordinary people making the famous run up the steps and, yes, Rocky music and the famous run up the steps happens from the big man himself, as well as thumping meat, downing raw eggs and running in the snow with his pet dog Punchy. It does not disappoint as a homage to the old Rocky's and Stallone in a hat looks the same as ever; the no good bum who fights for his passion, and it is not all about winning. I was generally delighted with the pleasant tone of the film and the uplifting message of hope and courage.

Somewhat disappointed My primary critique is of the DVD itself and not so much the content.  All I received is a bare-bone Blu-ray DVD. No history, playlist or background information like found in the 10th Anniversary.  The 25th may be fine for those familiar with the story line, have read the book or seen the performance on stage; but, IMO, not for a first time viewer of Les Mis&eacute;rables.  We have seen the play on stage in London and a USA touring production. I prefer the cast of the 10th Anniversary performance.

It's OK but... For anyone living in secluded spots in the country think of it...this kind of terror can and has happened to some of them.I have a house hidden from the road where this has happened to me but thankfully for me or for whoever did it I was'nt there at the time.Now this is real terror when you are home at a secluded spot and don't know who or what kind of nuts are outside in your fields terrorizing you.That is scary enough and makes great scary moments in this movie.But in my opinion what distracts from focusing on this terror is the personality of the people and victims  who live in the house.I see no need to go out of the way to show so much of what their personalities are like.(they are kind of nutty).I just though the focus on their quirkiness too much distracts from the terror.Its worth watching but just worry about the terror and don't think too much about the victims nutty personslities.

Light-years ahead of "At World's End" I'll admit--POTC 3 left me with quite the bitter taste in my mouth as I excited the theater. Days later, critics were screaming for the saga to end as a trilogy, and at the time, I was inclined to hop on this bandwagon. But then I stopped, and realized that redemption was needed for Pirates. I'm not sure if "On Stranger Tides" has accomplished this, but it's a start. No Keira Knightley; no Orlando Bloom? So freaking what?! Penelope Cruz was a nice addition. Ian McShane did a great job as Blackbeard. Geoffrey Rush needed more screen time as Hector Barbossa, and the Spanish were shamefully skimmed over. The mermaids were annoying, though. Particularly Serena.  Hopefully "Pirates 5" will be a vast improvement. HOPEFULLY.

There is hope... In film DC Comics only brought us one too many versions of Superman & Batman. While a few other comic characters from this company have made it to film like `Watchmen' & `Hellblazer' Still, where are all the other popular DC characters? Our prayers were finally answered this summer with `Green Lantern'  First off, I am a huge Green Lantern fan. I love the story and I love the fact that a hero so simple can have such a deep complex life as well as a very deep story. This movie was huge, because the entire DC franchise was weighing it. Success would bring all the other major DC names to the big screen finally. Unfortunately, this film is not the greatest. The acting was not the greatest, but thank goodness Ryan Reynolds was able to do a decent job. Blake was not lively at all as Carol Ferris and Marc Strong who played Sinestro barley got any screen time. The other weakness of the film while it was strength to me was the story. The story of Green Lantern goes far beyond the ring, there is a whole world full of Green Lanterns that protect the entire universe and a story like that may not sit well with people whom have never read the comic and no nothing of the lore. Green Lantern fans will appreciate that aspect, but at the same time will not be entirely satisfied due to the subpar acting.  There is a great deal of potential for a sequel to be a better film, especially with the cliffhanger ending. The only problem is due to box office failure, there may not be another film. Still, `Green Lantern' is a fun film and I own it and after seeing it a second I still feel the same way. It is a fun film that the true fan will enjoy, with of potential to be better.  Again this is a horrible DVD and I blame it on Blu Ray, there are next to know decent special features and you can only get the extended edition on Blu Ray...shame shame.

Methinks I was beloved of an ass.... Upon reading the many other reviews, both glowing and scathing, I find myself in the wishy-washy position of agreeing with those on both sides:  yes, Shakespeare has been done and done, and done far better and with far more gifted direction and nobler purpose than this;  yes, there is still "something about it" that, much like the hempen homespuns' painfully funny production of Pyramus and Thisbe, makes this glittery, insubstantial film charming.  Like eating sugar-laden sweets in place of a proper meal or watching a soap opera, a guilty pleasure.   Most of us agree that Kevin Kline is superlative as Bottom:  vain, strutting, absurd, an idiot who fancies himself an intellectual, a spectacularly untalented dolt who styles himself an artist....and yet, a flash of self-awareness, a longing for the sublime, crosses his face every now and again, making him a sympathetic rather than a purely pathetic character.  And face it, there's something in all of us that wants even the utter losers to win sometimes:  to be undeservedly worshipped by someone who is way out of our league, to somehow rise to the top above many whose gifts eclipse our own; to be pronounced worthy after a lifetime of unworthiness.  Supporting him, his band of 'hard handed" village laborers form an affectionate close-knit group, bringing heart and sweetness into their awful performance. The debut (and thankfully, only) performance of Pyramus and Thisbe before the duke, complete with slapstick dog-whirling and monumental hamming on Kline's part, is suddenly moving as the young man playing Thisbe casts off the falsetto and bad wig and speaks from his heart, bringing his noble audience to tears.    A virile Dominic West and Gibson girl beauty Anna Friel make a charming, physically-compatible Lysander and Hermia;  Christian Bale does well as unfaithful and arrogant Demetrius, and he manages to convey a bit of realization that his character, spurned again by Lysander-doting Hermia in the woods, finally grasps the fact that one cannot force the love of another, even if the law is on his side.  A bit of a false note with Helena as portrayed by the older, frail-looking Calista Flockhart, whose accent is affected and speech stilted and whose manner seems to be intentionally precious and focused on showing everyone how much she can pucker her bee-stung lips.  Stanley Tucci is needling and charming as Puck; Rupert Everett, who obviously spent a great deal of time waxing, is a bit fey, if you'll pardon the pun, but so pretty and with that wonderful gravelly purr of a voice that you'd not mind if he were reading a cereal box.  Michelle Pfieffer does a fine job, and her golden and statuesque ice queen-turned-sex goddess loveliness nearly makes up for her lack of feel for the language.  David Straithairn as Theseus does seem a bit, ahem,wimpy and weak-chinned...but, as another review pointed out, they sort of cut off his....best lines.  You don't get the back story of the battle and truce-by-marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta;  all you see is the obviously hard-up Duke chasing radiant, pouty-lipped Sophie Marceau, who is moody and pensive and in a snit with her husband-to-be over his insistence on the letter of the law over the spirit.    Ultimately, much more could have been made of the overarching play-within-play-within-a-play, in which the happiness and very lives of the small and the mortal depend precariously upon the whims and moods of the great and the omnipotent--a row between the Faerie king and queen wreaks havoc upon the natural world, stirring tempests and plagues, just as the lives of young lovers and workingmen depend upon the temperament of controlling fathers and stern and sexually frustrated dukes-- likewise Elizabeth I's many romances and rumored betrothals had the capacity to shake the foundations of her country, as her father's stormy love life destroyed many a family, rocked nations and tore the church asunder.  Shakespeare spoke the truth in parables, and got away with it, reminding the audience that this was but a play, a fancy, a dream, and not meant to be taken seriously.  And this is it--the viewer is allowed to take this film lightly.  It's allowed to be light and made of nothing but air and gossamer.  So quick do bright things come to confusion....let's enjoy a bit of fool's gold for its sparkle and let it be what it is.

Godzilla vs Gigan It was okay.  I enjoyed it, but don't know that I'll watch it again.  Picture & sound quality were just okay.  I would really have liked to preview this before buying.

breaking wind The movie wasnt that funny it was alot more stupid it was ok to watch once but only if u have a weird sense of humor. But the quality and the delivery of the movies was excellent and fast, and the service was great.

Three stars for Mr. Oldman only This movie does neither the book nor the British mini-series justice. Gary Oldman can make just about anything work however and I did enjoy once again seeing his incredible skill as an actor. I just wish the movie itself could have been better by at least trying to do the book some justice. It is worth a rental. In my opinion it is not worth purchasing nor worth a second viewing.

strange film Definitely worth watching once, this is a very unique film and will keep you entertained through out.  The flashing lights get annoying fast, and you will likely need an Advil at the end if you watch it on a large enough screen.  Not for the easily offended, definitely NC-17 material in several sceens.

The Story of a Rogue Captain Kidd, 1945 film  The story begins at Madagascar where pirates prey on merchant ships that transport wealth from India. Captain Kidd's men dig a pit for a treasure chest. Three is a question over the division of the loot. [Burying the loot hides the evidence or piracy.] Kidd learns about being a gentleman. At Hampton Court the King considers William Kidd for a mission. They make a deal so Kidd will protect a treasure ship. Kidd asks for condemned pirates for his crew. Kidd visits the jail to offer a deal to the condemned: serve him and be reprieved. The men make their mark. Kidd meets an old acquaintance. Kidd has ambitions, and that takes money. Kidd talks to his officers at dinner. They wonder about Mercy's actions. The Master Gunner trains his crew. Kidd plans to meet a merchant ship loaded with wealth. There is an accident aboard ship that kills a man. [One less to share the loot?] Mercy snoops in Kidd's cabin; what is his price?  They meet another ship at sea. Kidd borrows powder and shot. One of his men lights a candle in the powder hold. There is an accident on Kidd's ship. "What manner of ship is this?" There is conflict between Kidd and Lorenzo. Mercy talks to the young lady. Kidd talks about his plans. There is a scream and a sword fight! Man overboard! Kidd finds a medallion and draws a conclusion. The ship stops to replenish its water supply. Kidd goes to retrieve that buried chest. There is a conflict. [Body double?] "Anything may happen." Kidd explains the loss of Mercy. Then there is a surprise! They plot to save Lady Anne. But their boat is seen! Kidd orders the long boat in pursuit. No survivors. Back in London King William receives Captain Kidd and asks about Lady Anne and the treasure. Kidd has an explanation for everything, until Mercy and Lady Anne appear as witnesses. Kidd challenges anyone to find his treasure. The account is closed. Blayne gets his reward, a ship and a wife.  I think this is at best an average movie. A better story would have helped, it seems too restrained for an action movie. How many of its viewers know anything about late 17th century history and the history of this era?

Spectacular Opportunity Squandered While Meryl Streep was phenomenal the movie would have been better served with more substance while she was Prime Minister. She is young, she's old, her husband is alive, he's dead, she is in command then she is dotty, very annoying and disappointing. In the end, it would be a mistake to miss Streep at her very best.

A good movie I didn't give it five stars because it wasn't great, simple. But, it was very entertaining. I only recognized one actor, but that doesn't mean much.  It did have good acting and the action was pretty good.  Not Iron Man but still, all in all, a good movie. Worth the bucks.

Not as good as the first So, I recently saw the first Toxic Avenger for the first time and I thought it was so cool and funny. The second movie wasn't as good. The story is really good, but the directing and acting wasn't good. Toxic Avenger doesn't look as good as he did in the first. Now he looks more plastic and very bulky. Toxic girlfriend played by Phoebe Legere is the worse actor in the whole movie. She was way over the top with her performance and she was bouncing all over the place. Toxic girlfriend seems like a real slut and innocent anymore. When the Toxic Avenger goes to Japan she meets a Japanese friend and her performance was better than Legere. The only thing with the Japanese girl performance is that she doesn't sound Japanese. She has more of a Vietnamese accent going on.  The Toxic Avenger fights scenes aren't as good because they are too cheesy to watch now. When Toxic fought the Kabuki Men, he just runs off to get new weapons so many times. This lets the Kabuki Men slowly move towards the Japanese girl to hurt her. It seems really stupid that they would slowly walk to her and not get her many times. Also, I feel that when Toxic had to fight with the fish head man, they could had made that into a better and longer battle. It would seem like he would be a great rival, but instead he took him out faster than anyone else he fought. That was so bad.  I really wish this movie would had been better, but it's not the worse ever movie to watch. So, it's just average to me.

No need for the remake This is an interesting story, but the 2009 version was just fine in it's original version from Sweden. I see many people on here talking about how this is different from the first film. I have seen both of these back to back and I can't see the need to remake it.  It is virtually scene for scene the same as the original, and the quality of the film used, sound, and lighting even feel the same, if not worse.  The only thing they did was bring in bigger actors, namely Daniel Craig, Stellan Skarsgard, Christopher Plummer to name a few, then made them speak English with an accent to make it sound Swedish to apparently make it more appealing for the US audience.  Also had a bigger budget, but all they spent it on was actors and trent rezonor to do the soundtrack, just superfluous spending that added nothing for me.  Really no need to do so.  I watched the original with subtitles, and the English overdub was not bad when I tried it.  Again, interesting enough movie, worth a viewing if you are a fan of the series, but don't get your hopes up for something different or better.

Declines greatly in the second half of the season "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Season 2" declines greatly in story quality and action in the second half of the season. The first half of season 2 is much like season 1, with similarly good stories, action, and characters, and there are even some improvements over season 1. But about half way through, everything stops dead, and the characters get very depressed. It's rather like many episodes of "Battlestar Galactica" where the characters just sit around, get drunk, and feel miserable. I had high hopes for this show, and I'm amazed that the writers couldn't have done a better job. If they were out of ideas, they should have quit and let others have a go. Reviewed 4/10/2009 after watching the entire season during its original broadcast.

Good thing I got it as a gift.... ....because if I had wasted my money on that, I'd definitely bang my head on the wall! I did ballet for nearly 12 years, but had to stop due to serious injuries and I was looking for something to slightly get me back on track, so my friend gave this DVD to me.  Fact #1 : Most of this stuff you'd never do in a REAL ballet class (and trust me, I had MANY of exhausting, hard and sometimes painful "REAL" ones)  Fact #2 : It is NOT a DVD for absolute beginners! Yes, it is for people who know the basics of ballet and can follow a trainer easily without detailed instructions, but not for people who think a 'releve' could be a French wine.  To wrap it up: If you want a Jane Fonda aerobic inspired workout with a hint of ballet and are not looking for a REAL ballet class (which a ballet dancer actually never would call workout - at least none of my teachers ever did and I would never call it a workout either) this is what you're looking for.  For people who are looking for a classy ballet class - do not purchase this DVD or you will be bitterly disappointed!

positivo the selected product is required, but definitely lacking in details such as a booklet to enjoy the maximum value of the object. as a whole is positive.

Blu Ray makes this movie look better than it really is. I've long wanted to get this movie and now that I have it I must say I remember it being better than it actually was. Oh it's still fun but it's not as scary as I remembered it. But Evil Dead 2 is the comic twin of Evil Dead, the darker scarier of the two. Still the movie was a bargain and I will watch it again.

Thought Provoking I have to confess that when it comes to conspiracy theories I am definitely more of a skeptic than a believer. This film however left me grappling with some real questions as to whether there is any truth to all the conspiracy theories I have heard about. It certainly raised some doubt about 911 and how much of what the public knows is actual fact. I didn't actually buy everything presented in the film - particularly the bit about the moon landing being a hoax - but I do think there might be some legitimacy presented in this documentary. Conspiracy theorists will definitely want to check out this film.

Alien meets Close Encounters, and definitely disappoints... Am I the only one who thought this movie under-delivered, was over-hyped, and was unnecessarily bloated with foul language?  I guess seeing Steven Spielberg's name conjured up in my mind a warm, climax-building, plot-developing Saturday afternoon kid-flick, with a memorable soundtrack, and a terrific ending that would make me walk out of the theater amazed, and with an 'how'd they do that?' admiration.  For my matin&eacute;e money I got more foul language than memorable lines, an Alien-esque monster that I could develop neither sympathy nor hate for, and a not-so-epic conclusion that made me ask the question: 'who the heck cares?'  I won't rehash the plot. It's the standard-fare government cover-up (Close Encounter of the Third Kind) of the presence of an alien creature we are supposed to both fear and pity. The thing wants to go home (ET but with none of the warmth), and does more stomping and smashing than anything else.  The alien finally turns the water tower in Lillian, Ohio into a gigantic magnet which shape-shifts car engines, microwaves, a kid's locket and bikes into a spaceship. With the drama of a donut, the creature climbs aboard and goes home, and there you have it. End of Story.  While the kid actors are wonderful, and Spielberg shows again he knows the ways of adolescents well, we don't get to know them as thoroughly as we might hope.  Other than the loss of a mom, a pot-smoking dad, dysfunctional family relationships and the conflicts extant between most all parents and kids, there's not a lot else to make us love the little band of Super 8 filmmakers. They are creative to be sure, and we have the expected boy/girl crush thrown in, but other than the scene 'filmed' at the train crash, the kids are not memorable.  Also left underdeveloped in plot and unanswered as questions are: why, specifically, is it the dogs who run away? Where is the alien from and why is it really here? Why does it store humans upside down in the hole (they seem to serve no purpose)? Was there a point at all to the lady with the curlers in her hair? Couldn't we develop more rapport between the alien and the kids?  In short, the explosions and sparklers are nice, but nothing spectacular anymore. The period music is OK, and disco references, Walkman, and old Kodak cameras are nostalgic. But if you're looking for a fast-paced plot like Raiders, a spectacular conclusion like Close Encounters, or the charm and warmth of ET, you won't find it here. Just some foul-mouthed kids, an estranged alien with an attitude, and some explosions to keep you awake.  If this movie is 'memorable', our standard for Saturday afternoon adventure has been significantly lowered. Disappointing.

it's just okay I was not that impressed with Disney on this one.  The compilation of songs just wasn't great and the songs at the end for the kids to "dance to" was pathetic.  They are hip-hop remakes of old Disney classics - criminal!  And the dancing was not appropriate for my 4 year old...

His Girl Friday review I bought this movie after seeing it during a journalism course I had back in college on media ethics. I thought it was such a great movie that I decided to buy it and own my very own copy. The movie is a black and white movie (if I can remember correctly) so don't be surprised because I know the cover makes it look like it's in color.

Half Way Through on a Work Night I had neglected to notice the length of the single video movie until it was too late. Be forwarned: it's a whopping five hours. Who knew?

Just kinda meh... So I read a bunch of these reviews and thought that all these people must be friends of the director or something, cuz this movie looks awful. Well I just gave it a shot on Netflix (which had similar glowing praise) and for a no budget movie it manages to rise ever so slightly above the muck. It's got a few funny bits so if you're a Lovecraft completist this movie won't be too painful. The director has no clue which can be a little jaring; for example,look at the box cover art. The star of the movie is the guy in the background on the left. All through the movie the star just kind of ambles along, overshadowed by the other two characters. It's never confusing who the star is, but what is confusing is why the other characters do all the heavy lifting. In other words the hero never really has his hero journey. Not worth buying but get all your nerd buddies together and watch it on Netflix.

Epic expectations Stephen Spielberg's "War Horse" comes with a lot of expectations, as does any new film by Spielberg, but also like far too many of his movies it falls just short of it's full potential. Told in an epic and episodic form, this movie tries to reach back into the past of cinematic wonders like those epic spectacles that David Lean was so famous for. In many ways, this sort of ambition is doomed to fail outright, few filmmakers today can pull this off, but Spielberg should be one them. So, the real trouble I would guess lies in the story, it's too epic for the movie that was made.  The movie begins with an excruciatingly dull first quarter, filled with bland characters and cliched situations we've seen since the dawn of the cinema. I don't want to sound bloodthirsty, but the movie doesn't find it's footing until we get into the war, once this part of the movie begins the epic journey and adventures soon follow, this is where Spielberg is comfortable. The bulk of the movie is rousing and thrilling, but it's all undermined by a finale of such gross sentimentality and "a you've got to be kidding me" reunion, that I could hear chuckles, at least in my head.  "War Horse" is beautiful to look at, gorgeous photography by Spielberg's long time cinematographer Janusz Kaminski assists the movie greatly. A fine cast of great British character actors (Emily Watson, Peter Mullen, David Thewlis, Liam Cunningham, Benedict Cumberbatch) populate the supporting roles, but make no mistake the film is about and rightfully belongs to Joey, the war horse of the title: neat trivia, Joey is played by the same horse who also played Seabuscuit a few years back. Add a rousing score by John Williams and as expected, this is one well made movie.  The story based on Michael Morpurgo's book is long, drawn out, rather sad, and I doubt the audience intended for this, that being the family film audience, will have the patience for this. I have very conflicting feelings for this movie, on one hand it is big and glorious to look at, and on the other it's too long and too slow, too uninvolving. I guess one's enjoyment for this movie will depend on the viewer.

Price Increase The vendor I selected to purchase this DVD from increased their price 64% after I placed it on my wish list.  The Price went to over $36.00 and it simply isn't worth that to me.  There are other vendors with more reasonable pricing. It is always prudent to check all vendors for pricing and performance ratings.

Blu-ray DVD Well, the Blu-ray DVD will not play on my DVD player due to the region code of my player even though it's a Blu-ray. I still have to find out about this. Otherwise it arrived in time and in good condition

4-movies To Hell & Back 5 Stars Gray Lady  2 Stars Walke Island  4 Stars Battle Hymn 1 star  For 4 movies & that price, will it is hard to beat.

Bridesmaids Movie I was so disappointed in this movie.  I kept waiting for the funny stuff, I remember really only laughing twice. After all the hooplah I expected more.

Viking's last twilight I love Viking movies, but this one could have been alot better. And it is a shame as there are not many Viking movies being made. First, what I liked about this film: The classic Viking era lasted from 700AD to 1000AD. This film took place around 1100AD, so the remaining pagan Vikings were becoming few in number and being pushed farther away from civilization. Gone were the days of looting, pilage, rape and mayhem. The landscape scenes are very well done. The actors, costumes, and fight scenes are all very realistic. The movie didn't have much of a plot, but think about it, life doesn't have a plot for any of us. We get up each day and take whatever life throws at us, it is how we deal with lifes little surprises that makes our life what it is. Same with this movie. Second, what I didn't like: The film was very slow paced, seemed to go on forever. That is mostly because the writer or director chose to not include key battle scenes, or what actually happened to certain Vikings. But all that could be forgiven, had they let the ending follow it's natural course. But no, instead they had our main Viking do something the was completely out of character for him, just so they could end the film quickly. A good ending could have saved the film. So the last half of the movie takes place on a ship with fog around it so there is nothing to see. Then land [ Canada ]. Then we follow the Vikings endlessly through the woods, while the native indians steadily pick them off with arrows. All this leading to the final confrontation, Vikings with sword and axe vs indians with arrows and tomahawks. It would have been a great final Viking battle, just like the old days! But it wasn't to be, and I am heartbroke! If you like Viking movieswatch this one, but dream how much better it could have been.

Good In this movie, the acting is not that great. However, there's not much of it as there's a TON of action. The action sequences completely make up for the bad acting, and they're made all the better when you realize, these guys did/do this in real life.

So very, very, very close Prequels to extremely popular films rarely turn out well.  By and large, they're not great, and only occasionally good.  Even rarer is a prequel that is just as good as the originals...but "Prometheus" is not one of them.  It gets so tantalizingly close to reaching that coveted rank, but just misses it.  In the near future, a group of scientists travel to a distant planet for the scientific expedition of a lifetime: the chance to learn exactly where humans came from, and the chance to meet with our creators.  But upon arriving, they quickly learn that they may have discovered something that will lead to humanity's end.  In many ways, "Prometheus" is an excellent film: its basic concept (what if humans were created by aliens and we could go and meet them?) is fantastic; the atmosphere and visuals are top notch, and when the film hits it's stride, it's an undeniable masterpiece, especially during the first half, where there's a constant sense of exploration and adventure, of finding new things and getting closer and closer to a coveted goal.  "Prometheus" functions as a prequel to 1979's, "Alien" and although events in this film do not lead into the original, there are numerous winks and nods towards what has come before, which are a delight for fans of the Xenomorph creature.  I especially loved learning more about the so called, "Space Jockey" creature that was seen in the original, and learning more about it's species, which arguably makes for the most engaging moments in the film.  Sadly however, while "Prometheus" is more often then not, a fascinating film, it makes some huge blunders along the way.  The pacing in the second half of the second act unexpectedly ratchets up from slow paced to breakneck, with things happening so fast it's easy to loose track of what's going on, especially with regards to the characters (of which there are too many), and why they act the way they do; for a bunch of scientists, they make some really stupid decisions (look!  An alien life form!  Let's try to pick it up when it's clearly angry at us!) and do really bizarre things (one character, after going through a rather horrific act, goes back to wandering around the ship/exploring without bothering to tell anyone what happened, which bugs me to no end).  David the android, in particular, while fascinating to watch, lacks the simple, effective characterization that Ash and Bishop had; he does things seemingly out of random, and even two days after seeing the film, I'm still trying to figure out his motivations.  The editing also adds to the frustration, as I got the sense that a lot was cut out of the finished film, as the rushed pace feels like a lot was cut out to save on the running time.  But worst of all is the feeling of not getting any closure. "Prometheus" raises questions it has no intention of answering, and with the ending hinting towards a sequel, the movie feels frustratingly incomplete, rather then a stand-alone film.  While "Prometheus" comes so tantalizingly close to being a perfect film, it's incomplete feeling, breakneck speed, and choppy editing pull it down (though the third act does manage to recover, and ends with a rather spectacular finale).  It's a great movie, and when it worked, I was more absorbed in it then any other film in recent memory, but I was left with the maddening feeling that it could have crossed the threshold into classic territory if it had been a little more focused and tightened up.  Still, for what it is, it's a great ride for anyone who's ever wondered if we owe our existence to beings beyond the stars.

Blu-ray: (3.5 stars) A good popcorn action-film, cool visual effects and looks and sounds great on Blu! Back in 1998, a manhwa  (Korean comic book) titled "Priest" was created by Hyung Min-woo and was released in the United States.  The comic book was inspired by the PC video game "Blood" and in 2005,  a loosely-based adaptation by Cory Goodman ("Apollo 18') was bought by Screen Gems in 2005.  In 2009, the film was directed by Scott Stewart (known for his visual effects work), "Sin City"and would star Paul Bettany ("The Da Vinci Code", "Iron Man", "A Beautiful Mind"), both men previously worked on the film "Legion".  With the film set for release for 2010, because the film was being converted to 3D, "Priest" would receive its theatrical debut in North America in May 2011 and now, "Priest: Unrated" is set for release in August 2011 on Blu-ray and DVD.  VIDEO:  "Priest is presented in 1080p High Definition (2:40:1) and this dark and gritty vampire-killing film that looks fanastic on Blu-ray.  Blacks are nice and deep, detail for the film is fantastic as we can see various objects, landscapes with clarity.  Closeups of the detail on the skin of the character's faces is quite clear and there is also a layer of grain included as well.  I didn't notice any problems with artifacts, edge enhancement and for the most part, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has constantly given Blu-ray fans awesome picture quality and it is no different for "Priest: Unrated".  AUDIO & SUBTITLES:  "Priest: Unrated" is presented in English, French, Spanish 5.1 DTS-HD MA and English - Audio Description Track.  I have to give high marks to "Priest" for its lossless audio.  Audiophiles will love how effectively the sounds were mixed for various directions.  There is good amount of LFE, dialogue is crystal clear and also good use for ambiance through the front and surround channels.  Especially weather elements of wind and rain but also just that eerie vibe that you get from the look and feel of the film and just hearing the music and the various sounds, the sound editor did a great job on the soundtrack.  Subtitles are in English, English SDH, Spanish, French and Portuguese.  SPECIAL FEATURES:  "Priest: Unrated" comes with the following special features:    PS3 Theme - If you have a PS3, you can install a "Priest" Ps3 theme.   movieIQ - View information online for the film while watching "Priest".   Bullets and Crucifixes: Picture-in-Picture Experience - While watching the film, hear from the director and cast on the making of "Priest" and other details related to the film.   Commentary with Director Scott Stewart, Writer Cory Goodman, Paul Bettany and Maggie Q - While details can be found on the picture-in-picture experience, hear the director, writer and actor Paul Bettany and actress Maggie Q giving viewers insight on the making of the film.   Deleted and Extended Scenes - (12:31) Seven deleted and extended scenes.   The Bloody Frontier: Creating the World of Priest - (12:49) The challenge of creating the alternate world of "Priest".   Tools of the Trade: The Weapons and Vehicles of Priest - (11:25) Featuring the weapons and vehicles of "Priest" and bringing it to the world on film.   Twisted Metal® Uncut Trailer - (2:31) Trailer for the upcoming Sony PlayStation 3 video game "Twisted Metal".  EXTRAS: Comes with an insert with a code to download a "Priest" skin for "Twisted Metal" on October 4, 2011.  JUDGMENT CALL:  I'm probably much more accepting to "Priest" than the film critics were because I read a lot of graphic novels, especially from Asia and I'm also into alternate universe in a steampunkish way and the fact that introduces vampires that are not pretty boys and are just downright fugly and ferocious, I was digging it!  I have to say that I was quite skeptical at first because the last time I watched a film with Scott Stewart and Paul Bettany together, it was "Legend" and it was all visual effects with a bad story.  Not to say that "Priest" is great when it comes to storytelling but I enjoyed this film much more than "Legion" and the concept of the priests and vampires at war and the fact that the overall look of the film managed to look gritty and dark but the use of blues and warm colors to separate the church cities and what was taking place outside with the vampires and humans, for me it was quite intriguing.  It's a short film at 87-minutes and I'm going to be truthful, outside of the main storyline between Priest and him breaking the rules of the church, I felt the whole movie was a bit of a blur and I was focusing more on the visual effects and action.  Suffice to say, seeing Maggie Q with Paul Bettany was a pretty cool collaboration and because I watched "Legion" and was expecting something along the lines of visual eye-candy with no substance ala "Legion", I came in expecting somewhat the worst and so, I was pretty surprised that I enjoyed this film much better than what I was expecting.  As for the film, I can't tell you what difference there is between the unrated and normal version of the film.  I think that for me, the lack of including both films on the Blu-ray release was a bummer!  For the Blu-ray release, I was impressed by the picture and audio quality and that there were a good number of special features and that they got the talent involved for the audio commentary.  But what about the film?  The film was good in a popcorn action kind of way.  When it comes to vampire films, in this day and age, it's been overdone and you just want to see something different.  So,  I did like the fact that "Priest: Unrated" made the vampires really ugly and ferocious.  I will say that for an "unrated" release, I was expecting more violence or even blood or more dismemberment.  I thought this was going to showcase something disgusting along the lines of horror and it never happened in this film.  If anything, we see families getting thrashed by the vampires but instead of showcasing any of those scenes, we hear it instead of see it.  Overall, "Priest: Unrated" was an enjoyable film that was not necessarily great but comparing it to Stewart and Bettany's last work together on "Legion", "Priest: Unrated" was much more enjoyable and if it was visual eye-candy, I preferred "Priest" over "Legion".  If you are the type who likes action films with a lot of fighting and a lot of visual effects and doesn't have a strong plot, you can't go wrong with "Priest: Unrated".  Otherwise, if you are looking for a deeper film and plot is much more important than visual effects and action, then "Priest: Unrated" is definitely not for you.

goes nowhere too often My Life Without Me had all the potential in the world to be a devastatingly brilliant piece of emotional writing.  However instead, the storyline eventually falls apart and I lose interest as a result.  It's about a young mother who goes to the hospital after passing out on the kitchen floor and the doctor discovers that she has cancer.  Now how's THIS for weird- when the doctor sits the mother down to explain she has 2 months to live, her reaction isn't shock, sadness or confusion.  It's... like nothing even happened.  Her reaction is basically like she's carrying a normal conversation about any ol' thing so it's no big deal at all.  She even asks the doctor for a piece of candy a minute later.  Weird indeed!  Now where the movie completely misses the mark is when the storyline tries to get going.  The mother wants to tie up some loose ends before her life comes to a tragic end, however she never really accomplishes much of anything (except for making a few tapes to give to her daughters when they're older).  Let's talk about those tapes.  The scene where the mother is sitting in a car and making tapes for her two daughters so they can listen to them when they're old enough to understand them is the ONLY attempt at emotional writing this film delivers.  I'm quite surprised.  Around halfway through, I realize My Life Without Me isn't really going anywhere at all.  The mother carries overlong and uninteresting conversations with the closest people in her life (her mom, husband, friends... and even her father who's in prison) and she even falls in love with another man who she meets at a laundry mat.  Of course a HUGE issue here is whether it's right or wrong to cheat on your spouse with another man when you're dying of cancer because the woman doesn't have much time left anyway.  I personally think it's wrong because you should spend the remainder of your time with the ones who you're 100% convinced love you the most- not some stranger you just met.  Anyway, these needless conversations barely relate to the storyline and they do basically nothing to interest viewers.  I guess the only appealing factor with this movie is watching and waiting for the moment when the mother is either forced to tell her family that she has cancer because of her inability to gain enough strength, or when the family finds out themselves.  I'm not spoiling what happens though so you'll have to guess.  Pretty bland and uninspiring writing severely distracts what could have been an emotional piece of perfection.

Great movie, should have been rated "R" though. ***SPOILERS*** PLEASE DO NOT READ IF YOU WANT TO BE TOTALLY SURPRISED WHEN YOU WATCH THE MOVIE YOURSELF  The casting for this movie is superb. The plot is realistic. The screenplay is smart. I laughed a lot. I cried a little. I loved all the characters. My problem was that this movie got a PG-13 rating even though it involved a 17-year-old taking nude photos of herself with the intent of giving them to a 40-year-old man (don't worry, she gives them to the 13-year-old she babysits instead), and a bit of "sexting" involving the 13-year-old. Not to mention the whole story is laced with careless sex. I would NOT want my teenager to watch this movie at all, but if they did I would want to have watched it myself and be able to talk about these things.

Average Movie was as well to be expected being that the movie is an older version.  Bought the movie as a gift for a family member.

Enjoyable Family Movie I enjoyed watching this movie.  The story line was similar to "The Family Man" starring Nicholas Cage and Tea Leoni and I liked that movie too.  John Ratzenberger as an angel was "priceless" and added wit and humor to the story.  I bought the movie when it came out on DVD and we have watched it several times.  Certainly worth owning.

A bit scripted, could have been funnier ... After hearing about this movie on NPR I was rather keen to watch it. While it does show a few British retirees out in India, it is not quite the comedy it was portrayed to be. Seeming terse or scripted in parts, this movie could have used so many cultural clashes for mirth. It is not bad overall though, with a good ending and many poignant moments thrown in.

THE MOST MYSTERIOUS THING IN THIS MOVIE IS.... ...the naked person who pops out from behind a rock while the main characters are about to climb to the top of the volcano.  The naked person is seen for just a brief moment - and appears to be bathing.  This startling moment reminds me of the similar startling moment in the Alastair Sym A CHRISTMAS CAROL when we see one of the film crew in the mirror on the morning of Scrooge's awakening as a new man.  How do such obvious mistakes ever make it in the final cut?  Surely someone somewhere who actually worked on the film(s) must have spotted these bizarre moments before the movies' release! Especially the naked person who is mysteriously on the titular Mysterious Island.  I saw this film when it first came out.  I was seven years old and watched this with eyes wide and mouth agape. It did what all movies wish to do - and that is transport the viewer from their own place in space and time and show them another way of experiencing the world - or, in this case, a mysterious island.  This movie is, of course, flawed in so many ways: the giant bees that are nowhere to be seen on the small island for the better part of a month appear literally and figuratively out-of-the-blue; the ludicrous sheep-skin more-mini-than-a-miniskirt outfit the very proper and staid English aunt lets her young, eye-candy niece wear; the mostly very weak matte work; the crude intercutting of a real, ready-to-explode volcano with the miniature, studio-built one; the fact that no one is actually looking at the volcano from on-board the risen pirate ship although they are supposed to be doing so; Michael Callan's cool, nifty 60's hairdo and so forth.  Yes, the movie is flawed.  But it is  - more vitally - fabulous fun!  Unlike most CGI-dominated movies today, MYSTERIOUS ISLAND's special effects serve the story rather than overwhelm it. And there is a story unlike most movies today where most stories are secondary - if and when there even is a story!  MYSTERIOUS ISLAND is a fun, fantastic, fabulous place to spend a stretch of time on.  And it is great for the entire family - despite the mysterious naked person!

Thanks Amazon. This was a gift for my grandson.  He was very happy with this movie and seemed to enjoy it a lot. He is six. It was a surprise as a choice for Jim Carey.

Visually Nice Film Lacks a Convincing Story The film's long title "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" is sort of a spoiler. It virtually tells you all about the film. "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" centers on a young scientist Will Rodman (James Franco) and a chimpanzee Caesar (Andy Serkis). Will learns that a new gene therapy drug, originally developed to cure Alzheimer's disease, has enhanced the intelligence level of the chimpanzee the drug is given.  Being a reboot of the series, the new film ignores some of the aspects of the Charlton Heston classic made in 1968 (especially political elements). Instead director Rupert Wyatt focuses on the relation between Will and Caesar, as well as how Caesar exercises his leadership among the apes. The film also provides several nice action sequences and Andy Serkis did a great job as Caesar as always.  But I was not impressed. Beside the fact the most viewers know how the story will end (yes, humans are on the losing side), "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" suffers from several flaws: stereotypical characters (Freida Pinto's primatologist Caroline, level-headed but uninteresting; David Oyelowo's arrogant and greedy boss, who somehow didn't fire Will when his first experiment went wrong); and some incredible coincidences (lucky for apes, unlucky for humans).  The film is arguably much better than Tim Burton's re-imagined "Planet of the Apes," but frankly I still don't know "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" really deserves the positive reviews it has received from the critics.

Season 6: A speed bump in the momentum Until this season "Sunny" has gotten progressively better each year -- finally hitting its apex with the amazing Season 5. Season 6, however, seemed to deviate from this momentum and proved to be generally uneven.  As some other reviewers have noted, only two episodes were actually written by members of the main cast ("The Gang Buys a Boat" and "Who Got Dee Pregnant?") which fittingly are two of the season's strongest episodes. This fact points to probably the most glaring problem with Season 6 -- it has great moments, just fewer solid complete episodes than seasons past.  Sure "the implication," "Lethal Weapon 5" and Mac calling everyone a "Jabroni" will easily enter the canon of great and memorable Sunny moments, however episodes like "Mac and Charlie: White Trash" hardly hold up against their catalog of better written episodes.  Maybe it was too many side projects, maybe it was working around Kaitlin's pregnacy, maybe it was not having Fred Savage behind the camera or Rob, Charlie and Glenn not actually writing most of the material that hindered Season 6, but one can only hope Season 7 will regain the remarkable momentum this show had formerly achieved.  As for the consumer, I personally will buy this season just because I've watched the first five so many times -- but ulitimately I'm sure I'll be pulling out Season 6 discs as often as Season 1 in the near future. Funny moments, but few great episodes in this DVD pack.

Quick Shipping I cant really rate this item due to the fact that it does not work on my DVD player, it is not really the sellers fault as for the fact that I guess I did not really read all the details. I live in the us and I guess this type of DVD was not formatted for us players. The only thing I can say is the seller was fast at shipping, and to make sure you read all details.

Just OK My wife and I streamed this movie with great anticipation.  After all, it won best picture so it had to be great, right?  Wrong.  Yes, it was interesting and creative, and certainly something we haven't seen in a modern-day movie before.  But it was also boring, depressing, and felt like something a UCLA film student could have created.  Best Picture candidate - no.  Best Picture winner - no way.  Would I watch it again - not a chance.  And that is the measure of a great movie, will it stand the test of time and be watched again and again.  This movie will be forgotten in a year.  You'll see it in the Walmart $5 bin next year.  Disappointed!

Average or below I was pretty disappointed.  The actresses are wonderful, the story has real potential - everything else does not work right.  It does not feel like a period piece, which requires some getting used to.

nice movie Good as advertised.  Arrived promptly and in the specified condition. I was not sure at first but I had previously viewed this movie at some time earlier.

slow service the item, Jerry Maguire movie, was in good shape, but it took so long to receive it that i forgot i even placed the order!!!

Teddy Bears destroy Empire and almost destroy movie 1983's 'Return of the Jedi' is considered by most to be the weakest of the original trilogy. The main reason for this is obvious. It begins with an E and ends in K, with a W and an O in between. Lucas's marketing savvy kicked in early this time and he took out the original woodland creatures, the "Wookies" and replaced them with the teddy-bear-like "Ewoks" and the rest is history. The Ewoks may appeal to some people...notably mothers, very small children and the mentally challenged, but to most 'Star Wars' fans, it remains but a wonder at how much cooler "ROTJ" would have been if the Wookies had been kept in.  The Ewoks aren't the only problem 'Return of the Jedi' has. The story, again, isn't that full (once the characters are banded together, it becomes essentially a re-run of the fist film), the acting isn't terribly good (with Ford, especially, going through the motions) and the direction is a little lackluster (this time handled by Richard Marqand). But, despite these drawbacks, here is actually a lot to enjoy here. The opening "Jabba's Palace / Scarlacc" sequence, again, is fantastic and handled brilliantly. In spite of being marred somewhat by an absolutely awful and completely unnecessary musical number. Rendered even MORE unbearable by the inclusion of an "improved" musical number in the Special Edition. Thankfully, Jabba himself was left untouched and is all the better for it. The giant puppet is a thousand times more lifelike than the pathetic CGI attempt in the 'Star Wars' Special Edition and he's lost none of his disgusting fascination. Likewise, the "Arrival of the Emperor" scene is done very well too, with a thumping "Empire March" music piece from John Williams and Ian McDiarmid standing out as Darth Vader's handler. The brilliant "speeder-bike" chase sequence too is worth of note, although the effects for that are starting to show their age. The epic space battle at the end, though, is still incredible.  However, shortly after the "speeder-bikes" we get to the teddy bears and the film goes rapidly downhill from there. The problem with the Ewoks, is that it's impossible not to be cynical about them. They're a money generator and the focus of cheap emotion, "aww...the teddy's cute", "aww...the teddy's dead". Even as a child, I wanted the Empire to massacre them. Strangely enough, the word "Ewok" isn't mentioned in the entire film, but it became a household name.  In addition, the final defeat of the Empire forces at the hands of the teddy bears is absolutely absurd! It's impossible to believe, in even the realms of a fantasy universe that the Emperor's "crack troops" would succumb to a bunch of koalas. It totally takes the viewer out of the piece. Not only that, but with the Special Edition, Lucas saw fit to take out the "Nub Yub" celebration song at the end of the film and replace it with a montage of victory celebrations across multiple worlds throughout the Galaxy! This destroys the impression that the "Battle of Endor" was a significant, but local victory and turns it into a Galaxy-wide collapse of the Empire! Just because they lost their second unfinished Death Star and the First and Second in command were killed, it hardly makes sense that the whole of the Empire would disintegrate immediately afterwards.  Either way, 'Return of the Jedi' is still a very enjoyable chapter in the original 'Star Wars' trilogy and a fitting entry in its own right. But its shortcomings display, all too clearly, George Lucas's extreme limitations. Lucas may have fantastic ideas, but without a steadying hand (Gary Kurtz?), his unhindered execution of those ideas can be detrimental to the whole project. When viewing 'Return of the Jedi', in which Lucas had more direct control over than the previous two films, it becomes easy to see the oncoming train wreck that the prequels turned out to be. Perhaps the elimination of Gary Kurtz from the production crew, after he voiced his displeasure over some of Lucas's decisions, was the tipping point for George Lucas and the 'Star Wars' saga. Because, as we have seen with the prequels, George Lucas (and his appalling little sycophant Rick McCallum) have well and truly gone over to the "Dark Side".

soundtrack --NOT i made a mistake --sorry should have listened to a few tracks first --but didnt---  THIS IS NOT THE SOUNDTRACK --it is the orchestral version of the soundtrack  it is very nice and pretty _BUT i wanted the MOVIE soundtrack  so make sure you listen first --then buy good luck

Good Time-Pass The whole movie is full of cliches, straight and indirect lifts from the better Bollywood fare and very stupid or illogical scenes that make you go - how bizarre!  You'll only get to wonder what sense the film made, after the screening gets over because the whole time the movie is on...there's so much fun, half the time you're laughing, half the time, well you're smirking! With the very contemporary dialogues and fresh -in-your-face- sarcasm, the film's comedy is pure pleasure. Period.  The music is not breathtaking but catchy and fun! There are a lot of adult jokes cracked so no taking your kids for over-sensitive parents.

What an odd movie Musical numbers are fabulous - love the choreography and costuming. I like the idea of the dark plot interwoven with the full blown musical moments. But the characters feel soul-less, especially the women (Bernadette Peters and Jessica Harper). Had the director encouraged them to connect emotionally with the audience, it would have been a much more likeable movie.

Anonymous If you are looking for an eye candy movie with a kick ass woman character, this is the movie for you.

REGION 2 I saw this movie ages ago and really liked it.  Glad to find it here and I bought it pretty cheap.  BUT - it's REGION 2!  This isn't TOO big a deal because I can actually copy this onto a new DVD and make that region free.  I'll lose some quality, but this isn't exactly a special-effects blockbuster.  I just wanna see the movie again. Anyhow just note that not only is this Region 2 (won't play in your DVD player) but that it ships from the UK so it takes a couple weeks to show up.

over the top I started off really liking this. A regular girl gets taken to a cursed town with fairy tale characters with lost memories living out new lives. Its addictive and the suspense builds. Just as the pay-off comes...the character who figures everything out is killed off. Then the storyline starts to resemble a stale soap opera. Snow White and her Prince have a great fresh new story...but in the cursed world, the Prince is a complete tool. He lies to Snow White and breaks her heart over and over. The main character refuses to believe in the curse no matter how much proof she gets. Beauty and the Beast is turned into a farce with Belle falling in love with old evil man Rumplestillskin. Time and time again both bad characters control every aspect of things just when you think the truth is coming out. It gets old fast. Example...after Snow is about to go to the Prince(in fairy tale land which is reality), the king convinces her to lie to save his life and walk away. After several more JUST misses, it is beyond annoying. FORTUNATELY I was able to skip from episode 8 or so straight to the season finale where the truth is revealed. Now that the truth is out I can watch season 2, but the middle episodes just drag on and make you want to bang your head against a wall in frustration! Here is hoping they don't make the same mistake twice! If you don't like soap operas...skip this after a few episodes and go to the end!

Interesting I am always a sucker for submarine movies. This one, on board modern super-submarines, is interesting though in parts not very credible. Good entertainment.

I'll Give Credit Where It Is Due - But That's All The filmmakers were true to the look and feel of the original series but not ALL of the characteristics of Jason. Jason kidnaps Whitney because she bears some resemblance to his Mother. I had a real problem with that. Since when did Jason Voorhees ever, ever take anyone prisoner? That just didn't work for me. Derek Mears is great as Jason, props to the man, he did a fantastic job! But the story unraveled when it was discovered Jason had taken this young woman prisoner. Uncharacteristic behavior from the man in the hockey mask is the reason for my negativity towards this film.  If they do another film (which I don't think they will) I would get another director and a storyline more in-line with the characteristics of its star character.

Meh Usually Leo has some good movies and this was assigned for a class (abnormal psychology). Not knowing the storyline at all before watching this film, I was actually excited. However, that quickly turned into the most boring 3 hours of my life. I fought through and watched every minute, but I would not recommend this movie unless you are into movies that aim at recreating someone's life.

Slow, Boring, And Good This film is slow, boring, obscure, has no real story or plot that stands out (except for "where is my husband, and here's what really happened in the forest at Katyn"). It is full of disjointed, hard to comprehend vignettes and characters and pointless events. However, it can be interesting, gripping, startling, and is nicely made. Production values are excellent, directing and the acting are excellent. I watched the whole thing and had no problem with it. Clear audio track with subtitles. See it.

Interesting I am a huge sci-fi fan so with that said I was very interested in this movie. I think the story itself was very interesting but it was very shallow. It was also predictable, overall it was OK..

Rocky 5 I thought this film was quite good. In this film Rocky loses everything money, health only to go back to where he used to live where he meets and agrees to train a young boxer Tommy The Machine Gunn(Tommy Morrison) who Rocky finds out does not have his heart. Morrison is great as the boxer who takes Rocky on as his manager and then dumps him for a flamboyant promotor. The final street fight where Gunn knocks out Polly and challenges Balboa to a fight is very good.

Boys Are Savage Little Monsters Very dark and literally savage, but pretty good. A comparatively accurate excerpt from the book. The movie only goes as far as when the clean white uniforms of some sort of adult officers show up, while the book follows them back to England and what trouble these kids had being re-civilized. It also starts somewhat before the airplane crash that brought them to their tropical island, which was only just suggested during the opening credits of the movie.  A couple of groups of English schoolboys were on a plane flight that went down on a deserted island. We start with Ralph, who soon finds Piggy. who told Ralph not to tell the other kids to call him that, but of course he told. He argued that it was better than "Fatty." They walk along the beach for awhile and find a large conch shell. When Ralph blows on it, the sound attracts the rest of the kids. This includes a group of choir boys in their cloaks and hats and ruffled collars, singing Kyrie Elaison. [Which is probably not how you spell it.]  Jack is the head boy of the choir, and so assumes he should be the chief of the tribe. But the boys other than the choir vote in Ralph. So Jack organizes the choir into a hunting party, with sharpened sticks. Apparently Jack had the only knife on the island.  And Piggy wears glasses, which becomes critical when they go to light a signal fire so that any rescue party will know they are there.  Without going into too much detail, let's just say that most of the boys, headed by Jack, turn into a truly savage tribe. Ralph tries to hold together the rational ones, but is very nearly killed for his efforts. And a couple of boys were really killed.  As to the title, that is the severed pig's head which was put on a post as an offering to the Beast which all the children fear, even Ralph. Yes, the audience eventually finds out the nature of the beast.

Should have stuck with a linear story An important story to be understood but I didn't like the constant flashbacks and so many scenes being played out of order. I know it's supposed to evoke the sense of memory, maybe reminding us that things only seem clearer after the fact but really aren't. I really enjoyed Momento but the non-linear timeline was way more integral to the plot of that movie.

Stuck In a Rut I love Nurse Jackie--the character and the show. After viewing Season One I declared it one of the best shows on TV. But this third go-round has left me torn. One on hand, I love Edie Falco's portrayal. Somehow she's managed to take a lying, thieving, drug-addicted adulteress and turn her into a complex but endearing and enjoyable character--someone I want to spend time with. I suppose it's because the writers show off her humanity in the dramatic hospital scenes, but the point is I LIKE HER.  The problem with the series at this point is that it's become a one-trick pony and is stagnant. They need to pull a "Weeds" and really shake this show up a bit, even if it means getting her out of All Saints and bringing in new supporting characters. Falco and the cast are doing an amazing job but the writers are letting them down.  This season still has a few amusing and surprising moments as in the Rat episode and when Jackie's 'sponsor' gets what's coming to him.  Still enjoyable, but definitely getting stale already and that's a damn shame. Three and a Half Stars.

Meh The dvds come from China and are obviously knock offs (not "used" as advertised). But the seller is pretty good about providing a good product. Meaning, a couple of my dvds didn't work and he sent me new copies after I emailed him. Then again...a couple dvd's didn't work. And of the new ones he sent, one still didn't work. The workout was put together in a way where the clips were all out of order. So you can't follow the workout at all. So, overall I would say: good customer service, poor product.

NOT QUITE THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD WARNING: THERE WILL BE SPOILERS FURTHER DOWN. The first thing I want to do is address the colorization. I personally support colorization and in this movie the colorization looks so good it almost looks like it was made that way. I mean seriously, what's the big deal? As long as they didn't colorize the original print and the black and white's are available I can never understand the stupidity of people up in arms over colorized films. GET OVER IT! You argue a stupid case. In fact the colorization enhances the sense of adventure. It starts off great and builds up nicely, but somewhere at the halfway point it seems to go downhill. It wastes more time on useless romance scenes. There is SOME sense of urgency, but no heroic payoff. The Zorro in costume character is barely in the movie. He doesn't rescue anyone. Even the climatic though technically better, but less exciting than Robin Hood swordfight is done by Zorro's alter ego Don Diego Vega. In fact there is no Zorro in costume in action for the last 50 something minutes of the movie. I'm not an avid fan of silent films, but I prefer the Douglas Fairbanks version to this, especially the dvd that has the original music score. If this version of The Mark Of Zorro ended with a Zorro saves the day in Zorro attire it would have been a much better movie and more worthy of the comparison to The Adventures Of Robin Hood. But it didn't. So it isn't.

Cheap writing that doesn't give viewers credit for having a brain Not the best movie I've seen, but since I'm a Bruce Willis fan, also not the worst.  Bruce Willis plays a John McLane-type character about 20 years in the future. He's an aging cop who's now rundown, out of shape, depressed (probably with the silly-looking mustache he's wearing) and overweight, but he's still tough. He's assigned the task of escorting a witness 16 blocks from the jail to the courthouse which is where all the movie's action takes place. The movie is filled with one dimensional characters and is pretty predictable from beginning to end, but what really bothered me the most about the movie was a nugget of information that was revealed at the end of the movie. Had this little bit of information been revealed early in the movie, there wouldn't have been a need for the movie because nothing would have had to happen. To me, that's just cheap writing that doesn't take into consideration the fact that viewers have a brain. Either that, or maybe they know the movie's pretty boring to begin with and no one's really paying that much attention?  16 Blocks comes with an alternate ending which was apparently the original ending, but was changed to the version shown in theaters. I think they made the right decision with the version they chose.  This is not the movie to pick if you're looking for a good cop movie. There've been so many cop movies made before this one that are much, much better, but it's still not the worst one ever made and it did have a nice emotional aspect that seems to be missing in most cop/action movies. I recommend 16 Blocks to Bruce Willis fans, people looking for some mindless entertainment, or linguistic students who want to try to possibly decipher Mos Def's accent - without putting on the subtitles.

Decent.....Jenny's HOTNESS only makes up for some of poor writing Jenny is both funny & EXTREMELY Hot ( and Topless at one point) in this flick but not what I would say is a great movie by any stretch when it comes to comedic writing.

Udderly Silly Sounded like a fun flick, mixed reviews - so what the heck. Well I think the animation is pretty cool, different - I for one do not want everything to look the same in every darn movie.  The animation has a sort of innocence to it, a clarity that my eye finds pleasant.  The story is pretty cute, funny, though some content is not geared towards children, there is a message and it's fun.  Some good laughs throughout.  My biggest 'beef' if you will pardon the wordplay.... Bulls do not have udders! Cows do! I'm all for fun and fantasy, silliness especially in animation, but doggone it the udder thing was and is absurd. They should have given those steers horns! Something besides udders -  sorry, but it drives me crazy.

It's ok For a kid movie it was ok, Hollywood is just not original anymore. But for a PG movie I can't complain.

Rude Reception for Refugees Escape From the Planet of the Apes, 1971 film  The story begins with a helicopter over the ocean. They see a craft near the beach, soldiers arrive to pull the craft ashore. "Open it up." Three travelers step out and remove their helmets! The visitors are locked in the zoo infirmary. We hear their explanation of events. "Don't take any chances." The female is tested and shocks the examiners. Something bad happens to a visitor. "We mean you no harm." There is another shocking statement! "I like you." The news shocks the scientists. The Presidential Commission meets to learn the facts. They speak the language of their ancestors. They come from a distant planet system. "We came from your future." The audience applauds. What did they see destroyed? They can't tell all the facts.  Cornelius and Zira are taken to a hotel and shops in Los Angeles. They are shown the sights (like Disneyland). Zira speaks out. "Beastly" says Cornelius. Zira faints. "Grape juice plus." "In vino veritas"? What about the future? "Convince me." Can we alter the future? There is a philosophical discussion about the two apes. The Presidential Commission makes a decision - they will go to Camp 11 and be questioned. How did apes arise? It began with a great plague. Apes are smarter than dogs and cats. After a few centuries they learned to change their conditions. They want to give a drug to Zira and then question her. They did it for "science". Experimental surgery on humans? Will the apes be "humanely destroyed"? Or will they escape? Can they find a refuge? Yes, and Zira gives birth to Milo. The search is on for the two apes. Armando says farewell. They can hide on an abandoned ship. Lewis gives Cornelius a revolver "just in case".  The scientists talk about problems like the population explosion or the threat of nuclear war. They find the clothes of Zira by an oil well. They search the area. The scientist who wants to kill the pair approaches their hide-out noisily. Other armed men arrive. There is a shoot-out. [Who are the savages?]And so their story ends. There is one last surprise. "Mama."  This is a lower budget film that is part satire and part adventure. It is not too dramatic, as if the story had to be toned down. Think of the implications if the lower classes forgot their place and showed they were equal to the rulers of society. That could mean liberty and justice for all.

Snoopy Movie Not my most favorite Peanuts movie but one I have enjoyed watching with my son who has taken a liking to the Peanuts movies. Glad to have it in our collection.

twiliight in forks I think the concept was interesting but the some of choices of individuals/citizens/visitors that the phtographers repeatedly highlighted did not do the concept any favors.

NO HIDING IN THE PLOT Ana Villafa&ntilde;e stars as Josephine Russo, a NYC woman placed in the witness protection program. She finds herself in the small town of Longview, Montana where she is given the identity of a teen under the care of social services. She has flashbacks to her instructions as to no contact, no cell phones, and no speaking Spanish, although when angered Spanish pours from her mouth.  The high school she now attends has a group of girls similar to "the plastics." They are introduced with their own swagger music, and for a moment I thought this was going to be a pretty cool movie...but it didn't last long.  Josephine takes a liking to a boy named Jesse (Tyler Blackburn). Of course the head plastic (Kelcie Stranahan) doesn't like Josephine because her ex-bf is hitting on her too.  It isn't hard to figure out what is going to happen, if it didn't there wouldn't be a film.  The movie has a made for TV quality to it, down to the cliche script, second tier acting, and cheap soundtrack.  Ana, who was an artist in the film, sings a song during the closing credits to my surprise. Clearly this film was designed to showcase her talents. Too bad the script didn't support her.  Teen movie all the way.  PARENTAL GUIDE: No f-bombs, sex, or nudity.

Digital Disappointment I was under the impression the digital copy would be available via Amazon Instant streaming. I was mistaken, it is just a disk they allow you to install on a device after receiving the shipped product.

Like Most Sequels Like most sequels, this movie was not as funny as the first one. It does have some funny moments and I would recommend it. But, of course, watch #1 first.

Great Friday night movie Mel Gibson gives cool performance in this movie.  He is not a nice guy, but after all he is living on a borrowed life and has nothing to loose.  If there ever was a guy who can make enemies with everyone, Porter (Gibson's character) is the guy.  He is slowly taking all of his enemies down in order to collect the money that belongs to him.  Considering we are only talking about $70K it is an amazing effort on his behalf.  His enemies die one by one and you have to be really naive not to expect this kind of movie not to have a happy ending.  Entertaining and funny, full of action.  I enjoyed this film very much.

Minimum System Requirements for DVD-ROM content Disc 2 contains DVD-ROM content, though they do not tell you the system requirements on the box, the insert or the disc label.  But for you Mummy fans thinking of picking this up, Windows 95 is the minimum stated on the intro screen once you get far enough.

Come on Harry!! Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was directed by David Yates and released in theatres on July 15, 2009. It was released on DVD December 08, 2009. The movie stars Danielle Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) and Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) as the young trio of friends attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Since the murder of Sirius Black and the escape of the Death Eaters from Azcaban Prison, no one is safe. Wizards, witches and muggles alike are being terrorized by the Death Eaters and their seemingly misguided dedication to Lord Voldemort. When professor Albus Dumbledore once again asks Harry Potter for his help, the search begins for a missing memory that is key to Voldemort's existence and also to his destruction. While searching for the missing memory, Harry inadvertently comes across a 'potions book' once owned by The Half-Blood Prince, but who is he? A series of vicious attacks aimed at the now aging Dumbledore prompt Harry, Hermione and Ron to search out the Half-Blood Prince and try, yet again to uncover the one thing that will rid the wizardry world of Voldemort forever. But they will suffer great loss along the way and no one will be the same after they find what they seek. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is, of course, visually stunning and yet I found myself wanting more as the credits rolled. This is not the Harry PotterI have grown to expect and the supporting character's rolls were dull and lackluster. The lead characters did do their very best to save the film and it is for that reason, and that reason alone that I long to see the two final movies. I must say that I was slightly disappointed by this film, however my children enjoyed it immensely. I am quite sure that lovers of the Harry Potter series will want to see The Half Blood Prince, as they should, in order to continue on with the series' storyline. I can only hope that the next Harry Potter movie doesn't leave me asking 'What Happened?' and that the story I have grown to love returns to the big screen. I am sadly giving Harry Potter and the Half -Blood Prince a 3-star rating and am doing so in hopes of better things to come. Please Harry, don't let me down! WebbWeaver Reviews

Moody, slow-moving, perplexing & creepy.  It's half brilliant and half interminable. I'll admit it; I almost couldn't get through 3 WOMEN.  When I reached a point where I was sure it was 90 minutes into the film, I put it on pause, and saw that I had only seen 45 minutes.  It is monumentally slow-moving.  It is also intensely creepy, and after that initial 45 minutes or so, it began to work on me.  Not in an altogether pleasant way, but it was very effective nonetheless.  3 WOMEN introduces us to mostly to 2 women.  We meet Pinky Rose (Sissy Spacek, only a year after CARRIE), a new nurse coming to work at a strange, dusty, underpopulated Southern California town in an old-folks convalescence home of some sort.  There she meets Millie (Shelly Duvall), an experienced nurse assigned to show her the ropes.  Pinky is delighted to be attached to Millie, because she has clearly taken a deep and intense interest in Millie.  Millie talks almost non-stop and we see early on that she has alienated almost everyone around her with her incessant chatter and her self-delusion.  She fancies herself a bit of party animal, a gal-about-town.  In fact, everyone avoids her and all of the "dates" she thinks she might have never materialize.  She's one of these people (we've all met them) who we feel sorry for, yet are so irritating to be around, we just hope someone else will befriend them.  Pinky, however, sees none of that.  She's from a small Texas town and is so deeply naïve that she clings to the "worldly" Millie and idolizes her.  And slowly, she begins to obsess over her.  And she pries into Millie's private life.  This doesn't sound all that interesting, and in many ways, it isn't.  But writer/director Robert Altman is taking these two ladies on a strange psychological journey.  What I've described is just the beginning.  I don't want to tell you more, because it's all a bit open to interpretation, and if you decide to take the sometimes grueling journey that is 3 WOMEN, you should interpret for yourself.  But one easy, even glib, description that comes to mind is to call the film an "artsy SINGLE WHITE FEMALE."  The film is full of Altman touches, particularly the improvised style of dialogue and the overlapping conversations.  It is in these overlapping voices that we hear the mockery which most people shower directly on Millie.  Millie is so eager for acceptance, to have even a hint that the life she imagines for herself is true, that she willingly endures derision in the hope of breaking through.  I have to admit that I've never been a huge Shelley Duvall fan, but this is the best performance I've seen by her.  She manages, at various times, to be touching, sad, laughable, irritating, competent, crazy.  Altman often gives his female stars some really meaty roles to chew on, and he really did here.  Spacek is also quite captivating.  It's amazing she was ever able to break out of the crazy, naïve girl role after this film and CARRIE.  She fits it to a tee...but as the film progresses, Pinky's character undergoes some unexpected transformations, and Spacek handles it all with ease.  I watched the Criterion Blu-Ray, and the picture quality was excellent.  Filmed in the late `70s, the film has that unmistakable look of that era...a color palette that wants to be gritty and realistic and still retain some of the richness of Technicolor.  The Blu-ray gets all that perfectly.  The sound mix was excellent, but I have to say that the score for this film was literally the most annoying ever.  I know that's not much of a useful comment, but I think my ears are still ringing from being stabbed by those awful sounds.  The extras on the Blu-ray are a little skimpy, in my opinion, especially for a relatively modern film.  There's a sparse commentary from Altman (which I only listened to pieces of), a brief essay that sheds little light on the film, and some trailers & stills.  I would have LOVED to have heard a commentary from Duvall & Spacek.  It's hard to recommend this film.  It moves slowly and it's very internalized.  But a viewer with some patience may find some creepy rewards in watching the relationship between these two women (in two really fine performances) grow in unexpected and disquieting ways.

A Well Done Series of a Not So Likeable Character It's difficult to review pieces like this when I walk away conflicted over the story of an individual's life.  As far as the series, I have no objections.  It was well done, directed, and acted.  Period costumes were wonderful.  London society captivated my attention.  After I watched the series, I took the time to read some of her biographical information about Lillie Langtry's real life. However, as one reviewer put it mildly, the woman pretty much prostituted herself to make her way to the top of society. I found her character to be shallow, calculating, and oddly irritating. As a result, I felt compelled to fast forward through some of the final episodes just to be done with it. I was tired of Langtry's attitude, her voice, and her actions. I had lost my respect for the woman. I'm sure London society, in all of its glamor, glitz, and royalty had its share of adultery and mistresses.  Everyone pretty much knows that Bertie was quite the risque fellow, who frequented the famous brothels of Paris on his trips besides having mistresses of his own.  Nevertheless, as great of a period piece that it was, I found myself feeling quite saddened by a life who may have been popular with the men of London, but underneath all the frills of her dresses, there appeared to be a cold and calculating heart. You would think that a woman of beauty, both inside and outside, would be one to admire instead.

Hmmmmm... I really love the look of it. It kept close to the comic. But it also got rid of so much story that made the comic special. This movie jumped all over. Did we really need the Kryptonian astronauts and no Bizzaro? His father dying and seeing his future self was also left out. I love these DC movies and I would watch it again but it's my least favorite. I also wish they would do some movies other then Batman and Superman. They already did a Green Lantern. DC has such a wealth of stories. Wish they would try some other heroes. A Teen Titans movie with the 80's cast that introduced Nightwing would be fantastic. There were talks of it but nothing. You have done the Superman/Batman thing. Move forward.

Basic Instinct 2 Basic Instinct 2 is an ok Psycho/Sexual thriller but not as good as the first one. Sharon Stone is once again good in her role as the ice pick wielding Catherine Tramell. She is still very sexy in this film. The film does drag on a bit towards the end and David Morrissey does a good job as the psychiatrist David Glass. The film does give us more of the same as the first one. The film does lack a bit of the spark of the first one but is nonetheless worth a look.

Tragic drama, but I could not see the point I will be brief: actors were all great, the female character was simply sweet in her roll. The tragedy was touching. There was a nice touch of magic realism. Eternal taboo SEX was in full force throughout, so was human desire to escape loneliness. The conflict between the necessity to maintain status quo, and the desire to break it, defining the border between heaven and hell, the mandatory suffering of being human---all elements were present. But the story was too simple for my taste. I did not see any end points that give one a significant WOW. I still recommend it if you are curious. If you don't watch it, I doubt you will miss too much.

Not at all what I was expecting. I liked the original series, and I liked 1.11.  I guess this new series is touted as a 're-imagining'.  So, my fault for thinking it would keep the underlying motivations and depictions of the characters similar.  If you are a fan of the original series and thinking about buying this movie, consider this:  In this movie, Shinji's father tells him he did a good job, Asuka decides that she can't fight the angels alone, and Rei tells Shinji that his miso soup is delicious.  Need I say more?

not what i expected when i recieved the dvd i was expecting a used dvd,BUT at least in a dvd case.from what the ratings were i wasnt expecting what i had recieved.it came in a thin cd case & the dvd was in it.i mean other people may have not cared but im a dvd freak & dont even buy boot leg movies just cause the packaging.i wait for dvds to be released in store cause its the dvd case not a thin cover or thin cd case.so thats my only main disappointment other then that the dvd itself is fine

Not really worth my time. Genshiken is a story about a college anime and manga club. It's just a slice of life anime about mega Otaku. The production quality of this series is pretty good, but the story is just kinda boring. I'm an Otaku, so you would think this anime would be right up my alley. However, there's just not enough substance to it. The only reason I didn't give it 2 stars is b/c it made me laugh a few times. Definitely try to watch some of it on you-tube or something before you spend money on it.

Pretty good doc This was a perfectly decent documentary.  There was a lot of footage that I had never seen, which was really cool.  I also really appreciated the candid interviews with his son, Eric Clapton and Tom Petty.  It was clear that the few people that were close to George loved him very much.  The special features on the disc are fairly sparse, mostly featuring cut interviews.  It kind of makes you wonder why an additional 2 minute conversation with Paul McCartney would get cut out of a 210 minute film.  Overall I thought it was a bit long and lost it's focus at times, but definitely a must watch for any Beatles fan.

Fun fantasy movie I originally saw this movie in the theater and liked it right away.  It has a lot of big names in it and is a fun story.  On Blu-ray, it looks and sounds wonderful.  I recommend it if you liked The Princess Bride.

Help Me Understand I own this DVD and other than the 'rewind' scene, that I dislike, I would like someone to help me understand a different scene. After the scene which Watts is talking to people,in their boat at her dock. The next scene is her helping Roth into the living room with his leg wrapped up, and the conversation about her having invited people over, etc. Now my question is do I have a DVD with a glitch, does anyone else's DVD show his leg being wrapped, or a conversation inviting people over or etc. If this is not a glitch this is a very poor continuity.

Sometimes...writers keeping their hands off of movie adaptations is better... It was 1989. I was 14 and I thought that Pet Sematary was one of the best movies I'd ever seen. It hasn't aged well. Or rather, I have aged out of it. Upon a recent viewing I came to the unsettling conclusion that this film, despite its horrific subject matter, is basically aimed at a young audience; intentionally or not.  Most of the problem is with King's screenplay. Whatever literary strengths he has, they do not translate to film. (Maximum Overdrive...nuff said) It seems that King has very little respect for film goers. He seems to have some respect for film as a medium, but the viewers themselves he writes down to. Look at The Shining, for instance. For years King complained about and trashed Kubrick's classic adaptation. Then King himself finally remade The Shining and he removed all subtlety, crafting a sappy TV mini-series that pandered rather than entertained. Perhaps King likes bad film adaptations, lest a superior film overshadows his work, as is the case with Kubrick's The Shining IMO.  His screenplay for Pet Sematary is up to the same tricks. King does not bother with characterization, he just shoehorns in the books most horrific scenes and pumps them up in some cases (Victor Pascow being the worst offense, he appears once or twice in the book, but in the film the guy is all over the place, doing some sort of stand up comic zombie routine that gets old quick.) He just sort of hopes that characterization will be implied I guess. He also worked in the "spring loaded cat" jump scare several times. You can't disrespect an audiences intelligence much more than that.  The worst part is that none of it makes very much sense. In the book, King went to great lengths to make you believe in his story and it works. Here, King just seems to be shoveling out the story as fast as he can, making story revisions and additions that have no logic in and of themselves and that contaminate the internal logic of the parts of the story that should work. Again, the Pascow angle is the main offender here. In the book he gives a simple warning. It's up to Louis Creed to make the decisions. In the film Pascow becomes an active force that just screws everything up worse with his meddling as he keeps coming back to help out and only ends up helping out the evil force in the MicMac burial ground.  Not a very good result for an emissary send from beyond the grave by "higher forces". This is just one example of how little sense the film makes, I could go on for pages and pages. It seems King had his brain turned off while churning out this screenplay. Gone are all of the weighty themes the book explored, only to be replaced by thoughtless illogical attempts to pump up the opportunity to show more ghosts and guts and blood.  King has said that he does not like Pet Sematary as a book. I guess that's understandable. King is, at heart, an optimist. Pet Sematary was his one foray into real pessimistic horror. Perhaps he just felt like turning it into a big joke on those grounds.  I don't have anything bad to say about director Mary Lambert. She did a damn good job considering the screenplay she was working from. In King's original screenplay King tried to rework Jud's character. He wore trendy clothing and listened to the latest rock music on his walkman...you know, so the kids would think how cool this old guy was. Well, if Mary had anything to do with excising that particular bit of cynical pandering...then more points to her. When Stephen King comes along with his own screenplay, and it's a cartoony carnival spook show...well I suppose as a director you give him what you think he wants. Unless you want to end up like Kubrick, listening to this writer whine and complain about you for the rest of either of your natural lives.  The acting here is adequate. Fred Gwynne steals the show, and is largely the only thing that holds it all together. Dale Midkiff does some wonderful round the bend acting towards the finale. Brad Greenquist is having (too much} fun playing the ghost of Pascow, but for what it is its good acting. The only actor who truly made me feel emotion though was Michael Lombard as Rachel Creed's father. I guess he didn't get the memo that this was all goofy fun because his heartbreak at Gage's funeral is keenly felt. Too bad the rest of them didn't miss the memo as well. In short, the actors did what they were asked to do and they did it well for the most part. No real complaints. Unless you're just a jerk that likes to pick on child actors and the like.  Pet Sematary does have a lot going for it though. For one, it's original. Ok not totally original, you will still hear people saying King ripped off his book from a film called Zeder. A movie you've probably never even heard of (and I doubt King had either when he wrote the story) so it's original enough. Especially for the well worn cliches of the endlessly recycled horror genre. It's also very dark. Even with the cartoony gloss smeared all over the film, it's still considered morbid, mean-spirited, bleak, and nihilistic. I don't consider these bad things, especially for the horror genre, except maybe the charge of mean-spiritedness...which does hold some weight. The film does seem to lack a heart...perhaps of any kind, mean-spirited or otherwise.  Perhaps it had to be this way. 1989 was not likely to be a good year for any mainstream film to be so dark and realistic at the same time. Without suppressing the realism it may have been just too much to remain mainstream, which it pretty much had to be considering it was a King vehicle. Mr King is Hollywood's dependable horror whore after-all. No sense making a film with artistic merit that might lower the profit margin.  It's unfortunate, because if it had been allowed to show the same sort of realism that, say, William Friedkin had brought to The Exorcist, this very well may have become a horror classic for the ages, instead of just another (above average) goofy 80's carnival gore show.

Dolph is too old for action movies Dolph was hobbling around like a old man (well he is) and not the Rambo star of years past.....This low budget movie is a slap to this fine actors face.....He is either bored or broke to have made it.  Sad he has to resort to this kind of "action" movie.....Dolph...please...no more...I want to remember you as the action star you were in the past....not a old guy trying to walk without a limp like "Grandpa McCoy (for old you people out there that remember him!)

"The Aviator" got screwed. That's right. This is one of the best boxing movies of our decade--this and "The fighter"--however Marty Scorces's epic about the extraordinary and bizarre life of Howard Hughes was far more interesting that this mediative story about perseverance and self-determitism.  Eastwood has proven himself one of the most competent naturalistic directors of our time. However, the deck was stacked too deeply against Maggie's family.  The controversial ending was handled believably, and Eastwood provided commentary on Swank's options.

Roman Polanski's 'Carnage' lacks bite. Based on the acclaimed play by Yasmina Reza, this is the tale of two sets of parents and their misguided attempt to make peace after one of their children bludgeons the other with a stick in the local park, causing the other to lose a tooth and undergo dental surgery. Nancy and Allen (Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz) are the parents of the culprit, and Penelope and Michael (Jodie Foster and John C. Reilly) are the piping mad parents of the injured victim.  At some point, they decide to hold a meeting at the bourgeois home of the high-strung Penelope and her doltish husband, Michael. From the start, things begin to go awry. Penelope begins to critique the parenting skills of both Nancy and Allen, and visa versa. Before long, things get out of hand, with all four individuals firing various insults at one another, revealing their true colors, and ironically behaving like schoolyard bullies themselves. Much like Edward Albee's `Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf', alcohol soon plays a supporting role in the film, and the situation escalates from bad to worse.  This is the film in a nutshell - pardon the clich&eacute;. Four people, one setting, tons of fireworks. It wants to be `Virginia Woolf' for a new generation, but lacks the acid wit and ferocious bite of Albee's masterpiece. One of the problems with `Carnage' is that the material isn't as funny as it thinks it is. These characters never go for the throat, and the film suffers as a result.  Jodie Foster is yet another weak link in the film. She is over the top - and not in a good way. Her performance is annoyingly distracting. Either she was sorely miscast in this particular role, or comedy simply isn't Foster's forte. On the other hand, Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly, and Christoph Waltz are at the top of their game. Collectively, they make the film worth watching, and they have some of the best lines.  `Carnage' isn't without its charms, though most of those are in the first act. The two scenes which bookend the film are quite effective as well. With just a bit more edge, this film could have been a small classic. As it is, it is merely okay and nothing more.  Rated R, 80 minutes, directed by Roman Polanski, released by Sony Pictures Classics

Not bad (or good) Hitchcock Not one of Hitchcock's best, "Stage Fright" is nonetheless an entertaining thriller.  Jane Wyman plays a young English girl whose boyfriend (Richard Todd) is accused of murdering his lover's (Marlene Dietrich) husband.  The real problem with the movie is Wyman's bland, unconvincing performance.  She is plainly not English, although almost everyone around her (even her parents) is.  Since she is the main character, this detracts from the film as a whole.  Dietrich is superb as the femme fatale and sings "The Laziest Gal in Town" and "La Vie en Rose".  The other performers (Todd, Michael Wilding, and especially Alistair Sim and Sibyl Thorndike) are fine.  The script is witty, and Hitchcock's direction is assured.  If only he had hired a different lead actress!  The film is no "Rear Window" or "Rebecca", but it is certainly worth a look.

A disappointment. I had high hopes for Going the Distance but overall, I found this romantic comedy to be crude and rather bland. Most of the jokes in this film have a forced, and overly abrasive sense of humor, the sex references are just really lame and pointless. Another thing that didn't work was the very awkward chemistry between Drew Barrymore and Justin Long, they might have dated off-camera but the connection is just not there on-screen. Long's performance is pretty good but Barrymore who is always rather delightful in other films just looks uninspired and cranky in every scene. Going the Distance does have some tender and cute moments but this is just not a film that made me feel anything for these two characters struggling in a long-distance relationship. It's a mixed bag for me.

Great Cast, Poor script With a cast like Ray Stevenson, Christopher Walken and Val Kilmer, you might automatically assume that "Kill the Irishman" is a top notch flick, but you'd be wrong. The script is a bit plodding, the acting by a good deal of the cast can be weak and it's hard to find anyone to root for in the film. Do you remember the antihero films of the 60s and 70s? This is a bit like those. That doesn't mean that the movie is bad, just that about fifteen to twenty minutes could have been cut from it to make it a tighter, more seamless film. As it stands, the film feels cluttered with padding in the same way films used to have stock footage back in the day.  Kill the Irishman does come with a documentary on the real Danny Greene that is an hour long and I actually preferred that to the fictionalized movie on his life. For me, it's not a good sign when a special feature overshadows the actual film, but this is one of those cases.  Personally, if you are interested in Danny Greene and the fall of the Cleveland Mafia, Rick Porello's book by the same name is a better investment of your time and money.

Could have been better I have a couple other Cher DVD's - that I love  This one has rave reviews. I may have just received a bad copy.  75% of the video was out of focus.  Between being out of focus - spot lights hitting camera lense a lot - and seeing nothing but a totally bright  screen.....the performance itself seemed great......its just that most of the performance was a blur. Did anyone else experience this with their DVD ????

Snow White not so white This a dark turn even from original Snow White plots. Which I'm ok with but it was more graphic than I thought. Definitely for the more mature of 13 or older. I won't spoil anything else about this movie. Good actors. Dwarfs aren't really dwarf actors. Give the parts to the ones who fit the part

Just Okay Having watched all of the previous Harry Potter movies and read all of the books I am not impressed with this movie.  The fist five movies were very good, but the Half Blood Prince and the Deathly Hallows felt very different.  The Deathly Hallows, Part 1 consisted of random scenes splashed together with seemingly no flow to it.  Coupled with Harry's (Daniel Radcliffe's) mediocre performance, this film is a mess.  With regards to the story, this is a very depressing time for Harry and his friends, but Radcliffe displayed almost no emotion during the entire film.  It's understandable that Harry and his friends would be a bit moody, but there was no passion in Harry's voice, especially for what he and his friends had sacrificed to find the horcruxes (Hermoine was on par and Ron was good as always though).  For example, when Harry was asked if it felt better to take one of the horcruxes from around his neck he quickly said to Hermione "Loads."  I didn't sense that his character felt any better for having it away from him because of how he delivered the line.  There was no weight to that scene, and that was not the only one.  Most of the time, Harry just sat there in uncomfortable silence when he was asked a question or spoken to.  I felt myself hoping the characters got through the scenes without messing up their lines.  There was an awkward dancing scene along with awkward kissing scenes that added nothing to the film.  For example, Ginny shows up out of no where, Harry and her make out and then that's it...nothing else is spoken about their relationship or anything from the book.  Don't even get me started about the scene with the obviously computer generated half naked Hermoine and Harry walking toward Ron while he is trying to destroy the horcrux....weird!  Strange kissing scene ensues  My last upsetting issue was regarding the dark mood and some of the disturbing scenes (beware parents, I'm sure this movie will give the little ones nightmares - I will not let mine watch this one).  The dark mood is awkwardly peeled away at certain points to let in misplaced humor (noteably by Fred and George).  The Harry Potter series has lost it's fun feel and gone dark big time.  Not really a fan of that change, but I know the story has changed and things are not as they were.  Personally I blame Rowling locking herself up away from her family to write the final Harry Potter books (may or may not be true).  I heard that somewhere and I think that her isolation from her family didn't make for the best material for this book.  This is not a bash Radcliffe session as there were others to blame.  Ultimately I blame the director as he could have made the scenes better, especially with transitioning them better.  While I am on the subject and bashing away, let me throw this in.  I say fire the current Harry and replace him with Frodo from Lord of the Rings for the final part 2.  It's easy to explain, Harry did a face changing spell that backfired and is now permanent.  Also, fire the director and get someone talented in there, not one of these dime a dozen ones.  That's my take and I hope you enjoyed it.

Halfway Through & Not Sure How Long I'll Continue At this halfway point, I really don't know if I'll continue on or not.  I can patiently enjoy "slow," but this is beyond my tolerance point at the moment.  Perhaps if I cared more about the plot and characters, I'd be more motivated to stick it out.  Acting is good, but I just don't feel any momentum or energy in this film.  Sure, I get the father/son bond, etc.  But there's not enough here to hold me for much longer.

School review Great movie for teaching Hispanic rights and their fight for freedom. A few words of warning before you use it in class-there are numerous curse words in Spanish and English throughout the movie, at one point one student moons another, they do show a student being paddled for using Spanish which seemed to upset the students greatly. Make sure to do a lot of pre-teaching before you show the movie.

Before he was Superman.....PONY EXPRESS DAYS For a change, I thought I would review a nifty short included in this set that has nothing to do with Superman.  PONY EXPRESS DAYS(1940) Directed by B. Reeves Eason. Make up by Perc Westmore.  Starring George Reeves, Wade Boteler, Creighton Hale, William Hopper, Milton Kibbee, Wilfred Lucas. Pat OMalley and David Bruce.    One of those dozens of 20 minute historical shorts that Warners used to make during the Golden Age of film. In this instance dramatising how a young Buffalo Bill Cody and the Pony Express helped keep California from joining the Confederacy at the start of the Civil War. Gorgeous technicolor, tight direction and a cast of familiar and/or up and coming stars make this little civic lesson from a major studio(Remember when Hollywood was actually part of the United States?) a pleasant viewing experience. It woud later be remade as a feature in the 50s with Charlton Heston. Bruce would later star in THE MAD GHOUL and Reeves would gain immortality as Superman in the 50s TV Series.

Future Cult Fav I'm not trying to be offensive or get a cheap laugh but this did bother me a bit. To me, Hector Hammond looked like he had down syndrome or some other horrible thing. When you see Ryan Reynolds perfectly handsome character just abusing the crap out of Hector Hammonds body (he's in a wheelchair!) its ridiculous. Which why I'm okay with this movie, its campy without trying to be, which makes a true camp masterpiece. It takes itself seriously to the degree of insanity. It is not a great movie, not by a long shot, and this is not a great lone viewing experience. But have some friends with you and you can have a fun time riffing on the sheer craziness on this film.

Lacks a Good Guy James Foley directed "The Corrupter" with Chow Yun-Fat.  I liked that a lot; and a video cassette copy is still lurking on my bookshelf.  This film was one I pulled from the video store because I hadn't seen it.  The big problem with the film is that there really isn't anyone to root for, no one with which the audience can identify.  The closest is Miles Haley, played by Giovanni Ribisi.  Ribisi is a talented character actor with power and emotional range.  His computer whizz character is somewhat charming and suffering from the unrequited love of Rowena Price; but his secret bedroom is too much information and his constant crossing of boundaries makes it impossible to really cheer for him.  Halle Berry plays the lead Rowena.  She is driven, uses her beauty as a tool, but seems unable to be nice to anyone.  One minute she turns on her boyfriend Cameron played by CSI's Gary Dourdan, then snaps at Miles who is helping her then is nasty to Bruce Willis.  Willis' character is Harrison Hill, a wealthy advertising tycoon who is a womanizer.  Other than hormonal romance, he is not a very nice guy, although he does talk about loyalty a lot, even as he cheats on his wife.  Nicki Aycox has a nice supporting role as Grace whose murder is the story's focal point and keeps reappearing in flashback.  Elizabeth Clayton, her mother, is played by the great actress Kathleen Chalfant in an emotional cameo.  While the intrigue of the story is well directed, it is the lack of a character to like that makes the story be one about which we cannot ultimately care.  It kept my interest from start to finish with the talented cast and strong direction.  Then I was glad to pop it out of the DVD player.  Taxi!

Okay... Being an Elektra fan, I was eager to seer this film. However, I must say that I am disappointed. This movie is not as faithful to its source material as it should be. Now of course, I know that movies are never exactly the same, and found myself satisfied with such films as Dune and The Color Purple, but this movie just didn't cut it.  Nothing personal against Jennifer Garner, but I did not feel her appropriate for this role. She is not a bad actress per se, but this role was very unsuited for her, and the story itself isn't as much about Elektra as one would think. Overall, I can only give it 3/5 stars at best.

Pales in comparison to the Hill novel. Decent, but too gimmicky and rushed The Woman in Black film version pales in comparison to the book by Susan Hill, as it not only uses typical Hollywood gimmicks to get scares, but has deficiencies that lessen the creepiness factor. The biggest problem in the film is that everything is obvious, blatant and upfront, given to us in the initial stages of the film on a silver platter so we know what to expect. There's little in the way of true build up to give any heightened suspense; they just kind of rush Kipps (played by Daniel Radcliffe) to the house as soon as possible, and then the residents and locals try to rush him out of the house. Another problem is simply that we don't quite get into the head of Kipps as much in the film. Seeing things from his perspective as he sees them--as he slowly realizes the history of the house and the woman-- makes the novel much more effectively atmospheric, something not accomplished as well in this film. There are a few scares scattered a few places, and the story does come into focus aptly in the second part, especially as he finds out the woman's history, but mainly this film just felt too rushed and lacks any subtlety.  I think you are better off checking out the other version of The Woman in Black, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004UEEU">Woman in Black</a>. That is, renting it, as the sellers are asking outrageous prices for that version.

ok but not great It was funny at times. But it wasnt great. I was so excited to see it when i saw commercials but now seeing it I am not overally thrilled about it. I wouldnt watch it again.

Amusing, but Ultimately Unconvincing While watching this film, I found myself wondering what exactly Bill Maher's intent in making it was - was it purely for entertainment purposes, or was this a sincere attempt to turn people away from religion?  To its credit, "Religulous" is certainly entertaining - Maher is a witty and charismatic host, and chooses genuinely interesting subjects for his interviews. However, as an argument against belief, it simply isn't well-formed. For a start, in selecting his interview subjects, Maher gives a clear preference to the most absurd, laughable, or otherwise ridiculous forms of religious practice, and doesn't spend nearly enough time discussing how religious belief affects the life of the average follower. More strikingly, the editing of the film clearly weights every argument in Maher's favor - he gives himself the last word of every debate, and takes care to present on film any awkward silence or verbal fumble his opponent might have.  Like most works on either side of the debate, "Religulous" seems destined to be predominantly enjoyed by those who are already convinced of its position, rather than turn any heads. In spite of all that, it can be entertaining if you take it for what it is - a device to make non-believers feel smug.

Pixelated? Am I the only one who notices that the movie is all pixely looking? It's easy to notice on words, and objects that are not close up. But the movie is good. It's not anything amazing, but it doesn't suck.

Did not really care for it I gave this to my wife to try and she did not care for it.  Some of the video was not realistic for total body.

Don't buy this unless you are like me. This title gives the impression you are getting more than you are. There is no volume 2 either so if you want the rest of season 1 after you buy this you will have to buy the entire first season release anyway. I bought this release because I had recently checked out the complete season 1 at the library and watched it so I wasn't desperate to buy the complete season release. I am a total maniac for the pilot episodes of old TV shows, and I was able to pick up this release with the pilot for practically nothing. It is a quality product as far as production goes, but a person would be better served to spend a little more and get the excellent Ironside complete first season.

Cheese There was a good amount of cheese in the 80's. This was no exception. But a truly enjoyable movie. The creativity of this time period is sorely missed.

Ho - Hum You think they could have come up with a better script.  Good actors, but the script had them behaving like 3-year olds playing tit-to-tat throughout.  Oh good grief - this isn't entertainment.  Wouldn't recommend it.

Eastwood in good form I imagine there are many war veterans in blue-collar America just as bigoted as Walt Kowalski.  But if Walt were played by a less well-known actor, the character's extreme one-dimensionality would probably have seemed more improbable than it does.  The picture is tolerable because I, like most movie-goers, am used to Clint's being Dirty Harry and making his points efficiently and with a minimum of subtlety.  Of course, the rest of the characters are equally cliched.  I will say that Clint's films seems more graceful at it than Charles Bronson's.  The climactic scene is a bit of a surprise, but I wonder what would have happened had the bad guys waited for Clint to fire the first shot.  I guess the message in all this is that we need to figure out how to accept the incursion of other cultures into our blue-collar neighborhoods.

Be warned -- the streamed version is different from the original! "When Harry Met Sally" is my favorite movie of all time. I would estimate that I have watched it in theaters and on VHS  and DVD more than 500 times. Today I was too lazy to track down my DVD, and I purchased it to stream from Amazon Prime. I was horrified to discover that much of the soundtrack had been changed from the original release of the movie. The soundtrack, much of it sung by Harry Connick, Jr., and including many classic songs of the early-to-mid 20th century, is an integral part of the movie. Changing it significantly changes the movie. Amazon tells me that MGM would have made that change, possibly for copyright reasons. Even so, they replaced pertinent music with elevator music and it destroys the final third of the movie.  The original soundtrack in its entirety is still available from iTunes, so none of this makes any sense to me.  If you love and know this movie, you will be disappointed if you choose to stream it. If it is new to you, please be aware that this is not the real " When Harry Met Sally."  It was like getting a grocery store baloney sandwich on white bread when I was expecting pastrami on rye from Katz's deli. There is just no comparison.

Good But Not Great 100 Rifles is one of those movies that was made during the late sixties and combined the talents of the rising stars of the day. The script was certainly predictable and the actors rose above the material. The gorgeous Raquel Welch showed some surprising range in her role as a tough revolutionary. Burt Reynolds wisely played his character with the slight insouciance that would make him into a superstar a few years later. And mighty Jim Brown stepped into the role as a leading man and sex symbol with his controversial (for the time) interracial love scene with Welch. It's a shame he didn't choose his roles more carefully because it was pretty much downhill after this film with his departure from big budget productions (like The Dirty Dozen, Ice Station Zebra and The Split) in favor of the poorly done blacksploitation flicks that wasted his acting talent and presence. All things considered, 100 Rifles is worth a look, though. It's a period piece really, made during a time of transition in our society. It's best watched with that perspective in mind.

Good, just a few annoying characters. The story line is really not bad for an action film.  A group of four elite troops who specialize in the most difficult missions are double crossed.  But who and how deep does the double cross run?  As someone who grew up watching the A-Team on TV I was over all very satisfied with the story and I really enjoyed the actors portraying the four main characters, all did a great job.  The bad guys were fairy one-dimensional as expected. My problem with the movie centers on one glaring and really annoying character, that of Sosa played by Jessica Biel.  She was good in Blade Trinity and can do an action move so it wasn't necessarily her acting but the character she played.  Sosa was ridiculously slow witted and annoying.  She just "knows" the A-Team is guilty the entire movie until the last ten minutes when she suddenly wises up?  Still, the movie is worth watching; there is a lot of action (guys actually get hit by bullets and die in the movie-a big improvement from the TV show!).  I don't need to see it again but was glad to watch it once.  Too bad the writers dropped the ball with Biel's character.  Hope this helps!

Very predictable This movie bored me. The story is so predictable that I could anticipate the dialogue before it was spoken and action sequences before they happened. 3D effects were okay.

Kung Fu King I bought this DVD to show my Grandson (age 7) the best martial atrist to ever live. Bruce Lee is the one everyone else copied and wanted to be like. He is so fast and powerful the human eye cannot see his moves and Bruce was a perfectionist and did more for the martial arts than anyone in history. Most "karate" films were cheesy and unbelievable (flying in the air and whipping twenty guys at once as they take turns attacking of course) Enter the Dragon actually tries to have a storyline and attempted to legitimize these kinds of flims. It is very dated and when watched after all these years you see all the ugly holes in it from awful acting to foolish looking fighting BUT I recommend fast forwarding to watch Bruce do his thing and you will see why he was and still is the Best!

Stick with the restored edition I saw this in a sneak preview showing a week or more before the theatrical opening of the Moroder version. I got a free poster (which I still have) and a copy of the soundtrack LP. I was practically the only person in the theater. I was running a video store at the time and have always been a big movie buff so this was a treat. Prior to this 1984 release, the existing version was a terrible transfer from aged and damaged film stock. This version did a lot to bring the film back into the public consciousness and for that we should always be grateful. We may not have had the great restored kino version if not for this.  I hope it's clear that I am definitely not one of the naysayer crowd regarding the Moroder version.  All of that said, and my enduring affection for Lang's film aside, the Moroder soundtrack has not aged well and was far from perfect in '84. Remember, the '80s is not a decade known for all-time classic music (or for that matter, all-time classic anything). Some of the songs are frankly embarrassing, almost to the level of 1981's Heavy Metal the Motion Picture. If you recall the Moroder Metropolis soundtrack fondly, bear in mind you may be thinking of it in relation to the time and thinking of the best songs. Check out the Amazon page for the soundtrack and play some of the track samples to remind yourself what it really sounded like. Loverboy? Billy Squier? These artists went the way of the Chrysler K Car. If Freddy Mercury hadn't died, he'd be the only artist of the bunch worth listening to today.  This is the danger of using pop music to score a film, which instantly dates the project to a distracting degree. That's why they've remade Footloose (originally of the same year, 1984), because nobody can listen to the soundtrack with a straight face today (some of the same artists, Bonnie Tyler, Loverboy).  If Moroder was dead set on using modern music he should have stuck with a single artist that knew how to score a motion picture, such as Tangerine Dream (see 1977's Sorcerer), Danny Elfman, Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne, etc., all of which were doing scores around that period.

conservative review I watched this movie from one of the reviews listed. They said it was clean and fun, for the whole family. If you are a conservative Christian you may not enjoy this movie. The summary of the movie is a man that works at a zoo and the animals talk to him and coach him on how to win a woman's heart. A wolf teaches him to urinate on his territory, a bear teaches him to show his "pudding cup", his groin. The gorilla seem to be the only animal who had wisdom. I didn't enjoy this film because I'm tired of this generation that thinks the only premise of a movie is sexual undertones in a rated PG or PG-13 and sadly some G rated. I feel the movie industry has truly lost their ability to produce family films. They forgot what righteousness is.

DVD video transfer is letterboxed within a 4:3 framing The video transfer is a very low resolution letterbox inset within a non-anamorphic 4:3 frame. As a result, the vertical resolution is half that of a widescreen anamorphic transfer. On a widescreen display you will see a small image inset within your screen.  This is an old transfer that made some sense for 4:3 displays, but most viewers now have 16:9 screens.

Way over rated I like historical fiction, and enjoyed the "real world" part set in the Spanish Civil War.  Very brutal (for me a negative), but still interesting.  The fantasy parts were mediocre.  Some of the concepts were interesting, but the monsters were pathetic.  I called over my kids so they could laugh at the Pale Man.  Boy, he was scary, and real fast and muscular.  LOL.  The reason he eats very young children is slightly older kids would simply out run him, or even beat him up.  What a wuss monster, it reminds me of some from the worst Sci Fi monsters, like Robot Monster.  Maybe I didn't like the movie as much because I had high expectations, and this is mediocre.  Had I expected it to be dreadful, maybe I would have liked it more.

Dracula Update This is a kind of original retelling of the Dracula legend with Hugh Jackman of X Men fame in the title role as Van Helsing. It is set in 1887 Transylvania. It was a decent effort. There was a lot of creature violence throughout the film.

could have been better buying this on blu ray was expecting something wonderful,but what i got was a gloried dvd.having bought the deluxe dvd box set,which i must say is great,was expecting probly too much,but with all the hoopla on blu ray one must think is it worth it getting it on a new format and though the product is well over 40 years old would expect some wonders.sad to say this is not the case with blu ray.i want my soxes to be blown off and circling the earth.this is not the case if you want woodstock get the dvd. the only good thing about blu ray is saving yourself from getting up and changing the discs.so now my favourite piece if history, i have it on all formats. peace and love farout man

good but a pity Surprisingly the film held my attention despite the lack of action while she was spying due to good pace and acting. I thought why she was spying will be revealed in good time. IT WAS NOT. Luckily there was an ipod nearby to click on amazon to get the answer and continue watching or I would have got very very annoyed. I liked being surprised by the sex scene. It mirrored Jackie's surprise too. After watching so much bleakness most of the film it was welcome. One criticism- Clyde would have run a mile after what she tried to pull even if she didn't. Seeing as the film was almost ducumentary in its realism this was a let down. Better to have found another way to confront him. I might have found it more interesting than it was having lived in Glasgow for over a year- I was curious to see the poor parts i never saw having lived in the quaint parts.Not sure how well the film can hold other people's attention otherwise ditto IT WAS NOT.........

Misleading title and cover I did know about this movie before seeing the title and cover actually from the SciFi channel.  So I was not misled, myself, by the title and cover when I saw them.  However, I do agree that volcanoes are a marginal even irelevant) part of this and it is definitely not a disaster film.  Kind of a strange supernatural themed weak love story, perhaps.  Not a terrible movie, but not really good either.  At least, not something I liked.  I didn't feel I could give it a '2' just because it was not to my liking because it wasn't flat out bad.  So I've given it a '3' since I think the atmosphere and somewhat clever idea behind it is better than a '2' (ignoring the general irrelevance of the volcano bits).

Fun western I bought this because it was the only Jack Nicholson film from this period that I hadn't seen. It's hard not to watch and think of how great it could have been with a better script, and a more experioenced director (this was Jack's first time). Fantastic characters and situations, and worth seeing, of course, because of the talent involved. Jack Nicholson's chemistry with the wonderful Mary Steenburgen is crucial to the film's success, and for that it's worth a second viewing. These are the sort of roles that both actors are best at: Nicholson, a complete rogue, yet compelling and likeable; and Steenburgen, noble, principled and sweet. It's a good combination.  Steenburgen plays the virginal Julia Tate, who saves Nicholson (Henry Moon) from the gallows by marrying him to work her gold mine. She spends much of the film denying/fighting her true feelings for him, as a bunch of western bad guys (including a member of Moon's old gang, played by the always relaible Danny DeVito) threaten her safety and livelihood.  Average DVD transfer, and a lack of DVD extras lost this one a star. But if you're looking for an off-beat, amusing film that's sweet-natured enough for general viewing, then buy Goin South. It deserves a bigger audience than it gets these days.

COOLER THINGS IN THIS WORLD THEN A HOUSE MADE OF CORN Matthew McConaughey plays Malibu's Steve Addington, a man who defines "surfer."  The maker of a virtual reality video game wants Steve to become one of the avatars of the game by getting wired up and riding a mock surf board while wearing reality glasses. Steve doesn't want to do this. He wants REAL surfing...and that was pretty much the film.  Steve speaks surfer-ese, a dialect of the Cannabis language group. His language is understood by his manager played by Woody Harrelson, and farmer friend Willie Nelson.  The comedy was light. The drama fake with characters you never really know or care about. The film is about not selling out, but when you have no real values, what is there to sell out?  PARENTAL GUIDE: Pot Smoking, F-bomb, hard body nudity.

Not as bad from asylum I watched it on syfy, and it wasnt as bad as I thought it was going to be since its made by Asylum.  I was figuring I was going to see the same effect's repeated like 20+ times, and the same death seens 2+ times.  They did not reuse their effects as often in this movie, but there was the usual: Bad acting, slow story, head nodding seens... I may watch it agian in the far future.  If you are interested in seeing it, I would suggest renting it.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I This DVD is too dark.  More than 50% of the picture/movie/DVD are dark scenes and you can not make-out the picture/s.  Sound is OK but the video/picture is bad.  Again - it is too dark of a DVD to see/enjoy.  If you enjoy watching a black screen/TV No picture) - this is the DVD.

Love and Disappointment A Farewell To Arms, 1932 film  The story begins with a view of the country. Red Cross ambulances travel on a narrow road, then arrive at a hospital. One nurse will be sent home in disgrace. The soldiers talk to a doctor. Outside there are explosions from an air raid. They talk about the war in the mountains. Lieutenant Henry meets Nurse Barkley; he joined the Italian Ambulance Corps. They talk. Ambulances are sent north of Plava. Henry returns to say goodbye. He is given a medal of St. Anthony. The drivers dine on cheese and spaghetti and wine at the front. Shells burst outside. Henry is wounded. Doctor Rinaldi attends him. He is sent to Milano to recover. He sees a familiar face, Nurse Ferguson. Then he meets Nurse Barkley again. The war affects people , says the priest.  Will they marry? Not if they fight says Ferguson. Catherine Barkley asks Henry about his past girlfriends. A supervisor cancels Henry's leave to send him back to the front. Barkley hates the rain. The train whistle calls Henry. "I'll always come back." He leaves on the train. Barkley leaves for Switzerland, she won't go back to the hospital. The Captain censors the mail. Henry wants to go to Milano to look for Barkley. The war goes on, there are more casualties. There are scenes that must have significance if you read the novel. Henry learns why Barkley went away! Now he too goes away. Captain Rinaldi reads the advertisement in the newspapers. Henry is warned to leave. He takes a boat across the lake at night. Barkley is in the hospital, Henry finds her.  But she lost the baby. He hears that Austria-hungary accepted an armistice. Catherine knows her fate, but she puts on a brave face. They meet at last. "Poor darling." He will never stop loving Catherine. "Don't let me go." "I'm not afraid." Outside people celebrate the Armistice. Peace at last. [Does this remind you of "Love Story"? The same story in different settings.]  The book must have been better than this. The rationing during the war led to under-fed people. Little was known about nutrition then, vitamins had not been discovered. The "Spanish Flu" spread throughout Europe and the world. So many were sick in the armies that an Armistice was declared, then the war ended after the Revolution in Berlin. The Kaiser abdicated, the Tsar of Russia had already been overthrown by their Revolution. Did "the War to End War' succeed? You know the answer to this Grand Illusion.

Crash and Burn The future is controlled by Unicom, a corporate bureaucracy that has stepped in for the government after the economic crash. When one of the last remaining free enterprise television stations comes under attack by a synthetic Unicom android, it is up to a rogue hero and a resourceful young girl to take control of a giant 80-foot mech in order to stop the robotic threat. CRASH AND BURN hijacks plot elements from films like ALIEN, THE THING, and BLADE RUNNER in a loose followup to Stuart Gordon's ROBOT JOX. Although the opening scenes promise big robot action, Charles Band spends far more time building a sneaking suspicion and paranoia using the same techniques as Ridley Scott or John Carpenter in the films above. This is only made possible thanks to a series of strong performances by the relatively unknown cast and genre favorite Bill Moseley. The final climactic battle also features some impressive make-up work inspired by THE TERMINATOR and more excellent stop-motion animation by Full Moon favorite David Allen. Science Fiction fans of the 80's will appreciate this ambitious but derivative low-budget feature.  -Carl Manes I Like Horror Movies

Patton (DVD) This was purchased based on memories of having seen the film in the theater when first released. At the time, it seemed well done and a reasonably accurate depiction of General Patton's activities during WWII. Unfortunately, the memories were better than the viewing of the DVD, perhaps due to having read considerably more history of those activities.  In any case, the DVD didn't come up to par and was a somewhat gratuitous representation of Patton's role in the war. While it wasn't a total wash-out, it failed to accurately and fully depict what occurred, avoided all the politics between Ike and Patton and glossed over military operations that were depicted.  Not a good buy from this reviewer's perspective, unless for collection purposes.

Special effects rule in  world of Greek mythology By Jim Clark, publisher, Lee County Courier, Tupelo, MS  Wrath of the Titans picks up 10 years after Clash of the Titans. The gods have lost control. Zeus (Liam Neeson) traveled to Tartarus with his brothers Hades, Poseidon and Ares. Zeus seeks peace. The young Ares will have nothing of it and imprisons Zeus and steals his Thunderbolt. Hades and Ares have teamed up to drain Zeus of his power. If you're lost, get a set of Cliff's notes on Greek mythology, or just sit back and enjoy the special effects. There will be a lot of them. Starting with the attack of the Chimera, a monsterous fire-breathing two-headed creature.  It has the body of a lion, one head of a goat and a combination head/tail of a snake. I told you. Don't worry Perseus (Sam Worthington), Zeus' son kills one of the beasts, and then sets forth to save his father and the world. Part of his mission is to Hephaestus, who created three great weapons that Zeus' Thunderbolt, Hades' Pitchfork, and Poseidon's Trident, and that together they form the Spear of Triam. That's the only weapon that can defeat Kronos. Kronos is the one Ares and Hades hope to revive. While they are on Hephaestus' island they are attacked by three Cyclopes. A Cyclope is a race of giants, each with a single eye in the middle of his forehead. The story is weak. The effects are great. You choose. Filming took place in studios outside London and later shot on location in Surrey, South Wales and in the Canary Islands.

Poor Quality VHS Tape I had purchased a DVD of Ambasador's Daughter some months ago on DVD.  I throughly enjoyed the romantic comedy... both the acting and fashions.... BUT the movie which was filmed in wide-screen was squeezed into a tv frame.  The cars were foreshortened, and scenery somewhat wierd.  I searched and found the VHS tape with Amazon hopefully to replace the DVD.  Unfortunately the tape was no better than the DVD.  It would have been better is someone whould have taken the time and made the effort to develop a print closer to the original.

The Real Starsky and Hutch The movie failed to deliver the friendship and loyalty the original TV series of Starsky and Hutch gave us. The series was the first to deal with homosexuality, drug addiction, rape, child abuse, etc. The real Starsky and Hutch -- David Soul and Paul Michael Glaser -- brought their real-life friendship to the screen. And they're going to show it off again on March 23 in Los Angeles for a special in-person event. For more information, visit sur con 2013 and leave out the spaces between those three words. Then add a dot before the com and away you'll go! Come see the boys in person.

love/hate I am A HUGE FAN of Will & Grace and I honestly think that someone was spying on my life when they were writing Graces character.  HOWEVER season 2 DVD is awfully made. The Font and the photo-shopped pictures are not attractive at all and I was SO DISSAPOINTED whenever the season finale did not include the the 2nd part!!!

Welcome to the Weird World of Mr. Wong Bela Lugosi's "Mysterious Mr. Wong" (1935) is a really cool and quirky Monogram film. The Depression Era dialogue is priceless between newshound Wallace Ford and the object of his desire, the lovely Arline Judge. And six feet tall Bela Lugosi, complete with his Hungarian accent, performing all of his evil chores as a "Chinese" gang leader is well worth the price of admission.  The only problem here is that the Roan print used has obviously not been "restored" and is jumpy in places (especially at the beginning) and full of scratches. I was hoping for a better print since I also have this film from Alpha. Sound quality is the only big difference between the two prints. Alpha's sound is muffled, flat, and somewhat hard to understand. At least with the Road edition, the sound is good and clear.  Whatever edition you decide to buy, you will not be disappointed with the content of the film itself. This is one of Lugosi's best "Poverty Row" films with a great supporting cast.

K Please note this movie has absolutely no sex in it. Not even a good imitation of sex.  You will see a heart to cover her intimate area. So, there really is nothing erotic about this movie.  Yes, it has a story which is interesting. Yes it has lots of whipping.  Yes you see lots of breasts.  But, if you want to see simulated sex scenes, buy another movie.  They pretend to have sex by the man standing behind her with his pants on. Only one scene had a glimpse of a simulated sex scene between man and woman. Sorry, but I have seen R rated movies with sex scenes that were hotter.  Movie was definitely worth watching once for the storyline.

Not a family movie I would choose Foul language especially coming out of kids mouth. Pus where he got the sunburn on his back? Not for kids.

Questions Raised, Answers Not Provided I couldn't get through this film until I was 4 months pregnant. Otherwise, without dialog, it was too boring. (I found the cats more entertaining to watch.) I'm not one of these people that thinks babies are cute so perhaps if you are, you'll like it more.  As a parent-to-be, I found the contrast between the consumer lifestyle of first world countries with third-world countries very interesting. I was also intrigued with other culture's hands-off approach to parenting. But, after watching the movie, I find that it didn't probe these differences enough for me to make a decision about which method is healthier. In fact, it mostly confused the issue. (Some might say that the movie was not trying to indicate one method was better than another... but I think, very subtly, it was definitely criticizing first world methods and presenting the "Noble Savage" methods as something more respectful.)  For instance, in one scene, an African baby takes the toy of his older sibling. The older sibling takes it back. The baby hits him. The older sibling hits back. The baby cries and no one comes to comfort him because no one is watching them. As a viewer, my first reaction was, "Well, that will teach the baby not to take toys and hit! I'm glad the mother didn't rush in and scold the older sibling."  But, then, later, I watched an older Mongolian toddler full out attack his younger baby brother and no one intervened. He simply kept hitting the baby until he got bored. All the while, the baby was crying. No one came to his rescue. Then, the minute that little baby learned to stand the first thing he did was reach over and grab someone who was smaller than him and made her cry. What had he learned? If you are bigger, you can beat up on those smaller than yourself.  So, which is best? Give children less supervision and let them sort it out for themselves, risking that one child will abuse the other, or intervene and risk over-protecting your child? Which is the worse evil? Over protection or a bullied/bullying child? The film did not answer these questions or even probe these questions deeply.  Also, I found it a little distasteful that the film makers rushed to make fun of "first-worlders". The scene where the little girl in Japan had a room full of toys and seemed bored and unhappy was contrasted with the little boy in Mongolia who was tied to a bed and was SOOO happy to get a roll of toilet paper to play with. The message, "We give our children too much!" was loud and clear throughout the film. But at this point, I thought, "WAIT! We don't know if the baby in Japan was bored and unhappy because of her toys. She could simply be overdue for a nap! Also, I bet the boy in Mongolia has similar, cranky, overstimulated days and moments, also!" It got me wondering if I was actually being presented with the truth of the situation or with a trendy message about American consumerism.  And the little clips of the San Fran couple singing tribal songs about the earth mother with their children while inter cut with clips of the real African tribe... come on! Everybody knows we're suppose to laugh at the stupid Americans at this point. All that did was make me wonder at the agenda of the film-makers and if they were presenting an accurate picture of both American parenting and other culture's.  So, was it worth my time to watch as a parent-to-be? Yes. It will definitely make me think more about being too over-protective and too involved in my child's life. But other than as a "caution sign" in the back of mind, I'm not sure if this film is actually going to change any of my parenting behaviors (I'm still going to buy tons of learning toys because is it better to risk over-stimulating the child, sometimes, or risk under stimulating the baby's brain and s/he lags in development?) So, see it but expect it to confuse you a little bit about how to parent and don't expect it to answer any questions.

Love the "buddies", not so much this movie. I love the "buddy" movies but this would have to be my least favorite.  Although they all stretch reality, this one really does.  I know its all in good kid fun but this one just isn't as fun for the adults to watch and my 2 year old and 4 year old must know its not realistic either because its their least favorite too.  They constantly ask for Snow Buddies or Santa Buddies but never this one.  I maybe should have returned it.  Again, the buddies are great but I wouldn't recommend this particular movie.

Darker than the First Season I had mixed feelings about the second season of the BBC's 'Being Human'.  The first half was as good as it gets; Mitchell trying to get Britain's vampires to swear off blood (and killing) and George trying sleeping pills to make the monthly transition to werewolf a little less, well, traumatic.  But, no good deed goes unpunished.  And Annie, the ghost, finds a boyfriend of sorts, only to have a unique problem with him.  The thing I didn't like was the last two episodes.  Mitchell has a terrible change of heart after a tragedy, and Annie gets swept up in the Anglican priest's experiments in dealing with those represented by the three housemates.  Mitchell's change is especially terrible; you can no longer sympathize with this young hunkish misfit.  He and his erstwhile girlfriend are reunited, and things are not well in Bristol.  George maintains, but Annie has the rug pulled out from under her, and she's powerless to prevent her sudden change of scenery.  Mitchell must become more sympathetic for me to root for him.  Ditch the old girlfriend, avoid the new girlfriend (well, that's not a problem) and get in good graces with the people in Bristol again.  Maybe season three will sort it all out.  Let's hope!

Good Introduction to the Franchise The original terminator would not say is the greatest sci-fi movie ever but nonetheless a decent introduction to the franchise.  It is pretty interesting and the sci-fi effects are good but of course nothing like T-2.  I know that the sci-fi movie business was just getting going in the mid 80's so I am not criticizing the movie on behalf of that.  If your a fan of the terminator movies and have not seen it be sure to do so but otherwise look towards T-2, or T-3 for a more impressive sci-fi viewing experience.  Peter J. Miller

I had high expectations It was a bit of a let down.  The first part of the movie was pretty good, but there were somethings that seemed, at least for me, to require more explanation.  Toward the end it was disappointing, and the very end was really a let down fo rme.  I expected something new and exciting, and it really wasn't, at least not for me.  It was worth watching.  I'm not sorry to have paid 3.99 to see it.  I love science fiction.

Not Great But Not As Bad As The Batman Geeks Want To Me It Out To Be The film isn't awesome but it's not that bad.  What I find annoying is most of the geek Batman fan base seem to forget that this is a COMIC BOOK SERIES not some indie flick or gritty feature film.  That being said, I do agree the script sucks a lot of the time and as much as I love Uma, her take on Poison Ivy isn't awesome, same with the Bayne character but it is a comic book and the Bane was fairly true to the comic book.  Nolan's films also benefit greatly from CGI, which was still in it's infancy when this film was made.  I personally liked Arnold's take on Mr. Freeze, I felt he did a great job even if the film was lacking at times and I'm not the biggest Schwarzenegger fan.  I also like Alicia Silverstone's take on Batgirl.  It's not really her fault the story line sucked at times.  I don't buy Clooney as Batman that much but I felt he really delivered as Bruce Wayne.  I find he and Christian Bale to be the weakest Batman out of any of all the films.  That being said, Clooney blows away Bale as an all around actor and his body of work buries Bale's and I actually like Bale in a number of his films.  It's not an awesome film but it's not that bad and if you have kids, it's a great film for them and you to enjoy together.  The Nolan films while decent, I have found to be greatly over hyped.  His films have benefited from a lot of technology that wasn't around in the late 80s and early 90s or as I mentioned previously, was in their infancy stages.

not worth getting on blu-ray The movie is what it is, nothing great and actually pretty bad. If you are a MK fan you may like it but maybe not. Read the reviews to get a good idea if this movie might be for you. If you are going to purchase this movie I would recommend you purchase the DVD instead blu ray. I would also assume that the first MK movie will also not be worth the blu-ray. You can buy both these movies at wal=mart for $5.00 each or prolly buy em for a $0.01(+s&h). I wasn't too impressed with the "blu-ray quality" of this film. I have seen better quality dvd's upconverted through my ps3 on than this blu-ray.

TAKE WHAT YOU CAN GET For me, this movie lacked. The scenes for me really didn't add up. One minute Bella is mad at Edward for messing with her truck, the next, they're in school going to lunch. For me, a lot of the movie was just like that, skipping from one scene to the next. If I hadn't read the books, I wouldn't have understood the movie as a regular movie goer. There are only a few scenes that stuck with me: 1)The marriage proposal 2)The training fight scene(which should have been much longer!) 3)Charlie and Bella sex-talk 4)The ending fight scene 5)Certain parts of the tent scene. Certain scenes were ok, like the Quileute background story and Jasper's background story. Rosalie's not so much. Everything else was mediocre. I really would have liked it if they added the part where Edward followed Bella all the way to Angela's house as soon as she crossed the Quileute border. That was one of the scenes I was looking for and it never happened. This movie seemed a little bit sappy with all the kissing. It was even too much for me, and I'm a female.  So. Eclipse. Just ok.  I'm patiently waiting to see how the hell they're going to make some life of what is Breaking Dawn.

Upstaged by a Seven-Year-Old It must be very disappointing for Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson to be upstaged by a seven-year-old child (played by Maggie Elizabeth Jones), but that is exactly what happened in this Disney family movie.  I am not going to go as far as to say that I loved the film, because for me, the movie did not get interesting until we were two-thirds of the way in -- and that is just a bit too far.  The scene between Damon and his fourteen-year-old son Dylan, played by Colin Ford, is what opened up this formulaic adaptation, it just took too long to get to the good stuff.  Based on the book by Benjamin Mee, the family is in turmoil following the death of Ben's wife and the family is in desperate need of a getaway.  Not just physically, but emotionally, so when Ben and Rosie go house hunting a curious thing happens.  The perfect house is available, the only stipulation, a small zoo is also part of the package.  With no experience and very limited funds, Ben jumps in with both feet, and is able to turn the place into a home for both his family and the abandoned animals.  As I said, this film is based very loosely on a book by Benjamin Mees.  The Mee's zoo is actually located in England whereas the fictional Rosemoor Wildlife Park is portrayed to be located in California.  There are a couple of facts that are toyed with, but for a child going to see this movie, that does not matter.  The animals are adorable and Rosie will appeal to even the hardest heart.  There have been some complaints about the language used by the 7-year-old daughter, but for me that was not too big of a deal.  That is how some children talk, and to be honest, it was a funny scene.  Do I recommend it, yes, but only if you are not expecting high drama and like a little sugar coating.

A different kind of coming of age story. Great acting and depressing story. If you liked "Jolene" watch this one. I say B. "You could shake your knuckles at the sky, you could get mad and say I don't got nothing', you could get stuck." Thirteen year old Luli (Moretz) comes from a very messed up family. She spends the night of her 13th birthday at a bar with her parents and when the dad is too drunk to drive home a big fight occurs. When her mother leaves with an insurance man and her dad gets mad and leaves she is left alone. Deciding she needs a fresh start she heads out on her own for Las Vegas. The best way to describe this movie really is to compare it to the movie "Jolene" that came out a few years ago. But I'm guessing most people didn't see it so I will do my best. It sounds strange to say this but this is a coming of age story about a 13 year old girl. Through the people she meets on her way she has new life experiences that involves things she shouldn't learn about for at least 5 more years. Moretz is amazing in this and I just wonder how long it will take until she wins an Oscar. The cast in this is also very good and the movie is very much worth watching all the way to the surprising and bittersweet ending. I liked it. Overall, a very good movie about a not so typical life of a 13 year old. I give it a B.

The Cat's Got the Goblin's Tongue 3 1/2 Stars = Very Good  Here a good horror anthology! Three stories of dread & suspence, with a little black comedy.  The third one is a doozy, as a cat protects a little girl from a Goblin that lives in her bedroom's wall, trying to suck out her life's breath while she sleeps! Her parents think the cat is to blame, but this is a true classic cat & mouse game of chess & chase! Great episode, & worth the price of admission alone!

Shirley Temple as an Adult Hoping some of these were her as a child but they were not. Grand Daughter still liked them but really wanted the others.

charged to much was charged twice for this movie. didn.t realize it was not an actual movie, i have no use for a digital movie but by the time i realized my mistake it was not only too late to cancel i was also charged twice on my card. im very unhappy.

An important message is diluted by the need to entertain. Buy the book. I read their book before watching the documentary. I loved the book, but I was profoundly disappointed by this movie.  By comparison to Dubner's lucid and punchy (economical) writing in the book, this movie obfuscates the message with a cutesy, lilting attempt to entertain more than explain. In the movie, each section was written by a different person, and there are "precious" graphics which I am guessing were put there to keep the audience interested.  All the accolades attributed to this movie apply more to the original book. Even though I had already read the book, I found their manic dialog confusing and almost unrecognizable - more appropriate to Myth-Busters or the Iron Chef.  This is unfortunate, because, now more than ever, in these days of cracker-barrel jingoism and dumbed down "entertainment news", the United States needs Levitt's clear-headed, empirical approach to untangling the causes and effects of complex phenomena that his book and principles expound.  The movie is not bad, but I read the book first.  The movie didn't live up to the book.

Great Concept Movie, Thin on Character Development What this movie's about, the story, the twists, all that I loved. Cool looking scenes, interesting concepts; a real 2001 Space Odyssey feel. Afterward I found myself thinking... none of the characters had any depth to them. They were largely predictable in their roles and unimaginative in their execution. The main character, Capa, hardly says a word. He's got an enemy and a friend amongst the crew and only a few scenes make that apparent. Mostly he seems a reluctant participant in the whole movie.

Not bad but Not good either First let me say that if you are not sure about buying this dvd then just flip a coin with that being said let's talk about the dvd. Well the documentary portion of this dvd is... well lets face it a glorification of McMahon from around '95 or so until the '05 when the dvd was released. Add in to this glaring ommissions, tweaking some of the facts and having a number of the WWE roster kissing his ass (both figurativley and literally) and you've got the makings for one craptastic dvd but let's not only focus on the negatives the matches on here are what make the dvd at least a considerable buy. McMahon vs Stone Cold Steve Austin (RAW '98)  Steel Cage Match McMahon vs Stone Cold Steve Austin (St. Valentine's Massacre  Ladder Match Vince and Shane McMahon vs Stone Cold Steve Austin(King of The Ring '99)  No Holds Barred McMahon vs HHH (Armageddon '99)  Street Fight Vince McMahon vs Shane McMahon (WrestleMania X-Seven)  Street Fight McMahon vs Ric Flair (Royal Rumble '02)  Street Fight McMahon vs Hulk Hogan (WrestleMania XIX)  "I Quit" Match Vince McMahon vs Stephanie McMahon (No Mercy '03)  Buried Alive Match McMahon vs Undertaker (Survivor Series '03)  overall not a terrible selection of matches but the documentary sucks out loud so if you just want the matches get it if you want a tell all story well that will probably never happen with Vince

disappointed When I started to watch the movie, the dvd froze in several spots while playing. I know its brand new. I pre-ordered it. I don't understand why it froze.

Bad but fun action movie Fans of bad sci fi action will likely enjoy this movie.  I'd give it a 2.5 but you can't give half stars. I'll round up because the movie surprised me a few times with witty moments that brightened up the otherwise lackluster film.  Enough so in fact that I'm sure I'll watch it again someday. The setup for the story is very simple, good guy gets himself in trouble, has to perform a suicide rescue mission to get out of trouble.  It happens to be set in a giant space jail which adds a few enjoyable twists to the old formula. The plot itself was barely passable.  The logic pushing the movie along was suspect at times and downright terrible at other times.  The prisoner escape scene that begins the riot is just plain ludicrous.  However, the confused plot still allowed for a good run of action balanced with a slow/funny character development scenes.  And the twist at the end might have been predictable but it raised the bar a bit. Guy Pierce was the saving grace of the movie, he surprisingly made a great gruff sarcastic soldier.  His one liners were typical, but witty and drew some good laughs.  The other acting was pretty standard bad action movie acting.  Nothing surprising there. The special effects were a mixed bag.  Some good, some very bad. So that's that, just know what you're getting into and crack open a few beers or chow down some popcorn while getting in some good laughs/explosions/fun.

Not a bad Bond movie Not a bad Bond movie, but I miss Roger Moore. See "Casino Royale", with Craig, before you see this one. They go together. Not your father's James Bond.

Great book, Pretty good movie, Okay disc The transfer is average, I like the movie, but there is virtually nothing on here but the movie. When you put it in, there are no menus, it goes straight into the movie.  I'm hoping for an upgraded quality copy of this to see the light of day. Douglas Adams deserves it.

Much ado about nothing much This film is beautifully photographed; is attentive to period details in terms of settings and costumes, and has moments of well crafted acting.  I'm thinking of a scene between Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer in the Tolstoy bedroom (it's pictured on the movie case).  The two actors, and the situation they are creating, suddenly seem 'real' - an elderly husband and wife, married for almost fifty years, who know each other inside and out; both "in love" and in something less than love.  In other words, that scene rang true.  I wasn't aware that THE LAST STATION had been a 1990 novel until I saw this in the closing credits.  Yet thinking it over, the film has a "novelettish" quality - a culled-from-fiction mood; the dialogue and the circumstances it's dramatizing (sometimes over-dramatizing) do make it seem to be, for the most part, a piece of affectionate historical fiction, even though it's generally based on real life people and events.  This isn't a knock against dramatized fiction - but this film doesn't establish the consistent emotional depth that make a viewer forget it's a fiction; that makes it a "reality".  It has this depth in odd moments - like the bedroom scene I've referred to, or when Tolstoy talks with his secretary - but it's an uneven creation.  I thought the actress who played Tolstoy's daughter, Sasha, was badly miscast and/or just badly written.  Instead of the real-life resentment and dislike that mother and daughter felt for each other, and the hefty looks and solid demeanor of the real Alexandra Tolstoy - a woman so devoted to her father that she married one of his disciples without love - we are given a thinly drawn, repressed and very English spinster "type", who cries "Pa-pa! Pa-pa!" like a parrot.  The same for the actress who plays Masha, who to me remains a resolutely fictional character, created for sex interest.  The film wanted to be meaningful and important - but can't seem to find its way.  I was neither intrigued, enthralled, or taken into its world (the way I'd hoped to be, given its superlative reviews).  Instead, I felt restless.  I enjoyed Christopher Plummer's performance, and most of Helen Mirren's, and Paul Giametti does a nice job.  James McAvoy seems a bit lost to me, or at least his character did - he portrays a sweetly confused boy-man very well; maybe that's a good performance.  But I didn't believe in his love for the resolutely fictional Masha, and their reconciliation scene at the railroad station takes away from the real drama:  the heartbreak of Sonya at Tolstoy's deathbed.  All in all - an odd conglomeration of fact and fiction given voice by some talented actors.  Worth watching once but hardly memorable.

Missing the cut--and the point "In the Cut" aspires to moody, up-scale literary neo-noir, but ends up as a cross between chatty chick flickery and warmed-over formula "suspense." Take some of the steamy elements from "erotic thrillers" like "Never Talk to Strangers," "Taking Lives," and "Killing Me Softly," add a bit of urban grit and grime from just about any run of the mill police procedural, throw in a bunch of superfluous supporting characters with inscrutable motivations and dialog out of the most conventional produced-for-Liftetime TV movie you've ever seen, make it about forty minutes too long, and "In the Cut" is what oozes forth. While their all too brief encounter in the bedroom is incredibly steamy, what's left of the relationship between Ryan and Rufalo seems contrived and unconvincing; I cannot honestly see any educated self-respecting professional woman falling for such a foul-mouthed cretin. As to the plot? The Scooby gang could have cracked this "mystery" in a half hour; the red herrings are insultingly obvious and the ending--after nearly two hours--is pure pot-boiler, nearly bordering on brain-dead. This simply confirms my belief that Jane Campion is one of the most extravagently overrated directors of the last twenty years. Unless you absolutely MUST see the roughly forty-five seconds of--decidedly sultry--simulated sex between Ryan and Rufalo, my advice is to move on, people; there really is nothing else to see here.

This movie is not funny! I love zombies movies, but this movie just didn't entertain me. I wanted the story to be centered around zombies, this movie is just a romance-action movie with not  enough zombies. I can't believe people thought this movie was funny, I thought it was really boring except for a couple parts. I did enjoy the beginning and the last ten minutes, but I found the middle of the movie really boring. I really liked "Shawn of the Dead", but I didn't like this movie that much. The zombie kills in this movie were done really well, but the plot is just stupid and isn't funny.  In my opinion, Shawn of the Dead and Dawn of the Dead(2004) are way better zombie movies and they have way better comedy too. I'm really disappointed with this movie since it has high ratings.

Electrifying People Building the Future Watching this movie helped me get to know some very interesting people. Never knew the name Bob Lutz before this documentary. Lutz is a retired GM guy. By most accounts a brilliant business strategist. The word `avuncular' might have been invented to describe him.  You can immediately notice the friendly charisma.  Then I met Carlos Ghosn, who is the CEO of Nissan. He doesn't come across as avuncular, but rather very sincere. He comes across very intelligent, passionate, and really believes what he says.  Elon Musk, founder of PayPal, has put much of the money he had made from the electronic payment company he founded on an electric car called Tesla. It has paid off well for this South African technical genius.  The character I was least impressed with was the electric car itself. All of the `re-charging' is shown in sunny California. Didn't see a practical way to charge an electric car in snowy Upstate New York in winter; especially if you're living in an apartment. We still don't know how long the life of the batteries in current electric cars last for. If they're anything like the batteries in our laptops, forget it. They maybe good for the first year, but then what? Recharge every 15 minutes? Where? I think a fundamental technological shift will be needed for democratizing alternate energy for common vehicles.  I would recommend this movie for you to meet the people behind the technology that is the electric car.

Well sung...Poorly staged Based on a Victor Hugo play, Donizetti fashioned an opera about Lucrecia Borgia, an alleged real life 15th century serial killer and sex maniac.  If you have never seen or heard the opera, I think you will be surprised how many great melodies Donizetti wrote for this very melodramatic opera.  The entire cast sing and act with gusto.  The problem is the Eurotrash production design.....no sets, bare stage, conference room chairs, a hideous greyish beige wall, modern dress, and vaudville type spotlights:)  I kid you not !  Maybe some of you don't mind this look, but it really bothered me.  I watched it once and when I play it again it will be enjoyed sans video.  The music is fabulous.

disappointed I was so excited to buy this DVD for my 2 year old grandson.  We especially enjoyed "The Many Adventures of Winnie The Pooh", the friendship edition.  We also loved Disney's,  "Pooh's Heffalump Movie".  However, this movie has more violence in it.  Some of the characters hit each other, and are critical of each other instead of the old Pooh stories, where the characters support each other and are gentle with each other.  It also moves much faster than those of the past.  The other disappointment was that the new voice of Christopher Robin is the same as "Lumpy" in  "Poohs Heffalump Movie".

Why did I spend an evening watching this film? File that question under "unknown." A man wakes up in a hospital to find that his identity has been erased, his wife looks at him like a stranger, and all his assumptions about his former life may be lies. This is a tense, tightly wound thriller that spins in unanticipated directions,  a smooth, well acted movie in an atmospheric wintry Berlin, featuring spies, assassins, old lovers become strangers, and strangers becoming friends. Is he insane, or is he part of an elaborate plot? Who would create such a plot, and why? Questions abound, but there is little time to think, because a band of talented and motivated killers are on his trail.  Liam Neeson is acceptable as an action hero, although he is getting a bit long in the tooth for such escapades. He still hooks up with younger, beautiful women, because Hollywood has its rules. Feminism hasn't penetrated the old plot device machine. The production is well done, in the manner of films these days. There is nothing new or ground breaking, but this qualifies as an evening's thoughtless entertainment.  There are plot holes galore, but if you don't mind plot holes, you won't mind the film. The central tenet of the movie, that a man forgets most of his former life, but not the recent past, is not the usual result of head trauma. The ability to run around delivering karate chops soon after a cardiac arrest and four day coma is even more unlikely. The resulst of years of biological research residing uniquely on one laptop's hard drive, controllable by the death of one person? If you ask too many questions, you won't enjoy the movie. In this case, it is better to sit back and simply enjoy. Or skip the movies entirely, and read a book.

Average Movie That Raises Interesting Time Paradox Questions As the U.S.S. Nimitz prepares to leave out to sea, she is boarded by Warren Lasky (Martin Sheen) a systems analyst sent to observe and make recommendations to his boss, Richard Tideman, the designer and builder of the Nimitz and a man Lasky has never actually met. While going through routine maneuvers at sea, the ship is sucked into an unknown phenomenon that turns out to be a temporal whirlpool. They discover that they've been sent back through time to Dec. 6, 1944 and Capt. Matthew Yelland (Kirk Douglas) and his commanding officers must make a decision: do they try to stay out of the way or do they use the full extent of the firepower of the aircraft carrier and destroy the Japanese airforce and navy before they are able to attack Pearl Harbor?  THE FINAL COUNTDOWN isn't the greatest movie about time travel. It doesn't have the greatest dialogue and there are events that happen that just don't make sense with the rest of the movie (such as the dog running away from her owner: it only provides a way for the Japanese prisoner to try to escape). Also, the movie has an anticlimactic finale: the Nimitz and her crew decide to go to war, but the battle never happens.  Yet, despite all of this THE FINAL COUNTDOWN is an enjoyable movie to watch; it's a good Saturday afternoon or rainy day movie. Perhaps it's because of the realism involved in the film. For anyone who has any interest in the navy or navy vehicles or military aircraft, THE FINAL COUNTDOWN is a must see film. The movie was made in 1980 when there was no CGI. All of the vehicles used in the movie are real. The aircraft carrier is real, the jets are real, the helicopter is real, etc. Not only that, but almost all of the extras and non-major characters are played by real service personnel. It's truly amazing to watch because I can't recall any other film that wasn't propaganda or a documentary that features the navy in such a close-up and positive view. It is this part of the movie the makes THE FINAL COUNTDOWN a movie that every film buff should see at least once.  Overall, THE FINAL COUNTDOWN is a fairly enjoyable sci-fi movie that raises some interesting time travel questions. There's not a whole lot of action, but the most impressive part of the film is watching the real military personnel and their vehicles perform on screen.

Made My Kids Laugh Without Too Many Objectionable Moments Rating this movie is a difficult thing because I have to keep in mind the target audience and not rate it in terms of my own standards for judging films.  In essence, as you might have suspected, the book is better than the movie (even though I don't necessarily like everything about the books, either).  In fact, movies almost always suffer in comparison to the books on which they're based.  So judged as a kids' movie, I give "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" 3 stars.  It wasn't great, but it did have moments that made my 10 and 11 year old sons laugh.  There was some genuine humor that even an adult could enjoy with his children.  My sons also enjoyed looking at the ways the movie was different than the book.  As a parent who's careful about what my kids watch, I was pleasantly surprised that there were relatively few objectionable things.  Yes, I knew that a certain amount of grossness would accompany the movie (and which I knew would make my boys laugh), but it was actually less than I expected.  There is one scene with a woman in a bikini on a motorcycle magazine that was unnecessary in a movie that had few other things like this and that will mainly be watched by pre-adolescents.  I also wasn't too keen on the portrayal of the parents (especially fathers) who Hollywood often portray as clueless and careless.  While there are bullies like Roderick in real life, in a comedy such bullying seems unnecessary.  The movie "redeemed" the main character, Greg, at the end by having him do something nice to "atone" for all that he'd done wrong throughout the movie.  However, all of the times he mistreated his best friend, Rowley, were actually sort of painful and not particularly humorous.  There was also a weird tension in the film every time the character Angie Steadman appeared.  She seemed so much more mature than everyone else that this character provides a moral center for the film.  But she was made a peripheral part of the movie, and the scenes with her in it seemed weirdly out of place and humorless.  In spite of this, the actress who played her had a big screen presence, and so, in a way, she stood out in a movie where she really didn't belong.  We watch movies like this mainly to make us laugh, and this movie did this in an average way.

Too Complicated - Bogart is a private-eye hired to deal with a blackmailer shaking down a rich man's sensuous daughter Carmen. This film is far too complicated for most - certainly it was for me.

Meet the dumb parents This movie is derivative and suffers from a predictable and lacklustre script. The performances are adequate but entirely unmemorable (in fairness to the two adult leads, however, they do play the most stupid parents ever). So it's a testament to the direction that it manages to entertain at all. But it does, thanks to Collet-Serra's tight grip on the material he's been given. Not much else to say really. It's all kind of so-so.

Movie is good, but not true widescreen I have seen this movie several times and enjoy it every time I see it. Thus I wanted my own copy.  However, this DVD is listed as "Widescreen Version" on side B. What you get is actually letter boxed widescreen squeezed into a 4:3 format. This is not true widescreen as you have black bands all around a much smaller picture when viewed on a widescreen.  I was disappointed to say the least.

An Indie Urban Character Drama With Modest Goals And An Appealing Cast A tiny, slice-of-life character drama--"A Beautiful Life" doesn't break much new ground in its exploration of the hardships inherent on the mean streets of Los Angeles.  But, its goals are moderate and its cast is appealing.  The movie doesn't attempt to answer all of its character problems and, in fact, they end up in the same open ended position where they started (maybe worse)--but the film relies on the small advances and connections along the way to invest the viewer.  I, for one, thought this was enough.  With a view of the city that is not nightmarishly over-the-top, the film maintains a grittily real feeling that serves to ground the action.  And the stark and simple performances further strengthen the film's impact.  Even when the screenplay stretches into big confrontational moments which don't necessarily ring true, I never lost touch with the realness of the principle characters.  "A Beautiful Life" centers around an underage runaway (Angela Sarafyan) looking to escape the undisclosed trauma of her home situation.  Shacked up in a strip club dumpster, she is rescued by a kindly dancer with dreams of stardom (Bai Ling) and an illegal immigrant janitor (Jesse Garcia).  It's not easy, however, and all the characters feel the chill of the city nights.  Ling goes through a series of bad boyfriend choices, Garcia battles immigration and those that would exploit his non-lawful status, and Sarafyan finds it difficult to make a living outside the system.  Much of the film centers around the burgeoning relationship between Garcia and Sarafyan and it is easily the most successful and intriguing aspect of the film.  There are some decidedly dark moments as Sarafyan's past abuse makes their tentative romance uncomfortable--and these scenes are exceedingly disturbing and well done.  Makes me wish the film were even darker in tone when I saw how effective these sequences were!  The film culminates with a final emotional confrontation that veers from over-the-top to surprisingly heartfelt.  Sarafyan and Garcia are a likable and natural pair.  They sell "A Beautiful Life."  Ling is a life force and makes this disparate band of outsiders into a family.  Debi Mazar barely registers and Dana Delaney has two scenes.  If you come to this film for the higher profile names, you might be disappointed--but the always reliable Delaney is quite good in those scenes.  The story is solidly constructed and might not stand out in the crowded indie film field of urban character drama but it, nevertheless, has its charms.  Slight and modestly successful--it's easy to appreciate the merits of "A Beautiful Life" but I don't see remembering it several months down the line.  KGHarris, 3/11

Interesting This movie was well-animated and had a good story, but what made me give this movie just a 3-star rating was the fact that the story was not as developed as it could and should have been, at the end we are still left with a lot of questions and so on and so forth (mainly about how the world became the way it did)

Disappointing overall, but some cool parts Made by the same folks that gave us the TRANSFORMER movies, and given that this movie is similar in nature (mankind vs. alien machine) I think the best way to review this movie for you is to make some comparisons...  The story is pretty good, the aliens themselves were no big deal to speak of as they were very similar to bald human males with reptile eyes and 4 fingers for hands (like the claws in those arcade machines where you try to grab a stuffed animal).  Their ships were pretty cool (but unlike "transformers" they had no personality and couldn't change into different things) and it was a little disappointing they fired almost ordinary bombs. There were some smaller ships that were fairly unique and deadly.  The camera work was the same as in the Transformers movies, where in the heat of action they are in too tight and you mostly just get to see blur instead of the orchestrated/choreographed action (and I always hate when movies do that).  I think the main problem with this movie is that you just don't really care about the main character - he's an idiot, lacking charm/personality and often intelligence/maturity. And truthfully, I think the blame for it is more the actor than the script. But it's a big problem for a movie when they can't get you to like the main characters. (The black woman who fires the ships weapons was very good, and so was the big black Army guy with the steel legs -- they were smaller supporting roles, but you like and care about them).  Overall it was disappointing but not horrible because some parts of this were pretty cool, but it's not one I'd recommend or care to watch again myself. (And I'll think hard about watching another movie with the guy who had the lead in this as I expect his acting will always be like this)

Interesting idea underutilized A world of class struggle. Time zones differentiate the haves from the have-nots. People live normal lives until age 25, then they live by the hour. Rich people have many hours, poor people have few. In the slums, filling up your time account is a daily chore. You never get older than 25, physically, as long as you keep your time account affluent. When your time account runs out, you are dead. You time out. You can also always choose to die in a regular manner. Being immortal requires staying away from physical damage and keeping your time account covered. Timing out has become a new mode of suicide, a convenient one. What a world of riches this idea of a sci-fi genius would have offered. Instead we are given a Bonnie and Clyde tale of substantial under-achievement. A slum boy kidnaps a rich girl and she does a Patty Hearst with him. So cute. The subject should not be forgotten, it might still be turned into a good movie.

Not what I expected Frankly, I mistakenly assumed this was an American remake of a French movie that my wife and I enjoyed. Far from it! I found it gratuitously violent (and I am not opposed to violent films), with characters that were all basically unlikeable. Not enjoyable.

Great premise but could have been better. The movie did not end like I wanted it to end.  There were so many different directions they could have taken the movie that would have been better.  This movie explores the ways that people affect one another.  I think it does lack in the area of how personal responsibility affects a life as well.  Other people have some influence but not to the degree that this movie suggests. In some ways, this movie is advocating the idea of helplessness.  That circumstances/situations have 100% control and that a person cannot overcome those things on their own. This movie would make a good discussion with others on various life themes.

Great Suspense But Story is Disconnected Hard to understand the connection of the two main characters and the believability of their relationship progression.  Otherwise, the story was a tad drawn out but overall very good.

wrong coding Hi DVD works on laptop but not DVD player or PS3 still glad to have it but dissapointed that the region coding is wrong :(

She did and he was . You know , the last two lines to the movie ? Written by one of Hollywood's favorite hacks , you know who our guy is from the outset . He (the screenwriter named Joe) leads the audience by the nose the whole way . Hey!!! , look at this red herring!!! How about this stuff???!!!! The fact remains , the screenwriter wanted you to know (and you do) who the guilty cat is the whole route . It's fun because it's dated (soundtrack , etc) and stage bound and silly and most of it's content is irrelevant . Good cast too . Largely wasted on this silly non-surprise though . It's one you gotta watch just so you can write your take though . Whatever .

Left Wondering/Pearl JR I respect pearl Jr as a hoax investigator, and look up to her as one. But most of the things shown on the dvd was things I already made videos about on youtube since this hoax began on june 25, 2009. I wish the dvd had more depth to it. I know she could have found things that I couldn't but chose the most obvious things to put onto the dvd with her commentating on them. Much respect to her but I hope she will do a second dvd with different clues to this hoax.

support your local sheriff It's a light western comedy wich i saw when i was much younger ,but it is a s good as i remember it .

2 Disc set really necessary for this film! I enjoy films like Waiting because they appeal to me and those of us who have served others. I was a supermarket cashier for 5 1/2 years. Anyway, the movie's appeal about the day at Shenanigans (which reminds you of a chain restaurant like T.G.I. Fridays etc.) and an eclectic group of characters.  I assume this movie was rated R or should have been for language, sexual references, etc. This is an adult movie or for those who can stomach penis jokes etc. But this 2 disc set offers plenty of extras which shows the development of the film process. This film took years to make mostly of raising money.  This two disc set spares no expense in showing out-takes, deleted scenes, and the making of the film. Maybe it's too much for a 90 minute movie that might be a cult hit. I don't know if it's reached cult status like Office Space yet but it might be there eventually.  I am giving the 2 disc set three stars because mine wasn't rated R on the box and that's important to us out there. It's still a good bargain and they should make more movies like this about working class people who have dreams and aspirations of higher purpose.  The cast was excellent with Ryan Reynolds leading the pack. Anna Faris is fine. Alannah Ubach is my favorite as high strung Naomi. Luis Guzman is always hysterical. William Koetchner should have his own sitcom by now and others.  The film was done by a first-time film director who worked in a restaurant. I give him plenty of credit for fulfilling his dream but the jokes were a little x-rated at times especially with the sick game they have in the film that I won't write about here. This film is definitely an acquired taste for those who like bathroom humor.

Don't trust reptilians bearing gifts. This is the first I have seen of the V franchise so that should be kept in mind when reading my review. Perhaps I would feel different about it if I had seen the earlier TV series and miniseries. Both me and my hubby enjoyed this series but I can not ignore some glaring flaws about the show either. V is about a race of apparently friendly aliens who come to Earth in 29 giant spaceships claiming to need a place to prepare their ships for the voyage home, and in return they will share their vastly superior technology with Earth. Most people embrace the visitors but a small band of freedom fighters recognize the aliens for what they are, invaders bent on subjecting Earth to their rule.  One of my problems with V 2009 starts right here, the aliens is revealed as bad guys way to soon and there is no subtlety  about it. The Vs have no redeeming features. The audience is set up to hate them from the get go and while this is not necessarily bad I think the story would have been much deeper if the alien's true motives had been revealed more slowly. In addition about every science fiction stereotype is used somewhere in this series. Now I do not mind something being formulaic, but if you are after something new you will not find it here.  All the actors in the show do a great job, the characters however are a little hit or miss, some of them are great, like the Vs queen Anna, others are just annoying like Erica, the female lead's troubled teenage son Tylor. I mean one thing is a angry kid with daddy issues but this just get ridiculous, I swear after the second episode I was about ready to sacrifice virgins to the DVD Gods for this kid to get killed of. Imagine every rebellious kid stereotype, then take away any personality and you have Tylor. Most of the characters in V 2009 works well however and they make the show enjoyable to watch.  The special effects of V 2009 is impressive for a TV series and generally the show is gorgeous to look at, the music to is quite good and I sort of wish I had picked up the blu rays instead as this show is a visual treat. The storyline is good but it get annoying at times as I tend to prefer villains with a bit of layers to them, some shades of gray. Anna and he crew however have morals which would make Palpatine blush and the series never misses and opportunity to remind you of that, just in case you forget. I should also mention that at the end of season 2 there is a cliffhanger, the story is never completed, I think the show is still worth watching but if you are bothered by unfinished stories then you might want to think about that before you start watching the show.  V 2009 have a good story which falls short due to stereotypes and to one sided storytelling, the visuals, atmosphere and the general message about being careful to trust everything the media say is gold, a very powerful message in this day and age, more than makes up for the show's shortcomings. Now I am giving V 2009's first season 3 out of 5 stars, but that do not mean that I did not like the show. 3 out of 5 is saying that the show is good, that it is far above average. However because of the issues I have already mentioned I can not give this show a 4 or a 5. I recommend V 2009, it is a flawed but still good science fiction series which deserves to be watched.

It has to be the beard? Ah....um........errr.......yeah, well, hard to describe this as it was just so off the normal zombie map.  Picked it up at WallyWorld ( you know who I mean) for $9.95 and figured, if it bites, literally, I'm only out a little.  Low budget but filmed well, acting was not bad, make ups were pretty good so I've nothing against it and will watch again, but a butt-kickin' Abraham with a huge (!) sickle -- took a little mental adjustment for me - still they played if off well and it did not take away from the film......get it and enjoy it as what I think was it's intent, a light hearted film not meant to take itself serious - but if you loved the film- Exit Humanity, as much as I did, this "other" zombie period piece film won't stand up to that comparison - so go in with eyes and expectations open.

Not as good as I was expecting I definitely expected more after hearing the reviews when it 1st came out but it was disappointing & the ending was horribly unsatisfying. Great acting by Elizabeth but not a great movie.

3D Review by a 3D Connoisseur POST-PRODUCTION 3D (converted from 2D to 3D)  My ratings are based mainly on the QUALITY OF THE 3D, not the video content.  There are about 12 out of screen effects that extend about 10% of the way, from the screen to the viewer. During the opening dialog and title there are 7+ CG effects near 25%. Also, the ending credits have glowing embers floating to a maximum of 25%.  The cardboard cutout syndrome is fairly obvious in this title. Many scenes appear to have only 1 to 3 depths with the background or sides starkly flat. Usually when the syndrome wasn't apparent, the 3D lacked depth and crispness. I don't believe this movie was ever intended to be converted into 3D but if it was, they should not admit it.  On a positive note, there were zero of the single instance 3D flaws normally seen in a conversion (that I noticed). The sandmen scenes were great even though the 3D was about the same as in the rest of the movie. Even with its flaws, the 3D adds to the viewing experience of this film.  MY 3D RATING = GOOD  (poor, fair, good, very good, excellent)  Note: As far as the percentages go, everyone's eyes are different. What I see at 25% you may see at 15% or 35%. To fully realize how far something is out of the screen for you, pause on an effect and direct a partner with an extended finger to the tip of what you are seeing. You may be surprised.  Click on `See all my reviews' for the lowdown on other 3Ds

Holy Plot Holes Batman! In what should have been a fantastic finish to the greatest rendition of Batman, this movie sure left us feeling cheated and unsatisfied.  Right away, the 8 year gap seemed unnecessary.  Everyone still acted as if Harvey Dent's death had just happened.  Too much time had passed for anyone to still feel strongly about Batman being responsible for Harvey Dent's death.  8 years is way too long for Bruce Wayne to still be grieving for his lost love.  It also seemed as if Rachel Dawes' death had just happened.  On to the head scratchers......  Bruce's mother's pearls had a tracking system?  Really?  The necklace that was broken during the night of his mother's murder.  They were re-assembled, and survived the fire that destroyed Wayne Manor?  Every single policeman went underground for go after Bane?  This is NOT practical.  Then, they become trapped for months, during winter, and then emerge still looking healthy and clean, as if no time had passed.  Bane was able to hold the city hostage for 5 months without any outside intervention?  What was the point of waiting so long?  If his plan was to destroy the city, why not do it sooner?  Why would Bane go through all the trouble of sending Bruce Wayne to the desert prison that he was formerly in?  Why not just kill him?  What was the point of keeping your greatest threat alive?  And how did a broke Bruce Wayne get home from the prison so fast?  And how did he enter the city undetected?  This part of the film was nonsensical.  How did Bane know that Bruce Wayne was Batman?  During the months that Bane was in Control of Gotham, why didn't he seize Wayne Manor and destroy the Batcave?  How did Batman survive the stabbing from Miranda Tate/Talia al Ghul?  She sunk the knife fully into him and twisted the blade to leave the wound open.  He seemed quite immobilized and would surely have lost a significant amount of blood.  Somehow it didn't seem to bother him at all.  How did Batman survive the blast radius from the bomb when it clearly showed he was still in the cockpit with less than 5 seconds to go?  I doubt he could have safely ejected and escaped the 6-mile blast radius with such little time.  The fixed autopilot explanation doesn't make sense.  It was very convenient to have a wise old man that was also a doctor to help out Bruce Wayne while he was in the desert prison.  Apparently the ol' Rocky Balboa formula worked for Bruce Wayne.  A few pushups and pull-ups and he's all back to normal.  Ready for the big fight.  Gary Oldman, Michael Cane, and Morgan Freeman are very important to this franchise.  All 3 were extremely under-utilized.  Their characters were absent throughout most of the film.  What was the point of Catwoman?  Her character seemed mysterious, but didn't offer anything relevant to the story.  I don't believe anyone truly cared that she was in this movie, aside from the meat-heads that just want a pretty girl to look at.  The relationship between Bane and Talia al Ghul seemed like it could have had a greater backstory.  We barely understood how Bane came-to-be, and there was some great potential for those 2 characters to have a deeper relationship.  The greatest scene of the movie is the first fight scene between Bane and Batman.  No music, just the fight.  A slow and weak Batman facing a monster and rightfully getting brutally beaten was excellent.  Unfortunately, everything after this moment seemed to get worse and worse.  This movie just didn't have the same feel as the first 2 did.  The unbelievable storylines and unrealistic sequence of events made this movie bad.  The pace seemed rushed and slapped-together without anyone questioning why these plot elements are the way they are.  It is definitely the weakest of the 3 films.  Please ask yourself these same questions when watching the film, and hopefully you'll realize:  this doesn't make any sense.

A predictable fluff movie that really has no substance but is entertaining and worth watching one time. I say B. "Kim Powers, a great movie, none of it would matter without Sammy in my life." Sam Baum (Gad) is an up-incoming screen writer. His new movie is creating a ton of buzz and the huge movie star Kim Powers (Duff) wants to be in it. The big problem is that he only wants his girlfriend Sammy to be in it. When her ex-husband shows up and moves in with them their relationship becomes strained. Even though this is pretty much a fluff movie and extremely predictable it is still an enjoyable movie. Everyonce in a while it is good to just put in a movie that you don't need to think about and is not stressful at all to watch. This is a movie like that. Nothing original and acting is a little iffy but this is a movie that keeps you watching and entertained. There really isn't that much to say about this at all other then that. Not really anything deep or thought provoking but it is entertaining and that's what a movie is supposed to be. Overall, a decent one time watch. I give it a B.

Scorpion king 3 The movie arrived in a timely manner and in good condition. It was good enough for me to keep in my collection.

Really That Great? This is a remake of the old 1980's rape genre films for sick people. The plots are basically the same. A woman is raped. Woman gets revenge. Sometimes it is an abduction or a home invasion, or in this case, a woman is taken in her cabin by a bunch of rednecks. As compared to the original, the nudity was less in the remake and the rape scene less graphic. There I said it. Oh yes, the characters are more developed and the torture inflicted by the woman is a tad better, but is that why people watch rape films, for character? The same could be said for the remake of "Last House on the Left," they watered down the rape and nudity. I can't believe with all these silicon soft core stars, they could not have picked something with more eye candy for the starring role instead on someone who can act.  Decent folks will want to stay away from this movie. Sickos would be better off with the original or a David Hess film festival. Anyone up for "A Dirty Western" remake?

Impact Worth the rent fee but as it is a TV Scifi film not something I would purchase. Its something to have on when you can't sleep at night.

Disappointing My wife and I love the comic book movies, but unfortunately this one fell far from the tree.  The graphics were OK and so was the action, but there seemed to be no development and kind of bounced around.

Space jam? Tbh, I bought this movie b/c I saw the trailer on my old space jam vhs and it looked really good. It's not a great movie but definitely watchable. Good stocking stuffer.

Nice disc but no cover The listing photo for this item is the cover while the item arrived in a blank, generic cover. Disc is fine but I would have purchased from a different seller with a cover had I known.

Ooops! Somehow there was a miscommunication between how the seller presented this DVD & my reading what was written!!  This DVD doesn't play on my player (or the players of 2 friends).  One friends player said it would only play: & it named 3-4 foreign countires.?  So I'll be returning it to seller & (hopefully) getting another.

TRON: Legacy simply makes you appreciate it's predecessor all the more (SPOILERS) Eight years ago, the closet thing <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005OCMR">Tron</a>, Disney's 1982 Pioneering Special Effects venture gone horribly wrong (or right, depending on how you watch it), ever got to a sequel was the 2003 game <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00007JZB3">Tron 2.0</a> and for all intents and purposes, it was probably a venture everybody except TRON fans were scratching their heads over. Six years later (I think), Disney releases a teaser demo of the future that would eventually become TRON: Legacy; TRON fans are ecstatic, general audiences (half of which are young enough to wonder "what or who the heck is Tron?") are wondering why Disney is even attempting to resurrect a non-franchise that barely gave them the desired revenue return they wanted well over two decades ago. Trepidation and excitement fills the air when the PR-machine for Legacy kicks into high gear in the early months of 2010 and before you know it, the month of December is here and everyone's geared up and ready to see the sequel.  I'm intrigued, my sister's intrigued, my parents don't want to see it (they didn't like the original). I'm monitoring the movie's progress with semi-interest and when the reviews start pouring in, I read both sides of the argument with careful consideration, but figured, given the utter volume that were all saying the same thing ("worth it only to see in IMAX/3D/For the special effects, weak story/performances") I figured that many people couldn't lie and everyone defending it to the death were seeing things through rose colored glasses. That and my mother told me the original was bad so there was no hope for this at all.  "man," I thought. "I wanna see this movie, but everyone says its bad." So were the so-called "Negative Reviews" right about TRON: Legacy? In a nutshell, yeah, they were. Does that mean the movie wasn't enjoyable, though? No, not really.  ---- Our story begins with the disembodied voice of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) narrating to his son, Sam, the tale of "The Grid". The digital frontier within our computers/servers that he's seemingly always dreamed of going to (despite being "accidentally" digitalized into it in the original film) and eventually got in. Father and Son fanboy over characters Tron and CLU [2.0] and the tale ends with a mystery that Flynn simply describes as a "Wonderful Miracle". Before he leaves for work, he promises to take Sam with him to the Grid one day. But, as [mis]fortune would have it, that day never comes. Kevin has mysteriously vanished into the ether, leaving his son a practical orphan (his mother died in a car crash in 1985), guardianed by his father's parents. After a moving pictures sequence that wraps parts of the backstory of pre-Legacy up in a nice little package, we flash-forward 27 years into the future. Sam has become the atypical "rebel without a clause", causing a ruckus in his father's fortune 500 company (ENCOM) every now and again for the hell of it, via leaking new-software onto the internet for the public (because it was meant to be FREE and sharable originally) and BASE-jumping off the EMCOM tower.  He goes to jail, gets bailed out and is confronted by Alan Bradley, a mere figure head in the company since Kevin's disappearance, who tells him he got a page from his father's disconnected server at FLYNN'S [Arcade]. Sam is initially uninterested at first, playing the IDGAF-card, but ends up visiting the old arcade anyway. Next you know he's sucked into the Grid (via half-hearted digitalization sequence), but it's not how his father described it. His Doppelganger, ClU [2.0] has enslaved the system under the belief that he has brought true perfection and order to their world. When Sam escapes, he discovers Kevin has been hiding away in the outlands with a unique program named Quorra, contemplating how to bring CLU [2.0] down once and for all. Only, if they do things Kevin's way, it would mean staying within the Grid and letting the portal to the real world close for good. Naturally, thickheaded Sam decides to take the direct approach and well...things don't turn out so good for our heroes. ----  Despite having low expectations in regards to the quality of the film's structure (story wise), I was really disappointed by the execution of it all. I've never seen so much NOTHING happen within the span of two hours. Absolutely nothing significant happens in the movie. At least in the original Tron, there was an objective: "Recover Flynn's stolen idea(s) from the ENCOM system before Dillinger could erase his misdeeds from existence in the real world. Stop the MCP and Sark from taking complete control of the ENCOM mainframe in the computer world."  With Legacy, its "Get into the Grid, Find Dad, Get out of the Grid". That's it. It's subplots concerning the unexplained ISO's and the back-story behind everything that's shown/mentioned in flashbacks (Mrs. Flynn's death, Flynn's sudden erratic/obsessive behavior over his work, the rise and fall of the Grid, the brainwashing of Tron, Alan's suddenly unwavering faith in Flynn*, the rise of CLU [2.0]'s dictatorship, and the creation/demise of the ISO's) are practically a unshot film themselves and provide little or no substance. Legacy is in such a rush to get to the Grid, to the Disc Arena, the Light Cycle races and anything that resembles a fight or a massive special effects scene, that the movie begins to feel like it just wants to be done and over with itself. There's no patience, just rushing. Like the first film, Legacy feels too content to gloss over the things that will make you give a damn about your central character (Sam Flynn, portrayed by Garrett Hedlund) and his quest.  With that said, the special effects in the movie, like the original, are the biggest focus of the production's attention. From the updated (and practical) light-suits, the manner in which characters are derezzed (aka "killed"), to vehicles and THE GRID itself (which is a personal server belonging to Flynn, located in the bowls of his arcade), it's everything TRON couldn't be because of the limitations of the time. Long story short, it's a lovely light show without the ecstasy, acid and alcohol. If I have any complaint it's that the universe feels less like a computer generated world (it's too dark so the only thing your really looking at are the illuminated lines that make up the illusion of physical mass) and more like the world of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UD0ESA">Blade Runner</a> without the multitude of colors and big screens with Asians selling coca cola.  Jeff Bridge's youthful appearance in the movie is ugly. It's a old, bloated face pressed smooth of it's wrinkles. It doesn't resemble Jeff Bridges' in the late 1980s in any shape or form. At least not in the way it should. The eyes are devoid of emotion, the mouth moves out of sync with his words the skin looks so much like plastic it's not even funny. Those using pitiful argument that he's supposed to look like that because he's a computer program simply need to remember the opening sequence of the film to find themselves debunked. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000HCO83Q">X-Men: The Last Stand</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001FB55I0">Terminator Salvation</a> (2009)'s attempt at a youthful Patrick Stewart, Ian McKelen and Arnold Schwarzenegger are better entries than this. Even better, all one has to do is remember <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001U0HBPQ">The Curious Case of Benjamin Button</a> (2008) to see what a de-aged or aged facade looks like done right. Legacy's visual effects team really dropped the ball in that area.  There are plenty homages to the first film, but like any sequel without a true road of it's own to carve, it copies so much of it's processor that it really doesn't bring anything new to the table beyond the updated special effects and Daft Punk (no hoaky electric keyboard music from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005V8J7">Wendy Carlos</a> here). Because of this and the title card that simply says "TRON" and not "TRON: Legacy" the majority have come to consider Legacy a "soft reboot" of the original film.  Me? I just call that plain lazy writing and a common problem that occurs in almost every sequel (whatever the medium) that's ever been made. The sequel bait, Cillian Murphy's cameo, Quorra and the "Miracle of the ISO" plot, practically screams that the writer's had written themselves into a corner with a idea that never made much sense to begin with. It's most likely something that will either be poorly explained (and widely accepted) or ignored completely (and pointed out constantly) if Disney gets that coveted greenlight for a Tron 3.  The thing that interested me most in Tron (1982) was Flynn's uncanny ability to manipulate the digital world around him with just a touch and bring dead vehicles back to life or re-energize dying programs. Yes, it could be explained away by simply stating "Well, he's the USER. He can do anything because he technically has complete control over the system he's in", but I would've loved to have seen this sequel expand more on the "how" of it, rather than just exploiting it again and expecting the audience go along with it. That and other things I can't pinpoint without a another viewing of the film.  The characters are more or less present to get you from point A to point B. The same could be said of the performances from the actors, with the exception of maybe Olivia Wilde and Bruce Boxleitner. Sam Flynn, by definition, is a character that could've been interesting in the hands of a more capable actor (maybe). As it stands, Sam is no more interesting than "Anon" from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0030MQPQ8">TRON: Evolution</a>. He speaks, he rebels and spits in the face of authority, sure, but it's all hollow. There's no personality or spark of life strong enough to motivate me to care for the Son of Flynn. Garrett Hedlund's linear and doldrum performance leaves me wishing I had a better protagonist (or actor) to root for.  Jeff Bridges is utterly wasted in both his performance as Kevin Flynn and his facsimile, CLU [2.0]. Kevin sits (or walks around) looking morose, spouting pseudo-spiritual nonsense that doesn't sound terribly spiritual or deep. Other times he plays up the "Dude, I'm from the 80s!" persona a little too much. CLU [2.0] struts about, throwing out orders and smiling sinisterly at every little thing, playing computer-Hitler, but whatever potential he had as a villain is utterly squandered by the writers. But, then, I suppose that's no different from Sark via TRON, who spends most of his time glaring at screens, smacking his henchmen to the ground and getting railed on by the MCP. Neither villain amounts to anything, especially not in the final acts of either film. (But at lest Sark got a headshot death.)  And while we're at it, Rinzler (a brained-washed Tron, who is believed to be dead by Flynn and most of the Grid), CLU [2.0]'s right hand man is completely unimpressive. I really expected something with the way people were going on about how "awesome" this character was, but in the end the most Rinzler does is cock his head, mock Darth Vader and strike a pose with his twin Identity Discs like he's in a photoshoot. It's a literal insult to even compare his character/actor to Darth Maul or Ray Park. Tron/Rinzler's body/stunt double, Anis Cheurfa, his movements are so stiff, so utterly lame, that I had to look away from the screen whenever he appeared. It's embarrassing to even think this is supposed to be Tron's villainous alter ego (especially since the body double they chose seems to be of average height verses Boxleitner's 6'2. You can see that much when he stands next to Olivia Wilde who is 5'7'). And their resolution for the character's redemption, their method of having Tron remember who he is again near the final gambit of the movie is just awful. So, yeah, people who say "Tron really isn't in this movie" aren't wrong. He spends most of his time under the lame guise of Rinzler, which is disappointing.  Michael Sheen's Castor/Zuse is another disappointing character entry and one I thought I would like, too. He's supposed to be a two-faced character who'll play both sides to get what he wants, but without prior introduction, it just looks like he sold Sam Flynn out to CLU [2.0] without a second thought. The offhanded comment that he "once believed in users" as a way to validate his scheming ways really doesn't count for anything. The character is made worse when they decide to let Sheen act the fool during a fight scene that has no emotional pay-off until Quorra literally looses an arm.  And while we're on her, out of everybody, Olivia Wilde stands out as the shining performer in this film (but that's not saying much). Quorra's a little like Yori (Cindy's Morgan's character and Tron's lover in the first film), only, instead of a engineer, you get a "Marcile ISO" who's primed for battle. She's a little naive and childlike in her comprehension of most things that aren't a dangerous situation. She's a undeniably cute character. Unfortunately, she is criminally underused in a lot of ways, not unlike Yori. Her chemistry with Hedlund works to great effect more or less because she does most of the emoting. Wilde is the one element of Legacy I expected to dislike the most, but I'm glad I was wrong.  Finally, Bruce Boxleitner's performance as Alan Bradley is rather more or less a non-comment. He's not horrible in any way, he's just there. The most I can say is that I simply enjoyed his presence/performance and the strange way he almost resembles his 32-year-old self near the end of the movie when the adventure is done and over with.  The main attraction for this film is undoubtedly DAFT PUNK's first motion picture score. I don't think I would've given this film a second glance if I hadn't heard they were scoring for it. In retrospect, they were the biggest part of the film's promotion and part of why the movie isn't a complete loss (aside from the ending of the film itself). Their cameo's in the movie are rather comical. They play MP3 programs who switch up the music everytime something happens. The score is quite unlike their albums (Discovery, Homework, Human After All), but there's enough of their sound and the typical orchestral elements --- that seem to hearken back to Don Davis at times --- that you'll be won over immediately. Themes like "Derezzed", "C.L.U.", "Adagio for TRON" and "The Game Has Changed" truly shine among what could be a soundtrack without a single bad single on it.  Overall, if there is anything I can give Legacy any credit for, it's making me give Tron (1982) a second chance, watching it and enjoying it despite the numerous flaws that usually have me going at a movie with a chainsaw or German cooking knife. Other than that, it doesn't live up to it's processor on any level, regardless of whether or not it was actually trying to. It fails simply because there were too many hands in the pot that was providing it's storyline. It introduces ideas and plots that never come to any sort of realization, the characters/actors are props for special effects.  You know there's a problem when the villain's big master plan is to escape into the real world and try to take over the world, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FA57HG">Pinky and the Brain</a> style, with a army of programs and big ship that probably wouldn't even fit the screen. As if, man. [A 3 out of 5]  *Yes, I know Alan, Lora and Flynn all become BFFs at the end of Tron, but their relationship never struck me as the kind that would inspire the kind of unshakable faith that Alan displays in Legacy. And if it did, this is something should've gotten a little screentime, otherwise, I'm forever rolling my eyes at this despite my affinity for strong friendships.

Centurian This is a movie that deserved better ratings than it got.  For some the Roman Army in Britain might be a boring subject, but it's an interesting take on the fate of the Ninth Hispana.  Read "Eagle of the Ninth" to get a feel for what the story is about

WANDERLUST - Total FUN and great slapstick! WANDERLUST is NOT "Wuthering Heights" nor is it "CITIZEN CANE!"  It is silly, funny, daring, hysterical and a FUN and entertaining film.  If you want serious realism and characters with extreme depth - go find another movie.  Personally - I love it!!  David Wain is a director with vision and a keen sense of slightly over-the-top humor!  LOVE IT!!

A few lame touches mar this This one was straight to DVD, despite the big name cast, and I can sort of see why. Moments of the acting are a bit amateurish, even including most of the otherwise great John Goodman's take on a New Orleans mobster. Tommy Lee Jones, as the alcoholic sheriff, has played that role at least a dozen times, and he gets it pretty right. The weird dream scenes with Levon Helm as the Confederate general should have been left on the cutting room floor. Not that Helm is bad. He looks the part. It's just that we don't need that interrupting the flow. We also don't need the voiceovers by the sheriff. I guess this was based on a novel series I haven't read. It does smack a bit of an Elmore Leonard movie, most of which don't work very well either. This is not bad, but it's far from great.

Uneven spooky ride: Fairly fun with an open mind The River, the latest in the cinema verite craze. It is violent, unsettling, jittery, and at times actually frightening. Often, however, the excursion to locate Emmett Cole runs aground, relying on typical boo-scares and tepid characterization to propel its quivering plot threads. The characters are drab and stereotypical, including a devoted wife, her MD son with daddy issues, a rough mysterious security official, et al. Which leaves most of the show's excitement to come from the scary components. Well...There are two questions you will continually ask yourself should you chose to ride this river. And they are pivotal, sometimes plot-breaking questions: 1) Who is filming/who edited this footage together? 2) Why isn't the crew so overwhelmingly terrified by the various beasties and dark forces they come across that they at least reference these events in later episodes, if not try to run away/psychologically collapse? Both of these errors contribute to the immense, immense amount of verisimilitude required to enjoy The River. Take, for example, a sequence late in the season where footage is found by the principle characters from an earlier expedition. The footage shows two people conversing on the forest floor, yet the camera switches to different angles, most of them in the trees. Presumably, someone hid cameras in the trees, but this is never mentioned and only one tape is recovered. Which means someone had to gather the footage and cut it together. Impossible given the removal of these particular characters from anything resembling society, let alone an editing room. Sounds like nit-picking? Well, it is. And yet when you make a decision to force every element of your particular show through a certain lens (in this case, the found-footage angle), you had better make sure it makes sense, otherwise your audience will abandon you. Still, if you ignore the flaws in the central conceit, there is much spooky fun to be had on this show. As other reviewers have pointed out, there are hardly any decent horror shows available, so I suppose, we oughta take what we can get. And what The River provides is certainly ample in terms of fulfilling genre fan expectations. Zombies, demons, ships of the damned, and spooky dolls are only some of the terrors to be had in "The Boiuna"--the mythical Amazonian realm in which the action takes place. As the season nears its gory, devilish finale, the terror factor is ratcheted up and someone does actually reference the fact that these unlucky travelers have been forced into many, many bizarre situations. At the end of the line, The River is like a dangerous roller coaster. You are often very afraid that the track dragging you forward is a bit too convoluted for its own good, trying to pack in one too many twists and turns, liable to topple back on itself if prodded in the right fashion. If you buckle down and try not to think too much, you'll be rewarded at ride's end, if only by another enigma, another sickening scare.

A different kind of vampire movie. This is what I think a real life vampire would be like. Not scary or that good. I say C A shy boy (Smit-Mcphee) befriends the new girl (Moretz) and discovers a horrifying secret.  After a lifetime of bullying Owen (Smit-Mcphee) meets a mysterious new girl named Abby (Moretz) who teaches him to stand up for himself.  Having never seen the original (Let The Right One In) I went in expecting a vampire thriller.  I had high hopes for this one but it was not what I expected.  It wasn't terrible, just slow.  I may not have paid attention as much as I should have but it seemed like there was no real plot.  As far as I can tell it's a movie about a shy boy making friends with a vampire and trying to co-exist.  This is one of those movies that is OK while watching it but almost instantly forgotten when it's over.  Don't go in expecting the "Twilight" vampires.  This is pretty graphic, with seemingly random killings.  If vampires actually did exist this is what I imagine that they would be like, hidden and trying to fit in.  I give it a C.  Would I watch again? - No

Better than the 3rd one Some spoilers:  I thought this movie was better than the 3rd movie, and tied with the 2nd movie. The first movie is still the best one of all 4 movies.  The story is pretty interesting. Toxic finds himself in a different parallel world and a different evil Toxic avenger (Noxic) is in his world. Now Toxic has to find his world back home before Noxic takes over his world.  In this movie, there were more jokes and fights than there were in the 3rd movie. All the jokes are of course R rated and will not be good for children to see. Most of the jokes were all sexual in nature and the most yet in any toxic avenger movie. I thought Toxic's girlfriend was better played in this movie, than she was in the 2nd and 3rd movie. But, she wasn't as good from the first movie. The last two movie, the girlfriend was really stupid and slutty. Sure, she was hot, but her acting and character played was bad. In this movie, this actress played her much better and acted like her first appearance in the 1st movie - all innocent and not sure what's going on type.  There was a good fight scene, where Toxic was fighting Noxic and the Toxic twins were fighting at the same time inside of the girlfriend belly. The idea was really awesome. The fighting was all right, but the true purpose of doing that fight was to see which baby was going be born. Otherwise, the girlfriend will just die.  I do recommend this movie over the 3rd any day.  On a side note, I hope they make a Toxic 5 movie. In that movie, the Toxic twins will be alive, but I don't know how that is possible, so I would like to see that.

Contrary to WB's original announcment... I remember when these versions were first announced to launch they would included extended versions of the movies. First two came out, had a few minutes each of extra footage and we were excited for the rest to come out. I wasn't too surprised there was only a little extra in 1 & 2 since the books were tiny as well. I was very disappointed when the release of 3 & 4 had no extra footage. As the books got bigger, more and more of the story was left out. Many of us, undoubtedly were excited about seeing more of the books brought to life. Take "Goblet of Fire" for example. We all read the play-by-play of the Quidditch Cup and I, for one, would have loved to have seen more of the game in action. Or how about Quidditch being cancelled in OOTP, maybe when they learn to apparate, etc... Too many things we were anticipating in the extended versions are disheartening to know we'll never see.  I had planned on purchasing the Ultimate Editions for movies 3-8 as they became available but I see no reason to spend the extra money on a little bit more bonus content.  Yes, they will still get my money, but not as much (and I'm sure I'm not the only one that feels this way). As it stands I can upgrade my standard dvd's to blu-ray for $10 each (already have Deathly Hallows on Blu-Ray) as opposed to the $30 for each Ultimate Edition. With many of us feeling the same way, that will add up to quite a loss for WB.

Carbine The video was good. I have seen pieces of this movie on cable.  It was good to see the full movie

Great movie but not one size fits all I really enjoyed this movie and I agree with a lot of it - but I had several problems.  First off, and Dr. Campbell will be the first to say this, the China Study is not definitive (he says so in the prologue) and it is not peer-reviewed research!  Secondly, I would like to see that graphic about 500 calories of oil not making you feel full. I have never seen hunger associated with how densely your stomach is packed, and our understanding of insulin response seems to go in the opposite direction of what the movie says.  What I do agree with - we need to move to a whole foods plant based diet (though I don't think we need to exclude animal products) and the USDA's recommendations are largely bunk.  The testimonials in the movie are great, but pretty much identical to other movies/books/websites in which people move to a whole foods diet that still includes animal products.  Another major problem was this - One of Dr. Esselstyn's patients said she went from eating all the "chocolate and donuts" she could and then went to a whole foods diet - no duh! None of his patients were eating pastured butter and pastured eggs and plenty of vegetables at the outset. I'm certain these people would be just as healthy.  So basically this movie is worth watching, but a McDonald's burger is not the same as a grass-fed beef burger. I also can't fully endorse any movie that gives a universal blessing to "whole grains" when a number of scientists are touting the positive effects of eliminating gluten from the diet. (See Novak Djokovic).  Another reviewer noted that different things work for different people, I totally agree with that. The term "whole foods" applies both to plant and animal products and the movie totally ignores that not all animal products are created equal - the same way that corn syrup and trans-fat are plant products but not "whole foods".  So, worth watching but not definitive by any means.

Interesting This movie was interesting from a human compassion versus greed comparison. Where the super wealthy movie studio owner drops a very prominent silent movie star for the new "Talkies", young beautiful starlet. But in the end the practicality of it all prevails. Good entertainment.

A HIT OR MISS FILM This is really a hit or miss type of film. Sometimes a scene does well or falls short of basic expectations. The opening action like sequence was fun and I appreciate how they utilized a way to keep the sub characters after they were out of the picture and the origins of Dracula were intriguing but religious right types won't like it. There are certainly some campy moments in the film which mostly help it. I would say Gerard Butler does a good job as Dracula and gets some awesome sex scenes as well. There are some other actors in here who probably wanted to just do a film with Wes Craven as they got small roles: Geri Ryan, Omar Epps, Christopher Plummer and Jennifer Esposito. The film was a disappointment at the box office after the first week but there was enough of a following that they did a part 2 and part 3 which went straight to video. Obviously based on Bram Stoker's 1897 DRACULA novel. STORY/PLOTTING: C plus to B minus; CHARACTERS/DIALOGUE: B; HORROR FOCUSES: B minus to B; OVERALL GRADE: B minus; WHEN WATCHED: early August 2011.

Insanely confusing There were some good moments, I guess. But this movie is so confusing and complicated that it makes no sense. It is probably the most complicated movie I have ever seen.

Eh I bought this movie because I am big fan of Ed Norton. Mr. Norton didn't disappoint but I feel the movie's plot is lacking something. Rent it.

Voyager Three My reciept of the product is in excellent condition. The story line is satisfactory to those who love science fiction shows. The only annoying effect is starting the episodes in which I have to start each episode twice to begin the show. Some of the stories were not to my liking and other episodes I liked a lot. What I find to be intriguing is I can view the episodes over again and still enjoy watching the shows.

HOMEBODIES A deliciously evil performance from Patrick Breen as a psychotic serial killer elevates this grim Indie. Breen exudes a chilling charm as a mysterious stranger who insinuates himself into a deeply disturbed family with dark secrets of their own.  Alexandra Chando plays "Blackbird", the strange teen who seems more than slightly off center.  We soon learn Blackbird is more than a match for her captor. BLEEDING HOUSE deserves credit for a novel approach to the serial killer genre but I felt somewhat cheated by its ambiguous climax.  However, Breen--who I remember from guest roles on LAW AND ORDER and THE GOOD WIFE--should definitely garner bigger roles in the future.

Not "The Notebook" I think I'll always compare Sparks movies to "The Notebook"  This wasn't as good, but it's okay if you're looking for a romance.

The same basic movie as "The Ugly Truth". Sure, the plot devices vary a bit, but once again we have a swinging stud and an uptight career woman thrown together for some reason. They dislike each other, make fun of each other, need each other, and then suddenly, fall uncontrollably in love. Like Ugly Truth, there were some clever funny moments, tons of cliches and obvious twists, a fair amount of Heigl;s character being irritating, but pretty well acted. The most entertaining characters were the whipped passive-agressive neighbor (Andrew Daly) and the case worker. Pass.

Happy Tears This movie is the story of two sisters taking care of their ailing father.  It is a weird movie with many flashbacks and dream like scenes.  I like action movies, and this was not my kind of movie.  However, if you like movies that deal with relationships with some humour this is a good movie to watch.  Demi Moore and Parker Posey acting was very good. I do remember Ellen Barkin from the movie Big Easy, she was really hot in that movie.  And yes it was that memorable. :)  Wow, what a difference!

The Other Classic Fantasy Film of your Childhood In the fantasy/SF- crowded year of 1984, we also got this, "The Neverending Story." Being a lifelong SF/fantasy film fan, this one was certainly a part of my childhood, although I quickly relegated it to second or third tier interest, seeing it only once in a great while. After well over a decade of not seeing it, I watched it again while comparing its two soundtracks. The New -Wave/-Age-ish title ballad is one of the better songs of the genre, and the actual score has its moments. Oddly, I found myself often comparing this to the same year's "Supergirl."  One scene sums up my attitude to this movie, then or now, which prevented me from taking it as seriously as other fantasy/SF flicks. When he reads about the death of Artax (Atreju's trusty horse), it's scored by a standard, unengaging death march, and the overacting is rife on both boys' faces. While I am saddened by the death of any animal (and most people), the scene was either flat or eye-rolling for me. If I didn't suspect it already, by then I *knew* this was a movie I wouldn't be able to take very seriously. Oh, it picked up and improved and had some nice scenes and plot points and characterizations thereafter, but for all intents and purposes it had already reduced itself to a standard-issue cut-and-dry fantasy movie, albeit with some really sweet visuals and some decent bits of score.  While there's something to be said for the theme of preserving and encouraging imagination, it just seems so lame that 'Bastian wastes almost the entire movie escaping reality and responsibility (in his school's storage room, no less); he ironically refuses to use/release his imagination until the very last second; and then solves his bully problem by scaring them into dumpsters. Jeez, he has no future at this rate.  Yes, this movie is pure cheese: it's not as stinky as limburger, it's not sharp as cheddar, it's more like standard American cheese, mass-produced and shrink-wrapped for your average ordinary sandwich. It's not great, but it's healthy and good enough to revisit once in a while. Too bad the blu-ray has no extras.

Not Bad, Just Budget I won't go into a review of the series because there are 15 5-Star ratings and they will all tell you just how great of a show this is. What I will be reviewing is the actual box set. I have been waiting for a complete collection because the part sets are a bit too expensive. Now that I have what I wanted, I am a little disappointed to be honest.  First I'll start off with the good:  - The price is amazing for a 33 episode set. - Nice new disc art (The part sets had pretty plain discs). - Awesome inner cover art.  And... That's pretty much it.  Now for the bad:  - The nice holographic effect used on the covers of the part sets is not present. - The cover looks plain because of what was stated above. - Could have chose better front cover art (they used the original promotional photo). - No bonuses like the postcards in this set. - For a complete collection you'd think they could have mustered up some DVD extras that weren't on the part sets.  I know the old saying "you get what you paid for", but Funi should have spent little more time on this set. The product just looks a bit rushed and incomplete. This isn't a bad set at all, it's just a budget one. If you're interested in the series and don't want to spend a lot, buy this. If you're a big fan and want something a bit nicer, buy the part sets.  My actual rating would be 3.5 stars.

Skivies do not belong in Gluck Generally excellent.  Performed with great dignity.  I found the overstuffed chairs ludicrous but they're scarcely visible.  The dancers in the metal shop aprons were acceptable.  But  for me the jocks wandering around in white shorts distroyed the tone of the piece.  Eurydike was dressed in a very red red.

Stereotypes abound... It's taken me a while to write a review about this movie. I don't usually write negative reviews but feel in this case its warranted. I thought I would like this movie and to some degree I did. What bothered me was the portrayal of African-Americans in the movie. The roles were stereotypical (i.e., the maid) and they were all overweight and interestingly tall. I was offended and annoyed that in a movie that discussed an issue smothered in discrimination that writers would be so insensitive when portraying characters of color.  I was distracted by this. I don't watch movies about the antebellum south for a reason. I felt like I was watching a movie about slavery, etc. The dialect they used spewed ignorance and a slave mentality. We've come along way. I can only hope this writer is more cognizant of this if another movie is done. No one, white, black or any other race/group, deserves to be portrayed in such a negative light. I might have been able to ignore one character but then I saw two more. I would've given this movie five stars but until writers become more aware I won't. I would have been equally offended if the negative portrayal was of another group. It's wrong no matter who it reflects.

Buyer Beware In spite of a special feature on The big Sleep DVD stating that the 1946 version is superior, the version we are given to view is the 1945 version.  It seems weird that was done. The 1946 too expensive to be included?

I cannot comment on the DVD since I saw the movie in the theatre I fear I am being kind giving this movie three stars; it is really too long and a bit of travesty. First, what is good about the movie--it has SOME (but no where near enough) concert footage and some great interviews with Bunny Wailer and even a short interview with Lee Scratch Perry. And what is both good and bad about the movie--it has a way too short interview with Familyman Barrett, which is good and leaves one wanting more. It was also fun to see Marley's kids all grown and Rita Marley.  But you could have bottled the good stuff and had a movie half the length. (I wouldn't have been bothered if they had stretched out the movie to the same length with concert footage--in fact, that movie would have been a 5 star movie in my opinion.)  What was wrong with the movie:  1) WAYYYY to many interviews with Bob Marley's white male cousin (brother?) who played no real role in his actual life. Boring and irrelevant.  2) WAYYYY too many interviews with the ex-Miss Universe that Marley had a fling with the in 1979s, Cindy Breakspeare (I think I got the name right). She is also white; so Marley liked a pretty woman? He must have slept with hundreds (AT LEAST!) and there is no particular reason to bore me with one.  3) And this is most important--Chris Blackwell--who is a vampire <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004ZNJ5XG">Judgement In A Babylon</a> chose to market Bob Marley and the Wailers as a solo act (not as the Wailers, which is how they were viewed in Jamaica). This may have been a factor in the break up of the Wailers, which is a crime. IT also creates an historical inaccuracy--that Bob Marley is some strange unique musical genius. Blackwell knew better and he also knew he couldn't market the whole genre reggae to white rock fans--so he didn't try very hard. Thus the movie basically ignores the wider world of Jamaican music to try and sell the lie of the unique Robert Nesta Marley. I really missed Bunny Wailer in the movie after the Wailers broke up and kept wondering about Peter Tosh--and they were Marley's brothers! (Wailer quite literally)  When I left the theatre, I discussed the movie with the popcorn seller. He looked a bit embarrassed to admit it, as he is a hip young white dude, but he said he thought maybe Marley wasn't interesting enough to support a movie that long. That is not quite the problem--by including so much material peripherial to WHO Marley was and WHAT it meant to be an international Rastafarian superstar--the movie actually manages to drag many times.  I personally would recommend against buying a DVD of this movie (though, as I noted, I haven't seen the DVD and if it is filled with all sorts of awesome concert footage they didn't include in the regular movie, I could be wrong); if you want to see it, I would upload it for a single viewing--I'd be vaguely surprised if you watched the whole thing if you weren't trapped in a theatre.

Remains of the end of days So there's a casino/bar where some locals are partying, a couple of people in particular are Tom (Grant Bowler, TV's Ugly Betty) and Tori (Evalena Marie, "Serena and The Ratts") who get knocked out after a nuclear explosion rocks the town but strangely doesn't flatten the building they are in. They awaken to find that most everyone is dead.... well dead as in the walking dead, there's only a couple of more people alive among them are Jensen (Miko Hughes, "Mercury Rising") who bands together with Tori and Tom to try and fend off the hoards of flesh eaters that want to break in and feast.  Sometime later a band of military people come to town to seemingly rescue them, with their leader Ramsey (Lance Reddick, TV's Fringe) and his daughter Tawny Cypress (TV's Heroes) are in charge and well things don't turn out too well once their real motives get revealed. The rest of the movie involves the survivors trying to elude the zombies and escape the town before they get eaten, though it seems like Tori may just be looking out for herself more than anything else.  Director Steve Niles does try for some different take on the zombie franchise, such as zombies actually sleeping (weird and kinda goofy to me) and them getting smarter as time goes on. The ideas in the movie aren't the problem its the budget (which I'm fairly certain was no more than $500,000), especially when any computer effects are used, such as an SUV tipping over in a rushed and silly effect.  The acting isn't all that bad for this type of made for cable movie, even Evalena Marie is decent playing a.... well.... (rhymes with witch, which I do mean with respect as it was the type of role that was written), Miko is good as is Lance and Grant, Tawny also isn't too bad. At least Evalena seems like she could have a good future in Hollywood as she's certainly better than others who just start out in these type of movies.  No its not a perfect film or even something good, but its amusing and acceptable material, I would at the very least rent it, just turn the brain off before hand. ** out of 4 stars.

A Decent Effort on the Topic This video provides a decent catalogue of the occultic influences in classic rock. All the usual suspects are featured here; Ozzy, Zeppelin, Beatles, etc...  If you are really interested in this topic I would HIGHLY recommend Hells Bells 2 on DVD. The research, production values, and presentation are far superior to this.

Blu Ray Review Apocalypse World War II is an average WWII documentary. Most of the footage has been seen before, the unseen footage comes from the French Point of View because after all this was originally broadcasted on French television. The original image has been zoomed in to create a "fake" widescreen view and the top and bottom of the image is lost. As far as HD quality goes, its hard to judge old footage but some episodes do look better than others. I would recommend <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003X3BYEC">The World at War [Blu-ray</a>] over this set, they both share many of the same footage but The World At War looks much much better and is a better series overall.

Are we really supposed to sympathize with Lisa? This film is two and a half hours about an inmature and mean-spirited teenager called Lisa. I don't have a problem with the cinematography or the acting, which are very good (Ana Paquin's peformance alone is worth watching, thus the three stars); I just have a problem with the plot.  Paquin's character, Lisa, lies to the police about an accident that she is almost entirely to blame, and then she gets upset and does whatever she can to get Ruffalo, the bus driver, fired because she feels guilty for causing the accident. I don't mind watching films about such characters, but to make her look as if she has nothing but good intentions and trying to get the viewer to feel for her and understand her? That's just absurd. More absurd is when she goes to the police to change her statement, and the police instead of dismissing her for being not only a minor but a liar, pay attention to her all along and tell her they will see what they can do for her. Are we supposed to feel sorry and sympathize with Lisa? What kind of police department is this? She admitted she lie and then wants to tell the truth and the police don't even bother making her see what's wrong about this?  In addition, what's the deal with all the random and forced class discussions that have nothing to do with anything? Class discussions about September 11, the war in Irak, and the Nazi and the Jewish are thrown in to make the movie thought provoking despite the fact that none of this has anything to do with anything. Or I guess that the film is trying to make Lisa look as if she is somebody who cares about current events and history and has a brain and an opinion of her own. Or the writer is trying to compare Lisa's own guilty feelings and justification for her acts to those of people involved in WWII, the war in Irak and September 11. I don't know, whatever is the case, I found it random and forced. Without this, I probably would have liked the movie better.  There's also an array of characters that are far from being likable, and which makes you understand why Lisa is the way she is. Culkin taking her virginity, Reno's boring personality, Broderick feeling threatened by a student who has a brain, Lisa's self-absorbed and selfish parents, Monica's mildly deranged friend, the Mickey Mouse Law school young lawyer who seemed to have missed class that day to meet Lisa and Monica's friend at a coffee shop to talk about the trial, etc.  I only liked Monica's friend, for a moment, when she tells Lisa to stop thinking the world is a tragic play where she is the star and tells her to grow up and get out of her appartment. Finally, somebody showed to have some sense at least for a couple of minutes in the film.  Matt Damon's character being seduced by Lisa is the icing on the cake. After Lisa has sex with him, her math teacher, she approaches him when he is, I am assuming, with his girlfriend or another teacher, and tells them she just had an abortion, obviously hinting that the baby might have been Damon's and trying to get him in trouble. Of course, she didn't have any abortion, but this is good-spirited Lisa, once again, with her good intentions trying to sell sympathy while trying to get other people in trouble because she feels guilty. Again, are we supposed to feel sorry and sympathy for Lisa? She should've been run by the bus instead of Monica.  I repeat, if a movie about such a character is going to be done, don't try to sell sympathy for her. This movie is about Lisa, a detestable character that makes you end up loathing this film.

Audio Issues Ordered this DVD and had to exchange it because of audio issues. The replacement had the same audio problems. Amazon should recall this lot of DVDs.

a poor transfer to blu-ray, for a great film It is extremely annoying when a title is re-released in Blu-ray format with no restoration, or for that matter with no improvement on the image quality provided by the original DVD. Most films placed on Blu-ray stand out because of their crystal clear image and excellent sound. This makes it worth buying again, even if one possesses the original DVD copy, simply to have the improved performance on the screen, which may be even further enhanced by good quality equipment. This Blu-ray edition is far inferior to the original DVD edition, which used to have a number of interesting extras and the Blu-ray has absolutely none!  As to the film itself, in my opinion, it still rates as one of the best comedies ever to be produced for the cinema. A very clever story, by John Cheese, with tremendous dialogue and very good acting from all the principals. There are some exaggerations in the plot, but this is true of most comedies.  I noticed that the Blu-ray edition of this film will be released in the UK in August. I hope that after this long delay, this release will have the necessary improvements, especially in image quality, to make it worth a 5 star rating, and possibly induce one to acquire once more.

Worth watching! I would recommend this movie. The relationship between Ken Leung and Hayden Panettiere is touching and disturbing at the same time. As the plot develops you see why they were drawn to each other. One of the other interesting parts of the movie was his trip back to China. I was not prepared for the way Ken was treated. That was surprising. He thought he would be accepted and he ends up feeling like an outcast the way he felt when he was in the U.S. All in all the movie was good and I enjoyed it.

Human greed at its worst "It's just a box." So you get a box and are offered a million dollars to push the button. But someone will die. Is that really any different than someone handing you a gun and offering you a million dollars for a hit? Why are they even sitting around saying, "should we push it?". With a gun there would be no question. But take away the name and face of the victim, and all of a sudden, "it's just a box." That was the one thing that really baffled me. Did they really think there would be no consequences to their actions?  No, I take it back. That was not the only thing that baffled me. The entire second half of the movie baffled me. I will still give it 3 stars because it held my attention throughout, but once they introduced the extraterrestrial element, they lost me. I've watched the movie twice now and I just do not understand it. I was feeling pretty stupid until I read some other reviews and found that it didn't make sense to most people who saw it...even the people who loved it!

Aspect Ratio: 2.20 : 1 for Alien to the guy complaining about the black bars on Alien. the original aspect ratio for Alien IS 2.20 : 1 WHICH MEANS YOU WILL HAVE BLACK BARS ON THE TOP A BOTTOM OF YOUR SCREEN EVEN IF YOU HAVE A WIDE SCREEN TV.

Prometheus: Very Disappointing 3D This is real good sci-fi. There is real excitement. But where is the 3D?  The lack of 3D takes away from the movie. If these damn studios claim it is 3D then they are liars. There is no in your face 3D in this movie even at the most critical 3D times in the script. And 3D has been around for a century. It was around at the San Francisco World's Fair in 1915.The San Francisco World's Fair's 3D is stunning. Check it out on the WWW.Editing, 3D was around in 1830s in stereoscopic viewers, something like Viewmaster. Euclid himself knew about stereo vision. How ancient is that?  I remember the 3 Stooges 3D movie or movies when I was a little kid. The 3D was vastly superior in the day of the 3 Stooges. WYSIWYG. If the cardboard glasses deliver great 3D and Blu-Ray 3D ain't great, which is better?  The actors in all these movies are carrying on to keep themselves out of print in the movies themselves. Prometheus is no exception. Perhaps, these morons think they are making a threat with their words,scenes and stupid gestures. I guess they call it a one two career saving punch. Show business would start a war for their next role, their next production. How American can that be?  Give me 3D or shove it. Have to pay a premium for 3D that doesn't really exist. The openings have graphically 3D titles. Then the 3D is reduced to about nothing. My LG 3D TV set works. My LG 3D DVD Blu-Ray player has the latest patch. My glasses are the recommended. Got em all at Amazon.  There should be laws protecting the consumer over 3D fraud.  Show business stinks and are partly responsible for the WorldTradeCenter. 9/11? 9/11 is 911 the police emergency telephone number. Show business and the press have never said a word about that or anything about their entertainment or the telephone companies comments. The government is pathetic and sickening.  Would buy Prometheus as a regular DVD release if I were you. Where is the beef? Where is the 3D.  Want 3D where I to have duck, bob, dodge and weave objects coming at me. I want the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune in my face. Want to use my arms and hands to defend myself against the 3D onslaught on the screen. Traditional movies have the same vanishing point and perspective basically as most 3D movies. In the critical 3D scenes in Prometheus there was no 3D. The opening with Noomi mulling and puking into a bowl there was no vomit spill over unto the viewer. There was no sand/silica storm blowing in your face. Noomi's operation in the medical pod had no 3D where it was most crucial. The worms/snakes attacking the crew in the alien craft had no 3D whatsoever where it was very important. And on and on...  My comments are honest. I am not trying to sound like a snob with excessively florid language. Am not in the employ of the studios. Want Prometheus? Buy the regular DVD and save the difference. Damn good movie. It is a terrific movie.  Avatar is coming out next week. Have seen a few clips from a B&W version that had tremendously excellent 3D. Will the new release deliver the same? Hope so.  It seems to be my comments turn out differently then what I post.

The Beginnings Of The Hottest Tag Team Feud In The Attitude Era When you hear the words "Tables, Ladders, Chairs", six men should pop into your head right away as if it wasn't for them, the concept behind these three words put together wouldn't have revolutionized this business on so many levels.  This is the story behind the feud between Matt & Jeff Hardy, Bubba & Devon Dudley, Edge & Christian.  Now this is a VHS/DVD release that WWE did which chronicled how the feud between these three teams developed in their own words.  The story behind all three teams growing up, who influenced whom, and getting in the business begins the documentary with footage of the Hardys when they were kids along with Jeff talking about how he wanted to quit after his first match.  The story of the Hardy Boys vs. Edge & Christian feud revolving around Gangrel & The Brood leading up to the No Mercy tag team ladder match is discussed next with each team reliving various spots & moments in detail from the match along with the importance of the respect they gained afterwards which launched them from "workers to superstars."  The events leading up to & highlights of the Royal Rumble tables match between the Hardys & Dudleys is shown next with Bubba & Devon talking about how this feud "allowed them to be the Dudleys" before going into their reign of terror with the tables by taking out everyone they could get their hands on from Terri to Lita to Trish Stratus to Mae Young (TWICE!).  The documentary closes with all 3 teams reviewing their ladder match at WrestleMania 2000 with the biggest story being of who was the first person to share their hands backstage after the match.  This presentation was pretty short & simple buy looking back at it today, it seems very incomplete because history has shown that this feud wasn't over for either team as it would lead to the creation of the actual "T.L.C." match which all three teams participated in the first three.  It was a nice detailed look at the beginning of this feud & I would recommend for those who are fans of the early stages feud but past that, you can pass on this because no complete matches are on here & as I just said, it only chronicles up to the WrestleMania 2000 Ladder match before the actual "T.L.C." match was created.

Kinks Kollekted '64-'83 Big Kinks fan.  But after purchasing the Hollies DVD, I can only gather the Kinks package had little of the group's input, as a great number of the performances were lip-synched, inferior quality and a disappointment to me.  The color performances were fine, but there were no interviews or overview of the group, something the Hollies, as always, was of high quality and given a great deal of thought.

NOT SO GOOD... this ALIEN vs PREDATOR is ok...nothing brilliant, but a decent movie for the clash of the 2 coolest aliens of the galaxy...While Alien is some kind of alien parasite, brutal and without much thoughts, the Predator is a more humanoid form, with interstellar weapons and some war techniques...They are soooo cool! By far the best alien characters of all time!!!!

Cute, but... Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson were great. Maggie Elizabeth Jones made my teeth hurt she was so sweet and lovable. I think I wouldn't have minded so much if they didn't cut to her so many times to show her adorable reaction to things. I agree she's cute but...Overkill.

So this is the way the world ends... This Liam Neeson vehicle has been marketed as a spirited action movie.  While there is action and suspense, the tone of the film is different than advertised.  It is a morose, nihilistic death march through the Alaskan wilderness.  There never is a "Rocky" moment in which the crash survivors turn the tables on the wolfpack.  They are simply there in order to suffer and die.  The pacing is off, with morbid moments that seem to drag on forever.  In all of these "Ten Little Indians" type of scenarios, the characters must be sympathetic and well-developed, their deaths plausible, in order for the viewer to feel that he has not been crassly manipulated.  By that standard, this film is not especially well-written.  There may be too many "Aw, come on!" moments for viewers.  The Alaskan plane crash premise, along with the battle against an obsessed carnivore, draws comparisons with the old Anthony Hopkins vehicle "The Edge."  "The Edge," however, is practically sunny and optimistic compared with this film.  In a way, it is refreshing that the film avoids most attempts at saccharine sentimentality; morover, it flatly rejects spriritual or metaphysical consolations.  If there is any universality to this film, it is the theme that, given that we are all doomed, what induces us to fight our end?  Here, there are no happy answers.

Slow and Ambiguous As many other reviewers have said, this movie was pretty slow.  I actually spent a lot of it reading a book while still being able to keep up with the plot.  However, its one redeeming quality was that the mystery surrounding the girl was interesting and so I actually watched the entire thing.  I really wanted to know what was up with her.  Well, this is is a spoiler, so those who are actually going to watch it should not read it:  You never learn a single thing about the girl or why she acts the way she does!  In fact, no questions are really answered at all.  You watch the entire movie, and a series of strange, mysterious events build up around the girl.  Finally, one last strange thing occurs and the movie just ends.  It was terribly frustrating and unsatisfying, making the hour and a half I spent watching the movie seem like  waste.  I suppose that what the movie's creators were going for was to leave people with the dilema of judging the girl to be either a victim or a monster, but the lack of explanation/conclusion really hurt the movie for me.  Sure, some movies can have an ambiguous ending, but they at least give the audience some satisfaction and answer some questions before doing so.  This one didn't do anything, it just ended.  Also, as others have said, the lack of zombies (and scary monsters in general) as portrayed on the cover made me sad.

Interesting ideas, but unfortunately sensational language I know the point of the show is to surprise and jar the viewer into reconsidering preconceptions, and the ideas on legal prostitution here are moderate and fair. However, I found the use of bad language and gratuitous nudity a bit excessive. The show targets a very academic and political purpose: legalizing sex trade. However, sometimes the edits and dialogue felt unprofessional, and the argument consequently lost some logical clout. Additionally, I found the likening of prostitution to magic shows somewhat illogical; I never really saw the connection and couldn't see how this comparison furthered the point.  All in all, if you would like some subversive thoughts on prostitution, this isn't a bad primer, but look elsewhere for academic or professional debate. I give 3 stars for unnecessary coarse language and an occasional sense of rebellion for the sake of rebellion rather than for moral reasons.  (Also note that the show contains nudity if you hope to judge its appropriateness for younger audiences.)

Ponderous Low-Key Thriller ***Spoiler Warning***  This film tends to draw cinephiles who appreciate the efforts of the actors in a story that is steeped in dialogue and intent, rather than relying on guns and martial arts. I include myself in this group. But even for me, this character-driven drama tends to drag in places. I always appreciate a full exploration of the plot and its characters, but the film's premise is based on such a blatantly ridiculous concept that in-depth character analysis can be an overreach, especially given the paper-thin archetypes of the players.  Still, I loved the interaction between the leads, Connery and Pfeiffer, who have genuine onscreen chemistry. Most appreciative of Pfeiffer, who truly "felt" Russian. Her performance, as Katya Orlova, reflected the cautious introvert and desperately hopeful mother; delivering an honest portrayal of a life under Communist rule. And I enjoyed Connery turning in his usual dependable performance with a tad more zest as 'Barley' Scott Blair, the loquacious drunkard of a book publisher.  The production on whole was a bit more bread and less entr&eacute;e; too much filler for a film that could have done with a bit of pruning. Also, the plot was convoluted - the 'prize' not clearly defined. I can see how some viewers might get lost.  Then there are the unresolved questions you have to pass in order to enjoy the film. It's probably why I couldn't quite appreciate the movie for what it delivered. Such as:  - Why would the US/Britain let Connery "go" after his betrayal? If we follow the film's premise that the cardboard cut-out of the CIA was as depicted - the natural progression of the story would've been Langley pressuring Whitehall for a capture and imprisonment.  And truthfully, I would've appreciated the film a great deal more had the last scene been of Barley looking out from a snowed-in prison yard, a slow dissolve to Katya and her family in Portugal, free and poignantly happy.  - And then you have to ask why would the Soviets let Katya and her family go free? Their policy was infamously hardlined when it came to an easy exodus of their citizenry. It was called 'The Iron Curtain' for good reason. Not the least of which was avoiding the political timebomb often asked by the western media of former citizens: "Why did you leave The Worker's Paradise?".  The honey-coated ending cheapened the production for me.  Overall, a decent film. Worth a rental for a one-time viewing, but not a purchase.  Film Trivia: The Russia House reunites Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer, previously seen as adversarial foes Secret Agent 007 James Bond and Bond Super Villain, Maximillian Largo.

girl in progress Comming of age..blah blah blah. Worth the rent...not the buy.watched it with my daughter who is 17...opens up talks....but for sure ....chicks only.

In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night, Four Writers Couldn't Get It Right Green Lantern hits theaters today, directed by Martin Campbell and starring Ryan Reynolds in the title role, along with Blake Lively (Carol Ferris), Peter Sarsgaard (Hector Hammond) and Mark Strong (Sinestro). It's written by Greg Berlanti, Michael Green, Marc Guggenheim and Michael Goldenberg and after seeing it I have one burning question: it really took four people to write this?  You oughta know the plot by now: Hal Jordan, test pilot extraordinaire, gets chosen by dying legendary Green Lantern Abin Sur to replace him in the ranks.  As both the first human ever chosen and the bearer of Abin Sur's legacy, Hal has a lot to prove to his new comrades.  But the same galactic threat that killed his predecessor is still out there, giving Hal the opportunity to earn his stripes.  The basic premise of the franchise remains intact, but only barely.  If you were unfamiliar with the comic you wouldn't know a whole lot more after seeing this.  What's presented here is disjointed, choppy and kind of dull, and I've never really understood the need for comic book movies to deviate so wildly from the established material.  The villain Parallax is a bastardized version of two DC characters, which is silly since if they used the one they borrowed from the most- Krona- you'd have practically the same story.  The origins and personalities of the Green Lantern Corps are the richest parts of the story- and one of the best in comics- and they all get shorted big time.  The Guardians of the Universe, elder beings and creators of the Lantern Corps, are just a bunch of big-headed blue sourpusses sitting around in the dark.  We're never shown what's so special about being a Lantern or why Abin Sur was so revered- Hal may as well have gotten the ring from a Cracker Jacks box for all the honor and responsibility he's supposed to shoulder.  The opening sequence is a straight rip-off of last year's Clash of the Titans intro- with the whole half-hearted exposition delivered over space vistas highlighted by mock-ups of key figures and events.  Foreshadowing seems to be the order of the day in this film: at his brother's house Hal briefly plays with his nephew's Hot Wheels racing set, so guess what he creates in his debut appearance to stop a helicopter crash?  During Hal's indoctrination on Oa, Kilowog mentions out of nowhere something about the gravity pull of a sun, so in the big finale against Parallax... And somehow- I'm still not sure how- Sinestro convinces the Guardians to create a Yellow Ring based on the energy Parallax uses to combat him even though they mistrust and fear its power.  *sigh*  Four guys, huh?  Characters are just ok.  Hal is portrayed mostly as the boy who never quite grew up- which he was never portrayed as in the comics, so why now? Carol Ferris, his love interest, is actually more interesting than he is, but since she's not the main character...  Sinestro is given a little bit of rein to show why he's the Guardians' go-to guy, but doesn't have nearly enough screen time, not to mention how they seem to have completely screwed up his story arc.  I won't spoil it but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt- for now.  Likewise with Kilowog and Tomar-Re- two staples of the franchise that are relegated to bit players.  And the Hector Hammond storyline was completely useless; valuable screen time that could've been devoted elsewhere was wasted on this guy.  Four- count 'em- four writers.  It's not a total wreck, though.  The humor is pretty good and doesn't distract from anything, in fact it works fine- especially when lampshading the whole 'my mask hides my identity' bit, and when Hal's trying to figure out the Lantern's Oath.  The ring's FX are pretty stellar- the comic's versions are fully brought to life. The planet Oa is built upon the organic technology style that's in vogue these days, but just looks dank, dark and dirty.  Parallax is like a greasy, smoky escapee from some Lovecraft fanfic or someone's tentacle hentai fetish- sometimes it looks good, sometimes it don't.  And in typical Remote Control Productions style the music barely registers upon you, a down moment for someone of James Newton Howard's stature.  But still- four of 'em?  Green Lantern tries to be the type of origins movie that the first Superman film was but fails by not investing enough into the Lanterns themselves.  And you can't help but wonder why it took four guys to write it and still mess it up.

Average fare - questionable Christianity This movie tries too hard to be a "perfect" Christian movie. Some of the values are good, but some are overly simplistic. Sperry telling Dustin that the bully must have a hard time in life without a father, while not acknowledging Dustin's lack of a father - rather blew me away. Also the Bible is quite clear there is a time to fight (Proverbs, David & Goliath, ect...). Some of the situations are awkward and unrealistic - Dustin and the girl he likes - it turns into a witnessing thing instead of what could have been a *Godly* friendship (it is normal for a boy to ask a girl out)! Lastly, the rosy ending where all the kids turn into Christian doctors, lawyers, biologists, astronauts, ect...just killed it for me. Facing the Giants and Fireproof are better Christian movies that show Christianity in a better and more realistic manner.

Real-life ghost busters Like recent cable TV shows, this takes you into a haunted environment, in this instance a building in York, England, thought to be the most haunted city in Britain for a psychic experience. Night-vision camera allows you to watch the psychic channel the energy of spirits as if you were there. Also included is interview footage with Martin Jeffrey of Britain's Fright Nights, who explains the difference between actual paranormal experience and the natural physical response to a pitch-dark room and anticipated ghost-sightings.

Could Have Been Better If Not for Richard Marquand's Inept Direction. Viewed: 1/11 Rate: 6  1/11: Eye of the Needle was getting my attention very well until Donald Sutherland's character got shipwrecked. Then, the movie fell apart from there. It got very boring because things slowed down greatly, and then, finally, when Sutherland's character was fully realized, he began to do very stupid things that ultimately got him killed. I really had a very, very difficult time in believing in his mistakes because he was too good for them. Come on, he was a successful spy for Germany who had undertaken more difficult missions in his career. At least show respect for his character. His was a bit too alike to the one in The Eagle Has Landed. Meanwhile, I thought the cast was perfectly fine, and Kate Nelligan was the standout of the film. Donald was great as usual, an experienced pro who could have been helped more by a better direction. Granted, by the looks of the ending, Eye of the Needle felt like the anti-Casablanca; however, I was not feeling it very much. The emotions...the irony of it all...they weren't convincing to me. That's why I felt the movie fell apart also by that. I blame it on Richard Marquand for his poor direction and inept handling of that situation. Really, Donald Sutherland's was the most fascinating character of the film until the shipwreck moment. Obviously, another stunning part about Eye of the Needle is the location, especially of the house on Storm Island which was actually the Isle of Mull, Argyll and Bute, and Oban, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK. It makes me to want to live there. It is very pretty. Thinking of how the spy got shot, do you expect me to believe that the housewife would hit her target in three out of six shots? Impossible, maybe one will do by sheer luck of aiming it right. One fiction about the film is that helicopters weren't used in World War II. All in all, Eye of the Needle, if directed correctly, would have been a much better film than the rating indicated.

SEMI-LAME TRIBUTE TO THE DRIVE IN FLICK It's the closing night at the last drive-in in America and the owner has a special treat in store for his customers: a triple feature of rarely seen classics that he was able to get for this special screening. Fans pack the place and we, DVD renters, are able to see the movies as well. Too bad that they qualify for low B-grade movies.  What sounded like a great idea turns out to have few hits and far too many misses. Four current horror feature directors (Adam Rifkin, Joe Lynch, Adam Green and Tim Sullivan) thought this would make a great movie, a collection of short works by each one tied in together with the drive-in motif. Each film has some decent moments but on the whole leave much to be desired.  Surrounding the three features on the big outdoor screen is the story of a man who works at the drive-in who digs up his wife for some necrophilia interaction who finds his intended undead and well and able enough to bite down on his manhood. Thus he becomes infected and as the film moves forward he changes into a full blown (no pun intended) zombie who's infected blood and bite change patrons. What could have been a funny idea relies far too much on sex.  The movies on the screen begin with "WADZILLA", the story of a man whose sperm count is so miniscule as to only offer perhaps one sperm per encounter. A scientist offers him a chance to improve himself with a new drug yet to be tested on humans. The result is a super sperm that almost explodes the moment the young man becomes aroused.  When he goes out on a blind date just meeting the young woman puts him into intense pain. Using her bathroom he "relieves" himself but the sperm in question escapes, much like the chest burster from ALIEN. It eventually attacks his date who escapes and the two try to stop the sperm without any luck. With each encounter it becomes bigger and bigger until it's the size of, well, Godzilla. Do they finally stop it? I won't give it away but yes, this one involves some gooey special effects and some very off color jokes.  The second film is "I WAS A TEENAGE WERE-BEAR". Played out as a tribute to those classic beach films combined with the teenage monster movies, the film has a hero who has yet to have sex with his girlfriend. For some reason he seems more attracted to the tough leather clad bad boys on the beach. Eventually he gets bitten on the behind and discovers to his dismay that he will become a were-bear when the full moon rises. For those who don't know a bear in gay terms is a hairy and full figured male. Can he be accepted for who he is? And is this what he really wants?  The third film in the group is "THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANKENSTEIN". Yes, it has perhaps the best name of the bunch. In this lost German film we find Hitler discovering the hide out of the Frankenstein family. Not only does he find them but he finds their secret books as well describing how to create a human being. Of course he does so and the result is a definitely Hassidic looking Golem style creation. This movie offers some decent jokes involving the purely made up German sounding language and a number of low budget film making gags. For instance when a German soldier is picked up by the monster and thrown we see a black stand in crash through a table then replaced with the white actor.  As I said in between various characters are infected with the zombie virus and by the end of the last film have gone on a rampage in the drive in. Characters we've met throughout are seen fighting them off and whether or not they survive is in question.  The movie works in some ways but in others it misses completely. The jokes are far too wrapped up in sex and rarely rise above per-teen humor. Yes, the Wadzilla creature is funny as are some of the jokes around it, but when piled one on top of the other they lose their ability to make you laugh.  On the whole fans of B-movies and drive-ins will probably want to take the time to watch this movie. My guess is it would make a great party movie as well. Perhaps it would seem that much funnier if those watching were a little tipsy. It might not be a movie to add to your collection but a single rental would be worthwhile if you're not easily offended.

Planet of Dinosaurs This science fiction film has a very interesting and potentially original theme - a planet inhabited by dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. It seems however to be of a television film-type quality, that is, a rather low-budget production, but it is quite well acted and visually exciting in parts. A little more money added to the cost of producing the film would have created something of a blockbuster; I am quite sure!

DVDs are badly  packaged which means scratches and scuffs! I received this set yesterday and,I hate the way they have placed the DVDs!  This is the kind of way none of us like, where the discs just slip into a cardboard pocket. Its tough to try and grab the disc out and also, as is always the case when DVDs are placed this way, there is a lot of scuffs and scratches on the DVDs. And then there is the problem of trying to put the DVD back into the pocket. At the price they are charging for this, you would think they would have perhaps put the single season sets into this box or, used hubs to hold the discs so they would not get scratched and scuffed.  The box itself is nice the way it opens up, and inside is a book titled "FROSTBITE FALLS FIELD GUIDE" by Keith Scott. There is a page at the start written by Kimberly Ward. The book has photos and is filled with info on how the show was started and nice interesting stuff. and then there is An episode guide for each DVD of whats on each.  There is also a light yellow envelope with a flaplock and inside is a ribbon award that says on it "Exceptional adequacy award for helping promote public apathy toward the Bullwinkle show".On it also is a pin button with Bullwinkle on it.  As to the DVDs again. They are in a book like holder when you open it, to the left are discs 1 and 2 and as I had mentioned, they are hard to get out and to place back in. to the right are discs 3 and 4 and so on as you turn the pages. Each page has arrows with lines so you know what disc has the Rocky Bullwinkle serial that it is talking about.  I am hoping any of you who also has this set can give a more detailed review.  I did watch the first disc and the "R&B" logo pops up.  I wish  they could have  used HUBS for the DVDs as the way they are, they will get  scuffed more and more from removing  and placing the discs back. This really  stinks!!!!!!!!

Skeptical this week really happened The movie was okay, kind of dull at times, essentially nothing really happens. I think Michelle Williams did a pretty good portrayal of Marilyn Monroe, afterall I think it would be difficult to completely capture the screen presence and charisma that Marilyn had. There was something missing though...  I am rather skeptical that this week happened at all though, it sounds like a rather fanciful account from a young man. I'm not sure why Marilyn Monroe would have any interest in a third assistant director when she was just married 3 weeks, was pregnant, and had a constant retinue of people around her.  This is an account of a "previously unknown chapter of Marilyn's life"....but maybe it's unknown because it didn't happen? I have read though that she was known to be difficult to work with, was frequently late, and heavily dependent on Paula Strausberg - and that is depicted in the movie.  I do not think Laurence Olivier and Vivian Leigh were portrayed well or even realistically in this movie, the casting was really off on them!

I thought it was better I saw this movie more than 20 years ago and remembered that I liked it as a kid, so I bought it on sale on Amazon.  It's not a bad movie but there are much better ones out there (i.e. the Indiana Jones movies have a similar flavor but are much much better).  On the plus side it is relatively family friendly and will leave a taste of the 80's in your mouth.

Reminds Us That Politics is a Contact Sport The love story in this movie is touching. What had begun as a political relationship innocently turns into romance. The President is the most powerful man in the world. How does he ask her on a date? How does he buy her flowers? Is his personal life a legitimate topic of inquiry for the press, or is it not?  This movie reminds us that, when you are in power, there are plenty of people who will pounce on anything you do in order to try to bring you down. The President of the US continues his relationship with his surreptitious girlfriend. (He is not cheating: He is a widower.) Nevertheless, rumors circulate. The budding relationship is complicated by the fact that he has a natural born daughter. Questions about the character of the President begin to circulate, and his poll numbers plummet from 63% approval to as low as 41%. He is losing his political muscle in terms of getting Congressmen to vote on important legislation that the President is supporting.  The ACLU is presented in a favorable fashion--as one that protects the Constitution. Flag-burning is portrayed as legitimate free speech. At first the President is ashamed to admit his association with the ACLU, and then he comes out strongly and publicly in favor of it.  For a long time, the President has faced incessant attacks. Then he goes on a spectacular offensive against his political opponents. And so it goes...

Sheen is a too short JFK. Hoover exaggerated. Watch the scenes in which Sheen and the actor playing Bobby are walking together. Bobby has to crouch to legitimize some scenes - call the chiropractor. Hoover is portrayed as menacing and vicious. Joseph Kennedy calls Hoover a "fag" which Hoover was not. Hoover was married to the FBI, plain and simple. There is no evidence to suggest any homosexuality or transvesticism but the Liberals love to perpetuate the MYTH and now its become fact in the culture with "no evidence" to support it and the originator of the myth spent time in prison. So much for credibility.

Last Call DVD This movie had Jeremy Irons falling down drunk, in his robe and pajamas in a lot of the movie - and was a sad reflection of Fitzgerald. Perhaps he was this sad, lonely man who was "improved" by the presence of his 23 year old secretary -who showed more wisdom at her young age than he did at 44. I knew he died young, but not quite that young. Having Sissy Spacek appear to him, even though she was in a sanitarium at the time seemed to portray him as delusional - as I suppose he was after drinking so much.

Brutally depressing. &lt;strong>Los Lunes al Sol&lt;/strong> (Fernando Leon de Aranoa, 2002)  I don't remember who it was that told me, or where I read, nine or ten years ago, that &lt;em>Los Lunes al Sol&lt;/em> (in English, &lt;em>Mondays in the Sun&lt;/em>) is a comedy. I want to find that person and hit him in the teeth. Not only is this movie not a comedy, it is one of the most relentlessly depressing movies I have ever had the displeasure of sitting through. Which is not to say it is not a good film; it is quite a good film indeed. I believe, however, the depression factor is ultimately to the film's detriment; it struck me while watching that this is a film that requires multiple viewings to truly appreciate, and I cannot for the life of me imagine a time where I would have a strong desire to watch it again, despite its merits.  Plot: There isn't one, really, to this slice-of-life drama: six friends, longtime stevedores, lost their jobs at the dockyard three years ago. Of them, only Rico (&lt;em>Balade Triste de Trompeta&lt;/em>'s Joaqu&iacute;n Climent) has managed to make something of himself--he took his savings and opened a bar across from the now-shuttered dockyeard, where the other five members of the group drink for free. There's Santa (&lt;em>Before Night Falls&lt;/em>' Javier Bardem), a foulmouthed cynic and the unofficial leader of the group, always looking for under-the-table cash that doesn't require him to do any real work, while trying to keep out of the way of his old employer, who are suing him for breaking a light. Lino (&lt;em>Abre los Ojos&lt;/em>' Jos&eacute; &Aacute;ngel Egido), the eternal optimist, is always on his way to an interview or a rumored opening to fill out an application. Jos&eacute; (&lt;em>Tambien la Lluvia&lt;/em>'s Luis Tosar) is currently being supported by his wife, Ana (&lt;em>El Bola&lt;/em>'s Nieve de Medina), who's been working in a tuna canning factory, but the longer she supports him, the angrier he gets at himself and his situation. Reina (&lt;em>El Crimen Perfecto&lt;/em>'s Enrique Vill&eacute;n) has picked up a temp job as a security guard, but he's stifled by the unfulfilling nature of the job. Last, but by no means least, is Amador (&lt;em>Mar Adentro&lt;/em>'s Celso Bugallo), whose wife left him soon after he lost his job, and who spends his days lost in a fantasy world where she's on her way back to him. De Aranoa and co-screenwriter Ignacio del Moral put these guys in the situation, then pretty much sit back and let things unfold as they will.  I don't think it's a spoiler to say this will not end well, especially now, ten years later, and especially not in America. Reviews of the movie posted back in the day on IMDB often end with an imprecation along the lines of "...and the viewer will end up hoping he never has to live through this." Fast-forward to 2012, and in the cases of some folks I know, three years out of work is something they saw in the rear view mirror back in 2011. I'm not sure why I put off watching this movie until now (I'm a huge Javier Bardem fan and will watch him in anything), but I'm not sure, having now seen it, whether it would have had the impact on me it did had I watched it when it first came out. Now, I know these people. In fact, some of them are my closest friends; all of us have, at some point in the past decade, been out of work for at least a year (yours truly included). It's funny how the universe works like that. And with the benfit of that hindsight, I will tell you that these screenwriters and these actors have done their damnedest to come up with the gritty ugliness of the aituation and present it in as realistic a way as possible. The problem being, of course, that "realistic" brings us back to where we are at the beginning of this paragraph--knowing that things will not end well.  Be that as it may, and with the warning from the first paragraph in mind that this movie may require multiple viewings to get to the bottom of and I can't imagine anyone with a shred of empathy having the fortitude to watch it more than once, it's still well worth that one watch. Especially if you can identify with the situation, even indirectly. ***

Pretty decent It's awkward at times, but it's still an entertaining movie. It's a more interesting love story than most, with a lot of cultural issues thrown in (the Middle East quagmire, family's shock at "coming out," and religious views).

Average Movie I think this movie was average, especially considering the big name actors. The plot was ok and the twist at the end was not really well planned out. I think usually when a movie has a major plot twist you can go back and find the clues hidden through the movie. In this movie I believe there was really no hints or evidence to show that the twist was happening. I also think that Depps character role was weak for the quality of actor that he is.

Fair Dinkum For a kiddies film this was pretty good. Poor tacticts from the Chinese though, needed some sort of sub-plot where old man Withers from the Haunted amusement park on the edge of Wirrawee is foiled in plans to aid the Chinese and could say "I would have got away with it if it wasn't for them pesky kids". Seriously, how are the Chinese going to invade Australia. Its big. And a long way from China. These days, China can probably just buy it instead. Like Ugg boots. Which are from Australia. the Chinese didnt have enough Ugg boots and invaded.  if I had been one of the teens, I would have retreated to the oasis and "rooted like a rabbit, blue" until the appearence of some nice Australian Special Forces.  I can't think of anything to say about this that hasnt been saidf in the other reviews, i just wanted to point out that it was actually ok, and not crap. With Vampires.

Not as Good as the First One Plenty of twists and turns, but the non-stop, seemingly unending fight/chase scenes are overdone and boring at times. We enjoyed the first movie much more than this one. Mdv

reviewing Land of the Lost movie... This product is in decent shape except for "one skip" experienced during a third viewing. Disc has a couple of scars, but seemed to be working fine until the skip..  Edwin Newton

Good movie for the buget but could have been so much more I think this is a good movie when i first saw the tralier but as i saw the best parts of the moive where in the traliers the rest of the movie is just another love story mixed in with sci-fi, still thinks district 9 is better and can't wait for battle los angelas. Hope they make a sequel but with more alien action invovled with the background that makes the movies intresting not another love story

A little Wacky but Fun I like all the von Daniken work and this video features a very young William Shatner which makes the purchase price worth it for this fact alone! It's a bit staged and silly but still good. I am not disappointed at all.

that old feeling Im my feedback, I indicated the DVD would not work, but after several more attempts (2 hours), I did get it to work.

Bourne again, but less than its predecessor After having reasonably enjoyed The Bourne Identity, I was looking forward to seeing how the Bourne Supremacy carries on with Jason Bourne's story.  Bourne and Marie are in hiding in India, still trying to recover lost memories of the past.  But Bourne soon becomes another CIA target, after being framed for a killing, and for his own self-preservation he needs to take an active role in uncovering the secrets of Treadstone and of his hunters in order to discover why he's being gunned down.  There's action sequences and car chases a plenty, and the graphic violence did force me to look away more than once, but then again I'm known for being squeamish.  Overall I didn't find that this film lived up to its predecessor.  The plot wasn't as plausible, and at times the motives and actions of the various characters were somewhat confusing.  The hand-held camera work has been lauded as enhancing realism by evoking an improvisational and authentic feel, but I found the frantic and jerky movement and blurry vision excessive and hard to follow, to the point that it detracted from the flow of the narrative.  Here's a case where movie-makers have adopted a home video style and just gone a little too far overboard with the deliberate amateur feel.  But perhaps most significantly, Jason Bourne's character wasn't as sympathetic as it was in the Bourne Identity.  Even though there's a real sense of him being a victim of his circumstances and even his use of violence is mostly out of necessity rather than by personal choice, there's also a sense that he's more of a colder and more vengeful killing machine after tragically losing his lady, so it's harder to empathize with him.  It's still refreshing to see a film that doesn't go overboard with foul language and blasphemy (there were a few incidences of this, but it was minimal and even less than the first in the series), but as a follow-up this doesn't quite match the strength of the original.  - GODLY GADFLY

About As 'Black' As Vanilla Ice When I rented Black Swan, I thought I was in for a comedy featuring an all African-American cast. Boy, was I wrong. There are no black people in this movie, so I don't know why it was called Black Swan. However, I watched the whole movie anyway even though the title is a rip-off. Mila Kunis is sexy in it. And there is plenty of weirdness in the movie, if you like that kind of thing. It kind of reminded of a David Lynch movie, and I'm not a fan of Lynch so I'm not a fan of this movie. It was never too boring, though. It was just weird. As weird as my friend Nathan, who is 29 years old and still wets the bed.

Close but entertaining Of course nothing can recreate the Zatoichi movies of the 60s. But Ichi comes close on an entertainment level. The sword fights are good. Something is a bit losted though with CGI blood. Maybe it's me. I don't know. One charactor that stood out in the story had to be the son of the slain Yakuza boss. He displayed a kind of grit the male lead should of shown more of. Over all not bad. I suppose one rating would be I bought it and kept it. View as you will.

Sorry everyone, would love to love this, but.... just cannot get past the over-acting, the screaming sentimentality and over the top, in your face sucrose laden characters.  Of course, the story in general is lovely, anyone with a heart would like it, the premise, the story line etc even if you must suspend your rationale at the click of PLAY.  Beautiful scenery, beautiful actors, and I will grant you I have never seen a Bollywood movie in my life which, unfortunately, made the sudden and seemingly never ending breaks into song and dance somewhat jarring to say the least.  If that is the way it is, then that is the way it is - am just not familiar with it and dont much care for it.  If you like Bollywood movies (or the type), beautiful people and beautiful scenery and can suspend your credulity, you will undoubtedly love this movie.  I wish I had.

Not my favorite but good all the same. The next thing I picked to review for Thomas Nelson's blog group, Book Sneeze, was a movie called, "Hermie & Friends, Who is In Charge Anyway?"   Although my children and I have watched other Hermie movies before, this one wasn't one of our favorites. Our family loves the Hermie movies and own quite a few of them.  This one just did seem to fit with the rest of them. The overall theme of the movie is good. This movie teaches children that God will help us with situations that aren't easy, to become someone great for Him. The movie had great points but there was too many flashback scenes from the other Hermie movies that we have watched.  The kids got bored about half way through because they thought they had already watched all of the things that were in the movie. I think this movie would be best for children ages 4-9. A good movie, but not one to run out and buy for your collection.  I won't be giving up on Hermie and know that the next movie will be just as good or better than the other we have.  To comply with new regulations introduced by the Federal Trade Commission, I was provided with a complimentary copy of this movie. I was not required to post a positive review.

"R" movie for adolescents Probably everyone remembers their first R rated movie (Smokey and the Bandit for me). This movie would be a perfect first R rated movie for an adolescent boy to sneak into. Filled with potty humor, farts, poops, spankings, and gratuitous swearing. Shows some body parts and alludes to sexual activity without actually showing it.  This movie has its clever moments. After the teddy bear magically comes to life, everyone can see him. And yet after the initial fanfare, everyone loses interest, except for the occasional person on the street who wants to take a cell phone picture with him, so the bear has to get a real job haha. The movie also had good CGI and some neat effects, like when Ted appeared as a guest on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson :-)  The storyline is very predictable. It's pure male fantasy that a beautiful and successful, career-oriented, much younger woman would fall for an unreliable, pot-smoking, car rental clerk whose interests range from sitting on the couch, to watching tv, to drinking beer, and who loves spending time with his bear-buddy more than his woman.  The movie would have been much better with a more talented, comedian as a main character, e.g., Seth Rogen has enough appeal, acting ability, and personality to pull it off and with some well placed ad libbing could have made this a very good if not great movie. Mark Wahlberg is too low-key and vanilla for this role, and definitely is not looking 35. Though to his credit, he does do a believable Boston accent which isn't easy.

Great Bluray transfer but NO Special Features I am not going to review the movie which is one my favorite movies (most people compare it to the book and rate it very low) maybe it's because I have not read the book, I think the movie works. Bluray transfer is great but there are no special features. For such a classic movie, I expected some commentaries, featurettes to satisfy my appetite but there is nothing (except for the 45 seconds trailer of "making of Lolita" which consists of shots from the movie). If you wish to buy the Bluray because of its picture/sound quality, go ahead. But you won't find any extras on this edition.

A Clash of Titans The latest low-budget megamonsterfest from the shameless inmates of The Asylum is MEGA PYTHON VS GATOROID (2011), released on Blu-ray and DVD by Image Entertainment. Along with the usual cut-rate CGI monster action, this SyFy Channel hit offers the gimmick/stunt casting of 80s mall tarts/pop stars Debbie Gibson and Tiffany, who not only co-star, but provide a couple of catchy songs for the soundtrack.  The ludicrous plot goes something like this: the world's dumbest biologist (Debbie Gibson, MEGA SHARK VS. GIANT OCTOPUS) "rescues" a bunch of pythons from a laboratory and releases them into the Everglades with no regard for the consequences of introducing a new predator species into an established ecosystem. These snakes inexplicably grow to giant size and start chowing down on dogs, forest rangers, poachers, and the local gators. This inspires the world's dumbest park ranger (Tiffany, MEGA PIRANHA) to feed steroids and experimental growth drugs to the aforementioned alligators, in order to give them a fighting chance against the snakes. Needless to say, these geniuses soon find that the mega pythons and gatoroids are breeding like crazy, and the only one who seems to recognize that this is actually a bad thing is visiting herpetologist Dr. Diego (A Martinez, L.A. LAW), who must find a way to destroy the unnatural creatures before it's too late...!  Directed by Mary Lambert (PET SEMATARY), MEGA PYTHON VS GATOROID at least acknowledges that it's ridiculous, and makes some attempt to play the material for laughs. Unfortunately, the intentional comedy generally falls flat, while the unconvincing computer animation and incoherent story frequently inspire derisive guffaws and ironic chuckles. But hey, as long as people, laugh, right? Seriously, I know these movies are produced at an absurdly accelerated pace and on incredibly meager budgets, but would it really cost that much more to actually do a second or third draft on a script once in a while? Or maybe go outside the in-house staff for a writer who actually understands character, plot structure and story logic - and can pen reasonably human-sounding dialogue?  As poorly written as it is, there is still some honest entertainment to be had. Gibson and Tiffany are attractive and enjoyably over-the-top - and their catfight/foodfight is the highlight of the film. Martinez manages imbue his character with some dignity, despite the ridiculous scenario and the inane dialogue he's given. Ex-Monkee Micky Dolenz has an amusing cameo, and for B-movie buffs, it's fun to see the climactic sequences shot at L.A.'s Bronson Canyon cave, despite the movie's ostensible Florida locale. As usual, the rousing Chris Ridenhour musical score is far better than the film it accompanies, and the songs contributed to the soundtrack by the two stars are both quite enjoyable.  Image Entertainment presents MEGA PYTHON VS GATOROID on Blu-ray disc with a 1080p HD, 1.78:1 widescreen transfer that is absolutely pristine; Troy Smith's cinematography is sharp and colorful. Audio is DTS Master 5.1. The only supplements are a "Making Of Featurette" and the trailer. It's too bad - I think they really missed some opportunities here; a commentary track with Gibson and Tiffany might have been a lot of fun, and seems to be a no-brainer. Given director Lambert's MTV past, it would also have been cool if she and the stars had shot a couple of videos to accompany their soundtrack contributions. And no gag reel? Oh well.  The DVD edition is identical in content to the Blu-ray, with a 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer in standard definition, and Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround sound.  As a movie, MEGA PYTHON VS GATOROID is pretty awful, but as mindless entertainment, it's reasonably successful. Ultimately, it's a tongue-in-cheek Asylum/SyFy monster movie starring two aging former teen songbirds best known for touring shopping malls in the 80s and a slew of CGI reptiles. It's not something I'm likely to ever watch again, but I had a good time with it, and you might too, if you keep your expectations realistic

3 1/2 stars for a Hitchcock's second tier film I don't think this is one of Hitchcock's best efforts but even a mediocre Hitch is still good.  Pretty boy Cary Grant is an unemployed party animal in the London suburbs.  Travelling by train he meets what appears to be a conservative librarian prototype.  They exchange a few pleasantries, but he sees her later at a party and eventually meets her again at her house.  Lina (Oscar winner Joan Fontaine) hasn't had a real romance and immediately falls for Johnny (Grant).  Lina's family is loaded.  In the movies all retired British Generals (Cedric Hardwicke) are loaded.  Johnny exists by borrowing money and occasionally winning at the horse track.  They eventually marry, but it is an uneasy partnership.  Johnny is, well Johnny as she's repeatedly told.  He lies, perhaps cheats and is seemingly out for Lina's forthcoming fortune.  We're never quite sure as Hitchcock loads up the film with more than one McGuffin (glass of milk, Lina's eyeglasses) and tries to keep the audience guessing.  Can Cary Grant really be a crook and murderer?  In any case, the film plods along at times and has a clunker of an ending but is worth a look.  If you're a Hitchcock fan, you'll need to see it.

This is not a movie for a child. I have been wanting this movie for my son for a while and when I get it, it has homosexual conversation the grand father was sniffing heroin openly on screen. I am so mad I got this for my child. Adult movie if you like corney stuff. And suicide! AND at the end when the child was doing her routine for the Beaty pagent she did a strip tease dance to Rick james super freak. And the parents supported her. Not good.

Unluckily the age of the film fossilizes it. My neighbour is a retired teacher who is spending his retirement alternately in Malaysia and in France. He was a friend of this John McVicar who tried to take a shortcut through life by robbing banks. Sentenced to 23 years he managed to escape. But he went back to his shortcutting way of living and was cleanly betrayed by people he considered as friends. He ended up with 28 years this time, or so. He finally understood that shortcuts lead nowhere most of the time.  So he decided to study in prison and graduate. That change in lifestyles and objectives enabled him to be paroled and he then was able to get a real job and a career as a journalist and reporter.  What's the interest of bringing that old story out and that old film out? It apparently is some kind of pale and politically correct film that sounds like Clockwork Orange without the extreme violence, like exposing prison life without the cynicism and evil of it, like denouncing illusions about easy money and escape without death and mangling, like a rosy picture of gloomy bleakness to make us believe that there is a way out of all bad situations based on the case of one chap who does not even represent anyone or anything beyond himself.  Maybe in 1980 the film was of some interest. Today it is pretty pale and weak in the days of Luka Rocco Magnotta, the Montreal porn star turned slayer, slicer and cannibal in the body parts case. The music is that of The Who, and yet that one too has aged. Nice for sure, but nearly too sweet to soothe you.  Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

Prescient Musings on Terrorism in America are Hampered by a Plodding Plot Tim Robbins and Jeff Bridges address homegrown terrorism and the fiber of manipulation as a pair of wary, suspicious suburban neighbors. Robbins is terrific as the shady new guy who keeps his emotions close to the vest, pairing a wicked, piercing gaze with an ambiguous, noncommittal temperament. Bridges, the viewer's perspective and proposed voice of reason, is much less fascinating; a vanilla conspiracy theorist with a short fuse, it's tough to find sympathy for his obsessive investigations of the new acquaintance, even when they start bearing some fruit. The film's musings on terrorism in a pre-9/11 America are interesting food for thought, particularly in that they seem to be challenging many of the knee-jerk reactions that eventually would take place. Ultimately, a bold, memorable finale somewhat redeems the plot, which is quite predictable up to that point.

Good workout, but has flaws. The workout itself is quite good.  Quite challenging if you use heavy weights, and a well-rounded total body workout in 50 mins.  I used the Transfirmer instead of the 'death box' which worked perfectly and is much more stable and easy to use. Stephanie is friendly, personable, w/ good form and she generally cues well.  HOWEVER, I had some gripes.  I HATED the music!! It's way too loud and totally obnoxious. Some songs as well as being obnoxious and loud, were repetitive (the same few notes over and over and over) until I was ready to scream.  The terrible music almost drowns out Stephanie's cuing much of the time, too. Unfortunately I do not have a DVD player which will selectively mute the music and keep the cuing.  Stephanie repeats, "You can do it!" andn "stay w/ me" about 100 times and it's really, really annoying after about the fifth time.  Pam and Christa are way too skinny.  Do I really have to look at Lisa's big fake no-bra boobs the entire time?? GROSS.  What is up with that??  In your face cleavage is bad enough (and way too common w/ Firm workouts) but no bra? WTH.  Anyway. lol. I may force myself to do this one a few more times and see if I can overlook those major and minor annoyances.  If not, I've got plenty of other good workouts to do.  I suggest try before you buy (or buy very cheap).

PA3 entertaining, forgetable PA1 scared me. I was checking over my shoulder looking out for any malevolent entities in my house. I adapted to the style, which is why PA2 was less scary. Sure, it had some tense moments but it was the same movie as the first.  PA3 is like PA2. It will make you jump a few times but by now you're getting used to it, so it's losing its power. I predicted the plot for PA3 once a certain character was introduced. The film runs like Blair Witch in the end and leaves a ton of unanswered questions.  Not bad. It's just human nature to adjust to something once you've experienced it enough times.

Great Movie, TERRIBLE transfer / picture quality!!! Great road trip movie.  A bit slow at times, but excellent character building, and even some decent acting by the main three.  They really have come a long ways.  Especially Harry / Daniel who over the past few films has grown immensely as an actor.  However, I am SO, SO sick of the studios PURPOSEFULLY doing a bad job on their DVD transfers only to promote Blu-Rays.  The explosion of combo packs has driven this further, because many folks with a 32" or smaller 720p set can't see the difference between a Blu-Ray and upcoverted DVD...UNLESS the DVD is a *terrible* quality source.  The studios are now MALICIOUSLY doing horrible transfer jobs in order to make the Blu-Ray look better.  This is not conspiracy theory.  Watch for yourself by comparing HP7 with HP4 or 5 on DVD!  There is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON that the HP7 DVD should look this bad.  First off, it is only using a fraction of the available DVD dual-layer space available, and as such is *riddled* with compression artifacts.  You need no more proof than that, but the real proof is in the pudding!  Compare the HP4 and HP5 dark scenes with those in HP7 pt 1 and you will see NIGHT AND DAY difference in quality.  Things should be better today, not worse.  You can't tell me it was on accident.  This was almost certainly found and raised during quality control, and quietly snuffed by the marketing folks.  It was engineered this way on purpose.  While we are a Blu-Ray household with 4 total BD players (living room, MBR, newest desktop, newest laptop), we have nearly a dozen DVD Players counting older laptops, desktops, portable DVD players, and cars.  Overall, this movie undoubtedly will be watched more on DVD than on BD.  We shouldn't be subjecdted to inferior quality just because some bozo in Marketing things it will impact BD sales 1% to 2%.  I don't care if he's right.  It's not fair.  We pay a good price for the DVD, and we should get a product that is the best possible for the money.  Not one that is artifcially neutered for marketing reasons!!!  I blame Warner Brothers.  There is no excuse for this.  I do not feel this was an accident, and this needs to stop!  Rhino

Disappointed I'd been wanting to see this film for such a long time.  I love the work of Michelle Pfeiffer, Daniel Day Lewis, and Martin Scorsese.  The reviews have always been so favorable for this film and when I saw it listed as one of the 100 5-star movies by a much respected film magazine, I decided it was time to purchase it.  I was sadly disappointed after viewing it.  Although it was extremely beautiful to look at and the attention to details by the art director impeccable, it was leaden and boring.  I agree with another reviewer who said that they were not happy with the odd camera techniques employed...for seemingly no good reason.  It was very distracting.  The acting was sufficient.  I was particularly impressed with Winona Ryder's work.  Never one of my favorites, she was able to convey with subtlety, the turmoil and anger her character was feeling underneath a surface of sweetness and calm.  I wouldn't have thought her capable of such a performance.  When it was over, I found myself thinking, "Where did it all go wrong and why didn't it work?"  I wish there was a "making of" documentary included, or better yet, a director's commentary, so I could understand better Scorsese's vision and intent for this film.  Some directorial choices were challenging for me.  Overall, a disappointment!

A little boring but my niece like it I think the modern movies for kids are sophisticated enough to be written to hold adults interests also.  This was So boring. It was really a huge disappointment I had bought this used for a present and watched it first, now i'm not even sure I can look my sister in the eye after giving her daughter this movie. There are probably better horse moves out there.

What happened?? I loved 95% of this movie. The acting was wonderful and the movie LOOKED great. Keira Knightley especially did an amazing job. It's nice to see her doing something other than a period peice (though she's great in those, too).  Essentially, Last Night is the story of a married couple who is each tempted to cheat during a night apart (he with a co-worker while on a business trip, she with an ex she reconnects with). It's a nice look at regular people facing real problems.  All that said, be forwarned that there is NO end to this film. The night ends (each character makes a choice) and the movie ends almost mid-sentence. There's no resolution to the main character's relationship, no 'so what happened?' It's a very 'Lady or the Tiger' ending.  If you're OK with that type of ending then you'll probably enjoy this movie. I need things a little more wrapped up than that, so for me it left me with an unfinished feeling. It's still beautifully done, though.

Should be Streep's third Oscar!! Watching the movie, The Iron Lady, was only so-so.  However, Streep's performance is worthy of an Oscar.  Wasn't even sure it was she at the beginning of the film. Her portrayal of Thatcher is astonishing!!!!  Truly, it's time to give her the award.  Her last win has been almost thirty years ago for Sophie.  She deserves the Oscar for this movie.  She should have won many times before this.  So let's see what the Academy Awards do this time!!!

Not As A Stranger People may not agree with me on this movie, but it's still one of my favorites. Olivia d'Haviland did an awesome job, as always, in her role as a rejected wife. Frank Sinatra made his role as though it was his own. He seemed very comfortable playing a serious role, and I believe this was one of his first.  Although this is one of my favorite Robert Mitchum movies, the one thing I dislike the most is how robotish Robert is. It's like each word, each movement, each cue is ordered and he just appears so stiff and unreal, almost like he just detests everything he has to do.

Blu-ray: Woody Allen returns with a karma-esque romantic comedy With a Woody Allen film, I always come with an expectation of an enjoyable time.  A few films have been misses but for the majority of Woody Allen's oeuvre, they have been its, not all masterpieces but still, with a filmmaking career that has spanned over 50 years, even now, you can't help but enjoy a Woody Allen romantic comedy.  Which brings us to his latest film "You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger", a film that literally is split amongst film critics.  Some who feel that the 75-year-old Woody Allen can never match his style of filmmaking during his peak and others who feel that he is able to create enjoyable films.  In "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger", I look at this film as a story of karma biting one back in the rear.  VIDEO:  "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" is presented in 1080p High Definition (1:78:1).  As usual with Woody Allen films, he tries to bring out the city he films in.  In this case, London.  Collaborating once again with his cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond ("Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "The Bonfire of the Vanities", "The Witches of Eastwick"), who worked with Allen in his last London-based film "Cassandra's Dream" (2007).  While the film does provide some parts of London and possibly one awesome shot in the rain when Roy gets to meet Dia, most of the film is shot indoors especially inside Sally and Roy's apartment.  For the most part, the lighting is good and picture quality definitely shows a vibrancy at times, especially when focusing on Dia's red dress.  Skin tones are good and you can see Roy's shaggy hair (Probably one of the worst hair styles in the film for Josh Brolin) to a tired and disheveled Sally (Watts).  But overall, the picture quality is very good, colors range from natural to vibrant, black levels are nice and deep and I saw no hint of artifacting or banding.  AUDIO & SUBTITLES:  "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" is presented in English and French LCR DTS-HD MA.  The film is pretty much a dialogue and music-driven film.  Most of the scenes are with two people talking and there may be scenes with crowds (like at a bar) but for the most part, this is a dialogue-driven film and most of the sound is coming through the front and center channels.  There was one scene with heavy rain but I was expecting a more immersive sound at that point but I didn't really hear it coming from the surround channels.  So, for the most part, dialogue is clean and understandable as with its jazzy music (which works for this film and a style that Woody Allen is known for), the lossless soundtrack is good but don't expect anything  immersive.  Subtitles are presented in English, English SDH and French.  SPECIAL FEATURES:  It is well-known that Woody Allen is not fond of special features and no matter what release you watch of his, the most you're going to get from a Woody Alley DVD or Blu-ray is a theatrical trailer.  And the theatrical trailer of "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" (1:36) is included.  JUDGMENT CALL:  When Woody Allen created "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger", his reasoning to create the film was because of his interest in the concept of "faith in something".  Those who successfully delude themselves seem happier than those who can't.  What I got out of this film were two things.  One, the power of faith and believing something positive and the other is "karma" and how it can come back to get you.  For a Woody Allen film, at first glance, "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" is quite interesting in how Allen is able to take a normal family and easily throw believable things that can literally destroy it.  In the case of this family, Helena is the matriarch but she is so opinionated and blunt that it upsets those around her.  She can't stop, its her nature to say how she feels.  While she seems like it's right, others don't feel that same way.  And thus karma gets her in which her husband leaves her and alienates her family.  But where Helena manages to redeem herself is finding faith, even though the person she believes in, may not be genuine (ala fortune teller), she's happy and the changes she makes in her life leads to happiness.  On the other hand, for Alfie, it's one thing to not like getting badgered by your wife but leaving her to pursue a young woman (a prostitute) and try to live young and live a luxurious lifestyle which he shouldn't have done.  You don't know how much you miss someone until their gone and in Alfie's case, he finds himself in a situation where he goes for a very sexual woman that attracts men and the fact that he is older, he realizes that her lifestyle and how she is...it's too much for him and will probably lead him to a quick death because now he constantly worries about her promiscuity and how much of his money she spends.  And for the daughter Sally, she wants a better life as her once famous novelist of a husband doesn't make money nor can he hold a job.  She wants to grow in her relationship but its not happening.  While most audiences probably may feel sympathetic to her character, the problem is that she is the person that helped egg her mother on to going to a fortune teller in order to make her happy and while it's a success, it ultimately becomes the major force in hurting Sally.  As for Sally's husband Roy, the problem lies in the fact that he starts becoming a voyeur and falls for the woman across the street, gets closer to her and prevents her from finding happiness with another man she is to marry and does the unthinkable by stealing a dead man's novel and gets it published.  Unfortunately, karma will end up biting him in the rear as well.  And the film comes full circle with the fact that Helena does find happiness thanks to her newfound faith in a crooked fortune teller.  "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" was definitely a delightful film that has enough of Woody Allen's humor to make it enjoyable.  But I can see why some people watching this film may feel it was a bit of a drag.  Because really, it's not a film about happy endings, happy marriages and such.  It is a movie about a dysfunctional family and how it begins to impact those into making impulsive decisions.  There is no fighting for the marriage, there is no counseling, these characters think they found their way out by finding love elsewhere.  Gemma Jones does a wonderful job of portraying Helena as a neurotic and paranoid woman.  Anthony Hopkins plays an older man finding a second wave of youthfulness.  Naomi Watts does a great job of playing the wife who wants more and Josh Brolin as the husband and voyeur.  Everyone in this film manages to play their role quite well and Lucy Punch was a much better choice in playing Charmaine and there is just no way I can see Nicole Kidman, who was originally supposed to play Charmaine, in that role.  And Freida Pinto brought a more elegant side to the film as she is the total opposite of Sally.  Overall, "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" may not be a Woody Allen classic and I know many film critics feel that he's just churning out movies that do not reach the levels of the types of films he once created.  But I do believe that every filmmaker goes through various life differences, adjustments in life and as much as some would like original Woody Allen ala 1970's, it's surely not going to happen.  So, far I have managed to enjoy a lot of Allen's later films and while they may not have the resonance of "Manhattan", "Sleeper" or "Annie Hall", they are still quite enjoyable and fun.  "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" was delightful!

Wanderlust Not one of the best comedies I have seen. It was not a part I expected Jennifer Aniston to take. There were some funny parts.

not as good as others This movie plot isn't like some of the others he has made.  Also, if you want family friendly stuff, there is too much immodesty in this one.

Tweaky Backs Need to Modify I love Jillian Michaels!  I wanted to love Killer Buns and Thighs.  First, I did find the interaction between Jillian and her girls annoying after a couple viewings.  Get serious, please.  This is my workout!  Beyond that, the actual workout is tough.  I was on level 1 and needed to modify some of her moves because my knees would kill for days afterwards or my back.  You will have needed someone to really show you how to do burpees with good form before engaging in this workout.  The risk is like me you are a cardio queen with some weight room experience that doesn't translate into good form on some of these combination movements.  So far this workout has resulted in me taking a lot of time off for inflammation (tendinitis/bursitis) and strained back muscles.  =(

Disapointment! 4 adults and 2 children went to see this. We bought the Meridia doll for the oldest girls birthday and then we went to see the movie. The story needed more depth, even for an animated movie. The 5 year old loves movies and she told me she was expecting more. She said Grammy I like the doll better.

classic jack black on blu-ray i found this movie to be really funny, jack black made this movie what it is, its a classic jack black comedy that will have you laughing the whole way through  Pros- really funny, great characters, good story and good picture quality, funny extras and great deleted scenes, the little kid that played chancho was really good and funny  this blu-ray has great picture quality and looks way better than the dvd version, its crisp, sharp and has great colors, along with good audio (dd 5.1)  Cons- i thought the picture quality could have been just a tad bit better a little more special features  i really think its a good clean comedy the whole family can enjoy and you will laugh no matter how many times you watch it, i highly recommend it

A PROBLEM SHARED... Vincent LaMarca (Robert De Niro) is a police officer who has problems with intimacy, sharing, and commitment. These issues are reflected in his estranged son Joey (James Franco) who is a drug user and is wanted for murder of a drug dealer named Picasso (Jay Boryea), a murder he did commit. Frances McDormand plays Michelle, the girlfriend of LaMarca, someone who Di Niro has a hard time confiding in. Eliza Dushku is Joey's drug using girlfriend.  As De Niro and the cops are looking for Joey, so is Spyder (William Forsythe) the drug partner of dead Picasso. This is low action cop drama, which delves into the character of LaMarca, and is perhaps a study in psychology on how we are affected by our relationships with our father. The drama overshadows the crime aspect of the story. Well acted, directed etc. I just wasn't overly entertained by the film...and I blame my father for that.  PARENTAL GUIDE: F-bomb, no sex, no nudity.

Not bad for an outdated medium You can't find many with a VHS player connected to their flat screen mounted TV.  But if you do, this would make a great gift.  Unless they subscribe to cable or movie content over the Internet, in which case they surely have access.

Fairly decent film I had some rather high hopes for this film based on the director and his reasons for why he wanted to make the film.  However, I must say if you are a huge fan of the series then you may feel the movie does not do the series enough justice.  Also, I had a really hard time taking the guy who played Commander Zhou seriously ("The Daily Show" fans may get why, I love him on the show but his on-screen presence doesn't fit with the diabolical Zhou from the series).  The acting from many of the other actors wasn't exactly epic either.  It is a decent movie for action fans, but if you are a huge Avatar: The Last Airbender fan then you may have trouble enjoying it unless you understand how hard it is to compress an entire first season into a couple of hours.

You can tell Neil had a blast making this Sometimes bands like to make tribute albums, where the whole thing is covering songs that influenced them or if they just like it, and in that way Doomsday is Neil Marshall's tribute movie. After giving us the action packed gore-fest Dog Soldiers and one of the scariest movies of the decade The Descent, he toned down the seriousness and turned up the fun for this one. The biggest mistake you as the audience can make is going into this with your brain turned on, but it's understandable if you did since his other movies were treated seriously.  It's kind of baffling really how many ideas are present in Doomsday that get tossed aside or forgotten, the whole virus thing, the U.K. getting infected, all of that was kind of a back slide to the strike team getting chased by the crazy Scottish people who remained. One can make a drinking game when Neil Marshall homages a movie, but you'll likely die of alcohol poisoning if you keep it up all the way to the end. The fact is this is just a bunch of scenes that Neil Marshall wanted to do without very much concern for the story or characters, and the whole thing shifts up so much the audience can either try to follow but be baffled/confused or you can turn your brain off and enjoy the ride.  The main actress I thought was terrible, she had the acting range of a plank and barely batted an eye when her whole squad died in front of her. The other squad members that make it past the first assault were far more interesting, especially the doctor or whoever that *spoi-ah screw it* doctor was that survived the whole thing. The villians were gloriously over-the-top, the woman was complteley tattoo'd up and looks like a circus freak, while the guy looks like the singer from the Prodigy who you can't really take seriously because of his get-up. The best part for me was the car chase scene near the end which shows me I HAVE to watch Mad Max 2, the whole scene was like an adreneline shot to the jugular.  Doomsday isn't a good movie, not by a long shot, but it sure as hell is fun.

Good movie but they are playing out the same old bigoted anti-white stereotypes as seen in many Hollywood shows these days; the Black guy and white woman are the sophisticated hero's, while the two white male agents are unsophisticated and vulgar (Jamie Foxx is a very good actor btw). The movie also reinforces the stereotype that Arabs are maniacal killers that are hell bent on killing Americans. The truth is, the Arabs do not want Hollywood filth destroying their culture as it has done to the USA and Europe and are willing to take a stand when ignorant Ameritard culture invades their country (think jerry springer). It was refreshing to see the running michael moore lookalike doing a head over head when the jeep driver stiched him with the 16. The movie has some very good action scenes except that the RPG shots are really fake looking. The beginning of the movie gives a brief history of oil discovery in Arabia and mentions the 73 oil embargo. What it does not say is that Henry Kissenger engineered the 73 oil embargo in order to give the dollar petro backing since they had just broke from the gold standard in 71. They then engineered a fake war in 73 so that the oil companies could say that the Arabs are punishing the USA for helping the Israelis. This was thoroughly discussed at Bilderberg during that year in Sweden. This is a good movie if you are a thinker,another movie that is recommended is "Wag The Dog".

Disappointing for a 50th Anniversary Edition! This is just a re-release of the 2006 double disc product, except the sleeve graphics are changed. If you're looking for more Baby Jane content, it's not here! I was so hoping for more interviews or commentaries, out-takes, script re-writes, production stills, etc. Why WB won't get B.D. Hyman involved in a featurette is beyond me. She could probably use the cash.

Convoi de femmes "listed as widescreen but is full screen" Just to let others know this pal region 2 dvd release of Westward the Women (Convoi de femmes) is listed as (2.35:1) widescreen but is in fact 1.37:1 full screen The picture quality of the DVD is very good, the mono English soundtrack quality is a little low, all and all a good bare bones release of this classic western

Closer to PG-13 than G Even though I'm a Michael Crichton fan, I just now got around to seeing this (40 years later) since it was free on Amazon Prime. First off, I don't see how this got a G rating. There's brief nudity in it (dead female breasts and live male buttocks) and lots of dead bodies with their eyes plucked out and partially eaten limbs. Not to mention a scene where a dead man's arm is cut open to see powdered blood pour out. Definitely not for small children.  As far as the movie goes, the first half was definitely more entertaining than the second half. The descent into the underground lab reminded me a little bit of Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey". But after that, the movie was basically just four scientists solving a science riddle. Disappointing.

not as good as I remember I watched it after many years, and I remembered it being better. Could that be due to the novelty factor?

Very good TV movie Although it is very stagey and theatrical, and more than a little over-the-top in places, this is a first-rate tv drama with a great cast, a generally strong script, and passable period detail. What's missing are the aerial battles, which the budget didn't allow. It makes a good counterpoint to the feature film "Red Tails" (which has the battles) and the documentary "Double Victory." Definitely worth a watch.

don't believe the hype My wife and I are usually huge fans of Japanese films, especially Japanese horror/suspense/action films. This film came with stellar reviews, not only online but from a couple friends. We were quite excited, because we thought we had found a new treasure to put on the shelf with our collection. We found this NOT to be the case. We have promised a couple friends who were fans of the film, that we would give in another go (and after paying $30 for the DVD you almost have to) but I don't think it will change our minds much. (I will submit another review if by some miracle watching it again changes our minds.   Mr. Sparx

The reviews look good & Brad is still good lookin :) I mite watch this ~ I've yet to have any propensity 4 Brad Pitt ~ featurd ~ films He seems to have aced the market place ~ w/ decades of brad-appeal ~ no doubt ~ I don't know why ~ but then again I mite just shut up & watch this via netflix :)  ....  I did ~ it's pretty well what I thought When the chubby guy is the only entertaining figure Somethings not rite Anyway ~ Brad's best: Se7en Interview w/a Vampire Fight Club & Angelina Jolie :)  Least Brad is more Domestic & thoughtful these days :)

No subtitles and I don't know Spanish I love this show and have yet to see an episode that I didn't like. I have watched every episode and don't typically use subtitles but the last 5 or 6 episodes of season 4 have a lot of spanish but no subtitles. I purchased this season from ebay at a much cheaper price than the $30 that amazon has it listed for because it wasn't on netflix and season 5 was about to begin and I wanted to get caught up and watch every episode in order. This season is now on netflix WITH SUBTITLES! This is a great show but I'm not rating the show because overal this show is a 5 star show but unless you speak spanish you don't get all of the information needed to follow the show.   For instance, in episode 10 Gus, Mike, and Jesse are in Mexico speaking with the drug cartel and Gus is speaking with the kingpen of the cartel who informs Gus that he has crossed the line. It is implied from this that the cartel plans to kill Gus and they have already informed him that Jesse belongs to the cartel now and is going to have to stay in cook. The fact that the cartel was planning to kill Gus is a big deal because (SPOILER ALERT!!!) Gus knows their plan and in turn poisons the men from the cartel while poisoning himself at the same time, then goes to the restroom and vomits the poison out before it can take full effect and kill him.   I say the above because without the subtitles you would be unaware of the fact that the cartel was plotting to kill Gus and that Gus knew this and had to kill the cartel first before he and his men were killed.   I say save yourself the money and watch this on netflix with the subtitles to get the full story of what is going on when the cartel and Gus meet and speak in spanish. Great show but should have spent the extra money on the product to put subtitles in.

3 stars for 3D Well for 3D, i don't really like watching with plastic cyan/blue glasses which comes with BluRay. I thought I could watch on my Sony 55" with Sony Active 3D glasses. So my rate is 3 stars, to pass the times.

Didn't have the "magic" I expected I've been a fan of J.J. Abrams since Lost, Cloverfield, and the reboot of Star Trek.  Paired with Steven Spielberg, I was expecting something great, especially when critics were praising this film so highly.  Many people will say it's a cross between The Goonies, ET, and several other childhood films, which I will agree is *mostly* correct.  However, I found that it seems to lose it's tone about halfway through and the overall theme of childhood innocence gets lost.  I will say the acting is fantastic.  With children as lead actors, their roles are cast perfectly.  A little cliched, perhaps, but the band of friends fits well.  Kyle Chandler as the sheriff/father fits his role quite nicely as well.  The premise builds a nice story of a strained father-son relationship after the death of the mother, as well as takes us through the bonds of friendship and the childhood fun of making a home movie.  On a cinematic standpoint, the camerawork and score work well with the film.  Abrams has always gone over the top to drop the audience into a colorfully distinctive world full of emotion and life, and this film is no different.  What I didn't enjoy were certain elements to the alien/monster itself, which caused the story to stray from being about childhood innocence amidst a supernatural crisis to being about children stuck in a violent battle between humans and the alien.  Ignoring the cliched components of a secret military train getting derailed, I had expected this film to veer toward being about an ET-like creature, where ET was misunderstood by scientists but was a caring creature deep down that only a child could understand.  This alien, however, doesn't seem to value human life and showed no restraint in lashing out with unsympathetic violence (aside from a random scientist it decided to bond with early in the film).  Some may argue that this is a more realistic or simply different portrayal, which is better since Abrams most likely didn't want to remake ET.  However, I felt that it took away from the warmness that the film could have offered and made it more gritty as it got to the end.  Aside from that, I'm not a fan of movies where suspending disbelief is overly necessary, but this film absolutely requires it.  From the overly dramatic train wreck scene to the battle where kids are running around unchallenged by the plethora of soldiers, I found myself sighing with disappointment.  That and, despite being called "Super 8", the kids' film really doesn't play as big of a role as I would have thought.  In fact, in the last third, it is virtually nonexistent.  It was a nice attempt to create a unique film and I will not deny that the basic premise, acting, and camerawork are fantastic.  However, I just didn't feel the *magic* that many critics said this film had.

Healthy Recipes I could argue with some of the premises in the first half of the book,such as preventing soil erosion or water polution by becoming a vegan.  Farms that raise plants contribute huge amounts of polution in the form of pesicides and nitrates to our water systems. Animals can be raised on land unsuitable for cultivation, in humane and healthy ways.  However, the premise that eating animal proteins causes most of our modern diseases is reason enough to try some of the very interesting recipes in this book. For the most part, the recipes seem to be simple to prepare, without too many exotic ingredients, and very healthy. The recipe for making a substitute for cheese to use in Quesadillas, without using tofu, is worth the price of the book. Soybean products like tofu are contributing a lot to global warming ( rain forests are being cut down to plant soy beans), and pollution (almost all soybeans are GMO ,genetically modified, and grown in a chemical bath). They also contain hormone like substances that could contribute to the growth of cancer. This book contains lots of recipes without tofu, so is to be recommended.

Pregnancy workout DVD Its OK.  I was doing P90X prior to pregnancy unfortunately I was not able to do any workouts for my first trimester due to severe migraines.  Once my migraines eased up (2nd trimester)I tried this and it just wasn't the right fit for me.  I felt that it wasn't really doing anything for me and I got easily bored.

Not like the play I didn't buy this DVD, but I had a chance to see it.  To me the play is much better, like of of Tyler Perry's movies.

Hmmmm ...I found it ok Of course, one can see by the ratings given here at Amazon most people seem to have enjoyed Orphan. I found it to be ok at best. In order to enjoy the movie one has to suspend one's disbelief in order to believe as the father in the movie says "...that a 9 year could do that..." and then when you get to the surprise twist near the end of the movie you have to suspend your disbelief again I could say more about it but I don't want to give anything away. The plot is not anything original. If you've seen The Good son, The Bad Seed, The Omen you have an idea of how the movie is going to go for at least the first half of the movie just by looking at the movie poster. I saw the movie with other people and they seemed to enjoy it more than I did. For me it was mostly a "been there, done that or seen it before" type of thing mixed with an inability to suspend my disbelief. I didn't give it a bad review mostly beacuse of the girls' acting and because if other people enjoyed it while I watched it with them then it can't be all bad, can it?

Mediocre Just not very good. Was really looking forward to viewing this, but Live Aid is a far better take of Queen's work. This video is just too dated. Not their fault, just that shows and sound have come a long way since this was recorded.

Lack of description Blue Ray is Region 1. Amazon is usually pretty good with listing regions, therefore I bought this thinking it wasn't region locked. but it is - region 1!

They really could have made this movie better PA1 was fantastic. Really had you checking under your bed. PA2 was great too. The guys basically handled the haunting in the  same way, but you'd expect that as these story lines happened parallel to each other (same time period). But, it's like they slapped PA3 together like late homework. Then there's the same story line with oh, something's happening so the guy puts up cameras and nobody notices what's on the film til it's too late. The people that made PA1 and PA2 showed a true gift. Guess the gift ran out!

A tight little thriller with some significant flaws Paul Conroy, a private contractor, working as a truck driver in Iraq, wakes up after an ambush to discover he is inside a wooden coffin buried beneath the desert sand. He has nothing but a lighter, a flask with whiskey, some pills and a cell phone provided to him by his captors. He begins to make desperate calls for help as time drags on and his situation becomes more and more dire.  This is the premise (and a large portion of the plot) of BURIED, an independent film from Spain, starring Ryan Reynolds in what is essentially a one-man show. It's a tense little thriller that is nearly spoiled by some serious flaws. Reynolds gives a fairly convincing performance as a fairly ordinary guy who begins his ordeal in a panic and only gradually finds his way to calm. At least, he's calm for awhile.  The movie is mostly the various conversations he has with the outside world. Grappling with lost signals (and a dying battery), answering machines and a disbelieving bureaucracy. He can't reach his loved ones. He can't convince his captors that he doesn't have $5 million dollars to exchange for his freedom. There's really nothing he can do about his situation...he has no way to break free and must rely entirely on a world of people who aren't quite as motivated as he is.  Director Rodrigo Cortes does a good job of finding as many ways of filming the events of the films as he can. His camera swoops around inside the coffin, yet we always have the claustrophobic feeling. The film has a simple premise (sort of in the way that OPEN WATER was a simple, claustrophobic little film), but Cortes and company grab all they can out of it.  However, even though we can believe that Conroy would frequently panic and make some bad decisions...he makes too many bad choices. When he does reach people on the phone, he does an unbelievably bad job of convincing them that he really needs their help. I can believe him losing his cool once or twice...but he does it fairly consistently. And when he finally DOES reach someone who might be willing to help, he spends a lot of time sharing unneeded information. He knows his battery is running down, yet he often wastes his breath. It got to the point where I occasionally thought, "Well, if he dies, he has no one to blame but himself." (Notwithstanding that he didn't put himself in the coffin.)  Worst of all, though...the film manages to take some pretty nasty jabs at the mission in Iraq and make some attempts at moral relativism. One of the folks working to help Conroy, a hostage expert in Iraq, actually tries to explain away the terrorist acts as the work of people who will simply do anything to survive. "You'd do the same if you were in their situation, Paul," this awful man says. REALLY??? If a time comes when the only way I can think to feed my family is to kidnap folks and bury them alive...go ahead and shoot me. To dare suggest that Americans would be just as bad as these terrorist extremists is a mighty big (and offensive) argument for a little thriller to make. For unsubtle, unearned and unsubstantiated political/social statements inserting themselves where they don't belong, BURIED takes the cake.  The day after seeing the film, what I remember most is not the tension and excitement and fear...but the bad taste in my mouth from the group of Spanish filmmakers and producers who took pot shots at America.  I mention all this, because the film is generally very effective (though not as tense as some other reviews I've read have implied). If you don't mind the politics I mention, by all means enjoy the film. If you find the premise intriguing enough that you think you need to overlook the politics...then you'll have a good time. I just wish someone had warned me.

Movie OK 3D not The 3D content is no where to be found if you are looking for the pop-out of screen, which I am. Yes people and objects are 3D that's about it,sorry

See The Whole Series in Order by Date Made This is my least favorite of the Apes stories. Still, it provides an important link in the story loop. Yes, it is a loop. After all, when you blow up the entire planet in the second film, you've got to do something strange to create a third. But that's next Tuesday.  This one opens with Astronaut Brent (James Franciscus) bending over the dying body of his commander beside the burnt body of their space ship. They had followed the pathway of Taylor in order to rescue him and his crew if possible. They don't know at first that they are on Earth, but they do know that they are way far ahead in time; some 2,000 years, as a matter of fact. Right after he buries his commander, he sees Nova coming toward him on a horse, and tries to communicate with her. In the process, he discovers that she is wearing Taylor's dog-tags. He seems to have made her understand that he wanted her to take him to Taylor, and she tries.  Problem is, Taylor disappeared into thin air and she has no way to tell that to Brent. So all she can do is take him to Zera, the kindly chimpanzee veterinarian who had helped her and Taylor escape from the apes. That was what Taylor had told her to do if she lost him: find Zera. So Brent and Nova are hiding in the bushes near the town plaza while the Gorilla general declares they must go into the Forbidden lands and take them over to make up for the crops the humans had destroyed in the last round-up. He knows there's someone living out there, but it's not at all clear how he knows that.  So Brent and Nova sneak into Zera and Cornelius's house (they've been married in the interim, apparently), where Zera patches up Brent's wound and helps them get away from the city. The rescue is a clever one, but I won't ruin it for you. Suffice to say the pair are free in the badlands, but there are gorillas hunting for them. They hide in a cave and discover it is actually what's left of the New York subway system. So now Brent knows where he is.  He overhears the soldiers mention that they were told to hunt for them until they find them, and so Brent decides they will follow the subway tracks and go further underground. Eventually they discover an underground "civilization" made up of what are nominally humans but have some powers we don't. And they have a bomb, the Doomsday Bomb. They worship it.  Brent is questioned and tortured by the underground people, who consider themselves very peaceful. They don't kill their enemies, they get them to kill each other. Sure enough, Brent is thrown into a prison cell with Taylor, and the two are forced to fight. I won't tell you how they get out of that mess, or indeed anything more of what happens, except as I say, the Doomsday Bomb is detonated.  I couldn't help hearing "We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when . . ."

not a very technologically advanced future, but still has its moments... Reflecting some of the social and political turmoil at the time, the science fiction drama Soylent Green (1973) features a world where society is in decline, food is scarce, and the government is scrambling to maintain control.  Although set in the year 2022, there really isn't much featured in the film that is very technically advanced.  Despite some futuristic trappings, the film has the flavor of a 70's urban crime drama, with Charlton Heston, the star of the science fiction classic The Planet of the Apes, in another iconic role in the genre.  Some spoilers follow.  Living conditions are not very good, for the average American in 2022.  Food is being rationed, many are homeless, and there is a huge gap between the lower class, and those few who are privileged.  Soylent Green, a food product made from plankton, is one of the prime sources of food.  Heston plays Robert Thorn, a police investigator in New York City, who is called to investigate the murder of William Simonson (Joseph Cotten) an executive in the Soylent Corporation.  Visiting the dead man's luxury apartment, Thorn questions Shirl (Leigh Taylor-Young), Simonson's companion, and Tab Fielding (Chuck Connors) his bodyguard, and comes to the conclusion that the executive was assassinated.  How bad conditions are, is illustrated by Thorn's looting of Simonson's possessions.  Simple objects such as liquor and a bar of soap, are regarded as minor treasures.  The policeman lives in a rundown neighborhood, in a no-frills apartment house, where people sleep on the stairs.  Thorn gives his roommate Sol Roth (Edward G. Robinson), a researcher, some reports regarding Soylent Green that he lifted from Simonson's pad.  Thorn uses his authority as a cop to take advantage of opportunities that come his way, including the pleasures of Shirl's company.  Thorn`s refusal to let the Simonson's case die quietly has repercussions, as he is pulled off the case and demoted, and attempts are made to kill him.  From reading the reports, Sol reaches conclusions which cause him to decide to end his life, at a facility dedicated to assisting death.  The scene featuring a dying Roth viewing images from nature, is one of the most memorable in the movie, and is one of the few instances of "advanced" technology.  The interplay between Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson is quite emotional, and assumes a greater significance beyond the film.  Robinson was actually quite sick, and sadly passed away, a few weeks after shooting wrapped.  While making his last film, Robinson supposedly only told Heston, how terribly ill he was.  Sol secretly revealing to Thorn the dreaded truth that he has discovered, as the audience is kept in the dark, solemnly mirrors reality.  Thorn follows the disposition of Sol's dead body, and confirms the truth regarding Soylent Green.  Before Star Wars (1977) changed the landscape, science fiction in the 1970's was usually downbeat, with some kind of cautionary message.  Soylent Green, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000TPA4C">Planet of the Apes</a> (1968), and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00008438U">The Andromeda Strain</a> (1971), are three examples.  What is interesting is how low tech and dated Soylent Green really is.  Even the video game featured in the film, which was cutting edge at time, was a laughable relic just a few years later.  The weapons used are nothing special, Thorn wears a ridiculous looking modified football helmet for protection, and communicates with police headquarters on a glorified public telephone.  Although technology may be in short supply, and the story may seem rather lightweight now, the film does have a certain gritty quality, that played well, as Soylent Green was quite well received.  Although 50 years old, Heston was that era's equivalent of an action hero, and he is still plenty tough enough.  Edward G. Robinson and Leigh Taylor-Young, add a little humanity to a reality that is cold and bleak.  If you are interested in one of the more significant science fiction entries from the 1970's, don't pass this one up.

More than a bit hokey Slow developing plot requires you suspend all belief in physics, genetics, technological capabilities, .... Not at all what I expected based on the promos and hype, and not worth the money IMHO.

Lame story ~ Fun 3D The story was pretty lame, but it was really fun to watch in 3D.  With the limited number of 3D movies available on the market, it's worth buying.

Brother Bear Was Made By Who?? Brother Bear, produced by Disney in 2003, is a "coming of age" movie set in the Inuit culture. The main character, Kenai undergoes the ceremony where he is given his spirit totem and must encapsulate the essence of it before he can fully become a man. However, at the death of his eldest brother by a bear, he makes it his mission to exact vengeance and so sets out in his hatred of the very animal of which his spirit totem takes its shape. While on his quest, he is transformed into a bear himself and must travel with a young cub - whom he learns to love as a surrogate brother - to find where the "Light touches the Earth," where he can be transformed back into a human.  Through the story, there is humor, of which I thoroughly enjoyed. The two moose, Rutt and Tuke, banter back and forth through the scenes and one even performs yoga poses as his morning exercise. These two are the main reason I would recommend the movie to my peers. However, it is also a rather sad movie, especially for Disney. I was surprised at the emotions that it evoked from me, and at a few points I nearly cried. This is the only thing I would caution families about. If a family has young children, I would suggest the parents watch the movie beforehand to make sure it is appropriate for their personalities. The main reason I gave the movie a three star review instead of four, though, is because of the music. It was not bad, I just did not feel that it was up to the standards of other Disney productions. The music was done by Phil Collins, whom I enjoy, but it made me think more of Tarzan than the movie I was watching. I would have liked a little more variety in the musicians involved and the general sound of each song as they seemed to all sound the same.  Overall, I enjoyed the movie, and would watch it again. I really enjoyed the two brother moose, and the other humor that was written in. However, because of the grief it evokes in the audience I would hesitate to recommend it to families with young children. Also, I was disappointed with the music, having higher expectations from past Disney works such as The Lion King, Aladdin, and many of the other classics.

Meh I had mistaken this movie for BloodSport, and was of course disappointed. It was ok, but BloodSport is much better.

Sad excuse for the production play Having seen the stage production 6 times my expection was high. But, if you have seen the stage production save your money and pass this dog up. Why did they not just film the stage version in Her Majasity theater where it has been playing for 25 years. Surly they could have had a reunion of the original cast to present at the end. But no we get Albert Hall, probably the worse place in the world to have a stage play. Constantly seeing bright LCD lights that distracted from this play, watching gang planks going up and down, noise, and about every part of the mechanics in view. The Phantom was so poorly sung and played I wondered if he every heard of his role. Apparently studying Michael Crawfors role was never considered. This dog was so poorly directed, and was held in such a poor location that not even the rising and crashing of the chandelier was possible, which is one of the most amazing part of the stage production. This done solely for money and nothing else.  The movie version was terriable and this production is just barely better.  Beg, borrow or steal money, fly to NY and see it on Broadway before one day it ends, you will never regret it.  Stay away also from the 25 year special package also, not only does it not even have the show DVD, it's just a book.  Maybe someday Andrew Lloyd Weber will explain why he never filmed the original play in London when it first played and had the original cast.  Maybe he can explain why, if you are going to have a 25 year show you hire the finest singers and players in the world, then find a first class place to show it. If Louisville, KY, Atlanta, GA, DC, NY , La and others can show the play in its original form why could not this bunch.  This is a sad affair, even in the movie house.  But, for all you who can't or will never see the stage production just don't expect much and watch the many YouTube clips of Michael  Crawfor to get a sense of how this play is really like.  Paul Louisville, ky

A bit formulaic, decent, but the ending ruined it It was really hard to rate this film. On the one hand, the character of the spooky landlord falling for the beautiful new tenant has been done before. Hilary Swank, ER doctor, fresh from a broken relationship, moves into an absolutely gorgeous, huge and surprisingly cheap NYC apartment after advertising she needed someplace to live. Like a miracle, a super nice landlord practically gives the place to her after he's finished remodeling it.  He spies on her, watching her comings and goings, basically so he can turn up where she is, pretend it's accidental, and get more chances to talk to her. Okay, chilling enough, but once she decides to consider seeing her former boyfriend again things go haywire. And all that's done well. It's scary, suspenseful and the plot zooms.  But, then... Things get so improbable it's almost laughable. Hard to believe Swank took this role, considering the last half or so of the movie. How the landlord went about getting her info in the first place is just insanely stupid. Likewise how things go in the last quarter or so of the film are almost slapstick it's so weird.  I can't really recommend the movie. I've seen worse, but the ending left a bad taste in my mouth, and that's the impression I'm left with. Swank fans who want to see all her films may want to rent it, but that's about it. Oh well.

Stupid Funny Generally moronic, but funny as a result.  Like, who would conjur up "the only white kid in a black sharecropper family?"  Some lines that are classics, as, "...that's all I need...  Just this chair....  and this waffle maker...  and that's ALL I NEED ....  this chair and this wafflemaker.. and that's ALL I NEED...  and this..."  Good for a yuck or two.

Extreme but Worthwhile Larry Clark's Ken Park is probably unlike any film you've ever seen. The basic premise is easy enough : suburbia is not always the clean respectable place it seems. Underneath the normalcy there lies a world of secrets and terror worse than our greatest nightmares. People are trapped in this world and the only way out may be extreme.  Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn( James Bullard) seems to be the most conventional except for the monor fact that he's sleeping with his girlfriend's mother (Maeve Quinlan). Tate (James Ransone) is brimming with psychotic rage and living with his grandparents in a powderkeg on the verge of exploding; Claude (Stephen Jasso) is habitually harassed by his brutish father for his skating lifestyle and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother(Amanda Plummer). Peaches(Tiffany Limos) looks after her devoutly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They're all rather tight, or so they claim. But they spend precious little time together and none of them seems to know much about one another's family lives. This bizarre dichotomy underscores their alienation as the result of suburban ennui, a teenager's inherent sense of melodrama, and the disturbing nature of their home environments.  Clark doesnt shy away from difficult subject matter but sometimes he gets extreme. This film has been banned in many countries for its frank and disturbing sexuality even though the portrayal is far from erotic. While this is not a film that many will enjoy it does have much to recommend it. Most of its critics fail to view the film for its story and focus rather on the nudity involved. That said I find much to recommend this effort even though it is rather difficult viewing.

So dumb it's good I'm fairly divided on most movies. They fall into three categories for me: awesome, boring, and painful to watch. Goth is one of those films that carefully toes the line between awesome and painful to watch, in much the same way as a Coen Brothers film. Unlike any of the Coen Brothers' work, however, Goth is a low-budget, homemade festival of bizarre stupidity tailor-made to be full of intentional cheese. The plot concerns a late teen or early twentysomething Gothic couple who live together in an apartment in LA. The beginning of the film makes a huge point of how goth they are, and the couple constantly talking about how goth they are. Then they go to a goth club, just to show how goth they are. Even more Gothic by far? They meet a girl named Goth. Goth gets the couple wigged out on drugs and leads them on a hedonistic spree of sex and murder. I will say that each and every one of the scenes of sex and violence is impossibly funny coupled with Goth's rants about worshipping death and embracing the darkness. Just from that summary you've probably figured out by now that this movie sounds absolutely horrible: it is. However, if you enjoy fake blood and guts, hammy b-list actors pretending to act crazy and/or scared in something vaguely resembling a high school drama performance, and silly lines, you may very well find Goth's infuriating lack of any cinematic quality to be its main charm.

A movie for white conservative Southerns to feel good about themselves! Nothing wrong with that really.  This movie is technically good and in another league than many other films with overt Christian themes (with the exception of the Narnia films) in terms of production values. Michael Ohrer is a role model in how he overcame his poor childhood to the NFL through sweat and determination.  Here's the downside:  This film misleads people as to how inept Ohrer was on the football field before arriving at the Tuohy's house. He was a 6-5 black kid who didn't know anything about football, you see. It would see this angle was inserted to make it appear that the Tuohy's generosity was entirely based on their Christian principles, when in reality, 100% of the black boys they adopted went on to their alma mater and the NFL.  In short, this movie literally vilifies all blacks except Ohrer himself. The problem with race relations in America, this movie teaches us, is black people. A scene where Bullock's character threatens some black thugs by telling them she's a member of the NRA is torn from the white Republican fantasy book of the nature of crime and violence.  The Tuohys just might've saved Ohrer's life, but they all don't need to be so proud of themselves about it.

No shortage of testosterone <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00008MZ0O">Johnny Strong</a> is Sean Riley, a New Orleans cop, a sort-of poor man's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002Z7FWBI">Dirty Harry</a>. His son has died, and his wife has left him. Oh, and his partner's been killed in a shootout. So Riley has little interest in going by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0135121035">the book)</a>. He soon has a new partner (Kevin Phillips), and the two are assigned to investigate a series of grisly murders. The murders lead to a gang investigation, a potential gang war, and perhaps even a military conspiracy.  The plot, consisting of hackneyed tropes that we've seen many times before, is pretty much a pretext for a lot of gunplay and macho posturing along the lines of "If you touch my family, I'll kill you." That's not to say this film is awful. It's not. But it's nothing new either. There are nice touches here and there and a particularly violent and sadistic means of torture, but there are numerous missed opportunities along the way that make the film pretty much a must-see for only die-hard action fans. For me, though, it was just a way to pass 90 minutes.

no digital copy got this but no digital copy very unhappy with this i dont know if ill buy a blue ray again

Good, but didn't quite capture the cartoon's magic As a child of the 80s, I was a big fan of the Smurfs and was excited when I heard they were making a movie. And as the movie stands on its own, it's an okay kids movie. The cast is great and the animated smurfs are cute. But it didn't reinvigorate the same magic that the cartoon held. A few things bugged me, like the fact that they planted the smurfs into current-day NYC, the voices of the smurfs were not as easy to distinguish as in the cartoon, and while I love the cast, I didn't feel as though Neil Patrick Harris really connected with his little blue co-stars, although he did a fine job. Azrael the cat too is played by a real cat, with a few animations added and just ended up looking silly. I would have rather seen a movie completely in 3D animation, no live actors, and set in the smurf village and forest. All in all, an okay movie but not for the smurfy at heart.

Love this Movie! Love the movie...just wish th HD transfer looked better but i guess you can't do too much.  though i will say it is  a vast improvement over the last dvd release!

Short Version I love the colorized version, if only for seeing it in a different light. The problem is that they chose to restore and colorize the short 60m version instead of the full 87 min version which has been available for quite a while. In addition there are different versions of the shorter 60m version that are in the public domain. For the price its worth the curiosity.

An ambitious film, which lacks a vital component. The film, "Perfume", directed and cowriten by German director, Tom Tykwer, is based on a novel I read shortly after it was published in 1985. I recall then thinking that is was an odd story, which seemed to have few cinematic virtues. This movie tends to confirm my point.  The first thing which strikes me is that the dialogue is thin as a weak broth, made from old bones. I find myself in disagreement with several professional critics when I say that the most enjoyable scenes in the film are those with Dustin Hoffman as the old Parisian perfumer, Baldini. Those scenes have at least some reasonable amount of exposition by a character rather than the clinical voice of John Hurt who does the narration, an unseen voice. Some critics complained about Hoffman's over the top acting, a bit too "kitch". Well, maybe it was, but it seemed to be one of the few traces of real life, however "overdone."  My strongest memory from the novel was the discovery that the main character, the infant who was to be given the name Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, played by relatively unknown actor Ben Whishaw, had no smell whatsoever. This comes very early in the novel, setting the scene for what is to motivate the principle character throughout the story. This revelation does not come out in the film until about 2/5 of the way through it, leaving us with no strong explanation for why Grenouille is so entranced by the smell of the young apricot seller (the Wikipedia plot summary says plums. They look far more like apricots to me.)  The unique absence of all sent from the child is replaced in the film by its beginning with a scene where Grenouille is sentenced to a horrible execution. Most of the remainder of the film is a flashback about his life leading up to that scene, which plays out in a manner which should confirm (if nothing up to that point does not drive home this point) that the story is a fantasy. But it's a fantasy based on a very slim extrapolation of reality. What if a human had as acute a smell as a dog, for example. This is played out when Grenouille demonstrates for himself that his extract of the fragrance of his first victim is recognized by that victim's dog. We are reminded of this evidence later in the film.  For those who are annoyed by spoilers in reviews, you may wish to stop now.  I found several scenes in the film which were simply too unrealistic to accept, similar to a Sci Fi movie about people in outer space where they can hear sounds in the vacuum of space or they walk as if there were gravity where there can't be any. The most jarring was in the execution scene, where, having been stripped to the waist and chained to the wall of a locked cell, Grenouille manages to retain possession of not only his vial of perfume made from the 13 essences of the fragrance of his 13 victims, but he retains a handkerchief by which he can disperse the fragrance to the crowd assembled to view his execution. Perhaps the whole unreality of the scene is signaled when Grenouille arrives at the execution stage dressed like a dandy, in a carriage fit for royalty, instead of the hay cart we are so familiar with from the French Revolution.  Less "unreal", but similarly jarring was the scene in Baldini's laboratory where Grenouille creates an improvement over a perfume Baldini was trying to copy. It was reasonable to believe that Grenouille's talent enabled him to identify the five or six components of this perfume, but as he himself states, he knows the smells, but he does not know the names or how to capture them. So how does Grenouille assemble the components he needs by selecting sealed containers, with labels. The business as Grenouille enters Baldini's laboratory suggests he can distinguish each of the smells from the hundreds of containers by smell alone. I suspect that would be beyond the capabilities of even a bloodhound.  Bottom line is that the film is about the sense of smell, which may be virtually impossible to convey in a film. But wait, wasn't there a very successful film entitled "The Scent of a Woman" which seemed to succeed in conveying that idea. The very slow pace of this film, with precious little dialogue to speak of, tends to be just a bit boring. Which is odd, because my memory of the novel was that it was anything but boring. Here, Hoffman, pulls off a good scene or two, and Alan Rickman is almost totally wasted, with very little dialogue. If the roles of Narrator and  Antoine Richis, the 13th victim's father, were reversed, at least we would have been treated to Rickman's delightfully serious sounding voice. Hurt's voice seemed to lack character, the same way the principle character lacked a fragrance.  The proper bookends of the film perhaps should have been Grenouille's triumph in finding a proper fragrance to replace his own lack of one.

Half a Music Man Quality of video is good audio is also good . However playback halts then go's forward off and on near middle in library scene

Good Movie This is a great movie.  Robert Downey Jr. is a great actor. Recommend H.S. kids/college kids watch this film.

Not For Book Lovers The movie was poor compared with the book. As a different story, it was ok. The acting & characters were good. I liked that the personalities of the characters reflected the book.

good The seller had shipped it immediatly, which was nice. But I am rating on the movie itself. I always like the book better. And in case of the Twilight series, the books are much better than the movies!

Yogalosophy Yogalosophy provides a good workout and it's a good addition to a regular yoga routine. Just be warned that Mandy Ingber isn't an actual yoga teacher. She just does yoga and knows her favorite moves.

intrigue and romance intended for the Twilight crowd... Farfetched and formulaic, the action/adventure Abduction (2011) seems to be primarily focused upon entertaining a teenage audience, as the film attempts to capitalize on the popularity of Taylor Lautner, hot from his recent appearances in the Twilight films.  Some spoilers follow.  While doing research for a school project with his friend Karen Murphy (Lily Collins), Nathan Harper (Lautner)  discovers evidence that his parents may not be his biological parents.  When Nathan contacts a website for missing kids, his location is traced, black ops terrorist Nikola Kozlow (Michael Nyqvist) is alerted, and a pair of hitmen are deployed to the Harper residence.  Nathan's father (Jason Isaacs) and mother (Maria Bello) are both killed, and their home destroyed, leaving Nathan and an injured Karen in shock.  At a hospital, Nathan calls the police, but he gets connected to CIA operative Frank Burton (Albert Molina), who tells him what he already knows, that someone is after him.  With the help of Geri Bennett (Sigourney Weaver), Nathan's psychiatrist, the young couple manage to escape.  Bennett says she works for the CIA, and that Nathan's real father Martin, was also a CIA agent.  The pair is soon on their own, following clues that have them on a train bound for Nebraska, with both the CIA and the Kozlow's terrorists tracking them.  Eventually, after surviving several attempts on his life, Harper is contacted by Koslow, and they arrange to meet at a Pittsburg Pirates game.  Abducted, actually has no abduction, but is jam packed with clich&eacute;d elements.  It may be unfair to judge the movie by "adult" standards, as intended mostly for teens, it has a different set of priorities.  The romance element slows the pace a bit, and probably makes the film longer than it needs to be.  Fortunately Taylor Lautner and Lily Collins (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002VECM72">The Blind Side</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005LAII0I">Mirror Mirror</a>) have very good chemistry, as their characters spend most of the film joined at the hip.  A few years from now, it would not be at all surprising, if the bewitching Collins has the more distinguished career.  Lautner handles the action and fight sequences competently enough, but the story lacks credibility, as the screenplay is dialed down so that Nathan Harper can appear to be on equal footing with both the CIA, and a ruthless terrorist.  Those expecting a taught action thriller will probably be disappointed, but Abduction isn't quite as bad as some have said.  Keeping in mind the kind of movie it is, it's a decent watch, particularly while it is available to Prime members.

You Sunk....My Brain! Tell me how great this screenplay is, Alex Hopper (Taylor Kitsch) steals a burito to impress a hot girl at a bar, gets arrested,  is forced to join the Navy by his brother (Alexander Skarsgard) and suddenly has an important role on a battleship. I should mention that he's also immature and starts fights while in the Navy. What could be such the thing to shape him up?  Well, an alien attack of course. If he was my only hope during an alien attack, I'd jump overboard.   So, why 3 stars? You still get Liam Neeson as a bad ass once again even if he's not shown enough. While a big soldier with no legs up against an alien in a fist fight, actually made me smile. I also loved the old timers who help out during the attack. Have just them against aliens in a sequel, then sign me up! The film is a great example of a guilty pleasure movie. Movies based on boardgames? I can't wait for Operation with Hugh Laurie trying remove an alien from someone's chest...

Watchable but paper thin in some regards I hadn't seen this movie since it first came out, so I bought a copy here on Amazon and after watching it, I quickly remembered why I was lukewarm on the film years ago. This is an action film that definitely fits the 1980s style of Hollywood action movies. In that respect, it's pretty good. A large portion of the film is actually dedicated to action scenes and operations. However, that's also part of the downside of the movie. There is very little character development or even plot development for that matter. The movie seems to be little more than a series of scenes in which the SEAL team flips between the US and missions in the Middle East, with no mention of the travel time between. Since the debut of this movie there have been so many movies, documentaries and books about these kinds of units and others that the movie seems kind of quaint and out-of-touch with reality. The supposedly Arabic venues don't seem too bad, but the Arabic actors are a bit cheesy compared to those in more current films, and as mentioned before, the SEAL aspect seems a bit contrived and unrealistic. However, if you can put those concerns aside, this is a fairly watchable film. The characters that make up the SEAL team are interesting and even quirky in some cases without going over the top and the Middle Eastern situations are just realistic enough to make that part of the movie seem plausible. If you like 1980s action films, this one is worth checking out.

Irwin Allen's "The Lost World": Not Exactly a Classic But Enjoyable [This is a review about the 1960 version of "The Lost World" produced and directed by Irwin Allen.]  The name of Irwin Allen brings back good old memories of so-called "disaster movies" popular back in the 1970 -bloated but still enjoyable productions with all-star cast. Before making such films as "The Towering Inferno" and "The Poseidon Adventure," he has directed several films himself including the 1960 version of "The Lost World." This is not totally a bad film, and the cast is very interesting, but Allen's rendition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic adventure tale lacks something - budget and, more importantly, imagination.  The story is loosely based on the original book published in 1912. To prove his epoch-making discovery, Professor Challenger (Claude Rains with a beard) and his team travel deep into the Amazon plateau, where he claims prehistoric creatures still prowl in the jungle. As the film is set in modern times, his expedition team goes to the Amazon by airplane and helicopter. Not exactly a thrilling build-up to the adventure tale.  Anyway, in addition to the main characters from the original - a renowned hunter Lord John Roxton (Michael Rennie, "Klaatu" of the original "The Day the Earth Stood Still"), a newspaper journalist Edward Malone (David Hedison) and Challenger's rival Professor Summerlee (Richard Haydn) - we get three additional characters for the film including a socialite Jennifer Holmes (Jill St. John). Oh, and I almost forgot her dog (a poodle, not a Chihuahua).  I was pretty impressed with the special effects using live lizards (with some horns attached), but no matter how the film tires, they are lizards and they look like ones. Acting is decent, if not special, but the film's drawn-out storyline and one subplot about the helicopter pilot need improvement. As to the adventures or actions described here, compared to "Journey to the Center of the Earth" that precedes Allen's film by one year, "The Lost World" lacks suspense and imagination.  But I still like the film for what it is - an old-fashioned adventure film. Maybe this is not a classic, but still worth your time especially if you enjoyed the director's past works like me.

I had fun The usual trouble for me with "Tribute" programs are when the honoree performs and it becomes a bit self serving. That being said, this show was good not because the maestro appeared to be enjoying himself(he clearly was)but because of the energy of the performances,particularly Gal Costa.I'm not a Herbie Hancock fan but he did a serviceable job conducting the proceedings.I like my jazz old school and some of the improv was a touch too avant garde from the younger guys. While an avid Jobim lover,I wouldn't suggest rushing out to get this one,but it's makes a nice addition for your musical DVD library.

The Gravedancers Mike Mendez follows up his gory cult-classic THE CONVENT with this supernatural shocker from beyond the grave! A group of friends are haunted by three malevolent spirits after they make the mistake of dancing on their graves in a drunken stupor the night of their friend's wake. They call in a pair of paranormal investigators to help them with their troubles, but they soon find out that they only have until the next full moon to dispel the curse, or else their souls will join those of the dead. THE GRAVEDANCERS starts off with an interesting premise and a number of solid scares, but it seems to lose itself with the introduction of Dr. Cochet and his assistant. The psychological terror is then replaced with outright horror in a number of over-the-top action sequences that act against the film's credibility. Its creepy costume designs do work in its favor, but are again a far reach from reality. Altogether, Mendez pulls together a decent mood and atmosphere that is unfortunately hampered by a weak script and questionable performances.  -Carl Manes I Like Horror Movies

Action + SciFi This is a great mix of science fiction and action.  Time travel is one of the big questions and this film gives an entertaining scenario without pretending to give an answer to the currently unanswerable.

If you really love anthropology...read this first I think that the producer bought footage from many different sources and put this together with only the most sensational parts. While fascinating and down-right wrenching on the tastebuds at times...it doesn't have as much in depth information about the cultures as I hoped (expected) there to be. I must add though that the scenes of small tribes that eat 1 whale a year was done really well for all the whale-loving viewers out there. It really made me appreciate the concept, "live simply so that other may simply live." It in not as BBC-like (brainiac) as I hoped. Scenes of what all people eat around the world was an eye opener. My mother, who is 70 years old, didn't finish it, and she is a retired nurse!

Not what I expected The movie is the movie, and I'm sure it's good and all. However, the description states that it's audio choices are English, French and ARABIC. I bought it all excited and found out that when they say Arabic, they mean Spanish. Fix this.

Strange...But With Heart The best thing that "Edward Scissorhands" has going for it is that it was directed by Tim Burton, perhaps the only man who could make this story move us.  Unfortunately, Burton is also this film's biggest downfall by intermixing his cinematic and stereotype gobbledegook into the overall plot.  For a basic plot summary, this film sees a boy named Edward (Johnny Depp), who has scissors instead of normal hands, brought down from his lonely, deserted castle to live in suburbia.  After all the appropriate hijinks such a situation perpetuates, Edward falls in love with his new family's daughter Kim (played by Winona Ryder), which only further complicates matters.  The reason this isn't an "instant classic" despite the never-before-seen concept and compelling visuals?  For almost three quarters of the movie, director Burton (as is his style) mishmashes all sorts of stereotypical human themes and doesn't make sense of any of them.  It is all just a jumble & mess.  It's kind of like "Being John Malkovich", in a sense, where the concepts and visuals are the movie, not the actual plot itself.  How can I enjoy this movie, then?  Because, in the end, it truly is about love and having a big heart.  For me, when everything else falls aside and the focus is squarely on Edward & Kim is where this film will move you.  Ryder is able to perfectly capture the essence of youthful beauty, while Edward is a character for whom sympathy is a must.  Their moments on screen together (combined with a wonderful score from Danny Elfman) are spectacular and worth the viewing time alone.  Overall, this is a decent film that will always be remember for its unique concept and title character.  Don't try to understand all its message, but instead focus on the human elements: love, family, & hope.  If you can do that, you will care about what happens in the end.

An exceedingly average science fiction disaster film Can we all just get together and decide that creating black holes of any size just isn't a good idea?  One can't help but think of the experiments involving the Large Hadron Collider when watching The Void.  The disaster scenario that plays out in this film isn't all that farfetched, as it hinges on the arrogance of select scientists and the reckless determination of a project head more than willing to take any risk to make his decades-long pet project come to fruition.  A significant number of scientists in the real world don't play well with others, ignore or dismiss out of hand any criticism - no matter how valid - of their work, and have been caught red-handed tampering with their own data.  Yet we're supposed to fully trust these guys when they tell us there is no danger whatsoever - even after repeated delays due to equipment malfunctions - hurtling particles together at extreme speeds.  The reality is that one tiny mistake in their calculations could literally kill us all.  Needless to say, watching The Void did nothing to ease my concerns about CERN.  Unfortunately, The Void just isn't that good of a movie.  I give it exceedingly average scores all around.  Amanda Tapping does her best to save the world as academic physicist Eva Soderstrom, but the script doesn't do her any favors.  Her co-star Adrian Paul looks and acts like a human punching bag, and his penchant to make jokes during even the most serious of occasions is beyond annoying.  Michael McDowell is, of course, quite good as the bad guy, Dr. Thomas Abernathy, but I for one am growing tired of his evil scientist shtick.  The man is too prolific for his own good in movies of this type.  The folks at the Atomic Energy Commission are apparently unaware that Dr. Abernathy's project to create a clean and almost unlimited power source has already failed miserably eight years earlier in Luxembourg, resulting in the deaths of everyone involved in the project - except Abernathy, of course.  One of those victims was the father of Eva Soderstrom, who has been after the covered-up truth ever since.  She finally finds an "in" in the form of Steven Price (Adrian Paul), adjunct professor and high-ranking engineer in Abernathy's new company.  After hacking into the data she needs, she quickly sees that Abernathy's computations are wrong, which means his imminent new experiment is going to create an atomic black hole that will either suck the earth into its dense depths or explode - either way, Planet Earth is seriously screwed.  Unfortunately, she only has a few days to stop Abernathy and save the world, no one - including her engineer boyfriend - wants to hear what she has to say, and someone seems determined to kill her and anyone who might be helping her.  Don't let the box cover fool you.  That huge sucking sound you hear is in fact Abernathy's particle collider, but you won't see it sucking in bustling city streets.  That isn't to say there isn't some major damage brought to bear in this film - it's just not as extreme as you might be expecting.  In fact, the special effects are one of the more effective aspects of The Void.  It's just too bad the script doesn't rise to the occasion.  This could have been much more than the exceedingly average film that it is.

Peter Pan CD This item was a little disappointing since he had some "glitches" while watching it.  It was a gift to my grandson in Ca., so I took my son's word for this.

Charlie Chan - The Golden Eye, Roland Winters, Etc. Of the half dozen Charlie Chan flicks featuring Roland Winters as Chan, "The Chinese Ring" is the only one to receive a legitimate release (on the TCM collection). "The Golden Eye" and the rest of the Roland Winters efforts are on a par with the mid-40's Sydney Toler releases, and feature the same supporting casts (Mantan Moreland, Keye Luke, Victor Sen Young). Winters was only 44 when he made his first Chan movie in 1947, making him slightly YOUNGER than Keye Luke.  These Roland Winters Chan movies are fairly well written and the stories are entertaining. As a "Chan Fan", I would not hesitate to purchase these in a reasonably priced boxed set. Note: the 3 stars are for the movie itself, not the blurry transfer being sold on Amazon as of this writing.

A mixed bag... Count me among the many waiting patiently for this to finally be released on DVD.  Was it worth it?  Well, yes & no.  First off, the picture is clearer than the bootleg copy of this that I found a few years ago, so that's a definite plus.  But the soundtrack is where this release fails.  The audio for this show was multi-tracked and broadcast on various radio concert shows, the King Biscuit Flower Hour being one of them.  I've downloaded copies of these radio shows, and they are in excellent, clear stereo, with the 2 guitars mixed on opposite channels (so you can really hear who's playing what), the drums separated, etc.  This soundtrack seems to be in mono, and is probably straight off the copy that was made for TV broadcast, which is what I believe this show was originally filmed for (at least it was shown on TV back then, as I remember watching it).  Wolfgang's Vault now owns the King Biscuit library, so the producers of this release should have worked a deal with them to get the audio. (To add insult to injury, the back of the DVD case says, "NOTE: Vidoe and audio were mastered from the best available sources.")  And of course, there are the missing songs and a few other edits, but I didn't really expect the original footage to be assembled & re-cut after all these years.  I would say that all this release did was take the TV copy and transfer it to DVD, edits and all.  There is even one spot where the picture tracking flutters, as old VHS tapes would do (I think it's during 'Wish I Were Born in Beverly Hills'?).  Alice's commentary is sparse, as other reviews have mentioned, which is a shame, as this is a very interesting point in his career, and a very unique show.  I'm sure he must have more to say about it!  All in all, worth having, since it hasn't been available in any form for many years, but it's too bad they didn't get it right.  Maybe some day...

Sounds like a remake I haven't seen this movie but gave it 3 stars because it sounds like the director stole the premise of the movie from an old movie with Billy Blanks called showdown that I saw on TV a while back.

SO - SO This secong edition of DEATH RACE was not as good as the first one. I just did not seem to like this one as good as the first one.

I hate everyone!!! My problem with this show is, I HATE ALL OF THE CHARACTERS!!! Seriously, I find myself sitting on the couch and cheering for the zombies, which I am pretty sure is not the way it's supposed to go down. But as the show has progressed over both parts of Season 2, I keep hating so many of the characters more and more. In fact, the only characters I am mildly rooting for this season are Glen, Darryl, and maybe Carl...that's about it. Everyone else is a stupid you-know-what, and I want the zombies to eat their brains!!! (Most hated character this season: Lori Grimes, hands down. She is such a *^#&(!!! And her parenting skills make Betty Draper from "Mad Men" look like Mother of the Year. I'm just sayin'.)  I guess you could say that my frustration is what Season 2 is all about. The zombie apocalypse continues, obviously, and virtually every character begins to lose it at some point (especially Shane...you have no idea). Ultimately, though, they all still piss me off, and I want them all to die and for the zombies to take over the world. And some of these moronic characters do die this season...and it's unexpected and AWESOME!!! Sadly, though, many of them will live to see Season 3. BUMMER. :(  Without giving anything away, here is my take on this: the first half of Season 2 was a bit disappointing. I thought the overall pacing of the show was slower than Season 1. The same thing happened in the second half of Season 2, and then the last 10 minutes of the second-to-last episode of the season were AMAZING, and then the season finale kind of sucked. I will watch Season 3, but I really hope things pick up a bit and that these characters get their acts together. Otherwise, I will find myself rooting for the zombies 100% of the time!

Funny!  Esp if you know the movie industry Some slapstick humor but if you are familiar with the theatre or movie industry I think that you will really like it. I found the humor very funny regarding the acting aspect of movies and/or Hollywood.  Sometimes stupid, but some movies are just cotton candy entertainment.

Not as good as it could have been The dwarves are probably the most interesting part of the whole movie, which is drawn out far longer than it needed to be.  It is okay for a cheap rental but you may end up fast forwarding now and then.

Anonymous - very interesting concept but a little confusing Anonymous had the potential to win over many people as the first major mainstream expose of the Shakespeare authorship debate. Whilst an interesting film in terms of its underlying concept, I spent the first half hour of the movie trying to work out who was who and what was going on. It was only when the issues of Shakespeare being a front for the Earl of Oxford came to the fore that my attention was hooked - although the depiction of Shakespeare as a buffoon was way off the historical mark - a country bumpkin perhaps but he was actually very shrewd - just look at his business activities and money lending activities (little known facts about Shakespeare I know - but my blog explores this more).  Overall once the film settled down it was good - but was a little confusing about what it actually was - was it a political thriller or an expose about Shakespeare being a fraud. This does not seek in any way to take away from great acting, great historical sets and the attention to detail by the director (to the point of ink on the fingers). Worth viewing but not that memorable.  Tim Lea Author of the Pelican Code - a contemporary thriller about Shakespeare not writing his own works <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0061JPT78">The Pelican Code</a>

A few false moves derail a nicely manicured premise... Films of this nature run a real risk of becoming almost soap operish if they aren't careful.  Maybe that's a bad comparison.  They can easily slip into the realm of the `Lifetime Movie of the Week', where they wash away the reality of it all and become slightly campy.  Not so campy that they are unintentionally funny and thus worthy of eventual cult worship, but just campy enough to feel awkward and unrealistic and just un-good.  `Sleeping With the Enemy' has that problem.  The film centers around a young woman, Laura Burney, who lives what seems to be a perfect life but is truly anything but.  Her controlling and manipulative husband Martin is a cold hearted man who lays his hands on her and simply terrorizes her emotionally, to the point where she feels the only escape is to die.  So, she fakes her own death and flees to start her life anew, in another town under another name.  Things are going better for Laura.  She even has a new boyfriend, Ben.  But the past has a way of catching up with you, and soon Martin is back in her life making his best effort at destroying hers.  The first half of the film is very well done.  It is moody and intense and Julia Roberts stretches her acting chops to prove that she is more than a pretty face.  She attacks her scenes with a raw intensity that adds a certain layer of reality to the proceedings.  But, soon after Laura makes that transition from abused spouse to fugitive the film's tone changes in a way that breaks nearly everything that had initially been set up for us.  It becomes a Lifetime movie.  It's the little things (the reviewer here already called out the `hat' sequence, and that is a perfect example of the tonal shift that destroyed what Joseph Ruben tried so hard to establish in the film's outset) that really derail the film to the point where when the supposed `terror' is reinserted into the film's fabric it is too little too late and ultimately backfires.  It starts to feel campy and unrealistic in the same way that films like `Fear' and the more recent `Enough' trailed that line that simply shouldn't be trailed.  You need to either stand on one side or the other.  Like I said, this is a tricky genre because it lends itself so easily to melodrama that feels forced and manipulative, and not in a good way.  But for as much `bad' as there is in the films overall construction, Roberts is very good here.  I really love what she is able to pull off, even when the script reduces her to a stereotype or, worse yet, a conundrum.  Her fearful decline is enormously effective in setting a perfect mood for the film; it's just a shame that the film itself couldn't live up to her presence.

Different Kind of Horror This movie was good, but I was let down on how it ended, no one survived and it became a little corny, but I still enjoyed it, I appreciate the work that went into what the movie was trying to create, the subtitles were okay it wasn't hard for me to follow since I have other movies with subtitles.  Not a bad movie.

This Workout Is Not a Joke I got this DVD because I can't always make it to the gym and I want to create more opportunities to incorporate physical activity into my daily routine. Also, I am getting married this spring and want to tone my core and upper body and this seemed like something that might help me do that.  What I like: -There are two workouts on this DVD and they are about 30 minutes each. Even on a busy day I can make time for a 30 minute workout. -For each workout there are more beginner-type modifications and also more intermediate-type modifications so it's like having a total of four workouts on one DVD. There's room to challenge yourself and push harder. -This is the right routine for my objectives--if you want a meditative, slow and methodical hasa-type yoga workout, this is not for you. -As is her style, Jillian ramps everything up for maximum benefit. I was sweating like a butcher when I finished my first session. It moves fast and feels like I'm actually doing something even though I'm not at the gym doing my usual workout. -This is a full-body work out. There is emphasis on the upper and lower body as well as the core (including the back!) it's a truly utilitarian way to get a home workout.  Why only three stars? I wouldn't consider this a yoga DVD. It's a home workout that incorporates yoga postures and is influenced by the practice of yoga. If you want a true yoga DVD for practicing at home, this is not right for you. Also, if you are not fond of Jillian Michaels or her style, this is also not the right DVD for you. However, if you objectives are to change up your regular routine and have a quick, meaningful workout available anytime, then this might be a good choice for you.

Good First Half Undermined by the Rest of the Film Don't expect a horror film here. The subject matter of a new Anthony Hopkins film is Catholic exorcism, but, as his character Father Lucas Trevan says, you are not going to see pea soup in "The Rite." The film opens with the all-too-familiar "inspired by true events" announcement, and it seems the filmmakers mean it.  A young seminary student Michael Kovak (Colin O'Donoghue), undetermined as to his future, is sent to a new training course for exorcism in the Vatican. Contrary to what most of us would expect, the class does not look much different with very modern teaching equipment.  There, Father Xavier (Ciar&aacute;n Hinds), a lecturer of the course, suggests that Michael meet Father Lucas Trevant (Anthony Hopkins), a hermit-like priest living with cats, performing an exorcism on a pregnant girl..  Director Mikael Håfstr&ouml;m takes an interesting approach to the subgenre of exorcism with more believable situations and characters. We are not perfectly sure Father Lucas is really a reliable person. Michael, who is losing his faith, remains skeptic about him naturally. Despite the obvious flaws - overlong introduction wasting Rutger Hauer as Michael's mortician father, an underwritten role for Alice Braga and the film's overall slow pace - his approach works pretty well, with some interesting details. (During his exorcism, Father Lucas receives a call on his cell phone and he takes it.)  Unfortunately, in the second half the film takes a different course, which is a more conventional one. Without spoiling much, I can say we have seen a similar storyline before in a much better film. Anthony Hopkins delivers his over-the-top acting (which I enjoyed), overshadowing Colin O'Donoghue's weak performance.  "The Rite" is not a terrible film. It offers an intriguing premise with a unique (some say realistic) views of exorcism, which is refreshing to see. The film plays it too safe, however, refusing to take any chances to develop it.

A serviceable diversion but far from a `treat'... The film, as a whole, works marginally well; enough to validate seeing it and enjoying it but not enough to really constitute adoring it.  As far as romantic comedies go, `The Holiday' gets it half right.  The half they get right is the one starring Cameron Diaz and Jude Law.  The film tells paralleled stories of two woman exchanging homes for a much needed break from reality.  Iris is currently devastated that her ex-boyfriend Jasper is now engaged to a co-worker.  Amanda is disgusted with her cheating boyfriend and overwhelmed by her job.  The two, in an act of desperation, exchange lives (homes, cars...the whole shebang) and attempt to unwind and refocus.  Of course, where there are desperate women there are kind hearted men who are tailor-made for helping them `refocus', and so insert Jude Law and...um...Jack Black?  Law plays Graham, Iris's brother, who infiltrates Amanda's alone time and makes himself a staple in her `healing'.  Jack Black plays Miles, a music composer who ignites a spark in Iris.  The script and pacing of the film only half work.  I will say that what I did enjoy about the film and that balance of `two stories' was that it was able to bounce around so that we didn't lose complete interest in the couples in question, which it would have been very easy to do.  Sadly though, the film is overly long and the couples themselves, at least Winslet and Black, are miscast.  Diaz and Law are quite good, especially Law who kind of OWNS this movie.  I love Kate Winslet with all my almighty heart and consider her an acting goddess and the single best working actress today, but romantic comedies are not her thing.  She just comes off dull and uninteresting, especially in the films first half.  She does pick up her pace a bit towards the end, but by then we have lost interest and moved on to Diaz, who is totally in her element and shines brightly here.  Black tries, and he works better than expected, but you can tell that he is in over his head.  Nancy Meyers has a certain way about making her movies.  She understands certain aspects of the love game, but she also doesn't know how to edit herself.  I remember a similar problem (although not as unevenly toned) in `Something's Gotta Give', a film that hit a lot of great marks and then allowed itself to wear out its own welcome.  That is a problem I have with `The Holiday'.  It is too loosely constructed.  Some tighter pacing and some much needed edits could have consolidated this film and made it move quicker and hit harder.  Instead, it tends to drag on in places and loses some of its charm along the way.  The film as a whole is ok, but I wanted more than that.

BE Ware the subtitles I had high expectations for this, except it was very difficult to understand.  The English subtitles are almost impossible to read.  Imagine 'white' on some light color like white or cream. CRITERION has always meant Quality, not this time. Work the subtitles into legibility and you have an excellent film.

Worth the rental, but not to own This came highly recommended by a few friends - but I think their appraisals were based primarily on how much their kids enjoyed it, and not on their own opinions.

Really like this movie..,took the characters behaviors personally Where I agree with some of the previous summaries in general.., I became irritated  by the father & son's inability to work coherently in regards to survival issues.., The son was to young to declare policy while being told matters of survival...

Great movie but the digital copy is really poor quality. While I really liked this movie.  I am really disappointed with the quality of the digital copy that comes with the DVD.  I am not someone who gets everything in super HD quality,  I have several movies in digital form and all of them are standard definition and I they have been fine.  This digital copy is HORRIBLE it is actually pixilated. This is the first digital copy I have bought that requires the Flixer player so I am not sure if it is the player or the digital download.  If you really want the digital copy I wouldn't get it this way.

It was alright OK so I decided to watch this movie despite all the negative reviews on here. Ya know, go into this with an open mind, take a wait-and-see approach. And I'm glad I did because here are my two cents for what it's worth.  The movie had the ingredients to be something better but I think time constraints prevented it from getting there. The characters didn't have time to fully develop. For starters we don't really know why Catherine Stark is the way she is other than she's lonely. Ok, so why does she sleep with students? Why does she have such a predatory nature about her? Why do students fear her? These questions weren't really answered unless I blinked and missed it? And Jackie, well her character was all sorts of twisted. There were times when I found myself saying "wow what a spoiled brat." I couldn't find myself relating to her in any which way. In fact, I actually preferred seeing Catherine on the screen. Her character seemed much more relateable to me. There were some moments when I could sense her vulnerability.  I most certainly did not like the second half of the film. Everything stopped making sense and the two of them at odds didn't seem or feel real. Then the way they quickly made up one last time at the end seemed out of place. I attribute that to time constraints. Had they had maybe 7 more minutes to make this movie at an even hour and 30 minutes then perhaps they could have made the ending better or more credible. I didn't like the ending one bit.  All in all, I think Catherine's presence on screen saved the movie for me from giving it 1 star. She carried the movie in my humble opinion or at least she should have. I would like to see her in future films.  For those debating whether to watch this: just do it. Don't watch it expecting Oscar worthy material or soap opera stuff. Just watch it with an open mind.

Not as good as it could have been You'd figure that a collection of various Green Lantern stories written by guys like Geoff Johns, Dave Gibbons, and Peter J. Tomasi would result in a great animated feature.  With Green Lantern: Emerald Knights, you'd be sadly wrong.  While this latest DC Universe animated feature isn't bad one bit, it still feels kind of lacking.  Green Lantern Hal Jordan (voiced by Nathan Fillion) narrates a collection of tales to young recruit Arisa (Elisabeth Moss) involving various Lanterns past and present such as Sinestro(Jason Isaacs), Kilowog(Henry Rollins), Laira (Kelly Hu), and even Abin-Sur (Arnold Vosloo).  The Abin-Sur tale is by far the best of the bunch, and the Mogo-starring tale (featuring the voice of the great Rowdy Roddy Piper as a nefarious villain) is pretty fun too, but the interlocking tale featuring Hal and the Lanterns in an apocalyptic showdown is quite an anti-climactic letdown.  While I'm all for seeing a multi-faceted collection featuring various Lanterns, I would have loved to have seen some others like Kyle Rayner, Guy Gardner, John Stewart, or even the little squirrel guy whose name I can't remember for the life of me.  Despite its flaws though, the animation is wonderful, and the voice acting isn't too bad either.  All in all, if you weren't impressed by Green Lantern: First Flight; Emerald Knights won't win you over either.  Still, it's worth a look at least for Green Lantern fans regardless.

Batman & Robin(1997) Batman & Robin(1997) was a critical and commercial flop. It almost killed the Batman film franchise. It's the butt of jokes. Director Joel Schumacher apologized to people who hated it. It suffers from bad editing, plot holes, and campy humor. Arnold Schwarzenegger and George Clooney were miscast as Mr. Freeze and Batman. The film is also packed with product placement. I saw it on opening day in 1997 and I enjoyed it. I still get a warm, nostalgic feeling from watching it. Batman(George Clooney), Robin(Chris O' Donnell), and Batgirl(Alicia Silverstone) must stop Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy(Uma Thurman) from taking over Gotham City. Batman & Robin "borrows a few pages" from the Captain Cold episode of The Flash(1990-1992). Poison Ivy yells "curses" in one scene. A Wizard of Oz(1939) reference, perhaps? Vivica A. Fox makes a brief appearance as Mr. Freeze's mistress. Batman & Robin is on par with a cheesy El Santo movie such as Operacion 67(1967).  Elliot Goldenthal's energetic, over the top music score for Batman & Robin was awesome. It sounds "alive". Uma Thurman struggles to give a sincere performance as Poison Ivy. We get to see the late Michael Gough play Alfred Pennyworth for the last time. Alicia Silverstone was a sensual, photogenic Batgirl. She looks just as good as Yvonne Craig's version of Batgirl from TV's Batman. Arnold Schwarzenegger gives a sincere performance as Mr. Freeze even with his limited acting range. Patrick Stewart or Ben Kingsley would've been a more inspired choice to play Freeze. George Clooney is a good actor, but he was very wooden as Batman. Cindy Carol was a wooden Gidget. Chris O' Donnell works hard to play Robin, but he seems unfocused. John Dykstra's visual effects are solid and he worked on Spiderman(2002) years later. Batman Begins(2005) and The Dark Knight(2008) returned Batman to his dark, violent, gothic roots.  Batman & Robin(1997) was made a time when Batman had to "lighten up".

Gory, bloody and predictable plot after 5 movies on the same topic! I have seen all of this series of movies over the years. The plot never changes only the faces of the victims. Innocent people targeted by fate to die, only to escape due to the premonition of one of the potential doomed souls. Sam Lawton (Nicholas D'Agosto) sees the death of most of his fellow workers occurring on a company planned team building outing. Due to his actions several survive what would have been certain death. Sammy's reward is to draw the attention of the police and the FBI as to how he foresaw the tragic event. Did he cause it?  One by one the survivors are picked off in order as, "Death doesn't like to be cheated". The movie was action filled in some places and slow and boring in others. After 5 movies on the same topic the plot hasn't varied much and the director has tried to make up for a predictable plot with unique ways to die in overly graphic ways.  The movie is very gory and bloody so if that bothers you then you should pass on this one. They also drop the F-bomb in this one so just be aware. Due to the graphic nature of this film and a little language children should not see this movie.

Do you like bad horror movies? As someone who enjoys bad horror movies, this was pretty good. That's why it gets 3 stars.  There aren't many redeeming qualities to this movie, if you're actually looking for something truly frightening to watch.  The social interaction is either completely unrealistic, or these characters are horrible people.  They're upset about death for maybe five seconds, then perfectly willing to run around in the woods pursuing the supernatural and joking about death with one another.  The dialog is awkward and unnatural.  The girls are gorgeous... I assume the guys are friends of the people who made it. They're not ugly, but they're quite average. I don't think anyone was selected particularly for their talent.  It would be awesome to be in a movie like this, though. It looks like fun.

An OK movie that could have been good The lead characters were both so sexy and likable-- why didn't I enjoy this movie better.  It would have been a lot better movie if it spent more time focused on the would-be lovers and less time on the roommate and the ubiquitous female confidante character

An Over Rated Remake If you have already seen the original Swedish film be prepared to be disappointed. 'Let Me In' is almost a shot-for-shot remake of 'Let the Right One In', the Swedish vampire film by director Tomas Alfredson. There are scripting changes that appears to have been done to tailor the script to American audiences. Some are understandable, others are not. For example, the original is set in a Swedish community that was built in the age of Swedish socialism and this setting is part of the film's backstory which is set in the cold winter of 1982. The American version changes this to an apartment complex during a cold snowy winter in ....  1980's Arizona(?). The impact of the setting laid out in the original is lost in the remake. In the original, Oscar's mother is obviously not religious; in the remake Owen's mother (name change here) is clearly very religious for no apparent reason.   The original film has a particularly Swedish approach to storytelling which is one of things that makes it such an interesting film for film fans who like to understand a director's style.   Much has been made about the use of CGI in this film. The remake has too obviously inserted CGI in 2 critical scenes. They are fake looking, obviously CGI,  and are out of place in a film that was produced to have a realistic film approach. The remake IS a good film and a welcomed relief for what passes as a horror film nowadays, and normally would deserve a higher rating then 3 stars. But since I rate the original a 4-star film, and the remake is not quite the film that the original is, this version need a lesser rating.  The director also makes, in my opinion, a mistake in his commentary in not acknowledging that his film is a direct remake of the original. He takes credit for the look of film which is clearly not his; lighting, cinematography, and acting style is a copy of the work of Tomas Alfredson. Watch both and see for yourself.

NOT a John Candy Movie This really should be considered false advertising. John Candy plays a VERY small part in this movie, although he does have a couple of very funny lines and one hilarious scene. That being said, the plot of the movie is not high brow in any sense, and it's sort of dated, but it is amusing and fun.  The main characters are actually Stefanie Powers, Anthony Newly, and Isaac Hayes, all of whom play roles with which they are not usually associated, which made their characters interesting for me. It was also fun to see Yvonne DeCarlo and few other familiar TV faces.  If you are a John Candy fan, and you are looking to buy this movie primarily to see him, you will likely be disappointed. If you are looking for a bit of mindless entertainment, this movie just might do it.

Good Not Great B rated movies in my opinion. It was cheap thats the best thing I can say about it. My husband found Poker Run to be a bit interesting but I thought it was lame. Personally I have seen much better and will think twice before buying any more of the so called Horror Pack Dvd's.

Brando is awful.... This must be one of Marlon Brando's most lamentable performances. He is ghastly. Despite that the film has much to commend it and the transfer to Blu-ray is very good. The Tahitians are excellent and the scenery magnificent. By a whisker I prefer the Gibson version of this epic tale and hopefully that will come to Blu one day. In the meantime if you can stomach Brando and the price is cheap this is an interesting view.

"Here's an idea-- how about a BEING THERE/PULP FICTION kinda thing. The main character'll be a woman in this, but the smart people will still be African-American."

All Dressed Up And No Place To Go While there are certainly worse ways to spend an hour and a half, this film is ultimately disappointing. The problem with a film like this is that it is either going to remain true to its title (Sandra Bullock is having a true premonition and she can't change destiny/fate) or it isn't (she will find a way to save her husband). The set-up of the film is intriguing at first, but once these parameters are established little interest is maintained because there is no where for the film to go.

came promptly, but problem with one disk It arrived promptly, which I appreciated. But one of the disks I couldn't get to play, which was obviously a disappointment.

ok I guess Well, it wasn't as advertised which is probably exactly why it's so cheap. However it is a unique cover featuring the movies official or second poster. But the back seems as if the storyline was just typed up before sent. I guess I just expected something else. Oh and the menus are boring with no special features on any of the three dvd's I ordered, so probably none on any other of his movies. But the movie plays and I guess thats all you can ask for. Thanks, I guess.

Not much of an upgrade from 1st Blu-Ray release, 1 new documentary & no extended cut. This Ultimate Edition is the LEAST ultimate of the current 6. Outside of no extended version of the movie, this is the first ultimate Edition to cheap out on the bonus material. The only thing new here is the "Creating Harry Potter Part 6" documentary, all other bonuses were on the previous Blu-ray/DVD Combo pack.  And note that the Blue-Ray versions have dropped from 3 discs to 2 discs. We are getting WAY LESS for the same high price.  This is just a 2-disc release at a 3-disc price!  Is it really worth paying twice as much for one additional documentary and a small hardback book? This is the first Ultimate edition i will hold off on. At least 3,4,&5 had more bonus material to offer, making up for the lack of an extended version.

Couldn't Finish This I just didn't connect with anything in this film enough to stay past the halfway point.  I got the point early on and was bored with it.

SHINY, HAPPY PEOPLE Nothing lasts, or ages as fast, as politics.  It's always up front and always being crushed by the heel and at the same time; and with THE MUTANTS you can see this happening again and again over this (too long) six part series.  The Doctor and Jo are given a mission to play ball with Ky, leader, rebel of a planet long held under the rule of Earth and soon to be given freedom.  In the midst of this there are those who will hold onto power as long as they can, even if it means not only the death of the people they rule, but even the planet in question...it's politics, it's social commentary, it comedy, it's a moral, it's too often a snore.  And at the heart of it is a mystery no has bothered to explore...exactly what interest do the Time Lords have on Solos?  Exactly why are they returning ancient tablets to a people who have long since forgotten who they are or even what they were (Ky's speech about how the world used to be is pure fancy on his part, he's too young to know exactly how Solos was before the Overlords came) and what are the Time Lords hoping to gain from it?  At the heart of the mystery is the one thing we take for grated with Time Lords...regeneration; and it's here again as well.  A race of people who at a certain time (be it from crisis or nature) change their nature, their bodies and become new people.  The people on Solos appear to become a form of gods, gifted with great powers over nature and matter and seem to serve no purpose other than to provide a touch of Deus Ex Machina for the Doctor to help end the show on a peaceful note...and that's it; the Doctor's only role in this story appears to be playing the part of a mid-wife on behalf of the Time Lords.  This story, THE BRAIN OF MORBIUS and MAWDRYN UNDEAD (perhaps even THE MYSTERIOUS PLANET) are the only stories I know in classic WHO that deal with the Time Lords talents being granted, mocked and mimicked and it's a shame no one has done anything since with this idea and spun off a series or a one shot dealing with the aftermath of the events in THE MUTANTS.  Commentary is a mess here.  As like the story itself there are too many players sitting in and bowing out over the course of the six episodes and their input is often uneven.  I feel anything dealing with the prodcution of the show outside director, producer or writer should be given a 10min overview/interview separate from the commentary because that's just about how long you can stand to listen to it.  Not that I feel their input is not valid, but in the case of Brian Hodgson, special sounds supervisor, his work requires you to actually hear it and instead we have people talking over it and confusing musical cues with his sound effects and not being able to tell the difference between the two.  His work, his history on the show would have been better served with a spotlight on the sound effects of WHO separate from the cast.  The polite friction between Terrance Dicks and Bob Baker is amusing and again and again you can hear Dicks holding back the thought that maybe not doing this story would have been a good idea.  The rest of the special features follow the formula from before and the MAKING OF is actually very good as is RACE AGAINST TIME a look at WHO's very limited use of black actors in the series.  I also feel that anything to do with BLUE PETER at this point should be collected into one feature or at least have some bearing on the story at hand; the short here (and it's very short) doesn't even feature anything from this story.  Text commentary is tight and worth the the time reading.  Overall THE MUTANTS is very much like a meeting of Parliament, its balance of camp and politics too often takes itself too seriously and last far too long and doesn't truly resolve anything; but sometimes the fuss makes up for it and that's what we have a lot of here in THE MUTATNS - fuss.

Not what I expected There were great reviews on this movie and that's why I purchased it.  After viewing the movie I was disappointed. In my opinion I'd rent it before I purchased it.

Good stuff Nice collection of enjoyable B movies that will certainly keep you sitting in your recliner for the better part of a weekend.  Don't forget the popcorn!

An oldie The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges, 1960, 128')  Inspired by Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954), The Magnificent Seven shows how an oppressed Mexican peasant village assembles seven gunfighters to help defend their homes. The film stars Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, and Horst Buchholz. The film has lost much of its luster over time, so it is today mainly of historical interest.  153us - The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges, 1960, 128') - 10/9/2012

thing the movie had good specail effect but rating it to the one that had kurt russel this one really stunk the story was lack lustered and not really that good,i would definately not recommend this to someone else ,i would recommend the earlier version alot better written and special affects wre alot better in that version

Slasher flick??? I don't watch a lot of slasher flicks but I think I Know What You Did Last Summer is one of the better ones. The sequel was OK, and I hadn't yet seen the third, and I know as they overdo sequels just for the purpose of bringing in cash, they go down in quality. But I found this 3-pack for a good price, so I thought, why not get all three?  But here's the thing: I recently picked up the novel by Lois Duncan, and I was amazed by the differences between the book and the movie. I really don't think they kept anything the same, except the title, the premise, and the characters' names! How did they get away with it? Wasn't Lois Duncan furious? Why didn't they just use the premise and make their own movie out of that? It's not like people don't use similar ideas all the time. I really liked the book. It was a thriller. It had nothing to do with a guy with a hook. And get this: no one even died! The bad guy tried, but didn't succeed.  Anyway, like I said, I like I Know What You Did Last Summer. It had good suspense as they tried to figure out what was really going on. And the sequel was OK. But the third was totally pointless. It was just the exact same plot as the first movie. It especially annoyed me that the 4 teenagers (exactly like in the first movie) argued with each other about going to the police and made the pact to keep the secret forever. If they were so familiar with the original story, they should have known that would come back to haunt them! And, the thing I hate most is that (no spoiler here as this happens in all slasher flicks) so many innocent bystanders get slashed while the main characters keep escaping. A slasher on a rampage never seems to have a motive. (I have very few slasher flicks in my collection.) So for this third movie, the 3-pack gets 3 stars as a whole.

Glad its the last. This was by far the most boring Shrek of the series.  There were parts that were certainly funny, and entertaining, but by far the majority of the movie was boring.  Some of the plot did not make sense.  Its certainly worth watching just to finish the series, but don't expect much.

One kid, two kids, no kids, gone......... Typical for its type, a premise based on junk science: experts in an enormous underwater complex are seeking to repair a rift that they may or may not have caused, which could be the Bermuda Triangle, or maybe it's a worm hole, or a crux event, The Philadelphia Experiment, but definitely not aliens, could be electro-magnetic in nature....or just plain old exotic matter.  At any rate, all these scientists/experts are dead wrong but 4 ninnies hired by a wacky billionaire have the answer....don't do anything! They lost me after the first episode.  I hung on till the bitter end only because I was curious to see how they would wrap things up.  Sad to say, the story deteriorates into a spate of bad weather and an even worse explanation.  And yes, the word "exponentially" was used (basically, because it's THE term that has to be applied in every sci-fi crisis....meaning, things get worse). I will say I liked all the actors involved and don't fault them or their performances; they did wonders with this pseudo-sci-fi muck.  They were the only reason I kept watching.  However, I won't be wasting 255 minutes to watch this again: not a keeper.

Survival This was an interesting movie, showing what young people, even students, must sometimes do to survive in today's world. In this case it's selling her body.  Though the acting was fine, I found the pace a little too slow for my taste. And the movie's conclusion left me wanting more.

It's okay. This was okay. It wasn't that scary. First time watching. I thought it would be more scarier. It was really boring with all the talking going on. Might return...

Okay ~~~May contain spoliers!~~~~  Starring Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl, Killers seemed interesting to me. A woman meets a man while vacationing with her parents. They get married and three years later she finds out he used to be an assassin. Reviewed horribly by critics, I decided to give it a chance anyway. I sometimes like movies and tv shows others don't. In this case, it's really not as terrible as some make it seem. It wasn't great either. I wouldn't recommend spending full list price for it, (I got mine during Black Friday week for $5.99) but it may be worth checking out on sale or if you could purchase it used. Basically to me it seems like a good idea gone a little askew. There were some things in the plot like SPOILER: Jen's pregnancy that weren't really necessary to the movie. Also if Spencer went through rigorous training like he stated, how come he didn't know who the people were who were trying to kill him? Wouldn't he suspect them? Either way, it still kept me somewhat entertained for the 90-some odd minutes I watched it on a rainy day.

comme ci comme ça "Subterfuge" is a poor interpretation of the meaning of, "Faux Fuyants" which is the actual French title of this film. A better understanding of this phrase is, "prevaricate", "to give false answers", or better yet, "False Fugitive". These definitions better define the phrase, and also add a better insight into the film. One evening a man leaves a movie and accidentally runs over, and kills a pedestrian. He flees the scene, and relocates in the suburbs of Paris. He finds the sixteen year old daughter of the man that he killed, and forms a relationship with her. The film is about how this man insinuates himself into the lives of this girl and her friends and family. Rachel Ortas (Rachel Rachel) plays the young girl, and this film has a very unique and strange soundtrack. In the film she plays the lead vocalist of a French New Wave rock group, and in real life she fronted the pop band, "Luna Parker". However, the film only comes off as quirky and odd, and mostly it succeeds, yet there is a definite amateurishness nature to the writing, acting, and production. FAUX FUYANTS is not a complete loss because it does convey a certain off-kilter mood, a unique plot, and at the very least, offers an interesting look at some diverse French locations in the early 1980's.

I'll commit cinematic sacrilege & call it overrated & mediocre Since my Appreciation of Cinema class in college (about 1967) I've made it a practice to watch "art" films, commercial films and those in the large gray area between in equal measure. One goes into a film from one of the masters/greats/pioneers with a bias towards enjoying it, if not loving it. Yet there are some films nearly universally pronounced masterpieces which I have difficulty enjoying. Among Godard's, I find Pierrot Le Fou and Alphaville to be so stilted and self-consciously arty that they are difficult to watch. (Only in small part because one's eyes tend to roll back in disbelief). I can appreciate the absurd and the surreal when they are handled well, but there is a lack of smooth flow, a sort of jerkiness to Pierrot Le Fou which makes me uncomfortable. Another reviewer compared it to Pulp Fiction; like it and many other "guy noir" flicks of recent years, it tries to make violence comedic. Where Tarentino (in my opinion) pulls it off well by making an action flick, Godard just messes around with too many genres:action violence, musical, comedy, heavy social commentary, and more. Overall, it certainly isn't a terrible movie--it has many redeeming scenes to be enjoyed. But far too often, Godard hits you with a bat to make his points, then flitters off in a total about face stylistically and plays the non-sequitur card way too often. I should state that on dvd I watched the Fox-Lorber edition. It is far from a great transfer, many imperfections and a lack of clarity. I don't recall the quality of the screened version I watched (hey, that was 40 years ago!), maybe Godard wanted a crudity to it. But other viewers state that the Criterion dvd & the blu-ray versions are much better.

Great exposure for women living as men but.... This is an excellent period piece that touches on women who chose or had to live as men. This is a very important issue for the LGBT community, today and historically and to have anything out there in the general public that sheds light on the subject should be lauded.  The problem with this movie is that there are too many unanswered questions. It is never made clear whether the women (especially the "married" one) who were with the women living as men ever knew their "husbands" were women. This seems implausible, but the "wife" gives no allusion to it. The burning question that Albert had, as to when she should tell the woman she was courting of her sex (before or after marriage) was never answered.  Without getting into spoilers, the movie had a less than desirable ending for the main character in my opinion. I am also dismayed at the choice to portray the object of Alberts sincere affections as a thankless and greedy user. It seems Albert got the shaft and the movie lacks any real closure for Her.  The movie leaves one slightly confused as to it's point.  Glenn Close however, STELLAR!! BRILLIANT, STUNNING AND BEAUTIFUL AS ALWAYS!!!!!!!!

Great visuals, but far from great as a whole... I was disappointed with the overall execution of the story in Brave. To me, this film is disjointed in its attempt to make some sort of unified point, under utilizing characters and

Entertaining at first, but disappoints in the end. This movie does a good job of building tension, investing you in the characters, and keeping you in the moment, and then it blows it in the last half hour or so. Others have complained about the long, overly dark sequence and I would like to hurl that charge again with some English on it. About ten minutes of squinting at the screen and I no longer cared the slightest bit what was going on, having given up in exasperation. Toward the end of that sequence, the movie segues into its cliched Spielbergian ending. One minute you're watching Alien and the next it's E.T. Ultimately Super 8 was like a punctured tire...it began at high speed and full of pressure, became floppy and hard to steer toward the end, and finally came to a grinding halt, completely deflated.

Up the Ladder and down the ladder ... Before my husband and I watched this video, my opinion of "Company Men"  had been harsh,   I would gather that most people have a bitter taste regarding  big shots.   This DVD lets the viewer see what happens in their world, especially how they treat each  when hard times turn their lives up side down.   The rug jerked out from under them.  How they deal with unemployment, a complete change of their life style.   Although, if I had given this any thought ... they step on people going up the ladder surly on the way down they get their's.  It's about their friends, how much they really like each other, their wives and how they deal with their husbands downgrade.  Toward the end of this DVD, opinions vary, I do not want to release spoilers, as I might  if I continue.  I enjoyed this DVD, probably not one I would watch again, probably not my first or second choice for purchase. 3 stars. But, did enjoy a different look through the eyes of another.

Not Deep Enough This movie wasn't that bad but it sure wasn't great. It rates at a 2.5 really. This movie should've been longer and more fleshed out. This movie felt rushed to squeeze in all these elements of the universe of Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corp. The effects were good but that's a craft nowadays that's common. The story is what needed focus and the characters. The Dark knight was great because they took the time needed to make a complete story. Now people complaing about 'long' movies but those tend to end up being the better ones. GL sure could've used a longer running time. I liked Ryan Reynolds myself. He didn't goof it up. He worked with what he was given. Marvel sure has DC in live action flicks. All DC has given us of quality in this superhero movie age is Batman. Superman Returns and GL not a good presentation. Let's hope Man of Steel changes that. After TDKR this year, I think I'm going to be about superhero movie'd out. Seen alot of good ones and some bad. Don't need much more. How about a break?

Not as informative  as "Sankofa" or "Amistad" To study  the Triangle Trade of Slavery, I have viewed four popular films for comparison, to see which gives the best visual presentation of the practice.  I need to find cinematic accounts which showed all stages of the trade, from the capture of Africans, to their holding in the infamous dungeons on the West Coast of Africa, to their journeys on the ships which would last from three weeks on a fast journey, to as many as five weeks on a storm-driven sea,  to their lives on the Sugar  Cane Plantations and the Cotton Plantations in The West Indies and American.    "Sankofa" was overwhelmingly the best, because it shows the most and most extensive of these accounts. "Amistad" is a close second, and also, the account is much briefer, and it fails to show the slave's life on a plantation at all as forced labor.    "The Middle Passage is  basically,  nothing more than a lengthy depiction of the journey on the slaves ships. It is informative,  but only in that it shows extended passages of the slaves  rocking back and forth in cramped conditions,  along with some suicides and the natural deaths due to disease in which the bodies are thrown overboard. It shows slaves being brought up above decks, forced to run in circles for washing and exercise, being driven by whipping.    That is about all that  the entire movie is about.  It ends when the ships  comes within site of land at the western end of the slave ship's journey.  The film features extensive and heavy narration, by the one slave  who is giving the account of all that is occurring, combined with many flashbacks which show that the slaves  had their own religion, there own happy villages, and happy family life and culture.    In all however,  this was the least informative, as  "Amistad"  was,  though briefer,  far more graphic in its accounts of the violence done to the slaves on board the ships.    "Amazing Grace" is the account of the abolitionist movement in England, and only shows  in a general way, the abuses of the Slave Trade. It is however, informative of how the political process was used to terminate the slave trade by English Law.    "The Middle Passage"  features long passages in which we are left to dwell on either the images of Sky, or the ships rigging or sails during the narrative of the speaking slave, and this is  unfortunately,  insufficient to convey the idea of suffering. Sure, the brutality is there, but presented  "dully".  It remains however,  something of an informative film.  .  . .

A Schizophrenic Movie Over the last decade, the summer and holiday months have been littered with the cast off remains of failed franchises.  Eager for the consistent influx of cash that popular series like Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, or Twilight bring in over the course of years, or even decades, studios have been caught counting their chickens long before they have hatched, hoping that whatever rebooted 80s cartoon, young adult novel, or underused superhero will leaven the strain of actually producing new material.  Some of these failures have taken on the veneer of cult success (I would argue this in the case of the Wachowski's Speed Racer or Joe Johnston's The Rocketeer), where others fail to live up to the promise of their source material (such as Jonah Hex or The Golden Compass), and still others should never have been put into production in the first place (Prince of Persia, Battlefield Earth).  And while there have been rumors of a Green Lantern sequel, I have the feeling that the first film's poor showing at the box office will dissuade the bean counters from risking another go at DC's space cop.  And that's a shame, not because the first film was such a triumph, but because, despite plenty of flaws, there's a lot of potential in the Green Lantern, even if much of it is squandered by the movie's end.  I watched Green Lantern after reading some damning reviews, so imagine my surprise when, for at least the first half of the film, the movie turned out to be an engaging balance of sci-fi spectacle and carefully executed character building.  We begin the film in the far reaches of space where some alien astronauts stumble upon a trapped entity known as Parallax who feeds on these victims and escapes.  Parallax proceeds to chase down and mortally wound the Green Lantern who had trapped him in the first place, Abin Sur.  Sur manages to escape from Parallax and crash land on Earth where he, knowing how little time he has left, instructs his ring, the source of a Green Lantern's power, to find a suitable replacement.  The ring eventually chooses Hal Jordan, a test pilot for experimental aircraft.  Hal's portrayed as a womanizer whose talents as a pilot far outstrip his discipline.  He works for Ferris Aircraft and has some romantic history with the boss's daughter, Carol Ferris, who also happens to balance her career helping run the family business with her roles as a test pilot along with Hal.  The two must run a demonstration for the government in hopes that Uncle Sam will buy their non-manned fighter pilot drones (take that China!).  While the ultimate goal of this demonstration is to show how good the drones are, Hal decides to break the rules of engagement by taking his jet much higher than permitted, which allows him to take out the drones, but also forces him to crash his plane in the process.  Naturally, Carol is upset when Hal not only uncovers flaws in their product but also trashes a multi-million dollar piece of equipment.  Hal is played by Ryan Reynolds, who got his start as a cartoony wiseass in sitcoms and teen comedies but has since attempted to break his way into marginally more serious action work, and he has spent years trying to prove himself as a potential blockbuster lead.  Here his ability to crack a joke not only serves to accentuate his character's freewheeling nature, but also helps ground the more absurdist aspects of a comic book character who was created fifty years ago.  The movie manages to be funny without becoming jokey.  Reynolds also happens to have great chemistry with love interest Carol Ferris, played by Blake Lively.  The two of them have a surprisingly emotionally complicated scene at a local bar for pilots that could have been sliced into a more dramatic film without much trouble.  The central love story reminded me of the scenes in another film by directors Martin Campbell, the James Bond reboot Casino Royale, whose romance between Bond and Vesper served as the heart of the film.  It's not long after he downs the company jet that Hal is swept away by Abin Sur's ring and taken to the crash site of Sur's escape pod where the dying alien tells him how to use the ring.  After figuring out the basics Hal is whisked away to the planet Oa, the headquarters of the Guardians, a race of blue aliens who forged the Green Lantern rings in order to form the Green Lantern Corps, a group tasked with policing the entire universe.  The planet Oa is beautifully filmed, a strange mixture of darkened crags, smooth surfaces of technology, and tasteful waves of color.  It is as if an aurora borealis went off in an Apple store after hours.  Here Hal learns of the history of the Green Lanterns and begins his training with Kilowog, a beast of an alien with the face of a pig, the body of a brick wall, and the voice, conveniently enough, of Michael Clark Duncan.  It's at this point in the movie where I excitedly awaited for the film to really take off.  Until now there had been some exciting action and nice character work.  Hal had been firmly established as a screw up, adrift in life, hoping for something bigger, and now that fate has handed him the chance to join the Green Lantern Corps, he presumably has a chance to right his course in life.  But in an incredibly contrived moment, he decides that he's not up to snuff, quits the corps and returns to Earth (although, strangely enough, he is allowed to keep the ring).  Instead of the epic space opera I was expecting, the filmmakers decides on something far more quotidian: a superhero movie.  The rest of the film goes through the usual superhero motions: the main character reveals himself to the public by bravely saving hundreds of people and afterwards visits the love interest/damsel in distress.  Green Lantern is a decidedly schizophrenic movie.  Where the first half of the film provides the perfect set up for the "hero's journey," a story about one character being plucked from the mundane world and lifted into an exciting realm of adventure, the second half of the film seems content on playing superhero connect the dots.  There is even a second villain, a scientist who becomes infected by Parallax, who is obviously there to make sure the action doesn't stray too far from Earth.  I'm convinced that the studio didn't really know what they had with the Green Lantern.  Unlike Batman, Spider-Man, or even Superman, the Green Lantern Corps lends itself to interplanetary superheroics more in the vein of Star Wars and Flash Gordon than Iron Man.  But this is also what makes the character exciting.  Where we have seen the basic outline of a superhero movie time and again, Green Lantern offers the chance of more science fiction tropes, which could potentially differentiate him from the glut of other superhero movies.  Instead of shying away from the imaginatively bizarre, the filmmakers should have embraced the alien aspects of the Green Lantern mythos.  Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of Green Lantern is that it represents a missed opportunity.  The few moments we spend in space are exciting because of their promise of the weird, and because they are one of the few images of space made by people who have actually looked at photographs from the Hubble Telescope.  Instead of peregrine flights of fancy, the movie clings tight to formula, and suffered for it, both artistically and at the box office.

NO re-enacted fighting scenes. Just like a visit to a MUSEUM I totally agreed with another reviewer, Susan Oliver, when she said she did not like this set of DVD because it was short. She could get more information from reading books than watching these DVDs.  Another thing I don't like is there is no re-enacted fighting scenes. There are just video of the castles, graveyards, landscape and interviews of the descendants of the historical figures. It's good only for people who already know the historical facts and want to get more pictures or videos related to them. For me, it's more like a visit to a museum. If it had re-enacted fighting scenes, it would be more lively and interesting.  Luckily, I borrowed this from the local library instead of purchasing it.

Very "trippy" movie at the end you will say "What the %$#$ Did I just Watch?" If your interested in a movie that will leave you desperate to try and piece together an explanation and reasoning behind what you just watched this is that movie.  Think Momento and The Cube mixed together add in a strange anti-climatic ending with very few clues to pull from and you have this movie.  Good acting but it was tough to follow and the ending made no sense.  Strange. Very strange.

I should have read the other reviews first. I want to say first that this is a good movie, But my mistake was not reading the previous reviews. I was expecting a horror type movie and this is not what you see here. The main character keeps talking about fear and terror, the film almost seems to be leading up to that fear and terror, so I'm thinking "this is gonna be gooood!". well guess what? No fear or terror except that which you have to imagine the characters are seeing and feeling. Don't get me wrong, I always thought horror movies that rely on tricks of making the audience jump in thier seats by showing them something quick and unexpected are nothing more than a cheap way of tricking us into being scared. I always thought true horror is rooted deep in the mind with visuals to complement the story. This movie is all story(a good story)and very little visuals.

Handel - Giulio Cesare / Kenny, Pushee, Dalton, Campbell, Gunn, Bennett, Hickox, Sydney Opera Handel - Giulio Cesare / Kenny, Pushee, Dalton, Campbell, Gunn, Bennett, Hickox, Sydney Opera is an sufficient production by Francisco Negrin. Richard Hicock seems a bit rushed. He could have eased a bit on the pedal and that would have sounded so much better. The problem is the costumes. They look downright cheap. The setting looks like something you would see in a local theatre and not in a major opera production. The sound quality is not amazing. It sounds a bit muted at times. Kenneth Chalmers has written the music notes. Just al-right. 3/5.

Almost Good This film follows a group of marines through a war torn LA during an alien invasion. Although I have to give it credit for trying to inject some character development and realism into the standard alien invasion flick, I found myself slightly dissatisfied after finishing the film. There was nothing about the movie that was done badly. There was just so little originality that I felt like I had already watched it. You got your slew of marines ala Aliens. You got your District 9 mixed with V aliens. Throw in some Independence Day and Band and Brothers and voila! Battle Los Angeles. You won't feel like you've thrown your money away renting it, but this is not a flick you will remember in ten years. In fact, you'll probably forget it by this Christmas.

third-rate Eastwood The measured pace of this film is not the problem. The problem is the ending, with Clint gettin' the girl, as if this were a conventional action-adventure film, rather than a drama. The dangling question -- of how Graciella could tolerate being around McCaleb after learning why her sister was killed -- is not explored. Very, very disappointing.  For those trying to figure out "whodunnit"... Did you ever notice how, in the original "Perry Mason" series, the murderer was often played by a well-known character actor?

Classic Classic movie and now we have it on blu-ray. It's my wife's favorite movie and now we have it for ourselves.

Not in the Same Vein as the First, but a Worthy Follow-Up The gang returns in "Truth," which is a soap opera-esque sequel to the original that started it all.  Laden with drama as the story progresses, the movie definitely holds your attention from beginning to end, but the reward isn't as satisfying as the original.  "Truth" begins with Faybien updating Lonnie, who travels constantly with work, in letters about what's been going on in his life.  We find out that he is working in the music business, Amera has a music career that is starting to take off finally along with a boyfriend, Greg is dating a pre-med student and Amera's cousin who is her stylist, and Jay is still up to his same old scandalous ways.  When Faybien all of a sudden realizes that he loves Lonnie and professes it to him, Lonnie rejects his advances even though Faybien "proves" to him how much he's changed.  After a mistake on both of their parts, the two part ways for good it seems.  Meanwhile, everyone else is dealing with their relationship woes. Greg is dealing with his male lover, who is interested in taking their relationship further from just hooking up casually while going out of his way to hide his other relationship with Amera's female cousin.  Amera is struggling with the fact that she believes her boyfriend is cheating on her, and entails her cousin to help investigate as they get their "proof."  Jay is in some kind of relationship with a thug who stays with his baby's mother, and is dealing with that the best way he knows how.  After he upsets him and nearly blows his cover, his "boyfriend" gets revenge, which is averted when Faybien comes to the rescue.  This brings the two closer and they start to become hang out buddies, which has a negative effect on Faybien.  He starts hooking up and meets someone, drinks a lot, parties every night, and misses work.  When Greg decides to host a dinner party in which Lonnie unexpectantly shows up, Greg reveals the real reason for the dinner and everyone's business is put out on the table.  Confusion amasses and everyone is heated as their "truth" is revealed one by one.  Each person reflects on their problems and confronts them, dealing with them as best as they can.  The writing doesn't compare to the original, which is a bit of a let down.  Gone is the blueprint for a moral and meaningful story, traded in for unnecessary dramatics.  The script leaves much more to be desired, as it really has no point unless you factor in the whole truth aspect, which is honestly very minimal.  Also, there are tons of loose ends.  Lonnie's blank and expressionless reactions to what he's going through which inhibit him from totally being responsive to Faybien are never revealed.  A mention of a certain medical condition Faybien is suffering from is mentioned matter-of-factly with no back story and seems like it was just thrown in to justify a certain "crucial" scene in the film.  It's never explained Jay's motivation for spiking Faybien's drink at the club given what leads up to the actions.  The ending is so abrupt and forced that it leaves you wondering if they were rushing to complete it or what.  They literally summed up each couple's future in about two minutes.  The acting has improved, but the dialogue has not.  The locations and sets are also better than the first.  There are a couple of filming issues like camera shakiness where it shouldn't be, but not as bad as the first.  With all that said, the movie is average, and a great must-see for fans of the original.  Don't expect too much, but just enough to make you fall in love with the characters all over again.  Would love to see a third installment if they decide to make it happen.

cancelled before it's time. This show got cancelled after just this one season. It is rather unfortunate because it was interesting. It is a mythological show of course and not history in the slightest. But then niether are the written tales of king Author! The real one was a warlord in Britain who was defending the british against the invading anglo saxons and engles. At least the time period is right, it's taking place in the early 500's or late 400's A.D.  The show is mainly a drama and it's budget precludes any big battles. BUt then even the excellent 'game of thrones' doesn't have big battles in it! The story mainly revolves around King Author and his love affair with gwen. Merlin is depicted as more bloodthirsty than usual in this one and that may make people unhappy. It's a decent show though and it should have gotten a chance for a second season. Unfortunately this is all there is. The blu ray looks great as it should and there are extras on here. The acting is pretty good in this one and that's not a problem either.

Starts out very strong and ends very flat. "13" is the first movie, I can recall, since "The Deer Hunter" that uses Russian roulette as a plot device.  I would go out on a limb and say that "13" utilizes Russian roulette even more than "The Deer Hunter" did.  Therefore, I found this movie to have a very unique and different vibe about it.  I found it to be very intense and extremely well acted.  Unfortunately, certain aspects of this film keep it hostage from being an amazing motion picture.  The plot is somewhat basic; Vince (Sam Riley) and his family have hit hard times with money.  His father is in the hospital for a reason that is never disclosed (a textbook MacGuffin) and needs various operations to get him back on his feet.  Since the family has exhausted all their options, Vince ends up taking extreme measures to aid his family.  Using the ruse of paraphrasing, Vince blindly uses someone else's identity believing it will bring him some quick money.  However, Vince finds himself being player number "13" in an underground gambling circuit in a round robin style game of Russian roulette.  There a couple of subplots in this movie, one involving Mickey Rourke and Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, another involving Ray Winstone and Jason Statham.  I found these subplots, well acted and very, very engaging. Alexander Skarsgård known by most as Eric on the show "True Blood" gives a strong performance in a supporting role.  As I noted prior, the acting in this movie is excellent.  I knew Sam Riley played Ian Curtis in "Control". I haven't seen that movie yet, which is odd because I am fond of Joy Division. Nevertheless, Sam Riley played a good protagonist and I look forward to see him in other films.  As for Jason Statham, I have always had mixed feelings about him as an actor. In some movies I roll my eyes and at other I enjoy his work. I would have to say he gave a strong performance in this film.  In addition, he doesn't throw a single punch, which is different for him.  Rourke and Winstone were solid as always and even good old 50 Cent provided a good performance.  The problem I had with this film was the last half an hour.  The pace became a jumbled mess, appearing as too many things needed to be addressed before the 90 minute mark came.  For instance, there was an unneeded side story with the police attempting to find this underground circuit.  As for the final scene, without spoiling it, there was an excellent irony to the denouement. Yet I also felt like, "I sat through 90 minutes for this".  This movie is a remake of a French film; I haven't seen the original so I cannot make any comparisons.  Nor am I aware if this film has been honest to the source material.  I believe if the last half an hour could be reworked and subplots either expanded or eliminated, this could have been an amazing film.  I believe the film could even have the same ending, if the former and latter issues could be addressed.  In the end this film is interesting, different, and at times very intense and has really good acting.  I would recommend giving this movie a go, there are definitely worse movies a person could watch.  I for one am interested to see the original.

Well worth checking out but I was actually expecting this to be better. Really liked the format of the movie though. I say B. "Marjorie, I am not going to take part in this argument. You know I don't hate you and that's that." Bernie Tiede (Black) is the most liked man in town. Everyone loves him and he helps out everybody that he can. Bernie is the local mortician and makes everyone look their best at the end and visits the widows to help them through it. While doing this he meets Marjorie Nugent (MacLaine) the most hated woman in town and they become friends. When she pushes Bernie too far he kills her, then does everything he can to prove she is still alive. This is another movie that I was looking forward to based on the preview. Although the movie isn't as funny as I expected it's still an OK watch. I have to admit that Jack Black usually bugs me because it seems to me like he tries to hard to be funny but he was the perfect choice for this role. The movie is put together in an atypical kind of way. The actual movie part takes place in between different people being interviewed about Bernie. The coolest part is the the people giving the interviews are actual residents of the town talking about the real Bernie & Marjorie. This is a good movie but it is a little slow and I was hoping for better but this is still worth checking out. Overall, a movie that is worth watching but I was hoping for something a little better. I give it a B.

Nuns, Tongues, And Pastel Poodles! Director Alberto Sciamma's otherworldly "Killer Tongue" is a comedic horror movie like no other, and is worth three stars for concept alone. Made in Spain (though set in the desert southwest of the United States) as "La Lengua Asesina," this freakshow is genuinely novel, and rarely fails to startle. The film opens with a ridiculous revelation ("It all started four years ago with a heist and a kiss...") to explain the motivations of the star, Candy (Melinda Clarke.) Candy is a bad girl, who with boyfriend Johnny (Jason Durr) commits a robbery. While he does the time for it and is taunted by no other than Elm Street's favorite spawn Robert Englund, Candy hides out in a convent. After a meteorite possesses a bowl of soup, Candy grows a ten foot long, murderous, talking tongue (with fingers!) that makes everyone's lives extremely difficult. Along the way fluorescent poodles are transmogrified in the most outlandish way imaginable, a most unexpected dance number materializes out of nowhere, we learn why it's a bad idea to iron your tongue, there's a gratuitous lesson in diaper folding, and there is lingual surgery performed by a sabre ("Hasta ma&ntilde;ana, baby!") To reveal more would take away from the truly surreal onscreen vision: let's just say there's nothing else like it.  The film is by no means perfect; several of the performances are stilted, the image transfer itself is quite subpar, and the script is uneven. The special effects are technically not that amazing, but they work adequately for Sciamma's needs. For a comedy this is a bit gruesome; for a horror film it's a bit heavy-handed on the comedic scale. Overall it is very interesting and definitely worth a viewing for horror fans or fans of B-movies in general, though be prepared for occasionally unexpected sleaze and a plethora of grotesqueness along the way.

Beliefs - What is Good and What is Evil? RED STATE will polarize the audience.  There are fans of writer/director Kevin Smith (Cop Out, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Clerks, Clerks II,  Jersey Girl, Chasing Amy, Mallrats, etc) and there are detractors.  And the country is pretty much divided now between right wing and left wing politics. A story that concentrates on the more extreme version of right wing evangelical religion is bound to cause a schism in viewers. But in the presence of all the murders of gay people like Matthew Shepard and  Lawrence King and the racist torture and decapitation of James Byrd, Jr. etc the story needs to be told.  Opening with a trio of teenage friends - Travis (Michael Angarano, very underused in this film!), Billy-Ray (Nicholas Braun) and Randy (Ronnie Connell) -who have searched the Internet for 'physical satisfaction' they come upon a women who will take on three men - a middle aged woman Sara (Melissa Leo) in their little town - and they borrow Travis' parents' car and go off to find adventure. On the way there they sideswipe a parked car that just happens to contain the town sheriff in the middle of a same-sex act.  They eventually find Sara in her trailer house, are invited in, plied with 'beer', and once they have been narcotized they awaken in cages in the church run by Abin Cooper (Michael Parks): the church is small, contains only members of Abin Cooper's family, preaches hellfire and damnation to all gays, and have started to torture and murder the captured trio.  From this  point the story becomes almost unwatchable as the sheriff's assistant calls on the church only to get shot, the Special Agents led by Joseph Keenan (John Goodman) arrive, and a shoot out begins.  Travis escapes but is shot on his way to freedom, one of the young girls in the Abin Cooper family, Cheyenne (Kerry Bish&eacute; in a top notch performance) tries to save the children of the family to no avail, and Keenan is told by telephone to treat the church as a terrorist haven and kill everyone - a philosophy Keenan finds difficult to follow.  How the battle ends is the crux of the tale - is anyone completely free of evil or completely lacking good?  Though the film is very heavy handed it does draw attention to one of the many forms of bigotry and prejudice that are paralyzing this country.  The idea behind the film is a sound one but the delivery of the story is so over the top that the production dilutes the impact.  Grady Harp, October 11

liked Crowe-movie not so much Very slow developing and, at times, very hard to follow because dialogue sound was so low it was not understandable.

Bastille Day Explained...NOT! OK got the opulence and decadence with the Versailles deal...and the musak was just one major annoyance to deal with...I have no clue why the dialogue was such a mystery, editing process, script, writer problems...how could you possibly as a serious director solicit such poor performances from decent actors??? As a serious student of French history of course I would be dissapointed with this cursory review of fashion...sympathies for young royals and well I will give Sophia credit for citing how Thomas Jefferson and Benny Franklin ZERO credit for getting the funds for the Revolution b/c these folks were too wasted to fight otherwise...Tommy just wanted to see the gardens and have checks signed...I feel very bad for France now that they payrolled our success and then sequel into famine...apologies for any France hating...but DAMN what a waste of talents!!! Imagine she will dissapear into ether with this less than zero dimensional effort...but oh, kewl shoes sweetie!!!

Shakespeare's leftovers... Modern-day takes on Shakespeare is not a new idea.  It's been done a thousand times over.  Sometimes it really shines and stands apart as a separate entity, and other times it crumbles under its own ambition and serves as a tent pole of what NOT to do when adapting classic literature.  Ralph Fiennes `Coriolanus' is somewhere in the middle.  It is far from a masterpiece and yet it lifts itself up when needed in order to create something far more intriguing than one may initially expect.  While I didn't walk away truly riveted (and the faults here run deep) I was certainly impressed with some of the steps Fiennes took to make this his own story.  Taking the Roman Empire and thrusting it into the modern-day atmosphere, Fiennes tells the story of General Caius Martius.  Martius is a very complicated figure.  Married to a mouse of a woman, governed by a bear of a mother and infatuated with a former comrade, Martius strives for greatness but his inborn selfishness paints him a monster before his people.  He is hated and plotted against and eventually exiled only to have his morality shift in a display of Shakespearian bravado.  The cast muddles through this dialog heavy adaptation that, much like 1996's `Romeo + Juliet', doesn't adjust dialog to fit the modern-day setting.  I am not one who initially cares about this.  I feel that Baz's take on Shakespeare was a masterpiece and possibly the best film of the 90's, and part of my infatuation was the stellar way he utilized Shakespeare's classic language.  Here though, moments feel stilted and almost cold thanks to the wording.  It feels hard to submit to and thus loses some of the emotional angst it needed to truly embrace the audience.  Another quibble here is mainly in the story itself, which is really segments of Shakespeare's best features strung along to create something `different' that doesn't feel very different and thus feels a bit forgettable.  The main character himself isn't very interesting and so the audience suffers from a bit of disconnect while trying to settle into the film itself.  Although, I will admit that the homoerotic overtones displayed between Martius and Aufidius were played expertly.  The cast as a whole was admirable.  Vanessa Redgrave carries her scenes with such ferocity that she literally swallows the rest of the cast whole, especially Jessica Chastain, who basically disappears behind the behemoth that is Redgrave.  Chastain has a stellar year, but this is a thankless role and a rather insignificant performance.  Fiennes is fiery and sells his character's more explosive moments, but his quieter scenes fail to really ignite.  Gerard Butler probably delivers his finest performance and actually proves he can act (something I was waiting to see) and so I'm happy to see him expand his resume with things of this sort, and Brian Cox is tremendous (second only to Redgrave).  Fiennes directs this rather well.  I felt that his use of the television was overdone and thus became a regurgitation of sorts and felt rather unnecessary, but the visual prowess of the action scenes (the fight between Martius and Aufidius was flawless).  So, yes...see this, but don't expect it to be groundbreaking.

doesn't know where it's going It is a good kid's film, but for an adult there are many unanswered questions in the plot that leaves the audience hanging.  Like where is this pilot from and where was he going when he left?  It had some great possibilities, but just didn't make it. There wasn't much character development.  I wish they could do it all over again with more detail.  Too many unbelievable parts, but maybe as one reviewer said, it was supposedly mystical.  It sure was that!

Good Performances -- So-so Story This film I wanted to watch with no beforehand knowledge whatever, other than the title and that the leading player was Matt Damon .  I had read nothing about it and guessed, at first, that it might be another Bourne-like actioner.  Within a few minutes I began to get an inkling of what it was and it was the music that tipped me off.  Having the qualities of being a generally well-made film, I was initially  intrigued, but as the story unfolded I became less and less impressed.  Before the credit roll I had a suspicion that it might be something by Philip K. Dick.  I have for most of my life had an interest in science-fiction and read a lot of it when I was younger, but there have always been some aspects of it that I simply cannot buy.  In "The Minority Report ," Dick asks us to entertain the existence of pre-destination on which the entire story hinges.  In this one, what with the "Chairman" and the "Plan," he wants us to accept the ideas of pre-destination and gods or God -- two concepts that I cannot accept as  story vehicles.  It's understandable that I would personally find the payoff of the story unsatisfying, but I can understand how some folks would like  it.

A Disappointed Fan I enjoyed the Batman/Superman series. I bought this film after enjoying Batman: Under the Red Hood. This film is, however, weak.  The film has one main point: the introduction of Supergirl. It is an interesting premise. What if Superman wasn't the only survivor? What would happen if teenage survivor arrived on Earth instead of an infant? There is a lot of potential here, and almost all of it is thrown out. Supergirl can't speak English for about five minutes. Then she's just your average teenager rebelling against her authority figure. Their excuse for completely destroying any interest anyone could have in Supergirl's acclimation story is that Darkseid wants her for a minion. I like Darkseid as a villain. One of my favorite episodes in the Superman Animated Series involved Superman giving into his anger after Darkseid killed police officer. That one episode was a thousand times greater than this entire movie.

Typical cave horror movie It is your typical cave horror movie with creatures. It has it's bloody moments. If you like this type of movie you may like this one though it is not as good as The Descent.

Let it be.  No, really, let it be I think it is telling that the artwork doesn't show the four of them together.  Definitely a shallow album and had it been released by anyone else it would have sunk without a trace.  Buy it for completeness, as part of the Beatles story but don't expect anything great musically or lyrically.  You can't deny the catchiness of the title track but my goodness is it banal.  This is the sound of a band breaking up, of a band that has lost the essential spirit that binds musicians together to create more than the some of the parts.  At this time all of them were producing better solo work (however esoteric or commercially unsuccessful).

3 1/2 stars for a sexy "thriller" without the thrills Prior to watch this remake, I had watched the 2003 French film "Nathalie" which is the original title.  I wasn't all too happy with "Nathalie" because it was all talk.  Here we are promised a sexy thriller and while we get the sexy, with the surprising Amanda Seyfried and not surprising Julianne Moore, we also get some laborious dialog.  The filmmakers (directed by Atom Egoyan) finally decide to add a little suspense at the end but it just seemed added on to me.  Don't get me wrong, it works as a drama most of the time and both the ladies are worth the price of admission.  It's just a bit of a letdown.

a comic twilight zone of bumbling murderers and monstrous ambition This is very different from the slick 1980s version, with the soul-singing carnivorous plant and his toady, Seymour.  In this version, Seymour is a fool under the thumb of his mother, a psychosomatic invalid.  He is nurturing an unusual plant in which his boss, a skid-row florist with big ambitions, takes an interest.  Seymour stumbles on the way to make  the plant grow - feeding it the people he inadvertently kills.  His boss sees it as the key to his fortune, but is horrified by what he witnesses, eventually helping a team of idiotic cops as they investigate the strange goingson.  The humor is very much of the period, kind of slapstick stumbling and tripping, with a cast of strange characters from a man who eats only flowers to a hooker who tries to pick up Seymour and then disappears.  The most notable part is the cameo of the young Jack Nicholson, as a masocist in a sadistic dentist's office.  This film is rightly a 1960s cult classic, full of lurid detail and the most bizarre plot imaginable.  Unlike the 1986 version, the ending is much darker as are the characters.  It got me to laugh several times at its signal weirdness.  The scenes are also interesting, set in a drab corner of a very ethnic New York.  REcommended for those of us who grew up during this time.  I do not think that colorizing this is in any way necessary.

good to watch once. good movie you know the plot pretty much at the start. ending was ok could of been alot better with what the movie had going for it.

VERY OVERRATED but Good......... This movie is not the funniest or drop dead funny like most will say, it is funny and a good film but overrated by many IMO!  It is like we watched a different movie, old school is funnier and better to me.  This is a good flick, but not what some crack it up to be, jumps into plot way too fast and overall just not as funny as some act.  I was hardly in tears watching this flick.

Remember it's fiction The story shows the conflict Christians college students often face- how to respond to those who think Christians reject science and just blindly believe the "fairy tale" story of the creation in the book of Genesis.  The conflict is real, many assumptions about Christians are not.  There is an attempted scientific (very long) explanation given in the film as to how both the idea of creation involving evolution and millions of years can be reconciled with a six day belief in creation.  Just use time dialation and, voila, everyone now agrees, the students and teachers are now reconciled in belief, and everyone is happy.  The problem is that in reality that explanation can't resolve the conflict. There are bigger issues than just the time it took for the world we know to come about.  According to the Bible, death and evil entered the world as a consequence of Adam and Eve's sin against God.  That is the whole point of the Bible message of God providing a saviour.  If, as the movie's explanation says, evolution was true, then death entered before Adam and Eve showed up and therefore wasn't a consequence of sin and thus there's no need for a saviour to conquer sin and death.  There are several inconsistencies of thought elsewhere throughout the film.  There were a few insightful elements in the film that demonstrate the nature of mankind.  The film was valuable as a discussion of logical thought processes and how they are often violated. I do appreciate though the attempt to portray Christians as thoughtful, intelligent people.  There really are excellent Christian scientists.

"HALLOWEEN II": "TRICK OR TREAT TO DEATH" Shout! (or in this case Scream) Factory has stuffed the Collector's Edition of "Halloween II" with such an appealing  Trick or Treat bag of DVD Bonus treats, it makes "Halloween II" seem better than it actually is. "Halloween II' is definitely a two stars sequel, but the DVD Extras included here kick it up  a notch,  (the Sound/Audio mix is particularly good on this Edition)  so my overall rating is three stars.   Most interesting is the  2012 featurette "Halloween II: The Nightmare Isn't Over." Producer Irwin Yablans says he got the idea for a sequel when all the money started pouring in from "Halloween" (1978). Yet, when he received the script from John Carpenter and Debra Hill, he hated it! Yablans calls the resulting film utterly "pedestrian." He'll get no argument from me there. John Carpenter did not want to direct, preferring to move on to "The Fog" and "Escape From New York." "Halloween" alumni Tommy Wallace, a logical choice to direct the sequel, also hated the script and passed. The job fell to Rick Rosenthal. Carpenter hated Rosenthal's Director's Cut, re-cut it, and shot some more scenes himself. Is it any wonder that, as Tommy Wallace relates, everybody felt "underwhelmed" by the prospect of "Halloween II?" "Halloween II" is actually more adequate than most sequels, but that's really not saying much positive in its favor.   To be fair, Carpenter and Hill did create a sequel that FEELS and plays like a LOGICAL extension of "Halloween". The sequel begins mere MOMENTS after the end of "Halloween" (thus, making this particular Halloween night, played out over TWO movies, the longest one in cinema history).  Dr. Loomis  (Donald Pleasence) has shot Michael Myers.  He runs outside to the lawn but the body has vanished. In a deliciously funny bit, the next door neighbor who so obviously ignored Laurie's (Jamie Lee Curtis) screams for help, finally comes out and yells off-camera, "What is going on? I've been Trick or Treated to death tonight." Pleasence seriously replies,  "You don't know what death is!".   "Halloween" was all about good, honest, horror tension and suspense. With the tension and suspense now gone, "Halloween II" has nowhere to go except to fall into the "Slasher" category, which it immediately does. Laurie goes to the hospital. Michael follows her there and starts murdering the alternately unaware or sexually-obsessed hospital staff and a few other hapless citizens. Leo Rossi is a hoot as Bud, the arrogant, foul-mouthed EMT who is anxious to have sex with a tardy nurse. The pair actually get it on (while ON DUTY, no less!). Bud is strangled, and the neglectful, very nude, nurse is gruesomely drowned. Billy, a  handsome hospital orderly played by Lance Guest,  is knocked unconscious when he slips on a floor of blood. Now trapped in the hospital and drugged up on IV medications, Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie is regretfully reduced to a more "passive victim" role. Pleasence is obligated to remain several steps behind murderous Myers and spout off exposition we've heard before. Pleasence screams, "I shot him six times!" so often it seems like he screams it sixty times.   "Halloween II: Collector's Edition" includes Theatrical and TV Versions of the film, two audio commentaries, and enough additional Extras, to make everything worthwhile.  You are hereby warned: All other "Halloween" Sequels, with the possible exception of "Halloween H20" should be assiduously avoided, however.

its not all that great... we ordered this and wasnt really very happy with the movie itself. one and number two were definetly better. its not that the movie is terrible, but it is only average i would say. i cant say it is the type of movie to watch a second time just because its that good. and we too still miss the rock in it. but all in all the movie could had been better and thought it would be, but its not. just our thoughts on it. have a good day.

Good fight sequences but some wierd creative choices = Meh?! Soderbergh is clearly out of his element with a straight action piece.  While there are some good fight sequences there are plenty of odd and wierd creative choices that kept reducing the tension and took me out of the film.  The biggest one is his score.  Terrible.  It may work when he used the exact same thing in Oceans 11 but it doesn't fit and failed miserably when using during tense chase scenes.  The second big fail was his lead choice.  While this girl clearly has the looks and athletics to carry something like this, she didn't quite pull it off.  Carano is nice to look at but she lacked dept during the few chances for her character to show any emotion.  They had to fall back on a flash back to an earlier scene in the movie to give some exposition on what her character is feeling - never a good sign.  With A-List talent in the lead (think Jolie)is could have been top notch.  Seems like a big back-fire for Soderbergh in going with a non-actor to carry this role.  Just an ok movie if you happen to catch it on cable during a rainy Sunday....otherwise, pass......

commentary throughout movie I have read at least one person had the same problem as we did with there being commentary through out the movie that you could not turn off. After trying and trying my husband finally figured it out. Go into 'setup' and select the ' English 5.1 surround' and that should work. It did for us. :-)  enjoy.

Gumball Rally Yes,this an old movie,and after not seeing it 30 odd years I found it tobe a fun show,one that the family enjoyed as well.There is no bad language the race is good.Deano and Sammy Davis took their parts as did the rest of the cast, enjoy! Jacko

Blu-ray Review: "Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure" Many of the Disney Direct-to-DVD releases feel like they're stretching the source material way past what it was meant to be. Did we really need a sequel to "Cinderella," "Peter Pan," "Beauty and the Beast," and other classic movies that ended with the phrase "...and they lived happily ever after?" These sequels should carry a tag line reading "... But theeen..."  "Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure" is one of those movies. Revisiting it because of the recent Blu-ray release reminded me how gratuitous it feels throughout a short 70-minute running time.  Lady and the Tramp are the proud parents of three female pups and a scrappy dog name Scamp who has inherited a wild streak from his father. When his chain breaks after being sent outside for tearing up the house, Scamp runs off and meets the Junkyard Dogs. Seeking their approval, he goes through the leader's initiation process to become a member of the group. Could a spunky young pup named Angel help change his mind about wanting to live on his own away from his family?  The life lesson is definitely "front-and-center" in "Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure." Everyone needs to be part of a family. Another lesson Tramp gives Scamp is that you're always welcome home because family loves you no matter what. These are great lessons and do need to be emphasized. However, I start to wonder as I'm watching this movie how many orphanages or broken homes the producers of this movie have been to lately.  This isn't a bad movie by any means. The story is well-written and the voice cast performs wonderfully. The weakest points are the songs. They're bland and lackluster. If a Disney film is going to have musical aspirations it has a lot to live up to in the shadow of "Snow White," "Aladdin," and countless others.  The high-definition transfer looks and sounds excellent. The picture is clean and polished. It's so clear and crisp it removes any "classic" feel filmmaker's attempted to inject into it. Every musical number, line of dialogue, and background sound rings out through a fabulous 5.1 surround mix. It's too bad the songs are instantly forgettable.  Bonus material for this Blu-ray include "'The Making of 'Lady and the Tramp II:' From Tramp to Scamp" and three bonus shorts starring Pluto. There are sing-along songs, puppy trivia tracks, and more as well. Kids will find plenty of fun things to do after watching the movie.  Parents will find the "Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure" Special Edition Blu-ray needless. Their children will no doubt embrace it as much as they did the original. I'd say they have another success on their hands since that's why Disney makes these sequels. Just don't expect older fans of the original to feel the same way.

Fast Paced I am not a professional yoga person or a beginner for that matter.  I tried different styles and bought this thinking I could do some yoga at home.  And granted I just tried it once and I am not the best at coordination or paying attention... however they go way too fast.  Yes you get a workout, but not a relaxing one that incorporates enough breathing focus.  They whip through it.  Eventually I will able to keep up.  However I did like the 5 minutes of restorative on the dvd in the bonus section.

Who wouldn't enjoy this? This is such a fun family movie.  We have watched it a few times now.  This last time my kids were 6,4,2,1, and I expected everyone to love it.  However, my 4 year old was terrified of Jack-Jack at the end when he gets his powers!  She had bad dreams for a few nights in a row, and wouldn't go to bed because she was afraid.  My family loves this film and we will watch it again, but next time we will forward past the ending scene with Syndrome and Jack-Jack.  Her tears and sleepless nights caused me to mark this down.  :(  Great film, I would just recommend keeping the remote handy, and paying attention to your children's faces.

Better than the first one Amazons video service is not responsible for the Cage factor that was in this movie. I can't really write a fair review of a character and franchise that Marvel seems to be putting enough money into but not enough heart. This movie suffers from Nick Cage delivery issues at the most. The plot is super predictable and the action is pretty contrived but, the movie looks amazing. The rider always looks menacing and powerful, which is a much needed improvement from the original. The pacing is for the most part fine and the camera work doesn't make you want to barf so all in all not too shabby. For mindless action entertainment with some sweet special effects, it's certainly worth viewing.

3 stars for the effort Kudos for not churning out the usual Hollywood garbage. In addition the visuals are beautiful. HOWEVER, the film is way too long and repetitive. How many shots do we need of the kid walking around looking frustrated and unhappy and of Brad Pitt being alternately loving and violent? We got the message the first time.

Muddy, Bloody, and Strange Bloody, muddy, quiet, and cinematically beautiful, "Valhalla Rising" is not for everyone.  I would wager it's not for most viewers, in fact.  Taking a somewhat controversial theme that seems somewhat overused and overaccepted these days (the Viking discovery of the New World) as well as overturning the Action Hero trope on its head (his Hero, "One-Eye," does not only not speak but is pretty much impassive, is brutally effective in physical conflict, is feared by the Vikings he encounters due to some barely articulated reputation regarding murders within another clan, is regarded almost as hatred and death embodied, is coverered in strange tattoos and scars--and by the end of the film, we know pretty much as much about him as we did in the beginning!), director Refn attempts to throw convention on its head while simultaneously expanding the subject matter by showing man's search for redemption.  Which, in his hero One-Eye's ultimate death, may be less redemption than just a death of his own choosing.  Certain questions are raised which are never answered, both simplistic (why doesn't One-Eye speak, as it's not discussed as to whether he cannot speak or simply refuses to speak) and more complex (if the Vikings believe the New World is hell, and that One-Eye is from hell, does that mean One-Eye is really from the New World, and has therefore returned home)?  Could he be a demonic agent, or even the Devil himself?  Is returning home a metaphor for redemption?  Metaphorically or actually, nothing is ever clear.  The dialogue is mediocre and actors have a tendency to talk past each other or about each other, rather than clearly communicating, and I think this contributes (quite deliberately, I'm sure, on the director's part) to creating this grand atmosphere of uncertainty.  To be honest, the film is often contrived and it's tedious at times, but it is also fairly enjoyable to observe.  Many times I felt more like an observer than a participant, which I suppose is not really a good thing--I generally feel a good film draws you into the story so you feel as if you are inhabiting the bodies or minds of the characters--but it is acceptable for the 2 hours of this film.  Be advised of brutal, graphic violence and (at times) simply inexplicable behavior (I'm speaking at this point about the rape of one Viking by another at the end of the film).  Early into this movie I began to view it as a grad student's attempt to explain realism through a Viking saga.  When viewed as an attempt to explain political realism through an poorly applied version of the "stag hunt" game, the movie takes on a special, weird significance.  View each man as his own state, a person who can only responsibily concern himself with his own power and security, and the acts--from One-Eye's brutal domination of fighters sent against him in the beginning of the film to his adoption into the crusading group of Vikings (literally crusading--they mean to go to the Holy Land but, apparently, sleeping is not a good way to negotiate the ocean and the stumble into the New World), as well as the invariably, violently successful actions of the natives when the Vikings bumble into contact with the natives--take on a significance.  Even One-Eye's adoption of the boy as traveling companion (friend would be too strong a word, I think) increases One-Eye's relative power (by granting him the ability to communicate--though even this is confused, as it's not certain the boy really speaks for One-Eye, or if he simply speaks) through an alliance.  At the end of the film, when One-Eye has apparently decided it is his time to die, he simply abandons the boy, and his alliance, because it is no longer worthwhile.  By the end of the film I was confused about redemption.  As I suppose, we all are!  I was not certain, in the end, this was really one of the points of the film.  The four most critical characters--a Christian proselytizer, his Viking chieftain friend, the boy, and One-Eye himself--all seemed concerned with it, and with the exception of the boy, all three seemed to demand it.  There are discussions of home, and returning there, but no one ever does.  Yet, the redemption-seekers die, and it was unclear if any of the three felt they'd attained it.  In the end, perhaps that's the greatest issue to be worked through.  Redemption is not always there to be had.

Great effects, by and large good acting, but the story needs work Director Ridley Scott tends to anti-corporate themes. In <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00498VS1E">Alien</a> of this is a prequel, the corporation (Okay. I forgot its name.) attempted to capture a species as a weapon, even at the expense of the crew of the ship.  And all the alien-themed films (only <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00498VS1E">Alien</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001609SQA">Aliens</a> were worth taking seriously) had androids as main characters. So there's a predictabilty about them that can be a little disconcerting, despite the good acting on the part of all of them. (As others pointed out, Michael Fassbender plays the role in this film).  This story starts with a rather pale humanoid drinking something that consumes him. Next, we're with some archaeologists who find similar artistic reference in a 35,000 year old art work in Scotlant. it seems that such "extraterrestrial references" are all over the globe. Consequently, next we're on a ship flying to a planet where the humanoid in the first scene comes from.  The underlying theme of this film is represented--yes--by a cross; one of the archaologists had been given a cross to wear around her neck. Its symbolism was related to her search, for meaning, and specifically for our (human) origin.  After that it wsa predominantly an adventure movie. To be sure, it was well done. It had some of the best special effects I've ever seen, I won't deny that. And I've always respected Idris Elba (Stringer Bell on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001FA1P1W">The Wire: The Complete Series</a>), especially that he's a Londoner and, like in "The Wire," in this film, he's adept at African American accent and jargon. And, true, Fassbender was good, as were most of the others. But, while I know it was an Alien prequel, it didn't do a good job of leading into that, except that this disgusting creature exists, and will appear again in the Alien series.  In that sense, the film was a little of a let down.  So, again, from an adventure film perspective, it was good; from a special effects perspective, it was great. And the music was appropriate, though nothing I'll line up to purchase. But I wish the story had fit better into the rest of the series.

Debra Paget dazzles as the siren of the Nile! Debra Paget was riding high as the exotic beauty of the "sword-and-sandles" when she starred in IL SEPOLCRO DEI RE in 1960.  Coming hot on the heels of Ms Paget's sultry turn in Fritz Lang's "Indian Epic", the film was dubbed into English as CLEOPATRA'S DAUGHTER, though it's links to accurate historical events involving the Queen of the Nile are slight at best.  Enslaved after the abrupt, death-ridden end of Cleopatra's rule in Egypt, Cleo's secret daughter Shila (Debra Paget) enters into an arranged marriage with Nemorat (Corrado Pani), the ever-so-slightly mad new Pharoah.  Shila is also loved from afar by court physician Resi (Ettore Manni), but their romance will have to conquer death itself.  When Shila is framed for the murder of Nemorat, she is punished by being buried alive along with her husband.  Resi abducts the tomb's architect (Robert Alda) and recruits a small group of bandits in an attempt to save her...  I've always had a soft spot for CLEOPATRA'S DAUGHTER, mainly because of Debra Paget, of whom I'm a great admirer.  In my view she is one of the most fascinating female stars from the golden age, appearing in everything from "Les Miserables" to "House of Strangers" and "The Ten Commandments", perhaps her most prestigious film.  Paget's perfomance as Shila in CLEOPATRA'S DAUGHTER is strong; indeed she might as well be reprising her previous role of Seetha from the "Indian Epic", a character who found herself in a similar situation to what Shila does in this film!  The English dub of CLEOPATRA'S DAUGHTER features Paget's own speaking voice, something which sadly didn't happen in Fritz Lang's "Indian Epic" (re-cut as "Journey to the Lost City" for international markets).  Whilst it probably did well at drive-ins and smaller theater chains, CLEOPATRA'S DAUGHTER might have been a bigger hit if it had instead been released three years later, when the world truly was "Cleopatra" crazy, thanks to the 1963 Elizabeth Taylor film.  The print on this DVD-R from independant outfit Sinister Cinema is reasonable enough for the price, though it does differ slightly from the original video release (on the Ubat label as I recall) which, up until now, I've been more familiar with.  This print, which I suspect was created for the film's eventual TV distribution, opens with a shorter version of the main titles (I do so love composer Giovanni Fusco's swirling, romantic main theme), and a brief explanation of the historical events which frame the story.  There's also an early scene with Shila, Queen Tegi and the handmaidens which is strangely missing.  Colour is quite good; the only extra is a trailer.  There are no chapters, you may only progress through the film in 5-minute increments.

so bad it's... still pretty darn bad I seriously hope nobody watches this...  The first half of Kaboom deals with nothing but a few college kids being open and experimenting with their sexuality.  That's it.  Besides the occasional funny and immature sarcasm, there's *nothing* else of value.  The film consists of two main characters (a boy who likes other boys sexually, and a bad-tempered girl who likes other girls sexually).  They are both best friends, and don't have a problem being open with each other concerning their encounters with the sexual partners of their choosing, so expect to see the two of them constantly in their dorm rooms and sharing openly exactly what is on their mind.  Pretty soon, more characters come into the picture and now it's focused entirely on boys and girls having sex with each other.  See what I mean?  There's really no reason whatsoever to watch such a crappy movie.  But wait!  There *is* a reason!  After those atrocious 45 minutes of nothingness are over with, the storyline becomes funny.  Why?  Because it turns out the girlfriend of the girl is a psychotic freak with mental issues.  This character is portrayed as humorous though because she tortures the girl in a way that would be more appropriate for an *extremely* low budget horror flick mixed with comedy.  What about the boy you ask?  Well, he's busy spending time on the beach searching for men to sleep with.  He's not as funny or as interesting as his female friend.  Once that portion of the film is finally over with (and hey, if you've made it this far, you must either be really bored or really in high hopes that something good is coming, and you'd be right) the movie actually tries to tell a story about this mysterious cult that hides their identity by wearing animal masks.  They come out at night and torture people at the college.  The ending was terrible beyond belief (concerning the cult) but I suppose it's supposed to be that way.  After all, when you spend half of the time telling no story whatsoever, why bother wrapping up the events in a satisfying and conclusive manner?  I'll leave you with a question.  For those who've played that old video game Mortal Kombat 3.  What's the biggest fatality in the game?  It's the same thing as the ending to this movie.  See you later!

Great movie, a little slow at times. This movie was very sweet, good romantic comedy. Sometimes the plot line was a little slow and it could have been a little better. Still, if you're looking for a cute, romantic comedy- this is your movie.

Leo's room is a room for everybody It is one of the calm and relaxing movies you can watch on a lazy afternoon. Leo is a student who comes to terms with his sexuality. But it is not only him who we meet in his room. There is his school friend, Caro, in deep depression after an accident (one of the best plots in this film). There is his flat-mate, living in front of telly. There are gays who he meets thanks to online chat rooms. Beside Leo's room, there is also a room of therapist where Leo slowly tries to understand what is going on with him. The main character is likeable, although his shyness and being wishy-washy may irritate some of the viewers. Among so many bad gay-theme movies, this one is really nice done.

Melodrama So many current productions/remakes seem to want to reinvent the wheel, rather than achieving excellence.  I wonder if we will look back at this in 20-30-or-40 years and applaud it for following the book more closely than the 1988 production ?  Or...will we instead be fixated on the over-the-top dark melodramatic style.  Lemony-Snicketish if you will.  I think this style of production will eventually run its' course and look terribly dated.  In my opinion many of the characters were overplayed, the sets were hyped, and there was an overall lack of genuine human spirit.  I had thought that Dickens was rather a master at portraying the different facets of human nature through his quirky characters.  The exaggerated acting style and effects detracted from that mastery.  That said, I did finish it because I was not familiar with this novel and was interested in the plot.  The leads, Foy and McFayden helped save the production, although I did find Foy's "Little Dorrit" somewhat static.  She never did seem to fully transform from a girl into a young woman, capable of an undying love.  I loved Mr. Panck's, Mr. Chivaree, and in general, the young gatehouse keeper John.  The ridiculous Rigaud was a comic book cartoon villain.  Yikes, foiled again!  As for the rest, see the first two paragraphs.  Actually, by the end I did rather come to like Fanny, Sparkler, and Amy's Uncle William. Fanny and Sparkler were the essence of shallow and provided some comic relief to the dark production.  Uncle William was heartwarming.  I daresay there is not a definitive Little Dorrit as of yet.

Great series, but lousy video quality? I love this series and I have been playing with the idea to buy the overprized DVD set for a while. Seeing that now the entire season is sold at a discount made me happy especially since it also includes the newer episodes on Ford and Corvette.  To make an educated buying decision I downloaded the free "Making of" episode and am I glad I did.... Watching it as a download on my laptop, I can not believe how poor the video quality is. In the opening shot you can not even make out any of the hosts facial features; any curved shape of the cars are pixelated and the contrast is washed down. This is not anywhere near HD or even acceptable resolution. Sorry amazon, that just won't do..... Looking for the DVD's again at a fair prize....  I gave it a 3 star rating - this does not reflect the content as Victory By Design is a solid 5 star, it's all about the low quality of the downloadable version

Stereotyped Love Triangle in Muslim background Even though the movie is based on a work or literature (Dr. Achla Nagar - daughter or famous hindi novelist and story-writer Amrit Lal Nagar) the story is an old fashioned love triangle. The backdrop is different but for the story is rehash of many old classics.  The direction is good. BR Chopra weaves the songs too well into the story that they become integral part of the story. The language is very polished (thanks to Dr. Achla Nagar). Everyone stands out in this story!  Mehadi Hasan's Gazal "Chupke Chupke Raat Din Ansu Bahana Yaad hai..." was lifted without his permission.

Nott the best thing I've ever watched. I really love the Pixies music and have watched as much live footage of the band as I could. I was pretty disappointed with the quality in this film. With an entire tour to take footage from,the majority came from just a few dates played. If this was the best footage they had to choose from their camera and sound people must have been very poor at their jobs indeed. This was a missed opportunity to get a high quality concert film of the Pixies. Buy it if you are a big Pixies fan and can get it cheap,but don't pay retail.

Lead character very annoying but a good movie I don't recall ever being so annoyed with a lead character in a movie. Apparently she was supposed to be a sympathetic character but she came off as simply a pathetic, whining, self pitying, anorexic jerk. Why on earth would any girl get so bent out of shape by the engagement of a girl who was supposed to be her best friend that she just goes nuts. Or, was she nuts all along and the engagement just pushed her over the edge. It leaves you with the impression that this friendship was the only thing she had and if it was changing then she just had to behave so badly that everyone would notice her instead of the bride. Instead of being happy and supportive of her friend, she made the whole thing about her starting with the way too long scene near the beginning of the movie where she competes with the stepmother in making the toast. And, couldn't they have found a better looking bride.  That girl was just "plain". But, the movie was funny and I guess that is what it was meant to be. The scene near the end where she keeps racing her car up and down breaking all kinds of laws trying to make the policeman notice her was too long and annoying also. Contrived is what comes to mind. Halfway through the movie, you simply don't care about this "heroine" anymore. You just want her to gain a little weight, get a job, actually care about her friend's happiness and, for the love of Pete, stop whining.  The fat girl was the best thing in the movie. Great performance.

A Christmas Story Thought this was a kid's movie but it isn't.  Profanity and risque insinuations. Funny for adults. Don't recommend this movie for children.

original SCREEPLAY??!! was so surprised to learn this was film first THEN stage play, have seen O'Toole in Pygmalion and could still see the many vapors of a theatrical performance but this suited the film very well and admired his treatment of the Swann character.  Very funny especially if you are a longtime film/live tv/theatre affectionado, acquired taste to truly appreciate and represents the true wonder years that yield more to come vs in retrospect... would love to watch with Mel and crew and get the back story gems of that time... propels the so called washed up actor to elevated hero as there were no more looks or matinees to rely on and charm wins the day, and O'Toole delivers in a most passionate way!

Amazing product, way overpriced. I dont know how to review this product. I LOVE big bang theory, but for the price they sell it here on amazon, its an insane rip off. I wanted to buy the complete season here but its not worth it! Google it, you can find much better deals.  But talking about the product itself, its great. I love the plot line of Big Bang Theory, and throughout the seasons, I have really grown a connection with each character. The show is very witty, nerdy, however humorous and cute. There are not many sexually jokes compared to a sitcom say New Girl, but throughout the seasons it progresses. I love the amount of comic book jokes, nerd problems, for example... nerds not getting a chance with girls.  This show is definitely for the little more intelligent, even I dont understand all the jokes they make and I'm a freshmen in college. Hopefully as the seasons continue and I grow wiser in science, I will understand more, laugh more, and fall in love with the characters even more. This show really is an amazing one, one to definitely give a shot.

Brotherhood of the wolf  so- so movie I bought this movie based on my interest in the true events, that happened in France, very long ago with the scenario of a werewolf being involved, the movie has great scenery,great work by the director of photography i assume,the story starts out good, with mystery of some unknown beast attacking a helpless woman and investigation begins, as the quest for the beast and mystery behind the beast begin,the hired detectives mingle with some busty women, again more great scenery slowly plot lines and clues are revealed, but the show seems to drift off course with storyline involving a secret brotherhood being tied in with the mysterious creature/killings.etc the "werewolf" of sorts wasen,t what expected which may be good or bad depending on your point of view or interest, also the french dialogue and subtitles make it extra work to watch this show,that being said the show does have a Sherlock Holmes feel to it,has some erotica in it,and over all well put together.

toy story 3 movie purchased for children 5 and 3.  A bit long, but they enjoyed it as did some of the adults.

undercover operative takes assignment as Mr. Mom... The Spy Next Door (2010) is something a little different for martial arts star Jackie Chan.  Intended as family entertainment, the action/comedy features Chan as Chinese secret agent Bob Ho on assignment in America, working with the CIA to try and apprehend Anton Poldark (Magnus Scheving), a Russian who has developed a substance that dissolves petroleum Russian.  Ho's real aspirations are to retire from the espionage business, get married, and try and live a normal life.  The tone is mostly light-hearted and fun, as Ho is involved in a romance with his neighbor Gillian (Amber Valetta), and has to somehow convince her three children that he is not a complete dork.  Bob takes charge over the three kids, Farren (Madeline Carroll), Ian (Will Shadley), and Nora (Alina Foley), when Gillian has to leave to care for her father.  Most of the humor revolves around Bob's attempts to handle the kids, and try and win their trust and affections.  While all are basically good kids, it's still an uphill struggle for a guy with minimal parenting skills.  Farren is a little rebellious, and doesn't feel like part of the family.  Ian is bright, but prone to exaggeration.  And Nora is just a cute little bundle of energy, that is almost too much to handle.  Life gets complicated, when Ian downloads a file containing Poldark's formula, using Bob's laptop.  Poldark dispatches a hit team led by Tatiana Creel (Katherine Boecher), to recover the file and kill whoever has it.  Bedlam ensues when the Russian's show up at Gillian's home.  Bob turns to CIA agents Glaze (George Lopez) and Colton James (Billy Ray Cyrus) for help, but finds that he is mostly on his own.  All roads lead back to Gillian's house, for a showdown with the Russians, on Halloween.  The Spy Next Door isn't hilariously funny, but is still probably entertaining family fare for those with younger children, and dedicated Jackie Chan fans.  Even after so many years, a language barrier still exists for Chan, but as is usually the case, his upbeat approach, good natured attitude, and still impressive athletic skills, does a lot to overcome his lack of verbal skills.  Although the role of family guy may not be one that we are used to seeing him play, Chan does pretty well working with young actors, particularly Alina Foley.  Besides the kids, the remaining supporting cast doesn't have that much to do, and character development is close to nil.  Better editing and scene transitions, would have helped things flow a little more smoothly, but the silly, uncomplicated, and clich&eacute; filled story holds together fairly well, mixing incidents of domestic crisis, with a few mildly violent action scenes.

adventures in babysitting basically a rework of 1987's adventures in babysitting, a tad predictable, and ari graynor - so excellent in nick and norah's infinite playlist - is wasted here. that said, you get what you expect with jonah hill. not the worst movie, and not the raunchiest.

Popeye the Movie I found the look and feel of the sets and cast very faitful to the Popeye TV cartoons. The pace of the movie overall was slow which worked for a cartoon developing the next bit of action, but not so good for a live production.

Upgrade only if the price drop below $10! One of my favorite films of the 80's, Gremlin BD didn't seen to have any restoration. Improvement is only marginal. I agree with some of the reviewers here - keep your DVD! Only upgrade if it drop below $10 and you have the extra cash to spare!

Just okay The troubled production of "The Prince and the Showgirl" in 1957, as seen through the eyes of a young crewman, focuses on the emotionally fragile Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams).  Her crippling lack of confidence infuriates the film's director and co-star Lawrence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh), but third assistant director Colin (Eddie Redmayne) finds the lady enchanting and wants only to protect her.  This is a sweet movie, well-acted all-around.  Williams does a good impersonation of Marilyn (though not Oscar-caliber, in my opinion) and Branagh is perfectly-cast as Olivier.  Judi Dench is quite good in a small part as an older co-star.  All of the action centers around Redmayne's star-struck and naïve character and he gives an excellent performance.  The many problems on the set caused by Marilyn's neuroses were beyond annoying and I grew tired of them and frustrated with the repetitive plot.  The story of the shy but earnest boy who grows up thanks to his infatuation with a screen goddess is an idealized scenario and not worth watching twice.

Why not colorised? I've always liked this movie and some years ago I bought a colourised VHS copy in NYC.  I was amazed how much better it was,  I would say 100% and the tape was in EP speed! Back in the 40s so many would have been made in colour had the producers forseen the future, VHS, laserdisc and DVD.  The colour was very good even at EP speed, so imagine it on blu ray.  I know some fans of the movie prefer the original B/W, so why not put it out on blu ray with two seperate discs as they did recently with "It's A Wonderful Life".  Those blue uniforms with yellow stipes come out wonderful.  The movie itself I would give 5 stars but because of this disapointing release it's only three.

HeartBreaker The story line attracted me to this movie which was good.  I was especially happy to have it in French with subtitles as my daughter-in-law loves all things French and is fluent.  Story was predictable which I don't mind but I prefer more toward G than even pG-13.  Not an R thank goodness.  Will watch again but it won't be a favortie/classic in my DVD collection.

another step in the budding career of the future "king of cool"... Steve McQueen (1930-1980) rose to stardom in the 1960's and became of the biggest action stars of the era, appearing in such films as <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009HKH6Q">The Thomas Crown Affair</a> (1968), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004KWVDWI">Papillon</a> (1973), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000MV90J4">The Getaway</a> (1972), and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000MV90IU">Bullitt</a> (1968), McQueen's trademark style earned him the nickname, "the king of cool".  While starring in the TV western series Wanted Dead or Alive (1958-61), McQueen was also attempting to launch his film career.  After a starring role in science fiction thriller, The Blob (1958), McQueen's next film role was in The Saint Louis Bank Robbery (1959), a drama based on real life events, involving a group planning to hold up a bank.  For those who may become disturbed by the discussion of the details of a movie over fifty years old, be advised that some mild spoilers follow.  McQueen is George Fowler, an ex-serviceman looking to get ahead by participating in his first crime.  Fowler is brought into the job by his friend Gino (David Clarke), and is slated to act as wheelman for a group led by John Egan (Crahan Denton).  Egan's plan involves intensive scouting at the Southwest Bank, and putting the team through a series of dry runs, before the actual robbery.  Things become more complicated for Fowler, after he contacts his ex-girlfriend Ann (Molly McCarthy).  She is Gino's younger sister, and becomes concerned that George and her brother may be involved in something that will lead to disaster.  Egan and others in the gang have doubts about George, and these concerns rise to a critical level, after a rash act by Ann, causes a change in their plans.  Crime seldom pays, particularly in this era of moviemaking, so as you might expect, things do not turn out roses for the robbers.  Things go bad, and the gang is trapped inside the bank with a number of hostages.  Hopefully the police procedures seen in the film, which appear to put the safety of the hostages at risk, were not actually standard practice.  The movie does a solid job of showing the gang casing the bank, and planning out the robbery.  The romance between George and Ann adds some color and emotion to a film that otherwise seems short on warmth.  Although McQueen ends the film crawling on his belly, he displays some flashes of the qualities that would later make him a star.  Led by Molly McCarthy and Crahan Denton, the performances of the supporting cast are quite good in this slightly better than average crime adventure.

Preliminary Review Although I loved and still love post-apocalyptic stories, I didn't like "The Road Warrior" when I first saw it, but now, as a relic of it's time, I think it holds up remarkably well. It's cool and weird - silly, in a good way. Eventually, I will replace this 2007, full screen release version with a better, widescreen copy.  I remember the critics, way back then, trashing "Beyond Thunderdome," for it's storytelling shortcomings. They were right. This movie looks great and has some spectacular action scenes, but I can't comprehend why THIS script got O.K.'d for shooting. Well, no doubt it had everything to do with the expected box office returns. This is a perfect example of "big budget crap."  After I re-watch the original "Mad Max," I'll probably revise this review.  Luv and peace.

Avoid the dreadful 3rd episode! All in all, not bad. Patrick Stewart is, as always, enjoyable. And the 1st, 2nd, and 4th episodes are reasonably entertaining. A bit slow paced for my tastes, but still worth watching.  The 3rd episode (1st of the two on the 2nd DVD) is another matter entirely. It is boring. It is predictable. (Which is not entirely a bad thing - you can predict the ending and save yourself the bother of watching it!) But the worst of it is that it's so politically heavy-handed, one wants to run screaming from the room. To attempt to inject this much fear and hysteria into the threat of global warming, the writers must have been drinking Al Gore's magic Kool-Aid!*  It's an entire hour (although, goodness knows, it seemed longer than that!) of "Ohmygod, the world is going to end!" interspersed with sneak peeks at the big bad capitalist conspiracy to suppress this shocking news!  Save yourself the bother, skip episode 3 and just treat the entire thing as a THREE-episode series. You won't be disappointed!  * For more on magic water, please see episode 4.

Latest Potter installment excites yet mildly disappoints, and fails to be the highest point in the franchise. Perhaps this stems from the fact that "Deathly Hallows" was kind of a bummer climax to a great book series, one that failed to meet my expectations as a fan, and failed to rank as 5-star reading, coming from an author that had astounded me in the past with her exceptionalism in the quality of her literary output. The novel was slow-moving, often dragging itself to a complete halt before starting itself up again on a lame footing, and then tumbling to an unexciting and open-ended finale.  Not that I dislike the movie so much. It is merely that the film suffers solely from the problems of the book: an over-stretched and ridiculous plot (or lack thereof); a slow moving narrative, which took up over 700 pages when it easily could have used up only 300; and a ruthless extermination of nearly half the population of the Wizarding World in a single brutal sweep by Rowling herself. That being said, if you can disregard the seriously lacking storyline and nonexistent plot, "Hallows, Part 1" comes off as a fairly good film.  I have really come to appreciate why the production team chose to split it into two halves. While the tone of the next film is ostensibly going to be full of more fast-paced, action-packed thrills with lots of heroics and explosions, this first part is slower moving, with a kind of stationary adventure taking place outside of Hogwarts, a first for the books and the films. It is easily the darkest of all the films, with bleak, somber scenery, and as dark a tale to match. The characters are more fully explored, particularly the three young heroes, and their depth adds another, more mature element to the story.  Be prepared to shed a few tears, and to cover your eyes and your ears during some of the more horrific moments. I was especially creeped out by the scenes at Bathilda Bagshot's house, and the sequence of Bellatrix torturing Hermione at Malfoy Manor. The gristle and gore is quickly apparent, with frightening scenes of blood and death almost from the get-go (all courtesy of J.K. Rowling's book, I might add).  But considering the film was created by a team made up mostly of men and born from Rowling's imagination, I am thankful it wasn't any worse. While the same bad stuff happens, its been toned down to suit a PG-13 rating, and the gruesome shots never last more than a few seconds.  You do have to give yourself time to get used to being out of your element--like the book, you never get to see Hogwarts castle. Being a "road" picture, most of the story takes place during what seems like an extended camping trip. The main focus is the three kids and their quest to destroy Voldemort's Horcruxes, though what they do accomplish in the stretch of two and a half hours is precious little. While an improvement from the book, I was surprised afterward how much time it took for so little to happen, even though it seemed like things were in constant motion. The action is spread over numerous campsites across the country, with bits of action, character development, and plot exposition thrown in. Not the most inspiring setting, but it works better in a movie than I thought it would.  Regarding the script, Steven Kloves remained exceedingly faithful to J.K. Rowling's story, with the Deathly Hallows still taking front seat,  and everything else following, for better or worse. He is also equally as ruthless, sparing no one and leaving every death (all 6) in place that she put into what makes up the first installment. Even so, there are several changes which made for a great improvement to the plot. For instance, things move quicker leading up to the recovery of the first Horcrux. The pacing is shored up and sheared considerably from the book, where as I said before it dragged and dragged until it came to a complete halt. The film never stops moving, and often leaves you completely breathless. It is easily ten times more exciting than how it was written. To put it one way, I knew everything that was going to happen, yet I sat on the edge of my seat biting my nails the entire time. Little time is spent at either the Dursley's or the Burrow; Harry's birthday is completely skipped over; and Bill and Fleur's wedding is also condensed considerably. The time within Grimmauld place is robbed of screen-time but loaded with tension; the few moments inside are as nerve-wracking as any taking place in the forest outside.  The strained relationship between Harry, Ron, and Hermione felt monotonous and after a while unbelievable in the book, but because the acting of the three stars is so strong, it works in the movie. Amongst the discord, there is a sense of unity between the three friends. Harry doesn't argue so much with the other two and is less belligerent. The fights between he and Ron have been paired down to one, and he seems to be more understanding of Hermione's feelings in particular, making their special bond even more poignant. I really enjoyed several moments where he finally stands up and acts like a man, particularly the sequence where he comforts a downtrodden Hermione by dancing with her, a nice addition by Kloves that wasn't in the original book.  You can really see Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint coming into their own as actors. Watson is perhaps the best out of the three, carrying so many emotions at one time it's hard to keep up. Grint does an equally commendable job with Ron's conflicting emotions and his wavering faith in Harry, and often provides some well-timed comic relief. Radcliffe seems to be more comfortable in his role than the previous films, and as a consequence, Harry seems to have matured considerably, growing as a person and developing another layer of depth and complexity that adds even more interest to his character. For instance, after the face-off with Nagini at Godric's Hollow, Hermione shows Harry the bits of his broken wand. Instead of blowing up at her and acting like an ungrateful prig as he does in the book, he acts far more accepting, actually thanking her for saving their lives instead of bawling her out.  Even though many, many technical advancement have been made since the earlier movies, I found the special effects for this one a bit too cartoonish. Dobby and Kreacher's faces looked far too human to be house-elves, and not quite as magical as in films 2 and 5. The shadow-puppet-like animation for tale of the Three Brothers was very odd, and I felt it detracted from the story too much.  Of all of the alterations made to the plot, my one complaint was that Kloves chose not to spare Dobby, the poor, good-natured house-elf who gets mercilessly killed at Belltrix's hands, an unnecessary moment from the book that really galled me. In the film, it was painful to watch Harry call out to Hermione to help him, and watch as she does nothing. Rowling frequently contradicts herself, and this was one of the worst.  How is it Hermione could stop Ron from bleeding to death after he was splinched, or save Harry from a near-fatal snake bite, yet she can't help a house-elf that was wounded with an ordinary dagger? It would have been such an easy change--I really wish the film had ended better.  As a movie, I can't complain. It had good acting, good cinematography, fairly good music, good visual effects, and a great production crew. It was a marked improvement from the book itself, and while maybe not as marked as I would have liked, it is nonetheless something I would consider re-viewing. If it lacks, it is in no way the fault of the filmmakers. They did the best they could with the material given to them. Let's just hope the next time around (Part 2), will improve upon the source instead of slavishly adhering to it.

Wow - I must have missed something The video Buck is a slow paced family video made for horse people.  I am not one.  The story was simple and had about 5 repetitive "action/tricks" that Buck used to train others on how to "break" there colts.  He is surely a great and genital man that suffered through some very bad times during his childhood. But I was more interested in him than the horses. Why did he choose to stay away from his wife, did his childhood make him the loner he spoke of? The reason he gave for not spending more time with his wife and dauther was very weak. What about his brother, what happened to his father? This video did give some good simple lessons for dealing with people and horses and he believes they are the same. Sorry, this was a nice feel good movie however it failed to meet the mark for me.

She-alien on a quest to get pregnant Any movie with an HR Giger alien is automatically worth investigating -- the man has an ongoing nightmare for an imagination.  And sadly that is the biggest innovation of "Species," an interesting but deeply flawed sci-fi movie that tries to inject some sex appeal into tentacled reptilian horrors. It's an entertaining story about a baby-crazed alien woman and the group who is trying to stop her, but the story falls apart at the end.  An alien civilization sent SETI a formula for combining their DNA with ours.  Scientists created a half-alien child named Sil (Michelle Williams) -- and when they try to kill her to "terminate" the experiment, she breaks out.  So Xavier Fitch (Ben Kingsley) calls on a bounty hunter (Michael Madsen), two scientists (Alfred Molina, Marg Helgenberger) and an empath (Forest Whitaker) to find her.  The problem is, Sil has rapidly matured into a beautiful woman (Natasha Henstridge) and is driven by an incredibly strong reproductive drive. Unfortunately, she's also leaving a trail of corpses behind her. The team are playing a wild cat-and-mouse game with the sensual alien, hoping to stop her before she pops out a kid.  There are two major things you will remember about "Species": HR Giger's elegantly nightmarish design for Sil's true form... and boobies. Lots of boobies. It's basically your standard people-hunting-an-alien story, but with the addition of some steamy sex scenes and lots of nude/semi-nude Natasha Henstridge.  And for the first 3/4ths, it works fairly well. The story is split between Sil's adventures in L.A. and the team's attempts to track her, and there's a healthy dose of gore, sex, and nightmarish surrealism (GNASHING SKULL TRAIN!). But things unravel in the last act when Sil transforms into a hilariously awful CGI model, and the sillness is amped up to 11 -- seriously, nipple tentacles?!  As for the characters... well, none of them are very fleshed out. Michael Madsen is interesting as a bounty hunter for the government, and Molina and Helgenberger are pretty standard "good scientist" types. Ben Kingsley looks vaguely disinterested, as if he doesn't really want to be here.  Oh, and Forest Whitaker is UTTERLY WASTED as the Deanna Troi "empath." Seriously, the dude never says anything that either hasn't been revealed already, or isn't glaringly obvious. If Sil had stolen a fridge filled with food, his brilliant revelation would be, "She's hungry." He could have been cut from the movie without any impact.  But Natasha Henstridge is really brilliant as Sil. She's an enigmatic, childlike creature with a child's cruelty and curiosity -- she's as likely to smash another woman's spine as she is to buy a frilly dress, and Henstridge really gives it life.  "Species" is burdened with flimsy characters and a silly climax, but it is a fairly entertaining "killer alien" story nonetheless. Too bad they didn't stop here.

Not what I thought When Super Dave first came out years ago, I thought it was hilarious.  Now, pretty funny but I don't see it as the riot like I did back in the day.

Not The Same Without All of Section 9 I watched this movie & was in awe of the incredible computer graphics, the artwork, that appears during the monumental festival parade. The story line was not new, one of the series episodes featured a similiar them of personal androids killing their masters. It was an interesting movie, but it left a void.  Where was the rest of section 9 characters? The first movie, the anime series worked as the cast of characters from section 9 worked together as each character added their expertise towards their objective.  It was fascinating to see them in action. Questions about this movie still remain: Why was Togusa's hair black?  He has appeared,previously, with dirty blonde hair.  His hair color & style set him a part from the others. Why would the "Major" lose her android body & disappear into the net? It makes no sense as she was attached to her specific body & wouldn't change to a new body type.

YOU'RE A FABRICATOR The whole premise had me scratching my head. Corporate executives do not go to prison due to liability on their products even if they deliberately produce a product that will harm people. Ford Motor company proved that with their exploding Pinto. So now Kevin Spacey spends 8 years in prison and his family never comes to see him? Once you get past that...and I never really did, we end up with a movie that has some good scenes connected by a bad plot.  I didn't like Heather Graham defining herself as a lesbian to strangers. That was so unreal and not funny. The negative relationships and feelings that were rampant against Kevin Spacey, was not believable. Kevin played a guy whose only fault was that he enjoyed his work. If you want a somewhat feel good comedy without f-bombs, sex, or nudity this one might fill in...but don't think too hard about it.

Rotten Meter Way Off Rotten Tomatoes 8% rating for this flix is way, way too low.  A movie teaming Cage and Pearlman (Ghost Rider plus Hellboy) is worth at least a look-see.  The film is not great, but it is not terrible either.  It's entertainment.  And, for a couple of bucks, worth a couple of hours of diversion.

Atlas Shrugged Quality of the DVD was good.  The film was "choppy" and difficult to follow at times. It's a huge book and this could be due to poor editting. The acting was good but not award winning.  I plan to watch it again and look forward to the second installment of this series in hopes it will fill in some of the blanks.  If you are interested in "Big Business" it's worth your time.

But it's not "The Little White Horse" "The Secret of Moonacre" is an enjoyable film with the outlines of Goudge's "The Little White Horse," but it is not that story.  Sir Benjamin Merryweather is a very different person, not the fatherly uncle of the book.  The charm of the book is missing.  To leave out "Old Parson" is to miss much of the wisdom.  However, the photography is wonderful, including the skylight (not in the book) of the tower and the closing encounter by the sea on the Thousandth Moon is epic in mood.  Though I enjoyed the film, I suspect that Miss Goudge, with whom I had some correspondence, would not be happy.

dark and gritty It was much darker than I expected, but I actually enjoyed it, cared for the characters. Especially the young cop in the middle of it all torn between family loyalty and his job.  I admit watching it because it's an early Stana Katic movie and I wasn't disappointed with her part.  She brought hope and light to the movie and the young cop's life.

Knights of Christ It's a decent DVD, tends to adhere to the same focal points as other produced on the Warrior Monks. Would be a good addition to a school's library or history section.

Fine performances in a disturbing film OK, so let's talk.  Critically this film by Lynne Ramsay (director/co-writer) explores the development of a serial killer from birth to adolescence.  From the beginning Eva (a superb Tilda Swinton) wasn't sure she wanted to give up her career as a travel journalist but her husband (John C. Reilly) thinks it's time to start a family.  The first born, Kevin (Jasper Newell at 8 and creepy Ezra Miller as a teen) never connected with his Eva.  He seemed to gravitate to Franklin (Reilly) and hate his mother.  Eva's exasperation with Kevin leads to clear psychological trauma.  The film jumps around all over the place with no real place-setters, so about the time we figure out what's what, it's time to jump again.  While Swinton and Miller give memorable performances, you have to ask yourself why this movie had to be made.  It is unsettling, disturbing and over-stylized.  As expected, we never get the answer to Eva's question to her son.  Why?  Indeed, why?  The Blu ray disc looks excellent with the transfer in the original 2.35:1 aspect ratio.  The color palet is excellent and the detail exemplary.  The sound likewise is very good with a DTS-HD MA 5.1 giving proper treatment of the audio including Jonny Greenwood's dark score.

A gift. The video arrived in a timely manner. The video was in very good condition. I saw the documentary on Netflix and bought it for a friend who grew up on horror movies. He enjoyed the video especially Christoher Lee's narration.

some films are best left undiscovered In 1975, Gene Hackman received a double nomination from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) for Best Actor in a Leading Role, ultimately losing to Al Pacino's own unbeatable double (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0019L21GA">The Godfather Part II</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6304712960">Dog Day Afternoon</a>). One of Hackman's nods was for the fairly obvious choice, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6300247384">French Connection II</a>. Most people would not come close to guessing that the other was for Arthur Penn's own detective film, Night Moves.  I have a soft spot for gritty 1970s dramas, and I especially enjoy finding hidden gems. But my initial reaction here was one of disappointment. The closest film I can think of is the exponentially more brilliant <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UAE7RW">Chinatown</a>. I always enjoy Hackman, but even he was better in the little-known but excellent <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00003CX9I">The Conversation</a> or obviously the first <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006GANN2">The French Connection</a>.  While amateur film scholar <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/081085676X">Ronald Schwartz</a> is correct in noting that, "Harry Moseby is a man with limitations and weaknesses," the imperfect anti-hero was played well by others during this period of resurgence in neo-noir. Neither Jack Nicholson's Jake Gittes nor Hackman's own (other) Harry in The Conversation know much about anything. As in Night Moves, neither can prevent bad things from happening to the people they work for.  Hackman does a good job here (as usual) but the film overall is simply not as compelling as some of the other vintage detective pieces. And what did the football player angle add? Nothing IMO. Unnecessary multiple-location and very dark shooting make the story harder to follow.  Bonus points for early glimpses of James Woods and Melanie Griffith.  DVD includes period featurette.

Washington intellectual & media funny guy Ben Stein tackles academic freedom Ben Stein is well-known to recent generations as the deadpan teacher from "The Wonder Years" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" as well as the host/star of "Win Ben Stein's Money".  To an earlier generation I believe he was connected to the Nixon Administration as a speech writer or something like that.  Nevertheless, this is a very sharp man who decides to involve himself in this documentary on the eroding academic freedom in the US.  The film takes on the Intelligent Design issue, certainly a divisive topic among not only scientists but also between fundamentalist and all other Christians.  The issue is timely, given that many civil liberties are eroding in the US and that there is a rise in the media support of the right wing (see the scary documentary "Outfoxed").  I gave this good documentary three stars not because of what it contains, which is good, but for what it might've contained: I believe it would've been even better if Ben Stein's deadpan, sardonic wit were put to use (he plays this one pretty straight); it also would have benefitted from a passing reference to a similar problem of academic freedom that has occurred over the last several years among theologians in the Catholic colleges and universities in the US.  They also are under scrutiny to toe the Vatican line on "orthodox" and not "fringe" theology, and many progressive theologians have lost their positions, just as these scientists have.  Again, the issue -- as mentioned by other reviewers -- is not the validity or viability of Intelligent Design, but the freedom of academics to explore it in their writings and their classrooms.

America: Heck Yea! Another Marvel Superhero flick. This one is good but not great. Really this just makes me anticipate the Avengers film. Marvel has done a good job being patient and releasing the films slowly, taking time to develop each character (Iron Man, Hulk, Black Widow, Captain America, Thor, Hawkeye) but this one definitely felt the most 'slapped together' of any of them. Regardless, still a highly entertaining movie, but not with the weight in story and acting of the others.

Long on gore. Longer on snore!  What this is is a fantastic period piece with beautiful sets and adequate atmosphere. But the Blu Ray, as pretty as it is, reveals way too much CGI for this thing to be enjoyable. Del Toro makes a reasonable showing as the haunted Lawrence Talbot, and the twist supplied by Anthony Hopkins makes this thing watchable. The showdown at the end of the movie makes this worth the time, but in the end it feels like this was just another wasted opportunity.  The original had atmosphere too, more suspense, phenomenal effects, and no CGI. If you haven't seen it, the new Special Edition Universal release does justice to the legend.

Very good visuals and competent acting I especially liked the visual treatment of this film -- a thoroughly professional job.  And the acting was fine, with Pierce Brosnan seeming to improve with age.  Of course, his ingenue years found him mostly in roles that required looks more than acting.  But for some reason, perhaps because her role has no sexual implication, Kim Cattrall was allowed to look rather unattractive.  The story is resolved in an unconventional way for this kind of yarn, although it works well considering that our ghostwriter for no apparent reason chooses to reveal his hand to exactly the wrong people.

If you want to play the game, you'd better know the rules... THE DEAD POOL is generally viewed as the whimpering end to a once-mighty series, and in some ways this is very true. The movie is certainly the weakest of the Dirty Harry films; it lacks many critical elements that made the previous four movies so powerful. However, upon rewatching the film some time ago, I realized that taken by itself, out of the shadow of movies like MAGNUM FORCE and SUDDEN IMPACT, it's really not that bad.  THE DEAD POOL opens with a now-graying Inspector Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) dodging unending teams of hit-men sent by mobster Lou Janero (Anthony Charnota), who is sitting in prison thanks to Callahan's detective work. Callahan is therefore less than pleased to be assigned a new partner, Al Quan (Evan Kim), whose life-expectancy can probably be measured in days if past is prologue. With the Mafia threat hanging overhead, the two inspectors are sent to investigate a rash of brutal celebrity deaths which correspond to a list of names found on the body of a murdered movie producer...a list that includes the name of Harry Callahan. It seems the crew of a cheesy horror film lensed by arrogant director Peter Swan (Liam Neeson) has a "dead pool bet" going - everyone in the bet picks celebrities they think likely to die soon, and the person who racks up the most deaths in a year wins the game. As the celebrities meet their grisly fates one by one (a young Jim Carrey amongst them), Callahan continues to dodge Mafia bullets, while simultaneously pursuing a romance with a plucky redheaded reporter Samantha Walker (Patricia Clarkson). It's a busy schedule, and it includes being chased all around Frisco by a remote-controlled car bomb, trapped in a glass elevator which is being riddled by fusilades of bullets, and forced to confront a psycho carrying Callahan's own .44 while being armed with nothing but a...well, you've gotta see that last one to believe it.  THE DEAD POOL has a boatload o' problems. It tries very hard to produce a catchphrase like "make my day" or "a man's got to know his limitations" and fails miserably. It lacks an in-the-department antagonist of the type played by Hal Holbrook in MAGNUM FORCE or Bradford Dillman in THE ENFORCER and SUDDEN IMPACT. The central premise seems tame after the big stakes involved in the first three films. Eastwood's performance lacks the fire of previous entries, and while that may be deliberate (Callahan is well into his 50s in this movie, and can be expected to have lost a step or two), the bristling, violent energy he exuded in all the previous films is notably absent here, with the exception of one hilarious confrontation with the mobster Jenero in prison. Evan Kim's character has some very humorous moments, such as when he reveals to Harry that he's been painted with ancient Chinese symbols for luck in hopes of surviving his partnership with Callahan, but the actor's performance is dull and uninspired. As for the villain, there's nothing interesting about him. Still, if you can drag POOL out of the shadow of the other movie, it stands unsteadily on its own, and has just enough good moments to be worth watching.

Not the best Thomas movie This is OK. My son watched it a few times, but it was short and you can tell it is one of those quickly made DVDs. If you would like to purchase a Thomas movie a little boy would watch again and again, go for the Great Discoveries.

Green Zone It's three years behind being considered "timely", yes; certainly, you may have heard this from a plethora of critics.  I resent that.  This event in our country's history is so pivotal, so controversial, that it must be repeated over and over until even the most fickle and inattentive of individuals consider it a tedious act.  It's the only way to deny the next history books any wriggle room for unwarranted subjectivity.  Keeping that in mind, only some will find Greengrass's new thriller intriguing, let alone enthralling.  It may be my, as of yet, lack of mental saturation to the middle eastern debacle which sets me firmly in that alternative minority.  Regardless, it's hardly a love-it-or-hate-it film; this new episode in the Greengrass/Damon saga puts itself at the mercy of audience preconceptions of the second Gulf War, and many of you will ultimately consider it unnecessary.  But, again, I ask:  Is it engrained in you yet?  Well, Greengrass takes steps to achieve just that, taking few risks in a territory treaded by superior predecessors...one of which just recently bringing home a statue.  It's ultimate strengths and flaws are meshed together to make for a fleeting mediocrity that it never quite escapes; after all, despite everything going against it, this is a film with components of undeniably immense talent, and the tried-and-true subject matter is no excuse for its lack of more consistent effort, if not its ability to be extraordinary.  but the real bummer comes from the incompetence and illogical fallacies that accompany "Green Zone"'s otherwise capable tale of deception.  For every thorn of intrigue, there is an amateurish action to offset its credibility, and it goes a long way to preventing the audience from being engrossed.  That said, it's certainly not without its thrills, and that much is achieved by the steadfast chemistry that Damon and Greengrass seem to share, as well as a strong supporting cast.  Isaacs, the longtime british shoe-in for the gruff, villainous types, is uncannily comfortable playing an American special forces member.  Damon, already proving himself as an easy go-to man for a leading role, is solid but unexceptional - something that I feel may become an unfortunate staplepoint in his immediate career should he not seek out for unconventional roles.  Finally, Gleeson and Kinnear play off of one another perfectly, and I really do wish that more screen time had been given to the two of them.  I feel that I need to reiterate my warning to those who are looking for game-changing insight into what is quickly becoming apart of our history, despite the fact that men and women around the world are being affected by it every day.  Keep in mind that many of the questions Green Zone brings up may have already been answered; or, if they haven't by now, then they're apparently not important enough to the masses to be worth considering.  A cynical view, but one I consider sadly accurate.  But whatever; keep that in mind, and avoid the headlines telling you what's old news, and this very unpunctual thriller may grab you.

Disappointed Did not live up to classic series. Could have had a longer glimpse of the original stars, if you blinked, you could have missed them. Should have been less comedy and more drama.

I'm a small town Texan and find this awful This doesn't hold a candle, not even a spark to the original. We own and love the first Toothfairy film. This is a LOW budget knockoff. It feels lIke a HEY VERN MOVIE. Remember those? Lol!! There is obviously a smattering of Larry fans who will add this to their collection, but I'm gonna pass! The zoo is a much better use of an hour +.

Some of the parts didn't make sense So the movie was pretty good, it actually portrayed football and kept showing this weird 'player camera.' It shows some of the dirtier sides of football and how players will play for money and fame amongst other reasons.  Al Pacino gives a great inches speech, yet it just seemed at a really weird point with the young QB sitting the bench to start the game and yes...it was at the beginning of the game. It did not seem like it was in the right place at all.

A Surprisingly Impressive Cast Shine In A Dramedy That Tries Too Hard To Be Quirky In truth, I'm no big fan of Matthew Perry.  I've followed his career through many failed series prior to "Friends" and used to genuinely like him.  He has talent, but his filmed persona rarely varies and I tire of seeing the same character in all his work.  To his credit, Perry does attempt the straight man role in the quirk filled "Birds of America" and his downplaying is admirable--but, in the end, it is the more eccentric characters that enliven this hit-or-miss family dramedy by Craig Lucas.  Lucas, a writer of some import (most notably in theater as well as "Longtime Companion"), here adapts an interesting, if uneven, screenplay by Elyse Friedman.  In addition to Perry, some rather big names were attached to the film and that's what drew my interest in this piece.  I'd never even heard of this movie but with Ben Foster, Ginnifer Goodwin, Lauren Graham and Hilary Swank on board--it's a pretty impressive cast.  Perry plays a discontent teacher trying hard to please everyone in his life.  Repressing his real feelings, he has raised his troublesome siblings (Foster and Goodwin) since his parents' death and is still dealing with their deviant behavior into adulthood.  He is also struggling to keep things on an even keel at work where tenure is up for grabs, and his supportive wife (Graham) is looking to start a family sometime soon.  An impromptu reunion is assembled when Foster is involved in an accident.  Foster is disconnected, uncommunicative, possibly disturbed, and harboring plenty of secrets.  Goodwin fares slightly better--she's only promiscuous, a compulsive liar, and running from any real adult responsibility.  In the grand scheme of things, Perry's bowel movements seem like comparatively normal problems!  There's a lot of apparent psychological damage in this clan, but nothing that a little love and understanding can't fix.  My main issue with "Birds of America" is that it's simply trying too hard.  Aspects of the film are really quite good.  Individually, both Foster and Goodwin deliver very nice performances.  But the realness of their turmoil is undermined by a falseness in the film's plotting and uneven tone.  The best sequences are shared by the three siblings.  The worst have to do with Perry's boss and neighbor with Swank playing his cartoonish wife.  With elements of ridiculous slapstick interspersed with heartfelt emotion, the movie never really gelled into a cohesive end product.  Worth a look for the cast, the film might have been great--but, for me, it misses the mark with too much eccentricity detracting from the more successful moments of actual believability.  KGHarris, 2/11.

Bawled my eyes out for PawPaw!!!! *SPOILER ALERT* I thought this movie would be about how life changed for a couple that already adopted a cat... Not a movie about a couple who DIDN'T PICK THE CAT UP! Seriously started bawling my eyes out, as I have two cats of my own and couldn't imagine doing that!! Other than the sadness for PawPaw throughout the film, it was a bit interesting. I still don't get how he was able to stop time, but it was a unique film, to say the least.

They Edited Out the Funniest Scenes If you get the DVD be sure to check out the deleted scenes. I don't understand why they removed the best scenes, but they did.  As it stands it's just okay, and becomes predictable. George Clooney fans will love it though, so definitely see it if you enjoy his acting.

I was expecting more but this was good. Very creepy in parts and a shocking ending that helped. Very OK movie. I say B "It's not natural to lose someone so young, but if we open the door to superstition where does that lead". Still trying to recover from the death of his wife, Arthur Kipps (Radcliffe) leaves his young son in order to settle the estate of an English manor. The village residents do all they can to make him leave early because of the legend of the house. When Kipps discovers the secret he vows to stop it. I have to admit that I was looking forward to this movie mainly for the fact that this was "Harry Potter"'s first major non-potter movie. I was a little disappointed because of my high expectations. This is still a very good movie and there are some very very creepy things to keep you on your toes. I really just think that more could have been done with it. Some parts of the movie are very intense and keep you watching while others seem to drag and slow the movie down. The ending however really changes the way you feel and is a little shocking which to me made the movie better. I do recommend this one, but lower your expectations. Overall, a good movie with a great ending that is worth seeing. I give it a B.

Great Movie, Not Great Blu-Ray One of my favorite movies ever, so I was excited to buy it on blu-ray.  It works pretty well, but you cannot pause or stop the movie once you start, because it will go back to the main menu every time.  Blu-rays should work much better than this.  I would have bought the DVD instead and saved the money if I'd known it would work like that.

First of the three Morrisey/Warhol/Dallesandro movies Great start to the trilogy. If your a Warhol or Dallesandro fan you must start here. Acting is not great but being a fan of Warhol & that era it is great to see all the people I've read about.

Worth Watching Once The first 1/2 was pretty good, then fizzled out. Its one of those movies if you purchase, you'll watch once and never again. Its an OK movie.

Denouement disappoints Steven Speilberg's very association with a movie is reason enough for one to watch it. The man never ceases to surprise and enthrall. I watched this movie at PVR today - the cramped up seats notwithstanding the movie is a masterpiece of technological brilliance, moreso for someone who has recently suffered Ra.One. The quality of animation is painstakingly meticulous, the characterisation endearing BUT, (yes, there is a BUT even in this movie) there is something amiss. Something which is the difference between good and classic. I think it is the scale of the climax, which perhaps fails to create the denouement that the movie deserved and was expected of Speilberg. Even so, it is a movie worth watching. Rating 3.5/5

So, so Funny, but in a fairly predictable and ordinary way.  Most of the stars were obviously on their last legs.  Far less funny than Airplane and The Naked Gun.

average horror movie , good blu ray. This is half the movie of the original. The blu ray looks good though. Still the first series of movies was alot better than this one. The first one in particular is a modern horror classic. This just doesn't have the same effect as that one. Someone needs to take those first three movies and do a blu ray set. This is a case of the remake not living up to the original but still being a decent above b movie budgeted affair. and this isn't a film like some c movies where noone has any experience , this was clearly done by pros and has decent actors. But even they can't save the tone of this one from being much flatter than the original. That movie was truly in your face good. However this does a great rock soundtrack , that has very little thrash music , which is a very good thing. Still it's worth a horror fans coin , only if you have bought the first version though. The picture is a good one though, like most recent blu rays they usually just shine in this format picture wise. There are a few extras , no deleted scenes though.

polar express This was bought for a Christmas present, so I am not opening it to review it before giving it to our granddaughter. I will review it after that!

Sweepstakes ticket scam SINISTER CINEMA is an Oregon-based DVD-R mfr. that specializes in obscure 'B' unit movies. They offer no bonus features such as commentary or deleted scenes. Dubs are from unrestored film stock, thus quality varies with condition of their antique celluloid. None are pristine, yet none are so degraded as to be unviewable. Some of their transfers are in fact quite decent. .  TOUGH TO HANDLE is a nicely-acted Poverty Row programmer that runs about an hour. This fast-moving story pauses for a few song interludes by Phyllis Fraser (Ginger Rogers' cousin and wife of humorist Bennett Cerf). One number is set in a nicely furbished post-Deco club.  Here, stature-challenged Frankie Darro is Mike Sandford, a newsboy whose grandfather buys a counterfeit sweepstakes ticket. When the crook that sold the deucey ducat to Grandpa (Caruth) tries to get it back by force, the old man kicks it from a bum ticker. Frankie and his older sister Gloria (Fraser) want answers to both Grandpa's death and the ticket scam, and so does reporter Joe MacIntyre (Richmond). For the bad guys, this determined trio prove to be.... TOUGH TO HANDLE! .  Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 IMDb viewer poll rating.  (6.2) Tough to Handle (1937) - Frankie Darro/Kane Richmond/Phyllis Fraser/Harry Worth/Betty Burgess/Johnstone White/Burr Caruth/Stanley Price/Fred 'Snowflake' Toones

More about religion than romance I read about this movie and then it aired on television recently, the first week of September 2012, and I watched it.  I don't want to criticize the actors, but the costumes were amazing.  The subject matter, criminalizing interracial relationships was difficult to see on film, but all too true a piece of American history.  Still, I was more intrigued by Henriette's allegiance to God and the French doctor's challenge of grappling with the concept of God when he was more invested in science.  Being an interracial couple is one thing, but being unequally yoked is another.  According to Scripture their union would not be proper because of Henriette's faith and the doctor's seemingly disbelief in God, as nice as he was.  Had they both been the same religion they would be "one in the Spirit" and that unity could help them overcome prejudices through prayer as opposed to relying strictly on the law to save them.  Just a thought.

Funny movie Not as good as the previous "American Wedding" but very funny if you are in the mood for crude brainless humor.

Remake by stealth Clearly, what the director is trying to do is make a superman for a new generation of kids by stealth. The actors are made younger than what they would have been if the film had continued from the 1970s version. What is over 40 years in this movie is a five years.  It has very good filming something I expected; the special effects are good. The problem is nothing is particularly original here.  The story itself is as weak as the first one but at least that was original. It gets close at times to being almost the same story. The script for an adult, I do not think is particularly good. None of the characters were interesting.  The acting is average.  I would class it as a remake by stealth made for a new generation.

very poorly done,but i've had more painful experiences despite the fact that this film is pretty poorly done from from every every aspect you can think of,it's still manages to be a guilty pleasure.it comes off more as a Mel Brooks parody type of a movie than an actual serous attempt at film making,although it does try to take itself seriously,which of course makes it all the more funny.there are definitely a lot of eye rolling moments here.and yet,this is nowhere near as bad as many so called movies floating around out there.there's some entertainment value here,and it isn't all that painful to watch,relatively speaking.try Dark Town,or Dracula 3000,if you really want to know pain,and then get back to me.as for this one,i give it a 3/5

80's Nostalgia Mr. T and "Chucks" Adam Baldwin DC Cab is a movie for those who aren't too critical of overall plot and performance.  It was made in the early 80's as such it does have its share of cheesy overtones.  It is enjoyable but perhaps maybe more geared to the cheesy 80's sitcom crowd.

Definitely for the under 2 crowd We purchased this for our kids since they adore Shaun the Sheep and Wallace & Gromit.  Not the same calliber programming or animation.  WE loved the sly adult jokes and pop references worked into StS and W&G - they are not present in Timmy episodes we saw.  Too bad, would have made it easier to watch and stomach.  Definitly for much younger kids (mine are 27 months and 3.5 years old).  I would say perhaps 18-24 months is as old as this is targeted.  The episodes are much shorter, not as interesting and did not hold my kids' attention.  We were disappointed in the purchase but no way now to return the DVD since we opened it.  Wish we had known this before buying.  So gave it to someone with a 6 mo old instead.

TV series on DVD Quality could have been better, many of the episodes had obvious dust in the gate, should have been prescreened before the transfer.

Tom Cruise formula movie Great action but there are huge credibility gaps in many scenes. Too many to explsin, but it was like the director skipped logic when sequences could havc been filmed with easy transitional explanations.

musclerules Not too bad kind of slow at first , but I like all zombie movies. I own the mask from this movie.

Manon of spring Good quality but not specified copy is not in 16:9. It would be nice to know this picture doesn't fit for large screen

What's Up WB I have all the Looney Tunes Golden collections and me and my family loves them all. What I did like about this collection is both the Bugs and Daffy cartoons weren't duplicated. There were some classic stuff I was looking for too and got it. The problem here was the cropping to widescreen. Tops of heads were cutoff and it makes me wonder who was the editor that ruined these collections. Did anyone checkout the finished product? I understand that the newer collections after these were made are in full screen and I hope the new Bugs and Daffy DVDs  down the road follow the same coarse.

Semer Fi for Valor A hard hitting, action packed example of what faces our military forces in this unsure world. The actors were fantastic, sure to become names we will become familiar with in future films. The guns and ammo were real, no fake stuff used here. The story was real, and continues to be a scenario facing our real military today. A must see movie for all, especially for those considering military life.  I loved it, and would love to see more of this kind of movie. I gave it a 3 star rating, only because some scenes were obviously set up for the impact, which gave that scene a hoaky look. Other wise I would had given it a 5 star.

Good but not quite as good as the 1st Mirrors I enjoyed the movie and it was well worth the price I paid for it, but with that being said like most sequels It didn't stand up as good for me as the 1st one! But like I said for the price I paid overall it was well worth a watch and I am happy to add it to my collection!

Bonking Nicely It seems, this movie is based on real personages who themselves care much less of their affairs than producers did.  Father of a young daughter left family and job for police behind to be himself that is a top at some stages demonstrating nicely as one could suggest, artist's copulating skills.  The rest is satire on the US both judiciary and penetrating system a prototype serves a life for his tricks with while movie-makers are looking forward to new cinematographic awards, perhaps.

Likely less disturbing than you've heard. "The Human Centipede" is about a German doctor, (in Germany), who kidnaps, enslaves, and then runs a morbid experiment on two American women and a Japanese man.  The good surgeon's expertise prior to this event was the separation of conjoined fetuses, but somewhere along the way he flipped and thought that the real nobility came from bringing folks back together.  This reunion is accomplished by connecting the parties mouth-to-rear in a hellish daisy chain that is one long, shared digestive track.  I popped this in last night assuming I'd be questioning my own morality during the end credits, but it actually wasn't that bad.  There are a few recoil-scenes that took me out of the experience and placed me in a position where I was contemplating the mental health of the film's proprietors, (bowel movement), but that's fairly normal with horror.  Sort of.  I think what really helped this film stay off the bad taste menu was the quality of its work.  I expected a shaky, C-level horror movie, but was pleasantly surprised to find it quite the opposite.  The house setting is gorgeous and the actors did a wonderful job, especially the doctor.  I watched the Behind-the-Scenes bonus and half-expected Dieter Laser to be kept in a beautifully furnished cage in between takes.  He played the role convincingly, passionately.  I think the only downfall for me was that I didn't find it as riveting as one might expect, especially considering its content.  It's a disturbing piece of work for sure, but not one that I would consider having any significant replay value.  After you've seen it, you've seen it.  The appeal, in my opinion, is in the initial reaction to it.  If you're even interested in Centipede to begin with, I doubt you'll find it too far outside of your comfort zone.  If this is your introduction to horror, however, yeah...don't.  Either way, I suggest renting before buying.  - t -

Dumbo I loved Dumbo as a child. I saw "over-coming" handicaps, dealing with teasing, motherly support, all positive things. My DIL is African American and she and my son have watched every movie I've given to their daughters before the girls can watch them. They are not allowed to watch Dumbo because it is blatantly racist, something someone with my white skin would not even notice. I've now watched it for my own education and still think the message is worth it. The kids agree, despite it also being "fat-ist" and a few other "isms" we didn't even notice when I was a child (60 years ago), and they will watch it with their girls when they are older and talk to them about what concerns them.  I understand the concerns of my bi-racial family, but I'm glad they are open-minded enough to share this story with their children when they are older and can understand why they held back on this one (all the black men pounding in the stakes and the white men and women being stars, for example), as I feel the message of over-coming difficulties is an important one.

Not as good as Farewell I have both DVDs and I disagree with those that say HFO is better I thought it had too many slow songs.  Farewell has 3 hours of music and is very well done. No contest!  The Eagles are the best why not get more concert for the money.

World War II movie This movie should have been restored before it's release.  The casting is so off kilter, what was Selznick thiking???  Claudette Colbert playing Jennifer Jones mother.  Colbert looks the same age. Shirley Temple still acting cutesy and petulant like the child actress she once was.  Joseph Cotton playing the best friend of Colberts missing husband in the war.  Cotton so handsome in his Navy uniform...please in real life he and Colbert would be loves instantly.  This is the story of UPPER MIDDLE class american certainly no relations to the actual lives of the working people who worked and slaved in the factories and shipyards and all the rationing and the hardships made on them.  When the War was declared young men were drafted and the women and draft exempt men came into the cities to work in the factories most of them from the farms.  There were no places for them to live. So people rented out rooms in their houses. This would have made an more interessting story of the actual lives of real people.

MIstake I bought this by mistake so I didn't and won't finish watching it.  i don't like this type of movie so I don't have a fair comment for it.

5 stars for the movie, 1 star for the dvd holding you hostage for promos ranging from sports to a lengthy WV commercial It's bad enough when your movie enjoyment is staved off by forced viewing of trailers for other movies.  Judging by most of the ads they thought only men would watch this movie.  From hockey to football to even a lengthy promotion for the state of West Virginia, you must endure it all while the menu is inoperable and the movie is anything but the priority of this dvd.  I'd love to put whoever decided to force all that drivel on us into a football preseason training camp as the practice dummy!  Read the other reviews for more about the movie in detail.  I agree with them all.  The casting is excellent and the acting captivating.  Suffice it to say I enjoyed the movie enough to buy the dvd after having rented it.  NB West Virginia tourism board.  After being held hostage by you on this DVD I won't risk visiting your state and spending any more time as a captive.

Pretty decent! A town overridden with 'zombies' with Wings Hauser filling in for Bruce Willis. What more could you ask for?  SPOILER BELOW:  What killed me was when the zombies went into =RUN-IT'S-THE-COPS!!!= mode when police showed up with riot guns. Ah funny stuff.

It was OK It was ok to watch once, but I probably wouldn't watch it a second time.  The kids enjoyed it and it had a good message, but once was good enough.

I sat stonefaced through "Two Girls And A Guy". Fox has given "Two Girls And A Guy", a film that didn't strike me as exceptional in any way, a reasonably respectable presentation on DVD. A rental would probably be best for anyone interested in the film, but with most retailers carrying the disc in the $18-range, a sight-unseen purchase wouldn't break the bank.

"I kill slingers!" "Cyborg" is an entry into Jean-Claude Van Damme's filmography that could not be made a second time. Only the second starring role in Van Damme's career, it was likely only during this desperate part of his Hollywood life that he would have willingly submitted himself to the creative whims of infamous director Albert Pyun. However, in all fairness, this is definitely one of the best features Pyun would ever make, and if nothing else, it's fun seeing the Muscles from Brussels in something as trashy and creatively reckless like this. This isn't one of Van Damme's more lauded pictures, but fans who can find beauty in imperfections ought to be entertained by this.  The story: in a dystopian future, a mercenary for hire (Van Damme, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006RCOC">Bloodsport</a>) tracks down a ruthless pirate leader (Vincent Klyn, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GUJZ4G">Point Break</a>) attempting to destroy the last hope for humanity.  I like to compare "Cyborg" here to the stylistically similar <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6305232679">Nemesis</a>, another action vehicle Pyun directed some three years later. While the latter had better action content and had more fun with the concept of artificial humans, "Cyborg" is infinitely better made with stronger production values. Indeed, whereas most of ol' Albert's movies look like they've been shot on abandoned property or out in the wilderness, "Cyborg" benefits from sets that had famously been prepared for "He-Man" and "Spider-Man" films which were never produced. There's a good deal of color to the world, despite its post-apocalyptic state, so it's rarely dull to look at like a lot of the director's stuff. The acting really isn't great, particularly Vincent Klyn's, but there are a couple examples of effective silent acting between Van Damme and Deborah Richter (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000C3I9R">Promised Land</a>).  Again in comparison to "Nemesis", "Cyborg" has less action but that doesn't mean it's an insufficient amount. Additionally, the fight scenes are nicely varied: karate, knife-fighting, shootouts, and a couple explosions make for a well-rounded spectacle. All of the hand-to-hand scenes could definitely have been shot better and Van Damme is in definite need of more opponents to fight one-on-one, but the choreography is occasionally inventive, like when he performs a jumping reverse roundhouse to slice open a thug's neck with a nail protruding from his boot. Speaking of the need for more one-on-one villains, I was disappointed by how all of the creative-looking henchmen are automatically relegated to bit status: they include Ralf Moeller (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00003CXE7">Gladiator</a>) and Stefanos Miltsakakis (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/076780970X">Maximum Risk</a>) among other weirdoes, but they're all virtual nobodies and crumble before Van Damme's kicks.  I wish there could have been more of that cheesy, retro stop-motion you see early in the film and less slow motion, but with Pyun you can't ask for everything. "Cyborg" ends up being pretty tit-for-tat - not a must-have for Van Damme devotees, but an interesting excursion if you tire of his more kosher work. Me, I'm glad I finally got to see it, but it definitely doesn't merit a purchase. A rental will do.

Great movie, I expected more extras though.. Pros: Great Sound Great Image Great Movie in general  Cons: Languages as it sounds great only in English, and does not have Spanish. Extras as the menu is very very simple, we just have the option to change the subs, language, and select the scene. The box where it came is very simple, no art-book or something.  If you do not want to watch it in Spanish, if you are not looking for extras on the movie, and you just want to get a great movie, %100 recommended.

I was pleasantly surprised. First let me say that I have not yet seen the original cartoon this is based on, it is on my to do list but as of writing this I can not compare the two. Ok now I heard allot of bad things about this movie, but when I sat down with my hubby last night to watch it I was pleasantly surprised, I found the movie entertaining and while it had quite a few flaws and is not what i would call a really good movie, I think it provided a fun watch. Now The Lat Airbender is set in an Asian inspired fantasy world where there are four kingdoms, one for each of the four Western elements, now a few people in each kingdom can manipulate their birth element and are called benders. Now the Fire realm have gone to war on everyone else and have among other things killed off every airbender, now the people's only hope come in the form of a legend that a character called the avatar, someone able to bend all elements will come and save them. Off course this prophecy comes true in the first five minutes of the movie and the rest of the film follows said avatar and two children, a waterbender and her brother who helps him, around on their adventure to liberate the world.  Now this movie follows about every fantasy stereotype they can find, however the storyline is interesting enough to hold your attention. Some of the fights in this movie look just plain dumb, but some of the magic battles with elements at least look good. Most of the adult actors do a good job, but the child actors is a different story, Noah Ringer as Aang do a passable job, Dev Patel as Prince Zuko is rather good but the other child actors is lackluster and just seams to be delivering lines.  The Last Airbender would have been a better film if it had been longer, characters do not get enough time to develop, however this is a problem many reviews talk about and I do not agree that the story is so condensed as to make the movie unwatchable, however the phasing do seam odd. One thing that I do find disturbing in the movie however is that all the Fire Nation characters have Arabic appearance, I guess following the Asian theme they are supposed to be Indian, however they sure look Arabic to me, now I am all for artistic freedoms however I do question the wisdom of having every villain look Arabic in our current political climate.  All in all I found The Last Airbender to be a average film, not so bad as many say, quite entertaining and it do have good parts like the creature designs and some of the music which is quite nice. However phasing problem, lack of involvement from the child actors, very up and down quality to the computer graphics along with other problems keep the movie from being really good. However I was entertained by it and I think that if someone like fantasy, and especially if they are kids themselves they they might at least enjoy this film for a rent. I came to this film with zero expectations and I was pleasantly surprised.

Hilarious Jack Lemmon No none plays a down and out, nervous, stresssed out character than Jack Lemmon; he was the greatest at that genre. You know the character is headed for a breakdown, but just like the role he played in "The Out of Towners", you can't help but give a laugh out loud for the horrible mess he's in or has created for himself. I guess he played the roles that we can all identify with at one time or another and laugh at it all-hey, it beats crying !

Fun low budget Horror anthology... Production values about on par with four episodes of TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE strung together, with really fun synth music (not too OTT or abrasive).  I liked the film a lot, though some of the stories were better than others (the Scout leader one is definetely my favourite). I have it on DVD from the Brentwood set, will this September 2012 disc have extras? If so, I'm a getting it!

Andromeda was Sudanese I admit that I somewhat enjoyed this swords-and-sandals action flick when I saw it in theaters a couple of years ago, hence the three stars, but having done some research on the original mythology, I'm upset over how they cast Andromeda, Perseus's love interest. In the original Greek myths, Andromeda was a princess from "Aethiopia", which is what the Greeks called Sudan---which as everyone should know by now is a tropical African country. In fact the very word "Aethiopia" meant "burnt faces" in reference to the inhabitants' skin color. Thereby Andromeda would have been a dark-skinned African woman, not Nordic-looking as portrayed in Clash. By depicting Andromeda as white in spite of the original mythology, the filmmakers eschewed a chance to have a more multicultural cast starring a European male/African female couple in favor of a generic white female love interest, which is insulting to black women. The action and special effects may be good but I cannot forgive such borderline racist casting and will boycott the franchise until they get Andromeda's ethnicity right.

Hall Pass It was not as funny as I thought it was going to be...a little flat sometimes and corny, but it was enjoyable.

Yes and No This is a hilarious story, but it is very rough.  It doesn't seem possible to use the f-word so often and in so many different ways, even embedding it into other words.  There are parts that make me laugh out loud, and I love the characters, but a lot the laughter relates to things that I'm not sure are really laughing matters?????  And then there are the REALLY rough parts that are hard to get through.  I love the gypsy dog that swallows the squeaky toy (and then squeaks when he barks) along with everything else in sight, the Russian mafia guy they just can't kill, the huge getaway driver who can't fit through the car door nor back into a large parallel parking spot... but I could do without the violent robbery, mass murder, attack dogs, and foul language.  Periwinkle blue, anyone?

;0) It's not bad and it's not good it's in between it was mediocre.a woman attends her sisters wedding in Italy, was at the fountain  and picked upna couple of coins doing so brought a curse that each coin from the guy who puts it there will fall in love now she as to weed out the one that actually loves her. Ok watch but still watchable.

Might be worth it? I will start off by affirming what others have said: Darker Than Black is AMAZING, with wonderful music, top-notch animation, one of the coolest main characters EVER, and an involved plot.  Darker Than Black: Gemini of the Meteor (or Darker Than Black Season 2) is a very, VERY weak follow up.  Gone is just about everything that I loved about the first series and hardly any questions posed by the end of the first DtB were answered at all.  I could describe this whole 12 episode season as being just another small 2 episode-long story in the first season.  Nothing happens!  It's slow and boring and the main (completely wonderful) protagonist has sunk to such a miserable low.  And don't get too attached to any character.  It's just not safe.  To the question of whether or not someone should buy this season, I answer maybe.  For one thing, purchasing this might encourage Funimation to release the first season on Blu-Ray or even encourage Studio BONES to continue the story with actual plot.  Possibly, anyway...  I can hope!  And another reason is just for the OVA included.  This OVA fills in some of the missing time between seasons and further explores many of the characters.  This is very helpful and, I think, absolutely worth watching, even if to alleviate some confusion.  (As a side note, more connecting information is revealed through the excellent manga entitled "Darker than Black: Shikkoku no Hana".)  Now, on to the product itself.  I have not put the discs into my player to watch yet so I can't account for the quality of the picture, but I can talk about this particular item and how it differs from the "Normal Edition".  As far as I can tell, the only difference is the sturdy box it came with that can house both Gemini of the Meteor (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005DEUEOU">Darker Than Black: Season 2 with OVA's (Blu-ray/DVD Combo</a>) and the first season's complete collection (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003DC883I">Darker Than Black: Complete First Season</a>).  This is pretty useless to me as I already own the individual dvds (having purchased them as they were released) in their artbox (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001F2U72S">Darker Than Black: Starter Set</a>).  And that's another reason I'm hoping for DtB (the first season) to be released on Blu-Ray!  To fit in the empty space that the complete first season left behind!  To sum up, if you were in love with the first season and hate to see a poor successor to it, you probably can get away with not buying this.  If you're like me (a completionist, a Studio BONES animation fan, a lover of Blu-Ray, and a hopeful nerd), go ahead and buy this.  I certainly don't regret it.  Maybe if there's ever a Darker Than Black Season 3, the compounded questions will be finally be answered!  *hopeful nerd*

Excellent performance if slow Meryl Streep transforms herself into Margaret Thatcher in this movie which retells the life of Britain's Iron Lady in flashbacks. Though Streep's performance is masterful, I found the overall pace of this movie to be very slow.

good It is a good movie if you like epic conquering warlords and true love mixed together.  Gerard Butler never disappoints me.

BRAND NEW! the movie was brand new and in great condition, only down side was that it was in french! i apperently didnt see that when i ordered it, plus its format is region 2, so it cant play in the US. however if i could return it for english that would be splendid! :)

Respectable I am torn about Matt Smith as the 11th Doctor, and his first special did not help me decide whether I like or dislike him. The story is a modern retelling of the classic Charles Dickens story "A Christmas Carol". Michael Gambon plays the old miser, and his change of heart is painfully obvious from the start. That being said, he is still a fine actor. Matt Smith throughout is his same character, a bit jumpy and eccentric. Often times, it seems that he is trying to be too much like David Tennant, and that can be seen a tad in A Christmas Carol. The Sci Fi Elements are interesting, but theey seem like an afterthought. You never get the feeling that Rory and Amy are in any real danger, as we are just told that they are plummeting towards the planet. The fish story is my favorite part of this special, as it adds depth to the narrative. In summation, any fans of Matt Smith will enjoy this, but it was not to my liking.

A Good Movie but not Little Women This movie is fairly good. I like Christian Bale as Laurie, he played the part of the charming, handsome next door neighbor very well. I liked Kirsten Dunst as the young Amy and for the most part I liked Susan Sarandon as Marmee. What I didn't like was the modernising of the tale. Marmee's feminist rant against corsets was ridiculous and Meg refusing to wear silk was strange since in the book she wants a silk gown. Also Gabriel Byrne is much too handsome to play the part of Prof. Bhaer. And no offense to him, but his German accent was atrocious. And I didn't like Marmee giving Jo the idea of turning Plumfield into a school. Jo came up with that on her own. Still, overall a decent if not faithful movie.

Neither a Great Success, Nor a Great Failure Winnie the Pooh is an animated film made specifically for children, with none of the innuendo or adult humor commonly incorporated into animated films to keep parents entertained. Effectively, the material isn't dumbed-down to completely alienate anyone under the age of four like the recent <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002ZG99WW">Yogi Bear</a>. For children, Winnie the Pooh is, in some respects, the perfect movie. It has familiar characters, a simple story, beautiful, soft colors, and parents will likely hear no complaints from their children about it. However, children aren't the ones reading reviews. For the average adult, Winnie the Pooh is certainly not "bad," but there are some inconsistencies and imperfections that can't be overlooked.  The film draws inspiration from three stories by Winnie the Pooh creator A.A. Milne and is narrated by John Cleese while following a storybook format in which the stories appear as if being read from a book. The gang is looking for the perpetually depressed Eeyore's missing tail, although Pooh is mostly preoccupied with his quest for honey. Meanwhile, they're trying to avoid confrontation with the "Bacson," a monster whom they believe has kidnapped Christopher Robin. The film has a couple musical numbers, but nothing bombastic. The most memorable music comes from actress Zooey Deschanel, whose old-timey crooning underscores several scenes and adds to the classic, throwback feel of the whole thing.  Winnie the Pooh, in book, movie, and television form was a staple of my childhood but one with which my familiarity has waned since. There are elements of these stories that I look at differently now and things I was unaware of as a child. In some ways, the enjoyment I took from this film spawned from the nostalgic trip through childhood it provides. Seeing Owl (voiced by an unrecognizable Craig Ferguson) as an egotistical, pseudo-intellectual and Eeyore as clinically depressed and in desperate need of counseling adds a different perspective to the whole thing now that I'm older. It's worth noting that Eeyore is the scene-stealer here, with some great voice-work by Bud Luckey and some very emotive expressions in the animation.  It's nice to see Disney return to their roots with varying levels of success and not making any attempt to modernize Winnie the Pooh, which is how it should be. There is nothing that is downright bad, nothing that should've been scrapped from the film and replaced. The good completely outweighs the bad. The film is undeniably charming and adorable. It's refreshingly hand-drawn and looks beautiful, with CGI that is hardly noticeable mixed in for effect. Children will be delighted by it, while adults will enjoy the nostalgic trip down memory lane and the good message about helping others. The film is definitely a children's film through-and-through, but it's not so offensively childish that it will turn away an adult audience.  The biggest problem is that it isn't quite up to theatrical film standards and is like high-quality straight-to-video fare. Running a mere 51-minutes, not counting credits and an amusing post-credits scene, it's underdeveloped and half an hour shy of "feature-length." With plenty of stories to draw from, it's inconceivable that the running time couldn't have been stretched to at least 80 minutes. Winnie the Pooh will be most enjoyed by children but won't waste your time if you decide to watch it with them. It could have been a fantastic success, critically and financially for Disney, as it features one of their most beloved characters and is a 2D, mostly hand-drawn film in a time of excessive 3D and almost exclusive CGI. With a strong critical reception and box-office records that indicate it broke even with its budget, it's probably not a failure in their eyes nor a great success. I see it the same way.  GRADE: C+

Release the unrelease shorts I suggest that Warner Bro. Home Video release the cartoons that wasnt included in the Golden Collections or at least 75 percent of unreleased shorts on furture releases

good entertainment One thing I like about those old 50's movies: they don't waste time and get right into action.  The special effects are fairly good and I liked the way they used a real plane for the X-80 while on the ground and a cleverly modified model for the shots in space.  I was totally hooked to my screen up to the point where the pilot is taken prisoner.  It seems the male of the future not only became impotent but also dumb.  The script is rather poor from this point on in the film and the set always look the same no matter where they go.  But nevertheless i still think this film is a good entertainment.

Smell You Later: Slapstick Silliness And Obvious Humor Introduce A New Generation Of Spy Kids Director Robert Rodriguez seems determined to keep the "Spy Kids" franchise alive at all costs. "Spy Kids: All The Time In The World" is essentially a reboot as opposed to a true sequel as it launches viewers upon the adventures of a new central family. Yes, original kids Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara are on hand as grown counterparts of themselves, but it feels as if they are passing the torch to the younger generation. While this, the fourth in the series, has much of the visual inventiveness you've come to appreciate from Rodriguez, it does lack some of the easy charm of the first couple of pictures. Trading cleverness for obvious humor, though, has its drawbacks. Thankfully, on DVD, we are spared the theater's Aroma-Scope scratch cards that surely promised a plethora of unpleasant smells. (For the record, I liked it when John Waters did it, but that was a different story entirely). The movie plays to a certain demographic--if you think passing gas, vomit, and other bodily emissions are hysterical, this might be just up your alley. I always hear the argument "but the movie is for kids" when people are defending entertainment of this type, but the point seems rather irrelevant when you think of all the good kids' movies with genuine smarts.  Jessica Alba plays Vega and Sabara's aunt. She, too, is a spy. Upon giving birth to her daughter, she decides to quit this dangerous occupation to focus on her new baby, husband (Joel McHale), and step kids (Rowan Blanchard and Mason Cook). However, when a nefarious mastermind starts moving time forward at an alarming rate--the fate of the very world is in jeopardy. She has had prior dealings with another criminal who holds the key to this mystery, so she is drafted back into service. This being "Spy Kids," though, Blanchard and Cook are soon up to their little necks in danger as well. Will these darn kids be able to save humankind? I won't ruin the surprise. Jeremy Piven is cast as Alba's superior at the agency, and Ricky Gervais provides unusual support. Everyone is game and, as I said, certain visuals are fun to watch. But that being the case, I found most of the actual humor forced and flat. There are only so many times passing gas can effectively be used as a punchline!  The movie, despite its slapstick silliness, wants to have its share of warm moments as well with the family drawing closer. I never really responded to Blanchard, though, who needed more discipline than understanding. I love Jeremy Piven, who despite having a large role, is never given any real comedy. And Gervais, to my mind, is a comic genius but his running monologue is uninspired and obvious. All the elements were here to make a good picture, I even liked the plot well enough--the screenplay just needed that extra push to make it more fun and funnier. Mostly for the kids, I can't really make this much of a recommendation. It's easy enough to watch (since I didn't have to smell it), I just wanted to laugh along.  3-D: For those with 3-D technology, the film comes across well in that regard. The fanciful scenes have a real depth with the extra dimension, but there aren't really out-of-screen shots to take it to the next level. Neither the best or worst the technology has to offer, this doesn't elevate the movie to a different level of quality. Overall, about 2 1/2 stars but I'll round up for the kiddies. KGHarris, 11/11.

Felicia Day versus the Big Bad Wolf and the vagaries of partnering with SyFy Even geek goddesses sometimes phone it in. RED: WEREWOLF HUNTER is yet another take on Little Red Riding Hood. Except that, in terms of watchability, it's nowhere near the realm of THE COMPANY OF WOLVES or Reese Witherspoon's FREEWAY or even the animated parody HOODWINKED. At least in 2011's RED RIDING HOOD, one can commend Amanda Seyfried for her very good performance while damning the script that let her down. The highlight of RED: WEREWOLF HUNTER for me was ogling Felicia Day in her black leathers. RED: WEREWOLF HUNTER, a 2010 SyFy television horror feature, may fill you with dread, but, embarrassingly, not in the way the film intends. Ennui sets in pretty quickly.  Virginia "Red" Sullivan (Day) is a modern-day descendant of Little Red Riding Hood. "Red" isn't a fond nickname as much as it is an honorific bestowed on the first-born daughter in each generation of a family of werewolf hunters. A truce exists between the Sullivan clan and the remaining werewolf packs. Providing the werewolves stay deep, deep in the woods, the Sullivans will desist from declaring it open season on lycanthropes. Still, the Sullivans aren't about to have a yard sale on black leather threads and their arsenal of silver weaponry.  But then a rogue werewolf named Gabriel (Stephen McHattie) comes along and shatters the tentative peace. Although it's never really explained, Gabriel is a terrifying new breed that can phase at will, who isn't at all restrained by the lack of a full moon. Gabriel has seized leadership of the pack and now he's making a move on the Sullivans. Luckily for the humans, FBI agent Virginia Sullivan picked the perfect time to visit her family homestead. But she may regret bringing along her fiance, fellow federal agent Nathan Kessler (Kavan Smith). Some family secrets aren't meant to be shared.  The cast's uniformly wet blanket acting is infectious; the movie, like its actors, immediately assumes a leaden monotone. I'm a big fan of Felicia Day and was surprised at how detached she seemed. There's no chemistry to ignite those scenes between her and Kavan Smith. In fact, more sparks fly from the combustible werewolves than from the two leads. It's ironic that Kavan Smith actually exhibits more soulfulness in his role of the robotic Deputy Andy in EUREKA. Anyway, I'm still getting used to the notion of Felicia Day as a steely action heroine. Her patented nerdy, gamine charm is pretty non-existent in this flick. Besides, she's more nails in her recent web series DRAGON AGE: REDEMPTION (which is also not her best work). Stephen McHattie - who effectively plays the sinister preacher on HAVEN - goes overboard with the strident speeches. He also seems to be channeling Lance Henriksen's weathered facial wrinkles and grooves.  RED: WEREWOLF HUNTER lifts a page from the Buffyverse in that it features werewolf corpses who disintegrate into flames, maybe because it shares the same budget restrictions. The CG-rendered werewolves don't look polished; they move jarringly. Another concern is the tepid lack of bloodletting and gore and action set pieces. I'm all for establishing a foreboding atmosphere, but this is supposed to be an action horror film. At some point, the fur and silver shivs must fly. But they don't fly enough. Most egregiously, the heroine fails to engage the viewer, and I do somewhat fault Felicia Day for that. I wasn't invested at all in her character or her derring-dos or in her relationship with her fiance (which does become a focal point of the plot). It'll take repeated viewings of "Do You Wanna Date My Avatar?" on YouTube to wash off this sense of being let down.

Rupert Murdoch on Roller Skates There's a lot of 70s dystopian Sci-Fi to love in Rollerball, and it features one of the single greatest montages of bored aristocratic excess put to film, when a bunch of drunken partygoers incinerate a forest with a futuristic handgun.  This, along with many of the ideas of Rollerball, is where we are headed (and in many ways have already reached) with our corporate dominated, Kindle-infused media landscape -- where millions of unsuspecting minds are filled with meaningless, violent, cheap imagery and sucked dry of any nuance or culture.  The film deserves to be seen for this alone.  It's leagues better than "Logan's Run" or other big budget Sci-Fi that came around its time.  Unfortunately, Rollerball is a frustrating film on a number of levels.  For one thing, Norman Jewison's directing is uninspired, imitative, and plodding.  James Caan does not seem to know what to do with himself, nor do most of the rest of the cast.  The plot craps out in the second act and then barely recovers for the climax...but the damage is already done.  And then of course there is the mediocre art direction and sound design, which is not nearly imaginative enough.  Just compare this film to the work that directors like Kubrick and Lucas did with similar material and similar (if not lower) budgets.  Rollerball would seem like pure genius if it were made today, and you have to give it credit for its vision of a highly polarized world dominated by corporate cynicism and a citizenry turned to human puppets.  Too bad it does not populate this world with compelling characters or a plot worthy of its intentions.  Honestly, with better direction, sound design, art direction, and a couple of rewrites this could have been an amazing film.  There's a reason it's not more highly regarded.

Second Season? I found this not as good as the First one of this series. It leaves things open to question as to what the motive is for it to be. This is shorter than the first also and feels rushed once you get into it where they enter the city and it goes awall to what the plot line started out at. There is a few other nick picks on it also, but the main one is the ending. All said and done this is fine to own, but they need to bring out a Season Three to tie up what they dropped on this one.

MIXED REVIEW (Spoilers) I am very biased when it comes to The Ruins. I loved the book and I have listened to the abridged audio and plan to listen to the unabridged audio this summer.  I also plan to paint vines and red flowers on my posts in front of my house. Scott Smith, who wrote the book, wrote the screenplay and obviously did not read his own book!  This movie has to be taken for what it is, a schlocky horror movie.  In the book, the plant has evil intelligence and manipulates its five victims.  In the movie, I felt that aspect is gone.  My favorite scene in the book did not make it to the movie.  Instead, the producers, Ben Stiller being one of them, went for the graphic gore of foot amputation and under-skin vine removal.  Again, watch it and take it for what it is, a bad horror movie.  Then get amnesia and read the book, it's  a page turner.

An Enemy Of The People Hooray for Mr.Steve McQueen...daring to play such a wonderful role.Truly great.It seems now Warner Bros.want their money back that they lost.Well I got my dvd..thankyou...I remember Mr.Mcqueen's famous line in the movie.When the people were saying  that the water's okay...and Mr.Mcqueen fires back in bringstone... "WAS THE MAJORITY RIGHT WHEN THEY CRUCIFY OUR LORD?" He was great.A small movie...but for me a enjoyable movie.You would never see the stars today challance themselves like Steve McQueen did.It's all in "GIVE ME THE BIG ROLE & BIG CHECK. Sadly...Mcqueen's dream was to make a racing movie.Which he did.LeMANS!.but fell at the box office.Same with John Wayne...his dream to make "THE ALAMO"it also fell at the box office.BUT both were happy they did it their way.Now both movies are very big. Everything today is actors hanging around on wires with a blue screen....or guts thrown at you in the movies. Four letter words like it's the right thing to say all the time.Where has the goodness gone with good family movies?Until the late 1960's we didn't have a movie rate.Now it's  family cartoons rated PG or PG14..no reason for that at all.Disney did CARS & it was rated G and made their money.Just think for a moment of all the classics...no ratings at all..but their classics.Thanks again for your time.

This movie edited on dvd I have this movie (The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing) on VHS tape from MGM/UA and it is 127 minutes long ang rated PG. I see that the DVD is 123 minutes long and rated PG. Whats up with this? In my opinion this was an outstanding movie. However, I will not buy the edited version.

Depressing Erotica Actually, this was an attempt at erotica. There is really only one semi-erotic scene, and even that ends in tears. A young man comes across a brother and sister who, if you have read the synopsis, are closer than siblings should be. While their parents are away they are forced to eat out of the dumpster, too poor to buy any food. Personally, I don't like to feel this low after watching a movie. Gave it three stars because the acting was fairly good. But still, depressing.

Inconsistent Packaging Blu-ray Disc(tm) packaging alert!  First off, let me say that I love the Looney Tunes franchise and Warner Bros. did another outstanding job with the content transfer to BD.  However, once again, WB has decided to change the packaging format of a "disc series" in between releases. For those of you who have not yet purchased this set, just be advised that the discs are now packaged in a standard multi-pack Blu-ray Disc(tm) package, and not the metallic-looking hard-cover book used for Volume One.  Now I have no objection to the new format, in fact, I prefer it. But whoever is handling the preparation and packaging of Warner Bros.' box sets, should be fired! I don't think I've ever purchased a single WB TV series or disc set on DVD or Blu-ray that has managed to stick to one format throughout the life of its release. Whether it be "The Walton's" [Packaging: Digi-pak > Slim box > Multi-pak DVD // Disc Format: Double-side > Single-Sided > 7 discs > 6 discs > 5 discs > 4 discs, etc.] or a series like "Knots Landing", where the releases were cancelled after a mere two seasons (and both volumes were packaged differently, BTW).  That said, Warner Bros. should take a note from Paramount on how to release consistent AND timely box sets.

Extreme at its extremest range There are some movies that affect you for so long that you start wondering if your mind is still there with you. I have watched this movie 2 days ago and I am still in shock. If it wasn't showing graphic violence, dismembering, cannibalism, and human fecal, I would rate the movie 5 stars. Why 5 stars? Because the theme of revenge is the most attractive topic to read about or to watch and this movie is the best so far depicting it.

Hmmmm... Well done but could've been better... Okay, I am a HUGE fan of Ridley Scott AND of his second feature length film, "Alien" which is where the genesis of this movie came from.  What made that movie such a phenomenal flick is the stunning cinematography, story telling, pacing and acting -AND the visuals.  The grittiness of the characters, the tension between them before the movie really even gets going, watching them do their jobs -almost from a documentary style format.  That movie stunned audiences and deservedly so for 1979.  This movie is a sort of "prequel" to "Alien" -though not completely.  The movie is obviously well filmed, has stunning visuals and effects, like its predecessor.  Now, to me -the acting was... okay.  You couldn't cut the tension with a knife -like in "Alien". The movie does, sort of, answer the question of where the aliens came from as well other little questions, like the "space jockey" and so forth.  The time line for this movie is supposed to be before that of "Alien", though that movie was gritty (it WAS the 70's) and this film is very clean -too clean, almost like a "Star Trek" film.  There is no grittiness or realism to the characters -just nothing that makes you think these people could be you, me or anyone else.  To me this is a big issue as in the "Alien" film you could actually relate and connect to a degree with the characters.  I admit that I did NOT see it in theaters, and ordered it as soon as it came out on blu ray (got a used copy, even!) so my excitement was high, and I admit that my expectations were thru the roof as well.  I also admit to being disappointed in this film... Scott is an excellent director (Alien, Gladiator, The Duellists, Black Hawk Down, BLADE RUNNER!) but this movie feels too commercial -there's nothing in it that makes me "dare to want to see it" like its predecessor. For "Alien" there were reports of people fainting, screaming and running out, and throwing up -if you went to see it, you were warned -this film you got none of that.  Look, the bottom line is this: while I have complaints and issues with the film, I recommend it to those enthusiasts of the original "Alien" as it is an interesting entry after the fact.  I suggest if you've never seen it, before buying it, rent it -either thru Amazon or Redbox, first -then decide if buying it would be worth it to your budget.

Tense Drama Under the Sea I have told you how I feel about Sean Connery. He's my Exhibit A for the proposition that older men can be sexy.  (Patrick Stewart is Exhibit B.)  So my biases are all over this movie as well. In his crisp officer's uniform, oh my!  Soviet Captain Marko Ramius (Connery) is the captain of a nuclear submarine, the Red October, that has some interesting breakthrough technology. Unless you are a tekkie, and I definitely am not, just take my word for it that it is unique and the U.S. has nothing to compare to it. Now is Captain Ramius planning to attack the U.S., or is he planning to defect? The CIA sends in a man to try to work it out. One face you will recognize: one of the desk jockeys at the Pentagon who is wrapped up in the hunt for Red October is James Earl Jones, he of the magical voice. Think Darth Vader on our side . . .  Now that I think of it, two of my favorite actors who have wonderful, distinctive and distinctly seductive voices are in this movie: Connery and Jones. Jones may be a little too old and stout to raise lust, but that voice has a magic all its own.  Anyway, it's a properly intriguing and complex plot, as one would expect from Tom Clancy, one of the best writers of spy stories. The Hunt for Red October may well be his best; it is certainly one of his top two or three. While the movie takes some liberties for the sake of brevity, the essence is there, and the ending is faithful. I'd like to give it four stars, but all the emphasis on military technology is too over my head.

Never really finds its footing The movie is about a shy girl with OCD who almost literally overnight turns into a whore, and a pimpette for her entire circle of friends. Her cover is an after-school babysitting business, and her clients are all middle-aged men.  It has potential on a lot of different levels but doesn't realize a drop of it. As a psychological drama, with the exception of the rather stunning climax (really the only thing that this movie has going for it), it misses the mark. Lead character Shirley's turnaround is so decisive and so swift that we never have time to relate to her, much less feel sorry for her. In fact all of the girls go from being fairly typical American teens to raging, spunk-soaked dregs in an instant, without looking back, without so much as a minute of moral dilemma.  So, this could be sexy, right? Except that it isn't. The girls aren't particularly attractive and certainly are not sexy (Shirley is somewhat reminiscent of a taller Daria, except that she doesn't even wear skirts). There is just one nude scene--a good one, but it is just the one. The sex scenes drive the story along and are not gratuitous enough to elevate (or lower) this to the level of erotica.  It's not a thriller either. I kept waiting on the hints of death or permanent destruction to become reality, but no...nothing. Basically a handful of teenaged girls screw around with a handful of older family men and nobody ends up the worse off for it, at least as far as we know.  Which brings me to the biggest hangup that I have with the movie, and that's the completely unsatisfying conclusion. Lots of plot lines left unresolved, lots of dangling ends, no real conclusion in the classic sense. We don't find out what happens with ANY of these people, for good or ill. I found myself wondering why I just wasted the time.  Three stars really is a bit generous for this production, but since there is no option for two and a half, that's what it gets from me.

Branagh is Superb - Fishbourne is hopelessly out of his depth You know you have a problem when an actor declares that he didn't feel he needed to understand  his lines 'as long as the voice is right.'  Arrogant tosh, and it couldn't be more obvious here that the central character does not understand the compexity of the emotional journmey he is called upon to portray.  Branagh is - as you'd expect - a sublime Iago, but in this case Iago's famous declaration at the climax of the action that "what you know, you know" seems like an ironic critiqe of his counterpart's apparent refusal to take his responsibilities to the text seriously.  All 3 Stars to Branagh.

3 1/2 stars for average Eastwood movie fair! Space Cowboys(released Aug/00)is an average Eastwood movie which should have been much better than it was.The film contains a plethora of special effects including much CGI which Eastwood seems to have little luck with;see his other S/FX laden effort Firefox.The film also contains a boffo of a cast which on paper looks tremendous:Tommy Lee Jones,James Garner and Donald Sutherland,but again just adding more gas to the lacklustre fire. The film starts off in the late 1950s and focuses on a group of four men called the Daedalus team,all test pilots and part of the U.S.'s efforts to go into outer space.However all the best efforts of the team seemingly go for naught as the program's first astronaut into space goes to a chimpanzee.Team Daedalus is eventually scrapped and the team one by one retires out of the program into civilian life. Fast forward to present day and a huge Soviet satellite is in danger of orbit decay and the on board antiquated controls were originally designed by ex Daedalus team leader Col.Corvin(Eastwood).But wait,how did a Soviet made satellite come to have the Colonel's designed guidance system on board?This question and others are raised as the film advances and NASA sends for the Colonel for his assistance.Corvin is none too pleased to be back under the aegis of his old boss and the rhetoric soon starts flying.Corvin suggests that only the original Daedalus team be sent up to repair the satellite.Much wrangling occurs until his old boss gives in and agrees.However two back ups will be trained and sent up with them...just in case. Corvin seeks out his old team Col.Hawkins(Jones),Capt.O'Neil(Sutherland) and Capt.Sullivan(Garner)and soon the group is training hard for their flight due to go up in a matter of weeks.The flight launch comes and soon after the group are face to face with the satellite.During their EVA Corvin finds the reason for the girth of the satellite;it carries a contingent of nuclear missiles.Corvin orders them all back to the shuttle where he sees no alternative but to cancel the mission.One of the two subs along for the ride has been given hush,hush orders to reposition the satellite by himself if something untoward should happen.He returns to the satellite and tries but ends up activating it sending it spinning out of control,wrecking it and almost taking out the shuttle with it.In an emergency effort Colvin goes out and amazingly is able to bring the satellite out of its death plunge.However the missiles themselves have to be disposed of and Col.Hawkins volunteers to take a suicide ride with them towards the moon where somewhere along the way he will eject them into space but he will himself crash land on the moon. With most of his engines damaged and little fuel Corvin attempts a heretofore impossible manual re-entry.Once inside the Earths atmosphere the two subs are sent out the hatch to parachute to safety.Corvin orders his team out but they elect to stay to the end.Corvin,despite the odds,indeed lands the shuttle manually at the Space Center in Florida.The film ends with Corvin and his wife looking at the moon and wondering whether Col.Hawkins made it.We are given the answer as we see a debris field,footprints leading away and the Colonel leaning against a rock looking up towards Earth. As the film winds its way along it becomes obvious there isn't much wind in the sails here as far as a good,juicy plot.Sure it's nice to see this group of actors together on the screen and all acquit themselves nicely,but there is really little of substance to put this film over the top.As I said,it looked great on paper but on film,a BIG disappointment.Not a bad film by any stretch but just average fair that any competent director could have pulled off easily. Technically,while I don't see the word "remastered" anywhere,this print is obviously superior to the last release of this film.Then again Warners has re-released much of Eastwoods films recently and all are in the same good form as this print.It is clear and quite crisp and is in its' original widescreen a/r.Extras include an on-location featurette,a convo with the S/FX guys,an expanded version of the Jay Leno spot in the film,a convo with the editor and the theatrical trailer. All in all just an average flick for Clint Eastwood.It's a great cast stuck with a mediocre script,which none can overcome.

Enough Camp for Some Good Laughs During the late 1960's, Joan Crawford made a series of low-budget horror films to help pay the bills and to keep her name in the spotlight. "Berserk" is the best of these films, not because it is well-written or well-acted but because it is so bad it's good. Crawford, looking like a sexpot gone bad, plays the Circus Owner a la Mommie Dearest, spewing invective at the Business Partner and some of the performers. In the opening scene, she slugs a reporter and shoves people around while Gaspar the Great is "hanging around" the tightrope. The special effects are awful as this is a low budget film. But it is great for fun

The Snowman dvd - why "the Snowman" doesn't have a name? It a great, heartwarming DVD, but one would think poor James would have had a name...for his Snowman, as I've only rented the dvd and not bought one from amazon.com was going to, but my grandchildren not quite old enough to understand it yet.

Heavy action Hyper-paced action will keep you fixated throughout. An aging Arnold makes a cameo appearance. Bruce Willis' does little more than cheapen the movie with a spew of junior high locker room talk. Fortunately, his role is brief.

Prometheus is more like Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine. Prometheus was a lot smaller than I expected this is because the plot takes place on the space station and the alien planet which sets the scene for a trite stereotypical science fiction movie. Prometheus is clearly not the typical high standard artistic Ridley Scott masterpiece that one would expect. The acting was pretentious and forced throughout the movie which was the most obvious disappointment. The actor who played the Captain (Idris Elba) was notably the worst actor: he appeared to have hated working on the movie the most. For instance when a harsh windstorm tears down the team he just sits there mumbling to himself and not truly caring as he watches the team get blasted on a high-tech spaceship monitor. Furthermore, it seemed as if the actors hated working on the set with each other and with Ridley Scott.  The script was average but great actors could have redeemed that flaw. The movie progressed very slowly as the languid main actress Noomi Rapace(the scientist/doctor) discovers what look like cave drawings and cryptic writings. She determined without proof that whoever wrote that also engineered humans. A sub-plot includes Dr. Weyland who expects to find a cure for old age on the mysterious planet. Dr. Weyland is in for a shock when the blue humanoid man who is found hibernating inside the planet reacts with hostility.  As the movie slowly progressed it seemed to me that Ridley Scott borrowed many ideas from Star Trek: The Next Generation rather than working with previous ideas from the Alien series. There are also no hints of Blade Runner elements in Prometheus. Rather than innovating and making a progressive science fiction movie this is more of a return to the Star Trek era which is unoriginal to say the least.  What saves this movie from being a complete disappointment is that it gets more intriguing, foreboding, ominous, and eerie as it progressed. The level of gore and violence was stereotypical for any modern science fiction movie made after the 1990's era; causing me to disagree with those reviewers who stated that Prometheus was more of a horror movie. Prometheus is not a horror movie although there is a bizarre and terrifying scene where Noomi Rapace must have an automated mechanical c section in order to remove an Alien squid. The baby squid Alien looked both ridiculous and eerie which didn't add any sparkle to the already odd movie. The other mildly horrific moments were quick, to the point, and odd: that included a giant alien squid attack on a blue humanoid that was originally hibernating from within the planet; and at the end of the movie the blue humanoid grotesquely gives birth to what looks like The Alien from the first Alien movie.  In addition to that there are a few long drawn out scenes where the team explores the planet; several frightening windstorms; a random creature attack which breaks one of the team member's arms; a random zombie attack; and an enormous spaceship literally crashed on and crushed Charlize Theron's annoying character.  Unfortunately, the production design and set design are average. There is nothing unique or notable about that. The creatures, and special effects looked out-dated by at least 6 years. I believe H.R. Giger did not work on this movie which was a shame.  Overall, this movie was very intriguing starting in the middle part and I was not bored. However, Prometheus seemed rushed, forced, pretentious, and ultimately like a Star Trek: The Next Generation movie. Noomi Repace's underwhelming performance was a disappointment considering how Alien fans are accustomed to the power and strength of the Ripley female character. Charlize Theron's character was catty, antagonistic, and selfish: nothing interesting there. At one point the ship's captain asks if she is a robot. Michael Fassbender performed well as the creepy narcissistic android but wasn't anything very special. The team that explores the planet is dull and doesn't add anything to the movie. The movie itself was filmed well: the cinematography shots throughout the movie were interesting but nothing that lived up to the original Alien movie or Blade Runner.  As of now I give this move a C+. I recommend you watch it if you like Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek (the movie remake).

Atypical Peanuts flick...not suitable for children? Neither my 11-year old son nor I liked this cartoon very much.  After being really excited about watching a Charlie Brown movie together -- he had even taken the time to search it out and DVR it -- he asked if we could stop watching halfway through. It's a long film...or maybe it just seemed long...a seemingly endless parade of sadness, anger, fighting and mistreatment.  A few chuckles were interspersed here and there, but most of all it seemed really heavy.  I found myself wondering about Charles Schultz as I watched.  Could it be that he was really a mean & miserable man?  It sure looked like it.  This truly felt like a passive-aggressive revenge piece to me...revenge at some unknown person or circumstance.  Charlie Brown in this movie is an exaggerated case study of woe, unluckiness and helplesness.  He was not even endearingly unlucky as he is in other films.  Snoopy is mistreated and unappreciated, rather than celebrated.  Peppermint Patty is the bossy, self-absorbed, female archetype. Charlie Brown's attempts to get away from her are a bit too obvious.  It was clearly a swipe at women.  Snoopy falls in the hands of a temporary owner, again a bossy girl who mistreats him, tries to over-control him, and who Snoopy makes snide faces at and does nothing but run away from.  Some of the dialog sounds more like a marital spat than a doggie tale.  Lucy is unusually mean and haggard looking in this film, especially during their boxing scene.  Linus and Snoopy have a knock-down, drag-out fight over Linus' blanket.  I found myself thinking that Schultz was portraying himself in the characters of Snoopy and Charlie Brown, who were both antagonized and mistreated by everyone else.  Both of them display an unhealthy resignation and passive anger to the people around them.  Charlie Brown's speech to Snoopy that "everything you are is because of me" really jumped out like a red hot poker.  I had the same thought as another reviewer; that either Schultz's wife had nagged him with this line, or that he was revealing a core issue of his own marriage.  Sure enough, the other reviewier researched it and discovered that Schultz had divorced the year before this film came out.  To me, it was a study in depression, separation, helpessness and meanness -- really nothing redeeming at all.  Even the drawings seemed crude and hard compared to the more soft and pleasing art of later Charlie Brown movies.  Of course, it could be that they just hadn't found their artistic style yet.  But the drawings, music and tone of the movie were much harsher than the more popular Charlie Brown movies.  The fighting seemed way too intense and graphic for a children's film, IMO.  I kept wondering what the producers must have thought of it once they saw the finished product.  I guess that once the film was done they had invested so much that they felt there was nothing to do but go ahead and release the film, despite its mean tone and inappropriateness for children.  I would recommend that parents pre-view this cartoon to see if they feel it is appropriate and even desirable for their children before watching together.

8$ for 20 minutes of video?!?!?! It's an ice age short :)  Enjoyable movie short. But 8$ for 20 minutes of content is rather ridiculous. 20% of the short/movie is credits.  The kids enjoy it, but it really should have been 50 - 60 minutes at least. I'll likely create a Christmas compilation disc with it :)

Orginal is still better I am one of those who loves all the older classic horror films and I was reluctant to watch this one. I won't even bother watching the remake of Nightmare on elm street since Robert England isn't Freddy Krueger for heavens sake. But I finally made myself watch this one......first off it ticks me off that they have to ruin movies with all the naked bodies and raunchy sex, which this movie is minus the raunchy sex. I know all you guys out there totally enjoy that part of a horror film....but hey that is what pornos are for right!? I did however get the biggest laugh out of the groin part and that is all I will say on that note. Still the original is so so much creepier....that is the whole point of a horror flick is to be scared. So if you are interested in humor and naked chicks.......everywhere.........then rent this, however if you want to be afraid I suggest renting movies like Sole Survivor, The Beyond....these are older type of movies but they are much better without all the fakeness of todays computer technology.....back in those days it was all about making things look as real as possible. But Piranha isn't scary at all just silly and raunchy.

My daughter loves it My daughter (3.5) loves this I personally can't stand it and I can take most of the kids stuff with a grain of salt.  But I honestly don't think they learn anything from these so I don't see the point.

Entertaining.. First, if you're looking for Broken Lizard comedy, you may be disappointed.  This isn't a Broken Lizard production and isn't nearly as off the wall as they tend to get, but if you're a fan and are craving more in between real BL productions, this might be a nice bandaid.  It's a pretty basic comedy that has a handful of laughs.  Worth the free movie credit I spent on it.  My biggest gripe is Amazon's streaming.  I piped this from my laptop to an HD TV and while I didn't expect HD quality, the compression was pretty lousy even with a good internet connection.  Netflix is usually a bit better and Vudu comes across in crystal clear BluRay quality 1080p.

Much too short I was happy when I read the online reviews at Amazon.com, but I was a bit disappointed when I viewed the DVD.  It's based on real fact, and I love that.  However, it was too short (especially when one considers the price)A few more details related to the incidents that took place or other incidents in the life of the characters could have been added to the story line to make it more interesting and longer.

A well-aged piece of cheese I loved this movie when it first came out, and it was worth the wait to see it all again. Even for a "period piece", a staged musical, and a product of the 80s, it remains a great deal of lightweight fun, even if David Bowie doesn't get nearly as much screen time as any fan might have wanted :)

OK for beginners, for advanced users it might not be that great... I bought this DVD mostly because of the featured arms workout. It's OK for me, but I have to say that -again- for advanced users it might not be that great. It's not a strong workout, but it could be an ideal one for those days that you just don't feel like working out. Mari has gotten way too talkative on her last DVD's, so if you don't like this just put on music and the workouts will go on really fast. (It would be better if she talked while doing the exercises) The option about you creating your workout it's really the biggest feature of this DVD, in my opinion of course.

could have been better but considering the age of the film Rented this due to the hubbub thinking I would see a suspense filled thriller and got the opposite.  I'm guessing the hubbub stems from the rape scene which takes quite a while.  She is raped by one man then she flees then gets raped by a second one then again runs only to get caught again and thus violated by a third and so on.  After she showers, eats, smokes and changes cothing she sets off to get revenge.  The revenge scenes are not very shocking (except she uses her femine wiles to luree the rapists into set up situation which seems odd considering she was just raped by them) considering some of the flicks I have seen lately; however, I am guessing from the age of the film they were once something controversal.  I don't mean to be nitpicky but I didn't care for the ending....wouldn't the police be looking for the missing guys especially when the wife was looking for one?  Yet, no mention of it.

Beautiful Visuals No Personality Disney had an affinity for Alice novels going back to his initial years in the industry with Alice and Cartoonland. He attempted to make a live-action version with Mary Pickford in 1933 while affiliated with United Artists though its more than obvious that it was not commercially viable firstly because of Paramount's adaption secondly has to with that its not fathomable for that type of adaption to have the same impact as Snow White which shaped the family film market as we know it today, contrary to what people might have previously thought however is that Disney's films did have psychological undertones not akin to what would be seen in a children's movie.  Alice in Wonderland seems to be Walt's original labor of love gone awry due to conflicting interests in other endeavors such as building up Disneyland or advocating for the space program to counter the Russians Alice among other films took second seat. Again Walt is quite the multi-tasker in the 1950's that not every film is to up to par with what he had previously established. Being invested in so many other endeavors inhibits Walt to invest at the film at task since he is so focused on other endeavors this is exactly what sabatoged a good bulk of his movies.  One of the redeeming qualities is Mary Blair's conceptual influence on the film. However it doesn't seem to have much else artistically or stylistically going for it. Its episodic, serialized like many other previous Disney endeavors however in many cases the atmosphere itself seems the same throughout. The environment doesn't really change because it is inherent of Mary Blair's influence, while talented it is overly dependent on her skill. The other thing to take into consideration is our heroines naivety which makes many of the bi-polar villains in this film such as the Queen of Hearts and Mad Hatter unwilling to cope. She never really shows remorse because personality is not effective and she acts as if she has no muscles or any actual sincere emotions, only Milt Kahl and Marc Davis animate her effectively again it seems that there are conflicting interests to focus on other things instead of this film so there is little invest to make this project work. Also again when it comes to coming up short on personality this is a contradiction of the company who established personality in the early to mid-thirties when they were technologically building up their company.

Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang.. When it comes to films based on novels or comics staying loyal to the source material, many just don't do a very good job.  That however cannot be said about the first film translation of Larssons book.  The film stays loyal to much of the source material, at least the source material that I felt was relevant.  And while I found some of the cast to not sell their characters very well, such as the older Harriet, Noomi's portrayal of Lisbeth was pretty solid, as was the actor who portrayed Blomkvist.  However, if one has a choice between picking up either this version or Fincher's recent film translation of the novel, the best bet is to go with Fincher's since the casting is a touch better, the score is extremely better, and he stayed loyal to the end of the novel in a way the swedish film did not.

Mexican spanish is different than Salvadoran The story is good, but this a a film about the Salvadorean people, the accent is that of Mexicans, not a single Salvadorean phrase was used. Other than that very important fact, the film is good.

Very sweet Although this movie lost a lot of its magic due a large number of curse words (don't watch with children), the movie itself was quite good.  It's a cute sentimental tale of a family trying to reconcile the loss of their wife/mother.  It was an interesting movie, good acting, and good outcome.

Goonies is an entertaining if somewhat juvenile film I remember having watched this movie quite fondly as a kid. However on a second viewing with my son, the movie does not hold up to time very well.

Baby Scarface Films such as 'Halloween,' 'The Exorcist," and 'Star Wars' were groundbreaking films that set the bar for subsequent film makers in those genres. They were good/great films that have since been outdone in the various aspects that helped give them their "Wow" factor. I have just watched 'New Jack City' for the first time since its original release on video and, for my money, it hasn't withstood the test of time.  It's a 'rise and fall of a bad guy' type story which has been done any number of times. The problem here starts with the script. Things are too rushed and disjointed. At 97 minutes it needed way more time to breathe. I felt as though I were watching the Readers Digest version of some other movie. Everything felt forced into a too tight package. The sequence of Chris Rock going from strung out junkie to clean, under cover informer was way too quick. The whole movie felt like that. And the dialogue in many scenes might not have been cliche at the time but it sure is now.  On the good side were some of the performances. Wesley Snipes does a superb job. The other actors are OK but pale next to him. I think Chris Rock and Vanessa Williams needed a few more projects under their belts. She was wooden and he just wasn't very good at all. Mario Van Peebles, Bill Nunn and Judd Nelson were all decent.  The directing was uneven. Some scenes were genuinely good while others didn't come off at all. There is a certain raw power on display here and it doesn't at all hurt to sit through. But when I saw it originally I was blown away, whereas now it simply didn't cut it. Some books, movies, music just don't withstand the test of time and that's the case here.

It's not so crazy as true~! You have to give this one a chance to build up the characters.  And don't be too quick to prejudge their efforts.  I can just imagine the real world of ladies gone a little bit crazy really behaving like this.

Could Have Been Much Better with Straightforward Storytelling An offbeat comedy drama "Beginners," written and directed by Mike Mills ("Thumbsucker"), has a life-affirming message and some interesting characters. The part autobiographical film is often funny, sweet and touching. Christopher Plummer is deservedly Oscar nominated for his wonderful portrayal of Hal. But what I don't understand is ... why not just tell his story in a simple, straightforward way?  In "Beginners" Christopher Plummer is Hal, 75-year-old. Hal has lost his wife, with whom he had lived for 44 years. Now being terminally ill, he comes out as gay and is dating a young male Andy (Goran Visnjic). Hal reveals everything to his only son Oliver. Hal's life changes after that. All these events are told in flashbacks (sometimes with old photos).  Ewan McGregor is Oliver, a thirty-something artist, mild-mannered and afraid of starting a new relationship. M&eacute;lanie Laurent is Anna, a French actress, beautiful, delectable and free-spirited.  Using intertwined flashbacks, Mike Mills attempts to connect their story with that of Oliver's father, while giving us almost no reason for us to care Oliver and Anna. Who are they? They are obviously nice persons, but not as interesting as they should.  Some cites "Annie Hall" and compare its story structure with that of "Beginners," in which episodes about Oliver as a young boy are inserted. I see the point these reviewers are making, but Woody Allen's film, stylish, witty and sentimental - all these things "Beginners" strives to be - has strength that the latter doesn't have: Annie Hall, a fleshed-out heroine who also is the film's cornerstone.  The film's cornerstone comes in the form of Hal played by Christopher Plummer, who brings an authentic ring to what Hal has to say to his son. Hal's message, based on his happiness and regret, is moving and real. Unfortunately, half of the film is not particularly relevant to his message.

Quirky but fun flick, though certainly not destined to be a classic Why is this film worth a look?  Two words, "Jack Black."  Black suffers a major electrical mishap and somehow ends up being completely magnetized.  This is not really much of a problem until he wanders into his buddy's inner city video store.  Yep, where they rent VHS tapes.  Black unwittingly demagnetizes all of the tapes, and his buddy is financially ruined...until they decide to take matters into their own hands...and make their own versions of the damaged movies themselves.  Those remade movies are so bad that people actually like them and they are inspired to make more.  This is a fun film, but the one-joke story line is difficult to maintain.  This is nowhere near Black's best work.  It pales in comparison to, say, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JKLQ">Shallow Hal</a> or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000IZ6P1K">School of Rock</a>, yet it is still fun.  All in all when you consider the acting, the limited story line, etc., I have to say that this is a 3-star offering.  It's definitely worth a look, but for all but hard core Jack Black fans, one viewing will be enough.

The first one was great, very funny and pretty original. This one wasn't, more of a remake then sequel. But not funny. I say B- "It happened again, we lost Teddy"  Stu (Helms) is getting married...again.  Phil (Cooper), Doug and Alan are at the bachelor party...again.  They drink too much and wake up in a strange hotel room with a lost friend...again.  They try to find clues to where thier friend is and things keep getting worse and worse...again.  If you liked the first one I would be weary of this one.  It's pretty much the same movie with a little changes.  A monkey instead of a tiger.  An old guy instead of a baby.  Bangkok instead of Vegas. A tatoo instead of losing a tooth.  I think the main problem with this movie is that the first one came out of nowhere and surprised everyone with how funny it was.  After making a ton of money a sequel had to be made.  The only problem is that this type of movie doesn't lend itself to a sequel.  So they did they only thing they could.  I would call this more of a remake then a sequel, and much like all remakes it's not as good as the original.  Overall, very disapointing after the classic first one.  I give it a B-.  *Also try - Cedar Rapids & Hangover Part 1

Memory Loss This is a fast paced action movie, a thriller within the spy genre. The lead character (spy) suffers a head injury and momentarily loses his memory. When he wakes up, he believes his cover story to be his real life.  There are some great scenes of Berlin, and the action scenes are well done. Though I had no problems with the acting, I did have difficulty believing the lead character. His lack of introspection when everything around was shouting "You're living a lie" subtracted from the movie. I felt this to be a flaw in the writing--the script.

The original is better. An absolute classic, but the original is better.  This is one movie where the un-cut version takes away from the hilarity.  Picture is nicely touched up though.

It's a Wonderful Life (Colorized ) Have always LOVED this pix.  But this is the WORST colorized version I have ever seen of ANY colorized picture.  MOstly black/white, but some colorized, and so faint cannot tell.  Not much colorization.  VERY Disappointing.  I did not bother with returning, but SHOULD have!  This Vendor needs to get his money back from whomever he ought it from! Cecy Ivie

hard to handle I am sort of a horror movie ultra fan starting way way back when I was just a kid,during the glorious 80's when slasher films ruled the genre. I have seen it all from the Japanese style frightfests to low budget horror to zombie flicks to the ultra violent torture themes that are so prevalent today. With that being said, I am not that easily shocked, probably the last time I was moved or nervous by a horror film was the first time I watched the Exorcist,(I'm dating myself),and in the last few years perhaps Cannibal Holocaust. This film is vile,disturbing,extremely disgusting,and when it is finished,if you make it all the way to the end,you will feel as if you immediately require a shower. If I am rating this movie solely on production value,easily 5 stars. The black and white method of shooting the film was pure genius,with director Six creating a dark and gritty patina that transferred effectively to the viewer. Character creation,another win. Martin was extremely convincing to the point that you actually wondered if they cast an actual mentally disturbed and violent recluse for the part. Then theres the actual story...more than halfway throught the film the whole thing kind of falls apart,in the first film of course you had a brilliant but demented surgeon,now we are treated to a twisted human mole with household tools,duct tape and a staple gun. The subject matter is what it is,watching this movie after having viewed the first installment you obviously have to expect it to be disturbing,but wow,it crosses lines that no other film in my memory has before,and I suppose the fact that during certain parts I cringed and almost turned completely away means the film delivered its desired effect. I cannot remember the last time I felt absolute revulsion while watching any film,let alone extreme horror,but this piece was a dandy. I think the point where I almost jumped off the Human Centipede train was as a previous reviewer pointed out that towards the climax a single color was allowed onto the pallette...brown. If you have seen the first movie,you will know what I'm getting at. All in all,and this is comoing from a severe horror movie buff,this one kind of left me wondering just how far is too far...watch if you dare my friends. And just for the record,the pregnant victim and what ultimately happens to the imminent newborn is just unneccesary. It didn't add or detract from the story,it just in my humble opinion was put in to shck. It delivered. In spades.

Classic Judaai is 1980 Hit Classic Movie, the script & direction are very well defined, Jeetendra proved himself that he is the best actor of Bollywood through this movie 1st half of the movie he is very attractive as Rich,playboy romancing with his girlfriends, same concept used in Dillage (Saif Ali Khan)fulfilling his dad wish to marry his father's daughter Rekha a simple middle class girl after marrying his is honest & faithful husband & a responsible Doctor, due to Rekha doubt about his relation with her Husband ex-girl friend,due to her act his patient dies, they separated & brought their son on their possession, All the songs are melodious, 2nd half Jeetendra & Rekha played Old father & mother while Jeetendra maintain his acting abilities his acting abilities are superb balancing makeup changing voice as old man & his expression is the highlight of the movie but Rekha was not upto the expectations. Old Jeetendra dancing competition with Aruna Irani shown his dancing abilities again. Jeetendra is the God gifted natural actor to Bollywood, He is incomparable to any other actors of Bollywood & he is the best of best in this kind of family drama Movies like Aasha, Khandaan, Pyaasa Sawaan, Maang Bharo Sajna, Swarg Se Sunder Jeene Ki Raah etc., In my opinion it is worth to watch movie it has melodious songs, best story as well direction & social message to husband & wife & above all Jeetendra most memorable acting.

Leaves the important point out This guy can really overwhelm you with data, but he doesn't deal with the important part: no one has ever seen Ross Perot and Barack Obama on stage at the same time. It's notorious. And this is the real clue. What's the producer of this thing trying to hide. Ever since the time it became clear that Ross Perot was born in Mexico, whatever his phony "Birth Certificate" says, the media just keeps giving him a pass. And look what happened!

Crazy Heart It was an ok video but had I seen it before I bought it I probably wouldn't have bought it. It does have a good story to it though and if you like country you'll like this video.

Take away the hype, it's just an OK movie Lot's of hype on this movie but it just doesn't deliver. It's not a bad movie, it's just not a great movie, either. Why the plot would go shades of "It" at the ending is beyond me. It didn't work for "It" and it doesn't work here. This film tries SO HARD to engender that sense of wonderment we felt in Close Encounters and ET and just never quite makes it. I saw it on opening day, D-Box, I was excited and then, leaving the theater, not so much. There are some movies I can watch over and over again. This will not be one of them.

It's saved by its quirk, but it fails to embellish when necessary... `Restless' is one of those movies that starts off really awkward.  It doesn't really `begin' as much as it just `starts'.  It just kind of drops you in the laps of the protagonists and leaves you wondering what kind of odd, strange, bizarre film you've got yourself into watching for at least ten minutes.  Then, somewhat magically, it all starts to separate and clear and next thing you know you're watching something with a unique charm and visual personality.  This is far from perfect, but there is an air on imperfection in nearly all of Gus's work.  `Restless' tells the story of a young girl dying of cancer who falls in love with a young boy who's suffering with the loss of his parents.  He is coping by conversing with the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot and he's horribly socially awkward, but they are kindred spirits in that they are calmly walking towards death while the rest of the world around them tries to emote something over everything.  As they come to terms with the fast approaching death, they fall farther in love and begin to heal in many ways.  The initial plot is somewhat hokey and regurgitated of a lot of teen sob romance stories.  It sounds a little Nicolas Sparks, but it has a deadpan charm that is achieved from Gus's directorial choices.  Mia Wasikowska is such a fresh find, and her performance here is delightful and honest and very moving when needed.  Henry Hopper is less successful (he comes across almost high in a lot of scenes and fails to deliver when necessary).  He actually lets the weaknesses in the script (that breakdown with the doctor in particular) get the better of his performance.  He can't rise above.  I find it sad that the script is a tad shallow in that it never really `goes there' even though it hints a lot to attempting to.  The inclusion of the ghost was a nice touch, and it truly added a depth that could have been explored but at least made an impact, but in the end this film feels too light for its own good.  In the end, I'd recommend it, but not for all.  If you are a devotee in the Nicolas Sparks era of teen romance films then steer clear, because the flat lined emotions will irritate you, but if you want to see a different take on that overplayed genre then try Gus's take.  Gus has always had a way with making the melodramatic feel oddly cold.

Disney, please consider including bonus features. I was THRILLED to learn that Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment would be releasing "The Rocketeer" on Blu-Ray on December 13, 2011.  It is one of my all-time favorite films, and one that I knew I would buy on Day One of its release.  However, when word came out that the Blu-Ray disc would contain NO special features, my thrill at buying this film lessened slightly.  "The Rocketeer" is an endearing classic, and one that deserves a full Special Edition treatment, with bonus features such as commentary, retrospective documentary, photo galleries, trailers, and deleted scenes.  I was completely dismayed and disheartened to learn that NONE of those features will be on the upcoming Blu-Ray.  I most likely will no longer purchase "The Rocketeer" on the day of its release, as the quality of the product is now less than I expected.  Rather, I will wait for the disc to go on sale below $15 (whenever that may be) instead of immediately pay the suggested retail price for what is essentially a movie-only Blu-Ray disc.  It's a decision I'd rather not make, and I'm hoping that between now and December, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment will re-evaluate the release plans for "The Rocketeer" and decide to include bonus features.  Even if this means delaying the release to include bonus features such as a director's commentary and a new making-of documentary (along with any archival material I will list below), it will definitely be worth the wait, and would certainly make me consider buying this film on its release day once again.  Just as an example, here are some excellent archival material that already exists within the company's archives that can be included:  -20th Anniversary Screening Q&A Session - when D23 screened "The Rocketeer" at El Capitan this past June (the 21st), they held a Q&A session after the film, in which director Kevin Smith fielded questions to director Joe Johnston, star Bill Campbell, writers Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo, artist William Stout and make-up guru Rick Baker.  If this event was recorded, it would make for an excellent inclusion on the Blu-Ray disc.  -The theatrical trailer - this was already included in the Laserdisc and DVD.  A remastered version (in HD) would make for an excellent inclusion, as it not only provides historical context for the marketing of the film, but is a no-brainer for inclusion on any home media release.  -"The Rocketeer: Excitement in the Air" - this is a television special that aired on June 19, 1991 before the film's theatrical release.  It was never included on Laserdisc or DVD, sadly.  Like the trailer, it makes for a great contemporary piece that is related to the film's original release.  I remember watching this when I was six years old and getting really excited for the film.  It would be wonderful to see it again.  -Electronic Press Kit Interviews - if the above documentary cannot be used, then surely the interviews done for the special could be included, either on their own or re-edited into a brand-new making-of feature.  -"Meet Me Down at the El Capitan" - when the film premiered on June 21, 1991, there was a lot of celebration at the El Capitan, including a song-and-dance number, "Meet Me Down at the El Capitan."  I've never seen it before, but I'm fairly certain it will exist somewhere in the vast archives.  -Photo & Poster Galleries - this is rather self-explanatory, as hundreds of photos and posters must exist in the archives.  There was a HUGE marketing bonanza for the film when it came out.  In addition, it is always exciting to see how the film was marketed in its time, both domestically and internationally.  -"The Rocketeer" Topps Trading Cards - there were 121 total cards in this collection, as well as 11 stickers.  I used to have several from when I was a child, but sadly lost them through the years.  Seeing them again in high-definition scans on a Blu-Ray disc would be wonderful.  If any of these suggestions are ultimately included when "The Rocketeer" is released to Blu-Ray, I will be a very satisfied customer who will buy the disc on its release date, and definitely would recommend purchase of the Blu-Ray to my friends.  Until then, I'll have to pass and wait for a better price, as even Amazon.com's $18.99 is too much for just the film by itself.  Hopefully, come December 13 I can update this review to share my excitement and customer satisfaction for a Blu-Ray disc that's worth buying.  EDITED TO ADD (December 2): I recently read an online review for the product, and it notes that the ONLY bonus feature is the theatrical trailer.  Needless to say, I sent the following to Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment...  Three months ago, I wrote to Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment to voice my disappointment and dismay at their upcoming release of "The Rocketeer" on Blu-Ray.  I asked the studio to re-consider their decision of excluding any bonus features on the title, and offered suggestions for what type of material they could include.  A few weeks later, I received an e-mail from the Legal Department, thanking me for my e-mail, but further stressing that they do not accept unsolicited ideas.  That was understandable, and I had hoped that WDSHE at least considered the option of adding any bonus features at all (outside the realm of features I suggested).  Recently, I read an online review for "The Rocketeer" on Blu-Ray, and the review makes sure to note that the only bonus feature included is the theatrical trailer.  Needless to say, I was disappointed in reading this.  While I'm happy that the trailer was included (especially since WDSHE never includes the trailer of a newly-released movie, but is fine adding 10 trailers of upcoming movies), I'm still upset that no other bonus features were commissioned for production or even licenced out of the studio archives.  I am telling all my friends to not purchase this title, and I myself will not be purchasing it either.  It is very upsetting that the studio - who has put out excellent Blu-Rays such as "Beauty and the Beast", "Pirates of the Caribbean", and "TRON" - has given such inferior treatment to a home media product that has the capacity and ability to feature more than just the movie.  While I'm sure the technical presentation of the film is excellent (the review I read made sure to bring notice to that), I cannot accept that there are virtually no bonus features on this title.  I sincerely hope you revisit this title again in the future, with the intent of adding special features that make it worth of the "20th Anniversary Edition" banner that the current inferior product now carries.

Not bad It is not as boring as the original, the revenge scenes are much harder than in the original. But it has something of SAW, HOSTEL and so on at the end. Nevertheless it is discusting (in a good horror way!).

great production - bad filming I loved Cats and still do which is why I bought this.  It is better than nothing and better than having just the music but the filming of the dancing is atrocious.  Anyone who has watched films of dancing knows you don't cut off in the middle of a routine and pan to someone else or someones face but that is what they did when they filmed this.  Don't buy it to see the dancing because it will just be frustrating.  Maybe they will make a better film of it someday.

Gift I bought Horseland as a Christmas gift for my Granddaughter who loves horses and lives in an area that doesn't provide cable TV.  I've never seen any episodes from the series.

Disappointing I very much wanted to enjoy this film, and perhaps because my expectations were so high, the experience was so disappointing. I have seen almost all Kurosawa's surviving films and this one, in my estimation, falls in the bottom half of his oeuvre for quality. And yet, it contains powerful elements which still make it worth seeing. There is a strange imbalance between the unsatisfactory performances of the two main characters and trite overall storyline of master-taming-arrogant-pupil, on the one hand, and the impassioned acting of secondary characters and genuine pathos achieved in passing vignettes. Mifune gives a one-dimensional performance as the eponymous Red Beard: master-doctor and life-guru. When the film is centred on him it seems pompous. Red Beard's protege, Dr Yasumoto, is a character with more scope, but the actor playing it, Yuzo Kayama - chosen, one suspects, because of his looks and box-office appeal rather than acting ability - is not up to the demands of the part. He has a small palette of expressions: bewilderment, anger and a stare into space during scenes when he sits at the edge of the action. The fact that the film overcomes these weaknesses, to the extent that it does, is something of a marvel. It is wholly because of the extraordinary performances of the secondary players, especially Terumi Niki, Kyoko Kagawa, Yoshitaka Zushi and Akemi Negishi.  The DVD is a highly restored transfer. Whatever "patina" Donald Richie saw and enjoyed about the image has gone: the film has been restored to within an inch of its life. But these things are always a trade-off, so no big deal. Richie's useful, albeit brief, notes describe the enormous care that was taken with set design and authenticity in achieving a late-Tokugawa "look", and also how Kurosawa made only fractional use of the vast set he created.  The film, paradoxically, often looks like a stage production, with its stylised prop placements and side lighting, rather than a "location" film. Authenticity and historical detail are not values that come through. Indeed, although its running time and story type would imply an epic style of film-making, in fact it is more a collection of closely-observed vignettes. This is exemplified by a long recollection sequence - a story told by a dying patient - that involves neither of the main characters and almost sits outside the film.  There is a commentary track on this DVD but no other substantial extras.

Is this a movie about capturing beauty...or about wanting control? **REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS**  Have you ever heard the saying, "What you don't know can't hurt you"?  It's a weak defense used to cover up guilt and  I think it's how the main character Ben (Sean Biggerstaff) is able to defend his actions in this British comedy.  Needing to pass time during a  painful breakup, Ben figures out a way to freeze time so he can undress young women and draw their naked bodies. He defends himself by saying he's just appreciating their beauty and hopes they don't mind (though he doesn't bother to ask if they do mind).  First of all, if he wanted to study beauty, then he'd study these women's unique faces and their treatment towards others, not their breasts and naked bodies.  When a woman is naked and flashing her bare breasts, it doesn't really matter if she's beautiful inside and out.  She'll still arouse a man sexually.  And in this case, even more so because the women he defined as beautiful were also fertile, firm-bodied 20-year olds.  Second, if he was interested in drawing the naked female form, why didn't he just draw the nudes in art class?  These female nudes have already consented to having their naked bodies drawn by artists. Or why not draw the naked bodies in magazines like Playboy?  Again, these are female nudes who have already consented to having their naked bodies viewed by others. Or if it was these specific women he wanted to draw, why not just ask their consent to draw them in the nude?  I think he doesn't  choose any of these routes  because it's not about capturing beauty  like an artist.  It's about wanting to control these women  like a voyeur. Freezing these women immobilizes them in place...allowing him to bypass their consent so he can undress them on his terms. After he dresses and unfreezes them, these women feel kind of weird, but have no idea that their privacy has just been violated. Although what he's done isn't as invasive as slipping a woman a date rape drug and raping her while she's unconscious, it had the same creepy vibe to it.  It seemed like Ben was learning his lesson, though, because he's unable to freeze his love interest.  I think he couldn't freeze her because he knew he needed her consent before he could undress her.  This movie had it's funny moments, mostly from Ben's perverted best friend and Ben's co-workers.  There's also a nice artistic shot where Ben floats from his phone to his vertical bed. I also liked that we see a man mourning so deeply over a breakup.  Usually, you only see a woman mourn this deeply, so it was refreshing to show that a man really does care about these things. However, this movie is way too long.  I thought the drawn out soccer scene could've been eliminated altogether. So overall, this movie is just okay and could've been better without the freezing trick and if it had been much shorter in length.

D'Amour This is a bizarre collection of short films - very Euro, bizarre scenarios. Ozon is a French filmaker of some reknown in France but not in the States. Unless you are a fan of offbeat plots, unknown actors with the exception of Garrel then this is not for you. The only viable short is the one with Garrel however that's a bit disapointing compared to any of his other works.

Best of Laredo Season 1 I thought that this was the complete season one of Laredo. I must have miss read it.  I was dissapointed in the selection of the episodes selected as 'the best'.  None of my favorite episodes with Linda Little Trees and Blue Dog were there.  Other than this I enjoyed watching Laredo again.

Overwhelmingly mediocre I generally do not enjoy Danny Boyle movies as I find he tries a little too hard to be "hip" or "cool". When other directors can do it by trying new things and experimenting, Boyle's style comes off as underwhelming and stale, and this movie was really no different. I don't know what I was expecting. What I was really impressed with in this movie was James Franco's performance, which kind of reminds me of an up and coming Johnny Depp. Although I believe we will see him in more comedy oriented movies in the future, he can certainly pull off the dramatic rolls pretty well. The story is interesting but didn't really offer up anything that couldn't have been accomplished in a short documentary or recreation type program. If you enjoy Boyle's style I would  recommend this movie, if you were unimpressed by slumdog, I don't think you will find too much to like in this.

Amusing Worth seeing for a buck or two. Kind of cool premise, but the lying thing got old fairly quickly. Funny at times though and Jennifer garner is looking good.

Suspenseful, hack n slash with a story... When this movie decides to wind up, it goes nuts.  The first 3/4 of the movie is your general big city X country hicks, you get the drift, kinda winds around, then bam at the end.  Deffinately worth the rent if you like this kind of movie.

Decent action movie I really want to love this movie, but I can't. This is quiet boring when compared to the last two. There were fightings, racings, and explosion. Things are similiar from last twos. Decepticons threaten the Earth -> Decepticons raise and own everyone -> Decepticons almost reached their goal -> Decepticons got destroyed. The story is nothing new really. I even get lost in the middle of the battle trying to figure out which is which. This is an okay action movie, but nothing wowed me, really.

NOT A "BLOCKBUSTER" I remembered this movie from when I was a kid and thought that my mom would enjoy it since she can' really relate to many of the current movies.  This movies is really long and drawn out.  There are, like another reviewer said, great scenes of Italy, but all in all a "yawn."

Clash Edition It 's amazing package color. It's a great movie with a lot of special features, the sound e imagem was amazing too.

Terminator Salvation I'm guessing this is a contentious films for die-hard fans of the Terminator series and you'll either like it or loathe it. O.K., I'll admit from the start I am fan of the Terminator franchise and although I went to see this with some trepidation after T3, I have to say I came away pleasantly surprised. As a stand alone film (which may the best way to look at it) this is pretty good and as part of the overall series it develops the story well and has something to add to the previous films. It will never be as good as the first two films, but I'm glad to say it's better than T3. Bale is good as John Connor, if a little wooden at times, but the real surprise was Sam Worthington who has the best role in the film. The CGI effects are good, but not overbearing and McG's direction was ok, but a little too jerky for my tastes. You do get some cheesy lines in this film and plenty of nods to the previous films, but nothing too excessive and most produce a wry smile rather than outright groans. The main problem with this film is that you don't care about the characters that much. In the first films you wanted to know what happened next and considered the lives of the main characters, but in this film they are just faces on a screen delivering lines. It's sad but true and the main downfall of this film. If you go expecting your typical Hollywood action movie you'll be fine, just don't expect anything of great substance or anything as good as the first two films and you won't be disappointed. 3.5 stars  Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.

Cherry 2000 Worth watching at least once for anyone who loves scifi. Moves a little slow in some parts, but overall is a good B movie.

3 1/2 Stars - Corny (*Really* Corny) Fun Ah, heck.  This isn't the kind of movie where you wander into the theater with high expectations; nor is it the kind of movie that you're supposed to like.  But you know what?  I liked this one. Color me surprised.  It's just goofy, silly fun.  The actors seem to be having a ball, and are good-naturedly unafraid to lampoon both themselves and the kind of movie that they're appearing in.  Luis Guzman and Dwayne Johnson (he of the massive arms and so-called `peck pop of love' - a movie moment that would be cringe-worthy were Johnson not so good natured), in particular, are fun to watch.  Look, this stuff isn't art, and will never, ever be mistaken for such.  But it's all good, corny fun.  The sets are suitably colorful, the humor obvious but infectious, and the actors are game.  I can't in good conscious give this one more than a three-and a half star rating, but don't let that sway you from checking it out. It's breezily fun afternoon viewing and is, generally speaking, "family safe."

Just OK I am a fan of Ridley Scott and the Alien tetralogy.  Prometheus runs like a collective mish mash of other alien movies.  Even good cast members such as Charlize Theron and Michael Fassbender can't save this movie.  The computer graphics are excellent.  Overall, it's too bad that Prometheus is not same league as the other Alien movies.

Many flaws but still fun I'm torn on ATM.  On one hand it's overwhelmingly dumb and filled with plot holes and yet, somehow, I still liked the damn thing.  At an office Christmas party, David has just gotten up the nerve to talk to co-worker Emily (Alice Eve) and offers to give her a ride home.  However his friend Corey (Josh peck from Nickelodeon's Drake & Josh) decides to be a third wheel and tags along for a ride home as well.  Corey asks to stop at an ATM on the way home and that is where the trio's night of terror begins.  They stop at one of those enclosed, cabin-type of ATMs that requires your debit card to get into.  As they turn to leave the ATM they see a man standing outside staring at them.  He's dressed in a hooded parka, hiding his face.  Thinking he might want to rob them the three remain inside the safety of the ATM.  But when their tormentor kills a man walking his dog, they realize their situation is much more grave than they thought.  Soon the trio turns on each other as paranoia begins to grip them as the mysterious man just stands outside the ATM, daring them to try and escape.  ATM is certainly an interesting concept.  Most of us probably utilize an ATM at least once a week and while I've never used one of these enclosed types of ATMs, I know I certainly always am aware of my surroundings when I use one.  Director David Brooks builds suspense nicely as well as the mystery of their assailant.  I quite enjoyed Josh Peck, having a son who loved Josh and Drake I was very familiar with him and he makes a strong transition to a more adult role.  But as mentioned, ATM is quite dumb and if you can't suspend disbelief you're likely not going to enjoy the film much.  There are holes aplenty in the plot.  Why does David park some 60 - 70 feet from the ATM when the parking lot is completely empty, especially when it is below freezing outside?  And the precept that got all three inside the booth was downright silly.  It makes no sense in reality but made no sense in the film either as it wasn't necessary.  With two relatively in shape males and one female all in their 20's, why not rush the man, especially after it was made clear he had no gun or other dangerous weapon?  Why not run in three different directions?  At least two would have escaped and been able to get help.  If you can look beyond the many plot holes, ATM is a flawed, but fun film.

Jd Very difficult to understand accents particularly in the beginning of the movie. A little advanced linguistically for a 5 year old. However, visually very good.

dead pit, could have been better....but still worth a watch <span class="tiny"> Length:: 2:23 Mins  </span>Tom and Ashley review The Dead Pit

OK I had not intended to see this movie. As a supporter of gay rights, the premise made me mad. I figured opponents would look at the plot and say, "See?! That's why we can't legalize same-sex marriage! People will marry people just for benefits!" Well, I was still curious, and I finally came across it at a used DVD store for $2, so I picked it up.  I was pleasantly surprised. Being an Adam Sandler movie, it was as funny as expected (I'm somewhat of a fan and usually find him amusing). What I wasn't expecting was so much heart behind the silliness. Chuck and Larry learned a lot about compassion, people, equality, gay rights, and rights in general. The movie had a good message. I really wish they hadn't gone so far as to get married for real and just stopped at the domestic partnership thing. That was a little disrespectful. (It was also unbelievable taking into account both Chuck's flaming heterosexuality and the fact that they were already being threatened with jail time.)  So Chuck and Larry learned a lesson and the movie had a good message. However... I can't imagine anyone who is strongly opposed to gay rights actually sitting down and watching this movie. They will say, "SEE?! That's why we can't..." without even giving it a chance. But then again, I really don't think this movie was popular enough for any of those people to really take notice of it.

EXTENDED CUT IS AN IMPROVEMENT, BUT GREEN LANTERNS LIGHT DOESN'T SHINE BRIGHT! OK, I'm a Marvel guy, but I have respect for DC and their heroes. Hard to argue with their two mega stars Superman and Batman, but I like most of the heroes, Green Lantern being one of them, The Flash and the Atom being two more. This film is full of colorful special effects and Reynolds should be able to add some humor to this very complex origin, but the film just isn't much fun.  The second half of the film does pick up a bit, but not enough to save this from being just better than average in the superhero genre. The three disc 3D/Blu Ray/DVD combo sports a nice transfer and some cool extras. I don't bother with digital copies, so I don't know anything about that...only what I've read which isn't very good.  If you're a fan of GL, then you probably have seen this, but if you're looking to learn more about this hero, maybe one of his comic books would be a better bet.

video quality lacking It was quick and easy to upload the video, but the quality was lacking. It was fuzzy or grainy through most of it. It looked like it has been taped in movie theatre. We like the show and the kids enjoyed watching. It's nice to have this option to access movies, but... the quality wasn't as good as I expected.

Airport movie cant give a review though I gave it three stars, due to my mothers friends husband was in the movie as a control tower xtra. I guess he even said a few lines. I havent seen this in years, & though I did buy the trilogy of it, I havent watched them yet. Him being a traffic control operator at the airport was a reason he got the actiong job. I never knew the man. But it must have been succesful for them to do 2 sequels to this one being the first.

Just Call It In the Light of the Heat, But Not That Ridiculous Title. Viewed: 1/11 Rate: 6  1/11: Despite the negative criticisms, They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! is not bad of a film. I just think it needs to be re-titled because the movie has nothing to do with In the Heat of the Night. By doing that would just make things much easier for the audience. Oh yeah, get rid of that fatherly stuff. That's too distracting and unnecessary. Focus on the case and the boiling tension out of the issue. The rating of They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! would have been much better for it. Once again, Sidney Poitier creates a commanding presence in the film and steals the show from start to finish. He is the chief reason why the film is entirely watchable. I like the story, and my interest sustained well despite a slow start and sluggish pacing at times. Another thing I like about the movie is the mix in of forensic analysis. It was fun to watch. Finally, the part with the son, wow...was that bad or was that bad? I wish that never occurred in the film; I could do without it for sure. All in all, They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! is a good film to watch to pass the time.

Well Made, But Leaves No Impression Director Sam Mendes, the man responsible for modern classics American Beauty and Revolutionary Road, almost always seems to know what he's doing, be it heavy (Road to Perdition) or light (Away We Go). This is why his 2005 war film, Jarhead, is such a disappointment. The concept of the film is great and the cinematography is, at times, as beautiful as you'll see in a war film. But damn, some of the attempts to make the film seem ... err ... hip, are embarrassing. The incessant use of unfitting, of-its-time music - used as an attempt to keep the movie light and fun - is so blatant and annoying that you can't help but cringe. The playful moments amongst the Marines who make up the story of this film are borderline cheesy. Actually, they're not borderline anything - they're flat out cheese.  This is a shame because, aside from the then-hip casting of leadman Jake Gyllenhaal (at the time a sudden cult figure thanks to Donnie Darko), the casting was great. The writing was great. The production was great. These few small mistakes keep Jarhead from being the best war film of the Naughts.  The story of Jarhead is simple. Our hero, Anthony Swofford (Gyllenhaal in his first major studio lead role), joins the Marines just as Operation Desert Shield is about to hit. He spends a lot of time adjusting and questioning what he's doing, but even more time wondering what his girlfriend is doing back home. (We're made to feel like this girlfriend of his is his everything - amusing, considering the character is 20 years old.) At the urging of Seargent Sykes (Jamie Foxx), Swofford becomes a Marine sniper, which he is very good at. He's he part of an ace team of shooters, paired with the always excellent Peter Sarsgaard, as Cpl. Alan Troy.  The crew of Marines, led in rank by Sykes and spirit by Troy, almost never appear scared. Aside from Skarsgaard, who leads the way as far as acting, Lucas Black (as Chris Kruger) stands out. He's a Texas boy who goes back and forth between airhead and the most reasonable man in his squad. At one point, when the Marines are discussing the point of the war, Kruger puts it straight: "I know these oil guys; I've been around them all my life. They drink oil like water. This is a war about money; we're here to keep the oil cheap."  No one believes him. Later in the film, when the soldiers are told to sign a waiver and take an untested pill that can supposedly fight the side effects of nuclear weapons, Kruger again stands up, spitting the pill out after fighting with Sykes. These are some of the most memorable scenes, not only because of the subject matter, but because Black (who most know as the young, twangy boy in Sling Blade), is a heck of an actor.  But don't get excited, this isn't an overly political film. There are points made here and there, but, mostly, the film attempts to show what it was like to be a Marine during Operation Desert Shield. The movie moves slow as we watch the Marines sit and wait. They foolishly hope for action as the days pass. There are side stories here and there (watching porn together, sneaking alcohol, accidentally burning up a tent full of explosives, etc.) that remind more of an American Pie movie than Apocalypse, Now.  But that's okay, in a movie this slow, I'm guessing the producers and Mendes knew they'd need some cheap thrills. Personally, I'd rather have the film be shorter and less fluffy, but, when you cast Jake Gyllenhaal, you almost HAVE to bring the fluff. My personal favorite comedy bit, and maybe the only one that works in the entire film, happens when a helicopter flies over the Marines when they're at their lowest point. As the helicopter passes, blaring the Doors song "Break On Through," Swofford looks at the sky and says "that's Vietnam music; can't we get our own music?"  After about 80 minutes the film starts to pick up. Our crew of Marines are in the 112 degree desert, chasing a group of fire-happy Iraqi soldiers. The way cinematographer Roger Deakins (known mostly for his work on The Shawshank Redemption and every great Coen Brothers film) shoots the desert footage is amazing. I don't want to give anything away, but will say that, between Skarsgaard's powerful performance and Deakins' cinematography, Jarhead is a must-see. Sometimes it feels like a painfully by-the-books war film and at other times it stands alone - thanks to Deakins' amazing eye and mastery of his craft. (Towards the end we get to see some incredible footage of a desert filled with burning oil wells. It's the kind of cinematic imagery film fans dreamt of before all this crazy CGI stuff became so standard. I recall being wide-eyed and out of breath through many of these scenes.)  Is there a big bang at the end? Does the suspense and conflict finally come as it does in, well, every war film ever? Well ... maybe. Kinda. I don't quite know how to explain it. I will say this: upon it's initial release, the ending made the average movie-goer angry and many cinephile types happy. It's uncompromising and subtle, which is strange when you consider how much, at times, it felt likes Mendes was trying to make an artsy war film for the popcorn crowd. Instead, he ends up with a film that is only a few cheap mistakes away from being a classic.  Jarhead is full of memorable lines, but is best summed up in the final minutes when Swofford says "every war is different; every war is the same."

"Listen to the sound of the flowers blooming. Only then will you become a true ninja" The late Sang-Ok Shin was one of South Korea's most acclaimed directors during the country's golden age of cinema, creating drama and war pictures mostly during the 1960s that received awards and recognition from as far as Europe. In 1978, his life took a turn for the astonishing when he was reportedly kidnapped by North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il for the purpose of directing nationalist pictures, including the socio-political kaiju flick <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000055XTA">Pulgasari</a>. Eventually, he escaped oppression and received asylum in America. Because he was Asian and because Asian directors were starting to hit it big in the States, it's only predictable that his eventual American film (also his last one, ever) was a martial arts outing aimed at family audiences. Whoof.  The story: when the returning ninja kids Rocky (Michael Treanor), Colt (Max Slade), and Tum-Tum (Chad Power) begin what they expect to be a boring summer with their Grandpa (Victor Wong, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6305261032">The Last Emperor</a>), they inexplicably find excitement in a local Native American community oppressed by a greedy tycoon (Charles Napier, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0004Z33EQ">First Blood 2</a>) using their land as a chemical dumping ground. Determined to help, the boys use their training to thwart the man's plot to stop a costly court case from securing the Indians' rights.  No, I'm not actually bitter at the film, but I still can't help but think that Shin (working under a pseudonym) was pigeonholed by American producers who didn't know what to do with him other than stick him with something stereotypically Asian like a martial arts flick. You could almost understand it if it were, say, a historical drama like Japan's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001F0TT2O">Black Belt</a>, but while the plot of "3 Ninjas" concerns itself with an issue as relevant as Native American plight, its delivery is intentionally childish and full of slapstick. Native Americans have played a small but definite role throughout western martial arts features - from cult films like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0790740729">Billy Jack</a> to mainstream flops like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0790740826">On Deadly Ground</a> and current DTV fare like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000YPUFB0">Missionary Man</a> - but this isn't their proudest hour. Their portrayal as a whole isn't awful, but because most of them are adults, they are shown as almost completely incompetent as the villains in comparison to our three Caucasian heroes.  Of course, these heroes aren't totally without merit. I can do without Tum-Tum entirely, both the character and the actor, but Michael Treanor and Max Slade come across as respectable action heroes in-training. I have to point out, these boys can really kick butt. Their smooth forms display a familiarity with martial arts that's nothing short of impressive for their age. Additionally, these guys have serious endurance: the least I can say about the movie is that it's a veritable opus of martial arts action, with approximately six fights of which almost all reach five minutes or more in length. Of course, a lot of the action is extremely implausible and not very convincing, but it's hardly uncreative and at times the kids' moves remind you of something Jackie Chan might do - hardly coincidental, since action coordinator Wan-Chang Lin has previously worked on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000F2MG">The Prisoner</a>. There's a definite Hong Kong flair to portions of the brawls, including a few cool (but obviously doubled) moves like a rebounding corkscrew kick and a backflipping dropkick.  The movie isn't made with any kind of special flair beyond looking competent, suggesting that director Shin's talents were wasted on a project of which kind he had no experience with. There's an overload of poorly-done voiceovers early on in the film and the acting is almost universally bad, but because I've seen none of the series' previous movies, I don't know whether to blame this on the director or an existing standard. In addition, I don't know how this second-to-last installment ranks against its fellows - all I know is that it has way more action than <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6304698739">Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles</a> but still isn't as fun.

Does It Get Any Better? As the three stars indicate, I'm not asking how any show could possibly be any better than "Space 1999."  What I'm asking, kind of desperately, is: does the show itself get any better than where I stopped watching it?  That would be not quite halfway through the first season.  I simply couldn't watch any more episodes; it was too boring.  Which is unfortunate, because it's apparent from the episodes I did watch that the scripts were first rate science fiction - anything but the standard cookie cutter sci fi scripts which tend to occasionally infect even first rate productions (like Stargate and Star Trek).  I love offbeat sci fi shows like "Starhunter," "Firefly," "Earth2," and the truly great British sci fi show "Timeslip."  In other words, this show should have grabbed me hook, line and sinker; but it didn't, so I have to assume it was the production values and not the stories that reduced the episodes to little more than a yawn. So I ask in all sincerity: did the producers pick up on the fact that the show was putting everyone to sleep and rev it up a bit as it went on?  Because I can't imagine anyone watching this for five seasons.  Now I'm a fan of Martin Landau, and Barbara Bain's ok, and Barry Morse is a terrific actor.  Maybe they just need to change roles with one another and it'll all be right?  Is that what happens?  After all, it is sci fi - so they could have a complete character swap without being too off the wall.  Couldn't hurt.

It's okay. Shock Labyrinth was an okay Japanese movie. I wouldn't call this a horror movie, it's more like a suspense movie. So if you're expecting something like The Ring or The Grudge, you're going to be disappointed.

The Ultimate Conflicted Identity Crisis There's a great series of ethical questions just dying to be asked here, but they're buried beneath so many layers of glossy effects, shameless sentimentality and routine overacting, it's hard to say whether they're worth digging up. A.I. is quite Kubrickian at heart - complicated, fascinating and occasionally bizarre just for the sake of it - but also so thoroughly lathered with the strokes of Spielberg that it could almost function as a parody of his career. That duality is often mesmerizing, but also quite destructive. There are a few moments where this picture shines brighter for those combined efforts than it ever could under a single master, particularly in the fleshed-out world itself, but they're frequently outweighed by the long stretches where the two visions clash loudly and horribly - as the entire third act can attest. An aspirant, visually stunning genre-straddler, it's an uneven, long-winded showcase of the best traits and worst indulgences of both directors.

THE SCARLET WORM: B Movie Goodness from B Movie Fans! Print is a hitman servicing the waning days of the wild, wild West.  He accepts a job to kill Heinrich Kley, a German brothel owner who administers his own unique form of socialized medicine to the `soiled doves' of his who become pregnant.  However, when Print is also asked to take on a prot&eacute;g&eacute; - a young gunman whose head may not be entirely on straight - things are destined to go from bad to worse real quick in the Wild Dogs Production of THE SCARLET WORM.  WORM is, definitely, not for everyone.  It's a B-movie western clearly with European influences not seen in stateside release in, quite probably, four decades.  There are no current box office draws in the cast, and much of its ramshackle Western sets resemble contemporary theme park settings and/or budget tourist trap destinations located anywhere between Benson and Bisbee.  At times, the film seems little more than a bloated community theatre production of a spaghetti western ... but don't be fooled, cinema fans, because that's quite probably the way the makers had intended it all along.  Shot on a budget of reportedly $25,000, WORM is as much as exercise in film appreciation as it is the art of modern film-making.  In short, WORM came about thanks to the online friendship of a group of like-minded film junkies.  They met in various forums, exchanged information about film likes and dislikes, and they decided that their fandom and their friendship deserved something even greater.  So they got together and pooled their resources and efforts into making the kind of film they loved and they wanted to see returned to audiences.  The end result is not only a film like THE SCARLET WORM but also a handful of similar second rate features with schlock titles like THE MINSTREL KILLER and APOCRYPHA.  What's easy to appreciate in WORM is that the film is lovingly made as a tribute to the kinds of fast and furious flicks rarely seen any longer in cinemas around the world.  Nowadays, these films go direct-to-DVD - if they even find a market at all - or they end up in the cheapie bin at your corner super-shopping-megaplex because they no longer fit the bill for what major studios believe box office releases should look like.  Clearly, fifty percent of the production relied on the filmmakers appreciation of what had come before, with the remaining fifty percent being a pervasive "it's only a movie, folks" mentality, a mindset sadly lost in Hollywood's increasingly political boardrooms.  It's a motion picture made by people who loves motion pictures.  WORM is perfectly happy as a three-star production quite probably intended to be a perfect two-star production, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with embracing that kind of cinematic nobility.  The production quality is acceptable, though I thought there was a high degree of graininess to the picture consistently; this may've been deliberate given the fact that the picture is an `oater' as well as an homage to spaghetti westerns, but, in fairness, I wasn't entirely certain that was the case.  Sound quality is acceptable, though I found some narration a bit muddled in the pieces that book-end the picture (watch it, see what I mean, and perhaps you'll agree).  The DVD includes two commentary tracks along with a brief behind-the-scenes featurette that more appropriately defines where the Wild Dogs Productions Company came from than it does the film (not a criticism, just an observation).  Additionally, the disk includes two trailers for WORM as well as attractions for other like-minded exploitation-style flicks.  Subtitles are available in Spanish only.  RECOMMENDED for students of film history or those with an appreciation of various film genres.  Serious fans of Westerns in general might find a lot to get jazzed about as well though they may struggle a bit (as I did) with set dressing (I say this after having just come back from a vacation in Tombstone, AZ, so I might be a bit jaded more than the average online film junkie)  In the interests of fairness, I'm pleased to disclose that the fine folks at Unearthed Films provided me with a screener DVD by request for the expressed purposes of completing this review.

laugh at my review you will laugh at me for this but... i didnt even see the movie yet (i will dont worry) but this review is for the dvd cover... I NEVER SEEN a CLASSIC cover like this...this is the most CLASSIC cover i have ever seen in my life...had to let you know. ----UPDATE : i saw the movie today and it is so so...it's boring a little.only the freddy parts are entertaining.

A bit of a let down... First, I really wish they would bring back the previous voice of Barbie...it just hasn't been the same since they changed after Mermaid Tale.  The songs in this movie seemed odd and out of place.  The older Barbie movies with songs just made more sense & the singing was MUCH better than in this film.  Every time they would start a song in this movie, my daughters (5 & 8) were frustrated because it took so long for the song to end.  The story was ok - had potential to be a really special story but just fell flat.  I'm not sure what direction they are trying to take the brand - but it isn't really appealing to the target market of little girls that I know.  A good start would be bringing back the other Barbie voice.

Another wonderful book made into an okay movie Okay, so I might be biased, as this was one of my favorite books as a child, but I have to say that the changes they made in the transition between pages and screen are disappointing to say the least.  The girls are all much too old for about half the movie, but that was the least of my concerns.  Poor Winifred is turned into some child monster, which she never was in the book.  She was a sympathetic character with bum luck who would never have screamed and thrown a fit in the stairwell of a theatre.  More surprising was the way they made Posy into such a brat.  She was never, in the book, so vicious.  Sure, she was a dancing mimic and a bit of a clown, but she was never obnoxious and mean.  This is all minor, in my opinion, compared with what they did to poor Theo.  I guess the feeling was that this movie was not interesting to adults (although I'm sure my mother, another rabid Streatfeild fan, would disagree), so they killed off Mr. Simpson's wife, gave him a dead son, and set Theo and Garnie to fighting over him.  This is tragic.  What kind of an example is Theo to young girls, drinking in her basement room, and bemoaning her lost days as a Bouncing Babe?  Why was this necessary?  All in all, it was an okay movie but a horrid adaptation of a beloved children's story.  Sad.

Not great but an ok watch if you don't have high expectations Ok I admit it: I like Ashton Kutcher although he has been in a few duds. He plays Spencer, a retired hit man, well a hit man who decided to walk away from it when he met Jen, played by Katherine Heigl, in France.  Three years later they are married and living a normal suburban life when Spencer gets a note from his old boss requesting a meeting. Suddenly he finds himself a target of his neighbors, buddies, and coworkers, and does not know who he can trust.  I found Heigl, who I didn't know, excellent in this but really didn't care for Jen's parents, played by Tom Selleck and Catherine O'Hara. I found their characters stilted and boring and not genuine.  The movie is entertaining but there are many bad lines and the ending is not believable at all, kind of a dud of an ending in my opinion. Don't pay for it but if it's free and you have nothing better to do, it's not a complete waste of time.

Honest Portrayal of a Very Real Life Lesson is Worth the Time Company men is more of a documentary than a movie. Today it is awfully popular to bash the so-called rich and blame them for the world's problems. As one of our founding fathers once expressed, John Adams, and I am paraphrasing here, rich is relative. In Company Men every level of management from the middle manager to the company president are affected in a downsizing. The movie examines the interesting question -What happens to the company man when he loses his job, his home, and his standing. Can he recover? Does he deserve to recover?  A star studded cast which includes Tommy Lee, Jones Ben Affleck and Kevin Costner portrays a day in a few of the lives of each character affected by the downsizing of a company.  Every level of management is affected.  Some never do recover. Some find a refreshing new way to live again. Some are left to face their choices with no redemption. Whatever category you fall into one truth is clear, it is the personal relationships that get you through any horrific life changing event and a sense of self. This honest portrayal of a very difficult life lesson is worth the time.

A thriller that is a cross between "Saw" & "Untraceable" minus most of the tension.  It is a pretty good movie though. I say B- "Do what I say and you live. I'm going to kill your mother or your father. You have 60 seconds to decide, choose, or I kill them both." Journalism student Fiona (Winnick) becomes obsessed with the case of a serial killer. Her father (Pollak) tries to keep her away from the case he is working on, but the further she delves the more she thinks that her mother's death is somehow connected to this case. This is a movie that was pretty good, but had potential to be better. This movie seemed like it tried to copy "Silence Of The Lambs" and "Untraceble" with "Saw" mixed in. It didn't really get close to the standards of these movies, but it is still a good attempt. The acting was pretty good though and that helped. I think the main problem with this movie is that it didn't grab you with tension like a thriller should. It was OK, but had enough chances to be great and just never quite got there. Overall, "Saw" meets "Untraceable" with out the tension of either. An OK movie, nothing that hasn't been tried before though. That said, I did like it enough to say...I give it a B-.  Would I watch again? - I don't think I would.  *Also try - Scar & Untraceable

Slow and steady... It took about an hour before I realized what the big deal was and I almost turned it off a few times, but by the end I was simply amazed!  Don't give up... it's a beautiful movie!

It is a good movie but disturbing in some ways. I loved the movie but it was very graphic and wierd and uncomfortable. It was a very awkward movie because I watched it with my family. Bella was beyond belief ugly when she was pregnant with a vapire that it was hard to look at her and the whole time I felt bad for Jacob, Edward, the rest of the vampires and warewolves and ESPECIALY Bella's parents. I enjoyed watching this because I wanted to see a happy ending but all I thought about was poor Jacob and Bella's parents who love her so much and they will never see her again. I was sort of disaponted at the end because of all the awkward conversations and graphic scenes in this movie. And the fact that their was blood everywhere and it seemed like Bella was naked the whole entire time even infront of Jacob and Edward's famiily which I couldn't bare to watch. There were some really good parts but most of the movie disturbed me in some ways.

Disappointed :( I was very disappointed with the cheap paper sleeve and cheap thin case the DVDs came in. Season 6 looks so crappy next to season 1-5 on my shelf. I like the big boxes and plastic sleeves that the seasons were previously packaged in, well season 5 did have a paper sleeve, but it was still ALOT nicer that season 6's packaging. Someones getting cheap. :( Other than that I love Desperate Housewives, its hands-down the best series on TV.

Regarding Amazon, not the DVD I must say, for the first time in my online shopping life, I am very disappointed in Amazon.com. I have never before ordered something from the website itself, and had a negative experience. Typically, if they have something in stock, it correctly says so on the product's page, or if not, it clearly says "not available". This was not the case with Destroy All Monsters. I ordered this, along with another movie, and while I eventually received the other DVD, DAM never even shipped. I chatted with Amazon "help" employees twice, as well as e-mail correspondence, and was told the item was temporarily unavailable, even though the product page itself failed to say so for quite some time. It eventually did, even though my order statement claimed that I still had an "expected shipping date", which changed twice. Finally, after nearly a month and a half of waiting, I cancelled the order, because the product page now says that the DVD (nor Blu-Ray) are even available from Amazon.com anymore. So either the DVD itself is already out of print (which I would find hard to believe), or Amazon themselves have somehow found it too hard to simply order some more copies, so that they might fill out the order I made back in February.  All in all, I am a huge Godzilla fan, and while I already own the earlier DVD release of this movie, I wanted this improved release badly. I am very disappointed, again for the first time ever, with Amazon and their total lack of service in this instance. I sincerely hope this never happens again, but it's still very disheartening, to someone who really wanted to add what might be a great DVD to his collection. Sure, I can always order it from another seller, but at a higher price, and it still doesn't change the fact that I should have received the item I purchased, when it said it was available. I love Amazon, typically, but this experience seemed very unprofessional all around.....

Fight to the death This isn`t the best Japanese film i have see. I think the lead actor is good. He is also in the Death Note films. I like some of the music in the film, like for example the Bach song.  Picture quality: 3/5  This has a lot of DNR. I don`t think there was much grain left after the overuse of DNR. Still, it looks better than the DVD releases. Some stronger colours and what is left of the details and sharpness.  Audio quality: 4/5  The audio track in DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 was pretty strong in my opinion. Good bass and clarity. I don`t remember anything wrong with it.  Film: 3.5/5 Overall: 3/5

Meh. That's what I said after seeing this movie.  I love a good chick flick, but this isn't one.  It's just take it or leave it.  I didn't find it particularly funny or romantic.  I've liked both these actors in other movies, so I don't think it was their fault.  Hmm, see what you think, I thought is was corny.

movie This movie was worth watching...but once would probably be enough. I think the best parts were in the commercials. it was delivered quickly and in good shape.

switch it's a funny movie. I like that i got a free copy online to watch on Amazon instand, its included with the dvd purchase. Its way cheapier to buy online than stores

Something lacking To me, most of Hemmingway does not translate well to movies and this was no exception.  It seemed to lag and was a bit confusing until the end.

Addressed to "Current Resident" Item was address to me or "current resident".  It should not have been addressed this way. If I had not been home to get this someone else would have gotten what I paid for.

Too dreary This play was sad and there wasn't enough laughing to make up for how sad the play leaves you feeling afterwards. There is too much time spent on singing and talking. Maybe plays/musicals just aren't my thing. Do not get it twisted though..Tyler Perry's work in his movies and T.V. shows are AMAZING and I love them ALL!

Alexander The Great Richard Burton(The Robe,An Excellent film way Better than This) makes an impressive yet at times over dramatic(They are the Greeks Though?) performance,the movie is okay. The Battle scenes are not "Battle Scenes" as they should be or perhaps Historically Accurate,Alexander while a Great Military Conqueror and Strategist was not so great after all,While we can(according to "History" and "Historians") Credit the Greeks with Democracy(In Athens at Least)they ultimately failed(Besides Aristotle)and like most civilizations disappeared.The movie is worth watching But I prefer the Biblical Epics of the same Era.

Want a feel good family Film? This was a good film. If you are looking for the Jim Carrey of the Dumb and Dumber or other crudish humor then don't bother. This is his attempt at a family film. It comes across as cute, funny, a bit sad and nostalgic.. It is a fun 'what if' movie. Got ot love the penguins.

Missed the greater story for a losing scenario of science fiction The title of the movie; Super 8, is truly misleading and could convey any thing but the confusion of the moviemaker in opting to a losing scenario. The movie started great, with coherent sequence of events that seemed to lead to a masterpiece of art. Soon, the train crash added great action and drama that was quickly dissipated by a slightly injured truck driver who should have been disseminated into unrecognizable parts in regard to the colossal train accident. That was then followed by another miscalculation on the part of the moviemaker of allowing all the kids who were in the center of the collision scene to survive. Some of those characters were irrelevant to the story and their survival did not serve any purpose but showing the unnecessary exaggeration.  The movie would have still made it to glorious outcome despite the reckless exaggeration of surviving such upheaval. The underlying causes of the train accident would have made the best movie ever had the story stayed away from the frank display of an extraterrestrial monster. Losing confidence in the judgment of the moviemaker made the science fiction less comforting when the viewers should have been eased into believing in a fictional scenario rather than suspecting foul play on the part of the moviemaking.  Many car engines disappeared, many missing dogs and equipments, those were still less unsettling than showing the monster closer to the end of the movie, building underground spaceship and harvesting all metal objects. Had the monster never been shown and left to the viewers to guess its features and motives, one could have remained pondering and enjoying the quizzing scenario to the end instead of feeling fooled by the irrational twisting of the events to served no logical cause.

Is it just extras? I want to buy this product, but I'm not sure if it is just bonus features or if it is the movie + extras.

"Sherlock" is Better Short version: BBC's "Sherlock" is WAY better.  As far as this film goes, I had the same reaction to it that I had to "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."  I say that in the mindset that I am a solid Harry Potter fan as well as a fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories of the famous detective.  Guy Ritchie and his team had a clear and justifiable direction in which they wanted to take the film; they claimed to want to tell a grittier, more action-oriented story, with suspense that actually pulled you into the action, rather than simply observing it from afar.  He claimed to do so by eliminating the many stereotypes associated with Holmes and his adventures on 221B Baker Street.  Or, rather, take things back to before those stereotypes  formed.  Ritchie's intentions were honorable and, in some parts of the movie, they worked wonderfully.  In others, however, they didn't.  To put it bluntly, the good was very good and the bad was very bad. The overall character of Holmes, played by Robert Downey Jr., was believable, right down to his mannerisms and accent. Meanwhile, I marveled at the entire character development of Irene Addler. They turned her into a full-blown criminal and modern-minded woman, rather than the sophisticated woman she really was in Doyle's book.  Yes, I say that book, singular, on purpose. Addler only appeared in one short story; and, in that short story, she and Holmes were NOT in love, nor was it ever implied.  She merely bested him at his own game - the only person, let alone woman to do it - and he respected her for it, which is significant since Holmes did not respect women in general.  On another side of the playing field, the production design was fabulous, while their use of anachronistic devices was staggering, from the misuse of the phrase "down the rabbit hole," to the extravagant (often unnecessary) fight sequences.  The writing was well-written for the most part, as far as dialogue went, and yet I did not care for all the mystical, voodoo, magical...stuff they used in the story. It set the wrong tone as far as I was concerned, a tone too different from that of the books. And yet, in and of itself, it worked cohesively. I just didn't like it much.  However, the fact that they introduce Professor Moriarty at the end of the film leaves me far more interested in the inevitable sequel than I had in this, first, film.  Moriarty has been defined, even in this film, as a character who exists in the same intelligent, detail-filled real world reality in which Holmes, himself, lives. Plus, that final scene when you get the feel for what's next, for the lead-in to Moriarty, that was straight out of Doyle's work, for me.  Things I did like were the mentions of Microft (Sherlock's older brother), Inspector Lestrade as an active character in the film (didn't much care for the actor, but the character's presence was great) and the fact that Moriarty's hands were covered by the classic black gloves and that his briefcase had the "M" on it. Excellent details.  So, overall, I'm about 50/50 with it, and looking forward to the next installment. But I am FAR more eager to see more episodes of "Sherlock" on the BBC.

Legend of the...What's this about again? The most confusing part of this movie was the plot, or plots, or understanding the direction the story and its motley plots are taking.  In the beginning these giant, powerful cannons are lost in battle and sink to the bottom of the sea.  Some Princess anticipating more of an unending battle with her nemesis wants to retrieve them, but they're just too gosh-darned deep.  So this princess' engineers try to recreate the technology, but fail.  Our attention then begins to shift between a love story of sorts, a fisherman-sorcerer whose powers grants all the insights offered by your local weather forecast and allow communication with sea life, a sundered tale of betrayal and revenge, a sorcerer who employs a cadre of pirates and Thai-style ninjas, another maybe-not-bad sorcerer, flashbacks involving some Dutchmen and the cannons, and a Dragonball-like sorcery training session.  Basically a whole lot of sorcery and a whole lot of random crammed into a whole lot of generally slow-paced movie.  Two hours of it to be exact.  But wait, towards the end we come full circle back to the cannons in a siege battle.   Just about everything in this movie is of inconsistent quality.  The combat choreography is not complex, some of the moves are filmed crisply while others seem poorly executed, and a few solid acrobatics are snuck in among other lethargically-wired maneuvers.  This movie features beautiful underwater shots and gorgeous set design.  However, the CGI effects (when they are not CGI sea creatures) are of inconsistent quality and the wardrobe follows suit, ranging from stunning to uninspired.  Most outfits are dull and maybe authentic, but then the team of assassins in the beginning had the most impressive garbs of the entire movie.  What gives?   That said, it appeared that they were trying really hard to make this a Thai mega-adventure movie.  I can respect that.  I'd never watch this movie again, but I wouldn't necessarily suggest that you never watch it.  I have a feeling that you'll either love it (like many an Amazon reviewer seemed to) or just feel "eh" after watching it (like me).   This is a mediocre Asian saga movie.  It's like they tried to combine Pirates of the Caribbean without the comic relief and Red Cliff without the awesome.

no comparison The original European version is better.It is more mysterious realistic and sinister The abducted woman in it is a real honey too. It freaked me out I would not merely walk up to a car window to give a light or directions anymore. Sandra Bullock was perfectly cast as the vanished woman.. But she became  vanished in another way because the film instead puts a lot of it's focus on the  naturing jealous new girl-friend whose role over-shadows the boy-friend. There is no room to show how " just missing " is worse because it doesn't allow grief to heal. Because we never see him alone with it. Finally the film shifts from her back to the core of the film when the abduction is re-enacted ; the abducter's mind revealed and the inside story on the boy-friend. I suppose it gives good dramatic resolution to the film...... but I would rather have had the abduction played out in the beginning ; seen more of the boy-friend's torment and the juxtapositions between warm family man and cold-bloodedness of her killer and then the chilling resolution of what finally happened to her As you've guessed this is the plot of the foreign version with the girl-friend side-lined not built around. It was better suspense. Besides the girl-friend totally ruined the end for me. While Jeff Bridges plays her abductor quite differently from the original film he gives him a European professor some thing or other because he doesn't let him just speak plain American Maybe he couldn't put on a German accent but it's odd and unconvincing.  See the original. Bear with the sub-titles because the film is convincing heart-wrending and psychologically disturbing and it will haunt you long after you saw it.

Texas Instruments TI 83/84 Calculator Tutor DVD The Texas Instruments TI83/84 Instructional DVD got the job done. I was able to get a handle on the functions and menus. I attempted using the instruction book that came with the Calculator but is was tedious.  You would think in this day and age TI would do a better job of providing visual instructions as part of their package as the calculator is pretty complicated. How much could it cost for a CD-Rom or a DVD?  The DVD was able to visually take me through the functions and menus fairly clearly. The biggest con was that it was a little hard to follow the buttons being pushed to perform an operation because the instructor was going too fast. (One can always rewind and see it again but that tends to be a hassle)

curious I thought this was a good movie - for what it was.  I just have one question - can't crocodiles hunt on land?  They're not fish.

Underwhelmed I can sum my impression of this movie in one made up word......Meh. It wasn't bad, it just wasn't good. I am a huge lover of alien movies so I am bound to find something desirable about it. But that's as far as it goes. Nothing special here.

Giant movie The movie is good But, the disc is jumpy it starts and stops all through the movie. I do not recommend the DVD from this source.

wwweeeelllllllll its ok looks ok sounds ok its an ok movie its a movie you watch 1 or two times a year

Program Editing I had just watched the two original programs of Downton Abbey on PBS and enjoyed them tremdously. I ordered both seasons. when I watched them at home I found that they had been edited in many places, which took away from the original value. They omitted the pregnancy of the Mistress of the house, the cause of the loss of her only son, and many other important scenes. I felt they were "Sketchy" in many places. Betty E

Good movie, but little bit not truthful This movie was recommended to me by my Jewish American friend, who was proud to present the story of Jewish resistance in World War II.   After I watched the movie I told him that I don't like how  Russian partisans were presented in the movie. His question then stunned me. He asked "And what Russian's were doing there during World War II". Well I answered him, apparently during World War II those weird Russians were drinking vodka a lot, were making stupid jokes, were abusing poor Jewish guys and movie described all this - the only thing they forgot to mention that it was Russians who defeated Nazi Germany and it was only because of Russian sacrifice that Jewish refugees didn't had to stay in the forest forever. Poor American kids apparently they don't learn history in school.  So while having a good story producers of the film didn't escape Hollywood stereotypes about good Americans (who somehow present Eastern European Jews in the movie) and weird cartoon  Russians more suitable for some stupid comedy, than for the serious World War II movie.  Sorry my Jewish American friend - 3 stars only.

Eh I love RENT beyond a reasonable point. I've seen the Closing cast, and saw the revival while it was still in previews in 2011. So of course, I had to buy this (and come on. Idina Menzel, Anthony Rapp, and Adam Pascal?!) What's not to love? Well, several things. They took about a few key parts which made the movie lack some depth, while adding parts that weren't seen in the musical. The part that I found most disappointing were the voicemails being spoken instead of sang... Although, technically it makes more sense that, but I feel as though the singing brought some quirkiness to Mark's parents which I loved. The technical problem I had with the DVD was that I'm not able to turn off subtitles which is fairly annoying seeing as I already know the show line for line. So honestly, but the Filmed Live On Broadway version (no original cast, but Eden Espinosa, Adam Kantar, and Will Chase do a pretty good job too), I guarentee you will like that version more, but if you happen to have some spare money and want to watch it for the sake of watching it like I did, it's worth the $10....

A funny movie, but would have been better if I say it earlier.  Did not live up to the hype. Still worth watching. I say B "Why can't you be happy for me and then go home and talk about me behind my back like a normal person?" After being asked to be the maid of honor to her friend Lillian (Rudolph), Annie's (Wiig) life that is already in disarray becomes even more so. After thinking she is being replaced as best friend she tries too hard to compensate. Almost ruining the wedding in the process. This movie has what I call the "Due Date" or "Hangover" curse. Like those movies, the first people to see it, before the hype and word of mouth got out of control think this is great and hilarious. People like me who have waited a little too long and have outrageous expectations are left disappointed. Going in thinking this is the female "Hangover" I was excited. While I can see the comparisons, it was more chick-flicky then I was expecting. While this did have funny parts and I did laugh it wasn't as good as expected. Overall, this is a good movie, but because of the expectations I had I didn't like it as much as I thought. I give it a B.  Would I watch again? - I might, just to see if it's better the second time.  *Also try - Something Borrowed & The Sweetest Thing

slow moving storyline is a minor problem I realize Two Lovers is exactly what the description says- it's about an immature man who still lives with his parents completely torn between two women.  One woman is shy, loyal and young, and would like nothing more than to be involved in a relationship.  The other woman (the hot blonde) has emotional issues that dominate her life on a daily basis and unfortunately for the guy, she treats him more like a brother or a friend so he can try the best he can to understand her problems and comfort her in dire times of need.  Well it's obvious which woman *I'd* choose, but I reckon there's a slight bit of cleverness involved in the making of Two Lovers.  You see, the storyline makes you wonder which woman YOU'D choose- the one who's slightly less attractive but totally loyal and polite, or the slightly more attractive one with constant personal issues that never seem to stop being an obvious distraction.  I'd choose the loyal one myself.  It's a no brainer.  Anyway, the actual plotline is so incredibly *slow* that the film almost put me to sleep on a few different occasions.  However this is perhaps because it's totally stuck in romance, which is definitely NOT right up my alley, haha.  Still, it's a passable film that serves as a nice way to pass the time on a rainy night with nothing better to do.  I just wish the plotline actually picked up more often- then I'd give the film a higher rating.

Ferocious Planet: Maneater Series The storyline was interesting and in some places very humorous. However the background music could become very annoying and repetitive. I liked the ending. It left the story open for a continuence and further adventures.

A Murder Mystery with Comedy Topper Returns, 1941 film  The movie begins with the mysterious shadow of a man against a background. Next this man shoots at the tire of a taxi cab on the road, causing it to crash. The two women passengers climb out. "As easy as falling off a log." A passing car takes them to Carrington Hall, a spooky house that is quite large inside. The Doctor talks to Miss Carrington. Ann Carrington will inherit the entire estate tomorrow. A falling chandelier just misses Ann! An accident? "Rest in peace"? Ann and Gail switch bedrooms. Later the mysterious stranger sneaks in to Gail's room. We hear her scream. Is that a ghost? There are comic scenes at Cosmo Topper's house. The ghost appears to Cosmo; why did she die? Topper will go to Carrington Hall with Gail's ghost. [The special effects echo "The Invisible Man".]  Cosmo is discovered trying to use the phone to call the police. What happened to the body? Or the car? The taxi cab driver shows up to claim his fare. That mystery man shows up to threaten Ann. The household is awakened. More comic scenes follow. Where is Topper now? A walk-in icebox? The conversation is funny. A seal in the basement? Who are those three men with a stiff body? The fight among the seamen is like a Three Stooges movie. Nobody went out that door! The housekeeper is ready to name the killer. The lights go out with a scream! Will the mystery man show up to kidnap Ann? Will the taxi driver find the secret passage in the house? Topper figures out a way to reveal the murderer. Everyone gathers in the big room to listen to Topper's explanation. One witness tells who was standing near the fireplace, and the murderer is revealed. Can he escape? Not if his car cracks up. "It serves you right!" We finally learn the truth. "Enough is enough."  Can combining a murder mystery with a comedy create a better product than either a murder mystery ("The Maltese Falcon") or a comedy alone? Not with this movie, although it is entertaining (as long as you don't question its premises). It does not mention the smuggling operation going on in this isolated house. Stories about "ghosts" should keep nosy people away, and explain any mysterious events in the night. [Does this film echo the "Rocky Mountain Mystery"?]

Vol 1: Bad, Vol: OK This set contains 2 volumes:  Vol 1: The American Civil War: collector's edition (copyright 2008)  DVD 1: *Ep 1: Our Peculiar Institution *Ep 2: Rally Around the Flag  DVD 2: *Ep 3: Scott's Plan *Ep 4: Facing Both Ways  DVD 3: *Ep 5: We Are Coming father Abraham *Ep 6: Lee's Masterpiece  DVD 4: *Ep 7: High Watermark *Ep 8: General Grant's War  DVD 5: *Ep 9: The Butcher's Bill *Ep 10: Jubilation  Vol 2: The American Civil War: Beyond the Battlefields (copyright 2011)  DVD 1: *Ep 1: Steam Goes to War *Ep 2: Mini Balls & Balloons  DVD 2: *Ep 3: Emancipation Doesn't make Your Free *Ep 4: Black Soldiers - North & South  DVD 3: *Ep 5: A Confederate Soldier's Diary *Ep 6: A Union Soldiers Diary  DVD 4: *Ep 7: Naval Warfare on the Oceans *Ep 8: Iron Clads & the River War  DVD 5: *Ep 9: Assassination of Lincoln *Ep 10: Reconstruction & the Clan  After looking at the previous reviews, especially the one saying they are for an older edition (which the product links show it was made in 2008), it could be possible that that DVD is Vol 1 in this set. Visually I found volume 1 quite boring but the audio was interesting with quotes from soldiers. This DVD makes the war seem like it revolved around slavery unfortunately.  I found Vol 2 much more interesting but some material from volume 1 reappears almost verbatim. It is more visually appealing than Vol 1, and quite a few scenes have a person dressed as an African American soldier retelling events from the perspective of the man he's impersonating, this was probably done because these last several minutes and staring at letters or photos would be boring to look at for 5+ minutes straight. This Vol does cover slavery; however, it presents a more balanced version. For example, they talk about Northern opposition to emancipation and reasons for such opposition. It paints a bit of a darker version of the North than Vol 1 (probably more accurate). My favorite DVD was the one covering the individual lives of solders (DVD 3) since it presented an aspect of the war not usually seen such as food, holidays and pets soldiers had. The Iron Clad DVD also presented some interesting material such as the capture of CSA ports, but there isn't too much detail on this.  Summary I would only recommend the 2nd DVD.

Worth it anyway The quality of the DVDs is great but the plastic insides were all loose so they slide out of the sleeve. Overall, not that big a deal...I'm just glad I can watch the season at a cheap price!

Digital Copy Digital copy did not work. It offered a software "update" and disappeared. Next time I ran it, there were no choices left. Digital copy has always sucked. Why can't they get it right? The movie was very good. Nice quality on Blu-ray. If you are thinking of shelling out for the 3-disc set, the DVD version also comes with it. This makes the Digital Copy even more worthless. The special features disc is Blu-ray, however is a major disappointment. It is not labled at all. I tried it in different players before I discovered it was Blu-ray. There is only about one-half hour of extras on this disc. There are no extras on the DVD. Very sad indeed.

A feather in a pillow case If you want a good naughty laugh this is for you. The chemistry between the actors is believable, but the plot is thin. This is more about a little lust than a little passion. Censorship at its best if that is what floats your boat. Soften the lighting, make it sepia or black and white. Get to the point that the "reveals" are more natural than directed.  Tony Clark  Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Fails to Live Up to the Hype This movie is pure pulp fiction--rape, violence, murder, torture, sadism, incest, neo-Nazis, detective work, and a tough hardboiled chick (the girl with the tat).  It's a story straight out of an American pulp novel from the 50's or 60's.  So this movie (based on the popular Swedish book) is "neo-noir" I guess.  Updated.  Modern.  But still noir.  Disturbing for all its violence against women--but I guess that goes with the pulp territory.  The Lisbeth character (nicely acted by actress Noomi Rapace by the way; she's very good) got a lot of attention as this amazingly great character, but seriously, beyond feeling bad for Lisbeth, there's not that much to her.  Walk down any street in an American city today and you're gonna run into weird-confused-troubled-tough-bi/lez girls that look and act much like her and probably have similar or worse life experiences.  I don't know.  Odd movie.  I guess I expected more because of all the hype surrounding the books.  Found it interesting to watch once, but not sure I would watch it again.  I may though.  Sometimes movies improve with second viewings.  And may watch the American remake just to see how it compares.

Ok.......seen better It was entertaining for about 20 minutes into the movie, after that it lost my attantion because of some of the slap stick humor, and crude humor. The ending was sweet as the two poeple came together. overal it was good, but really not the best I have sen from him.

A Pretty Good Suspenseful Morality Play The Box is one of those movies which I wish I had read the original from which it is based.  Based on Richard Matheson's story, "Button Button," the story starts with a philosophical question - For a million dollars, would you be willing to have the knowledge that your decision causes the death of another person whom you don't know.  Norma and Arthur Lewis (played by Cameron Diaz and James Marsden) find a box on their doorstep.  When Arthur has left, a mysterious man (Frank Langella) appears and explains how the box works.  If Norma presses the button, she would recieve a million dollars, but someone she does not know would die because of it.  The one condition is that they cannot tell anybody or do any research regarding this matter.  Regardless of whether they pressed the button or not, the couple soon realizes that they are being targeted because of other actions they take not related to pressing the button.  The viewer is then taken through a series of surreal logic and visions explaining the purpose of the box experiment.  In the end, the couple must make another decision. And regardless of believable the circumstances are, this last situation is the product of all the events that took place up to that point.  This movie took me on a wild ride where at times I didn't know where it was going or why.  The ending left some questions, but the ride did end, and there was no uncessary detours on the route.  The acting itself was okay, and I guess that's what bring it down to three stars.  Frank Langella, however, does a really good job as the mystery man.  Although normally, I separate the movie from the written originals, in this case, I am curious to see how much of the essence of the original this movie contained.

not as thrilled as i expected to be. This review is not at all of the quality of the movie. As we all have our own opinions of what is entertaining. However, i am not extremely excited about the quality of the picture. After about 20 minutes into the first disc, noticed a bit of "blurriness" that sort of seems worse in some scenes more than others. Sometimes the picture is great, and then seconds later i get a little bit of a "sandy" looking picture. I can imagine that this could be due to the fact that the film was produced before HDTV and the transfer to blu-ray isn't he same as movies that are made now. The only other thing i can guess, and this is a stretch, is that i noticed on the wrapping of the box set was printed "made in Mexico". i don't know if there is any significance to that, but the set did come at half the price the local best buy was charging, and I've never seen that on any movie that I'd purchased. Either way, the movie is watchable and otherwise the packaging of the set is pretty cool. I feel as though i got what i paid for. Suppose that i expected to be blown away by The Matrix on blu-ray, but so far it only seems "ok". My comment about the "made in Mexico" label is in no way meant as though i care where it was made. It was just a little strange the way it was printed right on the front of the set. Thought maybe there's a chance i didn't get the same exact copy as what is for sale in the stores around here.

For Nicholas Sparks Fans Nicholas Sparks has found a formula about teenage angst an finding love despite non-supportive parents: from the number of books and films that use his formula it would seem he has hit pay dirt. THE LAST SONG is Sparks' 14th published novel on the same theme as the preceding 13 and was published in 2009. One year later he transformed that sudsy story (with some help from Jeff Van Wie) into another of his formula films and turned it over to TV director Julie Anne Robinson to map out the predictable story.  For a brief outline of the scant story: begin with a divorced family - Ronnie (Miley Cyrus) and her younger brother Jonah (Bobby Coleman) are sent to spend the summer with their father Steve (Greg Kinnear) in an indescribably beautiful waterfront town in Georgia.  Ronnie resents her father and has no intention of being friendly or even talking to him for the summer. But after meeting a handsome guy Will Blakelee (Liam Hemsworth) and beginning to fall in love, Ronnie starts rediscovering her love for music, something she shares with her father. Reconnecting with music revives a kinship with her father which proves to be the most important relationship she may ever experience. And there it is.  Mix the story with the usual acidic girls in  the town who claim Will is a Lothario, overcome that rumor with some all night watches for raccoons who may steal some sea turtle eggs, pop in some father/son meaningful contact, and there you have a Nicholas Sparks formula.  Miley Cyrus is Miley Cyrus - and for fans of Hannah Montana that works well.  The light of the film is the screen presence of Liam Hemsworth who looks and acts like someone who will succeed in movies. Otherwise, just be advised that this is another setting for a Nicholas parks  familiar story; if that is to your liking you will like this. If not, then pass.  Grady Harp, November 11

Story failed to keep me interested. I made it more than halfway through the series but the plot just didn't pull me in.  I may go back later and try to finish the series but I may not.  It was okay at first but then things just started getting too serious and the plot points kept repeating.  Things were hinted at in the story but I never really got into any of the characters.

American Reunion Felt like this movie could have been a little more funnuier. It was funny, but doesn't really compare to American Pie.

Joyful Noise: A flawed, yet enjoyable film. January happens to be one of the worst months for film. Movie studios put out their least desirable films during January, and February, while smart audiences are still seeing the Oscar season movies. Having said that, Todd Graff's "Joyful Noise" isn't a bad movie. But there are many things that keep it from being a good movie.In the day and age where any musical film or television program is linked back to the still-popular-for-some-reason "Glee", a musical film has to work hard not to feel contrived and cliched. "Joyful Noise" isn't necessarily a musical film, but it provides sometimes exhilarating, sometimes insufferable musical numbers, none of which have to do with the story.  Queen Latifah plays Vi Rose Hill, a woman who is selected choir director for her rural-Georgia church, a decision that infuriates her wealthy nemesis, GG (Dolly Parton), who was also in the seemingly prestigious running for that position. GG's grandson (Jeremy Jordan) and Vi Rose's daughter (Keke Palmer) form an unlikely romance, but both of them happen to have pristine singing voices (surprise!), and they might (surprise!) have a shot at winning the big prize at the national "Joyful Noise Competition" this year.  Dolly Parton hasn't had a starring role in 20 years, and despite her questionable plastic surgery choices (which are no doubt milked to death in the film), she is fresh as ever. She is rowdy and hell-raising, but also sweet and sympathetic. She sings too! She has unusually great chemistry with Queen Latifah, who also does a very nice job. A movie solely about these two characters would likely receive an "A" rating from me, however, their chemistry isn't enough to make up for the film's multiple flaws.  The film tries to give its supporting characters something to do, and you can tell that it wants to make its characters multi-layered and well-developed, but with such bland and boring supporting characters (Palmer's Olivia and Jordan's Randy) it's hard to do that. You get the idea that they're just supposed to sit there and look pretty while the rest of the story happens around them. The 25+ minutes of story devoted to their romance easily could have been cut down. The problem is, it does not feel authentic at all.  In a day where religion is taboo, I give "Joyful Noise" a lot of credit for being sure of its faith. It's a decidedly Christian film, with more than just momentary mentions of the fact that it IS about a church. While I applaud the film for not dancing around its religious background, that's kind of what killed it for me. It treats religion in a potently preachy and pushy way, which I foresee turning off a lot of audience members. It turned me off.  But worse than the films preachy religious aspect is the "Glee" aspect. Like I said, a movie musical has to work hard nowadays to not be compared to "Glee". This film features the sketchy acting by younger cast members, which simply screams "Glee". This film also features self-confident and unnecessary songs which must have seemed better on paper. The film even has the narration of singers vocalizing, which is constantly heard in "Glee". I hate that! If this film had a better screenwriter, maybe it could have avoided some of these mistakes? Who knows.  As I said, Latifah and Parton are in top form and are delightful to watch together. A film centered on the two characters, without all of the background drama would probably be more engaging. A big gripe I had was that it didn't have nearly enough Dolly Parton. I feel like she's there just to have jokes directed towards her about her nips and tucks. All of the plastic-surgery jokes aimed at her get old very fast. In short, it is a watchable January release and a decent way to spend a couple hours, but it could have (and should have) been miles better.  Grade: C+

Pretty funny, but predictable funny The movie was pretty good and funny with somewhat of a meaning behind it.  If you are an Adam Sandler fan, it's worth the watch.

Teachers - What are you really looking for? I purchased this series with the hopes of using it in my own classroom (high school) to supplement my unit on the Trojan War. I might mention that this unit is my favorite to teach and that I take a lot of pride in what I bring to my students being entertaining and informative.Brat Pitt's Troy is too over the top and inaccurate to show the students, so I continue to amass mythology films to show bits and pieces of. I watched this series twice to hunt for usable material because it was apparent very quickly that showing it in its entirety would be a mistake. Like "Troy" and the new "Clash of the Titans", this series has taken a lot of dramatic license with the story that my students would know through text. The story is decidedly lacking in showing the connection of the people to the gods of Olympus, and without the understanding of the role Aphrodite plays throughout the whole story a good deal of the tale is lost. The portrayal of some of the major characters is wrong and some characters pivotal to the war are missing (like Patroclus). There is nudity and a rape scene that most teachers will not be able to use in the classroom. The series just has too many misses.    I use only a few scenes from this film to supplement the unit. The scenes I find helpful to use are: The taking of Helen by Theseus, the goddesses approaching Paris to choose who is the fairest, the sacrifice of Iphaginia (though she is a very little girl) creates a real impact on the audience, as well as the murder of Agamemnon (it is in a bath, and I can share that the location is not Troy as it is in the series but instead back at his residence after the war). These are the only scenes that I found very useful to my instruction, and if you, like me, want everything to be "just so" then I would recommend you purchase this dvd just to have a few bits to show,in conjunction with bits from "Troy", but if you are looking for something to show in the mythology unit uninterrupted - I think you should keep going and look into Armand Assante's "Odyssey", or Jim Hensen's "Storyteller Series"

Yanni does it again Once again Yanni has excelled, his excitement and enthusiasm is so contagious,to watch his DVD is to actually attend his concert!! Get it!!!

REVENGE FILMS STILL EXIST There was a time when revenge films played in drive ins across the country. Low budget efforts that made stars of actors like Charles Bronson and Jan Michael Vincent were hits and led them to bigger and better things. These films were so successful that major studios began making them as well. COLUMBIANA shows that they continue to do so.  In 1992, nine year old Catalyea witnesses the murder of her mother and father in Bogot&aacute;, Columbia. Her father did the killing for a cartel leader and although they swear allegiance, neither actually trust one another. Questioned by the leader of the killers, Cataleya she sticks a knife through his hand and then runs off using a plan her father gave her. Once in the states she finds her way to her uncle Emilio (Cliff Curtis) and tells him she wants to be trained as a killer.  Fast forward 12 years and we now see Cataleya all grown up in the form of actress Zoe Saldana. Pretending to be a drunk driver she gets herself arrested and locked up for the night. In reality she's stone cold sober and using the arrest as a ruse to get close to a special prisoner. Using methods taught to her over the years, she escapes her cell, kills the prisoner and returns to her cell before anyone is suspicious. The next morning she leaves before the jail is locked down.  Cataleya has fulfilled her destiny and desire to become a leading contract killer. Her one flaw is that she leaves a drawing of a cataleya, an orchid, on each of her victims. She's done so in hopes that it will draw out Don Luis, the man who had her father killed. The killings so far have paid her well and provided her with experience. Now she wants to use it for the promise she made at age nine.  Small subplots are found as well. Cataleya has a lover, an artist named Danny (Michael Vartan) she shares a bed with but no information. To be close to someone would present the possibility of dividing her attention or possibly losing them. We also have a determined FBI agent named Ross (Lennie James) who is closing in on this mystery killer they call the Tag killer due to her artwork on the victims.  Cataleya takes on one more job before the police finally discuss her tags with the press and force Don Luis out of hiding. Taken in as an informant by the CIA, he's in New Orleans under their care, still running his drug business on the side. When he discovers who this killer is he sends his men to wipe her and any family members out. But to do so will do nothing more than make her motivation stronger than ever.  COLOMBIANA was hyped as being from the same people who made TAKEN. While there are connections the film isn't nearly as good. Yes, it provides plenty of action, violence and explosions but the story isn't quite as interesting.  Zoe Saldana in the lead shows that she can act and do so well enough to take the lead in a major motion picture. Each role she's taken in the past has led her this direction and now one could say she's achieved the status of star enough that she can carry a film on her own.  All that said I find this movie more in the so-so category, a movie that provides the basics of what is expected in an action film these days but never quite makes it one that you'll want to watch over and over again. It includes all of the traits of the genre but never quite pulls you in in the same way TAKEN did. If you're going to tout the connection between one movie and another you'd better make sure it's as good if not better.  But it does offer a nice evening's entertainment when the comparison is tossed aside. Perhaps those in charge of advertising would do better next time not to compare one movie to another. In doing so a decent movie would seem better on its own. COLUMBIANA is a decent action flick, but when compared to others it loses a few points.

Animated Hair Fetish The story of Rapunzel is one of my favorite Grimms' fairy tale. The original story and many of its variations are quite dark. In the original story the prince calls for Rapunzel to let down her hair and sees her on the sly. One day she lets slip that her dress is getting too tight around her waist. (She's pregnant.) Gothel, the woman who kidnapped Rapunzel, traps the prince when he returns. He falls from the tower and lands in thorns, either blinding him or killing him outright depending on which cultural interpretation you read.  Now I don't expect Disney to tell a story like that. It is Disney after all and the lost princess must remain virginal - while at the same time having an unusually close relationship with the animals around her. And, yes, the guy she loves in Tangled undergoes a life-changing (literally!) experience in the end. But for all that, I didn't like this movie as much. And I wanted to like it because as a writer I see a lot of potential in the basic story of Rapunzel. Rapunzel empowered  First, this movie came apart for me at the level of the story. There were good parts to it, but overall the story didn't do it for me. I liked many elements but once again I felt as if I was watching another formulaic effort from Disney. Captured/lonely princess. Check. Evil grandmother/stepmother. Check. Funny and helpful animals. Check.  Handsome single man comes into her life. Check. Beautiful background and story boardinng. Check. But there has to be more than that. We've seen all this before. There has to be a story that grabs us. We're not all eleven year old girls, Disney. Come on. Get out of the rut.  Perfect example. In the beginning of the movie Rapunzel's mother is ill and needs a magic plant to heal her so Rapunzel can be born. But in the original fairy tale the mother needs lettuce (sometimes it's parsley) and the king makes a deal with Gothel in which he hands over the baby to save the life of the queen. Now that's pretty dark right there. Even if he is motivated by saving the life of his queen, and must be forced to make that choice, Disney doesn't tell it that way. In this retelling, Gothel steals the baby from its crib. We lose whole subterranean plots and motivations in this one move. Gothel kidnaps the baby because she's evil and greedy. It's Disney. Of course she is evil and greedy.  Finally, for the prince, in which this case it's a lovable thief, well, he serves the same function as all other love interests in Disney animated films. He's a plot point. Albeit a funny one in this case, and one in which Disney worked to flesh out -- but still a plot point. After all, Rapunzel has to eventually give her virginity to somebody, and it's not going to be that chameleon that rides her shoulder or Maximus the palace horse. Thus, we have the prince/thief/substitute-male figure who comes into her life in order to round out the story.  As far as the character of Rapunzel herself, I did like her a lot. She went through the motions we expect her to and we're on her side. The sight gags of her doing things with her hair were funny and the running gag with the frying pan was cute. We like her and we want her to win her freedom and her love in the end. But the story that surrounds her doesn't click. It's not the story that allows her to find true happiness, it's Disney that makes it come true. Just like always. And so the movie loses a lot of its impact right there because we are never frightened for Rapunzel. Come to think of it, we are never frightened by any Disney movies anymore. Which was not always the case. Disney used to have a reputation of showing some fairly dark things on screen. Or at least stories that demanded, and gave, emotional investment and experience.  We don't get that at all with Tangled.  Part of the problem, I think, is the animation. Sometimes it is absolutely gorgeous...and sometimes we are taken aback by how bad it looks and the jerks and stopRapunzel gets tangled in Tangleds between scenes. To be sure there are many nice scenes (from an artistic perspective) in this film. The scene where the dam bursts, the dance in the market square, the flight of the paper lanterns all stand out. The clothing and texture of trees and stone and water are phenomenal. But the characters themselves...well, sometimes they look kind of rubbery. Like walking dolls made out of wax. I was disappointed in that. If you're going to go the limit to make clothing have proper texture, and move correctly upon the frame, then why not make the skin and shading on the characters more realistic as well?  The music was another big let down. None of the songs were memorable. Even Rapunzel's healing song doesn't stick with you, and that song, more than any other, ties the arc of the film together. Most of the humor works and some falls flat. But that's Disney and that's their trademark and they're not going to let it go no matter how much we groan. At least we see some effort at background and characterization for many of the secondary characters. That helps round out many of the other flaws.  Not surprisingly, the one character that really stands out (and takes the stage away from Rapunzel when they're together) is Gothel. This is where Disney shines.  If there's one thing Disney knows it's "evil stepmother" and how to represent her as a multi-facted and three-dimensional character who is cruel, cunning, and manipulative. As much as I like Rapunzel, and the idea of story potential about Rapunzel, as a professional writer I am here to tell you that a story about Gothel is much more interesting. But, once again, we are limited by Disney and the parameters they set up for every film they make. We will never see a story about Gothel, or Rapunzel for that matter, the way it should be told from Disney. It's not what they do.  As I said earlier I really wanted to like this film. But there's too much missing or awkward about it, or worse yet, formulaic. Tangled was billed as the 50th animated film by Disney. In all that time they have made groundbreaking strides in the technical department. But the story of Tangled is like every other Lonely Princess story we've seen from Disney and that, more than anything else, is why I can't recommend it.

"Food for Thought..." An eye-opening documentary that gives American consumers a glimpse into the illusory world of where our grocery products actually originate.  As with many documentaries these days, the film is one-sided telling the tale of farmers and consumers who've fallen victim to the greed of multinational food corporations, it is certainly a story worth hearing.  I honestly feel inspired to act.  Truly Food for Thought.  Recommended.

disappointing Cars the first movie was really cute we watched it several times. Cars 2 kinda disappointing just didn't quit have the same feeling we got bored in the middle couldn't wait for it to end. Yae, it's a cute movie you just never can beat the first.

The Tourist Normally I only like Johnny Depp when he's a pirate (this includes Chocolat where he was considered a "river pirate"), but I really enjoyed him in this movie. After playing a long list of confident and quirky characters, it was endearing to see him as a normal bumbling guy who doesn't say the right thing or have a funny quip to offer. His awkwardness and the fact that he was completely unsure of what to do in every situation really lightened up what would have just been just another random action flick.  I love Angelina Jolie. I think she's an incredible actress and just absolutely stunning. However, I couldn't get on board (ha ha, boat humor) with her character. I think it's because I'm so used to her kickin' ass and in this movie she's under some rich guy's thumb and seemed so helpless at times. I kept waiting for her to take down all the police guys and start throwing knives at the gangsters. No, all she did in this movie was walk around a lot. But, she did have some great outfits. Very sophisticated, sleek lines, and neutral tones. I think it worked well for the movie and put more focus on her face; any bright colors or patterns would have been distracting.  I went into the movie with rather low expectations and was pleasantly surprised. Though I don't think it was meant to be a particularly funny movie, I found myself laughing almost through the entire film. There were also some really beautiful scenes of Venetian landscape.  This was a really good movie, and I think the only thing keeping it from being great was the lack of depth in Elise's character. She should have been more sad about her situation with Pearce, how she loved him so much but couldn't be with him, and more torn about what she was doing to Frank. She just seemed to be pensive all the time. Just, "Gee, this is kind of a pickle I'm in... but damn, I look good."  [...]

Good special efects Just a regular movie, the tipical rebel boy who turns in hero to save the planet. The aliens suposed to be more advance but with oldest ship the Earth wins the battle, OMG!!  I you expect some kind of reference with the boardgame Battleship, just a few seconds.

Not Too Disappointing , It was nice seeing the movie after so many years, but it was not what I would call classic Man from U.N.C.L.E. Not Bad, Not Great ,

Not The Greatest Western Of All Time This is far from being my favorite Western movie, dispite some critics who proclaim it to be the greatest ever.  I find Charles Bronson's character silly, his way of blowing the harmonica whenever he shows up just doesn't work for me.  He is just another nameless gunslinger with no depth of character at all.  Henry Fonda is neat as a bad guy, but this part is certainly not his best.  It can't compare to Fonda's role in Warlock.  Throughout the whole film, Jason Robards seems to be wondering why he is there.  Claudia Cardinale's blank expressions in the endless mug shots make her appear stupid.  The land grab premise is weak and is the kind of "bad guy stuff" of old two reel B Westerns of the 1930's. Action sometimes become unbearably slow, which is somehow supposed to be poetic, but is nothing more than boring.  Even the scenery is poor, transplanting Monument Valley landmarks into a Spanish desert is too much.  Once Upon A Time In The West cannot compare to Leone's The Good The Bad And The Ugly at all.  It certainly does not rank with The Searchers,  The Outlaw Josie Wales, or Monte Walsh.  It's a Western, so I have it in my collection but it's not a great movie.  All that being said, the DVD quality is excellent.

For What It's Worth ;) I will not attempt to justify the non-worthiness of this movie, for any cinematic observer probably has heard enough negative commentary or poor reviews.  Instead, I must profess that my desire to own this film is not based on plot integrity, production value or Oscar-worthy acting.  Far from, actually.  It's simple - just eye candy.  There.  I admitted it.  Just blatant, regressive male hormones that took over my most primeval urges of the most Freudian nature.  I never had a real, tangible interest in the film's primary star - Elizabeth Berkley, until I saw this movie.  "Saved By The Bell" never did it for me, and was too teeny-bopper for me by that time, anyways.  But Lord and behold - I see Miss Berkley on this big screen movie, and I was instantly mesmerized by her vivaciousness.  I was hooked along with line & sinker.  Yes, it's all physical and superficial, and I must be going through a mid-life crisis.  Other than that, I truly enjoyed this film for what I understood it to be, and for what it's worth to the pleasure centers of my cerebral cortex.  Does it help that I truly enjoyed Paul Verhoeven's other masterpiece: "Total Recall??" ;)

McHale and his pirates run wild in Italy... After three seasons operating out of Taratupa in the Pacific theater, the crew of PT 73 was reassigned to Italy for the final season of McHale's Navy (1965-66).  Relocating the entire cast to the Italian village of Voltafiore, was a big change that gave the program a fresh new look.  Far from the front lines, even more so than in the Pacific, military life in Italy is mostly about profiteering, and the outrageous disregard for military duty.  Under Commander Quinton McHale (Ernest Borgnine), the PT-73 and her crew spend very little time at sea on patrol.  Mostly onshore kicking back, they occupy their spare time in their customary manner, goldbricking and running scams.  As the military governor of Voltafiore, Captain Wallace `Leadbottom' Binghamton (Joe Flynn) and his aide Lt. Elroy Carpenter (Bob Hastings) occupy their time keeping an eye on McHale, and feathering Binghamton's cushy nest.  Hanky panky is the status quo, as the Navy personnel have to contend with crooked government officials, as well as opportunistic Army Colonel Douglas Harrigan (Henry Beckman), who is constantly looking to pilfer whatever he can for personal gain.  More than ever before, the war is just a big joke that no one takes seriously, where the primary activities of US military personnel are to have a good time, and profit from the situation.  Even Japanese prisoner of war Fuji (Yoshio Yoda), has made the journey to Italy.  While there are a few instances where the Allies encounter real German soldiers, more often those in Wehrmacht uniforms are McHale's men in disguise.  Fans of the previous seasons will probably enjoy season four, as almost nothing is directly related fighting the war.  Acquiring military souvenirs, antique furniture, a cache of wine, a fancy bathtub, a golf course, a German staff car, and beachfront property, are just some of the spoils of war up for grabs.  Early on, McHale's crew secures a secret hideout, where they can unwind and store their booty.  There is some fraternization with women, but regular romantic interludes are one of the few things that remains off limits, in this wartime free for all.  Trying to keep McHale and his pirates in line, and also contending with the crooked Colonel Harrigan, keeps Captain Binghamton very busy.  In the role that defined his career, Joe Flynn's talents really shine in this season.  Featuring army personnel, and people from the village, the supporting cast in season four is large, which reduces the screen time of most of the regular cast.  Even McHale and Ensign Parker (Tim Conway) have their roles scaled back a bit.  Notable guest stars include Don Knotts as an army psychologist, Joan Staley as a lovesick WAC, and Maura McGiveney as an ensign that is an expert on navy regulations.  Some sixty years after WW II it may not matter to many, but looking back it seems quite remarkable that less than twenty years after the conclusion of World War II, McHale's Navy would be so readily accepted by the American public.  There was a mystique connected with PT boats, because President Kennedy had served on one, but McHale's Navy makes a mockery of the US Navy in both the Pacific and European theaters.  Beetle Bailey in the comics, the film No Time for Sergeants (1958) and TV's The Phil Silvers Show (1955-59) and Gomer Pyle (1964-69), are part of the post WWII tradition of satirizing military life.  Military men goofing off was certainly nothing new, but McHale's Navy features frontline troops at war, not soldiers training at a base during peacetime.  Image quality of the single-sided five DVD set is pretty flat, just slightly sharper than VHS.  There are no bonus materials, and the episodes are not subtitled.

Mehhh... Although a great story concept, unfortunately 'Playback' has all the predictable parts of a standard horror movie.  (1) Open door to abandoned house and say "hello, anyone here?" (2) Fall down repeatedly while running from bad guy (3) Knowledgable guy who works at a video store and can add creepy details about a supposed legend... You get the point.  There were no surprises and although the plot attempted to add a twist, it really wasn't that surprising.  We did watch the whole thing, so apparently it wasn't completely horrible.  It was worth the price we paid (free with our Prime membership). If you have nothing else to do, go ahead and watch it, but if you have better movies to watch, let this one be.

Update - Disc 4 Replacement Received! I am crushed - waiting so many years for the bionic woman series to be released on any NTSC format, and the audio on disc 4 is muffled.  Universal's excuse that the source audio is out of their control is utter nonsense as I happen to own the Euro PAL release of the affected episodes which are pristine in clarity.  Shame on you Universal for such a botched job. (I've contacted Universal Video to initiate the replacement process)  * * * UPDATE #1 * * * *  I followed the procedures for Disc 4 replacement from Universal Video and RECEIVED my replacement disc about 2-1/2 weeks after I mailed off the bad audio disc !Yeah!  The bad 9 min audio at the start of Deadly Ringer - Fixed !Yeah!  The repl dvd disc ID is 2014840R1 (the bad dvd ID was 2014840R0)  * * * UPDATE #2 * * * *  I had already watched the other Season 2 episodes in this NTSC set and just finished rewatching the episodes on the replaced disc 4 (corrected audio) and I also compared the NTSC/PAL versions of the Kill Oscar trilogy and unfortunately the NTSC Kill Oscar dialogue audio is muddier but not as bad as the incomprehensible 9 minutes of Deadly Ringer.  Unfortunately Universal's entire NTSC Season 2 DVD set was sloppily produced.  For non-rabid Bionic fans - my conclusion is that even though the Euro PAL version of Season 2 is still way better in both video and audio quality, - the NTSC Season 2 version is acceptable with the improved Disc 4 replacement.  To be fair - I can finally toss my ancient OTA snowy reception/drop-out-plagued heavily-time-edited-for-syndication VHS tapes - although the taped tv commercials are now very entertaining 1980s time capsules :-)

In the Beginning In the Beginning is a biblical two part film made for Television that spans the books of Genesis and Exodus. The production value is great and the special effects are quite good being a film made for television. Martin Landau is great in the role of Abraham. Here the positive praise ends however. Much of the biblical stories have been changed and some changed beyond recognition. Some of the acting is a bit over the top and the last 30 minutes delve into kitsch more then telling a compelling biblical story. An uneven film that gets a 3 out of 5. 3/5.

Bizzare In the original, isnt it Farrah Fawcett-Majors who is the nail color changing secretary? I would be interested in watching the whole move to see what else was changed.

Entertaining Was kind of a mindless comedy. Wasn't anything I'd tell anyone to watch, or memorable. But it was entertaining and passed the time.

Very overrated. Can't understand the fame. This is an old flick, nothing more. It's not scary, it's not well written (dialog is ridiculous). It's predictable. Three stars -- charitably. In general, I've no clue why people so breathlessly speak of Hitchcock. Watched like three movies of his, and all of them were worn-out old crap full of funny-acting, ugly and miscast actors speaking with fake accents, hole-ridden plots with unlikely twists, etc. -- typical old stuff. Maybe these flicks were striking back then, but now it's hard to understand why. OK, there's some interesting (for the times) cinematography there, so OK, one positive.  The disk is typical Criterion: very clean visuals, subtitles, lots of extras (which would be interesting if you gave a hoot about the movie itself, but you probably won't).  I can't recommend this to anyone, except perhaps to a film student learning the history of cinema.

meh Glad i saw it on netflix before purchasing it. i love wrestling just as much as the next person but to me some of the moments wern't omg,there were others that i thought of that could have been used. it was alright though.

GREAT Film, GREAT History, a MUST SEE, but poor quality assurance GREAT: Blu-ray is EXACTLY what these ancient films need!  Particularly due to Melies' continuous use of extreme long-shots, where detail is easily lost, it is awe-inspiring to FINALLY see how good M&egrave;li&eacute;s' filmstock really was, offering crisp, clear, sharp images.  For example, in the Loading The Gun scene on the rooftops, you can actually see the cheeks and cute smile of the little French girl farthest in the back at the top left.  And when Micromegas (the one who falls in the tub of nitric acid) flashes one of his frequent smiles, you can see his TEETH!  Curiously, first-generation prints of M&egrave;li&eacute;s movies are not as clear as prints made later from existing negatives.  Apparently in the first ten or twenty years of cinema, they didn't yet know how to make good prints.  However, part of this restoration is a colorizing of a later black-and-white print, so while some of this movie, being from the original first-generation print, is way out of focus (like the astronomers preparing to sleep), other parts (that come from a restored B&W print?), like the rooftop scene, are as sharp and detailed as anything shot today in 35mm.  A pleasure to see!  The restored color movie is self-recommending.  If you have ANY interest in Melies, "A Trip to the Moon", movie restoration, or early cinema, then you MUST see this film. Just getting this film alone is worth the cost of the steelcase blu-ray/dvd set. AND you get the documentary about how this all came about. (By the way, it is an EXCELLENT and entertaining documentary on George Melies; it's the best I've seen, and for those interested in cinema history, this steelcase set is probably worth getting just for the documentary.)  Other reviewers can fill you in on the details about this particular film and its controversial sound track; which I actually like, by the way, in spite of a few annoying miscalculations on the part of the composers. (However, see  my last paragraph.) So, rather than belabor all that, I will now go on to the "bonus" features:  GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS: Each soundtrack to every film is enjoyable, although I agree that an alternative should have been provided for the color version.  The black-and-white version of "Trip..." has three soundtrack options, and they are all good.  The voice-overs by the improv group are very funny, and a couple of times made me laugh out loud; but they seem to run out of ideas frequently, and there are long stretches without any voices at all.  I actually wish they had kept up a patter all the way through.  Even better, the Robert Israel music-with-narration to the B&W version of "Trip to the Moon" is brilliant.  This is perfect on the recently-corrected blu-ray.  However, on the DVD version with the narration, the sound IS A GOOD SECOND-AND-A-HALF AHEAD OF THE PICTURE.  I find this incredibly annoying, as it creates an odd effect when the gun is fired and when the moon gets hit in the face.  On BOTH blu-ray and dvd versions, the sound is late to the image on the movie "The Astronomer's Dream".  This is a shame because the music is expertly composed to fit the action; you probably won't notice it being off, but I re-synced it and I found that when the music exactly matches the picture, many effects come across strikingly, but are way diminished with the sound being a tad late.  For instance, the sudden appearance of The Devil almost makes you jump when the music is spot-on.  Without being in sync it just looks ... eh...  Even worse, you can see ALL of Melies's junkie construction-paper backgroungs in the "Eclipse" movie. You can see exactly how he is sliding around his characters "in space", COMPLETELY destroying all magical illusion, which Melies would have hated.  Just a little tweaking with the darks and the contrast fixes this, and should have been done before distributing it.  As it is, before showing this to anyone, you will have to go through the movie and make adjustments to your monitor so your friends don't find the film tacky and stupid-looking.  Also, the two short films are not offered from high-definition scans.  They have been taken from a low-definition digital reproduction and are simply presented on blu-ray.  So now you can more clearly see the edges of the pixels...  Now wouldn't you think that given this very, very, very special, heralded and limited edition that Flicker Alley would have SOMEONE doing "quality assurance"?  I mean don't they have someone who watches the film on the b-r/dvd before they make thousands of copies and sell them?  Inconceivably, apparently not...  The B&W version of "Trip" comes "from a fine-grain master derived from a nitrate print made available by the M&eacute;li&egrave;s family."  This is sharp and clear, but not clean: it has had little restoration and is full of speckles, flash-frames and splices.  It is also beset with jitter and weave, making it a very difficult viewing experience.  They could have stabilized the image without any reduction in detail, and this is proved by watching the documentary.  In the documentary there is a section from "Moon..." and it is rock solid, yet with crystal sharp details.  The image of this movie on the "Georges Melies: First Wizard of Cinema" dvd collection is cleaner and has little noticeable jitter.  However the focus is not as detailed.  (Just as a matter of interest: for the best ever reproduction of the film in black-and-white, EXTREMELY well-restored actually, with NO noticeable jitter-and-weave, go to Amazon.fr and search that site for ""A la conquete du cinematographe".  This will give you a 3-DVD set of Melies films (mostly of poorer quality than the Wizard set but with a few exceptions, and with some films not on any other set), with a book of beautiful photos (all the text is in French, however) by "STUDIOCANAL".  Unfortunately, it also uses a musical accompaniment for "Trip to the Moon" that is a just-barely acceptable piano score.)  So, one star for Flicker Alley's poor quality assurance and inadequate  presentation of the black-and-white films and for not giving us true high-definition with the shorts.  Four-and-a-half stars for their presentation of the color version.  Out of 5 stars, I give Melies 10 stars for the movie itself, and Technicolor 99 stars for putting together the fragmented pieces of the color print. (I took away 1 star because there is still a about two weeks' worth of easy if time-consuming digital work that could have been done to improve the film in its current "final" version, mostly to stabilize the images.)  A FINAL THOUGHT: This restoration has been ecstatically acclaimed by many; however, I find some of it very difficult to watch, especially the first two and penultimate scenes, because of the extreme jitter, and brutal changes in lighting, color, contrast and overall quality from frame-to-frame.  I am very interested to hear from those of you who actually buy this product and watch this film: when you watch it do you, as I do, find yourself "white-knuckling" the arms of your chair, unconsciously preparing for when the film will break?  Or do you just find this restoration beautiful and miraculous?  Or...???  I know we all owe the teams who restored this film a tremendous round of applause for bringing this movie back to life...  AND considering the money and effort put into this project, and how few people are interested in such things, I think $30+ is completely reasonable.  I would have paid twice that amount.  But I remain under the impression that the best compromise would have been to dump the worst sections of the color print they were trying to restore (that is, long sections of it), and instead replace it with restored and colorized versions of the best available black-and-white prints.  As a matter of fact, this is exactly what the Technicolor people did do in short segments when the color print was just too severely damaged to repair, and their work is gorgeous.  But what are your thoughts?  And what about the other films on the dvd?  Does it actually NOT bother you when sound is out of sync with the movie?  Do you not care that the prints are so poorly presented that you see all those background seams and wrinkles, platforms, ramps, wheels and wires?  Or am I the only one so insanely passionate about early cinema that I hope beyond hope that someone (Scorsese?) will bring together a team to truly restore Melies' films back to their original and, to whatever extent possible, pristine glory (as he did for snippets in "Hugo"), and remain unsatisfied until someone does?

Fine Berry performance, if not a great movie Yep, it introduced me to Dandridge. A bit more to Berry too, who saves this tearjerker from being a total flop. Magnificent sets and some great help from Spiner and Brandauer. But it looks like a TV movie too. I feel severe here but I'm unable to pinpoint what exactly made me aware early that it was a TV movie. Something simplistic? The same «poor little talented girl who became a star and then died (or had big troubles» storyline? Like the ones about Josephine Baker, Judy Garland... These movies have a formula that you see coming 2 hours before the end of the film. A documentary would be much more enjoyable. I don't tell you to stay away, though. It is fine entertainment and there is a finer performance by Berry. (who should be seen in Alex Haley's Queen too.)

lacks the steps menu I love dancing and remember the times when I would go out every week just to dance. Unfortunately, over the years my schedule and responsibilities have changed and I don't have all the time I used to have to go out. I gained a lot of extra weight and feel it's time I claim my body back. I figured "Dance with Lisa Dance to Enhance" would be a perfect work out for me. I was slightly disappointed when I couldn't follow this amazon instant video. I liked the routine and it is something I would like to learn how to do but... It's impossible to follow without it being broken down into smaller parts, steps etc. unless you are a professional dancer. I have a feeling the full DVD might have these as a menu option but not the instant video.

Dark story of Victorian Spousal Abuse This DVD is OK, but not my favorite by a long shot.  It's dark and disturbing.  I've seen worse BBC Videos, but I've also seen better.  I don't like some of the Cameraman's way of inserting flashes of the past into the scene, and when they did show intact scenes from the past, I couldn't tell where the past scenes ended and the present scenes started. The Female main character acted so bazaar and unlikeable through most of the movie and it's not until the last quarter of the mini series that you find out why she's acting that way. I think this Mini Series could have been done much better by a different director, cameraman and screen play writer. The actors were good, but they should have re-thought the female actresses hairstyle, it did nothing for her face.

Should have been a slam dunk, but The Asylum barely manages to hit the rim with this one A 2-headed shark and Carmen Electra?  Man, I live for B-movies like this one, and nobody does it better than The Asylum.  I was a little worried when I saw Brooke Hogan in the cast list, but we're still talking about a bloodthirsty 2-headed shark on a rampage here (not to mention a gaggle of college girls in bikinis) - what could possibly go wrong?  I'll tell you what could go wrong and does go wrong in this movie - the entire cast is horrible.  You could have built a replica of the Trojan Horse from all of the wooden acting on display here.  And annoying!?  If I had to choose between getting eaten by a 2-headed shark and being shipwrecked with the characters in this movie, I would be giving "suicide by shark" some serious consideration.  Naturally, there are also all sorts of continuity errors, bad special effects, and giant plot holes, but what else would you expect from The Asylum?  Heck, it's part of their B-movie rip-off charm, if you ask me.  So some kind of Podunk college offers some kind of Semester at Sea program, which leads to a bunch of scantily-clad college kids sunbathing, flirting, and goofing off onboard a boat while their professor futilely tries to teach them how to use a sextant.  I thought the professor looked like he should be Jerry O'Connell's stunt double (except he isn't a good enough actor to be a stunt double), and now I know why - it's Jerry O'Connell's brother Charlie.  Professor Babish does have one thing going for him, though - he's married to Carmen Electra's character (she's apparently some kind of doctor, but she can barely wrap an injured leg and apparently did her residency at a tanning salon).  Both of them are useless when the ship hits something in the water and suffers a small but significant hull breach.  Luckily, the ship happens to be a short distance away from an atoll, so the professor and kids take a dingy to the island while the crew tries to repair the ship.  That's about the time our two-headed shark shows up to ruin everyone's day.  I won't even try to describe all the stupid shenanigans that go on the rest of the way.  Even if these people didn't needlessly put themselves in danger time and time again, they would only be safe for so long because the atoll they're on is quickly sinking into the sea (which I take as a sign that God hated these characters as much as I did).  Geoff Ward deserves special mention, as he makes a strong run at "most annoying character ever" as a brainless, muscle-bound punk whose arrogance is only rivaled by his cowardice.  Heck, Brooke Hogan plays the only character with half a brain in this entire movie.  Two scenes stick out in my mind.  At one point, a certain adult character falls and skins his leg - and cries about it like a two-year-old who had her favorite doll stolen.  You would think this guy is dying a most painful death, when all he really needs is a Band-Aid.  None of the people actually being eaten by the shark carry on like this putz.  The other scene is classic, though, and pretty much stands as the saving grace of the entire film.  The two-headed shark flips this one dude up into the air with his tail, dives down, and then jumps up to double-chomp the guy before he lands back into the water.  I had to rewind and watch that scene over again - it almost makes up for all of the horrible CGI effects and stock footage shots of the shark.  Speaking of bad special effects, the filmmakers originally wanted to have the shark's second head growing out of its forehead.  Now, that would have really been stupid.  I have to say I'm pretty disappointed with this film.  Mutant monster movies starring B- and C-grade actors is supposed to be The Asylum's bread and butter, but they really let me down with this one.  2-Headed Shark Attack does feature more gore than I'm used to seeing from The Asylum, but that's about the only positive thing I can take with me from this movie.

I've seen George better than this performance! I thought it would be more of his turn around act. He could have had a few more "better" starring comedians.

No Subtitles As an avid viewer of TV series, I always rely on subtitles to fully understand the dialogue (just like looking at the lyrics when listening to music). However, this DVD collection does not have subtitles for whatever reason. Otherwise, I would have given it a 5.

DIDNT LIKED IT , EVEN ON  BLU-RAY RELEASES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had HIGH HOPE for this movie because of trailer & all those Awards shows they got & all. Yes all in Technical, Visual & special effects is Stunning to watch, BUT story & movie real boring & drags a lot here & there. Almost middle of the movie I just reject it from player & send it back coz..was rental & glad didnt buy this lame azz boring B.S.. & WORST thing about this movie,it is BIG in Visual & special effects  >> Then BLU RAY version IS NOT Widescreen is 1.85.1 ratio/ full screen.. even in 3D version.. should be 2.40.1 or 2.35:1 ratio Format on BLU-RAY for Theather released movie ... is just all B.S about this flick,. Even on blu-ray releases..  didnt liked it, Just gives 3 stars & that extra star for the visual & effects is amazing & worth those awards they got..But movie is Sucked & boring ! C+

NICE TWIST AT THE END This movie was nominated for several awards but didn't win the prize for them. It's based on a novella by Swiss author Friedrich Durrenmatt, focusing upon a man whose paranoia drives him slowly into madness. It's disjointed at times and I found out that it seems to focus on the subplot more of the novella than the actual tale. Maybe that's why it didn't feel right to me. That said, it has a nice twist to it and doesn't follow the typical parameter of its genre which is refreshing. STORY/PLOTTING: C plus to B minus; CHARACTERS/DIALOGUE: B minus to B; PAYOFF: B minus; WHEN WATCHED: mid August 2011 (streamed); OVERALL GRADE: B minus.

Emotionless SPOILERS BELOW  Ryan Gosling's entire motivation is to save the girl, yet we never actually see the emotional relationship develop.  The entire film's conflict just seems very forced.

Was not totally happy Was not totally happy, I didn't know it didn't come with the case, the picture was miss leading, it was luck that I still had the case for it even though my disc was missing.

FRED ZINNEMANN, OPUS 18 ** 1/2 This is exactly the kind of film that has always puzzled me. Each time I see such a movie, I wonder why the auteur director in question chose this particular book to adapt. In short, why did Fred Zinnemann shoot The Sundowners? If we rule out such motives as an irrepressible desire to visit Australia or taxes in arrears, what's left here ? Sheep, kangaroos, koalas, a bush fire, gentle fights between companions who always smile, the opposition between nomadic and sedentary people, a story with not A SINGLE bad character. I give up and assume that Fred Zinnemann simply loved the novel. As for me, even if I liked The Sundowners, it's already forgotten.Unfortunately.

Predictable end of trilogy I watched this third entry in Pixar's highly successful Toy Story franchise with reservations as to how it would conclude.  I was not too surprised with the predictable characters in this final version specifically the villain; a beat up and sour teddy bear and a total characterature even with a southern accent.  For the most part, I watched all of the series to observe the animation and it remains flawless, but after awhile it can even get boring. I'm glad they rapped up what happened to Woody and the gang for the children who followed all the adventures and bought all the merchandise.

Elvis... Only super fans Please... Movie is OK.. Script is.. what script? Seriously.. If YOU are or someone you know is bonkers for Elvis (anyway-anytime) Buy this movie!  Otherwise ho hum..

Solid Sequel, But Not As Good As The First This movie is good to watch if you are looking for an average sci-fi/horror film.  It is not as good as the first, but better than Mimic 3.  The main character was the most interesting because she provided tidbits of information throughout the film explaining how the cockroaches behaved.  That was what helped me get through the movie, and I wanted to hear more of her scientific reasoning.

The Rock drops the Disney movies for a violent revenge movie.  Good action, bad acting.Not bad, could have had more action.I say A ex-con (Johnson) is out to avenge the death of his brother.  After being released from a 10 year prison sentence Driver begins hunting down and killing those responsible for killing his brother.  To complicate things a cop (Thornton) and a hired hitman are chasing him down and trying to stop him.  Finally....The Rock has come back to R rated movies.  Seven minutes into the movie Driver is released from prison, runs to his car and kills the first person on the list.  The action doesn't stop...until halfway through the movie.  This is almost like two different movies in a way, filled with action in the beginning, then a drama about forgiveness.  This movie was better then I expected and is a pretty good time.  The one complaint I have is that noone really seemed like they wanted to be in it.  The acting for the entire movie seemed phoned in.  Johnson and Thornton both seemed bored and gave thier worst performances I've seen from them, but it is an action movie and acting really doesn't matter a whole lot.  I give it a B-.  Would I watch again? - I don't think so

Cute I don't particularly like the middle/ending.  I felt like the fiance slipped back into her old ways pretty fast, but it was cute nonetheless.

predictable Pretty typical Nick Cage flick.  Lots of action with a fairly predictable plot.  Guy Pearce plays a pretty good role and JJ is easy on the eyes.

A GOOD SHOW, BUT HOW LONG CAN IT LAST? I was excited to hear about this show and watching this season one DVD set I likeed what I saw, but I started to lose interest at times. The show has decent acting and special FX, but I must admit the the whole zombie thing has been done to death. I can barely watch a quality zombie movie anymore without yawning, so watching a TV show that basically draws out a films worth of story into years of TV, sounds like a snooze fest to me. If you just have to have more zombies in your life, then this show will probably be a good fit, but if you think you've seen it all before........guess what? ...you have! :-D  The DVD transfer looks excellent.

perfectly fine I'm not saying anything different that most everyone else has said.  I needed something pleasant/fun to watch after a long, hard day at work.  This was just fine.  It seemed to me more like a made for tv quality movie, but both Lohan and Pine were enjoyable to watch.  It was fun to watch Chris Pine in a early role.

Amused I thought that Van Damme would play a larger part in the movie and was sort of disappointed because he had not played more of a part.

Not quite Disney's finest.... I got Tangled from the library, which I like to do (if possible) before purchasing a movie or book.  I ended up having to watch it twice, once by myself and once with my daughter.  It's a cute movie for kids, and yes, it's entertaining, but it's not what I've come to expect from Disney.  I was mostly disappointed in the Songs, Disney always has put these theater worthy, "go directly to classic" songs in their film, and none of the song in Tangled qualified in my opinion.  It's not on my list of favorite movies, and not something I'm going to rush out and buy.  All in all, it's worth a watch especially for kids, but not worth buying, Disney fell short.

Perfect Dress! jenn looks so fab in that date dress with the low cut top, high cut skirt outfit to beat the band, and she just shucks off her sexuality which makes this fare even more intriguing, so it is lacking plot complexities but so fun to see Kevin bad boy and Jay good boy role, for me, I am satisfied with this fare, exciting steamy moments that excite the imagination and the dinner scene was the epitome of bring out the talent show... the little black book diary for the history lesson should be mandatory Love 101 for potential lovers/spouses/FWB, etc., I have had limited success with this approach due to the 180 of written vs spoken word, men should know this applies as well to women... wake up lads!! nice packaged script with limited dissapointments, decent recommend!

Guilty Pleasure Defined Ah yes. A great crap B movie. I mean that with the deepest respect too. Could I watch a terribly made movie over and over? The answer, YES! NO doubt this movie sucks, but the elements that make it suck are great. Terribly unnatural and clunky dialouge. At best pedestrian acting. Was I the only one that thought it was gross how in the shower scene when Trish has just washed her ass with the bar of soap the next girl asks for it and proceeds to wash all over? I also love how the handy woman can install a peephole just by drilling through the door. Presto! next scene it's there! That's the point though. This isn't a work of art meant to be analyzed like the classics. It's a guilty way to spend 77 minutes, and in that it succeeds wonderfully. The running time is great too. It ends before you're bored, or have fallen asleep. On a sidenote I was completely confused and laughing outloud at how the trailer for Sorority House Massacre 2 had shots from this movie spliced in! It's not even part of the series! Quality stuff. Buy this movie, pop some popcorn, have 3-15 beers, and enjoy.

Makes me want to read the book Who is John Galt? And why is this movie in two parts?  Must be quite a long sucker; I should read the book now.  Looks like corporate folks are being undone, one by one, by some mysterious person or group.  The events, in fact, seem to parallel the Occupy Movement and much of what is going on these days, making it all the more compelling.

Worth a look for the right person. Here's The Lowedown on "Soldiers of Fortune" (An Action DVD review)...pretty good.  Become a fan of "The Lowedown" on Facebook...  Genre: 6.5 Movie: 4.5  What's it about? Wealthy thrill-seekers pay huge premiums to have themselves inserted into military adventures, only this time things don't go exactly to plan.  What did I think? I came into this not expecting anything but a low budget action movie...and that's pretty much what I got.  I did like the cast and the concept, but there were too many subplots that the movie didn't need..not everyone needs an ulterior motive here, guys.  If you are a Christian Slater fan (are there any left?) or will watch anything action...it's worth renting or buying for under $5.

Holocaust Awareness Diluted by One Woman's Angst This big screen adaptation of Tatiana De Rosnay's novel "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005B19UPE">Sarah's Key</a>," directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner in some way presents the Holocaust awareness message with greater simplicity and impact than its written counterpart.  However, sadly, both the novel and the film's major plot line of Sarah and her key is rectified around the halfway mark of both pieces. As the murkier central story of a journalist whose marital issues and unplanned pregnancy shifts the mass horror of the Vel D'Hiv roundup into the smaller arena of moving past personal tragedy, the significance of the message seems less intense, diluted by one woman's trouble and some trite classroom telling instead of being the sole monumentally emotional grab of the piece. In that sense, the incident seems marginalized in the face of smaller personal issues that effect a few not thousands.  Not that the overall feeling of the film is any different from the book.  The fact that over 80,000 Jews were ultimately deported to death camps by French authorities during Marshal Petain's Vichy Government is depicted with a heart-wrenching simplicity as seen through the frightened and cowed eyes of the determined ten-year-old Sarah Starzinsky played with precocious perfection by M&eacute;lusine Mayance.  Discovering these more personal events triggered by the Vel D'Hiv roundup of 1942 from the vantage point of the present day is Julia Jarmond (Kristin Scott Thomas) who brings her unflappable perseverance to uncovering the details of a disturbing story to light despite the reluctance and ambivalence of others who feel the story might well be best forgotten.  Is Julia just a hysterical woman flooded with pregnancy hormones and angst regarding her marriage that she simply must see the Sarah story to its endpoint?  Writers Serge Joncour and Gilles Paquet-Brenner segue from the past to the present with ease, weaving the atrocities of the past within the arena of guilt and discomfort that defines home for their Julia.  Following the book closely, they report Sarah's story adequately, but fall short when the titular key unlocks the door in the wall and quite frankly, there is no where to go from that point on to balance the emotional drain.  Thankfully, this writing team decides not to pursue the romantic entanglement in which the novel's Julia eventually indulges.  The addition of the William character in De Rosnay's universe seems an attempt to add some yang to all the yin--the idea of having Julia bank her future happiness on Sarah's only son smacks of a contrivance that has no place in a story of such devastating emotional intensity.  Let's face it, the only event that could have turned the tale around and brought out a bright smile and a few tears for theatregoers would have been a complete rewriting of the outcome.  Sarah rushes to the cabinet and unlocks the door--or, more practically, Jules and his wife take charge as adults would and move the poor girl out of harm's way so they could open what could well be the macabre sight of the boy's crypt.  As the door swings open, surprise--no one is there.  The emptiness suggests another mystery--where is the child?  Who took him? All of this could have flowed into the present story very nicely and provided the intrepid Julia with a flicker of hope, that she could fan into a huge magazine human-interest feature.  Bottom line? Paquet-Brenner's adaptation of "Sarah's Key" by Tatiana De Rosnay follows the plot of the book faithfully for those who are devoted fans.  Young actress M&eacute;lusine Mayance and Kristin Scott Thomas as the two leads add solemnity and stellar acting to a story that because it hinges off a devastating negative event that is never balanced by one of equal positive power, it fails to emotionally satisfy.  Thankfully, Paquet-Brenner leaves out De Rosnay's contrived ending allowing the overall Holocaust awareness message first and foremost despite weighing against one of the main character's personal problems.  Recommended for those who liked the book Diana Faillace Von Behren "reneofc"

It was okay I'm a big fan of the first movie and I realize that most subsequent sequels pale in comparison to originals, so my expectations weren't very high with this movie. That said, BDP1 was entertaining, but gets annoying in a few parts. I'm getting a little tired of Jacob's unrequited love, given the circumstances. Bella is with Edward--they're married! Jacob comes off as a pathetic stalker in this movie. So, at the end he "imprints" on the child. Is he going to stalk her for the rest of her life now? C'mon, dude. Guy needs a membership to an online dating service. "Loyal companion seeks a girl who doesn't mind shedding." Also, the characters have become spoofed so much by comedians and "Vampires Suck," that it is hard to look at the characters seriously anymore. The overacting by Edward and Bella makes me chuckle as I'm watching what is supposed to be a serious moment. The movie and characters have become caricatures of themselves. It's a little sad, actually. The movie has kind of a been there done that feel for me. The series has definitely run its course. Overall, though, it wasn't a total waste of time. I was entertained and will probably watch Part 2 when it comes out, probably more so that I'd like to see it through. It's like not being able to look away from a car crash on the side of the road.

Dada/Dali Like Feel Opening with a fixed camera on a small section of an oval track you just see a Ferrari tenuously speeding by (not very fast and on the wrong part of the track) every few seconds; every few seconds, every few seconds. OK, that tells you what's in store for the rest of the movie. Slow moving visual story that doesn't quite have a point (other than a partially distorted following of an actor about as he lives his partying, playboy, shallow sexual attempts, attention-centric life).  So as a flowing visual Dada/Dali like experience it works surprisingly well. As an accurate portrayal of an actors' life it's not scripted well enough to convey a sense of believability. And, if on some other level of interpretation that was the intent of the director i.e. to be a shallow misrepresentation of a star's life - there are better ways to convey that message.  We are left with an undefined ending which I suppose is consistent with the rest of the movie.

The Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D The DVD itself was very well done and I found it to be very informative.  However, having just purchased my 3D home theater, I was very disappointed in the 3D version of this presentation.

not entirely new I love this movie. It has terrific music and Marlon Brando, in this unusual (for him) part, is a real treat.   However, this particular disc came to me NOT wrapped in plastic... as I figure it should have been if it were new, plus the storage box (yes, it's a box; it also has a book inside containing material related to the movie) looks as if it's been banged around a bit. This disc itself is pristine so I'm not returning it. But in point of fact it doesn't look new. And THAT'S what I paid for!!! I am not recommending this seller.

3 and 1/2 stars... some pretty good scares! A decent (if somewhat predictable) plot, effective camera work & direction, spooky set design, decent acting and some genuine jump-out-of-your-seat scares make this an above-average horror movie.  The tension builds rather effectively to a scary & satisfying climax.  But the twist ending is a bit much.

Funny Happy Gilmore is a movie about a loser who makes it big when he plays golf. A game he never thought about playing before. But push come to shove he had to to get his grandmas home back. This movie is funny, but I don't think it deserve more then 3 stars.

Not as good as the first, but still worth the watch I loved everything about this movie & Jim Carrey is hillarious as always.  If you liked the first one, it's not as good, but you will still love it and this movie will make you laugh for sure.  This movie had some gut busting sceenes and a funny story line and all in all if you like to laugh, this movie will be worth it for you to watch.

Not for kids This was a good movie. I like it. I dont think its much of a christmas movie though. Its more of a romantic movie. I have 4 children. Looking at the cover I thought they would like it. Only my oldest liked it and he is 11. I also have the 2nd one. Same review for that one.

HWY The sparklingly clear footage of Jim from the never released movie, HWY, is worth the whole thing. Why they didn't include more of the footage from the film here in this documentary, and why it has never been released, is beyond me. The Johnny Depp narration is a cliche, both pedantic and trite--an ebarrasshment, as is the boring cliches about the tumult of the 60s. Besides the HWY footage, there is some rare stuff from a Long Island performance that is fascinating. Would have been best to just have featured all of this rare footage and axed the narration and boring platititudes about the band.

I LOVE THIS FILM!!! This was the first foreign film I'd ever seen (back in the early 80s)and I've never forgotten it; it's a complete masterpiece.  It opened my eyes to foreign cinema and can't get enough of films from other countries.  I gave this product review 3 stars because I love the film, but hearing from others that the sound transfer is horrible, I was completely destroyed!  I really wanted to buy this, but now that I know about the sound and picture quality, I'll wait for something better.  The films sound is SO important to the overall experience!  How could the DVDs distributor not know this?!  Talk about "out to make a buck" and not worry about quality!  Sounds like a job for DTS to take over!

These shows are on the other DVD's Season 1, 2 and 3 We were a little disappointed by the fact that this got such high reviews and no one bothered to mention that these were repeats.  We thought this would be like some of the other dvd's ie: Mexico, Vampire, Alien invaders, Loch Ness Monster.  Our daughters still enjoyed watching them but kept saying,"Not a new show."  But it still hasn't stopped them from watching it.  I am just disappointed that we were ripped off and bought a dvd with repeat shows....well buyer beware!!!!  Otherwise I would have given it a 5 star as per the kids.

Questions of Quality I realize this is an older film, I grew up on it, it's been an old favorite. And as I've gradually started converting to a Blu collection, I understand that a sharper image doesn't always make a movie look brand new. That said, I found something lacking in the image quality of this digital transfer.... I can't quite put my finger on it, but it seems that something doesn't quite look up to snuff. I own around 40 Blu Ray films now, ranging as far back as the early 80's and up to now; but this seems to be a lower quality than most older films that have been later converted.  That said, it's still the fan favorite it always was, and it's definitely higher quality than you'd ever get from a DVD. If you don't own this, lost\broke your copy, or are just thinking about upgrading your collection, this is the new definitive version to own.

a long way from Deliverance... This big budget creature feature directed by Luis Llosa (Sniper, The Specialist), was a major financial success for Columbia Pictures.  Anaconda (1997) features a better than average cast, executing what is mostly a campy B-movie script, highlighted by an over the top performance by Academy Award winning actor Jon Voight.  Produced in the early days of CG special effects, the giant anaconda was quite impressive in its day, and while occasionally appearing dated, the special effects still look quite good, and are probably superior to some of the effects currently produced by the Sy Fy Channel.  The story is pretty straightforward, as a film crew headed by producer Terri Flores (Jennifer Lopez), anthropologist Steven Cale (Eric Stolz), and camera operator Danny Rich (Ice Cube), take a boat up the Amazon river, intending to document the lifestyle of an obscure native tribe.  On their way, they come across a stranded boat and pickup Paul Serone (Voight), an eccentric snake hunter, who seems to have little regard for danger, or human life.  Plans to shoot the documentary are derailed after Cale is injured.  While acting as guide, Serone actually has plans to use the boat to track down and capture a huge anaconda snake that is prowling the river.  Things really start to pickup after Serone takes control, and turns the expedition into a snake hunt, as the body count stars to rise.  The film really does revolve around Serone, and Voight seems to revel in playing a madman.  For the Oscar winner, like Deliverance (1972), this another harrowing adventure on a river, though with a somewhat different resolution.  With a pair of really evil looking eyes, the giant serpent, the film's other real star, is unbelievably crafty, hyper-aggressive, and darn mean.  The bone crunching constriction kills are fabulously nasty.  Most of the action scenes are tightly staged, and fairly well executed, although the special effects do slip a little in the fiery conclusion.  Aside from Voight, the acting isn't particularly notable, although the absence of stupid irritating dialog is a major plus.  Jennifer Lopez and Ice Cube are involved in most of the action, but until the very end, they spend a lot of their time tripping and falling down when it really counts.  Kari Wurher is pretty good, before making an early exit, but Eric Stolz's talents seem largely wasted, spending most of the film on his back, and out of sight.  With special that have held up rather well over the years, Anaconda is still a fun ride on the Amazon, with some entertaining kills, and Jon Voight keeping things lively.  The 1998 release includes both the widescreen and fullscreen versions, on a double sided disc, with the only `bonus' being the trailer.

Ten Years and We Get THIS?!? Though it lagged in some episodes, Smallville in its whole is representative of nearly 80 years of testament to the human spirit. Equality, government, immigration, sharing of knowledge and technology - you name it, it has graced Superman-based anything through the character's life. Smallville was to be the story that was never told - what happened to change Clark Kent to the Man of Steel.  Despite episodic lag, Smallville grew into a heavy head of steam during seasons eight and nine. And we knew what it was leading up to: allowing us to believe a man can fly.  The only negative in the climatic Season Ten is when Clark dons the suit. We never get a good look, the character is far away in the distant frame, et al. The DC purist in me wants to give it Five Stars for accomplishing exactly what it set out to do, and the fact that by the by they did it well. Maybe the intent was for us to see Superman's initial appearances as the John Q. on the streets of Metropolis - faintly, a blur of colour, from a distance safe enough for a mortal to be generally assured survival without the rendering of aid. If that indeed was the intent (and no special features I've seen testify to that point), then bravo!  But the fanboy in me wanted to see something epic. Something worthy of a ten year old promise. The producers knew exactly where they were going to end up: Clark in the Suit. There was never any doubt. Quite simply, I was expecting something Super.  So please, do not take a mid-grade biased heavily by the series finale at face value. The series as a whole definitively averages four stars per episode, and Season Ten is inclusive to that.  The special features of this final season are on par with everything we've seen included so far: random commentary, occasional featurettes, and the like. But you didn't buy this DVD set for the extras. You bought it to see a man fly.  And at that, we almost do.

Over sexed Threesome get into some Bother on Remote Scottish Island! Yes this is a sexy, thriller, horror, gay themed road movie that ends on a spooky Scottish Island that is cut off by tidal flows. Sadie and Rich are partners she wants a baby, he keeps trying, but is firing blanks. He is also seeing Jonny on the side, his best friend who only cares so long as he keeps firing. They are all off for a party weekend on the above mentioned island.  Only big surprise is that Rick (Holby City's David Paisley - he will never live that down) has found Sadie's (Christine de Vallee - never been in Holby City but had an unscheduled stay in A and E once) long lost sister and family. Meanwhile the tide comes in and cuts them off before they have a chance to visit `Amen Island'. So they go to a Bed and Breakfast for some much needed sex.  The following day they make it to this island and any sane person would have skedaddled straight away - even without the scary music, which is a constant by the way, as all of the inhabitants are weird. Even the scarecrow has been crucified. They do have some more sex though so all is far from lost.  This is one of those modern horror types that feels it has to trowel on the frights and it keeps reminding you that bad things are gonna happen with the music, the constant shots of the incoming tide, shots of crows, cries of crows and the dysfunctional bunch of in breds on the island. There is also quite a lot of sign posting and some pretty flabby plot holes.  That said there are some pretty good performances especially from Mr Paisley - well he was on the BBC you know. And most of the production values are high. I think that writers and producers Mark Harriott and Mike Mathews just tried to shoe horn in too much and that took away from the film rather than adding to it. Still I think it kept me entertained and is far from being the worst film ever but not quite four stars but more than a solid three. If in doubt get it on a rental, you will not be wanting to see it again as it trades on the scares and `twists' and sex and the crow shots and scary bits - I think you get it.

Really good, but shows its age. I don't know.  I like it, but I don't.  I'm an avid believer that if you have a nice home theater setup with a large screen, then you should expect sharp visuals and clean audio.  Being an old opera production, the video shows its age.  The audio and vocal performances are quite good, and will come across nicely with your home theater.  I would enjoy this much better if produced in HD but keeping the elegant staging.  Now, for those that do not care if they see "film" marks, or the 3:4 aspect ration, this is a 5 star production.

the unseen can be scary, but an effective reveal would be nice... The Dawning (2009) features a family at a cabin in the woods, facing an unknown danger.  The film puts in a lot of effort into setting the stage for something big to happen, and features some violence, but mostly fails to deliver the kind of embodiment of evil, that many horror fans have typically come to expect.  While some may regard leaving much to the imagination, a refreshing approach in a clich&eacute;d ridden genre, others may feel disappointment at the absence of a definite and identifiable threat.  Somewhere in Minnesota, siblings Chris (Jonas Goslow) and Aurora (Najarra Townsend) arrive at a cabin in the woods, where their father Richard (David Coral) and their step-mother Laura (Christine Kellogg-Darrin) are staying.  As the family gets reacquainted, various issues come to the surface, and an edgy situation becomes critical when the family dog is gravely injured, causing Richard to shoot her with his hunting rifle.  The family is still in shock, when a strange man (Daniel Jay Salmen), bursts into the house and attacks the family.  He manages to get hold of the rifle, and hold the family at bay, while peering outside looking for some kind of threat.  The man says that his girlfriend is dead, and that they are in danger, but doesn't explain why.  The family manages to overpower the man and tie him up, but bad things begin to happen, when they venture outside of the house.  There is apparently some kind of evil presence in the forest, which has the ability to affect people, and cause some to become violent.  This evil force or entity is never seen or indentified.  Aurora and Chris attempt to escape the danger, but it may be too late.  Co-writer and director, Gregg Holtgrewe says that the decision was made not to specifically identify the threat, which at one was envisioned as some kind of demonlike creature.  A low budget independent production, Dawning garnered some recognition and awards on the festival circuit, so there is some appreciation for a horror tale that features an undefined threat.  With most of the scenes taking place at night or indoors, Dawing features some pretty good cinematography, and is fairly well acted, although sometimes the dialog is not particularly strong.  Unfortunately, despite some positives, the film probably doesn't deliver quite enough to satisfy the mainstream horror audience, who generally have high expectations, and are accustomed to graphic violence.  Generally, keeping the threat under wraps, is an effective device for building up suspense, and then showing it doing something violent or evil, helps to generate fear.  In Jaws, for a good while, all you see a shark's fin, until it leaps out of the ocean and onto the boat.  In Dawning, you get a lot of "fin", but not much "shark".  While atmospheric, with a nebulous story that leaves a little too much to the imagination, the film makes less of an impact than it might have, with a conclusion that could be disappointing to some.  The DVD extras include a behind the scenes featurette, deleted scenes, and a number of commentary tracks.  The overall focus is mostly on providing some idea of the challenges involved in the making of the film, which was shot over several years.

Ultra Violet Digital Copy No Thanks The Movie was great. Quality of the blu-ray's sound and video, great. Ultra Violet Digital Copy, ehhhhh.  You have to create an "Ultra Violet" account, and a "Flixster" account, then download an app for every portable device you would like to watch your videos on. And even though you can now download the movies onto your computer or portable device I had trouble downloading it onto my iPad and my iPod. Not a big fan at all. I also like to manage all my media with iTunes, I just have to download a movie once, and can sync it quick and easy to any of my iOS devices.  I hope this Ultra Violet Digital copy business is just a fad that will go away soon. Or give us an option to choose iTunes downloads.

UK version includes 3D Blu-ray and real Digital Copy I'm not buying the U.S. version, the region free UK release will include the Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD and a real Digital Copy. No UltraViolet Digital Copy.

False Advertising  for the Wacka Wacka Combo Pack but Great Movie I just purchased a copy of the new Muppets movie and I would like to point out something to anyone who is buying this Muppets Wacka Wacka Combo Pack.  It states that what is "included" is a DVD, Blu-Ray, Digital Copy , and Soundtrack. HOWEVER the Digital copy and Soundtrack are NOT included. You have to type in a code to download them off the internet, even though it says all over the packaged "INCLUDED" and NO mention anywhere on the box about having to be downloaded.  I just off the phone with Disney and they are aware of this packaging error , and said they would look into it and get back to me. I'm not gonna hold my breathe until I'm as blue in the face as Gonzo though.  Also if you download the soundtrack, again don't be fooled as it says "Full Soundtrack " but it is not. The original soundtrack consists of 30 tracks, but the Wacka Wacka Combo Box only lists 15 as the FULL Soundtrack. Yes there are 15 songs and the other 15 are dialogue from the film, so depending on how you look at it, it could be considered the full soundtrack of songs but not the full soundtrack if you buy it in the store.  The movie itself I thought was very good , even though nothing beats the classic muppets films, but still over all for any muppet fan it is worth seeing.

Pretty good I saw this in the theater years ago.  It was pretty good.  I tried to give it 3 1/2 stars but apparently you can't.  You wouldn't regret watching it.

I Wanted to Love This... dialogue made it tough I am a big fan of war movies.  I love aviation movies.  I listened to George Lucas discuss the making of this film with amazing passion on NPR.  I was very excited to watch a movie of LUCAS (epic) proportions based on the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African American USAAF servicemen during World War II.  The scenery and air scenes were awesome.  There were some touching moments.  The bad: It felt like the writers wished they were allowed to use a narrator and instead had random people say awkward lines just to slam the viewer in the face with perfectly obvious statements.  This made the film lose its magic.  Great stories show you their heart, this story had the potential.  Instead the movie told you its message, again and again, and often using deadpan dubbed sounding voices.

It's good 3D and surfers may like it, but guests find it boring It's good 3D and quality picture. Surfers will like it, but my guests find it boring. Kinda sorry I bought it.

Not fantastic for all ages, but short length good for small kid's short attention spans This movie was definitely targeted at a very young audience, and it's short run time of less than an hour makes it perfect for small children with even smaller attention spans.  Best for a 5-8 year old audience, children will enjoy the fairies, magic, and evil, but not so scary villian.  However, unlike animations from other production companies, this movie doesn't have much depth and won't appeal to an older audience, the animation is typical of jetlag productions, and the plot adheres closely to the sleeping beauty myth with little orginiality.  To an older audience the characters come off as having a little less than the usual amount of intelligence, and the characters are pretty flat with no dimensionality, but as the film is short it doesn't end up being that much of a problem.  However, if you are just looking for a wholesome animation that won't bore your small kids, this is perfect.  The only violence is when the prince is trying to defeat the giant, and it consists of him riding his horse around the giant's ankles "poking' him with his sword, which makes a "doink" noise when he does and only ends up tickling the giant, not hurting him.  Language is clean and characters are dressed modestly.

Predictable. Have seen better, and have seen worse. Not bad and not good.  We enjoy Kate Hudson, and were not disappointed.

SO/SO Barely three start.  If I had stopped watching it somewhere around half way, I would have given it two!  But, they through in a couple of twists in the plot that made me say, "Oh, okay, I'll see how this turns out."  In hindsight, I have to wonder if they put them in after making the movie, saying to themselves, "Wow, this movie needs help." ;-)  All in all, I'm SURE glad I didn't spend the $$$ to watch it in the theater.  And, if you don't have ANYTHING else to watch on a Friday night, this will do, but, again, only if you don't have ANYTHING else to watch.

Not bad I read some of the reviews on here before buying. There weren't many good reviews, but I took a chance any ways. I enjoy this movie. I think it is some what like the first Road House. It's not as good. But I am ok with that.

Predictable, but entertaining. So - Hillary Swank!  I like her - I mean who doesn't, right?  I'd never heard of this film.  Was this even released in theaters? - This movie was entertaining, yet predictable.  I mean, look at the cover: it says "Resident" - and shows Hillary herself looking scarily onto some guy.  So - it makes it clear who the bad guy is, right?  I mean - they make no bones about it right from the get-go. So, that makes it predictable.  Yet, the movie itself is still pretty entertaining.  I quite liked it but could not give it more than 3 stars.  Well, you pretty much know what's going on from the very beginning, and I thought they might throw me a twist or something, but they don't.  Still - it's fun to watch.  The music, the setup, the words - we've all seen it before.  However, it was still pretty fun to watch, even if you already know what's up and how it will end.

Original This is clearly the director's debut.  Great idea, B movie budget and delivery.  i expected much more from all the buzz i heard.  Still entertaining.

Mad Men Season 5 This season feels a bit like it is trying to be better, bigger, more insanely egotistical than Seasons 1-4. I had grown fond of Don Draper and in Season 5 I feel he becomes somewhat foolish in his impulsive decision to marry Megan. Somehow the characters are becoming cartoons of themselves,and their behavior a bit more unlikeable. Now I find myself a bit less interested in these people. They ALL seem shallow and doomed for unfortunate outcomes. Visually the season is as rich and enticing as 1-4.

Good, but no goodies Be careful that you're reading the right review - This is for the blu-ray trilogy. Turns out, I failed and read a review here for a different version that listed all kinds of goodies/extras - like commentary, featurettes, concept art, etc. I think the review I saw was for the OOP Criterion version or something, because this trilogy has no extras. Well it's got the trailers, that's it...no commentary or featurettes.  It's nice to have the original Verhoeven cut in HD (sort of), but if you're looking for the Robo version of something like the excellent Alien Anthology blu-ray set, this isn't it. Someone needs to broker a deal between MGM and the folks at robocoparchive.com, where the RA guys develop the "special features disc" and Hollywood's remastering ninjas really go to work on these films (or at least the first one), and do for them what was done for the Kubrick movies. The Shining blu-ray, for instance, makes that movie look like it was shot this year. Robo 1 still looks basically the same as it did on DVD.  In any case, perhaps one day Robo will get the massive blu-ray set he deserves, until then, seems like this will have to do. If the dearth of extras is a dealbreaker for you, it seems that the Criterion DVD is probably still the way to go.

It was okay Not as funny as the first two seasons. Would have appreciated it if Netflix carried it instead of me having to purchase it. Still a good diversion though

Old time goodness proves that some of this stuff is very age dependent, my five yr old didnt get it but I did! had a blast

TO MONSTER OR NOT TO MONSTER. THAT IS THE QUESTION As movies go, this one is good with the expected reliable sophistication of a quality Hammer film, but for me it just wasn't Frankenstein Monstery enough.

serial killer, 40s version Set in Paris, this film is about a serial killer who is also sympathetic and wants to avoid anymore "incidents."  It is clear form the beginning that it is Carradine, so this is no spoiler - what is fun and interesting is how they do it, when compared to say Hannibal Lector of 90s sensibility.  All is all, Carradine pretty much pulls it off:  in his everyday life, he isn't a bad man, but that is not all that there is to him.  As a puppetmaster, he runs a troupe and also makes some money painting for a sleazy little dealer who knows his deadly secrets.  Into his life comes a lovely girl, whom he loves and yet seeks to avoid, particularly painting her.  While I don't want to reveal the plot, the film climaxes when Carradine explains to the girl why he does what he does.  It is fun to see the root of the compulsion, but it seemed strangely shallow to me.  Still, you enter his mind for a moment and it is pretty scary.  Recommended, if you like oldies that is, or Carradine.  It is definitely one of his better performances.

packaging damaged The teeth that hold the dvds in the cases are all broken. The dvds are not damaged as far as I can tell but its going to be a headaches finding cases for storing them.

Great film - poor quality DVD This is a great film.  The film tells the story of two Olympic runners with very different backgrounds and motivations, but who end up on the same team.  There are some powerful moments in which the viewer feels the drive, force and determination of the athlete and the basis for that drive and determination.  Unfortunately, the quality of the DVD is poor.  It's grainy on the HD screen and not released in wide screen yet.  Being that it won Best Picture at the Academy Awards it is a marvel that this film has not yet been released as Blue-Ray or some better quality DVD.  It just doesn't play very well on HD sets.

not as good as others I bought this for my grandson who is three and a half.  We have four fireman Sam videos and this one is his least favorite.

Entertaining, but not as good as the book. This version is decent but isn't as strong as the William Golding novel.  The child actors are a bit too shrill, there is no "littleuns" group and the characters are inexplicably American instead of British.  That said, the second half (slaying of the beast, the hunt for Ralph, etc.) is beautifully shot.

Love the movie I didn't realize when I made the purchase that I would not be getting the jacket with the movie.  It came in just a plastic disc cover.  The movie works, but there is no resale value or collector value without the jacket.

Shadow image I would like to know if anyone else who owns this DVD has experienced the same problem I have.  2 or 3 of the episodes that I have viewed so far are not sharp for DVDs.  I'm not sure how to describe it exactly.  There is a shadow like image on one side of the characters and objects in the picture.  It's really annoying because it's on my favorite episode with Merlin Santana.  I would give this a better rating if it weren't for that.  I want to know if my DVD is defective and I need to return it or if they are all like that.

was disappointed came in less than 3 days, was in the condition the seller said it was in. All 3 of these were great movies the 1st time I saw them, but after buying them I gave too my ex wife, she likes T. Cruise

This was fun........ My wife and I watched this and it was funny and Sexy, It was what you think of when you watch some of these movies, I will say this we had fun afterward... ;D

If there is no such thing as absolute morality, then child abuse is not evil, it just may not be your thing---R.M. Pippert THE DEBT is more of a psychological thriller than an action thriller. The action simply provides the bedrock for the psychodrama. THE DEBT is a remake of a 2007 Israeli film which was rather different.  The acting in THE DEBT is excellent, particularly that of Jessica Chastain as the younger Rachel. Chastain is a talented actress who, though she has appeared in many films, has fortunately managed to avoid celebrity. Helen Mirren, who plays the older Rachel turns in her usual work of stellar caliber.  It is 1965. Stefan, David and Rachel are Mossad agents tasked to capture the Mengele-esque "Surgeon of Birkenau," a Dr. Vogel, who is living inconspicuously in East Berlin, practicing gynecology twenty years after escaping justice for his war crimes of useless and horrifying medical experiments on Auschwitz inmates.  They capture Dr. Vogel but when they attempt to sneak him "over the wall" into West Berlin things go badly awry, and so the three agents are forced to care for him while awaiting extraction. Realizing that his captors have become as much a set of prisoners as he himself, the wily Vogel (who is an unrepentant Nazi to the core) begins to torment them psychologically; eventually, he makes his escape.  Recriminations fly back and forth. Finally, Stefan convinces David and Rachel to agree to the story that they killed Dr. Vogel while he was trying to escape. Eventually, they are extracted, and return to Israel as heroes, where they are feted and invited to speak publicly about their successful mission.  Thirty-odd years pass. Stefan is now head of the Mossad. Stefan and Rachel have been married and divorced, and have a daughter who is a notable Israeli journalist. Their daughter writes their memoirs which become an international best-seller.  At the same time that their daughter's book comes to print, a Ukrainian journalist announces that he has gotten an exclusive interview with a old man claiming to be the Surgeon of Birkenau. Rachel, Stefan and David's thirty-five year old lie begins to unravel. How they deal with that unraveling and the consequences they face make up the kernel of THE DEBT.  I didn't like THE DEBT. I can't appreciate films where the motives and motivations of the characters get twisted into Turkish Taffy by dint of their own stupidity. There's something pathetic about watching intelligent people knowingly sticking their feet into bear traps, and that's what we have here. THE DEBT's biggest failing is the moral relativism of its characters. Dr. Vogel is the only character who seems to have the courage of his convictions, however twisted they may be. What I kept asking myself as THE DEBT played out was why the three agents simply didn't kill Vogel after their first botched extraction attempt. In the end, their lie, made true, would have been a better resolution than the self-imposed unresolvable ethical morass in which they lived their lives.

May I have the envelope, please. The Oscar for "Best Movie Shot in Venice" goes to...THE TOURIST. The beautiful city of Venice, Italy was the best thing about this movie. The rest was...well...not really anything International Bad Guy vs Interpol different or edge-of-the-seat-whodunit startling. It was an OK 113 minute long piece of escapism. While the movie was entertaining, I didn't really care about the characters. Angelina Jolie standing there looking glamorous does nothing for me, and Johnny Depp, a gifted actor with long, unwashed hair, was wasted here. The real star was Venice. There were many beautiful views of this "Floating City" to marvel at. For that alone I rate it 3 and 1/2 stars.

"Just One Look":  A Mixed Exchange for the Big and Little Screens In animation, in plot, and in rhyme and song, 'The Lorax,' movie has somewhat elaborated from the Dr. Seuss' book.  Sometimes it's a pay off, but at other times it is a letdown.  In pace, they are snappy enough, but in song and in dialogue, they don't add much quality to the overall movie experience.  There are some pretty dull lines and some lame lyrics when you listen carefully to both the words and songs.  Still, the characterization (including voices from the likes of Zac Efron and Betty White) are endearing, and the vibrant, flowing visuals make this 'Lorax' good enough for at least viewing once.

Satisfying Science Fiction Silliness--Fun Enough If You Don't Think Too Hard, But Not Enough Bean Imagine a primitive land where a haggard tribe battles for survival amongst the dangers of a dwindling food supply and a neighboring horde of mutants. Everyone is dressed in attractively constructed savage-wear, furs and leather draped just so to accentuate nubile young bodies. It may look like a gorgeous location shoot for a trendy modeling fashion layout--but, NO! This is the future! "The Lost Future" presents just such a scenario. Set at some time in the indeterminate future, this band of sultry survivors think they are the last people on earth. On a hunting mission, they encroach on the mutant's territory which causes a retaliatory strike. Just who came up with this property division in the first place? And you've got to credit the carnivorous monsters for abiding to the strict letter of the agreement for so long. They can't be all bad! With the tribe and its elders in peril, three young protagonists set out on a quest for help. Luckily, they meet the invaluable Sean Bean who raises questions about everything they were taught to believe.  Bean knew one of the adventurer's father, and he thinks that the son just might hold the key to saving mankind. Why? Here's the pivotal plot point. He can read. Yes, apparently no one on earth bothered to pass on even the most minimal of education through the years. This is especially amusing, as every character speaks with modern colloquialisms and phrases. The dialogue is so contemporary, in fact, it really doesn't support the fact that so much time has passed or that we've seemingly regressed in our educational capabilities. The town elders have been reduced to bumbling religious zealots with no instinct for self-preservation. I know that no one is looking for authenticity--I'm just saying. If you are, however, looking for complex mythology or explanation--don't bother. What happened is only mentioned in the vaguest of terms, the mutant issue is completely unexplored, and the miracle cure must just be taken at face value with zero contemplation.  Still, it's hard not to appreciate the silliness. And it is well done for this type of B-movie mayhem. A battle with an enormous sloth is well staged and the mutants are like zombies on steroids. The creatures oftentimes hold more entertainment value than the sometimes bland actors. Sam Claflin as the unlikely hero has some strong moments (when he isn't inappropriately flirting in life or death moments). And Bean is so welcome and grounded. His seriousness and weight seem like they might be from another film altogether. Despite the movie's marketing, however, Bean is only a supporting player here--and you miss him when he's off screen. This epic premiered in the U.S. on the SyFy Network and, in truth, it is more solid than most of their endeavors. There is fun to be had with "The Lost Future" as long as one's expectations are in check. On the bad movie scale, about 3 1/2 stars--not quite cheesy enough to get an upgrade. KGHarris, 9/11.

THE HUNTING PARTY GOOD THO NOT GREAT FILM ABOUT A NEWS HOUND AND HIS ADRENILINE JUNKY CAMERAMAN GETTING PERSONALLY CAUGHT UP IN THE HORRORS OF THE SERB BOSNIAN CONFLICT AFTER THE BREAK UP OF THE ONCE RULING COMMUNIST REGIME. AGAIN, DOESN'T ADDRESS THE CENTURYS OF HATE AND ANIMOSITY UNDERLYING THE EXPLOSION INTO BARBARISM. SOLID PERFORMANCES BY GERE AND HOWARD.

This Movie Heard good things about this movie, waiting for the download to finish so i can watch the entire film, also this film was nominated for like 7 academy awards

Pretty good, if a bit too much. I am a DIE-HARD fan of John Carpenter's Halloween. It is simply phenomenal. I am also a Rob Zombie fan. I like his music and was overwhelmed with joy after House of 1000 Corpses, just because it was a REAL horror film, when all we had were ignorant 'horror' films that just tried to trash horror altogether. When I first heard that Rob was going to do a Halloween movie, I jumped for joy. I heard he was supposed to be such a huge fan of the movie and I thought if anyone could bring it back to the brilliance of John Carpenter, Rob could do it.   I WAS WRONG.   I think Rob must've sat and watched John's movie and said, 'Everything he DID do, I WON'T do. Everything he DIDN'T do, I WILL do.'   Not much blood, mine will be a bloodbath.   Not a lot of nudity, mine will have wall-to-wall t&a. People who never got the idea that Michael Myers was supposed to be the boogeyman and he's supposed to be a supernatural entity in the shape of a human will be happy, because Rob makes Michael a 'regular' guy, making the Loomis dialogue about him being evil sound really pretentious. Also, it's funny that you can keep shooting him and stuff and he still keeps coming, despite the fact he's a 'regular' guy. You can even blast his blood and brains all over the place and he'll just wind up with a little scrape on his head.   Sorry Rob. Have to call B.S. on that.   I'm really trying to say that Rob Zombie just WAY OVERTHOUGHT this movie. One of the things that made the original so great was the fact the story was so simple, if you just pay attention while watching it.   I DO like the cast a bit. Danielle Harris and Kristine Bleebe are lovely, awesome and look really good with no clothes on. Malcolm McDowell was a super choice for Loomis. Brad Dourif is always a joy to see in any movie. We get the Zombie regulars (i.e. Sherry Moon, Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Ken Foree, etc.) That warmed my heart to see that.   I am waiting with anticipation to see Lords of Salem, his next movie, but Rob should stop with remakes and make his own, original movies. This flick shows that just because you can remake movies, doesn't mean you should.   Plus, the original Halloween is a beautiful, well-shot movie. This looks more like Rob was making a dingy, unappealinjg exploitation movie. Good stuf, but John Carpenter still rules.

Starting to lose steam. This one was not as good as the first two. There were a couple decent scares, but most of them were in the trailers. The one scene that I found pretty creepy was the sheet scene, that was rather dusturbing. Hopefully 4 will be better.

Barely passable police corruption potboiler Police corruption has always been good for crackling storytelling, sharp  dialogue and riveting performances from talented actors, films like SERPICO and LA CONFIDENTIAL will come to mind, TV series like THE SHIELD or NYPD BLUE, while armed with an excellent cast, a talented writer and a director of immense potential somehow unexpectedly RAMPART ends up being a big let down and a near failure. For starters, it's a rehashed of other better executed ideas, it's a follow the cliches to the end of the maze like a dutiful consumer rodent type movie. Not for one second did I found the film suspenseful, engaging or stimulating, and at the half way mark I walked out to get popcorn and was conflicted with the idea of just leaving the film, or doing my perseeved duty and finishing the flick so I could bad mouth it in public.  Needless, to say I stayed and ate some very good popcorn, and fortunately for me the movie began it's slow process of picking up. The last hour or so of this 108 minute feature does have some good scenes, good exchanges between actors, especially the scenes involving Woody Harrelson's Dave Brown character and his two young daughters. Still RAMPART's biggest flaws seem to come in it's inability to tell a compelling story, based on a script co-written by one of my favorite authors, James Ellroy, it's just him going down familiar territory that he among others have traveled better before, nearly the whole concluding denouncement seems lifted from the Ellroy penned movie <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JLO8">Dark Blue</a>. Here,  Ellroy's script is lacking in his fine tuned snappy dialogue that can be found in his books and in his public appearances. Ellroy has self declared himself as the greatest crime writer who ever lived, and I might be tempted to concur, but here that bold statement is not evident. RAMPART  is directed by Oren Moverman, who co-scripted with Ellroy, and who's previous film was the wonderful affecting <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0036RPM8Y">The Messenger</a>, who's stars, Harrelson and Ben Foster, are present in this picture as well. Moverman shows that he is a natural born filmmaker, he keeps the proceedings well within camera range, if only it was more stimulating to view.  The cast, aided by a continurously moving camera,  is the movie's saving grace. Harrelson is at his best in this leading role, a character that is racist, sexist and a homophobe, he is an otherley corrupt, despicable, amoral human being, it's a real testament to Harrelson's performance that he never let's us loose sight to the fact that he is also a father, and maybe once upon a time became a cop with noble intentions. Other top acting honors have to go to Ned Beatty, Ice Cube and Brie Larson, but the rest of the supporting cast, including Robin Wright, Sigourney Weaver, Anne Heche and Cynthia Nixon, delivery top flight and memorable work. Only Steve Buscemi is unfortunately wasted in what amounts to little more than a guest appearance or cameo.  I may be giving Rampart a passing grade, but I will also try to make it clear that it is not an essential film to see. It's not the cast or the filmmaker's best achievement, and there are plenty of like minded films and TV series that are much more gripping and worthy of checking out. The whole thing plays out like a condensed version of the great FX series [[ASIN:B002M2T1UO The Shield: Complete Series]. If you do watch it, you will want to stick it out through the rough and turbulent first half, then you might see the little bit of grace and redemption that the film has, and that the Dave Brown character lacks.

BLU-RAY!! I bought the 3 SCREAM movies on blu-ray expecting to see a beautiful transfer but it was a disappointment.None of the 3 movies looked very good. A lot of grain and it looked kinda cheap. I regret buying it!

Wishful Thinking At Its Best Most people say that if you can't enjoy this movie for the childish video game styled bulls#$% that it is, then don't bother. They're right. There are so many blunders, and abject failures of physics, I could write an essay on it. I'll spare you the analysis. If you're a nerd, or even slightly cognizant, make sure you get amazingly drunk before seeing this, or you might end up having a brain aneurysm.

Working on the Railroad Kansas Pacific, 1952 film  "Bleeding Kansas" was a scene of conflict over the slavery question in the late 1850s. During this time a railroad was being built to the west. It could become a vital link for the US government. Some Southern groups tried to prevent it and were opposed by Northern interests. The movie shows men working on the railroad. A steam locomotive halts because of damaged tracks, the saboteurs shoot at them. The Kansas-Pacific is a military project [government funded, as many were]. Captain Nelson will be sent out as a troubleshooter. Back in Kansas a woman telegrapher records a message to restart construction under a new construction engineer. Skilled workers are hard to find. There is a fight in the street for action. We learn about Quantrill's scheme to delay construction by sending his men to work on the railroad. Men are hired for work, some of them will be armed guards. Logs are placed to hold the iron rails in place. [Steel rails are more durable.]  One worker stumbles and is discharged. Nelson suggests an improvement. Quantrill plots his sabotage. A train brings in supplies. A fight between two men distracts the others so the explosives are set off by a rifle shot. The saboteurs steal dynamite and run away on their horses. There is a chase with shooting. Nelson finds the men who stole the dynamite and retrieves it. His offer of double pay recruits more workers. The next day there is another sabotage attempt that fails. Shots are fired, "Smokestack" is wounded. The work goes on. Cannons are used to destroy the train. More repair work is needed but there are fewer men now. Supplies, troops, and ammunition will arrive on the next train, its schedule is kept secret. Railroad guards are sent out to prevent another attack. This train has soldiers and a cannon to shoot back! The railroad guards attack as will, defeating the saboteurs. Nelson fight Quantrill and captures him. The train proceeds to its destination. "I'll be back" says Nelson to Barbara. "He'll be back" repeats "Smokestack".  This is an average movie, comparable to a TV movie from that era. It is loosely based on history but avoids controversy or anything that would make you think. Just where did those cannon and ammunition come from? Moving them requires teams of horses, aiming them requires a skilled and experienced gunner. There is little background on the town in this movie. They used post-Civil War firearms in this story.r

Based on a true story..... Based Ok, so after watching this fascinating "mockumentary" I did a quick search and it turns out: 1. Uday hussein never had a body double. 2. The guy who claimed to have been the body double didn't mention anything about it to his wife until 4 years after they were married. 3. No one has ever found any evidence that the body double's story was true. However, if you ignore the main character of the movie and focus on the viscous accounts of what saddam's son did, those events are true. You can pretty much take or leave this movie.

Great effects, so-so story, dumb characters... As many have said, the special effects are rather good in this story, though the impact is not quite as great as it was with "Jurassic Park."  The problem is not with the special effects.  Where the movie suffers is from a weak storyline and incredibly bad writing of characters.  In this movie, you'll see human beings doing and saying some of the dumbest, most unrealistic things imaginable, which keeps reminding you that the dinosaurs are not real (otherwise, why are these humans acting this way and saying these things?).  I realize that this was meant to be high entertainment, and I don't have anything against making a fun dinosaur movie, but for a movie claiming to have realistic depictions of dinosaurs, you kinda need the humans on screen to respond realistically to the dinosaurs on screen for it to work.  As it is, there were many good ideas here, but it fell very short of what it could have been.

Purple Sticky Stuff and a Movie Okay, I a big fan of ICP and the likes, but what a trip. What kind of demented nutcase thinks this kind of bizarro stuff up?  I always thought that Godzilla movies were cheesy, but now I have a different take on a seriously deranged culture.  Although this is not my cup o tea, I do realize there are more folks, worse off than myself, who can truly appreciate this imaginary chaos.  If you like a gaffe of nothing but bizarro gore special effects and no real story plot... you'll more than likely need a bag of purple sticky stuff to enjoy this movie.

D&eacute;j&agrave; vu Not a bad movie and not very exciting either. But how many movies are based upon the same madman concept. A lot. There is some good acting with the exception of wooden Cruise. For $4 it's okay.

Meh Normally, I enjoy Adam Sandler, even his not-as-good flicks like Mr. Deeds, but this one was just... meh. There's some slapstick Sandler humor in here and a few funny parts, but I really can't recommend this movie to own. I saw this movie once, and I really have no desire to see it again. It's *supposed* to be a heart-warming flick (with the story revolving around Sandler's character and the little boy) but honestly, it was just more obnoxious than cute.

Delayed Maturity A silly, but amusing film.  Fans of Ferrell and Reilly will probably be more forgiving than the average viewer, who might find it hard to relate to two fully mature adult males acting like a couple of spoiled, pampered preteens.  Well acted, but one wonders why any producer bothered.  Surely these fine actors could have found a better storyline.

Ok, not great Basically, with movies like this, you want a why? There was no real "why", just a "Yay America!" (and "old America" at that)

Stripped down... but okay I read the book and wanted to see how authentic the movie was in relation to it. I really enjoyed the book. The movie basically stripped most of the background information that the main character learns while "coming into" his powers. I think it might have been done in an effort to put more action into the movie. Oh well. Six didn't even appear in the book until the end. The movie was okay, for what it was. I do wish more of the detail of the book could have been left in order to better define the characters.

Fun, but overrated Real Steel was the kind of sleeper hit that's a bit refreshing in this day and age of massive blockbuster extravaganzas.  Granted that the film as a whole is a semi-cliche' mellowdrama with rock 'em sock 'em robots, but hey, there's just something about it that just makes you want to see it.  Given that, it doesn't necessarily make Real Steel anything special, and contrary to a majority of viewer's reactions to it, is actually pretty overrated.  Hugh Jackman stars as a down and out robot boxing manager that's stuck reconnecting with his estranged 11 year old son, all the while trying to climb back up the ranks of the robot boxing world.  That's pretty much it in a nut shell, with Lost vet Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie, and Kevin Durand along for the ride too.  The effects are good and the film's action sequences are wonderful, but the overly predictable story and abundance of wanna-be-hipness really hurt the film.  All in all, Real Steel isn't bad, but it's nowhere near as special as many have found it to be.

Men.. Don't be fooled!! While I must admit that this movie had many laugh out loud scenes, it was a chick flick by the numbers. Let me count the ways...  1) Sex with no nudity. 2) Gushy "feel good" song. 3) Good guy vs. bad boy conflict. 4) "Hot mess" female lead. 5) uptight female antagonist  Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the movie. But to compare this in any way to the Hangover is very misleading.

Promising but disappointing Didn't quite know what to expect from this unusual film and found the first hour subtly and effectively nightmarish (although less compelling sociologically, as with the script's exploration of job assimilation and civil rights for the undead-- good stuff for satire on a level that perhaps eludes the committee-minded French), taking the aphorism 'be careful what you wish for' to a disturbing psychological extreme. Then it all fell apart in the last act. If only we had known the recently departed were secret terrorists who could withstand multi-story freefalls without a single broken bone (what other superpowers were the intrepid scientists and armies of Red Cross volunteers unable to detect?). Just silly. The concept was nice; the execution sadly never fought past that hazy 'waking stage.'  A disappointing 2 1/2 stars.

Snow White Not Sooo Bright Watching Snow White and The Huntsman, Directed by Rupert Sanders, made me yearn for the good ol days of "Hi Ho Hi Ho...It's Off to Work We Go"!!!  Filmed mostly in not Sooo techni-color, it stars Ravenna...the most evil of all evil witches in all the land, played by Charlize Theron and  Kristen Stewart as Snow White, the most emotionless unsympathetic expressionless Princess  pure of heart that there ever was. Rounding out our principle cast of characters are Sam Spruell as Ravenna's weak sister of a brother, Finn, Sam Claflin as William (Prince Charmer) and Chris Hemsworth as "The Huntsman".  Our story begins with glorious anticipation as we watch newly crowned Queen Ravenna quickly implement her devious diabolical scheme of treacherous trickery to take over the Castle and the entire Kingdom for her very own!  Soon we discover that her beauty and power is rivaled only by her evil!  Each day Ravenna gazes into the mirror and asks, "mirror mirror on the wahl, who's the fairest of them awl". Obediently, a liquid gold oozes from the mirror transforming itself into a golden Genie who responds reluctantly, "You are the fairest of them all".  Way too soon we find our sullen Princess, Snow White, locked away in the dingy dirty dank dark dungeon where she has been held captive since childhood when her father, the King, was slain unceremoniously by his bride Ravenna on the very night of their wedding day!  After some 20 years the Princess skillfully escapes her palace prison and high tails it directly into the forbidden forest!  Continuing down the yellow brick road, our story turns into a much darker version of the Wizard of Oz where our Princess meets up with the tin man and the cowardly lion, just kidding!  But She does encounter all sorts of strange and nasty forest creatures who try to kill her dead at every turn! All the while being tracked and chased by the drunken Huntsman and Finn, who have been sent to find her and return her to the evil Queen So that she can tear out her heart!  I did find a few fleeting Thrills n Chills once upon a time in our fairytale; including Fairies, a big bad ugly Troll guarding the bridge (sigh) and at least 7 Dwarfs!  There was even some m*a*j*i*c*k* to be found along the way!  Check IT out,if you dare!  ~*BITTER*~ shakes it off and sips a flute of champagne!

Christians vs. evil-doers Director Christopher Smith takes on religion with a surprisingly even hand.  More correctly a backhand.  As the plague is killing hordes in 14th century England, the "Church" sends out a band of Christians to travel to a village some distance away that is evidently immune from the disease.  The church believes that the Devil or his servant is creating the death and has set up shop in the village.  I was expecting that there were going to be some medieval zombies or something but alas just a difference of opinion on the goodness of God.  The film is given legitimacy with Sean Bean (currently watching in "The Game of Thrones") and Eddie Redmayne (last seen a couple months ago in "The Yellow Handkerchief").  Smith doesn't play favorites in his convictions with both the Christians and the non-believers doing their share of bad deeds.  I didn't care for the ending, seemingly put in to add a little time to the film but ultimately unnecessary.  Still, the settings and some solid acting are very convincing.

Species + Mimic = Splice There's not a breathtaking amount of originality to Splice, but it is an otherwise solid little sci-fi horror with no real lasting appeal. It's very similar to the incredibly stupid 1995 movie Species as well as having many shades of Guillermo Del Toro's Mimic (Del Toro served as producer on this film too) but plays it straight enough for it to be taken seriously in its own right.  Adrian Brody and Sarah Polley play scientists/lovers working for a pharmaceutical company hoping to find cures for various diseases by splicing human DNA with that of various other creatures. They eventually create Dren, a female born from a fake uterus who initially looks like a blind, hairless rabbit. She soon grows arms and eyes and resembles a little girl, quickly after that she looks like a young woman and is treated mostly as a human, mostly.  What bothered me about the film is that Dren is frequently treated pretty badly. She cannot talk, instead relying on squeaks and facial expressions, and should be treated like the newborn she actually is. But the pretty poor scientists who created her really ought to be charged with animal/human cruelty. If repeatedly slapping a bad dog with a newspaper creates an unstable animal...  Splice doesn't really have many tricks up its sleeve. Vincenzo Natali plays the dead/not dead card way too many times and never really lets us into the mind of Dren. When the movie isn't trying to be a horror its an interesting study of the would-be human development of Dren and the emotions she provokes from those around her. In the end, neither genre defines the film and, like Dren herself, it ends up being a hodge-podge of half-baked ideas.  The Blu-ray is in 1.78:1 1080p with DTS HD-MA sound and a fair amount of extras.

For Kafka fans only The tag line to this Romanian film is `In a world where crime has no meaning'. I was keen to see this as it is from director Corneliu Porumboiu who did '12:08 East of Bucharest'.  This has a very basic plot in that a cop is assigned a case to target a drug dealer. He spends weeks watching him and staking out his house etc. He then files his report arguing for leniency as the law on drugs is so Draconian. His bosses take a more traditional police approach and he has a crisis of conscience. That is neither a plot spoiler or too short a synopsis as this is a basic film examining conscience. It is not a crime thriller or an action movie, despite having a gun on the cover, the dictionary it lies on is a better representation of this film.  Set in post Stalinist Romania, the settings are all bleak, rotting concrete and badly made roads, which add to the cold feel of the film. There is very little colour too so that when something bright -like a blue bucket- appears on screen I was immediately drawn to it. Whether that is intentional or a reflection on the greyness of the city is unclear.  There is also no background music at all, this adds to the feeling that time is passing slowly and there are many such devices which seem to heighten the mundanity of his job.  This film has many layers but you will have to dig to get them and at 113 minutes running time does seem overly long. However, when it gets moving, things change fairly rapidly. One of the things I love about World Cinema is the different approaches to film making from say Hollywood, but there are downsides too and this film for me required some effort. It felt a bit Kafkaesque so if that is your thing I am sure you will like this presentation from Artificial Eye.

The Girl Who Played with Fire For some inexplicable reason, Amazon has removed the rate-movie feature from the main product page. One must now write a review in order to rate a movie and generate recommendations. This is not a review, but merely a means to allow me to rate this movie and improve my recommendations. If you are as annoyed by this new "feature" as I am, please register your protest w/ Amazon help.

Expected it to be worse The story is weak, and quiet similar to most of the movies, not original. Characters are okay. I could say it was more or less exciting to watch some of them fight. At the start I would give it 1 star, but then as I continued to watch, in the end I decided that it was okay. If there ever will be Tekken 2, it must be nothing like this movie. I wouldn't call it boring, but it was nothing special. The movie is okay to watch, if there is nothing else to choose from.

Giant Remembered thizs older movie differently---not so corny and with better acting particularly on James Dean's part. Liz Taylor was her normal gorgeous self,

Decent DVD into Jack's early years This is a pretty good DVD for the value that you get. A lot of the matches end up with disqualification endings, such as Cactus Jack's match with the Patriot. Not many of the matches here on this DVD are five star classics in any sense of the word. But one match does stick out to mind: his 'Loser Leaves Town' match with Eric Embry. He attacks Embry in the opening bell, in classic heel fashion, irish whips him to the ropes but Embry surprises Jack with a backslide and pins him in 12 seconds! I was laughing hysterically!! Also, it was nice to see Tony Atlas do some in-between match commentary for this DVD.

Excellent thriller except for the last 20 minutes This is an excellent thriller. Except for the last 20 minutes, the logic is generally ok (though why does one cop deliberately shoot another?). The camera work is good (not too much blurring and shaking of the camera). The characters are likable. Great stunts. Quite enjoyable.  The last 20 minutes nearly ruin the whole thing. The plot becomes illogical and absurd. That's where the movie lost a star on my ratings.

product came from canada Movie came from Canada so everything also written in French. Movie played in English. Took forever for it to get here.

Mis-advertised You advertise the Fanny and Alexander (Special Edition Two-Disc Set) and as we scroll down it becomes clear that it's a five disc set. Get it together, guys!

Feminist Film? Thought the premise sounded interesting, and I was right. The only thing that surprised me was what a great villain Chris Cleek made. You love to hate him and end up rooting for "the woman"--or, really, the women. Also, I absolutely loved the soundtrack. I would have given this movie a higher score had the acting not been weak in some areas and the fact that it just overall reminded me too much of "The Girl Next Door," which Lucky McKee and Ketchum both had to do with, if I'm not mistaken. The ending also was a little too ridiculous, but horror movies can easily get away with that. One more thing--the makeup was ABSURD. They made a beautiful girl look absolutely disgusting, and I loved that.  I heard a lot about this movie being a "feminist film." I don't know if I would agree with that. Sure, it shows a strong female character, but what is the point other than the fact that she's strong-willed? I can understand some of the theories, especially with the ending (which I won't ruin), but still...I guess I need to read a good essay on this movie.  If you like a good gore movie that also centers around issues that we globally face today, I'd definitely recommend this movie. TRIGGER WARNING, AND POSSIBLE SPOILER: If you're not much for torture films or anything reminiscent of rape, domestic violence, verbal abuse, etc., please do not watch.

Great ...until the ending... this was an exciting and inventive movie, with stunning viuals and production, some plot twist and a few surprises wherein we look at Scott's allegorical tale of alien adventurers giving rise to a planet of being for some as yet unknown reason... You have a fearless female heroine enduring all thte hardships one can imagine, ego driven men who are willing to stop at nothing to get what they want, hostile alien worlds, futuristic space travel and exploration, alien intelligence that surpasses that of the humans, an android with sinister programing who is still charming and then you come to the end of the movie....and are completely let down by a director's sophmoric turn and plot device that deliberately shys from the obvious implied by the film and throughout to some giddy school boy "moral quest" and "hope". Riddley Scott certainly knows how to tell a good tale, to capture the audience however, he does not know how to or when to stop...and so he ruins the whole damn thing. The lesson here is that it is better to quit while you're ahead but he did not do it. I'm not at all certain I will add this to my DVD collection along with the Alien movies, Blade Runner and others.  I was very disappointed.

Suspend all rational thought. I don't know how long Rick was left unattended at the hospital but I would have thought after waking from his coma he should have been in pretty poor physical condition. He should have been starving and dehydrated to the point where he would have had great difficulty walking more than a few steps. But he made it all the way home and even there he took no food or water.  He roams around with a fuel can looking for gasoline but doesn't think of putting a pick through the petrol tanks of the abandoned cars. He collects guns and amnunition from the Police Station but no gasoline. I would have thought a Police Garage would have a storage tank and at least a few full jerry cans in case of emergency.  The script writing is poor; the part where he rides into the centre of the city into a swarm of zombies was pure stupidity. I thought to myself; how is this guy going to survive 5 more episodes seeing his capacity for caution and logical thought plus his survival skills are zero.  If you want to enjoy this series, suspend all rational thought. However, having said that, I must say it was entertaining in a strange sort of way and I enjoyed this series more than I did the film "I Am Legend" with its equally stupid Hero plus its rabid super human zombies.

Just okay Movie was cute and had some funny spots in it but it was a little predictable and boring.  A typical ending.

Okay movie! Just watched this long weekend.It was okay,it just wasn't great as the other two. Predator one will always be my favorite!

Not Your Normal Horror Movie Bereavement seems to start off as two different movies in one.  On one hand, you have the crazy serial killer who talks to the skull of an animal who kidnaps and kills teenage girl by stabbing them repeatedly in their stomachs.  He has also kidnapped an "apprentice" a young boy who does feel pain.  Across the town there is a coming of age story of a teenager (Alexandra Daddario, Percy Jackson) who moves in with her uncle after her parents die in a car accident.  She has to adjust from growing up in the big city of Chicago to small town Pennsylvania and naturally this involves a boy from the wrong side of the tracks.  About an hour into the movie the two genres finally collide when Daddario sees the small boy in the window of an abandoned meat packing plant and goes in to investigate.  Naturally a bad idea.  Bereavement attempts to be a thinking man's horror movie and almost achieves it.  It is a nice diversion from the genre than your run of the mill slasher flick without a discernable plot.  But if you do like horror films where the kills get bigger and more elaborate, this is not for you.

Semi  OK ENDing breaker, sorry Spoiler.  "Blue Valentine," with: Michelle Williams, Ryan Gosling, Derek Cianfrance, Joey Curtis, and Cami Delavigne; the cast made up good and believable charters. However, saying this cast was good I felt something missing like a closing that was more positive ending. I wanted to like this film and all I felt was sick for the wife and kids as well as sick for the upcoming child.  There was no happy ever after and definitely no moral codes in their  up bringing.  This film should not be seen with children. It is rated NC-17.

Its just ok I wanted to love this movie but i thought it was just ok.....the kids liked it but they werent WOWed by it. Its language seemed a little too adult and a lot of jokes were adult based and the kids didnt understand. So its a 3 star movie from me.. Its worth the 3 dollar rental but not the 14 dollars to buy the DVD.

True Story This is a film based on actual events in the Bosnian war. B_Movie at best. Worth while for its historical context.

U wont c this on CNN It's so very sad that while America has two major wars raging you are hard pressed to find ANY major media coverage. There was better coverage of Vietnam! So, if you want to see what your government has been working so hard at making sure you don't see, watch this. Watch the extras if you want to see more soldiers' stories. In a way, the extras are better than the feature.

pleasing With all the gloomy movies out there embroiled in their problems it is refreshing to come across one with a pleasing humour and underlying gladness throughout without falling into A Comedy. There are a couple of things that make it 3 star. The film seemed to move slower2/3 way throgh and lost its  pace .Then it felt too long for the content. However I can imagine other viewers happily relaxing and going along for the ride. Probably my fault not to give it 4stars.

Not the greatest, but watchable. Battle Los Angeles is not the best alien invasion or war pictures but it is watchable in a nerve racking way. It makes the hairs on your neck stand at attention and your pulse  to quicken.  Although the film dose uses the overused hurky jerky cinematography, is it able to give the audience a feeling of dread. Dread and foreboding and uncertainty  with smoky battle scenes and wide shots of Los Angeles on fire, that's what gives this movie its favor; a real American City that people have been to walked around in is on fire, overpasses are collapsed and there are bodies in the street.  Cyborg troopers stalk the streets and indiscriminately kill everything they come cross: men, women, children, civilian and military while unman drone aircraft patrol the skies and beat back American military might.  The Invaders don't use much super science, they aren't armed with any kind of particle or beam weapon. They use more advanced kinetic energy machine guns with quad mechs and hover tanks, there isn't a radio signal they can't track, making communications in the combat areas impossible and the cyborgs versatile bodies make them very difficult to kill.  The Invaders are in very similar ways similar to Harry Turtledove's Race in his "WorldWar" series of novels, advanced aeronautics, Faster Then Light travel, yet still relying on chemically propelled projectiles for most of their weaponry.  The actually plot of the movie is nothing special, a group of marines lead by a wet behind the ears lieutenant and grizzly veteran(Aaron Eckhart) are order to head to a police station in Santa Monica to evac any civilians that where cut off by advancing aliens before the military plans to level Monica because even though the invaders don't seem to have any air power at the moment in the film their ground forces are pushing the military back.  At the same time they come across an air force techhead (Michelle Rodriguez)who was tasked with finding the Invaders Command and Control before her unit was whipped out. The invaders are able to nuteralize Ameican air support, thus halting the bombing, and forcing Nantz and his squad to find the Invaders CnC cneter. The plot could have been easily used in a Roland Emmerich, film, but thankful Emmerich shameless uses of CGI is better aplied with dirty alien foot soldiers and war matchines scratch and dinged up, also Emmerich's character template of a misunderstood geek is thankfully absent. Instead we focuses on a small unit of foot soldiers who are at and behind the front lines.  The weak points of the film is that there is only one interesting character, Eckhart's  Michael Nantz is a sergeant with a shady past, having several men die under his command, including the brother of one of his squad mates, in a past engagement. There are some other  interesting characters like the Nigerian Corpsman and the Squad Leader Cpl.  Lee Imlay, (then again "Alien" had no character development either) but the movie was so fast past with each character only speaking one sentence at any given time.  Speaking of dialog, it is clichie.....and your problem is? What the hell did you except? Folks like Roger Ebert who spent no time in the military or don't know anyone who has service and view movies as an academic art form will of course hate the spoken lines in this film, because it's how soldiers in the battle field really talk, in short clipped sentences. Watch real battle footage on Youtube or Liveleak and you'll see the comparison.  Also the reason for the Invasion is really dubious, our water? Yes water could be used for fuel if you distill it down to harvest it's hydrogen and use that to generate electricity, but the earth isn't the only planet that has water on it. The moon of Eruopa is a giant ice ball and the Invaders could of easily set up refineries in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter and Saturn and began to siphon off hydrogen that way. All of which would be more cost effective then a military invasion of a planet because it has liquid water.

Must Watch for LOD Fans A pretty good movie overall, and something that I think every Road Warrior fan should watch.  The interviews and footage really gives you an inside look into teams beginnings and their journey through the wrestling business.

NOT THAT GOOD....... i really like joan. she plays and sings from the heart and has alot to say.sadly her support team has failed her. this concert looks like someone in the audience is filming this. handheld cameras jumping around, jerky zoom in's, camera format changes from letter box to regular screen size. i've seen bootleg concerts filmed better. sorry for being so negative but i'm sure joan will right the ship on her next dvd.

Long but lacking This DVD is three hours long. Lots of music all from the T-Series brand. But almost all of the videos feel like a commercial for the movie instead of dance numbers from the movies.  There are four songs on here from one movie that uses all the same movie clips. This gets real boring real quick.

Not what I expected The movie had a real hard time holding my wife's attention and it wasn't that great for me either.  I was hoping for more of a documentary based movie, but this was an overly glamour ized version.

THERE IS HOPE, BUT NOT FOR US. I love zombie movies. I hate that annoying hand held herky-jerky motion, especially with night vision discoloration. This film has that stuff, including the opening with a "REC" up in the corner, which was held steadier than the main part of the film. This is the fourth month of the zombie (referred to as "those things" in the film). It is a viral disease and not actually people rising from the dead walking while dragging a leg, just slow moving infected people who eat other people...but not each other. There are pockets of survivors held up in military camps. This one particular camp is attacked by zombies. They escape (along with the guy with the camera) and a woman reporter who is slightly crazy, but not a zombie.  HEY! Put the camera down and shoot something with a gun! This movie takes place in England.  Their plan is to travel through the forest to minimize zombie contact, head for the town of Hope, on the east coast and team up with another group of supposed survivors. From there, head to Holland where there exists a large colony of uninfected people. The military is disliked by the civilians because of their role in the outbreak cleansing. They encounter zombies and other group of civilian survivors on their quest. 4 1/2 star zombie film if you loved the hand held stuff of Quarantine, otherwise it is just a 3 star zombie film as I found the camera motion annoying.  F-bomb, nudity, rape, and irony at the end.

China Gate not so great Not really caring about the quality of the movie, I bought a low priced copy of China Gate mainly for the dance Chamma Chamma featuring Urmilla Matondkar. This outdoor dirt-dance featuring Urmilla is most excellent and most of the stars get into the act. For this reason alone I am happy with the purchase.  I read somewhere that Indians have a saying that the better the music and dance the worse the movie. While I don't necessarily agree with that, it sure seems true in this case because the movie is just awful.  The movie is kind of like the Magnificent Seven plus the Three Amigos meet a never ending supply of banditos that are led by a guy so crazy that Charles Manson would cringe. The odd part for me is that this crazy megalomaniac, because of his eyes and some facial expressions, looks like a slightly overweight Andy Kaufman with long wild hair and a beard. You really want this guy to die and boy does that take a long time.  Bad guys are all on horseback but you can call a cab. Later in the movie some of the good guys are on horseback because there are a lot of extra horses due to bad guys being shot. I think they run out of ammo several times shooting bad guys. Apparently, crazy leaders can go down to the local Indian unemployment office and hire these loyal-to-the-death guys cheap. At one point the press shows up with cameras. It makes me laugh just thinking about it but the movie seemed dead serious. Oh, almost forgot, the movie has nothing to do with China other than a failed mission in the past where the heroes were branded as cowards.  Alright, in my opinion the story is a 4 except for where it digressed and slid to a 2.  Acting by the all star cast including actors such as Om Puri, Amrish Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Paresh Rawal, Kulbhushan Kharbanda and Jagdeep (just to name a few) is very good - 5 ish.  Celebration dance featuring Urmilla is a 5. I must be leaving something out because I feel like I'm rouding up to a 3.

Great premise but disappointing I bought this with high hopes after reading the amazon reviews, but unfortunately the reviews don't include a few details that some may find important. First of all, the movie sounds like a lot of fun, but if you are not into the F-word you may have a hard time with it. The dialogue is filled with the F-word, to the point that you begin to wonder if any other single word is used as often. I realize that some people may talk like this (apparently the director does), but it did not seem to really fit the personalities (or the circumstances) of the characters, seeming forced and oddly disconcerting. For me (and the friends I watched it with), it took away from the message of the movie, which I really liked and had high hopes for. I would have liked to share this with family members, again because I think the premise is great, but will not be doing that. In fact I can't imagine watching it again so will probably just toss it. Without the language I'd have given the film 5 stars. Anyway, if you don't mind the overly coarse language you may enjoy this, but you should at least know what you are in for.

Poorest out of the first 3 films I think this was worst of the first 3 films. It has less action scenes than Terminator and Terminator 2 and less violent. hence the 12 rating, not a good sign. I think this film was too much like the previous film and didn`t come up with anything new.  Picture quality: 4/5  I think it looks good and has the grain intact. Colours and details looks good, but this isn`t the film with best picture quality i have seen. Some of the CGI and CGI stunt doubles looks a bit unconvincing due to CGI looking a bit dated now, but what can you do?.  Audio quality: 4/5  The English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1 was good and not much to say about it.  Film: 3/5 Overall: 3.5/5

Somewhat entertaining, with its heart in the right place, but still propaganda. As far as superhero cartoons are concerned, Captain Planet will never be remembered as one of the better ones. The show is somewhat entertaining, but unless you happened to have seen the show during your impressionable youth (when we like just about everything we see on TV), I doubt you'll be wanting to buy this DVD set. I was born in 1971, so I was already an adult when I first saw this show, so there's no "nostalgia factor" for me in this show. If you're younger than me, you may very well enjoy this show far more than me.  The show's heart is in the right place - it wants viewers to care about the environment. I know I care about the environment - I like clean air, clean water, trees, and animals.  But I sense a certain propaganda in the show. The series seems to be inspired more by inaccurate doomsayers such as Paul Ehrlich and the Club of Rome, while ignoring the more realistic environmental ideas of people such as Julian Simon and Bjorn Lomborg. The truth is that we are not running out of essential resources, landfills only take up a tiny percentage of land, we can desalinize as much clean water as we want for less than 1/5 penny per gallon, food production per capita has been growing for decades, tree farmers plant more trees than they cut down, and the air and water have been getting cleaner and cleaner for decades.  I wouldn't normally point out the errors in a superhero cartoon, except that this one was created allegedly as a form of education.  But the show is somewhat enjoyable to watch, and its heart is in the right place. So even though there's a part of me that wants to hate it for its inaccurate portrayal of environmental issues, I have to admit that there's also a part of me that wants to like it.

Barely HD It looked good but not HD good. Other sites I've used, Vimeo or Hulu Plus, you can tell when the movie/video being streamed is IN HD.

A bizarre trip into the genetically joined worlds of science fiction and horror Director Vincenzo Natali deserves some praise for the unconventional and thought-provoking science fiction/sexual horror exploits of Splice. Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley give satisfactory performances, and the creature effects are convincing and, at times, downright disturbing. French actress and model Delphine Chaneacis is Dren, the genetically engineered creation of Brody and Polley's scientists. The film begins with a bang and continues along an interesting and enjoyable path until regrettably devolving into the standard horror chase film by the third reel. Worth seeing due to it's bizarre and disturbing themes, but don't expect much more. 3 out of 5 stars.

I wish i could exchange in my video library I love this movie but being in a rush I clicked on the sing-a-long version instead of the regular version for automatic streaming. Being that i bought this movie unlike an hardcopy you cannot return it. I strongly advise that you be careful before purchase. Words run across the screen and I can't do anything about it.

Iron Monkey 2 After seeing Iron Monkey I thought the sequel would be just as good, but the DVD that I received for Iron Monkey 2 didn't even have Donnie Yen in it.  It was an ok movie but I was to say the least disappointed.  It is advertised with Donnie Yen's picture on the front cover on the website, but that was not what I received.

Don't buy HD DVD unless you know what it is!!! I still haven't seen this movie because I ordered the HD DVD version thinking it was just a regular dvd with better quality or something.  I was pretty bummed to find out that HD DVD is like an old version of Blu-ray that doesn't work on regular dvd players or Blu-ray players.  If you don't have an HD DVD player DON'T BUY THE HD DVD VERSION.  Other than that I'm sure the movie is great and I'm still looking forward to watching it someday.

what happen is it just me? what was robert englund trying to do with this movie? was it suppose to be scary? i laughed through the whole thing. it was more funny to me than scary. could tell it was a low budget movie. if  i want a good laugh, this is one movie i would take off the shelve.

Atlas Shrugged is OK Just OK.  Have really really enjoyed the book but the movie not so much.  The thing is, that as with most good books, it is hard to make faithfull movies in just one and a half hours or two. I think in this case a mini series would have worked much better. This book defenitelly deserves something that respects all the plots and subplots that Ayn Rand put in.

Hmm... I can see that Disney tried to be new and fun by going with a unique idea instead of its usual fairytale fare. This movie only partially succeeded. Some parts and characters were genuinely funny, but overall, this movie did not leave a great impression on me like many other Disney films did. Trying something new can be great, but it does not always work.

beggar su this is a highly polished and stylished prequel to Drunken Master and tells, essentially, the orgin story of Beggar So (or Su as we pronounce it). If this film dispensed with the wire-fu and other tom-foolery, we could distill it down to some great fight scenes.... formulaic story of betrayal....exile....training sequences....revenge... personally i'd watch kid with the golden arm or 10 tigers over this.... the old-school films have so much more charm.

Deja Vue Doesn't anyone else realize this is a remake of Curse of the Demon (also kown as Night of the Demon)?

Long overdue sequel! This movie is nowhere as good as the first, BUT I am so glad they finally decided to make this. Lost Boys deserved a sequel more than any other movie I can think of. Now the movie wasn't all that good, but it want all that bad either. If it wasn't for this one they wouldn't have made number 3 which I thought was better than number 2 and they really listened to the fans and made a decent movie.

Worst transfer ever seen This review pertains to the 2004 Collector's Edition DVD transfer and likely the 4-movie DVD bundle too.  Tremors is a great movie, and always a guilty pleasure. It's a small town over-the-top horror with unique scenarios. I previously had a 720p digital file with beautiful picture clarity and vibrancy. Now, I bought the DVD and it is the worst video transfer I've ever seen.  I can't believe they released something this bad. The picture is grainy during all scenes: light or dark, still or motion. There's easily visible compression artifacting and blurriness in everything. Prominent edge ghosting when a dark object is on a light background. There are thick black bars above and below the video stream. When I fullscreen it on my widescreen computer monitor, the video is framed in black on all sides - which I guess is common, but doesn't help things.  To put my review in perspective, I am an audio nut, and normally don't worry much about video. I don't mind watching standard-definition CRT televisions. I don't need a theater experience. But the flaws in this video transfer eclipse my ability to simply enjoy the movie.  Unfortunately, the Blu-ray must be the only version worth owning.

Bloody and Hard to Watch This was not at all the film we were led to believe it would be from promos. Note, especially, that it is listed as a comedy on the Amazon Prime streaming channel, and it is anything but.  It is a brutal WWI picture, and there is copious, merciless amounts of blood.  I am certain the acting is fine throughout, but having sought a funnier film (seriously, how stupid could I have been here?) we stopped watching less than a half-hour in.

Very good movie. The movie though very disturbing...was also very original and emotional.  It's look into what the afterlife maybe like was inspiring.

Just Another John Wayne Western The hero is John Chisum, but the Chisum Trail was long since mapped out. Now he's got his great big spread in New Mexico, near a town called Lincoln, which rapidly being bought up, using a variety of dirty tricks, by a newcomer played by Forrest Tucker. All this based on a true story of the Lincoln County War of 1878.  Anyway, Chisum has a gentlemanly neighbor and partner who has recently hired a young man named William Bonny. Sound familiar? He's also called Billy the Kid. Billy is trying to go straight. Chisum has a pretty niece. Guess what? OK, but then there's Pat Garrett, another gunslinger trying to go honest. And the lawyer who came west to take a job with the land grabber decides he doesn't like his methods, and throws in his lot with Chisum and the gentlemanly neighbor, who never wears a gun.  This is important, because he is killed while two crooked deputies are "attempting to arrest him" for a fake cattle rustling charge. The crooked sheriff changed one of the crooked guy's brands to the gentleman's brand, and then used it as "evidence" that he'd been rustling. Anyway, when he is killed, the deputies claim he was drawing a gun, but everyone knows he hated guns and never carried one.  Well, there's a judge and the two crooked deputies brought back, and a big old shoot-em-up in the middle of the street in Lincoln. Chisum breaks it up by herding a couple hundred head of cattle right through the middle of town, breaking up quite a bit of property in the process. But Billy the Kid had killed in revenge, and must run away. So he goes to chase the crooked sheriff, who resigned, and Pat Garrett gets the girl.  It's a pretty good movie, but a little too much. The love triangle of Sally, Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett is a little corny, too "innocent" for those big names. The shoot-out scene may be relatively true to the facts, but it's just over-done. Still, a worthy movie.

Jackass 3 This is a gift for someone so I really don't know how to rate it.  I hope he likes it.

Not The Comedy It Was Pinned To Be I adore Jamie Lee Curtis and Betty White but they were totally UNDER-utilized in this film. And as for Kristen Bell... well as much as I adore her, there wasn't anything remotely funny about her role as the bitter, out-for-revenge, Marnie.  The bonus section was by far the best part of the DVD.  Jaime Lee Curtis, Betty White, Sigourney Weaver and Kristen Bell answer questions from fans. There's a comedic spoof in which the actors have a cat fight during an interview. And the cast have a dance party!  I received a complimentary copy to review.

Just OK Robert Downey, Jr. does about as good a job with the lead character as anyone could, and the acting is pretty good overall, but the special effects are just OK, the plot is somewhat juvenille, and the portrayal of the Afghan bad guys is laughably stereotypical.  I watched this movie with the family (not my choice of movie), and it wasn't a total waste of time, but I do wish the time had been better spent.

Good but not great This movie's pretty good but I would not call it a classic like the original Alien or it's sequel Aliens. I do prefer this one over Alien 3 though. Even though the ending is pretty weak it's still an enjoyable film.

Decent This movie is decent. Never seen the original. After seeing the trailer i wanted to see it but i waited until it was on demand. Its kind of dull until the last 15 minutes of the movie. Also pretty weird how they showed a rape scene.  And why have dominic purcell(guy from prison break) play as a mental pedophile in this movie? Hes so much better than that.

this would be a great HBO series The movie is decent however for the subject matter it felt flat to me.  It lacked grand scope or that anything really mattered. I mean this was a presidential election but it felt like a local mayoral campaign. I acting and camera movements all were very well done. it had a great look and tone.  This would have been great for a 12 episode miniseries on HBO.  That way we could get more indepth exploration on each character and the cunning plans they have.

Some Memorable Lines, But Still Just a Western This movie is the same age as I am! This is the one with the famous line about "We don't need no stinking badges." This has often been called Humphrey Bogart's finest performance, but then there's Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon to consider. The man certainly had talent, didn't he?  Bogie and another American drifter find themselves with no jobs or money in a small Mexican town. They stay at a cheap flophouse, where they listen to the stories of an old prospector, who says that gold prospecting is mostly dangerous for the way gold changes a man, changes his soul.  To put it bluntly, the rest of the movie proves he is right. The three of them put together enough for burros and supplies (I'll let how they came up with the money be told in the movie), and head for the hills. The old prospector knows what he's talking about, and is also sturdier than Bogie and the other young man put together. Saying that they do find gold is not giving away much of the story. The story is really about what happens after they find it. There's a cave-in where Bogie would have been buried alive if the other young man [I never remember character's names once the movie is over] hadn't dragged him out. Bandits attack them (there's that famous line about badges), a nearby village has a boy who was nearly drowned and apparently in a coma, and the old prospector saves the boy's life. The village wants to make him their guest, so the two young men take the burros laden with gold and head for Durango, where the old man will meet up with them.  Sure.  No, I'm not going to tell you what happens next, except that Bogie gets better looking as his beard grows in, and he gives one remarkable performance. I may in fact prefer Casablanca, but it really is a close call. However, since the story is held together by Bogie and the crusty old man, there are times when it drags a bit, and even times when the banditos and federales seem just a bit too stereotypical. So even though this really is a classic, I can only give it three stars

A Long Disappointment I'm not going to write some kind of professional analysis of this movie. All I can say is that after seeing the trailers, it was not anything like what I was expecting.  I think people who like movies about death and dying are looking for one of two things - either an inspired answer to their questions, or a thrill.  This gave neither.  I watched this just a couple of days after the Japan earthquake, so perhaps I was looking for something to answer that kind of devastation.  The special effects of the filming of this tsunami was good...perhaps the best part of the film.  But having subtitles while they spoke French was distracting and unnecessary since she spoke English during the rest of the movie. Between her, the child who loses his twin, and the psychic, there were three very interesting characters, but the storyline between the three just didn't make much sense.  Compared to Travolta's "City of Angels" or even "Michael", it didn't hold a candle. I'm not religious, so wasn't looking for that angle...I just wanted some new idea, new revelation about the afterlife, or at least a riveting story, and I'm afraid it didn't deliver any of them.  I know it's politically incorrect to say so, but I think Clint Eastwood was a better actor than he is a filmmaker.  I don't recommend it unless you just want to watch a movie to pass the time. I'm glad I didn't pay $8 at the theatre to see it.

Not a Bad Film; Could Have Been Much Better If you are at all interested, I would get the 2-disc special edition of Batman Forever. Like the similar sets for each of the other Burton/Schumacher Batman films, it packs a terrific array of special features. The most thought provoking part of those features, for me, is the documentary segment that discusses how some of the deleted scenes were cut in order to keep the film from being too dark. (Understandable in the wake of Batman Returns.) The thing is that these scenes were the emotional heart of the screenplay, giving psychological insight into Bruce Wayne in a way that tied many of the other parts of the film together. A true pity that the theatrical cut neglected some of the deepest moments of storytelling.  Anyway, in general, I think that Batman Forever is much, much better than its sequel, Batman & Robin. The main difference is that this one has a very good story, and for the most part sticks to telling it. In my opinion, Val Kilmer is a terrific Bruce Wayne/Batman, and Chris O'Donnell's portrayal of Robin is perfect; in fact, the Robin backstory is incredibly good, arguably the best part of the film. Nichole Kidman is great playing a psychologist, and if her character is a bit underdeveloped, Dr. Chase Meridian fits perfectly into the storyline. My personal biggest gripe with Batman Forever is that the villains are portrayed way over the top. In the case of Jim Carrey as the Riddler, that can nearly be forgiven, as he is ridiculously entertaining. However, Tommy Lee Jones as Two-Face was just too much, a waste of a great character. (The role played by Aaron Eckhart in The Dark Knight was so much better.)  Some people did not like the aesthetic design of Batman Forever. It is a visual spectacle, often overloading the senses, and I agree that nipples on the costumes was unecessary. However, I think that many of the stylistic touches, including the more futuristic Batmobile, the gang of punks with lightsticks and day-glo grafitti, and the use of some techno music in the soundtrack, were actually good, timely touches. If this film had stuck to those guns a bit more, it could have almost verged into a genuinely edgy cyberpunk territory.  Ultimately, this is not a bad film. I wish that it had been more serious, but it does have its moments. It was a huge success upon its release, and although it has suffered quite a bit by being associated with Joel Schumacher's next outing, Batman & Robin, it is still worth giving a chance, especially if you are a longtime Batman fan and, like me, you remember how incredibly cool this was back in 1995.

Enjoyable movie, but kind of falls a bit flat. (potential SPOILERS) I have read alot about parallels to E.T. and such regarding this movie. I would say those are loose comparisons at best. While there is a scene that is specifically reminiscent of E.T., this movie is quite a bit different. The alien, for one, actually eats people, and is far from the small, cute, and cuddly alien featured in E.T...also, it doesnt really develop relationships with people. It is seeking a way to "go home", as it were, and there is a military quarantine. Anyway, the cast was pretty good, and the interaction between the featured children (of tween age i think) was decent. The premise that they were filming a zombie movie when they end up witnessing a train derail, which ends up freeing the alien, was pretty cool. The local animals fleeing the area (presumably due to the presence of an unnaturally large predator) seemed like something that would actually happen.  Where the movie falls flat to me is...the alien is a massive predator, eating people, and destroying a bunch of stuff, but is also cast as a sympathetic character. They try to rationalize this approach by saying that it learned to hate humans after it was initially captured (Roswell), held prisoner, tortured and tested upon by our military scientists. It is able to communicate telepathically through contact (would that be empathically?). Still, it doesnt seem to care about the humans it captures for food, even though they are just ordinary folks with no ties to the military or their scientists. Yet, when the star tween touches him, he suddenly decides not to eat anybody else, and rather focus on finishing his ship and leaving.  There is no fond farewell, no conversation outside of a single empathic moment between the tween and the alien. It just kind of ends. The alien leaves and everybody is left to pick up the pieces of a shattered town. Presumably, the gov't would later say a hallucinogenic gas was released into the air accidentally by way of a weather balloon causing the locals to see things as they destroyed their own town (at least, i figure that is how this would play out in real life). The movie though...it just kind of ends. The alien leaves and everybody is happy (outside of those people who were killed by the now seemingly misunderstood alien). To me, the movie was basically a big build up where everybody is scared which then shifts suddenly and tries to become a social consciousness type message about kindness and understanding. Didnt really work for me. No real peak...the movie just kind of flatlined. Had i known before watching this that JJ Abrams was the responsible party, i would probably have skipped this one, since i know better than to trust any project he is involved with. Nonetheless, i dont regret watching this movie, but i was far from impressed.

Not awful....... So, the plot of this movie kinda sucks, but it's watchable. There sure are worse movies. Ian Somerhalder and Bijou Phillips are good considering their lines weren't that great. The twist ending was really out there.

Plays fast and loose with Scripture to find support. As other reviewers before me, I consider myself as a born-again Christian with reasonable science background (engineering degree, licensed as a profession engineer for 3 decades) and theological background (doctorate in theology, co-pastor of a church). So I am not biased against solid evidence for the Christian faith which I believe is considerable. However, I believe there are numerous fundamental flaws in Larson's presentation. A couple of the most obvious, from a Biblical point of view which will be recognized by all viewers who are students of Scripture:  1) Larson makes much of John's vision of the "woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars" (NKJV, Rev. 12:1) which he takes to be the constellation Virgo rising in line with the sun and the moon positioned below. This is presented as an important pointing to the significance of Jupiter's retrograde motion near Regulus in Leo as observed by the Magi. The big problem with this, of course, is that the book of Revelation was not written until A.D. 95 (or at least A.D. 64 for those who support the early date which I find unconvincing). How could the Magi of made any use of Revelation 12 in their interpretation of the night sky? Unless Larson is suggesting they had extra-Biblical revelation (perhaps handed down from Daniel)? How likely would it be that God revealed information of such critical nature to Daniel which was passed to the Magi, but never found its way into the OT book of Daniel? Without Virgo with sun and moon following upon Jupiter's retrograde motions near Regulus in Leo, the significance to ancient astronomers of the proposed Jupiter/Regulus interaction becomes even more dubious.  2) Larson's interpretation of Peter's use of Joel on the day of Pentecost is contrived. He suggests that Peter is pointing out to the people that they "all know" that Joel's predictions involving astronomical signs occurred and were fulfilled in the events surrounding the crucifixion. His preferred interpretation is counter to the meaning of the passage when taken at face value: Peter is citing Joel to explain the disciples speaking in unlearned languages due to the Holy Spirit having been poured out upon them. Peter refers to Joel's passage simply to say that it should not be unexpected by the hecklers that God would pour out His Spirit upon people and that they should "prophesy" (here, concerning the "wonders of God"). He is saying nothing about other aspects of Joel being fulfilled - which Joel states are associated with the "day of the Lord" and as John's writing in the book of Revelation concerning events associated with the yet-future second coming make abundantly clear find their literal fulfillment. So Joel is not about the first coming and Peter's use of it does not support Larson's use.  There is no doubt that God has set the sun and moon in the sky to serve as signs (Gen. 1:14) as well as seasons -- as Joel's prophecy of the future events of the second coming makes clear. This is also the function of the sun and moon as witnesses to God's promises related to the preservation of Israel (Ps 89:35-37; Jer 31:35-37; Jer 33:20-26; Re 12:1). But the types of signs which Larson has found are not really signs in the sense that they are somewhat arbitrary and would never be recognized as such by most people -- even *with* the aid of Scripture.  The viewer is left wondering if Larson has made a good enough case that the Magi, even if knowledgeable observers of the heavens, would have interpreted the retrograde motion of Jupiter near Regulus in Leo along with a many-months later conjunction of Jupiter with Venus as a significant enough astronomical event to set out for Jerusalem -- even if guided in their timing by the prophecy of Daniel's 70 weeks (Dan. 9:24-27).  In summary, there are some thought-provoking tidbits in the presentation which is professionally enough done, but the misuse of Revelation 12 and Joel 2 in support of the presentation will not inspire confidence in those who have a good grasp of these passages.

Baseball movie Would have been better if the swearing was eliminated.  This is more of a story about a relationship than baseball.

A Decent Musical With One Big Flaw... The production was actually a lot better than I was expecting. The costumes and set from the Melbourne production were absolutely gorgeous. The musical itself was decent, if maybe a bit confused at time. It still had trouble getting over its biggest flaw, it was trying to be Phantom. Even putting aside the obvious character assassinations needed to make this story work, the music was just not on par with the original. "Love End Dies" was a lovely song but I did not for a second believe it was something the Phantom would have written. The original was a Victorian Gothic/High Romance and the music set the mood for that theme and it synced up. Love Never Dies simply did not have the same cohesiveness. I liked many of the songs but some of them just didn't fit the tone of the rest of the show. Meg's songs sounded like they'd be more at home in a more modern musical like Wicked, "The Beauty Underneath" felt like it should have been in a rock opera like Repo! and the other songs just didn't reach the same heights as Phantom of the Opera. That's not to say they were bad. I genuinely like "The Beauty Underneath" and "Devil take the Hindmost" and I still find myself humming "Only for You" sometimes. But being a sequel it has the sad misfortune of constantly being compared to the original and I simply didn't feel it measured up. Is it worth seeing? Yes. Is it worth buying? Sure, but I think I'll wait to get it used.

Good Movie.  Could have been great. This was an entertaining movie.  It could've been great with the budget and the actors they had, but it seems like they dumbed the story down to appeal to a wider age range and it damaged the quality of the film.  It was good, but good in the kind of way where you spend the whole time focusing on how it had the potential to be great.

Loved the Ending!!! I wont spoil for everyone else, but I did enjoy the fact that it was not predictable! Lavell Crawford was Awesome, planning to add to my collection

Better For Kids My wife and I both enjoy cartoon movies, but we don't always like every single one.  This particular one was semi entertaining, but we honestly grew a bit bored with it and figured after the fact that it was a good one time watch, but probably wouldn't own it or watch it again.  However, if you have kids, there is plenty of entertainment value for them in it...my wife and I ourselves just couldn't get into it as much as say movies like Up, Finding Nemo, etc.  If you're a person that likes animated movies, I'd still say give it a watch because it may yet be something you yourself would like, and if you have kids, they would probably like it.

Decent sequel,but could have been better Batman Returns(which was Burton's and Keaton's second Batman film),was alright,but I thought the story was kind of thin,and The Penguin was just a mess.I would have liked to see more of a "tuxedo-wearing,human looking,overweight corrupt guy" kind of Penguin,like how he is in the comics,and not some type of mutant looking creature,like he is in this film.But other than that.Catwoman was really good,and so were the other characters.But this was NOWHERE NEAR as good as the original movie was,in my opinion.

Somewhat satisfied I would have prefered to go and view this DVD at the movie theater but did not get a chance now I see maybe I made the right choice.  The movie was good but did not live up to my expectations.

Inferior but okay sequel! I had the pleasure of seeing Saw at the cinema in 2004 having been told by two work colleagues at the time that it was worth a look and had a twist at the end that I wouldn't predict. I accepted the challenge, failed to get the twist but loved the film. Since then I have avoided watching any other films in the series, the feedback from others not being the most positive and I didn't want to taint the positive experience of the original. However, courtesy of my line manager I was given the box set of Saw 1-4 to tackle and decided it was time to be brave and see how good the sequels are.  Saw 2 sees the return of the Jigsaw Killer (Tobin Bell) whose latest headquarters are infiltrated by the police led by Detective Eric Matthews (Donnie Wahlberg). Detective Matthews finds himself caught in one of Jigsaw's games when the police find TV screens monitoring a house where eight people, including Matthews' son Daniel (Erik Knudsen) are trapped. Jigsaw informs Detective Matthews that he will see his son safe but only if the two are allowed to talk for a while. In the house the group of eight are given instructions from Jigsaw that the exit will open in 3 hours but poison gas is entering the house which will kill them in 2 hours unless they can obtain antidotes, the rewards for successfully completing Jigsaw's cruel games which can be found in many of the rooms. The film veers between Detective Matthews and Jigsaw and the people trapped in the house as the time ticks away leaving us to wonder who will survive and what the masterful Jigsaw has got up his sleeve.  Saw 2 begins brutally with a police informant in the midst of one of Jigsaw's games. He finds a contraption attacked to his neck, akin to a Venus flytrap which Jigsaw insists will snap shut with the spikes causing instant death unless the victim can unlock the device with a key. As with all Jigsaw's games nothing is straightforward and our victim realises the key has been placed behind one of his eyes and he will need to remove it in order to get the key and escape the game. Hesitation proves deadly as the device quickly snaps shut on the victim's head! This is just the first of the many games we are shown devised by Jigsaw. The brutality and gore in the film supersede the original which although unpleasant in places still managed to leave some elements to the imagination. A violent film doesn't alienate me if the plot is good but I often find suspense is much better than trying to be as gory as possible and the implication of something horrible can be more effective than actually seeing it. Among the other games Jigsaw has prepared are retrieving antidotes from a furnace and from a pit filled with hypodermic needles! Nice.  I did find the plot to Saw 2 quite intriguing. Having enjoyed the way Jigsaw was one step ahead of everyone in the first film I didn't believe for one minute that he had been caught unawares when the police gatecrash his home at the start. His victims are generally ones who are something of a disgrace to society and as the plot unfolds we learn that Detective Matthews is not opposed to corruption and that the group of people in the house, save Daniel, are all criminals framed and imprisoned by the Detective. A clue waits in the house that will explain to the group how they are all connected and that amongst them is the son of the Detective that wrongly sent them to prison. A further complication is the presence of Amanda Young (Shawnee Smith) the only victim to ever survive one of Jigsaw's games, as seen in the first film, but now finds herself at his mercy once again. While Detective Matthews appeases Jigsaw by engaging him in conversation, the police desperately try to find the source of the live feed leading to the house and hope the eight trapped people are still alive when they have discovered their location.  Sadly, my fears about sequels in this series were realised as I did find some issues with Saw 2. Though the plot was intriguing it couldn't really match up to the excellence of the first film. The original Saw did have many characters in it but the focus was largely between Dr Gordon and Adam who developed as characters throughout. While Saw 2 has Detective Matthews and Jigsaw engaged in some in-depth conversations, there are simply too many characters in the house for such a short film to really get to grips with. They became mere numbers to me with only Daniel and Amanda being worth any focus. A smaller group would have been more engaging and I found myself wanting their numbers to be whittled down quickly so we could get to the inevitable twist at the end. Thankfully, this is worth waiting for but again it was always going to be nigh on impossible to top the original so I can't really criticise on this point. Jigsaw's games seemed designed to push the boundaries of goriness far beyond the cruel games of the first film but I found myself longing for some of the simplicity found in the original.  Saw 2 falls short of the highs of the first film in the series despite a plot that is intriguing at times. Too many characters hindered the storyline in the house but the twist at the end is worth what is a short wait. With too much focus on gore I think the ingredients that made the first film so good have sadly been lost here.

for beginners I consider myself at an intermediate level of fitness.  Others have listed this DVD as intermediate level.  I tried this for the first time on a day that I was feeling tired, did a one hour step workout, then did this as my secondary workout.  My heart rate never even got above 100.  I felt really annoyed and mislead as to the level and had to fight not to give this a one star as a knee-jerk reaction.  I would recommend this for beginners only.  Has a lot of easy moves and march breaks in between.  I did not care for the peppiness of the instructor overmuch but that is personal preference.  Her cuing and explanations seemed ok.  Camera work and music are fine --- usual 10 minute solution overall good quality with customizable DVD options (no music only option which every workout DVD should have.)

Fun, mindless entertainment A serious story it isn't, but then again, did you expect it to be? It is simply fun, mindless entertainment. Some of the lines are very funny and the special effects are fairly well done. Good to watch when you just want to take your mind off of reality.

No more no less If you don't own any of the Harry Potter movies and don't care about any extras and extended version, i would recommend this set. BUT if you're expecting all the extras (e.g., behind the scenes, deleted scenes or interviews), extended clips this set is NOT for you. All 8 movies and that's it. Don't expect to get more than just the theatrical version of the movie. Better wait if you want the whole shebang.

A Little Too Subtle Unlike others, I never wanted to turn this film off, and I didn't realize I had been watching for an hour and a half when it finally ended. Perhaps though, this is because the film ended in what would have been the middle for a lot of films. That part, I think made the film interesting. However, this movie never quite spells anything out for you, and at times I found myself wondering if I was drawing the right conclusions. The acting was great, and my heart was oddly warmed, but I can see how a lot of people would just find this movie strange. The characters are messed up, almost unbelievably so. Actually, I don't know that I can believe the female character would act as she did - why she let the guy in at all, why she would leave the house to go to the video store and to fast food places, but not leave otherwise. I don't know - overall I'd say the movie was OK. A bit too indie though. If that makes sense.

Movei - Brides Maids Received on time - good price.  Movie sucked.... I guess I was expecting something as funny as the one with the guys (can't remember name) where they lose the groom. I will rate delivery and price a 5 star.

Anna seemed like a jerk It was nice to get to see what happens inside Vogue magazine. It offered a lot of insight to me. Here's what i got out of it: 1) Anna Wintour seemed like an ice hearted woman. For example, she wasn't even sweet or loving with her daughter. When her daughter said "i love you" and Anna just walked out like a diva. 2) Anna Wintour is a dictator. Anna Wintour treats her employees like there opinions don't matter I find it an injustice to have someone like her in power. Everyone kisses her ass just because she has the power. But in reality,I'm sure everyone hates her guts. And how dare she tell her employees to lose weight. What a jerk. She's the one that needs to eat for once in her life. She look like skeletor and the cigarette camel. 3) People can get paid to do practically nothing. Look at Anna Wintour and Andre Leon.  Here's what I hated about Anna 1)She treated Grace Coddington like she was a 2nd rate intern. And then at the last minute in the dvd she says "oh grace is a great editor...blah blah blah". Well, she may think that but she certainly doesn't show it when everything Grace does is rejected immediately. I began to wonder why is Grace even there if Anna rejects all her hard work? I think Grace is too good to be working for Anna and Grace should come up with her own magazine. Grace is soo taken for granted. And the ironic thing is that I think Grace is more talented than Anna. 2)She seems to contradict a lot of what she says. Anna Wintour said, "Fashion's not about looking back, but looking forward". HA! Are you kidding me??? All she did was look back at the old issues and old fashions to come up with her "September issue". Fashion relies a lot on the past.  Conclusion They did not delve much into how Anna really become the editor-in-chief. Unless it was literally because her "daddy" had connections because he was an editor himself. I suspect she is the editor of vogue solely for her network from her dad. What are her credentials really?  I don't think a dictatorship shows a breadth of knowledge. How can fashion be defined and credited single-handedly by one person's opinion? Surprisingly, with all that fanfare and ass kissing, Anna seemed miserable. Or was she more concerned about looking cool? Whatever the reason, I think you can place anyone in her position and nobody would notice the difference. Except maybe a person in her position would smile or even treat her employees with respect. She has all these people working for her and she gets to act like a jerk all day. Where the hell is justice??  If you are a fashion student, this is a good movie to help show you the dreadful people you'd have to work for such as Wintour. Do you really want to kiss her ass or something like it all your life?

Okay, not as funny as people said It was okay, I wish I had just rented it instead of buy it.  I enjoyed it but there weren't tons of laughs.

Two Great Films This Four Pack DVD collection has two of the best musicals:  Singing In The Rain and Meet Me In St. Louis.  They are great.  The other two, with Fred Astaire, are bad.  The Band Wagon was especially terrible and boring.

Movie is really good but no subtitles We rented this movie because we love it, and wanted to watch it with our parents, who are a little elderly. Print was clear, but it had no subtitles; so our parents didn't really follow the movie. Hence the 3 stars

Weak story, visually controversial Frankly, I expected much more from this movie based on so many positive reviews. I think I am missing the good animated stories (which do not have to be on Blu-Ray or in 3D). The story is what counts by far the most. This story was so-so, not too original or inspiring. I also felt that many details that Blu-Ray affords caused some visual discomfort. The only thing I would applaud is the great landscapes... For the sake of justice, my daughter liked this movie (but did not watch it again).

A slow moving but inspiring true story about a prisoner escape from the Siberian gulag during WWII. Great acting. I say B- How far can the human spirit take you? After being imprisoned my communists in the Siberian gulag during WWII, a group escapes and begins the long journey to freedom. This is another diffilcut movie to review for me.  It's a true story and pretty powerful, but also very slow moving I thought.  The acting is excellent, Colin Farrell is really, really good in this.  The story is powerful and inspiring, but it is hard to get into.  This is in no way a bad movie, but to me it was not as good as I was hoping.  Many will really enjoy this, as I did, but I felt it was missing something to make it great.  I just can't tell you what it was.  Powerful and inspiring, just slow.  I give it a B-  Would I watch again? - I don't think so

Capricorn One is a great film. This is a very fun and well written action film with a great cast. Telly Savalas is hilarious in the film, giving it some good comic relief.

Light movie This is a light hearted movie, that is worth a one time watch. The movie does drag in the end and has the typical wish-washy Bollywood end, but Akshay Kumar carries the movie quite well in the first half. The video and sound quality is excellent as well.

Review of The Dead of Winter Although I am a fan of British detective films, I can't seem to forget that Lewis played well as a bumbling sergeant to Inspector Morse, whom Morse constantly needed to berate, and, perhaps, this is why I see him now in his new role as a somewhat placid, not altogether bright Inspector in this series. The existence of his sidekick Sergeant Hathaway, who seems bright, adds to this impression. This episode begins with the discovery of a body of a man whose head was beat in with a blunt object. Lewis and Hathaway have to figure out how he got on a bus when he was killed some distance away in a church. The film has several murders, several improper sexual behaviors, a missing woman, and discord between Lewis and Hathaway.

Old School Nothing better than watching old school movies on new age technology : )  For those of you who like Kid N Play, this is a nice find with all 4 movies in one.

I fell asleep I dont know if it was because I was actually tired or if the movie failed to hold my interest, but yes I fell asleep watching it, and saw nothing that made me want to rewatch it.

Based on a true story? "Don't be naive." I don't quite know how to sum Green Zone up. It's not a bad movie by any means, but I don't think I could recommend it to everyone either. Green Zone marks the third collaboration of director Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon. The two of them are responsible for two of my favorite films, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum. It's safe to say they know each other well. Greengrass has made his position on the 9/11 conspiracy crystal clear with United 93 and this film. He also did a great job at letting Damon take charge and drive this film home. He gave a strong performance, and that goes without saying Damon stepped right into his standard issue military boots, and everything from then on felt so authentic, that I believed he could really be in the military. He was even surrounded by real-life soldiers, and he fit in to perfection. He plays U.S. Army Sergeant Miller, who after being sent on various dead end missions, decides to go against his orders and discover the truth as to what's really going on with the supposed Weapons of Mass Destruction that the U.S. went to war with Iraq for in the first place. That is already a bit of a touchy subject, and I think that's really where I could not connect with the film. I want to really like it a lot, but I just know that some people are actually going to believe the fictional story. So that's why I think that this movie is trying to make too bold of a statement for what it is, which is false.  Not to sound too negative though, because I did enjoy it. Admittedly, I felt like the film was too political at first. I just couldn't appreciate its strong anti-Iraqi War message. It's obviously propaganda, but my struggle was accepting that this was a fictional point of view. The reason why it was a struggle is because of how uncertain we, as American citizens, are in regards to what all is true, and what's false, in regards to the events of 9/11 and the War on Terror. Don't get me wrong. I'm in no way a supporter of the war or certain decisions that were made by Bush's administration, but I wouldn't be so quick to jump on the bandwagon and make accusations like this film seems to. Considering the simple fact that Green Zone is a fictitious story, I opened my mind and enjoyed it for what it is. It's a bold political thriller that's not afraid to tell a controversial story, and towards the end it becomes basically an action flick with a long stretch of suspense in the dark, and bullets flying left and right. Green Zone is essentially a hybrid of Body of Lies and The Hurt Locker (if the focus was on Spec Ops, rather than EODs). It actually succeeds for the most part, but like many people's complaints about Avatar, the political message is so overwhelming that it's kind of hard to enjoy the film on any other level. I would still recommend giving it a look.  The Blu-ray has a top notch transfer, with reference audio. My biggest complaint are the typical murky dark scenes, which there are a lot of. I love film grain. It gives me a peace of mind that the people who worked on the disc didn't doctor it up to cater to those who have no idea what real film should look like. So needless to say, this movie looked fantastic to me on Blu-ray because it's loaded with grain. Funny thing is, when I first saw it at the theater, it was before I was as into film as I am now, so I too thought it looked pretty bad. Now that I have a better understanding, I get the whole gritty feel Grengrass intended. That doesn't take away from the fact that heavy grain hurts dark scenes. So in this case, the nighttime scenes may look blurry to some, but there should really be no problem making out details. Now on a DVD, that would be another story, but on Blu-ray, I think they look fine. The sound is sure to rock a house or two. Sound effects are perfectly scattered throughout the battlefield when bullets are flying and bombs are going off. There's a helicopter crash in the third act that sums it all up quite well. The extras are nothing to write home about, but we do get a nice commentary that can be listened to like the average track, or watched as a Picture-in-Picture. There are also a couple of sub-10 minute featurettes that briefly adress Damon and Greengrass's connection to the subject matter, as well as a few soldiers talking about the experience being in the film, and acting alongside Matt Damon. I think most people would love Green Zone, but I happen to fall closer to the middle. I definitely recommend the Blu-ray though.  6.5/10

Excellent, 'Cept For One Glaring Defect... The horrible miscasting of Renee Zellweger. Wholly unbelievable in her role as 'Yoko' to the two-man gun-toting horse-riding Beatles.  Otherwise, this was an excellent movie. The indomitable energy that Ed Harris carries, both as performer and director, was only bolstered by the granite that is Viggo Mortensen.  Kudos to both steely jawed actors - they were absolutely perfect in their respective roles. And notice how deep Mortensen got into his role: Check out the forehead tan line from wearing a hat. That's pure Method on display, and I'm very appreciative of it. Hardcore acting there brother.  An old school cowboy narrative - and for me, it's never gone out of style. Harris does a sturdy job of creating the nascent explosive undercurrent that I've only seen Eastwood do better in a modern western.  And props to Harris for hiring Lance Henriksen. It's not an understatement to say that he's been underutilized for years - forced to take paycheck jobs instead of performing for an audience who can appreciate his talents. I do wonder if Harris made friends with him during the shooting of '<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000092T6N">The Right Stuff</a>'. Not all ensemble casts end up lifelong friends, but I like to think so.  This would've been an easy four-stars for me, but Zellweger's maddeningly oafish overacting is not something you can ignore. Her character is critical to the plot, and her plastic ingratiating performance detracts from the entire production. One has to wonder how Harris was conned into having her in the film, I suspect some serious arm-twisting. No way an actor's actor like him could've been that fooled by her ridiculously inflated resum&eacute;. The question is who put the pressure on for her hiring?

GOOD but Odd and one I just "Didn't Get"! I'm a movie buff and very smart person who always gets the odd movies when my friends didn't and I always end up having to explain them. But for this one - someone would have to explain it to me. I just truly didn't get it or see the need in a movie of this subject matter. Javier is at his supreme acting in this film but geez why of all roles - THIS ONE? He did play the part excellent but I'm thinking the whole way through from one scene to the next - OKAY ... and ... OKAY ... ummm???? Okay ... and .... Pfff! I thought towards the end - enough is enough already!! It was a very depressing movie and I actually fell asleep through certain scenes. I don't like now days how movie scenes are cut off and shifted from one to the next. Hello? Let's just stay on THAT scene and finish it already then move on to the next! Call me old fashioned but again for the millionth time - I just didn't get it. I know and understand what this movie is about but my question is WHY???? Why to make it and why so depressing? We see enough of this now days with the economy the way it is - hey! that may just be the reason why it was made? Maybe I just answered my own WHY?? :) Anyway, I do recommend this movie to all Javier Bardem fans ONLY because he's in it (why I got it myself) and does an excellent portrayal of Uxbal (main character) but if you want a GOOD movie with REAL ACTING and a REAL STORY please see his movie Love in the Time of Cholera. Now there's REAL ACTING from Javier with a REAL and TRUE good understandable STORY! For this movie: 3 stars for the movie/story itself but really give it 5 stars only because it's Javier! P.S. - for those of you out there who think I'm bashing this movie totally - read my review comment again. I'm not! I just said "I" didn't understand it - that's all! It seems to be a real good movie but for me I didn't get it and didn't like the depressing subject matter of the story itself. I continued to watch it all the way through because I was HOPING I'd understand it before it ended. Never did. Well kind of but just didn't like this movie very much. Thought it could've been written and produced a whole lot better in a more understanding way.

No "out of screen" 3d effects No in the room 3d effects. Good depth of field, as you would expect from any 3d movie. Story just as expected.

It's OK This product was ok.  A little disappointing.  Not an ideal "family" movie, but it did have it's funny moments. I probably would not buy it over, if I had a chance to re-do.

Far From the best but not the worst I usually review old rock, metal, and Gothic music but this I must warn parents and LONG time Barbie fans WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY dissapointment awaits from the awfull "Moan singing" to all the other problems one of the worst Barbie movies to date.To clarify something Barbie "Princess and the Pop Star" is the WORST Barbie soundtrack ever in a movie. Also gotta add to the lack of originality a redone version of the "Classic" "To Be A Princess" from "Princess and the Pauper" REALLY? Furthermore the plot had a lot of un realistic turns and twists. Not the worst Barbie movie to date but FAR from the best. My little sister herself smacked her face and held it down nodding in disapproval at least 4 times during movie. I only write reviews when I see needed and with all the positive reviews one like this HAD to be written. Never thought I'd write a review for a BARBIE movie then again never thought I'd see my sister watch a Barbie movie and nod in disapproval multiple times! Recommend this for the newer generation of spoiled girls that love Nick, Disney channel, and Teen Smut as for the older generation don't recommend AT ALL!

3 Stars Charlie Bronson (Tom Hardy) -- who's been jailed for nearly 35 years -- attempts to dissect the real man behind the deranged persona. While Bronson's primary ambition was to be famous, he became a celebrity of sorts as a criminal who seized myriad opportunities to demonstrate extreme and terrorizing savagery.  full review @[...]

Dillinger Any movie with Warren Oates is worth watching. He doesn't disappoint in this violent though not  entirely factual account of Dillinger and his gang from 1933-1934. Oates looks like the real Dillinger and displays the same swagger. Good film and great period music. If you want the real facts though, read John Toland's 1963 novel "Dillinger".

Kato Saves This One "The Green Hornet" (2011) shown in 3D features Seth Rogen as Britt Reid who becomes The Green Hornet. He's the kind of over-the-top comic who can become very annoying and exasperating if you're not on his wave length. It helps if you have an adolescent fondness for zany and oafish playground humor. The real star of the movie is Jay Chou as Kato.  Britt is a party animal who who lives a wasted existence until his tyrannical father, James Reid (Tom Wilkinson), mysteriously kicks the bucket via a bee sting. Britt inherits the family newspaper. When he meets his father's chauffeur, the brainy Kato who has designed fantastic cars, Britt decides to be a crime fighter, but to be different, he chooses to be a vigilante. With his inherited newspaper he can build up the Green Hornet as a bad guy. Kato builds a car, the Black Beauty, which has more gizmos, gadgets, and armament than any James Bond vehicle.  Britt is a klutz, a know-it-all who knows nothing. He can't fight. He thinks he's great, is an egomaniac who after Kato beats up a gang of toughs tries to take the credit and denigrate his sidekick, but Kato has spunk and won't sit back and be a flunky. Kato is a terrific martial arts fighter and seems to have super powers. He can whip up elaborate inventions in a few days. He's the muscle and brains of that outfit.  Britt thinks he can get any woman he wants, but he better look out for Kato. The movie has a love interest, but you'll be surprised at who ends up with the girl.  There's way too much mayhem in this, and the car violence gets tiresome. The Green Hornet seems to wipe out as many cops as bad guys.  If this movie succeeds, I can see sequels lying in wait, but they could very quickly become tiresome just as this film does. Parts are boring and Rogen can wear down the moviegoer who's not on his whiny track. He's a comic playing a comic book hero, but playing the character for laughs can be dangerous. It's part of the crime-fighter and sidekick genre played for yacks more than kicks. There's some crude stuff not for kids.  Britt as a youngster was humiliated when his father took his toy caped superhero doll and tore the head off it. So what does the boy-man do as his first super-hero stunt? He cuts the head off a statue placed in his father's honor at the gravesite.  It's a goofy movie so be prepared. Get ready for lots of mad-cap action, wild car chases, explosions, yucks and jokes. There's a monumental fight between Kato and Britt. No one could possibly escape from that melee without bruises and wounds, but these two do. The villains chasing the fearless duo in the newspaper plant is a long scene that could be condensed. The film is too long and drawn-out and needs closer editing and tightening.

good gift I got it for my sister, she likes that show. If you like it or know somebody that does then get it i suppose

Zombies Just Happen With No Explanation.  Lame Script. I love Sci-Fi, Horror, Terror movies and especially Zombie movies.  On "Dawn of the Dead", who was the idiot behind the script who decided that Zombies can just happen with no explanation as to why they became Zombies?  For this, I only give it 3 stars. "Return of the Living Dead", one of my favorite Zombie movies, has a brilliant script because it shows how the Zombies came about.  Many of my friends have told me that "Dawn" is a Zombie movie that requires me to suspend belief.  Sorry, I can't get over the fact that Zombies just "happen" with no explanation.

Interesting, scary idea What I liked about this movie was it made cell phones and other electronic devices the bad guys. I have always disliked the way cell phones and things like instant messages really divide people instead of bringing them together. Those commercials... where they brag about how they "bring people together" - using those exact words - and then show groups of people on a subway, waiting for a bus, hanging out on a basketball court... and none of them are paying attention to each other. They are all staring down at the little plastic device in their hand. Bring people together, ha! I'd laugh if it weren't so depressing.  I'd rather see a serious movie about the horrors of society instead of a horror movie about the horrors of society, but oh well. We need special effects to keep up entertained these days. Evil spirits coming through on channels opened by electronic devices doesn't have much to do with people being overly obsessed with their phones or other electronics, or being too dependent, or people using technology to make a fortune off of others at their expense... but it was an interesting idea. A very disturbing idea.  I have not seen the original Japanese movie this was copied from, so I don't know how this compares. It was not bad.

The Half Blood Mystery? First off, if you're a Harry Potter fan like me, you have to watch this movie.  But be prepared it falls way short of any of the movies in the series.   If I had not read the books I would have been completely lost trying to keep up with the story.  I walked away from the movie really wanting to like it because there are some great scenes.  But again, they always seemed to make you say " Okay, that's it." That was how I felt about the entire movie " That's it."   I really hope the last two films make us forget about this one.  Still, you need to see the movie because it is J.K. Rowlings Harry Potter, and it is some of the best scifi ever.  Me and my family love the Harry Potter series and would highly recommend them.

Rated: Meh... I don't write spoilers. This movie didn't do well in the theaters. I see why. It's not bad. It's just not that good, either. It's totally predictable, unenthusiastic, & bland. It was worth the $1.98 rental special I paid, but not more. I would imagine movie theater patrons felt very disappointed as they walked out. The CGI they tried to push as being so great in this movie? It wasn't, either...

Glitch While I've now had the pleasure of seeing both seasons 1 and 2 of BOARDWALK EMPIRE I found the second season to be far more satisfying than the first by the end of viewing. However my review is not about the quality of the show but rather the quality of the package itself. The inner folder that holds the discs is very hard to remove from its slipcover, I noticed the finish is actually being rubbed from its corners it packs so tight. But, to make matters worse, disc 4 of the set is defective, there is freezing and skipping that occurs in the beginning of episode 11. I'm surprised at this, since I've purchased many an HBO series on DVD over the past few years and this is the first time it's happened. I should also mention that just as with BW season 1 all the discs are single layer. Is this HBO's way of trying to wean us off DVD and move us over to the slightly more expensive Blu-ray? Please, if anyone else has experienced this I'd like to know, so feel free to respond. In sum: five stars for the season, three stars for the package itself.

Typical Arnold action movie... nothing new but okay... Most people know that this movie was scheduled to be released in Oct of 2001 until the 9/11 terrorist attacks.  In the wake of that tragedy, this movie seems a bit anachronistic.  By itself, it is a typical Arnold actioner.  While Schwarzenegger is billed as an average Joe -- a heroic fireman -- he remains the indestructible hero that he's played countless times before.  Somehow, he takes on an entire terrorist organization -- you can figure out how it ends.  In any case, it isn't a bad movie per se.  Some good action sequences and thrills with an interesting plot twist -- one that isn't too hard to see coming as the movie progresses, but it's still interesting.  The movie attempts to be even at times -- humanizing the terrorists and problematizing the "heroes" -- but it is never with any sincerity and the good guys and bad guys are still pretty clear-cut.  Would have been a better movie, I think, if Arnold's character was a bit darker and his antagonists, a bit more multilayered (they attempt to provide backstory for the bad characters, but without any real depth so it is hard to feel conflicted -- which is fine for an Arnie movie but for this subject matter, you wish there were more complexity).  In any case, it's okay but clearly one of his weaker efforts.  Francesca Neri does a great job as Selena, the heavy's wife, however.  Extras on the DVD are okay.  Includes a 'making of,' which is fine -- nothing spectacular.

Good, but not Great. Yes, the movie was good, but it wasn't great. It was about on the same level of Batman Begins, but that was already done. Then there was the Dark Knight, which was a step up from Batman Begins. This final film is then a step down. An "ending" should always be a step above the last. So, the movie kind of disappoints. Perhaps it was because I watched the whole trilogy at once, or that it was late and I was kind of tired and hungry, but I'm not surprised. Christopher Nolan himself has said the problem with movie franchises is that the first films are almost always better. In this case, the second one is the best. SPOILERS AHEAD I'm just going to jump right into it. How can this be an end when that would totally contradict the first movie? Batman isn't a man. He's a symbol, an ideal, not flesh and blood. Men can die. Men will die. But Batman will always live on as a beacon of hope for the oppressed and a nightmare of fear for those without decency. And the actual ending to this final film? Yes, Bruce Wayne "dies", but so does Selina Kyle as she obviously wiped her record clean or even from existence. So, legally, they're dead, or at least one is and the other no longer exists, but physically speaking, they're alive and well and seem to be together romantically. Batman's not dead as Robin John Blake (his full name) has inherited the batcave and will obviously assume the mantle, even though he hasn't been as highly trained like Bruce. So, right there, you can already make a fourth Batman film and even a spinoff 'Midnight in Florence' romantic film about two lovers, no past, many secrets, questionable source of income, and much more. As for Bane, he truly is a student of Ras Al Ghul as in I felt like I just watched a longer version of Batman Begins. I mean, statistically, he should be the scariest foe of all the movies as he killed the highest number of innocent people and destroyed the most property, but he never came off as menacing as the Joker. And it was hard to understand what he said sometimes with his Darth Vader meets Sean Connery voice. And how could Bruce Wayne not figure out he had Talia Al Ghul in his presence? It's supposed to be realistic. Am I supposed to believe Bruce Wayne doesn't do background checks on his business associates? And he also slept with her. He only kissed Rachel and he technically stalked her in the first two movies. He found out everything he could about Selina Kyle before kissing her. But if he sleeps with a woman, he wont even google her? That's just nonsensical. The movie was disappointing. I figured the whole thing out before the 40 minute mark. The Dark Knight was way better. That movie blew me away. The only things that surprised me in this movie was that Alfred left Bruce Wayne which, to me, came out of nowhere, Wayne Enterprises was bankrupt (before Bane even showed up), and that someone would actually name their son Robin. I see why John Blake never said that name once throughout the whole movie. I guess I should review Anne Hathaway's performance as Selina Kyle/Catwoman. Not going to lie, better than I thought it would be, but still forgettable. She did well as Selina Kyle, but her Catwoman wasn't very good. It just didn't seem natural. I could buy her girl next door turned femme fatale, but the tights just seemed too far for her acting range. That reminds me, Bane's death sucked too. He should've died in an explosion, preferably with the Wayne tech built device threatening the city like Ras Al Ghul before him. That gives me an idea for a better ending. Tragic, but better. I'll keep that to myself for now. Enough spoilers for one day.

"Savage Beach" (1989) plot outline:  Two female government agents transporting a vaccine are forced to land their plane on a remote island that houses more than palm trees and sandy beaches.  A sunken WW2 Japanese ship containing a fortune in gold is located nearby and the island is now a base for a nefarious group searching for it.

sound levels too low I never understood why the sound on this movie was so low. I have had to watch it several times to really enjoy it. Great soundtrack though.

Biography I enjoyed it,I am not a fan but was with someone who is,she loves her and while although I did not like some of the comments i.e.,"The Far-Right" what far Right was there that Existed? It is common Knowledge/Fact that Prohibition was a Progressive phenomenon.Tammany Hall,Chicago Corruption,where was the so-called "Right"? until the post-war Was there such a Resurgence and thank Heavens there was.other than that the bio was informative.

Absurdism in the mountains of Iranian Kurdistan Released in 2000, BLACKBOARDS was the second film by Samira Makhmalbaf, daughter of acclaimed Iranian auteur Mohsen Makhmalbaf and a precocious director in her own right. As the film opens, a group of itinerant teachers lug blackboards into the mountains of Iranian Kurdistan, seeking to bring education to this illiterate, impoverished region in exchange for some meagre income.  Two the teachers quickly branch off from the group, and the film follows their adventures. Saïd (Saïd Mohamadi) falls in with a group of nomads trying to get back to their native land across the border in Iraqi Kurdistan. Rebwar (Bahman Ghobadi) meets a group of children transporting contraband over the border. The teacher's efforts to help the locals learn read and write are rebuffered time and time again, to the point that the film takes on the quality of a play by Samuel Beckett or Harold Pinter. Saïd's attempts to get through to the lone woman in the party (Behnaz Jafari) are the height of absurdism.  Samira Makhmalbaf's visual aesthetic is mainly that of her father's early films, and the film evokes the beauty of this mountainous region, as well as the desolation that causes its poverty. And it's cool that the dialogue is in Kurdish, as there aren't so many films available in the West that highlight this people. However, I must say that I found other aspects disappointing. BLACKBOARDS makes a thought-provoking point that the poor are too busy surviving to worry about ideals like education, but the script doesn't really hang together. The acting is also inconsistent, with a big disconnect between the professional actors and the local Kurds who were brought on.  You might take a chance on BLACKBOARDS. I certainly don't regret seeing it, it's memorable and there's some humour. But I remain unsatisfied.

Disappointed I am a Whedon fan but I was disappointed in this.  There were a few good lines that made us laugh, but overall this was not a great show.  As a fan of both Neil Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillon, I had some expectations of this movie and they were not met in any way.

A Good Effort I didn't expect much from this film, but was surprised that it was better than I thought it would be.  It was a good creative endeavor in presenting the abdication from Simpson's perspective.  However, the dialog was weak and there were some inconsistencies in the plot.  Overall, not bad for a directorial debut.

Just Friends I found this movie to be a bit nerve-wracking as Ryan Reynolds' character did some really stupid things but it was okay.  Not sure I'll watch it again for a long time though.

SAFE It's a action packed mover were the hard core goes over for a small girl. Who everyone eather wants for thier self or want to kill.I would give it a 3 1/2 star if i could.

Beautiful to look at Beautiful film,but one must watch carefully the many characters or you get lost.I was expecting something like Downton Abbey.DVD. Quality is great.

One The Ugliest Movies I've Even Seen This movie is definitely not for everyone's taste.  But for those who are keen on viewing cult movies, it is an extremely good choice.  The director Kuei Chi-hung is noted for making cult movies, and The Boxer's Omen is one of his very best.  A little warning, better avoid viewing this movie while you are eating, otherwise you may throw up upon seeing certain scenes.

GOOD ENTERTAINMENT Russell Crowe plays a reported working for a newspaper that is on the verge of bankruptcy. When a series of criminal acts and the death of a congressman's aid are pieced together, the tempo of the flick picks up, the suspense intensifies.  Helen Mirren plays the editor, with Ben Afflect and Rachael McAdams supporting.  I do not believe the casting of this film was well thought out. Neither Russell Crowe nor Helen Mirren appeal to the characters they are playing. The scenes skip quickly as many modern day films do. It is not confusing, just delivers a different form of entertainment (at least for me).  Over all, the movie is good entertainment, a solid three stars, just not great.

Clint Should Have Done His Research The acting is really good in this movie, but I could not get away from how the beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses were depicted so badly! Being a former Jehovah's Witness, I know that they do not believe in Hell, so the boy in the movie would not have been worried about going there if he celebrated Halloween. Other than that, it is a good movie.

Good, but not up to normal standard We saw Jeff Dunham on tour in Denver this last year.  We couldn't stop laughing, and were in tears for most of the show.  We have really been anticipating this DVD so we could relive that experience.  Unfortunately, most of the material changed, and was not nearly as funny.  Even the audience wasn't laughing nearly as hard on the taping.  Perhaps it was just an off night, but not great.  It also seemed a bit short on independent characters.  We saw 5 plus the extras (A.J. and Jose), this only had 3 plus extras.  Granted, they are the 3 most want to see, but again, a bit disappointing.  We will certainly see Jeff again if he comes through, but may wait to buy the next DVD until we have rented it.

WHAT YOU ARE SEEKING IS SEEKING YOU. The film opens with a family murder/suicide. It claims these happen every full moon in clusters in different communities. The reason is the apparent urban legend pirate radio station which eerily operates during that one night from sundown to sunrise, granting callers their wish in what is an apparent monkey's paw type of fashion.  Sweet Angelica (Catherine Munden) wants to go to a party with the kids from high school. Mom (Kate Enggren) has her grounded for missing curfew. Angelica's best friend and bad influence is Staci (Sarah Christine Smith) who post provocative photos on the web (mom says it's porn) and specializes in conversations with men behind bars. She claims, "Having a job is sooo Mexican."  The sad acting and dialouge can be seen in the mother-daughter conflict scene. Angelica is mesmerized by the Oracle radio transmission on FM 99.9 as she sits at home grounded. Riled by a staged photo sent by her "friend" Staci, Angelica calls the Oracle. Then low budget things start to happen which might make you say, "I wish I had never seen this film."  The real dark characters are the voices at The Open Door. They remained voices and never achieved the cult status that bad guys need to produce viable sequels. They missed a golden opportunity.  Occasional F-bomb, no sex or nudity. Killing, not much blood.

wrong product, extra product, mistake in shipping?? The dvd arrived on time but I received a combo DVD of Ocean's 11 and Ocean's 12. Some might think this is a good thing, but it's for a company Christmas party and I already bought Ocean's 11. Also, sometimes the combo dvd'a aren't the best quality. While I appreciate the combo (or mistake in shipping), If I wanted a combo, I would have bought a combo.

prenatal yoga I thought the video was for begginers, since it didn't specify anything, but looking at the DVD, I found that the exercises were impossible to do, at least for me!! They require experience on yoga, and lot of balance, to not fall down! I will try the postnatal exercises later, to avoid any accident because I'm sure I can't do any of those exercises at this time.

3 mildly entertaining stories In this movie, a cat travels to 3 different cities.  In each city, he comes across 3 different horror scenarios.  In the first story, he's captured by a clinic called "Quitter's Inc" that helps people quit smoking.  Their methods, however, are similar to something the Godfather would dream up.  You'll quit smoking because you'll be given an offer you can't refuse. In the second story, he temporarily lives with a madman who makes a bet with his wife's lover that involves the lover having to walk along a ledge around a casino building. And in the final third story, he lives with a young girl who's slowly having her  life  drained away by a troll living in her wall.  All 3 stories are entertaining, but the special effects are fake looking.  The acting was just mediocre with the lover on the ledge and Drew Barrymore being the worst of the bunch.  Speaking of Drew, in each story, there's an apparition of her telling the cat to come find her which is, besides being corny, confusing, too.  Drew appears in all 3 stories as a different character and it's only the last story that is really about her.  So I didn't get what that was all about.  The movie's ending can be interpreted two ways, either a happy or sinister ending.  I interpreted it as happy, kind of like a psyche on the viewer.  I'm a cat lover so it bothered me to see this cat being put through hell in this movie.  I didn't want to know what the director did to make this cat jump around in the electric shock room or hiss.  Cat's don't hiss unless they're really scared.  I did, however, like all the Stephen King trivia.  Throughout this movie, there's a Can-you-spot-the-Stephen-King movie?  For instance, the movie starts with the cat running from a rabid dog like "Cujo"...he runs past a red car with a bumper sticker that says, "I am evil.  I am Christine"....a man is watching the movie "The Dead Zone" on tv....and a woman is reading the book "Pet Semetary" in bed.  Maybe there's more references, but those are the ones I noticed.  Also, I thought it was interesting that the girl's doll is named Norma Jean.  Maybe it doesn't mean anything or maybe it means that King is a big time Marilyn Monroe fan.  Overall, these stories were entertaining to watch, but not terribly scary.

A Decent Loaf, But It Is Just White Joe is not an artist. He does not create art because he has no original vision. All he does is ape other players we have all heard to death, although he does this very well. You can't say he is completely without originality, but he has very little of it. He really lacks depth and soul. While I thought all his leads and lines were done well, I never heard one lick that sounded even slightly refreshing. His songs are the same. He sings well enough but the songs are not there.  I like his smooth lines and logical phrasing, but there is simply nothing new there. He has very good technique. I am sure, as his father points out, that he has practiced his ass off. But being a musician, at least a good one that stands out as significant, is more importantly about being creative and not just trying to blow people away with how technically awesome you are. I believe he is still a very immature player who could learn with some more time to make some really good music if he changes his attitude and finds some soul. His last song starts to hint at this possibility. Everything I was gleaning from watching his performance is only cemented by watching the last shot of him in the dressing room. He is arrogant and comes off being rather princessish. He bitches about ruining his suit, cutting his fingers, and throwing away his glasses but lets us know he got five standing ovations and played with Eric Clapton, which he shrugs off by his nonchalant attitude and the off-handed way he mentions these facts as if this is just small time on his way to future greater things. He displays no humility, appreciation, gratitude, nor joy in this last clip, or the concert in general. It's all about Joe. His body language and they way he interacts with his audience through his performance gives him away before you get to this last scene. In his performance he says this is the greatest day of his life, but it only seems to be so he can show the world how truly great he is. It is because he has triumphed in his goal. The whole DVD could be retitled "The Triumph of Joe Bonamassa: The Rise To The Top." He has shown the world how good he is and being at Albert proves this. He gives nods to his heroes in his performance and now he feels he stands alongside them as one of the new greats. That's how this concert comes off. It is almost like you are being sold on his greatness and superiority. Sorry to burst your bubble but that isn't the way music works, Joe. You become iconic and an artist because you have vision and have something to add to the canon of music/art that hasn't been done or said before. You can't just simply ape it technically better and expect to be thought of as one of the greats. You need to show a depth of the human spirit, and show possibilities of human creativity that haven't been shown before. Playing faster, cleaner, and more technically amazing will not get you there. If you cannot understand this you will simply end up as one of those guys that carves the Taj Mahal into a grain of sand. Pretty amazing and curious, but who cares ten seconds after you have seen it. The production is good. I find no fault in camera angles, edits, sound, etc. I think if you compare this to the average concert DVD, it is better than usual in this respect. A lot of people will think this concert is amazing because, like Joe, they lack the ability to recognize higher order art. They have been brought up in the West where it is mostly about marketing and superlatives, and how fast you play, and where you play, and how much money you make is a testament to your greatness. The concerts is not bad but it's like white bread, all fluff, air, and packaging. I enjoy white bread once in a while too, like I enjoyed this concert, but you have to take it for what it is. I'd enjoy white bread better if it said, "Hi, I'm only white bread but let's have some fun," instead of, "I'm among the greatest loaves of bread that have ever existed. I'm so impressed with myself. Look how far I've come."

No Spanish Subtitles Hello! I bought a DVD (A Stir of Echoes) two months ago and I got ir around a week ago. The product is Ok except for the fact that it doesn't have Spanish subtitles. When I ordered it the description of the product said it had them but when I tried it I realized it didn't. Here I send the link where the description shows that the DVD has Spanish subtitles: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002DB54A/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i02  I hope we can find a solution to this problem. Thank you very much for your time!!!

Don't need the DVD! I wish that Disney would make the Blu-ray available by it self, i love the option of having thew movies on DVD also but I don't need 2 copies of this movie, one is enough and I don't understand why the only way to get the blu-ray is in the combo- pack. Please Disney un-combo the blu-ray disks!!

jim brown raises some hell south of the border... Ex-NFL star turned actor Jim Brown plays a former Green Beret looking to avenge the death of his parents in Slaughter (1972), a violent blaxplotation thriller that provides ample opportunities for Brown to flash some of his best moves, in his first headlining role.  Although a B-move, the film has a solid cast that includes Don Gordon, Rip Torn, Robert Phillips, Cameron Mitchell, and Stella Stevens.  After his parents are tragically killed by a car bomb in his hometown of Cleveland, Slaughter (Brown) begins looking for the reasons why.  After crossing paths with the US Treasury, Slaughter learns that the man responsible for his parent's death is now holed up in Mexico.  With the Government's blessing, Slaughter heads south of the border to Mexico City to ferret out the killer.  The possible suspects are Mario Felice (Norman Alre) a local, or his business associate from America Dominic Hoffo (Torn), who is accompanied by his hatchet man Frank (Phillips).  Slaughter teams up with Harry Bostone (Gordon) a government agent, and begins his investigation.  Hoffo sends his girlfriend Ann (Stevens) to hang with Slaughter and feed him information, but she soon succumbs to his manly charms, as the shapely Stevens (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EHSVNW">The Poseidon Adventure</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004WZ0C">The Nutty Professor</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000CDRW1">The Silencers</a>) appears in several nude scenes.  Things are kept pretty lively, as the movie features a series of violent action sequences, highlighted by one where Slaughter's running talents are put to the test, as he tries to avoid being flattened by a car.  Events build to a pretty dramatic conclusion as Slaughter and Harry raid the crooks' hideout, and the ex-soldier avenges his parents' death.  Robert Phillips is very effective as a heavy, and Stella Stevens gives her all in her role, and even takes a beating.  The Mexican setting gives Slaughter a very different flavor than your typical urban crime drama, and adds some interesting aspects to what is a rather routine storyline.  Jim Brown gets plenty of opportunities to display his physical skills.  Although he's not exactly smooth at reloading a gun, his acting style is perfect for this kind of hard edged macho adventure.  Brown would continue in the blaxplotation genre with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000WN154">Black Gunn</a> (1972), and a sequel, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000053VBF">Slaughter's Big Ripoff</a> (1973).

A Period Piece Set In 1939 Malaysia--Just A Typical Jessica Alba Romp I'm going to preface this review by saying that I think "The Sleeping Dictionary" might have made an excellent movie. But, unfortunately, as it stands--it is more of an interesting failure. Set in 1939 Malaysia, the film's locale does offer a colorful and lush backdrop to the story. Hugh Dancy stars as a British official who is sent into the jungle to "civilize" the natives.  His actual job functions, though, are somewhat sketchy and superfluous. Any time the film spends looking at his actual "work" is only done to provide broad culture clash comedy. He meets a Malaysian girl (Jessica Alba) who is to serve as his sleeping dictionary, a term used to describe someone who will teach him the local language and warm his bed. Of course, the two actually fall in love which brings about a whole new series of complications.  Now if this is supposed to be 1939 Malaysia, it is absolutely the most modernized and Westernized version possible. I couldn't take this picture seriously for a moment. Getting past that, though, the first half of the movie wants to be a frothy comedy while the second half shifts focus into a romantic tragedy. This jarring tonal switch is not wholly effective. By playing the first part so light, the film doesn't get us to invest in its story or characters. When things turn more serious, then, it might hold your interest but you are never emotionally involved.  I actually like the fact that Jessica Alba wanted to try a film of a more serious nature, but sadly she falls short. Half the picture, she slinks around like a playful kitten uttering lines more fitting to a modern romantic comedy than a period piece. It's so out of place as to be disconcerting, but most of the blame really falls on the script's shortcomings. For those of you purely interested in Alba as a physical specimen--there is a fair amount of sex. She does, however, contort around unbelievably so as not to show any actual skin (except for a couple of obvious body double moments). As for her believability as a Malaysian--I'll be kind and succinct and say it just doesn't work.  Hugh Dancy is far more successful as the idealistic official and Bob Hoskins and Brenda Blethyn are reliable, as always. For those looking for a really spirited romantic, exotic epic--I'd suggest Michael Mann's sublime "Last of the Mohicans." I just didn't connect with this film in the way necessary to make it really memorable. It's not a disaster, it is just unrealized potential.  For me, I'm sad to say it only merits about 2 1/2 stars which I'll round up because it's pretty to look at. KGHarris, 11/06.

This DVD has one 1921 version and one 1936 version of the film How sad that the moral puritans took control of the film industry in the 1930s. The silent 1921 version actually has people kissing on screen and the feelings the love story evokes are much closer to Dumas's book. The 1936 version has been turned into something very sappy and sentimental. There is no denying that Garbo has a great screen presence, but she doesn't really play a pleasure woman very well. She is not lecherous enough. In the 1921 version it is clear that Armand is in love with a call girl. In the 1936 Armand is in love with a fairly reputable woman what wants to improve her social status through marriage. Clearly more acceptable to the moral puritans. Finally, the 1921 version has marvellous art deco set designs.  I give two stars to 1936 and four stars to 1921.

Not so bad To me this was a good movie. When I first saw it a few years back on tv I knew I had to have it on DVD. I'm glad I brought it because I love watching this movie. It's the not the best horror movie ever made. In fact it's cheesy, but worth watching.

Bad Afterschool Special With Alright Dancing I can't say I hated this movie, but I don't love it either.. I guess it falls into the guilty pleasures category. The story, if you want to say it really had one, was really bland, bad & str8 out of an 80's throw back break dancing movie a la Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo meets an abc after school special. The acting was simplistic, unbelievable and corny.. and it's very hard to believe that with all that dancing, there's not one gay character... I mean, c'mon guys, know your demographics when making a movie such as this.. Because it was so Str8 laced and wholesome, I don't get the PG-13 rating on this one; there's no sex, no harsh language or violence, no sexual controversy which could upset anal retentive conservatives, no substance abuse. It's a mild PG at best...  The Adam G. Sevani (Moose: the NYU Freshman) was an alright dancer, but he's hard to look at without wanting to throw something at him. His story line was awful, uneven and so boooorrrring - And that one scene where he's dancing down the street with his best friend?!?!? What was that all about??? I haven't seen anything that out of line & awkward in a plot since the dancing down the street scene in Spiderman 3; only that didn't last half as long as this spectacle..  However, Luke (Rick Malambri - CUUUUUTE & Sexy) was eye candy worth looking at.. especially in the first morning scene..thanks for that... oooookaaaay... Compared to the first two installments, Step Up 3 was a step up in the dancing dept, (but Channing Tatum's dancing in the first one still the hottest).. The music in this film was above average.. but everything's predictable, everyone has great hair.. even with nowhere to sleep, & it all kinda fizzled out at the end; I expected a better finale. I thought the dance number with the water was the peak in this movie, but it had already been done before in the prior films... This film was a TV movie at best.

Beauty and Fluff Parts of movie very beautiful and interesting...other parts, particularly the battle scenes, were hard to follow, with lots of scenes of horseback riding with no actual focus.  The scenes from the air of the battles were just so much dust...probably just filler for the movie.  Music was good, and the costumning was lavish...it was hard to stuff all that historical data into one film, and in places it got a little hard to follow, and the difficult Greek names made characters sometimes hard to identify.  I enjoyed it anyway...    Erroll M.

Grumpier Old Men My wife wanted the movie, I found it not as entertaining as the first one but it still had it's amusing parts.

Attention all Atheists and disbelievers: 'The Book of Eli' begins with the letter 'B' *** This review may contain spoilers ***  For those who were unable to suspend their disbelief (or more importantly, their common sense) regarding the many implausible moments in 'The Book of Eli', let me say unequivocally that I am with you! However, let me explain why I gave this film a '3' out of '5' (or 5 out of 10 on Imdb) despite finding the whole thing quite hokey. First of all, there are many films that are far worse than this one; secondly, I thought that the cgi effects and set design were actually quite good, especially the way in which the filmmakers created their 'equivalent' wild west post-apocalyptic town; and finally, the film actually has engendered a great deal of internet postings defending the many absurd, implausible ideas and scenes utilizing all kinds of tortured reasoning, which I found quite enjoyable to read!  The Hughes Brothers have come a long way since their urban crime drama, Menace II Society. They have proved they can proffer up a post-apocalyptic shoot-em-up as good as any mainstream director. Taking a cue from M. Night Shyamalyn's 'Sixth Sense', not only do they know how to dispatch (i.e. 'off') the bad guys in a multitude of creative ways (hands chopped off, cross-bow shootings, one gunshot take downs, etc.), they also can throw in all kinds of clues, pointing to the fact (SPOILERS AHEAD--DON'T READ IF YOU WANT THE TWIST ENDING SPOILED FOR YOU) that Denzel Washington (Eli) has been blind all along. How exactly is Eli able to kill all those biker dudes (first with a knife and later with a gun) without being able to see them? The answer, of course, is in the 'book' itself. Wouldn't you know it, but the Book of Eli begins with a 'B'; yep, shock of all shocks, it's THE BIBLE!!! Channeling 'Ben Hur', the Hughes Brothers make the argument that miracles can be found even in a post-apocalyptic world! Like the Apostle Paul, Eli's 'faith' allows him to miraculously survive multiple onslaughts, including a bullet direct to the gut by bad guy Carnegie.  The warmed-over Christian shibboleth that miracles occur due to 'belief in faith alone' is just another canard where we must suspend our disbelief in order to enjoy this film. But there's one small problem. Eli has been carrying one copy of the Bible that he's been trying to memorize for years, and it's in Braille!!! Since the Bible in Braille would consist of many heavy volumes, this is one plot point which even some of the most fanatical defenders of the film, have trouble explaining away.  There are other moments in 'Eli' which I still had a lot of trouble explaining away myself. What about Eli walking around for days after having stocked up with only a canteen of water? All the copies of the Christian Bible have been burned but copies of the Jewish Bible and Koran end up on the library shelf at Alcatraz? And how exactly did he escape from the room when Carnegie and his thugs lock him up? I guess Eli finds a 'way' because all those who believe in God, manage to do so.  Perhaps one of the most weakest ideas in 'Eli' is Carnegie's belief that obtaining the Bible will enable him to extend his power. Since he and Eli are only a few of the people who actually have heard of The Bible, why does he assume that introducing it to the post-apocalyptic survivors will enable him to bring them under his fold? Since the majority of people in the new world have little or no knowledge of prior literature, Carnegie could have wrote his own book which he could have used to sway the masses. Of course, somehow the Bible is supposed to have some kind of a mystical, intrinsic power (perhaps rays emanating from the book itself) which leads Carnegie to believe he can use it as a brainwashing tool. Since it's never demonstrated how Carnegie could become more powerful by getting hold of The Bible, the stakes are never high enough for us to care whether Carnegie gets the book or not. Now if Eli knew the location of a nuclear bomb, that's a Macguffin that I could believe Carnegie would want to get his hands on!  There seems little doubt that the most completely miscast actor in 'The Book of Eli' is Mila Kunis. She seems so out of place in this film that her performance actually drags the film down a notch or two. USA Today film critic Claudia Puig couldn't have said it better about Kunis in her film review: "Vacuous and far too glam, she looks as if she dropped in from a Ray-Ban commercial." Didn't anyone find it a bit ridiculous how Solara (Kunis) suddenly acquires Eli's amazing martial arts-like skills and takes down most of Carnegie's henchmen in one of the final scenes? Denzel also has become painfully one-note in many of his recent film roles as a middle-aged actor.  Finally, I'd like to chime in on the controversy as to whether Eli has converted to Islam when he arrives on 'Alcatraz Island'. A Muslim is not allowed to read any religious book except the Koran, so when Eli dresses up in a white robe as he translates the Bible, I think the Hughes Brothers were suggesting that all along he was some kind of post-apocalyptic Essene. Just my interpretation!  I would like to thank all the faith-based defenders of 'The Book of Eli' along with all those who employ tortured reasoning to explain all the ridiculous goings-on in this film. Without you, I would never have enjoyed this film as much as I did and given it a passable rating.

Worth seeing once This was an interesting spin on the Robin Hood tale, and, as I'm told, is supposed to be a more historically accurate version as well. I don't know much about the true history of the legendary Robin Hood, but do not go in expecting a prequel to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001993Y3G">Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves</a>. While this film is a prequel to the more popular story of Robin Hood, it does take a very different turn than did other Robin Hood films. That's what made this film so interesting to watch; to see all the characters you know so well placed in a completely different role than seen before. That was a very enjoyable part of the movie. Aside from that, the film was a bit lacking. I admit that this was not up to the usual par of Ridley Scott, and I was expecting better from him. The actors, especially Russel Crowe and Cate Blanchett, perform very well in this film and definitely carry the movie through some of it's blandness and clich&eacute;s. While the two main characters and Blanchett's father go through a great deal of character development, the other characters just wander around the movie doing as they are told. You really hope to see character development with Little John, Will Scarlet, Allan A'Dayle and Friar Tuck, but are dissappointed by the lack thereof. The enemies of the film are threatening enough and convincing in their evil roles, but I admit that I certainly enjoy the embittered Alan Rickman and comical Peter Ustinov versions of Little John better than the winy, spoiled Prince John that we are presented with in this film (It's probably obvious, but I really, really like Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and it's hard for other Robin Hoods attempts to top it).  **Spoiler Alert** I also have to admit that the final arrow shot that killed Godfrey in the end was way too ridiculous to be believable. The fact that Robin was able to shoot Godfrey through the neck from a very far distance while the villain was riding away on a horse amongst great coastal winds and with a soaked bow and arrow is just too much. I would have even been okay with it if he just got him through the heart via the back; but that triumphant shot was just far too over-the-top for me to accept. There were just too many factors that would make that an impossible shot. **End Spoiler Alert**  Overall, the film is worth seeing at least once, but not purchase-worthy in my book.  As far as questionable content: There is a quick flash of a soldier and servant girl having sex amidst the battlegrounds towards the beginning. There is also a very awkward sex scene with Prince John and his French fling towards the beginning in which you see a flash of female nipple as well as an eyeful of Prince John's buttocks. Aside from that, some scenes of violence.  [...]

"Ok, But Could've Been Better!" Kane Hodder and John LeMay star in this 1993 horror sequel. Crystal Lake killer, Jason Voorhees tries to resurrect himself through possession. This is ok, but I think it could've been better. This dvd not only has nice picture and sound, but rated & unrated versions plus deleted/alternate scenes, commentary and the trailer. I still recommend this for your Friday the 13th or horror collection.

Great Video and Audio Please describe the audio and video quality of any Blu-Ray you review.  The video quality was great.  9.5 out of a 10 point scale.  Audio was great also.  DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1.  107 minutes long.  I didn't think the movie was that good though.

Marathon Battle Scene and Stunning Photography Can't Make Up for Weak Writing. "13 Assassins" is a remake of a 1963 film, updated by director Takashi Miike. The year is 1844, when the age of the samurai in Japan was waning, and the shogunate would soon follow. The Shogun's half-brother Lord Naritsugu (Goro Inagaki) is expected to be appointed senior advisor. This causes disquiet across Japan, as Naritsugu has earned a reputation as a sadistic and capricious man, too immature for serious responsibilities. The Shogun's advisor Sir Doi (Mikijiro Hira) fears that the country will descend into war if Naritsugu's worthiness were to be disputed openly. He turns to the aging, trusted samurai Shinzaemon (Koji Yakusho) for a solution. Shinzaemon assembles a dozen samurai to assassinate Naritsugu en route to his home, but his Lordship is guarded by the fiercely loyal samurai Hanbei (Masachika Ichimura).  By Takashi Miike's own admission, there are a lot of unnecessary scenes in this movie. I found the extraneous material trying in the first half. The second half of the film is dominated by a 50-minute battle scene, which, to the director and editor's credit, isn't tedious. Action sequences constitute about half of the film, though, oddly, Miike considers this a drama rather than an action movie. If you like swordplay, there is a lot of it on display here. But I don't think it works as a drama. A group of people of diverse ages and personalities are assembled to pull off a "big job" that seems a good deal more sophisticated than the group could manage. The characters are thinly drawn. There is a certain amount of comic relief amid the bloodshed, mostly provided by Koyata (Yusuke Iseya), an erstwhile hunter they meet in the mountains.  I like "13 Assassins" visual style a lot. The greys, dark blues, and browns are stunning. But Miike sets a serious tone without serious plotting. A painfully obvious stock plot. Everything feels contrived. Naritsugu is so evil and maniacal that he is not believable. Shinzaemon's behavior toward him doesn't make sense. And the 200 soldiers they are to face seem endless, as if there are actually a lot more than that. I kept thinking that the 13 would run out of adversaries during the prolonged battle, but they just kept coming. Granted, "13 Assassins" is supposed to create an impression and glorify certain cultural icons more than it is supposed to make sense. But it seemed like the filmmakers expected poor writing to go unnoticed in all the action and beautiful photography. In Japanese with optional subtitles.  The DVD (Magnolia 2011): Bonus features include a theatrical trailer (2 min), deleted scenes, and an "Interview with Director Takashi Miike" (20 min). The interview is in Japanese with English subtitles. Among other things, he discusses the ambiguity surrounding the Koyata character. Subtitles are available in English, English narrative, and Spanish. Dubbing is available in English.

Like it or Loath it, still it tells a certain truth. Naysayers damn this movie as fantasy, fantasy lovers like it for its fairy tale. Yet I think its the truth in full color. How many powerful rich men do you see with gold-digging arm-candy wives?  Answer: All of them. If not yet, then soon, or they have them on the side. Why? Because they can. So enough with the pseudo-intellectual criticisms of this movie; its true enough. Julia and Richard just make it look really good.  Julia's performance is the only good one in this flick, seconded by Jason Alexander.  You see Julia's character change and her simpler nature come through. And there's the music.  Take it for what it is, a glossy piece of entertainment.

A missing element... The original Snow White was a story told to relate the difference between innate and physical beauty in a woman. Kristen Stewart, though fairly good as the princess avenging her family and her kingdom from evil, misses one important element that makes Snow White who she is and that's joy. The whole weight of Snow White's beauty doesn't rest with her innocence or pretty face but with her inner joy, love of life and compassion. Stewart doesn't bring these elements to the role but remains dour through the entire film. The strength of a Snow White is that she can inspire love from all around her because she carries that happy lightness of being within, the fairy tale itself rests on the idea that a woman's beauty is in her innate qualities and attitude not her physical beauty; in short women cannot command love just because they are physically attractive. By contrast the performance of Charlize Theron as the queen is awesome. Theron balances everything perfectly and subtly portrays what drives the queens character. The queen symbolizes a woman who cannot love and so cannot be loved because of some grave hurt that has twisted her heart and her character, she's supposed to hate Snow White not just because she's pretty but because she's happy and loved. Theron shows a woman who is dependent on the power of physical beauty because she cannot exude it from inside. She feels used, hurt, lonely, angry and vengeful the opposite qualities that makes Snow White snow white which is why she's told by her magic mirror that if she takes the princesses heart she will live and remain beautiful forever. I would have given this four stars, maybe even five if the story was properly portrayed but it wasn't and I cannot tell if its the fault of the director or lack of emotional in Stewart herself.  As for those who felt the triangle between Snow White, the huntsman and William was left unresolved you are all mistaken. The idea is that the Queen's power over Snow White can only be broken through true love, when Prince william kisses her she remains dead, when the Huntsman kisses her she is restored, so we know from this that Snow White's heart rests with the huntsman and not William.

Watchable, but Barely At first, I was going to give this film 4 or 5 stars.  But that would have been only because of my lifelong admiration for the work of Sylvia Plath.  After thinking objectively for awhile, I have to say that this film was lacking in several ways. First of all, the scriptwriting was feeble.  Very weak and unremarkable. Also,  I didn't realize they couldn't use most of her own words, and I was expecting more of that.  Disappointing.  I really had to put aside my bias about Paltrow in the leading role; she is one of those I try to avoid at all costs and this role didn't redeem her in my eyes.  I'd have liked to see more about Plath's childhood, which I feel is a pivotal part of her adult personality and choices.  More of her own personality with a glimpse about the marriage and the beast.  Having read most of her stuff, and insights into her life, I didn't feel that this movie really provided any significant depth to her life story.  I have often thought that her kids were lucky that they were not victims of the gas as well.  Overall, it was a watchable film with nothing that stood out for me.  Kinda disappointing.

The MANOS of Rifftrax... I've been a long time fan of MST3k and I've seen the worst movies they've ever screened (Manos, Creeping Terror, Monster-a-Go-Go, etc) and all I can say is that this particular movie, "Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny" is shot for shot, scene for scene, as BAD as any I've been exposed to.  This movie is just god-awful.  Not in the so bad its good way, just the bad bad bad way.  If someone had told me that the entire budget for this film was $200 and that the money was used to buy a handgun so the director could force the participation of anyone they could find to be on camera, I wouldn't question it at all.  Others have done a fine job describing the "plot" as it might loosely be termed, so I won't bother.  All I can say is get ready for a film that includes copious amounts of near-abuse to both children and animals (you'll see one child jump off a ROOF with a PATIO-UMBRELLA!), the most terribly non-musical songs you've ever heard, and the worst/creepiest looking animal costumes I've ever seen.  All of it amounts to a film that, like the infamous "Manos, the Hands of Fate," has to be seen to be believed.  Unfortunately, and also like "Manos," this is one case where the movie is just so awful it leaves the riffers in a lurch.  Mike and co. do an admirable job, but there are still plenty of dead spots, and moments the just illicit noises of pain instead of comments.  Don't get me wrong, I did laugh, absolutely I did, but there are funnier Rifftrax DVDs out there.  I enjoyed my time with this, but I probably won't be watching it over and over again like some others.

Somewhat believeable, but then ..... This seemed almost credible until the climactic scene where the first sperm donor tries to propose, only to be interrupted by the real donor. I thought that was a bit lacking in realism. But hey, this is a movie, and a Jennifer Anniston movie, at that. This is about the 17th film that seems to revolve around Anniston's real life situation, i.e., perpetually in search of love and/or a child as she seems to creep into middle age. Screenwriters must be falling over themselves to custom craft these flicks so they can cash in. As usual with little kids in movies, the one here is a bit too saccharine for my taste. The ending, of course, is extremely feel good. This is a harmless piece of piffle. Go ahead and knock yourself out.

Kind of grainy Ordered this along with Fantasia on Blu-ray. I know that Disney Blu-rays have a larger budget to remaster their movies, but this was a little dissappointing. Extremely grainy film transfer from the original. Haven't watched a pre Blu-ray version of Nimh in a while, but I don't remember it looking this harsh. Would think that if the studio was going to go through the trouble of doing a tranfer, they would do some picture correction. Movie is still good, just wish they had put more effort in.

Low Tech sci fi set with high school boy alien hero This is an ok free movie.  It includes all the elements of a high school drama with a bit of super powers in the high school aged hero.  It also contains sort of scary alien bad guys... good looking high school alien hero, nerd outsider whose (missing/dead) dad spent all his time traveling around trying to prove star people visited earth... and the kid is also a card carrying member of same... it also, of course, contains the school QB/bully and his Lois Lane cutie ex  who of course falls for the nice alien boy.  The bad aliens are kind of comic book/halloween  tatted up 2 meter tall cretins with guns and the need to kill

Come on Scott I just saw the film about 3 hours ago. I was some what disapointed in the film. It started off slow and then about the last 30 minutes it was good. I expected so much more from this long awaited film. If you liked alien 3 then you will love this.What I mean is >>>>>>>>>Boring>>>>>>>!!!!!

Lacks Character Depth I like Jason Stratham and enjoy his Martial Arts expertise and "tough guy" demeanor, but Charles Bronson was Arthur Bishop and this remake does not honor the original.  In Bronson's performance, we got to see his weaknessess.  His need for a prostitute to role play having feelings for him, his bout with anxiety at the zoo, his need for some companionship, which resulted in his taking on an apprentice despite knowing the drawbacks in his choice.  His explanation of what was going on in the dojo when the Instructor was illegally struck in a match (played by Tak Kubota, I think) and nearly killed his opponent.  "He is a Killer who doesn't Kill" explains Bishop/Bronson; which is the real meaning of the story.  What drives a person to become a professional killer of others?  The opening scene where Bishop/Bronson takes out his target, hiding in a cheesy apartment is VASTLY more entertaining than the new version where Stratham drowns his victim in a pool.  The Action was ok, the ending was better than I expected but not as good as the original, I'm glad I saw it in the theater.  Considering the cast, it should have been much better.

okk Box was reallly ripped apart...2 of the Cd's skipped, and had to take them out and wash them. Overall okay, couldnt beat the price...just wish it was a little better

Sweet Bird of Youth (English/French version) The film adaptation of "Sweet Bird of Youth" elegantly portrays this classic play to the big screen during Hollywood's "Golden Years". Paul Newman's, Rip Torn account is both witty, empathetic and desirable, while a cast of future stars pulls along a wonderful tale of love, romance, presence, and pride.

It's a Bad Omen A child was born and his father abandoned him, perhaps worse.  The child moved to another country, and at a fairly young age this child came to power.  He was very charismatic, giving great speeches that made the young people rise up to support him, even though he was evil.  At least one old man tried to defeat him - even some women - but they all failed.  After all, this man was born of pure evil.  No, we're not talking about a potential world leader; we're talking about Damien Thorne, a man who is nearly as evil and destructive as the above child.  But what is curious to me is the following:  if I were the Antichrist, I wouldn't waste my time running a company or becoming an ambassador.  I would have bigger fish to fry, like making people suffer, and doing standard human stuff is a real drag on your time.  But how would I make these people suffer?  Well, instead of bringing prosperity, I would bring unemployment and chaos.  I would make the rich and the poor - and all races - hate each other.  I wouldn't waste my time on some useless fox hunt or consume my time by heading some multi-national startup.  Think big!  Well, I had a good time writing this review about a movie that wasn't so good.  Sam Neill?  Yeah, he's not bad as an evil dude.  But I know somebody else, some real life guy, who's far scarier.

Glen Morgan and James Wong should have been fired! Show started off great in season one, which was primarily written by Chris Carter.  Season two, written by James Wong and Glen Morgan was just stupid and completely ruined the rest of the series bringing it to an abrupt end in season three and never even making it to the millenium!

Bat 21 This is a great production ranking up there with "Flight of the Intruder" types. Certain facts were changed slightly and there were cuts removed from the original version. But with the star line up, I always enjoy seeing this overall winner again and had to have a copy of my own. Thank you H. Velez, Florida USA

Good except for "Cringely" Not too bad though and hour is barely enough for such an iconic figure.  The words of "Cringely" are, typically, a complete waste of time as he practices his knack of stating what you already know as if he's the originator.

Sweet realistic movie I can honestly relate to this movie.  I always wonder what happened to my childhood sweetheart and how I would feel/react seeing them again.  This story is above two woman who take different paths in lives, but through a 10 year school reunion get to see each other again.  It's a hart warming movie, of two people coming to terms with their current lives and each other.  This is rather a low cost production, an old house forms the back drop of 99% of the scenes. The acresses deliver an outstanding performs and capture past hidden feelings.  If you are looking for a fast or raunchy movie, then this film is not for you.

Worth it, but not for very long. I rented this movie last night after going years without seeing it, and I hardly remembered anything from it. I absolutely loved it and was actually more excited to watch it again than I was to watch it the first time. I understand why this DVD is so expensive, as the movie isn't available in stores, isn't on YouTube, and never plays on TV, and it may be worth your money, but keep in mind it's set to come out of the Disney Vault in just a few years (I think it'll be 2 years, since that'll be its 25th anniversary).

Not bad The movie was decent, but not something I am going to watch again. The vampire girl's lack of acting annoyed me in this movie as much as it did in the vampire series. Other than that, the battle sequences were a little dry and the story was predictable all the way through.

sousa`s march . o colorido &eacute; muito bom .o filme parece ser uma copia de anterior.as musicas podiam ser mais longas .a cenas da guerra com cuba poderiam ser deletadas

Neutral Position I remember this movie when I was a kid & it was one of my favorites.  For the most part, it still is.  I am an animal lover & there are parts that are questionable.  However, with no actual proof, its up to the people watching to judge for themselves whether or not animals were physically harmed in the making of this film.   For all those people yelling about the movie's standards, u still need to remember when this movie was made.  There were different standards back in 1986 than there are now.  There was technology available back in those days that could simulate some of the more distasteful scenes in this movie so u cant just ignore that, just like other people cant ignore the possibility that animals may have been hurt.   I personally think that these animals were trained and raised together to limit the amount of harm in the 'fight' scenes & that no animals were intentional hurt or killed.  For example, that bear coulda killed either Milo or Otis in an instant if it wanted to.  Anybody who watches the animal channel can tell u that.   Granted, we know better to do that now because we have an additional 20+ yrs of research that does show how even when raised together & even with trainers & the best of care, that things can happen.  For example; that event at SeaWorld with the Orca killing its trainer.  The trainer & the Orca had training for many many years.  Is it possible, the Orca's killer nature kicked in for whatever reason? Yes.  But at the same time, it could have been very well trying to playing with her.  It's not like the Orca would have known that she couldn't go down that far.  I mean, really, if that Orca wanted to harm her, it could have just ate her.  Instead, it grabbed her arm & just swam too far down. It didn't break her arm or even try to eat it.   Anyhow, back to the movie, for its time & the standards held back then, overall, I would like to think the movie was done tastefully, although they did flirt with the line a few times.   Also, for all you people who complain about how the story line sucked at the end when Milo & Otis finally gets re-united & then Otis gets ignored by Milo, get over it.  We humans do stuff like that all the time.  Friendships end over a woman.  At least in this story, although they go their seperate ways for a while, to pursue what is in their nature to pursue (since only humans do it by choice & for fun), they get re-united again & their friendship is re-kindled.  Thats more than I can say for most humans.  People grow & people change.  Why should it be any different with animals??   For those of you who say Homeward Bound is better, what about when Shadow falls into that hole at the end of the movie?? We think he's dead but then he comes limping back.  That could be animal cruelty too. I dont hear any of you yelling about that.   LASTLY, I THINK THIS MOVIE DESERVES 4 STARS & NOT 1 STAR BUT THIS ENSURED THAT I COULD PUT MY COMMENT OUT THERE FOR THOSE OF YOU TO THINK ABOUT..

Read the fine print I absolutely LOVE this movie. Was ecstatic to open it at Christmas. Definitely a childhood favorite. However, when I received it for Christmas and attempted to watch it, I realized this is not a US format DVD. I then looked closer at the product as advertised by Amazon and in small, unobtrusive print was the warning that this will not likely play in the US or Canada DVD players. I would think that this fact would be advertised a little stronger especially considering that I am NOT shopping on Amazon.uk.... Another item to return...  Amazon fail.

A wasted chance to make a great movie I have mixed feelings about this movie. For one side, I find it awful; a complete oversimplification of one of the all time literary masterpieces, too focused on just one of the three main characters. But in the other side, one must understand that it's impossible to visually encase -not even in a 9 hours long miniseries, much less in a two hours movie- all the religious, philosophic and melodramatic issues of such pivotal book. Given that, I appreciate the excellent production values and the few, short scenes that are almost carbon copied from the book. It also has a very fluid pacing and great narrative string. And the cast is near perfection:  I can't imagine anybody else playing Father Karamazov than Lee C. Jacobs; also perfect as Dimitri is macho man par excellence Yul Brynner . And although I would like to see Richard Basehart looking 10 years younger, he is Ivan Karamazov. There was no better actor to portray the layers of complexity of this character; cold and intellectual in the surface but at the same time conflicted with both the sensual instincts of Dimitri and the mystical concerns of younger Alexsei.  William Shatner and Albert Sami are very good also; my only cast quibble is Maria Schell as Grushenka, I find her simply annoying! And that's my ultimate content about this movie: it has such an excellent cast that it's a pity its main focus is Dimitri's and that we don't get to see much of the others  ... just imagine what an extra five minutes scene showing Ivan's delirium with his devil would had added to the movie ... In the end, it's still good to own it. But please, oh please, powers to be, give us a proper DVD release. This item is a Spanish DVD release with the original English and also Spanish dubbed soundtrack. Neither the quality of the sound or the image is very good, but watchable enough. Despite falling short on almost everything but the great cast, this movie deserves wider availability.

Hard movie to rate This movie gets 3 stars because it was very well done & realistic. I cant say I liked it though, no happy endings for anyone. Very dark, very depressing. This would make a good "scared straight" movie if you dont mind letting your kids see some graphic adult scenes. (Just dont watch it with them).

Somewhat predictable in plot; good comedy though Disney likes wizards; they've done a movie incarnation of wizards at least once a decade starting with the original Fantasia.  Going thru films such as Fantasia 2000, the Sword in the Stone, The Black Cauldron, and Aladdin, we now have a non-animated addition to this genre.  Based very loosely of the original Mickey Mouse short in Fantasia, this movie is driven primarily by the good dialogue, witty comedy, and low-key but effective special effects.  The action scenes are many, but short.  The story itself is somewhat predictable with two overlapping romances, a rivalry, an evil witch, and a lurking army of the dead that needs to be kept dead.  The sum of the parts is what was to be expected in the summer of 2010; a big-name movie filled with big name stars and worth the two hours of escapism.

Good movie - could have been a great movie, but it is what it is. I saw this movie years ago and for some reason, I never could find it listed on cable over the years. I saw a DVD version which was dark and grainy, so for $10, I took a chance on this Blu-Ray. The movie is intentionally dark, but the picture seemed sharper, with less grain on the Blu-Ray transfer. For $10 or less, I recommend it.

A LOT of action... Snuggling up on the couch with my little angels and watching this childish adventure film was a delight, even if there is a disconnect really between the audience and the film.  Tin Tin is a fun film and the action is here in spades, but somewhere between one action scene and the next there is a seeming emptiness that needed some sort of filling.  The basic premise is one of sheer adventure, and as such this film really works.  The brisk pacing keeps everyone on the edge of their seat and the visual effects are beautifully composed to keep us entertained.  I'm a little shocked they decided to do a stop-motion film when there is nothing here that they couldn't have shot live-action, and it may have even been more exciting in that context.  Still, the main issue with Tin Tin is that the film never breathes.  It's like everything is thrown at the viewer in a barrage of sequences, but nothing is given a moment to just relax and take any real shape.  I liked this, but I was expecting something more balanced, less stuffy.

Underrated, but still far from perfect. David Gordon Green Danny McBride, and James Franco struck gold with PINEAPPLE EXPRESS, a stoner comedy for the new age (personally, I only thought it was so-so, but that's my humble opinion).  Naturally, when you have a critically- and commercially-successful film about smoking pot, it raises the question: what if we did a stoner comedy set in the Middle Ages?  The result is the rambling, imperfect, but occasionally hilarious YOUR HIGHNESS.  It follows to brothers: bumbling Thadeus (McBride) and heroic Fabious (Franco), the latter of whose wife (Zooey Deschanel) is kidnapped by an evil sorcerer (Justin Theroux).  The two brothers set out to find the princess, teaming up along the way with a Xena-wannabe (Natalie Portman).  They encounter monsters, mayhem, and horny minotaurs.  And that's just for starters.  There are a lot of laughs in YOUR HIGHNESS--a lot of truly low-brow, jaw-hurting laughs, the kind you find yourself quoting to your buddy: "Hey, remember the part when...?"  The problem is, the movie in its entirety just seems...two-dimensional.  Whether you liked it or didn't, PINEAPPLE EXPRESS at least had some decent character development to it, and solid chemistry between Seth Rogen and Franco.  McBride and Franco's chemistry is interesting but not too deep; and Portman seems to be on a completely different plane than either of her costars.  Theroux doesn't seem to quite know what to do (he's great in some spots, shoddy in others), and Deschanel literally has nothing to do except look pretty and act distressed.  There are some great supporting players here (Toby Jones, Charles Dance, Damian Lewis), but this isn't an actors' film: it's a writer's film, an improv film, and as such, great acting talent has minimal effect.  So why the three stars, you're wondering?  Mainly because, when those gut-bursting laughs come, they're fantastic.  You can see most of them coming a mile away, but the payoff is still there.  If I were to classify this film, I'd list it as a rental (if anyone truly "rents" anymore), and you can take it from there.  YOUR HIGHNESS isn't the greatest stoner comedy of all time, but it's certainly not as bad as critics seemed to suggest.  If you're into low-brow humor, then you'll find a few things worth watching here.

GREAT SHOW-FAIR DVDS WE LOVE THIS SHOW BUT THE DVDS ARE A LITTLE IFFY IN PLACES. THIS TYPE OF RECORDING HAS FLAWS THAT SHOW UP NOW & THEN. YOU KNOW-THEY "FREEZE" HERE & THERE & IT'S ANNOYING TO HAVE TO SKIP THROUGH AN EPISODE (ONLY ONE EPISODE SEEMS TO BE AFFECTED HERE). WE ENJOY WATCHING THEM OVER & OVER BECAUSE THEY MAKE US LAUGH.

Elmos travel DVD It was simple and cute but I wish they would have shown them at the zoo, my 3 yr. old kept asking.

Great Movie but Amazon needs to update this listing!! Definitely a must see comedy movie if you like films such as team america, family guy, robot chicken, etc. I received the regular dvd of the movie while this is listed as The Chosen Edition. Not a big deal for me but just be aware that you may not get the chosen edition if you are trying to get that specific version

Miscalculated comedy saved by a subplot A young attorney (Van Johnson) has a serious allergic reaction to alcohol. That about sums up this anemic comedy in a nutshell. It's a one joke pony and not a very funny joke at that. We're expected to laugh at Johnson embarrassing himself when he talks to hat racks or hears his dog talking to him while under the influence. Worse than that, we're expected to laugh when his mean spirited colleagues intentionally put brandy in his soup just to see him get drunk and make a fool of himself! If there was some wit to the proceedings perhaps it wouldn't seem so banal. Buried in his wan laugh fest, there's a far more interesting subplot involving racial discrimination when a Chinese doctor (Philip Ahn) attempts to move in to a "Caucasian only" apartment complex and Johnson's law firm plots legal machinations to keep him out. Written and directed by Norman Krasna (WHITE CHRISTMAS). Co-starring a lovely Elizabeth Taylor as Johnson's love interest, an amateur psychologist who attempts to cure him. With Leon Ames, Rosemary DeCamp, Gene Lockhart, Edgar Buchanan and Selena Royle.  The MOD DVD-r from the Warner Archives is a decent transfer in the appropriate 1.33 Academy ratio.

Important info not revealed! I wanted this specific DVD so I looked for it here and read the info from the seller. They failed to mention it can't be used on U.S. DVD players, an important note! Most DVDs that aren't set to your region "can" be changed to play on your DVD BUT only up to 4 times. If you turn it on for one minute, that counts as one time. Do that 4 times and you can never watch it again.  Wasn't worth my time or money to send it back so after I watch it 2 more times (the first two times were to figure out what was wrong with it), I can never view it again.

Some Laughs, A Bit Strange At Times But Overall Quirky The product (the Amazon Online Movie rental) was as usual: few hiccups here and there, such as moments of blurriness and stops/starts, but overall the rental played well. As to the movie itself.... It's obvious that it was intended to be quirky. And it was, along with some laugh-out-loud moments, moving scenes that bring back fun childhood memories no matter what decade one grew up in, mixed with some truly bizarre situations, some of which are too far fetched to be believable. All-in-all it was entertaining just to see the oddity of it. Something totally different than the usual Hollywood offerings. If you want a bit of lighthearted and unusual entertainment for a rainy afternoon, this is your movie. For those that are concerned with the content (warning: some may feel this should be given a spoiler alert, so here you go): Some foul language: I think 2 or 3 that I noticed (I think there was 1 SOB, and 1 or 2 D-words, and one JesusC). Only one 'big' fight scene of two boys struggling with one being punched in the sides, lasts for only a moment as the aim in that scene is not to fight each other. Views showing/dialog of weapons, none of which you see actually being used - although you see the after affects of two of them (bloody craft scissors, and an injured/dead animal). One 'make-out' scene that while was innocent enough in the acting, the dialog pertaining to it was adult in nature, something parents might not feel comfortable having their own children hear being discussed.

Canadian spy story This 1977 Canadian film is a fast-paced but rather frenetic espionage drama.  Margot Kidder, playing a bank executive, and the late Michael Sarrazin, playing a journalist, take an ill-fated train ride, and discover an international conspiracy involving a new computer chip.  The plot is actually quite good.  There are enough twists to keep the viewer guessing, and an intriguing reversal at the end.  The problem in this film is that it alternates between trying to be a serious thriller and a lighthearted adventure, ending up being more of the latter.  The comedic elements end up detracting from the real tension in the plot.

good effort was made My first DVD Letters from Juliet was damaged in three spots the company sent out another DVD right away. I feel that was good custmer service. The second DVD only had one bad spot on the it. I appreciate their efforts to satisfiy their customers. I can live with the little defect for the price (which was great). I will order from them again.

Excellent animation but unimpressive plot The animation (especially the hamster's fur) is well done, but the story is flat and cliche.  If they ever make a sequel they need to improve the story.

A Movie for the Horror Flick Fan This definitely falls in the horror flick category, not science fiction in my opinion. The story takes place in a small Colorado mountain village during the course of one night in darkened rooms, dark tunnels, and so forth. If you enjoy this sort of thing the movie is not too bad and can be watched by the fan of gore all of the way through. If you're not such a fan it may be somewhat more of a challenge.  Do watch this one before you buy it.

Jason Segel is his funny self In the universe of "chick flicks", this one is on the funny side of the spectrum.  Good for a date night rental.

Not without it's charms This movie is not as bad as many of my fellow reviewers have wtitten. Yes the movie suffers from wooden acting and scripting. However it does have its charms. The comedy relief while often unfunny does have its moments. The stop motion dinosaur is good and there is more shots of it than I would expect in a movie this cheap. I liked this movie and think that it was worth the $6.50 or so that I paid for a used copy on Amazon.

BLU-RAY ONLY REVIEW: Great movie bad blu-ray copy equal to DVD version !!(explained) This Star studded movie is outstanding but this Blu-ray version really isn't much better than the DVD version also included in this Combo-Pack.  Very blurry for Blu-ray but okay as a regular DVD.  Only extra a trailer & restoration comparison.  Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson and Loretta Young are outstanding and this movie is classic, to bad the quality is not up to Blu-ray Standards like "KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL" is.  Good Luck!!

Five Stars for Little Girls I bought it for my 4 year old daughter and she's thrilled with it. The extra short featuring Aileen Quinn's recollections was charming. I like the casting, especially Finney and Quinn. As for the movie, I think most adults will find it kind of pokey. Wish it was a widescreen version.

ho hum very average film - felt like the makers had the time travel idea and the "you can always make a bad situation worse" motif and then just didn't know what to do with it. there are several very tedious shots of the main woman lead in a, "noooooooooooooo" situation (the one with the kid is the worst - i think we're supposed to feel the humanity) but it's completely undercut by the fact that she's got a time travel machine that she can use to redo the whole thing again -ie it's no big deal if she makes it worse. ****SPOILER ALERT**** the film makers obviously realised this as well so late in the day they make it that the machine can only send you back in time so often before it starts to blow up. then they forget about that  and the woman character simply says it must be destroyed because .... ah well, it just has to. the ending is hilarious. apparently the mistreated wife shooting her abusive husband and being led off to jail is like total female empowerment. the fact that she'll likely spend the next 30 years in jail is not mentioned and instead we get 2 woman "connecting" with each other with that look that only happens in the movies that says, " we understand each other totally because we're women ".

Dark Shadows I LOVE Johnny Depp in just about every movie he's ever been in however, I couldn't figure out if this movie was supposed to be scary of funny.  Because, it really wasn't much of either. I'm glad I watched it but if you miss it you won't have really missed much. I feel it could have been so much more but something was holding it back.

Love this movie, but... the reel they transferred it from had some damage that wasn't corrected during the transfer process. This film would have gotten five stars from me it the film was in much better condition.

snow white and the huntsman jtwasnt as what  i thoughtit would be . i didnt like it at all. i thought  she was a better actress then  that.

Don' t mix up the Two Different YOUNG TIGERs! First of all, I think they should give the information that there are two different HK movies with the title "(The) Young Tiger".  One with Meng Fei starring (this one), another <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005B33R">Jackie Chan</a> as one of the villains (very small role). The cover art has nothing to do with the movie. (This often happens to old kung fu DVDs.)  Meng Fei was just a newcomer at this time and the fighting scenes are dull (not only because of him) and the story is boring. If you are not a collector of his movies, I won't recommend this one. This is a contemporary action film, and Meng Fei is an ordinary young guy. You may feel strange if you are used to see him playing an classic Chinese hero like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001ZX0ME">Fang Shi Yu series</a>. His sharp eyes, brilliant smiles are already seen in his <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00001U0E8">debut film</a>, and here, too.  Young Lau Kar Wing (Liu Jia Rong) appears as a villain and a choreographer. You cannot completely rely on Amazon's data, there are so many incorrect info.

The Adventures of Tin Tin This movie was just okay to me. I think that I had higher expectations. It's not a bad movie , it's just not great !

Best for babies I got this for my 3 year old because it says it's good for up to 5 yrs old. She will NOT watch it. It is too boring to her. I wish I had found it when she was younger. I think she would have liked it a year or 2 ago.

Hiking  the Grand Canyon I received the DVD and the book Hikernut's Grand Canyon Compagnion in excellent condition and good in time! No doubt! Unfortunately the quality of the video is in poor condition (read OLD). Both, DVD and book are very helpfull to organise the hike I was/am planning. For example; I learned that I am much too late to book my stay at the bottom of the canyon! ;-(

Well Written, Well Acted, Still Fell Short As a fan of the work of George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, and Philip Seymour Hoffman, I expected to love this movie.  After watching it, I thought it was just "OK".  I was left wanting more passion in the overall film that I just wasn't feeling.  The only one I got that from was Hoffman and it wasn't enough to deliver that "Wow!" factor that makes a movie stellar.  I'd recommend it for a rainy day nothing to do sort of movie, but your viewing time could be better spent elsewhere.

When Greek gods were mediocre . . . Very Post-Modern!  It's an original take on the traditional story theme of man vs. gods.  The gods only exist because humanity worships them.  If we don't worship them, then the gods will presumably die, though they don't necessarily say this.  So humanity makes a war on the gods and stops worshiping them.  In comes our hero, who is part-god but wishes to deny that reality.  The special effects are better than the original, but I got to say, I enjoy the original still better.  All in all, it is entertaining . . .

Happy DVD Documentary arrived on time and in good condition.  $14.50 (new) was too much to pay, but it's a worthwhile film with interesting subject matter and intelligent speakers.

Enjoyable for Spanish Speakers - The Ladies Loved It This film appealed to me as a bilingual, and overall I found it to be lighthearted and a fairly fun watch with friends.  The good news is that the film is shot fairly well, especially with respect to real-deal scenes of East Los Angeles.  I greatly enjoyed the music score, which ranged from classic mariachi songs to upbeat Salsa.  I was happy with the cast, and Adriana Barraza (the maid from Babel) steals every scene as aunt Aurelia Jimenez.  Wilmer Valderrama is convincing (though cliche-chasing) as the cholo with a heart, and it's great to see him in something different than the "Fez" type characters.  The downside is that the film is a little light on laughs.  There are a few laugh-out-loud moments, though they aren't frequent in this movie.  There are definitely a few jokes and moments in the film that would be more funny to Spanish speakers, or at least anyone familiar with Mexican-American culture.  Camilla Belle is a solid actress, though I wasn't too sure about her being cast as the lead.  Granted Belle's half-Brazilian in real life, but it was bizarre that the producers spray tanned her a nuclear orange color in order to "look the part" of a Mexicana.  Like plenty of rom-coms, From Prada to Nada is certainly predictable, although there were a few minor twists and turns along the way.  As a guy, I thought this was a lighthearted watch, and worth a rental.  The ladies I watched it with (also Spanish-speakers) all loved it, and there were more than a couple "Awwwwww!" moments, plus some tears.  Not the best romantic comedy I've seen in a long time, but definitely worth renting.

I trully love Jada Pinkett... I wanted to start with I LOVE JADA PINKETT-SMITH, but I could not get into this movie. I had to keep changing the sound because sometimes it seemed the actors were speaking to the floor. I did like the intensity, but with my attention came no excitement. I will admit, I got distracted by the phone a couple times, so maybe in those seconds I missed an important part.  I will watch again since I brought with no chance of refund, and I will let you know if my opinion changes. As of now, this will go into the back of my movie collection.

Nostalgia for Hammer Films I saw this once - ONCE - on tv one afternoon back in the 70s. Never forgot it. And it's just like remembered: WEIRD. It's got nothing AT ALL to do with Lost Continent and everything to do with rubbery monsters and cleavage. You like Hammer Films? You probably never saw this one. Get it!

More polish required It would be like a modern version of nightmare on Elm street with Freddy Krueger doing a guest appearance in this film. That's what made it cheesy. It would have been better to have the ships computer as the antagonist convincing the other ships computer to turn against the crew like HAL in the movie 2001.  In the final analysis I can only say  "I'm afraid Dave" this movie is half baked.

Ip Man Meets Rocky IV I really enjoyed the first Ip Man movie, but there seems to be something missing from this installment.  There aren't as many interesting supporting characters as the first movie and many of the returning characters from the first movie are relegated to the background roles of little importance.  For example, Ip's family, especially his wife, played a huge role in the first movie as it stressed the tension between the combative life Ip Man led and the stable and happy family life his wife desired.  In the second movie, the family is there, but it is more of a side note and hardly a main component to the plot.  Character development certainly isn't a focus in the movie as it was in the first.  The plot, that is another major barrier I found with getting into this movie.  Not only does it seem to use the same plot points as the first movie, only done in a less polished fashion, but it seems that the writer(s) of the movie had watched one too many Rocky movies, especially Rocky IV. (*minor spoiler alert*) This movie imitates so many things from Rocky IV, it becomes borderline absurd.  I mean, it has everything from a reenactment of the Apollo Creed match-fiasco to the "If I can change, you can change" speech after the penultimate fight, with the subsequent conversion of the hostile crowd to his philosophy -- though, I must admit the training montage before the final fight was a lot more subtle as you didn't have to watch Ip Man running up any large mountains.  Also, just like Rocky IV, Ip Man has a strong nationalistic message at the root of its plot, just like the first movie. It attempts to show the viewer that Chinese culture is superior to the "foreign devil"  Brits, who are just like the Russians in Rocky IV.  Just as the Japanese were portrayed as vicious inhuman two dimensional villains, the Brits are portrayed as uncultured two dimensional barbarians that act like comic book villains, maniacal laughter included. It's fine if the writers want to write about the British occupation in Hong Kong, but the writing makes the British into caricatures that are unbelievable outside of a movie script and  there seems to be a pro-Chinese culture agenda similar to the pro-American agenda of Rocky IV, which I guess is fine if you are from the country being portrayed as the superior, and not so much for the country being portrayed as the inferior. It doesn't help that the British actors in the movie are atrocious at best.  Also, I'm sure there were Western Boxing vs. Eastern Boxing matches that took place in the past, but I doubt they were as drawn out and absurd as they are in this movie.  I mean, seriously, you put a guy with boxing gloves on, who follows traditional Western Boxing rules, against a guy who kicks, knees, grapples, throws, and is allowed his full range of martial arts ability, which includes punching a guy in the face while he is being held on the ground, and we are to expected to believe that would be a good fight? Maybe in a Street Fighter game that is believable, but in a "loosely-based" biopic, it is laughable.  I guess it is as believable as Rocky winning a boxing match by just blocking with his face.  Anyway, people watch Martial Arts movies for the fighting and this movie has a lot of good scenes, in particular the one between Sammo Hung and Donnie Yen, but there aren't as many good scenes as the first movie.  In fact, there just aren't as many fighting scenes as the first movie and that is a shame, since they are a beauty to behold.  I think the plot drags the movie down too far and is not as well told or put together as the first movie.  I do suggest watching this movie at least for the fighting scenes and just laugh off the plot as I do when I watch Rocky IV.

Gun (50 Cent) region locked This is a warning: the title of Gun (50 Cent) is LOCKED on 'A'. This would mean for those in the UK or for those in Australia as it won't play and this is even though on the cover it says 'ABC' for region free. Well, the film not bad, only average and what do expect from a lame actor by the name of Curtis (50 Cent) Jackson.

This movie wasn't as good as I remembered I enjoyed this movie as a kid, but not as much when I saw it again years later. Great quality on Blu ray.

Classic Film, Almost Great Blu-ray Execution I won't say anything about the film itself. It's a Disney classic, you will either love it or not. I have some issues with the film in terms of pace and storyline, but as a film I would give it perhaps the same score. I simply thought it was OK. Besides this, the Blu-ray transfer has proven to be a bit controversial. Is the Tramp some various shades of brown throughout the film? Yes. Is there an issue with the sound quality? Yes. This being the biggest deterrant. What I mean is that throughout the film you may notice a hissing sound in the background as background music or dialogue is going on, almost sounding like your speakers are simply too loud and slightly rattling. I initially thought the problem was my television, as I own a thin flat-panel, but even with the volume lowered, the hiss was still apparaent. This I attribute to the age of the film print the production team must have been working with. This being such an old film, perhaps contains these hissing sounds and could not have been reworked out of the film, hence during music and dialogue (or when there's a high enough sound coming from the movie), this hiss will continue. I suggest you just try and ignore it. Now the movie is presented in widescreen format. A couple of reviewers are complaining that this is not the original Cinemscope widescreen format as seen in movie theaters way back when. Perhaps not, but what this movie is NOT is a standard "set-for-tv-movie" box aspect ratio. Any casual viewer will not notice anything but the great digital transfer put onto Blu-ray; lines are sharp and colors are as vibrant as they can be. As an animated feature of this many years old, this movie is a joy to look at. As for all the naysayers, don't hold your breath for Disney to rework the film AGAIN in order to preserve every single exact color and whatever original aspect ratio of yesteryear, it's not going to happen. So just be happy with the transfer the way it is now, because along with the great picture, handful of special features, and usual pristine Disney presentation and packaging, this movie is a must-have for any Disney fan. I just really wish they could have done something about that sound problem.

ANOTHER FOUND FOOTAGE SCI-FI THRILLER I heard so many people talking about CHRONICLE that I decided to give it a look. I knew nothing about the plot. I didn't realize it was another installment in what is becoming the "found footage" genre. We start off with another high school student wanting to document every second of his day to day routine. The filmmakers find creative ways to keep the "documenting" process going to see all angles and all activities. Fortunately, the jittery "hand held" camera feel disappears and you find three high school students with super powers. By chance they discover what might be an alien life force undergrown that gives them incredible power. There are some super fantastic scenes of the kids flying high in the sky as they realize the extent of their powers. Along with incredible powers comes the urge to abuse the powers. A first the tricks are annoying but harmless, "move" a shopper's car to completely different parking space all though the power of telekinesis. Needless to say, silly tricks soon have the potential for serious harm. There is a moral story here of how one would or should use super powers for good or evil. Our three heroes have the potential for good and evil, especially outcast Andrew, who quickly begins to relish in his power. Andrew has a dying mother and a violently abusive father. There is no surprise that his new found skills could turn into an abuse of power. Now the story follows along until death and mayhem enter the picture. Suddenly, the film loses direction and turns into mayhem and destruction of the city of Seattle. How it gets that far is so off the radar and really a sad conclusion to what was a mildly thoughtful film.

it was ok With so many years passed since 9/11, maybe I don't get so emotional about the incident anymore.  I have a little trouble watching movies that sensationalize real-life catastrophes/tragedies, however this movie depicted the event in respectful way. It is less about the destruction and more about the lives of people who were impacted.

Good Laugh This movie had pretty good acting and a decent script, but wasn't my favorite for sure.  The basic story is Mob boss DeNiro is about to be released from Sing Sing after serving his term, but DeNiro seems to be having a nervous breakdown because of the recent threats on his life by a rival family or maybe his funny behavior is a ploy to get out of jail early? The FBI who has been monitoring him isn't sure and neither is his former shrink Billy Crystal, who gets called in to consult on the case. The last time Crystal treated DeNiro, he barely scratched the surface. It's going to take a lot of time to examine DeNiro and get him back on the right track  The problem is that Crystal has problems of his own. His father has just died, plunging him into an identity crisis in both his personal and professional life. On top of it all, he knows his wife will be pissed if he allows DeNiro back into their lives. DeNiro ends up being released to Crystal as his house-guest and Crystal really has no choice but to take him. In order to get peace back in his life, he must help the MOB boss sort out his life and find a normal job.  Forsure this movie will keep you laughing and it was definately worth the time.

Great Audio and Video Quality Please describe the audio and video quality of any Blu-Ray you review.  Thanks to those who do this.  The video quality was great, but not perfect.  I was not disappointed with it.  I give it a 9.3 on a 10 point scale.  The DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 was also very good.  The movie overall was okay, not great.

Avanti I'm a big fan of Jack Lemmon so when I saw this movie I thought I'd purchase it.  It was a cute movie but not all that great.

Good The time a film was made often has an interesting effect on its ability to last or not. The 1931 black and white film that launched James Cagney into superstardom, The Public Enemy, directed by William Wellman, is a good case study. While it's not, overall, an inarguably great film, it certainly is close. It's a near-great film that certainly ranks as a great genre film- in this case the gangster film. The reason for its missing greatness is essentially because it is an early talking picture, and for the first decade or so, after the silent film era ended, many actors struggled with trying to get a more naturalistic feel to their physical appearances and acting styles. And, it would still be a good two decades before Neo-Realism swept the world cinema, and brought with it the modern `naturalism' of cinema. A decade later, still, and the New Wave would wash over the globe, and empower directors to abandon preconceptions about cinematic rules that had been born in the silent era, but had long since gone outdated. But, while the film suffers, overall, from some of these early talkie ills, Jimmy Cagney never did. He was a trained dancer and Broadway actor, and he oozed naturalism from the get go. It's amazing how, from his first scene in the film through his last moment, as a corpse, he utterly and totally dominates the screen every second he is on camera. His acting is not `realistic,' per se, but feelistic- it's full body acting, from the little dance moves he slips into several moments, to his little chin jabs to the way he conveys the rage his character feels in the presence of his brother.

A commendable effort that suffers from an identity crisis First and foremost, I don't truly believe there could ever be a successful sequel to The Phantom of the Opera. Andrew Lloyd Webber set the bar so high the first time, it's very hard to meet or exceed the expectations in a sequel.  The set is beautiful, the costumes and performances are striking and dramatic. By many measures, this is a good show. My biggest problem with Love Never Dies is that the characters have changed too much to be believable.  The Phantom has gone soft. He killed, controlled, manipulated, stalked, and terrorized people before. Now we're supposed to believe he's this sentimental softie who makes bargains with Raoul? I don't think so. And speaking of Raoul, who is this lazy, unsupportive drunk? I didn't even recognize his character this time around. I didn't find Christine likable at all and didn't even feel any real sympathy for her character. I guess the only character I did connect with was the child, Gustave, and even he could have been developed more.  I realize this takes place 10 years later and people can certainly change. But for the sake of consistency, protagonists and antagonists should not change drastically in the second installment. At least not at first. If their personality changes or evolves throughout the story, that's expected. But opening up a show with characters who are new versions of themselves is usually a bad idea. This makes it more difficult for the audience to identify (and re-identify) with the characters they've known before.  There are treats throughout the show that give a subtle nod to Phantom fans. Musical notes and lyrics have been borrowed from the first one to give a sense of familiarity to this one. It's somewhat fun to go through and identify them. You'll find yourself saying, "Oh, I recognize that song! It samples such-and-such."  Other than a general sense of familiarity, most of the songs are forgotten as soon as the show is over. The only one I've found stuck in my head was "The Beauty Underneath," which really stood out to me. It was dark and powerful while reminiscent of the original Phantom theme.  If you're a fan of Phantom, you must see this. You may not love it, but how could you not want to see what happens next?  As far as sequels go, I really think Andrew Lloyd Webber did the best any one could do. Like I said, the first one is hard to top and I don't think it ever could be topped. So this is about as good as it gets, and even better than I'd expected! Bravo for that.

boring I thought it was pretty boring.  I can't say as this did anything for me.  It was a sad movie about having to fire people.  YUK!

The bell rang! I love this movie and rate the movie, itself, 5 stars.  However, I was a little annoyed when I received the video - its appearance suggests a bootleg/homemade version and not the original or official video.  Since it cost less than $10, I didn't complain to Amazon about it, but I will if it happens in the future.

no si/sy routine amazon's best of jack benny lacked the si/sy routine where benny asks question and hispanic mel blanc answers si. johnny carson said this was the epitome of radio humor.

No Digital Copy? I love this movie! But when I ordered this I expected to get the original copy, blue-ray copy and a digital copy. The DVD and blue ray DVD were in the package and the code for the digital copy was included as well. However, when I proceeded to redeem the digital copy I was sad to discover the code was expired weeks before I even ordered my product. I was very disappointed.

Vinnie Jones doing something other than badass thug... Love Vinnie Jones doing something other than badass thug.  He delivers an excellent performance as Mike Sullivan, a hustling sports reporter who dreams of moving into hard news. And the story that might make his career: Investigating the mysterious murder of a local pub owner. Unbeknownst to him is that this is no average street crime. It might just be the tip of a very ugly iceberg, possibly threatening the government itself. And the powers-that-be aren't going to let that happen.  Unfortunately that wonderful performance was stuck inside this bizarre little film.  Attempting to blend two completely incongruous tales - the plot I described above and, hold onto your seats, a lost story by Charles Dickens. An unpublished manuscript which is explained by Dickens himself (Derek Jacobi) during the turbulent period following his wife's undiagnosed mental illness, which one presumes to be schizophrenia.  It's the constant flipping between 'today' and the Victorian England past that makes this such a quirky production. Had this been a straight thriller I honestly believe it would've been quite excellent, on par with something like "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001V7UTV6">The International</a>".  Unfortunately, that's not what happened.  It's difficult to review this without giving too much away - as I never want to play spoiler, even if the film is a steaming dung pile.  That's not the case with The Riddle - it's decent for a purely will-only-watch-this-once-in-my-life category type of flick.  But I so wish that Jones is given more roles like this one; he can do so much more than a frowning bloodthirsty hulk. In this film he convincingly portrays vulnerable, sweet, and even self-deprecating. And Jones' enjoyable non-thug performance is the only reason it rates three-stars.

Good actor as Superman - poor plot and not a corporate Lex I was most worried at the time about the actor pulling it off. Considering the story given, Routh did a great job. I thought he was fantastic as Superman. The problem ended up being everything else! No super villain to fight, so it was Superman playing Captain Planet dealing with disasters in nature.  Bosworth who could have been good if written differently was a Mom as Lois. I never bought the storyline or the way they wrote her. Spacey was too much like Hackman. I mean like a clone. There was corporate Lex like that of the animated series, Lois and Clark, or even Smallville.  Routh=good  Rest=bad

Delightfully Random Since I'm only a casual "Looney Tunes" fan, I can't judge how this movie compares to "classic" Looney Tunes, like a hardcore fan could.  But I can say that for someone who's at least familiar with Bugs, Daffy, and the other `Toons, and who likes cartoony, childish humor, this movie will probably be enjoyable.  This movie is nothing epic or super-special, nor does it try to be.  The plot (or what passes for one) builds up, one silly twist after another.  What starts as another petty competition between Bugs and Daffy for the spotlight leads to the them joining two human protagonists on a James Bond-like spy adventure, to save the human race from a corrupt Acme corporation.  The devious plot they must stop? The Acme CEO (Steve Martin) plans to transform the human race into monkeys, so they'll work mindlessly in his factories to make products...and then turn them back into humans, so they'll then buy all those products.  What can I tell you, if you want Shakespeare, go watch "Hamlet."  Bugs and Daffy are the only two Looney Tunes to have regular roles in the film. Most of the other well-known Looney Tunes show up for one or two scenes each, as operatives for the villain, trying to catch or kill Bugs and Daffy in their own unique ways: Mavin the Martian battles them in space, Elmer Fudd chases them through paintings in a museum, and we finally learn where Wile E. Cyote gets all of his exotic weapons.  The other, less famous Toons are given memorable cameos:  Porky Pig and Speedy Gonzalez lament over a drink about how Political Correctness has stunted their acts; Pepe Le Pew is a tour guide in France; Foghorn Leghorn deals cards in a Vegas casino; and the Peter Lorre scientist works a silly torture device on a human victim. (And though he only appears for about a minute, it's worth mentioning to Peter Lorre fans that this is one of the most well-done imitations I've seen of the actor).  The human actors are also surprisingly good.  With this film being the way it is, I wasn't expecting the human actors to put much effort into their performances.  But all of the human leads seemed very into their roles, and played off the Toons wonderfully.  Brendan Fraser throws some priceless expressions at Daffy, and Steve Martain's super villain is as ridiculous and over-the-top as any of the toons.  As with the Looney Tunes, many of the best human performances are seen in cameos.  "Star Trek: Voyager" fans will enjoy seeing Robert Picardo ask his master, with dead serious concern, "What about the duck?"  And Ron Pearlman (of "Hellboy") puts everything into the minute-long scene where his stiff Southern corporate character is introduced to the Tasmanian Devil.  The movie's randomness brings in some characters who aren't even related to the Looney Tunes, such as Scooby Doo and "Dr. Who's" Daleks.  The reason I'm talking so much about the film's cast, is because that's what makes the movie.  The plot is cute in its silliness, there are some clever jokes, and the animation is very good, but the Looney Tunes and their human co-stars are the real treat here.  "Back in Action" is very similar in style to "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," as well as a typical Muppet movie. If you're a fan of either of these, and are able to enjoy some low-brow, old-fashioned humor without expecting too much of it, then I highly recommend "Looney Tunes Back in Action."

Pretty decent Okay, to start of, I read the short story that this movie is based on, and I must say I was pleased with how well it followed the story. Okay, and also, the acting is great, and the thrills and suspense of this movie are top-notch. The characters are good, and the way they play out is great. The reason I only give this movie 3 out of 5 stars is because of the ending. I won't spoil it for anyone just in case you haven't seen it, I'm just gonna say that it was such a heart-wrenching gut-punch, it was just so... Man. The ending is really one of the only things this movie differs from the short story in. Man, that ending... Good or bad? You decide. -Trent Foreman, Author of Nightmare

decent movie Wife and I enjoyed it. True story and some pretty rough imagery of what is going on in North Uganda and southern Sudan. Pretty inspirational and at least made me reevaluate priorities in my life. Sam Childers is a true blessing to those kids. Acting was okay, the accents were off. The people in the church sounded more like southerners than people from Pennsylvania. Other than that, a good movie that brings to light the work of a man who saw a need to help the kidnapped kids.

Entertaining if flawed superhero movie--Blu-ray may require firmware update First up--be aware that you may have to do an update on your player otherwise the Blu-ray will free up about 30 minutes before the film concludes. This isn't a 3 disc set but a 2 disc set (the 3D edition IS a 3 disc set from what I gather)--we get the Blu-ray, a DVD and a code for streaming the Ultraviolet Digital copy. I'm a bit disappointed it won't work on an iPad.  "Green Lantern" may have fallen short of fan expectations but it wasn't for lack of trying;the story focuses on one of the Green Lantern's greatest enemies Parallax and gives us a good introduction to the Corp and its history.  The main flaw of "Green Lantern" is the lack of movement in the second act of the film--the story has to include TWO origin stories one for our hero and one for the bad guy which brings the film to a stand still at one point. Still, "Green Lantern" is entertaining and Ryan Reynolds brings his characteristic charm and humor to the role.  We get both the theatrical cut and the extended edition which includes more background on Hal Jordan's childhood and the death of his father. A couple of other scenes are extended and rearranged a bit but otherwise the film is, essentially, the same in terms of the story being told.  The Blu-ray looks terrific with a sharp looking, detailed transfer and a terrific lossless audio soundtrack that positively will shake your room. I haven't had to update my firmware in quite some time and although some Blu-rays take a bit longer to load, it hasn't ever effected playback on my Sony player until now. It's a minor complaint but something fans should be aware of if they try to watch it immediately when you get home.  The special features include a terrific Maximum Movie Mode that allows you to see behind-the-scenes footage, commentary, featurettes, storyboards, character bios, etc. as well as deleted scenes. We also get a Justice League digital comic, "The Universe According to Green Lantern" featurette.  Although flawed director Martin Campbell's film has the larger-than-life drama and comic book sense of wonder that is essential (and a sense of humor)for a film like this to work for the average audience member. The freezing issue with the Blu-ray was a bit of a pain but it was pretty easy to remedy.

Chick flick Women love this movie.  I'm a guy, an old guy and a smart guy, and it seemed like I was on LSD watching this film.  Or perhaps I should have been.  Must say that Carrey was good as ever, and Winslett superb, as always, and so beautiful.  The ending was very "nice," (a word both characters are fond of saying).  The beginning was "nice" too.  It's the middle part that blew my mind, threw me for a loop, and got me in a tizzy.  You've been warned.

An OK Thomas movie This DVD is ok. I agree with the other shoppers that Hero of the Rails was much better. The only thing that I liked about this one is that its a full lenght movie, better for car long rides that the shorter episodes DVDs.

The CD is brilliant, I've listened to it many times... but I haven't watched the BD I bought this set unseen and immediately popped the DVD into the player as I worked and loved it!  Then I looked at the Bluray and saw an "Advisory" sticker and did a quick search online and found out about the foul language inbetween the songs during the concert. Due to that, I have yet to watch it and doubt I will ever give it a spin.  The DVD alone was worth the $10 I paid for it.  I'm okay with leaving the BD in the case forever.

The Killer Cloud from Outer Space! You may have heard the theory that "only the even Trek films are good" ST:TMP is an odd # and it is a weak ST film. It is important because it was a reuniting of the TV cast (in fact the picture almost starts like the Magnificent Seven collecting bridge crew vets), and the Big budget take on the show was worth the effort... It may take it self too seriously at times, especially in the extended cut, and the beauty passes of the Enterprise seem endless as do the V'Ger clould/ sphincter shots, and the story is sort of a recycled script (Changling)...  but I fondly remember seeing this in the theater.

Worth It For Will Smith Not a particularly good movie, but eminently watchable because of Will Smith, whose presence in any movie is more than welcome. Smith has a natural style that makes his characters sympathetic and believable, and he is well paired here with Rosario Dawson. The problem is the script. With the opening scene in mind, even a casual observer soon knows where this film is heading, so the deliberate ambiguity seems forced and gimmicky. For a film that runs about two hours, with the exception of Smith and Dawson, none of the other characters are developed at all, so most of the time we dont know why Smith's character has chosen to be a benefactor to the other characters (other than the fact that they are random names on some IRS hit list). According to the synopsis Smith has chosen seven strangers, but I would be hard pressed to name all seven! There are also some inconsistencies in the script: it seems obvious that Smith has rejected the nursing home manager who needs a marrow transplant, yet later on we see Smith donating his bone marrow. How did Smiths brother track him down to Dawsons home? Did Smith tell all his recipients about the other recipients of his bequests? If not, how at the end do Dawson and Harrelson know about each other? And what is the seven pounds of the title? Nevertheless, its a decent film thanks to Smith, but dont expect too much more.

Dejavu requires willing suspension of belief. this is basically a good popcorn film; a blend of thriller, action, and the paranormal genres. Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Tony Scott, it boasts a first rate cast (Denzel Washington, Paula Patton, Jim Caviezel, and Val Kilmer) and backs them with solid production values. It was the first film shot in New Orleans after Katrina. The story centers on a terrorist bombing of a ferry carrying navy sailors with their families during shore leave.  Washington stars as an ATF agent who is pulled into a federal task force using proprietary technology to reconstruct the crime scene in ways never thought possible. Interestingly, the technology is not totally dissimilar to the machine later created in the television series "Person of Interest." Just about the time you permit yourself to buy into the believability of that technology, the plot takes things to a whole new level of incredulity involving time travel. Without providing too much in the way of plot spoilers, the ending is satisfyingly happy. The plot clearly requires the viewer to set aside issues such as credibility. However, it does move a long at a sufficiently fast pace, and I found the acting, production, and suspense sufficiently interesting to permit me to enjoy the film for what it is-- a fun two hours.  As far as the Blu-Ray disc is concerned, it looked and sounded good in a high end home theater. I never saw it on DVD and cannot comment on any technical comparisons between the two formats.

I thought it was an ok movie. I've read the movie description, and it said it was ww2 movie, the ultimate ww2 movie, but the only atrocity, massacre, I seen in the movie was a dead man being carried by a german motorcycle soldier, people supposedly being burned in a crammed barn, but it did not show it, and also a russian girl that has gotten gang rapped by nazis. It did not show it, but rape is one of the most horrible crimes, and the girl was gruesome looking when it showed her. I'm not saying that I wanted to see people being burned alive, but that's what the movie was supposed to be about, right? Nazi atrocities, massacres, as they entered the vast land of the former soviet union, russia.  In my mind, that was not ultimate ww2 movie.  It's an ok film though.

Not your usual kind of movie The movie, "Medea" with Maria Callas as the title role, is a strange, even bizarre, take on the legend. Callas is beautifully photographed when she is present. She doesn't even appear until a lot of odd things go on featuring barbarian ritual practices. She is finally shown, just standing there, observing. I found the story hard to follow - what was in her mind, and what actually happened. It was edited badly I thought. I am a movie fan, and a Callas admirer, but this certainly was not in a league with her operatic performances, due to what I would deem bad directing. I'm glad that I finally saw the movie, but can understand why it never did very well.

an extravaganza of potboiler and mythmaking There is no doubt that this is a good film:  the acting, the plot, and the themes are strong, the sets and props are wonderful.  You can imagine you are in medieval Spain, with its jousts, wars with the Moors, and wily courtiers.  It is a good place to spark an interest in history, not because it is factual but in order to understand the truth behind the myth.  It also is a good portrait of a reluctant leader, thrust into greatness and growing into the role.  Finally, the values in it - tolerance of diversity, seeking the truth, and doing the right thing regardless of the personal price that must be paid - are laudable and worth discussing.  However, the film lacks subtlety of character:  the heros and those redeemed do not even seem all that human, when compared to, say, the personal struggle for faith by Ben Hur.  Moreover, the dialogue is laden with platitudes - "honor", "God-given king", "glory", etc. - and is flat, denuded of the poetry of language that it is the stuff of great writing.  In short, instead of suspending my disbelief and becoming engrossed in the story, it seemed such a blatant product of "Hollywood", even though it was filmed in fascist Spain.  When the glitz and highfalutin verbiage are brushed aside, this is a standard potboiler.  The film seeks to create a myth about the Cid, a medieval knight who shows mercy to moslem forces and gains their loyalty.  Based as it is largely on Racine's play, he kills his future father in law in a matter of honor and thereby is estranged from his fiancee until his pure heart and loyalty to what is right win her back over.  In the meantime, as an exile he engages in civil war against a sleazy king and then against invading North Africans.  As a martyr in the end, he transforms his ancient adversaries into better men and enshrines himself in legend.  This largely works, but expecting anything beyond what is basically a romantic melodrama is too big a stretch for me.  It also fills in the significant gaps in the historical record with fiction; in fact, little is known of the Cid, beyond that he was a solider of fortune who fought on both sides.  As a bluray, the images are spectacular.  However, except for dialogue, I found the sound too loud, particularly the blaring trumpets of the lugubrious musical score.  The extras are also predominantly the publicist fluff one expects in these things, but there was an interesting documentary on the producer that is critical and honest; I learned that he was more or less a con man, unable to manage money or relationships, but capable of extraordinary networking, and indeed successful with this film, at least, which is rightly regarded as a classic epic.  It does have one laughable extra feature, a kind of lecture by John Bevere, who is a fundamentalist spewing the crudest patriotism and twisting the values of the film to his "vision"; for example, he says he bars his kids from watching most PG films (I suppose like Home Alone) because they would teach them "to disrespect their parents", but thinks El Cid is his kinda film.  After this embarrassing preaching, my son and I discussed the kind of mind that would reason like him, also instructive.  Recommended as good fun.  Just don't expect it to be art and leave your worldly cynicism behind.

why did i like this movie? i don't know why i liked this movie. it was not especially good in any way. i did like that guns had to be reloaded and that shots could be missed. i liked that the girls showed a little skin. i don't know what it was but when it ended i found to my suprise that i enjoyed it. i was entertained. i will watch it again in a couple of years when i have forgotten most of it.

Was hoping it was better The title is very captivating and even the snapshot videos being shown on youtube capture you. But when I bought the DVD it was not at all what I expected. Maybe it might have been better if I was actually at the play because the DVD did not capture the spirit of the play. Of course my favorite part was the scenes of Tony Grant, he added life to the play and the grandma just made you laugh like crazy. The title is very capturing, I just wish the play was better put together.

Eh This is one of these movies that had the potential to be something more. But when defeating the alien involves a huge puerile and dirty joke, it simply can not reach that level.

Not as good as the first Hoodwinked, but not bad. I have to say, me and my family really liked the first Hoodwinked, but this sequel is'nt quite as good. Not saying it was a bad film, just that it could have been better IMO. Animated fims can have great sequels (Toy Story, Shrek, and Cars) and some can have really bad ones (The Fox and The Hound), I would say "Hoodwinked Too" is sort in between the good and the bad. I did like, however, the great voice cast. I really would not recommend this as a "blind buy", but if you're a fam of the first Hoodwinked, you might want to get it, but I would wait 'til it goes on sale before buying it.

Statham is good, action is good, movie is ok.  Original was better, but not by much.  Still worth seeing. I say B. What would you do for revenge?  After both losing someone close to them Bishop (Statham) and Steve (Foster) begin the hunt for revenge. When secrets are revealed the stakes get higher. After watching the original a few days ago I knew a little about what to expect with this one. Statham is a very lethal assassin that specializes in "accident-like" killings. When his boss gives him a target he doesn't agree with he begins to uncover a web of lies that changes the way he thinks. This was a pretty typical action movie. A little like "The Transporter" mixed with "Assassins". I was hoping for a better movie, but was not disappointed. Very entertaining with a few slow parts. Not bad, but could have been better. About as good as the original, the ending in the original I liked better though. I give it a B.  Would I watch again? - If it was on TV I may watch a little of it.  *Also try - Game Of Death & The Mechanic (Original)

Wonderful story, wonderful cast, slightly poor print This story was a well-written, excellently acted film.  Time does not diminish the facts or ideas it puts forward.  Anna Neagel and her husband, the director/producer had a reputation for providing good solid work and entertainment.  This print was poor in spots, rather dark around the edges.  I encountered a couple of transmission problems, however, I cannot lay that completely at the door of the film.  We were having severe thunderstorms the entire time it was playing.  Despite the quality of the print it is well worth watching.  One might think the subject matter a bit melancholy but at the film's end you cannot help but think the moments well spent.

ACTRESS PAYING HER BILLS This film was made in 1971 and shows its age.  The photography was interesting and used a lot of shadows, adding to the suspense. Fonda won an Oscar for her role, and the murder/mystery/thriller film was loaded with good character actors. The plot has been discussed except there wasn't much praise of Sutherlnd playing the small-town, poker-faced cop - he was excellent. Every prostitute must come across 'bad eggs' and Fonda/Bree certainly did.  Many of the ladies are wanna-be actresses and many never make the bigtime, and have to resort back to entertaining the johns to pay their bills. This film will not go down as one of my "gotta see again" flicks.

Pretty good movie, worth watching I didn't understand the hate. This kept me watching, and any movie that does that is worth my money. Some people are just snotty about everything they watch. Seriously.

DESERT FLOWER This was a very informative film. I wish that they would have done it in real time instead of flashbacks of her childhood. How ever they film is quite interesting and the film is beautifully shot. I just wanted more story, so I'll have to read the book. It is truly worth the watch.

Excellent Primer - Far from comprehensive Scorsese is a genius. Sometimes he bites off more than he can chew. The Blues is not a story that can be told from a single perspective. Scorsese tells a great tale, excellent interviews and decent performances - but it's not the whole story, at best it's a great 'white mans history' of the blues.  I watched in terror as the British artists pulled out their big gun 'Big Bill Broonzy'.  Broonzy influenced John Mayall and his disciples, a sweet blues player, but not the Moses of the blues that the British blues men believed him to be. Excuse the rant. Broonzy was a WWI veteran and a talented musician with a broad set of non- blues influences, thank heavens his take on the Blues landed in good hands.  The side trips on skiffle (sorry mates, not purely British) were excellent, but Scorsese fails to clearly put the genre in context of the key subject matter - a sad omission.  Back to reality - if you don't know where to start (who does?) this is a great spot. Take notes, read up on the artist and dig deeper. The Blues is a journey without end.

Good I watched the recent PBS American Masters documentary on Woody Allen, Woody Allen: A Documentary, online, and it was surely a disappointment. It covered, in its three and a half hours, many of his films, his early life and break into show business, but it offered almost nothing of depth- oddly recapitulating the flaws of Barbara Kopple's 1998 documentary on the same subject, Wild Man Blues. In a sense, the film gives the best representation of the critical cribbing that is killing most film criticism, by having vapid and flat out bad critics opine on subjects they do not understand, but it does little to give one a better understanding of the filmmaker, for the so-called talking head 'experts' it relies on are the dense and pretentious film professor Annette Insdorf, the lifeless hack film critic Richard Schickel, the ebulliently vacuous film critic Leonard Maltin, a film critic priest named Robert Lauder, who utters...well, nothing of value about Hannah And Her Sisters, a number of Allen's co-stars and actors, who burble on cluelessly, and, worst of all, utterly unknown schlock filmmaker and critic, F.X. Feeney, who displays he has absolutely no clue about films, in general, much less Allen's, in particular. The much better insights into Allen's life and art come from his non-screen cohorts: comic and talk show host Dick Cavett, managers Jack Rollins and Charles Joffe, cinematographer Gordon Willis, and co-writers Mickey Rose and Marshall Brickman. The only other filmmaker of note to appear on screen is Martin Scorsese and he mostly rambles on about how his New York and Allen's are like visions from two different worlds. Well, duh, Marty. Exactly how and why is that is never broached by Weide.  Nonetheless, there are worse ways to spend 210 minutes. The problem is, there are almost as many ways to better spend such time. I recommend the latter option, especially with the knowledge that most Allen films are crisp enough that almost three full features of his can be squeezed into that same timeframe. My recommendation? Try Stardust Memories, Another Woman, Crimes And Misdemeanors, and, for dessert, Allen's truly greatest comedy: Radio Days. You can thank me later.

Another Sequel That Does Not Live Up to the Original Virgil Tibbs is the name of the cop. He is played by Sidney Poitier. But any connection with "In the Heat of the Night" is pretty remote. In that, he was a copy from Philadelphia, PA. Here, he is a cop in San Francisco, and discusses having known Rev. Logan Sharpe (Martin Landau) for something like 15 years. Since he is clearly not 15 years older than he was in his former role, there's been some distortion of the "reality" of Virgil Tibbs.  Oh, well, Hollywood is like that.  A prostitute has been murdered. Rev. Sharpe, a liberal minister who was a friend of the deceased, is heading up the "home rule" campaign to create local city halls in various sections of town because, as he points out, the neighborhoods have been swallowed up by bigness. There actually was such a proposition in San Francisco, actually raised several times. He was seen leaving her apartment on the day in question, and soon confesses to his friend Tibbs that he had indeed been to see her that day, and had been "sleeping with her" for the last few months. This was after attempting to convert her, and loaning her books on Christianity.  But there are many reasons why other suspects must be considered, and Tibbs follows them all up. Ed Asner does a great job of playing a man who had been paying the girl's rent without the knowledge of his wife. There's her landlord, who obviously has lots to hide. Does it include murder? There are some big-time drug dealers, and a variety of other shady characters. But Virgil Tibbs sorts them all out.  No, I'm not going to tell you who dunnit. Follow the evidence just like Lt. Tibbs did. It's not as good as "In the Heat of the Night," but by the standards established for detective stories in San Francisco, it's pretty good.

The American Overall a decent Masterpiece Theatre production, however I found Aisling O'Sullivan's performance a bit flat. The rest of the casts performances were very good.

Sweet story Very simply this is a love story between two very young girls.  It's not as cheesy as people say it is.  My favorite character is Rachel, the girl who played her was very natural and easy on the eyes.

Collapse Documentary Having read so many books on the meltdown; this documentary was ok; but to get a much better picture; one should read the books about this.

Not Disney's Best, But Not Bad Either Mars Needs Moms is about a boy named Milo (Seth Green) who finds himself on Mars, trying to rescue his mother(Joan Cusack) who has been taken by aliens. There he meets Gribble(Dan Fogler),a human who has been on the planet for years, hiding from the aliens, while playing video games and some how eating and getting fat. Gribble knows his way around and has plenty of technology to help Milo on his mission to get his mom back. An alien named Ki(Elisabeth Hamois) who has learned how to speak English by watching 70's sitcoms,is also on Milo's side.    The movie is sweet and charming despite some plot holes and the not too special animation. The animation kept most critics from liking this movie. I think the voice acting and charm are enough to keep viewers entertained though. The movie is touching and I found it hard not to get into it emotionally. Mars Needs Moms is occasionally fun as well. The 3-D, though I admit is surprisingly weak and hardly noticeable.

Maggie Thatcher I thought the movie maker spent too much time on her later years in life, not the actual good she did for the country.

Into the Wild review Good movie mostly, but some sadness prevails. As he chooses the live off the land rather than do the corporate grind, you can tell he is not at all prepared to meet the wild head on.  I guess we can all see ourselves in him from time to time.  A bit slow moving and the scenery is terrific.

Nothing New... I've seen a lot of crime movies, and this one didn't offer anything that hadn't been done before.  You don't really understand the characters or why they do what they do....but worst of all, you don't really care.  It was gratuitously gory, which is a given in this type of movie, but for some reason the gory scenes didn't wrench you like they do in some movies (even some where you don't see the actual gore -- just the terse situation is enough to make you flinch knowing what is happening).  The romance didn't have any umph behind it and the one scene that was supposed to be heartbreaking was just kind of "blah."  Not a bad movie, not a good movie.  Decent.  I didn't understand why this had so much hype -- It was kind of like watching a summer blockbuster with an "indie" soundtrack thrown in.

More Raunch than Laughs Years after Trains, Planes, and Automobiles we again have two very funny actors, in this case Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis, thrown together by happenstance in a road movie with back stories.  Due Date, for me, is by far the lesser of the two. I suppose one could watch them back to back and ponder the societal changes that have gone down in the intervening quarter century as reflected in what's acceptable fare on the screen.  Instead, I personally spent most of the last half hour of the movie wondering if our border crossings with Mexico had become so lax that an obviously stolen vehicle, driven by two people without ID, can get so easily into the United States.  That puzzle  replaced the earlier bemusement at how two people could survive an obviously fatal crash with only minor injuries.  Due Date has some laughs, no doubt about that, but too many of them are tinged with sadism and antic though the plot is, it is ultimately not all that engaging.

Like a PBS travel show of Liverpool Kind of a low budget travel show through liverpool.  Some of the conversations offer good info, but are filmed in a manner that kind of wears you out.  I am glad I purchased this those, I wish I could have filmed all these locations myself on my vacation there.  Neat to see some of the Beatle Friends that we are used to seeing on the COMPLEAT BEATLES and Beatles Anthology.  buy it.  it's cheap enough.  Good value.

Yawn ... the movie wasn't as good as the preview I had high hopes for this movie, but it wasn't as funny as I had expected.  I suppose it was missing that chemistry.  I'm not sure if it was the acting or the plot that left me hanging, most likely a combination of the two.  And the part where Johnny Depp shows up ... well I won't spoil it, but what was that all about?

Shrug I enjoy horror films, and have seen a lot of bad ones. Dead End isn't 'bad', it just isn't all that good. The acting wasn't bad, it was a bit above average. On the plus side the main characters seemed to be all what you would find in a slightly dysfunctional family, no one is overly bad or overly good, which served to make all of them just a little more believable. What hurt the film more than anything was missing so many opportunities to create a real sense of suspense or terror or even moments of surprise. The story also lacks a creative sense of ambiguity, a sense of what's really happening? You do get some sense of necessary confusion, a sense of hopelessness that anyone can get out of this alive, and a bit of wonder at what has happened that the family seems to travel endlessly down the same track as they are struck down. But there is not enough of a question of where everything is going, more a bit of magicians misdirection. So, if you just need an hour and twenty minutes of misdirection Dead End may be a good choice, just, don't buy it, it's a watch once and move on kinda film.

Good idea, bad follow through I was excited to finally get this in the mail! I love this movie and really needed something fun to workout to since I have decided to get into shape. I love the ideas of using the original soundtrack and some of the moves that were used in the movie, but the instructional part of the routines didnt manage to get into the DVD. There is a small area to learn each move and what it is called for about 2 seconds for each move, and thats it. When actually doing a routine to the music, the counts are off, and even the dancers in the background keep messing up due to the bad leadership of the so called "instructors". You'd be better off just doing your own routine to each song.  overall, I like the concept, but the people "teaching" you how to do the steps are a joke.

creepy creepy movie. it's hard to believe that it's based on true events. i urge you to go to wikipedia and read about the real story. such a contrast to the glammed out movie. there was nothing glamorous about the real events. in the end, the whole thing just felt yucky and scary. not for the faint of heart. i gave it three stars because i don't like scary flicks, and i didn't realize that it was going to be so creepy. also, it makes me wonder how and why hollywood sensationalizes events in history when the actual events are sad, gruesome and just plain awful.

Good but not great The video has some good songs and my 15 month old enjoys watching it. My only complaint is that it seems like all the songs were taken from a previous video  "wake up Jeff ".

Just OK Having seen the prior movies in this sequel I was expecting big things out of this one.  I was disappointed.  It's not that the movie was not good it's just not much happened.  It seems to me they could've made  The Deathly Hallows 1 and 2 into just one.  All in all though a great series and worth buying to complete it.

Still walking ... and that's about all! STILL WALKING (orig. Japanese title "Aruitemo, Aruitemo", dir. Hirokazu Kore'eda, 2008) is best understood as a struggle with life as faced with one's relatives - whether one likes it or not. An elderly retired doctor endures a visit from his second son and family. He's clearly bitter and grouchy that his son is not a doctor. This is only the tip of the iceberg: the eldest son is now long dead and the family is still struggling to cope.  Firstly I must say I do not recognize any of the actors except the elderly doctor and I cannot determine his name for certain. Secondly, I do not agree this is one of the best films of the year - though it is interesting to watch, I can't determine any point to it at all. There's no storyline either; it resembles a documentary.  Director Kore'eda is best known for his wonderful 1998 film <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004U1F9">After Life</a>. With STILL WALKING, he tries and badly overreaches in an attempt to establish himself as the next Kurosawa. This film in my opinion is highly derivative of Kurosawa's beautiful classics <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00008ZZ9O">Rhapsody in August</a>, in an odd way reminiscent of the intimate <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00180R072">High and Low (The Criterion Collection)</a>, and his final film <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000059H7C">Madadayo</a>. STILL WALKING really doesn't hold a candle to these.  Just in case I wasn't clear, I say again: this film doesn't hold a candle to Kurosawa. That means this is not anywhere near the class or perfection of Kurosawa, and I am not too interested in the directors that are reminiscent of, inspirations to or forerunners of THIS director. He's nowhere near that good, but then, who is.  And just to clear up some confusion: since Kurosawa is the greatest director who ever lived, I'd say the least any other director can do, when trying to copy Kurosawa, is to do him justice. Which this film does not.  However, it has quiet, meditative and emotional points that may or may not affect you. Most fascinating of all in my view was watching a modern Japanese family cope with the usual family-type suffering. That's about it. The acting is exquisite, but again, I must ask, to what end? This film meanders along pointlessly, and after the revelation of what exactly happened to the eldest son of the family, continues aimlessly.

Another for Your Ray Harryhausen Collection Another Ray Harryhausen special effects extravaganza. Normally I would say everyone knows the story, but frankly, I do not know how many details were changed, so here goes.  Jason was the baby son of the slain king of Thessaly. He was raised in exile, and at the age of twenty, returns to Thessaly to reclaim his throne. But Zeus and Hera are playing with him, and he is set the task of going to the "end of the world" to find the golden fleece. That is a ram's head and fleece which is literally gold, a gift of the gods. It also has magical powers.  But of course, the people who have it don't want to give it up. And Zeus is playing against Hera (they have a game board that keeps track of events). Hera is only allowed to help Jason five times. His boat includes a figure head, at the back facing the deck, and Hera speaks through it (its eyes open and shut) to help Jason.  I won't detail the adventures, but just list some of the marvelous special effects: a 100-foot tall bronze statue comes to life, the clashing rocks try to crush them, but Poseidon intervenes to help them, Medea, the High Priestess of Hecate, was on a ship that was destroyed by the clashing rocks, and Jason rescues her. So she's on their side. The seven-headed hydra is guarding the fleece, and finally Jason must fight a platoon of dead soldiers come to life as fighting skeletons.  Of course Jason brings back the fleece, and Hera won the game with Zeus. This time. He's already planning more adventures for Jason.

I don't think I've ever finished a movie more disappointed It's hard reviewing this film without giving too much away, but I'll do my best.  Despite being disappointed, this wasn't a bad movie.  The story kept me interested through out and yes, the guys were very hot :) One of the  biggest complaints I've seen about this movie is that the shift between different times is confusing.  However, it really isn't bad once you realize what is going on, although I will admit going into the movie knowing time while shift around helps.  Basically, there are 3 different time periods, and while the the 2nd part is connected to the 3rd, the first is disconnected.  This doesn't sound too bad except that the whole move has been leading towards this climatic part and then it is never shown.  This is purposely done by the director but honestly this is what makes the movie such a let down.  I understood what the director was going for but it left so many questions that it made an otherwise decent movie unsatisfying.

Dr. T & the women This movie is ok, but too many women with too many problems. I would hate be Dr. T. with all his women problems and being in constant demand. The best part of this movie is at the end during the storm.

Not bad, but not as good as those Viking Capital One commercials In OUTLANDER Jim Caviezel plays an alien hunter so utterly deadpan he makes his PASSION OF THE CHRIST role seem flighty and vivacious. Somewhen in the Viking Iron Age, an extraterrestrial named Kainan (Caviezel) crashlands his space ship, sends it hurtling into the Scandinavian drink. His crew all dead and now bereft of his hi-tech weaponry, the stranded Kainan sets out on his mission to capture the man-eating alien predator called a Moorwen. But, while tracking the monster, Kainan is captured by a group of Vikings and taken to their compound. Not too long after, something begins to make raids on the Vikings' home and territory. Prevailing theories offer a dragon and a bear, and, oboy, does that ever get these doughty Vikings all fired up. Off they go, a-huntin', with their clean-shaven captive in tow.  OUTLANDER, when broken down, is essentially PREDATOR reimagined in old Norway and peopled with medieval, bearded, grog-swilling Norsemen and an intense spaceman. Some bells and whistles are thrown in, like John Hurt as King Hrothgar, Ron Perlman as a bald-headed Viking, and Sophia Myles as the Viking princess, Freya, who knows her way around a sword and isn't shy about baring her midriff, never mind that the near freezing climate seems to dictate bundling up in layers.  Early on, Kainan's computer indicates that Earth is an abandoned seed colony, and it would've been nice if the film had touched more on that. And for someone coming from an advanced culture and superior technology, Kainan isn't allowed a lot of chances to flaunt his stuff as such. Heck, the gent from A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT exercised his futuristic expertise more. Instead, Kainan finds himself immersed into the Vikings' hardy way of life, gradually celebrated in King Hrothgar's mead hall and romancing the king's feisty daughter. However, the best relationship here is the one that develops between Kainan and his warrior rival Wulfric (Jack Huston).  OUTLANDER is better than PATHFINDER (another recent film about Vikings), but it's sort of like saying that a paper cut is better than a poke in the eye. One's marginally preferrable but, mostly, you'd still rather not have both. OUTLANDER's achievement is that it combines Vikings and space aliens and still manages to come away with a story that is predictable and tame. Character development is nil, with these stock characters simply refusing to stand out. Sorry to say, Jim Caviezel, as an action hero, comes across as bland.  Not the acting, not the plot, but there are some saving graces. I thought the CG work is well rendered on the Moorwen, and I especially liked the bioluminescent touch. The several shifts in venue - the dark woods to the mead hall to the hellish caverns - serve to infuse energy, help to fight off that sense of staidness (but it's a losing battle). And I thought that the game of balance on shields (held up by drunken Vikings) was pretty cool.  A slightly better than average 3 out of 5 stars for OUTLANDER. I recommend it mostly for the well-done sci-fi action sequences. Hopefully, the writers of the upcoming COWBOYS AND ALIENS view OUTLANDER as a cautionary tale and learn from it.

Interesting, but slow Okay, after the first few minutes, I got the message.  But stuck with it to see if anything else would happen.  Interesting to see an unfamiliar part of the world and its beliefs, but slow.  Left after the animal beheadings.

Wish I had liked it more This was a fun, quirky show. I won't ever be watching it again tho. There were just things that bugged. The scene transitions were way off who ever patched this movie together didn't do a great job. The best part about the movie is the two main actors who I love. The side characters got a little annoying and the fight between these two was silly and not believable. It's a good thing I had a free rental or I would be sad I spent my money on this. Sex- Lots of innuendo especially from a nasty guy who had a fling with the girl. Three sex scene one I fast forwarded over because the couple kinda made me sick. The other two just the two of them in bed after talking and kissing. Language-Lots of English swearing and a couple of our words.

Its ok I liked cinematography but I felt there could have been more depth to the story and the characters. The story runs really slow and the suddenly jumps to a random scene. I am going to read the book for comparison.

For boasting such star power...meh.  It's okay. I will admit that the storyline of the movie, about a group of professional hitmen who are tricked into offing a middle eastern Shiek's enemies who were ensconced deep in British intelligence, in order for that Shiek's family to save enough face to go back to their homeland and thus help secure favorable oil trade was decent and more than I expected as I came into this film.  Pairing Deniro, and especially Statham, and Owen in a storyline with much physicality?  Yes, please!  I was (eventually) there but when I got there I found that the film lacked...somethings, and I'm not quite sure what.  Statham's often snarky humor wasn't a part of this role and that was okay.  Deniro was the grisled (and minimalized) vet and that was unfortunate as he wasn't given a chance to let go.  Owen was great as the eventual rogue Brit agent trying to stop these assassins.  So what was missing?  Was the pacing of the film off?  I'll admit that I never really got to care much about our main leads and I certainly didn't have any strong passion one way or another for the film's bad guys (but let's admit that they were all essentially bad guys).  Perhaps that's what was disappointing about this film.  I didn't find myself drawn in to the leads.  So I'll go with that.

some good effects but not much "story" to this Seriously, it was JUST ok, maybe a little disappointing even.  There were some decent effects but it was more like one big fight scene from start to finish. Not much "story" to this.  Perseus gets beaten to a pulp and even being a demi-god wouldn't have healed him enough that quickly to keep going after taking such abuse at the hands of his brother in their last fight - especially considering the injuries he'd gotten up to that point. Would it?  I guess it depends on what you the viewer accept about the demi-gods. And after Perseus manages to somehow get inside of Kronos/Cronus and back out again - you get the impression that Kronos/Cronus was killed by the weapon.  But that same weapon was used on him by his powerful "god" sons before and they only managed to trap him in Tartarus. (So if you're going to "think" about this movie instead of just accepting it as it comes - you'll probably enjoy it less than someone who doesn't care)  Also, so much of the movie is dirt and dust (drab color) that I was thirsty and feeling the need to shower just watching it.  It wasn't horrible, but (I) wouldn't really recommend it either.

Not a very satisfying conclusion This movie was a downer since so many major characters die, which is why I found it unsatisfying as a conclusion to the first X-Men film trilogy.  I'm glad they're working on more X-Men movies.  I wasn't all that interested in the Phoenix story arc; it just turns Jean from annoying to creepy.  Luckily we finally get rid of Scott.  I have nothing against him in other X-Men media, but his film incarnation irritated me.  It was cool to see Angel, though I think they should have spent more time making his wings look more realistic.  The good things about this movie were Juggernaut, who had a sense of humor that so many of the characters lost in the transition from comics to film; Kitty, who finally had a significant role and held her own quite nicely in the final battle; Beast, who actually kept his personality from the comics; and Rogue and Bobby overcoming the physical challenge of their relationship, which was a relief to me.  However, I am also glad that the DVD contained an alternate ending to Rogue's decision about the "mutant cure;" I liked being able to see both versions.  Even though the movie's ending was depressing, I appreciated the fact that it wrapped up most of the plot threads from the previous movies.  As usual, Patrick Stewart was good as Professor X and Ian McKellen was excellent as Magneto.  It was really cool to see a flashback scene to a time when the two were still friends.  The last shot of the movie, Magneto sitting there in front of the chessboard, was deliciously creepy.

Edited and missing scenes This DVD is edited and missing about 5 minutes. I have the laserdisc and its got opening credits on Side 3 which is Side 2 of the dvd and has a scene where Richard Thomas arrives in Derry and goes to a bookstore before he takes the taxi to the cemetery which is completely cut out of the dvd. The Laserdisc is 192 minutes and the DVD is 188 minutes.

Gaither Gospel Series; Jerusalem I love this DVD of the Gaither's Gospel series of Jerusalem.  I would have liked to hear more songs by Mark Lowry or Guy Penrod and less of Jesse Dixon, but the overall presentation was wonderful music and scenery of the Holy Land.  Praise Jesus!!!

Unmet potential As is the case with most Torchlight films, this movie fails to meet potential. You pretty much should know by now what you're getting: $100 budgets, single-source lighting, 70-minute run times, shoe-string plots, players who cannot act, awful dialog, wall-to-wall sex. So that's this movie in a nutshell. Where it fails to deliver is in explicitness. A couple of the sex scenes were OK, and others were bad. None was good. The nudity was ho-hum and, infuriating as this always is, we hardly ever get to see the actresses naked from behind. Laurie Wallace has a bang-up bum and we see hers for a total of about a second, if you put three different shots together. Nothing at all of the other actresses.  So, it could have been better--probably not the best Torchlight release, definitely not the worst. Average from this studio. Not recommended.

Maybe it's better to be crazy than to study wu shu! TRUE LEGEND (a/k/a THE TRUE LEGEND OF BEGGAR SU, SU QI-ER Chinese original title, 2009, dir. Woo-Ping Yuen,116 min.) is a 50-50 proposition. It sort of showed me why certain Chinese films are left to the DVD Fates and not always screened in America. I had never seen this - nor even heard of it - so thank the Great Heavenly God for cable. Having just seen it, I still make bold to thank God for cable.  This is the allegedly true story of General Su Can (Sun Tsan, played by the beautiful Vincent Zhao), the creator of Drunken Fist boxing, and how exactly he came to create it. Apparently this is set just before the modern Western invasion of China, and aside from that I can say nothing of its authenticity. I can only speak of its silliness. It is a cartoon, and at certain moments they do not hesitate to replace what would have been awesome real shots with animation.  Su loses his future honors when he retires from the army. Leaving his psycho adopted brother (Gen. Yuan Lie, played by the equally beautiful Andy On) in his place, he goes to set up housekeeping with his adopted sister Shao Ying (the real sister of his adopted brother, but who can tell for sure, played by Xun Zhou). Their son Feng (uncredited as far as I can tell, but he is played by two different actors) will be key in this weird, meandering and ultimately sad attempt at an epic martial arts film.  The acting, while not bad at all, seems divine when compared to the rotten sloppy fight scenes. Vertiginous comic-book-crap and bizarre dreams add nothing to this. In the end, the feeling is this was an opportunist and cynical mockery of such beautiful films as <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003X5UFWW">Ip Man</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041KKY9M">A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop</a> (see my reviews).  While I cannot completely fault this movie (hence my "50-50" statement), I see it as being representative of the worst of Chinese films (which I dearly loved as a young man): the wacky 1970s kung-fu-theater films.  In today's world, that is not such a good thing. For example, Jackie Chan can get away with something excellent like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00455IVES">Drunken Master</a> while pulling back from the insulting, lousy quality and messages this film presents. That is because Jackie Chan hardly misses his target and is a genius.  With cameos by the hilarious Gordon Liu, a truly evil turn by the late David Carradine and a pointless yet charismatic drive-by courtesy of the immortal Michelle Yeoh.

Corman Slipped-UP Despite Corman's usual approach(use cast & crew of another film to make this one while filming the other film) this one is actually entertaining.Good Plot,not too badly done(forgive the F/X) monster crude & Campy. Enjoy if you Dare!

Soul is the Key Word Here... Our Kind of Soul IS Daryl and John's soul statement. Unfortunately,I was searching for the classic Hall'N Oats sound. This isn't it. I'll give it a 3 because I was the knucklehead who thought (for some reason) that they would sing some of their favorites. It's still Hall'N Oats: just not hits we've come to love. (Well, they DO sing hits, but they're old Motown R&B soul hits... which is sort of what the title says.) EJ

Could have been better... I really love the players in this movie but the story kind of left me cold.  I had expected more.

Man, I really wanted to like this movie more than I did I'm a huge fan of historical dramas, especially when the filmmaker has the vision and budget to really capture the look, feel and spectacle of past events.  When it was announced that Ridley Scott was going to make a film about the Crusades, I was really excited about the possibilities... this director knows how to manage big budgets, big sets and action scenes involving casts of thousands and get it onto the screen. Scott is a superb technical film maker and an intelligent guy. Nonetheless, Kingdom of Heaven suffers too much from the Hollywood treatment and I'm not talking about the casting choices as some reviewers were quick to criticize.  Orlando Bloom, as Balian of Ibelin, is just fine in the lead role, as are the majority of others cast in the film. The Muslim actor who portrays Saladin gives a particularly noteworthy and fairly accurate account of this historical figure.  Nope, the fault is with Bill Monahan's script (and Scott sticking to it, so faithfully)  Instead of showing Balian in a reasonably accurate manner as the wealthy inheritor of an estate in the Holy land, he's depicted as a troubled blacksmith- one who's wife has just committed suicide and who's brother is a psychotic and manipulative priest. In a long, convoluted series of scenes, Balian kills his brother, is reconnected with his long lost father who is shortly mortally wounded. He takes up the Cross (reluctantly) and arrives in Messina, ready to travel to the Holy Lands and mange his fathers estate.... but not before he's been shipwrecked !  It takes nearly a hour of this convoluted fiction to set the stage for the religious, political and military conflicts that are to come.  Monahan finally settles down and produces some moments of clarity when Balian arrives in the Holy Land.  Of course, any historian of the Crusades could find fault in nearly ever scene, but who in the general audience would notice or care.  We should expect that in a Hollywood extravaganza, a romantic interest would be created, where none actually existed -and that's OK, too!  Screen writer Monahan, however, is not content with simply fleshing out and elaborating on the fascinating characters of Baldwin the Leper King, his sister Sibylla, her eventual husband King Guy d' Lusignan and the rogue robber baron Reynald d'Chatillon - he fashions them into over-the-top cartoons.  There's nothing at all subtle or nuanced about the way these characters are depicted. Guy has all the emotional depth of Snidely Whiplash, while Balian plays his adversary as the slightly morose Dudley Do-Right.  Reynald is reduced to a psychopathic killer, rather than a shrewd, albeit violent, political operator. The leper king is gentle, wise and always diplomatic, to the point where it seems he's been sedated throughout Monahan's script.  Of course, when it comes to the broader military conflict, Ridley Scott is in his directorial element and the movie captures plenty of thrilling battles, inglorious defeats and individual heroics, while keeping fairly true to the historical record. This is where Kingdom of Heaven borders on being a cinematic classic and there are awesome spectacles of Jerusalem under siege.  Certainly, Ridley Scott and Monahan had the right idea - post 9/11 - to speak to the divisive nature that religion sparks in humanity and to question how theology, greed and power can corrupt peaceful cooperation.  This movie could have been better received and gotten its core message across to a broader audience, had it been more careful to avoid the obvious cliche's of the genre.  I don't even know where to begin discussing in how lousy the script concludes.  Hey, the boxed set does contain a nifty full length documentary about the making of Kingdom of Heaven which is really enjoyable for fans of cinema - showing how tens of millions of dollars are spent to bring an epic to the screen, department by department.  That was a fun bonus.  It's a shame all those millions weren't spent crafting a film based on more accurate, and thus meaningful, script.

Ok for a chick flick If your woman is going to make you watch a chick flick and you have an option to choose which one. You would be ok with this one.

Fun, but slow If you have any dance experience whatsoever, the first routine with the veil will be boring.  The only "fun" thing is the veil work, and it's repetitive and slow.  The first song is not terribly exciting and reminds me more of bellydancing than bollywood.  Bollywood is really bouncy and high-energy and the later two songs embody that more.  It's a fun DVD overall, with a good progression, but for someone with any experience, you may be bored.

Good but not great This should have been awesome. Instead the poor script, over the top comic relief and cheesiness of Dredd spoiled the film for me. The music was pretty good, fantastic cast and pretty decent props and costume. I think it is better than a lot of people give it credit. It does need a new transfer though, my DVD is shocking! The worst quality DVD I own. Grain, noise and not even anamorphic. Old school transfer.

Good DVD, but case was not so much This DVD came very quickly, and my boyfriend was very excited about it as he is from the Oregon coast and has a big place in his heart for this movie. We watched it the same night we got it, DVD played great. No scratches, skipping or anything. I was a bit disappointed by the case though. The product desription said it was used, but just like new. But the middle plastic part of the case that holds the DVD in place was missing some of it's teeth, so it won't even hold the DVD. I luckily had another unused case which we lost the DVD to so I am using that one instead. But great movie!

Poor copy of good show I enjoyed the movie, particularly the songs; however, this DVD from Passion Productions is very poor quality. Pictures are not clear; the sound is low; and at times there are skips in the sound track. Amazon refunded my money. Would be happy to have a good version, if it's available.

Well produced but shallow writing The costumes and interiors are stunning. The actors are generally very good. The photography is almost too good, so that you feel like you are watching an extended advertisement for perfume. That is also why 1912-1914 England seems to be perpetually sunny. Great light is more important than mood... or realism. Time doesn't seem to pass, because you can never tell what season it is. A shame for a series supposedly about a family's attachment to a place.  Others have already commented on  the extensive borrowing from Upstairs/Downstairs. I would just add that, as far as the servants go, the roles are just too similar to their U/D equivalents: crazy cook, submissive scullery maid, suspicious homosexual footman, etc. One of my favorite anachronisms is seeing the characters who smoke (the evil ones, mind you: in the first season of 24 they would have been running Windows XP) carefully go outside... in 1912.  My biggest complaint with the plot is that there is no real thought given to the predicament of pre-WWI British nobility. Brideshead Revisited (which takes place just after WWI) treats the question with so much depth and insight that anything else pales in comparison. Still, there should be a little bit more meat than just pointing out how neat it is to have electricity and a telephone.  The editing unfortunately removes all surprise from the story, which is not particularly original in the first place, because whenever there is a long silent shot on someone or something, you can usually guess what they are preparing us for.  The series remains entertaining in spite of all of this, primarily thanks to the actors. Entertaining, but disappointing.

Not as great a romantic comedy as I expected From the reviews here and elsewhere I had high hopes of this film, which follows the clash between theater impresario Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) and aspiring, then successful, actress Lily Garland (Carole Lombard).  The acting is excellent, and both actors are at the top of the game.  And yet I felt that this was not a satisfying romantic comedy.  The reason why is that Barrymore's character never seems to really change.  In _It Happened One Night_, the ur-romantic comedy, both male and female leads have to change to be worthy of each other.  And yet, here, Lombard is the one who has to grow up, while Barrymore gets to remain an emotional child.  There are a lot of great scenes and dialogue, but in the end I didn't feel completely convinced that the leads should be together.  This is, in many ways, one of those films that is aimed at putting a woman in her place, like _My Fair Lady_.  In the end, I don't enjoy those films nearly as much as those that have a more companionate view of the battle and peace between the sexes.

Time Warp Lots of T&A.  I think this movie wrecked a bunch of acting careers.  1 hr and 27 min that I will never get back.

faulty DVD It's a great, great story..but you'd never know it from the DVD. The DVD is faulty and stops playing after 20+ minutes; now I need to return it and buy another.  Worse - seems Amazon's promised 2-day refund changed to a 4-week refund when reading the fine print. So much for their interest in customer relations...

slow movie very slow movie. was hoping there was alot more action into this movie. it seemed to drag. actors and actresses are great though which made me a little disappointed in the overall of this movie. :(

Review Rogue Trader DVD Review Rogue Trader DVD: The film was as good as expected, the quality was as expected. One negative observation: the DVD did not have any subtitles, not even English!

Not every great story is suitable for a movie It is said that every Holocaust survivor has a story, this is surely true for gulag survivors too. This is a story of several people in the gulag who escaped and marched from Siberia to India. How true is the story, I cannot comment! Although I am sure something like it, probably did happen.  It movie clearly shows a tough trip going through some extremely difficult places to travel Mongolia, the Gobi desert, Tibet and the Himalayas, which are dangerous for even fit, well equipped and experienced travelers. Most of these group of people in the movie were lucky to survive. A few did not make it.  Almost all of this film is the story of their march.  The filming is very good, some of the nature scenes are very good.  The acting I found a bit wooden, although I did like Ed Harris's performance.  My complaint is I found it monotonous in parts. They walk almost at death's door  and walk  almost at death's door and walk  almost at death's door, etc., etc. A film needs excitement, and I did not find it in much of the march.

Not impressed! This action offers quite a bit of action but unfortunately it is your typical action flick. I wouldn't say it was a complete waste of money but if you can wait for it to come on HBO then wait!

A realistic attempt Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin, as the name goes, is a stark, realistic look at life in urban Bombay. Life whizzes past you, fast and before you know it you are in the middle of murder, mayhem, violence and attempted suicide. The pace of the movie is slick, the tale told refreshingly. The team of actors and actresses make a sincere attempt at portraying the sleaze, muck and grime that even the layman might get involved in by just being a part of the real Bombay. The Bombay of locals, of the underworld, of slums, of overpopulation, of crime and of survival amidst all this that constantly bogs you down. Good triumphs over evil, even in this dark city of terror, finally.

Sequel is a big letdown but the dinosaurs aren't If this film was original, perhaps it would have been perceived to be better than it is.  Unfortunately it will always be compared to the original "Jurassic Park" from 3 years earlier.  This film, also adapted from a Michael Crichton novel, doesn't pass the test but for one exception.  The Stan Winston dinosaurs are more plentiful and even more convincing.  In this story we find out that while the original Jurassic Park and its animals were destroyed, John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) had another nearby island where the actual cloning took place before the animals were removed to the park.  His company is now in bankruptcy and is run by his no-good nephew (Arliss Howard) who wants to capture and move the animals to San Diego.  So Hammond recruits Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) again to lead a crew who would photograph and document the animals before the evil nephew gets there.  Malcolm (a survivor from the first film) refuses to go until he is told his girlfriend Sarah (Julianne Moore) is already on the island.  So off he goes with 2 other crew members, Nick (Vince Vaughn) and Eddie (Richard Schiff).  While the original kids, Lex and Tim, show up for a cameo appearance early in the film, they don't make the trip.  So the kid factor comes in the way of Malcolm's stowaway teenage daughter Kelly (Vanessa Lee Chester).  The fact that she's black and Malcolm isn't doesn't come up until Vaughn's character says to another, "does anyone see a family resemblance?"  So I guess that's addressed.  There are some exciting scenes in this sequel.  One involves Sarah and Nick deciding to treat a baby T-Rex who has a broken leg.  They take it back to the trailer at the base camp.  Gee, neither of these scientists thought that perhaps the infants cries might attract mom and/or dad.  After ignoring the phone in the trailer that would have warned them of their obvious peril, dino-dad and mom let the scientists know what they thought of the idea of doctoring their kid.  Except for a few humorous quips from Goldblum's character, the film is hampered by ridiculous dialog and even more ridiculous circumstances.  Some of these are the equivalent of the teenagers in a horror movie who don't leave the haunted house when they have a chance.  There is enough here however to recommend the film, albeit without much enthusiasm.  For a much better presentation check out the Blu ray version available as part of the "Trilogy" package.  The visuals and the lossless soundtrack are spectacular.

Not a "showcase" Blu-ray... After watching this Blu-ray of "Jason & The Argonauts" I have to say that the video quality is disappointing.  It is grainy and a bit dark.  Apparently, there wasn't much done as far as restoration is concerned, which is a shame, as ALL of Ray Harryhausen's films should be remastered in Blu-ray format.  Is this an improvement over the DVD?  Yes, but barely, and definitely NOT a Blu-ray to show off to your newbie friends who haven't jumped on the Blu-ray bandwagon yet.

So-So But Worth Watching Soooo This Is Kinda Like A Rip Of I Know What You Did Last Summer (Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jennifer Love Hewitt) But Its Still Ok To Watch. I Think That It Was Somewhat Scary But Not SAW Scary. I Also Think That If Audrina Patridge Was In This More Maybe The Reviews Might Be Better. It Is Not Worth Paying Alot For The Most Would Be $10. Thats It! :) As A Horror Movie Fan I Am Used To These Kind Of Movies. But Still Worth Watching, Try It Out & See For Your Self :)

Am I a security personnel? I can't believe there's a third sequel for the Paranormal Activity flicks. My kids like horror movies, scaring themselves. But Paranormal 3 isn't like that, it's more of a bedtime-reading (or watching) story which made my kids fell asleep.  I did not enjoy watching this film. I thought myself as a security personnel monitoring all the cameras!

Missing segment? I enjoyed this updated Frankenstein and its extras; however, I was very disappointed that the encounter with the blind man was entirely missing from this version. Did I receive a bogus copy??? I thought the blind man interaction with the monster was very important to movie.

MOST INAPPROPRIATE TO OFFER WITHOUT AGE LIMITATION I found this movie in my child's wish list.  His profile did not include an age. He is 15.  Very strong sexual content to be offered so freely to a minor child.  I watched the movie to monitor my child's wish list and purchases.  Very alarming to see what was available "FOR FREE"

Eh... I was bored.  Had one twist. It was Deja Vu of another Samuel L Jackson movie. I wanted to be on the edge of my seat, unfortunately I wasn't. It was JUST OK

Good but not the best one The acting was actually really good especially when the main actress burned herself in front of her boss and family, but I don't really understand the ending of the movie.

Everybody's a critic....!!! It's my fervent hope that someday I'll see a review that cuts right to the chase and tells us if they simply enjoyed the film (or not), lists a couple of reasons for either side, and doesn't insist on picking apart each camera angle, the actors' individual abilities (or lack of same), and the ineptitude of the various directors and writers.  Makes me wonder why these film "experts" aren't out in Hollywood themselves and writing and directing movies that meet their own obviously higher standards - instead of so arduously ripping into the work of others.  With respect to "Trespass".... if you enjoy Nicholas Cage's acting in general, you'll probably enjoy this movie.  Although it's pretty much an "average" movie all the way around, it does have entertainment value.  If you're in the mood for something profound, just find another movie to watch tonight.  That about covers it!

Overpriced I can't believe the price of this Grade B- movie . I enjoyed it but not enough to pay that price. Rent it, it's worth while.

The Wendell Baker Story I admit I'm partial to the Wilson brothers. One of my all time favorite movies is Bottle Rocket. That has all three brothers in it. The Wendell Baker Story has two of the Wilson brothers starring in it. It doesn't come up to the level of Bottle Rocket but it's fun and well worth adding to a library of good and very funny movies. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UDGOIO">Wendell Baker Story (2007) DVD</a>

This camp is less than monstrous. Or interesting. So I ended up watching quite a few documentaries over this past weekend, two of which had a common theme. What was the common theme you ask? It was nerddom. Utter and glorious nerddom. I feel a special affinity for nerds because, to be frank, I kind of am one. I understand the attraction of games and genre fiction. However, these films showed some of the more extreme examples that are out there. Let the awkwardness begin!  So..."Monster Camp." "Monster Camp" follows the trials and tribulations of the Seattle branch of NERO, the New England Roleplaying Organization. NERO is basically a live action fantasy roleplaying game where players assume the roles of wizards, warriors and various monsters. Face paint, homemade costumes and foam rubber swords are everywhere you look. Think Augie from "Role Models" and you get the idea.  The first thing that struck me about this "game" is how ridiculously complicated it is. In one scene, a man named Fern (yes, Fern) is instructing a new recruit on the finer points of dealing damage in a melee battle. Fern explains that your weapon deals out a certain number of damage with each strike and may have enchantments that make it deal out certain types of damage. It is your responsibility to then yell out what type and how much damage you are doing with each strike of your mighty Nerf sword of doom. For example, you would yell out "Normal 2!" for 2 points of normal damage. Got all that? Of course you do.  How this actually plays out in practice is a bunch of grown men and women spastically swinging "weapons" at each other screaming "NORMAL2NORMAL2NORMAL2!" in a swarm around some poor sap that is playing a monster. This really underscores what I think is the major problem with the film. The game is boring to watch. Really, really boring. It's needlessly complicated and they all take it very seriously. While the film goes for the predictable "look-at-how-ridiculous-this-all-is" laughs, that pretty much gets old after the first ten minutes (although a very husky man playing the part of a giant death moth or something shouting "HYPNOTIC STARE!" while spreading his cape "wings" is pretty hilarious).  The film's attempt to humanize the players is mostly done in such a way that we pity them. Two best friends/roommates that are profiled haven't finished high school, one a seventh year senior and the other a fourth year senior. Of these two, one of them doesn't even have a job. He plays World of Warcraft all day while his roommate is at work and then moves to videogames on the TV when his buddy gets home. Another player is criticized by his daughter for playing too many games and his solution is to buy her a computer so they can both play in the same room together. You just never get any more emotionally invested with these people because they seem so alien, to me at least. And if your documentary can't make you connect with the subjects, what's the point?

Nightmare before Christmas The product brings the blu ray disc itself, as well as the regular DVD. This Disney movie is alright not too good as the other ones. It is mostly about singing, group singing, rhythm and anything about music. the visual is set in 3D but very good graphics. The movie is good to watch but not over and over like other Disney movies.

message great; presentation poor The message of forgiveness is presented well, even eloquently at times, in this film. The unforgiving wife's husband, Gideon, is the most believable of all the actors and it is his words about forgiveness that make the film worth viewing.  However, living among the Amish as I do, and having been in an Amish home, I found it hard to get past the unrealistic acting and scenery. The actors, especially the fictional main character, were so American English, that I had to work to get past their presentation to grasp the real message. The house of the Amish family in this film was a far stretch from the simple, plain homes with the smell of wood burning that are true Amish. Who came up with the idea of the fancy boots on the girls in the beginning of the movie? Knowing real Amish, I cannot imagine them ever sporting such fancy things.  I am interested to read a book on this event now. I hope to find one that doesn't deal in fiction but with the Amish as I know them and admire so much.

Not his best Just another car and killing movie.  Dwayne Johnson definately has better movies.  Wife loved it though.  It's very predictable. The bluray disc is good quality.

Charming, Flawed The depiction of the encounter and attraction between the two leads in this film is a fragile thing -- it is something surprisingly subtle and mellow to find in a film, and it comes off beautifully.  There is a lot of quiet expressiveness which in another set of actors' hands might have resulted in an hour and a half of indecipherable vacant stares.  Instead, in a very minimalist way, we are given a thoughtful, mature story of chemistry.  That said, Alexander Siddig's accent is distractingly bad, and the film's occasional forays into social seriousness are far more bumbled than they are deep, at times to the point of leaving me feeling embarrassed for both the filmmaker and for Egypt.  As a character study this film is beautiful.  As a scenic film it is beautiful.  As anything else it might aspire to be in the way of a depiction of a culture, however, it falls rather dramatically flat.

The Middle Narnia, is the "middle one" In my opinion this is the more weak of the narnia movies, still is a great movie, but not even close to the First one, and specially the third, witch is a GREAT adventure.

This won an award!? Not exactly hog heaven, I'm not entirely certain they knew what they wanted to do with this movie so they did everything.  If frantic is your taste, this would be it.  A giant snowball from hell gathering up everything in its path as it barrels down on you.  There's no escape, few survive (which is always the case, but I actually like a high body count in these types of movies).  The pig was a bit plastic looking but that's okay, it made its point.  Don't tread on me. I didn't keep it.  Glad I saw it.  And yes, if there's a Pig Hunt 2, it'd watch it also. And what a great DVD cover!

Fun to Watch Away with the long winded reviews, '102 Dalmatians' is a fun movie, especially for animal lovers.  Glenn Close and Gerard Dapardieu are great villians. It seems that Cruella has been cured, so she is released on parole. Her parole officer just happens to be Pongo's owner from the first movie. While checking in with her parole officer, Cruella's brain is knocked back to her old self by the ringing of Big Ben.  After this it's a race to make that "hooded spotted puppy coat." The animals are wonderful in this movie, but I did find the do gooders in this film rather dull.

Cute but not the best. I was so excited when I first saw the previews for this movie. A little disappointed honestly. It's a cute movie with a few funny parts but I will not be purchasing this one for my son's DVD collection any time soon!

OK, wait until it hits Red Box The movie was "OK", but not worth the price for anything other than a Red Box rental.  As with anything she's in, Kristen Stewart was flat, and kept the same "I'm as empty-headed as a stump" look throughout the entire movie.  Seriously, she's not anywhere near pretty enough to make up for her utter lack of acting ability, so why do they keep casting her in roles?  Charlize Theron (as usual) nails her role, and you wind up seriously disliking her (as you're supposed to do).  Chris Hemsworth delivered a decent performance, but IMO no where near the quality of the work he did in Thor or The avengers.  Surprising cast of cameo actors thought, that part was nice.  Very nice special effects, but evan with as big of an "eye-candy" junkie as I am it still wasn't enough to push his movie past "OK".

Blu-Ray...OK I will restrict myself to reviewing this as a Blu-Ray release and not the movie and its content.  Many have already commented on the story-line, so I will not belabor the point.  Visually...WOW!  This movie will not disappoint on those grounds.  Very rich textures and colors.  One could say, stunning.  The sound is not so stunning.  It is muddled in quite a few parts making the dialogue almost incomprehensable.  Even with my center channel set high, it didn't help.  There was one problem...well, two.  The movie froze in 2 spots for about 20 to 30 seconds.  I checked the disc and there were no visible defects.  When I replayed the passages, they played through just fine.  So, I am thinking it was my player.  This freezing only happened once before on another Blu-Ray and like above, when I replayed the passage, it played fine.  If you liked this version of the Dracula tale, at Amazon's current price, it is well worth it.

"Let's do it!" Was this originally a pilot movie for a possible TV series?  That's what it reminded me of, instantly.  Absolutely no imagination went into this production.  From the very start it feels stale, overused, too familiar.  I kept hoping they'd do something to jazz it up but the closest they got to what they must have thought was inspiring was these cheesy camera shots from the weapon point of view (was this a video game at one point?).  It was even edited like most TV cop shows....from the 80s!  As for the plot, pretty standard: a bad guy is after the good guys.  That's it.  Other than that, there was your forced camaraderie of officers, the training scenes, the angry commander constantly bellowing, the sick wacko killer, the vanilla good guy: all clich&eacute;s.  They even had the obligatory slo-mo triumphant strut of the team that could have been used as an opening shot of...a TV SHOW!  This is as safe as you can get with a movie: it is what it is...run of the mill. That said.  I did like Gabriel Macht as the unflappable instructor; he was interesting to watch in an uninspired role.  Robert Patrick, on the other hand, was anything but inspiring as the crazed lunatic out to kill the entire cast.  Robert Patrick specializes in playing villains.  Unfortunately, it's the exact same villain every time, he has no range or depth, at this point it's past boring and now just tedious.  Whenever I see his name in the credits of any movie I involuntarily cringe, preparing myself for the worst, which he always delivers right on cue. As a regulation cop thriller, this movie is strictly stock.  Taken on that level it's not a bad waste of time.  I'm not sorry I watched it.  I won't, however, ever watch it again.  Not a keeper.

Mac v. Pc Igot this as a gift for my friend who looooooves season 1 of Heroes. She was super excited and apparently it doesn't run on a mac. I'll let you know if we can fix this problem.

Great price but... The collection is pretty good. But for me the only one that really value is the Prime 9. Exciting downcount for the best moments of baseball. 9 different countdowns with best hitting seasons, best pitching seasons, the -never-be-broken- records among others. The All century team is good but not superb video, the best 30 players in the 20th century and all of those players with 1 or 2 minutes of them history. But the really bust is the bloopers one. Chat, chat, chat, its like behind the scenes of baseball. how the players have fun, or something like that but the really good bloopers like fielders crash, or the colorful managers are out of the video. In one point the video is so boring.

Shoot 'Em Up This one may be a little too close for comfort these days what with the almost daily carnage reported from the drug wars in Mexico but anything that has Johnny Depp in it will at least get my attention. Although Johnny is not always up to par, Sweeney Todd seemed, well, too bizarre even for him, he is not afraid to take on quirky roles in the interest of making some memorable characters. Here he plays an upfront (literally) CIA agent down in Mexico to help defuse what looks like an attempt by the bad guys to knock off what passes for a good guy el presidente there and take over the government. To do, whatever. Yes, I know the plot sounds very familiar. Also familiar in this third part of the trilogy is the Angel-Diablo avenger of the people's wrongs, and his own personal wrongs (wife, played by Salma Hayek, in flash-backs killed by the bad guys), Antonio Banderas. Of course that means plenty of shoot `em up, bang `em up as the two sides fire every thing they have at each other. And equally true, of course, the bad guys get their just desserts. Johnny will get a citation from the bosses at Langley for this one for sure.  P.S. Here is one thing that has always intrigued about shoot 'em up movies and it was really obvious here. Now I am no expert of weaponry, although I know how to handle a gun but Antonio Banderas' shooting from every hip at random would seem to be foolhardy. Not only that but his chances of hitting anybody in the real world that way would seem minimal. On the other hand even the elite forces of the opponent seem, always, to be something out of the gang that could not shoot straight. The good guys must have the angels on their side, right?

Hard to Rate This movie is so awful that is is awesome.  First off, I read the book first.  Also, I really like a lot of L. Ron Hubbard's books, my favorite being the Mission Earth series.  I digress.  If you liked the book Battlefield Earth, you'll find the movie lacking of the connection to the plot & characters.  The movie is like a cheap bad wine.  You know it is bad but eventually you'll drink it because you don't have any better wine and you don't feel like leaving the house.  When this day happens and you watch the movie, you'll agree with everyone else that the movie is, possibly, the worst film ever.  However, if you do happen to have that cheap bottle of wine laying around; pop the cork and enjoy the movie for being so terrible.  The camera angles are more than over-the-top and would make a sober person dizzy.  Might as well enjoy the wine and laugh at an awfully awesome film.

They're back from the dead, and they want your brains. Return of the Living Dead from what I understand is made by someone who had something to do with Night Of the Living Dead. I am not a huge enough fan to care about names, but from what I was informed, two or more people where in charge of Night of the Living Dead, and one wanted to keep going in the horror direction in a serious manner, and the one here responsible for Return of the Living Dead wanted a bit more of a horror/comedy direction, not to be taken all that seriously. I think that may be where a lot of lower raters missed the point. It wasn't meant to be a gore fest of serious zombies coming back from the grave, it was meant to be a fun ride to enjoy.  The plot is that the 1969 film Night of the Living Dead was based on a true story, only what was in the movie was changed for the movie so no one would know the truth. What supposedly really happened was the army created a chemical that was supposed to fight marijuana, as a weed killer or something, but instead it's effects where much worse, as it can bring the dead back to life, or kill and turn any living thing into a zombie within a few minutes to a few hours. So the chemical was contained in barrels and supposed to have been taken away by the army to be destroyed. But one of these canisters is still around, in the warehouse where this movie takes place. Inside a storage building, two guys find the barrel and one explains the story or where it came from and how it came to be in their possession. The canister ends up cracking open, and the chemical is released, unleashing one of the coolest looking zombies in film history nick named Tar Man. Of coarse, there is a graveyard across the road, and the dead return, hungry for brains as the people still alive try to run and hide and look for a way to stop the zombie outbreak or find a way to escape. Will they get out? Well, if you haven't seen the film, you will have to find out for yourself.  There are 5 Return of the Living Dead movies. Some may not know about the more recent ones, but all in all, parts 1 and 2 are the only ones I can highly recommend watching. When I first saw this movie, I was on the edge of my seat to see how the survivors who are not infected would get out of this mess. The ending was a little of both disappointing and cool at the same time, but I don't give the movie more then a 3 to 3 and a half star rating due to the end that I was not happy about to be honest with you. I know a lot of people are satisfied, but I felt drawn in so much I wanted a better ending. But oh well, what can we do now? It's still a decent cult favorite, even tho some of the actors are highly annoying and do things for no reasons, like getting naked, but I guess that was what you expected to see in every 80's horror flick. Apart from that, it's still a classic B-grade horror flick with a cool 80's metal soundtrack to go along with it.

This ain't no TITA. Why would Brain Farm, Red Bull, Travis & Co go through the trouble of releasing what feels like a half-finished package?  Travis Rice is my favorite snowboarder in the world, but his name has been tarnished by this release.  I understand there are time and funding constraints, but why not take an extra season and actually capture some snowboarding footage?  Instead we get, "Welcome to Country A. Oh damn, we can't ride here. Welcome to Country B. Oh damn, can't ride here either. Welcome back to Country A. One run? Let's do it."  The main reason I, or anyone I know, watches TITA is to get amped to ride. This movie didn't excite me as much as it frustrated me.  I wanted to love this release, and odds are it will grow on me, but it's no TITA.

Glee Encore It's nice just to see the musical performances, however I was let down that they left so many out! I was surprised that it was so limited. I wanted more from the DVD, but I love all things Glee so it was enjoyable.

Crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Movie is crazy as hell in a good way looked like they had some fun the killers are dope Alicia Keys wow good story lots of blood crazy man crazy

Good movie but a little dated. I liked this movie as a kid, but now when I watched it, I realized how naive I was then, and how outdated the plot really is.  Enjoyable for the nostalgia.

Almost as good as the first This movie has the same problem as the first only it's multiplied 10X.  I would have gladly given this movie 5 stars, but it was way to violent & the language was even more out of control than the first including a sceen where Martin drops the N word like 20 times in a minute.  On top of this, there were a few other things that would make this movie way inappropriate for kids or anyone really.  However, with all this being said, I really enjoyed the comedic dialog between Smith & Lawrence who are two of my all-time favorites. If you like action and comedy mixed together and you don't mind a lot of trash than you'll love this movie. I don't really know if I should reccommend this one, probablly not especially for kids under 18.

Great visuals, weak on story Battleship is a film based upon the board game by the same name.  As expected, the story thus is rather weak.  This movie bombed at the box office, repeating Taylor Kitch's lack of success this year (remember John Carter?)  The movie does have a couple of other genre actors, including Liam Neeson who I always find does a fine job.  The other featured star is Alexander Skaarsgard, who has had recent success with HBO's "True Blood."  To sum up the film, two brothers have joined the Navy.  Aliens invade, cutting off the ships from the outside world, and the few ships must defeat the aliens from destroying the Earth.  Uhh, that's about it.  The visual effects are fantastic in this film, with plenty of action and explosions.  The weak story puts the film firmly into the B-movie category however.  If you enjoy movies such as those shown on the SyFy Channel, you will probably get a kick out of this film (worth a rental at least). However this was far from the blockbuster the studio seemed to be hoping for.

The Gloves Decent documentary. I didnt think it was that great. It does give you some insight to how boxers train for the golden gloves in New York, but I felt the fights were short, the training wasnt in great detail, and the finale was upsetting cause you kind of wanted to root for the other guy. None of these fighters in the film were that great, or dedicated to the sport. Its cool to watch if your a hardcore boxing fan, but if not, youll probably get bored as there were not much backstory, charisma, or character in the boxers portrayed. This is evidence as to why the Heavyweight division is now one of the worst.

Unfortunately, after a little research, I've changed my review I'm a sucker when it comes to diet success stories.  I've lost weight by exercising often and improving my diet, and this film will tug on the heartstrings and motivate those that are struggling.  And while the movie seems to be pretty thorough, after further research on the cited case studies in the film, I believe this movie is quite a bit misleading.  First off, the assertion that this 'plant-based diet' is something new, when in fact it's just a euphemism for vegan is a bit unsettling to me.  I guess the word vegan conjures up images of PETA members throwing paint on someone wearing fur, and some extreme statements and actions about meat and exploitation of animals.  So after further reading I feel like the movie is doing more of a rebranding of an existing idea, rather than really coming up with something new.  That's all well and good, but the enthusiasm on how this is so different from other programs seems a little disingenous.  Improving the 3 case studies in the film, all in bad health, with a serious change like a vegan diet promotes, will have results.  It's not radical to expect better health by making such common sense changes, but to me the results seem overstated.  For example, if a smoker gives up cigarettes today, within weeks that person will breathe better.  Under that microscope, it's not that big a deal.  Secondly, without getting into too many details, one of the lab studies featured in the film involves rats fed with animal protein, and cites how liver tumor growth spiked in those rats compared to their lower animal protein-eating counterparts.  What is overlooked apparently, is that the rats that weren't getting the high protein diets were dying off more frequently than the ones eating animal protein, despite the tumor growth.  It's one thing to skew numbers to sell a concept, which in itself is wrong, but it's another level to have a rather odd occurence disprove your point and then completely ignore it, misleading the viewer in the process.  Third, I wonder about the long term health of the 3 people featured in the film that started the plant-based diet.  Sure, they lost weight and got off diabetes drugs or lowered their cholesterol.  But are the results temporary?  There seemed to be no follow up, and that makes me wonder.  I've read the book as well, and began looking at many of the cited studies and reading criticism.  In my opinion, much of the science isn't all that sound.  The movie comes at you fast with various facts, but like any program you might consider, there are a couple things you should do.  First, find a doctor you trust and who you feel comfortable with, and discuss what you want to do.  Reaching out with honest concerns means your doctor will take you seriously and get you headed in the right direction.  Blood work annually will make you aware of trouble areas, and give you things to try to improve on.  Despite the contention made that eating plants will cure you of everything, the fact is, losing weight itself will benefit all of your body's systems.  Second, any program, whether vegan, vegetarian, paleo, low-carb, etc., should be approached with skepticism and researched for both positive and negative criticism.  That way, you will be armed with all the facts before making a radical change that may hurt you in the long run.  There is no cure-all diet, but one way to improve your health is to eat high quality food, exercise and rest.  And while it may sound like I'm anti-vegan, I'm not.  On the contrary, I actually like eating vegan meals 80-90% of the time.  I like the idea of pushing a healthy lifestyle, and this movie does so.  There are no political agendas pushed too hard (although the book does, at least a bit more).  Like most things, moderation on some level is good for all of us, but this movie suggests nothing of the kind.  For a moderate person, eating meat can be healthy in smallish quantities.  When I go out to eat, I don't have to stress out about the entire ingredient list if there is a little or a lot of meat in the dish I want, nor do I need to fear that my stomach will be upset if I break down and eat a hamburger once in a while.  I still make a difference without being extreme.  There are positives to learn from this film, even if 'facts' are somewhat overstated.  Vegetables are good for us (duh!) and we should try to eat more of them.  Factory farms do some pretty cruel things to animals, and those animals emit tons of waste products into the air and water.  Reducing not just meat but low quality food consumption can benefit everyone's health when coupled with steady exercise.  If this film gets people to look critically at themselves and what they do to themselves with their diet, than I judge it as something good.  But if people simply buy in without looking at the counterpoint and making informed decisions, the movie may prove to be simply propaganda for one viewpoint.  For me, I was able to look a little more critically at what I eat and will continue improving the quality of my diet.  But it hasn't nor will it convince me that extremism in one's diet is the answer.  I believe moderation is still the best policy, in all things we do.  Hence, despite some misdirection on the part of the filmmaker, I view this film as good food for thought.  No pun intended.

Intense For a B Movie I rented this movie from Redbox. The movie is very slow at the beginning. You have to have patience sitting around the beginning. It's hard relating to college kids talking about redundant things over and over in this movie. But, right in the middle of this movie it's starts to get intense. I will not explain every detail of this movie. But, the reason why it is so intense. Is because, it seemed so real. The way the guy broke his legs and got eaten alive by wolves. While his girlfriend was their hearing every cry from her boyfriends mouth. That is what made this movie intense; along with how the actors interacted with one another when surving is reality. And they no longer were carefree college students anymore.

more disney magic, even if it feels a bit like an assembly line product There is no question that this story works:  a rat who doesn't quite fit in must make his own way, so he tries to do what he really loves, i.e. gourmet cooking.  The rat stumbles onto a situation, where a bumbling man boy (also someone who doesn't fit in) is trying to get work in a restaurant, and helps him to appear as if he were a chef of genius.  Once the boy understands the rat's talent, it makes for some pretty funny role playing to keep the secret.  The man boy meets a girl, begins to make his fortune, etc.  Then, there is an imbroglio, including a dustup with a vindictive resto critic, throwing everything into jeopardy.  This is pretty formulaic stuff and the happy ending is predictable.  That being said, the film does do a great job regarding the themes of conformity, surprising talents, and the need to throw away one's prejudices.  It is very well done, and amidst the antics my son was moved by it, too.  Recommended, though given Disney's pricing policies, we probably won't buy it.

Not What I was Looking For! This DVD/Blu-Ray is an extended version of the original movie.  Much better. However, it was not the version I was looking for.  They added about 8 additional minutes to this version.  I actually have a longer version on VHS that I taped off of TV decades ago.  I was hoping this DVD was the same version, but it is not, so this version was a little disappointing.  But, since most of you guys haven't seen the version I have, you will probably like this version.  So, buy it.  FYI for example, the version I have on VHS has a seen at the end where Superman has to save Eve Teschmacher from Lex Luther. He was going to feed him to his Alligators, which you would have seen in another scene in the movie. There was one scene that was not in the version I have with Marlon Brando.

3D is silly - overall movie is cute I bought this for my 3D tv, not realizing it's "fake 3d" with the old-school red and green glasses included (to be watched on any tv).  And the quality is bad, while wearing the glasses totally ruins the colors of the movie.  So we watched the regular version. It's a cute movie - not nearly as good as the first one and I suppose similar to the 2nd one.  At times the story seemed to be "too much" with one extreme situation occuring after another and the overall story being pretty lame. Even the Skat (squirrel) character was boring and his story-line was really, really stupid.  Whereas he was the highlight in the first 2 Ice Age movies.  Sigh...

Funny 80s classic Great movie...brings back memories from my childhood. I wish there were more movies like this. I highly recommend this movie.

not my scene but.... For a slow moving film it does itself credit so it must be a good film although I think the the nutter in it is a religious nut and only that. However for Believers it could be a film that has a fascination by dwelling on The Vindictive God of the Old Testament.

Along Came A Spider This was a good movie to watch but was not like the book.  If you have read the book you may be a little disappointed.

Whitewashing Walmart. Easy ways to improve 1.Embed inspectors as workers in a work lenght where the measurements will be esckew if practices are not maintained for a length of time. example - month. 2.Recycle what you sell, especially what's brought into the store; trash in the parking lots. 3. Have customers recycle packaging before they leave the store after purchased. store to vehicle to home shelf containers. 4. Organize through the web Group buyer trips. 5. Have a website open journal for each store through google.com. 6. Display soft drink can label information on the front of the vending machines. 7. Display website contact info. for each product on the shelf label. 8. Hang "please keep your costs low bring in a cart; it's great exercise signs at smaller cart return racks. 9. Keep your parking lot clean- Please notify __ when trash can is full. 10. hang green plants in the store; watered by a robot watering train. 11. Remove and stop building the big rear parking lot walls. 12. add map a walmart bus trip - feature to your website.  Finally, compete more with the Worse than Walmart store - Amazon.com

Fun movie Fun movie to watch. Complex subject would require several movies to build great charcters and plots. Would be great as a movie series. Should build off this and make another movie.

FISTFUL OF EUROS Ray Carver (Cuba Gooding Jr.) is an assassin for hire in Prague. He is hired by crime boss Mikhail Suverov (Andrew Bicknell) to kill the Tavanian family over a territory issue...it's all about respect. One of the Tavanians survive to the dismay of the Surverov family. This ignites a war. Surverov then hires Aleksey Andreev (Dolph Lundgren) to finish the job. Meanwhile in an ironic twist the Tavanian's hire Carver to kill his former boss the Surverov family.  The two assassins have different approaches. Ray Carver likes to keep a low profile while Aleksey wears Hawaiian shirts and usually comes in the front door. Carver works out, reads the Bible, kills people for hire, and stalks a girl. Dolph Lundgren gives the film some attempted comedy. During the opening credits, they opt to change the fonts and make the "N"s backwards. I thought it might somehow relate to the film, but it wasn't that deep.  Both these stars have done better films and Cuba has certainly done worse. The Eastern Europeans sounded like they learned English by watching Dos Equis beer commercials. The film ends at a point where there could be an interesting sequel if they bothered to hire writers.  PARENTAL GUIDE: F-bomb, near sex, no nudity.

Nice Collection I agree with this collection of mission impossible, both the audio and video are acceptable,but should launch a new edition package included Mission Impossible 4.

Underwhelming Schwazenegger left the "Conan" role with some mighty big biceps to fill. Sad to say, Jason Momoa doesn't do the job. This movie had lots of great moments, like that hissing witch with the Electra complex, The Dweller (sashimi with an attitude), and the lovelies at the slave market. The leading lady was pretty good - savable enough for a hero to act heroic around, able to hold her own when given a chance, and charming as a participant in the couples' gymnastics.  But, with flat acting, two-dimensional characters, harem pants (I think) on Conan, and dialog barely worth the name, there wasn't a terrible lot to make this memorable - except maybe the young Conan.  -- wiredweird, reviewing the release to theaters

Honey. I Might Be a Bit Late For Dinner It's Shane Cooper's first day on the job as a deputy in a quiet Australian town. He came from a larger municipality where he'd been shot because he couldn't bring himself to draw down on the shooter who was just a young kid. Now things will be nicer for him and his wife who is pregnant a second time after miscarrying the first time. Problem is, a psycho killer has broken out of prison and his heading straight for this quite little hamlet to wipe out the entire police force.  This is a nifty flick. It has a way over-the-top setup established early on, so it's merely a question on how this will all play out. And therein lies the niftiness of it all. It makes a turn in the third act that takes it from being a psycho killer, slasher type flick to a more socially conscious, revenge type flick. I won't spoil things but let me say I liked this route much better than the one I expected to play out from the setup.  Some of the script is fairly clever. Some is a bit too supernatural killer-ish. That a big storm is brewing that never hits is a nice metaphor/backdrop to the story. I also liked that I was given some clues early on as to the switchback in the storyline that I didn't pick up on. It gave me a nice "ah hah" moment later on.  The acting and production values are all as good as they have to be to pull this off. It was very smooth and professional with a really good musical score. I liked the ending quite a bit. Too often these kinds of movies can drop the ball on the five yard line but I'm not sure this could have ended any other way.  This is a good, unexpected turn in what could have been a simple minded violent thriller. It's more a three and a half star entry than the three I gave it. So, if you like a new trick on an old dog, give this a shot. It's well worth your time.

Terrible, But Pretty Good, Too I liked this movie.  As the other reviewers point out, the snakes are pretty bad CGI and the story is pretty basic.  Bad businessman wants to make money off mutant snakes.  Snakes get loose.  A town full of soap opera characters gets attacked.  But all the characters--as sappy as they are--are kind of pleasant.  But when I watch this, instead of watching it as the story of Tara Reid's character, I watch this as the story of Maggie, the young girl, one of the side chatacters.  She's a "troubled teen" played by Genevieve Buechner.  Her mother looks exactly like a young, attractive Susan Sarandon and her father is a big dope in love with some blonde girl who runs a  motel.  Or something like that.  Anyway, Maggie is pissed at her parents for breaking up and she tries to run away.  She tries to run away right when the snakes attack.  So the snakes attack and Maggie has to deal with her parents and watching her parents try to deal with the snakes and, of all the characters, at least she has an interesting story arc.  So, the movies pretty awful, but if you watch this movie as "Maggie's Snake Adventure" as least there is intense emotion and a bit of fun, in all the horrible stuff.

The Last Closer Episode Thanks Amazon for making it possible to get the last story of the Closer series.  I watched them all but something came up and I missed it.   To me the last episode did not give the feeling of a true end of a story.  Brenda was going back to Atlanta for what?  To hep her Daddy move?  For the funeral? What?  It was the perfect time for her to do something for Fritz....he wanted to move somewhere to advance his career. Why wasn't that worked in?  Why did the Commander be left in his position or take Brenda's?  The only true "Brenda" scene was the pocketbook scene.  I love it.  I love the whole series, just the LAST ONE sucked.

Jack Bull, not wonderful Bought this movie mostly because I usually like anything John Cusack is in. Wrong!! I understand that this movie was based on true life, but it left me feeling very depressed. There was a lot of violence in it too. Guess I must learn not to pay attention to how other folks rate it. Also may be because I'm advancing in years and just don't like violence at all.

Could have been much better.... Clash of the Titans gave us a modern view of greek mythology filled with beautiful sets and scenery, handsome actors and stunning actresses all wrapped up in amazing special effects and no room for a story. The first film was entertaining enough to warrant a look at the sequel "Wrath of the Titans" but unfortunately not even Ralph "Voldemort" Fiennes and Liam "Qui-Gon" Neeson could save this disaster.  First, Io, the lovely Gemma Arterton, is no where to be seen in this film, we are left to assume that Perseus (Sam Worthington) fathered her baby, she dies off screen and he is alone to raise his son. Ares conspires with Hades to sap all of Zeus' energy to release Kronos (the only titan) from Tartarus and bring down humanity and the rest of Olympus. Perseus is called up by both man and god to fight off this evil threat and rescue the world.  The movie looks great, Kronos looks massive and menacing just like the titans from God of War 3, Ares is portrayed as the bad guy, once again a plot device from God of War, I think the writers need to brush up on their literature, Ares is the God of War not the God of Deception and Cowardice. Andromeda has become this generation's Zena warrior princess and Perseus looks disinterested in his own adventure. I have to say this but in my review of Clash of the Titans: The Video Game, I mentioned that this series is ripping off the God of War franchise and this movie proves it. A quick Youtube search of God of War gameplay will reveal the "source" material the writers got their inspiration from and do not even try to hide (similar copy of a lava titan, a shifting puzzle area to overcome,a villianous Ares)  Many respected actors make an appearance in this film and at the end when Zeus and Hades take to the battlefield to stop Kronos's forces is short and unfulfilling. After all with today's technology and our unlimited imagination, why cut short the awesome powers Neeson and Fiennes could unleash and keep the ONE titan's fight scene so tedious. The only trick the filmmakers seem to manage is that they keep fooling us to come back to them in the hopes of a better film, they must have graduated from the George Lucas school of film and special effects.  It is a good film to enjoy if you do not want to think about a plot or invest yourself in a character or their outcome. Looks great in Blu-ray.

Not bad I remember seeing Summer Rental when I was younger. I remember liking it. Now in my late 20's I just finished watching it and it wasn't that interesting to me any more.  I think the funny scenes are with the dog. It's funny when the dog doesn't want to leave the house they broke into unknowing. Everyone had to step over him. The only time the dog gets up is when the dad spills the dog food.   It's funny when its raining out side and the dog is crying for his dog bone. The dad steps out side to grab the dog bone and the dog closes the door on him and locks him out.  I think the funniest part is when the dad goes to the neighbors house to check out her new boobs. The dog is chillen with the people who welcomed them self's in his rental house.  The parts I think are boring is when he is training for the boat race and during the race. It just doesn't interest me at all.

Twisted Thriller - "Deception" revolves around a drab life of a sad, lonely, young, trustworthy accountant, Jonathan McQuarry (Ewan McGregor).  He finally runs into a man (Hugh Jackman)  he thinks is a fun, edgy friend, who shows him around town, art and connects him to an exclusive sex club.  McQuarry finds the woman of his dreams at the sex club, and soon the plot thickens as he is linked to her disappearance.  Michelle Williams plays the beautiful blonde - who he only knows as "S" -  he meets through the sex club.  All McQuarry knows is that his life begins to unravel and become more than exciting after his new "friend" shows his real motives.  The movie keeps one interested, you just have to believe the set-up.  I was not expecting it to be as interesting as it was, due to reading some of the recent reviews.

Better if I hadn't read the book This was a good movie.  I just didn't enjoy it near as much as the book.  I probably would have liked it better if I hadn't read the book.  You can definitely tell it is an older movie.

So much missed potential Spoilers to follow, so if you haven't seen the movie-it's best to ignore this review.  I thought "Don't be afraid of the Dark" was a good looking and entertaining enough movie that was well acted and had a great premise.  Plus Katie Holmes is pretty darn adorable so it had that going for it too.  :)  The creatures in this film were also pretty great-original and creepy looking, not quite humanoid, but not entirely rat-like either, something of a mix instead.  Though there was nothing really "bad" about "Don't be Afraid of the Dark" when all was said and done, it was just sort of "okay".  Sadly it failed to rise above mediocrity even though there was so much potential to have made it into something special and unique.    I feel they missed the boat on this film mostly on two fronts.  First off, it's really not very scary at all.  In not one scene did I really feel that the creatures were that that malevolent and dangerous.  Sure they carry around razors or scissors or what have you, but in any pack, strength lies in numbers and for the majority of the time, most of the individuals just sort of stood around doing nothing instead of swarming their victims when there was ample time and opportunity to do so (now THAT would've been scary).  The bath tub scene for instance should have been absolutely terrifying.  The creatures could've easily gotten the girl.  (I guess they didn't have their heart in it) Instead, there's no real sense of danger, therefore that particular scene (and the film in general) just wasn't that frightening.  The second missed opportunity was what sort of story potential that could've been had with Sally's "proof" of the creatures existence (since no one seemed to believe her).  But the film makers didn't even bother show the Polaroids she took (and there were many) nor did any of the film's characters bother to notice the mangled bodies (or tiny detached arm) of the creatures Sally smashed with the book case (which I must admit that particular scene got a "boo-yah!" out of me).  So all of this craziness is going on, Katie Holmes character is starting to believe young Sally and no one checks the house for the scattered polaroids or dead bodies?    I liked "Don't be Afraid of the Dark" because it's my kind of movie and I love when horror films feature some sort of creature or creatures as the antagonist (I count the Alien films, Gremlins & Tremors among some of my favorites).  Though this film had so much going for it, it really just didn't play up on those strengths and it's a shame.  It's still a decent way to spend two hours, but man this film could've really been something.  I do have to admit though, the thought of what becomes of Katie Holmes character Kim in the very end is pretty intriguing and unexpected.  Though again-it was another missed opportunity not to show that character newly transformed.  I also would have loved for the father and daughter to have ventured down into the cave to try and rescue Kim so we could've gotten a glimpse of the world the creatures inhabited.  Alas I guess it was not meant too be and that's really unfortunate.

Not bad This movie wasn't bad. I enjoyed the action and the acting while not Oscar worthy also wasn't bad. It did a good job of "playing" battleship in the fight scenes. Overall I'd say this movie is worth watching, but unles you fall in love with it, don't buy it.

A really good "movie-of-the-week" While "The Descendants" is well acting and directed, and entertaining on, at least, a basic level, it seems to slip from memory almost as one leaves the theater.  One podcast critic expressed a view that this film is "a mile wide and an inch deep".  That, to me, says it exactly.  If I had seen "The Descendants" on TV as a "movie-of-the-week" I would have recommended it on that simple level, but as a feature film with pretenses of garnering an Oscar, it definitely falls far short of the mark.  (But, if it wins, it certainly won't be the first one to unjustly win the statuette -- anyone remember "Terms of Endearment" which I continue to call "Tears of Endurement"?)  Clooney IS great as he always is but because of the film's shallowness his big crying scene had me thinking the whole time, "this scene was contrived solely to be an Oscar scene", as was much of the movie.  In a year that gave us "The Tree of Life" and "Hugo", this film winning the gold (and it might) would be an uunmitigated farce.  But, farce or not, being overrated is hardly reason enough to denigrate this film.  It's a good one that most viewers will find entertaining.  And well made.  So, I recommend it but, pu-hleeze, don't tell me this is a great film, or even a work of cinematic art!  It isn't.  Bob Blenheim

Only for the most diehard of classic film critics Understand that this is a silent film made in the 1920's, simple. This version of Metropolis is well over 2 hours in length and unless your really into these types of movies you will need to take a couple breaks just to stomach it. Personally I would not waste the additional few dollars on the Blu-Ray version as the normal DVD is as high of resolution and sound quality as they can get from the various original recording reals. Most of the format is 4:3, some has been slightly enhanced to be more panoramic. This is a movie for adults into early classic film, social science, and recoding history, anyone else will probably be bored out of their mind.

Charlie is the most unlikeable personality I've ever seen in a documentary I would have absolutely LOVED this documentary if it weren't for the egomaniacal and deceitful personality of Charlie Engle.  It doesn't surprise me one bit that he's currently serving time in prison for mortgage fraud.  Not only is he a criminal and a cheat, but he's a miserable excuse for a friend and team mate.  Multiple times throughout the video you see evidence of his controlling, manipulating and egomaniacal personality.  I was almost hoping that he would have to pull out of the run so I could pull for Ray and Kevin, who were both truly inspirational and likable individuals.  Some examples of Charlie's self serving, ungrateful ways were.... blasting members of his support team for their desire to keep their previous commitments, (when the run went WAY over it's originally anticipated time frame) "running" ahead of Ray and Kevin with seemingly every intention and even a desire to "finish first" in what was NEVER meant to be a competition, (when the agreement was he would walk until Ray and Kevin caught up)to even making sure that he was the first of the three to put his hand in the Red Sea. (I watched this particular scene a few time, and this observation is not imagined)  The bottom line is that this is absolutely a memorable documentary and I found myself relating to two of the three runners.  Regardless of how impressive the feat was and how honorable it is to raise money to insure fresh water in Niger, Charlie Engle comes across as a despicable, pathetic human being, who deserves exactly what he got!  PS  I actually felt bad for his girlfriend, who seemed like a really classy lady.

Four Stars for the first two-thirds of the movie and two for the ending = three stars The first two-thirds of this movie are incredibly creepy. There is great atmosphere, plenty of scares, and just overall chilliness. However, the last third of the movie allows the masked killers too much air time, thus losing their creepiness, and the pace of the thriller slows remarkably.  Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman are a couple that are spending a night in a remote vacation home after attending a wedding. Both are already on edge for a different reason: she just turned down his marriage proposal. It doesn't take long for weird events to begin, with the creeps and the scares right behind them, as Tyler's character is left alone for a somewhat brief time. The movie steps up from more atmospheric creepiness to a scarier cat and mouse game, as Speedman's character returns.  The last third again relies on Tyler, who did a very good acting job, and the scariest thing about this part of the movie is the what ifs...What if this really happened? What if this happened to me? The ending is definitely disturbing, not so much because of the movie, but, knowing that people do sick stuff like this is real life.  While I enjoy good old fashion scarey movies that rely on plot, characters, scores, shadows, etc, more than gore for no reason movies, I was overall disappointed in this film. Yes, the beginning started off great, very scary, but then the movie seemed to slow down and switch to the gore for no reason type of movie, yet, minus most of the gore.  There were several problems with this movie. First of all, the characters were dumb!! They made many of the old fashion cliche mistakes: splitting up, not using weapons appropriately, hurting themselves stupidly, etc. Also, I felt that the masked killers were on screen too long. To me, this made them seem like real people, as oppose to monsters, therefore the hunted couple really could have fought them off, if they even made any half attempt to. Also, there were a lot of "now they're here...now they're gone" moments. If these are suppose to be real people (the whole basis of the major scare factor of this movie), and not ghosts, or Jason, Mike Myers, etc types, then they shouldn't be allowed to enter and exit rooms totally impossibly, and disappear in a second.  Overall, I would say that anyone who enjoys a quieter, more old fashion type of thriller (as oppose to Saw and the like) would probably enjoy most of this movie. I believe that the first two-thirds of this movie are good enough to enjoy and watch the whole thing. If all you like are very heavily bloody, gore-fest films or you hate it when a movie's ending doesn't live up to the beginning, then you should skip this one. You don't need to watch this movie to make you contemplate what is really scarey: someone randomly hunting you down for no apparent reason, other than their own sick amusement.

Decent, but forgettable Batman: Under the Redhood impressed me a lot and I was hoping for more dark animated films like that. Maybe, even ones based on the Grant Morrison comics. Batman: Year One isn't bad, but I wouldn't want to see more like it, since the animation feels almost like you're watching a motion comic.    For one, we didn't need another Batman origins movie, since Batman Begins already did a fine job telling that story. While the animation is a step in the wrong direction for Batman, when the animation in the previous films is far superior. So hopefully a Batman animated movie that looks like Batman: Year One is a one time thing. This movie really wasn't worth the wait.

Fantasy I ordered this DVD for my daughter for Christmas.  The first disk had a glitch as it wouldn't play after it showed part of the movie and she had to pay $4.50 to have it resurfaced.  It works ok now, but it was disappointing.

Half-entertaining, half headache "Night of the Demon" could've been a rough gem, but too many parts of it are either boring, confusing, or fail to deliver the bigfoot goods.  The first half gave me hope, because it's fun.  A group of researchers interupt a funny sacrifice to the bigfoot gods, bigfoot kills people (all in flashback mode) in funny ways, but after awhile, the movie loses steam, especially considering a lot of the kill scenes at the end are done in slow-motion and the gore factor really isn't a factor.  But I can't hate this movie, but I can't give it a huge thumbs up either.  I wanted to like it more, but I couldn't...though it did have its moments.

I've Seen "Once" Twice My wife and I discovered "Once" pretty late, so we saw the Broadway version before we saw the movie (the movie was the original, the stage play is a spin off).  By the time "Once" got to Broadway, it had been refined and shaped into a wonderfully tight and entertaining work.  The movie shares the same plot and characters and music, but it is a much rougher piece of work.  That being said, the film is sweet and often funny and the music is very good.

Reasonable Comic Book Adaptation I had already read All-Star Superman in both serial and collected form , so I had some high expectations for this cartoon adaptation. I thought the Warner Animation team made wise choices on what elements to include or exclude from author Grant Morrison's 12-issue epic. The only way to shoot All-Star Superman frame-by-frame from the source material would have been to produce a mini-series and that wasn't going to happen.  Plot-wise, the last labours of Superman intermixed with interactions with Lois Lane, the Daily Planet staff, and Lex Luthor worked quite well. Unfortunately, I didn't think the cartoon sold the emotive aspects at all. I realize it's impossible to transfer artist Frank Quitely's human figure style to the screen, but it's up to the animation professionals to "ham it up" and communicate the intense feelings of the characters. They nailed the subdued portrayals and perhaps that's why James Denton's vocals of Superman were so flat - the Warner Animation team wanted it that way.  In summary, I thought enough worthy elements were lifted from Morrison's comic saga to make watching the cartoon enjoyable, but I docked a star because I thought the animators didn't adequately convey the pathos and intensity of Superman's journey.

Picture problem with Special Features section. Movie is fantastic.  Special Features section has a disturbing problem on my disc:  The "Inspirational Story" has 1/4 of the video cut-off at the top thru-out the entire segment.  Anyone else have this defect on theirs?

Wow, melodrama I'm a fan of Prince, but not a big enough fan to say that this was an incredible outstanding movie like a lot of other people seem to have done.  It was original; that has to be admitted.  The story is not bad, and some of the script isn't bad, but some of it is really bad, and the acting at points hurt me.  It hurt me to watch it.  Prince's poor pathetic misunderstood rebellious character was laughable really.  The scene with him as a ventriliquist with a sock puppet in his dressing room is one example.  Spare me please.  It would have redeemed some of the movie if someone had back-handed him and tossed him in a garbage can as comic relief.  I don't mean to blame it all on him--that was the character and the script he was given--but it was fairly sorry.

The Worst Harry Potter Film Yet The Deathly Hallows Part One is by far the worst Harry Potter film to date.  I'm sure that Part Two will be really awesome, because the exciting scenes shown in the trailers are from Part Two, where all the great action appears to be.  The thing I disliked about Part One is they kept on showing them in various tents all over the place.  Boring!!! Oh let's see Harry in a tent in a forest, oh how about a different forest!  Of all the films I actually fell asleep in this one, because of all the repetitive tent scenes.  It wasn't a total bore fest due to the building to the climax, but I thought more time could have been spent with character or plot development rather than yet another tent scene!

Movie cute, but DVD was scratched in one of the scenes The movie is adorable but our DVD has a scratch in one of the scenes. That was the only disappointment. I give the movie itself 5 stars, and the dvd issue took to points away.

Subtitles One hundred million and more people need CC or Subtitles.  HOH or speak another language and need some help in understanding the script.  Amazes me that the sales and management people seem incapable of understanding the sales potential!  Enough said?

Good movie but sound quality was awful We love this movie, but were very disappointed when we went to play it as the audio in large sections of the movie was missing.

Top-notch production values can't redeem this confusing story and its drab location "The Claws of Axos" looks remarkably good, with colorful set and costume designs (the gold-skinned Axons and their ship look magnificent) as well as smart use of color separation overlay, or CSO, for special effects less than two seasons after the series had switched to color. Other factors conspire, however, to drag this production down just as the series should have been hitting its stride with the introduction of Jo Grant and the Master two stories previously.  First, "Claws" was the maiden BBC script of Bob Baker and Dave Martin, whom script editor Terrance Dicks nurtured as part of a push to recruit new writers to the program. Initially, the newbie scribes envisioned opening the story with an epic space battle followed by the Axons' spaceship crash landing in Hyde Park. They also imagined a chase through an amusement park and demolishing part of central London. After Dicks brought his charges back to Earth, so to speak, the space battle had been eliminated altogether and the crash landing was moved to Dungeness, a desolate landscape found along the Kentish coast.  Filming at this location was so plagued with abrupt changes in weather (snow and fog one day, rain the next, followed by sunshine) that a line had to be inserted in the script about "freak weather conditions" to explain away the sudden shifts in weather between scenes in Episode One. Only one end of the immaculately designed Axon ship protrudes from the ground after it crashes, presumably to save the BBC the trouble (and expense) of building a full-size model. At the same time, the production was forced to spend handsomely on the Axons' orange tentacle monster costumes (seven of them!), which had to be fashioned mostly from chamois leather because latex would have posed too great a fire hazard.  Despite meeting most of the challenges posed by production, "Claws" remains a confusing story to follow. It's not clear, for instance, how the Master came to be on the Axons' ship in the first place: is he their captive, cooperating with them only under duress, or has he invited them to Earth as part of his latest scheme to conquer the world? Maybe I'm just getting too old for this sort of thing, but I constantly found myself asking what characters were doing at any given moment and why they were doing it. "Claws" also repeats a mistake often made in stories that featured the Master: it sets up a cliffhanger in which Jo and the Doctor will certainly die unless something is done to stop the Master--and then they don't. Whatever the Master did simply didn't work as advertised, and the story moves on without explanation.  A final disappointment with "The Claws of Axos" lies in the Special Features. The customary "making of" documentary is absent. Instead, there are 25 minutes of deleted scenes that give viewers somewhat of a behind-the-scenes look at the production but no clear narrative of how it took shape. For that, the viewer must rely on production notes included on the second subtitle track. Of middling interest is a retrospective on the story's locations, narrated by Katy Manning, and a brief interview with director Michael Ferguson.  One last tidbit for fans of British television: "The Claws of Axos" marked the TV debut of actor Tim Piggott-Smith, who would feature prominently in "The Jewel in the Crown" and in another Doctor Who story, "The Masque of Mandragora," six seasons later.

alright This movie wasn't great but wasn't bad either. I was super excited to see Jennifer and Paul in a movie together since I loved them in Object of my Affection. Wanderlust kind of let me down. I thought that they carried some of the jokes on to long.

Better than expected, but.... Having thoroughly enjoyed the UK version, I had actually intended to avoid the US version entirely, but the hubby picked up a copy for me.  So, I figured I'd give it a try.  It's not bad, but there's something that's just plain missing.  The American cast just feels kinda of lackluster (a problem I've noticed with most of the current crop of young actors), and while Josh sticks out, I think that may be more that the werewolf character is just better written and more appealing (to me at least) in both versions.  No one can top the British werewolf, George, for his sheer neurotic lovableness. There are a few gags and whatnot that are done better--the American version is a lot lighter--but a lot of the characters are more annoying.  The one exception to this would be Bishop, who is much more likable than his British counterpart Herrick.  At the same time, I'm not sure he should be more likable, considering he's pure evil.  All in all, a mixed bag.  It's not bad, but the original was good enough, I don't understand why they felt compelled to remake it.  Best to watch one version or the other to avoid disappointment.

Biblical anime ... It's biblical anime, characters seem unenthusiastic.  This version just tells the story motion by motion.  Maybe my daughter was having a weird moment but my husband and I couldn't figure out if the illustration was too bright for her eyes or if she was having a notorious eplieptic seizure from seeing too much anime.

"...Behold...And Despair!" You can't really accuse Marcus Nispel's swords and sorcery fantasy of being namby-pamby - there's cracked skulls and slashed limbs a plenty - and enough ketchup to worry Burger King. We're not exactly talking Conan The "Librarian" here. And yet somehow - and despite Herculean effort (if you'll forgive the terrible pun) - it just doesn't click.  It should though. All the right ingredients for an update of this comic-book hero are there - bad guys with bad teeth - a minion with a severed nose and a tasty set of thumb-screws - an evil witch sporting razors for nail extensions - exotic wenches sporting very little else... And all the while a longhaired body-builder does his best to act while wielding a sword of destiny, riding a horse through haunted forests, causing landslides in slave mines, sneaking through secret passages into a turreted castle of ultimate doom (you know the sort) - and even finding time to shag a monastic nubile in a mud hut with very fetching candlelight. Not to mention all manner of burly warriors with more facial battle scars than members of the Scunthorpe Debate Society after a particularly rough game of Cribbage.  To be fair to the lead actor on which pretty much everything rests - it's hard to follow in the triceps of Arnold Schwarzenegger. But Jason Momoa as Conan The Barbarian is likeable and a very credible presence on screen (he clearly bought a Bullworker in the last few months as well). Stephan Lang (of "Avatar" fame) is the main villain - a power-obsessed overlord trying to get an ancient mask back that will make him a God (I felt the same way last week when I was queuing in Tescos). He thoroughly enjoys a psychotic frown as he pokes your eyes out and regularly rabbits on about "...rivers of blood..." and other such delightful bedside chatter (dialogue above). There are loads of battle sequences to keep the action ante up and the BLU RAY picture quality is immaculate throughout (it comes as a 'Double Play' set and there's a '3D' version too). There's even a believable 'attraction' between Jason Momoa and the gorgeous Rachel Nichols as Tamara the 'pure blood'. There's also the ever-watchable Ron Perlman as Corin (Conan's father) and Nonso Anozie plays Conan's loyal sidekick Artus - a man with Byzantine dreadlocks and personal hygiene issues.  And yet this new remake grows tiresome very quickly - rather like "The Prince Of Persia" did. I think the main culprit is the incredibly derivative storyline - we've seen and heard all of this epic warrior and his journey nonsense before - and way too many times too. A boy witnesses his father and entire village be slaughtered - grows up to be a fierce warrior - systematically avenges all involved - meets fab-looking dolly bird en-route - saves the world from the forces of darkness - returns to a nicer mud hut at the end - has a shower (wash the blood and entrails off) - and settles in with a nice cup of cocoa and the Downton Abbey Christmas special. It sounds like great fun - it sounds rip-roaring - and at times it is. But it also feels a little empty-headed somehow. It's hard to get excited about this - and I'd admit to fast forwarding on more than one occasion. I also doubt I'd want to watch it again - so it's a rental rather than a purchase.  Still - if you're up for a bit of a He-Man actioner - you could do worse - you could try Poker night at the Scunthorpe Debate Society...

Bawdy and funny Cameron Diaz is always entertaining.  She is very funny in this movie.  It is a little raunchy at times.  This is a fun movie to watch.

Packed With Plenty of Panache, But Not Enough Weight I find it interesting that so many parallels are drawn between this and Pulp Fiction, because beyond the genre staples and one or two racy taboo-challenging scenes, they don't have all that much in common. The Saints don't benefit from the comparison, either, considering Fiction is an ambitious, label-defying, scene chewing mega-monster, while they're just suitably entertaining bullet spitters with an accent. There's plenty of good action to be savored here, with a few wildly original payoffs and an upturned barrel full of blood'n'guts, but at heart it's an extremely simple vigilante justice story that's well-served by its hair trigger. The two leads, twin brothers who seem to have been waiting their entire lives for the excuse to go on this kind of a rampage, power through wave after wave of mafia underlings without even a whiff of danger until the closing moments. That makes for some giddy action sets early on, sure, but when the story is finally ready to slow down and say something, it's left without anything to lean on. Willem DaFoe is a potential show-stealer as the morally (and sexually) confused police detective on the Saints' case, but he falls victim to the same trappings as the plot. Loaded with character, bravado and personality, it lacks depth and meaning.

Entertaining For Brain Candy I didn't come in to watching this film with super high expectations. I anticipated it would be a little thin on plot and it was, but it was entertaining none the less. Proved to be a good film to watch with the whole family. Provided enough laughs for a good time. Don't think that I would shell out to own this one but worth a rental if you are just looking for a family fun film.

It would have been a better CD than DVD The 1972 Rolling Stones tour was one of their best by all accounts.  I saw this film when it was in theaters in 1974.  The music is great.  However, it suffers from the same thing that plagues most Stones videos.  For almost the entire film, the cameras focus is on Jagger.  If you didn't know better, you'd think it was Mick Jagger and his backup band.  What these film makers don't seem to realize is that most fans of the band are fans of the band and not just Mick.  Many of us want to see the guys playing.  Instead, the viewer is bombarded with Mick and more Mick with very few shots of Keith and Charlie playing.  The focus on Mick Taylor only happens during his solos.  The most egregious example is the first few lines of Happy, where we get a closeup of Jagger's butt instead of Keith at the microphone.

Good performances by Kidman and Penn, but something is missing here I really wanted to love this movie. I really did. I am a big fan of political thrillers, but this one.....something is missing here. First off, I will admit that Sean Penn and Nicole Kidman give good performances. They're very convincing in their respective roles. The dialogue is sharp, I'll also give credit to that. But then, their chemistry is very uninteresting. It's almost the weakest element in the film. But it's not: the weakest part of The Interpreter is the lack of tension throughout the film. Usually, with such a fascinating plot, there would be plenty of suspense between the protagonists and the unknown force that's binding the story (in other words, the unknown antagonist). But there's hardly any tension, and that's mostly because the chemistry between Kidman and Penn's characters mostly get in the way. Just when you think that the story would progress, then in comes the the scenes involving the two characters' friendship. And then, there's the ending, which was relatively predictable.  The Interpreter isn't really that bad, but it's not great, either. The film is marred by lack of suspense, unnecessary chemistry between Penn and Kidman, and a fairly predictable ending. Our two actors give very nice performances, though, and if you're a fan of either of them, you MIGHT feel satisfied with this movie.  Grade: 5.4 out of 10

Another Disturbing Aronofsky Film Darren Aronofsky certainly knows how to make dark psychological dramas: "The Wrestler" and "Requiem for a Dream" were both gritty, disturbing films that seemed almost like documentaries. Aronofsky typically gets stellar performances from his Actors and "Black Swan" is no exception. Natalie Portman's performance as the fragile ballerina who descends into madness is wonderfully dark. Winona Ryder's brief role as an aging, broken ballerina is outstanding as well. But the film founders about half way through and suddenly becomes twisted, dizzying, and hard to follow. The backstories of a carping "Mommie Dearest" and an "All About Eve" understudy are cliched and add detract from the film's success. But stay with it if you can and the ending is spectacularly twisted.

go to itunes i'll tell you what. i can't speak for this movie; haven't seen it and won't, but on itunes they have the music soundtrack and you have to hear/download/buy jon burrows (as 'Elvis Presley') sing michael jackson's 'Wanna be startin' something' and the Police's 'Every breath you take'. 'Elvis' singing Michael's 'Wanna be startin' something' had me laughing for hours. they're both sung as if Elvis were alive today and it's a hoot !!!!!!  Eric Alver

It's Just OK, Ending not so satisfying I bought this DVD used, so I don't feel as bad as other reviewers. Here are the things that I'm in agreement with other reviewers: 1. OK voice acting, nothing that gets the viewer involved (no interesting dialog, not much emotion besides saying the lines. 2. Superman and Lex characters are very weak, no real tension. 3. Story lines feels fragmented, too many things going on, which can be left out and dedicated to the central story line. 4. Central story line is also weak, with one of the weakest ending, not at all satisfactory to the viewer's expectation, no real conclusion.  Having own just about all the DC movie collections, this one is probably near the bottom of my list, just right above the Superman/Shazam The Return of Black Adam. Good thing I saw it on Netflix first, didn't even buy that dvd.  I have to say, DC have been going down hill with the last few releases. I'm not a die hard fan but enjoys the super-hero genre from any vendor. DC - good animation quality (used to), Marvel - good live-action movies (recent releases).

Not classics but ... I loved the first one and for sequels these aren't bad. It's still a fun afternoon when you just want to be a little silly.

A fun B-movie This review is of the First Look Pictures Blu-Ray release of DOG SOLDIERS.  This is by no means a great picture, and Marshall would top it with his seminal horror pic THE DESCENT, but this was an exciting directorial debut.  It approaches probably the most tired sub-genre of monster picture with an original slant, and never drags. It does not necesarrily benefit much from BD treatment, but if you do not own this and have an interest I would strike when the price is at a discount.  For those among us who are not horror film nuts this is probably a pass.

good, but kind of violent the animation was classic marvel in every way shape and form...fantastic. i didn't think it was going to be as violent as it was for my 7 year old. I assumed that since it seemed geared more for younger children that it wouldn't be bad, but i was off on my assumption.

Act of Valor review The movie was ok but the story line was not well developed . The characters were not well developed either.

The beginning of the Neon Genesis Evangelion saga Neon Genesis Evangelion Collection 0:1 is a single DVD that contains the first four episodes of the series.  The episodes on this disc are definitely meant to establish the Neon Genesis Evangelion universe, as well as to provide character development for Shinji Ikari, the main character.  Right now, the pacing of the series feels a little on the slow side, and I hope that the pacing will improve as I watch the other DVD releases for this series.  My initial impression of the series so far from watching the episodes on this disc is that while Neon Genesis Evangelion isn't the best anime series I've seen, it's also not the worst series I've seen, either.  When it comes the bonus features, you can see character bios, a page that features the website for the now defunct ADV, the DVD credits, and ADV Previews.  For the character bios feature, the bios feature a picture of the character and a brief write-up.  The characters included in this feature are: Shinji, Misato, Aida, Eva Unit 01, Angel #3, and Angel #4.  If you're a fan of Neon Genesis Evangelion and haven't either already picked up this DVD release or one of the DVD box sets that were released for the series, this could be worth adding to your DVD library if you can find it for a reasonable price.  I wrote this review after watching a copy of this disc that I checked out through the King County Library System.

Not as Good If you like me, enjoyed the earlier Kevin Costner Robin Hood,  you will find the Russel Crow re-make,  not up to par with the earlier one.  Great acting both by  Russell Crow and Cate Blanchett.  However the dynamic of the movie is not as good as the Kevin Costner's one.  Remember,  it is still a good popcorn type of movie, but do not expect it to exceed the Kevin Costner's one.

Good book to read to get a different look at life This is a good book to read to get a different perspective on life and it makes you take a step back and see your life in a different angle. I say it is one of those books you keep by the bed, and after a long, hard  day one should read to get a "pep talk" and a boost in self-esteem.

THE BRITISH VERSION OF "DIRTY HARRY" IS WORTH A RENTAL!! Jason Statham is one busy dude!!  As many movies this guy is spitting out within the year, quality is bound to take a ride on the backseat!!!  With this said, BLITZ is borderline straight to DVD quality. The only factors saving it is the random action and its main cast of Jason Statham, Paddy Considine and Aidan Gillen.  All three give strong performances which hold your attention throughout the movie.  What hinders the movie overall is the "been there, done that" plot of loose cannon cop with total opposite partner and the pointless and useless side story of characters we really don't care about but somehow get tied up to the main story. If you've seen the original DIRTY HARRY, you probably will be disappointed by this film because it simply can't compare.  If your a Statham fan, by all means watch the film and see him do what he does best, but for the rest of you this movie is at least worth a rental.

Silly This movie was a gift and the person LOVES it!  He is still trying to get everybody to watch it.  Too funny.

Is it Possible? This one is a little difficult to watch; while there are a few interesting moments there seem to be an abundance of meaningless filler moments that are difficult to watch. At midpoint I had to stop it and recover before I could go on with the movie the next day. You may well ask why I bothered and the only answer I can provide to that question was a slight curiosity how it would end.  A little over half way through the movie starts getting a little more interesting as the two leads start their return to the USA. A serious libido problem on the guy's part causes them to miss a vital connection on their return trip and choose an alternate route home through dangerous territory.  Much of the story is told after dark so the demands on the cgi are correspondingly reduced. In its favor there are some effective scenes showing life in the Mexican villages and some of the sequences are marginally interesting.  Now let's consider another possibility; what if the alien monsters were symbolic of drug cartels, what if the whole thing is an allegory for the current situation with drug cartels in Northern Mexico? If one thinks in those terms there are some interesting parallels; for example the efforts of the United States to protect itself with a wall. Another would be the infected zones and their parallel with areas controlled by the cartels. The alien monsters had long tentacles which is similar to the tentacles of influence exercised by the cartels. The monsters were most active after dark which also characterizes the cartels. In those areas attacked by the monsters there was much devastation which is also a goal of the cartels. Another parallel are the evacuated zones in the United States; there are already areas of Arizona where citizens are warned not to go, are these infected zones perhaps?  I've not seen any suggestions that the allegorical nature of Monsters is intended to reflect Northern Mexico's drug problem but it does make for some interesting speculation.  If you are a dedicated sci-fi fan you may want to watch it just so you can say you did or you may want to check me out on my allegory speculation. I would be interested in hearing from any of you who care to investigate the possibility.

The Female Actor the red head was so not a good actress for this part she was horrible. Mickey Rourke Just Love him he's awsome.

Movie has a Dull Edge If they replaced The Edge with Keith Richards, it would be a 5 Star. The Edge actually shows us in the film what a limited guitarist he is, couple that with his Dull Personality, and it pulls the film down. Keith would have been a much better choice.

Good little movie OK, Oscar material this isn't.  But hey, it's a talking dog movie what are you expecting, De Niro?  The plot is tissue paper thin and the acting is cheesy, but it is a talking dog movie.  My 95 yo mother thinks the idea of talking animal is hilarious, so good stuff.

A great classic There's no way this could escape my bluray collection. Great quality and cool bonus material. Not much difference from it's dvd edition. Too bad the extras came in standard def. Still is a pretty good film to have as part your collection.

Extras not included The movie worked okay. It was a little scratched, but that was easily fixed. The main problem was the fact that what I received was actually a rental movie from what I think was Blockbuster. I was only able to watch the movie itself, the extras were not included on this dvd. I wasn't bothered too much by this, but I hope the person who I bought this for doesn't mind either. I would have appreciated knowing this was a rental before I bought it. Other than that, and considering the price, I was happy with it.

Escaflowne movie review The dvd itself was in good condition. The movie, however, was a little bit of a let-down. The plot was quite different from the series.

Cool biology, but "defy evolution"?  I think not Believing in evolution (as I do) caused me to watch this movie.  I have been looking for anything in "creation science" that resembles "science" for some time now and am sad to report still have not found it.  There are a lot of very cool animals in this movie that can do some very cool things.  That was the part of the movie I enjoyed.  The narrator going "Well how could that have evolved?"  and me yelling at the screen "Like this you idiot!!!" was the part I did not.  If you want to believe that God created the world and all the animals that's fine by me, but trying to convince someone by saying "Well I don't see how that could have evolved" that God created all the animals is preying on the weak minded...if you'll pardon the pun.

Nice fitness concept, poor instruction I completely support this method of fitness...  Working smaller muscle groups to support joints and prevent injuries.  However, Tracy leads the DVD with very limited instruction and just gets into her own dance zen mode.  Kind of weird.  I personally do not like to look at the screen during my workouts.  I prefer to maintain proper form and spinal alignment and depend on auditory cues often.  Even after previewing this first, it is difficult to follow since she does not cue much at all.  The video seems long and drab.  I prefer Ellen Barrett for this style fitness training.  She has impeccable cuing and her DVDs are very fluid and go by quickly leaving you feeling stretched, strengthened and energized.  But if you like repetitive motions (major burn) while looking at the instructor, Tracy will be fine for you.  There is no denying that doing this workout will tone you.  But it just won't be fun.

awful - fun - awful This movie isn't worth spending my energy writing about (my girlfriend made me do it) and it's probably not worth you reading about, so I'll try to make it short.  The beginning is crap. Classic, horribly acted teen party scenes mercifully segue into an interesting "father/son" moment, followed by all hell breaking loose.  It's entertaining through the middle and then drops off into happy-happy land in the end, even though the main character's life has been through the spin cycle and he would realistically going into the witness protection program.

Too Much Gates, Not Enough Cleaver Eldridge Cleaver is one of the most fascinating, complex, controversial and, yes, entertaining figures of the 20th Century. He is not done justice by Skip Gates' documentary profile, which amounts to little more than a boring, self-agrandizing college lecture. Gates (to no surprise to those familiar with the work of this egomaniac) gives himself as much face and speaking time as his subjects.  He uses only two sources, Cleaver, who is lucid, charming and brilliant, and his ex-wife, Kathleen Cleaver, who is intelligent and political. Gates seems less interested in discussing the history of Cleaver than in getting the man to wade into pallid discussions about contemporary debates, such as the rising black middle class and affirmative action. Cleaver does his best to liven up the interview, but Gates always seems to cut away to one of his trite monologues when Cleaver is beginning to heat up. The documentary would lead you to believe that the couple split up because of exhaustion and Cleaver's turn to the right. In fact, Cleaver's womanizing and drug use were really to blame.  Cleaver was a complex man. He is revered because he had courage and spoke the truth about race without ever flinching. Gates can be forgiven for whitewashing his history in this documentary, but not for giving himself equal billing.  However, in the end, there is very little out there on Cleaver and any film on the man has enough tidbits to make it worth the time. Cleaver's take on Louis Farakhan was worth the price of admission.

Pretty Good coming from a guy this is not a chick flick. Guys will laugh. I was suprised to see so much vulgar scenes. yeah! A must see

Appropriate for small children. There's plenty of talent in this cast, and evidently a large budget. But the script is just awful. The producers have underestimated children's ability to comprehend sophisticated humor (and story lines). This could have been a very good film, but it isn't. If you're looking for something to entertain very young children, this may be ok, but don't look for any substance here. It's pretty lame.

Only If You Love Zombies I confess this had good character development and a vivid environment.  I have been an admirer of Brian Cox since his 1980's Hannibal Lector in "Manhunter."  I feel he is far too familiar doing the overly wordy and poetic narration, not being southern or rural, and quite unlike the young hero we are trying to identify with.  I also dislike the digitally tinted dreary colors: dull grey in the woods and dull brown interiors.  There were also several items OBVIOUSLY not around in the 1800's.  Finally, the actor playing General Williams overacts as to spoil his scenes.

Watchable, but Didn't Like This This is one of those movies that I thought I'd like, but didn't.  And couldn't quite figure out what bothered me about it.  Just didn't care for it at all.

Medicore at best To be completely honest, after going off of a Friday Night Lights binge I was trying to find everything that might include a little bit of Taylor Kitsch.  I found his portrayal of Riggins to be amazing, and his range of acting made me want to see more.  While this movie didn't fail in casting some seriously good looking guys (and putting in a gratuitous swimming scene that involved speedos), the rest of it kind of failed for me.  I'm a huge fan of supernatural/paranormal movies/literature so I was excited to see that Kitsch was included in something like this.  But the script was just...ridiculous.  It seemed like the movie could have been great, there were decent effects and an interesting story line, but the way it was executed was just plain ole' corny.  If you're looking to have an hour and a half of pretty faces, it's good.  But if you're looking to be entertained, or see any sort of arc, it's kind of disappointing.

A Dumb and Dumber Take on Family Problems When I first saw the trailer for Our Idiot Brother Advertised, I was semi interested due to the cast. Honestly, the cast is great. Everyone has a very solid character and performance. I could not really relate too much to any of the characters because the stupidity was so over the top. There were no surprises and many situations were very clich&eacute;. However when it comes to story, Our Idiot Brother is very lacking and just plain dumb.  Parts reminded me of Dumb and Dumber simply because Ned (Paul Rudd) says some really stupid things and cannot keep a secret. Ned is a very nice guy and quite easy to get along with. So easy that everyone tells him their secrets, and then he tells everyone else. It tried to be like Juno or Little Miss Sunshine or another cute indie film, however it failed miserably. At the end of the movie when the credits rolled, so did my eyes and I felt like I just wasted the past 90 minutes of my life on a film which I got nothing out of. There were are few time where I did chuckle, however the situations were so outrageous that I did not find it humorous, I found it stupid.  I have watched many new movies recently and this one is by far the worst. Our Idiot Brother tried to be something it's not, then tried to give you that warm "heart in the right place" movie feeling, which is also failed at. The cast is amazing and it seemed so close to being a funny flick, but I ended up feeling bad for Ned, and the rest of his family because of all their bad situations and horrible choices. Ned simply was honest with them.  Also, quick note; I was very disappointed with Zooey Deschanel. Zooey is my reason for getting out of bed in the morning. I hope one day her and I meet and we fall in love and run of into the sunset together. Anyway, I greatly like her acting and singing, however her role in this film was not a great one and I ended up judging her character and her as an actress for picking a role like this.  Over-all, if you have a few extra bucks and are in the mood to waste 90 minutes, then this may be the movie for you. I will never watch it again and I am glad I rented instead of blind buying, which I almost did, again due to the cast.

Good story weakened by amazingly dumb production gaffs Some people think this is an underrated Dr Who story from the last season of Jon Pertwee's time as the titular character of a time travelling alien with a fondness for earth.  I'm in two minds about "Death to the Daleks." The idea of the story is good but there are elements of the execution of it which are just too bad for words.  The idea is the doctor and his companion, journalist Sarah Jane smith land on a mysterious planet and find their ship is completely drained of power. They encounter a group of humans sent to recover a needed mineral from the planet who are likewise stranded and shortly thereafter, a Dalek warship is stuck.  Since the locals of the planet are extremely hostile to visitors, the three groups band together when the Daleks find their energy weapons are also drained of power, to try to disable the fabulous but uninhabited city which seems to be the source of the energy drain.  The Daleks soon overcome their weaponless state by replacing their ray guns with machine guns and set about to subjugate everyone they can find. So it becomes even more important for the doctor and humans to find a way to remove the energy drain so they can escape. Unfortunately the city actively tries to kill anyone inside it and the locals outside the city are still pretty well hostile.  This far it works but the Daleks themselves fall down badly and it is the production team that is to blame. When they test fire their new machine guns, they do so by shooting up a toy model of a tardis/police box, one of the silliest and campiest  missteps in the near 50 year long history of the program! They just carry one around for fun?  Earlier Daleks have seemed highly bullet proof and yet one of these is smashed by a group of savages with clubs. When one realizes it has been tricked by the doctor's companion and so has `failed' it's mission it commits suicide and most critically, no one EVER explains how if the energy drain knocks out the Dalek's weapons, and causes everyone's ship to crash, why they are still able to move about in their machine bodies?  For all these issues though it is still a good adventure from the Jon Pertwee era.  Without some bombastic authority figure to annoy he becomes more scholarly and less high handed, befriending the few friendly locals while Sarah Jane shows more independent spirit working with the crashed humans against the Daleks. The extras on the DVD are of the good quality we've come to enjoy but I wish the voice over commentary had included one of the promiant actors and not just the f/x guys. Overall it isn't a great or sadly overlooked adventure, but one of the 'gang' of a very good season.

Movie is kinda iffy, transfer is amazing Rango is a Western that has a chameleon in the premier spot; he's the star of the show. Rango comes from humble beginnings (falls out of his family's car while traveling) and is thrown headlong into a role as a sheriff for a desert town trying to figure out where the water they once got every Wednesday, seems to have dried up.  Predictable is one way to describe this. It's also sold as a children's movie, having Nickelodeon's name attached, but with all the "hell's" being tossed around, I don't know how many parents would want their younger children to view this.  Over all it was an OK movie, at best. The film gets 2-3 stars, tops. The Blu Ray gets 5 stars for its presentation.  This disc is region free, so you can enjoy it anywhere in the world if purchased through Amazon USA.  Video-  Encoded in AVC, this HD video will probably be a movie worthy of showcasing just what your shiny new HD TV is capable of. The colors are spot on, there are no video anomalies. Bit rate is high. The movie was done in 2.35:1 ratio, so on your 16x9 HD TV you will still have black borders on the top and bottom of the image.  The video quality is "jaw hit the floor" amazing. 5 stars for video.  Audio-  DTS-HD MA (for those that don't know the lingo, this is super high quality). Despite it being a multichannel, 5.1 mix, most of the sound will be driven by your front sound stage and mostly the center channel as the show really is dialog driven.  You also get Spanish, Portuguese, and French 5.1 audio. I only did a light sampling of these audio tracks given I don't understand a lick of any of the language. The only thing that seems to change is the language; none of the music or effects change, which is as it should be.  5 stars for audio  Extras-  Audio commentary (self explanatory), Real Creatures of Dirt (live action dip into the real life inspirations for the creatures of Dirt, the town in the film) and deleted scenes. If you watch the extended version of the film, all 10 of the deleted scenes will be shown during the film, so this extra may not seem like an "extra" to some.  4 stars for the extras. There isn't a lot there, but what is there is nice.  Packaging-  Rango comes with an embossed cardboard slip cover that covers the standard Blu Ray case. It looks nice. 4 stars as it is nothing amazing.  Also of note is the extra DVD. This DVD is ONLY the theatrical version of the film; it does NOT contain the extended edition that restores the cut scenes to the film or the extras. There is also a digital version of the film included for those who wish to transfer to their iPod/iPhone/whatever. This is also the theatrical, non-extended version of the film.  Over all, what you get from Rango will depend. If you get all the visual jabs (or nods) at other films, such as Star Wars, Fear and Loathing, etc, you'll enjoy the film immensely. If you're a child, you're likely to feel this movie is potentially boring and has some "bad" language. If you don't get all the nods/jabs and you're not a kid, you will probably only be mildly amused, as I was, by the film.  You'll probably want to sample the movie, either via streaming (if it's available) or that DVD/Blu Ray via that monthly DVD subscription before buying to make sure it's something you will watch with any frequency.  Film is 3 stars at most. Blu Ray is, hands down, 5 stars.

Good enough to keep trying, but with doubts. Jaw movements I've been doing these exercises for one week (twice a day) and I would like to leave some comments on them. First of all, I must say I am not doing them specially for the wrinkle thing, but because I would like to strengthen my right side of the face, weakened because of an accident some years ago. Everybody told me it is going to keep on being weak for ever but I just wanted to give a try to the exercises. I combine them with relaxation, palming for the eyes and other neck exercises I was already using. After a week I must say there is a little improvement: my mouth continues to be a bit opened by its right side while is closed in the left side, but it seems to be a little less opened and I have the feeling of a more relaxed cheek. So I will keep on doing them for a while to see if it is not a "placebo" :D  About the DVD I agree with people complaining about the models and the footage lost between exercises. My solution was making a list of the exercises with their patterns (most of times the same) and do it by myself without the DVD.  For the ones interested in getting rid of wrinkles: I have only three problem zones, as I am 35: the smile one and the eye corner are two of them and they are really worst after a week, specially the eyes. On the other hand I have two big vertical lines dug between my eyebrows that are simply disappearing.  One last thing: there are some exercises that concern some jaw movements that I think can be harmful and not should be done. I am not a doctor, not a physiotherapist, but a musician, playing the flute professionally for many years and I must say I think the fifth exercise proposed in the jaw section should be done by no one. Besides, I would recommend not doing: the last exercise of the mouth section, the last exercise on the cheeks section and the two last exercises on the jaw section (besides the one I already mentioned). I gave these ones a try this week but my jaw started feeling weird and today it has started making some little noise, so I'll give up those ones too.  UPDATE: I changed Tal Reinhart for Isabel Morillo and worked much better. So my final advice would be to find a good book on facial yoga -Morillo's or any other one- and stick to it. Facial yoga combines strengthening movements with relaxation. Every area is covered, included skull.

Ordered because it was recommended by Astronaut Niel Armstrong An avid reader, I recently read a book titled "FIrst Man - The Life of Neil A. Armstrong" an authorized biography by James R. Hansen.  In it is an excerpt where astronaut Neil Armstrong is quoted as really liking the old movie "The Bridges over Toko-Ri"...so I ordered it from Amazon.  It came promptly and I watched it right away, anxious to see it.  The movie is simply an old war movie.  It is very darkly lit so it was difficult to see well.  It was the expected story line and was an "ok" movie.  I'm not sure why it's a Neil Armstrong favorite other than it is a period movie about, perhaps, the time in history that most interests him.  I'm not sure I would buy this movie again if I knew it was so poorly lit that it made it hard to see or enjoy.

Shucks, didn't pan out... I watched it almost all the way through -- it had promise & on that, I kept watching. But alas, i fell asleep & tried to reconnect at that point that I did. But couldn't. I would have been very disappointed if I paid the movie price; but at the $3.99 price -- I can live with that. No fancy mojo on the who, what, when, where, why this movie didn't make it. I'm just glad I didn't pay more than I did. And, fwiw: part of it was okay, until I fell asleep....zzzzzz.

I expected a more decent movie. Pretty good subject but I honestly thought it'd be a better movie. It's an ordinary comedy while this subject could make a wonderfully amazing movie.

Secrets of the Founding Fathers DVD Found some interesting throughts but was disturbed by over-dramatized production and lack of understanding of the Mason moveent AT THAT TIME.  ALSO, some very disturbing mistakes!  The History Channel usually does much better!  But, from now on, will always question their productions. Florencemhorn@gmail.com

Does Not Contain Audio Commentary Special Features on this Blu-Ray include: "Getting the Class Together: The Cast of Ferris Bueller's Day Off", "The Making of Ferris Bueller's Day Off", "Who is Ferris Bueller?",  "The World According to Ben Stern", "Vintage Ferris Bueller: The Lost Tapes", and "Class Album".  This 2009 Blu-Ray edition does not include an audio commentary, which is included on the original 1999 DVD.

kids yoga The kids like it a lot. Its like a homemade DVD, cute and entertaining. My 2 and 5 yr. old really enjoy it. My 9 yr. old thinks it a bit silly....but will do it if everyone is doing it. I am going to look for another one that I want to do with them. It all depends on what kind of parent you are. My mother in law would LOVE doing this with the kids, she is much more hands on than myself. Its a fun DVD...good way to introduce yoga or add to your collection. The music is pleasant with guitar and vocals. Not annoying.

A good message covered up in glitter and gloss. Most of the "Princess Training" was about poise and grace and fashion and makeup. There was a very short line or two where the head mistress explains to Blair that being a Princess isn't about looking pretty in a tiara, it's about character. Having poise and grace gives you confidence, and that's what Blair needs. She also said "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent" but she left out the fact that Eleanor Roosevelt said those wise words. I liked where the movie was heading now, but the rest of the story left much to be desired.  Lots of negativity in this movie. Mean girls that bully. The girls who aren't mean are airheads, and they aren't even funny. The only nice girls who are somewhat interesting are Blair's two friends. Later on Princess Blair crowns the "mean girl" Delancy as her "Lady Royal." My five-year-old understood that Delancy was nice now, but my three-year-old was very confused about this. Neither of them understood why Blair would choose Delancy over her best friends, though. (Delancy is actually her cousin, and the other two are real princesses in their own right. It took a lot for Delancy to do her two small acts of kindness, but again to children it's not much).  Why couldn't Barbie's little sister be Chelsea? My kids love Chelsea (even if she has a different name) and love to see her in the movies.

Only OK Saw this on an airplane. Had high hopes as the original was a really good flick. Oh well, I found this one trite and numb.

Mediocre at best Overall, I thought that the movie does a pretty good follow-up job from the first movie. There was just something about it that seems to leave you wanting, or should say, expecting more. As I said, the movie does a decent job for a sequel, that in itself is a victory considering how many lousy sequels are out there. But if you're wanting a movie that is challenging or is a blockbuster smash, this isn't it; however, if you're wanting a movie that is a great way to just relax and let your hair down with, then you'd probably enjoy this one. It's easy to follow, simply to understand, and unfortunately, the ending is pretty predictable if you're watching the movie and not having an ADD moment. So, why the 3 stars? It's a pretty okay movie,(would probably work for a date night movie) but I expected more and it just wasn't what you'd call, "overly impressive." Hope this is helpful.

The Girl Who Cried Wolf Poor Amanda Seyfried can't seem to catch a break. After being cast in a couple of box office hits like Mean Girls and Mamma Mia as well as a series regular on HBO's critical darling Big Love, this girl seemed destined for stardom. But somewhere along the way, she hit a few bumps that has really taken the glow off of her roster; namely a few big bombs like Jennifer's Body, In Time, Chloe, Red Riding Hood (though I found that movie to be much better than Dear John but the box office receipts say otherwise) and now Gone.  And its a real shame to because she really is a good actress Perhaps it's time for her to find a better agent before what's left of her career becomes unsalvageable.    In Gone, she plays small town waitress Jill who returns home one morning to find her sister Molly has vanished. All of her things are in place and all the doors and windows are locked but as soon as she finds an earring on the floor, Jill immediately goes into distress mode and reports Molly as missing. You see, Jill has a very good reason to be afraid. A year ago she was found wandering aimlessly through the woods claiming to have been abducted from her bed and taken to a hole by an unknown man. According to her, she wasn't the first person to meet up with this guy. Too bad the police couldn't find the so called hole or any remains to any previous victim and, after a year of Jill running around crying wolf in her obsession in finding this serial killer, they are less inclined to believe in anything she has to say. And who can blame them?  After awhile, we do see that Jill can really cook up a story as she goes on a one-woman search to try and find Molly before time runs out.  Does this guy really exist and has he really come back to exact his revenge for her escaping by taking Molly in her place? Or is this just another one of Jill's wild goose chases that will only wind up costing the tax payers' hard earned money and the police department's time and worn thin patience?  No one believes her; not the cops, not her best friend, not even Molly's fianc&eacute;. But, armed with her wits and a loaded .44, Jill's determined to save her sister and proved once and for all that what she knows to be the truth.    For what it is, Gone is not a bad movie. It just wasn't handled very well. It's a thriller and there are tons of plot holes big enough to drive a Greyhound bus through but that is usually pretty typical for this kind of movie. At least Jill isn't jumping a bus over a 200' hole in the road and still having it land and be perfectly drivable with no damage to its suspension system or frame.  The acting was good to ok with the only real sour note being in another victim to a poor agent Wes Bently. My only gripe is that the whole Mystery Man is never really developed fully so there is no menace to him at all.  And the whole ending does come off as anticlimactic. But, in the end, it isn't the worst way to waste an hour and a half. Just try and not over think it and nit pick at all the minor inconsistencies.  It is what it is. B+. Also starring Jennifer Carpenter and Sebastian Stan.

My kids like it... not as entertaining for the adults I did not find this as entertaining as "We Are.... The Laurie Berkner Band".  I dont think this DVD was made as well, production wise.  Save your money and get their new DVD and "We Are...."

A New Type of Underworld 3D I have liked all the underworlds so far, and enjoyed this one too. It took a particularly different angle from the previous movies and strayed away from the original storyline the other 3 shared. This one was more of a vampire vs human movie only with a twist towards the end. It also was much more violet with showing gore than the previous movies which I actually enjoyed. As also owning the Resident Evil 3D, it seems like this movie was made to mirror the same sort of 3D action scenes. I was not too impressed with the 3D in the movie as I felt it wasn't utilized until the last 30 minutes or so of the movie. Until that time I found myself wondering if I should switch it to 2D. Personally, I would have liked to see a better continuation of the previous stories, but the didn't do that. It may have been because the could budget the Michael character into this movie much. I still did enjoy the movie and recommend it to any fan of the previous ones.  Pros: +More violence than previous films in the series  Cons: -Poor 3D use through much of the movie -Not really a continued story line

Secretariat <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004DK5CW4">Secretariat</a> For the horse racing fan, especially those who enjoy the Kentucky Derby, this bio-pic of a great horse is very entertaining.  The family issues while very real are dramatically slow.  In all, this film is appropriate for the whole family to watch together. It entertains, teaches historical fact and offers family value discussions, while giving the racing fan some great race scenes and the history of a great horse.

a largely forgotten jungle adventure, with some very prominent stars... With a number of big name stars, High Risk (1981) is a fast-paced and entertaining, action/adventure, set somewhere in Latin America.  The reality factor is rather minimal, as a group of four financially strapped friends, attempt to rob a wealthy drug lord.  Although a pretty good film, High Risk had the misfortune to be released at about the same time as Raiders Of The Lost Ark, and did not fare that well theatrically.  Stone (James Brolin) is the leader of the group that also includes Rockney (Cleavon Little), Tony (Chick Vennera), and Dan (Bruce Davidson).  Their first step is to purchase some weapons from arms dealer Clint (Earnest Borgnine).  After this, the group boards a plane that flies them south below the border, where they parachute jump into the jungle.  They then head to the estate of drug runner Serrano (James Coburn), and rather easily manage to rob his safe of about five million in cash.  Making their escape isn't as easy, as Tony and Rockney are captured, and wind up in prison in a cell next to Olivia (Lindsay Wagner).  After a long fall into a river, Stone and Dan barely manage to escape into the jungle, but it isn't long before they become prisoners of a band of rebels, led by the charismatic Mariano (Anthony Quinn).  Each group manages to extricate themselves from sticky situations, in exciting and somewhat humorous ways, eventually leading to a dramatic showdown in the jungle, and daring bid for freedom.  This lightweight but engaging adventure has a pseudo-serious tone, as the characters play things as if the dangers are very real, although the supposed bad guys are a little too nice, and much of what happens isn't that credible.  The Americans all manage to survive, with only one in the group sustaining a significant injury, making a miraculous escape with millions of dollars, and a beautiful girl.  Even the poodle brought along to act as a decoy, survives the ordeal.  There are generally good performances by everyone involved, all the way down to the minor characters.  Veterans Coburn and Quinn are very entertaining, overplaying their roles as villains.  James Brolin is very good as a cool under pressure leader, who never panics.  Lindsay Wagner provides a pleasant female presence, in a film that has very little romance.  High Risk is an entertaining ride without graphic violence or sex.  The most disturbing scenes might be those featuring Serrano attacking a bull in a bullring.  Unfortunately, the 2007 "remastered" version on DVD looks like a cheap VHS transfer, as a decent quality edition of the film has yet to be released.  While the movie itself rates four stars, the poor quality of the DVD knocks the overall rating down to three stars.

Lovely to look at, otherwise rather trite How many times can Woody Allen remake the same film?  Sure, different settings and character names but essentially they all seem to involve wealthy people whining about their lives.  In this version, Woody (as Gil Pender) ruminates about how he's not living his desired artistic life and sets up the usual set of foils, from the shrew of a wife he seems to have little real affection for to her evil parents who hate him and want to kill his free spirit.  There's the requisite pseudo-intellectual nemesis who casually belittles Woody (um, I mean Gil).  Whether his films are about murder, adultery or failed careers the dynamics and character archetypes are always consistent.  If you've seen one Woody Allen film since the 80's, you've truly seen them all.  Perhaps if you're an art and literature history buff, you may get a kick out of the portrayals of great artists of the 1920's (Hemingway, F Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Salvador Dali, etc).  For me, the beauty of Paris and the reminiscing of an imagined grander age aren't enough to carry this film.

The original background for Bourne Legacy It is dated now, particularly from the technology used by characters, but fun to watch before seeing Bourne Legacy now in theaters.

Ass-Kick Basically as has been mentioned this is either a movie you will love or hate and I almost stopped watching after all the violence hit girl committed. I guess ratings have been relaxed since Kill Bill, a movie that has some similarities, was released. I thought some of the bloody scenes in Kill Bill were toned down with the use of black and white to get an R rating. Obviously, not required for this movie since you see all the bullet exit cavitation holes in glory detail in high-def so those without a strong stomach might get nausea watching this film. Anyways, if you can repress the repulsion at seeing an innocent way too young girl turned into a cold blooded killer like in Kill Bill, The Professional the visuals are very well done but that's about it. It seems as the write for the movie basically stole parts from the Matrix, Kill Bill, The Watchmen, Spider Man, Toxic Avenger, The Professional and make a mash up of them. Also, some references in the movie like MySpace, Lost, etc are already outdated thus making the movie stand the test of time even less. There was also some totally unnecessary masturbation and hot for teacher scenes at the start of the movie which added nothing to the movie. One of the problems I had with the movie is that it doesn't seem to make up it's mind if it's a comedy or not. I didn't laugh very much if it was supposed to be funny. I guess it must've been dark humor they were aiming for? Ass-Kick is in reference to what the Watchmen Batman copycat Nic Cage says to his little girl. He tells her that Kick-Ass should change his name to Ass-Kick since all he seems to do is get his butt kicked LOL. Now that was funny! But then there are parts where the movie gets all serious and even depressing when one of the main super-hero's get killed and even Kick-Ass himself seemed to get physically ill as this movie almost made me feel when he saw all the death the little psycho hit-girl unleashed. He wasn't the only one, even Red Mist almost threw up, after seeing all the blood and guts in this movie! This should be an obvious strong warning to anyone sensitive to blood, guts and gore! In the end I did see enough redeeming qualities in this movie to recommend it to those with a strong stomach. I could go on with all the bad stuff I saw dragging this movie down but then again like I said if you don't like it from the start all you're probably going to notice about the movie are it's flaws.

What I expected... The movie was ok. It has some funny moments. While I like the majority of the actors in this movie, it just didn't seem to flow. The movie to choose when there are no other choices.

ok This movie was ok. A lot of people gave it great reviews so i decided to rent it. I would say the story line is very interesting, but when you find out what actually happens it was stupid.  Someone said that this movie was better than The Illusionist so that was the other reason I rented this movie.  It is similar to The Illusionist because both men are magicians and there is some suspense. Overall, I thought it was about revenge, and had a hateful ending. The Illusionist is WAY BETTER!!

Hatchet HATCHET is the best Slasher film to come out in the last thirty years -- at least according to creator Adam Green. There is no mistaking his love and enthusiasm for the genre, but HATCHET fails to live up to its own hype. Deep within the swamps of the Louisiana bayou, a tour boat filled with passengers crashes near the home of the legendary Victor Crowley, a deformed boy that was killed years ago but who continues to haunt the swamplands. Unfortunately for this group of teens, Victor Crowley lives, and he has an ax to grind with anyone who crosses into his domain!  Green clearly understands the classic conventions of the Slasher film, and better yet, he understands what most Slasher fans want: a ton of gore and even more gratuitous nudity. The problem is that HATCHET only delivers on these two superficial levels, and fails to bring a unique story, interesting characters, or even a steady pace. It starts strong enough with two incredibly violent deaths, but the plot plods on with only mild hints at humor and no kills. Finally, when the teens approach Crowley's house in the woods, things pick up dramatically (at least in the gore department). One character is hacked in half before his wife has her head ripped apart from her jaw in a gush of blood! From there, limbs fly, faces are sanded off, and heads are crushed before Crowley can finally be stopped... Or so it seems...  If the gruesome displays had only been spread out more evenly throughout the film, HATCHET may have at least been a more entertaining watch, but it takes far too long to get into the action with too little payoff. Minor things like the horribly artificial lighting also distract from the events on screen, although Joel Moore and Deon Richmond do their best to keep the audience involved. Kane Hodder also returns with another menacing villain as Victor Crowley, but what Green fails to realize is that there is just no marketability in a big misshapen monster. Without a hockey mask or a red and green sweater to sell come Halloween, Crowley just becomes another faceless killer trailing behind Cropsey and Madman Marz.  Considering this was only his first film, most Horror fans will be willing to forgive many of the film's weaknesses based on Green's inexperience, but HATCHET is a guilty pleasure at best.  -Carl Manes I Like Horror Movies

the dude abides The packaging was a little messed up. The corners of the display box were dented. But overal the dude abides & the item really ties the room together.

b-movie OK B-movie not on par with Cagneys WB movies,just average B-movie but Mae Clarke never looked better then she does in this movie

What I took before in kindness, I will take forever in revenge (as long as you're in the light) Young bed-wetter Kyle Walsh (Chaney Kley) just lost his last child's tooth.  Drifting towards sleep in hopes his mother is not a cheapskate, a bad dream jerks him from sleep.  It turns out the Tooth Fairy - based upon the local legend of a wrongfully hanged spinster - takes the teeth and leaves some change, but looking at her is not part of the equation.  Do that, and she haunts you until death.  Or kills your mother if you stay in a well lit room.  Whatever.  Fast forward about 20 years and Kyle can't get through the night without hugging a flashlight collection.  Sought out by his old girlfriend, Kyle must confront his fear and help another kid who can't hold his water.  Thereafter the plot is bland, as the cast goes from light to dark often enough that the soundtrack should have included a few techno hits.  Numbers dwindle as the Tooth Fairy picks off fodder like a turkey hunt.  Why she suddenly changed her taste to adults is anyone's guess.  This movie is great...if you enjoy uninspired scripts, competently monotone acting, and faux-horror movies.  The extra stars are for the interesting concept, the Tooth Fairy's original story, and the FX.  Jason Elin

Remarkable Natalie The Professional is not credible, lacks energy, which is surprising for a thriller, and borders on pedophilia in its presentation of a beautiful child all dressed up in come-on outfits. On the other hand, that child, Natalie Portman, is stunning as an actress. And the many closeups don't hurt either.

Well Intensioned Stupidity A lot of people have reviewed this flick and some thought it pretty much bit the big one, while others thought it went more for spooky nuance than the big scare. For the most part, it did go for nuance, but there were still some cheap scares. So I'm siding with the former.  Here's the scoop. A vintage New England hotel, the Yankee Pedlar, is closing down. The owner is in the Barbados, and two young folk are left to man the place on it's final weekend. The only guests are a mother and son, a one-time actress turned psychic and an old fellow with fond memories of the place. The hotel has a reputation for being haunted by a ghost tied to a particular incident. The kids want to record evidence of the haunting. Of course, things get out of hand.  The only other film I've seen from writer/director Ti West was "The House of the Devil" and I liked it quite a bit. This outing, however, is a real stinker. There were individual scenes, between the two leads, that I liked quite a bit, but the story overall was a mess. Like most (if not all) haunted type flicks there is something at the center of the haunting needing resolve. Here it's a woman who hanged herself on her wedding day. Little clues are given and but there is no logical building of the clues to a resolve. The viewer never finds out what happened to bring on the misery. I'm not certain what the mother/son characters were there for. They have nothing to do with the story and are written out of the script about two thirds the way in. There are a couple of cheap, jump scares and there is no way to know why it ends the way it does. And what about the old guy? He is nowhere integral to the story. Was he needed to fill in the clock? This movie is just stupid over and over. All it really has are a couple of good characters. I liked Sarah Paxton and Pat Healy as the two leads. But they just couldn't get their story, or the overall story, on track. And Kelly McGillis is a veteran. She does a decent job, but it's way too convenient that she shows up in this place on this particular weekend.  The production values are good enough. The Yankee Pedlar is a cool place with a lot of personality. It made for a great setting, but there just wasn't enough here for a movie, and what little there was was put together all wrong.

Close but no cigar! Good effects throughout but a little weak on the story telling. a good movie but not the best superhero movie out there hopefully #2 will be better.

Cool Critters While casting and plot line left much to be desired, I really got a kick out of the little scrabbling demons.  I sure wouldn't want to see one of those things under my bed sheet!

Disappointing. I saw this opening weekend as I am a huge fan of the first two films.  Even number 4 is watchable as a B flick (especially the Dir Cut).  But this new film has the IQ of a rodent - no that's wrong - rodents can find their way out of a maze, can't they?  In this film all sense of character and storytelling is lost.  As others have said it reeks of test audience re-writes.  Thus a film by committee.  Disgusting.  The picture is beautiful - what do you expect from the best SFX houses and $130 M?  The film as a whole is an abject failure of junk science and silly plot lines.  More suitable for a teens in the woods Z grade horror flick.  I am giving it a charitable 3, but it really deserves a negative, imaginary number.  Shame Ridley, shame.

Still worth your time watching... Having attended this musical (more than) twice (including Antony Warlow as the Phantom) I was expecting this to match if not exceed my past experiences, sadly this was not the case - as previously mentioned, using rendered screens only destroy the entire experience of going to watch a musical. The old way makes you appreciate how transitions occur between stage sets, the intricate work and timing that goes on behind stage - Using the electronic screens (right up to the red curtains) only 'masks' the entire experience, and makes you think of the short work they have opted.  The chandelier didn't drop like how it was supposed to, there is no wedding mannequin, and the guards with Meg did not descend from the gates at the end.  The cast was an improvement over the above nagging issues, their vocal ranges were within their abilities and role played, and they were clearly not saving up their voices for other performance like you normally hear in a live musical schedule.  The after show was a nice surprise, and I won't spoil it for you to experience yourself if you haven't read the other reviews yet.

Kind of boring Gave it 3 stars because I love Barbra otherwise it was kind of boring and couldn't get myself to watch the whole thing (or even 1/2 of it) but did fast forward after a while.

If you liked the first one...you'll probably like this one. Only saw the first one once...so i don't remember it too much, only to say that this one typically follows the same route. Some stuff is very very funny and the movie chugs along at a good rate. After seeing the amount of buildings and people in Thailand and Bangkok im glad i live in a country with room to spare.   There 's a couple of subjects that will make you cringe a bit, but generally its not that bad. I did rent this one...but ill buy if they get to put both movies on one disk in the future.

entertaining, if you like micro-budget 1980s shlock horror This is a really low-budget gem from the 1980s. Yes, it's an inept film, but it should appeal to certain tastes.  A witch is killed in the late 1600s New England. The filmmaker makes a decent effort with the costuming, though the rough production values and performances don't help in creating a period atmosphere.  Flash-forward to 1980s New York City. The witch has been reincarnated as a slutty punk rocker on a motorcycle. She's trying to get back a magic ring to resurrect her coven.  I like NECROPOLIS because it's a slice of the 1980s New York City punk scene. The film FEELS so 1980s. So punk rock. So lower eastside/Greenwich Village. The clothes. The hair. The shots of lower Manhattan filmed from the Jersey shore.  Yes, the acting is really bad, from the Italian-accented cop, to the hyper-sexual "virgin," to the flaming-gay coroner, to the dufus priest, to the stereotypical streetwalkers and their pimp, to the punked-out witch.  There's also much gore, if you like gory horror.  This looks like what it is. An ultra-low-budget indie horror film, shot in the 1980s on the gritty streets of New York. It's a fun film, if you're in the mood for this sort of thing.  I'm just disappointed that this DVD is FULLSCREEN. I have it on VHS, and don't see any point in upgrading for another fullscreen version.

Black Christmas wasn't as scary as I remember it being all those years ago but still LOVE seeing Olivia Hussey!!! Glad it's part of my collection.

entertaining------ I watched this because it has Johnny Depp.  Plain and simple. I did enjoy it, but I probably won't be watching it over by myself, it will have to be because I'm showing it to someone else.  Why?  Well, frankly, it could have been written better.  Overall, the story was ok, but I would have liked to have more of the history of the story actually played out, and not just quickly reviewed with shots and clips here and there.  Just me, I guess.

Not bad but not great The graphics on this DVD are a little bit too modern for my taste.  I prefur VJ videos that are extremely dated looking.  The stuff on here except for the first video are way too polished looking.  The first video however was a trip back to Emergency Broadcast Network with its cut up footage of kung fu movies which I liked.  Also the second(?) video was a bit thought provoking as if to say that we are all biological machines in corporate america.  Kind of creepy, not something I want to think about when listening to music honestly.

John Wayne's Westernized Taming of the Shrew John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara worked together on several movies. This was probably the funniest one. It's loosely (very loosely) based on "The Taming of the Shrew" by Shakespeare. But it's primarily Wayne's response to the "women's movement" that was just getting started in 1963.  George Washington (G.W.) McLintock (John Wayne) is a cattle baron who owns a good portion of the town named after him, as well as a huge cattle ranch and a beautiful Victorian mansion. He and his wife Katherine (Maureen O'Hara), whom G.W. calls Katie, have been separated for two years. But she returns to town because their daughter Becky (Stefanie Powers) is coming home from school back east and her mother is determined to take her with her to New York, and to Europe, and prevent her from becoming a crude westerner.  Katie, you see, is a terrible snob. G.W. is just as determinedly not snobbish. He is friends with the local Comanches, and is in fact asked to speak for them when there is a hearing -- kangaroo court, really -- held by the territorial governor in response to a fussy little bureaucrat of an Indian agent who reported to Washington that they were defying him about being moved to a fort somewhere else, location unspecified. In fact, nobody ever said what territory we were in throughout the movie.  One of the best scenes is when G.W. has been up all night playing chess with Birnbaum, the storekeeper when word comes that the settlers (a band that has been offered 160 acres of unfarmable land per family) are going to hang an Indian. It seems one of the settler's daughters is missing, and it is assumed the Comanches have kidnapped her. In fact, while the chief (G.W.'s friend) is standing on the scaffold, the daughter and her boyfriend ride up on a horse and explain that he had taken her for a morning ride and "the horse ran away." But her father had already made an ass of himself poking a sawed-off shotgun in G.W.'s belly and bullying him about his protesting the chief being hanged. Then G.W. wrenches the shotgun out of the jerk's hands and starts poking him in the belly.  Did I mention that all this was taking place on a hill which was part of a mining operation, and there was a muddy slope and a pool of slurry at the bottom? Well, once G.W. takes a good hard swing at the indignant father and he slides down the muddy slope into the slop, the fight is on. The chief walks through the melee saying, "Good party, Maclin. Where's the whiskey? Eventually, G.W. and Kate and Birnbaum and just about everyone else ends up in the slurry pit, and comes home covered in caked silt.  There's really too much to tell in this story. The handsome young farmer (Patrick Wayne) McLintock hires who falls in love with his daughter. The farmer's mother (Yvonne de Carlo), who takes a job cooking for them and falls in love with the sheriff. The silly college boy (Jerry Van Dyke) who makes a total fool of himself trying to win McLintock's daughter, and on and on. It's a romp, but if you don't find men spanking the women they love amusing, don't watch it.

Interesting Concept That Bathes in a Sea of Cheese Tim Roth stars as a twitchy, maligned bellhop in this wacky anthology of four loosely-linked short films. With a different director behind the wheel for each chapter, it shouldn't come as much surprise to hear this is an uneven tale that never settles on a firm identity for itself. The underlying theme is light slapstick suspense with a vibrant collection of supporting players, but each act also has its share of dark secrets and sinister overtones. The first two portions are colorful, but too thin for my taste. It seems like both had a solid beginning and ending in mind, and only set about painting by numbers to bring the two together. It's Robert Rodriguez's third act and Quentin Tarantino's closer, though, that drew me to the show anyway. Both serve as bite-sized capsules of both the best and worst traits and habits that have come to define each director. Rodriguez's arc, which naturally features both Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayeck (albeit in short cameos) is a middle ground of sorts between Spy Kids and Planet Terror. It's part kid-focused mayhem and part pulpy, black, gross-out trauma; an enthusiastic, if shallow, ride. Tarantino's adventurous final chapter is more dialog driven, with the director (of course) playing the leading role. Like a caricature of himself, he spends a good ninety percent of the scene spewing pop culture references and jazzy one-liners before the whole drama culminates in a jolting, blunt burst of adrenaline. Overall, Four Rooms is a mixed bag, and apart from the Tarantino chapter, none of the acts stand up particularly well. While fans of the director will no doubt love Quentin's arc, it's short enough that it would probably be just as easily - and effectively - viewed on YouTube or Vimeo.

Shipping I have not received the product yet, but it still says it hasn't been shipped yet, though it says that it will arrive today. I placed my order four days ago, and this is quite worrying. I do not appreciate my order not being shipped until the day it is due for arrival. If it only takes less then a day, which is hard to believe, I do not understand why it had to wait four days and not the day after or at least two to three days after.  GREAT PRICE THOUGH!

Pauline Is Not In Peril I had hoped that this would be a compilation of the original Perils of Pauline - but it turned out to be a rehash of the type that sprung up in the 30s and 40s.  While the offering itself is a good representation of the serial genre, it was not what I had really wanted.  However, old movies, like old art, may become more enjoyable later on.

Great movie and for the most part nice transfer (Blu-Ray) I was excited when the 50th anniversary edition in Blu-Ray arrived in the mail. Maybe it's just my disc, but there seemed to be a persistent, arched-vertical shadow on the right side of the picture. It was in every seen, and I haven't put my older DVD in the player yet to see I never noticed it before. Strange. I would have made it 5 stars, but knocked off two because of the shadow. Once I saw it, it was hard to ignore it.

Old man Harrison and the "Demons" First of all, I was concerned that Cowboys and Aliens would be a corny or campy movie. This is not the case however, despite the fact that the special features reveal it to be based on a comic book by the same name. With big name stars like Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford, I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised to find that Cowboys and Aliens was in fact much more of a gritty action movie. This film is a proper heir to both the western tradition and the monster movie style of filming. There was something unique in this mash-up, which allowed for a cast of characters with absolutely no prior concept of aliens.   Therefore, aliens got called demons by characters, for lack of a better word, for example. Also, the Old West setting absolutely emphasized the sense of being out-gunned by the technologically advanced enemy. You've got some kind of flying saucer swooping down, and cowboys shooting a revolver at it. Success seems impossible without outside aid. There is also a lovely amnesia-related plot focused on the main character, yielding some amusing lines in the midst of an otherwise grim film. I'll never forget the whole audience gasping in the theater during a scene where a character is getting medical attention, old west style. Did I say gasping? I meant gagging.   I was also completely pleased that this DVD release of Cowboys and Aliens had special features. They were brief, but did just enough to really help me appreciate the work that went into the filming. I especially liked what they had to say about the process of coming up with the alien design in a feature called Outer-Space Icon. The scope of the spectacle was also fun, as it talked about some of the stunts actually done by the actors themselves. I didn't look at the commentary, but I might, next time I watch this movie, as I will undoubtedly want to see it again and again.

okay I had hopes for this film but it turned out to be a bit disjointed and not engaging.  At best, it's an average film.

Streep is great Meryl Streep stars in this biopic of Margaret Thatcher as the elderly lady, suffering from dementia, remembers key moments of her past.  We see young Margaret in her first political campaign, as she meets her beloved husband (later played by Jim Broadbent), and her eleven years as Prime Minister with its struggles and triumphs; but mostly, we see her deteriorating health and increasing frailty.  I was absolutely stunned by Streep's impersonation of Thatcher; aided by incredibly believable make-up, she looks and sounds just like her and gives a thrilling performance.  It is an example of the finest acting and I'm glad she was rewarded with an Oscar, but I wish the role had been played by a British actress instead.  Jim Broadbent, as Denis Thatcher, plays his usual, jovial character and, while very likable, reminded me of silly Horace Slughorn from `Harry Potter.'  The script was underwhelming in scenes depicting Thatcher's public life, but it was excellent in the very moving scenes of her current life as a delicate, rather pathetic, old lady.  All in all, I enjoyed it but think it could have been better.

ipod my pants Read movie reveiws elsewhere, I'll just point out that the digital copy is for ipod, ipad and related apple products only. If you don't own an iTunes capable product,  you are iscrewed out of the digital copy.

Wicked Little Thngs This movie was just ok.  It wasn't really what I would call horror compared to other movies in the Horrorfest series.  I had seen this movie prior to buying it but I didn't remember it. Clue #1. If I did I wouldn't have purchased it.  You could find better things to do with your money & I only paid a penny for it.

Not great I read all the reviews for this dvd before purchasing and was really hoping for more...  The work out is okay, in regards to a challenge but is really creepy from beginning to end.  This is not like any workout dvd I have ever seen with just 1 person doing the exercises in a dark room with a voice over of the instructions.  I do wish I could skip over some portions and/or it was split up into sections rather than going through the whole dvd warm up to cool down.  My fitness level was pretty good going into pregnancy; Pre-pregnancy I worked out about 3 days a week, strength training mostly but also ran and did fitness classes occasionally.  Some of the exercises you can make more challenging but overall I find it pretty boring and again, a bit creepy.  I do like that it seems to focus on exercises that will help with labor and delivery but this is my first child so only time will tell if that is accurate, if I can get myself to do this boring dvd on a regular basis...

one side no good The movie side was great, but the special features side didn't work. I tried another DVD player to no avail. Amazon had a great price and delivered as promised. B ut I guess I'm stuck with a defective DVD.

Did not meet expectations. Important to watch, but I was expecting to see more about what was going on throughout the world during that time.  What was going on with Israel and the famines and the changes on the earth taking place.

Donovan's Reef The story was good as was the acting however the DVD was not of the best quality.  At times the picture was grainy and slightly off the digital quality expected.

Adults: Thumbs Down --- Kids: Thumbs Up Well, our young kids liked it...  But for adults, it wasn't even close to being as good as the original Hoodwinked.  There were a couple funny movements, but the original was packed full of them.  The movie had some of the same voice talent from the first movie, but not all. Red is voiced by a different actress.  I wondered how well this movie did in the theaters compared to the first, and the Internet Movie Database showed that the first movie opened to 16 Million USD while this movie opened with only $4 Million USD the first week in the theater. Hoodwinked Too had terrible earnings compared to the first which is a reflection of how movie goers felt about the film.  This movie didn't have the charm or surprises of the first. There were new elements, but no new magic (which is hard to achieve in a sequel, but it can be done...the Toy Story sequels for example).  The references to Star Wars sure seemed out of the Blue. Other Gags in the movie seemed contrived and didn't gain the laughs I'm sure they were hoping for.  The goat was pretty funny in the first movie, but in Hoodwinked Too, it's hard to understand why he's in it at all.  The one thing they could have used more of was the evil bunny.  For parents, this one may be harder to watch. It did make me want to watch the first movie since it was unique and fun.  The kids liked it, so that stands for something. They didn't laugh a lot throughout the movie, but it did hold their attention.

A Respectable Entry in 007's Long Career A solid Bond film. While it might miss my list of the top five Bonds ever, it's certainly a welcome breath of fresh air after the increasingly creaky - and far too cartoonish - outings of Roger Moore. Dalton brings a welcome sense of danger back to the role of 007; when he pulls his weapon on John Rhys-Davies late in the film, you'd be forgiven for thinking that he might actually shoot him. In that way, it's a shame that he made only two films as 007 (though Dalton's second film, "Licence to Kill," turned out to be awful). The production values here are solid, and the focus on a (relatively) realistic tale of Cold War espionage keeps the story and characters grounded. Unfortunately, Dalton's Bond films had one of the weaker supporting casts of any Bond era: his Monneypenny is the weakest of that characters' three incarnations, and the actor playing M barely registers - despite having already essayed the role in Moore's final two outings. And Maryam D'Abo, while not terrible, is also hardly memorable as Bond's romantic interest. And yet Dalton makes this series entry worth a look, all while getting a little help from director John Glen and the great scenery.

Interesting. Could Have Been Much Better, Though. Note: I just saw the theatrical cut of this film with XFinity On Demand.  MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS.  Elektra, the sequel to Daredevil, has a very good trailer, a great opening action sequence and of course, Jennifer Garner, but that was basically it. There's a scene in the trailer which is not in the movie for some reason, and the plot is basically chopped up, like an appetizing Big-N'-Toasty that looks great when advertised on television, but the actual meal is a let-down. The actual storyline was good, but it could have been much better. Barely a reference to Daredevil and some fleeting glimpses of the death of Elektra's mother, the latter of which barely has any significance to the plot, beyond explaining why Elektra wants to protect Abby. More plot was needed, and what is it with almost every movie made these days in which the Lord's Name is taken in vain? "Thou shalt not take the Name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh His Name in vain." Hence the three stars.  See it once.  Rated PG-13 (intense action sequences, a strong religious profanity & some brief moderate language).

ACQUANETTA LIVES! Jungle Woman is not the best of the ape woman series,but it has Acquanetta in it so that's worth a look.It starts where Captive Wild Woman ends,Jungle Woman tries to be a Val Lewton type movie but the story is not to good,it has a good cast but they seem to be just passing through on their way to something better,Jungle Captive is a better movie in this series but if you have an hour to kill take a look you might just like it.

attach the block I thought the movie was good, but I got it or my daughter, who is a rabid horror movie fan. She likes it very much so it was on her christmas wish list.

Nice Trip Down Memory Lane This was a good trip down memory lane, but I was very disappointed that it was just talking, talking, talking and no music.  C'mon, just sprinkle some clips among the chattering.  Ginger Baker, dude, let the past be the past and stop whining.  You are respected for the talent you are, and should not bring yourself down with the negatives.  Especially since they are bygones.

NICE FOLLOW UP TO AN ICONIC MOVIE Nice follow up movie, but the DVD quality was very poor. Nobody played General Patton like George C. Scott, I can watch it and watch it - timeless!

Could have been worse, could have been better. Watched it right after Roger Rabbit; somehow felt like a spinoff, that was nice. Well, what got me to watch this as an adult when I'd never seen it as a child was several online polls that indicated that in modern times, Daffy ranks higher that Bugs in popularity polls by a landslide, so the first scene felt ironic, but I think that's what the movie's playing on, I mean Daffy was also the star of Quackbusters & Fantastic Island. It's a very VERY Meta comedy that pokes fun of how watered down & PC cartoons have become overtime. There's also a 4th wall breaking product placement joke.  Considering the date this was made, we were probably all a little disappointed when The Warners didn't pop out of the water tower, yet somehow Hanna Barbera characters & & Disney references poke their noses in. Speaking of Hanna Barbera characters, the first actually funny scene is 8-9 minutes in; Porky & Speedy are drinking orange cocktails & whining about how much political correctness sucks, quickly followed by Shaggy & Scooby b**ching out an actor for his portrayal in the live action movies & threaten to go after him if he messes up in the sequel, then bugs tells Kate that he has nothing to say to someone who doesn't approve of his crossdressing. Lastly there's the chase scene through the paintings in the Louvre.  For a movie where real life & cartoons coexist, my suspension of disbelief didn't ring any alarms until I saw the place Brendan Fraser was living in on his paltry security guard salary. To my surprise, this is actually addressed. I mentioned Roger Rabbit earlier; well Brendan & Daffy definitely develop a Roger-&-Elliott-like relationship. "You know, I'm getting REALLY tired of throwing you out of the car" may be Fraser's funniest line ever, while Sam's was refurring to a Nascar vehicle as a clown car.  The movie really can't decide if it wants to be for kids or adults; Honestly I don't think the painful predictable kid-friendly slapstick mixes very well with the soft ribaldry. When you try to appeal to the lowest common denominator instead of a narrow target audience, it loses something. Most of the actors are incredibly camp, so props to Fraser & Elfman for trying to play the movie as straight as possible while Steve Martin puts on the worst performance of his life. & the movie does display some balls in it's comedy with a little noncartoon violence, mild T&A, & referencing things children won't have seen, like Psycho or The Pit & the Pendulum. An annoyance is that Bugs & Daffy really do take a backseat to what is really a Brendan Fraser spy film.  There's some interesting dated pop culture references, if you keep your eyes on the background; Forbidden Planet (Robbie), Dr Who (Daleks), Matilda. Might as well add in that the animation is pretty good & some of the toon-real world interaction are pretty sweet.  The Chairmen character is very poorly written & really drags the whole whole show down in the 2ed half. This has to be a black stain of Steve Martin's resume. Also in the second half, Bugs & Daffy are reduced to tag-alongs, kinda like how the actual Transformers took a back seat to Shia LaBeouf in a movie that was supposed to be about robots.

Justice In The Eye Of The Beholder I anticipated a juicy inside scoop on the conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln, but that's not what this film is. Lincoln is shot early in the movie and the suspects are rounded up, including Mary Surratt who ran a boarding house and had connections to John Wilkes Booth. The US government gave her a military tribunal instead of a trial by jury and that is primarily what the movie is about. Knowing the end of the story from history, the viewer is left to absorb and analyze the commision's hearing as told by Redford. The movie is sympathetic to Mary Surratt and leans toward her innocence, but it doesn't try to prove guilt or innocence. That's not the point.  The War Secretery has interests in finding the culprits and carrying out swift justice to put the matter to rest. His main concern is to maintain the fragile union of North and South and prevent further bloodshed. Surratt's defense attorney wants to keep the constitutional freedoms for which he and so many have fought, bled, and died to save. The opposing interests create the tension that unfolds in the commision's hearing. The movie poses the question of whether military tribunals are just.

disappointed and underwhelmed I bought this item because I'm teaching a seminar on 1970s culture and because I recall reading a positive review of it in the music magazine THE WIRE (not the tech mag) when it came out. That review rolled around in my head for years and finally I found this video after some searching. Well, my desire grew as the memory rolled around, but when I got the item it wasn't worth the wait. I guess the lot of videotape appeared after dumpster-diving the garbage bin of a tv station (a charming back-story) but the collection is simply not that terrific, considering the price and the length (only an hour). It reminds me of an old Woody Allen: diner #!: "the food here is awful." "diner #2: "And such small portions!" If you're a hard-core commercial collector (some of these are funny), this dvd is worthwhile. If you're looking for interesting cultural detritus from the 1970s, this is only partly useful. Some of the commercials included are not even from the 1970s, as far as I can tell--which is kind of false advertising about false advertising. So, we are still waiting for a good collection.

This was my war. I had been searching for this movie for a long time.There has not been much on this subject,either print or film. My interest in this film,is because I was in that war,from 1955to 1956,a period of 18 months.So thanks to Amazon I was able to indulge myself.There is another film around called The Planters Wife,which is a lot more authentic than the 7th dawn.  Steve.

It's ok We have seen 3 of the other Buddie movies and enjoyed them all. There doesn't seem to be any violence in any of them or bad language. They are suitable for my 3 year old and my 9 year old. The buddies are very cute. This one, although it's appropriate, did not seem to hold their attention as much. I was bored watching it and usually I don't mind these movies at all. The story line was kind of long and drawn out. I would not suggest this to a friend, but the others are great!

Valentine's Day "There you have it, folks. Young love. Full of promise, full of hope, ignorant of reality."  It's been awhile since I saw this film. I know it was a very busy movie filled with a bunch of different popular actors and actresses. The movie starts off on a Valentine morning with several couples together. As the day goes along some have fights and are struggling to make it through the day. This movie is 100% a chick flick. I really didn't like the story because it was like three or four different stories that the writer tried to combine but it can out all over the place. If you like cheezy comedy romances this is your movie. I'm going to give it 2 stars out of 5 because it wasn't bad enough to get a one but I wouldn't recommend it to a friend. For the parents, the movie doesn't have any nudity except for a high schoolers butt. The sexual innuendo in the movie is not overwhelming for a normal romance comedy.

Good movie to watch with my 3 year old My son is 3 and watching this with him is the only reason I would see this. The only other possible reason is being a Broncos fan and seeing all that classic Broncos merchandise with their best emblem. Brought back some good memories of old Mile High Stadium. You really appreciate Denver's old uniforms with this movie. After all, the Broncos have had the worst uniforms in any sport since 1997. It's a decent family movie. Most of all for kids. After all, that's their target audience, kids from 3-12 years of age.

pleasantly pleased with the 3d Granted,I saw this free on my 3d "on demand" cable ,but from the reviews I wasn't expecting much.I'm not into airplanes at all,but I am into 3d and I actually thought the 3d was good.Even the factory scenes were good,a little ghosting but not bad.I'm going to buy the dvd and add to 3d collection,it has a good price and because the 3d was good I actually enjoyed it.I am one of the few here who enjoyed it,plus its short,not to long.

Viewed Movie I'm a Jennifer Aniston fan, but the movies was just alright. I wasn't expecting it to be an academy award winner... and it wasn't!! It was, however, entertaining. I was also curious to see the chemistry between she and Justin Theroux... and I'll have to say... there were some sparks!

Let The Right One In - Lite version Essentially, this is a pre-digested version of the Swedish original.  All the 'money shots' from the first film are replicated here, while the story is trimmed down--with many supporting characters simply absent.  The pace is ramped up a bit too much, and the soundtrack is just out of control.  The tone and burn of the original is simply lost here.  All due to the actors: the American cast is fine here, but the entire production staff succeeded in puking up a zero-calorie version of a great foreign-language film.  Rent, don't buy.

Flawed disc I was going to watch this dvd with my niece, it took a couple minutes to load it, trying to go to the menu and it would stop, then go, too much stalling, but when it finally started, it was fine.  I just thing for the money I paid, this should have been a better quality dvd, just don't know if its worth the hassle to send back.  Do I put up with this minor flaw dispite what I paid for it?  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001I561E">Aladdin (Disney Special Platinum Edition)</a>

He is no Steve Harvey........... he might have had better shows on his tour but I only found this dvd entertaining not big laffs funny. He does well on the air with his skits and characters but he needs a little more seasoning on his stand-up.  One of the better things he does is his impersonation of Steve Harvey which is spot on.  This is good but not great. His bit about opening up his own business, an ass whoopin factory for people who need they ass whooped was good but when on a little to long....

ok 3.5 stars - satisfies the he-man movie cravings Full cast of all your favorite badass testosterone overloaded actors, plenty of graphic violence, explosions, unbelievable odds and good fight scenes.  And the ladies get to enjoy Jason Statham in all his goodness (this might be his best picture). What more could you ask for?  (Ok, perhaps a little better STORY).  Stallone is a bit hard to look at in this one, and age takes it's toll on everyone - but while he's the "star" in this, he gets his butt handed to him a time or two in this one, so I appreciate that much realism to the story at least.  Typical testosterone movie, but if you're in the mood for one, chances are good you'll enjoy this one.  What would it have taken to get me to give it a better rating? More personality and intelligence. They didn't win by being smarter/craftier - they won with a lot of balls, weapons and sheer luck. But if you just want action - this will provide.

great series, ok dvd set note, this is not a review of the series, if you want that other reviews have that, its a review of the features and box set itself, with that said, its a great series.  So i am one of the few ppl on this planet who actually likes audio commentary, and this has that in spades.  episodes one through six all have that.  theres the black and white pilot episode, which isnt as great as i was hoping, but its interesting to watch once. those are about the only great special features for the set, if you dont care for those, i suggest you buy the normal dvd set.  for a collectors set i was expecting better special feature, or at the very least a better box to put the dvds in.  the illustration on the dvds, and where you put them into are great, but the rest of the box design is sub par.  even something as small as a plastic cover to put the box into is missing.  i dont want to discourage anyone from buying this set, im happy with it, but thats only because i like audio commentary, other then that i highly suggest you buy the regular set for a reduced price.

Promising and Funny, But Crude or Before Judd Apatow DODGEBALL is one of those movies that you read the back of the video box or DVD case and think, "This sounds pretty good. It sounds like it has a decent plot, it's a comedy, and it's got Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn so it has to be fairly good." Then you get home and watch the movie and can't believe how terrible it is. That's how I felt about DODGEBALL.  The set up of the movie is promising. Average Joes, a small time gym, has their mortgage purchased by Global Gym. The guy in charge of Global Gym hates the guy in charge of Average Joes. He thinks Average Joes is competing for his business and wants to turn Average Joes into a parking garage. The guys at Average Joes have to come up with $50,000 or their place is gone. That's where the dodgeball comes into play. The World Dodgeball Championships are being held in a few weeks in Las Vegas and the prize for the winning team is $50,000. But things go horribly wrong.  There are a lot of funny lines in DODGEBALL. Ben Stiller is hilarious for most of the movie (basically reprising his role of Tony Serkis from HEAVYWEIGHTS but for an adult audience), Vince Vaughn is witty as ever, Rip Torn is a riot as the team's personal trainer who comes out of retirement, and the movie has Lance Armstrong in one of the best movie cameos of the early 2000s.  But there's a hitch. Instead of going the high road of comedy DODGEBALL plays to the lowest common denominator and the movie drastically suffers. Foul language, crude jokes, every other sentence is filled with sexual innuendo. There's one scene where a group of young women are washing cars with their cleavage and there's another scene where Stiller's character uses a slice of pizza as Gold Bond. The movie promises to be hilarious, but it turns out to be a cruel, crude joke.  If you like the types of comedies that Judd Apatow directs and writes or are a fan of THE HANGOVER, then you'll probably enjoy DODGEBALL. Personally, I like my comedies a little less crude. As for the movie being "A True Underdog Story", that's just part of the gimmick. If you want to watch a real underdog story watch RUDY or MIRACLE.

Not a Comedy, But Perhaps Unintentionally Funny It's not actually a comedy, but there are some pretty funny scenes. It's not really a romance, but there are some very sweet romantic scenes. It's not exactly a suspense story, but . . . well, you get the idea.  Mel Gibson plays Jerry Fletcher, a NYC cab driver and conspiracy theorist. I mean big time. The X-files have got nothing on him. Julia Roberts plays Alice Sutton, a Justice Department lawyer Jerry keeps bugging to try to get her to help him. Or at least that's the reason on the surface. You got to figure on several layers in any story about conspiracy, of course. And Patrick Stewart is magnificently evil as the mysterious Dr. Jonas.  The premise is that even though Jerry is a real nut, there also really is a conspiracy. Plenty of black helicopters and black SUVs, and guys dressed in black suits and sunglasses. Who's working for whom, who is trying to kill whom? Don't work at it too hard, but just let it unfold. Just when you think you've got it figured, there's one more kink. Yes, right up to the last minute or two. Maybe not all that profound, but fun.

The book is better. It's true, and if you've read the book, you can't argue otherwise. Granted, due to the size of the book, much of it had to be omitted from the movie so that it would be short enough to be made into a single film. Maybe, if I had chosen to see this first and then read the book, I might have given it a better review. Unfortunately that was not the case and because of it, I can only give three stars. And I am being generous. Read the book. It may start off a little slow, but be patient, it is amazing.

Not compatible with software in southern hemisphere The dvd was a gift for my niece and nephew and it arrived promptly before Christmas - however unfortunately cannot be played on dvd in Australia or New Zealand.  Is there any way this item can be exchanged/converted?  Thanks

real This movie was somewhat disturbing in it's realism.  Curse words were few, so it wasn't that.  It will make you think and challenge your beliefs.  It is challenging and hard to describe.  It is a true story and so is valuable for learning.  The man it is about is a very controversial figure.  Some people nearly worship him, and others can hardly stand him and try to discredit everything he does.  Check it out and broaden your understanding of the world and perhaps yourself.

Jack Goes Floating 1) I thought I would really dislike this. The setup was too awkward. But I didn't totally hate it. 2) I feel like I was watching "Punch Drunk Love" all over again only with Philip Seymour Hoffman instead of Adam Sandler. Ah, big deal. 3) The outside of the DVD box has press quotations like "hilarious and heartfelt" and "as funny as it is heartrending." What is 'hilarious'? The fact that they smoke a hookah and forget that dinner was cooking? Oritz's character telling Hoffman's character to visualize his eyes being open while instructing him to shut his eyes? Hoffman's character bringing a koala bear to Amy Ryan's character in the hospital, twice mentioning that they come from Australia? These are all indie films quirks. Hilarious, though? 4) The 'visualization' lessons get silly. Especially the cooking, the way Jack stirs an imaginary bowl of whatever in mid-air. Sorry, that's just not powerful stuff. 5) I tire of indie music shoehorned into indie films for no clear reason. I know everyone at Pitchfork likes Grizzly Bear, yes. They want to give everything they do 9.0 or higher because they're "cooler" than bands from our previous decade. But anymore, I get the feeling that music and movies do not enhance one another anymore. They are just slapped together.  All in all, I did not dislike "Jack Goes Boating." Some of it can get away from you, like when things are explained after they happen. But in the end, there are much worse ways to burn up 91 minutes of your time.

A-movie, B-movie? Average movie!!! Contained some spoilers  -----------------------  This movie could had easily been a 5 star movie, but it failed to do so many things. At times this movie felt like an A-movie, but at other times it felt like a B-movie. The acting, story line, and directing was really a mix of good and bad. Also, the music used was great, but it was sometimes too dramatic and messed up the movie.  For the acting, it seemed like Hayden Panetiere and Josh Hutcherson were the best in the movie. The other actors had their moments, but in other scenes failed to make the movie more realistic. So, in some scenes I was believing what they were doing and in other scenes it all just seemed way too scripted.  I find that the story was very bad at times, where it doesn't make any sense. But, the movie still goes forward even though it doesn't make sense. For example, when the case worker finds Josh's character's mother finally! She steps in and looks at the situation. The mother asks the case worker what she doing there but never answers her. The case worker saw that the mom is abusing a new small child. The case worker goes off and calls for the police. The mother is never heard from again because the case worker told Josh character she didn't find his mother. The way the story was build didn't make sense for him to care that his mom was still abusing kids. He doesn't care that he was abused, that another kid was too, or that his mom is a drug addict. He just wants to see his mom and the story doesn't let that happen. And so, the movie just moves on from that to the next so builded up scene, which was even worse than the last.  The very worse scene was the climax of the movie. This is where the audience is waiting to see if the painting being shown is real or not. The super big showing that will save Everly (art dealer), career, fortune, and life basically. Then, all of a sudden Aunt Marie (kind old artist) comes out of no where and reveals that she was a art forger before and tells people there the painting is a forgery. Her acting was terrible when she slashed up the painting and her acting was even worse when she threaten Everly. Then, the story just allowed her to do whatever with her life after that. No one stopped her after words, no police for past crimes? No angry art buyers? Not even Everly? What kind of movie is this???  Then, Josh Hutcherson character was there too and no one stopped him either or did anything bad happened to him afterwards. The very end of the movie doesn't make sense! Now Everly just lost everything!!!! He bascailly going to be living in the gutter for the rest of his life or be dead by the people that he borrowed money from, but he didn't do anything about it or was mad. He just disappeared after that. That's so crazy!!! You would think he would really want to get back at Josh character for spoling everything and basically killing him. But, no, nothing happens. Also, what happened to the $5K that he gave Josh at the end too? You don't think Everly going o want that back because he basically broke and $5 cut can still buy him some things to get out of the country, while he still can that is. So, the movie just allows Josh's character to keep the money? Man that's hard to believe.  This movie is way to nice on everyone that is good and too unrealistic for the ones that are part. Even aunt Marie was let off too easy. This movie creates a "force happy ending", even though, there was no way of really having one. So, it doesn't make any sense based on the events leading towards the climax and after, but everyone likes a happy ending, right? Even if it doesn't make sense on how it got there. NOT!!!  It's a so-so movie. Watch it at your own risk. But, you might find yourself thinking at the end of the movie, "what kind of ending was that?????"

Watch the deleted scenes I was not impressed with this movie at the theaters, but that was probably because the previews looked really good. I watched Jarhead again on DVD and thought it was much better with the deleted scenes. Some of them really give you a better understanding of the complexity of the characters and where there are coming from.

MY FAVE MOVIE!!! This movie is my all-time favorite movie!!! I spent my childhood watching it on HBO and still catch it whenever i can!  But sadly, i'm soo disappointed in the quality of the dvd!  The clarity is great but the movie sounds and looks sped up!!!!!!!! a tear!!!!!!!!

3D Movie Recently bought 3D TV. Have been enjoying it with 3D movies. This was a fun movie. Would have liked more of the out of TV effects.

3.5 stars This is the story of an astronaut who dies on a mission, and has his DNA cloned. Unfortunately, the resulting clone, fixates on a tragic accident from his childhood and is unable to overcome this obsession.   The Clone Returns Home is a film with a lot of promise that seems to lose it's way towards the end. The film is beautifully shot. I really enjoyed the cinematography, lighting, and overall visual presentation. I also thought the acting and direction was good. My biggest problem with this movie, is that as it progresses, it all but abandons the interesting and philosophically rich plotline, in favor of an artsy, but unfulfilling direction. I just felt, given the subject matter, there were so many questions about the soul and resonance, even the ethics of cloning, that could have been explored more. It felt like that's where they were heading and instead the last third of the movie devolves into not much more than some attractive shots of the clone walking through the countryside.   There are a lot of things done well in this movie, and overall I enjoyed it. The pace is a little on the slow side, but I felt that was fine when the story was progressing, it's really the last third of the movie where it actually feels slow. Despite the inconsistencies, I still recommend this movie, especially to those more into the arthouse style.

Clever Funny and/or Campy Funny This film made me laugh and had fun watching with my family. It seems as though the writers could not decide what comedy genera to stick with from scene to scene. Still fun. Worth a watch.

essentially a sex story, neglecting the deeper themes of the book This is a film about young, very beautiful people having sex.  You have a libertine doctor, who attracts women like flies and treats them like flies.  Indeed, his fly is rarely zipped.  He has an amazing lover, Lena Olin in her prime, but then he meets a serious girl (Binoche).  Which woman a male viewer prefers is a great rorschach test.  Oh, and the background is the Prague Spring of 1968, all the way through the Soviet crackdown.  Unfortunately, this is far closer to pornography than the psychological and political masterpiece that is Kundera's philosophical novel.  Indeed, there is very little explanation of the characters' motivations.  For example, in the book, it is clear that the doctor is both afraid of women and angry at them, having just lost his daughter in a bad divorce - it is the key to his character and there is nothing about that in the film.  The same can be said of his women, however lovely they are.  And the politics?  It is merely events that occur as if in passing, changing their situations but with little else to say.  Recommended tepidly.

like a long "this american life" If you like the story telling style of 'this american life' or morgan spurlocks stuff then you will enjoy it.

Funny but trys to relate to everyone This is a good movie.  Rent worthy.  Things are too busy.  Your are spending to much of your time trying to relate to every mini story.  They try to tie it all together but done very roughly.  Should have picked 2 maybe 3 storys and developed them more.  If you have gone threw pregnacy, the expecting process, or ARE going threw the expecting process a few things really jump out at you as funny.

Funny Movie I personally thought the movie was ok. I originally bought it for my boyfriend because he is a big bowling fan, but it is defitnitely funny. I wouldn't recommend it to someone who dosen't neccassiraly get dry humour.

What movie have I not watched yet? I would give it 3.5 stars... just for the survival stuff.  I personally think it is a little unbelievable so I found myself saying things like "I don't think so" and "That was dumb"... all that aside it was action packed and entertaining... I would watch it again if I didn't have any other options.

misleading trailer This was a fairly accurate portrayal of someone dealing with cancer and is not funny or light-hearted at all, though the preview makes it out to be that way. Don't watch this movie unless you want to cry and feel depressed afterward.

BAD PACKAGING SCARES ME OFF I HAD CONSIDERED PURCHASING THE COMPLETE SERIES OF "THE WIRE" UNTIL I LEARNED THAT THE PACKAGING OF THIS SERIES IS AS BAD AS THAT OF THE SOPRANOS WHICH I OWN BUT STRUGGLE WITH THE SAME POOR PACKAGING.  DO NOT UNDERSTAND HB0 DOING SUCH A BAD JOB THE WAY THEIR DISKS ARE HANDLED.  I OWN THE COMPLETE SETS OF CARNIVALE AND DEADWOOD THAT HBO PRODUCED WHICH ARE WELL PACKAGED SO I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THE BIG DIFFERENCE.

Collapse DVD This DVD was essentially an interview with Michael Ruppert who is described as a rogue reporter. He makes many points worth considering regarding the potential for the collapse of our oil based civilization. However, during the interview, the tight focus on the chain smoking Ruppert was distracting and hard to watch. He has a message worth contemplating but if I use the DVD again I will turn off the picture and listen to the sound.

Being There An oldie but goodie.  it's been years since I've watched this film and it is still great.  Peter Sellers was a genius.

Despite a handful of innovative moments, the lack of sympathetic characters really drags the film down The original Paranormal Activity was one of those wonderful stories of a no-budget project striking it rich.  The inevitable sequel managed to avoid the common "bigger is better" mentality of most sequels to actually rival, if not surpass its original.  Expectations, then, were understandably high for this third entry in the franchise.  Unfortunately, the "rule of three" rears its ugly head this time out.  Paranormal Activity 3, while containing some very inventive moments, ultimately represents the typical "bare-bones story to hang a bunch of creepy shots on" mindset.  If you don't know by now, this entry attempts to give us some backstory on the sisters of the first two films.  Thus, from its inception, the movie has an uphill battle to fight.  If George Lucas has taught us anything, it's that your backstory should always remain just that ... backstory...  not your main plot.  A brief opening segment shows us the sisters just before the tragic events unfold, as they discover a box of VHS tapes from their childhood.  From here we dive into 1988 and a young Katie and Kristi with their mother Julie, and Dennis, her new live-in boyfriend.  The film wastes no time jumping into the "bumps in the night" sequences that induce Dennis to setup the requisite cameras around the house... his being a wedding videographer serving as the explanation for why he has access to so much equipment, which would have been VERY expensive back in its day.  The movie does not deviate from the formula of alternating nighttime segments with the follow up reactions to watching the footage and the inevitable climax of "activity" and tragedy.  By now, you know most of what's going to happen, and the film largely relies more on jump scares (many of them cheap fake-outs) than the genuine creepiness of its predecessors (save for one masterful moment involving a babysitter).  The one real innovation this time out is a camera placed on the base of an oscillating fan which slowly pans between the kitchen and living room.  It's pretty incredible how suspenseful a slow, repetitive pan can be, and the two or three sequences that play off this concept are the only real highlights of the film.  From the get go, the film presents its weakest element, and that is lack of sympathetic characters.  The children, while cute, are underdeveloped as characters and not particularly convincing in their acting. The adults, meanwhile, are easily the most cardboard and generic characters to come out of this series.  The few characters from outside the family are not even remotely sketched out enough to generate any interest either.  In the previous films, the segments between the nighttime scenes were slowly giving us some insight into the families and friends ... filling in a little detail without losing sight of the main story.  In this film, we learn nothing about the girls' mother ... why is she single?  Where is the father?  Who is this boyfriend and how has he come into the picture?  We certainly don't expect to focus on any of these things - but some sense that they have an existence outside the elements of the film would go a long way toward humanizing them.  The bulk of the film plays out as expected, and isn't too bad, even if it is growing all too familiar.  However, a late in the film relocation of the action seems to completely destroy any momentum, and the finale suffers for it.  In the end, we haven't really learned much about the background of the girls that we didn't already know from the snippets of conversation in the previous two films.  Sadly, one of the chief mysteries, that of the half-burned polaroid from the first film, remains unresolved ... leaving room, I suppose, for another prequel.  Now, if I may vent for a moment... the problem with trotting a one-trick pony out too many times is that the flaws start to become harder to put out of your mind.  Chief among them being that which is the bane of any mock-umentary, and that is the increasing unlikelihood that characters facing an immediate threat to their lives would continue to film their demise from a shoulder mounted camera.  In key moments, rather than being terrified at how Dennis might escape the menace that is barreling down on him and the young girls, I found myself wondering why he doesn't drop the camera and bolt out the door.  Add to this the illogic that we have a man who hears noises coming from a kids bedroom storage closet, and then promptly sets up a camera that DOES NOT INCLUDE THE CLOSET IN THE SHOT!  Rather, he is focused on the girls' beds.  Even after Kristi has a conversation with "something" in the closet which is just off camera, still Dennis does not think to re-orient the camera to the closet door.  Likewise mind-boggling is setting up a camera in the living room, where nothing has been happening at all!  Again, we know these are cheats for the sake of the audience, and when the idea was fresh in the first two movies, we simply overlooked them - but when the story becomes so threadbare as to no longer engage our minds, we can't help but go there.  And the film goes beyond that - it is littered with scenes that would send any real life person running out the door, yet somehow we are asked to accept that after a girl is lifted in the air by her hair in her bedroom, that very night she will still sleep in the same room.  When Julie is fed up with Dennis' cameras, she shouts at him ... "this ends TOMORROW!"  I laughed to myself ... "Tomorrow!?"  Wouldn't a seriously pissed off person say it ends NOW!?  But of course, that would mean the movie is over!  Even after relocating to her mother's house, Dennis still sets up the camera in their bedroom ... "How much longer are you going to videotape?" Julie asks. Dennis answers, in a serious example of how little the producers cared about scripting, "Until this is all over, I guess."  Bam, done ... there's a camera set up in their bedroom, accept it!  The official trailer was apparently packed with scenes that do not exist in the final film, neither the theatrical nor the director's cut.  I suppose this was a ploy to keep audiences from being able to predict the scares of the movie - but I couldn't help but feel that the movie I had EXPECTED to see from the trailer might have been a much better movie than what we actually got.  In short, while I was entertained by it, after the fact I felt the film wasted its potential to really delve into the girls and their story, and instead delivered us the inevitable formula approach - "just turn out the lights and make things suddenly move and get loud."  At this point, the series has really tapped out its potential, and its time to move on to other things.  But, when a studio smells cash, well, you know what happens...

Horrible Ending I only picked this movie because I was interested to see how they did the "found footage" genre. (I wonder how much longer we're going to get movies like that)  The Last Exorcism tells the story of an exorcist who has decided to come clean. For his last exorcism, he wants to document how he "tricks" the people into believing the rite has been performed.  Patrick Fabian plays Cotton Marcus, the exorcist who receives a letter to deliver a Nell (Ashley Bell) from a demon. Nell's father is worried for his home schooled daughter. His livestock are being slaughtered and it seems as if Nell is to blame.  Marcus and his documentary crew of two arrive to perform the "exorcism". After getting paid and providing Nell's father some peace of mind, the crew spend the night at a local motel.  In the middle of the night, Nell shows up in one of their motel rooms seeming sleep walking.  And the terror begins.  This movie wasn't as scary as I figured it would be. I'm usually a push-over for scary movies but this one really didn't have too many scare moments. (There was a scene involving a poor farm cat...)  Unlike most Found Footage films, The Last Exorcism has been edited and background music has been added. Who would have found the camera and decided to produce it with the kind of serious material found inside?  Ashley Bell does a good job of giving the camera creepy stares and how in the world can she go so long without blinking?  Like most horror films, this has an intriguing storyline with a few twists to keep things interesting. But sadly, the ending almost ruins the film. It takes one twist too many and ends in an almost different place. Too many scary movies fall into this trap: scary movie until the ending/big reveal.  The Last Exorcism is rated PG-13 for disturbing violent content and terror, some sexual references and thematic material.

Little more than an advertisement This is a 45-minute-long commercial for the Boeing 787.  Little of substance was presented, and the flashy and unwelcome computer graphics, often appearing where a real plane should have been, served only to confirm the film's shallowness and one's feeling of being cheated out of viewing the real thing.  But the airliner itself is beautiful to look at.

I was a bit disappointed after having sampled and practiced several beginners qigong DVDs, this one resonate much less with me and felt less satisfying as a practice. I would have liked to see the entire sequence of moves as one continuous flow of practice at the end of the DVD, as an option.  I agree with another reviewer who mentioned that the 8 routines advertised on the cover is in fact the 8 Brocade, one set of practice, not 8 different sets. And sometimes the angle of the camera or the distance to the performer made parts of the posture/move unclear.  I do like the alternative modifications he offers for each move.

"Cropped" film print used for this dvd? I watched this movie not too long ago on the MGM HD channel on TV and I vaguely remembered this film when it first came out in theaters back in '93. Seeing this movie in it's entirety for the first time on TV, I ended up liking this flick a lot. I'm usually not a fan of romance films "chick flicks" but this one stood out a lot to me and I decided to buy the dvd.  Well, it turns out that the film print used for the dvd is not the same as what I saw on TV. There's one particular scene where Adam and Caroline go into the bedroom. Marisa Tomei's character takes off her bra and there's a front shot of her boobs and she places Christian Slater's character's hand on one of them. On the dvd this scene is cut! Like what I mean is that it's not cut out but the image is cropped. It shows from just above her chest. Is this some form of censorship? I mean WTF! It's not like that scene was pornographic and it was still a tender moment in this movie. There were some other scenes like at the hockey game, the players skating on the ice, their heads were cropped out. The whole film on this dvd looks like some of the image was removed from the top and bottom of the film.  Doing a little research on this film on the internet, I hear there's supposedly a "European Cut cable tv version" in which I think that's the version I saw on TV? (I'm not quite sure about that). "European Cut version" hasn't been released on any video format. To anyone who happens to read my review do know what I'm talkin' about?  ...As for the picture and sound quality of this dvd it's actually pretty good. It's not 5.1 sound but the 2 channel stereo surround seems adequate for this type of film. I would've given this product five stars, but I'm led to believe that the "original film print" as shot by the director was not used for this dvd. I don't know how this film looked when it came out in theaters back in '93 but they need to put Marisa's boobies back in this film for the dvd!

Not bad for the price, I guess. The movie is wonderful and the dvd was clear of any scratches, but the cover had permanent marker on her face that wouldn't come off. I know it was used, but it was marked as very good and that isn't very good in my opinion.

Wanted to Like It, But . . . I wanted to like this movie.  And it does have engaging things.  The Night Fury dragon, Toothless, that Hiccup adopts is cute and likable.  In the commentary, the animators talk a long time about how hard they had to work to fashion a cute, yet still scary, face.  One look at "Stitch" from "Lilo and Stitch" will show that they needn't have worked so hard.  They could have stolen Stitch's (maybe they did).  Likewise, the moral is engaging: better to understand and befriend than demonize and kill.  Also, Astrid is cute, and the love-story is humorously un-romantic.  But still, I had a hard time liking it.  One reason was Jay Baruchel's voice for Hiccup.  In the commentary, Baruchel becomes effusive with what a super, great, life-changing and world-changing movie this was.  But it isn't.  I can't tell if Baruchel actually believes this, or is just protesting too much.  Baruchel gets the "Christian-Slater-Talk-Alike" award, but his whinyness gets old fast.  Another reason is the static appearance of Stoick, Hiccup's father.  Yes, he is mildly engaging, but only mildly.  The animators talk at length about what a breakthrough he is, but his braided beard and furry coat look merely painted on, and his body moves like a robot.  The dragons are uniformly cute and interesting, but the human characters are uniformly monotonous.  Despite the raves of all the people who worked on the movie (in the commentary), really it is nothing special to look at.  And even if it were, mere appearance can never make up for mediocre characters.

A bit disappointed I'm use to the 1998 version of this movie so when i saw this new version i was disappointed that alot of jijis dialog was missing and alot of the music as well...which is horrible! Kikis delivery service is a great movie! but i like the 1998 version so much more

WESTERNS & TOM SELLECK & SAM ELLIOTT--HEAVEN For any of you who are die-hard western fans this is one of the best -- another of Louis L'Amour's good westerns, the story follows two brothers after the Civil War and the conflicts that must face.  One brother having fought for the North, the other the South, this story also depicts one of the greatest tragedies of that War -- the division of beliefs within one's own family and how they must come to terms are reunite as a family afterwards.  Though somewhat predictable in parts, as are most westerns, Selleck and Elliott play off one another, making their portrayal of the brothers very believable.  Not as good as THE SACKETTS, it is still worth watching.

Vivien and those Gorgeous Gowns!!! Who can wear a gown like Vivien with her 18" waist, delicate beauty, and grace....  saw no chemistry between her and Vronsky, more so in the near death bed scene with Ralph much more convincing.... was shocked that this version actually shows her UNDER the train and the POV of suicide in St. Pete's... read the novel and knew we would be treated to 3-4 themes max and for Tolstoy readers that may be a blessing! do not remember Anna saying she never really loved her son Sergei, but was a reflection of herself... loathing creature who created her own demise, but imagined that during this time period a woman who would leave her family for a fling would be portrayed in the lowest light of crime and deserve her punishment....  now there's another cliff hanger, gotta love Tolstoy... I do prefer the Garbo version but appreciate the esoteric themes of seances, dream interpretation, predestination, and precognition... luxurious sets, costumes, gestures most appreciated, recommend for Leigh fans.

Behind Enemy Lines II (DVD) Movie was okay, but had different actors and characters. Didn't really have a tie in to the original movie, but it stands up fairly well on it's own.

Great western spoof! This western spoof starring the comic legend Bob Hope,pretty Jane Russell and the King of the Cowboys Roy Rogers is excellent humor for the family.Directed by a former cartoonist,it is full of cartoon gags!

Great for the intermediate to advanced VIDEO QUALITY I would have given this a better rating if the video quality were better. It was a little fuzzy to me. Also, the music intro is a bit 1990's looking to me, and the workout just didn't have a very good "ambiance". I prefer workouts videotaped in energetic surroundings. This workout is taped in a warehouse locker room looking room (bricks and lockers).  EQUIPMENT You will need light dumbells and a step!!  WORKOUT The workouts themselves are great for circuit training. They are definitely for the intermediate to advanced. I would suggest you only try this if you are about 10 pounds overweight or are pretty in shape. I tried these postpartum at 60 pounds overweight. I couldn't handle it. I am saving the discs to use when I am in better shape, and I am using the Jillian Michaels<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00127RAJY">Jillian Michaels - 30 Day Shred</a>and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003TJM69C">Jillian Michaels: Shred-It With Weights</a>. The pace is FAST in these workouts and I injured my knee the first week. The <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00127RAJY">Jillian Michaels - 30 Day Shred</a> is a much slower pace, and still challenging.

Another intense slice of life from Mike Leigh The lead actress, Sally Hawkins, owns this movie. Brilliant acting. In the usual style of Mike Leigh, this film examines the lives of working-class Londoners. Don't be fooled by the title - this isn't a comedy, it's a searing portrait of how people are today - abused children in the home, alienated, angry driving teachers, lonely women who binge drink. That the main character, Poppy, can keep her hopes and spirits up is a testament to the British working-class, and how they use humor to cope. Poppy calls herself "lucky," but nobody in this unsparing film has found their bed of roses. At the end, as Poppy and her flatmate go boating in the park, Poppy's new love interest calls on her cell. . .maybe romance will lift her from the "tough bits" of daily London life.

Good season All Around I am a big Law & Order fan, and I enjoyed the 9th year. I learned a lot about some of the characters' lives that I didn't know before during reruns on the tv. The only wierd thing about this set is the Homicide Life on the Street crossover is on the first dvd instead of the third or fourth. Otherwise, everything else was great, and I hope after the tenth year, they keep releasing them quickl.

I have no idea why I like this movie. Maybe it is because I am from Philadelphia, and the beginning of the movie does show a great "devil's eye" view of the city.  Although I think they add an extra skyscraper to the downtown, or it was built after I left.  Or maybe I just like the premise.  But I love this movie.  The acting stinks, the plot is ridiculous, they got to save lots of money by putting five actors in a small space for most of the movie - no extra money for scenery.  The main detective is somewhat compelling - the movie came across as a fight for his soul, after he went through a traumatic experience which could have caused him to fall into a hole of cynicism and self-pity.  You don't know which way he is going to go until the end of the movie.  But it is handled is such a pedestrian, hamfisted way that it is hard to care.  But he does better than his fellow actors in getting to the point of the movie.  The ending is so predictable.  Despite all of these strikes against it - I found this movie entertaining.  I have seen it two or three times and I still cannot explain why.  But I will say - I think it is worth a look - you may disagree with me, but you should try it out.  Especially if you are from Philly.

Solid The biggest flaw is that the film takes a comic approach to things, rather than putting `real' characters and events into the film. Even in the film's first 20 minutes, in the `real' world, we get nothing even resembling reality- from bad computer effects and animation to absurdly written minor characters and situations. Comedy, by its nature, divorces empathy from a viewer. Laughter AT a character is always more satisfying for most viewers than laughing with a character; but this necessarily dehumanizes the character, making empathy near impossible, and sans empathy, a whole horde of tools that an artist has, to manipulate a viewer intellectually and emotionally is gone. On the plus side, actors Hewlett (who looks like a younger Jon Lindstrom- actor of soap opera fame) and Miller, do well with the mediocre stuff they are given. Miller's transformation from obsequious nerd to insensitive boob is funny, but Hewlett's is the better character, and the only one to evince any form of empathy, in the scene where Andrew tricks Dave into thinking he committed suicide.    Nothing is one of those films that will stick with a viewer for a while, if only because it will leave scenarios open to be `reworked' in each viewer's mind. But, given the title and the tone and arc of the film, its ending is all too predictable, in the worst sense of the term. Yet, given how little thought is given to most films these days- Hollywood, independent, foreign, or domestic, I guess one should be grateful for what little is received, especially coming from a film that only promises Nothing.

Not bad Dodgeball has a lot of funny parts, but its not the best movie out their. The only reason I bought this movie was because Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor, and Vince Vaughn star in it. I thought this movie was going to be one of the best. Maybe I'm just not a dodgeball fan. Either way I wouldn't give this movie Five stars.

CIELO ROJO-RED SKY OVERLY DRAMATIC & ENTERTAINING <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000WMEESU">Cielo Rojo</a>RED SKY A RAW DRAMA FROM THE '60s about two lovers Rodolfo & Maria (Mr. RODOLFO DE ANDA R.I.P 2010 & Ms. PATRICIA CONDE HUSBAND & WIFE IN REAL LIFE) FILMED IN MEXICO'S BEAUTIFUL ACAPULCO. Rodolfo is a CLIFF DIVER AT THE FAMOUS TOURISTIC LA QUEBRADA, a dangerous occupation that barely pays him to survive so he becomes an opportunistic young man who stops at nothing for money. To add to his troubled life his girlfriend Maria, also a poor girl from the port area, gives Rodolfo the unespected news that she is pregnant with his child. What evolves from this point is a story about moral responsibility & choices for these two young people whose lives are forced to the brink of murder. Again, excellent acting by Mr. DE ANDA & THE VERY TALENTED Ms. CONDE. She retired early from her acting career while still a young woman. CIELO ROJO - RED SKY - THE COLOR OF BLOOD!!

A good funny movie 'Black Sheep' by David Spade and Chris Farley is a funny movie. Chris Farley stars as Mike Donelly, the brother of a congressman-hopeful Al Donelly, who has aspirations to go all the way to the white-house.  However, one problem is Mike keeps creating diversions. He's an hilarious walking disaster, everywhere he goes there's chaos. Eventually, Al prescribes a weaselly beaurocrat called Steve Dodds (played by David Spade) to simply do one job, keep Mike out of trouble! Of-course, that seems like an easy task, but soon turns out to be really difficult. Eventually Al the congressman sends both of them into a cabin in the deep woods somewhere, hopefully out of harms reach.  Things go from bad to worse as the cabin turns into a nightmare house full of bats, a roof that falls off and lets the 'elements' in and doesn't want to sit straight. They become targets of a wild war veteran and a gang aggressive kids. Mike feels so bad about it all that he gets up on stage in front of 'young voters' who were enjoying a concert and giving them an exciting prep-talk on the up[coming election until dropping one of the most embarrrassing slip of the tongue's of all political history! But you'll never believe who saves the day for Al Donelly in the end.  While the movie was funny, I grew tired a bit of Chris Farley's constant over-acting, and, judging by the look on David Spade's face, he was growing a little tired of it too. That said, Farley is great as the incompetent dope who could ruin almost anything, and you'll enjoy watching the wild and funny adventures of Mike and Steve.

WB shafts DVD Buyers The movie is great, but the DVD is lacking. Warner brothers promised that the dvd release would include in it the opening of deathly hallows part 2. It doesnt. it contains only four of the promised deleted scenes, and is missing all the other promised material.  luckily, the price was low, but WB needs to make the opening sequence avalible for DVD people, because they promised us that feature, and not everyone can afford to keep dropping hundreds of bucks to buy blu ray players, and whatever format will replace it.  it may be a small promise, but the opening of part two was a promise, nonetheless.

MomO3 I bought this after reviews said it was good for even the most sensitive children. Oddly enough, my 2 year old loves the Totoro character, but my 5 year old was totally creeped out by it. She was up 2 times that night saying that she was scared of Totoro. Cute movie, but this will be going in the vault for a couple of years.

A thing called presence... With all due respect to Michelle Williams, a fine actress, who I'm sure put her heart and soul into this part, she just doesn't capture the brilliant essence of Marilyn Monroe. For the moment let's forget she doesn't look anything like Marilyn, nor does she possess the iconic curves (I would love to know why they didn't give the part to Scarlett Johannson, a wonderful actress who does possess those physical attributes). But the real missing ingredient here is Marilyn's dazzling screen presence. That's no knock on Williams! You can count on one hand the number of actresses who possessed the sort of presence as Monroe. Personally, I found the performances by Judy Dench and Emma Watson to be more captivating. But then again, they didn't have the unenviable task of trying to portray a screen legend! As a huge fan of Monroe I found the movie interesting, and I'm certainly glad I watched it. To be fair, Michelle Williams does an admirable job of portraying the person BEHIND the presence: an insecure, lonely, and unhappy woman. But I'd be lying if I said I wasn't ultimately disappointed. For those who aren't familiar with Marilyn's work, I think they would find the movie much more enjoyable. For those of us who are...there simply are no substitutes.

Sweet and entertaining but inaccurate I enjoyed this movie, I really did, but it would have been better if I wasn't trying to figure out how Danielle could be considered a commoner when she's the daughter of a countess. We don't know for sure what rank her father was but it was evidently good enough for him to marry a very snooty and ambitious baroness, so he was almost certainly a nobleman. And if his first wife, Danielle's mother, was a countess he's likely to have been a count. Unless she was illegitimate, which was never suggested, Danielle would have been a noblewoman by birth and of equal rank to her stepsisters. Even if the mother wasn't really a countess, Danielle would certainly have been a gentlewoman, not a commoner. My feeling is that the Angelica Huston character's treatment of her would have been considered quite scandalous by the nobility. She and her fellow servants would most certainly have been aware of all this. Then add in the fact that the word 'courtier', which is used to describe Danielle, was used only for men - women were courtesans. (Granted, the female version has another meaning that wouldn't be appropriate for this movie.)  I guess all that is nitpicking, but it really bugged me and took quite a bit of entertainment value out of what's otherwise a very charming movie.

An old favorite revisted O.K., Cocoon isn't among Hollywood's Top 100 All-Time Best Movies, but so what?  It's good mind candy for an evening, tapping into even young viewers' desire to retain their vigor.  It reminds me of either a movie or a TV program that featured well-past retirement men and women who sneak out to play in the moonlight and become rejuvenated, while their fearful companions stay in their rooms and wither away.  I enjoyed Cocoon as a theatrical release, and I enjoy it at home. Let's pop up a bowlful of fun.

Convincing, but lack strength as either a drama or a thriller The movie is convincing and I suppose it's so not because it shows something unique, but because we already have a popular consciousness about collusion between politics and big businesses. That we are already familiar and, in some fashion, comfortable with the idea that our intelligence and  other branches of government were, are and will be involved in some capacity or another, with manipulating the world economic and political affairs--even if it means selective elimination of powerful figures beyond our borders. However, the style of storytelling in the show was very poor, despite good acting from all involved. Who should I blame? I think the director and screen-writer are to share the burden. Yet, they took up a complex subject matter to deal with, so this weakness is forgivable. But, a B is a B on paper. So, a three star quality is a three star quality. Those who are wondering about my vague notion of the story's weakness, I suggest you watch it. Kind of hard to pin-point, but the transitions of the scenes are too fast and could be more coherent. At the same time, I can assure you that you won't miss much if you spend your time watching something else. Thanks for reading.

Opened My Eyes when i first was getting ready to write my review i was going to give it 5 stars!! i loved the movie thought it was very funny. after reading some of the lower reviews one customer made a very good point about the girls being in an orphange and the box of shame. and i totally agree now. even though i still like this movie i dont think children in an orphange is something to poke fun at. i know it is just a cartoon but stuff like that does actually happen and its sad.

Does he or doesn't he? The music is timeless as always. In the 60's and 70's most of us grew up, "hearing" the music and never seeing what the performers looked or acted like. One reviewer noted, "Some people may consider Mr. Cummings a bit full of himself...but he's earned it if he comes across that way..." What has he earned? The right to dye his hair black? My gosh man, you're almost 64 years old.... ... ...let a little northern grey wolf show... Burton does have that unique voice...you know immediately who's singing the song...All in all..a good concert...just follow the Randy Bachman credo and let yourself age... ...gracefully and a little less full of yourself...Burton...just sing the songs...

DVD (media) plays great, I just didn't care for the movie Everything related to the transaction, the quality of the DVD, all good. I just didn't like the movie: the acting is painful to watch, the direction is poor... they spoiled what could have been a good story.

Beautifully filmed Colombian "Crossroads" tale. Beautifully filmed Colombian "Crossroads" tale. Despite the stunning location filming the movie drags out a familiar story. There are a few original contributions to the tale but the star of the movie really is the countryside.

Not as good as the tv series TV series is much better.  This movie gets bogged down in new characters that aren't developed or even known of in a seemingly marketing ploy to sell more/newer TF toys.

Waiting for Superman I paid a little extra to expedite the order, but it still took a week to arrive.  I thought it would have come a little sooner.  However, the order was correct and it was well packed.

Good acting, but poor adaptation Rupert Penry-Jones and Sally Hawkins are both very admirable in their roles. However, I cannot give this production more stars because of the overly fast pace of the plot. I felt that the story short-changes the emotional drama and suspense experienced by Anne's character and thereby strips it of dramatic tension. Why were the filmmakers in such a hurry?? I believe they largely wasted the cast in this manner. Both leads are more than capable of developing more profound characterizations with more time.  I concur with the objections of others near the end, where Anne runs around Bath in an undignified fashion. It tells us that she really means business this time, but what does it tell us about Wentworth? Is he so lily-livered that he will not come back to check on Anne? I vastly prefer the confidence she shows us in the 1990s version with Root and Hinds, where she waits expectantly for his return. This earlier version of the ending also demonstrates more of the intellectual and emotional bonds the two characters so easily share.  In some ways I prefer Rupert Penry-Jones' interpretation partially because I believe Ciaran Hinds seems too mature for the actual age of Wentworth.  Another reason I prefer the 1990s version is that the pacing at times feels somehow very realistic to me, with a quietness that actually puts the viewer into the time period and lets him/her share the experience, rather than merely watching it. Anne's experience of frustration and anxiety are more deeply sensed by the audience by allowing the events to occur as they happen in the novel.  All in all, this newer version is not unwatchable, but it is rushed and superficial.

Survives on chemistry of the leading men A pure formulaic film which employs the lost and found formula to lukewarm effect. This film belongs to the Deols, who are amazing and display chemistry to raise this film to bearable levels. They look happy and the audience joins them as well. This is a story about Sunny Deol who comes to India looking for his long lost brother, Bobby Deol and father Dharmendra. These family members are small time crooks in Varanasi and take him under their wings as their main muscle man. Meanwhile Bobby falls in love with a woman whose brothers do not take his love kindly, whisking the damsel to Punjab. Of course the family of Deols follow the girl to Punjab and fairly hilarious situations ensue until the film ends happily. The film belongs to Sunny, who at 55 is still amazing in the action scenes. A very colorful and lively film, could have benefited from some serious editing. Three stars.

Decent, over rated, and nearly fiction There really isn't much point into going into the details of this movie as the buzz over it has made almost all of its details well known. I don't usually review movies, but the absolutely insane about of press, opinions and critical commentary really pushes a person into having some kind of opinion about it. First, based strictly on the technical skills of the actors, cinematographers, editors and director it is a pretty good movie; but only pretty good. I love David Fincher's style, making Seven and Fight Club two of my favorite movies ever. The editing is a little jarring, but if you are able to follow Inception, you won't have any trouble with the way the time line jumps around. All this said, this movie isn't as good as the all the accolades that have been heaped on it would indicate. The only reason I can figure that the Oscars love it so much is so they can have a culturally relevant movie nominated that people under 40 actually went to see. Now for the writing. Aaron Sorkin simply made up some stuff using the names of people attached to a well known company. If he was going to make up this much stuff, he should have just created a fictional story based loosely on the history of Facebook instead of trying to pass this off as something that might be accurate. It is common for people involved in the actual events of a movie to be involved in some way during their productions (John Nash with A Beautiful Mind, Hunter S Thompson with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, etc.) but in this case Sorkin used a book as his only reference and has said openly that he didn't want to be tied to the restraints of accuracy. Beyond this being kind of arrogant, it just goes to show that Hollywood has just run out of ideas and is content to sell us rewarmed or "rebooted" trash instead of actually coming up with something new (Star Trek, Alice, Planet of the Apes, GI Joe, The Day the Earth Stood Still, War of the Worlds; I'm looking at you!) Finally, there is what the audience is supposed to come away with from this movie. Zuckerberg is portrayed as a sort of passive aggressive villain, but if he was an athlete, politician, general, or CEO would anything that he "said" or "did" be so scandalous? Is the prejudice against "nerds" still so bad that we are willing to believe that a smart guy that doesn't take lip from people less successful than him would be completely alone in the world. In the music industry don't they call this sort of attitude being a "diva" and don't crowds eat that up? I think we are also supposed to believe that frat guys are misogynous, some entrepreneurs are just arrogant coke heads, and the computer world is male dominated. DUH! These are probably the most accurate things in the movie.  Pros: The look and feel of the movie is awesome; great style. I actually enjoyed watching Jesse Eisenberg tell off the twins and their lawyer. Saying what is really on your mind doesn't equal jerk; and if so it still doesn't make you wrong. Despite some distorted facts and fiction, some of the story arcs are more or less true. My generation hasn't managed to avoid the pitfalls of ruthlessness and avarice in the business world. In the some ways its the same tune set to a different beat.  Cons: Oddly placed attempts to create a feeling of drama or tension. The one guy that played both Winklevoss brothers sucked so I don't know why they needed to clone him instead of hiring some twins that could act. Too much hype can really create an level of expectation that can't be obtained. For sheer drama Inception was better than this movie, and for character development and writing Its Kind of a Funny Story was better, so why all the attention? Just jumping on the pop-culture band wagon I guess. Sorkin wanted to create a high drama soap opera but the source materials just didn't have enough spice for his liking, so he had to wing it. Research the inaccuracies of the movie before believing you understand the actual history of Facebook; not that either the movie or the history of Facebook are really all THAT important.

Falls Short... This is a sequel to the 'Super/Batman: Public Enemies' animated movie, of which I was a HUGE fan.  Read my review for more on that...  This sequel however is not like it's predasessar.  It falls short in animation quality, story, action and it's overall attention keeping power.  It does have Kevin and Tim reprising their roles as Batman and Superman, one of the few pluses of the movie.  It's not terrible, but definitely not '...Public Enemies' quality.  **Minor Spoilers Ahead**  This tale focuses in on Superman's cousin who falls to Earth in a space ship.  She is roughly 16 years old, and unfortunately this movie focuses mainly on her.  She is not very interesting to say the least.  Now if Powergirl was swapped in instead...that's a different story.  Anyway Batman doesn't trust her, as Batman doesn't trust any aliens, and he spends most of the movie distrusting her.  Darkseid takes an interest in her and kidnaps her.  So our heroes go to Big Barta, who is REALLY tall, and with her and her motherbox, THAT'S A COMPUTER THAT OPEN WORMHOLES THREW SPACE for all you dirty minded people, descend upon planet Apocalypse for a rescue.  Decent movie, completists like me will no doubt want to own this, if they do not already.  Hope they make a third in this series in the future, and hopefully recapture the thunder of '...Public Enemies.'  Hope this review is helpful and as always sorry for the misspellings, why Amazon doesn't have Spell Check I'll never know...

Just as I remember as a kid Bought this dvd set to share with my four year old son so he could watch the cartoons I used to watch as a child. We really enjoyed the movies throughout the holiday season. My son loves Snoopy!!!  A piece of nostalgia preserved....

nightmare or not? personally ehh kinda had a so-so reaction towards this movie.I have always been a fan of 80's horror flicks.the effects are good but the humor gets kinda dull at times by freddy.overall if u want a good way to waste a hour or so this movie is the way to go (hence the 3 star rating) but if you really want a treat , take some time and get the original...you wont regret it :)

Great but was canadian version It played very well and was in new condition but I was not made aware that I would be recieving the canadian version of the film. It didn't really make a difference but I would have liked to have known.

Ray Tango: "Pleasure doing time with ya." --- Gabriel Cash: "Yeah, I'll never forget that time in the shower." TANGO & CASH, originally entitled "The Set-Up," had more that its share of production problems, including running $20 million over budget.  A star dropped out early on and his role had to to be recast. Russian-born theater and film director Andrey Konchalovskiy was replaced by Albert Magnoli very near completion because of artistic differences with producer Jon Peters. Andrey, who previously directed <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0792838424">RUNAWAY TRAIN</a> (1985), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6301966708">DUET FOR ONE [VHS</a>] (1986) and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6301071395">SHY PEOPLE [VHS</a>] (1987), wanted a "dark" film.  Director of photography Barry Sonnenfeld got sacked for not lighting Sly Stallone to the actor's satisfaction. Stuart Baird was called on for re-cuts when Warner's was displeased with the finished movie. For all these adjustments, "Tango & Cash" is still a buddy cop comedy of only middling quality.  Here, Stallone's sophisticated Raymond Tango competes with grungy Gabriel Cash (Russell) for drug busts and news copy. Baddie Palance (in his best "Believe It Or Not" persona) finds a way to get both cops thrown into the jail from perdition, but not before Kurt goes "drag," and Sly frets neurotically over falling stock values and some rising heat between his sister (Hatcher) and Lt. Cash. Pollard is the nerd who supplies T&C with an armed-to-the-roof tank-skinned monster SUV.  Some tepid humor arises from Tango's confusion over Cash's sexuality and with their running gag of macho "I'm a better cop than you" banter.  Originally slated for Kurt Russell's role, Patrick Swayze got his chance to wear high heels in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000714BP">TO WONG FOO THANKS FOR EVERYTHING, JULIE NEWMAR</a> (1995). Patti Davis, Ron and Nancy Reagan's daughter, cameos here as a reporter. Ron Howard's kid brother Clint plays an obnoxious cellmate who quickly gets squelched.  Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 imdb viewer poll rating.  (5.9) Tango & Cash (1989) - Sylvester Stallone/Kurt Russell/Teri Hatcher/Jack Palance/Brion James/James Hong/Michael J. Pollard/Lewis Arquette/Michael Jeter/Clint Howard/Patti Davis

"There are no bloody priests - I shot them all months ago!" I need to admit, I was never a fan of the "American Ninja" series, but I'm a sucker for action hero team-ups like this. At the time of this one's release, Michael Dudikoff was already an established name in the martial arts B-movie genre, and David Bradley would soon be doing neat stuff like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6303389260">Cyborg Soldier</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6303945708">Hard Justice</a>, so their collaboration seems especially cool in retrospect. It's just a bit of a shame that the two of them don't do any real teaming up until the end of this film, and an even bigger shame that such an opportunity didn't yield anything but average results...but damn if it isn't an entertaining sort of disappointment.  The story: Special Forces expert Sean Davidson (Bradley) is sent into an oppressed African nation to free a Delta team from the clutches of a terrorist duo (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00008PC13">James Booth</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767819640">Ron Smerczak</a>) with an army of ninja at their command, but when he too is captured, a retired Joe Armstrong (Dudikoff, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002DQSKN8">Cobra</a>) must return to action and finish the job.  You can argue at which point in the series it officially happened, but definitely by now, ninja have become a gimmick and completely extraneous to the actual plot. Really the only reason they're still hanging around - wearing heavy, color-coded jumpsuits in a hot, colorless African landscape and behaving more like foot soldiers than mystical shadow warriors - is to give Sean and Joe a reason to go through their own miniature becoming-a-ninja rituals and break out their ninja weapons. Admittedly, in the former's case, this immediately leads to the best action scene in the movie, wherein he takes on a whole squad of ninja with a bow, a strand of wire, a club, nunchuka, and shuriken. But like the costumes, the action looked silly long before that and doesn't really improve: few of the eight fight scenes are downright awful, but they all adhere to a lackluster standard of hit & miss camera angles, over-editing, and questionably-executed choreography. Most disappointingly, Dudikoff and Bradley don't ever really battle side-by-side, although they do have an okay-ish fight against eachother late in the movie.  The lack of actual teaming up between the two stars is mostly due to Michael Dudikoff's character not making an appearance until the movie's second half, whereupon he takes over the spotlight from David Bradley as the main lead. It's kinda hard to judge which of them has the weirder onscreen adventure, but since Dudikoff's half features more screentime for the film's over-the-top despicable villains, his side takes the cake. These two baddies are really something: James Booth's character is so darn evil that he whips the bound Delta team members to make them lick his shoes, and Ron Smerczak plays an arrogant sheik who encourages his forces to fight to the death but admits that he considers the promised heavenly reward to be mere propaganda. Jerks, I know, but they help keep the movie interesting: as hammy as the acting is and as beyond implausible as a lot of the action seems, the one thing that "American Ninja 4" has going for it is that it's never boring. Occasionally, it even flaunts some decent cinematography, like the helicopter shots of the entire ninja force training on a mountaintop. Director Cedric Sundstrom (who also did <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000558NL">American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt</a>) wasn't a genius but clearly knew how to do his job when it came to intentionally campy junk like this.  On the whole, "American Ninja 4" doesn't really do it for me, but that doesn't mean that it's a bad movie. For what it's worth, it might be the best installment in the series since the original film. Know yourself before you make a purchase.

Great movie, but This is a great movie, but the quality is horrible. Some scenes the video gets to so bad, its hard to see their faces. I would recommend getting the John Wayne collection one.

Gentle Movie Quiet, soothing and relaxing; beautiful scenery; slow paced, yet enjoyable. To be critical, it was a bit slow at times and perhaps longer than it needed to be.  But regardless, it was worth the watch.  Having it as a freebee on Amazon Prime made it all the more worthwhile and risk-free.

It's an all-star flick from MGM, but it's not a particularly great one.  The life of Jerome Kern is tosssed out completely and instead we have his music.  Okay. Fine.  Great music, anyway.  And with all of these stars, who needs a story?  But we have June Allyson, smiling so wide her mouth is all that you pay attention to.  She can't sing, but she dances passably.  I'll pass her by.  Lena Horne, nailing herself to Hollywood's racist cross yet again (her scenes in films could be spliced out when the films in question played Southern theatres.  Shame), has some wonderful moments.  Her "Why Was I Born" is majestic.  She spits the words out at you, but in such glorious voice that you don't mind wiping your face afterward.  She's an angry woman but hey, it's MGM circa 1945/6 and it's the best gig she's going to get right then.  Van Johnson and the ghastly Lucille Bremer cut up the rug in "I Won't Dance" and it's Bremer's best moment on film, though no one realizes it yet and she'll be gone from the Metro roster soon enough.  Bremer can do anything with the exception of being a presence onscreen.  Like Turner and Lamarr, she's pretty, but what is she doing here?  Still, it's her best moment and for that we should pay attention.  Like most all-star event/films, it's a mess, and Richard Whorf directs it.  The script writers had no idea what to do with the story line and they let the neophyte director take the hit.  And with the exception of the songs, the director takes the hit right between the eyes.  Vincente Minnelli directs Judy Garland in her sequences, and if you watch the film, you will see that Minnelli should have handled the rest of the story as well.  Garland's "Look For The Silver Lining" and "Who?" are standouts in an otherwise overblown musical.  Briefly, Garland is re-teamed with her "The Clock" costar, Robert Walker, but he, obviously, has other things on his mind and so does Garland.  They don't mesh here.  Two performers are completely wasted.  The first is Dinah Shore, singing "The Last Time I Saw Paris" wearing a wig that was left over from "The Harvey Girls" or "Meet Me In St. Louis".  The song isn't great and Shore's appearance only makes it worse.  The second is Frank Sinatra, wearing a white tuxedo, amidst white pillars, with an orchestra dressed in white.......and he's singing "Ol' Man River".  For starters, the only white person that could ever pull this off was Judy Garland, years later.  But Sinatra singing this song, this exquisite, powerful, majestic song, all dolled up in MGM finery and fruit cakey-ness, is a slap in the face to Jerome Kern and what he was trying, brilliantly, to do with "Show Boat".  It's a fanciful, colorful, MGM musical, but by no means anywhere near their greatest output.

Better than "Alien vs Predator", I suppose... If this is meant to be a reboot of the "Alien" franchise, it leaves something to be desired.  It is great visually, but none of the characters are worth getting emotionally invested in.  Hopefully this is just a bridge movie to tie together the previous ones to a new plot storyline yet to come.  If so, please get us a character we can actually care about!  Still, its better than the "Alien vs Predator" abominations.

Disappointment I remember this film coming out when ! ws 10 years old.  Finally I got to see it. An OK film but the ending is just tacked on after all the hoopla. What a disappointment!

Amusing theatrically, but probably dull in the comfort of your own home The first Saw film will always be something I fondly look back on. While the film had its fair share of bad acting and ridiculousness, that final twist just made everything worthwhile. Seeing it in theaters was something special, too. The snickering and the whispering amongst friends during the sillier parts of the film were silenced as Jigsaw revealed himself and the audience collectively picked their jaw up off the floor as a wave of silence washed over everyone. The downside is that director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell haven't really been able to capture that same sense of astonishment since. Death Sentence was a nice change of pace while Dead Silence left something to be desired, but both seemed to lack that key ingredient that kicked the feet out from under audiences like Saw did. Insidious looked to have potential even though most horror films about paranormal entities seem to fall flat on their face. While Insidious probably couldn't be considered the best film to be released this year, it's certainly still one worth seeing in theaters.  Insidious thrives on music cues and cheap scares. Fairly intricate orchestral pieces that are very string heavy are used periodically throughout the film while at other times noticing the lack of music usually leads one to expect something to jump out at them at any given moment. Nearly all of the scares are like that though with creepy ghosts and creatures jumping out at you when you least expect it. The opening felt like it took up half the film. We see an old woman holding a candle followed by the title screen with a string arrangement turned up to 25 even though the initial volume only goes to 10 and then we waltz through what feels like the longest opening credit intro in history. We're shown black and white stills while the cast and crew are listed up on screen. The film seems to keep this pace the first half of the film. It's incredibly slow moving; a creak in the floorboards here, a door moans as it opens by itself over there, and then the payoff is something silly like a ghost dancing to silly music. In addition to the first half being slow, it felt incredibly anticlimactic and was unintentionally funny most of the time. I found myself being more interested thinking about what the key Renai Lambert (Rose Byrne) wore around her neck could possibly open rather than being absorbed in the events taking place on screen. Thankfully, the film picked up a bit in the second half.  One of the main drawing points of Insidious is that it's by the same people that made both Saw and Paranormal Activity. That's an interesting note as the first half of the film is very similar to Paranormal Activity if it was shot with conventional movie cameras instead of a home video camera. The second half seems heavily influenced by both Ghost Hunters and Poltergeist. The film's creativity lies within its introduction of "The Further" concept. Once we're shown that world and the evil entities seeking a vessel to come into ours, it feels like the film can finally begin; but it's bittersweet. It doesn't take long for the film to delve into familiar territory before closing on a predictable finale. The most devastating of the evil entities introduced in the film can best be described as the love child between Darth Maul and a faun. It was also kind of ironic hearing Patrick Wilson give that superhero speech since Wilson will probably be known best for his role as Nite Owl in Watchmen. Insidious does have a few intriguing surprises up its sleeve though. The main ones being when Specs (Leigh Whannell) is trying to get Dalton (Ty Simpkins) to follow his voice while Elise (Lin Shaye) wears that crazy looking gas mask and the other one being when we're thrown into the realm of The Further. The way that's filmed along with the bizarre events that unfold there will probably make that scene the one you remember the most after you leave the theater.  Despite the film's many flaws, it's still recommended that you see Insidious in theaters. Why, you may ask? Seeing a film like this in a packed theater is something special. That atmosphere is incredible. While the film may not make you jump, it's entertaining to watch and hear how it affects everyone else around you. The comments people make under their breath and hearing some of the guys scream like little girls is something that just won't be the same if you choose to wait to watch it in the comfort of your own living room. It's the type of film you take a date to even though you know they hate horror films because they're going to be grabbing all over you throughout the film. Also, I don't think I've laughed at anything this hard all year. So maybe Insidious is entertaining for all the wrong reasons, but at least it's still entertaining.  Insidious is an entertaining theatrical experience, but will probably lose most of its steam once it hits DVD and Blu-ray. The way it not only relies on jump out scares, but practically uses them as a crutch during moments of building tension will probably get old really fast to most viewers familiar with the horror genre. Throw in the extremely loud music and the film probably seems a bit more clich&eacute; than it actually is. Not to mention it feels like it takes forever for the film to find its footing. While Insidious does offer a few moments of genuine originality, it doesn't take long for those moments to take that detour into predictability. James Wan and Leigh Whannell do have some talent buried down in there somewhere, but it feels like they've yet to find their stride as bona fide filmmakers. See Insidious with a group of friends or a mostly full theater. Otherwise skip it altogether.

Rufus Sewell in Venice was the best part If this movie was any kind of success at all, the credit goes to the British actors in the film. It might have been more appealing had Rufus Sewell and Johnny Depp swapped roles. Too much Princess Grace/Sophia Loren melodrama for this viewer's taste. Have to wonder if today's movie goers don't appreciate it as much as the older generations did back in the day.  The movie had too much of an "Aren't I the most beautiful woman in the world?" vibe from the too thin Angela Jolie, who is an impressive actress usually. (She does nice British accent as does Depp.) But actresses "back in the day" had curves. Not Jolie. She's apparently dieted them all away. Johnny Depp is a favorite, but not in this role. And definitely not with that hair. However, if the producers were trying to make him look ridiculous, it worked.  Venice is breathtaking, but Rufus Sewell is even more breathtaking. Not nearly enough of him in the movie. Just a few titillating glimpses. Timothy Dalton and Paul Bettany were two more excellent additions to the cast.  It's a shame the lack of chemistry between Jolie and Depp spoiled the movie. Sewell would have been the better choice if they wanted to convey truly simmering and sultry chemistry. Ah well, there goes another missed opportunity.

Formulaic and predictable, but Owen Wilson makes it enjoyable I miss the Woody Allen films of yesteryear: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002XZNHG4">Annie Hall</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005AUJK">Crimes and Misdemeanors</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767819764">Manhattan Murder Mystery</a>, and so forth.  Woody Allen should stop churning out a movie a year.  He should instead focus on making great films as they come to him.  The new yearly, European excursion to be inflicted upon audiences is Midnight in Paris.  A man of the twenty-first century longs for the golden years of Paris in the 1920s.  The rain, the city, and the writers and artists are just too good to not want to join.  And Gil gets his wish, every night at midnight.  The whimsical story of a time travel is rather funny and cute.  The Fitzgeralds, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Picasso, and so many others offer a fanciful cast of characters for Gil to interact with and react to.  In fact, the best the film has to offer is Gil's boyish wonderment and fascination with everything going on.  Owen Wilson is superb.  His facial expressions are priceless.  It is a rather simple movie with a simple plot, but the magic of Gil's travels back in time and his child-like wonderment is a treat.  Adrian Brody is hilarious as Dali, he really steals the scene.  The acting for the rest of the cast seems heavy-handed.  Inez is annoying; painfully so.  Her parents and friends are so pretentious it's difficult to watch them.  It's almost as if Allen is writing and directing for audiences he thinks are too dense to get it.  Or he is writing about people that are just unbearable.  If you can suffer through the "present day" scenes, the golden age of Paris in the 1920s is good for a delightful laugh.

Musically outstanding, irksome staging The music and singing are outstanding here (although I agree with another reviewer here about Tolomeo). Scholl is an alto like no other: he's unique in every aspect of his voice, be it strength, or evenness in all registers, or technical control: even though male falsetto cannot possibly rival a female alto, his final duo with Cleopatra reminded me of Bonnie/von Otter duo in the Rosenkavalier -- the merging of the two voices (tembrally) was perfect, and so was the dynamic balance (both were audibly present, yet unamplified falsettos usually get drawned out by chest voices of any kind). Sound and video also are good. Subtitles in all major European languages, including the one the piece is actually sung in, Italian. The "period" orchestra is great with their warm sound and crystal-clear articulation.  What I hated was the idiotic "modernised" staging, shaved heads, naked Tolomeo taking a shower, etc. They've been doing this sort of violence to a lot of good pieces for forty years by now: when is it gonna stop? It's not even new anymore. The directorial idiocy was exacerbated by filming techniques that, as always, followed the TV/film approach, with endless closeups (which you're never exposed to when being bodily present in a theatre -- and the genre developped this way and, imo, requires it). That is distracting, because the visual magic in opera cannot match that of film, first and foremost because the actors have to sing live, and are there due to their voices rather than looks. Why not stand back a little? Do we need to see every zit on their necks, state of dentistry, makeup, and the borders of the plastic bags they have glued over their heads making them look shaven-headed when necessary?  But musically it's outstanding; the DVD is very much worth having: based on the sound alone I'd give it five stars w/o thinking. But I hated the staging, so I gotta take something away for it.

Betrayal, Murder, and Revenge in the Old West "Seven Magnificent Guns" director Romolo Guerrieri helmed "Johnny Yuma," an above-average but uneven spaghetti western with Mark Damon, Rosalba Neri, and Lawrence Dobkin, in the mid-1960s when Italian westerns were just hitting their stride. Indeed, "Johnny Yuma" came out before Sergio Leone's "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" reached theaters. This gritty, sun-drenched, shoot'em up set in the arid Southwest imitates traditional American oaters while embracing its foreign origins and influences. Like a traditional Hollywood western from the 1950s, Guerrieri's sagebrusher boasts a title credits ballad. Mark Damon makes a serviceable hero, but he isn't cast in the mold of the monosyllabic bounty hunter. He is more of a 1950's American western hero. Meanwhile, "Johnny Yuma" delivers a high body count and generates a reasonable amount of excitement in its simple, straightforward, but often brutal saga. The gang of trigger-happy ruffians led by a scheming wife resolve to eliminate the heir to a fortune. Guerrieri and co-scenarist Fernando Di Leo of "A Fistful of Dollars," along with Sauro Scavolini and Giovanni Simonelli of "Any Gun Can Play," have contrived a largely predictable western about betrayal, murder, and revenge. The surprises aren't plentiful, but this violent opus doesn't dawdle. The gorgeous scenery around Almeria, Spain, where "Johnny Yuma" was lensed by "Gunmen of the Rio Grande" cinematographer Mario Capriotti, serves a metaphor for life and death. Capriotti makes you feel the heat, the sweat, and the flies. The Mill Creek version of "Johnny Yuma" contains the film in its 2.35.1 widescreen format for purists to appreciate. Guerrieri and Capriotti like to indulge themselves with pans that rotate 360 degrees, whether they are surveying the rugged scenery or a players in a poker game. Despite its reliance on dramatic gimmicks, Guerrieri and his writers occasionally allow reality to intrude into the plot. Principally, they stress that the west of "Johnny Yuma" is a place where you can suffer death just as fatally from a gun barrel as from lack of water.  The eponymous hero of "Johnny Yuma" is an accurate, young, swift-on-the-draw gunslinger who blasted his way to fame in Yuma with his six-gun. Johnny's uncle, wealthy land owner Thomas Felton (Leslie Daniels of "Paisan"), has decided to leave everything that he owns to the pistol-packing protagonist, Johnny Yuma, because the latter is more suited to running a ranch than anybody on his wife's side of the family. We are told that Felton and his wife didn't have children. Of course, Felton's beautiful but treacherous wife Samantha (Rosalba Neri of "Lady Frankenstein") has tried without success to convince her cigar-smoking, wheel-chair bound husband to entrust everything to Pedro (Luigi Vannucchito of "The Red Tent"), her low-down brother. As it turns out, Pedro shows up to shoot Felton in cold blood at point blank range while Felton is practicing his marksmanship with black powder arms. The wife dispatches a Mexican servant, Luis 'Sancho' Fernandez, to take a letter to an ex-lover, Linus Jerome Carradine (Lawrence Dobkin of "Patton"), to kill the servant. The villains have done a shrewd job of implicating poor Sancho in the death of Felton. The remainder of the action is spent showing our hero dodge endless bullets while dropping his adversaries dead in their tracks without more than a single shot. Our hero's avowed enemy, Carradine, changes side, and they are virtually indestructible together in a gunfight. During an early saloon brawl scene, Carradine and Yuma meet and swap out gun belts. Yuma carries his Colt's revolver on his left hip, while Carradine wears his on his right hip. Carradine has a gun belt that allows him to detach the holster without having to wait for his six-gun to clear the leather. When Johnny shows up in San Marco, everybody initially mistakes him for Carradine because he is wearing Carradine's gun belt with the initials LJC on it.  Although "Johnny Yuma" remains dramatic for the most part, this uneven western takes time out for optional humor that appears out of place. More often than not, the action is pretty heavy-handed rather than light0footed. Poor Mexican farmers bit the dust just to show how vile the villains are, and one of these hellions kills a innocent little boy. Indeed, the villains in "Johnny Yuma" emerge as incredible dastards. In one scene, these unsavory thugs rough up our hero, giving him a real beating along the lines of "A Fistful of Dollars," but they don't beat Johnny so horribly that he can only crawl afterward. Eventually, our youthful hero Johnny teams up with an older, wiser hombre,Carradine in a standard-issue Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid relationship where an older man trains a younger man. They have done everything to make Carradine look like Lee Van Cleef's Mortimer from "For A Few Dollars More," right down to his suitcase that accommodates his six-gun. Questionable comic relief is provided by a goofy Mexican peasant who constitutes an outrageous stereotype. "Vengeance is Mine" composer Nora Orlandi provides a charismatic orchestral soundtrack that enhances the mood of this melodrama.

The Goonies Now, for a few years I've been hearing rumors of a second Goonies movie. I really hope it turns out good if done. We all know about the whole "curse of the sequels" but let's keep our finger crossed. Original actors and similar plot. This movie is good and is not to be messed with unless done the right way. This film has a "uniqueness" to it.

Nice, forgotten movie In recent years, a few of the major studios have launched DVD-on-demand branches for many of their library titles that do not necessarily warrant a full commercial home video release.  Warner Home Video has their "Archive Collection," and Sony has the "Columbia Classics" division.  Basically, for around $20, you can order a DVD of one of these hard-to-find movies online through Amazon or directly from company.  The discs are then individually manufactured as they are ordered.  Releasing their Limited Edition titles through 20th Century-Fox, MGM's initial foray into the DVD-on-demand market last spring was plagued with problems.  Customer complaints about defective discs and lousy transfers were blamed on CreateSpace, the Amazon.com subsidiary that was contracted to fill the orders.  But last fall, MGM re-launched the program with a new company, Allied Vaughn, manufacturing the DVD-R's.  If the current release of the 1973 pickpocket movie, HARRY IN YOUR POCKET, is any indication, the quality control issues have been put to rest.  Filmed on location in Seattle, Salt Lake City and Victoria, Canada, HARRY IN YOUR POCKET focuses on the inner workings of a pickpocket team.  Charismatic movie star James Coburn portrays the title character as a smooth-as-silk professional.  His longtime partner in crime, Casey, is played by veteran British thespian, Walter Pidgeon, who was in his mid-seventies when this film was made.  Joining their criminal enterprise are greenhorns Ray (recently deceased Michael Sarrazin) and Sandy (Trish Van Devere).  The film was produced and directed by Bruce Geller, a veteran TV writer/producer from the early 1950's through the mid-1970's, when his life and career were cut short in a small plane crash.  Among Geller's most notable television work was the creation of MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE.  In HARRY IN YOUR POCKET, Geller was obviously going for something hipper than what he could get away with on TV.  The location shooting gives the film a nice feeling of veracity, and the performances - especially by Coburn and Pidgeon - are coolly effective.  The examination of the inner workings of pickpockets, the techniques and terminology, is one of the film's main attractions.  But HARRY IN YOUR POCKET's script by veteran TV writers James D. Buchanan and Ronald Austin is a bit wan and thin.  The bottom line is, not a lot really goes on in the film, and the characters feel like they could use some fleshing out.  Making the aged Casey the one with a cocaine habit is an unexpected twist, but too much of the film is dominated by shots of people coming and going.  And after a few montage sequences of our anti-heroes working together as a finely tuned team lifting wallets on city streets, I was longing for something more to keep me engaged.  Still, making rarely seen, often forgotten movies available to an interested audience is something that should be fully supported.  And if the quality of presentation on HARRY IN YOUR POCKET is an indication of the respect with which these films are treated, then let's hope the MGM Limited Edition Collection keeps up the good work.

Ennui in Small-Town France The location of the movie is a small seaside resort town on the Bay of Somme in France.  The movie covers one summer holiday to the next and the changes that occur mostly to the inhabitants during that period.  This is an "over-ensembled" movie; too many protagonists with too many stories to follow.  There is a couple (Paul and Anne) whose relationship falls apart because of the young woman's need to see a world larger than the little town.  She works on a manufacturing line sorting pebbles, the town's main business. Paul, who is relatively content with life on the shore has a mother, Rose (Bulle Ogier), a gambling addict busily succumbing to a self-destructive addiction to the slot machines.  The heir to the pebble factory, whose mother, Odette (Liliane Rovere) sold it out from under him is now a frustrated and bored employee of the new owner.  It is only a matter of time before the bored leave and the complacent and dispirited stay.  There are so many sub-plots, running concurrently with tourists as well as inhabitants, that one begins to suffer from the same ennui that affects certain residents of the town.  The most interesting aspect of the movie is that it resonates with the boredom that most small-towns throughout the world produce.  People are typed with no chance of breaking out of their type in such a small place. The only thing to do is to leave for the big city and a fresh start.

Intriguing Premise with a Flawed Execution SUMMARY: Elementary school teacher Anna Marchant survives an attack by a local serial killer, only to awake in the hospital, unable to recognize anyone's face, including her own. Diagnosed with prosopagnosia, or face blindness, she has to adapt to her condition, all while being targeted by person responsible for it.  WHY YOU'LL LIKE IT: Jovovich is a good, though underrated, actress. She manages to impart Anna's confusion, frustration, terror, and helplessness to the audience with great skill. The storyline itself is very interesting. The serial killer angle aside, how would you cope when you're no longer able to recognize your closest friends and family?  WHY YOU WON'T: Sloppy writing. From Anna's perfect life at the start of the movie, to the hackneyed, cliched ending, the film never seems to get off the ground, let alone live up to its premise. Anna's friends are caricatures, rather than actual characters. Anna's boyfriend treats her with little sympathy or compassion after her ordeal, which is clearly a plot device. The overuse of many actors performing a single character is ingenious at first, helping to communicate to the audience the pathos Anna is experiencing, but quickly becomes annoying, and even stupid, once the actors no longer bear resemblance to the characters' originators. Even more inexplicable is Anna's total inability to recognize VOICES, especially as it's fairly obvious that, though characters might be portrayed by many actors, a single voice is used. Julian McMahon is almost unrecognizable as the paunchy, gruff cop who is written so one-dimensionally that it's offensive. The identity of the culprit is apparent long before it's revealed. These are just the highlights. There are many other problems with the film.  BOTTOM LINE: I really don't imagine this will appeal to those who are not highly enamored of Jovovich; there's not much else going for it. This film could have been outstanding but, sadly, it's barely mediocre.

Tru Blood I have read through a lot of the previous reviews and have found that most people who have issues with this show, they have a problem with it not being exactly what is in the book series. Do people really want to read a book and then see that exact story on film? Wouldn't that make it really boring knowing everything that is about to happen? That would take away all thrill and excitement for you already know what is going to happen. I do agree that season 4 has really lost its direction and now, on season 5, it seems like its only getting worse. I have a feeling its not going to make it past season 5. Tru Blood has been a fantastic view on vampires and is definitely a lot better then most other vampires shows/ movies out today (Such as Twilight which was the worse vampire movie EVER! Sparkling in the sun really? - Ground breaking). Hopefully they get back to making the show good like in season 1, 2 , and 3, otherwise just cancel it now and save everyone the wasted time.

Zumba Buns, Thighs & Abs I really was hoping for more dancing moves. I was somewhat disappointed in the video. I appreciate the excercise techniques but I wanted dance.

Good affects, weak story. I was disappointed in the movie.  First move was better from a story perspective.  Affects were much better in this movie than the first movie though.

Good acting, but ... I liked the acting.  Stanley Tucci is particularly good, but "Margin Call" isn't a very deep or insightful movie about the Wall Street crisis. Find "Too Big to Fail" on HBO first.

A dark tale of survival I was excited about this movie after watching the preview. However, Battle Royal proved to be unmoving and average despite the potential I thought it had. There are plenty of different characters but most of them are boring and predictable. The special effects are mediocre and the end is unexciting. I'm reminded of Hunger Games (movie version) but without the expensive Hollywood touch. I've heard that the book is better and will be checking that out in the near future.  On a positive note, I enjoyed the different weapons and tools that each character received before the battle and the way some of them utilized them to survive. There was enough action to keep me watching and the dark sense of humor of the old teacher (villain) was very entertaining.

More gore than S1, not any better Entertaining, although the amped up gore from already-high Season 1 levels doesn't necessarily enhance the interesting discomfort achieved in S1, that was as much about incongruous characters in bizarre situations as it was gore.

3 1/2 stars for this Sci Fi "B" pic ! It Came from Beneath the Sea(Released in July/55),I had not seen since the 1960s,when it was a staple of TV fare.Of course when it has been that long,it is the outstanding moments you recall only,like the giant octopus itself and it grabbing on to the Golden gate bridge,etc.But watching it after all those years I kind of re-discovered the film all over again.It actually has a decent plot for a B picture,which stars lead Kenneth Toby(The Thing) and Faith Domergue(This Island Earth).There is a sub plot that is strictly adult(that I didn't recall),as when the submariner says to the captain that he was concerned about the effect of radiation and ones ability to have children,or the Captains own battle of the sexes with this"new breed of woman".Even so the movie still remains stuck in its' B picture roots,despite Harryhausens wonderful background work. The plot is relatively simple.An atomic powered sub commanded by Capt.Pete Matthews(Toby) is patrolling the western Pacific area when it is suddenly followed by a huge object unknown.Eventually the unknown locks the sub in a vice like grip.After more than a few tries to get the sub going backwards and/or forwards,the Captain calls for them to surface.It does the trick and a diving crew upon inspection of the hull finds a huge mass stuck in one of the steering vents.They head to Pearl Harbour for repairs and the piece of material is examined by two experts,one being marine biologist Lesley Joyce(Domergue). The conclusion  seems to be that the substance jammed in the sub belongs to a much bigger creature,a giant octopus.It is theorized that this creature grew to such immense proportions due to Atomic testing around the Marshall Islands.The theory is expounded in detail to the military who have a hard time believing what they have heard.Meanwhile other ships have come in contact with this thing and have met some nasty consequences as a result.And the creature seems to be slowly heading towards the U.S.west coast. When the creature comes ashore in Oregon,it is not long after that it heads south and arrives in San Francisco Bay.An electrical netting has been spread underwater to protect the Golden Gate bridge and when it is turned on the creature immediately grabs onto the bridge to lift itself out of the water and away from the current.They get the power switched off and it slides back into the water.There Capt.Matthews sub is waiting and they fire a special atomic torpedo into the creature.The plan is to drive it out and then detonate it,but nothing is dislodging the creature.Then Capt.Matthews dons some diving gear,swims to the creature and pushes an explosive device towards it.The creature sees it,moves and it detonates prematurely. The captain has to be rescued and when he is safely inside the ship they detonate the bomb which eliminates the octo-threat once and for all. This film has the cold war era stamped all over it in its references to Atomic testings(a staple topic in 1950s Sci-Fi flicks),the "new" atomic submarine and all the modern gadgetry seen;all meant to convey the subtle,or not so subtle message,of the might of the US forces at work and on the job.The plot is the old boy meets girl,boy pushes too hard,girl gets testy and backs off,and in the end all is forgiven.Much of the returns for this flick came from the good old fashioned Drive-In,where I can still smell the fresh popcorn and see the young boys and girls out in their parents cars,cuddling during the scary parts and necking at will at other times.Ahhh,the good old days*sigh* ;-) Technically speaking the film is in its' original a/r of 1:85:1.The film has been remastered and it looks crisp alright,but it is still quite grainy;as most ALL of Harryhausen's Columbia product shamefully is,with the one exception being the 50th anniversary remastered 7th Voyage of Sinbad edition,which looks beautiful.Columbia attaches a high price to Harryhausen's works but doesn't deliver pristine prints to justify the charge.What is up with that? This edition comes with the original b&w version along with a colourized copy.Now if you're like me you might be rolling your eyes at the very mention of colourization.I can think back to the 80s when they experimented with some Laurel and Hardy product and the results were,to put it mildly,pathetic.I have always railed against the process because it goes against the original vision of the artists involved.But I listened to a featurette with this set and it seems Harryhausen himself helped to colourize this movie.In fact it was only due to budget restraints way back when,that prevented them from shooting in colour in the first place,which he would have preferred.So with that in mind,and going against my better judgement,I actually sat and watched the colourized version.I must say I was impressed.They have certainly come a long way since the 80s with this process.This version looks very life like and if one didn't know better one could easily be fooled into thinking this WAS originally shot in colour. The colour,however,did nothing to improve the picture other than its looks,but it is certainly interesting to see the two side by side.Extras include:commentary,a featurette on the film and the music man for the film,an interview by Tim Burton with Harryhausen,photo galleries,original artwork and more. in conclusion,Columbia has come up with a single sided two disc set of Harryhausen's S/Fx 50s B flick,with lots of interviews and other extras,along with a colourized version of the film which I must admit looks pretty darn good.However the colour and remastered version here does nothing to improve the typical 50s plot.It may have been remastered but it didn't eliminate a good portion of the graininess,and for the high price this set commands(at least in Canada),I don't think it's worth it.

It's Not Quite What You Think Six's First Sequence is a good flick, with some awesome cinematography but not the "next big thing" I thought it was going to be. Ultimately this film really depended heavily on two things, the acting and the human centipede itself.  I certainly can't complain about the acting, it was all well above average, especially from the insanely talented actor Dieter Laser (Mantrid from Lexx) as Dr. Heiter; his character was flat out scary. The human centipede actors, made up of newcomers Akihiro Kitamura, Ashlynn Yennie and Ashley C. Williams, should also be congratulated on their brave performances as well. I mean it's one thing to act under pressure, it's another entirely to act while semi-nude, on your knees and attached to a co-star's posterior! The very thought would make most people cringe but to do it for hours on end for a horror film, well that's just plain ballsy. Tom Six is a mad sadist.  I think, for me, the film really went wrong with the character of Heiter and the human centipede's screen time. Laser was great and the visuals and FX were top-notch, I suppose I just feel that Heiter was underdeveloped and the centipede was overexposed. I know, crazy right? Most people would demand MORE of the disturbing stuff but I wanted things to be kept a little more in the dark than they were. Six did a great job of keeping things from spiraling into nothing more than gratuitousness nudity and gore but I was hoping for a more Cronenbergian approach, with more insight into Heiter and perhaps a touch more noir to keep the true horrors of his work in the shadows. The build up and mind-blowing reveal weren't there for me but the action toward the thrilling final quarter ended up hooking me anyhow.  The Human Centipede was a thrilling ride and despite the above whining, I'll more than likely be purchasing this film to add to my personal collection because I just love the kind of horror that challenges our perception of what truly terrifies us. "Body horror" is something that never gets old for me. I would definitely recommend this film to people searching for a new flavor in what has increasingly become a bland, homogenized genre. Tom Six is undoubtedly a filmmaker with vision, I can't wait to where he goes with the next installment.

Nice story, not the book! My three children have all read Nim's Island at some point and loved it so we decided to check out the movie and purchased it for Christmas this year.  I should clarify this review is based on our love of the book, which is short and could have easily been made into a movie without changing it.  Well, Hollywood was lucky (or unlucky) enough to get the wonderful Jodi Foster and Gerard Bulter (who are both great), however, it ended up causing them to change the story completely to "satisfy" the big names.  While the book focuses on Nim's life on the island (her daily routines and getting food etc), her relationship with the animals and her relationship with Alexandra via email, the movie does none of those things.  It instead, focuses on the big stars of Jodi Foster and Gerard Butler and creates a dialogue between her character Alex Rover (Butler) and the extra-reclusive Alexandra (Foster).  I don't think they had much of a choice landing such big stars, they had to use them but it totally changes the story in the book.  The most endearing aspect of the book is the wonderful relationship of Nim and Alexandra via email and Nim and her animals.  Those relationships are diluted down and lose all potency as we are forced to endure the Alexandra's (Foster) agoraphobia/social anxiety disorder and have Nim endangering her animals by flinging them in a catapult?  What?  I am not an animal expert but I would consider flinging your "pet" a hundred yards in a wok-catapult is abuse!  So in summary this has the characters of the book but doesn't follow the story there.  Nothing is the same as the book save for the very beginning and the very, very end.  So if you are looking for a cute story and nice acting but don't expect this to follow the story then it is worth watching, as for us, we wanted the book relationships not a study on the psychology of overcoming agoraphobia!  I was going to list all the differences of the book versus movie but it would be everything!  They even changed Trop Tourists and their interesting hats to Buccaneers and gave their unlikable tourists a lot of screen time.  Too bad really.  Hope that helps!

Could have been better This movie was so-so for me.  The story had a lot of promise, but the movie just didn't bring it home.  The beginning was excellent:  Totally engaging espionage thriller, awesome acting, keeps you on edge of your seat -- basically, not boring!  The middle was okay:  It's present day, everyone seems to be going about their lives and then suddenly, the one former agent steps in front of oncoming traffic and kills himself.  Now, you're like what in the world could have caused him to do that???  The ending was 100% disappointment: You're expecting some crazy action pact, edge of your seat-like events to unfold (it should be as good or better than the beginning).  You expect Helen Mirren to kick some former Nazi butt.  You expect to understand why the one agent killed himself.  Well...it's all very unfilling.  It felt like the person that wrote/directed the movie got lazy and just wanted to finish it.  If you're going to finish it in a nursing home, make it a little more exciting.  Would I watch it again? No.  Would I recommend it to others?  The story is a good one, and I could see some people liking the movie.

Good movie, but... This was a good movie, but the audio level was too low, and I had my volume control all the way up!!!

Silly Steve Carrell Mr. Carrell is just awesome in The Office. I just found this movie to be too silly to enjoy.  I am hoping the older children like it.

Chick flick I love Jennifer Ehle. That is the only reason I bought this movie. Its pretty good. I think they could have cut out everything with Gwyneth in it and I would have been just as happy. Its a chick flick, its ok. Jennifer and Jeremy did a great job, the other people, meh, not so much. You can stream this online on the big company that shall not be named that starts with a N. I wouldnt buy this again.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries All of these movies rated Three Stars or BELOW.  Not really super for horror movies.  Other horrors better, and I sued to Listen to Inner Sanctum on the radio when I was a kid!  Sorry, but not really very good.  Cecy Ivie

FULLSCREEN ONLY? I thought the Blu Ray version would be in widescreen, but it is not.  This release is far inferior to the Sleeping Beauty release.  Sleeping Beauty had 7.1 surround sound and was widescreen, this is not, even though it is a latter release.  It's a classic, no question, but I don't seem the point of having the Blu Ray verision. It seems like an upscaled dvd on a blu ray disc.  Definately a dissapointment since most Disney Blu-rays thus far have been incredible.  It's worth buying if you only have it on video, but I wouldn't bother upgrading to blu ray if you have the DVD version. Hope that Jungle Book comes out soon on Blu Ray and gets the Sleeping Beauty treatment.

contryman This is a favorite old movie of mine that has been unavailable for some time as it was on VHS. Now available on DVD it is welcome, however, the quality is a little lacking. It looked like it was coppies from the VHS, not from the movie. It is ultimatly watchable but in this day of blueray discs it is a little rough!!

Need to explain moves The DVD is nice and gives a good work out.  The problem that I have is that someone unfamiliar with these moves is lost.  I had to watch the DVD 4 times before I could do some of the moves.  Detailed instructions should have been given for each specific move.

Style Over Substance: A Visually Appealing Musical Biography That Lacks Insight And Music Want to know why the world fell in love with larger-than-life Boy George? So would I. Not much indication is given in "Worried About The Boy," a portrait of the early years of the pop superstar. Director Julian Jarrold has a colorful canvas to draw from with the changing music and fashion scenes of the late seventies and early eighties. And indeed, the movie does depict this world very well. What is less successful, however, is putting a relatable face on George O' Dowd (well played by Douglas Booth). This is not a particularly enlightening look at any specific aspect of O' Dowd. If anything, it makes him out to be a selfish brat who happened into stardom with minimal effort. That may well be true, but as the film does not cover the Culture Club years--there is still little connection to the figure who would become an icon to many.  The film begins with O' Dowd moving out of his parents home to pursue some sort of existence in Central London. Extravagant in dress and manner (before the film starts, he is fully wearing Boy George drag as everyday wear), he ends up in a dump with an instant group of new friends. The film does not examine anything that made Boy George who he is, detail how he began this new life, or give him any appreciable growth throughout the movie. He starts and ends as exactly the same person, the screenplay offers no new insight. Through a couple of boyfriends, he moves from club rat to musician. Again, he's never expressed the slightest interest in music before he's suddenly headlining a band and getting noticed. And as I've said, he's not a particularly likable fellow nor is his journey (as depicted) really noteworthy.  The one thing the movie does quite well is to create the cavalier party atmosphere of the Blitz Club. Marc Warren camps it up delightfully as Steve Strange and the period recreation of this drug fueled world is believable and fascinating. Booth does well as the petulant George O' Dowd. I just wish the story would have clued me into just what the appeal or advantage of even being his friend, much less his lover or business partner, would have been. He's singularly unpleasant. Mathew Horne and Richard Madden are likable as love interests for Boy George, Freddie Fox is great as best friend Marilyn, and Mark Gatiss scores big in one scene impersonating Malcolm McLaren. Technically, "Worried About the Boy" has plenty to recommend it. It just lacks any particular insight to make it truly memorable. And if you're hoping for a great Culture Club soundtrack, you get only one song. Wanted to love it, but feel more ambivalent than anything. KGHarris, 5/12.

Vintage Cagney This movie is a typical Cagney flick. His gait, mannerism's remained with him throughout his career. Jimmy is one of the best ever to appear in the movies.

Trying to act grown-up Forget space aliens, Chris Hemwsorth, or Asgardians who happen to be space aliens.  "Thor: Tales of Asgard" is an animated tale of mini-Thor (Matthew Wolf) before he became the Renaissance-festival spouting, opera-dressing, hammer-wielding Norse god we've all come to know and love.  The first thing fans will notice is the wide-eyed, clean animation of "Tales of Asgard."  The colors are vibrant, the details few, and the movement just above being a choppy distraction.  This is the animation that you'll likely see on Saturday morning cartoons, but when one character claims that the only thing more frigid than Nilfheim is the land of the Valkyries it's clear this is meant for a PG-13 audience. It's kind of like hearing a swear word come out of your twelve year old.  The second is that this tales is firmly set in a fantasy realm, which essentially makes it like a session of Dungeons & Dragons. There's the sorcerer who's just learning to use his magic (Rick Gomez as Loki), the perpetually grumpy fighter (Paul Dobson as Hogun), the huge lover of mead and meal (resident dwarf-like character Volstagg played by Brent Chapman), and the lover of women (the bard role played by Alistair Abell as Fandral).  They're all lovable lunks in their own way - Loki's a weakling, the Warriors Three are carousing blowhards.  Then there's Sif (Tara Strong)¸Thor's rival in arms and affection, who finds offense in the Einherjar's deference to Thor in combat.  In short, Thor is a royal brat.  When he realizes that everyone is catering to him, Thor decides to strike out on his own by capturing Surtur's sword, a flaming blade capable of leveling mountains.  He is pursued by Frost Giants, Odin's soldiers, and finally a drow named Algrim (Ron Halder).  With his long pointed ears and white hair it's clear that the dark elf is right at home in Thor's mythology.  That's right, "Tales of Asgard" is so D&D it even features a dark elf!  Thor rarely gets to use a hammer, a running joke through the film. He still talks in archaic language, which can become tiring when everyone talks that way.  Things don't pick up steam until the final act, when the Frost Giants and Asgard are on the brink of war.  The final showdown between surprising antagonists elevates "Tales of Asgard" above standard cartoon fare.  The writing for "Tales of Asgard" isn't bad, but the animation does it a disservice by being a little too cute for subjects like love, betrayal, and murder.  Like the titular teenager himself, "Tales of Asgard" wants to be more grownup than it looks.

Today's Special not so special to me I read many reviews on this and decided it was worth the $4 based on that.  It was an OK movie but nothing to write home about.  How this ever fit into the comedy category is beyond me, as I didn't find it comical at all.  It is a feel good movie in the end and they are right it is not over acted which was nice.

out of context historically This movie was recommended by a British  guide I have used to explore various battle sites.  He said that the battle scenes were accurate.  However, the context of the British being the "good guys" is off.  It just so happens that the British started the Zulu war by attempting to forcibly annex Zulu territory and the Zulus were attempting to hold on to what was rightfully theirs under a treaty with the British.  The movie reminds me very much of the old west movies where the cavalry and the cowboys are the good guys and the Indians are the bad.  If viewed just as a battle, the movie has redeeming qualities.  I personally think that some of the main characters were not authentic and the movie over all was slow.

Could be better I LOVE HEART but I was really disappointed in this DVD. There were lots of "musical" problems (tempo, pitch, staying together as a band) and even the legendary Ann Wilson's vocals were shaky at times. Also there was no audience interaction. No funny stories, no history of the songs etc. Buy Heart Alive in Seattle, or the Dreamboat Annie DVD instead.

Lavish production with some shortfalls "Veer" is a sprawling, action epic starring Hindi cinema's favorite action hero, Salman Khan. The violence and gore is reminiscent of "Gladiator", and the elaborate fight sequences centering on the hero-who-can-do-anything will remind you of Brad Pitt in "Troy".  Of course, Salman can do something that neither Russell Crowe nor Brad Pitt can do - dance! But more on that later.  "Veer" opens in 1870s colonial India: various tribes and chiefdoms vie for power by collaborating with the occupying British.  One of these tribes, the Pindari, are a rough bunch who live by a strict code of honor - a code that is often maintained through duels within the tribe itself.  One thing the Pindari refuse to do, however, is collaborate with the British.  When they are betrayed by a more sophisticated Indian chiefdom, they become even more entrenched in their hatred for the British and their Indian puppet-kings.  Our hero, Veer, is born to the Pindari tribe after this great betrayal, and he is raised to be fiercely anti-British and physically aggressive. However, unlike his father, he is also raised to be educated so that he might one day match the cunning of the British. Veer is sent to England, ostensibly to join one of the schools meant to educate the "natives", but really to learn the ways of the evil occupiers.  As one reviewer noted, it is true that this film portrays sections of society in rather black-and-white terms: the British are always evil; the Pindari are always fighting for what is right; and other Indians who collaborate are good at heart but unfortunately stuck with corrupt rulers who follow the British.  This film suffers from what almost every other Hindi film suffers from: mediocre actors in the "white" roles.  I've always been puzzled as to why this is the case, or where Indian studios find their white actors, but they never quite live up to their Indian counterparts in the acting department. So, be prepared for some stiff acting from the British actors.  On the Indian side, however, the casting is superb. Mithun Chakraborty looks fantastic and entirely believable as the chief of the Pindaris; Jackie Shroff is also great as the corrupt ruler of the kingdom of Madhavgarh. Zarine Khan is beautiful and fits the role of a crown princess who is also being educated abroad.  Her character is a bit more passive than I would have liked, but to be honest, this film is really not about the women.  Salman Khan is, of course, perfect for the role (since he wrote it himself).  The locations are stunning, particularly the shots of Rajasthan. It's the costume design that is strangely divided: the Indian costumes are magnificent, the British ones less so.  The time period should be turn of the century, but the Western costumes seem to run the gamut from late 19th century to 1920s in style.  It feels as though the costume designers weren't too sure about the Western outfits, particularly for women, and they're not as high quality as the Indian costumes.  The music is pretty good - the opening song, "Taali", is a rousing number that features Mithun, Salman, and Sohail Khan with some good choreography. "Meherbaniyan" is a catchy song with some bagpipe-sounding elements. I particularly like the choreography for this one, because it's creatively structured around the fact that Veer is supposed to have an injured leg at this point in the story, so the steps are meant to highlight that Veer's dancing mostly on one leg.  Very fun, and Salman's a great dancer.  "Surili Akhiyon Wale" is the main love theme and it's very nice - especially with the fantastic Rahat Fateh Ali Khan on lead vocals - but it would have been better without the female English part.  Overall, the story is a bit lacking in nuance, but if you're a fan of big historical epics, then it's worth watching.  I was particularly struck by the amount of violence and blood, which I haven't seen very frequently in Hindi movies.  Veer is a vicious, tribal character who also adheres strictly to his code of honor.  His character is perhaps the most nuanced, as he wrestles with very violent rage alongside a desire to be humane.

Action packed but dumb I actually liked the special effects and the sci fi action in this movie... But there were so many little items that made no sense, that I couldn't rate it any higher. Really? The aliens flew across the galaxy to get here, but their ships can only "hop" 500 feet? Dumb.

A filmed record that may not do justice to Roland Petit, but there's Zizi Jeanmaire, Moira Shearer Are Roland Petit's productions mounted much today in Paris? He was a major force in French ballet for several decades. He produced, danced and choreographed. His wife, Zizi Jeanmaire, was a prima ballerina for whom he created some his most popular ballets. Petit was respected, successful and tireless. He choreographed the ballets in four Hollywood musicals, including Daddy Long Legs for Leslie Caron and Hans Christian Andersen for Zizi Jeanmaire.  With Black Tights (1961), Petit gives us four of his ballets, all presented on stage but with a fluid use of cameras. The stage sets are just that, stage sets; there is no illusion that we are watching anything particularly cinematic. Still, the sets are generous, the costumes are colorful and the dancing is first class. Maurice Chevalier tells us a bit of the stories, all with his special worldly charm.  What distinguishes this record of an influential impresario, choreographer and dancer (Petit dances in three of the four ballets) is the casting of the lead ballerinas. Zizi Jeanmaire stars in the first and last sequences, as the gold digger in La Croqueuse de Diamants (with many mecs and plenty of grisby), and as Carmen in Carmen. Moira Shearer dances Roxanne in Cyrano. Cyd Charisse dances the widow in Deuill en 24 heures.  Jeanmaire is vivid and sexy. Moira Shearer poignant and beautiful. Charisse is precise. Jeanmaire and Shearer have the sort of star presence that enables them to dominate the stage when they dance.  But are these ballets in any way memorable? With the possible exception of Carmen, I don't think so. Even with Carmen, the passion and pleasure come from Jeanmaire and not from the choreography. I'm no connoisseur of ballet but I've seen my share of wonderful dancers and productions, most notably Galina Ulanova in Giselle, Margot Fonteyn and Rudolph Nureyev in MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev) and John Cranko's version of the same with the Stuttgart Ballet. I enjoy Balanchine as well as Bourne, but I don't know Petipa from prunes. I'm one of those who know what they like. For me, Petit's work in Black Tights (not to mention his Hollywood work) seems dated. I enjoy ballet on stage or on video, but I didn't particularly enjoy Black Tights...except for Jeanmaire and Shearer. They are well worth watching.

Not for the hard of hearing If you have a hard time hearing then this movie is not for you.  The sound as well as the photography itself are not the best by a long shot.  I had to listen so hard to try and hear the dialogue that I lost interest in the movie.  By the end of the movie it dawned on me...I just needed to turn on the subtitles and read as the movie went along!  The bonus movie that went along with this story (Rainbow) was a little on the "racey"side.

Should Have Divulged Region of BluRay I have decided to keep the Region B (non playable in the states)Bluray because the Arrow releases are typically totally class. I made the decision to buy a region free bluray player. I will add to this when I see the quality.

Jolson Sings Again Larry Parks does a fine impersonation of Al Jolson but the story is a little dry. The wife runs off to give him a chance to pursue his dream. A typical American woman. She could have stayed and supported him but then her own desires would have to be scarificed. Sounds like a typical American soap opera and a typical American woman. Tha mistake was accepting her as his wife. A real wife could have made him even greater. But then we men are already learning every day about American females.

Needs a New Cameraman I love travel shows and have all of Rick Steves' videos and many of Rudy Maxa's.  Although I prefer Mr. Maxa's shows (they have a certain elegance and don't get bogged down in museum after museum like Rick Steves' videos), too many scenes in every show are overexposed and washed out, and sometimes the color balance is off.  I have never witnessed any of this in Rick Steves' productions.  I like Mr. Maxa a lot, but for Pete's sake get a new cameraman already!

Intersting story This is an interesting movie to see, it feels a bit like a short story that was made into a movie (mind you, are some really good short-stories out there). I liked the narrative, and was expecting something much more science fiction (the automaton generates that expectation, I guess) All in all a nice way to spend a cold Sunday afternoon.

incomplete show This dvd is not as descibed on the back. It's supposed to be an hour long and the running time is 45 mins. The reason for that is the last segment, the Madrid restaurant visit, is missing, which I found very disappointing.

Some Raving and some rah rah about Ra.one Unabated enthusiasm accompanied by casual dismissals have gripped the Bollywood film industry for the last few weeks as RA.One began its promotional attyachar ( torture).  Supposedly one of the most expensive films made in India - ever, for a reported but not confirmed cost of 175 crores ( USD 40 million), making most of the money back it not really the aim of the film, I think although it has, even before the first show unveiled from the satellite, distribution, music and etc. rights. At stake is something even more than money that is the reputation and the shelf life of the multinational brand called SRK. The last few years have witnessed a lot of long dead competitors roaring back and vying for the supremacy only enjoyed for a brief period by King Khan. With SRK, more than anything is the reputation and box office dominance at stake. RA.one is a decent watch, a  South Indian stereotype Shekhar (Shah Rukh Khan), his wife Sonia (Kareena Kapoor) and their son Prateek (Armaan Verma). Father SRK tries to hopelessly bond with his son and decides to design a virtual reality game with a hero as G.One and the villian RA.one. The game takes a life of its own as they step out of the game and battle it out in real life. Every plot line has been shamelessly borrowed from past science fiction movies, but the main theme of the villain trying to kill the child is Terminatoresque. There is plenty of added gimmicks such as cameos by Priyanka Chopra, Sanjay Dutt, Rajnikanth, Amitabh Bachchan's voice to make it an entertaining watch. The action scenes and the VFX, while not that great is still cutting edge for the Indian film Industry. I liked the confrontation between Ra.one and G.one is the car lot and the efforts of G.one to stop the runaway train. The songs are great and catch, especially Raftaarein, chammak challo, criminal and dildaara, I loved them all. SRK delivers partly on his promise this movie is entertaining but not a repeat watch. The pace is fast enough that I gazed on my watch only watch when it beeped, and realized that I was about 20 minutes away from the end. SRK acts fine but with a lot of cheese and some poorly written lines and stupidity- Come one SRK, who in the world eats Pasta with Yogurt. Kareena Kapoor and Arjun Rampul are efficient. Armann Verma as Prateek is the real star and truly shines brilliantly than the rest of the cast. Anubhav Sinha, is not a good director and has not salvaged his reputation, I wonder why in the world SRK chose him to helm this project. I hope he is not going to be back for the sequel. RA.one is highly recommended for a one time watch, I watched it in 2D, but do not plan to watch in 3D. Enjoy with a pinch of salt. Three and half stars. 10/26/2011

Gave to daughter - in - law in celebration of homeownership great film for Katrina victims enough said or understood  and unsaid Cheshire cat smiled to oblivion politics is the haven of stupid attorneys why can't they keep only one job

3 stars for the HD transfer, 4 for the movie itself To be clear, the audio is ok, but the actual image quality is like a dirty, grainy DVD, there's nothing blu ray about this one. However, great movie although it never really makes an effort to explain its own backstory which leaves you feeling stupid at the end of the movie for not understanding who the hell Billy and Agnes are. I bought it because I heard it predated Halloween as one of the first slashers, which is something you don't brag about on the back cover of your movie unless said movie has enough actual substance to join the ranks of a classic like Halloween. In the end, I prefer Halloween, but I regret not seeing this movie sooner as it belongs in any horror fan's collection. It definitely does suspense a little better than Halloween... creepy phone calls galore and you never see the killer's face nor find out his motive for slaughtering a bunch of girls. I recommend it, just don't expect the transfer to look like "The Departed" or anything.

Not one of Barney's best, but okay This DVD is 50 minutes long.  Most of it takes place at the same location, as the characters are putting on a circus.  There is a lot of singing and dancing, which my 2-year-old daughter loves.  Boring for me, but my daughter enjoys it.

Not received I have not received this item yet.....LOCKOUT....So I cannot review it yet! Ordered it in July and nothing yet in mail

okay I love this novela so much this novela was one of the reasons i started to watch novelas. so i liked it so much that i had to buy it on DVD but it sucked on DVD...unlike how it was when it was showing on TV....they cut so many scenes and if you were to watch it for the first time u could be pretty lost

I prefer brunettes... Always have, always will.  I know it sounds sacrilegious, especially when you consider the blonde bombshell herself is starring in this film, but I don't think many would argue with me that Jane Russell OWNS this movie.  I loved Monroe and found her shtick phenomenally layered in most of her films, but this is one of her weaker moments.  She is completely upstaged by a much deeper and well rounded Russell, who makes so much out of a film that is about as dense as it comes.  I'm not a big fan of `Gentlemen Prefer Blondes', but I am never apposed to watching it thanks to Jane Russell, that's how good she is here.  The plot is predictable and clich&eacute;d, and the script doesn't really add any depth to the proceedings, but in the end it is enjoyable fluff and it does hit the comedic marks rather well.  I just wish that this film had more substance, especially when you consider the goldmine of comedic masterpieces that came out in the 50's.  This one is certainly iconic (the name is more recognizable than the film itself), thanks in large part to the star turns by the two bodacious leads; but in the end there are far better films to sink your teeth into.

Buck DVD from USA does not work on European DVD players Buck is a good documentary & enjoyable to watch & informative for horse owners & riders. Unfortunately the Dvd is not compatabile with European DVD players and we had to hook up speakers to my laptop & watch it on it.  As I had bought it for family viewing on our TV set, it was disappointing & I would be very wary of buying DVD's from USA again.

+5 for Rat Pack, +1 for movie = glad I saw it This movie is for fans only, i think. Disc 2.35:1 Widescreen Enhanced.  Dolby Mono excellent quality video / audio track - well, what can you say... it was shot on a set.  Budget couldn't have gotten any lower i think, and there are plenty of holes in the script.  This wasn't a comedy, it was an attempt at a serious "Calvary and Indians" with a couple chuckles, and a little bit of romance stuck in... it was truly a " a LITTLE something for everyone".  Low budget, saturday afternoon TV western script aside, this was one heck of a treat.  Be warned - if you're not a fan of the Rat Pack, I'm sure you could find something better to watch - but if you're a fan, you'd best get your hands on this gem and own it for your library!

Better than expected If this movie were remade today with Brad Pitt, Matthew McConaughey, or equal star power (take your pick) in the male lead and Sandra Bullock, Jennifer Aniston, or equal star power (take your pick) in the female lead, it would be a smash hit.  Tom Berenger, for all his talents, and despite how good he was in this film, is not heartthrob material, and Elizabeth Perkins, who I like a lot, lacks the sex appeal her role called for, and there was no real chemistry with Berenger.  On the other hand, Anne Archer was perfect, as was Kate Capshaw and Annette O'Toole.  My only other complaint is the pace of the movie was a little too slow, but things picked up nicely at the end.  Still, I enjoyed the movie and felt it was worth the viewing.

Be aware this is in German. I know it does say up there in fine print that this in German with English subtitles, but I did not see that and we were shocked to find that out when we put it in to play. Not that that makes it bad, but if you don't like to watch with subtitles then this is not for you. I bought this for my children to watch and some of them are just not good enough readers to be able to watch the video AND read the subtititles so I am disappointed in the DVD.

Hmm... This movie started off really good. The camerawork and action sequences are awesome through the whole film, but it is the story itself that caused me to give it only three stars.  We are introduced to McAvoy's character, a corporate paper-pusher who is pushed around at work by a domineering manager, and his girlfriend is cheating on him with his best friend. He hates his life, but is resigned to it and just deals with it all until a opportunity comes up. Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman play their roles well as McAvoy is trained to be an assassin, I was really, really enjoying this film, however, it unravels into something ludicrous.  The plot twist is different, but at the same time feels completely cliche. The assassin's jobs are determined by Fate, and Freeman's character's job is to decipher the messages Fate sends and assign them to his assassins, However, what Freeman reveals when McAvoy confronts him about his lies just made no sense, and the ending was just rather implausible. Enjoy this movie for the exciting action sequences and camera work, but be forewarned that the story spins off and unravels - pun totally intended.

Tamara Drewe We watched this about 3 weeks ago, but, it is so unmemorable, neither my husband nor I can remember anything about it.  We finished it, I know, but it evoked no emotion in us, good or bad.  In order for me to write a review, I'd have to watch it again, and I might just do that some one of these days.  The Blu Ray itself is gorgeous.

don't need you Through a series of rare, probing interviews, key feminist intellectuals such as Kathleen Hanna from the Washington D.C. "Riot Grrrl" female punk rock scene, articulate the inequities women experienced at male-dominated events, and how their response revolutionized American underground music and culture in the early 1990s.  Harrowing stories of violence and gender biases illustrate the cause for radical reform, though schisms within the group hint at internal inconsistencies which at times threatened the integrity of the movement.  The highly organized assault these disparate women brought to bear on the cultural consciousness of their audience, and how it heightened the artistic gender dialog of the era, is illustrated with superb performances by such luminaries as Bikini Kill.  While the abundance of philosophical issues presented here render the thorough treatment of any one of them in a relatively short documentary practically impossible, I think it's as good an overview as any to date.  From the container: "An incredibly insightful and comprehensive film that made me wanna get up and dance..."--Ladyfest London.

Interesting Failure "Tea and Sympathy" (1956) was an extraordinary movie for its time, but it wasn't strong enough to overcome the constraints placed upon it by the 1950's culture.  Like the films of Douglas Sirk (often compared to "Tea and Sympathy's" director, Vincent Minnelli) this film is bold in criticizing the sexual mores and prevalent conception of maculinity of the Fifties decade.  However, "Tea and Sympathy", unlike Sirk's dramas, always pulls up short and ostentatiously tiptoes around the real issues.  Sirk had a way of making his points through symbolism.  Minnelli's response to being hamstrung about the subject matter is to resort to making the picture as beautiful as he can, and it is a very striking film.  The palette is all blues and oranges, and the outdoor scenes in particular are gorgeous and painterly.  However, the "look" of the movie wasn't enough to save it.  As I watched the film, I kept thinking that maybe an outstanding young actor like James Dean could have saved the movie, but I don't think so.  "Rebel Without a Cause" wasn't nearly as stilted and straitjacketed in making the case for the sensitive man.  Everytime "Tea and Sympathy" threatens to tear the veneer off sexual hypocrisy, it veers instead into awkward speechifying--the result of a heavy reliance on a scripted play as source material. The movie hinges on Deborah Kerr's character, and because of the movie codes of the era, instead of being a rebel she comes off as a person who is too circumspect to act on her feelings or observations.  And truly in the context of the times, had Kerr's character been honestly portrayed, it would have been as shocking as seeing "Mrs.Cleaver" seduce "Eddie Haskell" on "Leave it to Beaver".  "Tea and Sympathy" is a social critique that died on the vine... although it may have survived as a distant ancestor of movies that succeeded, such as "The Graduate", "The Last Picture Show", and particularly, "Pleasantville", which explored the same territory with the advantage of looking back with irony.  So, in the end, "Tea and Sympathy" is just a footnote and an oddity, although a pleasant one.

Fun If You Can Get Into the Spirit..But With Mediocre 3-D For exploitation fans, horror nuts and 3-D enthusiasts, you couldn't find a more fitting film to unofficially end the summer season with than PIRANHA 3DD, the gleefully bad, junky sequel to Alexandre Aja's 2010 hit which - despite its token theatrical release last May - seems to have been shot with the small-screen in mind to begin with.  This time out, the prehistoric piranhas have moved along to another group of underground lakes in Arizona, just in time for the relaunch of a water theme park run by college grad Danielle Panabaker and her resident, obnoxious stepfather David Koechner. Having tapped into the water supply where the piranhas are swimming about, "The Big Wet Water Park" is about to be the site of yet another bloody massacre once the piranhas arrive - about the same time as David Hasselhoff, playing himself as he hits "rock bottom" as the attraction's big guest star.  Aja's original "Piranha" was an over the top, almost cheerful exercise in horror mayhem, and it's surprising - given the film's success - that the Weinsteins decided to go the cheap route with producing a follow up. Veterans of Dimension's home video sequels including director John Gulager and producer Joel Soisson were brought in to make "Piranha 3DD" on a clearly reduced budget, with notably diminished make-up effects (gorehounds will surely be disappointed by the reduction of severed heads and limbs here) and a B-list, younger cast (Christopher Lloyd does show up, briefly reprising his role from the original; so does Ving Rhames, who wisely opted to go uncredited under the circumstances).  Make no mistake, "Piranha 3DD" isn't anything close to resembling a good movie, but once you realize this is essentially a trashy direct-to-video sequel - and acknowledge the diminished set of expectations that comes with the territory - the film still provides a modest amount of entertainment. This is especially true when it comes to Hasselhoff's involvement, which yields several big laughs (no more so than when the aging star, in lifeguard gear, runs to aid an obnoxious young boy to the strains of the "Baywatch" theme). The 3-D isn't anything spectacular - and the thrills never come close to matching the epic carnage of its predecessor - but the movie still provides a fast assortment of corpses, T&A and the occasional cameo from a genre character actor (in addition to Lloyd, Rhames, and "The Hoff," Gary Busey is offed in a weak opening sequence). It also wraps things up at around the 70-minute mark and adds some 10 minutes of amusing bloopers that roll over the end credits. It's not good, but it's certainly fun if you can get into the right mindset.  Anchor Bay's Blu-Ray combo pack (3D, 2D and DVD) of "Piranha 3DD" includes a generally good 1080p MVC encoded 3-D transfer. There's ghosting in the image during the Busey sequence, but from that point forward, the natively-shot 3-D looks fine - the issue is that the 3-D isn't particularly well utilized by Gulager, so few effects stand out. The DTS MA 5.1 soundtrack is sound, and extras (on the 2D Blu-Ray) include commentary by Gulager, a couple of deleted scenes, a few featurettes with Hasselhoff, Koechner and Busey, and a worthless four-minute Michael Ratner "comedy" short, "A Lesson with John McEnroe."

Some good some poor This movie looked interesting, and it definitely fulfilled that expectation.  The story line dragged in a few places, but the special effects were quite good.  The worse part of this movie was the acting, which was flat, dull, and even laughable at some points.  Number six's fake British accent was so bad as to elicit giggles.  All in all, it entertained me, but not tremendously.

1/2 rating for movie, 1/2 rating for disc by seller Although this is a fun story that had me fooled right up to the last part and it looked good with some judder my rating is 1/2 for the movie that I would go with a 4 star and 1/2 for the seller: Source Media who listed this movie "Used Like New" when in fact it is so badly scratched that the 2nd extras disc would not play unless U eject the disc and restart for each selection!  This is false advertising, it is not "Like New" it is "Acceptable!" in that the movie does play but not the 2nd disc.  This is a 2 disc Collector Edition.  So this is my item rating.

Just Entertainment I often prefer just to watch a movie that is just entertaining. This is exactly why I rented this movie and it came through.

I like this move a whole lot! This movie has a little of everything for everyone.  Steve Carell is VERY funny!  The story is really cute.  It's a very entertaining film.  Good supporting cast. Definitely won't be sorry if you went with this movie!

The image sucked! The image of the movie goes bad! It kept buffing an loading when it wasnt HD. I had no choice but to watch it!

Another look at Jesus I guess in some sense, Neitzche is not really dead any more than God is; surely it is because of his connection with God that Jesus has been the subject of so much these last 2000 years. 'Raging Bull' director Scorcesse offers Kazantzakis' 'Last Temptation of Christ' for consideration.  Willem Dafoe's Jesus is a man in terror of his connection to God; other Biblical heroes have expressed this 'Why me?' attitude, but they seem to have gotten over it a whole lot easier than what we see here. I find myself a little unsettled over the conflict between what Jesus said to Pilate, 'My kingdom is not of this world' and the apparent attack on the temple that he'd just led.  Just enough disturbance to guarantee his sacrificial death? A work of art and imagination that should be considered among the important ones available on the subject.

Campy, fun, overboard I am a huge fan of B movies and flicks that look like they could have been played on Black Belt Theater.  The campy special effects of MK reminded me of the many hours I spent watching BB theater and practicing moves even after I had been studying various martial arts.  This movie reminds me of the old chestnut: do you train actors in the martial arts or do you train martial artists to act.  I was impressed with Robin Shou and the actor that played Johnny cage (Linden Ashby).  The blonde actress left me wishing the role would have gone to Cynthia Rothrock.

Is that what it means to be country strong? I went into this movie, feeling like I'd already seen it from the previews and for the most part that was true. There were missing pieces and one shocking ending, but mostly true.  I found it hard to like the characters save one and that was Chiles who was just so innocent. You felt pity for Kelly who I felt like in some way knew she wasn't ready but despite the title, she wasn't strong enough to make anyone listen. Beau is too busy being completely in love with her and James is too focused on trying to save what is left of her career and forget the past. To be completely honest, I think Beau was the character that I disliked the most and I can't exactly pinpoint why. I love Garrett Hedlund and I think he plays the part well, but something about his character rubbed me the wrong way. He's a jerk half the time to Chiles, only really nice to her when he's drunk. Then there is this constant pull you feel between him and Chiles while he's supposed to be having his affair with Kelly. He'll look at Chiles with the same puppy dog look of affection in his eyes that he looks at Kelly with. Now it's possible he can love them both but for different reasons. Perhaps he was initially attracted to Kelly because of who she was and all that she had accomplished and later it grew into a kind of protective, brotherly love. But with Chiles, maybe she just makes him feel alive and he likes how it feels not to have to constantly worry about what she's doing. But that's me just trying to make it sound okay in my head. But from where I'm standing, he's just as lost as everyone else with just as many issues. Hm, maybe that's the point. But there's just something about him that just...I don't know. He's that guy who can have something really good going for him and he'll mess it up on purpose, content to live in his self-created misery.  The ending...oh the ending. A previous reviewer called Kelly weak and I'm not sure I can agree with that statement. Every thing she did that night was planned. From her advice to what song she chose to sing last. Does it make her weak to want that? (It's hard trying to not give anything away). I've never been in that place where that character had to be so when it came down to it, I may not be /strong/ enough to do what she did. And never having been in that place, I can't even begin to imagine what her mental state was like. It took a lot of guts, in my opinion. Everyone one else were the weak ones because despite how much they all loved Kelly, they weren't strong enough to give her the strength she needed to make a different choice.  Her husband's motives are somewhat clear and somewhat cloudy. Sometimes you get the impression that he wants to get things back to the way they were so that he may distance himself from being her husband and solely be her manager. Sometimes it seems that he wants to save her reputation--he knows that she's not going to really come back, but he doesn't want her fans to remember her for the tragedy that had happened the previous year. He's torn between caring for her and trying to make things right for her professionally. In the end, I think that their relationship is too broken and that there's no way they could ever get back to how they were when they first fell in love. And he knows that too, which is why he focuses too much on her career.  Did I enjoy this movie? I'm not really sure. Overall, I felt like relationships (like Beau and Chiles) are so underdeveloped that the fact that it even exists in the film is an afterthought. For it to have been two hours long, I feel like they missed the mark on some things like that and spent too much time on other things. Beau and Chiles didn't have to have a relationship at all and the movie would have carried just the same without it--things like that.  I will probably buy this one just for Garrett Hedlund and the beautiful music. To watch the cast be on the stage and the light sparkling in their eyes, that's something right there. It makes you want to stand up and sing along at the top of your lungs and go out and buy a guitar, even if you have no idea how to play it.

Long story To many data but intresting facts about New York City. Perfect items to know about the history of one of the most important cities of the planet.

Cute story, tad bit too long I can see why the original theatrical release had songs and scenes cut to reduce the length.  This is a cute story, but pacing is rather slow.  Until they get to the mix of animation and live acting, it plods along.  'Portobello Road' is excruciatingly long.  Still, it's good, clean family entertainment and a good film to own.

Three and a Half Stars is More Accurate John Ford westerns are transcendent, a word I wouldn't use to describe much of anything unless I meant it.  He had a visual style that one moment could be as basic and authentic as the cowboy himself, and just as iconic, and downright arty and lyrical the next.  Film buffs tend to point to his earliest work, such as "Stagecoach," and his epic color work, such as "The Searchers," as his best films, and I admire them certainly but lean toward his often black-and-white work in the 40s and 50s as the most consistently well crafted, where he seemed more at ease with the work.  A lot of contradictions exist about the man himself, who ran the gamut from chummy to fatherly to tyrannical depending on who is being interviewed and when.  And it's sometimes hard to say how much of what Ford did onscreen was deliberate versus what might have been cribbed from someone else or just plain happenstance.  But we have the end products, more than 100 of them, most of them good, and some of them masterpieces.  "Two Rode Together" falls short in a lot of ways.  The script is clumsy and rife with muddle-headed racial politics that want to condemn racism at the same time the film paternalistically reaffirms for its audience their superiority over anyone non-white - more or less what we have today in a Hollywood movie, but Ford had already examined the same themes better and with as much generosity as the times would have in "The Searchers."  There are moments when characters seem genuinely confused as to their purpose in the plot, a condition exacerbated by Ford's effort to draw too many light-hearted moments from leads Jimmy Stewart and Richard Widmark.  Both are in good form, especially the under-rated Widmark, who was born with a face for villainy but retained elements of sensitivity in his expressions that many people miss.  But even together, neither is charismatic enough to give the talky movie momentum.  The plot involves a rascally town marshal helping a cavalry troop find white children presumably taken prisoner in years-ago Comanche raids.  While there's comic relief from the likes of Andy Devine, whose body type is the anatomical equivalent of a Hershey's Kiss, the soldiers here are mostly extras in spiffy blue shirts, without the Remington-esque romanticizing in Ford's earlier films like "Fort Apache" and "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon."  Woody Strode, so able in Ford's "Sergeant Rutledge," is criminally misused as a renegade chief, and the women (Shirley Jones and Linda Cristal), while cute, fail to provide sparks.  Perhaps the most powerful scene in the film involves a lynching, but its pathos stumbles as the scene marvels at the "savagery" of being the "other" while shoving us toward the ineffective clich&eacute; of who the real savages are.  That would come better in the brilliant tragicomedy "Little Big Man" less than a decade later.  While Ford still had one or two good films left in him, by the time "Two Rode Together" was made, he seemed less interested in projects.  Even the oft-regarded one-camera take of an allegedly ad-libbed scene between Stewart and Widmark seems more gimmicky than artful.  (Compare it to similar takes in "Lawrence of Arabia," for instance, to see the difference.)  "Two Rode Together" is worth a look if you're a Ford fan, but don't expect too much, or you'll probably watch it with a hint of sadness.

Fort Apache Colorized This is part of the John Ford Trilogy and I would consider it an outstanding classic. It's all start  class shines  and the action is all that one can desire.It was too bad that the film was not  originally filmed in color  but the studio did not want to  pay the money to do it in color.  It wasn't until the last movie in the trilogy She wore a yellow Ribbon was  filmed that the Studio agreed to  have it filmed in color.  Turner  decided  that when he bought the film to pay to have it colorized.  A great job was  done.  Unfortunately when it was released on video tape it was  recorded in EP mode.  This was a big mistake and there was little reason to do it.  Thus as a movie I would give it and it colorization 5 stars but for releasing it in EP I would give  Turner 1 star

disney movie classic I got this movie for my kiddos to watch.  I was a little surprised by 2 of the scenes in the movie that I don't remember from when I was a child.  One in which there is smoking of cigars and the use of a sensitive word.  Yet overall is a classic that I remember from my childhood.

Paulo Roberto as His Fictional Self I read the book awhile back. In it, a character named Paulo Roberto, who is an ex-boxer, fights with a blond giant who can't feel pain. He almost wins. He certainly saves another minor character from a gruesome death. It's one of the true highlights of the book.  And one of the highlights of watching this movie is seeing the name "Paulo Roberto" in the credits, and realizing that he is a real person who plays himself, in a fictional role. Much like Dan Marino in Ace Ventura, but with substantially better acting. And his fight with the stoic Ronald Niedermann is probably the best action scene in a movie that could use a few more of them.  This movie takes a turn away from the self-contained serial killer story of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, and follows the adventures of societal mis-fit Elizabeth Salander, who is apparently connected on several levels to the darkest secrets of the Swedish government. Unfortunately, all three stories in the "Millenium Trilogy" have a bad habit of pretending to be about Salander, when they're really more focused on journalist Mikael Blomkvist, and whatever vast conspiracy he's threatening to unearth this week. Don't get me wrong, Blomkvist makes for a great protagonist (and is expertly acted by Michael Nyqvist), but Salander often gets relegated to the sidelines (she spends most of the movie hiding out as a murder suspect).  The movie tends to be more straightforward than the book. If you're a purist, you probably won't like that. Subplots are excised, and so are main plots. The central murders of the story are because of an illegal sex trade, but this is barely mentioned again, once we find out Salander's prints are on the gun.  The movie ends with a quasi-cliffhanger, as Salander tracks down her long-lost father, who is more or less not happy to be found. If you want all your loose ends neat and tidy, you'll have to watch part three (THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET'S NEST).

typical average 80's T&A movie Just another mindless 80's teen sex comedy,about average as far as T&A movies go. The acting is pretty bad(mostly by the lead character) and the story is ridiculous. The music,hair and clothes well represent the 80's,which can be good or bad depending on your taste.It's not too funny but there is a decent amount of nudity which is about the only reason to watch this type of movie. It's worth a view for the curious and/or T&A connoisseur but probably not worth owning.  Zep

Enjoyable I enjoyed this movie in the theatre. It's pacing is nice and it's very easy to watch. It's definitely more tailored for kids as it tends to feel like it was written by a 12 year old at times. Everything is very predictable and obvious but like I said, I had a nice time watching it and if your in the mood for a non-thinking fun movie this is the one for you.

funny I think they do a great job sticking very close to what the original stooges would act, say and do! It was funny and entertaining. But only if you like the original three stooges!

Edited by a Jack Russell terrier There's plenty of eye candy to be seen here, but so much of it is the same old stuff that you see in every nature program:  whales, dolphins, and the same damned ocean birds over and over.  Please, please: no more of this crap!  Most of the more interesting animals and insects featured here were hardly even touched upon, where minutes at a time (and that is saying a lot, considering the fact that this was chopped up and put together by a terrier hopped up on Red Bull and speed) were devoted to the same animals we see over and over.   And then we get to the message.  Yes, we know that man is tearing the hell out of nature.  Take it up with the poor people you see in the video.  See how concerned they are when they're just trying to feed their families.  It would be nice to watch a beautiful program about nature with no people and no cliche messages being rammed down our throats.  This message isn't an effective call to action.  It's not going to get anyone off their ass and fly down to the South Pacific and fix the problems.  Take the time used up by this message and use it to give us what we want: respect, wonder, and awe for the natural world.

Johnny and Tim again :/ Its not to long and not too short its just the story line isnt really well constructed. You get the goth or creepy feeling from like all Tim Burtons films yet the movie wasnt that funny and in most of the other films Tim does a good job showing the development of the characters and their feelings in this one its more choppy.

Not `total fun', but fun nonetheless... You have to know what you're getting into with a film like `Total Recall'.  My guess is that you do.  If you pick a DVD with the name Schwarzenegger in bold letters at the top then you know that the talent level is very low, but it will be explosive and entertaining.  `Total Recall' is just that.  The acting and plotting and general storytelling aspects of this film are marginally successful, with moments of full blown ridiculousness, but the film is exciting in all the right areas and it maintains a level of cleverness that will keep you glued.  The graphics are top notch (if not a tad on the cheesy side at times) for the time period in which this was made, and the action sequences are all pretty fun.  As far as the story is concerned, well a lot of Arnold's films seemed to be cut from the same mold, and this is no different.  Still, if you have a lazy Sunday afternoon prepared for it, `Total Recall' can bring with it a fairly good time.

Good but not Great If you're a fan of the first installment; you'll like this one, but you won't think that it is better than the first.  Good story line and enjoyable movie, but just not as intriguing and engaging as the first.

For Beginners Only Leslie should have indicated that this was a video for beginners only. It is not very challenging for those who have been walking with her for years.

A waste of good talents All the ingredients for a fine contemporary comedy are here, including a pertinent theme (the difficulty of finding love amid career obligations and easy sex) and an assortment of courageous young actors (Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Greta Gerwig, Olivia Thirlby). Unfortunately the director is Ivan Reitman, who's never made a more emotionally complex film than Meatballs (1979). Telling the story of a med student (Portman) and an aspiring TV writer (Kutcher) who try to navigate a "sex friendship" without falling in love, Reitman settles for easy laughs, and his off-color jokes about menstruation and drug use feel like greeting-card gags. The charismatic leads keep this watchable, but it's a waste of their talents.

Just OK As the title says, it was just OK and I actually ejected it a couple of times for better movies and have not finished it. I kept looking around for John Candy............

A mostly fun movie A critic described this movie as being "more Disney than Pixar". I have to agree. In the theater viewing the two things I enjoyed the most were the short called Luna (not certain if it is included with this dvd) and the princess' hair. Apparently each hair strand was distinctly animated. What the movie lacks is a good storyline. It starts out promisingly with the princess rebelling against a forced marriage but then descends into a typical Disney fairytale complete with comic relief characters, adults behaving childishly and the like. This is a good movie but it pales in comparison with classics like Spirited Away, Monsters Inc, and Toy Story.

Great movie, lousy quality I downloaded this as part of a promotion to check out Amazon Unbox, and I have to say that I'm not impressed.  The film itself is great; it's a classic that I've loved since I was little.  My issue is with the video transfer.  When you have a file size of 2.2 gigs, there's absolutely no reason that the image should be so blocky and pixelated, nor that the sound should be wavering so much.  There are so many compression techniques available that actually create smaller files of higher quality -- .avi and .mkv for example -- that the use of such a substandard compression technique is inexplicable to me.  If this video is representative of the quality available through Amazon Unbox, I won't be downloading any others.  It's a shame; I really didn't want to have to drink  the iTunes kool-aid but this just can't compete.  NOTE: I am reviewing the UnBox download, not the DVD.  I don't understand why Amazon combines reviews for radically different products.  If you're grouchy that I'm not talking about the product you're actually looking at, gripe at Amazon about it, not me.

Not the best quality I'd been looking for this movie for years and was happy to have found it finally.  It was a movie I'd loved as a child and wanted to share it with my son.  Unfortunately the film skips a lot and is poor quality in my opinion.  I'm still thrilled to have it just wish that it would play seamlessly as all the DVDs that we own do.

An Adult GI Joe written by Warren Ellis with Great Japan Animation! A great version of GI JOE, more hardcore and adult. Warren Ellis wrote the basic script and it shows! It is a great animation, a bit short (as it was first released as websodes) but highly entertaining.The animation is great, like a good anime and the plot is simple but effective. If you always wished to see GI JOE in a more adult and hardcore way, this is it! Bullets hurt, people get killed and all! :)

A Ball and Two Saucer Stories "The Cosmic Man" (1958) B&W:  If you are Dr. Sorenson, famed Astrophysicist, you have the opportunity of a lifetime: to study a UFO; it had landed in a nearby canyon.  You are the first to arrive.  It is not a flying saucer, but a featureless levitating, 6 foot wide white ball.  Probably too small to carry any creatures, probably an interstellar probe.  But later mysterious things happen and then, in the dim lamp light at the lodge, an uncertain silhouette of a man appears . . . . Comments: Much technical jargon spouted by Dr. Sorenson; all of it meaningless.  The most entertaining is his speculation on a new theory of gravity, with the purpose to explain the UFO's anti-gravity lift. Picture (DVD): 3.  Sound: volume low.  Subtitles: none.  Extras: trailers.  "The Flying Saucer" (1949) B&W:  If you are Hank, you've got a problem.  A Russian spy ring, operating in the Territory of Alaska, had been infiltrated by your agent; he has since disappeared, but before he did, he reported the Russians believe a flying saucer is operating out of an area near the Taku glacier.  Fortunately Mike's father owns a hunting lodge there, unfortunately Mike is not an agent, he is a playboy, fond of drinking and doesn't take this seriously.  So you send agent Vee along; it will be a tough job keeping Mike in line; there will be times when she wishes she could muzzle him . . . . Comments: Slow paced, at times feels more like an Alaskan travelogue than a spy-versus-spy flick. Picture: 3, flecks, streaks.  Sound: volume low, coarse-most noticeable in the music.  Subtitles: none.  Extras: trailers.  "Stranger From Venus" (1954) B&W:  If you are the man with no name who walked into an old English Inn one evening, you have a simple mission: tell the Earth creatures, you find there, to bring the representatives of the world's governments to a nearby clearing 2 days from now to receive a gravely important message from Venus.  You expected compliance, unfortunately you had not anticipated the duplicitous, self-serving behavior of human politicians . . . . If you are Arthur, you are a powerful politician.  You are in love with Susan; she's afraid and asks you to let her leave.  You assure her, she has nothing to fear; but you misunderstand her fear: she is afraid of falling in love with the Venusian . . . . Picture: 3.  Sound: volume low, coarse, variable.  Subtitles: none:  Extras: none.

A Moral Dilemma for the viewer A History of Violence stars Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris, William Hurt & is a David Cronenberg film. That is reason enough to see it.  The storyline of this mob movie is definitely one that is hard to develop but they do what they can. There are all kinds of moral dilemmas in this show but they are generally exposed & then left unsettled or even ignored. That lowers the quality of the story. As a mob movie though, it is in unusual territory so I'll make allowances for that & get to what is right.  Is there hard core violence? check Is it fast & brutal? check Is the home life entangled? check Are the bad guys really bad? check Is the good guy not very good? check Is the wife put on the hot seat? check How about the kids? Are they confused & conflicted? check Does everything work out in the end? Well that's the question & the moviemakers leave it for you to decide but there's just too many things left unanswered by this film for it to get a high rating from me. Too many things that are passed over in the interest of moving the story forward.  Yet I'm recommending a viewing because of the talent of the actors. It's seldom you get to see two male support roles filled by the quality of William Hurt & Ed Harris & they are stunning. Viggo Mortensen is way out of his league currently with these two but he puts in a marvelous performance as Tom Stall et al. Maria Bello is- all I can say is to paraphrase a line from Pretty Baby used by Brooke Shields & say, 'I can feel the steam rise up in her right through her dress.' God Bless the cheer leaders of America. Every guy that sees this show will want to be Tom Stall. Ashton Holmes plays Viggo's son, Jack, & should receive notice for the quality of his portrayals also.  See it for the acting & see it for the moral ambiguity but I say rent don't buy.  3.5 stars. If you just like up-close & personal violence then this might just be a buy for you.

Gunga Din I got this movie because I am a World History Teacher. Gunga Din was written during the time of the non-violent resistance led by Gandhi against the British Empire in India in the early to almost mid 1900s. The movie portrays the British soldiers as orderly, courageous, and civilized. On the other hand, the resistance movement Indians are portrayed as cult-like demon worshipers of the worse kind terrorizing India and the orderly British. The leader of the Indian resistance movement look strikingly like Gandhi himself! Clearly, Gunga Din became a propaganda movie to justify the British oppressive regime in India during the time when the Indian people are resisting British colonialism. I only show a portion of the movie to bring that point home to my students. I show the beginning of the movie to show the contrast between the British soldiers and the Indian resistance. Than I show my students when Gunga Din and a British soldier came upon a cult ceremony by the resistance. The movie is an entertaining action movie. However, I show the entire 1982 Gandhi movie, which is a much more appropriate movie to show my classes all the way through.

ONE WRONG TURN AND YOU CAN CRASH Izak (Yehuda Levi) and Yuni (Joshua Biton) are young cousins in Israel with big plans. Yuni has a brother Levi, who robs banks. Izak's family owns a bar that allows illegal gambling in the back room with unsavory characters. When their lives are threaten in Israel,by a hothead named Tommy (Edward Furlong), they head to the LA to live the American dream. While in America, they manage to step on the toes of a drug czar, Mickey (James Caan) while fixing his car. When Levi gets out of prison and rejoins the family, his criminal ways haven't ended.  The film is based on a true story, and during the final credit run they show us actual photos of the characters with spellings such as "Izak" as opposed to the traditional "Isaac." I found that the story bordered on being exciting, but lacked the Hollywood glitz and drama style to put it into that thriller category.  The movie holds your interest, but just when you think it will grab you, it lets go. My biggest complaint is the cliche title. This is the best they could come up with? This is a 2 star film. I added a star for the soundtrack and their attempt to match the music with the era, although they played late 60's music for the 1970s because face it, the music was better.  Parental Guide: F-bomb, nudity (Leilani Sarelle) no sex.

If you're here for the fights, you may be disappointed This was directed by Michael Jai White.  Now I think he's awesome--at action and choreography.  Check him out in Undisputed 2 or Blood and Bone.  These titles may sound suspect, but trust me, the action is box office "A" quality.  It's just all of the non-combat that kept them from theatrical release.  But again, keep in mind the director of this one and try to be understanding of the hardly serviceable acting.  You're here for the fights...and you're going to be disappointed.   So some fresh meat freshman boxer-wrestlers stumble across the same underground tournament as the first installment in this hopefully coming-to-a-close franchise.  The characters are completely uninteresting.  The plot is completely aimless.  Michael Jai White delivers completely painful dialogue.  But I won't lie.  I smiled a couple of times.   The score and tone are surprisingly upbeat considering this movie is about a brutal elimination competition called "The Beatdown".  But the training scenes lack the proper motivating energy, the trainer (Michael Jai White) doesn't rile us or the characters up, and I cannot find an antagonist.  At least, not besides a needlessly racist cop scene.  As the movie progresses, we find no more intriguing conflict than that between the apparent protagonists and the fighting/training scenes remain stagnant.  An attempt is made to turn one protagonist into a villain--it's a very poor attempt.   The characters don't seem to develop.  They don't seem to have anything to overcome.  There doesn't seem to be any point to this movie.  Not even to watch some cool fights.  There's one.  But is it really worth over an hour of suffering for two minutes of pleasure?  The Beatdown fights at the end are "okay" but fall short of the price of admission.   Instead of suffering through this, try Blood and Bone and Undisputed 2.  These movies have what you came for and deliver it with grade "A" Michael Jai White quality.

Every gets what one needs Rude-behaving teen pupils were punished with attending a school special session during weekend.  On that Saturday, they not only experienced drugs, sex and antisocial stances but learnt something of both themself and respecting others for better adopting to the world surrounding.  Will they become better on social merits/how does such education style is effective the questions is?

Aspect Ratio ALERT!  Don't purchase this if you want to see the WHOLE movie. I really enjoyed this movie when it came out in theaters in 1996 and was looking forward to watching it again on DVD.  Imagine my disappointment when I discovered that this is a poor pan-and-scan, full screen only, transfer of this film. Amazon's product description and Editorial Review offer a confusing and misleading description of the product.  The Editorial Review by Tom Keogh states that the "DVD release includes optional widescreen and standard formats..."  Amazon's own Product Details for Format lists the DVD as "Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC".  Apparently, the only actual accurate description is limited to the Aspect Ratio that lists 1.33:1! I'm not sure why in this age of widescreen HDTV and home theater a studio would release a feature film in full screen, let alone full screen only!  And based on the descriptions previously referenced it may have been released in both formats earlier.  This seems to be a foolish decision by someone at the studio to drop the widescreen format as opposed to the full screen one.  The viewer misses out on scenes in which multiple clones appear together and some of them get clipped out of frame.  What movie buff wants to see dialog taking place between halves of two faces when the cropped screen is unable to accommodate both actors (or both copies of the actor as is the case in this movie). Amazon, correct your product description and drop the price on this less-than-complete DVD!

Mindless fun, but leaves you with a lot of (pointless) questions... In terms of mindless adventure films, this one was excellent from the beginning.  Plenty of action sequences, battles, and nasty terminator robots.  I can't fault the film: it's a generous serving of goofy fun.  But it's when you get into the subplot and the mysterious Marcus character that things start to get a little bit perplexing.  Spoilers start below:  (spoilers) From the beginning, you know something is fishy with Marcus, and there are some creative parallels suggesting he might be a terminator himself, but once the bomb is dropped and we find out that he is a strange terminator/human hybrid, then the questions start rolling in.  I lost sleep after this film, pondering how exactly certain problems in this scenario could be figured out.  For instance, he's a terminator with a human brain: wouldn't he start to question his lack of ability to eat or drink, or desire to?  And what about bathroom functions?  If you still had a human brain in a terminator body, wouldn't you start to question why those details don't matter anymore?  And how could a heart function without the rest of the circulatory system, such as lungs to give the heart oxygen, or bone marrow for blood cells, etc, etc?  And if the final terminator gave Marcus a massive damaging heart punch at the end, why would that make for a healthy heart for a transfer?  And in a post-apocalpytic setting, would they even have the facilities and medicines to accomplish a heart transplant?  Even more perplexing is that the goofy robots of Cyberdyne would devise THIS sort of system to try to outsmart John Connor.  Wouldn't it make more sense to try more time travel, and this time go after Sarah Connor's mom, or something more linear and logical like that?  Anyhow, if you don't read into the film, and don't think of too deeply, it's good fun.  Seeing Michael Ironsides in action again as the, well, the Michael Ironsides character again, was a nice touch as well.  But come on, did John Connor really dive into the ocean and swim into a submarine?

an okay movie this is an okay movie. nothing spetacular like, radio or the blind side. this is just your typical baseball movie. if you have not seen this movie then i recommedn you don't.

Not telling the whole story Of Gods and Men is a film based on a real event in Algeria of 1996,the story of a group of Cistercian monks living in the Atlas mountains.They offer pastoral care to the villagers nearby,which includes medicines and first aid.Some of them have been there for up to 50 years,following the ejection of the French colonialist government and armed forces from Algeria.Their leader,Brother Christian, sees no conflict between the Koran and Christianity,that they should be the best of friends.The film depicts the daily rituals ,routines,prayers and hymns of the group as they enact their deep beliefs.Sometimes singing to blot out the hovering of a helicopter.  Into this scenario an Islamist fundamentalist group massacres a team of foreign workers and fear sweeps through the region.The group invade the monastery one day to ask for medical help for a wounded man.They want medicines or Luc to travel with them to heal the wounded man.Christian doesn't go along with this,saying they don't have the medicines to spare and Luc is too old to to travel.They declare their faith and friendly relationship with the local Muslems and the Koran.The group leave.After this the government minister and the army offer them protection, but they decline.The tension within the order deepens as they debate whether to stay or go.Some feel by going they would be abandoning their beliefs,the monastery and the community who depends upon them.Others feel they would be like sheep to the slaughter,they didn't come to be sacrificed.  Once they decide to stay their courage gives them peace.There is a moving climax where they unite around the table in a Last Supper and listen to Tchaikovski's music.The only trouble I had with it is it doesn't dig deep enough into the complexity of the religion and politics.Who did the killing?Why only their heads were found,not bodies,maybe due to the evidence of how they were killed and by whom.In attempting to sell this to the French audience have glossed over issues for a mass market.Although beautifully paced,acted and filmed,there is a lack of depth and substance.A documentary investigating may have turned over more stones,not been swallowed by the bread of faith,moving though it is.

sound quality was low movie was good with no skips but the sound quality was up and down. "Loud at one point and quite at another"

Brother Bear In this enlightening film by Disney, a young Indian boy is taught the true meaning of love and the cycles of life.  After witnessing his brother's death during a fight with a bear the boy vows to slay the bear responsible for taking his brother.  When the spirits turn the boy into a bear himself he begins to experience life as a bear and see through other's eyes.  Now living as a bear, Kenai becomes hunted prey by his middle brother who thinks that the bear has killed his little brother also.  On this adventure, Kenai befriends a young bear cub whom travels with him along his way to find the place where the lights touch the earth.  The destination point where he believes he will be turned back into a man.  In the movie, Kenai's story is a great example on how the indigenous cultures and religions operate day to day with the earth and their surroundings.  Mary Pat Fisher explains, "In indigenous cultures, the community is paramount and it may extend beyond the living humans in the area.  Many traditional peoples know the earth as their mother.  The land one lives on is part of her body, loved, respected, and well known.  (44) We know that the people who live in primal religions are significantly focused on their land and the nature around them; this is signified in the film.  In her text book, Fisher explains the importance of the land and animals.  She states, "Trees, animals, insects, and plants are all to be approached with caution and consideration. If one must cut down a tree or kill an animal, one must first explain one's intentions and ask forgiveness." (47)  Brother Bear, is a clear lesson on the how the people of their religion feel about aggravating and disrespecting animals and the land.  Works Cited Brother Bear. Dir. Aaron Blaise. Robert Walker. Perf. Joaquine Phoenxi. Jason Raize.  Jeremy Suarez. Disney. 2003. Film. Fisher, Mary Pat. Living Religions. 8th ed.  New Jersey.  Pearson Publication, INC.  2011.

....... worth the money The saving grace of this film and thus the three stars is that you get your money's worth.....  It is currently available NEW for 78 cents.....  ...... and it certainly isn't worth a penny more....  I actually made it through from beginning to end (not being aware of what I was in for) ... but having once suffered the journey, I'll never inflict it upon myself again!!

The fighting is funny. Worst  martial arts I've ever seen in my life, if you are a fighter , you'd definitely laugh with tears. I gave it 3 stars to support the black film.  The fighting is hilarious , should have been a comedy.

Very good but blue ray lacks language variety. Product is excelent but at least the blue ray lacks other different languages than English. If you are expecting to see this movie in your mother language, like Spanish, don't buy it.

ok I need to watch a third time because I fell asleep twice now while watching it.It wasn't late at night but I just didn't care too much for it.

A Film You Want To Love.... THE RESIDENT is one of those very well made (directed by Antii Jokinen), well photographed (cinematographer Guillermo Navarro), well scored (music by John Ottman), well cast films that just doesn't manage to get off the ground.  The idea for the film is OK but the script written by Robert Orr and director Jokinen is so slim that the film could have been a successful short: everything you need to know is in the trailer.  A thriller it is not, but the people in the film are so attractive that much is forgivable.  Hard working ER Doctor/Surgeon Juliet Devereau (Hilary Swank - who also is executive producer here) is bruised by a broken relationship: Jack (Lee Pace, well remembered for his role in 'A Soldier's Girl') betrayed their relationship. Juliet needs a change and looks for an apartment in New York City, eventually finding an affordable gorgeous space being renovated by owner Max (Jeffrey Dean Morgan, handsome and charismatic).  Max is strange but pleasant and goes out of his way to please Juliet.  Max lives in the apartment house as does his grandfather August (Christopher Lee), and when the emotionally vulnerable Juliet is attracted to Max, Max is the one who shuts down. But the chemistry has begun and Max spies on Juliet, stalking her, making videos of her in bath, obsessing over her etc.  Juliet meanwhile reconnects with Jack, a fact that motivates Max to change the direction of his approach to Juliet.  What follows is a series of strange incidents that the audience will know about ahead of time and the ending just sort of happens - without much suspense or caring from the viewer.  Swank is up to par in her professionalism and both Morgan and Pace are interesting to watch. The film has some nice effects and the cast is attractive  and maybe that is enough for a no-brainer film.  Pleasant but non-involving. Grady Harp, March 11

Floyd Fans!!!  Watch Floyd's set FREE!!!  Save $30!!! First I want to say that that this product is a solid 3 stars.  The musical performances vary in quality and entertainment. But personally I didn't care for many of the so-called 'artists.'  I bought this solely for Pink Floyd's 5 song set.  The songs that Floyd performs are Speak to Me, Breathe, Money, Wish You Were Here and Comfortably Numb and they do them all flawlessly.  Seeing roger Waters into the music, smiling, singing along and engaging the audience is fantastic.  Seeing all four members smiling to one another and standing together at the end is truly priceless.  To say the least it was and will remain very emotional to any committed fan of Pink Floyd.  However if, like me, you are only getting this to see Floyd then I suggest you simply check out David Gilmour's Youtube channel where he provides the entire performance in HD and FREE OF CHARGE.  So if you only want the five songs from Pink Floyd just skip this DVD and watch it on Youtube.

A great story that goes astray First, let me say that I really like this movie, despite its flaws. The concept is a good one, but I think it becomes strained with too much of the wrong things. The cinematography is wonderful. There are some panoramic scenes of Montana that make the scenes more beautiful. However, as touching and interesting as the story and characters are, I feel that they focus too much on the mother (Kristen Scott Thomas) and her life, and her affair with the Horse Whisperer (Robert Redford), not giving nearly enough focus to the injured daughter and her struggles. The story should be more about the daughter and her horse, and less about the mother and her busy life. But, still, it's easy to love a movie with Redford in it... his character is worth enduring the minor story flaws. Basically, a good movie, well worth seeing/owning.

Entertaining PopCorn Flick. Disappointing Blu-Ray Extras. when i saw the film in theaters this past Feb. i wasn't expecting Oscar material(which obviously a lot of people were considering their mixed to negative comments) so i wasn't disappointed when what i got was a entertaining popcorn movie. i found John(Alex Pettyfer) a quite likable character) and the fact Pettyfer is decidedly easy on the eyes didn't hurt. so when i received the blu-ray disc last week i found it entertaining again. after all seeing Alex P. in 1080p high definition defines the term "eye candy".  so my mixed reaction is of the blu-ray extras which are a mixed bag. so i ask director J.D. Caruso what the ****** happened with the extras???  1.Alex Pettyfer is the star of the film and the title of the film is   I AM NUMBER FOUR. so why is the only making of short BECOMING NUMBER   6? i can't believe there was no behind the scenes stuff shot with with Alex   Pettyfer the star of the film but there is with a supporting character? i   remember seeing making of stuff on Youtube so why isn't it on the   bl-ray disc?  2.also i'm betting there were way more deleted scenes that centered on Alex's   character.

Its ok There's just a lot of kids singing little songs and not very many puppets, I was kinda surprised and disappointed.  Its definitely not one of the cuter videos but my 20 month old still likes to watch the little kids.  There are better Elmo videos out there though.

Where's the Digital Copy?  Don't throw away the wrapping... I purchased two Sony movies this past week, and this movie was one of them.  I opened each one up to look for the digital copy code... and didn't find them.  The Ultraviolet sticker on the Blu-Ray case stated that the code was inside the case, but it wasn't.  There was only a code for Sony Movie Rewards inside, but that code is different from the Ultraviolet code.  After e-mailing Sony, I received a response that the code was on the back of the sticker on the clear plastic wrapping of the disc.  Fortunately, I still had the wrapping of both discs, and lo and behold, on the back of the sticker on the wrapping was the code.  So interestingly, the sticker on the clear plastic wrap states that the code is on the back, while the sticker on the disc case states the code is inside.  Nice contradiction, but more importantly, it's poor human factors/ergonomic packaging design that deviates from consumers' expectations.  When 99% of digital download codes (e.g. your iTune digital download codes and Ultraviolet digital download codes on Warner Bros. discs) are located on a sheet of paper inside the disc case, and you decide to put it on the outside along with a different sticker stating that it's on the inside, you are setting yourself up for headaches, Sony.

some good...some not so good Agreed, that all who have bought this video see the excellent benefits as well as the video"s instructional shortcomings.  Truly, not enough verbal instruction. I know it sounds funny, but having done Jillian Michael's "ripped in 30" videos where she's yelling at you and finally you press "mute" since you don't want to listen to her anymore...this is the opposite extreme!  Tracy doesn't say enough...enough verbal instruction so you know if you're doing it right, which foot, when to switch to the next position, etc...There are LONG stretches of silence during the video, which, if you've done the video many, many times...this might be a good thing, but in the beginning portion of learning the video and the series of exercises... it's NOT great. If your head is down during a particular stretch and she switches positions, you have no clue because she hasn't said a word, unless you strain your neck up to pay attention.  Yep, you missed the next transition. Even if she counted up to a certain number when doing repetitions you'd atleast be able to do the exercise knowing how many to expect.  Great arm work out as all have stated, a real burning, toning, re-defining portion of the video.  But...I could have "you-tubed" that portion of the video.  Obviously one-on-one training is her strength, but verbal instruction is not.

not for the faint of heart I enjoyed this movie mainly due to the great acting of the lead characters. It is a story of love that has gone (if it was even there in the first place). Two complex characters marry and evolve, each at their own speed, so that after several years they have nothing in common anymore. The pace of the film is slow, the dialogue sparse. The actors definitely succeeded in their roles, as the movie made me feel quite uncomfortable at times. I liked Ryan Gosling's character, even when he behaved badly. He is shown as kind of a loser, but he is actually the one who gets life. The wife's character was unlikeable and manipulative. She has outgrown him, she is more intelligent than he and the main support for the family comes from her work. She clearly wants more from life than she currently has. I had the feeling if these two characters would just sit down and "share" some of their aspirations for their family all would be well, but this was not what the movie intended to portray. The cinematography was a bit off-putting to me; gloomy, dark, shaky. It reminded my of an Italian movie that I had seen when growing up in Europe in the 50's - "Bicycle Thieves". It had that same gloomy, dingy, frayed at the seams feeling. Anyone who wants a feel-good movie, should only rent this one. You may want to own it for the super acting, but it is not the kind of movie you will watch over and over again.

Had to return this item It's not the quality of the exercises that is poor, but rather the quality of the video itself. The boring white background and beginner moves aren't for those who've mastered her other videos. Furthermore, as this is a re-release of her older videos, it's not as "innovative" as what we've become used to with her other videos. Sorry, Jillian, this one is not for me.

Facing Death: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross It's worth watching.  However it's more of a biography than a summary of her research and teachings.  Also many of the people interviewed speak German and I struggled with the subtitles at times.

Armored Who would've thought that a movie about the box security trucks could be so exciting. The twists and turns of the movie keep your attention. I give the movie 3 out of 5 stars. It is worth renting but I wouldn't buy it unless it was on a good sale. Matt Dillon (The Outsiders and You, Me, and Dupree) and Columbus Short (Accepted and Stomp the Yard) are the two main characters that are part of a security team with Laurence Fishburne (Matrix) that transports money for banks. The story starts with Short's character, Ty, getting promoted from probation to a real guard. Even though Ty is successful at work his personal life is a mess. He is high school brother's guardian because their parents had died recently and also their house in close to being taken by the bank. I enjoyed the setup and even though you can tell where the movie is going in the beginning it still makes Ty's character easy to connect with and understand his struggles. This movie reminded me of Phonebooth. It has one event that is the majority of the movie without really changing location or adding characters. I would recommend this movie for older children. There is violence and some language but no sexual innuendo that I can remember. The movie doesn't even have any women as main characters. Armored was a decent action flick.

Poor Script. This is a great franchise and has enthusiasm of youthful cast and author. If you have not read the books, you are missing extremely well written books.  Have read these books at least 7 times and am about to go back to the fourth book and read it again. The script seems to deviate often from the book and the deviations were not an improvement to the storyline.  The actors did their part, the camera people did an excellent job, direction was good and all of the special effects were excellent. Was surprised to see how much the actors had matured and notable changes in physical appearance.  Since this was produced by Ms. Meyers, am surprised the script was so disjointed and produced poor results portraying an excellent book.  We will get all of the movies because we like the books so much and appreciate Ms. Meyers work authoring this excellent series.

finally a dvd release The release of this film on DVD has been held up for years by lawsuits. And unfortunately now it has been released as a sort of meaningless afterthought. No extras. No special edition. No Blu Ray. I guess having a release of some sort is better than having no release at all.  Its a film with unending problems. The characters are generally unlikable. The theme of the rise of the automobile being a bad thing is completely undone by the fact that George is a person without qualities. The film makes solid attempts at the beginning and end to appeal to nostalgia, but its difficult to raise much sympathy for someone like George. And those who have read the book know how goofy parts of it (like the end) are as source material. The music didn't help either.  The casting is also mostly bad. Tim Holt isn't the right actor for the critical part of George. Cotton, with his aristocratic bearing, is also totally wrong for his part. Angnes Moorhead is of course the exception. She was cast in a part that was ideal for her and arguably gave the performance of her career in the film.  And the truth should be told about what happened to this film. Orson Welles walked away from it. A couple days after filming had been completed, he ran away to make another film in South America. He made the personal decision to abandon Ambersons and he has to bear a large portion of the responsiblity for what happened after. Much of the greatness of Citizen Kane was accomplished in the editing of the film. To suggest that Welles had even produced a true rough cut by the time he left the US is likely an overstatement.  He tried to edit the film via telegram between parties and film shoots in Rio. But it didn't work. How could anyone edit a film via telegram? And then when the crisis came, he wandered around south america for a month playing around rather than rushing back to save "Ambersons".  We are constantlty told that "his" cut of the film was somehow lost. But the ugly truth is that he seems never to have produced a cut himself at all. It would be more accurate to say that elements of the Robert Wise cut were lost. To even credit Welles with having cut the film is giving him more credit that his involvement deserves. Welles ultimately made the decision that being in Rio for Carnaval was more important than anything to do with "Ambersons". And a person who walks away from their own work and hands it off to others to finish can't later claim to have been an artistic victim.  As to the film itself, there are some moments of technical brillance. Some moments of good writing. Some nice film composition. And there is Agnes Moorhead's performance. The narration pieces at points in the film are excellent. But the casting of key characters like George, the story, and dark plodding mood of the whole thing make it a very flawed film.  I think the film could have probably been saved in editing. But not by any editor other than Welles himself. And certainly not by staff like Robert Wise, no matter how talented, trying to edit the film based on telegrams.  If RKO (the studio) made a mistake, it was in allowing Welles to leave the country before editing the film. That single decision doomed the film.  Its still good to have a DVD of some sort of the film. For all its flaws, its still worth watching.

Not flying too high... How I missed `Top Gun' my whole life is beyond me, but am I the only guy out there who just assumed that if Tom Cruise and Meg Ryan were in the same movie they would be the lovers?  I was kind of shocked to see Kelly McGillis in the lead and then I remembered that this was 1986 and McGillis was coming off of `Witness' and Meg Ryan still had three more years before she'd fake moan her way into superstardom.  Alas, with the devastating loss of Tony Scott, I decided to watch this finally (been sitting on my DVR for over a month) and I must say...it's kind of `ok'.  I mean, it flows and it has movement, but the film is so cookie cutter and generic.  There really isn't anything special about the film at all.  The use of music was disastrous as well.  The way they played `Danger Zone' over every scene in the first half only to switch to playing `Take My Breath Away' every time McGillis and Cruise were in the same room was somewhat nauseating, and that final scene (party on the base) was just so corny.  But I loved Anthony Edwards in this!

The most cliched musical I have ever seen. Overly cheesy and predictable...on the other hand the music is great. I say B-. "I've seen a million faces and I've rocked them all." Sherrie Christian (Hough) is a small town girl who took the midnight plane to LA. When she arrives she meets Drew who works in a smokey bar with the smell of wine and cheap cologne. They quickly fall in love and the path to fame is ahead of them. When Drew gets his big break opening for Stacee Jaxx (Cruise) their paths and relationships start to change, and not for the better. Before I start this (in case you don't already know) this is a musical so if you are not into musicals you can stop reading. On the other hand all the music is from 80's hair bands...so that is pretty rad. I will say that this movie is easily the most clich&eacute;d musical I have ever seen. Girl lives in small town, moves to big city, instantly gets robbed but is helped by a boy who immediately gets her a job at the place she wanted and they fall in love...a misunderstanding causes a fight...yada yada yada. To be honest the movie is almost too cheesy to watch, but the music keeps you involved. The entire soundtrack is songs by 80's hair bands. Tom Cruise covering Wanted Dead or Alive is actually pretty sweet. Overall, a movie that really is only watchable because of the music, if you are not a fan of 80's hair bands do not watch this, if you are then you will probably like it as much as I did. I give it a B-

Excellent Photography. Well Done Music. Credibility Problems. Last night's bargain rack movie was "Hanna." To me, this was not a very good movie. Where can I begin? Let's start with the best. The photography was excellent, especially the far north shots from Finland. The rest was good also, but I really liked the frozen north. Beautiful and well done! Also, before I watched the movie, I noticed that the music was by the Chemical Brothers. The Chemical Brothers? One of my favorite electronic acts? They're doing movies? Well, this I had to hear so my ears, at least, were open throughout the movie. I'd say it only barely sounded like the Chemical Brothers, but it was a well done musical score.  Alas, now the movie. It was unmitigated nonsense. There's no other way to put it. How does Hollywood come up with stuff like this? A young woman was raised in the far north of the Finland wilds to be a trained killer and aimed at a target. Alas, she was tough, to be sure, but quite a charming young lady. Miscast? I'd say so! In any case, she escapes a planned raid on the Arctic Circle hideout and emerges from a man-hole in a subtropical desert at least 3000 miles away. Trust me. I'm a geologist. Now, does this strain credibility or what? The desert looked like an obscure part of the Colorado Plateau of the Western U. S., but the local quickly changed to North Africa. Alas, I'm already having trouble following this story. Then we find her amazed with electricity and in awe of lights and fans and things of that sort. Okay, it's understandable, considering her raising. However, a few minutes later, we find her using a computer search engine to track down her father. Alas, this is a story I just can' follow. There are so many interlaced credibility gaps that the whole story makes no sense whatsoever. Let's cut it short. She finally kills her target. There!  The whole movie is just a fiasco. CIA agents everywhere. People getting killed by the dozens. Chase scenes overlapping chase scenes. Well, there's enough action that boredom doesn't set in but the story has no credibility at all. Fortunately, there was some interesting music and the photography was good.  Gary Peterson

Not a Feel Good Movie The acting seemed fine, but the overall mood of the film seemed morose and lackluster.  Not the kind of movie that I would wish to see again.

Made my head ache So much jumpy action, juggling camera work, dark almost invisible scenes. Man, this is hard to watch. You feel like you've had 10 cups of coffee after awhile. This is fully based in reality. Instead of the Ny Times Judith Miller as the Bush administration's press schill, they changed that to someone from the WSJ. I found that funny. There were no WMD in Iraq, but one American soldier is determined to find out why he went to war anyway. That's the gist here, as Matt Damon plays the heroic soldier looking for a plot to fabricate tales of WMD as a justification for a war to remove Saddam Hussein. This plays very anti-war, so I guess the right-wingers didn't like it. I didn't care for it much because the film techniques are so tiresome. What a confusing mess of chaos.

Dated, but good As far as production goes, this movie is a bit dated, but it's still good.  It's a bit strange seeing a young Christopher Walken, but he does a good job with the role.  The film plays out like a slow motion car wreck as Walken's character descends into madness, or does he?  With a "gift" for seeing, and possibly changing the future, the viewer is left to wonder what they'd do given the same "gift".  The story unwinds a bit slowly, but that's to take in and understand the circumstances and give one time to ponder the unraveling situation.  Good for a viewing.

"I am not accustomed to being addressed by officers on horseback!!" THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES (2001) makes me think about all those nifty films that fell through the cracks in 2001 and 2002, largely due to the terrorist attacks in America.  This is Ian Holm's third outing as Napoleon Bonaparte, poor soul, and it is a weird film I must say. It was fun and interesting (according to my wife) and I certainly enjoyed the premise, the quality of the acting/actors, the locations (Malta, Rome, Hungary) - just about everything except the silly story itself.  Here Napoleon, held prisoner on the island, escapes with the assistance of an identical double (Eugene Lenormand, also played Holm). As the double acts the emperor ("I was scrubbing the decks of his ships all those years ... now it's my turn"), Napoleon makes his way to Paris to reclaim his power. Then the uniquely surreal metaphysics that comprises most British "comedy" begins.  Napoleon becomes an average working man and falls in love. Not as much as he's in love with himself, but that will change. Some sort of comedy is supposed to come of this, but this oddity can't decide if it will be funny or tragically dramatic. 'Dramedy' just doesn't fit either ... so what the hell is it?  It seemed to me it was a musing about power, powermongers and screwballs like Napoleon, or, say, Hitler - suddenly losing power and being left to wonder who they are really supposed to be. As I said, if you are of a specific bent of mind you might get into a story like this - otherwise, just plain weird. And definitely NOT funny.  The star power as always is impressive: Hugh Bonneville, Nigel Terry, the wonderful Eddie Marsan (quite young here), Bob Mason, and George Harris (Kingsley Shacklebolt of HARRY POTTER fame) to name only half the cast. A stunning turn by the beautiful Danish actress Iben Hjejle as Pumpkin, Napoleon's new love, adds the right touch.  One of the things I felt was most profound about this film is when Napoleon, in his new life in Paris, gets a shocking look at all the nutters who think they are ... well, they think they're him. It started me wondering about that old hat, and I said to my poor mate, I wonder if something like this really happened. We often see the stereotype of the insane person as one who thinks he/she is Napoleon ....  This film never had a chance. It might - I say MIGHT with emphasis - have become a cult classic, but it was released in the U.S. in September 2002 and didn't have a snowball's chance in hell, or a pumpkin's chance on Hallowe'en. A bit sad, really, since it is the type of film one would like to have seen get its fair shake.  But there's no denying it: films from 1998 until 2003 basically got sunk by the American tragedy of the 21st century. So get this for the pure joy of simply watching it, and see Ian Holm give an undeserved but powerhouse performance yet again.

Good story While this movie had a really good story, the acting wasn't very good. I think younger boys (maybe 8-11) would enjoy this, because they wouldn't really care about the acting.

Inconsistent This movie is worth watching, it had potential, it had its moments, but suffered from self-inflicted wounds that were easily avoidable. The lead actors were fine, the writing was not. You would expect Hopkins to contribute a good performance and he did, the young priest was good as well. Without speaking a word, his facial expressions perfectly conveyed his skepticism and frustration with the old priest. These scenes were very well done, unfortunately those were his best scenes, the writing was such that his spoken lines were typical shallow Hollywood cynicism and rarely advanced the story.  Internal conflict and self-doubt within the minds of the characters is realistic and result in good drama. But there is a difference between a conflicted character, and a cynical character. Realistic conflict gives life to the story, cynicism creates exasperation in the viewer (or reader). The young priest did not quite cross over into cynicism, but he was close, and in my mind the movie suffers from this and never fully recovers.....although it tried.  This movie couldn't make up its mind - it didn't take itself serious enough to deliver a convincing outcome. The first 3/4 of the movie was typical Hollywood skepticism and levity about God and Christianity. During this time they threw cold water on their subject and characters, including plenty of ill-timed "wit", and then tried to "pull a rabbit out of the hat" in the end. It was forced, awkward, unsatisfying, and entirely self-inflicted.  In otherwise good movies, the ill-timed use of "wit" has caused more damage than any other blunder (this includes books as well). I'm not against it, and if used correctly it is fine, but in a supernatural drama, a subject so somber and serious, where you are trying to build up to a dramatic climax, every instance of "wit" and levity should be scrutinized VERY closely, and probably eliminated unless there is a noticeable contribution to the story. (I did laugh at the cell phone scene in spite of myself.)  A example of the proper use of wit and humor is the classic "Jaws". There was plenty of humor, wit and oddball characters, which all fit naturally within the story and were perfectly believable.  Worth watching. I love Hopkins. But plenty to complain about.

NOT AS GOOD AS EMMA THOMPSON'S VERSION I had the opportunity to see this version and felt that it was drawn out too much and didnt keep my attention. The acting didnt impress me much either (and I am sorry to say that...I dont care to make negative comments.)  I appreciate Emma Thompsons version of Sense and Sensibility. I was able to relate to the characters better and I thought the acting was outstanding. It was performed in such a way as to make me wish these people were my friends...and in some small way they are...  which is how I think all movies should move us. And unfortunately this version didnt do that.

Fixed their issues but handled poorly I want to retract my previous statement.  I bought this gift for a friend for Christmas and she hadn't received it yet, this company turned right around and sent it without an issue or charging me double.

It Is Just Not That Good Anymore I am no spring chicken at 61 so I love and fondly remember the 60's but some movies just don't hold up. This is one of them. Movies now are faster, more exciting. This movie plods along and at near 2 hours is just plain boring now. Sure the car chase is still great, one of the best ever, but that does not justify sitting for 2 hours while this movie crawls along. It is now a mediocre movie at best. I might add, I absolutely admired and wanted so much to be like Steve McQueen. He is the ultimate cool guy but this movie is just not as exciting as it might have once been considered.

Butter Sculpting as a Political Metaphor Yields Good Laughs Upfront But Fizzles by the End I have to give Jennifer Garner credit for playing a despicable character in sheep's clothing with such unfettered brio in this 2012 comedy, one that aspires to be a darkly eccentric political satire but ultimately becomes too soft-centered for its own good. That outcome is a real shame since the stellar cast is obviously quite game for something edgier, the women in particular, and the scabrous tone works well for at least the first half of the movie. Director Jim Field Smith and first-time writer Jason Micallef certainly make their political proclivities clear with their broad caricature of corn-belt values and status-hungry elitists who intend on attaining power any way they can. With her constantly pinched voice, crisp color-coordinated outfits, perfect hair and make-up and a triple strand of pearls strung tightly around her neck, Garner is obviously playing Laura Pickler as an amalgam of Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman but with a more naked malevolence toward anyone who stands in her way toward the White House.  Even though her congenial husband Bob, the Iowa State Fair's 15-time butter sculpting champion, is asked by the judges to bow out of the latest competition, Laura is not about to relinquish her powerful position as queen of the fair and decides to enter the contest herself. However, she faces unexpected competition from a ten-year-old African-American child named Destiny, who has been moving from one foster home to another with her packed suitcase in tow. She somehow maintains a level head about her life as she tries to figure out what her true talent is. The answer lies in butter. For most of the first hour, the film provides a lot of easy laughs at the expense of Middle America conservatism and Tea Party stereotypes. It was clever to cast Ty Burrell since he plays Bob as a slightly duller variation on his classic portrayal of dimly lit Phil on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0053O89RY">Modern Family</a>, but he's quickly relegated to the sidelines here. The first butter sculpting contest is set up quite amusingly with the addition of two other contestants: Carol-Ann, a devoted fan girl of Bob's played with ditzy dexterity by Kristen Schaal (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0053O8A78">30 Rock</a>), and a vengeful, hard-edged stripper named Brooke, who is waiting for a $600 payment from Bob for services rendered.  As an unsavory character who wants desperately to annihilate Laura's dreams of higher status, Olivia Wilde is a genuine comic revelation who almost steals the entire movie as Brooke. Having just seen her as the overly patient, put-upon girlfriend in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008J691HU">People Like Us</a>, I am surprised at how bracingly funny she is here in her 180-degree turn as a foul-mouthed nihilist trying to look tough riding on a girl's bicycle. Playing what has to be considered the too-good-to-be-true Obama figure, Yara Shahidi brings quiet depth to Destiny and makes her feeling of isolation palpable even as her foster parents show their unconditional love for her. As the liberal-minded couple who take her into their home, Rob Corddry (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007L6VRBM">Seeking a Friend for the End of the World</a>) tamps down his antic comic style just enough to resonate, while Alicia Silverstone (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001JYIJAY">Clueless</a>) makes a welcome return as the one likeable grown woman in the story. Although the movie has a sharper edge than "The Campaign", Micallef's screenplay reaches a certain point where you begin to realize that there is little to Laura's motivations beyond her small-minded ambition.  It's at this juncture in the story that Hugh Jackman shows up as her former flame Boyd Bolton, a successful car dealer who still holds a torch for Laura and colludes with her to ensure her victory at the fair. In only a few scenes, Jackman hams it up considerably, especially in a silly prayer scene. Phyllis Smith (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005SAV9SO">Bad Teacher</a>), on the other hand, has a few sharply funny moments as the continually flummoxed contest moderator. The final showdown feels rather repetitive with little variety in the build-up of suspense and a denouement that feels far too predictable and contrived to make the story's resolution feel like it was earned. Nevertheless, the central concept of butter sculpture as the means of driving the absurdist plot somehow works. Seeing all the blocks of yellow lard turn into hilariously inappropriate creations like Schindler's List, T-Rex Eating Girl, The Last Supper, and even JFK's assassination provides the film's biggest laughs. At the same time, in a dilemma that it shares with "The Campaign", I just wish the filmmakers maintained their initial audacity all the way through instead of slapping on an ending that lets the story sputter out insipidly.

Blu-Ray: great image transfer of a very mediocre film One star for the movie itself, 5 stars for the image quality for a 3 star rating.  There are 3 bravura racing sequences in this film, with some amazing angles and impressive cinematography.  But the rest of it is mediocre at best.  It's unfortunate that director Frankenheimer (who has made some outstanding films) didn't spend as much time on the script as he did figuring out how to mount cameras on the Formula 1 cars.  The characters are flat, and the cast is unable to breathe life into them.  The soap opera situations are laughable, and it's impossible to root for anyone.  The score is abysmal: Maurice Jarre recycles phrases and orchestrations from Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia; he basically composed one theme which is played to death in several variations.  The sound mix on the Blu-Ray is a mess -- the levels jump all over the place.  Finally, the movie is full of 1960s gimmicky split screens and optical effects which completely take you out of the film -- it's Michael Bay, 1960s style. Grand Prix was an "event film" in 1966, and it's like so many other event films: bloated, noisy, and soulless.  This one doesn't even have an A-list cast.  Rent it, watch the opening race in Monte Carlo, the British race in the rain, and the final race at Monza, and don't waste the other 2 hours of this overlong turkey.

Good movie, really long The movie arrived on time and exactly as described, but it's really long. However, if you LOVE the Civil War, this movie is for you.

Review from IMDB customer Cute, Silly Movie, 24 September 2010  Author: Otsu Notuchame from Japan  This is a cute, SILLY movie about a so-called all girl punk band. Do not be fooled by the title Velveteen Muff. There are no sex scenes in this movie. If you are looking for just an entertaining little film with a goofy plot and some pretty girls, then watch this movie! Understandably, it has its low budget moments (especially with lighting in a few of the scenes), but it was still handled well with locations, a pretty good storyline and several funny scenes to back it up. Also, there is a music video with the actual "band" performing included on the DVD that is cute. This is the same group that did the GLBT movie called The Book Club.

Dumb Story, Awesome Everything Else (Three and a half)  The last movie I saw by the same director was Atonement, and it left a similar feeling with me that Hanna did where the story is pretty bland, but the visuals/sounds are fantastic. Well this bourne knockoff is more of the same, although it definately has more entertainment value than Atonement. The premise is very basic that would normally make for your typical bland PG-13 'thriller' that gets pinched out every couple of weeks but not in this case, Hanna is very European flavored which makes it more of an oddity.  The story is Hanna's living with her dad in the middle of nowhere (I think they were in Greenland) and he's teaching her very extreme survival methods, and tells her that whenever she's ready (not sure for what exactly) to push a comical red button. When she does she get's captured by the CIA(I think?) and escapes, with an agency on her tail, and all sorts of life lessons for Hanna are learned between each ass kicking. I've seen this movie about three times now and the story has vague parts that have me still scratching my head.  I went into this movie knowing nothing more than the cover so it was kind of a cool suprise that this wasn't Joan of Arc or something, that it took place in modern times, but when the story starts going along there's a lot of dumb action cliches you see (for example when she grabs onto the bottom of a truck going like 60mph in the middle of the rugged desert). A couple of things in the movie were just pretty bizarre as well, like the German bounty hunter who's played out to be some sadistic badass gets his ass whooped in like 2 seconds, the out-of-leftfield lesbian moment, and the British family that Hanna tags along with meet a suprisingly gruesome fate for a PG-13 movie. The ending is kind of abrupt too but I liked how it went full circle.  So that's all the bad things about Hanna out of the way, lets talk about the good things, the shots are great, the cinematography was excellent as the film took you all over the place. The acting was alright, nothing really incredible but the kids weren't lousy actors this time which was nice. The visuals get pretty surreal at parts too, especially at the old hippie guy's house which was interesting. Some of the shots are simply brilliant as well, the strongest anti-piracy message I've ever seen was simply the subway fight scene, the build up, the music, the subtle visual cues, and of course the lightning fast choreography, all of it was fantastic.  I'm also a big Chemical Brother's fan, but strangely enough didn't know they did the soundtrack until after I saw the movie, and I'd say they did a great job with the soundtrack. They didn't overdo their role by just adding more dance songs but actually did atmosphere which worked out great for them, to this day I still can't get 'The Devil's in the Details' out of my head.  So Hanna's a rather strange Euro-action film, it wants so bad to be your typical American action film and yet it's just so weird that it can't be, and I suspect that it has a strong cult following since it wasn't a huge hit with normal audiences. That being said if you have an appreciation for styalized film, than you will enjoy Hanna, just don't put too much thought into the story. Another interesting thing is when I saw Hanna for the second time enebriated and the experience was much more rewarding with the brain turned off. Let's hope next time Joe Wright hires a better screen writer though.

A decent Green Lantern but could have been better Given some of the superhero movies that have come out lately, the best news about Green Lantern is that the studio, Warner Brothers, did _not_ go with their original idea of casting Jack Black as Hal Jordan (unlike Columbia Pictures who _did_ cast Seth Rogen as Britt Reid in The Green Hornet, condemning it to be The Green Bomb of superhero flicks).  Ryan Reynolds is actually fairly decent as the title hero, and while the movie did come up short in a number of ways, it wasn't for any failing on Reynolds' part.  For anyone already familiar with the Green Lantern comics which go back for decades, no real synopsis is needed, but for everyone else here's the basic plot: Unknown to humanity, who only recently have begun to venture out into space, there is an ancient organization called the Green Lantern Corps, established by a race known as the Guardians of the Universe, to act as a kind of inter-galactic police force, with one Green Lantern assigned to each of the 3,600 sectors that make up the known universe. Each Green Lantern is armed with a ring of power that allows them to create whatever they need out of a kind of mystical green energy, the only limits being that of their imagination and their will. A battle with a deadly entity known as Parallax (voiced by Clancy Brown) leaves the Green Lantern for our sector, Abin Sur (Temuera Morrison), mortally wounded. Crash-landing on Earth, the dying Sur commands his ring to find a worthy successor among the inhabitants of Earth to take his place.  The ring, as fate would have it, finds Hal Jordan (Reynolds), a cocky if irresponsible and impulsive test pilot. The transition is made and Jordan becomes the new Green Lantern, only to be faced with opposition from Sinestro (Mark Strong), the current leader of the GL Corps who regards him as unfit to be the new GL.  Jordan has his own doubts about his fitness, but they quickly become immaterial as Earth is faced with twin threats: the entity Parallax and a human scientist, Hector Hammond (marvelously played by Peter Sarsgaard) who is accidentally infected with some of Parallax's essence, which causes him to mutate, disfiguring and crippling him but giving him extraordinary mental powers including telepathy and telekinesis. Alone and unsure of himself, Jordan must nonetheless use the power given him to save both the Earth and his love interest, Carol Ferris (Blake Lively).  Or die trying.  As a film, Green Lantern is somewhat uneven, mainly due to the script and to a lesser degree some questionable casting.  Too much of the script consists of lumps of exposition, making it hard for the film to build up momentum and causing parts of it to drag unnecessarily. It also spreads itself too thin, bringing in characters from the Green Lantern comic lore like Tomar-Re (Geoffrey Rush) and Kilowog (Michael Clarke Duncan), two alien GL's, and Amanda Waller (Angela Bassett), head of a secret government science/security agency, but giving them minimal screen time and little to do.  And the choice of villains is highly questionable. Hector Hammond is hardly the most memorable GL villain from the comics and in this incarnation is rendered more disfigured than truly powerful, and Parallax is done here more like a creature out of an H.L. Lovecraft story than anything else, consisting entirely of special effects with Clancy Brown's voice behind them.  (This is one of my frequent complaints about movies in recent years:  special effects do _not_ make up for a lame script.  Neither does doing the film in 3D.  Green Lantern cost some $150M to make.  They'd have been better off spending more money getting the script right than on trying to cover its deficiencies up with special effects and 3D.)  And as I mentioned, some of the casting was unfortunate. Tim Robbins as Senator Hammond, Hector's over-bearing father, is utterly wasted and out of place, most of the time looking like he's wondering how he got stuck in the role and how soon he can get out of it.  Angela Bassett is not only wasted, she's just simply _wrong_ as Amanda Waller as anyone familiar with the character from the comics can attest to.  And with Blake Lively, who's not remotely believable as a test pilot, there's a complete lack of chemistry between her and Reynolds. To be fair though, all of these people are fine actors who have been remarkable in any number of other movies; they were simply badly cast here and hampered with banal dialogue that would've tested any actor.  But which leads me to mention the two stand-outs of Green Lantern. Mark Strong is quite convincing as Sinestro, GL's classic nemesis from the comics, though here he's in pre-villain mode and so can't take center stage.  Nonetheless, in the scenes he does have, Strong can do more with a withering glance than most actors can with a page of dialogue. But it's Peter Sarsgaard's Hector Hammond who really steals the show (not to mention every scene he's in). More than any other actor in the film, Sarsgaard seems to really get what comic superheroes and supervillains are all about. And he plays Hammond to the hilt, even hampered by the script and by a make-up job that is more Elephant Man than the villain from the original comics, reaching the audience on a level that no one else in the film does. You _get_ Hammond, even if you wouldn't want to be in the same room with him. And, it has to be said, Sarsgaard brings to the table the best (and creepiest) supervillain / evil-scientist laugh I've heard in years.  The special effects, particularly the ring effects which are absolutely vital to making Green Lantern come alive, are fairly well done.  I wasn't blown away by them, but neither was I left feeling let down by them.  The same for the alien Green Lanterns and the Guardians of the Universe.  Not the best they could have been, but they work. With one exception: the attempts to make Hal Jordan's eyes green when he becomes the Green Lantern never quite pull it off.  Oh, and make sure you watch the movie through the end credits: there's a scene with Sinestro that sets things up for what will almost certainly be the sequel, if GL has a respectable box office anyway.  Overall, I'd recommend Green Lantern as a decent watch if you're a fan of the comic or of superhero films in general.

Angela Lasbury Deserved a Nomination It's obvious to anyone who isn't blinded with love for the Big E to understand that Parker destroyed the King's career with this Hollywood stuff. Even Elvis (although done graciously in interviews) admitted to it. And once he got back to America, Parker had him right back in Hollywood. This was the PERFECT time to fire him. But he didn't and within 4 years, the Beatles arrived and Elvis was history. But this movie, Blue Hawaii, is certainly one of his best. It probabably is his best musical comedy. While nowhere near the excellent Flaming Star and certainly not the calibre of his best performance, King Creole, Blue Hawaii is quite entertaining. My recomendation is to watch it just for the performance of Ms. Lansbury. She is an absolute comedic genius in this picture. And if you notice, while many directors would have wanted another take on Elvis losing it with Lansbury, the scenes are kept in the final edit. In one scene, Elvis tries to keep a straight face but just can't. You can't miss it. It's sad producer Hal Wallis used Elvis as a cash cow to finance other more expensive films and payroll more established and talented actors ('Becket' with Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton, for example). But nevertheless, if you can get past the childish script to Blue Hawaii, you will find it to be a very delightful film. And why Lansbury wasn't at least nominated for a supporting Oscar, who knows. She is WONDERFUL in the film.

The thirteenth film in the Pokemon franchise WARNING: THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN POTENTIAL SPOILERS  At the beginning of the film, Ash, Brock, and Dawn are watching a match of the Pok&eacute;mon Baccer World Cup at a Pok&eacute;mon Center.  While watching the television, a man exhibits his team, which consists of the Legendary Pok&eacute;mon Raikou, Entei, and Suicune.  Ash and his friends are traveling to Crown City to watch the next match live.  Meanwhile, Zoroark and Zorua are traveling in a plane.  During the trip, they find themselves face-to-face with the three Legendary Pok&eacute;mon.  Watching from above is Grings Kodai, the man who appeared on the television with the Legendary Pok&eacute;mon, along with his assistant, Rowena.  Zoroark is held captive by Kodai, and a Ninjask swoops down and takes Zorua.  Zorua manages to escape, but falls from the plane.  This Pok&eacute;mon uses its illusion ability to transform into Skiploom, which allows it to fall a little more gracefully toward the ground.  Ash, Brock, and Dawn end up getting lost on the way to Crown City, and save Zorua from a group of Vigoroth.  Using telepathy, Zorua explains about Zoroark going to Crown City.  The three trainers agree to help Zorua.  Kodai uses an image of Zorua to blackmail Zoroark into destroying Crown City by disguising as Raikou, Entei, and Suicune.  At the same time, Kodai sends out a public message framing Zoroark as the culprit.  The Ledendary Pok&eacute;mon Celebi also becomes involved in this story.  Can Ash and his friends figure out what Kodai is up to and stop him before it's too late?  Once again, attempts were made to combine computer graphics with traditional animation.  Unfortunately, the CG stands out just as badly, if not a little worse, than in previous films in the Pok&eacute;mon franchise.  As I watched this film with my children, at least one of kids kept cracking jokes about the bad computer animation.  The musical score is rather similar to what has been heard in previous Pok&eacute;mon films; since I enjoyed the music in the earlier films, I also enjoyed hearing the pieces in this film.  When it comes to the actual story of the film, I thought there was the potential for a decent story; however, the execution was a little on the weak side.  I found that this film had a harder time keeping my interest than many of the earlier films in the franchise.  At this point in the franchise, it feels as if the director is relying more on a formula when producing the films.  This film runs for an hour and a half, but I think the film may have been a little on the long side for the story it was trying to tell.  My youngest child got really fidgety after we hit the one hour mark; perhaps a runtime of 70-80 minutes would have been a little better.  Zoroark Master of Illusions was released as a single disc DVD.  On the disc, you can watch the film, use the setup menu to choose if you want to have English subtitles and which English audio option you want, and you can choose where in the film you want to start watching.  When it comes to the subtitles, this disc includes a way to turn them off in the menu if your player decides to default to showing the English subtitles.  Like the previous three DVD releases of the Pok&eacute;mon films, Zoroark Master of Illusions does not include any special features.  Personally, I would recommend buying a copy of Zoroark Master of Illusions if you can find it somewhere that's selling it for under $15.  In order to write this review, I checked out a copy of this DVD through the King County Library System.

Executive Decision Excellent Movie for classic 80's & 90's Action...or just a Curt Russell fan.  However *warning* if you want a widescreen version - I ordered widescreen, all of packaging says widescreen and the disk says widescreen, however, the movie was full screen - quite disappointing.

Shutter Island It was an enjoyable movie to watch until the end changed the whole story line.  Didn't like the ending.  It's hard to accept the ending.

Possibilities... First of all I must confess that my review is biased only because I truly enjoy couples who end up happy together. Without giving much details, that is not the case with this movie. It is funny in a sadistic way, I became increasingly frustrated with Jenna Hunterson character for staying with her husband time and time again. I also became frustrated with Dr. Jim Pomatter for never taking initiative to leave his wife and solely be with her. It has a sweet ending full of possibilities, as she is given a second chance in life.

decent movie and plot i like this movie with all the talk of the maya calender ending this year i wonder what or if any thing will happen?dennis quaid was good & lucas black was also good he has sure come along way from american gothic,sling blade,friday night lights.the others were good as well.

An Engulfing Vision Paired with an Underachieving Premise Ridley Scott's legendary attention to detail is on full display here, although I couldn't help but wish for a more complete, uninhibited storyline to go along with it. For all his promises that this wouldn't just be a direct prequel to Alien, the director sure seems to stretch this concept to bring the two films together, rarely to the benefit of either. That's a pity, because while the core questions that Prometheus has to ask are worthwhile if not unique, its constant urge to poke and prod several of Alien's richest, most eccentric mysteries keep it tethered to the ground floor. A more compassionate cast may have smoothed over some of those rough spots, but this tight squad of explorers is thoroughly cold and conniving, naive and unlikable at their best. I wanted to adore this, and for the whole of the concept-heavy first act I did, but by the onset of the final standoff I'd been bucked like a fledgling cowboy. Fantastic, breathtaking special effects, stirring atmosphere and an astounding vision of near-future tech can only go so far.

Decent mythological action film. I must agree with some other reviewers whose low expectations of the film affected their enjoyment of it.  I found this to be Clash of the Titans on acid because of the extended action scenes.  It was a bit too much but still effective as a fantasy adventure.  Liam Neeson is very effective as Zeus.  Enjoy your self and do not cloud the issue with facts or lofty expectations.

Maybe they should have gone to Rocky Horror instead... I'd heard about this by mistake when I was searching for the documentary <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UYX4QI">Midnight Movies</a>. I tried it because the cover was very well done. I wound up liking it.  A group of people are trapped in a theater when the killer from a midnight movie (that *strongly* resembles <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FS9FE4">The Texas Chainsaw Massacre</a>) enters 'the real world'.  A movie that had a very small budget and stars people you've never heard of, but for what they had, it was well done. I'm rating it three stars. I may be overselling it here. I think it's just that I expected *nothing*, so my liking it was a pleasant surprise.  I think it would make a good double feature with another 'trapped in the theater' horror movie: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005BGPL">Popcorn</a>

Prometheus:  No director's cut I would have rated the film higher, sadly there is not a director's cut included with the new release.  I will hold off on buying this movie since a later release may include both versions of the film.  Similar to the Avatar dilemma.  Ridley swings for the fences and comes close to the goal of a great film.  If I went by the sets, F/X, make up, futuristic look, I would give it 5 stars.  Some of the fault lies in the first Alien release which was immense, tremendous in scope, perfect, and created a new genre-  Sci Fi Horror; unleashed on an unsuspecting audience.  The impact of Prometheus isn't quite there, like the Sigorney Weaver vehicle.  It is a good film, not a great film.  The theme is layered: man's search for meaning in the universe, are we alone, can we cheat death, what will a superior species/advanced species tell us of their world, will we ever meet our creators?  I saw the movie twice in the theaters and the second viewing added more to understanding Ridley Scott's canvas.

Frustrating and confusing You know the feeling when you come in late in a movie - say miss the first 5 minutes?  You never feel like you've caught up with the plot.  You feel frustrated and confused the entire time.  You want to ask someone, "Who are these people, what are they doing, and why are they doing it?  What did I miss?"  That's how I felt with this movie.  Since I was watching the DVD, obviously I didn't come in 5 minutes late, but it felt like it.  I felt I had missed part of the plot, and never quite caught up with the story line.  I believe the cut scene at the start, when Harry is talking with his aunt, would have helped, but it still might have felt this way.  None of the others did this.  I always felt I came in at the beginning, and was able to follow the plot.  This movie has to be watched if one is going to have any clue at all when Part II comes out, but I was (for the first time in the series) very disappointed.  No, I haven't read the books.  However, one should not have to read the books to understand the movies.  They should be true to the books, but not depend on them for comprehending the plot.

Good for the feel of Hawaii If you've been to Hawaii you could appreciate the scenery and the music.  The story line is heartfelt but very sad.  The acting could have been better but at times Clooney and company really shine.  It's a movie worth seeing but don't get your hopes up too high or you'll be disappointed.  Expect a B average movie and you'll be happy.

Dazzling special effects save predictable, battling alter egos storyline *** This review may contain spoilers ***  In its time, the original 'Tron' was considered in the forefront of special effects cinema. Looking back today and comparing the original with 'Tron: Legacy', one is struck by the overwhelming primitive look of the original. I'm sure if the technology was available back in the early 80s, in terms of special effects, 'Tron: Legacy' is the movie that would have been made. It's not only an homage to the original, but a dazzling dream scape in its own right and the creative effects team should be praised highly for their efforts.  That said, without a good story, all the special effects in the world cannot make a decent movie, great. It starts off rather nicely though with the focus on the effect of Kevin Flynn's disappearance on his young son, Sam. The film's scenarists were wise to create an internal arc in which Sam's main motivation is to reunite with his long lost father. We soon discover that Kevin's disappearance in the 80s has affected Sam in a most negative way as an adult. Despite being the controlling shareholder of his Dad's multinational company, ENCOM, Sam spends his time playing a practical jokes on the Board of Directors, such as breaking into company headquarters, hacking into the computer system and briefly posting a new software application on the internet.  One notices that the ENCOM break-in scene is much too long as well as the meeting with Alan Bradley, his father's old friend, who informs Sam of a mysterious page (Alan still uses a pager) emanating from the old Flynn arcade which had been shut down for twenty years, Sam discovers his father's laboratory through a hidden passageway inside the arcade and after a few keyboard strokes, Sam is inadvertently transported inside the virtual world of the computer. What's interesting is that this computer world has no interface with today's cyberspace and reflects the computer landscape of the early 1980s.  Once Sam is dropped into the virtual world, there are two sensational sequences with Sam battling the minions of CLU, his father's digital clone, who seeks to create a perfect world by subjugating everyone to his will. Sam's first battle involves gladiator-like combat where the combatants throw computer discs at one another and must jump from level to level on a chess-like grid. All the while, a huge crowd is enjoying the carnage. Sam is then brought before CLU, who has the face of the young Jeff Bridges, who appeared in the original Tron. CLU challenges Sam to a life cycle race (on digital motorcycles) and Sam is saved by Quorra, Kevin's assistant, who turns out to be last remaining ISO (Isomorphic Algorithm). The ISOs are sentient beings who somehow are found to contain DNA inside the virtual world. Quorra is played by the lovely Olivia Wilde (who reminds me of a young Kirstie Alley, playing 'Saavik' in the first Star Trek movie).  The story slows down a bit when Sam finally reunites over the dinner table with his father who's morphed into a Zen-like Master. There's some dull chatter about each of them having gone to Cal Tech and then a better (and brief flashback) as Kevin explains how CLU wiped out the ISOs. Kevin also explains to Sam about the portal that was opened up when Sam arrived in the virtual world, how that's the only way out and it's going to close real soon. Kevin has this dumb idea that CLU can be defeated by opposing forces within the virtual world but Sam knows better--the only way to defeat CLU is delete the program from the outside and the only way to do that, is get to the portal and get out before it closes.  You would think that all-knowing Quorra would then give Sam some good advice on how to get to the portal in the nick of time, but she recommends he look up Zuse, a sleazy David Bowie-like character who ends up betraying Sam, snatching his father's 'disc' (which CLU needs as it works as the master key to the Grid). Of course Dad shows up and saves Sam from CLU's clutches. There's a weak scene after that where Zuse bargains with CLU with no backup, gives up the disc, and is then easily murdered by CLU, when he blows up Zuse's nightclub. Meanwhile, Quorra has one of her arms blown off by CLU's henchmen and fortunately Kevin reprograms her so she can regenerate all her dead tissue.  The final climax is a good one where virtual jet fighters are used in a race to the portal. Kevin uses his Zen-like powers to reprogram the original 'Tron' right before he kills Quorra and also uses Zen-like powers to prevent CLU from stopping Sam and Quorra successfully getting through the portal.  I'm not sure how Quorra is able to survive outside the virtual world but as stated before, the actor who plays her, Olivia Wilde, is worth the price of admission.  While Jeff Bridges does well playing his alter egos, the characters themselves aren't very complex. If you're looking for a story that will massage your brain, you won't find it here. But the special effects are dazzling and are enough to keep you entertained, despite the simplicity of the good versus evil storyline.

Predictable The acting was good however the story was as predictable as any CIA drama of the past few years. It is much better than others but won't be a movie of the year.

Good for a Laugh It's a fun movie to watch with other Star Wars fans.  I was talked into it and went in with low expectations.  It was worth the rental.

Boring! Dahmer's acts were barely touched on in this film. I felt this movie delt more with him on a light level. The director tried to make him too human for my taste. There should have been more of his acts (not gore), but just how twisted he was. However, if you just want a light, yet creepy feel for Dhamer, then this movie is for you. It's not a bad film, just disapointing.

A decent package assaulted with annoying censorship and mangled production. Ren and Stimpy is quite possibly THE saddest cartoon show in animation history. Ren and Stimpy has been bulldozed over by children's network, Nickelodeon, with horrific censors. The first two seasons are quite possibly the greatest cartoons of all time. When John K, the creator, left after the second season, things were never the same. Ren and Stimpy went from an enjoyable, very laugh-worthy crowning achievement in television, to a torpid, raving mess, from the finest animation of that time, to a forgettable, monotonous excuse.  It seems that the third season was the last season to ever stay strong, and this set features Season Three. And most of Season Three is watchable.  After going through multiple VHS tapes, DVD releases from Timelife and the last 'Seasons One and Two' set, with long and exhausting promises of being 'Uncut', guess what? After an entire air on Spike TV, a newly released set, and a previously released 'One-and-a-Half Seasons' from Timelife, guess what?  Ren and Stimpy STILL isn't uncut.  In fact, the problems are even more so worse in this set. Examples:  Road Apples:  Mr. and Mrs. Pipe telling about the Psychotic Killer story (1 min 42 sec) A shot of Ren getting eating by the vulture (9 sec)  Lair of the Lummox:  The 'Colonel Backwash's Chicken in a Drawer' bumper (over 3-4 min)  Jimminy Lummox:  Ren pulling a prank on Stimpy: blowing up his butt with an atom bomb (about 14 sec) Ren dumping crabs in Stimpy's bath (25 sec)  Ren's Retirement:  "Hear that, Ren? We still got 17 more holes to go!" (5 sec)  Hermit Ren:  Ren running down the hall, screaming at Stimpy into his bedroom (6 sec)  I Love Chicken:  Stimpy serving Ren giblets (18 sec)  A Hard Day's Luck:  The Entire Bus Change sequence (1 min 4 sec)  ---  And that's just to name a few. There's a hell of a lot more. And even the 'Uncut' episodes have suffered major problems, when random commercial fades come about, and a lot of dot crawl is present. Not to mention bad digital remastering, and that sometimes takes little bits (usually 1 sec) of animation with it.  And yet, some of these moments that ARE cut make the cartoons even less tolerable, considering that some of these moments are better than the cartoon itself. It seems that Nickelodeon had not fully prepared uncut protection masters, is this correct? And, believe it or not, the Season 5 set is also cut.  So an exhaustively cut set, making some average episodes seem more stupid due to the censors, and rushed production values, make something arguably not worth your time.  For the good episodes on here, not to mention the rather informative commentaries, it's MAYBE worth a rental from Netflix. And, if it's a breather: this set doesn't truly get bad until the third disk. It's just that the ignorance of the whole set, both visually, tonally, and production-wise, may not exactly seem worth your money. A normal Spongebob episode today seems a hell of a lot better than what this can offer. Ren and Stimpy has been forgotten, and it shows.

Boo Yawwwwn..if this dvd was made to put kids to sleep then it serves its purpose.. the songs r so slow! The only reason i gave it some stars is because it keeps my daughter entertained for a good fifteen min.

Thor Watching Thor in 3D was awesome. Would recommend this movie to anyone looking for good 3D. Good storyline decent acting.

Se7en Blu-Ray manufacturing issues- warning I own a Panasonic BDP-210 Blu-ray player, updated with latest firmware.  This is the first Blu-Ray I've purchased that does not play brand new out of shrinkwrap- Disc reads for a moment and then an "incompatible for playback" message appears within 5 seconds of load.  I've initiated a return and a second disc is en route, so my fingers are crossed that the new disc will play. A New Line/WB product. Caveat emptor.  UPDATE:  Amazon quickly shipped a new copy of the disc and it plays fine.  Therefore random disc manifacturing error is confirmed- Shrinkwrap says "Made in Mexico"- WB quality control obviously needs improvement.  Kudos to Amazon for their fast service, and defective disc is on the way back to them today for credit. Transfer itself is excellent, and all extras have been ported over from the 2000 Director's Cut DVD.  Another classic from one of the very best directors working today, David Fincher. 5 stars for the film and transfer - 1 star for WB's decision to have discs made in Mexico instead of US = 3 stars

A pretty good movie First of all if this is going to be the first friday the 13th or A Nightmare on elm street movie you are going to see STOP! Go to your local video store and rent a couple of the other movies,so you will understand this one more. But otherwise a good movie. If you like allot of gore in horror films this has plenty of it i give it a 3 and a half.

Wrong Version The version that I just saw on Amazon Prime is NOT the unrated version, in fact it is the R rated version. I prefer to see my movies the way they are advertised. Anyway the movie itself isn't all that bad (no pun intended). It just seems to be a little dated to me. Yes I know that the movie is old, it just doesn't make me feel nolstalgic watching it like let's say Scaface or Carlito's Way! I would recommend that people should see the unrated version of this film and give it a chance so that you could decide for yourself. Enjoy! :)

My kids say... Review by brother and sister ages 6 and 8.  "It could teach some people not to take on lots of debt and that you don't need to buy presents for your children, and that the best presents are the ones that you already have. But all the extra parts made it get ridiculous. It was especially really crazy when the toy horse turned into a live horse. The mom was silly and got the idea that she was a "wicked witch" mom. The dad didn't think things over enough, and it resulted in sadness."

gimme a break I received this purchase on time and it was packaged as it should be and it was new and no schratches on disk the only complaint I have is when it was recorded it freezes on some sections and when they talk they dont match with when there lips move but I am happy with the way it was sent.    Thank You    Barb

$42.50 for the BluRay? What kind of capitalist plot is that?  Guess I'll wait for it to come around to pay-cable again! BTW, the scene where they can't get a room at a motel?  It's not because they were long-haired hippy bikers, but because they were F**ING rude!

Black Arrow Typical for it's Time Typical film for it's time period and genre. Nothing outstanding either in costumes or action. Just a period piece done from what they had in stock.

Barbarians movie Over all movie quality was OK...topic was, unfortunately, very true and disgusting to think that the real owners of a very large company would have such total disregard for their workers who actually make the money for them. A good example, I think, of why our government is so totally disconnectd from the taxpayers of our country....they simply don't care because we're not all playing by the same rules....

The return of the expanding pants No real surprises here: this is a pretty by-the-book superhero movie, with the usual trial against adversity culminating in the obligatory big set-piece battle. Having said that it is done well, and is fun to watch. Edward Norton makes for a sympathetic Bruce Banner, and. although initially seeming like an unlikely choice, Tim Roth is suitably nasty as the marine who enthusiastically undergoes Hulkification in order to attempt destruction of the original. But the story feels a bit thin and there's not enough humour. Although far from a failure it still falls short of a complete success, and the green giant certainly deserves better.

Good, but recycled The trouble with this movie is that like 2/3 of the content is straight out of the book. The jokes and absurd situations are funny, no doubt, but if you've read the book already, it just doesn't have the effect that it should. If you've never read the book but like Tucker's style, I think it'd be a solid 4-5 star. If you have, it's still pretty good, but no better than a 3.

No digital copy I bought this item to have the blue ray version and to have a digital copy for my son's iPad. It states it a three disc combo but there is no digital copy. The third disc includes bonus features without a passcode for the downloading of the digital copy. Blue ray works fine ...I just wish I would have the copy for long trips to view on the iPad.

Uninspiring! I was a little disappointed in the film.  It was slow and muddled down with endless dialogue.  I struggled to get through it.  The highlight was seeing a young Leslie Nielsen in one of his first films.  The Naked Gun/Airplane star had come a long way.  May he rest in peace.

Air Power- Story of the US Air Force The Air Power video they advertised and I purchased, is not the one narrated by Walter Cronkite which was done in 1957. This is a later version  done in 1999 by Columbia River Entertainment, which I already own. Product quality and condition are fine, it just is improperly advertised.   T.C.

An all around good John Carpenter film Hey, we all love John Carpenter's "The Thing" with the hidden alien force that slowly devoured all but two of the remaining scientists on the Antarctic. And "Escape from New York," "They Live," and "Prince of Darkness".  "Vampires" is an all around good horror/vampire movie, based around a vampire slayer team who manage to get killed down to a core group along with a Priest to help them. They go through some cool adventures and wind up killing 7 "Master" vampires, one of whom had lived for more than 600 years. The film ends with one teammember who had been bitten driving off in a van with his girlfriend (the vampiress who bit him) while the head vampire slayer and the Priest watch them go.  All around, this was a good Carpenter film; a lot was to be desired in comparison with his other amazing films (this was not a "Halloween"), but still, you can't help but see that this really was Carpenter: you have his trademarks - extreme suspense, some character development, and a good helping of gore and blood.  I recommend this film, with reservations. If you're bored and want a vampire movie that is well directed, go ahead. If you are new to the horror genre, watch another Carpenter like "The Thing".

Good intentions are present but nothing else happens! Wes Anderson constructs an existential comedy around three brothers who (like City slickers) decide to take a ride to India and make a stop to visit their mom who lives in a Himalayan Convent.  The initial sparkling idea ignites before the first third part of the film and what it could be a comedy of major specific weight strands, becoming a set of isolated vignettes with some laughs here and there, but the cohesion is missing.

I thought it was really funny TRUE TO LIFE FILM. GOES TO SHOW YOU HOW SHALLOW WE ALL ARE AND GREAT PEOPLE ARE IN FRONT OF US AND WE DONT EVEN KNOW IT UNTIL shtf! I thought it was funny. The supermarket scene, the bass scene and others.

Inconclusive, very poor study with even worse explanations I'm a little thrown off by all the positive reviews. I love birds, and I find crows particularly clever and interesting. After finishing David Attenborough's "Life of Birds" I thought I would move on to this one, for some more focused attention on crows. While it's unfair to compare this to Attenborough's work, it's worth saying that it comes no where near the caliber of quality, footage or insight. I didn't find the documentary to contain any unique or insightful footage, just a regular shot of crows pecking through trash here, and gathering on power lines there. If you've never seen a crow use a tool before to get grubs, then this might be interesting in a couple of places ("Life of Birds" has much better footage of this though). Now this might be a bit of spoiler, so be warned. The individuals in this film carrying out a study on the learning cycle of crows did a very poor job, and the evidence was not just inconclusive, but dismissible. The idea was to find out if crows could not only recognize faces but also pass on that information to their young. Those completing the study wanted to see if baby crows would grow up and then still remember the faces of those that their parents found threatening while they grew up. They decided to wear masks and then ,they never explained how, but, while the masks were on they somehow caused the crows to feel threatened or in danger. Then they would walk by the crows without masks and find the crows did not caw but with the masks on they would caw warnings. They radio tagged a very small number of birds to follow as they grew up. They radio tagged them without the masks on. I found this to be a problem in the study. If I were a crow, I would then find those who stole me out of my nest while I was awake, and man handled me to be just as threatening at the individuals in the masks which did... what? Oh yeah, they never even tell you what exactly they did in the masks to upset the birds. Anyway, all but 1 of the crows dies, and when they find the last crow as an adult, they walk past him without the mask, and no response. Then he puts on the mask, and after walking past the crow and walking past it again and staring at it, and not leaving it alone for some time, the crow finally lets out a little caw, that they claim means he remembered and so his parents must have passed down this information to him. I don't think it's impossible for the crow to remember this, but I think they did a terrible job carrying out this study, and it seemed extremely nonscientific. Also the response time of the "warning caw" was very slow, and they have no way of knowing why it cawed. Crows caw, a lot. I get cawed at, and I never dawned a mask and threatened crows. This could have been a much better study... but I guess they did their best... so 3 stars it is. Overall I found the documentary to be very uninteresting, and the study was annoying. I think crows are smart, I think the study was not.

Hmm Seller was awesome, but had this listed in 3D movies.... It's not! DVD in good shape just not that good of a movie.  Will do in a pinch though

Too Much Mrs.Tweedy, Not Enough Horse.... If you or your family are interested in horses or Secretariat in particular this isn't a bad place to start. It's also a good story to watch with your kids, no nudity or curse words, clean subject matter.  But for people who have been interested in Secretariat since 1972 like myself, the movie was really lacking. I felt it was more the story of Mrs. Tweedy and her family than it was about the greatest horse ever to step on a racetrack. The writers made up alot of the story, she wasn't there when he was born, I doubt she ever gave him a bath or showed up at the stable in her ball gown the night before the Belmont. But what do you want from Disney?  Worth watching so you can see the amazing things Secretariat did on a racetrack but for me, too much Mrs. Tweedy and not enough Secretariat.

read the book This movie was ok but you really need to read the book. The movie leaves out so much that you really dont know whats going on.  The book is great.

Hit and Miss "Make Mine Music" includes the following selections:  "Blue Bayou"--Tranquil but forgettable "All the Cats Join In"--Witty and catchy but faddish "Without You"--Venturesome but overemotional "Casey at the Bat"--Occasionally funny but pales in comparison with "Baseball Bugs" "Two Silhouettes"--Cute cupids but `too too' dull "Peter and the Wolf"--Visually charming and entertaining story "After You've Gone"--Catchy, dazzling and imaginative "Johnnie Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet"--Pleasant harmony but too-ra-kitsch, too-ra-long, too-ra-goo "The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met"--Delightful, funny musical tour de force  "Make Mine Music" has more hits than misses and it includes three bonus features:  "The Band Concert" "Farmyard Symphony" "Music Land"  My biggest disappointment was "Casey at the Bat" because I love the original poem. My most pleasant discovery was "After You've Gone".

Doesn't convince me to go green forever It wasn't a tall order to improve upon Ang Lee's disastrous 2003 effort, which was simply horrible in every way. Transporter director Louis Leterrier turns up the action, while maintaining a light touch without compromising the drama. But, like Iron Man released earlier that summer, it's utterly brainless entertainment with no lasting merit whatsoever.  Bruce Banner (now more appropriately played by Edward Norton instead of Eric Banana) is living in South America, away from the authorities who want to turn his curse into a weapon. Over-confident Army soldier Emil Blonsky (a very small, old, and un-threatening Tim Roth) wants a shot at capturing the Hulk, but gets smashed in the process. He is quickly repaired with a magic potion and turns into The Abomination, a creature even more fake than the big, green CGI guy.  Like other comic-book movies that preceded it, the ending is nothing but two CGI effects thumping each other until one of them doesn't get back up, while the surrounding environment is destroyed for our 'enjoyment'. I am honestly sick to death of this. The Punisher, with Thomas Jane, kept it real and gritty and it flopped. But CGI trash like Spider-Man, Iron Man, Hulk and Fantastic Four make hundreds of millions. It doesn't make sense to me.  Personally, I feel that comic-books are more suited to TV where the characters and plots can be developed over long periods of time instead of rushing through everything with generic, tired motivations in 110 minutes. While this movie is not bad, even the 1978 TV show was better. It sets up a lot for the long-in-development Avengers movie, which is so low on my priorities list it's completely subterranean, including the creation of 'The Leader'. But I doubt we will ever see the character in any sequel, mid-quel, prequel, or spin-off. There's just too much material, and not enough time to fully explore everything.  The Incredible Hulk is an inoffensive time-waster. Don't go out of your way for it.  The Blu Ray looks good in 2.35:1 1080p with DTS HD-MA sound and a fair amount of extras.

interesting but sans the english subs This truly looks like a wonderful story, but unfortunately I'm not a Korean speaker and the english subs on this DVD are only partially available. Damn.  Hope others find full subtitling.

I liked the movie, but a couple key scenes are missing. A couple scenes are missing. 1) Rorschach explanation of why he is the way he is. 2) Adrian Veidt's explanation of his past life. I was disappointed that these scenes were not included.

I've seen worse! This was not a great vampire movie but it was fun. I like the relationship between Elisabeth and Keith and how she's attracted to him for his compassion of her "misunderstood" mother. Christopher Lambert is funny-after he becomes a vampire; he's a dud before. I also love the shaking crosses, big and small... If you are kind to vampire movies you might enjoy it.

BARBET'S DIRECTORIAL DEBUT HAS FINE PINK FLOYD SCORE Barbet Schroeder's directorial debut is a simple story about a naive German young man who makes his way to the golden isle of Ibiza to be with a free spirited American blonde (Mimsy Farmer) who is also druggie.  The tension is between the idealism of a young, naïve guy and the manipulation of the girl he idealizes -- who is in turn a slave of addiction.  The 60s Euro drug culture is the empty soul of this film that is so beautifully photographed by Nestor Almendros.  It is a product of its time as well as a timely warning about heading off to paradise and shooting up.  This film has developed a cult following no doubt greatly abetted by the fine Pink Floyd score.

movie review I dont understand why Brad Pitt got a academy award nomination for this thing, but it was a alright movie any way. it was historic and accurate as far as i know.  The brief moments of excitement were few and far between though.  I dont see the need for the daughter role in this movie. To me it was just filler space. The ball player doing the strip dance was choking for air during his speech, he was not very belivable. The dance was good but not the acting.

good to sleep to my boyfriend absolutely loves these. i honestly don't see anything in any of the eppisodes. but it's good to fall asleep to! lots of whispering and night camera mode!

Great idea, but feels like a dark Disney film (2.5/5 stars) Based a novel by Rachel Klein, Mary Harron's The Moth Diaries never reaches its potential. The plot follows Rebecca (Sarah Bolger) to an all-girls boarding school. She feels that she is turning over a new leaf two years after the suicide of her father, a respected poet. Her bosom buddy Lucie (Sarah Gadon) considers herself boring, but Rebecca sees Lucie as the light at the end of her tunnel. Unfortunately, the enigmatic Ernessa (Lily Cole) arrives, driving a wedge between the two.  A lot is going on here. As their English teacher Mr. Davies (Scott Speedman) schools them on Dracula and homoerotic vampire stories, one can't help but remember that Lucy was Dracula's doomed victim. Is Ernessa metaphorically sucking the life out of Lucie? Is Ernessa literally a vampire? Or is this all in Rebecca's troubled mind? Why do Ernessa and Rebecca share so many similarities? Why does Ernessa tempt Rebecca with thoughts of suicide? Why is Mr. Davies, who admires Rebecca's late father, so interested in the sixteen-year-old Rebecca? Why is Rebecca afraid of sex--is it fear of adolescence, lesbianism, or something more sinister?  These are all intriguing questions, but none are resolved. Instead of lending an unsettling ambiguity to the story, this reduces the movie's emotional impact. Perhaps the biggest problem is the film's tone. Though there is some lovely imagery, the editing, music, and cinematography feel more like a generic teen flick than a haunting psychological thriller. The three main actresses have an ethereal beauty and do their best with what they have. Yet most of the cast lack gravitas. Then again, the fault may lie more with the movie's atmosphere than its actors.  Bolger is especially effective in her emotional scenes but doesn't hint at her potential insanity. Cole is the most effective of the girls as the elegant Ernessa. Her imposing height offsets her sweet, childlike face. She is the mysterious friend who plays the piano, speaks German, and writes poetry more beautifully than anyone else. Speedman is fine as Davies, but one wonders why the school's first male professor is young, attractive, and prone to discussing the power of female sexuality.  This was a great opportunity for a resonant and dark coming-of-age story. In spite of a few otherworldly moments, The Moth Diaries doesn't satisfyingly tie up any of its loose ends, leaving the viewer more confused than haunted.

A misleading film, typical of China ... but not that bad JACKIE CHAN: KUNG FU MASTER (orig. title Xun zhao Cheng Long, a/k/a LOOKING FOR JACKIE, 2009) is a kid's film, a bizarre remake of Chuck Norris' SIDEKICKS. There are so many things wrong with this that I have to start with a warning list, DAMN THE SPOILERS:  1. This is not like a theatrical release. It looks like a television film special and I suspect that is what it was. It is confusing to say the least.  2. Speaking of confusion, what a cheap shot to release this film under the title JACKIE CHAN: KUNG FU MASTER when it was originally translated to the title LOOKING FOR JACKIE ... which is more in keeping with this movie.  3. As other reviewers have indicated, this is NOT a Jackie Chan film. He plays a vital cameo - as himself - and that bit looks like a revolting self-promotion on his part. Then again, he is Chinese and that says it all.  4. Somehow claiming this film is in Mandarin is supposed to lure Westerners? The film is in Cantonese for the most part, though of course Mandarin will come and go - it takes place in Beijing.  5. I am totally sick as hell of these attempts to sanitize China and make it look like a paradise on earth. When is the world going to wake up?!  With that off my chest, here's the good:  1. Young Zhang Yi-shan, playing a boy of the same name, is a charming, hilarious and skilled actor. If you've ever felt uncomfortable with the cute little teen-looking Asians, wait til you see the scene with this boy in his pink underwear. Fall-down FUNNY.  2. The story does have a point, several good points in fact, and it might behoove us to pay them some mind.  3. The film can be understood by any audience with the patience to see it is about the dangers of getting star-struck. It was a lesson I certainly needed!  In brief, Zhang Yi Shan is a 16-year-old Indonesian-raised boy infatuated with Jackie Chan, determined to become one of Jackie's disciples" (student). He runs off to Beijing to meet Jackie, and will let nothing stop him. What he learns on this journey is good for all of us to learn.

Starts out great, then slides At least the first half of this movie--and maybe a little more--is excellent.  Dark, different, and kind of creepy.  Suspense builds around one of the best villains in a long time.  Never has a skinny old man created such dread.  But the movie loses its way in the second half, and especially towards the end.  One character suddenly develops sacrificial, heroic, leadership qualities, for no obvious reason whatsoever.  Then the movie ends too simply and too suddenly.  An epilogue is tacked on that I think was supposed to be funny.  Not too, and kind of bizarre.  See it for the first hour though.

A good starting point I don't see this becoming a classic. It has the appearance of a documentary made by a high school student with their parents' video camera. That being said, there is a lot of information about the ghostly happenings around the inland seas told by Great Lakes historians who do a good job in telling the stories; no stuttering or redundancies - though occasionally two people in a row tell the same story. The witnesses aren't quite as good, but they still manage a good yarn.

Violent and stunning but unfulfilling There are two versions of "Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale" coming to DVD and Blu-ray; the four and a half hour original version and the cut two and a half hour US version. This is a review of the two and a half hour version, which certainly seems as though it received the wrong end of the stick. It feels like much of the story was dumped for the massive amount of action sequences.  The historical drama is absolutely gorgeous on Blu-ray. The never ending supply of lush forests and trees just always adds a splash of color to whatever is transpiring. The nonstop bloodshed never ceases to add a little red to the fray, as well. Nature, sunsets, waterfalls, and wildlife; the Taiwan scenery is just stunning. Unfortunately, it's usually sacrificed for cluttered CGI and awkward camera movements.  The CGI is used for a rock slide, some of the more difficult to film wildlife shots, animals, mist, steam, and even explosions. If there was a middle class for special effects, these would fall under that category. The shadowing of the CGI seems to clash with the lighting of the surrounding forests as well and makes the effects stand out even more than they probably should. Then there are times when the camera probably should have just stayed still instead of roaming the countryside to capture what would have been a great shot.  The Taiwanese epic has been compared to the likes of "Braveheart" and "The Last of the Mohicans," but there are some similarities to "300" in there as well. The film is edited really awkwardly at times. Some battle sequences are noticeably sped up while other somewhat random scenes seem to be done in slow motion. The argument could be made that the slow-motion was added to give that specific scene more significance, but it just doesn't seem necessary when it's seemingly done just to see Mona Rudao's hair blow in the wind or to watch water splash around in slow motion just because it looks cool as somebody runs through it.  Mona Rudao (Lin Ching-Tai) also assembles 300 men from the 12 Seediq Bale tribes to battle the 3000 Japanese police. You've got unnecessary slow motion, you've got 300 warriors, and you have those warriors going up against impossible odds. The comparisons to "300" are kind of a no-brainer.  Calmer moments to appreciate in this version of "Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale" are slim to none, but the one or two that stay with you after it's over are pretty incredible. Mona Rudao's conversation with Ichiro Hanaoka aka Dakis Nomin (Yi-Fan Hsu) by the waterfall may be the scene that has the biggest impact in the entire film. It just feels like the most fleshed out sequence in the film and Mona Rudao singing with his deceased father afterward only adds a bit more weight to it. Most of General Kamada's (Sabu Kawahara) scenes are pretty intriguing, as well. Mostly because he's so enraged with how Mona Rudao keeps getting the best of so many men with so little of his own.  Just reading the Wikipedia entry on the story of the uncut film gives you a completely different impression than what the two and a half hour version leaves you with. One minute, Mona Rudao is giving his word that he won't start a war and the next he's leading an uprising. The battle sequences are spectacular, especially the final one. There are so many beheadings, hangings, and deaths of children that you lose count. "Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale" doesn't shy away from anything even though the message is pretty hopeless. But all of the film's depth seems to have been stripped away. The film throws you into two battles right at the start and you don't really know or care why they're going on.  If you're interested in seeing "Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale," tackle the four and a half hour version. While it may seem extremely tiresome, at least you'll be getting the entire story. The two and a half hour version only gives you a glimpse of that rainbow bridge the Seediq Bale always talk about meeting their ancestors on, but it's so brief that you don't actually get to see it. Hopefully the original version lets you see that bridge in a better light.  Extras include a Making of, Behind the Scenes, and Make-up and Visual Effects featurettes that total nearly thirty minutes in special features. Also included are the theatrical and international trailers.  "Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale" is now available on DVD and Blu-ray and available as two different versions: US and international. The Blu-ray of the US version is presented with a 16:9 widescreen presentation with 5.1 HD Surround Sound (DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and Dolby Digital Stereo), is Multilingual, and available with English and Chinese subtitles. The film is not rated by the MPAA and is 150 minutes in length (international version is 276 minutes).

Monkey Business Monkey Shines works well as a film, though due to its outlandish premise it does require a small suspension of belief. I mean, 'a pint sized monkey murdering people'!? Yet by the end of the film, it all comes off believable and unforced.  George A. Romero has crafted a very gripping and morbid tale of a paralyzed man's connection with a helper monkey, which evolves in quite a sinister unfolding. The film takes a while to build up to it's abnormal premise, but the third act is truly the best part of the film when we are faced with all sorts of mayhem and debauchery. This movie will keep you on the edge of your seat, but my only problem is with the first half of the film, which feels and comes off almost like a Lifetime channel movie. Despite that, Monkey Shines executes as an unpredictable and thrilling chiller.

The Songs Remain Too Lame (Heartbreaker!) Led Zeppelin was my favorite band in high school. Starting with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000002J03">LED ZEPPELIN II</a>, then back to their <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000002J01">first album</a> and forward right to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000002JSP">IN THROUGH THE OUT DOOR</a>, I was your typical Zeppelin devotee. Had all the LPs and singles and always dropped coin in jukeboxes to hear a Zep tune.  And yet, due to radio overplay of its mediocre "Stairway to Heaven" performance, I avoided THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME (UK/USA-1976) while it was in theaters and never rented the videotape decades ago. So, "The Song" remained unseen, that is, until this afternoon.  I really wanted to like this concert film, I mean that, but have got to be honest here. It was interesting in spots, yet disappointing as a whole. I know, sacrilege! Hang the blasphemer.  But here's why, OK?  Robert Plant's voice was irretrievably, undeniably SHOT. He couldn't hit those soaring high notes and seemed a parody of himself, all slender and fem and with skintight hip-huggers that only teen girls wear these days. And what was it with those constant looking-up camera shots of his groin? (Yes, it's draped to the left. We get it.)  Everything went rapidly downhill during the John Paul Jones organ solo. This was followed by one LONG self-indulgent jam after another for nearly an hour. It was stultifying.  John Bonham's spotlight, Moby Plant's Crotch, was spoiled during his hands-only playing by inconsiderate audience yowps and whistles. So was Robert's "Stairway to Heaven" solo. He also killed it himself though with pretentious "ad-libbed" comments like, "Does anybody remember laughter?" No. Never heard of it, Bobby.  Oh, those costume drama arsty-fartsy videos! feh And why did these guys all look like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6305922756">Spinal Tap</a> to me?  I STILL love my Zeppelin albums. Just hate this movie, that's all. Wish it were otherwise.

Beginnerish The exercise portion of the video is much shorter than I expected. 30 minutes of exercise. MaDonna Grimes presents very warm and friendly atmosphere both in her introduction and through out the DVD. The music used is up beat and generic tune so you aren't going to be stuck listening to a song you may not like. Each new move is offered as part of a section of the overall dance/exercise routine. The exercise is part of learning the moves to an overall routine and then finally doing the routine a couple of times. The dance moves are, however, shown at a speed that is going to be a bit fast for someone who does not have experience in exercise routines or dance routines.  Ms. Grimes uses real dance moves. If this type is exercise is new to you, expect to spend several days learning all of the moves.

Too low key fro most tastes I like "little" films that focus on character and location more than plot, and this is certainly such a film, so I was sympathetically disposed toward this movie despite some of the viewer reviews. (I also enjoy plot-driven and even, occasionally, "high concept" pictures.) The film has an excellent cast, was filmed on location in Durham, NC, and the screenplay was written by Horton Foote; it touches on a problem that many small towns face when the industry on which they once relied (in this case, tobacco) has dried up, so thematically it may speak to a lot of people. Thus, the ingredients seem to promise something quite tasty, but this film is like a great souffle that fails to rise.  The overall feeling of the film -- which is never really relieved -- is one of depression; not simply economic depression, but emotional and spiritual depression as well. It is almost (but not entirely) lacking any drama or humor or anything else that would relieve the atmosphere of gentle, sinking, aimlessness. The story does not seem to culminate or resolve into much of anything -- it does not so much end as simply stop. I can well understand why many viewers gave it bad reviews, and if I could give a 2 1/2 star rating (rather than 3) I would. I think this is a film that tries hard to be subtle and succeeds only too well. I suspect that a better director could have made this a much better picture.

I love patton but. I love Patton the original but this spin off /sequel i think destroys what the first movie portrayed and I would never watch this one again. Its insulting.

Just Okay I've never enjoyed an Altman film, and this one is no exception.  It was okay, but way off from what I'd ever learned about Vincent.  Having been to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, as well as him being my fave artist, I'd learned a good deal throughout the years.  This film depicted another version of Vincent that was Altman's interpretation.  It was boring to get through, with marginal acting and scripting.

It doesn't quite fit... After watching this film the first time, I wasn't quite sure what to think of it. I knew it wasn't a bad film, but at the same time it just didn't sit right with me for whatever reason. So I went back and watched Begins and TDK and I think I figured out why I didn't really care for it. In my opinion it doesn't seem to fit with the other two films.  Warning: Some spoilers  First there's the setting. The concept of a broken and retired Batman living as a recluse is interesting, but it seems to sort of contradict what we saw in the other films. We learn that he hasn't been Batman for 8 years since Dent was killed, which made me wonder, why is he in such bad physical shape then? Rewatching The Dark Knight, I didn't see anything to show where these injuries came from. Why is his leg screwed up? The last scene of Dark Knight was him running away from the camera. If he hasn't been Batman since then and has been living like a hermit, how did he screw up his leg? Also, why did he stop being Batman? Rises seems to suggest it was stress over Rachel, although that happened midway through The Dark Knight and didn't seem to stop him. He sort of suggested at the end of Dark Knight that since Dent died, he had to be the hero. That was sort of the point of Dark Knight that Gotham's savior had to be either Dent or Batman and since Dent died, it had to be Batman, but then Rises suggests that Batman just kinda went home literally right after that. Rises sort of gets around this by introducing what I consider to be a highly implausible "Dent Act" in honor of Harvey Dent, in which all of Gotham's criminals are apparently just straight locked up with no sort of legal due process, the streets become clean as a whistle, and Batman "isn't needed anymore". The Dent Act also asks you to believe that everyone now believes without a question that Batman killed Harvey Dent, despite having saved him very publicly from the Joker in Dark Knight. I find it strange that things like this are considered realistic, yet more cat features on catwoman's suit are not. Anyways..  Second, the villains. I found Bane to be just plain underwhelming. Physically intimidating sure, but I felt like they had to seriously water down Batman's competence in order to artificially make Bane more threatening. In Begins and Dark Knight Batman would fight using his surroundings. That's basically how he fights, something he learned from the League of Shadows and Ras Al Ghul. "Always mind your surroundings." Yet when confronted with Bane and reminded of the League, Batman simply charges at him swinging like a brawler. No tech, no using the environment around him, just straight fisticuffs. I realize that he's been "retired" for 8 years, but again, that felt forced and unexplained as I mentioned in my first point, which just reinforces my belief that this was done simply to make Bane seem more threatening. As for Talia, she just felt too much like Ras, and a lesser version at that. Not only does she not get the character development that Ras got to make him interesting, but in the end she's only doing it to carry out Ras' will, which just made her feel like a pawn. The main villian and she doesn't even have her own plan. Overall they felt too similar to the Begins villians. In Begins the villains worked within the system, using it to try to destroy Gotham. In Dark Knight the villains worked to try to destroy the system and induce chaos in Gotham. In Rises, I was expecting another progression to give the villains an overall theme to work with, but it just feels the same as Begins. Talia manipulating the system to try and destroy Gotham.  Third, not enough Batman. Having Bruce trapped in a pit for the better part of the film's second half served no purpose imo. I don't think anybody thought that he wasn't going to escape this pit and return to face Bane. I realize this sort of had to happen based on what we know of Bane and Batman in the comics, but the way it was handled only served to take us away from Gotham and Bane where things were getting interesting, and into a dull situation miles away in which we already know the only possible outcome. Obviously the movie won't end with "And then Batman died in the pit" It also forces odd time jumps in the plot that take away from the pacing and making the film feel frantic. Once Bane starts implementing his plan and things start to pick up, there's literally a 5 month time skip that glosses over Gotham transitioning from normal society to anarchist warzone in favor of Bruce's previously mentioned antics in the pit.  Warning: Spoilers!!!!!!  Fourth, John Blake. I liked the character and portrayal but I felt the "big reveal" about him at the end was totally unnecessary and handled in the worst possible way. First off... his actual legal name is Robin? ....... I'll leave that at that, but what bothered me more about how this was handled is that again, this doesn't seem to be consistent with the previous films. In Rises we get Bruce spouting a bunch of nonsense about how Batman was supposed to inspire people into action and that "anybody can be Batman" Oh really? What about those guys in The Dark Knight who were trying to help Batman take down Scarecrow and some drug dealers? They tried to be Batman and Bruce responded by kicking the living cr@p out of them, breaking all their weapons and then making fun of their outfits. They did exactly what he's talking about in Rises and he personally beat them up for it. Just seems weird is all..  Also, how did Blake know Bruce was Batman? You can assume that since he's a cop he could've done the detective work and figured this out, but he doesn't say that's what happened. He says he literally figured it out by having met Bruce once a long time ago and recognizing he had the same hidden pain that Blake had from losing his parents? Really?! That's it?! How can you reasonably make such a huge assumption based on meeting someone once and looking at their face?  Fifth, Catwoman. Again, nothing wrong with the performance, but I felt her character was unneeded. Nothing she did in the film seemed to matter, except of course for the fact that they decided to let her be the one to kill Bane. The romance between them felt forced as well imo. I don't see why he would be attracted to her. Her ideology is almost the direct opposite of his. In the comics there's a sense that she genuinely cares about him and a lot of that is due to their long history, none of which we get to see here. I never really get the sense that she saw him as anything other than a 1 percenter or necessarily cared about his well being. When Bane "breaks" him, she doesn't seem concerned about him, just concerned about what Bane will do to the city and how it will effect her. It's all about her and I just don't really see what draws him to her in this film.  Finally, the ending. I get it, he retired. Batman gets to live a happy life in Europe or whatever with Catwoman. Great for him I guess, but isn't Gotham gonna be worse than ever now? Gordon will likely lose his job as commissioner because of his 8 year lie to the public and for knowingly framing Batman for Dent's murder. Dent has been revealed as a murderer, meaning the Dent Act will likely be repealed and all these criminals are gonna come pouring back to the streets, including Joker, who isn't dead and who happens to be the direct cause of almost everything that happens in Rises to begin with. I get that they can't use Ledger anymore, but I for one found it strange that they deliberately chose not to once mention the Joker even though nothing in Rises would be as it is without him.  And who's left behind in Gotham to handle this new mess? "Robin" John Blake, a man who now has Bruce's suit and gadgets, sure, but none of the League of Shadows training that would let you take on dozens of thugs/SWAT officers at a time, meaning the first time he suits up and hops down into a group of 5 guys thinking he's a bad@ss, he's gonna get wailed on. Bruce didn't even bother to train the guy like the real Robin. But I guess Bruce isn't concerned with any of that anyways. He's "moved on" and I should be happy that he doesn't have to be the hero and protector Gotham needs like we've come to expect from him over the course of this trilogy, right? I just feel like it sent a strange message where you should do what you feel is right but only until you're tired of it, then you should sit back and have some "me-time" with a foxy lady despite the fact that there's still more to be done. I dunno about you but that just struck me as not very admirable and as something no respectable version of Batman would EVER do...  Overall the film is well acted and looks and sounds great, but it's only mildly entertaining and drags in a lot of places. I also felt it was the least realistic of the trilogy which I found unfortunate since the realism is what drew me to the trilogy in the first place. Things like the Dent Act, a usb drive that can erase your name from every computer on the planet and a cheesy imo nuclear bomb plot that emerges somewhat randomly near the end of the film serve to make it the most comic-booky feeling film of the three. All that said, again it's not a bad movie by any means and I'd say it's worth a watch, but it's easily the weakest of the trilogy in my opinion.

Taebo has reshaped my body but the later DVDs by Blanks are not good! I wanted something I could do quickly after eating a meal so I wouldn't feel guilty.  This DVD lacks any sort of music and the exercises are too fast with no warm up or cool down and Blanks seems uninterested in the exercises because, like he said, you can't even really break a sweat at 10 minutes.  It seems to me that Billy was doing just WHATEVER to try to keep the money coming in.  In my opinion, he is hurting his brand with all these bad DVDs.  The ab section is good though so I probably will do the ab section.

The Brothers Grimm The Brothers Grimm is a 2005 Adventure film directed by Terry Gilliam (whom has also written the script). Being that Gilliam was with the Monty Python gang the expectations are high. Unfortunately whilst the idea is a brilliant one, i.e., taking the world of the Grimm tales and turning them into a film; the end result is far from astounding and more of mediocre. Matt Damon and Heath Ledger both do what they can to create great characters but the problem is the less then great dialogue. Overall a film that is worthy of a 3 out of 5.

A drawn-out film where not much is learned- Spoilers Blue Valentine is told in flashbacks as well as the present time. The problem with that is in this particular film, the entire middle of the doomed love story between Gosling's character and Williams' character is never really established, rendering the whole movie somewhat pointless. It feels very dragged out but if you stop and really think about it, not much was ever presented to us to gain any knowledge about what happened in their relationship. We see them meet, fall in love, so eager and so overfilled with joy- and then we see them falling apart at the seams. Clearly bored with each other, living in their own world. Some might say that the ambiguity of the film is what makes it work, since we never really find out truly what went wrong, and at what time, we can dream up a scenario or scenarios ourselves and that's fine if you want to think that way, but it seems a bit on the sloppy side.  Great performances aside, the film's pace is lacking and there isn't much to hold the interest of the audience. The characters are both extremely flawed, so it really is hard to pinpoint who is to blame for their downward spiral. The husband starts drinking in the morning, has no further ambitions in life than working his usual job, and being a father to a little girl who isn't even his own-but loves her dearly regardless. Then we have a wife who is detached, apparently gossips to her coworkers all the time about her husband, and wants really nothing to do romantically with him. Again, we never, ever see how it progressed to this. You see glimpses of Gosling's character where he seems very loving, and caring and presents himself to be a real gentleman and kind person. And we see Williams' character revealing how many sexual partners she's had and the fact that she was 13 when she lost her virginity. She misses her daughter's play, inadvertently causes the death of their dog, and even briefly thinks about having an affair with her boss. It's a mixed bag here and again, we only see the after-effects of the whole relationship. Without a solid middle, we are left guessing.  Blue Valentine could have been a great, powerful film, but it feels very lacking.

Mostly Ayn Rand talking over a slideshow of stills, relatively bland I found my attention wandering often. The film focuses on her life story, told by her voice, usually over simple pictures and with only occasional video in the first half of the film. About 10-15 minutes near the end of the film focus more specifically on her philosophy, including a greater density of interviews, which are consistently more engaging than the earlier component of the film. Overall this film was fine, but certainly not spectacular.  As a substitute, I'd recommend <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002Q9VQ6">Ayn Rand - A Sense of Life</a>. That film covers much of the same material but is better composed. However, some may say "In Her Own Words" is preferred since it is basically all literally in Ayn's own words and voice.

Typical chick-flick This is a chick-flick on steroids. Instead of the typical story where you have a 1 man:1 woman story line - you're juggling 5 different relationships with 5 stereotypical guys. Of course, my question is why is it that the guys have to change? Why couldn't there be 1 woman that just wasn't worth it? lol...  Anyway... it was a good way to waste a few hours... but basically pretty forgettable.

Something of a Balance Between Action and Drama There is more emotion and drama in this film than one would expect from the type of movie this is represented to be. I can see why those who are dedicated to unstopping carnage would find this one too introspective and reflective on the emotions and much too short on action. At the beginning the viewer is advised of the ongoing battle between the forces of good and evil and then the movie proceeds to explore its manifestation in the lives of a small group of people on both sides of the conflict.  There are a lot of flashbacks that show the circumstances surrounding the development of Elektra's personality and priorities and show the internal battles she is waging between anger and love. The horrible circumstances surrounding her discovery of her mother's body when she was a child continues to haunt her and serve as a catalyst for her anger. The movie is primarily about Elektra's development as a fighter for good as she discovers her true nature is more inclined toward good than toward evil. In the course of this discovery she places herself in great danger protecting two people who will have more significance in her life than she ever expects.  If one can accept the required assumptions the movie can be entertaining. It is something of a departure from the norm but may be acceptable to some. I rate it not too bad.

Rich and powerful in the 60's Who has not dreamt of living the high life, being rich, famous, powerful and beautiful with the world at your feet, and with a penchant for achieving the impossible?  "The Thomas Crown Affair" provides for all this enchantment and more.  Starring a young and very athletic-looking Steve McQueen and an &uuml;berly sexy Faye Dunaway, it is a film that allows us a look into the life of the rich during the "swinging 60's".  McQueen stars as Thomas Crown, an extremely shrewd, rich and powerful businessman to whom nothing is impossible.  After planning the bank robbery of the century, he gloats in the glory of his own triumph for no other purpose than the sake of the challenge in itself.  But soon he faces his true match, both in wit and brains, in Dunaway, who in the role of insurance investigator Vicki Anderson will give him the run of his life.  The two get entangled into a scheme of cat and mouse, dangerous but incredibly seductive.  Dunaway uses all her powers of seductive mischievousness to get her man in the famous chess scene.  Wearing a backless, pleated mini-dress, inch-long eyelashes and the longest of nails, she check-mates Thomas Crown in a way that he is obviously not used to.  The move makes him fall for Vicki instantly, even though he very well knows that she is after his head.  This is a film with great quality of photography, where every scene has been carefully studied and could be used as a "magazine layout", to use the words of style expert Nina Garc&iacute;a, especially in the scenes where Faye Dunaway appears.  She is always superbly dressed and even more impeccably groomed.  Her hair, make-up - always featuring the inch-long eyelashes and the long, cream-coloured nails - her stylish suits, perfectly accessorized, are a true testament to the style of the era.  Just like Thomas Crown tells her during an auction, she looks as if she has just sprung out of the pages of Vogue.  As far as plotlines go, the film does not provide for a very good one.  In fact, at times I found it confusing and hard to follow, even after watching it several times.  It is unclear as to how Thomas Crown is able to pull this most ingenious robbery in the first place, why everyone would trust him at face value (and not even that, as the men he hires to execute the robbery for him do not even know who he is), as well as to how Vicki arrives at the conclusion that he is the culprit (basically, she just looks at a picture of him and decides he is The One).  Even the dialogues are too simplistic.  Nevertheless, the film is worth watching as it provides for some very high class entertainment, and a lesson in how to forge one's own sense of style.

Sense & Sensibility This is a good production of the old story.  Good actors and nice costuming and setting.  Good viewing for a wet Sunday afternoon!

Cute, clever, slightly bland but clean and fun I have been a fan of the Muppets for ages, and this new movie is indeed fun for the whole family. At times it was a bit slow moving, but I liked the cameos, songs, and playful puns. I'm not sure if this version will qualify as a classic or not, but it is one you should watch at least once to visit with all of your favorite characters. I used to think Miss Piggy was my favorite but I am drawn to both Kermit and Sweetums now! All of the muppets are so cute! The bad guy is a little corny and his song is my least favorite. I did like his henchmen muppets though because they are lovable. PS What happened to Amy Adams? She looks really drawn, old, and bland in this movie...which surprised me...it is like she lost her luster as a star....

Shrek the Third `Shrek the Third' is a rather lack lustre addition to the Shrek series of films and whilst perfectly enjoyable, it seems to be missing a key element.  This follows Shrek, Donkey and Puss in Boots as they go to collect Finoa's cousin, Arthur, to install him as King after Fiona's father dies and Shrek doesn't want to become King or have the responsibility of the kingdom.  There is also the side story of Fiona's pregnancy and Shrek's hesitancy in ruling the kingdom is mirrored in his hesitancy in becoming a father.  The characters are still voiced by the star cast we have come to love, as well as the addition of Justin Timberlake as Arthur.  The animation is also very good, as we have come to expect, and whilst other animated films have caught up to Shrek in their quality, this film still manages to do it very well indeed.  The fairy tale `in jokes' are also prevalent and whilst they still raise a smile, they have mostly been exhausted and can't make you laugh throughout like the first two films did.  In fact this may be the key element that I mentioned is missing, originality.  This has all the components of a good animated film, but lacks any originality.  All in all this is a perfectly enjoyable, animated film and should please fans of the previous films.  Just don't expect the style or verve of the first two films and you won't be disappointed.  Good but not great.  Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.

It's perfectly standard, if that is what you are looking for... A film like `The Rainmaker' doesn't really do anything that other films in this genre don't.  It isn't special and it certainly isn't a great movie.  I come from a bias viewpoint (not bias in a good way) since these legal courtroom thrillers don't often excite me past a performance or two.  That said, `The Rainmaker' works better than it should thanks to the talent involved, both behind and in front of the camera.  Francis Ford Coppola is one of the greatest filmmakers of any time, and it has been sad to see his obvious fall from grace.  He is a conundrum of sorts when you consider the fact that he produces epic masterpieces like `Apocalypse Now' and then produces an airy romantic comedy like `Peggy Sue Got Married'.  Still, he has remained relevant until the aughts, where his star officially fell.  Even back in 1997, his take on `The Rainmaker' could be seen as a stroke of relevance since the courtroom genre, and John Grisham in general, was considered a hot commodity at the time.  While the clich&eacute;s and generalizations do abound here (Grisham has never been the most creative of writers), Coppola handles them like a pro and creates a film that stands up to all of its strengths in a respectable way.  Calling the film respectable isn't necessarily calling it good, but respectable is better than embarrassing.  That respectability can also read as a tad drag or boring (is it too straightforward for its own good) but it can also be seen as a strength by some.  The cast is also on point, which helps propel this film forward.  It carved out Damon's star persona, which was coming into full effect thanks to the same years offering of `Good Will Hunting'.  The supporting cast is even richer here, with a devilish John Voight, a scruffy and engaging Danny DeVito and a brilliant (yes, I said it) Claire Danes.  I wish it were a tad more fulfilling, plot wise.  I find it too familiar and too conventional, but that is the nature of the beast and thus why I never really took to the genre (someone needs to redefine this in a way that feels fresh and exciting).  Still, if you gravitate towards standard legal thrillers or find them engaging in their obvious regurgitation of one another, you can't really go wrong with this choice.  It isn't as brazen or as thrilling as `The Firm' (one of the best in the genre, by a long shot) but it is uniformly correct, which has to account for something.

A laudable expose on a pressing social evil, undermined by pervasive self-righteousness and consequent superficiality. I had a great time watching Hot Coffee.  The arguments put forth were well-argued, consistently engaging, and generally noble.  In its attempts to dispel public misconceptions (many of which I shared) about the urban legends surrounding high-profile lawsuits and the Tort Reform movement, I thought the film connected on just about every swing.  I was shocked by the degree of injury suffered by the plaintiff in the infamous McDonalds lawsuit.  I was enraged by the manipulative media politics of Karl Rove, as evinced in the judicial election drama in Mississippi.  I was even, surprisingly, in Al Franken's corner as he endeavored to eliminate binding arbitration clauses from governmental sub-contracts.  For what it is, a mass-market expose on some very troubling and generally misunderstood developments in government today, I thought Hot Coffee was an excellent civic contribution. That being said, some inconsistencies do bubble up beneath the film's bold and frothy surface.  By attempting to dispel the "frivolous lawsuit" argument with three anecdotal cases in which lawsuits were not frivolous (convincing as they were), Hot Coffee sidesteps the fact that frivolous lawsuits actually do exist in some cases.  Is the viewer somehow supposed to assume that all lawsuits are fully merited?  This is the big blind spot of the film.  Furthermore, the filmmakers reduce the entire concept of "legal reform" to an instance of covert corporate lobbyist doublespeak.  It's a very effective, but tired, good versus evil model employed by just about every filmmaker of the ilk (Michael Moore, Morgan Spurlock, etc...)**  Thus, a laudable expose on a pressing social evil is undermined by a pervasive self-righteousness and consequent superficiality. In the case of Hot Coffee, thankfully, we don't get a disgruntled everyman narrator (I'm going to ignore the Seinfeld cameo). What we do get is just about every other "modern doc" trope you can imagine.  On a covert filming trip, the nephew of the hot coffee plaintiff actually goes back to the original McDonalds location and politely pays for a coffee!  I was embarrassed when I was the only one who laughed when he said "Thank You."  Though, for me, it might have been the highlight of the film.  In other scenes the film crew employs paparazzi-style interview techniques to engage representatives of the other side right before they go into the courthouse to write a big red X on the constitution.  Since the bad guy (Rove) always declines to be interviewed for the film, we get some awkward picture of him laughing on a golf course (or somewhere) instead.  People are quizzed on the street, just like on Jay Leno... Etcetera.  You've seen these cutting edge techniques in editorial-journalism before.  They're used here.  They're effective.  So effective, I'm wondering if it's a coincidence that I'm watching this in an election season.    **Note: Al Gore is not a member of this list.

"Truth Is Conjecture" But It May Not Be HERE There comes a point in life - and in the passage of a movie - when one naturally questions what it's all been about.  As we live it (life, that is), some of us ask that question every day.  While some of us search for an answer that defies our time, others find contentment in accepting a simple slogan, lesson, or adage that capably sums up where we are emotionally or psychologically in the present.  We tend to forget much of the past, or, at least, we remember it in fleeting flashes of memory - a pleasing face here, a powerful fragrance there - but rarely if ever does the sum total of these recollections equal a life lived in full.  Rather, they're passing inspirations and quizzical remembrances of things gone by.  In fairness, it can't be more than that, because as the picture's intrusive narrator told us when the story began: "Truth is conjecture."  And then director Braden King even felt it appropriate to remind the audience it was watching a movie - as if they didn't know that already - by including some curious set-up shots.  For all of its intellectual posturing, HERE feels as if it desperately wants to be something more than just a romantic picture.  It feels as if it's supposed to be a testament to how love begins in the most unexpected places and how it grows organically into something memorable and real.  It feels as if it's trying to say something about how the one thing that unites disparate cultures has to be love - love, the truly unique human experience.  It feels as if it's trying to say that intimacy can be fully achieved in even the most wide open spaces because true closeness is a state of mind and not a state of geography.  Well, see, the problem with that is the film already said "truth is conjecture," so I suppose the film could feel like it didn't want to say those things, either.  Will Shepard (played by Ben Foster) is an American satellite-mapping engineer assigned to a project in Armenia.  At his hotel's caf&eacute; one morning, he meets Gadarine Najarian (Lubna Azabal), and the film essentially chronicles their brief, passionate affair against the country's natural landscape.  While Shepard's true assignment remains a bit elusive (there are strong hints that different political factions in the country hold competing agendas), the fact that there are errors in his cartography isn't - either he's constantly messing up or the satellites are having difficulty in aligning his data.  Eventually, these failures force his company to recall Will, and there's the dilemma: can the lovers part knowing how deeply they feel for one another, or do they try to find some means with which to continue their relationship?  HERE has some wonderful moments, and most of them lie in the exploration to these two characters.  What more poignant metaphor could there be for love than that of a wayward mapmaker?  Shepard's so intent on knowing where he is at all times that he loses sight of how deeply Gadarine's presence affects him.  And how more poetic could it be than to discover that his mate is a burgeoning artist, one who fascinates others with her constant Polaroids?  She's used to seeing life through a camera lens and in quick still photographs; how could she not see how Shepard's living movements were weaving into her soul?  It is here (no pun intended) - in the exploration of two very real, very human beings - that HERE expresses its greatest strengths.  These are two kindred spirits being tossed about the sea of life; they find one another, sparks ignite, and they connect on levels one never detects alone but only with a soul mate.  If HERE had stayed there (in matters of the heart which have no map), I've no doubt it would've been a stronger picture, one far more widely embraced than the art house creation King delivered, but it may not have won accolades from the art house industry.  Instead, HERE traveled elsewhere into the terrain of the academic, and I felt the core of the film morphed into something very different, organic, and unnecessary.  Kudos for trying something different; such is the life (and demands) of the artiste.  HERE was produced by Lion & Wheel, Parts and Labor, and Truckstop Media.  DVD distribution is being handled by Strand Releasing.  The disc looks and sounds exceptional, though there were some modest noise-loss issues with a few interior locations where dialogue levels suddenly dropped for no reason I could figure.  The film won the NHK International Filmmakers Award at the Sundance Film Festival, as well as the C.I.C.A.E. (International Confederation of Art House Cinemas) Award at the Berlin Film Festival.  Bonus features include eight short films (from "contemporary avant-garde filmmakers"), some nifty photo galleries of Gadarine's photos from the film (you'll understand when you watch), and some theatrical trailers: it's a respectable collection, but nothing to write home about if you're looking more for what the director's intent truly was here.  At 126 minutes, HERE felt much too long for my tastes; the difference was elevating a more traditional road-trip romance into an art house reflection on life, which frankly felt too cold and clinical with Peter Coyote's narration for my tastes.  RECOMMENDED.  HERE is not a difficult film to like; to the contrary, it may be a difficult film to understand.  Principally, that's because writer/director King tried to layer it with so many artistic possibilities and inexorably long passages in order to cover all the bases.  King should've decided what he wanted it to be definitively and then left it in Foster and Azabal's capable hands because - so far as the relationship appears - it's a winner.  Too much of `this', along with too much of `that', bloated the picture unnecessarily; and, instead of having a picture about the curious intersections of life, you end up with the curious reflections of a writer/director.  In the interests of fairness, I'm pleased to disclose that the good folks at Strand Releasing provided me with a DVD screener of HERE by request for the expressed purposes of completing this review.

Way too many implausibilities She's in a huge forest. And yet, no matter what direction or how far she runs, these kids are always within ear shot of her. It just so happens the car that stops for her is one of the kids brother. When she takes off in the car, no matter how far she drives, she just happens to crash in front of the gang leaders house. Nothing is ever said about who was in the car she hits.They become non existent. For a movie like this to be satisfying,there has to be some kind of revenge factor. After all that happened too her and her boyfriend, she manages too kill one kid and immediately feels bad about it. She kills another one purely by accident.There were too many adults in the last scenes to believe what happens to the girl could be covered up. This movie was OK, but could have been a lot better.

OK movie. I liked the movie but can't say it was compelling. I think it is good, worth a look. Wouldn't say it resonates but solid performances by the main characters.

Read their lips! I have seen this DVD for the third time now but either I am going deaf or something is wrong with my TV sound. I bought it for the witty dialogue a.o., but half of the time I simply cannot hear what the actors are saying. I turned up the volume and read their lips, but still the good cast (!) are happily mumbling and whispering along most of the time  - (is that what they mean by 'tongue in cheek'? ) ...and then there is also this disturbing background music! All in all I find it very strenuous to follow what is being said and I don't believe that was the idea. It feels as if it has been dubbed afterwards and perhaps the actors were asked to only whisper to give it some sort of intimate feeling;  who knows? I should have looked for a DVD with subtitles and I am sorry to give this a bad review because the actors, costumes and scenes are really nice, but it would have been better to also get the bloody point - so sorry,  Mr. Wilde.

A Disappointment They say brevity is the soul of wit. Unfortunately this is one of those films that reminds us of that. It also sharpens our appreciation for just how much of the TV show's appeal came from its deft, rapier-like precision. From really tightly written dialogue and spot-on editing.  Of course, whenever a half-hour show gets extrapolated into a full length movie, the central issue the creators must struggle with is almost always the same: what works very well in half an hour minus commercial breaks rarely works out so well in a full length movie. The writers must choose between sticking with the tried and tested formula, and so almost inevitably producing mediocrity, or alternatively, taking some very real creative risks with the way they approach and structure the entire piece.  In this case...  Let's just say they chose not to take those risks.  When watching this movie there were times where I really felt as if I were watching a scene from the TV series played out in slow motion. In a typical episode the TV show communicated more in one minute than the film would in ten. There were other times when the film simply dragged, even to the point where it was just plain boring. To be fair, it wasn't all like this. There were times in the film, mainly around the middle, where I genuinely got caught up in the characters, the world they inhabited, and what they were doing. It's just that there were also plenty of times when I didn't. Given that this film came in at over two and a quarter hours, I can't help but feel that it would've benefited from some more proactive editing. It's almost as if, having lived so long under the tyranny of the 22 minute half hour, the writers and editors never developed the ability to impose discipline from within.  On the plus side, this film is beautiful simply to look at. And it's impossible for me to say a single bad word about the actors. Or for that matter about the "behind the scenes" people who did the props, the sets, and the photography. Everything is immaculately put together. To be perfectly clear, this is not a bad movie. If you look at it simply as something to kill an afternoon while you knock back a few beers (or dare I say, cosmopolitans) then by all means go for it. You're in for an entertaining afternoon. Perhaps the mistake I made was omitting the alcohol. Just be aware that if you go in hoping for something with the wit and depth of the TV series, you are going to be disappointed.  Oh, and I personally found the ending a little trite.  Not that I'm giving away any spoilers!  Theo.

WTF...Another Mystery...FRAK :( Doesn't the bonus features package include three disks ??? I will order the bonus features package as soon as Amazon allows customers the ability to pre-order it (hopefully sooner than later). I will not order the repackaged shorts volumes (as I bought them when originally released). This will always hold true in my buying habbits SONY, I do not double dip on my home entertainment, but I will buy new material as it is released onto standard DVD. I look forward to "NEW" (not old) stuff in the future...NUK...NUK...NUK :) Have fun !!!

Blackthorn is a very good movie to add to your Western collection! Sam Shepard plays the part of Butch Cassidy to perfection (IMO), the scenery is very beautiful, the action a bit slow which is a benefit, and the remaining cast does a superb job in supporting roles.  All in all, I would not rate this movie in the same league as the original Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, it is good enough in all aspects to rate a 4 star review from me.

Great family movie. I didn't read the book but my family had a great time viewing this movie. It was an enjoyable ride of story telling and fun. My kids ten,eight and six thoroughly enjoyed and will watch again. Remember it's a movie,sit back and let the story unfold before you.

What version is best? Ok folks.......which release is the best? Video/Audio etc. This is an excellent flick.  The script is superbly written and direction is flawless.

80's humor Good little 80's sequel to Meatballs (although I really wouldn't call it a sequel)! Fun movie with lots of laughs and even an alien!

Down in the valley Edward Norton is a first rate actor. In my opinion we need to see more movies from this great actor.

Good movie. I loved IP Man, awesome movie with an incredible story. When I heard there was a part 2 I had to see it. And... Excellent acting for the most part. Pacing, score, direction were all done well.  The movie had me just like the original but then for some reason they wanted to go into "boxing vs Kung Fu". This direction really baffled me as it didn't seem to fit with the themes presented in IP Man or the first half of the sequel.  The whole boxing vs martial arts seems a tad ridiculious to begin with. I think it has less to do with the method and much more to do with the fighter themselves as to who would win in such a match. Both forms of fighting are beautiful and require great discipline. That's really my only complaint about IP Man 2, the Brits were portrayed as very one dimensional and none of them could act very well either.  That point asided IP Man 2 is still an excellent Kung Fu movie that deserves to be seen just for the awesome fight sequences in the first half of the movie. Recommended.

Unexpectedly enjoyable Enjoyed all the one liners in this movie. Some of Hollywood's funny people making a movie and having fun with it. It was quirky with some good (men) adult jokes eased in. Watch with an open mind, not focused on Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Salma Hayek....etc. They have to share the limelight together.

Poolmom This was pretty fast on the shipping considering it was a week or so before Christmas and that was great! It was for my husband of course and he loved it! I still like the first one better! Very similar story line  to me.

Not what I had in mind, but feel for it anyways I can dig the characters and where they was going with story, but it seems like it ended to soon

A Great Collection for the Casual Collector Amazon has not created their standard product description for this Ronald Reagan collection yet. So, to let you know which movies are included in this latest version, this collection will include the following movies:  Title,  Year,  Stars/Co-Stars Dark Victory,  1939,  Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Ronald Reagan Knute Rockne All American,  1940,  Pat O'Brien, Gale Page, Ronald Reagan Kings Row,  1942,  Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan Desperate Journey,  1942,  Errol Flynn, Alan Hale, Nancy Coleman, Ronald Reagan This is the Army,  1943,  George Murphy, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Ronald Reagan The Hasty Hear,t  1949,  Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Richard Todd Storm Warning,  1951,  Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day The Winning Team,  1952,  Doris Day, Ronald Reagan, Frank Lovejoy  I cannot comment on the quality of the transfer as this collection is not scheduled for release for another few weeks. The rating provided is my personal rating based solely upon the overall score for the eight provided in this collection. I hope you find this helpful.

Did the Amazon reviewer see a different film? This classic stoner screwball comedy has standout performances from all.  The range of Olivier's ex, Joan Plowright, Klein (in full mustached regalia) and the inimitable Tracy Ullmann is extraordinary.  This dark narrative unfolds with each bizarre scene serving as foundation for the next.  That the story is based on true events just helps ratchet the insanity up another knotch.

Gives the basics and troubleshooting This DVD is great for getting started. I had hoped for some music variety but the directions are clear. I'm working on the doable part! After reading many reviews, I got a regular hoop (no extra weight or ridges). I hooped as a child but it is much more difficult now. Even attempting to keep the hoop going is great exercise and fun. Good Luck.

Weather Underground Synopsis "Weather Underground" the Movie Released in 2003 A Documentary Film by Sam Green & Bill Siegel Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature  How the Students for Democratic Society (SDS) morphed into the Weather Underground in circa 1968.  Members: Mark Rudd - Chairman Bernadette Dohrn Bill Ayers Naomi Jaffe David Gilbert- Killed 2 Armored Car guards & 1 Policeman in 1981 botched armored car robbery at Nanuet Mall, New York - presently serving a 70 year prison sentence - very intelligent speaker, however, he was in prison when he told his story. Laura Whitehorn Brian Flanagan - presently owns a bar in Manhattan Kathy Boudin Sam Brown Linda Evans Todd Gitlin - Foamed at the mouth when he spoke in the movie  The movie generally attempts to present the causes, actions and consequences of the Weather Underground, a subversive anti-government movement formed in the late 1960's and active during the 1970's.  Their original cause was to protest the Vietnam War.  The movie repeatedly stated that the 25 government offices bombed were done with care so that no-one was exposed to injury.  But, it does not state that the bombings were damaging government property which is against the law.  They compared the bombings to the actions of the Boston Tea Party against the British.  They robbed banks in order to acquire funds for their existence and actions.  This documentary idolizes the fact that the protestors got away with breaking the law for their social causes.  Three of their own members blew themselves up while attempting to assemble bombs intended for anarchy against the government.  The row house on 11th Street in Manhattan was blown up in 1971; a young Dustin Hoffman was living in the house right next door to the house that blew up.  The movie showed how bombs were assembled with a timing device like an alarm clock and wiring and dynamite in many scenes.  Apparently, the individuals responsible for this movie want to encourage violent protesting.  The Weather Underground assisted in the prison escape of Timothy Leary who then fled to Algeria to escape US government law.  They supported other protest groups such as the Black Panthers in Chicago and sympathized with their beliefs.  Fred Hampton, a leader of the Black Panthers was killed when Chicago Police broke into his house.  This angered the Weather Underground and gave them more reasons to protest against the establishment.  Then the movie compared the eloquent way Fred Hampton spoke with the way George Bush spoke.  Again, this is just trying to mock the establishment.  He should have compared to the way Obama speaks without a teleprompter.  But, Obama was an unknown in 2003.  The Chicago Police were not the FBI.  The Chicago Police are known for taking things into their own hands to accomplish their goals.  The documentary showed both Billy Graham & Richard Nixon singing "God Bless America" in a sports stadium filled with fans as if it was mocking the establishment.  It also commented that Ocean Beach was deserted.  This is just an absurd comment.  When the Vietnam War ended in 1975, the protest causes then changed and shifted to other social and government issues.  Later their protests morphed into other causes such as protesting for labor unions in Chile.  Even when the interviews of the original Weather Underground members were being documented for this movie in 2003, the members were still highly biased and charged against the government with their original rhetoric of 30 years ago.  This response just proves that once an idealist protester, their ideals will remain strong in their minds and convictions throughout their life.  This movie would be a good model for the FBI to study for their education on how subversive groups are formed and function over time.  The members of the Weather Underground are idealist anarchists that believe in violent protesting to prove their point.  They are well educated and intelligent, but are not educated in the way to protest without damaging property, breaking the law, robbing banks and harming individuals with explosives.  It's a felony crime to use explosives without the proper credentials and licenses.  They ignore the law to prove a point while relying on the Constitution's First Amendment, Freedom of Speech to protest.

Looking Forward from the Past As a previous critque of this show mentioned: most series start with a shaky beginning and blossom into brilliance.  I fully admit that I came into Terra Nova at the tail-end of the first season, however what I saw impressed me.  A colony of idealists seeking to save a dying future by planting seeds in the ancient past.  Though I personally would not have picked the Cretaceous as a place to start over, I do love the mix of my favorite things:  sci-fi and dinosaurs!  I am unsure of how the writers worked around how humanity will survive the catastrophe that ended the Cretaceous, but kudos to their imaginations.  I am unfamiliar with the main actors of this series, however I am very pleased to see Stephen Lang putting the "Quaritch" personae to much better use as Taylor; the rough around the edges leader of Terra Nova who (unlike his previous character) is not immune to human compassion and affection.  I am definitely hoping for a second season and a chance to see Terra Nova fully mature.  This series has the potential to be something special.

Lots of good laughs and some decent emotion And so the masses cried out,"Where is the twenty-something gross-out comedy for women?" and lo, the gods of cinema did smile and outpoured Bridesmaids, the latest effort from producer Judd Apatow, the genius mind behind such films as The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up.  The movie centers on Annie (Kristian Wiig, who also wrote the screenplay), whose best friend Lillian (Maya Rudolph), is about to get married. Her newest friend (Rose Byrne), a type-A who organizes everyone's parties/lives, appears to be stealing away affection from Annie who starts to go slowly mad. Annie's life hasn't been in the best of shape anyhow since she lost her business, lost all her money, lost her job and her apartment. Having this added stress on top of it doesn't make things easier and though she eventually gets a new boyfriend in the form of an Irish immigrant cop (Chris O'Dowd), her life remains chaotic and unhappy. Mind you, this is a comedy.  And for the most part, it's a very funny! It's rude and crude in parts (particularly in a scene in a bridal shop), but those parts are funny, so I'm fine with that. I will say the movie starts off very strong, sags significantly in the middle (the airplane scene went on way too long), and recovers somewhat in the end. There's still some laughs in the later parts, but the first portion of the movie is where most of the fun is to be had. I will also say that the first part is strong enough to make up for the sagging parts in the middle.  This isn't a perfect movie, but it is fun and it is worth seeing. Hopefully it will be the start of a trend where people write good comedy films about women and their relationships, much as they have with men. This movie stands well on its own, but if it's the start of something bigger, I'll be quite pleased.

Fantastic I was very hesitant to see this movie, because I am a big fan of the novel "Water for Elephants" and I was terrified the movie studio would screw up the film version. Well, I was pleasantly surprised. The filmmakers did make some changes from Sarah Gruen's book, but overall I think the movie stayed very true to the heart of the novel. The cast was fantastic, especially the actors who played the three main characters (Robert Pattinson especially gets props for this role, which should silence any naysayers who claim the "Twilight" golden boy can't act). The movie reminded me a lot of the film "Big Fish." It was beautiful to watch but was also incredibly character-focused, with elements of fantasy and whimsy. I loved the movie and highly recommend it.

Marred only by English dubbing errors Up until the complete LOTR by Jackson was done this was my favorite movie of all times. I have seen it probably 10 times and even called in sick in my youth to see it in one sitting at the movie theater. I used to have the Kultur version on Beta and this is just as good with one exception. You will need to keep the English subtitles on since dubbing track switches at times from English, to French to Russian. I returned it to get a replacement and found the same error. Nevertheless it is faithful to the book with huge diversions as we go from war to the intricate details of the private lives of the characters and yes the philosophical thoughts of the actors are shown beautifully with sweeping shots of the sky and aerial views of land. This is so monumental of a film that it is impossible to criticize anything....and the musical score is gorgeous. If you can add this to your library grab this classic.

Round Midnight The story moves slowly, but with dignity.  The music is the star of the film.  The musicians are the best in jazz - Dexter Gordon (who also plays the lead character), Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Tony Williams, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Hutcherson, Ron Carter, John McLaughlin. I just recently discovered this film, and I'm glad I did.

A customer's review A Perfect Spy, a novel by John LeCarre, produced by the BBC for television is an outstanding accomplishment for all those involved in this production.  The dvd features stellar performances, beautiful countryside scenery, and a beautifully sad and lamenting music score following Magnus Pym's journey into betrayal.  Accolades to the BBC! A must have dvd!

Good movie and it looked fine on Roku I read some of the complaints about the video quality, but we had no problem watching the movie through a DSL connection. A higher quality connection like Fios might have been 1080p, but we got 720 and it was very good. To me, this is the most powerful film of the series and I'm eager to see the final one.

One of the better Gladiator movies. Nice and clear. This movie has a nice plot and was well filmed. This was one of the clearer copies out there. Mark Forest does a good job as the hero.

The Ultimate Surprise Ending Don't read any spoilers on this one.  The last couple of minutes will make your jaw drop in a way that you cannot possibly predict.  How little our politicians saw into the future.  They actually believed we could keep any other country from ever getting nukes, while ourselves reserving the right to secretly use them in smaller conflicts.  the nuclear bomb was and is pandora's box.

Demi does Striptease It is hard to make a movie that would be as funny as the book.  And they didn't.  Demi tries but the other strippers have better stripper bodies.  Burt Reynolds gets the most laughs.  Lots of laughs and the movie is worth watching.

4-in-1.. This is a great compilation.  All of the first 4 F.D.s together. 2 double-sided discs so each movie is still full length.  The only drawback I found is, the writing is so small it's hard to tell what movie is on which side. I had to mark each disc with bigger numbers. Why couldn't they have scripted 1, 2....etc on each side?  That aside, I love this set.

A Hit-Or-Miss Improv: Showtime Transforms A Successful Web Series Into A Full Fledged Sitcom Post-"Friends," Lisa Kudrow has made a career out of playing unlikable, narcissistic women who are oblivious to anything that doesn't directly involve them.  I guess everyone needs a specialty, and no one is better at mining the humor out of an awkward situation than the fearless Kudrow.  Her talent seems to be to place her character in the most uncomfortable situation possible and then leave her there, suffering and unable to extricate herself with any dignity intact.  Admittedly this type of humor is not for everyone, but some will know exactly what I mean.  When Kudrow appeared in the cutting HBO series "The Comeback," viewers didn't know exactly what to make of it and it didn't survive past the first season.  At the time, I chose not to watch it--but last year, I gave it another try and found it a brilliantly incisive satire.  So I wasn't going to miss her Showtime series "Web Therapy."  Originally created with her pal Dan Bucatinsky, the idea came to life as a number of short webisodes (and has aired for four seasons in that format).  The Showtime series takes the same premise, with the same central character, and expands it into a full 30 minute program.  Kudrow plays Fiona Wallice, a psychotherapist experimenting with a new form of treatment.  Instead of 50 minute traditional encounters, she's boiled down her sessions to three minute exchanges via the Internet.  That way, she figures, they can cut out all the extraneous nonsense and quickly get to the heart of the matter.  As expected, Kudrow is both dismissive and self-involved when dealing with both her patients and her loved ones.  Each of the ten episodes within Season One has 3-4 computer interactions (few of the actors share actual scenes together in person).  Some of these sequences are straightforward therapy, some involve her family, some involve her efforts to fund the new business, and some are more personal in nature.  There is a continuing storyline throughout the season, but much of the material can stand alone.  Part of the show's hook is that it is improvisational in nature.  The actors are coming to their roles without set scripts and that keeps things lively.  Kudrow has backed herself with plenty of familiar faces including Bucatinsky (as an illicit romantic interest), Rashida Jones (his new fiancee), Victor Garber (Kudrow's husband), Lily Tomlin (her mother), Jennifer Elise Cox (a daffy co-conspirator) and guest stars like Jane Lynch, Courteney Cox, and Steven Weber.  Everyone seems game to spar with Kudrow, but some are definitely more successful at the experiment than others.  At times, I don't know that the expanded time format has added much to the show.  The webisodes were so quick and lively that when something stalled, it was quickly over.  In truth, I'd classify "Web Therapy" as distinctly hit-or-miss.  Some episodes, I laughed more at the outtakes than I did at the actual program.  But when it hits, it really scores.  Kudrow has fashioned Fiona Wallice into another terrific character, one that I definitely want to follow.  It is coming back for a second season, so hopefully the kinks will get worked out a bit.  "Web Therapy" may not be for everyone, but its painful brand of awkward humor may well be irresistible to some (myself included).  A lot of promise, but not entirely cooked quite yet.  KGHarris, 4/12.

Not as bad... This adaption isn't as bad as others are making it out to be on here. Sure, if you're a hardcore Austen fan, then you'll be up in arms, but if you enjoy an interesting period film, then relax and take it for what it is. Contrary to the book, this Fanny is endearing, and you find yourself rooting for her, which is important, since the story is really about her to begin with. I think it was fairly well-casted, apart from Mariah, and it was an enjoyable 112 minutes.  I should warn you, there are moments of vulgarity, involving overly graphic sketches of rape, and a sudden, unexpected nude scene. That alone is probably why I gave it 4 stars instead of 5. Those two moments seemed out of place.

Only one complaint This DVD is excellent, as are all of the Harry Potter Movies. The Only complaint I have for this and Part Two of this feature is that it is not available in full screen as are all of the other seven movies to this series. For everyone who has purchased the first seven DVD's in full screen, it ruins the collection when the last ones are not available in the same format. A lot of people will end up feeling ripped off, who don't like the movies in wide screen presentation. I for one am tired of movie collections starting out giving you a choice, and then ending with only one format available. The spiderman series did the same thing. The first two were available in both formats, but the third was only available in widescreen. Then to make matters worse, everytime this happens, it's always the widescreen with the largest black bars, instead of the small ones, making the picture even smaller. Even on a big screen TV it's like watching a movie through two slats in a fence. You'd think if they were only going to offer one aspect ratio, that they would compromise and use the format with the smallest black bars and largest picture. You'd also think that if they're going to start a series of movies with a continuing story, that all of the movies would be released in the same format. I Love the Harry Potter movies from beginning to end, but I'm certainly not going to re purchase the entire set just to get them in the same format, no matter how cheap the price. Once I've purchased a show, I think that should be that. So to the manufacturers of these DVD's which have numerous sequels, please finish what you start. I feel ripped off everytime you do this. As for the movie, it was great. These stories were great from beginning to end. Great job on bringing these stories to film. I highly reccommend all of the Harry Potter movies, but only wish all eight were available in fullscreen.

a gripping, fast-paced, nocturnal journey through the seedy underbelly of new york, that ends far too sweetly... At the end, the whole premise of Running Scared (2007) may crumble into a pile of too convenient fluff, but along the way the movie does take you on an unpredictable roller coaster ride, with some wild gut wrenching turns and unexpected thrills.  The pulsating crime adventure takes place mostly during one long crazy night, and features an array of interesting characters, set in some unusual circumstances, where violence frequently erupts.  Joey Gazelle (Paul Walker) is part of the Perello family, an organized crime gang who are surprised during a drug deal, by three masked men with guns, who attempt to rob them.  After a violent shootout, one of the robbers escapes, and it is discovered that the two dead robbers were cops.  Joey's boss Tommy Perello (Johnny Messner) gathers some handguns, and instructs Joey to dispose of the evidence.  Gazelle returns to his home in the suburbs, and is observed by his son Nicky (Alex Neuberger), and his friend Oleg (Cameron Bright), hiding the guns in his basement.  While the family is eating dinner, shots ring out, and a bullet narrowly misses Joey's head.  He heads next door and discovers that his neighbor Anzor Yugorsky (Karel Roden) has been shot by his stepson Oleg, who has vanished with a distinctive chrome handgun that Gazelle recognizes as his boss's piece.  Joey realizes that if he doesn't recover Perello's gun, he is a dead man, and his quest to find Oleg and recover the gun, is a frantic and suspenseful adventure that eventually involves his son Nicky, and his wife Teresa (Vera Farminga).  Facing various crises, their activities generate ripples that eventually come crashing back.  Matters are further complicated by the actions of Rydell (Chazz Palminteri) the crooked cop who escaped the initial robbery attempt, and Russian mob boss Ivan Yugorski (John Noble), who is working a deal with the Perello family.  The storyline is unpredictable, often electric with tension, and takes place at locations spread across the state of New York, during one very eventful night.  The characters generally seem real, and the acting mostly believable, with some very strong performances all around, particularly Cameron Bright, Vera Farminga, and Paul Walker.  The chances are that most will be drawn into the movie, and develop strong feelings about the main characters, as lots of crazy things happen along the way.  Running Scared just keeps the hits coming, but near the end, things do go start to go too far.  There is an extremely overdramatic scene set in a hockey rink, where both profanity and violence explode.  Taking several hockey puck hits to the head, Joey should have his face broken, and be minus at least one eye, but he somehow manages to survive a vicious shootout.  Just when you think you can relax, another crisis occurs, as the missing gun unexpectedly turns up.  This is followed by an explosive fatality, and even more drama as Gazelle races to get home before he bleeds out.  The film's "twist" ending, is a huge disappointment, featuring a development that obliterates the credibility of most of what occurred up to that point.  After jerking the rug out from underneath, the movie sells out completely, never really offering an explanation for what is an absurd situation, one where the circumstances apparently absolves all those involved of any guilt for their crimes, including murder.  After the great things that preceded it, the "storybook" finish provides grounds to question the judgment of big studios.  It you are going to make a gritty, violent, brutal, stylish thriller, have the balls to see it through to a fitting end, and not cop out like some sappy TV movie.  Running Scared is definitely worth seeing, but the title seems to apply more to the filmmakers, than the characters in the movie.

FOLKLORE OR REALITY? This documentary was made along with the movie "Robin Hood" starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett.  Through reputable historians, the DVD takes a look at several parts of English history that show that "Robin Hood" probably existed, mainly through verbal stories handed down through the ages, and by establishing that certain members of the "Merry Men" actually existed. References were also found about "Maid Marian."  The weapons expert displayed the weapons of the age, and how they were so lethal and vicious, e.g., staffs, swords, daggers, clubs, axes and of course, the longbow supposedly used so skillfully by Robin. We now know where the word "Hood" for criminals likely came from.  The movie also clearly illustrated the high powers and authority, representing the noblemen, possessed by the Sheriff in every district.

Really campy and dated but still fun to watch! Now this is a sci-fi/fantasy movies of the 1980's.  Masters Of The Universe is the live-action film taken from the famous Saturday Morning Cartoon.  Is this the beginning of the "modern" Superhero movies?  Hmmmm...no...but it is one of the beginning that will influence today's Superhero movies.  Dolph Lundgren is "HE-MAN" 1/2 Conan and the other 1/2 Buck Rogers who is the "good guy" in the film.  Frank Longella is "SKELATOR" the evil "bad guy" with the face of a skull!!  The two battle it out in other universe dimensions and here on Earth over a small machine that controls entries into other universe realms with musical notes!  Courtney Cox is caught up in this as 1/2 of an earth couple who helps HE-MAN.  She was in this movie not too long after she was in the Bruce Springsteen video "Dancing In The Dark" which began her fame as an actress.  Her boyfriend is some actor who is not known today.  Billy Barty plays the keeper of the "magical musical key machine" who helps HE-MAN as well.  Meg Foster is one of SKELETOR'S evil generals.  I won't ruin the ending but lets just say that HE-MAN always wins!  Great fun to watch even though it is dated.  Recommended!

Very enjoyable if you love the books Enjoyed the movie, thought it was better than "We Bought a Zoo", which was the last movie I watched previously.  Follows the book very closely, and casting was awesome.  Too bad it looks like only book fans 'get' the movie, based on the critic reviews I've read, and it didn't gross enough that there will be a sequel. I can't imagine watching it more than once, though. Worth a rent, definitely.

very useful this is very helpful  both physically and mentally.  it i easy to understand and follow. iam glad i odered all 3

Is there a rated version ? I just like to watch the movies the way it was meant to be.  I wish they would make the rated and unrated version.

nice for the price i liked this because of the story line. i'm not into the darwin cook novel, but it's nice to see that they did him a favor by letting him have his own commentary. hats off to them for that. i haven't heard it yet, but i will later. the voices are right choice for the decade. i'll have to say look into this one to rent like i do, make sure you rent the 2 disc for the special features. fanboys are going to like it.

A nicely made Zappa doc! This documentary gave me a really good appreciation of the music on 'Over-Nite Sensation' (I was already a a huge fan of the 'Apostrophe (')' album)! The video clips were fantastic as well...I recommend this documentary to anybody looking to get into Zappa's best work.

Part Review, Part Question Okay first the "review", obviously I haven't watched this DVD set yet as it has yet to be released but I remember these being two of the best seasons of this awesome show, even if it doesn't have the tons of extra features I am hoping for I'll most likely buy it.  Okay, now the question: Does anyone know if this has any extra special features that weren't already on the Season 5 DVD set and the Season 6 DVD set??

Kevin Spacey makes it worth your time "Father of Invention" has a plot you have seen a hundred times.  I get the idea that the film was also trying to be a comedy, but I did not laugh at all.  However, the dramatic elements worked and I was able to enjoy the film simply for the characters.  The cast is full of very talented actors who give good performances, and this is the main reason why I would recommend watching the film.  This is just the second feature film from writer/director Trent Cooper, and I was impressed by how he handled the material and the cast - even if he didn't bring anything new to the table.  This movie was certainly an improvement over Cooper's first film... <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FSME3S">Larry the Cable Guy - Health Inspector</a>  For some reason, this movie did not have a wide theatrical release.  But it is on par or better than a lot of the films I've seen in theaters recently.  Hopefully it will find an audience on DVD, because I think it is worth watching - particularly if you are a fan of Kevin Spacey.

lovely Very sweet. And not as simple as some of the previous reviewers concluded.  Highly recommended. SJP is wonderful, as are the other cast members.

Enjoyable Film I enjoyed this film immensely.  Director Aki Kaurism&auml;ki takes his time to develop all the characters, their habits, their mannerisms, lingering on minute details such as the wrapping of a package, washing dishes, facial expressions which convey far more meaning than the dialogue itself.  The story is revealed by everything you see on screen, and it is presented like a canvas upon which to observe all that one needs to know.  Everything you see contributes to the story and the characters, and this film in rich in that regard.  This is obviously not a film that appeals to everyone.  It is not for the impatient as everything unfolds gradually and sometimes very slowly.  The approach is distinctly European and it is a study in character far more than action.  The accompanying sound track often seems odd because it is very unlike the sort of music used in American films.  Stylistically, had this film been made 40 or 50 years ago it would have looked more or less the same.  If you enjoy French films, you will likely enjoy this one and it is definitely worth seeing.

sherlock holmes a game of shadows My grandson and i watched it and we all enjoyed it very much. Could watch again just for the joy of it.

Good Bear Market Movie Actors Paul Newman and Charlotte Rampling star in this 1982 bear market movie.  This movie seems to fit our times when the men we thought we in charge are not doing so well. Here Paul Newman portrays a man full of frailty, hesitancy, and self doubt. This is the kind of damaged hero we can behind in the 20 teens as we march headlong into a greater depression.  Attorney Frank Galvin has been beaten down so much he seems like a man twice his age. He is paralyzed by fear. He feels threatened by bad luck. Past experience has been a cruel taskmaster. Here is a weak man who stammers, is hesitant, weak, alchoholic and defeated. Even in the dramatic courtroom scene at the end, Frank Galvin can't get it up. He is halting and hesitant. In keeping with his character in this movie, actor Paul Newman, although nominated, did not receive an Oscar for Best Actor for his role in this film.

Marvelous Historical Drama Yes, Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn were both magnificent actors. Yes, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine were magnificent roles for them to play. How could this movie miss?  It is nearly Christmas in 1183, and Henry must decide which of his three surviving sons should inherit the throne. His oldest, Henry III, is dead. Richard, who came to be known as the Lion-Hearted (Anthony Hopkins), is next in line and Eleanor's favorite. But John (Nigel Terry), the youngest and a ratty little pimple-faced twerp, is Henry's favorite. I could never figure why. Perhaps because Richard was Eleanor's favorite. Richard and Eleanor love to fight. They plan and plot and make each other miserable, and seems to relish the fighting as much as anything.  Geoffrey, the middle son (John Castle), is a handsome young man, very self-possessed, very smart, and very calculating. He expects to be John's chancellor when John is king, as Henry has promised.  Another complication is Alais (Jane Merrow), a French princess and Henry's mistress. She has already brought a dowry with her when she came to Henry's court, even though she was just a child then. She is to wed whichever prince is named Henry's successor. But she can't stand John; nobody can. And she really is in love with Henry.  So here comes Philip, the young King of France, to demand that his sister Alais either be married to the successor or her dowry returned. Philip is a charming young man that Henry keeps calling "Boy," even though Philip calls him to task for it.  Most of the story involves the plots, counter-plots, betrayals, and deceits that are involved in the decision about the succession. Since we in their future already know who's going to be the next king, there's no suspense about that. And perhaps for knowledgeable historians there is little suspense at all. But I enjoyed trying to follow who was doing what to whom and why. So just in case you're no great historian yourself, I'll leave off any details.  It's a dark movie in many ways, including the literal. Henry's castle (Eleanor has been locked up elsewhere for years, and is only let out because there is to be a Christmas court) is a primitive thing: it is 1183, after all, and as Eleanor points out, "We're all savages." The great hall's floor is strewn with straw, dogs wander about grabbing such scraps of food as they can, and the knights sit at long rough tables with long rough benches. Only the high table is any nicer. But the costumes are lovely, the story is complex, the acting is grand, and a good time can be had in 1183 with the royals.

Kick Butt Awesome Workout! I have been doing the FIRM for several years and usually go for the one hour DVDs.  However, I needed something I could do at lunch since my schedule has changed a bit.  The good news is my offce has a space with workout equipment and a TV & DVD player so I thought I would take advantage at lunch.  However, I needed something shorter than 1 hour.  This work  out is an all over body toner with aerobics and in 45 minutes you have received the full benefit of a one hour work out.  It is amazing how the time flies.  It is fun, versatile and no muscle is left out of this compact, efficient workout.

evolution of the airplane There are 3 amazing scenes in this movie that you can't miss. Each scene is approximately two to three minutes. The 3 scenes consist of a biplane, a Super Constellation, and a Harrier all flying in beautiful locales (with the Harrier flying alongside a Navy ship). Those 3 scenes are the most beautiful scenes I have seen in any 3-D movie. I wish those scenes were extended. The movie is about the history of aviation and the difficulties involved in developing a new aircraft. This movie leads up to the development of the Airbus 787. It seems that anything really large looks great in 3-D. I've seen pictures of the Airbus on the internet lately, and while I thought it was cool, it really didn't give you the look of actually being there. The 3-D is excellent in this one. The music at the menu screen is amazing, and the 3-D computer generated graphics add a nice touch.

The Walking Dead 2 Intriguing, sad, scarey, dramatic. Not really scarey. Just really sad, but good, surprisingly. Not  bad for something that came from a comic strip.

Prepare to be surprised You'd think a movie that takes place entirely in a coffin wouldn't be interesting to watch, but Buried is surprisingly a gem in the underdeveloped genre of claustrophobic thrillers. The cinematography makes excellent use of the limited space, the script is thrilling, and Ryan Reynolds's performance could have challenged James Franco's portrayal of Aron Ralston in 127 Hours if he had been nominated for Best Actor.  Buried is a rare kind of film. The main character, the only one we actually see as opposed to the voices he speaks to on his cellphone, wakes up in a coffin buried 6 feet underground with no recollection of how he got there. All he has is a Zippo, a BlackBerry, and 90 minutes to escape before his oxygen supply runs out. However, we get some brilliant exposition on the character's past through his phone calls and desperate attempts to garner help from the outside world. But the exposition isn't explained through out-of-the-box flashbacks - all you can do is listen to the main character as he explains his predicament, adding to the claustrophobic atmosphere and stark realism of his situation. The film is very well written (it even includes a unique action sequence) and expertly paced and directed. A superb indie film despite the few "I would've done that" moments peppered throughout. All in all, a great movie and not what you'd expect from 90 minutes of being stuck in a box.

My favorite Christopher Lee Dracula film! But the DVD ruins the film Its always nice to see rare films on DVD, but when I saw the film on the Dark Sky DVD I was very dissatisfied first of all the DVD shows the French title "Le Nuits De Dracula" and it cut out the scene with the mother banging on the door of Castle Dracula for her baby after Dracula has taken it which I thought was a great scene, and it should be noted that's this is the only film that has done this from the novel! Anyways the new print also has a weird moment where Jonathan Harker looks out his window and sees the gypsies and this happy note of music is playing whereas in the VHS it thankfully isn't there. I think also the color and brightness makes the film look more like a play than anything else, in the VHS the scenes with the count and Harker are dark and eerie which I thought really enhanced the film. I'm sticking with my VHS print which thankfully I managed to convert to a disk for my viewing pleasure and I would reccomend this DVD for the extras!  As for the film itself I think out of all Sir Christopher Lees Dracula films this has to be the best one because he is the character Bram Stoker had wrote and considering that he was virtually blackmailed by Hammer to do the later sequels and his comments about the later ones he seems to enjoy playing Count Dracula in this film  "This was a Dracula indeed !"

Have a laugh Hilarious movie, actors have that dumbed down sense of humor that makes it for a great movie for anyone to watch.Nothing too scary for children to watch, so this movie is good for a family comedy night.

It's a horror movie It's a fun movie.  Try not to think too much about the plot.  Just watch it.  Let all the plot holes go.  Enjoy the gore.  Try not to think of Apple products.

Great learning tool.. A great way of teaching small children, or children with learning disabilities, about God and the Bible.especially when Sunday School is not available.

A Vietnam Film That Never Received Proper Credit Hanoi Hilton is a film that attempts to recount the story of the living hell endured by American POWs in the actual infamous Hanoi prison facility depicted on screen.  Though the film has been out for years, it never received much play when first released, and conspiracy buffs have long argued that the film was purposely suppressed by the Hollywood elite in order to squelch the movie's harsh portrayal of a character undoubtedly based on anti-war actress/activist Jane Fonda.  My only criticism of the film is that it pulls punches and doesn't go far enough in portraying the true horrors endured by our POWs, nor does it hammer Ms. Fonda as hard as she should have been for her actions.   I consider this movie a must-have for your Vietnam DVD library.

Mad professor story As usual for the UK movies, professor-fixed-on-a-fear was surely half-mad and passed his gens to a son murdering himself to a very relief of authorities and society.  A question remains what sort of connections this family had got to have a son none as dad was a mentor at the British uni?

Great movies. All the movies are in great condition. My family and I all watched them together and had no issues. It came with all four movies. No special features discs. :(

Christmas 2010 A Christmas classic in our house!!!  It's my son's favorite Christmas movie.  He was happy to find this under the tree.

Perfect Combination If you're in the mood to sit back, laugh, and not have to think too much this is the movie for you! It's the perfect combination of Comedy, Romance, and Action. The cast has good chemistry and are sexy to boot! As with any romantic comedy, you can't over analyze...you just have to sit back and enjoy!

Dark Side of Human Nature Koreans always portrays the dark side of human nature magnificently. Their movies always contains a level of conflict in its true sense. But relax this movie is not about it. It is just a plain simple revenge and inflicting maximum pain to the villian. Both guys are smart and like to downplay eachother.  Devil played both sides in this movie. Both wrong and incorrect. Both sides suffering and nothing changes in the end. There is no solace for anyone. As usual movie has a sadistic end but you have to accept it as that is what is happening around us.

Gentle Stretch For those who want a gentle stretch with no rush and peaceful music this is the dvd for you.  After a long day of sitting at a desk job this is just enough to loosen the muscles for a peaceful night of sleep.  Not for the advanced because they probably would be bored but beginners to in between would enjoy this full body stretch session.

Creepy sci-fi thriller... "Body Snatchers" (1993) is directed by Abel Ferrara (King of New York, Bad Lieutenant, The Funeral). This film focuses on a young girl, Marti (Gabrielle Anwar from Burn Notice), and her family. Her father (Terry Kinney) is sent to a military base to do some scientific studies on possible contamination, and in the process discovers an encroaching evil as people are apparently becoming paranoid and delusional. This film is inspired by the 1956 film "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", but it takes a new plot line situated as it is in a military base. This is an eerie and engrossing film that keeps one gripping the edge of their seat as things go from bad to worse for Marti and her family. Meg Tiller portrays Marti's mother, and Forest Whitaker appears in the role of Major Collins.  The dvd has no extras, but the quality of the dvd is quite good with rich colors and deep blacks, with only a few instances of dust noticeable at times.

The Shadow this is a classic hero movie.worth watching.get to own for any comic or movie collector. alec baldwin was great in this movie.

'It doesn't matter where you've been as long as you come back strong.' How many more stories are there out there about famous music or movie stars who fall victim to substance abuse and destroy careers/  Well, here's another.  But this time the story remains low key, in part because of the quality of the actors involved, and the theme of 'what is more important, fame or love'? manages to hold on throughout this overly long film.  Shana Feste both wrote and directed this story of a life gone sour and the effects that has on those who care about her.  Kelly Canter (Gweneth Paltrow) is a country singer superstar who has a problem with alcohol and drugs and carries with her the devastating loss of her unborn child due to a fall during a concert in Dallas some years back.  She is married to her manager James (Tim McGraw) who struggles with Kelly's addiction, consents to rehab where she meets young Beau Hutton (Garrett Hedlund), an aspiring country singer and talented songwriter,  but James pulls her out early to that she can make a comeback after a series of embarrassing flubbed shows.  James seems more obsessed with Kelly's career than with her emotional stability.  Once out  Kelly and Beau continue seeing each other and because of his talent Beau is added to the Kelly's tour as an opening act.  Along for the ride is a naive ex-beauty queen Chiles Syanyon (Leighton Meester) who idolizes Kelly and strives to get an audition with the famous diva. James hears her, invites her along as an audience pleaser, but on the tour, Beau and Chiles become involved: Beau just want to sing his songs to little bar crowds who love music and plans to move  to California, asking Chiles to join him.  But Chiles is star struck and opts for following in Kelly's advice and tracks until a tragedy occurs and alter the lives of Beau, Chiles, James, and the country music fans.  The moral seems to be that love and work can't make good bedfellows and the story seems out to prove that.  The plot gets a bit sappy towards the end but the film itself is salvaged by the singing of Garrett Hedlund and Leighton Meester.  Paltrow offers some of her own songs, but oddly enough the true country star - Tim McGraw - never  sings!  There are some strong performances in this tearjerker - from each of the four leads.  Grady Harp, August 11

Not as Good as the First Season, but still Pretty Good I wish there were half star ratings on Amazon.  I would have given the second season of Dark Angel a 3 1/2 star rating.  Better than average (3 stars) but not a great season.  But that is neither here nor there.  Dark Angel Season 1 is amazing but Season 2 became the series finale for two reasons.  First was a reason beyond their control.  Fox moved a successful mid-week show that attracted male viewers (teenage to 39) in high numbers to Fridays night; which is a death blow especially for a show that relies on younger veiwers.  The second reason this season failed is that the writing and plot lines got weaker.  SPOILERS BELOW: Season 2 starts with Max trapped back in Manticore as they begin to try to reprogram her to be their little super-soldier.  She doesn't plan to stay there long.  During her efforts to escape, she ends up in the basement where she meets Joshua, the first transgenetic experiement who has an animal face and human body (they say he is suppose to look like a dog but he looks more like a lion to me).  All the transgenetic mistakes (or ones that don't look human are locked in the basement).  Without giving up too much, Max escapes but she also releases all of the transgentics in Manticore out into the world.  In Season 1 had a few on-going story lines - Max wanted to find her brothers and sisters (the 11 other transgenetics that escaped with her the first time), avoiding Liedecker (who turned out to be a layered bad guy), and helping Eyes Only (Logan).  None of these themes carry through on Season 2.  Max now considers anyone who was made at Manticore her brother or sister so the original group is forgotten about.  Liedecker was ousted from the agency and the end of Season 1.  He continues to work to discover what is going on and why.  But as this story is developing he is run off the road.  A body is never found but Liedecker never reappears.  And Eyes Only seems to be working for Max rather than her doing missions for him.  I could live with these changes.  While I was still curious about her orginal brothers and sisters they weren't vital to the show.  Liedecker was replaced by Ames White.  He hired by the government to round up all transgenics.  We also learn that he is a member of a secret group that has been breeding for perfection for generations.  Through this breeding they can do everything the transgenics do (super-villians for our super-heroes).  They big problems with Season 2 is the writing and some plot lines.  The cool idea was that these transgenics walk among us.  Now over half the individual story lines focused on transgenics who looked nothing like us.  While it only made sense that some existed, they were only in the basement at Manticore while the remaining 3 levels were packed with human looking transgenics.  So why is every story based on such a few number?  The stories also sometimes were absurd and the writers kept trying to infuse some humor that just came off as silly.  The writers also fell into the Star Trek trap - they kept introducing new people gave them a larger role than normally expected to kill them off (in Star Trek going down a planet would be Kirk, Spock, Bones, and ensign"fill in the blank"; who did you think would die).  Finally, at what turned out to be the Series finale, the transgenics are claiming a place of their own, but almost every transgenic in the place is again a mutant looking thing.  Overall the show was good and I would loved to see where the 3rd season story line took us...but it wasn't great like season 1.

An improvement over their first. The first Paranormal Activity was entertaining but not that scary or intense. The sequel isn't that scary or intense but far more interesting and it's a big step up from the average Paranormal Activity 1. It's more believable and has less flaws in it. I found it more entertaining to watch several security videos at night than watch Kate stand in her room right at night by her bed for hours in fast-forward.  Includes the same actors Katie and Micah but this time they have a teenage son, teenage daughter, baby son and a dog. Paranormal Activity occurs in their houses so their son Daniel installs security cameras and it only gets worse every night and day. I found the sequel quite enjoyable and way better than their 1st, if you hated the first than you probably won't like it but if you thought the first was somewhat good or even OK than you'll probably like this better.

Great movie This is an excellent movie for children and also the not so young...good family entertainment... our grandchildren (2---9yrs)Just love the movie and sing the songs when in the car etc... only downside!!! they now ask for the spoon full of sugar  if they have to take some medicine...lol lol...all in all a great movie that has not dated...no crash,bash or violence... just wonderful family fun movie....young ones just love it...

Good stuff South of Nowhere is a great show and I know that the story line helps alot of teens going through the same things. I was so happy with my purchase. The item arrived 2 days before the estimated arrival time. Very happy

A Great Popcorn Movie Movie buffs looking for a deep, artsy movie best look elsewhere but those of us longing for a funny popcorn muncher will do well to indulge ourselves with this little guilty treat.  This film made me laugh from beginning to end, while still mustering up enough pathos to make me sympathize with the characters. Jonah Hill does the best job in this film, playing the sometimes literally starstruck and exasperated music executive Aaron Green, while Russel Brand does an admirable job as the talented but troubled and ultimately tender-hearted Aldous Snow.  The bodily secretions were excessive in this film, so I won't recommend it for people with sensitive stomachs. Seriously, I really don't want to see Jonah Hill's rear end! Also, although I liked Russel as Aldous, I don't believe that he (Russel) had to act to much. He basically played himself.  Overall though, this film is as entertaining as they come, so sit back, relax and enjoy. Happy viewing!

Legend What I truly liked about the movie was how industrious the hero was.  He was doing fine on his own, until he let other people in. As the zombies became more aggressive and wiser, the real battle started. There was quite a bit of imagination and humor on Will Smith's part. This is one of those movies I could watch over and over.  Don't try to analyse too much, just kick back and be glad you are on this side of the screen.

Rena F.Review Brother bear was a movie based in North America about a Native American tribe of people and events that occur between three brothers.  A younger brother in the tribe is eager to prove himself as a mature and worthy man.  The brother is brought into manhood by a ceremony and he is given an animal medallion to represent his purpose but given a bear was not what he was looking for.  His brother explains that he must believe in what the spirits have chosen for his path no matter how much he disagrees.  The movie then takes a turn when the little brother veers off to prove his bravery which results in the death of his brother by a wild bear.  Hurt by the death of his brother he seeks revenge and hunts down the bear to attempt to bring peace to his heart.  He succeeds in killing the bear, but after killing the bear a colorful light surrounds him and turns him into a bear himself and the only human that can understand who he is, is an old wise woman that gave him the medallion of the bear.  The wise woman sends him on a journey to the mountain to find his brother and be transformed back into a human.  He is accompanied by a cub looking for a river of salmon and two brother moose's.  This new found journey of his life the once human now bear, is now being hunted by his other brother.  He finds himself living with bears and realizing that he killed the baby cubs' mother who was the bear that killed his brother.  He then reaches the mountain and speaks with his dead brother and realizes that he is better off as a bear to stay with the baby cub to show his manhood. Religion for this movie was a lot about belief and spirits.  A part of their religion was that the old woman went to the mountains after a long journey; she would have a guy chosen to receive a medallion that would represent the future of what he meant to the tribe.  The tribe seemed to believe in spirits that appear in aurora "a natural light display in the sky caused by high altitude atmosphere".  They believe in punishment even through nature, by the man turning into a bear it seems that they believe in reincarnation in some fact because when he killed the bear it angered their spirits that turned him into the very thing he killed for revenge.  Another part of the religion was that when someone passes they become of the spirits that watch over them so their never really gone from the tribe.

Return to Oz(1985) Return to Oz(1985) is an underrated family movie. When it came out in 1985, the film was criticized for being "too dark, scary, and downbeat"! I first saw it on syndicated television in 1988. Time has been kind to Return to Oz. Director Walter Murch and company did put some effort into the movie. Back in Kansas in 1900, Dorothy Gale(a young Fairuza Balk) is suffering from depression. Aunt Em puts her in a clinic to get electro-shock therapy! A blonde girl helps Dorothy escape and she's transported back to the Land of Oz. The Emerald City has fallen into ruin and the Tin Man and Cowardly Lion have turned to stone! Oz has been conquered by the Nome King and Princess Mombi. With new friends Tik-Tok, Jack Pumpkinhead, and the Gump, Dorothy must save the Land of Oz.  Piper Laurie and Nicol Williamson are quite good in Return to Oz. David Shire's music score is superb, too. Watching Return to Oz on DVD was a nostalgic treat. It reminded me of watching it on TV on that warm, spring afternoon of 1988 with my brothers and sisters. Someone once said that home video is an afterlife for cinema. Return to Oz deserves to be watched again in that "afterlife".

Great video for packer party... Not Superbowl ! At first I thought the video I ordered was the Superbowl as stated in the title.... It's not.  However, the highlight video and all the behind the scenes are great and I hav no regrets buying it.  Will be a great video to play in the background at packers parties next year.

sound of music I gave this a 4 star rating because the corners of the music box were broken.  Since I didn't buy this for the music box, it doesn't matter.  It's nothing that super glue won't fix.  I bought this for the blu-ray dvd, which is fantastic.  The books that came with the set aren't bad either.

Jolly Good Fun! Color me baffled by all the negative reviews.  I freely admit to being unfamiliar with Sir Doyle's stories, yet I also freely admit the stuffy, stoic, rather wooden portrayal of Holmes in the Rathbone films never floated my boat.  So this version of SHERLOCK HOLMES delighted me, as here Robert Downey Jr. gives the character an edge; here the super sleuth is disheveled, marvelously eccentric, slightly neurotic, totally violent, and, when the case isn't coming along, or just for the heck of it, Downey's Holmes will get high.  And Jude Law is not your grandfather's Dr. Watson; he's curmudgeonly with a suggestion of rogue grit, and he takes particular delight in his friend Holmes's persistent misfortunes.  (As long as he's not sucked in as well.)  The interaction between the two suggests more of a rugby locker room than a London flat with two gentlemen.  And it's fun to watch.  The plot is just silly, Rachel McAdams is misused as bad girl/love interest Irene Adler, and my acute acrophobia made watching the climactic fight scene on the under-construction London Bridge extremely unsettling, but I suffered such inconveniences gladly.  The images of late 19th Century London, the madcap mayhem of Downey and Law (especially when they're pitted against a hulking Robert Maillet in an hysterical fight scene), and Mark Strong as the brooding, evil, sinister villain Lord Blackwood all combined to enhance my enjoyment of this version of SHERLOCK HOLMES.  Will I be watching the soon-to-be-released sequel?  Elementary, my good Watson, elementary. --D. Mikels, Author, The Reckoning

Excellent film What a fabulous production. The scenery, the palace, the story, and of course the captivating Debra Paget all contribute to an excellent movie that anyone who loves cinema should not miss. I am only somewhat discontented with the leading actor. If only Gary Cooper had been put in, then this film would be 100% perfect, and should earn 5 stars. SS

doesn't work properly for all Sony HDTV/Blueray setups I was very happy to find this product and received it last week. I have a Sony 46" LED TV and a Sony Blu-ray player connected via HDMI (v.1.4) with active-sync or whatever it's called)  I started with the easy setup and discovered my current contrast and brightness settings were spot-on. Then I moved on to the aspect ratio setup and it was there I discovered that it isn't possible to adjust the aspect ratio with the current setup- it is fixed with that setup (about 1/4" over-scale) and can't be modified. This isn't the fault of the WOW disc but annoying that i couldn't use the disc to fix it.

Strike Back:  The Complete First Season I was able to see a few episodes on a Cinemax Cable freebie recently and had to order the set to get up to speed.  Now I have to wait for Season Two to come out.  It is an excellent, entertaining series and I highly recomend it.

a very dark, but very good movie Being a southerner I've seen this kind of corruption up close and personal.  This movie is very dark, but it is also very, very good.  The cast is stellar and the story has more twists than a labyrinth.  Anyone who likes a complicated, suspense thriller will enjoy this film.

Maybe it's just a phase... I don't even remember when the Twilight series became important to me (or vampires for that matter). I was delighted when I found out there was a two-disc version available for Eclipse and that feeling grew after I purchased it and watched it. I wish all of the Twilight series had behind the scenes footage available. The two disc version of Eclipse was worth every penny.

Better than I thought it would be This movie was way better than I expected it would be. It had an surprising twist at the end end though I personally didn't like the sci-fi ending. Nevertheless, it's worth watching as it will keep your attention from the beginning to the end. Good movie!

Enjoyable An enjoyable film from a musical standpoint but the plot well......not knowing which of 3 men is the father of your child is ridiculous. I felt the acting and the pace was overzealous for a movie. I can see that for the stage but movies need a bit more realism, or at least that is my opinion. I thought Amanda Seigfield did very well. I would have liked to have given this film 3 1/2 stars.

cute the characters in this movie were romantic, irrational, but pleasant. while not exciting - this movie had fun moments and a happy ending. this movie is enjoyable to watch on a rainy afternoon.

DVD: The VillIan The DVD arrived in a timely fashion and was in perfect condition. No complaints would be justified in the way the sale or delivery was handled.  The movie was a very camp takeoff on a Wiley Coyote cartoon, and was exactly what I recalled. That's why I ordered the movie -- it's fun!!

Just a fun action movie... If you ever enjoyed GI Joe, this is a really fun action movie that brings the toys to life in a well orchestrated way.

Tin Can, the movie Tin Can is a thoughtful movie which discusses several of the difficulties which are likely to be experienced by a crew on a two-year mission to Mars. It does not discuss any reasons for, or against, making a trip to Mars. The real question is: Why make a trip to Mars? Suppose one found large amounts of gold, or oil (unlikely, because there is no evidence of previous plant life). How costly would it be to ship anything back to Earth. Mars has almost no oxygen or water and is cold inspite of having an atmosphere high in CO2. Check out the data at: [...]

Are we there yet A new colony for humans in space runs awry. The people are turning into highly evolved animals. Super strengthened creatures meet and eat newly awakening flight crews in space. The puzzle is who is who. The commander isn't who he says he is, nor is the man he rescues. Good, could have been better.

Enjoyed This is a great movie. I enjoyed the fact that i did not know who she would end up with until the end.

Comparing "Alice in Wonderland" new to the old release I was first drawn to purchase the original cartoon version of Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland, after watching  Lewis Carroll's 1865 fantasy novel, "Alice in Wonderland, which featured the stars:  Mia Wasikowska, and Johnny Depp version in 2010.  It was an amazing piece of cinematography, directed by Tim Burton in both digitized computer animation through both IMAX 3D and Disney Digital 3-D, as well as in traditional theaters. What amazed me while watching the whole re-introduction of this new Alice in Wonderland,  Mia Wasikowska plays the now nineteen-year-old Alice, who 13 years later returns for the first time as a young woman; I could not help but draw parallels to the original Disney presentation, way back in 1951. In the original Disney film version of 1951, Alice becomes bored and her mind starts to wander. She sees a white rabbit who appears to be in a hurry. She chases it into its burrow and then a most bizarre series of adventures begins.  Kathryn Beaumont plays Alice, and Ed Wynn plays the Mad Hatter.  During the recording sessions, Ed Wynn ad libbed the speech where the Mad Hatter tries to "fix" the White Rabbit's watch. ("Muthtard? Leth not be thilly!") These comical scenes in the first movie made it quite memorable. The comical bits and animation, made an indelible impression on my mind as a child. Such as a fairy tale book come to life - you couldn't help but laugh at the bids, throughout the film. Also, as a child growing up in the fifties, (yes, I am  baby boomer! ) Walt Disney, was one of the few forms of entertainment, where you could be entertained by real life animation, in full color ( the majority of TV was black and white in those days, before color TV became widely available.) meaning, it was as close to true-to-life cartoon action, you could ever deliver for the technology available in those days. Part of the special features on disc2 are numerous short featurettes which Walt Disney himself narrated about the production and the storyboards that were carefully crafted and drawn throughout the film.  He shows how Disney studios went through the pain staking process of crafting the movie, in consideration of Lewis Carroll's original artwork in the book, and how Disney put his own personal techniques making the story more colorful and imaginative.  Also, he explained how Alice in Wonderland was one of  the first Disney films that included more musical productions than his earlier works, Snow White and Cinderella, with far most orchestra musical pieces and songs including a theme song, sung by Kathryn Beaumont herself.  It is easy to see how Walt Disney became such a mainstay of the American entertainment industry, it has certainly remained in my imagination all these years into adulthood. This video is definitely a classic and worth the purchase for the children in your life to enjoy. Thanks, Bilal Hassan

Blu-Ray: Best Image Available. Commentary: AWFUL! The Blu-Ray is the edition to snag for this fine psychological thriller. There are so many poor public-domain transfers of The Red House out there that it is a relief to finally see the film in a decent presentation. The downside to this purchase is the commentary by William Hare. He may be a fine author (he is listed as having written several film books), but this is undoubtedly the worst film commentary I've ever heard. Hare's commentary is "scene-specific," but he merely restates what is happening on the screen. When I choose to listen to a commentary, I expect to learn something beyond what I've already observed, not to be provided a verbal summary of what is happening on the screen. I found the commentary insulting to the viewer's intelligence and suspect that Mr. Hare simply "didn't do his homework." This is a real shame because there's a lot of meat in this film to dig into. The Miklos Rozsa score alone is a marvel, to say nothing of Edward G's outstanding performance. A real missed opportunity in the commentary department, but certainly worth the purchase for the much-improved image.

Smart, Sassy, and a "measure of courage" make this Barbie a heroin I don't understand the negative reviews of this film. I was raised a feminist and found that the protagonist was intelligent, brave and clever.  She doesn't need the prince to rescue her, she and her sister are clever enough to solve the problem and save the day.  I personally love the message and am thrilled that my little girl loves this movie. The person who complained that Annika was a brat because she disobeyed her parents and told them "you are ruining my life," is really naive to believe that most, if not all, teenagers have not, at some point, rebelled against their parents. Besides her parents were too over-protective, and if she hadn't disobeyed them, the villain would have won and Annika would have spent her miserable existence locked in her room for the entirety of her life.  My one wish, and I know this is not likely to happen, is that they would make Barbie's body more realistic.  I know there has always been controversy over this issue, and I wish Barbie manufacturers would take that complaint seriously

Drama in Real Life I had no idea how Danny Boyle would manage to make the tale of a man trapped beneath a boulder for the better part of a week into an interesting feature-length, but the director did a nice job of shaking things up with flashbacks, hallucinations, dreams and inventive uses for the videotaped confessionals. Really, though, the whole movie boils down to the effectiveness of the eventual amputation, which was jarringly powerful and surprisingly effective. I may not have been able to identify with the dehydration, desperation and delusions of Aron Ralston's six-day struggle beforehand, but everything from the visuals to the sound effects of that climactic scene had me right there with him, feeling that sick, unsettling sensation in the pit of the stomach. That twenty minutes was gruesomely riveting. The rest of the film... tense, if not spectacular.

Great story, but the acting really Hurt... I loved the book but missed the movie when it came out. I put off buying the DVD because I couldn't see the lead actors as Russian. Finally I bought it and enjoyed the movie, except that William Hurt's attempt at sounding Russian was pretty bad. He sounded more British than anything else. A coach could have been used; or better yet, a Russian actor. Or no accent at all. If the movie was made today I bet they would have fixed that, but at the time Hurt was really hot and you have to sell tickets.  Anyway, enough of this; if you can suspend your disbelief about Hurt's accent, the movie is interesting and engaging, and it was a great story. I did think the detective solved the case rather suddenly; it might have been better to reveal the plot more gradually. But movies have to simplify things to be watchable.

Very Pleased I am very pleased with almost everything about this purchase. "Million Dollar Baby" is one of my favorite movies, and I was very pleased at how fast it shipped, and it was delivered in three days. The only downside is that the back of the movie case had a few punctures in it (however, this did not affect the performance of the movie).

Action thriller This movie is terrific. Great plot and well-acted at times. Entertaining from start to finish. Genesis Rodriguez is a real beauty. Would highly recommend this movie.

Star-Studded Western Yul Brynner plays a gunman named Chris Adams who is persuaded to help a poor Mexican village which has been terrorized by the outlaw named Calvera (Eli Wallach), robbed of their harvest and basically humiliated. So he gathers up a total of six other gunman (hence the title): Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Brad Dexter, Robert Vaughn, and young Horst Buckholz. They each have their quirks and are each individuals. We get to know what motivates them, and we get to admire their courage as well as their skill with a gun.  McQueen helped Yul Brynner to drive a hearse in the American town where they met when the bigoted townsfolk refused to let the undertaker bury an Indian on Boot Hill. McQueen rides shotgun, commenting that it's the first time he's ever ridden shotgun on a hearse. So Brynner of course includes him in the seven. He does a very low-key, confident style that does not take center stage. Center is Yul's as far as I'm concerned, and he's also obviously the leader of the seven.  They found Bronson chopping wood for his dinner, and even though they had only been promised $20 each, he goes along. Coburn is at least as good with a knife as he is with a gun, as he demonstrates to some braggarts who hassle him while he's just minding his own business, apparently trying to nap.  Brad Dexter wants in because he's convinced there is some treasure that is the real goal, even though Brynner tells him there is not. Robert Vaughn is running from the law, so going to Mexico suits his purposes. Buckholz is a young hot-head who simply refuses to be left behind. When Brynner humiliates him twice (he's had enough to drink that there's no telling what he might do if he was sober), he follows the six men as they head south, and eventually becomes the seventh when they arrive at the village and he berates the farmers as cowards, insists they will learn how to shoot and defend their own village.  The problem is, Calvera has about 40 men, possibly more, and while the seven do indeed teach the village men how to shoot, they don't have all that many guns, and the novice shooters cannot be expected to do all that much. They are out-numbered considerably.  I won't spoil it by telling you how they manage to defeat Calvera, but was there any doubt they would win? Nor will I tell you how many are still alive when the dust settles. Of course you know Yul Brynner survived.  It's not your typical western by any means.

Mind bending sci-fi. Caprica combines a fascinating prequel to the Battlestar Galactica saga, with high tech razzle dazzle. The plot that unfolds weaves compelling drama, sci fi action and suspense with unspoken social commentary on modern day issues. There are liberal interpretations of institutional customs like group and gay marriage which merely demonstrates that in a the virtual world, anything is imaginable and eventually commonplace. The interplay between the virtual world of the holoband with the "real" world provides ample room for the mind to roam, even after the episodes are done.  It's a real shame the series was discontinued.

A sad and fascinating story Imagine losing your senses one by one, how terrifying it would be, and the repercussions of not having the sense of smell, taste, hearing, and sight.  That is the epidemic depicted in this existential horror/dystopian film, where many, if not all, people in the world are afflicted.  We focus on the relationship between an epidemiologist and a chef who are both infected and go through the rigors of the illness with each other.  There is no explanation of what causes the problem, which adds to the tension.

Fascinating..as much for the man as the problems he describes. First off let me state that I agree with most everything Mr. Ruppert says in the movie.  With that said I find the movie as fascinating for it's portrait of him as for the statements he makes.  While he makes no definite predictions other than an overall decline he seems to believe it so strongly that he has a hard time maintaining his composure(he cries a couple times).  If he hadn't had such strong credentials you might think he was a man having a mental breakdown (and indeed I think he might be given the information at the end of the movie).  While the content of the movie itself is infinitely debatable (Peak Oil, Fiat currency, governmental corruption and motives, etc) I have to admit I watched the movie as much for the portrait of Mr. Ruppert as anything.  In the end anyone can predict the end of civilization, it's getting the timing right that matters.

Great visual presentation! This is a very unique way to tell a story.  I was intrigued with the beginning and how things started to build.  But the way the story is told was great! You'll have to suspend your beliefs a little bit, but it's well worth it with the payoff.  The old story of good vs bad was presented in a very new and refreshing way.  I loved the parallel story lines - one in the real world, one in the alternate reality.  The only part of the whole movie that I had trouble with, was the very very end - a little bit too make believe - almost as if Hollywood had it's say in the end. But it still portrayed the conflict in all of us very well.

Tangled This is a great movie.  The kids and I enjoyed watching it together.  Great addition to our collection.  Can't wait to see the new Tangled Ever After that comes to the theaters soon.

Very Interesting Movie I got this movie for my girlfriend who is a big fan of Gerard Butler. She had seen it before, but I had not. I was pleasantly surprised by this movie, and found it to be a very nice story.

Interesting flick A suspenseful taut drama with good acting by all the principals. Certainly well worth the 99 cents I paid to rent it.

Mum Purchased through Amazon which I always feel is reliable and I can be assured of their product.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006Q93H4">Bertie and Elizabeth: The Reluctant Royals - The Story of King George VI & Queen Elizabeth</a>I purchased this on the heels of "The Kings Speech" wanting to know more about him and his wife (Mum) during my lifetime.  It was important to me as in recent years I've taken an interest in the Royals, their history, stories, and how it came into todays society.  I've been quite taken with Queen Victoria and her life with/without Prince Albert.  I think it's wonderful to have this history at our fingertips and bringing into our homes.

Great Fun J.J. Abrams movie is mysterious through much of the movie and has you guessing.  The movies destruction scenes are imminence and impressive. On top of this the movie is touching at times and makes you feel for the young characters.  And finally there are some parts of the movie that will just make you laugh.  A great watch and just plain fun.

A Good Movie To Rent Every So Often I'll admit, I've yet to find a Mandy Moore movie that I had to turn off because it was that bad. With "How To Deal" while yes there is quite a bit going on drama-wise, but there's also a lot of smart arse remarks that get made too. Granted I remember the first time I saw this movie back when it first came out - I HATED IT WITH A FIERY VENGEANCE! Couldn't stand it. Maybe I was just too young to fully understand it? I don't know.. However these days, while truly doubt I'd ever actually spend the money to buy the film, renting it every now and then - that I would certainly recommend. Especially to fans of Mandy Moore movies or even just to someone who needs something different (something you wouldn't normally find in their DVD collection) to watch.. ;)

the lucky one I liked this movie, some parts seemed like they drug on for a few extra minutes but for the most part it was good.

Be careful when ordering this DVD... I'm not gonna argue about the quality of this movie, if your a John Carpenter fanatic like myself you see a lot of good in it even if it doesn't stand up to his earlier work.  One thing about John Carpenter is how distinct all his films are.  The look, the music, even the acting are all uniquely stylized.  So when you order this DVD make sure to get the Superbit version which is the original 2:35:1 widescreen format, the other version is a crappy 1:33:1 fullscreen version.  You can't watch a John Carpenter movie in fullscreen, it just ain't right.  ORDER WITH CAUTION!

Clever example of comedic potential Like a shopping list of all that is bad about Hollywood comedies, this movie seemed to have it all. Start with Seth Rogen and Jason Bateman - arguably the two most pervasive actors working today, add in some CGI and plenty of dope smoking and beer drinking, and toss in the well-worn buddy/road trip scenario. All that was missing was Judd Apatow's stamp of approval. The comparisons stop there, however, because that's the one conspicuously absent element in Paul.  Paul completely took me by surprise as one of 2011's best as well as a downright keeper of a movie. Clever, quick paced, chock full of pop culture/sci-fi references, and funny, with a dash of sentiment and some of the most brilliant swearing in any movie ever, Paul is a perfect example of what Hollywood can do when it truly puts its collective head into something.  Bateman goes a bit against type but Rogen is his same slacker self, as if the role was written specifically for him. This is the only negative about the movie, not because Rogen does a bad job, but because he is so over-exposed and the character of Paul is the least fulfilled of them all. Brit's Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (the movie is their idea and they demonstrate why cheeky is much more appealing than crude) do the heaviest lifting, but they are supported by a worthwhile cast. Notable is the cute and naïve portrayal of a former Jesus Freak-turned swearing novice by Kristen Wiig (good enough to forgive the gender equality stupidity and puerility of Bridesmaids) and a warm and edgy Blythe Danner as the pivotal character who first makes extraterrestrial contact decades before. There's also a lovely surprise in the form of an obvious cameo.  Paul not only makes you laugh, but it also brazenly skewers Christians fundamentalists (granted, that's like shooting fish in a barrel) and the whole geek culture of sci-fi with spot-on accuracy and nose-thumbing glee. Not bad at all for a movie that looked groaningly dumb during previews last year.  Paul is good enough that it gives me strength to keep trying comedies in the hopes that I might once again come across a true needle in the haystack just like it. Definitely recommended.

A GHOST STORY YES, SCARY NO A good story line, kind of slow though.  For me the way a movie ends is everything, and I was actually pleased it ended like it should...no cliffhanger ending, no over thought twist.

As Good As Ever Sweatin' to the Oldies is just as good as it was years ago.  Love the music and the moves are still easy for someone that is a little or a lot overweight.  You cannot go wrong for the price.  The Inspirational Video by Richard is a plus for this collection.

The Creepiness Continues The Good -- This movie builds the suspense nicely. Whereas the first movie was practically non-stop chills, this one doles out the creepiness in little doses, increasing the fright until the inevitable end.  The male lead here doesn't act like such an jerk like the male lead in the first movie. I appreciated that greatly.  The Bad -- While not essential, watching the prequel beforehand will really enhance the complete viewing experience. Events in the prequel are referenced and will make more sense after watching this one. On its own, Paranormal Activity 2 is good, but not great.  Another stain on this decent film is that the family installs security cameras throughout their house, but only check the footage occasionally, therefore not validating their individual supernatural experiences. That's just dumb.  The Ugly -- Comparisons between this and the first movie are bound to exist. While watching this one, I kept expecting scary things to happen because, after all, they did in the first one. Watching the first one  to compliment each other is a double-edged sword because neither now stand on their own. However, that's not enough to downgrade this movie to a lower rating.

Short Ciruit This older film still has relevance in today's world.  It is a romantic comedy that is as enjoyable today as it was when it first came out.

DVD. EMPEROR OF THE NORTH. I have looked for this DVD for a long time, it's a mans film alright with plenty of action, EARNEST BORGNINE and LEE MARVIN at their their very best and good support from KEITH CARRADINE,  "an olde but a good'd" , thanks Amazon.

127 Hours Great movie!  Kind of hard to watch some of the more "graphic" scenes, (not for the faint of heart) but it was very well done.  James Franco was the perfect guy to pull it off.  Hard to believe it really happened to someone.

Not Blue When Watching This Film It's funny at times, but for me the best this movie has to offer is seeing some of the biggest names in "Blues" music perform...such as "John Lee Hooker" gotta "Respect" Franklin...

good historical tale This DVD was long, but a well written saga of conflicts seen from both sides.  The extra DVDs gave a wonderful explanation of the development of the movie.  This gave great insights as to the how and why of the movie.  I will enjoy viewing it again later.

good movie THIS IS AN EXCELLENT MOVIE. WILLEM DEFOE HAD A COMPLETE PERFORMANCE IN THE HUNTER.  Even the supporting cast did a superb job in my opinion.  Definitely look into this movie

NEAR GRINDHOUSE The movie starts out like it is going to be a pretty good grindhouse. Tough guy Dave Bautista, as Ray walks through The Rising Sun, a strip joint in Grand Rapids. It has illegal gambling and prostitution upstairs. Ray is an ex-cop who just got out of jail and works for a guy named "Vinnie." While watching the door, some gunmen rob the place and shoot Vinnie's son.  Vinnie wants Ray to use his police abilities to find the guys who killed his son, and bring them to him. As Ray investigates the murder, his suspects die, making it look like he is involved. In fact so many get shot and killed at one point I was laughing. As the police and Vinnie's boys hunt down Ray, Ray must try to solve the crime to a sound track of metal and hip-hop music. The grindhouse aspect of the movie wanes as it becomes an action/drama. Danny Trejo has a small role. In acting Baustista is above Steve Austin and Seagall, but he is no Vin Diesel.  F-bomb, sex, nudity.

A wonderful Life My son in law  told me that he has never seen this before (amazing). He loved it and watched with my daughter (his wife)

he who walks behind the rows... A definite cult classic if there ever was one. 'He who walks behind the rows' is mysterious, subtle, and catchy. I just have one question - how did the Children of the Corn expect to manage in the long run? It just kept sticking in my head.

Surprisingly Good!!! Desperate to watch something new , I ordered this movie , ignoring the fact that I thought the trailer was horrible and in it the apes looked quite CG and really fake. But to my surprise it was really good! The plot was plausible , and for the most part the apes looked authentic enough that I stopped looking for the the CG of it all. I enjoyed it very much!

One of Jack Black's Best Comedy? Tragedy? A liittle of both is probably the best answer. The story Is told and retold through actual citizens of Carthage Tx who "tell it like they know it".  Portrayed by East Texans, the movie captures the "love you so much I could kill you" attitude.  Very funny and a subtle gay rights  moral, Bernie is definitely worth seeing.

Great Action Flix Very good action movie with a very good plot.  The fights were very well staged and the little girl was cute. I always like my bad guys over the top and all of these were.  Jason Statham is the best action star in fights that we have in todays movies.  I would recommend this movie to every one.  Get your popcorn out.

Awesome Was late getting here. But great condition. Awesome TV Show. Loved watching the entire season. Ordered season 2 & 3 at the same time but 3 came first and 2 was late getting here, so that bugged me. Other wise my favorite show. Supernatural is highly recommended.

elvis blu-ray I got this for a Christmas present for my boyfriend who loves Elvis and wanted it to play on the PS3.  He watched it a million times.  At first navigating through the menu options was confusing, but maybe because it's our first blu-ray.  I liked it, but I prefer a younger Elvis, but that's just me

First scary movie This was the first scary movie I saw as a kid (the original obviously).  My parents had a closet in their room like the one in the movie.  I was terrified to enter the room for years!!  Simple, no special effects but terrifying!!

Liked it Better than the First We watched this as a family and felt it was better and more family oriented than the first movie that was darker and grosser in its mummy character.  The character of the son makes this more of a family pick.  He was cast well and was a good mini hero.  We loved seeing the famous Egyptian sites and will use this as a good excuse to look them up to learn more.  It was a little long for our Saturday evening movie but it was good enough that we didn't mind relaxing the bedtimes.  We didn't particularly like that there was so much skin showing but I guess this makes the movie appealing to wider audiences.  We plan to watch the Scorpion King movie soon.

Cute movie I rented this movie and it was a cute movie. Worth watching one time but I don't need to own it.

GRAB THIS TREASURE! Jerry Lewis' 1959 TV special of "The Jazz Singer" is a must-have for those who are either Lewis fans, early TV historians, or just curious about this remake of Al Jolson's 1927 superb film.  It is quite a surprise, far better than I'd imagined. As Lewis' son says on the featurette, the show was done as an homage to Jolson,, one of Lewis'idols. Jerry's acting is unusually good- subtle and moving. The DVD was remastered from a second generation color copy of an NBC color tape in Lewis' private archive--a rarity in 1959. Well worth the price!

waaaaah! half a scene missing i loved this movie. it was so funny and cute. but sadly there is a courtroom scene with alfalfa that has been cut in half. it's too bad, it was hilarious as it was. i was really looking forward to seeing that scene again. i miss it. if that's the way it is, i wonder what other scenes have been altered. but it's funny from start to finish. buy with confidence.

A worthwhile investment, warts and all! A brilliant production of what might be Stephen Sondheim's greatest work, with superb performances from Angela Landsbury and George Hearn as Mrs. Lovett and Sweeney Todd, make owning this particular DVD a worthwhile investment.  The criticism that some have made about the intrusiveness of the framing and cuts for television are valid but this is the problem with televising any stage production.  One either records the production from the house, respecting the fact that one is recording a piece of theatre in much the same way one might see it live; otherwise, probably for budgetary reasons, the play or musical is shot quickly by a television director, very much aware of the belief that the medium is best suited to close-ups or tighter shots that direct and limit the viewers attention to what he/she believes is important to tell the story.  This also reveals the artifice that is very much a part of theatre, as in this instance, with the roles of Anthony and Johanna, superbly portrayed by actors noticeably older than the characters are meant to be. Nevertheless, if one is a fan of the musical and wants to get a sense of what the original stage production looked and sounded like, this is the only record available.  I have found, given its drawbacks, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JL6V">Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Broadway  Snap Case)</a> hugely enjoyable and a very worthwhile purchase.

Well made and entertaining Super 8 is a homage to extra terrestrial films and is one of the better film to come during the summer in 2010. The characters are believable, you start to like the children and identify their passion for adventure and film making. They are the soul and the best thing. The adults are more or less props, except for Kyle Chandler and Ron Eidard who have substantial roles. There are some flaws, I did not feel a emotional connect with the alien. There are also a few minor characters whom I felt deserved some screen time such as the science teacher and the military guy. However this is a exceptional film in many respects. Abrams and his crew capture the ambiance of a small town and the essence of childhood curiosity. Four stars. 2/18/2012

Interesting Thrillers I thought that Boris would narrate this movie as a documentary, like Mondo Cane, but an Suspecting Appearance by the Man, happened.

Realistic and intense WWII film based on true events Sometimes a true story is just too incredible to believe than fiction. But here is a fascinating piece of WWII history told in HELL IS FOR HEROES. Of course, it's hard to know how exactly factual the film is but it is true that in 1944 a handful of US soldiers ended up in the front lines - almost breathing distance from a large squadron of German soldiers. Their impossible task was to hold their ground and prevent the Germans from advancing. HELL FOR HEROES is one of the several ensemble films that Steve McQueen did early in his careers. Although he is always the shining star in his films, several other actors stand out in this film. James Coburn also appeared with McQueen in THE GREAT ESCAPE. Fess Parker, Bobby Darin, Harry Guardino, Nick Adams and a surprisingly young Bob Newhart complete the cast. Darin is a standout as "the go to" soldier who can get anything a soldier might need but for a price. He has a soulful youthful vigor that brightens the screen. Nick Adams does a great job playing a homeless Polish man desperately wanting to joing the American soldiers. I don't know how authentic his Polish was but he sounded totally believable. It's a surprise to see Bob Newhart adding some humor to this intense battle story. We can clearly see the Bob Newhart we would later come to know and love on TV. Newhart is a likeable but bumbling clerk typist who makes a serious accidental detour to the battle lines on his way to deliver some badly needed typewriters to an office in a safe area.  McQueen is raw and gritty as "Reese" the mysterious and angry new soldier to the group. He has been through the hell of war and wants no part of anyone or anything, yet we know he will be an important part of this desperate battle. A young McQueen looks older because of beard stubble but Steve McQueen seems ageless in all of his movies.  The fun part of the story is how this small group of men tries to make the Germans believe they are actually a full platoon of men ready for battle.  HELL FOR HEROES was made less than 20 years after the actual events depicted and before the endless WWII movies that were to follow. I can imagine this was an intense and rivoting movie for its day and it still has that emotional charge of a incredible story.

Very Informative I am quite sure that many may have thought that this was going to be a comedy coming for Chris Rock, but it was a documentary and one with great information and a good and positive message for people of color! :)

Near Perfect Comedy I don't think anyone can say there was ONE unfunny sequence in the entire first 40 minutes or so of Office Space. The only real problem I have though with this cult classic is Jennifer Aniston, the film is about office drones being miserable and eventually planning revenge, what did some hackneyed love story have to do with it? Did anyone feel ANYthing for that relationship? It wasn't really funny when they talked together, it didn't really end on a romantically satisfying note, the whole point of that sub-plot seemed to be to market Office Space to the vast number of Friends fans at the time.  Oh well, Office Space is still one of the best comedies made, just a minor complaint.

mystery We all knew who did it but it was a question of how they were to catch him. I liked this movie because it has two of my favorite actors in it.

An Amazingly Awkward Movie!!! I just watched this for the 1st time, and it was surprisingly good. I actually enjoyed it. I know it's supposed to be a thriller/drama, because it had some brutal scenes, but I couldn't help but laugh at a few scenes because of their accents and overuse of the line 'oh yeah' There were some pretty random scenes, but that's what makes it a good movie. I loved Frances McDormand's performance as Marge Olmstead. She was my favorite character. Peter Stormare as Gaear Grimsrud was very creepy. Jerry travels to Fargo, North Dakota and hires two criminals to kidnap his wife, due to financial problems. When things go wrong, people turn up dead, and pregnant Chief Marge Olmstead is on the case. I would definitely recommend FARGO!!!

Good Eastwood film Good action adventure flick but sometimes you get the feeling that it doesn't quite know what it wants to be. The espionage strikes me as something more co-incidental than anything else and Mr. Dragon gives you the impression of a spoof like Murder by Death. Once Hemlock agrees to his assignment, the Eiger sanction, the film picks up and the pieces begin falling into place. The entire cast does a good job on this one and while he just plays another type of tough guy he also directed the film. So he must have enjoyed himself. Lots of DVDs stamped and for sale at the cheap price for a good film.

Unusual, to say the least. A interesting premise. What would the Country, the World, look like if the South had not only won the Civil War, but done so in such a manner that the entire country had become the Confederate States of America?  Lincoln caught in black face with Harriet Tubman trying to reach Canada, slavery expanded across the continent, this film gives a viewer a lot to think about.  Using not just actors, but archival footage (such as from World War Two) as well as reenactments (Gettysburg) the film brings the story up to the present day. In many ways a very disquieting, some times uncomfortable, film to watch.  Could our country really have turned out that way? Would people have really gone along with the direction the film depicts? I would hope not.  That being said, CSA is worth the watching. Just do not expect anything like "Political Correctness".  '.  '

Great movie but... I love the movie and everything about it, the only problem is that the digital copy is not included but it is a great product

Fco. L. saprissa Very interesting and entertaining, I think for young people is a good distraction, have a clear picture on BD but I think that the presentation is a bit short for what you pay for.

Beautifully Chilling Drama This movie came on my TV screen late one night, as I was just about to switch off and head to bed. But such was the instant atmosphere of dread and immediate intrigue conjured up by director Guillermo del Toro, that I was transfixed, clutching a cushion ever tighter and at times too engrossed to breath. This for me is the best way to watch any movie - suddenly without warning, without any pre-concieved ideas. I didn't learn the title of the movie until hours after I my spine had been expertly tingled by this chilling cinematic invader in my living room. It is simply a ghost story - a haunting, foreboding tale of innocence coupled with curiosity that can lead to only one outcome.  The story unfolds in an orphanage during the spanish civil war. The central character is Carlos, a young boy who has been placed at the orphanage, for reasons unknown, by his parents. Soon after arrival Carlos begins to have visions of a ghostly apparition, and learns of another boy called Santi who disappeared a short time before Carlos arrived. Carlos has the distinct privilege of having to sleep in the missing boys dormitory bed - no surprise then that the ghostly presence begins to coerce Carlos into investigating, at great peril to himself, exactly what happened to the unfortunate youngster. The movie sweeps along at exactly the right pace, against a backdrop of political upheaval surrounding the school, including in the unusual mix, an investigation of an unexploded bomb right in the center of the school courtyard, an ever menacing presence that seems somehow related to the mystery and intrigue of the ghostly orphan. There are many incredible dramatic back stories here too - enough to keep the keenest cinema lover interested. This is a really great psychological thriller that never loses pace. Best watched late at night .. in a quiet house, with no distractions and big comfy cushions !

A Brilliant Slice of History Tchaikovsky: Ballet Masterpieces, starring Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes, along with the Sadler's Wells Ballet, show us Fonteyn's first amazing partnership in ballet, as well as the foundations of the future Royal Ballet. These excerpts are legendary historical artifacts, and it is so great that those interested in the history of ballet can now access these rare artifacts. Sleeping Beauty particularly appealed to me, especially with Fonteyn's elegance and grace, that was assessable without her having to lift her leg to 300º. Of course, her technical proficiency wasn't as excellent as when it was with Nureyev, but it is still quite a sight to see. I recommend this to all fans of ballet, especially as a historical artifact.

Fresh Indy Take on Familiar Topic I think that realistically, this film is a lot deeper than first meets the eye and maybe you have to take a step back and think about it for a bit to truly appreciate all that is has to offer. I didn't find any of the characters to be shallow - instead I saw a world through the main character of Ethan. Ethan's actions, which are often quirky and awkward, simply show the need to feel accepted but not knowing quite how to approach it. This film is his journey to self-discovery. Over the course of the film, he realizes that others don't have to dictate his boundaries or happiness. As Asher puts it, "Just do whatever you want." Madison, the love interest, who is cold and aloof, has her own set of issues. She's just trying to fit in as well - and chooses to do so by capitalizing on her good looks. And Cleo sees past Ethan's quirkiness from the beginning and patiently waits as his true "him" emerges. Thinking back on my high school experience, I can actually pinpoint each one of these characters (myself among them). It actually makes me think about my life and wonder if I have truly become the real me or am I still trying to put on a show for everyone else. Overall, I think the message is very strong, but it does take some thought to extract it.

Needs to be seen with good surround sound system I don't know why I never noticed it, but Liv Tyler is so beautiful in this movie. She is hot.. anyways this is a good HD movie experience. And it scares the hell out of females... so if you are a guy, with a good speaker system, watch this with a girl and she will be all over you! Good movie. I can understand why people don't like it though. I saw this in theaters. And when I just watched it on blu ray by myself I was kinda just waiting for it to be over. But there's no doubt that it is scary when watching alone. And I don't get scared from movies. I live in a dorm room so its not that scary cause that's not gonna happen here. I can't even imagine being a girl, home alone and watching this movie in an actual house. Im willing to bet that it is something that has never been done before!

Great Epic Now In Stripped-Down Blu! For those like me who like this film but not to the extent of getting the full-blown collectors' version we get here a truly stripped-down but mostly satisfying version of one of the great epic films.  No expense was spared in what would probably cost a fraction to produce what with CGI today but clearly was a tremendous undertaking in 1959.  There are many memorable scenes here such as the battle at sea and the chariot race but also the less exciting tender scenes among Ben-Hur and his family showcase just how good the quality of the cast is.  For a 53-year old film the 1080p transfer represents the best picture transfer of the film to date; while certainly not reference quality it is still a worthy effort for the most part.  The sound quality though is more impressive with an excellent job done in this DTS-HD MA transfer which ranks among the best I've ever heard and comes closer to reference quality for Blu-ray.  As this is a stripped-down version the special features aren't that special with just trailers, a music-only track and a commentary the only items on offer here.  Still for me personally I am satisfied with the film in a lower-cost version without the frills.  Good picture quality, great sound quality and a great epic movie makes this an easy review.  Recommended!

Twenty Wins, No Losses This is one of those cases where I can try to describe the Undertaker but words wouldn't do the character for over the last two decades justice but one of the most important factors in his legacy is his undefeated streak at WrestleMania.  That has become so important in WWE that it's just as important (& in some cases, more important) than any other factor going into the show weather it's the celebrities or the championship matches.  After reaching the mark of 20 victories with no defeats, WWE released this anthology of the the complete matches from this streak along with a special 37 minute "highlight reel" documentary on his Mania streak complete with comments from his past opponents (Big Show, Jimmy Snuka, Kevin "Diesel" Nash, Triple H, Ric Flair, Randy Orton, Mark Henry, Batista, Edge, Shawn Michaels) & other talent who was around during various points of the streak (John Cena, J.J. Dillion, Ted Dibiase, Paul Bearer)  Matches Include: I vs. Jimmy Snuka - This match was pretty short with Taker showcasing his dominance with his trademark moves like the flying clothesline & tombstone. Outside of the fact that this was Taker's Mania debut & the beginning of the streak, nothing special past his dominate victory over a legend. WrestleMania VII [Undertaker 15-0]  II vs. Jake Roberts - The former allies & now enemies met here with a different twist for Undertaker as he was now a fan favorite during going into this match. Taker was his usual dominate self here as he completely no sold Robert's offense & took the fight to the floor throwing Jake into the ringpost before going back into the ring throwing him into the turnbuckles. Roberts was able to somehow hit Taker with his DDT twice but make the mistake of turning his focus to Paul Bearer which not only ended up cost Roberts the match but his WWE career at that point. WrestleMania VIII [Undertaker 15-0]  III vs. Giant Gonzales - This was one of the rare times that Taker had to look up to someone & Gonzales used that to his advantage to dish out punishment in the ring & out on the floor using the steel steps only for Taker only for him to keep getting back up. Taker was eventually able to get some momentum & take Gonzales down to one knee before he resorted to some desperate tactics to make sure in his mind Taker wouldn't get back up...only for Taker to not only return but also knock Gonzales off his feet. This match took place during the period where WWE saw Taker as more of an attraction & kept having him feud against other "monster" characters who just weren't good in the ring causing Taker to have to carry the match on his own as was the case with Gonzales here. WrestleMania IX [Undertaker 15-0]  IV vs. King Kong Bundy - After Taker was absent for WMX, he returned here feuding with a member of Ted Dibiase's Million $ Corporation in a mission (that would pretty much describe his entire year of 1995) to retrieve back his urn that was stolen from him while it should be noted that American League Baseball umpire Larry Young was the special referee for some unknown reason. In a nutshell, this match was once again another match where Taker pretty much had to carry the weight here as Bundy was very limited in what he could do past certain moves like his Avalanche splash in the corner however this match was the definition of the phrase "winning the battle but not the war." WrestleMania XI [Undertaker 15-0]  V vs. Diesel - Thought Undertaker's career (specifically during the mid 90's), he had the reputation for being able to bring out the best performance out of bigger men who were very limited in what they could do in the ring & Kevin "Diesel" Nash was one of those men here. This was a match that can be described by Vince McMahon as "these two monsters are clobbering each other." They used heavy impact power moves while Taker resorted some some moves we hadn't seen from him at that time like a crossbody block. This was a real hard fought victory for the winner. WrestleMania XII [Tombstone: History Of The Undertaker]  VI No Disqualification Match vs. WWE Champion Sid - A couple of notes here but an injured Shawn Michaels was on commentary, Undertaker wore his original black & gray "western" outfit for the first time in years, and Bret Hart (who had lost a WWE Championship cage match against Sid on RAW earlier in the week thanks to Undertaker) came out with comments for everyone before being taken out.  Taker dominated early & even executed his top rope walk we now know as "old school" before Sid was able to catch Taker & take the match to the outside using the guardrail & announce table then focused on Taker's back with various moves like the bearhug, camel clutch, and powerslam.  Both men continued to have the same strategy by either grounding each other with chinlocks & nerve holds or executing the big boot or both going outside of the usual gameplan by coming off the top rope.  This wasn't your typical "big man" match as both men here told a story while giving it everything they had possible to give at this time resulting in a competitive match. WrestleMania 13  VII vs. Kane - The first match between these two & honestly, I feel this has been the best match between these two as it lived up to the hype & at times, seemed like Taker was fighting himself as they matched each other move for move. Definitely a "Oh My God!" moment was where Undertaker flew over the top rope into the announce table. After many matches against each other for years afterwards, this still goes down as my favorite one & a match that lived up to the months of hype building up to it. WrestleMania XIV [Tombstone: History Of The Undertaker; Twisted, Disturbed Life Of Kane; Kane: Journey To Hell]  VIII Hell In A Cell vs. Big Boss Man - This was the first time that a Hell In A Cell match took place at Mania as it was during this time period that Taker had his own stable called The Ministry & declared war against Mr. McMahon & his corporation causing McMahon to send his enforcer into action. Overall this was a slow paced brawl that saw Boss Man use his signature handcuffs & nightstick to work over Taker causing him to bleed before Taker recovered using a chair & the cell against Boss Man on his way to victory but it should be noted that the aftermath where Boss Man was hung from the top of the cell thanks to the Brood wasn't shown. This match was very disappointing quality for this type of match to the point where they never show highlights of this match when showing the history of the match & this match was excluded from the DVD anthology of Hell In A Cell. WrestleMania XV [Undertaker 15-0]  IX vs. Triple H - This was the first major meeting between these two superstars & it got real personal with Triple H busting Taker open requiring a high amount of stitches in his forehead (which you can see up close in the DVD extra interview). This started off wild with the spanish table being broken early before it settled in the ring & Taker got so focused on revenge that he attacked & knocked out the referee in the ring. They took the fight through the crowd into one of the camera towers. Both men did whatever they could to inflict punishment such as Triple H beating the hell out of Taker with a chair & Taker responding with chokeslamming Triple H off the tower & delivering an elbow drop himself. They settled back into the ring where the sledgehammer came into play before Taker extended "the streak." WrestleMania X-7 [Tombstone: History Of The Undertaker]  X No Disqualification Match vs. Ric Flair - This match was very personal to Flair after all the attacks that Undertaker made towards his friends & family to the point where Flair didn't do his usual "stylin' & profilin'" as he made his way to the ring but instead disrobed early & ran straight to the ring leading to both men fighting in the announce area within the first minute.  They were trading fist before Taker threw Flair into the turnbuckle with Flair looking to do his classic spot only for Taker to caught him with the boot on the apron.  Taker was dominate to the point where he busted Flair open just from his punches alone only for Flair to return to his ways of being "the dirtiest player in the game" to regain control & have Taker bleed but just continued to keep coming to the point where help came for Flair along with using a chair.  At this stage in Flair's career, this was definitely the best performance he had dating back to years before WCW closed while Taker was at the top of his game. WrestleMania X8  XI vs. Big Show & A-Train - This happened during the era of Taker going under the biker gimmick as the "American Bad Ass" & with his original tag partner Nathan Jones being attacked earlier in the night, Taker had a handicap match here. Taker tried to get a quick win early here causing Show & Train to use the numbers advantage with double team power moves before Taker was able to use the strategy of divide & conquer and receive some help in order to keep the streak alive. This was pretty much what you would expect from a handicap match here but Taker had a better performance here against these two big than than he's had in the past at Mania at times against one. WrestleMania XIX [Undertaker 15-0]  XII vs. Kane - Kane attacked & helped bury his brother alive at Survivor Series months earlier only for Taker to keep sending various messages to Kane for months teasing the return of Undertaker under his original persona of "The Deadman" but we ended up getting more than that as we also saw the return of Paul Bearer. This match was pretty short & sweet with Kane not believing that Taker was really there before Taker not only showed him that he was back & dominated his way to victory over his brother in a way that showed that the "Deadman" is back. WrestleMania XX [Tombstone: History Of The Undertaker; Undertaker 15-0]  XIII vs. Randy Orton - "The Legend Killer" was out to end the legend of Undertaker's streak as Orton kept trying to go for quick covers early to no avail. Both men would go on to exchange punches with Taker attempting his Dragon Sleeper submission that was countered into a DDT & later countering the chokeslam into an RKO as both men traded momentum causing Randy to resort to desperate tactics including an appearance from his father using his trademark cast on his arm before Orton's overconfidence at one point came back to haunt him & cost him the match. Orton came into this match with an injury that would eventually have him out of action throughout the spring & summer so this was as good as it could be taking that into consideration as they would go on to have better matches throughout the rest of the year. WrestleMania 21  XIV Casket Match vs. Mark Henry - Another Mania first in that this was the first casket match at the event. In a nutshell, Mark Henry was another limited big man so the match was a slow paced brawl as this was one of those cases where the stipulation definitely helped more than it would have been if they had a regular match. Nothing special here past the fact that this was the first casket match at Mania. WrestleMania 22 [Undertaker 15-0]  XV vs. World Champion Batista - Taker's Undefeated Streak vs. Batista's Title and I'll be point blank honest, this was the match that should have ended the show. This was Batista's best showing since his series against Triple H around a year earlier as he stepped up his game & didn't show any lack of effort like most of his previous performances. This was a classic "big money" WrestleMania match & the match of the night for me as you saw the crowd off the chain throughout the bout & even moments where it looked like Batista was going to end the streak & with various moments to look out for like Undertaker's big dive onto Batista, Batista's running powerslam through the announce table, and Batista taking it to the air with a flying shoulderblock off the top. It's ironic that this was the 20 year anniversary of WrestleMania 3 but Undertaker walks out of his WM the same way he did 10 years earlier...as a champion. [Greatest Stars Of The 21st Century; Undertaker 15-0]  XVI vs. World Champion Edge - Edge finally made it into the WrestleMania main event that various people (myself included) felt should have been his years ago & I guess WWE learned their lesson from last year in putting the Undertaker title match on last since he usually delivers...and this was no exception. Edge worked on Taker's back throughout various parts of the match with the match getting better & better as time went on with a couple of near falls that would have had you convinced that he was actually going to lose. Justice was served after what happened close to a year earlier as Taker regained his championship from Edge thanks to "that choke hold" (Devil's Gate). WrestleMania XXIV [Top 50 Superstars Of All Time; You Think You Know Me: The Story Of Edge]  XVII vs. Shawn Michaels - This is one of those matches that I can try to describe & review but the words wouldn't do it justice. This match had everything (including the unique "Heaven & Hell" entrances) on a physical & emotional level of both men refusing to lose to the point where this was the closest anyone had ever come to breaking the streak to the point where you saw the most emotion from Undertaker since his "Deadman" character returned 5 years ago & Shawn was even so desperate at one point, he was hoping for a win via countout. Instant classic here & quite frankly, this was the match that saved this show & should have ended it since nobody was going to be able to top it. 25th Anniversary Of WrestleMania [Shawn Michaels: My Journey]  XVIII No Disqualification/No Count Out Match vs. Shawn Michaels - Seeing how this is only the fourth time in WrestleMania history & the first time in 15 years that a non-title match is the final match at WrestleMania, you could tell that the quality they delivered last year was enough to warrant the closing position. Although these two put on such a memorable classic last year, they were able to put on another classic but different match this year as the stipulations of only winning by pinfall/submission along with the story of Shawn being so obsessed with ending the streak that he risked his own career...this match was more intense than the last one right from the opening moment when Shawn did Taker's trademark signature "throat slash" at the start. Taker hurt his leg early in the match giving Shawn the advantage by heavily working over that leg with various moves like the figure four & even the anklelock. Things really picked up from here with such moments as Shawn getting the tombstone on the floor, HBK executing a moonsault that you have to see to believe, and being able to counter moves from Undertaker that nobody else was able to counter before him while Taker himself was able to keep getting up from everything Shawn delivered. I don't want to reveal the ending but the match had such an effect on Taker to the point where he showed more emotion towards Shawn that we've seen from "The Dead Man" before Shawn refused to go out without a fight. As what has been the case with most of the matches here, keep watching after the match as you got got a very emotional WrestleMania moment. WrestleMania XXVI [Best PPV Matches Of 2009-2010; Superstar Collection: Shawn Michaels]  XIX No Holds Barred Match vs. Triple H - Both men started out trading punches with Taker getting aggressive first by tossing Triple H over the top, ramming him into the steps, and taking apart the spanish announce table. Triple H returned the aggression with tackling Taker through the "Colemine" & taking apart the english announce table...only to be slammed off it to the floor. A few scary moments happened such as when Taker did his famous dive over the top ropes to the floor & he wasn't caught by Triple H coming close to landing right on his neck while later Taker took a chairshot right to the head (just knowing about concussions now makes me cringe when I see that). Both men turned up the punishment various times such as a spinebuster through the spanish table, trading chairshots, a DDT on the chair, and both kicking out of finishers including 3 separate pedigrees to the point where Triple H was just screaming "STAY DOWN...JUST DIE...WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU!?!" Triple H said before this match that he was going to finish the streak or die trying...well those words rang true but after the match, he wasn't the only person who died trying to accomplish their goal. It was different than their match a decade ago at WrestleMania but this was one that could stand out on it's own. WrestleMania XXVII [Best PPV Matches Of 2011]  XX Hell In A Cell Match w/Special Referee Shawn Michaels vs. Triple H - Couple of notes here as Jim Ross returned to join commentary for this match, Michael Cole pointed out the interesting facts that not only has Triple H has won more HIAC matches than Undertaker but also never lost a match where Shawn was the referee, and Undertaker finally revealed his new haircut. Taker was dominate at the start as he targeted Triple H's head using anything he could get his hands on from the steps to the cell, and his own head to deliver headbutts causing HHH to have a bad bruise on his face. The steps were put into the ring where Triple H was able to deliver a spinebuster only for Taker to apply the Hell's Gate right after before Triple H showcased his strength & dead-lifted Taker to get out of the hold. Shawn played an important role as the referee as both guys got physical with him at times while also trying to be the voice of reason such as when Triple H continued to deliver non-stop chairshots to Taker's back to the point where Shawn tried to step in telling him, "just pin him because you know he won't give up!" only for Triple H to respond "You end it or I will!" This was physically brutal as both men didn't hold back with the chairshots & other weapons while just beating each other into exhaustion & Shawn definitely played an important role here. This lived up to the hype, no questions asked. WrestleMania XXVIII  Blu-Ray extras include a photo album and various history packages (24 vs. Edge, 26 vs. HBK, 27 & 28 vs. Triple H).  The documentary wasn't much as a highlight reel with the various talents speaking on their Mania encounters with Taker while others offer their opinions but it didn't go past more than 37 minutes.  Some of the matches themselves weren't much early on past either quick dominate squashes or just the gimmick of him fighting other limited big men (Snuka, Roberts, Gonzales, Bundy, Boss Man, Henry) but a majority of them were quality in their own right so unless you already have every single WrestleMania already in your collection, this is a set I would recommend.  Side Note: The K-Mart version of this also includes the bonus DVD set of "Undertaker's Deadliest Matches"

Is Theactrical wide screen format I finally got the version of the 2nd Harry potter I always wanted. I have always thought that most of the Harry Potter movies could and should always be a little longer. I have always hated the way they butchard the last 4 movies and bragged about it. P S they also had no idea how to show any real emotion between Harry and Ron's sister. After the Goblet of Fire, the director had no idea how to tell the rest of the stories. They seem to have kept or took the auther out of the process.

remake is much better than orignal in a lot of ways. I saw both versions of 101 Dalmatians many years ago & if given a choice,I would certainly pick the second live-action version over the first version any day to watch.

The Amazing Spider-Man Re-Tingles the Franchise For the past decade, Marvel Comics has been churning out film versions of its iconic super heroes, but in this case, Spiderman, only a decade before, had been rendered successfully by director Sam Raimi.  Well, a poor third film meant a reimagining of the franchise, and as The Hulk and Batman series have shown, studios are willing to try to reclaim a tentpole blockbuster.  The risk can be a marginal failure as in Superman Returns. Not so here. With well cast leads and strong supporting roles, The Amazing Spider-Man is quite entertaining especially toward the end, and it displays emotional resonance that enhances its storyline.  Young Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) lives with his Aunt May (Sally Field) and Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen) after his parents abandoned him as a child.  Now an awkward, bullied high school student, he has a crush on cute blonde, Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone), who has an authoritarian father (Denis Leary).  Upon discovering his dad's old files, Peter seeks out his father's former colleague, Dr. Curt Connors (Rhys Ifans), who is researching the regenerative, healing capabilities of reptiles in his lab at Oscorp.  Parker snoops around the lab and gets bitten by a genetically enhanced spider, and soon he begins to develop superhuman strength, agility, reflexes, and the ability to crawl on walls as well as shoot a powerful web.  His self absorption sets in motion events that will exact personal loss.  Guilt stricken, he becomes a masked avenger, catching criminals much to the chagrin of the police who think he is a vigilante.  Meanwhile, a desperate Connors is forced to test a serum on himself which transforms him into the Lizard who menaces the city streets and threatens to infect the entire population with the chemical. As Spiderman confronts The Lizard in a grand battle, the fate of the city including Gwen hangs in the balance.  How does this compare to the previous Spiderman?  It's nearly as good but with a different take and still retains the essential ingredients that made the former film a standout.  The film always keeps the focus on the relationships between Peter and Gwen and Peter and his family.  Those grounded bonds form the soul of the film and make the film a more enriching experience.  There is no Mary Jane Watson or J. Jonah Jameson yet.  The filmmakers, director Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer) and screenwriters James Vanderbilt (Zodiac), Alvin Sargent (Ordinary People), and Steve Kloves (Harry Potter series) made the smart choice of starting with a younger version of Peter Parker, perfectly embodied by Garfield, whose adolescence and psychology are part of a fully realized character.  Garfield and Stone make an adorable couple and display good chemistry that is endearing.  Fields and Sheen are quite effective as Peter's guardians and the screen lights up whenever they appear.  Leary, proving he can do drama as well as comedy, makes the most of his role as Stacy's dad who is a police captain in conflict over the rogue Spiderman.  Marvel legend Stan "the Man" Lee has another amusing cameo.  Although bereft with open ended plot points by film's end (likely to be resolved in future sequels), there are a couple of nice touches that lift this film above most standard comic book adaptations.  In one particularly affecting scene, a construction worker rallies a team of crane operators to assist Spiderman, whose earlier courageous act now pays timely dividends.  During the rousing climax, Spiderman is rescued when an unlikely savior intercedes.  Even Connors' Lizard is not your stereotypic villain and figures in a surprising and unexpected act at film's end.  Special effects were pretty good in the older Spiderman, but they are even better here especially in the trademark web swinging between skyscrapers. If the musical score sounds like a cross between A Beautiful Mind and Aliens, it's because James Horner does the honors on each film.  Despite the odds, what is `amazing' is that lightning has struck twice for the franchise. The Amazing Spider-Man is a familiar yet refreshing take on a formula that works quite well here.  And yes, stay for the end credits which reveal a teaser for the next film.

One of the raunchiest, most nonsensical, and downright silliest comedies I've seen in a long time. Judge Mac McEntire, DVD Verdict-- Zonad is pure silliness from beginning to end. This is "anything for a laugh" comedy. Everything is exaggerated into cartoonishness, the cast goes to great lengths to humiliate themselves, and no one is afraid of lowbrow gross-outs for the sake of a lowbrow gross-outs. Things like plot and character get chucked aside so that everything can be goofy. It shouldn't work, and the whole thing should be annoying, but somehow all the pieces come together with hilarious results.  A big key to Zonad's comedic success is its cast. These folks know just what kind of movie this is, and they embrace it. Delaney, as the title alien, adopts a slightly otherworldly manner when speaking, while the whole time his eyes and facial expressions are reacting far more humanly, as he stays one step ahead of the clueless villagers while also worrying about eventually being found out. It helps that the villagers are indeed clueless, acting just like characters from stereotypical 1950s sitcoms, where husbands and wives call each other "dear," and teenagers exclaim, "gee whiz." It's all exaggerated for yuks, of course, and this means that the audience is in on Zonad's joke, and we're playing it right along with him. That way, we're invested in what happens, despite the whole "unlikable protagonist" conundrum.  Make no mistake, these characters are unlikable. Zonad is scamming not just a family but an entire town out of all its food and beer, and its daughters as well. His behavior comes back to haunt him once Bonad shows up, so there is some comeuppance. Zonad's struggle against Bonad, though, is less about having an epiphany and changing his ways, but about longing to return to gouging the hapless villagers out of their alcohol. Therefore, Zonad coming to his senses and changing his ways ends up being just as silly and nonsensical as everything else in the movie.  Also know that this is not a movie for the kiddies. Antics such as public drunkenness, people urinating on each other, and grown men lusting after underage girls are all played for laughs, and this will turn off many viewers, no matter how ridiculous it is portrayed. There's an odd subplot featuring the local cop, who is so loyal to Zonad after Zonad buys him a pint that he brutalizes anyone who speaks against Zonad. He has some funny bits, but mostly the guy is so vile that he seems out of place in the otherwise squeaky-clean village.  Special mention must be made of the score, by Brian Byrne. At turns, it evokes classic John Williams with big outer-space fanfare, and then the overly-sanitized small town aesthetic. The music punctuates the comedy excellently, sometimes solely serving as a punch line. The score actually makes the comedy funnier.  Zonad crash-lands onto DVD with an anamorphic transfer that's bright and clean, making the small Irish village look vivid and colorful. The 2.0 sound doesn't do Byrne's score any favors, but is decent. Extras are a laid-back director's commentary and the theatrical trailer. -Full review at dvdverdict.com

Well Worth Seeing This is a Korean crime thriller not far in plot from Tony Scott's 'Man on Fire. 'You have an ex-special ops guy who finds some renewed sense of self and purpose through his friendship with a young girl, only to have it torn away with her being kidnapped by some bad guys.  This is a densely plotted, brutal movie. I had a bit of a time keeping track of some of the players and some of the connective tissue tying certain things to other things, but the drift is plain enough. Repeat viewings should sew up unanswered questions.  On the GOOD side there is much. The production values are very good. Good directing, editing, music etc. This is a very professional outing at all levels. Most of the acting seemed good as well. Or at least as best I could tell. For some reason I could not activate the English sub-titles and was forced to watch it dubbed instead, which will always put a damper on things.  The storyline is involved and generally good. There were some dumb decisions in part (black market traffickers in human body parts don't generally have business cards), and the end was more than a bit maudlin, but overall it kept my attention.  On the BAD side there are some things. A couple of the characters had hair styles that completely covered one of their eyes. What's THAT about?! I need both of my eyes to see comfortably. And there is a real cheap shot at the end but by then the movie is over so what the heck. Some of the dialogue is a bit crappy as well but I'm wondering if that was in the script or the dubbing translation.  This is a very good movie. If you're into crime thrillers in general, and Asian crime thrillers specifically, this should be on your watch list.

An obvious satire with great special effects Posed as a pseudo-documentary, this 09 sci-fi makes some very heavy-handed comments on what happens when minorities must live oppressed by uncaring majorities. The aliens are the weak ones here, and their human oppressors try to relocate them into distant camps like American Indians or WW2 Japanese Americans. Despite the social commentary, this plays quite entertainingly, and is actually a very funny film as we watch the narrator slowly turn into an alien. Lots of violence.

Just right I really enjoy yoga and working out and typically I am skeptical of workout videos, especially those that include celebrities.  While this workout is not the most intense I've done, it's good for a moderate exercise level.  It's very upper body intensive which is great for women  because we usually focus on our hips, buns, and thighs.  The length of time you hold the poses could be extended to increase the intensity as they point out.  I enjoyed the fact that some of the cheesy music and silence was left out of the video - in opposition to most yoga videos that are shot at some fabulous location with soothing music that is supposed to somehow make you forget you're sweating and uncomfortable. It's real, it's fun, and I'm glad I invited Bethenny into my home to train :)  I would recommend it to anyone who is in moderate to good atheltic condition.  If you're into marathons, may not be difficult enough ;P

"A" for Realism I've never been in a war zone and can only imagine the complexities of emotions that must go on, but I think that The Land of Blood and Honey captures it. I love that it didn't get sentimental, political or glamorous. The people looked like real people. The atrocities are probably representative of what really happens in war. I am sure that neighbors became enemies overnight and there were many people with conflicting feelings of loyalty vs. morality. Films like this and The Stoning of Soraya M need to be made and shown. I am glad Jolie had the courage to do it and do it well.

liked it i just wanted to add my 4 stars...i thought it might be hokey with the rating but it was pretty genuiney and nice

Peter Cushing is always brilliant... First of all most of the viewing audience does not know who Peter Cushing was...and most of the viewing audience has been saturated with gore and blood...so i could care less if they like this movie or not...I am a Peter Cushing fan...and he makes this movie worth watching....Hammer, Amicus and Tigon film companies are long forgotten for most people and others have never heard of them...well, i have heard of them...Today unless gore is involved the average horror viewer turn up their noses at movies such as this one....too bad...again i don't care....For people who grew up with movies like this i say.."Buy this..you will like it!".....It is a beautiful film...The Blood Beast Terror is not a brilliant film...but watch it anyway...It is fun...!!

Love this movie This is a great movie! But, I also love this type of fairytale. I thought it was creative and interesting, the characters were wonderful too.

Good horse movie We are a family of people who love horses. This is a great story about the nobility of the horse. The star, (the horse, of course) makes it through harrowing circumstances that would crush mere men. That's why it's a great story. The plot reminded me a little of Black Beauty, but it's different enough to be interesting. Not to mention the photography is phenomenal. I recommend it.

true@heart This 80's classic brings you back to a time of heroism and nostalga of a time where television was fun with meaning.

Enjoyed it more than I did the sequel. I enjoyed this more than lion king 2, I think its because there were more laughs in this one. It.is by no means as good as the original, but it is definitly worth having. It looks great on blu ray just like 1 & 2 do. If you have young children this is worth watching.

Entertaining FOP movie Like Channel Chasers, this is a fairly amusing Fairly Oddparents movie. I have to say that I like these movies better than most episodes, because of the longer and more involved storylines.  In this one, Timmy has gone a year without losing his fairies and is rewarded with a cupcake that grants its holder one rule-free wish. Apparently a kid keeping their fairy for that long is a rare occurence because kids lose their fairies when others find out about them.  Timmy can't decide on his wish at the moment, so he decides to hold onto the cupcake - and so the cupcake ends up in the hands of several other people, causing several different worlds based on the wishmaker's wish (a monkey bites the cupcake and the world becomes something ala Planet of the Apes) and the cupcake even ends up in Crocker's hands..  Overall this is a good movie for anyone who likes FOP

Surprisingly well done animated feature I am someone who has never fond of Warner Bros. The Batman.  It just always struck me as trying too hard to be different from the classic DC Animated Universe incarnation of the character, never knowing whether to be serious or silly- but one thing was for sure, and that's that the show produced lots of ideas that lent themselves to merchandising. In all honesty it was an okay superhero cartoon, but it seldom felt like Batman to me.  An occasional episode would pop up which did a good job of capturing the spirit of the character, but for the most part the series came across as being more style over substance.  Now that brings us to The Batman's straight to TV/DVD movie- a feature which boasts a title I never thought I'd see taken seriously outside of a Silver Age comic: The Batman versus Dracula.  And...It's actually a remarkably well made piece.  It isn't a great animated feature on the levels of Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, or Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, nor does adding Dracula to the Batman universe really add anything, but what The Batman versus Dracula does do is successfully focus on what works in its animated series while shaving off most of its weaknesses.  The movie was of course produced solely for the novelty of pitting the Dark Knight against the Prince of Darkness, but the team behind it does give it their all and creates a solid action film out of what could have easily been a cheesy Halloween special for the series.  Dracula is treated as a serious villain, and even given a healthy dose of character.  I like how the Count takes an interest in Batman as a fellow creature of the night.  Sure, it ultimately ends in a typical superhero versus super villain style fight, but at least they did treat the Count with the respect he deserves.  I have been critical of The Batman, and still stand by many of my gripes with the series, but that shouldn't impact your enjoyment of this movie.  Yes, the Joker shouldn't look like a monkey, yes Tom Kenny's voice work as the Penguin can be grating at times, and it isn't nearly as strong as the Bruce Timm/Paul Dini helmed series from the 1990s.  But, what The Batman vs. Dracula does give the viewer is the best of what this incarnation of the Dark Knight has to offer. If you, like myself, aren't a fan of The Batman's take on this universe this movie won't change your mind.  For what it is I thoroughly enjoyed The Batman vs. Dracula and would recommend it to any fans of the character or animation.  Odds are, even if you're not a fan of The Batman, you'll find yourself thoroughly enjoying this action packed face off.

Was This the Only Way? Near-genocide for Native Americans and much of the native habitat, but in the end we got freeways, so it must have been worth it, right?  Four stars for the amazing scenery.

Excellent movie, pretty good shape. This is one of the best unsung movies to come out of Hollywood. Mickey Rourke and Robert DeNiro at their best. Got a little scare when the DVD stalled and we had to restart it, but it worked the second time.

Definitely Different This is a total escape from reality.  There is humor and action.  Season four got an awkward start, but the finale was one of the better episodes.  Gina Bellman can do so many accents well, but the entire cast somehow manages to give performances that are both subtle and over-the-top at the same time.

Denzel is awesome! This is a very good movie.  Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman are particularly good.  Denzel is riveting as always.  I'm not sure why this is not a blockbuster, but I have found that blockbusters are not always the best movies I guess.  This movie may be a little too "religious" for some, but I thought it was fabulous.

Very Good Ghost Story I'm not a fan of slasher, slice 'em and dice 'em films, so this was definitely up my alley. While it's definitely a bit of a 'Sixth Sense' spin-off, it manages some great creepy moments and eerie scenes. Not mind, I'm NOT a fan of Nicole Kidman, so there were some painful moments for me, but even though she's in the leading role, it was very good.

Pretty good! I watched this version specifically given my general distrust for American remakes of great films. I will eventually watch the American version, but I have no reason to do so. This film was spectacular. Overall, it was a very cohesive story that felt, in comparison to the two films that follow, comprehensive, whole, and fascinating. The acting was great, I have zero complaints about the story except there were moments of violence that made me turn my head away, but I know some people really enjoy that and it comes with the territory of crime fiction, so I'm not fussing about it.

Gulliver's Twist This latest movie on Gulliver's Travels, which is based on a novel written by Jonathan Swift, an Irish writer and clergyman in the early 1700s, has a new twist to it and is set in more contemporary times.  While the original book had several aspects to it, as listed below:  [1] Adventure at rival countries of Lilliput and Blefuscu. [2] Adventure at Brobdingnag. [3] The Flying Island - Laputa [4] Empress Muodi's Estate [5] Glubbdubdrib - the magician's dwelling [6] Struldburgs - immortals with blindness [7] Houyhnhnms / Yahoos  This film only touches on the first, and a bit of the second adventure aspects of the novel.  However, it is still a delightful PG-rated movie. Rather than just being a storm that causes Gulliver's adventures, the Bermuda Triangle is brought into the mix, which is pretty cool.  Also this film has some charming romantic aspects to it, firstly between Gulliver (Jack Black) and his co-worker Darcy Silverman (Amanda Peet) and secondly on a smaller scale, between Horatio (Jason Segel) and Princess Mary (Emily Blunt).  A lot has been thrown into the pot in making this movie, and these elements make the movie unusual and enjoyable. For the main battle, the army of Blefuscu, with the help of General Edward (Chris O'Dowd) of Lilliput, constructs a massive robot, that has some 'transformer' type capabilities to fight Gulliver. This was quite imaginative of the writers. Also throughout the movie, Guilliver 'pirates' ideas from other movies, and this also lends itself to some humor.

Right brain vs. left brain I was introduced to this movie by my daughter who said this is a picture about a writer who wants to live in the past, who thinks the past is better than the present, and it is about Paris, a place known as the Mecca for artists.  I recognized it was a Woody Allen film, and knowing his early works, "Annie Hall" and "Everything you always wanted to know about sex (but were afraid to ask)", I was already biased and not particularly attracted to watch it. My thinking was, "oh, another Paris movie, must be about paintings, the arrogant Parisians, and Woody Allen made it? It must be weird." With that mindset and on a boring evening, I sat to see it, mostly because Rachel McAdams ("The Notebook") was in it. About Owen Wilson, the main actor in the film, the only previous work I liked of him was "Behind Enemy Lines" because I love movies about jet fighters, but I need to admit that I had not seen much of his work anyway.  "Midnight in Paris" is a tour de force, nonetheless! I saw a very different picture than my daughter described. This movie is about the clashing of personalities: a person with a creative mind, shy, simple and kind of bohemian, as opposed to his fianc&eacute;e representing a modern and materialistic American woman. Likewise, it is about a person encased in the logical world, feeling out of place and eventually breaking from it.  Yet, it is a comedy and Woody Allen wrote it masterfully. Owen Wilson plays Gil Bender, a script writer working for Hollywood, who doesn't really like much of his job and would rather become a novelist. He goes to Paris with his fianc&eacute;e, Inez (Rachel McAdams) and her parents, as her dad is a successful and wealthy businessman who enters into a merger with a French company.  Gil has in fact written his first novel, still a manuscript he's not convinced is good enough and without the confidence to show it to anyone. One night, after a day of touring in Paris with his "material girl" and her pedantic friends, Gil brakes free from them and go for a walk. He gets lost and at midnight, in despair and sitting on a set of stairs on the street, a Peugeot from the 1920s appear and he is invited to join the people in the car. This car is the time machine that transports Gil to the 1920s. It is reminiscent of the DeLorean in "Back to the Future".  Over several nights, as the trips repeat, Gil meets with writers Ernest Hemingway, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, and other artists: painters Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, and film director Luis Bu&ntilde;uel.  Allen wrote magnificent lines for Hemingway (Corey Stoll), and one notable is when Gil, influenced by his own low self-esteem, describes his book as terrible. Hemingway replies, "No subject is terrible if the story is true, and if the prose is clean and honest and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure."  This is a story about nostalgia for "the golden age", but more than being a stage where famous artists of the past come to life, it is about a search into one's footing. Gertrude Stein (Kathy Bates), whom Hemingway uses to critic his work, tells Gil about his book, "We all fear death and question our place in the universe...you have a clear and lively voice, don't be such a defeatist." The critic of his novel, along with those unusual encounters with his literary idols and his attraction with Picasso's lover, Adriana (Marion Cottilard), gave Gil the kick he needed to refuel and find fresh inspiration. Gil discovers a new meaning for his life and a willingness to direct it to a completely different destination.  Lest I be portrayed as an idealist, I must mention that Allen romanticizes and embellishes Paris and the bohemian world of the artist, underscored by Gil willingness to exchange his home in Beverly Hills for a little attic with a skylight in Paris. He described the city as one where "every street, every boulevard is its own special art form... how anyone can come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that can compete with a great city",  and Paris "is the hottest spot on the universe." Additionally, the color of the film has a slight emphasis on orange, depicting the images of the city with a delicate age and warmth.  The movie exposes the diametrical contrast of the logical mind with the creative one. Allen has a tendency to discredit the first and enhance the latter through the dialog. However, his scenes portray the artists' nightlife as one where self-destructive behavior like heavy drinking, smoking, and dancing and partying all night long is the norm. Love, or sex for that matter, is exchanged as a commodity. Allen takes the opportunity, as well, to throw a few punches to the Republicans and the Tea Party, describing them as "demented lunatics" and using the expression "respect each other views" in the same line, an obvious contradiction.  This movie demonstrates Allen's mastering of the script, the scenery, and the conduction of his message through a delicate comedy, which serves as his vehicle to entertain, to expose and display his ideological vision in a very clever manner. However, the characterization of opposite and irreconcilable views are repeated throughout the movie. This is exemplified on this quote from Ms. Stein when describing Picasso's portray of Adriana, "He's done her, dripping with sexual innuendo, carnal to the point of smoldering and yes, she's beautiful, but it's a subtle beauty, an implied sensuality." Admittedly, the movie is quite entertaining and a no-less fine presentation that seduces the audience to take a trip to a world of fantasy.

Not great, but a must-have for a true Twilight fan. Eclipse was my favorite of the 4 books in the saga, but the movie is my least favorite of the films.  Maybe it's that the director on New Moon did such a great job and the soundtrack was phenomenal - but this film just fell flat.  Its saving grace was being able to look at Robert Pattinson.

A nice story Juno really knows how to make the best out of a bad situation. I like to watch this movie when I'm not in a good place, it really cheers me up.  I particularly like the setting in which it takes place, the nice rural setting really does justice to the story itself and brings more definition to the characters. Nothing says unique like a small backwoods town in midwestern America. The love felt between Bleecker and Juno is pretty real as far as acting goes, Michael Sarah and Ellen Paige be proud.

sweet First the quality of the dvd -- I ordered mine from the seller "Friends," and although I was worried because of some bad reviews about dvd quality from different vendors, mine was the 1 dvd set, and was perfect quality with English subtitles. Now for the movie itself -- It was a sweet story of unconditional love, simple, and a bit slow at times, and very romantic. The acting was great, although the bride's character is so demure and shy that you feel like pulling out your hair at times. Although we enjoyed it, I can't imagine watching it over and over again, unless you are very romantic and like to see shy smiles and giggles exchanged, along with conversation that's romantic prose -- I realize some people would really enjoy that, and if that's you, you'll like this movie. I like more dramatic dance and song numbers, especially if Shahid Kapoor is involved, and not so slow paced with a slightly more modern script, which might have included the couple having deeper conversations so that you felt like they knew each other better. However, this is a beautiful depiction of arranged marriage and of love and commitment.

love it! I like musicals, I love Donald O'connor, Dan Daily, Ethel Merman, and all the rest!  Two things bugged me about the product. The movie plot is mainly about the Donahue's and their journey in vaudeville, and therefore had more "air time" in the movie and should've been on the dvd cover.  As good as Marilyn Monroe is, she should NOT be on the cover, but as usual, advertisers think we're all neanderthals and are only interested in "sex appeal."  The movie itself is great, but in the part where Mitzi Gaynor does her "French" dance, the volume goes way down.  I've noticed this in renting it from rental stores, so it can't be just my purchase that has this problem.  But it's a great movie with great choreography!

except for the missing "Return of the King' element it is more mistique than the Jackson films. the footage in this is totally underrated subtle details like sparkling water and insects night noise instead of a big sound track, a lite narrative and low key dialgoue instead of overdrama like Jackson's version(which I love too). This is a fantasy with some dark elements in it. No it is not Rankin and Bass(Who followed up with Return of the King, a musical for kids,)as a child I was a bit baffeled by the changed production, nor is it a 2001 grande CGI show but it has elements both young and old should enjoy and Frodo isn't such a woose like Elija Wood's(scripted) character.(though unlike the books, in this movie Frodo is taller than Pip and merry) Guarde does the voice more hobbit-like. His brother is one of the other Hobbits(I think) and William Squire makes an onimous Gandalf while John Hurt an abruptly manored Aragorn "Stryder" Son of Arathorne. The only grip(and 4 not 5 stars) Baski forgot to conclude his film in a follow up it ends abruptly with "and so Gandalf and friends fight for middle earth" with Gandalf swinging his broadsword and then credits, Baski I am to assume was going to complete this and ran out of steam and didn't.(I would like to have seen the conclusion..

Got Statham? I like Jason Statham. Not his best movie, but if you like to see bad guys get wasted, this one ROCKS! Not recommended for liberal Dems or tree huggers.

Simple But Sweet Wow, did they pick the right actress.  She actually convinces us this childlike drifter has a hot chick fall in love with him.  These childhood friends in tragedy meet after 10 or 15 years and remember how much simpler life used to be.  Minus one star for the hidden message: "if at first you don't succeed, stalk stalk again" and because the guy basically is a cheesy Owen Wilson impersonation.

It broke new ground Here is another film where the music is so important to the visual depictions of love, desire and erotic exploration. The early, almost chaotic scenes of her arrival in Bangkok give way to their first love-making. She is later introduced to a group of bored housewives languishing by a pool. All are physically attractive, slim and pert. There is considerable topless sunbathing and some nude swimming. Lesbian love-making features; something Emmanuelle never realised was in her. The radical side of this tale is the husband's declaration "she is not my special possession; she can do what she wants with whomever...". Later, "you are not my possession, you are not my beauty, you ARE beauty!". That is put to the test when she disappears for a few days and he reacts. Later again, hubby introduces her to Mario; a venerable student of the erotic, who then seeks to liberate her from convention in these matters. There is no masochism, sadism or other aspects of a dark side. This is a self-confessed pursuit of pleasure. It broke new ground when first released in the 1970s. If you are in the mood, it's good stuff.  Ian Hunter. Author of `e-Love'.

THE STAND GAVE THIS DVD AS A GIFT TO MY SISTER.  COULD NOT FIND THE DVD ANYWHERE, SO DECIDED TO PURCHASE HERE.  SHE IS VERY HAPPY, EVEN THOUGH IT IS A USED COPY. GOOD CONDITION AND SHIPPED PRETTY QUICK.  THANKS!

Great drive down nostalgia road. I have not seen this movie in at least 20+ years. I had fond memories of watching it on VHS back in the Day. I, Much like Corey flunked my first driving exam. So I had some personal attachment to his plight. But it stoped there. The two Coreys get into one jam after another in this fast and fun movie. If you were a teen in the 80's you'll be brought back to the scene full blast! Also this movie comes at an affordable price. Which I wish all Blu Ray catalog titles would learn from. As far as the high def transfer don' worry. It's pretty good. You won't be disappointed with this purchase.

Great price but not the original version. I had this on DVD but I can't find it so I had to look online for a replacement.  I was excited to find it on blu ray for such a great price, but be warned that this is not the original version.  If you don't like removed scenes added back in then don't get this version.  I wish I still had my other copy, but this one is definitely better than nothing at all!!!  Love this movie! :)

The Girl who leapt through Time Another good movie,interesting and definitely worth adding to a serious collectors collection,it really is down to personal preference so my opinion is yes,worth buying,and again,it is my own opinion and I am sure there will be those who agree and those who dont.

Good movie Good show.  Well worth watching,  great computer animation.  Good story line.  Good addition to the Starship Troopers movie.  Liked the bugs, they looked pretty cool

Excellent movie of it's type I've always considered this movie a "guilty pleasure".  So bad that it's good. Of course Humphrey Bogart can lift any turkey right up there to a place among Oscar contenders. He is wonderful in this.  In fact the whole cast was good. Of course I have never been able to stand Rozzana Brazzi but that is just personal taste. This part was perfect for him. My main complaint was that throughout the whole movie Ava Gardner spoke like she was measuring her words before she spoke them or like she thought we wouldn't understand her if she didn't speak every single word slowly and perfectly. It was distracting. I can only blame this on the director. I don't think she could have thought of that herself.  For lovers of "high drama" this is it. And, I do love a good drama.

ALMOST 5 STARS - ONE HUGE FLAW I knew I would love it and I did.  The cinematography was superb.  Paris never looked better. The music is divinely perfect.  The time-journeying cast of characters, well, really impressive names here - are fun and wonderfully dressed for the part.  I hadn't paid earlier attention to the story line - because I knew if it's set in Paris, it's for me.  Well, everything is  grand with one exception.  That being Owen Wilson cast in the Gill Pender role.  Owen Wilson - an actor he is not - it's painful watching him trying to create himself correctly for the scene.  He, being cast for the role, can only be compared to "there was no-one else available" or, simply, the dumbing-down of what Hollywood can do to an American film - not to mention viewers.  I gave it 4 Stars because everything else played out superbly.  Imagine how perfect the film would have been - with a talented actor playing the lead role.  I understand, comprehend, the quirkiness of Woody Allen - but Owen Wilson is embarrassingly dumb for a film set in Paris!  He pretty much ruins it.

Boxed set value The price on this set is great, and the show is well worth the price.  I found the quality of the DVD's I received to be somewhat lacking, but they did all play without issue.  Slightly lower quality than I was expecting, but still a good product.

The Best of Dean Martin Variety Show: Collector's Edition (6 DVD) I had thought that I'd be getting the whole show, not cut up into segments which are what they, whoever they are, consider the best. However, I'll take Dean anyway I can get him. Hopefully though, they'll get it through their thick skulls that everyone is wanting the whole (empasis on the whole) show, not little pieces of it, and they'll put out a season boxset with them all there. Is that too much to ask for?

good movie I bought this because I didn't get a chance to catch it in theatres. I especially enjoyed the guerrilla film film style it was shot in. That made it seem more like their home movies and what happened to them, than an actual film.

Non US citizen review I have just moved to the US and i wanted a DVD about the Civil War. Haven taken recommendations from people I decided on this item.  The DVD is beautifully shot and is very thorough. It's narrative style is a mixture of commentary, interviews of 'experts' and quotations from soldiers whom fought in the war.  A particular visual feature is the battle scenes are filmed at the time of year they happened. One part I didn't enjoy was the commentary from an author, whose credentials are never established and who seems to harbour a disappointment that The South didn't win.  The DVD is informative and it has a nice balance between fact and emotion.  Highly recommended.

Revenge is an act of style--one that no Kill Bill fan should miss This appears to be another take on genre-crossing in a genre-style movie.  Previous examples include the wildly successful Sin City movies, popular western splices like The Good The Bad and The Weird and The Warrior's Way, and the stillborn Sucker Punch.  But all these movies were well-advertised and wide theatrical releases (in Asia, at least, for The Good The Bad and The Weird).  Should I approach this lack of advertising as a snake's rattle and keep my expectations low?  When I stumbled across this I thought "This movie features Josh Hartnett, Demi Moore, Ron Perlman, Woody Harrelson and Kevin McKidd, and I had never heard of it or saw a trailer.  How does that happen?  Is this a weird little gem waiting to be discovered, or an utter Sucker Punch tragedy?"   The opening credits are cleverly presented during an animated story background.  The style was much like that of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One or Hellboy 2: The Golden Army.  When moviemakers really care about a movie, they make an effort to have the opening credits "affect" the viewer somehow.  Even if it's only music over a black screen, moods are set and pace is foreshadowed.  I've commented on the great opening credits of The Good The Bad and The Weird, and that movie was awesome.  This made for a promising start.   In this perhaps futuristic world guns have somehow been banned, making way for a resurgence in swordsmanship and a feudal yakuza-esque gang culture.  A young, Doc Holidayish brawler (Hartnett) and a swordless samurai team up to exact their revenge against the ruthless king of the hill, "The Woodsman" (Perlman).  To do so, they must kill their way through leagues of henchman and his nine right hand men, one of which is played by a sleek Kevin McKidd.  This film is VERY stylistic.  The effects and music smack of Scott Pilgrim versus The World with comic book stylings of villainy and storyline much like Kill Bill.  The combat follows suit, with choreography focusing more on a dance-like technical precision than producing a realistic fight.  It's more like theater than cinema.  In fact, the set designers erected intentionally artificial-looking structures in order to unsubtly accent this feeling.  Sets and wardrobe contain elements of the present, the future, the old west, and the early 1900's.  Many theatrical devices are employed as well.  All of this synergistically produces an other-worldly feel.  The style of this movie is rare and difficult to execute.  The fights are fun, the scenes are clever, and (with the exception of Demi Moore's role) the characters were interesting.  If you are careful about your expectations, this movie could be a great pick for you.

Ghost in the Shell 2 Innocence First,  Let me say that I am a huge fan of Ghost in the Shell and I have watched and own both of the seasons and enjoyed this movie a lot.  The only reason I gave this movie four stars instead of five is that the film was only in Japanese so I had to watch it with subtitles but that didn't take away from the experience of it being a great film.  If you hate subtitles this film isn't for you but it's still very awesome.

I honestly think this movie was overshadowed by True Grit I really like this movie! I thought the acting and story was pretty good. I honestly think this movie was overshadowed.

BIG BANG 4 I think that Big Bang is one of the funniest shows on TV. The only problem I have with it is that sometimes the sexual inuendo is way to strong. On the plus side it is one of the few shows that started out hilariously in the very first episode and has kept it at the same hilarious level all the way through season 4. To many shows seem to run out of steam after the first or second season and then they just get stupid, even though they run on and on and on. Great job writers and cast!

Hot girls, pools of blood - a fun teen thriller. A good film for teen horror film fans. I was happy to see that the cover art was not misleading. Blood, knives and naked girls.  Somewhat scary with a decent amount of blood, several amazingly hot girls in the pool, and a few laughs. plus - the ending had a couple of nice surprises. It's not as scary as "Halloween" but the "dance scene" makes up for it. A good addition to the teen horror/ thriller world.

Hallelujah Trail This was a good movie which I enjoyed.  I am a Native American living in the area where it was filmed, so I have a connection with this movie.

Greatest Show I first saw this movie in theaters as a teenager. I was glad to get a copy of my own. I don't think it was available on Netflix. Great service and prompt shipping

Narnia Continues Good Movie for all ages especially children.  Recommend for all viewers. Story is good, the movie was well done.  Suggest you follow this with the other Narnia stories.

Good movie I wouldn't call this movie a true story or a great movie, but it's a definitely a good movie. Shipping arrived in under a week and haven't had any problems.

Lightweight and fun Reminded me of "The Guild." Not sure I'd pay to see it at the movies since I tend to watch things like this online or on dvd (I save the special effects movies for the big screen). I would recommend this to others, and would watch it again.

Only because of Alex I only give this movie four stars because of Alex O - who I could watch read the phone book he is that gorgeous and charismatic. However what is he doing? Seriously the man can act! Watch Mary Bryant or Oyster Farmer or his turn on The Shield. Yet he is doing stuff like this! It kind of makes me sad.  I give it four stars because he is as gorgeous as you can get in it and funny too but the rest of it! The birthing pool scene was gross. I really hope that he has a plan - a back up plan ha ha - so that he can take all the money from these sorts of misfires and put it towards his production company and make some interesting stuff. I have not doubt he really could be amazing but I remember once in an interview him saying he was only mediocre or some such. Perhaps a lack of confidence is why he is doing this sort of thing instead of holding out for something better? Or maybe an actor has to take what he/she can get in the hard faced world of Hollywood?  I actually think Alex could have a career like Johnny Depp if he wanted - playing off key different roles where his perfect looks don't pigeon hole him. Because he really does seem to have some real depth to him.  As for J-Lo I am not her biggest fan but I don't dislike her either. I quite liked the Wedding Planner for cheesey fun. And I really enjoyed Enough - like a top notch True Movie that film was. But again she isn't on top form here and as her top form is only okay it drags the film down.  I really wanted to love this and I didn't and I just keep getting flashbacks to the earlier work of Alex O and hoping he goes back to his roots at some point.

Ha Ha!  I thought this was very funny. I can see how the die hard Greta Garbo worshipers might be offended by this movie.  (much as the dramatic reviewer of one star "trash" review) First of all this is a comedy and not a dramatic piece.  Pretty sure Greta Garbo knew that at the time and was reaching to do some something new.  She is actually very funny.  This is not the first movie I have seen of her work.  I have seen the most popular movies that are highly acclaimed and she is amazingly fluid while drawing the gazer right into the scene with her. But, in this movie - there is an awkwardness about her (maybe accidental or maybe on purpose - perfect Garbo) that I think makes the movie highly engaging and believable.  It is because it is so different that makes it funny.  The plot line (in the 30s and 40's the "fall in love and get married at first glance" was the genre) is appropriate for the time period and the dance scene is the best part of the whole movie. (Chica Choca - ha ha)  I laughed out loud more than once through the movie! I actually think Greta Garbo should have done more comedies but I am sure MGM didnt want to diminish the mystic of Greta Garbo. I am still surprised at the opinion that this movie was a disaster.  But, then again, so was "Its a Wonderful Life" in 1946.

Edited too much! I remember watching the original when it came out on a cable television premium channel. The parts that where horrifying and I would never forget, have been edited out.I will even say censored. The castration scene, the rape scenes are all part of the horror of the film.   The movie in itself has alot of cliches but, the script is pretty honest in it revelations about how deep racism is embetted in the southern communities, i.e. the demonstration rally for voting and equal rights, where the mayor notices no local blacks are participating and states if they were, he would "have their jobs" at his lumber company.   I have always thought about this movie and I have always liked it. I do not like how it has been CENSORED, which I guess, goes back to heart of the movie itself - change and the truth is hard to deal with. Somewhere the complete released movie is shelved away.

Thought Provoking I really enjoyed the film.  very thought provoking, and i do feel God spoke to me through the film.  it definitely made me think.  my only criticism of the film, and the reason i gave it 4, instead of 5 stars, is i think it will rub some people the wrong way.  some will just hear 'YOU MUST REPENT' and will automatically be turned off by the film.  IMO, this kind of tactic doesnt work in sermons (its why i have a hard time attending church), it doesnt work outside a mainstream rock concert, at universities, at gaming conventions like blizzcon, etc.  all it does is turn people away from God.  we are not perfect.  just because we accept Christ into our hearts does NOT automatically mean we are going to stop sinning.  God knows this.  its the reason Christ died on the cross.  He died for our sins.  In my opinion, what Christ wants from us, is to 1, accept Him into our hearts, 2 hear His call when He beckons, and 3, be honest with ourselves.  understand that nobody is perfect, accept people of ALL walks of life for who and what they are, and realize that we are going to make mistakes.  again though, there are some great messages in the film, and i do recommend it.  however, because of what i said above, id have a hard time wanting to show this to an atheist/agnostic.

Sweet love story amid changing business models in the 1990s Hanks and Ryan are a perfect match for a deliberately  paced, if somewhat incredible, love story in New York. I found myself smiling thinking back to the dawn of internet chatrooms in the 1990s... I used them myself though of course I grew out of them and have since moved to dedicated forums for my various interests (travel, photography, music...) and dating websites for meeting potential partners. Listening again to the whirring and hissing of narrow-band dial-up connection had a nostalgic effect on me!  A wonderful feel-good story but much more. It is also the story of modern cities, where traditional family businesses are jeopardized by megastores which offer larger selections and lower prices. It is happening all over the world. Megastores in turn are threatened by e-commerce. I don't share the romantic view that it was better in the good old days of small stores, where one was forced to choose from a smaller selection of goods on offer (be it books or anything else) and had to pay higher prices. Old stores, like everybody else,  must adapt to the new world or they will inevitably disappear. Long live Amazon!

Fade to Grey I hope this doesn't come as too big of a shock to you: but you're dying. Oh, it probably will take years and I certainly hope for most of us we're talking a multitude of decades. But I can only think of two people who avoided death (they're in the Bible and their names start with `E', you can look it up) and the odds are against us joining that exclusive club.  The Grey is a film about a group of men that are facing death, likely to be sooner rather than later. A group of roughneck oil men survive a plane crash in the Alaskan wilderness but death in the form of starvation, exposure, wolf attack (you read that right) or a number of other unexpected and unpleasant possibilities seems imminent. (There's a reason the phrase "Feel Good Movie of the Year" doesn't appear on the film's lobby posters.)  When we first meet the character played by Liam Neeson, Ottway, he is contemplating suicide for reasons that are not initially revealed. But instead he boards the doomed flight and soon finds himself fighting for his life.  In these dire circumstances, the men must deal with the essential choices of fear and faith. One character in the film, Diaz (Frank Grillo), claims to have neither faith nor fear. Ottman calls him a fool for not being afraid in such a time, arguing it is idiocy to be fearless. Another character, Talget (Dermot Mulroney) calls him a fool for not having faith in God and a life to come.  So is fear or fearlessness foolish? (Sorry about the excessive alliteration.) Ottman makes a very persuasive argument that fear is the most rational response to certain situations. But toward the end of the film, Ottman receives powerful arguments against fear from a couple of unexpected sources. The film seems to argue that fear is understandable, perhaps even unavoidable, (director Joe Carnahan certainly give the audience some scares), but something that must be overcome.  For Christians, Scripture also seems to provide a schizophrenic view of fear. Proverbs 9:10 says that "Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." Jesus argues (in Luke 12:5) for the good sense in fearing God. But note that it's just the beginning. The most common command in Scripture, spoken by angels and Jesus Himself is, "Don't be afraid." I John 4:18 says that "Love drives out fear."  The Bible seems to say that fear can be a good start for assessing our situation without God's love and forgiveness. But it has no place in our lives once we have placed our faith in God's goodness. But many of the characters in "The Grey" don't believe in God, let alone a God of Mercy. They've lived brutal lives and are facing the possibility of a brutal death. Where is God in that?  In fact, one of the characters calls out to God to show Himself (in a scene reminiscent of the cries of Job in Scripture, just much more profanity filled) and God seems to be silent.  But is God ever fully silent?  In Romans 1:20, the apostle Paul argues, "For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse."  The film doesn't scrimp on showing the brutality of our fallen world. But we also see much of the beauty of God's creation, not just in the majestic landscapes of the Alaskan wilderness, but also in acts of kindness and bravery from the most unlikely of human sources. Faith in God is essential to live. But it is even, perhaps, more essential for death.  (2012's "The Grey" is quite justifiably rated R for brutal violence and language, but not for the occasionally awkward computer generated wolf images. Don't miss the film's final image which appears after the end credits.)

Good Movie, Blu-Ray Not So Good I agree with Doug now that I bought this on Blu-Ray.  I don't think they did anything other than just take it from the original film over to the Blu-Ray format.  As such, it lacks the clarity of what I normally expect with my High-definition setup.  This is a good buy, just keep in mind that this is not going to be Blu-Ray quality when you get it.  However, I cannot complain because the Blu-Ray was cheaper than the DVD!  You'll get mixed reviews on the movie itself, but I never saw it when it came out and this was my first time seeing the movie.  I really enjoyed it and found that I was drawn in to the story to the point where I felt the stress Dr. Bill was going through.

Tried to incorporate too much o the book... OK, I am a big Hunter fan, and used to be a big Depp fan, but this is not the same magic combination you see in Fear and Loathing... The performance is good, but the script follows the trend of trying to but too much of a book into a movie, making it just a bit awkward and disjointed (ala Atlas Shrugged)...

The Super-Un-Hero Well, at least at first. As near as we can tell, his superpower is to sustain a blood alcohol content that would induce coma in any three other men, plus a rhinocerous or two. But really, he's got it all, the flying thing (even if flying straight doesn't go so well), super strength, bullets bounce off, and all the usual. He just lacks finesse. You know, like knocking on doors in ways that leave the doors, as well as all the other parts of the buildings, in ruins.  Then along comes Ray, the little ray of sunshine. He's out on some mission of Good In The World, with no especially clear idea of what's in it for him or for anyone else. Hancock saves his sorry bum from an improbable doom, with only a few megabucks of collateral damage. As a result, Ray takes on the sacred duty of becoming Hancock's image consultant. It's an easy job, really. There's nowhere to go but up.  Then it gets weird. Good weird, really good. After years of freedom, Hancock goes to jail. He could punch down the walls any time, but Ray assures him that it's good for his street cred, so he manfully avoids removing most of the doors from their frames. He even brings the ball back inbounds when it went out - over the razor wire. And, though he doesn't know it, Ray carries the kryptonite for this superman close to him. That's when the movie rises, at least a little, above simple spoof.  If it ever comes down to Hancock vs. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1582408505">The Pro</a>, she'll have my money for pure attitude. Will Smith does well in this role, though, even if the role could have done more for him.  -- wiredweird

Great teenage fantasy This movie was fun to watch, especially the pretty realistic looking flight scenes. I sympathized with the teenage angst and the repeated tragedies. Sure I'm 47 but I still bear the scars that those few short years left on my emotional landscape. These days 3 years go by pretty quick but 3 years in high school took forever! This movie is arguably targeted toward teenagers but I went anyway. I generally do my best to forget I was ever a teenager and I avoid such movies but if you throw in some telekinesis, I'll go. I just ordered the DVD since I want to see it again without destroying my immortal soul by getting it, shall we say, some other way. I also hope to see some deleted scenes and maybe some commentary from the producers. I crossed my fingers and placed the order.  Ok. Got the DVD. It has some features like a rough CGI outline of some flight scenes and the major battle. It has a couple rehearsals of some of a few scenes with different actors. It doesn't have any commentary from the director though. I'll leave my review at 4 stars. If it had a commentary I'd give it 5.

Entertaining yet Philosophical Im not a film critic so i miss a lot things those in the know may complain about, but i liked it a lot! Simply it's Sci-Fi with Robin Hood as Bonnie & Clyde meet Logan's Run. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0014BY72Q">Logan's Run</a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006MFQ4OS">Logan's Run: Complete Series</a>

Really cool movie Been a while since I've watched such a cool movie. Even though it's on French we were able to keep up ;)

Bond continues to be Super i watched this one on Amazon since i missed it at the theaters.  Great to get ready for the new bond film in November.

It! The Terror From Beyond Space and The Monster That Challenged the World Exactly what I expected. Arrived on time. Great quality DVD.  I bought this for "It!...", a great old 1950s Sci Fi flick where lack of gravity in space is ignored, the women walk around the ship serving coffee and meals to the men, and astronauts just happen to bring along grenades and bazookas on a trip to the moon :) That aside, this movie is probably the primary source of the idea for the movie Alien, so it is worth the watch if only for this.  (There is a sequence on the Moon at the beginning that is later lifted intact and rerun as part of a Twilight Zone episode.)  "The Monster that Challenged the World" is an 'also ran' - a few giant caterpillars that challenge perhaps a dozen people. Historical interest only.

Gunsmoke 3-2 What can I say, it is Gunsmoke.  Love the shows, have been watching them on TV, wanted to own some so started buying.

"Hot Enough For June" When James Bond came along in 1962's DOCTOR NO, he changed the way audiences enjoyed spy movies and the way that filmmakers made them. The success of the franchise also inspired a slew of imitators and spoofs, and one of the earliest - and best - has just come to Blu-ray disc courtesy of VCI Entertainment: 1964's AGENT 8 3/4 (a/k/a HOT ENOUGH FOR JUNE), starring Dirk Bogarde and Sylva Koscina.  Nicholas Whistler (Bogarde, MODESTY BLAISE) is an unemployed, Czech-fluent writer living in England, when he is - completely unbeknownst to him - recruited by British Intelligence for a mission to Prague. He thinks he's on a goodwill visit from a London glass manufacturer, but the Czechoslovakian Secret Police - and everyone else - knows he's a spy. A female Czech operative, the comely Comrade Simonova (Koscina, DEADLIER THAN THE MALE) is assigned to be his driver and keep an eye on him, but before long, she falls for the handsome, hapless writer. By the time that Whistler finally realizes that he is, indeed a spy, he's trapped in Prague, hunted and pursued by the Secret Police, and only the lovely, conflicted Comrade Simonova can possibly help him.  Deftly directed by Ralph Thomas, AGENT 8 3/4 is a breezy, Cold War-era satire that evokes not only 007, but Hitchcock's espionage thrillers, as well. It's suspenseful and even thrilling at times, but also witty and occasionally farcical - which is why a lot of modern viewers might not be able to get a handle on it. The script is clever and sharp, and the cast, which also includes Leo McKern and Robert Morley, is exceptional across the board. Bogarde is amusing and convincing as the somewhat clueless unintentional agent who must rise to the occasion when his support system falls apart, and Koscina is just stunningly gorgeous. The cinematography is beautiful, even when portraying the drab, behind-the-Iron Curtain world of Communist Czechoslovakia. Overall, it's a slick, early-Sixties spy-fi spoof and highly entertaining, if you're in the right mindset.  VCI's new Blu-ray disc appears to be the same high-def transfer used by the UK company, Network, presented in 1.78:1 widescreen 1080p HD. Picture quality is astoundingly good - with the exception of one or two brief shots, detail and colors appear to be perfect. VCI offers two audio options: Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono and an enhanced 5.1 remix. The only extras are a theatrical trailer (under the original British title of HOT ENOUGH FOR JUNE) and a still photo gallery. The title is also available in standard-def DVD.  AGENT 8 3/4 (I have to say, I like the British title much better) is a great slice of sly Cold War pop culture, and a must-see for fans of 60s spy flicks.

Still Rockin after all these years! Having seen Bad Company on tour in the 90's I was looking forward to seeing what they would sound like now. This dvd doesn't disappoint. I will admit that it seems to start out a little slow, but the songs are familiar and the music is great. I don't think I will ever tire of the older rockers, beats todays music hands down!

Modern, Sexy, Provacative Love Story W/ a Twist This is truely a modern day love story. Samantha and Mason are a twentysomething couple in an open relationship. They have always told eachother about their hook-ups. When each one meets someone else, lies and untold truths start being told and each of them start questioning if having an open relationship is healthy and if it will work. Twists in the plot thicken when friends are involved and Samantha discovers she is pregnant. Can everyone ever figure out what being in love is really about?  I really liked this movie. It is deep, kind of dark, and very emotional. Well written with good actors. If you like the movie Garden State you will definately like this movie.

"No chair for Mr. Yellow" One fatalistic line spoken by the Police take-down team as they rev up the engines to head to the stake out, says it all for one of their own:  "A guy must have rocks in his head the size of Gibraltar to go under cover".  Or of approximately the same size, but lower down.  Or too young and full of theory to fully realize what something like this could quickly turn into.  The story line is very good, the dialog excellent, but if you haven't got a strong - very strong- stomach for violence, this may not be for you.  I had to turn away on some of it, but that's just me.  It's about a diamond heist planned and synchronized down to the gnat's tooth by a set of rogues who have performed successfully many times before in this line of work;  headed up by a patriarch master mind who is grooming his son as second-in-command; the kid has inherited all of his his dad's outlaw mentality and guts but not nearly enough of his brains to go with it.  It's hard to figure.  You are ripped out of a complacent beginning to see things go south almost immediately and thereby is the interesting concept of the whole story:  it begins up front as though it will be continuous, revealing the differing personalities of the gang of thieves as they converse over coffee and crumpets with the usual high/low banter.  Then, it begins to go backward, showing the prior circumstances of each player and how they signed up and why - all intricately tied together as it progresses.  Names are never revealed between the men for the obvious reasons; instead, the old Godfather personally assigns each man a "Mr. Color" - along with his pep talk - that will be his code name.  Mr. White, Mr. Orange, etc.  Everybody but "Mr. Pink" is satisfied with their color.  Nobody gets "Mr. Yellow", that's not a joking matter, it seems.  It turns out to be a catastrophe for virtually every one involved from the git go - police and criminal alike.  The "twists" are many; the "turns" dead ends.  No puns.

For historians You need to love old movies or be a movie historian to enjoy this movie otherwise it will come over as corny. The video and audio are good for the period. This movie is in my collection because I collect Best Picture Oscar Winners. Still worth having.

Best Sci-Fi of 2012 I can't wait for part 2. Not as good as the original alien & aliens, but left me thinking about the possibilities.

Better than 2003! I didn't really like the 2003 HULK Movie. I was hesitant to see this one because of how boring the other one was. When I watched this, I was SO Happy! It was ACTUALLY GOOD! It wasn't as boring either!

Not for the Faint of Mind People don't seem to get this in terms of the big picture. As a standard action movie it's a little slow, but the action stuff is the least interesting part of the film.  This story is about the relationship between humanity and nature. The people of this world live entirely cut off from everything natural, though there are occasionally pristine manicured lawns and apparently genetically-engineered fruits. Outside the walls is dense jungle, kept constantly at bay by a constant spray of poisons from automated machines. Inside everything is perfect, monitored, and tightly controlled.  There's a resistance movement struggling against the leadership but it isn't clear why. Aeon, the protagonist, is sent to kill the leader, Goodchild. On her mission she learns that the world isn't what she thought it was.  People who don't get this story are focusing too close, looking at it in terms of human characters. Don't. Consider it instead in terms of nature struggling to reclaim what has been taken by humanity, and a completely different picture emerges. Nature itself is a character, here.

Possible Spoilers CONTAINS SPOILERS This movie was a little gem. The genius was in its simplicity. There is tension, buildup, genuinely scary moments...and it's not some ridiculous monster or supernatural being, it's a bunch of crazy drifters. No one knows why crazy people do the things they do and none of it makes sense. The acting for a small budget film like this is damn good. Even Tara Reid, who I pretty much expected to stink up the joint is really good. Cloris Leachman really steals the entire movie, she plays a wonderful, weird and crazy grandmother really well. The filmakers did an incredible job of getting the setting (1973) right and attending to the smallest of details. I don't know why there are so many low ratings, I loved this film. Just don't go into it expecting a supernatural gorefest. It's more like a subtle, spooky, suspense. Not a horror film, but still enjoyable if you give it a chance.

One of the lucky ones. I purchased mine through a different vendor and the set I recieved had very little damage. I'm halfway through the series and have found only one disk with scratches and it worked fine in my bluray player.  I won't comment on the series itself since most people probably already have an opinion in that regard. Nor will I rate the packaging as that has been discussed ad nauseum. Instead I'm going to evaluate the way it was compiled and published.  Pros: It's all here. Plenty of supplimental material(featurettes, commentary). Episode guide book w/ brief synopses that aren't spoilers for the newcomers yet provide enough info for established fans to identify the desired episode.  Cons: The early seasons, originally broadcast in 4:3 aspect ratio, were cropped to 16:9. I would have prefered to see them in their OAR. Less is more and there would be many fewer foreheads being chopped off. It appears, though, that the producers gradually began framing it for 16:9 even while they were still being broadcast in 4:3.  The pilot and most of the first seasons had fairly poor video quality. Some looked like it had a lot of compression artifacts. It may also be the cameras they used early on. Later seasons(3 or so and beyond)show significant improvement in PQ.  In addition to the scratch issues already sited by so many, the early season(s) disks also seem to be slightly out of balance and cause my players to vibrate. It's not enough to keep them from playing but very noticeable audibly. It makes me a little concerned about wear & tear on my players.  Finally, the chapter points are seemingly random or each episode was divided into equal length chapters rather than at commercial breaks as is traditional w/ tv series box sets. If, after you've seen the title sequence 20 or more times and you want to skip past it now, it will not jump to the end of the title but several minutes into the next act.  Conclusion: I'm very satisfied with this set but I'm not totally w/out reservations. Because of the packaging issues I've decided to store the set in a different storage solution. The box itself will merely be an "objet d'art" on the shelf.

great DVD This movie stands the test of time. It's filmed in a grainy older format but it doesn't lose the impact of the story.

Superior to Other "Robins" Was stunned how good this movie is. The restoration makes it look incredible and the story is a Clean adventure. To tame by todays standards but a FAR superior movie than all other Robin Hoods. This should be the way other same genre movies should be compared.

The Ron Clark Story This was a good purchase, a family rated film to share with everyone. Matthew Perry did a good job in this film.

Cheap price for a decent dvd Came quick and in like new shape. I like the 1st transporter more but this one was still ok. A little more sleazy and less original is how I would put it but everyone has their own preferences so you will have to watch it for yourself.

enjoyed it Helen Hunt did a good job directing and acting in this movie about second chances. The romantic chemistry worked very believably for me, while it moved a bit fast. Ms. Hunt's unglossed appearance added at times to the emotional rollar coaster she was riding. Other times, she looked so bad that it was a bit distracting. Bottom line: enjoyed it and would watch it again.

Much better than I expected I only saw this one on the recommendation of a friend.  I expected another post-apocalyptic shoot up the badguys film with no plot.  Well, it had a pretty good plot and a good deal of meaning.  I'm surprised the politically correct Hollywood types let this film be made.  Good job.

Rock N Roll This is a very good movie, as good as "The Buddy Holly Story" or "La Bomba". I recommend this film to eny one who likes good old rock n roll.

Greatest Classic Films Collection: Comedy I love Arsenic and Old Lace!  My daughters (16 years old & 22 years old) watched it with me and thoroughly enjoyed it.  My youngest thought Cary Grant was "hot".  Father of the Bride is priceless and The Long Long Trailer is a hoot! I haven't watched "A Night at the Opera" yet.  Great DVD!  Good clean family fun. Arsenic and Old Lace is a rather dark and morbid for young children.  You are dealing with murder (several of them).  I would say no one younger than 12 years old just because of the dark humor.

Liked it! Very helpful during pregnancy. I had a lot of lower back pain while pregnant, and started taking pilates classes. The instructor also recommended that I buy this DVD and said that it was the best pilates DVD out there since it follows guidelines from the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology.  While it does start a little slow, it has very good exercises and a routine. It really helped my back and I'm so thankful I did it during pregnancy so that once baby was born, I didn't have back issues to then deal with!

"Beats a Messiah complex any day" You know, it irks me when Jean-Claude Van Damme goes on nowadays about how dissatisfied he's been with his career. Can't he see how fun his direct-to-video stuff like "The Order" was? Maybe Van Damme's just eager for something straight and serious at this point in his life, but I really appreciate the creativity the low-budget realm afforded his movies. Coupled with his relative luck at snagging directors capable enough to make the most of limited resources, he has had more to celebrate for this stage of his career than Seagal or Lundgren, and while "The Order" is not a flawless movie, it has the energy and originality to make for a worthwhile 90-minute time-waster, definitely worth owning.  The story: Rudy Cafmeyer (Van Damme) is a successful international thief whose father (Vernon Dobtcheff, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003FXXNH6">Undisputed III: Redemption</a>) goes missing while studying an ancient Templar sect in Jerusalem. In pursuit, Rudy will need to engage a religious fanatic determined to initiate an act of international terrorism (Brian Thompson, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6304779607">Cobra</a>).  Director Sheldon Lettich had done consistently good work with Van Damme throughout his mainstream career, and his generally good quality of production carries over to this feature: with the exception of a couple inauspicious transitions and unnecessary jump cuts, along with a particularly fake-looking CGI explosion, "The Order" looks way more professional than a lot of other DTV flicks from the same period. It also packs a lot more action than is the norm for movies shot for $12 million: six hand-to-hand fights, three car chases, and one surprisingly good on-foot chase. It's clearly a stunt double riding the motorcycle during the middle chase, but for the rest of the action, Van Damme seems to be supplying his own moves or is disguising a stunt double particularly well. His fistfights are all pretty good, but I wish his showdown with fellow action guy Brian Thompson was a bit more satisfying: though it's one of the rare instances wherein Van Damme prominently fights with a weapon (i.e. a sword), the fight's not quite as long or climatic as the film warranted.  Speaking of swords, the movie's notable for featuring a few things you can't see in any of Jean-Claude's other features. Religious-themed pictures in general were a first for Van Damme - lagging behind <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6305767866">Schwarzenegger</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00008L3S7">Lundgren</a> by one year - but it's remarkable/disappointing that he goes all the way to Jerusalem without really addressing the real-life events of the area. The movie opens with a dramatic narrative and historical flashback (ever wanna see Van Damme playing a Crusader? Here's your chance!) and closes with a Jackie Chan-esque highlight/blooper reel, neither of which are quite as entertaining as they ought to be but I appreciate the novelty. At one point, Van Damme's character goes incognito as a Haredi Jew, complete with beard. Most significantly, however, is the casting of Charlton Heston (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009UZG1O">Ben-Hur</a>) in this movie. With the possible exception of Forest Whittaker in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006RCOC">Bloodsport</a>, Heston is the single most acclaimed actor to appear in a Van Damme film, with the added gravity of this being his last live-action feature to see wide release prior to his death. (SPOILER) His scenes are isolated to the first half of the film and his character's death is abrupt and disappointing, but it's still oddly satisfying to see him and Van Damme interact with such apparent ease. There's a bit of Heston's characteristic fire in his delivery, but the only action he gets in on is smacking a thug in the back with his cane.  Brian Thompson's character could have definitely used a bit more screentime and development, but at least he made room for the good-looking Sofia Milos (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000H7JCEG">CSI: Miami</a>) to hound Jean-Claude for the majority of the movie, which ended up persevering beyond its faults and being pretty darn fun. Serious cinema snobs needn't bother, but Van Damme fans should welcome this one's uniqueness among the man's filmography. Get it, action fans.

Great deal, Good Season...But..... This is a great price for a good season of Law and order. I have watched 8 episodes so far...2 dvd's. I must say that if I had to choose, I would pick Season 14 over this one. Season 14 is my favorite so far. If you are deciding on one to buy 1st, I highly recommend season 14. It is about the same price. For some reason it has a lower overall rating but in my opinion it is the best compilation of Law and Order episodes on DVD.

Enjoyable sequel Some sequels turn out to be really bad, but this one was highly enjoyable (if not as good as the first) and I really liked the character of Davy Jones, man oh man what a great villain! Johnny Deep does a great job as Jack Sparrow (as usual) and if you liked the first movie, you definitely should enjoy this!

Deserves Its Status as a Classic Film Walter Pidgeon is the new preacher, Maureen O'Hara is the only girl in a family of six boys, and Roddy McDowall is her youngest brother. The setting is a small coal mining town in Wales, the time is Victoria's reign. There's a coal miner's strike, which rouses the Morgan clan, and their mother goes out into the snow-covered country to challenge a meeting of miners. On the way home, she and her son fall into the river, and nearly freeze before they are pulled out. This puts McDowall and his mother in bed for an entire winter and into the spring, making it a question whether McDowall will ever walk again. But with the preacher's help, her goes up into the hills to gather daffodils for his mother in the spring, and the preacher persuades him that he can walk, and he does.  There are scenes of McDowall going to school, and his sadistic SOB of a schoolmaster, who gets his comeuppance from the local prizefighter. But instead of deciding to go into law or medicine, as his father wants, he goes down into the mines, like his brothers and his father.  There are two bad accidents in the mines, one which kills the oldest son, and another that kills the father. The rest of the boys leave for America, South Africa, and Canada.  I'm not telling this in the proper sequence, and there's lots, lots more. It's a good story, well told, and I can recommend it to anyone. I especially loved the music and singing; we are told that singing was as much a part of these people as breathing. At one point the local singing group is asked to perform for the Queen.

great show i didn't know what to expect going in, but it turned out to be a great show.  this was recommended by some family members, which is not always a good thing, but i gave it a shot and was really pleased.  good characters, good storyline, i am looking forward to the next season!

Director's cut? In my top 10 all time list but this version blows. It's in extreme letter box and the resolution sucks. Just get the regular version.

Crude and funny - normalizes gay humor Not too many movies have done well when centering the film around the topic of homosexuality. Adam Sandler and Kevin James both complement each other very well in this movie. The plot is ridiculous, Adam Sandler's womanizer lifestyle is a sideshow, and there are many laugh out loud gay jokes. Though some of the gay jokes were bland and made me roll my eyes, this movie was very entertaining.  Jessica Biel is also drop-down gorgeous and is enough reason to take a look at this movie.  You'll see some of the many popular themes like teamwork, resilience, parenthood, and some tradebook crude Adam Sandler jokes in the mix.

Colorful cartoon that teaches good moral lessons I ordered The Smurf's Holiday Celebration DVD to watch this Christmas season with my grandchildren and decided to watch it first.  It is 48 minutes long and contains two stories;  "The Smurfs' Christmas Special" and "Tis the Season to be Smurfy."  My daughter used to love the Smurfs when she was growing up, so now her children can enjoy them as well.  "The Smurf's Christmas Special" finds the Smurfs busy preparing for Christmas, decorating their village and making Great Pudding, while Gargamel, as always, is busy thinking of ways to destroy the little blue folks.  Along comes a horse and sleigh carrying two children and their grandfather.  Their sleigh overturns, and the story's focus turns to the two lost children seeking help.  The Smurfs find the frightened children and take them to their village where they share with them their presents, pudding, and songs.  The children think Papa Smurf is Santa Claus.  Gargamel teams up with an evil stranger to kidnap the children, but evil is thwarted when the Smurfs repeatedly sing the song "Goodness makes the badness go away."  There is, of course, a happy ending.  The evil stranger, the kidnapping of the children, and a circle of fire that they are trapped in may be a bit scary for very young children, but I would say this show would be fine for ages 5 and up.  For younger children, a parent might want to watch it with them to answer any questions about what is taking place.  In the second movie, "Tis the Season to be Smurfy", the Smurfs are again busy decorating their village for Christmas.  Grandpa Smurf takes Sassette to the human village  to see how they celebrate Christmas Eve, and they discover that not all humans are as "smurfy" as they should be, meaning some of them are bad.  They discover an elderly puppet maker who has an ailing wife, and she has a wish of seeing Christmas elves.  Grandpa Smurf and Sassette decide to find a way to make their Christmas Eve smurfier, but they have a hard time convincing the other Smurfs to take the time to help.  Papa Smurf shows up to remind all the Smurfs that they shouldn't be so busy with their own holiday preparations that they fail to see that there are people who have greater needs.  And so the entire Smurf clan trudges their way through a snow storm to bring Christmas cheer to the old couple.  An evil thief causes a mixup that almost gets the old couple arrested, but the thief is convinced by the Smurfs that giving is better than taking.  Again, I would suggest this movie for ages 5 and up unless you watch it with them.  The story line is a little too fast paced and complicated for children younger than that.  Both movies share the values of helping those in need, sharing what you have with others, and caring for those less fortunate.

really good was glad i saw this on sale finally. i love true ghost stuff and have a huge collection of books and movies. good price for such a big collection all in one!

Good movie This is a good movie. It was given to me for Xmas last year. I'm happy I got this movie because it isn't a movie that I would usually watch. The only thing I didn't like about Jeremiah Johnson was the beginning and middle part of the movie. Because they focused on a picture while music is playing. i just skipped those parts. I thought something was wrong with my dvd player when that happened lol.

Jeff Dunham Monsters This movie is funny as always with Jeff Dunham.  The format was kind of off in my book.  I prefer his stand up routine over this anyday.

So, I'm a history nut The post WWII Nuremburg Trials were a landmark in jurisprudence and in setting a standard by which the actions of nations were to be gauged.  The trial of the major Nazi leaders, with a U.S. Associate Supreme Court Justice as the prosecutor, brought the term Crimes Against Humanity into common knowledge.  The entire concept of putting war criminals on trial, rather than dealing with them through military courts martial or, as the Soviets wished in this case, through show trials or no trials followed by summary executions.  Also of significance, for the first time, organizations were put on trial.  The NAZI Party, SS, Gestapo, SD and others parts of Hitler's government and political bureaucracy were in effect defendants in this trial.  Don't worry, this TV miniseries has enough non-courtroom time with some sexual tensions thrown in to keep people who are bored by history interested.  The acting is generally first rate, the scenic recreations credible and the historical accuracy great, though there are time constraints.

Hero `Hero' is a film that, whilst stunningly beautiful and with amazing cinematography, is one that can only be fully enjoyed the first time around. Sadly it loses it's impact with repeated viewing. Following an assassin who attempts to kill the emperor this film has plenty of plot twists and intrigue. Coupled with the vivid colours, incredible locations and set design and flawless fight choreography this makes for one visual feast. I've come to realise that however amazing the fight scenes are, they are less impressive second time round and they actually drag by the end of the film. Scene after scene of flowing combat, however graceful, become tiresome after a while. Luckily this film has a strong enough plotline to sustain it. Jet Li is great in the main role and all the supporting actors are highly admirable as well. This film is very much in the vein of others produced around this time ('Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon`, `House of Flying Daggers' and `Curse of the Golden Flower') I.e. it has lush, rich colours, awe inspiring costume design and the cinematography/direction is highly polished. This makes for a short, but captivating film and although it may lose it's charm after the first time you watch it, that first time is so breath taking it more than makes up for it.  Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.

Nearly captures the greatness of the book The book upon which this movie is based was a classic of American 1960's literature. If you're interested in the time period and like to read, run out and get the book right now. If you prefer movies to books (no judgements), or already read the book, then this movie is a worthwhile adaptation.  Director (& screenplay co-writer) Terry Gilliam is a genius in his own right. Watching him interpret the book is a joy. The movie captures the intensity and mood of Hunter Thompson's work: hilarious in places, terrifying in others, and always surreal. It will make you want to get back in touch with your inner drug-addled anarchist.  Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro's performances are outstanding. If nothing else, the movie can be savored for those alone.

ONE HELL OF A MOVIE I AM 50 YEARS OLD AND JUST A REG GUY. LOVE space movies and u no guys flicks,but I tell you what' this is a great movie. Ya boy JUSTIN SHOWS JUST HOW GOOD HE IS AND IS A VERY GIFTED ACTOR. GOT TO WATCH THIS ONE..

Looking forward to watching many times I loved this movie from the time it came out and I have watched it several times already.  Love Robin Williams and Nathan Lane

Dark and NOT Made for Kids To clear up common misconceptions. This, and many other animated superhero films, specifically DC Comics, are not made at all for children. Hence the PG-13 rating. That out the way, this was a dark and gritty Batman movie. Very 'real world' much like Nolan's films. In fact this had shades of Batman Begins. I can see this story's influence on that film. Much respect there for the material. The voice acting was ok. I'm not the one to whine about where's Conroy. He, like Christopher Reeve, don't own the character though they did great jobs. This movie could've been longer but that's fine. I also loved the tough Gordon character. DC has been on a role with these. Keep 'em coming. Now, besides Batman, maybe DC can get their live films up to par. Maybe Man of Steel next year will make a run. Maybe.

Good for its age The story is beautiful but it's easy to see why DVDs are better than VHS. Quality is so-so but one tends to forget that while being absorbed into the story.

Raider of the Lost Ark meets Water World I thought this was a good movie. Nicely cast and well acted. Plot could have been a little stronger but a worthy effort none the less. Good for fans of Ian Somerhalder. It was nice to see James Brolin though he was killed off far to early in the movie.

Pretty Grim, But Well Done I avoided the book, and I avoided the film for the longest while, too. Over ten years, it says here. But Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise and Antonio Banderas are almost as desirable to me as Johnny Depp, so when I got a bargain on it, I bought it. I'm not sure whether I'm glad or not.  It's a horror film, alright, although it's beautifully filmed. The actors, set designers, location scouts, special effects men, costume designers, lighting men (oh, yes; many problems with light in the film, artfully solved) all did their jobs well.  One of the reasons I avoided this film was the vampire Claudia, played by Kirsten Dunst, who is only a child. Rather small child, in fact, maybe 7 or 8 years old. People who become vampires never age past the day they were bit. But their minds mature, they can learn things, and so she seems to be a child prodigy, playing the piano like an expert, dancing majestically, talking like an adult (way too much like an adult), and having the passions of an adult. But not the body.  This disturbed me, and was the main reason I avoided the book and movie all these years. After all, this little girl (who must obviously be played by a child actress) is traveling with two very adult, very sensuous men. She eventually screams at them, "Which one of you did this to me?" and throws a considerable tantrum over the whole thing.  Claudia turns out to be the most vicious and heartless of the three. Lestat (Tom Cruise) is bold and unapologetic, but points out he was not given a choice when he was made a vampire, the way he gave Louis (Brad Pitt) a choice. Eventually we meet the vampire Armand (Antonio Banderas) who "created" Lestat. But Louis has a conscience, and tries to survive on the blood of "rats and poodle dogs," as Lestat sneeringly described it. But as Lestat predicted, he eventually got over that.  They started in New Orleans, then went traveling, especially to Paris. There Armand followed Louis one day and, to prove he was a real vampire, danced on the ceiling of an archway. He gives Louis a card announcing the Vampire Theater, and Louis & Claudia go see it. It doesn't take them long to realize that what they are seeing is vampires pretending to be humans playing vampires. They also figure that the young woman who "plays" a sacrificial victim at the end of the play really is dead.  OK, I'll not spoil it for you. Let's just say it's harder to kill a vampire than Buffy lead you to believe.

Review by the parent of a 4 year old ... (Spoilers) The good:  * The animation is really rather wonderful. If you are grew up with the old Rankin & Bass classics every Christmas and Easter and/or are a fan of the weirdness of Tim Burton, then I think you'll like this. It is fairly "jerky" but I think that's just a part of its charm.  * The blu ray is crystal clear. You can see every hair on each animal, every leaf on every tree really stands out etc. The clarity of the picture is just fantastic.  * I actually quite liked George Clooney!  There, I've said it!  A lot of people hated him and felt he was just being lazy and revising his Ocean's 11 character but I thought he was actually quite good and really suited the part of the cheeky Mr Fox.  The bad:  * The whole film is shot in oranges and browns and that's pretty much it. There were a few night scenes that had a nice rich blue but otherwise, I felt, it was lacking in colour. Other people might feel that that too is just a part of the film's charm but I had to go outside and stare at my lawn for a while to remember what the colour green looks like! So it may not hold the attention of young kids for too long.  * The character of the animal children are voiced by adults. Now that may not bother some / most people but it did bother me. The character of Mr Fox's son Ash (voiced by Jason Schwartzman) was just creepy! I just think children's characters should be voiced by ... well ... children.  * The character of Rat (voiced by Willem Dafoe) might be too scary for littlies especially when he pulls out a flick knife. Rat also refers to Mr Fox's wife as "the town tart in her day". Try explaining that to your kid when they turn to you and ask "what's a town tart?" ...  The ugly:  * The constant (and irritating) use of the word "cuss". Here's an example of just one scene (Mr Fox has an argument with his lawyer Badger (Bill Murray)): "I'm going to ignore your advice" "The cuss you are" "The cuss am I, are you cussing with me?" "No, are you cussing with me?" "Don't cussing point at me" "Don't cuss with me you little cuss" ... And this is just one scene. Believe me - it's right through the whole film. I mean if you're going to swear, then swear but this really isn't appropriate in a film aimed at children.  * Here are a couple of lines that I was very surprised to find in a movie aimed at children: "Those farmers aren't going to quit until they've got you and every member of your family nailed upside down to a bloody stick with your eyes gouged out." and "But at the end, he's just another dead rat in a garbage pail behind a Chinese restaurant."  I gave this four stars because I actually quite liked The Fantastic Mr Fox but if I had known about some of the lines in it, I would not have let my 4 year old watch it.  This is really a quirky film for adults rather than a traditional film for kids.

not bad would have enjoyed it more if the dialogue was more present day - this movie has  intense Shakspearean dialogue, sometimes difficult to follow line by line.

I'll have more cheese, please!! Let's check off the USMC movie cliches:  Stoic sergeant on the doorstep to retirement, who lost men his prior mission and has to win the trust of his new squaddies? Check!  Noob Lieut with all the training and none of the experience, who chokes under pressure but redeems himself later? Check!  Throwaway civilian kid told to be a brave little soldier? Check!  Letter to wifey handed off during a suicide run to save the others? Check!  Obligatory cute civvy female who gets rescued, proves to be a plucky potential love interest, but the marine with the option is too good a man (or too focused on duty) to take advantage of it? Check!  Was-never-a-marine-but-a-good-man sacrificial civilian casualty? Check!  Chip on shoulder squaddy with a 'history' learning to love his Sgt? Check!  Virgin squaddie just hoping to survive to get some? Check!  Oh, and cyborged militarized aliens and L.A. getting the poop blown out of it and pretty fair effects and soundtrack too.  Seriously, aside from the horribly overused and ludicriously stupid SF trope that Earth is a target because "its' the only place with liquid water" (what, interstellar aliens can't *thaw ice* or mine vapor from gas giants??? REALLY????), this was pretty fun. It's not Saving Private Ryan. It's not Black Hawk Down. It's not Alien, Aliens, Predator, Independence Day...for that matter it's not even "The Arrival". But it's still fun and a great excuse to pound some popcorn and a beer or two. Looks great in full HD on the Blu-Ray version too.  Retreat? Heck no!

Better than you'd think.... At first I wasn't sure if Top Shot was going to good. Because most reality TV shows are faked. If you want the real the deal, then this is what you are looking for.   The general concept of the show is pretty simple: 16 shooters are selected and divided into two teams, the Blue and the red team. The first half of the show is the team challenge, where the two teams compete to see which team will send a member home. Before each challenge, they have the team practice with the weapon(s) that will be used in the challenge. After the challenge, the loosing team goes to the Nominating Range, were they pick who will be facing off in the elimination challenge. The way they nominate, I think anyways, is unique. They set up circular targets with contestants names on them and shoot them with a handgun. Then the two players with the most votes go to the elimination challenge.... and only one will be coming back.   Also, if you like to see stuff blown to smithereens in slow motion, then this is your show. If you have any interest in guns, then you will love this show.   All in all, this show is realistic, entertaining, and just plain cool.

Great value for the price, not very good packaging This Limited Edition Collection is great value for every Kubrick fan out there: you'll find that the quality of these films is top notch, as much as in video as in audio. There's no need to do a review for the films, because that's been done several times elsewhere, and if you are looking to but this package then you will already know how good these movies are. However, there's an issue with the packaging of the blu-ray discs. That is not a lie, be warned. I don't know if it is bad enough as to "destroy" the discs, as someone else said, but it might just damage them, because it makes it real hard to handle them, and it ends up scratching the discs. What I did was to just put the discs in separate cases and save the original box more as a souvenir than as a storing device for blu-ray discs. Hope you find this review useful!

It was nothing great but there is potential Alright so I have never read the books and still have yet to, all though I'm sure I will someday. This movie was nothing great it lacked so much, but I'm not surprised it's Hollywood. Take any good idea cut it up into little pieces and then film it. This movie had great potential for being one hell of a good movie, but it was destroyed by the 1:30:00 dead line that is for some reason the guide lines for movie making... I don't get it. If they had given this movie a longer run time and given the story time to develop and evolve It could have been a Masterpiece. What made The Lord of The Rings so great? The fact that Peter Jackson didn't settle for half-assed. while he couldn't exactly make 10 hour movies he crammed every piece he could into those movies and gave them a decent run time that gave him a lot of breathing room on what he could incorporated.  So would I like to see a sequel? Absolutely but for the love of god make it more than an hour and a half, and stop taking the story and giving us the summary.  The movie was disappointing but the CG was phenomenal and Rachael Wiesz as the voice over was a good pick. Overall I'd say watch the movie if your bored.

Mandatory viewing for the betrothed This movie was an unexpected delight! I had not read the book, so I had no preconceived notions, but it was a wonderful plot and well acted. I think all couples who are engaged or thinking about getting engaged should watch this movie (not necessarily together). It gives one a lot to think about prior to getting married. The lead character, Fanny Price, is a very wise young woman who sees more than many others of her age and time. What fun to find Hugh Bonneville (Sir Grantham of "Downton Abbey") buried in a supporting role in this 1999 movie. I found this film to be a combination of tragedy, romance, and comedy, particularly the latter in the way it was directed. It was time well spent!

Interesting animation, cute storyline. I discovered this animated feature as it played on TV and decided to purchase it for my collection. I find the world the story develops in very interesting, and the animation is excellent. The attempts to make the sidekick funny fall short and he becomes kind of obnoxious. Most of the story is alright for younger viewers but the end "battle" might be a bit strong. Forest Whitaker is very good as the main character's voice, a soulful giant with a deep heart.

Rifftrax's Best Effort This 90-ish minute collection of Christmas-related shorts (plus a couple of non-Christmas efforts for good measure) is easily the best release from the Rifftrax crew yet.  These guys really seem to hit their stride with short films.  The highlights are "A Visit to Santa's Workshop", featuring two kids who speak incoherently and a Santa that sounds like a wise guy (the Rifftrax crew suggest that it was made by David Lynch), and a Rudolph cartoon that turns inexplicably suggestive to the point that the audience is just screaming laughter and the riffers miss some lines. These shorts would have you on the floor laughing even without the riffing.  There's also three old commercials for toys that will leave you going "Wow.  Just...wow."  Plus, Weird Al Yankovic guest riffs one of the shorts.  My two negatives for this release...There are times where it's hard to understand what the riffers are saying...Kevin in particular...because of the echoing sound of the live performance.  And it would have been nice if they included the shorts as standalone extra features.  Still...this will be the funniest Christmas show you own.  A must for your Christmas collection.

excellent movie excellent movie with great acting. there are some holes in why what the husbands does in the end works, but not a big issue.

Can you say Twist. I love watching movies, so i already knew what was gonna happen when i started watching it. My title gives it away, but whatever...HA!....Its a good movie.

Beyond Beyond the Door I was totally freaked out as a child when the TV ad came on and I ran away well Beyond the Door every time it came on!  When her head started turning all the way around I was really scared!  My mother went to see it by herself and I never had a chance to see it until I just recently purchased it to finally see what I missed out on after all of these years.  Well, as I had grown up in San Francisco I was very pleased to watch this movie just to see my hometown back in the day.  As far as the movie itself is concerned, it is somewhat of an Exorcist knock-off but true horror fans like me might appreciate and enjoy several scenes.  It is dated, no question about that, but I am happy I have it.

Excellent movies Great movies and picture quality. I just wish they didn't use double sided DVDs. A mere 10 cents more would've made individual DVDs and it would've been greatly appreciated.

Here again, I thought I was ordering 3d..BUT.. I use the Mitsubishi 3d WD73640 and the sony 3d bluray player..  The 2d depth setting in the menu under 3d tv..makes this movie  jump out at you..I still can believe the depth you get!  Almost  like 3d..not quite!

Just what I expected and it was fantastic. I've been waiting nearly 4 years for this film and it did not disappoint.  Exactly what I expected.  A satirical B-Movie with Great Special Effects and a fantastic score by Laibach.  I recommend it to anyone that doesn't take their entertainment tastes too seriously and our open to B-Grade films.  Fun!

After Hours This is one of the most unusual movies I've seen in years.  It is really worth the time.  This was a gift.

Good storyline A good plot, but loses credibility over the threshold where the President exercises the War Powers Act for Martial Law within the U.S.

wanted MUCH more historical perspective trying to understand any horrific revolution due to class warfare fascinates me in broad cinema, I appreciate ANY effort to educate and enjoy the entertwining of romance, intrigue, personalities, and lush cinematography, the Ivory-Merchant time stamp... The few references required to elucidate the main characters that ignited Bastille Day etc., would have been overlooked by the bored, appreciated by the interested, and with limited budget consequences... I disliked the portrayal of the slave seductress role and almost convinced me that Jefferson was a victim who ousted a more respectable match in Mdm Cosway... The most interesting aspect of this script alludes to how much the slavery issue impacted women of all statures and was despised for more than moral issues... Never got that POV from Gone With the Wind, and was my take away for this film...  I could not correlate motivations for the age differences with Marie A. and King Louis and left me wondering how many other inacurracies were left to chance over wardrobe choices...  I found Thandie to be a true talent, Nick too stunted with poor Virginian representation, and Gwenneth the worst, nice try with the harpsicord tho!!

Great Cast Cast is amazing: Karl Malden, Eva Marie Saint, Warren Beatty, Angela Lansbury and handsome looking Brandon De Wilde (who died sadly very young at a car accident).  I can't say lot things because the most reviewers wrote about or read please the wikipeadia entry.  The DVD release:  Its a shame that the movie don't get a better official really than just on DVD-R and not restored/remastered. I'm always dissapointed not to have any english subtitles on those Warner Brothers Archive Collection-Release.  PICTURE QUALITY: is very good (no damages or something). SOUND: original MONO.

A different take and very nice surprise As a Zombie movie fan, I have to acknowledge that to find a good or great one you have to sit through an awful lot of wretched ones.  Not Ok movies, not tolerable movies but ones that are simply painful to sit through.  So when a movie like this comes along, it feels like such a relief.  I don't want to give anything away about the plot and, to be honest, beyond it being a road-trip movie there isn't much of one anyway.  Which is fine, it's about the characters and here the two primary ones as well as many of the supporting ones are quite good.  Perhaps more importantly, after so many Romero clones where every human being becomes a sociopathic and untrustworthy idiot within 5 minutes of the first zombie sighting it was actually surprising when people behaved differently here.  I will also say that there was a real sense of dread from quiet zombies I'd not thought about before.  Here, they were scary and unnerving.  My only complaint is the ending.  I won't give it away but I don't like unresolved endings and I don't like arbitrarily downbeat ones.  Without the last 5 minutes this was a 5 star zombie film.  Which is admittedly a sliding scale but there you go!  Worth watching, definitely.

Intresting Arguments, but Slanted Conclusions. The survival of this series...needs a counter-argument. Even if we get a stodgy old dude to say, Yes, there is an image...but, where is the inspiration, the smoking gun?  Since we ALWAYS assume the Historic daily lives by the products found using archaeology...why were no spaceship wrecks EVER found, let alone turning up like the graveyard of the Atlantic...in a bunch of overlapping finds?  Now the PRODUCT INFO: The Blu-Ray version is 1080 HD and the picture is lush. There are only  FIVE EPISODES in the SERIES ONE set. -The Evidence -The Visitors -The Mission -Closer Encounters -The Return BONUS EPISODE History Special- Ancient Aliens: Chariots, Gods, and Beyond These episodes are spread across a 3 disc set.  More on the content:  I have always found Erich von Daniken's (I read CHARIOTS of the GODS when it first came out, at seven years old,) theories refreshing, and even the DaVINCI Code/BibleCode/Bloodline of the Holy Grail onslaught have not shaken my faith...in fact they have added a plausibility to stories I found once far-fetched.  Is is possible that these images/stories are true? Yes. Does that mean a revolution in thinking? Prossibly. Will it negate EVERYTHING we thought up to now? Probably not.  In contemporary history the Native Americans referred to a Rail Road Locomotive as an Iron Horse...the best way they could describe what they saw...with their limited vocabulary. Yet, we KNOW that a Locomotive is not a literal HORSE.  Copernicus dared to presume WE GO AROUND the SUN! Other NUT-CASES? Gallileo, Newton, Einstein, ...and von Daniken.  Such thought makes plus marks for the arguments presented here. Yet, with One backfiring result. Interpretation, if you allow one side to 'adjust' the words by inserting modern clarifications. Another side can adjust the timeline, as in those religionists which claim Dinosaurs roamed the Earth contemporary to pre-flood humans. (There by admitting they existed, but, not agreeing WHEN they are claimed to have existed.)  Now, that said. The images, and information, interpretations, although slanted in FAVOR of the theories. Is fresh and exciting. (some say Sensationalist, well yeah, Chariots of the Gods DID cause a big sensation in the 1960's, flawed tho' it was.)  The Blu-Ray, being Hi-Def is probably a better image, than many American's got to see through their cable/Satellite provider. It avails itself to viewing-and-cueing for comparisons to original source materials. or, stopping to talk with those in the room, which may bring up a counter-point.(IT HAPPENS A LOT!)

One Moment, Please, I need a Tissue Where some films choose Conrad's Heart of Darkness, some follow the darkness into light. This film demonstrates the ubiquitous human spirit to find the humanity in the inhumane. It is a story untold by the Japanese and impaled upon foreign debate by the Chinese. However, when we look at individual accounts and heroics, this film has taken flight in that wind. Symbolic uses of color in bleak cityscapes (as opposed to glorious landscapes) ravaged by war highlight the subtleness of true heroism in times of turmoil. How easily heroics can be lost! The viewer will want to believe in this story to the depth and capacity of the human soul. The cinematography and soundtrack align impeccably. Though Christian Bale's performance is sometimes a bit hokey, at times, the viewer must love the drunkard-turned hero, compassionate beyond the call of his loins for a lovely whore. The girls foiling the prostitutes allow for that grand forgiveness of imperfection. This allows for Bale's character "Father John" to redeem himself as the man who protects children, as opposed to the self-serving character of the drunkard mortician we are introduced to at the beginning of the movie. The plot is foreseen, but the emotional impact takes the viewer by surprise. Do not be without tissues at the completion of the movie. Those with compassionate and dreamy hearts, and especially those who have known sacrifice, will appreciate the care placed in this film. It is full of passion and pain, the kind of movie we should all strive to see made in Hollywood.

2012 "A New Beginning Or Much Ado About Nothing" I liked the film.  But I wonder if the reason that the Mayan Calender ends on December 21, 2012, was that the "Mayan Calender Makers" lost their funding due to budget cuts?  $0.02

A good film about a great man If only the film was a little deeper, a little more complex, it could have been an all time great epic.  As it is, it comes close.  The pluses; the power of the story and the history, and Ben Kingsley's amazing performance, which, somehow, like Gandhi himself, is both modest and incredibly powerful.  The minuses; many of the supporting characters are underdeveloped, sometimes to the point of caricature.  Most of the `villains' (the British, the leader of the Muslim separatist movement) are presented as one dimensional cartoons that Gandhi himself probably would have disapproved  of as lacking compassion and understanding.  Also, there's a feeling, despite it's 3+hour length, that we really never get to know Gandhi as a human being, not just a "great, historic figure".  The best moments in the film are his moments of self-doubt and questioning, as well as his complex family life, but those are few and far between.  Still, an epic telling of one of the most important, influential and inspiring people of the last 500 years, and well worth seeing.

Makes a very sharp point I enjoyed this thought-provoking 2004 documentary. It's fascinating not only to watch the construction of an enormous, elaborate, expensive hoax in Prague, but also to observe consumerism run amok, particularly in a relatively new capitalist economy. We're forced to ask ourselves how this stunt informs American society, and to admit the trenchant point it makes about the expansion of the European Union (which the Czechs were soon to approve) as well as the larger issues of runaway globalization. The film encourages both reflection and discussion.  The filmmakers, students at a film school, used a government grant and labor donated by an advertising firm to arrange what they called "an experiment." They produced a spectacular, full-scale marketing campaign, a media blitz that saturated the airwaves with radio and television ads and blanketed the city with flyers and billboards and newsprint. The subject of the campaign was the opening of "Czech Dream," a fictional "hypermarket," which is the European equivalent of an American "big box" store. Commercials were cast and filmed, songs were written and recorded, and photo shoots and focus groups were held. Highly technical research was conducted that tracked the eye movements of consumers as they perused faux advertisements which told them "Don't come" and "Don't buy" but promised unbelievably low prices and "opening day surprises for everyone."  The cleverness of the conceit is encapsulated in the contrast between the mournful traditional round "Hey, ho, nobody home / Meat nor drink nor money have I none / Yet will I be merry," sung by a family of shoppers, and the hilarious lyrics to the campaign's theme song, sung by a children's choir:  "The world's yours so take it All you need is to want it It will be a nice big bash But if you've got no cash Get a loan and scream I want to fulfill my dream Don't be a sloth Come grab a cart Don't blow it off Watch the Czech Dream start."  During the film, we attend contentious meetings with the advertising team in which they argue about the extent of the fraud they are perpetrating: is it an unscrupulous scam or a harmless practical joke? We watch uncomfortable interviews with team members who try to explain what ethical lines they are willing or unwilling to cross and why they are participating in a campaign that they consider manipulative at best.  On the day of the big event, around 2000 people show up. They trek across a field to find nothing but scaffolding behind a colorful 10x100-meter canvas, and their eagerness turns to confusion, fury, and amusement. In the end, most of them are remarkably philosophical, becoming resigned to what might have ended in fistfights or lawsuits in the U.S. A passionate debate ensues in the press. As wistful music plays and fake ads are replaced by real ones for cigarettes and credit cards, we are left, like the Czechs, to work out what it all means.  Here's my takeaway: All advertising is a kind of lie, and we are all duped by it to some extent, just as we are frequently fooled by the promises of politicians who are forever selling us a bright, shining future. Yes, the filmmakers tricked and angered some people, but I think the brief disappointment of a couple thousand Czechs on a sunny morning in May of 2003 was worthwhile after all is said and done. Their indignation pales in comparison to the ire everyone should feel toward the conmen who deceive billions of people year after year, roping the poor into unsupportable mortgages, for example, or waving the flag to justify pointless, immoral wars.  The crass commercialization and materialization of our cultures goes far beyond the slogans we read, the jingles we hum, and the logos we wear. It forces television networks to broadcast unmitigated garbage in pursuit of higher ratings, it pervades and prostitutes the cinema with product placements, it reduces us from individuals to nameless consumers and sources of profit, and it subtly and not-so-subtly promotes both shallowness in our politics and envy in our daily lives. I promise you'll think about this movie the next time you go shopping at a Wal-Mart or a gigantic suburban mall. It should especially give you pause as you line up for Black Friday sales in the pre-dawn hours on the day after Thanksgiving. It may even make you think twice before you cast your next vote.

Beautiful film While the film is unique and original, it's enjoyable mostly for those qualities alone.  The story itself isn't the most compelling.  The actors give fantastic performances as well.

I loved everything except the ending This was an amazing movie. There was never a moment where I found myself bored. At one point, my wife decided to pause the movie to take a break and I found myself upset. It was that good.  I'm not a Captain America fan. Of all the Marvel heroes, I thought he was too cheesy. Yet, this movie was exceptional at modernizing a war set in the 40s. The comedy was appealing, not as corny as I imagined it would be. The romantic interest wasn't overdone--I actually wanted to see more of it. And the action was right where it needed to be.  My only hangup, the end. The original reason I didn't want to see this movie was because I knew they were rushing all of the Marvel hero movies to make the Avengers. The Avengers' trailer looked so great that I thought I should give this a shot. It was worth it, but and this is a big but, it was in fact rushed. The ending just didn't seem there for me.  I'm somewhat of a Wolverine fan and I definitely expected to see a quick shot or at least a mention of his name. Nothing.  So maybe he'll show up in Part 2? No. Spoiler alert: Good ole Cap will end up in the future. Why? Stupidest thing ever, he had to crash the plane. For what? It made absolutely no sense. He could turn the nose of the plane down, but couldn't turn it around or make a safe landing. The ending was almost enough to spoil the movie, but I won't judge the entire thing off the last few minutes.  Overall, this flick really did it for me. I'm happy to have watched it.

Great for kids Bought this mainly for the Mickey Mouse Christmas Carols which is one of my favorite renditions of the movie. I do love the Christmas Carol on this one, it was bit shorter then I remember as a kid. There are three other movies on here for my boy to enjoy too which is great. I like the story with Pluto and the Christmas as my second favorite. The story with the donkey seems a bit said at first but it has a great message and my son really likes that one as well. The last one is Santa's workshop movie and he has is into santa right now so he loves seeing Santa make the toys with the elfs. All in a great purchase to add for Christmas favorites. And we continue to get it out after Christmas to watch every now and then as well :)

I dislike Exorcism movies, but enjoyed this one 3.5/5 stars from me. It would have been 4 stars if it weren't for the kinda crappy ending.  With that being said, I usually don't really like demon/possession movies but I really enjoyed this one. I liked the fact that the minister didn't believe in demons or god or exorcisms. I had no idea what to expect when I went into this movie because I didn't even really know what it was about. In the end I'm glad I rented it.  For a more in depth review please visit my horror movie/book review blog listed in my profile

A view of real people, again Michael Moore finds the junction between money and justice, and the people who are squeezed in it, in this film. As with his other works, Moore sets out with a thesis and then goes to the entities and institutions where you'd think he'd be able to prove or disprove it. He finds his answer not in those entities, but in the people whose lives are overlooked and bruised by their policies.

Decent apocalyptic movie We watch all apocalyptic movies we can find and we liked this one enough to buy it for the collection, but our opinion of it hovered between just okay and liked.  The acting was okay, the plot a little far fetched in areas, but an enjoyable watch overall.  What is with the sound though?  Our remote is broken and we were contantly having to get up to adjust the volume because the sound effects parts (explosions, music) would be booming, but then dialogue quiet.

Faithful to Spirit if not to Text This film wanders freely from Shakespeare, inserting, removing, and changing lines and action that depart greatly from the written text.  As a purist, I wince at these liberties.  Nevertheless, this is a fine adaptation that remains faithful to the spirit of the play:  a spirit that identifies Coriolanus as one of Shakespeare's most enigmatic tragic heroes.  The acting and directing are of very high quality.

Hammer does Holmes... Hammer Studios tackles the classic Sherlock Holmes adventure, The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), with Peter Cushing in the role of the famous detective, and Andre Morell as his loyal friend Doctor John Watson.  The film stays fairly close to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original novel, while adding a few elements to spice up the drama.  The film opens some years in the past, where an arrogant Sir Hugo Baskerville (David Oxley) is in a tavern with his cronies, planning to have his way with the daughter of tavern owner.  Finding that the young woman has taken flight onto the nearby moors, Baskerville has a pack of hunting dogs released to track her down.  The woman has hidden in some ruins, but is caught and stabbed to death by the psychotic nobleman, who then has his throat ripped open by some kind of huge demonic hound.  Such is the genesis of the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles, a creature who still supposedly stalks the moors.  After this very "Hammeresque" opening, the story mostly returns to traditional lines, as Dr. Mortimer (Francis de Wolff), a friend of the Baskerville family, seeks Sherlock Holmes' assistance, after the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville, on the moors near Baskerville Hall.  Mortimer is concerned about the safety of the new heir to the estate, Sir Henry Baskerville (Christopher Lee) who is stopping in London, before making his way to his new home.  After meeting with the detectives, Sir Henry agrees to be accompanied by Dr. Watson to Baskerville Hall, with Holmes to follow later.  At Baskerville Hall Sir Henry is greeted by the Barrymore's, a husband and wife who are the butler and maid respectively.  The remaining players are Baskerville's neighbor Stapleton (Ewen Solon), his daughter Cecile (Marla Landi), and an escaped convict named Selden, who is reportedly on the loose in the area.  One of the major deviations from Conan Doyle's novel is Cecile Stapleton being Stapleton's daughter, rather than his wife.  Stapleton is also given a strange affliction, a webbed hand.  To add a little more action, Sir Henry has an encounter with a spider, and Holmes almost gets caught in a mine cave-in.  The Baskerville devil dog is a bit of a disappointment, as it is not that big, and is seen mostly from the rear.  The acting performances are generally solid, although some are a bit prone to excess, particularly Peter Cushing, who is a more loud and animated Holmes than Basil Rathbone.  Christopher Lee is solid as a refined gentleman, while Andre Morell's version of Dr. Watson is more serious and largely without the humor that Nigel Bruce brought to the role.  Ewen Solon is a serviceable but rather bland Stapleton.  While as Cecile, Marla Landi provides some sex appeal, and brings some fire, emotion, and venom, to her role.  Some of the deviations may bother purists, but most Holmes fans will find something to appreciate about this version, which is in color, and features Hammer's dynamic duo of Lee and Cushing, and a decent supporting cast.  Rating: 3.5 stars.

Good, but a little disappointing I'm a huge fan of Jane Austen and was excited about seeing this movie. Although it is executed well, it doesn't stay true to the original and tries too hard to modernize the story.

Not really a twist plot; more like crime, guilt, and lies Some people complaint that the plot is straightforward and not enough twists. However, I believe this movie is meant to be straightforward in order to show how people lose themselves under guilt and transgression. Then, they start to lie and do more crimes due to self preservation. Don't watch this movie if you have this kind of guilt; otherwise, you will know what I am talking about. Compared to Nolan's other movies, this one is probably closer to Dark Knight rather than Memento in terms of the spirit.

CLASSiC FiLM i absolutely love this movie. i grew up watching it as a kid (in the 90's) and it brings me back. this film has been seen by generations of my family, and is one of our favorites. they have done a wonderful job at the restoration and colorization.. the ONLY problem for me (and some may not mind), is that when i watched this movie as a child on the restored vhs tape that was out at the time, the colorization seemed to almost be as if the movie was shot in color. this version (although beautiful) is a little bit TOO bright, if that makes sense. it just seems obvious that is been colorized.. also the one thing that bothers me most, is that on the vhs version, bo peeps dress was pink with the lavendar trim... they changed it in this version to her dress being lavender with green trim. looks nice but not as i remember it. also stanley's outfit was changed from a green top and sky blue tights, to a royal blue top and yellow-green tights.. minor details to someone who's never seen the vhs version, but for someone like me (im extremely peticular about things like that) it bothered me a bit. none-the-less its an absolutely beautiful restored copy and it comes with the color & original black and white versions as well as many bonus features. definately worth the price, and a great way to keep a classic film preserved.

Cute movie My whole family enjoyed this movie; underlying adult humor and 50's era made it really cute. Would highly recommend to all age groups.

Could have been 5 stars... This is one of my all time favorite movies. It doesn't much bother me that the (2006) Blu-Ray is only a high rate MPEG. It did force a four (4) star rating though. The picture IS much better. However, it is apparent they didn't spend much time removing certain blemishes. The sound is great. Never heard this movie with such clarity before. The UK has a version coming out in October of this year but it is a region B release. Also, the video codec and audio are both TBA. So who knows when someone will actually give this great movie a true 'facelift' for the U.S.. Nonetheless, I'm still quite pleased with this purchase.

A great deal of charm in this movie I always say that Jamie Lee Curtis can lift any turkey of a film right out of turkeydom into a charming film. She has never gotten the credit or the roles she deserved. This movie is just a bit of fluff of course but you can't help but get caught up in it. Of course at the heart of it, which it would have been nice if the Mel Gibson character had vocalized at some point, is the fact that if he hadn't been such a cowardly jerk wanting to escape into something, anything, leaving the girl he supposedly loves to lie in a coma alone then he would have had those 50 years, that he threw away, with her.  But, then we wouldn't have had a story would we. The kid does a great job and I'm afraid that I'm now at the age where kids in movies usually just annoy me. This one was on target in the role.  Amazing eyes. Great casting on the doctor beau of the mother. Nice touch to this movie. If you are not looking for a bang up, shoot em dead, screaming car chase type of movie, you'll love this one. But, it's Jamie Lee's movie all the way.

Watch with subtitles As a veteran of years of British movies and TV I was looking forward to this well-reviewd series.  It is set in Yokshire and the accents are some of the most inscrutible I'vve ever heard.  By the end of the third movie I was scratching my head.  But after a couple of months I watched them again with the subtitles and was able to appreciate their brilliance.

Great movie I bought this movie for my semester break. I have only seen it once but it was nice having it for my break.

Fun to watch! Very informative, but I still would be a bit apprehensive about picking wild mushrooms and having them with my steak!

A Fun DVD. But Needed More Content. I like this set. It is pretty much the VHS tapes of the era on DVD. But more content would have been nice. Making of, commentary, and the like would be nice.

Classic and enjoyable Having read the book this movie came from, I can identify some differences, but honestly, it doesn't detract from the quality of the movie itself.  Everyone in this film does a overall nice job of their roles, whether it be adults or kids. There's some great musical numbers, and the Oompa Loompas are quite lulzy (in a good way) Each of the scenes surrounding the first four children are entertaining, with some great musical numbers added (singing about how Veruca Salt is spoiled, etc) Compared to the newer version with Johnny Depp, this movie is good - well, I like both versions of the movie. If you liked the movie, please be sure to check out the book and its sequel, 'Charlie and the Glass Elevator' which picks up the story right after the first one ends. Two thumbs up for a fun classic film.

a marvel Usually a movie fails to live up to the book, especially a book, a trilogy, as good as these. A remarkable achievement to capture much of the thrill of the thrill ride that was the books. At the end my wife and I both were hungry for more, but alas, there is no more. Except maybe that fourth manuscript. Rapace is great.

An explicit Sex Comedy Monamour is my first experience with Tinto Brass. His style is very direct. This film focuses on a newly married couple who have already lost the lust. The film is fantasy, comedy and sex rolled into one. It is not great, but it is good.

ironic... How oddly ironic that we watched this story streaming for free from Amazon Prime. Sorry Joe Fox, I think you just got shafted too. Anyone notice how empty the B&N in the upper west side is on a Friday night these days?  Maybe they should make a sequel.  --------  UPDATE -------- The Barnes & Noble on the Upper West Side is now permanently closed too. I guess Jeff Bezos out Joe Fox'ed, Joe Fox.

Well Done Thriller A worthwhile slow building suspense.  You get to know and like the main characters which invests you in their fates.  Not a slasher or scare-a-minute type horror movie but well worth it.

Impressive Mechanics On this movie, there have been a lot of mixed reviews. Personally, I thoroughly enjoyed this movie! The mechanics they used to create this film in marvelous! For Tim Burton Fanatics, and Casual Watchers alike, this is definitely worth watching. I am a huge fan of animation and there is a lot to be admired. Although, I did feel it lacked in musical numbers. It opens strongly with the implication it is going to be a musical, like Nightmare, yet there are very few lyrical songs! There are plenty of places they ould have easily inserted musical numbers and keep the plot moving. But over all, for this price I say it's definitely worth the buy.

Too bad Disney produced this movie While the effects & story were cool, Disney isn't.  This movie could have used some serious violence.

good show good show better when you can watch stright thre on blu ray then watching it every week on the cw and and the quality is better vampires are good some of the plots and history sounds more realistic to.

No Digital Copy! UPDATE Good movie.  Liked it.  It was a difficult experience but worth it.  But there was no digital copy. In spite of the front cover and the information on the Amazon web page, digital copies are not available for Apple devices (iPad, iPhone, iTunes, etc).  You will have to pay an additional $15 to iTunes to get the promised digital copy.  When I complained to Fox I was told I was not deceived because there was a tiny green box on the back that said Android Market.  I needed a magnifying glass to read it; there was something above 'Android Market' but it was too small to actually print.  There is a larger graphic on the back that is the same as the one they use for digital copies that can be used by Apple products and that graphic includes a iPhone!  [The software on their DVD used to download digital copies with a Mac is actually there and loads--it just won't download for Apple products!  So it took me a while to figure out I wasn't doing anything wrong and that my computer was ok.]  Even if there were a visible label, 'Android Market', it would not mean Apple products are not supported.  And nowhere on the box does it state that Apple products are not supported.  They were supported in the past and there is that picture of an iPhone.  Obviously, there is no way to read the green box if you buy Blu-Ray's at Amazon or any other mail order source.  Or if you shop in brick & mortar stores without a magnifying glass.  Beware of future Fox' digital copies.  It would probably be a good idea to call Amazon or Fox to find out what is included in the package.  The film gets 4 stars;  the Blu-Ray, DVD, Digital Copy package gets no stars at all.  I paid for but did not receive a digital copy.  UPDATE:  Fox called me a few days ago and said they were sending a check for $15 so I could buy the digital copy from iTunes.  UPDATE 2:  Fox did send me a check for $15 so I could buy the primised digital copy.  I changed my rating from 1 to 4 stars.

PHANTOM Soars... This new Blu-ray version of the 1929 PHANTOM OF THE OPERA is the best-looking yet. All previous DVDs pale in comparison. Arrived in great shape.

Very good, but also very overcooked. This is one of those movies that, in all honesty, I should've liked a lot more. First it confirms everyone's suspicions: Woody Harrelson is an outstanding actor. Second: it dares to be different, and has a bold and unique message. Third: It's got a stellar cast featuring Robert Downey Jr., Tommy Lee Jones, Tom Seizmore and Rodney Dangerfield to name a few.  Often times though when you give the audience everything they want they're not left wanting more, and if you give them too much, some has to be sent back. This is the case with Natural Born Killers. The movie spreads itself a little thin, and even drags in a lot of places it could've used more effectively. Perhaps they could've even added *gasp* more violence.  One thing I wish Oliver Stone and Tarantino would've done is make this a trilogy which each Act getting it's own feature length film. Compacting all they had into one film absolutely killed any and all character development. For example when RDJ calls his wife and girlfriend from prison the whole scene comes out of nowhere, and just ends up being throwaway nonsense. Robert Downey Jr. and Tommy Lee Jones present two of the films most interesting characters with zero emotional impact on the film. The Warden could've never spoken and the entire movie wouldn't have changed one iota. I also didn't care for the quick turn arounds most of these characters had. Even the two main characters, as fun as they were, were not developed to the extent they could've been.  Tommy Lee Jones could've been as memorable as Nurse Ratchet, but we never actually see him be the 'big bad Warden', he just talks about it incidentally in the hall. I personally would've loved to see a whole film about Harrelson and Lewis' time in prison. Dealing with Tommy Lee Jones, taking crap from him until finally taking over the prison.  Rodney Dangerfield has similar treatment. The whole sitcom satire at the beginning is outstanding, but it comes off like an SNL skit in the middle of a movie. Over before it starts.  The is just overcooked, so much greatness and so little time.

Better than the live-action sequels. Just watched the movie and was impressed by the animation and action. The movie doesn't seem to have many fresh ideas compared to the other movies, but I still thought it was pretty epic. Unfortunately, the whole movie takes place on ships, causing the experience to feel a little narrow, and I had trouble distinguishing the similar characters. It's still a very fun movie.

Not too bad It was a good wholesome kids movie. Some good action and good humor at the same time.  My 3 year old grandson watched it 3 times the first day and 2 more time the next day.

Deadliest Plane Crash reveiew DVD was in excellent condition, brand new. The Film is very good, well made, very good visuals to go with the story telling, however, this is a short version of the original film, that is the only negative of this production.

;0) It wasn't that bad for me I actually enjoyed it the comedy could have been more but it's a movie I can sit with friends and enjoy. It's about a group of grown guys going back to basic and kind of reliving their childhood with their family.

Very cool movie This movie starts out strange. Steven Segal is in the movie, then is killed off early. Then Russell & his team start up and the movie catches fire. Great action sequences.

Clip show This 'movie' is basically a clip show put together to pretend it is a movie. It's okay, though. Keeps kids entertained for a couple of hours, so it does what it's supposed to.

An enjoyable film although the plot is old This 1957 black and white film focuses on a murder committed in 1956. The plot and subplots appear in dozens of other movies. Orson Wells is a very prosperous ranch owner with a ranch as large as half dozen European counties. He has about 500 Mexicans working his land and handling his cattle along with Anglos. He doesn't know the exact number of Mexican because he has no respect for them. He has a beautiful daughter who is bored with ranch life. She goes ridding with a young handsome Mexican employee. Wells is appalled. He tells his foreman, an Anglo, to take another Anglo worker with him and beat up the Mexican youth, to persuade him to stay away from his daughter, who doesn't listen to all he says. Overzealous, the foreman kills the youth. I never intended you to kill him, Orson complains. But you are involved as much as me, says the foreman.   Another Mexican sees the murder and reports it to Jeff Chandler, the sheriff. Everyone tells Jeff to forget the matter, after all the man was just a Mexican. Orson tells the town council to warn Jeff to drop the matter, to threaten him that he will lose his job, and to tell him that Orson will take his business away from the town that depends on him. They do so, but Jeff refuses. Jeff gets a search warrant, goes to the scene of the crime and finds blood. The ranch hands tamper with his car before he leaves and the car crashes, leaving Jeff hurt but not dead. Orson's daughter finds out what happened to the Mexican boy and tells Orson that she is disgusted with him and hates him.

good movie Enjoyed the movie, definately different than the first one.  Great job on the animation and special effects.  Would not recommend to little kids could scare them.

Visually stimulating Gabbeh is a stunning film. Prior to this film, I had never seen an Iranian film. After seeing this film I plan to watch as many films as I can by Makhmalbaf. The film does wonders as it parallels the lives of an elderly couple to a young couple. I think the most poignant element of the film is the art of rug making and the symbolism in rugs. The foreshadowing Makhmalbaf incorporates in the film really gives the film more meaning and worth in that when the film closes, the audience feels as though they've gone on a journey and have realized the true message of the film. The film was so very frustrating at times, I kept wanting the girl to run away from her family, from her clan and marry the mysterious guy. I knew that this couldn't be a reality due to the immeasurable protection the girl was put under and also due to the rules of their society. How strange it must be, though, to live in so strict a society/family. I found it really interesting that so intimate a film could be made in modern day Iran. The cinematography and the humor that is embedded throughout the film really make this film a gem to watch and to study. I could definitely see this film made into a children's book or a play. The representation of life and the importance of color to the people of Iran is magnificent. I don't know if this is the type of film to be watched again and again, but it is definitely a must-see film. There are elements that seem to interrupt the film (the playing with color and imagery, i.e. the scene in which the uncle plays with colors and the sea, sky, and fields), but I think these elements really help the film take shape with the message. This film is also a great example of how much can be done in film with so little a budget. I would recommend this film to anyone, but you need to be in the right mood!

Great Social Commentary If you have seen the youtube clips of Jack, then you should/must watch this.  He never struck me as an "angry man", just one who liked to express his frustrations/exasperations through copious amounts of profanity.  So, he has a serious issue with us people sitting around watching a bunch of crap on the intermutt all day (yes, I am guilty too, God help me).  My question to you all out there, is people of my age group (40's) who didn't grow up with intermutt, 24-7 tv/media, twitter (I try not to utter that word), etc, in some way "above" the fact that we watch people walk into fountains in the mall while texting and laugh our asses off?  This newer generation who have grown up on this stuff makes me wonder how they will feel about "serious, real" things/issues.  It is like junk food and sugar, it is meant as a treat, or something that you have once in awhile, not as a meal, and in my humble opinion (IMHO?), people today are FEASTING on this stuff without bothering to check in with real or hard news.  Why read or watch the real news when you can tune into John Stewart and watch him make fun of it?  Am  I getting as crotchity (sp?) as Jack?  He's 30 years older than I am!

Must-Get if you want something above the usual DVD case First off,if you're getting this,you've already seen the movies or someone told you to watch them. If you havent and just want some funny looking DVD case,you wont regret it. Evil Dead is to Horror movies as Bach is to Classical Music. Its something you have to feast on at least once to know if you like it or not.Dont listen to personal views or busted revies on websites...  Its campy,sure.Its not really scary anymore by our standards BUT God-damn is it good ;D The "Chin" Bruce Campbell stars as a simple guy,stuck in a forest cabin surrounded by evil (and low on gas,but thats much later) with his only key to life is a chainsaw,an ol' dual-barrel and a book made of human flesh.So yeah,with a description like that,you know what you're in for.  Now,onto the important part.The DVD has plenty features on its disks,including extra footage not available on other versions of the movie (like the one with the Skull Poster cover,all-black case).The internal "booklet" is faithfully remade like the intro sequence with old,tainted pages and most of the visible pages of the Necronomicon reproduced inside it.The mouth on the soft,cotton-lined cover (YES,the whole case is squishy) has a hidden button in its mouth that -probably- speaks and curses at you...  The reason im using -probably- is because sadly,the copy i got had MELTED batteries in it and i had to find out the hard way that it was the case by having to pretty much rip it open from the inside cover to get to the electrical parts.Its nothing irreplaceable,but its a small detail that hurts a little :(

mummy This movie is fun to watch. The actors have good chemistry. DVD in very good shape and played well. Happy with this product.

the postman dvd I ordered this just before Christmas and it came within 4 days. I was happy with the DVD when it came and it was all that the listing told me it was. A movie well worth watching and one of my boyfriends' favorites....Merry Christmas!!:)

A Fantastic, Educational Movie... Purchase Value = Limited Well, this movie has gotten so much press thanks to its Oscar nominations and wins, that you probably don't need a whole lot of convincing to watch it (if you haven't already).  As a result, I will keep this review a bit short and provide a quick review of what I think is great about the movie and more importantly the special features provided.  Watching the movie is one thing; it is a 5-star movie.  Buying it is another.  The movie itself seems like a great educational tool for anyone not so much because of the history but because of the courage displayed by Albert (King George VI).  I was first intrigued by a coworker who "accidentally" showed it to his kids as this movie has an R rating.  Well, after watching this movie, I seriously think an R rating is overkill.  PG-13, maybe; R, no.  There is so much value in a movie like this.  This is not to say that your 8 year old should watch it.  There are definitely themes to this movie that would bore a child that is not at least in their teens, but if a child can appreciate World and/or British History to some extent, it should be somewhat interesting.  Plus, what person or child doesn't have some fear of public speaking.  Generally speaking, this movie is about overcoming this obstacle.  Granted, the condition faced by Albert is more than a fear of public speaking, but it is a lesson in not giving up.  The issue of language that got this movie an R rating, is ridiculous.  There is one scene where Albert goes through repetition with some vulgar language (2 minutes maybe), but they are by no means used with any meaning other than showing that he knows the words and can say them.  They aren't used in sentences or in a derogatory manner.  Most people have heard these words, including our children, and that certainly shouldn't trump the value of this movie. It definitely isn't advocating their use.  As for the DVD itself, I have to say that the special features provided aren't fantastic.  There is a little making of video that is ok, but if you aren't much into these things, there won't be much to learn.  I did enjoy the inclusion of the real speech as recorded as well as a speech the King gave at the end of World War II.  It makes one appreciate the documentary nature of the movie as well as the acting that went into it.  I'm normally indifferent when it comes to Oscars, but Colin Firth definitely earned his win.  Last, there is an interesting little feature about the speech therapist that is really interesting from a reality point of view.  So, is the DVD worth purchasing? It probably should be if you were a huge fan of the movie.  It is however, definitely worth watching even for your teen (and ideally with your teen).  The R rating is ridiculous unless you really find bad language that offensive.

An engrossing dark comedy Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Farris Starring Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin, Steve Carell, Paul Dano, Toni Collette and Abigail Breslin 102 minutes  Video: Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video resolution: 1080p Aspect ratio: 2.40:1  Audio: English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 French: Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish: DTS 5.1 Portuguese: DTS 5.1  Subtitles: English, English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Cantonese, Korean, Thai  Little Miss Sunshine was nominated for four Oscars, with Alan Arkin winning for best supporting actor and Michael Arndt taking home the award for best original screenplay. Abigail Breslin was also nominated and the film was included in the best picture category.  I listed so many of the cast because this dark comedy is filled with good performances.  Olive Hoover (Breslin) qualifies for a beauty pageant which is set to take place 700 miles away. The family includes a heroin addict grandfather (Arkin), an aspiring motivational speaker father (Kinnear), a brother who has taken a vow of silence (Dano), a suicidal uncle (Carell) and a mother who tries to hold everything together (Collette).  As several of the family members can't be trusted to survive alone, the entire family decides to make the trip in their old Volkswagen van.  The comedy isn't dumb, despite the highly unlikely and sometimes unbelievable situations. The story is mainly driven by dialogue with the exception of a couple of situations.  The conclusion shows what happens when they finally arrive in California for the pageant.  It's R-rated for language, drug references and references to sex. Perhaps the most offensive thing was seeing how little girls are presented as women in the pageant. It's just a grotesque world.  It's not easy to make me laugh and I am typically wary of any movie involving Carell, but this style of humor worked for me. Nobody put in a bad performance and I did laugh out loud a couple of times. I enjoyed every minute.  The presentation was excellent for such a low budget movie. Picture quality was good throughout and deserves a 4.5/5. Audio did the job and dialogue was clear (4/5).  I would recommend this intelligent comedy to anyone who doesn't need to be bullied into laughter with slapstick.  This is the type of story that has plenty of replay value as it will be fun to revisit these people and spend a while in their dysfunctional lives. For those wondering whether it's worth upgrading to the Blu-ray, I heartily recommend this presentation.

Granddaughter likes it Bought this as a gift for my 5 year old granddaughter who is going through her Barbie phase. She likes this movie, but her favorites are Barbie and The Three Musketeers and Barbie A Fashion Fairytale. Since she likes it I like it. 4 stars

DVD? I remember this movie from when it first came out.  I also remember that I enjoyed it.  It is a shame that it is not available on DVD or BluRay.  I no longer even have a VHS player.  Many people don't.  Message to "Four Eyes and Six Guns" distributors:  Please make this available on DVD and/or BluRay!

Wanderlust Wanderlust is a light comedy that requires no thinking on the viewers part.  The characters are interesting to say the least.  Overall an ok movie.  Would I buy it, no.  Would I rent it for a couple of bucks to kill a Saturday night, yes.  In an age of reality television this is a much better alternative.

Fun and Games Christmas is on the list and getting special items are the fun of the seasons of the year. Thankyou much.

one big spider I must say that it's been years since I saw it first, and in the course of time I'd forgotten much of it, but the beginning I don't think I ever saw before. Anyway, it was enjoyable, but not to the extent I originally thought. The price was very good and I did enjoy it, but I'd rent it fist, unless it's cheaper to buy, then I'd get it. Also I'd recommend it to otehrs if they are a Julian Sands fan.

Trite Premise, but a Solid Finish THE CHANGE-UP is another film by the writers of HANGOVER AND HANGOVER II (Jon Lucas and Scott Moore) and the director of wedding crashers (David Dobkin): that should give a pretty solid clue as the what is in store in this film - potty mouth and gross humor that is so very very popular today!  The concept of the story (two disparate characters changing lives in a manner as magical as the fairy tale 'The Three Wishes') is not new and at times it becomes wearing, but the big difference here is that the characters are assigned to two really brilliant comic actors - and so it works in the long run.  Two longtime friends are feeling distance in their relationship: Mitch (Ryan Reynolds) is a womanizing free-spirited life as an actor for commercials and 'lorn movies' (soft porn) who lives in a pigsty of an apartment, grabbing fast food where he can find it, while Dave (Jason Bateman) is a conscientious successful lawyer with a major la firm in Atlanta, and is married to a beautiful woman, and lives in a picture book house with three small children.  The old concept of the grass being greener on the other side of the fence brings the men together for a drunken evening where while voiding in a  public fountain voice that they wish they could change places. Thunder, darkness and boo, they wake up as the other guy.  Mitch must carry on the functions of a learned lawyer while maintaining his own style and faces the duties of a parent of infants and a dissatisfied wife (Leslie Mann) while Dave attempts to adjust to the grungy Lothario existence as the lorn star, being pursued by the beautiful Sabrina (Olivia Wilde).  Gradually each man in his new role discovers ore about life by walking in the others shoes and it is at this point that the film becomes an intelligent vantage of appreciating what we have by seeing it through the eyes of polar opposite friends.  Both Reynolds and Bateman have great comic timing and make us understand the conflicts of views and appreciation found in the change of lives.  The women in the cast do well and there is a touching cameo by Alan Arkin as Mitch's father.  This is a bawdy comedy with the emergence of a heart full of lessons in the end.  Make it through the fist 30 minutes and you'll find a good movie.  Grady Harp, November 11

Very Good Movie Whitney's singing is awesome in this movie, I see why they waited a year until she was available to do the movie.  Her acting is good too.  Kevin was good as usual and they had good chemistry together. I bought the soundtrack too.

Great fun for the mind and your boring friday night SuckerPunch is an interesting film. You become a part of a mentally confusing adventure about a girl who, through no fault of her own, ends up in an institution for the mentally insane. Distraught over the loss of her mother and sister and recently attacked by her step-father, Baby Doll (the main character) invents a world inside the asylum to help her cope with the terrifying situation in which she finds herself.  It's not entirely clear if some of the things portrayed actually happened, but it is implied that some of the events she instigates occurred. This is what makes the film so interesting. Granted, the costumes and the fantasy worlds Baby Doll shows us could be considered simply "fan-service" for the typical anime/fantasy/videogame lover, however I feel that THAT is what makes the film so visually appealing. The transitions from muted tones and gritty textures to bright lights and colorful show-costumes serve as a helper to the viewer to determine between what is seems to be real and what is not.  Despite the tragedy that occurs in this film, the ending is bittersweet and closes with an answer to the opening questions: ""Who Honors those we love for the very life we live? Who sends monsters to kill us...and at the same time sings that we'll never die? Who teaches us what's real...and how to laugh at lies? Who decides why we live and what we'll die to defend? Who chains us...and who holds the key that can set us free?"  Overall, I highly recommend this film. It is not to be taken too seriously, but still offers something meaningful.  4 stars.

Better then the 2nd one. A funny movie that you can just put in and watch without much brain power needed. I say B "Are we having a conversation or are you watching A Christmas Story?" 6 years after Guantanemo Harold (Cho) and Kumar (Penn) are no longer the friends they used to be. On Christmas Eve Harold's in-laws stop by with their prized tree. When Kumar decides to surprise Harold with a present things go wrong fast. They duo now only have a few hours to find a new tree and get back home before the rest of the family. I have to admit that I thought the first one was funny and didn't like the second one that much. I didn't have high (get it?) expectations for this one going in. There are some movies like "Inception" that make you think. Movies like "Margin Call" cause a debate and make you feel strongly one way or the other. Then there are movies that you just watch, laugh and stay entertained all the way through. This is that type of movie. Nothing amazing or original but this is a funny movie that you can just watch and relax when you do. Overall, better then the second...and yes NPH is the best part of this one too. I give it a B.

It bears watching A light, humorous Yogi Bear movie that is entertaining for the whole family, especially engineers due to all of the contraptions Yogi makes. Fun to watch in 3D.

Living up to its potential? I'm not sure what to make of the fact that my search on Amazon only returns the Unrated Extended Cut of Limitless. I watched the "rated" version, so I'm not sure what was different.  Anyway, this is another movie that drew me in with its intriguing premise...a pill which facilitates/compels you to use 100% of your brain rather than just the small fraction that we normally use. It's intriguing to this about what to do with that unlocked potential ability.  I felt like Bradley Cooper's character was well developed in such a way as to give us a good juxtaposition of just how far this pill could take you. I was glad it didn't take on a "superhero" aspect a la 'Matrix' or something like that, but it was cool to see his interactions and reactions to difficult situations. I also loved that the movie drilled down on the consequences. As the adage goes: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility. It was cool to see everything fall apart due to his lack of respect/planning for the power he held.  I felt like the movie really expanded on the idea of how much each of us could truly be capable of if we would just stretch ourselves to try and use our full potential (even without a magic pill). Taken back down to us "normal brain users", there are good messages there...we should stretch ourselves, we should live up to our own potential, we should set high expectations and try to achieve them, we should set goals, we should plan, we should get off our butts and do something worthwhile. This was a fun and thoughtful movie with a subtle underlying message.  3.5 out of 5 stars

If you like time travel I enjoyed this one :) I love time travel theme and it always fascinates me! This one has a bit too much fighting for my taste but overall it is a good watch. Not sure if I'd buy it though.

A near glorious path, indeed... Stanley Kubrick is regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of cinema; one of the single greatest directors of all time, and I happen to wholeheartedly agree with that assessment.  The way that he crafts various pictures is laced with such marvelous skill and style.  He was able to build a personal attachment to such a wide range of films, never pigeonholing himself with regurgitated themes but allowing his personal feelings and opinions to infiltrate many subjects.  Whether he is tackling violence, horror, sci-fi, political satire, sex or war, Kubrick brought his all to the set.  `Paths of Glory' was a glaring omission on my part, for it was one of those films that I knew I needed to see not just because of my admiration for Kubrick but because it is largely considered one of the greatest films ever made.  It's not THAT good.  As an early Kubrick, there is a roughness present here that takes down some of the film's impact.  The editing is abrupt in scenes and the performance level of some of the actors is a tad green and underdeveloped (Timothy Carey is a particular sore spot).  The film's outset is littered with small scenes that don't always play out quite right because of the awkwardness of the delivery of dialog (the scene where one soldier confronts another about a murder is particularly stiff).  Some of the clich&eacute;s on certain characters, in particular George Macready's character, are off-putting, but I blame that on the generic way in which he was played.  With those flaws in mind, the pluses to this film are certainly highs that outweigh those lows to a degree.  Kirk Douglas and Adolphe Menjou are particularly outstanding in their respective roles, and I found the screenplay's ability to be quick and concise a total bonus.  The way that the material is briskly handled is nice considering that it could have easily lagged in parts had the film delved into the self-indulgent.  That is also something I rather enjoyed about this film.  Kubrick is accused by his naysayers as having been pretentious and self-indulgent in his filmmaking, but there isn't an ounce of that here.  While he certainly crafts a visual marvel (the cinematography is absolutely STUNNING) and inserts his expected depth of humanity (the final scene, with his wife, is a marvelous end note that completely shifts perspective on the film), the film itself cuts the fat and delivers a very `to the point' exercise, and the material benefits because of it.  The anti-war sentiments and the depiction of corrupted `justice' are given the perfect amount of breathing room without becoming burdensome.  I also really appreciated the court room scene and Douglas's monologue.  In many courtroom films those closing `words' can become overwhelming and preposterous in their obvious `manipulating'.  Douglas handles it with class, and the screenplay was pitch perfect in creating a `moment' without going overboard.  In the end, I am a fan.  This is a great film and a perfect jump-off for anything interested in delving into Kubrick's impressive filmography.  His 1986 masterpiece `Full Metal Jacket' makes a bolder anti-war statement and ends with a complimentary moment of unexpected depth (albeit far more brutal in tone), but that doesn't make `Paths of Glory' any less impactful.

Dune-Blu-ray This is exactly like the original theatrical release, cleaned up alot, although some scenes might be clipped just a little in transitions. Comes out the same length tho. No chance to check BD sound, but video was good.  It is NOT the extended version; as I have both the original and extended in DVD format.

Leonardo and Claire as Romeo + Juliet? hmmm.... After Titanic, this was the movie that made me love Leonardo DiCaprio. The rest of the cast, except for John Leguizamo as Tybalt, did a very nice job-John was too over the top for me, Miriam Margolyes as the nurse was pretty funny, and Claire Danes was very cute as Juliet. The music fit the mood of the story very well. If you like Shakespeare's work, you may like this film as well. I saw BL's version of Moulin Rouge-which was good, but this is better. Now admittedly, the first ten minutes of this film may be hard to take for some, it seems more like a gangster shoot out sequence than WS, but oh well, those who don't have the urge to turn it off, the rest of the movie is very well done. How would Shakespeare feel about this film? Honestly, I don't know, my High School english teachers liked it, but they also liked the Farrelly brothers Kingpin, and I thought it was grossly stupid, so use your own judgment.

nice product my daughter said it was bought 4 my daughter she is enjoying it  that makes me happy i myself m not in2 soaps

Darned good movie I have one technical quibble.  When you visit, as a lawyer, a client in the Los Angeles County Jail, you do not get a visit in a private room where you can hug your client.  Most of the time you are talking on a telphone through a glass window and if you are lucky you get a semi-private booth where you talk through a wire screen and all the other inmates and attorneys in the vicinity can hear everything you say.  You never get to touch your client.  The deputies are so freaked out that you might pass drugs or a weapon.  But let's write that off to dramatic license.  This is a good movie and highly recommended.

A good old "stupid action movie" A good old "stupid action movie".  Implausible, full of guns and explosions; some classic tough guy Bruce Willis fun.  If you liked all the Die Hard movies, Red.

Surprised how funny this movie is.. When I saw the cast of this movie I didnt know what to think. I am not into chick flicks, so I took a chance on this one and it is one of my favs. Hilariously funny movie all the way to the end. Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton were terrific together. Who would have ever thought Jack N could play a romantic yet funny role. I highly recommend this movie.

The real 50 cent original ganstar This documentary is about the original 50 cent whom Curtis Jackson got his name from. If you are a 50 fan you need to see how it all began, with the originator kevin martin, whom life was short lived through the streets of NewYork City, Fort Greene Projects.  Its a must see film.

Excellent I felt the movie was a great teaching lesson to parents who may have dicovered that their son or daughter is gay.  The movie shows parents that they should learn to accept the fact that they should not be homophobic.  Accept the child as he or she is and move on.  Love the child regardless, and things will workout so much better.

Deguello The Producers/Directors/Producers of this film clearly recognized the preferences of John Wayne fans and gave them exactly what they wanted.  All of the major actors [with the exception of Ricky Nelson] deliver stereotypical performances that they'd perfected over the years.  Wayne is his usual wise-cracking, tough guy, good guy;  Martin is the [almost] hopeless drunk; Walter Brennan is the crippled, cackling old-timer;  Angie Dickinson is the love interest.  Martin and Nelson even get to sing a duet.  The acting, with the possible exception of Walter Brennan, isn't stellar.  Ricky Nelson seems to have been added to lend a little more star-power to the movie.  It doesn't work very well.  He looks and sounds very young, even immature, and he over-plays his role as the swaggering, self-confident young gunfighter.  Angie Dickinson's role as the 'love interest' is an unnecessary appendage to the film.  In my opinion, it is a distraction.  Dickinson's acting is artificial.  The most original aspect of the film is the tune, 'El Deguello', an anciet Moorish tune adapted by the Spaniards and later the Mexicans.  Generalissimo Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana reportedly played it day and night to the defenders of Alamo.  The tune means 'No Quarter'....No Prisoners will be taken.  The word 'deguello' literally means 'cutthroat'.  The tune is played beautifully by a band in a local cantina and, during the last part of the film, is played almost constantly.  In one memorable scene, the Walter Brennan character, although sitting in the sheriff's office, accompanies the wild tune on his harmonica.  The Wayne character tells Brennan to stop.  'It's gettin' to you?' Brennan cackles.  Of course, that was precisely the point.  The tune was supposed to 'get at' the men of Alamo and it's supposed to get to our boys holed up in the Sheriff's office.  Psychological warfare.

The movie that started a phenomenon "Alien" spawned amazing sequels and influenced other creative minds to make other brilliant films of the sci-fi/horror genre. That being said, this movie is not without it's fare share of flaws. The only "Alien" related movie I had seen before this was "Alien vs. Predator" and it had terrible acting, a bad storyline, and the times when we actually see the creatures in their element are limited at best.  When I sat down to watch this epic movie that started it all, I thought this was going to be next to perfection. Either my expectations were too high or it doesn't live up to it's hype.  Pros: - the casting is great and the actors and actresses do well with what their given. - for the time period, the special effects and filming certain sequences were brilliantly done. - when the movie actually picks up, it does live up to it's hype as the sci-fi/horror thriller that was so influential.  Cons: - Ridley Scott focuses on landscape shots and scenes that don't really benefit the movie at all. I would say a good 40 minutes or more of this could've been scrapped. - By wasting film with these scenes that drag on and on with no purpose, the basis of the movie is more blurred and unfocused. - When the creature finally gets on board and starts it's havoc, the movie becomes interesting. Normally that's a good thing to say but the way the characters and the initial plot were introduced is enough to want to make you fast forward to the interesting point.  I know a lot of people defend this movie by saying that it's a different kind of movie than Aliens or Alien 3, but I personally think this could've been executed better and I hope someday that they re-make this properly.  ***I was way too harsh on this movie when I saw it initially. I now understand more that it was an epic movie that had a lot to explain. Even though i think there was too much time spent on scenery filming, this deserves at least 4 stars because it was well written and acted and executed ultimately.

Quite good with a quibble My son recently bought this movie and we saw it as a family.  All three of us liked it a lot and I'm happy to see that the majority of reviewers here also like the movie.  Apparently at the time there was a lot of negativity surrounding it.  On IMDB, it looks like people either liked it or hated it.  One reason some give for its lack of box office draw was that the genre of deadly triangles had gotten saturated at the time.  We found it gripping, essentially well acted, particularly Ms. Curtis.  Her performance is beautifully nuanced.  At the beginning she seems quite a normal person, but gradually it dawns that this is one unhinged woman.  A tic here, a momentary curl of the lip, a deadening of the eyes lead to the revelation of her sociopathic reality.  She does have some "rug chewing" scenes, but these come out of a realized characterization and are not gratuitous.  The other acting ranges from competent to quite good.  Mr Gallagher is rather bland and lacked spark, I thought.  Joanne Whalley fits her role quite well, as does Lynn Redgrave.  The boys are good.  One major quibble I have is Luke Edwards' Kes.  He was turned to Jamie's side too quickly, I thought, and strained credulity.  Also, I thought his character too important to have only the sketch in character he was given.  I may be that this was one movie that was a little under written rather than over written.  Jamie's Jude is the antagonist here, but Kes is really the protagonist and I think his character needed more development.

THESE REVIEWS ARE VERY STRANGE First let me say, I liked the original movie Happy Feet.  Both of these movies were made for children.  That means most of the people who view Happy Feet 2 are taking their children to see it.  This is basically a cartoon about a dancing penguin.  What is causing all the ANGRY reviews about this movie? Nothing. I think these are FAKE reviews. These are not written as if coming from a parent.  A parent would want to help other parents and tell them in more detail what was wrong with the movie. Almost ALL of the NEGATIVE reviews are strange and hostile in nature. They have such an extreme over-the-top message.  There are several RED flags to prove my statement. Almost ALL of these reviews use words like HATE, SUCK, DON'T BUY, etc. There are just too many copycat reviews.  They actually seem like they were all written by the same person. One review was written that stated they did not like the FIRST Happy Feet. REALLY?  Then WHY would they even be interested in going to see the sequel?  One review said he wished he were deaf and blind. REALLY?  Because of a children's animated movie?  This is not a statement a "parent" or an intelligent person would make.  Do not believe the negative reviews.  I think they are bogus. Read the positive reviews and take from them what advice you need to decide about Happy Feet 2.

Haunting and yet definitely worth a glance back into the darkness There will be no spoilers given,  but this film goes back to the two central characters and their continuous struggle to understand and comprehend the demons that still haunt them. Does it match the grand scope of the first film? No. But it's not that kind of epic story. It is an intimate,  peculiar story that has a continuous theme of faith about still going forward despite doubts and fighting unyieldingly into the unknown.  Which the X-Files have always been about. I would recommend for any fans of the original show. Go in with an open mind and no expectations and you will be rewarded especially by Gillian Anderson's great and poignant performance. She is the one who makes the film.

Short, sweet and to the point... I will openly admit that I was enchanted by this film.  It was such a wonderful theatrical experience for me, so nostalgic and heartwarming, and to be able to share it with my daughters was such a joy for me and my wife.  Watching their faces light up as the characters I grew up loving personally caught their eye and entered their hearts was such a wondrous experience and one that I will remember always.  It is with such strong sentiment that I write this review.  Personally, `Winnie the Pooh's greatest asset is also its sole weakness.  It is pristinely `simple' in texture.  There really isn't any thematic depth at play here and so it instantly captures your attention but it lacks any and all poignancy or profound depth of development to warrant rapturous praise.  That is why I mention the fact that I review this on the grounds of sentiment, because it is that sentiment that will endear this film to you; nothing else.  The film brings nothing new to the table, unless you consider its rustic roots `new' in today's modern take on animated features.  The film is constructed in such sharp contrast to animated features of today.  It is narrated, it is hand drawn, it is told in storybook form and feels outdated yet surprisingly polished for a film so steeped in the qualities of yesteryear.  The plot is fairly simple and somewhat pointless.  A misunderstanding turns into panic that is easily resolved.  Nothing more; nothing less.  The love here stems from the beautifully fluid way in which the film is conceived.  It is done almost dreamily, capturing the effortless ease with which these characters live their lives and it captures the boyish imagination (simple and honed as opposed to wildly bizarre) and takes you back to a place and time when life wasn't so complicated.  This is a youthful and beautifully charmed children's movie that is as much FOR children as it is ABOUT them.  And with vocal talent Zooey Deschanel on board, the musical accompaniment is an added bonus.  I thoroughly enjoyed this.  The running time was perfect (not too long, not too short; just right) and the overall satisfaction I received (as well as my family) was as much as I could really hope for.  It is not as smart as a Pixar film, sure.  It will not leave you with the emotional lump that `Up' would, and it won't visually stimulate you as much as `Finding Nemo' will and it won't excite you in the way that `The Incredibles' will, but it will put a gigantic smile on your face, and thankfully this one won't go over your children's heads!

Scathing classy satire Being There is a lovingly-crafted, slightly overlong and knee-slappingly funny political satire which includes one of the most bizarre 'sex' scenes in movie history. Peter Sellers is a riot as the deadpan Chance Gardener whose endless pontificating on the welfare of plant-life becomes a potent metaphor for 80's politics, granting him national attention thanks to the endorsement of a dying codger and his concupiscent wife. The film is timeless, save one walking montage early on that seems like it was scored by a malfunctioning machine. The action is primarily contained to a cold, ornate mansion, though it does not seem catastrophic, instead casting a wide sense of exposure due to the fact that most plot points revolve around television and its ability to manipulate the truth--if the truth ever even existed to begin with! Much has been made of the film's final shot with its Christ-like implications. For me, the last few frames make the movie--elevating the proceedings to a level not quite broached by all the network-TV nudging and winking when Chance says things like "All Is Well In The Garden" a phrase you might find yourself constantly regurgitating long after the credits have rolled. If you don't mind a slow-boiling storyline and are excited by good old fashioned acting, you will find much to love here. And oh, stick around for a blooper reel (one of the first of its kind) which shows Sellers with his hair down, worth the price of admission alone.

DVD CLASSIC MOVIE FROM AMAZON.COM I actually saw this movie years ago, and I really liked the friendship that was shared by these three boys.  The DVD was received well within the time frame given to me at the time of purchase, the product was received in excellent condition, and it was a reasonable price.  I appreciate the excellent product and great service.

Better Than I Expected I was expecting a slap-stick comedy from the likes of Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman but I was pleasantly surprised. The Switch is actually a decent movie (although it does carry the heavy cliches).  Aniston is a single middle-aged woman was has no prospects of getting married yet she wants to have a baby. She decides to get a man to donate his sperm for her to have a baby on her own. Patrick Wilson is only too happy to participate.  Bateman is her friend from forever ago, and he isn't quite sure her plan is the best idea.  After getting drunk at her party, he accidentally spills Wilson's "donation" and makes The Switch.  7 years go by with Aniston moving away, having the baby and Bateman getting on with his life. When Aniston returns with her son, Bateman begins to notice they have similar quirks and characteristics. (He doesn't have the memory of that drunk party decision)  The cliches in this movie range from the cute kid who acts like an adult to the climactic reveal of strong feelings at the most improper time. (With the expected results)  All in all, and I must have been in just the right mood, this movie wasn't too bad.  BONUS: Jeff Goldblum is the best part as Bateman's boss and best friend. He has to make more comedies.

A Pregnant Pause Even though I am WELL BEYOND my childbearing years, I thoroughly enjoyed this movie! It brought me back to my own time of being pregnant and had both humorous and endearing moments of that time in life. Cameron Diaz was at her always adorable best and the same for Jennifer Lopez. Anyone who is or has been preggers had the book WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU ARE EXPECTING on the night table and will definitely get a kick out of this movie!

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Green Lantern: Emerald Knights This is a nice piece of animation with a decent story line.  Well worth watching, but not in the same league as Batman The Animated Series.

Good quality I had to watch this video for a college course, and it was surprisingly good quality for watching it on my computer through Amazon.  It was a pretty good film.

Enjoyable goofy actioner I love that the A-Team movie doesn't shy away from the over-the-top goofy action that characterized the original A-Team.  Any plan, no matter how bizarre or improbable, would come together in the end.  Rather than try to make a "serious" A-Team movie, the producers went the Charlie's Angels way and owned the improbability.  As a result, this movie works, and it's fun.  I give the director and the writers a lot of credit - while the script doesn't necessarily make a lot of sense, and the plot gets confused at times, "A-Team" manages to juggle a lot of convoluted spy/heist stuff without getting the viewer lost as to what's going on.  The actors were good choices to play the classic characters, Liam Neeson in particular.  It was fun to see Gerald McRaney, the king of 80s TV, back on screen.  Part of the comedy had to do with those printing plates dating from the 70s.  Oh no - unnamed bad guys were going to print a billion or two dollars of "unbacked US currency" with them!  Given that the Federal Reserve does that on a daily basis, the viewer may end up cheering for the monetary restraint of the eventual possessor of the plates and/or hoping he or she might replace Bernanke.  Plus, hasn't the $100 bill changed a little since 1975?  The movie bogs down in places, and a movie like the "A-Team" can't afford that.  It needs to keep up the energy so you don't think about it too much.  At 2 hours, this movie could have easily shaved off about 20 minutes and been a lot more effective.  This is at least worth a rent, especially if you liked the original show as a kid.  It's not high art, but it's entertaining.

It's nice to not have to worry I'm retired, and I used to love traveling and visiting. But now, I am a bit disabled and not able to do those things that I used to love doing. So my enjoyment is watching movies in my own little theater. Amazon has been my supplier of great movies for over 5 years now, and not once have they messed up, not once has a movie gotten lost or damaged, and not once have I had to call and complain about something. You know, It's really nice to not have to worry about my movies. Wild Hearts Cant Be Broken is a great story of determinatin. Besides were a little prejudiced, we shop in Orangeburg,Sc and have visited Myrtle Beach many times as we live right here in South Carolina. Amazon, keep up the good work. James Banfield Bamberg, Sc.

Romantic comedy with a twist This is a romantic comedy, and up to a point, has the predictability factor that many romantic comedies do, but then there is a subplot which makes it more interesting. Diane Keaton does her usual great acting job, three parallel male leads are pretty convincing. Mandy Moore, in my opinion, does well in more emotional situations than she does in ordinary circumstances. There is a little boy in this film who is VERY much like a lot of kids his age I have known. I don't know how much he has to act, and how much just comes naturally, but he is a standout as just a tiny bit obnoxious, yet amusing, kid. Couldn't decide whether this should get 3 or 4 stars, finally decided to go with four.

Fun Romantic Comedy - Yasou! My Big Fat Greek Wedding was quite the romantic comedy and yet was disappointing in other areas.  We have a nerdy, unkempt daughter of a Greek man [Nia Vardalos, who also wrote the screenplay] with a massive personality and belonging to a large Greek family.  She never fit in and rejected what was expected of her (marry Greek, have lots of Greek kids, be a mom) but seemed to blame it all on her family.  Her family is quirky to say the least.  They're loud, happy and excitable.  She is so "not that" that she is introverted and unhappy most of the time.  She feels trapped and no way out.  This part of the story was a bit annoying to me.  I too am Greek and have a large family but we never embraced the traditions of a Greek family as the main character does.  If anything I think I would have enjoyed going to Greek school.  Finally she realizes that she can do something about it and goes to college to learn computers (over her father's objections) and gets a job at her aunt's travel agency and makes it work.  At the same time she is completely frozen by the entrance of a man in her life.  He's not Greek, her father rejects him, but she falls completely in love and can't help herself.  The plot is a bit predictable at this point with the man doing whatever he can to ingratiate himself into her big Greek family.  He on the other hand has a small, quiet family and his parents have a rough time with them - they want a country club wedding, quiet with a few guests - what they get is a big party!  Most of the humor comes from the clash of cultures (spitting on someone for good luck --- I have to try that on my family, LOL) and of the woman realizing that she need not be ashamed of her heritage and completely reject it - that she can accept her big Greek family and be independent at the same time.  It all works.  Recommended, especially if you have a wild and crazy southern European family.  According to Wiki, this was the highest grossing romantic comedy that never hit big in theaters.  Cast!  Directed by Joel Zwick  Produced by Gary Goetzman Tom Hanks Rita Wilson  Written by Nia Vardalos  Starring John Corbett Nia Vardalos Lainie Kazan Michael Constantine Ian Gomez Arielle Sugarman Stavroula Logothettis Gia Carides Andrea Martin Louis Mandylor Jayne Eastwood  Other Films with Nia Vardalos:  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0021L8UO4">My Life in Ruins</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002U1LGTQ">I Hate Valentine's Day (Ws)</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000CGNEF">My Big Fat Greek Life - The Entire Series</a>

Touching film on the lives of street kids A variation on Hector Babenco's great 'Pixote', this follows the same theme of abandoned street kids in (in this case Morocco as opposed to Latin America), being played by real street kids.  But "Ali" is much less gritty and naturalistic in style, if not story. Beautiful widescreen photography, some playful animated moments, and a slightly less despairing feel (although it's still pretty dark).  A young street boy is killed, and his friends try to figure out how to get him properly buried, while fending off attacks from the local street gang, finding the boy's mother, etc.  Very well acted for the most part, and has it's share of touching, heartbreaking moments. But it also feels manipulative and 'moviesh' at others. Certainly a good film, if not quite at the amazing level of it's ancestors.

Love this Series i purchased this series and absolutely love it. gave it 4 stars because the sound quality wasn't the best and the final movie wasn't the original i remember from when i was a child. none-the-less, happy with my purchase.

3.75 Stars... Nurse Jackie is a show that moves at a nice pace, has some interesting characters and some semi-intriguing plots... It isn't the best and doesn't pass itself off as... It blends comedy and drama nicely and is very much entertaining... Wish it had a bit more resolve but they have not jumped the shark yet which is more than Dexter and Californication can say. All in all a solid show that I will continue to enjoy.

Best Hulk out there By far the best Hulk adaptation on the big screen. I understand why Ed Norton's version got more love from the general public, but Bana's Banner/Hulk dynamic was much closer to the true spirit of the comic.

Batman, the loner A good animated representation of the Justice League.  It was also enjoyable for my friends who don't know the Justice League or any of its history.

If you love Beauty and the Beast you will love this movie! How wonderful it is to see all our favorite characters from Beauty in the Beast in this special Christmas edition movie!  It has a wonderful message and is delightful to watch.  Cogsworth, Lumiere, Mrs. Potts, and others all make appearances.  There are some new characters too.  The music is nice too.

Draws you in Let me in is a true to the original retelling of the Swedish film `Lat den ratte komma in' which was based on a book. The original film was based in Blackeberg, Stockholm but the in the American version the action has shifted to a small town in New Mexico. Director Matt Reeves has chosen the year 1980 as the year in which things unfold, this has to do with the Reagan American thought process of the time of good and evil, communism. There is Owen (Kodi Smith- Mcphee) who is fighting his own fight with the school bullies, he is terrorized every day. He is lonely and friendless, it is during this time that a young girl Abby, a 250 year old vampire, according to the original book (Chloe Grace Moretz) moves next door to him and they begin an unlikely friendship which will change their lives forever. I would not go in to details about the films pace and events as I think it would give away the story but this is in short, a very remarkable film about loneliness, finding friendship and companionship in the most unlikely places. The pace is slow and the director has not relied on sounds and CGI to bring the story to life. The horror is very subtle and the acting is amazing, two gifted young children have given such a good performance that it would give many grown up actors a run for their money. The cinematography is splendid and so are the other supporting actors. Nothing has changed from the original film; the soul is still intact only the setting has changed with a few minor changes. I highly recommend this film 4 stars. 6/20/2011

Liked this video a lot This video is very well produced and informative. I have been looking for instruction in an orgasmic practice that my partner and I can work with, I have a regular meditation practice and a sexual meditation with my partner was an easy jump to make. We focus on the sensation of the orgasm that occurs between us. I've found it beautifully simple and intimate. I've looked around at what else is out there and it all mostly seems either poorly produced, cheezy or kind of like porn, which is not what we are looking for. This video- and the other products and videos I have bought from OneTaste- has a quality and a simplicity that really resonates with me. The information is presented in a way that is easy to understand. I found it to be a great place to start and have since bought other more advanced materials on their website. i'm glad we found this.

Time Waits for No Man Mr. President I personally do not like much of Tim Burton's work, even though he only helped produce this film, but I must say A++...a very well written and produced film with great acting, great special effects and great action. Timur Bekmambetov is now one of my favorite directors. An excellent film with a "new" up-to-date twist with the vampire genre that I will watch over and over. If you LOVE vampires, watch this film. You will not be disappointed.

Pretty good holiday romantic comedy Four Christmases is a pretty good romantic comedy for the holidays.  It has a story line that many can relate to and is fairly funny.

Love having these on one dvd, but... I love Veggietales. I've been hooked since I was 8, and now my 3 year old loves them too!  These three stories are very good ones. I love having them on one dvd, so I don't have to change discs to put on a new one.  My only qualm was that I didn't realize the video was only a compilation of stories, not the entirety of each of the videos these stories are in. If you're looking to have a complete Veggietales collection at some point, buy each of these videos individually. The full video version of Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Samson's Hairbrush has a story about Junior asparagus facing bullies as well, and the full video version of Sheerluck Holmes has a story about the "Asparagus of La Mancha,"  both of which are not here. This is half of each of those movies, and the full-length version of Tomato Sawyer and Huckleberry Larry.  That said, if you're looking for wonderful Veggietales stories as we all know them, this is great. Just don't use this to add those three movies to your Veggietales collection.  Oh, and it may be noteworthy to point out you can't select subtitles on this video. I wanted to figure out the lyrics to a song in Sheerluck Holmes, but they sang fast and there are no subtitles here. Can't even find the lyrics online. I guess I'll just have to listen closely!

Pee Wee's Big Adventure Pee Wee the man/boy...funny and more than acceptable for the whole family.  I've seen this film several times and now my teenagers have discovered it and find it to be really funny too.  A good light hearted romp with levels of humor for kids and adults.

great movie, but no extras on the BD version I'm going to pass on giving a review of the movie, since if you want that then go to a website that specializes in that.  You probably wouldn't be conisdering purchasing it if you hadn't already seen it or heard good things about it anyway, right?  So I'll leave it at "I really like this movie."  That said, I'm reviewing the feature (Ronin) as offered on Blueray.  The movie and audio quality are great, no complaints.  I'm disappointed that there were no additional features added, however.  I'm relatively new to the Blueray world, and with all the extra disk space BD has, I thought there would be a directors commentary.  I don't fault anyone for this, it wasn't advertised that way and shame on me for making the assumption.  I normally wouldn't care about it either, except that after I got it, a friend recommended I watch the commentary and that's when I realized there wasn't one.  So, in summary:  great movie, decent black Friday value.  4 stars.

Pretty good not great This is the better of the two volumes, because there is no nudity. Volume two is topless, but what is the point? If I wanted nudity, I would get the umpteen million soft core modeling videos. The camera effects are amateur and distracting in both, btw.

Greatest Hits (good matches) and Misses (bad matches) Mick Foley's Greatest Hits and Misses doesn't disappoint. Most of the matches on the first disc I have never seen before and they were amazing. The ECW matches as Cactus Jack lived up to their name. I was glad to see the Street Fight he had with Triple H on the DVD set. It's a good thing I waited til after the Hardcore Edition came out to buy this DVD set, because I absolutely loved Mick's matches with Randy Orton and Edge. The Extreme tag match at One Night Stand was incredible as well. The only match I didn't really like on there was the I Quit match Mick had with Ric Flair. I'm from Massachusetts and bought tickets for Summer Slam when it came to Boston. When it was time for the I Quit match, I went to go buy a t-shirt or a souvenir, because I didn't want to see an old man with flabby man tits (EWWWWWW!!!) in the ring. The problem I had with that match was Ric Flair being in the match and furthermore him actually winning the match was unrealistic. I mean, God!! Ric is like in his 70s and he beat a guy who was 30 plus years younger than him? How unrealistic can you get? Aside from the I Quit match with Flair, I thoroughly enjoyed watching this DVD.

Good condition not perfect but good The case was a little bent wheat I received my DVDs. The discs play well though. None of the ones I've watched so far have been scratched.

Gangster before we had Gangsta This movie does a solid job recreating the atmosphere of the old Gangster movies. With all our technology today, it can be hard to be excited over old time shoot outs, but this film accomplishes that VERY well. The main Actors are very good and Jhonny Depp is one sexy bad boy!(hahha)

Rambo Noticable clips cut, but understood the story a little better. We need a high bred of the 2 bluerays! And da fiddy goes boom!

Well done thriller with two twists This is not some poorly written mess done on the cheap.  This is actually a well acted story that is more of suspense thriller than a horror film, and there are two twists that I never saw coming.  Recommended.

The Lonely Island meets SNL. Not the greatest movie overall, but it is quite funny and has its own charm to it. The film is like an SNL episode, not the greatest all the way through, but has very funny and memorable moments. If you like random and out there comedies, or you like The Lonely Island (the band). Then you will like this. 7 out of 10.  Cool Beans!

Not in a class with the original but worth seeing I bought this for my 5 and 2 year-old grand-daughters who love all things Disney Princess and especially the Little Mermaid. While it would be hard to match the original in quality, they love having a new piece to the Ariel story and thoroughly enjoy it!

one of the best cartoon movies Chicken Run is fine for children but much of the humor will only be caught by adults. This is one of my all time favorites.

He'll Stop The World And Melt All Over You! THE MELTING MAN...a tragic victim of the space race, he perished MELTING...never comprehending the race had LONG GONE BY...!  "Come Prepared!" said the posters.  Ah!  Indeed.  At the very least, you will need a disposable, moisture-resistant paper bag, or maybe a stiff drink to erase the memory afterwards.  A man (Burr DeBenning) burns his hand on the kitchen stove. But instead of screaming something a NORMAL person would scream, he shouts something that sounds like "AAAAATCH-KAH!!" This movie you've popped in...isn't a normal movie. You've just taken your first step into THE INCREDIBLE MELTING MAN, the famous late-70's gore film featuring Rick Baker's wonderful makeup effects. Baker was just on the edge of becoming a superstar, and did this at the same time as his famous "cantina aliens" in STAR WARS. For some strange reason, STAR WARS became a household name, and INCREDIBLE MELTING MAN did not.  It might have something to do with the fact that this movie is just mind-numbingly awful. From the opening credits ("Starring Alex Rebar as THE INCREDIBLE MELTING MAN"...that's really what it says!), to the chubby nurse running through a glass door, to the fisherman's head going over a waterfall and smashing graphically apart on some rocks, this film provides many, many moments of sheer incomprehensibility. "Why did they...but how come he...why are they...?" After a while, you give up wondering why and watch it as what it is--a very entertaining piece of garbage.  An astronaut returns to Earth in a melting, radioactive condition; he escapes and, his mind disintegrating as well as his body, begins a mad melting killing spree. The authorities quickly decide that the melting man must be stopped, but (probably not wanting to "cause a panic") want him captured as quietly as possible. So they send one guy with a geiger counter after him. Wow.  Storywise, surprisingly little happens during the movie. The melting guy wanders around killing people. A doctor searches for him with a geiger counter. Various characters are introduced, ask questions, and leave. Eventually the doctor catches up with the melting man, but is shot by a security guard for no reason, after he explains that he's "Dr. Ted Nelson." The melting man wanders off and finally dissolves into a big puddle of goo. The End.  It's so brainless that it somehow ends up being a lot of fun, despite a fairly downbeat ending.  A very special movie! As long as you know what you're getting into, you should be quite happy.

Not what I expected, but a good movie If I had known from the outset, that I needed to be in the mind-frame for a 1950's or 1960's genre film, I may have enjoyed it more.  Seemed like nothing more than a vehicle to show-case how glamorous Angelina Jolie could appear.  Love Johnny Depp, kept waiting for his character to break out in this movie.  He seemed to play such a milquetoast.  So disappointed in the role he played.  And I mean the role he was given to play, not the way he played it.

Good ! I recently bought this and loved it! Lots of great tips and tricks that make a huge difference! The only thing that I didn't like was when I first started the video it was pretty difficult to keep up with them, they would change moves and it was pretty confusing. But after a bit of practice it's fine ! Deffientaly worth it too

A good sendoff to a sadly dead franchise After Terminator 3 a lot of people probably figured the series was over. Arnold was gone, Judgment day happened, what else was left? Terminator Salvation takes on the next logical subject, the war of the future. Salvation's apocalyptic showdown is a bit more tame than the one Cameron originally gave us- unstead of a hellish, black warzone roamed by uncountable armies of terminators, Salvation takes the life after people route as human stragglers hide from roving killer robots in the abandoned derelicts of civilization. The film follows a crew of heroes who come together to battle Skynet, culminating in more of the industrial-warhammer-hell you might have expected.  Perhaps one of the biggest stars of Salvation is the special effects work. As much as possible this film uses model work and animatronics SUPPLIMENTED by CG, and it shows. The corny CG of 3 is gone, replaced by believable, gritty mechanized mayhem. This realism cost the film dearly, giving a budget it couldn't really hope to recoup, but it's worth it as an example of what you can do if you don't just rely on computers.  The BD looks and sounds fantastic. Unlike the overproduce T3, Salvation has grain in the night shots, tons of detail, and all sorts of rugged post-apocalyptic dirt on actors faces (except the pristine and, in this version, slightly more nude Moon Bloodgood). The terminators in particular look genuinely awesome, although they don't quite achieve the jerky nightmarish appeal of the stop-motion original. Like T3 this movie ONLY has a pop-up menu. There's a good variety of special features and additional footage- some of the restored content, primarily the expansion of some of Marcus' scenes, is a welcome addition to the film, while other bits, such as the aforementioned almost-nudity, seem poorly edited in.  Overall, this is a worthwhile buy for series fans and hi-def aficionados, although the slow, moody pace and dependance on past material may put off people new to the series. So if you haven't seen any Terminator films and you're looking at this... Buy all 4. They're cheap now.

I Spit on Your Grave The 2010 remake of I Spit on Your Grave, is a better made, better acted movie than the original. Wheither or not the film as a whole is better than the original is up for debate, and I guess would depend upon your tastes.  The remake is still a film you will find difficult to watch with other people, as the rape scene is just as brutal as in the original, albeit, thankfully, a bit shorter. It brutally gets the point across but does not over utilize the gratuitous nudity of the original film. The scene does what it is designed to do, to make you hate the five men enough that you want to see them dead.  The story is pretty much the same, but the acting is much better than in the original, and the characters are much more believable and more developed, so to speak. There is however, the cliche of the rednecks in the woods terrorising the city girl, that is overused in horror movies.  Sarah Butler plays her role as the victim very well, and when it comes to the revenge scenes, you are really wanting to see the antagonists get what they have coming. I liked the fact that she didn't have to take her clothes off in order to exact revenge, which is something that just never made sense to me in the original. I did think though, that the revenge scenes were rather unrealistic with the use of complicated traps, which makes you wonder what Jennifer's relationship is to MacGyver or Jigsaw from the Saw films. But I found myself happy with the outcome anyway, despite it being over-the-top.  I would say if you are a fan of the original, or are a fan of revenge flicks in general, you'll appreciate this film. If you are not a fan of this type of film, just stay away. I never have understood those people that understand full-well what they are getting into going in, but go and watch anyway just so they can turn around and write a scathing review about the content. It goes without saying that this film is not for everyone.  This Blu-Ray had excellent picture and sound, but I felt was lacking in the special features department. The feature commentary I found to be rather boring and uninformative. There is a generic "making of" featurette, a couple deleted scenes and some trailers. I would have liked to hear from the filmmakers about why they wanted to remake the 1978 original, what they thought of it, what they were trying to improve upon, etc. But, then again, I'm a big special features kind of guy. If they are no big deal to you and you are just looking to enjoy the movie, I think you'll be satisfied with this.

Men with Capes Things to Come; written by H.G. Wells; directed by William Cameron Menzies; starring Raymond Massey (John Cabal/Oswald Cabal), Edward Chapman (Passworthy/Passworthy) and Ralph Richardson (The Boss) (1936): Things to Come gives us 100 years of extrapolated human history in about 100 minutes. That doesn't leave a lot of room for characterization, but characterization isn't on Wells's mind anyway -- or at least not the characterization of individuals, as humanity is the evolving character in the bildungsroman presented here.  We follow humanity's rocky road by watching the history of Everytown (pretty obviously London, England), beginning on the eve of a world war in 1936 and ending with humanity's first baby steps into outer space in 2036. In between, we get vignettes of diasaster and rebuilding, and one long middle section setting the hyper-civilized, transnational Airmen against the tribal warriors of bombed-out Everytown, led by Ralph Richardson's engaging barbarian Boss, the only character in the movie I could imagine not punching in the face as soon as I met him. And he's the bad guy!  The visual effects are occasionally stunning -- moreso given the technology of the time. One's reactions to Wells's utopia, built by scientists and engineers who love lengthy declamatory speeches and airplanes with giant wings, will vary depending on one's own opinions about 'human nature', the perfectability of man, and the wisdom of wearing togas and capes all the time. Why did seemingly everyone in the 1920's and 1930's think the citizens of future utopias would wear capes and dress all in white? Recommended.

A remarkable story When I heard that Danny Boyle, the director of films like "Slumdog Millionaire," "28 Days Later," and "Trainspotting," was directing "127 Hours," the film adaptation of Aron Ralston's first-person account of his entrapment under a boulder in a Utah ravine and subsequent escape by cutting off his own right forearm, I thought, "What an odd choice to direct that movie." Now, after having seen the brilliant "127 Hours," I just can't imagine anyone else having directed the film. Boyle's jerky, spasmodic approach, tempered by long moments of stillness and reflection, paired with the superb music of A.R. Rahman (the same composer who provided "Slumdog Millionaire" with its unforgettable score), suits Ralston's story--and his character--perfectly. Of course, James Franco's tour de force performance as Ralston (it's not technically a one-man show, but Franco is alone onscreen for the vast majority of the film's 94 minutes) contributes greatly to the film's incredible impact. Boyle and Franco, faced with the challenge of creating drama and tension out of an event that almost everyone watching knows will happen eventually, pull off the task admirably--"the scene" itself is almost impossible to watch, but somehow we must. By that point in the film, we have so much invested in Ralston's story that we simply have to see how it all happened. Ralston's triumph is so amazing, so remarkable, so inspirational that tears of joy (and yes, relief) will conquer the revulsion most viewers might experience as Ralston amputates his own arm in order to survive. This film is mighty tough to watch, but the reward is well worth it.

Quirky and funny Fantastic film. I watched this film when I was a teen and I really loved it. It was quirky, funny, and a great story. Not much dialogue but you don't need it to follow along.

GREAT MESSAGE BARBIE! We own MANY Barbie movies and this one is one of my favorites. I'm a mom of two girls (ages 10 & 8). We are at an age where they feel pressure and influence by their peers and society. Princess Charm School gives girls a message that you need to believe in yourself before others can believe in you and that you can do anything if you believe in yourself. I think this is a message all young girls should hear. Confidence is an excellent skill all young girls should have. I hope Barbie movies continue on this path.

Lenny in his own words Starting with the Dustin Hoffman movie Lenny I've been fascinated by this comic.  His biography by Goldman does a complete dive into Bruce's life including discussing all of his famous bits in detail giving great context as to why they were funny at the time.  I also highly recommend the book Honey about his wife who was truly fascinating.  Now, as to this performance within a year of his death.  First, all readings talk of how terrible he looked and how heavy.  Sorry, I didn't see it.  Looked pretty normal to me. Not in shape but not a slob like so often is portrayed.  Having listened to a few of his records and been umimpressed with the comedy, I would say that this is as good a recording as you can expect from this period of time.  Is this hilarious?  No.  Does it drone on about his legal proceedings? yes, but admittedly, he does present a logical argument while trying to incorporate fun.  I love the theory of Lenny Bruce.  But he won't change lives by listening to this performance.  My opinion is you have to have lived during that time and "felt" the oppressive society to really understand the genius of Lenny Bruce.  overall, I'm glad I watched and agree that the Masked Man six minute comic strip at the end is worth the watch.  Enjoy.  I did.

funny When I first saw this in the theater, I was surprised as hell to see something like that right away. Overall it's a good laugh

AM I BLIND OR HALLUCINATING? This was an awesome movie but did no one see what i saw,When the guy got stabbed in the throat with the knife and died.Then out the blue at the end of the movie comes back to life like nothing happened and goes home to his love,I'm sorry but that ruined the whole movie for me,And i was going to buy this movie. !!DAMN!!

TURF WARS? Good teen flick for it's day. James Spader, Kim Richards, and Robert Downey Jr. Loner gets into a beef with the tuff guys in the school, over a girl of course.

Sliverwing Not a lot of people remember this series and thats a shame. It was on TV a few years ago my younger sister and I really got into it. It has a different plot than other shows out at the time. It centers around bats. The story line is, before the laws of nature the birds and the beasts raged war for control. The bats chose not to choose sides. Therefore, after the war they were banished to only fly at night, never to see the sun again. That is until Shade Silverwing did on a dare. From there many unexpected events occur. Cannibal bats, taken by humans for study escape and start killing birds, and the owl's leader, Brutus, is in charge of keeping the law and declares war on the Silverwings, thinking they have decided to go rouge. Shade knows the truth, but Brutus refuses to believe a law breaker and it turns into a race to uncover the truth and stop the pending massacre.

Surpise for me I didnt expect to really like this movie. One of my friends told me it was good, but you never know. Although we do have very similar taste in movies. But with that aside, I ordered it on instant stream in HD, the price was pretty good, and it was the perfect crowd pleaser during a BBQ with both families. The movie was solid the stream was great. I love amazon instant, even though it costs a bit more then redbox, it is easier and I dont have they always have what I want.

If you like JA's body, definitely watch this I love John Abraham so was very keen to watch yet another of his movies.  Desi Boyz is not your typical Hindi movie, there is a lot more risky subject matter than most.  Both the main actors were great, not amazing but they definitely loved showing off their bodies!  Some catchy songs and dances but very good overall.

Good movie This is a funny movie about four couples going on a retreat. One couple went to fix their marriage. The other three couples were tricked into going. They thought it was going to be a lot of free fun. But after their first day they found out they had to fallow the program to fixing their marriage in order to stay. Fixing a marriage that they didn't know needed fixing. There is a lot of fun and laughs in this movie. But I just think the ending could have been better. It kind of sucked.

Makes Some Good Points, Biased in Several Ways This is a good documentary, but not unbiased (no surprise), not even in its appraisals of the various religions, and does not include any eastern religions (or African, or Native American, or...). To his credit, Maher is up front that he thinks religion -- including all religions -- is at best ignorant and at worst it causes some of the most hateful atrocities on Earth. He makes some good arguments, in his typical smarmy smartass style, but then at other times he just seems to be taking pot shots for the sake of making a snide retort, rather than to prove a point. It disturbed me a little bit that he took advantage of several opportunities to express revulsion at killings perpetrated by Muslim extremists, aggressively confronting Muslims interviewees that did not profess to support such things, however he never once mentioned Israel's human rights abuses, or that some of them are actually funded by Christian extremist groups. Such evidence would have actually supported his main thesis, so I'm not sure why they weren't mentioned, except perhaps that it could be argued they are more political than religious issues. So, to my point, this is not unbiased. It is quite amusing though, and entertaining to watch him pick holes (with a sledgehammer) in the logic of various religious tenets.  He also does not talk about any of the good things that religions do in the world (besides whatever spiritual/emotional/psychological value they may have), such as humanitarian support.  Wear a thick skin and watch this, but don't watch it with deathly seriousness or you will get bummed out, and confused, because in the end he doesn't fully support his claims.

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Fluffly Christmas Charmer This isn't Homer but that doesn't mean it isn't worth watching. In fact, I watch it every time it's on, darn it. Disclosure -- It has my weakness, Christmas. It also has my queen, Kate Winslet but it also has my joker. No, not Black but Law (the nanny thing). It has my frog waiting to be kissed, Black but also it has my dislike, Cameron Diaz. Actually, Diaz has rarely looked so good as she does here. She should hire the make-up artist. She didn't have her usual red-faced hungover look. This is fluffy fun greatly enhanced by some acting greats, Winslet, Law, Eli Wallach and Rufus Sewell. Diaz hasn't really ever impressed me with her acting while I find Black to be underappreciated. No Oscar nods for School of Rock or King Kong? Travesty. Both the homes Diaz and Winslet live in are truly straight out of a movie. It's really all part of the facade. We'd be disappointed if Diaz owned a 1977 ranch with 1750 sq feet or Winslet owned a flat all of 600 sq ft in London's seedy section. Who'd rent those places as a get away? I did find Law and Diaz to be too pretty people perfect but Winslet and Black work well together. And the side story with Winslet and Wallach is a joy. This is a Christmas romance movie. It's meant to make you feel good. It works.

You can't look away I'm rating this film high not because of the actual production of it, but because of the overall fascination I felt for quite some time after viewing it. I kept mulling it over and marvelling.  The demonstration of Mr. Hogancamp's artistic obsession with his little village and the extent to which he went for authentication; the creativity and imagination he demonstrates; his finely detailed work on all the pieces along with the vast amount of time it must have taken on a daily basis not to mention the monetary expense he went to is mind-blowing.  The content of the film enables it to stand on its own without directorial or scriptual interpretations or embellishments for it is a film about a truly unique person and how many of those do we encounter in this world?

Inspiring Tear-Jerker Based on a true story, Daniel Day Lewis plays Christy Brown, an Irishman with cerebral palsy who was thought to be mentally retarded until he was 10 and managed to write the word "mother" on the floor in chalk using his left foot. It was the only part of him over which he had good control. Eventually he learned to draw and paint with his left foot, and finally to type on an electric typewriter. He then wrote his autobiography, titled the same as the movie, which was illustrated with his own paintings.  Much of the credit for his developing articulate (or reasonably so) speech should go to Dr. Eileen Cole (Fiona Shaw), who was just starting up a therapy program for patients with CP. But when Christie agreed to go there, he discovered that all the other students were children, while he was an adult by that time. So Dr. Cole came to his house and worked with him, eventually getting him to practice the "to be or not to be" speech from Hamlet as diction exercise. She was also the one who introduced an art gallery owner to his paintings, which were very successful.  Unfortunately, Christie fell in love with her and was therefore pretty devastated when she told him she was marrying the art gallery owner. He drank way too much and got completely out of control at the restaurant where they were supposedly celebrating the success of the opening of his show at the gallery.  The story is told through flash-backs from his book. While the nurse assigned to stay with him while waiting to be presented at a fund-raiser for "the crippled kids," as Christie put it, read his book, we see what she is reading.  Daniel Day Lewis was superb in the role. Like Leo DiCaprio in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?," we can simply see the character as if the actor actually had the handicap he portrayed. A tough acting job brilliantly done.

Haunting Hauntingly slow, Melancholia plods along at first, daring you to hate the protagonist.  She, so seemingly tormented by depression, is cantankerous and unlikeable.  However, by the end of the movie I had begun to dislike everyone around her more and realized she was going to be a strong finish.  Is this an action film?  No.  Is this the kind of scifi that contains endless scenes of visceral gratituity?  No.  This is the kind of scifi that is more drama than special effects.  One which hints at the fantastical story which throbs gently beneath the floor boards of the lives you are witnessing.  The beginning scene in the movie might be one of the more stylized and spectacular visions I've scene in a movie lately.  The middle is everyday drama.  The end is thought provoking.  Much like Solaris, I enjoyed this movie more than expected.

Banger Sisters Review This is a great movie to feel good about your slutty past. Also, if you're a woman who thinks she's passed her prime, this movie will show you otherwise! A feel good movie for women all around. It's also great to watch with your best girl friend. You probably shouldn't watch it with your boyfriend or husband if they have a problem with your slutty past, because they will not laugh during the hilarious scene when Goldie and Susan take out all the pictures of male genitalia. YOU however will be laughing.

Make Your Reservations and Pack Your Bags This is by the History Channel, and provides enough real inside information on the imagineers, the animatronics, and all those terrific things Disney people actually invented, including some that are now being picked up by more serious applications. It also goes into the planning and financial considerations, the Disney philosophy of how to treat visitors to the theme parks, and the things they learned from the limitations found in Disneyland.  If I had kids and the money to indulge, I'd be planning a trip to Orlando right now.

A stand-out debut feature. Scott Honea paints a unique portrait of his hometown in Believe You Me, the debut feature from the Corsciana, TX native. Matt Olsen of Oregonian fame, the debut feature from Rambler writer/director Calvin Lee Reeder, stars as Raleigh Elm, the photographer for his local newspaper. When Raleigh experiences an unthinkable family tragedy his personal and professional lives begin to unravel. In part to escape his father [Chuck Houston] and to cope, Raleigh volunteers for the graveyard shift at a suicide helpline, a position generally reserved for parolees and the like. On a typical night Raleigh receives an atypical call. A call that puts him in the position to make a decision with farther-reaching consequences than he could have ever imagined. As an ex-photo journalist, Honea brings something to the film's visual style not typically seen in freshman film efforts. The camera never tries to bring attention to itself. It's a silent, non-intruding observer capturing this series of tragedies reminiscent of a Shakespearean play. Much like in reality there's plenty of humor, pain, and humility brought to life by some outstanding up-and-coming talent. Both Matt Olsen and Julie Mitchell deliver award-caliber performances while Chuck Houston comes close to stealing many of the scenes in which he appears. This is definitely a film that's not to be missed.  A tiny bit of trivia:  -Both the suicide helpline and newspaper were filmed in the same building. -Scott Honea spent his youth as a photographer for the newspaper that Raleigh works for in the film. -The Elm family home is actually Honea's childhood home. His mother generously relocated temporarily for two weeks to allow for filming and housing of cast and crew. -The character Wyatt is based on and written specifically for Honea's long-time friend of the same name. -While shooting a helpline scene and throughout the rest of the afternoon, the cast and crew came dangerously close to several tornadoes during a particularly nasty storm.

Monk Bought as a Christmas gift.  The friend I gave this to was thrilled!  She is a hugh Monk fan.

Magnificent Seven Blu Ray I just paid $9.99 for the single disk Blu Ray at Target so don't waste extra $$ for this package @ Amazon. It has extras including the making of the film with interviews. Not the best transfer but still a good buy.

Childhood rememberance Initially, I was surprised with the change in title to Titanic, having seen it as a child with "A Night to Remember".  It was an excellent film, and brought back Clifton Webb, and young Robert Wagner and Barbara Stanwyck.  Recommend to anyone.

I liked some parts, hated others of it I have never seen a movie like Pulp Fiction in that some scenes or parts of the film I loved and some I hated.  Why I am not sure since most films that are shot in or take place in Los Angeles I usually enjoy very much.  I thought the part towards the end with Harvey Keitel in it was great, yet some of the drug scenes were just not interesting.  This movie reminds me of so many other films that are based out of LA like 'crash, from 2005', '2 days in the valley', in how the movie was developed and plays out.  Must be the atmosphere that Los Angeles brings to the movie making process and that it is the nicest place I have ever been to in this country.  Overall, the film is very popular and has a great cast to it.  Maybe a little less drugs for me and I would give it 5 stars.  Peter J. Miller

Good, but no matrix The title sums it up, it's a good attempt at what could happen in the not too distant future, but it's not as imaginitive and ground-breaking as The Matrix.  The movie does give his patented another view of reallity, but it's what could happen, not another view on what is happening.  Like I said it's a good DVD movie, but I wouldn't want to pay $12.00 to see this.

Wah!  He had me at "A foetus!" I never heard of the bug snacks when I was in Beijing but they were made famous by travel shows like Anthony Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern.  Karl no idiot is the first travel host to question the veracity of both the insect buffet and The Great Wall.  I am an Overseas Chinese and I too wondered at the fame of the wall.  Now that I have seen the China episode, I'm beginning to think that the Great Wall is some ridiculously successful tourist trap that gets millions of people to venture into the middle of nowhere.

Bachelor great party Thanks a lot to Amazon team, they did a great job !! It was a very difficult product to find, really rare, but they did ! Nice job !  Bye from Paris in France,  Logan

Superb movie - as good as the book. Read this book in a few days - a real page turner.  Fascinating, multi-dimensional characters, and a great story.  The screenplay condensed the book somewhat, but the movie was thoroughly enjoyable - a high-intensity, emotionally compelling plot, with great characterization and casting.  I'm hoping the Hollywood version coming out this week is as good - looking forward to that as well.  Not the greatest film ever made, but highly recommended.

Not Quite like the book but still a good movie After reading the book (which is awesome by the way) I purchased the movie. The acting is good and the special effects and fight scenes are good. The problem i have is that some of the rewrites from the book make no scene what so ever. Changing things from book to movie is important but changing alot of stuff isnt. If you have read the book just know that the action scene at the end isnt as long or strategic in the movie instead its shorter and faster pace. Also they never mention Home Ec class in the movie which is a big mistake because its an important part of John and Sarah's relationship. If you havent read the book then its a typical teenage highschool movie but in a Scifi enviornment.

I liked the movie. I liked the movie, but I don't think a lot of the jokes were understandable to my 3 year old! Tho he doesn't care becuz he gets excited every time is offered to have the movie put on(ie car trips and such).

Great for Young Teens Oh my word. We watched Tremors on cable recently and had to rush out and buy the movie. My 13-year-old son loved it. I had no idea they made FOUR movies in this series!  Yes there is some swearing in each movie. Not a lot. Young teens, especially boys, will love the survival themes and battle scenes in these films. My son's favorite is Tremors 2.  If you are looking for similar movies with themes of survival, battling opponents, etc. I suggest you try: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000DBHX4M">Zathura</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001FZG47C">Small Soldiers</a>, and for silly fun, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000068MC4">Spaced Invaders</a>.  Enjoy.

fuzzy warm loving movie I really enjoyed this movie.  I enjoyed the cast.  This movie had humour and romance.  Great ending.

The Latest Favorite I have been a fan of the films of Jean-Pierre Jeunet since I first saw "Delicatessen" and "City of Lost Children" years ago. I confess I fail to understand what his detractors find to hold against his work. "Micmacs" did little business in American theaters. It played so briefly in my town that I missed it entirely and had to wait for the DVD release to see it at all. I rented it, and was delighted with its wacky inventiveness, and the great detail work which I associate with Jeunet.  I bought it at once.

funny!! I got this for my husband who loves the first "hangover" movie!! He liked it, but said that it wasn't as funny as the first part. For me, I thought it was just as good, I didn't really find the first part that funny, it's a weird humor, but second part I enjoyed more. All and all it's a fun movie to watch.

A worthwhile semi-classic Sometimes watching these older films, you have to suspend belief somewhat as with sci-fi movies.  The 1940's was another era, so picking up strangers on the road was no big deal.  Even if there is a state-wide manhunt on for an escaped murderer.  Here Vincent Parry is the escapee, sentenced to San Quinton for killing his wife.  Unseen for the first 35 minutes or so, we see events played out early on from the eyes of Parry who has the voice of Bogart but based on newspaper photos, the face of someone else.  Parry is luckily befriended, first by a passing motorist (Clifton Young) who later becomes a nemesis, then by a beautiful courtroom admirer (a luscious Lauren Bacall) and later a sympathetic cab driver (Tom D'Andrea).  Like I said, suspend belief.  Eventually Parry gets a $200 face lift, rehabs a week and comes out looking like Humphrey Bogart.  Then the fun really begins.  Added to the mix and perhaps the best thing in the film is Agnes Moorehead as Madge who once had a thing for Parry and is a likely candidate for the real murderer of his wife.  Director and co-writer Delmer Daves has a good handle on story and the structure.  Shot on location mostly in San Francisco, the film is a worthwhile semi classic.

A unique version of Snow White The cinematography in this movie is awesome! It was a very unique take on the Snow White story. I wouldn't recommend it for children, but I definitely think its a very interesting and creative movie for adults.

Movie review Caught part of the movie on the Syfy channel and wanted to see all the movie. i really enjoyed the movie.

The Dude Abides After hearing a lot of hype about it, I finally cracked and got The Big Lebowski. While it certainly didn't bump No Country For Old Men from the top spot of my favorite Coen Brother films, it still didn't make me regret buying it either. I would rank it at number two. I actually can see myself growing more and more in to it as I watch it a few more times. Jeff Bridges is perfect as Jeff Lebowski, the Dude. The Dude is a mellow unemployed bowler with a laid back attitude about everything, except his Persian rug. He also has really has a thing for White Russians and pajamas. His character was actually the first thing that pulled me into the story. Jeff Bridges doesn't play The Dude, he IS The Dude.  Jeff Bridges has a solid supporting cast as well. John Goodman in one of his five appearances in a Coen brother film, is actually hilarious as Walter. My favorite moments are the times that he tells Steve Buscemi's character "Shut the f**k up, Donnie!" I really enjoyed this movie all the way through, but it could have been better. One thing I had a problem with were the dream scenes where the Dude would either be flying over Los Angeles, running from Russians with scizzors, or some other psychedelic figure. This is just my own personal nitpicks. Fortunately, there are only a few of these dream sequences. Besides that, my only other complaint is that, as extreme the events of the film were, I never really felt excited. In the end, The Big Lebowski is funny enough, and the performances were great. So this movie was worth the purchase.

Justice for the Accused Most of these shows are murder mysteries.  You witness the murder, but the perpetrator is not revealed.  An arrest is quickly made, but what if they are innocent?  To provide justice for the accused, Atlanta's most notable defense counselors are found in the offices of the small law firm of Matlock & Matlock. . . .  If you have been accused of a murder, then Benjamin L. Matlock is your best shot at exoneration.  Ben's associate is Miss Michelle Thomas, and in most cases, she will be questioning other suspects and she will sit on your left at trial.  She is a capable lawyer.  Occasionally, young Alex Winthrop may perform her role.  He is a little wet behind the ears, but he is dedicated and, with Ben in the lead, you need not worry.  In some cases Ben will employ a private investigator, Mr. Tyler Hudson, to tail suspects, infiltrate suspect businesses or groups, and do special and sometimes unpleasant tasks such as digging up a dead horse.  Tyler is a real pro, a risk-taker, and he never shirks the most dangerous of situations.  Now, when you go to court, the prosecuting attorney may be Miss Julie March.  She is one of Georgia's most able district attorneys.  You be may be alarmed to learn that Julie and Ben are strongly attracted to each other, but they never let that interfere with their professional conduct at the trial.  Ben Matlock may look like an old country lawyer, with a passion for strumming his guitar, collecting rare coins, repairing his own boots, and an insatiable appetite for hot dogs, but he will prove to the jury that there is "reasonable doubt" that you are guilty.  Ben is just the lawyer to get justice for you. . . .  Picture (DVD): 3 to 3.5.  Subtitles: none.

New Moon Good movie. Better than Twilight. The characters are coming into their own. Love the Italian scenery. Aro is ...well he is Aro.this movie keeps with the book for about 95%.

Mamma Mia I had to buy this for a friend.  She just loves this movie and I was able to buy it in (Blu-ray) much to her delight. It seems you can always find what you're looking for at Amazon.

Foodies will want this movie.  I have 2 copies! If you can get over the ick factor of the rats, you will love Ratatouille.  The premise of this movie is really a stroke of madness or genius.  A rat who likes to cook and is a phenom.  Trust me, it works and I am now a fan of all things Brad Bird.  Recently with the advent of Spongebob Squarepants cartoons have progressively become dumber or increasingly sexual.  What happened to the great Merry Melodies and Looney Tunes era?  The downgrade began with the death of Mel Blanc and it was all over by the time they joined forces with Michael Jordan.  Sharp, funny and cutting humor in cartoons is now replaced with spastic toilet humor.  So wrong for so many reasons.  I am not a fanboy of extras.  But I couldn't resist watching these extras and they really do add value to the purchase, particularly the history of rats (ick but interesting).  I can't say too much without revealing the plot but if you are a foodie and you like good clean fun, pick this movie up.  I've watched it many times over and as a foodie it works.  I own 2 of them, plan to give one away to a fellow foodie.  I'm sure he'll wonder why an adult is giving him an animated cartoon movie.  After he sees it I fully expect his deep thanks.

Down-ey by law Although this movie commits the usually worst sin in Hollywood filmmaking (voiceover narration) thanks to the abilities of Robert Downey and the writer to poke fun at that technique, it works.  Definitely a convoluted plot that you really need to just forget worrying about figuring out and just follow the violent fun. Val Kilmer is classic as a wise cracking smartass gay (yes, you heard that right) P.I. but every character commands the screen either dead or alive.  The whole update on the film noir genre also works thanks to its ability to integrate a wide world of El Lay landscape from Hollywood parties, MacArthur's Park, a mental hospital (reminiscent a bit of the old folks' home in "Chinatown"), hotel rooftop pools and the ubiquitous roads and freeways of the county.  Having said all this, I would rate this more a rental than a purchase given the DVD has lousy extras--just the usual commentary track.

I am NOT a teenage girl... Belieber or not - this was a terrific movie. Saw it in the theater, WITHOUT my kids when they were seeing a movie I didn't want to see, and very glad I did. Moms, dads, this movie is just fun and inspiring. Two thumbs up!

The Gang's Usual Brand of Chaos Kermit and Miss Piggie are essentially Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in one of those 1930s movies where at some point they shout "Let's put on a show!" It's got the usual cliches about breaking into Broadway, but then this is the Muppets, after all. Nothing is quite the way it would otherwise be in a movie like this, however corny. If nothing else, you can have fun watching for the cameo appearances of Liza Manelli, Art Carney, Joan Rivers, Brooke Shields and Mayor Koch. There are others listed in the credits as cameos, but I didn't recognize their names. And of course other muppets you know show up here and there. Statler and Waldorf, certainly. And in the grand finale wedding scene (Piggy cleverly substitutes a real preacher for Gonzo who was to have played the role), all the muppets, including those on Sesame Street, are guests at the wedding.  As is typical of muppets, they make good use of interactions with humans, especially an immigrant named Pete who runs a coffee shop (a rat named Rizzo, an inside joke for Philadelphians, is the waiter), and his charming daughter who wants to be a fashion designer. Convenient, as she makes some outrageous costumes for Kermit. And of course raises Piggy's always touchy jealousy. Rizzo asks customer Brooke Shields how she feels about inter-species dating, and she says, "Well, I've dated some real rats, if that's what you mean."  One aspect takes some getting used to, however. People on the streets and in the restaurants and offices seem to take the muppets for granted, as if they were more-or-less human, although acknowledging their species when relevant to the plot. This confirms my impression that inter-species relations has always been used as a metaphor for inter-racial and inter-religious relations among humans. Nobody seems to mind that Camilla the chicken is in love with Gonzo the . . . just what species IS Gonzo, anyway?  I got lots of laughs out of the movie, but it is clearly meant for kids and their parents, or even their grandparents, and not to be taken very seriously. All muppets fans will appreciate it, I'm sure.

Getting Good Though I am aware this series is primarily directed toward a younger audience, I am too big a Star Wars fan to avoid it. I own the first two seaons, have skipped the third, and will likely purchase season 4 in the future. S2 is an improvement over the fairly decent S1, IMHO. The animation improves every year but S2 has the most noticable differences. If you are a SW fan, and enjoy the show, than I would certainly recommend S2. I will say that TCW is not for everybody, particularly the old-school die-hard fans like me, but if even I can overlook some of the blatent disregard for EU continuity in this series than I would think most older fans can as well. However, that does not mean I approve of decision and story of this series, as my aforementioned skipping of S3 should show.

FYI: Torchwood Adventure Arrives Soon :) The TV Shows On DVD web site announced on 02/16/2012 that "Torchwood: Miracle Day" will be released on 04/03/2012; published by BBC Video; all 10 episodes on four disks; with an SRP of $59.99.  I hope that Amazon does eventually take notice & update this entry & "MY" pre-order information soon !!! More Eve Miles & Cardiff PLEASE :)

Funny movie We bought this to replace a previous copy which got misplaced.  My daughter is a big fan of Hulk Hogan, and loves the movie. Lots of silly stunts in it.  This movie should make anybody laugh.

This movie was very well done. I guess the movie was done to make money.  I watched it and even enjoyed it.  It was not however nearly as good as the original.

Well done romance. A marine in Iraq discovers a woman's photo, and the circumstances of the find save his life. He survives the tour and sets out to find her. Upon locating the lady, a romance ensues, in spite of her jealous ex-husband and the marine's failure to reveal why he has shown up. This is another Nicholas Sparks romance adapted for the big screen, and it is perhaps the best one yet. The film contains all the classic hallmarks of a romance: a handsome hero, a beautiful lady, a villain, and steamy romantic sequences. Men should enjoy the efforts of the film's quiet and strong protagonist to seek out his destiny, while women will like the tale of a strong woman who is struggling with a bullying ex and her feelings for the newcomer. This is a good movie for an evening out with your significant other.

Great Service Thanks AMAZON for the delivery.The product is in excellent condition and it got on time.I also have the dvd.However this edtion on blu-ray looks much better.That's why I started to rebuy all the HP movies on Blu-ray.I know that some fans think that this movie is rather short compared with the book.But you know it's difficult to put too much info on  2 1/2 hours.Anyway the movie works incredibly well for the sequence of the story.

A favorite returns I saw this gorgeous movie when it premiered in the movie theaters. I bought a VHS copy years later and was very disappointed with its poor quality.  With digital remastering, this movie on DVD is so nice.  It doesn't have the color changes and sound problems from scene to scene it did before.  That's a relief! Now I can enjoy the movie from beginning to end the way it is supposed to be.

out of africa dvd 25th anniversary a correction on earlier review:  item is INDEED the 25th anniversary edition as listed.  i have since heard from recipient (it was a gift) so i stand corrected.  there was unfounded doubt earlier.

Larger than life, but in a good way Yet another ''one man army (actually, 1 1/3 men) vs legions of bad guys'' movie.  what made this work, believe it or not, was travoltas over the top, yet somehow restrained, performance. he knew what the director was aiming for and went with it.  yes, he ate up the entire screen, but he did it well. at first i thought luc besson was the director. turns out the guy who gave us ''taken'' was at the helm. pierre morel knows his stuff. keep the action flowing, dont take it seriously and dont ask your audience to be blithering idiots either.  j.r. meyers is james reece, personal assistant to some government croney. hes itching for a job with more meat on it. he plays part time errand boy for a secret organization with hopes of getting promoted. he has a gf who kinda knows what he does and is ok with it.  finally, reece gets his call. after successfully completing several small time missions, hes promoted. but its not a glamorous one. instead of being an errand boy on the outside, hes now a chauffeur to a bonafide whackjob.  that whackjob is charlie wax. he is the agencies go to guy. the getshitdone guy. of course his ''unorthodox'' methods seem to work but reece just cant shake his need to do things by the book.  reeces mission is to do what wax says. no questions asked. off they go to take down a terrorist cell. plenty of casualties and destruction of property later and mission is accomplished.......almost.  the twist is unexpected and far fetched BUT it fits. the twist isnt nearly as potent as it should have been but this wasnt a 3 hr movie. im hoping wax and reece and get their act together for another mission. FPWL is a definite keeper.

Hotter than the Riviera sun A few years ago, I got so tired of waiting for a U.S. release of this movie that I ordered a French version from Amazon France.  Now I see that if I'd waited just a few more months I could have had an American release with English subtitles.  Back in the early 1990s, I had discovered the VHS version with hardcoded subtitles that blocked some of the good parts (they always do), so I am happy to do without them.  The fact is I don't give a damn what the movie is about, but I assure you that a minimum of 30 minutes screentime for a topless or nude Valery Kaprisky is worth the price.  She is gorgeous, the beach is gorgeous, her mother is gorgeous, all the other girls are gorgeous, the cinematography, editing, and digital transfer are gorgeous, and the villain gets eaten by jellyfish (well, not eaten exactly).  It's awesome.  Buy it.

Worth a look! Very entertaining if you like fairy tales.  Kristen Stewart not bad.  Love the Troll under the bridge and the dwarves!

This is a half decent movie. I thought I would be irritated by the fact that English was dubbed over the original language, but as an old dated horror movie it holds its own against the genre. I can honestly say that after I watched this movie I was still seeing the eyes of the Vampire Countess. That woman had some very evil looking eyes. I mean she left me feeling as if I had been in the actual presence of evil. This movie also features cannibalism. The vampire townspeople serve their guests roasts of legs and human thighs and later an arm. And the way the townspeople showed up the first time at night was quite creepy. The people come towards the victim without speaking or without jumping around and seeming jerky and manic. The vampire people are also not zombie like. It seems more attention was made on the vampires eyes and the determined focus they had on cornering their victim for a blood feast. Also, there is a young girl who runs around in the cemetary with a young vampire child. That is a bit creepy. The climax has two or three people escaping the town in a car. The escape goes on for a long time because the vampires are all over the car which struggles for traction and freedom. After the escape the people return with police to find that the town was never there to begin with. This ending leaves the couple asking if all of the events even took place. However, as a viewer I felt that the events had truely happened, in a fictional sense of course. So all in all this is a watchable lower budget English dubbed flick. I have seen far, far, far worse movies. I suggest people pick it up in a collection though. My copy came in a 150 or 200 movie collection.

GOOD DRAMA This John Le Carre story of A Perfect Spy is more about the man, Magnus Pym than spying. Set in Europe shortly after World War II, Magnus manages through school and into the British army as an officer. While executing a covert task he meets Axel, an old European acquaintance from his boyhood. Magnus is taken more by the friendship than by Axel's purpose or character. After the army, off to Cambridge law college, and then into the British foreign service. Axel becomes a regular in Magnus' life and begins running him for the purpose of acquiring government secrets for the Czechs.  Magnus grew up in the absence of a mother or a paternal image. What was worse his father is a well-liked confidence trickster, always talking his way into and out of situations. Magnus develops this trait into his own personality, but clearly, Magnus is always weakened in father's presence.  Three DVD discs contain seven episodes. It is generous entertainment, but by no means the quality stories as Tinker Tailor or Smiley's People.

Intelligent zombies and a humor film shouldn't mix well together.. but this one does DeadHeads is a fun romp that was written and directed by Brett and Drew T. Pierce (brothers and son of Bart Pierce who was the special effects photographer of a film you may have heard of - The Evil Dead) who really were able to put together a fun romp in a world of the undead. Speaking of the writer's heritage they did stick a small scene at a drive-in theater that shows them watching The Evil Dead. You probably aren't going to recognize most of the cast in this film though overtime I'm sure we're all going to be hoping to see more of them.  Honestly it takes a lot for zombie comedies to impress me. Shaun of the Dead and Zombieland both pulled it off but few others have been able to really make me enjoy them past that. Mix in the fact that I generally hate intelligent zombies and you know I'm going to be watching DeadHeads with a highly critical eye as our two main characters are both intelligent zombies.  While it didn't pull off the perfect mix of outbreak and humor of SOTD and Zombieland I found myself fully enjoying DeadHeads. The characters were likable, the situations were mostly entertaining, and the flow was fluid as one scene blended perfectly into the next. Most importantly they took an idea (the buddy road trip to save a relationship) and stuck it into a zombie apocalypse in a way that hasn't been done before! At least not in a film that I've seen!  We begin the movie as Mike finds himself trapped in a laboratory and runs to escape whoever had him captured. He quickly stumbles across a full blown zombie apocalypse is in the process of spreading. What he doesn't realize is that he is one of the living dead. He stumbles across another fellow not so quite brain dead brain eater named Brent and they slowly piece together what happened. It goes extra slow as both of seem to be suffering from memory loss that is slowly returning but the emphasis is on slowly.  When Mike remembers a woman that he loves they set on a road trip to get him back to the only memory he has that he seems to give a damn about. The journey itself is not easy. They are being hunted by the military, rednecks, a man trying to kill all of the undead, AND they need to get there before the zombie outbreak truly spreads across the globe.  Humor ensues as they bring one of of the living dead along with them who seems to be following them like a lost puppy. What will happen when Mike finds his lost love? Who is behind the chaos that is happening?  You are going to have to rent or buy the film to find it all out and while not all of the humor hits the high notes it strives for you should find the movie to be a fun visit into the lands of the undead.

Super I saw the film in a theater too. It was a lovely story, although there were some awful scenes. I think it will give lots of dreams to children and let them think about the importance of our world, the Earth. The ending was so nice. As I liked it so much, I even visited almost all the locations in Weirton after I had seen it in a theater. It is not a big problem, but there is one thing I don't know the reason. Why is this film sold with a bluray and dvd combo?

Original! While the SGI could have used some improvements, the story line was original and great. The movies was a strange twist of reality, bizarre, horror, and heartfelt sentiments. I had never heard of the story until it was suggest to me by a friend while I was writing a a book with a similar character.

Jag One of the few TV series that holds my interest and has a cast that melds well.  Most of the newer shows may be OK but not worth my money to own.

Quigley Down Under -good stuff Great movie with some good soundtrack and stunning Australian scenery Good western type story -thoroughly entertaining with some relevent social comment of the times Good acting by Tom Selleck Recommend as good entertainment Blu ray quality excellent Good price from Amazon, reasonable quick from the US and was compatibile with Aussie systems Very satisfied

better is acceptable I bought this blu ray book!bluray book is my favorite from beta to blu ray i enjoy to watch pictures! watch movie everything! bit i do like colorful photos not just black and white! of-course if Ansel adams took the picture i love black and white! i love to see the eyes of Julie Christie in her color not in black and white!i hope to see picture of Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia in color in the yet to come blu ray book!

Good but wrong Language The movie was well done and enjoyable, but I was sent the english language version DVD and not the subtitled version as ordered. I watched the subtitled version on Amazon video streaming service and enjoyed it much more than the poorly dub english version.

Little long winded but still good This movie was a little long winded but still good. If you have a while I would advice watching this

It should have been called THE CALL OF DUTY MOVIE great movie, havent seen a military movie this good since like never, although some parts do remind me of the call of duty franchise, love the plot, great performance, and it gives you a sense of what military forces do look like in real life !!

YWNL comes as close to the Asatire/Rogers franchise as Fred would ever get again You Were Never Lovelier(released Nov/42)stars Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth in their second and last collaboration together.It is a lovely and enchanting picture,filled with romance,a myriad of mix ups,with a boy meets girl,loses girl,regains girl and larger than life characters,more typical of an Astaire/Rogers film.I think it is the closest he would ever get to capturing that same kind of spark on film.In this one Rita now looks a little more confident than she did in You'll never Get Rich. The plot involves hoofer Fred who has come to Buenos Aires for a change of scenery and to get a job at a club owned by one Eduardo Acuna.He can`t for the life of him get any alone time with Mr Acuna until a band leader friend of his working for the club(Xavier Cugat) gets him a job singing with the band.At the gig he goes outside for some fresh air as does Rita.It`s not love at first sight for either of them as Fred makes a disparaging remark about her father.He in turn returns inside to finally speak to Mr Acuna and says Rita acts like a cold refrigerator.How embarrassed he is when he is told she is his daughter.He`s just insulted two Acuna`s in one evening! Fred the next day returns to Acuna`s office to apologize but still can`t get a foot in the door.When Acuna`s male receptionist leaves the room Acuna shouts out an order over the intercom to get a delivery boy to take some orchids to his home.Mr Acuna had just gotten one daughter recently married off and he has two younger daughters chomping at the bit to wed also,but Rita is holding up the works.Acuna is secretly writing love notes from an unknown admirer and sending them to his daughter along with orchids to get her in the mood. Fred shakes his head and decides to do the job but when he does Rita takes him for her secret admirer and she falls hard for him.Fred has been ambivalent about Rita up until this but he is slowly starting to warm up to the idea of his love for her.We all know it`s inevitable and just a matter of time,all but Fred of course.Fred returns Acuna`s change to him and the two don`t exactly hit it off. At home Acuna learns of Rita`s affections towards Fred.Acuna naturally wants what he thinks is best for her and Fred is not part of the deal.He persuades/leans on Fred to make himself uninteresting to her.The more Fred tries to cut things short the more the two get closer.One night at a party for Acuna`s 25th wedding anniversary,which Fred was invited to by Rita and her god mother,not by Acuna himself,Acuna and Fred have words in his home office.Acuna orders Fred to leave town the next day,which Fred reluctantly agrees is the best thing.The whole affair and mix ups have gotten to him anyways.Acuna says he will write a lovely farewell note to his daughter so at least his daughter won`t linger with a bad memory of Fred. Fred leaves the office,but in the meantime his wife enters and overhears him talking back out loud what he just wrote in the note.Immediately she assumes he has had an affair with Rita`s godmother.All heck breaks loose as Acuna becomes coy,not wanting to reveal the truth in front of his daughter.Fred hears about the ruckus and goes back in to explain that the note was intended for his daughter and nothing more than that.Fred also plays it coy,getting Acuna out of a big jam but not letting the entire truth out about her fathers intentions nor his real feelings towards Rita.Rita walks out in disgust. At a tete a`tete Fred and Acuna have later,Acuna has now finally reversed his feelings for him,for what he did for him.He now heartily approves of him staying and actively pursuing his daughter.With a little song,music and finally dancing Rita,is won over and the two live happily ever after. The last dance number representing the two finally joining as one really cements the Astaire/Rogers feel of the film.Rita does a great job in her footwork with Fred and Fred has some terrific solo work off and on,especially his debut hoofing for Acuna in his office.I gasped,as Fred threw an umbrella perfectly against a wall which fell beautifully into a stand on the floor below.This trick would be used to greater effect later in Funny Face.Fred`s other co-star Adolphe Menjou is an absolute delight.Adolphe was a veteran of both silent and sound pictures and was always a great supporting actor in everything he did,and this is no exception.He brings just the right dynamic in his portrayal of the manipulative and domineering father.Tune smith Jerome Kern is on hand for the music but the only two memorable songs are I`m Old Fashioned and Dearly Beloved.Xavier Cugat and his band are on hand to provide more than enough Latin flavour for two movies. Technically the film looks clear and crisp and in much better shape than the Astaire/Hayworth predecessor You`ll Never Get Rich.There are no extras. All in all a very good film showing some of that Astaire/Rogers sparkle from less than 10 years before,with the same romanticism,plot and dancing one would expect from those films.This is the best of the two Rita/Fred collaborations.Recommended.4-4 1/2 stars.

a bromance put to the test Yes, this movie has its formulaic elements, CIA operatives, lurking bad guy, hot chick who can't choose, but it's fun, and funny, and the guys had great comedic timing. I'd love to see Chris Pine and Tom Hardy pair up in the future, they really stole the show.

This future could be now! The movie was as I remembered from when I saw it the first time. With one exception...the concept of a game making global corporate decisions is not so out of the realm of possibility now knowing how global we have become.  It is still a fascinating piece of fiction with action-packed scenes that hold the viewer interest until the end and in my case, for over 30 years! Watching James Caan in action again made me almost forget him being at the mercy of Kathy Bates in "Misery".

"Take your stinking hands off me, you damn dirty human!" "Planet of the Apes" is a sci-fi film that was released to theaters in 2001. The film is directed by Tim Burton, and stars Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Clarke Duncan, Paul Giamatti, Estella Warren, and includes a cameo apperance by Charlton Heston, star of the original "Planet of the Apes" from 1968. The film also includes a wonderful soundtrack by the talented Danny Elfman. The film has Tim Burton's thumbprint all over it with all the themes Burton typicially uses in his films. Tim Burton insists that the film is not a remake, and has it's own original story. All the film does is use the same premise that the original "Planet of the Apes" did.  THE STORY -  It is the year 2029. A young man named Leo Davidson works on a United States Air Force space station called the Oberon. When a mission in space goes wrong, he crashes on a strange planet and finds himself in a world where intelligent and English-speaking humanoid Apes rule the world, and human beings are kept as slaves. The relationship between the two groups is very similar to the early relationship between White-Americans and Native-Americans and White-Americans and African-Americans.  HOW THIS FILM COMPARES TO THE ORIGINAL "PLANET OF THE APES" FILMS -  The original "Planet of the Apes" and the sequels that followed were full of political and social parables that both mirrored and responded to the many conflicts that were taking place in the United States of America during the years those films were released.  What makes the 2001 "Planet of the Apes" reboot different then the original films are that the makers of the reboot took out the politics that was in the original series, and gave the audience a standard sci-fi action film of good vs. evil.  The reboot does have an anti-racism theme, as well as a point that protests against general cruelty, but the reboot is fairly uncontroversial on the political level, not rocking the boat and not really challenging the mind that much.  I also felt the original series had no villains or heroes - Just characters doing what they thought was right. Those films were not about telling you how to think. They were about telling you to think for yourself.  The reboot however is very one-sided, and gives you the viewer a clear idea of who you're suppose to cheer for, and who you're suppose to be against.  WHO I THINK WILL ENJOY THIS FILM -  Kids. Boys for sure. The novelty of talking apes, the realistic make-up on the actors and actresses's playing the parts of the Apes, and the action/adventure theme of the film will appeal to them. There is mild cursing, some violence, and a few scary scenes, but nothing too bad I don't think. The one scene that really sticks out the most to me that may scare younger viewers is a scene where the lead character discovers two dead bodies of Apes, but that was the extent of horror I saw in the film. A parent may need to consider watching the film first to decide.  People with a thing for Mark Wahlberg will enjoy the film I think as well. And people looking for solid and fun entertainment that doesn't make you think too much will also enjoy it.  This was a summer blockbuster film, and a popcorn and soda movie, and the original "Planet of the Apes" is a classic, and very hard to beat. So it's best just to watch this film for what it is. - Just a good time-filler that I think is entertaining enough, and if you appreciate visual effects and make-up in movies, you're in for a ride.  WHO I THINK WILL NOT ENJOY THIS FILM -  Because the film is a straight-up good vs. evil film, some people may find the film to be too cliche for them. Most hardcore fans of the original, and just remake/reboot haters in general may not enjoy it because they won't be able to stop comparing it to the older films. And movie elitists won't be able to take a film about talking apes seriously, and will perceive it as a kid's film.  MY THOUGHTS -  I enjoyed this film, but it took a few times to get to that point. :) I really desired to enjoy the film because I loved the original series so much, but I had to stop comparing it to the older "Apes" films. What also helped me enjoy the reboot more is I read the book that the film was based on, and was able to appreciate the film more since the book went into greater detail and explained what the character's thoughts and feelings were.  Visually, this film is beautiful. It plays a big part in why I liked it. I also loved the soundtrack by Danny Elfman. I felt his music summed up the emotions that many of the characters were feeling.  All and all, the film is just a fun roller coaster kind of a film.

Hilarious! Very funny! A true "how to" video for wannabe Taliban terrorists! Not for people with no sense of crude humor.

X-Files movie My wife and I had to watch this as we are watching every episode of the series and the movie links season 5 to 6.  It was good, basically an elaborate, 2 hour TV episode with some guest stars and more cursing.  Glad I saw it.

Water For Elephants I like this movie it has a good story line I would recommend it to anyone I've seen this movie on the big screen and it is even better

Great historical storytelling I think this is an entertaining, good movie.  Based on a true story, a hardworking black guy fights his  way through stupidity, racism, bureaucracy , to become a Navy hero.  But the most compelling thing to me, after many viewings, is the transformation of Sunday from an ignorant redneck to a man of honor; the title, is, after all, Men of Honor.  It's Boshear's story, but Sunday was a hero, too.

Good Story+Pretty Good Acting=Fairly Decent Movie I received this movie as a gift from my mom (who loves Taylor Lautner---GROSS!). So, I went into this movie with low expectations. There were some really cheesy parts, but there were also some good parts. The action was good and there when it needed to be. It was good to see Taylor Lautner in something other than Twilight and the acting was ok(for a young pup), as was the acting for the others. But the acting wasn't bad enough to make me not want to keep watching. The story line is what caught my attention. I won't go into details because I don't want to ruin it for anyone looking to get it, but the plot is very intriguing and keeps you wanting to watch to find out more. Overall, this was a fairly decent movie. This is a movie that is great to see it a first time, but I will probably never watch it again (at least not for a while).

Blu-Ray Collection Review Elmer Bernstein's appropriately magnificent score remains a highlight of THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, a John Sturges film that turned Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" into an American western classic spawning three sequels, a belated CBS television series, and countless imitators.  The original, resurrected on Blu-Ray from MGM and Fox as part of a multi-disc series anthology, stars Yul Brynner as a gunslinger who recruits a band of six others (Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, and James Coburn among them) to help defend a small Mexican town against villain Eli Wallach and his gang of mercenaries. A bona-fide film classic, MGM's Blu-Ray edition basically offers an HD reprise of the label's 2006 Special Edition DVD, which was issued during that brief window when Sony was distributing the studio's home video product. The AVC encoded transfer looks great, offering crisp detail and strong colors, while the occasionally brittle DTS Master Audio sound offers a re-channeled mix of the film's original mono soundtrack (which is also on-hand).  Extras include the initial DVD's commentary track featuring Eli Wallach, James Coburn, and producer Walter Mirisch, plus featurettes on Elmer Bernstein's score (courtesy of comments from sage Jon Burlingame), a 45-minute retrospective documentary, trailers, and "Lost Images" from the movie. Curiously, neither Christopher Frayling's commentary from the 2006 DVD nor an interview with the film historian have been retained from that release, though everything else has.  The movie's three sequels are also included herein: RETURN OF THE SEVEN (the movie's actual on-screen title, even though the film is commonly known as RETURN OF THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN) was the mediocre, belated 1966 sequel with Brynner back as Chris, here defending yet another small town with a gaggle of new pals. Larry Cohen (!) scripted this follow-up, with western vet Burt Kennedy handling the action, shot on-location in Spain. Elmer's music once again graces the film, here featured in an understandably more ragged looking transfer (particularly compared to the full restoration its predecessor received) that's nevertheless satisfying in its AVC encode. The DTS Master Audio sound offers sparse stereo separation and seems to be little more than a tiny embellishment on the movie's original mono mix. The trailer is also on tap.  George Kennedy replaced Yul in 1969's GUNS OF THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, a superior western than its immediate predecessor, with veteran gunslinger Chris Adams called in to break a Mexican revolutionary out of prison. Decent action and another stirring Elmer score mark this 1969 sagebrush saga, which looks mighty fine on Blu-Ray with its pleasing AVC encoded transfer and mono-sounding DTS Master Audio soundtrack.  The series concluded with 1972's THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN RIDE!, a weak B-grade programmer that looks more like an episode of "Bonanza" than a big-screen western thanks to its obviously diminished budget, Hollywood backlot sets and lack of widescreen lensing. With Lee Van Cleef now in the lead, the movie feels like a "Seven" movie in name (and theme music) only, with only another Elmer score (performed by a notably reduced orchestra) and attractive female leads (Stefanie Powers, Mariette Hartley) making it palatable.  Predictably the AVC encoded transfer is the weakest of the lot here, the 1.85 frame lacking in high-def detail and color. The DTS Master Audio sound is a bit punchier than its immediate predecessors, and the trailer completes the release, one which ought to be essential for all western fans.

Office Season 7 I'm torn on my opinion of the Office Season 7.  On one level, there are the truly excellent episodes, from "Threat Level Midnight" to the "Herpes" episode which was full of cameos.  The "PDA" episode and "The Search" really show how good of an actor both Steve Carrell and Amy Ryan are, and manage to be funny and quite heartfelt at the same time.  Holly, one of my favorite characters, comes back, and Jo is absent from almost the entire season, which is a definite plus, though she did have her moments in the two hour finale.  Michael Scott's final episode was wonderful, and there were some hilarious spots in almost every episode.  However, I used the word "almost" in the last paragraph for a reason.  "China", "Viewing Party", "the Inner Circle" and "Christening" were, on the whole, pretty terrible episodes from my point of view.  "Classy Christmas" and "The Seminar" weren't far behind.  On some of them, I kept waiting for something to make me laugh, and there wasn't any payoff.  The whole middle of this season was basically a train wreck that made me almost want to turn off my television mid-episode.  I'm a harsh critic when it comes to the Office, if only because I know what the show is capable of creating, and the magic definitely left the building mid-season.  It got slightly more appealing to watch some of the later episodes, which would, of course, be some of Steve Carrell's last.  He puts on a tour de force of three or four superior episodes leading up to his finale that could only be brought down by the talent, or lack thereof, of Will Farrell.  I've never been the least bit interested in the one character that he seems to play in every appearance, TV or on the big screen, and I can't say that I'm at all happy that he blemished five episodes of one of my favorite TV series here.  Whether he's completely over-the-top or so subdued you hardly even notice him, the writing department clearly doesn't know whether they should use him as Michael Scott 2 or someone completely different, and needless to say, I was very relieved when he was gone.  Those episodes as a whole, though, were excellent, saved by the superior cast of the show and Steve Carrell's genius.  But ever since Season 3 started, the Office has been more about the developing storylines of the characters than the comedy, which comes naturally as a result of the interactions between the strong and distinct personalities.  Andy and Gabe get significant screen time, which is a plus, and unfortunately, Erin is drawn into this as well.  I don't know what to think about her.  At times, she's cute and innocent, like a younger Pam, while at others, she's just so stone-cold stupid that I can't stand her.  Two of the best moments of the season put her at the center of events, though, when she calmly announces that Holly can't be Michael's girlfriend because she isn't good-looking enough, and when she breaks up with Gabe on stage at the Dundies, part 2, which was very reminiscent of the classically awkward moments that defined earlier seasons.  Overall, I simply hope they find some consistency with her instead of trying to make her a Pam/Kevin hybrid.  The other character who is bothering me this season is Darrell, who used to just be the fun loving guy downstairs and a chance for Michael to make some off-color racial remarks to.  Now that he's upstairs, he's lost his fun element, and he's just another body.  A body who seems to be taking a lot of screen time away from the other, funnier and more interesting characters who have all but disappeared.  While it's obvious that much of the focus of the show has to settle around Michael Scott because of his departure, I think it's inexcusable to completely ignore Creed (until the final episode), Meredith, Stanley, Toby, and Phyllis, who combined might have twenty-six lines of dialog in all 26 episodes.  For a large part of the beginning of the season, Jim and Pam are there for some one-liners, and absent otherwise.  Some of the characters seem almost like parodies of their former selves.  This is particularly evident in  Kevin and Angela, the former being a little too inept to be believable, and the latter basically being transformed into a one-joke punchline.  The strange thing about Angela is that her story in Season 7 actually has a lot of promise, but is almost completely ignored (she's unknowingly acting as the beard to the gay state senator, in case you forgot since you rarely see or hear from her).  I guess overall the biggest thing that Season 7 is lacking is continuity.  Hopefully this will get a whole lot better now that Steve Carrell is officially gone, and all of the backstage drama and shenanigans of writing him out of the show has come to an end.  Don't get me wrong, I love Michael Scott, and will miss him greatly, but the season as a whole struggled because of him.  Hopefully, the writing team can focus on getting the show back on track, and hopefully, it will be done without the need to keep introducing new members to the Dunder Mifflin/Sabre team we all know and love.  The guest stars were getting on my nerves.  By the way, I'm calling it now: Pam will be the new manager come Season 8.

Andersonville A little long and a little slow.  I had trouble with Richard Basehart's accent for his character.  It's an interesting film that shows the bias in history, as Basehart's character mentions, that there were other such prisons in the north during the war, but no one talks about them.  There are also numerous philosophical arguments regarding the entire immorality of the concept of such prisons, even if during a time of war. I did learn more about the prison from this film than I did from either the Hollywood version or any Internet film about this subject.

Great! Worth every moment spent watching it Great cultural film. There is value in all. The fact that we are looking at the world from different sides does not make the other less intelligent. I enjoyed every moment.

Fast Service I ordered this item as a Xmas gift, so I don't know if the video itself is good; however, the product came super fast and was packaged as stated - new.

Different but still dark Dexter is one of my favorite shows of all time.  I really enjoyed this season. Not my favorite but still excellent. The last 30 seconds of the last episode is a nail biter. I want more!

Classic songs and great new ones, too! Having 3 girls I feel like my life has been filled with Barney for the last 10 years . . . but I really don't mind. His classic "I Love You" song will guarantee me some hugs and kisses each time without fail. Gotta love that!  There are 3 episodes in this compilation - 2 we haven't seen before and 1 from when my oldest daughter was a baby. Each one talked about the importance of friendship and being nice to one another.  Kaila really enjoyed this DVD like she does all the other Barney television episodes. The message of friendship is very important for kids who are just starting pre-school and Barney makes it fun to learn and use your imagination. Barney: I Love My Friends is a great addition to our family library.

Go To Best Buy... ...and get the Blu-ray version of CSN 2012, available with the 2 CD's of the concert, only available at Best Buy, and it is less expensive than the Blu-ray alone from Amazon (sorry Amazon!).  Still listening to it (audio version on my computer) for the first time, but definitely agree with the other reviewers.  Stills' voice is no longer what it once was, but it's better than it's been, C&N sound great, the band is awesome, and I love that they reached into the Manassas catalog for some of Stills' best writing.  Long live CSN!  Really wish they would finish the covers album.

Underated Gem. If you haven't seen this movie yet do so. The animation may not be Disney or Pixar standards but it won't matter because you will be laughing your head off the whole time. A must see.

Super funny show, one point off for presentation First, let's make one thing clear.  This show was funny... sometimes super funny.  In a way, it's a good thing they only made two seasons.  Kind of like with the Munsters, if you push the joke too far, it's not so funny anymore.  Best to go out on a high note.  (However, Farscape, was pulled too early!!!!).  Now, about the episodes not being in order.  I printed out the correct show order online.  I use this as my guide when watching.  Yes, it's annoying, but it works.  Considering these DVDs are the most convenient way to watch, it's better than nothing.  Besides, after watching them in their correct order one time around, I'm not sure any of this will matter to me anymore.  At that point, watching them out of sequence will be fine.  But yes, they should have placed the shows sequentially as they aired.  My advice, don't rate this series 1-star.  If you don't like the presentation, make note of that in your review, but the series itself deserves 4 stars minimum.  Also, in watching this, assuming this is somewhat representative of a time when the police were more friendly, I have wondered what the heck happened since the early 1960s to what we have today.  In closing, I highly recommend this DVD to those looking for a very funny TV show to come home to after work and watch alone or with your family (which I do).  The show is certainly family friendly.

Exciting All politics aside, this was a thrilling adventure film. I'm certain there are all kinds of mistakes in this film, probably all kinds of continuity issues; Matt Damon isn't always believable as the movie progresses. But darn it, as a piece of pure and simple entertainment, this was an enjoyable edge of my seat movie.  Set during the Iraqi war while we were on the hunt for WMD's in Iraq, Matt Damon is Miller the "chief" soldier sent on missions to find WMD's. He starts to smell a rat when the first three missions turn up nothing. If I were expecting perfect recreation of events in this film, the chief jumps the shark during the first briefing with hundreds of soldiers around questioning the intel. But I let all that slide, and simply enjoyed the film from this point forward.  The film is part 24 (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0044E9JU0">24: The Complete Series</a>), part war film, and part documentary.  Even though this is entertainment, there is a strange message in this film. This might be a spoiler, so anybody that doesn't know the ending yet, might want to skip this paragraph. I found myself rooting for the Iraqi's at the end. I wanted that guy to escape the American. I wanted the chief to kill that American soldier. And I was relieved when the helicopter was blown up. Think for a moment, a film can twist our sense of what is right and wrong to what the director wanted the viewer to feel. That I was actually rooting for the wrong side in this film. It puts into question many things we see on television or read that is reported as news and fact. If a viewer can be that manipulated to cheer for the wrong side, imagine what subtle things a "documentary" can do with the director's choice of what we see.  The film is rated R, for war violence and strong language (apparently the f bomb is thrown well over fifty times). Aside from the language, honestly, if somebody can sit through 24, this film is appropriate for them. A mature younger viewer should have no problems with this film. My fifteen year old son was riveted by this film, and had no problems watching it, (he watched the last two seasons of 24).  I'm very sensitive to that really poor television camera trick of randomly moving a camera to make the shot look more compelling and rugged than it really is. There was some of that nonsense going on in this film, but mostly I thought the camera work was decent. This was a very well edited film; action was cut at exactly the right pace. At five minutes short of two hours, the film was about the right length.  Matt Damon was the star of this movie, and I liked his acting in this film. I wasn't as impressed by Greg Kinnear (although he plays a minion of the Bush administration, and maybe that was the point). Kinnear is infinitely better in Flash of Genius probably the best performance of his career(<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001LM64S8">Flash of Genius</a>). And for the ultra fans of The Office, Amy Ryan does a good job playing an awful Wall Street Journal journalist covering the search for WMD's. Brendan Gleeson is spotty as a CIA agent (Harry Potter -Professor Alastor 'Mad­Eye' Moody - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000E6EK2Y">Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire(Harry Potter 4)</a>, and incredible acting in In Bruges - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0018BD9DA">In Bruges</a>). The problem with his character, there were times when he was believable and others where he just didn't make any sense - he looked and acted more like a journalist at times.  Overall, this film is good entertainment and exciting right up to the end. I enjoyed this film.

A real thrill-ride... predictable but fun... extras are unspectacular... If you're looking for the perfect 'brain-candy' movie, this is it.  A thrill-ride from start to finish, with Tom Cruise well-cast as Ethan, the key player on the MI team (aside from Jon Voight).  The cast is quite strong, and I only wish Reno had more lines (he's a great actor).  No, there is very little logic and you have to suspend disbelief most of the time, but if you're willing to accept everything on the screen as plausible (including the ridiculous finale on the train/helicopter), you're really in for a treat.  My only major complaint is the female lead (Beart) -- she is the only case of miscasting here.  Yes, she's extremely attractive and an experienced actor, but her perpetual pout and vulnerability take away from the toughness and grit that the character 'should' have.  But I digress...  Regarding other DVD features, not much to speak of -- depending on the version you buy.  The special collector's edition contains some additional scenes and shorts, but nothing to really warrant a higher price.  All-in-all, a great movie-going experience.  Cruise at his cocky best.

complex period drama There's plenty wrong with this movie (over-scored and -written, languidly paced, theatrically acted, at times unconvincingly dubbed; the "restored" transfer lacks sharpness and detail, with colors often looking like they've been filtered through wax-paper, etc. But it remains an important, often beautiful film, with some breathtaking interior and exterior shots. A film to admire, if not love.  On watching it a second time I've discovered visual splendors I hadn't appreciated the first time. The film has more dimensions--and chapters--than I remembered. Some rather spectacular scenes of battle. The use of color is stunning. Though I still find the over-use of Bruckner's Seventh unforgivable. A form of cheating. Valli's melodramatic emoting, for all its fervor, does not really give me a sense of what this woman is about, acting as much as a mask as a manifestation of interiority.  Dubbed films are alienating, so that's one huge barrier. Having to read the subtitles makes it even worse. And yet I can't argue with those who maintain Senso is, despite its shortcomings, a masterful film. But it is a difficult work to get into and may require several viewings. It's "operatic": broad, exaggerated, and aesthetically heightened. The spaces are grand and sublime in a way wide-screen would not have been able to effect. They have all-imprtant height, not just width. Visually and as a completely realized 'authentic' period piece it is a work of genius. But its acting is conventional and a bit on the ripe side, as if Visconti felt he needed to exaggerate to make an impression. Granted, that reflects both his background in the theater and film conventions of the day. But those of us who admire subtlety can't help but feel disappointed.

The American Version of Snatch! They kept running the trailer for this movie on TV for a while and showing times were really ridiculous... and on weekdays! Obviously I could either stay up and watch a movie and get a good talking to from my boss the next day for showing up late and half asleep, or go on my hunch and the trailer I saw and buy it on DVD... which I did!  Now, before we get into the actual movie itself... there is one issue I had with this product and that is the fact that you can't simply skip all the trailers before the movie and jump directly to the menu... you need to skip each trailer like chapters... and trust there are quite a few trailers to skip. That actually took some of the anticipation away... I got a bit tired of having to skip so many trailers!  As for the movie itself, those who've seen the movie <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000093FLA">Snatch (Widescreen Edition)</a> will not rate this movie as high as people who have not seen it... I think that that movie has set the standard (well, at least for me) for this type of gangster movie which usually have rather surprising twist towards the end of the plot and that is why I can only go as high as a four for this movie.  The movie is full of surprises to say the least!! You will find a surprise in this movie with almost every single development! The characters are unique and quirky but nearly as much as in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000093FLA">Snatch (Widescreen Edition)</a>! (Brick Top, Boris the blade, and Bullet-tooth Tony) Bruce Willis seems to always play his usual cool and soft spoken bada%% which is kind of worn out to by honest... I think the role of Slevin was excellently casted where you really sympathize with Slevin throughout the movie. Ben Kingsley, there were scenes in the moive towards the end where he kept speaking in an exaggerated tone while he was making a weird mouth... why!? It was just an obvious case of overacting to me... I know he is a great actor but that's the way I saw it... (unless somebody can explain it to me).  Overall a nice movie to have in your collection if you are generally a Mafia / gangster movie buff... but for all of those reading this review who have not yet seen <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000093FLA">Snatch (Widescreen Edition)</a> or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00007ELEP">Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (Widescreen Edition)</a>... you need to see them!! Also a good is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001M4YZ90">RocknRolla (Single-Disc Edition)</a> (not as great as the first two but more than at par with this title.

A bit dated This is a great documentary about how things were in Colombia. I lived there for a year in 2008 and although some things are similar, the country overall is a lot safer and a lot more peaceful now. Let's just hope and pray it continues on the trend it is on now!

3d reviewer Alice in Wonderland hit stores and I got it first day. I had low expectations though because it was post converted 3d. I put it in my Blu ray Player and to be surprised it had some cool effects.  Pop effects- Pop out of the screen 4/5 Depth- In screen effects 3/5  This movie is highly recommended

The Simpsons Good overview of the Edward the VIII / Wallis Simpson affair. (Duke and Duchess of Windsor) shows the friendly encounters of the Wallis Simpson with the Nazis and implies that the Duke of Windsor may have been involved too.  FYI The full Windsor tie knot is named after the Duke of Windsor - quite a dapper dan.

Delightful Based on the biographical book authored by Colin Clark (Eddie Raymayne), the story follows the week he spent with Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams), while she was filming "The Prince and the Showgirl" in London. Upon Colin's graduation from university, he embarks on an opportunity to work on Lawrence Olivier's (Kennth Branaugh) new film, whom he had met at a party and is a mutual acquaintance. After much prodding with Hugh Perceval and Colin's persistence to arrive at Perceval's office everyday until a job is opened, Olivier comes in and offers him the opportunity of a lifetime. Colin's first task is to find a private residence for Marilyn while she is in London. He has found the perfect home secluded from prying eyes which impresses the primary film crew. Now with the trust and his passion to prove himself, his next project will be even a more bigger challenge. He is chosen to keep Marilyn company for a week while her husband, Arthur Miller, has to jet off back to America. During the film we see Marilyn's insecurities and child like behavior. She does not enjoy being alone and with her flirtatiousness she seduces Colin. He is warned from those who know her best that her infatuation with him will not last. Michelle Williams' portrayal of Marilyn was right on especially in a scene showing her dancing on the set as Olivier and the film crew watches in awe. Eddie Raymayne played the naive Clark very well showing how touching his relationship with Marilyn was. Watching the chemistry between the two of them I could see that Clark was very protective of Marilyn and did not want her to be hurt. He truly cared for her while at the same time he was enthralled with her stardom and beauty.

Fighting human rights violations "The Whistleblower," based on a true story, is a gritty movie about sexual trafficking in Bosnia.  Kathryn Bolkovac (Rachel Weisz), a Nebraska cop, is a divorced mom who takes a job with a security contractor for big pay and a short tour in the Balkans.  She discovers that ethnic tensions have caused local cops to refuse to investigate domestic violence cases, particularly those involving Muslims.  She is promoted and put in charge of gender affairs by a U.N. official (Vanessa Redgrave), but is increasingly frustrated.  After building cases against sexual traffickers, she's told they enjoy diplomatic immunity.  Bolkovac is a lone crusader, persuading fearful women to testify against their abusers, bucking diplomatic hypocrisy, and dealing with rampant paranoia.  Ms. Weisz heads this topical political thriller, turning in a powerful performance, one of her best.  The movie underscores the collateral damage caused by politics and maintaining the delicate balance of world peace, though it's far more compelling as one strong woman's efforts to advocate for those without a voice.  The sole special feature on this release, available in Blu-ray and DVD editions, is a featurette about real-life whistleblower Kathy Bolkovac.

Actually an interesting movie Most people are familiar with the Anne Rice version of what a vampire is, or more recently, "Underworld."  This is not that kind of vampire movie.  While it does rely heavily on very seductive qualities, the story itself keeps you into the movie for the duration.  That being said, this is a very adult movie...at times, seeming like a Japanese Vampire Softcore.  The lead actress, Aya Sugimoto, is (pardon the phrase) drop-dead gorgeous! And she plays her role extremely convincingly. The male leads are shared by two equally handsome men that look as if they could have been plucked straight from an anime series.  The story and pace of "Blood" is very even throughout. But there were times when I was hoping for some more history and details that link the Edo period to present day, and regarding where Miyako (Sugimoto) came from, or how she came to be the vampire/temptress that consumes her existence (as far as the film is concerned, she just "is").  Treating this as a comparison to any other vampire film would be a mistake.  This movie takes on a fairly emotional love story more than horror or thriller.  I say that kind of tongue-in-cheek the way that "House of Flying Daggers" is a love story.  You do FEEL for all the characters, but when the action scenes take place, the emotions feel slightly jarred and put on pause.  All things considered though, it is an exceptional love triangle that one can assume will only end in despair.  I would have given this movie 4.5 stars but the blood used in the movie looked more like water with red food coloring in it.  Half-star deduction on a technicality :-/.  Overall, this is a good movie that puts a different spin on an old folklore.  There are plenty of tales regarding the supernatural side of Japanese culture, but few make it to film.  The sheer beauty and passion alone would make it a love story worth watching.  But the action and vampire element make it that much more appealing.

Got a response I gave a bad feedback for this product and the seller contacted me.  I was very surprised.  He stated he would refund me for the VHS that was broken.  I will wait for the out come and put this into this feedback.  I was very impressed with the response on his part, now I will wait for the action.  I will keep all of you posted.  The seller got a hold of me and gave me a refund and his apologized for the bad tape.  I am sorry I did not contact him before my review was written.  I see that he is an honest business person.

high noon this may not have been a action, shoot up band bang movie, but I have always like it for its thought provoking situation...Asking what is your own personal character and what would you have done even against all the odds both from the outside and the inside.

Great but not as good as the first This movie was good - loved the actors - but definitely not as good as the first  Had no problem paying or receiving the movie from the provider

parts are really funny I first saw Lebowski as the second of a double feature.  My friend and I were a little early for the main show and saw the end of Lebowski, didn't really think much about it.  We saw the main show and i think we stayed for a bit of Lebowski.  I had never heard of the Coen brothers nor this film and it certainly was silly....However I ended up liking it in spite of myself.  Now, years later I watched it properly, from beginning to end...and I've seen a number of the Coens' other films and have due respect for them.  And I think I like this almost the best of all.  I loved Oh Brother, but that was mainly for the sound track.  What I like about this is it's so unpretentious and joyously dopey.  It's blessed with a terrific cast--they must have had a wonderful time making it, unhampered by the pressure of having to make a serious art film.  And the fun comes across.  It's not for everyone, for sure. One thing that did bother me was the excessive use of the f-word.  I'm no prude but really....If somehow that word were prohibited from film making the Coens would be out of business.  Still I'll take that over all the blood and gore of some of their other films.  One missing toe is the worst you'll find here.

There's got to be a morning after This almost reminds me of the time I was looking forward to the west Hollywood special cheap Sunday beer bust only to notice on newspaper stand that it was Monday. Yes folks, this kind of drug induced alcohol related amnesia can happen given the right cosmic dust. Four buddies celebrate bachelor party in Las Vegas to discover expensive royal flat is into total mayhem complete with baby, animals, destruction, and missing unaccounted for partner who happens to be the groom. Many disarray pieces lay strewn about with only telltale clues from casual witnesses who happened to be there as well as quickie bride, victims of crime, and stolen articles. If anyone has seen the legendary comedy flick "It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world" then you know the unstoppable pace to this one as the three out of it buddies try to piece their whereabouts' and solve the mysteries of telltale leftovers and disappearing vehicle, plus missing buddie. A great romp of who did it, and why it happened as they gradually backtrack their drunken stupor steps, with a satisfying ending of tell all phone photographs after the mysteries have been solved for a pleasant closing credits roll.

The Stocks Were Down, WAY Down, But So Were The Girls SKIRTS This movie was classic because Thames is a unique character and sets the tempo for the comedy in the film. I enjoy absurd and bizarre humor so this film was right up my ally. Go into it expecting a funny yet weird film and you'll have an awesome time watching it.

A labor of love I was very excited to finally get THIS IS CINERAMA on Blu-ray, not having seen it since the late-1990s screenings at the New Neon Movies in Dayton.  It is important to understand that this is a lovingly-made video release of a film with limited contemporary appeal produced on a very limited budget by a small team of enthusiasts.  It is not a major studio release, so you have to temper your expectations a bit.  Still, I was dismayed to learn that the transfer was based on the composite 65mm negative for the crummy 70mm release made in the early 1970s instead of the original three-strip camera negatives or best available print, but apparently all other elements are in much poorer condition and would have required extensive restoration.  Using the 65mm negative certainly beats having no video release at all, and I'll bet it saved a lot of time using this element in which the three panels were already synchronized.  But some of the consequences of this choice are reduced sharpness and the fact that the transfer is at 24 fps (really 23.976 fps for home video) instead of 26 fps (is 26 fps even supported by Blu-ray or DVD?).  I assume that when the 70mm version was made, every 13th frame was dropped.  According to the restoration documentary, the 65mm negative was transferred to anamorphic 16x9 1080p, where registration fixes, color grading and cleanup were performed.  Then the resulting master was rendered into the smilebox format, resulting in a further loss of sharpness due to the variable resizing to similar dimensions.  Scanning the 65mm at 4K and working with that until the final rendering to smilebox might have helped (if the detail was there on the negative), but I suspect there wasn't the budget for that.  Some very impressive and meticulous work was done to make the resulting transfer presentable, all covered in an informative documentary in the special features.  But as this video release was targeted to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the first Cinerama screenings, maybe there was a time crunch that cut short the cleanup effort.  I noticed a sudden skip in the music at the start of the final aerial sequence, a number of points where hair and dust are visible at the edges of the frame, a periodic greenish throbbing in the lower 1/4 of the image during the La Scala sequence, and some points during the Cypress Gardens sequence where the panel alignment could have been improved.  It could be that these blemishes were simply too hard to fix.  The image sharpness is better than a DVD but falls short of a typical Blu-ray.  Color quality is generally quite good throughout, but I agree with some of the other reviews that the gamma is a little off, making the image a little too contrasty when viewed on properly-calibrated equipment.  Maybe the intent was to simulate the look of the original Technicolor prints.  The audio quality was surprisingly good.  I have some previous albums of the soundtrack, and this is probably the best the perky score by Max Steiner and Roy Webb has ever sounded.  The bonus materials are a treat.  One of the highlights was a peek into John Harvey's personal Cinerama screening room back in the 1990s.  Despite some minor issues, this release is an impressive effort and a must-buy for any Cinerama fan.

Another good movie filmed in a great city For some reason I seem to like movies that are filmed, take place in, or about Los Angeles.  Maybe because LA is the coolest area I have ever been to or seen.  2 days in the valley is one of them and is a mix of different interlocking stories put together in one film.  The movie could remind you a lot of 'Crash' or 'Pulp fiction' in how it plays out and that all party's meet there fate in a period of a couple of days.  If you like drama movies like the ones above or about LA cultures, then check-out this rare gem and think you will enjoy it.  Peter J. Miller

Lives up to the hype Well worth watching and if you ever doubted Sandra Bullock can act just get a load of this. Great entertainment

Based on a true story One of the better "exotic adventure" films of the 1950's.  Burt Lancaster alternately grins and fights his way across the South Pacific in the role of Captain David O'Keefe, a real-life adventurer who found wealth in the copra trade and (most likely) died tragically in a typhoon while still practicing his profession.  Plenty of excellent information in the other reviews.  In some ways, the parts are greater than the whole.  Lancaster, in 1954, making an obvious play for an honestly (no makeup) dark-skinned native girl (played by the luminous Tessa Prendergast) and having an implied non-platonic relationship with her.  Partnering with a Chinese dentist (Philip Ahn) who plainly has a better grasp of economics than the captain.  Taking on a bunch of truly nasty white guys led by "Bully" Hayes (another real-life character from the history of the South Seas) with a Chinese crew in whose fighting ability he has complete confidence.  Reading philosophy.  Ultimately conceding that the traditional ways of the local Yapese (Micronesian islanders, although the film was shot in Fiji with Melanesian locals) trump those of the mercantile anglo.  O'Keefe was able to intervene profitably in the fei (stone money) and copra trade not because he had dynamite with which to blast the rock from which Yap's famous stone money was carved, but because his ship could transport tons of it back to Yap far more quickly and safely than the Yapese could in their outrigger canoes...a point which is made in the film, albeit so obliquely as to pass notice.  Featuring some traditional Fijian dances and songs, the film's music, ably augmented by one of Dimitri Tiompkin's better scores, is another highlight.  One goof: when O'Keefe sets sail from Hong Kong he declares that he's going "north to Yap", when in reality Yap lies south (southeast, actually) from HK.  A favorite character insight: buying a new captain's outfit in Hong Kong, instead of keeping his change the monetarily-challenged O'Keefe carefully doles it out to the three hard-working Chinese tailors instead of leaving it with the English owner of the shop.

Great Tennant Stuff! Great story, great one-time companion(Christina), Tennant may be the best Doctor! I don't know why this isn't on Netflix, when everything else is. It is for sure worth the price, and you should watch it before "The Waters of Mars" and "The End of Time".

mirror mirror I loved this movie. It was funny and action packed. I loved the twists on the fairy tale. The ending was perfect. I think this is one of Julia Roberts better movies.

The beginning of the end First off, I have to say that I absolutely love the Simpsons. Seasons 3 to 9 are still among the best television ever produced. The stories had broken out of the middle class family sitcom mold of the first 2 seasons yet were still cohesive; the writing was tight, without any padding; the characters were outrageous but still had emotional depth; the jokes were often thoroughly but subtly set up, callbacks were often surprising, and among the more obvious one-liners and sight gags, very few fell flat. 3 and 9 were, in my opinion, the upward and downward slope from the absolute peak of seasons 4 to 8, but were still great.  Season 10 is when things definitely started getting shakier, before completely going off a cliff in season 11. No single episode in season 10 is truly bad, but the bad signs are definitely there. The writing starts relying more on an uneven string of throwaway one-liners that seldom reveal a deeper character underneath, or make incisive social commentary, and that start to fall flat with increasing frequency. Callback jokes are often seen from a mile away and sight gags aren't as clever. The stories themselves became more unwieldy, entailing ever more outlandish scenarios, and they're often quickly set up at the beginning and then neatly tied up at the end, with lots of fluff and meandering in between.  I hadn't seen season 9 and 10 in a few years and watching them again, it's really surprising just how quickly the quality deteriorated. Even sadder is the fact that the show is still on, and that this turn for the worse happened basically a third of the way through the show's run. I can't bring myself to watch the new seasons; it's too risky.  Still, this season deserves 4 stars. Even though it's not the best Simpsons season, it's still really good, and it's still a lot better than much of the drivel on TV, both when it originally aired and especially now. If anything, it's interesting to see it as the inflection point from the show's golden era to what it's become today.

Good for a Back-Drop My brother works at the movie theatres and he needed a display for his Halloween party for the employees. He said it was great and worked wonders. Everybody loved it. If you're looking to do something similar, I'm sure you can't go wrong with this DVD.

Check it has the bonus DVD This is one of the best produced concerts GD has made. According to GD website there should be a bonus DVD of extra footage and songs. Before you order this check it out guys.

The Characters Really Tie the Movie Together It's a rare movie for me that gets better with age, memory, and repeated viewings.  "Lebowski" is one of those movies.  I first saw the film when it came out in theaters in 1998 and, while I enjoyed it then, I wasn't especially enamored.  Perhaps it was because I was young and didn't much dig the drug references.  Or maybe it was because I kept trying to follow the plot more than I did the characters - which would have been a mistake.  While this film certainly has a plot - and an overly elaborate one, at that - the plot really isn't the point; it exists primarily to serve (and display) the oversize characters.  And, while it's taken me a little time to realize this point, realize it I did.  This film is really all about the idiosyncratic characters, the colorful dialogue, and the laid back vibe that Jeff Bridges (and, thus, the character of "The Dude") brings to the proceedings.  Those things hold the film together.  A mild warning to some, based on a few complaints that I've encountered while reading the reviews: the dialogue is colorful, by which I mean that it is both funny and frequently profane.  The `F Word' gets dropped quite a few times throughout this flick, and - due to a couple of the plot threads - there are clear and explicit references to the adult film industry as well as frequent references to drug culture.  You don't need to be acquainted with either of those areas (I'm certainly not) to enjoy the flick, but if ya' *really* don't dig that kind of stuff - as in you have strong %&#@ moral objections to the material, man - then this movie probably isn't your kind of thing.

Indiana Jones meets Batman meets Flash Gordon It's probably no accident that this fast-paced, atmospheric movie has the feel of a '30's serial about it.  Set in a rather murkily-defined alternate world where dirigibles like the Hindenburg III still cruise the skies and World War II apparently took place well before it happened in our reality (and without Hitler), it finds intrepid "girl newshound" Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow) and mercenary pilot Sky Captain (Jude Law) trying to fight through a past romantic history while attempting to find out who's responsible for the disappearance of a laundry list of European scientists and the creation of an array of sophisticated giant robots attacking New York City.  When the Captain's head mechanic Dex (Giovanni Ribisi) manages to isolate the region from which the robots' orders are being dispatched, he's kidnapped from his base, and now the hunt becomes personal.  With the help of Frankie (Angelina Jolie), the eye-patched commanding officer of a British airborne station, Polly and the Captain eventually track down the mysterious Dr. Totenkopf (Sir Laurence Olivier), only to discover that things aren't everything they seem.  With a nice mix of futuristic and '30's-era gadgetry and great digital SFX, this movie should appeal to anyone who enjoys the Indiana Jones franchise, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0038ZITIE">Flash Gordon</a>, or the original <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EHQTZO">King Kong</a>.  Fans should also like the soundtrack <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002VEPIA">Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow</a> and the novelization <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451411633">Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow</a>.

Great Classic This was a great movie, almost better than Gone with the Wind.  Just be sure you have the time to watch the 400 minutes.

muy interesante. Interesante pelicula y gran actuacion de helen, bien realizada y muy entretenida, la disfrutaran seguro que si y sobre todo si les gusta el cine no tan comercial.

JACK BEUTEL SHOULD HAVE BEEN A "STAR" I SAW THE OUTLAW MANY YEARS AGO AND HAD IT ON A VCR - ALWAYS LOVED THAT MOVIE.  IT WAS AN INTERESTING TAKE ON BILLY THE KID AND PAT GARRETT - YOU ALWAYS HEARD OF THOSE TWO BUT OF COURSE NOT DOC HOLLIDAY.  HOWEVER, HOWARD HUGHES PUT HIS MARK ON THIS PICTURE BY INCLUDING A THIRD PERSON IN THE TRIANGLE. JACK BEUTEL WAS THE BEST BILLY THE KID I HAVE SEEN PORTRAYED ON THE SCREEN.  HOWARD HUGHES WAS SMART IN CASTING HIM HE WAS VERY SENSUOUS HAD SEXY LIPS AND SULTRY VOICE.  THE MOVIE ITSELF REALLY DEALT WITH DOC HOLLIDAY COMING TO LINCOLN COUNTY TO TRY TO FIND HIS HORSE WHICH HAD BEEN STOLEN AND WAS SAID TO BE IN THIS AREA.  HE RENEWED HIS FRIENDSHIP WITH PAT GARRETT, BUT BILLY THE KID ENTERS THE PICTURE AT THIS POINT...AND COMES BETWEEN GARRETT AND DOC HOLLIDAY.  JANE RUSSELL WHO PLAYS RIO ENTERS THE PICTURE LATER ON AND BECOMES A LOVE INTEREST FOR BILLY ALONG WITH DOC HOLLIDAY.  ALL IN ALL I FOUND THE MOVIE TO BE VERY SIMPLE BUT ENTERTAINING AND HAD THE QUALILTY OF GONE WITH THE WIND IN THE SCENE WHERE HE GRABS SCARLETT AND TAKES HER TO HIS BEDROOM AND YOU IMAGINE FROM THERE - SO IN THE OUTLAW THERE IS THAT SAME IMAGINATIVE SUGGESTION AS TO WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON WHICH IN REALITY IS FAR MORE SEXY THAN SEEING THE "ACTUAL" ACT ON THE SCREEN.  GIVE IT A CHANCE AND YOU WILL LOVE THIS MOVIE - JACK BEUTEL SHOULD HAVE BEEN A BIGGER STAR I FOUND HIM TO BE VERY HANDSOME - SAD THAT HIS CAREER DID NOT TAKE OFF BECAUSE OF HOWARD HUGHES.  SOME PEOPLE JUST DONT HAVE LUCK!

Nothing mystic about pizza My daughter likes this movie more than I did, however, it was enjoyable to watch. I would give it a 3 star and she probably a 5 so I settle on 4. Ok storyline, good times, bad times, funny and dramatic. It covers all bases.

Bloody hands and feet of clay In this movie Ryan Gosling plays Steven, an idealistic staffer working on the presidential campaign of Mike Morris (George Clooney) a Democratic hopeful who is beginning to look like a near certainty for the White House. A threat to Morris's ambitions begins to emerge in a tightly fought Ohio primary, which brings the principles and ideals of all the protagonists into sharp focus.  Clooney directs in his typically generous fashion taking only a supporting role for himself and using his time behind the camera to allow Ryan Gosling to demonstrate further why he is one of the most interesting actors working at the moment. The rest of the supporting cast is flawless, with some of the finest actors working including Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Evan Rachel Wood and in a small but crucial part, Gregory Itzin as a Democratic leader and the father of a young intern on Morris's campaign.  This is a fine, morally complex and convincing film drawing on the film makers experiences in politics - it is based on a play by Beau Willimon who worked on Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign, and Clooney's political involvement is well documented, not least with his own father's congressional campaign. The result is a chilling exploration of the compromises, ambiguities and ruthlessness behind the impressively idealistic public face of a political campaign.

holiday to remember If you want to get away from today's fast-paced technology, this is the movie to watch.  It is a good reminder that simple things or simple pleasures cannot be acquired with financial wealth.

Stylistic showcase of the 1950s This film defined the artistic design of sci fi for the 1950s.  It's like an old sci fi magazine cover come to life.  Props made for this film continued to appear in sci fi up to the 1960s.  This is a must see for any sci fi fanatic.  The only weak point in the film is the Anne Francis character that was clearly inserted for a bit of cheesecake.  While she is lovely to look at, nothing she does drives the plot forward, and the entire film would be the same without her.

Wonderful movies, crappy oversized packaging I grew up watching these movies as kid.  I finally bought them on DVD to watch with my son but was disappointed with the lack of quality in both picture and sound.  When Amazon offered me a killer deal on BD (that was half of what I paid for the DVDS), I couldn't resist buying them again to share with my entire family.  Picture and sound was excellent in DTS.  It comes with a high quality hard bound fan book.  It was interesting, but not necessary.  The BD hubs attaching the BD in place to the book were a poor excuse for packaging.  I had to twist the BD back and forth and work it off the hub, hoping I wasn't going to break it in the process.  Once I got them off, I put them in standard size cases, never to go back in the fancy case again.  Also, what am I going to do with this oversize box?  I have cabinets designed specifically for DVD/BD and this will fit nowhere.  I would have been much happier with all 5 movies in a standard size case.  As for the fancy packaging, I will probably store it somewhere in a file box with all the other useless fancy packaging I have been forced to accumulate over the years.  I would have just bought the newer standardized set, but it was twice as much.  Maybe I can sell the collector's box on ebay.  Note to the studio marketing department: I am buying movies, NOT extra junk to clutter up a storage shed.  I prefer good, solid, STANDARD packaging to this poor fancy pants marketing nightmare.  I want my discs to pop in and out in a matter of seconds and go back on the shelf stored safely with its brothers without being an eyesore.  For some reason most "collections" have this same issue.  If it doesn't fit on the shelf like the others, it doesn't have room in my collection.

A Tiny Bit Dated But Enjoyably Sarcastic It had been a long time since I saw this movie.  I remembered enjoying it, so I took a chance.  Glad I did.  The acting is somewhat stiff and the special effects are the "dated" part in my title. I'm sure they were state of the art back then.  You can't really expect any better, but the effects were well done for the 1980's.  The dead friend of the now-werewolf that keeps popping up is one of the best aspects of the film.  The scene where that friend, along with several other of the werewolf's victims encourage him to commit suicide so that they might be free is especially well done.  No one is happy to be dead but they all must "make the best of it".  Kind of the English "keeping a stiff upper lip."  That is one of the running themes of the movie.  The ending seems a bit rushed and more of the 'not what sure we should do' variety.  You can see it coming pretty early on as the only way "out" but I can't say many movies are otherwise.  (Maybe Bardem's escape at the end of 'No Country for Old Men'?)

SPEED AND ROMANCE Not much need to review this one after over four hundred people took a shot...it is just a remarkable film for excitement and a great love story. The actors were superb and in their primes - how Top Gun II will fare is yet to be determined. A whole new generation is discovering how fantastic this "old" movie is...one of the classics!

Great fun and some classically funny bits One of the more engaging comedy films staring Hugh Grant.  Entertainment - not a milestone but lots of fun.  Truly enjoyed a few classic scenes like the delivery room, where Joan Cusak is at her raging angry best and Williams is a complete hilarious mess.  Tom Arnold fighting with the nasty dinosaur - clssic...even the dialogue.  Grant has numerous bits that are great fun.  It's a fun film and not to be taken seriously.  Just sit back with a snack and enjoy it - all the "wrong" stuff is just right.

Aniston/Sandler Comic Chemistry Made This a Solid 4-Star For Me This film reminded me how funny both Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler can be - neither has been in a film lately that really showcased that. Aniston really is a brilliant comedic actress, I think that gets lost sometimes in discussions of her. Her timing and facial expressions are excellent, and in the first half of this film especially, I thought she put that to good use and was very funny (and lifted Sandler up too - his humor is not usually my style.)  The basic plot (as has already been described in other reviews) is that she has worked as the long-time office manager to Adam Sandler's plastic surgeon, and knows him better than anyone else. He's a player who wears a wedding ring to bars and tells girls sad stories of his mean (fake) wife to seduce them. A stupid plot yes, but that's true of most rom-coms, so personally I forgave it. The twist comes when he meets a girl he actually thinks he wants to be with long-term, and has to somehow work through his lie. He asks Aniston to play his soon-to-be ex-wife, and from there all sorts of ridiculous chaos and misunderstandings ensue.  Aniston and Sandler are the heart of the film, and as I said, I think they are great together in the first half, when they are playing off each other to pull off this duplicity. As the film turns more romantic, their chemistry isn't quite as strong, but there are still some great moments. Nicole Kidman and Dave Matthews (not sure how that came about) cameo, and have some funny moments also. There's plenty of jokes that fall flat, and the plot is of course absurd, but overall, this gave me 4-stars worth of laughs.

Worth a second watch The sign of a great movie is when you want to see it over again.  And this one fits the bill.  The only issue is that you feel like you may have missed something, like Michael Cane says, which requires you to see it again.  But watching it a second time only reinforces what a brilliant piece of writing and directing this is.  Top 10 for sure.

a must read in light of today's political climate This book/movie has been iconic for futuristic predictions which sadly are coming true today.  the film is obviously old with old style film features but that is not a reason to avoid this film.  The things that occur in this film are eerily similar to what we are seeing today such as thought crimes, constant war, spying on citizens, marshal law, break down of families.  I would highly recommend you watch this film and see the end result of what is to come unless we work to bring real change in this world.  This won't happen in the political arena.  We need to be the change we want to see in the world.

A criminally unknown R. Lee Ermey Vietnam flick Hoping no doubt to cash in on R. Lee Ermey's amazing performance as Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in Full Metal Jacket, the script for The Siege of Firebase Gloria was pumped out to give Ermey yet another movie in which he could shine as a hardcore Marine.  Oorah!  A weary Sgt. Major Hafner (Ermey) and his combat-hardened right-hand man, Di Nardo (Wings Hauser), walk out of the jungles of Vietnam into a hellhole known as Firebase Gloria.  Replete with danger and clich&eacute;, FBG must be protected at all costs against Viet Cong forces that outnumber his newly inherited collection of complacent men 5-to-1.  Finding the commanding officer in a hash-fueled haze, Hafner assumes command and begins whipping the rag-tag collection into shape with lines like, "There is no doubt in my military mind that we are in a deep s*#@ situation, people!"  Hoping to withstand the inevitable VC barrage, Hafner realizes during a Tet Offensive onslaught that best efforts may not be enough, and advises his men: "A little religious communication might not be a bad idea at this state in the game."  Classic Ermey lines, perfect delivery.  The popularity of Vietnam movies during the late 80s was high, and this is one that easily falls in the upper half.  It attacks on the personal level with vicious battles and plenty of death, but it fails to embrace some of the minor authenticity details.  The battles themselves look realistic, and have been corroborated by enough Vietnam Vets to convince me, but some of the handling of weapons by minor characters is downright laughable.  At one point there is a door-gunner in the Air Cav who is firing an M-60 with the butt of the weapon above his head.  Other obvious problems exist - like a weakling, female captain serving as a doctor with no weapon or leadership knowledge - but they don't detract enough from a good old fashioned war movie.  Some say the best Vietnam movie ever made.  And don't even get me started on Gary Hershberger's dead on arrival portrayal of an oddball helicopter pilot.  The highlight of the movie is R. Lee Ermey and a few of his classically delivered lines.  The low budget adds a bit of grittiness to the characters and the situation.  War isn't pretty, and neither is this movie, but the brutality of the situation is utterly convincing.  There is an underlying subplot involving the politics behind Hanoi's Tet Offensive decisions, but for the majority of the film it's bullets and explosions ripping through Charlie's guts, and bayonets carving Victor Charlie's organs.  Highly recommended for military and war movie fans.  Jason Elin

Great set! The first film is BY FAR the best of the lot, but the other films are fun to watch nonetheless. The case is awkward, but the book is high quality and the films look very good on bluray, considering their age. A hint on the rubber knobs that are indeed very annoying: twist the discs on and off. All older films should be given this treatment (despite this problematic presentation).

Trailer list Great collection of horror trailers.  No real remastering so they can be a bit rough and the color is faded a bit on the color trailers but it brings back great memories for those of us who grew up watching horror on local tv  disc one  Tales of Terror Revenge of Frankenstein The Unearthly The Cyclops Daughter of Dr. Jekyll From Hell it Came (featuring the man/tree creature "Baranga") She Demons ("for terror that has no equal") The Bride and the Beast Cosmic Man The Fiendish Ghouls (featuring Donald Pleasence as a grave-robbing murderer) The Raven Queen of Outer Space (the title role played by Zsa Zsa Gabor) Carnival of Souls Tarantula (Leo G. Carroll was over a barrel...) Black Sunday The Mole People The Masque of the Red Death The Village of the Damned Macabre Dr. Cadman's Secret Caltiki the Immortal Monster Frankenstein 1970 Black Pit of Dr. M.* Monstrosity (aka The Atomic Brain) Daughter of Horror The Vampire Lovers ("Perverted creatures of the night!") The House on Haunted Hill Diary of a Madman The Projected Man ("Science runs amok when human beings tamper with unknown forces!") The Mummy (Hammer version) The Haunted Palace A Bucket of Blood 13 Ghosts Man of a Thousand Faces Dr. Terror's House of Horrors Dementia 13 The Curse of the Faceless Man The Tingler  disc 2  All trailers have a little company logo on this disc Anatomy of a Psychic (an extended preview, this one runs 2 ½ minutes!) Atom Age Vampire Blood Creature warning bell for those of that are faint of heart Blood of Dracula Bloodlust Brides of Dracula Castle of Blood The Creature from the Haunted Sea Curse of Frankenstein The Devil's Hand The Five Bloody Graves Hatchet for a Honeymoon I Bury the Living Killer Shrews Lady Frankenstein Monstroid Nightmare Castle Phantom from Space Screaming Skull Taste the Blood of Dracula Tormented The Werewolf vs. Vampire Woman What's the Matter with Helen Whoever Slew Auntie Roo Kiss of the Vampire I Was a Teenage Frankenstein Jesse James Meets Frankensteins Daughter The Hypnotic Eye The Curse of the Werewolf Horror of Dracula The Premature Burial The Giant Gilla Monster The Giant Claw  Dracula Has Risen from the Grave The Devils Partner The Beast from Haunted Cave She Konga Circus of Horrors  disc 3  Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein Abbott and Costello Meet The Killer Black Friday Bride of Frankenstein Dracula Dracula's Daughter Frankenstein Frankenstein Meets Wolfman The Ghost of Frankenstein Hangover Square House of Dracula House of Frankenstein I Walked with a Zombie King Kong Arsenic and Old Lace Mighty Joe Young Phantom of the Opera Scared to Death Son of Dracula Son of Frankenstein The Beast with Five Fingers The Body Snatcher The Climax Curse of the Cat People Invisible Ray The Leopard Man The Mummy The Wolf Man The Chanterville Ghost Cat People Ghosts on the Loose Hold that Ghost The Return of Dr. X Man of a Thousand Faces Mark of the Vampire White Zombie Island of Lost Souls

very satisfying in 3D I really enjoyed watching this on my 120' screen and several scenes where they show planes flying over beautiful landscapes alone gives 5 stars to this title.  However, they overdid the animations of the engine parts with some bad parallax giving you headache....they should have at least described what they are supposed to convey rather than hurling every model at your face ! Hence one star comes off !

Best Halloween Movie EVER! I watch it every year and it gets me in the mood for fall and Halloween.  Good love story and not too mushy!

A detective noir with a heaping helping of anime sensibilities Ah, anime. Never content to just tell a simple story, they have to throw in every trick in the book and several from out of it to create something completely bonkers. Such is the case with Glass Maiden also known as Crystal Blaze. It has all the elements of crime noir, a womanizing detective, the determined crime boss, the heartless assassin, the dogged reporter, and even the kid sidekick.  But then you get the whole sci-fi angle, with the women turning into glass, the mad scientist bent on creating the perfect weapon (who happens too look like a little girl), and whole doctor who has his nurse perform S&M games with him.  The result is a show that ranges from exciting and intense to intensely goofy. Shu is a darn cool character, but we end up knowing little about him. Most of the series is focused on where the glass maidens come from and the antics of Manami and Ayaka. This does two things. It keeps the series interesting by constantly shifting focus. But it also ends up with that odd tone disconnect. Some scenes go for over the top laughs others go from mystery and suspense.  Roman Martel, DVD Verdict --We also get a lot of cliche anime moments and characters. Ayaka is that typical character that is melancholy and monotone and usually turns out to be a robot. The main villain is your typical cold, calm and cruel scientist type whose sociopathic devotion to his research overpower everything else. The end result is something that just doesn't quite click. Glass Maiden never becomes bad or uninteresting, but I wish they would have gone with a straighter story, fewer comedy characters, and a harder edge. Something closer to Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom in tone would have been more interesting.  The animation is solid with a pleasing character design and some interesting backgrounds and settings. Most of the action scenes are fluid and fast paced and there are plenty of them. Anyone looking for some fan service will be pleased to note that most of the glass maidens end up nude at some point. I also enjoyed the musical score by Ryo Sakai who worked some jazzy pieces in with the unnerving suspense and horror material.  Maiden Japan puts all 12 episodes on two discs. The 1.78:1 standard definition image is nice and clean with solid blacks and ample clarity. The Dolby 2.0 stereo Japanese mix balances the dialogue and the music just fine. No English dub here. The only extras are clean opening and ending credits.  -Full review at dvdverdict.com

Why only full screen? I have started streaming movies through Amazon Prime and since they give an option of screen size, why isn't one of them active letterbox? I love Where Eagles Dare but am tired of not seeing the full widescreen on many anamorphic films of that era. I realize that today movies are filmed on 35mm stock that can give many aspect ratios so to see, for example, 2012 fill up the whole TV screen doesn't offend my sensabilities. Even though not as bad as pan and scan, I still know I'm missing side information. It's especially frustrating when the opening credits are done letterbox and then you are thrown back to cropped full screen. There are many of us film lovers who don't mind the bars, they remind us that we are watching a movie, not a TV show.  Though not as bad as some who think war is won by being a nice guy, this has been an entertainment favorite of mine since it first came out in theaters. Richard Burton had done some movies with action but this could be considered his first action movie. Clint Eastwood was hot off of The Man With no Name movies with Sergio Leone and when nothing could be found for him to do with Elizabeth Taylor, he signed on for this project with Burton. I'm hoping for a Blu-Ray version in the future, done correctly it would look stunning.  My rating is for the movie, not the Prime presentation.

Very Good Documentary I absolutely loved this movie, most of it anyway.  I learned so much in a short amount of time.  It made me so proud that I decided to go natural years ago.  I am so thankful that Jehovah God has given me the courage to walk with my head held high, even if my natural hair is frowned upon by people who "just don't get it."  I appreciated the knowledge I gained from looking at women who spend thousands of dollars for the "perfect hair." Enjoyed it so much!

how does it end? It's about a lady who gets mugged for her purse.  A man finds her wallet and turns it in to the police who return it to the lady.  She thanks the man.  He thinks she is not thanking him enough.  He wants more thanking and she wants to hear less from him. He's actually a sweet old guy, you think at first. But is he really?  I first saw this movie on a plane.  Unfortunately, we landed before I could see how the movie ends.  So I bought it to finally see the end.  No spoiler alert here.  You'll have to watch it yourself to see.  Oh yes, the director is one of the greatest filmakers in France, famous for thi sly and sophisticated who-done-its.

Nice Blend of Human and Puppet Positives: I wasn't sure if the human and puppet (OK, muppet) interaction would look natural but credit to the writers, director, actors and muppets for making the blending of their two worlds seem believable. Success is when you start responding to them as living creatures. Typical muppet antics and humor dialogue for all age although a bit more for the older crowd as in the tele series.  Negatives: I would have liked to have seen more muppet comedy, music and interaction with contemporary stars. The ending was also a little anticlimactic.

Good oldtime movie Nice to watch old school flicks like this one. I had never seen a film with any of the lead actors.  Very good.

Good Food for Thought Our 3-faith group (Jewish, Christian, and Muslim) used this dvd as the starting point for one of our interfaith discussions.  Our planning committee found plenty of food for thought in the commentaries in the movie.  Since it was way to long to watch in its entirety and still have time to discuss it, we watched just the first four chapters and used it as a starting point for discussing similarities and differences, differences in narratives in the Adam and Eve and "sacrifice of the son" stories and whether competition for "favorite son" status has been the cause of many of our problems with each other.  At future discussions we will use the same dvd to stimulate discussions about what creates and perpetuates extremism and how we can try to un-perpetuate it.  The dvd features all open-minded and peace-seeking commentators, but it doesn't shy away from showing the problems we've managed to create in the world.  So it has been a very good, thought-provoking resource for our 3-faith groups.

Good Family Fun My family really enjoyed this movie.  It is funny but heart warming too. It is not academy award winning but a good time for the whole family.  My kids are 18 and 19 and still enjoyed it.  I recommend this for anyone who needs a break from the violence and language that is out there in other movies.

A Very San Franciso Phenomenon I liked this in part because I lived many years in San Francisco, and recognized the locale. But that's a small part of it. This is definitely an "only in San Francisco" sort of movie from many points of view.  Late in the last millennium, Mark Bittner discovered that there are flocks of parrots in San Francisco which he calls wild, but which were probably released from capture. Urban legends as to their origins abound. He was squatting in an old cottage on Telegraph Hill, feeding and caring for these birds, naming them, talking to them, making friends with them, photographing them, writing about them, and loving them, until about 2005, when this movie was made.  Judy Irving was a bird-lover who was also a photographer and filmmaker, and got to know Mark due to his interest in these parrots. Yes, the photography is stunning, and the birds are fascinating. But Mark and Judy are at least as interesting as the birds. Without giving away too much, early in the filming, Judy asks Mark why he doesn't cut his very long hair, and he says he decided he would not cut it until he had a girlfriend. In the last minutes of the film, a friend is cutting off his long ponytail. Judy and Mark are a couple now.

Awesome When I found this online I was so happy and watching it brought on so many nostalgic memories of when I was younger watching these cartoons every day. Quality is great, but the pilot episode is missing unfortunately, but that is the only downside. Hopefully all the seasons will be out soon!

Go Ahead, Punk.  Make My Day Yeah, I know it's not Dirty Harry but at the time Eastwood made this film he was making the Dirty Harry pictures too.  And there is a similarity to this and the DH films.  His character has the same attitude and motivation for what he does and who he does it too.  I was never a big fan of westerns, but I have always like Clint Eastwood.  And it doesn't matter if its a western, sci-fi, action/adventure that he's in I have always enjoyed his movies.  This is no different.  Even though it's a western, and not a spaghetti western that he is known for but an honest to goodness western, it's a good movie.  I recommend this to anyone who likes either western or Clint Eastwood movies.

good, but... This was a really good movie and I have no complaints exept the language! It hadno cussing up untill the middle of the film when will smith repeated d***n very loudly. he probably said it 8 or 9 times. as for the purchess, it was very good. came withina few days , it was cheap, perfect condition. I always trust amazon better than ebay! thank you amazon.

the thing dvd a good flick!but you must see!!! the original 1949 version first,it still stands out even though it was made before the advent of special effects with James Arness as the thing

Turner and Hooch I've been looking for this item for awhile and when it was received, it arrived in perfect condition and I enjoyed every minute of it.  Although sad towards the end, the puppy made the ending.

Sex, Drugs, & Rock n' Roll! 4 1/2 Stars = Minor Masterpiece  This movie gets it 95% right. Just love it. It's like watching my high school years all over again. A time when big brother was not perched on you, looking over your shoulder, & people just excepted the exuberance of youth. No rap, hip hop, extreme metal, or gangs, just great music. Just unadulterated fun! Just a time of more freedom, when rock n- roll, drive-in movies, & friendship was all you needed. Not that many of these things are not true now, but this was a simpler, more free time in many ways.  The soundtrack is spot on for a time for me when everything was new, fun, & not jaded. A true portrait of a time that will never be again, not for me. All the more amazing since it was from 1993, but the people behind this film were obviously not.  Take a trip back in time!

A Very Funny Movie!! Why should this movie have just three stars when it is such an amazing film? I think the wrong type of people are reviewing it. When it came out in the theatres, I watched it with a friend of mine and we both enjoyed it. It was so good that I watched it again (I went alone, not because the movie sucked, I just wanted to go on my own). The only thing I don't like about this movie is the part where they suffocate a dog, for this part I'll remove one star. If you enjoy laughing, then this is the movie for you.

sci-fi sequel this is an excellent movie series for those that like to watch vampire movies.Ths sequel and the 4th are fun to wach.

"violent content, including rape and murder"/ um -ITS wayMORE THAN THAT There are a lot of reviews here, much to read or consider. If you think that watching a new level of graphicly-bloody,-sexual violence  against women, or any victim in this sort of crime,- is part of a great movie, then skip this, because "its a SPOILER." After watching this movie I wish I saw a MUCH MORE CONCISE warning, any spoiler effect would have been greatly appreciated. I wish the warning said: "This movie contains violent, bloody, life-threatening torturous rape. The scenes are at a level that will be shocking to most observers. (based on comments by those who did not read the book, and were asked if the movie was 'cool' or 'intense' or had parts that were disturbing, etc., etc.) The screams alone are so difficult to hear. The most violent level of rape is enough to cause a physical revulsion not exactly common in R-rated movies to date.. I think I am not alone.  Gratuitous sex is a silly matter, after you see this horrid level of violence. A warning of 'Rape and Murder" means little, after you must observe torture like this. Also I would like to have been offered, -"If you wish to SKIP this 'segment' of the movie, the actual minutes of this murderous-level of rape run From __?_(minute-time) To __?__Minute-time, should be avoided. I am sorry, but I did not write down which minutes are the horrid minutes involved. I could not go back to look again. As it began, I turned the volume off, tried to not look, letting silent tape run, and waited for it to end, and waited, for the ACTUAL MOVIE to continue. (This murder by rape easily 'could' result in a horribly, drawn-out death). For once, I think a squealer is not a bad thing, not here. I realize, that I am probably asking someone who is doubltless paid only to SELL THE MOVIE. That is not relevant to their 'title' or job description. The "R- Rating' is a watered-down rating here. This is alone in its own, NEW field of vile violence. Angelina Jolie's incredible movie touched down on sex-crime violence, this one slams into it. I am pretty sure Dragon Tattoo, takes the 'gone way past what we need to see' {SICK PRIZE}. The drawn-out scene takes viewers into the highly illegal sextrade level of cruelty, where MURDER BY RAPE is sold on dvd's, to sell to the few who want to see this, and the victim indeed does- die. Is that what movie watchers expect or want? I think not.  I pray not. I truly doubt any one signs on to see this crap, and recall, many have NOT read the book. Many read the hype and dont see this crap coming. Maybe this type of torture is a 'common form of rape,'  but I have only heard of this level of violence. Still the movie does a tremendous job of drawing out WHAT RAPE REALLY IS.  If anyone can allow themselves to recall the horror they 'get' to observe here. Yes, maybe, rape will be taken more seriously by the many sharp viewers, and someday the punishment will meet the horrors of such crime. Stiil, I have a beyond-vivid imagination and know enough-without pictures, enactment. The whole drawn out rage and destruction enforced against a female, or any victim of violent sex crime. The victim is instantly an obvious survivor, from the start of the movie.  We know something really bad has happened to her. We care deeply for her, its immediate. But, this drawn-out nauseating offense is just not integral to the movie. Maybe the younger crowd will show their bravery by discussing it. That is what may be 'hip.' But I hope all viewers are sickened and horrified, as we are humans, we have too much humanity to want to sit thru this. Its not an thrill ride for me. Its far beyond, and below, horrid. 50 million copies sold, in 48 countries.  How many loved reading it? Most, and I think I would.  How many looked forward to SEEING that scene?  Maybe some, in small doses. I wonder how many wanted this sent to be SEEN,  by unknown viewers, all over the world?  - For ALL ages to 'stumble into.' - We know that Ratings dont protect young people.  We do, or we try to.  We dont succeed always. Our votes for what is ok to include, still can be spoken out,-for, or against. Freedom (artistic, like this) can hurt our young people, and the rest of us too. Its a big world, many opionions. And many want to prove they are open to 'anything on screen.' I just might be the one who is not /hip/.

Double Judd. This review refers to the red split image cover. I bought this as an upgrade from the original DVD release with a little trepidation. Will this just be a knockoff print? It is not. It is an extremely clear transfer for a DVD. As good as many of my Blu Ray, better than some. I have liked this thriller since first viewing it. Ashley Judd's character is imprisoned for a crime she didn't commit. Keeps trying to get someone to listen, of course no-one does. Is advised to do her time, then she will be free to find the truth. She does her time and is given a "conditional" parole. Tommy Lee Jones character, a bitter has been is her probation officer. Sparks inevitably fly, like a piece of metal against an emery stone. Judd escapes probation half way house tracking the truth. Jones a disbeliever, follows, always a minute behind. Until the last act when they have become a single force against the "perpetrator." They manage to save each others lives within a couple of minutes. The ending can be a tear jerker if one has lost a child and knows how that feels, then has that child returned unharmed. 5.1 Audio. English/French subtitles. Behind the scenes featurette.

2010 version is slightly edited This move must have made quite an impact on me when I first saw it at the drive-in because I still remember it.  I was happy to be able to order it on Amazon and watch it again.  Numerous reviews note the poor quality of the movie and there is even a disclaimer at the start of the version I bought which says they did the best they could with what they had.  No, the quality is not 1080p but it was not that good in 1975 either.  Yes, the quality has degraded over the years but it is still very watchable.  Amazon sells about four different versions of this DVD with varying copyright dates.  I bought the 2010 version thinking the quality might be better but I suspect I got the same quality as everyone else.  One difference I did note however is I think a little bit was edited out of the 2010 version.  The pond scene at the start has been shortened to remove the nudity.  You still see her in the water but she is covered to the neck.  The rest of the scene has been removed.  I suspect a small portion of the Crooked Sky test scene at the end may have been edited too.  I thought I remembered the shooting being a little bit more graphic.  Overall, it is a very good movie and since it has been edited a little, it is safe for the entire family.

Perfectly entertainig, if you don't expect ' high art'. This movie is excellent, as far as being entertaining and pretty much enjoyable. The story line seems pretty well developed, and while some of the graphics aren't that impressive, it's a generally decent film.  With that in mind, it is definitely not anything life altering or award winning, but is very good for what it is- Just good entertainment. I can't say anything as far as whether or not it matches the book, as I have not read it. But as a stand alone as something entertaining enough to help you pass a few hours if you are bored.  ---Robert

About the same Standard Ghost Hunters season.  I still feel season 3 and 4 are the best as far as specific investigations go.  The two main players maintain their level of scrutiny in cases. One of the downsides is that I don't care for KJ and Brit's methods and jumping to little noises and claiming to see shadows moving all the time.  the good news is Steve/Tango return somewhere along the line so KJ/Brit aren't in every case.

Expect the creepiness to come into your mind days later At first glance, Cropsey may come off as a found-footage/fauxumentary, but the horror of this tale will linger long after the film is over.  The history is unnerving and the outcome makes it even more so.  A full on display of the banality of the evil and the folklore that builds up around it.

Good, but a shot-by-shot remake of the Spanish [REC] A film team led by reporter Angela Vidale [Jennifer Carpenter] follows a fire crew for the night as part of a documentary for a light news show. When they get a call out, it's not to a fire, but a woman in distress. So begins a night of terror; the woman, and many other residents of the apartment building are infected with a virus that acts like rabies, but develops much faster. The infected foam at the mouth and are incredibly aggressive. As the night progresses, and the infection explodes, the film team must fight off the infected monsters to survive. What makes Quarantine interesting is that it is shot entirely from the viewpoint of the cameraman, Scott [Steve Harris]. It would be quite inventive if it were not a shot-for-shot remake of the Spanish film [REC].  Still, well worth seeing, but I'd advise seeing [REC] first.

a quirky tale of misdirection... Written and directed by Christopher Nolan (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000PC6A3E">Batman Begins</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001GZ6QEC">The Dark Knight</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004LWZWGK">The Dark Knight Rises</a>), Following (1998) is a film that sucks the viewer into a shadowy world of petty crime, romance, and intrigue, and then keeps you confused and off balance, with nonlinear storytelling that concludes unexpectedly.  The black and white presentation and low key approach, gives the movie a retro vibe, and neo-noir feel, as the film's stylish elements, contribute to a pretty interesting watch.  Bill (Jeremy Theobald) is a struggling writer, who has developed the unusual habit of following people that he finds interesting, through the streets of London.  Bill's life changes, when one of his subjects, a thief named Cobb (Alex Haw), takes him on a job robbing a flat.  For Cobb, who steals women's underwear, the thrill of violating the personal space of others, seems to be more important than making a big score.  Already involved in some questionable activities, Bill seems easily drawn into Cobb's criminal world.  Bill also begins a relationship with a woman (Lucy Russell) who has some connection with Cobb.  The web of deception grows more complex, and the intrigue builds, as some are manipulated for a fall.  Told out of order, and featuring numerous jump cuts and flashbacks, the story doesn't flow very smoothly, and doesn't play fair with the audience, who must "follow" along, trying to sort out what is happening.  For many, a second viewing may be helpful in piecing the story together, and under detailed examination, the flaws become more pronounced.  On a first view, with confusion and uncertainty present, the film makes a compelling, although disjointed watch.  The shifting time frame, makes it difficult for the story to build much momentum, but solid acting by Theobald, Russell, and Haws, holds your interest, with the character Cobb, bringing a theatrical flair to most things he does.  Christopher Nolan displays the ability to artfully tell a story in his feature film debut, earning a rating of 3.5 stars.

"Great Sci-Fi Flick!" Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum and Randy Quaid star in this 1996 sci-fi film. Aliens invade Earth and the people unite to fight back. I've always liked this film and this dvd has nice picture and sound plus neat extras. This is a great sci-fi flick with a good cast and cool effects. I recommend this.

Long ago I ordered Die Niebelungen 2 dvd-pack to have some entertainment concerning the long ago-events described in the legend of Niebelungen Lied. The movie was 4:3, black and white with classical music and some texts. The actors were good, the legend was told clearly. I had a good time watching those ancient people and the matters of honour, sorrow and revenge. The characters made me laugh some times: the old men in the beginning laughing heartily when hearing someone to leave for killing a dragon. And also the king of the huns  Attila,a man of honour and respect. A Legend told well.

a good story of eroticism and love from classical India The title may be misleading, as this is not really a film version of the classical Indian book by the same title. While there is a strong erotic charge in the film, there are no sex position tutorials, no philosophical discussions, no classical references here. It is a beautiful tale of love, as the subtitle correctly puts it, set in a archetypical Indian mansion of a Maharajah. I found the story credible and it, less the costumes, could be transposed in any number of XXI century social situations. A good way to become acquainted with classical India, an India that does not exist any more though some of the family relationships depicted here are still to be found in the more traditional parts of the country.

Surrealistic Nightmare 4 1/2 stars = Minor Masterpiece  A woman crashes off a bridge into the Kansas River in Lawrence, KS. She survives, or did she?  Classic, creepy, low budget black & white horror film, that asks the question; is this real?  Watch & find out.  A milestone picture!  "Carnival of Souls"

Perhaps Peter O'Toole's last great acting role There is a great line uttered by Peter O'Toole as the aging actor to his erstwhile female companion after visiting an art gallery.  He says something to the effect that men consider the most beautiful thing in the world, a woman.  When she asks what women think is most beautiful, he says their first born child.  I suspect there is a lot of truth there as there is in this story of aging friends.  O'Toole received an Oscar nomination (lost to Forest Whitaker) for his role as octogenarian Maurice who is struggling with his health.  His daily companion is an equally old actor named Ian (Leslie Phillips) who has his own health issues.  Ian's grand-niece Jessie (movie debut of Jodie Whittaker) is about 20 and comes to help take care of him.  She is uneducated blue collar girl looking for a job.  She wants to become a model.  Maurice takes a liking to Jessie using memory perception of women of that when he was 30.  He flirts, but she wants nothing to do with him.  As a somewhat famous actor she begins to acquiesce.  He treats her with sophistication that she's never experienced.  They go to the theater and she's mesmerized.  He takes her to nice restaurants and she eats food beyond the junk she's used to.  Eventually Maurice, using his connections gets her a modeling gig.  Nude modeling that she wasn't expecting.  The film highlights the great O'Toole who was 74 at the time but appears to be playing a somewhat older character.  Phillips and O'Toole together are hilarious, clearly old friends in real life.  In 3 brief appearances, Vanessa Redgrave shines as Valerie, Maurice's ex-wife.  She, like Maurice is not in great health and deals with loneliness.  They have a great scene together, a tender goodbye as they know they won't be around much longer.  While the idea of a man romancing a woman 60 year her junior can sound pretty icky, for the most part the film doesn't break any lines of perversion.  There is one scene which seems to try too hard.  "Venus" comes from the nickname Maurice gives to Jessie after visiting an art museum.  This little film is an acting triumph for everyone.  It is funny, smart and a little lecherous.

Great Movie I have been very satisfied with my purchase of the movie 'St. Elmo's Fire'. I knew that I was purchasing new, but I would have rather of had a set date to expect to receive it.(I am not good with patience). It has been a great movie that I have watched several times already.

Awesome film... i like it because it's a rare edition and i think it was worth buying it for those who got it while supplies lasted at Walmart. not a lot of people can say they have this edition. well long story short, it's a great edition however it doesn't contain a spanish audio track. for those of you who are looking forward to watching this movie in spanish, i don't recommend it, however it does have spanish subtitles. although, i don't think that would be enough considering the price of this edition. Disc one only contains the film, scene and language selections, and disc two contains special features.

Entertaining movie about the epic Comic Book Hero I enjoy "Superhero" movies and I was waiting for this to come out on DVD since I didn't have a chance to see it in the theatre.  I was happily suprized at the great acting by all the actors and actresses in this movie.  The special effects were excellent as well.  Chris Hemsworth plays Thor and is a good actor.  I enjoy his humor in the movie and portrays Thor well.  The beautiful Natalie Portman is great as well as the scientist/love interest in the movie, she doesn't take herself too seriously in the movie and it is fun to watch her in it.  Sir Anthony Hopkins as always is an outstading actor and portrays the overall Norse God Odin, (father of Thor).  Tom Hiddleston plays the "evil" Loki and is a pleasure to watch as well.  The story keeps you interested and the special effects are awesome.  Highly Recommended movie to fans of "Superheroes"!

Captains are people. I really enjoyed the candour and openess of the Actors responding to Bill Shatner. I especially liked the interaction between Bill and Kate Mulgrew. I thought that the DVD demonstrated that Star Trek went beyond the series and affected the lives of the actors, some to the good, some not so much. I recommend it for viewers who see actors as being people, not only characters. I would love to see a First Officers and a Doctors DVD as the format impressed me. Leonard Nimoy or Jonathon Frakes interviews perhaps?

Better than the Keaton/Burton films, not as good as the Bale/Nolan films Joel Schumacher gets skewered constantly for running the Batman franchise into the ground, but trust me...95% if not 100% of that reputation should be on the hands of the next film in the series, "Batman & Robin". That one was so cheesy, it made the "Batman" 60's TV series look like high art. This one starts steering the ship in that direction, no doubt, but it's so fun and over-the-top and full of action, it's hard not to forgive it. First off, it's COLORFUL...you wanna see what the Burton "Batman" films looked like, just stare at a piece of black construction paper for 2 hours. That's about the gist of it. Secondly, it's got action...explosions...chase sequences...edge-of-your-seat how's-he-gonna-get-outta-this-one moments...the Burton films seemed pretty lacking in those, this one's got that in spades.  Thirdly, it doesn't look like "Batman's Big Adventure". I mean seriously, penguins with missles strapped to their backs?  The Joker pulling a pistol with a 3-ft long barrel out of his pants and taking out the Batwing with one shot?  That's the kind of stuff we'd let Pee-Wee get away with, but these are supposed to be grown-up movies. The introduction of Robin helps the story instead of seeming tacked on, and the performance of Jim Carrey is of course over-the-top, but why would you want the Riddler to be any other way?  Tommy Lee Jones as Two-Face is a bit more of a weird proposition, he shoulda played it more like a straight Tommy Lee Jones bad guy without hamming it up so much, but then again...you can't have too much of a clash in tones.  Overall, my favorite non-Christopher Nolan Batman movie...'nuff said.

Had my 9 year old rolling Another great movie by Aardman Animations. If you are a fan of the Wallace and Gromit movies you are sure to love this wacky adventure as well. With the explosion of high tech animation, many feel that stop motion animation is a relic of the past. I feel it is an art-form that stands the test of time. My nine year old is just getting to the age where he starting to understand the humor beyond the slap-stick. This movie is a fun romp that pokes fun of our insecurities; teaches us that our friends can be our greatest allies and that they can help steer us back on course when we have gone astray.

Love the Film!!! I don't know why people don't love this film. it's very dry humor, you have Anna Farris, and Pena, and of course Seth Rogen. This was the film that really got me into him. I have seen reviews from other comedies that were dryer than this film (Get him to the Greek, she's just not into you, Funny people) that were just so bad!!! You have such a good character line up, the plot is pretty good, love the adult crude dry humor, if you really don't like this movie then you must of probably didn't pay enough attention to it (i.e. texting).  Anna Farris who plays a remarkably stunning job in this film!!!I love the soundtrack as well!!! Very good comedy!!! It's a lot better than at least half of the comedies out coming out now a days. and it's sad this movie got bad reviews because it seems for a comedy to be admired you have to have more 'newer generational' actors like that kid from super bad or 21 Jump Street(excellent film) and I do think that's sad. This film wasn't AMAZING but it is a comedy I would reccomended. If noone thought the ending was funny and had a very good climax/tie up then they obviously weren't observing. Because the movie has a very good ending and most people complain of comedies or horrors with unresolved or different endings then they thought, so I am really lost when people don't care for this movie when the ending is just so EPIC and exposes such a good closing!  MAKES ME SAD.

Great to Inspire Toddlers I'm trying to nudge my 2 1/2 year old into being interested in the potty. This DVD has definitely helped peak his interest.  I have to warn you... it will make you have to pee. Probably more than it will for your toddler.

Double-Barrel, Sawed-Off Shotgun What can I say.  'Desperado' is an over-the-top, ultraviolent comedy starring handsome Antonio Banderas, beautiful Salma Hayak and 'Up in Smoke', Cheech Marin.  Generally speaking, I'm no fan of action-adventure but this particular 'action-adventure' is purely hilarious.  Antonio Banderas is the 'Biggest Mexican I ever saw,' whose face is always obscured by shadows.  Nobody's safe.  My favorite scene, though, was of Salma Hayak strutting across a street in Zaragossa, Coahuila.  Cars collide all around her.  She smiles knowingly.  It's the impact she always has on men.

Superior Bond Film Would highly recommend this dvd as it is one of the best Bond films on DVD.  Evidently, many thought this movie was overly long and dull in the theater.  However, it comes across great for home viewing and seems less dated then some of the other Connery films like Dr. No.  Even in the non Blueray format, the film has fantastic color after the film was restored in the last ten years.  I also enjoyed finally seeing this film in its unedited form.  When this film is seen on basic cable, they edit several of the under water scenes that made the plot more difficult to follow. Would definitely place this film on top 5 list for Bond films.

MIB Blu-ray actually somewhat thinkers twice buy blu-ray edition of the MIB is considering the release of version 2 does not exist bluraynya. But because the economic price to be tempted to have it.  bluray disc contains a very striking image and transfer there are some dirty spots spots still exist but are not very intrusive.  watch this movie memorable for me to remember funny and cool secret agent

Fun film This isn't a bad adaptation of the game, and I actually liked it when it first came out. Granted, I've not seen it for a long time and I think I would find more to nitpick about it if I were to see it again now, but I remember enjoying this movie. It could have been written better, but really, it's not a bad movie at all.

Bay's best kept secret I think this film is great in almost every way and cant understand why it bombed at the box office.  One of my favorite car chases and the special effect hold up like they were just made today.

Lol This movie was hilarious! The streaming was a little spotty towards the end. But not terribly bad. Overall I would definitely recommend this movie

Upbeat I avoided this one for years because baseball and romance have been so overdone.  But there is just enough clever dialogue to keep the predictable plot from dragging.  These likeable actors also have so much enthusiasm and warmth that they elevate the material far above the two stars I would otherwise give it.

***Blu-Ray Review*** - Worth the Upgrade? The Film:  I won't wax too rhapsodic about the movie itself. Others have done so effusively. I can say, without reservation, that this is my personal favorite film of all time. I have watched it a good 10 to 15 times, and it rewards me upon each viewing. I think it's one of the most affecting, well-observed, and *real* portrayals of a relationship ever committed to celluloid. The structure of the story is inordinately clever, and the performances are superb.  The Blu-Ray:  What I am reviewing here is the blu-ray edition. I have owned and watched the DVD since its release. So 14 of 15 viewings were in 480p, and now my 15th was in a new 1080p transfer. This is an upgrade, certainly. Detail, color, and contrast are quite a bit stronger than the DVD transfer. There is nothing that takes away from the presentation generally, such as edge enhancement or obtrusive Digital Noise Reduction. It is not competitive with some of the best Blu-Ray material on the market today, but this owes more to the soft, dreamy, somewhat hazy filming style, than to any technical deficiency of the disc. Don't get me wrong - this looks better than the best cable or satellite HD. It is just middling in terms of Blu-Rays. You shouldn't be getting this in order to "demo" your new A/V setup. You should be getting this because you love the movie.  The extras are a direct port from the DVD. If it was there, it's here. None are upgraded to higher resolution, but this is to be expected. There are no new extras. The extras are quite good, it should be said (with the exception of the short EPK "documentary"), so it's nice that none have been dropped.  Conclusion:  I gave this 4 stars because it's not the sort of "home run" upgrade that simply demands to be purchased no matter what editions you already own (DVD to BD upgrades in this category include 2001, Fight Club, Star Trek The Original Series). Instead, this is a competent Blu-Ray that, while it definitely improves on the previous transfer, is not the sort of revelatory experience that the aforementioned discs represent. The lack of new extras make this less of a value proposition, too.  If you don't own it already, then definitely buy this one. If you are only a minor fan and own the DVD, stick with that. If you're a huge fan (as I am), then go ahead and get it, but wait for a good deal. I'm very happy with my purchase, but can't help but feel that this film might have deserved a bit more window-dressing.

Movie This is a history lesson you will not learn in school? how many people know that monument sits there in the middle of a housing addition. well worth watching!!!!!

I'm not an alcoholic. I'm a boxer. I'd love to hear that excuse. In this fantasy world, getting wasted makes you a better fighter. I don't like this 'sequel' as much as the awesome Chan classic 'Drunken Master' from the 70s, which is my favorite of all Chan films, but what great fun. One of the few Chan films available on DVD in anamorphic widescreen.

I love it I like when you can find these old HD-DVD videos.  Any of these you can get cheap is great.  Pity they no longer make them.  I have a hd and bluray.  HD is still an acceptable format for me.

Win In Black I definitely enjoyed seeing this movie. Now, I have to admit that when I saw this movie in the theater, I had only very recently seen the first movie in the trilogy. I have not yet seen the 2nd one. However, I was still able to legitimately laugh at certain parts of this one. When I go to a movie, I don't usually expect to be blown away by how good or bad a movie is. I didn't really get blown away by this one, but at the same time, I was never anxious to know how much more time was left in the movie. There were a few slightly grotesque things shown, but that's to be expected in a movie like this, considering what happened in the first movie, and the fact that it's a sci-fi movie. The thing that surprised me the most was that there were a few touching scenes sprinkled into it--most notably toward the end of the movie. If you're looking for a somewhat light-hearted, sci-fi comedy, then I highly recommend checking this film out.

A fine return to Hammer tradition James Watkins' "The Woman In Black" is a superb, bone-chilling return to the freezy tradition of Hammer Studios.  Daniel Radcliffe (of "Harry Potter" fame) turns in a fine performance as London lawyer Arthur Kipps.  An impoverished father haunted by the loss of his wife during childbirth, his employer gives him a make-or-break assignment by sending him to the remote village of Cryphin Gifford to examine the documentation of the Eel Marsh House that belonged to the recently deceased Mrs. Drablow.  Mrs. Drawblow was a disturbed woman.  Her child was lost tragically, not unlike the protagonists', by drowning in a marsh.  The locals are particularly unreceptive to Mr. Kipps' presence and he is shunned by all but one man, determined to help him see the job through.  The pacing and atmosphere of this movie are damn near perfect.  Reminiscent of much of Hammer's later work (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000TUDBGG">From Beyond the Grave</a>), the cobwebs and impoverished area add to the suspense.  What really clinched it for me were the scenes in which Kipps is alone in Mrs. Drablow's house and reads her letters, the scary voice overdubbing and the creepy puppets moving all at the same time.  One thinks of a malevolent Emily Dickinson or something, it's just really fantastic.  The only problem I had was with the ending.  While I won't spoil it for anyone, they should have let it happen raw without the fluffernutter.  That said, this is recommended for anyone who still cherishes Hammer's legacy, and just a fantastic horror film amongst the dross.

Get Past the Razzle Dazzle Special Effects and Find the Worthy Lessons GREEN LANTERN is a spectacle to watch - much technicolored etherized air, visits to other planets, transformations of aliens into humanoid forms and vice versa, lots of derring-do on part of the newly hewn superhero, etc such as in all of these comic book turned films that are so popular - but at its core is a rather sensitive story that for this viewer redeems it.  It is a tale of how  to overcome fear  and to believe in dreams in order to make life in this world livable that for the audience of youngsters for whom these comic books were created presents a challenge and a possibility. It also brings some insight into the topic of filial competition and the role that parents play in fostering this unfortunate sense of worth.  Is it a great film or a revelation of philosophy? No, but it does entertain on a different level than most other movies of this nature and that is in large part to the fine performances of a cast that takes the film seriously - in a good way.  A really fine synopsis of the story is here: 'A cocky test pilot, Hal Jordan, acquires superhuman powers when he is chosen by "the Ring", the willpower-fed source of power, of the Green Lantern Intergalactic Corps. He, reluctantly at first, takes on the challenges these superheroes face. Putting his self-doubts aside, and spurred on by his sense of duty and love for his beautiful, intellectually equal, colleague, Carol Ferris, he is soon called to defend mankind from Parallax, a super-powerful being who feeds on fear. He is the universe's last chance, as many Lanterns have been killed and the Corps is weakened. And he might just be the right Lantern for the job of keeping the world safe from harm.'  Martin Campbell directs the solid cast of seen and unseen characters: Ryan Reynolds shines as Hal Jordan, our 'Green Lantern', Taika Waititi is Hal's best friend Tom, Blake Lively is solid as Carol Ferris, Peter Sarsgaard morphs as Hector (Hal's brother), Tim Robbins is the father figure, Mark Strong is the Spock-like Lantern from another planet, Angela Bassett steps in as the secretive Doctor Waller, Temuera Morrison is the lantern space alien who passes the ring to Hal after succumbing to the evil of Clancy Brown as the ominous Paralax, there are some fine voiceovers for the creatures of the Planet AO - Geoffrey Rush as Tomar-Re, Michael Clarke Duncan as Kilowog, and  Warren Burton and  Salome Jens as the Guardians.  Ryan Reynolds has such a strong positive screen presence that he is able to make us root for his flying sculpted body Green Lantern.  Though the film had bad press and failed to create box office accolades, it is a strong movie for this genre. Seeing on Amazon Instant Video gives it a full screen treatment to try before buying the DVD.  It is better than expected.  Grady Harp, October 11

Nice original plot Ok so certain plot elements have been done before.  But overall it is nice original plot, and very well executed.

Great movie, but skip the commentary. The Maltese Falcon is a great, classic movie, so it doesn't need me to speak up for it.  The only reason I'm writing a review is because I'm frustrated with the quality of movie commentaries these days, including this one.  The film scholar who does it seems like a nice enough guy, and he's certainly knowledgeable, but he and the studio chose the wrong knowledge to share, and go about it entirely the wrong way for the medium.  Basically, the commentator is reading an essay to you; for much of the film, literally reading an essay to you.  Most of it has no bearing on what's happening on the screen.  It's the kind of information you would get from reading someone's obituary (or having it read to you by a stranger).  So, as soon as Bogart or Astor or Lorre, etc., appears on the screen, we get 5-10 minutes of, "Peter Lorre was born on June 3rd, 1901, in St. Hildegaard's Infirmary in Hamburg.  His mother, Matilda, was a baker's assistant who liked arranging flowers and knitting dinner jackets for cuckoo clocks.  His father, Rudolf, was a narcoleptic fishmonger from Alsace, whom no one particularly liked.  When Peter was three, he..."  Stop!  Guys, this is a commentary somebody is listening to while they watch the movie.  Probably, they would like it to be about the movie, don't you think?  If you can't fill the length of a movie like this one with interesting tidbits about what's happening on screen and stories about its making, etc., you need to back up, have a think, and try again.  If you want to include biographical essays, fine, print them up and put them in the package; but, for the love of God, I beg you, do not read them to me during the movie.  Wrong medium!

100% Italian Gothic Mario Caiano worked with many of the great Italian directors before going out on his own to make a number of noteworthy films, including this one, Amanti d'oltretomba, or Nightmare Castle. This gorgeous black-and-white film manipulates light and shadow to create moods of love and hate, enriching a simple tale of two lover's vengeance against a sadistic mad scientist. Barbara Steele is excellent as the female lead, and the other actors give strong performance that are almost over-the-top, just as Italian Gothic films ought to be!

A Rather Good Spaghetti Western. My late night movie last night was "Death Rides A Horse" starring Lee Van Cleef and John Phillip Law. It was a Spaghetti Western and came from a large collection-set of DVDs I've had for at lest five years. I'd ran out of other movies and had to go to the lower-regarded archives. However, this was a fairly good movie, I must admit. It had the standard Spaghetti Western settings of an ultra-dry and desolate landscape, windy and dusty weather, stark and desolate little towns and some really bad hombres. Almost everybody wore rumpled and dirty clothing and looked like they'd smell bad. It was not the kinda place you'd wanna be.  The movie got off to a good start with a murder and sexual assault on a family in which everyone ended up killed except for a small boy who observed the atrocity. Van Cleef (one of the perpetrators) took mercy on the boy, took him out of his burning house and set him free. Fifteen years later, Van Cleef was released from prison (for another offense) and returned to the town. The young boy was now a grown man (John Phillip Law) and had grown quite handy with a gun, and was looking to right the score on his childhood catastrophe, if he could only find the killers. Van Cleef and Law met and become sometime friends and allies against some really bad dudes. One by one, Law managed to track down and do away with his family's killers. Van Cleef was a vital aid on more than one occasion. Finally, the young man realized that Van Cleef was present, albeit late, at his family's demise, which created a thorny moral dilemma.  It's an interesting movie and rather well done. I'd have to say that it's a rather good Spaghetti Western that ranks somewhat below the Clint Eastwood sagas, but is not too far off. There's a lot of gunfire. A lot of people die. There's a lot of violence and destruction. The filming and sound are good, at least on the version I watched, although it looked as if the DVD was made from a well-worn copy of the film.  Gary Peterson.

Great movie received with great service The Name of the Rose is a great film.  A classic whodunit set in a Catholic monastery in about 1530 ad.  It's a great story, impeccably told, and superbly acted by Sean Connery, Christian Slater, F. Murray Abraham, Ron Perlman, and the rest of the cast.  The whole movie has a sense of urgency, and the timing of the events is flawlessly delivered to keep you on the edge of your seat.  The cinematography is so well handled that you will actually believe yourself to have been transported back to those long-gone years.  You can almost smell the stables.  I love this movie, and highly recommend it to anyone who truly enjoys a great mystery or suspense tale.  The service through whom I ordered the movie was as impeccable as the movie itself.  My complements to them in a quick delivery.

timeless film Romero is a classic tale of heroic action in the face of an unjust war.  I show this in  3rd year Spanish classes and it is always a wonderful discussion starter.

Suspenseful Without Taking The Road Of Predictability Intensely moving and genuinely profound without the sappiness typical of the Lifetime movie machine and Oxygen Channel retreads.  Explores the truth behind the death, and possible suicide, of a young prep school student. Edward Burns' character is a deputy sheriff who confronts an entrenched establishment, including his own partner, that seems intent on erasing the entire death from local history. No one wants to talk about it - no one, save a single girl who may be experiencing spiritual visitations from the boy she spurned.  Convinced that the victim may have died as part of a secret society's initiation rite, twists and turns abound as the deputy continues to pursue the truth at the cost of everything - job, reputation, friendships, and even his own sense of self.  And this leads him to one of the prep school's instructors, Ms. Betsy Chase, played by Jennifer Ehle. Their growing secret romance plays against the backdrop of institutional denial and supernatural events, culminating in a surprise twist.  On a personal side note I was amazed, intrigued and a bit freaked out by Jennifer Ehle who looks like Meryl Streep's clone in this production. Having seen other images of the actress - this was not an accident. In real life Ms. Ehle does not look like a Streep doppelganger, so clearly someone decided to coax the resemblance for full effect.  Additionally, quite possibly one of the best modern soundtracks I've heard in the last 10 years. I would suggest any filmmaker listen to this film to see how a proper score can and should be applied to their project; how deeply it can affect the sensibility of the audience.  Not necessarily a film I would recommend to those in a deeply emotional situation, as this movie can be easily misunderstood by a person in a vulnerable state.

It's good, but the Elizabeth R series done prior to this film was even better The story of Queen Elizabeth is a remarkable one. It has been told over the years several times through many films and documentaries. This movie captures the story of a single time in the queens life, when she is crowned and is pushed to quickly find herself a King to share her thrown.  Much of the film's beginning is dark and filled with quiet whispering. Rooms barely lit with candle light and often the scenes are so soft spoken one has to strain to hear what's being said. After Elizabeth is crowned Queen, the setting seems to brighten and whispers give way to normal dialogue.  Right from the start the movie is intense and filled with action. The time period has the Catholics and the Protestants waging wars of the church against each other. There is blood, violence, sexual situations and brief nudity, so obviously this is not a film for children to learn their history from.  In trying to capture a very intense love story from English history, this movie is extremely well done. I did however enjoy the more lengthy and historiacally accurate film series <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005LC1D">Elizabeth R</a> just a bit more. The series, made many years ago is not of the same blockbuster quality sets and filming as this version, but it's still outstanding just the same. If your interested in a much more lengthy and very well done story of Queen Elizabth, check out <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005LC1D">Elizabeth R</a>. If your interested in a more modern film that focuses on the love story from the Queens life, this is the movie your looking for.

These Aren't Ordinary Zombies! I love zombies! I wasn't aware that this was an installment of George A. Romero's collection, so I have to go back and watch the others. I like this zombie movie, because they were not just lifeless drooling idiots. They seemed to still have knowledge of who they were and their occupation.These zombies were smart and taking over. Since, I have only seen this one I have more of an uninfluenced opinion. I liked the concept. Of course, the story line could have been tighter. Then again who are we kidding we just watch to see the special effects and make-up, as well as, to see who is the last person standing.

foold again This is the second time i'm sdisappoint. according to the add the item should be subtittled.I won't take DVD any more

Amazing! This movie was amazing.  Moving.  Powerful.  Insightful.  I absolutley love this movie and plan on buying it for my collection.  I watched it twice in a row it was that good.  I am not a Tyler Perry fan at all and was hesitant on renting this movie, but I did and am glad I did.  I dont often rave about movies, but I had to post my review to let everyone know, that this movie has depth & is worth viewing.  I had not heard of the play or the poem before watchin this movie so it was new to me.  The actresses did a phenomenal job of making me believe that they were really experiencing what was happening.  That they really were in pain and fighting to stay alive.  I felt connected to most of the characters and understand where each was coming from.  I loved the poetry intertwinned into the movie.  That was a nice touch.

Chocolate Caramel Confection ragTAG is a heartwarming love story between childhood friends which bounces between progressive London and homophobic Nigeria where the death penalty for gay male relationships still stands. These beautiful lovers are a delicious chocolate/caramel confection while the African scenes look authentic and offer a tantalizing glimpse into tribal culture. I wish there were more movies (like this) which portray black gay men as real people.

Excellent budget horror movie I liked this, similar to the main theme of Jacob's Ladder, Dead Man, the story revolves around a murderer that dosen't know that he is dead. Like the Tibetan Bardo Thodol says when a person dies they can carry on as if nothing has happened and this is what happens in this film. Enjoyed it and will watch again congratulations to all involved carry on the good work.

Good Value To be honest, I bought this DVD because it was cheap.  Having said that, it was extremely enjoyable and well worth watching.  The intro style for each segment is a little cheesy, but all-in-all it's worth a look for all unsolved mystery/conspiracy theory fans.

"Life always finds a way. . ." Hard to imagine few movies as fun as JURASSIC PARK.  I had fun when I first saw this Spielberg offering in the theater, and I have grand fun every time I catch it on cable.  I have an eclectic DVD collection, and this movie needs to be a part of it, so there will be a parting with my coin in the near future.  Outside of the suspense, the sheer terror of running for your life from a T-Rex or a raptor, it was, and still is, the (then) state-of-the-art CGI effects that make this thriller so special.  And I still get goose bumps every time I see that puddle of water shake from the approaching steps of a mean-tempered predator.  The cast is exceptional, but I especially enjoy Jeff Goldblum as a free-spirited science ethicist; his one-liners and zingers are priceless.  Wayne Knight is the rotund villain we all love to hate, and who isn't entertained by a chain-smoking Samuel L. Jackson pecking away on a keyboard?  Yes, the cast is stellar, but the dinosaurs steal this movie, gobbling up (pardon the pun) every scene they're in.  The effects are as terrifying as they are believable, even after all these years and subsequent technological enhancements; who knew hiding in a kitchen from two determined raptors could produce such white knuckle effects?  Four stars, however, instead of five; with the exception of the ongoing disillusion of Park founder John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) none of the other characters are fully vetted and fleshed out--including the leading roles, played by Sam Neill and Laura Dern (wolf howl).  Yet I'm being picky; in JURASSIC PARK, why should a character be fleshed out when they already have their real flesh at risk? --D. Mikels, Author, The Reckoning

Good film This one doesn't quite rank up there with "Coach Carter," but it is of the same ilk. Based on actual events, it is the story of what seems to be lacking in our society today - guts, honor, courage, and a conviction to doing what we know to be right and true. Morgan Freedom does a good job - it's not one of his best - the performance lacks some of the subtleties that his later performances carry so beautifully; but, it is a stirring story, nonetheless.  It is certainly worth seeing and learning from.

I liked this as much as the first one My mom and my little sister and me watched this movie. We saw <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001EFTH4">Cheaper By the Dozen 1</a> and really liked it. This one is good, too. Watch it. You'll like it!

gone this movie was different movie but it was good my wife did not like it. but i did it need to be a little bit spiceyer and it would of bing great.

FRED: the Movie This movie is probably the stupidest movie I've seen. It reminds of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001J710YI">Disaster Movie (Unrated Widescreen)</a> because of the stupidity of the movie. But I liked it. It was funny and just flat out stupid. Kids will enjoy and people who enjoy stupid humor.

I liked it! I understand this movie didn't play in many theaters, but I enjoyed the humor about a subject very few people talk about.  I thought it was well written and directed.  You can't guess what's going to happen next!

Good story, well acted. This is a low key interesting movie. Lots of big name actors but no overacting. It's an enjoyable movie and worth watching.

Impressive animation and art, meager plot The contrast between the very advanced animation art and the mediocre planning of the crew, in Prometheus, is an afterthought. The story for searching for the creator was compelling in the sense that the Earth explorers, via comparative studies of various Earth's civilizations were hinted that a specific planet in a nearby star-system might host the original creators of our Earth species. Up to this point, everything looks very realistic.  Skip the funding alibis; get to the machine that will voyage to the remote planet and its crew. The spaceship was truly impressively depicted. With onsite surgical robot in case of medical emergency, plenty of dream automated technologies that captured the imagination and render the movie enjoyable.  Things get annoying when the exploring crew move into the mysterious structure on the remote planet and start violating the protocol of exploration. Even a dialogue between a smoker explorer and a nonsmoker shows the improper embarking on incompetent people for such extremely complicated mission. All exposed individuals got infected with mysterious parasites or DNA altering agents.  With few crew members, taking the risk of making stupid mistakes and ending up being exterminated, in order to spare the remaining crew the risk of spread of infection, rendered the science fiction less challenging. There was compelling sequence of events that certain human activities were in process in the parked spaceship on such remote planet. Such compelling logic could have be farther enhanced to advance a more intriguing conclusion than spoiling the scenario with some foolish errors by scientists uncaring about the basics of their craft.  In comparison to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0083SBJXS">Marvel's The Avengers</a>, which I enjoyed watching few times, Prometheus is not that kind of movie that would attract me to see it more than once. The few memorable scenes were silent, gray, and not very engaging.  One would question the rationale of inserting into the movie a robot of the exact likeness of man, then let that robot conspire to transmit DNA stolen from the site of exploration into the drink of the principle investigator of the expedition crew, which led to the death of the crew member and the impregnation of his mate with alien fetus. In fact, David the robot was entirely a misfit. Likewise, the ship captain performed as if he was a cap driver, with very limited intellectual feel of his role in scientific expedition. It is truly fortunate that the moveimakers are not entrusted with selecting scientific crews of such eminent tasks.  Mohamed F. El-Hewie

Good recreation I read the book years ago, and the film does it justice as well as recreating a lost time and place.  Brad Pitt's forced accent is a bit distracting, but it is authentic-sounding.  The production values were excellent, the scripting virtually flawless as one segment of Pitt/Harrar's life flowed into the next like a tiered waterfall.  The film's politics reflect the Tibetan exile community, whose cooperation was necessary to give it production value.  Pre-"Liberation" Tibetan life is viewed through a nostalgic haze that ignores the unlovlier aspects of its culture.  The "Red Chinese" as portrayed here are a bit over the top for ca. 1950.  Most of the ugliness committed by the PLA was during the 1959 rebellion, or the Cultural Revolution after 1966.  At the early period portrayed here Tibet was granted "autonomy" rather than annexation, or the CIA couldn't have been at work there through the 50s, organizing the '59 rebellion that finished off Tibet as an independent entity.  That said, a great film, well worth its length.

inspirational video Peaceful Warrior is a story that while inspiring is also very entertaining.  There is a fantasy aspect to the video that is quite compelling; so the story does not become stale or just the same old story.  very enjoyable!

A sad movie with beautiful music I had seen "Carousel" before on a used cassette my husband purchased at a yard sale.  This was my second time (with a new cassette purchased through Amazon), and the singing is beautiful!!  Shirley Jones had a lovely soprano voice and Gordon MacRae sang with tremendous power.  Their love song, 'If I Loved You,' is brilliant, and Gordon's tremendous rendition of  the `Soliloquy' by the sea is what I would call an Aria (used many times in operas).  The "Carousel" story is a little weak, but the singing is exceptional and the dancing is good.

Fascinating Portrait Of Two-Faced Fed This was a compelling movie that really hits the spot when it comes to detailing two "Goodfellas" joined at the hip. Lefty Ruggiero befriends a young hood named "Donnie Brasco" whom he suspects as a succesful jewel thief/appraiser. He brings him into his cadre of preffesional crooks and thieves only to be surprised as "Donnie" begins to supplant him in the eyes of the new boss. This was a great character study of not just a federal agent but the man he eventually betrays.  Unlike Al Pacino's other mob roles (Scarface, Carlito's Way), this is a man who never reached the top in over 30 years of working the rackets. He wanted to move up yet he never had the chance; perhaps because of a lack of ruthlessness, perhaps because of a lack of intelligence or a combination of the two, he could never climb out of the cesspool he was in and as a result he became mired in a dead end occupation. This (Along With Lefty's Refusal To Vete Brasco) led to his destruction.  But let's not forget the perfidy of "Agent Pistone." His actions put alot of men behind bars for life and led to the murdur of Lefty Ruggiero. That's something I despise about him and any undercover fed. Whether it's so-called Agent Pistone or the "sharpshooter" Lon Horinuchi they are all evil in my book.    A. Nathaniel Wallace, Jr.

Missing Dumas This movie is based on the book El Club Dumas.  Unfortunately, everything about Alexandre Dumas and the modern day club was cut from the movie.  In the book, the club served as a red herring regarding the intrigue surrounding the search for the ancient books to decipher the key to invoke Satan by means of the nine portals. To the reader, the twists and turns of the plot created a surprise ending. Although I can understand why the characters were americanized for American audiences, having read the book in the original Spanish, I was disappointed at those changes.  As to the mysterious young woman, while I understood her to be an angel, the movie portrays her as a devil.  In spite of the many differences between the book and the movie, the action and suspense in the movie made for good viewing.  I wouldn't mind watching the movie again.

Enjoyable and Not All That Frightening One of our youth film critics reviewed this and here is what she had to say:  Gone is the new PG-13 thriller/horror starring Amanda Seyfried. It's about a woman named Jill who was snatched out of her bed by a serial killer and had to fight for survival and escape. A few years later Jill's sister goes missing and she is convinced it is the same man who took her years before. Jill will stop at nothing to save her sister from a gruesome fate and catch the serial killer behind multiple kidnappings.  I really enjoyed this film and although it was technically in the thriller/horror genre I didn't find it all that frightening. I thought the cinematography and soundtrack was good in the sense that it enhanced the suspense of the movie. I don't think I have a favorite scene because the whole film was very captivating and clever.  My favorite character is Jill played by Amanda Seyfried because she is very good at out smarting the ones around her and she is very clever. Plus she really handles the situation that she is in with a level head and she never gives up even though everyone around her doubts her and tells her she is crazy. Overall I give Gone 4 out of 5 stars and recommend this film for ages 13 and up due to suspense, intense situations and mild violence.  Reviewed by Raven Devanney, age 14.

Enjoyed the Movie The movie followed the book very well.  IMHO, you really need to have first read the book or you should view this movie with someone who has read the book.

Intriguing, haunting and important. (A) This is a well-told story, important and entertaining.  Sean Connery and Lorraine Bracco are excellent, the Amazon jungle a treasure trove of mysteries, and beautiful music too. For anyone who cares about our planet and 'all' the people in it, for Connery fans, and for Bracco (pre-Sopranos).  I highly recommend it, for general audience.

Solid cast despite an occasionally wanting script I went in thinking I was not going to like this film at all.  I am not a huge fan of Michelle Williams or Marilyn Monroe, but I have to say that Williams nailed Monroe's vulnerability in this film and I was absorbed enough to forget that I'm not particularly of fan of either actress.  Of course, this may have been in large part thanks to the outstanding support cast including Kenneth Branagh as Laurence Olivier and Dominic Cooper as part of Monroe's contingent.  That said, it wasn't a perfect film.  While I have nothing against Eddie Redmayne and his ability to play Colin Clark is very good, I lost interest in the parts where it was just Colin and Marilyn.  This is not so much the actors' faults but that of the scripting/basis for the film.  The parts where they were actually making the film were much more interesting to me and showed the dynamic at play much better.  However, the making of the film within the film interjected enough of the real life that I was able to stick through until the somewhat predicted end.  That's the one problem with films based on real life, you generally get a sense of how it's going to end even if you're not entirely sure.  The acting was superb in some cases, a little short in others, but on the whole I was impressed with the main cast to be convincing more or less in their assigned roles.  Worth a watch just to see a view of Monroe without all the glitz and glamour that always seems to surround her (though there is plenty of that in the film).

Cute Movie! This movie is well written, very well acted, and a very cute story.  Great 'family' film.  I recommend it to anyone.

Serial Mom I had not seen this movie in several years and my friend and I had talked a lot about seeing it.  Had a real hard time finding it, and another friend suggested Amazon.com, and I found it and really enjoyed watching this old funny with Kathleen Turner, just like I remembered.  Forgot some of the other stars that played in it. If you havent watched in a while it really is a funny deranged movie.

Good movie It was a solid flick, some matrix like action r d jr is the man. Get a 12 pack of budlight platninum and enjoy

poster boy This is not a bad movie because it makes sense in the real world.  It is enjoyable to follow the story line in the  real world without the usual boring bar scenes or the old gay dialog.

(3.5 STARS) Entertaining (We Want More Muppets Though) Muppets are back on screen. Well, they have come back not in the way I wanted, though. The new Muppet film remains enjoyable throughout, but sometimes two human characters Gary (Jason Segel) and his sweetheart Mary (Amy Adams) almost dominate "The Muppet" that should belong to Jim Henson characters.  The story is basically about Gary, Mary and Gary's "brother" Walter ... and Walter is a Muppet, who is a big fan of the original Muppet show. The three travel to Hollywood, where they learn that Kermit, Miss Piggy and other Muppet characters are not popular anymore. To protect their Muppet Studio from the greedy billionaire, the three travelers and Kermit plan to organize a show once again with other Muppet character to raise the money.  With Gary, Mary and Walter as the main characters, the script (by Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller) does not give much time for each Muppet character to shine. Chris Cooper plays "Tex Richman," a villain attempting to sabotage the show. I am a fan of Chris Cooper, but with all respect he is hardly the right choice for the comedic role.  But to me the biggest problem of "The Muppets" is the key concept of the film - people have forgotten the Muppets. But do they? Or do we? The self-referential jokes are refreshing at first, but soon they get tired simply because we just don't buy the idea. With special appearances of guest stars including jack Black, "the Muppets" is a joyful ride, but it could have been much better with less humans and more Muppets.

Sticky sweet sap! My wife purchased this fluff on my account.  She really enjoyed it, but she loves this sort of stuff.  If you want to see an excellent example of cinema, then check out "Dog Soldiers".  That's right!  Special forces, Scottish highland landscape, plus werewolves.  Nothing more awesome.

A beautiful movie... I bought this DVD after viewing Ron Fricke's astounding movie Baraka (please see my review).  Baraka is my number two favorite movie of all time, behind Spielberg's Schindler's List.  The sequel to Baraka, Samsara, is due out very soon and I am very much looking forward to it!  This feature is quite short, just a little over forty minutes in length.  But, it does have some quite astounding cinematography.  For thirteen dollars, I say it's worth a buy if you really liked Baraka, but I'd recommend Baraka much, much more to anyone who has not yet seen that film.  Four out of five stars just due to the brevity of this film.  Otherwise, excellent.

The Lost Samaritan I bought "The Lost Samaritan" because Ian Somerhalder is in it. This movie is not rated. I usually don't buy movies unless I know what kind of content will be in it. Nevertheless, I gave it a try. If it were up to me, I would rate the movie TV14. It has cussing (including the F word), a lot a brutal violence in it and two people are killed while having sex. You can hear them moaning loud for about ten seconds all together though-out the movie. There is NO nudity in this movie. I have got to admit this is not the best movie I have watched. There are holes in the story line. This movie leaves you with the question "Why?". I still don't understand why the two FBI agents were killing innocent people, and how the man that was saved, from the exploding car, knew the badge numbers of the two FBI agents. This movie also has a few pointless flashbacks in it. You don't even have time to forget what happened before they show you again. The actors did well with what they had to work with. In my opinion, if you like watching Ian Somerhalder or any of the other actors in this movie, you might want to buy it. Just don't plan on being able to understand all of it.

Bernstein on Broadway This is a story of three sailors (Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munchin) and their escapades while on shore leave for 24 hours in New York - a much worked Hollywood theme! It was originally a Broadway hit with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, itself a reworking of a Jerome Robbins ballet called Fancy Free. Gene Kelly directed and choreographed the film with Stanley Donen. Some of the Bernstein tunes were dropped in the film to be replaced by others composed by Roger Edens, Conrad Salinger and Lennie Hayton. But the rousing opening number, `New York, New York, It's a wonderful town' was retained as were some of the ballet sequences. In fact, the whole film was very balletic, which reflects its origins. It's a shame though that one of Bernstein's most poigniant ballads, Lonely Town was dropped - but it was resurrected by Sinatra in his LP with Gordon Jenkins, 'Where Are You?' The girls after whom the sailors chased were Vera-Ellen (`Miss Turnstiles'), Ann Miller (an anthropologist, would you believe), and Betty Garrett (as a lady cab driver). Though the storyline has now been somewhat overworked (we meet much the same again in Three Sailors and a Girl, and Hit the Deck), the film as a whole is thoroughly entertaining for most of its 98 minutes. It was released in 1949 and is in Technicolor.

The Doctor Is Out-Crime Does Not Pay Twice No question I am a film noir, especially a crime film noir, aficionado. Recently I have been on a tear reviewing various crime noir efforts and drawing comparisons between the ones that "speak" to me and those that, perhaps, should have been left on the cutting room floor. The classics are easy: films like Out Of the Past, Gilda, The Lady From Shang-hai, and The Big Sleep need no additional comment from me as their plot lines stand on their own merits. Others, because they have a fetching, or wicked, for that matter, femme fatale to muddy the waters also get a pass, or as in Gilda a double nod for the plot and for the femme fatale. (Be still my heart, at the thought of Rita Hayworth, ah, dancing and singing, okay lip synching, and looking, well, fetching while doing those difficult tasks.). Having just mentioned the classic Out Of The Past allows me to segue into this 1950 &lt;em>crime noir&lt;/em> vehicle, Where Danger Lives, another film starring Robert Mitchum.  No question jut-jawed, slightly hazy lazy-eyed, made for heavy-lifting, Robert Mitchum would make the top of any crime noir aficionados idea of guy that fits the bill in this genre. And he proved it out of box in Out Of The Past where he was "smitten" by classic bad girl, no, rotten, low-down femme fatale, Jane Greer, who, unfortunately, unfortunately for Mitchum was "owned" by a mobster (Kirk Douglas) a little further up the food chain. And paid the price for that indiscretion, paid big time. So we know two things about Robert Mitchum. He likes the lively ladies, the ones that come with bells and whistles and plenty of baggage, usually distressful baggage, and he can take care of himself in the clinches. Well almost. Actually we know three things about Brother Mitchum. He does not have enough sense to come in out of the rain, or any place else where danger lurks for that matter. Why? Well in this film he is at it again, back up against a two-timing femme fatale, although as they come in all sizes and shapes a dark-haired one this time (Faith Domegue).  A quick run through the plot line will bring us up to date on Brother Mitchum's problem. Seems that in this one Mitchum plays a young doctor, a very good young doctor as such doctors go, but he makes the number one cardinal mistake in medical practice (he must have skipped that class in med school, the one about proper bedside manner, minus the bed)- don't get involved personally with the patients. Especially drop-dead beautiful, alluring, capricious (yes, capricious), calculating ones who show up in the emergency room after attempted suicides. Yes, a big red flag should have been flying in Doc's head  But see he is young, and she is drop-dead beautiful. Put those two together, and well, what is a man to do. Only problem is said drop-dead beauty is one, married, very married, to a wealthy, older, hell, ancient man, and maybe, tad bit jealous and protective (Claude Rains) and, two, is under some mental distress, hell, she is cuckoo, bonkers, crazy, okay, murderously crazy, if you really want to know. Well for me that would take a certain edge off that drop-dead beauty part but for Doc, no way, no way at all as he is well, let's just call it smitten.  Of course the price of smitten, smitten to a crazy (sorry), married, very married woman can be very high and here is no exception. After a little bout/confrontation with hubby in which Doc got the worst of it, it seems that when Doc came to said hubby was dead, very dead. See here is where smitten gets you in trouble though. Doc is not going to be the fall guy, and he is not letting his paramour take the fall either. So they decide to high-tail it to Mexico, and freedom, or so they think like a million other people in a tight spot, although not all that crowd decide to high-tail it to Mexico. The trials and tribulations of this now on-the-run couple is what drives the rest of the film, even though Doc is pretty hazy about why he is running (except she is running), given his own medical condition. The rest you can figure out for yourself, just like, in the end Doc, had to figure things out. The hard way.  So you can see that I was not kidding about Brother Mitchum's little femme fatale problem. But I blame the whole thing on Claude Rains. See there is no way an old guy, a wealthy old guy, or poor for that matter, is suppose to be hanging out with young, drop-dead beautiful women, crazy or not. And see worldly Claude Rains should know such stuff from back in the days when he was running around grabbing dough at Rick's Place in Casablanca. So the next time you see a crime noir film like this one you will know what's what.  ****** Tension, starring Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Barry Sullivan, Paramount Pictures, 1950  No question I am a film noir, especially a crime film noir, aficionado. Recently I have been on a tear reviewing various crime noir efforts and drawing comparisons between the ones that "speak" to me and those that, perhaps, should have been left on the cutting room floor. The classics are easy: films like Out Of the Past, Gilda, The Lady From Shang-hai, and The Big Sleep need no additional comment from me as their plot lines stand on their own merits. Others, because they have a fetching, or wicked, for that matter, femme fatale to muddy the waters also get a pass, or as in Gilda a double nod for the plot and for the femme fatale. (Be still my heart, at the thought of Rita Hayworth, ah, dancing and singing, okay lip synching, and looking, well, fetching while doing those difficult tasks.) The film under review, 1950's Tension, falls somewhere in the grey area, the plot line while it started out with a certain amount of promise got dragged in the end toward a standard police procedural, a kiss of death for most crime noir films in my book. And the femme fatale is neither fetching (a la Rita) nor wicked (except for an involvement in murder and mayhem, but they all, the femme fatales that is, are involved in that, one way or the other, it comes with the territory).  A quick review of the plot will explain my bewilderment at where to place this one in the crime noir pantheon. Warren (Richard Basehart), a Walter Middy-type, married to Claire (Audrey Totter), a second-rate gold-digger who attached herself to Warren in harder times (her harder times) out in Southern California when that locale was becoming the homeland of the dreams- the post-World War II suburban sun-drenched tract dreams. And Warren is a prime number one prospect for that dream working nights like a mad man to get Claire those things he promised her, or half of them anyway. But Claire, the little round-heels, is looking for speedier stuff now that she is settled into a good thing, and a plaint husband. And sweetheart Claire is flouting her stuff right in front of Warren with a guy of unknown resources (Barney) with some dough, a nice car, and a place on the beach in up-scale Malibu to sun herself. Well, a girl has to look out for herself, a round-heels girl anyway, right?  The plot thickens when Warren, no longer content to be a door-mat, decides to kill somebody over this transgression (Barney, heaven's no, not lovely, wicked, maybe just misunderstood Claire). The long and short of it is that after planning the perfect murder by changing his identity (new idea, right?) he gets cold feet, as Walter Middys do, or maybe a slug of rationality that maybe, just maybe, sweet Claire ain't worth it and good riddance. Especially after, as part of his change of identity, he meets a honey, Mary (played by the leggy Cyd Charisse), who is more his speed and, well, is happy to think about that suburban house and that white picket fence with 2.2 kids, and a dog, one dog.  But see the story would become really tedious if somebody didn't kill somebody, and so old Barney winds up dead. And of course Warren (or his changed identity self, Paul) is fit six ways to Sunday for the frame. Someone is going to the chair for this one, this murder one job, and Warren better start making a list of his last requests.  Except of course, crime noir or not, guys who don't commit murder and mayhem are not stepping off for such crimes, at least in 1950s movies. And that is where the tedious police procedural aspect of this film meets low-rent femme fatale when L.A.'s finest get on the case and "entrap" if you can believe that about the police in 1950, or now, everybody connected with the crime (except of course, the deceased Barney, although he too might have had a motive, who knows). And guess who is going to take the fall for this one? Well, guess. But you could see where this one was headed from a long way off. Hey didn't Phillip Marlowe work these slumming L.A. streets in those days. Taking a little off-hand beating before swinging the scales of justice back where they belong. He could have been used here to tell Claire what's what, and to spice this one up.

Plenty of Action This one I have on dvd but had to have in bluray due to the action throughout the movie. There is also a number of actors and actress you'll recognize. It is a in the time of kings and queens, good and evil. One for your collection.

I enjoyed this movie I bought the movie to watch because it is based on a true story and it involved the friend of a friend.  It's a good one.  I recommend the movie and the seller.

Great Beowulf-Predator Installment Do you like Vikings?  Did you like the Predator movies?  Do you like the Beowulf legend or any of the Beowulf movies? Then you'll love this movie, a made-in-Canada iron-age epic that incorporates elements of Predator and Beowulf.  Basically, Kainan, a warrior from outer space, crash lands on Earth, bringing with him an alien predator known as the Moorwen (the Moorwen killed his family on another planet and tagged along on the spaceship to kill his crew). That sounds simple, but there are layers to this, layers which I do not want to give away, which instill Kainan with regret and guilt. Anyway, now that he's crashed on Earth, Kainan helps the local vikings, led by the always excellent John Hurt, kill da monster. It's a simple story, so it basically boils down to the strength of the actors and the richness of the production.  It's a beautiful film, the monster is AWESOME. Everybody's covered in dirt unless they're the king or the king's daughter.  Gorgeous Sophia Myles saves this from being a total sausage fest. Ron Perlman, always a delight to watch, chews some scenery as a rival viking chieftan.  Karl Urban look-alike Jack Huston is a wonderful addition as the viking warrior Wulfar. There's even comic relief from Cliff Saunders, who plays brave, drunken Boromir.  Not a movie for young kids -- there's way too much blood and some horrific scenes of heaped bodies -- but a great movie for a cold winter night when you want to huddle around the TV with friends or loved ones.

Breaking Dawn Part 1 DVD I love the collectible fabric wedding poster. It is big and lovely. I was expecting the DVD cover to be like the one we see in the picture. But in reality the wedding dress edition is just a box and inside its the normal breaking dawn DVD with the fabric poster of Edward and Bella. So I was disappointed, i really wanted the DVD case to be the wedding dress. Overall love the movie, the poster, just wish the Dvd case was like the box in came in.

Don't be put off by other reviews. This is one of those movies that you sit back and watch with a tub of popcorn.  I think some of the bad reviews  are due to people taking it too seriously!  It's a fun action flick that isn't even taking *itself* seriously.  You can tell the director and the actors were having a good time making this movie.  Don't watch it with the expectations that you're going to see some amazing plot you've never seen before or some kind of deep philosophical meaning and you'll really enjoy it.  Paul Bettany and Maggie Q are fun to watch, and the special effects are great.  If you like steampunk, you'd like this.  Just come in, suspend disbelief for an hour and a half, and ENJOY.

Hold still whilst I slap your Victorian bottom! KING SOLOMON'S MINES (1950) was considered to be one hell of a flick when I was young. It was RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and JURASSIC PARK all rolled into one. Forget the Richard Chamberlain remake of the mid-1980s, which in any case was meant as a spoof of RAIDERS.  Sir Henry Rider Haggard created big game hunter Allan Quatermain in 1885, and many adventures were enjoyed by English readers; MINES was only the fist. Sir Henry conceived of Quatermain as somewhat like himself, an ugly, old bearded man, a wiry, hypervigilant insomniac.  This film naturally looks weak by today's standards, yet look at it again: a massive zebra stampede which the performers (or their stunt doubles) had to endure; breathtaking African scenery; genuine African natives looking like they want to eat everyone in sight.  And Stewart Granger! Well, he was not bearded as Quatermain originally was, but he certainly did the job. It's tough to think of another Englishman of the era who could have done it. He even made Deborah Kerr look good - no mean feat!  It is a curious thing that John Wayne - after having made a terrific splash in THE SEARCHERS - should get himself mixed up in a silly Quatermain rip-off (as Joe January in the 1957 loser LEGEND OF THE LOST, vid. my review and see if you can help laughing a bit). I suspect that Wayne was riding Granger's wake. Funny how movie star legends are made.  This film got an 'honorable mention' when it cropped up in the Tracy-Hepburn comedy DESK SET: a query about the seven-foot-tall native was asked. Then the "New York Times" review of the film was read aloud. That does not happen during this era ... ever. It rarely happens today. (The reference made in DESK SET was to Umbopa, king of the Watusis in exile, played by the gorgeous African actor "Siriaque".)  The mines are naturally something of a joke, and so are the goofs galore. The biggest goof as far as I am concerned is that the adventurers easily escape the "mine" (more of a Neanderthal's toilet, really) - and they leave behind what looks like a billion dollars in rough gems. They do not even glance backward at all that treasure. Even as a small child I picked up on that silly gaffe.  The acting as is as good as it could get outside a tense Hitchcock film. While Kerr is annoying as hell, I suppose it was her job. The silly, homosexual character of John Goode (Richard Carlson) was also fairly badly acted. When he wasn't ogling Quatermain, he was flat-lining his speaking parts. The Africans acted much more professionally than he.  This is a film that can't be missing from anyone's collection. While it may be terribly dated, in other ways it more than makes up for all that. Granger is still tan and strong; the look at the "Watusi" tribe alone is worth it. An all-time classic! - even if the 'real' Solomon's mines we found not long ago are really just test shafts for copper.  If you get this, or have already seen it, check out Granger's safari hat. Do you really think Indiana Jones' fedora started all this adventurer-explorer-in-a-hat routine?!

The dialog is clever I liked the dialog in the film, it was intelligent with dry wit. It was entertaining. The storyline was not original and some of it just didn't feel realistic to me but the characters, mainly the two girls were fun to watch. I loved the unique things she did on her dates. On one of the outings she went to a darkly dim lit private room with a trapeze. They played together for hours, swinging back and forth, falling laughing to the twined ropes below. On another date, she is a child with her date and his little boy at her job where She reviews products. She got out the toys, a popcorn maker where the corn just blew all over the room, squirt guns with water, spraying each other and having laughing good times. On another date she did a paintball adventure, they set it up like it was a real combat and they had to take the other side over. She had fun with her friend who didn't hide anything, she was very honest, yet that loving nurturing was not present in this film. So it was cool real, if that makes sense. I liked when Resse and her friend sat on the floor at this restaurant and the cushions were all over, they just talked and talked. I liked when she raced the classic car around the countryside. I liked when she was in a house with music that was loud and sexy, she made her popcorn and relaxed. I think that Reese's character seemed free, she sang in the city with all the people, headphones on, she didn't care about being herself. I love Gustav Klint paintings as well, so it was fun to watch such an original date. It is another neat excursion when you go to stay the weekend at an alpaca farm drinking the fresh milk eating cheese and watching the clouds scud in the sky, where birds and larks sing. I also liked the roof that rained all the time. I like houses that are dim and have a glow, like candlelight. It is worth seeing this movie.

Oldie but good This is a good series but for the third installment.......my opinion is the same as others.  I'm glad I purchased however.  The seller was prompt and product arrived earlier than expected.  Customer service was excellent.  Thanks

At times gripping I realy felt it was unrealistic that a plane would crash,and there was nobody about for miles,except for a wild pack of wild dogs,with an extremely vicious leader. However i enjoy surival movies at it got the imagination going at times. They tried to get out of their mess by leaving the plane and making their way back.But were hunted by the dogs.They were in the snow,so it probably was a choice of freeze to death,or take their chances in the forest.If you are looking for a good ending,it's one that leaves you guessing,which was actually pretty good,because i wonder if we always need a happy ending. Overall not a bad movie.But i think their efforts to protect themselves against the dogs were pathetic,i know i would of kept a lump of 2 b 4 handy.

Visit to a magical cave The images of the interior of the cave with its astonishing artwork are magical as presented in usually very effective 3D. A few of the interviews are useful and enlightening. Some of Herzog's own fanciful leaps, not so much. Fortunately, he stays out of the way most of the time and just lets us enjoy these cave paintings we're unlikely to ever see another way.

Very Good I never read the book so cannot compare. It had me hooked from beginning to end. Great character acting by everyone and if you have not read the book then I doubt you can be disappointed. Very clever and fun throughout.

Impossible to enjoy a Mission Impossible film? Not this time. In director Brad Bird's first live action film, "MI:GP" succeeds what it sets out to do.  It is a tight action spy film with some great sequences and awesome gadgets.  Brad Bird is the director of some truly excellent films; albeit they are animated, but great none the less.  His films like "Ratatouille", "The Incredibles" and "The Iron Giant" were all wonderful animated films with a lot of heart and good direction.  Bird has proven to this reviewer he has the skill for live action feature films.  "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol" brings us back to our hero Tom Cruise while he is locked up in a Russian prison.  Of course the inevitable happens and he is broken out of jail in a really great opening sequence.  Cruise and team assemble; their mission, prevent a nuclear launch.  Unfortunately, their plans are curbed when the team is implicated in a massive bombing.  The President decides to initiate "Ghost Protocol" which completely dismantles the "IMF" and paints Cruise and team as rogue agents.  Their new mission, clear the IMF's name and save the world.  Pretty basic stuff for a Mission Impossible movie.  Pretty basic, yes, but what a ride it is.  First, I'd like to congratulate the scriptwriters on finally making a M.I. film with a tight and aggressive script.  There was hardly a dull line in the entire movie.  With the writers having primarily a television background they were able to get their points across quickly and effectively.  Second, is of course the action sequences.  Realistic, invigorating, suspenseful....just downright awesome.  It is surely a fun ride and if you have a chance to see it in IMAX you will be blown away during the Dubai sequences.  Location is another gem in this movie; Dubai, Russia, India are beautifully shot and give some very nice eye candy.  But for me, the highlight were the gadgets and spy sequences, it wouldn't be a Mission Impossible film without great gadgets right!?  Ghost Protocol doesn't disappoint.  From gloves that stick to glass, visual projections and everything in between there is some really cool stuff in this film.  I can't go without commenting on Tom Cruise doing his own stunts.  Regardless of what you think of him on a personal level, one has to admit him doing his own stunts was pretty incredible.  There are some really hairy situations he gets into and I was very impressed he went the extra mile, I think it helped knowing he was actually doing the stunts while I was watching.  I would say overall the acting was good, but not overly impressive.  This isn't a drama film after all so I'm not taking any points away.  Why would you go to a Mission Impossible movie for great acting?  You go for the action, and if you keep that mindset, this film will be worth your time and money.

Fun It was not a complete waste of time.  Very funny in spots and the 7 Dwarfs were great.  Julia Roberts is always good.  Lily Collins could use some acting lessons though.

Profit and Loss Nina Hoss plays Yella in Petzold's metaphysical thriller.The film seemed to allegorise aspects of the relationship between the failed East Germany and the successful WestGermany.About her ex partner,Ben(Schonemann),Yella says,"I don't love him any more because he's ruined...that's why I have a bad conscience".By leaving her husband whose business has failed in East Germany and crossing to Hanover for a new job in the West,she is selling her soul for worldly wealth.Her new lover,Philip(Streisow) who employs her in a series of shady business practices in venture capitalism is a fraud.Her ex who she sees after being stalked by him(or in hallucination) says the company destroyed their love,he's willing to become a plumber to hold onto their love. Philip said he doesn't want a conventional life of settling down in the suburbs with a wife and child and car. We see Yella's debasement via this embrace of ruthless big-business practices Petzold is not concerned with plot or character development.The cool,corporate world of capitalism is unreal and Hoss proves the cynosure of the film's weirder atmospherics, with a look of her eyes,a smile,and the anxiety-driven paranoia of what she's given up.She has premonitions about a businessman's suicide.This is a ruthless,cutthroat world,with something deeper and darker lurking beneath.We break into the dream-like world Yella inhabits through the sounds of running water,the wind in the trees,the cawing of crows,a broken glass on the floor.Her ex-husband is deranged and tries continually to get her back.The Elbe is the dividing line between the old world and the new life.A car that her ex drives her to the station in is driven by him off the bridge into the river.I liked the film but it's not satisfying nourishment as Petzold seems to drive it to a wrong ending and shows a failure of nerve in what could have been fantastic. Hoss's performance alone is reason to watch.Menacing and full of ill-omen.

Like no other Robin Hood you have seen The critics deadpanned this addition to the Robin Hood film library, choosing to mostly focus on Crowe's "incorrect" accent and lament the sacking of the original script that saw the Sheriff as the hero and Robin as the villain. Reviews like that immediately set off alarm bells that perhaps these nitpickings were smoke screens. Afterall, who was alive in the late 12th century to tell us that the persona didn't have an Irish or Welsh flavoured accent? Why should the Robin Hood legend bow to 21st century story-telling conventions that grey villains and make heroes out to be the real misguided folk? (Although ironically the latter isn't far from today's truth.)  Having seen and thoroughly enjoyed the version that was actually made (being this one), I understand why H-wood was disappointed. Crowe's 'Robin' isn't championing the redistribution of wealth and stands up for Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness--the very ideals that would lead to the Magna Carta (the patriarch to America's own founding documents).The only other Robin Hood film to do this was 1938's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0013N3DSE">The Adventures of Robin Hood</a> with Errol Flynn.  Cate Blanchette brings as much gravitas to the Marian role as did Olivia de Havilland in '38. She's no easy mark for Robin and it takes the full length of the film for Robin to turn her eyes in a way that isn't a distrustful glare. I thought the touch at the end may have been a bit of a cow-tow to feminism and unrealistic to the period, but it was tasefully handled and in no way detracted from the story.  My biggest gripe with the story was Scott's disappointing representation of the Crusades in film (again) and Richard's wars with the French. It's especially disappointing given the filmmaker's clear love for the long ago. I don't know.. maybe the studio forces such a period film to criticize the Crusades and be apologetic about Europe's role.  The opening title card tells us that the film starts after King Richard has returned from his "plundering" during the Third Crusade and is making war on the French, who decided to take some of his lands while he was gone (under the duplitious watch of King Phillip, an ever present rival of Richard's throughout most of his life). In the case of the latter events--umm, isn't Richard simply being a good king by making war on those who would steal from him?  But in the case of the Crusade, Scott lingers a bit longer, making sure that the audience knows that in his opinion, the killing of 2500 Muslims at Acre was "godless". The interesting thing here is that Scott would have us infer that the majority of those killed were women and children (quite the opposite in reality) and that he simply killed them for no reason (also untrue). In both cases, Scott stands at odds with most historians! But that isn't even the most important of the case.  Within the context of the time, it is the concensus of scholars that Richard had little choice but to kill the prisoners. First, because he was leaving Acre and he couldn't have the men (who comprised the majority of the prisoners) joining up with Saladin to fight against him. Second, because Saladin had been stalling for time to regain his strength for an attack, and was playing games with an agreed upon prisoner exchange. Third, the prisoner exchange (which was to include the True Cross captured at Hattin) technically had been agreed to by a lesser-officer without Saladin's kowledge and it wasn't an agreement he particularly liked. And fourth, Richard may have wanted a bit of revenge for the hundreds of Templar and Hospitaller captives that Saladin had had beheaded (by amateur soldiers no less) following Hattin (see Scott's excellent <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ICLRIE">Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut)</a>).  The most interesting of all is that records, written by a known Muslim archivist of Saladin's army, speaks of the Acre incident very matter-of-factly.. as if he understood the decision and would have done likewise in a similar position of war. And later on, when Richard and Saladin come to terms at Jaffa, they deal with each other honorably--as if the Acre incident wasn't so much of an issue. This is significant given the long memory of the Muslim warrior.  These departures from history must be known in order to appreciate just how good this film could have been had Scott made a film that brought these issues to the viewer.  What the film doesn't depart from is a wonderful portrayal of the ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that would come from England's Magna Carta, and go on to influence the men who would bring democracy to the West centuries later; the film also remains true to the source material in that the story is NOT a commentary on class warfare (rob from rich to give to poor), that has burdened so many Robin Hood adaptations since Flynn's, but on the relationship of citizens and government.  The audio and video of the blu-ray edition is fantastic to superb; the extras aren't bad, but there's no commentary from Scott, Crowe, and/or Blanchette?!  Although the film bows the head a bit to modern filmmaking conventions (e.g. the Crusades were simply white Christian guys looting the world, killing "innocent" Muslims along the way, and robbing the Islamic community of its 'rightful lands'), it's refreshing to see a modern filmmaker get the Robin Hood legend closer to historical than any other. It was interesting to see a film that told a bit of a prequel than the story everyone mosly knows. Crowe's Robin Hood fits quite nicely beside my Errol Flynn version.

Very worthy Spirit Award nominee I likely would not have seen this movie had it not been nominated for two 2012 Spirit Awards (the John Cassavetes' Award and Best Cinematography). The storyline was not wildly original but then it was not as damningly prosaic as some reviewers paint it. What struck me was the brutal honesty of the piece. The dialogue and acting are true to the characters, and the strong buddy element between Woodrow and Aiden was a strong hook that emotionally dealt me into the story.  I'm also a huge fan of David Lynch, and which I wouldn't characterize this film as Lynchian, it definitely had the disorienting flavor of a Lynch movie. The cinematography was especially tasty. This could have been shot on some outrageously expensive Genesis (or a Grass Valley Viper) but no, and that's why it should win the Best Cinematography award. Look for more and even better stuff from this director and DP Joel Hodge.

A fitting adaptation I agree with the other reviewers here that Keanu is just plain terrible. However, this film takes a remarkably forward thinking film from 1951 and adapts it to give a similarly forward message about 2008. It is not only well crafted and entertaining but carries an extremely important message. To the people who use that dreaded word "preachy," sometimes we need a little preaching. Perhaps you should try listening. Sometimes, of course, people will always be too ignorant to get it. How sad. If you are forward thinking and open minded, I urge you to give this movie a chance. You could be pleasantly surprised.

Steve McQueen as Tom Horn Have always loved Steve McQueen -- and he makes a great cowboy!  Also like the idea that this is based on a true story.  1.5 thumbs up!

A movie that will make you want to watch more anime. After watching this movie I wanted to get more and more anime.  It is a pretty generic movie and story but the animation is superb, just watch the beginning and you'll know.  I hope that somewhere down the line there will be a sequel.  If not a direct sequel hopefully the team will get back together for another go.

Good family film! Cute story, humor for all ages, great message! My husband and I previewed this and found ourselves quite entertained and went away saying we would probably buy this for our daughter.

Classic SciFi about recovering from man's madness A world where no one lives past 30 to preserve the resources.  Is it really neccessary?  Logan must run to save himself and everyone else in this strange post apocalyptic world.  A must see, but I would like to see a remake.

Surprisingly funny. In high school, Schmidt and Jenko were polar opposites: the nerd and the jock, natural rivals.  Fast forward a few years, and they become fast friends while going through police academy.  The only problem is, they're lousy cops.  But they're young looking, which makes them perfect candidates for the departmental revival of an 80's undercover program, headquartered at 21 Jump Street.  Their job: infiltrate a local high school, disguised as students, and stop a drug smuggling operation.  However, they both find that high school is not what it used to be.  Hijinks ensue.  Surprisingly, 21 JUMP STREET is funny.  In spots, it's absolutely hilarious.  It slowly comes apart in its third act (one particular gag goes a little too far, though it's funny at first), but the first two-thirds are genuinely amusing and occasionally thoughtful.  As Schmidt, Jonah Hill tones down his usual schtick (and his body mass); as Jenko, Channing Tatum is actually hilarious (who knew he could act?!).  The actors' chemistry is undeniable (they're real-life buddies), and helps carry the film.  The supporting cast is equally strong: Dave Franco, Brie Larson, Robb Riggle, and Ice Cube stand out.  And a pair of hilarious cameos helps cap things off.  As good as the acting talent is, the real star here is the script.  There's obviously a lot of imrpov, but the script manages to flip high school cliches on their head.  Part of the fun of the film is watching Schmidt and Jenko react to this new high school world; throw in a few high-octane scenes perfectly parodying action films, and you come up with a film that may not be brilliant, but it's at least pretty smart.  If you like hard-R comedies that have some brains behind them, 21 JUMP STREET is right up your dark alley.

A Treasure for Indy Freaks Todd Solondz is one of the more notable independent film makers. You can pick his work out of the crowd. "Life During Wartime" is no exception. It's pretty much an extension of his earlier "Happiness" both in style and content.  Here's the scoop. You meet a group of individuals who are all related by either blood or circumstance. Each has a story (two involving sexual perversion) that colors the way they view life and interact with others. One wife has a husband who is in prison on a pedophile conviction. She's told their children that their dad has died. Her sister is married to a guy who has some unspecified sexual quirks. She needs to take a break from him to see how she feels. These are just a sampling.  This is a slice of lifer that is all writing and acting. Nothing is set up, plot-wise, in the beginning that has to be resolved by the end. Things do happen. Things do change. But these people's lives will go on in one way or the other. One of the repeating themes is forgiveness. What do you do when someone you love does something you simply cannot get past? Can you forgive and forget? Can you forgive but not forget. Can you forget but not forgive? These permutations arise repeatedly throughout the movie.  There is no razzle dazzle here. The camera is quiet. It doesn't move a lot but allows things to happen within the frame. The color schemes are interesting and help hold the viewer's attention. The acting is very good. It's peppered with a lot of veterans that have a ton of years and projects under their belts.  This is a good movie, but not necessarily for everyone's taste. Some of the subject matter and dialogue might make more sensitive viewers squirm, but if you like independent film making this is a must see.  The

Just what I expected. I'm not going to review the movie, just the disc.  You probably know your cult classics if you are looking at these reviews, so you darn well know what a gem this movie is.  I saw a lot of crazy wailing on some of the reviews.  Nuts.  The centerpiece of this two-disc edition is the Blu-Ray recording of the movie.  It is exactly the movie you should be expecting, identical to earlier DVD releases except for being rendered in full HD with 5.1 channel surround sound.  Reviewers who wail about changes to the soundtrack, etc. may not be remembering it all that well.  If you already have this film on DVD the only real question are whether those great zombie FX (or Linnea Quigley's cheerfully gratuitous nudity) is worth the expense to see in better form.  If you do not have the movie the Blue-Ray is clearly the version to get.  The bonus content isn't bad, but it's also not better than the usual bonus content to most movies.  Depite the region code warnings the Blu-Ray played well enough on my player.

3.5 stars; initially unfocused and unbelievable, gets better by the end. Initially, this movie appeared to be another "hip 'n' edgy" indie film about angsty twenty-somethings; even with the contrived plot twist of abandoned kid Rasheen, it just didn't feel believable.  Then, in the second half of the film, the characters and their stories began to show some depth and complexity; by the end, I cared about these characters and was moved by the outcomes to their conflicts and challenges.  In a significant side note, the deleted scenes on the DVD add a tremendous amount of depth to the characters' stories and personality, especially Rasheen's too-good-to-be-true little kid. Too bad these scenes couldn't be included in the director's final cut. (a couple were superfluous, but most of them added to the story).

A WARM WIND REVIEW-JR This movie could have had made a much stronger statement about LGBT's serving in our armed forces.  However, for those who need to educate someone at the mildest first exposure to this info, it is good at introducing the subject to first time exposure of just who really protects them and does so without asking anything in return but self patriotism.

Sci Fi Parody at it's best Great Movie, one of Tim Allen's and Allen Rickman's funniest movies. Does a great job of making fun of Star Trek and fans.

Enjoyable Enjoyable evening of entertainment. Brief appearances by Mick Fleetwood and Peter Frampton add to younger Stevie's music at this outdoor concert.

The Skinny Great movie! Funny and well written. Hot cast! 2 words... Anthony Burrell! Def a new fave of mine. Makes me happy to see more movies with faces and stories like mine out there!

The Stepford Wives Although there were some serious plot holes (robots/not robots) this is still an extremely amusing movie.  So many funny moments.  It has some fantasy and some mystery and it all seems in good fun.  I am slightly biased because I live in CT and the one line in the movie gets me every time so true, so true.

Excellent value item Very nice filming of extreme beauty places on Earth  ! Good companion for a more colorful living room ! In my opinion its a best deal around $5 to $7 value if it is on this price buy instantly. I gave it a 4 star rating because I do not like the mix of cars etc with beautiful natural scenery. Music is ok but a bit repetive.

Red Planet on Blu Ray Carrie Ann Moss and Val Kelmer drive this well paced sci-fi movie.  Production values are excellent as is the cast.  The only weak plot point was the arrival of radiation storm without any warning.

Great. I haven't seen such interesting characters in a while.  A solid 4-star; nothing more, nothing less.  Samuel L Jackson is amazing as always, and as the movie went on, I slowly forgot Curtis Jackson was 50 cent.  If all of the actors were in their 'zone' consistently through the movie, this would be a 5-star.

The Horror Movie We All Remember Actually, the only reason I gave it 4 stars instead of five was that it perpetuates the myth that witches are Satan worshipers. There are Satanic witches, but they are a pretty small sub-set of all witches, and from what I can tell, don't have a great deal of authenticity.  But if you can take the story as is, the same way you did with The Exorcist, it's a fascinating drama. You may well wonder how skinny little rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) could even support the weight of a child, but I'm told such scrawny things tend to be stronger than the matchsticks they look like. (Is my fat lady bias showing?)  Anyway, Rosemary and her husband move into an old apartment building in New York City, apparently one of those that has as much history as the Dakota, which I think is where it was filmed, and where John and Yoko Lennon used to live. Their apartment was divided from what was originally one very large one, and the neighbors who live in the other half (played by Sidney Blackmer and Ruth Gordon) are gregarious and, as Rosemary puts it, nosy. They love doing things for the young couple, including some things that make Rosemary rather suspicious.  Just in case there are one or two people in the world who have never seen this story before, I won't spoil it for you. I've already mentioned that there are witches involved, and that's as much as I'm going to say. Let's just say that my suspicions were first aroused (when I saw it in the theater all those years ago) at the New Year's Party given by the elderly neighbors, where the toast was to "The Year One." (The rest of us called it 1966.)

NOW THAT'S A COCKROACH! Welcome to the alley - Damnation Alley!  Post apocalyptic radiation storms, giant sand scorpions, flesh-eating cockroaches; the earth will never be the same. Two years after the third world war and the devastating nuclear holocaust that followed, a rag tag group of survivors led by Commander Major Eugene Denton (George Peppard) set out in search of civilization. Major Denton believes that there are other holocaust survivors living in Albany, because he has been monitoring their radio signals for some time.  Getting to Albany won't be easy for the group; they'll have to brave the one hundred mile wide corridor between the radiation belts known as "Damnation Alley" Fortunately for the group Major Denton spent his time at the military installation constructing two armored plated Landmaster vehicles that will carry them across the desolate wasteland to Albany. Will the Landmasters make it through Damnation Alley? Are there really other survivors living in Albany? You'll have to buy your own copy to see how this post apocalyptic cult classic ends.  Like other fans of this 1977 cult classic, I've waited for "Damnation Alley" to finally be released on DVD and after watching it last night; I'm a little disappointed with the picture and sound quality. I really thought the picture and sound quality from Shout factory for this long awaited DVD release was going to be spectacular, but it isn't.  The video transfer for the most part is pretty decent, although the picture does suffer from some noticeable grain and embedded artifacts here and there; not bad enough to ruin the viewing experience. I'd rate the video transfer about 7/10 because it's apparent no real picture restoration was done by Shout other than the standard digital remastering process.  There are three sound options for the movie but sadly the original sound 360 used in theaters isn't one of them. I watched the movie on a 50" Plasma and listened to the movie in 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound on my home theater system and it sounded really good. Despite the lack of complete picture restoration and missing Sound 360 option, this is probably the best "Damnation Alley" will ever look and sound; unless it goes through a major restoration process. Despite some very minor flaws I've mentioned, Shout! should still be commended for their efforts. Thanks!  Special Features Include: - New anamorphic Widescreen transfer (2.35:1) - Audio Commentary with Producer Paul Maslansky - Theatrical trailer and TV spot -  Survival Run Featurette: co screenwriter Alan Sharp discusses the challenges of adapting a novel to film - Road to Hell Featurette: Producer Jerome Zeitman recalls the difficulties of filming Damnation Alley and the process of making the film - Landmaster Tales Featurette: Stunt coordinator and Landmaster designer Dean Jefferies gives an in depth review of the iconic Landmaster vehicle  The Cast: George Peppard ... Major Eugene Denton Jan-Michael Vincent ... Tanner Paul Winfield ... Keegan Dominique Sanda ... Janice Jackie Earle Haley ... Billy

Great movie, would watch again Great actors, edge of your seat story.  Love the way the two main actors sit down for coffee together.  Aggravated with how one had it all and couldn't just walk away from "one more"  Great move!

Dirty Harry's more nefarious little brother.  72% First of all, I'd like to say that while Cobra isn't a masterpiece by any stretch, I don't think it really deserves the backlash that it's gotten ever since its release 25 years prior.  Cobra is one of those movies that doesn't break any new ground or provide anymore insight into the "dirty cop" or "vigilante" genres pioneered by such movies like Dirty Harry (1971) and Death Wish (1974), but I'd be lying if I told all of you that I didn't enjoy watching this one.  I say that Cobra is Dirty Harry's more aggressive little brother because much like Dirty Harry, it's about a cop who feels the police procedures and the rights of the accused are holding him back from catching the bad guys, but unlike the Clint Eastwood crime-thriller classic, Cobra glorifies the brutal vigilante justice committed against the antagonists of the movie.  I believe casting Andrew Robinson (the Scorpio killer in DH) and Reni Santoni (Chico Gonzales in DH, whose also named Gonzales in Cobra) was deliberate as to draw in the Dirty Harry crowd.  STORY  A cult of serial killers lead by a psycho named the Night Slasher (Brian Thompson) is terrorizing Los Angeles, and when a model named Ingrid (Brigitte Nielsen) witnesses a murder by the Night Slasher's cult, she becomes a target.  However, a specialist cop named Marion "Cobra" Cobretti (Sylvester Stallone) and his partner Gonzales are assigned to protect Ingrid and find the Night Slasher.  Cobra is best known for his unorthodox methods in dealing with criminals that would normally break standard police procedure, and has anger problems.  CHARACTERS  To be honest, don't expect much depth out of any of the characters.  However, there is some good characterization for select ones.  Cobra doesn't really have any depth, but he spouts out lots of cheesy yet memorable one-liners like "Go ahead, I don't shop here" and "You're the disease, and I'm the cure" that'll make any 80's action buff happy (like myself).  Also, Stallone does a good job portraying the vigilante cop with a charmingly one-sided right-wing view on how to deal with crime as he's all muscle and has absolutely no regard for the crooks.  Brian Thompson plays an excellent Night Slasher since he looks and acts like a beast.  I'd normally scorn the fact that his character lacks depth as we really don't know why he leads a cult of murder other than the whole "kill the weak so only the strong remain" brute philosophy, but I find the simplicity in this charming because for a simple 80's action thriller like this, it feels perfect that the antagonist is evil just because.  The Night Slasher's followers, especially the one who holds an armed robbery in a grocery store in the beginning, are delightfully over-the-top in their "evil" factor.  I personally wish that Gonzales had more screentime because I found his dialogue with Cobra about junkfood entertaining precisely for how hokey it is.  Ingrid is a bucket of cliches since she's an ideal embodiment of the "damsel in distress" since she always needs Cobra and Gonzales to protect her and has no depth to her.  ACTION SCENES  Cobra is pretty off-kilter compared to most other blood-soaked 80's action flicks because in the beginning, it feels like it'll be a slasher thriller given the ominous main theme and the shots of the Night Slasher cult clinking axes in a derelict warehouse and the scenes of the Night Slasher slaying his victims in the dark.  However, easily by the halfway point of the movie, it takes a steep turn into action territory when the Night Slasher's gang ambushes Cobra on the road and it ensues into a giant chase scene, and after that, dozens and dozens of the killers storm Cobra's hideout and surprise surprise, Cobra's prepared with a submachine gun (complete with a giant laser scope) and grenades that result in a huge body count.  The action scenes are pretty darn cool because it's just so much fun to see Stallone hiding in a trailer house landing perfect shots against the scum on motorcycles and dishing out rather painful deaths to the cult in the factory.  Some examples of these are when one of the killers walks through a series of flammable pipes, Cobra releases the gas valve, which shoots out flammable gas near open flames and torches the creep.  The other is when Cobra hides behind a barrel of fuel, a rifleman accidentally shoots the barrel and gets soaked in gas, then Cobra drops a lit match on him, which leads to some pretty bright and hot results.  The final confrontation between Cobra and the Night Slasher at the end is one of the most brutal I've seen in a movie like this and like any well-made 80's action flick, is loaded with brutal violence (too good to spoil, you have to see it yourself).  SOUNDTRACK  The soundtrack reeks of the 80's (in a nostalgic, fun way).  It's a mix of 80's synthesizer instrumentals and popular pop rock from the decade.  The pop songs add that mandatory 80's feel to the movie and the synth instrumentals have some diversity.  The main theme is the most memorable as it's a primarily synth-based composition with a wholly dark tone (it somewhat reminds me of some compositions at the hands of Brad Fiedel from the first Terminator movie), but some others have much more of an upbeat feeling to them and would probably fit pretty well in a Sega Genesis-era Sonic the Hedgehog game.  PRODUCT PLACEMENT  The product placement in Cobra is pretty amusing and given the numerous shots of Pepsi signs and Pepsi display items (such as that huge cup with the spinning transparent spiral caramel rod that looks like pouring cola in the grocery story, which I fondly remember seeing in my own youth), I'm having a  really tough time figuring out who placed the most funding for a product plug-in compared to the other products clearly featured in the movie (like RC and Coca Cola).  I don't know why, but the really vintage Toy's R Us Christmas commercial playing on the TV in Cobra's apartment really stuck with me.  FINAL WORD  Cobra isn't a masterpiece, but it isn't a terrible movie, either.  If you're a junkie for simplistic 80's action  and thriller movies with all the cliches you've come to expect with a few original nuances, then this will sit comfortably in your collection.

Cool show so why won't they release it in America?? As stated in the title of my review, Ocean Girl is a really cool show.  A sci-fi based in the future, where some boys living in an underwater research center discover a mer girl from another planet.  Very good storyline, acting, photography and special effects  And from what I can tell, the show has a lot of fans, many in the US, also.  So the only reason why I must give this four stars is because it was never released in the US and from what I understand, never will be.  I just don't understand why we have so many retarted little movies released all the time here in the US, instead of something cool and actually interesting like this!

Where's War Of The Worlds?? The movie is great, the Blu-ray is beautiful, and the packaging is nice. But Amazon lists two of the special features as being the 10/30/38 Mercury Theatre Broadcast of War of the Worlds (Audio Only)and the 10/28/40 KTSA, San Antonio Broadcast of H.G. Wells Meets Orson Welles (Audio Only). I haven't found them yet. If not for this, it would get 5 stars.

a funny look at a pivotal time of life Unlike some comedies with sexual situations, this show is not trying to tell a another type of story with that element added in. The only story being told here is about two virgins, Yamada & Kosuda trying to figure out how to overcome their awkwardness & do the deed. It has been many years for me since going through those feelings, and this show was not only hilarious, but made me feel nostalgic for that time in my youth. The fact that Yamada has some pretty wild ideas like wanting 100 sex partners until she is faced with reality of her real emotions is also a funny lookback at youthful naivete to me as well. But I don't want to sound too serious about that nostalgic stuff, because this show is just flat out funny and lighthearted all the way through. I would relate a comedy like this to American live action movies like Porky's or American Pie as far as content. R rated & a little raunchy, but that's as far as it goes.

Such a cute movie This movie was lighthearted, comical, cute, and refreshing. I enjoyed it. The part with Miss Trixie I found to be especially entertaining.

of course it's bad. BUT AWESOME. Look, this isn't winning any awards in any universe, parallel or otherwise. It's craptacular and it has what you expect from the new age of b-movie schlock: bad CGI, bad acting, b-actors, some boobs.  Carmen Electra stretching for most of the film? check.  Brook Hogan making her acting coach grimace? check. really awful acting from a well known actor's sibling: double check. CGI is suspect and fabulously cheesy. Some boobs for those that need some T&A. Worth a few bucks for what it is.  If you like this kind of stuff in general, you'll have fun; otherwise, don't bother.

fhe Stig Larsson Trilogy After reading the three books, I was set to be disappointed with film versions. I can honestly say I was not. While it is hard to encompass all the details of books into a film script, the producers did a superb job. The scenes in and around Stockholm were terrific (I have been there many times). The English voice-over was also quite good, so all in all a worthwhile purchase.

Though not as great as the first, it can still hold its own. My children love the Lion King trilogy and we own all three movies on blu ray. This looks just as good as the original, but the story is not as good, but none the less it keeps them entertained. Keep up the great work Disney.

Cruciflicks' Review "If I had to sum up "A Walk to Remember" in one word, it would be this: cry. Just cry. And when you feel like you can't cry anymore, cry anyway." -Lance; Cruciflicks Co-Founder  "Whether you're a Christian or not, you can enjoy this movie. You can relate to the problems the characters face and the angst of high school cliques, first loves and losses. Yet, while entertaining its viewers, it still manages to include values, and most importantly, faith." -Mary; Cruciflicks Co-Founder  For the rest of our reviews on this and other faith based films, check out cruciflicks.net where "We don't judge people, just the movies they make."

Blu-ray nicely mastered, both image and audio, but revealing of deficiencies in the original negative. An image so vivid that unlike any previous blu-ray I have purchased to date, I had to dumb-down my monitor from "vivid" to "standard" to compensate, which is a good thing as the reduction in contrast subdues the occasional film grain which is evident quite often but short-lived, such as when Director Rush presumably zoomed in on the film negative for a close-up in post-production as an afterthought rather than having done so 'in camera' during the shoot. Though the original mix was mono, discrete surround sounds are quite evident from time to time. After enduring the poor print quality of the laserdisc pressing it's good to see Rush's beloved film get its due on blu-ray, both of which are well worth the upgrade if you're a big fan like myself, but if you're not and already have the two-disc Limited Edition, you won't find enough of a difference to warrant this upgrade to blu-ray.

Bridge School Concerts: Music, Hearts & Minds Not only is this a splendid overview of the performers and performances of this wonderful tradition, but the warm and yet serious disc showing the reason and results for the Bridge School families is very good, too.  A wonderful show that you can be narrow about and just groove on the music or open up to the real possibilities of music in and of the real life of people.

Best Ben Affleck best movie ever. Highly recommended to buy this Blu-ray... the picture quality is great & the audio quality is the best... love the gun shots sound at The Fenway Park.  Affleck has done great job writing, directing & acting in this movie...

Passionate Menu If you like food movies, this is a good one.  With a creative story line and lots of food and sensuality.  I went cookbook shopping after this movie, added more spices to my cupboard, and squeezed in some rose petals here and there.  NOW, I'M GOING TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE THIS STATEMENT.  MOVIE REVIEWS ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO GIVE AWAY THE WHOLE MOVIE.  WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE ON AMAZON DO THAT?  A REVIEW IS LIKE A BOOK REPORT....YOU GIVE THE BASICS AND CRITIQUE HOW IT AFFECTED YOU AND WHY YOU DID OR DIDN'T LIKE IT.  YOU DON'T WALK SOMEONE THROUGH THE PLOT FROM BEGINNING TO END.  HAD TO GET THAT OUT.

An utterly charming documentary This fun, informative documentary covers the taking of a classic photo in 1958 for Esquire, that had almost every great Jazz star of the era, from Dizzy Gillespie, to Count Basie to Thelonius Monk, etc etc.  While the film is too short (just under and hour) to go into any great detail, and maybe a little too much time is spent on various greats 25 years later saying how great everyone else was, there's a sweetness and infectious enthusiasm that director Bach (no spring chicken herself) brings to this collection of memories of a time and place.  If you have any interest in photography or jazz this is a must.

The Best of Benny Hill Given as present Receiver said she really liked even if she had seen some of the skits before. Really thinks Benny Hill is funny

Big chunk of Bears' game missing. I've just finished watching the Bears/Giants playoff game from 1990 and was a little disappointed. A huge chunk (about five minutes) of the game is missing from the third quarter. I wouldn't mind so much except that among the missing action is the Giants touchdown that put them up 24-3. Why is this? Is this the same with every set or is mine the only one? Other than that, I've enjoyed the set so far but now I have to find a bootleg copy of this game so I can see the missing touchdown. Try harder next time, NFL films.

I'd Rather Be Reading At The Beach: Reviews I've wanted to watch this movie since the first time I saw it advertised. I love Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks, so I thought it had to be good. Sadly, they were barely in the movie, but I did love the segments that they were in.  The character of Oskar was hard to like. He was rude, mean to his mom and had a potty mouth. But I did like that he would do anything possible to find out what the key was for, because he thought it was a message to him from his father. Plus, the actor who played Oskar, Thomas Horn, did a great job of portraying him.  I loved that the mom went to such extremes to make her son's journey as smooth as possible. I loved the relationship between Oskar and his dad! And I loved how Oskar and his grandfather related to each other.  One of the main things I didn't get was why this young boy was allowed to traipse all over New York at all hours of the day and night by himself. I just can't see that happening. Plus, during all his wanderings, the streets were mostly people-less. It's NY, and NY isn't not people-less, no matter the hour.  Then there's the fact that the man who is supposedly Oskar's grandmothers friend from her home country is really her (ex?) husband. Even when Oskar figures out who he really is, nobody comments on it. Not the grandmother, not Oskar, not the grandfather, not Oskar's mother. I can't imagine this happening in real life and nobody talking about it!  Final Thoughts: Even though there are a few things that just didn't make any sense (to me at least), there are some amazing scenes, and that made the movie well worth watching!  I guess the good outweighs the bad, because I'll more than likely watch this movie again.

the pendulum swings An original movie with a different presentation of the idea of rural v. urban. Heretofore, urban lifestyles have, more often than not, been cool, this movie has a different characterization of urban anonymity. Sure it was bleak for Mavis, the urban big city girl but it was unusual since it turned the contemporary cultural idea of cool girl, single in the city, on its head in that Mavis from Minny Apples(Minneapolis) was not happy and the simple people who stayed home in their small town to simply live and die were. For the last forty years we have been presented with cosmopolitan urbanity as the ne plus ultra of a life well lived while the stay-at-homes who know each others business are just shucking hicks. The movie was unusual in that it presented the small towners as healthier, happier and less conflicted than the highly experienced, all too urbanly jaded Mavis. In the end I wondered whether Mavis, who, in the middle of the movie, had commented about 'people who feel nothing' was just on a foray to her roots to find some different material for her writing.

Documentary following Levi's journey starts out artsy but ends strong "Primo Levi, born in Turin, Italy, in 1919, and trained as a chemist, was arrested during the Second World War as a member of the anti-Fascist resistance and deported to Auschwitz in 1944. His experience in the death camp and his subsequent travels through Eastern Europe were the subject of powerful memoirs, fiction and poetry. Levi died in Turin in April 1987."  From:[...]  I decided to start with this basic information because the documentary assumes the viewer already knows about Levi.  I'd recommend watching "Interviews" first.  You can find it on the menu.  This gives background on the Italian documentary filmmakers and why they decided to trace Levi's journey.  It seems that Levi's works are very commonly assigned in high school in Italy, but then people usually forget about them.  The filmmakers wanted to make his journey come alive.  The documentary retraces Levi's journey after being freed from Auschwitz.  He falls in with a Soviet convoy and ends up going deep into the USSR before finally going back west and returning to Italy.  What the filmmakers did is go to the places Levi went and see what was there.  While the documentary begins by being very artsy, it gathers power over the course of it and ends by being a powerful statement about the continuing relevance of Levi's work and life.  The film shot in Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, etc, is often really beautiful.  I've been to Russia, and this documentary really captures the feel of the place.  This is not really a straightforward documentary about Primo Levi but a more personal response to his work and journey.  One of the points is that this is Europe.  Both east and west are one Europe. I found the section on Germany to be especially thought-provoking and there's an implied contrast with the slower-paced life in the the east that's very interesting.  The section on Chernobyl is also moving.  Not a perfect work, but one worth seeing.

An enjoyable post apocalyptic drama The Postman(released Dec/97) is a decent entry from Kevin Costner,who co-produced and starred in the leading role.The film clocks in at around a hefty 178 minutes but,as most good movies go,one does not notice its passage. The story takes place at around this time in a world where a plague has wiped out much of human civilization.What is left are scared pockets of humanity entrenched behind walls or atop old dams,trying to stave off those that would try to take what little they have left.Enter Gordon Krantz(Costner) who is a drifter eking out an existence,living hand to mouth on whatever he can find to survive on.When he reaches a settlement he puts on plays of Shakespeare with the help of his donkey.One day at such a settlement he is confronted by an "army" led by a sadistic Capt.Bethlehem(Will Patton).They are basically a band of marauders living off the avails of townsfolk who they harass.He is "conscripted" into this ersatz army and branded as one by a figure eight on his right arm.Krantz does not go gently into that good night and,through some harrowing moments,manages to escape Bethlehem's clutches. One night he comes upon an old abandoned mail truck with its' skeletonized driver still in place.He passes the time reading old mail but gets an idea.From here on in he will pass him self off as a postman who is now a direct rep of a new United States government led by a fictitious President Starkey.The first town he comes to is Pineview,Oregon.Here he washes up,is fed and is propositioned by a local woman named Abby(Olivia Williams).It seems her husband is sterile and they want a child very badly and both agree to her sleeping with Krantz to make their dream come true.Krantz unsure at first,eventually succumbs to the ladies charm and the deed is done. Krantz is pressed by an eager local,one Ford Mercury Lincoln(Larenz Tate),to become a postman like him.Unable to bluff his way out,he makes him a postman.When Krantz leaves the town it is beset soon after by Bethlehem's army and Olivia's husband is killed for refusing the general "access" to his wife.The local post office is burned and Olivia is taken prisoner for the general's pleasure.Ford Lincoln Mercury is determined to carry on his duties and leaves Pineview.He sets up a "centre" elsewhere and recruits volunteers to become postmen and women,who in turn pick up,carry and deliver mail to become conduits for a broader communications link between settlements;spreading Krantz's falsehood to even greater lengths. In the meantime Bethlehem is getting tired of this new movement and tries to crush it everywhere he finds it.Krantz,along with Olivia,flee his reach but everywhere they go Krantz runs into signs of his expanding legacy.Finally Krantz reaches the centre Lincoln Mercury has set up.Krantz gives Mercury a dressing down for what he has done but the "mission" has become bigger than either of them.Trouble is postmen are now not returning from their "appointed rounds"as Bethlehem and his army are catching up and killing whatever postmen they find in order to destroy the movement. Circumstances build up on Krantz and his charges and eventually he can run no longer and decides to bring the fight to Bethlehem.Both sides meet on open ground and it is here Krantz invokes one of Bethlehem's own laws against him;he challenges him mano et mano for leadership.It is a close contest but Krantz comes out the victor and ends the violence once and for all. The film's opening scenes which had been narrated by Krantz's daughter,now end with a scene in 2043 where she is dedicating a statue to her late father.It depicts her father on a horse riding towards a boy with his arm outstretched with a letter in his hand.The boy,now grownup,is there to say that was him. The action throughout ebbs and flows nicely with little slow downs evident.There is a scene though that has me wondering.When Krantz first tries to enter Pineview he is confronted by a wall and a townsfolk quite reluctant to let him enter.However when Bethlehem and his army come in we are just shown them strolling merrily down the main street;no challenges,no nothing.Hmm. That minor point aside the movie is very enjoyable and all involved do a bang up job. Technically the movie has been transferred nicely and is crisp and clear,in its original widescreen a/r.Extras include the trailer,special effects sequences featurette with commentary by their creators and production notes.One point of contention I found was with the sub titles.It seems they are on,in default.It took quite a learning curve to 1)find out where they were(in "languages"!) and 2) to get to know how to shut them off.Poor design. All in all a good movie of its genre and Costner and company do a bang up job in all departments.Recommended.

Surprised me Wasn't expecting much from this movie and was pleasantly surprised.  Was much funnier and enjoyable than I thought it would be!

strait jacket I remember seeing this movie when I was a child of twelve,at the drive in theater I loved it then aas I still do now

what you get it came with a damaged case not seriously just not as pretty as it could be. good movie watch it.

Beverly Hills Chihuahua Is a very interesting movie and funny. Is for the whole family entertaining. I would recommend this movie for the whole family to watch together.

No Academy Awards, but very Likeable For those who think Jessica Biel can't act, I disagree.  Perhaps her performance wasn't up to the movie critic snobs' expectations, but all in all I thought she did a very good job.  Maybe I am fortunate not be familiar with the original stage play.  My view is simply that of watching a lovely and enjoyable movie.  Sets, costumes, and music were wonderful, and the cast and performances seemed believeable.  If you are looking for a lighthearted viewing experience you will probably like this movie.

High road to China Just a good old movie , but I love Tom Seleck.  I'm not sure why it took so long to come out on DVD

Somewhat Fictionalized Black History, Very Well Told First, let's clarify that even though it is titled "Autobiography," it is fiction. Miss Jane is a bit like other historical fiction characters, bringing together a great many realistic incidents into one life. She was only a child of maybe ten or eleven when at the end of the war, the master of the plantation read the Emancipation Proclamation to his slaves, declaring them free. He said the paper came "during the war," but he didn't see any need to read it then.  A Union soldier had been kind to Jane, giving her that name instead of her "slave name," and had told her he was from Ohio. So when she left the plantation, she decided she was headed to Ohio. She was one of a group of freed slaves that were sleeping in a barn when marauders attacked and killed most of them. Only she and a little boy named Ned survived, and so the two of them continued north.  The main reason I gave this story 4 stars instead of 5 is that while each incident or situation was interesting, there was not much of a thread between them. The story starts when Miss Jane is celebrating her 110th birthday, in what I believe was 1962??? Young Jimmy, maybe in his early 20s and a college student, comes to her and asks her to join him with some friends that are going down to the courthouse so one of the black girls can drink from the whites only water fountain. As Jimmy points out, if one of the boys did it, the sheriff and his deputies would simply beat them up. They are hoping that a girl will simply be arrested, and they will then have a civil rights test case. Miss Jane says she'll think about it and tell him tomorrow.  Meanwhile, a white reporter from a New York magazine shows up and wants to do a feature story on her, and begins taking her oral history. So most of the story is episodic flash-backs. She uses souvenirs from a shelf near her chair to illustrate her stories. The two pieces of flint were Ned's mother's, used to make fire. When she was killed by marauders, Jane grabbed them up and had little Ned carry them.  There's a photo of Joe Pittman, a handsome fellow who was good at breaking horses. One day he brought home a "devil horse" (an albino), and Jane became terrified that the horse would kill Joe. She even consulted a voodoo fortune-teller, who confirmed her fears. So one night, Jane opened the corral where the horse was kept and let it run free. Bur Joe was angry with her for this, and mounting his brown horse, went riding out to recapture the albino. The next morning, the albino came back, dragging Joe's body behind him.  Ned went off to fight in the Spanish-American war, and returned with a wife and daughter. He wanted to open a school for the local blacks. I think this was in Louisiana, as Jane had earlier been stopped in her attempt to get to Ohio by not being able to get across the Mississippi, and she talked about the bayou. Anyway, Ned was big on speeches advocating education and civil rights activism for his friends and neighbors, and was killed by a cajun who used to fish with Miss Jane and had eaten at her house several times, just because he did what the bosses told him to.  It's a somewhat disjointed story, partly because of the format of the flashbacks, but it is otherwise an interesting story and well told. I felt sympathy for Cecily Tyson having to put on all that extreme makeup to play an incredibly wrinkled 110-year-old woman, but she did a great job. Her make-up artist did a great job, too, except for toward the beginning where there was some smooth area below all the wrinkles because the dress was too open at the neck. That got fixed in later scenes, but it was something of a distraction.

Another Question... Why are there so many questions? It's Paul Simon for goodness sakes! I'm docking 1 star because this concert is only 95 minutes instead of a proper 2 hours. Also, I think he should have performed "How Can You Live In The Northeast?" and "She Moves On" and "Peace Like A River".

The Last Time I saw Paris I love this movie.  I think Elizabeth Taylor was at the height of her beauty.  However, this movie is in need of serious restoration.  The color quality is very poor.  Sound is ok.  It is no reflection on this distributor as I understand this is a common complaint among most people regardless of who they purchase it from.  Hopefully it will soon be restored to its original vibrant color.  If you like tragic love stories and watching a beautiful Elizabeth Taylor, add this to your library.

Like Being There! We loved it.  Just had seen it on TV special, but watching the DVD was even better.  You could get the full impact of the show watching the Rockettes.  So happy I purchased it.  Worth every penny.

A film Noir-DIGITAL For those who like story told in flashback, this is the movie to watch.Me and friend who are B-movies late 40s too mid 50s noir film buffs,enjoyed this one.Please note! the guy on the cover box may look central-american,but he's philippino.Shot in the Philippine's.

Funny This movie is so funny,I can watch it over and over again it makes me laught. Got to buy it if not just rent it once.

Love and basketball I got the dvd, it was still in the plastic. There was a rip in the back of the dvd case where the bar code was, im not sure from what. The delivery was not the fastest, but it got here.

Great acting, amazing Martial Arts! I watched this just after I started Tae Kwon Do and was surprised by the Martial accuracy.  The fight scenes, thought far between, were very realistic and enjoyable.  Also, the fact that the characters were all portrayed as good, morally sound Martial Artist's at the end and not ruthless, mindless fighters was a HUGE plus!!  It is definitely worth the time to watch it!

Some issues I'm discussing with the Richard Simmons folks The DVDs are fine (haven't used them all, but they arrived in perfect condition).  The toning cords are neat !  I like that they just go over my feet, and are secured that way. They are latex for anybody with allergies- but the straps that touch skin are woven straps, with a padded hand-hold thingie.  The Food Mover is where I've had some issues- and I think mine may be a weird one from what I've heard from others on his FB page (the REAL Richard Simmons, not some of the impostors who say horrible things about overweight people).  The little windows only stay open or closed on a flat surface- per other people, they do latch shut for carrying out to lunch or dinner (or whatever).  I'm at home about 99% of the time (disabled), so it's not the end of the world.  I like having a visual reminder of what I'm allotted (and it's quite a bit), and what I've eaten/have left.  The overall 'program' is very close to the diabetic exchanges of the past. I've been an RN for 27 years, and a diabetic for 17- so I know the exchanges; this works very well for me.  I gained weight with chemo (I know- I expected to lose weight, and did initially, but the combination of oral chemo that I was on for a YEAR blew me up like a toad- very discouraging after surviving what could have killed me, and almost did (leukemia), only to end up FAT).  Some people think Richard Simmons is over the top.  But he's also effective, and doesn't shun people who most in society think are inferior because of weight issues.  He also cares- and responds to people personally.  His staffs' responses are clearly marked; his are from HIM !!  That sort of encouragement is invaluable.

Heeavy-Metal............. Its one of the few things I liked about the whole cutural genere, its part action flick - but a tad to racy for kids [although some of the nude scences are approched in day time soaps now] . I was trying to find this in CD or DVD format and couldn't. but when I found it in digital format I decided to go for it [and - besides it was only 9.95 so it wasn't a wallet buster] . plot centers around a nasty little green orb called Loc-nar that kills a small girls dad after he retreaves the thing from someplace else. Then when he gets it back home and shows it to his daughter&lt; he handles it and it kills him in seconds and backs her into a corner and begins a multiplicity of yarns to scare the blazes out of her..    The b-17 part was the most macaube , the cabby part pretty funny.. Though it will be interesting to see if we have flying cars by 2030 [date in the future for the show]. slightly cheesy, but a fairly deceint animation flick.    you just might be hard pressed to find a non-DL version of it though.

Sleazoid cult classic now on Blu-Ray! In a sleepy town called Noyo, there has been reports of dogs being murdered and people being viciously killed mysteriously. Jim Hill (Doug McClur) and his wife Jill (Cindy Weintraub) have witnessed a terrible boating accident as they begin to try to solve what is behind these bizarre occurances. A scientist named Dr. Susan Drake (Ann Turkel) is also trying to solve the mystery of weird fish-like critters that are behind all these and where these mutants come from for these monsters want to mate with human women and slaughter men.  Sleazy and gruesome 1980 Sci-fi horror exploitation shocker from New World Pictures and Roger Corman is one of their biggest hits yet. Co-starring Vic Morrow, this nasty and violent film offers a throwback to fifties and early 60's movies like Horror at Party Beach and Creature from The Black Lagoon to even the 1975 classic Jaws which were inspirations to this movie. There's sexy nude girls with a few icky scenes of rape done by monsters and gore abound which nearly got an X-Rating, laughable acting, excellent make-up and monsters by Rob Bottin, a terrific score by James Horner as this is his debut score and of course a bizarre ending that will remind you of Alien.  This Blu-Ray has a decent transfer of the uncut international version though a few grains in some scenes here and there plus the sound is very good but not too bad and there are great extras such as deleted scenes, a making of the film, Leonard Maltin interview with Roger Corman, Trailers with TV spots and radio spots and some New World Trailers.

Gilligan's Island: The Complete First Season The video that was ordered came in a very timely manner and was to be a Christmas gift. Was very satisfied with the service received. As of this time, the video has not been viewed.

A really great start I have a lot of back issues. This guides me so I can get the exercise I need without hurting myself.

41/2 stars easy... Walked passed it.., Who knew!... Walked passed this Dvd a dozens times.., Who knew!...This reminded me of Leonardo DiCaprio's "Gangs of New York" and our illegal immigrant story combined... Where I really dug Jackie Chan's (straight man) character in karate kid... He was just as good in this film "Shinjuku Incident"... grading it an "A"...

True Colors This is an older move but it is very well done and a good Cusak movie.  Good movie to watch during the political campaigns.

Buy it for the Doc Not the best films to come out of Toho- big Kaiju fans will love it of course.  I liked Rodan when I was younger, great dark piece of cinema, feels more morbid and sad than most of the films from that time.  War of Gargatuans is okay, cheezy but it takes itself seriously. I've never seen a good print though- just nice excerpts that show off really good sets.  What I really liked was the awesome documentary included with the DVD's.  It focuses on Godzilla, some other Toho SPX pieces, but not really the films that came with it. But it is really worth seeing for any G fan, buy it for that.

A little taste of days gone bye~bye... And it wasn't but less then Seven years ago! But what a change eh? This was when tv shows where still shown in 4:3 instead of the now 6:19 format.. or so. I'm not quite sure about the wider formats' dimensions at the moment. _ Anyways, the series was funny then as it is funny today. Special mention goes to the Rugby manning up episode! Still gives me a chuckle every time I pop in the disc. Kyoto Animation where still bouncing back and forth btw genres and unfortunately climaxing with '~the Second Raid' to never to this day again return back to the crazy Awesome of cool action. (sob) _ The series is a great pick, but I sadly must write that if you've already bought the show on DVD.. the purchase of this is questionable. Sure, you get a sharper image. The audio is no different and that's it~ The supplements are NIL and ZIP with the generic OP / ED without text and a promo for other junk from Funi~ _ Buy it if you're a FMP fan like I (who has bought all 3 on Blu~)and take comfort that if you already have the DVD, you'll not be missing much here. I Do write that if you really want to see FMP at its clearest. BUY '~The Second Raid' on BLU-RAY! The supplements are Awesome and the format was made in the former to boot! _ I do so miss ADV with their Otaku love of Anime. _ They will be missed

Decent Entertainment The two movies are pretty decent. A Cinderella Story is a bit bland, while Another Cinderella Story is a bit more lively and humorous. FYI to let those interested in purchasing this product is that the disk only contains the two movies and nothing else. They do not contain special features of any kind.

Just a good, funny movie I've always felt it vital to one's life to at least try to maintain their childhood in some way or another. And though this movie does have its silly moments, it reeks of childhood memories for me. Loved every minute of it. Just a good, funny movie to sit back and be a kid again with.

Worth watching After reading some of these reviews I was iffy about watching/spending my money on this movie, but I decided to give it a chance and happy I didn't listen to the negative reviews... Worth the watch, very enjoyable...

Funny! Had to rent this to prep for the sequel coming out. Had no issues streaming it, and really enjoyed the price as well as the convenience!

Another John Wayne Classic Another John Wayne classic.  One of my Favorites rates right up there with Rio Grande, Big Jake and the best of all The Searchers.  Highly recommend adding this one to your collection.

Loved it! Great movie, I was engaged the entire time! Non- stop action and suspense, so exciting, I didn't know what was going to happen next, it's definitely worth watching!

The Blu-Ray Sound was a disappointment! The movie is a classic and it is one of my favorites. The movie by itself merits a 5 star ratting unfortunately due to the Audio my rating drops to 3.5 stars. The Blu-Ray disc does have better video quality than the original DVD release. What I don't understand is how could Universal do a re-release on Blu-Ray and not re-master that fabulous sound track in 5.1 DTS HD Master audio. They took the easy way and did a 2.0 transfer. The soundtrack to me is one of the most important parts of this movie but on the Blu-ray version it is below par. So my average overall rating for the Blu-ray release is 4 stars.

Good solid sci-fi I tried reading the original French novel many years ago for "Planet of the Apes", but had a lot of other stuff going on, and I simply couldn't get through it.  But, like most other people of my generation, I did see the movie, and what a movie it is.  What we have here is simply basic film making.  What few SFX there are are fairly basic.  The film isn't about wowing the audience with huge special effects shots nor giant action sequences.  The story is about mankind adapting to a world turned on its head.  Where the beasts of burden have become the masters.  Where the lower classes have become the social elite, and the upper strata of society are now in the role of the down trodden masses.  In this vein it's actually a bit of a social commentary for the time, and not a very flattering one.  Heston and company do a superb job of bringing these characters to life, and showing us the defiant will of man fighting what might be regarded as an age old rivalry.  To add to the acting are of course the prosthesis makeup of the actors playing the apes (notably Roddy McDowell).  The makeup itself gives us the physical form of the intelligent ape, but it's the acting, the gestures that help seal the sale to the audience.  One important thing to note is the style change from this kind of science fiction to today's big budgeted B-movies that offer more flash than bang.  "Planet of the Apes" deals with the proposition of how the high and mighty experts and learned types would like to be the subjects of their own tests.  How would they like to wear the shackles, perform the tricks, eat when they're told to, sit, heel, beg, roll over and what not.  A far cry from the giant CGI emphasis on films today, which are really aimed at pre-teens and high schoolers.  Not that "Planet of the Apes" didn't have a different marketing scheme in mind, but the style I think tells of a more mature film making style than today's quick slang and encapsulated dialog with huge amounts of visuals.  Also not another style choice; horses and guns.  Certainly a bit of an homage to the western that was just beginning to fade at the time of this film's release.  We see a sci-fi film, but it's adorned with some familiar trappings so that we don't completely lose touch with the fantasy being presented.  A good film from an author who was concerned about different social classes taking over his country.  In light of today's events, he may have had a legitimate concern, but his lens was focused on the wrong group.  In any event, check it out and enjoy the tale.

"The Stars and Stripes Forever": giddy AND glorious.... This film was made in 1952....just before wide screen and 3-D.  This is a very entertaining film...whether it is factual is really irrelevant.  I doubt if it was intended to be.  Robert Wagner is about 24 and is cast as the inventor of the Sousaphone.  Miss Paget is his love interest and assumes a number of efforts in order to earn her place: she works as a member of a vaudeville act in which people form tableaux...and sometimes their tights split, also she is working toward a concert career.  She is a very ambitious.  This movie is a lot of fun...and I agree wholeheartedly with a previous review that pairs it with "The Music Man"...what a great double feature for any July Fourth celebration....or Memorial Day...or Labor Day.... This is a very giddy movie.  It is most enjoyable.  If facts is what you want...go to the library or onto the internet and dig around...if you want entertainment...you are in good hands with "The Stars and Stripes Forever"!

rather syrupy but WOW! all those outstanding musical numbers "Till The Clouds Roll By" isn't exactly the most accurate Jerome Kern biopic, but MGM had limited options after Kern died during pre-production; they rewrote the script to avoid lawsuits from Kern's estate. Nevertheless, what we see here is a fine collection of MGM musical numbers, all of them brilliantly done. The casting was very good; the acting is convincing despite a plot that is somewhat thin; and the cinematography and choreography shine which enhances the musical numbers in particular. In essence, the rather saccharine plot with its musical background score that tells you how to feel is just a way to connect the musical numbers that are the true highlights of the film.  When the action begins we see the Broadway premiere of "Showboat."  Jerome Kern (Robert Walker), who wrote the music for that show, is congratulated by his peers and gets into his limousine to attend an opening night party. However, Kern wants to reminisce; he tells his chauffeur about James Hessler (Van Heflin) who once lived with his young daughter Sally (Joan Wells) and Mrs. Muller (Mary Nash) who cooked and cleaned for them as Mrs. Hessler was no longer living.  In the film, Hessler needs convincing that Kern can write great music; but after that he takes Kern under his wing. Kern gradually works his way up to the top; he works with British theatrical bigwig Charles Frohman (Harry Hayden) and eventually Oscar Hammerstein II (Paul Langton). While in England, Kern meets Eva Leale (Dorothy Patrick) to whom he gets married. Eventually, a grown up Sally (now played by Lucille Bremer) wants to enter the theater and we learn how things work out for her. We also see Kern's relationship with Hessler through the years.  But on to the best part--the musical numbers. The film opens with the opening night of "Showboat" so we initially get a musical within a musical, complete with Lena Horne (as Julie LaVerne) singing "Can't Help Lovin' That Man of Mine;" Kathryn Grayson and Tony Martin (as Magnolia Hawks and Gaylord Ravenal) singing "Make Believe" and Virginia O'Brien (as Ellie May Shipley) singing "Life Upon the Wicked Stage," not to mention a stunning rendition of "Ol' Man River" by dock worker Joe (Caleb Peterson)! Judy Garland has a beefed-up cameo as Marilyn Miller; she sings "Who?" and "Look for the Silver Lining" to perfection. Look also for great numbers by Dinah Shore singing "They'll Never Believe Me;" a very young Angela Lansbury singing "Howja Like to Spoon with Me" from a London gaiety show; June Allyson with Ray McDonald doing "Leave It to Jane;" a terrific version of "I Won't Dance" by Van Johnson and Lucille Bremer; Cyd Charisse performing "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" from "Roberta;" Dinah Shore's "The Last Time I Saw Paris" and so much more including a stunning finale featuring a young Frank Sinatra singing a reprise of "Ol' Man River."  The DVD comes with interesting bonus features; I particularly liked the outtakes; "Till The Clouds Roll By: Real to Reel" and "Glimpses of California."  "Till The Clouds Roll By" may not the best remembered MGM musical; but a close look reveals it to be a good one because so much talent is on display. I recommend this for people who enjoy classic movie musicals; fans of the actors and entertainers in this film would do well to add this to their collections.

Worthwhile 80s cop show There were better 80s cop shows than Hunter (ie, Hill St. Blues, Cagney & Lacey), but Hunter was great fun. The tall, lanky Fred Dryer (ex pro footballer) was dry and wry and sardonic and quite believable as the detective with the hair trigger. His relation with his female sidekick was lively and fun; purely platonic, as is proper. For the entire series, this is a pretty good deal.

Primal Psychological Thriller Well, I figured out the final, final outcome -- I think the very last line of the dialog -- but not until a minute or two ahead. So it puts me only slightly ahead of the attorney in the case. But he figured out the next to last surprise before I did . . . or about the same time.  It's that kind of a suspense film.  Aaron Stampler (Edward Norton) is arrested for the really gory, disgusting mutilation murder of Bishop Richard Rushman. Marty Vale (Richard Gere) volunteers to defend him pro bono. Assistant DA Janet Venable (Laura Linney) is assigned the prosecution. The twist is that she had an affair with Vale back when he was working for the DA, before he went out on his own as a defense attorney.  Aaron insists he did not do it, despite some pretty terrible evidence against him. Vale originally tells him it doesn't matter, that his job is to defend him anyway, but gradually becomes convinced that Aaron really is innocent as he discovers some pretty strange connections between the Bishop and various other interests who might have wanted to kill him, and some other . . . see, I'm trying not to spoil it for you. OK; Aaron was an alter boy and a choir boy, even though he was 19. He lived in a group home run by the church for homeless kids, even though the cut-off age for residency was 18. The Bishop arranged for him to stay.  When Vale's investigator goes to Aaron's room at the shelter to search for any useful evidence, he is attacked by one of the other choir boys, and in the process rips off the boy's earring. Yes, Aaron can identify it, and won't say that the boy with the earring was completely incapable of murdering the Bishop.  Told you too much already. Watch the strangeness unfold on its own. And try to guess the end of the trial. Then try to guess the end of the movie. Good luck.

Our first 3D concert at home. Not the biggest Kenny Chesney fan, but he does have a number of catchy tunes.  But they did pretty good with the camera angles to show off some 3D goodness. The cameras are on suspended wires that float above the crowd - showing some cool vantage points.  The band itself isn't super active (this aint a Brittany Spears concert) but Kenny himself is all over the place. Lots of fun (especially the opening scene).  We look forward to more concerts in this format. Maybe bring the price down to about twenty bux?

Very Good! This is a great presentation on the history of the personal computer.  I recommend it to anyone who is a computer user, power user, technician or gamer.  This is how our industry got to this point.  It is a little aged but the info is still valid (since it is history) and very interesting.  As a side note there are great comments by Steve Jobs before he knew he had cancer.  He was a visionary - and this DVD proves it.

V&A Lovely film  --  great costumes. In terms of the relationship between the Queen and the Prince Consort - it seems accurate to the history I have read.

Superman gets religious, and it works! This Superman is top rated stuff.  Really like the religious overtones, there all over in this movie!  Father and son, people crying for a Savior, it is unheard of in today's movies and it pulled me in.  I think this Superman is the best of the bunch.  The show really pulls you in from the baseball field plane landing, to the kind gentle, humble superman that is portrayed.  Highly recommend!

4 1/2 stars for Oscar winner You have to hand it to writer and director Michel Hazanavicius for coming up with this idea and especially that it works so well. The technical aspects are well done. Everyone knows the film has no sound, well almost. There is a dream sequence where George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) hears sounds but he has no voice. And of course the film is accompanied by an orchestrated soundtrack. It even has the 4:3 (or 1.33:1 if you prefer) aspect ratio, the same as the original theater screens. Then there are the title cards which tell us what the actors are saying. Like the original silent films, these aren't used often as the actor's job is to let us know what's going on with their performance. Unlike many of the original silent films, you can actually see what the actor's are saying because the picture is clear enough to read their lips. So the title cards pretty much enforce what we've already heard...ahem, seen.  The story really isn't new. It is a mash up of "Singing in the Rain," the 1952 Gene Kelly masterpiece and the numerous iterations of "A Star is Born." Valentin is the most successful actor of his time. Handsome, rugged, witty and very charming. He meets Peppy Miller, a perfectly named wannabe actress/dancer played by long-stemmed Argentine beauty Berenice Bejo. As the silent film era transitions to "talkies", Valentin doesn't. At the same time, the adorable Peppy rises to the top. Valentin loses his fortune after his self financed final film tanks and the stock market crashes. It's 1929 and George is penniless, yet still proud and defiant. After a struggle with the bottle he attempts suicide but is eventually saved by his very cute dog and then by Peppy.  While their relationship remains chaste throughout, there is a smoldering fire within each of them. Initially, George's marriage gets in the way, but his wife (Penelope Ann Miller) leaves him before all his money is lost. I watch lot of old black and white movies and even silent ones, so I was not in shock seeing this film. What may be surprising is that once you get past that, there is a wonderful romantic drama delivered by two talented actors.  Update:  Winning the Oscar for best picture as well as lead actor and director, "The Artist" seemed needing a second look.  Knowing the story pretty well I tried to focus on the technical aspects of the film.  One of the things I noticed early on was the staging.  And for the most part they got it spot on.  There is one scene where George (Jean Dujardin) is leaving the executive studio after pitching his new movie and he runs into Peppy (Berenice Bejo) on a stairwell heading the opposite direction. The facade of the office is just like they did it during the silent era.  I also noticed the title cards carry longer pieces of dialog than they did in the 1920's, and were better synched.  They also were in view for a much briefer period.  I guess we are expected to be faster readers.  Dujardin did deserve his acting award, managing to run the full range of emotion without using words, but I was a little surprised he did win.  I say this for the same reason Ms. Bejo didn't.  Neither is well known on this side of the pond and was up against some beloved actors.  Bejo certainly deserved her nomination and in fact has just about as much screen time as Dujardin, so her nomination as supporting actress is another one of the Academy head-scratchers.  Also worth mentioning are true supporting roles played by James Cromwell as a chauffeur for both stars, John Goodman as a film producer/director and of course Uggy, the Jack Russell terrier who steals every scene he's in.  This is a beautiful film to watch even with a reliable story line.  Remarkably unusual, yet familiar.

Well Done Interpretation of Terrific John Grisham Novel One of the reasons I love John Grisham is that he not only writes about lawyers, he writes about smart people. People who win out on the strength of their quick wits. This time it's a white female law student and a black male reporter who solve the mystery and save the day.  First, there are the murders of two supreme court justices which threaten to dangerously tip the balance of the court due to the president's appointment of two very different sorts into those positions. Denzel Washington is an investigative reporter who is following up on this story.  Julia Roberts plays the student who wrote The Pelican Brief, detailing the sinister plot to drill for oil in a wetlands area where pelicans breed. What do these two investigations have to do with one another? Well, the Supreme Court must rule on preserving the wetlands and prohibiting oil drilling. But surely no one would be evil enough to murder just for that, right?  Wrong. There's a decidedly liberal slant to the story, but the adventure and investigation, the cleverness and the courage involved, make for a compelling story. That the law student is beautiful and falling rapidly in love with her professor is an additional complication. Will he stick to his lament that he's too old for her, or succumb to her charms?  Terrible bad guys, brave good guys (and girls), and quite a movie, overall.

Funny...at times Although I rated this 4 stars, be warned that at times the episodes just carry on and on with no laughs. However, some episodes like Mafia, Happy Hour, and Murder are non stop laughter through the entire episode. The packaging on this is very good and the extras are as funny as the episodes themselves. This DVD is great! Pros- -Lots of episodes -Special Features -Packaging  Cons- -Slow at times

Couples Retreat I love this movie. If one is willing to look past what is expected and be pleasantly surprised of a tough couples sell in a cold Illinois winter leading to beautiful Bora Bora, one will be entertained and have moments that make one go hmmm. That is the audience may see something they haven't thought about before. For instance, the shark attack where Vince Vaughn's wife appears to be the victim when in actuality, the actor truly is and his complaint and feelings are overlooked and minimized. Then he is expected to attend her trip to the waterfall, in addition to, "Going to Applebees" comment or the divorced couples' conversation, "It wasn't as if you walked out of a bar!" This film can be touching such as the inability to conceive, yet could go deeper than the surface material of each couples' marital woes. The therapy sessions are humorous but sometimes miss the point of what is causing the marital strife for the counselors tend to focus on emotion and feelings completely.

Completely surprised I was just skulking thru Amazon movies one night and decided to give this a try. This movie has an interesting prison concept set to film.Turns out it was quite good. Not too much crazy action, but some. More subtle than overt humor. Totally worth my time.

Funny movie This movie was very [silly] funny.  I remember watching the original series and was pleasantly surprised that they were able to get the original actors to have cameos in one way or another. I will not give spoilers, however, if you're a fan of the original show this was a good watch.

Gotta Love Q This is one of my favorite characters in the Star Trek universe.  To find all the Q episodes in one collection was very satisfying.  It was a great pleasure to spend a couple of afternoons simply watching Q in all his aggravating glory!

Kind of a prequel to Alien I say kind of because it is not a direct prequel.  You do not see tons of Aliens running around on the planet.  I would best describe the story in Alien as an offshoot to this one.  There are certainly elements of Alien in the film, and you can see where Alien picks up after this. If however you are looking for a story that leads right into the other movie, this is not it.  Taste in a movie like this will be totally subjective.  If you are not a fan of Alien or Aliens (or similar movies) you are probably not going to like this.  As I said before, if you are looking for a direct tie in, and are expecting it to be exactly like Alien, you will probably be disappointed by this.  This movie does have its own story apart from the Alien aspect which, if another movie is made, will likely be the focus.  If you read any of Ridley Scott's comments about the film before it came out, you can tell what he meant after seeing it.  As for the story, it is really about the origins of humanity.  I will not give too much of the story away, but it explores the possibility that humans were created by a race called "Engineers" seen briefly in Alien as the dead Space Jockey.  The ship travels to what the crew thinks is the home world of the Engineers only to find them gone and clues to what happened to them.  It definitely sticks to some of the horror and sci-fi movie cliches.  There are stupid decisions made left and right by the characters, and if those kind of things bug you about a movie, this one will too.  There is not a lot of character development (not that there was a ton in the original movie either) so you do not really find yourself rooting for anyone.  I do think it is a solid enough story that if it is continued it has potential to be very good and go in a lot of different directions.  If you can look past the weak points and not set your hopes too high on the Alien aspect of the film I think you can still find this enjoyable.

perfect game Great Movie,Brand new like they said it would be. I remember when this boys came to my town to play ball.felt good seeing the movie and remembering those days of being young.

Such a fun movie! Yeah, it's cheesy...in some ways. But as another review noted, it seems kind of aware of that fact. Not only that, but some of the bit parts in this movie take what could have been a disaster and turned it into something pretty believable (as far as evil genies go).  It's basically similar in tone to a lot of those "What if" shows like The Twilight Zone, Beyond Belief, but with higher production values. It may be relatively low budget in terms of major motion pictures, but the special effects are pretty damn cool even today. At no point in this movie did I feel at all like shutting it off. You have to see it through to the end. It's no masterpiece...but it's such a good time to watch, I imagine especially with a group of other people.

A nice story, nicely told This is a very nice story about Nessie, good for young and old alike.  The movie/story is a little dark at times, but that gives it its poignancy.  The story gets several levels of complexity from the young protagonist (and the supporting cast around him) and it is very exciting to see them get it so right.  Picture AND sound quality in this blu-ray are both very good.  The multi-channel sound stage in particular draws you in like a magnet.  Be warned that the "accents" of some actors is quite heavy (especially those playing Scotts) but do not be afraid to activate the subtitles.  There are a few extra featurettes to amuse the curious.

Very Strange, Very Funny This is another one I don't know why I avoided it for so long. I think I may have mixed it up with the Blues Brothers, if that was the name: the one done by John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. Anyway, this is a very good movie. Just a little too silly on the science fiction part to qualify for five stars, but great fun.  K (Tommy Lee Jones) works for "Division 6," he tells some border guards as he manages to select out one of a load of illegal aliens that really is an illegal alien. As in from outer space. But he tells different things to different people, and one of the border guards is certain that there is no Division 6.  Due to his amazing performance, K recruits James Edwards of the NYPD (Will Smith), who then becomes J. The only other name you might recognize is Zed, played by Rip Torn. He was quite the heart throb when he was young, but that was a long, long time ago.  Since their job is to keep track of all the aliens on the planet, most of whom are refugees and live peacefully disguised, there are lots of opportunities for great sight gags, like when J helps in the birth of a baby alien who really is cute. It's a pretty harrowing experience, but mother, baby and J all come through it OK.  Central to the function of the MiB unit is a device like a penlight flashlight that wipes the memories of those involved in encounters. Keep your eye on that "light thingie," as it turns out to be pretty important all around.  It's a very, very funny movie, but also real adventure.  Also keep your eye on the cat.

A Christmas Carol, the same but different I liked it.  I own many many versions of the story, and each brings an interesting interpretation of the various characters, most notably, Scrooge.  I thought this particular version to be more appropriate to kids over 8 yrs of age.  It brought a tear to my eye, and Jim Carey did a great job - I would not have recognized his voice at all and his interpration of Scrooge's personality and character was well done.

Murder One second season The main lawyer from season one was cut.  He was my favorite part of the first season, however the second season was also good.

"Cranford Compared woth both "Bleak House" and "Little Dorrit," 'tis not as good ; however, like most of the productions on PBS, "Cranford" was outstanding in contrast to almost all other televised shows.  In fact, I have ordered and have received "Return to Cranford."

Garrison Keillor is a treasure At times laconic, at times heartfelt and funny throughout, this documentary is just like the show. If you love Prairie, you'll love this. I never knew what most of the cast looked like before, but now I do. After seeing this, I find I really want to go to a live taping the next time he's in my neck of the woods!

Memories. I enjoyed this when it was out on TV.  Looked for years.  Finally found it.  It is as good as I remember.

I DIDN'T KNOW I WAS THAT GOOD LOOKING... There is nothing like getting cozy with a warm and fuzzy Danny Trejo vigilante film with a hot cup of cocoa made with my Keurig coffee machine bought on the Amazon. Oh Wait! I'm not in the vine program. Never mind.  Danny Trejo, ex-Vietnam war vet, hot dog stand entrepreneur, becomes a reluctant vigilante after his war buddy Klondike (Harrison Page) was murdered. The police are dragging their feet on the investigation. The movie compares him to Charles Bronson, but at times he is more like Harry Brown. Ron Perlman has a minor role as the crooked mayor. Very cliche filled film.  It attempts to be funny, but can really only muster mild humor. Perhaps the funniest aspect is how our tough BA vigilante takes the bus everywhere he has to go to find the bad guys. This is not the grindhouse style Trejo fans are used to seeing, although it does turn bloody after a slow start. It is worth a rental.  Frequent F-bomb, brief sex, brief nudity

Touching and sad Excellent performances by Amitabh Bachchan and Akshay Kumar. Akshay is at his goofy best as the spoiled son of an indulgent father. Amitabh moves from playful to angry to distraught convincingly.  A bit long in some places, the movie is good overall. Keep tissues handy for after the intermission.

Umm... So, half of me thinks this movie is disgusting and horrible.  I seriously wanted to give many of those involved a good shake.  Yet, between the revulsion and annoyance, I found the movie hilarious.  Not quite The Hangover funny, but funny.  As a girl, I also found it strangely accurate about how crazy people can get during weddings.  That thing with one bridesmaid trying to supplant the maid of honor?  Happened at my last wedding.  I actually think it's a good movie to watch with the newly engaged.  Does that make me mean?

New fascination story It's quite a while ago when I watched this movie. I did watch all movies of this series but have to say that number one is actually the best by far.  Why? It was a new story, everything was new fascinating and surprising. All the other followed the same kind of story. There was no surprise anymore :-(  It's the same as with Matrix.  Number one: Wow, Number two and three... same story different pictures.

Mortal Kombat: Legacy This title was a long time in the making, at least for me. The last film from this series came out way back in 1997. So, there was a great deal of anticipation when I first noticed it on Amazon, and this item specifically was topped off rather pleasantly, considering I got lucky, and got it on Blu-Ray. The only reason I gave it a 4 star rating was because I didn't know that it wasn't going to actually be a movie, but a series with chapters that had originated online earlier this year, and I also found the chapter of Raiden quite disturbing. Anyways, for the most part, I'm very glad that I purchased it.

What If This Would Have Been The Original? After following up the incredible "Silence of the Lambs" with a very-lacking "Hannibal", the Hannibal Lecter series of films goes back to its origins with "Red Dragon". The results are much more enjoyable (if a bit repetitive), making one wonder what might have happened had THIS been the original?  For a basic plot summary, "Red Dragon" takes place before the events of "Lambs". Brilliant young FBI agent Will Graham (Edward Norton) finally captures the mysterious Hannibal (Anthony Hopkins), but sustains wounds both psychological and physical in the process. Fast-forward a few years into the future, and Graham must revisit Lecter in order to solve the gruesome "Tooth Fairy" (Ralph Fiennes) murders.  Clearly, director Brett Ratner studied the faults of "Hannibal" and made sure not to include them in this third installment. This time, the plot takes the same basic form as the original, only with a new killer and agent. This results in a much better overall narrative and interesting movie. Basically, if you enjoyed "Lambs" then this one will give you a similar experience.  Why isn't this film regarded as more of a classic, then? Well, frankly it is because it already WAS done before in "Lambs"! In effect, its greatest strength is also what prevents it from being a true classic. It is (almost quite literally) a "Cut, Copy, Paste" of the original format. This is good in comparison to "Hannibal", but by definition it just can't quite attain the success of "Lambs", since the original is always the original.  Overall, then, "Red Dragon" is a solid movie that, truth be told, probably resurrected the Hannibal series of movies and gave it some hope for a future. It completely goes back to its roots to tell an interesting story, and it succeeds in utilizing Hopkins to his fullest. It just won't go on your "best of" list because "Lambs" is already there. One has to wonder, though, what could have happened if this plot would have been the original...?

celebrate life, dance on a grave sure...like any ghost story, this movie calls for a suspension of disbelief. and it focuses on some really dumb people doing stupid things. i've seen these comments on other reviews of this film. and you can't argue with the truth. still, all ghost/horror movies call for these qualities to some extent. when have you ever had to watch a horror movie when you didn't find yourself yelling at the screen at least once, "no, lady! don't open that door!" and of course, the lady in the movie is always stupid enough to open the door.....the flick wouldn't be nearly as entertaining if she didn't. this movie is no exception. after a friend's funeral, three clowns who haven't seen each other since college decide to get drunk at the cemetery (which as one reviewer pointed out, does indeed have a misspelled sign)....spurred on by the most brash clown in the crowd who thinks he's cool (obligatory to all these films) and a calling card left on the grave, these drunken fools dance on the graves of people buried in the section reserved for "undesirables".....classic horror movie fare, as the spirits of those who have been disrespected come back to terrorize the desicraters of their graves. an interesting premise for a film like this. throw in a married guy tempted by a hot ex-lover who still wants him to give it that "real people with real-people problems" feel that all these flicks lean on, and the recipe grows more interesting. there are some good scary scenes. the special effects are good. the tension and suspense grows at just the right pace. the story is told from a good viewpoint. the actors deliver a 4-star ghost movie script in believable fashion. the ghosts are evil and scary. overall, this movie delivers what a film like this is supposed to provide its audience....an entertaining, thrilling and sometimes scary ghost flick! i was entertained...with some thrills and chills along the way. i think a few of the other reviewers either don't like ghost movies or they've become over-critical and jaded by the amount of really bad flicks that are out now....and admittedly, there are a lot of bad flicks out now. this is not the greatest ghost flick ever made....but it is a very worthy 4-star ghost/horror flick with a misspelled cemetery sign, a good script and a great line-up of actors who do a wonderful job playing some really stupid characters.....in short, it's an entertaining and reasonably well-done horror flick........again, it does call for a certain suspension of disbelief, as do all flicks of this genre, but if you want reality, stay home and watch big brother on tv. so, lighten up......celebrate life, have a few drinks and go dance on a grave. you'll be glad you did...........

it's just plain fun! Admittedly, some of the thrill is lost when you're watching a 3-D movie on a regular TV. Gnomeo and Juliet seemed much more vivid on the 'big screen'. But it's still so lively and full of color. Kids will stay entertained, and adults who like CGI animation (and lots of kitsch) will enjoy the constant chaos in the two over-the-top gardens. As a gnome collector, I was so excited to hear about a film totally devoted to my favorite lawn ornaments. It surpassed my expectations. The clinky sounds when gnomes hit the concrete on little clay feet. Their daily business of gardening, fishing, and tending to lawn bunnies and frogs. The cattiness between Mr. Capulet and Mrs. Montague. The pink flamingo sub-plot. 'Bennie and the Jets' surprising me when Benny the gnome dances on keys on his owner's Banana computer. As an Elton John fan, I liked hearing new takes on old favorites. I didn't mind the happy ending. Most people seem to feel either delight or contempt when they see a garden gnome; there's nothing tragic about them. Kids don't have to watch star-crossed gnome lovers die in order to learn about loss here; there's enough sadness when the flamingo tells his story about his long-lost love. (And when Gnomeo and Juliet are briefly presumed dead, anyway.) The most obvious lesson in the film is the one about accepting differences. My friend took her biracial child to see the film, and they liked that the 'red hats' and 'blue hats' learned to be happy together. I can't help but wonder how Shakespeare might have reacted to this pretty loose interpretation of his play. But it isn't entirely mindless, and it's one of those visual delights that I'll watch often enough to make a DVD purchase worthwhile.

Still a work in progress I was a little disappointed with this season. It's still Star Trek and it still had some interesting stories but I guess I expected a but more of a jump in quality. On the positive side, the "away" sets were a bit less cheesy than in the first season, some of the shows carried their momentum through to the end better than in the first season, a number of long-term character issues were introduced and there were some really good shows exploring the status of Data. Unfortunately, in spite of this, there were a few episodes that were real duds that most fans don't rate very highly such as the last episode with a lot of clips included and the episode where the crew gets stuck in the re-creation of a casino. Finally, I would say that while the acting and stories were generally of improving quality, there were some points where the premise of a scene was a bit preposterous. I thought the episode where Data was on trial to determine his status as a person and the show where aliens who are not that bright kidnap Geordi seemed especially hard to believe even in the Star Trek setting. In spite of some of these growing pains, most fans of the show would agree that this is a pretty solid season and that there are some beloved episodes included. The episode where the ship meets the Borg for the first time is probably considered the top episode for this season. If you are a fan of Star Trek, you will enjoy this season because it is the one where the characters really start to settle into their own and develop some of the characteristics and issues that were of interest in later seasons.

Great movie This is a great show, if a little corny, but the best part for me is the song "Itsy Bitsy Spider" run over the credits.

deadwood series this series is intense and very real.  it represents the wiley ways of early politics in the western life of building a town.  a little tooooo much swearing but if you can get around it a great series

Voluntary suspension of disbelief I loved this movie so much, but I confess I had to stop asking myself, 'how could that be?', "why", and 'but, if". Just accept the basic premise of a time warp or parallel universes, and enjoy the fantasy. Sandra Bullock is as luminous as I have ever seen her, Keneau is wonderful, and the chemistry and emotions are spellbinding. Having always loved architecture myself, I reveled in how the various homes, projects, plans and dreams interwove between persons, times and relationships. A great movie to make you want to believe in love again!

very depressing. I loved Harry Potter from the start. But this movie need a really dark room with little or no lights on. It is a very depressing Movie. I still think that Harry (older, later) should marry Hermione. Glad to see Ron grow up a lot The entire series were amazing but this and the Half Blood Prince were by far te most depressing.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001UV4XHY">Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1</a>

Yes, She Eats the Pie! I was part of a packed, vocal, enthusiastic screening audience who appreciated every minute of this marvelous snapshot of the segregated 60s in Jackson, Mississippi, when Jim Crow laws were still in effect.  The stories, based on Kathryn Stockett's phenomenally successful (and beloved) novel, are female-centric, as they focus on the relationships among the women, black and white, employee and employer, complete with abuse of power, sincere affection, bitchiness, and well-founded fear. The men in the audience were equally vocal because men in this story are not demonized: Racism and ignorance are the villains here.  The casting is to die for:   * Viola Davis ("It's Kind of a Funny Story") is Aibileen, the heart, brains and soul of this wonderful story.   * Emma Stone ("Crazy, Stupid, Love") is Skeeter, the well-meaning young wannabe writer. She is told by her New York publisher to hurry with her book about black domestics working for prominent white families, before "this whole civil-rights thing blows over."   * Octavia Spencer ("Dinner For Schmucks") is Minny, who has most of the funny lines. I know the word "sassy" is overworked, but this sister is sassy! And in case you read the book, YES, she does bake that pie! (Spencer won an Oscar for this role.)   * Bryce Dallas Howard ("Hereafter") is Hilly, the witch we love to hate. Her comeuppance can't come any too soon and is greeted with cheers from the audience.   * Jessica Chastain ("Jolene") is Celia, the lost soul taken under the warm wing of her maid where she learns some necessary survival skills.   * Allison Janney ("Life During Wartime") is Charlotte, our writer's mother, who has her own heart-breaking story.   * Sissy Spacek ("Get Low") is Missus Walters, she just wants Ambrosia salad, a bit of sherry and her "soaps." Her glee when her nasty daughter hits a rough patch is infectious.   * Cicely Tyson ("Why Did I Get Married Too?") is Constantine, the elderly domestic who is wrongfully fired.   * David Oyelowo ("The Rise of the Planet of the Apes") is Preacher Green, the local neighborhood preacher. This adroit actor was born in the U.K.  I'm frustrated because time and space do not permit me to include all the deserving names. Suffice it to say, the talent in this cast is broad and deep.  This PG-13 film has no profanity; domestic abuse is only implied; and you will see no gunfights, car chases or blowie uppie stuff. Teenagers can learn what our world was like just a few short decades ago. They will be shocked! I've ordered my copy from Amazon.

An Unexpected Barrel of Awkward Laughs I rented this on Amazon On Demand for free after purchasing something else.  I must say, though, that for the right price, this would be a great movie to rent.  Such awkward hilarity ensues when John C. Riley starts dating Marisa Tomei, and upsets her grown son, Jonah Hill.  This is no Step Brothers, if that's what you're thinking.  The jokes and comedy from this comes at you in a whole different matter that, in the end, is quite rewarding.  I tend to hate awkward moments in films, but even with numerous moments, I was quite satisfied with this.

Daughter LOVED it!!! My daughter loves this movie and although we are able to get it on Netflix whenever she wants to watch it she just had to have it in her collection!!!!

A good way to start out a hair journey I'm African American and I watched this movie shortly after starting my "hair journey." I'm from the south so maybe that's why the stereotypes made me laugh and think "wow that's true" instead of cringe but it was a good movie. Several topics should have been talked about deeper and not just touched on but Chris did have a point to make and he made it. Although a lot of people say this movie offended them and it shouldn't have been made, I don't think it was made for the well informed. I think this movie was made to tell others the lengths that black women go through in order to "tame" their hair. It's about the money spent, the time taken, and the hoops that black women make themselves and their children go through in order to achieve the unachieveable perfection and win the battle with their hair. The movie does go a little deeper towards the "weave" section in detailing where 100% Indian hair comes from (some of it of course, probably not all of it) and it made a friend of mine who was thinking about getting said hair think twice and reevaluate her decision. I truly think of the documentary as more of an entertaining movie because some things were very unrealistic and, as I said before, certain topics were kind of introduced but not ever properly dealt with but Chris had a question and he answered it according to his research and opinion.

Great movie, few extras This is a really good movie and Bridges is fantastic in it. Got it for my brother for Christmas and I'm sure he'll love it. It doesn't sound like the dvd has many extras, though.

Familiar Story on Stranger Tides! [This review is the theatrical release.]  With a mix of historical fact, some mythology and lots of suspension of disbelief, I enjoyed watching Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.  Themes & Plot:  I like how the movie starts out with an imposter Jack Sparrow, rumors of putting a crew together and various secret plans and maps to find Ponce de Leon's fountain of youth.  The problem with the fountain is that you steal another's life and gain their years.  It's not a simple matter of taking a drink.  Interesting myth-making here.  The tear from a mermaid, two silver goblets and a victim.  Piece of cake!  The character driven story was much more involved than the special effects CGI-fest of the past films.  I was a bit surprised at the rocky Florida coast and lighthouse castle (rocky coasts in Florida??) and enjoyed the pirates Blackbeard and the one-legged pirate played by Ian McShane.  Penelope Cruz as the sexy pirate was also fun to watch - but really, I doubt women at the time were ever permitted onboard these vessels as officers, much less there at all!  The life aboard ship was antiseptic as is expected from a Disney film.  The "zombie-fied" slavers whipping the boys into shape, the sexy but deadly mermaids and the various subplots, such as the romance between mermaid and minister - made for a well-paced film.  There are a few slow points and that's why a four rather than a five star film.  The acting was well-done, the special effects were good without being overdone, and the discoveries of various creatures and activities was interesting as well as the supernatural.  The Spanish explorers were into destroying what they considered pagan or supernatural, which is in conformance with their historical voyages of destruction of the native peoples' cultures in this area.  Bottom Line:  More character driven than the others; recaptured for me the pacing and the art of telling a story that the first film had.  Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz make a great couple.  And the in-credits scene opens the door for yet another sequel!  Other Pirate Films in the Series:  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004D8P230">Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy (Seven-Disc Blu-ray)</a>

English History Comes Alive in a Unique Perspective Well, perhaps it was losing the American colonies that did it to him, but one revealing historical note is that his urine was blue, suggesting he was suffering from porphyria, a hereditary disease that runs in the English royal family.  It causes mental disorientation.  But if the illness had not made him mad, the treatment certainly would have. Remember that this was in the days of cupping and bleeding and treating mental patients rather like animals. Experimental animals, in fact. Much of the story centers around the barbarity of the treatment the king received.  Most of the rest was the fact that the Prince of Wales, also named George, was impatient for power. He plotted to get his father put away in a mental hospital, and then had his friends propose he be named regent: that is, king in all but name. The king's "handlers" did not want to tell him of the bill brought before the house of lords, but Queen Charlotte, who loved her "Mr. King" as much has he loved his "Mrs. King," brought a copy of the bill to him and he rallied to return to London just in time.  That's the basic outline, but the details are what make the movie, along with the lush settings and costumes, some terribly clever by-play which is not so much as to make the movie a comedy, but just the sort of touch of comic relief as makes Shakespeare's most serious plays tolerable. In fact, part of the king's recovery had him reading "King Lear" in the garden with a gentleman, a lord and the doctor. He made the lord play the female role!  I think it is pretty accurate historically, but I confess I don't know enough English history to be sure. I was especially inspired by one line King George used to describe his recovery: "I have remembered how to seem."

joyfulnoise this movie was a great movie with lots of singing and a great cast i felt happy after watching this movie it was a feel good movie

good Really good movie. Jake is so cute in this movie. Anne gives a really good performance. Good storyline, and good acting. Romance and Comedy. Can't miss.

Down Musical Memory Lane- the 70s These were formative years for us and the photos and interviews and videos are very fun. Wish there had been more, but am glad for what they were able to put together here.

One terrifying scary movie. This is a great horror flick from believe around 2005 well worth checking out so castrophobic and non stop suspense in second half keep you on edge seat may even need to pause as good as The Exorcist must see again an again to get full feel of movie ok.

Laugh-a-Minute Spectacle Perhaps the most unintentionally funny movie of all time, T10C is a riot of bad acting, overblown bravado and, more seriously, one of the great injustices to the ancient Egyptian culture, ever committed to film in the guise of history.  T10C is the ultimate guilty pleasure, if for nothing more than some incredible production values, from costumes and set design and special effects (which by the way still look great), to color and sheer spectacle.  Sure, it's easy to poke more holes in the historical accuracy of this mound of Swiss Cheese; the Hebrews were not slaves in Egypt, they did not build the pyramids and they were not yet a united nation of one race of people at that time.  But, oh, what fun to see Northern Europeans and Americans parade around as Egyptians, (even Yul  "I could play any ethnic group"  Bryner, who, btw  is of Russian descent), and  anglo-saxons portraying dessert bedouins, (complete with blue eyes!).  You may tempt the "belching" Yahweh on the distant extinct volcano mountain, where resides a certain burning bush, if you try  to accept this as a glimpse into the real history of the Jewish/Hebrew people. It's as fake as the myth behind the movie. But, such is the power of fairy tales, even today, 4000 years later.  Baxter can hardly keep a straight face with such dialogue as, "Are her lips dry as the desert sands, or red, and moist...like a pomegranate?".  But she is a delight. Her performance is camp-classic, and you would be hard pressed to ever take your eyes off of her. And I'll bet you she knew this stunk when she was doing the film.  Heston is, as usual, clueless and full of his pompous self.  This man was at the height of his masculine handsomeness, but dumb as a post.  (see Ben Hur).  Or how about old movie Queen villain Vincent Price demanding that Joshua, portrayed by the breathtakingly beautiful John Derek, (matched in looks by the perfection of Debra Paget), be "tied between the columns tightly", so he may feel the sting of Vinnie's whip!.  Get a load of the phallic whip handle Price puts to Derek's glistening chest and face! Hello?  DeMille had some serious psycho-sexual hangups to be sure.  Sure, it is 50's anti-communist propaganda, directed by the most anti-semetic, (the only actual Jew in the primary cast is E.G. Robinson and he plays the wormy, greedy  Jewish, money hungry traitor villain),  rabidly anti-communist, pro-Christian Fundamentalist director of the early 20th Century. But, it is 100% fun from start to finish. Total crap, but total fun.  DeMille was a great movie-tecnician and a horrible person in real life. Many Jews in  1950's  Hollywood were victims of his anti-communist fervor.  Just take T10C with a grain of a giant Pillar of Salt, and you'll be fine.  The Blu-Ray is stunning.  One of the best restorations of a 60+ year old film to digital medium to date.  This is eye-candy to die-for. And the movie has never looked better. The audio is perfect.  Turn up the volume, pop some un-leaven popcorn, eat some bitter herbs, ask why this night is different from all other nights and enjoy the movie every Passover/Easter season.  Kudos to 20th Century Fox for the effort to preserve this great, if weird, bit of film "history".  Just be wary of the underlying mid-50's propaganda (Pro-Israeli/Anti Communist) the film was intended to promote to the film going audience at the time, and perhaps even today.  A must own on Blu-Ray.

great dvd Not sure how but they got a super performance out of this girl.  She really communicated how it must feel to be an orphan and always a fish out of water, wherever she goes.  The adoptive parents she wound up with turned out to be just what she needed.  She reminds me of the heroine in Jane Eyre...always speaking the truth, not able to take the easy way out of any situation and smart enough to make decent decisions, most of the time.  Things seem to have gone awfully easy for her once she lands with the PIE brother and sister farming couple but the story lets her maintain her connection with the farm and the community she grew to love.  Watch this one several times, it's always a good trip.

Good Christmas Classic Movie This dvd was purchased to replace my vhs version.  It is a good Christmas classic that I enjoy watching every December.

Something to watch This movie has plenty of suspense and the story is great, with Laurence Fishburne and Gwyneth Paltow plays a marvellous role with susporting cast making it better still. All about a virus with a bit of this and that thrown in for good measure and people trying to control it, thats it, no more not going to spoil a great movie by telling you everything. Thoughly entertaining enjoyable from the beginning to the end. Get the drinks and munchies ready and try to rest on your armchair while watching this controling deadly show.

I like Johnny Depp I like Johnny Depp movies they are all quirky and I think funny.  I did enjoy this movie like I did the rest of his movies and I would recommend it to anyone who like Johnny Depp!

Solid Have read many of Robert Parker's books. The Jesse Stone series is well written and Tom Selleck does an excellent job and anchors the movie.

Give it a rest and Enjoy! I know I'm in the minority, but I actually liked this movie!  I've been a huge fan of the Green Lantern comics since I was a kid (I'm 50) and was thrilled to see it come to life on the big screen.  I felt it lived up to my expectations.  Many of these reviews are comparing Green Lantern to other comic-based movies.  Is that fair?  It's a movie, in it's own right.  We watch THIS movie, and not four others side-by-side.  Was this as good as Iron Man?  No.  Better than Daredevil?  Yes.  How does it compare to the X-Men movies?  Better than some, worse than others.  Does it really matter?!  If we're going to rate it based on comparisons, let's really compare it to all the movies out there.  If you didn't know who Green Lantern was before going to the movie, you definitely got some back story, some adventure, some action, some very good digital effects.  What more do you want?  Could it have been better?  Yes.  Could it have been worse?  Yes.  I had fun, I enjoyed it, and the telling point of this, I think, is that I enjoyed it enough to want to own a copy for my home to watch it again.  This particular version of the movie is the Blu-ray 3D version.  I happen to be a tremendous fan of 3D and was delighted with the effects in this film.  As to the digital/streaming/ultra-violet crap...others have written much about this.  WB should probably be fined for false advertising.  Fortunately, my purchase was not made for this particular venture.  In fact, I'd rather they left it off altogether and saved me $5 on my purchase.

Blu-ray Review: "Big Top Scooby-Doo!" The poor Mystery, Inc. gang never can catch a break. No matter where they're headed, monsters and mayhem seem to find them. 43 years after his first appearance, Scooby-Doo still has a nose for mysteries. Warner Bros. Home Entertainment gives fans of the crime fighting canine and his ever youthful sidekicks a new feature length animated movie entitled "Big Top Scooby-Doo!"  The circus ringleader of the Brancusi Circus reaches out to the Scooby gang for help after a werewolf attacks attendees of the greatest show on Earth. The hairy beast has a healthy appetite for jewelry. Mystery Inc. must solve the mystery by joining the circus. Daphne the clown, Fred the trapeze artist, Velma the human rocket, ringmaster Shaggy, and trick dog Scooby-Doo must discover the truth behind the thieving wolf man and bring him to justice.  "Big Top Scooby-Doo!" is an entertaining and satisfying entry into the talking dog's adventures. It has to be a challenge to come up with original concepts and ideas for an animated franchise that's been around as long as Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo. You'd think every mystery and creepy caper under the sun has been exploited by now.  Somehow, the creative teams for these straight-to-DVD movies continue to churn out fresh stories or well-disguised recycled ones that play off as new. Kids and their parents continue to buy and watch them, guaranteeing that we'll have no shortage of Scooby on DVD or TV in the near future.  For those who don't keep up, there are basically three different Scooby-Doo universes. There's the live-action world with its own flair and cast of characters. "Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated" has the group solving mysteries in their hometown of Crystal Cove, which is a haven of esoteric activity.  "Big Top Scooby-Doo" falls into the last universe which is the original started in 1969. There's no Shaggy / Velma dating awkwardness, wacky parents, bumbling sheriffs, or diabolical talking birds to wade through. This is the good old-fashioned Scooby we all grew up on and love.  The Blu-ray + DVD combo pack of "Big Top Scooby-Doo!" features three bonus episodes including ones from "Scooby-Doo! Where Are You?" and "Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated." They add another 70 minutes of value to this first class Blu-ray release from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.  Fans of Scooby-Doo will love this 18th entry in the franchise. "Big Top Scooby-Doo!" is the perfect choice for a family movie night. It will appeal to viewers young and old. It's definitely recommended for your Halloween viewing list.

Vegucated This film is very inspiring but delves into the details as well. It has restored my faith in the world to see people who are prepared to act on their compassion.

Red The main cast of characters are a bunch of Old Farts like myself. Their having fun in a movie that has it's share of good scenes, as well as improbable events, was certainly an entertaining way to pass an evening as compred to some nights when there is ABSOLUTLEY nothing on TV worth using up electricity;  74 year Old Fart from Southington,Ohio

Great movie This is a great movie if you like mockumentaries. arived quicker than I expected. my only complaint was that its in one of those cardboard style dvd cases with the plastic flap that holds it shut and the case was a little smashed other wise we'd have a 5* product.

Nice This is a quaint, pleasant adaption of the Hobbit...which is a quaint, pleasant book. Yes the animation style is rustic, but I feel like it suits the material quite well. Pixar this is not, but I actually find that a bit refreshing. The artistic style and the color palette really fit most of the characters and landscapes. I think that Bilbo is great. (The elves are very, very weird, and do not appear to be related to Orlando Bloom.) Some of the enemy character-groups are a bit on the "silly" cartoonish side, but it all works, and really stays true to Tolkein's story. A few elements are missing (Beorn, arkenstone), but the screenplay was not changed in contradictory ways. The music is really nice. There is a recurring "Bilbo's theme" song, and I very much appreciate the inclusion some of the lyrics and poems right out of the book. The only thing that I really do not like about this film is the portrayal of Smaug, which feels like a bad '80s cop movie version, complete with back hair (why???) and a jarring kind of psychotic macho man voice. I picture Smaug as being more hypnotically smooth and imperious (and without hair or fur - reptile anyone?). But maybe that's just me. I would recommend this both as a faithful, artistically tasteful adaption of the novel, and as a good not-too-scary choice for children.

A very unique film. This is not you're regular animated movie. First off it is a western with birds, lizards,etc. as your characters and second it seems to be more geared towards adults than childern. The most surprising thing is it really works. Johnny Depp did a really good job at voicing Rango. He brings alot to the character just through his voice, it is really amazing.

The Dean Martin Double Feature - Who Was That Lady / How To Save A Marriage WHO WAS THAT LADY is a 1960 zany comedy with Dean Martin, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, Tony Curtis' wife at the time.  When you toss in the FBI, the CIA and the Russian Intelligence operatives (I use the word intelligence loosely here), you have a comedic first strike.  Curtis is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University who is caught by his wife kissing a foreign exchange student.  Martin is his best friend who's a writer at CBS who cooks up a hare-brained scheme to convince the wife that her boring husband is a top FBI agent.  With the CBS prop department providing FBI credentials and a revolver, the game is afoot.  When the prop master realizes that the FBI credentials were not being used for a show, he contacts the FBI.  James Whitmore plays the stoic FBI agent who investigates.  Of course he gets involved with the antics of Curtis and Martin, especially at the Chinese restaurant with shots fired and television news cameras rolling.  The ending in the basement of the Empire State Building is classic.  This black and white 115-minute vehicle delivers a great time if you are into old comedies.  Picture and sound quality are excellent.  4 stars  HOW TO SAVE A MARRIAGE (And Ruin Your Life) is a classic battle of the sexes.  Dean Martin finds himself embroiled in the battle when he attempts to help his old army buddy save his marriage.  Mistaken identify leads Martin to assume that Stella Stevens is the mistress of his army buddy, Eli Wallach. Martin sets out to woo Stevens in order to save Wallach's marriage.  Of course Wallach's mistress is Anne Jackson (his wife in real life) who lives next door to Stevens.  A comedy of errors follows for both men.  Betty Field is wonderful as Thelma, the landlady, whose cynical attitude rubs off on Stevens and Jackson.  She has a special moment near the end of the film which is pure irony.  One of the best comedic scenes happens in a church cemetery. It is hysterical.  New York City is the setting.  Michael Legrand's music suits this film well, especially the song--Winds of Change--with the Ray Conniff Singers.  It's one of those late 60s romantic songs which is fitting for this late 60s romantic comedy. Picture and sound quality are excellent.  4 stars

Pretty Good Story Line! Do see Story line and the scenary was pretty good.  I'm glad I purchased it.  Come on Syfy channel, make more interesting sci-fi pics! Come back to life.

a cornucopia of visual delights Given his flair for the whimsical, the surrealistic, and the preposterous, Tim Burton would seem the ideal choice to direct a modern movie version of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." And turns out he is. (Terry Gilliam and Guillermo del Toro, whose "Pan's Labyrinth" was already a variant of sorts on the story, are two others who might have done as well).  Lewis Carroll's darkly humorous Victorian Era classic chronicles the adventures of a spunky, imaginative young girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole into a fantastic world of talking animals, size-altering potions, and memorably eccentric characters, a land ruled over by the evil, bulbous-headed Red Queen, played with petulant haughtiness by Helena Bonham Carter.  The screenplay for the film - now called simply "Alice in Wonderland" - by Linda Woolverton draws from both "Wonderland" and its first sequel "Through the Looking Glass" (as most previous film versions have done), and captures both the darkness and the humor of the material.  All of Carroll's beloved creations are here, some played by actors in costumes and makeup, some generated entirely through CGI, and some - like The Red Queen - produced through a canny combination of the two.  There's the mad Mad Hatter (played by a typically loopy Johnny Depp), the growling Bandersnatch, the slyly smiling Cheshire Cat, the virtuous White Queen (Anne Hathaway), the roly-poly twins Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and the dragon-like Jabberwocky, which it has been prophesied Alice will slay, thereby liberating the people of the kingdom from their tyrannical queen.  Burton breathes new life into this oft-told and oft-filmed tale thanks to a team of visual and special effects wizards who come as close to capturing the world of Carroll's imagination as any group of filmmakers could ever be expected to, given the enormity of the challenge.  As the heroine who must learn to accept the impossible before she can know who she truly is, Mia Wasikowska manages to keep Alice life-sized and appealing even in the midst of all the larger-than-life pyrotechnics going on around her.  A masterpiece of art direction, costume design and special effects, this "Alice in Wonderland" is the next best thing to the books themselves.

The Avengers Saga Enters the Golden Age After years of awaiting a movie worth this historically rich character's name, I'm happy to announce that a good Captain America film finally here. I was quite blown away by how much I enjoyed it. My fear of the worst kept my expectations in check as I waited for The First Avenger to hit theaters. For a while, I expected it to be mediocre to moderately good, but I retained a cautious optimism. I didn't have enough faith in it to hype the movie up to friends and family, but I prayed it would be as good as the previous films in the Avengers Saga. Being a huge Marvel fan, I was obliged to see it no matter how good or bad critics said it was. Surprisingly, it turned out to be just what Joe Johnston's credentials promised. It was a good old fashioned throwback action adventure flick that's fun (for the family, despite a few shockingly violent moments), humorous, and surprisingly, emotionally resonant. I thought it was a notch or two above Thor, albeit I wouldn't recommend one over the other. Johnston's last few films (The Wolfman, Jurassic Park III and Hidalgo -- two of which I actually enjoyed) didn't have great receptions, so it was understandable for most to be weary of him directing, but I think he did a damn good job with material that had the potential to be very silly. The character, Captain America, is one of those characters that everyone knows of, but not many people care about. He probably comes across as a boring character, due to his overtly American themes, simplistic superpowers, and his shield.  In fact, the film could have easily been quite boring, or laughably silly, but I'm pleased to say that this movie is none of the above, and neither are most of Cap's latest publishings, to be honest. This is a classic case of not judging a book by its cover. Granted, there are inherently cheesy moments throughout the film, but what do you expect from an apparent propaganda piece about an unlikely soldier with an American flag costume and a big shield, who is battling an evil Nazi with red skin that is bent on world domination? I actually loved the cheese factor. It went quite well with the 40's WWII atmosphere, and the film as a whole. Like I mentioned before, this film was a throwback to the old fashioned action adventure movies like Indiana Jones and The Rocketeer (another Johnston film). There's an automatic cheese factor that goes with the territory. Early flags were raised by internet dwellers about Chris Evans not being right for the leading role. I never bought into those complaints. I mean, have you guys seen him? Blonde hair, blue eyes, quirky innocence, toned body, and actual acting abilities (if you've seen him in anything besides Fantastic Four -- which he was actually one of the best aspects of). What the hell else did we need for him to be right for the role? I don't know, but I had faith in him and he delivered. Some people have said that he was bland and just a good guy with no internal conflict, and for the most part, I agree. That's who he is supposed to be though. His character was developed as he grew up, due to him being physically inane. That was the very reason why Dr. Erskine (Stanley Tucci) recruited him.  I loved Evans as Steve Rogers, and even more as Cap. He just flat out kicked ass, in my opinion. He went against what we've become accustomed to in superhero movies, and it worked well. Spoilers: When Cap threw a knife into a Hydra agents back, then threw two other Hydra agents right out of a plane, I knew his portrayal would be a legend for years to come. I really was not expecting that kind of brutality in a cartoonish comic book movie where us older fans have come to expect major toning down for young children. I mean, he is a soldier, and this is a war, but you get my point. It would be asinine for him to go through all of that trouble trying to enlist and getting turned down, only to go overseas and just knock his enemies out. Killing is what war is about, so hats off to Johnston and his writers, as well as Marvel Studios and Paramount for having the testicular fortitude to let that happen in The First Avenger. Another surprisingly violent moment was when the older woman in the hidden base got shot and we actually saw the impact. Well, she did have a machine gun, but even so, I applaud them again for letting that happen in a family blockbuster. It added to the seriousness of the situation, and left more of an impact. The audience should take from that, that the Nazi spy who gunned down the older women needed to be taken down as soon as possible. While I did appreciate the mature sparks of violence, there were also other noticeable tone downs that conflicted with them.  Now I'll admit that this is just me nitpicking, but that's what reviews are for, right? Similar to the Decepticon canons in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, I have to say that I was distracted by the way that Hydra's advanced weapons disintegrated their victims, pretty much reducing them to dust, instead of actually showing the devastation of the weapons like they did with regular guns. I'm not saying that it was necessary to show blood splatter when the cosmic blasts impacted. I understand the ratings system, but what they chose to do was pushing it, even for science fiction. Speaking of those weapons, some have argued that they seemed more appropriate for a film set in the future, more so than one set in the 1940's. That is an understandable quibble, but that was the point. The cosmic cube allowed Hydra to develop weaponry that was far beyond anything from the time period. That was why Red Skull went through such lengths to attain the cube, and develop the Hydra tech with it. Speaking of Red Skull, I have to say I loved him in this movie. Perhaps he was not as menacing as he could have been, but, I'll be damned if he wasn't one of the coolest villains I've seen in a while. Hugo Weaving should just play villains in everything for the rest of his career. He does it too well. After seeing his performance, I cannot think of another actor who I would have chosen over him. I'm glad to have him immortalized in the Marvel Universe now, and I hope he returns for the sequel. I'm sure he will because he's obviously not dead, only teleported to another dimension or plane. Actually, I think the whole cast was great.  Haley Atwell was probably the best main love interest of all the Avengers Saga films, which is surprising given she's the least recognizable of all of the actresses who played them. If I were to rank them, I'd do it as follows: Haley Atwell, Gwyneth Paltrow, Natalie Portman, and lastly, Liv Tyler. As for Atwell's character, Peggy Carter, I loved how they chose to keep her sexiness hidden until she appeared in that stunning red dress. Her character was introduced as a tough one, but she showed compassion towards Steve. She was a very well developed character, and I'll be sorely disappointed if this is the last we see of her. Spoilers: The moment she and Steve shared before he crashed into the ice was moving, and as I was feeling for them, I was quite surprised that this film managed elicit such an emotional response from me. The same film that I feared would be drowned in mediocrity. They did such a fantastic job at developing thirt relationship. Sadly, I'm pretty sure this is her only outing. There were quite a few moments when I sincerely cared for the fate of the characters. Not only Steve and Peggy, but Bucky (Sebastian Stan) as well. He has one of the saddest, and most surprising moments in the film. Even as a fan of the comics, who knew what would happen to Bucky, as well as who he later becomes, I have to admit that moment got me. I mentioned Stanley Tucci briefly before, but I didn't say that I enjoyed his performance as the doctor responsible for Steve's transformation. I thought Tucci did a pretty good job with the minimal screentime he had.  What more can one say about Tommy Lee Jones that hasn't been said before? He was primarily comic relief, and he was quite funny. Dominic Cooper (The Devil's Double, An Education) was an appropriate choice as Howard Stark. He was a nice counterpart to Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark. I was pleased with the Howling Commandos as well. Neal McDonough was great as Dum Dum Doogan. His character wasn't as fleshed out as I would have liked, considering the role he played in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s development, but he was fine nonetheless. Now all of this praise is not to say that I don't think the film is flawed. It's far from perfect, and many people will most likely have issues with the overall cheesiness of the plot and stereotypical portrayals of the characters, but I enjoyed it very much. It was a great tie-in to the Avengers Saga, but nothing took precedence over Cap's origin story. This is first, and foremost, a Captain America film.The build up for The Avengers has been an exciting one to experience. Each link in the chain is solid, with some obviously being stronger than others. I think Captain America: The First Avenger falls in at second best in the series, after the first Iron Man. As for the transfer, the picture quality is as good as one would expect a modern release to look. Detail is strong and fairly crisp, although some may confuse the Director and Cinematographer's choice of dim lighting and color timing as soft. The sound is pretty much flawless. As far as the extras go, they leave a lot to be desired. The best of the bunch is without a doubt, the commentary. The featurettes, as well as the Marvel One-Shot, are short, but sweet. All in all, I highly recommend it.  8/10  Note: I own the Best Buy exclusive version, but the only difference is the cardboard slipcover.

Delightful Refreshing-in some ways a cheesy chick flick, but a very well done one if you like this particular genre. Good for hopeless romantics and those that always believe in a happy ending. Also good for Political Science majors and Ryan Reynolds fans. Isla Fisher is also beautiful.

Scorsese's gift to his 13-year-old daughter appeals at the adult level, too Martin Scorsese's 13-year-old daughter asked him why she wasn't allowed to watch any of his movies.  So, he created one for her.  But this is no mere kid's film.  Hidden inside is an ode to the director's true passion: film preservation.  That's something that slid right by my nine-year-old nephew. He just thought it was a neat story - he liked the trains, the two young stars, Sasha Baron Cohen's hammy physical comedy, the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0783225903">Brazil</a>-like catacombs in the train station, the clocks and other visual feats.  It's a feast for the eyes.  Meanwhile, I liked learning about Georges M&eacute;li&egrave;s, seeing Ben Kingsley (a personal favorite) shine, getting a kick out of Richard Griffiths and Frances de la Tour (co-stars on stage and screen in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000NIVJFO">The History Boys</a>) in small roles and building up my Scorsese portfolio.  And, let's face it, I loved that train station, too.  In this master's hands, it's a magical place and a universe unto itself.

Santo Contra La Mafia Del Vicio When I bought the movie, I expected a lot of thrills.  I was completely right.  Since I discovered this explosive wrestler, he downrightly put Hulk Hogan to shame in many ways.  This is coming from someone who grew up on Hulkamania.  This foreign spy movie has a lot of Bond elements.  It is one of main reasons that I love it.  The 5'9 Hispanic wrestler seemed like over six feet tall with his strength, courage, and heart. Please check this movie out.

An Engaging Romp Through the X-Files World This movie has been around a long time and is still fun to watch; in my book that is a high compliment. I have been a fan of this movie for years and still enjoy watching it from time to time.  Fortunately it is worlds better than the sequel, "X-File, I Want to Believe." If by chance you've only seen the sequel rest assured this movie is vastly superior. The action never stops and carries the viewer along at a fast pace that brings the movie to a close before you're really ready for it to end.  If you're a sci-fi fan or an X-Files fan and haven't watched this movie I think you'll find it worth your time.

Not Bad Jake has entered the Navy Academy to realize his dream. Standing between him and his dream is Midshipman Lt. Cole. Lt. Cole is a veteran Marine and defeating him will be the toughest challenge Jake has ever faced.  I really enjoyed this movie. This film has a great story and great acting. It's is an inspiring tale of determination and courage that will touch almost anyone who watches it. It's definitely worth watching.

John Waters? Gosh, this movie was ridiculously bad, but great fun to watch... and anything with a John Waters commentary will be purchased or rented by me. John is brilliant, as always. And Fay Dunaway is really good as well, a great actress playing a bad actress, must be tough to pull off.

Gorgeous Cleopatra This Blu-Ray version of Cleopatra is gorgeous.  All of the opulence was beautifully transferred.  Unfortunately, the film suffers from its "soap opera" quality, but not enough to detract from reveling in the fun of watching Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Rex Harrison do what they do best.

Frankenstein my ass Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder has never been a bad combo. And it`s not this time around. Fore me it`s a series of chuckle moments thrue the whole movie, with big funny moments here and there. This is a comedy that`s allmost perfect in every way and I recomend this to ennyone that`s seen a Mel Brooks movie and liked it. All I can say is "put the candle back"

great movie Amazing for its time. Still great to watch even now. Great artistry - was made without much trendiness so that it is still relevant and attractive today, 35 years later; quite a feat!

Grab the Tissues Marley & Me is exactly what you think it will be: funny for the first third and incredibly sad for the last.  Starring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston as two newspaper reporters who get married and begin a life together, this film goes through the life of one dog, Marley, whom they pick out of a litter.  From the beginning, you know this pup will be trouble as he destroys the garage while waiting for the two to return from the airport.  All through his life, Marley wreaks havoc, but he has the unending love of a puppy. And that is what's truly sad about this film.  Why are all animal movies like this? You always know what's going to happen, why put yourself through it. The only reason I can see is if you need a good cry and haven't had the excuse for a long time.  The filmmakers really do milk the crying/emotional aspect during the film's final moments, but while you're watching it, you don't care enough to complain. You're too busy making a mess of your shirt.

Cult Classic that makes me giggle. Something I realized last night while watching Piranha... it's just not as scary as it was when I was a child. I remember watching Piranha and thinking "Oh My God. You're not safe in the rivers or the oceans. If it's not giant sharks it's flesh eating fish". That terrified me.  Don't get me wrong. Piranha is still awesome and a cult classic. This is the first time I viewed Piranha since I was a child. I did it because I want to see the original before they release the remake on DVD this month.  One thing that got me laughing was the noise the Piranha made when attacking. That shrill little mini-lawnmower sound. I laughed so hard.  What I loved was the fact that nothing was taboo. They went after and attacked small children. Awesome. Most horror or cult classics don't go there. Piranha did. Kids swimming in the lake... who cares? Send the Piranha in and let 'em feast.  Thank goodness it's all in fun.  What really gets me is seeing a Piranha in real life. They say that Piranha are NOTHING like the movies portray them as. There is only one type of Piranha that can do the damage like in the movies... the Red-Bellied Piranha.  Mostly real piranha eat what they can from fish to dead animals floating in the water and rarely attack humans... kinda like the Great White Sharks being compared to Jaws.  So Piranha seem to have the same fear factor as a Great White Shark does. All because of the movies. There is a small chance of being hurt by Piranha or a Great White Shark. However, the likeliness of this happening is slim.  But it is one reason to watch yourself every time you get in the water, huh?  Red Bellied Piranha on Wiki: [...].

YUP YUP Robert (William Bumler) is traumatized in his boyhood after witnessing his father's death. He lives in the streets with a nervous twitch and is known as the "Yup Yup Man" because he always says, "Yup Yup." Alarmed over all the crime that goes on in the city, and inspired by the comic book, "Dark Justice" Robert wants to fight back as a super hero known simply as "cape crusader." His bartender friend Jack helps him construct an outfit. After Robert kills seven people and shaves his beard, he loses his twitch. Blood, sexual situations, no nudity. Bumler did an excellent job as the bearded neurotic Yup Yup man.

Very Funny Since this is an updated version of an original comedy, I was prepared to be disappointed.  Instead I found myself laughing a lot.  Martin Clunes is great as the frustrated drudge having idealistic fantasies. The other characters are pretty funny, especially the receptionist.

Great Little Overlooked B Movie In my opinion this is a great little B movie that is often overlooked.  If you are looking for a great Sci Fi film with fantastic acting, great character development, etc., then you are in the wrong place.  This is a B movie where most of the actors are unkowns.  They do their best to pull off their one dimensional characters and for the most part are passable.  There are exceptions both good and bad.  There are a few big name actors who help carry the story, but most of the major actors are not that great, just like you'd expect in a B movie.  I watch this movie every few years, partly because I was a fan of all of the Wing Commander games and I like how this sometimes tells part of the story (yes I know there are differences, but I'm not bothered by that as some are).  Besides that, it's just a fun, little adventure.  A guilty pleasure for a Sci Fi fan like me.  Definitely worth a look if you like predictable, B movies with some science fiction adventure to them.

;0) I liked it I thought it had good action and the plot isn't bad. I enjoyed it and like seeing Jolie in action movies, I did thought though that in this movie Salt most of the stunts are like Jolie's movie "Wanted".  Towards the end love the twist was surely not expecting that.

Quiet Majesty The user reviews for this are all over the board. But it seems, almost totally, that those that didn't care for it all responded to the fact they thought they were in for a martial arts movie which this is not. Shame on the marketers. This is a legend based film with otherworldly aspects that is good, but in a decidedly un-Hollywood fashion.  Here's the scoop. A not very good Finnish blacksmith is sent back to pre-dynasty China to battle a demon and open a cleverly fabricated chest that will fulfill his destiny. This is a bit loose but I don't wish to spoil.  This is a Finnish, Chines co-production. It's a good story with good characters. And though it has it's feet partly planted in fantasy, it doesn't go for the big Hollywood look or feel. The colors aren't over-saturated and the shot compositions aren't designed to pull your eyes out of their sockets. It has a quieter look but still very nice. The few fight scenes that are there are choreographed and shot well. The story is a bit involved and not dummed down for the audience. You need to pay attention to keep everything in focus. There is a very ironic ending and maybe they could have used a bit of the old Hollywood punch there but it's still satisfying.  This is a nifty flick in every way. As long as you're not expecting a butt kicking martial arts film, and maybe something more like "Crouching Tiger" you'll probably like this.

Much more impressive on repeat viewing When I saw this movie for the first time, I left feeling unsure what to think of it. There were undeniably awesome aspects; this is the movie that 3D was made for. Visually, it's flawless. There were also some awful aspects. The less prominent characters were mostly place-fillers. It always bothers me when I only know characters by labels such as biology guy, geology guy, navigator guys, etc., especially when they have pivotal roles. Even worse for me, many of the characters' actions are simply inexplicable in their context. Taking your helmet off on an alien planet? Playing gitchee-gitchee-goo with an alien life form? The science was questionable in many places as well. If the Navigators are "100%" genetically identical to us, why would we be so different physically? Yeah, dramatic license, yada, yada, but really, talk about some idiot moves...  That said, Prometheus stimulated so many conversations with friends that I went to see it again. I was shocked to find that I loved it the second time around. I think that the difference was knowing about the WTF stupid actions of so many of the characters (I'm not talking about Elizabeth and David here) as well as the bad science, which were taking me out of the movie at first viewing. I docked the movie a star because I shouldn't need to ignore so many things, but I think this will eventually be considered a flawed classic. You may recall that Blade Runner was a major flop when it was released. The critics shredded it, but now? A flawed classic.  I think that Prometheus gets uniformly bad reviews from viewers who were hoping for an Alien prequel. In that sense it would be a disappointment. However, taken on its own, it works for me. It's a worthy view if only for Michael Fassbender's incredible performance. David sticks in the mind long after the other characters fade.

Snow White and the Huntsman, a great fantasy This updated SNOW WHITE has  a good story,good acting and epic scenes.  It's a great fantasy film. I put it on the same level as Johnny Depp's ALICE IN WONDERLAND

Heaven's Gate It was inevitable that Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate would ring the death knell, in 1980, for what has since been called the American new wave--that gustiest of zeitgeists was too indulgent of individualism, too grown-up, and too contemptuous of base consumer capitalism to survive. Cimino was the moment's Von Stroheim, too successful for the wrong reasons at first and then so outrageously profligate that his public lynching was a ritual the Industry had to perform in order to reassert mindless Lucasian profit as its god. Heaven's Gate is not to blame. Certainly it's an uncommercial monster, a narratively distended western upon which Cimino was allowed to spend far too much cash. But the quixotically run United Artists, the demise of which is usually laid at Cimino's doorstep, was already near dissolution. Seen again in its original, nearly four-hour form, the film plays like an opium vision of American bloodshed, re-creating and ballooning the Johnson County Wars--cattle barons and their private armies vs. starving immigrants--into a self-mythologizing prophecy of corporate mercilessness. The lie of frontier idealism is debunked, and Vilmos Zsigmond's mistily gorgeous cinematography is virtually an act of mourning in and of itself. It's no accident that Film Forum is resurrecting this tottering, melancholy giant for this election season, when being American once again means being liable for massacre.

Review - One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest This movie was a very well directed movie.  The dialogue was simply brilliant, hilarious and was perfect.  Additionally, the acting was amazing.  The persons playing the asylum inhabitants are phenomenal actors and are exceptionally convincing.  While the movie was beyond brilliant it was a little slow for my own taste.  It should be noted that the end is absolutely brilliant, is phenomenal and is heartbreaking all at the same time and the movie's ultimate climax is brilliantly directed and perfectly acted.  I absolutely love that they decided to make Mac steal the bus rather than get permission as he does in the book, this was a genius change and it made the movie that much better!  The other way does not fit his character, and is not in the spirit of Mac!  The main character of this movie, Mac is absolutely awesome.  His personality is beyond entertaining and his commentary, attitude and beliefs are so spot on to reality.  He perfectly portrays a typical social misfit/criminal, who should have been in prison rather than in an asylum and who was misjudged by the very professionals and experts that were in charge.  Furthermore it should be noted that what makes the final conclusion so disturbing is that the doctor's themselves know what they are doing and know that he is not psychotic at all.  The plot of the movie follows a man who was transferred from a prison work farm to an insane asylum.  While at the asylum he becomes the "leader" of a group of socially awkward and mentally disturbed patients.  While at the asylum he teaches them all kinds of destructive habits and ultimately works to undermine and rebel against the authority of the iron fisted nurse Rachted.  His final act of disobedience is the most hilarious, most ingenious bit of acting, and social commentary ever imagined, but such is quickly followed by a series of absolutely heart-wrenching scenes, all culminating in a brilliant ending.  I really enjoyed this movie and I thought it was very well executed and acted.  Personally I took of one star because I found certain parts of it to be long and draggy giving me a "hurry up and get this scene done already" mentality.  Definitely get this movie, it is an absolute classic, you will not be disappointed.  Jack Nicholson is brilliant in this movie!!

Beware of injuries! I agree with several viewers that some of these excercises move way too fast for proper form-I really love the dvd but with the Power Punches when he does the punches really fast,its easy to throw out your shoulder or back-I found that out the hard way with a herniated disc in my neck.I really do enjoy the workouts though-it is my go to dvd on the days when I just ca'nt get motivated-Billys energy just gets me moving.I still plan to use this dvd-just not speed up the excercises like he does

Ride 'Em, Cowboys! Ignore the other reviews; this is an outstanding film. The story in a nutshell: John Wayne needs to run a cattle drive, and all his cowboys have run off because they heard there's gold in them thar hills. So the Duke and Slim Pickins lasso a band of pre-teen greenhorns to the task. 'Nuff said. This film was an instant classic for the primary school set when it came out (I suppose I was part of the target demographic: I was seven). All the kids flocked to see this one, they ran home and told their friends, and the Duke easily earned a whole new generation of fans. This is an elegant film; it boasts an unbeatable John Williams score and breaktaking cinematography. Some say the storyline is thin; I defy them to list a Western whose storyline is thick. It's not "thin" because it's got an untried gimmick in the fact that all the cowboys are actually kids. That's what gives it great kid appeal. And if that still doesn't interest you, perhaps you'll enjoy Roscoe Lee Browne's tour-de-force performance as the cattle drive's philosophical cook. Any kid would be as enthralled as the kids in the movie were when Roscoe spins a bedtime yarn about his father, who supposedly battered down the door of a castle and killed everyone inside--just so he could get a good night's sleep. The bedtime story scene is definitely one of the highlights of the movie and one of Roscoe Lee Browne's finest performances, ever. The Duke is long in the saddle and unlike today's aging celebrities, makes no mistake about it. His aging was an ongoing plot point in most of his twilight movies, and rightly so. Too bad the 60-something old codgers today try to pretend they're still 35. Bruce Dern is a terror in the part of a bandit who trails Wayne and the kids across the wilderness. One of his best villain roles. There's nothing unentertaining about this film, and not a single frame was wasted. It's something to see. As for the blu-ray itself, hmm...well, the soundtrack seems like it's in fine shape. The picture, well, I'm on the fence about it. There's a lot of shots that look (to me) a little off-register. The longshots aren't too clear and some of the close-ups seem to suffer from a bit of edge enhancement. There's a few shots where the Duke looks like he was wearing a hell of a lot of make-up. Maybe he was. I don't think it's the best blu-ray transfer ever, but it did come out in the earlier days of blu, so maybe they hadn't gotten their act together. The Cowboys has been reduced to bargain prices, and is well worth it simply for the reunion footage documentary. See what the Cowboys look like now! All in all, if you can find it at a bargain price, it's worth it. They really do need to have another go at it at some future date so it looks a little better, but for right now...

A Reality Check This film likely provides a modest view into the lives and deeds of of some of our nation's bravest warriors. There is plenty of action for the high testosterone bunch.  The well executed raid that claimed Osama Ben Laden demonstrated their abilities and prowess. 6.18.2012.

Great drama - boring title Mother and Child (drama) Directed by Rodrigo Garcia Starring Annette Bening, Naomi Watts, Kerry Washington and Samuel L. Jackson  Sony Pictures | 2009 | 127 min | Rated R | Released Dec 14, 2010  Video: Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video resolution: 1080p Aspect ratio: 2.35:1  Audio: English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1  Subtitles: English, English SDH  Disc: Single 50GB Blu-ray Disc  The Film 4.5/5  In the special features, director Rodrigo Garcia describes Mother and Child as "a drama for grown-ups" and he's exactly right. The film is aimed at people who enjoy emotional drama, and examining the connections between people. While I was watching, I found myself comparing the structure of the story to 21 Grams and Babel, only to find that the director of those films, Alejandro Gonz&aacute;lez I&ntilde;&aacute;rritu, was listed as an executive producer.  The film follows three story arcs and ultimately brings them together.  The most interesting character is Karen (Bening) who had a baby girl when she was 14 and gave her up for adoption. We see how she cares for her own mother and puts her life on hold because of her. But on some level, she wonders what happened to her own child. She mentions in the opening minutes of the film that her daughter's birthday is coming up and she'll be 37.  We then see Elizabeth (Watts) applying for a job as a lawyer. She mentions that she was adopted and that her mother had her when she was 14. Her potential employer, Paul (Jackson), is impressed by her honesty and credentials and she gets the job.  A third woman, Lucy (Washington), is unable to have children of her own and is desperate to adopt. We see her and her husband interviewed by a nun to see whether they are a suitable couple.  The story shows how Karen and Elizabeth have been affected by never knowing each other:  Karen devotes her life to looking after her mother and working as a geriatric nurse. She has never been married. Her maid has a little girl and Karen resents having her show up at her house. It seems that she has distanced herself from children and resents people who have children in their lives. Her own loss was an event that she has never recovered from. She's abrupt and sometimes rude to people and ensures that she never gets close enough to men to develop any romantic feelings. Everything she does is designed to protect herself from any potential pain in the future.  Elizabeth is fiercely independent. She seduces Paul and is the dominant partner when they have sex. She's also happy to pursue married men and makes a move on one of her neighbors. As we learn more about her, it becomes clear how she's been affected by never knowing her mother. I won't reveal those details because it would ruin the story. She regularly moves around from one place to another and seems unwilling to be tied down. Although she has a lot of ambitious goals, they have to be achieved on her terms. She's not a very nice person, but maybe it's not completely her fault.  Lucy is willing to do almost anything to become a parent. She meets a young girl who wants to audition her to decide whether she's a suitable foster parent for the child she plans to give up for adoption. Some of the questions disturb her, but she answers them honestly. Her husband doesn't appear to be as enthusiastic about the process, but Lucy persists.  That's the setup. I can't give away anything else without ruining some of the surprises. All three women experience events which change them. Karen undergoes the biggest change and grows as a person throughout the story.  I made a point of seeing the 10 Best Picture nominations last year and enjoyed them all, but I would rank Mother and Child above five of them. The acting is strong across the board and I'm a little surprised that Bening wasn't nominated for this role rather than for her role in The Kids Are All Right. Mother and Child wouldn't work without her performance. We see her accepting her situation, reacting when an event changes it, and ultimately transforming herself into a different person. She shows a vast range of emotions and, although I greatly admire American Beauty, this might be her strongest performance to date.  Watts, Washington, Jackson and Jimmy Smits also turn in good performances and I believed in everything they did. Those that I haven't mentioned were great too.  I didn't hear a word about the film during its limited theatrical run. The marketing just didn't exist as far as I saw. I understand the reasoning and know that the audience for an emotional drama is small and growing smaller every year, but it pains me to see films like Mother and Child ignored. Will they eventually cease to be made so that we can have more sequels? Probably so. But I'll try to do my part and highlight those worthy of attention.  Video Quality 4.5/5 Mother and Child was shot digitally, but it doesn't detract from the overall look. Detail is strong and I didn't detect any flaws. There are a few releases with better picture quality, but this is right up there and you won't have any complaints.  Audio Quality 4/5 The DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track does exactly what it is supposed to do. It's a quiet story, driven by dialogue, but everything sounds clear. The ambient sounds add to the experience, but don't expect your speakers to receive much of a workout. It's just not that kind of movie.  Special Features 2.5/5  All of the additional content is presented in full HD.  Deleted Scenes (3:43) - Three short scenes that didn't make it into the film.  Creating the Family Tree (13:39) - Director Rodrigo Garcia talks with some of the cast and crew and explains how the film came to be made.  Universally Connected (15:37) - An extension of the previous feature, but going into greater depth.  Trailer (2:10)  Previews  BD-Live  Mother and Child was one of the best dramas released in 2010. Anchored by a stellar performance from Bening, none of the acting disappoints. The title sounds boring and hardly anyone bothered seeing it, but fans of emotional drama shouldn't miss this one. There are quite a few surprises and deeper connections between some of the characters that I didn't mention for fear of spoiling the film. If action is your thing, give this a miss.  Overall score 4.5/5

A lot of fun to watch I really enjoyed all the anime styles and the different ways of portraying the stories from the Halo Universe. I am a big fan and thought this was really well done. The behind the scenes and making of the episodes was also pretty cool as well. For the price I think it was a great buy.

BEYOND WORDS!!! A down on his luck porn star agrees to star in an "art" film, only to discover he's been drafted into a snuff/child rape/necrophilia film!  What more do you need to know? That is pretty much the plot of the film.  I actually came upon this film by accident, and decided to check it out. I was totally unaware of what I was venturing into. I've always like oddball/weird films, but this was way out there. I was not offended by the violence or sex... but I was unprepared for the child rape scene, even the scene involving (spoiler alert) the newborn! Yes, I said newborn. Don't worry, they don't show anything, just the thought, and the actors reaction was enough.  This film is NOT for everyone, and will offend most people. Check YOUTUBE, to see videos of peoples reaction to the film... It'll give you an idea what they thought, and felt to watching it.  There is a 104 minute version, this has 1 minute missing. I actually have the 104 minute version from download. 1 minute is nothing to write home about...  Don't say I didn't warn you. Enjoy!

If you liked the original TRON you will like this presentation Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund) misplaces his father (Jeff Bridges) at an early age. I suppose this has something to do with San growing up with a renegade attitude and a propensity for freedom of information. Then one cat he is mentor Alan Bradley (Bruce Boxleitner) receive a page from a defunct phone line.  The adventure begins as Sam is digitized.  In the process of finding his father he is mesmerize by a cutie (Olivia Wilde) with a secret of her own.  Will he save his father? Will he want too? Will the cutie serve a higher purpose or perish? Let's have some fun telling Sam not to fall into obvious traps.  Of course there has to be updates to the presentation in terms of graphics and complexity as it would be a tad hokey to try to limit us to the original costumes and terminology. But we still get the TRON thrill.

Battleship movie This movie surprised me and was better than I thought it would be. The action scenes were well made and the plot was descent. Just good enough to make it quite enjoyable.

A vamp movie catering to the ladies! The main thing I like about this movie is that is caters to FEMALES; yes, there is T&A for the guys, but the writers also realized their female audiece, which has *thankfully* begun to be a trend in the last decade or so (Queen of the Damned, Interview with the Vampire, etc). Even after all of the sexy vampire characters I have watched in movies, Gerard Butler is definately one of the SEXIEST, and most convincing! And Jonny Lee Miller is not bad on the eyes either, though not a vampire. The film does use up every vampire cliche known to man: the vamps are repelled at the sight of crosses, holy ground, & bibles; the female vamps are pretty trite (slutty & oversexed); biting the neck; & the usual coffins & stakes... clearly, Wes Craven did not go out of his way to bring innovation to this picture in the respect of popular myth. The soundtrack was pretty good (mainly rock) & I liked the story of the leeches (Van Helsing stays alive through the bood of Dracula drained via leeches), Mary's dream man/blood kin & Judas Iscariot: I thought them very original. I do not remember watching a movie with the Judas take on the vampire mythos - though there are traces of it in global folklore. I did not like the ending of the movie as much, but I suppose the plot had to culminate the way it eventually did. All in all, a nice movie to add to the vampire fan's collection!

Great, feel good movie! I love Drew Barrymore and so I wanted to see this movie.  I enjoyed it very much.  It was a "feel good" movie with a great story line.  I love movies that push education as a positive theme and am a sucker of a love story.

good watch This movie was entertaining and had a few good scenes. It wasn't a movie that I would have wanted to watch in theater but it is a good watch for at home. Recommended for a rainy or hang on the couch kinda day.

Excellent series and Lousy produce Actors: Very good (believable characters) Writing: Good, entertaining, somehow cliche-ed (I can predict 80% of the dialog) I could go on and on; but let me just say that the series is GOOD! I enjoy every (almost) moment of it. I am at the beginning of the season 2, so my words apply only to what I have seen so far (but I am a believer!) Writing reviews is really not my thing (though I enjoy reading them, and find them quite useful), but I have decided to write a review on this series. The reason is: BAD produce. I ordered the whole series at once. Season One gave me problems with one of the disks; unplayable! Amazon was nice to send me a replacement... Now I am at the beginning of season 2, and again; unplayable disk (only one, so it is not my DVD player). That makes me wonder how will the remaining disks (all of them two-sided) behave! Should I bother and require another replacement, or should I just give up and shy away from the product made by the same company??? Two-sided disk say a lot about cost awareness, yet, the quality is below zero!!! Amazon is not producing the stuff, but perhaps they should have better quality control (if possible). Likewise, I wish there were two ratings for DVDs and such; software and hardware are TWO very different things!

Harrison Ford Stars in a Non-Action Thriller - Harrison Ford plays the role of second-in-command of a large district attorney's office. One of the staffers is an attractive and manipulative young female who has enticed him into an affair. Ford's wife finds out and become deeply troubled. Then, the woman is murdered and the evidence points to Ford. The movie raises suspicion about several others with possible motives, and eventually concludes with Ford being found innocent. So, who actually committed the murder - that's the real surprise, held til the very last moments.  Most of the plot is plausible - except for the portion in which Ford's former boss fabricates testimony against him in the trial - for no apparent reason.

Finally. A Wil Smith movie I actually like. I've watched quite a few Wil Smith movies. Some plain stunk-cliche factories churned out just for the receipts. But I watch them anyway, some more than once. Others, after seeing the ones that I did, I didn't give them a fair chance and sit through them. This one I saw the very beginning of several times before I had the chance to remain a captive audience. And the more things unfolded, the more I was drawn in. Once I saw Rosario Dawson, the hook was set. The movie is a little uneven-some twists a little easier to accept than others. But through them all, I couldn't wait to see more of Dawson. She typically delivers with aplomb, making others around her better even. And I liked seeing Smith in a non-Fresh Prince, not so ridiculously contrived role. You could point throughout the movie and come up with a little too much suspension of disbelief, including a lot of Smith's role, But put Wil beside Dawson and there's plenty of rooting interest. Some movies are memorable for their minor contributions. Roles that are more than a cameo, but less than a character actor. Woody Harrelson has that in this movie. This is a total left curve from his usual role. This movie is loaded with pathos. There's lots of parts that I don't like other movies for, but that I gave a pass to this one because I was so engrossed with certain elements. Because of a few performances, I pushed through it and found a pleasant surprise. Now I can't wait to watch it all the way through again.

Much-Loved Classic I've watched this film probably six or seven times, and it never really gets old. Is it the same as the book? No, but what movie is--and the book didn't feature the Chairman of the Board! :) It is similar to a number of WWII escape films that were made around this time, but Sinatra's acting ability really makes this one stand out. Very much worth your time and money. (Disclaimer: This review is of the movie itself, not the product as purchased from Amazon).

Tron: 28 Years Later Twenty-eight years after Tron first hit cinema screen in 1982, the long awaited sequel Tron: Legacy finally saw the light of day. Given both the advances of special effects and the legacy (no pun intended) of the original film, Tron: Legacy found itself with a high set of expectations before it. Keeping both of those things in mind, how does Legacy stand up as a sequel to the original film?  Let's start by looking at the two retuning cast members from the original film: Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner who both reprise their two roles from the original film. Bridges plays both Kevin Flynn and his digital avatar, the program named CLU. The Flynn of Legacy is quite different from the quirky everyman seen in the original film, this Flynn being more philosophic as well as having a dash of both Bridges' The Dude character and just a bit of Obi-Wan Kenobi thrown in for good measure. While that might make one think the character would be unrecognizable, just the reverse is true as Bridges presents a believable nevertheless as a continuation of the character. CLU is, while wearing Flynn's face from the 1980s, is very much different as he has become a tyrannical ruler bent on creating what is perfection in his own eyes. Boxleitner reprises the roles of Alan Bradley and Tron, both of which are effectively extended cameo appearances but comes across as crucial to the film's plot. Both actors are able to reprise their younger roles thanks to a bit of digital de-aging that for the most part works incredibly well (though some of the shots of the younger Flynn are very noticeable due to the lighting). The result is a nice link back to the original film that nevertheless expands on the original character's.  The majority of the cast though are new characters. Playing Flynn's now grown son Sam is Garrett Hedlund who, like Bridges in the original film, convincingly portrays a fairly normal person sent into a digital world. Outshining him to a certain degree is Olivia Wilde as the program Quorra whose performance perfectly captures what is effectively an innocent abroad character with an action film twist. It also helps that Hedlund and Wilde share a good deal of chemistry between them which helps the film out as well. Also appearing in the supporting cast is an almost unrecognizable Michael Sheen as Castor, James Frain as CLU's henchman Jarvis and Beau Garrett as Gem. The film is also full of countless supporting characters who appear for only a scene or so at a time but immensely help to sell the reality of the film's digital world. All together, the cast serves the film well which is always a plus.  The production values of Legacy are worthy of note for a whole number of reasons. The original production values of Tron from its production design to its costumes and early CGI effects created a vision of a digital world iconic decades later. Iconic yet on the surface dated due to the limitations of 1980s technology. The biggest challenge that Legacy would face would be updating that world for a 21st century audience. In that regard, Legacy succeeds. The film takes the iconic elements of the first film such as the Lightcycles and disc battles but gives them a modern edge. Compare for example the "new" lightcycles with the "old" lightcycle seen later in the film. They're both light cycles but the "new" one has a less plastic feel to it, as if it's been streamlined down to basics. The same is true of the costumes which have the same silhouette but have been given both a dark coloring and the ability to emit actual light (rather than having it more or less pasted on afterwards). Legacy also has a lot more physical sets in its digital world, called "the Grid", which make it perhaps a more believable world with a solid feeling to it.  That isn't to downgrade what was done in the original film by any means of course but Legacy takes what was done there and, with nearly three decades of technological advancement, takes it up a level while still remaining true to it.  Last but not least, is the plot and script for Legacy. The original Tron has fairly been called simplistic in terms of its plotting and the same can just as fairly be said about its sequel here. The film, minus some flashbacks, is set twenty-eight years after the original. Kevin Flynn, head of Encom and a man apparently on the brink of some breakthrough, disappeared in 1989. Twenty years later, with Alan Bradley now a relatively minor member of Encom's board and Flynn's son Sam largely uninterested in the company, a mysterious message sends Sam on a course onto the Grid. Legacy follows many of the same beats as the original film in terms of the order of sequences showing off different aspects of the digital world. That isn't to say that it is a rip-off by any means. Legacy, appropriately enough, deals with the theme of legacies throughout. In the real world, Sam and Alan are dealing with Flynn's disappearance twenty years on. The Grid is being directed by CLU towards some secret goal, which CLU hopes will allow him to once and for all overcome Flynn's legacy. Last but not least is Flynn himself who, with Sam's arrival, begins at long last a journey that will see him facing the consequences of actions in a world he has disconnected from. Like the first film, Legacy is a simple plot that embodies some sizeable ideas just beneath the surface.  Where does that leave Legacy then as a sequel? The performances of both returning actors and new actors is on par with that seen in the original film, the production values and effects bring the iconic world of the original into the modern day and the script has the same fault as the original one did in being perhaps overly simplistic in terms of plot while harboring some intriguing ideas. I would argue that, quality wise, Legacy is on par with the original film in terms of pure enjoyment as a sci-fi adventure film. Whether it will be as iconic as the original though is something that only time will tell.

Breakdown-is it as simple as all that? Breakdown(released May/97)stars Kurt Russell as Jeff Taylor and Kathleen Quinlan as his wife Amy.This is a very taut thriller,full of suspense and surprises,which keeps the pace going at full throttle throughout. The plot involves the Taylors moving from Massachusetts to California and traveling the scenic roads through the southwestern U.S.Jeff has been driving solo for quite a while and as he reaches back for a flask of coffee,upon his return a pick up truck pulls out of the desert and onto the road.He is forced to act quickly and barely avoids a collision.Later while filling up with gas down the road,the  driver of the same pick up he almost collided with,is there also and the two have a small confrontation.Soon though,it's back on the road but after a few minutes their vehicle suddenly sputters out and they become stranded.Jeff and his wife stare at their engine and are ruminating on their fate,when a trucker happens along and offers some help.Jeff at first refuses but his wife changes his mind and she hops a ride to the nearest truck stop just 5 miles away and says she will return with a tow truck. All alone he stares at the engine but eventually spies some wires pulled down under the engine area.He re-joins them and is off and running.He reaches the truck stop,Belles Diner,but no one has apparently seen his wife.He heads out onto the road again and spies the truck and driver that picked up his wife.He stops the truck and he has an ugly confrontation with the driver,who claims he has never seen him or his wife before.A policeman just happens along and he searches the truck but can find no evidence of foul play.Instead he lets the trucker go and he advises Jeff to go to town and fill out a report for his deputy there.This he does and when he is done he heads back to the diner.Amy still hasn't surfaced and while he uses the phone a young man cleaning a car  nearby says that he has seen his wife and tells him where she might be.He heads out to that area but is ambushed.He and his vehicle end up in a fast flowing river,becoming a shooting target along the way.Jeff escapes and circles around only to get knocked out and kidnapped. When he comes to he is on a ridge overlooking a small town.The leader of this operation is none other than the trucker,with his accomplices the pick up truck driver and the young man who gave him directions out there.The trucker demands he go to town and draw out a large sum of money for ransom or he will never see his wife again.He goes into town and withdraws everything he can,but far short of what the men wanted.He is picked up outside of town by the pick up truck driver.When the driver realizes the bag of money is far short of what they demanded,Jeff springs into action by plunging a letter opener he acquired at the bank,into the shoulder of the driver.In the ensuing struggle Jeff manages to overpower the driver and take control of the pick up.Just as he does a policeman passes by,but sensing some suspicious activity,turns around and chases the pick up down.The policeman forces Jeff onto the ground while the yells for his passenger(who Jeff tied up with duct tape)to come out.He does but with a gun drawn with which to shoot the police officer.With the officer down Jeff escapes down a hill,as the driver takes aim on Jeff.Before he can pull the trigger the wounded cop shoots him down.Jeff returns to the policeman and assists him calling for an ambulance,then leaves. Jeff heads to a truck stop the pick driver had mentioned and he finds the leader/trucker there.He hitches a ride,precariously hanging on underneath the rig.He makes his way to the cab and sits behind the driver area until the trucker reaches his home.It is there,in a barn,Jeff bails out and watches the trucker and his accomplices,which have subsequently joined him,unload his wife and throw her into a freezer below the barn floor.The barn itself is loaded with merchandise picked up from other folks like the Taylors,as this "operation" of theirs has been going on a long,long time.Jeff cannot find the keys to the lock to the underground freezer area,which he has unsuccessfully tried to pry open.He does find a gun and enters the truckers home and confronts the group.One escapes while he locks the rest in the underground freezer area,but not before freeing Amy. The two flee to a trailer on the grounds,beside which is a pick up truck.As they search for the keys for the truck,the trucker comes bearing down on them with his rig and tears through the trailer like it is paper.As he wheels around for another pass at them,they find the keys and flee in the pick up in the nick of time.Just when they think they have escaped on the highway,they get caught between two cars and the truckers big rig behind them.The two cars are eventually taken out but the truck keeps on coming.It all ends on a bridge as the trucker manages to get their pick up sideways in front of his truck.He then proceeds to push them over the guardrail to the creek bed below.Amy is wedged in the pick up but Jeff gets out and gets inside the truckers cab.In the struggle the truck itself goes over the rail and is being held from falling into the creek bed by a slightly protruding bridge strut.Jeff and the trucker climb to the top of the cab and fight it out.How will the film end? You have to watch it to find out,my friends. The film certainly has an intriguing plot,and the entire cast is on their game from the get go.When Amy isn't there at the diner,Kurt's desperation climbs slowly but surely.And when he finally meets up again with the trucker and he denies ever seeing him,we now know something terrible has happened to Amy...but what? That's where the movie goes and it is quite the ride.The suspense never lets up from that point on. Technically speaking the film is in its original w/s a/r and is clear and crisp.Besides the trailer there are no extras. A highly recommended film with a storyline that pulls you in from the start.Russell shines as the desperate husband trying to find his wife,pulled into something he has to inexorably try to free he and his wife from.4 -4 1/2 stars/.

Perfect pearls in a row which somehow fail to make a great necklace. This is one of those movies that is an assemblage of perfect scenes written beautifully and performed magnificently, based upon a very excellent novel, which somehow fail to work when put together.  I think the filmmakers hoped to reproduce the success of Dr. Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia by reassembling many of the best elements of those films, without David Lean directing.  That is probably where the film fails, but it still is a very worthwhile effort.  Peter O'Toole, Donald Pleasance, Omar Sharriff, Tom Courtney, Charles Gray - the list of wonderful actors who give wonderful performances goes on and on.  The music by Maurice Jarre is excellent and appropriate, and the staging and cinematography is worthy of the cast.  Each scene by itself is nearly perfect, but I think the film ultimately fails because its grandiosity somehow misses the subtlety of the story.  The story, which is grandiose in conception actually is very small in action, albeit told against the grandiose backdrop of the war.  The question posed by the story is put beautifully by the script:  "Murder is the profession of generals, is it not?  Well, if we must give medals to mass murderers, let us try to give justice to the small entrepreneur."  This film is well worth having just for the number of great quotes in the script, and the fine performances.  Although it fails to be the great film it so badly wanted to be, it is by no means a bad film.  In fact it is a good film.  We should not let the fact that it fails to live up to its full potential blind us to its qualities.

Happy Feet dvd I love this movie, but haven't had time to play it. Everything I have purchased from this person has always worked.

Flucuates between a grindhouse flick, a vigilante 70s or 80s flick, and a cheesy Troma flick. When I bought this film I expected it to be a grindhouse type film from beginning to end.  However, it was quite different from what I expected.  What I got was a film that can't really decide what it wants to be.  Sometimes it was a grindhouse film or one of those 70s or 80s revenge films, but at other times the tone changes drastically and it becomes one of those cheesy and gory Troma flicks.  My favorite sequence in the film is when those two robots or psychos called The Plague attacks the hospital.  This entire sequence is well filmed and everything from the kills to the music is impressive.  There are some other good scenes in this film as well, and I thought the movie was very fun to watch.  If you like your films fast paced and gory you'll probably like this one.

Surprisingly Good "In Time" is one of those movies that I thought about seeing once it came to the rental world.  It was better than I expected.  Timberlake was actually a convincing actor in this one.  I don't know that I would buy this movie, but it is definitely worth renting.

Great workout! After trying Jillian's DVD for beginners I decided to try this DVD, and it's a lot at first! The warmup alone leaves me out of breath, but I guess that's good. I like that you don't need any special equipment besides free hand weights; I don't even use a mat, just carpeted flooring. Jillian's instructions on proper form are especially helpful for me, since I am fairly new to exercising on a regular basis. I would purchase again, and may buy more DVDs of Jillian's in the future for variety!

Surprisingly Swanky I saw this at my local video store and, being a totally huge fan of the original Zatoichi movies, decided to pick this up and give it a whirl. Now, I've picked up any number of modern Japanese/Asian action/sword movies over the years and would venture to say that really only a handful are actually watchable... unless you are REALLY, REALLY motivated to appreciate modern Japanese/Asian cinema for some reason.  That being said I wasn't expecting much, and frankly, I was going to be impressed with this movie if it actually made sense, and only slightly butchered the whole "Zatoichi" thing.  So needless to say I was super surprised to discover that not only was this a coherent flick - but it was actually, well....good.  Unlike the recent Beat Takeshi redux of the Zatoichi franchise this film doesn't make the mistake of messing with the original character by reinventing the way it's portrayed. Instead it tells a new story with a wholly new character, while utilizing the things that made the original movies so great. While the sometimes goofy, friendly, good natured, blind Gambler/Masseuse Who-Happens-To-Also-Be-An-Unstoppable-Badass, has been replaced by an introverted, female Who-Is-Only-Slightly-Badass-And-Has-An-Actual-Backstory...the connection to the original films is actually very strong. From the way the fight scenes are choreographed, to the way the story unfolds with a trademark gang of bad guys harassing some poor small village/inn. The best part about this movie is that it a lot of ways it "feels" like a Zatoichi movie, even though it's a very different take on the mythos.  The dialogue for this was probably poorly translated but ended up being not too bad for a Japanese action flick. The story made sense, and I found myself actually sort of caring what happened to these folks. Aside from a couple of the villains (one of whom, in addition to clearly being a white guy, is the spitting image of Conway Twitty) most of the cast is fairly believable. One of my favorite things is that the action sequences in this movie are paced in a way that's similar to the original films, but with that modern slow-mo flare that's just super-duper. I am going to go so far as to say that this film is a much better modern take on Zatoichi then it's more famous predecessor.  So if you're looking for a halfway decent samurai flick - this delivers. However, if you are a fan of the original series, then you're going to be presently surprised to find a very unconventional homage to the Zatoichi films that's a pleasure to watch.

"Doctor At Large (1957) ... Dirk Bogarde ... Ralph Thomas (Director) (2011)" VCI Entertainment and The Rank Collection presents "DOCTOR AT LARGE" (1957) (98 min/Color) -- Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow, James Robertson Justice, Shirley Eaton, Derek Farr, Michael Medwin, George Coulouris, Anne Heywood, Lionel Jeffries, Mervyn Johns, Ernest Thesiger  Directed by: Ralph Thomas  VCI has restored and brought from their vaults another great film from the British Invasion.  James Robertson Justice is at his acerbic best in this installment, and it's great to see Joy (Muriel Pavlow) make a welcome return. and the predicaments Dirk Bogarde gets himself into in the rural practitioners are hilarious.  'Doctor At Large' sees the series go back to their basics, with a return to St Swithin's and a reunion with all the main cast of 'Doctor In The House' (with the single exception of Kenneth More).  Without much plot, this is a light film, except that Simon comes up against Benskin (Donald Sinden), his rival at St. Swithins, who gets the position that Sparrow wanted. It's humorous without being riotous.  Check out the scene where Simon and Nan McPherson (Shirley Eaton) stay overnight at an inn. The proprietress puts them on different floors, and when Simon attempts to sneak downstairs into Nan's room, the woman comes out into the hall. "I was looking for the bathroom," he says. "It's on your floor," she says. "The door is marked 'Bathroom.'" Then she sits in the hall, thus thwarting further attempts.  Though not as good as the first (Doctor In The House), but much better than the second,  Doctor In The House was so successful that it spawned not only six sequels, but also a television spin-off.  Richard Gordon: The author of the original books (and of the screenplay here) is on screen hidden behind the anesthetist's mask in the "patient wakes up" scene. Gordon did the job in real life before turning to writing.  Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 1957 Nominated Crystal Globe (Ralph Thomas)  For product description and editorial review check this out on the Amazon site above my review  SPECIAL BONUS FEATURES: 1. Commentary with Muriel Pavlow and Donald Sinden 2. Photo Gallery  BIOS: 1. Ralph Thomas (Director) Date of Birth: 10 August 1915 - Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK Date of Death: 17 March 2001 - London, England, UK  2. Dirk Bogarde [aka: Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde] Date of Birth: 28 March 1921 - Hampstead, London, England, UK Date of Death: 8 May 1999 - Chelsea, London, England, UK  3. James Robertson Justice [aka: James Norval Harald Justice] Date of Birth: 15 June 1907 - Lewisham, London, England, UK Date of Death: 2 July 1975 - Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK  4. Muriel Pavlow Date of Birth: 27 June 1921 - Leigh, England, UK  5. Donald Sinden  [aka: Donald Alfred Sinden] Date of Birth:  9 October 1923, Plymouth, Devon, England, UK  Mr. Jim's Ratings: Quality of Picture & Sound: 4 Stars Performance: 5 Stars Story & Screenplay: 4 Stars Overall: 4 Stars [Original Music, Cinematography & Film Editing]  Total Time: 98 min on DVD ~ VCI Entertainment #8662 ~ (August 2, 2011)

Great product too expensive I got the Little Mermaid for my niece for Christmas because it was one of my favorite movies as a child. She loves it too! The only gripe I have is that it was way to expensive!

Better than it should be Vanishing is a really a 3 and a half star movie but I opted for 4 because of the system. To start, the film could easily be torn apart, if that's what your looking to do. On the other side of the coin, it musters up a series of pluses that can envelope you if you get outside the box. We're not talking typical Hollywood here, it's an indie film that went through more than a few script revisions.    The premise is apocolyptic. If your not into that, either skip the film or go easy on the concept. Basically it's lights out all over the world one morning and everthing's a mess. Only a few people  seem to be left(5)and their worlds are colliding. The viewers job is to  try to figure out what the eerie menace is that threatens their lives. Seemingly simple right? But, remember the forbidden terrors that lie within us all. Add a dose of the unknown and you get a creep fest that opens up many doors psychologically.    It's a guessing game that will disappoint some but open those doors of everything from an alien invasion to The Rapture. All the actors put on a good show that adds a new spin to fear. Watch it twice and you'll really get the proper world ending aura that is competently displayed in the film. Leguizano is always good for a film of this nature and I was hoping for more of his bleak style.    A film that provokes thought and squashes traditional cinimatic ideas is how I'd catagorize it.   The blu ray is as sharp as can be and really holds up in the appropriately dark scenes (with the right tv). I was gravely disappointed in the "alternate ending(s)" which are only on the blu ray version. This is the kind of film that could have had a field day with ending possibilities but totally blew it. I actually bought the blu ray to delve into the "endings" but got alot of "alternate angles" instead.    Far from being my favorite silver-screen prognosticator of doom, it holds it's own with  uniqueness, and a hard independent quality. Great rip-roar'in DTS sound. Give it a mind expanding whirl.

Bruce Lee's Fighting Method In this Bruce Lee's Fighting Method video Bustillo and Wong, two of Lee's early diciples articulates the "Jun Fan" Jeet-Kune-Do concepts exactly how it was taught by Lee. You will see warm-ups,correct punching,stances,ranging and proper footworks that are inherently Jun Fan JKD.

Something new I liked it. There was a cute new premise and good art. The kids have watched three times since I got it.  That's how I tell if they reached their target audience.  The kids and I both laughed hard during the movie (at different times of course).  All in all a fun time.

This is not a "remake." Neither Burton's Alice in Wonderland nor Charlie & the Chocolate Factory qualify as "remakes" because they are based on the books & not older movies, but Frankenweenie 2012 will qualify as a remake.  In order for this to be a remake of Willy Wonka, it would have to  not be based on a common source material, have the same music, & not diverge in characters or story. This is simply a different "version" of the same story, only this one is not as loosely adapted as Willy Wonka.  Personally I love both movies equally. Burton's has the hotter quirkier Wonka with father issues & a far less annoying Charlie. The secondary characters were cleverly modernized from the 60s book & made to address certain unhealthy addictions, but the music is horrible & just using one guy for all the Oompa Loompas was lame when many actors of short stature would have loved to have been in it; just as bad as Peter Jackson not using real little people to play Hobbits & Dwarves. WW has the funnier Wonka, though with less background & character development, & fantastic music but with a less interesting ending. It's pretty much impossible for Gene Wilder not to be funny.  Imagine how much darker C&TCF & AiW would have been if not produced by Disney & if Burton had actually written the scripts himself. Author Ronald Dahl, creator of the source material, would have loved that, because he despised the 70s movie for it's divergence & lightheartedness, so much so that he denied the rights to make a movie of Charlie & the Great Glass Elevator, which is a pity because the music would have been great & it would have been one more Gene Wilder movie to enjoy.

Under Milk Wood Under Review I think Thomas's clever use of  language is the thing I liked most about the book, which I first read years ago. and his humor: For example calling a place "LLAREGGUB"(Read it backwards!) And his characterization is great.

Very entertaining! I was not expecting this movie to have so much action.  Storyline was a bit far-fetched in reality to military, but that is what going to the movies is all about - being entertained.  Enjoyed the humor.

Great Movie. This was a really good movie. It surpassed the fairy tale of old. I enjoyed it. The evil queen was a great experience.

A surprisingly good and heart warming movie Paranorman is a movie about a boy who can see ghosts and this leads to him being considerered a freak and an outcast in his hometown. However, he starts to have visions about diaster to his town, and this comes at the time of the 300th anniversary of the murder of a 'witch' and her curse. Norman's crazy uncle has been doing a ritual for many years to keep the curse and witch contained.  Unfortunately, he dies leaving the task to Norman and due to misinterpretation and lack of reliabel info, he ends up missing the deadline causing zombies to rise.  The thing I would compliment the movie on the most is characterization. It is good at the show, don't tell rule. You can tell so much about Norman just by how the world interacts toward and the enviroment. This is this wonderful shot of Norman ,at the beginning, when he is just walking along a dessert street adn talking to (what appears) to be no one. At school we get how his peers think of him when we see 'freak' has been written on his locker. He casually takes out cleaning supplies, this scene tells us that this happens often.  We also have good characterization of the side characters as well. Although they mainly stick to stereotypes like Courtney, the self-centered teen girl and the dumb jock. His best friend ,Neal, comes off as instantly likable and a lovable character.  The stop-motion is done in a realistic, yet still cartoon-like fashion. This movie needs praise for it's use of enviroments to create wonderful atmosphere. The graveyard is a wonderful isolated and spooky location. The final 'battle' is also a wonderful set that fits the mood perfectly.  The most I think kids and adults will take away from this is that it is okay to be different and even if the world feels like it is a against you, there are still people there for you. I think that is a good message for everyone.  I will wanr conservative/Republican parents that this movie has a gay character in it. Though you do not think out till the end. I am not against this, in fact I praise it. I just do not want to hear complaints/lower starts because of that.  I do not see this movie as scaring children, simply because the zombies are just too silly.  All in all, a good family movie

good movie, some bad editing This is a great Movie, but some downright bad editing.. for example: the flying cow scene, watch the road, one second there on a single lane dirt road between two ponds and when the camera angles inside the truck to catch the drama you can look out the drivers side mirror and see a double yellow line... AND THEN A CAR PASSES GOING THE OTHER WAY !!!  so yes, bad editing.. this is only one example, there are many more in this movie, still a great movie and alot of fun to watch, just alot of errors from a editing/production viewpoint.

The original Max Mel Gibson first got noticed in America through the 3 "Mad Max" films although this original never came to the U.S. until after "Mad Max 2" or "Road Warrior" as it was known in the U. S., screened.  While that movie was a clich&eacute;d game changer, the original has its charm as well.  Produced on a non-existent budget, this Australian film is set in a futuristic style of dust, poverty, lawlessness that we have now come to expect.  The bad guys are just road marauders who exist to create havoc.  The good guys are the cops (Mel) who are out to bring peace to the countryside.  The movie is beautifully shot and directed, especially given the money they clearly didn't have.  There's no CGI here.  All the stunts are real stunt men and the driving sequences are first rate.  Sure there's not much of a plot, but all hell breaks loose when Max comes back in the sequel.  Stay tuned.

thesis on "Three Amigos" A wonderful movie with an all star cast who greatly added to the overall success of this movie.  The time, the location, the ambiance of the movie was done exceptionally well. The movie is done so well that a person just watches and enjoys without thinking of what is wrong with this scene, etc. I enjoyed this movie from beginning to end and highly recommend it to family and friends.

Jackie Chan, Jackie Chan, Jackie Chan. The kid was cute, and there were parts of the film which slowed almost to a stop. But Jackie Chan is worth the price of admission and you can't go too wrong with Jackie.

Great Atmospheric Gothic Horror Film Forget that it's Daniel Radcliff...even if he does deliver a fine performance.  Get past that.  It's the story.  A young lawyer, severely depressed since the death of his young bride during childbirth, is given a last chance to succeed at his job. He is to settle the affairs of a deceased wealthy widow near a remote coastal village.  Upon arrival in the village he is greeted with disdain and is made most unwelcome.  It would seem that the widow's house is believed to be haunted and the villagers don't want him stirring up problems for them.  Set in the Edwardian era, this film is full of great Hammer Films atmosphere: fog, cool colors, damp, excellent sets and costumes.  You will not find a single four letter word, no nudity and no double entendres, but you will find it full of chills and spooky goings on.  While the ending of the film is ultimately a bit derivative, everything leading up to it is edge of your seat British classic horror.  I highly recommend it!

Prayer - by Philip Yancey Interesting book - but I got bogged down as I moved to the half-way point.  Seems like a lot of extra words were added to increase the size of the book.  Maybe I'm a little impatient, but I'd like to see it structured differently.  Make a list of all the major points by chapter - and then make the case for each point.

A Classic in Blu-ray What you see is what you get.  A classic in Blu-ray.  We watch this movie every Christmas.  It wouldn't be the same without it.  The blu-ray quality is nice.

Shows the value of having a good story I watched this movie again last night for the first time in about 25 years and was reminded of how important it is to have a good storyline. I'll forgive a film a lot of faults as long as it whisks me up and carries me away in its imagination and refuses to take easy short cuts. The start of Planet of the Apes is in fact one of the weakest moments -- Charlton Heston, as the commander of a space capsule sent far off into the future, muses about how wretched and violent humanity is. Oh no, you think, we're in for a heavy-handed critique of the Vietnam War and the turmoil in U.S. society (this was made in 1968).  But no. The producers have a more subtle approach and quickly tone down the most blatant parallels with (what were then) current events. Heston and his two colleagues land in a desolate part of an unknown planet and eventually find themselves in a cornfield, where a gang of mute humans stealing the food is quickly rounded up by gunwielding gorillas on horseback. The rest of the story is too well-known for me to summarise here, yet what struck me was how clever the dialogue and how well-crafted the dilemma for the governing ape council. Heston's existence proves their fundamental beliefs are wrong, so what do they do with him? The apes hate humans and (rightly) fear they will bring nothing but ruin.  A friendly pair of chimpanzee scientists helps Heston escape and after a climactic run-in with the chief ape, he rides off into the surf, and then ... then comes an ending so powerful that it still made my spine tingle. Overall, this film has survived the last 40 years or so in excellent shape.  The added bonus of this DVD set is an intriguing two-hour documentary about the origin of the films -- how tough it was to find the funding for the first one and the tremendous challenges posed by the make-up, not to mention the tight budget. Once the first movie proved so successful the studio demanded a sequel, but flops elsewhere meant the budget was cut, as it was to be with each of the four subsequent films. The documentary goes through each of the quartet and explains what made them successful and which parts didn't work. The producers and directors talk honestly about the challenges and what they were trying to say about an increasingly troubled society without being so blatant as to turn away audiences.  Overall, these two DVDs are very good value. Recommended.

Cardinal Richelieu's time machine I really don't get the senseless ornamentation of 17th century technology. Why all the feathers on their space suits? Did Cardinal Richelieu's time machine really merit all those jewels?  Don't get me started on their moon base.

The Favorite I didn't know I had. Not a lot of people got the essence of this film when it was first released but now that we're all a little older and wiser we need to give this film a second chance. I almost dismissed this movie until a friend accidentally left his own DVD copy of THE BEACH at my house I I gave it a try. I was blown away and had a hard time just trying  to give it back! The photography is beautiful, the editing is dynamic, the music made me fall in love with it. Even the menus on the DVD are an experience to be had and the more I saw the movie the better I liked it every time. I might be biased since I also love the Soundtrack<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000046S17">The Beach: Motion Picture Soundtrack</a> -which by the way is one of the best road trip records you could ever imagine- and by the fact that Lonardo DiCaprio and Tilda Swinton are two of my favorite actors but it's nice to see that this little underrated film has survived the passing of time like only the classics do.  Give it another try and maybe, like me,you will discover something you didn't know you'd love.

WAS UNEXPECTED, SUSPENSEFUL & TERRIFYING LITTLE JAM!!! Case 39 was a pleasant little surprise. The story was heavy with tension and did not hesitate to go all out with borderline offensive situations. I must say that I am impressed. While at times the story did feel like a close relative of the movie Orphan it proved overall to have enough of it's own unique personality to not distract or cause for a loss of enjoyment. Thankfully the more the movie progressed the more it distanced itself from Orphan. I typically find it hard to stomach Renee Zellweger but either she wasn't so bad in this film or the movie was good enough to cover for her. This one is well worth checking out.

uggg ...  could  have been better uggg ...  could  have been better,  i mean  how could you possibly mess up the origins of the x-men  ???  This should have  been  an easy  5 star  movie. but  the movie falls short.  whats up with that lame dude  with the tornados coming  out of his hands. horrible special effects.  Ill still give it  a  4 stars however  just because i got to see magneto turn  from good to bad and send a bullet into  proff x's  back.. awsome !!!

I love these guys! I love flight of the conchords! And I love that it came with a CD of a few of their songs. Love it!

Heartfelt movie I read the positive and the negative reviews on this forum. I'm never dogmatic in my opinions because everyone is entitled to their own artistic expression or ...a review of others' artistic expressions.  All of the actors in this movie gave compelling performances. You know a movie is good when you are so engrossed that you forget you are watching a movie (until the phone rings, etc.). The young man's acting abilities weren't up to the standards of his adult counterparts but he played a convincing performance of a quirky young boy dealing with the tragedy of losing his father underscored by his "maybe" Asperger's Syndrome.  I think that the negative reviews are harsh but we are all bringing our own experiences to the theatre in this case. I have a son about this boy's age and I could relate to many of the things this mom and her son were going through. Based upon my own experiences, I could emotionally connect with these characters which is what a movie is all about - drawing you in so that you feel you are apart of what you are watching.  I think it's a good movie and worthy of at least 4 stars.

Cocktail It was purchased as a gift. I recieved it on time and in good shape. What I remember from the movie it's a good flick.

Pretty Good! not the best but not the worst it was kinda boring at first but then about 30 minutes in it gets good really cheesy but good BEWARE THE FILM IS NOT IN ENGLISH but it does have the option to change the language which is dubbed but not really all that noticeable the film kinda reminded me of Spiderman which is why i thought it was cheesy and somewhat predictable i would rent it from redbox first then if you like what you see buy it like i said its a good movie especially if your bored.

Good Movie, but poor quality recording The movie iteself was very good and we liked the fact that we received both a DVD and Blueray version.  However, our Blueray pixilated terribly about 2/3 of the way through our viewing.  It eventually corrected our viewing and we were able to complete watching the movie without further interruption.

Not full screen! For those who screen size matters, this film is not wide screen. Obviously for the great majority this is not an issue as only one reviewer complained about it. Watching a film in 2/3 of the display real estate and nobody complaining is amazing. No wonder they keep formatting it like that. I tried all possible ways to adjust it (tv,player,disk) with no success. It ruined the experience for me.  On the other hand the 3d is almost perfect and overall I give it 4 stars. I learned a lesson alright. Next time look for the aspect ratio and check reviews.

PAYBACK - DVD I love this movie or this version by Mel Gibson, it is really too bad this is not available on blu-ray, the director's cut, in my opinion, really ruin the movie, I don't understand why this DVD is no longer available in stores like BestBuy or WalMart, I am just waiting for the day they release this version on blu-ray in the very near future.

a fun macbeth It was a good take on Macbeth and very fun to watch, only issues I had were with the subtitles. A couple times I was taken out of the play by missing or incomplete subtitles and a lot of the subtitles for the sounds were awkward placed. If it wasn't for the subtitles it would 5 stars.

Gigantic Treat A very good example of the 50's and 60's and there epic screen offerings.  Like others of the era it's a little long.

Best Suspense/Horror Film in a Long Time It's been along time since I sat in a theater and listened to adults screaming with fear.  No torture...no severed limbs, but just one of the most suspenseful horror films I've ever seen. I'm not going to review the facts and circumstances. Watch the film and see for yourself. I wasn't sure whether I was reacting to what I was seeing on the screen, what I thought I saw or even the reaction of those around me. Regardless, If you like a good scary movie, don't miss this one.

Very happy to have it in my library I use to watch this movie around St Patricts day when it was on TV but it hasn't been on my chanels for years and when I saw it on Amazon I purchased it we have watched several times since and enjoyed it everytime.

THE BATTLE OF ALL MOTHERS This crime/drama/mystery starts out with glass being picked out of Julie's face (Jessica Biel) then we flashback 36 hours to briefly build character. Cold Rock, Washington is a dead mining town where children frequently go missing. The town folk blame the "Tall Man." Julie is a nurse who runs the community clinic. She has taken over for her husband who was a doctor.  During this time we are introduced to Tracy (Samantha Ferris), her biker boyfriend Steven (Teach Grant), and her two teen daughters Carol (Katherine Ramdeen) who recently had a child by Steven, and Jenny (Jodelle Ferland) a self imposed mute who has seen the Tall Man. When Julie's son David is abducted, mom springs into action without thought for her personal safety.  Then the movie turns weird. We discover that the town's police car rear doors can open from the inside and poverty is a cycle that results from a broken system. The twist caught me off guard which is why I liked the film. In fact it flashes back and let's you see the clues, in case you missed them. The film raises social questions, but doesn't supply definitive answers. Good acting. Well written. I liked how the story developed. It spent just a touch too much making social comments, rather than just have the film speak for itself.  PARENTAL GUIDE: F-Bomb, no nudity, no sex.

Exciting Fantasy Adventure with Surprisingly Fine Performances This lavish, entertaining fantasy adaptation of Grimms' fairy tale from first-time feature director Rupert Sanders is a huge upgrade from the frivolous Julia Roberts film "Mirror, Mirror."  Kristen Stewart is Snow in this dark, compelling version fashioned by writers Evan Daugherty, John Lee Hancock and Hossein Amini. In their decidedly serious take on the subject, Snow's father is murdered by her new stepmother (Charlize Theron), who promptly imprisons his daughter until she's able to break free and seek refuge in the dark forest. Needing her back, alive, Theron's Queen sends a washed-up huntsman ("Thor"'s Chris Hemsworth) after her, though he questions her motivations -- as well as his own -- after he runs into the young heroine.  Happily eschewing the CGI'd green-screen approach of so many other, recent genre films, "Snow White and the Huntsman" benefits enormously from its real-world UK location shooting. The film looks like an actual, lived-in environment, and its "realistic" visuals are matched by equally strong performances, especially from Theron (in one of her juiciest roles) and Hemsworth, who does some nice work in a scene with the cursed Snow late in the film. For her part, Stewart does as much with the character of Snow White as the script allows - I bought her in Snow's empathetic scenes with the natural world, but she doesn't really have much to do in comparison with the other leads. There are also the dwarves, here played by a collection of character actors CGI'd to smaller proportions (Bob Hoskins, Ian McShane and Ray Winstone among them), but the film doesn't do nearly enough with that concept as it should have.  The plot itself is surprisingly rich and traditional - not in terms of it being a fairy tale, but rather an old-fashioned cinematic fantasy-adventure - and is backed by impressive cinematography, costumes, and a satisfying mix of character and action. Sanders draws you in and lets the film breathe, and while there are CGI beasts, the film's emotional draw is human - rather than technical - in nature, and ends on a particularly satisfying beat (with a robust James Newton Howard score). Even more satisfying than the likes of "Willow" and "Dragonslayer," this "Snow White" is a surprisingly good "revisionist" take of the oft-told tale on nearly every level.  Universal brings "Snow White and the Huntsman" to Blu-Ray on September 11th in a combo pack featuring both the theatrical version and a slightly extended, 132-minute unrated cut. Extra features are fairly light - just a few making Of featurettes and commentary are on-hand - but the transfer (1080p AVC) is terrific, as is the DTS MA audio. A DVD and digital copy (both Ultraviolet and standard itunes-variety) are also included.

One world order I watched this movie to confirm if it was what hunger games was taken from. Both have children and teens as the fighters, both have total Government control giving the people no rights or freedoms at all. My final conclusion is that this movie is better than hunger games and that both movies are uniquely different.

A lot of fun. Okay, this movie is not meant to be Oscar material.  But, it is very funny and the chemistry between the two, lead actors is wonderful. I am ordering it right away!

Fun and relaxing for a friday night with friends I like the disguised not-so-obvious humor. The actors are amazing and witty. Maggie Gyllenhaal as always plays the part of a rebel strong woman but the character doesn't abuse that resource. She's just a woman ahead of her time. I totally recommend it!

Great Set I love getting 4 movies for the price of 1 especially if the set has movies I would have bought separately anyway, this is one of those sets, Slaughter High is a classic 80's revenge slasher, My Best Friend is a Vampire is a really fun 80's fish out of water flick about a teenager who has to adjust and learn the ways of the modern Vampire after being bitten by one, with the help of his 300 year old mentor. Silent Night, Deadly Night 3 I actually really enjoyed, a blind girl is being stalked by a lobotomized killer she was psychically linked to while he was in a coma, file under trashy fun. I haven't watched Repossessed yet, having caught some of it on cable in the past I'm in no rush, but the other 3 are worthwhile flicks and make a nice addition to my collection.

A Genius Is Rediscovered in HUGO Martin Scorsese has a deep love for movie history and film preservation.  Both passions are imbued in Hugo, a charming tale of a child's personal search that leads to a treasure of memories and redemption.  At a Paris train station in 1931 a young boy, Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield) lives a solitary existence.  The train inspector (Sacha Baron Cohen) lurks about looking for stray children to send to the local orphanage.  One day Hugo notices an elderly watchmaker (Ben Kingsley) who sits lonely and silent.  Joined by a curious girl, Isabelle (Chloe Grace Moretz), the two join forces to investigate the old man and learn that there is much more to him than meets the eye.  Add to this a mysterious mechanical man built by Hugo's father and known as an automaton whose cryptic writings may provide clues to the past.  But how to unlock these secrets?  What the young couple finds will lead them back to the old man as there seem to be a surprising connection, and through the old man, a remarkable past is rejuvenated that will harken back to the birth of movies.  As the mysterious, old man, Ben Kingsley provides the gravitas to flesh out a character that at first seems dull and lonely, whose past catches up and reveals a lifetime of hope and genius heretofore forgotten by the public until Hugo and Isabelle rediscover it.  The kids are well cast although Hugo comes across a bit of an oddball whereas Isabelle is a sweet girl who compliments him.  Cohen, quite effective in a villainous role, is properly mean and threatening until he has a change of heart near the end, and you wish there had been more of him because his character evolves toward the end.  In fact the whole heart concept permeates Hugo.  There is the budding love between Hugo and Isabelle, the old man's romance in his past, and even the hint of love from a flower girl.  There is the heart shaped key that unlocks the automaton's mechanism.  The automaton serves as a static character, a kind of Pinocchio in scenes where Hugo talks to it in the absence of his father.  Above all, it's all about a love for movies past and present.  It is clear how much Scorsese loves movies in smaller, intimate scenes as when Hugo and Isabelle sneak into a Harold Lloyd film or when he shows snippets from earlier moving images.  The main thrust of Hugo's plot provides Scorsese the excuse to restage classic kinescope and film clips.  It's like reliving history.  Film buffs will love these moments as Scorsese lovingly and painstakingly recreates early silent film.  We see history and magic being made simultaneously!  A minor problem with the film is that it feels a bit uneven at times, and you never feel fully engaged with the characters as much as you want to be.  Hugo and his friend Isabelle should be the focus all the way, but the film seems to occasionally stray from their journey.  As a couple, they are more tentative and reserved than Harry Potter and his friend Hermione in the Harry Potter series.  It lacks a strong emotional center.  One wonders how a director like Steven Spielberg or Tim Burton would have interpreted the story. Technical and production quality are superb.  This is a fully realized fantasy world especially with the overall design and art direction and costumes within the train station and immediate neighborhood.  Even the visual effects work well within the story without being a distraction.  The film does works for both children and adults.  Hugo in a way represents the painful and joyous past that people keep hidden until it is released by patience and love.

Fun movie lots of adventure Movie was exciting, with lots of adventure. I really like the way the told the story and Charlize Theron was amazing as the evil queen.

Not of this Earth I bought the DVD mainly for "Not of this Earth". That movie scared the crap out of me when I was about 10. Seems a little silly in parts now....but still a classic (better than the remakes). The other 2 films "War of the Satellites" and "Attack of the Crab Monsters" were a bit on the lame side.

Iron Man 2 Limited Edition Metal Box The movie was extremely good.  Wonderful special effects and, as always, Robert Downey, Jr. was glib and right on as Stark...Very happy to have this Blu-Ray in my collection.Was it worth paying a lot more for the special metal box?  Not really. If it had been a 3-D release, maybe, but one major problem with this was that the inside plastic that held the discs was broken which means that no money was spent on making the inside of the box "Iron!"

I don't favor CGI intensive movies. I really liked this one. There's so many CGI drenched flicks these days, one can mistakenly discount viewing yet another from other bad experiences. That I liked the "Planet of the Apes" story from the beginning in 1968 caused me to pass that line of thinking to see this movie, for better or worse. I'm glad I did. The main character is as completely CGI, but done well, or rather not terribly overdone. Add to that a nice spin on the age old story of well intended science running amok with the natural order of things, especially when put in the same equation as greed, and what could be a simple plot line made appealing by modernization for contemporary audiences actually is done well, evading the almost animated appearance of other movies who do so. The story line is pretty predictable, but well executed in all respects. The lines between good and bad, acceptable and unacceptable are drawn almost immediately, laying the cheering lines for an entertaining, pretty fun movie to watch. There's some nice winks to the original "Planet of the Apes" that will fly right by contemporary audiences, but proudly picked off by the genre's biggest fans. And they're not gratuitous. They're used with good timing and reason. The flick moves real fast, but by the end, you can see why. There's no way this story could be told in one movie, and the ending reeks of a sequel. I'll be there for that one too. Thumbs up.

Quality of Criterion Blu-ray package design is not so good as it was in a past My review is not about the movie itself and exclusive Criterion only extras but about quality of new Criterion Blu-Rays packaging. Unfortunately is not so good as it was in "oldie" DVD era. No cardboard slip covers with embossed letters (so you please don't trust user photos in discription), no bulky special amarays - just a plain standard plastic blue case. The only difference in design from other blu-rays - famous "C" trademark on the spin...

A Christmas surprise I'm a sucker for a good christmas flick. I have made it a tradition to buy a couple of these every christmas season just to get in the festive mode. I have not always been impressed by Shannen Doherty's acting skills but I gotta admit that in this one she's pretty good. Although "Christmas Caper" follows the traditional format of sceptic turned into true believer there is a charm to this 2007 flick that put a smile on my face. The supporting cast is so good, especially the character Annie, that you tend to forget all the cheesiness that follows with this kind of movies. If you don't like the overly commercialisation of the holiday then remember that it is all about love for one another and togetherness that matters. as shown in Kate's total turnaround from hardcore thief into lovingly accepting her family and letting love into her life. Anders Ekdahl<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001RNH6EC">The Christmas Caper</a>

Great movie, great transfer. A little long but none the less very best version available.  FYI.........The packaging picture is a bit misleading.  It's a sleeve, not a book type Blu-ray.  Not a big deal, just pointing it out.

Pretty good serious film by mostly comedian cast. This film is actually a lot better than I expected. Five college grads reunite at a beachhouse getaway for the weekend, when things go horribly wrong from depression and a plethora of drugs to add to the mix.

Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest My wife and I now have all three of the films.  Each has been enjoyable, even with second viewings.  We plan on setting a day aside to view all three, the first after breakfast, the second after lunch and then the third in the evening.  Daniel Craig has been picked to star in the planned three American films, the first of which is scheduled to begin production  soon.  We wonder how the up-coming films will compare with the original Swedish.  Certainly the books provide enough material for other interpretations.  In the meantime, we will enjoy the Swedish films until the others are made and released.

Quite Good! Very good movie. Charlieze does another outstanding performance! The story is quite good too. Very good CG FX.  Overall very well done.

To Remember It's From a Comic First and foremost, this tale of Jack the Ripper was torn from a comic book and not by the whims of historical accuracy.  With that in mind, it isn't half bad.  The story unfolds with the murders of whores that live in the Whitechapel district of London in 1888.  London, at the time, is a growing metropolis with little social decorum as everyone is out for themselves.  As the aristocracy sits pretty in their palaces and homes, the lower classes suffer and women are forced into whoring themselves out for money.  This is where Jack the Ripper comes into play.  History describes Jack the Ripper as a malevolent, smart, meticulous serial killer who targeted women who were prostitutes.  He would remove their insides, mainly destroying the uterus, after he killed them.  As the murders continued, his violence to the mutilated victims grew worse and worse.  However, he was never apprehended and so his deeds survived into legend.  From that legend, many stories and fanciful tales along with copycats and pop culture survived.  From Hell is based off of a comic book written in the shadow of the legend of Jack the Ripper.  Johnny Depp plays the Inspector while Heather Graham plays the part of Mary Kelly.  Both are based off of the true actions and deeds of their historical characters.  Needless to say, the story has some Hollywood flair of romance and it nearly seethes with similarities between this movie and the Sleepy Hollow tale made movie that Depp also played a main role.  This is not for a history buff if s/he is unaware that the movie is based off of a pop culture version of the stories from London's streets.  It also isn't particularly well done in keeping the killer a secret.  Though there are suspicions about the killer being one of the characters, it becomes blindingly obvious near the middle of the movie.  Regardless, the movie IS an interesting one, mixing fact with fiction, and it certainly kills two hours of time for those who can stomach a bit of throat slashing fun.  Spending the money on Blu-Ray however?  Maybe not entirely recommended unless you are like me and have a certain affinity for Johnny Depp (or perhaps red heads like Heather Graham in this case).

Surprisingly good This is a portion of the story "Romance of the Three Kingdoms."  They turned what is a difficult read into an extremely vibrant story.  The characters are well represented--their one dimensionality reflects the characters in the book.  I was expecting more of an older-style martial arts film with lots of "wire" choreography.  While some of the fights follow this, overall the action scenes are quite well done.  While I think any fan of martial arts movies should add this to their collection, those who simply appreciate Chinese culture should do so as well: there are temples in China built in honor of Guan Yu, a character in this story, and no kung fu school is absent a statue or scroll of him.

Captain Kidding This is one of those, "I can't believe I never saw this before" movies. Charles Laughton is hilarious as the cynical and villainous Captain Kidd and seems to be having real fun in the roll. The rest of the cast is solid.  Kidd is captain of a British ship, but unknown to the king, a pirate. His crew are, like him, a bunch of cutthroats, ready to sell anyone out for a bit of treasure - Kidd is just better at it than the rest. Scott is the hero and as good in this roll as I've ever seen him.  Although this film isn't as exciting as Captain Blood, The Sea Hawk, or Treasure Island, it's still very good and lots of fun.  The dvd quality is average for a public domain film - far from pristine, but perfectly good for those of us who don't mind.

Excellent combo pack to bring past and present together Its not that this is one (or two) of the best movies of all time, but for a sequel it both honored and outdid the original, but thankfully allows you to watch both. Greatly appreciate the value price point to get all versions including digital copy. Probably wouldn't buy without it.

Chaplin DVD good movie, one of Robert Downey Jr's best performances of Charlie Chaplin's biography.  Great cast. Enjoyed the movie and gives you an appreciation of the silent movies and Chaplin's many films and talent and his driven ambition to use his talent that also drove him from rags to riches.

A Pretty Good Reunion American Reunion is the very nostalgic fourth in the American Pie series (or eighth if you count the direct-to-DVD features). Even though it was released thirteen years after the first American Pie, it sure didn't feel like it as the actors and actresses pretty much look and act the same as they did back in 1999. Sean William Scott continues to steal every scene he is in as Stiffler. Even though it is "good", American Reunion isn't the best in the series. I still think that award goes to American Pie 2 for being fast and funny pretty much from beginning to end. American Reunion has some slow spots and a lot of soap opera moments, with several relationship issues taking place. Still, it's worth seeing for fans of the series. If you aren't a fan of the series, it might be lost on you.

Underrated Garfield Sequel! After being disappointed with the first movie, I was skeptical about seeing Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, but the movie was given to me a few years ago for Christmas. Surprisingly, I actually liked it, thanks to Billy Connolly and Billy Murray as the voice of Garfield. I would have liked it even better if all the animals were computer animated, especially Odie. The farm animals should have been the characters would U.S. Acres!  Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties is not a perfect movie, but it is better than the first.

Our Family Wedding DVD review My wife had been trying to obtain this DVD for a viewing with some of her friends.  I heard them laughing, and later I viewed it with her.  It was very good.

Sastisfied I received this purchase on time and it was new and it was packaged as it should be and it plays well no scratches and therefor I was happy with my purchase.    Thank You    Barb

Enjoyable, escapist, entertaining, and fun movie. I used to watch the "A-Team" as a kid, and I was very happy at this adaptation. It was enjoyable, escapist, and fun entertainment and the perfect "date" or "Friday night" movie. It was certainly not a "Bond" or "Bourne" movie, but given the pervading cheesiness of the orignal TV series, I never expected it to be. Expect lots of chases and lots of explosions, and lots of pretty good one-liners.

It's the Peanuts Gang, so it's good, but These are little vignettes, not one story.  My daughter thinks it's cute but she prefers the Peanuts gang in an actual real movie story.  She's 2 and a half and loves Snoopy an Woodstock but her favorites are Snoopy Come Home and the Christmas DVDs as well.  Though, this is good in a pinch.

How did he DO that?! If you're spoiled by Chinese martial-arts films, you may find Fairbanks' derring-do primitive in the extreme. But give it a chance -- for the time, his stunt work was state of the art. He may not have had kung-fu training, but one thing he was very good at was JUMPING. In the chase and fight scenes, all sets and props were carefully arranged to take maximum advantage of Fairbanks' jumping range. His timing is impeccable . . . and he looks like he's having such enormous fun that you can't help but love him. The only reason this doesn't get the full five stars is because of the hammy performance of Noah Beery. Still, "Mark of Zorro" holds up marvelously 90 years later.

This is an action thriller, parts are bit rough, but good. I won't overkill it here:  If you like some great part magic and part raw heroism type of stuff with a LOT of action - some quite unexpected too - then you will love this movie.  The theme of honor, love, truth, and protecting the weaker is very good; however, the blood letting might not be so good for kids under 12?? It does not have the "best" acting at times, and the hero is a bit "teched in the head" at times, but the action is fun.  (Hey, it is an inexpensive fun movie too!) You will like this a lot and figure you got your monies worth: yes, I would buy it again knowing what I do now.

Cute Chick Flick Very entertaining movie, definitely a chick flick, but the scenery of Greece is fabulous.  Having been to the country, I loved it.

Research and Sides Positives: I applaud the courage to take on the multiple tasks of producer, writer and director for a project that also has great humanitarian value. It's a challenge to objectively portray a conflict between three groups that is fueled largely by religion, ethnicity, history and territory.  Though largely concerned with the treatment of Muslim Bosnian women and viewed from their pov there were some acknowledgements as to how the Orthodox Christina Serbs justified their part in the conflict. Nice to see some authenticity in location and actor selection.  Negatives: Two noticeable deficiencies concerning the DVD special features. First, I would have liked to have seen Ms. Jolie's source material in writing a "true events" movie of this importance. Second, I would have liked to have seen an academic style panel discussion included. Yes, one can always find this on their own but it has more import if included with the movie. Both give some insight into Ms. Jolie's thought processes on the topic and the movie. I'm not sure that the movie really conveyed the horrific nature of the conflict as well as it could have and should have.

Quite possibly the best "made-for-tv" movie ever I found out about this movie quite by accident, but am very pleased that I did. Though this is a 'made-for-tv' movie and therefore very low budget, the acting is great. The storyline is at times very tragic and sad, but also contains many emotionally moving moments as well. It is a story of a poor fatherless boy named Nathan and how he must sell himself in order to support himself and his drug-addicted mother. Branden Nadon's facial expressions really portray the feelings of sadness and at times, emotional detachment from his character. It was truly a powerful performance by a young actor in his film debut. After yet another tragedy in his life, he takes to the road and meets up with a stranger. This stranger is in some ways a similar personality to him and Nathan is surprised when this person does not want to use him like so many adults had in his life. Dylan Walsh is brilliant as the detached stranger. Their journey together hits a few other snags as well. An excellent movie, at times sad, at times touching. Surprised this movie did not receive wider distribution when it was made. The only reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 is since it was a tv movie, there are a few lines here or there which may seem a bit cheesy, but for the most part, it is a very high quality movie.

Great film from a pair of masters Undoubtedly a great film achievement for both John Wayne and John Ford, this is a must-have for anyone adding westerns to their film collection.  This remastered edition offers outstanding quality and the bonus additions in the box set are worth the few extra dollars; you can pick these up at a bargain while they last.

Always crack up. This movie always makes me laugh. Meryl and Goldie are a wonderful combination.  Bruce playing such a sissy man, is halarious.  The fight seen always has me rolling.

Great Movie This is a great action movie. The writing and story and dialog is not as iconic as I thought. It is a great exciting movie, not really as scary as I expected.

Very Fun!!! This was a really good film that surprised me.It is all about people who are extraordinarily smart and the mastermind group that they compose. I was really cool to see all of them combine their talents to get the job done. I think this movie was very character driven.

Three Films Later, A Step in the Right Direction As a general rule, I tend to avoid sequels that have reached an obnoxious number. But this past weekend I sat down with a group of friends to watch Scream 4 as a kick off to the month of October. Scream 4 features all of the key players from the trilogy (Courteney Cox, David Arquette, and Neve Campbell) along with a rather impressive supporting cast.  The film takes place on the anniversary and subsequent days of the original Ghostface murders. And, as typical of the Scream franchise, the characters actively analyze the killer's methodology with regards to the horror genre. In this way, the audience comes to realize that we are part of a "meta-screamake." If that quote doesn't sound like your cup of tea, I would pass on the movie right now.   Horror movies, as a genre, tended to be obnoxiously contrived and predictable. They were formulaic to the point that small children could accurately predict who was going to die simply by watch the opening scene. The only real joy derived from a horror film was to try and accurately guess what order the cast would die in, and a few pop-outs that made the audience jump.  But in 1996, with the original Scream, the movie was finally in on the joke. It broke the mold of horror movies and literally changes the way horror was watched and evaluated to this day. Characters were actively analyzing the killer's methodology, style, and motives. They were aware of the rules of horror movies. And for once, a horror film's world included characters who had actually seen a horror film.  For fans of the genre it was like Wes Craven was making a movie for and about them. Scream 4 continues to embrace this idea. It isn't a movie full of "torture porn" (a quote from this film) for the sake of shocking the audience, but rather a self-aware movie about a "guy with a knife who just - snaps."  Scream 4's strongest assets are its script and an entertaining cast. For a horror film that is self-aware, all of the quintessential "why would you do that? Don't do that!" moments are present. Killer on the loose, not a single gun to be had? Check. Main character rushing into a house where the killer is, weaponless? You bet. Killer actively disappears and reappears with superhuman grace and timing? Indeed. Snotty, but attractive, girl that the audience secretly hopes dies, doing something incredibly stupid considering there is a killer on the loose? Twice! But the script itself twists and turns, surprising, confessing, and constantly feinting at whom the killer is. Furthermore, the cast seems genuinely to be enjoying themselves. Not to imply that they are all horror fans (or that they are acting with any real conviction), Neve Campbell famously refused to watch any of the Scream movies because she doesn't like to be scared, but while this may be true of her and others, they seem to enjoy the parts they are playing.   The problems with this movie can be summarized in two phrases: mediocre acting and poor decisions. It seems almost redundant to harp on a horror movie's poor acting, but in this case the movie could have achieved so much more if several key players hadn't phoned in their performances. David Arquette is all but completely flat, even in situations where he used to excel. In the original Scream, his character was genuine and real, and his subsequent heroics bonded him with the audience. In this instance, however, Arquette can't even seem to portray a modicum of concern. After four installments he should be bringing an extraordinary amount of depth to a character he has been closely associated with, but instead we are treated with indifference. This indifference is by no means specific to Arquette, but it is most noticeable in his performance.  The second problem, and this is characteristic of the horror genre in general, is poor decision making by the characters. I spoke on this previously as a staple of the genre, and while endearing, it would be better if forgone. It's hard to fault any horror movie anymore for, let's just say, having a secondary character walk alone into a deserted parking garage at night because at this point it seems standard practice for the genre. But the Scream franchise is known for its self-awareness. Scream mocks the idiotic horror movie conventions that got people killed. But when a movie in one breath has characters discussing nonsensical horror movie character decisions and in the next has a character making the same dumb decision, it's hard not to feel insulted. It comes off as though the franchise known for poking fun at the horror genre has decided to take a stab at the horror fans.   I personally struggled with whether this film deserves a recommendation. On the one hand the acting is terrible in parts, but on the other the overall story is twisting and entertaining. Whereas some aspects of the script left me feeling cheated out of the rental price, others genuinely surprised me. Moreover after watching this film, my aforementioned friends and I spent a few hours talking about the problems with this movie, without once saying we felt that we regretted purchasing it.  So yes, I would recommend Scream 4, and yes I'll be giving it an above average rating of 4/5, but it comes with caveats. If you can't ignore bad acting for the sake of being entertained, pass. If after horror films you don't talk about what everyone did wrong and what you would do differently (hint: guns!), pass. But in my opinion, the script is good, the acting is bad, but the post-movie conversation was worth the five-dollar rental.

i guess i'm one of the 5 people that thought this movie was great!! um.. i guess most people hate this one (and Batman & Robin too for that matter). but i personally enjoyed this one a lot. the characters seemed so cartoonish and over the top. it was strange realizing this after watching it for the first time since my childhood. honestly, all of the cheesy humor in this entertains me more than the recent Nolan films. Granted, Nolan's versions are well made but i think they're WAY too long and.. well, i think it's evident that Nolan's approach is more "real". if that makes sense.. trying to make it as real as possible. i mean.. could you imagine the penguin being in a Nolan version? even the Joker's face paint wasn't nearly as recognizable as Nicholson's. and he was portrayed as a more serious character. the atmosphere doesn't captivate me as much as the older ones such as Batman Forever. Batman Forever simply entertains me more and that's all a movie really needs to make me love it.  by the way, i thought i should mention that tommy lee jones looks absolutely ridiculous in this movie. haha. i prefer the hilarious makeup as opposed to the newer computerized version.  Val Kilmer i don't really care about honestly. he did a pretty good job but neither him or George Clooney really wow'd me as batman.

Great movie to watch and if you like what porns stands for A great example of what America ultimately stands for.  Not a fan of Larry F, but loved what he stood for.  However, a bit concerned for those of u who have daughters for larry to take advantage of... otherwise, great movie

Deleted scenes should have made the cut... Being a devout Scream fan, I had high hopes for 4.  Unfortunately, like many, I was disappointed when I saw this in the theatre.  Now that I am watching the deleted scenes on Blu-ray, I wish to high heaven those scenes remained in the final cut.  Due to time and content concerns, I understand these scenes had to go, but they resounded with me and probably would have been favored by fans of the original films.  Scream 4 seems to be edited for a tech savvy audience whose attention span is overridden by today's distracting gadgetry and social media.  Scream 4 speaks to this in script, style and format.  But it left a fan from a decade ago yearning for something with more human and emotional connection than that of the WiFi kind.

Worth a Look I hesitated to watch this due to all the negative reviews.  After viewing, I'm not sure why it received so many poor reviews.  In my opinion, if you go into the film with no expectations (must be an Alien type movie), it is worth watching.  I found it to be a good movie, and worth the minimal rent fee.  Just my two cents.......

a welcome addition to my tv on dvd collection I loved Roswell when it was on tv and was happy to get the 3 (and final) season. The only thing that sucks about this season set is that it is the only season set of the show that doesn't give an episode description for any of the episodes but all in all a welcome addition to my tv on dvd collection

Airborne is great. What's not to like? One of Jack Black's first movies, Seth Green "Now Popeye, there was a great man" Music by Stewart Copeland! and great roller blading.

Brother's Keeper Being a major movie buff in the mid 1980's, avid watcher of HBO and VHS rentals, I missed Brother's Keeper in 1992 as well as the news media attention.  This movie was interesting and helped my reflections back to 1990 - 1991 so focused on my own career and retirement options.  Where was I in my life story during this time period?  The Ward brother's farm story and daily life was hard to detail before the trial clips and after the trial verdict.  It is possible the best emotions came on film from clips taken after the trial was complete.  Reviewing the commentary and observation of the director's mood with brief comments was value added to the project - good idea or bad idea.  This movie was interesting because it was over so quickly after pressing the start button on dvd player.  Very Good Job.  Being from upstate New York, involved with dairy farming, there were many elderly men involved with the daily farm work rather than young teens and twenties.  The townspeople were clearly interested in the movie makers from the city.  The health issues of friends who arrived to assist left me with sad feelings as food items being served today is much like the feast at the benefits and diner.  What was a horse doing in the dairy barn while milking duty was being performed?  NYS Health Department requirements for shipping milk was discussed briefly.  I liked the focus on Family Tree when it was discussed about their half brother and their mother's previous marriage then coming to the farm and the niece Pat - how was she related to the Ward boys?

a modern masterpiece i saw this opening day in cinemas in Australia  and it was fantastic.  much like a good hammer movie .  i recommend  to anyone who loves a somewhat cheesy and  classy horror flick this made before  the ruination of the horror genre with cgi and nu-metal garbage  they use now.  i highly recommend this movie. i recently bought this here on amazon

Get ready for a MOVIE! This is my fourth favorite movie. It is a nerve-racking movie in the way that you are nervous for the colonel's life for the whole movie. This movie is not about good acting but rather an excellent war and historical based movie that sheds light on another reality of world war 2-the defectors. It is interesting to delve deeper into the German lines in the heat of a war and see what really may have went on. I was at the edge of my seat the whole time worrying about the colonel, his wife, and everyone. I have watched it several times and it stills grips me with the same ferocity every time. I gave it a four out of five only because this is not graded on the scale of movies based on acting but intense emotion.

A Pleasant Surprise The last time I wrote a review of a movie I was in college and it was an English assignment! This movie was a pleasant surprise from the get-go. The story revolves around a 14-year old who is dropped off at his great uncles home in Texas; he's never met nor heard of them but his mother deserts him to go off and pursue other interests. The pairing of Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, and Haley Joel Osment was a real treat. Caine and Duvall play brothers who may have lived somewhat far-fetched and fantastic lives. Along the way they manage to capture young Walter's heart (Haley Joel Osment) and he theirs. Walter teaches the brothers about kids and they teach him about growing up and life.  I'm not sure what I expected from this film but I laughed almost from the beginning. The movie has a PG rating but it is a wonderful choice for the entire family to see.

award winner received in record time but i thought i was getting the metal cover box but received  paper cover in stead movie still awesome

Fast paced stage comedy masterfully translates well to film! Its hard to believe that the film was made in 1967... feels more like a late 50's technicolor musical... very sleek and swingy along the lines of GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES.  -- Although it doesn't represent LOESSER's best writing, everything else makes up for it... (There are a few GREAT tunes... especially I BELIEVE IN YOU, but its not one back to back show stopper after another like GUYS AND DOLLS -- then again, what can be compared to GUYS AND DOLLS?) --  Robert Morse + Michelle Lee's chemistry are incredible.  The entire cast in fact shines... Maureen Arthur is clearly influenced by Caroll Channing --  It made a lot of sense casting Matthew Broderick in a revival a number of year's ago (the musical's influence on The Producer's is clearly evident.) -- Though the stage musical was actually choreographed by FOSSE, the film doesn't have a lot of breathtaking showstopper dance numbers, but rather is brilliantly directly to the point you feel like you're watching a stage play -- but it doesn't have that unnatural weight many musical's get when adapted for the screen.  -- Finally, the costumes are breathtaking and libretto brilliant.  -- For this reason, its definitely a great musical... probably out of touch with the times it was released, but now in retrospect brilliantly, colorful and swingy.  Currently revived on Broadway I'm not blown away by the new Cast Recording...  but happy to see that with the success of MAD MEN the musical is getting a new life (there are also rumors that it might be remade as well.)

Classic Book; Classic Movie I recommend the book even more than the movie, but this is a very well-made movie. You will recognize at least one face: London cabbie Jerry Barker is played by David Thewlis, who also played Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter series. And I think the snobby lady was played by the same actress who played the owner of the girls' school in the Warner Brothers version of "The Little Princess."  The story is narrated by Black Beauty himself, a marvelous black horse with a white triangle on his forehead. (In the book, I think it was a diamond, but the horse who acted the part has a triangle, so there it is.) He was raised on a nice farm, but was eventually sold to a place with several children which included a ginger-colored horse named Ginger and a Shetland pony named Merrylegs. He made friends with Ginger, who had been very mean-tempered and unmanageable until Beauty came along. He charmed her and probably would have mounted her in due time, but never got the chance.  At this place, a young boy named Joe was apprenticed to the groomsman, and nearly killed Beauty by not knowing how to treat him when he'd been running and was all sweaty and chilled. But Joe was so sorry that when Beauty recovered, he was completely devoted to Beauty. Joe turned out to be quite a competent horseman.  Their mistress was very sick, and finally the family had to move to a milder climate. Beauty and Ginger were then sold as a pair to the haughty lady who insisted their heads be pulled up with a bearing reign. Beauty tolerated as best he could, but Ginger eventually rebelled, injuring Beauty in the process.  He was sold several times, under various circumstances and given various names, until he came to Jerry Barker, the London cabbie. But then Jerry got sick, and was told he could never drive a cab again, and Beauty was again sold. He was so cruelly mistreated that when he was put up for sale again, the consensus was he was good for nothing but the knackers. But the grown-up Joe recognized him, and bought him to put him to pasture. It was from this pasture that he was telling his story.  There's a breathtaking sequence of the birth of Beauty, so if you have children who want to know what that's like, this is the movie for them. And if you know anyone who has ever been cruel to an animal, this is the movie for them, too. Also, as beauty points out when Jerry is kept waiting for hours in the snow for a couple of gents who are getting stinking drunk, these humans are not only cruel to horses, they are cruel to each other.  A beautifully made film which is a worthy addition to Warner Brothers' Family Entertainment collection. Decent for children, but not too sweet for adults. And gives parents and kids plenty to talk about.

Complete, but......maybe too complete I filed this review today for the Moroder version, but as it contains my thought after viewing both simultaneously, I am putting it here with some additional text  I have all 3 versions of Metropolis now, the older B/W scratchy version with generic music, the Moroder version and the new Fully Restored Blu-Ray version.  Which one is best?  NONE OF THEM...  They are all different experiences.  I will give my take on all 3, bear with me!  The original DVD version is not worth the money, scratchy and poorly made.  The Moroder version, from a technical perspective as presented here, DARK.  You will need to up your video settings to get enjoyable playback.  This was puzzling to me until I read the box and the note from Moroder inside the box.  The print here is from an archival 35mm version.  The problem?  Normally to get the best quality you would go back to the original negative of the film (which should be 70mm not 35mm), strike off a clean copy with new stock and digitize that.  Instead they took what was likely a projection print and digitized that.  Why they did not use an original source for the 1984 version suggests that it is locked up in a rights issue so they used the best copy they had, but projection prints (even ones that are "archived") age.  I wish they had used a better source.  If you have the original laserdisc version from the 1980s I would keep it or transfer it over, it is likely of better quality.  The Moroder version, I prefer some aspects, sub-titles are much better than intertitles that are used on the Restored version.  Yes, intertitles were used in 1920, I got that, but you are faced with 2-3 min of actors interacting waving arms wildly, to get an inter-title of "Josaphat, go to my home and wait".  No, Moroder's choice of subtitles is definetly the correct one for a modern audience.  As for the tinting, I think it adds much to the film, otherwise it has a flat perspective, watch it with the tinting on then quickly change the video settings so that it goes to B/W and you will see a great difference.  The music, yep, 1984 all over again, but some of it is quite in keeping with the spirit of the movie, the soundtrack itself (incidental music) in the machine rooms is great-much better than the lavish orchestration in the restored edition, I again put this down to a modern view of movie music.  As for the songs, some are good "Blood from a Sone" "Cage of Freedom"-both of which are as songs, are spot on for today!  The Restored version, the new footage does add alot to the story, BUT again, story telling in the movies has changed from then until now.  If Lang were alive and still active, I bet he would tighten up the scenes a bit.  Some go on too long, but they reflect the editing attitudes of their time period.  The 16mm inserts add valuable information in the story and help explain the motivations, my complaint about it is that alot of it is really not new scenes (okay a few are), most of is just reaction shots.  Example, Joh Frederson summons the "thin man".  In the Moroder version we see him enter, camera cuts to Joh telling him to follow his son, camera cuts to thin man nodding his head.  Restored version, we see him enter, we now see him slowly walk forward, camera cuts to Joh telling him to follow his son, camera cuts to thin man nodding his head we see him leave. Was that extra scene of him walking toward Joh really needed??? No, but it goes on like this, extra reaction shots, extra establishing shots, etc.  I wish that the editors instead of relishing in all of the found footage had instead used some discretion and only used that which made narrative sense, as in the "thin man" scenes where his role is expanded and clarified.  We SHOULD relish that this is how it was seen, but we must also consider that narrative storytelling has changed since this film was made.  The complete version is an interesting timecapsule as to film making by a master, but I continue to believe that if he were alive and given this footage again today-he would recut it for a modern audience, even if all of the film was physically in pristine condition.  The music, did not appeal to me, the Huppertiz (sp?) score while vast and lavish is also overdone for a modern audience.  As I mentioned above the incidential music, such as when you see the opening scenes of the gears and machines running superimposed is just wrong (to a modern audience) it reminded me of the old Newsreels from WWII you see in museums "....Modern industry girds up for increase war production...." it fits an industrial newsreel but not a movie.  I would compare the score with that from Gone with the Wind, with GWTW the score is instantly memorable, the opening alone bespeaks of the grandeur of the story.  The Huppertiz soundtrack, not so much, almost generic silent film orchestration.  In the general incidential music, the Moroder soundtrack is better here.  I also miss the tinting.  So which version is best, hard to say.  I had the pleasure today of running both on my 22 inch monitor this morning side by side, more or less doing a direct comparison.  It is clear that the Restored version is much clearer and has more details that add to the movie experience, but the Moroder version, with a tighter story, the use of sub-titles, and tinting does have value and if one wants to have a full experience one should invest in both.  In conclusion, I would also want to encourage people to consider buying the British Film Institue Film Classics monograph on Metropolis by Thomas Elsaesser, it will help you to understand what this movie is all about, how it was made, and many details that help in the plot.  I hope they update it as well to include the new footage.

I grew up there, so I have a little insight. Small point of order. It is pronounced and spelled "Collinwood", not "CollinGwood" (Sorry Mr. Kilmer). I grew up there through the 80's and the way this movie was written falls within the the confines of the stories my friends and I were raised being told. I appreciate the theatrics though since this was based on a true story. Many "Mafia" or "Gangster" movies fail to show how hard working immigrants and their families fall into lives such as Danny Greene's and John Nardi. Well done. Depicted a sad but true portrayal of many lives in that neighborhood at that time and hit very close to home. As ironic as this may sound, it made me miss the "Old Neighborhood" even more after viewing this. I find movies based on true stories to be over embellished for the screen, but from what I know from living my childhood there shortly after Mr. Greene's death, it was very very close to the truth, theatrics aside. I tell people now where I am from and describe it as a "Bronx Tale" type neighborhood, partially due to it being the only reference that was most accurate. Now this movie gives yet another reference of where I am from. Thank you, from a proud Collinwood born and raised viewer.

Stress - Portrait of a Killer Good overview on stress that uses a healthy dose of evolutionary psychology, the discipline that connects human behavior to that of our evolutionary ancestors.  This is not the movie for those who believe that humans are unique and evolutionarily disconnected from our closest ancestors, the monkeys and apes.  It also emphasizes, indirectly, the affect of androgens (male hormones such as testosterone)on male behavior.  Recent human studies have shown that high testosterone males are not only at-risk for aggression, but they also seem to make the poorest mates.  Why?  They tend to be at risk for infidelity, since their "drive" for sexual variety and immediacy can supersede their interest in being monogamous.  Can this be seen in some monkeys and primates?  Chimps and bonobos aren't nice to each other, nor are baboons.  We can certainly add humans to this list.  This movie also looks at the pathophysiology of stress in an easy-to-understand way that make for intriguing viewing.  As college instructor who teaches health sciences, I recommend it for introductory A & P courses, Psychology majors, and Nursing programs.

Pretty Good. The movie was pretty good. I'm glad I watched it but Lautner's acting was slightly sub-par. Overall, I thought it was good.

Good Movie-Terrible Ad Campaign I passed on this one when it was in the theatres because of the terrible marketing campaign for it.  They emphasized all the worst aspects of the film and packaged it in one clip i.e. Dan Aykroyd's character going bonkers.  The critics and audiences alike must have agreed because they dropped this one like a bad penny.  Time has been kind to "Loose Cannons" either because you can watch it divorced from it's awful promotion or the world has been made safe for mentally challenged detectives thanks to Adrian Monk.  The film's central plot is so so but  the characterizations are just great.  Dan Aykroyd gives a bravura performance as a schizophrenic criminologist.  Aykroyd gives real nuance to his work here going out on a tightrope but never quite going over the edge.  I detected real sensitivity in his handling of this tricky role and that's not easy to do.  Gene Hackman does what he does best and that's be Gene Hackman.  There's a real rapport between he and Aykroyd's character that's palpable.  My favorite scene in the movie is one where Hackman sleeps over at Aykroyd's sanitized apartment in a separate room.  The look on Hackman's face as Aykroyd has night terrors is priceless.  Aside from the principals Dom DeLuise gives a nice turn as a likable porn king and Nancy Travis(Nancy Travis!!!!) is on hand for the eye candy.  Not a classic but not the turkey it was dismissed as in it's day.

Life Changing When I Was 12, Only Very Good Now When I saw the movie in the theater, around age 12, it was the best movie I had ever seen.  I got the book, and I had dreams about being a Gelfling for months.  I don't buy many DVDs, but based on the memory of it, I had to get it.  When I saw it again, it was still good, but not -- I don't know -- magic.  Probably more a fault of my age than of the movie.  Regardless, the artistry of Jim Henson, Frank Oz, and the other visual artists and muppeteers is still admirable and worth watching and appreciating.  Their real-construction effects created a believable imaginary world long before computer-generated imagery made that sort of thing commonplace.

Okay great movie but no "Michael" I loved the movie. I like that Selene had a daughter. I'm wondering what will happen to Eve. Who she will meet, what her life will be like now that she is not a science experiment????? Will Michael find out about Eve?  What I do not like about the movie is that Michael was nowhere to be found. The romance between Michael and Selene is dry. I know Selene and Michael never had a chance to get to know each other because of all the vampire and Lycan war. Which opens more questions?? Everyone knows that Lucian and Sonja Viktor's daughter fell in love and that is why the war started to begin with. We all read the books and saw the movies. The love between them was made believable. I fell in-love with the characters to the point that it saddened me the Lucian died.  In the case of Michael and Selene there was no love not like Sonja and Lucian. They had a child together but that is it. Why did they fall for one another????? Why is Selene so obsessed in being with Michael???? Sometimes I think that they are together because they are attracted to one another. They got caught in the heat of the moment, and Eve was created. I believe that Michael does not love Selene but only is attracted to her. She the only one who is keeping him alive.  Why did they fall in love so fast? I like an explanation to all this. I want more of Viktor and Llona history. More about Marcus life as a vampire and what about Marcus son, what ever happened to him? Bring Viktor back, and Lucian I don't care if there dead.   Michael and Selene meet and in 3 days Viktor, Lucian and Amelia are dead. Marcus is dead as well, but they never had time to stop and think, hey is this love I feel for you or is it something like a one night stand. Michael was pushed into this Lycan and Vampire war. He never imagined that he'd be in some strange underworld with a VAMPIRE named Selene with super human strength. In the next movie I like more love and action fighting parts too, but more love. What will happen to them will their relationship last when everything ends? Bad idea leaving Michael out of the movie. Not good.  The Underworld series was great and the plots were fabulous. A WOMAN saved a human Man's life hundreds of times. That is the reason why I love the movies. I mean, this man runs for his life gets into trouble and Selene the warrior Death Dealer comes to the rescue. That's great! No more Twilight NICE Bella with a male vamp who comes to help, helpless Bella.

A pleasant romp with Rock and Paula This is a lighthearted enjoyable story of a fishing supplies expert and author who hates fish and has never fished a day in his life. Paula Prentiss  unintentionally gets Rock into all sorts of embarassing situations, but it all works out in the end. It is always a kick to see Rock not taking himself too seriously. A fun movie.

Hopkins and Florani were great I remember watching this movie when I was younger, and recently got into it again. I love this movie. Anthony Hopkins and Claire Florani do an amazing job. If anyone was awkward at all it would be Brad's character as Death. It's not Brad himself, but more Death's character that is just very strange at times. The cinematography is gorgeous, as is the music, overall this movie can make you cry. A few low points, I didn't like How Bill(Anthony's character) had a favortism going on with his daughter susanne over his daughter Allison. Quince is a great character. The character Drew is a pain in the ass, but also very good. Over all, great movie.

Still Original and Fantastic With all of the crap Hollywood has pumped out over the past decade, this is till one of the most appealing movies I've seen and have been waiting to see up on Amazon Prime.  To be honest, it's not the most compelling plot nor does it contain the most rich characters, but if you want to see an essay on acceptance and diversity in everyday life, this is an excellent allegory.  The acting is decent, and even good by present standards, and the plot is compelling. Though there is some predictability the overall feel lacks the predictability of modern hand holding creations.  All in all I would highly recommend this, and would in a like minded fashion recommend Gattaca as a similar essay on the failures of the distopian mentality of the US that continue to be relevant 15 years after either of these movies were made...

One of the Best of Universal's Holmes Universal made a series of Holmes with the dream cast of Rathbone and Bruce. They range in quality from awesome to yech! The House of Fear leans much further towards the awesome side, although my personal fave of the Universal series is the Scarlet Claw. Loosely based on the 5 Orange Pips, the short film packs the trademark Universal creepy landscape and plenty of shadows and secrets and people who aren't what they seem to be. It's elementary!

Interesting, if not perfect, documentary about prehistoric cave art An interesting documentary by Werner Herzog about the Chauvet cave, discovered in southern France only in 1994, that has some of the earliest and best examples of prehistoric art (paintings on the cave walls almost exclusively of animals). An avalanche blocked the entrance about 30,000 years ago, helping it reach the late 20th century in pristine form. The cave is closed to the general public, available only to a few scientists for the purposes of research, to avoid the contamination of a fragile place. Herzog has been able to get permission from the French government to film inside, though with some severe restrictions (although he is not the first one to do so, there has been previous films inside the cave made by French crews). Herzog filmed it in 3D, and for once, this decision seems justified: since many of the paintings were done over the very irregular, curved walls of the cave, you will have a much better idea of how they look on three dimensions. Watching it on DVD, the lack of 3D makes it an still interesting (if overlong) TV documentary.  The movie includes some interesting interviews with the scientists involved in the research of the cave. Most of them seem slightly eccentric. There is one scientist showing us (badly) how the cavemen would throw their spears to catch game. Another is dressed in cavemen-like animal hides, and plays the US anthem in a bone flute. There is a young scientist (one of the few since most of them seem to be quite old), who says that he was a circus performer before deciding to become an archaeologist. He also tells us that one way to know what the Paleolithic people were trying to do by painting the cave is investigating the Australian aborigines, who were practicing rock art as late as the 1970s. Another scientist claims that the cavemen didn't live in the cave but elsewhere. The cave, according to him, was just a place for the occasional ceremonies. I wonder how he knows. A cave is an excellent protection against the elements. And while it is true that they find a lot of animal bones in the cave but almost no human bones, there is an alternative explanation, that these Paleolithic people decided to bury their dead outside the cave. They probably, like many cultures, find it a bit unsettling to live among the remains of their dead.  Herzog makes many philosophical points, but most of them, in my opinion, tend to drift towards the obtuse and the pretentious. Towards the end of the movie he shows us a nuclear power plant that is near the cave, and a sort of greenhouse they build nearby, using the heat and steam generated in the plant, to create a kind of indoor zoo for tropical animals. One of them is a young albino crocodile, and Herzog claims, without offering any proof, that this condition came from the radioactivity generated in the plant. He then spews some nonsense about how the crocodile must feel about the cave or something like that.

Good movie but iffy quality The movie is great but the bluray quality isn't the greatest thought it was a DVD at first. Overall worth the money

Good, funny fun I don't have much to say about this movie other than this: It's good, funny fun. A movie that isn't all that serious but is quite funny. If you like good, quality comedy, then get this. -Trent Foreman, Author of Nightmare

Outrageous and very very funny I can't remember laughing this hard during a movie in years. You will love the dialogue and crazy situations that the characters are in. Kristen Wiig is a gifted comic and carries the entire movie. Don't miss this one.

I was prepared to hate this movie but did not. I was prepared to hate this movie but did not.  The Transformers movies were so bad and made no sense what so ever I thought surely Mike Bay would do this movie the same and well actually is also makes no sense what so ever.  The characters are likeable though unlike the Transformers.  I liked everyone.  I give stars based on five things directing (no star), acting (star), writing (star), effects (star), costume and make up (star).  So everything was good save the director so it's worth seeing.  Spoiler:  True there is no way aliens who can fold time and space would arrive here with a stupid sat tracking system like ours and be dead in the water literally.  I think if the aliens were less high tech and they were given an objective like "We need your water" it would have been better.

You have to like Zach and you need to be patient... to enjoy this movie.  Far from aimless, this movie has a wonderful point.  Only love can free this seriously bound man from his dismal existance. Like all good movies, in the end, he is in his favorite place, with his long-dreamt of and loved woman.  Even his dreams of a past life salute him.

Basically: X-Men Begins First, I will say that I am not one to get overly upset with the alterations to character history. So long as the essence of the character remains true I think fans need to be (somewhat) open minded. That is to say, I don't want to see Batman pointlessly using guns or Spider-man being carefree without the underlying burden of his great responsibility, etc. Changing timelines or events can be seen as eXcusable if it allows a more cohesive story. So leaving all eXpectations other than core character traits at the door what can one eXpect from the latest X-men film?  It's become quite difficult to give honest reviews of these (comic book) films. The problem is that so many have been bombarded at us in the last decade, many from the same franchise's, that it has become difficult for any individual film to be judged on its own. Comparisons become unavoidable.  X-men (2000) was a new experience when it first arrived, it had its flaws, but before then nobody had seen a large budget attempt at an ensemble cast superhero movie. It stood out in that regard as a first attempt. Now there is no first attempt eXcuse, people start to judge these films more harshly because they eXpect the filmmakers to learn from previous attempts. That said, X-men: First Class IS a good film.  Further, if you ignore highly regarded comic book movies such as X2, Spider-man 2 and The Dark Knight, this film is eXcellent as a comic book movie. Especially if viewed as a first entry in a new series. It can only be said to suffer the same issues that all first entries in these franchises do - it has too much to do for any of it to feel completely natural and we aren't entirely used to the version of the world being presented yet.  In an attempt to counteract these usual issues the CIA is used as an easy way to explain certain otherwise difficult to explain plot points. They want to keep the story moving and have limited runtime, understood, but it took getting used to for me to accept that Charles and Eric were basically given Cerebro and the Blackbird already built (even if here it is Beast who designed them).  Also, Mystique meeting Charles plays somewhat expository, along the same line there are several other moments that can be said to be shoved in simply because they need to happen, but they are telling so much story with so many new characters that these issues are largely forgiven.  The largest fault anyone could find in this film is that Charles and Eric were played so well anyone would wish for more scenes with them and exploring their friendship, especially given that this was the one film they had a chance to do so before certain events unfolded.  In the POSITIVES (which do outway any negatives), Eric and Charles are played so incredibly well. Fassbender in particular helps one see how this film could easily have been Origins: Magneto while McAvoy brings a welcomed boyish charm to Xavier (though I would have loved to see more of the character's motivations explained or explored by the script). All the actors playing the first class are perfectly cast in their roles. The powers are showcased nicely and action is found throughout in original set pieces that feel fresh. CGI is well done and at least isn't as heavily relied on as say Origins Wolverine. They tell an epic story and the sixties setting helps the film amazingly, JFK clips are used seamlessly to aid in this (Vaughn says he wants the sequel to open with the JFK assassination). What really sells this film is the amazing story that the events are all tied around. There are also some genuine good laughs and many in-jokes that don't detract from story at all.  The final set piece is where the film really reaches its best moments, despite any arguable missteps in getting there, it truly grips the audience member/X-fan and all the pieces come into play for what has to happen in the most terrific and the most tragic of ways (despite Mystique's growth being rushed). The final moments of that set piece are indeed the film truly living its full potential in rebooting this franchise.  Overall I give it 4.5 stars as a comic book movie and 4 stars as a film on its own. I want to leave room for the promise of a much improved sequel. It is undoubtedly one of the better comic book movies that will come out this summer (if not the best) and attempts admirable depth for a summer blockbuster, despite not quite finding that "place between rage and serenity" (as Charles tells Eric). Get out there and see it if you are a fan, it's worlds better than the cluster of plots that bogged down both X3 and X-men Origins: Wolverine. Lastly and most importantly, THIS FILM IS FUN!

A good horror film with an ironic ending This is a riviting film that has you guessing until the final sceen.  Just the right thing for you horror buffs out there.

Selena This is a very entertaining movie, beautiful music. Great story !!! Great movie for a family night. One of Jennifer's best role and performance. Beautiful voice. This is a keeper.

After Sunset Back near the end of 1998, a video store I was a member of was going out of business and began selling their VHS collection in bulk packages.  20 movies/ $20 grab bag deal.  I bought one and one of the videos was 1987's vampire flick Graveyard Shift (not the Stephen King/ Giant Bat thing).  Back then, I was a sucker for any movie involving vampires (no pun intended).  While revisiting this lost video goodie on DVD, I realize that my new viewing just proves how much my taste in movies has changed in 13 years.  An enigmatic cab driver prowls the streets of LA and always manages to pick up desperate women who are on the teetering edge of suicide.  This is how he picks up his dates. Needless to say, these girls are helpless to resist.  He's good looking.  He's protective.  He's caring.  And he happens to be a 350 year old vampire.  He takes them to the backseat of his suddenly huge cab, has sex with them, and then takes his fill of their blood while giving them the ultimate new lease on eternal life.  This all changes when he meets the troubled wife of a movie producer and falls in love and once he embraces her, Movie Man turns into Van Helsing and the hunt is on.  While not as good as I remember, Central Park Drifter (formerly Graveyard Shift) is still an enjoyable time capsul of bad low budget 80s movie making. The dated music, tv movie of the week style SFXs, lighting, costumes, and very bad hair is what gives this movie it's charm and appeal.  While I don't know any of it's leads, the performances (particularly our leading lady killer) pretty much help elevate it to being more than soft core Red Shoe Diaries gone Fright Night.  It's worth a viewing or two just as long as you don't expect too much or over pay.  Anything over $10 might be a gamble if you haven't already seen it before.

My Favorite of the Franchise Whether you are thirteen or ninety-five, there's no doubt you have heard of Twilight. And if you have bothered to read the books or see the films, you have already decided whether or not you love or loathe the franchise. Eclipse is the latest in the film series...  If it is the last thing she ever does, Victoria (Bryce Dallas Howard) is going to make Bella (Kristen Stewart) pay for the death of her mate. The spirited, fiery-haired vampire is no match for the local band of werewolves and vampires who protect Bella, so she takes matters into her own hands and recruits Riley (Xavier Samuel) to assist her in raising an army. In the meantime, unaware of the danger, Bella is caught between her immortal potential lovers -- the physically cold but romantic vampire, Edward (Robert Pattinson) and the warm-blooded, spirited shape-shifting werewolf, Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner). While she is devoted to Edward, the rift that it has caused with Jacob leaves a hole in her life, an emotional gulf at the fact that the two young men cannot come to terms. Torn between her intention to leave everything she knows behind and become an immortal, but knowing that will separate her from Jacob forever, Bella faces a new series of choices and situations when it becomes apparent that her life is in peril.  Considered one of the most popular franchises of our time, Eclipse is the best film in the Twilight series. With a new director comes a much larger scale outlook on the production, with picturesque settings and breathtaking views. There are a few more battle scenes this time around and subtle attempts at humor. The acting still suffers from occasional stiffness, but many of the sequences have an additional charm and it's nice to see some of the back stories and histories of individual characters. Here, we visit Rosalie, Jasper, and the first shape-shifter's past, as well as encounter more of the Italian vampires that made such an impression in the second film. Bryce is a worthy replacement for the previous Victoria and lends a bit of sass to the film, which still relies heavily on the romantic triangle but does branch out into some good arguments for why Bella should be cautious in her decision. No doubt these will not sway devoted fans from one opinion to the other, but for a undecided like me it tended to send me in a shall we say, wolfier direction.  The flashbacks are done well, and the musical score is great. The only real complaint in terms of filmmaking that I have is early action scenes are so rapidly shot and cut that it is difficult to tell what is happening. There's also an extraordinary amount of close-ups. For long time fans it is solid improvement on the success of the previous two films. I was sorry not to have seen more of the Cullens as individuals, but their limited screen time did provide some further insight into their characters, and the audience is introduced to some of the names and faces that become important in later incidents. While I might take issue with some of the underlining messages (more prominent in literature than on film), I do have to applaud this series for its stance on abstinence and its decision to respect the "outdated" notion of marriage. At one point, Edward says the divorce rate between vampires is far less than humans. It's a life-long commitment (or in this case, eternity) that is taken with the utmost seriousness.

Thief with James Caan This is a very good movie because of James Caan's portrayal of an ex convict master thief. This is the best thing I've seen Caan do other than Godfather. Tuesday Weld is also very good as his woman. Caan comes across genuinely tough here, and perhaps that's because he is, being a martial arts black belt. It's terrific entertainment, a great crime drama.

Skidoo's here! I only got to see half of this movie one night on TCM.  I had always wanted to see it because I'm an Otto Preminger fan and it's rarely ever shown (but now is being released on DVD).  It's been treated like it's the worst movie ever made by many critics, who savaged it when it came out in 1968.  The meeting of hippies and Otto Preminger was far too much for the critics to take back in those days, I guess.  Actually having seen the 2nd half of the film made me realise that the film, while not perfect, is actually pretty creative and crazy.  It's hard to recount the plot, as it's pretty convoluted and kind of inconsequential considering the craziness that's going on in the film.  Some of the schtick in the film feels forced, but overall, I found the 2nd half of the film really funny and charming.  Gleason's ride on a baloon is a wonderful highlight, and the whole cast is pretty game given the circumstances.  It was also rather brave of Preminger to try something as experimental as this at this point in his career.  It doesn't always work, but the film has enough positives to make it worth seeing, even for those who don't care for Preminger.  And yes, the final credits are hysterical.  Yes, they are sung by Harry Nilsson, and it is one of the best credit sequences in all of cinema.  Otto Preminger's Skiddo can finally be seen, and it deserves to be.

Go Tell the Spartans I thought this was a good film but  not a great film. The color was a bit off or it was too bright. But it is a must for any Vietnam War movie collection.

Quick! My husband received this DVD so quickly!  He was very grateful to receive this DVD so fast since he had wanted it for awhile to complete his collection of Rocky films.

A great addition to your collection Stardust mixes fairytale romance, adventure, magic, suspense, and humor to provide a fun and always entertaining experience for any audience. It is not quite as glorious as a masterpiece like the Lord of the Rings, but it is easily worthy of 4 stars. 4/5

THE UNLIKELY COUPLING OF MARTIN  LAWRENCE AND TIM  ROBBINS , BUT THERE IS GOOD CHEMISTRY AND IT REALLY WORKS Tim Robbins plays a successful exec who believes he sees his wife cheating on him and falls apart. Enter Martin Lawrence as a carjacker. Not a good day for either of them. This begins the silly road trip that takes them into Arizona from San Francisco and back. Hijinks and drama happen all the way. This movie is a little more on the serious side than the usual goofiness that make Martin Lawrence movies so much fun. BUT, there is enough goofiness to make this a really fun romp. Tim Robbins works very well with humor and it becomes an unlikely buddy movie that works. Martin Lawrence can do no wrong in my book. I believe he is such a talented, funny man. I can't give this movie 5 stars, but it is a solid 4 star. There are many funny moments. I saw this when it first came out at the end of the 90's and always remembered it. It was a pleasure to see it again. I will share this one. PROBABLY NOT FOR CHILDREN BECAUSE OF THE LANGUAGE. ENJOY

A Very Good Musical This movie features a huge cast; lots of dancing and singing. Songs like "Shuffling Off To Buffalo" became a popular hit.  Busby Berkley created dance routines that were imitated years later in the Jackie Gleason show.  For a good break, this is an enjoyable movie.

Great service Great work. I love these movies, they are a masterwork of a truly master filmaker. I recommend every movie lover to see them.

This is the best found film yet! If you have seen other Found Video like Cloverfield, Blair Witch Project, or Paranormal Activity, I think this one is the best one yet.  The story is pretty interest 3 teen boys get super powers by being exposed to an alien rock. The 3 boys now can make things move, build up force field and even fly! The best part I liked about the movie is when they are flying around the sky and playing football with each other. I thought to myself, wow, I never seen that before in a movie. It would be so cool, if I could fly like that!  This movie is awesome because it is so much better than the before Found Video movies. The story is great, the filming is better, and the character development made sense. I definitely recommend this movie!

Tombstone DVD the product, a DVD, works fine, my only complaint is that the case it was in, which was supposed to be brand new, was cracked so that the little circle knob that holds a DVD in place inside of the case, was broken, causing the DVD to slide all around the case, and potentially be scratched. other than that, the DVD works, so i suppose it's not the worst thing that could have happened.

A surprisingly good "Sixth Sense" type movie.  Really good twist at the end that make you want to watch it again. I say B+ Ever wonder who would show up at your funeral?  After attending a funeral for an old high school friend and running in to his ex-girlfriend (Amy Smart) Dylan (Stahl) comes up with a plan to stage his own death and hold a funeral for himself.  When a strange crack addict (McGowan) shows up to see him his life takes a strange turn and nothing is what it seems.  This movie is hard to explain without giving anything away, but the best way I can put it is that it is a cross between the "Sixth Sense" and "After.Life".  I really enjoyed the movie and I'm not sure if it was because I had no expectations heading in or because it was actually a very good movie (if that makes sense).  This is more of a drama then horror, in the same way the "Sixth Sense" could be categorized either way.  I really liked the twist at the end, I honestly can predict about 95% of movies made lately and this one got me.  I was very surprised at how much I liked it.  I surprisingly give it a B+.  Would I watch it again? - I would, if only to catch clues I missed the first time.

a genius at work Absorbing the genuis of Charlie Chaplain is always a good investment of "recreational" time.  This film offers no exception as a display of his incredible aptitude for thought provoking entertainment.

More Than Worthy to Belong to the IJ Franchise I'm just not understanding all the bagging being done on INDIANA JONES & THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL.  Look, I realize following 'The Last Crusade' is a tall order--even almost 20 years later.  And Harrison Ford and Karen Allen are definitely showing some mileage, but they still deliver their roles (especially Ford; no other sixtysomething actor could have pulled it off).  The one word I associate with the Indiana Jones franchise is Fun.  The first three were grand fun.  And so is this fourth installment, where this time, instead of the menacing Nazis, the villains are Soviet operatives, led by Comrade Irina Spalko (Cate Blanchett, sporting a coal black bob and heavy Russian accent, is priceless), racing Indiana into the Peruvian wilderness to find a treasure of gold that has extraterrestrial ramifications.  And like all the predecessors, CRYSTALL SKULL is grand, seat squirming fun, from surviving an atomic blast to evading some nasty ants with serious attitudes.  And throughout, Ford is vintage Indiana Jones, escaping peril after peril with a smug quip at the ready.  With Indiana, humility is always right around the corner, and that's certainly the case with this fourth installment.  Other noteworthy roles are turned in by Ray Winstone and John Hurt; the weak link (as in all his films) is ghoulish Shia LaBeouf, playing young Mutt, a faux rebel who soon learns an extraordinary (yet not surprising) secret.  When LaBeouf makes his entrance riding a motorcycle and sporting a police cap ala Marlon Brando, I was doing some serious eye-rolling.  Yet even his inherent floundering takes little away from my enjoyment of this film.  INDIANA JONES & THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL may be far removed chronologically from the first three installments, but it more than holds its own being worthy to join this illustrious franchise. --D. Mikels, Esq.

Thriller Nicely done thriller. Action scenes are impressive. The acting is pretty good too.  Blu-Ray extras include "how it was made" sequences and interviews with the cast, producer, and director.

Bloody Birthday Review Saw this on TCM late at night. They actually show boobies in one quick scene. Odd little movie, with cold Blooded kids (not related) born at the same time of an eclipse. They are evil little 10 year old brats. Fun movie for Haloween, if your kids are old enough to not be shocked at seeing one quick boobies scene. What scarey movie doesn't show Boobies anymore? It's a staple of the genre. I would recommend this movie for people who collect horror movies. This one is a cult classic.

very good, but Haven't we seen all of this before? Not quite as Academy Awardish a performance as Renee Zellwegger in Cold Mountain, but the addiction performance is getting old, as good as Farmiga is -- and she's very, very good.  A pretty unnecessary misstep, though, I think: we're supposed to believe that her now-clean, once-addicted lover falls apart simply by revisiting NYC? That the temptation is so great he has to immediately shoot up? No. I know a bit about addiction, and if he's gotten as far as he has that is a hardly plausible scenario. He would have turned down numerous opportunites by then. Far more plausible and sensible would be that he has been using the whole time, and Irene, seeing that he still has his addiction but is functional could well think, well if he can do it.... Instead she sees him shooting up and immediately wants some heroin too? No. Just the opposite would happen: she would see what a loser he is, how far she's come, and would redouble her efforts.

Bird lovers delight I bought this video as a gift and never did get to see it personally, but the party I gave it to just loved and told me this is a great bird lovers treat. So if you want to be a hit will your bird loving friends give them this

Their War for Independence Cast a Giant Shadow, 1966 film  The story begins with newsreels about WW II (to set the background). It is Christmas in 1947 New York City. The major characters were real. Two men are being followed. A lawyers is approached by a Major in the Haganah, who is on a secret mission. [Note the toy machine gun for young boys.] Can the new state of Israel defend itself? Marcus will go to Israel as a military advisor; this won't be a desk job. There is a scene from the past where Colonel Marcus is flown to France. B-17 bombers fly paratroopers (101 Airborne) to France. The French cheer their liberators. "I don't mean water." Marcus arrives in Palestine and is greeted. "Shalom." An armored bus is attacked by armed men. There is a death penalty for possessing a firearm. [That was like in Occupied France!] The British are leaving, the Arabs are arming themselves.  The Arab leaders hate each other, their troops aren't highly motivated. A ship lands immigrants, are they illegal? Can they be stopped? Will changing clothes disguise them? "Such a stubborn people!" There is a scene at a concentration camp (tastefully handled). An Arab chief provides entertainment at a meeting. There is humor in a serious political discussion abut arms in Syria. Will they act to destroy these arms? Will there be casualties? Can they get arms? Can they unify the separate groups to act in unison? A convoy of trucks on a road comes under fire. "Come on, Magda!" They arrive in Jerusalem. Marcus learns about his wife's illness back home, and returns. `I'm only guessing." A British diplomat talks to Marcus about the Middle East. Marcus explains the situation to the Lt. General: they need arms for self-defense.  A South American cargo plane flies in with Mauser rifles, surplus arms from WW II. Can Israel survive attacks from the Arab countries? Marcus wants to use strategy by attacking with improvised weapons. Can a Piper Cub attack tanks? Audacity? Will the tanks be led into an ambush? The Arab Legion has moved in to cut the road to Jerusalem, where people are starving. Jerusalem was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzer and Titus of Rome; it must be saved as the symbol of the nation. One fort controls the road to Jerusalem; can they be forced out? An attack from the rear might do it. Their soldiers attack the fort with flame throwers and dynamite. They are untrained but enthusiastic. An Arab chief provides information about another route to Jerusalem. Assigning more men to this project will shorten the schedule. The outflanked enemy not withdraws, opening the road to Jerusalem. Marcus knows how to clear a disabled truck from this road. They reach Jerusalem in time for the cease-fire. Marcus plans to return home. But a young soldier is scared in the night, the last casualty before peace is the result of a mistake.  This movie is entertaining and educational in it story about the founding of Israel. Note how surplus Mauser rifles armed the Israeli forces. Surplus Messerschmidt ME-109s also provided an air force. Such irony is not unknown in history. You can search the Internet for more information on Colonel Marcus.

For those who know the essence of Batman DC made the comic book come alive. As far as adaptations go under the Red Hood can't be beat. The animation and the art style fit the gritty atmosphere of the story like a glove. I was disappointed at first that the movie lacked the tighter more intricate plot of the comic arc. (think some of the later Harry Potter movies.) But they did keep the weight and the driving force behind the characters alive and strong, particularly in the last few minutes of the story. In retrospect the comic book was such a hit with fans because it managed to bring out a different a side of Batman in a powerful and believable way. They definitely achieve that in the movie version. It did take me a while to get used to anyone but Kevin Conroy, and Mark Hamill voicing Batman and the Joker, although Bruce Greenwood, and John Dimaggio did fill the roles well. Jensen Ackles' portrayal as the Red Hood was especially good. Any Batman fan whose read the comics or watched Batman the animated series on cartoon network will love this movie.

Enjoyable Remake I just saw this in the theater and very much enjoyed it.  It was a remake of the first Toby Macguire Spider-Man, with pretty much the same overall plot.  Martin Sheen played the uncle this time and Sally Field played the aunt.  Like some of the movies are doing today, embedded about halfway through the end credits, you see about a two minute movie snippet indicating a part 2 is coming.

Vivid ... if you can stomach it And there are several stomachs -- of various samurai -- that can't, when they are forced to commit ritual suicide in this death before dishonor flick.  It is VERY well done, but ... the 13 take on 200 in such a swirl of blood and steel that your head spins faster than dying swordsmen.  It is very hard to keep track of who is who, and the film has the usual bit of Japanese ... fantasy: One of the "good guys" takes a blade through the neck, but by the end of the film seems to have not even a sore throat! (It gives a new perspective to sword swallowing.)  The film is interesting, a bit of fun, with lots of ugly death shown in beautiful color, but despite having six more samurai than the great "Seven Samurai," if you want one view of Japanese films, stay with the true classic.

Missing one star for video quality Other than the occassional lackluster video quality and transfer (which is not digitally remastered) this DVD is a welcome addition to the home libraries for anyone who grew up watching classic early 90s cartoons. I would include in that list SWAT Kats, Tale Spin, Darkwing Duck, Gargoyles, and others...  The storyline is stellar and takes its time developing the characters and settings. The war fought between the humans and Neo-sapiens is not black and white, and makes you think, something few cartoons do. Rather, this should be classified as an animated series, ala Batman: The Animated Series and Gargoyles (seasons 1 and 2 anyway).

Great episodes, but just re-issues of episodes from the old DVD set. ***** = the episodes *** = the DVDs Don't get me wrong, these are GREAT EPISODES, but for those of us who bought the 31 disc set from Columbia House 10 years ago in 2002, we have them all. It is disappointing that Carol Burnette & Time Life sprinkled some 10 new episodes in another 22-disc mega-set (NOT THIS 6 DVD SET) forcing us to re-buy most of what we already have, just to get 10 new episodes.  And I repeat, those 10 new episodes are NOT on this shorter 6 DVD set! You have to get the 22 Disc set.  I would quickly buy this set if it had the 10 new episodes.  To top off the insult, if you buy the new 22-disc set to get the 10 new episodes not previously available, you still have to look for the old 31 disc set from 2002 because 22 episodes from that set have been left off of the new 22-disc set.  If I sound cranky it is because I do not want to buy 15 discs of shows that I already have just to get 4 discs of new shows & 3 discs of bonus material. I would still have to keep the old set for the missing 22 episodes.  This 6-disc set is just for those casual fans who either have not bought the previous 2002 31 disc set from Columbia House, or do not want to buy the mega-22 disc set currently being offered from Time-Life. (Old Columbia House DVD disc numbers are in parentheses)  TIM CONWAY is a cast regular starting on September 1975. He is in all of disc #1, #810 & 903 in disc #2, #921 in disc #3,all of disc #4, #1012 in disc #5, and not on disc #6.  Disc #1 #1007 10/30/76 - Roddy McDowell - features Mrs Wiggins "Buzz Off" with Carol & Tim Conway (pervious disc #12) #1002 11/13/76 - Dinah Shore - features The Oldest Man "The Butcher" with Harvey & Tim Conway (previous disc #01) #1121 03/05/78 - Steve Martin & Betty White - features The Family "Ellen's Anniversary" with Betty White (previous disc #15) Bonus special show: "Let's Bump Up The Lights" was previously released on a separate DVD in 2004. Featurette:"I Want To Push The Button" the history of the show. This is NEW TO DVD. Bonus sketch: "The Dentist" March 3, 1969 with Tim Conway & Harvey Korman.  Disc #2 #722 03/16/74 - Roddy McDowell & Jackson 5 - features a bit with Roddy McDowell in a make-up chair for "The Planet Of The Apes" (previous disc #01) #810 11/23/74 - Maggie Smith & Tim Conway - features a "Born Free" spoof with Tim Conway (previous disc #21) #903 10/04/75 - Shirley MacLaine - features The Hollow Hero "Palace Guard" with Carol, Harvey & Tim Conway (previous disc #08) #812 12/14/74 - Ken Berry & Carl Reiner - features "The Biggest Movie of the Week: Disaster '75" with entire cast (previous disc #05)  Disc #3 #921 02/14/76 - Joanne Woodward - features Mrs Wiggins "The Intercom" with Carol & Tim Conway (previous disc #18) #716 01/19/74 - Carl Reiner - features "Funny Lady" with Carol, Harvey & Carl Reiner (previous disc #03) #814 01/04/75 - Joan Rivers & Vincent Price - "The Walnuts" (A Waltons spoof) (previous disc #20) Bonus show: "THE GARY MOORE SHOW: Supergirl" March 6, 1962 - Carol does her Tarzan Yell - NEW TO DVD. Featurette: Ahhhh, Miss Whiggins?" with Mr. Tudball. NEW TO DVD. Interview with Carol Burnett.  Disc #4 #611 10/25/72 - Pearl Bailey & Tim Conway - features The Oldest Man "Galley Slaves" with Harvey, Tim Conway & Lyle Wagner (previous disc #16) #1022 03/26/77 - Ken Berry - features Mrs Wiggins "The Fire Drill" with Carol & Tim Conway (previous disc #06)  Disc #5 #817  02/15/75 - Rock Hudson & Nancy Walker - features "The Late-Late-Late Show: My Baby Laughs At Me" with entire cast  (previous disc #04) #1012 12/11/76 - Betty White - features The Family "The Attic" with Betty White (previous disc #07 which was incorrectly dated November 22, 1975)  Disc #6 #803 09/14/74 - Jim Neighbors - features The Family "Brotherly Love" with entire cast (previous disc #21) #823 03/29/75 - Jean Stapleton & Phil Silvers - features "Bilko's New Army: Anything You can Do" (previous disc #30) Featurette: "Leading Lady Carol, A Television Pioneer" NEW TO DVD. "Harvey Korman & Tim Conway Together Again" April 24, 2004 interview.Interview with Betty White & Carl Reiner. NEW TO DVD.  For the serious Carol Burnette Show fan, I strongly suggest you get the new Time-Life 22-disc Mega-Set instead of this Time-Life 6-disc set. And you may want to look for some of the old Columbia House DVDs to fill in the missing shows: Discs #02, 09, 10, 11, 13, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31.  It is odd that some of these new DVDs have up to 4 shows per disc while others have only 2 shows.

Fun, Weird Flick Released in 1987, this film will put a cramp in your neck from laughing. Directed by the now famous Coen Brothers, Raising Arizona is a surreal ride of fantastical proportions. Filled with great lines, unforgettable characters, and that Coen Brother's touch, this movie kills me every time. This is back when Nick Cage actually created cinematic characters and you thought he would be one of the greats. My how times have changed. If you're reading this, Nick, I still think you're great, but you need to be more selective, pal.

DOCTOR DETROIT I had seen Dr. Detroit back when I was a young adult and thought it was halarious. My boyfriend had not seen it so I decided to buy it from Amazon and we watched it together. It was as funny now as it was years, and years ago. I highly recommend it for a laugh and a half.

Glad I read other reviews concerning distortion AFTER READING OTHER REVIEWS I AM GLAD I ORDERED THIS IN VHS V. DVD.  I WILL SACRIFICE THE ADVANTAGES OF DVD IN ORDER TO GET CLARITY AND NO DISTORTION.  THE STORY WAS WORTHWHILE, THE PRODUCTION WELL DONE.  I WOULD RECOMMEND DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE CHARACTERS ARE NOT EASILY LIKED.  THAT'S THE AUTHOR'S PORTRAYAL OF THEM AND NOT THE DIRECTOR'S FAULT.

Waiting & Hoping For Salt Part 2 I remember when Angelina Jolie was filming Salt, and certain scenes were filmed in NYC.  Many times pictures of her making the movie were shown in the local newspapers.  Anyway, I finally watched the theatrical cut on dvd and the fast paced action kept me interested thoughout.  Jolie did a fine job with many of the stunts and the plotline was interesting as well.  As others have mentioned, it was obvious she really loved her husband Michael.  The scenes of Salt constantly on the run and then escaping capture were top notch.  Although when it was released this movie received so-so reviews, I am still hoping there will eventually be a follow up story.  I won't give the ending of this story away, but those of you who have seen the movie know that the way it ended, it left you wanting more.

Not bad at all Movie was failry exciting , interesting and a decent amount of martial arts and tai chi. The best part is that it had a lot of positive messages in it!  ~shauns movie review

YAKUZA This movie is as fresh today, 2011, as it was when it came out in the 1970s.  Realistic, tense and reflective. The actor's chemistry was very balanced and the storyline was sentimental without being mushy.  Very good movie.

Watch it for Sean Connery The story of King Arthur and his beautiful Lady Guinevere is the stuff legends are made of. This pair of lovers and the knight who managed to come between them have long been speculation for storytelling... but rarely does a film show them as honorable and likable icons. First Knight dares to do as much, proving displeasing to many lovers of the original legend.  It is a time of tribulation and warfare in England when one must live by the sword or die by it. Prince Malagant (Ben Cross), Arthur's former First Knight and head of the Round Table, has betrayed his honor and left to follow his own destiny. His lands border the estate of Leanesse, governed over by the beautiful Lady Guinevere (Julia Ormond), but his true quarry is Camelot. Burning, pillaging, and murdering at will, Malagant inflicts terror upon the peasantry who turn to their lady for help... but there is little she can do without accepting an alliance with Camelot. Torn between her freedom and a love for her people, she decides that the best manner in which to protect her tenants is to accept the offer of marriage by King Arthur of Camelot. But while on her journey to the golden city, Guinevere's caravan is attacked by Malagant's men. Arthur's knights are slaughtered and herself, along with her handmaidens, taken prisoner.  In a daring escape and only after aiding her ladies to safety, Guinevere flees into the wood and is rescued by the wandering swordsman Lancelot (Richard Gere). A magnificent and fearless fighter but also a notorious womanizer, he attempts to seduce her but she refuses his advances and goes into the welcoming arms of King Arthur (Sean Connery), expecting never to see Lancelot again. However, an ill wind blows no good and Lancelot arrives in Camelot the day of her public engagement. Braving the gauntlet to win a kiss from the would-be queen, Lancelot is praised by Arthur for bravery (and stupidity); admiring the man's courage, the king invites him to join the Knights of the Round Table in Malagant's place. Their arch-enemy in the meantime is determined to have Leanesse and will stop at nothing to seize control of her kingdom. And when a challenge upon Camelot herself leaves Guinevere in enemy hands, Arthur may loose everything to save her.  The love affair that brought an end to Camelot has been speculation for generations. This story covers the basics, ignores the myths surrounding Arthur, and turns him into a true living breathing person of integrity, honor, and Christian compassion. Never has the story been so poignantly realistic, or the characters so memorable. I strayed away from this film when it premiered in the early 1990's because a film about the fated love affair that sent Camelot into ruin was bound to be adulterous. When I did hesitantly give the film a chance, I was immediately impressed with the restraint showed by the producers and scriptwriters. The love affair was merely a sideline to a wonderful story of bravery, honor, and self-sacrifice. What's more, Guinevere was faithful to Arthur save in one instance upon Lancelot's departure, when she gave him a farewell kiss. King Arthur is portrayed as devout, asking for God's mercy and wisdom in dealing with Malagant, his knights, and even Guinevere. "I take the good with the bad," he says to Lancelot early on. "I can't love people in slices." What a praiseworthy ambition! Yet he doesn't hesitate to punish sin where it's due. Christianity is cast in a respectable light; there is no Merlin, magic, or witchcraft here.  Gorgeous scenery, compelling dialogue, magnificent costumes and the sheer magnitude of the Camelot that lives on in myth draws together a film that, despite its very few flaws, will touch your heart. The most moral and compelling Camelot story of all time, First Knight is a film that teaches good ideals and the value of honor. An afternoon well-spent for lovers of the Arthurian legend.

Everything I expected I saw a heavily edited version of this movie back in 1978 as part of a science fiction film festival in Massachusetts.  Taking it for what it was, I was fairly impressed with the silent-era effects.  33 years later, I'm more able to appreciate just how grounbreaking this movie was.  With all the original "dialogue" (title cards) restored to the script the filmmaker intended, the story moves much better than previously.  It also helps that virtually all the missing footage (nearly an hour compared to the copy I saw) has been not just replaced but restored.  There's been a LOT of work done for this release and I'm only too happy to have supported the effort by buying this release.

Great fun movie This is a good movie.  A little bit of crude humor, and lots of minion laughing that is contagious--makes my kids start laughing which then makes me laugh!

NCIS;  Seasons 1-7 Received as a gift.  To date, we have not watched the entire series.  However, we are very pleased with the earlier seasons that we have seen.

MOMMY, WHO IS THAT BEHIND YOU? The film opens with a close up of a green iris. The eye blinks and then it becomes blue. We then move onto a film that is seeming unrelated to the eye or the title.  Nicole (Agnes Bruckner) is at her mother's house. The camera angles give us the feeling Nicole is being watched. Agnes Bruckner gives us a good performance as someone who is feeling creepy. Her mother has passed on and Nicole is making the arrangements. We discover this family was not very tight and has every member has numerous issues.  Nicole disappears the night before her biker/waitress sister Annie (Caity Lotz) shows up. Annie occupies her mother's house and also cares for Nicole's daughter (Dakota Bright) who she has met for the first time. Weird things start to happen in the house until Annie seeks refuge at the police station.  At this point an unkempt Bill Creek (Casper Van Dien) shows up. The ghost starts to leave Annie clues. The suspense/thriller/ horror aspect was good. Once you find out what is going on, it takes the film down a peg.  I wasn't sure what they were trying to accomplish with the very end. It took a certain "seriousness" out of the production.  PARENTAL GUIDE: F-bombs, no sex, no nudity. Caity Lotz legs and cleavage.

Fun movie if you don't live for taking movies too seriously It's not a high budget film, it's doesn't have big star actors or a famous director so have realistic expectations when turning this one onto the television.  Yes the acting is rough and the production value/story is a little weak BUT I really enjoyed it!  I read the other reviews and thought this must be terrible but decided to give it a try anyway and I'm glad I did.  This one made me pull my feet up onto the couch a couple times which hasn't happened in a long time.  If you enjoy watching haunted house movies then it's worth the time to put this one under your belt and enjoy a few scares.  However, if you watch movies with a notepad to dissect the story lines and comment on acting queues then skip this one because you'll spend more time writing than watching.  I gave it a 4 star because we enjoyed watching it and appreciated a movie that could still startle us, that I think the some of the other reviewers were awfully harsh

The day the earth stood still The price was VERY GOOD-lower than many others. However, I didn't like that I was not able to TRACK this item. I live 20 miles from post office and would've like to know when it arrived.

Who's Who Mystery This is a very amusing take on the story of Red Riding Hood where everybody is not who they seem.  Someone is stealing recipes from the forest bakeries and a frog who reminds me a lot of Inspector Poirot tries to figure out who the villain is.  In fact, the way the story was told is very much like the way Poirot episodes go.  It was hilarious.  I recommend this movie for a laughing good time.

Funny Movie It was great to see the cast back again for a reunion.  A very funny movie for those who enjoy American Pie.

Burton's "Batman" a revelation in high definition I'll be the first to admit that Tim Burton's original "Batman" has never been my cup of tea. Even before Christian Bale emerged on the scene in the excellent "Batman Begins" I just never quite thrilled with the 1989 picture. For me, despite an excellent performance, the problem lay with Jack Nicholson's villain who was more comical clown that a truly sinister enemy of the people of Gotham. Burton's style also seemed conflicted over precisely what he was hoping to accomplish seemingly stuck between a cheesy 1980s action comedy and a dark and brooding social commentary.  Still, for all its faults "Batman" is a seminal film of American cinema, for it ushered in a genre that had only seriously been tapped by the Superman franchise at that time - the Superhero movie. Modern audiences no doubt do not recall a time when the Superhero movie was a relative oddity. Today's summer blockbusters are swamped with them. Burton's movie then deserves our respect.  I will not relate the plot here for I dare say most are familiar with it. But rather examine the 2-disc Blu-ray Digibook release. It is safe to say with the release of this high definition Blu-ray release that you can start using those low definition DVDs as coffee coasters, because once you have been wowed by these Blu-rays you will never want to suffer through subpar DVD transfers ever again.  The video quality is a revelation, with a rich and colorful palette, more detail and a depth that has never been apparent on any previous release. The audio is also nicely done and far superior to anything DVD has ever provided.  I would advise all fans of the movie to pick up the Digibook release. Housed in a book containing 50 pages of photographs, script excerpts, and comic art this Blu-ray release contains a bumper list of special features a 72 minute documentary, an enthusiastic Tim Burton commentary, and (most interesting for me) a 41 minute exploration of the history of Batman. The special features are: Legends of the Dark Knight: The History of Batman (SD, 41 minutes); Shadows of the Bat (SD, 72 minutes); Beyond Batman (SD, 51 minutes); The Heroes and the Villains (SD, 20 minutes); Storyboard Sequence (SD, 4 minutes); On the Set with Bob Kane (SD, 3 minutes); Music Videos (SD, 14 minutes); Theatrical Trailer (SD 2 minutes) and the aforementioned Burton commentary.  With the significant improvement in quality and the housing of the discs in an attractive Digibook, only a fool or the technology challenged would ever settle for the DVD release. This Blu-ray release is definitely the way to go.

GRAVEYARD SHIFT This was a very popular movie rental under the title "Graveyard Shift" back in the 80's. The movie has a combination disco/ Miami Vice feel to it. The Travolta looking lead as well as the sound track gives it that classic 80's feel. Steven is a vampire in NYC who, like all vampires works the Graveyard Shift. Steven senses when women are in their "death cycle" at which time he makes them his lover and gives them a nibble. They in turn become vampires, who Steven never calls. He is a cab driver.  There is a subplot involving a woman named Michelle, who directs vampire videos, but apparently not to well. She is also terminal. Steven eventually ends up at a Halloween party at her house. Michelle's husband, who plays the field, is jealous, but Michelle is in love. The women vampires kill their victims. The cops are trying to figure out where the bodies are coming from.  The film uses red and blue lighting to represent heat and cold, hot and cold bodies. Sometimes it is effective, other times it doesn't work and is annoying. The movie also had some erotic nudity, especially one blue-lit scene with Kim Cayer, which was perhaps the main reason for its popularity. They don't even show her scene on the back cover and they should have plastered it on the front. It sold the movie. I think they did themselves a disfavor by re-releasing it under a different title, especially a bad one.  Sex and nudity. Not much blood for a vampire film.

Connery's steely presence makes this High Noon in space shine!! I remember seeing this sci-fi Western in 70MM on a big screen in a now defunct theater in Boston (perhaps the Cheri?).  Anyway it took me by surprise how well directed (Peter Hyams) and acted (Connery, Francis Sternhagen, Peter Boyle), it was.  If you're not expecting an "Alien", which is a masterpiece, by the way--you'll be throughly entertained by this thriller. Worth checking out again in Blu-ray.

I love the big puppy Beethoven is a fun and comical assesment of many peoples lives. We love to watch this with our grandchildren just for the basic view of the big puppy. We love Beethoven

The film is 5 stars now the blu-ray... ... lost a star because it doesnt play on my english playstation. British Censorship has cut many many scenes on the english version of Commando and I thought I would watch it as the filmmakers intended  me to by buying the american version. BIG MISTAKE.

A Classic! This movie is a classic.It's right up there with Scarface,Carlito's Way, and Good Fellas.Marlon Brando is brilliant in this movie.Al Pacino has true"StarPower" in the movie that you can't deny.

A whole lot of awesome going on... Hitchcock, the master of suspense, built one amazing thrill ride in `Saboteur', a film about a framed man running from the law in search of his innocence.  From start to finish the film is carried on the very sturdy shoulders of Robert Cummings, a man who sinks deep into this role and delivers a stirring portrait of a man at the end of his rope.  With the usual Hitchcock tricks, `Saboteur' works very well.  I know that some may draw huge comparisons to `North By Northwest', but one should note that this film was released first, so if there is a copycat in the bunch it would, without doubt, be `North By Northwest'.  In fact, you could even draw some comparisons to Hitchcock's own `The 39 Steps', especially within certain sequences.  That said, `North By Northwest' only perfected what Hitchcock initially set out to do in `Saboteur'.  The film follows a man named Barry Kane who is wanted for sabotage.  Framed for a fire, Kane soon finds himself on the run, trying to clear his name and bring justice to those responsible for the death of his friend.  Along the way he comes across kind hearted strangers who go out of their way to protect and help him in his journey.  It isn't until he comes across the beautiful yet doubtful Patricia Martin that he has a true ally.  But, the question still lingers if Kane will be able to clear his name before the real bad guys get their hands on him.  There are some illogical moments, but suspension of disbelief is paramount in most of Hitchcock's works.  Still, some of the films plot points may be hard to swallow, and as has been brought out by other reviewers, the open-mindedness of those whom Kane comes in contact is a bit alarming (good natured or not, were people ever that trusting) and yet I have to remember that this is now and that was then and different times call for different actions.  Alas, the acting is a triumph that just makes this movie required viewing.  Not only is Cummings stellar, but so is Patricia lane and Vaughan Glaser, who works complete magic in his one scene.  It has flaws, but it is really exciting to watch and will keep you glued from start to finish.

Game Over? What I love about Saw is that every movie is connected. While you can still get enjoyment out of them as a stand alone, there is nothing better than having seen them all one by one and seeing the parallel between movies, characters, friends and enemies. Bell (Jigsaw) is always at the helm (dead or not) and is the glue for each movie, in this one hes finally on the peripheral as his wife moves up. I believe this is the last (but would not be surprised to see another one) but if its not you need a marathon watch of all them before this one. I liked this premise, and enjoyed seeing familiar faces as trap escapees come together to talk about their ordeals. Every movie gives better and more elaborate traps and this one does not disappoint. I loved the carnage. It seemed more innocents died here, which is kinda sad, even loving carnage I dont just want anyone and everyone to die. Still, for me, Saw never gets old. Hit or miss in the a couple middle movies, but I enjoyed this one too. While the ending wasnt as shocking, mouth dropping as the first, or second movies, it ties up loose ends and opens the door for further chapters if they want them. I think real Saw fans will enjoy.

Most Entertaining and Good to Look At Nothing creaky about the plot despite the age of the film; and, it is sure good to view even on a less than super new TV set. The cast is a talented crew, with Gregory Peck, particularly effective, followed closely by Anthony Quinn who had finally come into his own after many years as a supporting actor, having come early into the game (remember him in the first Crosby-Hope film of, I believe, 1939-or 1941). David Niven, while co-starred, has the weakest role to play, but does as good a job as possible. I can no longer remember details from the book on which the story is based, but there are some logical gaps in the plot which do no perceptible harm. The essential plot-line is simple, as many here have described it, but it serves well. The ferocity of domination and partisan warfare is somewhat soft-pedaled as we can tell every day by simply reading the daily papers. Just as well; viewing would be unbearable if there was not some veneer on the harsh realities. As a footnote, I cannot fail to be impressed by the actor's voices one finds in the films made in the years through the forties (and the stars who received formal training then and previously,s but whose careers extended into later decades. . Not a question of better of worse, but rather of style. The post-Brando player would consider it entirely artificial to use the resonance and security of tone, one had to use earlier. Nor would later movie makers have ever accepted the sound track in which every word and sound had to be articulated so as to be heard clearly in the upper balconies (which even many "local"  pseudo palaces possessed.) At any rate, this is still a film  which can involve you, no matter the deviations from reality it allows for dramatic purposes.

Good movie, took some time to get into. This was a good movie. It took some time to really get into the story bc its pretty slow. This isn't a movie meant to display the "Magic of film making", this is a movie meant to tell a story, and it does that beautifully. The ending is very griping. Johnny Depp's acting is great, and christian bale does very well also, but he has always been a good actor. These two lead stars are very good at being able to transfer their skill into any role and they do it again. Not for people who only like explosive action and alot of special effects. Looks great on Blu Ray but the sound is iffy at times.  Overall 4 Stars!

Much better than I recalled. Ned Beatty's performance is the oft overlooked keystone of the movie. I had had never seen the uncut version of this movie previously, nor had I seen it on a big screen until 2010. This is a beautifully filmed movie (except for the bizarre looking day for night footage on the cliff). The performances are first rate, too (again with a lapse on the cliff). The best remembered scenes unfortunately overshadow in our collective memory the fine performances that include those scenes. Bobby's (Ned Beatty) transformation as his inner strength comes out plays in the background of Burt Reynold's and John Voight's more active and prominent performances but is really the keystone of the movie without which it would crumble.

Sweeney Todd in Concert I have been a long time fan of this show.  I really enjoy different interpretations of the material.  The biggest reason I purchased this was because I saw it broadcast on PBS and wanted to have this in my library.  Concert versions of shows are very different as the staging moves throughout the orchestra, I find it interseting to watch the actors do their thing without the traditional staging and props.  Excellent performance.  I wish there was more performances available with Victoria Clark - she does not have a lot of stage time but she certainly makes an impact as the begger woman.

Lost 5 review The product was in alright shape, it was missing the plastic sleeve I was hoping to get with it however. Was ordered as a Christmas present and it came just in time.

Great Statham Movie I am biased writing this review because I am a huge Jason Statham fan. To those who, like me, enjoy watching his flicks you will not be disappointed with this one. Statham is excellent as always. 4.5/5.0  I admit that I have not seen the original with the great Charles Bronson so have no comparison on that front. As far as how the story goes I like it. I am also a fan of the assassin/hit man genre and this was definitely on par here. 4.5/5.0 for that.  The story was fast paced and the acting was alright. Donald Sutherland played a good part for the short time he was there. Ben Foster was ok in his role, nothing overly fantastic but played the part of a young gun know it all as good as anyone. 3.5/5.0  The extras on this Blu-Ray were lacking to say the best. Deleted scenes were ok but no optional commentary. No commentary on the movie and the featurette on the stunts was fairly cool but limited. All in all a disappoinment as far as Extras go but then when you look at this movie how much more could there have been? Maybe the director discussing how they went about doing the remake. 2.5/5.0  Overall, I will watch this movie again. This is up there with Statham flicks like Cellular and Chaos but not as cool as say the Transporter movies. 4.25/5.0 for a Statham flick.  Final Verdict: 3.75/5.0 and cos it's Statham I give it 4.0 stars.

wonderful This is a funny show to watch loved it I definitely recommend it was a bit weird at times but overall still good

Good Fun to relive memories but not great The whole concept and storyline of this Battlestar Galactica Movie is amazing.  Overall it is worth a few good laughs with some of the corny technology and the silly dialogue. At some points it drags on a little longer than what I wanted but I was still satisfied.  If you have nothing to do and want some silly inspiration to maybe write your own SciFi movie then give this movie its due.  The actors are worth it too.  You will know who they are and have a chuckle or two when you realize they got their big start on this film.  hahah

A Little Short, But Very Well Done This is my first watch of a film in this genre and I can't say I'm disappointed. The shot choice was excellent, the dialogue was not only convincing but touching and the music was great. My only criticism would be that it seemed to end far too soon. This is probably due to the open ended ending.  The way in which each scene is composed doesn't try to hit the viewer on the head with the conflict, but it hits home enough with tidbits of dialogue so that it really goes to the heart of the piece. Two people,  who are so obviously different in what we learn about their upbringing and the interactions between Jackie and her mother, are both in a world much their own. This is what I feel drew me into this film. I like that the focus wasn't really on how dramatic their lives were because of their relationship but it was more on how two people can know each other and still misunderstand one another.  In a nutshell this film was beautiful, painful and well worth a rental. I'd give it a four out of five because I think the ending could use some work, but I wouldn't let that stop you from watching it.

A memorable cult sci-fi movie In the late seventies(Alien and the sequel of Invasion of the body snatchers) and even in the early eighties (Blade Runner, 2010, Outland and Terminator)the sci fi genre achieved a pinnacle in which recreation of the myth concerns.  And this classic of the genre, despite having been of the famous Western High Noon  erects itself as a truly icon in its own.  Sean Connery for that moment was by then,the most credible action-hero the cinema was proud to show. He had already filmed Zardoz under John Borman's direction nine years ago). And I think to myself Brian de Palma chose him to play the role that eventually would lead him to award an Academy Award (The untouchables)due this role.  Connery is a Marshal who is dispossed to bring it back an anormal situation (an anfetamine who makes of you major results within minor hours of job. But this illusion lasts ten years at last because you get beseek.  If the workers are happy, the production enhances, the high management is happy and me too. That's Schepard statement when he confronts himself with the Marshal.  High tension drama, first-order visual effects and credible plot make of this film a well rounded sci fi movie as well as an unforgettable cult movie.

BULLY ME. MAKE MY DAY. A mob boss (Ray Wise) wants his stolen money back and everyone who might be involved, killed. He also wants proof which requires the use of a Polaroid (seriously?). After 3 people are snuffed we switch to the subplot. A family of four...recently married move into a new home. The son Owen is creepy and silent. He is interested in things that kill. Lauren (Fabianne Therese) is his 17 year-old step sister who showers with her back to the camera...end of eye candy.  It isn't hard to figure out how this grindhouse plot and family drama come together. When Owen gets a chance to escape, rather than take it...cue heavy metal music as the quiet teen opts to fight 4 grown armed men. In this "Home Alone" tale, Macaulay Culkin is a psycho, who, like a cat, likes to play with its prey before the kill.  Derek Mears, one of the bad guys has that creepy Michael Berryman look to him, but acts more like a pansy. I found his character to be darkly comical as things happen to him. Dana Ashbrook comes across as George Cloony light. Good old fashion home break-in with some new twists. Excellent blood splatter. "B" movie fun. I would have given the film 5 stars had they played Talking Heads "Psycho Killer."  F-bomb, no sex, no nudity (Fabianne Therese- side breast). pot smoking

Touching, socially important documentary Intelligent, sad documentary about two illegal Mexican immigrants who try to scratch out a living, and send some money home, playing music in various restaurants in the US. They also work all day at other jobs.  The film follows Carmelo Sanchez, one of the two, as he returns to Mexico to care for his ailing, aging mother, and finds himself torn between staying and returning to America.  This is a very effective film at giving those of us who will never know this kind of hard life some insight into what so many other human beings around us go through.  Yet, at least on first viewing, there was also a little something missing. While it was always interesting, it never touched my heart as deeply as it did my head, I'm not sure why. Maybe there was just a little feeling of remove that the film never quite got around. Maybe it's because Sanchez himself is so stoic, and keeps so much inside.  But still a very good movie, and an important one for all of us lucky enough not to live in want.

The Duke in a suit. I like this movie. So many reviewers are hung up on Wayne's age when he made this movie. I suspect much of the negative sniping is more from reviewers who just don't like John Wayne the man. Rather than looking at the movie on it's own merits they let their dislike of Wayne cloud their reviews. So allow me to address the biggest complaint before looking at the movie itself.  Most career cops are detectives in their 50's and 60's. They have years of experience. They aren't pretty and most don't have 28 inch waists, but they've worked thousands of cases (literally) and even faced down a bad guy a time or two.What they know ,and how they handle themselves, replaces the fact that they no longer run a mile (if at all) under seven minutes.John Wayne at sixty-seven might of been about ten years older than his character would be in the real world, but he wasn't incorrect to be playing a veteran detective.  I had no difficulty imagining McQ as being one of the many World War II vets who joined the police shortly after World War II ended. He's conservative, somewhat reactionary in the face of the dramatic changes occurring in American society in the early seventies and cantankerous. He's also honorable and intolerant of politics and bureaucracy.  His persona was perfect. Physically he comes across as a man who is past his prime and knows it, but he also knows how to get the upper hand on an opponent by striking first and fast. In other words he cheats. That's called experience.  Now for the movie.  First of all the movie is nothing new or radical. It's a tough-cop movie. The Lone Wolf against the world. Not surprisingly the Lone Wolf wins in the end. Which is what we want and Wayne knew it. There is some commentary (in the movie) on what is happening in society and the sense that despite winning this particular battle (Oh come on. You mean to tell me you are surprised that I'm spoiling this movie for you? You expected a downer ending? Really?) things are going to keep getting worse. But by god as long as Lon McQ is on the case there will be one hell of a fight. Now smoke a cigarette and have a beer.  The movie has a great early seventies Wah-Wah jazz fusion soundtrack. There are a few well done action sequences (for the time the movie was made) and it has a comfortable old fashioned feeling to it. All in all this is a John Wayne movie. No big surprises. Comfortable in it's routine. An easy way to burn a couple hours if nothing else is going on. And what's wrong with that?

Very Good Workout This DVD is a very good workout True to form, of health club spin classes. Very through in explaining positions. I liked it better than spinning.com's DVD's because there are more jumps and hovering over the bike seat. You really feel it in the inner thighs. Good for beginners and intermediate spinners.

Brilliant footage, poor editing The Talking Heads Chronology Deluxe DVD really is pretty cool. The footage is really interesting, especially the bonus features. It was a worthwhile watch.  HOWEVER, there was one thing that really bothered me: THE EDITING. Maybe I'm just a picky art student, but it is completely obvious the editing between clips was done pretty hastily, and probably on iMovie. (Not that there's anything wrong with iMovie, but you have to disguise your use of it if you're going to do it well.) The fade-outs between clips were much too quick (I recognized them as the default fade-out speed for iMovie) and many times cut off the ends of people's speech. The choices in where to cut clips were also really clunky and not very natural- you'd think cutting a clip after someone talks would be alright, but there's one in particular (I think it's the intro montage) that cuts right as David starts talking again and it's really distracting. The commentary was also a little strange, in that it didn't explain beforehand that they weren't commenting together- each member is separate (to be honest, I was looking forward to whatever drama would ensue with David thrown in with the rest of them.) It's interesting commentary though- the best part is when, during the Hall of Fame performance, David says something like "Now you get to see your favorite band all old and pasty, just like you. Maybe it's better not to see that." (Ha ha ha)  Besides that blunder, the book-style casing is beautiful and the footage is great if you love the Heads as much as I do.

So funny I watched this in the theater and laughed just as much when I was watching it at home. Great cast. So funny!

Amazon does it again There is nothing negative I can say about this movie or the seller. I've dealt with this seller before & always had great results. The movie is about one of the greats who is one of my heroes. I love his voice & I have his CDs in my car so all I listen to is Johnny Cash. Marvelous. 5*****

Entertaining I was entertained by this movie even though I'm sure that the writers wanted more than that.  It was typical action adventure with a bit of romance.  However, the twist is that the monetary system is built around how much time a person has to live.  As entertainment, I give the movie 4 stars.  It is a nice way to spend an evening, but I would see no point in owning a copy of IN TIME.  As political commentary, it is rather juvenile and leaves much to be desired.

A very funny very dark comedy in the vein of "In Bruges" if you liked that and don't offend easy this is for you. I say B. "We're investigating a murder and the trafficking of half a billion dollars worth of cocaine and you're telling me it's your day off?"  Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Gleeson) is not your typical Irish Guard.  He is brash, uncaring but also may be a genius.  When a murder and drug ring are shown to be connected the FBI send in agent Wendell Everett (Cheadle) to help investigate.  The two don't get along, but can they solve the crime?  This is a very funny and enjoyable movie, but it is not for everyone.  THe dialog is very harsh and almost of of it is swearing, but it's done in a way that makes you laugh.  For those that liked "In Bruges" and movies along that line this is for you.  If you didn't like that I would be weary, this is a very dark comedy and may offend some people that aren't expecting this.  Without giving anything away, if you can laugh at the beginning car wreck you will be fine for the rest of the movie.  I however really liked this movie.  Overall, a flat out hilarious movie that will not appeal to everyone.  I give it a B.  *Also try - In Bruges & Pros & Excons

(4.5 STARS) Agnieszka Holland's Best Since "Europa Europa" The name of Agnieszka Holland is, or was, something special to me. Back in early 1990s I watched some of her works including "Europa Europa," "Olivier, Olivier" and "The Secret Garden," and was fascinated by the Polish-born director's skills in creating characters that are all too human. But something happened to her films since then -"Total Eclipse," "Washington Square" and "Copying Beethoven" - they all look gorgeous, but something was missing. Something like soul.  Nominated for Oscar (Best Foreign Language Film), "In Darkness" is based on a true story of Leopold Socha, a WW2-era sewer worker-turned-petty thief in the Nazi-occupied city of Lw&oacute;w, Poland (today's Lviv, Ukraine), who decided to hide the Jewish families in the city's sewer system. His original motive was for money - and he could have "sold" them to the Nazi - but Socha chooses to protect them no matter what it takes.  Concealing fugitives turns out more difficult than Socha thought, especially when he has his own wife and daughter to live with. For the Jewish families, hiding in the rat-infested sewer is far from comfortable. "In Darkness" they both have to overcome the numerous challenges that seem not to end, and through the process they show not only heroic acts, but weakness.  "In Darkness" is Agnieszka Holland's best film since her stunning "Europa Europa," another Holocaust-themed, based-on-truth movie. The film is overlong and its story melodramatic, but is worth checking out for the credible central character and claustrophobic photography of the dim-lit sewer.

My favorite of the three...AND HERE'S WHY Let me preface this review by saying I thought all three Paranormal Activity movies were decent.  If you didn't like the first two, you won't like this one and that's all there is to it, but fans of the first two movies shouldn't be turned off by the continuation of this franchise.  Paranormal Activity 3 makes a half-hearted effort, in the beginning, to tie the story to the first two movies, but that effort ends quickly and the movie becomes tied to the first two in style alone after that.  Although I thought the story of the first two movies was OK, I wouldn't exactly call it their strength.  What made the first two films so good was the anticipation of something scary.  When that clock on the camera slowed down, you knew you should be on the look out for something, but half of you was afraid of what you would see.  Paranormal Activity 3 plays off of this element, but adds a whole new level.  With a panning camera in one room and different camera views throughout the house, you were never sure which camera would show something when.  The scares are a bit more deliberate and less suggestive than the first two movies, but the added visual makes for some incredibly intense moments.  Involving two young girls who both do a stellar job acting just adds to the suspense.  You'll find yourself questioning why the man in the movie chooses to take a camera with him during some of the more frightening scenes, but if you're able to suspend your questioning of logic, it's very entertaining.  This isn't the scariest movie ever made, but it does a good job keeping the viewer on the edge of their seat and these days, there aren't too many horror films that even accomplish that.

A bare-bones Blu ray of an excellent hospital thriller Director and screenwriter Michael Crichton hits a mark set by Hitchcock in this taut hospital based thriller.  Adapted from Robin Cook's novel, Dr. Susan Wheeler (Genevieve Bujold at the top of her game) investigates the mysterious brain dead coma of her best friend (Lois Chiles) who enters the hospital for an early term abortion.  Wheeler, an up-and-coming physician at the Boston hospital is a no nonsense independent woman who is having an affair with Dr. Mark Bellows (Michael Douglas) himself in line for chief resident.  Wheeler's investigation leads her to believe that a series of comas involving otherwise healthy men and women, who had routine procedures, may be more than coincidental.  Her bosses and Bellows ignore her concerns so Susan must proceed on her own.  Her detective work leads to an institution where the comatose patients are "stored" until natural death arrives.  The film ultimately gets a little preachy when the chief of surgery (Richard Widmark) talks about how society shuns life or death decisions and so doctors must do the dirty work.  The film has some white knuckle scenes involving Susan as she crawls around air vents and avoids a hired thug out to get her.  Watch for an early look at actors Ed Harris, Tom Selleck and Joanna Kerns.  The Blu ray disc comes in 1080p with a 1.78: aspect ratio close to the original.  The transfer is limited but look pretty much like the film did upon release.  Haters of "grain" may be put off but I believe it looks as it should.  The blacks aren't great but again, I think this is about as good as can be.  The audio is in mono only, but it is DTS-HD Master Audio.  I didn't even notice until I was 10 minutes or so into the movie.  It is crystal clear but you might miss the surrounds when the musical score kicks in.  There are no "extras" on this disc.

love it! i got the item really quik, it works great and the video is of good quality. the box is new never used before! i love the series!

Its like James Bond meets Ace Ventura! While slightly cheesy, (where in the world does Condorman find such hideous clothes?) there is actually a decent story and the comedy is nonstop. Gotta love the Laser gun!

Very funny. I got turned off to Family Guy some time ago, but really enjoyed this Trilogy.  Actually a good story to follow, and they recreate some very appropriate classic Star Wars moments that really help capture the essence of the original.

Poor guy This movie came on time and it worked great in my player. It was a very interesting movie. I would recomend it to other buyers.

"The Hit List" is a HIT Most men will really enjoy this movie, most women may not. Lots of great action with a great storyline. Cuba Gooding, Jr. is excellent as is Cole Hauser. I found this movie to be very entertaining and enjoyed it from beginning to end. Would recommend this DVD very highly. A must see!

the mind revealed red white and blue delivers the goods.It does not spell it all out, but you would be bored with that approach. The photography,music,and script all jive to present a dismal yet real-life experience. No french pouting here, just straight ahead with compromised characters making their way through their tangled  lives. All the leads perform well and do not disappoint.

Classic Suspense Good story, interesting time period - just after WWII and place - a small town in New England. Cast also excellent.

Good psychological thriller Good film making tricks and good acting from the main character make this good psychological thriller/horror worth watching. Your eyes will have a hard time leaving the screen.

Interesting, on several levels The plot and setting seem a bit familiar, and I can't quite pin down why, but, overall this film is enjoyable as a sentimental drama.   I understand very little mandarin, the subtitles are adequate, and the facial expressiveness of the actors (sometimes reminding me of silent films) are jointly adequate for non chinese speakers to understand and follow this film.    I enjoy Chinese films due to some time I have spent in China, and the brief escape they offer to my drab life.  :)  There is nothing so temporarily mentally purging as a dip into a totally different culture, via a good, subtitled film.    I'm also amazed at the quality of many of the more recent Chinese films.  (I'm not into special effects.....or popular western commercial offerings.)  'Evening Rain' has the cinematic feel of a good 40's to 50's western movie.    I recommend this film if you have some interest in China, and also just as a good film.   For a more contemporary film about the later days of the Cultural Revolution that is enjoyabale, and bittersweet, look for 'Balzac and the little Chinese Seamstress', a joint French/Chinese film.

Self fertility massage Very easy to follow, and easy to fit into a busy life as it doesn't take too long to do. Very satisfied

star trek the original series 1,2&3 my husband is not big on words, but he seemed pleased with his present. i liked the way the series was presented and the product as good as expected. would have liked to have seen what the contents looked like and not just the outside packaging. unless we could have but hadn't realised it.

I knew of Samo In 1974 or so I knew of the graffiti artists in New York. When I could I went to look. Somehow I learned along in here of Basquait.He was radiant. Do you know this brought to mind Charlotte's Web when she wove radiant into the web. And in the early 1980's the art world for an east coast art student was pulsating. His images were so raw. So it was a rare treat to see this movie today via TV. I had no idea that one of Baquiat's love relationships kept this footage that she made from interviewing him -hid it away all this time to bring him back, and within this to show his image making on the screen, his life, it was good to see it existed. I learned and remember a lot. The strangest things struck me. Like how you could get space then, I rented a huge studio space in my town-space now costs too much for a poor kid. Just recalled what it took to make art then.  This summer I read Patti Smith talking of her relationship with Maplethorpe, and it flashed in my mind that here was another person, in essentially an artistic relationship revealed years later that allowed me to glimpse an artist I admired- but never would really know.You wonder about his genius. Like one looks and looks at the dragonfly in the jar hovering and so utterly perfect. Yet frighteningly alien. You watch, but coming to understanding is elusive. The times are so different now to me, and that awareness is almost collapsing to realize, but it comes forward as the film goes along.  There are great synopsis here to read of the film. I liked it for showing his work, his working, talking a bit about his relationships. His descent. His pain. Dealings with Warhol. Certainly I watched Julian Schnabel's work on Basquiat. How great to add this to that. Several times over i could say how grateful I am I caught this and this was shot at the time, kept and finally shared.  I was always fascinated by his mark, by the variety of symbol, by his references. I admit to wanting to buy a catalog of all the work and spend a long time alone with it. It made me aware of how much he connected in the times he lived. Darn it was tragic. He lived such a short time. His work was amazing. And I think about the things he was offering in images, if you watch the relationship of his life to his making enters in a bit....insightful.Lots of losses in those years, to drugs, to AIDS. One of my closest friend's , an artist, lost to AIDS...tragic times and that got caught in Basquait for me.  Against the recent death of a cousin, early 30's who took her life, saying her artistic life was taken from her and it brought her wish for death now, (conforming to family wishes to live the life of a scientist), I contemplated this artist. Feelings of my own came forward about the relationship of construction and destruction...Tellers of truth, seers of what we are, those that roam in the darker places, artist's are so brave and alternately so vulnerable. It was clear from this what this world can do to its artists...it's visionaries. And he was so driven. What we let our artists carry-it has been very toxic in my times. Very painful.I understand art in these terms.  Once I thought his pictures compelled you to look, but yet they were so hard to see. And then I lose what I'm meant to resolve to say....sorry I am not an articulate person. I never was.  It was great to see the footage, I don't want to know his intimate inner world in more depth, his relationships, not so much. I want this person to keep that from our eyes. I averted in moments when i feared it would do that. I do think this did not strip all of that baring the bones. The footage of his painting, it was worth the watching alone. Like gazing on his ghost. Or his work alive again.

WICKER TREE IS A FITTING COMPANION TO THE WICKER MAN (ORIGINAL) SCREW EVERY NEGATIVE REVIEW YOUVE READ!!! If you are a fan of THE ORIGINAL WICKER MAN (not Cage's remake) then this is a perfect companion piece to it directed by WM'S Director. I gave Wicker Man a 10 out of 10, this gets a 7. Now Im not saying 'you" are going to like either film. They dont really fit into a proper genre & are both strange films. But if you've seen The Original, see THE WICKER TREE.

typical Potter If you are a fan then grab these, I got them to toss in my kids Box set that didn't come with last 3 films. Will be ordering the BluRay version also, just waiting on a complete box set of them.

great workout I consider myself at an intermediate level of fitness.  Overall, I got a really great workout (sweated big time.)  Tough but do-able, with a lot of variety to the moves.  Liked the instructor and the the two "backup dancers" --- which I think is the perfect number for workout DVDs ---  were non-annoying (which is good.)  There were some moments when I was hustling to follow along with the footwork but nothing major, didn't feel annoyed or lost at any point.  While the workout is rather high impact with quite a bit of jumping (to get your heart rate up), since one of the backup dancers always does the low impact/intensity modification of all the moves it is still possible for beginners and those who prefer low impact to benefit.  For me the main downside was that the instructor talked just a teeny bit too much --- it was non-stop instruction, explanation, motivation, and commentary and I prefer more moments of silence/music or, better yet, just counting.  That said, the DVD does come with the option to turn off commentary  --- not sure if this keeps the cues but I still need those so I don't have to watch the TV the whole time, especially if you are on the floor or facing away.

cute but not as good as the original Many generations have passed since Draco gave his life to end the tyrannical reign of Einon, and Bowen has passed into the afterlife. The Kingdom is now under the command of a senile ruler whose right hand is the handsome, persuasive, and often vile Lord Osric (Harry Van Gorkum). Not far from the castle walls is the monastery, where young Geoff (Christopher Masterson) serves willingly the abbot. Befriended by a novice of the monastery, his task of cleaning the stable is often a curtain for his training exercises. But born to a life of poverty, he can only dream of knighthood.  Unknown to Geoff -- and even the king -- before Bowen's death, he was sent to the cave of Draco to retrieve a secret the dragon had kept hidden: an egg. Giving it into the care of the Father Abbot, this baby dragon is kept cloistered away in the dungeons below, living out his life surrounded by flickering candlelight and a library of knowledge. One of the brothers has been given the task of feeding him, and one day Geoff senses something amiss. Snatching the key, he follows the dark path downward, attracted by the sight of Bowen's sword, laying in the cavern below. The pair inevitably meet and become secret friends. Drake is still young, not fully grown, unable to fly or breathe fire. In him Geoff finds a true confident and the pair become almost inseparable. In the meantime, a gnarled old man and his ward have come from the Orient, sensing the approaching of the two-tailed comet spoken of in prophecy. On the night it passes a great evil will seize control of the North through the last living dragon's heart. The monks, who have long known of this prophecy, keep Drake's existence a secret and the travelers are sent on their way by Lord Osric.  Remaining unconvinced, they linger in the countryside and catch a glimpse of Drake on one of his rare excursions out of the monastery. Osric has also discovered the dragon's presence and demands he become protector of the realm, with Geoff as his first knight. The boy is flattered, the dragon naive, and the night of the two-tailed comet is fast approaching. There will be a dramatic, climatic clash of the forces of good and evil... and the fate of the dragons will forever be decided. Overall the critics have deemed this sequel to the box-office success a complete failure, but it's a cute and unpredictable film aimed toward children. Unlike most made-for-video sequels, A New Beginning actually has a somewhat believable premise and a twist ending. It manages to be both fun and meant for kids without straying into corny special effects or daft dialogue. True fans of the original may be a bit put off by the obvious alteration in the age-group of this film but nevertheless the film has good special effects and some rather endearing moments... like when they attempt to teach Drake to blow ice. The violence is much more below-the-screen and less graphic than the original, although there's a great deal of martial arts on the part of our two Oriental visitors, who eventually play a large role in the revelation of the true fate of the dragons. One somewhat creepy visual includes a dragon morphing from another life form and the sight of a shriveled heart.  The biggest flaw in the production aside from some at times rather stilted acting is the absence of Sean Connery. His Draco was a lovable yet terrifying, realistic personification of what many of us believe dragons were like. Robby Benson, who does the voice of Drake, just doesn't have the presence; his dragon is younger and less charismatic. The first film towers above the sequel, both in script and character development; but this film isn't entirely out of the equation. The best way of looking at it is not as a sequel but a dragon fairy tale for the younger generation somewhat less dark than its predecessor.

Vonnegut is genius. I'm completely happy with this purchase. Can anything match up wiht the short story? Having said that, the film is very well done and even adds a few wrinkles.

Reminds me of..... WC Fields is the greatest comedian of all time in my opinion. His antics just keep me laughing, no matter how many times I see these movies. I just love to try to imitate him. I just wish these movies were longer.  A. Rice

Very Intense workout.. My husband and I have been doing this workout for 6 days now and we are really enjoying it. I have been an avid runner my whole life and my husband is a triathlete. We were getting bunt out/lazy on our regular workouts and were looking for something new. I will say that these work out's are very difficult. I have yet to finish a full one with out stopping multiple times. It's too early to see any major results but we both feel a major difference in our bodies. Our clothes fit a little looser (which I'm sure is just water weight).  I find it hard to believe that peopler do not see results after following this program. I have read a lot of reviews were people are looking for a miracle workout routine. Well, heres the bottom line, if you eat properly and exercise regularly you will see results. No matter what workout routine you do. It's not rocket science. They go hand in hand. If you don't change your eating habits or vice a versa, you are just wasting your time. I also waned to quickly add that I have knee issues from my years of running and have found that if you do the work outs properly there is no problem.  Every one is different so don't take my word for it if you have severe knee problems. I am just saying that it has yet to aggravate my knee when I do the workout the way that its supposed to be done.

A Fun, Entertaining, Tear-Jerking Finale, Worth The Wait.... The original Toy Story movies came out when I was 1 and 5 years old, and I owned the second one on video for a while. Hearing about a third one, I knew that it was going to be something really special, and the result was certainly not a derivative film that lost some of its' predecessors joy and fun through a long lapse of time, it was a fun movie that had some redeeming value added to it.  At least 10 years have passed since the second Toy Story, and Woody, Buzz, Jessie, Bullseye, the Potato Heads (Mrs. Potato Head lost an eye), Rex, Hamm, and the Alien Trio have wanted their now 17-year old owner Andy to play with them.  But finding out that their owner is going to college, they wonder where they will end up. Looking in his box, Andy decides to take Woody to college and put the rest of the toys in the attic, but he gets caught up with something and his Mom misinterprets it as trash. She then leaves the bag with the toys out at the end of the driveway as the garbage truck comes. After making a narrow escape, the toys believe that Andy was throwing them away and Woody tries to convince them that he was putting them in the attic. Not believing Woody (as usual), the toys seek refuge in a donation box to Sunnyside Daycare, where Molly's Barbie doll had been donated as well. Arriving at Sunnyside, the toys get to know new toys including Lots'O'Huggin Bear, Stretch the Octopus, Big Baby, and Ken, who instantly falls in love with Barbie (and vice versa). With the supposed new toys chosen to be in the Caterpillar room, Woody decides to escape Sunnyside believing that Andy will still want him, but he accidentally gets picked up by a girl named Bonnie, who takes him home. Meanwhile, the rest of the toys are tortured by the younger kids, and then decide to move to the more gentle and more aware kids of the Butterfly room. Buzz attempts to try and request going there, but is stopped by Lotso, Big Baby, and Ken, and is resetted. Meanwhile, Mrs. Potato Head looks through her other eye which was left at Andy's house, and finds out that Woody was right. In an attempt to leave, the toys confront Lotso, and end up being captured and put in cages, Barbie breaks up with Ken, Buzz was reset to work for Lotso and Mr. Potato Head was put in the sandbox. Meanwhile, at Bonnie's, Woody makes a few new friends with Dolly, Trixie the Triceratops, Mr. Pricklepants, and Chuckles the Clown, who tells Woody the cold, hard truth about Sunnyside and how Lotso was replaced by his owner Daisy, after she accidentally left him, Big Baby, and Chuckles behind. Hearing that his friends are in danger, Woody heads back to the daycare to retrieve his friends, and is warned by a play-telephone that he shouldn't have returned. But in an effort to try and get out, the telephone tells Woody the secrets to get out of Sunnyside. Putting together a plan of his own and reuniting with his friends, Woody uses Barbie to go back with Ken as a diversion to fix Buzz back to normal, and the security camera toy monkey is knocked out. However, trying to reset Buzz back to normal was a misfire, as Buzz accidentally was put in Spanish mode and falls in love with Jessie. The toys make it to the dumpster, which is described as the only way out, but are found by Lotso and his gang, who had broken the telephone to reveal what was going on. Woody then confronts Lotso about his old owner, Daisy, and Big Baby soon turns on Lotso and throws him in the dumpster. The garbage truck then came and dumped everyone (with the exception of Lotso's gang and Barbie and Ken) into a truck. At the Landfill, the toys narrowly escape danger twice, and head for a fiery furnace, with the exception of Lotso, who escapes by using a ladder, and the Alien Trio, who run after a crane. The toys hold hands thinking that it is the end, but the Alien Trio saves them by using the giant "claw" as they say. The toys then hitch a ride on a garbage truck to get them back to Andy's, and the toys all willingly get into the attic box. Woody then signs a note saying to donate to Bonnie's house, and signing it from Andy's Mom. Andy then takes the toys to Bonnie's and he plays with her and with the toys for the last time. Andy then drives off to college, and Woody says in a sad tone, "So long, partner".  The end of the film is somewhat sad, as all other finales to franchises are normally. The story is relatively simple, and there is a home movies scene early on that is a bit dull, which doesn't quite make the film as good as Up, Finding Nemo, or WALL-E, but the music and songs by Randy Newman are nice, upbeat, and reminiscent of its' predecessors. The voice cast is just as good as they were 10 1/2 years earlier, and the new ones added (Michael Keaton, Whoopi Goldberg, Timothy Dalton, Ned Beatty, Bonnie Hunt, Kristen Schaal) are excellent choices. Altogether, a heartwarming, entertaining flick that families will certainly enjoy.

A lot to think about The Eytan Fox film `Walk on Water` is an ambitious little film.  A little over an hour and half long, it tackles a monster of a topic: the barriers that separate us from one another.  The film examines this within a series of smaller dichotomies ranging from the global to the personal.  The Arab/Israeli, gay/straight, German/Jew divides are all touched on here as are the divisions between generations and even siblings.  Such an overweening design is bound to fall short and `Walk on Water, is no exception, yet not through lack of trying.  An Israeli hit man, Eyal (sexy Israeli actor Lior Askenazi) is a journeyman in the trade of political assassinations, knocking off Hamas targets without the blink of an eye.  After a successful hit, Eyal returns to Israel and to personal tragedy.  He finds his wife dead, a suicide note nearby. Stunned and overwhelmed (the note blames him), Eyal escapes into his work, begging for a new assignment to distract his turmoil.  His new task is to find the whereabouts of an escaped Nazi.  Posing as a tour guide, Eyal befriends the war criminal`s grandchildren, one of whom, Pia (Caroline Berger) has found a new life in Israel, working on a kibbutz.  Her brother, Axel (Knut Berger) is visiting her in hopes of luring her back to Germany for their father`s birthday.  Eyal spins an exasperating web to gain access into the grandchildren`s lives.  He bugs their apartment and uses sly inquiries to learn more about their ghostly grandfather.  Eyal and Axel`s relationship soon evolves into a friendship of sorts.  Much to his professional annoyance, Eyal yearns to share his grief and guilt with somebody and Axel proves to be just the compassionate listener Eyal needs.  Yet, his macho walls prevent him from opening up.  Axel, on the other hand, isn`t sure how to`come out` to his straight friend.  The growing relationship between Eyal and Axel results in some great scenes.  For example, when Eyal takes Axel to the Dead Sea for a camp out, he suspects nothing of Axel`s orientation and is flabbergasted at Axel`s encyclopedic knowledge of the male sex organ.  When Eyal follows Axel back to Germany, things speed up.  Despite some funny asides, for example when Eyal inquires about how `things work` between two men, the plot intensifies as Eyal closes in on the illusive grandfather.  Axel soon learns what Eyal is doing in Germany while he himself becomes privy to an awful family secret.  The film`s dramatic apex is reached when both Eyal and Axel act upon the family secret each in profoundly different ways.  Both men are faced with a life-altering choice.  `Walk on Water` jumps from vignette to vignette, each conveying an important message or irony.  In fact, the film is rife in irony, both historical and cultural and requires repeated viewings to catch them all.  Moreover, the characters are more complex than they appear.  For me, Axel was the more complex and troubling of the two male leads.  On the one hand, he questions Eyal`s gruff denouncing of Palestinian suicide bombers saying, `they have mothers and children too.`  Yet, when Eyal dispatches homophobic thugs in Berlin, Axel expresses a very different attitude.  `You should have shot them.  They pollute the world.`  Obviously, Eytan Fox is playing around with the hypocrisy of many of Israel`s critics, but such troubling complexity in the characters sharpens the film`s realistic edge.  Eyal is also a man of layers.  Askenazi plays him with incredible subtlety.  While Eyal`s detachment from his murderous work failed to convince me at times, Askenazi does manage to show the minute cracks in Eyal`s persona.  Eyal`s increasing aggressiveness hides an emotional storm inside .  His final transformation comes off a bit understated, but believable considering he was unable to mourn his wife`s death.  The film`s other asset is its evocation of place.  The differences between Mediterranean Israel and Northern Europe are brought to life in grand style.  Israel comes to life as a mixture of light and water with great shots of both the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea.  Moreover, few films have captured the brooding heaviness of Germany like this one does.  Axel and Pia`s parental home in Wannsee (another allusion here) with its stately furniture and darkly oppressive interior mirrors the shadowy secrets of Axel and Pia`s family.  When the long-awaited prey of Eyal`s hunting mission makes his entrance through the blackened house, the effect is unnerving to say the least.  `Walk on Water` closes with a message of rebirth and renewal.  Axel, Pia and Eyal all seem intent on closing past chapters and moving towards happiness and peace.  While its ending might appear too easy for some, nevertheless, `Walk on Water` leaves one with the feeling that the impossible is indeed achievable.

Sarge This is a long movie. It does have actual real sex scenes. Great movie if you like the dark side of Rome and porn combined. The movie does have a great plot and is artfully exposing and semi-factual. Not for minors. If you have a strong stomach and enjoy twisted people having sex with anyone and everyone you will like this movie.

Great fun Yes, this is a Bollywood film with all the standard content.  The story on this one is very good and the actions scenes, although many are unbelievable, are still fun to watch.  If your going to dissect the movie for whatever reason, music, action, special effects, your not going to enjoy it.  We enjoyed it enough to purchase a copy, then watch Dhoom 2 and wait for Dhoom 3.

The Rite I enjoyed watching The Rite. As usual, Anthony Hopkins' performance was excellent and the movie's story line interesting. Worth watching (if one likes exorcism films - that would be me.)

WONDERFUL! I LOVE THIS MOVIE. I LEARNED THINGS ABOUT JOHN LENNON AND HIS LIFE I NEVER KNEW. A MUST FOR ANYONE WHO IS A LENNON FAN.

Funny and light hearted! Went to see this movie with my mom who's 80 and two girls ages 12&9 (I'm 40), we all thought it was a hoot! I think the person who laughed the most was my mother, life is short laugh!Jack Black was once again just funny with his facial expressions and ordinary looks, which I love. Not meant as a serious movie and I don't understand the bad reviews either.

great gift Bought this as a christmas present for my roommate who has become obsessed with this show. She loved it. I have now had to purchase seasons 3-5 just to get her through break.

Get rid of Ultraviolet and it would have been 5 stars. The movie was phenomenal. Period. The perfect way to end the trilogy. The movie no doubt was 5 stars. However, for the product review, Warner Brothers needs to get their head out of their asses and get rid of the Ultraviolet or make it compatible with iTunes. Plain and simple. People shouldn't have to make a flixster account to stream movies when they can just transfer it to iTunes like every other studio does with their releases. GET RID OF THE ULTRAVIOLET!

Not Satisfying I am no fan of Robert Redford's acting, so readers take note. To me, he is unconvincing in a laconic "tough guy" role; therefore, as a self-sufficient "mountain man," he doesn't cut it. Yet, in many scenes in the movie, he comes close.  The movie itself is strange. At the end, one has spent time with a man (the main character, Jeremiah Johnson) whose life is as aimless after many years in the mountains as it was when he first headed west. At about 1/3 of the movie, he actually seems to be settling down, with an Indian wife and an abandoned child (having single-handedly built a cabin consisting of massive logs and an extensive roof in just under five minutes of movie time--Pollack should have been ashamed of himself, as the sequence looks more like a Home Depot ad, 19th century version, than anything close to reality). But fate arrives in the form of an Army column seeking to rescue some stranded pioneers. Johnson reluctantly agrees to go with the column as a guide, and in the course of his work leads the troops through a sacred Crow burial site--an astonishing lapse which can only be understood in the light of screen-writing gimmickry. It is inconceivable to me that someone as sensitive to nature and alert to his environment (including the Indians), as Redford's character is portrayed, would have agreed to do such a thing, especially since he would be well aware of the (fatal) consequences.  From then on, the movie's plot consists essentially of several massacres, along with a seemingly endless series of one-on-one fights to the death as one Crow warrior after another (unsuccessfully) seeks redress for Johnson's trespass and later murders. The Redford character coolly battles his way to the end of the movie, collecting various wounds as he goes, none of which are fatal. All the mayhem takes place in highly mountainous terrain, photographed with plenty of soaring vistas.  I have found "The Edge" to be a much more convincing wilderness epic, especially if bears are your thing. But then again, not every screen writer is as good as David Mamet.

Good but not Great As a fan of Roy Rogers, I didn't appreciate all of the cutting that was done to several of the episodes. I've seen most of these episodes before but on this set I realized that quite a few things were cut from some of the episodes, one in particular was "The King of the Cowboys" episode, it's meant to be a full-length movie, not an hr. long episode. Several scenes were cut out of it and it was shortened by at least 15, if not 20, minutes. It's a good, but I would recommend trying to find something that didn't have cuts in it.

Such a FUN movie! This movie is really different. I really liked it.  The aliens are pretty cool.  Love Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, and Olivia Wilde.  Lots of action and some great special effects.

Whaley scary! Actually, this wasn't a bad movie. We had just been to see "The Possession", and this movie was better. Had quite a few startles and the acting was okay. We watch a lot of horror movies and most are boring. This one keeps moving right along with some twists and turns. If I could give it 3 1/2, I would but it's better than a 3 and not quite up to the 4 but gave it one anyway just cause there are a lot of bad horror movies out there and this one isn't bad.

Original vs new I believe that parts of the original movie were cut or left out. It is still a classic to former Marines, but it seems to be missing some scenes. Shipping and delivery were excellent. If I'm wrong I would like to know.

Sweet and funny. I loved this movie because it wasn't over the top gay, it was a sweet romantic film that happened to have a gay story. All of the actors were excellent (and all good looking, not a complaint) and the ending was classic. Didn't know the lead actor but he was handsome and perfect, Wendi Malick is hysterical. Liked all the subtile little funnies in here, some cliche but still sweet, including the gallery show in the titles with those crazy pictures which I am pretty sure are Wendi. A nice light and sweet movie that made me laugh and feel hopeful.

Farewell, Steve McQueen I've become a big fan of Steve McQueen and have been viewing all of his movies. I saved his final movie for last and it was hard to watch the film knowing he was terminally ill at the time. Although McQueen complained about tiring easy and having a persistent cough, he probably did not know he was seriously ill and had a year or so to live. With that sadness in mind, I began to watch Steve McQueen's final film THE HUNTER. McQueen is still in great physical shape but close-ups of his face show he has aged far beyond his 49 or so years. He is still cool as real-life bounty hunter Ralph "papa" Thorson. McQueen seems to have fun with this role as an aging bounty hunter. Known for his superb race car and motorcyle-riding skills, McQueen is for the first time portraying a seriously bad driver who can't safely parallel park. Was he poking fun at his image and having fun with his reputation? THE HUNTER starts slowly but then we see the charm in the film. McQueen does not take himself seriously. In one scene, he is chasing a young criminal over the rooftops. When he realizes he has to jump across to another rooftop, McQueen steps back, gives a shrug as if to say "Are you serious?" and makes the jump. No doubt stunt doubles were used more in this film but it's still Steve McQueen in spirit. THE HUNTER is a forgotten McQueen film and it gives us an idea of what McQueen's future rolls might have been like. He could still play the serious macho cool man but with a tinge if introspection as he realize he is no longer young. McQueen died in 1980 at the age of 50 and there is no doubt he still had a lot of living and a lot of movies left to do. Farewell, Steve McQueen. Your films live on.

The Lorax Combo I thought was very informative, as well as educational for all ages.  What I also liked was the three shorts, especially the one with the bears.  I recommend purchasing the movie, and if you have a 3D monitor, get the other combo, the colors were great on my Pionner.

Interesting Series I wasn't sure if I was going to like this show or not.  It took until episode three to really pull me in, but now I am fascinated by the lifestyle that it portrays.  Like any other family, this one has its issues, but they are magnified by a man being married to three women and having to hide the situation.  Not only that, but this marriage is for Eternity...which also adds to the tensions.  To be honest, Bill Hendrickson (Bill Paxton) is the least interesting of all of the characters.  The interaction between his three wives is much more enthralling, especially between the First Wife, who was the only wife in the beginning when they lived a life normal to most people, and the Second Wife.  The Second Wife (like Bill) grew up in the Compound, where the normal is clearly very different.  They represent the cultural clash between this very private religious world and the outside world.  Power struggles, revenge, love, jealousy, ignorance, faith...this show is fascinating, especially since very few television programs use religious motivation on such a grand scale or dare to present something that is so outside the norm.  Can't wait to watch Season 2!

Still charming after all these years Although the special effects cannot compare with what moviemakers can conjure today, this remains one of my favourite movies. The story line is charming and Richard Dreyfuss is excellent. The blue ray version is satisfactory.

Exactly what i purchased I couldn't be happier with the DVD or the quality of the film.  I was a little dissapointed in the movie itself.  I guess I am a little partial to newer kung-fu.  More realistic fighting, etc.  To much story, not enough action.  But I did get what I paid for.  Had to see it for myself.  Not as good as Ip man or Ong Bak.

THX 1138 George Lucas used the first part of this title as the name to his digital sound system, THX.  You see his promotions on DVDs and at the start of movies in the theater, promoting his great THX sound.  THX 1138 is one of a kind movie and is must have for any movie collection.

To coin a phrase, it was a "thinking person's" monster movie I love schlocky B-horror and sci-fi as much as the next horror/sci-fi buff, and I have to admit, I went into this film thinking that it was going to be exactly that type of film.  I was pleasantly surprised to find far more depth of plot, character, and storyline that I had previously given it credit for.  By the end of the film, I was so thrown off by the way it had transformed from a mere 'us-versus-them' monster film into a multi-layered story that contained themes of alienation-- the borders we build up around ourselves with omitted truths, and the lies we tell others to create an illusion of false innocence.  The correlations between that and what's going on with the U.S./Mexico border dispute are very similar.  ( *** SPOILER ALERT!!! *** ) I will not go into detailed spoilers, I usually hate to read reviews that give away too much, but I will say that the way the ending of the film was such a great way to tie-in the beginning of the film.  The perk of viewing it on Blu-ray/DVD is being able to watch the ending, and then go back to the beginning to see what you might have previously missed.  In years to come, I think this film will develop a larger appreciation than it currently has.  I am glad to add it to my film library, despite some of its silly flaws.

Love Zombieland This is such great movie that I can watch over and over again. Took it on a flight to the west coast after downloading it to my kindle fire and so glad I did.

Emotional and exceptional I'm not a fan of MMA. I don't hate it and I can sit down and watch it, but I'm not a fan of the sport. I'm also fairly certain I've never seen a Gavin O'Connor directed film until now. To be honest, the one thing that made me want to see this movie was Tom Hardy getting top billing. Hardy's been around awhile, but most probably didn't give the guy much thought until he started showing up in Christopher Nolan films. Bronson was the movie that made me admire his talent though. Warrior is fairly outstanding in general anyway, but could also give even more weight to Hardy's name.  Paddy Conlon (Nick Nolte) lost everything when he was a drunk. His wife died without him by her bedside and both of his sons cut him off almost completely. His younger son Tommy (Tom Hardy) shows up on his doorstep one day after being in the army wanting nothing more than a coach for the big Spartan MMA tournament coming up. Tommy is withdrawn and doesn't want to share anything about his life and it turns out that there's a reason for that. Meanwhile Paddy's other son Brendan (Joel Edgerton) is facing a foreclosure on his house and was suspended from his teaching job after being caught fighting in the parking lot of a strip club. Brendan enters the tournament in hopes of keeping his family afloat while Tommy's purpose has something to do with his army brethren. Warrior is more of a story about the Conlon family struggling to find it within themselves to forgive each other rather than who will win this massive MMA tournament.  The cast is really phenomenal in this. Nick Nolte manages to outshine both Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton as far as performances go. While Hardy and Edgerton are off beating the crap out of each other in the cage, Nolte portrays some amazing emotion. You can tell he's a broken man trying to get his life back on track and everything seems to be blowing up in his face. Joel Edgerton really plays up the whole underdog thing. A physics teacher in an MMA tournament? He doesn't stand a chance. Edgerton displays emotion as well, but his performance is otherwise forgettable. Tom Hardy plays the typical tough guy. Nothing is going to stand in his way. He'd rather not talk if he can help it, but he's an absolute beast in that cage. While each lead actor in the movie has their own strengths and weaknesses, they have all the bases covered between the three of them to make everything come together.  Some of the supporting cast is really interesting. This was an intriguing film to follow up leaving "House, MD" for Jennifer Morrison and it's nice to see Kevin Dunn be at least somewhat amusing and not completely irritating like he was in the Transformers movies. It was crazy seeing Kurt Angle in this though, especially as a Russian. It's as if he was playing a modern day version of Ivan Drago who took up MMA instead of boxing and never had anything to say about it.  Warrior did have its shortcomings though. It is a bit clich&eacute; and predictable. The whole movie is centered on these two brothers finally fighting in the cage and you can probably guess who's going to win; is it going to be the guy that breaks every rule imaginable with a chip on his shoulder or the kind, warm school teacher with a family that everybody loves? But the whole experience was about more than just who would win that fight though. Thankfully there's a bit of a deeper meaning to it. The camera work got really annoying at times as well though. It was as if it was attempting to go for this gritty, realistic style and it just came off as somebody not being able to hold a camera steadily or terrible perspectives that blocked more of the shot than anything else.  Warrior packs one hell of a punch. Its incredible, emotional, and powerful story is told by a talented cast amongst a flurry of knockout punches and submission holds that'll force you to tap to the spectacular journey you just experienced. Nick Nolte gives a scene stealing performance while Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton pick up the scraps and tend to take pride in delivering what Nolte couldn't follow up on. While Warrior does have its flaws, it's essentially to MMA what The Fighter was to boxing. In the end, Warrior is surprisingly heartfelt and delivers a wonderful message.

Very Interesting This video had 3 chapters that can be used in whole or in parts.  The experiments were easy but demonstrated development milestones in infants and toddlers. I teach a child development class and this emphasized our classroom vocabulary.  Even students who weren't taking my course were interested in watching the video.

legion the final exorcism it showed how a demon ussed a so called man of god to unwit his own family in to a bitter end this movie was very well written with a great suprize ending

mr.majestic charles bronson plays a colorado melon grower who runs afoul of the mafia. who want to put him out of business.but mr.majestyk is one tough customer!!! solid mid 70s action flick!!

Pleasant suprise. I wasn't expecting much of a movie after Clare of the Moon, so put off viewing this one. I have to say, I enjoyed this movie. The acting was good, the story was good, and the love scenes...let's just say I had to watch the longest darn kiss in the world a few times over. The quality of the video and audio portion were very good. I liked the son's girlfriend. She was adorable and made me jealous I didn't have a girlfriend like her when I was young. The only drawback I had was the annoying guru of love guy that kept intruding his way into the story. I could do without the 'words of wisdom' from Mr. Guru and his followers. A keeper that I'll watch again.

We Want More Supremes/Ross DVD's This is a note to all Diana Ross and The Supremes fans. Please buy this DVD so we will continue to get more DVD's. If this does not sell, they will not release other shows. So if you want TCB, On Broadway, Diana!71, An Evening With.., HBO concert, diana 81, Central Park and Red Hot purchase Best of Ed Sullivan.

Chick flick but I liked it I would call this movie a chick flick but I found it captivating - beautiful Italian scenes and a nice love story.

looks great, sounds great. definately worth the "upgrade". Well, this certainly exceeded my expectations.  I'd asked myself "Am I being suckered here? How much clearer can a film be made when it was shot on stock which sustained permanent damage before it was even developed? When only a few years ago an exquisite restored version of both versions was released?"  Well, Criterion has succeeded in working some minor miracles here. There are details, such as the matte painting of a bird's-eye-view of Godzilla's footprint, and close-ups of the puppet godzilla head, which shimmer with new clarity without looking so scrubbed and enhanced as to lose the effect of watching an OLD classic of cinema.  The commentary for each version is incredibly informative and in each case has a very clear, well-chosen, well-argued. I'm able to grit my teeth to get through some cringe-inducing black-trenchcoat-geek self-indulgence in these tracks (such as the "stick it to the man" observation. I'd have taken editor's scissors to several such un-humorous asides.) because (a) the cares-way-too-much geek factor is inevitable. As a fan, I know I'd certainly make listeners cringe were I to record a commentary, and (b)the majority of the content is so well-informed, yet not at all dry or boring. I came away from listening to the commentary to GODZILLA, KING OF THE MONSTERS with a truly revised and much more educated opinion of the American version (and Raymond Burr).  The rest of the extras, while not terribly impressive must-haves, are enjoyable. Especially the before-and-after examinations of the matte paintings and other photographic effects.  Really, my only nit-picking criticism is that I just don't like the new cover. I'm a fan of the artist they chose, but, I find it misleading. It isn't clear enough that this is the original Toho film and not the later American Godzilla-in-name-only "blockbuster". The idea is sound, it's the execution that's unclear. However, the inner sleeve with the gorgeous Oxygen Destroyer photos makes up for that.  So, in my opinion, if you're a GODZILLA fan, you should definately add this to your library.

Well worth the price of admission As an avid Harry Potter fan (of both the movies and the books) "The Half-Blood Prince" is decidedly darker than its predecessors (let's face it---a lot of dark things are going on with Voldemort having the wizarding community in a stranglehold and Harry and Dumbledore trying desperately to find out what makes the Dark Lord tick) but it is an amazing piece of cinematography.  I tire of individuals claiming a movie is not as well as a book-in this case, the movie would be roughly 10 hours long (although I would probably be one who would happily sit through a 10-hour Harry Potter flick).  My only dislikes are simply a matter of what I envisioned when I read the book-the young Voldemort seen in the pensieve did not meet my mental pic (I had him looking like John F Kennedy Jr. or at least John Mayer) and I felt Snape should have been more involved in the movie instead of merely being on the outskirts until the very end.  I love Alan Rickman's Snape and can't get enough of him.  Other than that, the movie is suitably photographed in dark and ominous tones and the acting is wonderful (I love Ron's girlfriend Lavendar Brown).

Cute Movie This was a cute movie. It's wasn't the best, but certainly wasn't as bad as some people are making it out to be.

Spaced The box set is a must have for the Pegg / Frost die hard fan set. The first 2 episodes will have you reaching for the remote to fast forward to the next episode. DON'T! Yes, the first 2 are painfully slow, and at times, not funny. Yet, part way through the 3rd you will be rewarded! From then on, the series is tremendous.  Brian is played by Mark Heap from the Brit series Green Wing (he played Dr. Alan Statham). Brian keeps stealing scene after scene. Heap brings forth his talent of physical and bizarre humour that you don't really see in North American shows.  Mike who is played by Nick Frost, is the other scene stealer. Only when he has a larger part (half way through episode 3) does the series really jump. You'll love him in the Paintball and the Robot Wars episodes. Amazing that Heap and Frost are both cast as supporting characters, yet they really carry the scenes.  As typical of a Simon Pegg story, the attentive viewer is rewarded with inside, background gags and references. When you watch the series again and again, you'll understand.

More of an Exploitation Film Than a Horror Film; A Welcome Surprise from Kevin Smith Red State has received more attention for the way director Kevin Smith controversially auctioned the film to himself at Sundance and then chose to distribute it, rather than the real novelty of the film; the fact that it's a horror film directed by Kevin Smith. At least, it's billed that way. Truth is, Red State may have elements of a horror film, but it also has the elements of an action film and the elements of a Kevin Smith film which makes it hard to confine it to one genre. This becomes a problem since the film never settles comfortably for a singular vision and all these elements don't mesh together well. It's imperfections as a film must be noted right away, but it remains a refreshing change of pace for Smith and shows that he does possess the capability to surprise people.  En route to his local high school, Travis (Michael Angarano) spots members of the Five Points Trinity Church protesting the funeral of a recently murdered, homosexual teenager. At school, even the teacher talks about the church and how the most ultra of the ultra-Conservatives have distanced themselves from the politics of Five Points Church. Travis and his friends Jared (Kyle Gallner) and Billy Ray (Nicholas Braun) have other things on their mind though. Jared has set up a meeting online with an older woman for all three of them. When they go to meet the woman, they are ambushed by Sarah Cooper (Melissa Leo) and the rest of the churchgoers. Brought to the church, the head pastor Abin Cooper (Michael Parks) takes center stage and reveals that the church is much more sinister than anybody believed.  The film begins like a typical modern horror movie. Teenagers, their heads full of the potential for sex, find themselves in a dangerous situation. Red State abruptly changes gears once its three principal characters are kidnapped and the remainder of the film is basically a standoff between the church compound and ATF Agents, unaware of the kidnapped teenagers inside. There are other familiar faces in the cast, including John Goodman and Kevin Pollak as two ATF agents and Stephen Root as the closeted local sheriff.  Smith's film is inspired by the Westboro Baptist Church and their leader Fred Phelps, the group that the Ku-Klux-Klan dismissed as too extreme in their intolerance. Smith has constructed the Five Points Church and its members from the WBC, but the Five Points Church is a cinematic hybrid of the WBC, the Branch Davidians, and the Manson Family. In watching Michael Parks play Abin Cooper, I'm quite sure he looked to the respective leaders of these groups/cults as there are visible aspects of Phelps, David Koresh, and Charles Manson in the performance. Phelps is the most obvious, but Parks is much more charismatic than that. Smith reveals his presence behind the camera when Abin Cooper enters the film and, with Jared trapped in a nearby cage, preaches to his congregation for nearly fifteen minutes about his extremist views. His dialogue isn't satirical either and besides the kidnapped teenagers on stage him with him, Cooper's preaching is actually less extreme than that of Fred Phelps' clan. I must emphasize again that Cooper preaches for nearly fifteen minutes. Red State is only 80 minutes. From his first scene to his final scene, Parks chews the scenery like gum without ever going over-the-top. A character actor, best known for playing a recurring police officer in several Quentin Tarantino films, he's able to really make an impression here. With his commanding performance at the center, he brings instant prestige to the film. Red State has been putting itself in place for Academy Award consideration. Say what you will about the film itself and Kevin Smith as a writer and director; Parks may have a real chance. It's a bravura performance, flamboyant and brilliant enough to consider Oscar-worthy. These are the best performances that Kevin Smith has ever seen to fruition. No one gives a weak performance and don't let the horror tag fool you; this is a film driven by performances. Melissa Leo, an actress of unbridled talent, is extreme here but great as usual. John Goodman meanwhile is given a really meaty role, bringing unexpected depth to a film that doesn't require it.  There's not a frame of Red State that even remotely resembles anything that Smith has done before, but it's clearly his work. Billed as a horror film, the film is heavy on blood but light on both gore and actual horror. Unheard and unseen of in horror films of late, there's also a strong emphasis on character and dialogue. Red State is much closer in spirit to an exploitation film, as its subject matter is built on the foundation of the exploitation genre; taking a topical subject and exploiting it to extreme lengths. The latter half of the film is a large-scale stand-off sequence, complete with shoot-outs, moral dilemmas, and several onscreen deaths. Smith's forte is character and dialogue, but he's quite good with shoot-outs too. The laziness that marred the action sequences of Cop Out, his previous film, isn't present here. There was obviously more passion behind the camera as well as in the editing room.  Smith has publicly noted that he considers himself more of a writer than a director, yet ironically the biggest imperfections in Red State stem from the writing, with Smith never settling on a particular direction for his film. Smith has a gift for dialogue and it suits the film well here, but the dialogue between the teenaged characters in earlier scenes is heavy-handed; like it's trying to be vulgar, rather than letting vulgarity illustrate the mind-set of these characters. Smith has said that this would be a straight-forward horror film, with no comedy. Well, there is some comedy; there's just no toilet humor. The epilogue especially veers into comedy (of a satirical nature), but doesn't betray what came before it. Since he never settles specifically into the horror genre, the comedy keeps things interesting. One of the best moments in the film is also one of the funniest, with Smith delivering the film's final line off-screen. It's hilarious, but the symbolic nature of him delivering the line works on a much deeper level than just a director cameo pining for laughs.  There's a lack of direction, as Smith's horror film never allows itself to be categorized. It's not horrific enough to be horror, nor is there enough action for it to be an action film. Smith could have made an indictment of religious extremism in America, but chose not to. Perhaps Smith believed that showing the group, who don't do anything in the film that hasn't been perpetrated by real fundamentalists in the name of religion, speaks volumes by itself. While there are no profound statements made here about religion or anything else, Red State is not a failure and is an enjoyable film. It's well directed, with great performances and great dialogue; entertaining and much better than most of the crap that passes for horror/exploitation nowadays.  I admit that it's not the horror film that Smith promised, but it is better than most of the "horror" films audiences have been treated to in recent years. It also proves that Smith isn't the one-note director he's been accused of being. Red State is not a great film, it's not perfect, and I could make suggestions on what could have been improved, but Smith needs to be given credit for making a dark, fun movie. It lacks a profound or even profoundly satirical look at the fundamentalists he's going after, but Smith's final line sums everything up perfectly. When it comes to dealing with religious extremists of this sort, it's really the only thing you can say.  GRADE: B

One of the better seasons for sure I really liked season five even though the first couple episodes started really slow. The characters progressed nicely and the ending was tragically awesome. It just didn't seem to have the Draper spark like season one did however. I am still purchasing this box set though for sure

Excellent except for the acting Camera work is excellent, the script inventive. But why is the acting so plain awful? Especially the leading actress. Gee, she can't act! I hope some Hollywood director can do a remake of this film, with a top-notch actress for the leading role. Annette Bening, for example.

fast i was hoping more in the case, but the dvds are ok. nice image and sound, i do recomend this dvd.

The Mrs Bradley Mysteries - Series  1 Since I obtained the video, everybody I know has been utterly fascinated by the stories.  I have long been an enthusiast of Diana Rigg's abilities as an actress and of Gladys Mitchell's stories.  Neil Dudgeon who plays Mrs Bradley'S chauffeur, George Moody, is an excellent character actor in his own right.  Peter Davison who plays the somewhat bemused Police Inspector Christmas is a suitable foil for Mrs Bradley.  As always in these types of stories he gets everything wrong and is put on the right track by Mrs Bradley and George Moody, whom he insists on calling Mr Mooney, which says about all we need to say about this character.  There is, of course, another character which is in most of the scenes and that is the Rolls Royce Silver Ghost. What a lovely car!  Altogether, this series has wonderful stories, excellent actors and of course the Rolls Royce.

Fun, Entertaining Performance I really like this guy's delivery and humor.  He's an example of the ability to be funny without being raunchy and offensive.  He doesn't have to smoke and/or drink on stage (or any number of assorted use of crutches) and he's very likeable.  I smiled throughout and laughed in several places.  I like his style.  This was an uplifting experience.

DONT trust the bad reviews I cannot believe all of the negative reviews for this movie.  Granted there is nothing realistic about this movie, but it was never meant to be a serious action flick.  This is an over the top action comedy that Rogen excels in.  I would call it a cross between Tropic Thunder and Pineapple Express.  If you are looking for a good laugh and some crazy explosions then you will enjoy this movie.

unique story I really enjoyed this movie, it was a very unique storyline and the casting was great. The story itself seems to lack some continuity and flow, but overall it is very entertaining. Joseph Lawrence is extraordinarily believable as the android. I've always enjoyed his acting but he takes it to a new level here. A really solid cast keeps this from becoming predicable or boring.

Marvelous look at greed An impoverished couple (Silvana Mangano, Alberto Sordi) live in a hut with their three children in a rundown neighborhood in Rome. But each year in the spring, a wealthy woman (Bette Davis) and her constant companion (Joseph Cotten) return to their villa high on a hill and play cards with the couple. The millionairess gives the couple the stakes they need to play and which she ultimately wins back. This is a black comedy about greed and how it infects people. The two men are rather weak and dominated by the women who are the better card players. The poor couple are so greedy that they literally pawn everything they have in the hopes of winning some of the old lady's millions. Even the old witch with all her millions has a furious fit if she loses any even the smallest amount and so addicted, she even wants to play on her deathbed! The greed infects the neighborhood (who pools money to stake the couple) which fantasizes about what they are going to do with the won money. Even the kids are greedy. Director Luigi Comencini gives us an obvious clue early in the film that foreshadows its twisted ending. It's in Italian so it's a bit of a shock to hear Davis' inimitable voice dubbed into Italian but the actress who dubbed her does a credible job and a few times, you think it is Davis speaking. But the film belongs to Mangano and Sordi who won David Di Donatello (the Italian Oscar) awards for the performances here. It would make a great double bill with THE CINCINNATI KID.  The Madman DVD via Australia is a decent anamorphic wide screen (1.85) transfer in Italian with English subtitles.

funny movie I love foreign movies and the only trouble I have with them is the dubbing and/or captioning used to convey the meaning of  colloquial language. That is exactly what happened to me with "Juan of the Dead". A native Spanish Speaker will know, after watching the movie, what I say. The spiciness of words and scenes, done by the Cuban actors, is just hilarious. I had a great time watching it and had a good laugh at it. The plot is simple and very colorful, as we Latin people are. The main roll is well performed. It seems this main actor is very popular in Cuban films. At the beginning of the movie, the statement of the main character brings a lot to the idiosyncrasy in telling the audience how people see life in our society. The friendship between the main roll and the supporting one is just delightful. The typical mannerism of the people is just funny and portraits exactly how we react to trouble. I do recommend the movie for a light and good laugh. The zombies, to me, was just a side element to the movie. Finally, "Juan of the Dead" brings this awkward sense of funny spirit when things go wrong.

Thank You UK! Season 5 of Inspector Lewis is as engaging as each previous season.  It is a pleasure to watch a show that allows the story to develop, has complex characters and all without depending on melodrama.

Lots of suspence This is a Great Moview. Kept me on the seat all the time. I strongly recommended it. The ending is quite good.

Really Bend it Like Beckham Great DVD!  I coach a U10 and U13 team and there is some good stuff on this DVD.  Great video of Beckham, I wish I would have been more into Soccer when he was at his prime!  Great player!

Return to Sci Fi's Art Age I will warn you right up front: if someone tells you this film is similar to Kubrick, they are wrong... or at least not scholars of Sci-Fi.  This is much much closer to Tarkovsky (a director who makes Kubrick look introductory with regards to cinema).  The story starts out slowly, it never really explains what exactly has happened (ala Tarkovsky's Stalker or the middle period works of Jodorowsky), which is precisely how things should be done.  Adding to the atmosphere as the film builds, is the excellent soundtrack by Black Mountain's keyboard player/organist Jeremy Schmidt, who really adds to that whole retro vibe.  More than anything, I'm hoping that this film is a sign of a return to the weird/boundary pushing science fiction of the 70s.  It recalls the era of Tarkovsky's hey day, The Holy Mountain, Black Moon, countless other films that are incredible, insular, and lush.  If none of this scares you, it is well worth your time.  Honestly?  It's nowhere near as long and "shot perfect" as Tarkovsky or Kurosawa or late period Bergman, but it certainly aspires to those heights.

any given sunday--movie My only problem had nothing to do with the product, or the service, but just with my own equipment. My vcr is not the best, and ruined the tape on the rewind--luckily I had burned a copy on disk while I was watching, so it's all good.

Finally; it's Mission Impossible If you are a fan of the original TV series, you will be disappointed with MI 1,2, and 3.  They were a great deal less of "Mission Impossible" and a great deal more of "James Bond."  However, with MI: Ghost Protocol, the original feel of MI is back.  If this is the pattern of the next they could reboot the franchise using this as film one (just toss away the other three or re-name them).

A Cautionary Tale This is a good war movie, you can't go wrong with Lee Marvin. "Lee Marvin Read the Phonebook"? I'm in.  I post this as a cautionary tale. There are some mispackaged units out there? Today, from a local major retailer (ok, it was Wal-Mart), I picked up a copy of The Big Red One: The Reconstruction, ©2004, 2010, ISBN 0-7806-6433-7, in factory shrinkwrap. This case notes run time of 162min, but nothing about being a 2-disc set. I wanted the new cut, didn't care about features, so that's fine.  I take it home, open it up ... to find Disc 2. In a single-disc style case. No Disc 1. Wasn't even aware at the time there was a Disc 2 LOL. Suffice to say, stay way any copies of The Big Red One in any bargain bins out there! Besure you're getting the slipcased version with a red stripe at top.  Glad it was only a couple bucks. If I had purchased at Amazon, I could have returned it.

Thw Prince and Me I liked this movie. It looks like it's gonna be a kiddy kind of a movie, but it turns out to be a very nice love story with a little bit of a twist at the end. Just when you think it's going to be over, it's not.

'Donnie Darko' for the family crowd This is the best family film that I have seen in years. The performances are all amazing, and the story is captivating. It involves two children who stumble upon some strange 'toys' while on a beach trip. Each of these artifacts increase the children's intellect in some way, as well as provide them with telekinetic superpowers. The coolest toy of the lot, a stuffed talking rabbit named Mimzy, has been sent down to earth with a specific purpose, and as the two kids dig deeper into the mysteries surrounding them, the circumstances surrounding Mimzy's visit  become clearer. Soon, the kids find themselves in a race to save mankind.  If you grew up with Flight of the Navigator, Explorers, and E.T, you may just love this film. It has a Speilbergian feel to it, and the musical score is just as magical. As far as family films are concerned, it is highly recommended. It's a family friendly 'Donnie Darko'!

Great! I have seen bad reviews about this movie, but i really liked it. Two kids and their Step Mom go to Africa to join The Dad.who is already there....needless to say..the kids do not like the Step Mom, but they go out on a safari with her and get stranded...surrounded by lions. It is an intense movie that keeps one's interest throughout...

Def by Temptation This movie brings back the good old days for me.  It ranks up there with Vamp.  The main character was extremely cool. She wasn't overacting or cheesy like some blacksploitation moves were.  She was smooth and it was the first and last film that I have seen her in.  You can tell it was a fledglings first film, but he had a lot of rising new stars in it.  It was well written, comical on some levels, and definitely not for young children. It taught a good lesson in my eyes.  The lesson was , "All the glitters is not gold."  I just love vampire movies. I always have, well before Twilight.  This is the female version of Blackula and Cynthia Bond is excellent. Vickie V.

As Good As I Remember It. My kids use to love this movie when they were younger so I bought it for my Nephew's birthday...he thought it was awesome.

Ramona and Beezus My two granddaughters loved it (ages 7 & 8).  My daughter watched it with them and thought it was a good movie.

And the Chase Is On! Every time I'm in a Ross Store I like to go to the ultra-bargain DVD rack and see what I can find. It's fun! I know, I can afford the regular price but when I can pick up "The Fugitive" DVD for under four bills, it just makes the viewing all that more pleasurable. OK. I'm a bit eccentric, but one has to have some method of choosing movies to watch late at night.  "The Fugitive" stars Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones in an action-packed chase movie. It begins with Ford (playing a prominent surgeon) having his beautiful and loving wife murdered and with him getting the blame, found guilty and imprisoned. Then, while he's getting transported from one site to another, he's inadvertently involved in a train wreck and freed. Enter Jones, a super-cop from the U.S. Marshall's office, and the  chase is on. Will Ford, the chasee, escape and be able to simultaneously solve the mystery of his wife's death and invalidate his prison sentence? Or will Jones. the chaser, and his super-efficient team catch the fugitive? Well, the chaser is amazingly close to the chasee throughout the remaining 3/4 of the movie until all is finally resolved at the end. It's a fun movie to watch. Lot's of spectacular action. Good visuals and interesting characters.  The cops (ie., federal marshals) are just incredibly efficient, so efficient that it defies credibility. Well, it's just a movie, but if cops were this good almost all of us would be in jail. I know, I know, I can suspend belief in some movies but I had trouble with the federal police in this case. Funny, sometimes things will win me over and I won't even notice the discrepancies. In this film, I noticed and it distracted from the story. In any case, the film was a good value and I'll probably watch it again sometime in the future.  Gary Peterson

Fine Butterfly I know it's one of the most performed and most popular crowd-pleasers in the opera repertoire, but so perfect an opera is Madama Butterfly, that it doesn't need any modern revisionism or high concept staging, since it already works on multiple levels.  If you just want it to see it as a straightforward clash between Japanese and American culture that inevitably results in tragedy, then that's more than enough for it to work successfully.  There are however other clashes, divisions and incompatibilities brought out in the opera - from the division of imperialism and isolationism, destiny or self-determination, modernity versus tradition to simply the clash of ideals between men and women in respect of what each of them hope to gain from a relationship.  All these ideas exist in Madama Butterfly, and some of them can be tweaked for emphasis in individual productions, but they are all there to be drawn out by the listener in even the most basic of stagings.  Directed by Pier Luigi Pizzi, this production for the Sferisterio Opera Festival in Macerata in 2009 isn't exactly basic, but it is fairly traditional, aiming for a stylised Japanese setting with silk kimonos, bamboo and paper houses on wooden struts and a cherry tree in bloom.  Puccini's Madama Butterfly can bear such idealism, since in many respects, there is an unrealistic idealism in the minds of the two main protagonists, the American sailor B.F. Pinkerton and the young 15 year-old Japanese bride he has bought, Cio-Cio-San, known as Butterfly - both clearly have different ideas about what they expect to gain out of this arrangement.  This production makes use of the interlude music after the Humming Song to introduce a dreamlike ballet sequence that depicts this idealised version of the relationship, perhaps in Butterfly's mind as she sleeps awaiting the return of Pinkerton, and it's a nice touch that works very well with this idea.  The other notable thing about this production is the open-air performance at the arena which is not traditionally theatre shaped.  The long wings to the side of the stage however are well used for processional marches, as well as giving a greater sense of isolation of Cio-Cio-San from the world outside.  The walls behind the stage however do add to the reverb on the voices, but not in any overly detrimental way.  It does tend to lend a stridency to the singing of Raffaella Angeletti who can certainly hold the high notes as Butterfly, but doesn't have the delicacy that is required in other passages.  She does however certainly deliver where she needs to.  Massimiliano Pisapia is a robust and traditional Pinkerton, alternating between confidence and cowardice, between being arrogant and being loving.  I liked the tone of his voice here throughout.  Claudio Sgura's Sharpless demonstrates good clear diction, but the microphone or the mixing gives his voice too much reverb, and consequently both his voice and Angeletti's can occasionally be a little piercing in places.  Overall however, the singing is good and this is a fine production of Madama Butterfly, presented on a fine Blu-ray with a strong picture and - allowing for the slight extra reverb of the open-air location - good sound-mixes in PCM Stereo and DTS HD-Master Audio 5.1.

"Can't Hardly Wait" 10 years later I rented the BluRay from Netflix and the quality is awesome, but I have one beef with it along with other BluRays.  I don't like having to wait 15 minutes for previews/trailers before finally being able to access the main menu.  One of the many reasons why I loved DVDs when they first came out was that I didn't have to fast-forward through a bunch of previews before finally getting to the movie.  I could bypass the previews by going to the main menu or there wouldn't be any previews and it took me directly to the main menu.  That's the bad news.  The good news is that the BluRay and DVD have lots of extras that were not available on the original DVD release of "Can't Hardly Wait."  I think that this movie is very good and every generation seems to have a movie like this.  The "last day of high school" movie where all of the characters figure out what to do with their lives in a span of 24 hours.  We've seen it before with movies like "American Graffiti" and "Dazed And Confused." "Can't Hardly Wait" seems to be an homage to these movies and the John Hughes movies of the 1980s.  Interestingly, there is no year set for this film.  It was filmed in 1997, but it could have been set in the early 1990s.  There is no specific mention of a time or date which seems to be deliberate in making the movie timeless.  Jennifer Love Hewitt was probably the biggest star at the time this movie was released in the spring of 1998, but she is not in the film that much.  I think the best performances in the film are by Ethan Embry and Lauren Ambrose.  Seth Green is funny as a white teenager trying to pass himself off as his interpretation of black with diastrous results.  Charlie Korsmo is good as a nerd who winds up becoming the life of the party.  And Peter Facinelli seems to be channeling young Tom Cruise as the jerk jock Mike Dexter.  It's a funny movie and still relevant today.  Timeless.

Entertaining The Gamerz is entertaining. However, it does not compare to real legends like Journey Quest or Dorkness Rising. It is still a nice movie on roleplay - some of the Scottish may be difficult to understand

Believe it or not..... Im Just now watching this movie. Really. For Real. Im 16, and i have heard about this movie, my whole life. I have always heard, how scary it was. Being a horror fanatic, i just had to see it. I finnaly did. I Must say, it was pretty creepy. I didnt like the whole "Masturbation With a Crucifix" thing, I found that VERY Blasphemous && Disturbing. I just turned my head at that scene. I am Very used to typical, Slasher movies, so therefor they do not scare me. BUT, Demon/Exorcism movies, are the only movies that scare me anymore. So thats why i like to watch them. Im not going to go into detail, and explain what this movie is about, because im sure about everyone has seen this movie. Possessed By a Demon, Walking down the stairs Backwards, Spinning head, Green Vomit, yeah you know the story. I don't know if this will be one that i will purchase, and add to my collection, but im glad that i finnaly got to see it.

The power of positive thinking... "Morning Glory" (2010) is directed by Roger Michell (Changing Lanes, Venus, Notting Hill).  The film is about a young tv show producer, Becky Fuller (Rachel McAdams), who gets a call from a national network to produce a morning show called Daybreak. This morning show is in a shambles with one producer being fired after another but Becky is determined to make things work, and she even brings in a stubborn old news anchor played by Harrison Ford, whom she has always admired, to try and raise the ratings for the show. But initially this results in what seems like a downward spiral for this 40 year old show as there is immediate conflict with the current morning anchor (Diane Keaton). This wonderfully uplifting movie reveals how a positively motivated person can affect change for the better to those around them.

The Ten Commandments The blue-ray did not work on my blue ray player. I received a fast full refund so it took the disappointment away. Thank You Amazon.

Sliding Doors One of Gwyneth Paltrow's finest. She does an American faux English accent up there with Kevin Kline's faux French accent in French Kiss. Amusing dialogue scenes between Gerry and his buddy Russell. Written & Directed by Peter Howitt.

1 workout,not 5 I was somewhat misled, maybe I didn't read close enough.  I thought the short 15 min workouts would be different from the full 40 min total body workout-their not.  YOur essentially just getting one workout that is repeated into shorter sections.  Upper body 15 mins is the exact same upper body workout you do in the total body.  This is why I am giving it 4 stars and not 5.  Otherwise it is very effective and a good workout.  The pace is fast and keeps you moving.

A Gothic Romance Tale After the success of House of Dark Shadows, MGM greenlit a sequel Curse of Dark Shadows. By the time production near, the soap series was canceled by ABC and actor Jonathan Frid didn't want to return as fear of being typecast. Therefore, the co-writer and director Dan Curtis (creator of Dark Shadows) changed the title to Night of Dark Shadows and focused the main character onto Quentin Collins (played by David Selby), whom was absent from the previous film. This time the plot didn't involve vampires, but returned to Dark Shadows original theme of ghosts.  Quentin Collins along with his wife Tracy (played by Kate Jackson) arrives at their newly-inherited estate, Collinwood, as most of the Collins were killed in the previous film. Actress Grayson Hall returns, but she's playing a new role as the housekeeper Carlotta Drake. The couple is introduced to her and the caretaker Gerard Stiles. There is no mentioned of the events that happened in House of Dark Shadows.  The couple's novelists' friends Alex and Claire Jenkins (Played by returning actors John Karlen and Nancy Barrett, but in different roles.) move into the small cottage that is located on the estate. Quentin soon has weird and realistic dreams about his ancestor Charles Collins, who had an affair with Angelique (Once again played by actress Lara Parker.). Upon hearing about his dreams, Carlotta tells him that she is the reincarnation of Sarah Castle, a girl who once lived at Collinwood, and that he is the reincarnation of Charles Collins. Charles had a passionate affair with his brother's wife, Angelique. Because of their actions, Angelique was hanged and Charles was buried alive in her crypt.  Quentin becomes possessed by the spirit of Charles Collins and tries to drown Tracy. Meanwhile, the ghost of Angelique is haunting everyone.  The Night of Dark Shadows was somewhat inspired by the Angelique storyline, minus her being a witch, and the 1970 parallel timeline episodes. With the Dark Shadows serial being cancelled, MGM had lost faith with the movie. With hardly little notice, less than twenty-four hours, the executives forced Dan Curtis to cut the movie down so it could be aired in midnight double features. In today's words the movie was being sent straight-to-video. The result was the original 129 minutes running time being cut to 95 minutes. The final result left the main plot confusing, the characters one dimensional, and overall the movie looses its coherence.  The heart of the movie is a Gothic romantic novel. The scenes with the stunning Lara Parker are my favorites, but I would have liked it if Dan had left her a witch. But then again, I like that Dan used the basic ghost plot from the original year of the Dark Shadows serial. There is some good news. Back in 1999 the lost 35 minutes (16 scenes) were recovered, but with no surviving audio. Since then Warner Bros. (who is producing the remake) has bought both the movie's rights. They are restoring the movie to its original 129 minutes length along with new audio that has been created with the surviving actors. It was planned to be released along with House of Dark Shadows six months after the release of the remake, but the running time of Amazon has the DVD around ninety minutes. It looks the fans won't get a chance to see the original version unless the director's cut is an extra, but highly doubt it.  Despite Night of Dark Shadows being heavily edited, I enjoyed Dan Curtis's attempt at the dark ghostly Gothic romance, in which he's trying to do things he couldn't do on television at the time. Sadly, the movie was a complete flop and there was never a third movie made.

(3.5 STARS) Samuel L. Jackson is a Con Man in This Modern Film Noir In "The Samaritan" Samuel L. Jackson is Foley, an ex-grifter set free after serving twenty-five years in jail. While he finds solace in living with a young, drug-addicted girl Iris (Ruth Negga), Foley is forced into a swindle by Ethan (Luke Kirby), whose dead father was once Foley's partner in crime. And Ethan seems to know some secret about Foley that even the former confidence man does not know.  The film is best described as a film noir. Like some of the classics of the genre ("Night and the City," for instance), the twist-filled story revolves around our anti-hero with a criminal past, who dreams of a better life with a woman he loves, and whose plans may go wrong at any time. The difference is that Foley is not very willing to take part in the scheme, as money is not exactly what he is after.  Samuel L. Jackson delivers an effectively restrained performance as a tired ex-con man whose only concern is to stay out of trouble. But trouble follows him wherever he goes. He is a sort of a person who, while running away from one predicament, runs into another bigger and nastier one, and Samuel L. Jackson as that person is convincing. The interesting cast includes Gil Bellows, Deborah Kara Unger and Tom Wilkinson.  "The Samaritan" is flawed, however, and flawed in more than one way. For those who have seen a certain Asian thriller (which should remain unnamed here), the idea upon which the plot of "The Samaritan" rests may appear a familiar one. That itself didn't bother me as writers David Weaver (who also directs) and Elan Mastai have developed it in a totally different way, but the ending is disappointment because the dilemma and complexity Jackson's character faces are sorted out in a too neat fashion.  "The Samaritan" is a crime thriller that requires a pretty big suspension of disbelief at some scenes (and I am not just talking about the genre conventions). Once you get past that part, you will find the film a thrilling ride with Samuel L. Jackson's strong performance.

Truly Scary Daniel Radcliffe has shed his Harry Potter persona in this scary victorian-era thriller.  Radcliffe stars as Arthur Kipps, a lawyer who has recently lost his wife during childbirth.  Kipps has been given one last chance to prove his worth to his employer.  He is assigned to travel to Crythin Gifford to resolve the affairs of a recently deceased woman.  Upon arriving, Kipps receives a chilling response from the townspeople, except for Sam (Ciaran Hinds).  Journeying to the remote mansion located deep in the marshes, Kipps begins to uncover a gruesome tale of death as well as the mysterious "Woman in Black".  Many of village's children have died, and each time, the mysterious woman has been present.  While in the mansion, Kipps has seen ghostly apparitions and heard mysterious noises.  Soon, Kipps is engulfed in a terrifying quest to discover the truth about the deaths of the children while trying to unlock the mystery of the woman in black.  I thought this was a good movie, but I did have some difficulty following it in certain parts.  Radcliffe and Hinds give good performances, and there are some very scary scenes, but there were parts where I couldn't follow along.  I originally saw this movie in the theater and I was hoping that by watching it on DVD, I would get more clarity.  I was able to pick more up by watching it on DVD, but there were still parts that left me confused.  However, there are some very scary parts in the movie, and the story is good.  I recommend this movie, but just be prepared to watch closely.

Good Movie I found this to be a funny and yet strange movie. Danny Devito and Arnold Schwarzenegger have good comedic chemistry.  The strange part is the science fiction idea of a pregnant man. Yet the characters bring good humor to the plot making it believable. I thought it was a good movie. I, personally, like their movie: 'Twins' better, and this should have been the sequel to 'Twins.' None-the-less it is worth seeing.

Space Spagetti Western Decent special affects... Spagetti western dialogue (see old Clint Eastwood westerns)... Strong female lead character... Entertaining, something to check out on a rainy day...

Tangled - worth watching. When there is so much trash out there, it's always good to have no buyer's remorse.  Not only I'm I glad I watched it, I'm glad I own it on DVD.  I can't say it's a "must" since no single song really impressed me as a break away hit, but they were all O.K.  The animation and the story were excellent - no obvious stupidity or plot holes (unless you dislike hyper intelligence in a horse, but this is a fairytale). This was a thoroughly enjoyable film for the family and better than most and I'd recommend buying it.

"Good Thriller!" Kurt Russell, J.T. Walsh and Kathleen Quinlan star in this 1997 thriller. After their car stalls, a man desperately searches for his missing wife he believes is kidnapped. I think it's one of Kurt's best and J.T. was a great villain. This dvd has good picture and sound, but only the trailer. I recommend this good thriller.

Good movie We remembered seeing this movie but since it was a long time ago it was almost like seeing it for the first time.  Very well done.

Don't do the twist U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Tom Farrell (Kevin Costner) is assigned to work at the Pentagon under Secretary of Defense David Brice (Gene Hackman).  Brice does not know, although Farrell does, that both of them are sexually involved with Susan Atwell (Sean Young, and terrible).  When Brice accidentally kills the woman in a jealous rage, his assistant, Scott Pritchard (Will Patton, who is very good), convinces him to take over the investigation under the pretext of national security in order to divert suspicion away from Brice and onto "Yuri", a Soviet double-agent who has supposedly infiltrated the DOD, and who may or may not even exist.  A Polaroid photo taken from the crime scene contains an image of a man that will require complex computer analysis to be made visible; assuming the image to be Susan's other lover, Brice and Pritchard plan to implicate whomever it turns out to be as "Yuri", closing the case.  Knowing this, and that the photo is of him, and also having deduced that Brice is the actual killer, Farrell works frantically to forestall development of the photo while he gathers evidence to tie Brice to the killing (while, of course, pretending to continue the search for Yuri).  The best thing about the movie is that it doesn't have the loud, pumped-up and thrusting (commonly referred to as "pulse-pounding") feel of most government thrillers; the conspiratorial plots and counter-plots are conceived and executed in a ragged and panicked, improvisatory, almost blundering way, and on both sides seem to be forever about to teeter and fall apart.  (Even the assassins don't come across as ruthless killer-androids, as is usually the case in this genre, but more like bumbling schoolyard bullies).  Pritchard is the one character who actually sees himself as a coolly, arch-Machiavellian string-puller, and it is rather to amusing to watch as this facade crumbles under the pressure of an unexpected crisis.  Kevin Costner gives one of his best performances; as in Bull Durham, he is peerless in his ability to express indecision and fear without compromising his essential masculine charisma.  (And he isn't afraid to look silly; at one point his character, desperately wound-up, attempts to bark out an authoritative command that instead comes out as a scared shriek).  I'm sure there are a lot of people who think the plot twist at the end is very clever, simply because they didn't see it coming.  But it doesn't take much to achieve that; you just have come up with an arbitrary reversal that doesn't connect with the rest of the film (even after it's revealed).  A good twist, it should not need to be over-stressed, is one that resolves a central mystery in the plot in a surprising way; e.g. you don't know for sure who the murderer is, you think it's probably "A" but it turns out be "B", who seemed like such a good guy.  The trouble with that approach is that since the audience has been puzzling over the murderer's identity all along they might figure it out for themselves. The twist in No Way Out solves that problem by answering a question nobody was asking; so, yes, it's a surprise, but it also has no kick.

The Three Stooges: The Ultimate Collection box replacement About a month ago i had requested if anybody knew where i could get the black outer box because my was damaged, and a couple of KNUCKLE HEADS wanted to sell me theirs for $46 dollars, just for the empty box. Guess what you NUM SCUMS i got a brand new one thru Sony a more heavy duty box then the one that came with it. This a great collection highly recommend it only down fall is the outer black box is very thin and they should of included all the movies

Fabulous Clint Eastwood does a great job directing this film and Jessica Walters plays her part very well.  The "Misty" song is one of my favorites so it was interesting to see that it was the evil character's favorite as well. Well done. Stan

Strange and Unreal, but Intriguing This German film (originally 1931) is reputed to be the first about a serial killer. It involves killing young girls en route home from schools, and that part is disturbing. The strange and unreal portion involves the truly amateur efforts of the police - eg. no efforts to detect commonalities among the three killings, and their sweeps and searches are absolutely clueless. The intriguing portion involves the underworld's banding together to catch the killer because they're tired of being caught up in all the police search activity. Eventually a blind balloon vendor identifies the perpetrator through his whistling, his friends follow the killer and notify the underworld, and they find him in the attic of an office building after it closes. They then take him to an abandoned factory and are in the midst of a trial when they police show up. The film ends with real judges returning to their court, presumably with a verdict that we don't get to hear. Definitely different.

Behind-the-Scenes Story is Almost as Intriguing as the 1941 Classic This lengthy examination on the large-scale, take-no-prisoners lives of both William Randolph Hearst and Orson Welles examines just how much the two personalities had in common, how their winding roads intersected, and why a high-stakes showdown was almost inevitable once the Welles parade stormed Hollywood. It's a thorough, unbiased glimpse into both men's lifestyles, triumphs, mistakes and defining moments. The documentary is a bit on the long side, but in retrospect I can't imagine which slab of material could've been sliced away. It's all integral to the big picture. Considering all that led up to it and everything that worked against it, it's something of a miracle this film ever saw the light of day. That it turned out as good as it did is nearly unimaginable.

Dynamic Double Van Damme... This is not necessarily my favorite genre of film, but I must say that it is a VERY impressive entertaining film. Jean-Claude Van Damme is SO believable as twin brothers that it is so easy to think that Van Damme has a twin in real life starring in a movie with him.  The martial arts and action is great, as well as a very unique storyline. I especially enjoyed the (always) great Geoffery Lewis in this. He is a perfect casting choice as the body guard of the twins' late parents, then years later as a friend/partner/protector of the adult twins.  I've never even been a big fan of Van Damme's, but he is great in this. And, as two completely different people! It's very well scripted and very well directed, and the acting is very well done by everyone in the film.  The story is that, as infants, the baby brothers are orphaned when their parents are murdered by a Chinese businessman and his American associate. Years later, the boys are now grown men, living completely separate lives, unaware that the other exists until Geoffery Lewis' character brings them together to exact revenge on the people who murdered their parents, and to take back what is rightfully theirs.  This is a film I would highly recommend to anyone who is a fan of this genre of film, and/or anyone who just wants to sit back, eat some popcorn and enjoy some great kick a** action and some awesome martial arts. This is definitely in the same league as any Bruce Lee flick, or any Jackie Chan film, if not better. It has all of the ingredients that this genre of film calls for: Action, adventure, martial arts fighting, murder, betrayal, double crossing, double dealing, revenge, and double Van Damme.  This was a surprisingly dynamic film. I say 'surprisingly' because I had never been a fan of Van Damme's before I saw this. I'm still not a 'fan', but I sure am open to seeing more of his films.  Not a movie that I would own, but one I would highly recommend. My only complaint was there were way too many head-butting scenes. Other than that, well, let's just say that this is a rare gem for the fans of martial arts/action films. Thank you. :>)

Great movie with very good actor Jet Li's preformance in this movie fearless was amazing.  I bought this movie based on a friend saying it was the favorite movie in her collection.  I have to agree with her it amazed me start to finish.  The fight scenes will blow you away, but beyond that I love how they showed him going threw a change of heart and learning to be more then just a fighter who wins fights.  It showed how he matured along the way thanks to the journey he went threw. Beacuase in life we all must go threw journeys and learn lessons in order to mature along the way.  But if you love a movie with good fight scenes, moral values and emtional depth to the story line then pick this up and enjoy a great movie with a very good actor.

A bit on the predictable side .. but entertaining .. The most appealing part of the movie (unlike) other heist movies, is the characters are not professional crooks, but just simulate their plans to perfection (a.k.a) foolproof .. That leads the movie into a bit of a grey area, where there is apparently no intention to commit the crime, but yet the method and plan is perfected. Interesting!!  The plot however unwinds as it goes on, and starts becoming a bit predictable. But good performances delivered all around.  Would recommend for a one time watch.

It was the '70s; that's our excuse My sons (ages 13 and 10) and I watched THE CANNONBALL RUN recently, as part of their general film education. (You folks can show your kids whatever movies you want; I'm going to focus on the stuff I saw as a kid -- it clearly didn't hurt me, did it?)  We're right in the middle of the Hal Needham/Burt Reynolds cluster of car-chase comedies here, after two <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0783229356">Smokey & The Bandit</a> movies and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/630516200X">Hooper</a>, but before <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6305133441">Stroker Ace</a> and its own sequel. And we're also right at the point where the '70s turned into the '80s, with the gleeful anarchy of the National Lampoon years (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000A02TZ">Animal House</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000OMD3K8">Meatballs</a>, etc.) starting to turn into the crisp-and-slick sheen of the Reagan years. It's not a bad movie, but it's a silly little movie, and if it were a racehorse it would have been sired by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000CBY1C">It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World</a> out of SMOKEY.  If you don't know the set-up -- in which case, I hope you're as young as my sons, or spent most of your life other than in North America -- it's pretty simple: there was a real, essentially "outlaw" cross-country race in the '70s, from the New York area to a Los Angeles suburb, and this movie is the officially-licensed comedy version of those races. A bunch of odd teams -- Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. dressed up as priests in a Ferrari, Mel Tillis and Terry Bradshaw (and a half-ton of Budweiser) in a painted-over NASCAR vehicle, two guys on a motorcycle, Jamie Farr as a random Arab sheik, and so on -- compete for glory and a big check, by driving as quickly as possible across the country. Our hero is Burt, of course, and his sidekick is Dom DeLuise. They're driving an ambulance, so, for reasons never quite stated by obvious enough for a comedy like this, they need both a doctor and a patient. The former is Jack Elam, in one of his late bug-eyed comedy roles, and the latter is Farrah Fawcett, in a tight shirt and no bra.  A series of gags and car-chase scenes follow, though very little that could be described as a single, coherent plot. But who wanted that, anyway? Eventually, everyone makes it to California and the end of the race. Again, this is a silly comedy, very much of its time -- but that was a fun, easy-going, big-smile kind of time in America, and there's nothing at all wrong with that.

Includes Come Together! . . . One of the main reasons I bought this collection. Another reason:  the publicized release of "One More Chance".  "Another Part of Me" (by Sony) is fun to watch.  I recall seeing this on T.V.  "They Don't Care About Us" is interesting. (Shot in a real prison environment?)  "Bad" is good.  MJ could have made more movies based on his character Daryl-Home Boy. Maybe about transforming those thugs he called friends. I wonder how the guys who killed the real Daryl feel watching MJ doing their story? This short film will make Michael Jackson perpetually popular. The 2012 MJ calendar is focused on the "Bad" era. Grabbed that one up!

Two wives... This is the most difficult Spanish movie I have ever watched... because it did not have subtitles. Usually when I watch a Spanish movie, I'll cheat and use the subtitles, and later on when I watch it a second time I'll tackle it without them. This one, I'll need to watch another time or two to get every word, but in the meantime I think I can write a decent review.  Esta Noche No (Not Tonight) is about a guy juggling two wives... but surprisingly it is a comedy. Naturally it deals with the point in his life where his deception catches up with him. It's pretty funny. It all starts when his father - a dirty old guy who's always coming onto their maid - gets hit by a car. He wanders into the street without looking because he is ogling a cute girl. The two men who hit the father call the phone number in his wallet and reach the husband's job and the secretary gives them his address. The two men proceed to drop the father off with the wife the father does NOT live with. Well, the husband manages to get out of that one. However, obviously the two wives end up meeting later on anyway and everything falls apart from there.  The only thing I didn't like was the ending. The situation was so complicated, I think that was all they could come up with to end it so quickly.

Excellent Graphics This movie was better than I expected it to be. It had excellent graphic and sound effects. The story line was OK, but all in all a little unbeleivable. The movie is fiction though, so I expected that.

Still Funny After All These Years... I originally watched this as a mini-series on PBS back in the early 80's, and found it to be utterly hilarious. It still holds up after decades, and is very faithful to the books. Brit-Humor at its' broadcast best!

Funny Movie, looks great on blu-ray I love this movie and it looks even better on Blu-ray, the special features are great.  Its soo cheap I think everyone should buy this for themselves or as a gift.

spooky buddies dvd I ordered this dvd because of the tv commercials and it was adorable, as advertised. It is great for children and adults who love animals.

A Four Star Flick In a Two Star Presentation... [Alfredo Alfredo - 1972] Anyone who has read my MYA reviews knows I'm no fan of their slipshod prints, re-titled films and ridiculous prices, along with blatant disregard and hardcore abuse of its core audience, but this time Amazon is at fault for listing incorrect product details.  First, the film is presented in Full Frame and NOT Widescreen (MYA's also to blame here - they list the aspect ratio as 1.85:1(16/9) but have a box lower down on the dvd case w/ 1.33:1 listed, those deceptive bastards); secondly, the audio options are English OR Italian with NO subtitles, another blunder in the details, thanks to Amazon. Thirdly, both audio options are in Mono - no stereo at all, so be prepared to crank up the volume on whatever you plan on watching it on or you won't hear a good deal of dialogue, as there are many phone calls where the caller can hardly be heard. I was livid when I put this on for a relaxing viewing of a solid flick rendered meager by hearing Stephania Sandrella's voice cartoonishly dubbed. As for extras - you must be joking, this is a MYA release.  As far as the film itself is concerned, director Pietro Germi ('Divorce, Italian Style', 'Seduced and Abandoned', both of which also starred Stephania Sandrelli) takes another ascerbic shot at the pratfalls of marriage and divorce; and while the film isn't as glorious as his previous efforts, it's still a fine, solid film worth checking into, in spite of Dustin Hoffman being horribly miscast and delivering an extremely weak performance. He's the film's main liability, and Sandrelli is its saving grace. (Think 'Madigan's Millions' but, when you're done shuddering, remember the director is Germi).  In spite of all these detractions, until a better copy is made available, this is what we're left with, and beggars can't be choosers. Sure, it's a compromise, just like marriage, right?

Man is Conceived in Sin and Born in Corruption All the King's Men is the second film adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer prize-winning novel of the same name loosely based on Louisiana populist demagogue Huey Long.  It follows Jack Burden (played by Jude Law), a journalist turned political fixer, and Willie Stark (played by Sean Penn), a reformer turned corrupt political boss.  Dispensing with the obfuscation of the novel, All the King's Men is openly set in Louisiana.  Inexplicably it's Louisiana sometime well after Huey Long's life, replete with the forward pass, but that doesn't make much difference.  It was a cruel time.  Men were forced to walk around outdoors in Louisiana wearing three-piece suits (thankfully, the Louisiana weather is a sovereign cure for all hangovers; that's why they drink so much).  The dialogue captures the poeticism of the South.  We don't actually talk like that, but by God we do in our heads.  And Jude Law has a fake Southern accent that, unlike that of most of Hollywood, is melodious rather than nails-on-a-chalkboard.  Sean Penn hams it up as usual, but Jude Law delivers a strong performance.  Anthony Hopkins and James Gandolfini nearly steal the show in small roles.  It is the shifting focus between Penn as Willie Stark and everyone else that determines whether any given scene is good or great.  The worst are the Stark speeches, political diatribes sort of haphazardly stuck in at odd places.  Better are the scenes when Stark joins several other characters, and best of all when he is off screen, if never out of the characters' minds.  Stark gets a bit more attention relative to Jack than in the book, but even with a 2 hour+ running time his story still gets cut criminally short.  His wife and son barely appear.  He sort of leaps from idealistic reformer to venal, disenchanted political boss in between scenes.  It's not enough to seriously detract from the film, thought.  There are approximately an hour and a half of DVD extras, including The Making of "All the King's Men," An American Classic, La. Confidential: On Location with "All the King's Men," Shake Hands with the Devil, the Legend and Lore of Huey Long, and deleted scenes (including an alternate ending).  The video footage of Hey Long in the mini-documentary about him was especially interesting.  A man of the age of radio, Long's charisma is evident but he's not very photogenic.  and deleted scenes (including an alternate ending).  This review is of the 2006 Special Edition DVD.

An entertaining movie, parallel to but not entirely consistent with the book series. I find reading the reviews for Christian materials (notably on Amazon, but elsewhere as well) to be exercises in frustration at times.  There are those who post "reviews" who never saw the flick or read the book or whatever, and are purely posting what is, by definition, "hate speech" directed against Christians.  Then there are the folks who actually did watch/read/etc the item and who didn't care for it on some legitimate basis (few and far between, but the only critical ones really worth reading, in my judgment).  Then there are the "fanboy" reviews which go unreasonably over-the-top in praising something which may be good but may still have some flaws...  but you'd never guess it from those reviews.  And then there are the "flowers and rosiness" reviews from people who hate to have to THINK about matters of faith, and only want "happy-happy-fun-time" religion, and who are often negative towards materials which involve actual intellectual challenging of their staid, settled, comfortable "belief traditions."  In my case, I'm a believing, practicing Christian who recognizes that all materials, including Christian materials, are subject to flaws and defects and HONEST, FAIR critiques are entirely appropriate, but childish taunting or mindless "fluffy thinking" are not.  I find all of the above equally annoying, as a result.  About this movie...  it's a pretty decently done flick.  The special effects aren't anywhere near the level of a Hollywood blockbuster, but it's clear that this is where they were trying to go with this film.  The film takes a small section of time, spanning the end of the one book and the first section of the next book, and "fills in the blanks" in ways which are entirely consistent with the books..  with one minor exception and one major one, both revolving around the deaths of characters.  One minor character died (of suicide) in the first book but didn't die in the movies, so that character dies early in this movie.  The second character I'm discussing (attempting to be spoiler-free) dies of a disease in both cases, but in one case this character dies in a hospital, and no one knows exactly how he died, though poisoning is suspected, while in the flick this character dies of a similar situation which becomes much more widespread and is a major plot point in the film.  Excepting those two deviations, the rest of the film is entirely consistent with the books, and "could have happened" in the book universe as well as in the movie universe.  Of course, the movies and the books are not consistent in many other areas...  which is just fine.  This movie is actually a bit more "conformant" to the books than the prior too, as far as I'm concerned...  as, at the end of this film, both universes have essentially converged into one common scenario.  This movie stands quite well on its own.  It's a bit more "action/adventure" than the prior two, but this is entirely consistent with the novels, which do have quite a bit of that sort of thing in them.  It would be hard NOT to put that sort of thing into stories intended to be consistent with Christian eschatology ("end times beliefs").  While I personally believe that the authors of the book series got a number of things significantly wrong, they never claimed to be writing historical documents...  they were writing NOVELS, after all.  I doubt very much that there will be some blonde, blue-eyed European "Nicolae" nor will the Antichristian world region be what they promoted in such an almost "funny" way.  I think that the real Antichrist, and the real Antichristian faith, will be something many of us are already familiar with (hint - watch for the restoration of the Caliphate once Assad's Syria falls).  SO...  for anyone who thinks that they're watching "what's really going to happen," as if this were prophecy...  put that out of your mind right now.  This is FICTION, but fiction with a message, and fiction that is intended to provide some basic instruction to believers (and potential believers) about how to deal with whatever really DOES happen, even if it's not quite what's seen in the books or in the films.  Resistance, both on an internal (including but not limited to spiritual) basis, and on a physical basis (which may, if things get bad enough, require the sort of paramilitary activities seen in this film...  and if you believe in Christian eschatology, you have to know that at some point things will get that bad, and will continue to get steadily worse) is entirely acceptable.  Giving in to evil, "going along to get along" and the like...  that's what this movie is intended to strengthen your resolve against.  The character of President Fitzhue (Louis Gossett Jr, in an EXCELLENT performance, frankly) is the one who starts off "going along to get along" and who learned, apparently too late, what this really means...  but who learns the truth, and takes a strong stand, at the end.  Yes, the ending of the film doesn't result in the "good guys beating the bad guys" entirely...  it's a minor victory in a war which is destined, at least for the moment, for the "bad guys" to win...  but we know that the "bad guy's victory" is going to be very short-lived.  Many of us believe that this is all coming to a real head shortly...  that a global government is being established now, that freedom (including freedom to practice our faith as we choose to, or choose not to, without governmental interference, but also including many, many other elements not directly related to faith or to religion - which are, by the way, not the same thing!) is being taken away, and that for the first time in human history, every element of prophecy is coming together.  There's no longer any need to "stretch" or to "read in"...  you can take things very literally and see all the signs right now.  These movies, and the books upon which they are loosely based, are to be taken, at most, as allegorical...  as "fables" intended to teach certain lessons.  The lessons are directly applicable to what many of us will likely have to live through for real in the not too distant future.  But it would be a mistake to treat them, and this movie in particular (since we're reviewing this movie in particular) as anything beyond that.  It's a thriller/drama with allegorical, rather than prophetic, overtones.  Watched on that level, it's a good, decent quality movie, rating a good solid "4 out of five" stars.

It's gotta have more one liners than all of Arnold's movies... but this was one fun movie to watch.  Travolta is great in the role and even if the gun battle scenes are a little stretched, his character's personality almost makes it all believable.  Might as well just have fun with it and enjoy his acting.  I knew the end of the plt from the beginning, but who cares.

Another good Disney Nature effort. This is another in a series of Disney Nature films, this one focusing on chimpanzees. Specifically, a youngster named Oscar who sees his extended family fend off competitors, while he tries to learn the ways of the jungle. This is the usual kid-friendly fare that adults will also find entertaining that Disney has released each of the last few years at this time. They are able to find a storyline while filming these wild creatures, and also capture some amazing footage while doing it. The narration provides a few light moments, and it is amazing how these wild animals are so similar to humans in their efforts to raise their young and to protect territory. Educational and entertaining, this is a good movie to see with the kids.

AWESOME HORROR/COMEDY MADE BETTER ON BLU-RAY!!! JUST FINISHED WATCHING EVIL DEAD FOR THE FIRST TIME ON BLU-RAY...AWESOME!!! THE PICTURE IS SO CRISP AND ALL OF THE COLORS ARE SO VIVID. THE BLOOD IS EVEN MORE GORY LOOKING ON THIS VERSION THAN IN THE PAST SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU SEE MORE OF IT! THE ONLY BAD PART IS THAT IT'S SO CLEAR THAT YOU SEE SOME OF THE FLAWS IN THE MOVIE SPECIAL EFFECTS. DON'T GET ME WRONG, I'M NOT PUTTING IT DOWN BUT IT JUST SHOWS HOW PRIMITIVE MAKE-UP STILL WAS @ THE TIME OF FILMING THIS MOVIE.I'M SOOO GLAD THEY PUT THIS ON BLU-RAY IT LOOKS SO MUCH BETTER,IJUST WISH THEY WOULD HAVE PUT MORE EFFORT INTO EXTRAS. ALL WE REALLY GET IS 2 BEHIND THE SCENES FEATURETTES THAT ARE ABOUT 20 MINS EACH AND ONLY ONE OF THEM IS WORTH WATCHING THE OTHER IS A SPECIAL EFFECTS GUYS' PHOTO ALBUM WITH HIS THOUGHTS ON THE PICS....SNOOZE!!! ANYWAY GREAT MOVIE,IF YOU HAVE TO BUY IT @ RETIAL PRICE BUY IT HERE BEST BUY WILL CHARGE YOU $18.99!! USED ON AMAZON (THE WAY I GOT MINE) IS EVEN CHEAPER!!! THANKS FOR READING MY REVIEW. L8R!!

Well done, but there is a touch of horror in this movie Not a movie for anyone who can't handle a touch of horror.  My wife had to turn her head several times.  I enjoyed it for the most part, but felt there were some scenes that were unnecessary.

The sound was off........ I only bought this for two bands, Megadeth and Metallica. So, as far as the others go, I have no idea. Megadeth pull off their same old stuff, with headcrusher thrown in, and the sound was fine. Metallica was something else in the sound department. I swear if Lars plays drums like that--wimpy sound--please take him off the drum set and let him sell t-shirts. Picture was great. So, I give that part an A.

All Star Laughs Hilarious movie with an all star cast (Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, and Dells Reese). This movie kept me laughing all the way through

No way it's King's best but Just Fun! I would never say Sleepwalkers belongs to be up there with: The Shining, Carrie, The Green Mile as some of King's finest work.  Sleepwalkers is more along the lines with: Cat Eyes, Sliver Bullet, and Creepshow --Simply fun, camp horror!  Madechen Amick plays Tanya Robertson, God, she's mighty attractive and plays a vunberable victim well through most of the picture.  Brain Krause and Alice Krige ( Charles and Mary Brady, an incestuous mother-son shape shifters)  don't scare me, but their scenes are fun, humorous, and enjoyable.  I'm very proud I have added this film to my Stephen King movie collection.

The Magnificent 7 I picked up this movie on blu-ray at Target for $10 and what a bargain, I was expecting a bad transfer since it was so cheap and an old movie, but how wrong I was, the film looks great, clean, and even sharp at times, this movie looks better than most movies that was just made 10 years ago, the audio, the surround sound is not as good as the video but for a cheap price and for a great, classic movie like this one, it will do, believe me, it is not awful, either. What an incredible casts as well, most of them turned out to be big names in Hollywood, Brynner, McQueen, Bronson, Coburn, Vaughn, Wallach. Folks, I highly recommend this movie on blu-ray !!!  ENJOY !!!

A Credible Attempt (by Hollywood standards) to Explain Time Travel First, let me say that I've been a science fiction aficionado for decades.  However, my main interest has been book science fiction because the vast majority of so-called science fiction movies and TV shows have been very light (or nonexistent) on the science and over the top on the fiction (or rather fantasy).  I do give the makers of the movie "Millennium" credit for at least trying to explain such an arcane subject as time travel.  Of course, I wouldn't have expected the movie to be as detailed as was the book and it wasn't.  The sets depicting the future world were supposed to give a sense of decadence, and they did.  I applaud the production designer(s) for not opting for the usual shiny, glitzy "future" - especially in 1989.  I don't think they were imaginative enough, but that's a highly subjective appraisal and they were probably on a budget.  Many reviewers have complained about the so-called "flashbacks" showing the same scene from different points of view.  That wasn't the director being "artistic."  The different points of view were necessary to show that the different characters (primarily Bill Smith and Louise Baltimore) were each at different points on their personal time-lines even though they were in the same room together.  For example, After Bill Smith and Louise Baltimore have spent the night together, Bill finds the lost stunner in the wreckage of the airliner that has been deposited in a hangar.  He fiddles with it and is paralyzed by it, but he can still breathe and see.  After Bill has been lying on the floor for a while, Louise appears from the future with her snatch team.  Bill recognizes her immediately, but she does NOT recognize him.  This is because their shack-up in the hotel room is in his past, but is in Louise's future - they are at different points in their personal time-lines.  And Louise's personal time-line will become even more tangled.  As I said in the title to this review, it's a credible attempt.

Fun movie! I enjoyed the movie soooo much more than filling out this review.  20 words?  How is "Fun Movie" not an adequate review?  I think I'll go and watch the movie again to put a smile back on my face.  Thanks Amazon.

Pierce in a comedy I got this for my husband because he always talked about it. I have to say it was a good choice, I can't remember ever seeing Pierce Brosnon in a comedy... or at least one that I liked with him in it. It is an unexpected movie with him in it.

All Blown Up Military \Explosions\Aliens\Rihanna\Did I mention Explosions\ and Big guns cool effects and of course Lieutenant Colonel Greg Gadson, A Real Hero, one of Americas Best. From a Former Chief Warrant I salute you Sir!!.  If you are looking for something that will get you hyped this is it. I love being American.

Odd movie A Southern Gentleman funeral director befriends the rich, controlling widow and kills her. The town loves him so much and hated the old lady so much that they want him to go free. Definitely strange.

mostly good, but disorganized Fresh and engaging look at punk rockers in Salt Lake City in the 80s.  The thing that stops it from being great was that, while it did have a good ending, the mechanics of the ending were not well-thought out.  Heroin Bob's death was just an accident, a fluke.  I think the director was trying to get away with implying that Heroin Bob's death was a natural result of the boys' crazy, chaotic lifestyle, but instead it was a mere happenstance the way Bob died:  it could have happened to anybody.  Thus making it seem like the lead character's doubt and malaise culminated in the destruction of his friend was a bit of artistic legerdemain that I believe film critics will cite as detracting from the greatness of the movie as a whole.

Carey at his funniest This is one of Jim Carey's best, but in case you forgot this is the rise for one of Hollywood's future heavyweights. Do you remember Cameron Diaz as the Young, Sexy, Blonde haired ex-girlfriend of the villan who at the end falls in love's with Carey's character. I'll never forget it. Overall If your a fan of Jim Carey comedy and/or have not seen The Mask, yes pick this up. You can find it on VHS, Laserdisc(both no longer in stores online only), DVD and Blu ray.

Quirky, bizarre & amusing Very entertaining.  We never knew what to expect next. Great cast of characters. Beautiful imagery. I'd watch it again to see what we missed the first time around.

Very Disturbing and Graphic Portayel of Youth, yet in 2012, Also Very Outdated 'Kids' is straightly put, one of the most difficult movies you will ever be able to sit through. That is, if you CAN sit through it all. I only did because I already have such a desensitized nature so watching continuous crude and derogatory sexually perverse language and acts for 90 minutes isn't something that will really make me flinch, although I do admit, it did disturb me. I admit I only purchased this film and viewed it because of all the controversy surrounding it upon its initial release back then, and never actually got a chance to see it.  The film is captured in a documentary style, yet is a completely scripted and fictitious story. It is inspired by the behavior of many inner-city youths during the 1990's, and THANKFULLY due to films like this, and many other advances in sexual education for children, statistics do show that these days in 2012, teenagers are not as fleetingly irresponsible regarding their sexual safety as they were back then. Therefore, in a way, this film is not really all that necessary anymore, as in 2012, this film does not correctly portray the lives of what society used to see as an endangered youth of America in the mid-90s.  'Kids' tells the very simple story of a few sexually irresponsible and gravely immature teenagers. The movie follows them throughout what seems to be a span of 1 or 2 days during a hot city summer of what I'm guessing is New York City when school is out. The main characters are a boy named Telly and his friend Casper, who really do nothing but try and up their sexual conquest with various girls they are friends and acquaintances with. We open the film with Telly as he is sweet-talking a very young girl (who is probably about 12 or 13), and proceeds to have sexual intercourse with her. Right off the bat, I would imagine many people shutting the movie OFF within the first 5 minutes, as watching two teenagers have sex in a film is downright disturbing to say the least. It is a fairly long scene that lasts a few minutes. Yet we know nothing about this boy Telly and at first the audience will buy into everything he is telling this young girl. Now as Telly walks out and sees his friend Casper, does the non-stop flux of crude sexual language begin, and literally DOES NOT END throughout the entire duration of the film. We see scenes of them and their friends, talking more trash, smoking cigarettes and pot, drinking, etc. We also catch a scene of a group of teenage girls whose sexually derogatory language is just as bad as the boys. They speak of their own sexual conquests and even though they admit to being mistreated, they shockingly seem to take pride in such behavior and disrespect of themselves. Keep in mind that the language used in this film is very outdated by today's standards. Kids speak in regular ebonics to a very annoying degree. Yet, at the time, that's the only way lots of teenagers used to speak, as it was sort of the "in" thing to do. So yea, just a film where white teenagers are constantly tossing out terms like "a-ight, yo, word up," etc. It's silly, but hey, it's what was prevalent back then.  The real plot begins when 2 of these girls decide to take an HIV exam at a local clinic. One girl I might add is played by a young Rosario Dawson, in what is perhaps her first ever movie role. No, she is in no way cute in this film even though she is very young, her sexually disturbed character will pretty much kill any charm she might have had. Anyway, it turns out that her and her friend Jennie both test differently for the disease. Jennie is positive, while Rosario's character is HIV negative. This is ironic considering that in the film, Jennie has only slept with 1 boy, and that is our main male lead Telly. Rosario's character on the other hand has had about 10 different partners, yet is completely clean. So after this Jennie decides she needs to find Telly and tell him about her disease, and to also inform him that he is also HIV positive. Yet though Telly does not know he has this disease, he continues to sleep with as many girls as he can, and makes a big deal about only going after virgins.  As we follow these characters throughout the film we don't really learn much about them, yet the film really holds up simply due to the character's graphic behavior. In the infamous fight scene (which surprisingly enough gave this a non-rating, even though the rest of the film could have very easily done that... the fight scene was probably the cleanest scene in the WHOLE FILM considering the stuff these kids pulled) we have the group of friends beat a man senseless due to a petty argument because Casper accidentally bumped into a guy at a park while riding his skateboard. The man is beat nearly to death.  The film introduces some newer characters towards the end, young friends of Telly and Casper who are even younger, probably about 12 years old, and are on the very same road to sexual and behavioral destruction. It's simply way too sad to watch because we know these children will eventually ruin their own lives due to their own pride and foolish behavior, but seem to have absolutely NO parental guides or role models to follow whatsoever. The only interaction with any parents is with Telly and his mother who is at home with Telly's baby brother. Their relationship is sad and pathetic as they seem more like roommates than a mother and son. We also get a glimpse of Casper's perverted mind as he oogles at Telly's mother breastfeeding the baby.  Now when it comes to that night, all the kids want to do is party some more. In a pool scene we watch as a different young boy becomes very enticed by a young girl who is part of their friend group, and makes frightening advances because he wants a kiss from her. If things went far enough, we get the feeling that the kid would perhaps have raped the girl, but of course that didn't happen. The fear only goes to show how good these performances were, and as the viewer, you cannot help but become convinced by every single shot of it. The documentary style helps this feel so much more real than it really is.  Things culminate with a final party scene where our female lead Jennie gets drugged by a friend, and still proceeds to find Telly. Telly and Casper try for more sexual conquests, and lots of teenagers passing out and vomiting. Just an extremely sad scene that is effectively disturbing. One cannot sit and believe that many teenagers actually USED to act like this. The thought is so heart-breaking that children can be raised and ignored in society so much that they build a life on looking for only fleeting pleasures, and have no aspirations for themselves whatsoever. So to not give anything away regarding the outcome of Jennie and Telly, the film ends on a low note, as a final rape scene puts the nail right in your heart's coffin, and we see how things end with just more implied hopelessness from these teenage characters. This truly was a very sad time for many of America's youth. You leave the film with a sickened feeling, about how people could be so ignorant, or could HAVE BEEN, so ignorant towards children as to not lead them in a better direction. But then you remind yourself, hey, this is 2012, not 1995, children don't really have these types of behaviors to this degree nearly as much as they used to. They also don't speak the same way, as ebonics has thankfully been more or less ignored in regular speak in 2012 by many.  'Kids' is a very effective and disturbing documentary , but thankfully, it is also very outdated. While many will mistake the disturbance the film causes to be due to a poorly written and directed movie, many others will take notice that the reason the movie is so well made is BECAUSE of how disturbing it is. By the end, even though there is not much characterization, you still feel a certain something for the characters, and still have a heart for them. Because, in the end, they're just kids. So really, because this film is so relative towards its time era, it really isn't necessary anymore. Many who watch this now should definitely not take it so such heart, but instead do what I did - watch the film as an either an analytical piece, a piece of history, or just to see what all the hoopla was for back in the 90s. Just keep in mind that it IS disturbing, and offensive in many areas. So while it's too strong for many , others will no longer take this as the original life lesson it was first presented to be, but instead as a film where you just want to see what all the fuss was about.

The movie before The Protector Ong-Bak (or The Thai Warrior) is the film Tony Jaa made before The Protector. Viewers for the The Protector, which is a definite must see martial arts film, will certainly see similarities between the two films. For one thing, the basic plots are almost identical. Tony Jaa plays a rural villager who goes to the big city to recover something stolen from his village. In The Protector it's two elephants, and in Ong-Bak it's the head of the village god.  In both movies, in trying to recover the object he's after, Jaa's character falls into a much bigger web of criminal activity. He ends up facing off against a corrupt crimelord and his martial arts trained right hand man (Johnny Tri Nguyen in The Protector and Atthapong Pantanaunkul in Ong-Bak).  While these similarities are certainly not to the credit of The Protector, which came after Ong-Bak, the two movies are very different in the way they unfold and the kinds of fight sequences that are delivered. Ong-Bak isn't the sheer frontal assault that makes The Protector so amazing to watch, but that fact also means Ong-Bak is a more economical film (and that has pluses).  There are some amazing acrobatics on display in Ong-Bak, most notably in the scene where Jaa and co-star Petchtai Wongkamlao (who also appeared for comic relief in The Protector) are running from a crowd of goons. Also, there is an early scene in the village where Jaa is 'practicing forms', which is a nice way to have him show off his skills early on. However, the movie also contains the straight fight scenes fans of the genre want, most notably between Jaa and several adversaries in an illegal Bangkok fight club.  Jaa the actor is much less prominent part of the mix here. In this film, Jaa is primarily a martial artist. In fact, I question whether the number of lines of dialogue he is given gets very far into the double digits. Most of the speaking is handled by the always hilarious Petchtai Wongkamlao, supported by Pumwazree Yodkamol playing a tomboy street urchin whose relationship to Wongkamlao's character is something I still can't quite figure out.  While I could have lived without the Bangkok motorcycle-taxi chase scene, Ong-Bak is an entertaining ride. I'd probably say The Protector is the better movie, but Ong-Bak is the shorter, lighter, and more direct film and is definitely worth seeing.

Pretty much a good DVD I used this most of the time since it's the only TBL I have right now, LOL. But i like it. It's good for beginners even tho there's a lot of lunges, just to warn you. If you have bad knees you might can still get this but just giving you heads up on plenty of lunges in the cardio and other workouts in this DVD.  The extra special features are pretty good even though they don't have Closed Caption, which I was bummed out about- since I needed CC (Deaf) That was the only downside thing about the DVD.  I'm not good at reviewing things...sorry :P  Do I recommend this? Yes.

Bieber! This was a really good movie, but they cut a lot out. I missed the 1 hour and 45 minute length one, it was a little better I must say. But, Justin is amazing!

movie my daughter say its a good movie but I have not seen it yet just going by what she told me. will update after I see it.  update good movie but a little slow will watch again.

More of a question than a real review. Is there more than one version of this film?  When I looked at all the info that was on the Amazon site, it clearly stated under Rating that this film was NC-17. Here is what I saw: Out of Bounds Sophia Myles (Actor  Rated: NC-17  Format: DVD  I went ahead and ordered a used copy since I am a fan of Sophia Myles, but when mine cane in, it clearly showed the little red and white circle on the bottom left with a 15 in the center of said circle.  The back has the same circle with the statement, "Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over."  I am not complaining as such, but just curious if maybe Amazon got the rating wrong.  IMDb doesn't show a rating at all.  Finally, from I have seen of the movie, it is excellent.  The reason I have not seen it all is that I preview some of it, when it first arrives, just to make sure it works, then I watch it at a later time.

Not bad at all for a Miley Cyrus film! So far I have loved all adaptions of Nicholas Sparks novels. I won't lie I was a little taken back by the fact the Miley Cyrus got the lead role of Ronnie. I have a little sister so I have seen her acting before and she's not bad but she's not very good. I was shocked to find that she didn't do a terrible job like I believed she would. Some scenes were a little sketchy like in the hospital but I think she did an ok job. For what Miley lacks at points the other actors make it up. I love Greg Kinnear and I think he is an amazing actor but the true star of the film was Bobby Coleman who played Ronnie's little brother, Jonah. I don't think there was a dry eye in the theater when he was crying. If this kid don't blow up I'll be surprised. I think it's a little to mature for Hannah Montana fans but I do suggest it for Miley Cyrus fans. If you hate Miley then I suggest don't watch, you'll just be annoyed. I do recommend the film to fans of the adaptions of Nicholas Sparks novels, I think it stayed true to the novel.

A Video For Those With Extremely Low Fitness and Flexibility Levels Heyla and well met!  This instructional DVD is targeted towards people, like myself, whose health, fitness, and flexibility levels are so low that many of the other DVD's targeted towards beginners are still incredibly too intense. For myself, I'm truly out of shape, overweight, and suffer from unstable knees, as well many other medical problems. To give you an idea of just how out of shape I am, I can not even do a modified sitting eagle posture, as my elbows can not even cross themselves, my shoulders are simply that tight. I need instructional videos that are mindful of the fact that there are people who really can't do many of the basic postures that people of a more moderate fitness, flexibility, and health level really do take for granted. Hence, a video, like this one, that actually focuses on loosening extremely tight muscles is an incredible find, for me.  The few reasons why I give this video 4 stars, instead of the full 5, is because I would have liked to have seen many of the floor postures further modified for people, like myself, with severe joint problems that make being on all fours a very painful experience. I would have also liked to have seen a primer on the many ways one could safely move each part of the body and how to keep it properly aligned, before going into the actual postures, as there are many people who do not have this body awareness, and they may make the mistake of trying to muscle into a posture they shouldn't. Also, again, the knees and elbows are some of the most vulnerable joints in the body. Lessons on how to keep them properly protected while going into the posture would be greatly appreciated.  So, to sum up, if you are extremely out of shape, with incredibly tight muscles in key areas such as the hamstrings, hips, and shoulders, this video is where you want to begin. For those with other medical problems that make many of the postures difficult, you may need to look for other videos, such as those by Peggy Cappy, which guide you on how to modify many of these postures, even further. Finally, if your health, fitness, and flexibility levels are moderate and above, you'll likely find little use for this video. You're better off turning towards the beginner DVD's that true beginners will often complain about being too intense for their fitness level.

surveillance Since i enjoyed David Lynch's films: Blue Velvet, Inland Empire, and Muholland Drive, i might as well watch a film by his daughter Jennifer Lynch, and so i did. Surveillance, a film about two cops who interview 3 witnesses to a incident. The three people are a cop, a drug addict, and a little girl. I won't go into detail but i did enjoy this film. I liked the charcters and their stories that soon became one. I really liked the twist as well at the end.

Good but missing elements Instead of watching bits and pieces of the film I watched it in it's entirety today for the first time. Alien 3 is more of a dialogue film and Weaver's portrayal of Ripley was much more sullen. She remained interesting however. I was disappointed that Newt, a mega relevant charactor from Aliens, never had her name mentioned. With all the rightly emoted heartbreak by Ripley at the death of Newt, she never uttered an "Oh Newt" which is strangely amiss.  The scene with Ripley and Bishop was engaging but I longed for an entirely reanimated "synthetic person" for charactor interaction. Alien 3 is unique in that there is very little gunfire, especially coming off the raging gunfire of Aliens. That missing element was never successfully counteracted. In turn, Ripleys every line became strong, and any return from her scene breaks worthwhile. It was almost as if she could bring out more in one word than ever before.  The charactors were more often thin and I felt little concern for them. The setting though, and stylistic nature of the film, was more than ample. The early 90s CGI was a detractor but it may not have been for movie goers of that period. In a few scenes the alien looked puny. The penal colonists running around closing hatch doors was dizzying and weak. Child like "you hoo" words to lure the alien were unrealistic in such a fear oriented situation.  The film was a hybrid of past greatness mixed with what was to come of the Alien franchise. And what was to come wasn't good. Sigourney Weaver held Alien 3 together just enough to make the film oddly interesting. The film makers knew it had run it's course, hence the climax. After this film, everything has became what I like to call "junkified". Alien 3 is a nice little last piece of one of filmdoms greatest heroines, and monsters!

cute movie This is a cute movie. Ellen desided to surprise her newly wed son & the bride has never met her & she is trying to throw a dinner party & has hired a maid to help her & when Ellen comes to the door before she can say who she is, the bride thinks she is the maid & drag's her into the house. When her son arrives home she tells him not to say who she is & just keeps helping to get ready for the dinner party. She wants everything to go right for her new daughter-in-law.

Not sure why it's rated PG-13 My family and I just watched this movie and really enjoyed it.  Felt like a good ABC Family movie.  Not sure why it was rated PG-13, though. There was NOTHING in the movie warranting that rating.  In fact, it could have been rated G.  There was zero violence, no cursing and no sex or sexual situations.  Is it possible the movie was miss marked?

Classic This 1915 effort was the first feature length silent film. It is almost three hours long. They had 90 percent of the eligible population in America at one point, accorduing to my sources. The film was adopted from a novel The Clansman. More controversial today than when it was released. A  must see for movie fans.

QUICK MAILING MY SON WAS SO EXCITED TO GET THIS MOVIE. WE HAD SEEN DURING THE HALLOWEEN TIME BUT COULD NOT FIND UNTIL I FOUND ON AMAZON. THANK YOU

No One Checks Out of Room 1408 4 1/2 Stars = Minor Masterpiece  Ever wonder what went on in a hotel room before you stayed there? Who slept there in the bed your sleeping on. What kind of out of sight acts were committed there? Did someone die there?!  One of the best ghost, or should I say, poltergeist films in the last 15 years. Scary, creepy, inventive, relentless, & a tour de force acting job by one John Cusack!  You might want to camp out next time!

A darker shade of James Bond What happens when the cool, calm James Bond goes on a kiling spree without permission from his Majesty's Secret Service? Well, you get to see a darker side to the trained professional who begins to travel down the road as an assassin out of control. As always, fasten your seat belt for on-the-edge-of-your-seat action with the 007 agent who is out for revenge!

Movie Great movie. Very funny. DVD arrived without a problem and on time. I would recommend this comedy to anyone who wants to watch something funny.

Good Total Body Workout! I have been a die hard Jillian Michaels fan for a while, but decided to give Bob a try in the last 6 or so months.  I have 3 of his workouts and they are all super tough. The cardio workouts definitely get my heartrate up and turn me into a puddle of sweat, but I was looking for something to complement my other strength workouts to get me out of a workout rut.  This workout helps with changing it up and doesn't force a lot of jumping around (which my knees can't handle much of lately).  It might be intimidating for beginners but lowering the weight used should help.  A seasoned exerciser should be able to appreciate this video, lots of reps with lighter weight will get the job done.

Clean entertainment, good ending... I was delighted to find a clean, light romance with a holiday theme.  The entire family could enjoy this movie without fear of inappropriate content.

Great way to see the different dance steps I enjoyed Jaya's dvd, the steps were very clear.  The only reason I didn't give her five stars is that, you could not practice each step for long, she sort of just move through each steps quickly. Overall this is a great dvd if you want to learn the steps, then practice on your own or create your own routine.

ignore certain bad review While this movie had a nice use of color and cinematography, I give it only 4 stars because it comes up alittle short. But as for the bad reviews for being anti-christian, ignore these. It does paint a bad picture of christianity, but only because it is showing the truth about the realities of many religions. Many older movies tried to glorify Jewish and Christian beliefs but that is hollywood. The more you read history books and not religious theologies, the more you see how religion was used to control and stifle people. It is a fact that if you went against the popular belief it led to death. People are just mad at this movie for showing the more realistic side to what it was like to live in those days. It was not soccer moms coming out of their minivans for an hour and jumping back in to go to the mall. Many reviewers feel Christians are portrayed in a bad light. Too bad. It is what it is. History paints more oppression and condemnation about Christians than a pastor painting some glorified picture to get his weekly donations. One big focus of this movie is on how Christians want to put this village to death for not being affected by the plague. Take religion out of the scenario and if this had happened in real life, it would not lead to death, but curiosity as to why these people had survived where others have died. Religion has been proven to slow progress and science in the name God. Nostradomus was threatened for  his views and had to conceal them or be ridiculed. And many times people that did survive an incident or do something unexplained or misunderstood were put to death or punished. Enjoy this movie for what it is. If you are a religious fanatic and get insulted by this type of view, than pass on this movie. People are so fast to throw religious views in other people faces, but as soon as someone takes an alternative point of view they get mad. Grow up. The bible is filled with sooo much violence and dark stories it is awful. Being raised Roman Catholic I found the Bible to be horrific. It is not a feel good book. The historical parts of the bible, not the inspirational parts, are dark and depressing. Just history in general is violent and scary. Back before the Egyptians and foward, every historical account shows war, conquering, death and destruction. It is not just religion. But do not paint religion out to be feel good stuff. Life before the 20th century was hard. We are so spoiled today with our houses and cars and computers. If you had to endure those days, you would have to have tread lightly. So lighten up and learn to look outside faith. It is a movie that portrayed a different, but not untrue point of view. I do not like people that bring religion into reviews. It just confirms how uptight their religion has made them. Comedians make fun of religion all the time to make people laugh. Relax!!!

Phantom of the Opera/ The Fear 2/ Within the Rock Triple Feature DVD Phantom of the Opera/ The Fear 2/ Within the Rock is a Triple Feature DVD that I bought strictly for Within the Rock. It's a good little movie about an Alien Creature that kills a mining team on an asteroid. In my opinion, the other 2 movies are barely watchable. (Although, I'm sure they have fans, as most z grade movies have fans somewhere.)

Look Depp into His Eyes... and Melt Back in 1994 no one called it guyliner, but Johnny Depp wears it well as a delusional seducer (one of his early soul-melting lothario roles) admitted to a Queens mental hospital. It's great fun to watch him play against the massive talent of Marlon Brando's psychiatrist. And then there's that Bryan Adams song...

charming! Beautiful for the really little ones. Catchy songs you will find yourself singing to your little ones. A little hokey, but definitely a keeper!

Three-year-old loves it My daughter loves this show. She's only three so I wasn't sure she would understand it (it's a more complex story than say Cinderella) but she asks to watch it over and over again. I love it for the most part, but Mandy Moore's voice is simply not my style and the songs get stuck in my head and I feel I'm going to catch musical diabetes from the syrupy tunes. I do like the songs not sung my Miss Moore and I don't mind her voice acting.  There are some scare moments in it, but I actually found this story helpful in bringing up the concept of kidnapping in a very gentle way with my daughter who tends to run away in stores and has never understood why I didn't want her too. When I explained that I didn't want her to get taken away from me like Rapunzel she seemed to get it without being too worried. Not exactly the most accurate way to describe stranger danger, I suppose, but for a three-year-old who I would rather not be afraid of the world, it seemed to work.

I may not be the first to review this . . . . . (LOL) "Reign of Fire" (PG-13 DVD), released 2002; runs 1 hr 42 mins; has English or French audio options; with Spanish as the only subtitle choice; English for closed caption (hearing impaired); widescreen; filmed in England and Ireland; shown in 16 other countries besides the USA (each time with that country's own specific film title); this film was made on an estimated 95 million dollar budget; and stars Christian Bale, Matthew McConaughey, Izabella Scorupco, Gerard Butler, Scott Moutter, David Kennedy, Alexander Siddig, Alice Krige, and others. This is basically a dragon slayer film with two strong leadership individuals governing their own camp, when those paths cross and in the ensuing saga, they discover they have to join forces.  Matthew McConaughey was a lot less effeminate in this film than he is in so many of the dopey romantic comedy chic flicks he typically syrups along in, and by contrast here in "Reign of Fire" actually (physically buffed up) he performs admirably as the military leader. Somebody said this movie reminded them of Roy Ward Baker's (1958 TV series) "Quartermass and the Pit," Larry Cohen's (1982 R-rated) "Q: The Winged Serpent," and Tobe Hooper's (1985 R-rated) "Lifeforce."  Of the three referred to In this list, the big name star-studded one about Quetzalcoatl (Aztec legendary beast) would be the one I'd watch first ("Q: The Winged Serpent").  If you're a strong zombies fan, then "Lifeforce" is your ticket to fun.  "Reign of Fire" is a large scale effort movie that originally was also made-for-TV like "Quartermass and the Pit."  A few reviewers say "Reign of Fire" is B-movie status.  I'm guessing they haven't seen many B-movies.  This DVD is far above that, although not necessarily in my top ten favorites.

Moving film showing the love of a father I wasn't sure what to think of this film initially. I'd never heard of it prior to seeing the title online, though I was drawn to the fact that Jet Li played the lead role. After reading the description, I decided to take a chance on a film that seemed very out of character for him, and I was glad I did.  For some, this movie might come off as slow and uneventful. But for those who have or know someone who has a special needs child, this movie touches on the most feared situation a parent can imagine: dying and leaving their child to grow up alone in a world that isn't theirs and doesn't understand them.  The movie is about a father (Jet Li), who is the sole caretaker of his autistic adult son. When he learns that he has a terminal illness and has only a short time to live. Horrified by the idea of leaving his son alone, he sets out to teach his son, who he had cared for and pampered his full twenty-one years, to care for himself and understand his surroundings.  Touching moments are strategically mixed in with those of mild humor, and I quickly fell in love with both main characters and the father's plight. As a friend of several families with special needs children, I understand how hard it is to make those around you understand what you as parent must deal with on a regular basis, and how your world is altered in order to give your child everything you feel they need--not only to survive--but to be happy.

Brilliant Non-Starter Lots of great Navy footage and a tantalizing "what if" scenario elevate what should by all rights be a non-movie....a story that wasn't going to happen because it self-evidently never did happen.  By all means, see the movie...you'll understand.  The nuclear aircraft carrier USS Nimitz goes through an impressively visual time wrap that sends it from 1988 to the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii the day before the Pearl Harbor attack by Japan.  Gene Roddenberry later proposed something similar for a Star Trek movie plot but was thankfully overruled...send the Enterprise back to save JFK from Oswald.  Except, again, it didn't happen or we wouldn't be here to observe it. The only way to work it is to pull a Tarentino and blatantly rewrite the historical record. Kirk Douglas is the captain, Martin Sheen a DoD civlian analyst, James Farentino and Ron O'Neal are the captain's chief officers, Katharine Ross and Charles Durning are rescued from a Zero attack, and a young Soon Teck Oh is a Japanese Zero pilot whose scout is shot down by jets in an awesome sequence with vintage Zeros apparently rented from the Commemorative Air Force.  Lots of fun.

Tin Cup I am a big Kevin Costner fan and this was a good story with humor and romance. Kevin filled the laid back character well.

Interesting I enjoyed this movie, it was done well for the time. Once watching, I got immersed into the story, and did some cursing at some of the people in it. It is based on a real happening and I was happy it stuck to the story. Tho I didn't like the ending, and could have strangled the one man who caused it, it did follow the real story. The countryside was awesome. maj

My Son is CRAZY About This Video! It must be the circus theme and songs, but  my 2 year old son is CRAZY about this video!  I, of course, could do without the Wiggles, but he sure enjoys it!  The music is fun, and there are some good points where the Wiggles talk to kids about making healthy food choices, etc.  He has watched other Wiggles videos before, but he kept wanting to watch this one again and again on the Kindle, so I finally bought it!  I'm sure your kids will love it, too!

Entertaining But A Bit Flawed I liked Prometheus, but I really enjoy sci-fi books and movies so I tend to have a good time even when the story or other elements are somewhat mediocre.  I have read some of the other reviews and there are many points I would agree with. In hindsight some of the decisions made by the characters in the movie really don't make much sense. A few of those decisions are extremely stupid. Yeah, petting the thing that looks like a pissed off snake is probably a bad idea. There are some pretty hilarious reviews out there pointing out all the dumb decisions that were made throughout the movie.  Where I disagree with some of the other reviews is regarding David and the crew. I saw David as a emotionless robot that was given a specific agenda by his "creator". Sometimes he seemed almost evil, but he was making decisions like a computer would and not based on actual emotional connections. As for the crew, the movie takes place more than 75 years in the future, but we are watching it and seeing it through the eyes of the world we live in today. The movie doesn't at all discuss the state of the planet, its technology, or space exploration, but quite a bit can be inferred from what we do see. Space travel is most likely very normal with jobs in space being common so who makes up the crew didn't really seem strange to me, especially considering it was a private company paying for the mission and not the government.  The cast did a good job, though I was disappointed to see Charlize Theron so under-utilized when she is capable of so much more. I enjoyed Noomi Rapace as the main character and Michael Fassbender did do a really good job playing a character that seemed both good and bad at different times which means he was a great robot for the movie.  As for the movies connection to the original Alien movies, Prometheus does do a good job of answering some things, but it also leaves you really scratching your head asking the question Why quite a few times. Why exactly were the aliens on that moon? Was it really just a place to create biological weapons? Why would the aliens create us and then want to destroy us? Why were they using the methods they did and not just super nukes or a disease that kills everyone? When the last living alien realized the crew was from Earth its reaction was to start killing everyone. Why? Are they just evil? Is there something about humanity that we don't know? I also want to know why that alien in the beginning of the movie killed himself and where the huge spaceship was going. The questions can go on and on, and it looks like a sequel is in the works that will officially bridge the gap between Prometheus and the original Alien movies. Its obvious that certain questions were answered, but there are a few big pieces of the puzzle still missing.

Slumdog I love this movie from the first time I saw it.  The look and sound of the disc are amazingly great on this Blu-Ray.

Welcome to Paradise Towers. We'll make you feel at home. The Doctor and Mel have traveled to Paradise Towers. Mel wants to use the pool on the top floor, while the Doctor wants to explore the building arcitechter.  When they land in the TARDIS they find that things are not what the brocuhe claimed it to be. Trash everywhere, rats running freely and graffiti on the walls. The Doctor and Mel haven't long before they are captured by the Red Kangs. A group of all female warriors who are at war with the rivals the Blue Kangs. They wonder who the Doctor and Mel are since they do not fit in with any of the others who live within Paradise Towers.   Before they can get any more questions out of them the care takers arrive on the scene to apprehend the Red Kangs and make them pay for thier "wall scrawling" as they put it. Mel is seprated from the Doctor and encounters one of the "Rezzies" old women who seem to like Mel a great deal and want her to stay for a cup of tea. MEanwhile the Doctor has been arrested by the care takers and taken before the chief care taker who mistakes The Doctor for The Great Architecht, the one responsable for the creation of Paradise Towers in the first place! The Chief care taker decides to put the Doctor to death while the Rezzies are preparing Mel for dinner. In comes Pex "Protector of Paradise Towers" and all around dim blub when it comes to what is going on.  All this and the fact that people Kangs, Rezzies and Care Takers go missing never to be seen again.   Can the Doctor save himself, Mel, The Kangs, Pex and everyone else from the hoorors of what is going on in the basement of Paradise Towers? Will he figure out what the Great Architecht has to do with all of this? Or will the Doctor become another vistor of Paradise Towers never to return?

Very cute story Once again I fish alot so any movie with a fish will catch my eye.  This was really a cute story.  Would recommend this for a light laugh movie.

Why I Ordered DVD's of old christmas movies I had to order "Christmas Without Santa Claus" and "Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas" from AMAZON to replace my old copies which were on VHS; while I can still view my old VHS movies on the new 48" flatscreen (I have my VCR connected thru my surround sound home theater.  The DVD versions are like watching movies for the first time.  Now I can donate my VHS ones to charity  8-)  -30-

Nice Double Feature This DVD Double Feature from Mill Creek includes the movies INDIAN SUMMER and HEARTBREAK HOTEL. INDIAN SUMMER is okay, but I really like HEARTBREAK HOTEL.  In the first movie, INDIAN SUMMER, a group of campers comes back to their beloved Camp Tamakwa for a summer reunion at the invitation of the owner, "Uncle" Lou Handler (Alan Arkin). Though many were invited, only eight show up: Jamie Ross (Matt Craven), Beth Warden (Diane Lane), Jack Belston (Bill Paxton), Jennifer Morton (Elizabeth Perkins), Brad Berman (Kevin Pollack), Matthew Berman (Vincent Spano), and Kelly Berman (Jennifer Warner) and Ross' young girlfriend Gwen Daugherty (Kimberly Williams). At dinner, Lou reveals to the group that he intends to sell the camp and retire. He's old and just can't relate to kids the way he used to. The former campers who come for the week all have problems of their own. Some of them are involved in relationships with each other while others wish they were involved in a relationship with each other. Yet, none of them can believe Camp Tamakwa will be no more. Lou runs the former campers through the daily camp rituals and the group begins to bond. For a few brief moments they feel like they are really kids again. They learn, as do so many who attend summer camp, that though summer camp might not be Heaven on Earth, it can give you taste of Heaven and you'll never be the same.  The acting in the movie is solid and though the script is lightly wrapped in sentimentality, it's well written. This is an ensemble picture and often what happens in an ensemble piece is that one or two performers stand out above the rest and one or two aren't as good as the rest. That's not the case in INDIAN SUMMER. The ensemble meshes well and everyone has their own little moments to shine. You really get the sense that these adults were once childhood friends at camp.  The movie also features Sam Raimi (director of the SPIDER-MAN movies) in a small role as Stick Coder, the camp's resident handyman. Raimi has had huge success as a director, but people often forget he's a great comedic character actor.  Personally, I have mixed feelings about INDIAN SUMMER. Watching the movie made me think back to my own experiences at summer camps both as a youth and as an adult working at camps. The movie is well developed and there are some really poignant moments. Yet, the movie is forgettable; I felt good while watching it, but once the movie stopped, that was it. The best films do things to us long after the final credits role, whether starting a discussion, causing one to reflect, provoke a person to take action, etc. To me INDIAN SUMMER was just a movie and nothing more. That's really a shame because it has so much going for it. Of course, that's also what makes it attractable to a larger audience.  Overall, INDIAN SUMMER is a well-executed movie with a talented ensemble cast that meshes extremely well together. However, beyond a few feelings of nostalgia, it didn't move me in any way. It's a movie that like Indian Summer itself, provides a few brief moments of warmth in early fall and then is gone.  The second movie on this DVD is HEARTBREAK HOTEL. Written and directed by Chris Columbus (writer of GREMLINS, director of the first two HOME ALONE movies & the first two HARRY POTTER movies), HEARTBREAK HOTEL is a comedy with a dash of romance. It's a fictional story that takes place in 1972. Johnny Wolfe (Charlie Schlatter) is a high school senior who lives with his younger sister and his mother in a small hotel called the Flaming Star in Taylor, Ohio. Johnny has his own band and they are pretty good and he just wants to play some rock and roll. However, The Wolfetones have never been able to play at the largest gig of the year in Taylor: the annual high school talent competition. Each year the judges come up with some lame excuse about why The Wolfetones (Johnny's band) can't play. Johnny's mother, Marie (Tuesday Weld) loves her kids and is doing her best to raise her kids and run the hotel, but she longs for some romance in her life. Instead, she ends up dating dead-beats. She's also crazy about Elvis. After Marie's latest boyfriend beats her and sends her to the hospital when they are in a car accident, Johnny decides he's going to do something really special for his mom. He's going to get Elvis to go on a date with his Mom. At first Johnny's friends think he's crazy, but soon they are caught up in his crazy idea, too. Elvis is coming to Cleveland and that's where they'll make their move.  The first extended scene with Elvis occurs after his arriving at his hotel in Cleveland. It is here that we see an Elvis that is struggling and on the brink; he's a man on the edge who longs for someone or something to reach out and bring him back inside. In many ways, HEARTBREAK HOTEL is a movie about what could have happened. It makes wonder if something like this had happened, would Elvis have ended up dying in a bathroom floor just five years later.  Like many of Chris Columbus' pictures, HEARTBREAK HOTEL is a little movie with a lot of heart. David Keith portrays Elvis and he does a spectacular job. Keith doesn't look exactly like Elvis, but he embodies the spirit of the man before he was completely corrupted by drugs and alcohol. The Elvis of HEARTBREAK HOTEL is one that loves cheeseburgers, who is used to getting his way, but still tries to appease his fans. At the same time, he's a lonely and broken man who feels he's forgotten and perhaps lost who he really is. This is an Elvis that still has hope.  That hope is given a chance to blossom when Elvis checks into HEARTBREAK HOTEL. It's a feel-good place of second chances that won't always let you feel lonesome tonight.  There are no extras on the DVD for either feature.

Looked and sound very good Picture and audio quality were fine on "The Time Traveller's Wife;" I have no complaints on that score.  As for the movie itself, it's good but not great(haven't read the book).  Eric Bana seemed a little flat as the Time Traveller.

Good flick Enjoyed the movie. Denzell is at his best. Ryan Reynolds is the up and comming actor to watch. The supporting cast was also good.

X-Men 2(2003) X-Men 2(2003, a.k.a. X2) picks up where the first film left off. Director Bryan Singer tries to emulate The Empire Strikes Back(1980) by turning X-Men 2 into a long chase scene. The government is going to extremes to put mutants into captivity! "Peaceful Mutants" and "Radical Mutants" must band together and stay one step ahead of government troops. Wolverine(Hugh Jackman) stumbles upon a laboratory where he was used in an experiment. John Ottman wrote the music score for X2. He flavors music cues with bits of classical music. This is the first X-Men film where we see Nightcrawler, a blue-skinned mutant with the power to teleport himself to other places. Singer throws in a couple references to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan(1982). X-Men 2 left a door open for a sequel: X-Men 3(2006).

Maths & mystery Plenty of maths in this film set in the city where persecuted genius Alan Turing lived, worked and died. The modern thriller elements are in black and white... the flashbacks to Alan Turing in the 1950s are in colour.

A nice movie, a good sequel I really enjoyed this movie. Although part of the plot may seem borrowed (Frank Capra, and many since), it's a theme so many of us would do well to explore--what our lives would be like if we made even small changes. I think it's unfair for movie-goers to have such increasingly higher expectations of modern films, so high that people offer less-positive reviews if the material isn't groundbreaking. It's as if we must be taken as far as one can possibly go or we are not satisfied. This movie exceeded my expectations (having seen Shrek movies before) and brought back some beloved characters with some funny new story lines.  This movie was wonderfully animated, had many good lines, and had a re-occuring welcomed time-tested Hollywood theme--good versus evil, the prince and princess will find each other in the end, and all will be well if we become self-aware. I like to see movies that consistently offer a good story, good acting, and hopeful messages. Thanks to Dreamworks, the actors, and the animators for providing another nice journey into this world. I am sorry that it is the last because journeying with these familiar characters has been quite enjoyable.

Didn't expect to like it You have women screaming for you every night; you make great money, and have the time of your life every night. But there is a clock on your career and it's running out. What do you do?    Mike Lane (played by Channing Tatum) is a part-time roof tiler, aspiring furniture designer, and auto customizer. While working a roofing job, he meets Adam (played by Alex Pettyfer). Adam lost a football scholarship after fighting with his coach and was forced to move in with his sister Brooke (played by Cody Horn). Then, at the end of his first day as a roofer, his boss fires him for taking too many sodas from the company cooler. On top of that, Adam (Pettyfer) can't get his car started and so Mike gives him a ride home. In return, Mike asks Adam for a favor and Adam learns how Mike spends his evenings. By day, he works construction and by night he is Magic Mike, a male exotic dancer at Xquisite. Other dancers at Xquisite include Ken (played by Matt Bomer), Tarzan (played by Kevin Nash), Tito (played by Adam Rodriguez), and Richie (played by Joe Manganiello). Shocked at first, Adam (Pettyfer) begins working at Xquisite after being hired by the manager Dallas (played by Matthew McConaughey). During this time, Mike applies for a loan to start his furniture business, is rejected, and maintains a friendship with benefits with a fellow dancer named Joanna (played by Olivia Munn). Meanwhile, Brooke (Horn) worries about her brother's descent into a life filled with drugs, booze, and one-night stands.    Now, as a man, it's clear I am not part of this film's target demographic. Also, Horn and Pettyfer are almost completely unknown to me. Horn appeared in one episode of the USA series White Collar which I know I've seen, because I've seen all of them, and Pettyfer was the lead actor in a terrible sci-fi movie titled I Am Number Four. Very entertaining film, as Soderbergh films typically are. The character of Mike is actually three-dimensional as are his friends and employers and his journey to "enlightenment" is well-illustrated. See it.

Christmas Time is here I bought this YEARS ago not from Amazon.  Being a big kid, lover of watching Christmas movies all year round and like most growing up with this classic since I was a small child plus having the Peanuts Movies on VHS we're trying to move them to DVD.  This is my favorite Peanuts Movie and One of my favorite Christmas specials. Even though it has been clean up (digitally mastered) it still keeps its classic charm, but I do agree with some of the reviews that the audio could have been better.  All around great buy!!

three times Great movie at a great price! I enjoyed all the actors. A young Alex Baldwin was fun and Keaton a riot. A must see for the family. Highly recommend.

Pretty good for what it is And what I mean by that title is that it is trying to be a variation on The Blair Witch Project.  That's fine, except that it is rather obvious.  Anyway....Ashley Bell does a fantastic job as Nell, the young girl who is possessed and whose father wants help for her.  This help, unfortunately, turns out to be a duplicitous preacher who makes the father think he is really getting rid of a demon when in reality he is merely using tricks.  However, there is a twist:  she IS possessed, and other people in town know it and are complicit in it.  I will not say anything more, but you should check it out if you like this sort of documentary-style creepiness.

Ego triumphs over genius ...I agree with all of the good comments... I am just so annoyed that a brilliant film was largely left on the editing room floor.  Odds are that wonderful footage was destroyed as a raging triumph of ego over genius.  ...Holes left in the plot that you can drive a Viking longboat through.  The evil son of the king... he gets put on notice... then vanishes... The romance will not and can not last... but instead just vanishes...  ...The leader of the warriors at first blush appears to be just another "Gnorts the barbarian" type... but we get a hint that he is far deeper when we discover that he is interested in literacy... but so much else on the cutting room floor... including the fact that his father was a carpenter.  ...A wonderful retelling of the Beowulf story... scarred seemingly forever by petty ego and jealousy...  like somebody tearing off a third of a major painting.  ...If (and I have little hope) the missing film exists, the studio can make major bread by releasing a director's cut.  It has not happened, and I fear that it never will.

lost 1.1 if u loved lost then this will bring back a lot of memories especially the soundtrack and the way the story unfolds. jj abrams does a fantastic job with the movie and charcters. i cant wait for his next release. definitely recommend this movie to all jj fans. You wont be disappointed. maybe someday he will make a movie for lost.

Lacks scares but brilliantly atmospheric! Having the honour of being presented by celebrated director, Guillermo Del Toro, Juan Antonio Bayona's horror film is another example of the atmosphere over blood and gore approach that I tend to prefer in this genre. Associations with Del Toro led to inevitable comparisons between this film and Pan's Labyrinth but I prefer to judge a film on its own merit so how did The Orphanage fare?  The film begins with images of an orphanage by the coast where one of the resident girls, Laura, has been approved for adoption. Years later, Laura (Belen Rueda) returns to live in the same orphanage with her husband, Carlos (Fernando Cayo), and their son, Simon (Roger Princep), where she intends to provide a home for handicapped children. The family haven't been there long when Simon, who already has a group of imaginary friends, suddenly makes a new one called Tomas (Oscar Casas). His parents dismiss this as a phase but when Simon reveals Tomas has told him he is adopted and that he is ill (he's HIV positive), Laura begins to suspect something sinister is going on in the orphanage. Her fears are realised when she encounters a child wearing a sack mask that locks her in the bathroom and when she emerges Simon has vanished!  The film traces the following months as Laura and Carlos try to deal with Simon's disappearance and, in desperation, turn to a medium to help unravel the mystery of what has happened to their son.  The first notable thing about The Orphanage is that it manages to convey a very tense atmosphere throughout. Familiar tricks of the trade such as inexplicably closing doors and footsteps at night do not seem old hat here but merely add to the overall tension. You always feel something bad is going to happen, you just can't figure out what. The scenic, but isolated, setting by the coast with a lighthouse in the distance creates further unease as does the cave by the beach where Simon first meets Tomas and leaves him a trail of shells to guide him to the orphanage. Laura later finds the shells stacked outside the orphanage!  Rueda brings a lot to the character of Laura who appears to be the only one that realises the orphanage houses some threat that she believes to be responsible for the disappearance of her son. Carlos is supportive of his wife but does not think her fears have any substance and that Simon has obviously been abducted, most likely by the social worker, Benigna, who Laura argues with at the start of the film and who is later found snooping around the garden shed outside, which adds to the intrigue of the plot. It's not obvious what has become of Simon or who Tomas really is until the latter stages of the film where a shocking twist is waiting.  Though atmospheric, The Orphanage is not particularly scary. The sight of the masked Tomas was one of the most sinister images but he is sadly underused in the film. First appearing at a children's party we next see him approaching Laura before trapping her fingers in the bathroom door when she tries to remove his mask! After this initial introduction his appearances are very limited as the environment of the orphanage takes over as the instigator of the uncomfortable tension in the air. The arrival of the medium to unlock the orphanage's secrets is one of the tensest moments as she is watched on several screens wandering the house alone while describing voices and witnessing the other unseen residents in the house!  The Orphanage is an effective horror film despite the lack of real scares. The tense atmosphere from start to finish keeps it together and the plot remains captivating and difficult to unravel, with a horrifying twist at the very end. Though not the best horror film to come from outside Hollywood I still believe America should look at this one and take some notes. The Orphanage has a lot to offer but a few genuine scares could have made it a classic.

Bourne ultimatum review I have enjoyed the Bourne Series both in book form and on film. I purchased the film because the new sequel "The Bourne Legacy" is coming out soon and I wanted to "refresh" my memory.

French movie The Witnesses... Wow, over all I think purchasing the film was well worth it. It had a lot of nice charms, variation as well as set design and scenario. Nothing was lacking here. The only things that cause me some displeasure with the film is its often unpleasant color output. In this sense I have to do some TV adjusting of tint, brightness and contrast especially for late night viewing. To watch the film over and over seems perfectly appropriate. In this sense the story fulfills, turns and changes with each detail something worth revisiting again. Home's and simple walks have classic arrangements that just aren't ever a bore.  The costar from northern Africa Sami Bouajila is powerful and precision like he seems almost like a science fiction robot with his serious mannish decisiveness. The problem with him is his character is to austere for domestic climates and even seem outdated. In this sense he seems out of sync with American male movie stars and their onstage or camera persona's. They seem more "laissez faire" where Bouajila pours on the intensity of a military official albeit with some subtlty. Still he is seriously unusual and sometimes unrealistic to contend with specifically in relation the star of the movie. The rest of the acting is relatively correct for the concept. Having the french dialect translated below almost always distracts from savoring the nice touches of the film. It is a constant effort to keep up with the story line and just relaxing and letting the story tell itself. I think they did the best they could with this translation problem though.  End

Judy Garland's Last MGM Film SUMMER STOCK is one of those films that is more famous for its backstory than for itself.  Judy Garland's private life was turbulent.  In the 1940s she began to abuse prescription medication.  Her first marriage to composer David Rose ended amidst rumors that she had become pregnant and the studio demanded she have an abortion in order to continue filming.  Her second marriage to director Vincent Minnelli was a successful artistic partnership but a personal disaster.  Although she rejoiced in the 1946 birth of daughter Liza, the pregnancy touched off a devastating bout of what we now call post-partum depression, and in 1947 Garland suffered a major breakdown, temporary institutionalization, and may have received shock treatment.  Garland had long resented her studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, but after her breakdown her attitude toward MGM seemed to undergo a negative shift of seismic proportions; even so, in the late 1940s Garland gave successful and popular performances in THE PIRATE, EASTER PARADE, WORDS AND MUSIC, and IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMER TIME.  She was then assigned to a truly spectacular role: the lead in a film adaptation of ANNIE GET YOUR GUN--but by this point Garland was using drugs on a massive scale, was unable to function on the set, and was fired from the movie and replaced by Betty Hutton, on loan from her home studio of Paramount.  Hutton would later comment that filming ANNIE GET YOUR GUN put an end to her desire to ever make another film: she found the working conditions at MGM every bit as brutal as Garland had.  After some recovery time, Garland went into the motion picture SUMMER STOCK.  It is a mixture of nostalgia and Americana, a throw-back to the "let's put on a show" movies Garland had done with Mickey Rooney in the 1930s.  The story concerned a female farmer named Jane (Garland) who is engaged to local boy Orville Wingait (Eddie Bracken.)  All seems well until Jane's stage-struck sister Abigail (Gloria DeHaven) turns the farm's barn over to a summer stock company lead by Joe Ross (Gene Kelly) and Herb Blake (Phil Silvers.)  Jane agrees to the arrangement in exchange for help with the farm chores--but of course complications soon abound and like it or not she soon finds herself in the show and in love with Joe.  Marjorie Main and Ray Collins lend memorable support, Kelly's choreography is a knock-out, Garland's vocals are knock-outs, and experienced director Chuck Walters keeps everything moving at a pleasant pace.  The film is most particularly remembered for three musical numbers: the song "Friendly Star" by Garland, the so-called "Newspaper Dance" by Kelly, and most particularly "Get Happy," which proved an iconic moment for Garland as she strode sharply in a tux and fedora through dark-clad chorus boys against and pink sunset sky.  But everyone involved found the process of making the film to be absolute hell, and the reason was the movie's leading lady: Judy Garland.  Garland's marriage to Minnelli was ending and she was again using drugs; she would show up late; she would not show up at all.  Filming was chaotic and the schedule dragged on and on so long that chorus boys and girls actually left to do other films and then returned again to work on SUMMER STOCK.  Any other star would have been fired, but by this point studio boss Louis B. Mayer had begun to grasp that he and the studio were to some extent responsible for Garland's meltdown, having overworked her for a decade; Gene Kelly felt he owed Garland, who had taken him as a co-star in FOR ME AND MY GAL when he was a virtual unknown; and so everyone lined up behind her to get the picture made.  And it was uphill all the way, with everyone concerned describing it as a truly hellish experience.  The film finished--and a month or two later the studio decided it needed another number for Garland.  At this point Garland was in better shape both physically and mentally, and she shot the complicated "Get Happy" number in a single day.  But it was the last time Garland and MGM would put up with each other.  Promised a long vacation, Garland was called back to the studio to go into ROYAL WEDDING when leading lady June Allyson discovered she was pregnant.  Garland balked, the pattern of passive-aggressive behavior began to reassert itself, the studio refused to endure another situation like SUMMER STOCK, and not only did MGM fire Garland from the film, it fired her from the studio as well.  There was a suicide attempt, not the first and not the last; there was a lot of bad publicity; and although SUMMER STOCK opened to good reviews and good business, Judy Garland's career as a major motion picture star was over.  She would go on to a memorable career as a concert artist, a television performer, and she would make several more films, including the legendary A STAR IS BORN.  Even so, Garland was never able to shake a simmering resentment toward the entertainment industry, which she felt had mistreated her financially, emotionally, and physically.  As time passed this attitude made her increasingly difficult to work with.  There were concert cancellations, a horrendous battle with CBS over her short-lived but critically lauded television series, and a handful of films--but during her last motion picture, I COULD GO ON SINGING, she was so difficult to work with that the cast and crew of that film referred to her as "It."  But...  The thing is, you'd never know any of this from watching her.  SUMMER STOCK is not a great film, but it is a fun film, an enjoyable film, and Garland is in fine voice--although, as many have noted, her weight fluctuates a great deal from scene to scene.  But it doesn't matter.  She's Judy Garland.  And that was always the point.  GFT, Amazon Reviewer For Art Steinaway, a Gentleman

Captures the essence and mood of Faulkner's story, great companion piece for study of story If you look at reviews from other sites online, you will see that there is a great disparity between loving and hating this short film based on one of Faulkner's most recognizable short stories. My thinking is that you're probably in a no-win situation if you try to adapt a Faulkner short story or novel to film. There are many subtleties and nuances that film cannot capture in Faulkner's setting, focus, or telling of stories. That being said, Lyndon Chubbock does a fairly good job illustrating the Gothic, unsettling, madness that this short story evokes, and the declination of aristocracy in one Southern family. One problem transferring "A Rose for Emily" to film is the accountability in time, and another is the accuracy of mood. When reading this story, we are hit with quite a punch in the gut at the resolution, and its impact really takes awhile to digest. This is hard to duplicate in film. In the film, there are indications of where the conclusion is headed (as Miss Emily's isolation and madness become apparent), and so, while it has some shock, it isn't nearly as powerful as the story.  Still, in the short time of the film (27 minutes), quite a bit is captured. Angelica Houston succeeds in capturing the essence of Miss Emily's deteriorating mental state and John Housemen does a solid job with the "voice over" narration of the story. There is a dark, dreary atmosphere in the film that parallels with the story.  Honestly, it is fantastic to see this short story brought to life, despite some of its minor flaws (a few discrepancies in the story). This film could be used as a great resource or companion piece for teachers who want to help students visualize "A Rose for Emily" and its complexities. Over all, this story captures the essential aspects and pieces of the story.  The quality of the film is also fairly good.  One of my biggest beefs is the price, which is a tad pricey for what you get. Hopefully this will be reduced.  Faulkner fans should definitely consider checking this one out.

True Relationships This movie explains relationships no matter what gender they are attracted to. Real GOod. Very funny. I have enjoyed it.

Sharon Leal killed it! Love this movie I LOVED this movie, saw it with my mom back in April. I can't wait to own the DVD. Sharon Leal does as excellent job, Blair Underwood does too of course but I especially loved her portrayal of a mom grieving for her child, and working through her past issues. You will watch this more than once. I know I will be. TD Jakes really has a good thing going. I hope to get to his conference in October!

Great bunch of movies for the price I've got a very eclectic taste, and buy quite a few multi-packs.  It's rare for a multipack to have four very good films, maybe not blockbuster status, but good. That's a fair description here.  If you like romance or romantic comedy there's not one of these that will dissappoint.  Without giving too much away I'd place them as follows:  Message in a bottle was the best of the bunch, a personal opinion only, as it involved both detective work and sailing, it rated as close to 5 stars as can be given. Costner's performance was the only bit that left just a fraction to be desired. It has a somewhat surreal subplot/message that nothing we ever do is gone for good, that life finds it's way to completing the circle.  Night's in Rodanthe and a Walk to Remember are both great for a rainy afternoon or stormy evening. Sofa, ice-cream, brownies and turn off the phone. 4 stars and 3 stars respectively, but only just 4 and should perhaps be more than 3.  The Notebook is possibly the least desired of the bunch personally, I'm not one who's so big on movies containing lots of flashbacks or based around them, but the acting, especially Garner's and storyline are still easily good enough to make it worth watching more than once. This was a case of where Costner lowered the overall quality of "Message" slightly, this one just wouldn't have worked without the ageing Garner.  It's a good set, in a nice box, delivered quickly and absolutely enjoyed. There were no issues with quality or getting them to play in either of our players.  More details would spoil the movies so if you like this genere, invest and watch. You'll possibly enjoy the investment as much as I did.

strange but good This movie is strange but good. I don't know how I miss it years ago when it came out. It is very much worth watching.

Fun Spectacle Director Roland Emmerich's supposed final disaster movie, 2012, follows the mythical belief that the Mayan's predicted that the world will end on December 21, 2012.  Before we get to the film, it should be noted that the Mayan's did not believe the end of the world would happen on this date at all. The fear/prediction came from freaked out Westerners.  2012 stars John Cusack as author Jackson Curtis (get this, he is named after 50 Cent whose real name is Curtis Jackson). Jackson and his wife, Kate (Amanda Peet) are divorced with two kids.  Jackson takes their kids on a camping trip to Yellowstone National Park.  Meanwhile, back in 2009, scientist Adrien Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor) informs the President (Danny Glover) of the impending doom. This gives the nations of the world 3 years to build ships to survive the coming end of the world.  Jackson and his family flee the destruction of California, and hitch a ride with a Russian billionaire and his sons.  Flash to scenes with the President and the destruction, flash to another story about two old men on a cruise ship, flash back to Jackson and his family.  This is Emmerich's way of giving us an intimate/emotional connection amongst the global end.  Jackson learns that the leaders of the countries have been building Arks in the mountains of China, so it's a race to the big boats before the big waves crash into them.  The moral of this movie is: if you want to survive the end of the world you need to have 1 Billion Euros or be closely attached to the leader of a country. Everyone else is doomed. So sorry. And it's not even the end of the world; the planet survives. I was hoping to see ultimate extinction ala Vulcan on the new Star Trek movie.  2012 is a heart-racing thriller. It's a fun, popcorn flick. Don't expect any Oscars though. While it's global destruction is on a new level, I found the special effects to be lacking. When an aircraft carrier tumbles into the White House, you can totally tell it's a miniature.

Kids Loved It It's  another Scooby movie.  However they must be doing something right, as my son has had 3 Scooby bday parties in a row.  He loves it.  I'm sure this movie will be worn out in no time.  My 2nd son is now enjoying the movies.

A solid 4****star movie The movie here you'll feel good about adding it to your collection... The three married co-workers have to decide whether they're happy with the circumstances or path their marriages have taken... The budget wasn't hollywood, No major stars but this Texas crew pulled it out with a product worth selling... Though you gotta feel sorry for a guy who shares a bed with his five kids and his wife(who's a cop)... Men in relationships before marriage ask themselves all the time "Do I want to subject myself to this or that person under those circumstances or issue".., Outside of their marriages these co-workers felt they had the same options...

Imaginative sequel You would think the final scene of the first Planet of the Ape's film would wrap things up. However, when Fox executives saw the success of the first film a second one was probably inevitable. The producers wanted Charlton Heston back, and Heston stated he would come back only if they assured him that this would be the last of the Planet of the Apes films. They agreed and Heston, as we know, blew the Earth up with the Doomsday bomb. However, even this bomb could not start the onslaught of ape movies that would come latter.  The premises of this film is that another astronaut and crew takeoff from Earth looking for Taylor's lost ship and just happen to go through the same time warp and find themselves on the very same planet. James Franciscus plays Brent the main character who finally finds Ape City and befriends Zira and Cornelius. Brent escapes the city and heads to the forbidden zone. A group of militant gorillas are also heading to the forbidden zone. The forbidden zone features an underground city, which was once New York. The excellent set design of a dilapidated New York is the best part of the film. We see familiar landmarks of the city reduced to ancient crumbling structures. Apparently, this set was originally used for the film Hello Dolly.  The ape's main nemeses here are telepathic humans that create illusions in the mind of their enemies. In a bit of post counterculture nihilism they worship a gleaming nuclear missile. Before they worship the bomb they remove their faces and reveal hideously scared faces.  In the final battle with the apes a gravely wounded Taylor detonates the bomb and the Earth is reduced to a barren lifeless planet.  This really should have ended the series.  The Ape's films that followed were getting increasingly mediocre. Even Beneath the Planet of the Apes displayed cost cutting in the flimsy makeup of some of the extras. The truth is Beneath the Planet of the Apes was the last big budget film of the series.

"Red Violin" DVD We thoroughly enjoyed the DVD, bought it because we had seen it a few years ago.  The plot is a bit disjointed and takes attention to proper;y follow.  The cinematography is great and the music is flat outstanding.  The conclusion is a bit hard to follow.  Still, we rated thsi four stars.  Our love of classical music and especially the violin probably highly influenced this review.

Simply beautiful. A beautifully shot hypnotic study of isolation and intimacy. Sofia Coppola exquisitely captures these aspects of the human condition both simply and powerfully. Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning are wonderful in their roles and give great performances.

THE CISCO KID DVD - Memory Time!! Great to be able to purchase this gem from yesteryear on DVD.  Memories of my youth when The Cisco Kid & his sidekick were regularly on TV.  Nice to have in my collection although, naturally, being rather dated and the storylines somewhat limited and predictable!

"...You're Better Than Me..." "Safe House" comes on like a souped-up "Bourne" directed by Tony Scott - all frantic pace, sinister synths and choppy-choppy editing. Sure this has been done before - but what's makes this espionage movie so different is the sheer effort the cast, crew and writers put into depicting the 'thrill' in 'thriller'. You can literally feel them working their well-paid butts off to please you in every possible way. Add to this formidable stew of film-making excellence - a cleverly chosen cast of top class actors like Denzel Washington, Sam Sheppard, Robert Patrick, Vera Farmiga, Fares Fares, Ruben Blades and the superb Irish duo of Brendan Gleeson and Liam Cunningham - and you can almost forgive Ryan Reynolds trying to break free from rom-coms and getting all John McClane sweaty teeshirt on us...  As you can imagine the action comes at you fast and furious. The fight sequences were choreographed for months in advance (using the actors themselves) and escalate in their ingenuity and hands-on nature - while the car chases are pulse-pounding too. But its the great cast who give it a beating heart. With the exception of say Liam Neeson or Tommy Lee Jones - I couldn't see any other leading man bring so much to a cop/agent as Denzel Washington does. He is typically brilliant here. He plays Tobin Frost - the CIA's more-wanted whistleblower (off the grid for a decade) who suddenly waltzes into the American Embassy in South Africa's capital city of Cape Town. Years of interrogation techniques under his belt and a file in his leg that will fry many dodgy types on different continents - Tobin smiles, grimaces and generally messes with everyone's head. Digging in to find more nuances - Denzel is magnificent at this - and it goes a long way to keeping you watching as the begrudging relationship develops between his character (the old timer on the run) and Reynolds character Matt Weston (the rookie forcing into protecting him from all comers). And on it goes to a final show-and-tell gun battle in another compromised 'safe house' where the young buck Matt has been seriously underestimated by everyone - including the good guy/bad guy Tobin Frost (dialogue above)...  The BLU RAY picture isn't great it has to be said because Director Daniel Espinosa is going for gritty realism and not clean cut - but it does show off the superb and extensive use of Cape Town as a city and the South African countryside that surrounds it which has a certain beautiful light - and look. Placing it in this unusual location gives the street action (and shanty town sequences) a fresh feel too. And don't watch the extras 'before' the movie - they give away far too much plot.  A bit of a cracker frankly...  PS: Look out too for the unpronounceable NORA ARNEZEDER who plays the 23-year old French girlfriend Ana - I'm certain she's been genetically engineered by the CIA to be one of the most gorgeous women on Earth - and will therefore turn out to be the 'sleeper agent' in "Safe House 2 - The Sequel - Even Safer Than The Last House".  You heard it here first folks...

Starts off slow and cheesy you have to wait bout 10 minutes in before the movie gets good, it gets good and I love the ending.

accurate to  history Accurate to history. Great depiction. Although did not detail the 95 theses and why he took out 7 books from old testament that does not support his doctrine. Books that exist and Christ refers to during his days. This purchase was actually my third one as one was a gift to a friend and the first my brother wished he had one...

Dirty Dancing I am a fan of movies, all kinds and all eras.  Dirty Dancing is a movie I saw on television so often that it almost seem to disappear while you were looking at it.  I'd never seen it in the movie theater and I don't know that it mattered to me before I bought this DVD.  However, I have a nice, large flat screen TV (like most of the USA) and when I played this DVD I was surprised and delighted.  It was enchanting.  The nostalgia was like visiting your past without the angst and acne.  It felt good.  I like a movie that makes me feel good.  This is one of those films.  Jennifer Gray is sweet and believable and Patrick Swayze is amazing to watch.  Except for some of the obvious dialog and a naive plot line I loved it.  Don't knock a naive plot line - it's sweet if it's in this movie.

True Blood Season 3 (some spoilers, not much) The lack of spicy romance is a turn off for this season. There seems to be too much action to keep up with at times. This season lacks what the other seasons created - deep relationships and sensuality. This season brings fairies, werewolves and supposedly panthers into the mix. I did not see any actual panthers, but the hot spot seemed to have a whole family of them (they never turned into one). The main reason I wanted to see this season is for Bill and Sookie's relationship and to know if she would marry him. There just seems to be too much supernatural stuff going on in this season. There is not much character and relationship development in this season. It seems as though the writers of the show only skimmed the surface of what could have been a great season. The use of the F-bomb really went overboard this season. This has always been a turn off for me in all three seasons. There is no reason why the F-bomb has to be used so much. I do not mind a handful of it when prompted, but it is almost out of hand. I really would like to see a bit more below the waist in good terms, of course.

Amazing, but... UPDATE!!!  Folks don't waste your money on the used DVDs and these outrageous prices, because it was announced yesterday that SHOUT! Factory is going to release the entire Jem series on DVD later this year!  This has been in the works for two years with Hasbro, and series creator Christy Marx broke the news to the Jem community.  You can search SHOUT! Factory's website for confirmation!

Some of you people scare me... To all you slamming this film let be known that wherever Ron Howard goes firefighters walk up to him and thank him for making such a realistic film. Get a clue. I'll listen to real firefighters before I listen to any of you jokers. The remastering job on this film is excellent. Not as good as say an Avatar type movie as pertains to picture quality but it's still a great improvement over the original. It's good to see them bringing these classic movies up the hi-def standards.

Great visuals, sound lacking, but still classic I really liked this Blu Ray disc overall.  I was just disappointed in the audio track in the final scenes.  The visuals were great and very crisp, just what you expect from Blu ray, especially the end scenes with the UFOs.  I was really disappointed in the sound in the final scenes.  I have a dolby 5.1 channel surround sound in my living room.  I was expecting the sound to be off the charts for those 5 famous notes, it wasn't.  My expectation was that when the "mothership" plays those sounds you not only heard them but felt them.  I found the sound to be muted, it was disappointing.  But maybe this is the vision that Spielberg had for the film.  Still a great film just disappointed in the sound quality.

One Man's Way - The Story of Norman Vincent Peale I can remember seeing the second half of this film on TV many years ago, and it's been on my short list ever since,in the hope that I could - one day - get a copy on DVD. This is a Limited Edition Collection from MGM so I presume it will be hard to get in years to come. MGM certainly didn't assist themselves in the sales pitch of One Man's Way when they printed the following as being the story line on the DVD's back cover. "The deserted son of an outlaw gets on the town's bad side after killing a local banker, and years later tries to fit into society by becoming a deputy marshal." How accurate is this synopsis ? Is it even close to the storyline of One Man's Way ? No siree !!! The Rev Norman Vincent Peale was a Baptist Minister and son of a Preacher Man as well.Growing up,he didn't want any part of being a minister and instead became a journalist as he loved to write. One day there was an explosion in a nearby building and he rushed to see what had happened. The building had disintegrated, and a little girl was hanging precariously,too frightened to crawl to safety across a plank that had been placed for her benefit from an adjoining building. Peale went to her aid, and talked her across the plank to safety,by using God as a reminder to her that she was not alone,nor abandoned, and to trust in Him and His Infinite Goodness. Don Murray had the lead role and he was in nearly every scene with many sermons delivered with a fire and a passion that enthralled his congregations as he built up his churches membership at each parish he was sent to. His wife was played by Diana Hyland (1936 - 1977) who was unforgettable in the movie. What a tragedy she died so young, she had all the hallmarks of a fine actress. The real Rev Peale was apparently quite a controversial character who upset many conservative Christians with his book "The Power Of Positive Thinking." This book espouses the belief that our faith and trust in God is a positive belief which can be used in our every day life to assist us in times of self doubt,anxiety,fear of failing etc. This is covered at length in One Man's Way - although I couldn't understand why so many objected. Peale's objection to JFK being a Presidential candidate on the grounds of his Catholicism, was not covered in the movie.  There will be comparisons made between One Man's Way and A Man called Peter - also a biography of the life of a gifted Minister,the Scottish born Peter Marshall,and both films serve the Christian faith well. I'm pleased to see One Man's Way on DVD - as I cross it off my list headed Good Films NOT on DVD - or, Why Are We Waiting ? Enjoy.

"A Fairy Tale" Set in the heady days of the eighties, before the onset of AIDS, this is a tale about Frank (Layke Anderson) who runs away from home with two of his friends; they head off to Amsterdam where he is abandoned by them. He then stumbles on `The House of Boys', who are looking for dancers, so he applies. Madame gives him a job behind the bar instead as he has to work his way up and tells him he can room with top dancer Jake (Benn Northover). Benn has a girlfriend and is allegedly straight, but this does not  stop young Frank from falling for him.  Jake also has a troubled past and we are allowed glimpses of that in flashback; he also does `private' work for his clients at the club. During one such session Jake collapses and has to be taken to hospital where it is discovered that he has a problem with his blood.  This is a film about love; it uses the setting of this cabaret, backroom club as the vehicle. It also tries to chart the screaming lack of concern and research that happened in the early days of the AIDS virus. It is even referred to as `the gay cancer' by one doctor. Stephen Fry puts in an appearance as the caring doc too.  This is not a sex fest although there is a smattering of bedroom and risqu&eacute; dance routines, but for any seasoned clubber there is nothing here to make you spill your cocktail. It is also nice to see that groin grabbing whilst dancing was not invented by the hippity hoppity brigade as there is plenty of that going on here. The music is quite authentic, with Soft Cell, Spandau Ballet and a few other tunes from the era.  Most of the acting is creditable but some bit players that are more drama queen than award nomination material, which can be awkward at times. The lads are mostly sexy enough but some of the cabaret `turns' would not last 2 minutes in a modern club, you need more than make up to put on a good show dears, is all I am going to say.  Still this tells of an important time in gay and world history through the microcosm of a few peoples experience with the disease and there are both good and bad times along the way. This is a two hour film and it kept me gripped throughout. Jean Claude Schlimm (`Shadow of The Vampire') has given us a touching, well made and very relevant story that should make you think and only the hardest heart would not be moved by this great piece of cinema.

comment on Jaws THIS IS A WELL KNOWN, GOOD BUT DISTURBING MOVIE ABOUT A GREAT WHITE SHARK. i know someone who will not swim in the ocean after seeing it.

Pleasantly surprised... Surprised.  Not by Shepard, who I've long thought is one of our great under-appreciated leading men, but by the story, the style and feel of the movie.  I think I loved it.  I've read some critics have called it "slow".....absolutely, its what I call a "slow burner."  Not every story needs to move like a freight train.  There are a lot of ways the writer and director could have screwed this up, in just my opinion they dodged all the bullets.  Like so many people I have a long term love affair with "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," so any movie taking a stab at sequel-ing that is running on dangerous ground.  But they pulled it off.  If you like sweeping scenery, genuine-feeling westerns, GREAT acting (Shepard is beyond perfect all the way to amazing) those are all reasons enough to watch Blackthorn.  I paid $9.99 to watch "before its in the theaters," and it was definitely worth it for me.

That Darn Cat(1965) That Darn Cat(1965) is one of the most enjoyable movies produced by Walt Disney Pictures. FBI agent Zeke Kelso(Dean Jones), teenager Patti Randall(Hayley Mills), and a Siamese cat search for a bank clerk being held hostage by two bank robbers(played by Neville Brand and Batman's Frank Gorshin). Doug E. Doug and Christina Ricci were in the unsuccessful 1997 remake of That Darn Cat. Every scene is fun except for the scenes where the bank robbers threaten their hostage. The late Dorothy Provine and Roddy McDowall are delightful in supporting roles. Keep in mind that That Darn Cat is not as fast paced as today's movies. This film does a good job poking fun of the countless Beach Party and Surfing movies playing at drive-ins and movie theaters in 1965. Tom Lowell is quite good as Patti's surfer boyfriend Canoe. The cats, dogs, and birds in That Darn Cat act like animals. Some Disney movies are packed with anthropomorphic animals that behave like humans. It's fun watching D.C. steal a duck from Gregory Benson's house. Hayley Mills was 19 years old in 1965 and she must've gotten tired of playing wholesome teenage girls at the time. There's a side-splitting gag where the Siamese cat and a movie theater employee run past a film projector and their silhouettes appear over a movie! Director Robert Stevenson does a good job creating cartoonish gags in a live action film. This DVD was affordable, but it's only presented in pan-and-scan with no extras. Bobby Darin sang the film's theme song. That Darn Cat(1965) is good, clean fun and it deserves to be watched in the future.

This Strawberry provides "social" antioxidants! Hahaha...ahem...yes, sorry, I just couldn't resist.    Anyway this is a nice little DVD for the kids or for anyone who grew up with Strawberry Shortcake and is in a nostalgic mood. First and foremost the stories are fun, featuring the girls goofing around, working, having fun with fashions and manicures and just enjoying each other's company. As a bonus you get a few "lessons" which reinforce good social behavior, honesty and even the benefits of honest work. I was especially impressed with the story about the girl who had a machine that would do all her manicure work for her, leaving her more time to laze around. In the end she learned that having a meaningful job is more fulfilling than having a lot of empty leisure time. Work (i.e. your chores) doesn't have to be a bad thing especially if you have a good attitude and look for the fun in what you're doing. It really emphasizes the importance of friendship and how friends can resolve issues and still be friends.    Some shows for kids are fun and some try to send a message but are unfortunately deadly dull. This Strawberry Shortcake DVD combines fun with a decent little message or two. I love it for kids and while I think that little girls will enjoy it the most there is no reason why little boys can't watch it either. (Although they'd probably rather watch Transformers)

Good movie There was a special edition VHS that had a "making of" monus material that this dvd did not have so I was a little disappointed in that respect. Otherwise a good investment. The product arrived on time and in good condition.

Aussie Tunnelers Come Through Beneath Hill 60 is a fine story with good character development of a little-known aspect of WWI.  Austrialian miners were used as expert sappers to tunnel under German defenses in efforts to open up the stagnant fronts dominated by machine guns, artillery, trenches and barbed wire.  The actors are excellent for this portrayal of real events.  The all-region format of this DVD allowed me to play it on my laptop computer. If you enjoy military history, you will appreciate this well-told story of bravery below the battlefield.  Regards,  Historyman

A Gasoline-Drenched, Chain-Smoking Semi-Spiritual Successor Suspenseful and terrifying like the original, but in completely different ways. Where Ridley Scott's first film was loaded up with atmosphere, exploration and an overwhelming sense of terrified wonder at the habits of an unfamiliar life form, James Cameron's sequel is faced with the task of expanding upon a theme that's already been fairly thoroughly prodded. Dropping the intellectual angles and dramatic pauses in favor of unbridled, run-and-gun chaos, it still manages to feel akin to its predecessor via more than a monster suit and lead actress. While Aliens doesn't take as much time to appreciate the sights, they're still around, and they remain excellent examples of on-screen world building. The power of the aliens themselves seems very diminished - they're little more than waves of cannon fodder by the second act - but Cameron compensates with a bold determination to examine them as a versatile breed of fauna. Although its dalliances into action tripes can be distracting, and a few lines of dialog are eyeball-spinningly cheeseball, the film is still a success. How much of that is due to its young director's touch, rather than the power of the galaxy that had been established in the original, is open for debate.

Pretty Good for a Sequel Positives: (1.) Notable for the accurate historical Chinese culture inclusion into the milieu of the movie. (2.) The CGI attention to detail and historical accuracy for the intermediate scenes such as the structures, buildings, everyday living accoutrements e.g. the limestone cliffs of the, presumably, Yangtze River and the breaking of clay roof tiles when Po lands on them. (3.) The movement, Kung Fu and other action scenes were novel and fresh and entertaining in this movie's interpretation e.g. the Pac-Man dragon in the streets maze. (4.) Most of the voicing was appropriate but there were times, especially in the beginning, that I thought a couple of professional voicing actors might have been more interesting if not more dramatic. (5.) Humor, parodies and sarcasms were performed with the right degree of subtlety to entice an older discerning audience e.g. parodies of "Star Wars" Yoda; "Karate Kid" 1's, "wax on wax off" and "Red Cliffs".  Negatives: (1.) Background CGI such as clouds, mountains were typical anim&eacute; non-moving, flat 2-D in detail. The characters even with somewhat good facial and body movement lacked the individual details that would make them seem real enough to hold on to. Especially emotional attachment. Not up to "Rango" level, but no one else has been there either. (2.) Storyline was a bit timeworn and seemed borrowed from the plots of many other movies.  The abandoned then adopted youngster who is destined to grow up to seek a true identity and perhaps correct some wrongs upon the evil perpetuator.

I'm A Guy...And I Loved This Movie Finally, I've seen something that stars Kristen Wiig and wasn't a complete disappointment.  I loved her on "Saturday Night Live" and I'm always amazed at how talented she is.  In BRIDESMAIDS, she not only stars but also shares writing credit...which is another reason I enjoyed this movie so much:  Only a woman would have written this.  As crude as BRIDESMAIDS sometimes is, rivaling male-oriented gross-out comedies like THE HANGOVER and such, this is still a story that only a woman would write.  My case in point: the scene where Kristen feels the need to keep snatching the microphone from best friend Maya Rudolph's rich soon-to-be sister-in-law.  The need to assert just how much these girls love and respect and care about Maya...only a woman would have written that.  Guys wouldn't understand how much that means to a woman.  Male writers would've just come up with schtick to embarass the girls.  So BRIDESMAIDS ends up being a fairly interesting insight into women and how they think.  It's also really funny!

refreshing! This was different and refreshing!  I didn't know what to expect when I decided to watch this movie and I'm glad I didn't read the reviews... I really enjoyed it!  I think it showed a great deal of artistic creativity and talent to have this movie keep the viewer entertained for its full length especially considering the plethora of special effects that are commonplace in full length films today.  Well done!

I like it Funny, weird, awkward... I loved it.  This movie was somewhat predictable, but at the same time there is things that you do not expect to happen that do happen. I laugh out loud with this movie and will definitely recommend it as a comedy (will you call it a romantic comedy?)

My Purchase I bought this item from Amazon and i recieved it in great condition and it arrived weeks before scheduled. I am very happy with my purchase and will continue to buy from this site.

The story of a man who finally begins to recognize the choices he should have made Sometimes out of fear we make poor choices. Sometimes those choices work out pretty well for a while. Sometimes the consequences of those choices catch up to us. This is the story of a man who finally begins to recognize the choices he should have made. Perhaps too late, perhaps not. Some fine, often understated, performances.

Dexter 1-5 Great series!  There were a few gliches with the DVD's...pausing in a couple spots.  I had to skip ahead more than once, but overall the quality was good.

Toney 1950s melodrama The settings, characters, and dialogue give a very 1950s feel, everyone calling each other 'darling.' As good as the movie is in conveying a small town Connecticut upper middle class feel, what surprised me most was the treatment of the two different situations. Yes, it was horrible for Julianne's husband to be a homosexual who was battling his own demons, but OMG what is wrong with her that she has an affair with a colored man? Even from Dennis Quaid's character the reaction is horrified and disgusted.  Here are two situations where society is far from okay about and the tone, the looks, the feel of the situations is right on the money. The acting is excellent in a soft spoken, everybody just be civil way and conveys it all with glances and soft words and barely concealed emotions.  Far From Heaven is well done and true to the genre and the time period -- at a certain level of society. Love that whitewash.

A slow burn. Eyes Wide Shut is a long and somewhat sluggish film in parts but overall, this erotic drama is definitely worth a viewing or two. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman are electric as a married couple with some "relationship problems". First off, this film has a lot of sex and nudity but what saves this film is the amazing musical score during that infamous "you know what" scene. This was Stanley Kubrick's last film before he died, there are some beautiful and breathtaking moments like the flashing Christmas lights on the streets of New York City. Sydney Pollack's performance was very aggravating, it takes him like 15 minutes to complete a full sentence! I enjoyed this slow burn of a film, I definitely had my eyes wide open than closed for sure!

A Great Homage You're gonna have a tough time finding a bigger blaxploitation fan than me, so it was just inevitable that I'd watch this one.  I'll admit I was a bit leery because most of the films I've seen that are a spoof of a genre I love ended up being big disappointments(Isle Of The Damned-spoof of Italian cannibal films, Lost Skeleton of Cadavra-spoof of 50s sci-fi to name a few).  My fears were laid to rest, however, because I really enjoyed this movie.  Clearly all those involved are really into the genre and went to great lengths to make it as authentic as possible.  The music is fantastic, the fashions are right on, as are the vehicles and much of the filming style.  I initially thought the humor was going to be in the outrageous style of The Naked Gun/Scary Movie/Airplane, etc.  While it certainly has moments of that(especially in the second half), the humor comes from exaggerating the elements that made the original 70s films unintentionally funny at times. And of course special mention must be made of Michael Jai White.  He does a very impressive job of channelling the spirits of Richard Roundtree, Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly and Jim Brown.  His performance is dead on. That's about all there is to say really.  You don't need to be familiar with the source material to find it entertaining, but if you're like me and have a love for those old films, this movie is truly a treat.

good movie this movie came a little bit slower than i thought it would, but it was good quality and a good movie. it's kind of cheesy--but i like it.

Not for everyone I watched as much as I could of this flim, and while I agree facism is evil. The flim would have been somewhat of enjoyable if it didn't tout Pasolini's proto Marxist views. I could also do without the sh*t eating scenes and close ups of unshaved gentials. The torture scenes look close to being real, and the flim I find to be bueatifully well done, and actors I thought where surperb. I'll take The Gospel Of Saint Matthew over this.

The best Phantom on the market The Phantom of the Opera - The Ultimate Edition (1925 Original Version and 1929 Restored Version) by Milestone and sold by Amazon is the best restoration of the movie on the market, even superior to the faulted Blu -Ray. The 1929 Restored version features the Carl Davis orchestral score (prepared for British television), which is not to be missed. Unfortunately there is some "ghosting" on the print but the color (yes it's tinted) and sound is excellent, and looks great on a big screen Hi-Def tv. Hoping someone will issue a Blu-Ray with the Carl Davis score. I wonder why Universal has not issued a version? I took one star off the rating for the "ghosting" problem, but silents don't get much better than this!

Must see film for young voters When released, this was the only film ever made about a Convention Delegate. Groundbreaking, it was shot in MTV style before MTV. Its the story of a young 21yr old girl  DELEGATE to the 1972 Republican Convention in Miami. It covers the process from San Francisco, Sacramento to Miami Beach. Many famous people are in  the exclusive footage in this film including Ronald  Reagen, Pat Nixon and Lenore Romney.The film received excellent reviews. 27 minutes of unforgetable footage.  "Exceptionally good piece of work" Encyclopedia Bririanna "Most Competent Work" NBC News  John Robert, producer/director

Eight Men Out: A drama baseball film Eight Men Out is a perspective of the 1919 Black Sox scandal, with Buck Weaver as the main protagonist.  The Black Sox scandal remains one of the most controversial events in sporting history, and this film does offer considerable insight, which covers several different sides of the story.  It is almost instinctive to want to support the players, yet there are numerous factors presented that make this a difficult choice.  The film acknowledges that whilst Weaver had knowledge of "the fix" he didn't profit or participate beyond knowing, which became the basis for his persecution.  Injustice towards him, as a far less guilty man, to this day remains a point of debate. The film is to an extent a public pardoning of Buck Weaver.  Nicholas R.W. Henning - Australian Baseball Author

A Fine, Underrated Film Like other skeptics of this film, when I first picked it off the shelf, I was extremely skeptical of the film.  The cover looked pretty uninteresting, giving off the vibe of Coming Home or some other cheesy feel good hippy film with a hearty dose of sixties-seventies optimism.  It was directed by Oliver Stone, a man who is certainly not known for even handed portrayals of political subjects. And Tom Cruise, the pretty boy from the kitschy and lame beyond lame Top Gun, playing the lead?  How can this be any good of a film?  Well, I'm entirely certain that I was completely wrong, very wrong.  This is a great movie, and the somewhat cheesy cover art and packaging of the film misleads you into what could be one of the most painful war movies that deal with the aftereffects of war, easily on the same line as the Deer Hunter.  No, it's not as scary as being confined to replaying Russian Roulette over and over again, but it's most certainly an emotionally distressing, and Tom Cruise does a fantastic job getting all of the suffering and misery across.  I've always thought Tom Cruise is a better actor than people give him credit for, and despite how annoying he can off camera (not to mention his spotty filmography) he still can certainly put a good performance if he chooses the right ones.  With all of this in line, this is one war film that deserves more praise than it gets, especially among audiences and film enthusiasts.  Now, the film is not perfect (most films aren't, but that's another kettle of fish), and I know, like many Oliver Stone films, it's slanted towards the left; Vietnam the way Oliver Stone and Ron Kovic saw it (both very anti-war).  However, I feel that there certainly are many valid and interesting viewpoints made during the film, Also, Stone's genuine passion for the subject through experience makes it more worthwhile.  Most importantly though, it easily transcends these flaws with great acting, superb directing, great editing, a direct and raw approach to many of the displays of war (instead of extremely diminishing it with some stupid metaphor or symbol) and a spare-no-punches, gut instinct, intensity almost through the whole movie.  Best of all however, is it never loses touch with being a human.  For all the political points of view, Born on the Fourth of July, at heart, is still a humanistic study of one man's internal and external struggle with war, and it never loses it's characterization or real human struggles through any of it's views.  Anyway, this is a great film, near the same level as Oliver Stone's Platoon (still haven't seen Heaven and Earth).  While some of the content in this film is definitely fiction, it shouldn't stop you from seeing this great film.  Tom Cruise has never been better, and Oliver Stone spares no punches and goes right for the gut (and very much succeeds).  It all adds up for a very exhausting, but ultimately uplifting and rewarding film.  Very highly recommended.

When you look into the abyss, the abyss looks into you A secret agent (Lee Byung-hoon) uses surveillance technology to track and torment the serial killer (Choi Min-sik) who murdered his wife (Oh San-ha).  This intense, graphic film is not for the faint of heart.  Director Ji Woon-Kim's South Korea seems to be liberally sprinkled with psychopaths, which leads to some of the best set pieces in the film and some moments of very dark comedy.  The overall tone of the film, however, is very sad and makes the point that revenge is ultimately unsatisfying, dehumanizing to the perpetrator, and can lead down some unexpected paths.  I shave a star from this excellent thriller because I felt it was a bit too long.  More importantly, I felt it held many of the murder and torture scenes just a beat too long, crossing the line from depicting horrendous acts to vicariously participating in them.  Of course, that line is very subjective and many viewers will not agree at all or may feel that the line was crossed long before I did.  Perhaps it was even Ji Woon-Kim's intention to implicate the viewer in the violence as some sort of meta-cognitive point about the voyeurism of film.  For my taste, this fine movie would have been improved by trimming some of those scenes a bit.  I understand that the South Korean film board required about ninety seconds to be cut before it could be released there.  I can imagine just where those cuts may have been.

Great Movie! Loving the Death Race series, starting with Death Race 2000, I was skeptical about a sequel as most movies fail to match or beat the predecessors. After watching this movie I came away very happy.  For those who don't know, this is a prequel of the series. In this movie they clue you in on how it all started and how Frankenstein came to be.  I bought this elsewhere and paid more to do so... would definitely recommend you buy it from here.

Fun Sequel My children recently watched Home Alone for the first time and loved it.  Knowing that I would be going into surgery and needed to keep them occupied during my recovery, I ordered this movie for them.  They love it and think it's very funny.  I think the first Home Alone was better, but this is still a fun, if predictable, movie.

Bucket List on Blu Ray Well, it is easy to see that some love this film while others dismiss it as an overly sentimental mishmash so I won't bother to go into the story lines and plot development.  Personally, I like this movie, a lot.  Aside from some typical over the top acting from our boy Jack and Morgan Freeman's typical wise old guy persona, the movie works for me, and as others have stated, delivered a new phrase in our lexicon.  However, if you are expecting a greatly increased quality from the blu ray version...don't.  The audio is strictly a 5.1 lossy offering and not DTSHD.  For a dialogue driven film like this, it really doesn't make much of a difference.  There is very little use of the surrounds for your home theater system to make use of.  The video quality is good, nothing outstanding but good.  There are a number of extras but no deleted scenes or alternates.  The interview between Rob Reiner, the director and Morgan Freeman was done over a television hookup so that when the camera focuses on Morgan, the interlacing is very, very apparent and I found it distracting.  The whole interview, while some interesting things were mentioned seemed as if the two of them were doing nothing but saying how wonderful they both were.  It got boring.  For me, the movie is a 5 star treat, nothing heavy but the end does make me well up.  I do wish the audio were mixed better which is why I gave it 4 stars instead of 5. Hopefully, this review has been of help and, if so, please check the 'Helpful' button so I know I am on the correct path with my reviews for you. Thanks.

Marley A very in depth documentary about the life of Bob Marley. I found out some things i did not know. Was shown some rare footage

Kubrick's masterwork Lolita finally on BR The first lines of the film:  Humbert: Quilty! Quilty? Quilty: Ah, wha? Who's there? Humbert: Are you Quilty. Quilty: No, I'm... Spartacus. You come to free the slaves or sumpn? Humbert: Are you Quilty? Quilty: Yeah, yeah, I'm Quilty, yeah, sure.  We all know Stanley Kubrick's Lolita. Many of us have been waiting for years for this cinema classic to be released in HD.  This review will concentrate on the BR playback experience and not the narrative.  I initially feared that both Lolita and Barry Lyndon were part of a hurried transfer to facilitate the recently released "Kubrick Limited Edition Collection" on BR.  Basically a quick cash-grab package from Warner Brothers.  I was expecting a rushed transfer with a PQ that left much to be desired.  During playback, I was pleasantly awarded with a PQ that was consistently satisfying. The b&w images displayed clean edge detail, luminous whites, believable mid-tones and levels of gray, as well as deep black levels. Great contrast throughout the whole feature with very minor crush on only the darkest of blacks.  Keep in mind that both Lolita and Barry Lyndon  BRs were not part of an extensive full restoration project.  Instead they are the result of clean and deft transfers.  The PQ's overall detail at 1080P was more than enough to fill a 52" XBR lcd screen with authority. Projecting the BR image to a 150" screen ( via Sony VPL-VW50 1080P projector ) was a major treat, with no noticeable loss of detail or contrast ( the inky blacks, crisp whites and endless gray levels with just enough film grain remaining. )  The SQ was equally satisfying presented in DTS-HD master-audio 5.1.  As with the Barry Lyndon BR release, my minor complaints: Only 1 SD trailer included in this single disc, no other supplementary material. Flimsy BR case with no inner card, a spartan treatment of a cinema masterpiece..  5 stars for the film 4 stars for PQ and SQ 1 star for the packaging half star for supplementary material  Next year ( 2012 ) will be 50 years since Lolita was released.....could there be a 50th Anniversary BR edition with all the supplemental goodies awaiting in the wings?  Maybe the Criterion Collection will take a swing at bat on BR? Who knows,  but for now at under $15,  this BR version satisfies.  BTW the last 2 films in Kubrick's canon will be available on BR Aug 16th! The Killing BR disc will contain Killers Kiss ( both remastered). Kubrick disowned Fear and Desire,  so I think a transfer into BR for that title would be wishful thinking.

A MUST-SEE FOR RAMEN LOVERS! I ADMIT, THIS IS A RATHER SILLY, UNLIKELY FILM. YET, THE CHARACTERS ARE SO VALID AND REAL- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE RAMEN GIRL AND HER CURMUDGEONY MENTOR ARE SPECTACULAR TO WITNESS! I HAVE WATCHED IT 5 TIMES AND DELIGHT IN ITS INTRICACIES EACH VIEWING!  YOU WILL EITHER LOVE IT OR HATE IT--TAKE A CHANCE ON THIS GEM!

Very suspenseful. And the story's not that bad. I recommend this to anyone who enjoys that feeling you get when watching horror movies especially suspenseful horrors. To avoid ruining the ending for you all, I will just say I could have called the ending almost as if I were one of the writers for the piece itself.

Guy Movie. Good actors. An Action packed with comedy.  Some actors don't get a very long role in the movie. Yet, there is a good flow.

King of Kings King of Kings is a 1961 epic biblical film starring Jeffrey Hunter as Jesus and directed by Nicholas Ray. The music by Miklos Rozsa is amazing and sets the tone for the entire film. As with any film adaptation of the bible, this also has some serious flaws. The role of St John the Baptist is played unconvincingly by Robert Ryan. Much of the scripture has been altered so some of them make little sense. Jeffrey Hunter looks way to young to play Jesus and his clear blue eyes look strange. Even so, I do recommend this film. Even though he looks to young for the part, Hunter's performance is quite splendid. A film that I found both enjoyable as well as contemplative. Recommended. 4/5.

The move that started it all I'll admit that I watched Terminator 2 before I saw this movie (and was rather young to see T2, lol) but this movie actually helped to explain the events of T2. This time, Arnold Schwarzenegger is not a good guy, but the movie is still pretty awesome. I think this probably had to do in part with John Connor not being in this film, and instead focused on Sarah Connor and John's father as they try to escape Sarah's would-be assassin.  Overall this is a pretty good movie which helps to kick off the Terminator saga, and in my personal opinion, the best installment in the series.

Good mindless entertainment movie Moive came on time and in perfect condition.  As for the actual movie it's one of those movies you just sit back and watch for mindless entertainment. Plus it also has as some other people have mention some great one liners threwout the movie.  The one that sticks in my mine is teh stripper saying "welcome to slavery" and the male actor goes "No thanks I already got a wife."  I also thought special effects make up was very good.  So if your looking for a horror movie to just take up some time and help you relax as time goes by pick this movie up and enjoy some good mindless entertainment for the evening.

A Fine Movie I had never seen Lawrence of Arabia before I bought this film on dvd. For years I have heard That Lawrence is one of the greatest films ever made from the acting to the soundtrack and scenery so I finally decided to give it a go. I thought it was a good movie defiantly not the greatest ever made I felt it was very slow moving in a lot of areas other than that I found it very engaging the music was beautiful and the scenery was gorgeous. The action scenes were also very thrilling. Peter O'Toole gives a very brilliant and moving performance as T.E. Lawrence. I would recommend it.

Toy Story 3 (Spanish Edition) I purchased Toy Story 3 (Spanish Edition) to show it to my students who are learning Spanish.  The DVD is set up so that there is an English or Spanish choice at the beginning.  When you select Spanish, everything (including the menu) is written and spoken in Spanish.  It was difficult to find the English subtitles, but otherwise it was excellent quality and the students enjoyed watching the familiar movie in Spanish. The quality of the DVD itself was pretty standard.  The dubbing was well done too.  Usually the actors' voices for dubbed movies are not particularly well done, but they seemed to have put in more of an effort on this particular movie. Toy Story 3 as a movie itself is excellent and that holds up to the quality of the other two. If you're interested in watching a movie with both Spanish and English options, this is the one for you!

Indian Summer = Nice Enjoyable Film So not sure what to watch tonight? Tired of the shoot-em-up action flicks? Tired of watching the same rom-com story with different people? Finding that you just can't get scared with the new horror flicks?  Give Indian Summer a try! It's story is great, with good acting, and all in all, an enjoyable flick to just watch and relax. Give it a shot and see what you think!

Coens + Noir = Instant Classic This darkly funny tale is a fascinating and skillful homage to film noir in the classic caper-gone-wrong mold. The Coen Bros, as usual, call on the talented British DP Roger Deakins to tell the story with flawless visual style. The cast isn't too shabby either, with a a special nod to Tony Shaloub as the intensely nutty motor mouth lawyer Freddy Riedenschneider. Typically, the film is peppered with in-jokes and nods to the Coen's favorite films--like the clever reference to the eerie underwater scene in the classic NIGHT OF THE HUNTER. If you love the Coens and anything labled film noir, this is your cup of bleak, dark tea.

Review Great show. Wasn't a blockbuster, but a great story and was well done. I watched it on television and glad I found it

Classic Bruce This is a classic Bruce film where he is only slightly smirky, and very down to earth.  The other plus is the plot. Enough twist and turns to keep you wondering all through the movie.  Just one more added to my collection.

ONE OF THE BETTER NOIR FILMS This is a film you can't watch casually. If you do you'll miss a lot of the nuances. Don't feel bad if you have to watch it more than once to get it either. You won't be the first. On that note this is one of the Noir classics. It's won a ton of awards, including AFI's Top 100 and Britain's Academy Awards for Best Film. Tale focuses on an author of Westerns who comes to Vienna because his friend, Harry Lime, offered him a job. However, when he arrives he finds out that Harry Lime was killed in a car accident yet when he investigates it he finds contradictory facts being tossed out to him. That's where the title comes into play. Look for the extreme close ups and strangely placed camera angles. The American writer's optimism and sometimes blind loyalty to his friend contrasts vividly at times with the cynical Post War gloominess of Vienna. In Austria, "local critics were underwhelmed" and the film ran for only a few weeks; William Cook, after his 2006 visit to an eight-room museum in Vienna dedicated to the film, wrote "In Britain it's a thriller about friendship and betrayal. In Vienna it's a tragedy about Austria's troubled relationship with its past." The musical score is strangely alluring. CHARACTER/DIALOGUE: B plus; STORY/PLOTTING: B to B plus; NOIR FOCUS: B plus to A minus; WHEN WATCHED: mid October 2011 (streamed); OVERALL GRADE: B plus. BEST DIALOGUE: Calloway: Go home Martins, like a sensible chap. You don't know what you're mixing in, get the next plane. Martins: As soon as I get to the bottom of this, I'll get the next plane. Calloway: Death's at the bottom of everything, Martins. Leave death to the professionals. Martins: Mind if I use that line in my next Western? /// You know what the fellow said - in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Timeline DVD Good movie.  Does not follow the book exactly but close enough to recognize the plot.  I enjoyed watching the DVD after having read the book.

Sniff Sniff - Sad Tale When young and friendless Mary picks a name and address from a phone book from someone who lives in the US to ask where babies come from in America, unbeknownst to her, the name she picks to correspond with belongs to a forty-four year old man called Max who lives a very solitary life in New York City.  They begin a friendship of sorts in letters from Mary in Australia and Max in New York. Mary's parents are less than perfect and have multitudes of hang ups of their own while in secret Mary asks much advice from over-weight Aspie, Max. Mary's letters to Max usually end up in Max having a rather huge nervous reaction.  This is a very interesting and unique claymation movie. It's mature and sensitive and tells a tragic tale of friendship. It's not for young kids as Max's explanations of things to young Mary are frought with adult viewpoints; he has Aspergers and is not able to flower things up.  I enjoyed this movie but had not known it would be so sad. It is very sad but uplifting at the same time. I watched it on a cold rainy day which deemed it appropriate for this colorless, grey screened film that has only touches of color with things like Mary's alcoholic mother's bright red lips and a cheery red pom pom that Mary makes Max which he wears on his capped brain.  If you like claymation movies this one is tops. It's brilliant. On the same brilliant level it deals with depressing topics such as lonliness, Aspergers, being over-weight and being different than the rest of the world, alcoholism, and it has a message about how sometimes what you are looking for is right there and so much time is spent wanting and seeking perfection in life. This is a good movie but it's not a kids claymation event. It's a thoughtful romp in the lives of two different minded folks who are far less than perfect.

more more more I've already watched this twice. My all time fav super hero is the Bat. Can't have enough of him. He was great in this feature. I suppose, the only reason I didn't give this a 5 star is *SPOILER ALERT* I wish a little more of the background of how the Legion of Doom were able to figure out that Batman had this contingency plan. I suppose, just knowing your enemy, it should be enough, but I wanted more of an explanation.  Also, I'm just tired of the old kryptonite, to make the fight against Superman a challenge. Just gets old.  Keep on bringing it DC!

Style to the 9s This is a fun romp. There are pokes to government that give it a somewhat serious subtext, but this is entertainment through and through.  Here's the scoop. District B-13 is an area in Paris that has become so much of a dangerous slum the government has walled it off. It has subsequently developed its own society. A neutron type bomb has been hijacked and made it into the district where a tough gang leader is trying to auction it off. So it's up to a do-gooder citizen of the district, and a maverick cop, to save the day.  This is a wild and fun ride. It's kinetic to the enth degree with chase scenes (both in car and on foot) and martial arts type fight sequences. An opening chase scene, done on foot, might as well have been choreographed by a ballet company. It involves leaps, climbs, running up and down walls and over balconies and any number of other obstacles and is a real thrill ride. The fight scenes are choreographed as well as any I've ever seen. The characters are a colorful lot as well. Damien and Leito make a good team. As in "48 Hours" the cop and the criminal distrust their alliance but come to respect one another in the end. Leito's sister Lola is a real firecracker as well. And as good/bad as the head bad guy, Taha, is, his next in command, K-2, is a real hoot.  The story is Okay. It's just enough to allow for the action. Of course it strains credulity but the movie is so much fun I didn't care. Being a Luc Besson written and produced piece, it has style to spare. Just check your brains at the door and have at it. This is about as much fun as you can have watching a movie.

How the Coast Guard Protects America SOS Coast Guard, 1937 film  This movie serial of twelve episodes was shown in theaters to draw in people each week to see the entire story. Magazines and newspapers has serial stories since the 19th century. They stopped this by the 1950s for movies. There is a lot of action but not as good a plot or story. Model boats are used a lot. A melting still film provides special effects. Note the use of a radioactive substance as a novel technology to provide a scientific interest.  Chapter 1 "Disaster at Sea" starts at the Coast Guard base. A medal is awarded to Lt. Terry Kent. His next task is to watch a private yacht outside the twelve-mile limit. There is a new secret weapon - disintegration gas! It dissolves solid rock! Is Dr. Boroff behind this? This secret weapon will be shipped on the SS Carfax. But the ship hits the rocks and sends an SOS. They shoot a line to rescue the crew. Boroff escapes by firing a shot. Will the Carfax sink into the sea? There is action and suspense as the ship founders. Chapter 2 "Barrage of Death" begins with the escape of Terry and his girlfriend and reporter Jean. Thorg works for Boroff. Silver nitrate recovers washed-out ink. Lt. Kent visits the address. Can he send a message in code? The Coast Guard is alerted. Chapter 3 "The Gas Chamber" shows how a Kelp Plant will be used to recover the boxes and make the gas. A hurt man is brought ashore to the hospital. The photographer "Snapper" is put in a box! Chapter 4 "The Fatal Shaft" shows the gang escaping, and the chase to the factory. Jean keeps her pocket automatic handy, but loses it to the smooth-talking stranger. They analyze the gas. Jean is rescued.  Chapter 5 "The Mystery Ship" has the police there while the villains flee. Terry flies on a Clipper Ship to Hawaii to inspect the cargo for Zanzoid. The villains get aboard the ship `Adamic' and take control. The radio operator sends a message. Kent frees himself and saves the ship. Chapter 6 "Deadly Cargo" brings the Coast Guard ship to their rescue. Will Boroff's men talk? Terry figures out the shipping method and flies there. The plot is discovered. A shot hits the glass bulbs! What will happen next? Chapter 7 "Undersea Terror" has Thorg retrieving the amatite from the sunken ship. The "Sea Wolf" has a job. Terry will check the Carfax. Will Thorg stop Terry? Chapter 8 "The Crash" has Terry's escape. Jean asks to write a report on the Kelp Plant. [Boroff could shave his beard for a disguise but his accent remains.] Can Terry sneak back to investigate? Can he escape on a motorcycle? Will a flat tire send them off the road? Chapter 9 "Wolves at Bay" shows their escape from Boroff's men. Terry asks for a raid on the Kelp Plant. Boroff's men fire on the Coast Guard. Will a lit fuse blow up the plant?  Chapter 10 "The Acid Trail" shows how they survived the blast. The glass bulbs are brought to a hiding place. Boroff's men are watching and capture Terry. Then they go for chemist Dick at his laboratory. Terry rescues him. Chapter 11 "The Sea Battle" shows Boroff's plan to escape across the border and ship the gas. A medical machine can detect a radioactive substance like the disintegrating gas. Can Terry defend his boat against a rifle? Or escape Thorg? Chapter 12 "The Deadly Circle" has Terry finding Boroff's hidden island, but being captured. Boroff offers to save Terry's life if the Coast Guard stays away. [No Deal!] Terry escapes again! Coast Guradsmen land with fixed bayonets to attack Boroff. Will they be trapped? Can a counter-gas neutralize the disintegration gas? Will Boroff escape or become the last victim for poetic justice? There will be a happy ending for Jean and Terry.

Blu-ray makes  it better! I've had the pleasure to watch and own this movie on VHS, DVD and now on Blu-ray. The picture is more defined and the sound is unbelivable though my surround system. There are things which come up in the scenes I didn't notice when watching this movie on the previous formats. It is a good action movie, and would highly recommend to anyone, for best viewing, watch in Blu-ray with a HD TV and surround system.

warriors i enjoyed it greatly hope to see more doc films in the future,to learn about ones true heritage is very important and is not what is always taught in our schools

Chillingly Great! While I had visions of a childhood fairy tale, this movie is anything but suitable for children.  This is the story of Pan's Labyrinth and is meant for a mature audience.  The film is violent but not overly so and it truly adds to the feel of the movie without being grotesque. The film itself is fantastic, engaging, and suspenseful.  Highly recommended for fans of foreign films, award winners, and fantasy.

Clever I never watched the A-Team show so I can't compare that with the movie. So my opinion is based on what I just watched. At the start of the film each of the four characters play a flat role: brains, brawn, ladies man, and the crazy one. The moment that the plan fails to come together and gets blown up (literally) in their faces the real humanity and more complex characterization is revealed. Some of that added characterization made little sense, for example, prison making Baracus "soft" and his hissy fit over his smashed up car along with needing to be drugged to get on a plane with Murdock. The plane thing kept reminding me of Cameron Diaz in Knight and Day and if you can compare the toughness between Quintin Rampage Jackson and Cameron Diaz then there is something very wrong going on. Smith (Neeson), Murdock (Copley), and Sosa (Biel) were my favorites but all the other actors did an amazing job. There was a bit of a tradeoff between plausible and impossible action scenes but it all made for exciting viewing and didn't lack in the explosion department. I don't know if I would buy this movie (this isn't my favorite genre)but I would certainly rent it again because it really was good.

a winner but not as great as teh first How do you beat a movie that has great stars, a great plot twist and a WTF ending? well not with Texas Blood Money that's for damned sure. But the hang mans daughter makes a pretty good stab at it. It has enough of the grit of the original with out trying to copy it. Makes for a good prequel with it's own twists and turns. Th eaddition of Ambrose beirce (played to perfection by Micheal Parks) is the season that sets this above your typical vampire blood fest. Danny Trejo also returns as the ever present bar tender. Answers the questions set by FDTD1. A decent nod to to Robert's and Quentin's crime horror treat, sets a few more in their place

;0) This is a fun movie Ben Stiller always does some good funny movies, but who stole the show for me was Robert Downey Jr. As well as Tom Cruz. It's about a group of actors put in the jungle to survive everything happening is real but they the actors tninks it's fake as they believe they are still being film as part of the movie. I really liked it laid back good movie to watch with friends.

college humor Ryan Reynolds before he "made it big" in the film industry. It's funny college humor that compares to the likes of American Pie and Dead Man On Campus. I've seen it many times and I'd recommend it to friends.

Fun times A great movie.  The sequel tied in nicely with this one as well.  I'd recommend both movies to anyone and look forward to the third.

Extended sequel Excellence in historical accuracy, but as a sequel this had unfortunate casting that had little to do with the original film, and strayed from the original books.  Photography was superb dovetailing in actual films with some Hollywood shots with skill.  Recommended for folks with plenty of time on their hands.

Metropolis After watching the film Metropolis, I feel like the best part of the film was the striking visuals. Not only did they have a grand set, but the overall choreographed feel of the film made it seem bigger. Seeing a large group of people all doing the same thing at the same time is very powerful and this film uses that to its advantage. The scene of the factory workers that is very choreographed is, to me, one of the most powerful and interesting scenes in the movie. The scene with the group going up the stairs is also quite powerful as it is both grand and choreographed. One of my favorite parts of Metropolis is the original score by Gottfried Huppertz. Since Metropolis is a silent film, the score plays a vital role in conveying what can not be expressed through words. The score is bold when the scenes are large and it gets softer for the more tender moments in the film. Without the score, the film would be lacking. Of course, the film is wonderful and the shots are breathtaking at times, but without the sound to complete the experience, the audience would not be as emotionally involved. Besides the score, I really enjoyed the large scenes of the city because they seem to take you to a world so different from what you know. The city is huge and very technologically advanced, and though we have large cities with huge factories, Metropolis has a dream-like quality very different from what we know. The film is exciting and has a great storyline that keeps the audience interested. I would recommend this to any fans of film or to anyone who likes science fiction. The movie is really great and is sure to keep you on your toes.

Great Movie with GL History This isn't much of a "review".  I'm just gonna' say I really liked the multifaceted story line and the fact that we get a good chunk of GL history.  The animation is terrific as usual and there are many interesting and like-able characters.

This movie is proof that low-budget horror can be fantastic. This movie was my first lesson in how low-budget, B-horror movies don't all have to be cheesy and awful.  I caught the tail end (is that a pun? ;) of this movie several times on the Sci Fi (back then, that's how it was spelled ;) channel, but never was able to catch the beginning. I thought it was really good, but didn't realize how good until I got the DVD as a gift one year and could finally watch the whole thing.  Suspenseful with a good backstory and likable characters that you just can't help but root for, this movie is really well done, especially since you don't even SEE what's scary until more than halfway through. I feel that the werewolves in this movie are the scariest werewolves I've ever seen--gangly, impossibly tall and intimidating humanoids with snarling wolf heads atop them.  I docked a star because I didn't like the end--or, rather, I am still confused about what really happened and why! I don't understand Megan's role in the whole thing. How did she become a werewolf? Is she actually part of the family or was she just visiting while researching? Why did she betray the men and all of a sudden decide to help the wolves instead, letting them into the house? If she's a werewolf, why didn't she change into one earlier in the evening when the others did? Etc.  Oh, and Spoon's death scene (and one-liner accompanying it) is the best death scene in any horror movie ever. Period. You go, Spoonie. I nearly added the fifth star back on, just for that.

Kazan journeys across the ocean America, America (Warner Bros., 1963) was director Elia Kazan's sixteenth film.  With minorities facing increasing intolerance in 1890's Turkey, the Greek Topouzoglou family sends their oldest son, Stavros (Stathis Giallelis), from their village to Constantinople in the hope that he can establish the family in the safer environs of the city while Stavros secretly dreams of immigrating to the mythical America. Along the journey to the city, Stavros is robbed of his family's most valuable possessions by a comical rascal (Lou Antonio) and arrives at his cousin's rug store with only the clothes on his back. Stavros balks at his cousin's scheme to have him marry a wealthy merchant's unattractive daughter and begins working as a lowly hamal (porter) to buy passage to America. After months of back-breaking toil, he is robbed of his savings by a prostitute. Stavros associates with some anti-government rebels and is nearly killed in an ambush. He returns to his cousin and seems to agree to marry the daughter of merchant Aleko Sinnikoglou (Paul Mann). Stavros has feelings for the plain Thomna (Linda Marsh) and is tempted by the comforts of domesticity but won't be swayed from his goal. An older, wealthy, married American woman (Katherine Balfour), takes a shine to Stavros and arranges for his passage with the understanding he'll service her sexually while aboard ship. When her husband learns he's being cuckolded he tries to have the young Greek returned to Turkey, but Stavros takes the identity of a deathly sick Armenian friend (Gregory Rozakis) who jumps overboard so that Stavros may continue on. Stavros arrives at Ellis Island and shines shoes in New York City, working to bring his family to America.  Kazan based his novel, America, America (1962), and the film adaption on the journey of his uncle, Joe Kazan, who had a cameo in one of Kazan's early films; Boomerang. Although Kazan had tremendous input on several of his previous films' scripts, this was the first written entirely by himself. Filming was on location mainly in Greece. The breathtaking cinematography was done by the legendary Haskell Wexler. Giallelis's performance at times borders on the amateurish and his broken English is occasionally undecipherable, but his facial expressions are wonderfully dramatic. Kazan employed a large number of native non-actor extras who often sharply contrast with the Actor's Studio professionals. Linda Marsh breaks your heart as the rejected bride-to-be and deserved an Oscar nomination. Although she played a "plain Jane" in this film (those eyebrows!) Linda transformed into quite a beauty for her later work in television. Paul Mann is outstanding as the domineering but loveable future-father-in-law. The film won an Oscar for Best Art Direction and was nominated for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.  America, America was Kazan's favorite film. It's extremely long at 168 minutes but I would have a hard time deciding what scenes to cut. This is a wonderful movie, an epic testament to the courage and determination of our immigrant ancestors who sought the promise of America, that barely misses as one of Kazan's masterpieces (Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, Baby Doll) mainly due to Giallelis's performance. Kazan thought Giallelis's genuinuity would overcome his shortcomings and he was almost right.  Kazan admirers were delighted that Warner Bros. finally released this film on DVD. Film historian, Foster Hirsch, provides an informative and infectiously enthusiastic commentary.

The Vow More than just another "chic" flick. it was well done with an honest story. It turns out that it was patterned after an actual incident.

Wild This film has almost a cult following...Salma Hayek plays a small but integral part in this movie. She is sexy and superb (on screen and off)...but her dance and interaction with Quentin Taratino's character is not just memorable but the basis for many sexual fantasies. Maybe my favorite scene is in the store when the clerk, on fire, gets up and starts firing at the two while he is nothing but flames...arguably the best gun battle in cinema, thanks Mr. Taratino for writing that into the script. Cheech Marin plays three different characters and while he is not billed at the top he is almost half the movie cast...everyone gets a kick out of Cheech.

Casablanca review The sound with this video isn't quite what it should be. I had to crank up the volume to hear some of it. Otherwise, it was good.

A Wild And Out Of Control Ride That Starts To Find The Right Road As The Season Progresses Few things make me more nervous than when someone has the bright idea to adapt one of my favorite British TV programs into an American version. For every successful translation ("The Office"), there are dozens of failed attempts ("Coupling"). So when I heard that Showtime was preparing to drop "Shameless" with William H. Macy, Joan Cusack, and Emmy Rossum--I got very very scared. Not because of the cast, but because, to me, "Shameless" is a quintessentially British show. The original version is an absolutely lunatic bit of brilliance that has all the elements to be a crashing disaster and yet balances them so adeptly, so audaciously, and so precisely. Instead of pushing into nightmarishly precious, overwrought, and quirky territory--somehow the show succeeds spectacularly. Don't get me wrong--the show is precious and overwrought and quirky--but every bit of it is in a good way.  So how did Paul Abbott do in formatting his original creation for an American audience?  I'd say that it's a qualified success.  If you've never seen the original program (and let's face it, most people won't have), this incarnation of "Shameless" is likely to seem strikingly different from most American domestic comedy with its unabashed embracing of lawlessness and anarchy.  Adhering to the British original, but expanding subplots or introducing them earlier as there are more first season episodes, the version sticks fairly true to the initial plotting.  In the first few episodes, the show seems on incessant overdrive slapping you in the face with its over-the-top antics.  As such, in my opinion, it lacks a bit of heart, subtlety, and precise comic balancing of the original.  Despite its unruliness, the original made you care about its characters from the jump.  It takes about half of Season One for the American version to start really developing characters that you might actually want to root for.  Once that kicks in, however, you're likely to find that certain elements of the program will get under your skin and really work.  Chronicling the lives of the Gallagher family, "Shameless" introduces us to a wastrel father and his brood of six kids. With mom out of the picture, oldest daughter Fiona (Rossum) has taken up the slack for a largely absent and altogether alcoholic father (Macy). This is a show of survival as the Gallaghers eke out an existence in lower income America. With the assistance of her new boyfriend (Justin Chatwin), this dysfunctional family unit triumphs despite itself.  There's much drunken debauchery, plenty of illicit sex, fair amounts of stealing, fisticuffs galore, and even an odd kidnapping--this isn't mild entertainment.  Not worried about "good taste" or "political correctness," Paul Abbott's ingenious creation is a modern family unit unlike any other on contemporary TV. With an impressive, and massive cast, even the supporting characters get their chance to shine.  Rossum has been praised for bringing a realness to the lead role and rightly so.  For me, the unexpected heart in "Shameless," however, comes from Joan Cusack--a part that might have been painfully awkward is surprisingly tender!  Fast-paced, loud, irreverent, crude, disturbing and yet oddly touching when necessary, I absolutely adored the original program and I have come to appreciate the charms of its successor. It took a bit for it to find its footing, but it did.  As long as they keep working to ground their characters, the show can only get better.  KGHarris, 3/11.

Total Recall - A Good Action Pop Corn Movie This Blu ray delivers in quality for its audio and video but not the packaging (hence minus the one star). The box case is totally wrecked but thank god the disc in it is not damage !

RoboCop + Back to the Future + Groundhog Day = Source Code Source Code is a fast paced movie. SC is always entertaining and you're engaged throughout the movie. Michelle Monaghan was very beautiful and so was Vera Farmiga. If you like Robocop, Groundhog Day, & Back to the Future - then you will love Source Code!!! Source Code is awesome and the ending was cool. Jake Gyllenhaal did a great job playing his role. Source Code is a tense, enthralling, and thrilling ride!! You the viewer are trying to figure out who the mad bomber is (Hint: It's not the stereotypical terrorist - he's something like Timothy McVeigh). Everytime that Colter Stevens is transported back on the train you are hoping that he can find the bomb, the terrorist, and Save the people. When they showed what Colter Stevens actually looks like hooked up to the Source Code, I immediately thought of Robocop. The same thing that happened to Murphy (death) happened to Stevens. Then the train sequence repeats, but it's *Different* each time that Stevens goes on his mission. Back to the Future because Source Code is far greater and more powerful than Dr. Rutledge & Colleen Goodwin ever imagined!! Source Code has an Excellent ending as well. Source Code is a MUST SEE film IMO. 4 out of 5 or 8/10.

My 10 year old daughter loves this movie! She first saw this movie on TCM and loved it soo much she asked for it for Christmas.  She does not understand the historical significance but she loved all the gags and classic comedy.  Someday I hope she also appreciates the courage it took to make this film and how magnificent the final speech is.

An amazingly underappreciated film It is tragic that this movie was so far underpublicized by the production team and, consequently, did not find it's audience.  The performances are all superb.  The film is visually stunning.  The story is intriguing and moves you quickly from love to hate and back again for all of the characters.  A diamond in the rough sadly not getting to the masses.  Robert Pattinson's turn as Georges DuRoy will have you loving and hating the man in equal measure, often careening from one to the other in the space of seconds.  While, sadly, the book-to-film translation of all of DuRoy's nuances isn't quite fully realized due mostly to some rushing of material, Pattinson's portrayal of the sympathetic blackheart leaves you not knowing if you want to kiss him or shoot him.  He moves effortlessly from moments of astonishing vulnerability to shere cold-hearted bastard status and right back again. He brings a sympathy for George's plight which I honestly felt was impossible after reading the novel.  Colm Meaney is the standout of the supporting cast, playing the calculating Rousset to perfection, making you hate the man even as he suffers his final defeat.  The standout among Georges' leading ladies is absolutley Christina Ricci as the long-suffering Clothilde.  She is simultaneously wide-eyed innocent and worldly temptress and gives reason to Georges' softer moments.  Uma Thurman plays Mme Forrestier with a wit that is unexpected and has the pleasure of being the source of one of the most uncomfortably ironic moments of the film.  The film itself is a visual feast, with wonderful costumes and sets, each themselves giving you a second lense through which to view DuRoy's accension.  The adaptation of the original novel could go deeper into examining the media influence on political climates.  But, in choosing to focus more on DuRoy's tumultuous circumstances, it is the cast that carries the movie, especially Robert Pattinson.  His portrayal of DuRoy is what makes this story direction work.  A weaker actor could not have done that.

slow moving, but worth the wait. The film was adapted from Ron Hansen's 1983 novel of the same name. Unlike Jesse James movies of the past, Andrew Dominik's film is presented as a psychoanalytical historical epic rather than a shoot-'em-up western. The movie details the outlaw's deteriorating psyche during his final months of life as he slowly succumbs to paranoia and develops a precarious friendship with his eventual assassin, Robert Ford.  Ford, who grew up idolizing James and wishing to join the gang himself, sets off on a mission to Glendale, Missouri, where the James-Younger Gang are staging the last train robbery of their careers. The strange relationship between the two men is examined over the course of the film. The movie is a little slow, but worth sticking with as it picks up at the end.

Enjoyable My family enjoyed this movie.  It is good fun.  Doesn't take much thought or concentration -- just enjoyable fun.

Loved it, just wished there was a english version The suspense was good in this movie. Most of the attacks were towards the end of the movie which made the suspense better. Special effects were great (alot of blood ,intestines hanging out...etc). Would like to see a sequel if possible. There just is something freightening about Nazis jumping out of the snow attacking people when you are on vacation..

Where it all began If you wish to own the Flash Gordon movie serials, this (for the time being) is your absolute best buy.  It doesn't have any extras and the film quality is 'good' at best, but unless someone gives this the deluxe blu ray treatment, there's no other version worth getting but these.  I got into these films because of the Star Wars Saga, and it's neat for me to see how Lucas was obviously influenced in each movie by these.  There's another, UNDERSEA KINGDOM  which also seemed to influence him on Phantom Menace.  Hope to check out BUCK RODGERS soon as well.  BTW - If you have an interest in learning more about these serials while watching, I'd HIGHLY RECOMMEND checking out the book about FLASH GORDON SERIALS BY MCFARLAND PRESS.  I bought it on here as well, and it's been my constant companion while going through all these serials.  A must own for any STAR WARS fan, or anyone interested in pure escapist entertainment from a bygone era.  For sci-fi geeks, this is where it all began.

A Requiem, Spike Lee as always delivered.  He brought a more personal accounting of some of the things that we may have missed seven years ago.  Insights on the raised tensions of the governments city,state and federal and most importantly on the people, the human lives that were tragically ripped apart, from property to life itself, and how those people were belittled with the lable of refugee, to somehow imply that they were less than worthy of assistance in their time of need.  This is an important document on how government failed and how the Human spirt survives.

Very entertaining....perfect for the kindle I enjoyed the music and seeing actors that we dont normally see singing.  It was the perfect rainy Saturday afternoon flick.

Evil Dead II is fun to watch evil dead 2 is a fun movie to watch again and again it never get's old i watched like 20 time's and it's still as good as the first i watched it.it could have ben better on blu-ray the picture is not good on blu-ray it look the same as regular DVD and the sounds is real bad on blu-ray it sounds just like a regular DVD.the effects is good NO cgi and this movie is real bloody and goofy.the movie get a 5 out of 5 but for blu-ray it get a 3 out of 5.

Negative reviews miss the point I can't believe the number of negative reviews I'm reading... these people obviously miss the deeper points about the movie. It was produced from a woman's point of view, if that helps understanding. This is a story about a person who finds herself with one single thing in life to count on (her baking talent), the fragility of which is further emphasized by her unsupportive marriage and the affair with her doctor (which she resists). The writer and director do a beautiful job of telling the story that makes it easy for us to see ourselves in the same place. We can develop true empathy and perhaps help real-life women in similar situations. The film does nothing but inspire hope.

Follow the Fleet Released in 1936, and directed by Mark Sandrich, Follow the Fleet is Fred Astaire and Ginger Roger's fifth movie pairing.  Although the movie does have its comedic moments, it didn't generate the kind of chuckles that came from other Fred and Ginger Films.  Four wonderful players from previous outings are absent (Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore, and Helen Broderick, and instead of getting the wackiness on top of the hugely elegant or innovative dance numbers, we get a secondary plot involving Harriet Hillard and Randolph Scott.  Fred Astaire plays Seaman "Bake" Baker who joined the Navy after his girlfriend and dance partner, Sherry Martin (Ginger Rogers), refused to marry him.  He spends most of the movie in a Sailor's uniform rather than a top hat and tails, but he still looks as cute as a button.  Randolph Scott plays his buddy and hunky shipmate, Bilge.  Harriet Hilliard (of Ozzie and Harriet fame) plays Ginger's spinsterish sister, Connie.  Fred and Ginger are already a couple in the film, but they are at odds.  Every attempt "Bake" does to try and win Sherry back ends up backfiring.  Meanwhile, Connie has fallen hard for the womanizing Bilge, who drops her for a rich widow.  The secondary plot for this story would not have worked if the writers had not done an excellent job of bringing all parties together.  Of course, the best parts of this movie are the song and dance numbers.  All songs were written by that master tunes smith / genius, Irving Berlin.  Fred and his shipmates start things off with the hilarious tune, "We Joined the Navy". Ginger does a great solo song and tap in "Let Yourself Go", Fred and Ginger team up for the fun tune, "I Am Putting All of My Eggs in One Basket". Harriet Hilliard gets a couple of songs to herself, "Get Thee Behind Me Satan", and "Where Are You".  "Lets Face the Music and Dance" is a bittersweet moment.  Fred is in his famous formal attire, and Ginger is wearing a heavily beaded evening gown.  The music gets stuck in your head as you watch them glide across the floor in their elegant ballroom style.  As Fred and Ginger movies go, this is not the best, but its not a clunker either.  If you are a new Fred and Ginger fan, I would try watching Top Hat, The Gay Divorcee, or Shall We Dance before watching this film.  If you are already a Fred and Ginger fan, then this movie is a must have.  Cast-  Fred Astaire..........Seaman "Bake" Baker Ginger Rogers........Sherry Martin Randolph Scott......Bill "Bilge" Smith Harriet Hilliard.......Connie Marti

Funny, a different plot is refreshing from the usual movie Tons of swearing. TOns of raunchyness, not an extrememly funny movie but it's just a feel good kick a#$ movie. Definitely recommend! Hah ha. It's awesome and comical!

Good zombie movie. A great watch This is a pretty good zombie movie. It is more along the lines of 28 days later. The acting is really good. They have really good actors. No cheessy ones. I like the zombie makeup as well. Hope you enjoy it too...Don't get bit

Godzilla Rocks! If you are a Godzilla afficianado, you'll enjoy this movie. If you watch all of the Godzilla movies from the first to the last, you'll see Godzilla change in appearance & attitude. From a destructive vengeful creature to rubber-suited "friend of man" who goes to battle with other "unwordly" creatures to save mankind. THIS Godzilla is a real fun romp that does not hide it's comedy aspects & the agreed upon scientific theory that cockroachs will withstand armageddon & be the only creatures left after mankind destroys the planet. Having Godzilla and Anguilus "talking" to each other is funny! I have all but 4 of the Godzilla movies on DVD & I'm going to complete my collection soon (I have all of the VHS movies but I'm switching to DVDs because they will last longer). Many people don't like how Godzilla "morphs" from terrible monster to "nice guy" humankind helper throughout his movies but I enjoy all of his movies (even the "bad" ones) because that's Godzilla's history!

Faerie Tale Theatre Gave this as a gift, and the receipient was thrilled.  We watched some of the tales and laughed at the new version of old stories.  Great, well-known actors and actresses throughout the set.  The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is that the recipient's children were not as happy with it as we adults were--I don't think they got the irony of it.

Into the  wild, an  inside veiw Seen half the movie on TV about 5 years ago. When i seen the write up on Amazon ,I had to get it .The two disc version was nice .Put real a  face on some of the actors .Was drawn to the story line of going up north to find your own version of life.In 1977 I answered an add to work Alaskan King crab canery work.Ended living there for 4 years . Ended working  King crab of 1979, tanner 1980 & king of 1980. One of the reasons that drew me to dutch harbor was the concept of gettin away from people .I to came to the reality that I needed people in my life, to be happy. Sounds kind of weird but its a way of life  for alot of people ,I was lucky to live long enough to learn that lesson.Not so for Super Tramp,on a good note is he died living out his dream,which is a very important concept that needs to be respected  up north.

The 19th Century Novel Phantom of the Opera, 1943 film  Gaston Leroux wrote the novel that told of secret inhabitant of the Paris Opera. The story begins with musicians playing for an opera performance. A Police Inspector drops by to watch the singers and talk to Christine DuBois. Mlle Dubois must choose between her career and a "normal life". Eric Claudin is a violinist there who has a problem with fingers on his left hand. "I'm sorry, old fellow." His retirement pension is a season ticket. Claudin is behind in his rent. We learn he is paying for the singing lessons of Christine. Claudin hopes to sell a concerto to raise money. What if his work is misappropriated? There is a struggle, and acid is thrown on his face! Later, the opera stage manager talks about a ghost in the opera. The master key is gone! The police search for Claudin for his attack on the publisher. DuBois knows nothing.  There is another opera performance. Madame drinks from a goblet, then falls down. Her understudy must take over. She is a success! Who drugged Madame? A conspiracy theory? Charges which can't be proven can rebound upon the accuser. Will Madame have her way or will something happen? The Paris Opera is closed. The police have a plan to set a trap with a replacement singer. If the concerto of Claudin is played this may lure him out of hiding. It will be performed by Franz Liszt. Madame LaRienzi will sing. This opera is in the Russian language. The police search backstage. There is a huge chandelier over the audience. What if the chain breaks? The audience panics at this disturbance. Claudin leads Christine down into the deepest cellar. "We can't go back there." [Has his isolation driven Eric mad?]  The police search for Christine. Claudin hears his concerto and plays along. He asks Christine to sing along; she does. The Inspector arrives, then fires a shot. Part of the building collapses. [No building codes?] Christine is rescued to sing again, and becomes the prima donna. Can Christine make a decision? Yes, her career comes first.

Bill Frisell, solo electric In this installment of Solos: the Jazz Sessions, Bill Frisell plays seven of his standards. Frisell plays solo electric guitar and uses his arsenal of pedals and effect devices to achieve the atmospheric grandeur that is his signature sound. 'Keep Your Eyes Open,' is a strong and light-hearted opener. Courtesy of the close-up camera work, the home viewer can study how every note is played. 'Throughout' is as loose and open as the cavernous location, Toronto's Berkeley Church. 'Throughout' transitions into a gorgeous retelling of 'Ron Carter.' The beautiful song brings to mind a Frisellian redux of 'Ave Maria.' After a hazy avant-garde intro, 'Boubacar,' emerges as a thought-provoking Desert Blues piece. The Americana body of Frisell's work emerges with 'Shenandoah.' It is a lengthy piece that is packed with musical wanderings to forbidden places. After drifting around in the woods, the candle in the ol' homestead can finally be seen! Lightening the mood, 'Wildwood Flower' is perhaps the most recognizable song on the DVD. Bill Frisell does the Carter Family justice. "Poem for Eva" is a beautiful closer that summarizes the charm of a live Bill Frisell performance. The sound quality is excellent and the ecclesiastical background helps to emphasize the musician and his music. The DVD can be played in stereo and 5.1 surround sound. The viewer can choose to 'play all,' which will integrate the songs and short but insightful talks by the artist. Otherwise, the songs and interviews can be watched in separate blocks. The biggest potential mistake for the viewer is to skip the bonus songs. These covers are tons of fun! Bill plays Hank's 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry,' Dylan's 'Masters of War,' and Gershwin's 'My Man's Gone Now.' Frisellians that enjoyed albums like "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004NHIO">Ghost Town</a>" and "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0029358HQ">Disfarmer</a>," are sure to appreciate "Solos." Since videos of this guitar player are far and few between, "Solos" offers a precious look at Bill Frisell.

Day of the Woman 2010 I remember in the earlier part of the decade, I ordered the original I Spit on Your Grave on VHS off of Amazon. I found it difficult to endure even for a diehard exploitation fan. Yes Im talking about the notorious rape scene. The rest wasn't that good, especially the pathetic handicap character. This brutal remake though, was pretty damn good. The story remains pretty much the same, with a twist of adding a redneck with a camera and a twisted small town sheriff. The handicap is there too, but not as pathetic as the original. It starts off slow and tense, and you know its the calm before the storm. Rape scenes aren't too bad because frankly Sarah Butler isn't that great of an actress. Bloody revenge scenes are a delight especially the infamous eyelid scene. Better than the original in my opinion. I cannot comment on the disc itself because I watched it on PPV, I am only reviewing the film itself. 4 out of 5.

Encouraging True Story We enjoyed the true story very much.  Heart rendering and encouraging but very slow moving. Only a 4 star because it was slow to watch.

Escape from NY This is a good adventure film. It maintains a nice quick pace. Kurt Russell is surrounded by some superb support actors and actresses with a fine script and good direction. It's not science fiction like Blade Runner or Alien. It's better than fair but short of an excellent adventure film.

Entertaining, fresh and unique A fresh take on someone with unique skills. Kind of like, Taken, or maybe more like Snatch. I enjoyed the different environment, which was set in a bazaar-like Mexican prison. The story telling was really fitting for the movie, helping the continuous flow the movie was aiming for. And, luckily for us, there was not much wasted moment, be it the action scenes or the slower-paced learning curves with the kid taking the lead in many scenes. This was a greatly entertaining movie, and had they avoided the emotional disconnect between Gibson and the female lead(?), it would have been a five-star worthy movie for me...Regardless, this was the old Gibson before his breakdown, so don't hesitate to give him another chance even if it is only limited to the duration of this movie.

EERILY NON-FICTION storyline in a fictional movie. i just bought this movie, it's one of the greatest movies of all time.  to everyone who's disregarding this movie as pure fiction, you guys really need to wake up.  our country is turning into what this movie projects, if we don't wake up we'll be living in nazi germany.  SPOILER ALERTTT!!! DON'T READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT THE ENDING RUINED!!!!!!!!!!!.  the only part that's fiction in this movie is the ending, the fact is one person will not be able to take down an entire government.  STOP believing everything the mainstream media shoves down our throats. WAKE UP! if the masses don't wake up this movie WILL become a reality.

One of the best "Fish-out-of-water" movies! Being a big fan of Star Trek, I loved this movie when I saw it in theaters. So of course I bought the DVD when it came out and was a little underwhelmed by the special features. Cut to years later with this Blu-ray edition of Galaxy Quest and I am much more satisfied. With interviews with cast a crew on their processes on making the film and the behind the scenes footage is an awesome addition. Plus, the movie itself looks awesome in HD!

Pretty good for a girl movie bought this movie for my wife, thought it was going to be a girl movie but it wasn't too bad.

A fascinating viewing experience. SHOCK CORRIDOR is certainly an odd movie.  I didn't really know too much about it, or its writer/director Sam Fuller prior to purchasing the Criterion BluRay.  I wouldn't say I've become a fan, exactly, but the movie does exert a certain weird power.  Filmed on a shoestring budget over just 10 days, SHOCK CORRIDOR tells the story of a print journalist and his strong desire to be committed to an insane asylum so that he can investigate a long-cold murder case.  Three patients are known to have witnessed the crime, but none is coherent enough to give any info on the events.  Our interpid hero Johnny (Peter Breck, looking like a young James Remarr) coerces his girlfriend Cathy (Constance Towers) into pretending to be his sister so she can claim to the authorities that her brother has tried to molest her.  Johnny is committed to his desired asylum, and begins his investigation.  He enters the asylum as a person who is clearly obsessed with his desire to "get the story" and win a Pulitzer.  He feels a little like a nut-job to us right from the start, and it's little surprise that all the insanity around him begins to chip away at his own state of mind.  In one way, Fuller is telling a kind of psychological horror story about one man's struggle against madness and the insanity of those around him.  In 1963, this movie must have seemed quite "cutting edge" in its depiction of depravity of all sorts.  I found it odd, for example, that Cathy works as a stripper because she's trying to save up money so she and Johnny can have a normal life.  Johnny is clearly conflicted about her career, yet perhaps also titilated as well.  This domestic situation, coupled with the rather strange story the two decide to concoct really makes us scratch our heads...but it also gave Fuller a chance to stage a number with Cathy performing.  I don't know how her routine went over in '63, but today her outfit seems QUITE tame and her bump-and-grind is embarrasingly clumsy.  Towers is supposed to exude sex appeal...but fails nearly completely.  And the depictions of the behavior of all the mental patients are wildly over the top.  In the accompanying booklet for the disc, Fuller talks about how he didn't want subtlety...he wanted to bludgeon his audience.  If loud histrionics is what he wanted, he succeeded.  At times the film is almost humorous when its clearly intending to be quite serious.  But as the film continues, the almost constant lunacy and ridiculous behavior, along with frequent close-ups of starkly lit faces with lots of sweat on them begins to work a sort of spell on the audience.  It never feels realistic, exactly, but the very nutso energy of the effort is oddly gripping.  I think the low budget and faced paced filming helped in some way.  The film has the aesthetic of a TWILIGHT ZONE episode ("Eye of the Beholder" comes to mind), and feels like a TV show in the quality of its acting.  However, this lets us feel that Fuller was COMPELLED to make this film, no matter the artistic sacrifice...and his efforts to take his meager resources and use them to the fullest actually work for him.  The walls of the asylum and all the rooms are starkly furnished.  The costumes are all the same shade of gray.  The lighting (always from just one angle) is theatrical.  I admired the look.  The flip side of this story, and the one that Fuller really wanted to convey, was an exploration of American society at the time.  The three witnesses to the crime represent 3 aspects of America Fuller wanted to expose and condemn:  war, racism & nuclear weaponry/McCarthyism.  The power of these metaphorical characters has sadly diminished over time, until the device has become mostly too obvious to work.  That being said, the best performance in the film comes from Hari Rhodes, a black college student driven to insanity thanks to the torment he suffered in college as the only student of color.  He now believes his is a member of the KKK, and his hate filled speeches contain language of racism that is shocking and powerfully delivered.  On the other hand, the inmates of the "Women's Ward" are all nymphomaniacs, and when poor Johnny stumbles into their room, they circle and attack him like lusty zombies (you'll have to see it) in easily the most poorly executed and laughable scene in the film.  The film is no doubt commenting somehow on the sexual revolution that was only beginning to think about emerging, or perhaps man's fear of woman's burgeoning power...but now it's just a head scratcher.  The film is only modestly well acted...Peter Breck tries mightily and sometimes his work is quiety effective and sometimes he reminds me of "evil Kirk" in one of William Shatner's most excruciating performances on STAR TREK.  Towers is terribly miscast.  Others in the cast are acceptable.  No, where the film suceeds is in its fervor, its passion and its single-minded desire to shock a reaction from the viewer.  This is not a film-viewing experience for a casual viewer.  It's truly a chance for film afficionadoes to view a tiny slice of film history that is seldom talked about but deserves a place in the discussion of movies of the '60s that began to pave the way for the truly revolutionary work that would come in the '70s.  Fuller was a bit ahead of his time.  SHOCK CORRIDOR is a fascinating experience.  The extras on this blu ray are only okay, in my opinion.  THere is a lengthy but not terribly interesting moder interview with Towers.  There is also a feature documentary on Fuller that is worthwhile.  Otherwise, virtually nothing.  No commentary track, which would actually have been quite welcome.  The booklet, however, is excellent with both a nice critical discussion and some good excerpts from Fuller's autobiography.  Another solid Criterion effort.

Great boxed set for Jason fans but buy jewel cases to store dvd's in. This is a great set for die-hard Jason fans. It has the deluxe versions of parts 1 - 8. I have to agree that the packaging is not the best but in this day and age, everybody is looking to cut costs. I recently bought a more pricey c.d. boxed set that was packed in a similar way so it's not just Paramount that has done this. The replica Jason mask is a great addition. It's not meant to wear but for display since it's a scaled down version. It may not be bluray but is still worth the price compared to buying each one individually. I own both bluray discs and dvd and still continue to buy both formats. If they did release a bluray set, it would probably be a bit more then I would want to spend. The book was O.K. but I wish it was more of a book with more info about the movies, making of the movies, Jason, etc. rather then being a dvd holder. Each dvd slides into a cardboard "page" of the book. The book does include limited information like what is seen on the back of regular dvd cases. Overall, I think this is a great boxed set but, like other movies and c.d.s I've bought, I don't like the packaging either. You are better off buying jewel cases to store the dvd's.

Harry Callahan regains some credibility... Clint Eastwood set the mold for gritty 1970's police thrillers, as Inspector Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry (1971).  Things kind of spun off course in the sequel Magnum Force (1973), where the focus was on Callahan and a band of rogue police officers, rather than pursing a major villain.  Rather than continuing to show regard and respect for the men in blue, Magnum Force featured vigilantes betraying the public trust.  After these mixed messages, The Enforcer (1976) is a return to more solid ground.  Callahan remains a larger than life character, continually at odds with the brass, but his motivation is more personal, after the death of his long time friend Frank DiGeorgio (John Mitchum).  Following in the wake of the recent Patty Hearst's kidnapping by the SLA, the plot features the People's Revolutionary Strike Force (PRSF), a terrorist group who have major plans.  DiGeorgio is knifed, while trying to stop the PRSF from stealing weapons.  Callahan is enraged at the death of his partner, but can't work on the case.  For disciplinary reasons, Callahan has been transferred to the personnel department, interviewing candidates for detective.  Foreshadowing her role in Cagney and Lacy, Tyne Daly stars as Kate Moore, an officer with no street experience who is promoted to inspector, and made Harry's partner.  Much about The Enforcer is cartoonish clich&eacute; that had been seen in the previous films, but the relationship between Callahan and Moore is something new, and has some sense of realism.  Moore initially struggles with coming to terms with her new job.  Without much guidance from Harry, she slowly evolves from making her first kill, into someone prepared to take charge.  Daly's strong performance connects with the audience, and what happens to Kate Moore probably makes the deepest impression among any of Dirty Harry's partners.  The terrorist group is largely made up of fanatical ultra-violent types, who kill when they don't really have to.  Their kidnapping of the mayor is a bold move, but is a repeat of the ransom theme that was kind of played out in Dirty Harry.  Considering that the terrorists could have blown up city hall or worse, their actions are far less destructive than they could have been.  While it may serve a cinematic purpose, it makes little logical sense for the terrorists to hole up in Alcatraz prison, where they can't make a fast getaway.  There are some decent action scenes on the island, but they are far from spectacular, and seem a little rushed.  Perhaps it's more scaling things down, to a level that Harry can still manage mostly by himself.  Eastwood had planned on directing the film, but was too involved in the post-production of The Outlaw Josey Wales, so the job went to James Fargo, who made his directorial debut.  Jerry Fielding, who also worked on Josey Wales, provides the music, giving the movie a more jazzy feel.  The Enforcer is gratuitously violent, and the plot drifts off course particularly at the end, but overall the film recaptures some of the gritty feel of being on the streets, and steers the series back in a direction slightly closer to the original.  It's a 3.5 star film, rounded up to 4.

Can relate to the "limited free will" theme I acknowledge that this movie isn't perfect, but it does offer a lot to think about.  Matt Damon and Emily Blunt's characters are thrown together and torn apart, all according to a divine master plan.  Can this master plan be altered?  The characters jump through literal hoops to be together despite supernatural forces contriving one scheme after another to keep them separated.  According to this movie, free will is an illusion.  Keep in mind that so many belief systems are based on the premise of free will.  Yet while the Adjustment Bureau won't let us choose our life partner, we are free to decide which brand of toothpaste we want.  I had to laugh and can completely relate to this theme.  So many times I've felt like I do not have complete free will.  There have been times when words I hadn't even thought popped out of my mouth, as though the words were foisted by a ventriloquist.  Another time I felt supernaturally manhandled when I momentarily lost control of my balance and equilibrium (medically, postural hypotension, though it felt more like untoward supernatural possession).  I've also had two chemical imbalances when I was not myself for a period of time and do not know the extent of "free will" that I experienced during those times.  I personally am confused about the whole "free will" concept and have come to the conclusion that we have "limited" free will.  It's as though we are to a certain degree puppets being puppeteered by a master puppeteer, a.k.a. the "Adjustment Bureau."

FROM COUNTRY BOY TO UFC HALL OF FAMER Before a certain French-Canadian came along the UFC's Welterweight division was dominated by one man, Hillsboro farm boy Matt Hughes. While newer fans of MMA might only know Hughes for his recent first round defeats to BJ Penn and Josh Koscheck, they will soon find out why Hughes was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame in 2010 as during his two Welterweight Title reigns Hughes was the most dominant Welterweight Champion the UFC has ever seen. Complete with an All American Wrestling Division one pedigree Hughes had lethal ground and pound, big slams and a great Submission game. Finally with this DVD you can watch a Documentary of Hughes life and fighting carear as well as relive some of his greatest fights from the octagon.  The Documentary which runs for over 90 minutes gives the viewer a quick look at Matt's early life growing up with twin brother Mark that would help form a competitive edge, we also hear from his father. The main portion of the DVD looks at Matt's fighting career in the Octagon and has various talking heads such as Trainer and team mate Pat Militech as well as rivals he's faced such as GSP, BJ Penn and Frank Trigg who still deny's any wrong doing in their second title fight and is convinced the fight should have been stopped before Hughes remarkable recovery that see's him pick up Trigg and run to the other side of the Octagon and drop him with a vicious slam and choke him out shortly after. The fact that it's UFC's President Dana White's favorite moment say's it all. Matt admits he considered retiring after his second meeting and second loss to Dennis Hallman at UFC 29 when the UFC fired him. His trilogy of fights with GSP and BJ Penn(he's admits he thought he would defeat Penn easily) are discussed. His meeting against MMA pioneer Royce Gracie get's dissected and is put down to American Wrestling beating Brazilian Jiu-jitsu. For all he's accomplished Matt Hughes would prefer to be remembered as a good christian and family man first and fighter second.  There is 15 fights included, there is 3 on disc one including his Title winning Fight against Carlos Newton. The second disc has 12 full fights including THAT fight against Trigg, as well as an early title defense against Sean Sherk(who was probably undersized to fight at welterweight) which has commentary from Joe Rogan and  fighter Phil Baroni who can't seem to agree on anything during the fight, whilst Planet Jiu-jitsu founder Eddie Bravo scores each round. His first meeting against GSP is included and shows what a good Jiu-jitsu game Hughes has even though he trains it he doesn't do the belt levels. His dominating performances against Joe Riggs, Gracie and Ricardo Almeida are all included as well. The battle of The Ultimate Fighter season 6 coaches is included as well and since Matt Serra thinks he won the fight it's work a look to make up your own mind.  UFC Ultimate Matt Hughes has plenty of action on it as well as a great documentary and at 5 hours long is good value. It's disappointing his second fight with GSP isn't included(not surprising considering he lost) and it would have been nice to hear from more of his former training partners Jermery Horn, Jens Pulver and Tim Sylvia. But there's not much that can be faulted with this DVD release really, the second in the Ultimate series after Royce Gracie. It's great to get a look back at one of the most dominating Fighter and champions the UFC has ever had.

Metal Shifters should be in EVERY home! This movie is very fun - an excellent Saturday morning show!  I am very happy it's in my collection now.  Thank you for the prompt delivery, and the fair price.  I'll be back - that's for sure!  Thanks again.

Actually aged quite well I remember when I was a kid I wasn't crazy about this movie, despite being wholeheartedly into the TMNT phenomenon. It's pretty dark compared to the cartoons. However, looking back on it now, I can appreciate the movie more for what it was trying to do. The movie attempted to capture the spirit of the original Mirage TMNT comics.  While the plot and dark tone probably weren't the greatest choice for a movie geared towards kids, for an adult it's actually quite deep. There's a lot of interesting stuff about finding family. Some of the scenes are classic and still stay fresh in my mind, particularly the moments of the turtles relaxing at April's summer house. It's a much better story than you'd expect from a kid's movie.  The movie was made before the era of CGI graphics. I have mixed feelings about the giant rubber suits they used for the turtles. While they're outdated, the costume designers fit a decent amount of animation in the costumes. They work by and large. But they do look outdated. In short, if you think you can overlook the fact that the rubber suits might look a bit cheesy at times, then this movie will probably work for you. If you care a lot about special effects, then this movie will drive you nuts.  Looking back, it's actually shocking how good this movie is. It's a lot more mature than any of the movies coming out today based on comic books, including The Avengers. If anything, I think this movie might have been ahead of its time. I'd love to see a remake with better turtles costumes.

The Norway Troll Project. First off, this is a complete ripoff of The Blair Witch Project in almost all aspects except trolls from Norwegian folklore take the place of... whatever it was haunting those kids in The Blair Witch Project. That said, it is a great movie... kind of gory at time, a bit humorous and quite entertaining aside from the first half hour which was a bit slow.

Funny, entertaining movie We really enjoyed this movie.  My teenage kids had never seen it, since it came out when they were babies or before they were born.  They thought it was very funny.

Has a few issues, but isn't bad overall This movie has some issues which are Killawog not being voiced by Michael Madsen (wth? he voices him well), there's no real main antagonist in it, there's some bad writing present and some action scenes could've been better. While theses are present, they don't hamper this movie as a whole, because its still worth checking out. Go see it. 8/10

Avenging Angelino This was a very pleasant movie. Some dark humor that was truly funny. A nice change from the adrenaline driven movies that get so much attention. I found this movie relaxing and enjoyable.

wow The The Casing of the DVD looked very used with stickers attached to this, and the DVD itself also looked very scratched. Definately not like new ( like the seller said it was). Unless having alot scratches is acceptable for some people, not me.. But overal it did play without skipping.... on our Player at least, not sure if it would have played good on cheaper models of DVD Players.  But movie is awesome ofcourse!!

The Cider House does rule I've got to admit, I love almost anything with Michael Caine in it, and I certainly liked this film as well. It starts off with an orphanage being one of the main scenes in the story and goes on to show one of the main characters, Homer Wells (Toby Mcguire), how the world can look very beautiful, but be filled with pain and ugliness. It's a journey out into the world and home again, and the joys and trials that go with it.

good flick 1st time I saw it I had no clue how it would end, so when I saw it at the right price I added it to my library.

Summer Stock While the plot of Summer Stock is simplistic, the movie is saved by the terrific dancing of Gene Kelly and the chemistry between the Kelly and Judy Garland characters. Summer Stock is an innocuous but enjoyable musical.

Finally on DVD - thanks Amazon This movie deserves to be on DVD, as do all Audie's westerns. I simply do not understand selling products that only certain people can buy. Movies have always been sold in forms that anyone could watch. Anyone can watch a film. Anyone can watch a VHS version (all VHS players play VHS tapes). Anyone can watch a DVD (all DVD players play DVDs). Why have you made it proprietary Amazon? I would like to give you money and have you give me stuff in return. I can't in this case. Since you do video on demand, what's the problem? Derek

Underrated throwback suspense tale....cultworthy! Many of the current crop of low-budget horror movies (dating back to 2000) are so predictable and similar, I was "majorly" surprised at how entertained and involved I was with this 2006 offering WHEN A STRANGER CALLS, a remake of the cult 70s film. I first watched this suspense tale back in '06 and it is now a regular in my dvd collection. This movie is a cut above the standard teens-in-peril slasher movies that have been coming out in droves the last 15 or so years since movies like Scream, Urban Legend, and I Know What You Did Last Summer rejuvenated the genre in the late 90s. While those 3 movies had unique plots, twists, and turns, everything else that's come out in the 00s is either a retread or copies of those films or poor remakes of 70s/80s horror movies. But THIS remake is a keeper!  Ingenue Camilla Belle is very engaging and underrated in this movie, being the sole main character and having the difficult task of keeping the viewer involved in the plot. Belle plays Jill Johnson, a very refreshing character, a teenager that's actually responsible and mature, but not in an annoying, self-conscious way that makes you want to punch the TV screen! While Jill is still more mature than the average teen, she's not an outcast. She's an athlete on the track and field team and has a close circle of friends, one of which kissed Jill's boyfriend. An upset Jill overused her cell phone minutes, so her Dad punishes her by forcing her to babysit for an affluent couple in town, thus the main plot of the film.  These early minor details of the goings-on in Jill's life are key to the plot and give her character some personality, which helps the viewer relate to her. The director Simon West does a good job of establishing the minor characters (most of whom only have one scene), like Jill's Dad, her friends, and the parents of the children she is babysitting.  The opening scene of the stranger terrorizing his previous targets in a distant town is creepy and effective, giving us a preview of what Jill will be up against. The well-executed, slow-building tension (punctuated by a creepy score and lots of tracking/angular shots of that secluded art-deco house) is a rarity for an 00s "teen slasher film", giving it the feel of an old-fashioned horror movie. Plus, the movie feels just about the right length and the ending sticks with the viewer even after the film is over. Not the typical, generic teen horror movie fare at all! Worth the watch!

A very emotional and disturbing look at the rape of Nanking. "Life Is Beautiful" mixed with "Defiance". Very good. I say A "The children can't end up in the arms of the Japanese, otherwise my men would have died for nothing." When mortician John Miller (Bale) travels to Nanking, China in order to take care of a dead priest he is witness to the beginning of the Japanese siege. Upon arriving to the church he is upset that the children have no money to give him. He decides to stay at the church and look for what he can take. After a group of prostitutes show up he only wants one thing. After drinking all night he wakes up in a priest's clothes and witnesses an unspeakable horror that forever changes his way of thinking. This is an extremely emotional movie that deserves to be seen be a bigger audience then it will get. Christian Bale gives another Oscar worthy performance in a man who goes from selfish to selfless after witnessing how Japanese soldiers treat the young children that are staying at a church. Many parts of this movie are difficult to watch but this is also a movie that deserves to be seen. The movie will draw out many emotions in you ranging from anger to horror, but at it's core it is a very heartfelt journey of one man trying to save many. "Life Is Beautiful" meets "Defiance" with a little "Schindlers List" thrown in. I recommend this, if you can handle it. Overall, a little slow moving but a movie that deserves to be seen. I give it an A.

Till the Clouds Roll by. The movie was something that MGM was very good at doing during its heyday.  It made good musicals.  This was one of their best.  The songs are ones that a lot of us know, like "Old Man River."  Anyone who likes musicals will like this one.  The title mentions Frank Sinatra collection, but he is in the movie only a short time.

cabaret Very Theatrical, and music and acting is wonderful.  Subject matter is a bit older that I had wanted, but I have teens and can talk to them.

Inspirational, Affirming, Encouraging Nick continues to be an inspiration for many.  His message of joy, gratitude and faith in adversity is one that has benefited me.  If you aren't familar with his work check out his web-site and his video segments on you.tube. This video has an almost self-produced quality to it - however the message come accross loud and clear.  I would recommend it for anyone.

Updated for Blu-ray-Well made thriller from director Brad Bird ("The Incredibles") bodes well for his future as a director UPDATED FOR BLU-RAY:  A couple of things about the Blu-ray edition 1) Paramount has done a stunning transfer with nice depth, clarity and detail. Skin tones look quite nice as do textures. The audio is VERY active with a great losslss 7.1 mix.  Be aware however that the sequences shot in IMAX format are NOT presented in the wider aspect ratio for the film (unlike, say, "The Dark Knight"). Also this includes a code for a Ultraviolet "copy" which means you'll have to stream the film rather than upload it to your portable device. There's also a code for itunes as well if you go that route.  The special features are good for the two disc editions but I am a bit disappointed that we don't get a feature length commentary track from Brad Bird and tom Cruise but we do get Bird's commentary for the deleted scenes and alternate opening sequence for the film. We also get featurettes on the dust storm sequence (a truly amazing sequence in a film filled with them) as well as "Mission Accepted" with Cruise, J.J. Abrams and director Bird on set discussing the making of the film.  On the film: When Tom Cruise lost it a couple of years back it impacted my ability to enjoy the films he was in and for a long while I avoided them. Having said that, I enjoyed "Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol" and found it to be the most consistently entertaining of the four films produced in the "MI" film series. Bringing director Brad Bird ("The Incredibles", "The Iron Giant")best known for his CGI films made with Pixar was a wise move--Bird proved that he had the ability to make an exceptional thriller with involving characters even when they were CG and now he had the chance to prove he could do the same with live action thrillers.  SPOILERS:  The convoluted plot boils down to this: Ethan Hunt has been disavowed due to an operation that went awry and he's forced to work with an mysterious analyst named Brandt(Jeremey Renner "The Hurt Locker" and forthcoming "Avengers"), Jane (Paula Patton "Jumping the Broom")and the only member of his team that he's worked with before Benji (Simon Pegg "Paul", "Star Trek") now a field operative. Hunt's team can't rely on anybody within IMF because the organization is being blamed for the destruction of a military facility in the Kremlin. Hunt discovers that Hendricks (Michael Nyqvist of the original "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo")a dangerous terrorist has active launch codes for a Russian nuclear device and plans on using it to start a nuclear war.  END OF SPOILERS:  A well made thriller with some truly astonishing action set pieces including a scene where Hunt must scale the tallest building in the world in Dubai, "Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol" truly delivers on its promise and is, quite possibly, the best of the four films that Tom Cruise as starred in and co-produced. The writing by Andr&eacute; Nemec and Josh Applebaum (both "Alias" alumni working with "Alias" creator J.J. Abrams as co-producer of the film)focuses on developing the plot not so much the characters in the film (although a cursory attempt is made with the IMF team)but then these type of films aren't about developing character as much as it is to create just enough to help the plot fly.  The action is nonstop in "M:IGP" and fans looking for a spectaular display of explosions/action sequences won't be disappointed. The main flaw of the film is the lack of character development and the use of familiar faces (Jeremey Renner, Josh Holloway in a cameo, Tom Wilkinson)to help flesh out characters that aren't given much screen time to develop but, as I mentioned earlier, that's really not the point of "M:IGP".

Pay Backs are hell! The original Meir Zarchi thriller. This film is a classic.  It spotlights a dark side of society. It is a modern horror story with a very gratifying ending. A lesson to all women abusers.

Dora the Explorer Summer Explorer My three year old daughter loved recieving this movie she watches this one and the other two i purchased on here too. thank you so much.

ONE STAR TO THE MPAA FOR GIVING THIS FILM AN R RATING Otherwise, I don't know how much I can say about this film...  I went to see it with a couple friends, without any prior knowledge of or interest in Marilyn Monroe's films or life, and didn't feel that I came away with much more of either. What I did find it to provide, quite powerfully, was a picture of the darker side of 1950s America.  A moment I found especially memorable is a scene in which a doctor calls a pregnancy a "private matter", very much as if it were something shameful.  Which, in that time of transition from Victorian prudery to equally superficial and judgmental body-envy, it may well have been.

Great movie! I love these X-Men movies.  I just saw X-Men First Class in the theater and it didn't disappoint.  My favorite is Wolverine Origins.  Hugh Jackman is incredible!

Fun movie We've enjoyed this movie for years.  The kids really learned a lot and did a lot of maturing, but this movie is not for kids.  Too much language for little ones to hear.

Better than expected! I really enjoyed this movie. It is much better than it seems via previews and advertisements. A really sweet story, and Jennifer Aniston is great, as always. Streaming from Amazon worked perfectly. I'd watch it again!

DESPERATE SANITY AMIDST MADNESS Based on Ken Kesey's 1962 memoirish novel, the resulting movie's a timeless metaphor for the human condition.  Sterling performances by the entire cast mesh perfectly under Milos Foreman's precise direction.  Jack Nicholson is the everyman who discovers a desperate sanity amidst the madness, but it's Louise Fletcher who steals the show as an unforgettable nurse devoid of compassion.

Fun Movie Kept the daughter entertained on a long car ride.  She would rent it again.  Amazon videos were so easy to do.  Will do it again.

A Travelogue And A Comedy--Karl Pilkington, World Traveler, Endures Humiliations In This Triumphant Jaunt Around The Globe Fans of Ricky Gervais will undoubtedly be familiar with daft and mercilessly funny Karl Pilkington.  Gervais and partner Stephen Merchant have transformed Pilkington into an international superstar in previous programming--most notoriously, he is the undisputed star of their podcasts which have also been turned into "The Ricky Gervais Show" for HBO.  Pilkington has a precious and skewed world view which combines faulty logic with unsubstantiated facts, yet for all its absurdity--there is often a nugget of wisdom in Pilkington's ramblings.  An endless source of mockery and taunts from his co-workers, you might be inclined to feel sorry for the maligned Pilkington if he weren't so darn funny.  A certified homebody, never having traveled further than Wales, Gervais and Merchant designed a new and inspired way to torture their little buddy.  Why not send him around the world, ostensibly to view the Seven Wonders, and put him into situations that he will absolutely hate?  Thus, "An Idiot Abroad" was conceived.  I must admit, the cruelty in the idea is apparent from the start--Gervais even relishes in it.  But Pilkington is a willing stooge, and off he goes.  Expected fish out of water hilarity ensues, but don't be surprised if Pilkington is up for the challenge.  There is very little that he refuses to do--and in those instances where he puts his foot down, I am in full agreement.  There are moments that remain fresh and absolutely memorable--cave dwelling in Jordan, a visit with cannibals along the Amazon, avoiding the dangers of a street festival in Mexico, an unexpected spiritual dip in an Indian river.  Pilkington, always reluctant if not outright resistant, generally embraces the tasks he's given with a more open mind than I felt possible.  If anything fails to impress the stalwart traveler, it's usually the attractions themselves.  After a brief introductory preview (which I scanned through--I like to be surprised), there are eight full length episodes.  Each episode consists of one manmade wonder and its corresponding country (Brazil, Mexico, India, Jordan, Egypt, Peru, and China) with a wrap-up session that includes extra footage and a debrief.  A travelogue and a comedy, "An Idiot Abroad" is an easy recommendation for preexisting fans of this renegade band.  More subdued and serious than I thought it would be--don't fret, there is still no repressing the wonders of Pilkington's mind!  And there is no denying that the wisdom and insight of our reluctant hero can be laugh out loud funny.  If this sounds at all appealing, give it a shot--you might be a bit surprised to realize that we all have a bit of Karl within us!  KGHarris, 3/11.

"Life" is full of just that I bought the blu-ray version of "Life" after checking out a review for it on a website, and I was not disappointed! The image is crystal clear, with great detail and minimal noise and grain (which in some cases is simply unavoidable while filming), and did I mention the detail! Absolutely amazing. And the hi-def audio included is quite impressive as well. The only thing that is (slightly) lacking are the assortment of bonus features. But as I purchased this product for the program itself, it is only a slight dip for me. And I can't imagine buying the U.S. Version so I could have the missing features, but be stuck with Oprah Winfrey narrating...who wants that? Definitely stick to the Richard Attenborough-narrated version!!!! Well worth your money.

It was intense This movie made me jump out of my seat. This movie starts out a little slow. But, has some realistic points of views, on ghost and spirits. That a person can relate to, if experienced before like myself. I did wonder, if the writers of this movie. If they got their idea, about the spirit Mary in the hotel. From the same hotel of Chelsea Hotel in New York. Their is such a story about a woman named Mary waiting for her husband at the Chelsea hotel. Only to discover, her new husband was killed in the Titanic of 1912. Of course, this movie was glamourized and left out details. But, it did make me think of the spooky story of the spirt Mary at the Chelsea Hotel.

Accurate but very Biased This video is a must watch despite the biased opinions represented.  I think that the best way to approach this subject is to get the opinion of the religious, then to dissemble it using proof, and logic.  However, that is not how this documentary approaches the subject.  We often see Maher making personal attacks (in some cases VERY warranted) and often cutting the other speaker off without letting them finish.  This gives the impression that he is a bully who wants to force others to look bad.  That said, this is a very interesting video that is well worth the watch.  The points and historic facts that he brings up are very important, and the way he shows that even religious leaders often don't have the answers to the most basic questions is crucial.  Despite my criticism of the techniques used I still appreciate this movie as you can see with the 4 stars.

Got what I expected out of it Harold and Kumar Christmas gets crazier and over the top as the movie goes on.  If you like the two other movies you will like this movie.  For those that never seen these movies it's got a lot of drug reference and raunchy humor.  So if you like those kind of movies watch it if not don't.  It was insteresting to see where these characters have come to grow up to even though they end up in some crazy situations that are far-fatched.  But I do have to say seeing the other movies I got out of it what I expected so afterwards I didn't feel like I wasted any time.

How I Wish... Gosh - how I wish this collection would have been without 'The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries' as this already has been released separately. Instead BBC should have included 'Mother Love' which is yet to see the light of day -at least officially. Still there's enough included here for me to obtain this collection of dvd's anyway, but with 'Mother Love' I would have given it a full set of stars.

Polar Express Great movie! Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside about the anticipation of Christmas. Great kids movie. My kids and I all watch this movie every year.

Here's Johnny This movie contains Johnny Carson's finest movie performance. Also great to see Connie Francis in her very own showcase. Look for a cameo by Yvette Mimeux.

Two stories for the price of one I find this story of the trilogy oops did i just type trilogy.brings back memories of Frodo. Intelligent storytelling with emotion. When you make it through this movie be sure to listen to the final song in the credits. Your soul will dance with delight as i think the song is the movie. And if your soul doesn't dance............ well

excellent product This is one of my favorites out of the entire series. This is also a great movie for the entire family.

Don't Borrow A Cup of Sugar from This Neighbor We've all had 'em.  Neighbors who are inconsiderate, sloppy, noisy, nosey, whiney, demanding, apathetic, aggressive, passive, gruff, unfriendly, petulant.  But for the most part, we learned to bury the hatchet and find a way to get along.  But when the next door neighbor is a cop, with an attitude, who is rapidly unraveling--that's trouble nobody wants to have come calling, and what makes LAKEVIEW TERRACE a fun thriller to watch.  When the Matsons (Patrick Wilson and a stunning Kerry Washington)--a young, yuppie, interracial newlywed couple--move to the Lakeview neighborhood to experience the thrill of owning a home, they neither anticipate, nor bargain for, a hulking, disapproving next door neighbor, LA cop Abel Turner (Samuel L. Jackson).  As the tension and drama and suspense unfolds, with the Matsons desperately trying to ignore Abel's increasingly bizarre behavior, the film builds to its violent, albeit nutty, climax.  Jackson was born to play parts like these.  The guy could read the phone book and come across as angry and high strung.  His menacing presence aptly carries LAKEVIEW TERRACE squarely on his brooding shoulders, making it a thriller to be reckoned with. --D. Mikels, Author, The Reckoning

They should kept the original ending After a lifetime spent in hobnobbing with the high and mighty, complete with a queen audience, Briony has atoned for nothing.  The conclusion was contribed. In the original version the book is never to be revealed in the lifetimes of the people involved, and I am sure her grand nephews and nieces would have quietly deleted the book from Briony's computer to save the family reputation.  Either way, they are the winners, who will feel no remorse and no atonement while gladly spending the money gained from the proceeds of Briony's final book, while the line of Robbie has died out for ever.

Fast Five Great action movie! Scored it for a super good price. Came in three days earlier than expected. It's one of the few movies that I don't mind watching over and over.

wow I really enjoyed the cowboy bebop remix collection- it was entertaining and the product got to me on time and in very good order

Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper This was well done and my daughter loves this movie.  It actually is a very well done story and entertaining.  The singing was exceptional!  I only wish the resolution was up to most DVD quality as it's not as clear as some other DVDs I have of computer-animated features.  The animation was not perfect, but that's to be expected as it's a barbie production and not a Disney.  The ending credits were funny as there are outtakes.  Enjoyable and a good story line about the "Prince and the Pauper".

Very Hitchcockian with humor and Hepburn Rather than talking about the plot, which so many reviewers have already done, I just want to give a few thoughts on this movie...  Charade (1963) is basically a suspense thriller that feels a lot like an Alfred Hitchcock movie.  It's a color movie that is very serious and quite dark at times and has a lot of suspense, but at the same time there's some humor and romance involved.  If you've seen other Audrey Hepburn movies, such as Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961) and Wait Until Dark (1967) and liked them, then you should like this movie.  It stars Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, and James Coburn.  The acting is good, especially by Hepburn.  Cary Grant at the time this movie was made was in the twilight of his career, but he still turns in a solid performance.  The musical score by Henry Mancini is great.  I think his music for Wait Until Dark was a little better, but his music for this movie is still great.  Audrey Hepburn wears a lot of her iconic clothing in this movie, clothing that made her a fashion icon for the ages.  Overall, this is a good movie that I recommend if you like suspense thrillers with an added twist or two.

Disney's "Robin Hood" is underrated SPOILERS FOLLOW  The Walt Disney Company's 1973 animated film "Robin Hood" is an underrated movie that is highly entertaining.  With the voice talents of Brian Bedford, Monica Evans, Peter Ustinov and Phil Harris, it is a durably creative version of the classic story.  It famously recasts the inhabitants of Sherwood Forest and a nearby village as talking animals, and draws a large amount of genuine pathos from its presentation of economic disparity and persecution.  For instance(SPOILER) the movie's Sheriff of Nottingham, a wolf voiced by Pat Buttram, insistently beats hidden coins out of a villager's cast.  Brian Bedford is perfect as Robin Hood, the ideal mixture of compassion, heroism, and defiance in his vocal performance.  Monica Evans is wonderful as Maid Marian, and Phil Harris is great in a down-to-earth characterization of Little John.  Peter Ustinov absolutely shines as Prince John, alternately humorous and menacing.  Disney's "Robin Hood" is a definite classic from the company, and also features good songs "Robin Hood and Little John," "The Phony King of England," and the very sad "Not In Nottingham."  Highly recommended.

Quick-witted Arthur walks away from his sham wedding/billions of dollars. Tries to win back Naomi wearing only a pair of dress shoes and baby blue underwear. Gets shot down anyway. Stays sober for six months, talks to Naomi again in a book reading and play tonsil hockey.  Also reveals that he's been forgiven by his mother and therefore still rich. Naomi and Arthur drive away in the Batmobile with the cops on their tail.  Impossibly charming movie. I liked it.

I saw this movie in the theater when it was in limited release and found it to be a real eye opener into the biker lifestyle. Even though the movie was really more about the band, there was glimpses into the world of the Hell's Angels.  The movie was direct and well presented.  The music is great!  I recommend this movie and hope it will be released on DVD.

What a great melodrama! Yes, it's totally predictable and corny as all get-out.  But if you're in the mood, this one really delivers.  It packs a wallop.

Blu Ray Review The Blu Ray of this movie is fantastic, especially on the night scenes.  Great crispness, clarity and contrast.  If you're a fan of this movie, I highly encourage you to upgrade to the Blu Ray version.

sopranonote Great rendition, color and voices Camera angles are interesting and varied. Fleming is in top form,as  it should br for THAIS Fast Amazon delivery

Adventure Time! For any Adventure Time fan this is a must have! They need to produce a series DVD. Also check out "It Came from the Nightosphere" it's about 3 hours of AT greatness. My only complaint about this DVD is that it wasn't as long.

Great movie! This movie really depicts the actual war in the spiritual world. It is important to recognize that there is something else out there, and that if we are with God, we can fight against anything. It is important to view this movie with spiritual eyes. Would strongly recommend it to christians and people in general who are looking for a clear explanation of the forces that work in the spiritual world. In regards to the seller, the product was completely new, and it shipped really fast!

Great Movie This movie is perfect to purchase.  The special features are very informative.  The acting is wonderful.  I would have been happy if it had a little more love story written into the script.  I'm sure that a viking growing up with the Indians would have "proven" himself worthy of the tribe, long before he reached the movie age.  I seems like the women in the tribe would have been fighting over him, and that he would not have been so much of a outcast.  His sword fighting ability could not have came from his DNA.  Still the special features explain a lot of the heart of the movie and the reasons where to produce a good action film.

My stay in Sunny Florida I enjoy hearing Tori Amos' live recordings. She's one of those artists who add something new to a song every time and that makes for an interesting experience. I liked the live CD that came with To Venus and Back. I liked the Legs and Boots performances. And it's clear when you contrast the two that she just gets better.  Welcome to Sunny Florida falls between those two, chronologically.  I'd like to get the negatives out of the way fast so I can move on from them. The camera angles just aren't good. It looks like something I would have shot, and I am not exactly gifted with cameras of any kind. They're all over the place and fade in and out at the weirdest times. I like to play this DVD on my laptop while I'm doing other things so I can just listen to the music. Also, I'm not a big fan of the interludes between some songs. I think those belonged solely in the interview section.  My second complaint isn't the DVDs fault. I hate how she sings this version of A Sorta Fairytale. It drags and Tori's habit of mispronouncing vowels and putting accents on odd syllables is over the top here. Since it was the first song, it had me worried about what the rest was going to sound like.  Thankfully, the next song was Sugar, a phenomenal song to hear live. The rest of the concert goes better from that point. Crucify came next and that one alone made me thankful I had bought this DVD. The improvs before certain songs are fantastic. The songs themselves are amazing. Some of them are better by a landslide than the album versions. None of them (with the exception, maybe, of A Sorta Fairytale) should be missed.  The bonus CD is a great collection of B-sides. There isn't a skip-able song in the bunch.  Even though I have made it clear I do not like the camera work, I am giving this item a 4 star review because the songs are amazing and that was really what I bought it for.

Entertaining R rating is for real ladies and gentlemen. Don't buy this for your kid.  Characters had an alright amount of depth, Forest Whitaker was the best character for sure. Decent amount of action balanced with some slower parts. Nudity, even though it's alien nudity... I don't want to spoil it, but the end has a pretty hilarious surprise.  Story was average on the interesting scale and they lined it up for the second and third installments (which sucked, just fyi). So, buy this if you want a 1/2 decent story with 1/2 decent character development, action and some alien nudity.

Great Movie- Pulls you in within the first 5 minutes. If you are looking for a movie that has lots of sex or violence, pass on this.  If you want a movie about a real person- about fairly current history- about our govt agencies- about intrigue/espionage and the matter of TRUTH that provokes questions- this is the movie for you.  This is a movie about a real person. Maybe some people were not paying close attention in 2001 when Hannsen was arrested.  Now is your chance to find out why this was such a big deal.  While not exactly a biopic( it only focuses intensely on approx 3 months of this character's life- but they prove to be critical months)you still become engaged in getting to know, or trying to know, what made Robert Hannsen tick.  Just when you think he is done being enigmatic- you realize he remains a mystery on many levels. Can anyone figure this guy out?  In the end, you still may not be sure what makes him tick, but what you will come away with, is how his brilliance allowed him to get away with his crimes,for so long.  You end up viewing Hannsen as both an appalling and fascinating individual.  (There is no doubt the man is slick- and a  bit of an oddball as well.)   While watching you may find it embarrassing that our govt had the wool pulled over their eyes for so long.   Hence, it is that realization that causes viewers to wonder about our govt intelligence, how strong it really is and the security of such.  Of course, there are those of us who cannot help wonder, if this story we are watching unfold, is  THE TRUTH or if the govt needed a fall guy.   Truth can be so much stranger than fiction.  There are only a handful of people who truly know if this  man is really guilty- the rest of the nation swallows what the mass media( controlled by the govt) tells us is *truth*.  This movie( according to Wikipedia's review) is for the most part- highly accurate when compared to the supposed events that happened in real life vs what is shown in the movie.   Only a few  scenes in the movie did not happen or happened in a slightly different manner.  Nonetheless, those scenes and the fact that they are fictional, don't alter the story- or even the so called TRUTH, one iota.  There is much to reflect on as you watch the story unfold.   You end up not just questioning the content of character of a man named  Robert Hannsen- but the integrity of our govt's multiple intelligence organizations and covert operations, how secure they really are since Hannsen's arrest and lastly, the disturbing question of, who exactly is working within them?  Friend or foe?  You wonder based on the comments he makes through out the movie, how Robert Hannsen thinks about life- or wants you to think, he thinks about life.  When he speaks he comes across as a rebel, anti-bureacratic, resentful of the things that most workers aspire to. Simple things, like a corner office with a window.  He sees it all as so petty. He feels his work as having far more importance than to be concerned with acquiring a corner office with a window view.  You are left for a moment believing his sentiments- and then later questioning them. Is this how he really feels- or is this how he wants you to think he feels?  While the movie is one of intrigue, it is  subtle as it moves along.  It becomes a  mind game for those characters in it and the viewer, as well.  While the ending is not a disappointment, if you were hoping to understand why someone would be a traitor to his country, Hanssen offers up many reasons why a person would do so- and by him doing so, he seems to also offer up nothing in particular.  Ever hear someone give an answer that if you analyze it- was not really an answer?  This is what the viewer is left with: more questions.  It would seem that every  traitorous spy has their own reason(s) for what they do- why they stoop so low as to work against their country: for money, revenge, ego, to reasons known only to them.  I liked the pace of the movie. Not rushed- not slow.  It is more akin to slowly unpeeling an onion and seeing the layers of the story unfold; as well as the layers of Hannsen's complex character revealed and then left to be dissected,  by both the viewer and those involved in the storyline;characters who think they know him, but what they really only  know is that which is obvious, not what is hidden deep inside the man.  In the end, if you never knew much about the biggest USA spy/traitor in history, you may feel prompted to read up on this man who is serving  life in prison, with 23 hrs of solitary confinement.  If there seems like there is a spoiler in my writing, there really isn't.   Not for any American that knew about this man's arrest in 2001.  In fact, the movie opens with a tv broadcast of Ashcroft announcing the arrest of Hannsen and the movie takes off from there, going backward in time, a mere 3 months.  There is one thing that can be said with certainty: You don't get to pull off what Hannsen did, by being a  loyal, by the book, Fed.  You have to be cocky, with no respect for rules, ruthless, disloyal to your country, and brilliant.  He was all that.  Too bad that brilliance did not end up helping the USA.

Great Movie - Excellent Soundtrack Great Movie - Excellent Soundtrack I put this with my all time late night sci-fi favorites. On par with Blade Runner, Dune, and Solaris. Quality of soundtrack is on par with the greats i.e. Solaris and Blade Runner. Excellent movie and had to watch a few times to completely get the gist of it.

More realistic (and graphic) than "Outbreak" or just about any other "disease" movie, "Contagion" infects It's very difficult to create an effective, engaging and good drama about a disease. "Outbreak" is an example of what can go wrong with these type of films. Steven Soderbergh does a really good job of introducing a wide variety of characters (casting well known actors helps us to keep track of who's who)into a story that takes place on a global scale but still impacts humanity on a small, local level.  The script by Scott Burns nicely sketches in even minor characters and casting the roles with well known actors helps to bring additional depth to the characters in a largely incident driven script.  "Contagion" provides us with a much more realistic presentation on how medicine and science do battle with a deadly virus that suddenly comes to the forefront. A team of scientists (Kate Winslet, Marion Cottlard, Elliot Gould, Jennifer Ehle)try and crack the genetic code for this virus in a dramatic effort to save lives as pressure is applied to the head of the CDC (Lawrence Fishburne)to come up with a workable vaccine as it becomes clear how deadly the disease becomes. The introduction of the subplot involving a blogger (nicely played by Jude Law) advocating the use of a natural herb and his belief that the government and big Pharma are suppressing the information adds suspense to the story and provides a nice contrast to the main story.  The Blu-ray looks exceptionally good with a sharp presentation with nice skin tones. Black levels and contrast are quite nice. This is an exceptionally nice looking high definition transfer.  Audio moves from little to high activity within one scene to the next depending on if the scene is more dialogue or action driven.  The special features are quite good as well if a bit on the meager side. We get an 11 minute featurette on the reality of "Contagion" where prominent scientists discuss the reality of what we see. "The Contagion Detectives" runs a brief 5 minutes focusing on those who decode the DNA of these often lethal virus and help figure out a plan of attack for developing a vaccine or disabling the virus. We get a 2 minute PSA and a DVD edition (for the 2 disc edition)of the movie and the dreaded Ultraviolet streaming option as well.  Although the film would probably have worked better as a mini-series allowing us to see more detailed, developed characters, "Contagion" still manages to be a suspensful ride that shows how a virus can decimate humanity with relative ease in our globe trotting world and how myth/rumor can easily spread like a virus on the internet (and lethal in its own way)that can impact our decisions.  I'd suggest a rental because as riveting as this film can be I doubt you'll watch it more than a couple of times.

Hilarious Hands down, hilarious. Loved every minute of it, minus the breastfeeding scene. If you're looking for a movie to knock your socks off, watch this one!

So much better than its remake. &lt;strong>L'appartement&lt;/strong> (Gilles Mimouni, 1996)  Here's the thing about relationships: everybody lies. Not necessarily to the person with whom you are in a given relationship, though lord knows that happens often enough, but you lie to everyone else &lt;em>about&lt;/em> your relationship. ("Here comes the heartache, move-out day, excuses for my friends...".) About an hour into &lt;em>L'appartment&lt;/em>, Gilles mimouni's romantic thriller (or erotic drama, take your pick) that echoes Billy Wilder's film of the same name not nearly as much as it does Edward Dmytryk (&lt;em>Lured&lt;/em>), there's a great scene--the movie's best--where the true absurdity of the fact that everyone in it save Max Mayer (&lt;em>Sheitan&lt;/em>'s Vincent Cassel, excellent as always), our main character, is lying through his or her teeth is exposed. He's in the back of the shoe shop owned by his best friend Lucian (&lt;em>The Diving Bell and the Butterfly&lt;/em>'s Jean-Philippe &Eacute;coffey), and the two of them are swapping stories about how last night went. We hear Max's story, and of course we know it's true because we just witnessed it (though we assume he leaves out the part, in the telling, about drunkenly tearing open a pillow and scattering feathers around his girlfriend's apartment). Then Lucian tells his story. I can't tell you the kicker, because we'd be getting into major spoiler territory, but just after Lucien tells the first half of it, we get a flashback to what his night was really like: his girlfriend, Alice (&lt;em>He Died with a Felafel in His Hand&lt;/em>'s Romane Bohringer), pled illness and they head home before they even make it to dinner, at which point she ditches him entirely. It's the kind of black comedy that runs throughout this movie, which also presages Neil LaBute's nasty late-nineties comedies (&lt;em>The Company of Men&lt;/em>, &lt;em>Your Friends and Neighbors&lt;/em>).  It's a damn good movie (though it is not without, as we'll discuss later, a few structural flaws), and is especially notable nowadays as an early role for both Cassel and Monica Bellucci (they met on the set and married in 1999), who plays Max's ex-girlfriend Lisa. But I'm not quite sure what it is about the movie that caused someone in Hollywood to seize upon the idea of remaking it--which they did, in 2004, as &lt;em>Wicker Park&lt;/em> (cf. review 31Jan05). The fact that they felt the need to rename the film should tell you most of what you need to know; the fact that they thought pretty-but-vacuous Josh Hartnett was an acceptable replacement for Vincent Cassel should tell you the rest. You've heard me batter on about stupid Hollywood remakes that didn't need made before, I'll spare you here.  As I said before, though, the movie does have two flaws, which are either minor or showstoppers depending on how you look at it. The first is that, like many movies that use extensive flashbacks, some of those flashbacks are handled badly. Mimouni's original "this is a flashback" trope is plastering a really, really bad stoner wig on Cassel in the back-in-the-mists-of-time scenes. It does its job, but as the parallel timeline comes up towards the present, obviously, Max had to cut his hair sometime to achieve the power 'do he wears in the present-day scenes. One of the flashbacks during the movie's climax is, in fact, a bit of the opening scene of the movie, repeated. It's very short, the characters have dressed similarly throughout the movie, etc. Five seconds after it's passed, you suddenly realize "wait, that wasn't present time!" and need to rewind. The second is a little nastier, and has to do with the closing montage (mostly the closing shot, but actually the last two or three minutes of the film); Mimouni (who despite having been showered with praise for this flick, has directed nothing since but a TV movie as I write this), who also wrote the script, suddenly seems to have found himself with a couple of minor plot threads he didn't know what to do with, and so wrapped them up in the quickest, cheapest way possible. It's the movie's most annoying bit, and considering how good most of what came before it is, it's even more annoying. You might want to turn it off a couple of minutes before it ends. All four of the principals are fine (and look for the great character actor Vincent Nemeth, best known on this side of the pond for &lt;em>The Transporter&lt;/em>, in a small role), the script is great when it brings its A game, and cinematographer Thierry Arbogast (&lt;em>Leon: The Professional&lt;/em>) is great at putting the camera in the perfect place to maximize tension. (Note, for example, in all three--I think there are three--shots looking up from the lobby of Lisa's building, for example, the camera is slightly tilted.) Good stuff, recommended despite its flaws. *** ½

Planet of the Apes 40th Anniversary Collection (Planet of the Apes / Beneath the Planet of the Apes / Escape From / Conquest of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001G7PX80">Planet of the Apes 40th Anniversary Collection (Planet of the Apes / Beneath the Planet of the Apes / Escape From / Conquest of / Battle for) [Blu-ray</a>]  I love this collection, in blue ray; it's like watching these movies for the first time. It comes with a neat book that explains the whole history and future of the planet of the apes.  All in all I give this collection 4 star.  The only reason I am giving it four stars instead of five is because the casing where you put the DVDs in; it doesn't hold the DVDs in well. When you take them out...good luck putting them back in, when I tried I nearly snapped a DVD trying to press it in the small plastic plug which it sets in. It eventually pops back out unfortunately. For how much thought that was in designing the cases, they went cheaply on DVD holders.

As Good As This Film Gets In Visual Presentation To Date There's never going to be a pristine version of this movie til it's remastered...presuming that original negatives are available and that's even possible...until then this is the best version of the movie I've seen...it's watchable...even on a big screen TV...and you are able to suspend belief and watch Laughton create another in his seemingly endless supply of historical characters bigger than life. I'd forgotten what a stone face Randolph Scott was.  Taking great liberties with the historical facts this is a very entertaining movie in its own right.  If you don't expect hi-def clarity and know the limitations of the original medium you won't be disappointed.

I'm sure there was a moral in this somewhere Since I like the original film more, I'll not suffer to make any comparisons (as this wasn't a very faithful adaption in any regard, the matter is moot).  I'll just say that I also liked this "same titled movie" and leave it at that.  Besides, any movie with Pete Postlethwaite in it already has a lot going for it.  The man was stellar. What is impressive about this new version is its darker, grubby/grimy look.  It wasn't as pristine as most costume action flicks.  It was also populated by a surly lot (gods and mortals alike, everyone seemed miffed about something), for some reason I found that amusing.  Plus, there were those great monsters, a snakier Medusa, and of course the Kraken.  Loved the star field opening sequence (which I assume was spectacular in 3D).  Since I never saw the 3D version of this film, that isn't an issue for me, I took this film as it was presented: not great, but good enough.  I was entertained.  (I'm very basic that way.) If I have a complaint, it's slight: the owl.  As that owl played a major role in the original film, but was only a brief toss-off in this one, I'm left wondering why it was included: homage or for mocking purposes?  Then too, there was Sam Worthington's (ahem) acting.  I know he spent a great deal of print space bragging how much better this version was then the old film and that he most certainly did NOT want to work with THAT owl...  Those considerations aside, Sam was the only character/actor I couldn't vividly recall after viewing the movie.  He scowled a lot, I remember that, but he lacked presence.  So it's a little disappointing to learn he'll reprise Perseus for the sequel (and possible third film?).  Hopefully by then he'll have realized that even a little personality goes a long way. I will be keeping this film for my collection, but it will NOT go on the same shelf as the original!  No point in adding insult to injury.

Perfect Horror/Sci Fi Film I personally loved supernatural horror films such as Nightmare or Hellraiser, and hated slasher horror (aka Friday the 13th, Cabin Fever, Hostel, etc)  This was probably the best horror film I have seen in a long time! When it started out as a slasher film I was pissed and ready to turn it off (I can't see why anyone enjoys those.) The only thing that kept me interested was the cuts to the "control room" and my hope that Joss and company would deliver since I have enjoyed them since Buffy/Angel days, and....  ...He did not disappoint! This is a must for people who like to think in films. It was smart, cleaver, had a purpose for killing people, and added the supernatural elements that I love.  For all mindless drones bashing it on here who just want to see people get murdered for no other reason than some sick fetish fantasy of yours please go troll somewhere else!

it was ok this film had some nice nude shots of sasha montenegro you pretty much see all of her in different shots which is alway nice in any movie and their another women in the film with some nice shots of her as well. but sasha is the main course with a body like hers no wonder. but for a interesting film with some tasty nice nude shots of sasha montenegro this a good movie to get.

Great animation, action & comedy This is from a chicks point of view. I think this movie was about what I expected. It is fast-paced, action-packed and has excellent animation/computer work whatever they used. The people in this movie look real. It is one of those movies you could watch again. It goes so fast you miss stuff. There is humor in it, adults will find funny as well. I did not hear any curse words, but there was shootings and stuff. Also the captain is basically a drunk. So if you have a really young one I would not get for them. My fav. character was the captain. he is a trip. I would recommend this movie. it is definitely worth seeing! I think the story/plot is good. I am interested in seeing what they do with this, as I was watching it I was thinking "potential for sequel" and that is how they end it as well, open for more. I look forward to that one as well.

Biting, Brilliant Fast Track Comedy "In the Loop" is recent, made in 2009, a sarcastic, silly study on how the Iraq war came about. The locations are Washington, D.C. and London's #10 Downing Street.  The U.K. Prime minister and the U.S. President, through leaks and home-made evidence go to war and invade a certain Middle Eastern country.  This is just funny political comedy and yet somewhat scary and dark. You begin to wonder how close to the truth can this be? Between made-up "Meeting Minutes" and "Secret War Committees" the hijinks of politicos,and their aides, this comes across as a witty fast-track comedy.  There are great actors who work their stuff to make entertaining characters.  Some of the stars are Tom Hollander, James Gandolfini (plsys a General), and Anna Chlumsky.  I thoroughly enjoyed it, although towards the end you wonder when it will end.

Rings true for a lot of folks Down sizieing america, this movie reflects our situation as a country of these trying times, people losing their jobs and more. The best reason to watch this is for the performances, not that the movie is bad it's not it's a very good movie just a tough story. Never give up things could always be worse. Good for perserverence. Scott M

Repression and hypocrisy Poignant coming of age film set in an all-male Catholic boarding school.  Repression runs rampant in both the students and the brothers.  Constantly reminded of the sinful nature of the flesh, the boys are at the same time  trying to cope with the changes  in their bodies brought on by puberty.  The brothers, at least some of them, are troubled by the feelings of being cut off from the normal lives of those on the outside, and struggle to cope with the myriad rules that govern their lives.  The story is told through the eyes of a 13-year old boy who feels he has the calling to become a brother, but is beset by doubts as he sees the hypocrisy and cruelty around him.  The entire cast is fine, especially Simon Burke as the boy, and Arthur Dignam as the rigid brother obsessed with purifying the body and the mind, yet is himself troubled by dreams of a sexual nature.  Now, I'm one who enjoys non-American films precisely because they often unfold at a leisurely pace, but I found this one a little rambling at times.  It could have done with a bit of editing to make it a sharper film.  But it was very good nonetheless.

Pleasant and biased This movie is a must-watch for anyone with an interest in wine. Being a wine professional myself, I know that it is eminently biased and Nossiter doesn't do justice to certain characters in the movie, that come across very poorly, and quite unfairly so. Now, the general message of Mondovino, though overly simplified here, is a great one. It is therefore worth spreading. But consider it cautiously as reality is certainly more complex than exposed here.

Good French Comedy I don't speak French.  It is true that much is lost in translation, especially for a movie like this.  In spite of this fact, I still liked this movie a lot.  The movie is super funny due to situations that the characters find themselves in.  Especially when the tax collector visits Pierre at his home.  But even the basic plot line of finding the most idiotic person to win a competetion is very funny.  I will always be suspicious of people inviting me into a dinner party after watching this movie. :)  But beware, it is different then american comedy movies and it may not agree with your sense of humour.

Where it all started Movie was a bit out there, but I'm certainly glad that I saw it.  Given that THX 1138 references abound in Lucas movies, I had to see what he kept referring to.  Although it certainly isn't his finest work, you can still see the genius at work in that the movie actually made you think.  Great movie for the die-hard Lucas fan!

Kate Beckinsale - Geek Boy Fantasy What a happy time we live in where Milla Jovovich can continue to kick butt in her series of "Resident Evil" films, and we also have Kate Beckinsale in skin-tight latex fighting nasty vampires and werewolves.  Like Milla, Bekinsale is a studied actress -- no bimbo "B" rated, untrained actress.  Thus, we are exposed to a convincing actress taking on an unimaginable role -- and successfully.  It is no fluke that Becksale is repeatedly brought back to continue the "Underworld" franchise.  She may feel that these features are nothing more than lucrative expenditures of time and energy.  Even if that is the case, she is creating a series of cult classics, highly revered by members of the genre.  For myself, I find that the "Underworld" series is at the top of the heap, combining great FX with an intriguing myth concerning the undead.  I take exception to the Amazon review that would pound this form of entertainment into the ground.  Unlike so many critics, they do not consider what a film project sets out to accomplish vs. the finished project.  "Underworld Evolution" never aspired to be anything more than it is.  To imagine so is ridiculous, vain, and completely out of touch with the various levels/genres of movie-making.  The cast, crew, director and producers have no false hopes of creating the next "Citizen Kane."  I don't know where Amazon picks up these dim-witted "reviewers."  They seem smug, uneducated and with a false sense of superiority.  Judge a film by what it hopes to achieve.  Don't try to lump all film projects into a heap.  Such films as "Underworld Evolution" are designed for pure entertainment -- probably to a limited audience.  In this respect the film is a success.  It accomplishes its objectives and leaves the "select" audience satisfied.  I wish you overbearing, pseudo-intellectual reviewers would just stick with art-films and Oscar-contending nominations.  We'd all be a lot happier with your absence.

Q-The Winged Serpent I haven't seen this movie for a long time and was surprised to see it available on DVD.  I think this was a TV movie, not sure.  Quality of the DVD is very good. Plays in Full Screen mode  Movie is about a large winged reptilian Serpent that attacks people on top of tall city buildings. Someone finds where the Serpent is located in the City and the city law enforcement has a battle with it in the end.  The plot is pretty good and the monster effects are good also. Makes a good late night movie to watch.

Great little workout! Easy to follow but tough in a challenging way! Great for toning! He has interesting info & is quite motivational!

Hang 'em High I'm a fan of Clint Eastwood since those monochrome TV days of Rawhide. He seems to be always just about the same gunslinger, but paradoxically he's always different too. As the wronged cowboy who becomes a deputy in the service of no-nonsense judge Pat Hingle and brings justice to those who done him wrong, Clint is just perfect in the role. The filmic aspects are fairly typical but the play of characters and their backdrop are satisfying and well done. Clint is less squinty and terse here than he is in the spaghetti westerns too. I always like the philosophy prevalent in Westerns: the goodie is really good, the baddie is unremittingly bad, and eventually the goodie triumphs in a fatal showdown. There are variations, sure, but they don't really signify.

Dante's Peak Another great movie to have on DVD!!. I am so glad that a lot of my favorite films that were only on VHS are now on DVD. The movie came in excellent condition.  Product seller's on Amazon are some of the best!

The American Experience of The Dust Bowl! I bought this DVD because I am doing the Dust Bowl for a college paper. While I found the DVD documentary to be first rate, I felt that it could have been longer in the DVD than on the PBS special. I find the Dust Bowl years to be a fascinating part of the American experience in the plains.  The DVD special introduces us to Dust Bowl survivors who remained in the Plains while hundreds of thousands left for the West in pursuit of the American dream. This documentary only touches the surface of the Dust Bowl in it's history and the effects are overwelming obvious in the pain of the survivors who were mostly children.  The Dust Bowl survivors are basically children who lived through the experience but they explain their experiences with pain, pictures, and unforgettable memories.  If you want to know about the Dust Bowl, this will be a good overview of the subject but not much else.

Great Movie My 6 year son Grant loves this movie, he is a big Arnold Schwarzenegger fan. It is one of his holiday favorites. The only thing is now "Turbo Man" figures are really expensive and hard to find this many years after movie premiered.

Sharp The story: a boy who isn't very good at baseball and mostly devoid of hormones finds himself in the company of annoying yet exciting magical girl and there is some kind of trippy adventure to the dark heart of the human soul. Typical anime stuff, but maybe faster paced, funnier, with some self-deprecating cross-anime allusions that only make sense to serious genre nerds. The music is pleasant and reminisce of American alternative rock in the 90s. For all of the fans' pre-release anxiety for this Blu-Ray... it's not bad at all. In 1080p, it's plainly sharp. I won't claim to know exactly what source material Funimation had to work with and where they got it from. Some scenes look like they easily could have been a new digital render or transfer. Others show signs of an upscaling algorithm, but one that is sensitive to lines (perhaps a vectorization stage?). This release maintains the original for-standard-TV aspect ratio of 4:3. My dropped star is only for the occasionally obvious MPEG, JPEG, or upscaling artifacts in some of the stills and some judder during pans. These slight blemishes may have been present in the original source material... I just don't know.

jimmy t is back in the neighborhood... Roadie (2011) tells the story of a man who returns to his hometown, after being unceremoniously fired from his job of twenty plus years, as a roadie for the rock band Blue Oyster Cult (BOC).  It's a poignant look at the past and the present, as pride prevents the rocker from telling the truth about his situation, to his mother, and those he grew up with.  While the characters might seem a bit clich&eacute;d and stereotyped, when put together they complement each other, and seem to belong to the same universe.  Familiarity with the music featured in the film is not essential, but adds greatly to its impact.  Jimmy Testagross (Ron Eldard) arrives at his childhood home in Forrest Hills, New York, and instead of telling his mother (Lois Smith) that he has been fired, he claims to be the manager for Blue Oyster Cult, and is visiting before the band leaves on a tour of South America.  Jimmy repeatedly calls and leaves messages for someone named "Bobby", in connection with his situation, but never receives a return call.  In a bar, Jimmy runs into Randy Stevens (Bobby Cannavale), a guy that tormented him in high school, who dredges up unpleasant memories, when he uses the nickname "Jimmy Testicles".  Randy now owns a car dealership, and his wife Nikki (Jill Hennessy), was once Jimmy's girlfriend.  Nikki sings and plays guitar, and is at the bar warming up for a performance that night.  Continuing the lie, the couple are suitably impressed by Jimmy's "success", as manager and contributing songwriter for BOC.  With posters of Phil Lynott and Randy Rhodes on the wall, Jimmy and Nikki listen to the music of the Good Rats, as they reminisce in his bedroom, which has been preserved like a shine by Jimmy's mom.  Later Jimmy is picked up by Randy, and is taken to a motel, where Nikki is getting ready for her show.  Fueled by music, alcohol, and cocaine, what starts out as a fun time headbanging to BOC's "See You In Black", later turns ugly, as old demons resurface, and feelings are hurt.  Directed and co-written by Michael Cuesta (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005LAJ17M">Homeland</a>, Dexter), Roadie is a "little" movie that may not fully resonate with those who don't have the life experiences to appreciate some of its nuances, but most can relate to some of the basic themes being examined.  Jimmy's embarrassment is completely understandable, and his deception is like a sitcom clich&eacute;, where a boast or prank goes too far.  Peter on the Brady Bunch claiming to know Joe Namath, is just one of many examples.  In this case however, things feel more real, as matters don't play out as silly harmless fun, with several allusions to much darker possibilities.  Ron Eldard (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004YCKK46">Sleepers</a>) is perfect as a burned out rocker still trying to cling to the ways of his youth.  Waxing poetic on the significance of BOC, and the talents of guitarist Buck Dharma, Jimmy is truly in his element.  Still bitter that his father crushed his musical dreams, his success is largely dependent on the talent of others.  Lois Smith (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000W4D94I">Twister</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003LPM85G">Five Easy Pieces</a>) is spot on as Jimmy's mom, who still has the ability to transform the forty year-old, into a little boy.  Many could play a loudmouth prick, but Bobby Cannavale does it with an authentic sense of New York style.  The talented and versatile Jill Hennessey (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BGR1AK">Law & Order</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0013DZNAA">Crossing Jordan</a>), is always a pleasure to watch.  Her musical talents bring great realism to Nikki, who is struggling with her own unrealized dreams.  Hennessy performs part of "Ghost In My Head", the title track from her 2009 album.  While not completely original, Roadie largely works because it is thoughtfully written, and features some extremely talented actors.  Providing ample opportunities for reflection, this is a particularly interesting watch for those who have faced a midlife crisis, and is punctuated by a selection of music, which adds firmly to the film's impact.  Among the featured songs are Robin Trower's "About To Begin" and "Long Misty Days", Jethro Tull's haunting "My God", Blue Oyster Cult's "Cites on Flame", and perhaps most apropos, as it deals with the life of a roadie, "The Load Out", which is unfortunately not the original version performed by Jackson Browne.

MCF's thoughts on Disney WOW: World of Wonder I'm not exactly a hardcore home theater enthusiast. My gear consists mainly of mid-range items at best. However, I am also one of those people who are unable to leave well enough alone and is never satisfied with out-of-the-box settings. Having relied on the THX Optimizer to calibrate my various televisions over the years, the results were always scattershot and I find myself constantly having to make minor adjustments here and there all the time.  Enter Disney's WOW: World of Wonder disc. This is  a wonderful tool, and having spent many hours running it on my 50" Panasonic Viera 3D plasma panel and my 40" Sony Bravia LCD panel,  I have to admit they have never looked better. I am now finally able to properly adjust the color and tint thanks to the included blue gel filter (eliminating the need to purchase THX glasses). The detailed explanation on how to use the various test patterns as well as simulated images on what to expect are very welcome inclusions that make things easier for newcomers and intermediate folks alike.  Just don't bother spending your time on the beginner's introductory stuff with a badly voiced Goofy. And on that note, I have to say that the 2nd disc is a complete waste though, comprised mainly of boring nature clips. Thanks, but no thanks. However, do treat the 2nd disc as nothing more than a bonus and it should not weigh into one's decision to purchase this disc.

Uncoventially cute The movie is more unique than most love stories and has very adorable moments. It's a little drawn out in some places but I would definitely reccommend it.

The Best since the First! Now a popular author of a self-help book, Sydney Prescott (Neve Campbell) returns to her hometown Woodsboro for a book tour.Sydney is quickly reunited with her good friends Sheriff  Dewey Riley (DavidArquette), and Gail Weather (Courtney Cox) who have now married.When a new Ghost-face killer is on the loose , Gale, who once was a reporter, is given the chance to become a reporter again, but Sheriff Dewey and his loyal Deputy Judy Hicks (Marley Shelton) are sharing as little with her about the case as they possibly can. Since she wants to solve the case with him and find the killer as a team like they used to, but he doesn't want her to get hurt. Desperate for information, Gale teams up with Charlie Walker (Rory Culkin), a film geek that seems to know a lot about scary movies and remakes.   Sydney who is now under police protection due to that the killings started when she returned and since she's always the target of the Ghost-face killer; is basically protecting herself, while protecting her cousin Jill (Emma Roberts) and her friends from the new killer. Since Jill and her friends have been getting threatening calls from the killer and are a target as well.   With Scream 4, Director, Wes Craven, and screenwriter, Kevin Williamson, have a great time entertaining as well as scaring their audience. From the start the director and writer duo offer many clever twists and turns that are impossible to see coming. But sometimes the film is too goofy for it's own good as far as the laughs go. For instance, in a surreal and  hilarious murder scene where someone takes forever to die, you'll laugh while also thinking "that's pretty stupid." Then in other scenes the movie can be so violent that it's disturbing with innocent teens brutally killed. So the comedy and violence isn't as well balanced as it is in the earlier films.   Still, Scream 4 is one of the best in the series since it will make you jump and a lot of the laughs are pretty clever, especially the ones about horror remakes.

It Could Be Worse! Sure, the scenario isn't completely convincing, but the idea of a catastrophe happening overnight can't really be expected to be. At least it's entertaining, if only for a few hours. Its cheesy attempt at political relevance and overblown special effects make certain of that fact. It could be MUCH worse (Gigli, anyone?)

Famous Great movie of life in the 70s traveling with a rock and roll band. Some great music and a cute story line with a charming ending. Makes one what to be young once again and on the road.

Amazing and Creative Introduction To Twisted, Foreign Sci-Fi Horror If you took this movie too seriously, then you gave it a low rating.  This movie is not only sick, but well thought out.  Yes, this movie is meant to make you cringe and test your stomach power.  And I bet it fulfilled just that - "oh, this is SO gross!  I cant even watch!".  Right - horrible horror.  That doctor is scarier than Freddy Kreuger, Michael Myers, and Chucky combined.  AMAZING MOVIE AND WILL SCARE YOU IN THE GROSSEST WAY.

Still counts as a classic of sci-fi. Following up on the success of Star Wars, Paramount and Disney had took their turns for their own big budget sci-fi epics. "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", and "The Black Hole". Fox followed up in the interim before "Empire Strikes Back" with their horror-scifi classic "Alien". Even Warner Brothers gave a semi-sci-fi effort with "Superman" and the unforgettable opening sequences.And TV had "Battlestar Galactica". We'll probably never see that kind of line-up of thought provoking steadily paced movies of sci-fi wonder that gave the audience time to look around again. "The Black Hole" had great story concepts even if the script falls short yet there are so many more positives that can't help outweigh and give a great trip "in, through and beyond!" With probably the greatest sci-fi scores of all time of those movies by John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, and John Barry. Barry's score for "The Black Hole" is a unique unforgettable ultimately "swirling" effective four note-plus majestic motif of doom and might, a theme that's just as good and rousing as William's intro theme for "Jaws". As well as astounding secondary themes and cues. The effects and production besides the lasers were completely classic old-school modelling and matte painting. All the stars in the space background were hand painted. As unfair to the unparalleled "Lord of the Rings" bringing up the mention of the "Dwarf tossing joke" , like the individually hand painted stars in "the Black Hole", each ring of chain mail was individually handmade and hooked together by hand by two guys in the Weta studio. Combined with the impressive visuals, the sinister "devil-red" Maximillian, the magnicifent "Romantic" Cygnus, and the stellar veteran cast; Yvette Mimieux was the Eloi "Weena" in the classic sci-fi 50's "The Time Machine". And "Norman Bates" gets a comeuppance before "Psycho 2". Amazingly, it's Maximillian who wins out as the most diabolical and creepy of the villainy roundtable this turn. "The Black Hole" deserves it's place among those big sci-fi giants of those few last years of the 70's. Voices for the floating bots were Slim Pickens("Dr. Strangelove") as Bob and Roddy McDowell("Cornelius"&"Caesar" from the Planet of the Apes movies) as Vincent. An Asimovian and Disney-fied idea of cute robots you can certainly trust your kids with and a lot more effective character-wise than anything we saw in the fresh prince's trashed and dumped "I-Robot".

Charming This was a charming, light, chick flick. Selena Gomez is utterly charming as a warm-hearted, earnest Texas girl who is visiting France for the first time with her lively friend and stiff step-sister, when she is mistaken for a wealthy heiress. The roles are well played, and the love interests are well cast. It is a bit formulaic, but it is a romantic comedy. The scenery is beautiful, the boys' Australian and French accents are real, and I particularly enjoyed the three romances involved.

Good adaptation In May 2008 I went travelling on my own for a month taking in Singapore, New Zealand, Australia and Thailand. With ten flights in all and lots of waiting at the airports I armed myself with five novels for the journey but by the time I reached Sydney I'd finished them all! I needed further reading so bought Ian McEwan's Atonement and was so engrossed it became only the third novel I have read in a single day - the others being Clive Barker's The Thief of Always and Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Being a novel I loved so much after the first read I approached Joe Wright's 2007 film adaptation with both hope and anxiety.  The film focuses on three principal characters - Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan), Cecilia Tallis (Keira Knightley) and Robbie Turner (James McAvoy) - during different periods in their lives. At the outset Briony is thirteen, an aspiring writer with a rich imagination. Her older sister Cecilia has completed her education as has Robbie Turner, the son of the family's housekeeper who has been financed through his education by Briony and Cecilia's father. During the summer in 1935 Briony witnesses an encounter between Cecilia and Robbie by the fountain, one of sexual tension and developing feelings, but one the girl interprets as Robbie being something of a sexual predator. Further incidents that day are also misunderstood by Briony and culminate in her accusing Robbie of a crime he has not committed. So convincing is Briony that only Cecilia and Robbie's mother believe she is lying but it doesn't stop Robbie being sent to prison. The film then switches to 1939 where Robbie has been released from prison in exchange for his service in the Second World War where he is shipped to France. Cecilia has now chosen to abandon her family out of loyalty to Robbie and has become a nurse in London. Eighteen year old Briony (Romola Garai) is also training to be a nurse and contacts Cecilia to inform her that she now realises her mistake and wants to put things right.  Ian McEwan's novel is a masterpiece and was always ideal for a film adaptation but only if it was done right. Joe Wright has thankfully got most things right but unfortunately not all. First and foremost is the casting of the three main characters. We have three actresses playing Briony at different stages of her life and all were very good, particularly Saoirse Ronan. The film's problem for me came with the casting of Keira Knightley as Cecilia. Knightley has often been called wooden in the past and I felt she just wasn't right for the role of Cecilia. I didn't get the same emotional depth and complexity of the character of Cecilia as the book conveys. I feared such a blemish could have dragged the film down badly but thankfully Joe Wright cast James McAvoy as Robbie and here is the high point of Atonement. McAvoy brilliantly captures the changing character of Robbie beginning as the educated but dutiful inferior to the Tallis family before we see him physically and mentally destroyed by his service in the Second World War. McAvoy has come a long way since his days in Shameless and I think it's crucial that he gets a lot of screen time in Atonement particularly when showing us his time as a soldier.  Wright has captured many of the elements of the novel well here. The idyllic rural home of the Tallis family is colourful and sumptuous, contrasting brilliantly with the ravaged and war torn France where Robbie witnesses some horrific events before leading the last of his comrades to Dunkirk. The soldiers' arrival at the beach sees the camera hover over the soldier's heads as they negotiate long grass before we are given a terrific panoramic shot of Dunkirk, overcrowded with soldiers waiting desperately for ships to evacuate them. We don't see any conflict in Atonement but the reality of war is vivid enough just watching the soldiers wait at Dunkirk, sitting targets for the Germans. Back in London Cecilia has already been hardened by her duty as a nurse while she waits for news of Robbie. Briony, who has opted not to go to Cambridge, is learning of the horrors of war as she tends to the wounded and visibly feels torn apart by guilt at the fate she has sentenced Robbie to, who prior to his arrest has aspirations of continuing his education and being a doctor, a path that would surely have kept him out of the army.  Watching Atonement and finding much to appreciate but other areas quite weak I waited with trepidation for the moment when Briony, Cecilia and Robbie are reunited for the first time since Robbie's arrest. This is such a crucial part in the book that it had to be done right in celluloid. With McAvoy having proved himself up to this point it didn't surprise me when he excelled during this exchange, telling Briony exactly what he thinks of her while Cecilia looks on with no pity for her sister who has destroyed so many lives. The shocking twist in the novel hits just as hard in the film as an elderly Briony looks back on her life. When I first finished the novel I was full of anger at the character of Briony and the question at the end is has she atoned for the past? I felt the same anger watching the film which proves what a good job the actresses that played Briony did. Knightley's performance is the film's major disappointment but everything else is faithful to the book with McAvoy the undoubted star of the show.  An adaption of Atonement could easily have been done badly and although Joe Wright's film isn't perfect it has captured the essence of Ian McEwan's masterpiece. Both are worth the experience but if I had to choose between the two I would opt to read the novel. However, if you're looking for a good drama then head for Atonement but do have those hankies on standby.

Interesting I just watched first episode and it was good. I do not understand why others bashing this show for profanity. There are worse out there. I didn't see any profanity in it. Maybe some kissing, but hey if you take a walk out you can see people kissing each-other, swearing, yelling, cursing, fighting,....This is the real life. Open your eyes people, it is wise to accept the life as it is, with its bad and good sides, and idiotic to live in your ideal puritan bubble. Life is not only black and white. And not every show, movie, documentary, book, song, .... is for kids. Sit back, relax and enjoy it for what it is. Don't like it? Move on.

Sean Bean is superb Caught this on tv last night,wasnt expecting much but was pleasantly surprised,reading a couple of the other reviews it seems that some didnt realise this was a crime/comedy which explains some of the queries they had,the reason this works is because of Sean Bean,best performance ive seen from him,his character is hilarious & at the same time scary,ok it wont have you laughing all the way through,the humour is subtle but the film is also decent as a crime thriller,not a masterpiece but well worth a watch.

Fun Movie I liked this movie.  A little heavy on the environmental push, but cute.  They could have backed off that a little and made it more "kid" focused.

Revisiting a classic I had just seen the new "Prometheus" in the theater and wanted to review the original.  This movie is, of course, a classic and never lets the viewer down.  I rented this from Amazon's streaming service and was very happy with the picture quality on my HDTV via my PS3.

good action movie was exactly what i was expecting all in all i enjoyed it. i would recommend this to a friend for sure

Love - and Pretzels -  Always Triumph. In 1966 Warner Bros. released YOU'RE A BIG BOY NOW, directed by fledgling director Francis Ford Coppola. (In fact this was his UCLA theatrical thesis which helped him gain his Master of Fine Arts degree.)  Those were the good old days when you could walk into a theater not knowing anything about what you were about to see. I remember being bowled over by this quirky, delightful "coming of age" tale, about a young man from a wealthy restrictive New York family, cautiously attempting to find his identity in the Big Apple.  He falls for a seductive, manipulative, manic-depressive go-go dancer (Elizabeth Hartman), but eventually finds true love with sloe-eyed Karen Black (with whom at film's end he dances through a pretzel factory while the Lovin' Spoonful confirm he indeed is a big boy now).  This is a delightful gentle gem, populated by a core of top actors: Rip Torn (philandering father), Geraldine Paige (clutchsome mom), Julie Harris (repressed landlady attacked by a rambling pet rooster), and Dolph Sweet (who would later reappear as a slimy stage manager in Brian de Palma's equally view-worthy PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE).  Again, this is a gentle comic odyssey which explores youthful foibles, from self-delusion to love and life.  Once viewed, you'll smile every time you remember it.

Alice's restaurant An old movies that I saw way back in the late sixties and recently thought that I would like to see it again but had a lot of trouble getting it until a friend suggested I look on amazon......there it was. A good movie,certainly not a classic but a great memory from many years ago.

Masters of the Universe Mill Creek. I honestly do not understand why this product is getting such low ratings.  First off. Masters of the Universe was previously released by BCI. The first season was split in two volumes. The episodes are put in produciton order rather then story order. (for example 'Return of Orkos uncle' is set before 'Orkos Favorite Uncle'). These two dvd sets are now very pricy and hard to find.  This Mill Creek version in my opinon is much better. (which is why I dont understand the low rattings). First off you get the FULL season in one box set. thats 65, count them 65, full episodes in one set! Not split up in two sets. plus its all for a rather good price here on Amazon. The storys are also put in story order not production order. so 'Dimond Ray of Dissaperance' the first episode put on the first disc is in fact the pilot episode. (thats why the story takes time to introduce the council of Evil). Just as here 'Orkos uncle' is placed before 'Return of Orkos Unlce" just as it should be. So in other words you get the full season all in order,  every episode, storys set in the correct cronilogical order, plus its all for a good price.  I have only ONE complaint and one reason for with holding the fifth star. the packaging. The box set has a small box compartment with the dics placed in paper sleeves within. not the most effeciant of ways to have a series set. this is my only complaint.  Everything else is top notch. so seriously people stop complaining and get this set while you still can!!!  As for the story itself. He man and the Masters of the Universe is very much a part of my childhood. He-man with his friends Man-at-Arms, Teela, the Sorceress, Orko, and all the rest battle Skeltor, Evil-lyn, Beastman, and various other foes. this perhaps the preimer series for Filmation. even now after all this time this series still has its mark in history. its been made into a live aciton movie, its spawned two spin offs; one about She-ra one is the New Adventures, and it has been rebooted for a new generation in 2002. If your a fan of this series I would say get this set while you can. Top notch work from Mill creek. scoring higher then the previous volume. agian my only complaint is packaging, but everything else is good.

Its a 4.5 Great movie not just for parents, but for people interested in human development. I just wish there was a bit more commentary - some interesting facts, figures, and stories to support the "awhhh" and "wow" moments while watching this. Perhaps a directors cut, with commentary, would be interesting.  I love the rating, and agree with it 100%, but being in the Middle East (as a teacher from Canada) would caution folks buying this for the more sensitive cultures of the world. Simply put, the breast feeding scenes and milking scenes will not go over well with the more closed cultures of the 21st Century.  Brilliant Concept here

IT'S ABOUT DERN TIME!!! Okay, so I've read the books and played the games, and without a doubt love the franchise. For those of you who relate to that, I don't need to tell you how pissed I was after seeing the first live action movie. "What the hell is an Alice?!" I said to my mother. Each subsequent film has only served to stir up a combination of deep resentment and confusion. What did I do to deserve this, Screengems?  All that said, I happened to stop at my local Redbox just to see what was new, when I saw RE: Damnation. I thought, "S**t! That better be Alice-less!"; It was! It has all of the elements that you'd expect from the game; that does include many of the cliches associated with the genre. The graphics were beautiful (with the exception of a perspective issue on one of the characters, but that's neither here nor there). Leonissuperfoxy, ehem. It felt like more than just video game cinemas edited together, unlike some others that I've seen. It is my hope... No, my greatest hope that the current live action franchise spontaneously combusts, and the team responsible for this animated movie swoops in like Batman with a bad ass android film crew, and does their own live action film. I would also settle for Joss Whedon or Chris Nolan, in addition to those involved with RE:Damnation. Too late to make a long story short, so the primary message here is: Watch it!  That is all.

SILLY AND DUMB YET A FUN TIME Let's get one thing straight. No one can replace the THREE STOOGES. They were a one of a kind act that will never be equaled, yet there is something funny about THE THREE STOOGES MOVIE that is a nice homage to times past. I attended a THREE STOOGES film festival last Novemeber and Peter Farrelly spoke to the audience about his upcoming THREE STOOGES FILM. He promised that they had stuck to the stooges legacy as much as possible. Unfortunately, I had low expectations and was not convinced. I decided not to see the film in the theaters and hesitantly waited for the DVD. My expectations were low so I think that influenced me greatly when the film was better than I expected. It is far from a real THREE STOOGES film but enough effort was made to bring their essence to the screen that I found myself laughing on a number of occasions--maybe it was simply a routine that reminded me of the actual stooges. This is far from a great movie. The Farrelly brothers should have done better but there is enough "nyuck nyuck nyucks" to make this a funny film. It is always great to see the lovely Sofia Vergara and this time she is the villain trying to hire the stooges to kill her husband. As can be guessed, nothing goes as planned. Jane Lynch is fun as a nun trying to hold an orphanage together. Lovely Jennifer Hudson is under-used as another nun. Larry David plays a crotchedly nun who has no time for or love of the stooges. There was a stroke of genius having Larry David as a nun! Chris Diamantopoulos, Sean Hayes, and Will Sasso all do their best to look and act like the original Moe, Larry and Curly. They do a good job with their routines and gags in a less than inspired script. No one can replace the Stooges. No one can deny that. The Farrelly brothers made a decent yet flawed attempt to bring these classic characters back to live. There are a lot of laughs in this film and a good choice if you want something funny and mindless.

Yay ! MysteryQuest ! This is one of my favorite DVD Set. I have a lot of DVDs about The Paranormal, History, True Crimes and The Mafia. From Unsolved Mysteries to Cities of the Underworld I have a lot of documentaries on DVD, and the investigations you can find on this MysteryQuest DVD are among the most interesting investigations I have seen in my life. The show investigate 10 mysteries, each investigation is around 45 minutes long. Here is the listing: # DISC 1: Hitler's Escape / The Devil's Triangle / San Francisco Slaughter / The Lost City of Atlantis # DISC 2: Alien Cover Up / The Rise of the Fourth Reich / Devil's Island # DISC 3: Jack the Ripper / Stonehenge / Return of the Amityville Horror  As you can see the show investigates a lot of different mysteries: Serial Killers (Jack the Ripper, The Zodiac Killer), UFOs and Government cover up (Area 51), Historical mysteries (Hitler, the 4rt Reich) and more. A lot of time the show investigates two mysteries in one show. For example in the episode about Alcatraz they are both investigating the 1962 escape of criminals Clarence Anglin, John Anglin and Frank Morris, and investigates supposed hauntings at Alcatraz.  All 10 episodes are really interesting. The narrator, the music, the atmosphere, everything is there. If you buy a lot of DVDs about History or the Paranormal then this DVD is a must have, it's gonna be a great addition to your collection.

No "Hoover" here. (reference from movie/broadway) So this is the movie that spawned the Broadway musical released in March 2012.  Wife and daughter saw the musical in Aug '12 before seeing the movie.  It blew them away with the singing, acting, stage, choreography, script... They couldn't imagine that the movie could live up to that live experience.  While of course not the same, they both loved the movie which rekindled so many warm (and funny) moments.  Is this a blockbuster, mega-million movie? No way and it would lose so much if it were.  Its the flower in a forest that you came upon and simply enjoyed its splendor.  I only saw the movie and was brought into the emotion.  Worth watching quietly.

I really liked Sucker Punch I really enjoyed Sucker Punch. I am a huge fan of special effects and sexy babes in skimpy costumes with big guns, and this very atmospheric movie had all that in spades. I read that the critics didn't like it, but I say phooey on them! I rarely enjoy the high-brow stuff that the critics like anyway.  Will you like this movie? If you saw and enjoyed Terry Gilliam's quirky scifi movie BRAZIL, then I am very confident you will also enjoy this one. In fact the ending of both movies felt exactly the same way to me: Both had disturbing doctor scenes at the end, followed by paradise and bliss.  If you watched Inception and did NOT like it, then you probably won't care for Sucker Punch --because both films interweave at least four different stories throughout the film. There is the "real" story of the insane asylum; there is the fantasy story of the angry male lead; there is the fantasy story of the female lead; and there is the unresolved and peculiar story of the bus driver.  For me, the mixture of fantasy and reality was very entertaining and captivating.

Surprisingly good Assuming you are a Dr Who fan, The Time Meddler is an entertaining adventure from the early days of the program, and well worth a look. The restoration work on the these black and white transmissions is superb, and the special features on the disk are pitched squarely at fans interested in knowing more about the work of restoration. The Time Meddler was played with humour, and was one of the earliest stories to introduce a determined effort to derail history as we know it, so it is something of a milestone in the long running saga that is Dr Who.  Like most of these stories, early Dr Who episodes are going to appeal mainly to the program's fanbase, to those interested in '60s TV, to sci-fi fans, or those interested in fiction of a very British kind. It is not everyone's cup of tea, but for the Dr Who fan, this is a good one.

Karate Kid Karate Kid was a good movie overall, but left me still wondering why it was remade when it was over. The movie mostly matches the original in basic story even if the new version is in China.  On the good side, the technology of today makes some of the scenes more realistic, especially the fights, but it still felt like something was missing in this movie when compared to the old one, as if they thought using today's technology would somehow make a better movie which seems to be a normal problem with modern remakes.  Jaden Smith does a decent job with the role, but it felt like the character was a little too young. Maybe that's because I grew up watching Daniel Larusso who was supposed to be about 17 or 18 in the original. The love story is better in the new movie and was mostly a afterthought in the original, as was Jaden's relationship with his mother compared to Daniel's. The original movie focused mostly on the main plot, while the new movie attempted to branch off a bit to get a little more involved with other characters.  Jackie Chan does a pretty good job with the part, but, again, it just cant compete with Pat Morita as Mr. Miyagi. The boy who plays the antagonist in this movie does a good job of making you hate him, similar to the original.  The only part of the movie that seemed to defy reality a bit was the final fight scene. When Daniel Larusso did the crane technique in the original movie it was believable, but when Jaden Smith does the complete flip to kick the other kid down I was thinking no way. It just wasn't believable to me.  This movie is worth seeing, but fans of the original will still walk away with a slightly sour taste afterwards.

Great story This video was pretty entertaining. I was a little hesitant to watch it, seeing as it was made in 1984, but the storyline is very interesting and kept me unaware of what would happen next. It was equal parts magical, whismical, and fantastical. The 1980's special effects were a little strange (compared to how realistic special effects and cgi makes everything look now). Overall, fun. The little boy who played Atreyu was so cute - who knew he would grow into a man with tattoos all over both arms. The child empress played her part well. I think the rock biter was probably one of my favorite characters. I enjoyed watching him eat rocks.

Pretty bizarre and quirky; but can't stop watching! Bought this b/c I watched all episodes of Dexter and love Michael C. Hall. Even though he plays a totally different character, he doesn't disappoint.

A good remake. The same dude that retold texas chainsaw massacre remake, better than Rob Zombie remaking Halloween! Out of all these ridiculous a$$ remakes of classics their doing nowadays, I have to say that the Friday the 13th remake was brilliant. This is completely off-topic but before I begin I just want to randomly say that Michael Myers is my favorite serial killer, and I actually liked the original Halloween flicks more than the original Friday the 13th flicks, this is becuase watching the first Halloween, it was straightforward, Michael Myers was the killer point blank, since the first Halloween. The original Friday the 13th, Jason's mother was the killer, and then they revamped it, which in my opinion is why they kept having sequels to it, and keep in mind Jason Voorhees didn't get a trademark mask until Friday the 13th part 3. Honestly, this is the reason why I didn't dig the Friday films, it was just annoying, and again in my opinion, it was just like Coca-cola and Pepsi. Halloween was coca-cola, and of course their needs to be competitors so, Friday the 13th was pepsi.  Now reviewing this remake. I saw Rob Zombie who also in my opinion generally just sucks at directing films, becuase he RUINED Halloween and Halloween II. The only thing I liked about the remake of Halloween 1 was that he gave Michael Myers lifestory a little more. Thats about it. Now this Friday the 13th remake was awesome! The dude that was behind this movie was the same dude that did the Texas Chainsaw remakes which were also good films. He remade this movie the way it should have been remade. Cutting to the chase! When the movie begins, we know what Jason's mother already did, and how she gets killed. So it basically sticks to the original plot, no goofy twists. It's still camp crystal lake, and it's still brainless teenagers who just get wasted, and smoke weed, and lust for eachother that Jason murders! What I also dig about this remake is basically it put together the first 3 original Friday films all in this one, so you see our classic villain when he's slaying with that potato sack thing on, and later on he gets his classic mask that we all know. What I also thought was pretty interesting and a little twisted was how he didn't hack that girl that reminded him of his mother, he kept her like a trophy in his little hideout, and he took care of her, like brought dead squirrels for her to eat, even though she wasn't hungry. It was tight because it made Jason look like he wasn't some brainless thing, and the way he brought that squirrel or whatever animal that was, made it seem like he's a hunter that knows what he's doing.   That being said, the way he kills in this movie doesn't dissapoint at all. In fact, the way he does it is tactical, it isn't all cat-and-mouse crap. It makes you see that becuase Jason's territory and homage is in the woods, he's very much adapted to his enviorment, an example is the way he kills this couple out in the lake, he instantly kills this kid on a boat from a distance with a bow and arrow,with one try? THATS GOOD AIM!, and after the girl messes up her head from the boat, Jason finished her when she hides under the dock, using his instict, she takes a blade to the brain. How cliche! I actually was so amazed at HOW HE killed that dude with the arrow I rewinded it a couple times! There's a couple times where people see Jason and are like "aaaahhhhhh" and run away and he slays them, but most of the time he gets them when it's least expected, like when he got his mask. Like I said, Jason's murders are tactical.   Overall, out of all these remakes they are remaking, this one definitely kicks ass, if they make a second part to this new Friday franchise I'll look forward to it, but this one doesn't seem like they will becuase it was that good! Some people are going to say that this movie blows, and another crappy remake, take it from me, disregard them! They've just seen other crappy remakes like Black christmas, and Halloween, and Nightmare on Elm street, that they just assume Friday the 13th is gonna blow. It doesn't! It actually is pretty much worth your time!

It's Bad For Ya `It's Bad For Ya' is George Carlin's last recorded comedy concert before his death and from the word go you get his usual uncompromising, irreverent brand of humour. Walking around his living room set he shares with us his thoughts on a variety of topics and although he comes across as angry and cynical, he was also very intelligent and pertinent. Carlin's style is very reminiscent of Bill Hicks, and he even uses some of the same phrases at times, and if you like one it is a good bet you will enjoy the other. This concert covers topics like old age, death, religion, child worship/Overprotected children, stupid boring people, docile public, patriotism, civic customs and rights. Pretty much what we have come to expect from Carlin over the years. There is strong language throughout and you need to not be easily offended to enjoy his style of comedy, but to be honest most comedians are more offensive and abusive these days than Carlin ever was; it's just the more conservative elements in society don't like him opening peoples eyes to the hypocrisy and lies of those in authority. That is the message this DVD leaves you with, to always question everything, and that is a great bit of advice whatever your thoughts on life. A funny show and well worth watching.  Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.

Expendables good movie with great affects awesome story line but some of the great actors like Arnold Swarchenegger and others were only on screen long enough to say they were in the movie, Which was a let down of their potential.

Dino Squad: Fire and Ice Although I haven't watched the entire movie, from what I've picked up on, a few of the Dino Squad movies seem to have a good moral or a some real input such as one movie was talking about what is real and what isn't and how to determine what is unhealthy or harmful non-reality. Also, my kids haven't expressed anything as far as being frightened which in some other kid's movies I end up shelfing it because it's too disturbing. I wouldn't recommend it for anyone under 5 and again, this is based upon watching it intermittently. I did purchase it through 'Amazon's In Stock - new' and received it promptly and in great shape.

Soundtrack Hungry This movie was a childhood favorite of mine, and I was just tickled to find it on Amazon.  Now if I could just find the soundtrack, or at least the Carole King tunes on the soundtrack, I'd have kept a promise to myself that I made long, long ago....

good clean fun and funny too Brian is funny without reverting to the gutter just to enhance his jokes. Ok for the family from say 15 or so up. Recommended !

Another very entertaining outing for Holmes and Watson. The lives and partnership of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson have been retooled, played with, reimagined and played very straight throughout their long cinematic career; from films like Billy Wilder's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JKHF">The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes</a>, which explores the possibilites of the Holmes/Watson partnership, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005ETAMHS">The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (Universal Vault Series)</a>, which deals with Holmes' more addictive nature, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000AUHPC">Young Sherlock Holmes</a>, from Chris Columbus, who directed the first two HARRY POTTER films, and of course the fantastic PBS series <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004132HZS">Sherlock: Season One</a> from Steven Moffat, who's made an incredibly engaging modernizaton, Holmes and Watson are not the inviolate characters that purists would like us have them be. Guy Ritchie's big-budget big-screen treatments of their adventures, with the first self-titled film, and now with A GAME OF SHADOWS, handle the character deftly but with a wink in his eye and a manic spring in his step rather than the traditional visage of a frown, a magnifying glass and a hunting cap. This not-entirely-alternate vision of the character has more to do with the casting of Robert Downey Jr. as the world's greatest detective of the Victorian age as much as anything else. Downey's Holmes is constantly exercising his mind with new devices, new disguises and new mysteries as well as constantly abusing his body with various chemicals (in this film, we see him drinking embalming fluid early on). He's also doing everything he can to insinuate himself in the life of his only friend and partner, the erstwhile and begrudgingly faithful Dr. Watson, who is also given new life by Jude Law as more of a masculine and independent man of action rather than his more common interpretation of the portly sycophant hanging on Holmes' every word. Law's Watson would, at times, rather be as far away as possible from Holmes as possible than being his eternally loyal, eunuch-like companion.  With A GAME OF SHADOWS, we are introduced (beyond cryptic references in the first film) to Professor James Moriarty (played perhaps too stone-faced by Jared Harris), nicknamed The Napoleon of Crime and famously Holmes' arch-enemy. At the film's opening, according to Holmes' massive investigation, has already started a plan that looks to throw all of Europe into chaos and war. The endgame, or course, is unseen. Meanwhile, Watson readies to wed his fiancee Mary (Kelly Reilly, reprising her role) and Holmes and his Secret Service brother Mycroft (played with relish by Stephen Fry) intend to take him to his bachelor party. Naturally, the place they end up going to has an entirely different purpose for Holmes than it does for Watson. He investigates a gypsy fortune-teller (Noomi Rapace, the Swedish actress who played Lisbeth Salander in the original MILLENNIUM trilogy, as well as the star of the upcoming sci-fi epic PROMETHEUS) who Moriarty has targeted for murder. She, like Irene Adler (also reprised here in a much smaller role by Rachel McAdams), becomes a reluctant part of the investigation after being saved by Holmes. However the stakes change again for Holmes, who was more self-serving in the investigation rather than personally invested, when Moriarty commits a heinous act that wounds Holmes more deeply than he lets on, but also announces his intention to make Watson and his new bride "collateral damage" in their game. This, and the other atrocity that Moriarty committed, force Holmes to take more proactive steps to protect the Watsons. They travel from London to Paris to Geneva, discovering new information, gathering new allies and facing new enemies as the labrynthine plot of Moriarty begins to unravel, until it all culminates at a peace summit at Reichenbach Falls, a place famous in the lore of the mental and physical combat of Holmes and Moriarty.  The super slow-mo techniques used in the first film to display Holmes' combat acumen is utilized here with an exciting unpredictability since there are occasionally other players at work whose assistance can be unexpected, and makes it as enjoyable if not more so than the first film. Also the same can be said for his myriad glances at seemingly insignificant items and showing how they play out later. The set-pieces are terrific, such as the fight at the bachelor party, the train sequence, and the arms factory. The major set piece, much like the warehouse explosion in the first film now takes place in a dark forest with several pursuers and a very VERY big cannon, and it's terrific, but Ritchie's technical expertise was never in question. He knows how to make a film look good.  The problems I do have with the film are mostly in the performance category. Jared Harris has never been one of my favorite actors, and he plays Moriarty mostly as a cold fish, whose placid take on the character is not one of any flamboyance or real menace, with the exception of one scene when he sings along to a Schubert opera as he tortures Holmes. Noomi Rapace is criminally wasted here for such a volatile and vibrant performer. It's not her fault; her part is just terribly underwritten and she does a lot with it, but it's like she's hardly there. Also, Eddie Marsan as the inherently inept Inpector Lestrade is, with the exception of one 30-second scene, is completely absent from this film; a sad outcome for someone who is a vital part of the Holmes mythology and was such a vital part of the previous film.  The other problem that I have is with the climactic confrontation between Holmes and Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls. I understand what they did in the context of the film; it's more of a war between minds than it is a war between bodies. However, there isn't any kind of sense of satisfaction that the whole film would be leading up to a major climactic physical confrontation. After all, they are both physically adept and, at least in common lore, they are both master swordsmen. It would have been nice to get something more out of the ending. Perhaps screenwriters Kieran and Michele Mulroney (having only one independent film to their names) were a little out of their depth on a major studio outing.  Sorry... one last problem: The film seems far too short. There are scenes that either could have been shortened or entirely cut in order to make room for scenes of greater humor, drama, or character. The film ends too abruptly and it seems like it could have been at least fifteen minutes longer.  However, the scenes that shine brightest are the scenes between Downey and Law. They have a great, effortless chemistry that translates to an easily believable friendship on the screen. Fry is terrific fun as well, and McAdams continues to play Irene Adler with a flirty yet deadly side, although her role in this film is greatly diminished.  Downey, as per usual, is terrific as Holmes. He enjoys playing this role, and that's evident. He's extremely clever as a performer and plays Sherlock Holmes with a vitality and bawdiness never seen before. Law as Watson is equally good as his frustration with Holmes' antics builds to blind rage at moments, all the while deeply caring about Holmes as his friend and always feels the need to stand by him.  All in all, this is a very solid 3.5 out of 5 star film, and although it lacks the same punch as the first film, I'd still stand in line to see Downey and Law be Holmes and Watson again.

Excellent blu-ray but... I really love this movie: direction, editing, score, special effects, stop motion animation, photography and so on...However, I noticed some scenes with a lot of grain (e.g. foggy scenes on boat). Aside from this, Blu-ray transfer is just perfect!!. All documentaries included and BD_Book itself worth the money. If you're a fan of "Kong" and Merian C. Cooper extravaganzas, do not hesitate to buy this BD.

Season 3 continues to please If you enjoyed the first two seasons of Fringe, then you should enjoy Season 3.  It continues to expand the plot development and the characters get more interesting.

One of Woody's best. If you like Woody's classic type movies, you will love this one. It has a great story line that will have you wondering how does he come up with this stuff.

Iron Man 2-video on demand Great movie! I am a fan of the Comic books and I'm not easy on comic book movies. The action sequences are great. The Hammer character was comedic, yes, but also great and perfectly played by Mr. Rockwell. Although, I like Rourke's recent performances, I thought the Whiplash character was kinda cheesy-and could have been eliminated for screen-time for the other characters.

Do not super size me This was a good movie to watch. I watched it for a school essay and it was very enlightening.  Very scary to know how our bodies can be damaged so quickly by junk food. A good watch.

"Catfish" is pretty brilliant "Catfish" isn't a found-footage film. It doesn't involve any death, running with video camera in hand, or screaming. It's really a thriller in a certain way that turns into a very melodramatic film in the 2nd half. That's what makes it unique. For anybody who loves mystery films, you might as well see "Catfish". In between the film, it'll normally have little sequences where it shows shots of Facebook, Google Maps, and other different things. Those sequences normally have music along with them. That's another unique thing about the movie, the music. In between the scenes, it'll occasionally have music, and I thought that was pretty cool. This is a film that's pretty down to Earth, but also, since it's "real" (it's really believable, actually), it seems too perfect.   The story is really cool also, since it can happen to anyone. Somebody meets a person on Facebook who isn't what they say they are. It has a certain type of thrill to it, that keeps increasing until about 40 minutes into the film, when the "barn scene" happens (it's shown at the end of the trailer). The thrill goes down and keeps slowly going up after that, and you just have to see yourself if you didn't already. This film had a very clever marketing scheme, with it's tagline "Don't let anyone tell you what it is", and the way the trailer was set up. It's really one of those films where it's extremely important that you don't give away, especially why it's called "Catfish".   "Catfish" is a unique documentary thriller twisted romance drama movie that'll you'll either love or hate.

Funny and Action-Packed Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law return as Holmes and Watson, along with Rachel McAdams, Kelly Reilly, and other minor characters from the previous film. Downey and Law have the same fantastic chemistry as before. Though, Downey seems to be acting even more eccentric than ever as he follows the clues and his wild theories on a high speed adventure across Europe. Noomi Rapace as Madam Simza, a gypsy who Downey and Law must team up with along the way. Simza is a mysterious character, though a bit wooden. Jared Harris does an excellent job as the infamous Professor Moriarty. As Holmes' greatest adversary in the original novels, Moriarty is the only person who is on the same intellectual level as Holmes.  A Game of Shadows is a strong sequel to Downey's first Sherlock Holmes film. I enjoyed this story a bit more in fact, as there were no elements of the bizarre mysticism of the first. This was another wild ride of humor, drama, mystery, and action-packed adventure.  The mystery and suspense kept me guessing and on the edge of my seat. And the many comic relief lines had me laughing out loud. The suspense built to a massive climactic ending that was a bit predictable, yet completely enjoyable all the same. I hope this series continues with the same fine actors and keeps the light-hearted humor paired with intense action and intrigue.  Blu-Ray Special Features: o Maximum Movie Mode: Inside the Mind of Sherlock Holmes - Hosted by Robert Downey, Jr. o Focus Points:  - Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: A Perfect Chemistry  - Holmes Without Borders  - Moriarty's Master Plan Unleashed  - Holmesavision on Steroids  - Sherlock Holmes: Under the Gypsy Spell  - Meet Mycroft Holmes  - Guy Ritchie's Well-Oiled Machine o UltraViolet Digital Copy of the film  DVD Special Features: o Focus Points:  - Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: A Perfect Chemistry  - Moriarty's Master Plan Unleashed  - Holmesavision on Steroids o UltraViolet Digital Copy of the film  Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows(tm)  Movie App Notes: * The Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows(tm)  Movie App enables your iPad 2 or Kindle Fire to control your Blu-ray(tm) movie and expand your movie watching experience. Sync the app with your Blu-ray  disc of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows to start exploring the rich and exciting history of Sherlock Holmes. * The Movie App is free and can be downloaded from iTunes Store now. * The Movie App is optimized for Apple iOS 4.0 and above. * For the first time, the Movie App flips the notion of how you watch a movie at home as the App enables your iPad to control your Blu-ray(tm) movie and expand your movie watching experience * The Movie App synchs with the Blu-ray disc of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows to provide enhanced content and interactive features. * The Movie App acts like a remote control for your Blu-ray player taking you to specific scenes in the film and into the Maximum Movie Mode that complement the different chapters in the App allowing you to watch at your own speed instead of having to keep pace with the film. * Noted Sherlock Holmes expert Leslie Klinger consulted on the Movie App contents.  Note: This review was previously posted at SciFiChick dot com.

It's all been said by most, except... I should point it out so it is clearly visible.  The OVA is NOT in the US release (hopefully if there is another season, it will go in that set).  And aren't they using the title "Complete Collection" a little early?  It's not complete now, and we don't know for sure that more won't be animated.  The annoying part, is that the OVA was known about long ago, so either nobody did their research, the contracts were done way too early, or like many anime brought over to the US, the local producers refused to spring for the extra material licensing. I've been thinking the latter on a lot of recent releases since I keep seeing info stating 2.0 dolby on shows that were broadcast in 5.1 AC-3.  Not sure if that is the case here, though.  We're watching this at our anime club, and other than the rather amazed impression the super-breast-overdose with slo-mo and bullet-dodging was, in terms of animation... most of the members (including me) thought the extreme over-the-top fanservice was annoying, unnecessary (the story and characters were plenty sufficient without it), and distracting. It degraded the story and experience. The slapped-in-the-face with mammaries experience could only have been worse if done in 3D.  It's worth seeing, even with all that. Those impressed enough by it... go track down the manga...  Just, please, don't, let, Hollywood, get, ahold, of, this!

TWINS OF EVIL Means Twice the Fun! At long last, TWINS OF EVIL is available in an attractive DVD/Blu Ray Combo pack.  The folks who brought us the excellent VAMPIRE CIRCUS package have done it again!  Once again the fine folks at Synapse Films have given a beloved genre classic the sort of careful attention and affection once reserved for a handful of art films under the Criterion banner.  Although largely ignored and critically maligned at the time of its release, TWINS OF EVIL is one of the most interesting latter-day offerings from Britain's legendary Hammer films.  Obviously inspired as much by the Vincent price shocker WITCHFINDER GENERAL (aka CONQUEROR WORM), TWINS OF EVIL stars the incredible Peter Cushing as a puritanical witch hunter who discovers his twin nieces (Mary and Madeline Collinson, the first twins to appear in PLAYBOY magazine)may be under the thrall of the hedonistic local aristocrat, Count Karnstein (Damien Thomas), who just so happens to be a member of the most notorious family of vampires in Europe (at least, the ones not named Dracula!).  Synapse has provided a lovely, clean uncut print of John Hough's shocker; if you're only familiar with the muddy, sloppily edited black market versions of this film, you are in for a treat!  And don't forget to check out the documentary on Hammer and exploitation cinema included on the disc--there are recreations of Sheridan Le Fanu's classic novella CARMILLA (the inspiration for a trio of Hammer Horrors, of which TWINS is the third installment) featuring the beautiful and talented actress Candace Cherie, who I am proud to number among my former film class students.  I can't wait to see what Hammer Horror Synapse releases next!

It's Gay, It's Danish and It's got Nazis! Brother hood or `Broderskab' is an award winning Danish film from Director and co-writer Nicolo Donato, this is his first feature, but he has done pop videos for the likes of `The Ravonettes'. This then is a much improved step in the right direction.  It tells the story of Lars (Thure Lindhardt), who leaves the army after making proposals to some of his men whilst on out for drinks. He goes home but sort of drifts into a neo-Nazi gang. He is at first disgusted, but is persuaded to come to a beach party, and slowly starts to work with the violent thugs. This includes homophobic acts including unprovoked attacks on people and property. They are also anti Muslim and believe they are upholding the `laws of nature'.  After his Mum tries to get him re enlisted to the army, he leaves and ends up with the group leader.  He puts him up with another ex soldier who is sprucing up the organisations beach house. This then is Jimmy (David Dencik), he is at first cold towards Lars, but a friendship slowly blossoms, and then drink gets involved and well you can guess quite literally what comes next.  There are lots of brilliant moments in this film, including a right wing gig, which looks very homo erotic and sort of explains why some gay men are drawn into such activities. There is an excellent book by Max Schaefer which deals with the issues of being a `gay Nazi' - `Children of the Sun'.  This is a really good film that tries to deal with the paradox of being gay yet openly getting involved in `queer bashing'. Lars does do a great speech about Ernst Rohm at one point, and I love that fact that one of the Neo-Nazis is called `Kenneth'. A word of warning, this is gay themed,  not a gay semi porno, so do not expect lots of bedroom action, this is a drama.  This is obviously in Danish with good sub titles and runs to 90 minutes, for a first effort Nicolo Donato has done a superb job, and I am looking forward to his next offering.

Nail Biter Very strange, but in a creepy flick way. I'd watch it again. Kept me on the edge of my seat.

Good movie I prefer Jane's movies versus the movie based on her life. I was hoping for an ending that I did not receive. She appears to have lived vicariously through the characters of her novels. It was interesting nonetheless and I'm glad I bought it. Product arrived on time and in good condition.

The video helps but your own time on the Br1600 is key I like most bought the 1600 recorder a year ago and wanted a more simpler understanding of the unit. So the video was what to get. It did help me start to understand the unit as to what things did and why. I wished he went into deeper explainations other then saying mess with it your ears will find the best setting. But after putting a good year into the unit he was right hes not gonna tell you what sounds best for you.  If you think your going to watch it and blow out recordings like a pro its not likley. True you will have a better understanding and I will have to say its great to go back to the video to reference things in the begginning. Time and more time and trying different recording projects will build up your experience with the unit. I am now working with a sequencer and other midi keyboards and drum machines all sync together with the unit and its wonderful now. The video bearly touched on any of that stuff. I would suggest buying a good drum machine that flam and rolls and midi it to the BR the drum sounds. The BR drums sound great but having more controll over sensitivity and effects help create better drum patterns to play into unit using BR drums. But time on the unit will get you their and experimenting will get you better at finding the level of sounds and realizim you want, it also depends on what type of music your trying to record.  He also does not cover the need for a good sound proof booth to record in how it makes a world of difference or a very good mic and headphones can make a world of difference. You cant blame the BR1600 for you not getting great recordings if you dont have the toolls to record. Its putting the time into trying and experimenting. I took me a good year before I was able to feel confident with how to produce a good sound and thousands of dollars to get the room setup to record. The guitar sounds are so so in the unit and I find mic-ing a amp to beat all the programed guitar sounds. So dont beat yourself up it will take practice to get a good sound and the video only outlines what each thing does. Some things he breezes over so fast youll find your self rewinding the video to catch it. But most of the stuff he explains is good. I would say you will need the video to break through the learning process. The Booklets a bit deep at times with the video it really helps. But in time it all makes sense if you keep on keeping on it.

great movie This is a great movie lots of action and intrege.  Being the third movie in the series i was afraid it was gonna be a flop but it was a great movie after all.

Two out of three ain't bad Three short pieces.  The first `The Telephone' is a thriller with no supernatural elements. It's also pretty dull and predictable.  It takes it's twists far too seriously.  But the other two stories `The Wurdulak' (starring a fun Boris Karloff, who also does the terrific bookend pieces to the whole film) and `A Drop of Water' have a real sense of enjoyable playfulness along with Bava's always present stylishness, and over the top lighting (which can get annoying at times - in `Drop of Water' light from every window keeps rising and falling.  It may be that it's supposed to suggest lightening, but it's mostly just distracting).  When Bava has fun with the hoary clich&eacute;s of vampires and revenge of the dead, it's a lot easier for us to have fun too (and, ironically, I also found it more tense).

Cultural conflict and adaptaion For me, this movie is interesting in terms of the cultural communication especially at the first encounter of different cultures. Any culture including English and Algonquin assumes aliens to be the same with them and expects aliens to behave in the same way and interpret the behavior in their own way. John Smith was in an idealistic position for conducting the ethnography, but my guess is he didn't serve as a good and effective cultural anthropologist to the American society, hence there happened the Indian War.  As a movie of Malick, it is full of natural silence within which people are situated, and that's the point I prefer this movie as his other movies.

A spectacular legacy indeed.... As with all dvd releases highlighting the various wrestling federations of the past,yes it must suck to have their history told from the WWE's point of few,but hats off to the WWE for allowing the fans of today to enjoy some of the history & legacy the wrestling business has to offer.I really enjoyed this offering,and truthfully wished it could have been longer & that much more in depth.

Classic Long, but worth the trouble. Watched on kindle fire.  Well acted, barely shows its age.  If you haven't seen it yet, check it out!

Moral Strength The Review:  Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Tommy Lee Jones and Hayley Atwell lead the cast of Captain America: The First Avenger and it's another great movie from Marvel. Captain America finishes the trifecta of this season's excellent Marvel movies that began with Thor and X-Men: First Class. It also sets the stage for next year's Avengers film, to be helmed by BtVS and Dollhouse creator, Joss Whedon. Captain America is a comic book icon, but until now he's appeared in terrible, low budget movies. Captain America: The First Avenger is the first film actually worthy of the icon.  Captain America hits all the high points for a super hero movie, while deftly avoiding the many pitfalls inherent in bringing such an iconic character to the silver screen. It's an origin story, but it doesn't get bogged down in the comic book lore. In fact it cleverly makes light of Cap's hokey comic book origins in a brilliantly self aware bit of movie making. Captain America will be and already is a great success, coming in at number 1 in its opening weekend. This is because in addition to being an action extravaganza, it's very well written and character focused. I had my doubts when I heard Chris Evans was cast in the title role, but he is the perfect Captain America or more precisely he is the perfect Steve Rogers, the incredibly frail kid from Brooklyn who goes on to become a super soldier.  The first half of the movie focuses on Steve Rogers' attempts to volunteer for the U.S. Army in order to do his part to combat the Nazis during World War 2. Steve Rogers is physically unfit for service, but goes from city to city trying to sneak through the army screening process. Even though Steve Rogers is obviously patriotic, his heroic appeal runs much deeper than that. He is the eternal underdog and he naturally understands that it takes more than might to make right. His moral strength is what enables him to stand above dozens of physically stronger men and leads him to be chosen for the Super Soldier program that turns him into Captain America. The writers took an incredibly hokey origin story for the prototypical square jawed action hero and humanized Captain America to the point where Steve Rogers' alter ego takes a back seat to Steve Rogers himself.  As ever, every great hero needs a great villain, and Captain America's nemesis is Johann Schmidt, aka the Red Skull. Played by Hugo Weaving, who has proven himself an amazing actor even with a mask that completely obscures his face (V for Vendetta). The Red Skull is not misunderstood. He is simply evil. If you have been paying attention to the last few films involving Avengers characters, keep a keen eye out for references to the other films in this series.  Captain America: The First Avenger is every bit as good as Thor. It takes a character who I did not think would translate well to the big screen and makes the transition flawlessly. Great action, a great hero and a sinister villain. Captain America will be enlisting for a second tour of duty in next year's Avengers.

I just had to see it to make sure... I liked this film but I would rather read the book which I haven't as yet so I can understand the nuances which are usually missing in a film.  I do no know one thing for sure and its that Collins did indeed lift much of her HG story from Battle Royale.  Its bloody, its sad.  There is some social commentary but very little explanation of what kind of world produced the student games. The acting is good but the script didn't really lead to too much character development except for a few characters such as the student who was strong yet socially isolated, hurt from years of childhood abuse and neglect.  Its worth renting but I wouldn't buy the dvd.  I would rather invest in the book.

Icing on the Cake!! This movie is the icing on the cake for the American Pie movies.  If you have seen the rest of the movies this is a definite movie you will need to get to add to the collection.  It is very funny and raunchy from the begining until the end.  The picture quality is really good and the sound is really clear.  And lets say the stiffmeister gets his ultimate revenge on his nemesis.  I give this movie an A and highly recommend it.

"Ultimate Director's Cut" does NOT ruin the movie! Just got my copy of "The Warriors Director's Cut". I'd read about the changes Walter Hill made, inserting comic-strip panels between some scenes, so I was as wary as anyone else.  I'm here to tell you that this addition in no way detracts from the movie. Walter Hill explains at the beginning that he considered The Warriors a kind of comic book-type story and that he might have done it that way if he'd thought of it back in '79.  And it's true: Certainly, "The Warriors" is a movie to enjoy but not to be taken too seriously. The comic insertions merely bring out the cartoonish flavor of the movie (consider this: those "wipes" between scenes were in the original movie, and the editor, in one of the commentaries, said they were used to signify a sort of switch between "panels" or pages).  Think about it: The Baseball Furies? The High Hats? You can't take these gangs seriously--though the Furies sure look cool. And even Michael "Swan" Beck comments about how, after their vicious fight with The Punks (in the bathroom), his character comes off with one gash on his face but otherwise looking fine. You have to take the movie as it is: a live-action comic book.  By doing so, I was able to enjoy the movie just as much. Everyone's entitled to their opinion, but don't let it sway you; especially the ones that make it sound like these insertions are everywhere and therefore ruin the movie. Absolutely untrue! The Warriors is still a classic.

In Deed Adam Sandler did an ok job in this movie. It hit some high points and some low ones. All in all, I enjoy watching it over again and again

wrong amount The amount of money buried is not 50,000 it is 300,000 if i remember write but i love the movie there is noway it can be remade the stars of today is nothing compared to the stars then

a little off This season is still fun but not as good as some others.  Still fun to watch.  Arrived in excellent condition.  Thanks Amazon.

Could have been an episode of the "X-Files" This strange combination of science fiction, murder mystery and medical experimentation isn't missing much to be a precursor to "The X-Files". Tina Aumont, who I've had a thing for since high school, shines in this bizarre tale with kinky sex intertwined with conspiracy theory and Klaus Kinski's usually vivid villainy. It isn't perfect by any means but is interesting with a European setting and the science in this '70s film has become the stuff of TV ads for nutrition and anti-aging products.

Editing is Key This is a movie with a premise not before seen. The camera work is a combo of multi-height shots that help give the editor a nice range to choose from. And the editor chooses well. It has the feel of an early music video. The retro music behind several of the more 'dreamy' sequences lends to the surreal stuck-in-an-elevator loopiness of the whole. Jason Statham looks like he's having difficulty keeping the grin off his face - he's obviously enjoying his time with neveldine/taylor and company. Fun from start to finish.

Great Blu-Ray Release for a Great Old Film Blazing Saddles is an all time comedy classic. It has earned a fantastic release on Blu-Ray and I cannot imagine this film looking or sounding much better than it does here (considering that this movie was made in the mid 70's). For fans of this film it is a must own and all of the special features from the 30th Anniversary DVD have been ported over for this release. For a more technical review (w/ HD screen shots) check out this link:  [...]

Fun Movie This is a fun comic book movie.  Don't expect Oscar winning acting or anything like that. . . plot is predictable but that is what you expect in this type of movie.  The good guys win and the bad guy dies.  Enjoy it for what it is.  All the actors do a good job in their roles.  It is a little scary and the language is a little too strong for my young boys but in another year or two, they should really enjoy it. That being said, my boys are pretty sheltered so use your own judgement when determining whether it is appropriate for your kids.

The Activity Continues This movie continues to bring the thrills as things go bump in the night. I really like that unlike most sequels, this one actually involves the characters and circumstances from the first movie. Although it was not perfectly integrated it did work out well. PA 2 is definitely more of a pop and flash type of scary movie where more things kinda jump and bang where the first one was a little slower and creepy. I would recommend that you do watch the first one before buying this one although you don't have to to enjoy or understand this one it does help if you know who the characters are. Going with the blu ray instead of dvd was a very good decision as the sound on a home theater system is fantastic and will make you jump out of your pants. The only reason this didn't get five stars is because I'm very picky and think that the story line in the first one was a little better and the camera on this one isn't a hand held, instead a home security system and instead of watching the one camera the screen cycles through all the different rooms before it shows you the action which can be sort of annoying but I would definitely buy this threes times again.

A Gorgeously Junky Guilty Pleasure Despite the title, Spartacus is nowhere to be seen in Gods of the Arena, a prequel season to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003PIUBZS">Spartacus: Blood and Sand</a>. The non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma which ultimately claimed the life of title character Andy Whitfield necessitated this season, which served as a filler between the first season and the third - Spartacus: Vengance - with Liam McIntyre re-cast in the leading role.  Gods of the Arena deals with behind the scenes intrigue as Quintus Lentulus Batiatus attempts to emerge from his father's shadow and secure a higher position for the house of Batiatus in the Roman city of Capua.  Of course, the historical events portrayed in both seasons of Spartacus are used as a springboard to propel the story, and are only peripherally linked to the real-life events that lead to Spartacus' revolt in 73BC.  John Hannah and Lucy Lawless clearly relish their roles here, chewing on every scene of dialog as if it's their last meal.  The supporting performances are also suitably hammy and over the top - sublety has little place here - although Jeffrey Thomas brings suitable gravitas to his role as Titus, Quintus Lentulus' father.  The show is filmed in a heightened visual style reminiscent of graphic novels, with some of the backgrounds looking painted rather than organic.  Much has been made of the copious nudity in the series.  While there is plenty of flesh to be seen here, both male and female, it is considerably less, um "in your face" in season two.  The fleshly attraction here is in watching it abused in the fight scenes, complete with Matrix-style slow motion and CGI injuries of all sorts, including impalement and dismemberment.  As history, this is on a level somewhere below, say, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002M2Z3BA">Gone with the Wind</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ANVQ0K">Titanic</a>.  As pure guilty pleasure entertainment, it holds the viewer's attention.

It really makes you think. Those familiar with the television series will probably wonder if Tim and Eric are capable of making a coherent full length movie. Well, I'm not sure how coherent it is, but it is funny.

Stacy Peralta and the z-boys =\  Loved the movie despite it's faults. Ledger is just one member of a great cast. It should have been better and less contrived. It also stole everything from the doc yet didn't add to it. Odd. It should have been more thrilling than the doc, it just stole lines from the doc interviews yet Peralta got sole writing credit.then he made himself this angel-hero-model-citizen and it drug the whole movie down to a boring flat. He made himself win every contest in the film, pretty egotistical revisionist. It's like seeing the fantasies he had in his mind, making the real heros fall one by one due to their respective and likely feigned tragic faults while he himself had none. He literally and figuratively skated throughthe whole movie without wiping out! Even how the other characters reference Peralta as "higher" and themselves as "lesser mortals" it's such a yawn I wanted Peralta to be knocked down,too much hubris, he was on his own d*ck the whole movie.

Entertaining, and effectively conveys the book's message After seeing mixed reviews on Rotten Tomates my expectations for this movie were low. However, by the end of the movie my opinion was pretty high. I give it only 4 stars because I thought it dragged in spots in the first half.  There is extra material added to the book, which is more or less necessary to make this into a full-length movie. I thought the added content kept the spirit of the book and made for a more interesting movie.  Where this movie shines is in conveying the messages of the book. Dr. Seuss's book is not subtle. This movie is not subtle either. I was a little shocked at how heavy-handed it was, particularly in the song "How Bad Could it Be." I'm sure it will offend people. But by being in your face, this movie is keeping the spirit of the book.  I'm glad for this movie. It does gets the message out even more effectively to kids than the book, in my opinion.  Are all corporations evil and greedy? Of course not. But whether they are conscious of it or not, their actions often have very adverse effects. People like to ignore this and tell themselves it's not that bad. How bad could it be?  One of the easiest ways to make a lot of money is to convert life and health into money. Think about it. Have you ever heard of any companies selling products that were harmful or unhealthy? How about dumping toxic manufacturing byproducts into the land, water and air that we all depend on? How about mistreating employees or demanding too much "life" from them? If you have worked very long in corporate America some of these things will likely ring a bell.  The answer to the movie's song "How Bad Could it Be" is that it could be very bad. We really are making our planet uninhabitable in the long run. We have to change how we do things.  I enjoyed the hopeful, upbeat ending to this movie. I hope the reality of our future is as upbeat. Trends are not promising, I'm sorry to say.

Wild in the Country DVD The DVD had a couple of spots that caused the movie to stop for a few seconds and become blurry.  Other than that it was a great Elvis movie.  It certainly showed what a terrific actor he was, especially when he had a decent script.

History meets slapstick humor If you've watched the first Night at the Museum movie, then you know what to expect ...  talking exhibits, a monkey sidekick, and Ben Stiller swinging from clueless to genius at a slapstick pace.  While I wouldn't call this film a classic by any stretch, it seemed to be just right for my children (7 and 5).  Moreover, the use of historical characters like Teddy Roosevelt and Amelia Eherhart created some productive after film discussions with my kids.  Worth a rental for sure.

Fun Action Adventure Movie Iron Man has a lot of talent behind it and can be very entertaining.  Jon Favreau directs with a verve that doesn't forget people as he keeps the super hero format intact.  Robert Downey plays Iron Man with a great sense of humor and as Tony Stark the weapons magnate who is his alter ego.  The movie begins in Afghanistan and Tony Stark is held hostage and escapes by making a protective suit to ward off deadly weapons.  He perfects this suit into the Iron Man we know and love in the movie.  Pepper Pots is a great servant and a very pretty woman whom he ignores as often as he can.  Terrence Howard gets to play the sidekick in a fun way.  Jeff Bridges finally gets a bad guy role.  What fun!

Incredible Movie, Tasty Sushi I thought this movie was a 4.5, so did my son.  It's a wonderful story but a bit repetitive.  You'll enjoy every bite!

A well-made movie, even if a tad on the depressing side As always, the best characters of fiction are those that are flawed and thus appear the most real. And the story behind this movie really gave the characters some real issues and contradictions that contribute a lot of how they act in this particular story. For example, Frank is shown to have an affair and then come home to his family throwing him a special birthday party. April on the other hand becomes increasingly detached as the movie progresses as she continues to aspire for more in her life, whatever "more" is supposed to mean.  The movie is not a happy one, that is for certain. But to be fair, the acting, especially by Kate Winslet, is pretty stellar and they really know how to flesh out the full range of emotions that each of these characters go through as the story unfolds. And given Sam Mendes as director, the movie is quite the visual masterpiece, but in a manner that is more subtle than his other movies like American Beauty. In that film we were treated to visual spectacles like the scene with the roses (you know which one I'm talking about, yes?) whereas he we have set pieces that play out amazingly well in a stark brightness that tries to push the image of happy suburbia. The lies the contrast (or the juxtaposition if you will), that as much as most of the movie is bright and full of sunshine, we as viewers are in fact watching a relationship fall apart bit by bit.  While I don't expect all movies to be happy, I think the story could have used some bright moments here and there. All throughout it seems to just get heavier and heavier, which is probably why I had issues really immersing myself in the story. While beautiful from a technical perspective, the story was a bit more painful than what I'm comfortable with.

Protective That was the word that comes to mind. Whitney is singer actor and Kevin is a bodyguard for her. The romance is hard to evolve, he is closed and she is playful, they are different. I liked when her and her sister sing together. They seemed together and connected by beautiful angel voices. The sabers I will put down, I saw many on one of my sojourns. The cabin with the snowfilled forest and mystical lake. The steam coming up from the walk at Whitneys mansion and statue lined drive, to jog and run in that steamy foresty town. The voice and the energy she emits, it is so viable so alive, It is extremely hard for me to think she used, too much flowing energy coming from her being. Her confidence and her poise. The family moments at the cabin, cooking, playing chess, holding each other, boating on a placid glass of water. Taking a hit for living in the moment, a moment filled with desire to really live your job. To help another, to be that kind and good. To be quiet and stoic without letting anybody know your insides that are filled with such beauty. Kevin's character has some of this.

Very good bluray, other then some grain now and then! This movie really rocks, it has tons of action thanks to Gary Busey, Tommy Lee Jones and Steven Seagal. On the issue of grain, you do see some especially in dark scenes but otherwise the picture itself is very good, and this bluray is better then the dvd, anytime! For 8 bucks, you simply can't go wrong!

get the special edition instead I love this movie and give it five stars, but this "deluxe edition" is a disappointment. I bought it based on James W. Anderson's review, because I wanted to hear the movie in stereo. Well, it's still mono. In fact, it was filmed in mono, so there is no "original multi-channel soundtrack." This is just the special edition with a lame "collectible 32-page booklet and music cd." The booklet adds nothing that's not already on the dvd, and the cd just has eight mono 50's songs from the movie. Save your money. Be like 91% of the people who viewed this item and buy the special edition instead.

Yeah, it's been done before, but... The animation was really nice!  I thought the plot was still good, even if it was similar to other storylines.  I'm glad I've added this to my anime collection.

Great read Great book that is very enlightening and will break the scope that society has put on creation and our existence.  Really good read!

Who Needs Two Hours?  A Novelty Concept Executed Well Geared Toward More Casual Viewers With its bold promise and provocative title, the History Channel documentary "History of the World in Two Hours" has a lot to live up to.  But seriously, anyone who thinks this will be a complete or comprehensive chronicle of almost 14 billion years is probably setting their expectations a little high.  For one thing, as this aired on the History Channel with commercials--it actually boils down to 88 minutes from start to finish!  Heck, who needs a full two hours?  The title is a teaser, a novelty.  This is a breezy and entertaining trip through history that starts with concepts related to the formation of earth and ends in contemporary society.  In between, we hit certain highlights from the realms of chemistry, biology, astrophysics, paleontology, anthropology and history that help to overview key components that made life possible, sustainable, and able to evolve into its recognizable modern configuration.  Certainly, this isn't an in-depth analysis of any one thing in particular, it's just a quick glimpse of important elements that were vital in shaping the earth as we know it.  Perhaps the strongest aspect of "History of the World in Two Hours" comes in its early segments when we're discussing how certain elements were formed that contributed to earth being a viable planet on which life could thrive.  The sciences combine to form an intriguing tale of evolution and I like that the piece shows how the physical composition of the atmosphere changed, gives the reasons behind it, and points to future consequences.  As the documentary progresses, however, the components can become a bit more hit or miss.  And while it seems rather cursory and simplistic, the dispersal of humans, the growth of civilizations, and the union of the continents through exploration give one a lot to think about.  Very little time is spent on the modern world as we are still but a blip on the scale of history, and again we're left with random points of significance.  I don't know that if you're looking for a serious study of complex topics that "History of the World in Two Hours" will fulfill all your needs.  It is meant for the more casual viewer.  It might serve as a nice introduction for some, or an interesting conversation starter for others.  Employing the trademark History Channel CGI effects and plenty of quick cut editing, the film flies by at a rapid pace and is great to look at.  At the end of the day, I may not have learned much new from this documentary--but it was never less than fascinating to see what someone else thought were the high points in nearly 14 billion years of existence.  Thoroughly entertaining, occasionally enlightening, this is a fun overview as long as your expectations are realistic.  At 88 minutes, it's quite a ride.  KGHarris, 3/12.

Stupid Title.  Good Movie. If you can move past a title that I suppose is trying to be titillating and actually watch the film, you may be pleasantly surprised.  There is actually a funny, touching, and meaningful film here.

intriguing and eerie This is an intriguing and eerie film, quite mysterious, with believeable acting and sexy characters. Lighting effects are great, as are the locations appropriately simple, odd, or magical, as the scene calls for. Powell hits important gay sex issues with sensitivity but with necessary punch. Alex Bracq is terrific in the lead.

enjoyable and mind altering This is just a crazy and bizarre movie.  Funny though, and a must watch for anyone wanting something different.

Great movie This is an awsome movie. Great transaction, and I love any and everything Viking. I highly recommend it for everyone.

Actually pretty clever For me, this is a clever movie, subtle and dry, hard to believe it's German.  It is for all those people who have seen all the deep French films about sex.  The story concerns a woman who wants to make a film about sex which is not pornographic but explicit, trying to reveal the 'secret' of sex.  Really, a fitting commentary.  Can't say anything more without ruining it.

Classic I used to have the vhs tape of this.  Our family played it every christmas till the tape failed.  Love the DVD and the comentary.

Not Bad I went into it with low expectations, but it turned out to be a reasonably engaging movie.  Its starts a bit predictable, and the situations require a bit of suspended disbelief.  In the end, its a bit of a heart warming story.  Definitely worth watching.

Hilarious! This movie is bound to be a cult classic. If you dug the music from the film you can get some of the songs here:  [...]

Good movie based loosely on a very complex plot. The movie was good if you know the back story. The movie did not follow the book very closely. It got a lot in in a short time and the actors did a great job. The back story is that "Toby" was the son of a very wealthy British indistrialist. His parents died in a plane crash when he was a child and he was raised by his Aunt Julia. His family had owned the property which is now used as a hospital during war time. The only reference in the movie is when Toby writes his Aunt that the books are all gone but the room is the same. In the book the plot is to drive Toby crazy so the Aunt, his father's sister, will inherrit all his wealth. Toby's father was a multi-millionaire and Toby will inherrit it all at age 21, he is age 20 when shot down. The movie makes more sence if you keep in mind that the Dr. and the Aunt are partners in crime. The book was much better but was hard to find as it was written 1948. I ordered the book from Amazon almost a year ago.

1 funnt movie!!! for those whos familiar with teen fight movies like crow zero will like this movie. its more or less the same as crows, but more of a comedic version. i found myself laughing hard frequently, but be warned there is a teen sex scene, so wouldnt recommend this movie to anyone under 18.

More Paul, Please The story line had some quirks:  God's plan to eliminate humans starts with angels possessing "weaker-minded" people, including children???  Not enough horror to feel the impact of the movie's title.  The role of Jeep could have been casted better and Kate Walsh's devoted wife of 15+ years can't be described as memorable (would have been nice to lose her within the first 10 minutes of the film).  Paul Bettany as Archangel Michael?  The cover shot alone was worth adding this movie to my collection!  Great action and special effects!  Dennis Quaid as Jeep's dad and owner of the remote desert truck stop is spot-on.  Tyrese Gibson also does a great job.  What Bible-centric movie would be complete without a Bible thumper (Charles Dutton) who has a hook for one hand?

Don't burn your bridges. This review is based upon the "Rental" copy. No Bonuses.  Running time: 91 mins. Rated "R".   This is the fifth movie in the series, but is actually a prequel to the first movie, Final Destination (2000).    Tony Todd, from Final Destination (2000) and Final Destination 2 (2003), returns as "William Bludworth".    A group of office workers are going on a retreat. The tight boss, Dennis Lapman (David Koechner) doesn't talk nice to anyone. He has Peter (Miles Fisher) organizing the bus trip with nice guy, Sam (Nicholas D'Agosto), as his assistant to make sure everyone gets on board the bus on time. Peter puts the pressure on Sam that he will be fired if he doesn't do his job right for Dennis.  Sam's girlfriend, Molly, (Emma Bell) is also in the bus group and just told him they are not working out. As Sam rushes Nathan (Arlen Escarpeta) onto the bus, he reads on the steps, "Watch Your Step".   Sam notices construction work being done on the bridge the bus is traveling on. Their is a big square hole to the right. A shadow passes over him inside the bus. Sam gets a strange feeling. The bus stops. He cuts his finger on the seat. The video tv becomes snowy. Their is a tremor. The bridge road begins to crack and collapses into the water below.   How will this group survive the fate that awaits them.  This is just one incident in a series of events about to happen.  Also in the cast: Ellen Wroe, Jacqueline MacInnes Wood, P.J. Byrne, Courtney B. Vance, Brent Stait.  Shown in squeezy widescreen.  Option of language and subtitles in English, Spanish, French.  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0780631684">Final Destination (New Line Platinum Series)</a> (2000). <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JLZK">Final Destination 2</a> (2003). <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FC2HRW">Final Destination 3 (Full Screen 2-Disc Special Edition)</a> (2006). <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001GCUO4S">The Final Destination</a> (Final Destination 4 3D) (2009). <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004EPZ08O">Final Destination 5 (+ UltraViolet Digital Copy)</a> 3D (2011).

"Every sin leaves a mark." Eastern Promises is undoubtedly a fantastic film. It felt to me like a Russian Goodfellas, or Godfather in essence, of course without the scale and grandiose of those classic mafia films. Maybe it could have been if there were more time devoted to the Nikolai (Viggo Mortensen), and not more than half of the movie devoted to the prostitute Tatiana and her daughter. I understand that's what the story was about, and I'm basically complaining about the main plot of the story, but I loved Nikolai's character so much that I wanted to see much more of him. That truly is more of a testiment to Mortensen's performance than it is a criticism of the film. If there were a little more depth to the story (it's only an hour and a half), I wouldn't mind it so much. I just felt like every time I would get sucked into Nikolai's world, the baby subplot pulled me out a little more than I would have liked. I will say though, I really liked how the story came full circle and connected the multiple dots in a very interesting way.  This is, like I said, a fantastic film. It has possibly the tensest fight scene that I have ever seen. Major respect goes to Viggo for doing it fully nude. I'm sure thousands of Lord of the Rings chicks lost their marbles after that one. That scene is superb enough for me to recommend this movie to everyone. But as a part of your collection, I am not sure it's for everyone. I enjoy it enough to own it, but I recommend it as a rental first for each to decide for themselves. The transfer iv quite qell done. It's one of Universal's better efforts.

uuuuhm... ...is this a joke, or did someone mix up something? I mean calling "only 100.000" a "limited edition" is kinda awkward, ain't it? 1.000 - ok, that would be really limited. 10.000 - ok. But 100.000? Some discs are never even sold that often! So itty bitty please with sugar on top - look up if this is really correct ;)  Thanks in advance.

There was some magic left out. My wife has been collecting the Blu-ray releases of Disney classics as they have released and this release has been no different. But something is missing in this translation, it seems that Disney didn't put their A team on this product, while you can tell it was remastered and can certainly tell the difference in picture quality, its not a solid state of quality. At times it looks AMAZING at others it just looks upgraded. while I don't know why this is, maybe something happen to the master source during remastering and is the cause but, we have Pinocchio on Blu-ray which is a far older movie and it's just Jaw-dropping on Blu-ray. If you're a fan of "The Fox and the Hound" this is a definite pick-up but if you happen to be a nitpicky about how your movies look and are expecting just the absolute best, especially from Disney you might want to hold off to see if they actually remaster the remaster.

a marine story review Not what I expected when I saw the title....but good story.  Gays in the military I am certain, have it tough.. this woman could fight beside me anytime.

all time favorites This was one of my favorite movies as a child and now it is a favorite with my children as well.

Three dedicated Norwegian students create a fine documentary Three Norwegian college students made this documentary as a film studies project. We know them only by their first names, Kalle, Johanna and Thomas. Although this film was given the unfortunate name, Troll Hunter, it is primarily a disturbing educational experience. Some of what a viewer sees might seem unnecessarily bloody and frightening, but this is what these students found after they attached themselves to a reclusive, surly bear hunter. I will only say that this man, Hans, and his superior, Mr. Finn Haugen, worked for the Norwegian Wildlife Board. As we and the students later learn the men actually were employees of the secret government agency, the Norwegian Troll Security Service (TSS). This agency, it turned out, was created to kill trolls and hide their existence. Outlandish? You must watch this documentary film. This film was released only after the students disappeared and their work was discovered by the side of a road.  The film is presented as it was discovered, from snips and pieces made by the students. Kalle was the cameraman, Johanna was responsible for the audio, Thomas was the on-camera commentator. We do not know their last names, only that they were students from Dottmar College. They were three young people dedicated to their project, sometimes frightened but with a deep desire to learn and to record the truth. They have never been seen again, and we do not know their fate. Many suspect the TSS might be involved since it since has been learned that the TSS has been attempting to cover-up the existence of trolls for many years. This was discovered only inadvertently when the Norwegian prime minister, Mr. Jens Stoltenberg, inadvertently confirmed the existence of trolls during a press conference.  In the course of these students' film we encounter the Tosserlad, the Jotnar and a group of young Ringlefinches, all huge beasts with gigantic noses, long arms and covered with filthy hair. We see how gigantic are these beasts, towering over forests and wreaking destruction as they move. We learn that their inability to convert vitamin D into calcium makes them vulnerable to turning into stone in sunlight as their bodies over-react to UV rays. Unfortunately, (because of the likelihood of sensationalism), the students also record terrifying chases through dense dark woods, bloody encounters and frightening suspense. There is the sacrifice of a goat to snare, I believe, a ringlefinch. The young goat bleats its fear.  Some of what the students filmed simply is not appropriate for children. Indeed, even the preparations for approaching these creatures might seem too disgusting for family viewing. The application of trollstench, particularly to the armpits and groins, is vulgar. This substance is so foul to the nostrils that gagging usually is induced. Trollstench is prepared by cooking down the difficult-to-collect bodily wastes of trolls. This, however, is essential if one is to disguise one's own scent, particularly if one is a Christian. Trolls are enraged by Christians. Yet as fearsome as these huge beasts are, they are susceptible to disease. This might be, the students learn, the cause of troll rage.  Kalle, Johanna and Thomas framed their story around Hans, the trolljegeren (or troll hunter). Hans might not be as reliable as the students think. Yet Hans undoubtedly knows his trolls  Call Troll Hunter what you will - a documentary, cinema verite, or simply a student college film project. It remains a remarkable record. Any who have managed to watch that other classic documentary, Forgotten Silver, will not regret watching this.

Bringing Back Memories I enjoyed watching this movie all over again!  I love Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan's work and it was like being a kid all over again. It was great to see that even though Tarzan was in normal clothes that he hadn't lost his jungle charm.  Johnny Sheffield was also a treat to watch, he's such a good actor for such a young boy. I loved the court room scenes and the scenes on the bridge where Tarzan did a beautiful dive into the water. I recommend this film to anyone who is a Tarzan fan.

Great, under-rated movie! I love this movie, I have probably watched it two dozen times.  It has great actors and a believable universe and plot.  I saw this with my dad back when it was new and I love watching it over and over again.  I never played the video games.  Interesting thing... Mark Hamill did the voice of the main character in the video games, in the movie he is the computer voice 'Merlin'.  I love this movie, watch it and add it to your collection.

Night of the Living Dead Blu-Ray by Forgotten Films This is a great release of a classic film. This is the version by Forgotten Films. The film transfer is the best I've seen (it is in 4x3, which is the correct version). There is some static in one or two places, more than just ordinary film grain. In particular the redneck party at the end. It does have a 2.0 Stereo soundtrack, which is slightly better than a Mono track. There is even a large slideshow of images from the movie.  The only major downside I can see with this release is the lousy artwork used for the case. It just has a screengrab of one of the random zombies from the movie with a block and some text around it. The image is fairly sharp on the printed-out artwork, which wasn't cut out straight, but it's just not an image I would've chosen myself. Also, the disc label was printed off-center, so you can see white rings around the center. With a little work, this could be a 5-star release.

Very educational,but keeps repeating This film is very educational and cute,but the same voice repeats the colors over and over again. And its not a cute voice thats first announcing the colors,its an annoying womans voice. It once gave me a headache. But my daughter seems to like it. Good video for children up to 2 years old

Still good after all this time... This was my favorite Pirates movie.  It has a little bit of everything in it, romance, drama, action, comedy.  Still love it after all this time.

Spielberg in fine form On paper, this film must have appeared to be a tired contrivance-- so many cliches, so little to hold it together. Yet, somehow, after making films for 40 years, Spielberg continues to get better and better at what he does better than anybody else. One might say that the Spielberg film is a contradiction to the phrase "they don't make them like they used to." Well, Spielberg does-- and in some ways better than anybody ever has. That isn't to say a movie like War Horse is going to offer new insights into the human condition, but it does breathe new life into the hopeful, sugar coated miracle stuff that Hollywood lives and breathes on.  The images in this film are truly breathtaking. And, it should be said, they go beyond cliche and achieve poetry. It may be a kind of commercial poetry, but it is beautiful nonetheless. And though many of the situations feel fake (especially one with a sick child and her kindly grandfather), and some of the sequences just reek of manipulation, most of them work wonderfully. As much as I resisted, I teared up a couple of times. Cynics may disagree, but I think Spielberg has an extraordinary and authentic emotional sense-- and I choose to believe its genuine. The camera movement, the blocking-- the very conception of so many shots -- all function to communicate straight to the heart.  Just contrast the simple emotion in this film to a much more famous-- but much more fraudulent film-- Forest Gump. Both films, of course, are wonderfully executed pieces of cinema magic. But while both are fairy tales, and both play upon our desire for wishes to come true, there's a big difference. In this film (like most of Spielberg's movies), the simple emotion comes from basic truths. People make fools of themselves, horses (and farms) get lost to the boss man and to war. Hard work means a lot but it doesn't always produce the desired result. But sometimes, you get back what you lose. Life isn't random, but it does spin off many colors. In Forest Gump, on the other hand, the meek not only inherit the earth, they also get to own their own conglomerate! And not only that-- those who work the hardest for change are shown up as fools. Thus, Forest Gump turns out to be based on a Big Lie -- the lie that Reagan sold to America-- that brains and creative thinking-- and daring-- were the road to death (Jennie) or disfigurement (Dan). Of course we know now that Reagan and his Big Lie actually destroyed the middle class-- and ruined our country. But Big Business keeps propping up the Reagan brand since his laissez-faire narrative made them rich at everyone else's expense.  Spielberg's film, as mentioned before, is also a fairy tale. But it doesn't pretend (as does Forest Gump) to offer a new spin to a key decade in history. Gump is a travesty of the '60s-- and a slap in the face of real heroes like MLK and Robert Kennedy. War Horse's connection with WW1 is purely casual. This is not a film about a moment in time-- it is just a series of warm and fuzzy dreams that show us as we would like to be, and remind us that life is better when we are humble, kind, and a little brave. No-- we don't get Bubba Gump Shrimp company t-shirts or the Porsche that Bob Zemeckis probably drives around in. What we get-- and keep-- are our souls.  So-- don't go see War Horse expecting a serious work of art (unless you accept Damien Hirst's definition of art as "anything done super well.") But do go if you want to experience Hollywood magic (for better or for worse) at its finest.

Demitri Martin "Important Things" Very clever, fresh and funny.  He has a delightful innocence that is refreshing.  It's easily digestible since it is divided into 20-minute segments.  You can watch one per evening, or two or three segments and then return a few days later to catch a few more.

Something Missing I ordered this double feature for the films but also for the special features, to get detailed info on production and visual effects, etc. I was suspicious when I noticed that the disc for "Bad Boys II" had the numeral 'one' on it - as if there used to be a '2' with it. Sure enough, the sequel ONLY comes with the film, no special features. I figure the BBII film used to be part of a two-disc set that got dismantled for this crappy bargain package. "Bad Boys" (first film) was fine - all the features were included on the same disc.  Don't buy this if you want the full benefits of the DVD package for BOTH films.  I give it 4 stars for the movies, not for the rip-off marketing/packaging of this thing which, honestly, seems a little bootleg-y to me.

"That's two you owe me, Blow White" "Bitch Slap" isn't normally the kind of movie I'd track down, but I'm glad I did. I was following the career of director Rick Jacobson, glad that he was stepping up from TV work and his series of disappointingly bad martial arts features, but I wasn't expecting to find something so scandalously enjoyable. In the same spirit as the slew of recent revivalist exploitation films, "Bitch Slap" succeeds by quite possibly looking and sounding more like its director's vision than all other fauxsploitation movies of the last few years (with the possible exception of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UAE7O0">Planet Terror</a>), without any hints of toning down by censoring studios  The story: three women - a corporate powerbroker (Erin Cummings, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003UD7J3A">Detroit 1-8-7</a>), an unstable drug-runner (America Olivo, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003KV3E2W">Neighbor</a>), and a naïve stripper (Julia Voth, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000657SP">Resident Evil</a>) - arrive in the desert for the last hurdle of their plan to uncover the riches of an enigmatic killer...  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006RXQ8RI">Kill Bill</a> paid homage to classic kung fu and samurai flicks and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002ZG98C8">Machete</a> did the same for mexploitation films; "Bitch Slap" on the other hand both acknowledges and parodies just about every video subgenre that objectified women, from women-in-prison films to general sexploitation and the earliest female action heroines, as well as the picture of the ideal woman from '50s sitcoms. The fact that Rick Jacobson and first-time writer Eric Gruendemann manage to encompass all of these models in one film and turn it into something other than a big train wreck is remarkable. I won't presume that the film has any social or cultural relevance, but it is very fun to watch bounce from event to gratuitous event...if extremely crude language doesn't bother you. Since I watch R-rated movies with regularity, I normally wouldn't bother to point out profanity, but jeez-louise! - I can honestly say I've never heard such creative trash-talking, even if you're only counting the sheer number derogatory references to women (America Olivo's character is response for at least half of them). *Do not* let your kids listen in on this one, or you'll no doubt have to explain why your second grader called his classmate "axe wound" in school.  For such a smutty movie, there's a surprisingly small amount of actual nudity - plenty of innuendo, a bit of simulated sex, but scarcely few breasts, if any. This helps shape the look of the picture, which is remarkably refined for a direct-to-video feature. Director Jacobson makes ample use of greenscreened backgrounds, but while authentic locales would of course have been better, it's not offensive and occasionally pretty convincing. The CGI ranges from basic to surprisingly pretty, like during the "angel" scene. It's a testament to the film's style and storytelling proficiency that I don't mind the lack of palatable action: there's a good deal of explosions and shooting of machineguns, but the bit of genuine hand-to-hand fighting (including a brawl involving action coordinator Zoe Bell, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0029RW0E6">Angel of Death</a>) is sloppy and generally only serves to fulfill the need for catfights in the film. Nevertheless, even though none of the women end up looking like genuine action heroines at the end of the picture, they've succeeded in supplying a conflict of characters that's almost as good as a series of decent fight scenes.  Of course, they're not alone in giving good, juicy performances: I particularly like Michael Hurst (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000NQFRU4">Hercules: the Legendary Journeys</a>) as the despicable pimp and Minae Noji as the aptly-named Kinki, and Lucy Lawless and Kevin Sorbo give the picture a necessary dose of star power in their amusing cameos. I can see why this film doesn't appeal to everybody - some online reviewers have actually named it among the worst they've ever seen - but I can't help but applaud this one's character and independent quality. Watch the trailer and maybe a clip on Youtube first, but don't brush this one off your radar too soon.

BIG The case  and art work was a little old but the dvd was in perfect shape. I really liked it. Thanks!

Excellent Excellent coverage from beginning to end of Marine, Army, and Air Corps actions.  I would consider it weak in coverage of the naval actions.  Appears to be all original footage except one short bit of Air Force propaganda purportedly showing a radar bomb run by a B-29 crew.  Very well organized, quite complete, and quite concise.  Of course, being concise (almost 10 hours) a lot of detail is left out.  An important point, I noticed no factual errors in it, which is often not the norm.  The publisher, Madacy, is in my experience highly erratic in the quality of what they republish on these types of DVDs.  Being a naval history buff, I can give it only 4 stars.

Woman in Black I found this movie pretty scary and the ending surprised me. It was a change to see Daniel Radcliffe in something besides Harry Potter.

Campy Fun Should we expect more from These Old Broads?  Probably.  Written by the brilliant Carrie Fisher and with acting legends Dame Elizabeth Taylor and Shirley MacLaine, and the talent of Debbie Reynolds and Joan Collins, one could expect more, but given the limitations of a network television movie, and that "the old broads" seem to be doing this just for fun, that is how it should be viewed. It's funny, campy, lightweight entertainment.  Some of Fisher's lines are gems, especially the exchanges between MacLaine, Collins, and Reynolds.  Dame Elizabeth's accent can be annoying, but that is what the character is supposed to be.  While not a career highlight for any of the luminaries involved, it does deserve to be seen and enjoyed as a bit of campy fun.  Dame Elizabeth's last film role.

Excellent movie - Bluray good, could be better. I waited for this release for a long time. For many years this has been one of my all-time favorite movies. I saw it many years ago in a very special moment in my life, so it left a mark on me. I even owned it on VHS. But for years, the only available digital version was a DVD without Spanish subtitles. I needed it with subtitles. Now this Blu-ray version comes with many nice features, including subtitles. Unfortunately they're only for the movie, not for the special features. There are some nice extras, including the audio commentary and deleted scenes. I would have loved to see even more extras, but it's Ok.  On the good side, the image is crisp and clean. Colors are beautiful. You can see this specially in the aerial shots of the city. I'm thankful I bought this edition.

Gone Too Soon I'll make it short and sweet:  This was a good cartoon. It didn't deserve to get cancelled after one season.  It wasn't exactly on the bleeding edge of the genre. In terms of real depth and pushing the boundaries of what a superhero cartoon can be, it wasn't in the same league as Bruce Timm's best work, or even the most recent version of Marvel's own <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004MYYHG8">Avengers</a>.  But it was entertaining and engaging and fun to watch, with just the right amount of intrigue and suspense. It was also far and away the most visually sophisticated X-Men cartoon ever made - at least until we got to the anime X-Men. And even by comparison with that show, while this version was nowhere near as darkly atmospheric, in terms of achieving what it actually set out to achieve, it did hold its own. In fact, while not so heavy on atmosphere, the other side of that same coin is that the art in this show was more coolly reserved, even restrained, than that to be found in its anime counterpart.  So much for the art. How about the story?  Aside from the gimmick of putting Wolverine in charge of a fractured team, long time fans of the X-Men won't find a great deal that is new here. True, this series generally rearranges the usual roles that the characters play within the team, but that's about it. The reason why I personally stopped reading the comic books (more years ago now than I care to think) was that the X-Men comics, like most comic books, really only have two or three basic stories to tell. These same stories are told and retold over and over again, with endless minor variations on the perennial themes. This particular show tells the story where the X-Men have to stop a horribly dystopian future from coming to pass. If you are a fan of the comic books, and have been for more than a year or two, I'm sure you know the story I'm talking about.  But while the actual plot is almost entirely devoid of originality, perhaps that's not the point. The stories in tragic and comic opera are every bit as formulaic. The point, if there is one at all, is in the artistry of the retelling. And taken on that level, "Wolverine and The X-Men" was, if nothing else, a good retelling.  So yes, like I said in the beginning, this was a good cartoon. It didn't deserve to get canned after one season.  I am genuinely sad that we'll never get to see what season two might've been.  Theo.

Seitan Yah! I thought I would hate it but I actually liked it. I found him funny. My only problem was he cooked very fatty, not healthy at all. I really don't know how he is so thin from his cooking. But I suppose that is why they called it hardcore. Also I am so glad I know how to make Seitan now. I will have to figure out an alternative to liquid smoke though. He's cool and the video was great. Language, fatty cooking, somewhat arrogant kid and all. Love that he is vegan and giving people options!

The Gauntlet A little long and at times boring(Sandra Locke as usual in a Eastwood movie) but I love the Bus scene and it is classic Eastwood and Clint as most Malpaso films attest to does a good job.

Live and Let Die: A Solid Introduction For Roger Moore in a Pretty Good Movie Roger Moore's first appearance as James Bond lacks the iconic imagery of Sean Connery in "Dr. No" and the cool of George Lazenby in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," but his introductory movie is a pretty good entry to the franchise that casually ushers in a new era of Bond.  In "Live and Let Die", Bond is assigned to investigate a string of murders linked to the fictional Caribbean island San Monique. The pre-title sequences, which depict these events, are among some of the best in the movie; an elaborate "faux" funeral procession in New Orleans' famed French Quarter that bursts with culture, and is as clever as it is disturbing, is my favorite of the three.  The main plot of the movie involves heroin kingpin Mr. Big and San Monique's leader Kananga, who is being closely monitored by the CIA following the murders. Kananga is a decent villain, serviceable enough for a movie like this, but he is pretty forgettable relative to most of the other villains in the series. Tee Hee, Kananga's large, metal-armed henchman who never fails to find humor in any situation, as well as the mysterious Baron Samedi, make much better villains.  Locations are a highlight of the movie. Early scenes depict Bond's first trip to New York City and feature some fantastic on-site footage, a loaded "Pimp Mobile" (comparable to his DB5, even), and a great chase scene involving a very friendly cabbie. Later, Bond follows Kananga to San Monique where the Voodoo theme that in many ways defines the movie permeates throughout. Tarot cards, creepy voodoo "scarecrows," and haunting rituals all give "Live and Let Die" a unique flair that greatly contrasts it with all the other Bond movies.  Action scenes are plentiful throughout the movie, including a close encounter on a crocodile farm (where trespassers are warned they "will be eaten") that is followed soon after by an extended speedboat chase in the Louisiana bayou. In these scenes, Moore proves he is every bit Bond as he expertly outmaneuvers an onslaught of enemies in a speedboat.  Overall, "Live and Let Die" is a solid action movie, but as a Bond movie for me it ranks near the bottom of the list. The overall plot of heroin smuggling is much less exciting, and in many ways much less worthy of Bond's attention, than the plots of any other Bond movie. Fans of 007 will almost certainly want to watch this movie, but for any casual action movie fan, there are many better Bond movies to see.

When It Comes to Horror...........There is no Decade Like the Eighties If I had to list my top 100 favorite horror films, probably 80-85 would come from the 80's. There was just something about that decade. Of course, I'm a slasher fan, and this was their time. But it was a special decade, in general. Probably because it was the last decade when horror was not self-conscious. Since that time, everybody involved with horror feels the need to apologize, to mock themselves and their work. Everybody has to make sure you know that they're in on the joke.  It wasn't always like that.  In the 80's, the studios would churn out sequel, after sequel, after sequel...........and all with a perfectly straight face. Although many people will not acknowledge this now, a lot of us-and this definitely includes me-would rather watch a rehashing of something we like, than to fork over hard-earned money to sit through something that may be less derivative, but is not nearly as much to our personal tastes.  If they were still making Halloweens, and Friday the 13ths, and Howlings.......I'd still be there, for each one. In fact, I'm really not sure why they haven't tried this. James Bond certainly made it work.  Fright Night is a good example of what I'm talking about. Of course, it's not part of a series, but it is about a vampire. It DOES deal with tried-and-true horror motifs. And it does contain elements of parody, especially in dealing with the Peter Vincent character.  But, even with its comedic content, it is never silly. It never mocks horror or the horror audience. Quite the opposite, in fact. There is a palpable affection for what it represents, and for the cinematic tradition within which it could be said to fall. Again, this is most heavily centered around the character of Peter Vincent. Watch his expression as he gazes at one of the props from one of his old movies........he exudes a genuine sense of love, and nostalgia.  There is really something profound about the Vincent character. He initially appears to be a fraud and a coward. However, as the film progresses, he becomes more and more the man he had heretofore only PRETENDED to be, in films. There is something to be said for the notion that it is unlikely that a person will be generous, or brave, or honest, or much of anything noble........unless they have first ASPIRED to those traits. And Vincent, against all odds, eventually BECOMES what he had always wanted to be.  My only real criticism of Fright Night lies in the casting of the girlfriend. I forget her name, but it was Marcie, off Married With Children. No offense, but it's kind of hard for me to imagine that she could foster this kind of obsession from ANY man, much less a guy as smooth and handsome as the vampire. As for the villain himself, he was just about ideal. Handsome, urbane, charming.........but able to exude something dangerous and mysterious, as well. Charlie was supposed to be an average teenaged boy, and that's pretty much the way he came across.  This is not my favorite, by any means. I'm not really much of a vampire person. But it's quite good, and a quality film, all the way around. It has a sincerity that you won't often find after the 80's came to a close. And an affection for its genre that I'm afraid you will seldom find ANYWHERE nowadays.

DREAMS, MIRACLES, AND ANGELS If you're reasonably open-minded and curious, I think you will enjoy watching "Mysterious Forces Beyond," a video presentation hosted by Nick Mancuso regarding dreams, miracles, and angels.  I watched all three episodes from start to finish, and found them to be informative and quite interesting.  I was particularly impressed with the expressed views on dreams... where anything can happen, and visions, ideas, warnings, nightmares, as well as pure nonsense all play their part in the theater of the sleeping consciousness.  With all due respect to the believers, I did not find miracles and angels as captivating because the stories that were told are too fantastic to be accepted as true without further scrutiny and some scientific backing.  A skeptic would call them "elaborate hoaxes" or "hallucinations," whereas an unquestioning believer would say they are creations of a divine force.  Maybe someday, in the distant future (hopefully sooner), evolution of the human mind and physics will bring us closer to the truth.  Personally, I think that an extraordinary claim requires extraordinary evidence in support of the claim.... Blind faith alone may or may not be enough; for example, it might work in various aspects of psychological thinking and behavior, but will not work where -- in the process of believing and acting on the belief -- the laws of physics are violated, such as jumping off a tall building because the jumper believes he or she can fly (we all know what will happen).

Just like the original Parkour galore, but not much more This flick needs some chicks One left me wanting ...  There was action, plots, sub plots & stunts. plot > Get the bad guys. sub plot > The good guys are also bad guys.  Considering the movie is a platform for the two lead actors acrobatics, it fits the bill.  The Van Gogh scene was BS.  plenty of interesting characters ...

Push DVD This is an excellent 2nd tier movie with a wonderful storyline.  The acting was above par but the path of the well-thought-out storyline was 2nd tier Matrix-like (the best thought-out movie premise ever!).  I'd rate the movie a 7/10.  Well worth the time.

With Filler Out The Way Bring In Aizen-Sama Product quality was the same as it was for the previous set. The disc art is good as well as the art for this volume. Some fans may complain that Nel isnt in quite such a fanservice oriented angle as she is in the Japanese cover for this set, but her pose here is still nice and its colorful. The only major issues with the set, is that there is still no music on menus. I don't understand why each of the three discs lacks it, but it is quite odd considering the vast majority of the other Bleach dvd sets had it.  Episodes and dub quality was great as usual. Velonica served as the opening theme for the entire duration while there were two ending themes. Hearing Aizen's voice was a pleasure as well as voices for Stark and older Nel. Only downside to the actual episodes is that two of the ending episodes here were filler.  The set did a great job in preparing us for set 14, the start to the Karakura subarc in this Arrancar saga as well as prepping us for one of the hottets fights in the anime, the eventual Ichigo v Ulquiorra.  This set also contains the episode where Inoue essentially says Ichigo/Kurosaki-kun (in the subs) at least twenty times in one episode and nothing else!

Coming of Age on the West Bank This story follows the lives of several Palestinian women starting with Hind Husseini's establishment of an Orphanage in 1948.  The Arab-Israeli War, namely the Deir Yassim Massacre left hundreds of orphans to live on the street.  Hind takes them home to care for and within a few months the original 55 has grown to nearly 2,000.  We start following Miral (Freida Pinto) at the age of 7 following her mother's suicide when her father places her in the hands of Hind to protect her from the political turmoil continuing outside of the institutes walls.  Then, in 1988, at the age of 17, she is assigned to teach at a refugee camp where she is awakened to the reality of the Palestinian refugees. When she falls for Hani, a militant, she finds herself torn between the First Intifada of her people and Mama Hind's belief that education is the road to peace.  The story is based on the book by Rula Jebreal where she pens a strongly autobiographical account of her West Bank coming of age.  She's torn between the injustice she sees at the hands of the Israeli army during the first Intifada and a desire for peace. Ray Hanania, an Arab-American Palestinian Christian journalist also known for his stand-up comedy states in his review of 3/22/2011 that: Instead of attacking the movie, I wish Israelis and Jews would watch it. I wish they would step back from their anger and try to understand our side.  He went on "When the film was to be screened at the UN General Assembly, Israeli and American Jews went berserk. How could they dare show that film? It's anti-Semitic. It's anti-Israel. It's one sided. It's political. It's unfair. Anything they don't like is apparently anti-Israel."  Anti-Israel or not, I personally think that not only the Jews and Palestinians need to see this movie but everyone, of all mind and faith sets.  There are fanatics everywhere and we just need to find a way to coexist without sacrificing our sons and daughters to an outlandish cause.  I know there is passion out there, on both sides, but it is our beautiful children who are being denied a peaceful world to live in.  This is an ambitious movie that spends too little time on the telling of any of the 4 major facets of its story lines.  Each actor is almost flawless in his part but uneven editing subtracts from the overall flow of the saga.  All in all, I'd recommend this movie without reservation.  Maybe its flaws actually add to the overall appeal.

DUNE Extended Edition This Movie is one of my favourites and I am very glad to have found here on Amazon as it is not easy to get a hold of. I have notice that on both the theatrical version and the extended version of this DVD it did have some damaged areas that my computer had to skip (frustrating). I am pleased with my purchase overall.

Bolt (Single-Disc Edition) Bolt (Single-Disc Edition) is the 48th animated movie from the Disney Studios and is movie full of fun and adventure. The story centers around a dog named Bolt who is the hero of a popular TV-show. Only thing is that Bolt believes all to be true. One day he runs of from the TV-studio and the adventure begins. The music is good and the animation is amazing. Some scenes can be a bit scary for the smallest children, but a teddy bear or a grown should be there to ensure a pleasant viewing experience. Recommended. 4/5.

clever and informative, but boring at times Generally speaking, one could make a better documentary about product placement in the movies ('product placement' - to make us - gullible and susceptible viewers spend money, and feed the consumerism), having more actual footage to make a better and more thorough point. And, this one seems boring at times. But, overall, the benefit of it is to make YOU aware that even movies are places for billboards, and commercials do NOT stop when movie starts. If you clever, and insightful, you probably see for yourself product placement going on already. But, this movie shows a bit how it's done from the inside of the trade. All in all 3-4 stars. Not great, but not very bad. Thanks!

Solid Movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I didn't expect much from this movie when I purchased it. The IMDB Movie Review Scale Gives it a 3.50 out of 10.00, meaning only 3 out of every 10 people give it a possible review...Yikes! lol I knew I was taking a gamble when I purchased it but to my suprise it was actually pretty good. You have a decent set of Actors, some familiar some new. You have the Cameo of Ron Jeremy as well. The plot was a little easy to follow, and I don't know if there was a Hidden message behind the movie with all of its religous pointers and references...but who knows. You can't expect much more from a Low Budget B film. IN other words, for a Film within its Genre, and Budget. It did pretty darn well!!!!

Good hopes for Radcliffe in a post-POTTER world. It's nice to have Hammer Studios back making horror films. This was the stuff I grew up on watching creature-features on Saturday afternoons with actors like Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and Ingrid Pitt in their stable of stars, and a low-budget sensibility with a particular affinity for day-for-night shooting, busty ladies in tight corsets and pea-soup-thick atmosphere.  However, THE WOMAN IN BLACK is not quite a horror film as it is a supernatural mystery. And it sadly doesn't have the tightly-corseted ladies, but as far as atmosphere, the cup runneth over. Endless mist, sunless days, torrential rain, candlelit hallways and always something lurking in the back of the frame.  The plot of the film is very standard for a turn-of-the-20th-century haunted village story. A young widower (Radcliffe in a very mature performance) is sent on behalf of his law firm to clear up the estate of a wealthy recluse in a remote British town. The villagers in the town want him gone for unknown reasons, but he goes to the old mansion called Eel Marsh (sounds like a nice place, doesn't it?) and uncovers an unearthly presence and a mystery that has been taking the lives of children there for years. With his own child coming to visit him, he endeavors, with the help of a kindly man (the always great Ciaran Hinds) and his troubled wife (Janet McTeer, great in a small role), to give the ghost what he believes it needs to end its reign of terror.  I'm always a little leery of ghost films because the cause of the haunting is usually far too mundane and that always leaves me wishing that it's not such a mystery as to why it's happening, and rather just have it HAPPEN. It lends a greater mystery and discomfort to the viewer and leaves us to ask questions after the film ends. That was my biggest problem with Robert Zemeckis' WHAT LIES BENEATH. That's also a bit of a problem here, but because of a nicely twisted ending, we find that their solution to the mystery isn't enough.  Radcliffe really leaves Harry Potter behind in this film, and it's wonderful to see him really embrace this role. He's someone who is very wounded deep within his soul, and it makes sense that he would be more willing to explore the world of the unknown searching for answers. Hinds is once again great at a supporting role as the only man in the village who seems to be unafraid of what Radcliffe's character is doing, but there's a deeper weariness to Hinds as is revealed later. McTeer is wonderfully manic but not over-the-top loony as the still-grieving mother to a child long dead.  This film embraces mood and atmosphere in favor of blood and shock, keeping with the tradition of Hammer Studios well. There are three or four really cheap but effective jump scares in the first act, and this is honestly the first film in years that I actually did feel my heart skip at some of those moments. Once that calms down, the cheap scares make way for a sense of genuine dread, which is something director James Watkins handles pretty deftly. Most of the film is very quiet, which makes the frightening noises that come out of that quiet much more effective. He also is adept at framing his shots. Many of the moments of the film look as though they could be gothic-era paintings.  Sadly, the film becomes pretty sluggish in the third act as they feel they've found the solution to the desires of the spectre and do what they can to sate those desires. If the film had more of an adult appeal, I feel that this would have been more of a character study rather than a film of actions and consequences, but since it's Daniel Radcliffe, they had to make it more teen-friendly. I don't feel that those roles are far off at all for Radcliffe, having done a play like the extremely dark EQUUS, and they suit his seemingly perennial five-o'clock shadow and his intense and piercing eyes.  Radcliffe is a young man who, even if he hadn't been in one of the most successful franchises of all time, would still have eventually become a star, and THE WOMAN IN BLACK is decidedly good evidence of that.

Rowsdower's not the only shinning star from Canada any longer Being inspired by some recent pony-tailed justice, courtesy of Lorenzo Lamas, we have decided to partake in some more enlightening 90's action. With all the many choices just waiting to be picked we had to go with Martial Outlaw. Maybe it was the shirtless Bonaduce on the cover that won us over, or maybe it was the stereotypical 90's b action plot, or maybe it was a million other reasons. Whatever it was, we just knew Martial Outlaw would be yet another winner. When it comes to the action of the 90's there simply is no losers. The movie stars Jeff Wincott who appears to be the Chuck Norris of Canada. Let us tell you...this guys got it! Jeff was clearly bred to be a 90's action powerhouse, and we fully plan to acquire the rest of his low budget features. In fact has now been become a priority which may result in us missing work for a while.  Martial Outlaw opens up with a sting operation in a poorly lit parking lot. When things heat up, DEA agent Kevin white (Wincott) steps in a annihilates three street toughs with his fists of fury. He obtains one of the men in order to have him snitch out a Russian Mob he's working for. Obviously the pawn is quite scared knowing the ruthless mob, from the glorious country of Kazakhstan, will snap off his c--- if he's caught. However agent White and his abs of steel promise his life will not be in danger. This leads to the DEA working with the LAPD in which White's brother works for. It must be great to have a brother duo taking on the Kazakh killers right? Wrong! Turns out White's brother is in bed with the mob, a very crooked individual. It also doesn't help that the brothers can't stand each other and duke it out every ten minutes. This was quite hilarious. Especially for the fact half the time they had no shirts on. As White attempts to take down the mob, his brother tips them off before he has the chance. Eventually the cat is out of the bag forcing a mind-numbing final scene demolishing the Russian mob. Not even their gypsy tears could protect them form the brute force of agent White.  If it isn't obvious, we considered Martial Outlaw to be a GREAT SUCCESS! Between The Final Sacrifice, Gordon Lightfoot, and Martial Outlaw, Canada is being viewed in an entirely new light. There is an abundance of talent flowing through the maple syrup there, and we will guzzle it by the gallons. Despite every plot being nearly identical, the B of the 90's yet again proves itself to be dominant in its weight class. There is no shortage of low budget magic to enjoy from this epic decade. If they say laughter is the best medicine then we need to prescribe B to those will ailments STAT. These films are honestly a cure all for any situation in life. If you're having any issues you need to devote a little time to some sweet action B of the 90's. If you don't spend the entire hour and a half in tears then we will eat our words....well actually we won't, but you get the idea.

OCCUPANT(S)!? This is more of a psychological thriller than horror film but the former does set the basis for the latter. Mid-twenties Danny Hill inherits his vast rent-controlled grandmother's apartment. One catch: He must occupy the unit for 12 days in order to establish himself as a legitimate resident in order to avoid a huge rent increase. That's when things start to fall apart. Unable to leave the apartment, Danny begins to experience strange happenings. Is there someone or something else in the apt. with him? The Doorman is willing to be of help but both he and an elevator man appear to be acting weird. Day by day a kind of "cabin fever" sets in and, despite its maze-like size, Danny begins to experience a "claustrophobic effect" that slowly wreaks havoc with his psyche. Is he imagining things or are they real? The discovery of a hole in a closet wall that seems to lead nowhere adds to the confusion and tension.  As does the sudden disappearance of a new female acquaintance with whom Danny had a one-night stand after meeting her earlier before taking over his new abode. Attempts to cover the newly discovered hole are for naught and the combined effects of dealing with limited contacts and the oppressive nature of the unit and waiting period continue to take their toll. Danny's behavior is mirrored by his appearance which becomes more and more bedraggled. His frenetic activity increases as his psychological and physical state deteriorate - a kind of live overactive "picture of Dorian Gray". Can he make it through the 12 days; can he trust his realty lawyer; is he seeing and hearing real things or just hallucinating; can he trust anyone; what happened to the exterminator; all these questions and more combine to carry the viewer to a breathless and jarring conclusion. Van Hansis turns in his usual excellent performance and the supporting cast is very good as well. I would have given this movie 5 stars were it not for some glaring loopholes and certain unresolved assumptions forced upon the audience.

Great film, a bit short though This documentary shows how the band created the album yield without entering in too many details (The film lasts about 45 minutes).

MOVIE REVIEW! I TRULY ENJOYED THIS MOVIE,IF YOU LIKE HEROS THIS MOVIE IS FOR YOU!I THOUGHT IT WAS REAL WELL DIRECTED!AMAZON.COM IS WHERE TO GO FOR MOVIES!

had some funny moments, but the ending upset me This season wasnt the best of the whole seven years but it was still good. I felt in a way it was a filler. They were trying to fill gaps and end relationships in order for the next season to stand out and move the characters forward.  Lily and Marshall moved from the city to the suburbs then back to the city. I felt for them it was a journey to figuring out where they were going to be parents. Not just who they were going to be as parents but where they were going to be. In the end they went back to where they felt most at home and I think for them that's going to be a great move.  Ted and Robin finally ended their five year relationship. Dont believe me take a look at the amount of times they've either made out or had sex just because they could. They've basically been in a relationship since they go together. It was time for them to let go and it took the words of Victoria to help push Ted to that point and the actions of Robin to finally get him there.  For Robin this year was about finding what she really wants. She found out that she couldnt have children and it finally answered the question of why Robin doesnt have kids in the future. It was sad but I loved that the show went to a place not many other shows go to when it comes to fertility. I really enjoyed that storyline.  For Barney it was realizing that he wants the same things that Ted has wanted for years. He even wants kids which doesnt seem that farfetched for someone like Barney who is finally back in touch with his biological father. Then of course he ends up engaged to the stripper. I'm not sure I like her and it's comforting knowing that they dont end up together because they just seem like they would have too many issues if they got married.  This season wasnt stellar but it closed some doors and gave some answers to a few questions that I've had for years. Though there was one big thing I didnt like. I didnt like that Ted took off with Victoria. He just did to someone else what was done to him. I dont like that at all.  Either way I cant wait till next season to see where life takes the characters.

Video The video is in great condition, and delivery was good. I only was taken back by it not being a video of region 1 our region, and either had to send it back or get a multi regional player. As my wifes player had a lot of background noise I chose the latter. However i reccomend asking vendor the region of the video unless you have a multi regional player.

A nice fighting movie The story is of course totally unoriginal, but who cares? The fighting scenes are very good and the humor is nice as well. If you like the kind of martial arts that emphasize strength, you should see this movie.

Classic Comedy First, I give the movie 5 stars. Unfortunately the DVD was released in Warner's bad old days of the cheapest possible release with really not much to recommend the presentation over the VHS.  Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau made a number of strong comedies together, and this one does not disappoint. Set as aging widower neighbors who haven't gotten along since they both loved the same girl in their youth (Lemmon's character Gustafson married her), the two feud, play pranks on each other, and exchange very funny barbed quips throughout the movie.  When widowed Ann-Margret (as beautiful as ever) moves in across the street, the old rivalry cooks up again. The irrepressibly vivacious woman puts some spice (or at least hopes of spice) back in their lives. Complicating matters are their kids. Matthau's son had a life long crush on Lemmon's daughter, and when she moves back in with Dad after separating from her husband, a second chance is at hand.  Burgess Meredith delights as Lemmon's father, in one of his last performances.  The movie is warm and funny and bittersweet. The performances of the two stars in one of their later roles is not to be missed by fans of these two fine actors.

The film shifts from engaging to brilliant Judge Clark Douglas, DVD Verdict-- There are some creepy moments (especially early on, as we don't quite have a handle on who the characters are or what they're attempting to accomplish--Polanski fills in the blanks in a deliberate, methodical manner), but after a while it becomes clear that Cul-de-sac works best when Polanski is being playful.  Perhaps this is due to the fact that it's easier to switch from chills to laughs than vice versa. There are some squirm-inducing yet entertaining moments during the first hour of the film, as the flustered husband and his sneering wife engage in a series of amusing interactions with the American. It's tempting to feel that Polanski is making a larger cultural point, as he seems to have infused each of these three characters with the worst stereotypical traits of the countries they represent: the rude, boorish, violent American; the stammering, spineless, indecisive Englishman and the devious, cruel, self-serving Frenchwoman. The actors push and pull off each other in some intriguing ways (with Pleasance doing particularly good work as a man ever-so-slowly reaching his boiling point).  However, the film shifts from engaging to brilliant with the arrival of several unexpected guests. Over the course of twenty-five minutes or so, we're treated to an increasingly hilarious comic set piece in which the players are spun around in a variety of interesting ways until Pleasance finally explodes in cathartic rage. Polanski builds up to this moment in giddy fashion, transforming the gruff gangster into a faux butler, introducing a particularly overbearing gentleman with a tendency for sticking his nose into everyone's business, delivering an immensely enjoyable skewering of pretentious dinner guests and allowing the world's snottiest little kid to run rampant through the mansion wreaking all manner of havoc. It's a fantastic stretch of direction which blends subtle satire with enthusiastically broad physical comedy, and it allows Polanski to use his strengths in wonderfully atypical fashion.  Unfortunately, the film's ambitious conclusion isn't able to stick the landing. After the aforementioned portion of comic delight, Cul-de-sac plunges into dark territory in supposedly horrific fashion. The ending works nicely on a symbolic level (and some of the comedic commentary continues in this section), but it's too forced and overwrought to really send a chill up the spine. The film seeks to blend the intensely personal terrors of Repulsion with the pleasures of a great farce, but it really only succeeds in the latter department. Still, that's enough to make it well worth your time.  Cul-de-sac arrives on Blu-ray sporting a decent 1080p/1.66:1 transfer. While the level of detail is solid enough, this is a good deal shabbier than many of the black-and-white releases Criterion has delivered thus far (Repulsion included). The exceptional cinematography is hampered slightly by the general flatness of the image, and there's some print damage which can be a little distracting at times. Audio is similarly acceptable yet underwhelming, as some lines of dialogue sound very muffled and the music is occasionally a bit shrill and pinched. While I'm sure Criterion has done what they can with what they had to work with, this isn't a movie to use as a showcase for your fancy home theatre equipment. Supplements include an excellent making-of featurette called "Two Gangster and an Island" (23 minutes) featuring interviews with Polanski and other crew members, an archival interview with Polanski (27 minutes), a couple of trailers and a booklet featuring an essay by David Thompson. -Full review at dvdverdict.com

Definitely a chick flick but.... Yes this movie is a chick flick as it is 1 of 1000's of romantic comedies out there. But if you can look past that there are some positives to point out. The acting of Nia Vardalos was great and I think better than her acting in My Big Fat Greek Wedding (which was very good). The movie was pretty entertaining with an intriguing storyline. The camera work was outstanding as the scenes in Greece were visually stunning. The movie is sweet, very funny, cute and entertaining.

Very enjoyable. Certain stories really lend themselves to self-contained film adaptation, and this had a good dramatic arc and flow to it.  I give it a strong recommendation to comics enthusiasts.

Nifty Little Thriller It seems to me I've seen some numbers of thrillers that revolve around a character with a psychological quirk. In this case the protagonist suffers from agoraphobia.  A young couple are on the run. He has murdered someone who is now in the trunk of his car. She hasn't yet done anything wrong but has issues of self worth so she stays with this murderer. While they are at a gas station, and in need of dough, the news hits the TV that they are wanted. He ends up killing the attendant and they need to get off the street. They end up in the house of the agoraphobe and realize he is a source of their much needed cash. The movie shifts into psychological gear and the viewer must try to figure who will win the cat and mouse.  Once you suspend your disbelief on the way too coincidental set up, this is a pretty cool movie. Steve Moyer as the shut in does a nice job. He's essentially a normal guy except for that one phobia. And when the viewer sees he might not be as innocent as he proposes he handles that with equal aplomb. Teresa Palmer as Dale is gorgeous. She's good. Maybe not great, but good enough to get the viewer through the role comfortably. I'm not too sure about bad boy Ron. Some aspects of his character were right on but something was wrong. I'm not certain if it was in the writing or his portrayal.  Most of the action is set in the house and it's a good set. It's a mansion that is a bit past its prime but has a lot of personality. That the shut-in is a used-to-be art dealer helps as well. You have some nifty artwork scattered throughout the place. This has decent production values and moves along at a fair clip so you're not at all bored. This could have used a bit better script, but so many of these types of thrillers are pretty awful, so this stands out quite a bit higher. It might be more three and a half stars than the four I gave it, but it's well worth the watch.

Great looking, intelligent family film Beautifully shot, and generally very well acted story of a boy and a cheetah he saves when he finds the orphaned cub.  Most of the film is the boy's journey to return the cub to nature after his own father"s death, and his adventures along the way, including his complex relationship with a black native African who at first seems threatening, but ends up his savior.  I found it a tiny bit over familiar and sentimental, but also touching and well done.  It just doesn't quite hold up to Carroll Ballard's earlier human/animal films; The Black Stallion, Never Cry Wolf, and Fly Away Home. If you haven't yet seen those, start there to see Ballard's amazing work.

worth watching It was so nice to watch a movie where the characters developed and grew as a family! It would've been a good movie to watch with older children (teen agers) except for the constant profanity. The background drama, which was about the descendents of the original european settlers, was very interesting. Overall, I enjoyed this movie. It was visually beautiful and satisfying.

THE BALTIMORE PLOT: IF YOU DON' T SUSPECT,  YOU'LL MISS THE BOAT...AND THE TRAIN Another good film by the great but often forgotten director Anthony Mann. Like his two classic Westerns, WINCHESTER 73 [1950] and THE NAKED SPUR [1953], this one is also set in the 1800's but is more a political and mystery thriller/noir. About a NYC detective who boards a train to try to stop a possible inauguration assassination attempt on Abraham Lincoln. A couple of problems, though, as the cop is not sure if the nefarious plan is veridical and, if so, who is carrying out the deed. He is played by Dick Powell [detective Philip Marlowe in the classic noir MURDER MY SWEET, 1944] who renders a pensive and succinct performance as the cop who quits the force after being ordered by his boss to discard his suspicions. He now hops on the NY-to-Atlanta locomotive, without his badge and without a gun, following the scent of conspiracy.  Mann uses black & white filming to full advantage in conveying the dark and furtive ways of strangers on a train, and of the isolation and paranoia often encountered in the impersonal, controlled and compartmentalized environ of the uncompromising locomotive. In addition, Mann's skill in perfectly casting just the right face, voice and demeanor for specific roles and situations, like fitting the pieces of a puzzle, is evident here.  Marshall Thompson [DAKTARI TV series, 1966-1969] is very effective as the taciturn and edgy young soldier, with the ambiguous destination, who happens to have a telescoped rifle in his room. His eyes and expressions move the viewer more than any words. Leif Erickson [who can forget that stirring closeup of his alienized countenance as he picks up his hysterical kid at the police station in INVADERS FROM MARS, 1953] is unsettling as a stowaway who steals Powell's coat and train ticket, then tries to kill him.  Adolphe Menjou [PATHS OF GLORY, 1957] renders a masterful performance as the glib, always-smiling senior commander of a group of soldiers traveling on the train. The congenial and whimsical Menjou appears to be Powell's ally on the train. His attempts to verbally slip-and-slide his way out of trouble after the latter arrests him and tries to deliver him to the cops is a gem. Will Geer [Grandpa in THE WALTONS, 1972-78] is another nice casting pick as the perceptive and always-suspicious train conductor whose primary interest is keeping that train on schedule despite the repeated obtrusions. How about the icy lady passenger with the detached demeanor seeming to have something to hide behind her compartment door.  Mann gives us a nice snapshot of the tense socio-political climate of that time with on-board pro & anti-Lincoln banter,  and a slave [played by Ruby Dee, A RAISIN IN THE SUN, 1961] providing her owner some insight into the meaning of freedom.  The film is a modified account of a suspected but never-substantiated conspiracy to assassinate President-elect Lincoln named 'The Baltimore Plot'. The plot was purportedly first suggested by a NYC police official creepily named John Kennedy, the character played by Powell. Scary to think of how history [our lives] may have been altered in unknown ways were it not for the precautions taken by, and the convictions of, Kennedy and Allan Pinkerton---Lincoln's chief security strategist for that trip and founder of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency [his character NOT depicted in this film]---despite derision, distraction, doubt and discouragement.

what great fun A must see for the kiddos. I didn't have high hopes for this film, but it was beautifully done. It's definitely a kid flick though, and it looks nothing like what Sherlock Holmes life would have looked life as a kid, if you are familiar with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's work with the character at all. It's modern day and light-hearted. If you have tweens or younger, this is a non-threatening and non-scary film. Great for the whole family. Recommend!

Sweet and Funny Romantic Comedy I bought this as a Valentine's Day gift for my son and daughter-in-law and got the bonus of Amazon instant streaming video on my computer.  I don't know whether they've watched it yet, but I enjoyed it very much.  Like most romantic comedies, it doesn't presume to delve deeply into the human psyche or solve the world's problems.  It makes you smile and feel good and maybe think a little about the many natures of love.  And I'm not sure, when it comes right down to what matters, that this in itself doesn't solve some of the world's problems.  Anyway, I loved the many character portrayals and all their different stories.  The writers, director, and actors did a good job of making each character memorable and easily distinguished from all the others, not an easy feat in this kind of film, made up of quick snapshots of different, inter-connected lives.  One of my all-time favorites is "Love Actually," which of course this movie resembles in its telling of many inter-connected love stories.  This one isn't quite as good, which is the only reason I gave it four stars instead of five.  My belief is that any film worth watching is worth watching twice, and this one is well worth a second viewing.  You'll catch all kinds of details you may have missed the first time.  I don't really have a lot to say that the Editorial Review and other customer reviews haven't covered well already.  I would only add that your soul is dead if you don't crack up (or if you're a woman, stand up and cheer) over Jennifer Garner's character dressing up as a waitress and describing the "special of the day" to the doctor she fell in love with when he is dining out with his wife (whom he had forgotten to mention to her).  And if, like me, you have watched "Pretty Woman" umpty-dozen times, BE SURE TO WATCH ALL OF THE CREDITS AT THE END OF THE FILM!

Charming, but sad This was a very interesting film, done with claymation. It is the touching story of a penpal friendship between Mary and Max. The story evolved in an unpredictable way. It was sweet, yet sad and touched upon subjects ranging from friendship, asperger's, loneliness, childhood bullying, imagination, tragedy, and bouncing back.  This was a very adult film. Not recommended for children. People with empathy and compassion will like this movie.

Compelling Movie The movie is about the work that the Navy SEALS do to keep our country safe from outside threats. The principle actors aren't actors at all, but are actual Navy SEALS. I think that gives it a sense of realism that can't be faked by actors who do a week or two at boot camp as research. I heard about the criticism beforehand by those who thought the acting was horrible, but I didn't find it distracting at all. I am used to watching Hollywood actors and THEY can't act, so compared to that, I thought these guys held their own pretty well. :)  There were several different plots that highlighted the danger that our country constantly faces and the highly specialized work that these guys do. The film showed a lot of different angles like how these guys have real lives with real wives and kids. They SACRIFICE to do this. They aren't just killing machines. The film also showed that people get killed in really horrible ways. It didn't dwell on any of these types of things. It wasn't political and it didn't make judgments. It just showed it like it is. It's up to the viewer to draw their own conclusions. In that way, it wasn't a Hollywood flick at all- which was refreshing.  Anyway, I am not much for war type movies or shoot 'em up action, but I appreciated being given a glimpse into the world of our nation's heroes. It's not the type of thing I'd watch again and again because it is intense, but I found it compelling.

Love it. I almost like this better than any of the Superman movies, i think they did a great job with making this movie!!!!!

Two Men went to War I was excited by the promotion information of this video and awaited with baited breath.  Was i disappointed, not really, nor was I given to being overwhelmed with joy at the start either.  This movie starts out slow and for the first fifteen to twenty minutes it pushes on at a slow pace requiring some very attentive watching to keep abreast of the plot.  I should say at this point that I did initially think that this was a comedy based upon a Home Guard type scenario AKA "Dads army".  I was however pleasantly surprised to find out that this was in fact based upon factual information.  This kept my interest level high as I am an avid Military History buff as well.  The plot starts to liven up as the two intrepid Dentists actually begin to achieve some of their goals and the icing would have to be the escape and the end to the adventure.  Overall, after starting out mildly disappointed I found I was reasonably impressed and given the fact that this movie was based on factual information I would recommend it to any person who likes WWII movies.

Another intimate epic from Weir Peter Weir is great at capturing epic stories that somehow maintain a sense of intimacy. This is another example, with a group of prisoners escaping the Siberian Gulag and trekking thousands of miles to freedom in India in 1940.  The cast is superb, the locations are stunning, and you can't help feeling sympathy for them as they suffer hunger, thirst, swollen legs, some deaths, constant danger from all around, etc.  I still wonder if it was just one small group or if there were more, or if any other escaped.  We do not know.  We are also not told the fate of all those who survived the escape attempt.  All in all, though, this is a must-see.

For those interested in Bonus Features with their films . . . I not only like to have these extra documentaries for reference, but I'm also a bit OCD and when I upgrade I hate to lose anything from previous formats.  I bought this on sale at Amazon and felt it was worthwhile to go from DVD to BD because of the sale price.  I previously had the box set of Original Trek movies containing these six films in the two-disc versions (Collector's or Director's Editions).  I was very interested to see if the BluRay set had everything from the DVD set.  First, some good news.  Each of the BD versions has at least one (often more) Bonus Features, in HiDef, which were not on the DVD versions.  Next, bad news.  Film I had three BFs on the DVD version which were not included on the BD version.  Also the DVD version was the Extended Cut and the BD was not, nor were there Deleted Scenes on the BD version.  Similar issue for film II -- Director's Cut on DVD but not on BD and no Deleted Scenes (though the BD did have all the BFs from the DVD).  More good news.  Films III through VI were not missing any BFs from the DVDs and they all (IIRC) had Deleted Scenes (though I don't remember the DVD versions being Extended or Director's Cuts anyway).  More bad news.  All of the DVD versions had a Text Commentary track from the Okudas.  This is a version of the film with popup boxes from time to time with tidbits of info.  I like these text commentaries over audio commentaries because you can watch and listen to the film while still getting extra info.  With audio commentaries, you mostly can't hear the film dialog so you either listen to the film with no commentary or you listen to commentary.  All of the DVD versions had this text commentary but none of the BD versions did (that I could find).  So, to sum up -- the BD set has more Bonus Features than the DVD set, but is missing a few BFs and some scenes that were available on the DVD set.  The BD set is also missing the text commentaries from the Okudas.  And so my end rating is four stars.  The film quality itself is good enough to allow for five stars, so any adjustments I make are based on features.  Although I get some extras here not on DVD, I'm missing others, and my OCD won't let me give five stars for not completely superseding the previous format.

Great Instructional Video Positives:  This video is great for people working on their technique for the bench press, shoulder press, squat, dead lift, and power clean.  The video shows demonstration by men and women of various ages and sizes.  This allows just about anyone purchasing the video to relate to someone demonstrating the lift.  Negatives:  The video quality is average.  Conclusion:  I think this is a great purchase if you are interested in performing barbell lifts correctly.  Personally, I have always struggled with squats and deadlifts.  However, after watching the video I am considerably more confident in my squat technique and I immediately doubled the amount I could deadlift.

Bruce Willis-4 The 4 films on 2 disks all worked fine, and at a great cost for Bruce Willis 'action' films, some I'd not seen before. Not bad for another 'rockem, Knock em' set of films.

A Beautiful work of art !! Polar Express in 3-D from Amazon.com Though I have seen this movie twice before, once in the theater and once at home watching an early attempt at 3-D using colored paper glasses, this new release in Blu Ray 3-D is an all together different experience!  It really took my breath away! The colors, the effects, the atmosphere! You don't feel how the time flies by as you see the movie characters and the train almost popping out of the screen!! Kudos to the makers of this latest release!

Great stories, kids like it. As with most of the scholastic videos, my kids enjoy watching this. My son especially likes to watch The Emperor's New Clothes and Swineherd. We have quite a few of these scholastic videos and this one is one of our most watched. The stories are longer in length, so I think it's more appropriate for preschoolers rather than toddlers.

REAL GOOD SUMMERSLAM WWE SUMMERSLAM 2009  1.[I-C TITLE]REY MYSTERIO VS DOLPH ZIGGLER-excellent opening match right here, very well done on both parts. This match has everything an opener should have with basic and classic wrestling as well has the high risk stuff. You also get some great high impact moves as well leading to some very close near falls. Rey is always great but Dolph really impressed here with his performance. I also love the ending here with Rey reversing Ziggler and nailing the huricarana, he keeps the title. Great opener for this Summerslam and would even call it a classic.  2.MVP VS JACK SWAGGER-this match ended up being a little short but good, far from best match on the card. The action is high impact and brawl based which is fine for this short match. Over all a good match but not either ones best, M.V.P. hits the Playmaker and gets the win.  3.[TAG TITLE]CHRIS JERICHO & BIG SHOW VS CRYME TYME-do you remember when tag matches would steal the show back in the day. It has been a while since the WWE has had a great tag division. This match does not suck if that is what you are thinking but it is far from stealing the show. Cryme Tyme never really made a huge impact like they could have and Chris and Show were actually the best tag team at the time. This was a good match that got better as it went and had a classic ending. Well at least the ending felt that way to me, Show and Y2J keep the belts after a huge knockout blow.  4.KANE VS GREAT KHALI-now a lot of people hate on this match and I can see why but what did you expect. This was a battle of two monsters and one of which does not move to quickly. So of course the match is a bit slow with brawler like moves but Kane pulls out the win quick enough.  5.DX VS LEGACY-the match I was waiting for when this event happened as my boy HBK was returning. Of course you all know by now that DX entered on the tank and such for the DX army. The match its self is great and really helped put Legacy over even in their loosing effort. There is a lot of great wrestling going on in this match as well as some brawling. DX of course takes the win as the crowd was crazy for them the whole night.  6.[ECW TITLE]CHRISTIAN VS WILLIAM REGAL-this has got to be the quickest match ever. The bell rings and then Christian wins but of course he gets jumped afterwards by Regal's boys. Quick and sweet victory for the peeps, well that is at least until Christian takes that beat down.  7.[WWE TITLE]RANDY ORTON VS JOHN CENA-this match right here is one of those ones that most people either love or hate. I personally really like this match and all the multiple finishes and how they did it. To me this was a very creative way to give these two a new match. The action starts slow and builds from there especially once the finishes start. I will say that Orton keeps the belt but watch the ways he tries to keep it.  8.[WORLD TITLE TLC MATCH]JEFF HARDY VS CM PUNK-now I have never been a Jeff Hardy fan even when he first debuted. On the other side I have always been a fan of CM Punk even in his Indy days. With that said even though I don't like Jeff I will not deny his talent. Going into this I knew it would be a good match mainly because I like Punk so much. The action is great here but with few high spots involving all the weapons, which is great because they had a great showing with out all that stuff. Jeff of course goes for his Swanton off of the ladder which was a big moment. Still for me the best was the ending when Punk won the title, I loved it. Then of course the return of the Dead man made the place go crazy.  This was a good Summerslam event that had some really good matches attached to it. Of course there were some matches that were a bit lacking but over all a good event. I say pick it up especially if you are a collector. If not it still had some great matches on it you may enjoy.

Fun movie First off, I have no idea what is up with the one star reviewer over there. Personally, I know it's just a "movie" and not a real life "anything". Please, calm down with the over the topness, sheesh.  Any-hoo... I know the original series, and its history (the whole "what should have been and what didn't happen") with Bruce Lee's idea(s). But this movie is a good In For The Evening flick, especially if you have a nice beverage to make it even better. :) lol  No, this isn't Oscar winning acting or story plot lines, but it wasn't meant to be. It's fun, funny and the action scenes keep you interested. I loved the cast and their individual characters.  I say rent it and make up your own mind. Just know it for what it is first: A low key, anti-hero, funny, martial arts action flick. Basically. :)

Watch out for DVD2s I love this movie but didn't realize when I ordered it that it was a destination 2 DVD.  I had no idea there were smart DVDs that knew what region they were in but apparently that is the case.  But I did get it promptly but still need to send it back...

Excellent Action Thriller This movie surprised me.  It got held up after the 9/11 tragedy for good reason, and it slipped by me for more than a decade. But now I've seen it I am glad I did. Very tight plot, good acting, and excellent cast. Believable and at times gripping, this movie is worth seeing. I look forward to seeing Arnold in more ordinary, muted roles.

Apollo 18 NOT A PERFECT MOVIE BUT VERY GOOD IF WANTING SOMETHING OUTSIDE OF THE MAINSTREAM SLASHER GENRE. IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR TEENAGERS ABOUT TO DIE GO TO THE ORIGINAL "HALLOWEEN" (A CLASSIC) OR ALSO THE SURPRISINGLY GOOD LITTLE EARLY '80S FLICK "ONE DARK NIGHT".

Mary surratt This film was educational as well as entertaining and suspenseful. Afetr seeing this film I noticed that hollywood was producing a full motion picture on the same topic. Nice Job Watermark films

Mystery Shopper I was extremely pleased with this DVD.  It provides a great workout weather you have the time do all of the segments or if you only have time to do 1 segment.  It challenges the entire body, gets the heart rate up and gives you a total workout.  I incorporate several segments of this DVD into my routine and I'm definitely getting stronger and seeing good results.

Great workout I have not tried any of Jillians other workout DVD's... but this one kicks my butt.  I made it halfway through the first time, 5 minutes farther the second time, and now I'm trying my best gradually to just make it all the way through.  My inner thigh muscles are much weaker than I suspected. It's a great workout, and I could feel the results the first week in both my abs and thighs.  This video has made me want to try her others as well... And at $8, I probably will.

I added this to my collection I have seen this move several time and my and I enjoyed it, so I bought this for our permanent collection!

very well done you get plenty of matches in this dvd you also get a documentary in this one about the rocks career with commentary from y2j,mick foley,stone cold,hhh and a few other so that makes it worth it on it self but it really good dvd its a must have and the rock also gives his reason why he left for 7 years from the wwe so go pick it up its worth it

Decent "Muppet" outing. This is for the Blu-ray.  I had seen this film once before and didn't like it.  I felt originally that it lacked the warmth and charm the previous Muppet films possessed. But, being a completest and the fact that my wife really enjoyed the film, I decided I'd have to own it.  I was not happy however that the DVD was cropped for Fullscreen, despite it being originally a Widescreen film.  Thankfully, the Blu-ray release has things covered with a Widescreen release of the film finally making it's appearance.  After I got my movie, I popped it in and discovered that I enjoyed the film more this time, and that in fact it does have the warmth and charm normally associated with the Muppets.  I won't say it is their best film, but everything you'd expect in a Muppet film is here.  Fans of the Muppets will enjoy it for the most part, kids defiantly will.  The DVD that comes with the Blu-ray is in fact the original Fullscreen version.  Not too many extras as was the case with the DVD, but the ones that are on it are fun and enjoyable.  If you want to enjoy the best of the Muppet films, I'd suggest with this one picking up <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ATQYTC">Muppet Treasure Island - Kermit's 50th Anniversary Edition</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ATQYT2">The Muppet Christmas Carol - Kermit's 50th Anniversary Edition</a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ATQYTW">The Great Muppet Caper - Kermit's 50th Anniversary Edition</a>.

3.5 - 4 stars I had also heard great things about this movie. Well..It has it's moments that you'll laugh and it has it's moments that seemed to get too serious for a comedy movie. Also, the plot sort of jumped around a bit. The kind of humor you can expect: - "They shouldn't put a childrens park next to a bar. It's entrapment" (One member is a sex offendor for peeing in a park at night) - Colin Ferrell says to fire a guy who he calls Prof. Xavier for "Creeps me out, rolling around all day in his special little secret chair." (It's a wheelchair) - Detective stops the guys - "Why were you speeding?", "I was drag racing.", "In a prius?", "I don't win alot" So, you can see it DOES have it's funny moments. It just gets too serious sometimes and it takes a bit of the laughter away from the humor. It's worth the watch and if you are a fan of the stars of the movie, pic it up but renting it isn't a bad idea for some people.

"In the end how much worse could it get?" -Eddie before he takes his first dose of the miracle medicine to expand his brain In the 1970's "Limitless" would have been a B-movie directed by David Cronenberg (before the mainstream discovered him) but with science fiction themed thrillers being big "Limitless" gets the deluxe "A" treatment in ALL aspects from visuals, acting technique and the script. "Limitless" doesn't lean heavily on a "message" but it's there along with the consequences for the characters in the film for their action.  Director Neil Burger (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000K7VHQ4">The Illusionist (Widescreen Edition)</a>) does a terrific job of envisioning Eddie's world both with without the enhancement of the drug NZT-48 creating a thoughtful thriller that avoids being preachy.  "Limitless" looks extremely good in Blu-ray with lighting, textures and colors for Eddie's different stages of mind nicely reproduced--it's a strong representation of what it looked like in theaters. Audio sounds extremely good as well with a nice immersive 5.1 lossless mix.  The Blu-ray includes an unrated version of the film that literally includes just a couple of extended scenes of graphic violence (and an injection). The film isn't hurt by the slightly longer scenes (clearly cut to gain the PG-13 rating). We also get some very nice extras as well including an audio commentary with Director Neil Burger--Burger tends to describe what we're already SEEING (or about to see)rather than discuss his approach to the material and he clearly could have benefited from a moderator or cast member discussing the making of the film; "A Man Without Limits" focuses on bringing the character of Eddie to life and making him a convincing, sympathetic main character; "Taking It To the Limit" which gives us a bit of surprising info--the screenwriter OPTIONED the story herself--Leslie Dixon writes about what she saw in the original story that appealed to her and how she visualized telling the story. We also get (in under 15 minutes) a brief discussion of location shooting, stunts and other related information. The alternate ending isn't quite as strong as the one we see in the film (it's a variation on it just not as tight). We also get the theatrical trailer.  "Limitless" is a well made entertaining popcorn thriller that has more substance than the average summer movie and that's to director Neil Burger's and writer Leslie Dixon's credit (as well as the actors). Burger who also wrote and directed the stylish "The Illusionist" does a great job with the material here.  Highly recommended.  Synopsis and spoilers below:  When slacker writer Eddie Mora (Bradley Cooper) runs into his ex-brother-in-law Vern (Johnny Whitworth)Vern opens a whole new world with the "experimental" drug NZT-48 that, incredibly, gives Eddie more insight, awareness of his surrounding, ambition, creativity and brilliance than he could ever imagine having. He can take on the stock market, deliver that brilliant first novel that he had his doubts about and make a fortune. The only problem is that others want the drug as well and will kill to get it as it isn't exactly legal nor is it in clinical trials for a variety of reaons as Eddie discovers. He also attracts the attention of Carl Van Loon (Robert De Niro)a wealthy businessman who could be a threat to Eddie as well.

Just A Great Anime A Channel is just a great Anime. Its hard to pin down what really makes you like, but you'll like it if you enjoy having fun. Sometimes the comedy will run dry, but it all made up with some sort of cute scene. If you like Slice-of-Life and Cute-girls-Doing-cute-things then it'd be a great buy. If your not into that kind of stuff then I says its okay if you wanna burn 6 hours watching an anime that you may be able to relate to your own high school experience.

OMG, Brings Back So Many Memories!! I remember watching this movie as a young teenager and thinking I wanted to live in the city; live where Lonny lived but be fun and crazy like Rainbow Harvest's character. Growing up in Long Island I wasn't that detached from the city, we'd visit family in Washington Heights, uptown and I vividly remember the city streets where I played with cousins. This movie reminds me so much of those days!! I cant believe I found it!!! It's going in my library for sure!!

the way we live now there are the same type of good and bad guys and gals no matter what generation you grow up in. this movie is great.

Scientifically ridiculous, but utterly entertaining Bought this dvd on a whim because it was $5 at a store.  The series is now my secret indulgence.  Scientifically, this series take massive inductive leaps from what is often minimal evidence. (I have only seen seasons 1 and 2, so far)  Still they do it in a highly entertaining way, and for some reason, I just can't get enough of this show.  It definitely makes you think.  My main problem with the series is they introduce a piece of evidence, they introduce the traditionally accepted view and then they introduce the alien theory, when there may be some or many other possible solutions that fit.  Still it is a show about Ancient Aliens, and they do put there ideas out there as theories or hypotheses.  Overall entertaining, and I enjoy seeing the one guy with the supernatural hair.

3:10 to Yuma? So I watched this for the first time last night and all I have to say is, this was not what I expected. First off the 3:10 to Yuma is late... why name the movie 3:10 to Yuma it should had been the 3:22 to Yuma. Second I thought this was going to be a movie about trains... it was not, in fact there was barely anything about trains in this whole movie. While my 5 year old loves trains he said this movie scared him and he is now frighten of trains, and to be honest, I dont blame him.

Watchable Action Movie. Rambo Set In The Future. DID ROB SCHNEIDER HAVE TO BE IN IT?!!! This action film starring Sylvester "Rocky Rambo" Stallone is a pretty decent movie which also stars Diane Lane and Armand Assante. I don't know anything about Judge Dredd, other than he's supposedly a comic book character and he never shows his face or whatever. I liked this film, but my issue with it is Rob Schneider. Did he HAVE TO BE in this movie? Seriously, all the guy knows how to do is raunchy comedy ala Adam Sandler. He was okay in "Around The World In 80 Days," but that was a Disney movie and everyone knows you can't get raunchy in a Disney film. I recommwend this movie. Good action scenes. Could have been longer, though, with additional character development of Judge Dredd and Judge Hershey and maybe even a romance between both of them.

Funny! I laughed all the way through this movie.  The funniest scene though was in the bridal shop.  All I can say is that it was one of those, "did they really just do that?" moments.  I thought I was going to die laughing.  I'm hoping there will be a sequel to this where they do make it to Vegas.  Just by the description of what each of them was looking for going there would certainly have made for some fun if they had made it.  Worth seeing.

3 part series WOW, wished more of these type stories were available.  Some pretty upsetting stuff but the story was outstanding.  I love ongoing series and this really delivered as the 3rd in saga.  Be sure to watch them in sequence.

LOVE THIS IS ONE OF MY OLD TIME FAVORITE MOVIE WITH GARY AND DEMI,  I LOVE THE PASSION AND DETERMINATION TO FIGHT FOR THEIR LOVE.

I liked the cast in this movie... I grew up on Long Island so I had friends who were/are brokers.. I'm not a big fan of Diesel's but he did a good job in his supporting role.

New York... I liked the movie alot being from New York I could identify where almost all the scenes were shot. Also, most New Yorkers like Martial Arts movies.

Unique & Original Scalene is not a movie for the faint of heart. It deals with many touchy issues including rape, murder, abuse and the effects of drug use. The story revolves around a young man named Jacob. When he was twelve, he was experimenting with his friends. His attempts at a cheap high resulted in severe brain damage which left him childish and unable to speak. His mother is dealing with this alone, and when she meets a gentlemen who displays an interest in her, she hires a college student named Paige to help with Jacob.  While this is the basic gist of the film, it was told in a way that made it quite unique. It starts out going backwards, starting with Jacob's mother coming to try to attack Paige and saying, "I want him back." From there you go backwards, seeing the events that led up the possible rape from the mother's perspective. Then there is a scene where Jacob gets burned and for a few minutes you see things though his eyes. Then it switches to Paige's point of view, and you start moving forward in time again, leading back up to the initial attack. This may sound confusing, but it actually worked well. It gives you the perspective of all the main characters, without giving away the climax to soon.  This film invoked some mixed emotions in me. On the one hand, I liked the idea. It was unique, and the little known cast were all amazing.  As someone who can relate to the struggles of having a mentally handicapped family member, I understand the frustration the  mother encountered. I could also relate to Paige as the young girl who suspects abuse and isn't sure how to handle it. Though, I honestly think that anything else would have been a better than than what she decided. Paige's decisions made me feel that she was the most disturbed of all the characters, and yet, this is what made the story compelling and original.  Scalene is definitely a film worth watching if you want a psychological thriller that will leave you with you mouth hanging open, long after the final credit have ended.

great comedy Sometimes has one of three plots that its hard to follow but that's the whole point with a satire. Great choice if you like to our just need a good laugh

Love this movie Great movie but no special features on it.  Once I opened that movie I noticed that there is a $10off coupon for the 3D version that is coming out with special features.

excellent anime Loved the anime, think "planetes" when you go to purchase this but as a precurser to the state of space development in the anime planetes.

Excellent Video Quality, Adequate Soundtrack Please describe the audio and video quality of any Blu-Ray you review.  Thanks to those who do this.  The video quality of this Blu-Ray is excellent.  I can not come up with any complaints at all about it.  It looks like a brand new movie shot digiatlly, even better than some I have seen.  It was presented in 2.20:1 aspect ratio, so it wasn't as wide as the normal 2.35:1 widescreen, but still had narrow black bars at the top and bottom.  I feel like I'm missing part of the movie anytime the video isn't wider than my widescreen LCD.  This Blu-Ray has DTS-HD 7.1 Master Audio, but there were almost no surround sounds.  At the beginning, before the video was visible, there were race car sounds coming from the rear and side surround speakers (as well as the fronts).  I'm not even sure if this was part of the original movie.  But this beginning was the only real noticable surround sound (I did notice a little sound from the side surrounds, but not much).  So, I really don't understand why they made this in 7.1, since 99% of the sound comes from the fronts and center speakers.  The movie lasted two hours and 24 minutes, which included the intermission.  I don't know why they have an intermission, since you can pause the movie any time you want.

Quality release by MGM of this 70's drive in classic First off,a review for this MGM DVD release: The picture on this release is really nice,and about 10 times better than the old Obsession release which looks like it comes from a used VHS copy. Not only is the picture much improved but so is the audio which has much less hiss than the old release. Those are the pro's of the MGM release,too bad they press these on DVD-R with no extras (besides the original trailer in lesser quality),no chapter menu and bad back cover artwork.  As for the movie-it's pretty much a typical 1970's drive-in feature with cute girls,cool cars,good music and some nudity. A foxy girl's uncle gets sick so she gets her hot girlfriends to help her run his gas station in half cut t-shirts and short shorts. The station starts doing well so naturally the mob run gas station across the street doesn't like this at all and hijinks ensue. If you enjoy these kinds of films this one is worth watching.  Gas was .79 cents a gallon in this film,which along with the girls and the cars really makes me long for the 70's.

I missed the first few minutes of the movie, but it's based on a true story. Sin and Redemption is a movie about a young woman named Billie (Cynthia Gibb) who is attacked and raped but she never got a chance to see who her attacker was. She soon finds out that she's pregnant as a result of her rape. She meets and marries a young man Jimmy McDaniels (Richard Grieco) who seems eager to marry her and help her raise her baby. He seems to have a troubled relationship with his mother and stepfather. Right after their quickie wedding, they move in with his mother and stepfather for a few weeks and they get their own place. Pretty soon after their marriage, Billie wants to go back to school and Jimmy is reluctant and seems to be upset and frustrated all the time. His drinking becomes more and more frequent. Billie's daughter gets sick and her kidneys are not growing and the doctors inform her that eventually she may need to have a kidney transplant. As time goes by, Billie gets pregnant 2 more times, and Jimmy doesn't seem to be too excited about both pregnancies. Jimmy has become abusive towards Billie, to the point of hitting her and raping her while pregnant with her third child. Soon after, Billie's daughter's health has continued to deteriorate to the point of needing a kidney transplant. Her family members get tested, and Jimmy is reluctant to get tested. When she confronts him, they argue, but he does get tested and he's a perfect match. She immediately comes to the conclusion that he is the man to attacked and raped her. He undergoes the surgery and donates his kidney to their daughter. When both Jimmy and his daughter recover, Billie makes a decision about her marriage and how she will live her life.

Family Drama and Black Humor I'm sick to death of LOUD! movies.  I'm tired of special effects, guns blasting, cars crashing, NOISE!  I don't care at all for vampires, zombies, werewolves and other fantasy nonsense.  The Descendants is not that kind of movie.  It is a drama about real life in a paradise (Hawaii).  There is plenty of subtle (and overt) black humor.  I also liked the music in the movie.  George Clooney did a great job playing a regular sort of guy.  I think my favorite Clooney role.  Also a nice supporting cast.  There is a dysfunctional family, marital cheating, a wife in a coma, family business, selfishness etc.  This is modern life with all it's warts.  This is not Leave it to Beaver.  The main character in the end does not sell out and he and his two daughters have settled into a sort of truce.  There is peace and affection at the end, however, it will probably not last (real life).  A very entertaining drama.  Enjoy it.

Good comedy from the UK This is one of my favourite comedies from the Beeb.  The episodes, while not having the most believable situations, still have me laughing.  I only wish there were some bonus materials included with the set.

Thumbs up movie This movie had a good story full of danger and intrigue as it portrayed Africans against Africans, including the kidnapping of children who were then brainwashed to join violent gangs.  It showed what one father would go through to recover his son from one of these gangs and how that could only be possible because of the diamond he found and the corrupt government leader who wanted it.  The characters were believable and the actors playing them worked well together in this.

Good Denzel Movie This movie is very dark, but very good. Classic Denzel. Had a huge problem with the movie dropping out until updating firmware in our Blu Ray player. After that had one or two minor instances of drop out - no big deal. The picture was excellent. Sharp and clear.

Alright. But, fun. My daughter and I went to see this in the theatre before we purchased. She wasn't a huge Pooh fan before we went. (I was and was hoping she would get into too.) As an adult, I didn't really like how it kept showing the storybook. I had no interest in that bit and wanted to get on with the story. The movie really does a great job of showcasing Eeyore's pessimistic attitude. At one point, he says "We're all going to die". But, it was done brilliantly and in a way that it was most amusing. As Eeyore is my favorite character, I might be a bit biased :)  My daughter found several parts very funny and enjoyed the story as a whole. I do think she got a bit bored at times. But, that went away after viewing it again at home.

TALK TALK DVD REVIEW I love that band Talk Talk and all their different sounds. It's unfortunate that they had to break up. All their albums are great also. When I found out about this live DVD I bought it right then. Unfortunately, it only covers their first three albums but it does well for a show and gives people the singles they would want to see live.

Habatchii Review: Batman Beyond <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001CI5AQS">Inside Batman Beyond</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000CSTK42">Batman Beyond: Season One (DC Comics Classic Collection)</a>  In building an animation library, it is necessary to include the classics, not withholding the newest implementation of the originals. 'Batman Beyond' is no exception, keeping to the classic Batman theme while exploring the inner Batman in everyone.  THE PRODUCT: The production all are very nicely exhibited; each series builds a brand new inter-dependent theme while providing entertainment worth reviewing.  THE MOOD: The main audience of animation libraries are typically adult-oriented people; this production in all of its youthful paradigms, has the capacity to entertain both youth and adult audiences.  OVERALL: The series as a whole should be a notable asset to any animation library; the individual episodes add extra flexibility in scheduling private viewing. I would endorse 'Batman Beyond'.

Worth Seeing, at least one I saw this the first time longer ago than I want to recall, in the old Cinarama format. Seeing it again reminded me of just how many stars, really big name actors, participated in this epic. Given the darkness of so many films today, this movie may seem old fashioned, naive and the special effects not so special. But it is an epic, and worth seeing.

decomerone-veduto 1971 saw it in italy when it first came out and surprised at how much i remembered. helluva lot more fun than reading.

Technical sound imbalance undercuts dialog in favor of explosions and music... The technical errors in THE DARK KNIGHT RISES are enough to warn viewers that they'll wish there were subtitles for some of the quiet scenes between Marion Cotillard and/or Anne Hathaway, both of whom have a habit of dropping their voices at key moments. Miss Cotillard has whole sentences that are key to an understanding of her character that are barely intelligible at a crucial plot point. Surely, whoever designed the audio mix has some explaining to do.  Otherwise, fans will get their money's worth of action and thrills despite a lumbering plot that takes far too long to unwind after a breathtaking opening shot involving mid-air hostages.  And the performances are uniformly fine from the large cast--Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Matthew Modine, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Gary Oldman and Michael Caine. But the flaws are there in the script which has too many strands of sub-plots to cover and too many humiliating fights between Bane and Batman before the man of steel redeems himself again.  Nevertheless, there are moments where it kicks into high gear between some dull stretches. Christopher Nolan sees to it that the action sequences are given top priority to any other values inherent in the script. All of the gadgets are as slick as ever.  Personally, I still prefer the first and second "Batman" films to this one which is sometimes too muddled in content. Biggest drawback is the fact that the sound mix of voices vs. explosions (and Hans Zimmer's music) has been poorly handled at key moments in plot development.  Fans of "Batman" will probably overlook the audio weaknesses in the long run, but I felt they should be pointed out, especially since so much expense was put into the visuals of this action epic.

Good Rome Open City is a good film, but it is clearly a far more historically important film than an artistically great one (the predominance of hagiography and agitprop make this almost inevitable). Too many times its lead characters, be they Italians or Germans, good guys or bad guys, fall into stereotypes, and the action plunges into melodrama. Pina's senseless death is the best example, as she would truly have to be stupid to do such a thing in real life, with her son right there. But, it does set up the rest of the film's drama and narrative pieces. And there can be some rightful criticism of the film's dishonest portrayal of the Italian Resistance (which was virtually nothing in comparison to the French Resistance), culpability for the Second World War, and relative prosperity and lack of internal destruction versus other European nations. Nonetheless, the film did sweep the Cannes Film Festival and many others worldwide, and it has a number of touches that redeem its clich&eacute;s, such as having Don Pietro's glasses be broken so that he can only hear, not see, Manfredi's slow death, or the literal killing of two lambs by the Nazis right before Marina betrays Manfredi, which, in its rendering is far more affecting than in its mere description. It should also be mentioned that in a brief scene, an Italian tot's naked bottom half (including genitalia) is shown, which both adds to the claims of realism, and satisfies the dramatic arc of the moment, highlighting how silly most censored scenes and moments in film are. Rome Open City does not broach greatness, but it does entertain and inspire, even almost two thirds of a century after its conception, and sometimes that's something which has even more effect than hermetic greatness. So, ciao, and it's on to Paisan!

The Kirk Douglas Epic Looks Great In High Definition There should not be any possible criticism of how "Spartacus" (50th Anniversary Edition) looks in Blu-ray high definition.  Vivid colors show why ancient Rome remains such a popular subject for movies.  The opulent Roman villa with pool was shot at Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California.  (Take advantage of public tours, like I did.  You want a tour that includes Rome.)  The cast is superlative, best ever assembled during the age of epics.  Laurence Olivier and Charles Laughton, as rivals for power in the Roman Senate, reduce Kirk Douglas and his slave army to mere pawns.  Thus I greatly admire "Spartacus" as a political film worthy of Machiavelli.  One manipulation after another drives the plot forward, last days of the Republic, with a young Julius Caesar waiting for his chance to take over.  Kirk Douglas deserves praise for helping break the blacklist, Dalton Trumbo's name appearing as screenwriter.  Trumbo, along with the film, needed a real editor.  "Spartacus" is way too long, and could easily have been cut down to something like 150 minutes or less.  Even the real Spartacus might have felt tortured watching all 197 minutes, waiting for the outstandingly powerful action sequences, especially at the gladiator school and final battle.  Surprised me the Blu-ray offering any "Deleted Scenes", not enough of these.  How many times must we see happy, freed slaves?  I presume director Stanley Kubrick, a mid-shooting replacement, was less than satisfied, subsequently insisting upon total control over his future films.  Now comes a spoiler, so please don't read any further if you never have seen "Spartacus".  There is one specific absurdity, usually offered up as a "Spartacus" signature scene, when all survivors claim to be Spartacus.  At this point identifying the real Spartacus seems to matter more than anything else.  And it's ridiculous.  Kirk Douglas the actor/producer playing Spartacus, has a large dimple on his chin, his unique, totally identifying physical feature.  This is also referred to as a chin dimple, cleft chin, and butt chin.  Any computer search on the subject turns up something like the following for Kirk Douglas: "Probably the most prominent cleft chin in the history of Hollywood." [...]  So why don't any of the characters in "Spartacus", easily able to and asked to identify Spartacus, often for a reward, not blurt out "chin dimple" or at least "dimple"?  That would ruin the plot, so we must all pretend not to notice.  Kirk Douglas obviously desired to keep his trademark dimple as Spartacus, while ignoring it, both at the same time, a contradiction.  "Dimple vanity" came first, before believability.  I hope this would not happen today, when actors care more about realism.  A make-up artist should have covered up that dimple for Kirk Douglas to star in "Spartacus" as written, which likely makes me a heretic.  I still think "Spartacus" is one of the best epics of that period, after "Ben-Hur" (my favorite), and perhaps "The Ten Commandments", both starring Charlton Heston.

yankee1 James nesbit is always good.  People who like american medical series  will love this.  Its real........its so much beter than House.

What Is On This Set I haven't watched this yet. I plan to update this review, but the box lists the contents and no one else has offered that here.  I can tell you that this is a collection for hardcore fans only. It contains only one of your favorite Columbia shorts featuring Curly from their mid-30s through mid-40s heyday. The rest can be found on Sony's multi-volume set "The Three Stooges Collection."  As I watch, I'll update this listing with notes about the transfer quality of films, details, and DVD extras.  DVD1 - The Three Stooges Everywhere 1. Nertsery Rhymes (1933 Ted Healy and His Stooges) - Curly's first appearance on film, and the first appearance of Moe, Larry and Curly with Healy. Originally shot in two-strip technicolor. While this early version of technicolor was unimpressive, it was likely included to illuminate the two plush musical numbers in this 15-minute short. The print here is in unrestored black-and-white, which undoubtedly diminishes the experience. This film will never rank high in the pantheon of Stooge greats, but for its historical significance, it deserves a decent restoration. 2. Roast Beef and Movies (1933) - Also originally produced in two-strip technicolor, presented here in unrestored black-and-white. Curly appears without Healy or the other Stooges in this early solo effort. A much better Technicolor print of this can be found on the MGM DVD "Dancing Lady," (ASIN B000F7CMPO). 3. The Three Stooges Family Album - A 1998 half-hour documentary of the lives of the Stooges, rich with rare black-and-white, silent home movie footage provided by the Stooges' families. Includes footage of the three Howard boys Moe, Curly, and Shemp briefly goofing with their parents at Curly's 1938 wedding, among other bits. Quality is good. 4. Steve Allen Show  DVD 2 - A Day At The Theater (This disk contains the feature "Swing Parade of 1946")  DVD 3 - Everybody's In The Act All of the shorts on this disc suffer from a faded, high-contrast and blurred lack of restoration. Sometimes the sound has a muffled quality. You'll be able to watch them, but they could use a lot of work. 1. Beer and Pretzels (1933) Ted Healy and His Stooges 2. The Big Idea (1933) Ted Healy and His Stooges 3. His First Flame (1935 Shemp solo) 4. Corn On The Cop (1934 Shemp solo) 5. Saltwater Daffy (1933) Shemp's first solo effort. He appears as Jack Hayley's sidekick, foiled by Lionel Stander.  DVD 4 - The Three Stooges Animated Antics (Presumably the mid-1960s cartoon series featuring Larry, Moe and Curly Joe) 1. Peter Panic 2. When You Wish Upon A Fish 3. A Little Past Noon 4. Three Lumps in a Lamp 5. Who's For Dessert 6. Which is Witch 7. Suture Self 8. The Yolks On You 9. Tally Moe With Larry & Joe 10. The Transylvania Railroad 11. What's Mew Pussycat? 12. It's A Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World 13. Bridge On The River Cry  DISK 5 - The Columbia shorts whose rights are free and in the public domain 1. Disorder In The Court (Curly) 2. Brideless Groom (Shemp) 3. Malice In The Palace (Shemp) 4. Sing A Song Of Six Pants (Shemp)  DISK 6 Biography, Interviews, Clips, Photo Gallery, Screen Saver and Direct Scene Access More cartoons 1. Bee My Honey 2. Litter Bear 3. Turnabout is Bearplay 4. Furry Fugitive 5. Curly's Bear 6. Bearfoot Bandit 7. Hair Of The Bear 8. Watt's My Lion  DISK 7 Kook's Tour - The Stooges' last film from 1970 Scene from their TV pilot with Shemp, "Jerks Of All Trades" Biography, Interviews, Cartoons, Video Clips, Photo Gallery, Screen Saver

Great Blu-Ray Great movie. This Blu-Ray looks great. Loved the movie on DVD and this is sweet. Good stuff, buy it now. Ok? Yes, you should buy.

Good but needs better production studio The information contained in the movie is very interesting and if you follow UFO investigations and what the ancient world thought about aliens and UFOs then you should watch this movie.  A professional TV station or movie producer could have really made this a good movie.

A Must Know!! I own most every BBC Earth nature documentary and I appreciate what goes in to making these incredible films.  "Life" is an incredible series and I highly recommend to everyone, but the version narrated by David Attenborough.  I was born and raised in the U.S. but the Americanized versions of the BBC Earth documentaries (for the most part) are terrible due to the choice of narrator.  They typically are not knowledgeable about the material, and make the video almost unbearable (e.g., Oprah, Alex Baldwin in Frozen Planet, Mike Rowe in Human Planet, etc.).  The actual video content is truly incredible and anyone interested in life on Earth should purchase Life narrated by David Attenborough.  This goes for every BBC Earth documentary.  If possible (exception is Human Planet narrated by John Hurt who does a good job) get the version narrated by David Attenborough.

Amazing!! This is for everyone who has hit a point where they're "sick of carrying Jell-o" around their stomach! This workout really is amazing! I'm the type that if I'm going to be bouncing around trying to get into shape my curtains are drawn and I make sure no one is going to walk in on me. (The closet workout-er.. 5'3 175lbs) If you decide to try this please go into it knowing you won't be able to do everything perfect the first time! I started to sweat just during the warm-up and felt like I was going to die about 15 minutes into it. Jullian encourages you to keep pushing, telling you that you can do it! My 3 yr old kept repeating Jullian. "Common mommy 3 2 1" "You can do it" She saw it as dancing! I finished the workout and feel AMAZING! I'm already in love with this workout!

Funny Funny movie for the family, could have done without some of the crass(ness) but overall worth renting for our family 12 year old daughter, wo year old son, wife and myself. We all laughed.

Human Interest..... This one is a true story, first of all. One that shows how life can be changed from some events/misfortunes that occurred. Tragedy that happen early in life brought tragedy near and at the end of life for the individual and others around her. This is one for your collection, if you like true based story.

Very entertaining Excellent acting and dialog. I wouldn't put this movie in my top ten, but I can safely say I will watch it again in the near future.

Good Now Im not exactly a huge stallone fan but this was pretty good. I have to admit hat I was waiting for the headband to come in though. Very good collection of action characters and decent for a low budget film. Good thing about low budget though, limited cg! So lots of actual explosions!

first season of "The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Although I gave this Dvd Series as a gift.  The recipient was thrilled with the film and called me to exclaim how delightful the series was.

bleedingfilms.com review of 'FUNNY GAMES' (1997) This delivers an unpleasant family in crisis experience that has a great atmosphere. The script is intelligent and all performances are absolute quality. They made a remake starring Tim Roth which is almost frame by frame the same. Stick with this version because it's original and all round just a better film.  You will be very careful when opening your front door to strangers after watching this film. I'm not saying it's a `home security advice' film, but it does give you one of the worst case home invasion scenarios. I love the opening title sequence; it combines a pleasant family drive in the country with classical music playing from the radio and then suddenly, without warning, the most aggressive thrash metal kicks in on the radio which is so out of place from what's on the screen. Simple, different and effective, just the way I like it.  You have seen all the villains from Hannibal Lecter to Mick Taylor (Wolf Creek). However, this film excels when disturbed characters are played very differently than anything seen before. Pure evil with no feeling comes to mind. There are two great `out of film' moments that I won't talk about. I loved them both.  I find it so frustrating seeing parents being weak and reasonable in a story like this, but it's necessary because if they were portrayed as strong minded people, the film would last no more than 30 minutes max. This is a dialogue heavy film that takes it's time and is absolutely riveting to watch. I have never seen a film like this and I was pleasantly surprised at how good it is. The cruelty is as it needs to be, it could have been a great deal worse. It does not go down the rape route of `A Clockwork Orange' or the horrific scene in the original `Death Wish', however it still manages to give you the feeling of shock and dread.  What is does achieve so well is it gives you the thought that whatever your financial situation, or how big your house is, or how articulate and kind you are, home invasion can happen to anyone...even you. This is a very cruel and disturbing film. It's an ordeal to get through and watching the long scenes that take their time and are paced in such a correct and creative way, draws you into the mayhem even more. The early scene in the kitchen is cinematic genius, I'm sure the camera doesn't move for the entire scene. 'Funny Games' is a tremendous unsettling experience.  Definitely worth 108 minutes of your life.  bleedingcritic bleedingfilms.com

A good old-fashioned action epic. With Kenneth Branagh at the helm, it's hard not to draw comparisons between THOR and various Shakespearean tragedies: brash, arrogant son defies his father, bringing about apocalyptic consequences, only to find that he was betrayed by those whom he trusted most.  It's an age-old story, which works in THOR's favor: it lends the film a firm sense of ethos, a grand backdrop which Branagh manipulates with great skill.  It helps that he's chosen a fine cast.  Chris Hemsworth has solid screen presence; the film sags a bit when Thor loses his powers, but picks up admirably when he regains them.  Throughout, Hemsworth remains, at his worst, watchable, and at his best, thoroughly engaging.  As the devious Loki, Tom Hiddleston is a devious, manipulating wonder (stick around after the credits for what is arguably his best scene).  Anthony Hopkins finally has a role he can sink his teeth into again, and Stellan Skarsgard scores as a doubtful scientist.  Natlie Portman doesn't have a whole lot to do, but she does it well; same with Kat Dennings, who provides some of the film's necessary comic relief.  Clark Gregg is back as smarmy Agent Coulson, and Idris Elba has a grand bit part as a loyal gatekeeper.  Also look for: Ray Stevenson as a Norse warrior; Rene Russo as Thor's mother; Colm Feore as a menacing Ice Giant king; and Jeremy Renner in a thoroughly bada** cameo.  THOR definitely has its flaws, number one being its utter implausibility.  It's hard to bring the mystical wonder of comic books to the big screen; comic fans are much more willing to suspend disbelief than the average film-goer (though the popularity of such films as TWILIGHT and the TRANSFORMERS franchise says otherwise...).  Branagh doesn't try to convince us that all this is real; that tactic works great with heroes such as Batman, but when you're dealing with the Norse god of thunder, it's best to just shrug it off by having your hero declare: "Your ancestors called it magic; you call it science.  Where I come from, they're one and the same."  Branagh goes for the implausible epic; he doesn't succeed (to keep audiences interested, the film has to clock in under 2 hours, and it's hard to do an epic is such a short time), but it's a noble effort, and makes for one of the more entertaining superhero movies of late.  Not quite as good as IRON MAN, say, but a few steps above IRON MAN 2 or THE GREEN LANTERN.  It's refreshing to see a comic book film that isn't an origin story, or doesn't try to rewrite "history."  It's simply a straightforward film, featuring a solid cast, helmed by a reliable filmmaker.  If that's what you're in the mood for, it doesn't get much better than THOR.

Fight or Flight *******CONTAINS SPOILER******* This movie starts with Leon disobeying the companies orders because they pulled him from his well deserved vacation and then went "oh we don't need you their now, never mind." Well Leon being Leon, he decides to investigate and runs into a whole bunch of trouble, LIKE EVERY RE FILM YOU SEE, but you know, that is why we keep watching. We see Ms. Wong throughout the film and this is where the crush that is discussed throughout the game RE6 is really starting to be fleshed out. Even though it is kinda depressing late in the game; back to the movie I found the CG to be top class and the viewing from Amazon to be top quality for this movie. I have only rented a few movies and they all have been crystal clear with little to no stream lag. I recommend this movie to anyone who likes the RE series as well as anyone who wants to see a story-line develop and continue to grow till the final moments.

Fast Shipping! I bought this movie because I wanted to start getting blu-ray movies. It was an old movie so I did'nt want to spend too much money. I received this movie really quick. I started watching it and it was good. Nothing makes me more happier than the truth. They said the case was going to have normal wear and tear, I thought it hardly had any. They said fast shipping, i got it in 3 days TOPS, and they also said no scratches which was true. I give them TWO THUMBS UP!

Good but not great... The Lorax is based on the Dr. Suess book. As the mom of 14 and grandmother of 7, I have read this story many, many times. The movie is visually stunning, the colours are wonderful and the characters are well done, although a bit different than the originals. I enjoyed the music and the added dialogue was funny.  I took my youngest 5 children, ages 9 to 13, and they enjoyed it as well but it certainly wasn't one of their favourites and there were times my attention wondered from the movie.  It's worth seeing, but might be okay to wait and see the DVD.

One of Disney's Funniest This in my opinion was one of Disney's funniest features.  There are so many funny characters in this movie and even as an adult now couldn't help but laugh out loud at the antics.  Great movies for kids and families!

Interesting if you are much into Eminem I enjoyed the Eminem AKA DVD because it allowed me to have a fuller picture of the way Eminem grew up, his family history, his school environment. For Eminem, the lyrics tell the story. Understanding the disfucntionality of Eminems family allows the viewer to understand the man and the artist better. eminem s family, former teachers, Eminem s former bodyguard, Detroit journalists contributed to the making of this very informative DVD.

"Tombstone": A Grand Old-School Western for Modern Audiences Opening on Christmas Day in 1993, Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer's "Tombstone" film enjoyed more than a half-year's head start on rival Kevin Costner's similar (and far more expensive) pet project, "Wyatt Earp."  Largely through word of mouth, they easily won the battle of the box office.  In terms of pure entertainment, the romanticized "Tombstone" deserved to win, at least at that time because it carefully treaded the line between an adult Western melodrama (hence, the R rating) and often cartoony but vintage Hollywood clich&eacute;s, making it appealing to a very wide range of audiences.  Its ominous poster tagline, "Justice is Coming," spells out perfectly the old-school Western that the movie is.  In recent years, star Russell has purportedly admitted to secretly directing "Tombstone" using credited director George Cosmatos as an artistic front after original writer-director Kevin Jarre was dismissed.  Assuming that is a fact, it makes sense why "Tombstone" so often resembles a classic Western, since Russell is such an old pro dating back to his childhood working in this genre.  Using his expertise, there are several thematic choices that are simplistically brilliant here.  The four that most come to mind are: 1. asserting Wyatt Earp as a biblical-like Pale Horseman in which death, hell, and justice will follow in his wake; and 2. assigning trademark red sashes to the villainous Clanton-Curly Bill gang, so viewers can easily distinguish the good guys from the bad.  Obviously, no real Old West desperado would have sought that kind of unwanted legal attention, but it works really well for Hollywood's frontier mobsters in this movie who just don't care about anonymity.  The third important choice is focusing the film equally on Wyatt and "Doc" Holliday.  Although Russell coolly has more screen time, Kilmer's flamboyant, rakish take on the tubercular Holliday steals the show.  Yet, by working together, the two actors effectively balance out each other's performances.  The relatively solid all-star ensemble cast, including old hand Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn, Stephen Lang (a dead-on Ike Clanton),  and even a cameo from Charlton Heston conveys the ambiance of an old-school Western complete with mustache-twirling villains and reluctant ex-lawmen putting the silver badge on again.  The major casting problem lies with Morgan and Virgil's indistinctive blonde wives (who don't have any presence or dialogue) and more so with romantic co-lead Dana Delany.  While Delany enjoys some solid chemistry with Russell, she is miscast as a frisky, young Josephine Marcus, since the real Josie Marcus evidently wasn't anything like her.  Lastly, the fourth factor is correctly presenting names and accepted historical events in the right order while heavily embellishing other "facts" about the great Earp & Holliday-Clanton feud that ignited the legendary Gunfight at the OK Corral and its bloody aftermath.  "Tombstone" also benefits from a majestic, well-balanced musical score from Bruce Broughton, and the fact that the filmmakers strove to make their Arizona location shooting (in Tucson) as colorful as possible, even with a close recreation of Tombstone itself.  The film clearly stumbles when the various cliches (too many to mention) start piling up so close together that you don't need to know the historical back story to sense what is coming next.  Also, because of the huge ensemble cast, many characters (i.e. Jason Priestley's Deputy Sheriff Billy Breckenridge) are under-developed or so one-dimensional that the script treats them like mere after-thoughts.  You may also notice some occasional spots where the actors (including Billy Zane's efforts and Russell's wooden last line to Kilmer) sink into stilted melodrama, which erodes their overall performances.  As I stated in my review of "Wyatt Earp," I honestly believe that, had these rival productions actually worked together by pooling all their mighty resources, a better and more profitable film would have resulted.  Rating: 7.5/10 (In terms of sheer entertainment value, "Tombstone" trumps the plodding "Wyatt Earp," despite its heavy reliance on traditional Western clich&eacute;s and some weak performances.  If they are compared side by side, I would consider the two films as roughly even with an edge to Costner's film for technical merits).  P.S.  The impressive DVD special features are pretty solid entertainment and quite fun to watch.

alternate versions....good and bad ok, i will start with the truth: i.dont.read.the.manga. there, i said it. BUT i watch too much anime.  really. i should probably stop. so therefore my opinion matters (dangit)  Now, on to the review -  just kidding, i am not going to spew my opinions at you, but i will say this: this is kind of good.  i mean, i looooooved the first series and everyone and their mom blabs on and on about how this one is sooo much better and its truer to the manga and yippy yah doo dow etc. the first series (watch that instead or at least first) is a little slower paced and has a little less action, but it has an immeasurable amount of story and emotional drama, twists and reveals. this one kind of throws everything at you and doesnt give you a reason to give a crap about any of the characters.  it is pretty though.  and the action is awesome.  i cant write out what i want to say exactly, but...if youre a fan of the first series, this is a neat addition.  if youre just starting out on this story...i dont know, i would say skip this incarnation.

Great Animation.  Most not appropriate for small children. I loved Fantasia as a child and decided to buy this set for my little one and I to watch together.  I love the animation but find myself fast-forwarding through alot of it because there are many parts that would be freightening for her.  I am glad I purchased this set but will wait to watch it until she is older.  Fantasia 2000 is a nice addition but is not nearly as great as the original.

Gret flick This is an older movie but has a great story line and kind of makes you review your own life and what happens when we leave this dimension,  interesting!

Grr.. The product itself is fantastic. Unfortunately I paid for it to be gift wrapped and all they did was throw the note in the box. Otherwise it would have gotten 5 stars.

If You Like It Buy It I do not like to review music purchases or movie purchases. If you didn't like the songs or the movie in the first place why would you bother buying it?

The Voyage Continues (in two discs) As a kid, I couldn't get enough of the Narnia books, and "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" was my favorite. It featured seagoing adventure, island exploration, and some great humor with the old dwarf on the docks and the unforgettable Reepicheep. Imagine my excitement to hear the third Narnia movie would be made.  Michael Apted lends the film a sure hand, and the children actors are all good in their roles, though the Eustace part is somewhat slapstick at points. The movie draws us into Narnia in a magical way, and I was thrilled to be there once more. With the arrival of the Dawn Treader, I knew I was in for some fun. And yes, in many ways, this third installment builds on the fun, warmhearted, good vs. evil elements of the first. While I personally liked "Prince Caspian," I enjoyed "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" a bit more, and so it was nice to see here that same imaginative and colorful version of our favorite fanciful land. Many of the book's strong points are on display.  My few quibbles have to do with the quick romps past the Dufflepuds and some of the island sequences, with time spent instead on building a climactic ending. The ending does mostly succeed, but we've seen these types of conflicts with sea monsters before, and often more dramatically, such as in "Pirates of the Caribbean." My other complaint is that the dragon's peeling away that is so meaningful and symbolic in the book loses a lot of its power. The idea is present in the movie, but it backs away from the personal contact from Aslan. While this could be admittedly hard for small children to understand, it is so key to the scene's depth.  We bought the two-disc edition for Easter. The second disc has about 45 minutes of extras, with some interviews, making of a scene, island information, and a sword-matching game. It's worth the extra $5, but it lacks the detail and complete world exploration that is found in the extra "Lord of the Ring" DVDs, for example.  Overall, Apted gives us a thoroughly fun, funny, engaging, and heartwarming story. Although it set up a segue into "The Silver Chair" (another of my favorite Narnia books), it looks like the next movie, if it's to be made, will be "The Magician's Nephew." Either way, I hope this voyage continues.

Shutter Island `Shutter Island' is a thriller set in the fifties which follows two US Marshals who are investigating an escape at an institute for the criminally insane. The asylum is on an island and they get stranded there after a big storm sweeps in after their arrival. They have to work out how the patient escaped and what other sinister things have been occurring on the island before it is all too late. Di Caprio plays Edward Daniels, one of the Marshals, who is also traumatised by his past during and after the war and he relives some of this history via flashbacks throughout the film.  This had a dark, sinister feel to it from the word go and you are very quickly drawn into the intrigue and mystery on the island. You are unsure whether the head doctor is trustworthy or not and the other patients also add a surreal element to the proceedings. Everyone plays their roles very well and Kingsley is especially noteworthy as the head doctor. This is excellently directed by Scorsese and the soundtrack also adds to the tension, as any good score should.  This has a twist in the end, that although fairly predictable, still ties things up neatly and gives you food for thought long after you've finished watching. More and more scenes become clearer as you think back and characters motivations make more sense. All in all this is a good thriller with solid performances from the whole cast and it keeps you engaged for the two hour duration. Worth a look at some point.  Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.

a kids review this is a weird movie.but a good one. its about when aliens mind control all earth's monsters and use them to destroy earth.

Magnificent Seven Series A very good, easy to watch Tv series. Obviously doesnt match the original movie but is better than the 5rd and 4th movies, Too bad it didnt go for at least a couple of more seasons

Intriguing and riveting "Name Of The Rose" is a real take-me-for-ride kind of movie. Clue after clue leads to an even more threatening position for the seekers of the truth. The maze of tunnels and staircases reminded me of the "National Treasure" movies. If you liked those movies, you'll like this movie a lot!

"Commandments" impressive on Blu ray The restoration work done for this release is to be commended. Colors are strong ,picture and soundtrack vibrant. While I feel "King of Kings" is the better blu ray transfer , "Ten Commandment" delivers. Now if MGM/Fox would restore "The Greatest Story Ever Told" which in my opinion, is the worst Blu ray release ever.

Over the Top at Times, but Always Sincere I just watched the movie Bridesmaids on DVD and was pleasantly surprised! Enough so that I came here looking to purchase it. Many reviewers complain about it not living up to the hype, I'd say it earned about half. It should also not be compared to movies like the Hangover. Yes, it is supposed to be a comedy. And yes, it can be raunchy, but in the end it's still a film for the girls. Not the gooey romantic or cutesy/fun kind. Not the tissue-inducing kind either. But, more of an off-beat, slightly raunchy, sincere kind.  I'd like to think of it as honest chick flick comedy. There are definitely scenes where things get taken over the top, but the dialogue keeps it engaging and real. The characters are quirky and personable(Melissa McCarthy for sure!). And I felt like I could relate and empathize with most of the women. It's a great movie to watch with your best buds and could possibly be a good compromise for guys that do not do chick flicks.

A pretty good adaptation "This should be agony. I should be a mass of aching muscle - broken, spent, unable to move. And, were I an older man, I surely would ... ... but I'm a man of thirty - of twenty again. The rain on my chest is a baptism - I'm born again ... "  I was DYING to see/hear that scene in the animated movie adaptation of The Dark Knight Returns. It wasn't in it. I guess they decided to leave it out. Mildly disappointing, but I got over it. There were other minor changes/omissions. On the race track, when Bruce Wayne crashed, he narrated, "this would be a good death...but not good enough." That wasn't in the movie. When the pimp gave the cab driver a roll of cash to keep the cab still while he beat his prostitute. Batman landed on the cab and handed the cabdriver a roll of cash to keep the cab still while he beat the pimp. That wasn't in the movie. There seemed to be a somewhat clumsy flow from one scene to the next. This was probably due to time constraints. These aren't necessarily complaints; just observations. Overall, the movie was well done. I watched it three times so far so that should tell you something. Allow for the fact that there are changes from the novel and its incredibly enjoyable! I await part two.

Great movie, Light on features Love the movie, but I wish there were more "special features."  For a Blu-Ray, it seemed very light on extras.

BANDERAS IS ZORRO This adventuresome comedy depicts Zorro (Antonio Banderas) as a balancing force for good; the savior he should be. But, after ten years of fighting injustice, he now faces his greatest challenge: his loving wife Elana (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is throwing him out of the house.  Zorro's counterpart, Alejandro de la Vega, fearful of the loss of his family, stops only for a moment to renew romance to save the lost marriage, and the lost hope that his ten year old son displays in him, without knowing that his father is Zorro.  Great family entertainment.  The added features show the special effects and how the sequences are constructed and are very interesting.

Imaginative wit In "Despicable Me" there is a scene where Gru enters a Bank which funds VILLAINS and is called The Bank of Evil - at the entrance there is a plate which reads "formerly Lehman Brothers". Need I say more about the wit and humour in the movie. It is hilarious.

One of the quirkiest, most imaginative B movies ever! Edward Woodward plays a British police officer (Sgt. Howie) who's sent a mysterious letter asking him to find out about the disappearance of a young girl named Rowan Morrison. Rowan lives in a faraway, insulated island community called Summersisle, ruled by a man named, appropriately enough, "Lord Summersisle." Woodward isn't just your ordinary, run of the mill police officer but a Bible-thumping, hardcore Christian. He's so hardcore, in fact, that even though he's well past the age of 30, he has remained a virgin to "save himself" for marriage.  Woodward sets out to Summersisle in a police plane and starts investigating. Problem is that the people of Summersisle almost immediately give him the runaround about Rowan's existence. But that isn't the worst of it. The island community also seems to be a few fries short of a a happy meal, because every single thing they do, sing, or say seems to be involved with sex. Because of this, poor "devout Christian" Howie has to spend several nights enduring the raunchy ballads and rituals of Summersisle locals. Even locked in his room, he isn't safe-- one night, the innkeeper's daughter tries to seduce him!  Just what *is* Summersisle, anyway? Is it some hippie commune practicing "free love"? Nope-- far from it. And when Howie investigates further as to what the people of Summersisle are really about, that's when the fun really begins! But I'll leave you to see the movie to find out for yourself.  Because I'd already seen the abysmal 2006 Nicolas Cage remake, this movie didn't pack as much of a punch as it could have, since the plot twists and shocking ending had already been spoiled. In spite of knowing what was going to happen, though, I still found plenty of surprises in this film to keep me sufficiently entertained. This is because The Wicker Man is probably one of the quirkiest things I've ever seen, next to "Devil's Rain." Actually, quirky doesn't even begin to describe it! From the "lewd" musical numbers (yes, there are musical numbers) to the parade where the people of Summersisle are wearing animal masks and medieval costumes, it is downright weird, but in a really cool way. Unfortunately, some of today's more cynical movie watchers might snort at derision at all this weirdness, but I found it more imaginative if anything.  Another thing that was great about this film was Edward Woodward's performance. For the first 2/3rds of this film, he does such an incredible job portraying Howie as an insufferable jerk that half the time you're screaming, "Just leave them alone, you idiot!" and the other half you're just dying for someone to punch his lights out. And yet when you watch the final scenes, Woodward conveys so much humanity that after hating his guts for most of the film your heart weeps for him. I can't remember any performance in recent memory where an actor was *that good*, where he could have the audience booing for a character for so long and yet get it to sympathize with him in the end.  At any rate, needless to say I really enjoyed The Wicker Man. I don't think everyone *will* enjoy it, though, because it definitely is an acquired taste. However, I do recommend anyone who's seen the Nicolas Cage remake to see it, if only for the curiosity factor. It may not provide the same amount of "unintentional laughs", but it will definitely offer a much better cinematic experience.

It Is Not a Prequel People The internet states there are some mistakes with lining up the two films (Alien and Prometheus), but it is my beleif that they are not supposed to line up.  This is not a true prequel as we know it.  While this part of the story is Pre-Alien, it is not directly ahead of that film in the timeline.  If these Alien films were chapters in a book, and Alien could be chapter 6, then Prometheus is like chapter 3.  For that reason, some of the origin questions are not answered in this film as this is not the beginning of the story.  It is not a lead-in to the Alien film either.  It only fills in a new part of the landscape. So, basically we are on a 'ride along' with a group of science-type people (Archeologist) looking for the meaning of life.  They proceed with the enthusiasm of a toddler into thier father's tool shed - looking for daddy.  Lots of sharp, complex and potentially leathal things in there.  You can guess how that turns out - but why it turns out that way is the warped part.  As many have already stated, it is a visually beautiful film and the 3D is amazing.  Probably the best use of 3D you've ever seen.  Avatar was good, this is better.  Don't expect to be spoon fed the answers like the typical film.  There is no narrator to tell you what's going on.  There is no epiphany where someone figures it all out and spews a meanful dialogue near the end of the film.  There's no summation in the credits.  You just have to watch the film and make up your own mind, but there are some burning questions from the Alien film that you will walk away with.  So, if like Sci-fi films that requires you to think, you'll probably dig this film and watch it repeatedly. If nothing else, there will be some intersting discussions prompted by this film.  If you're looking for 'Aliens', i.e. action action action, this is so not that film.

I want to have Josh Duhamel's baby True love delayed and an adorable baby.  My kind of romantic comedy.  They showed this on the plane and by the end I was crying so hard that my 13-year-old nephew was holding my hand and telling me that everything would be OK.

HULK I liked this movie very much. Exspecially the way it has been tied in with Iron Man1 & 2 Thor and Captain America in perparations for the movie the avengers

Good flick This is a great movie. I did notice pauses while it loaded but it was a good picture and quality

It's not about the Sushi Jiro Ono is a man in his 80s who is a sushi chef- possibly the best sushi chef in the world. Guide Michelin has awarded him three stars- the only sushi restaurant so honored. He has been making sushi since he was 9 years old, and believes there is still much for him to learn about making sushi. He practices his trade in a small, unassuming sushi bar in Tokyo where they serve no drinks, no appetizers- nothing but sushi. To eat there requires making a reservation a month in advance, and the willingness to spend 30,000 Yen- around $384- at a minimum on one meal. There is no menu at Jiro Ono's restaurant. What you are served depends entirely on the fish available that day, or that week, and Jiro's own tastes. There are no Dragon Rolls or other fancy compositions in Jiro's restaurant- just the simplest, most classic preparations. Most of it is Nigiri-sushi, a piece of hand formed rice with an exquisitely prepared piece of seafood placed on top, lightly seasoned with wasabi and soy.  Jiro's life, and that of his sons, revolves around sushi, but the sushi is not the focus of this movie. Rather, it's about one man's absolute and utter devotion to his craft, to the extent that it has dictated every minute of his life, and to a great extent the lives of his sons, whom he either guided or drafted into the the sushi maker's trade, depending on how you look at it. And yet, for all his single-minded devotion to sushi, Jiro Ono appears to be a happy man who continues to take great enjoyment from every piece of sushi he composes. This film explores his life, his history, his family, and mostly, his dreams of sushi.

Will Buy When Price is Shortened to Match Season I'll review the 7th season of Bones by stating that I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a bit different from previous seasons but, hey, it was Bones! I'll eventually purchase the DVD, but not at the $45 current price. $45 for 13 episodes? $3.50 per episode? Way too much. I waited to purchase the Season 6 DVD until around Christmas and ended up getting it for about $18 and it had about 22 episodes. I guess these DVDs are priced high to begin with because they figure people will pay what they're asking just to get them right away. I'll wait. I took away one star due to price...

"Movin' right along" The Muppets have always been a curious relic of a bygone era of entertainment, much like Bugs Bunny and the rest of the Looney Tunes gang.  They still carry the torch for vaudeville, only in the case of the Muppets it's a show about putting on a show.  The "Muppet Show" regularly broke the fourth wall in a way that only stage performers can, but that meta-awareness has since become rote in the age of hyper-media saturation. Can the Muppets still be relevant in the Internet era?  "The Muppets" wisely doesn't try to update the titular puppets so much as resurrect them, reintroducing Kermit (Steve Whitmire) and company in a "get the gang back together to save the show" plot.  It works, because it's the Muppets, and cheesy is what they do.  Less successful are the dual narratives at the center of the film.  Gary (Jason Segel) and Walter (Peter Linz) are brothers with one important difference: Gary is a human and Walter is a Muppet.  Gary has grown up and has a girlfriend Mary (adorable Amy Adams, who looks like she was pregnant through most of the film).  Walter has...his obsession with the Muppets.  These two worlds are destined to collide on a fateful road trip Hollywood.  The abandoned Muppet studio is in a sorry state, and it soon becomes clear that Kermit and Miss Piggy (Eric Jacobson) have broken up. With the rest of the Muppets scattered, it's up to our heroes to convince Kermit to reunite with his beloved, get the band back together (literally), and put on a show that will raise $10 million before villainous oil baron Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) can get his hands on the plot.  What ensues is a series of madcap homages to other films, subtle references to Muppet canon, and lots of plot-bending gags like "traveling by map." These jokes aren't so much funny as they are ironic, which is what the Muppet always excelled at.  Jack Black, playing himself, demonstrates the brilliance of the Muppets when Fozzie Bear (Eric Jacobson) begins a lame routine and Black reacts by mocking him.  The audience eats it up, and we do too - not because the Muppets are always funny, but because they're always game, often lame, and in on the joke.  Different plot points resolve at their own pace, and to Segel's writing credit, almost all of them resolve in a satisfactory fashion.  Villains are defeated, romances rekindled, and our beloved Muppets play all the songs we remember best.  The funniest gags comes from a new Muppet, 80's Robot (Matt Vogel), who is there exclusively to keep us Gen Xers entertained.  Unfortunately the weakest link is central to the film.  Walter is a generic Muppet with almost no character development other than his adoration of Kermit. When he is called upon in the eleventh hour to find his talent, it feels as fabricated as his body.  But I can't be too harsh on the Muppets.  Although the movie's not really for kids, the secret to the Muppets was that it never was.  This is the best resurrection a fan could ask for.

Action Packed Duality This is your typical 90s action film that doesn't hold back.  To say the least the film doesn't leave you wanting any more action and at well over two hours it's a good thing that it has such a penchant for the genre.  Chase scenes, guns blazing, explosions, Travolta, Cage, what's not to like?  In the very opening credits we are greeted with a sinister deed dealt out by the lunatic anarchist Castor Troy to our hero of the film: Sean Archer.  What follows is a heart-racing, action-packed film of revenge and, more importantly, duality.  Can we comment for a moment on the 'Troy' 'Archer' reference.  Achilles was taken out by an arrow to his one weak spot, his heel, in the siege of Troy in Homer's grand epic work.  It seems that the duality and the interwoven lives of Archer and Troy do not just lurk beneath the surface, but in plain sight as well.  In a sense Archer must become Troy in order to save the day and what results is a spell-binding story that has you overlooking the sometimes overly dramatic scenes that can set even the  most die-hard romantic to vomiting.  That is my one complaint about the film: it is often too dramatic.  Otherwise we are greeted with a superb control of the underlying difficulties facing the characters of this thrilling movie.  Once their roles are switched their true nature comes to the forefront of who and what they stand for and how they view each other's lives.  Stunning camera work, use of dialogue, and suspenseful drama make up the core of this intense film and give us over two hours of excitement that are hard to forget.

A quirky storyline that grows on you if you give it a chance I happened on this movie a number of years ago while surfing channels.  I watched for maybe 15-20 mins and then bailed.  I joined the story in progress, and it seemed frankly, kind of flakey.  But, I decided to give this show a viewing from the beginning.  When I started I was ready to give it about 15-20 mins, but as the story unfolded I found myself starting to wonder just how all of this is going go work out.  OK, here's the set-up.  A young man returns to his ancestral home where his hermit-like younger brother spends all of his time in the woods with a gaggle of oriental friends working on developing an arboretum.  At the same time, an elderly uncle who is extremely philosophical and often speaks in riddles or parables spends his time apparently sabotaging the young man's plans for a get-rich-quick scheme.  The young man, in the meantime is trying to make some cash to save his strange, eclectic family.  All he has to do that with is a valuable wine collection.  His plan is to sell the wine and use the cash to buy a nearby mine that he hopes will be the answer to his family's cash problems.  The young man's fiance, a rich Minnie Driver, shows up for a weekend with a friend, and there you go...that's the set-up.  This is a highly watchable film, but it actually takes some getting used to, and I'm here to tell you that you will really be pleased with how everything works out.  There are surprising plot twists in what can only be called an existentialist romantic comedy.  4 stars.

Unorthodox but fun G&S purists will not like this show. They've added songs from other G&S operettas, even invaded (literally) a scene from HMS Pinafore. Moreover, Linda Ronstadt, whom I like when she's backed by Nelson Riddle, is not an ideal Mabel (it's well above her range), and the man who plays Frederick (I don't remember his name and don't want to be reminded) is totally inadequate (he croons everything). Nevertheless, the spirit of fun which is present throughout more than compesates for the shortcomings mentioned. If you can forget the performances you have seen, and possibly participated in, and just approach this as a fun show kind of based on G&S's Pirates, you'll have a good time; I did.

Suspenseful and Creative I expected this movie to be slightly scary but to follow a pattern that I expected. It was well done, and surprising. Good work.

Despite it's flaws, I liked "X-Men:Origins-Wolverine" Despite the flaws the film had, and I wouldn't lie it had them, I really enjoyed "X-Men: Origins- Wolverine". Not only was Hugh Jackman good, but so was Liev Schieber as Victor Creed and Danny Houston as Stryker. Tyler Kitsch was also good as Gambit, despite his role being more like an extended special appearance. Harry-Gregson Williams did the best "X-men" score I've heard to this film. And while I really had nothing against the way Brent Ratner handled "X-Men: The Last Stand", but Gavin Hood did a better job here. I know I alot of people didn't like "X-Men-Origins: Wolverine", there were definitly too many mutant characters to juggle in this story.  I am curious to see what its reboot "The Wolverine" will be like. The story of Logan in Japan with a double life is a very good and interesting story.

The Ultimate Stargate Movie Package... ** This is a Review for the DVD Ultimate Edition **  Stargate(1994) managed to merge Egyptology with Science Fiction, creating a unique look at ancient Egyptian gods.  While the movie is not perfect it proved to be a great hit amongst the sci-fi fans and spawned a number of shows; including the extremely popular Stargate SG-1 which ran 10 seasons.  This Ultimate Edition DVD almost gives you the Ultimate experience of the movie, but falls short in a few areas that holds it back from being a 5 star DVD.  THE GOOD Almost everything is here with this DVD.  The movie was completely remastered in 16:9 widescreen and re-cut into an Extended Edition.  The audio and music has been remastered and now supports 5.1 Dobly and 6.1 DTS.  Throw in Audio commentary with the Director and Producer, and a small Featurette: "Is there a Stargate" and you have quite a nice package.  The remastered movie looks great on my 1080p upscaling DVD player, looking crisp and sounds great!  THE BAD To use the term "ultimate" edition might be pushing it.  I was a little let down over the lack of bloopers/gags and the lack of deleted scenes.  While they did provide an extended cut I just have this feeling there are more scenes left out.  Also the lack of behind the scenes and interviews is a let down; especially when this is supposed to be the "ultimate" edition.  OVERALL Despite missing some bonus features the movie itself is great!  You are getting a remastered, extended version of the film that will look excellent on DVD.  Even with the lack of bonus features this still is the DVD to own for the movie.

As advertised DVD was in the promised condition and came quickly. Movie is still one of my favorites, cutting edge special effects for its' time.

Good I wouldn't say that this film is the greatest film of all time, however it was very enjoyable.  It was entertaining and witty.  The acting was very good.  The script was sparse at times but overall was well done.

My Name is Bill W. This could be a favorite of yours if you are: a) a James Woods fan b) a "Friend of Bill W"  I bought it for both reasons. James Woods gives a believable performance as the real-life hero of many alcoholics today as Bill W -co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous- in the 1930's.  As a film, I think it is good; as a "docudrama" I think it leaves out some things that may leave one unsatisfied. Many AA's already know more of the history than is presented here. But in any case this is a good film to watch, and If you are "In the life", A great film to own.

Pretty Good Flick I'm not some movie guru/snob and I won't pretend to be.  Borrowed the movie from a friend.  Was pleasently suprised.  Was actually impressed once I found out it was made on a nickel and dime budget.  True horror films don't require blood and guts, it's all about suspense and imagination.  Just ask Hitchcock.  Would definitely recommend.

Reaching for the sky I normally prefer to review the disc release and not the movie but, obviously, this disc is not yet available and the movie is enough of an unknown quantity (evidenced by this being the first review) that it seemed an exception was due this time.  I came across FORTRESS by accident.  I had not seen any publicity for it and I follow movie releases fairly closely. It is apparently a low budget, independent production.  It is pretty ambitious for such a film.  To recreate the large bomber formations, fighter plane attacks and even the base camp it uses a lot of CGI.  So, I have seen FORTRESS and I very much enjoyed it.  Sure, the visual effects are sometimes a bit crude, but most of the time they are pretty effective and certainly good enough to support the story.  I'd say the visual effects are a bit better than those in the TV series DOGFIGHTS (which were pretty good) but not up to the standards of RED TAILS (a high bar, IMO).  The movie was well written and I was impressed by the performances by the unknown (to me) cast.  For a movie made on a tiny fraction of most big studio movie budgets it is quite an accomplishment.  Synopses of the story can be found on IMDb and if you haven't watched the trailer on YouTube, yet, do so.  If you like WW II movies, especially about the air war in Europe, I think you will like FORTRESS.  I like this movie enough that I have pre-ordered the Blu-ray.  Since Amazon does not mention whether or not it will have any extras, I emailed the production company and asked.  They replied that it will have a timelapse of part of the plane being built and a short documentary.

The Island...... First off, like alot of the movies I've reviewed on here, I picked this movie up in a bargain bin for cheap. What made me purchase it was the fact that this was a Michael Bay film(you know, the guy who directed the Transformers movies, for chirssakes). Reading the back of the DVD case, I figured this movie would be kinda boring so I put it down. Then, thank Heaven, I saw Scarlett Johannson's name on the cover. It was then that I decided the movie couldn't be all THAT bad(now could it?) with her in it so I bought it.  The Island is about a private society where humans are cultivated for spare parts, surrogate parenthood, and full-body replacements for the wealthy. Yet, when two of the clones (Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johanssen) begin to question their existence and the motives of their keepers, they escape into the real world to find answers.  Sadly, though, their keepers are determined to see that they don't get away alive and that's when the real fun begins.  I was completely blown away with the movie. For a mix of Sci-fi and Action, The Island more than delivers it in spades. It goes to show why Michael Bay is one of Hollywood's most talented directors(this side of Steven Spielberg). With every movie the man makes, the films continue to get better and better and better. That's what is important, a director needs to learn and continue to grow as a director. It's easy to see that this is one of Bay's best films, besides The Transformers and Armageddon. Ewan Mcgregor and Scarlett Johansson(who looks breathtaking in this film, I might add) deliver great performances as Lincoln 6 Echo and  Jordan 2 Delta.  The Island also stars Steve Buscemi, Djimon Hounsou, Michael Clarke Duncan, and Sean Bean(a stellar cast, for sure).  Sci-fi and Action fans take note, you're missing out on one great movie if you miss taking a trip to The Island.

A rather nifty paranormal romance... Is it the best movie I ever saw? No, but it was enjoyable enough that I plan to buy a copy. It's a ghostly love story with an ending that I have to admit was different than I expected. It's a bittersweet love story that makes you ponder the bigger picture of the bonds we create with the people we care about. It's a feel good movie, so don't expect a lot of action, but if you like love stories you will like this movie.

Really fun movie, well done, well acted This highlights another aspect of the rough and tumble world of Wall Street. It is interesting, fast moving, and well acted.

Cheaper directly from WB This is a great set, but just wanted to let everyone know I pre-ordered it directly from Warner Brothers for $42.69. The day I am writing this review, it is $59.99 here on Amazon. Quite a price difference.

I really liked this film Everybody's writing reviews about the enjoyment or not of the film. I found it entertaining> I just want to know hows the 3D version?

A well-dressed romp Tarsem Singh creates enough tension, brilliantly exhibited by Roberts (she is deliciously hateable), to pull you in and make you want to know what happens next.  From the other reviews I read I was afraid I wouldn't care about what happened, but almost immediately  the underdog status of Snow White is made visceral. The costumes! Eiko Ishioka (who you'll notice in the final credits has the film dedicated to her memory) has taken the very best and most amusing from the 18th century, adds some fantastical flare from our favorite fairy tales and creates yummy eye candy with fabric and color. The actress who plays Snow White isn't serious enough for my taste.  I was always afraid she was going to break character, but I'm highly critical when it comes to performance.  This is where we credit the casting director, because what the camera picks up from her look alone lends enough vulnerability to her character to make us want to champion her. The dwarves are all leading men handsome and individually quirky and hand in their own fine performances. The familial/bachelor buddy feel of their clan makes you feel included on some inside joke. Add a  prince that any woman would accept in that fairy tale  role, some quirky fun writing and a couple unexpected turns at then end, and you come out with a satisfying little romp. Not a bad way to spend the better part of two hours.

Fantastic, smart thriller Christopher Smith is definitely a director to watch. TRIANGLE takes what could have been a tired premise and draws it out to (and beyond) its logical conclusion. Melissa George stars as a young mother who takes a boat trip with some friends. When the boat capsizes, they take shelter on a seemingly abandoned cruise ship, and soon discover they're not alone.  I thought I was ahead of the movie, successfully figuring out "the twist," but wasn't prepared for what came after. Smith's film has a premise that demands certain things to be true, and he follows his own rule to the letter. By the end, he's executed the premise with impeccable conviction, letting the movie wrap and twist around itself far more than I would have guessed. It's remarkably effective. The final act is an extraordinary payoff, giving us a sisyphean tragedy that actually felt complete.  I've been recommending this to friends and they've all enjoyed it just as much as I did. A real surprise, and I think this movie deserves a lot of attention.

good movie in my opinion. I really do not have much to say, but it was a good movie to watch when i was bored.  I was already interested in the subject matter and do with there was more, but alas...all is well.  My only gripe is with my blu ray, which upon investigation doesnt seem to be a problem for anyone else, when i get to the bonus features menu...i have no cursor...cant click anything.  nothing highlights and when i hit enter nothing happens.  So i cant watch the little companion piece.  oh well.  at least the movie worked.

Enjoy The Prestige This is a movie that leaves you thinking about what really happened.  A lot of people will want to watch it twice to catch all the things that might have been missed the first time around.  It's ostensibly about two illusionists trying to outdo each other.  They begin as friends, but break up when one of the two probably causes the death of the other one's wife.  From that point on, they do everything possible to make the other one's life miserable.  Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman are both excellent.  It's hard to figure out which one of them is the most evil by the end.  Good plot, good acting.

So you are Jack Cardiff I had high hopes for this blue ray release of one of my favourite movies but the Carlton DVD release in the UK has better picture quality and one of the best on disc commenteries I have heard by cinematographer Jack Cardiff. His observations of Bogart, Hepburn and John Huston are both humerous and insightful. If you have a region free DVD player it is worth seeking out this version.

Before Indiana The novel, King Solomon's Mines, was written in 1885 by adventure writer H. Rider Haggard, and with  more than 83 millions copies sold, it's still read widely today, ranking as one of  the biggest best sellers of all time. Its hero, the dashing Alan Quatermain, was the inspiration for the character of Indiana Jones. There have been six attempts to date to capture this work on film,in 1937, 1950, 1985, 1986 for television, and 2004 as a TV miniseries.  The version which I was lucky enough to catch on TV today is the 1950 production, starring a very young Deborah Kerr,  Stewart Granger, and Richard Carlson, and while some major changes were made to the original plot (in which there were no women), it remains a compelling tale. This film was a huge hit in its day, as audiences enticed with the new Technicolor technology flocked to the theaters.  The acting is competent, but it's the spectacular East African scenery and wildlife that make this worth watching. It's also fascinating to watch the tribal sequences, with authentic music and dancing performed by actual natives.  The cinematography (by Robert Surtees ) is nothing less than amazing, particularly during a truly spectacular stampede sequence; an Oscar was in the offing for that stellar work.  The plot is a relatively simple one. Quatermain, played by a somewhat inexpressive Stewart Granger, is hired by a beautiful young Englishwoman and her brother to locate her missing husband, who was searching for the legendary lost diamond mines of the biblical King Solomon. The mine is  merely a device to set the safari in motion, and most of the movie plays out as a kind of travelogue. For it's time, it manages to avoid blatant sexism, although there is some winking among the men over Kerr's good looks. It maintains a relatively respectful attitude toward the hundreds of animals that contribute to the drama, with Quatermain refusing to kill unless overtly threatened.  The tribesmen speak their own languages, with Quatermain translating, and the directors (Compton Bennett and Andrew Marton) refrained from belittling them as savages or primitives. There's an interesting subplot involving a deposed tribal king who hooks up with the safari with an eye toward vanquishing the usurpers once he arrives back in his kingdom.  As for character development, there's not much to say, and the ending is devoid of real impact. But that stampede makes watching this production more than worthwhile. It's fun when something more than 50 years old can make you sit up in wonder.

Yes, but whose? I have to admit, I don't have the original to compare it to. Given that, let me make a potentially blasphemous suggestion: this might be a good remake, maybe very good. I know that a good story really can't be copied, but even good tellings show their age. The story needs to be told again, in the words of a new generation, to remain fresh and vital.  Back then people could tolerate a heroic man with a few flaws. Today, we can only believe in a flawed man with - maybe - a little heroism. And not just man, but woman, a very young woman, only 14 but still a force to be reckoned with. I've seen the level at which teenagers can perform in art, science, music, math, and impulsiveness. I am well disposed to believe in young Mattie's mix of intelligence, belligerence, visceral motivation, and remnant of little girl who wants a campfire story.  If bloodshed suits you poorly, then this isn't a movie for you. It normally doesn't bother me much, but seeing it all around the barely-teen girl didn't work well for me. That's the only loss of innocence, though. It maintains a chaste tone throughout - even if one might have wished the adult Mattie a bit less chastity. Although I've liked Matt Damon in many other flicks, he didn't get a real chance to shine here. This movie really centers on Rooster and especially Mattie, and those two carry the movie beautifully, even for someone who thinks they don't like Westerns. Somewhat to my surprise, I enjoyed this one a lot.  - wiredweird

In space no one can hear you giggle. A long time ago in a galaxy not very far away, I first saw this movie, Forbidden World. Has it been 30 years already? Back in the year 1982 I used to visit this little movie theater near where I worked every friday evening without fail. They used to run two features back to back for the price of one, and I saw a lot of great movies in those days. Just to name a few that you might have heard about; Escape From New York, The Howling, Mother's Day, Motel Hell, Battle Beyond the Stars, Ice Pirates, John Carpenter's The Thing, Tron...Ah, those were fun times, and that was the place and year that I first saw Forbidden World.  This here strange little movie was Roger Corman's answer to the very popular film "Alien", and what a piece of work it is! I don't know why I like this movie so much, but I do? I mean, it's so cheap that it reuses old spaceship battle footage from Corman's Battle Beyond the Stars movie, has spray-painted egg cartons and styrofoam fast food restaurant containers glued to the walls; it features a lumbering and slow bulky mutant creature that couldn't outrun the Mummy or Frankenstein if it's life depended on it; the mad scientist of the film never wears a protective face mask or rubber gloves when doing bloody genetic experiments; and in one scene, one of the actresses are actually using a glow stick to push buttons on a keypad console! I guess they did that to make it seem more futuristic? But now it's just laughable. And let's not forget the scene where the wall is dressed up with painted packaging bubble wrap! But still, for some odd reason, I just still really enjoy this movie. In fact, all the bad things that I have just described about it, and believe me, there is much more than this to poke fun at in this movie, make it all the more enjoyable to me. It is one of those "so bad it's good" kind of films that I find myself watching a lot lately.  Despite all of its shortcomings and low budget zaniness, the movie still conveys a pretty good sense of dread, fear and eeriness in certain spots, particularly due to its synthesized electronic musical score, which really helps to creep you out at just the right spots and maximize the thrills. Watch it in the dark while alone late at night for maximum effect to see just what I mean.  Forbidden World is a great old-fashioned low budget exploitation film that is loaded with many unintentional laughs and cheap thrills. I would have given it a 5 star rating but the movie is just way too short. It really needs to have a good 15 or 20 more minutes of footage added to it. But for what it does give you, it gives you quite a lot in return in entertainment value.

If you're a Human Centipede fan, don't expect a human centipede movie and let this take you to a different land of moral paucity This is a good film for those who like films whose content makes folks turn their heads, cringe, and walk out of movies.  If you're a Human Centipede fan, though, don't expect a movie about a human centipede and let this sequel take you to a somewhat different land of moral paucity.  I give this a thumbs up for gorehounds.   The Human Centipede: First Sequence (2010) really tried to test the limits of what Americans would sit through and claim to enjoy.  It tackled some serious medical curiosities--chief amongst them being what happens when you staple someone's mouth to someone else's business-end?  Can someone survive on a feces-only diet?  And is it medically provable that it sucks the most to be the middle segment of a human centipede?   Our sequel begins precisely as the original ends.  Except that in the sequel, the original is the "actual original movie" being watched by our new mad scientist.  He is inordinately short, stout, balding, and has rather protruding eyes and cheeks; both child-like and off-putting.  He makes an excellent sociopath.  I won't ruin the surprise, but Ashley Yennie (Jenny from First Sequence) makes a major appearance in this film and the way Martin encounters her is very funny.   The First Sequence was told through the eyes of the victems, as most such stories would be.  The Full Sequence tells the story through the eyes of our mentally retarded, obsessive amateur surgeon, Martin.  Martin lives with his psychologically abusive (and rather demented) mother.  He quietly tries to avoid her as he perpetually wheezes and sweats his way around the house.  Working as a parking lot security attendant, Martin recruits centipede segments late at night.  He doesn't discriminate or target the weak; anyone will do.  He's also quite handy with a crowbar.  You'll wince.   Writer/director Tom Sixx had spoken some pretty strong words about how intense this sequel would be.  He explained that part two would make part one look like the "my little pony" of human centipedes.  Sixx did succeed at somehow making a very different-styled movie from the same idea with some interesting nuance, however I would contest that he completely failed at pushing the envelope and further testing our limits.   Sure, Martin is an awkwardly disturbing character--who never utters a word of dialogue, by the way--but the original dug its dirty fingernails into moral limits much more deeply.  The First Sequence delivered the utter terror and rage of the victems when captured.  Once assembled, the victems eyes, holding hands and muffled cries conveyed terror while also demonstrating their futile compassion for each other amidst this morally abject scenario.  Again, I understand that First Sequence was told through their eyes and Full Sequence wasn't.  But what did Full Sequence give me instead?  Other than a very cleverly architected and effective villain, nothing at all.   Despite this shortcoming and noting that I enjoyed the First Sequence, I very much enjoyed this movie.  Martin is delightfully evil and somehow naively innocent at the same time.  His obsessive mania for Tom Sixx's First Sequence was a spiffy story device and his expressions of delight or frustration with his experiment made me recoil.  The biggest flaw of this movie is that it's really about Martin's obsession and not his human centipede pet project.  Fans of the first should be encouraged to watch this sequel, but do so expecting something quite different from a larger, more disturbingly macabre centipede.  If you want that, then hang around for Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence), which promises an irrationally long chain or patients linked by an irrational surgery.

The characters may not be very likable, but the story pulls you in I wasn't sure what to expect with this movie, but after finally watching it last night (it sat on my TV stand for the longest time), I'm glad I made time. The story centers around 15-year-old Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts), who suffers through the pangs of adolescence which includes seeing his parents' marriage about to crumble (mom Jill is played by Sally Hawkins and dad Lloyd is played by Noah Taylor). This fact is not helped when mom's ex-boyfriend becomes their next-door neighbor.  As he struggles with this issue, Oliver is also facing problems at school - he is not the most popular kid, and becomes romantically attracted to Jordana Bevan (Yasmin Paige), a dark-haired beauty who is not above tormenting the weaker ones amongst the student population. Despite this, Oliver is hopelessly drawn to Jordana and goes about trying to win her heart.  Frankly, I did not find the central characters very likable, but the storyline is interesting and the cast does a credible job in their respective performances. It is amazing what a good ensemble cast can bring to a production, and Submarine fares well as a result. It is a compelling portrait of humans, both young adults and adults, in all their vulnerable moments, their flaws and strengths, and makes for engaging viewing.

Good movie, but I've got technical problems with this one. I've ordered 2 copies of this DVD and have suffered the same disapointment with both of them.  NO audio.  Its quite bizzare.  When the main menu is up there is the background music and so forth, but anywhere in the movie there is no sound, no audio.. Never have had this problem with any other DVD i've rented or purchased.  The video is all there and seems just fine.  Sigh, now sending this second copy back to amazon.

If you are not a die hard fan To understand kai, I have to talk to you about the original dragon ball Z. I'have seen all the original dragon ball Z episodes and now i'm watching the KAI version. What I can say is when I was watching the original, I really liked it but it was too long, too much filler and waiting for something to happend. As good as it could be, I had not the will or the energie to watch the whole serie a second time as it was. Furthermore, I wanted to introduce my girlfriend to the dragon ball z world but if like her you are not a die hard fan, the original version is just too much.  Now, the kai version is just great. I'm not that far into it but I can say that It make me want to watch Goku and all the Z fighter again. The pace is perfect and I dont miss any of the cut they have made so far. They decided to be closer to the manga, so that version is the closes you can get from the original author vision. That version could be appreciate by a lot of anime fan (who aren't DBZ fan). The only draw back for me is that they have stopped after cell Saga. No blu-ray version goes farther than that. That why I have removed 1 star.

I liked it! One of my favorite parts of this movie is the scene where Brad Pitt's dummy goes flying through the air like a ragdoll on strings and parts of it are going in different directions from the other parts...they must have run out of money somewhere. They should have borrowed a "reactions of the crowd" scene from "An Affair to Remember" and skipped showing the actual wreck.  Yes, some of the dialogue could have been tightened up, and some scenes cut altogether, and I think they gave my girl Marcia Gay Harden short shrift.  She deserved better than that.  But overall, I thought the movie sets and the actors were gorgeous. I loved watching Claire Forlani and Brad Pitt together, and I loved the sets and decorations. I liked hearing Brad Pitt do an island accent, too.  This was a nice way to waste three hours. I'd watch it again.

Great Series, Funny! Dub Great. However.... At first, When I was told about this series, and that it was by the studio, of Gainax (Creators of FlCL, Gurren Lagaan, And Noen Gensis Evagalion) I was excited and couldn't wait to watch it, but after seeing the animation, with, I decided to lay my hands of this series.  But after seeing how many peole reccommend it and seeing, the transformation scene,  following  that Funimation had actually pick it up I decided to give it a shot. Turns out don't just a book by it's cover.  The plot which I was confused about at first turn out that these 2 girls, known as Panty and Stocking, were kick out of heaven for their behavior and the only way to get back into heaven was to beat a monster and recieve some heaven coins. (Kind like Puff Power girls and Super milk chan- but gone bad) All the main charcters Are Panty: A girl who uses her panty as a tool, that transforms into a gun to fight the monster. She also sleeps with many characters in the series, and really doesn't care what others think of her.  Stocking, A  girl that kind of glothic looking. she, like Panty uses a Stocking that turns into a Sword to fight. She unlike Panty seems to be more dependable on her missions.  Gaterbelt- a Black afro priest, that seems to care for Panty and Stocking. (though it doesn't seem that way in the english dub) He (kind of like the mayor in PPG) gives them missions on the monster that they have to kill. Which nboth seems to not care for. He was also a past that of a villain, which I won't go to far on that.  Chuck-A green pet, that seems to hang around Panty, Stocking and Gaterbelt. It seems that whenever they are in trouble, he sometimes steps in to fight as well. He can also drive the See-through which is a pink car they drive.  Brief- A boy that is in love with panty. He is treated cruely by the group which Panty and Stocking call him "Geek Boy". Is true identity is reveal later in the show.  Each episode has 2 part, which sometimes can be very different, like the powerpuff girl, some with different animation, and a lot of refrences to many other shows, epsically in America (Chuck kind of looks like gir from Invader Zim, High School Muiscal, Sex in the City, Back to the Future, and so on) which it very random and doesn't usually continue on from the privous episode. And according to the director of this series, a lot of this was based on randomness or rather "should we try that or how about this," So like for Exmaple the zombie Episode which included all of the characters being turned into zombies in the end, never continues on after that. Cause in the next episode, they are all back to normal. No for many poeple that always concern themselves by this. "Is the dub any good?" Some may find it horrible, some might find it good. To me, I think funimation done a great job on the cast.  The packaging was  great. My was suppose to be Limited Edition but as another review had said, it didn't come with the Heaven Coin. So make sure if you want that, get it on Rightstuff. You'll probably get it early and with the limited edition stuff if you order it from there.  Extras Include, Trailers, Monster documentaries on how they created the blowing up parts when they were destory. Some shorts that were conclusion and extras from some episodes in the seires. And original Japanese and English Trailers to the series. Now my However part....is the script writter in this series.  Like I said the dub is great. Love how they were cast. My problem in the show is the profanity that was used countless times in the show. Don't get me wrong I don't mind the profantiy, however Funimation just seem to overuse to much. Like When they kill a monster. In the Sub they say "repent!" but the Dub the say "Repent MotherF****r" which to me makes it hard to watch it, a much less to the Sexual parts in this show, which there is a lot. The sub version use the profanity a lot but not clearly as much as the dub did. That to me was a problem while watching it. Which my older sister, seem to have that same problem.  I heard many spoilers about how it ends so I knew that would happen. But as I watch it, it actually was ok to me. i mean this was based off of randomness so as what might happen in the second season (if there is one) Might start with Panty and Stocking being back to normal or not even with them in the series in the first place. But I guess we'll wait and see.  To me the series was great, Funny, random and awesome to watch. I recommend this to anyone that was into that cartoon, action comedy that they all miss and love.

Dan Wakefield's Story This film covers the time and place in a straight-ahead journalistic documentary style that, though slow paced at times, I thought appropriate to the material.  New York in the '50's was no doubt an exciting, vigorous place to be, and some of the reasons for that are touched on well, if not always very deeply.  Much of the story is Dan Wakefield's personal account.  Wakefield, a journalist and writer who like so many others migrated to New York to start his professional career, has a great deal to tell from his recollections of the literary, journalistic, social, and -- somewhat less -- the artistic and musical revolutions taking place around him at the time.  He's a good source of historic information.  Having been the reporter of so much in his younger days, it's an act of gratitude on the part of the filmmaker to have invited him to be the source for today's reporting.  Additional detail is provided by interviews with writers such as Joan Didion, Calvin Trillin, Gay Talese, Nat Hentoff,  composer David Amram, filmmaker Ted Steeg and others.  Their stories add a great deal of interest and some depth.  In general the combination of the relaxed conversational style of the film and the quick brush-strokes highlighting the many historic events, influences, personages, stories and places work well together if one is in the mood for that style of film.  An unfortunate side to this however is that the excitement of the time and place -- the subject of the film -- can feel diluted by the nostalgic remembrances of its surviving participants.  Still, it is surprising to be reminded of how powerfully the influences of that period's strong sense of human community, its racial awareness, the strangeness of gender segregation, and the reliance on booze and sex catalyzed the social changes about to take place over the next two decades.  The film is perhaps best approached as a personal memoir, and may be more enjoyed by aficionados of New York culture than those with only an idle curiosity. In balance though it offers an all-star lineup sharing a real wealth of first-person knowledge, and tackles a formidable subject with a warmth and generosity that one senses must have been as present and important in that period as its more sensational elements.

Surprisingly, this turned out to be a good movie. I just finished watching this movie a few minutes ago. I had been putting off watching it for quite sometime, fearing it would not be good. But, Marisa Tomei is in the film, (in a supporting role).. I like her a lot.. I have since the '80's when she was on the tv show "A Different World." Also, in previous films, Emma Stone has been charming, and Steve Carell is funny at least some of the time.. so finally I gave in and watched this movie.  Yes, there have been other films before with a suave younger guy helping a hapless older guy.. or something like that. I was concerned this would be entirely formulaic and so forth, but it was better than I'd hoped.  The casting and acting were rather good, and the story had enough little turns in it and fun moments to stay interesting. The cast worked well together, and there were many likeable people in this film. Julianne Moore is one of my least favorite actresses, but even she did fairly well.  The kids were great, especially Analeigh Tipton as Jessica, the babysitter, and Jonah Bobo, who played Robbie Weaver, son of Cal Weaver (Carell's character). They both played their roles with a lot of heart, and Bobo was quite funny.  I liked how the film showed that young people, even though they are young, can have very strong emotions and deep thoughts about life, and that they should be taken seriously. I remember how things felt when I was 13 (which was a looong time ago), and I am glad this film delved into the emotional lives of teens in an honest way.  The movie was also good about showing what an utter mess and ruin infidelity and divorce can cause. And that the hook-up culture and lifestyle can leave people feeling empty. This movie came out with a strong message about the importance of family, and genuine love.  Even the music was good. I'm going to try to purchase several songs from the soundtrack. Right now, at the time I am writing this review, here on Amazon, all the mp3's are listed as "album only," so what I am going to do is try to track down some of these songs on other legitimate pay-per-song download sites (if a song is worth listening to, it is worth paying for).. some of the songs may have been previously released on earlier albums by the various artists. Some of these songs might already be found in the Amazon mp3 store, as part of other albums. This happens sometimes. Also, as is usually the case with most movies, some of the songs in this film are not on the soundtrack. But, if you do some looking online, you'll be able to find a complete list. I typed in "all the songs from crazy stupid love" into google, and found a list.  Anyway.. Not a family film.. some of the parts were pretty strong for a PG-13 movie, so I suggest not watching this with the kids..  But.. overall a good movie, worth watching, and I am glad I rented it.

Cute movie with super-sexy stars! This movie is a cute movie with four beautiful and sexy female stars (and women assure me the male star is hot, too).  It helps that I am a super-fan of Roselyn Sanchez - one of the hottest women on the planet!  Is this movie great cinema?  No.  Is it enjoyable?  Yes.  It is one of those movies you watch, then put on your shelf.  Years later, when you have forgotten many of the scenes so that it is almost like watching it brand new again, you can enjoy it again.  That is why, when I found it here on Amazon, being sold used (like new) for $2.89 and still eligible for Amazon Prime free 2-day delivery, I went for it.  I haven't seen this movie for years (but definitely remember I enjoyed it), and when it arrives, I will enjoy it again and then put it in my collection.

Excellent Study of Major Extinction Event This program examines one of the most important extinction events in the existence of the planet--the asteroid strike over 65 million years ago that either caused or accelerated the extinction of the dinosaurs and a number of other creatures living at the time.  This event also opened the way for the rise of mammals.  The program follows the activities of a number of scientists who have conducted studies and experiments to help expand our knowledge of the event.  This effort includes using high explosives in order to model the strike at the angle and direction that crater analysis suggests was most likely.  The ways in which blast, earthquakes, tsunamis, acid rain, climate alteration and other resulting catastrophes killed massive numbers of animals are considered throughout this comprehensive study. There is also an effort to understand the nature of fires created in the aftermath of the strike and an examination of how deep within the earth an animal would need to be in order to be protected at a survivable temperature.  One of the scientists suggested that many non-burrowing animals may also have been able to find shelter if they were small enough.  The program appears scientifically reliable, visually interesting, and has an excellent narration by Peter Coyote.

Life Series on DVD After viewing the series, "Planet Earth" -- I decided to purchase this set as a follow-up.  The first series, "Planet Earth" was better, but this one is excellent as well.  I would rate it four stars while rating the first series five stars.  Both sets are an excellent series and well worth the money you pay for them on Amazon.

stories that needed to be told I think the more stories that are told about the realities and consequences of war are what we (americans) really need right now. The people interviewed were clear and informative and intelligent. However there were a few places where there would be pictures flashing by, barely fast enough to see, combined with really intense music. I found myself getting really scared about the whole thing. like in films where you know the bad guy is about to reach around the tree and kill the girl, the music is what makes the scene remotely scary. those moments seemed to me (for lack of a better word) similar to the way the Right tell their stories...  JUST TO BE CLEAR, I AGREE 150% WITH THIS FILM AND IT'S MESSAGE!!!!!!!! and it needs to be seen

not bad viven leigh i watched this verison of anna karenin right after i watched the greta garbo verison. i like that it extends the story in the movie, but i wished it showed anna having vronsky's baby(alive),levin and kitty's love story and the aftermath of anna's suicide. oh, well. onto the next movie verison of anna karenina.

Pretty good Pretty good, almost too ridiculous though. And geared for short attention spans...episodes seem like they are about 5 minutes long, if that.

I like it, there's potiential I think there's a lot of potential here but the characters really need some development and some 'umph'. I would also like to know how and why there's so much technology when it seems the only way to get to TN is via a portal. Did security forces drive thru it? How come the computers work at night but there's not enough stored power to heat the shower water?  I have a ton of questions and will continue watching to get the answers. I love the premise,  let's work on the characters.

Wolves and tigers and vampires, oh my! Ok, so there are no tigers in this movie...  Oh well.  I like this movie.  No, it's not going to change the world but it has great entertainment value.  I think so far out of the 3 in the series, I laughed more at the humor in this movie than any of the others...  Esp when Billy was talking to Edward and Bella.  "SUPER.  That makes me really happy."  This line still makes me laugh.

really enjoyed it After playing both the games and reading all the books. I really enjoyed this movie. No, the graphics are not very good and the plot line was a little predictable. That is the reason I gave it 4/5 stars.  If you haven't done everything you can with Dragon Age (including reading the books) it would be harder to follow.

A Different Breed of Holmes If you're a fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective you'll only find traces of him here. This Holmes is a new creation loosely based on the famous detective, not carefully patterned on him. On the other hand this movie's Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are a reasonably exciting duo with their own set of more contemporary characteristics. Holmes exhibits his famous ability to make important deductions from small clues which causes him to get doused with wine in one scene.  There is enough action including fighting, mystery, intrigue, explosions, and general mayhem to satisfy most fans of the genre so the movie fulfills its obligations in that regard. The villain is suitably dangerous and clever and we even have overtones of Holmes' arch enemy, Professor Moriarty, the consummate villain in the Holmes saga.  In summary it is watchable and should succeed in holding the aficionado of action movies attention all the way through.

great movie Great movie with good action. Feels a bit like a comic book in the second part with the scene transitions, but good nonetheless.

I'm surprised to see all the bad reviews! First of all, 100% medically accurate?  I dont think so.  There are a number of problems with this premise, not to mention it looked like their mouths werent exactly attached in the right place, but its just a horror movie so I guess we can look past that.  It is pretty disgusting though.  Definitely hard to watch at points.  Yes sure, it is torture, as it seems like a lot of horror movies these days are.  But how can you say this is not a "horror" movie?  Maybe there wasnt a lot of scares but I would definitely consider there to be a lot of horror going on here.  I thought it was a good movie.  I do have a few complaints about it though which is the reason I didnt give it 5 stars.  So if you havent seen the movie yet, you may want to stop reading now.  When the Japanese guy got ahold of the scalpel, he stabbed him in the foot, the leg, and then took a bite out of his neck.  Maybe he thought that was enough to kill him.  But considering their situation, you think they would have made sure he was dead.  Come on!  Kill the guy!  Typical horror movie mistake which is was too cliche and totally unrealistic.  They would have been rescued by the two police officers had they finished him off there.  But, I suppose it sets up for the sequel, which I will watch next and see what happens...

William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet The high number of 4 & 5 star reviews, along with the significant number of 1 star reviews, speak exactly as to the polarizing effect this movie seems to have on people.  In my years of teaching high school English and encountering this play every spring with my 9th graders, I've found that instructors either consider this film to be a work of brilliance or a hopeless joke... Baz Luhrmann does not leave room for the "meh" that lies in between.  I could easily write a thesis on this film, as there's just so much to run and play with as a Literature fanatic.  Want to decipher the gloriously bright palette of color in the opening rumble?  The possible symbolism of the costumes (Montagues in bright, unbuttoned, hawaiian-print shirts; Capulets with subdued, early-mid 20th century gangster wear)?  The beauty and grittiness of the street scenes filmed in Mexico?  The fascinating juxtaposition between sinks, aquariums, pools, and downpours of water as the couple is together, versus the drought conditions that Romeo experiences as an exile in Mantua?  Romeo + Juliet is both undoubtedly smart and a feast for the eyes.

A Very Different Take On The 'Buried Alive' Theme - Is The Victim Really Alive, Or A Ghost? A very different take on the 'buried alive' theme in horror that goes back centuries, "After.life" stars Cristina Ricci as a young schoolteacher who 'dies' in a freak automobile accident only to wake up alive and well in the town morgue.  Where she promptly meets the mortician/funeral parlor director (played by Liam Neeson), a haunted, weary man who explains to her that she is indeed deceased, the latest of a long line of deceased he's encountered who don't know they're dead, and because of his unique ability to see and interact with the dead, it's his job to prepare her for her imminent journey to the afterlife.    What's real?  Is this scenario the truth, with Neeson a conductor of souls, or is he nuts or worse and Ricci is still alive, captive?  It sounds like this kind of scenario should fall apart in anything longer than a 20-minute segment of an anthology film but, surprisingly, it doesn't.  With great skill and suspense, it genuinely keeps the viewer guessing even as it keeps Ricci's character guessing.  She's initially convinced that the funeral home director is insane and she's very much alive, but begins to doubt.  The movie will throw a clue that indicates one conclusion, then minutes later throw a different hint that leads you back in the other direction.  All this while, Ricci's boyfriend (played by Justin Long), haunted by suspicions after one of her grade school students insists he's seen her alive, begins to search out whether something strange is going on, and wonders whether all his doubts are just the byproduct of grief and the guilt he's feeling over the fight they had the night of her death.    This was probably difficult material to make convincing, but the filmmakers and cast did an excellent job with it.  Great for horror and mystery fans; four-and-a-half stars.

I like it I really don't have much to say about Predator other than this: I like it. It's a good movie. Good action and suspense. I recommend it. That is all. -Trent Foreman, Author of Nightmare

A well done fantasy movie... Key word here people is fantasy, some people get angry it doesn't follow so closely with Greek mythology as we know it, or that some cinematic scenes mimic 300. I ask what movie have we seen which is so original that you wont find the same cinematography elsewhere? I enjoyed the movie, it had great charterer development, eye-catching visuals, passion and the fight scenes where awesome. A classic good vs. evil flick, that leaves room for more story to be told.

The Fighter Based on a true story, `The Fighter' is the story of two brothers, Micky Ward (Wahlberg) and Dicky Eklund (Bale) who are boxing heroes around their home town of Lowell in the USA.  Dicky is renowned for his past boxing career, but has fallen on hard times after becoming addicted to crack. Micky is his younger brother who wishes to emulate and surpass Dicky's success and make a name for himself and his family. Dicky's addiction overshadows his brothers chances of getting respected fights and when he ends up in prison it gives Micky the opportunity get a new support team and start to turn things around. But it is when Dicky finally gets clean, gets released from prison, makes amends with Micky and the family and rejoins his brothers team, that everything really comes together and things take a final upward spiral.  This film has excellent performances from all involved and Bale and Wahlberg are exceptional as the main characters. Micky's girlfriend Charlene is a stabilising influence in his life and the actress who plays her is also really good. This film has a superb soundtrack with tracks by The Rolling Stones, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Whitesnake and way more besides, it really lifts certain scenes in the film.  The fight scenes are well choreographed and make for a good mixture of tension and excitement and the director manages to make everything look authentic.  It is hard to fully warm to some of the characters, but you always appreciate where they are coming from and the influence and impact they have in each others lives. This is a great story of perseverance and overcoming adversity to reach your dreams and for this alone it is quite inspiring. I admit I have seen better bio-pics of this type, but this is perfectly watchable and makes for just under 2 hours entertaining viewing. This well worth checking out at some point.  Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.

MY GRADE: B minus to B. The Man without Fear hits the movie theaters and delivers in some areas and questionably in others. Ben Affleck plays a good enough Matt Murdock and his costume looks better than the ones in the old comic books. The fight scene at the bar needed some editing but most of the other scenes were somewhat good to very good. Garner delivers an average performance as Elektra. One of the problems with this film is that there were several logic holes. See spoilers at the very end if you want to read about some of them. Good choice with darkness and lights. Pretty good soundt rack fitting the themes of Daredevil even if some of the lyrics are a bit too much on the nose. Jon Favreu plays the beloved sidekick Froggy, Colin Firth plays Bullseye, Michael Clarke Duncan plays the Kingpin, Erik Avari plays Elektra's father and Joe Pantoliono plays the intrepid reporter. Small appearance by Ellen Pompeo, as the secretary of Murdock and Froggy's firm, who would later star in "Grey's Anatomy". The Razzies nominated Affleck for worst actor but the nomination was unjustified. The budget for this film was $79M and made just a tad under $180M at the Box Office. Even though it did well there were a number of attempts to continue with the franchise but too many obstacles have yet to produce Daredevil 2. All said, a refresh to Daredevil is in the works and that's the main reason I watched this film again. SPOILERS: Elektra should have known she was fighting Matt long before she removed his mask; the fight scene between Matt and Elektra looked cool but a blind guy fighting it out publicly in front of a ton of kids is going to get passed around and then the secret identity is revealed. Woops. If his opponents knew that extreme noises would stun Daredevil why didn't they use them to great impact at the end of the film rather than fighting off? Those dudes weren't exactly chivalrous in combat. STORY/PLOTTING: B minus; CHARACTERS/DIALOGUE: B minus; ACTION SCENES: B minus to B; TONE/CINEMATOGRAPHY: B; WHEN WATCHED: yesterday (2nd viewing); OVERALL GRADE: B minus to B.

A Gentle Soul A very good story. Glad I didn't pay attention to the bad reviews. I enjoyed this movie very much and how truthful it was.

Gritty yet entertaining I like Guy Pierce so im being nice, its all been done before but has some entertaining moments and a twist ur not gonna expect.

3 1/2 stars for the darkest of comedies Joel Murray is Frank, a poor soul who is constantly annoyed by his next door neighbors, his co-workers, television programming, his ex-wife and daughter and the world in general.  People are just mean and stupid.  After he gets fired from his job for sexual harassment (he sent flowers to a co-worker's house), he gets notice from his doctor that he has a brain tumor.  Frank is particularly annoyed by reality TV shows (I hear ya' Frank) and decides to go looking for the high school girl on TV that makes a big scene based on her parent's birthday present.  She got a Lexus sedan instead of the Escalade she wanted.  He stalks her at school and takes her out.  This is witnessed by another high school girl named Roxy (Tara Lynne Barr) who applauds Frank's actions and suggests she come along for further liquidations of people who "deserve to die."  While this could get pervy real quick with 50 something Frank taking up with a cute teen outcast, director and writer Bobcat Goldthwait never goes in that direction.  He just allows the pair to kill annoying people.  You know, people who talk or use cell phones in movie theaters, people who hog parking spaces.  He is also upset with mean right wing talk show hosts, religious zealots and "American Idol" type shows.  Goldthwait doesn't pull any punches and you will certainly recognize the thinly veiled celebrities he goes after.  The dark comedy is plenty dark and the violence isn't suppressed.  The film isn't for everyone, so be forewarned.  But I also snickered often.

TVs are playing too loud we can barely hear our conscience anymore How often do we find ourselves longing for the moments when we can have actual, decent, worthy conversations with our colleagues and friends? Those moments are getting scarce and more impossible to find nowadays. We have been living in new culture shaped by media and television. We are babysit by commercials and reality shows. Our sense of reality is only sharpened by sensations and tragedies. We are no longer moved by simple things. TVs are playing too loud we can barely hear our conscience anymore.  This movie may jolt us back a little, back to what is left with our humanity. But if that's so, why watching an unlikely duo with their trigger-happy vigilante action feels so good?

pretty funny but don't want to hype it up pretty funny but I don't want to hype it up. Good movie to just relax and laugh at. Acting was ok and characters were believeable.

an entertaining motivator to read the book Having read and thoroughly enjoyed the book I fully expected this would be a glossy overview and, for the most part, that's what it is. It's not superficial by any means but the discussions are not as deep. Given the format, there's no real way around that. The movie is fun and serves its purpose well.  I think the best use of the movie is to motivate someone to read the book. In my data analysis class, the text books are more about the algorithms and short example problems. Showing and discussing clips during class time as examples of interesting, perhaps unexpected, applications might inspire a few to read the book to learn more.

A good purchase. First, I love the Animal Armageddon series. Although it's mostly speculative, it's a great watch and educational. Anyone into ancient history should check it out. However, the fact that you only get half the series is a bit disappointing. I would have loved it, as with others no doubt, if a 2nd DVD with the remaining 3 extinctions was released.

WIFE'S RECOMENDATION I guess I arrived a bit late to the party, but man, what a time I've had with this show. I heard about it but never watched it, my wife an avid book reader was reading the books, and knowing that I hardly read instruction manuals, recommended on buying the show on blu-ray, so I decided to get it for my birthday which is actually in two weeks...WWWWWOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW... loved the show, great story, great surprises, can't wait for the second seadon to come out in blu-ray.  Now the only reason I did not give it a 5 star rating it's because of the loading issues most of us are having, my loading problems started on disc 3 episode 8, the weird thing is that the day before I got to watch episode 7 on the same disc and  the next day it wouldn't work and it froze my Sony Blu-ray player, so after unplugging it and getting the disc out, I tried it on my PS3 slim and it worked fine, it even loaded faster. Afer reading most of the reviews to see if I could find a solution on the rating given by:  Use Disc 1 Menu to Select Episodes, March 18, 2012 By R. Wolfe (Philadelphia, PA)  I found out it's all in the use of the menu on disc 1, which it's a bit of a work, but it seems to solve the problem, he even mentions that once your on the menu of another disc you can do the same, another thing that helps it's erasing the memory data either on the player or the rear usb memory stick, if you have one. I guess that the anti-piracy measures are a bit strict on our players, I guess that's why you have to use the menus to load up the episodes.  Hope this helps.  WINTER IS COMING!!!!!!!

Every living being does need a mate. Like I said, "Every living being needs a mate" Even if the being was dead and brought back to life. All these re-animator movies remind me of the old frankenstein movies. This one of course would be "The bride of frankenstein" I dont think theres nothing else to say. The title speaks for itself.

Trying Really Hard!! Well, I bought this DVD even if I knew it didn't have English subtitles!! I thought that I would be able to make out one or two things, but BOY, was I wrong!!! The spanish spoken in here flows like a waterfall, but I will soldier on to the finish. My main interest was the storyline, older woman and younger man, and I want to see how that plays out!!  As for the DVD itself, it is a quality package, security sealed. It contains 4 double sided DVD's. I haven't gotten to the end (the spanish is tooooo much!!), but so far, so good.  My only compaint is the subtitles.The production company should put in subtitles, for the sake of non-Spanish speakers, and for those who are deaf!! Surely!! Is that too much to ask????

Clint is the best Clint Eastwood is my favorite actor so basically anything he's in I'll like. This doesn't have the best plot for an Eastwood movie, but it's still really good. I can watch this movie 2-3 times a year and still enjoy it each time.

Contemplation on the nature of time The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is based on a story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man, born in 1918, who ages in reverse.  Benjamin's baby body looks like an 86-year-old with the same illnesses common to that age.  As the years pass, the body becomes younger.  The film explores the conundrums of this condition, such as  falling in love and fathering a child.  Brad Pitt plays Benjamin simply and admirably, assisted by technology to give him an aged body and by younger actors in closing scenes.  Cate Blanchett plays Daisy, a dancer (she does almost all of her own dancing).  Their love relationship begins when both are adolescents; yet he appears to be an old codger, upsetting Daisy's grandmother.  They are perfectly matched when they are in their forties.  But then a child is born and decisions must be made, as they know Benjamin will become gradually younger.  The story is told in a nursing home in New Orleans in 2005.  Hurricane Katrina is raging as a dying Daisy has her daughter read Benjamin's diary to her.  We see the flashbacks of his jaunt through the 20th century, and Daisy's daughter discovers her identity.  The film evokes contemplation on that century and on the nature of time itself.

Cars 2 It is always hard for a sequal to outdue the original.  And while this was no exception, I still think it was a pretty good movie.  I can see why some people gave a less than fair rating for what they deemed inappropriate content for a G rated movie, but as stated in another review, the movie portrayed more of a James Bond like theme.  There are parts where a car is "tortured" and then "killed" but I think it was done in a tasteful way - my kids didn't seem to think anything of it and I think that it is a thing that only the adults will really understand.  The movie still has a few good morals to be learned about friendship and being who you are and not what people want you to be.  Mater of course has his usual humor and funny quirps but also learns some things about himself, as the movie is centered more around Mater than Lightning McQueen.  Overall I give it 4 stars for the good morals in the story as well as a good plot and story line.  Would have liked to give it a 5 but it just didn't compare to the original Cars movie.

Battle LA review 8.5/10 Is it just me when a high brow critic bashes a film I'm usually not all the time going to like it. I'am of course talking about Battle Los Angeles which right now if you asked me what's my favorite movie of 2011 this would be it. Directed by Jonathan Liebsman who unfortunately directed The Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Beginning. It stars Aaron Eckhart as Sergeant Michael Nantz & Michelle Rodriguez as Sergeant Elelna Santos. The story is some mysterious objects believed to be metors crash into Earth's oceans near major cities. But they are really hostile invaders. US Marines from Camp Pendleton arrive in Los Angeles to fight the alien invasion & oh yeah you get some good shoot outs 1 of The Marines is Staff Sergeant Michael Nantz he was planning to retire after 20 years in The Marine Corp. After losing a platoon in Iraq They have to rescue civilians from The LAPD this is also where we meet Sergeant Elana Santos. They find 5 civilians including kids & a veterinarian. Some Of The Marines were wounded during the battle earlier a helicopter comes in to take the as it takes off it's destroyed by an alien killing everyone on board. Sergeant Nantz finds a wounded alien the veterinarian helps him find out it is  easiest way  to kill the creatures is shoot at the torso area. They use a bus to get the civilians to safety. But they are followed Nantz figures out they are tracked trough their radios & cell phones so they have to turn them off. Then the bus is under attack big action scene a Marine gets on a 50 caliber lots of well done action scenes. 1 of The Marines is injured he sets off the explosives to kill the enemy unit. Some use of pratical effects. They hide out in  a convenience store Sergeant Santos hears about about the aliens are attacking Earth's water supply I have heard people nitpicking this let's just say there was no water on Earth put 2 & 2 together. The scene where the boy's father dies Aaron Eckhart had some good monologues I have to say. They have need to take out The Alien Command Center. Sergeant Nantz uses a designator missile fly's into the command center a drone stops the 2nd missile a marine fires a rocket at the drone about to srop the 3rd  missile it hits the command center The Marines retake LA  they keep it open for a sequel which I wouldn't mind. I like this as much as Skyline but I liked BLA for different reasons. The running time is a little long but the action scenes keep it going. Some of the CGI is off & on but there was some good pratical effects. Aaron Eckhart was good he's an actor I like. Michelle Rodriguez had some good moments she was better here than she was in Machete. A capable cast good SCI FI experience I'd buy this movie. If you want a straight forward action SCI FI movie I'd say see it.

Worth watching This movie deserves to be viewed.  Boy A was a juvenile when he was convicted of killing a young girl.  The film follows his attempts to live a "normal" life after his release.  In the beginning, the British accents are a bit hard to understand, but the English subtitles helped while my ear became accustomed to the dialect.  Boy A is moving, to say the least.  The acting is superb. I would have preferred more on the back story--the murder itself--and an update on his Father. I like closure and to have loose ends tied neatly.  I have added this movie to an approved list for an education class I teach.

Hidden Beautiful Film I have had this DVD for ages and only watched it last night and was blown away by most of it. It is a documentary about four Rom bands from different countries who are put together for a 6 week tour of the USA and Canada. They are from Macedonia, India, Spain and Romania and whilst all have different sounds, they all have the same passion with intense emotions and explosions of musical depth of feeling. They follow the bands on tour and also tell their often intimate stories from their homeland. The crushing poverty for a lot of them seems to be totally alleviated by the sheer joy in the music.  They all have a massive love of life which seems contagious and they all seem to smoke at every possible moment. There is a lovely interview with Jonny Depp who has worked with some of them in the past and just adores them.  I thought I was going to find this dull and preachy, it is neither, so why the 4 stars, well that is because I would have liked more of the music. There is not one entire song, which I know is the way documentaries are done, but it is so spellbinding I found it quite distracting, when I am getting taken up in the music and: they cut to an interview.  Still petty gripe aside I have been telling friends about this and now they are all asking to borrow it - I am of course advising them about the current great deals on Amazon! (That should stop unwanted emails.)  Also if you enjoy this check out this fantastic film Black Cat - White Cat <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004GL0ED2">Black Cat , White Cat [Import ,All Regions, English Subtitles</a>]

Call me crazy, but I kind of love this stupid movie... I remember when the trailer for `Crazy, Stupid, Love' was released and the internet went abuzz because it looked so sweet and charming and adorable and just plain fun.  Then the reviews filtered in, mixed as they were, but general consensus was that the familiarity of the plot and likable nostalgic building of themes was enough to set this film apart and make it feel fresh and new despite recycling thoughts and sentiments from years past.  I feel the same way.  `Crazy, Stupid, Love', despite the obvious influx of sex jokes and promiscuous themes really is from another era.  The way in which the film is developed and the character's fleshed feels oddly nostalgic, as if it is from the golden age of romantic comedies and could have easily starred the likes of Cary Grant and Irene Dunne.  Instead, we get Steve Carell and Julianne Moore, and they serve as wonderful hosts for Dan Fogelman's story.  Here we have a story of Cal and Emily Weaver.  They have what appears to be a good marriage and nice life until Emily drops a bombshell with the words divorce and affair and Cal's life starts to spin out of control.  Alone and desperate, he is taken under the wing of Jacob Palmer, a dedicated Casanova who swoons and lays whoever he pleases and he makes it his mission to turn the uncoordinated and geekish Cal into a middle aged version of himself.  It works, sort of, but Cal cannot shake the idea that Emily is where he belongs.  Trouble also starts to brew for Jacob once he meets Hannah and starts to form feelings that go beyond his shallow bedroom eyes.  In fact, love looms over the entire Weaver clan as young Robbie tries his hand at wooing his babysitter who happens to be harboring a crush on Cal.  It's complicated.  With inspired performances by Carell, Moore, Gosling and Stone not to mention a slew of memorable supporting performances by Marisa Tomei and America's Next Top Model contestant Analeigh Tipton, `Crazy, Stupid, Love' is sharp, funny and charming.  It isn't perfect, but what film is these days (actually, there are a few).  The jokes don't always work and there were some moments where it felt like it was either trying too hard, or not trying hard enough.  Alas, when it hits those marks, it hits them just right.  This isn't a particularly smart film, for the silliness of a lot of the scenes is what makes is so endearing, but then again, when is love ever anything but stupid?

Excellent set. Excellent set, the blu ray treatment is top quality as anyone would expect, with a good collection of extra material, especially in the Clockwork Orange disc it includes a nice booklet, but nothing especial, the only complain is the packing, it is sturdy and nice looking, but the discs are hard to get out of the case, that said, it's not a deal breaker, it keeps discs free of scratches.

mrgreenegenes I enjoyed the Hudson Taylor story and admired his self-sacrifice for God's work.  This is an old movie and the production was not the greatest, but well worth the watch.

Music Man Review It is a great movie, but the DVD I bought had problems in it.  I had to index forward and come back (fast reverse) in order not to miss too much.

Great deal Three Shaft movies in one for a fantastic price. If you are a fan of the character, this is definitely the way to go. I've read all the books and wanted to see the movie versions. This is a very cost effective way to do it. The movies are all a lot of fun, although I won't bother you with details.

An Inspirational Film set  in a very Different Era The civil rights movement remains an important time in American history. Blatant racism during slavery gave way to the equally humiliating Jim Crow period. Terrance Howard, Bernie Mac and Evan Ross carry this film.

Good, but short, interview with Hilary Swank If you like this movie, or Hilary Swank, this is probably worth a look. There isn't much I can really say about, except that it is mostly an interview with Hilary about her portrayal of Amelia. Hilary shows her usual poise in the interview, and comments on Amelia's life, as one might expect.

A Brilliant new Adaptation As a die hard Holmes fan since childhood and a great lover of the series with Jeremy Brett i was blown away by this bold new version of Sherlock. Finally a Sherlock who is the same age as i am. I am also an Advanced Placement English Lit teacher and i use the stories in my classroom all of the time. I would definitely use this series to introduce my students to the Doyle versions. Cumberbatch is fantastic in the title role and Freeman is wonderful as Watson. They bring enthusiasm and intelligence to the roles that is seen in few adaptations even the Guy Ritchie one, which i liked. Cumberbatch is more like the Sherlock of the books than Downey Jr. in the fact that he shows icy demeanor with loveable wit and intelligence at the same time. He physically looks more the part as well. This version is fast, funny and addictive. Highly recommended to fans of mysteries or Holmes in general. Buy it today!

Really good story I just finished viewing this film and found it to be a very good movie. Really enjoyed the story and Dafoe's performance.

No one listens to the scientists. A slow starting movie, where a scientists tries to convince the political element in Dantes Peak of the ultimate danger of a volcano erupting. It builds in action & the later half of the movie has lots of action. I have both this & the movie Volcano. I think Volcano is better. It starst faster than this one.

Outstanding, Emotionally Palpable Movie I really enjoyed this movie.  However, my expectations were aligned with its reality, and this helped.  I think some people expect something different than what this actually is, and end up disappointed.  Let me set it straight to help you understand what to expect.  IMHO, this movie is first and foremost a human movie about human emotions and struggle.  Yes, its about a crime family who commits terrible acts, but the focus is on the emotions and turmoil these individuals experience as they commit crimes and ultimately attempt to evade justice.  Perhaps the best part is the teenager boy who is essentially adopted by the crime family (headed by his grandmother) after his mother dies.  He presents the perfect study for this movie - he is almost completely numb to the world.  His mother ODs, he knows no real relationships, and barely has emotions.  How he changes, and comes to struggle with his sense of dedication to the family vs morality as the movie progresses is highly engaging.  Further, Guy Pierce plays the lead cop, somewhat reprising his LA Confidential role, perfectly.  He plays a bit of mental cat and mouse with the family, including the teen boy, as he tries to get the boy to expose his family's crimes.  Brilliant acting.  Bottom line this movie is about drama.  Don't expect a lot of action scenes, or visceral violence.  Expect visceral emotions and outstanding character development and acting.  Also, this is an australian film short, presumably, in australia with australian actors.  Unlike many aussie films I've seen, the production values on this one are outstanding. Its a high quality image, well done cinematography, etc.  Its probably outstanding on blu ray.  Very highly recommended.

A jarring emotional experience This movie is worth watching and I'm very much glad that I did. The plot and ending are extremely moving and is a great exploration into relationships of varying kinds vs. how we feel we should satisfy ourselves. Although the main character is gay, this is not a central theme of the film, the ideas portrayed here are applicable with anyone. I didn't give the movie 5 stars because of some unanswered issues in the storyline, which could be seen as part of the plot, but overall very well done. Again, I very much enjoyed this film and recommend it.

Love it, but missing a few of my favorite songs from the later part of the tour. My only disappointment is the setlist. His covers of Listening Wind and Heroes are two of my favorites off the Scratch My Back CD. These two songs plus Secret World were some of my favorites from the show in Milwaukee (to top it off, I arrived just a few minutes late and missed the most of Heroes). I realize that they taped this at the start of the tour and these songs were added later in the tour. Still was hoping they might have included them as bonus tracks or something like that.

LOVE THE MOVIE, HATE THE MONO AUDIO I first saw this movie as a kid when it was first released in 1966 (at the Village Theatre on the Ocean City,NJ boardwalk.)  What a joy!  I too watch it often because it is so funny.  HOWEVER......I recently was given a suround sound system, and this DVD was released in MONO.  I truly adored not just the performances in this movie but also the music.  But, alas, even after trying all the different settings on my surround sound system, I am not "surrounded" by the music, it will only come out of the front speaker.  I was sooooooo disappointed.  I would go out and buy a blu ray player tomorrow, if this would be re-released on blu ray in stereo, or dolby 5.1.  I hope this will happen one day, but I'm not holding my breath.   So the movie gets 5 stars, but the MONO sound track gets 1 star.

Post WW 2 Tale of Russian Prison Camp This is suppose to be a true story and I feel it is up to one small point, the 'search' for the SS members out of a group of 51 German Prisoners of War is a sub plot around the romance and intimacies. Set after WW 2 we are transported to the freezing icy prison run by some nasty Commies.  These relationships grow between the German prisoners and thier all female Russian guards - well stuff was always gonna happen. There is a small however, it was pretty common knowledge that most SS (and some Wehrmacht)men had thier blood groups tattoed on thier left arms (for medical purposes). So a quick check could have solved the mystery, but toward the end of the war this practice became the exception to the rule, so its not really a 'deal breaker'.  Only other gripe is that they all speak English albeit with reasonably good accents, but it tends to take away from the reality in that language would have been a barrier to communication at the beginning unless in the real true story they were all bi lingual, a petty gripe I know especially as I actually wasn't in the mood for a sub titled film.  All that aside the acting is excellent from all concerned especially Thomas Kretchman, Malkovich is just Malkovich which is always enough and he does help ratchet up the tension. There are enough twists to keep the plot moving at an unnoticably reasoned pace and as such it passes the test of all good films in that you don't feel bored or check your watch. If you like plots with intrigue and a genuine attempt to make a non Hollywood style film then you will enjoy In Tranzit.

the... new... normal A stylish, intense documentary that manages to contrast the surrealism of patrolling an Afghan village that has changed little in four hundred years against shopping at big-box stores in American suburbia.  The narrative is straight-forward, it is created by the documentary subject and circumstance, not a voice-over narrative of the type you might get from Werner Herzog or Mike Moore.  Circumstances are such that the focus of the documentary, Sergeant Nathan Harris, is seriously wounded and struggles stateside to rehab and reintegrate.  Here the documentarian weaves cinema, utilizing flashbacks; passing car headlights and horns become tracer rounds and yelled commands, and kicking in doors in a video game sequence scene-transitions into kicking in real doors in Afghanistan. Sergeant Harris is prescribed strong medications when he gets home, and sits around armed and mock-playing Russian roulette, everyone kinda kidding but kinda not, a dark, post-traumatic, opiated streak of rehabilitative reality that now affects tens of thousands.

Suspenseful Suspenseful, yet still scary and a little gory but not too much.. I loved this movie, my husband and I watch it all the time:)

Blu-ray spectacular. I just got a blu-ray player, and so far this is the best looking blu-ray film I've seen.  The sharpness and colors are incredible.  I expected a lot of graphic violence because of the picture on the box with Rayne sporting those two big swords, but the fight scenes involve no dismemberments and just one instance of a victim losing his head--usually Rayne swings her sword at a victim from behind and the guy falls with a lot of blood squirting out.  Probably the limited budget prevented the violence from being more graphic.  Michael Pare and Clint Howard as the demented doctor give excellent performances.  Natassia Malthe looks great in  one scene where she's wearing a thin pink short satin robe at a bordello and she goes upstairs to beat up a client who is hitting one of the prositutes.  The plot which involves Nazis and vampires is something you might expect to see on Elvira's movie macabre.

A review for Bollywood novices Following the stupendous success of "Slumdog Millionaire" in 2008, interest in Indian cinema increased markedly. Yet that movie, while set in India, was directed by an Englishman. Most people in the U.S. know very little of real Indian film, but the number of Bollywood fans is growing rapidly, and they are almost evangelical in their admiration for Aamir Khan, the star of "3 Idiots" and a golden boy in his native country. Of the relatively few exports from that enormous market to play in American theaters, this 2009 film is one of the best. It makes a fine entree into the cinematic culture of India, which is, I must warn you, an acquired taste.  The first thing you may notice is the language, which entails what linguists call "code switching." Sentences often begin in Hindi and end in English or vice versa. But much more important to grasp is the Bollywood aesthetic, which is radically different from Hollywood's; to enjoy it requires a suspension of the rules that constrain American films. Ours have rather tightly defined genres: domestic drama, buddy picture, slasher movie, Broadway musical, sci-fi actioner, and so on. Combining two of them is rare; three is straight over the top.  Indian film, in contrast, is kitchen sink filmmaking, throwing together themes and plots from many diverse genres to create tales of epic scope (this one is nearly three hours long). These sagas whipsaw the viewer back and forth from farcical parody to ghastly tragedy to musical fantasy to weepy melodrama to bathroom humor to social protest to romantic comedy. The plots are frequently Byzantine in their complexity and the characters hopelessly unrealistic. As in the Hindu epic Ramayana, they are better thought of as caricatures of love, wisdom, heroism, foolishness, envy, ambition, and other traits.  Now if you find a frenetic hodgepodge of styles and a resolute lack of realism irritating, if you can't accept what will at first seem crazily contradictory conventions, you won't like Bollywood. If repetitive fart and pee jokes bother you, if the idea of grafting a "Revenge of the Nerds" sensibility onto "Mamma Mia!" or of having Judd Apatow direct "Days of Our Lives" strikes you as horrifying, then this movie is not for you. But if you can wrap your head around these jarring juxtapositions, read on.  I'll admit I'm not a big Bollywood fan, but I have to give props to screenwriter-director Rajkumar Hirani for the manic energy and complete commitment he brings to his interpretation of "Five Point Someone," a novel by Chetan Bhagat. "3 Idiots" centers on three students attending the most prestigious engineering college in India, a pressure cooker of a school. They include Farhan (R. Madhavan), who is an aspiring but frustrated photographer, and the impoverished Raju (Sharman Joshi). The charismatic leader of this triumvirate, Rancho (Kahn), is a witty prankster, a down-to-earth genius, and a humanitarian guru who makes it his mission to humble the arrogant: to show the educational authorities their wrongheadedness and the wealthy their hypocrisy.  While he's at it, this charming idealist saves the life of Raju's father, crashes a wedding, and wins the heart of Pia, a medical student (played by the beautiful Kareena Kapoor) who happens to be the daughter of his nemesis, the dean of the college. The dean is a heartless buffoon (played to the scenery-chewing hilt by Boman Irani) who is in the habit of driving his students to suicide, but Rancho gets the better of him. And all of this is accomplished before the first half of the film is over!  The movie could easily have ended at midpoint, but no. Rancho mysteriously disappears, and so his friends embark upon a quest that frames the plot, along with Chatur (Omi Vaidya), an envious rival who has made a wager with him. They attempt to track him down, settle the bet, and reunite him with his lost love. We move back and forth in time and tone with myriad subplots about exam results, summary expulsions, dreams deferred, job interviews, identity swaps, heartbreaking betrayals, near-death experiences, miraculous recoveries, and undying friendship.  There's a runaway bride scene that puts "The Graduate" to shame, and enough high-stakes medical drama for several soap operas, including paralysis, a coma, and a bizarre episode in which a team of engineering students uses car batteries and a vacuum cleaner to deliver a baby during a blackout. And interspersed with all of this are several wild song-and-dance numbers, one of them set in a communal bathroom and another that involves flying and a rainstorm and a cross between the Twist and the Chicken Dance.  In the end, justice is done and all's right with the world. The challenges our protagonists face -- of fulfilling their parent's old-fashioned expectations in a viciously competitive educational system and an utterly class-ridden society, or of following their own personal passions and finding happiness and untold wealth in the process -- are resolved to everyone's satisfaction. Of course, our saintly hero finds true love and, after hours of teasing, gets a single kiss. We're in India, remember, where the good guys must be chaste (though cavorting in their underwear is apparently just fine).  It's a cheerfully preposterous film filled with fine performances, one of the most well-made pieces of pabulum I've seen since the cricket-themed "Laagan," a 2001 Aamir Khan epic of nearly four hours that received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. With a story that aspiring young Indians can relate to, "3 Idiots" was hugely popular at home, shattering all sorts of box office records and winning a ridiculous number of awards.  If you'd like to know more about India, where tradition and modernity uneasily coexist, then a marathon of broad tragicomedy and rags-to-riches wish fulfillment is an entertaining way to learn. Bear in mind that this is nothing like reality. It's hyperreality: what a nation of 1.2 billion who experience poverty and a daily grind and rapid social change are hoping for, not what you'll really find if you visit. As such, it reveals much about their mentality, about their ideals and anxieties, and about what motivates them. And if you can let go of your American preconceptions, it's a head-spinning ride that is undeniably fun.

Panoramic Western set in an Indian context The story line while possible is not particularly plausible but I found it interesting none the less. Scenery is spectacular, costuming is great and props are totally realistic--especially the dead and hided buffalo's, and the music score is very good. The historical accuracy from the Civil War perspective and the treatment of the main character by the US Army is neither realistic nor plausible. The Indian life scenes, especially the buffalo hunt  are all very well done with terrific acting but on the negative side everyone always has perfect hair brushed-shiny and groomed, even Kevin Costner's hair, and the Indian costuming is always spectacularly colorful but nothing is ever out of place. While I liked the movie a lot as it is very good entertainment much of the movie is way too "beautiful".

the real world The film is very interesting. It shows a day-to-day life of people affected by current economic crisis - different reactions,  values, behaviors, solutions.

"Plunder of the Sun (1953) ... Glenn Ford ... John Farrow (Director) (2006)" Warner Bros. Pictures presents "PLUNDER OF THE SUN" (Special Collector's Edition) (1953) (81 min/B&W) -- Starring Glenn Ford, Diana Lynn, Patricia Medina, Francis L. Sullivan & Sean McClory  Directed by John Farrow  Several interested parties converge upon the Mexican Aztec ruins in search of a long-buried treasure. Insurance investigator Al Colby (Glenn Ford) is ostensibly the hero, but he doesn't seem any more trustworthy than the rest of the petty crooks, fallen women and alcoholics who've gone along for the archaeological ride. Pretty soon the treasure hunters have fallen out and murder is committed  Adapted from a novel by David Dodge  The script plays fast and loose with the novel, changing the locale from Peru to Mexico and now the search is on for Aztec artifacts instead of Incan. All things considered, this is a tightly directed and well acted tale.  Ford's strong characterization provides enough impetus to carry the film along; the writers apparently saw "Gilda" and decided that Glenn Ford would be even more popular if he was a complete misogynist. There are some really fun lines of dialog that he throws out there in his cynical way. McClory was also very impressive in a menacing character role. There are numerous small character parts that are all handled with great consistency by director Farrow.  The B&W cinematography is quite good, with its dark shadows and strange camera angles. It's almost "noirish". Filmed on location in Mexico, the outdoor visuals convey a sense of grand scope and historical authenticity.  BIOS: 1. John Farrow [aka: John N.B. Villiers-Farrow] [Director] Date of Birth: 10 February 1904 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Date of Death: 28 January 1963 - Beverly Hills, California  2. Glenn Ford (aka: Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford) Date of Birth: 1 May 1916 - Sainte-Christine, Quebec, Canada Date of Death: 30 August 2006 - Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County, California  3.  Diana Lynn  [aka: Dolores Loehr] Date of Birth:  7 October 1926 - Los Angeles, California Date of Death:  18 December 1971 - Los Angeles, California  4.  Patricia Medina Date of Birth:  19 July 1919, Liverpool, England, UK Date of Death:  Unknown  5. Francis L. Sullivan  [aka: Francis Loftus Sullivan] Date of Birth:  6 January 1903 - London, England, UK Date of Death:  19 November 1956 - New York City, New York  6.  Sean McClory  [aka: S&eacute;an Joseph McClory] Date of Birth:  8 March 1924 - Dublin, Ireland Date of Death:  10 December 2003 - Hollywood Hills, California  Mr. Jim's Ratings: Quality of Picture & Sound: 4 Stars Performance: 4 Stars Story & Screenplay: 4 Stars Overall: 4 Stars [Original Music, Cinematography & Film Editing]  Total Time: 81 min on DVD ~ Warner Bros. Pictures ~ (June 6, 2006)

Absorbing Old-Fashioned Series of Outstanding Quality I enjoyed "To Serve them All My Days" immensely. Each hour-long episode is riveting with dramatic suspense. There are three episodes per disc, on four discs--and it was all I could do to wait until the next evening to watch the next--except the last disc, which, to my disappointment, had only two episodes (I did not want the story to end!). Since others have given details of the story, I shall remark only on the production.  This film, made in 1980, is one of the old-fashioned BBC dramas, which emphasised quality in production, costume, and setting. It goes without saying that the characters are superbly acted [I especially liked Algie, the first Headmaster, an Anglican priest]. The story is heartwarming; in fact, one may want to keep a box of tissues handy for the weepy bits. Set in a British Public School [i.e., private, but publicly funded so that any boy who qualifies can attend], the production, which was filmed at Milton Abbey in Dorset, focuses on the lives of the Masters and their charges from 1916 to approximately 1931.  Although the cinematography is excellent, the color has, unfortunately, deteriorated, especially the skies, which have become pale, and if characters are standing with the sky at their backs, haloes hover slightly over their heads. This, however, is only an occasional problem, and the story is so interesting that I did not let it bother me.  I did notice significant changes in the story, which I first heard as a BBC radio series, based on the novel, but the series is strong enough to stand on its own.  If you like action-packed adventure, "To Serve Them All My Days" is not for you, but if you like quality drama, about an England that has largely vanished, this film will indubitably be your cup of quality tea!

Loved I got this as a birthday present for my 2 year old sister, and she loves it! It's one of the few children television shows that the whole family enjoys.

Sleepy Hollow Great movie and just in time for Halloween. Not too scary, a bit bloody though. We received the dvd quickly and encountered no problems.

Very good A  good Sci Fi movie with marines in it kicking butt. At first it was sort of chaotic. Camera moving alot sort of like cloverfield hard to follow but it slowed down and turn out to be very good.

Surprisingly good Severed is surprisingly good, seeing that the slew of recent zombie flicks leave something to be desired, this one actually does well in the sea of mediocrity. A new premise of zombie creation is brought forth, which is always new and welcome in itself.  A lumber corporation is genetically enhancing tree growth to speed production, but an accident causes the mutation to spread to humans and cause them to turn into zombies going on a strict all you can eat meat diet.  There are a few scenes with a lot of blood and gore but most of the scenes are insinuated and you never see them being ripped apart, only blood splatters from both the zombies and those killing the zombies.  Spoliers Spoilers Spoilers    The story takes place 200 miles from the nearest city, so the loggers and the environmentalist are on their own and isolated.  The corporation has started clean up and contamination procedures and has labeled all involved as dead or expendable to keep what has happened there a secret and the corporations involvement out of it.  So there is no rescue party coming and everyone is truly on there own.  The only hope they have lies within themselves, and unfortunately like so many other zombie movies there are always some morons that manages to get most everyone killed.  Acting was good and everything seemed believable and in proper place.  A Zombie movies that thinks outside the box, and doesn't just check the normal things that you might see in a zombie movie off the list.  A Must add if your a zombie movie collector.

Not as bad as 'Men In Black' The movie is kind of fun. Not bad for a 'B' movie and not as bad as 'Men In Black' This one I would at least watch again without trying to chew my arm off. (yep you guessed it , I cant say the same for 'MIB')

Generic G-Burg This documentry which borders on the fictional-dramatic covers less well known aspects of the battle.  Those looking for the signature events of G-Burg really won't find them here.  Buford's Cavalry stand, 20th Maine, etc. are not covered at all. The first day's event start abruptly with the Iron Brigade fighting at the Railcut.  This is a soldier's look at Civil War combat intended for a general audience.  The effects are there to hook the laymen.  With Ridley Scott one has to expect this.  There is little background to the battle and only basic info. on an as need basis.  The special effects showing how destructive Minie balls were to the human frame are compelling, and mean more if you really understand the weapons involved.  The same with how Civil War Arty worked.  Nice effects, fascinating detail, but no overall picture of how it was employed or used.  This is a fast paced, cinematic DVD intended to draw the general viewer in.  Even the G-Burg fan will find some interest here in that the work tends to focus on less well known aspects of the battle.  The fighting around Culps Hill was crucial during the whole three days and tends to get little attention in most of the popular histories. Pickets Charge does get mentioned, but is covered from a very individual perspective of one or two participants.  This is an interesting, entertaining look at Civil War combat in general.  Whether at G-burg or any battle from the war.  Those looking for in-depth detail on the course of the actual battle won't find that here.  But if you want a somewhat engaging look at the methods, technology and some of the individuals it concerned on the Civil War battlefield then this video is as good a place to start as any.  Some extra features might have filled it out more.

Great movie This is a great family movie that hasn't dated much over the years... still captures the minds of the young and has them laughing out loud and wanting to replay the move many many times over... great movie.. no smash ,crash or violence.. just a great clean fun family movie... my grandchildren ( 2---9yrs) just love it..

kateland This is all new to me. I have never been or seen inside a diner. Where i come from there are only  restaurants.  So this is something rather different.  I felt very cosy when this documentary took me in there. I felt a good friendly atmosphere inside the diners. And noticed they really heaped the plates up with food. It all began to make me feel a little hungry, even wishing i was a customer too. I noticed all the delicious homemade desserts as well, they looked a mouthwatering treat. GLORIOUS FOOD. Visiting an American Diner was a pleasurable experience for me.

Could have been 5 star, but....... While there is NO doubt this is the Elvis that all the fans have been waiting to see in high quality audio and video (both are insanely good) I felt that leaving out JUST CAN'T HELP BELIEVIN', SWEET CAROLINE, I'VE LOST YOU, BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER, and the version of SUSPICIOUS MINDS that were all used on the original movie was a mistake that could only be made by someone who had no clue about what Elvis fans really wanted to see and hear.  I did appreciate them editing out all of the odd-ball fans that were shown in the original, however, I would have liked to have seen the part where the overseas fans fans were watching Elvis imitators and then the scene cut to Elvis doing TIGER MAN with a flashing spotlight hitting him. It seems strange to me that those who own the rights to the masters of these classic Vegas concerts wouldn't want to make the money they could off of their releases.  Who can we contact to urge those be released? Does anyone know?

Good, fun movie.. Mixed 3D (from poor to very good) I saw the original <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6305596247">Piranha</a> years ago and thought it was a terrible movie (but in a good way). So bad, it had to be remade for the current generation, and it fits perfectly with the idea of a 3D movie.  I bought the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0046YK3NU">Piranha [Blu-ray</a>] earlier this year (not expecting to get a 3DTV) and really enjoyed it.. After getting a 3DTV, I picked up this (3D) version.  You'll notice a lot of mixed reviews -- most seem to think the 3D was very well done, others complain of issues. At the time, I figured those complaining were just being picky about it, and took the chance -- that was a mistake.  The movie itself is very fun/campy and enjoyable in 2D or 3D. The problem comes with the 3D -- to start, it was a converted movie (filmed in 2D, converted to 3D). One of the biggest problems is ghosting. Everything seems divided into layers (sort of like cardboard cutouts) - sometimes this works great, but most of the time you have issues where stuff isn't on the right layer. Most obvious/distracting is when a persons face is coming out towards you, but the top of their head or side of their face is stuck in the background (in what looks like several feet behind their head) - this happens with hair throughout (a girls curly hair might be 3D while some strands are several feet behind her mixed in with the background), or when they show part of the boat that's supposed to be in 3D, but part of the ocean behind it is also in 3D. The 3D levels seem to mix throughout - sometimes you'll see many "layers" of 3D (foreground, middle ground, background, far away background), other times it seems like there are just 2 layers (foreground for the main subject and everything else (regardless of distance) is in the background).  It came off as very distracting to me. Fortunately, there were some fun 3D moments that worked great. Of the 10 3D movies I've seen, this was unfortunately the poorest one in terms of 3D effect. It could be due to it being a "cheesy B-Movie" or from the conversion of 2D -> 3D, but it seemed pretty poor at times.  The 3D version does contain a 2D version of the movie.. but you lose some deleted scenes (on the 2D version) which I found to be pretty good. Since both can be found for around the same price sometimes, it's up to you whether you'd rather have the 3D version of the deleted scenes.  Despite the 3D being somewhat poor in most parts, I think the 3D version is better than having the deleted scenes (if you plan to get a 3DTV). I wouldn't recommend re-buying it or paying much more for it over the 2D version though.  Movie = 4 3D = 3

"They're making out their Christmas lists." OVERBOARD is most definitely a 'tweener.  3 or 4 stars?  Four because of the excellent chemistry between Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn; a genuinely funny premise ("riches to rags"); outstanding physical comedy with some spot on delivery; and Goldie Hawn is a fabulously beautiful lady.  Three because of predictability and contrivance; the four child actors get downright annoying; and (yet) another stereotypical depiction of the filthy rich.  (If you go by Hollywood all evil one percenters never work a day of their lives and exist in a setting of outrageous luxury while saying insensitive and silly things.)  So trying to decide how many stars to give OVERBOARD presented an interesting dilemma for moi.  Hawn's looks tip the scale.  Russell should do more comedy and Russell and Hawn should work together more; again, the chemistry is terrific and believable and fluid and natural.  I realize this film was made over a quarter of a century ago, but given the right project this pair could knock another one out of the park.  If you haven't caught OVERBOARD on cable, or rented it, give this comedy a viewing.  It will definitely be worth your while. --D. Mikels, Esq.

Memorial Day For anyone who has served in the military, family member or friend of service members, this is a heart warming movie.  I loved the inner relationships and stories behind each character.  Worth seeing!!

Very good science fiction I watched this movie after seeing Natalie Portman in Black Swan, I didn't expect to like it because I'm not a big science fiction fan, but I thought it was hugely entertaining. Natalie Portman was really great in a role of a young woman who gets caught up in events much bigger than she ever imagined, and who goes through a grueling personal journey of discovery. I think she's the best actress of her generation. And the V character is very engaging despite not ever seeing his face. I don't know the actor but he did a very compelling job.

Classic film I never saw this, but it was a gift for a parent.  They love it.  They say that it is a great, timeless movie.  They just love watching these movies that they saw "back in the day" and they love having a clear, DVD version in their own home.

good so far Let me first say I am not following the diet portion of the book. It's very restrictive and at this point in my life after years of fad diets I stick to a healthy 1500 calorie diet. I bought the program for the dvds. I am 41, and the first time I did the dvd I almost threw up. I thought I could never do it, was going to return them even. I then got bronchitis and was to sick to go to the post office. So I figured since I had them I might as well do it. I started slow and I have been doing them 3-4 times a week for 2 months now and feel amazing. I do however do my own warm up and cool down. That part I really feel is lacking. I also walk very brisk at 4.7 mph 3 days a week for 45-60 min or do Windsor pilates. There is enough variety I feel to keep me from getting bored, and I am really toning up a lot. Enough that my husband has noticed and my doctor noticed when I had a check up last week! I even had to get new underwear and jeans today because my old ones were falling off my body!  If you can get past the soreness the first few weeks, its worth it.

A different role for Will Ferrell This was a great movie about so many things. It was about coping with loss, alcoholism, and never giving up. This is not a typical movie for Will, he is still "Will" in a way; he has that humor that never goes away. But there is more of a lesson taught in this movie; One that proves that no matter how bad of a day, or week, or  longer you may have, there is always something that you can fight for, something that is possible if you only put forth the effort.

A TRUE CLASSIC IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD I recently watched the BBC remake of THE 39 STEPS starring Rupert Penry-Jones. I enjoyed it and knew I had to see the original Alfred Hitchcock version. I had purchased this DVD a while back but had never had a chance to watch the Hitchcock version and now was the time. The version I bought on Amazon was from A2zcds.com. The heading said REMASTERED. Unfortunately, this was the worst quality "remaster" one could ever imagine. The film was hardly viewable and that is really sad for such a classic film. When buying 39 STEPS, do yourself a favor and be sure to buy a quality version such a Criterion. You can never go wrong with Criterion but of course, there surely are other good quality versions from other sources on Amazon. The audio sync was way off on this A2zcds.com version so it was a mess all over. It is hard to catch ever nuance of a film when you are watching a really terrible copy, but there is no doubt Alfred Hithcock was on his way to a fine career with his earlier films. Hitchcock's THE 39 STEPS was made during the day when it was the story and great acting and directing that made a film shine. It's less about the visuals and definitely not about special effects. It's story driven and that is what we see here. Richard Hannay ends up with a dead spy in his bed. Not the best way to start a day. From then on, it is a race to outsmart the police and the dangerous foreign agents who are after him. Hannay ends up in Scotland and the fun of the film is how he manages to escape from the the police on a train and get away from the deadly foreign agents. He survives a shooting and all sorts of mayhem. The film is a delightful step in the past when movies were about the story and the story was wonderful.

Holocaust I received the DVD very quickly.  Haven't had a chance to view it yet.  I do look forward to seeing it as soon as I have a chance.

Drugs, Sex, Gross Outs, but Funny Funny movie, but not for under 18 years old. Better than Sara Marshall, better than Hang Over slightly. The Russell Brand Character from SM is the center of this wild Rock and Roll fantasy. Jonah Hill has to get Brand to LA for a concert or it's his career. Drugs and sex orgy from London to NY to Vegas, to LA. Be prepared for nudity, adult situations and creative gross outs. P-Diddy, Russell Brand are all energy.

HILARIOUS but.... This video is hilarious but it's automatically bleeped out... I wish it gave you the choice (like his other video)to listen to it in censored or uncensored format.

"Extended Version" = Full Length / Original International Version (Pt.1&2) Seriously, this friggin' "release" is confusing enough without people going & making up new titles...  Someone clearly doesn't know how to list items on Amazon; and others have jumped on the opportunity to try & sell their copies for a bit more -- hoping someone will actually think it's an Extended, Extended Cut.  -- Only 2 "Cuts" -- Original/International Version 288 minutes (Pts. 1 & 2) ___ & the "Theatrical Version" which is as misleading a title as I've ever seen, which is actually the "US Version" if you will, has a run-time of 148 minutes.  Here's the official Amazon-created page (not a 3rd-party Seller created page, like the one you're reading this on):  -- Currently $19 by Amazon & $15+ Used [...]  PS: The ONLY thing that's good about the "theatrical" version, is that it has an English-Dubbed audio option.  Why we can't get the same on the Full-Length Version, is beyond me -- but I HATE having to read subtitles!.. It's nearly impossible to enjoy the film during heavy &/or fast dialogue scenes, because instead of watching the performances, action, scenery, etc., we're stuck focusing on the lower 2% of the screen. SUBTITLES SUCK... And so does John Woo for knowing most people hate subtitles; but refusing to give us a Full-Length Dub-track option. -- It is for that reason, that I've refused to buy EITHER version... I'm not going to buy the "theatrical" because way, way, way too much, was cut out... and I'm not buying the "International"(Full-Length) version, until they release it with an English Dub-track... Thus, another reason I'm glad to have Netflix.  Thanks for nothing Woo.

Green Lantern The film was nice - another DC Comic answer to many Marvel Comics movies. This movie answered the one of two origin stories of the Green Lantern, and it was very entertaining.

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Terry Gilliam Meets Lewis Carroll Had I made the film "Malace in Wonderland" (2009) I would be quite proud of it.  But it is not something that I would casually show to a random group of people expecting an enthusiastic response.  Its target audience is the off-kilter and twisted, and not even all of those will wildly embrace this effort.  But if you get off on oddity, quirkiness, and fun you should seek out this film.  This is the fourth of five relatively recent efforts to "out-weird" Carroll by taking the framework of his story and constructing a feature film that reflects the director's inner child at the expense of the wit and wisdom of the source material.  If a perverse homage is your cup of tea and you don't hold your own image of the Mad Hatter sacred, then you should check out this film along with the other four: Tim Burton's recent release, Terry Gilliam's "Tideland" (2005), Czech animator Jan Svankmajerand "Alice" (1988), and the one that started the trend-Richard Elfman's "Forbidden Zone (1982).  "Malace"  is the best of the group if only because it captures more of the original's spirit.  It's gotten to be a rather well-traveled path but this one benefits from a closer association to the original "Wonderland".  In this case Carroll's story is transported to the gritty underworld  of modern day East London (insert lowlifes, drug lords, addicts and pimps here).  But not so gritty that there are not a lot of bizarre characters with counterparts in the original wonderland and looking glass worlds.  Lost's Maggie Grace plays Alice Dodgson (Carroll's real last name although she has amnesia and is nameless for most of the story - perhaps a symbolic connection to his use of a pen name).  Danny Dyer is a London Taxi driver named Whitey, and like the White Rabbit he is often running late despite being obsessed with time.  Nathaniel Parker is a recently released from prison underworld boss, like the Queen of Hearts he holds a trial when his tarts (in this case a string of hookers) are stolen.  Bronagh Gallagher is Hattie, the operator of a truck stop brothel, she holds Mad Hatter tea parties with the assistance of a sleeping Dormouse.  Gallagher's character is by far the best of the ensemble and you wish that she had more screen time.  Gary Beadle is DJ Felix Chester (the Cheshire Cat) and Paul Kaye is the Caterpillar. The Tweedle twins are employed as burly nightclub bouncers . Matt King plays a hustler named Gonzo, a significant character who apparently was kidnapped from the set of a Muppet parody and has no Wonderland parallel (go figure??).  Grace's Alice is your basic still coltish Homecoming Queen who does not yet realize (or at least convincingly pretends to not realize) how incredibly hot she has become.  I have read that she was a last minute replacement for Misha Barton, who also has that quality. Apparently Fellows knew exactly what he wanted for the role and why he wanted it.  He effectively utilizes her face in frequent close-up, building a connection with viewers to Alice's very confused point-of-view.  It works!!  The film has excellent production design, cinematography, and acting for the camera direction.  The writing is the only weak area, not that it is poor but rather the project is so ambitious that another rewrite would have been a good investment.  The romance and the search for the birth mother have some emotional impact but are poorly integrated into the story. You can overlook a lack of logic (this is "Wonderland" after all) but those two elements seek to provide a resolution to one of the few stories where one is not needed.  I just don't see Carroll going out of his illogical lunacy with a logical and predictable ending.  Then again, what do I know?  I'm only a child.

When You Fail The First Time, Start Over... Back in 2003 we the Fanboys were given 'The Hulk', directed by Ang Lee and staring Eric Bana as Bruce Banner.  While the fight scenes were pretty epic at times, this film utterly failed, namely by ignoring the source material.  I plan on doing a review of 'The Hulk' here shortly...  So, since the first 'Hulk' was not loved by the fans, and also to get a prequel in that would conincide with the 'Avengers' release, Marvel went back to the drawing board.  It was a good decision.  One, 'The Hulk' came out 9 years ago, so a more updated prequel/film was needed.  Two, a better back story needed told.  They achieved this.  --Story/Premise--  **(Spoilers ahead)**  The movie begins with us the viewer seeing Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) living down in South American and trying to get by, working in a soda factory.  He is also trying desperately to contain the monster within him and find a cure.  He is currently in correspondence with another scientist back in the states.  Enter General "Thunderbolt" Ross (William Hurt), father of Dr. Betty Ross (Liv Tyler), a military man on the hunt for Bruce, aka The Hulk.  The film gives a decent but simple backstory for the Hulk's birth.  Dr. Banner was developing a serum that would make people immune to gamma radiation.  I guess his goal was to make people immune and take away the threat of nuclear attacks.  People with this immunity to radiation could work in nuclear facilities without fear.  Cancer could be abolished as well.  Well he tries the formula on himself and bombards himself with gamma radiation, in a machine strait from the Bill Bixby tv series.  Well...things don't go as planned, and the formula combined with the gamma beam transform him into the Hulk.  He injures Betty and General Ross and completely destroys the lab.  Shortly afterward he flees and has been on the run from the U.S. Government ever since.  This is a very similar premise and tone to the much loved television series from the 1980s, another reason this film was good.  FYI, it turns out the base material for the serum he was working on was similar to the super-soldier serum that infused Captain America with his strength.  A cool unifying point here.  If you watch Captain America, after the scientist who developed the serum is killed, blood samples are drawn from Steve Rogers in hopes that it can be someday be duplicated again.  This imperfect serum is what is used in the 'Incredible Hulk'.  I also will take a guess that Nick Fury has taken a form of it, and is quite older than he appears.  Time will tell if my theory is right...  Needless to say General Ross wants the Hulk back and to discover how he has so much strength and power.  Thus the chase is on.  Enter Emil Blonsky (Tim Roth), a transferred soldier from Britain brought in to join Ross's black ops team.  Their goal is to get Banner, alive.  After a slip up by Bruce, they determine he is in South America and attempt to capture him with force.  This fails of course, Banner transforms after months of successful calmness and gets away.  Jumping ahead, Ross has the bright idea to try a version of the super-soldier serum he has been working on, on Blonsky.  It works, Blonsky is infused with energy, strength and goes up against a transformed Banner.  He however loses, and the Hulk kicks him HARD, smashing him against a tree and leaving him more broke than Evel Knievel.  The Hulk escapes with Betty Ross and manages to make it to his mystery scientist, which he has been communicating with, Dr. Samuel Sterns (Tim Blake Nelson).  Meanwhile Blonsky to the surprise of his doctors, fully heals from his injuries, thanks to the super-soldier serum, and is ready again for action.  Ross, thinking a little does good so a lot must do better, has even more of the serum injected in Blonsky.  This seems to have psychological influences on him and starts to cause monstrous qualities in him, just look at his back...  Banner and Dr. Stern trigger a Hulk transformation and Stern infuses the Hulk with a purple formula derived from a plant.  This ceases the transformation and causes Banner to return, seamingly cured.  To Bruce's horror he soon discovers that Dr. Sterns has cloned his blood and has quite a stockpile of it.  Before he can do anything about it though, he is tranked by Ross's black ops team and apprehended.  But...things are not over.  Blonsky want's MORE power and forces Sterns to infuse him with the Hulk's blood, transforming him into the Abomination.  He then starts to wreck havock on the city and calls out the Hulk to fight him.  Banner, not sure if he will still transform, jumps out of the helicopter and hurtles to the ground below.  It seems he isn't going to transform and slams into the pavement, but...he transforms at the last minute.  An epic battle ensues between the two monsters.  Fans of the 'Hulk' video games will like the part where the Hulk weaponizes himself by smashing a police car and uses it's two halves as iron gloves.  Awesome fight scene, with the Hulk finally uttering his famous line "Hulk Smash!!!"  The film ends with the Hulk getting away and the Abomination smashed up pretty good.  The movie closes with us the viewer seeing Dr. Banner trying desperately to keep the Hulk inside with meditation, but eventually failing.  The film concludes with Banner smiling, his eyes turning green...  --Possible 'Thor' Easter Egg--  FYI, there is supposed to be a scene that ties 'Thor' to this film.  Apparently there are posts going around stating that during the end movie fight, if you watch the horizon you'll seen a random bolt of lightning.  This lightning strike is said to be the part where Thor is banished to Earth by Odin.  I can't confirm this, in fact I don't recall seeing anything of the sort when I have watched the movie.  I can only suggest you watch it for yourself.  Maybe I'm missing something.  Thought this was worth mentioning.  --After Credits Clip--  We find General Ross in an army bar getting plastered.  Who walks in?  None other than Tony Stark himself.  There is a brief banter between the two, then Tony mentions that "they" are putting a team together and he wants Ross in on it.  I guess this means that the Avengers want the Hulk.  Kind of an obscure scene.  Still, it shows that the 'Avengers' has been a project years in the making and in development since 'Iron-Man' came out.  Well, the wait is over...  --Casting Choices--  Edward as Bruce Banner was a pretty good decision.  Norton definitely has the chops for acting and rarely disappoints.  I am not sure if he was the PERFECT choice, and evidently wasn't as he was canned.  Mark Ruffalo has just signed a 6 film 'Hulk' deal, so maybe he is much better.  I'll soon see.  Overall Norton gives a good performance.  However he has nothing to do with the Hulk.  Once the CG transformation is over, Norton went to his trailer.  The Hulk was actually voiced by Lou Ferrigno, who did a good job.  Norton however in my opinion is probably better left to projects like 'Fight Club' and 'Primal Fear'.  Liv Tyler as Betty Ross?  Not good at all.  She is in my humble opinion not the best actress.  Although she did alright in 'Lord of the Rings'.  This film however, they should have gone with Olivia Wilde.  Big fan of hers.  William Hurt as General Ross?  Hurt wasn't the worse casting decision, BUT I still prefer Sam Elliot as Ross.  Hurt, while good in films like 'Michael' felt out of place slightly in this film.  Still they could have done worse.  Tim Roth was a good decision at Emil Blonsky/Abomination.  Roth is good in just about anything and can go from dramas to action flicks at the drop of a hat.  I hope we see his Abomination's return in the future.  --Home Releases--  The Hulk was released on DVD and Blu-Ray.  I personally own the 3-Disc edition.  FYI, this "3-Disc" is just the 2-disc edition with a digital copy of the film thrown in.  It's not even in the jacket itself.  If comes in a paper sleeve, and will never fit in the case again after you remove it.  I never installed the digital copy, and actually think the time limits for installation have expired.  I could be wrong...  The biggest plus to buying the Blu-Ray or 2 or 3-Disc DVD are the numerous special features you get.  If you love special features, get at least the 2-disc edition, as the 1-disc is kind of lacking on features.  Or better yet, buy the Blu-Ray edition, it's pretty cheap now.  --In Conclusion--  This is the film we the fans wanted back in 2003 and failed to get.  Thank you Marvel for redoing this film AND doing it correct this time.  Some nice winks in this film at 'Iron-Man' and possibly 'Thor', and yet another hint at the 'Avengers'.  Good stand alone film and prequel to quite possibly the biggest release this summer, the 'Avengers'.  Well, that's my thoughts.  I'll let you know how the 'Avengers' is soon...  --References--  1. 'Incredible Hulk' (Film). 2. Wikipedia.com, for some of the obscure facts I had forgotten...

Friends Season 5 Filling out my collection one season at a time.  I am enjoy watching it.I would recommend it if you liked the tv series.

Feedback. I bought this DVD as a gift for a family member.  We both enjoyed watching Charlie Sheen in this unique sci-fi movie, many years ago!

Good flick. Alot better then the tribe! Have seen the reviews for this movie and have been wanting to see it. We watched the tribe first thinking that there might be info in that movie we'd need to know. All  can say is I'm so happy that this movie worked out better then the crap we call The Lost Boys: The Tribe. Awsome to see the Frog brothers back in action. I wish they were togeather for more of the movie.

Black & White & Blue Just because a film is black & white doesn't mean that it's not worth getting on blu-ray. Like any film that is somewhat older, it has to be restored properly. Case in point. Psycho, The longest day, Casablanca, All about Eve, and this film look awesome on blu-ray. But others such as Young Frankenstien, Mutiny on the Bounty, and King Kong offer no improvement at all over the standard DVD. When I bought Psycho, the scene when Marion first goes to the Bates Motel, you can see every rain drop on her coat sparkle like little diamonds. So don't be afraid to upgrade some of your favorite B & W DVD's to BD. Just make sure that you read some reviews first about the quality. This film, S.L.I.H, Is of course, one of the greatest and the Transfer is quite good.

Fun, thought out re-invention of history Without ruining anything, all I can say is that "Inglourious Basterds" is a tremendous movie, with not only a compelling story but phenomenal attention to cinematic detail. As are most Tarantino films, the movie is beautifully shot, which only helps to augment the narrative. It's hard not to root for the main characters, as they fight against the Nazis. Add an Oscar-winning opening hook performance by Christoph Waltz, and you have a more than worthwhile viewing experience.

A good documentary. It was indeed a learning experience and enjoyable documentary of Phillipe Petite's walk across the two twin towers in N.Y.

Fun retelling of a classic We all know the story.  Snow white, the evil stepmother, dwarves, etc.  This re-telling was sassy, sarcastic and fun.  Updated which is very necessary as original is quite deragatory to many groups.  This snow white finds out things for herself and solves the problem.  I liked the cast, costumes were fabulous, just a fun enjoyable movie.

Good Movie. Well...... More of a good documenmtary. This film follows 2 girls around, ( Its like they are recording themselves.) Some parts of hte movie, should have been left out, but overall it was a good movie. I Wouldn't watch it again, but i dont regret watching it.

soft coreombie is more like it!!! This trio is a mix of Japanese fetish and horror (albeit laughable) genre. Each film is entertaining enough but the Attack Swim Team had some XXXtra sequences I didn't really expect( hint not for the kiddies!)If you like Robogeisha or Tokyo Gore Police this one is right up there. If you're expecting some Romero style shamblers you might want too look elsewhere, but if you want some fun with a sprinkle of wackiness, this is the ticket!

I predict another funny and fun season of "Psych" The fifth season of "Psych" continues to be creative and very funny. Although I've always felt that the mysteries are a bit predictable, it's the fun of hearing Shawn (James Roday) and Gus (Dule Hill) quip their way to their conclusion as to who and why the bad guys (or gals) did what they did.  With the fifth season Shawn's dad (Corbin Bernsen)is brought back to the force part time as a consultant and he isn't going to hire his son's detective agency at the drop of a hat like in the past. Shawn must earn the opportunity again. Shawn also has competition for Juliet (Maggie Lawson)the wealthy "profiler" Declan (Nestor Carbonell from "Lost"). It's another witty, fun season.  The fifth season has a fun parody of "Twin Peaks" entitled "Dual Spires".  The DVD set has a nice looking transfer of the show (although I'm a bit perplexed as to why this show hasn't shown up on Blu-ray yet since it is shot in and transferred to DVD in high def). Colors are strong throughout and detail quite nice.  Special features We get deleted scenes, a gag reel, video/audio commentaries, behind-the-scenes feature commentary.  All sixteen episodes are presented on four discs with english subtitles. Recommended.

A really, really funny movie. One of Sandler's best movie in recent years. Very much like Big Daddy, but funnier. I say B+ "My tolerance level is here, if it goes up to here I'm selling you out and leaving."  Danny (Sandler) has a unique way to meet women, he uses a wedding ring.  After a gorgous woman named Palmer finds out his trick she threatens to leave unless Danny introduces her to his evil soon-to-be ex-wife.  After getting Katherine (Aniston) to go along with it they all end up in Hawaii where things get complicated.  After movies like "Bedtime Stories" and "Click" it seemed like Sandler was starting to move away from what makes him funny. "Grown-ups" was good, but that seemed more like friends having fun then a movie.  This movie is closer to the humor in "Big Daddy" then any other movie he has done recently.  While still a pretty soft PG13 Sandler, this movie is actually very, very funny.  Nowhere near the days of "Happy Gilmore" or "Billy Madison", Sandler is slowly trying to capture his younger days, and with this and "Grown-ups" he is getting close.  The chemistry between Sandler and Aniston is perfect and I would not be surprised to see them in more movies together.  Very, very entertaining and funny.  A good laid back comedy that holds the funny all the way through, unlike movies like "The Dilemma" which is funny, but turns serious at the end.  Overall a very funny movie that will not dissapoint. I give it a B+.  Would I watch again? - Yes, I sure would.  *Also try - Grown-ups & Big Daddy

Intriguing and sad I watched this movie based on a friend's recommendation as well as the fact it had Javier Bardem. He did an excellent job too. Its not your tourist bureau picture of Barcelona for sure. And there's enough little mysteries going on to provide plenty of post film discussion over a cup of coffee and dessert. But it is sad and dire. Be prepared to be in the right frame of mind to take in this film.

Excellent (Limited) Set Of Mel Brooks Movies First off, it appears Amazon clumps all the various formats (VHS, DVD, Bluray) and different collections/selections of available movies included in these sets into this one review section. I am reviewing the 9 CD Blu-ray Collection.  Anyway, for less than $30.00, this is an excellent array of Mel Brooks movies. Since I never owned any of these movies on original DVDs, I am very pleased with this blu-ray selection of movies included. Okay, it's missing a couple of good movies...The Producers in particular, which I understand is due to licensing rights. Still, at about $3.22 a movie, I am happy.  The resolution is at least as good as the original movie(s) or, in most cases, better. The real improvement is in the sound quality when played on a home theater system. We all enjoyed watching these movies again!  Overall, not perfect considering today's standards but, a very nice collection of enhanced Mel Brooks movies. I recommend you laughing again (and again) watching these movies.

PECK IN AN ATYPICAL ROLE One of the earlier cynical Westerns that would go on to influence later films some say. Gregory Peck claimed the film was an attack on McCarthyism. Somewhat interesting camera angles as the director got his working start in Silent Films. Tale focuses on a man who is out to avenge the wrongs done to his wife by four men. Interesting enough twist at the end though not fully milked to its potential. Peck plays a more brutal, heroic role than usual. Based on a novel by Frank O'Rourke. CHARACTERS/DIALOGUE: B to B plus; STORY/PLOTTING: B; REVENGE FOCUSES: B minus to B; OVERALL GRADE: B; WHEN WATCHED: end of October (streamed).

Old but Great First off, it's old and Italian. I did not expect the transfer to be magnificent. With that in mind the review is fairly positive. Its obvious that one can draw comparisons between Django and the Man with No Name. For me that's a plus. I love the old westerns where it stars an amoral anti-hero; not of that over goody-goody hollywood stuff. This is a much more rustic and in my opinion a more realistic portrayal of the wild west. Towns were ruled by gangs of thugs who had more guns than the towns. Django came in a reluctantly saved what was left of the town. I love the film, the look was grainy but this is a low budget Italian classic so please lower your expectations prior to watching.  Enjoy!

Day of the Triffids Review Other than the DVD being delivered to the wrong address, which was NOT the sellers fault, but the USPS' fault, it shipped as agreed, cost as agreed and was packaged very securly. I remember this cheesy movie from my youth and was delighted to spend an hour and a half watching the horrible acting and lame effect. Love it!

Dirty Harry I really enjoyed watching Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry, again.  The only thing I did not like was I was unable to put on subtitles even though it was blu ray.

Slightly above average I give this movie 3.5 stars. Intriguing, but not very original story draws you in. The imagery and cinematography are fantastic and create an ominous atmosphere and a sense of doom. I found Rose to be a horror movie cliche, with her string of moronic decisions. ***SPOILER*** High tailing it to Silent Hill like she is an escaped con. Oh yeah, and I'll drag my young and obviously traumatized daughter with me, but not my husband. What could go wrong?! The way she flees from the police officer for no apparent reason. Smart move mommy. And while she is on a roll, why not drive like a maniac and crash through a fence. You see, then her vehicle gets damaged and she and her child are stranded in Silent Hill, which looks a lot like a war zone and a little like the gates of hell. Sleepwalking daughter does her thing. Now we've got a plot. Shes got to find her daughter! The most believable character was the female police officer. The movie took a silly turn with all the religious zealots and their actions. And from there, it sort of dragged on for me. Ending was good. All in all it was okay. Not that scary.

Romance I think this movie was an excellent move for Zac Efron from the teenager he played in High School Musical to a man's role in The Lucky One. He is a great actor and this movie displays his talent.

Bruce Campbell in Terminal Invasion Hey I just got it, the title I mean. The movie Terminal Invasion takes place in an airport "terminal", man I'm slow I thought it was like terminated. No wonder I watch these kind of movies, there's no thinking involved and yet it blew right by me anyway. Must be something I did back in the 70's.  But I digest, so instead of giving you the play by play rundown on the movie like everyone else that either liked or disliked it let's get to the real subject matter, Bruce Campbell. So unless you've just arrived from a distant planet and I do mean distant to never have heard of Bruce, you pretty well know what to expect. Right?  Anyone else attempting to star in these kind of cheap low budget predictable movies with the sorry special effects and bad scripts would be wasting their time and the $47 dollars along with a coupon for half off a buffet dinner it took to make the flick. But you put in Bruce and he'll save your movie every time or at least break even, I would guess.  I would say,"to make a long story short," but that ship has sailed so I'll just say it's Bruce Campbell and I like his style.  Hey Bruce if you're reading this I've got an idea for another sequel to the EVIL DEAD series. Give me a call and we'll do lunch. Love ya baby, Later.   Goodcat

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Love the Guys I love Miami Vice but it seems as if each season became worse and finally in season five it was time to call it a day! Season One is priceless but nothing else compared to it! I gave it four stars because I love the guys and love them as partners... I love the cast but the plots were just strange at times!

John C. Reilly Rides Again Terri (Jacob Wysocki), is a boy. Normally Terri for males is spelled with a "Y" as opposed to the cutesy "I" for females. This is symbolic of his role as a "victim of circumstance" in this awkward coming of age story. Terri is 15, obese and pathetic. He cares for his uncle who has memory lapses and bad days. Terri goes to school wearing pajamas and has a nemesis (Justin Prentice as Dirty Zach) who picks on him as well as is semi-intimate with a blond girl (Olivia Crocicchia as Heather) in which Terri is interested.  John C. Reilly plays the semi-cool, slightly creepy, misfit school principal Mr. Fitzgerald who takes an interest in Terri's life as he is frequently late for homeroom. Terri quickly realizes that the principal only meets with misfits and is upset he is in that group. We see Terri and Heather's relationship bloom during a very bad music montage. The movie lumbers along slow and steady like Terri. At times I found myself waiting for something to happen that wasn't as boring as real life. Like most Indy movies it relishes in its uncomfortable scenes, substituting real human drama, which we get enough in our own life, for exploding heads on the screen. I admit it, I am shallow and enjoy exploding heads.  If you are a big fan of Indie films and John C. Reilly this is a 5 star must see movie. The characters were unique and realistic. The dialogue flowed but was not abundantly witty or clever. There is a scene where graffiti states "Fitzgerald is a zombie." John C. Reilly played an uncredited "bathroom zombie" in "Zombieland," perhaps an inside indie joke. The movie includes some real life views and philosophy expressed through the understanding John C. Reilly. Good Indie.  F bomb, sex talk,  near sex. No nudity.

better than the original I recently saw the original for the first time and, unfortunately, in this day and age its only redeeming point was Roddy McDowell.  The storyline was re-written for the better and is a fun comedy/horror.  Rather than the vampire action being horrific, the serial killer type prisoner rooms provided the dab of horror for me.  David Tennant's character and his girlfriend, Gina, were hilarious.  It was a great role and they must have enjoyed it as much as the audience did.  To date, this is possibly the best I have seen Colin Farrel as the menacing next door vampire.  Toni Collette is a favorite of mine and I am glad the re-write managed to keep her from being the idiotic mom of the first film while still being the grounded adult of the film.  The young leads were ok but last on my list (same as the first film.)

Great Show/Great Price It's FRIENDS - where have you been...? If you don't know this show, then you probably need to get this set.

we bought a zoo Such a great family movie...i bought this for my step daughter, i think i have watched it just as much as she has!

Pretty good but would only watch once or twice I reserved the film mainly because I wanted to know why people were so hysterical about Idris Elba playing a role that apparently looked nothing like him. By the time I finished the film, I wanted to shake some sense into the people pouting about it. Idris Elba couldn't have been in that film more than five minutes tops and even some of that five minutes he was frozen so that's even worse. Although I'm a pretty big Idris Elba fan and probably wouldn't have seen the film if I didn't know he was in it, the movie turned out to be pretty good.  Loose summary: Thor is incredibly arrogant and next in line to be king but his brother is a bit jealous of that. Thor and the King get into it and Thor loses his powers. Thor travels to Earth to redeem them but finds out he's not the same Thor he was before.  There was nothing super original about the plot, and of course (as with most superhero style films) there was a romantic interest. He also had sidekicks, although I couldn't convince myself the female sidekick was as bad as she tried to look. I was never quite convinced she was right for that role. Something about her was still too model pretty to be hardcore. But I did like the main male lead. I was so amused when he slammed down the cup and demanded another. Super barbarian! I think that actor did a really good job playing the role of Thor.  Would I see the sequel? Eh, maybe. The film was cool, but I don't think I'd want to watch it again.

a documentary about tattooed women and female artists...long overdue! As an tattooer and a woman let me say that I LOVED this! The only reason I didnt give this 5 stars is because it could have been alot longer, and the edits were kinda choppy. Some of the ladies were speaking and they were cut off after a short pause, but I could probably listen to them talk all day long. Interviews with respected and long time artists such as Patty Kelley, Kari Barba, Vyvyn Lazonga and countless other women in the industry, and a couple who are trying to get in. No fluff, no bs, just 100% real deal day in and day out tattooers. And plenty of unapologetic heavily tattooed women, which there arent enough of IMO. I really wish this would become one in a series.

A little over a month later... Yes, this year, the group of people I spent the 4th of July with eventually agreed that this was the right selection for the night.  It was easy enough to rent it after setting up an account with Amazon's Video on Demand service just minutes before.  The picture and sound were pretty satisfying, but as I'm not a superfan of ID4, particulars about just how high-fidelity the picture and sound of the rental copy was will have to be sought in other reviews.  I will say that the image was sharp on the large-screen, high-definition, lcd screen we used to view the movie, and the sound through the 5.1 surround was quite detailed.  Hope that helps.

Good bluray set, check your bluray player I bought this Bluray set as a gift for the holidays. At first it was very disappointing as the person I gave it to reported that the discs didnt play correctly and often skipped past sections of the films making them unwatchable. I did some research and I urge everyone who has had playback issues to look into this, check your model of bluray player and check to make sure you have UPDATED THE FIRMWARE! Issues were on a Samsung BDP-1600 which was running 1.01 firmware, upgrading to the latest 2.19 firmware fixed the playback issues - there is nothing wrong with the discs in this set.

Ecologically MInded Farming A good documentary on sustainable, community and organic farming. Largely anecdotal, it could have presented more data to show the resources required to produce plant and animal food for human and animal consumption. Also, I would have liked to see the impact of industrialized and large scale farming on the environment. One example (amongst thousands) is the almost dead to fish, animal and aquatic plant life of the Sun River. A large tributary whose plume of brown poisoned water flows into a relatively clear Missouri River and eventually into the Mississippi and Gulf; contributing to loss of life for it's thousands of miles journey. The cause: Irrigation and stormwater runoff carrying excess nutrients and chemicals from corn, soybean, hay and wheat fields as well as poorly managed livestock production (manure) into the Sun River.

"Being John Malkovich" was not only ahead of its time, it's a unique and captivating film! Spike Jonze was best known in the early '90s for his music videos.  From Beastie Boys "Sabotage", R.E.M.'s "Parallel" to Bjork's "Volumen", Jonze would get the opportunity to direct his first major film titled "Being John Malkovich", written by Charlie Kaufman ("Eternal Sunshin of the Spotless Mind", "Adaptation", "Syndecdoche, New York").  The film resonated strongly with younger viewers and also receive rave reviews from film critics, "Being John Malkovich" would win over 45 awards and receive over 45 nominations including Academy Award nominations for "Best Director", "Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly For the Screen" and "Best Actress in a Supporting Role" (Catherine Keener).  Championed for its originality, "Being John Malkovich" will now be released on Blu-ray and DVD courtesy of the Criterion Collection in May 2012.  VIDEO & AUDIO:  "Being John Malkovich" is presented in widescreen 1:85:1 and is a new digital transfer.  According to Spike Jonze, this Criterion Collection release "matches what our original print looked like and how we were never able to get that when we put out the DVD before".  With that being said, its important to note that if you want the best video and audio quality of "Being John Malkovich", it's recommended that one purchases the Blu-ray release.  Having owned the original DVD release of "Being John Malkovich", the quality of the film is definitely an upgrade for this Criterion Collection DVD.  There is a bit more clarity and detail but I'm confident that the Blu-ray version will probably feature even better detail and clarity.  As for the picture quality, according to the Criterion Collection, "Being John Malkovich" was supervised by director Spike Jone and cinematographer Lance Acord.  The new digital transfer was created in 4K resolution on a DFT SCANITY film scanner from the original 35mm camera negative.  The datea was then color corrected on a DaVinci Resolve at Company 3, with colorist Stefan Sonnenfeld.  Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, scratches, splices and warps were manually removed using MTI's DRS, while Image Systems' Phoenix was used for small, dirt, grain, jitter, flicker and noise reduction.  As for the audio, the audio is presented in Dolby Digital 5.1. Dialogue is crystal clear and I heard no hiss or any audio problems during my viewing.  While the film is primarily dialogue, there is good use of surround channels during the entry to John Malkovich's head.  Once again, for better audio quality, I recommend going for the Blu-ray version for even better audio clarity and dynamic range on its lossless audio track.  Otherwise, the DVD sounds very good..  According to the Criterion Collection, the 5.1 surround soundtrack was created from the original 6-track magnetic master.  Clicks, pops, etc. were removed using ProTools HD and then translated into foreign languages and redubbed to our original soundtrack master.  Crackle was attenuated using AudioCube's integrated workstation.  English subtitles are presented in English SDH.  SPECIAL FEATURES:  "Being John Malkovich - The Criterion Collection #611" comes with the following special features:    All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set - (33:18) Filmmaker Lance Bangs documented the entire shoot of "Being John Malkovich" back in 1998 and trimmed it down to a half-hour portrait of the atmosphere on the set.   John Malkovich and John Hodgman - (27:49) John Hodgman interviews John Malkovich about the film.   Spike's Photos - (15:28) Made by filmmaker Lance Bangs, Spike Jonze showcases photos he took on the set of "Being John Malkovich".   7 1/2 Floor Orientation - (2:12) The orientation video that Craig Schwartz watched before starting his new job.   "American Arts & Culture" Presents John Horatio Malkovich: "Dance of Despair and Disillusionment" - (4:17) The episode of "American Arts & Culture Presents John Malkovich" that was seen in the film.   An Intimate Portrait of the Art of Puppeteering - (7:20) A featurette by filmmaker Lance Bangs about puppeteering and how it was used in the film.   TV Spots - Featuring four TV spots for "Being John Malkovich: JM Inc., Tunnel, Spithead and Vesselis humanus.   Trailer - (1:55) The original theatrical trailer for "Being John Malkovich".  EXTRAS:    16-Page booklet - "Being John Malkovich" comes with a 16-page booklet with the following essay: "The Original Piece of Wood I Left In Your Head: Spike Jonze in Conversation with Perkus Tooth".  JUDGMENT CALL:  Original and captivating, Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman's "Being John Malkovich" was a film that no one would ever expect to be made into a film, but because of its originality, it has become one of the most groundbreaking films to be released in America within the last 15 years.  Back in May  2000, during my original DVD review of "Being John Malkovich", I often wrote about how original the film was and how Spike Jonze was going to be the next big director in the U.S. because of this film.  There was no doubt that "Being John Malkovich" was a film that would resonate strongly with independent filmmakers, younger audiences and the film critics, but watch the film again in 2012, you also realize how this film was ahead of its time.  In the beginning, "Being John Malkovich" had a banal style of a man who lives a life that is not going all that great, his love for puppeteering is not as welcomed in today's society nor is it a way for him to make a living and there is a sense of disconnection with his wife, who shows more love to her animals (which he could care less of).  And the main character, Craig Schwartz starts to have a sexual attraction to his co-worker.  Once again, seems banal but that's where things take a twist.  Who would ever think of a film where people can enter a tunnel and enter the mind of actor John Malkovich.  And those who experience it literally go through a life-changing experience.  On paper, the explanation of "Being John Malkovich" seems as if it is being penned by someone trippin' on acid, but what he have is a writer striving for originality and a young director at the time who was creative and did thing his way.  Charlie Kaufman is a writer who loves creating original stories and since "Being John Malkovich", he has continued this audacious style through films such as "Synecdoche, New York", "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", "Confessions of a dangerous Mind" and "Adaptation".  And Spike Jonze is a director that knows how to interpret Kaufman's originality with his own.  Jonze is not a product of traditional Hollywood.  He has come from a music video background and is known for his fascinating and cool videos for The Beastie Boys, Bjork, R.E.M., The Chemical Brothers, Weezer and many others.  He is a product of a young, talented filmmakers that are known for creativity and he has shown that in his films such as "Adaptation", "Where the Wild Things Are" but creativity that also goes even farther when he and a group of friends created Dirt Magazine, he owns the Girl skateboard company and the collaboration between Jonez and Kaufman have been successful.  Back to "Being John Malkovich", part of the allure of the film is how people want to experience the life of a celebrity.  And they can see it up front.  It's an invasion of privacy but yet people revel in it.  I don't think Kaufman or Jonze would know how life would change for celebrities with social media, Facebook, Twitter and how information is so readily out there for outlets like TMZ.com and regular people to know what celebrities are thinking and where they are at, almost real time.  There are so many things that made me laugh while watching this film.  From the 7 1/2 floor where Craig works and seeing the ceilings so low, with a crazy orientation video, add in a woman who misunderstands everything that is being said, a crazy boss, a sexy (golddigging) co-worker and a puppeteer who seems normal but yet has some creepy qualities.  And that led to the unexpected nature of how this film was going to play out.  I remember watching this film and thinking of how original this film was but also how exciting it was because it didn't follow banal traditions or storytelling.  And watching it again over a decade later, "Being John Malkovich" is still a wonderful film!  John Cusack did a wonderful job of playing the creep Craig Schwarz and this is probably one of the few films starring Cameron Diaz (and Charlie Sheen) which I actually do like.  But both Catherine Keener and even John Malkovich himself were great in the film and how cool Malkovich was of the film's humor and the use of his persona.  For Keener, her appearance on "Being John Malkovich" would eventually lead the actress to appear in more films by Jonze and Kaufman and for Malkovich, if "Dangerous Liasons" or "Con Air" didn't make audiences know much about the actor, this film surely generated interest in him.  And it was also great to see Octavia Spencer in an earlier, shorter role a decade before she would win awards for her role on "The Help".  As for this new release from the Criterion Collection, eventually the new digital transfer is enticing since the film is on Blu-ray but for the DVD version which I am reviewing, the DVD looks and sounds good and as Jonz said, with the previous DVD's, he wasn't able to get the color to match to the original print, until now.  So, while the Blu-ray release is surely the definitive version to own, those who don't own a Blu-ray player and are fine with DVD, will still enjoy this release from the Criterion Collection.  For those who owned the older DVD, while the majority of the special features are on this new Criterion Collection release, one thing that is new is the conversation between John Malkovich and actor John Hodgman (better known to many as the PC guy in the older Apple Mac commercials).  This interview was much more informative and enjoyable to watch than the older "An Interview with Spike Jonze"  which was not good at all.  But what it comes down to is the new digital transfer and the Criterion Collection giving it a 4K digital transfer is a big deal because this film looks great on DVD and magnificent on Blu-ray.  Overall, if you are a big fan of "Being John Malkovich" or a person who is curious about this film (or Criterion Collector who will buy the film no matter what), this film is a worthy addition to the Criterion Collection and is definitely recommended!

Life finds a way to high definition Jurassic Park (3/5)  I need to get one thing out of the way first - I hate those awful children. Spielberg often makes huge mistakes when casting children in his movies (Hook, the aggravating Henry Thomas), but the JP kids really get on my nerves. He should have done with little Tim and Lex what he did to Alex Kintner in Jaws in have them devoured in torrents of gore. This would have pleased me a great deal.  Sam Neill (one of my favorite actors) plays Alan Grant, a dinosaur expert who is called to a remote Pacific island with his colleague Ellie Sattler and Chaos theorist Ian Malcom (Jeff Goldblum) by excitable billionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) to give a fresh perspective on his new theme park and appease his anxious investors (although why a billionaire would need investors is kind of odd). The theme park turns out to be a dinosaur zoo, but nothing works as it should.  Park computer nerd Dennis Nedry (Peter Griffin in a rare live-action role) shuts down the security in order to smuggle dino embryos to the competition, and with the electric fences switched off the big things with pointy teeth step out into the bits of the park where they're not supposed to be.  Jurassic Park has often been nicknamed "Jaws with Claws". I don't think that's a good description. Where Jaws was a difficult shoot, was organic, and was a huge hit against expectations, Jurassic Park is deliberately designed to be a blockbuster without any of the raw edge that made its big brother so believable. I just can't get excited by a film that was made to sell merchandise.  My favorite aspect of Jurassic Park, is often the most overlooked. Dean Cundey's photography is great, full of darkness and backlights. I just wish that Spielberg allowed him to give the film a harder look as it sometimes has a fake, plastic feel. The CGI, having been rendered just a little shy of 20 years ago, are mostly photo-realistic but there are a few dinos that look incredibly fake (the brontosaurus on the grass plain looks terrible).  When making Jaws, the animatronic shark rarely worked. With nothing much to show on screen Spielberg compensated by giving us lots of shark POV shots, and Williams gave the unseen predator a constant presence with his iconic score. Now, in an age where filmmakers can give us anything with a computer effect (in a way, Spielberg made this trend mainstream with the success of Jurassic Park), the monsters are brought right out into the open, lessening our fear of them. A monster is only scary when it is in the shadows. Bruce the Shark was also an unstoppable force of nature, his random appearance out of nowhere giving him a mythical edge. The dinos in Jurassic Park were designed, within the movie, to entertain kids, and intended, as a movie, to entertain the kids in the audience.  They're not scary.  Jurassic Park is a good film, but it absolutely does not deserve the classic status that pop culture has marked it with.  The Lost World (3.5/5)  I enjoyed The Lost World more than Jurassic Park, it's a darker, bloodier film with a higher body count, and, visually, it's a lot more complex. It's a shame that Dean Cundey didn't return (Spielberg never worked with him again, and hired Janusz Kami'ski this time around) though. The story is almost the same thing done again, but it doesn't have those awful kids in it...much.  Set four years after the Isla Nublar incident, Ian Malcolm is forced by John Hammond to confront the dinos once more on Isla Sorna (or Site B), the place where InGen bred the animals before moving them to Jurassic Park. The InGen board have taken control of the company and prepare to move the dinos to the mainland. But not before 80 minutes of gobbling up the lesser characters. Yes, it's derivative, but it gives us less of what made JP bad, and more of what made it good.  There seems to be a lot of trims and cuts to The Lost World. It doesn't make for any distinct continuity errors but there are some noticeable jumps in the pacing. There have been many complaints that the film is overlong, however I think that it's more exciting than the original. There are some nail-biting scenes (the trailers hanging over the cliff) and the dinos are scarier this time. I love the ending with the T-Rex storming around San Diego.  Again, there have loads of complaints that this ending is over-the-top, which I think is a ridiculous grievance. Action movies build to a big finish and, since JP1 and JP3 had no climax at all, the Lost World has the best ending of the trilogy. There's no theme of mankind playing God this time, just straight-up action, which also seems like a bit of a waste considering Ian Malcolm's cerebral analysis of the situation on Site A. There are some attempts at character arcs, but they fall flat. I really don't care about Pete Postlethwaite suddenly becoming disillusioned after capturing the T-Rex, and they missed the opportunity for Malcolm to tell them 'I told you so' when chaos erupts. And am I the only one who got confused at the fact that the characters of Ludlow and Ajay look virtually identical? Bad casting choices there, man.  Despite all of this, I still think The Lost World is better than the first, even if all the cons negate the pros, it doesn't have those horrible children (apart from 3 minutes at the start).  Jurassic Park III 3/5  Spielberg bailed. He was too busy bringing AI: Artificial Intelligence to the screen. Joe Johnston, a more than capable director himself, stepped in delivered a decent timewaster, but failed to give us anything new and didn't even bother to attempt an epic.  Above and beyond all things, what cripples Jurassic Park 3 the most is the brief running time. The film fades out at the 84-minute mark, which is just unacceptable. The previous films were epics and both clocked in at over 2 hours. Why on earth did Universal take their biggest franchise at the time and cut it down to this? It beggars belief. The film feels like a TV pilot more than it does a cinematic event. But it does manage to cram in more action than the entire of the first film alone within those 84 minutes.  Strange since the budget was $30 million higher than Jurassic Park in 1993. But the effects have improved drastically in that 8 year gap. I was never too keen or impressed with the CGI in the first film. The dinosaurs just didn't look right, but if you dared to criticize the film at the time you would have been shouted down.  A lot of story concepts came and went before they, unimaginatively, settled on a "same again" scenario with yet another extended chase on Isla Sorna. Some of the scenes are even recycled unused sequences that never made the final script edit in the first two. At least they brought back Sam Neill as Alan Grant and had a small role for Laura Dern. William H. Macy provides great support too. It's good to see him do action for a change. And the kid in this one is far, far, far less aggravating than those annoying brats in the original film.  John Williams didn't return, instead leaving the scoring chore Don Davis who made an adequate, if hardly memorable, attempt. All the good stuff is Williams' themes from the other movies. And since he made a few themes for this one I will assume that any noteworthy cues within were actually Williams' contributions, and not Davis', who I have never really liked.  The action IS brilliantly done though, and the Spinosaurus, the new villain is quite scary. But just as it builds up to a big showdown,the film just...stops. What were they thinking? There's no payoff, no defining money shot. It just ends! That is my biggest problem with JP3. The familiar plot, and the lack of originality are forgivable, but rolling the credits at 84 minutes is a joke.  I still recommend it for the action, sound design and effects alone.  The Blu Rays present all 3 films in 1.85:1 1080p with DTS HD-MA 7.1 sound and loads of extras. Most of these are just ported over from the old DVDs, but there are new HD retrospectives included, and they're pretty good. The box itself is a digipak with a slip. The cardboard is very flimsy and cheap. Universal made a great effort all round, but they failed at the packaging. If this bugs you I guess you could fork out more money to buy for the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005YGCSRI">Jurassic Park: Ultimate Trilogy (Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy SteelBook)</a>.

Total Recall I downloaded the 'old' Total Recall so we could watch it then watch the 'new' Total Recall that came out recents. The 1st one is VERY hokey compared to the new one but with Amazon instant vidoe download we were ready to watch in minutes....it was GREAT!!

Didn't want HD I didn't want or need the HD-DVD (in fact, my DVD player won't even read it), but that's not the seller's fault. It was in its packaging and in great condition, as listed.

Very Entertaining Okay, I'm not too good with reviews, but Amazon doesn't allow one to just rate the film (Oh, please Amazon, make that happen like Netflix and IMDb do. Please!) - we have to write something about it, too.  I, frankly, didn't care for the apparent stupidity of Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) in the beginning, and honestly throughout much of this film.  The acting was good, it's just Charlie was a stupid, selfish, inconsiderate, stubborn, self-absorbed ex-boxer who couldn't make it.  It's no wonder to me he was such a loser in the ring - he certainly didn't know how to handle anything in real life.  What really helps Charlie though, is Max, his long abandon son.  One could (should actually!) say Charlie has all the brawn and Max all the smarts.  Max, at 11, is like three times smarter than his dad - must of that he had to have gotten from his mother!  Okay, so I'm being a little to hard on Charlie, but I've seen plenty of dead beat parents in my life, so much so that even watching such a character is almost annoying for me.  Fortunately, Charlie does smarten up. Mostly because his son is modeling very intelligent behavior for such a young one.  Of course, for anyone, it doesn't really matter where our lessons come from; what is important is learning to where we actually change our behavior.  Charlie finally gets it in the last third of the film!  This is one of those films where the child is more the parent because the adult is too busy making his own noise in the world.  Still, the bot fights and the education that Charlie goes through at the hands of Max was very entertaining, especially where Max sticks to his convictions and never wavers on what he thinks is best for himself, his family, and Charlie.

Beautiful CG, Engaging Story, Worth a Watch (if you have questions...feel free and ask) Part of the Appleseed saga of movies, games, manga, and Tv show; "Ex Machina" served as a worthy and spectacular addition to "the family". But of course, first the content stuff...  FOR PARENTS AND OTHER CONCERNED FOLKS... This movie is actually a pretty clean movie. There's no nudity or situations warranting that (I'm sure that should be a clear enough statement). In fact, the clothing is much more conservative in comparison to what some of the characters from the previous CGI Appleseed wore. There are some language issues to take note of. D-word is pretty common in the early 3rd of the movie. B-word is pretty much used about 5 times from an enraged criminal trying to fight his way from arrest. F-word is used once. Violence-wise, it's not as vicious (crushed heads...literally) as the first Appleseed movie...but it's still as action packed and visually artistic as ever. Besides that, there's not much else to worry or be concerned about. Thematically, it's not as deep as the first one, but still some things worth musing and contemplating over. Teenagers and older can enjoy this.  MOVING ON... "Appleseed Ex Machina" is a beautifully rendered film dealing with the issues about the essence of humanity, security, love, and unity. You do not need to be familiar with every "Appleseed" film/manga to enjoy...not even the prequel movie. Though of course, if you are familiar, then you can glean more from it. But, they do make sure to give you good and unobtrusive flashbacks to help you understand details that newcomers to the franchise would miss. In fact, this was my first "Appleseed". The CG is majorly improved from the first one.  In fact, there it is vastly improved on the visual emotions factor...much more believable...if u like animation in general, that alone is captivating. If anime characters could ever exist in the real world, it would be something like this. But the animators, producers, and director do not rely on the vastly improved animation quality to carry it. Instead of focusing the audience towards the amazing wow factor of the CG, they use the graphics to subtly create a very vibrant and living world. They immerse the audience through a futuristic fantasy world that you can't help but fall in love with. From the birthday parties to walking down the street...even minor details in the scenery and social ambience was carefully and lovingly crafted. Also, the English dubs are actually very brilliant and matching to the characters...one of my favorite dubbing jobs. Also, there are tons of action sequences and they aren't just "spun together". They are very well crafted...and a narrative in of itself in some ways. On top of that, it's not only artistic, but strangely believable (even though some things are blatantly not reality).  Story: As far as the story is concerned. It's not as deep as the previous movie. But that does not mean it's no less good. The tale is very cohesive and well thought out. The pacing is good...no moments where you feel like, "get on with it!". Every moment serves a complimentary purpose to the film. Some minor plot twists as well. Also, just like the previous film, it deals with themes. However, I will say that it's execution of them are good, but nothing that will "raise the bar". Still, I loved the overall narrative and the way it was executed...and still good lessons to learn from it. Also, the allusions to Greek mythology really adds so much to it...though subtly.  There are some fun special features as well. They include a documentary about the teaming up of John Woo (a Hong Kong action movie legend) and Shinji Aramaki (an anime power house) for this project, another documentary about the advances in animation & dubbing process that helped bring more life to the film...that was my favorite special (very eye-opening and you garner much more respect for the people who worked on it), and the usual filmmaker's commentary. Good and fun stuff.  ALL IN ALL "Appleseed Ex Machina" is a beautifully rendered film taking place in a very engaging and immersive world. It's not particularly profound, but it's not completely without meat. An excellent lighter experience mixed with good storytelling and vibrant visuals. Definitely worth a shot.

laws of attration to whom it may concern I BELEIVED best that i say it very good movie for men likes our selves distcovers both geners a man and wowmen well funny and well put togather. thanks again for this signing of sammy.

loved it It was in excellent shape and I loved it. It came really fast. I was surpised and pleased at that

3 1/2 stars for some good old fashion moviemaking Most of us have read about dogs that after a distant separation from their human families, find their way back home.  There are also cinematic versions.  I recall "Homeward Bound: An Incredible Journey", and a Lassie film from the 1940's and I think Rin-Tin-Tin; but that might have been TV.  In any case, director Steven Spielberg ups the ante, this time with a horse named Joey.  An English farmer, out of spite for his landlord (David Thewlis), buys a young horse at an auction.  He needed a larger horse for purposes of plowing but was a wee bit tipsy at the time.  The son, Albert (Jeremy Irvine) raises the horse that is unusually smart, strong and sociable.  Eventually, in need of cash, the father (Peter Mullan) sells the horse to a young army officer (Tom Hiddleston) at the dawn of World War I.  Spielberg then sets events in motion that follow Joey and his fellow horse through numerous battles, arduous labor, escapes and engagements with English and German armies and French farmers.  Aided by longtime partner, cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, Spielberg paints a beautiful portrait of landscapes, sunrises and sunsets.  The film does stretch believability at times.  Would a horse volunteer for duty to pull a canon up a hill in place of a fellow horse?  It also would have made more sense to have Germans speak German and French speak French but I guess subtitles over even small sections of film would scare off some audiences.  This is old fashion movie making and even with some bleak battle scenes and animal mistreatment, will attract families.  Sure it's sentimental and even cheesy at times, but it has a strong moral foundation and it ultimately uplifting.

An Examination Of Amateur Movie Making In A Lightweight Spanish Concoction It's hard not to love the idea behind 2003's "Torremolinos 73."  This lightweight Spanish concoction pokes fun at both the amateur adult film market and at the pretensions of Ingmar Bergman imitators.  As a film lover, this seemed a match made in heaven--and while I liked the movie, it lacked an outrageousness (for me) that would have made it a true classic.  While fun and amusing, I rarely found myself laughing out loud.  I wanted to push things a bit further.  The film asks you to identify with its lead couple without really getting too close to them and that was a bit of a disconnect as there was a serious side lurking under the comedy.  Still, when the amateurs start to work on their masterpiece, it's a delightful rip off of Bergman's legacy.

no scratches It has no scratches on the dvd which is awesome. I haven't watched it yet but will soon. My 4.5 year son is happy to c it.

All About Isa The film reminded me of the American classic, "All About Eve"...same set up of the older woman star (Bette Davis) having to deal with a younger, meek, adoring upstart (Anne Baxter).  I didn't see "The Devil Wears Prada" but it sounds like that had a similar dynamic. Here Kristin Scott Thomas plays the devilish one, in a performance that's not as broad as Bette Davis' but which outclasses her in subtleties.  (Is there anything Kristen Scott-Thomas can't do?  She is acts brilliantly, writes, directs, and speaks flawless French! Plus she looks good.)  It also had a shade of similarity to Hitchock films, who would have loved that pale blond, Ludivine Sagnier.  She is very good, too, as Isabelle,  the obsessive, insecure, but very smart young woman who has attached herself to Christine, the star in this French corporation.  I loved the sets--the furniture and costumes, all done in shades of gray.  This obviously tells us something about the heartlessness of this world.  The only time we see a character in a bright color, it's Isabelle, in a bright dress at Christine's party.  Blood?  Well, it's French so the symbolism is there but it's subtle.  The film is smart, I enjoyed the plot twists and turns, especially the final scene with the ambiguous cohort leaving our Isabelle lying flat on her bed.  This isn't a feel-good movie. It's a stylish French head trip.  As another reviewer wrote, it left him smiling, but ironically.

Surprisingly good I'm not usually a fan of Will Ferrell, I think he's too in the realm of 19yr-old guy over-the-top obnoxious toilet humor. But i do love Christmas movies, and I was pleasantly surprised with his portrayal of Buddy the Elf. There is some of his characteristic mannerisms/joke delivery/etc but it's pretty toned down for him. It's a cute movie for the whole family, will help you get into the Christmas spirit, and is a unique diversion from the standards you've watched every year since you were 6. For the price, you can't go wrong. It's light and charming and will make all but the nastiest Scrooge smile.

More Shoddy packaging When I received this DVD I could hear it rattling around in the case, but I thought it had simply become dislodged from the holder.  As it turns out, the part of the case that holds the disc was broken,  While it is often cost prohibitive to return items,I will certainly give this a lot of consideration the next time I get damaged packing.

Powerful and moving This is an intimate story of Buck Brannaman's life and his life's work, helping people deal with their horses in a humane and effective way, and often having a look at their lives too.  I love his droll sense of humour and laid back cowboy style, which conceals a depth of understanding and empathy for the horses and his clients.  Some spectacular shots which couldn't have been planned make for disturbing but effective veiwing.  Small glitch in continuity - watch out for him "shoeing" a barefoot horse!

Good fun-my boys love it! Cute Movie; my 2 boys love it. It is fun for adults as well. As always, Amazon quality and customer service is great.

Great film! But, bonuses leave you unsatisfied... I Love this movie. It is one of my all time favorites! I bought the three disk version because of the bonus features, or what I thought would be anyway. I am a film fanatic, so I love to watch the making of  in order to see what it took to put all of the cinematic magic together. Unfortunately, the making of and featuretts are more of the people introducing each other and being silly, which is great if thats what you are looking for. I was looking for insights into how each shot was put together and filmed, this was explained to a certain degree in some parts, but certainly not up to my expectations, especially for such a phenomenal film. I love the movie, hence the four stars, the case is super cool, and the pictures fun to boot, but the making of( the main reason for why I bought the edition with bonuses) did not live up to expectations.

An Impressive Collection--Almost 90 Hours ! This is another very good idea by Mill Creek Entertainment, putting many different documentary Series on one big DVD set. On this impressive 20-Disc collection you'll find 150 programs, some about World War II and others about the Vietnam War. Chronicling the major battles, the victories and losses and the stories from the brave soldiers on the front-lines during WWII and Vietnam, this epic collection contains almost 90 hours of wartime video footage, newsreels, photographs, interviews and much more. If, like me, you enjoy watching Historical documentaries and learning more about the great wars then this DVD set will be a very good addition to your library. The series you'll find in this Collection are:  -- The Dawn of War ( 3 DVD ) The Dawn of War: The Early Battles of WWII takes viewers to the front lines of the European, the Pacific and the African theatres of the deadliest conflict in human history. Entire hours are devoted to the rise of the Axis powers, the horrific battle over Stalingrad, the diplomatic pleas and military ambushes that would unite the Allies and much more. This compelling 11-part series chronicles the first half of this global military conflict in a masterfully scripted presentation filled with rare and authentic archive footage produced by internationally acclaimed documentarian, Pacific Media.  -- The Fight for Freedom ( 2 DVD ) The Fight For Freedom - The Major Battles of WWII takes viewers to the front lines of the European, the Pacific and the African theatres of the deadliest conflict in human history. 10 episodes are devoted to the great battles that would define the era and the devastating final conclusion that would introduce the world to the terrible possibilities that exist with atomic weaponry. Masterfully scripted and full of authentic footage, this is a collection that must not be missed!  -- War in the Pacific ( 2 DVD ) This amazing documentary chronicles the compelling events that led up to Japan's surprise bombing of the U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and depicts the numerous air, land and sea battles that unfolded from 1942 until the fall of the Japanese empire in 1945. The priceless documentary footage compiled in this collection, sets you squarely in the center of the conflict and reveals the bravery, heroism and sacrifice that was the hallmark of the men and women of our armed forces during their service in World War II.  -- Hitler: The Untold Story ( 3 DVD ) ADOLF HITLER has left an incomparable mark of evil on the pages of history & a horrifying legacy that still haunts millions of people around the world. This captivating documentary collection provides a brutal, honest and untold portrait of the life and events of history's most evil dictator. Chronicling his early years, his life as a corporal in the army, his dark rise to power and all the way through the downfall of the Third Reich, "Hitler - The Untold Story" exposes the terrifying truth throughout 3 poignant programs on 3 DVDs.  -- WWII Remembered ( 2 DVD ) In this fascinating 10-part documentary series, compelling interviews with veterans who fought during the most defining time in the history of the modern world recount personal experiences and provide an extraordinary new perspective on the greatest military struggle the world has ever endured. Rare and, in some cases, previously unseen war footage from archives all over the world have been assembled in this poignant and sometimes harrowing documentary which captures the heart and spirit of the 20th Century's greatest conflict.  -- THAT WAS NAM COLLECTION ( 8 DVD ) Be an eyewitness to the conflict that divided our nation and changed the very fabric of society. This collection of harrowing and compelling footage traces the evolution of this conflict from a regional military engagement to an ever-expanding war that ultimately spanned three U.S. Presidents.  -- That was Nam -- The Story of Vietnam as told by the grunts who served their 365 days in hell. This is the complete story of the air war over the North and the battles for the valleys and Highlands of the South. -- Shadow Warriors -- This is the true story of America's Special Operation warriors in Vietnam... Green Beret, Ranger, SOG Seal, Marine Force Recon. Hear from the men who created a legend and a code that today's Special Ops forces live and die by. These "warriors" will be critical to success in the upcoming conflict. -- Battleground Vietnam -- This series tells the stories of some of America's legendary groups of fighting men who persevered and triumphed in the worst of places and at the worst of times. -- Brothers in Arms -- The Screaming Eagle story as told by the veterans of the 101st. Episode One and Two focus on the 101st in World War Two. Episode Three is titled "In their Father's Foot Steps" is the story of the 101st in Vietnam and includes exclusive home movie footage donated by the men of the 101st. -- Vietnam: America s Conflict -- A harrowing collection of 50 military-produced propaganda films issued throughout the Vietnam conflict. From strategic political move to the immediacy of jungle warfare and the weapons with which the war was waged, Vietnam: America's Conflict captures the sweep of history and the agony of a generation.

Great Dark Comedy for out times This is a great dark comedy that taps into our wishful thoughts when you see  unreal "reality" tv or shock commentators. It is a testimonial of our times where "rude", "loud" or "outrageous" is the way to fame, instead of personality, talent and substance.

Excellent This is an excellent adaptation and would be great for someone who really isn't "into" Shakespeare that much.  The long histrionic monologues are replaced by a voice over of Hamlet's thoughts.  The filming is gorgeous and restorations very nice.  And I liked the way they downplayed Opehlia's madness. I personally find the screaming and singing silly and tedious in the more traditional versions. The actors, sets and costumes are fabulous.  One BIG problem...it is in Russian with subtitles that don't stay up long enough.  I had to keep pausing the film in oreder to read them.  Shakespeare is best listened to and read at the same time.  This was a really big drawback.  Can't give it 5 stars because of that.

An awfully pleasant little surprise "Attack the Block" is a nifty little trifle of a movie with some emotional heft to it thanks to performances by a bunch of new faces and some surprising charm.   Others have criticized some of the protagonists as thugs.  They left out how those characters become more and more well-rounded as the movie goes on,  which is one of the movie's chief charms.   Simply put, the alien invasion is extremely localized and effects the inhabitants of one council estate in south London.  As the characters first discover and fight the aliens,  we learn more about all of them,  and get our pants charmed off us, thanks to the cast of mostly unknowns.  That the movie didn't stick to literal black and white characterization is a bone of contention for some,  because some of the reviews dismissed the characters based on the first five minutes of the film, and ignored the rest of the movie, which served as a kind of atonement as they join forces and change alliances.   I'd characterize it as mostly comedy with a bit of sci fi thrown in for fun,  with some often sharp little observations tossed in sneakily as the movie takes off. "Oh, he's in Ghana, is it? Why can't he help the children of Britain? Not exotic enough? Not going to get a tan?"  You can miss a lot of little details at the movie's breakneck pace,  but on rewatching the film loses none of its freshness.   There's a lot of bad language for people who care about that kind of thing,  and a standout in cast member John Boyega,  who's a real find.  I've seen him in at least one British TV show where he proved his surprisingly layered performance here was no fluke; he knocked that one out of the park as well.  The only real familiar face here is the guy who played Ed in Shaun of the Dead, another comic/horror hybrid that was delightfully novel.    I gave it four stars only because one has to reserve a fifth star for something.

Lost Perfection in the Techno-Verse Overview:  A program created in his own image ...Clu. This movie mirrors the Genesis creation story. In the same way that God created man in his own image and likeness... Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) creates Clu in his own image and likeness. The objective was for Clu to help him to perfect the digital Grid that he made. However, Clu, like man in his own curiosity, rebels against his creator. Here is where the story diverges, in that Clu turns Flynn into a captive of the Grid.  Plot:  Sam Flynn (Garret Hedlund) loses his father at 12 years of age. Now as a young adult, he is a bit deviant. One day a strange text is received by his surrogate father, Alan Bradley (Bruce Boxleitner, who also acts as Tron) on his pager. The message is from Kevin's office, where the line has been disconnected years ago. Based on this message, Sam goes to their old arcade center, where he is then absorbed into the Grid.  Cinematics:  This movie is a digital graphics wonder. The artistic designs are simply breath taking to behold. At times, its hard to believe that all the visuals are mainly computer generated images.  The activities include: an updated versions of the disc game and the light cycle game. Omitted are the tanks and the cone games. The vehicle initiations are excellent, a baton like object is thrown and as the user grabs it, the entire vehicle is quickly rendered out. Simply impressive.  Conclusion:  This film is a must see for all techies and Sci-fi fans, While the plot is not a mind bender, the action sequences are very engaging. Also there is some emotional depth contained in this film. Old TRON fans may want to add this to their collection.

Great family movie! My son wanted this for Christmas but we couldn't find it in time. We were able to get it from Amazon for his birthday at a killer price. I greatly appreciated the fabulous price for a "new release" as well as the fast shipping. As a family, we sat down to watch this movie the day it arrived. It's got everything for a family with young children - comedy (including a bit of rude humor for the kids, or young at heart like my hubby), love, a message (very important in kids movies), and a satisfying ending. Be prepared though (SPOILER ALERT), the ending is NOT for very little children as it is shocking and a bit sad. Though there is a point to the shock and sadness as the movie is wrapped up quite nicely in the epilogue.

Australian Film Noir The Australian film, The Square, is well versed in the long and storied history of film noir.  It takes its basic narrative outline from Gilda, The Postman Always Rings Twice, and Double Indemnity--the kind of films familiar to non-film buffs, even if it is second hand information gathered through parodies and borrowed snippets in other films.  And while the story is nothing new, the film orchestrates each bad decision with such craft that it's hard not to be won over by such a well made film.  Like some of the above films, The Square begins with an illicit tryst.  As the movie begins, Ray and Carla appear to have been carrying on an affair for some time.  There is an age and class difference between the two.  Ray manages a construction site and has slipped into a comfortable upper middle class lifestyle, where Carla, while not poor, is married to a low level gangster.  Ray appears to be about a decade Carla's senior, and while it isn't entirely clear what Ray finds so mundane about his typical middle class existence, I'm sure Carla's age is part of her allure.  The two have been talking about running away together for some months, and an opportunity arises when Carla comes across a duffel bag full of cash hidden in the crawl space of her house.  The two plan to steal the bag, hire someone to burn down the house in order to hide the theft, and then run off together.  The director, Nash Edgarton (brother to the Joel Edgarton, actor and screenwriter), smartly avoids too much exposition.  We don't need to know what problems Ray has been having with his wife, or what it is exactly that Carla's husband, Greg, does that makes it necessary for him to have a coterie of seedy friends, so the filmmakers don't tell us.  The movie is appropriately streamlined.  Obviously, the plan to steal the duffel bag full of money and burn down Carla's house doesn't work as planned, which sets each character against the other.  Part of the appeal of film noir is the manner in which choices veer off into unforeseen consequences.  A major theme of the genre tends to be our own lack of control, how we are often carried along the stream of life and when we attempt to change course we too often encounter eddies and currents that override our intentions.  The Square is a film about the irrevocability of choices.  The Edgarton brothers are mostly known for work in front of the camera than behind it (director Nash has done both acting and stunt work while his brother Joel has started making inroads acting in large Hollywood fare).  But judging by the well crafted nature of The Square, these two should team up more often as a writing and directing team.  Film noir is often the chosen genre for eager young directors who are looking to prove themselves.  There's a reason why Quentin Tarantino, Brian Singer, and, of course, the Cohen Brothers (who would go on to make film noir their own little playground for years to come) started their careers by making taunt film noir thrillers: film noir is the perfect test of a director's skills.  Early film noir established a clear visual style, and since its inception in the mid-forties, the genre has had a sense of formalism about it.  In order to master the genre, you had to first show that you understood how the language of film worked while simultaneously applying your own spin on the themes of love, lust, murder, and the underside of capitalism.  Likewise, Nash Edgarton understands the genre well, and he convinces us that each small decision these characters make, which appear reasonable on their own, could spiral into unthinkable mistakes.  He also tells the story visually, never wasting words when a subtle camera movement will do.  For us outsiders, Australia is often viewed as a rugged desert full of sun hardened men and women.  I can think of fewer settings more suitable to film noir.

Not a great movie but enjoyable and more than it seems at first It's difficult to imagine how on earth anyone raised money to get this movie made, but I'm glad they did. It's not a comedy, it's not a WWII drama, it's an off-beat quirky study of human nature that doesn't have a standard Hollywood central theme, character arcs, or overcoming-adversity motif.  It's a silly sort of film, but contains lots of small moments that are poignant, interesting, and definitely Euro-centric.  If you enjoy movies "just because" but you can manage to live without standard Hollywood cliches, then this is a diverting couple of hours.

Roads To Koktebel was ANOTHER great Art House Film I agree that the pace was slow, but the story was very well drawn out for viewers. I look for films like this because, again, it was more about the disturbing (and somewhat depressing) story than 'the stuff that happens between the special FX'.  Hollywood doesn't seem to make cool movies like this anymore (Except for "The Road")  This wasn't the best film I've seen, but it was a welcome 'Change of pace' film, who's style seems to be disappearing. At least in the US.  Spasibo and Do Svidaniya JS  If anyone is interested, see if you can find (and watch) "Lilya 4-Ever" (or, depending where you look, "Lilja 4-Ever") w/ Oksana Akinshina ...it's a 'sad ...but very real' story

Ridiculous...and fun! The logic (or lack thereof)  in the story of "House on Haunted Hill" is so ILLOGICAL that an eight year old might question the plausibility of the plot points. . It's never explained, for example, why Vincent Price's character has replaced his wife's party guest list with an assembly of strangers, nor why he's volunteered to pay them each $10,000 if they can last the night.  (Spoiler alert) The movie is set up as a haunted house picture and by the end, we realize that not a single thing we've heard or seen was a result of the supernatural (and yet the Pritchard character ends the film by saying "They've got one more now....(turns to camera) Next they'll come for YOU!" as a chorus of ghostly laughter carries us through the fadeout. What ghosts are laughing here? The ones that never existed in the plot til now?  I realize it's silly to pick apart the plot lines of schlocky B-movies. If they had to be logical, the genre could hardly exist. Still, who can resist a chuckle when Vincent Price displays the vat of acid in the cellar (in which a murder was committed--and no one ever drained the vat afterwards!). "You mean there's still acid in there?" says one character. A dead rat is conveniently found and dropped in as a test, splashing everyone's legs and feet in the process. They hardly respond. The rat floats to the surface as pure bones, yet no one who got splashed is burned.  Later on, a human skeleton arises from the vat of acid that turns out to be a string puppet. What kind of string did they find that was acid-resistant? Likewise, Vincent picks up the still-dripping toy skeleton  with his bare hands (after using it to lure his wife to her acid-y death) with nary a burn.  And what about the caretaker's wife, who isn't in on the conspiracy, yet appears in the basement like a witch, mouth open in silent cackle, twisted fingers outstretched, before literally ROLLING OUT THE DOOR on wheels?  Apparently she just wanted to give party guest Nora Manning one more thing to scream about before running out of the room (as the character who gets the brunt of the "haunting", she has plenty of opportunities to scream--and does so non-stop throughout the film).  And of course, there is the matter of an impossibly rigged house with the requisite doors that fly open and shut, lock and unlock by themselves,  a hanging rope with a mind of its own, with the power to snake through a window and coil itself around a screaming ingenue's feet (while she waits patiently for it to do so), and a bevy of other impossibilities never explained at the end.  Then there is the logic of the final plot twist, the "Scooby Doo" explanation for what exactly happened here and why. For people who have not seen the film, I'll refrain from explaining it, suffice to say that it makes absolutely no sense and is the absolute last way anyone would go about trying to accomplish the desired goal.  In addition, everyone seems to have forgotten Vincent's promise to pay them $10,000 in the final scene. Apparently, the writer couldn't think of a reason (other than as a necessary plot device to explain why strangers would agree to spend a night in a haunted house) so they just leave!  The most striking thing about "House on Haunted Hill" is that these gaping holes in the plot hardly matter. In fact, they're part of the fun. This is rather a trademark of schlockmeister William Castle. He knows how to entertain you even as you should be left feeling your intelligence has just been insulted. His films reduce you to a kid in a spook house again, who doesn't question what being spritzed with water on the way out had to do with anything or why a skeleton pops out from behind the mirror for no purpose.  They just enjoy the ride. When you watch a William Castle picture (and I'm a fan of many) you turn your adult mind off for 90 minutes and just giggle as the skeletons pop out from behind the mirrors. You're a kid again. And that can't be all bad, can it?

Griffith Park Nostalgia Make no mistake, this tantalizing minuscule budgeted movie is one of the worst things ever put on film. I will not attempt to match some of the other excellent reviews of this film. However, as a lifelong Los Angeles resident and long time Griffith Park hiker, I marvel every time I walk into that rock quarry cave which is "alive" and "well" as of 2011, and imagine the horrid bubble machine that almost destroyed our planet. Also walking the same hallowed ground that robot monster tramped some 50+ years ago is a trip. The whole area should be designated a national treasure for all future movie buff tourists. The "cave" has seen the likes of "William Shatner" Star Trek, "Broderick Crawford" Highway Patrol, "George Reeves" TV's Superman, and so on.   However, the great irony of this movie is Elmer Bernstein's Robot Monster film score. Just think, he went from composing a film score for what many consider the worst, cheapest film ever made to the legendary Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments", which I regard to this day as one of the greatest film scores ever made. Why Mr. DeMille picked him to do his film score is a story on to itself for another time.

CSI: Saudi Arabia The Kingdom is definitely a great movie. An involved, modern day, sophisticated story; emotionally charged; suspenseful; fast paced and action packed; believable, great acting by great actors....What more can you ask for from a movie in an industry that seems to have forgotten how to deliver a great film?  Fans of the series <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UX6TIO">CSI: Las Vegas</a> will love The Kingdom. A team of FBI agents led by Jamie Foxx is sent to Saudi Arabia to help with the investigation into an attack on a major US oil company's housing compound. The attack kills hundreds of civilian men, women and children, along with FBI agents which makes it personal for Foxx's team.  Foxx and crew struggle with cultural barriers and political red tape to get their job done...and the clock is ticking. They are given 5 days in the country to solve the crime before they will be sent home.  While the acting is believable, once the immediate impact of the movie wears off, you realize that some of the scenes and storyline are a real stretch. There are some death defying car crashes, shootouts that you only survive in a video game and quick ends to those that are in charge of the trouble. Regardless and most importantly, The Kingdom keeps viewers on the edge of their seats and thoroughly entertains from start to finish. Worthy of your view.

Missing the Bite of the First Two Despite not being a teenage girl, I looked forward to this third installment of the Twilight series, primed by watching and enjoying the first two. Eclipse is good; Eclipse is enjoyable; Eclipse is a tasty meal that still leaves one a little hungry for more.  Tastes are subjective, and my preferences tend more toward action and special effects and less toward a prolonged, melodramatic love story. Whom does she choose, Edward or Jacob? Back and forth we go. I wish Bella would smile a little more, even one prolonged bout of smiling, radiant joy would be nice.  As in the other two movies, the effects were good, but more would have been better. My favorite line in the movie is Edward asking whether Jacob owns any shirts. That was funny.  I like the immediate viewing option. Between the two options the immediate one is better. The download to the computer option took longer than I thought it would. So much so that  my impatience propelled me to order the movie a second time choosing the immediate option. What a Potato Head am I !

Money Ball I purchased this movie for my husband. It had nothing to do with Brad Pitt being the main character. It was a really good movie, which was made from the accounts of a true story. I love baseball, as does my husband. We both really enjoyed the movie. My husband even purchased the e-book after viewing the  movie.

The White Stripes go to Canada I was not a White Stripes's fan, but I became more interested in their music after seeing Jack in the movie It Might Get Loud. I love that movie and I found this one very interesting too. Jack is a very clever guy and he is very in love with guitars and rock. The scenes off stage and on stage are very well balanced and I loved the Northern landscapes and atmosphere.

Great Family Adventure Movie Let's face it, there are not many movies the whole family can watch and enjoy.  This movie has just the right amount of humor and action to entertain adults while not freaking out the younger kids.  I've got to admit, I watched this movie once in the theatre and twice at home and enjoyed it each time.  Visually it is also a very well made movie.  Can't say Brendan Fraser is my favorite actor but this was the perfect role for him.

VERY NICE! I've never not liked Drew.  Cute story that most can relate to with the high school experiences and has a great surprise ending.

Ironman2 Response time was excellent.  The DVD does have some bad places that make it jerky.  I will still buy from this seller.

Good movie.awsome quality This is a great movie, my only compaint is that it is JUST the movie, but that is what it is advertised as. I miss the extra features.

All Good Things very enjoyable, like a good book you cant put down, you sit in wonder as to how it will end

"Ambush (1950) ... Robert Taylor ... MGM (2010)" Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) presents "AMBUSH" (1950) (89 min/B&W) -- Starring Robert Taylor, John Hodiak, Arlene Dahl, Don Taylor & Jean Hagen  Directed by Sam Wood  Ward Kinsman (Robert Taylor) is an Indian scout, who with Frank Holly (John McIntire) narrowly escapes from a savage band of Apaches. Arriving at the fort, Ward learns that the Army is about to set out on a recue mission: a young woman has been captured by the same Apache band. Even though he knows it will cost lives Ward agrees to scout for the mission. The woman's sister, Ann Duverall (Arlene Dahl) is also slated to join the rescue group - a situation which complicates matters since Ward has concerns for her safety but he definitely has eyes for her  Ambush is a tight, well-paced western, expertly assembled by veteran director Sam Wood.  From the novel by Luke Short - he also wrote Ramrod (1947), Blood on the Moon (1948), Station West (1948), Coroner Creek (1948), Albuquerque (1948), Ride the Man Down (1952) & Hell's Outpost (1954).  Special footnote: -- This was the last film of director Sam Wood who possibly because of his right wing political views is not as well remembered today as a lot of his contemporaries. He received three nominations for Best Director for Kitty Foyle, Goodbye Mr. Chips and King's Row. He did such other classics as Pride of the Yankees, A Day At the Races, A Night at the Opera and Our Town -- That's a pretty good track record.  BIOS: 1. Sam Wood  [aka: Samuel Grosvenor Wood] - [Director] Date of Birth:  10 July 1883 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Date of Death:  22 September 1949 - Hollywood, California  2. Robert Taylor [aka: Spangler Arlington Brugh] Date of Birth: 5 August 1911 - Filley, Nebraska Date of Death: 8 June 1969 - Santa Monica, California  Mr. Jim's Ratings: Quality of Picture & Sound: 4 Stars Performance: 5 Stars Story & Screenplay: 4 Stars Overall: 4 Stars [Original Music, Cinematography & Film Editing]  Total Time: 89 min on DVD ~ Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ~ (09/14/2010)

Cute Movie I ordered this movie for my 7 year old daughter because I absolutely loved it when it first came out in the 80's.  The DVD is great, however, it is a 80's movie so the graphics are horrible and it is a little cheesy.  My daughter still loved it though.  It was really fun watching a movie with her that I grew up watching.  It makes for great mother daughter time.

Charming Dr. Seuss Story I love Dr. Seuss, and always will. But not having any children, I don't always come into contact with his stories until well after everyone knows everything about them. I remember Horton from when he hatched an egg, but this is the first I've gone to Whoville. (Or is it? Wasn't that also the name of the people from whom the Grinch stole Christmas?)  Jim Carrey does a great job as the voice of Horton, but the real personality is more in the animation than the voice. He's absolutely lovable! He's funny and just a little crazy, but not nearly as crazy as the know-it-all kangaroo who is convinced he is crazy. She believes Horton is a bad influence on the children of the jungle because he's encouraging them to use their imagination. That's why she's pouch-schooling her son.  Whoville is on a tiny speck on a clover and nobody but Horton can hear the Whos. So there's some obvious back and forth about is Horton crazy for believing in the Whos, or is the Mayor of Whoville crazy for believing in Horton? Some funny digs get in there about religion, philosophy, maybe even molecular physics. Also about politics (the way Whoville runs, and also the way the jungle community runs), and all sorts of things. Some are no doubt part of Dr. Seuss' book, but I'm betting that a good bit of it comes from the animators. Especially the brilliant physical jokes. Never simply slapstick, they are nonetheless the sort that would hurt plenty if you weren't a cartoon.  If you have kids, you probably already know the book. Maybe you already know and love this movie. If not, take your earliest opportunity to see it, but be prepared to laugh until you get hiccups.

The Killer Inside Me- My thoughts I really liked this movie. BUT, I had a small discrepancy: When Lou beat the hooker. Go back & watch it again. With the amount of blows she took -in the head mostly- there is No WaY this woman would have survived this attack. Seriously. Without giving away any more stuff, I will just say, the movie was good, but unrealistic in that respect. I probably won't watch it again.

My Blue Ray movies Delivery before the day that it was schedule, very well packaged movie in very good condition, So far I'm not disappointed buying movies on line, specially thought amazon.com, they really take care my orders and their vendor are very good (always check on their reviews), I will continue buying my movies through them. Now about this movie it's not an A+ movie but I love it, I'm fun of sci-fi, action, and adventure movies.

Unpleasant Realities of Our Post-9/11 World Anwar Al-Ibrahimi, an Egyptian-American chemical engineer with a Green Card, is apprehended by the CIA on his return flight from a conference in South Africa. Why? Because his phone records showed that he received cell-phone calls from Rashid Salimi, a well-known terror mastermind.  Al-Ibrahimi has an American wife Isabella (Oscar-winner Reese Witherspoon), pregnant with their second children, and eagerly waiting for him back in their Chicago suburban home. Al-Ibrahimi is whisked away from the Dulles Airport in Washington DC for a CIA interrogation when William Dixon, a CIA official, is killed by a suicide bomber at a "North African" country - which suspiciously looks like Morocco. Douglas Freeman (Jake Gyllenhaal), a CIA analyst who's not fit for covert operations by his own admission, reluctantly steps in to fill the void left from Dixon.  When Al-Ibrahimi does not 'fess up to knowing Rashid Salimi and when he also can't explain how he keeps receiving phone calls from Salimi, he's bundled up and sent back to the "North African" country for the kind of interrogation that would not be allowed under the US laws.  What follows are revolting scenes of torture in a dark leaky dungeon while Isabella tries her best to retrieve her husband through her old flame Alan Smith (Peter Sarsgaard), now a high-ranking Senate staffer. But she hits a wall of silence since CIA chief Corrine Whitman (Meryl Streep) is adamant to "pay the price" and punish the killers of her subordinate. She is a force of nature who does not take any prisoners on the battle field.  An important subplot involves the story of the "Arab" chief on intelligence Abasi Fawal (played with amazing authority by Yigal Naor), his daughter and the Arab kid who loves her but ends up as an anti-government suicide-bomber trying to kill Fawal, the father of his girlfriend.  At the end Douglas Freeman manages to free Anwar Al-Ibrahimi from Fawal's dungeon and sends him back home to his wife, son, and mother. But damage is done both to him and to his wife's sense of what's right and what's wrong in pursuit of the U.S. national security interests.  A thriller that forces us to meditate over a number of unpleasant realities that became a part of our lives in the post-9/11 world. Recommended.

Dune I actually enjoy this movie, my fiancee makes me watch it every time it's on tv so I bought it for him. Unfortunatly I thought it was the extended director's cut when I bought it, which is what he very much wanted, and when we got it...it wasn't. No biggie still enjoyable.

good movie pretty good movie for a free one. Both my wife and i liked it. I never heard of it until I browsed the Amazon prime movies.

So far so good... After reading the other reviews, I decided to take a chance on this portable pole.  I've had this pole now for a month and I'm on it at least 3 times a week.  I've done all types of spins, invert and climbs.  This pole has been very sturdy.  I must admit I have not taken it down and put it back up.  For the price, I think it's a good buy considering other similar poles are double the cost.

Different than I remembered from a Disney childhood.... I like the overall storyline. Stayed closer to the original tale told/read to me as a kid. The Visuals(CG) have been by far the best I have ever seen in any other movie in a longtime.Very Impressive in that sense. Good overall movie.Would recommend.

Loved the book and liked the movie The book was a five star read for me and the movie was pretty darn close. I think the cast was really well chosen and they fit the image I had in my head. I will probably watch this again in the future and I hope that the sequel, Something Blue, is also turned into a film.

A movie I won't forget Visually stunning, depressing, frightening, sad, intense, heart wrenching, sometimes confusing and mesmerizing all describe this movie.  The soundtrack which was primarily from Robert Wagner's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0013TZH0K">Wagner: Tristan und Isolde</a> which is so powerful and dramatic in it's own right, adds to the mood of this movie.  Shaky camera, particularly in the beginning:  annoying, but adds to the mood.  Deep bass, thundering sounds and music soundtrack:  powerful and effective.  Although some reviewers complained it was slow, for me it seemed a lot shorter  than it's actual time of 2 hours and 16 minutes.  It's definitely a deep "artsy" type of movie, so if you don't like that sort of thing you probably won't like this movie.  In the first 6 or 7 minute preview, that moves in slow motion, you get a synopsis of the whole film.  You know what's going to happen before the actual story begins.  The rest of the movie plays out in two parts.  The first part, "Justine", who is played by Kirsten Dunst, shows the bride and her new husband played by Alexander Skarsgard, on their way to their lavish wedding reception at the home of her sister, Clair, played by Charlotte Gainsbourg and brother-in-law, played by Kiefer Sutherland. Justine seems to be in a state of very deep depression, which we know is because of the impending crash of the planet Melancholia into Earth.  What should be a happy affair begins to deteriorate right away, from the ride there in a stretch limo which has problems navigating the winding road to her sister and brother-in-law's mansion.  By the end of the night she's destroyed her marriage and her state of mind has deteriorated even further.  The second part "Clair" shows her sister, who after trying to help Justine to get herself together, begins to fall into a depression of her own.  The planet is getting closer and everyone seems more aware. Interestingly, no one is glued to the TV, watching the 24 hours news stations.  Her husband, John (Kiefer Sutherland) is an amateur astronomer and is convinced that Melancholia is going to bypass the Earth, but come close enough for a splendid view. He is the optimist in this story.  As we watch Clair become more fearful and depressed, Justine seems to accept their fate and becomes more calm and reassures her young nephew, Leo, Clair and John's son.  The movie is heavy with symbolism. Several people have commented on the scene where Justine and her new husband are trying to get the stretch limo up the winding road to their reception. I wonder if the read symbolizes life and it's twists and turns and the limo, people using wealth in an attempt to navigate it and finding that it can cause more problems than expected.  In another scene the sticks representing a cave seemed more than a little strange. Perhaps that tries to show that there is no way to escape death and something as seemingly safe as a cave is no more so than a bunch of sticks?  I guess the whole movie seems to show how different personalities deal with the inevitable and how they are able to live knowing that it will end.

Very Enjoyable I enjoyed everything about this film, not the least of which was the good acting.  The actors were cast well for each role and the script was strong.  I felt that I learned something about Goethe that I didn't previously know, and in a most entertaining way.

if Jesus used his fists This is a moving tale of a man who's fighting style will stand the till the end of time. In a world where honor is not given it's earned, this Ip Man displays this with humility and love for his family and fellow man. THE FIGHTING IS EPIC, AND YOU WOULD BE A FOOL NOT TO SEE THIS MOVIE. It is dubbed which I dislike that's why I didn't give it 5*, however I always take a movie for what it is not what it isn't.  I WILL WATCH THIS AGAIN. (oh i almost cried, you'll know the part when you see it)

Great Period Detail, Suspenseful Third Act, Uneven Tone Although real-life players are either fictionalized or combined for dramatic effect, "Farewell" still paints an emotionally honest picture of Cold War intrigue and the cost of idealism, and treason.  First and foremost this is story well told, and not a documentary-like recounting of historical events.  The performances from leads Canet and Kusterica are particularly moving.  Where the film falters is in tone.  Opportunities for suspense (no spoilers -- but a subway station sequence is an example) are handled in a rather on-the-nose fashion.  And as this is a French production I suppose the temptation to portray all Frenchmen as noble, sophisticated, and wise was too irresistible.  But the portrayal of some of the American players really breaks the verisimilitude -- Reagan's White House becomes something out of "Dr. Strangelove."  Granted the whole idea of mutually destroyed destruction is absurd, but Reagan actually understood the moral vulgarity of the constant threat of nuclear annihilation.  See the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "The Dead Hand" for a recounting of Reagan's visceral reaction to the TV movie "The Day After," for example.)  Had "Farewell" treated all its characters with the same attention to the complexities of human motivation, the film would have made its point in a much more credible way.  Yes, Reagan was forgetful, and yes, he liked cowboy movies, but the history I've read suggests there was actually a lot more nuance in the White House's world view than this film allows.  Kudos for the clever use of clips from "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," however.  And it was the Americans, not the French, who best exploited the Farewell Dossier by planting defective high-tech gear in the Soviet's stolen technology pipeline (including, literally, into a pipeline that ended up exploding in Siberia).  Nevertheless, I highly recommend "Farewell" to fans of spy movies and students of Cold War espionage.  It's a good conversation starter -- and anyone who wants to check out the real story will find even more shades of gray, more darkness in the heart of double agent Vetrov (Gregoriev in the movie), and more tragedy in the Tolkachev character.  For a more accurate portrayal of KGB tradecraft, and a more suspenseful piece of cinema, see Frankenheimer's "The Falcon and the Snowman.")

Justice League Doom An excellent story and animation as well as voice. They finally used the right guy for Green Lantern this time.

Good Movies I particularly like One Special Night and I'm happy to have it.  I wish it had sub-titles as that is helpful to me.

This movie was a Christmas gift I bought this movie as a Christmas gift for a friend who loves this film.  My friend was delighted to receive it and I hope she will also enjoy seeing it again.

Light hearted fun I am a fan of Julia Roberts and it was especially fun to watch her play the villian in this amusing film. Some fun special effects and a really great twist on a well loved fairy tale.

Johnny Depp delivers again I enjoyed this movie.  The subject isn't really something you see too often, at least I haven't.  The character played by Johnny Depp finds himself in a mental hospital.  He goes on to tell his shrink played by Marlon Brando about this woman of amazing beauty.  As Depp is in the mental hospital he has a alarming effect on the female staff.  Depp is very sensitive about questions that Brando makes about his mother.  Depp winds up admitting that he did what he did in order to get some attention.  I would recommend this film.

Not as good as it could have been The characters are great and well acted,especially Jeff Bridges! The movie was condensed and wasn't near long enough to tell the story.

Good movie. Very good interpretation of Othello.  Unfortunately, too explicit for my high school seniors, which was unfortunate since it is presented in a manner to which they could easily relate!

Great movie: a man's perspective This movie was quite a surprise.  While I wouldn't say it's a romantic comedy, it is a romance movie that, like life, is interspersed with happiness and sadness, laughs and cries and also a bit of mystery.  Ryan Reynolds stars as William Hayes, a man who, at the film's beginning, receives divorce papers to sign just before picking up his young daughter from a NYC school.  Long story short, his daughter wants to know why he's getting divorced and, as he's putting her to bed, demands that he tell her the story of how he and her mother (i.e. his soon-to-be ex-wife) met.  He agrees, but says he'll change the names of the women in the story so that she won't know who her mother is (and we won't either).  About 2/3 of the movie takes place as a flashback, with William recounting his involvement with three different women: his college girlfriend; the girlfriend's former roommate, now in NYC; and a copy girl at a campaign HQ for the 1992 Clinton campaign.  William's relationships with these women, however, are interwoven, such that the viewer is never quite sure which woman William will wind up with.  The ending is simultaneously sad, touching, happy and realistically fitting.  Ranks up there with "Notting Hill" (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004GCK6XY">Notting Hill [Blu-ray][Region-Free</a>]) as a great modern romance.  Great writing and solid performances throughout.

an okay zombie b movie this movie was an okay film, typical of a direct to dvd release. Ving rhames was the main reason i bought it. Spoiler alert!! his character  is killed by zombies in a 5 on 1 fight. Too bad cause his character was totally badass. otherwise the video was in excellent condition and played flawlessly. The seller was honest about the condition of the item. Delivery was no problem, had no flaws. Two thumbs one up one down. One up for the buying experience one down for the film makers and screen play writer.

unknown is known for it's suspense and action Liam neelson's unknown. Another big hit! Not his best but this movie is definitley entertaining! Worth the $4 for watching it!

Silly, action-packed and fun! Since the days of King Kong and Gozilla, audiences worldwide have enjoyed watching millions be terrorised on the big screen by giant monsters. In Joon-ho Bong's The Host we have a similar scenario with an unusual monster terrorising locals along the Han River. This quickly became South Korea's most successful box-office hit, promising not just horror but a slice of drama with a rich topping of comedy, but how does it fare as a whole?  The film begins with an American doctor informing his concerned Korean assistant to pour hundreds of bottles of formaldehyde down the sink which eventually drains into the Han River. Two fishermen later find a small but very strange creature in the water which they release without a second thought. Moving to the present we witness a man commit suicide by jumping off a bridge into the Han River but not before spotting something dark in the water. Curious locals soon spot something unusual hanging from the bridge and when it jumps into the river and comes towards them the city is soon being terrorised. Although the creature kills hundreds and leads to the army and emergency services being sent in to deal with it, the primary focus of The Host is on one family. Park Gang-du (Song Kang-ho) runs a riverside shack with his father Hee-bong (Byeon Hee-bong) and the family is left devastated when Gang-du's daughter Hyun-seo (Ko Ah-seong) is seemingly killed by the creature. When she later contacts her father, Gang-du gathers his father and siblings in defying the authorities and leading a perilous mission to rescue Hyun-seo.  That may have sounded quite serious until the latter stages and in many respects this is how The Host works. The creature is your typical, everyday monster, moving fast, devouring people, having a long tongue and growling a lot. Everyone seems helpless as it continues to terrorise the city though Gang-du and an American tourist do their best by hurling whatever they can get their hands on at it! When the American is wounded and later dies it leads to the US insisting they send their own forces to deal with the crisis as the South Korean government clearly has no idea what it's doing. These developments are merely in the background as we live through this disaster with Gang-du and his family. In the aftermath of the creature's first attack the family are reunited at a shelter for survivors and we get an amusing insight into their characters. While Gang-du suffers from chronic bouts of sleepiness, he is still a devoted but flawed father to Hyun-seo. Hee-bong tolerates his son's laziness and defends him against his other two children, both who also have their negative characteristics. Nam-joo (Bae Doona) is an archer that competed at the Olympics but is let down by her hesitation and slow reactions, evident in a brilliant moment when the family make a desperate getaway in a van and Nam-joo is almost left behind as she reacts too slowly and has to be dragged into the van by her brother! Finally there is Nam-il (Park Hae-il) who is a former activist and graduate who has done little with his life and laments the sorry state of South Korea. This seemingly inept family are our heroes for the duration and we are left to rely on them to take down the monster, something they seem far from capable of!  The Host combines humour and drama very well. When Gang-du and his family are first reunited there is much arguing, pushing and shoving, before a group hug and later more pushing which leads to the quartet falling over in a heap. After being detained by the authorities, Gang-du is contacted by his daughter and his family band together to rescue her. Hee-bong ends up using most of his savings to orchestrate the family's escape and to obtain some weapons from what looked like members of the criminal underworld, but these are desperate times so it's perfectly understandable! While Gang-du and his family continue their search the film often switches to Hyun-seo who is trapped in the sewers close to the Han River where the creature brings victim after victim to be left for a grand feast later. Hyun-seo has to pretend to be dead whenever the creature pops back to its lair but all the time she is trying to find a way to escape.  The Host isn't to be taken seriously and it's a lot of fun especially in the grand finale. Gang-du goes into battle with the creature armed with a street sign, Nam-il takes up some Molotov cocktails while Nam-joo is armed with her bow but so slow and hesitant is she that the creature often has time to push her out of the way. You won't know whether to be worried or just amused. Despite the laughs The Host has a surprisingly sad ending which I didn't see coming. There are no fanciful ways of defeating the creature in the end either, no cheap tricks just sheer determination from Gang-du and his family.  As a monster film The Host ticks many of the right boxes for entertainment. This is not a perfect film, it's downright silly in places, and is unlikely to frighten you either given one of its tags as a horror film. However, if you have a sense of humour this is certainly worth considering.

Good though Not First Rate Thoughtful Film Whatever may have been the merits of the novel (which I did not read), this is a film and not to be confused with what one can do with the written word.  This was the response Fred Astaire kept to himself -he says- when the real life person, upon whom one of his films was based, complained that the movie wasn't what she had actually done.) Mostly well acted, pretty well scripted, and within the realm of what most of us, who were not in prisoner of war camps, can accept as real, I think this will involve people for whom war films are not anathema. I admit that I was somewhat confused as to who was whom in a crowd dressed alike, mostly kept in semi-darkness, and pretty much indistinguishable beneath their semi-bearded faces. That gave a certain fuzziness to the characters, which made the ultimate "trial", difficult to follow in its fringes, though not in the central foci of black-white tension and sacrifice of one for others. I think it is worth seein,g though not with expectations of another top POW camp film.

Truman Show This story takes the idea of reality TV to the extreme.  Prescient and well written, acted.  Two thumbs way up!

I love this series, but it's not worth 130.00 for 4 seasons. Who the hell do these ppl think they are charging 130 for 4 season.  I'm sorry but even when friends/scrubs/SG-1 came out at 10 seasons I don't think they were this expensive.  Anyway that being said, great series, good action, great drama, it's not a 5 but damn close.  Acting was very good, plot was kind of the same line as the original series, but they tweaked it a lot with the cyclons it wasn't just about the humans.  I thought they did a pretty good job with the remake.

Mr. Bean's Holiday A wonderfully hilarious family movie.  The only reason I didn't give it a five is because we ran out of popcorn during the movie.  Our 5 and 8 year old also enjoyed it and it is age appropriate.

Not as good as previous Pixar productions but still solid entertainment This movie was a complete surprise when they announce it. While I like the first Cars, I never knew of someone who wanted a sequel for the film. Anyway, Pixar released Cars 2 and while it may not be as good as previous Pixar efforts is still great entertainment.  The plot is fairly simple. Lightning McQueen is now a racing star and is challenged to race in the World Grand Prix. This race takes him and his best friend Mater to different locales such as Tokyo, Porto Corsa and London. Meanwhile, Mater is mistaken as an american spy by british spy Finn McMissile who is trying to stop a complot that is taking place in the race. Of course, Mater being Mater, a lot of funny moments appear but also action, adventure and of course racing. This film is a great action adventure but it fails in character development. My major qualm is that Pixar shift the leads by giving Mater the spotlight. While I like Mater, I like him better in small doses and having him being in the center of everything is somewhat exhausting. Another thing is that all the characters that we knew and love from the first film mostly appear in cameos. On the plus side, the pacing of the film is excellent, Finn McMissile is a great new character, the action sequences are breathtaking and of course the animation is stellar putting all the competitors to shame.  Cars 2 may be the weakest Pixar film to date but is still an enjoyable ride.  Video & Audio Cars 2 continues the excellent trend of Disney of releasing amazing transfers. Cars 2 looks absolutely spectacular in HD. Detail, clarity, contrast and colors are amazing and the picture is completely clean and immaculate. You will be amazed as how good the animation is in this transfer.  Likewise, the 7.1 DTS-HD MA is absolutely bombastic. Clarity and directionality are spot-on. Perfect sound.  Bonus Material: This is a very disappointing part of the disc. This BD only comes with three bonus features: An audio commentary by director John Lasseter that is always fun to hear. The TS short Hawaiian Vacation that is great A new Mater short called Air-Mater that is fun.  A DVD copy is also included  That's it, nothing more is included. If you want more bonus material you'll have to buy the five disc set that adds a BD 3D, a second BD with more bonus features and a Digital Copy. It's a shame that Disney is forcing us to buy a set that includes a disc most of the consumers don't care about or can't reproduce it. This makes me hate 3D a little more than I already do.  Closing Thoughts Cars 2 has some weaknesses but overall is still a solid effort from Pixar. It is not by any means TS3 but is still an enjoyable film. This BD features truly amazing video and sound but the bonus features are lacking. Still this comes Highly Recommended.

begininngs for X Men This story explains many of the questions from previous X-Men movies. If you want to better understand the relationship of characters, this is for you.

Get Low What a great movie.It's a sleeper.Just as good as love song for Bobby Long. It is slow but worth it.One of Duval's best performances

Predictable, yet enjoyable! Archeology, like most sciences, has changed over time.  No longer do all archeologists grab shovel and brush, ready to dig, clean, and interpret.  Some use satellite imagery, ground-penetrating radar, and other remote sensing devices to uncover our history.  Eventually, however, it comes back to the person with the shovel and the brush.  In Opa!, Eric (Matthew Modine), a remote sensing specialist, is searching for "St. John's Cup," a religious artifact that was also sought by his late father on a Greek island.  He partners with one of his father's colleagues, Tierrney (a morbidly obese Richard Griffiths), to discover the Cup, but the location is beneath the island community's favorite taverna, a lively restaurant with music and dancing.  The taverna owner, Katerina (Agni Scott) is a gregarious single mother, and her manager, Spiros (Alki David) is ferociously protective of her.  Katerina and Eric enjoy each other's company.  "Never lie to her," counsels Spiros.  But everyone watching this movie can predict the conflict that will happen as Katerina learns that Eric is behind the plans to destroy her beloved traverna to find St. John's Cup.  Will their relationship survive?  Will the Cup be found?  Will Tierrney ever be able to pay his bar bill?  Does Eric have more than one expression?  Can I go swimming with Katerina?  Regardless of this predictability, I still enjoyed the film.  In both English and Greek, with subtitles.  Opa!

A magnificent performance by Von Sydow A quite good movie, with a truly great performance by Max Von Sydow.  The film itself is overlong, and a bit too crowded with sub-plots that don't get developed enough.  On the other hand, the intricate, specific details of the sad, Dickensian world of this Danish farm in the late 19th century feel real, harsh, and often fascinating.  The young boy playing Pelle is good, but not as great as the role calls for.   But Von Sydow is so subtle, so heartbreaking, so complex that he almost  lifts this into 'great film' territory just by himself.

Alias Season 2 Alias initially appeared on TV at a time when ABC was noticing a decline in viewership. Prior to the release of Alias, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, which had previously been ABC's cash cow, was in decline and ABC had relied too heavily on its popularity. As a result they dropped from their coveted spot of being the most watched network on television. Of course, this could easily have been due to oversaturation as the show played three nights a week and other networks tried to repeat the success causing viewers to tire of game shows. As a result ABC started refocusing on scripted dramas in an effort to regain their place at the top of network television.  While ABC had shows like The Practice, The Drew Carey Show, and Spin City that pulled in moderate ratings they needed something more to boost them back up to their previous standard. JJ Abrams had created a bonafide hit for the WB Television Network with the premier of Felicity. With the first season of Alias he created one of the few ABC shows at the time with near universal critical acclaim. On top of that it garnered fairly decent viewership in the coveted 18-49 demographic and over the first season it averaged 9.7 million viewers. Naturally this led to ABC green-lighting a second season of the show.  ***If you have not seen season 1 of Alias, and don't like spoilers, I recommend that you stop reading now***  Sydney (Jennifer Garner) and her father Jack Bristow (Victor Garber) continue their crusade against SD-6 and its leader Arvin Sloane (Ron Rifkin). They find an unlucky ally when Sydney's presumed dead former KGB agent mother, Irina Derevko (Lena Olin), turns herself in to the CIA offering to help. Meanwhile, Will Tippin (Bradley Cooper) now knows the truth of Sydney and Jack's affiliation with SD-6 and the CIA and must claim that he was the victim of a drug addiction that caused him to make up all the information about SD-6 in order to keep his life. However, he finds a little solace in helping Michael Vaughn (Michael Vartan) in his research, but even that may put his life at risk.  Abrams and his writers really up the ante on the second season of Alias. With the addition of Lena Olin's Derevko and more details about the Alliance of 12 we get more suspense. Derevko's allegiances are never really known to the audience, even when it seems that she may have betrayed her daughter and the CIA. Sloan is fleshed out more than he was previously as we begin to learn more of his motivations and the truth of exactly what he may (or may not) know about what's going on around him. The crew once again does a great job focusing more on characters and relationships and not overpowering the series with gadgets as most spy shows would do. We get quite a bit more of the mythology behind Milo Rambaldi, but even the lore of the Renaissance-era inventor doesn't take precedence over the characters.  Throughout the second season many of the characters, and the actors who portray them, get more of an opportunity to show off their skills where they didn't really get an opportunity to previously. Kevin Weisman's Marshall Flinkman, usually the comedic anchor of the show as SD-6's tech guy, gets the opportunity to go on a mission and participate in a little bit of an action. His part in the season is largely expanded allowing more of a chance to shine in the series. Carl Lumbly, as Marcus Dixon, also gets the opportunity to delve deeper into the emotional core of his character showing that he is more than just a device to drive forward the plot. Merrin Dungey, who plays Sydney's best friend Francie, also has the opportunity to join in the fun of the spy world, but for more on that you have to watch the series.  I really enjoyed the second season of this series, although I lamented the fact that we spent much more time in the spy world than we did in season one. Where in season one we had the opportunity to watch Sydney juggle her home life and college career with her work as a spy, in the second season a large part of that is missing as Francie is now the only member of her inner circle that doesn't know her secret and her college career is all but missing (with the exception of a shot of Sydney in her graduation gown). All in all though this is an exciting action packed second season that almost lives up to the first season.  4/5  Be sure to to check out: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006K7WZ7S">Armadillo & Sands: Intellectual Properties at Work</a>!

TWO STROKE PENALTY Mary (CSI Laura Breckenridge) gets a little toasted one night and happens to impale the local bipolar kindergarten teacher to the front of her vehicle. (I hate it when that happens.) Eventually the guys dies and Mary in a panic drives out to a secluded spot in New Jersey and plants him. She gets scared and makes the mistake of telling her immature boyfriend Rick (Christopher Shand) who seems more interested in scoring than helping her.  Weird things start to happen and the movie feels like a modern version of "The Tell-Tale Heart" until the corpse starts walking around. Interesting horror film. Good job Laura. Worth a view.  F-bombs, no sex, no nudity.

Get Smart in a Smart Edition Get SMart is a good movie. I give it a 3/5. But this edition is great. Altough the Digital Copy expired, it paid of when it came with a lenticular sleeve cover. The price was great and it arrived 2 days after I ordered it. Altought the extended edition wasn't that great it did have some funny scenes. If you are thinking of buying this, go for it.

The Incredible Hulk The Incredible Hulk, not to be confused with the Ang Lee Hulk movie, is in my opinion the superior of the two Hulk movies. Eric Bana is nowhere near the actor Edward Norton is and Sam Elliot is not as menacing as William Hurt is as the General pursuing Banner. The biggest advantage this movies has is the pacing for the two characters Hulk and Banner, the first version spent nearly an hour establishing the backstory before the first "Hulk out" where this one has a much better balance between the two.  The movie is not perfect and those who have no frame of reference are not led as gently into the back story as the other Marvel movies. The actress playing Betty Ross the love interest from the Ang Lee Hulk is also the superior of the two actresses over Liev Tyler in this movie. The final fight sequence is also very CGI and therefore a bit difficult to take seriously. The overall is a good movie that is a VAST improvement over the Ang Lee Hulk but still with room for improvement. This is the Hulk movie tied into the Avengers movie as well even though Mak Ruffalo replaces Edward Norton for that role.

A sleeper movie I saw this in the theater as well as on blu-ray and loved it. The main reason is it depicted their journey and all the agonies they experienced. A part of history fro sure that was entertaining.

Airwolf Season four review Ah, the much maligned fourth season of the cult series Airwolf.  When CBS cancelled the series due to high production costs and low ratings(and possibly Jan Michael-Vincent's alcoholism)the show had a total of 58 episodes.  Not nearly enough for a successful syndication run.  So, following the example of other early-cancelled shows(The 80's Twilight Zone, 80's Alfred Hitchcock Presents) a new, cheaply made season would be filmed in Canada, specifically Vancouver.  These 24 episodes existed merely to bump up the total amount of episodes so Airwolf could be sold to more syndication markets. The belief was a series had to have more than 70 episodes to be aired on second run stations.   The expensive original cast had to go, but Vincent came back for the first episode Blackjack.  Vancouver offered tax breaks that helped keep production cost down.  With the exception of Barry Van Dyke in the lead and the occasional guest star, all the other cast and crew were Canadian. The show was filmed on 35mm film and then transferred to videotape where all the post work was done.  This was a common technique in the 80'. Other shows like Star Trek The Next Generation(the first two seasons), Friday The 13th, The Series, etc were also filmed this way.  It does occasionally give the show a cheaper video-looking quality in comparison to the earlier seasons.   Van Dyke is good in the lead, very much the squared jawed traditional hero.  Geraint Wyn Davies is the joker of the group but has some good dramatic moments too.  He seems to fly the copter more often than the Dyke.  Michele Scarabelli is cute and tough.  Much better than Jean Bruce Scott who was too annoying.  Anthony Sherwood is a fine replacement for Archangel.   The other cast member not returning to this season was Airwolf itself.  The copter had been sold off already so season 4 is loaded with stock footage.  All 24 episodes were filmed in 6 months, a hectic schedule, and in what appeared to be the wettest year of Vancouver's history.   Despite all the limited resources, stock footage, reduced budget, bad weather, this final season of Airwolf is actually not that bad.  Many of the stories are as good as the early seasons and there is a return to the international flair of the first season.  The copter stock footage is reasonably well incorporated and the new cast do their best to put on a good show.  Some of the guest stars are weak but all in all it just seems like everyone tried to make it work.   It sure is nice to finally have this season on DVD.  Universal has done a great job cleaning up the print.  With the film-to-video conversion this was never the prettiest looking show, but the episodes actually look great here.  Colors are bright and sound is acceptable.  Squeezing five shows on one disc is pushing it though.  No extras sadly.  Each single sided disc comes in a thin plastic case that holds two discs and has a printed summary of each episodes.  Hilariously, some of the summaries are completely wrong!

Messed up but action packed. ^^ This movie fits in well with my horror collection. Definitely! This movie even came out three years before I was even born. I'm 21 now and I most certainly got a kick out of it! The main character is such a Bad-A, he's so cool! I recommend this for any horror movie collectors looking for a thrill! ^^

The best of the three I feel The Dark Knight Rises is the best of the three in overall entertainment. The hallmark of this series is its dark, gritty realism, at least as realistic as you can get for a superhero movie. I prefer this approach to the semi-goofy style of the 89-97 series.  Bane's a formidable villain and Anne Hatheway surprisingly plays a good "Catwoman" (I say "surprisingly" only because I thought she has too innocent/sweet of a quality to pull off the role). Also on hand is Marion Cotillard, who's stunning as Miranda Tate, and Joseph Gordon-Levite, who's effective as police officer Blake. Beyond these we get the principal characters/cast of the first two films, minus the Joker and Harvey Dent.  My only beef with this series is that the plots are convoluted and there's an overload of characters, which means you really have to pay attention or you'll get lost in the process. This is never a problem when the story is ultra-compelling, but none of these films are, although The Dark Knight Rises is definitely the most compelling of the three. This factor is what keeps this series from being great, which explains the 4 stars rather than five.  But don't take that the wrong way; I'm just being honest. The The Dark Knight Rises is a quality Batman film.

Old School Story Telling Remember when movie makers used to spend most of their budget on writing and telling a good story, instead of spending all the money on special effects and the remainder on the script?  Super 8 is such a movie.  The plot revolves around a group of kids, a few of whom are dealing with losses in their life.  I don't want to spoil the story so I will stick to what was shown in the trailers.  A late night train crashes.  Precious and unusual cargo was inside the train.  The movie revolves around the mystery of what was in the train and what is the cause for strange happenings in the town.  The kids in this movie are all great actors.  The story is great and full of suspense.  The setting of 1979 is actually very cool (which I did not expect it to be.)  The movie is pg-13 but I was surprised at the language.  It wasn't too brutal, but clearly the language police were lenient with the language in this movie.  Despite the language, the movie is a great one to watch with your family.  I had on the subtitles so maybe I was more aware of the language than I otherwise would have been.  With all the garbage, throw away movies made this year, Super 8 was a nice suprise.

Faith misunderstood... Dont worry im not going to blow anything about the movie here.  It's sad that so many people cant get past the violence! Because of this they miss the point of the movie. They just dont see the story for what it is. In the end it is a beautiful story about faith at its deepest levels.  How is it that I understand this and im not even a religous person?

Welcome back to the wonderful world of Downton Abbey! Season 2 of 'Downton Abbey' does not disappoint!  It's sure good to be back with this lovely cast of characters for more!  Sure, there is some predictability in some of the sub-plots (that's to be expected when the foreshadowing was done so well in Season 1), but there are enough turns and twists to keep the series SO interesting!  And best of all, the storyline of so many of the characters we know and love are brought back for further view: the world of Downton Abbey is so enthralling and captivating, that I know you will love it as I do.  A chance to really delve into the lives of those involved, and a chance for more of their stories to play out: I'm happy to see that the U.S. version is the original U.K. UNEDITED version, and that they are making that clear...the full production is what is wanted here!  I would HIGHLY recommend this follow-up, to a beloved first series: it measures up, and hits the mark enough to satisfy those of us who fell in love with 'Downton Abbey' as a series!  NOTE: This US (UN-EDITED UK version) does include the Christmas Special ~ it is not listed on the packaging, but insert disc 3, and you will find a delightful suprise!

Greed is good, but the Blu-ray presentation isn't It must be interesting to work in the financial world, but it's certainly not a topic that attracts the attention of most moviegoers. Whenever we see stockbrokers depicted on the screen, it appears to be utter chaos. Screens show numbers, people shout and make frantic phone calls, and we discern from their reactions whether they made money or not.  Wall Street overcomes some of the limitations of the subject matter by giving us well-acted characters that we care about. Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) begins the story as a struggling broker who hopes to one day make a phone call that will change his life. Most of his potential clients aren't in a position to do that, but one is.  Gordon Gekko (Douglas) doesn't waste a second of his time when he's working, and he's usually working. After calling for 59 days straight, Bud delivers a box of Cuban cigars on Gekko's birthday and is given five minutes to convince him that he can help the man make money. He doesn't really hold Gekko's attention, but uses a desperate ploy before he is thrown out. Bud's father, Carl (Martin Sheen), works for Bluestar Airlines and has given Bud information about the company which will result in the price of the stock rising. Gekko decides to take a chance and Bud is hired.  It soon becomes clear to Gekko that Bud had inside information. He tells him that he doesn't like to lose and he'll need similar information in the future if he's to keep him around. Bud has a decision to make. Does he try to work ethically and within the law, or take a chance and do what Gekko asks? This is a story of greed and corruption and we see Bud take the latter option. He follows around another investor in an attempt to find out what company the man might be trying to buy. The information is useful to Gekko and he makes a fortune.  Bud's life will never be the same. He's finally on a path that will result in him becoming a major player. He begins spending money on a new apartment and artwork which reflects his success. He also starts a relationship with a woman who would normally have been beyond his reach. We see what money and success can do to a person. Previous relationships are harmed or completely abandoned. His father is an ethical man and is particularly hurt by Bud's actions. Despite warnings from some of his colleagues, Bud ruthlessly pursues success.  Will Bud achieve his dream and stay one step ahead of the law? Can he continue to provide Gekko with enough relevant information? Will he prove his father and work colleagues wrong?  Charlie Sheen is convincing as Bud, but the real highlight of the film is the Oscar-winning performance from Michael Douglas. He exudes power and gives the impression that he doesn't tolerate failure in any form. He's a brilliant public speaker and easily wins the support of companies he's taking over, even if he means to destroy them.  It's very strange seeing images of the twin towers in older films and it's a little sobering to see them here. There are a few other things which date the film and the funniest change has to be the differences in technology. Take a look at the computer screens without laughing or at cell phones the size of a brick.  I always take note when a film holds my interest with subject matter that I usually find boring. Wall Street is one such film and it's a gripping drama.  The Blu-ray presentation is disappointing to say the least. The picture quality is barely adequate and some of the longer shots look like an upconverted DVD. You can normally count on Fox, so maybe it's the fault of the source material?

Light-hearted Look At Lesbian Love I liked this movie although I will admit it is somewhat predictable. What it has going for it is the chemistry between the actresses, the acting,the music, and just the fact that it deals with cultural expectations.  If you are looking for a light-hearted movie that looks at these issues then you won't be dissapointed.

A different perspective on WWII Don't watch this if you want a history lesson, watch it if you want to see some Nazi heads explode!  Quentin really knows how to nod to the Jews, thanks man!

Political correction I found this movie to be halarious and a sad prophecy. As retired military and law enforcement I have experienced the growth of politicl correctness to a point almost as funny. Yes it is an action movie and all the hokey stuff that comes with. Two favorite lines , " We are police officers, We are not trained to deal with this level of violence."  " an evil Mr. Rogers." The real message is in the comedy.  This movie has been one of my favorites for along time.

good movie You have to be kinda twisted to like this movie...I gave it a four star and the quality was very good

It's okay.... I finally got to watch Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I.  While I am an adult, I have always enjoyed the Harry Potter films and taking my niece and nephews to see them.  This one I missed in the theaters.  I am glad I waited for the DVD release.  It mainly showcases the 3 principle actors and is filmed very dark.  It kept my interest, but was just a prequel to the big finale in Part  II.  Frankly, they could have shortened this to an hour and put it with II and shown us the movie as one big send off.  I look forward to the seeing Part II, but may wait for the DVD again.

Great popcorn film! This was one of those films that you watch after a hard day at work. If you are looking for realism, films and nearly all television is the wrong place to look. If you are looking to relax, be entertained, and have a few laughs this is a great choice!  My favorite part of this film is Helen Mirren. Seeing such an elegant and accomplished actress saying 'I kill people daaaling', and soon after in snow fatigues carrying and shooting a sniper rifle (correctly).... and later firing a heavy weapon in a enclosed place (and in an evening dress), is worth buying the DVD!  The only reason I didn't use FIVE stars is because there are a few (very few) parts that were too far fetched, even for this kind of film.... example Bruce Willis calmly stepping out of a car spinning out of control.... I HATE CGI car stunts!  I bought it when it was more expensive, and it was worth it.... now it is a steal!

Solid action flick Bam! Angelie Jolie continues to shine as an action star  - Solid story. A very epic and exclusive approach. It makes you feel like you're part of the movie and training to be an assassin. Very cool  - special effects. Awesome! Nice slow motion, focus, and effects.  - motivation. You'll come out of the movie feeling motivate do make something of your life.

It`s nice to watch something pleasant for a change This is a well crafted movie. My wife and I enjoyed watching it. The human conditions were something most who look for companionship can relate to. Great acting by Emily Blunt and Ewan McGregor. All in all a good movie to relax to and enjoy with your significant other.

Better than I expected The Other Guys with Will Farrell and Mark Wahlberg was a much better movie than I expected. It had some very humerous moments, some horrible acting (but not too much), and was delightfully cheesy. There are many movies in this genre I don't care for. Where I don't believe this movie compares to comedic genius like Blazing Saddles or Monty Pythons Holy Grail, it far out performs most of what were sold as comedy today. Go see the Other Guys you won't be disappointed.

Still Laughing This film, which has sadly not received overall, good reviews is delightful. If you need a film to make your day, this is it.  The  scenes of Venice are beautiful, Johnny Depp does a good job, Angelina Jolie handles the role of the attractive female and the story is an enjoyable puzzle. You will find that the few dollars that you will spend to rent this film is money well spent.

"And I shall expect him to be watching you bend down to retrieve your cigarettes when I kill him ten seconds later." There was always something a bit off about Anthony Perkins. This bump of shady was initially masked by how clean cut and wholesome he was, even if PSYCHO soon pierced that bubble. It turns out, Anthony Perkins makes a solid villain, which is what he plays in FFOLKES. More specifically, he plays an unhinged mastermind who, along with his crooked crew, hijacks two vital oil rigs and a supply ship in the North Sea and threatens to blow them up unless the British government forks over a ransom of 25 million pounds. Nowadays, that amount won't even finance a British royal wedding.  1980's FFOLKES (a.k.a. NORTH SEA HIJACK) falls during Roger Moore's run as James Bond, and Moore must have delighted in skewering his trademark debonair image. He plays the titular character, Rufus Excalibur Ffolkes, a reclusive genius who heads up an elite freelance underwater commando team, the Ffolkes Ffusiliers. A hard-drinking misogynist (he hates women, loves cats) and rude as hell, Ffolkes is a far cry from 007. Roger Moore submits a cantankerous performance. He grows an unruly beard. He and his strenuously trained frogmen just may be Britain's best hope of recovering the oil rigs and saving the supply ship's hostaged crew. This just may be one of the juiciest roles Moore has ever had. Ffolkes even does pettipoint.  James Mason does his James Mason thing, playing a British admiral who gets tapped as a key negotiator... and is it so wrong that I thought them tremendous, those moments in which Roger Moore was simply rude to James Mason? It's also worthwhile keeping an eye on Anthony Perkins' performance. I haven't seen him in a lot of movies, so I can't really gauge his acting ability. But he sure knows how to work up to crazy. It's fun watching his high-strung hijacker lose his cool bit by bit by bit.  Not that I'm saying FFOLKES matches the high caliber of BLACK SUNDAY. But FFOLKES is a watchable thriller in its own right, with most of the action taking place on the high seas (there's even murder by coffee most foul). Disappointingly, the commando sequences come across as pretty tame compared to how much more dynamic this stuff is presented in contemporary action films. The hook, of course, is Roger Moore acting against norm. Don't let the bushy beard fool you. Ffolkes is cool under pressure and a meticulous planner. In fact, he's so obsessed with punctuality that even Phineas Fogg thinks he should lighten up. Moore's curmudgeon disposition provides the humor. It's bloody fantastic how little Ffolkes cares about being politically correct even when in polite company. However, for a champion male chauvinist pig, it's ironic that it's a girl who ends up saving his kiester. And you can't underestimate the sheer humor found in seeing the usually classy Moore walking around in an unbecoming vermilion wet suit. Not at all dashing, Mr. Bond. Which may have been the point.

Amazing performance, decent sound, mediocre video This is a record of an astonishing event. Lifschitz performs both books of the Well-Tempered Clavier from memory in a single day ... and pulls it off brilliantly. What I would give to have seen these concerts!  The other reviewers here offer useful insights into the performance, so I'll concentrate on the audio and video.  The soundtrack is Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo. The mics are close enough to catch plenty of instrumental detail, with some ambiance to give a sense of the space. Aside from the occasional bit of audience noise, it's a respectable recording.  The picture is full-screen 4:3 (rather dated for a 2008 production), and the video quality leaves something to be desired. There's an unflattering magenta cast to everything, especially the artist's face, which looks ghastly. (To be certain, I checked the disc on two TV sets and my computer monitor, and saw the same thing on each.) Sharpness is marginal, and video noise is quite apparent in some shots. I get the impression of old NTSC cameras working under marginal lighting conditions. The compression artifacts that result from squeezing a 4+ hour show onto a single disc don't help.  So this is not a demonstration-quality DVD. Who cares? Buy it anyway for the performance, which is epic and delightful, and for the music, which is transcendent.  Many thanks to the producers for making this performance available. It's a keeper.

Good Buy For Elvis Fans A gift for my wife, but I enjoy Elvis as well. People say Elvis' movies weren't all that great and even he himself didn't seem to like them. His fans did and these two (Spinout/Double Trouble) were a welcome addition to my wife's collection.

Yay! This is a wonderful movie. "House" fans will enjoy this early attempt at an American accent by Hugh Laurie. Jonathan Lipnicki fans will finally understand why this and "Jerry Maguire" are the only major roles he landed. Michael J. Fox fans will adore him as the plucky titular mouse hero. Wonderful, heartwarming story with a cartoon mouse in for good measure. Fun for the whole family...except Grandma Lucy, who's scared of mice.

Atlas Shrugged not perfect, but long overdue I am biased.  Atlas Shrugged (the book) changed the way I look at the world.  No matter how much time and money could have been thrown at this project, it would be impossible to bring all of the nuances slowly crafted in the book to life in the movie.  I am hoping that parts 2 and 3 will be completed on time.  Without knowing what is coming, the movie would be a disappointment.  Knowing what is to come, I can't wait for part 2.  Knowing how difficult it was to get this movie to production, I was amazed at the quality.  The leap of faith you have to take to set it in the future instead of the past makes it less believable.  Overall, very satisfied with the interpretation and the overall feel of the movie.  Acted well enough, some details were rushed.  Can't wait for part 2.

Combat full season I received the disks as advertised.  So far they all work, the last disk for the first season had some stuttering and pixelization, but all in all the copying of the video seems to be very good and the sound pretty good too.  The extras are nice, but nothing to write home about.  I haven't had a chance to watch the voice overs yet, I hope that they prove to be interesting.  All in all, I am happy with the purchase and I feel that it was worth what I paid for the product.

RR:Wall Street Cowboy I enjoyed this movie and am sure that everyone else that likes Roy Rogers as much as I do.  This is a must-have for all fans.  I, Ella Lumley purchased this dvd from Amazon.com., very reasonable and fast.

Revisiting Childhood Pleasures I remember seeing this movie when I was a child and finding it captured my imagination. Because of this,I have the book Emil and the Detectives by Erik Kastner,and even did a stint as a Disney Movie Club member and now Netflix too. But I didn't find Emil and the Detectives through either of these two usually reliable means.  I like old movies and wanted to share imaginative,endearing, and even enlightening types with my children and now my grands. The quality of this movie is fine for an aging VHS.  It arrived promptly and well packaged. It plays without problem.  I even roped my husband, who takes entirely different walks-down-memory lane than I, into watching it with me. The story of rambunctious and neighborhood-sauvy young boys, uniting to find a fellow youth's money, which, of course, leads to the thwarting of international gangsters, was as enjoyable as I remembered it, and more glamorous than the Kastner novel.  I recommend getting your memory banks paid into through Amazon any day.  This really brought me pleasure and I intend to indulge myself this way again soon.

Nice surpirse... I've been looking forward to this Blu-ray release for a long time now.  This is one of those guilty pleasure movies that one loves regardless of how bad it is.  This is the perfect movie to watch on the couch on a late Saturday night.  I was pleasantly surprised at how good the video quality was on this disc.  The sound was decent.  I would recommend this product to any Chuck Norris fan.

Totally fun and sexy! If your looking for something fun and on the easy side, this is great. Its definitely sexy, especially the burlesque-- my favorite. Robin Antin is really nice and gets you to loosen up. Its exactly what you expect from the cover, so do not think its some 5 star tough workout. Its more for fun and to get you moving. But there are a few routines and definitely enough time to get in some exercise. If you like this you would probably enjoy carmen electra's striptease workout.

BLACK SWAN GETS INSIDE YOU The greatness of Black Swan lies in its power to evoke. This review is sort of about all the other reviews. Like a flawed gemstone, what you see depends upon what facet you look at. Reviews that love Black Swan or hate it show the reviewers often going through a process of struggle to come to grips with Black Swan and express their judgments. Director Darren Aronofsky drives a stiletto into your mind with his vast store of cinematic tricks; your reaction may be negative. Deciding what is reality puts your mind in an uproar. Because of the constant close camera work on Natalie Portman, I felt the film was emotionally grueling while visually enthralling. The ending is a head-spinner. How well you can tolerate ambiguity, disturbing images, multiple themes, and so on, will determine whether you like it or not. Overall, I thought Black Swan was a difficult, but compelling experience.  The film rests mainly on the phenomenal artistic control displayed by Natalie Portman. Her gradual slide from White Swan to Black is a tremendous acting achievement. Her physical effort in the role of Nina is reminiscent of Robert DeNiro's "Raging Bull". Her performance draws strength from a superb supporting cast headed by Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder, and Mila Kunis. Others have discussed technical aspects of Black Swan better than I can.  Before I say what I think Black Swan is about, let me say that Black Swan operates on many levels at once. You can say it's art house porn and be correct, and say it is a meditation on the pursuit of perfection and also be correct. Here the film's ambiguity wraps itself around you and starts to squeeze.   Black Swan is encoded with all sorts of symbols and images (particularly mirrors) you may pick up on. Some are blatantly, crudely obvious, like the winged tattoo on rival Lily's back (Mila Kunis). Others, like the rave scene in the nightclub, are not apparent unless you stop-frame the sequence and see just what is spilling out of Nina's psyche. Things Lily says to Nina are often prophetic.  The opening dance/dream sequence defines Nina's baseline mental state: virginal innocence that flees from sexuality by transforming into a safe, pure White Swan. Compare that sequence with dance director Thomas' (Vincent Cassel) sexually harassing Nina later on to get Nina to express passion in her dancing, and you get a sense that there is a lot of sophisticated overlapping going on between Nina's mental state and the Swan Lake storyline.  When Nina finishes performing the Black Swan coda in the film's finale, we see two enormous winged shadows behind her as she basks in triumph before a wild audience. This suggests maybe she has reached some sort of spiritual equilibrium between her light and dark side while also being totally insane. Other clues are in her name: 'Nina" means 'little girl' in Spanish, as other reviewers have noted. Also, 'Nina' could be a nod to prima ballerina Nina Ananiashvili, as perfect a ballerina as there ever was. When Nina goes to work, in the film's beginning, she is wrapped in feathery, downy neck warmers. The film is rich with possible clues to completing the Nina puzzle.  Okay, so what is Black Swan really about? It's about a 'chick' desperately trying to break out of her shell so she can flap her wings and leave her mother's nest. Remember, Black Swan is a flawed gem. Turn it another way you will see something else.

Horrible and yet entertaining "Don't Stop Believin'" has been the motto for the cast members of Glee and their characters for three seasons now. Glee is an extremely peppy and upbeat musical comedy following the students of McKinley High School who are members of the show choir, New Directions. With an interesting mix of jocks, cripples, goths, populars, and one large version of Tinkerbell, the students never make it easy for their protective director, Will Schuester, who is reliving his old glory days vicariously through his students. Along with an unconcerned principal, a germaphobic guidance counselor, and an androgynous cheerleading coach determined to run the glee club into the ground, life is never boring for these kids in small town Ohio. Glee first aired in May of 2009 on Fox Network and is preparing to air their fourth season in September 2012. Glee was created in 2005 by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan and was originally written to be a movie based off of Ian Brennan's own high school show choir experiences. Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk have also worked on American Horror Story and Nip/Tuck together. Ryan has also written for Popular on the Warner Brothers Television Network. In my opinion, I find it pretty hilarious that two of the three writers and creators of Glee also helped write American Horror Story and Nip/Tuck. These three shows just do not seem like they fit in same category. I must warn you, this show is highly addictive. I, myself, have bashed, ragged on, and said every mean thing I could possibly think of to say about this overly perky, sorry excuse for a musical show. All of this was before I watched it. I was recently conned into watching the pilot of this show and was hooked. Glee is over-the-top, obnoxious, hyper, and wrongfully portrays high school in almost every aspect, but you can't deny the humor and amazing vocal talent showcased in every episode. Glee has reinvented oldies hits as well as top forties today. No matter what genre or dance number they pair with each song, I always find myself singing along and tapping my foot. Besides all the musicality, my favorite thing about this show is all the hair jokes. Will Schuester, choir director, has beautifully coiffed, curly hair that Sue Sylvester, Will's arch nemisis, constantly cracks witty briar patch and product jokes that always have me crying or rolling on the floor hugging my sides. As I mentioned above, Glee is a horrible excuse for a high school comedy. I personally find it ridiculous that almost every cast member that is portraying a sixteen-year-old high school sophomore is actually twenty-five years or older. No wonder we all have such a warped perception of ourselves. I would highly recommend this show for anyone who loves music. I am aware that that is a very broad generalization, but it's true. This show performs everything from GaGa to Kiss.

Fatal Attraction, 1940s Style Ya, a woman can get under your skin, no question, no question at all, in 1940 or 2010 makes no difference. Now two guys tugging away is an even tougher story, especially  when the dame is a heartless femme fatale like Barbara Stanwyck who plays the woman under their skins in the title of this crime noir, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers. Now Barbara Stanwyck was never my beaux ideal of a femme fatale, I run more to the Rita Hayworth hot-blooded Gilda-types (with that strand of hair over the eyes) but I could see where guys, normally sensible guys, would be running through hoops in order to win her favors. And she would give them the "kiss of death," that hard-hearted kiss of death mentioned above. Take no prisoners, none.  A little plot line of the story goes a long way to figuring out those charms, those decidely not girlish, not 1940s girlish anyway, charms. Rebellious Martha, an orphan being brought up to be a lady by an old-school rich aunt wants none of it and keeps running away, aided and abetted by ragamuffin, wrong side of the tracks Sam, played by Van Heflin. As the film opens she is being brought back after one such caper, scolded by her aunt assisted by Kirk Douglas's father, Martha's tutor (Douglas plays Walter, the other love interest in this dance of death combination). When dear cruel auntie (played by Judith Andersen, who knew how to play that kind of role to a tee) tries to confront Martha just as she is getting ready to fly the coop again with Sam, with Walter swore to secrecy, she just happens to fall down the long flight of stairs. After less than one shedded tear the trio (Martha, Walter, and his dear old money-grubbing dad) work up a story and stick to it, stick to it to well because to make it stick ultimately  they have some unnamed vagabond lug eventually go the the chair for their misdeed. Meanwhile Sam, figuring that Martha has gotten cold feet, blows town on the next train out, a circus train.  Fast forward eighteen years. Sam, passing through town, decides to see what has happened since he blew town. Well Martha and Walter have gotten loveless married (loveless on her part, naturally) to seal their part of the pact with death, Walter for crazed-out love, Martha to keep him on a leash. Martha who turns out to be a pretty good businesswoman basically runs the town now. But here is the kicker, guilt-ridden about how they obtained their ill-gotten gains our blessed married couple think Sam is here for a shake-down thinking he saw what happened that long ago night when auntie went crashing down the stairs. Of course Sam had no idea of the sort until things start to unravel around his new-found girlfriend, sweet, husky voiced Lizabeth Scott who has her own troubles with the law. The long and short of it is that Martha is still carrying the torch for Samn, Walter is getting more drunken crazy for Martha and sweet hard-luck Liz looks to be holding an empty bag when Martha puts her whammy on Sam.  There can be no happy ending here, right? Well, right but only part right. This murder most foul has put a death grip on Martha and Walter, a death grip that is triggered by Sam's reappearance but also that nasty little deal of creating a fall guy for their misdeeds. So you know, know just as well as I do that the fates are against them. As for Sam and Liz, well they get out with the skin of their teeth but they get out. Once again, you know the routine, crime doesn't pay, one way of the other it eats away at you. Got it.

Scre4m 10x better than the Scream3. Identity of the killers very surprising. Old school teams up with the new school class.

really interesting look at a world that sometimes doesn't seem so far off. The action sequences are, of course, over the top, but there is a certain psychological plausibility surrounding the story line.

Great set, DVD navigation is HORRIBLE! I loved watching the Game of Thrones on HBO.  I think it is a great series, excellent production values, and great acting. Definitely worth a watch, especially on a format where you can instantly re-watch an episode.  A lot of the inner plot points (and character names) are hard to figure out on first watch.  The menu navigation is HORRIBLE.  First, why would you need 5 discs for 10 hours of show?  Even with another 10 hours of extra features (which there isn't) you wouldn't need 5 discs..the startup time takes forever.  No wonder people find alternative ways to watch things.

Harry Potter Half blood prince DVD We received the DVD, it was damaged with a indent in the actual disc.  At first it looked like we were going to return it since it would not play in our players.  I attempted to take out the in-dent in the disc as it was located near the center hole and not on the DVD content area.  So far it has worked, but I am still considering returning for a replacement since it was damaged when we opened it Christmas morning.

start a job Agora eu desejo que eu não tinha.  A T-shirt do interior &eacute; muito fina e não a todos uma XL como ele afirma na etiqueta. Se fosse um XL, eu vesti-la com orgulho. Como &eacute;, minha mulher pode us&aacute;-lo. (Que tipo de material &eacute; esse, afinal? - Gossamer)  Mas uma vez que a T-shirt &eacute; removida ...  &Eacute; a&iacute; que o problema com a embalagem vem no jogo.  A T-shirt &eacute; o que segurou o DVD e os extras na caixa, que &eacute; um cartão muito fina para começar. Tire a t-shirt e você tem um grande espaço na caixa. Quando você coloca o DVD de volta, eles guizo em torno da caixa.  Se você lev&aacute;-los para fora da caixa, eles são embalados na sua pr&oacute;pria manga pouco, mas o cartão da manga &eacute; muito fina, tamb&eacute;m. Se fosse um pesado estojo de papelão-like, que estaria tudo bem. Mas não &eacute;. Ele mal se levanta por si pr&oacute;prio. By the way, um item na manga &eacute; o 2-DVD. O outro item na manga det&eacute;m os materiais de b&oacute;nus. Mas, juntos, eles são apenas 1-1/4 "de profundidade. A caixa &eacute; 2" de profundidade. A T-shirt pegou os restantes 3 / 4 "para tornar a caixa cheia.  Então, ok, menos o T-shirt e apesar do papelão muito fina, o que nos resta? Quais são os materiais de b&oacute;nus?  Novamente, não h&aacute; grande coisa. Existem in&uacute;meros postais (mais imagens são borradas e estranhamente cortada) e itens promocionais do filme, mais um par de outras peças de papelão colorido destinado a aparência bilhetes. Grande coisa. Interessante, talvez at&eacute; esfriar. Mas vale mais US $ 10 - $ 20 sobre o preço dos 2 DVDs por si mesmo? Você &eacute; o juiz.  Então, ok, menos o T-Shirt, apesar do papelão muito fina, e para al&eacute;m da variedade de postais transit&aacute;veis e itens promocionais para o filme, que est&aacute; na caixa?  Quando tudo estiver dito e feito, o que est&aacute; realmente na caixa que me preocupa &eacute; o 2-DVDs remasterizados da The Song Remains the Same concerto (&eacute; um DVD do concerto, o DVD &eacute; outro material bônus) - que, passado vez que eu olhava, tinha apenas $ 13,99 na Amazon. Assim, o filme Zep não s&oacute; custa menos, mas o padrão de 2 DVDs remasterizados da The Song Remains the Same &eacute; uma caixa de DVD tradicional. Em outras palavras, &eacute; resistente. Ela vai estar na sua prateleira sem cair, ser esmagado, ou arrastados para cima. E para assisti-lo, você não tem que puxar para al&eacute;m de uma caixa, fumble ao redor do estojo, extra&iacute;-lo, e depois tentar recuper&aacute;-lo quando você estiver pronto - tudo sem prejudicar ainda mais o cartão. Soa como uma proposta perdedora para mim.  Em suma, embora a versão remasterizada The Song Remains the Same filme &eacute; excelente (eo conjunto de 2 CDs de &aacute;udio &eacute; impressionante!), A edição deste Collector's DVD conjunto &eacute; fr&aacute;gil, não ser bem pensado e surpreendentemente espetacular. Eu não recebi o "Uau!" fator quando eu abri a caixa. Eu tenho o "Gee? Agora o que eu faço com essas peças, agora que a T-shirt (que serviu como um espaçador na caixa) &eacute; removido?" fator.  Eu digo poupar o seu dinheiro no presente Collector's Edition DVD. Compre o DVD remasterizado 2-set de The Song Remains the Same vez. Você vai conseguir o que &eacute; realmente importante e você vai evitar a dor de cabeça tentando descobrir como armazenar cuidadosamente "bônus" itens sem danific&aacute;-los. OuvirLer foneticamente  Dicion&aacute;rio - Ver dicion&aacute;rio detalhado

A man pushed to his limit will do anything for his family.  Very entertaining and tense. Great action thriller. I say A- How far would you go for someone you love?  After his wife (Banks) is convicted of murder John Brennan (Crowe) comes up with a plan to get her out.  It's hard to go into too much detail about what the movie is about with out giving something away, but this is a very tense, edge of your seat thriller.  It starts off a little slow, but once John's plan is put into action it becomes a very fast paced action movie that you won't be able to stop watching.  Much like he did in "Crash" the director (Paul Haggis) is great at dragging out a 5 sec scenario that makes you second guess yourself three and four times before the result is shown.  That makes for a very fun film to watch.  This is an excellent action-thriller (that's saying alot since I'm not a Russel Crowe fan at all) that will not let you down.  Rent it! I give it an A-.  Would I watch again? - Yes I would, but also like "Crash" it's not one you can watch over and over and have the same effect.

Jaws on Blu-Ray This is a great copy - an excellent reproduction onto Blu-Ray.  Movie is of course awesome and for fans, I would recommend picking up this copy.

Amazing quality and digital copy! Poor Extras Tihs is my all time favorite movie trilogy and I was ecstatic when it was released on DVD.  PROS:I am very happy with the quality of this Blu ray. As you may understand, this quality didnt exist when the movie was released. A studio had to remaster the video and sound of this movie frame by frame. This is a very tough job, and tougher to do it this well. From the moment I hit play, it was like I was watching the movie for the first time. (Ok maybe not the FIRST time but close enough). Digital copy is a heaven sent plus. I love digital copies. The quality is better than a lot of the digital copies I own.  CONS: When you enjoy a movie like this much you like to view the extras. Some of these extras seem to be unprofessionally short and unedited. Some features, from the moment you hit play to the moment youre back in the menu only about a minute passes. Some features have no narration and just makes you feel short changed. It feels like they put all their resourced in making the movie look great and then ran out of $ to make decent extras. This is the reason I did not give it 5 stars.  Overall I think this is a great Blu Ray trilogy and would recommend it to anyone.

Fun. Interesting. Good ending. Could have used some improvement. This film is entertaining...excitement, adventure, intrigue. Some parts could have been improved, but overall a good movie. Worth watching. The ending is satisfying.

Beautiful arm moves from a beautful dancer but no practice or combos Lovely dancer, Bozenka. She has incredible form and grace, a fantastic posture, and an even more fantastic figure making it all look great.  In this DVD, from the Bellydance Superstars label, Bozenka takes you through bellydance arm work basics. You can see from her every move that she has something other dancers don't. Perfect, perfect form. If you haven't done your arm basics, this is the right person to learn them from. If you've been dancing a long time but think arms are your weak point, go back and work on them with Bozenka. Even watching the video many many times will make a difference, as the image of her flowing so very elegantly through the arm work imprints itself into your brain. In fact, I really think watching will be just about as important as dancing along. A good idea would be to combine these arm basics with something that works on arm strengthening, even a regular upper body sculpting and strength training video. Or go do push-ups. On the other hand, if you he work enough with practicing the basic positions on this video, it will also make a difference. The whole lot done together would be quite a workout.  After a few minutes on an arm warm up and posture setting, Bozenka explains the basic arm positions, briefly, but neatly. From here on, there's chapter after little chapter of separate arm paths, each lasting barely a minute, but together making up a good collection. We have the usual snake arms, sunrise and sunset arms, sweeps, "seagrass" Persian and other moves, some of them not readily found on other DVDs. The sections are overly broken up, with a slight increase in difficulty or a variation of alternating arms getting a fresh chapter of its own. Going by the menu then, it looks like you have some fifty moves. There's a summary after every few sections and it's wholly unnecessary as Bozenka just demonstrates the moves to music without speaking. There's no additional takeaways and the individual chapters are in any case far too short to require a summary. It almost seems like the video was structured to inflate the menu. If the moves weren't done so well, I'd be rather ticked off.  The instructional style is all voice-over and we don't have Bozenka "interacting" or relating to the learner. I'm afraid she seemed as mesmerized by herself as I was by her. There are absolutely no practice sessions and no other moves on which the arm work is layered. So, you learn them in isolation and have to figure out the appropriate moves to use them with. Although transitions are mentioned, they aren't really explained or demonstrated. Take "seagrass" arms, for example. It's a move where you slightly sweep your arm behind the head and corkscrew it up. You can use alternating arms. But what other than a shimmy, I can't figure out what move it should go with. I also can't figure out what you do with one arm while the other is active and how you flow into the move in the first place. These things would have been clear if we had some practice combos. Of course, the DVD is already 73 minutes long, so I can't imagine what would happen if more were to be added, but well, raise the price and give what's needed either on a longer video or a two-disk set.  The music is a bit of a disappointment. It's the same throughout the whole DVD and it isn't what I'd call arm-friendly. It's almost synthetic. There are so many pretty pieces of music that could have gone so well with these beautiful movies demonstrated by such a beautiful woman. But mostly you may find you're too absorbed with the moves to notice the music. Would have been nice if it had helped though. No harm in that.  The performance at the end is filled with arm work and this is the one place you do get to see what the moves look like in dance. The song, Yearning, is a favorite of mine.  If Bozenka had done a half-sloppy job, I'd have wanted to rate this video a 3, but if you get anything of her style and form from this instruction, you've got your money's worth.  Didn't like * It's all voice-over. That puts some distance between you and the teacher, somehow. In fact Bozenka looks into the mirror during the instruction. She looks directly at us when she says thank you (rather sweet) at the end. * There's no practice sessions that involve us, the learners. May as well call it a demonstration then, not instruction. * It would have been nice to put the arm moves together with other moves to show how they could be used rather than just see each move in total isolation. Although you do get to see this in the performance at the end, I think a practice session with typical moves and the arm move layered would have been the way to do it.  Totally loved * Bozenka's perfect, graceful style. The grace goes right to the tips of her fingers. * Beautifully executed moves, forgetting no details. Note every gaze, finger position and stance because these are not explained but are there to be observed if you pay attention. . * The big list of arm paths * The arm-filled performance at the end, set to the beautiful song, Yearning * Bozenka's smile

Worth A Second Look And Maybe A Third. I like to revisit material (books, movies, recordings) that I initially enjoyed as I find that I always get something more out of the repeated exposure. I remember seeing THE BLACK SLEEP as a child on TV and being totally intruiged by it. Although young, I already knew that Basil Rathbone was Sherlock Holmes so it was a surprise to see him portray an unbalanced surgeon. But the 1872 setting and the crisp black & white photography was enough to keep me interested. I recognized the other horror stars (John Carradine, Lon Chaney, Tor Johnson) but we don't see them till the very end when they make the most of their limited screen time.  Watching it again for the first time in many years, I was struck by how influential the film appears to be. These influences would crop up in later films of the decade (this was released in 1956) including Republic's THE UNEARTHLY (1957), AIP's WAR OF THE COLLOSAL BEAST (1958), Hammer's THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1957), and Mario Bava's BLACK SUNDAY (1960). I was also surprised at how good Basil Rathbone is in this film about a surgeon hoping to restore his paralyzed wife by operating on others. He plays it completely straight and his sincerity makes him that much more effective. His confession scene actually moved me this time around.  This new MGM Limited Edition DVD-R looks gorgeous although like all MODs it's bare bones with no subtitles or extras. Many fans of FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND who saw photos as kids but didn't catch up with it until later are invariably disappointed as they want to see more of Chaney, Carradine, Tor Johnson, and company. This was Lugosi's penultimate role. He has no dialogue and shows the ravages of his morphine addiction. However if you enjoy low budget atmospherics, theatrical performances, and literate delivery of uneven dialogue, then THE BLACK SLEEP should be right up your alley. Now that I've seen it for this review, I think I'll watch it again.

Starts Off Dull, But Heats Up Mid-Season **NOTE - This review contains Spoilers**  In Season Six of "Dallas", the family gathers for the reading of Jock's will and the terms pit Bobby and J.R. against one another in competition for Ewing Oil as the brother who turns the biggest profit in 12 months wins controlling interest. This is the main plot line running throughout these 28 episodes that originally aired during the 1982-83 TV season, when "Dallas" dipped to #2 in the ratings after two years at the top.  The competition between the Ewing boys tears the family apart to the point that Miss Ellie goes as far as having Jock declared mentally incompetent to dispute the terms of the will. Pam moves out of Southfork and into a hotel with baby Christopher, and soon takes up with hunky and attentive Mark Grayson (John Beck). Conversely, Sue Ellen and J.R. become closer than ever and remarry. J.R. signs on as consultant for competitor Harwood Oil, at the request of inexperienced but devious and leggy heiress Holly Harwood (Lois Chiles). Holly soon regrets doing business with the snaky J.R. and tries to cause trouble by seducing him then reporting their "affair" to Sue Ellen. The escalating war for Ewing Oil also prompts J.R. to resort to illegal dealings with Cuba.  Donna heads up a new Texas Energy Commission, which puts her at odds with J.R. Meanwhile, Ray brings his irresponsible cousin Mickey to stay with them, in hopes the kid will shape up. Mickey eventually begins dating Lucy, who having been impregnated by her shutterbug stalker last season, undergoes an abortion with only Pam being in on the secret. Tragedy strikes near the end of the season and Mickey ends up in a coma after a car crash in which a drunken Sue Ellen was behind the wheel.  Miss Ellie gradually begins socializing as a widow and as the season progesses, she grows particularly close to Clayton Farlow (Howard Keel), to the consternation of J.R.  After Cliff's suicide attempt in last season's finale, mother Rebecca (Priscilla Pointer) declares all-out war on the Ewings, causing friction between her and Pam. Rebecca uses her considerable wealth to buy an oil company and appoint son Cliff president. Unfortunately, a series of events leads to Rebecca's death after a plane crash mid-season. Afton (Audrey Landers) plays the "good girl" this season, faithfully standing by Cliff after his suicide attempt and Rebecca's death. Half-sister Katherine (Morgan Brittany) butts heads with Cliff over her father's company, and secretly tries to widen the rift between Bobby and Pam, so she can have him for herself.  At season's end, Pam asks Bobby for a divorce, Sue Ellen is driven back to the bottle, and Southfork goes up in flames during a fight between J.R. and Ray, with John Ross and a drunk Sue Ellen asleep upstairs.  This season dragged a little, as the contest plotline between J.R. and Bobby was not that exciting. Things pick up mid-season around the time of the plane crash and get better from there.  The offices at Ewing Oil get a makeover and Bobby's secretary Phyllis (Deborah Tranelli) gets more screen time. While Sue Ellen's trendy mullet 'do didn't appeal to me, Pam looks absolutely ravishing this season, her hair slightly lightened to a flattering rusty brown. Patrick Duffy has beefed up some and Bobby's sporting a bulkier physique.  My favorite scene this season occurs when J.R. pimps out Sue Ellen to help seal a business deal and acquire a badly-needed oil refinery. J.R. purposely shows up late so the client can have some "quality time" with Sue Ellen. When he arrives with the excuse that "one of my oil well's caught fire", Sue Ellen snaps back "Did the telephones burn TOO?". Her delivery is sharp, cutting and priceless.  Visually, this is the best season yet as all the scenes look bright and crisp and new. The discs are again dual-sided and come in three plastic snapcases, just like the Season 5 set.  Not the best season, but still engrossing TV from the '80s when prime time soaps ruled the airwaves..

Nice option to relax The book is very good. The movie is also good. If you want to watch something to relax, this is a good option.

One of the best. Les enfants du paradis is one of the truly great early French films. It is complex and sprawling in terms of plot with memorable characters who really hold up after 70 years. It was a treat for my film class to see what a great director could do in black and white. The criterion collection is, as usual, full of great extras.

Great Movie We have always liked Clint Eastwood. This is one of the oldie movies we just love to watch. It's a good one!!

"Good Drama!" Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt star in this 2000 Robert Zemeckis drama. A man gets stranded on an island with love giving him hope to go on. This is a good film and one of my favorites with Tom. This dvd set has good picture and sound plus neat extras. I recommend this.

Not exactly 4 stars, but close enough I'd probably give it 3.5 stars if it was an option. This was a good movie; entertaining. Way too violent for my usual tastes, however. Some scenes were just over the top violent. The acting was good. Overall, a good sci-fi movie, definitely reminiscent of Aliens, Predator, etc.

great product,just slow to arrive The product was exactly as described,but came at the very end of estimated time range. But, the product was great

Loveable quirky film for Billy Bob LOL I enjoyed this feel good movie. It shows anyone is capable of anything you put your mind too even when the whole country may be against you. I mean DHS was threatening to take the kids the government was threatening them and keeping them under surveillance. Yet the litte guy so to speak still prevailed. Love it!

the case is broken My DVD came today, Going My Way.  The case was broken. The clips that hold the dvd in place were broken. So it was sliding around in the case through transit.  It doesn't look like it is scratched but I haven't played it yet.  Now I'll have to buy a new case to protect it. The case was broken before shipping...there were no little plastic pieces in the case when I opened it. That's the only disappointment.  1-21-2012:  I watched the DVD of Going My Way and it was in good shape.  No problems what so ever.  I found a empty case at my home and used it.  I would use this seller again.  I'm happy with my purchase.

Nice Update I saw this on a special purchase and wanted to give the Blue Ray versions a try.  Both video and audio quality seemed improved over the dvd.  The packaging was slick and should provide long term protection; or at least long enough until this format is replaced!  For the price, I feel it was a good decision but would not feel the same had it been available only at full retail.  Waiting for the earlier movies in a similar package to be offered at a similar savings.

"You promised your life to God, and God is love!" One of the lesser-known Deniro films is also a gem. But I think Jeremy Irons stole the show as a sympathetic Jesuit. Liam Neeson was so young in it, it must have been one of his first roles. Beautiful sceneries and blu-ray really made the experience all that better. I'm glad I added this to my collection.

Meant to be watched more than once I only recently heard about this film and was delighted to find it available as an Amazon Instant Video. I have only watched it once - so far. I had to keep reminding myself that the film is set in 1969, but I know that if I am able to take the time to watch it two or three times more that I will be there in 1969 with the actors and that Withnail and I will be the type of movie that keeps showing you new things with each viewing. I may find myself coming back to upgrade my rating from four stars to five.  I won't do a synopsis here, as there are currently more than 120 other reviews that tell you what the movie is about. What I will say is that the cinematography is richly beautiful, the locations both lush and dreary, the audio is extremely well done and the soundtrack is well worth purchasing separately and listening to again and again.  I recommend this sad, funny, puzzling, tense, frustrating film for everyone.

Very funny This movie was suprisingly really good and funny.  It's what you would expect from the American Pie series and it was great to see the all of the original cast grown up.  I'd recommend it if you are in need of a good laugh or two.

Sci-fi Classic Though it has it's flaws by any measure (even Lynch's odd standards) this is a powerful Sci-Fi epic of the highest caliber.  Moody and hulking, the story paints images that will not soon be forgot.  The sets are huge, the cast a powerful ensemble and the world it creates is unforgettable.  You cannot leave this film without taking something.

Will Smith in a Terrific Adventure Story What, after all, makes a superhero? Super powers, right? No; that would include super villains. Well, then solving problems for humanity, right? How about when the solutions turn out to be worse than the problems?  John Hancock (Will Smith) is not your average super hero. For one thing, he's a drunk. For another, he's got a habit of breaking things, smashing things, and losing his temper. Then there's the time he saved people in a burning building, got his clothes all burned off, then raided an ice cream vendor (more or less naked) in front of a group of children for something to cool himself down.  But one day he saved the life of Ray (Jason Bateman), a PR man with high ideals. In gratitude, Ray decides to help Hancock improve his image. I mean, he's got hundreds of lawsuits against him for the damages he caused in the course of saving lives. Ray persuades him to give himself up on criminal charges surrounding his latest escapade, on the assumption that after the crime rate rises because he is out of circulation, the authorities will pardon him so he can smash bad guys again. Of course, in the prison he meets up with a great many bad guys he put there, and they're not happy with him.  The plot has dozens of twists, several totally unexpected, and a complicated piece of romance around Ray's wife Mary (Charlize Theron) and her previous connection to Hancock. Still, the resolution is a satisfying one, even if it may make some of us cringe a little. Remember, it's fiction. You will need to remember that.  I loved everything about it except the high-adrenalin smashing scenes, but I'm sure the younger people, especially males, will appreciate those as well. They tend to happen too fast for me to understand what's going on.  Good fun and heart-warming at the same time. Can't beat that combination.

Great for me! I like that this video breaks it down step by step. It is much easier for me to learn all the moves correctly that way. I don't care too much for the DVD menu format. I guess it is designed to give u a break in between. I am happy with the DVD and hopefully with it's help be able to advance from here.

Loved It!! The Soloist is based on the book by Steve Lopez, and directed by Joe Wright. This movie is based on the true accounts of LA journalist Steve Lopez.  While searching for his next story, Lopez, played by Robert Downey Jr., stumbles across a Julliard trained musician who is also homeless and suffers from mental illness. The Soloist took me on a journey that I was unprepared to take, though I feel I am better for having taken it. This movie was moving and poignant. The Soloist allows you to take a hard-nosed look at homelessness and mental illness in America, and at the importance of friendships in our lives. More pointedly, The Soloist allows you to reassess your views on all three.  I highly recommend this movie but, be prepared to be positively touched on an emotional and mental level. Jamie Foxx gives a riveting performance as Nathaniel Ayers and Downey's portrayal of Lopez is spot on! This movie delivered more than I ever expected. I will watch it again and again.  WebbWeaver Reviews

yellow subtitles in sioux language!!! Ugly. I'm Belgian and I speak french. This superb film is perfectly restored, BUT... What aberration of captioning the sioux dialogues in YELLOW! It really spoils the beauty of the images, Kevin Costner should not like ...

SKELETOR WANTS HE-MAN!!!!! A wave of nostalgia for movies from the 1980's led me to this  movie. I had never seen "Masters Of The Universe" but I had  heard about it over the years. And most of what I had heard about it wasn't particularly good. I recently read about it in a magazine article titled "Bad Movies We Just Can't Stop Watching." That seems a bit harsh and unfair. "Masters" is not a bad movie at all. It is, instead a fun fantasy movie (far better than a movie based on a cartoon and toy series should be), with plenty of fun, campy value-- and that is how this movie should be watched and enjoyed. No, it isn't great cinema art, but it is a lot of fun. I have never seen the cartoon series, so I could just enjoy this live-action adaptation for what it is. If "Masters" hasn't yet achieved "Cult Film" Status, it definitely deserves to.   Evil Skeletor (Frank Langella) seeks to rule over the Planet Eternia. To this end, he has captured Castle Greyskull and inprisoned the good Sorceress (Christina Pickles). He-Man (Dolph Lundgren) and some freedom fighters  including  Jon Cypher, seek to free the Sorceress and stop Skeletor. During the initial battle, He-Man and friends are accidentally transported to Earth by means of a Cosmic Key, invented by the rather bumbling, Goblin-like Gwildor (Billy Barty; looking more frightening/ creepy in his Goblin-like make-up than Frank Langella as Skeletor).  On Earth, teenagers Julie and Kevin (Courtney Cox in her film debut, long before "Friends" and the "Scream"  movies; and Robert Duncan McNeill; best known for his roles on "All My Children" and "Star Trek: Voyager") are quickly caught up in the He-Man/Skeletor battle.   Dolph Lundgren isn't required to do much as He-Man except fight and run around nearly naked in leather underwear. Yet, Lundgren is a perfect embodiment of the perfectly heroic He-Man. Let's face it: Lundgren has a hot body!! Frank Langella  "(Amadeus",  "Dracula", "Frost/Nixon") as Skeletor is the real star of this movie. Langella, wearing great make-up designed by Michael Westmore, goes deliciously, delightfully over-the-top but, by also taking the role and the material seriously, he gives a certain gravitas to the entire film. Popular 1970's-1980's actress Meg Foster as Evil-Lyn also brings an air of sinister dignity to the film. Evil-Lyn is always anxious to do Skeletor's bidding. Skeletor, while craving absolute power, seems equally anxious to have He-Man as his slave; which brings an interesting homoerotic subtext to the film.  Don't worry-- little kids will never notice it). But when the action moves back to Eternia for the climax, Skeletor takes obvious delight in having an  even more almost naked He-Man whipped and down on his knees before him.   Director Gary Goddard provides a surprisingly lively audio commentary. Goddard describes, in detail, the difficulties and compromises involved in shooting a supposedly $17 Million fantasy film on a tight schedule with an increasingly tighter financial budget. The movie mostly takes place at night because, as Goddard explains, He-Man, Gwildor, Skeletor, Evil-Lyn and all the characters of Eternia  would look ridculous parading down California streets in broad daylight. Skeltor's "surprise" after the closing credits hints at a planned sequel that was never filmed.

The good and the bad of this Bob Hope set A good mix but some aren't very funny. The best ones are from the 50's  Alias Jesse James: The Funniest. Bob Hope sold a insurance policy to Jesse James, now he has to protect Jessie. But Jessie wants to claim the insurance by killing Bob Hope.  Boy, did I get the wrong number: OK. Bob plays a husband who is accidently connected to a bubble bath actress and later on is accused of murdering the girl.  The Facts of life: Not the funniest. Bob Hope and Lucy are togther when the spouses can't make the holiday and they try to run away togther.  I'll take Sweden: Rubbish. Bob wants to get his daughter away from her boyfriend. He goes to Sweden to keep him away and finds more trouble.  The Princess and The Pirate: 2nd Funniest. Bob plays a hopless actor who escapes a pirate attack with a runaway princess only to land on an island that is run and rulled by the pirates he escaped. Lots of black humor.  Road to Hong Kong: Lamest of the series. Bob and Bing get caught up in a spy network that want to provide a new world for there kind.  They've got me coved: Great. Bob is a reporter who can't get headlines for the biggest stories that happen under his nose. Then he hears of a Nazi spy ring in Washington and trouble starts for himself and his girlfriend.

Blue Max This vintage film is still exciting and certainly one of Peppard's best! We had seen the film in our youth and we were very pleased with the purchase.

Worth the Price of Renting I caught the last 20 minutes of this film on TV, but I didn't know what it was about. Being a sci-fi fan, I wanted to know the rest of the story so I went to another site to watch it, but they didn't have it. It's a nice old school post-WWII super hero romp. It's not Shakespeare, but it is entertaining, and renting from Amazon was easy and worked well, for a reasonable price. I'd rent from Amazon again, if the need arose.

True Blood Season 3 I really enjoy the show, sure it's not much like the books but it is still good in it's own right. Season 2 was odd and I think that season 3 makes up for it. The show may still be on the oddity rebound from season 2 but they're getting there.

A real genre-bender Think socialist educational film on the joys of a government farmer training program, complete with earnest salt-of-the-earth agriculture instructors sporting haircuts so genuinely awful their 'do's actually achieve that ever ulta-elusive uber-hip of those who have found utter liberation from status-seeking.  Oh, yeah, there is plenty of mucking out stalls and bucking bails and all those authentic farm activities, but never the remotest suggestion of any West Hollywood fantasies about a roll in the hay.  Instead, slowly-as-watching-grass-grow, there develops a friendship so quiet and understated I had to keep rewinding because I thought I must have missed some crucial smoldering glances over the feed hopper or some such coded signal these two guys want each other.  Nope.  Yet, still, somehow the brokeback yearning seeps through, like, well a force of nature as relentless as the seasons. It's one of the odder films I've ever seen--such a deadpan absence of anything flashy, it may as well have been video verit&eacute;--it absolutely succeeds without our lads so much as skinny dipping at the swimming hole.  Yes, it is in German, and unlikely to get ground through the farcical Hollywood ratings system.  But if it were, I feel certain it might well qualify as the first G-rated farming education and gay romance flick in the history of world cinema.

Funny I saw this movie back when I was young. All I could remember about it is that it was gross. I watched it again on dvd years later and it wasn't bad. I remember what I thought was so gross. The scene at the dinner table grossed me out. Watching the judge with his penis nose try to eat a hot dog. I can laugh about it now, but eeww before lol.

Not quite perfect, but still essential, overlooked Keaton If you're reading this, chances are you're already a Buster Keaton fan.  If you're not, let me just say first off that this set should NOT be your introduction to the legendary comic actor/writer/director.  Keaton's masterworks are the silent "two-reel" comedies he made in the twenties (and available in the excellent <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004XEEMAI">Buster Keaton Short Films Collection: 1920-1923 (Three-Disc Ultimate Edition) [Blu-ray</a>], to which this set serves as a companion piece).  As many of you will know, Keaton's career fumbled immediately following the silent years, with a 5-year stint making features at MGM.  But these films, made for the independent Educational Pictures, represented a return to form of sorts.  Here was Keaton back in his element: the comedy short.  And Educational also gave him back much of his creative control. . .something he lost working as essentially an actor only for the big studio.  Truth be told (and understand, I'm a HUGE fan), most of these sound comedies don't measure up to the gems Keaton made 10 to 15 years earlier.  But there's still plenty for fans to enjoy.  Unlike silent stars who had difficulty making the transition to sound, Buster had a distinct voice and used it to good effect.  He wisely didn't stray too far from his origins; the best bits in these films don't require speaking or much sound at all to make them funny.  ONE RUN ELMER and MIXED MAGIC are good examples of this.  Keaton's love of trains and physical, architecture-based gags are also in evidence in several films.  As for the set itself, the video and audio quality varies a bit from film to film.  There is the occasional unrepaired splice, resulting in a "jump" in the action.  Debris is evident in many cases, although the overall picture quality is quite good for its age.  It's worth noting that Educational Pictures was NOT MGM, and I doubt that the independent company ever made a film as polished as the larger, more affluent studios could.  If you've seen the Blu-ray release of the silent shorts, you know what is possible with restoration efforts.  I would easily give Kino's earlier release of the silent films 5 stars for visual quality; by comparison, "Lost Keaton" scores 4 out of 5.  Still a very good rating.  Extras aren't as plentiful as with the earlier set, but you still get a wonderfully informative booklet, with info about each film.  There's a still gallery, and a video montage of various stunts and physical gags.  And for those who care about such things (as I do), "Lost Keaton"'s package design is virtually identical to the earlier release. . .making a very attractive pair of comedy classics on the shelf. :-)  Bottom line: If you're a fan, this is a no-brainer.  If you're not (yet), defintiely start with the earlier set first.  Buster Keaton was a one-of-kind comic genius, and Kino Lorber has done him proud with this lovingly-created collector's sets.

Timeless It had been a while since I did a full non-broadcast viewing of this film and it did NOT disappoint. The suspense that builds in this film is so visceral and real. The characters are so fully-realized without long expository sections trying to explain who they are. The best scenes in the film are ones that, ironically, I had forgotten about so, when they hit, it was like a surprise boat oar to the gut. My only complaint is that the score is mixed so much loud than the dialogue on this edition that I was having to constantly adjust the volume to accomodate. Otherwise, a flawless film of the highest calibre.

Good movie, worth watching. Lot's of action, intresting scenes at temple showing kung fu learning techniques. Good storyline. Entertaining film definately worth watching, good deal price wise.

Brutal The movie itself opens the lamb like eyes of a lot of people. Japan has a ton of great things but this overshadows it all. The dedication of the team that put this together is amazing. They risk everything to bring out the truth.

Great Experience! I had been looking for this dvd for a while.  When I saw it, I immediately jumped on it.  It arrived within the time that was stated and I am very pleased.  Thanks!!

Five stars aren't enough! I don't have enough superlatives in my vocabulary to review this movie adequately (and the Blu-Ray version of it).  I'd rate it at six or seven stars if I could. The cinematography in this movie was incredible. I was overseas in the Army when the movie was released - I had only seen it in the 4:3 format later on.  So watching this version was the first time I had seen the widescreen presentation.  Combined with the amazing restoration, it was like a movie I had never seen before. This version has made me appreciate my Blu-Ray player even more.

A werewolf and Gary Busey in the same movie! Silver Bullet is a movie depiction of "Cycle of the Werewolf" by Stephen King.  Marty Coslaw (Corey Haim) is a young boy who is wheelchair bound.  He lives in the small town of Tarker's Mills, Maine.  Strange things are going on as people just keep getting killed in horrible and gruesome ways.  The town is worried and everyone is on guard wondering who or what is the murder.  The rumor mill speculates that a werewolf is in town.  Marty has a cool uncle who just loves him. Uncle Red (Gary Busey) builds Marty a combination motorcycle wheelchair for his birthday.  Its nickname is "Silver Bullet".  Marty can now easily get around but it leads him into trouble with the killer as he is in the wrong place at the wrong time.  Stephen King is the master at writing funny and scary stories.  In this movie Marty is the hero and with the help of Uncle Red they just may have an answer for the killer who is roaming the town.  Jane Coslaw (Megan Follows) is Marty's older sister and she plays a major role in the movie as someone who helps Marty discover the true identity of the werewolf.  This movie was well acted and follows the story line of the original book to a point.  It is a good movie and I enjoyed it.  I recommend it to you also!

Fast Five Item arrived fast just like the movie and the DVD was excellent. As always antime I order from Amazon the service is excellent.

Visually Spellbinding Beautiful choreographed film.I'm a fan of "Scud" now! If you purchased this dvd a bonus special feature behind the scenes dvd is included.

Best Popcorn movie ever This is my all time favorite movie. It has comedy, drama, action, villains, a hero, and a love story.  It is also very visually beautiful. Lighten up you nay-sayers.  Not everything has to be serious.  This movie was meant to be entertainment, and it really hit it's mark.

Brilliant I first saw this movie 5 years ago and loved it. Its a spoof on Sci-fi and its Hilarious. I bought the bluray edition because in my opinion its a very under rated movie, but deserves a prime position in my collection. The plot is funny and twisted, the acting from all the cast is first rate, and the laughs are too many to choose from. If you like Sci-fi you'll love it, if you dont like Sci-fi you'll love it, Sigourney Weaver is as beautiful as ever, Tim Allen is genuinely funny. It has a top list of actors well worth it......but hey what would I know.

Return of the Living Dead Blu-Ray This is one of the best hore movies ever made with a low budget. The blu-ray is encoded so you will need to update your player to watch this movie. Other than that this is a great buy.

Best I've ever seen it. Just finished watching this & it's never been clearer; even the shadows were pretty visible. I even noticed Kane's chest prosthetic device (where the blood would explode out of) while they were eating. I never spotted that before. The sound is fantastic as well.  The BR has both the Theatrical Release & the Directors Cut on one disc. You can check out both, but I agree with Ridley Scott's description from the DVD set (although @ the beginning of the DC he now says it differently): the original is better than the Director's Cut. Scott was actually pushed to make the second version so the studio would have something "New" to release, the first version was actually what he wanted & it flows better. You don't mess with perfection.  The strange thing on the packaging is that the case states the format as 2.35 & 116 minutes (correct), but the cardboard sleeve has it as 1.85 & 137 minutes. Plus the sleeve says this is from 1986 when the actual versions were 1979 & 2003, so I have no idea where that came from (unless it's a typo). I throw out those sleeves, so it won't matter for me any more.  If you like sci-fi/horror & haven't seen this, get it. If you have the DVD, the BR is much better, but I never had any complaints on the DVD and the DVD has more extras. Also get Aliens which, in many ways, I like even better. But save your money & skip the rest of the sequels.

Adventure Time: My Two Favorite People I bought this DVD for my grandson who loves the Adventure Time series. He says that the action in the video is super, and he loves the interaction between the characters. He would like for his Grammy to buy the next DVD in this series. And, I probably will.

Great Movie!! I was a little skeptical since this is what the 4th movie?  It was so funny and actually had a great story line.  Stifler still being himself which is a douche as he says!! Not for prudes though, Jason Biggs shows his junk which surprised me, but it is what it is!!!

DVD SEASON 1 BOX SET ??? Is there going to be a season 1 box set?? I would like to buy it instead of the 4 volumes out right now.

Hilarious, funny & Awesome--Disney did a great job! This has become one of our favorite shows to watch.  Our daughters 2 and 4 yrs old sat and watched this show multiple times.  They laughed at all the funny scenes.  Our two year old loves when Pascal gives the raspberry to Rapunzel and our four year old loves when Rapunzel uses her frying pan. They also enjoy many other scenes.  This should become a Disney classic over time.  It was well made for younger as well as older children.  Sometimes the scary scenes are too much for our young girls, as in The Princess & the Frog (they still likes that show, but not as much).  At our house...Sleeping Beauty watch out...you may have competition :-)

Never gets old, great results, worth every minute! I have been using Turbo Jam for roughly two years. Prior to that time, I was looking into a work out routine that I could do at home simply because its less distracting for me and I can focus better. A friend told me about it, and I looked it up, ordered the first dvd set with the two disc's, and gave it a try. It was hard at first, but once you get the core movements that are key to Turbo Jam down, it becomes second nature to you. It's easy to learn, and even if I dont do it for a while, I dont forget the moves. I have bad genetics as far as weight gain go, my mother is heavy set, both my sister and I, an majority of the women in my family gain easily, and its not fun at all. But since using Turbo Jam, I notice the following changes within at least two weeks:  My figure becomes leaner, and shapely  My posture improves greatly, and I carry myself better over all  It works off every area gradually and tones it down where I want it. And even better, it keeps the excess weight off.  I recently ordered the Fat Blaster because my sister did, and told me to give it a try, and I did. But it is only 30 min, and much much more fast paced. I'm still trying to get it down. But I mostly do the Cardio Party Mix 1, which I love doing, and its simple, and effective because it works all the areas that I need work on, especially the lower body like hips etc.  Turbo Jam is awesome. And I always recommend it to anyone I can who is looking for something fun and easy to learn and do. I love Turbo Jam, its fun, and easy and I don't feel silly doing it. I may look into the other Cardio Party mixes, but for now, what I've got going on is working great, and results come over time with dedication and effort.

Very Happy My daughter loved this movie as a kid and we had it on VHS. However we have misplaced it and although she is much older she wanted it replaced. I have looked everywhere for this and finally found it here. She was so excited on Christmas morning and we had to watch it right away. I couldn't have been more please with the product. It arrived promptly and was just as described. In fact I received it and almost forgot that I had it by the time that Christmas came along. Had it not been for my daughter reminding me that she was really wanting that video! Would definately order from this vendor again!!

Criterion's celebration of David Lean and Noel Coward may be the year's best box set Criterion, who probably makes more film fans happier than any other company, has just released David Lean Directs Noel Coward.  An odd pairing, at first glance---the man who directed such epics as Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and The Bridge on the River Kwai---with the premier light comedy actor/author/composer of the twentieth century. Even odder is the choice of material: A world class war story about the sinking of a ship; a world class romance about lost love; a world class picture of the British lower-middle class; and the world class comedy fantasy of the last century, respectively In Which We Serve, Brief Encounter, This Happy Breed and Blithe Spirit. Perhaps even more surprising is that all four were made during a period of about three years, from 1942 to 1945.   Briefly, all four films are extraordinary examples of propaganda at its best. Lean and Coward were both fervently patriotic, and England was the underdog at the time in a war.  Lean was just beginning his astonishing career; Coward had just finished a dozen or so years of incredible success on the stage, but considerably less success, or even attempts, at a film career. In 1941, Germany bombed London for 57 consecutive evenings.   Coward wrote and Lean directed these films, with Coward playing the lead for In Which We Serve. Coward also produced, wrote the screenplay, composed the score, and officially codirected, though he handed the reigns to Lean in his directorial debut.   Coward was entertaining the troops during the shooting of the other three films, yet his mark is clearly visible in each films. The cameraman for the quartet was Ronald Neame, perhaps less a household name, yet later the director such gems as The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, I Could Go on Singing and The Horse's Mouth.   In Which We Serve is the story of a ship, sunk off the coast of Crete during the war.  Based on incidences in the life of Coward's great friend Lord Louis Mountbatten, flashbacks tell the story of the few remaining survivors, clinging to a lifeboat, waiting for rescue.  In lesser hands, this narrative technique would be worse than banal, but the creators, relying so very strongly on flashbacks, allow the audience to see war through the eyes of the women left at home, waiting, not knowing when or if their sons, husbands or boyfriends will return.   Brief Encounter is based on a slight one-act play Coward wrote for Tonight at 8:30 entitled Still Life.  A man and a woman, both more or less happily married to other people, meet quite by accident in a train station.  To the overused strains of Rachmaninoff, they fall hopelessly, helplessly and enormously in lover. Again, in lesser hands, this stiff-upper-lip-do-the-right-thing sort of drama could be cloying and irritating, but the moral quandary this couple feels somehow slips into the audience's brain, and the horrible realization that although love is usually just nifty, it can cause extraordinary heartache and pain. Parenthetically, Andre Previn has just turned this text into an opera.   This Happy Breed, an ordinary story about an ordinary family living an ordinary life just before the war, grabs the audience with its specificity and universality, until the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the small pains and pleasures of everyday life insinuates into the audience's psyche. Based on an early play of Coward and drawing on his own lower-middle class background, the triumph here is really Robert Newton and Celia Johnson as the father and mother experiencing the trials and triumphs of everyday life.   The final film, Blithe Spirit, is perhaps the most well known. Rex Harrison stars as an author, re-married after the death of his first wife, hiring psychic Margaret Rutherford to perform a s&eacute;ance so he can learn the lingo of the telepathic trade for his new book.  Alas, Madame Arcarti, Rutherford's character, somewhat ineptly brings back the ghost of his first wife, with hilarity and confusion ensuing.   Criterion's restruck prints are wonderful, the extras are pretty astounding, with the complete South Bank show on Coward and some lovely interviews with author and critic Barry Day who has made Coward very much something of his own cottage industry. Day resembles someone who might be in an unexpurgated Alice in Wonderland, but has that fuzzy British charm which can be so endearing.  All in all, we owe a deep debt of gratitude to Criterion.   Now, if we could get them to clean up and release the nearly unavailable films Coward acted in,  such as The Scoundrel, The Astonished Heart, and perhaps even the television version of Blithe Spirit?

Dark Mood But Sprite Script Enliven A Forgotten Thriller The Big Combo  Director Joseph H. Lewis whose previous credits include the anthologized noir classic Gun Crazy (reviewed June 4, 2011) is on his game once again in this fine but largely forgotten piece of film noir.  More stylized than Gun Crazy - it might have been a rule on the set - no filming prior to 1 AM,  Lewis was nonetheless alert to symbolism.  When breaks develop in a murder case, we are given scenes filmed in broad daylight.  Richard Conte is suitably taut, lean and bright as a bullwhip playing a Teflon Don style underworld boss while Cornell Wilde stars as his alter ego, crime fighting Lt. Leonard Diamond.  The two adversaries know each other well and exploit each other's weaknesses, one of which is that they share a desire for the same girl.  With such a strong storyline, it's a shame there is a by-the-lines performance by Jean Wallace, who had  more verve in the same role as Special Prosecutor Howard Malloy's love interest in the 1949 Fletcher Markle thriller Jigsaw.  On the other hand, Helen Stanton, as secondary squeeze and dance hall sweetheart Rita, gives an riveting performance.  She has good lines "women don't care what a man does, they care how he loves," and her unusually strong eye contact and devout lips indicate a possible casting problem; with the two women in opposite roles, this might have been an even stronger picture.  John Alton handled the camerawork and gets maximum effect from the minimalist lighting.  His work with a moving target and a dimly lit background in the finale turn Conte into what he is: a cornered rat.

Welcome To The Jungle Before Arnold Schwarzenegger created a secret family out of wedlock, before director John McTiernan was smothered by legal woes and before Jesse Ventura donned a tinfoil hat, there was "Predator." A tough-as-nails action epic, this little flick from 1987 added to Schwarzenegger's repertoire as the go-to guy for action flicks at the time and kicked open the door for McTiernan who would go on to direct other classics such as Die Hard, The Hunt for Red October and Last Action Hero (?).  A group of mercenaries led by Dutch (Schwarzenegger) are dumped in the Central American jungle on what they believe to be a rescue mission. Almost immediately upon their arrival, it appears something is wrong. Dead bodies -- apparently skinned alive -- are dangling from the trees and all the while, Jesse Ventura won't shut up. It seems there is a much more dangerous enemy lurking in the foliage, one which can mimic its enemies and blend into the scenery much like a chameleon. This enemy is not of this planet, means serious business and is absolutely famished. This, of course, means it's "Game on!" for Arnold and the Predator.  "Predator" is essentially the perfect action flick. While latter day efforts like "Rollerball" may indicate otherwise, McTiernan is (or was) a genuine master of his craft. The film is perfectly paced, the effects are solid (if admittedly bit dated by now) and not overpowering and the characters are brought to life by larger than life personalities. Schwarzenegger and Ventura are joined by the likes of Carl Weathers, Bill Duke, Sonny Landham and Shane Black. Black, who wrote the script (as well as another action classic from the same year, "Lethal Weapon") brings the characters to life with so much testosterone it oozes out of the screen. Not in a gross way, but in the sort of way that makes you feel like you are hanging out with a group of good ol' boys, shooting the breeze and laughing at one inane joke after the other ("See, 'cause of the echo..."). That is, until carnage ensues and the gang drops off one by one. You'll be laughing one minute and be perched on the edge of your seat the next. Brilliant.  While not quite in the same league as, say, Ridley Scott's "Alien," "Predator" delivers the goods in spades. It has a fresh and original concept, a great cast and enough thrills to make it worth watching again and again. McTiernan's Hollywood debut boasts a significant amount of replay value, something which the dreadful "Alien Vs. Predator" flicks lacked and which most modern films of its ilk lack as well. So grab the DVD/Blu-Ray/VHS/Laserdisc/Hologram/Brain-implant, get to da choppah! and get ready for a good time.

The Beginning of the...... oops wrong title. Peter Graves stars as a scientist who while observing the effects of a nuclear bomb test sees a flashing light that ends up crashing the jet he is in. After some rescue crews turn up nothing, a few days pass and he walks up to a military base, where soldiers are suprised to see him alive and well. He has of course no memory, gets induced with truth serum and tells everyone what happened to him.  After his crash he awoke in a cave, with a bunch of bug eyed aliens who stitch him up and according to the leader is under their control. Graves tries to escape but keeps running into lots of stock footage... er... giant radioactive animals. Turns out these aliens want him to set off more nuclear tests so they can harness the energy to take over the world, or something like that.  The movie is pretty badly paced, very badly acted, the effects are laughable and the story is quite hokey even for the '50's sci-fi era.  The Film Crew gets some good laughs out of this one, though there are some dead spots. Its worth getting as anything with these guys from Mystery Science Theater 3000 is always a good time.

DrStrangeloveDBS As a child of the Cold War, this film serves as a reminder of those bad old days wondering when the big one would happen.  An all-star cast led by Peter Sellers, serve to defuse those musings with a parody that's beyond belief.

Uplifting and heartbreaking! When I purchased Wallis and Edward from Amazon, I had to get this one too. The agony of these two brothers is portrayed by these fine actors in a heartbreakingly real way...it is mesmerizing, sad and yet, the strength of Bertie (George VI) shines through with the help of his beloved Elizabeth. I recommend this to everyone...absolutely historically accurate and wonderful!

Valentine's Day A good enjoyable movie with many popular stars.  McDreamy and McSteamy played their usual parts. (Grey's Anatomy stars)  It was several different stories that connect at the end.  It was a good happy movie.

A terrific holiday documentary full of heart What a great idea for a film! Learn, laugh and fall in love w/Santa as an adult all over again. "Becoming Santa" is a terrific peek inside the world of "Santa Claus". Highly recommend this film for adults looking to capture the spirit of the holidays!!! Merry Christmas.

Excellent drama of a piece of history The Great Debaters is based on a true story about an underdog debate team that wins a national championship.  The team is from Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, a black institution in the Jim Crow South of the 1930s. The school's English professor is Melvin Tolson (Denzel Washington), who is also a secret organizer for a national sharecropper's union.  Tolson was one of America's leading poets as well, although the movie barely touches on that.  The movie is more about how the debate team, its coach, its school and community believe that an education is their best way out of the morass of racism and discrimination. They are black, proud, single-minded, and focused.  One of the features on the dvd is allowing us to meet some of the actual debaters who were on this team.

Long sought after I have been looking for these movies individually on DVD for sometime now. I was so glad to find them not only on DVD but with a bonus DVD on the background of the Hip hop culture. My son is a dancer and this collection is very important to anyone who is interested in Break dance.

A love it or hate it film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is going to be incredibly enjoyable for some and either boring or offensive to others. I personally liked the film very much, though I understand why many don't.  The image is amazing (whether you care for the movie or not, you HAVE to admit that it's a marvel of set design and special effects), and the audio is very good. Some of the dialogue is hard to understand at times (the fact that the actors mumble many of the lines is to blame, though), but the film's awesome rock soundtrack sounds terrific.  The extras are pretty much make this release. Three great commentaries which are ALL worth listening to if you are a fan (the third one, featuring Hunter S. Thompson, is particularly interesting), a collection of deleted scenes, and over two hour's worth of featurettes.  Overall, this release comes highly recommended to fans ONLY. If you have never seen this film, I recommend renting it before you pay 20+ dollars for it. And trust me, you will be absolutely sure whether or not you will be willing to after you watch this strange film.

It's Nice when the Words on the Box don't Lie I'm not a gore freak. I don't take life seriously. Each time I leave the house, I don't rule out the fact that it may be the last time I ever see it.    I don't picture myself wearing a manhole cover for a necklace either.    This movie is pure genius. Like the Japanese classic "Versus", the violence, gore and "story" are so over the f'n top ridiculous, you forget you are basically watching bodies in a blender. When you are able to laugh when you see a bus full of children get-well, you'll have to see it for yourself...and it is HILARIOUS.    It's a mark of gifted talent when a movie can be so absurd, so grotesque, so vile, that when you watch it, you see something else. It's a gem flawed on purpose. It is self-aware without feeling self-aware. The music is top notch as well. John Carpenter should be proud.    The movie is called "Hobo With a Shotgun." People who watch this and dislike it are the same type of people who eat rat poison and complain of feeling sick in the tummy.    Screw those people. They remind me that there are indeed many problems that can be solved with a shotgun.

Newsies movie Some critics did not like this movie but I have to say I love this since the time of its orignial release. The songs and the dancing are inspiring with that said, I saw the musical on Broadway and it is even better. It is a must see: the movie and the Broadway show!

Keep Away From PumpkinHead Unless Your Tired Of Living I have this Movie on tape. Im finally going to buy it on DvD! I love horror films and this is deff one you should have in your collection. I also love how they put the old pumpkin head poem into the movie...so awesome!!! Get this movie, you wont regret it

Just what you hope for from the Munsters! We are very pleased with The Munsters movies dvd. We now have a complete collection for our geeky entertainment. If you like the Munsters it's good clean entertainment for the family.

Lots of Action, Great Feel Good movie I have been hoping for a long time Hollywood would get their patriotism back and make great feel good movie about our soliders and the USA. This is it!!! The movie is not about the viewer getting to know the character thoroughly. It is about the courage the marines have when trouble rises. Lots of action!

Moneyball Loved the movie. Didn't get a chance to catch it in theaters but I picked up a copy today. Brad Pitt is great in the role of Billy Beane. I read the book years ago and liked it. Probably should have read it again just so I remembered more of the details. Will be reading the book again though. I like the whole "Moneyball" concept. I want to see this teams competing in a fair fight. Teams like the Yankees, Red Sox, Phillies and yes, even my Angels have an unfair advantage.  Watching the movie also got the inner sports executive in me fired up again. I think I'll be picking up a copy of the latest version of OOTP.

Love it My 6 year old loves all the Rock n Learn videos. He learned addition and subtraction from Rock n Learn. Multiplication is just as great.

NEW ADVENTURES OF THE LONE RANGER THIS IS JUST LIKE THE TV SHOW BUT ONLY IN CARTOON FORM AND ITS VERY GOOD THE WAY IT WA DONE AND IT STAY TRUE TO THE TV SHOW THE WAY IT WAS WRITTEN AND ITS A VERY GOOD BUY

the 10th kingdom i love fantasy it kept me glued to the screen had great actors i will watch the 2nd one if they have one or make one it had a lot of action

Return of the Jedi VHS Tape Cover is in excellent condition. Tape plays great. Great for a collectors item since it is the original release from 1986.

Favorite of the 3 movie sets. Being I already had the 1st set of these movies, I naturally got this when it was released. When it comes to the packaging, its the same as the first set but a little smaller since it only has 2 slim cases instead of the 3 from the 1st DBZ movie set. The movies themselves look great, and everything comes in clear. Since I tend to watch these on a laptop, I can't speak for the sound quality aspect too much but all of them are Dolby surround sound capable (English or Japanese music).  These 4 movies are the most interesting in my opinion because each movie has a very different villain, with the exception of "Return of Cooler" which is the villain from "Cooler's Revenge" from the first set of movies returning for another go. Any DBZ fan who doesn't already have these movies should definitely make this part of the collection.

Sequel Lives Up To Original Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is exactly what you want if you're a fan of the original. It's not identical to the first, in a great way, and has an even better pace than the first. The soundtrack is amazing, but you should know than already since it's Hans Zimmerman.

Fantastic film! I wasn't sure what to expect because I have read the trilogy and whenever you read the book and then watch the movie, you have high expectations.  I was pleasantly surprised and very pleased with this film.  Subtitles or dubbing does not bother me but most of my friends would never even think of watching anything but American films.  I will agree with some reviewers that the movie was shortened but there is a lot of dialogue in the book and it would not have went well with the film.  I thought the characters were exactly as I had pictured them.  There was a nice flow overall with the film.

Classic Comedy, Great Stuff Probably watched this film half a dozen times since it was released.  This movie  is just great entertainment.  Satire at it's best.

"Aw hell, we'll all be dead by then" This is just about as close to perfection as a movie can get.  Everybody was at the top of their game making this one.  John Wayne is pitch perfect as Chance, his star power and powerful screen presence shine in every scene.  Dean Martin is a perfect contrast as Dude, delivering an understated, subtle performance as the tourtured drunk seeking redemption.  Angie Dickenson, as Feathers, suggests a warm sexuality with her every appearence on-screen.  Walter Brennen provides the comic relief as Stumpy, the crabby, mean sprited old man charactor at which he was so familar and so adept. Ward Bond provides additional western flavor in a small but effective role as a wagon master. Ricky Nelson sings. This movie has received some critisism in the past for being a bit meandering in its storytelling. This only works in its favor as it gives the viewer a chance to get to know and like the charactors, which you most surley will as the film progresses.  The best movies create a world that the viewer might like to be a part of and anyone watching this one will want to pull on a pair of boots and strap on a six shooter about half the through its running time. This was director Howard Hawks last great film in a career that included the original Scarface, Bringing up Baby and Red River. He would be recognized as a great film-maker on this one alone. If you are a fan of westerns, a John Wayne fan, a Howard Hawks fan, hell, even a Dean Martin fan, or if you just appreciate damn good movies, get this one fast. It is truly an unrecognized classic of American film.

fun movie It was great to see where these charactors ended up after all of these years.  If you liked the first 3 instsllments you will like this one.

I'm still panting I rented the movie on Amazon Instant Videos and was expecting a good time.  The movie had gotten some rave reviews, and my expectations were high.  Three words:  GET IT NOW.  It is a fun, exciting ride of a movie and if you like fast paced action/adventure then you cannot miss this one.  There were hold-your-breath moments as well as moments of gasping, and I am still panting!

humanized... J. Edgar is a compassionate and honest look at the man, his intentions, and his contributions.  DiCaprio raised the dead.  Well Done.

I just love this movie &lt;3 &lt;3 This was my favorite movie as a kid. It came in good perfect condition and within days. I watched it with my daughter it was nice poped some popcorn and had a nice time with my daughter i would buy agaiin from this seller. Happpy Customer :)

Great Flick The quality of this product starts with the packaging. The book is very nice and well done. The movie itself is a great story and the Video and audio gets perfect 10s. They did such a great job on the restoration of this film.

courageous This movie is one of the best movies!! I love movies that teach values, and even though this movie was put out by the Baptists and I am Mormon, it is everything that we believe!! It's awesome!!!! I would recommend it to anyone!!

Moonstruck on Blue Ray I bought this as a birthday gift for a friend. The excellent price made it hard to resist. My neighbor was thrilled and has already watched it twice!

Classic Romance Not as fast paced as today's movie story telling, but it is a classic romance - clean - some humor and a well written and beautifully filmed movie.

Sado-masochism cloaked in vengeance Ichi the Killer is not the sort of movie I expected it to be. It was extremely bloody and graphic. I was extremely, well, extreme. But as far as the story goes I was surprised how deep it was and how important the psychological aspects became. At the core of this film it is a study of sadism and masochism to the farthest levels of the scale. Ichi the sadist and Kakihara the masochist are the two main characters of the film. Whether or not you label them as the pro or antagonists is up to you, as I can't personal begin to decide if they qualify as these story telling archtypes. There are levels of intensity in Ichi the Killer which go unmatched by almost any other films. The most basic and prevolent level is the graphic and brutal violence which occurs non stop throughout the film. It is described on the box using the term "arterial gush" and when they use gush, they mean it. Frankly its more like arterial geyser with blood flowing throughout the film on a biblical plague level. Then you have the even more shocking intellectual and emotional intensity. This is where the film gets truly distrubing. Ichi the Killer plans you in the minds of those you are deeply emotionally disturbed. Being plummeted into a world that few can truly stomach Ichi the Killer makes you take in all the ideas of pain and its effects; both pleasurable and unendurable. In the end this is a film which will sit with you for a very long time and make you think for days after you watch it. If you think you can handle the insanity of Ichi the Killer then you definately should view it, as it is a film which shows how great films can really be.

Movie review I like the movie great price and fast shipping. This purchase was a good experience. Doing business with amazon has been great.

What a greately done movie! I just love everything about it. I watch it again and again. I think I know it buy heart already, but still enjoy watching it every time again.

as reviewed This is a great combo, great condition and fast shipping.  I haven't watched the DVD but the CD is so good and I can't wait to take the time.  Having a party and will play in then.

Exceptional Debut This movie is powerful, sensitive, edgy and timely.  What more can you ask for?  Buy it now...you won't be sorry.

Breahtaking Well, it is finally here.....the ultimate edition of this great film.  It never looked or sounded better.  However could someone explain to me the 7.1 DTS sound?  I have the capabilities but it doesn't sound any different than 5.1 digital.  Regardless, I can watch this film over and over again.  It is masterfully produced, directed, cast, edited...It is just stunning; a work of art!

Great value I purchased a bunch of these sets. They really are a great value even if you only watch a couple of them. It seems anymore they just don't play as many "holiday" movies on TV anymore or I just miss when they are on. We watched all 4 and they were very good. The bonus CD. Well lets just say don't buy it for that. Nothing to jump up and down about. Two of the movies were pretty short maybe 1/2 hour but the other two were longer.

nutty professor funniest movie i've seen in a long time good dvd if you need a good laugh this dvd is the thing that will do it

A Thriller With Nonstop Action and Suspense "The war has come down to me and you", said the Normandy-invasion-knowing German spy to the English woman while she and her child were completely at his mercy. This entire movie has numerous points of suspense, when the protagonist and antagonist seem to be beaten, but are not. The resolve and desperation of both sides comes across clearly. There is a great deal of action.  My wife has read the book and seen the movie. She thinks that the book is better than the movie.

Super The movie is super - the DVD was brand new and works like a charm. We all loved it. I brought it for Thanksgiving to replace the VCR tape that had gone bad last Thanksgiving.

Very funny stuff Love this movie. Very funny stuff. I keep watching the re-runs of it on cable too. Vince Vaughn is awesome!

I really liked it! I had heard terrible reviews as well but decided to see it anyway with my children.  I thought the movie was a GREAT family movie, nothing scary, very comical, very innocent.  I get excited to see a movie that we all can enjoy and I especially loved the politician and his assistant.  They were so terrible and the politicians commercial towards the end is hilarious.  A very good spoof on today's politicians and their self serving agendas.  We will definately add this to our collection! BTW Justin Timberlake does a great Boo Boo!

Till The Clouds Roll By-Remastered edition At long last a decent dvd version of MGM's classic, TILL THE CLOUIDS ROLL BY. Such a great improvement from the region 2 versions we have had to suffer over the past few years. Great picture and sound quality as you would expect from Warner Home Video (albeit USA - Region 1)I cannot recomend this DVD highly enough.

Great I really like Airwolf. It was on tv when I was in high school.  Compared to all the violence and other garbage that's on now this is a lot better to watch and there aren't any commercials either..  Back then there wasn't many commercials anyway. It was more movie and less commercialism.

The Blu-ray Rockin' Rydell Edition is in the original 2.39:1 aspect ratio The Blu-ray version is in the original 2.35:1 aspect ratio that the film was shot in. Don't be mislead by the Amazon Editorial review, which right now refers to the DVD version and how it is only full screen. This is the perfect version you have been waiting for if you want the original, complete Grease in high definition!

LOVE IT STILL 3 STRIKES  Now people usually love or hate this movie from what I have seen and I am one of those that loves it. I like the cast a lot and the story alone is funny to me, I happen to know people that have had similar situations happen to them. So with all that said I have always loved this move and love the soundtrack as well. Brian Hooks as well has always been a funny actor to me and E 40 is always excellent.  The movie is all about a guy who just wants to do his time and get out to see his girl. So when his release day happens upon him he is excited to be expected. But his friend can't make it to pick him up [for female reasons] so he sends another guy to pick him up. After he picks him up they head off only to be stopped by the police. Thing is his friend that picked him up picked him up in a stolen car, so his friend starts a shoot out with the police. Since he was just released from jail he bails and goes on the run. The rest of the film follows him as a fugitive.  Brian Hooks is wonderful in this film as I knew he would be since I am a fan of his. I have liked Brian since I first saw him in "Phat Beach". But it is E 40 who really surprised me here since I knew Brian would be great. 40 for those who don't know is a very successful rapper from Vallejo California. He is basically himself here in this film but it is funny to see him here. David Alan Grier is hilarious as a cop here and you will see why if you check it out. There are many more appearances in this film from people I am sure you would recognize.  Written and directed by DJ Pooh with a great cast I have to say this is still one of my favorite flicks. I wouldn't say it is laugh out loud non stop funny for the average person but for fans of these types of comedies like me you will enjoy it. I do recommend picking this up along with the soundtrack as it has some great music on it including a great song by Canadian rapper Choclair called "Lets Ride". Any way I have always enjoyed this flick so I do recommend it if you like these types of flicks or any of the people involved.

Great Flick I love George Romero and this film does not disappoint.  Good plot lines, excellent script, strong acting and a lot of close calls.  One of the great Zombie flicks.

An alternative for hard-to-get classics The Window, starring young Bobby Driscoll, is a masterpiece of suspense, in the  genre film noir. A boy always goes around making up stories. Then when he sees a real murder, no one believes him  This film has been unavailable on video for years. Now Amazon offers an alternative, where copies are created on demand. It played well on a relatively old mac.  One slightly bothersome thing is that there are 21 different chapters, but the disc does not have the usual scene selection menu. So if you want to find something in particular, it may take some time to do it.  And the film is black and white, with a  lot of night scenes. It is hard to distinguish the action in many cases, even with the brightness turned up.  But it  is great to have this movie truly available and accessible. If  yo have been looking for it on DVD, the investment is worth it.

Great Show Love the adult humor of the show, Archer is my favorite spy! from his lack of one liners to his ability to be the #1 spy while being #1 with the ladies. This show just has me cracking up at all the jokes. Season 3 starts in a week and I can't wait to catch it. If you like adult humor,spys,guns,etc this series you'll probably like.

Four Tops How could you not like the Four Tops they are fantastic (I miss the one's that are gone) watching dvd brought back wonderful memories

Sailing and action The best sailing/war movie ever made so far. Touches on a lot of historic events to boot (Darwin and such). The old sailing ship stuff in this movie is so real - movie doesn't play fovorites w/ characters either, pis some folks off

Value for money!! Loved the series and so decided to buy it. It's value for money on amazon as usual. Postage is dirt cheap! Definitely worth it for the special features!

what i was looking for I love once bitten and i had not seen vampire's kiss and this was cheaper than just once bitten so it seemed like a no brainer.

good quality blu ray edition This is a very clean version of Stargate - no noticeable debris from the film scan.  The image quality varies rather noticeably - there are multiple scenes with very grainy image quality.  So grainy that it's very objectionable.  Tends to be the lower light scenes obviously.  As mentioned elsewhere, the sub-titling of the alien language only shows up if you turn on sub-titles.  This is stupid and we rewatched several scenes once we realized the dialog HAD to have sub-titles and went looking.  If this is an extended cut, I couldn't tell the difference.  Audio is really clean.  Worth replacing your dvd copy.

The best movie ever made. Highest quality movie in my library. No special features, but who needs those anyways. Very fast shipping. If you like Pulp Fiction, and you own a Blu-Ray player, you should own this movie. Another proud purchase @ Amazon.com

12.99 for this?! I was able to take advantage of the 12.99 price on this, which is incredible for what you get.  It's a good movie, and I'll definitely take advantage of the digital copy as well.

Great true story I had never heard of Defiance before, only seen it while searching for movies from Amazon. What a surprise to learn about this wonderful story of survival. There are some good scenes that show what war does to men on both sides of the conflict as we try to survive and provide for our families.

Rare! Shout! Factory goes wide and deep with four rare episodes. I've seen about 80 percent of all the mst3ks and I had never seen any of these! Two Joels and two mikes really make for a good mix-- I hope they keep this pattern for future releases.

Dying or Not, the Hawk is Amazin Some of the reviews listed here are misleading. This film really had nothing to do with liberal propaganda or even politics at all. Which is one thing I like about it. I'm from the south, and the characters were spot on, almost hyper-realistic. What makes this film enjoyable is that it deals with common themes, death, animals, family, alienation, obsessiveness, and how these relate to the experience of meaningful relationships (that weren't necessarily scripted from Leave it to Beaver). It's also really funny at parts. Life fails to leave me extremely bored and in constant search of entertainment, and so I seldom lack the motivation to get a grasp on unsettling, personal experiences. The kind of which I enjoy recognizing in performances like this film. Equating existential perspectives with liberal propaganda does in fact display a very superficial understanding of film in general, so I'm cool with not doing that and ultimately being stereotyped in my reviews as unenlightened, and defensive of Christianity.  Giamatti is brilliant as usual. But this film was surprisingly good. Michelle Williams is gorgeous, pensive, brooding, and perfectly cast alongside Giamatti. The supporting actors were on-point and compelling. Indie director Julian Goldberg brought it all home. This film wanders and rambles, and veers from any sort of typical dramatic playbook, and somehow avoids getting lost in its own sentiment like so many other indie films unfortunately do. It's a careful, thoughtful, subtle film, and I'd include it among my all-time favorites.

perfect The whole transaction went smoothly. Arrived within reasonable amount of time however have not had the time to watch the movie yet!

Lady and the Tramp Always loved this movie, got this for my great grand kids,  Don't know who enjoyed it more,them or me.  Great movie, for young or old.

rise andy rise all i want to write that if andy serkis is not nominated for his performance, than there is no justice. he is the heart and soul of this very well done film. come on it's oscar time!

brad pitt becomes billy beane this is one of brad pitt's very best performances.  he buries himself underneath general manager billy beane of the oakland  baseball team. he looks average.  he has a down home manner when he relates to other people. you completely believe that he is billy and not brad pitt.  this is not achieved through five hours in a makeup chair either.  we have another all star in the making of this movie too by having aaron sorkin as the screenwriter.  sorkin writes brilliant script after brilliant script.  The Social Network was just one of these.  jonah hill as the yale grad in econonmics is great as billy's sidekick, pete.  it is his idea that you can create a better team by not going after stars but by instead analyzing their worth and abilities by computer program. billy and pete build an entirely new team using this radical new premise.  they thus can build a more competitive team with the money they have since they do not have the money to go after stars.  i wish MARGIN CALL had been able to explain the economics in its premise as well as Sorkin does the economics of baseball.  a lot of the dramatic tension in the film comes from all the underlings to billy who absolutely want to stick to the old way of doing things, especially the coach played by Philip Seymour Hoffman. all in all, it is an excellent film about a little known but all important aspect of professional baseball.

My new favorite show on TV This was the first Amazon Instant Video that I've purchased because I got a Kindle Fire for Christmas and I wanted to have something to watch on my work trips.  VIDEO QUALITY & PLAYBACK The video quality is excellent. I've watched it on both my Kindle Fire and my laptop. I bought the standard quality  mostly because it is way cheaper, but it is a crisp picture.  THE SHOW This is my new favorite show. Every character is fantastic and there is just the right mix of comedy, touching moments and awkwardness. I also bought season 2, and I'm looking forward to purchasing and watching Season 3.

Greatest Box Set I've Bought in a Long Time!!! Summary: This gift set was fantastic! The quality on the movie (watched the Blu-Ray) was flawless in my opinion, and I'm known to be a pretty picky person when it comes to quality! The price was too good to beat for such a great set and I highly recommend to anyone who enjoyed this classic years ago!  I must say, I was at first hesitant when I thought about all the extras that came in the box - I mean what would I need or do with all the items that this set comes with? But I must say I was pleasantly surprised when I was able to see all the extras! The books were very interesting and the postcards were such a clever add in!! The music box was of such great quality and I truly enjoy listening to it. I think that for the high quality Blu-Ray (and DVD), the amount of extras, and the price, you really can't beat this deal!  Seeing this classic on such high quality resolution that I used to watch when I was younger and still sing along to is probably one of the greatest recent memories I hold! I truly recommend this gift set to anyone interested or hesitant upon purchasing!

A Thousand Faces. As a kid, I was desperate to see this movie. Now I have it on dvd. Lon Chaney was an inspiration to the outward horror yet loving and vulnerable soul that he brought to the screen. My only negative criticism of this wonderful film is the Phantom's tragic death. I wish it had been like the book. Yet, superb!

Better than you might expect A truly compelling, thought-provoking story with good character development.  Often times, Hollywood makes the mistake of thinking that the only way to tell a story about how science can cause dilemmas in people's lives and for the law, they think that they have to throw in chase scenes, fights, shootouts and expletives to get people's attention. This might distract viewers a bit from the story which is suggests that not even the characters themselves know how the plot will be resolved.  This challenging film has no surprise ending. Which only makes for great character development.

A balm for the uneasy heart and soul Yoga teacher, psychotherapist and philosopher Ira Israel has crafted a multi-dimensional approach to dealing with depression. He brings warmth, humor, compassion and a robust grasp of Advaita Vedanta (non-dualism) to the discussion, aswell as drawing on a range of Western thinkers. I found the guided meditations particularly useful and Israel's voice is steady, calm, warm and reassuring.  I found his distinction between pain, grief and depression very helpful, and his distinction between discernment and judgement intellectually interesting, but more importantly directly relevant to our lives and our capacity to eliminate suffering. He presents us with tools for cultivating and practicing mindfulness and welcoming the full tapestry of human experience as valuable and ultimately enriching for our lives.  Shot on location in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Francisco, London and Paris, this is a visually stunning and deeply satisfying watch. Definitely one to keep in steady rotation.

Just Freakin' Awesome! I, honestly, cannot express how awesome this series is. I'm a low level anime fan; I love it, but I definitely can't keep up with all the anime, and all the Hollywood live action, along with the independent films out there. Note to self: find review services that I can agree with and that cover all three areas *sigh*  I caught this while I was in college, and I was up nights, watching Cartoon Network. I was hooked...HOOKED! I'm really not into Dragonball Z, or Naruto...I saw older classics like Ninja Scroll, and Ghost in the Shell...Perfect Blue. This is some really awesome work. Great artwork, well told story, great soundtrack, it's fun, creative. If you even like anime just a little bit, please check this out!  ...and now that it's on blu-ray, %$#! yeah I'm buying it!!

Why, oh why? Every few years I come back looking for The Return of Bruno, hoping for a DVD version.  Can you believe they STILL don't have it on DVD?  And no way to put it on a wish list with Amazon.  Come on, HBO, get this out on DVD.

A beautiful surprise... Back in 1981, Oscar night seemed to circle around two vastly different prospects.  Best Picture was a race between Warren Betty's lavishly detailed political drama `Reds' and the ghastly mediocre senior citizens rom-com `On Golden Pond'.  After walking away with Oscars in the two lead acting categories, Betty's director Oscar seemed like `Reds' reward and it looked like once again Oscar was going to award the most undeserving in the lineup.  Then, out of nowhere, `Chariots of Fire' came barreling to the podium in a surprise victory that only a handful would have ever predicted.  Why can't we have surprises like this today?  `Chariots of Fire' is no `Reds'.  It is certainly preachier in tone and is more message heavy (obviously message heavy as opposed to subtly message heavy) but there is a gritty earthy loveliness about `Chariots of Fire' that makes me happy it won the Oscar.  I prefer `Reds' and `Raiders of the Lost Ark' (which is just legendary) overall, but `Chariots of Fire' is far from an undeserved win, and it is one that few people remember and sadly few people have seen.  This little film that could boasts an ageless story of man's bout with faith and their abilities to succeed.  Telling parallel stories of two men preparing for the same Olympic race.  Eric Liddell is a Presbyterian son of a missionary who runs for God and thus uses his faith in a higher power as his motivation to go for the gold so-to-speak.  His faith becomes a hurdle for him in moments of consequence, and yet it is his driving force and so it propels him to greatness.  Harold Abrahams is a Jew and scholar who runs to win and feel something in himself, something of worth.  His self-doubts and fears weigh heavily on his progress, but overall self-determination put him in the same vein as Liddell.  At the end of the day, `Chariots of Fire' is a beautifully handled sports drama that is more drama than sports (just the way I like it) and thus keeps a slower, more meaningful pace that accentuates the films core principles and keeps it a lingering thought in the viewers mind.

Required Can't live without Breaking Bad.  Never a dull moment, each episode gets more creative.  Edge of your seat stuff requires thought, creates emotion.

Ridiculously good! I love these series! They are very educational, yet they don't make it as boring. New and interesting theories in present day, and the proof that goes along with them!

The Television Syndrome One of my favorite movies with John Hurt, John Woods and Deborah Harry. This is about the way television has or will take over lives in invasive and non-invasive ways. One becomes so devoted to a television show that one becomes a part of the streaming beam that provides the wanted, no needed images that are to be shown on the screen. What of the subliminal? Is someone controlling the airwaves to target the mind with unseen and unheard mmessages? Challenge the box and try to discover for yourself.

An Incredible Film L.A. Confidential is one incredible piece of film work. It recreates Los Angeles of the early to mid 1950's in such a way I would want to be there.  The story line is complex and multi-faceted,dealing with Los Angeles after the demise of Mickey Cohen and what could have happened to his crime empire.  Is all this truly fictional? I wonder. Check with Sid Hudgens to find out. The film is great, loaded with Oscar winners (future ones such as Russell Crowe, and including Kim Basinger who got Best Supporting Actress for this)and Oscar nominees.  Wow! You have to buy this. I got the DVD in the lock case, used-like new which the DVD indeed is-like new.

The finest movie I've seen this year Robbin Simmons' review is spot on. An incredible piece of filmmaking - they even got the score just right. I was pinned to my seat, and felt like I was there...to the point that I even had to look away a few times as the tension become too much. Brilliant acting, and a new bar for cinematography; the direction is superb. So glad we watched it, highest marks.

I LOVED this movie! This movie was probably one of the best movies i have seen in a long time. Although if you are emotional you might have a hard time getting through some of the sad scenes in this movie, but for me i LOVED it!

Completely Underrated. This movie is by far my favorite movie ever. I had originally started my quest to watch all the James Gandolfini movies after watching The Sopranos series the 90th time through. I did not expect to be as seduced as I was by this movie. The acting is superb and the story is wonderfully written. I cannot express how amazing this movie is. BUY IT!

five star disc of a five star movie "Gigi" is  what Lerner and Loewe did after the smashing success of "My Fair Lady". Directed by Vincente Minelli, it dominated the Academy  Awards the year of its release. It is one of the very greatest of the Hollywood musicals. So much has been written about the film already that I will confine myself to comments on the Bluray disc. It is, in a word, magnificent. The picture is crystal clear and the color ravishing; but it is the sound that for me takes the prize. The wonderful score has never before been heard this well, not even when the film was first released. It is sheer delight. Bluray is most often touted for the quality of the pix, which is definitely superior, but the often unbelievable audio goes almost unremarked. If you want to hear as well as see Bluray at its finest, get "Gigi".

Repo-Man, Intense! This is a movie I have enjoyed many times since the 80's. Like "The Magic Christian" and "Blazing Saddles", it is comedy with a bite.

GUNG HOE THIS IS ONE OF THE GREATEST WAR PICTURES IN MY WAR MOVIE COLLECTION. I WOULD NEVER TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING. A HOLE BUNCH OF WELL KNOWN ACTORS, A MUST SEE NOW. SO GO A HEAD GO TO AMAZON.COM-TO THE MOVIE SECTION AND BUY OR RENT, OR USE PRIME, DO IT NOW, IF YOU HAVE THE GUTS. I DOUBLE DOG DARE YOU!! YOU CAN NOT GO WRONG WITH THIS PURCHASE, THANK YOU VERY MUCH KEEP THE GREAT PRODUCTS AND OTHER THINGS COMING, FCOLDSHOWER1

Downton abbey Great Product. It is an enthralling series thatreveals the kind of lif that servants and aristocracy lived in those times. The characters are so well presented and it is clear that casting took great care to make it so successful. There is no one that disappoints you. One gets hooked from the very beginning.

Flawless! I rarely write movie reviews.  What am I reviewing?  The writing, acting, content of the movie?  That is completely subjective, what one person likes another may dislike.  So am I reviewing the technical quality of the original film, the DVD transfer, comparing one release to another?  Well what if I have a great TV and sound system and another person has a terrible one?  What I see and hear may not be seen and heard by that other person.  So this is strictly based on my viewing of The Sound of Music 45th Anniversary Blu-ray disc last night.  Perfect in every way!  I have not seen the movie in a long time and the last time was on a TV with a picture tube and listening through the TV's speakers.  This viewing made me happy I now have a high resolution widescreen TV and an excellent sound system.  I truly saw and heard things I never knew were in the movie.  I could not be happier that I now own this set.  The most amazing moment was at the beginning of the church wedding.  My subwoofer has never gone so low.  But yet the extreme bass was perfectly controlled and clear, with no distortion.  This Blue-ray set earns the highest possible rating for pure enjoyment.  Let someone else discuss the writing, acting, techie details about the transefer, etc.

daring So many World War 11 movies seem similar and almost boring.  Yes.  The unfortunate events happened.  Yet others like them have also taken place, all over the world.  In the past and even, right now. But this story was told in another aspect that captured all who have seen it.

My husband - the third Blues Brother I bought this for my husband as a Christmas gift and he was very happy with it. He finally bought a blu-ray player a few months ago so this was the natural choice. It is one of his all time favorite movies and why not? Where else can you find great singing, neo nazis, scary nuns, epic car crashes and Ray Charles?? Only here!

Jeeves & Wooster I've read the Jeeves & Wooster books several times over and have never seen a production on film, television or stage that interprets the original work better than this!  The casting is wonderful, the story lines are true to the originals and it makes for pleasant light entertainment.  The members of the Drones Club are just as silly as you want them to be for 'taking the piss' on the upper class, Aunt Agatha just as imposing as the grande dame she was written to be and Jeeves, well Jeeves is perfect.  It is also nice to see Hugh Laurie playing the empty headed Wooster with all the bumbling aplomb of the original character.  Please don't expect heavy entertainment because if you do, you will be sorely disappointed.  If you love the original books, however, it is like sitting down and having a visual reunion with an old friend.

Definitely very Prestigious One of the better movies I've seen recently, hence the allusion to The Prestige.  Well.  That, and it shares some commonalities with it, as well, aside from being a great movie.  I'll admit that about 30 minutes in I already knew basically what was going to happen--but there were still enough twists and turns to keep me surprised at the moment-to-moment events, and each time I thought I'd figured out exactly how it worked, there was something more around the corner.  Combined with the way little things from earlier in the movie kept coming back, it kept me going "Oh... ohhh, that's why..." right up to the end.  Other reviewers have noted that the first few minutes are really confusing--they really should be, because suddenly understanding why it all made sense is what delivers the impact at the end.  On a level, the characters' lack of genre-savviness was aggravating in places, but I can forgive them considering the circumstances; and that not everyone's a scifi nerd.  Avoiding spoilers, if you like stories where the plot seems scattered and incomprehensible at times, but you get to watch all the dots connect as you go and by the end it's all come together (e.g., The Time Traveler's Wife and a lot of Dr. Who episodes by Moffat, especially "Big Bang") you'll probably love Triangle.  If there's a problem, it's that I'm left wondering what happens from the outside world's perspective, since the story almost exclusively follows one character's point of view.  I can theorize, and one interpretation is certainly implied near the end, but a little more would have been nice, considering how surreal it gets in places...  Altogether, though, it was fantastic, and well worth seeing, at least for those who aren't too squeamish.

One of the greatest of all westerns! As much as I love Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai," I enjoy "The Magnificent Seven" even more. Maybe it's because we get closer to the characters, and they're better defined; maybe it's because of Eli Wallach's more formidable, yet more human villain, Calvera; maybe it's the incredible and iconic music score; maybe it's the brilliant and often wonderfully economical script that gives it such a literate feel, and brings a story of archetypes to life with such vibrancy and such empathy for its characters; maybe it's the collection of actors -- our heroes -- almost all of whom would go on to fine careers (like Coburn, Bronson, and Vaughn); but most likely it's all of these things combined. The sequels are better off forgotten (truly -- they even steal music cues from the original), but this one stands the test of time -- its metaphorical story, couched in the framework of a western, turning it into a blueprint of human existence.

Got this for my Mom who saw a scene being filmed for it... It is one of my mother's favorite stories to tell about being taken into Hollywood to one of the big studios where her high school drama teacher had gotten permission to bring their class to watch a scene being filmed and it was for this movie, Les Girls.  She always said that it was very exciting to see and that when the scene was over, Mitzi Gaynor made a point of coming over to where they were sitting and talked to the kids in her class.  She said that Ms. Gaynor could not have been kinder or more gracious to a group of star struck drama students, and that Ms. Gaynor's waist had to have been about 12" because she was so tiny and petite.  So, after we had seen a Mitzi Gaynor retrospective/special on PBS about the lady's career, my mother mentioned how gracious and kind Ms. Gaynor had been so I did a little searching and voila!  Les Girls if a fun, campy little story with snappy dialogue  obviously a bit dated by today's standards  but it was good fun and it made my mother very happy.  There's something else that can be said about old movies during this time period, the color in them is extraordinary.  Vivid, crisp and fierce, it leaps out at you, especially in the musical numbers where the costumes and sets can be most dazzling.

Magnificent Men/Flying Machines Another entertaining 1960's comedy with some interesting flying machines, not to mention, Sarah Miles, Red Skelton, and Stuart Whitman! And it's all based on the historic 1910 air race!

A monument in film making.. A triumph of survival I will try to make an adequate review of this film which deserves high praise and seems to be outside peoples radar.  I have seen many many movies on or centered around the Holocaust, many of which did not measure up to being close to good film making. When I see, by far more reviews on The boy in Striped Pajamas than on this I wonder if today's society would rather see fiction or fact when it comes to the Holocaust in film genre. This I must point out IS a true story, a story that borders on amazement, luck and ingenuity beyond all else. This is a story of a boys personal triumph of survival in the face of evil, an evil determined to wipe he and all of his blood into extinction.  Meet Alex, an 11 year old of Jewish ancestry whom among millions were herded into ghettos and concentration camps. This is the story of one of those millions, a boy imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto desperately seeking survival by any means necessary. When the ghetto is continuously emptied by German soldiers in their infamous ghetto roundups, the boy is left to fend for himself while his father is taken away from him during one of these roundups. Miraculously With a harrowing escape, Alex is able to hide and elude the Germans within the hidden places of the ghetto. You see a boy using his head and not making decisions based upon fear to hide amongst the ruins of a building blown apart, a building I believe that helped save his life as much as his own ingenuity did. Throughout the movie you see roundup after roundup, slowly emptying the Jews until it seems that Alex is all that is left but their was seemingly no end in site for Alex as he had to not only survive the Germans but also others of his own kind fighting to do the same.  In the end I believe you will be happy that you purchased this film, it has enough triumph and moments of humor to take your mind off (If even for a moment) the death surrounding Alex at all times. It is rare to see a film of this caliber in a genre that is flooded with movies that make you sad. I leave it for you to decide but I see this as a breath of fresh air in the category even if it, at times, seems impossible for a boy to be so inventive at his age

It's a hit! We checked out this movie so many times from the library ($1 section) that I had to buy it to save money! It's my daughter's absolute favorite movie, we also have the soundtrack that we listen to in the car!

Great! I bought this for my sister's birthday and she loved it! So needed to upgrade from VHS to DVD (haha!) I love this movie!

Forget Rudy! Rudy is a legend in his own mind! He may have written a story that captures the spirit of young dreamers; however, Knute Rockne is the real deal! As a double domer from a domer family, Knute Rockne, the movie, was played in Washington Hall to the incoming freshmen at ND every year. Ronald Reagon portrayed the good side of the Gipper (domers know the naughty side) and it's a true inspiration. Rock, Gip, and the real ND players left it on the field of play and this movie tells the story of Notre Dame football's rise to legendary status. And, the campus shots are wonderful and the stuff memories are made of.

Snow White I received this movie faster than expected.  This is one of my all time favorites and my 2 yr old niece loves it as well.

Scream 2 I the item I purchased was not what was pictured, but the sellar did give me a refund, and I mailed the item back.

I recommend this movie to everyone I actually make it a requirement for anyone working with our son, who has autism. Temple Grandin is an amazing woman and HBO did a wonderful job bringing her story to the big screen. Even though my son isn't much like Miss Grandin at all, this movie did help me understand what MAY be going on inside his head. I think its great for anyone that works with individuals who have autism.

GREAT MOVIE!!! This is a GREAT movie for all ages, young AND old. I'm sooo tires of blood & guts movies and distruction, disrespect stuff that fills our entertainment. Too much of that goes on in REAL LIFE. This movie incorporates morales, values, loyalty, friendship within the telling of imagination.

Isabella Rossellini and Beethoven's music shine The performance of Isabella Rossellini, as a Hungarian countess who had been one of Beethoven's mistresses, was particularly to my liking.  She wonderfully conveyed the emotions of her character through her voice, facial expression, and gesture.  For me this is the best role that Rossellini has played.  I also liked one of the final sequences in which Beethoven's 9th symphony debuted in Vienna.  Especially interesting was the interpretation that the martial refrain of the choral part of the Ninth corresponding to Beethoven joyfully running as a boy.  This was a very appropriate interpretation, as a translation of the German for that part of the chorus corresponds to "run brother along your road".  The young Beethoven is also seen to float in a stream at night such that a view from above shows him to be surrounded by the reflection of the starry sky--a moving allusion to the chorus singing "uber Sternenzelt" (over the starry expanse).  As I memorized the choral part of the Ninth in German forty years ago and have never forgotten it, such scenes as these are particularly moving.

B movie classic Good quality both sound and picture. Would purchase more like this one. The company " cheesy flicks" that reproduced this disc says it all. Cheezy but a great film if you are a fan of b movies.

Awesome Movie! Awesome movie-incredible sensitive and powerful, as much about people as it is about horses. Buck Brannaman is a wonderful example of one who can make a powerful difference in the world in spite of abuse early on.

REST IN PIECE SIR TONY REST IN PIECE SIR TONY, DIRECTOR OF THE LAST BOYSCOUT. HOLLYWOOD HAS LOST A TRUE GENIUS OF A FILMMAKER. SO PROUD TO BE A FAN AND TO OWN ALL HIS FILMS

Read Ehkzu's Review! As Ehkzu mentioned, I'm one of those who has never been a huge fan of any artist ever, until I first saw Jackie Evancho 2 1/2 years ago on youtube.  I immediately recognized that she was the most phenomenal vocal prodigy of our time.  Perhaps of all time.  As he mentions, one of the reasons I'm a huge fan is that she doesn't sing like a child.  In fact, I'm such a fan that I was one of the significant funders of her first album and yet I am far from rich and have never contributed to any artist before.  I was just so struck by her talent that I knew she, more than any artist I've ever seen or heard, deserved to be given a hand up.  I will admit that I didn't dream of how quickly and hugely her star would rise.  I just knew in my gut that she was a true genius and phenomenon.  I also relate to Ehkzu's statement that it's better if people hear her without seeing her first.  When my father played The Lord's Prayer at his 80th birthday party for dinner and the MC mentioned that she was 11 (actually she was 10 at the time she sang it), the audience applauded but I just knew they were visualizing some exceptionally large, physically mature, adult looking 11-year-old! :)  I wish I'd had time to play part of her DVD but unfortunately I was too busy DJing :)

Love Jackie Jackie Mason is my favorite comedian.  His routines are based on incisive observations of human behavior and are hilariously accurate (albeit sometimes a bit repetitive/exaggerated) portrayals of cultural differences.  His humorous routines juxtapose the way in which people of  different cultural underpinnings deal with like situations. His roasting characterizations of famous personalities are equally entertaining.  Patience with overstatement, redundancy, and usual issues with generalizations may be necessary to free oneself to fully savor the joys of experiencing (most of) his standup performances. He must be the funniest rabbi on the planet.  (OTOH, my wife, who was not raised with NY schtick, doesn't agree with me at all.)

Cool Movie If you liked the book. you will love the movie. If you read the other reviews, you are probably confused. Just get the movie and decide for yourself. Then you can play Roger Egbert when its your turn to review.

Tales from the Crypt We could not be any more pleased with our Tales from the Crypt. We now have all Seven Season's. They were received in less than a week and in perfect, brand new condition.  Thank you AMAZON.COM. We couldn't have done this without you. Jeanette Frison

Real T.V. Thanks Bill Cosby! We just purchased season two as we have season one and love this T.V. series, its clean fun and funny! Great for family laughs! We cut the cord on cable and now view TV though our DVD collection or watch though Netflix on our Roku. We just grew tired of paying for paid TV with nothing good to watch.  Looks like that is the growing attitudes with paid for TV these days.. And I know many like the Cosby show!  While shopping on Amazon we selected the used copy we wanted and while still shopping someone else purchased the copy we had in our cart so we lost that copy and had to select another copy that cost more. I guess that goes to show how great this show is, everyone is grabbing copies of it.(which is good, because this should show producers that people really want to watch).  Anyway, our family loves this show and glad that we were still able to find a used copy for a decent price.. We don't want to spend too much money out of our budget. We are just glad to be able to watch T.V. the way we want to and not have to pay for crap TV. We are tired of today's T.V. shows.. It's really sad that such a good method of influence has turned into trash T.V with the exception of National Geo etc.. Any way, if you want clean T.V. this is it! (I even have the Cosby Show set as one of my ring tones on my cell phone!  I can say since we cut cable off we have a better free life.. seems like we have more family time and time to do the things that we want to do. Plus we pay for the shows that we want like The Cosby show since it is not on Netflix. I am glad that this T.V. series is available on Amazon.  This T.V. Series teaches a lot of great lessons and also entertains you.. Miss those days of shows like this. So if you are looking for clean great family  fun, this show is for you.. You will not be disappointed. Our children love this show! This show could even go for parental education!  Happy viewing! ********update***************** We received our copy of season two and we are excited. We will start watching soon so that we can see how the DVD's play. Shipping was as expected.  Thanks.

the grey moive was really good <span class="tiny"> Length:: 0:54 Mins  </span>i when with my mom to see the moive grey it was a really good moive  too what u guys  think about the moive by the way

This Season got me Watching 1-7 I didn't really notice "24" until it's last season, season 8. I heard about it before, but never really bothered to try and watching it until it's last season and was surprised that it was actually a decent show and made me want to actually watch 1-7 to see all of Jack Bauer's Struggles.  I then noticed that seasons 1-7 were availible for Prime for free, which allowed me to watch every season on amazon, which took a few months watching a few episodes each week.  This was nice because I mainly hate waiting each week to see the next episode, and now I was able to watch a whole season in less than a week (If I Had The Time).  While many things in this series such as the circumstances and outcomes are not the most realistic scenarios, it still kept me interested and wanting to see what came next!

Awesome This show is hilarious. The animation is really pretty with all the colors. It has adult humor in it to which makes it a good show for everyone.

The prototype for the "Mockumentary" If you are a fan of rock music and you haven't seen this movie you are missing out. You can't beat the price for a blu-ray. There are alot of cool extras on the blu-ray as well. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000Y5JFN4">This Is Spinal Tap [Blu-ray</a>]

Great Show and Ending I enjoyed watching all the seasons of Lost. They were full of great storylines and meaning. I thought the ending to the series was the best way they could have ended it.

Poignant and startling! I am saddened by the plight of the dolphins in Japan (and perhaps around the world). Japan needs to stop their "traditional" way of killing whales and dolphins. The world also needs to stop buying dolphins from Japan! Opps....my kids just bugged me to bring them to Seaworld....what to do?

Superb Amongst the first of the major David Lean films to be released on BD (KWAI and PASSAGE TO INDIA are also out), so where's LAWRENCE OF ARABIA and RYAN'S DAUGHTER? A superb restoration, the copy is outstanding, and includes a 2 part NEW documentary on the first disc.  My only reflection on the doco is that whilst it's informative, why were Julie Christie, Omar Sharif or Tom Courtney not interviewed, rather than people who had, at the very best, a 'six degrees of separation' link with the film. But the good news is that DR ZHIVAGO BD is REGION FREE, so PLEASE Amazon, put this information in your product details! Disc 2 is the same as the DVD disc of special features, and the 'sample' disc of the soundtrack is nothing new either.  The book presentation is excellent, and well worth the few extra dollars.  For fans of great film, just buy it and enjoy, they don't make films like this any more, sadly.

Amazing Video This video is an amazing account of the plight of moses and the jewish people as they fled slavery. If shows real-time proof that this in not a story made up by fiction writers. It proves the accounts of the bible. YOU MUST SEE THIS! Two Thumbs and Eight Fingers UP!

perfect condition My son has wanted this movie for so long, it came in perfect condition and includes the dvd and blue ray. Nice cover that movie slides out of and looks more collectible.

Silly fun with action and heart I saw this movie about a year ago without knowing much about it and scenes still stand out in my mind.  The bed sharing with gay room mate is hilarious. I remember viewing the first fight scene and thinking "Oh, so that's what kind of movie this is..." and then they totally pulled the whole thing off. I need to rent this again on blu-ray.

Something good. A beautiful restoration of a beautiful film.  This latest incarnation of The Sound of Music offers the best-ever presentation of the best R&H film adaptation, and one of the great film musicals of all time. The opening shots of the Austrian countryside have never looked more grand, and the outstanding lossless audio track presents the music in its full splendor, sounding every bit like a new movie and not a 40+ year old film.  Robert Wise's choice of color palette for this film was rather muted, so there aren't really a lot of bright colors to show off, but the darks are superb ("Sixteen Going on Seventeen" is lovely) and the moonlit scenes on the Von Trapp veranda are just gorgeous now. This is without doubt the best this film has ever looked and sounded.  Many of the special features from previous DVD releases have been incorporated into the blu-ray, but not all. Specifically, owners of the "Five Star Collection" should hang onto that edition (for the Charmain Carr documentary, among other features). I didn't bother with the deluxe box set (which features the "My Favorite Things" box; seemed a little too cliche), but no doubt true Sound of Music obsessives will want that edition as well.  Very few musical films achieve both the artistic and cultural significance of The Sound of Music, and Fox has done themselves proud with this latest upgrade of one of the jewels in their crown.

Well above average An excellent series. Well written characters, thought out story, even the 'filler-arcs' (story arcs added to let the manga artist get the next story arc set up) are very well done.  Only complaint is the $50 msrp (I got it on sale) for 12 episodes. Not the worst pricing ever but still unnecessarily high.

Great for working out -- Love It! I'm building my workout DVD collection with activities that are not considered traditional workouts. I wanted a Belly Dance DVD where the instructor was a bit more believable than a lot of the others, and I found all that I was looking for in Serpentine!  This is the perfect addition.  With this DVD you can pick and choose which segments you want for your workouts, or for your belly dance learning experience.  I love that there are 2 DVDs:  DVD #1: Focuses on yoga strength training for belly dance,isolation & shimmy drills.  DVD #2: You get to see choreography, then the demo, then the choreography is broken up into loops so that you can practice a part over and over again.  Great idea!

An Excellent Movie Shirley is playing one of her typical roles as a wise cracker; but she's also the matriarchal glue that holds the family together. I loved her crude jokes - she gets some good lines. Julia's acting is flawless. Some colorful costumes are also worn. I liked a reference to a short story I read in Middle School - the Rocking-Horse Winner. After the movie, I had to re-read this short story after forty years. The moral of the story is that you can't plan life. Be prepared to make better whatever Life throws at you. You can't pick your family members. Life is not worth much without Love. And if that Rocking Horse don't win, trade him in for a jug of Gin.

beautiful Beautiful, hilarious movie. Everyone should at least watch this film once. It will truly touch your heart in many ways, especially with laughter and awe.

exactly what I wanted I wanted just the 3D version of Toy Story set and that's exactly what it is here. Wonderful 3D. And it's great NOT having all those extra disks to cluter up the place.  Also, if you have a 3D player you can switch these over to 2D Blu ray. Again, no extra discs.

Very Funny, Great Film. First Off, I dont take drugs and still found the film very funny. Didnt think I would but watching these tweakers during the film was very funny. Seeing the trouble they get into and make things worse. Give it a chance you will laugh. Fans of super bad will like. I laugh to tears watching his one sometimes.

Gorgeous bluray! I just bought the bluray today and just finished watching the entire movie. Let me just tell you that the picture and sound quality are absolutely amazing! I guess we can't please the ones that gave it just one star, but it is what it is! You simply can't go wrong with this movie! I saw it again after many years and I was very impressed, need I say more!?

A new lease on life for a classic film To begin to understand the whys and whats of the JFK assassination, this film is a great place to start.  This Director's cut (Oliver Stone) gives an overwhelming amount of information in a logical and coherent narrative. Film covers the attempt to conduct a trial for someone alleged to be involved in the killing of JFK. Stone weaves an intruiging narrative based on two books - "Crossfire" by Jim Marrs, and "On the Trail of the Assassins" by Jim Garrison, who prosecuted the New Orleans case in court.  He was the DA of New Orleans and took a lot of criticism from the Federal government, which attempted to discredit him as a egotist out for publicity.

Great movie I wasn't expecting too much, but I was very pleasantly surprised. This is a really good movie filled with great suspense. I highly recommend it.

Classic Movie This movie is the best. Such a classic and great for quotes. Beware of any man with a large number of pigs.

Just like when I was a kid Ah, trip down memory lane.  I wish they would have enhanced the intro because the black specs from the original TV show are there.  However after the intro the picture is great.

Comentando desde Chile A great movie .... has all the desirable features, impressive sound, 1080p picture quality, original audio (which was filmed), and Spanish subtitles. Recommended by 100%.  Esta, junto a Apocalipsys Now, Full Metal Jacket y La Delgada L&iacute;nea Roja, son un deleite, cada una en su estilo, pero buen&iacute;simas todas.

Terrific Movie I had seen this movie on TV when it first aired.  After reading Ron Clark's newest book this summer, I wanted to watch the movie again.  As a teacher, it was very inspiring before the start of a new school year.  Enjoy!

Jackie Chan's 1st Top Hit! Drunken Master (Jackie Chan, Hwang Jang Lee) Without a doubt, the movie that made Jackie Chan a star. It features and names all 8 of the Taoist Immortals.

Powerful emotion-filled documentary Powerful documentary that will leave you with emotions for a long period to come. The narrative is classic and the flow is splendid. You are left to wonder at the 'future without hope' of the Lost Boys right at the beginning of the documentary. You are moved here at and sympathise with their plight as they travel thousands of kilometres in the desert without food or water, losing many of their companions along the way. They eventually gather and meet at a refuge camp in Kenya where they grow up without any meaningfull future.  Later you join them on a roller coaster as they struggle to assimilate and adjust to the American lifestyle. At some stage, you are left with nothing but laugh as the boys struggle to learn how to use a shower and how to turn on/off an alectricity switch. Then towards the end you admire how the boys transform their lives for common good of where they come from. There are some powerfull emotional scenes when one of the boys John reunites with his mother. Great documentary and a must see!

The season that started it all One of my favorite shows ever! This first season that started it all. You won't be disappointed with this series. Plus it has Jensen and Jared. What more needs to be said.

Informative This video is informative, enlightening, relaxing, and easy to follow.  I enjoyed very much the ideas it presented through its beautiful images, as they took me far away, but not so far as to ever lose the message.

A Workout that gets results! I am in my mid-thirties and I don't usually like to buy workout DVDs but tried this one b/c scientifically, it seemed that it would probably work.  I like how there is a specific 4 wk plan depending on the results you want to achieve.  (If left to my own devices, I would give up on DVDs within a month!)  The other motivating factor is that you do see results with your own eyes within 7-10 days.  I have not changed my eating habits very much except to drink pop only twice a wk (instead of almost daily) and give up eating a big cookie every day with lunch.  Despite that, I can still see results to my "trouble spots" that developed with the pregnancy/birth of my son.  What I notice the most though is that my clothes are looser in those areas.  I think these are tough woukouts at first especially if you are out-of shape but with time you will have much better endurance!  I am starting wk 4/4 now and then will move on to the "classic" routine thereafter.  I think the best thing I can say to readers is that this wkend, my sister-in-law saw me in my new jeans and SHE was inspired to buy the videos that day!!!  Can't say enough about this set of workout DVDs!!

Great Workout I love The Firm and am particularly fond of Allison's workouts.  This one doesn't dissappoint.  Super fun and gets all of me.  She switches from cardio to weights with a small breather inbetween, which I appreciate.  I feel worked-out and rejuvinated after doing this workout.

Guilty pleasure Can't help it, know I shouldn't- but I still love this series.  Such a strange premise - high school chemistry teacher teams up with former (awful) student to make and sell meth, yet, it works.  My husband and I found ourselves wondering with each episode what could possibly happen next.

America's War of Conquest "America's War of Conquest" is not a phrase that rolls easily off the tongue, the pen, or the keyboard. But that's exactly what this war was all about.  That may explain why the Mexican-American War is, arguably, the nation's most neglected conflict.  The concept of the U.S.'s Manifest Destiny--that it was the nation's God-endorsed role to overspread the American continent from "sea to shining sea" had well taken root in the national consciousness by the mid-1840s; President James Knox Polk was an adherent.  Campaigning for the Presidency in 1844, Polk not only advocated the annexation of the Republic of Texas (which actually occurred in the waning days of the Tyler Administration, after the election) and the purchase of California and other northern Mexican territory, Polk also talked belligerently of taking "all" of the disputed Oregon Country. "Fifty-four forty or fight" was one of the pro-Polk campaign slogans, a reference to the disputed area's northern latitude demarcation.  Cooler heads prevailed, and the United States did not pick a war with a stronger opponent, Britain.  Instead, after a relatively arrogantly-expressed offer to buy the northern Mexican Territory for $30 million was rejected, the U.S. picked a war with a weaker opponent, Mexico.  That was the backdrop for the "border dispute" (was the Texas/Mexico border the Rio Grande River?; or was it the Nueces River?)that triggered the outbreak of war between Mexico and the United States.  The video makes clear--with brief but effective interpretive sound bites by both Mexican and U.S. historians--that Polk manipulated information from far-off Texas to obtain a declaration of war from the U.S. Congress: "American blood was shed on American soil."  Shades of LBJ and the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.  That the war was one of American conquest is made abundantly clear by the fighting.  General Zachary Taylor was initially surprised and Polk infuriated by the Mexicans' refusal to give up half their territory even after a few bloody battles.  Meanwhile, General Stephen Kearny was dispatched to take and occupy California by way of Sante Fe, New Mexico--a heads-up, if one is needed, that this was no limited conflict merely to secure the Texas border.  The war slogged on. Kearny met greater-than-anticipated resistance in Southern California.  Tayler was relieved of overall command by a politically jealous Polk.  General Winfield Scott (his "Old Fuss and Feathers" was a polar opposite of Taylor's "Old Rough and Ready") took the lion's share of Taylor's troops to mount the then-largest amphibious attack in the history of warfare at Vera Cruz.  Polk sent Nicholas Trist to negotiate a peace and continue to push for the purchase of the northern territories.  Something like a war-protest movement began to develop back in the States.  Mexico recalled ousted President Antonio L&oacute;pez de Santa Anna from exile to take command of the nation's defense. Under Santa Anna, the Mexican army fought bravely, gallantly and well--but ultimately was pushed back. The bravery of the individual Mexican soldier accounted for the very great difficulty the U.S. had in disparching an on-paper weaker foe more quickly--and more in keeping with Polk's impatient timetable. In the midst of the war political controversy amounting to virtual civil war forced Santa Anna and many of his troops back to Mexico City to restore order.  In the end, Scott's army invested Mexico City fter a spirited defense and in the end, the U.S. acquired the territory it had wanted all along--for $15 million instead of $30 million, but at the additional price of 13,780 American lives and an estimated 25,000-plus Mexican lives.  The video alternates beteen re-enactment scenes--(which are never terribly satisfying in lieu of Mathew Brady's glass-plate still photography or twentieth century motion-picture footage, both of which were of course unavailable for this conflict)--and on-location views--(the juxtaposition of shots of modern-day Mexico City and the Mexico City of Santa Anna and Scott are especially effective)--with the historians' talking heads make for a relatively lively 100 minute summary of this conflict. Very good use is also made of contemporaneous battle-scene paintings as well. The historians are, remarkably, not dry-as-dust at all. One Mexican historian calls Polk a liar and Santa Anna vain; an American historian calls Polk mean-spirited.  The Mexican historians decry the vacuum of leadership at the top in their nation at the time. Punches really are not pulled at all in the commentary.  The overall host/narrator is boxer Oscar de la Hoya, a man of dual citizenship who can, maybe more than most, appreciate the conflict from both sides.  I rated the dvd at 5 stars, higher than most of the others who have reviewed it, because I think it is extremely effective in the classroom--I used individual dvd chapters in an American Wars class to good effect.  (I agree showing any 100-minute video--or half that long for that matter--"reel-to-reel" as it were--is an invitation to student slumber.)  But this presentation's balanced approach in which the strengths--and warts--of both sides are clearly illustrated is both educational and entertaining.  And for the adult general American history buff who may have missed the clear importance of the Mexican-American War in high school, this dvd is well worth an hour and a half in front of the TV.

Never grows old! I purchased a copy of this DVD to replace an old VHS recording. The video tape might have worn out, but this fabulous movie never gets old. Feeling low? Watch this musical for a while, and you'll be sure to be cheered up by all the classic songs in Grease. Just looking at that young John Travolta can instantly put me in a better mood. Oh, if high school had only been like this!  Gotta love Grease!

Beverly Hillbillies Great tape and even better sale. I grew up watching this crazy show and I enjoyed all 275 episodes they did. Thanks again.

Movie It came to me in a timely fashion and I was very satisfied. It wasn't beat up or damaged. My only problem was I thought I ordered a dvdand not a vhs but I guess I didn't pay attention to that part when I ordered.

Ahead of its time...or any other time! If this film were stashed away & brought out of mothballs a hundred years from now, it'd still be a cool movie! Michael Cera--sort of the poster boy for the "now" generation--plays the somewhat clueless & rather beleaguered title character in this often entertaining & mind-blowing fusion between hip romantic comedies & the world of video games. The logistics of the dazzling CGI alone must've been a nightmare for the filmmakers. But the payback is well worth it as our hero--in order to date the girl of his dreams--must defeat her "seven deadly exes" amidst visual "POWS" & "WHAMS" & comic book panel split screens which underscore all the action. Scott Pilgrim is a foolish but likable slacker who expects sympathy over his often broken heart, yet, doesn't seem to notice the hearts HE breaks! And that is the ongoing lesson which Pilgrim--as he racks up points (shown on the screen)--must realize as his "ultimate goal". There's so much going on in this film that trying to dissect it would be like writing a book, so I won't even bother. Suffice to say that its creative energy is so awesome that even when segments don't make much sense, it doesn't matter because the movie's quirky, irresistible energy sweeps the viewer right along for the ride. Cera is lucky that's he supported by a large cast of well-known names (Kieran Culkin, Chris Evans, Brandon Routh, Jason Schwartzman, etc.) as well as little-knowns. They all play their roles expertly to the hilt. We definitely need more fun, innovative, cutting-edge films like this one!

It's not a great movie but it's a *man's* movie Commando is quite possibly the manliest movie ever made. Only Predator (released two years later) can legitimately vie with it for the title. It has oodles of action and homo-eroticism for straight and gay men alike; not to mention its tendency to impregnate unprotected female viewers.  No needless romance, no filler subplots, just an hour and a half of what Arnold Schwarzenegger (at his prime) does best: showing off his enormous biceps, uttering the most impressive collection of memorable one-liners ever contained within any of his works and literally annihilating a small army of bad guys. From beginning to end, this movie is hilariously awesome and an absolute must for anyone with a set of testicles.  As mentioned, Commando is a lean and mean 90 minutes without a single wasted scene. It's a tall glass of refreshing ice water in a desert of bloated, unsatisfying shoot-em-up flicks. Rest assured, you'll be getting what you're paying for: a classic of the action genre.

The Good, The Bad, and The Awkward? In this latest repackaging of one of the greatest westerns of all time, you get offered a "new" look at the film with the inserted deleted scenes that had previously been relegated to the "special features" section.   While some of these offer a little extra background on stuff that was already in the film, most of them were unnecessary, and it isn't hard to see why they were cut in the first place. But they do no harm, and for the connoisseurs of this masterpiece, they should prove interesting if nothing else.   The best part for me was the explanation of the long, lost "nude scene" from the film involving (Who else?) The Man With No Name and a "Working Girl". Without spoiling that for the reader, it's to be found in the "special features".   Needless to say, a great print.

Child's Play:  The Killer Collection Films 2-4.  You have to buy the first separately but they're all captioned/subtitled for those concerned for that.  It's a nice set for fans of the film.  Chucky is back, murdering, marrying and propagating.  Sadly the series got sillier and sillier.

Citizen Kane One of the best movies of all time. Orson Wells is a genius in his portrayal of Charles Foster Kane.

Great Watched this and "The Great Prentender" documentary this weekend.  This one is great and far superior to the other.  I'm glad I purchased this one.  I regret purchasing the other.

One Cool Way To Express The Importance Of Faith Are you looking for a holiday movie that is uplifting? Strap your seats in and enjoy this ride to self-discovery for several children in this fantasy.  No film is perfect. One problem with this one is that the story is not feature film length. So there are a lot of exciting scenes of the train/children on roller coaster tracks that are enjoyable and breath-taking but do not contribute to the story. By the end, it seemed a little too much. But not enough to take away from the story.  Tom Hanks is excellent in the several roles he takes during the movie. The special effects live up to their name. And I like it when special effects are a thing of beauty as they are here, as opposed to being used for ugliness as they are in horror movies.  I will always say this. I don't believe children should watch movies or TV without the accompaniment of their parents, regardless of the rating. This allows the parents to be in the habit of knowing what their children are watching and provide opportunities to take advantage of teachable moments. But this is definitely family fare.  Let me close with comments from my particular world-view, which is Christian. One plus side is that it shows belief as an important source of joy in a person's life, as any Christian can testify. Two dangers. 1) Is the emphasis having faith rather than the object of faith? 2) Is faith seen as independent of reality/reason? There are other things that might make some Christians uncomfortable -- it almost seems Santa's being worshipped by the elves.  The caveats I mention should not keep you from enjoying this excellent fantasy.

This is a movie only for the poetic at heart. Not for everyone! As soon as I finished seeing the prologue I knew that this film was only for the poetic at heart! The music, the black and white of it all (only in the prologue), the DIRECTING...all of it was beautiful! This movie displays a great deal of dark romanticism and, in the end, transforms into a very satanic metaphor. This was the first firm I'd ever seen by this director but i'm absolutely hooked. If you are the type of person that only like surface level movies without in deeper meanings, getting from point A to point B, like some of the other reviewers, then this film is absolutely not for you. But if you like movies that not only have a twisted plot, unholy fated characters (including a baby), and a style of directing that takes Edgar Allen Poe & Lord Byron and puts it into an actual movie that walks in the moonlight, then this is a master piece that you will want to buy ^_^

We love this movie This is a fun movie that always makes us laugh that we had in VHS. Recently we have been upgrading all the old videos to DVD so we were happy to find this one.

Great, classic musical Fabulous story, music and dancing . . . completely entertaining and great for the whole family.  Our kids love it.

Amazing Story I highly recommend this DVD.  Greg Laurie is inspirational and has shared all the good and bad with lots of life wisdom.  Highly recommend!

Steve McQueen was the greatest. I enjoyed the show back in the 50s and it was just as good today. Steve is Mr cool. It is a shame he is gone now.

A modern classic Best movie ever made about the era of the early 60s. Spawned a hundred spin-offs and rip-offs but none even close to the original. It's worth watching the movie for just the sound track and Wolfman Jack.

Great movie for everyone I saw this movie in the theater with a few friends, we're all college aged adults, so that says a lot about the draw factor of this movie. It's got plenty of action and adventure, but also a lot of heart! I think a lot of people can relate to Hiccup (main character) trying to fit in, having family issues with a militaristic father who's gone a lot, finding his own special talent, and standing up for himself when he has to. I loved the end of the movie when Hiccup has a life changing event, no spoilers, but it gives a shout out to a lot of people out there who are marginilized, or not often thought of. We never get to see characters like this in movies, it's so refreshing to see. Toothless, the dragon, is absolutely adorable, too!

Excellent study of the most devastating battle in U.S. history! This DVD is an excellent source of information on the Battle of Gettysburg, everything from who participated and some in-depth backgrounds of some of the commanders who fought there.  Told by historians, park guides, and re-created scenes gives you an eerie insight on the men and women who were there on those 3 fateful days at Gettysburg. The DVD is of high quality, and about the only flaw in the series that I could see was maybe the repeating of certain information. However, if you take the discs in perspective ... many scenes at the battle were told by different people. Each gives their version of the regiments, commanders, etc. who fought there.  I was very impressed and would highly recommend anyone as a Civil War buff to add this to their library.

5 Stars Vanilla Sky This my my favorite movie of all time. I would recommend this as a must see. Great film and great price!

Excellent picture quality I don't know what some complainers are talking about.  I reviewed this picture quality from my computer and than on a Widescreen TV monitor.  It looks great for its age.  Best I've seen of this particular movie.

Neo-Noir At Its Best... WILD THINGS is the best modern noir-thriller since BODY HEAT! The plot is a flurry of double-crosses, back-stabs, and betrayals! It's a wonderful tale of greed, treachery, and deceit the first time around. Subsequent viewings are still worthwhile due to snappy, humorous dialogue and interestingly twisted characters. Neve Campbell (SCREAM 1-4, THE CRAFT), Denise Richards (STARSHIP TROOPERS, VALENTINE), Kevin Bacon (TREMORS, STIR OF ECHOES, HOLLOW MAN, RIVER WILD, DEATH SENTENCE, etc.), and Matt Dillon make up the black heart of the film. Bill Murray adds mirth as only he can, playing a bottom-feeding lawyer. A classic...

Amazing Psychological Thriller This movie changed my life! I adore it. The twists and turns of the plot are captivating and fantastic. Jim Carrey is truly a star in this film.

And Cheri Makes Three One of the best of the Roger Corman packages released by Shout Factory, here we have three prime examples of the quintessential seventies action movie heroine in this excellent two disc set.  Disc One emerges also as a tribute to Director Cirio H. Santiago who along with Directors Eddie Romero and Bobby A. Suarez (to name but a few) made hundreds of exploitation films in the Philippines throughout the seventies but only a handful were released in the states.  Both 'TNT JACKSON'-1974 and 'FIRECRACKER'-1981 are primo Santiago forays both scripted by Ken Metcalfe who also appears briefly in 'FIRECRACKER' and which have basically similar plots, the main heroine searching for a brother or sister who mysteriously disappear and get involved in drug cartels.  'TNT JACKSON' blends both the Blacksploitation and Martial Arts genres as actress Jeanne Bell chops away in revenge motif to bring down her brothers killer in a tight 72 minute blink.  Along for the ride are Vic Diaz who graced many women in prison films and other actors whom fans will recognize especially from the 'BLOOD ISLAND' films. Still better is 'FIRECRACKER' which involves an actual Martial Arts champion Jillian Kesner who Santiago built the film around and confronts actor Darby Hinton in an extremely villainous turn as Kesner's sisters killer and would go on to turn hero in Director Andy Sidaris's excellent 'MALIBU EXPRESS'-1984.  It shows how influential these films have become as just recently Director Steven Soderbergh proved in his film 'HAYWIRE' which spotlights real life kick boxing champ Gina Carano as a rogue hit woman who Soderbergh built his film around her.  'FIRECRACKER' emerges as a cult classic with excellent fight sequences and location scenes.  The highlight is when Kesner is being  chased through a lumber yard by two thugs wearing a skimpy dress.  As she constantly bumps and grinds against planks, nails, etc., her dress shreds until when its time for the battle, she's barefooted, topless, and wearing nothing but panties. It has to be seen to be believed.  Disc Two has one of my favorite films of the seventies as its sole entry, Director Don Schain's 'TOO HOT TO HANDLE'-1977 and stars the perfect definition of the term lethal lady Cheri Caffaro.  Schain who is also Caffaro's husband and helmed the 'GINGER' trilogy also starring Caffaro in the early seventies gets excellent acting from Cheri and improves his directing with slick action scenes.  Here Cheri plays an international hit woman for hire named Samantha Fox who plans her hits methodically and gives her lady a touch of class amongst the bloodletting.  Unfortunately, she falls for the detective who is tracking her excellently played by actor Aharon Ipale.  Joined by venerable actors John Van Dreelan and Corinne Calvet as cameo hits, the film is a tour de farce for Cheri as she dominates the entire films 85 minute running time.  The bonus disc extra is the audio commentary between Cheri and Elijah Drenner who asks intelligent questions.  When I reviewed the 'GINGER' box set a few years back, I wondered what had happened to her and now my answers are fulfilled.  Cheri comes off as an incredible woman with great stories about the shoot and incredible insight on feminism and women in action films in general.  She also designed the wardrobe for the film and the interview shows what an underrated personality she truly is and who deserves to be right up there with the best.  Vic Diaz shows up once again and is also billed as Production Coordinator and the funky music score is by Hugo Montenegro.  It deserves to be included on every best action movie list and is a masterpiece of exploitation.  Kudos to Shout Factory for releasing all three films from their original negatives in gorgeous 1.85 transfers leaving the Vestron VHS tapes of old in the dust.  Each disc contains trailers to other New World releases to round out the mix.  Recommended to action movie fans, it shows how some B-movie filmmakers gave women the chance to be erotic, violent and classy at the time when women couldn't even open a credit card without a man's signature.  You've come a long way, baby!!

THE PRIZED GUN! (worth risking life & limb) Never in all the annals of Western lore, did men fight harder to possess the WINCHESTER 73!  Good guys, bad guys, the playing field was leveled when it came to gunning down the other for the PRIZE OF THE WINCHESTER 73!  Treachery enters the heart of otherwise good men. Greed masquarades itself with HONOR as gunfighters aim for the pearl of shooting-irons, THE WINCHESTER 73!  One never knows what one might do when faced with temptation here. Are these men going to hold? Or will they fold? You'll never know! Not unless, you BUY THE WINCHESTER 73 Western!  Go for your gun!  Fast-draw that credit card from your wallet, and shoot a straight steady shot at this flick! Your satisfaction GUARANTEED!  So who will OWN THE WINCHESTER 73 at sundown?????? Will it be YOU????? (lucky guy)

Good Endgame Well, it had to end some time.  I am contented to have the plots end with tidy StarFleet efficiency.  As a Prime member, i was able to see all 7 seasons contiguously.  Totally worth it.  Thanks Federation and Amazon for a fun winter of weekend excitement.

Best Torchwood to date!! <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002BVYBK6">Torchwood: Children of Earth [Blu-ray</a>]  For fans of the Torchwood series, "Children of Earth" will surely be a bringer of hope of things to come. It's just the three of them now, Jack, Gwen and Ianto against a race of alien drug addicts who crave human children as their drug of choice.   Torchwood enlists the help of a simple (or so we are led to believe), office secretary named Lois Habiba to infiltrate the government and it's "deal" with the aliens known as the 456, to hand over 10% of the Earths population of children.  Fans of the series will remember the famous contact lenses that act as a web cam with additional applications.  Miss Habiba finally puts them on and knowing if caught, she could be tried for treason, goes ahead with Torchwood's plan to help save the children.   The five part mini-series is very exciting and as usual so brilliant in the way creators of the show bring so much humanity and realism to each of the characters. If this were an American production, we would marvel at the special effects, but leave not feeling much.  Torchwood always puts a human face, human emotions, human relationships at the forefront of each segment. The alien stuff, things exploding etc. are just the icing on an amazing cake.   Without spoiling too much, there is of course the specter of death always looming around the members of Torchwood, their family and friends, just like it is in real life for all people.   This simple fact makes Torchwood stand out as completely unique in the world of Sci-Fi, Fantasy television and movie productions.   Adolescent boys everywhere would give the entire series moderate to low points.  Why? Because if every second is not filled with explosions, crashes, murder, blood, rape, torture and crime, it's "boring". I remember those days. So glad I got over it. Some men never do.  Torchwood has ALL the components of a major thrill ride, PLUS a good laugh and a really good cry.  Diego

Anne Fan This is one of those beautifully done stories that can take you away from your day to day life and entertain you as well as remind you of what is truly important in life.  The actors are terrific, the scenery is breathtakking and the main character is fun to watch grow from an orphan to a caring mother.  I would recommend this series to any family or individual looking for meaningful entertainment without any embarrasing moments.

The best visual movie I have ever seen. The film was spectacular. I was mesmerized by every scene. One should not be turned off by its subject matter. The film should have garnished academy award nominations for Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger and Linda Cardellini:  And definitely, the film should have won best picture. All I can say is; Watch and be entertained!

A master's masterpiece Wong Kar Wai's "In the Mood for Love" is simply the most beautiful film I have ever seen.  It is a master's masterpiece, and the Criterion Collection's DVD does it justice.No matter how many times I watch it, I always want to see it again. It will always be in my collection.  Don't miss it!

I have the Power!!!! Hey, what can I say? This is no better deal on this set, all of season 2, and you must have season 1 already so you know its a great show.. Kids need shows like this, Good VS Evil. Conflict doesn't have to end with blood all over the place, especially not for children.  This is a wonderful example of 80's toons where each episode is entertaining as well as full of moral teachings & life lessons. On a personal note, its time Adam came out of the closet. "Pink V-Neck with purple pants" Really?? Lets get this boy some new clothes, lol.. Seriously though, I give this show 5 Stars, its great family entertainment. (By the power of Greyskull!!)

Legendary series of films Working within the confines of miniscule budgets and tight shooting schedules, Roger Corman somehow managed to stamp his signature on this unique series of movies - so successfully, in fact, that their visual flair, morbid atmosphere, and European sensibilities have continued to influence film-makers ever since. This is pre-slasher movie horror; think grand, dream-like and magnificent. A must-have edition.

High Yield Swimming Over the past year I've been trying to learn as much as I can about coaching swimming.  My daughter and some of her friends used to swim for a swim club that had become little more than an ATM for the head coach.  So, I learned what I could so that I could become a coach myself and help some little kids achieve 100% personal bests without wasting six days a week and thousands of dollars a year at the pool.  Also, to survive Ironman triathlons myself, I've had to crank up my own swimming proficiency.  This DVD captures in a nutshell what every swimmer needs to do to be able to swim faster.  A strong emphasis on streamlining, to which is added the importance of a high elbow catch and recovery, kicking, and hip rotation.  A huge strong point is the many specific drills.  My nine-year-old daughter watched the DVD and, after a few snickers about the avant garde music, went off to master the drills that Gary Sr. highlighted in the DVD.  Then she had 100% personal bests in her next swim meet.  There are lots of swimming DVDs out there that provide helpful tips, of which I probably own a third.  What this DVD adds is this:  a VERY high-yield, concise presentation of essential techniques that have previously been articulated by other authorities such as Terry Laughlin and Ernest Maglischo, to which is added the street cred of someone who's won Olympic Gold himself and who regularly coaches some of the world's best swimmers.

Ladyhawke on DVD Great movie from a while ago.  A favorite of a family member.  Was happy to find a new one still available.  Thanks!

Don't Be Fooled! Criticism of this movie will come in very technical terms (lack of believability, incoherent plot, etc). This is just plain ole fun. It most closely resembles 'SALT' minus the big budget. Nonetheless, its a kick a$$ revenge fantasy with its own charm,with violence that isn't too graphic. This makes a great gift for movie buffs who don't wanna think too much, but want to just drop some popcorn as they howl at the screen. ZOE SALDANA has never looked better.

Cinderella I knew the movie would be great. Lost the VHS copy I had that I only paid $5.00 for in 2000 but it was worth every penny to have this movie back in my life. When I ordered, said it would be up to 10 days or more to receive it and it was here in 5 days. Amazon is the way to go, you can trust that you will get what you are ordering.

Mel is back!!! this was a great action packed over the top movie. for me, this would have been a part 2 to 'payback'. in this film he is a thief and he also narrates as the film goes on. mel starts the movie with a gr8 chase from the law that winds him in the toughest of situations. he must use his street smarts and his talents as his tools to survive. this was a straight to dvd film which feels more like a big screen blockbuster to me. evrything was well acted, lots of black humor and action. a great film for the old school mel gibson action fan. mel goes back to his roots and proves to us all that he still has it!!!

This is a gift for my brother> I saw this movie years ago and do not remember it very well. However my brother has wanted it as a birthday present so I decided to get it for him. I am certain that he will enjoy it very much. Thank you.

Family Favorite Great movie with beautiful color and great music. Children love the story. Dragon is intense for little ones. No waiting for it to come out of the Vault!!!

crossroads dvd enjoy finding some of my younger memories....loved the dvd and soundtrack....dvd was as described and the service was fast....looking forward to more

Fat Juice movie This is just what it says it is. The same movie you can get anywhere. I got it, and we watched it. You really will have to be a self starter, and motivator and if you were all that you really wouldn't be fat to start with.

The Back Nine This movie was amazing!  I am a female golfer and just loved this documentary.  I gave it to all my friends for Christmas and they too had great things to say about it.  This documentary was very well produced and told a great story with a great sense of humor.  I can't say enough great things about it! You will not be disappointed!

kenny g - an evening of rhythm & romance (Blu-Ray) Italian Import Am justa Kenny fan and this DVD just set's it right for a cool nite in the island, wish I could have been there when they recorded it.

Love it I purchased this boxset the day before pre-order ended, directly after I finished watching all of Season 1. Although this set IS only half of season 1, $13.99 really isn't that bad for a new release boxset. The second half is currently on pre-order, and I'm awaiting it's arrival after release. $28.00 for a full season is pretty typical, so no complaints.  This show was good enough for me to buy the sets brand new. Typically I buy DVD boxsets here on Amazon used because I'm not one to pay full price for things as I rarely have money on hand to blow on my DVD/Book collection.  Young Justice is one of those shows where several age groups can enjoy it. It was paced well, and not overly childish, nor 'old' enough to get children confused at parts.  Some comic fans were perturbed that this series did not start off true to the comics at all (wrong cast), but with the introduction of Season 2, a lot of that anger can be put to rest as most of the original cast from the comics make their appearance. Some plot elements still deviant, but as with all cartoon/movie/tv series adaptations, that should be expected.  Looking forward to the rest of the series!

Another fantastic Disney release! Usually, I don't write a review on my opinion of the movie. Usually, I just review the product itself. But I wanted to say a little something. Bambi was never one of my favorite movies growing up. Because of this, I haven't seen this movie in decades. I never even owned it on DVD. Well, times change & I decided that I must collect all of Disney's classic animated features on Blu-ray. So, I had to get Bambi. But am I glad I did. See, I've always been into the art of animation & nobody did it better than the classic Disney artists. And Bambi may be one of the best animated movies of all time. Okay, on to the review.  After Disney's stunning release of "Alice in Wonderland", I knew that Bambi would have the same care & quality put into it's remastering. And I was right. It's pristine! Not a spot of grain, dust or any kind of particle. The colors are duller than "Alice", but of course this is the way the original film was. It's a more natural palette, because that's what the film is about, nature & life & death & rebirth. The sound on the disc is wonderful as well. I don't think I ever noticed the beautiful music before I watched it on Blu-ray. Bottom line, is that this release is perfect, as far as the film is concerned.  Let's talk about the extras. There are a few behind the scenes & deleted scenes. Most of these are from the DVD release, which I never owned, so they're new to me. One of the Blu-ray deleted scenes is a song called "Twitterpated". Whoever they got to sing the version on this disc is horrible & the song itself is not so good either. Glad it never made the film. Another deleted scene is one from the book. It's about 2 autumn leaves holding on to a branch & having a conversation about life & the unknown afterlife. This deleted scene is semi-animated with a Flash type of animation. The scene itself is a great one, but I'm also glad it didn't make the film. It wouldn't have fit in & probably would have slowed the film down.  As usual, with their classic Disney Blu-ray releases, Bambi also has the useless Disney View, which thankfully, you don't have to use. This is where the black side bars can be filled with similar colored paintings, to fill your widescreen TV. The logic behind this is so stupid. For years, we all had 4:3 (square TV's) & when we watched movies that had a different aspect ratio, we watched it with black bars on the top & bottom, in a letterbox format. Sure, people who didn't care about film complained about this & were happy to watch the movie with parts of it chopped off. So, finally, we get widescreen TVs that get rid of, or diminish the black bars. But when watching 4:3 films, we get black bars on the sides. We're not losing any of the film at all & are seeing it at it's regular size. I really can't think why anyone would care that there are black bars on the sides, but apparently, Disney does. So, they fill up the screen, taking away from the film itself. It's my belief that anyone who watches these films with Disney View on should just stop watching movies all together.  With Bambi, Disney gives us a new feature called Disney's Second Screen. With this feature you can sync your Apple iPad with your Blu-ray player. While the film plays on both your TV & your iPad, you can play games or read trivia on the movie (I guess). Just another distraction from watching the film itself. Another useless waste of space on the Blu-ray, that maybe 1% of the people who buy this Blu-ray will ever use. I would complain, if the movie itself wasn't perfect.  Bottom line, buy it. Well worth it.

worth it!! Jericho hooks you from the very first episode. The characters seem to be taken from real people, the story and the whole premise are entirely plausible. And all of this is completely entertaining. There are no far fetched ideas, all of the heroes in this series are 'real' with real limitations, real faults and yet they overcome obstacles and adversity with solid good old American and universal virtues of family, courage, loyalty and love. Here is a story where the writers throw the characters into an impossible setting and then command them to 'make it work' and they do. If anything, this is television WORTH WATCHING...

The Black Stallion This was my favorite movie growing up.  I mentioned it to my kids and realized that they had never seen it.  I was afraid that seeing it again as an adult, I might be disappointed.  I was not.  The photography is just as stunning now as I remember.

Love it! My family loves this standup!  We quote it all the time and I have to say it really has brought us together.  It's a great laugh, every time.  It arrived quickly and we promptly put it in.

Utterly unique... Rush is a strange phenomenon...and has been for decades. Whether you love or hate their music you can respect the band members as utterly talented instrumentalists who (publicly) mock themselves. Prog rock is always criticized as being "pretentious" but Rush turns that characterization on its head. They perform dazzling music while appearing to enjoy and laugh at it. Name me another band that is similar...  The audience likely isn't quite aware of the skill required to perform at the level they do. To bake in the added humor only demonstrates more-so the fact that Geddy, Alex, and Neil are very humble folk with very uncommon talent.  At nearly 60 years-old these guys energetically outperform their grand-kids.  Live in Cleveland is a lesson in youth/aging we can all learn from. Remarkable.

Mel Brooks Collection What is there to say about the works of Mel Brooks?  I feel sorry for a generation of movie viewers whom have not had the pleasure of LOL at the situation of the world and Brooks perspective.

Leapfrog: numberland This was recommended by my grand daughter's teacher to help her recognize numbers.  It appears to work as advertized.  We have seen good results.

American Reunion=10/10 So, it has been years since the last release in the series, or at least what I recognize as the last release in the series(american wedding), and after all of the hoping, wishing & praying, I finally got my wish! Just saw the new movie yesterday(opening day release).  Let me say that I thoroughly enjoyed American Reunion! What a story! A group of PALS that go through good times & bad times with Each Other & always are there for each other. Hillarious moments throughout the movie, plenty of jokes & many lines in this movie to relate/remember the past movies!  Of course all of the Original Cast was back & each cast member kept in tune with their original roles.  I like the fact that this movie in the series stayed True to the storyline, antics, characters & humor to the previous big 3 of American Pie, American Pie 2, and American Wedding! The script & writing was Perfect! It was never OVER THE TOP stupid jokes! I never got bored during this movie, and even though it could be considered a bit predictable at times, the story was sooooo goooood, it kept me on the edge of my seat & it had plenty of BIG surprises.  Each character brought back so many AWESOME memories from the Original first 3 releases. Every actor played their respective roles to perfection! Each character showed characteristics of the younger days, but maturity of the older days...  The movie is a bit raunchy, but it is AMERICAN PIE people, what else would you expect??? If they changed the formula, it would Flop & not be good for the True fans!  I give this movie an A+ and hope they make another one in the series!  Thanks for reading my review!

Cars 2 Get movie sequel.  My grandson, 2, loves Cars.  Watches it over and over.  Holds his attention and entertains him when he can't go outside or is sick.

Great Entertainment! Human Nature has one of the best concerts I've seen. They provided me with great music, wonderful stage presence, and laughter.

Excellent The Best movie ever made got better with this great BD transfer.The video is stunning and sound is equally impressing.

Decent art box and DVD set With this, you get 2 dvds worth of great anime, an art box to store the first season, and Simon's core drill. The anime itself is superb and quickly became one of my favorites with just a few viewings. The art box has a good amount of character art on it, a good satin-like feel with some gloss, and a cool magnetic flap. The core-drill can be  put on a necklace and lights up green with the flick of a switch. I got it all for less than 20 bucks and am very pleased with it.

Terminator I love this movie every part great movie a must Have in every blu ray collection I am a huge Arnold fan and he nailed this part down perfect

Plump Friction I don't know how many times I've seen this, but the last time I watched Pulp Fiction, I noticed I was reciting dialogue which means I've seen it ALOT. I still love the acting, Samuel L. Jackson shines and this is one of his best roles in a film.  The only part I wish they skipped was the rape scene.  I hate it everytime I have to watch it to follow the story.  The should have cut out the physical act of Ving Rhames being raped, don't need to see that homeboy!  I love Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown and the Kill Bills. QT is one of my favourite directors.  I hope he's doing another good film, fingers crossed.

Great Doctor Who Season Opener Wonderful Doctor Who season opener! I'm looking forward to the rest of this season. Our whole family loves Doctor Who!

Amazing movie to an amazing first perfect trilogy The Dark Knight Rises was absolutely amazing, brutally epic, PERFECT ending to the trilogy, the first perfect trilogy! It wrapped all the plots from the first two films. Everyone was terrific in it, Bale was great as usual, Hardy as Bane was a monster and even Anne Hathaway was great as Catwoman. Michael Caine was so emotional as Alfred, I want to give him a hug. There's so much I want to talk about it, but I won't spoil it. There were a couple of things I'm really happy that it DID happen. You HAVE to see it in the theater. I'm going again in a few days.

Great Great collection and great movies. I love them. It comes with a beautiful book with pictures and stories. Price is the cheapest on the market.

just time for an energy transition With oil prices rising and rising again, and a tremendous dependency on foreign oil, many western nations need to establish corageous policies on energy efficency and renewables. The oil crash is a doc that deserve to be seen by as many people as possible to get educated in the need of the energy transition.

Loves to dance My mom is 68, loves musicals and loves to dance and who doesn't love John Travolta!  I saw this and knew my mom would enjoy it.  For Mothers Day, I packed a gift basket with everything you'd need for the movies and planned a movie date. She loved the movie.  In addition, on the disk are 2-commentaries from the Director and Producers, and 5 Featurettes: Inside the recording booth, It's Hairspray, Playing Tracy, Transform of Travolta to Turnblad and search for Tracy.  Really cute.

All time great! What can I say...I love this movie!  A must see, all time favorite!  I can watch this movie 100 times and it never gets old!  Reese gives an awesome performance and so do the supporting actors/actresses!

Great deal ! This was a great gift idea for a friend of mine....she loved it, the quality of the product is awesome for the price!

Magnificent, awesome, superb! I know these movies aren't historically correct but who cares? Cate Blanchett has to be one of the greatest actors of all time.  I already own these movies on standard definition and was wondering how much difference there would be between SD, and BD. I noticed things in these movies I had never noticed in the SD versions, and everything was so vivid and colorful it seemed like a new experience! The blu ray conversion was some of the best I've seen.  I absolutely love these movies and will watch them over and over. I'm glad I bought them.

"Payback" Redux! Mel Gibson fans this is a must have for your collection!  In this flic Mel channels his character from the movie "Payback" and does a great job!  In fact, he plays a bad guy, dirt bag, gotta love em anyway kind of character so well that you have to wonder how he ever played good guys!  I won't go into the plot, you can read that in the description.  All you need to know is that this one is great entertainment and one you will watch more than once.

Excellent sequel Truly laugh out loud funny from beginning to end.  Well worth watching over and over.  Such a fan of "Bridge"

Fascinating Artwork This is an interesting story set among amazing visuals. It isn't fast-paced, so younger viewers may lose interest, but my 6 year old daughter LOVED it so much she asked for it for her 7th birthday. My husband and I both enjoyed the artwork.

BLU-RAY I LIKE HOW THE MOVIE CAME EXACTLY IN A WEEK AND CAME JUST THE WAY HE SAID THE MOVIE WAS GOING TO BE NEW (:

one of the best action films I have seen I got this as a gift for someone and they enjoyed it. Came new in plastic & works perfect. As for the movie itself -Great action, plot and humor. If you like Guy Ritchie films and you haven't seen this you're missing out.

Anastasia Fantastic movie for all kids but especially for girls.  Truly one of the best animated films made.  For the first time that I can remember in a kid's movie, the girl is the HERO.  Anastasia saves her "love interest" (and all of Paris) all by herself.  Even my daughter said, "Girls save boys. right Mommy?"  And the music is stunningly beautiful.  There should be more kid's films like this one.

Sad but great This is movie is one of those sad movies that you will enjoy watching but will pull at your heart strings

the Help I had already seen this movie at the theater. I wanted to have it for watching it again. I have to say it is one of my favorites in a very long time. It is a must see for all ages.

Most romantic movie ever. The character selection for this movie are perfect as well as the romantic content.  No nudity, very little reference to sex, just a need for the fulfillment of finding the other half of ones being.  It was even more perfect than we remembered when we saw it the first time. When it was finished the comments about the making of the movie added so much also.

One of the Greats I was thrilled to see that this show has become available on DVD.  It is one of the best cartoon shows ever and features many segments/shticks/one-liners that are oft-repeated, even today, years after the show stopped airing on television.  Filled with humor appropriate for children but witty enough for adults, it is a great addition to any collection!

Solid Eastwood Western "Pale Rider" is a well acted, complex film.  There is a strong reference to Biblical justice woven into the plot. Additionally, Eastwood's character is an enigma in the story.  At times he seems spiritual and almost superhuman, at other times the "Preacher" appears "sinful" and all too human.  I appreciated the complexity of the plot and characters.  If you enjoy westerns, "Pale Rider" is a must see film.

One Of My Favorite Movies! I love this movie, The Illusionist. The acting is excellent & the story intriguing & since I already had a copy, I ordered two for gifts because all my friends like a GOOD movie. Plus Amazon had it at the right price for me to buy more than one!  It's not new, but several people I know missed it the first time around.

I Love This Old TV Show I love watching the old tv shows from years ago. This is a funny show. Dennis the Menace gets his self in such mischief and loves to get Mr. Wilson upset. But deep inside I know Mr. Wilson loves the little guy! LOL!! But with all the garbage that is shown on TV these days, it pays to stick to the old retro tv shows because you know you are getting good wholesome clean tv. Especially with a series like Dennis the Menace.

One of my favorite movies growing up The movie is dated in terms of special effects but remember it was made in 1976. I was 11 years old at that time. Farrah Fawcett also was very popular because of Charlie's Angels. It was a big deal to see her in this movie. I hadn't seen this in probably 25-30 years and was pleasantly surprised it was on the free Amazon Prime videos. I enjoyed it even though I knew what was going to happen. The movie left an impression on me as an adolescent and I think definitely worth watching again. I don't know if those born after 1980 would even relate to it or be able to finish it but it brought back memories. Definitely it was a sign of the 1960s and 1970s, the emphasis on youth but also trying to "change the world" and fight injustice that the lead characters are actually able to do.

Excellent show Brilliant show, the writing and acting (especially Olyphant and Goggins) are top notch. I watched as it aired, and decided to buy the DVD set - I'm enjoying it even more the second time around.  The characters are fascinating, and the dialogue is so sharp and witty, and really melodic at times. The storylines are great too, a nice mix of mostly serialized plots but several stand alone cases as well. I would highly recommend this series.

Bonds and Commitment and Temptation LAST NIGHT is a tightly woven tale that explores the psyches of four people in one fascinating evening. This is the initial directing outing for Iranian-American writer Massy Tadjedin ('The Jacket', 'Leo') who also created the story and the script: the film is so fine that we doubtless will be hearing more about her.  Joanna Reed (Keira Knightley) is a beautiful young writer married to commercial real estate developer Michael Reed (Sam Worthington) in what appears to be a happy marriage despite the struggle between two careers. Michael takes Joanna to a company party and there she observes the soft spoken Michael paying attention to one of his co-workers, the sensuous Laura (Eva Mendes), an act that Joanna feels indicates unfaithfulness or at least suspicious behavior on Michael's part. The seed of doubt is planted, Michael is leaving for a business trip to Philadelphia the next morning with his coworkers Andy (Anson Mount) and Laura, and there is friction between Joanna and Michael that Michael's reassurance cannot overcome. The next day as Joanna sops for coffee she encounters an old flame from her time spent writing in Paris - Alex Mann (Guillaume Canet) - and they agree to meet that evening. Chemistry resurges and that evening as Alex and Joanna dine with Alex's publisher Truman (Griffin Dunne), both are questioned by Truman about their past affair, Joanna admits she is now married, and Alex is in a relationship in Paris. The couple leaves and circumstances lead them to return to Joanna's apartment where they face their feelings. At the same time as this evening is developing Michael and Laura enter a seduction dance: Michael is faithful to Joanna but the emotionally bruised Laura persists in her attempt to pull Michael into her web. The manner in which each of these temptations resolves and the aftermath is the brilliance of Massy's writing and direction: this is a story written very much form a women's vantage and that fact allows each of the characters to become very well defined and credible.  The quartet of actors is well matched: Knightley continues to mature as a fine actress, Sam Worthington breaks out of his stodgy shell to allow us to see a man driven by fidelity and tempted by lust, Eva Mendes takes Laura to a higher dimension of being, and Guillaume Canet is undeniably an Alex who few women could resist: he has true star power. The method of pairing the development of the one night by flashing back and forth between the progress of the two couples in the dance of seduction vs fidelity is extremely successful. This is a thinking person's movie and an introduction of a writer/director who already has shaped the beginnings of a successful career. Highly Recommended. Grady Harp, June 11

A Classic Story This heartwarming story of courage and triumph over evil never gets old.  My 4 year old nephew was just as entranced as his 30-something daddy as we watched (2 of us remembering seeing it as children...LOL).

The Shining Jack Nicholson is awesome in this movie.  He has a lot of good movies, We think it one of his best, especially when he says "Here's Johnny"

Fishy Fun! In this off-the-wall comedy, Dewey Winfield has aspired all of his life to take down his life-long foe, Jimmy Valentine in Jimmy's own sponsored deep sea fishing tornament. Always lacking the registration fee, Dewey takes on an emergency job opportunity to run an assisted living facility full of zany, elderly stereotypes. With the help of his age-defined friends and an electro-current pickle in the water, Dewey begins his march towards becoming Fishing King.

Life Changing...if you are ready to receive I cannot stop watching this documentary.  The message is spot on. You will be better for it. I find myself telling even random strangers about it.  Watching this and receiving the message has changed my way of thinking...and in turn has changed my life.  I AM, I AM, I AM!  LOVE! LOVE! LOVE!

the real title The Last Duel is the movie where he goes to death villa.  I have never seen dark skinned assassin but the one with the human meat pot is surely The Last Duel.

Entertaining and Life Changing Men, this movie can change your life.  It can put you on the road to leaving a legacy that will carry those left behind for the rest of their days.  It's the way you WANT to be remembered; however, we need to do those things today that will win the prize.  I've seen a lot of "guy" movies...you know, Clint Eastwood, etc.  Tough on the outside, raunchy mouth, kickin' kind of guy. We all think that's what the world wants, just like we've been lied to about what will really make us happy in a woman.  For both men and women, we crave a person of character who is loving to their family.  This movie is for men.  It reminds us of what being a man is REALLY about.  So long to Hollywood's version that has resulted in unrelating guys and broken homes.  Home success is the true victory.  Let's commit to those women we sleep with and raise the kids we plant in them.  Enough messes on our streets. Do you really have the stuff, or do you want to remain a child all your life?  Come on. Let's make this a better nation, one wife and child at a time!

water water everywhere first and foremost, this is a classic morality play. it speaks volumes about the choices we make and their conseqences. benjamin is a naive,virginal college graduate who wants his life to be different. different indeed. it is endlessly fascinating that mrs robinson chooses to confront benjamin with her sexual desires as he stands in front of elaine's portrait. his fateful choice of sex over traditional love sets the tone for the movie. after all, mr robinson is his father's business partner. mrs robinson, as we learn later got pregnant in college and had to marry. she is unhappy, unfulfilled, and she and her husband live in separate rooms and live separate lives. she resents her daughter and the seduction of benjamin is her revenge. of course, benjamin is so focused on the seductive older woman that he sabotages any real chance to have a normal relationship with elaine. she is as vapid and clueless as benjamin. despite learning about the affair between her mother and benjamin, she is equally vengeful. she allows herself to get involved with benjamin at school rather then follow a traditional romantic path. somehow, they end up a the back of a bus going nowhere, complete strangers.  running through this tragic comedy is the theme of water. water is the essence of life. it sustains us and we cant live without it. but water is also dangerous. if we're not careful, we can drown. indeed do the characters in this movie drown in a maelstrom of suburban angst,poor moral choices and a me first existence. the first water image is the friends of ben's family gatherd around the pool. when mrs robinson enters ben's room, she throws the keys to his car in the fish tank. both mrs and mr robinson ply ben with ice and drinks. but the seminal water image is ben at the bottom of his pool in scuba gear. it is then that the metaphorical drowning begins. it is then that he decides to call mrs robinson and set up a tryst. later, when ben is at elaine's house to pick her up for date, mrs robinson jumps into the car. it is pouring rain. curious. it is summer in southern california and it never rains in socal in the summer. dripping wet, ben confronts elaine. mrs robinson enters the scene. mike nichols then shoots the most poignant rack focus shot i have ever seen. at first elaine's face is out of focus. she is confused. when the focus clears her face she realizes the relationship between ben and her mother. she unceremoniously throws him out. the lasting image at the end of the scene is a pitiful sopping wet mrs robinson. no sexuality there. just a drowned rat who becomes a small object of pity as the camera pulls back. there are so many other water scenes. the braddock family pool where ben is just drifting. the steamy bathroom where ben's mother confronts him about his nightly jaunts. and the fountain at elaine's school.  at the end, everyone drowns in a pool of poor choices and despair. ben and elaine run off to nowhere. her new husband is left at the altar. mr and mrs robinson are divorcing and who knows where life will take them. ben's parents must wonder where all their hopes and dreams have gone. indeed, at the end, all we are left with are the sounds of silence

Brilliant, exciting, thought provoking science fiction One of my favorite television series of all time along with 'The Wire' and 'Breaking Bad'.  Like 'The Wire' this is a complex, Dickensian study of human nature, not afraid of asking big questions, and meticulously plotted like a great novel, so that each episode is a chapter in a much larger whole.  Just as 'The Wire' used the overly familiar clich&eacute;' world of the cop show to jump off from and shatter our preconceptions, and 'Battlestar Galactica' uses the sci-fi series, and the idea of human versus robot wars the same way.  This is thinking person's sci fi, in the tradition of Arthur C. Clarke, or Isaac Asimov. It's about why we are how we are, what it means to be a human being, morality under constant pressure in times of war, fathers and sons, impossible loves, metaphors for modern and recent politics and real world situations.  My wife, far from a sci-fi fan was hooked after 3 episodes, and we tore through 5 years of shows in just a few days. It's that addicting.  The acting is all at least quite good, and some cast members are remarkable, creating characters full of depth, complexity and contradiction. The writing is terrific, allowing the characters to change and grow, but always in ways that make sense, creating seemingly inexplicable conundrums, only to find surprising, sometimes shocking - but ultimately logical and satisfying - ways to explain where they've taken us. The special effects are generally very impressive for TV, even if they're not really why you watch this show.  It also has some of the most tense episodes of television I've ever seen, and some of the season enders left me completely wrung out and blown away. I was sad to get to the last episode, just as one is sad to finish a great book.  I've turned a lot of friends onto it, haven't gotten a complaint yet.  As with all complex shows, it may take a few episodes to get into the mood, the pace, the feel.  But trust me, it's worth the investment of time.

So thats why they had to ditch Blackmore! Blackmore was one hell of a jerk and ruined several songs including Highway Star and Smoke on the Water.  Having said that the concert as a whole is great.  Sadly enough there is not a large amount of good quality recordings that the band deserves.  Thus there are many good parts of the concert that hit their highwater mark too.  My only other Deep Purple mdvd is their 40th anniversary mdvd.  The video part is exceptional but the sound really is bad except for 5 or 6 songs.  You just could not crank it up loud where you want and like it to be.  Then my new Onkyo TX-NR808 changed all that.  The sound was upconverted to 5.1 on most of the songs and suddenly the 40th anniversary Deep Purple was competitive on a saturday night party.  This mdvd has a much better recording quality and does even better on a saturday night.  Honestly I would rather have Made In Japan on mdvd any day but you cannot always get what you want either.  This is, however, one of the few Deep Purple I do not have on cd or digitally remastered cd so it is fresh for me to hear.  Then again my King Biscuit Flower Hour cd would be a wonderful selection for someone to archive and mdvd it.  If not then Live in London or Made in Europe.  I did like Blackmore enough to consider buying his Rainbow: Live in Munich 1977 mdvd.

unglued who Was very enlightening and informative. Enjoyed the humor and stories while still discovering and learning more about me. Would recommend this book highly.

I'm 41 and so sucked into this show. With all the lazy reality show hoopla I relish a show this clever, well-written, and well acted.  I know because it's aimed at kids there is some hamminess involved but look at the singing and dancing and how much PHYSICAL humor is involved.  Everyone is a pro. REALLY excited Nick signed them on for a fourth season (though having been to a few concerts they are obviously a cash cow.)  Re: this episode, it's one of a handful when I like the sidestory(s) better.  Not going to spoil anything but I gasped when it happened then gasped even louder when it happened again.  Perfect.  I love all the music industry pushing the 4th wall stuff and actually think I have a way to work the creepy fanfiction angle without crossing a line if anyone at Nick is interested LOL.

Different I was recommended to show this movie in a law class I am teaching.  The director of the law school says that this movie shows exactly how good lawyers should argue in court.  He was extremely impressed with the film.  I was less impressed myself.  For academic study the film has real value, but it is a bit slow.

Violently Poignant...palpably beautiful Generally speaking, I traditionally cannot handle a lot of violence within a film.  I am very traditional girl, hiding my eyes, screaming, running from the screen, unable to watch... (wait... is that all girls...or just me???) So for me to give this film five stars, that is truly stating something.  Is it violent?  ....Absolutely. Is it gory in areas and graphic in others? ....Again, yes.  Is it remarkably beautiful, the love that this man has for the value of this little girl, as well as the character that drives his every painfully skilled execution?  A resounding yes, would be my answer.  The emotion is palpable for this heart of gold assassin, and that is what carries the film.  It is what allows the more sensitive to violence viewer (such as myself) to continue watching the film.  We root for him, more than the girl, because we want to believe in that level of heart.  It is **that** emotion that connects with the consummate girl and flower child in me.

Love that 1970's Bigfoot Monster awesomeness! This was great to see in the theatres and decent on TV, back when they used to show such things.  "The Mysterious Monsters" is one of the best, and perhaps the best, of the Schick Sunn Classics "pseudodocumentaries" about weird and cryptozoological subjects.  It comes complete with some decent recreations of people's encounters with apelike creatures out in the forests of the US.  It also gets into the Loch Ness Monster for good measure.  Whenever there is purportedly "real" footage or photos, these are shown.  Disregard the fact that some of the images presented here as "proof" were later proven to be hoaxes...the fun of this movie is in allowing it to suggest to you the possibility that there are strange unknown creatures lurking in faraway places or even somewhere very near your home!  The shoddy science on display here is presented with a tone of grim, straight-faced seriousness (if Peter Graves believes it, so do I!).  If you like the idea of "real" monsters living all over the world, this 70's favorite will please you.

Vietnam On of the best Vietnam war movies I've seen.  The ending is "Hollywood," but the rest,...!

Big help in getting my Toddler interested in the whole process! My 2 +yr old toddler did not want to potty train but after watching this he became willing and able to potty train. He now frequently asks to watch this video and it helps to reinforce the potty training process--for him and me!  I did NOT have issue with some of the "words" used as commented on in other customers reviews.  Definitely worth the buy at such a low price--especially if you are looking for some potty training back-up!

Still love it! Season one was great, and season two did not disappoint, I loved this season just as much as the first. I hope it keeps going strong

Good movie Good 4th installment of the Twilight Saga. Disc arrived in a timely manner. And disc worked which is a plus. (I ordered a disc from Amazon brand new one time and it didn't work). Alot of people rag on Twilight. It's not for everyone but for those who truly enjoy the Twilight series will like this next part of the story and leaves you hanging for the final part.

Chuck season 5 Chuck is my favorite show.  I always love the five seasons of the show.  I don't know if they will make a movie about Chuck, if they do. I hope it's out.  Brandon Routh was the best villian in Chuck, He plays Daniel Shaw he's like the evil version of Chuck.  We had to deal with new villians and new challenges for Chuck.  Saying good-bye in this show too.  Series Finale, reminds the movie the Vow, about Sarah having amnesia and doesn't remember who Chuck is and the finale when they kiss, I think she might get her memory back.  We don't know, if she does or not.  She still loves Chuck and wants to be with him.  Zachary Levi, Joshua Gomez, Yvonne Stravosiski and Adam Baldwin were my favorite actors on the show.  Chuck and Morgan were my favorite characters on the show who I can relate and talk about.  I'm Chuck and Morgan in real life.  Chuck and Sarah are like Dan Humphrey and Serena Van Der Woodsen on the show.  I think everybody should get this season.  It has a great finale.  Finally Chuck becoming a true agent on the show.

One of the Best Disney Animated Films Ever Made Of all the Disney full-length cartoon stories, this is my favorite. I love Fantasia even more, but that's not really a story. This is the one that will always tug at my heart. I saw it when it was new and I was pretty new myself: eight years old.  Jim Darling gives his wife a cocker spaniel puppy for Christmas. "What a perfect little lady," she says, and the puppy has a name. And of course, she is completely charming. So when she just can't handle sleeping in the dog bed in the kitchen, the Darlings let her sleep on their bed "just this once."  Dissolve to a nearly grown Lady sleeping on their bed. She's six months old and time to get a license and a collar. Her friends Jock (a Scotty) and Trusty (a bloodhound) are impressed. To them, it is a symbol of respectability. "Everybody knows," Trusty says, "that a dog's best friend is his human."  But soon, Lady is feeling neglected because Jim and Dearest are acting so strange. She describes the situation to Jock and Trusty, who explain that they're going to have a baby. "What's a baby," says Lady, in one of my favorite lines. Tramp, walking by, tells her they are nothing but trouble.  And so it turns out, although Lady likes the little critter once she is introduced. But then Jim and Dearest go off for a vacation and leave the baby (and Lady) with their crabby old aunt. And her two Siamese cats. Their song, "We are Siamese if you please. We are Siamese if you don't please," is such fun, as they sing while demolishing the house. When Auntie is finally alerted to the mess, the cats pretend they are injured and that it was all Lady's fault.  So Auntie buys Lady a muzzle, but Lady escapes the pet shop and runs away, until cornered by some brutish junkyard dogs. However, Tramp intervenes and saves the day. When he sees she has a muzzle, he takes her to the zoo and cons the beaver into chomping it off, claiming it's a log puller. And in fact, the beaver finds it very useful.  So Tramp gives Lady a tour of the town, and then ends up at Tony's Italian restaurant for dinner, where Tony and his assistant serenade them with the beautiful song "Bella Notte" while they eat a plate of spaghetti "heavy on the meatballs." Then a chorus with very lovely voices sing it again while Tramp takes Lady on a nighttime stroll through the park.  The next morning, they go chasing chickens at Tramp's suggestion, and Lady ends up in the pound. There's Peg's immortal song, "He's a Tramp," with her multi-ethnic chorus, and then Lady is bailed out. But she's put on a chain attached to a dog house in the back yard. When Tramp comes to visit, she snubs him because of what Peg said about all the girlfriends he has had. He slinks off.  Just as it starts to rain, a rat creeps unto the roof and into the baby's room window. Lady barks and barks, but Auntie just hollers at her and doesn't understand. Tramp hears the barking and comes to the rescue. He kills the rat, but creates some chaos in the process, including knocking over the baby's cradle. Auntie is just calling the pound to have him taken away, with Lady locked in the cellar, when the Darlings come home. Trusty and Jock track down the dog catcher's van and Jim Darling and Lady follow in the car once they see the dead rat and figure out what happened.  In the end, we're back at Christmas (presumably two years from the opening scene), and Tramp is a part of the family, wearing a collar. There are three adorable girl puppies who look just like Lady, and one boy who looks just like Tramp. (Who cares if genetics doesn't really work that way; this is Disney.)  This is five star animation, especially given that it was all done by hand on colored cells.

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Classic musical This is the best known version of George Bernard Shaw's play "Pygmalion."  The Hollywood musical builds on the Broadway musical because it is not constrained by stage settings and scenery.  It might have been better if they had retained Julie Andrews (who played Eliza Doolittle in the Broadway production) but it is still an all time classic musical.  There are some changes from the original Pygmalion, and that might offend some purists, but the musical version came out great.  Most people are familar with the motion picture as it periodically shows up on TV, so I will not go into detail about the plot.

Touches my heart A really good love story without being "sappy".  Hugh Grant & Julia Roberts were really believable and they are both adorable.  And I loved the supporting cast - would be great to have a group of close friends like them.

Square Grouper is Straight Stuff If you ever wondered what happened to the Marijuana Church covered by 60 Minutes back in the 1970's - Square Grouper is the answer.  But it is more then just that planetary news on the religious marijuana movement.  There are two other major Florida based marijuana smuggling operations detailed in this documentary also.  What is most interesting is comparing the Square Grouper documentary with Cocaine Cowboys 1 and 2 which are produced by the same documentary team.  Even the two profit makeing marijuana smuggling organizations share the same rightous human values as the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church members.  This is in marked contrast to the Cocaine Cowboys values.  So Square Grouper is not only a unique, valuable, indeed irreplacable documentation of our Marijuana reality.  It is also a chart to our future as we Senior Citizens come into our majority in a world that sees Marijuana as an answer to our energy problems as well as our spiritual and medical problems. We were right in 1968 to come together to "Legalize It", we are right now, and now the time is right for us also.  Don't miss what will be seen as a fundamental singularity to our understanding of our Hippy Marijuana values as they have matured over the past 45 years of growing and exploration.  Buy Square Grouper now....  One Love  Rev. Tom Brown, First Church of the Magi, Fayetteville, Arkansas

Awsome! <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001LF3690">STACEY NEMOUR's Secrets of Splits & Flexibility</a>  Awsome dvd which will improve my dancing techniques. I highly recommend it.

Great movie Best horror movie I've seen in years, limited gore but good effects and an ending Hitchcock would be proud of. Harry is definitely grown up and does an excellent job in this movie. Looking for more like this.

An Activism Staple Ever had an issue with the way government runs and had a strong urge to stand up and voice your opinion? This movie will inspire you to do so, and show you that people should not be afraid of their government; government should be afraid of its people!

excellent I received this movie within 3 days after ordering it. I was very impressed. Thank you I have always been satisfied with Amazon and will continue to buy from them.

True to Life It's great to see Lee translated the Woodrell novel so well. A beautiful meditation on a part of Civil War often overlooked, especially as to its effect on the individual.

chilling what an amazing movie. the atrocities leading up to the decision to murder the evil lord were disturbing and chilling. the humor, overall acting and dialogue was fantastic. and finally the battle scene was truly amazing and surprising. lots of crazy tricks and traps and a very satisfying ending!

Great show,Can't wait for season 2 and 3 This is a very funny show. I'm a big fan of 6teen which has same actor's voices as this show. Worth the price.

How cool stumbled across this on Amazon and can't believe it only has one season.  I've just started reading the books, but this show is engaging on its own.  Loving it

She Wore a Yellow Ribbion As a long time John Wayne fan I would say to every one that likes the Duke or westerns.  This is one of the best. An all star cast and lots of action what more could you want.

A VINTAGE MOVIE TO BE SEEN! My teenage nephew had never seen "Logan's Run," and since he is a science fiction buff, I thought he should experience this classic! Thank you Amazon, for having retailers like this one who offer a quality DVD.

Great film about a remarkable artist This is one of the rare films that leaves profound and lasting impression. The genius of the main character is conveyed with care, love and skill. The artist, his life, character and paintings are shown in a flow of interviews, related scenes, touching animation. This documentary is very effective in creating the mood of the spaces and times, it pulls you into the experience. You may immediately like the characters, or you may struggle with the information presented, but in either case you will experience the artist's complex, intriguing, sensitive and powerful personality. The interviews are often assembled in a way that combines opposite opinions or even contradicting accounts and facts. This keeps the viewer even more aware and engaged, and conveys deeper meaning beyond controversy. Overall - very enjoyable film. I'd also recommended other films by Andrei Zagdansky such as <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005164VEE">Konstantin and Mouse</a>

Education documentary that shakes you up My daughter told me of this film. I am a retired art teacher so I bought it. The movie makes powerful points about the awful flaws in our eduation system. It drags in parts with illustrations and statistics.But its most powerful strength is the stories of the kids in the film who are trying so desperately to get into good schools. A film all teachers andparents should see.

Spartacus: "Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. That's why we'll win." Stanley Kubrick's SPARTACUS marked the public reemergence of blacklisted Hollywood Ten screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who for years had penned scripts under several aliases. Credit producer/star Kirk Douglas for breaking the ban, by making sure Trumbo was given credit after Kubrick offered to "beard" for the writer.  SPARTACUS came about because Douglas was rejected by William Wyler for the title role of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009UZG1O">BEN-HUR</a> (1959). Kirk determined to make a Roman epic the equal of Wyler's. He definitely succeeded with this fictional story based on real people and events.  Considering the thousands of costumed extras necessary for both a gladiator/slave army and opposing Roman legions, Kubrick's bringing this in at $12 million was quite a feat. In first run, SPARTACUS quintupled its cost.  This was a troubled production. Four of the leads kept submitting rewrites that were repeatedly ignored. Laughton threatened many times to sue Douglas (but didn't). Because of artistic differences, Douglas fired original director Anthony Mann after only a week in favor of Kubrick, but he couldn't get along with the new director, either. Early in production, cinematographer Russell Metty quit over Kubrick's meddling, and the director doubled as main cameraman. As Metty's name was on the credits, he won an Oscar for a picture he barely worked on.  In hindsight, one of Kubrick's points of contention with Trumbo, that Spartacus is presented without flaws, is very strong.  The <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001VDT77W">Howard Fast novel</a> this movie is based upon was partly written in prison after this Communist Party member refused in 1950 to testify before the HUACC. The politicalism he injected into the book remains in Trumbo's adaptation, especially in the scene where Crassus demands his defeated foes give up their leader ("name names" in McCarthy terms). An "I am Spartacus" chorus is the result.  Alex North's inventive music score, originally recorded on six-track 70mm film, adds much to this picture. His love theme is particularly memorable.  . Recommended is the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005A8TY">CRITERION COLLECTION</a> edition. It restores over 20 minutes cut after a 1960 test run, including gory battle sequences and a suggestion of Crassus (Olivier) seducing Antoninus (Curtis), also offers deleted and behind-the-scenes footage.  . Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 IMDb viewer poll rating.  (8.0) Spartacus (1960) - Kirk Douglas/Laurence Olivier/Jean Simmons/Charles Laughton/Peter Ustinov/John Gavin/Nina Foch/John Ireland/Herbert Lom/Charles McGraw/Joanna Barnes/Harold J. Stone/Woody Strode/Robert J. Wilke/John Hoyt/Tony Curtis (uncredited: Robert Fuller/George Kennedy/Harold Goodwin/Charles Horvath/Leonard Penn/Vic Perrin--narrator)

Slice of life. Riding in Cars with Boys is definitely Director Penny Marshall's best film. I loved the story of Beverly played brilliantly by Drew Barrymore who gets pregnant at age 15, and how her life as an aspiring writer and mother unfolds through many decades. Brittany Murphy is a hoot as Beverly's best friend, she steals every scene she's in. Steve Zahn is also wonderful, he never gets the respect he deserved as an actor, so underrated! This movie is based on a true story, I highly recommend this hearfelt and painfully honest look at motherhood, warts and all. Enjoy!

Review of Alien Nation - Ultimate Movie Collection This is an excellent DVD. The movies are very good and these help wrap up the series in an excellent way.

The Great Ziegfeld In 1936, The Great Ziegfeld won an Oscar that year for best picture.  Although, there were other great films released that year, it is not hard to see why this one became so popular in its time.  Directed by Robert Z. Leonard and produced by Hunt Stromberg, The Great Ziegfeld is a biography of Showman extraordinaire, Florenz Ziegfeld.  It opens at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, where we see a young "Flo" Ziegfeld (William Powell) promoting a strongman, Sandow (Nat Pendleton).  Across from his booth is his competition, Billings (Frank Morgan),who is promoting a dancer named Little Egypt.  From that moment on, the two rival showman become good friends.  Luise Ranier plays Ziegfeld's first wife, French singer, Anna Held, who becomes his first big star.  The movie is long (184 minutes) and drags in the first hour, but by the second hour, huge musical productions, one after the other, delight the senses.  The standout of course, was the huge spiral staircase in the "A Pretty Girl is Like A Melody" number.  Literally hundreds of performers, including dozens upon dozens of beautiful young women in extravagant costumes are seen in these productions.  We are also treated to cameos by dancer Harriet Hoctor, singer and comedienne, Fanny Brice, a young Ray Bolger, dancing in his loose-limbed style, and the deliciously handsome Dennis Morgan.  Behind the scenes of these productions were often anything but glamorous.  Unfortunately, because of the stern production code that Hollywood was forced to conform to back in those days, it was all portrayed as pretty tame.  The only glimpse of it that we get to see is in the fictitious character of Audrey the Showgirl (Virginia Bruce).  It is stated in the movie that she was the reason for the breakup of Flo's first marriage, but I think that Audrey pretty much represents all of Ziegfeld's dalliances, which were quite a few.  Myrna Loy plays Flo's second wife, Billie Burke.  Their courtship and relationship is beautifully portrayed in the third hour of the film.  It is here where we see the famous telephone scene, where Ziegfeld's first wife, Anna Held, calls him to congratulate him on his marriage to Burke, all the while she is grieving because she still loves him.  Luise Ranier's performance as Anna Held, won her the Best Actress Oscar.  Yes, the movie is a bit long, but I don't think that they could have covered Ziegfeld's life in under two hours.  The movie is a classic and William Powell's performance was exceptional.  Put that together with those wonderfully extravagant musical productions and this movie is worth taking the time to watch.  Cast-  William Powell.......Florenz Ziegfeld Frank Morgan.........Billings Luise Ranier.........Anna Held Myrna Loy............Billie Burke Virginia Bruce.......Audrey Ray Bolger...........Stage Hand Fannie Brice.........Herself Harriet Hoctor.......Herself

Awesome Dance Instruction After falling in love with the first Volume in the series I was anxious to watch the next. I can honestly say that this one is even more amazing! Such great moves are introduced and are made easy to follow along with. I've gained even more confidence thanks to this DVD. Again, the video quality is superb and the instructors are top notch :-)

Great! I had to view this movie for a class, but it didn't feel like homework - Bardem is great and he has a fantastic supporting cast. I highly encourage viewers to check out the background of Ramon Sampedro and his fight to end his own life.

this movie was great This movie is great and full of laughs i enjoyed it from start to finsh it was the plot may not be nothing new but the laughs kind a releaf to a bad day

Wow! Tonight I decided to watch a movie they amazon prime.  Ip man it's a movie that I've wanted to watch for a while.  All I can say is WOW! This is a very good movie.  I am highly impressed.

I Gave It Five Stars; Yes, It's That Good One of the reasons I've enjoyed Batman over the years is because, well, he's human.  This movie shows just how human Batman is because he's aged just like all of us will eventually, which means he's slowed down and he's not as strong, and he recognizes this; but he is still mentally sharp.  Batman's age is brought up more than once in the movie, but he has more than enough will and smarts to get the job done.  This is one of my favorite, if not my favorite, Batman movie.

Exceeds Expectation The difficult part of reviewing something you love, in this case for me the movie Bright Young Things, is that one tends to have rather a lopsided view.  So, that being said, I probably do have a lopsided view, but after having watched this movie again recently, I was reminded why I enjoy it so much.  The sheer amount of cast that has gone on to bigger and better things is kind of astounding, for one.  That Stephen Fry has made a film that manages to be ridiculously over the top yet sombering at the same time is another thing.  My only quibble is in how much I cannot stand the female lead character (not the actress Emily Mortimer, she plays the character perfectly) as being paired with the male lead, but that's a characterization issue and is particular to me in part.  That being said, the acting in the film is pretty spot on, particularly James McAvoy who is riveting as the Earl of Balcairn as the character's life falls more and more apart.  The final thing that struck me as I was watching was how excessive the parties of the film are.  The 30s were simply roaring if this film is anything to go off, though that may in part be for show.  For some reason I keep coming back to this film even though I have seen it many times over.  The humor is typical Fry fair in many ways and the plotting is close enough to the original book (Vile Bodies) that one can pretty easily discern the events from the book to the film.  Mainly, this is a fun film with a slightly over the top end that manages to remain grounded even in the most overwrought circumstances thanks to the acting.  Five stars for exceeding my expectations every time I watch.

One of the Best westerns ever created on film!! The very first time I saw SILVERADO I knew it was great.  Some of my most favorite actors are in this film.  Men who can make you feel you're a part of the movie.  Men like Brian Dennehe, Kevin Cline, Scott Glen, Jeff Goldbloom, Danny Glover, Kevin Costner, and others of their caliber.  What an awesome film.  I've always enjoyed a quick draw character with a brain, and a master slueth smarter than the corrupt sherif, and a good plot to go with it all.  Of course the ever voluptuous Rosanna Arquette is the girl most every one is ever after, almost in any movie.  This film has it all.  THE QUICK AND THE DEAD.  What can I say, it's all about the quick draw with more of my favorit actors. Russell Crowe, Leonardo Dicaprio, and Gene Hackman who by the way, plays an excellant bad guy in most of his movies, I do believe.  Then the gorgeous Sharon Stone is a must for this movie, probably before Hollywood even came up with the idea of The Quick and the Dead.  I puchased both of these dvd's at Amazon.com

Alien Quadrilogy DVD set review Product was delivered on time, well packaged and as described. Each DVD has the original film as well a "Director's Cut". Lots of extra scenes, etc.. The DVD case is awesome. Great deal if your a fan of the "Alien" series!

Great collection for a film buff ! Any time a Criterion Collection edition of a DVD comes out, it is usually worth the few extra bucks it will cost you.  This presentation of "Seven Samurai" is fantastic.  Great features on the 3rd disc, and the book is great reading.  If you want to call yourself a REAL movie buff, this has to be on your shelf !

Great!! This movie was really entertaining! I can't believe that I missed it when it was out in theaters? Mark was great in it as usual. Streaming quality was excellent! No regrets

too funny This movie is a total crack up. I always enjoy watching it. I don't know which is better, the first or second Naked Gun. It put's a smile on my face and that is all that matters.

MOVE OVER ROCKY...ATOM'S IN THE RING! I'm not a big fan of boxing but I'm a sucker for the "underdog wins" movies....and this is the ultimate underdog-winner movie. I actually found myself yelling for Atom in his fights, especially that last fight! The action brought out a lot of emotion in me....my favorite scene was the Hugh Jackman shadow-boxing jump kick punch!! A thing of beauty to see! Another favorite part of the movie was Max & Atom "dancing"....awesome! This movie is a definite keeper and will be one of those movies that you watch again & again. Heck, I got the movie in the mail yesterday (Friday) and have already watched it 3 times! I couldn't recommend it more than that.

Wow, great film that has stuck in my brain long after watching. This is another movie that I came across in the filmography of the book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0240812174">The Filmmaker's Eye: Learning (and Breaking) the Rules of Cinematic Composition</a>.  The film is definitely worth getting on Blu Ray as it is pretty.  The acting is great and I think I am going to hunt down the rest of the films of the main actor Ricardo Darin who was the best part of the movie.  That is not to say that his was the only great performance.  His partner, the killer and the female lead all put in good performances.  The only scene that seemed contrived was the interogation scene but I don't think that it really affected the enjoyment of the film.  I think if you knew something of Argentine political history (I don't) you would get even more out of the film as it plays an important role in the film.  It is scetched out for the uninitiated so you don't have to worry about it if you don't.  The film won the oscar for best foreign film and it really deserved it.  I have been watching a lot of foreign films lately and the big complaint I have is that they are often thin on plot.  So many of them are more moods than stories.  I guess the complaint about american movies is that their plots are contrived and too reliant on three act structures.  I for one like a good plot and this movie delivers.  If you are a film make-up buff, this film shows all of the characters as younger and then as older.  They do a great job with all but the husband of the victom.  I really had to go back and make sure that the young judge was the same as the older version.  Movie magic at its best.  The film needs to be purchased in bluray as it is just sumptous to look at.  I'm a little disapointed that I missed this in the theater but a big screen and a bluray are a pretty good compromise.

Psycho; an American Classic I find it hard to believe anyone out there, who is a thriller fan, hasn't seen this classic. Alfred Hitchcock is a genius, and if you liked his series, you'll love this movie. Sometimes old movies can be very "slow", but this one moves along at a good pace and makes you care about the characters. There are lots of bonus features on this particular DVD, and a good deal about Hitch himself. Even if you have seen the movie, this is a good addition to your collection.

The Greatest There will never be another Harry Nilsson. He is simply the greatest singer that ever lived. This documentary is a MUST SEE for even the casual fan.  R.I.P. Big Man

Great Product from Preschool Prep Love the videos. I bought the four Spanish videos Conoce los Numeros, Conoce las Letras, Conoce las Figuras y Conoce los Colores, when my oldest son was 18 months and a few weeks after he started pointing at colors, shapes, number and letters. And the best part is that you can play the videos both in Spanish and English.

"They died, saving my life" Please read after you have seen the movie!  I have to watch this movie every year.  I also have the soundtrack which puts me into the plot and subplots again.  This is an outstanding movie, very thought provoking. Big plusses for the movie include the scenery coinciding with the score by Jerry Goldsmith (Aliens, Gremlins, Hoosiers, Air Force One, The Ghost and the Darkness), and there is the entire cast, and Hopkins and Baldwin, the Mamet script, and the directing adding to the quality.  The story alone keeps your focus throughout the movie.  There is physical danger with the freezing weather, the bear, no food, no transportation, no communication for rescue, no shelter, no weapons, no map, no real compass, plus their own panic and sense of shame, and add to all those problems the intrigue of each character's motive. These men would have not interacted this way had there been a woman around.  It is about the relationship among the men in a supercharged situation. The action scenes are realistic, especially the plane crash, and the scene when the bear is about to "eat" Bob and Charles.  I believe this is Alec's best acting.  And Hopkins is, well, the best as the understated, defensive, clumsy, and sometimes inept and sometimes shy Charles.   Yes, Charles is gracious and kind, even courteous, with his last line in the movie.  But - I read somewhere that Charles's last line had another meaning.  I always thought there was something deeper, something I missed somehow.  Eventually Charles would have discovered his wife's infidelity, she would have gotten her prenup settlement, and he would have had to seek another trophy wife, or remain alone. Their deaths "saved his life" from his phony marriage and his paranoid and stiff, "jaded" life. Everyone wanted something from his wallet or to get his wife.  The lodge owner wanted some of his millions to build a resort.  Charles had even suspected the innocent jet mechanic for wanting to get a hold of "her" - Charles meaning wife, the mechanic meaning the Challenger Jet.  Bob was jealous and made fun of Charles. Bob also nearly gave him a very real heart attack with the bear skin at his birthday party. One also has to realize the raw animal grip Charles got on his core survival instincts which caused him to drive Bob backwards to fall into the deadfall.  And yet he rescues Bob because he has dropped all guards and is at heart a kindly person, longing for real love and capable of giving love.  There is sympathy for Charles because his wife was the only woman he ever wanted, and he truly loved her.  He demonstrates his love for the now pitiful Bob, who realizes he's done nothing in his life that leaves any legacy. With this ordeal Charles has done something in his life that was "unequivocal" - his lifelong want.  He has become a better man, who "may not return" to his prior life, determined to change his life, having been rescued by his own vast theoretical knowledge and coolness to face each deadly situation calmly and wisely.  Without any physical training or skills, he drew from his thinking and became a uniter, a placator, a fighter, hunter, and leader to become much richer than all his billions.

Sweet, and lovely movie........ After watching Wall~E I, lost interest in the many Disney films.  My kids are both grown up, and we just lost interest in Disney Films.  This last Christmas we were my Mother's house and she rented Tangled. I had heard about the movie earlier, and how so many people enjoyed this film.  I thought,OK, I'll give it a shot. Wow, what a wonderful and funny movie, we were all laughing and enjoying it soo much, I could'nt believe that Rapunzel was a Disney Film, I was expecting this to be more of a Dreamworks film. Rapunzel, and Flynn Rider were great, and I was so happy that Maximus and Pascal did't talk.  Action were greater than words with these two sidekicks.  The other characters were fantastic as well.  After we got home, the next week I bought the DVD and never regretted it.  Disney has finally made a very enjoyable movie for me and my family to enjoy all over again.  If your looking for a fun family movie for kids and adults alike, please watch this move, you won't regret it.

Grand Old-Fashioned Entertainment I loved this film. It actually tells the story and allows the viewer to be woven into the story of this epic hero. No reliance on CGI or big explosions but story with characters that you actually care about. Well-done.

Justified Season One I bought this as a gift for my husband. He has watched it several times and thoroughly enjoys it. He can't wait for Season Two.

action oriented and plot carried to the end and middle too. I am surprised they didn't give it the 5.1 treatment as this movie has a lot of vistas for sound and monsters. Similar to Ray Harryhausen.  The effects are claymay, but when I was growing up(even in the '70's past the date of this movie) that was still a spectacular effect.  Ray Harryhausen's motion claymation carried over well into the 1980's until CGI took over even in Star Wars claymation was used in monsters before Lucas spraypainted his sneakers.(so to speak). This is not Ray Harryhausen's work  Jason and the Argonnauts, Golden Voyage of Sinbad(and others I have yet to watch but will be finding them soon) utilise the lion's share of work from Harryhausen. Many others adopted this style and technique. Many films like this utilized claymation for monsters and effect. Aside from solid acting from everyone, this has a lot of action(for it's time swinging a torch was a lot of action) and grande special effects in the form known as "trick photography" and adheards as much as can be in a movie to the abridged novel by Jules Verne. I wish it had been given the 5.1 treatment as did "Tima Machine"/War of the Worlds(George Pal). The backdrops of both films is similar to HarryHausen's backdrop artissts.(director: Henry Levin's backdrop artists).

Excellent Dialog, VERY impressed with this film. I found this film to be EXCELLENT. I'm a big horror movie fan & I highly recommend this movie to everyone who shares the same passion :)

Educational - Inspiring! This is a great movie for any educator, anyone who knows anyone autistic.  The story of a dedicated, determined  Mom and 3 cheers for Temple.  More movies should be produced like this - True stories with hope - Making a difference!

Powerful and Gripping Storyline This movie was far from what I originally expected. The journey, the sacrifices, and the cost that these prisoners were willing to make for the sake of freedom was truly inspiring. Every character was different from another, each carrying their own weaknesses and strengths. And yet every single one of them was bound by trust and loyalty.  Ignore the historical facts and "what really happened" during this era. It's a good movie to just sit back and relax. Teleport yourself into their shoes and imagine what it would be like to trudge through bitter cold and blistering heat just to reach the borders of freedom. In the end, you will walk away with a bigger perspective in life and the genuine appreciation of the world we live in today.

Gettysburg Amazing DVD - a great historical story. Well cast and enjoyable to watch - the minutes/hours flew by. Any historical 'buff' would love it. And maybe those who enjoy a good war yarn. Spectactular scenery and battle scenes - cant wait to watch it again! Great actors - great action = great drama!

Cheers for Courageous Great story line, strong message, lots of action, lots of drama, lots of humor---all the things that make up a good movie!

True Grit The new True Grit made me want to see the original again. Could find it anywhere so bought it from Amazon. The original is just as good as the new one. John Wayne is great.

Movies are made forEVER! This old great was a favorite mothers.  Was so great to find it on Amazon and surprise her with old memories. Susan Hayworth.....they don't make many like her anymore!

Still Magnificent I saw this film in the movies when I was 10 years old and watched it again on blu-ray last night for the first time in a while.  It is still a magnificent film. (How this film did not get a nomination for best picture of 1960 is still beyond me.)  We all know the plot: Kirk Douglas as a former slave leading a slave army in revolt against ancient Rome.  Some things that struck me was the immense size of this film with its thousands of extras.  In this age of CGI where thousands of soldiers can be created with the click of a computer mouse, it is so nice to see these large-scale epics of the 1950s and '60s where vast armies were created the old fashioned way: with real people.  I can't imagine how difficult these films were to make. I give Kirk Douglas a great deal of credit for getting this massive film made. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, who liked to leave it off his resume since it wasn't his baby from beginning to end.  The film features an intelligent literate script by the formerly black-listed Dalton Trumbo and excellent performances from its large cast starting with star and executive producer, Kirk Douglas. (Peter Ustinov won the supporting actor Oscar for "Spartacus" that year, Charles Laughton is excellent in a supporting role as well.)  Another thing that cannot be mentioned enough is the magnificent score by Alex North.  I have the original soundtrack record and the CD and one never tires of this beautiful score.  Sadly neither this or another magnificent score from 1960, Dimitri Tiompkin's great score from John Wayne's "The Alamo" picked up the Oscar that year. Ernest Gold won for "Exodus."  That was a good score, "Spartacus" and "The Alamo" were much better. (The blu-ray features North's magnificent Overture for the film and the "Entr-acte" music for the film's intermission, two wonderful features of the films of the past that seem to be lost forever.) The picture and sound on the blu-ray are fine.  There is some archival material special features.  It is sad that a brand new retrospective cannot be made on this classic film.  Sadly, the only members of the main cast still with us are the very elderly Kirk Douglas and John Gavin (who played Julius Caesar in the film.)  It probably would be difficult to put together a retrospective, but I'm sure something could be done. In conclusion, this is a classic film, an all-together intelligent epic that is still well-remembered by those of us who saw it in the movies and will continue to be remembered for years to come.

Wonderful movie I first saw this movie when it was released to theaters.  It tells an amazing, timeless story of integrity and loyalty to one's principles that every generation should see.

LIFE ISN'T ALWAYS FAIR Everette and Miles have been partnered for 7+ years and are raising Billy, an autistic child with a love of sailing ships.  The spark has obviously gone out of their relationship as all Miles seems interested in is making sure Everett removes the mold from the bathroom ceiling, use cost saving coupons and repair the lawn sprinkler while he and Billy spend some time with Billy's grandparents.  Not  even a hug or a kiss for Everette when he and Billy leave on their week long trip.  A chance encounter with a young writer from Minnesota, Chance (yes, that is his name), who is trying to write a novel loosely based on his life brings Everette and Chance together for one amazing week.  I thought the acting was excellent.  Although there are a few gaps in the overall story that are left for the viewer's imagination the outcome of the movie is surprising in this day and age of self-centeredness and personal happiness at the expense of others.  Life isn't always fair.  Sometimes we make commitments and then situations change.  Billy started out a normal child but became autistic. Everette and Miles' relationship probably started out well and then deteriorated as the stress of life and raising Billy took its toll.  Chance had been searching to find his real self and he found it in the redwoods with Everette -- "I'm not lost anymore."  This is a story about love, forgiveness, commitment, and life itself.  It is one of the best romance stories I have ever seen.

Awesome I'd never seen the extended version, it's great... the added scenes are basically those that strengthen the intimate bond that is made between the two lead characters. It plays up the "lolita" situation without being distasteful, it never goes too far. THere are a few dark scenes that look grainy, but the overall transfer to HD is pretty great. I don't review story, I leave it to people to find out for themselves.

Great movie, very BAD quality Amazon, sorry, but it's the last time I am renting a movie from you. The quality was so poor that I literally felt it is spoiling my enjoyment (and I watched it on my Vaio 13" laptop..)

touching story i was so into it the whole time. loved the characters and the story... the ending is too sad though T.T

youth restored I had received my bluray copy of Five element ninjas last night. I ordered the bluray preordered since December of 2011. Before getting this version I had a dvd made by an unknown company dubbed chinese super ninjas and it looked like a vhs copy from television. When I was a kid my parents used to take me to see second run kung-fu movies at the cheap theater for a dollar in the middle of chinatown/downtown. The one film that stood out in my memory was this film. I remember the weapons, I remember drawing different variations of the transforming weapons in class the following week. I am now 30 years old, and when I saw how amazing the Bluray transfer looked I was transported back to being a kid again. This bluray transfer is what bluray was made for. Watching this on Bluray is like seeing it for the first time. Great job to the people at Tokyo Shock. This movie is my favorite hybrid kung-fu/superhero film of all time. I hope one day they will remake it for a new audience. But atlas in China this movie did poorly because at the time Jackie Chan with his hybrid comedy kung fu was all the rage and the only people who gives a damn about this film is the over-seas audience.

X-Men? Heroes is a show that is about ordinary people who discover they are developing superpowers. They have to stop New York City from suffering a nuclear explosion, but there are also mysterious villains and government conspiracies. Sounds a bit like X-Men, right? But anyway, what makes Heroes great is not the action but the characters and how they develop over the season. Nikki Sanders has a spli-personality, one half is bad-ass, and she must learn how to control it. Claire, a high school cheerleader, is able to heal any injury, which she must keep secret from everyone around her. Sylar, the mysterious villain of the show, also has an interesting backstory. But the best character of all is Hiro Nakamura, a goofy office worker who can teleport and bend time (but he has trouble controlling it). Over the season, the heroes gather to try to stop the New York explosion. If you're looking for comic book action you will only find a little here, and one mild complaint is that they have to make Claire get killed again and again. But overall, Heroes is a complex show that shouldn't be missed.

Bull Durham: A Minor League Journey Bull Durham takes the viewer out of the glittering lights of Major League Baseball, and into the meat market that is the Minor Leagues.  The gypsy lifestyle of professional baseball is well displayed in this film with certainty only guaranteed with incredible talent.  It is a promiscuous female expert fan (Annie Savoy) and a veteran hard hitting catcher (Crash Davis) who jointly refines a raw talented pitcher (Nuke Laloosh) on and off the field.  Ultimately the trio all find their right places in life and baseball is their vehicle to these destinations, which provides them all with some long deserved contentment.  Nicholas R.W. Henning - Australian Baseball Author

Clean cliche fun. Obviously, the classic vampire movie! As you may already know, several famous elements often associated with Dracula are not visible in this film (i.e. no fangs or vampire neck mark). Other cliche items are visible though: the cape, suave brooding man, etc. Though not true to Bram Stoker's version (due to the Depression, Universal did not have enough money for an epic and opted to adapt the Hamilton Deane stage play), this movie set the scene for the quiessential vampire, as different from Murnow's version of Nosferatu as a character could get.

Glee Season 2 Blue ray I didn't get to see all of the episodes for season 2 due to conflicts with other shows.  No pvr :( However purchasing the complete set was awesome.  I have been able to start at the beginning and work my way through the set.  The dvd quality is fantastic and there are lots of extras included,like the complete sound track of all the songs.   The only thing I would have liked to see is proper music videos done by the cast instead of the songs being taken directly from the episodes themselves.  Some songs cut off abrubtly at the end so it's a bit disappointing. Other wise I'm very satisfied and would recommend this item.

everything's ok the DVD came quickly in original packaging.  :-) why I have to put in twenty wrds is beyond me.  just wanted to say the provider was quick and honest..

Not Just Another DTV Sequel This is my first shot at an actual movie review. I've never written a movie review on Amazon, but I've spent a huge amount of time finding out about this flick, that I have to talk about it right here. If you haven't noticed (which you probably would have), this is a little animated movie known as Lady and the Tramp 2: Scamp's Adventure. Boy, have I got a lot to go over now.  How did I get to discover this movie? Everyone, I want whoever is willing to spend time reading this review to step into the time machine and go back to a day in the late 90's, particularly 1999. I found out about it when a small trailer came on at the end of the Lady and the Tramp 1998 VHS. In 2000 came the actual trailer, and it pretty much drove my Mom to buy the video when it was released in 2001. And now that it's been over a decade since the debut of this movie, I have decided to view it even more, on a DVD I bought on this website in November of 2010.  What I am about to say will beat you over the head drastically, and will give you a total Falcon Punch in the stomach. This movie is not only Disney's best direct-to-video sequel there ever was, but it is also the best movie I have ever seen. There is not one irrelevant plot-hole to be found. Maybe that's the point with the Disney sequel lineup, but this one makes it a good thing to do anything this movie succeeded to do.  THE SKINNY: Scamp, the son of Lady and Tramp, decides to break free from the house due to the family rules being a setback for him. Little does he know the street life is not the right life for him. Throughout the movie, we meet some new characters we've never met before, such as Angel, Buster, and Reggie. So, what do I think of these characters?  SCAMP: If there was ever a dog in the pound that I so honestly thought was the cutest thing ever, I would steal a dog like this. This dog is just completely cute. I mean, the first time he showed up on screen, my heart beat and I just felt like grabbing him and keeping him as a pet. And Scott Wolf also did a good job with Scamp. I mean, he just sounds so freaking right for this role, as if this role was made for him. I have a dog that reminds me a lot about Scamp, which may be the reason why we got him. It only comes to show that Scamp is the cutest little dog I have ever seen in my life. His character is the best thing about this movie.  ANGEL: I also have to give credit to a small known actor named Alyssa Milano, who did fantastic as Angel. Angel follows Scamp at a close second place, and she's just as cute, and not to be a sick moron, but, I have a little bit of a "cartoon crush" on Angel. I mean, her voice-over makes my heart beat completely fast!  THE OTHER CHARACTERS: Scamp and Angel are not the only characters I like. Every other character in this movie is a joy to watch. Tramp was a carefree junkyard dog in the original movie, and now's he's taking care of a family. This is exactly what I wanted him to be in this film, not to mention his voice-over is well done by classic and amazing voice actor Jeff Bennett, who you may know as the guy who voiced over some logo advertisements for Kids WB. The Junkyard itself has a nice array of dogs that I easily get a kick out of. Buster, the villain, is done nicely by Chaz Palminteri, Sparky is done fantastically by Mickey Rooney, and everyone else is just fun in the junkyard. The three sisters are cute, especially Danielle, whose "slipper" comment is pretty hilarious. And every other character, whether it be Jock, Trusty, or even the human characters, is a breath of fresh air.  THE SONGS: The songs are completely enjoyable, adding that Disney magic we are all so intrigued by. We first run into "Welcome Home", a Beauty-and-the-Beast-like opening with the dogs being walked, and returning home, just as the title says. The second song we run into is "A World Without Fences", sung by Scamp, and then "Junkyard Society Rag" when we meet Buster and the Junkyard Dogs, "I Didn't Know I Could Feel This Way" when Scamp and Angel are flirting, and finally we run into the somber, emotional, and completely hopeful, "Always There". People, you may not agree with me, but this is the most emotional song I've ever heard in my life, and probably the best. I don't know how many times I have cried, and this song came in my head to make me cry even more. It just comes to show how much this song has impacted me.  THE STORY: The story surely is not original, but just because a story is not original doesn't mean it can't be good. The story is actually a cookie cutter story that I like: son runs away from home to rebel against rules. That's what we all wanna do sometimes, right?  THE OTHER STUFF: Do I even need to say anything more to describe how good this movie is? EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING, is a relief, considering most of the Disney sequels are not even REMOTELY accurate to the source material, even the Disney movies I didn't like. The only flaw I can find here is that I don't like the dogcatcher that much, because he is found to be forced. But, his appearances aren't enough to make me hate this masterpiece. I still love this movie to death.  My overall consensus for this film is that it is a work of art. Go ahead and say what you want. Disagree with me as much as you'd like, and label me as "unhelpful". You might not think that this movie is even close to the original in terms of entertainment and quality, but to me, this movie is a fantastic work of modern art from start to finish, and it's very easy to see that this beats Lady and the Tramp #1. I can't even say enough how much I love this movie. I love this movie more than anything I can imagine, even the albums that I review and give the same amount of stars I will give this amazing talent. I'm in no shame of giving this movie my affection, and I hope you people can finally see what I mean. This movie is a masterpiece on every level.  Rating: 5 stars/5 stars

Great movie! Definitely worth watching more than once! There aren't many movies that I care to watch a second time, but this one definitely qualifies.  It's cool to see how Adam Webber (played by Brendan Frasier) reacts to the world after never living above ground until he was 35 yrs old.  Highly recommend!

Airport Airport is one of my Favorite Movies of the 1970's!! It has a Great All Star Cast!! It is a Great Action packed Drama that has some Comedy! Helen Hayes is Great and is hysterical! It has many stars such as Dean Martin, Burt Lancaster, George Kennedy, Jaqueline(sp?) Bisset, Jean Seberg, Van Heflin,Lloyd Nolan, Gary Collins,Maureen Stapleton,and Barbara Hale. Like I said a Great Cast!

Good movie I had myself quite a few chuckles when watching this good comedy.  I also watched " La Cage Aux Folles ( I ) and ( III ) - The Wedding ") All three movies are funny and the acting is great.

Just keeps getting better! I didn't hesitate pre-ordering the second season. I immediately bought the first season DVD's when they were available. I want to be able to watch these shows over and over the next few years. As an East Tennessean, I can identify with some of the mannerisms and characters that are set in Kentucky and the Southern U.S. The strength of "Justified" is that any one of the characters can stand on their own regardless of whether they are appearing frequently or just for one or two episodes. The story lines and acting is superb. The dialogue is catchy and just when you think you've figured out what will happen next you are pleasantly surprised in many cases. I will say this to anyone who has not yet watched an episode. Try it. You'll be hooked. You'll start looking forward to each week's show and get caught up in the stories. I wish ALL television series were as tight and as superbly written, directed and produced as "Justified". Bring on the next season soon!

It's a Wonderful Life I alwasy wanted this DVD in my collection. I am not sure why I waited so long to make the purchase. Having both the color and black and white version was an added bonus to an already wonderful movie.

Classic Because the movie was filmed in black and white, it makes it seem more dated than it is.  Nonetheless the plot and the theme still haunt our present lives.

Shakira in your living room. I bought this because a)Shakira is hot and b) I like her music. I have her other two concert videos, and so far, this one is my favorite. Its more high energy and eclectic and showcases a lot of the variety of music she's capable of singing. Her concert videos are all elaborate and have lots of great sets and outfits and lighting and sound. I would recommend this to anyone who wants a Shakira concert on blu-ray over the other two concerts she has out. Especially the one concert video with "Hips don't lie." That one pretty much blows. The sound quality on it is not very good. This blu-ray has great sound, however.

Christina Aguilera Shines Cher is a has been.  Never a good singer without gimmicks, in my opinion.  My wife wanted to see the movie so I went.  I was blown away by Christina Aguilera.  She was great.  Had the movie had someone other than Cher it would have been a great movie.  Cher needs to stick to her specialized singing because her acting sucks.  Every word sounded as if it were being read from a script.  No acting there.  Christina Aguilera in the other hand did a superb job and I had never paid attention to her as a singer but in this movie she blew me away.  Forget the lame plot but see the movie to hear Christina Aguilera sing and her acting was pretty good also.  A thumbs up from me but because of Christina Aguilera.

Amazing I'm the biggest dcfc fan so this documentary was a must. Watched it probably 20 times. Others I showed it to who didn't know the band enjoyed it too.

Very Convenient! Of course it goes without saying that this is a classic --- one of the best movies of all time!  I teach this book in my reading classes at a community college, and it is very convenient to be able to order the movie as a digital download and bring it right up on the PC in my classroom to show on the projector.  I often misplace things and forget things, so having to remember to bring a DVD to class would just add to my stress.  I might forget it, and then I would end up having to change my lesson plans and disappointing my students.  This is so much easier!

Breaking Bad S4 Easy download...terrific series...I use & recommend Amazon for all my movie & TV show purchases! Amazon has the most complete library of any company I know.

DVD Always loved this movie! Received the DVD very quickly. To sir with love is great!<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003PWWY90">To Sir, With Love</a> Buy it and enjoy!!

Just Brilliant, not for everyone This movie has an art-house feel to it, and i suspect that most of the people who didn't like it, expected a type of Gone in 60 seconds film. This is true film making at its best, just read the critics reviews on rottentomatoes.com. I thought it was just bloody brilliant, though it must be said this film bears repeated viewing before its excellence can be appreciated.

Awesome I rarely buy new films, especially horror, however this, is for sure a gem. I laughed quite abit and loved the bloodbath at the end of the film. I truly enjoyed all the little twist and turns jokes and pokes... the stoner tells it like it is... gotta love a stoner kid. it doesnt matter if you know the plot thru and thru youll watch it over and over...  .....I am putting a spoiler alert so dont read after all the dots ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... haunted Wooded Cabin Reality entertainment Corp... ouch zombite feeling woozy just follow the corporate ladder :) oh crap im dead..... Brains :)

Even my wife was cracking up This movie was such a pleasant surprise.  They took all the stereotypical set ups for jokes, and completely turned them inside out.  Really liked this movie.

Buy this, it's lovely I have an expanding collection of DVDs of movies from the 30s and 40s. This beats all of them, not least because of the superb video quality, which is nearly as good as you will see on TCM. No blurred, snowy, two-shades-of-grey pictures, no crackly, hissy, inaudible-voices soundtrack. The sound is loud, crisp and clear, the contrast and focus of the black and white nearly as good as you would have seen in the cinema in 1944. And Hollywood really did to it best then: the beautiful black and white film was one of the major attractions for directors like Hitchcock who emigrated there from other countries. There is the beauty and fine acting of Gene Tierney and the wonderful tune with which the movie begins that is now a standard. You also get a full-length biography of Gene Tierney put together in 1999 on this DVD. The poignant bio alone is worth the price of the complete DVD. Talking of price, there is also a bio of Vincent Price which I haven't seen yet but expect to be also excellent. I won't comment on the plot of "Laura", as it's difficult to do so without including spoilers, since there surprises galore. Like all the best films of the 1940s, it has a superb script, with wit, irony and levels of meaning, unlike the trash produced today that relies on special effects and egregious violence. Dana Andrews and the other actors also excel, but what stands out from this production like a clear light is Gene Tierney. Not far into the film it is clear why all the men in it fall in love with her. This is a theme that is also well developed in the biopic. Buy it now.

A must have for any Sci Fi fan The original 1971 version of "The Andromeda Strain" has actually withstood the passage of time quite nicely.  The stark sets help keep the film from aging, giving it an almost timeless reference. The flashing computer consoles with simple displays are obviously dated, but that's about it.  The story of a deadly microbe from a recovered space probe is well told, very plausible and still timely.  The DVD transfer displays great on an HD system, rivaling the better DVD transfers of many recently released movies.  The sound is basic 2-channel stereo but that's really the only drawback to the disc.  Many consider "The Andromeda Strain" a Sci-Fi classic; some don't. Count me in the "this is a must-have Sci-Fi classic" movie category.

Cyrano De Bergerac (1950) Romance can be like novacaine, sometimes chilling, having a serene and euphoric effect while under the influence.  This movie is a good depiction of the play "Cyrano De Bergerac" by Rostand. At the age of 29 Rostand premiered Cyrano in Paris on December 28, 1887.  This movie has all the spark and spirit of the original play. Cyrano is played by Jose Ferrer, who started his acting career on stage. This movie is in black and white, however don't let this discourage viewing. Cyrano De Bergerac is truly one of the greatest Hollywood golden error treasures.  The time line is set in 1640, with the main character being Cyrano. Cyrano is a soldier, patron of the arts, philosopher, poet, duelist, pretty witty and being all things a gentlemen.  Cyrano is madly in love with Roxane, who is played by Mala Powers. Cyrano is afraid to tell Roxane how he feels because of his very large nose, or more like his enormously disfiguring nose. Roxane on the other hand sees Christian who is played by William Prince as the one for her. She sees Christian as a simple and handsome fellow.  In a true but timely sense, Christian only has his looks. While Cyrano has intellect and adventure. Well I don't want to give everything away, this is a fantastic romantic movie, with lots of great dialogue. A must see for all ages and a truly timeless classic.

See It I happened upon Jadorowsky in a boxed dvd set with accolades from John Lennon, among others. Still I wasn't convinced, but the price was right and I picked it up with a couple other movies. How does the mass marketed world of Hollywood claptrap manage to hide a visionary film director and bury what are certainly among the greatest film experiences ever? I guess it's good that one has to do a little searching or arrive at these when the time is right.  They are not for everyone. Don't go out and buy copies for the kiddies (though I hope I would have appreciated these at age 16+); these are liberal arts college film school/art school, NOT MAINSTREAM films.  Now, on to Santa Sangre. I found a VHS tape of this film, so cannot comment on the extras provided on the dvd. Read the other reviews: it is a deeply psychological study unfolding onto film the mind of its protagonist. Within a context of what seems unbelievable, the suspension of my disbelief was complete. all elements are woven ultimately together and for all its phantasmagoria or grand guinal or whatever artsy term you choose, it is great storytelling and great filmmaking. I found it believable within the rich traditions of hispanic myth and yiddish theater. think freda kahlo meets marc chagall on film. i have become more comfortable with the images of real life, as here, moreso than the packaged prettiness of hollywood. i am bored by movies with attractive actors and big stars. this is life on screen and myth from life, brought to life.  i don't want to get too esoteric, but this is filmmaking that draws from, but is itself, original. it's a beautiful film. beautifully written. deeply moving and memorable. i have watched a lot of great films. this is one of the best.

Synecdoche New York This is one of the greatest movies of all time. It begs to be analyzed like masterpiece literary fiction. It's definitely not for a casual watch, though. If you give it your attention you will be entertained and challenged.

Most Powerful Movie I've Ever Seen This movie made me cry like a 5-year old.  It is unbelievably emotional, specially near the end.  So much so that I will probably not watch it again for a long, long time. That said, it is absolutely amazing.  I am really glad I watched it, and I thank Nakajima Makiko for recommending it.

Kingdom This was a suprise extra gift for my husnband for our anniversary - He saw bits and pieces on cable but never the whoile film. I think he has watched it a dozen times since I gave it to him. He really enjoys it.

excellent The product was what i expected. It arrived on time. I love this movie, I saw it a lot of times when I was a kid.

Sweet "Shiny Gem" Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere is one of those anime's that you absolutely have to give a look. The animation is great, the songs are catchy, and the storyline is unique. Based centuries in the future where humans have comeback to Earth from outer-space to find that Japan is the only livable plot of land, the people of Earth create outer dimensions of Japan in order to accommodate all the people and follow the "Testament" in hopes of repeating history and returning to the great beyond.   It is completely over-the-top crazy and wildly entertaining, and fails to fit in a neatly defined genre. The writing is pure genius and has carried over well into the anime which despite its complexity doesn't stop for long-winded explanations, but rather sweeps the audience away with the constant hands-on revelations about the structure of its world. This anime will confuse in the beginning you need to have strong mind that all i can say,its intriguing series that has me hooked up. There is a bit of something for everyone from Tons of action, an underlying love story, to raunchy comedy, Oh yeah Fanservice, most characters have Large Boobs.  There are many whiners that dun understand it at all, gave up on series early there lost, there is a good chance the series will continue for a long time. There Season 2 out now, may come more 3 to 4, I hope.

It's A Gift----a yearly tradition For whatever reason, "It's A Gift" has been a tradition to watch in our family every year.  My grandpa worked at Paramount on this production, and always had stories about Fields and some of his off screen antics.  This box set is a must have for anyone who appreciates WC Fields and his many talents.  The quality of the videos are pretty good, and some of the slapstick humor is priceless.

An Apocalyptic Love Story Worth Falling For I first saw "Perfect Sense" at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and I can honestly say that it was one of the most visceral movie-going experiences of my life. I have never walked out of a theater so happy to be alive- in a good way! Ever since then, I've been eagerly awaiting the opportunity to see it again. Unfortunately, the film didn't receive much of a theatrical release in the US, so I look forward to introducing it to my friends and fellow film lovers once it's released on Blu-ray.  To be fair, I can understand why "Perfect Sense" might not have got the release it deserved- it's a hard film to categorize. The film focuses on two residents of Glasgow; a chef, Michael (Ewan McGregor, "Trainspotting") and an epidemiologist, Susan (Eva Green, "Casino Royale"), as they meet & begin to fall in love- meanwhile, an unexplained illness begins to cause humans across the globe to lose their senses one-by-one. In the beginning, it's just a few people losing their ability to smell, but things escalate quite rapidly from there. While this might sound hokey (and usually is, on an indie budget), director David Mackenzie and his team succeed in evoking an effective & terrifying global disaster from a local perspective, and the film does enough to suggest plausible causes for its illness while keeping it ambiguous enough to allow the larger metaphor to shine through.  The effect of the disease is made even more immediate thanks to an interesting side effect: prior to each new sense that is lost, victims are hit with a uncontrollable wave of emotions, varying from despair to hunger. This leads to terrifying scenes such as crowds of people devouring everything in sight like animals- edible or not! These montages are quite effective at putting the viewer in this situation- one can't help but imagine how you would feel if you were losing your connections to the world and had no control over it.  Adding to the cinematic power of the disease are the unique perspectives of our protagonists. As a chef, Michael finds his whole livelihood threatened with the loss of taste and smell, and struggles to adapt to a world with little needs beyond the base essentials of "flour and fat". Likewise, epidemiologist Susan finds herself on the front lines of the disease, desperately trying to understand an illness that is clearly beyond comprehension (and one could argue is punishment for humanity's sins).  With all the mysterious disease and global chaos, one might place "Perfect Sense" squarely in the burgeoning indie apocalypse/sci-fi genre (a la "Children of Men"). However, it's clear that "Perfect Sense"'s dark backdrop exists to illuminate the film's true focus: the romance between Michael & Susan. These two lovers are hardly an ideal pair- both come with their own set of very human flaws, sabotaging their efforts at intimacy and admittedly making it hard to relate to either of them at first. But for this reason, their relationship feels very real - their flaws reflect humanity's flaws. Both Ewan McGregor & Eva Green give excellent performances, anchoring the film with their natural characters and physical chemistry, even while serving as metaphors for the whole human race. As Michael & Susan find themselves drawn together, each new sense that is lost brings an examination of what it means to be human, and what is most important to us in this world. In the end, when even our bodies betray us, the only solace to be found is in the people that we love.  It would be criminal of me to spoil all of the film's pleasures, but I must mention several other aspects that made "Perfect Sense" such a powerful experience. First, the supporting cast is fantastic, and collectively they sell the reality of the situation. The film features several familiar faces, including Connie Nielsen ("Gladiator"), Ewen Bremner (Ewan McGregor's "Trainspotting" co-star, "Black Hawk Down"), and Stephen Dillane (currently starring as Stannis Baratheon in HBO's "Game of Thrones").  Finally, and perhaps most importantly of all, I must call attention to the incredible score by Max Richter ("Shutter Island"). His beautiful and heart-breaking music on piano & strings was truly captivating, and hooked me into this emotional journey from the very first frames. Indeed, the score elevates the entire film, adding layers of emotional depth & power to the larger ideas the film could only visually suggest for the sake of budget. I hope somehow there is a soundtrack release, because if you're like me, once this music gets in your head you may not want it to leave!  "Perfect Sense" was one of my favorite films of 2011, and I am delighted that it is finally being released in America. It's not for everyone, but it may just make you appreciate the world more, and realize that the things we should value most aren't possessions, but people. I hope you walk out of "Perfect Sense" as I did - thrilled and appreciative of the wonders of life, and filled with a desire to share them with your loved ones. As the narrator so eloquently states, "without love, there is nothing."  (Update 10/17/12: I just wanted to add that Max Richter's amazing soundtrack for "Perfect Sense" is now available to download in the U.S., via Amazon, iTunes, etc. Check it out!)

"Grainy" edition is a keeper! This review is for the "grainy" release of Predator on blu-ray.  It looks great to me.  Yes the grain is quite noticeable on the studio's logo at the beginning of the film and in some night scenes, yet the movie is outstanding.  No regrets here!

Love the Lovecraft Del Toro loves Lovecraft and it shows. The image of the Old Ones' tentacles coming down from the skies is terrific, as is the creature at the end. The movie has a sense of humor and doesn't take itself too seriously...I like that. I enjoyed it.

The Invaders <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001HUHBBS">The Invaders - Seasons 1 - 2</a>    For those adults who want to have you kids see a great Sci-Fi series that is really a G rating, purchase this. I loved this when it aired on TV and was a fan from that point forward. No real fancy CGI or Special effects on the program but the context of how we would react is not bad. The main character played by Roy Thinnes narrates prior to each episode and makes each episode a little more interesting. I won't go on from here with any more information but I hope you buy and enjoy for for your entertainment.

Not for Mom! This is truly a classic!  De Niro is absolutely fantastic in this one!  I recommend this to all action fans

Favorite baseball movie Awesome, epic, and fun experience.  So many scenes that feel "warm." Film makers did a good job making baseball feel warm and a treasured past time.  The last scene with Roy Hobbs is still one of my all time favorite moments in any movie.

Amazing film! If you are a fan of Ron Fricke's "Baraka" then this movie is for you! The film contains all timelapse footage, set to music, that takes you on a journey through Western Culture. Totally engrossing and yet, at 45 minutes, totally digestible filmmaking.

Very Happy The package arrived on time and in great condition. Could not be happier. Watching The Notebook in Blu-ray is like watching it for the first time all over again (slight sarcasm...but the blu-ray is nice)

A must see for Clive Owen fans. This is probably the best performance in Clive Owens career. Very powerful. A must see for parents of young teen children. At times painful to watch.

A Strong comedy-drama that just gets better each season. After finishing House, MD's entire set of all seasons episodes, I was looking for something with the same crazed attitude. I was quite reluctant to even consider another medical show (after all, what could compare to House?), but I kept hearing great things about Nurse Jackie, and kept seeing Edie Falco at the Emmys! I decided to try one disc from Season One, and was hooed from the get-go. The show is an entire set of real flesh and blood characters with much more humor than House (he frankly scares me at times), and  I really care about them much more than I anticipated. The supporting cast is an excellent group of contrasting real life kind of people who I have actually began to really care about, especially the young Nurse Zooey. We have begun watching each disc in it's entirety when it arrives and send it back the next morning. We enjoy watching entire seasons of a show at a few sittings. If you enjoy House, you will liely enjoy Nurse Jackie, but even if House is a bit off-putting for you, give this one a try...I thin you will enjoy it!

LLLLLLLLLLLoved it! this movie is a favorite for my 4 year old, although some scenes were intense for him at 3.  he loves watching it over and over; well-done film.

No humbug here This is as good as this wonderful movie will ever look; a jewel in the firmament. The nuts and bolts commentary spends ten minutes talking about the studio and the history and particulars are really welcomed. Make room for this one and give it as a gift.

great thriller Final Destination is a great thriller.  The movie is full of suspense, I recommend this film to anyone Looking for a good thrill.

Marmaduke This is a fun family film. I have 8 grandchildren ages ranges from 12yrs to 13 months and it was fun to watch this movie with them - the laughter filled the room ..

Quirky This movie is a well watched movie of mine. I enjoy it a lot. It's funny and quirky and cute.

One of the best movies ever! I've been watching this movie for over 20 years. Should be a MUST SEE. Tells much about the 'human condition' and contains many scenes / lines worth seeing over and over. Highly recommended.

Simply the best There are many versions of this classic story available but this is by far the best. Alistair Sim is perfect as Scrooge but the entire cast does a terrific job. I believe this should be in everyone's library to be viewed during Christmas.

pleased with purchase I ordered this for my son and it showed up in a timely manner and was exactly what the description stated it to be.

funny movie Before I got the change to watch this movie I heard from a lot of people that it was the funnies movie. Once I got the chance to watch it I thought it was stupid. Husband wanted this movie. So we bought it. I watched it yesterday and I found it funny. I think when I first saw it I didn't expect it to be stupid funny and that is why I didn't like it.

Great movie Great movie!  I grew up watching this movie on VHS and now to have it on DVD is better than ever.  Thanks amazon.

Another Great Bogart Classic I bought this for xmas for my husband to add to his Bogie collection, besides the African Queen was the only other bogart movie we had seen in color. The DVD came in excellent condition and shipped fast.Would definetly buy from this seller again.

Good Christmas Movie The Title is a little misleading, not much in it about the dogs.  But family oriented and good storyline.

One of the best of all time comedies Defending Your Life is one of the most creative and funny movies of all time. Albert Brooks is his normal bungling neurotic self. Rip Torn is my favorite and Albert's "defender". Some terrific lines. But the best is the heart tugging ending. Whenever I watch it I get a lump in my throat. A must watch!!!

space jam Great movie if you have a little basketball fan, Michael Jordan, Bill Murray, Bugs, daffy and the rest of the looney tunes gang. How can you go wrong?

Still the best <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000TGJ80I">Underworld (Unrated) [Blu-ray</a>]This first installment of the series is still the most fully realized film of the bunch, although there are some nice sfx in the sequel as well.  The establishment of the world of Underworld is well executed, and it's always a joy to watch Bill Nighy do almost anything (don't miss his incredible turn in The Girl in the Cafe), and Kate Beckinsale is never better.  The series is due for another installment to wrap it up.

Great classic Funny, suspenseful, Rex Harrison, classic English movie.  Great characters and plot in the years before WWII.  Really a  must see

Awesome Very happy! The picture quality is so perfect it's mind blowing. I popped it in just to take a quick look and of course ended up watching the whole movie, again... ;) 6 hours of bonus content.  Highly recommended!

Cute! We are big fans of the Cars franchise in our house and this was definitely a hit with my son! We enjoy the short features and I think it's definitely worth the money.

this item was great! My daughter loves this! She watches this over and over again. Its a fun movie for her and it also gives me a chance to do what I need to do while she's watching it.

FIVE STARS ONLY FOR TERROR IN THE AISLES!!! Halloween 2 isn't a bad movie but the real treat is that we are FINALLY getting Terror in the Aisles on a digital format. I figured that the rights issues would have prevented this from ever being re-released but I'm soo happy that we're going to get it on Blu-ray. I just hope that nothing has been cut.

dvd I am very happy with how quickly I received this product. It is also in great condition and plays well. Very happy!

puss in boots I purchased this movie on my kindle fire for my daughter to watch on the way down to missour.  It kept her quite on the trip.  She said that she really love it.

The Rain Man This was a great movie and both Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise played there parts so well .I thought this was such a good movie and every part of it was great a good movie to see.And one to watch and even own.

Totally Awesome!!! This movie blew me away,great acting,story line,blood,gore,effects.If you are not into gore and blood well you had better have someone with you -just in case you faint and have you an waste basket near you too.Yes I will give this movie 5 stars-just freakin Bloody gorish good!!Looking forward to hearing and seeing  more of this Director and Producer.BRAVO!!!!!!!!!

very much like the movie I actually saw this movie when it came out and thought it was good, but I just recently bought it because I was in a mood to see it again and have it.  The seller was very quick and got me the movie in very quick time.

Whitewater Self defense One of the best videos for kayak safety on the market. I have been teaching WW kayaking for almost 20 years and I use this at each session I teach.

Tony Kushner is amazingly gifted (Part II) See my review of Part II of this mini-series.  Kudos once again for a brilliantly written screenplay.  The acting and music are simply a feast.

love, love it I would recommend this movie to anyone who loves horror comedys. I haven't laughed so hard in a while. Myself and all of my children bought this movie and we all loved it.

Great option If you like the Vampire Diaries and missed the first season this is the best way to see it.  If you loved it and want to watch it again it's great without commercials.

The Love Letter DVD It's one of my absolute favorite movies. Being that I bought it during the X-Mas season it took a while to get to me. But when I finally got to see it again I  enjoyed it very much. Great romantic tale. It's a definite corny chick flick. But I love it.

Everything you hope for in a film A good film is a confluence of many variables. A good director orchestrates these variables into a finished form. Beasts of the Southern Wild is such a film and Behn Zeitlin is such a director. And the brilliance of Zeitlin is that he manages to take all manner of seemingly contradictory elements and make them,as a nameless boat captain says in the film, cohesive.  One such variable is story. Hushpuppy is a six-year-old girl who lives with her father on the wrong side of a levee in a fictitious Southeast Louisiana town called The Bathtub. The film follows her point of view, and the world of her active imagination and the real world around her often intertwine on screen. The film is your standard coming of age story, but it is this unique perspective of Hushpuppy and her understanding of the world around her that is the foundation of the film and its magic.  Another variable is music. The director worked closely with his friend and composer Dan Romer in creating the score for the film. The result is one of the best scores in modern cinema. Just like the film, the music is a beautiful blend of contradictions. It's uplifting yet tinged with sadness, vast yet intimate, wise and noble yet naive and playful.  And the final variable I'll mention is performance. Other reviewers have made mention of the non-actors that occupy this film. This is another example of the director taking the contradictory and making it cohesive. It would seem unlikely that those untrained in the craft of acting would be able to aptly portray such subtlety, humor, love and pathos yet there it is, captured on film for all to see.  Beasts of the Southern Wild is a film that will simultaneously break, mend, and uplift your heart. Do your soul a favor and see this film.

A illuminating echo of another era--drawing the viewer deep into the personal world of the flawed protagonist I remember reading an article in Time magazine on this movie when it first came out in 1975.  Among the interesting technical aspects of Barry Lyndon was the large aperture lenses that allowed the filming of indoor scenes using only candlelight.  This technique imparted to these scenes an amber ambiance that evokes the Britain of the mid to late 1700's.  Also adding to the unique atmosphere of this film is the music of the traditional Irish instrumental ensemble "The Chieftans."  I especially love their piece "Woman of Ireland."  Stanley Kubrick tells a story that seems more deeply personal than those usually chosen by this director.  As the young Irishman makes his way in the world, he finds his way into the heart of a young and wealthy widow.  As the veteran of many love affairs, Lyndon does not find himself swayed by the affection of the widow.  Instead, he recognizes a financial and business opportunity and embarks on what might be called a marriage of convenience.  Accordingly, while enjoying the status conferred on him by this advantageous marriage, he does not properly return the genuine affection of his lovely wife, choosing instead to consort with women of low repute.  This treatment of his wife does not go unnoticed by the son of her first marriage, which sets the stage for tragedy.  In time, Lyndon's feelings for his wife change for the better, especially after she bears his child--a boy to whom Lyndon becomes completely devoted.  But the son from the first marriage will not forget Lyndon's early treatment of his mother, leading to a confrontation that provides the climax of this story.  I saw this movie as a graduate student with my best friend.  We often discussed this movie together.  My friend maintained that Lyndon was a "rotter" and would always remain such.  I believed that Lyndon had become a better person who developed a genuine love for his wife and child, and that he regretted his earlier misdeeds.  I invite you to see this movie and make your own determination!

Game Of Thrones This series will go down as a " CLASSIC"--Season One was spellbinding,intriguing and captivating ! I could not wait to watch one episode to the next...sometimes 3 in one night...I could not walk away from viewing it ! HBO GOT SEASON ONE ---SO RIGHT ! The acting....ENCORE- ENCORE to the Cast !!!!!!! The filming , scenes and sound are THE BEST YET !!!!!  Just purchased Season 2....getting ready to be mesmerized again....captivated by all the characters once again.....  Much THANKS to HBO....WELL DONE !  I purchased both season 1 and 2 in DVD format......MY question is it worth it to buy in BLURAY...?

Here Come The Brides - The Complete First Season I have no idea why it has taken me nearly six years since purchasing my HCTB Season One DVDs to write a review.  Better late than never, I suppose.  I imagine the recent release of Season Two on DVD (thank you, Shout Factory)has prompted me to address my thoughts regarding the first season of this fine show.  A quick scan of the more than 200 current reviews shows the general consensus to be overwhelmingly five stars, and I'm not about to disagree.  When I sat down to watch these shows again, after so many years of just remembering it showing on ABC back in 1968-1970, it was like catching up with long-lost friends.  Since the show was already set in a time period 100 years prior to its original run, it really hadn't aged much in the intervening 38 years.  Sure, it was easy to tell it was a product of the late 60s - early 70s, with its sometimes simplistic plot lines and often goofy humor.  But what a refreshing respite from so much of the junk on television today!  I must have watched the entire series in less than a month, and have often re-watched select episodes time and again, patiently waiting for Season Two.  Probably the hardest time I had with being a teenaged male fan in the late 60s, was the title of the show itself.  I know now it was pretty shallow on my part, but I somehow found it difficult to admit to my high school football buddies that I watched a TV show called "Here Come The Brides".  It just sounded too "chick" oriented, even though it actually had a much more universal appeal.  I've often thought the show may have had more success and a longer run if it had been called something else.  Maybe "The Loggers and the Ladies"...(just kidding).  Heck, this show made me want to BE a lumberjack (though not the Monty Python kind)...  So I basically went through two years of being a "closet" HCTB fan. Silly, I know.  But my friends could be merciless if they thought they had anything on you at all that they could tease you about.  Regarding the DVDs themselves, they look and sound great.  It's a shame they did not include any extra features (something the Season Two DVDs are also woefully short on), but just having this classic series on DVD is a pretty big deal.  I like the slimline cases housing the different discs (actually better than Shout Factory's Season Two packaging), though I don't know where they got the old time photos from.  Certainly not the show.  Are they supposed to be actual scenes of Seattle in years gone by?  Speaking of Seattle, I know I'm REALLY late to the party on this, but I must address the issue of the opening credit theme music.  So many reviewers - even some five star ones - are lamenting the lack of the well known vocal version of "Seattle" being used on these Season One DVDs.  Some are even saying the instrumental music used isn't "Seattle" at all, but some inferior generic theme music.  People, trust me - it really IS an instrumental version of "Seattle".  It's the EXACT instrumental music used during the first part of Season One back in 1968-'69.  I had an off the air reel-to-reel recording of it along with the themes from The Wild Wild West, The Avengers, Star Trek, etc.  I loved the instrumental intro, and knew it (and still know it) note for note.  The vocal version of "Seattle" was only introduced part way through Season One, with the familiar lyrics simply being laid down over the existing instrumental track.  It was sung by The New Establishment.  Neither Perry Como's nor Bobby Sherman's versions were ever used on the show.  Unfortunately, I believe they used the instrumental version throughout the entire Season One DVD set, so at least part of these shows have the incorrect version of the theme.  That's the only basis for complaint I can think of.  But hey - it's still "Seattle", just as it was heard in all of the early episodes.  For those of you who have not yet bought the Season Two DVDs, the vocal version IS there.  So enjoy.  Lastly, with this DVD now out of print, available copies are commanding ridiculous prices.  It's a shame, but that's what happens so often these days.  Very doubtful that Sony will re-release it, but perhaps if Season Two sells well, Shout Factory can somehow acquire the rights to Season One from Sony, and re-release it.  Only time will tell.

REPRINT / RE-RELEASE Planet Earth (PE) Special Edition 2012 alert.  Here's what's new. This is a review of the "Planet Earth 6-disc edition" portion of the reprint/re-release (March 2012) boxed set of BBC Natural History Collection 1, taken from my review posted on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005C9YZIW">Planet Earth (Six-Disc Special Edition) [Blu-ray</a>]  So here's the 411 scoop of accompaniments NEW to this 6-disc 2012 BD set that's NOT on the 2007 4-disc BD set, listed in the order of importance:  1) Diaries (bonus in disc 1-4), the 10-min making of clip following each of the 11 main features. Total of ~107 min in SD. Worthy to note, unlike the DVD version and other BBC nature diaries, which auto-plays the diaries immediately following the credits, here you do need to navigate back to the main menu to select these bonuses.  2) 3 new bonus documentaries (disc 6), total 150 min's: a) Snow Leopards: Beyond the Myth 50 min in HD b) Secrets of Maya Underworld 50 min in SD c) Elephant Nomads of the Namib Desert 50 min in SD -Note: the UK version contains Natural World - Desert Lions 50 min. Not sure why US version left this out. But lucky for US version, UK left out Maya Underworld and Elephants Nomads.  3) The Future (disc 5), 3 episodes in SD; total 3 hours: a) Saving Species 60 min b) Into the Wilderness 60 min c) Living Together 60 min  4) Great PE moments (disc 4) 46 min in SD, narrated by Sir David the Great Attenborough himself.  5) Audio commentaries by producers, but only for 5 of the 11 main episodes: Pole to Pole, Mountains, Caves, Great Plains, Shallow Seas.  6) Music only viewing audio. This feature is a bust. Why in the world would you ever watch a documentary without a narrator? BTW, it's not really music only. The sound effects (water falling, animal sounds, etc.) are still tracked in. I guess they couldn't get rid of that. In my opinion any upgrade to the audio portion should have been to include the Sigourney Weaver (Discovery version) narration.  7) Sneak Peak at Frozen Planet (disc 6) 13 min's in HD. Oh great, more advertising :(. But this IS BBC's next big release following the Life and Human Planet series.  Technical issue: the transfer is 1080i. From my research regarding the ad nauseam debate of PE being i or p, the original cameras used to film this series were no better than 1080i, so that's the limiting step. Though some earlier 2007 BD packages states 1080p, and the signal to your TV indicates p, later releases of the 2007 version corrected this to say 1080i on the package. Considering this series was filmed over the course of the early 2000's, you really can't notch about this (it was the best they had then). The main feature is still reference quality by 2012 standards.  However, regarding the extras, for the most part, ALL the bonus features (with the exception of Snow Leopard and the Sneak Peak Frozen Planet which are clearly HD) are all in SD, and at best, an upscaled 720 clearly not full HD from my sharp 20/20 on my 65" panny.  Most of you reading this probably already have a copy of Planet Earth on a different format of one of the many prior version(s) which contain a mix and match of various menus or narrations.  You've stumbled across on Amazon here which probably your initial response is, oh no, another one?  Like taking a complicated order for a simple burger involves smorgasbord of holding this or extras on that when it comes to every tailored garnish? Well, the problem with distributors setting the final cut allows no a la carte freedom to pick and chose extras. After all, this IS another chance for distributors to double dip, like in any industry, music, movies, etc. a genealogy of remakes, re-mix edits, extended edition, director's cut, previously unreleased bonuses tracks, re-master, new cover art, all in the name of gouging consumers. Especially with blockbusters, and Planet Earth (PE) is no exception. Yes folks, as long as you buy into it, you've suckered up into their marketing ploy. It was all in their strategies from the very start. After all, companies hire a panel full time solely dedicated to all the nitty-gritty tactical ways in capitalizing the bottom line of $, every chance they get, AKA milking the system. What can you do? Really nothing. You are at their helm when the goods are dangled to you in tantalization, and your pavlovian response is beyond your control. But I'm sure as you're reading this, you're wondering if this set is worth it. So without further a due, let's see what you get, and whether or not you can beat the system to your advantage.  So the concept of double dipping, can you beat the system to your advantage? Well, I'll tell you what I did. Ordered PE Spec Ed 6-disc used (much cheaper, note: got mine for $22), tossed out the scarfed package (it's cheap cardboard anyways). Bought a 6 disc blu-ray case (brand viva elite) for $2.50 from casetopia dot com, which BTW is the exact same size as the 4 disc case (15 mm thickness). Fit's perfectly into your old slip case. Successful upgrade. Donated the old version to a friend. Done.  Ultimately it's up to you, the well informed consumer to flip the switch or say screw you Mr. distributor leech. Everyone's economics and shelf space run the gamut to savvy your rations, like those must have fan boys. Still not sure?, here a logical final decision making:  -If you have both the dvd and original 2007 BD versions, no real need to upgrade unless you really need the bonus of Elephant Nomads. -If you have the Discovery US version of Sigourney Weaver narrating and want the original David Attenborough, then go for it. -If you don't have the dvd version but only have original 2007 BD version, then this is well worth the upgrade, solely for all those bonus extras. -If you don't have any copies of PE, this is a must own in every household for all ages. Starting with this Special Edition 6-disc version, you'd be skipping all other previous wasted versions. -When it comes to double dipping, price of course is always an issue. Currently as of this writing, the price on Amazon for PE 6-disc Spec Edition is as follows: Amaz $35; MarketPlace $33; used $26.  To top it off, a globe limited edition (gift version) is also available. Contains the same materials, just the hardware/ packaging is different, here: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005C9YZKU">Planet Earth: Limited Edition [Blu-ray</a>]  Good luck PE fans. Hope this helps. Note: this updated PE review is written on 01/21/12. Also maybe of interest to you, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003ZEQMFK">The BBC High-Definition Natural History Collection 2 (Life / Nature's Most Amazing Events / South Pacific / Yellowstone) [Blu-ray</a>].  For <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000T28PWY">Galapagos [Blu-ray</a>] (also 5 star), do read my review there.

Kid Pleaser My granddaughter received this movie along with the set of six beanie characters for her third birthday and she couldn't have been happier.  She sets up Alvin and the gang on the couch next to her and watches the movie with them.  The movie holds her attention more than most, and besides, its pretty darn cute!

Great movie Great movie filled with lots of information that is cutting edge but easy to understand and apply. Enjoyed watching it several times definitely can be used with all age groups

awesome film from a master of color the story is not the greatest of all films. however, the spectacular cinematography combined with drum music makes for an unforgettable movie viewing experience. if you're a fan of zhang yimou, you'll appreciate this film as a contrast to his preview "hero". where "hero" is a story about personal sacrifices for the greater good, "house of flying daggers" is about looking inward toward your personal good, sacrificing the greater consequences to the larger group to which one belongs. blu-ray on my sony hdtv is gorgeous.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes This video was purchased as a Christmas present for my 16 year old son.  We watched it this afternoon and it was better than we expected.  Having grown up w/ the old Planet of the Apes, my husband and I weren't looking forward to watching this movies.  However, we were both pleasantly surprised.  The acting was good and the apes looked so life like it was amazing.  It had a very good story line and we are hopeing that they make another one that picks up where this ones leaves off.

Love this! I have the other dvds and I love to have another Twight movie to watch for years to come! Great service!  I love  Amazon!

The Best Movie Version Of A Musical In Recent Years Since "Greese" Let me start off by saying this review is for the blu-ray version of the film. As for the film itself, in my personal opinion, I haven't been a fan of films released in recent years that try and portray musicals or Broadway shows such as "Phantom of The Opera," "Hair Spray," and "Chicago" just to name a few. Don't get me wrong, on Broadway, they are GREAT, however the theatrical renditions just don't "tickle my fancy." However this film really surprised me in that it met...no, exceeded my expectations. I remember seeing it in the theater on opening night, and right from the very beginning, when the tune begins to play and you hear the low "humming" roar of the organ chime...it was FANTASTIC! Now, mind you, a majority of the "singing" wasn't really all that great, but that's not to say the acting and performances giving weren't. I loved the performances offered up by each of the actors and actresses; they were really top-notch! Where the blu-ray kicks in real well is showing off the clarity of the magnificently thought-up sets and locations offered through the bizarre mind of Tim Burton. I also own the regular DVD version of this film, and I can honestly say the difference is very noticeable. Yet don't take my word for it, this film NEEDS to be seen, and thus you should go out and see for yourself! I won't give away any plot-points or anything of that nature, but be forewarned that this film is very graphic, so keep that in mind before viewing. I think that just makes it all the more fun though; especially considering that its a musical on top of it all! Very fun, lots of dark humor, a wonderful cast, and great music! Don't pass this one up!

Excellente! NTSC/Region 0. Includes the Uncut version, not issued on the US pressing. The latest triumph from Giuseppe Tornatore, the writer and director of the Academy Award-winning Cinema Paradiso, Malena is an utterly unforgettable story of a boy's journey into manhood amid the chaos and intolerance of World War II. In a sleepy Italian village, the most beautiful woman in town, Malena (Monica Bellucci), becomes the subject of increasingly malicious gossip among the lustful townsmen and their jealous wives. But only her most ardent admirer, young Renato Amoroso (Giuseppe Sulfaro), will learn the untold true story of the mysterious and elusive Malena! In a captivating motion picture nominated for two Academy Awards, the eventual struggles and hardships that Malena must bravely endure serve to inspire Renato to new heights of compassion, courage, and independence!  The cut version of the film offered on the US DVD is heavily edited, with virtually all of the cuts affecting the first story, and specifically Renato's dreams and fantasies (most of which show Malena seducing or making love to Renato). This shorter version of the film runs at approximately 92 minutes.  This Uncut Korean version of the film runs at approximately 104 minutes. Initially, it was available on DVD only in Italy, courtesy of local distributors Medusa. Later on, Korean distributors Spectrum also released the uncut version of the film on DVD (their release is essentially an NTSC-encoded replica of the Italian PAL-encoded release). Unlike the Italian DVD release, the Korean DVD release is English-friendly. However, interestingly enough, the uncut version of the film can only be seen as intended by director Tornatore if one turns on the English subtitles on the disc. If one turns on the Korean subtitles, plenty of the footage that is missing from the Miramax cut release is optically censored.  Note: In 2001, Malena won Best Cinematography Award (Lajos Koltai) at the David di Donatello Awards as well as Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score (Ennio Morricone) granted by the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists.

Marvel's Best! Never has a comic book movie captured the scheer wonder, imagination and cosmic greatness as Thor! I passed on seeing this movie in the theater thinking I would not be interested. What a mistake! I am a comic book fan but I never seemed to like Thor as a character. Because this movie was delivered so well, not only did I love the movie but I am now a Thor fan. I get the character now. Chris Hemsworth played Thor so well. He really captured the strength and also the sensitivity of the character, and really made you care about what he is going through. Loki played by Tom Hiddelston is amazing as well, playing his part so well that you are not sure if you want to punch Loki or feel bad for him.  This movie was filled with some of the most beautiful and terrifying character and scenery that I have seen in a long time. Great CGI work, awesome story telling and great actors have made this Sci-fi, action, drama, comic film an instant classic, and something that will be hard to match. I Just Saw The Avengers film, which was amazing but to me this is right up there with it. Keep it up Marvel Studios, you have a great universe expanding! I can't wait to see Thanos in action in the future!  You certainly get your money's worth with this 3D Package, pretty much covering all the formats. Great packaging and delivery here, very high quality product.

"It's better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it" One of most underrated classics of the '90s -- hell, one of the most underrated classics of all time. Back when Quentin Tarantino could write clever, quotable dialogue that didn't put you to sleep (Death Proof, Inglorious Basterds) this is an unaplogetic guilty pleasure. Tons of cursing, violence and a bit of a nasty streak ...that's still very loveable. Unforgettable characters, funny scene after funny scene balanced with scary confrontations and explosive action. The fact that so many famous and soon-to-be-famous actors took tiny parts shows you that a great script will attract great talent. By far the best thing Tony Scott's ever done or ever will do.

Aquamarine my daughter Olivia loves this movie all she wants for christmas is movies she is always watching this movie on the weekends all she does is talk about Aquamarine she talks about it so much i can summarize it.This teen mermaid is looking for love she falls in love with this dude ramen while two teens hailey [jojo] claire[emma roberts] are trying to stay together the only thing is ramen has to say he loves aqua [sara paxton] within 3 days.

Jane Eyre with Timothy Dalton and Zelah Clark I loved the movie and watch it often. Timothy Dalton is incredible in the role of Mr. Rochester, and Zelah Clark is very good as Jane. However, the constant interuptions with chapter info is very annoying.

Great Movie - Delivered on time. Received this product exactly when they said I would. The price was great for a Blu-Ray and the quality is what is expected from an older movie converted to Blu-Ray.

I miss Brandon In some ways this was your standard white samurai/ninja story and really I usually hate those movies but somehow having Dolph Lundgren as the white samurai it made it ok.  Also it was interesting seeing Brandon resist the temptation to beat everyone up as easily as I'm sure he was able.  It was very much like seeing the Green Hornet but the having the Green Hornet guy actually be dangerous and have the Kato guy follow the role.  Sadly seeing this made me think how wonderful it would have been to see Dolph and Brandon do the Green Hornet movie.  It would have been amazing.  But hey, this was great fun.  Loved it.

Show kindness to other human beings. I loved the Movie because, we see that a little kindness to another human being can teach us a lot. Meaningful Movie.

It's Rush, they are great! What can be said here. Rush is an excellent band and still going strong. Excellent tour and excellent DVD. Great product, Great seller!

They don't make great movies like this anymore! I have always been a fan of this movie. It's great from beginning to end! I remember having this film on laserdisc when it first came out, and last fall I bought the dvd for 5 bucks. This past Sunday I viewed the film on dvd and I have to say I wasn't really impressed with the picture quality. Last night I purchased the bluray for 10 bucks and decided to watch it again, and let me tell you the difference is day and night! The colours were vibrant and bright, it brought the movie back to life. The sound on the regular dvd is 2.0 digital but on the bluray its DTS surround and it was awesome. In watching the bluray, I saw some scenes I didn't notice on dvd. If you are looking to upgrade, this bluray is highly recommended, not to mention an action packed film with some great family values that we don't see much of anymore!

Excellent Documentary This is great value for money,two DVD's covering the history and training of the U.S sniper,covers a timeline that starts with the Revolution right up to and including Iraq/Afghanistan,6 separate programs and 4.5 hours playing time... A bargain!

Do things your way. In this movie it shows that you do not always have common sense when you have intelligence. This movie shows that the sister with the cognative disability is the one that has a better grasp of life. She does things her way proving that she can do it if she did it her way.

!!!!!ti hctaw tub, DDO Free movie or Amazon Prime.  Monday night, with nothing much else going on. 5 stars!  Whew!  Yup, really...  ODD, but watch it!

Jaws Blu-ray THE EXPERIENCE! When you are anticipating something so much, sometimes you don't get the right feeling for it at first, this happens to me a lot with Blu-ray. My expectations get set a little high. At first I didn't like what I saw, opening beach scene looked gritty, perhaps the lack of light was the big culprit. Even in the water when the girl is being attacked by the shark, still dark and grainy. Who knows, maybe it was shot on a crappier camera, but it doesn't matter anywho, that was me being picky. Come the next day when Brody is summoned to the beach you see Amity Island shine with glourious color and detail! I love the feeling of watching a movie I have seen SO many times before, come alive on Blu-ray because it really seems like I'm seeing it again for the first time. This is why I buy the format. The reason why I will own 3 versions of the same film (6 if its Blade Runner). The soundtrack is one of my favorites of all time! John Williams has never sounded better, the classic Jaws theme rumbles hauntingly with the awesome DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1! Wish I had that many speakers in my house, by my soundbar will suffice, FOR NOW. The only thing that irked me about this release was that Spielberg still has not recorded a commentary track, but I can get past that. People are always calling out for a remake. I say nay! You can never replicate the "Hitchcockian" vibes that ran beautifully through the film, instead you would get a gore fest in tune with films that are being offered now like Shark Night.  It's almost difficult to fathom that this film is almost 40 years old, especially when it provides such a high quality video and audio experience! It really blew my mind! A movie that still holds its own today and will withstand the test of time, Jaws will always have a special place in my life. It both created great fascination and terrorized me at the same time! For this disc, I would go back in the water (and I hardly go in the Ocean).  5 Stars outta 5. This is an example of where Blu-ray truly delivers! It will definitely make its way into my top 5 of 2012.  ~CynicNerd

Just marvelous. I really enjoy watching this movie/musical over and over.  Both Lucille Ball and Beatrice Arthur gave extraordinary performances.  This is one of my all time favorites.

A Must For Any Madeline Khan Fan As funny as this movie is, the one and two star reviews are equally irritating. They simply don't get it. When Porky Pig comes to say, "That's all, Folks" it's clear that what we've laughed so hard over is nothing short of a cartoon played by actors in what should have been impossible to film. Bogdonovich is at his very best with his directing, not to mention the all star cast chosen. This should be a tribute film to Madeline Khan. She steals the show for me.

Great Knockout Another Great DVD full of the best knockouts from the most recent year. Well put together and has plenty of bonus features as well to keep you entertained. It was a great DVD and I am glad I purchased it.

primo excelente!!! had me peeing my pants from the beginning , should come with a warning label you will need medical help from laughing so hard , a must see

Just as expected:) Came in a good amount of time, brand new like it said :-) Love these movies along with the letter factory as well as my kids love them. Fun and catchy so it sticks in your head.

bazinga Kelly'heroes is one of the funniest war movies around. It is a must see movie for war movie buffs.  fcoldshower1 I bought this movie at amazon.com.

Wonderful!!! I love this show and I was so thrilled to be able to relive the first season. I was only 10 when it originally aired. The product came in perfect condition and before the estimated arrival date. It was an excellent surprise. Highly recommended.

letters to Juliet The movie is quite a love story that probably has affected some of us in one way or another and can relate to.

grandma5 a wounderful movie, I first seen it on vhs and became lost in my last move. Told a friend about the movie at work and he too had seen it and said its a movie that he would'nt mind seeing again, so i bought it for him,he is 70 yrs young.

Everyone should see Hoosiers!! Watching this movie again last night (first time I've seen it in many years), left me wondering why Hollywood can't come up with more movies like this. It's really nice to sit down and watch a movie that is not vulgar, overdone with special effects, and has a worthy message for anyone. As a basketball coach Norman Dale is spot on. More Coach Dale's are needed in todays basketball. If this movie can't touch something deep inside you, worry about yourself. I think anyone involved in youth basketball should take the time to watch this movie. Fundamentals are paramount, no one player is more important, mastering the basic skills and playing as a team is what basketball should be about. It is also one of the most enjoyable and heart warming films I've ever seen. If you haven't seen it watch it, if you have seen it watch it again, if you coach youth basketball you owe it to the kids you coach to watch it.

Chasing Papi 'Chasing Papi' is a movie that has everything; comedy, drama, action etc.  Papi is a man who can't make up his mind when it comes to women.  He's dating three women in three different cities at the same time.  Now let's say they all decide to go see Papi at the same time and accidentally meet.  Add in Papi going through a slight melt down and some gangsters looking for some money with an FBI lady being mixed up as woman #4 by the first three.

Shipped quick! Love this movie.  It shipped quickly, got here fast, and I got it brand new at a great price for BluRay.  The only complaint I have is that I haven't had time to sit down and watch it yet!  Haha!

Great movie My husband, a lifelong Red Sox fan, really likes this video. He gets to relive those glorious 4 days (and not have to stay up until 1:00 am to do it!)

A Great role model for any little girl When this show first aired, I was a 7 year old little girl. There were no Saturday morning live-action show's for us and this was amazing. My best friend and I would spend hours playing Isis and we couldn't wait for the next week's installment. In fact it is the show that first introduced me to History and set me on the path to what my real life job is today. It showed little girls that they could be anything they wanted and at the time it was a pretty bold statement to make.  Over the years I had forgotten about the show until I saw it for sale on DVD a couple of years ago. It's now on my list of "must-have" shows.

Good intermediate yoga! I'm no yoga expert but have been in enough classes and done enough DVDs that many DVD yoga workouts can be too easy or repetitive...this one is not!  It's also not meatn to be a person's first exposure to yoga - Rodney will narrate "over to side triangle...next to warrior two...and now warrior one" (or however the sequences may go) but does not explain what the positions are or how to correctly execute.  For me, this is great because I recognize the poses and don't want an explanation of each one.  Also, it didn't seem that hard while I was doing it (at least I didn't get very out of breath) but by the end I was tired and my abs were sore for days afterwards, so it seems to be a thorough workout.

Great family movie We own all of the history based American Girl movies now (not the modern ones) and I love them. They are great movies to sit down and watch all together. I have a 6, 3 and 1 year old. It's easy to talk about the values that you see in the movies. I would recommend each one! They really are my favorite kids movies because they promote kindness, values and virtue. After watching this one for the first time my daughter went to her room, got all of her money and wrote a note "for the poor" so we got to talk about HOW we give back and help others...it was a great teaching opportunity.

What?!! Buy this children! I've spent the last 18 months creating a tempting online persona. Amazon, more fond of me than my lovers, has always known what I like better than any one else. When I got the e-mail in my inbox saying that this was a golden ticket item, I panicked. Confusion, frustration, and regret poured over me. "Is it too late?" I asked myself. I immediately threw my coffee to the floor and raced to my e-Machine, opened up the browser to the Amazon homepage, and made four remarkable purchases of "The Sound of Music (45th Anniverssary Blu-ray/DVD Combo Limited Edition)". I still don't have Blu-ray or DVD player so if you have any suggestions, please let me know in the comments.

EPIC: Will re-kindle your Twilight love... I realized the other day that I have never really seen the music videos from the Twilight films.  I realized that because I was watching the videos on a full-screen TV with excellent sound, and the videos that I thought I had seen many (many) times before -- in comparatively tiny, blurry, washed-out, muddy-sounding, online videos* -- were very little like the real thing.  The Music Videos and Performances from The Twilight Saga Soundtracks, Vol. 1 offers twenty-two music videos and performances of the artists who contributed music to the first three Twilight Saga movies.  The richness, vividness, and detail made the videos entirely new to me again (that, and since  several of them aren't available anywhere else). And the sound... well, you'd have to hear these DVD or Blu-Ray versions to know just how wonderful this music really is.  As for the individual videos themselves, they are in turns romantic, beautiful, intense, moving, dramatic, funny, frenetic, and lovely. Something for everyone.  Plus, some genius thought to add Clair De Lune (performed beautifully on the harp!?!), accompanied by striking Northwest scenery, as well as La Traviata with scenes of the (new?) moon.  Plus, the packaging design is really cool, and will look very nice in your own little Twilight shrine of joy.  But I have to say that the coolest thing about Music Videos and Performances from The Twilight Saga Soundtracks, Vol. 1 - and the reason it is a must-have for Twilight fans -- is it will recapture and enrich the passion you felt from the very beginning of your Twilight love.  Enjoy.  * Note: I'm not trying to be rude about YouTube or something.  To make a video small enough to download quickly online, they:  reduce the frame size, greatly reduce the number of colors, reduce the vibrancy of the colors, reduce the visual detail especially during motion, reduce the number of frames per second, and reduce the sound quality dramatically.  Just image what you've seen on YouTube, but with 100 times more stuff -- and that's what you will be seeing  on Music Videos and Performances from The Twilight Saga Soundtracks, Vol. 1.

Enemy Mine This movie portrays exactly what our present world needs to achieve in relation to getting along with everyone regardless of race,colour, or creed.

The True Avenger This film was released in the nick of time.  Forget "The Avengers", Gerald R. Molen and Dinesh D'Souza are our nations true hero's (and they have much to avenge).  While it is sadly no surprise this film received an astounding 28% approval meter at Rotten Tomatoes while Fahrenheit 9/11 received 83%, do not let the Hollywood liberals deceive you yet again: this is a film that must be seen.

great TV in typical NCIS form, this season is no disappointment.  great tv show with interesting crimes to solve involving the five-star cast starting with mark harmon. exciting twists and turns!

"So Long Archie and Edith" "All in the Family" began its final season in the fall of 1978. Although Archie would ultimately live on in its spin-off "Archie Bunker's Place", "All in the Family" finished its run as a first-run network comedy on CBS on the night of April 8, 1979. That episode entitled "Too Good Edith" garnered 40.2 million viewers, one of the highest rated finales in television history.   The ninth year (finishing at #9 in the national Nielsens) dealt with Archie and Edith living their lives alone without Gloria and Mike as the later moved to California. This plot twist was due to both Sally Struthers and Rob Reiner's desire to leave the series. Both, however, would return one final time in the episode "California, Here We Are", a one-hour Christmas show where Edith and Archie visit Mike, Gloria, and little Joey.   The final season also consisted of the addition of Danielle Brisebois as Stephanie, a young girl the Bunkers took in after her father abandoned her.   Included in this fantastic box set is the rarely seen 90 minute 200th episode of "All in the Family" hosted by series creator Norman Lear. That episode is hardly seen in syndication and cable airings so it's wonderful Shout! has included it as part of this release.   A total of 24 episodes are included, but like other sets there are no special bonus features.   The following are "All in the Family's" season 9 episodes along with their airdates:  1. "Little Miss Bunker", Sept. 24, 1978 2. "End in Sight", Oct. 1, 1978 3. "Reunion on Hauser Street", Oct. 8, 1978 4. "What'll We Do With Stephanie?", Oct. 15, 1978 5. "Edith's Final Respects", Oct. 22, 1978 6. "Weekend in the Country", Oct. 29, 1978 7. "Archie's Other Wife", Nov. 5, 1978 8. "Edith vs. the Bank", Nov. 19, 1978 9. "Return of the Waitress", Nov. 26, 1978 10. "Bogus Bills", Dec. 3, 1978 11. "The Bunkers Go West", Dec. 10, 1978 12. "California, Here we Are", Dec. 17, 1978 13. "A Night at the PTA", Jan. 7, 1979 14. "A Girl Like Edith", Jan. 14, 1979 15. "The Appendectomy", Jan. 21, 1979 16. "Stephanie and the Crime Wave", Jan. 28, 1979 17. "Barney the Gold Digger", Feb. 4, 1979 18. "The Return of Archie's Brother", Feb. 11, 1979 19. "Stephanie's Conversion", Feb. 18, 1979 20. "Edith Gets Fired", Feb. 25, 1979 21. "The 200th Episode of "All in the Family"", March 4, 1979 22. "The Family Next Door", March 18, 1979 23. "The Return of Stephanie's Father", March 25, 1979 24. "Too Good Edith", April 8, 1979

Lost Season 5 I never actually watched this series while it was still in syndication, but I am so glad for DVD and Blu-Ray sets!  Lost has become one of my favorite shows, and may even top the list!  Season 5, while still entertaining, causes a bit of problems because of the confusing timelines and jumping between different time periods, but overall I enjoyed it very much.  If you are a fan of the series this is definitely a must-own, not only to complete your set, but also because it starts to unravel some of the mysteries that have been awaiting an explanation since Season 1!  Very glad I made this purchase, and I just hope Season 6 is not a let down for the end of the series.

Amazing! All that can be said Saoirse Ronan, of The Lovely Bones fame, was also in a really cool movie called Death Defying Acts, alongside Guy Pearce! This actress, is just amazing, She has such a wonderful way about her, Also she Narrated The Lovely Bones, to the point of perfection. I would have to agree with another reviewer, in that she is going to a Blockbuster type actress. She hasd burst onto the scene much in the same fashion as Kirstin Dunst (who mainly works in the Indie World, now-a-days)  This film, has great appeal, and a very good score, as well it is paced nicely, and is a worthy piece for a collection.

awesome movie bad subtitles this is probably my favorite movie of all time and i wanted to watch it in japanese for once but i realized its the same damn thing there saying in english not a direct translation of the japanese script. so if you like the english dub then this blu ray movie is for you it looks fantastic way better than the dvd.  buy this movie you cant go wrong (unless you cant stand the english dub).

Great movie! This is one of my favorite movies ever. The plot and the acting is second to none. I'm a huge fan of both Robert Redford and Paul Newman.

Eye Candy I could  not take my eyes off the screen. Loved the action, the dialogue and the amazingly well done visuals. I did not pick up this movie to be sucked into it so much, just a fun action packed movie. Which it was, but it was above and beyond anything I expected.

Hillarious I bought this for my fiancee who had been looking for it everywhere.  Makes us laugh every single time we watch it. Never gets old.

WONDERFUL MOVIE!!! I never had the chance to see this movie all the way through.  I had deadlines to make, etc.  I bought "Pathfinder" because of the storyline and action sequences.  It is PERFECT in the detail orientation given the time frame.  Since there is only historical data to give any clues as to how Vikings treated Native Americans, constant battles to claim lands.  This movie is a perfect replica of historical encounters and what took place during this timeframe of our Earth.  Karl Urban portrays his character, Ghost, spot on.  Knowing the physicality of what went into this role, I was very pleased with how this was shown, no need for explanation.  Down to facial expressions this movie captured my heart, touching my soul feeling for what people suffered through.  Marcus Nispel's direction and hands on approach in working with the lead character "Ghost" (Karl Urban) was apparent.  These two work wonders together and this movie is the proof of that connection.  You are either born with it, or you are not.  Marcus Nispel was born with a talent for his films in direction, while Karl Urban was born with the talent for acting.

Start Of A Fantastic Career As Christian Bale's introduction film (his first) you will not find another character in the film that does a better job. John Malkovich comes in second in his believable job coming and going in a young British boy, Jim Graham's life. The film takes place in China when the Japanese invade and changes the lives of many, especially young Jim Graham. He will eventually be put into an internment camp and survive in his own way. The most moving scene in the film is when he discovers the American aircraft flying over the camp and Christian Bale does a SUPER job that should have at least given him an Academy nomination performance. He didn't get it but after 20+ years Christian will receive an Academy Award. Empire does get the nomination but not the award. Christian receives the National Board Of Review USA award as the Outstanding Juvenile Performance and Young Artist Awards as Best Young Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama. You will not be disappointed if you see it and I am sure you will want to take action and keep it in your collection of World War II films.

Fast Five DVD I pre-ordered the new Fast Five DVD from Amazon a few weeks before it was to be released. I received the DVD in the mail on the exact date of release, it was great. The movie is awesome, I have already watched it so many times. I was very pleased with Amazon and how quick and easy it was to pre-order this DVD. It was also cheaper to pre-order from Amazon, then to pre-order it from Walmart or Target. I am very pleased with this transaction!

One of the Best Movie Epics Ever "Ben-Hur 50th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition" is a lavish Blu-ray packaging of the 1959 Best Picture Academy Award winner.  "Ben-Hur" is a Biblical epic that stands far above other movies of the genre, primarily because it doesn't moralize and treat its characters as saints.  The characters are not perfect, not immune to temptation and vengeance, and not one-dimensional.  The film also had the benefit of veteran director William Wyler, balancing the film's action sequences with the personal story of Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston), a member of the family of Judea, who rebels against their state of virtual slavery under Roman rule.  Based on Lew Wallace's best-selling novel, Karl Tunberg's screenplay presented flesh-and-blood characters and plenty of melodrama to keep viewers involved.  Heston, who won the Best Actor Academy Award, dominates the three-and-a-half hour epic as Ben-Hur wins the love of Hebrew maiden Esther (Haya Harareet), is adopted by Roman consul Quintus Arrius (Jack Hawkins), and becomes a slave of a sheik (Hugh Griffith) who matches Ben-Hur in a chariot race against his former friend, now enemy -- the cruel and ambitious Roman, Messala (Stephen Boyd).  "Ben-Hur" required 100,000 costumes, 15,000 extras and a $15 million budget -- the costliest in MGM's history.  The movie was filmed in a process known as MGM Camera 65, one of the widest prints ever made, with a width almost three times its height.  This allowed for spectacular panoramic shots and exciting action sequences.  The chariot race sequence in the Circus Maximus is breathtaking.  It was constructed on over 18 acres of backlot space at Cinecitta Studios outside Rome, and the filming took five weeks.  With the exception of two of the most spectacular stunts, Charlton Heston and Stephen Boyd did all their own chariot driving in the meticulously choreographed sequence.  "Ben-Hur" won 11 Academy Awards, a record that held for 38 years until "Titanic" won a similar number.  The three-disc Blu-ray box set contains a newly remastered and restored print, the 1925 silent version of "Ben-Hur," screen tests, vintage newsreels, 64-page production art book, replica of Heston's journal and sketches, one-hour making-of featurette, highlights from the 1960 Academy awards ceremony, and the new documentary, "Charlton Heston & Ben-Hur: A Personal Journey."

Comentando desde Chile A great movie .... has all the desirable features, impressive sound, 1080p picture quality, original audio (which was filmed), and Spanish subtitles. Recommended by 100%.  Esta peli es tremendamente incomprendida (dentro del mundo de tarantino), pero una vez que la enganchas, empiezas a darte cuenta de 1001 detalles que hacen que sea un gusto verla una y otra vez.

B R Bruce This is a beautiful movie.  The cinematography, which features rural Montana, is beautiful; and the way in which the plot is portrayed is also beautiful.  This film has touched my heart for years.  The movie varies somewhat from the original novella written by Norman Maclean, but there are several memorable passages from the book incorporated into the script.  Regardless, the movie is wonderful and the experience of enjoying it has been improved by having it issued on Blu Ray.

I fell in love with Beyonce the first time I say her. I fell in love with Beyonce the first time I say her but this one top them all. 5 STARS

Movie of year Just as good as training day, should be an Oscar nomination.  Outstanding cast of characters.  Full of nonstop action throughout the entire movie. Can't get enough have watched it several times since recieving.

All time great movie one of our household's favorite!  A movie way ahead of its time. Great clean movie for the whole family with truth to it! This movie was made years ago, but you can see it is reality today.. (few graphic parts that children do not need to see but rest of movie is great for the whole family).  We have viewed this DVD over and over and it still keeps us entertained. We are proud owners of this DVD and are very happy to have this DVD in our collection. This is a great thriller and will keep you guessing.. Many twist and turns.  We don't have cable so, we have a DVD collection with great movies like this and stream crackle and Netflix through our Roku which we love. So this makes for great T.V. time the way we want it.. We don't have to pay an arm and leg for T.V. now because we cut the cord on cable. So when we find great movies like this, we like to watch them over and over and we enjoy them and never get tired of watching this movie. This is a very under rated movie.  So if you are looking for a great movie this is it. This shows you what has been going on for a long time.. look around you today... Get your pop corn, tea, ice water healthy drink ready and sit back and watch this exciting but true thriller.  The characters all do and excellent job.. The plot and scenery are great. As far as the wife's acting, how do you expect a wife to act in circumstances like this.. I think Regina King played her role well! As she said "Who watches the watchers"?!  You will not be disappointed. By the way, when was the last time you read our Constitution, federalist papers, Declaration of Independence, etc.. Read them again even if you read them in school read them again and think. (Also read a book called 1984 by George Orwell.) This should make you think and give you some insight. Watch this movie and think.. Because this movie will make you think.  This movie is way under rated. Oh, I know I already said that, but it is the truth, this is a great movie that should have hit big..  Enjoy!

UP Immediately watched by the entire family from 3 years old to 58 years old.  Really good time for family fun.

Cheers for The Notebook This was such a fun movie to watch. Acting was superb. No real surprise at the ending. Maybe more of a Chick Flick.

I DO review on Shabbos I'm sure everyone's impression/experience with this movie is different, but I'll be honest, the first time I saw The Big Lebowski, I struggled through it, and afterwards, formed the opinion that I didn't really care for it that much.  It had been built up so much in my mind as a "classic" and "cult film" that I had this idea that suddenly the cherubic choir would chime and I'd face the realization it was the best movie I'd ever seen, or at least top five.  It wasn't...but now it is.  How does this happen?  Every time I watch The Big Lebowski, it gets better.  Maybe I see another angle I didn't see before, maybe a detail that is new, perhaps even something that appears in a different context than each time previous, just because of where I am in life.  Whatever the reasons, it now has really become a film that I feel is damn-near flawless, and when coupled with a couple White Russians, makes you feel so good, it can sometimes become the best part of your day.  I suspect the Cohen brothers didn't even have the long-reaching scope in mind that this movie has when they made it...but like any good art, it morphs and becomes many different things to many different people.  As for the Bluray, it looks great, but sounds phenomenal, and its one of the first Blurays I've bought that I've appreciated the sound more than the picture resolution.  It fills up your flatscreen with an immersive experience that simmers you down and mellows you out, and like The Dude, allows you to, for a short time viewing just "abide".  I wish all movies did that.

The Apostle I STILL HAVE NOT RECEIVED MY DVD. THIS IS THE SECOND TIME THAT I HAVE SUBMITTED AN E-MAIL......WHERE IS IT?

V.I. Warshawski Vickie Warshawski, Kathleen Turner, does a great job interjecting comedy with a suspense filled mystery. Little items like the profane child and the back firing car add much to the movie.

If You Dont Have These Movies, Then Buy It... If you have enjoyed Kubrick films over the years, and have been waiting to buy them in one boxed set (I purchased the Blu-Ray version), don't wait any longer.  My only gripe is that I don't have time to spend a full weekend watching the series of films.

hilarious there is nothing better than a comedy that is actually funny.  This is the case here, instead of rehashing the same old jokes over and over, the writers decided to do something unique write an original funny story. there is the underline love story which makes the humor even more so.  If you want a movie for him with elements for her then this is the comedy for you.

Classy Classic! Dvd is in fabulous condition.  It's one I will be watching over and over again.  Thanks so much!

wow! this movie is omg way better than the other twilight movies to me that is, i cant wait to see part 2!

ASCIFI great If you are a fan of SCIFI movies this is a must for any collection. It is one of the 50's movies that made SCIFI a legitimate movie form The story is a bit corny by today standards, but it is a very watchable movie

You ABSOLUTELY must have this DVD. When I was a kid, American History and World History as taught in school down right bored me to tears. And now I understand why. This Documentary is an eye opener on so many levels, it makes you want to research and dig deeper. As it should. Great work!!

Thank you! Movie is exactly what I was hoping for. Thank you very much for your fast and courteous service. I can't wait to watch it with my daughter and husband.

Enjoyable and entertaining for the adventurous crowd Being Family I enjoyed every minute of this campy movie.  Scenery was splendid.  Acting not so good but it did make me laugh.  I enjoy watching it again from time to time.

Gorgeous Blu-Ray of the '82 Theatrical Version The old clich&eacute; that you cannot go home again happily doesn't apply to Steven Spielberg's E.T., the 1982 classic that hits Blu-Ray for the first time on October 9th. Right off the bat I can say that the film's HD transfer is beautiful, boasting clear detail, no overt use of DNR, and no color scheme "retweaking" that I could detect.  The last time I had seen the film theatrically was in 2002 for its 20th Anniversary re-release -- the ninth time I had seen the movie in theaters, but the first viewing I had on the big screen since E.T. first opened in 1982. At that point, I was not quite eight years old, and my lifelong love for the movies was about to take hold during that magical summer of genre favorites.  Watching the film again, as an adult, in 2002 was fascinating - not just because of how well the movie holds up, but in how it captivates children as well as adults, who can watch the film from a different perspective and yet be every bit as moved and spellbound by the story as kids are. I was finally able to see what critics had described in 1982, about how Speilberg's movie works for grown-ups in profound yet subtle ways. Whereas kids primarily identify with Elliott's plight to help E.T. get home, on this viewing I carefully studied the reaction of the other characters in the film, and was in awe of how Spielberg carefully painted every character's nuance in seemingly small background detail so effectively. Specifically, I was moved by how Elliott's older brother (an underrated performance by Robert McNaughton) aids his younger brother and gains his uncompromising trust, and how Peter Coyote's initially-villainous, ultimately sympathetic "Man With The Keys" is essentially Elliott as a grown-up, understanding his emotions and wanting to help the abandoned alien but not knowing how.  The movie is told with beautiful economy -- each scene creates and sustains an emotion integral to the characters, or serves to propel the story forward. The sequences with Elliott showing E.T. his room, his Star Wars figures, are so genuine, feel so real, that you forget you are watching a sci-fi fantasy that tugs on your heartstrings. It's the kind of movie that cynics love to bash because it makes them feel emotional, but E.T.'s cinematic virtues are plentiful. The movie is anything but saccharine emotion. It makes you care about Elliott and his family because Spielberg and writer Melissa Mathison make them seem like real people. There aren't any moments early in the film that don't feel like real life, and this timeless quality makes one get past the occasional '80s staple like an Atari 2600 camping out on the top of the family TV.  We all know and love the film's operatic ending, but there are scenes throughout E.T. that are subtle and yet every bit as sublime. This is illustrated perfectly in the sequence in which E.T. watches the mother (Dee Wallace) read "Peter Pan" to Gertie (Drew Barrymore), with the creature almost as interested in studying their interaction as he is in Elliott's plan to help him return to the mothership. Henry Thomas' performance is still the greatest juvenile performance I've ever seen, and the sequence in which Elliott says goodbye to E.T. -- whom he believes to be dead -- is as moving as any moment in the entire film.  Making all of it work, of course, is John Williams' music, still arguably his finest score for not only its outstanding lyricism, but its unforgettable, symbiotic relationship with the movie itself. From the quiet, poignant cues underscoring Elliott and E.T.'s scenes together - to the glorious finale that says every word in musical terms that Spielberg happily didn't feel the need to spell out with dialogue - Williams' music is E.T. It's another character in the film, punctuating every emotion in a fashion that's as restrained at times as it is powerful at others.  It's a marvelous, wonderful film and its Blu-Ray release, coming up early next month, adds to its legacy.  Universal's 1080p AVC encoded transfer of E.T. (in its 1982 original release version) is crisply detailed without any obvious noise or DNR filtering; overall, the presentation is sterling, enhancing Allen Daviau's cinematography in a transfer that does justice to the film's '82 theatrical cut. The DTS MA audio is effectively rendered as well, boasting a broad stage for Williams' masterful score.  For extra features, the disc adds one new interview with Spielberg and more of John Toll's behind the scenes footage, as well as recycles other extras from the 2002 DVD releases. This unfortunately means that, once again, Laurent Bouzereau's unedited 1990s laserdisc documentary hasn't been included (just a cut-down version is on hand), and it's a strange, notable omission since it contained the only full release of Harrison Ford's deleted appearance as Elliott's school principal - as well as the film's excised ending coda. That those particular scenes have never been screened again outside of that documentary sadly remains a mystery (just a few shots of the Ford scene are included in the "Evolution & Creation of E.T." documentary, with Spielberg talking over them).  Here's a specific breakdown of what is included:  -Steven Spielberg & E.T. (12 mins., HD): A new conversation with Spielberg on the production of the film, its genesis, the essential component of Melissa Mathison's involvement, and a nice anecdote involving his screening of the film to President Reagan at the White House.  -The E.T. Journals (53 mins., SD): This release's other noteworthy new extra is a longer assembly of behind the scenes footage from the production of the picture, much of it shot by future "Braveheart" Oscar winner John Toll. Some of this was included (in various forms) on prior releases, but there's more of it here, presented uncut and without new "talking head" commentary, thanks to Laurent Bouzereau.  -Deleted scenes (3 mins., HD): Two deleted scenes, added to the 20th Anniversary re-release, are presented here in HD. Neither is essential to the film and the CGI does seem out of place given the rest of the picture (though it's subdued and well executed), but the brief Halloween bit sets the scene nicely. None of the digitally "reworked" scenes involving the government agents' guns are included - although Spielberg said 10 years ago he wanted the guns removed, apparently he's had a change of heart and prefers to let his original version speak for itself.  -A Look Back (37 mins., SD): Retrospective doc compiled for the 2002 home video release, which is essentially a cut-down version of Laurent Bouzereau's '90s laserdisc documentary (which ran more than twice as long).  -The Evolution and Creation of E.T. (50 mins., SD): Previously available in the three-disc, more expensive 2002 DVD box-set release, this recounts the production in a lengthier manner than "A Look Back."  -The E.T. Reunion (17 mins., SD): The cast reunites with Spielberg in this 17-minute piece from the 2002 DVD package.  -The Music of E.T.: A Conversation with John Williams (10 mins., SD): Williams interview from the 2002, three-disc DVD box-set.  -The 20th Anniversary Premiere (18 mins., SD): Another previously-released featurette showing John Williams conducting the L.A. Philharmonic at the Shrine Auditorium for the movie's special 20th Anniversary screening. (Note the prior DVD had an isolated audio track of this performance that ran during the film, which is not included here).  -Designs, Photographs and Marketing: A series of previously released still galleries  -Trailer (SD): The full 2-minute theatrical trailer (offering some unused footage of E.T.'s ship landing) in non-anamorphic standard def.  -Special Olympics/McDonalds TV spot

Awsome This is a great family movie good for all ages. I really enjoyed it one of those you can watch again and again.

Probably the best Bollywood film in the last ten years Although known as an Amir Khan vehicle, the one thing about Ghajini that disappoints is Amir Khan's performance. It is way too over the top, and we often see him angry when he gurns for the camera.  That said, although a remake of Memento, Ghajini is a nice film with a strong - and long - story.  Jiah Khan is also in the film in a support role and is as gorgeous as ever, her acting is a little week but she has improved since this film was released.  I would recommend this to anyone who wants to see a well made Bollywood film.

This will go down in history... Unbelievable...I barely even know what to say about this show that can do it the sort of justice that it has earned.  To be honest, I came across this show by chance and never even remembered it being on during its tenure on FX.  I was basically getting tired of the movies that were On Demand, so I decided to hop on Amazon and see if I could find something that I might be able to get into.  I don't exactly remember how, but I ended up checking out this series and figured I would spend the 15 bucks on the first season.  Knowing what I do now, I would have spent a million!!  This show is just absolutely terrific.  After the first show of the first season I knew I found something unique as my jaw dropped to the floor.  The writing is just bar none and the acting is just so damn real that every time I watched an episode I was just sucked in and could not be bothered for that 47 minutes or so.  If you are into the kind of show that leaves you staring at the blank screen after the show is over in complete and utter shock and awe, then look no further because you have found what you have been looking for!

AMAZING!!! I love this movie for one it co- starred my favorite actress; Meagan Good! Second; Tyrese Gibson is in it! And it deals with crime- action which catches my attention right away! You should definitely rent or buy this movie!

Johnny Depp is Don Juan The intertwining of fantasy and reality.  What is real?  What happens when reality is too much to cope with?  How much of life is imagined?  This story reframes the intersection of fantasy and reality in a way that is often humorous, thought provoking and heartwarming.  I wish that Brando and Depp could have made more films together as they seemed to have a unique chemistry.

Gorehound Alert! A Violent & Vicious Splatterfest! RAMBO is an extremely vicious and violent film that should please both action and (yes) splatter cinema fans. Most of my buds are into splatter and it was without hesitation that I sprung this gem on them. RAMBO is the 4th and best installment of the franchise and all were extremely delighted with this film. This is not like any of the previous Rambo pictures as it is extremely DARK and loaded with much graphic violence. Make no mistake, this new RAMBO is one of the goriest films ever made and not for the faint of heart. My Gorehound cadre shamelessly lapped up the head shots, blood, dismemberment, exploding bodies, evisceration, stabbings and (yes) lens splatter that RAMBO dished out, for a total of 236 killings (2.59 per minute) in the film. One of them even went as far to say that it brought tears to their eyes! Yes, they did weep tears of joy, (even that shocked me)! As that was someone who shared the SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD trailer spotlight with George ROMERO that is quite a compliment! All agreed that the change in scenery and bigger budget (at 50 million) proved a welcome relief from the B-level monotony that is splatter cinema. As for plot synopsis this is standard Rambo fare in which STALLONE had little dialogue as he deals in lead. Nonetheless, RAMBO proved to be a great movie as it is a compelling picture that is emotionally draining. People really do these sort of things to other people, which added to the morose, and real life horror of the film. Also included are what appeared to be some graphic news reel footage of regional carnage. That added to the dark pall which hangs over this entire picture. Four and a half to Five Stars with an extremely high repeat viewing factor. Well done Sly! Highly recommended!

Couldn't be better The movie To Kill a Mockingbird couldn't be any better.  The book is a true classic, and the movie truly gives homage to the book.  I showed the movie to my ninth grade students who had never read the book.  I began by telling them it was a wonderful movie, but when it started in black and white, they decided it was awful and must be a movie only English teachers like.  When I had to turn it off at the end of class though, they all begged me to keep watching it.  To Kill a Mockingbird is not another film of a classic book that only literature nerds will enjoy.  It's for everybody.

Entertaining This movie is very entertaining. It will get your adrenaline pumping, and get you laughing occasionally to relieve the tension. The best Brad Bird movie since The Incredibles. As an added bonus, you get to see Jeremy Renner's acting skills put to the test before he takes on the role of the newest character in Marvel's Avenger's Hawkeye. If you are a fan of the Mission: Impossible franchise, this movie tied it all together. But I won't spoil the surprise! (Be careful, though, because the other reviewers might find it "impossible" to allow you to enjoy the greatest "mission" of all time.)

Really good sci-fi Of all the Science Fiction shows I love, and there are many, Farscape tops the list. (with Firefly of course) Farscape's use of Muppets allowed them to get away from typical "bumpy forehead aliens". The characters are all believable, and have motivations that make sense in their context. The villains are not just "crazy or Hitler" types, but actually have reasons for their actions. The goodguys meanwhile, are not that good either. Farscape, watch it.

Worth every Penney!!!!! if you've seen any other ac/dc live then you'll love this one it's a bigger stage more lights and more fans ,and if you haven't seen ac/dc live then you are missing something. i recommend this product I've watched it more than once and it won't get old. Best Ac/Dc Dvd Yet!!!!

Classic Chevy Chase I highly recommend this film it really discusses a young marry couple and there hopes of leaving the big city and living the quiet life in a small town in the country. unfortunately for the farmers everything that could go wrong does and will go wrong. This is classic Chevy Chase Comedy and i hope others enjoy it as much as i do.

The Hitcher We received the DVD The Hitcher on time in great condition.  This DVD is a wonderful addition to our library collection.  Thank you for a great product.

Dissappointed fan [[ASIN:B006Z7Z3KY Dark Shadows: The Complete Original Series (Limited Edition)I would like to be able to rate this at 5 stars by actually having it in my hands and seeing this crown jewel, but i can only rate it 5 stars from the people who actually have this in their hands because i'm sure it is everything they say it is. I preordered mine on Feb 22 and was shipped on Mar 19 and supposedly delivered to my door on Mar 24 but because the shipper didn't tell me it was coming by fedex or give me the tracking number so i could at least track it myself as to what day it would be here or require the driver to get a signature the driver left the box on my front stairs and didn't even bother to ring the bell and hand it to me, so not knowing it was there within a few feet of owning this gem and what would have been the crown jewel of my collection somebody stole it. I am so very upset this stinks that people have to steal other peoples property. Now try to get one at the price i paid $362.03 for get it, now there over $700.00 nice job Deepdiscount & Fedex. you guys really dropped the ball on this one i hold you both responsible.

Best Martial Arts Movie Since Fearless is my favorite movie of all time, you'd think it would also have to be my pick for the best martial arts movie of all time. However, if I'm to choose the best example of the genre, I'd have to go with Fist of Legend. It's really everything that you want in a martial arts movie: a thin but serviceable plot, decent characters, acting that may sometimes seem stiff but never makes you completely gag, and - most important - lots of great fight sequences. Further, the film is directed and shot in order to best highlight the moves of the martial artists. Sometimes this makes for a rather crude look but it's just a sign that the director has his priorities straight. The master/student dynamic receives screen time, including some discussion of martial art technique and philosophy. What more could you ask for?  Of course, since the movie was made in the early nineties before Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ushered in the age of more technical martial arts films (both wire-fu and true genre films), there is also ill-fitting music, cheesy sound effects, and strange dubbing. Personally, I do not watch martial arts movies with the English dubbing, though sometimes it's tempting so you can watch the moves more closely. I did check out Fist of Legend's English dub and the voices were not too bad (as far as that goes). Actually, I'm not sure what language this movie was originally shot in because the soundtrack in Mandarin and Cantonese does not match the lips of the actors any better that the English version! Strange!  In terms of fights, you will get your money's worth. You get not one, but two scenes of Jet Li taking on a crowd of adversaries. Add to that a fight between Li and co-star Chin Siu Ho (Tai Chi Master). By the way, Ho also gets some great action scenes of his own, which is great. There's a fight between Li and a Japanese master, as well as the final showdown with the Japanese villain. The plot is amusing enough to hold your attention until the next fight scene, and none of the fight scenes are overlong. Warts and all, Fist of Legend  is pretty perfect.  Another thing I like about this movie is that - even though it was filmed more than a decade before Fearless - it is actually a kind of sequel to that film. Li's character Chen Zhen returns to China to uncover the conspiracy behind the death of Huo Yuanjia, the master Li played in Fearless. Of course, the movies were not planned to fit together so there are plenty of things that don't gyve. Ho plays Huo Yuanjia's son, which will throw people who watched Fearless as in that movie Huo Yuanjia only had a daughter. Also the name of the Japanese martial artist who challenged Huo Yuanjia is different in this movie and his fighting skills are in question.  But these are minor quibbles (and are actually part of the endearing charm of this rough gem). Fist of Legend  would be my pick for best martial arts movie of all time, and I recommend it as a starting point for people who want to see a real representation of the genre as Li and Ho are in top form!

Alvin and the Chipmunks: Mystery of the Easter Chipmunk I think the dvd is FANTASTIC!! (This review may contain spoilers) My sister (10) and I (17) watch Alvin and the Chipmunks a lot, it has great nostalgia value for me and my sister is just mesmorised by the squeeky voices.  There are 5 episodes on the DVD which are: "The Easter Chipmunk" (Dave gets REALLY mad in this one) "Snow Wrong"(Based on Brittany) "Special kind of Champion"(Based on Alvin and a boy who is disabled) "Thinking cap trap"(Based on Simon) and "Luck O' The Chipmunks"(Based on an Irish boy who Theodore befriends)  The catchy music adds to the great story lines particuarlly in "The Easter Chipmunk" where Alvin is sure that the real easter bunny is infact his grampa... a chipmunk. The end to this episode is a surprising twist with a great few: AAALLLVVINN!! shouts from Dave! It's great to watch on Easter after stuffing your face full of chocolate as my sister and I found out.  The other episodes are great too; "Special Kind of Chapion" involes and boy who has a disabilty which means he has to wear a brace on his leg to help him walk. He is really into sports and doesn't mind loosing (which is completley the opposite to Alvin who is training him in order to pass his gym class). I really liked this episode because I myself have needed to wear braces on my legs to help me walk, and my younger sister has questioned this, and wondered why I didn't just have a wheel chair instead of struggling to learning to walk proporly. I think this episode shows that disabled people can do things able-bodied people can do very well and answered her question.  One thing that may annoy people is the girl in "Snow Wrong". Her dad is casting for the local play and she is furious when he picks Brittany over her, simply because Brittany and remember the lines and does have a voice like a cat being stranggled. Her voice is really annoying so you can really feel for Brittany when something bad happens to her...  All in all this is a great way to spend about 66 minutes of Easter, or any old time, not just for kids, but for teenagers and adults too! Great perchase!

Ninja The quality of the movie is excellent and the movie DVD never scratches from the beginning to the end.I have been playing the movie over and over again and it still remains great! Thank you.

Great condition and received it quickly! The product arrived in the condition that was stated.  I received it quickly with no problems.  Thanks for a great buying experience - will definitely look for your stuff next time.

Excellently nuanced I've been dying to get some good anime for a while now and this really hit the spot. It's so beautiful and almost hippy-esque. I love it!

Cracks me up!!! Katt Williams is hilarious!  One laugh after another. Lunelle and the others who appear are quick witted and made me belly laugh!

Pleasantly Surprised and totally in love with this series I am a huge BBC Pride and Prejudice fan and consider this my favorite book of all time. I was so incredibly surprised at how well this series was done, delving into each character's background and personality...made me love them all so much more. Such a great addition to my P&P collection. I enjoyed the humor and BBC movie reenactments, and I burst out laughing MANY times. Well worth the $5.99 to own.

Best Exercise DVD I've used! This is definitely the best workout program out there. I used it last summer, didn't even stick to it as well as I should have, and dropped around 30 pounds! I was never able to make it through the last DVD without resting, ESPECIALLY when it came time for the butt exercises! When I started the DVD I hadn't worked out in about a year, and I was so out of shape. My endurance was gained very quickly through this program. I was able to move on to DVD number 2 after only one week. The most noticeable change in my body was definitely in my legs. There are a LOT of lunges in these workouts, so if you're not used to doing them, DO NOT over do it! The first time I did, I didn't listen to my body and I could barely walk for a couple of days! Make sure you listen to your body when doing these exercises, don't strain yourself and you WILL get the results!

Actually a pretty good classic I remember seeing this back in the 60's-70's on tv. Scared me to death. Then, as I got older, I began to appreciate the performances of the actors. I watch this film a couple of times a year. "Make me a sargeant and charge the booze".

Good things Well made movie starring Nick Nolte, Jacqueline Bisset and Robert Shaw. Very creatively shot. Based on the best selling novel by Peter Benchly.

Love the movie even now, except for one thing I saw this movie in theaters in 1993, loved it then, love it now. I do have one big problem though, the judge presiding over Miranda'a case.Granted, he only has two scenes, but his second scene, after the birthday disaster, infuriates me! This film was made in San Francisco, California-the gay capital of America maybe the world. That judge would've been in deep trouble with the gay community had it been real life. Why does no one else mention this in their comments? Cause if it has been mentioned anywhere, I sure missed it! All that aside, overall, I do still adore this film. The special features are really neat too, I'm not getting this on blu-ray though, it doesn't require it imo.

One You Won't Forget This film takes a queue from Stanley Kubrick's classic film theme of man's inability to control his own destiny.  The film's main character Milos accepts a film offer which progressively gets more and more disturbing.  This movie pulls no punches and pushes all the boundaries of sex and violence, but not just for the sake of being shocking.  It truly is an excellent film, as long as one is not easily offended.

salmon fishing in yemen Salmon Fishing in Yemen is a great family movie. For older children and adults.  The characters make you believe that this could really happen. I would recommend this for anyone who wants a feel good movie. Chris

Jagged Edge One of my all time favourite films. This is a great courtroom thriller. It starts off with a masked killer entering the home of a lady about to kill her. It has a great twist towards the end and we don't find out who the killer is till the end of the film. Performances by Jeff Bridges as the man on trial and Glen Close as the lawyer defending(who falls in love with him) are very good. Well worth a look

Gift The package came sooner than I expected,Brand new packaging, its a Christmas gift for my husband I am sure he will love it! thank you!

INCREDIBLE This DVD was spectacular!!! There are three levels and they are killer!!! This DVD was hard and I was sweating my butt off, but it was fun:) I am in the Army and this workout gets muscles going that Army PT doesn't touch!!! I work in a Hospital 10 hrs a day and then come home to a husband, child, and two dogs... I'm very busy and don't always have time for the gym. The workouts are only about 30 mins, but make me feel like I've been working out for 2 hrs!!! It works if you stick with it!!! I get my husband to do it with me and we have sooo much fun and get in a hardcore workout at the same time!!!

cecemom This video was great in quality - just like the first time I saw it at the movies. This is a wonderfully written story of relationships-sadness, family ties that are always there during periods of sadness and above all the hope that everyone deserves and will find someone  that will bring joy - and most important, They Must Love Dogs

heresy or hearsay I often wonder when subject matter of this nature is routinely debunked that the debunking comes from some quango set up to maintain the status quo and to keep the masses in the dark. Well power to the people that unearth little snippets of possible truth and previously hidden historical facts. Work like this involves research that costs time and money and this one may be a "work in progress" but at least it gets people to think about possible collusion in high places that allows history to be written or rewritten so that it will fit into the church's grand scheme of things rather than what may have actually occurred.

Why would you keep staring out your window when Grace Kelly is in your bed!?!?!?!? I rank this among some of the best Hitchcock films (Vertigo, Lady Vanishes, Rebecca), though it's a slightly different feel than many of his other films.  Basically Jimmy Stewart is holed up in his apartment with a broken leg.  He is a professional photographer, so he likes to look at things.  In the course of staring out at the neighbors from his window, he believes he witnesses a murder.  He enlists the help of a detective friend, his visiting nurse, and his girlfriend.  Like Lady Vanishes, the viewer is not really given any real clues if there was even a crime, or what happened.  So the viewer is not really given any privy information.  We follow along as a casual observer, given only the same amount of information as Jimmy Stewart has.  It's an interesting film that is not only about a possible homicide, but it's about the neighbors and their seemingly ordinary lives.  Though we don't really see any interaction between the main characters and the neighbors, we get to know the neighbors, as Jimmy Stewart does, by viewing them through their windows.  It's a wonderful and original film that is beautifully shot and well acted.  Jimmy Stewart is amazing as usual and Grace Kelly lives up to her name (Grace-fully).  A great film, top notch!  The restoration is good, but I would have liked some more extra features.  Perhaps one day Criterion will get their hands on this film and do a really A+ restoration with oodles of extras.  Until then, this is about the best you can find, and it's a solid release of a wonderful film.

Just the facts and details The Panzers covers the various vehicles and evolution in impressive depth and detail. Throughout the series the narration is relevant and knowledgeable about the film footage and the minute details of the vehicles in the films.  Panzers is good about covering production runs and how vehicles were allocated to units.  It looks like you can buy the DVDs individually, but I'd recommend getting the whole series as it provides a more complete historical view. The box set is on 8 DVDs, individually boxed and shrink wrapped. It's nice that they aren't all crammed into a single jewel box. However, the set is a bit space inefficient in that each DVD only contains about an hour of video. The entire set could probably consolidated down to 3 DVDs.

Open fire This is a great Jeff wincott movie a Great  early 90s martial arts flick acting isn't to bad either just wish it was on DVD though

Getting hit by a bus The writing and acting are outstanding.  It's amazing to see Michael C Hall playing a repressed gay mortician after watching him gleefully offing bad guys on Dexter.  Frances Conroy as the mother is a special treat and Lauren Ambrose as the younger sister is unforgettable.  Rachel Griffin acts with her usual dynamic heartfelt excellence.  Freddy Rodriguez holds his own as the embalmer with a gift for making the corpse look lifelike.  The Nate character is a bit annoying but not enough to let you take your eyes off the other dazzlers.  The secondary characters are also superb.  There's a funeral every week and its always a great backdrop for whatever the characters are experiencing.

Lustrous Blu-ray version of a Hitchcock classic Having seen this movie several times over the years, I tend to watch at it without the dread of being shocked by the shower scene.  Looking at this lustrous Blu-ray version, I noticed that when Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) drags out the body of recently slashed Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) you can see faint panty lines. Ah, the modesty of the 60's.  Hitchcock raised the bar very high with this superior horror film and proved that the genre didn't always have to be full of blood and schlock.  What was shocking in this masterpiece is that it was so startling, compounded by the music with emphasis on heavy violin work.  It was also unheard of that the "A" list star would be butchered so early in the film.  Frankly, the second murder of the private detective (Martin Balsam) is equally shocking but then he's not a naked Janet Leigh.  Perkins is brilliant as the shy Norman with a dark secret.  The byplay between him and Marion in the parlor prior to the murder is a terrific set up.  Also watch him when Sam (John Gavin) puts pressure on him later in the film.  Perhaps more than any other film, "Psycho" turned the film industry on its head and made horror films mainstream.

A Must-See Movie An early Clint Eastwood that is clever, entertaining, funny, at times violent and also dreary, as the Civil War is going on.  What more could you want in a movie?  If you are a Clint Eastwood fan this is a must-see movie.  Lee Van Cleef (sp?) has the best eyes for a bad guy.  He is gripping.  The movie is worth watching just for his performance.  And the ugly little guy is just hopeless.  Guess who the good guy is?  If you have to see one Western, this might be it...although "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" runs close.

Strength Building Yoga by Rodney I've done many of Rodney's yoga DVD's but what was lacking in my collection was more of a "strength" yoga.  This DVD has you holding the poses a little longer and has you do a few that are more challenging, like the crow position.  Very strong arms are needed for this.  The DVD incorporates everything in it but due to the harder and longer-held poses, this is more of a strength/yoga workout.  Very good instruction as always from Rodney.

MOTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bad Ronald was an ABC Movie Of The Week (I remember the ad in TV Guide.) I has appeared on TV over the years. Bad Ronald is basically one of those movies that is so bad it's good ala Angel Dusted & Cotton Candy.) The movie is focused around your typical garden variety four-eyed freak named Ronald Wilby and his freakoid mother (who wears late 1929 fashions.) She keeps poor Ronald tied to her apron strings. The opening scene shows Ron's 17th birthday, Mom buys him a tool kit (that has everything) and a set of markers for Ronald's make believe netherworld called Atranta. She also bakes Ronald a swell ex-Lax cake. Later Ronald tries to crash a neighborhood girl's pool party. Ronald splashes on some bay rum, and puts on his Sears leisure suit, and heads over, but is quickly shown the door. While walking home he accidentally kills a young melonhead girl (who looks like Gregg Allman.) Ronald then buries her and runs home to mommy. Ma Wilby hatches up a scheme to hide Ronald from the fuzz by hiding him in the spare bathroom. Madness ensues, Ma Wilby dies on the operating table. A new family moves in, unaware Ronald is living in the bog and fermenting. His stench gets so bad it interferes with local TV reception and knocks a few planes out of the sky. This all leads to Ronald's capture. He is last seen eating turf on the front lawn screaming MOTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ken Burns has triumphed again Not only is this a fascinating presentation of a major chapter in our nation's history, it also gives the viewer insight into some of the personalities of the people on both sides of the conflict. No matter what you've heard about the Civil War, no matter what views you hold about it, you should watch this documentary. It's carefully researched, factual, and takes no sides. I wish it could be shown in every American history class across this country!

The Warrior General General George Patton was a high ranking officer of World War II. He placed himself within the historical significance of the war, and did this based on prior historical military engagements that had been fought on the same fields of battle.  The film is a wartime biography of the General; the ups and downs that tell us so much about him. As a General he must have had political savvy to have risen to that rank. Nevertheless, he was always stepping on the toes of higher-ups and chastised for it.  There is no doubt as to General Patton's contribution to the war, or his love and duty to country. Yet, he was a bit of a rebel.  The first disc is the story PATTON.  The second disc is filled with extra features on everything from the making of "Patton" to the staging of tank battles.

Super buy This is a fantastic product.  The packaging is very well done and very nice. The quality is superior is ony other series. It is the best series I have ever bought.

fabulous, action, and awesome 007 ! We could not find this movie on Netflix and decided to purchase this DVD as it was more affordable to purchase the DVD than download and view, plus we knew we would want to watch this movie over and over. Which is okay for us as we like to take our DVD's with us while on the road as it makes for some fun times. This has also come in handy when we are out and have to wait for long periods of time.. This happen recently and 007 saved the day! We started watching and before we knew it, it was time to go on to our next destination.  So back to the reason we went ahead and purchased this movie. Due to the garbage on T.V. these days, looks like many people are looking for great movies and are turning to movies like this again. Many people are tired of paying for trash T.V. so they have found other ways to view T.V. the way they want to. Looks like this is the growing attitudes with paid for TV these days.. And I know many like 007 so it is in demand!  Anyway, our family loves this 007 and glad that we were still able to find this movie for a decent price.. We don't want to spend too much money out of our budget. We are just glad to be able to watch T.V. the way we want to and not have to pay for crap TV. We are tired of today's T.V. shows.. It's really sad that such a good method of influence has turned into trash T.V with the exception of National Geo etc.. Any way, if you want clean T.V. this is it!  I can say since we cut cable off we have a better free life.. seems like we have more family time and time to do the things that we want to do. Plus we pay for the movies that we want like 007 etc since it is not on Netflix. I am glad that this movie is available on Amazon.  This movie entertains you with lots of action, turns and twist.. Miss those days of movies like this. So if you are looking for clean great family fun, this movie is for you.. You will not be disappointed. Our children love this movies!  We have re watched this movie so many times and we are still not tired of this movie.. Every time we watch we are still amazed.  We love the cars, Daniel Craig! the action, the scenes are so beautiful! This movie is full of surprises and will keep you on the edge of your seat wanting more and more! This is perfect for our movie night! This movie is refreshing! Stunning acting from all characters!  Well back to 007! I even have 007 as my ring tone!

This movie felt too good. I saw this in the theater a few months back.  Let me just put it this way..if you love imaginative kills and an unpredictable plot and have seen many of the most popular horror flicks this is for you.  I really don't want to spoil anything so the less said the better.  Also try not to watch the trailer and go into this movie fresh.

Practically perfect in every way I'm 16 and I grew up watching this. Though it's almost 50 years old now, it's still probably one of the best childrens' movies ever made. The special effects were amazing for the time, and some are still unnoticeable today. The actors are great, with Julie Andrews as Mary and Dick Van Dyke as Bert. The music sends chills down my spine when i listen to it. It's just an amazing movie, even 50 years later.

What high school sports is about! This is a movie that you can really relate to, the crazyness of high school sports if you have ever played (for a good team.) The characters in this film are so strong, QB Mike Winchell, James "Boobie" Miles, Chavez, Don Billingsly and even the quite Ivory Christian was a strong character as well as Coach Gaines.  This portrays how crazy high school football can be in Texas and how sometimes it may go a little too far. The radio announcers were a strong feature to this as well. The players doing actual football plays, blood, pain in their voices, sadness, triumph, partying. It was all there and I can truly say one of the best sports movies I've watched.  ****Though I have not read the book I know they are very different from each other. It is my understanding that if you really enjoyed the book you will probably hate the movie.

great movies a must for Matrix collectors - it will be a great edition for our sons Blu ray movies and he should enjoy it for Christmas

Great documentary on Apollo missions / moon landings This was a great documentary for any space buff.  It captured viewpoints from living astronauts and provided actual footage from Apollo missions.  Mike Collins gave insightful & funny commentary about his experience.  It really is amazing that our country did all this back in the 60's, and now our human space program is 'on hold'.  Our knowledge base will fade as the baby-boomers retire.  Just look at how few young aerospace engineers exist these days.  Hopefully this video can/will inspire young viewers and our country's leaders towards future visions in space & beyond.

Yes, this is worth the money! If you just immigrated from outer space, you don't have any idea what this is.  Otherwise, you have an idea of the international craze surrounding this series.  In print or DVD, this is a best seller with an avid following.  This review will not critique each movie.  Nor will I enter into a discussion of what is lost in the movement from print to film.  There is a question of a more "complete" version films later.  With money to be made, that is a real possibility but the definition of "later" and how much more film is an open question. An American adaptation of the story is in the works.  I do not think an American version will be able to capture the real feel of the story, as it exists here. These films are a very hard R, full of nudity, sex and violence.  If that is upsetting, you should not buy this item.  This is an integral part of the story and not tacked on in an attempt to boost sales.  The three movies are independent films, watched together, they tell a single story.  If you buy one, chances are you will want all of them.  Each film has a Swedish language track with English subtitles and an English language track.  Each film is widescreen, preserving the full frame movie presentation.  Each DVD is in a full color illustrated holder housed in a box with a changing picture front.  The two-hour bonus disk contains a documentary, interviews and trailers for each film.  If your decision is to buy the set, this is the best purchase option. This is an excellent story, well acted presented in a quality production.  The story is compelling and well crafted.  I enjoyed them the first time and will watch them again.

Funny movie... What's to say - it's Meryl Streep. Even thought I am not a Alec Baldwin fan, doesn't matter - Streep carries the film and shows her terrific versatility in a comedic role. Steve Martin is also good as the hapless boyfriend to be... A light adult comedy.

Stay Classy.... I love this movie!  It's cheap humor by comic legends and, as far as I'm concerned, there's not much better than that!  I can't wait for the 2nd Anchorman movie to be released.  Stay classy, Amazon...

Deep in the Abyss With Academy Award visual effects, we plunge deep into the world of The Abyss. Tension coils around waves of suspense, and the depth of mystery carries across a brilliantly written storyline. The heart of drama flows through the talent of actors that bring to life characters both conflicted and driven, and we dive further in-between the lines of struggle and fate. And as we drift down into the end, we find ourselves lifted up by music that pulls at the fabric of our being, and inspiration lights up before us in a vision created across the silver screen.

thoroughly enjoyable politics of war flick Why this movie was not a huge hit at the box office shows you the masses always have questionable tastes. As a war movie on its own it's a thriller with some frenetic street fighting scenes and super tense action. As a political thriller is where is really takes off as it's an expose of the whole WMD scam that led to the US invasion of Iraq under Bush the Dubya one.  Matt Damon carries this movie with an evenly played intensity that never goes over the top. If you're wondering why the military scenes are so well done, you'll learn on the extras that the soldiers playing soldiers in the movie are soldiers. They were also culled from these same army units that were sent out to find these non-existent WMDs.  The director is Paul Greengrass who did the last two Bourne movies with Damon so you get that same level of action but this time it's far better played. Whereas the first Bourne movie (The Bourne Identity) done by Doug Liman stands head and shoulders above the Greengrass follow-ups, Green Zone shows Greengrass knows how to scale it down to a more human level without the action impeding too much on the story.  Kudos to the casting, especially Khalid Abdalla who becomes the translator for Damon's military unit virtually by accident.  The DVD is definitely worth the price as you get to see the story behind hiring actual soldiers to fill the military roles and the way the filmmakers turned Morocco into the war-torn streets of Baghdad.

The Jungle Book (Two-Disc 40th Anniversary Platinum Edition) Was so happy to find this movie as it is my two year old grandson's "new" favorite movie.  It was like brand new condition and has already been watched at least 25 times!  The price was an extra bonus.

Great This is a fabulous quality DVD, I love the fact that it plays on Australian Region B 3d DVD player. The picture quality & 3D effects on this 3d blu ray disc are amazing.  I love it I could watch it over and over again well done IMAX.  Amazon's service and packaging was amazing, safe & reliable, shipped to OZ.  Great work and service Amazon. I would however recommend for Amazon to please specify which region  all their listed blu ray DVDs will play on for example Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs [Blu-ray 3D][ABC Regions} Please note that an A B C symbol on the back of the blu ray DVD indicates what region it will play in; in this case all three letters ie ABC blu ray means Mummies will play on all region players. For your reference here are the dvd regions Regions for Blu-ray standard   A: East Asia (except Mainland China and Mongolia), Southeast Asia, the Americas and their dependencies.   B: Africa, Southwest Asia, Europe (except Russia), Oceania and their dependencies.   C: Central Asia, East Asia (Mainland China and Mongolia only), South Asia, central Eurasia and their dependencies. For the record I know that Amazon should sends you a trigger indicating the region at checkout time, in this instance it did not work for my purchases consequently leaving me with DVD's that are not viewable in Australia, thus needing to be returned.............If the region advertised on listed is alongside the description and or name of the DVD then future customers will know what they purchasing.  Thanks Amazon hope you take on board my constructive feedback and make the change :-) as you guys providing an amazing service Love from Oz

5 stars shipped fast great condition, have yet to watch it but very excited, hope the moves are as good as the movie is thatnks 5 starts

TIMELESS This Shakespeare's play is a comedy with a deep message. It tells a timeless story, that can be both good entertainment and a good lesson. A valuable purchase.

Best movie ever Ilove this movie it reminds me of las vegas in the 80's early 90's. I lobe the action and the actors. Iv loved this move since the day it came out.

One of the best blu-rays of a classic movie I've seen This is one of the best blu-rays of a classic movie I've seen.  The movie itself has always been worth five stars as far as I'm concerned. "Badges, badges?  We don't need to show you any stinkin' badges!"

Great workout I bought the 30 day shred for something different when I got bored with kickboxing, and I found it embarrassingly difficult. But once I overused that one and started looking for a new one, I was intrigued to hear this one was harder. It is, and I love it! I'm getting married in a week in a strapless dress and I feel pretty good about how my arms and shoulders look (waist/butt/legs benefitted, too).

Based on a true story.  Flimed as a true story. The term "Based on a true story" is used very loosely in films these days, i.e. The movie "Open Water" and too many others.  This movie really captures the times of it's subject. This movie works both as a showcase of the talent of an early Al Pacino and as protrayal of a true American hero, Frank Serpico.  Both men are well served by this film, as is the viewer.

AWESOME MOVIE!!! Must see...the original hunger games! Graphic and violent, not recommended for young children thought. There's a part 2 but nothing beats the orignal!

AUDIO IN ITALIAN ? Blank. I could know if l' audio in Italian is present? Questo &egrave; il mio film preferito. Scusate se non parlo bene l'inglese. Grazie

YAY!!! I received the product very quickly and I am very happy with the quality is was received in and the overall quality of the product. Glad to have my Christmas Favorites.

We all have a notebook As beautiful as spring is this movie! I was and still am utterly fasinated by this dvd from amazon.com Consequently, I watch it over and over! They were young and so in love, and then old, in the end no matter the circumstances...Love never really dies!I cried, I laughed, I smiled sometimes I wrinkled my nose and then later laughed outloud.It is a movie for people of all ages. You will find you can relate also, if not, you will not have your notebook! I have mine, and I am 78 years old. Start writing!

Great movie! I bought this movie as a gift for my little sister. She loves the movie, and watches it all the time. It arrived quickly and in perfect condition, and I was very happy with my purchase.

Love and Choices in Martinique The summer of 1940 in Martinique as people began to choose sides is the setting for another Howard Hawks masterpiece. William Faulkner, who had adapted Raymond Chandler's complex novel for the director's other Bogart screen classic, "The Big Sleep," expanded a thin Hemingway story with writing partner Jules Furthman into another. This is sort of "Casablanca" with grit rather than gloss, and is just as enjoyable. "To Have and Have Not" does, in fact, outshine that film with its upbeat ending, and marks the real contrast between the two films, despite their similarities.  Bogart is Harry Morgan, trying to stay neutral about the local politics while he and his pal Eddie (Walter Brennan) take tourists ocean fishing in the waters of Martinique. His pal Frenchy (Marcel Dalio) wants him to use his boat to pick up a couple that will put him square in the middle of all that's going on both in Martinique and the rest of the world as the Germans make their move across the globe.  Morgan is fending off getting involved just fine until his latest fishing customer gets knocked off by accident before he can pay up. Complicating things further for Morgan is a newcomer named Marie Browning (Lauren Bacall) who sort of attaches herself to him from the moment they meet. She has come from Brazil by way of Trinidad and ends up in Martinique only because she doesn't have money to go any further. They seem a perfect fit despite all the sparring between them; a point driven home by her response to Eddie's question about bees. The viewer knows at that moment that she and Harry are a match made in Hollywood heaven.  Brennan is just terrific as Harry's old pal in constant need of a drink to keep the shakes at bay. He thinks he's looking after Harry when in fact it's Harry who's looking after him. The trademark male world of Howard Hawks is much in evidence here, as Bogart's autonomy begins to crack only when he finds his match in Bacall. Like many of Hawks' characters, Morgan lives by his own code and his own rules, and only breaks them out of loyalty to someone else. Another Hawks trademark of the sizing up of people from the inside out is also much in evidence here. Bogart and Bacall never even speak the other's name in this film: she calls him "Steve" and he refers to her as "Slim" throughout the entire film.  When Harry finally agrees to pick up Frenchy's pals in the Resistance to earn enough money to get Slim home, he gets more than he bargained for in more ways than one. It convinces Slim to stay on because she now knows for sure that "Steve" is the right guy. She gets a job singing for the piano player at the Hotel Martinique, Cricket (Hoagy Charmichael). And after a patrol boat takes a potshot at one of his passengers, his very beautiful wife begins to warm up to Harry in a big hurry, causing a bit of jealousy on Slim's part. Doloros Moran is very nice and quite pretty as that wife, Hellene de Bursac.  There are a ton of great exchanges between Bacall and Bogart here, the most famous being the "just whistle" scene. There are many others equally as good, however, including an exchange about strings that has Bacall walking around Bogart, and a great line from Bacall about walking home if it weren't for all that water. It is this latter exchange, and one other about Slim's lack of a reaction when being slapped that Hawks uses to highlight the personal baggage both Harry and Marie are bringing to the table.  A young Bacall looks gorgeous in gowns by Milo Anderson, and Sid Hickox's photography gives the film a real feel of a tiny island with palm trees lining the streets. Bogart's Harry will eventually engage in the fight when he decides he likes the people on one side and doesn't like the people on the other side. It is very much both a Hawks and Bogart type moment, the personal moral code of the anti-hero coming fully into play.  This is a fun film with great characters, lots of atmosphere, and an ending the polar opposite of "Casablanca." The song "How Little We Know" from Hoagy Charmichael and Johnny Mercer never amounted to much compared to the more famous "As Time Goes By" from "Casablanca," but works nicely with the mood Hawks created for his second film with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. If you're looking for a big dose of Bogie and Bacall, and want the kind of ending "Casablanca" didn't have, then "To Have and Have Not" is a sure bet to please you. A fine film, and a true screen classic worth owning, but those who just want to watch on their computer can opt for this alternative.

Fast Great quick service. It was brand new. Completed our collection. Made my son very happy. I would definitely recommend to my friends

Fun! Fun! Fun! The quality on Blu-ray is amazing - the next best thing to being at a midnight showing! After all these years, Rocky Horror Picture Show is just as much fun as I remember. I will be watching this whenever I need a 'night out'..... without actually going out.

Little Shop of Laughs and Great Music This is great viewing.  It is, or should be, a Cult Classic.  It has a plot for all times, humor, music and fantasy.  Kids, teens and adults all can enjoy at the same time.

A bonus! What a great surprise! An unexpected book thrown into the other videos. This was a pleasant addition to the whole package. All these old movies were a pleasant addition to a strongly anticipated viewing extravaganza.

Fantastic movie! The movie was delivered quickly and in perfect condition. Thank you! This movie is incredible!  The movie goes word for word with the Gospel of John. What a wonderful portrayal of the Bible!  Everyone should watch this movie!

Love this show!! Love the show it self and the product came in great condition. Very good story line and creative writing. Acting is great too! A great variety of both paranormal and real life action and problems.

Immortals This is a excellant additon to my extensive library with many Medevial and Mythology stories and legends. I strongly recommend this movie to people who are interested in Mythology of the Greeks, Romans and Vikings. These legends are unique as well as entertaining.

GREAT MOVIE! Sometimes you just can't beat an amazon deal. ten bucks for the movie (after four dollars off the price). Also came with a free VOD rental. The movie was excellent and I recommend you at least try it.

Great movie - great blu-ray What can I say about this classic that hasn't already been said except that the blu-ray version is wonderful.  This movie is so good I think everyone should have a copy.  It's one of the best for sitting back with a bowl of popcorn and being entertained and not offended by gratuitous sex and violence. Why don't they make movies like this anymore?  Oh, I know--there aren't any actors like Paul Newman and Robert Redford--not to mention the supporting cast.  But, that's just my opinion.

Another winner The same review of Clash of the Titans applies here:  "We enjoyed this film tremendously.  In fact, I appreciated the improbability of the action.  We are watching mythical gods here and their foibles and caprices.  What had us totally immersed was the beauty of the visuals.  Truly stunning sets and marvelous computer-generated images, in a way they made me think of an up-to-date of the dream-like engravings by Gustave Dore - also truly fantastic.  You see a world just created and still in evolution, where the elements are still in the upheavals of development: vast, yet untamed forces in a giant but yet untamed universe."  Great action here!  Be a child, a dreamer again; relax and enjoy the truly stunning visual trip.  Five stars.

The Best Film of 2011 Lars Von Trier's "Melancholia" is ambitious, stunning, and revelatory. The performances are all excellent. The use of hand-held cameras gave the movie a grittier, more realistic feel than, say, "Dogville."  The early scenes at the dinner reception brought to mind the similar shakily unease of the same wedding-related dinner sequences in Jonathon Demme's excellent "Rachel Getting Married." (Although "The Silence of the Lambs" is still his greatest picture.)  Von Trier's previous film, "Antichrist," was great in the sense that it came directly from his own disturbed psyche, and without any sugar-coating just to get an R rating. That was what made it fascinating to me.  "Melancholia," however, is a truly great film, even a classic one, if I may be so bold (and I'll take that as a "yes"). It is Von Trier's best picture ("Dogville" is now in second place). Absorbing and intimate, "Melancholia" is a probing examination of what it means to be human, as well as what it means to be a part of humanity.  - Ken Johnson

Easter Parade Love this classic Easter Holiday movie! We watch it every Easter after our meal. Previously on a VCR tape; now on DVD.

Yes, there is such a thing called "love" There are also gentleness, sweetness, innocence, forgiveness, grief, sadness, joy ... put all that together and you get one of the best movies ever (not only in science fiction) Jeff Bridges performed here the best role of his career. and John Carpenter created a true classic, highly recommended, I love it!

Excellent Quite surprised by the extra scenes. One really explained something that was left in the movie that always confused me.

Awesome This movie is an amazing comeback for the muppets. It's great if you have always been a fan, are not familiar with the muppets, or want to introduce them to a new generation. It's witty and clever for adults, but silly enough for kids, and the music is the best.

A comedic gut buster I would like to start out by saying that I went into this film knowing absolutely nothing about the 'TPB' characters and the crazy, dead-end world they live in. I had no idea this film (a sequel no less) was based on a television show from Canada and the cult following it had amassed over the years, but the hilarity of this film is a testament to the series because I am now hooked on the source material. The story is fairly straightforward. It's about a group of guys that live in a trailer park and struggle with each other's various hang-ups--there's Julian, a misguided yet articulate mountain of a man who ALWAYS has a glass of rum and coke in his hand, no matter what the situation is; Bubbles, a good-natured simpleton with an affinity for cats; and Ricky, an angry drug-dealer with dreams of a better, more educated life, even though his misfortune is often brought about by his friends' half-brained schemes, including his own. The scheme that drives the latter half of this film is downright hilarious, but it would be terrible for me to go into detail about it because you have to see the chaos unfold for yourself. I must say that John Dunsworth, who plays the ever-disgraced and reviled Jim Lahey, steals this movie, particularly in the third act. He gives new meaning to the term "falling off the wagon" in ways you can't imagine. Your enjoyment of the film may be decided by how familiar you are with the show, but speaking as a non-fan going in, I was wiping away tears of laughter by the very end. I highly recommend it.

The Big C, series one  is a must see I really enjoyed the way this difficult subject is handled by this TV series. There is good information, great charters, humor, and a wonderful understanding of each charters struggle in handling all the challenges (treatment, insurance, time lost at work, invasion of privacy when the information spreads, and lots of other factors) that arise in dealing with this illness. I already have season two DVDs and look forward to season three.

Love it! This is a classic animation movie. The special features are great. This is an awesome value compared to the price at retail stores ($35-40). I'd highly recommend this to any Nightmare fan.

Satisfied with my purchase. Received timely, has a few minor scratches that don't affect performance, working great. Good deal for the money. Buying at Amazon.com is sooo good!!!

elsewhere i don't care what all the negative comments about this movie say. we all have different tastes and i loved this movie don't listen to the other comments if you want to watch it than watch it. i loved it how will you know if you like it if you never tried to watch it?

LOVE THIS SHOW!!! For a while I went with out getting to see this show. So I bought the whole series. I'm just missing season 7 now. I love this show! The actors, the plot, and how in some episodes they are just funny. Can't waite to buy the next instalment!

Great show! Wonderful show, I had always heard of it, but didn't have HBO.  After seeing Timotyh Olyphant in Justified, was curious to see more of his work, so bought this series.  While his character is pretty different, he was excellent, as was the rest of the cast.  The way the dialogue went along was great, it was sort of formal despite the swearing!  Would highly recommend it!

A Major Film Look, I first saw this film when it was released, and I was just a kid.  but every time Gary Cooper tousled Ingrid Bergman's shorn crop of hair I was he and she was mine.  I had to have FWTBT and re-live that moment, and to hear Akim Tamaroff repeat "I do not provoke" over and over, and to hear Katina Paxinou as Pilar recount the tragic story of the mayor of her town and his anguished wife, and so much more.  This is a major film and its importance has not vanished over time.

My favorite train movie... I watched this on a whim, only knowing that Buster Keaton is in it, and I enjoy watching him.  Well what a surprise!  I'm a train fan as well as  Keaton fan and was riveted for the whole movie.  The fact that it's a train movie is shown immediately.  The main interpersonal conflict is set up quickly afterwards...a misunderstanding between Keaton's character and his fiance.  Fiance dumps him and he is shunned by the now ex-fiance, her dad, and her brother.  The action to resolve that conflict then starts and continues practically non-stop 'til the climatic end. The ending is stereotypical but oh well...I liked it.  The train scenes were well done and fun to watch.  The romance was fun to watch and not overly done.  Great cavalry action also towards the end of the movie...horses are also on my list of favorite things.  I don't want to give away much else about the movie...although I guess many reviewers already have...but I don't think any silent movie fans will be disappointed watching "The General" unless they are strict about watching a movie that is as close to the original as possible.  The version I watched had a sound track that was added in 2003.

The Beach - One of the best ever Great storytelling by Danny Boyle with an excellent score.  Soundtrack is my favorite of all time.  This movie helps you escape and will make you feel.  Should be in everyone's library.  Get it

Brings back memories! I used to watch this show when I was a young child. Now adays cartoons have worse graphics. I think that a company should release this series on DVD.

An amazing series all humans should watch This series gives us a sampling of the customs, beliefs, world-views of all major civilizations of the world in 5 episodes, and then follows the late rise of the western civilization (which now dominates the world) and points how it takes from the pre-existing civilizations, and how it creates its own value system.  I found this series absolutely amazing.  If you are human, watch it!

Great movie! I have always adored Jane Austen's works and this take of Mansfield park is just awesome! I highly recommend it to romance junkies and Jane Austen fans alike.

THe kids love it! I didn't buy this from Amazon...but you have to! It is the cutest little show ever! I even watch it! My 3 grand daughter just love "tangy" and they will sit and watch it through 3 times! And I sit with them.It is just one of those kids shows that you never get tired of. I HIGHLY recommend this movie.

Great for the Carole Lombard fan My wife is a great fan of Carole Lombard and her movies are hard to find, except on Amozon . com.

A fam An enjoying collecting the series as I am a fan and miss Raymond Burr. The collection is excellent and has good black and white quality.

HOSTEL 2 WOW!!! IF YOU LIKE GORY MOVIES THEN HOSTEL IS THE WAY TO GO. I WONDER IF THEY ARE GOING TO COME OUT WITH A HOSTEL 4, I GOT THEM ALL.

les tontons flingueurs bonne qualit&eacute; du dvd . il y a qu'a l'&eacute;tranger que l'on peut trouver ces dvd &agrave; un prix d&eacute;fiant toutes concurrences . je regrette juste le manque de bonus dans cette &eacute;dition .  &agrave; part cela je le recommande vivement &agrave; tous ceux qui sont fans de ces ann&eacute;es audiard / lautner et ces merveilleux acteurs , lino ventura , bernard biler , jean lefevre .  :-))))

Good, but not as good as Happy Gilmore if you're a Sandler fan Adam Sandler and football. Two of my favorite things in life. Great movie, not as good as Happy Gilmore, and the chick that got naked in it was hot!

The Bourne Supremacy Item arrived in the condition promised and in a decent manner of time!Price was great! I was a little suprised to see French on the front.

Great buy! I got this as a gift for my brother and he loves it! I've seen it before, so it was a no-brainer - Great DVD

It's time for A-C-T-I-O-N This movie is great.Bruce Campbell as "Elvis" and Ossie Davis as "JFK" is an awesome duo lol The movie is your typical b horror-comedy film...it has Bruce Campbell in it,so that should tell you all you need to know about it lol Anyway.Its about two old men in a nursing home.One claims to be Elvis Presley(Campbell) and the other claims to be John F Kennedy(Davis).They have to team up to take on a mummy that comes out of a lake at night and steals the other people's souls who live in the same nursing home.It's a very funny film.Its one of my favs.Elvis and JFK are hillarious together.Although it never really does tell you whether or not they are the actual Elvis and JFK or not.But non the less.Its still a really good film and I highly recommend it.

This is my relationship I love this movie as I'm a single mom, unwilling to date, and this seems to fill my void.  This is the man any woman would want to be married to, and is now able to in her imagination, without picking up his dirty socks and making wondering why the toilet seat is too heavy to put down.  I didn't want to spend a lot of money by purchasing a new copy, and the one I ordered it from delivered within a week!  YEAH!  So if you don't need to shop around searching for a movie, and you know what you want.... this is the place!

Awesome One of the best movies I've ever watched. The survival skills and tons of luck this man had were unbelievable. Great performances by all. Highly recommended!

Well Acted, Directed, and Produced A top notch cast presented what has become a classic. I was fortunate enough to view a small clip of this show on the Arts Channel. It was so impressive I immediately ordered it. It takes place after the war but nonetheless concerns what may be considered a Natzy group and their activities. A young, well to do woman is recruited to join the group as the wife of one of the members and become a spy for the Allies. The story is woven in a very suspenseful and emotional way and it is best to watch it rather than have anyone simply tell how it progresses.

THE BLURAY!!! I was 10 when I saw this movie in theaters.  I thought that it was hilarious.  Apparently others did not.  I've seen the film at least 10 times and it is just like Dumb and Dumber and Ace Ventura, it never gets old.  I consider this to be Jim Carrey's best performance and that is given alot of consideration..  The history behind this film is interesting (to say the least, it was originally a Chris Farley vehicle instead of Jim Carrey).  The DVD was pathetic.  It changed the 2.35:1 aspect ratio down to 4:3 and gave no special features.  Finally we get the release that this underrated dark comedy masterpiece deserves, complete with commentary, deleted scenes, gag reel, etc.  Also, the commentary isn't some crappy pre-release commentary that has been sitting in a can for 15 years, it is very recent and interesting because they give some very honest insight into their lives at the time of making the film and they reflect on how poorly the film was received.  Jim Carrey also mentions that this is the first commentary that he has ever done and he, ben stiller, and judd apatow briefly discuss the perks and the price of fame.  Hopefully we'll get a good release of Ace Ventura next.

Satirical, goofy musical Satire is usually my favorite kind of humor, and this and Rocky & Bullwinkle beat all for me!  You'll find yourself hearing the catchy, clever songs in your head long after seeing it, and you won't forget a single colorful character.  One of the most satirical songs, "The Country's in the Very Best of Hands", applies very much to today:  "The Treasury says the national debt is climbing to the sky, and government expenditures have never been so high."  Highly recommended!

War doesn't have to be bloody This film is one of the great war films because it does more than present blood and gore.  It is a film about what defeat is, and how one can turn even the most terrible defeats into victories.  Now, this film's ending is so very significant to the plot that it must be discussed, so I'm throwing up a big spoiler warning right now.  ----SPOILER ALERT-----  The ending is so very brilliant, because it showcases the duty of a soldier.  All along Alec Guinness has been helping the Japanese build a bridge because it gave his men something to do and made them feel like proper soldiers.  But when he finally meets the commando's sent to destroy it, he suddenly realizes what he has done.  In his dying moments, Alec Guinness blows up the bridge, and what this shows us of his character is astounding.  That for all his talk, he knows what needs to be done.  And what a trip up to that point.  Every actor's performance is top notch, from Sessue Hayakawa's Saito to William Holden's Shears, they all feel real and believable.  The bridge, (which was actually constructed) is amazing.  For a film that essentially all about a bunch of guys building a bridge, it is very compelling.  Leaving the audience with a good picture of what it really takes, deep down, to be a commander of men.  Over all, an excellent film.  Every aspect of this film feels epic, and it is.

Pink Floyd Delivers One of the Best Concert Experiences I saw Pink Floyd in person back in 1988 and this DVD, which is wonderfully produced, brought back those memories when I watched it. Having rented it first on Netflix, the DVD was so good that I first bought the CD and then the DVD as both are a must for any Pink Floyd fan.  The sound quality is great and plenty attention is placed on all participating musicians, especially on Gilmore when he plays his masterful leads.  I highly recommend adding this DVD to your collection.

Wow!  That was different. This mockumentary is worth the watch.  As alternate history is has the value of being consistent.  In all fairness, I must admit I was born in occupied Georgia, lo those many years ago, and was delighted to hear the war called the name  I always give it, "The War of Northern Aggression".  (Tho I suspect I interject a bit more sardonic humor into the name.)  The thesis is certainly realistic.  Any student of "The War of Northern Aggression" understands that foreign intervention on the side of the CSA could have changed the course of the war.  Sadly enough, too much of what is presented is consistent with human nature.  Ironically enough, too much of what is presented is consistent with the USA today if you just switch a few nouns around.  The only historical inconsistency I found was the idea that anyone could dispute or ridicule R. E. Lee.  In defeat he was a saint that no one spoke against... in victory, he would have been a god. (But, what the hell.. it's their story.)  The damn thing is scary.  Growing up in Macon, Georgia in the 60's, I soaked up racism with Momma's milk.  I outgrew it and it's disturbing to watch how prettily and logically hate can be packaged.  It's difficult to imagine much financial motive to this.  Perhaps it's just a reductio ad absurdum commentary on our times.

great This Blu-ray was ordered as a christmas gift.  It was delivered promptly and was received with excitement.  If you haven't seen the movie - it is a MUST!

Excellent movie One of the best movies to show how our good intentions can sometimes actually be bad.  I think everyone in our government should be required to watch this movie.

Excellent Movie This movie was great, a must see. It was a unique spin on a timeless story. I would recommend that you see this movie, you won't be disappointed!

MmmMM! I bought this as a birthday gift for my mom, and she loved it! It's definitely a keeper that you can watch again and again!

A fascinating and fun philosophical romance  - from the always intriguing Abbas Kiarostami Note that this review is for the film itself, which I saw in theaters (twice); I'm waiting for the Criterion Edition to ship (May 22) before I pick up my own copy.  An author on tour to promote his book has an apparently chance meeting with a French woman (Juliette Binoche), and their encounter proves to be something far more than casual.  He proposes in his book that a copy, an imitation, is as good as the genuine article, and while he appears to confine his thesis to works of art, what follows suggests that she may be testing to see how far it extends to life itself.  The latest film by celebrated Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami is also his first to be filmed outside of his native country.  Starring Juliette Binoche (who took home the best actress award at Cannes for her stunningly enigmatic performance in this film), Certified Copy starts from a premise that promises an exotic love story, and gradually turns into a subtle and profound meditation on art, memory, truth, and identity.  To give a quick sense of the feel of this remarkable film I might suggest it combines the conversational intimacy of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002YLC24">Before Sunset</a> and the intellectual intrigue of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001WLMOLO">Last Year at Marienbad</a>.  The problem is that comparison makes this seem like a derivative work, that merely copies elements of established works.  It's not.  Like all of the works I've seen by Abbas Kiarostami, this is a true original.  Or if its a copy, it's a genuine copy.  It's a fascinating film, that I've seen twice now, and that I look forward to watching again, since I got even more from it the second time.  It's a densely layered film, where details refer to other details, and each calls up a range of themes and ideas, but where the intellectual intrigue is balanced by an emotional tension and resonance, and that wears its layers lightly, almost as if it were all improvised.  It's both a delightful romance - that might be said to skip the romance, straight to the after of the happily ever after - and a subtle philosophical exploration of a wide range of fascinating themes.  By the way, here's what to expect when the Criterion edition ships: -a new high-definition digital restoration, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition -a new interview with director Abbas Kiarostami -"Let's See Copia conforme," an Italian documentary on the making of Certified Copy, featuring interviews with Kiarostami and actors Juliette Binoche and William Shimell Trailer -New English subtitle translation -PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Godfrey Cheshire

Doo Wop: Vocal Group Greats do live! Speaking from one with the experience of having been disappointed by numerous "oldies" recordings, which are 2nd rate re-recordings (i.e., "new stereo recordings"), I was far from disappointed by this concert of re-recorded classics. As an oldies afficianado and a professional musician, I can assure anyone who reads this that every selection stands tall and shines bright beside the old original hit recordings. Along with the lack of some vintage instruments and old low-watt amplifiers of the 1950's and 1960's, all that is missing are the pops, scratches and the surface hiss of the vinyl discs. This entire concert falls into a category of its own: great.

Well done--Tip of the cap to the genre I will preface my review by saying that, if you are one of the people that want to skip to the end of the book to find out what happens, this is NOT the film for you.  You will be bored because you actually have to pay attention because the story starts slowly and builds--it is not an 'instant gratification' type film.  Personally, I love 50's and 60's suspense type films like Rear Window.  This film is a tip of the cap to that genre.  I loved it!  I thought the story was interesting, the characters were well-developed, the scenery was beautiful, and the acting was flawless--a very sophisticated thriller.  There was suspense, dry humor, action and intrigue all wrapped up with beautiful people delivering the dialogue.  If you are a fan of Hitchcock-ian type thrillers, this is a great way to spend an afternoon.

great movie!! This movie is one of my favorite movie's ever, it is definitely a classic. if you like good action-gangster movies, i would like to recommend this.

Should be seen in schools I got this video for my son and I think that it should be part of school curriculums. If we could get our younger generation talking about this it could halt the growth of our obesity epidemic and maybe even reverse it! I also recommend <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1468122711">Sick Of Being Fat</a>, Reverse Heart Disease and the China Solution

Wonderful Movie Hugo is a wonderful movie. If you haven't seen this movie please do so, but everyone has there own dislikes.If you like family movies this the one.

Coriolanus in a modern setting loses nothing Corruption, rebellion, violence, war, hubris, revenge, passion and tragedy. It's all there, done as delivered in the 21st Century, but cutting like a knife as do all the tragedies by the Bard. I have seen quite a collection of Will's works done up in modern and near-modern settings. Hamlet at the Jungle Theater in Minneapolis complete with elevators and TV security surveillance. Henry III on film done in the style of a 1930's dictatorship. A film version of Macbeth set as two opposing organized crime families. The Tragedy of Coriolanus is presented just as dramatically in fatigues , M16s and tanks as with togas, swords and chariots. Either you like Shakespeare tragedies or you don't. Ralph Finnes co-stars with Gerald Butler and directs. The story lends itself well to a production of such large scale and extreme violence.

Birdsong Blu Ray I have read Birdong twice and have seen the blu ray version once. The video version adhered to Sebastian Faulks novel as close as possible except for some parts which were left out fortunately it is forgiving to the overall story and the impact is minor. Since I am an advocate Faulks reader I feel the original is best. The actors reflected the characters in the book brilliantly and the director made it alive and true. I congratulate the team for a great movie. OW

Happy Always looked for this each Christmas on TV, now I can view it anytime I like.  Reminds me of childhood and the traditions set forth.

Cute movie This was such a cute movie, I so loved it. I purchsed it twice, once on my IPAD, and as a DVD. It is a great movie for a teen and grown up if you are young at heart. Good movie for get together parties with the kids.  Real nice, I would recomend it for purchase.

REMARKABLE This movie is worthy of being a BEST SELLER.  If someone, somehow, doesn't see that this movie is projected on big screens in Theatres all over the nation, it is truly would be a shame.  I have purchased this movie for myself and for my parents, in-laws and friends.  This is one movie you will be PROUD to tell others is a MUST SEE, you won't steer anyone wrong!!

an amazing DVD Of the four DVD versions of La Rondine that I own this is the most satisfying.  The video director, Brian Large, has taken the stage production and crafted an intimate, visual treat.  His use of close ups creates an intimacy not available to the audience present in a 3600 seat opera house.  The experience was breathtaking and emotionally riveting.  I was not able to get tickets to the MET for any of the performances.  I did however see the HD broadcast at a local theater -- in the theater I thought that the images were washed out and the color pallette pale, not so with this DVD.  The use of earth colors for the set and virtually every other costume except for those worn by Ms Gheorghiu provides a striking contrast.  The images are good.  The vocal performances are very satisfying.  My only complaint is that while recording in high definition the MET is only putting out standard DVDs of its programs.  This program would be worth the price of blu ray for the enhanced image resolution and the better quality sound; I would love to hear this performance in DTS master HD audio.  If you have never seen La Rondine or think that this is a "light weight" minor opera you must watch this version.  I think you will change your mind and grow to love this work.

Brassed off I am a former Brit now living in the USA and this Movie pretty well tells the story of a collapse of the coal industry.  Near Wolverhampto, where I was raised, which is in the heart of the "Black Country" or Midlands where the Industrial Revolution began, coal mining was essentially the only industry.  Coal was the life blood of England to support that technological advancement both in the UK and around the world.  In the fifties coal was replaced as the fuel of advancement and replaced as the principle fuel of the economy and production.  Modernization and Nuclear power supplanted coal thus the closing of the mines and the loss of a quarter million miners and support personnel jobs.  This story brings some background of that pain to light.   The music is great, as was most Coalleries bands were but I didn't think it is much of a comedy or love story.  The acting is very good and believable, but then I lived through that period so I may be more sensitive to the historical portrayal.  The movie is essentially historically true.  I think it should be seen although it is a fairly old movie.

Absolutely wonderful This set is a must-own for any fan of the show. The discs come in plainly marked "pages" So it's very easy to keep this large set organized. The discs work perfectly fine on my Blu Ray player and LCD tv Do yourself a favor and order this set!

Very happy with this company. Would like to write a quick note to tell the company I was very happy with the condition my dvd arrived in. I would recommend this company to friends and family, and would use again. Melba Hyatt-Rennicks

Love with all my heart This movie is amazing! I saw it in the theater 5 times, and it only got better each time! Tom Hardy was my favorite part of this film! I loved every second he was on screen. Even though he was very evil- I felt for him! Just look into his eyes! His voice was so intriguing/exciting and I wished I was there to fix his mask for him when Batman punched it. Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, and Morgan Freeman were wonderful AS ALWAYS. I'm sure Marion Cotillard was great as an actress- but I am a little bias because I did not like her character. And I didn't get the deal with her and Bane. Were they supposed to be romantic or not? Anne Hathaway... puke! I don't know, I felt like some of her lines sounded cheesy like, "My mother told me not to get into cars with strange men." And every time she kissed Bruce/Batman, it seemed out of place. Like it was supposed to be romantic but it wasn't at all. Not to nit-pick but I felt like her voice was lame and her character was an idiot. I just didn't like her character. Joesph-Gordon Levitt, as an actor I think he did well. But I just didn't like his character in this or Inception, kind of trying to be a tough guy. I feel like he was way better in Looper, even though he looked creepy. Overall, buy this movie and if you do not love it then you are a ding-dong (or it's not for you, which is okay too).

An Interesting Glimpse of the Military Officer Life Richard Gere gives a very natural and fantastic performance as Zachary Mayo. Zachary goes through many challenges and tests of emotional and physical endurance on his way to becoming a naval officer via navy officer candidate school. He ends up becoming close friends with another fellow officer candidate named Sid Worley (well played by David Keith). Both Zach and Sid also meet and fall in love during their time in training. Zach's love interest Paula is played by Debra Winger. Sid's love interest Lynette is played by Lisa Blount. Louis Gossett Jr. plays a Marine Gunnery Sargeant by the name of Emil, who is a drill instructor tasked with shaping the officer candidates into leaders. I felt an urge to watch the movie because I use to be in the navy, and I was curious to get an idea of what it might be like for a soon to be officer going through bootcamp compared to the process of an enlisted person through bootcamp (I honorably served in the enlisted ranks from June 2000 until May 2009). The movie itself only takes place in one location, but I did enjoy how the characters forged special friendships and implied the traveling adventures that were going to take place once they graduated from officer candidate school (I appreciate the travel and the many wonderful friends that I met while I was in the navy).  The only caveat that I had with the movie was how some of the women were portrayed. The main female characters were beautiful but were depicted as women whose only chance at making something of themselves in life depended the long term plans of their male partners. In real life (in and outside of the military) many women have unlimited potential to achieve whatever they want regardless of their romantic status (it would have been nice if the movie would have portrayed the women as being poised for success regardless of what happens in their romantic lives). I understand that this movie was made in the early 80's before many more women became naval officers. I just wish that they would have showed a more personal romantic life of the one female officer candidate in the school as well as the men that were featured. I only say this because (over a month ago) I currently ran across an article in both airforce times and navy times that told how there is a high rate of military female veterans committing suicide, and one of the reasons cited was the fact that many of these veterans were not acknowledged for having done legitimate military service due to them being women, and as a result feelings of isolation resulted. I myself do not endorse or condone suicide because I appreciate being alive regardless of external circumstances that may appear, but I have empathy and compassion for those who do (whether military or civilian). Officer and a Gentleman is a fantastic movie, but it would be nice if more movies were featured that highlighted the personal lives of military female officers so that more members of the general public can see how both men and women make a positive contribution to our all volunteer military. Aside from my personal rant, I still highly recommend this movie as one to watch especially if you are open to seeing one of many ways of how a military person balances their personal and professional life in an interesting manner.

Deranged, demented and brilliant If you are offended by this, you're not paying attention. If you are going to do a satire of a children's show, you must go all out and defend everyone. The sketches are not just offensive, they show people's ignorance. The "Beat Kids" segement is the best.

God loves a Terrier These actors are at their best when working together.  What a hoot!  It will never get old. A great gift for dog lovers!

The Humanity of the Rebel What a remarkable Being.  Resolve such as this unequivocally emanates from a very deep seated sense of Humanity.  He unwaveringly challenges with a banner of Morality and Ethics in one hand and Factual Truths in the other.  Such a Noble individual, to stand against many of those within his own religious faith, knowing them to be Wrong.  This can only be true Righteousness.  Whether he is of Jewish faith or not, appears to be far less relevant to him than are his guiding Moral Values and Ethical Principles.  His profound sense of Humanity was undoubtedly nurtured early in life by his mother and what she came away with, from her own persecution under the Nazis.  Simply put, he is a true Rebel.  Much has been written about the 'Humanity of the Rebel' throughout history. Essentially, it is one who selflessly challenges Injustice, regardless.  What makes him a Radical however, is not his message, but rather that he does little to self-preserve. So tenaciously committed, is he, to the message, that he has forsaken better judgment when it comes to his own personal needs.  Unlike his mentor Chomsky who bucks the establishment from within, he does so from without, and hence, has found himself more ostracized, besieged, and assaulted. This has sadly brought him much personal sacrifice and pain, to say the least.  Otherwise as a Rebel, he clearly has no interest in personal empowerment, as evidenced by his plight. He continually and steadfastly reiterates the Truthful Facts as they stand, allowing them to speak for themselves.  He is such an extremely well-informed scholar that it has been virtually impossible for anyone to take him on based on the facts, whether in writing or in debate. He consistently attempts to remain intellectually focused and composed, not allowing anyone to derail him, nor deflect and escape his steel-trap mind.  To his credit, he has been unwavering in his onslaught against Injustice, in spite of the many risks, hardships and obstacles before him.  One can only hope, that in time, he will become more enlightened with regard to the need to effect change from within, however, even if so, it is likely too late, as he has found himself indeed a self-made pariah. Otherwise, he should continue in his noble pursuit of challenging Injustice, and hopefully without any additional peril to himself.  Unfortunately, for this Rebel, as with others in history, their goal is never fully accomplished, for Injustice will forever be part of the Human Experience.  As with all genuine rebels, he will be hailed and remembered long after he has gone.

Gives hope to those suffering This DVD is amazing. You hear the stories of those who have suffered and are on their own healing path through Catherines help. It walks you through all of the suffering and tells things that they did to ease the pain of IC. Simone has such a heart for IC sufferers and you can see it seep through this DVD. She gives advice on how she healed herself and how you can heal too. It is wonderful to see so many people come together to make this DVD possible. All the stories show those who have suffered and were tired of being told that their illness was "invisible". Most refused to believe doctors saying that they couldnt get better and choose another path. The healing path. This path works and this DVD shows just how it works. It worked for me! I was in such awe watching all the faces of those who have suffered and couldnt help but think of those still out there suffering. This DVD can give those people hope and help and maybe even that push they needed to try something new. IC Hope can be a lifesaver if you take it in a follow the advice and listen to your own body.

Gasland Absolutely amazing work, Josh and his crew are very talented and deliver a wealth of information that the public needs to know about the Natural Gas and Oil industry and our Government. All TV channels need to present this to the viewing public.

great show this is my review of the 5th box set of Naruto Shippuden and i have to say ignore all those people who say jut because theres a decrease in episodes not to buy it you have to because its great and a lot of fun.

My favorite movie of the year!! This is such a wonderful and inspirational story. We saw this twice in the theatre and now own it. They did a great job on this movie. The music and scenery are perfect. It is a story of hope and a great family movie.

A classic ! Ultra funny ! Very funny story , amazing performances by both Bette and Lili . Makes you want to revisit NYC . When Bette yodel : laughing is perfectly normal ......  OMG ! One of funniest moment in the comedy industry . How did she managed to do this without laughing ?  until it hurts in your stomach  .

Just as Promised ! DVD arrived in brand new condition still in its original wrapping just as promised. It arrived in a very timely fashion & for a great price for such a great combo dvd. I was very happy with the interaction & will look to this seller in the future for other movies.

Best movie about a pig ever! I have always had a soft spot for pigs for some reason which just makes this film even better for me. I love everthing about this movie,especially the score. I can't get the song "If I Had Words" out of my head(not that that is a bad thing-I really,really like the tune. BABE is a film for the entire family and that is a really good thing,to paraphrase Martha Stewart!

THE PERFECT FAMILY MOVIE This is a fantastic movie with great special effects and a great story line. The whole family will enjoy this movie watching it together.

excellent dvd This excellent DVD is very well done, the story line holds you right there throughout the movie, plus plus for this DVD. A very good family DVD.

One of the Best Movies of the Past Year One never knows what to expect when the main character in a movie changes their gender. You can end up watching Tony Curtis and Jack Lemon pull off some brilliant comedy or you can get Glenn Close and Janet McTeer in Albert Nobbs. Albert Nobbs is a terrific movie and unfortunately one that really didn't go into wide release. I missed it during its short run last winter in the local theaters, but the DVD release has rectified that. The plot is essentially this. An impoverished young woman assumes a male identity in order to work as a waiter in a hotel. She works for years saving her wages and tips with the goal of eventually owning her own business. As Albert Nobbs, Glenn Close portrays a fragile human being who longs for normalcy and security and also love. The arrival of a young maid turns Nobbs' life around and he begins courting the maid with the hope that they'll eventually marry, go into business, and eventually raise a family. If this sounds confusing, it is. However, the way this is scripted makes it readily apparent that Nobbs has accepted his maleness but is not necessarily sure what to do about it. In the process, she meets a handyman who is also a woman who has publicly assumed the identity of a man and even has his own wife. Played by Janet McTeer as the handyman, this provides Nobbs with a friend that he can relate to while he tries to sort things out. While there are brief and fleeting moments of humor in this movie, I found it interesting that it was so easy to accept and buy into this plot as I watched this film and wondered what was going to happen next. This movie wasn't predictable, but it was remarkably easy to get involved in the story and feel sympathetic with the Albert Nobbs character. The script could have evolved into something trivial and mean spirited, but it never did. The acting, in its entirety, was extremely good though Close and McTeer shined in their challenging roles. Beyond the script, story, and acting, the photography was beautiful and evoked its time and setting. This is a wonderful film that really tugs at the heart strings without getting maudlin or ridiculous.

Four Great Seasons of Lucy with Two More to Follow Even if you are not a Lucy fan you will not be disappointed with the first four seasons of "The Lucy Show."  A really funny classic 60's sitcom.  I would suggest to anyone who hasn't bought the individual seasons to go out and buy seasons 1 thru 4.  Only two more seasons to go and we will have the complete series all beautifully remastered just like Lucy's first classic "I Love Lucy."

Life Blueray This was the complete set and was new.  It was a fantastic buy and is currently being enjoyed by our neighbor as she recuperates from back surgery.

Fright Night Returns! This is an awesome movie - and - most of it was filmed on my street in Albuquerque NM , last summer!  There were film crews all over the area and I walked down a few blocks and they told me Fright Night was being filmed right here! That is so awesome! I don't know why they chose my neighborhood, but it's so cool!!  The houses you see in the main parts of the movie are on my street a few blocks down. Can't wait to purchase this on Blu-Ray!

Jaws excellent picture on the blu-ray...could not access the DVD, but i am happy with the blu-ray  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007STBUIW">Jaws (Universal 100th Anniversary) [Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy + UltraViolet</a>]

Stellar Performance by Meryl Streep This movie was really good.  I recommend people watch this with open mind.  this movie did a good job of fiting over 10 years of leadership in 105 minutes.

You haven't seen this yet???? Purchased as a gift for our Daughter in Law.  We hadn't seen it yet, but was assured that it was a must-have movie.  We have since seen it. and I am very glad we purchased it as a gift. If you haven't seen it yet, at least rent it...you'll wish you had just gone ahead and bought a copy.

WOULD ORDER AGAIN ORDER IS EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED AND I RECEIVED IT IN A TIMELY MANNER. WOULD RECOMMEND THIS VENDOR OR PRODUCT TO ANYONE!

Great product Cowboy Bebop is one of my favorite animes so I wanted a good quality box set.  This product fulfills that requirement.  The case is very solid and well designed.  The disks are pristine and play perfectly.  The sound and video are excellent and the DVD menus are professional.  This is a great addition to my DVD collection.

The Book of Eli review This CD was in great shape and arrived within a reasonable time. I loved the movie and wanted to own a copy for myself and to share with my family. I think it is an inspiring story. Snake Jagger

Take your power back! Become empowered over your body with the wonderful information and tools in this book.  Donna Eden's info has changed the health and well-being of my whole family.  This book is invaluable for women who are wondering what the heck is going on with all these hormonal changes, life changes, etc.  This is the kind of data we need to learn in school.  You have this body - now learn how it functions and how best to operate it.

DVD - Dumbo Great classic movie that can be shared with the entire family. Animation and color is wonderful as you would expect from this Disney vintage movie.

George Pal at this best. Must see. Saw this when released in movie theater at age 10 maybe. Amazing specific effects in the early 1950's to George Pal's credit. Just a great story with great special effects. Must see and ever so much better than more recent version. Must see.

Great movie If you enjoyed "The Artist", you should see this. Not the same genre, but the same story told in a different way. I love this movie.

Doctor Zhivago (45th Anniversary Edition) (1965) Exelant movie, moving story with tenderness along with reality of life in times of Love and War... It's nice to be able to have access to movies that touches people from all walks of life... My experance with Amazon has been above the norm for shopping selection and service...

Great family movie The Blind Side is a great family movie. You would simply need to be "dead" to not be affected by this movie. Highly recommended for anyone!

Singing in the Rain Anniversary set The "Singin' in the Rain" 60th Anniversary collection is truly a beautiful tribute to the making of this film and its classic story.  Besides having a beautiful remastered film presentation the many extra features that are included in this special set are worthwhile in their own rights to see and enjoy.  They only add to the beauty of this classic film.  I highly recommend it to anyone who truly enjoyed seeing this film.

yup Brand new, perfect condition, good price, fast delivery.  This movie is a great story and reminds me that Tom Cruise can be way more the a Top Gun or Mission Impossible kind of guy.

6 out of 5 stars This is an execellent movie that fires on all cylinders.  Even though I saw it for free, it's worth 2 NYC movie tickets.  It'll keep you on the edge of your recliner/sofa and looking for moments to breath freely.  It's a thrill ride worth taking.  For anyone from the City of Three Rivers, it gets extra points for the location.  Russell Crowe does a great job as a loving husband and father who becomes a teachable student of prison breaks.  Along the way he must wrestle with moral and ethical dilemas.  He was instructed not to let anything stand in the way of his final goal but he does manage to keep some level of humanity even for a thug.  Looking for a source of needed cash, he picks the lesser of two evils.  His wife helps to check his final push for completion and remind him of the important things in life.  Desperation and love are great motivators.  Although brief, Liam Neeson adds his typical weight to the movie.  He gives Russell Crowe's character the needed 5 minute education he will use to carry out his plan. Elizabeth Banks(wife) does a solid job as a woman ripped from her family and facing a life of confinement.  Fans of House will notice Olivia Wilde as the mother in the park.  Hats off to the director for tying up the loose ends and putting a bow on the  package.  The kiss and button were nice final touches.  I'm not sure how anyone can give this movie less than 4 stars.  It's a movie not a prison documentary.  Nothing in the film is beyond the realm of possibility.

Xmas Carol This item was received in a timely fashion & it was a gift to my son.  this is by far the best film of Xmas Carol & especially so in ble-ray.  Janette Todd

Fantastic children's movie Thought this was GREAT! Yes it is a sequel - but much better than the 1st for small children.  There is action, music, dancing, and cute characters.  Story is blah for adults - but it is a G rated movie.  My 5 kids (ages 6, 5, 4, 3,  and 1) loved it - the babysitters loved it - I loved it.  Don't be dissuaded by adults seeking complicated/new/intriguing story lines. This is your basic entertaining children's movie. No one was scared or had nightmares or cried or had to leave the theater.  It was a huge hit with my family!

A great movie, loved every minute I loved this movie...and Chealsey Lately was great as her best friend.  She was funny and she fit in the movie perfectly.  All the actors were great, loved Tuck...thought she would pick him, FDR...he was good looking but Tuck is the one I would of picked,  All around...great movie...not omly a chick flick!  I've watched it twice and still see things i missed the first time.

Great Movie! Don't listen to all those other reviews. I saw this movie on Netflix and went straight over to Amazon because I had to own it. I have never even heard of this movie and just felt like watching a feel good kind of movie because I was feeling a little depressed about life. When the movie was over I felt much better. The first song playing with the credits is a song called "A Good Man" by King Straggler. That song kind of hit home for me. So, if you are looking for kind of a feel good kind of movie, and if your short, bald, unemployed, divorced, and living back at home with your mom like I am, I would highly suggest buying this. It will make you feel good about things.

Fine Film Well done. Warm but hits a lot of places hard, doesn't give you a mating ending (you can make your own up), but very humane, beautifully filmed, edited, and well acted.

The Queen Mary turned upside down This is a 2-DVD set of the classic maritime disaster movie from 1972. I remember seeing this quite a bit as a kid on TV. I was always fascinated by the upside down sets in this movie(and it was cool that the sets were modeled after the Queen Mary RMS).  The first disc contains the main feature, which looks nice and clean. There's a commentary track with the director(Ronald Neame) and a commentary track with three of the female stars(Pamela Sue Martin, Stella Stevens, and Carol Lynley). There's also a "Follow the Escape Escape" feature.  Disc 2 has 9 featurettes(including interviews with original cast members, an original behind-the-scenes feature from 1972, a tribute to the Queen Mary RMS, etc.). There's an AMC Backstory episode on "The Poseidon Adventure". This is over 20 minutes and pretty informative.  Also included are still photos from the movie, teasers/trailers, an interactive article from 'American Cinematographer' and lastly a storyboard-to-film comparison. Overall this is a loaded set and a great tribute to this classic disaster movie.

Great Family Movie Excellent movie for the entire family with a great moral! Definitely recommend it for family movie nights.  My daughter and son still talk about this one to this day!

Amazing Series. Full Metal Panic is a good action anime and to many is a classic. The characters are distinct and the story is oddly enough pretty good despite it's genericness. Even I have to admit it's an enjoyable show to watch even though i don't really like these mecha animes.

Haunting Flute Song What can I say that will add to all of the other reviews?  All I can do is give you my personal perspective when it comes to this classic film.  This film brings back fond memories for me, I have watched it whenever possible over the years, to own it is a real treat.  I just recently received it from a close friend, he ordered it from my Amazon wish list for me.  I will never forget the first time I ever watched it, years ago; the flute song played against an almost silent background was so eerie for my then, 16 year old ears, I absolutely loved it!  True, the many times that I have seen it since have not affected me in the same way, but I still find it wonderful to watch, hoping for the same affect.  I am such a fan of the Sherlock Holmes character, and I don't even care that the Hollywood series of films done by Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce for Fox and Universal studios, were rewritten and composites of the original stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  I feel Basil Rathbone brings a confidence, and strength to the character; I don't know why they felt Nigel Bruce should play Dr. Watson in such a foolish way, that's Hollywood I suppose.  I don't consider myself a critic, and not an intellect when it comes to movies, but I know what I enjoy.  This is my favorite of the Hollywood made films, another is,  "Dressed to Kill", this film though, is set in the 19th century, and, "Dressed to Kill", is a 20th century story.  I don't see any reason why anyone who loves classic movies, and Sherlock Holmes, wouldn't like this film, it's worth purchasing.

Cast and characters grab your heart and keep it until the final second. This is a Civil War film, the story of the first and only black regiment, the 54th Massachusetts Cavalry, to actively participate in the bloody business of war. A young white officer from a wealthy Boston family (Matthew Broderick) takes on the grueling job of getting these men ready for battle. He is tough, untried, but idealistically driven to turn these men into soldiers and he does.  This is the heart of the story, watching the unit grow from roughshod to ready, forming bonds of friendship that reveal their own inner problems. The common desire to engage the enemy, thereby breaking down a unique military prejudice, is another absorbing part of the story.  The cast and characters grab your heart and keep it until the final second. A must see.

Tombstone They picked the right person to play bad ass Wyatt Earp in this movie. In my opinion, Kurt Russell did an excellent job as Wyatt. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie.

Michael in concert, A LIFETIME EXPERIENCE I dont think there is any need to rate this item, MJ's fans know how valuable this is. Even the image quality is not the best, the sound is amazing and you can see Michael and his magic on stage, in this epic concert at Wembley. The songs you are not used to see in Bad Tour are here, and its truly an amazing buying.

packaging ?????? just like every 3D blu-ray I odered it and got it in two days, not sure what all the negative packaging complaints are, mine came just like every 3d blu-ray. Blue plastic case with a sleeve. I will play it then report back to report on how good the 3d is.

Great movie, not sure why this one kind of got lost in the mix I've always assumed that Shrek the Third must have been a stinker of a sequel because I never heard much about it.  But after the kids wore the first two out, we decided to try this one out and were pleasantly surprised.  Quite honestly, all of the Shrek movies have been really good.  Way better than much of the stuff out there for kids.  My only gripe is the un-necessary borderline-adult humor from time to time.  No need for that in a kids movie and very disappointing that we have to put up with it for our kids to enjoy an otherwise very good and entertaining movie.

Great Video I received this item on time and in excellent condition and I must say it has become my choice for exercise!...Yes, not only is it a great movie, but it also creates an atmosphere for dancing along with the show.  Try it!

GOOD MOVIE good movie we enjoyed it there really is not much to say about this movie that all the other reviewers have not already said will watch it again.

Beautiful Blu-ray Transfer! Blu-ray release is GORGEOUS! This is a beautiful transfer. The film quality looks as if it had been filmed this year. Absolutely stunning, fabulous work.  The Blu-ray is a must have for all Alien fans. In fact, this release and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004RE29PO">Aliens [Blu-ray</a>]  would be sufficient enough reason to purchase a Blu-ray player if you don't yet have one!  Aliens is my personal favorite of the franchise, but Alien comes in at a close second. I have formally owned the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000VCZK2">Alien Quadrilogy (Alien / Aliens / Alien 3 / Alien Resurrection)</a>. I was happy to upgrade to the when the films were released on Blu-ray as Aliens is my favorite movie of all time. If you are a die-hard fan, its highly probable that like most of us, you don't care for the third or fourth installment of the series. If that is indeed the case for you too, I would suggest skipping the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AQO3QA">Alien Anthology [Blu-ray</a>]. It does not contain any new footage from the previous DVD release. I am very content having purchased Alien and Aliens individually on Blu-ray, having already seen all the extras from the DVD quadrilogy.

GREAT REVENGE FILM! TOP NOTCH ACTING AND VERY HIGH QUALITY VIDEO.  If you're into anything gore and disturbingly insane, this is the film for you. If not, still watch it and get into it!!!

Awesome! The product was new as stated.  The shipment was fast as well.  This is one of the best shows out there.  Highly recommend!

Classic Loved this movie and the extra scenes practically create a whole new ending and meaning. It was like watching it for the first time with the deleted stuff in it.

Sitting Bull This was a Great DVD movie..The quality of the movie was great..The DVD was in excellent conditions no scratches just perfect...We enjoyed watching Sitting Bull..It came in a fast safe delivery..

Really enjoyed this movie! I have frequently seen references to this movie in many places so I decided to finally see it. Well, my wife and I really enjoyed it! The acting is solid (maybe a touch exaggerated at times), the story cute, and the plot just plain imaginative with a real funny ending! A movie you should watch with family

Flower power relived On the anniversary of Woodstock my DVD was an escape from the reality of the 21st century back to a time of peace and love and flower power. Loved the extra footage, love the music still, and I wish I was 20 again. If you are a child of the 60s this package is a MUST.

Please special features Just an awesome film with and intense amount of realism and creepy twisty possessed chicks, great video quality and top notch audio. (hope paramount reads this) just please release this package with more special fearures

One of the best ever A black ops assassin is sent into the jungles of South East Asia to hunt down and kill a one-time career military golden boy who has turned renegade and began operating outside of the chain of command. Francis Ford Coppola's dream-like journey through the horrors and absurdities of the Vietnam war, like 2001: A Space Odyssey before it, is more an experience than a story with any kind of strict middle, beginning and end. It's not the destination that's important. It's chock full of memorable performances from Martin Sheen's Willard who becomes fascinated with his target and shares more in common with him than he'd like to admit, through to Brando's towering presence as the rarely seen, shadow enshrouded god of war who has tired of the hypocritical "rules of engagement". Not forgetting Kilgore, who despite the long and illustrious career of Robert Duvall, will always be the character he is remembered for and the Ride Of The Valkyries sequence is one of the all-time greats of cinema. It has so many haunting, nightmarish images and the whole film is absolutely stunning to look at from beginning to end. The first time I'm seen it since viewing the ill-conceived Redux version, this is a much better cut although come the finale, I couldn't shake the feeling that something (it escapes me what exactly) was missing. Some may be left bemused by the rather free-form approach but it is certainly the most creative and provocative war film ever made.

Bourne The bourne Tilogy is a great set of Disks,i have enjoyed all three movies and would recommend then to any one.

pleasantly surprised bought the dvd for someone for christmas due to good reviews...only watched it because i got the digital rental for free...turned out a great movie - havent seen a movie that good in a while.  robert and reese are excellent in this movie.  loved it - definitely recommended

love it! i love it because you can play all workouts together or just 20 minute workouts. it also has a separate cardio workout. the instructor is very interactive and encouraging so you feel like she is really working out with you. you should try it - you might like it

Great film!!! This is a great film.  You will find yourself constantly laughing.  Great for anyone who has had to deal with kids.  Great for kids too.

100% essential! Rarely does an opportunity come along to write of such high class fare! This is Essential to anyone who wants to learn musicality to improve their Tango Argentino dancing. 5 stars gorgeous!

Harrowing yet cautionary Very vivid portrayal of lives cindered by addiction and the crippling aftermath of it's effect. Visceral, intense, not for the faint of facing the sad underside of life. Ellen Burstyn's performance was the best I have ever seen concerning the subject matter, her story is particulary tragic since she simply was chasing the imagined perception of escaping loneliness via a false promise to recapture her youth.Jared Leto's portayal of empty and wasted youth was sorrowfully stated, as was his girlfriend's (Jennifer Connelly) and his pal (Marlon Wayans). Not an uplifting feel good movie to put it mildy. However, within the context of it's downward spiral of a story lies a powerful message.

Better Than I Remembered! This Was One Of My Favorite Movies Growing Up And Is Still One Of My Favorites To Date! I Don't Know How Anyone Couldn't Like It!

District 9 Blu-Ray Edition This Blu-Ray disc arrived in perfect condition and earlier than estimated.  As for the movie itself, I think it is a masterpiece and I do not purchase movies unless I am certain I will want to revisit the film in the future. So I put 'District 9' in the same great category as 'No Country for Old Men,''There Will Be Blood' and 'Pan's Labyrinth.'  All of these movies are unique from one another but I love them all for just that reason - uniquely amazing.

Excellent Product We really enjoyed this movie. Great acting for a Christian small budget movie.  True story.  It was one that made you think. We were so inspired we bought several copies to share at Christmas.

I enjoyed it!  Very funny. This is a classic slapstick, tough luck comedy story involving a road trip from East to West coast.  In a nutshell: an expectant father is flying from ATL to LA when he crosses paths with a odd-ball guy who ends up getting them kicked off the airplane for suspicious behavior.  In the process, he "loses" his wallet and, by a mixture of circumstances, has to travel across the county with the same nutcase who got him thrown off the plane.  During the journey, they get into a mix of trouble.  What I liked:  Zach Zach Galifianakis is really funny throughout -- great scenes and acting.  The obliviousness to societal "norms" is what makes it funny.  As you see in the preview, Robert Downey Jr.'s character is telling a sad tale of his father leaving him as a child.  After hearing it, Galifianakis starts cracking up laughing and says something about how his father would never do that because he loved him.  Disliked:  Some of the craziness is overdone; needed more edgy scenes and clever ideas in some points of the film; the Mexico scene was a bit much.  Overall:  VERY GOOD for a mindless comedy.  If you liked Hangover, Wedding Crashers, Sex Drive, Road Trip, American Pie, etc., you'll probably enjoy it.  Fortunately, it doesn't go as far as Borat or Jackass in terms of shocking and grotesque humor.  But, if you are easily offended, dislike raunchy jokes, or just don't enjoy this type of comedy, it's probably not for you.

Dances with wolves Definitely worth the money. The material added really adds to an excellent story. The dvd was as advertised. This damn review of 20 different words.

very good movie also. this one and sweet hostage this is to all you reviewers out there. if you liked this one then you will definetely like sweet hostage with linda blair and martin sheen. a very cute love story just like this one. sweet hostage was made back in 1975.another made for tv movie. sweet hostage is better then sooner or later. its now available on dvd from amazon and the quality is excellent. thank you

The notebook (the movie) I have wanted to buy this movie for a long time, there is nothing I can say about it except that it is the best love story I have seen in many years.  Great actors, great story, if you've ever been in love you will loose yourself in this film.  Buy it and enjoy.

Scream 4 = 5 stars!!!!!!!! Scream is a 90's classic slasher starring Neve Campbell. The first is a classic 2 & 3 were the worst in the series. Scream 2 & 3 was directed at the time that Walt Disney was involved. But now Disney is out, and Sony is in we get a better movie. Scream 4 is more of its own movie then a sequel containing all the original cast. High School kids throw a stab marathon at the same time scream killing are happening again just when Sidney returns to her town to promote her book. The mystery in the movie is well done, and so is the humor. I was never a big fan of scream, but I'll be pre-ordering Scream 4 for my dvd collection.

Clever and poetic I often think of myself as a bit of an outsider. From my childhood I always felt like I was somehow different than other people. For this I have always liked movies with characters that have a similar disposition. Not only can I relate to the characters but I always find them to be more genuine and meaningful. Antonio (Luigi Lo Cascio) is such a character in Guiseppe Piccioni's clever tale of a loner who suddenly falls in love.  Antonio is a driver by profession, chauffeuring luxury cars for wealthy clientele. We're given the assumption that he has no family around, and his only friends seem to be his co-workers with whom he only associates with during work hours. He's a good worker, reliable and always on time. Because he doesn't have a lot of commitments he rarely says no to anyone, which leads him to be taken advantage of a bit.  New purpose is suddenly brought into Antonio's life when he encounters a young girl named Lisa (Barbara Valente) one night when she jumps in front of his car. When he checks on her, Maria (Sandra Ceccarelli), Lisa's mother, arrives on the scene and Antonio is immediately drawn to her. His attraction for her comes off a bit creepy when he does things like joins them at their table in a restaurant when they run into each other. I couldn't help but wonder why Maria was so accepting of his initial creeper behavior, but as we learn more about her it is apparent she appreciates the fact that he's nice to her if nothing else.  What's most interesting about this film is its approach to the narration. The story runs parallel with a science fiction novel, one not unlike those that Antonio is fond of. The novel's story is about an intergalactic traveler named Morgan, an outsider observing and trying to understand the world's he visits. Antonio and Morgan could be one and the same, loners searching for meaning in their lives. This unique style of storytelling drew me in immediately and gave the story a nice and different perspective.  The character of Maria is a complex one as well. She resists Antonio, but also keeps him close. Her story draws some similarities to that of Morgan's observations of people. Like Antonio/Morgan, she is searching for that something to make her life complete, but when she gets close to it she hesitates. I wanted to hate her, for playing with Antonio's emotions, but at the same time I had sympathy for her. She is a strong and independent woman who's faced a lot of misfortune. She wants and deserves to be happy, but fears failure.  Light of My Eyes is a poetic journey of love and personal struggle. The clever manner by which it is told enhances the experience by adding a different and thought-provoking perspective. There's a scene where Antonio tells Lisa to ask strangers about their memories. If they can't remember, they aren't who they once were. There are many such notions in the film that cause us to explore our own lives.  The characters of the film symbolize many, if not all of us. We're constantly searching for something, that completeness. We often drift into cyclic pattern of existence which sometimes causes us to forget what was once important to us. The longer we go through the motions, the harder it is to get back to our original pursuit. Sometimes it takes us to view ourselves as if we are visitors from another planet, like Morgan, to realize we all deserve happiness and that we should never let it go when we find it.  This is a very well handled film that is not only a quirky and original romantic drama, but also a thought provoking examination of people and the paths we take. The beautifully fitting music and cinematography enhance the emotion felt throughout the story and everything combined makes the whole thing feel kind of magical. This is the kind of romance film I wish there were more of. Source: criticnic.com 25-April-2012 Disclosure: Film sent from Film Movement

Beware of the Id Monster! This is a remarkable movie in many ways. It is a veritable Sci-fi Classic of the `50s, over par of class-B and very innovative with tremendous special effects.  I've seen it when I was just in my early teens and now when I saw it again still remembered some features as the footprint of the invisible monster and the lovely Altaira and her short skirted dresses.  This is the plot: a starship from the Earth comes to rescue a long lost scientific expedition. They are received by Dr. Morbius, the only survivor and Altaira his daughter, born on the planet, being her mother a deceased fellow investigator of Dr. Morbius. He states he doesn't need to be rescued and interrupt his fascinating investigation of a lost planetary civilization: the Krells.  Due to this civilization, Commander Adams declares he needs to consult Earth authorities as to what to do. That means he must stay at least two weeks and partially dissemble his ship in order to build a huge transmitter. Dr. Morbius offer the aid of Robby his multitask robot, (a remarkable creation of the film makers that fascinated the audience of the times). While Adams and his crew are performing this task they are attacked by an invisible monster that destroys essential equipment. Adams order an electrical perimeter to be erected around the ship and next night they are attacked by the alien monster rendered half visible by the fence. The monster retires after killing some crew members. From here on the film reaches its climax.  There are no big stars in the cast; nevertheless playacting is correct and convincing. Anne Francis composes a lovely naïve girl, Leslie Nielsen correctly fleshes Commander Adams and veteran Walter Pigeon is Dr. Moribius.  The outstanding items of the movie are the special effects, really over par for 1956 and the story, intelligent and thought provoking.  This is a film that will be enjoyed by classic sci-fi fans and general public too.  Reviewed by Max Yofre.

WA6RXM One of my favorite spy genre movies. The character actors are all excellent - particularly Harry Andrews. Lynn Redgrave, and Roy Kinear. Mason, Signoret, and Schell give good performances, too. The musical score by Quincy Jones, while a bit overpowering at times, is quite good, and fits the aura and time frame of the movie well. Plot is somewhat predictable, although I was still a little surprised at the revelation of the "bad guy" near the end of the movie. The use of the play "Edward II" in the plot is masterful when juxtaposed with the REAL murder which happens in the audience!

Great movie Haunted Airman was a great movie. I am a Robert Pattinson fan and loved him in this movie. He played the part perfectly.

Family movie Mr. Popper's penguins was purchased for my  six year old grandson and his family. The first viewing had the entire family laughing and enjoying the whole film. I was looking for it to follow the book, which is does not. But it is a great view for all of the family.

movie The movie I recently purchased was excellent quality, as always. I watched this movie on my laptop with no problems!

Hail to the King, Baby! Being the final installment to the Evil Dead series, this movie stands up to its precedent stories, although the treatment is different here. Indeed, Raimi, known for his genre-mixing movies, has opted for a comedic and adventurous story in Army of Darkness, as we find Ash fighting his way across hordes of demonic entities while trying to find his way back to the twentieth century.  Although I was surprised to see that the story wasn't set in the Middle-East like in the original ending of Evil Dead 2, but in England instead, the plot really kept me into my seat. Even better, it  foreshadowed what Robert Tapert and Sam Raimi would do on Xena and Hercules, mixing dramatic action scenes with comedic situations, and an excellent soundtrack from Joseph LoDuca. If there were times when I felt the comedy was more evident in this movie, there are still some scary situations to endure, like when the Dead spirits, through Sam Raimi's camera, harass Ash and force him to hide in a windmill.  If I had one criticism to the story, it is that the Sheila character was a bit too stereotypical in the damsel-in-distress way that she and Ash interacted. Not only that, I felt their romance was a bit forced upon us and I don't think it would have hurt the story if there hadn't been any romance for us to see.  Technically, the fights and special effects were well done and more impressive. They also included a great use of the stop-motion animation, most notably with the Deadmites army. But my favorite effects were the mini-versions of Ash who torture him in the windmill. Their actions towards Ash were funny and add to Bruce's talent as a comedy actor.  Again on the technical aspect, although there are some shots in the movie that are still grainy and dirty (like a view of the castle at night, or during the fight with the "She-bitch" (says Ash!)), this movie's High Definition is amazing. Indeed, the image is so clear that you can even see the sweat and the pores on the actors' faces. And even though you can see the dirt on the camera for one shot, this Blu-Ray's images make it worth buying this movie. Especially when the excellent Dolby sound effect makes this movie experience great to listen to.  As for the bonuses, I was glad to see the first ending that they wanted to use, and I'm happy that they reshot it and gave the official, and better, finale because it worked better in the comedic tone of this movie, unlike Evil Dead 2 which had a more dramatic tension than Army of Darkness.  In the end, this movie is a treat for those who are ready to kick back from the week's work, and enjoy a good adventure. One that, once again, foreshadows what would be done on Xena and Hercules.

Anne of green gables at it's best! This is a perfect follow up to Anne of Green Gables starring Megan Follows.  Anne  is in her twenties and takes off  to Avanlea where she has a teaching job.  the saga continues with Gilbert and also another  man she meets in Avonlea.  .An excellent story!  I  highly recommend this cd.

ruby Thank you for the fast service. The DVD is great. My family and I injoy the DVD. Fun family time.

awesome I totally love this movie. My family is so in love with this movie. And the digitally streamed movie quality is absolutely excellent.

Switch This is a Awesome movie. this movie is really good and it is hillarious. this movie is about a guy who treats women like junk and three women he dated had enough of him and murder him. and now he has a second chance to get to heaven by making a woman fall in love withhim and the catch is he is a woman. this is a hillarious film. if you have not seen this movie then i recommend you do

Arrived A Week After I Ordered, Via International Shipping I live in New Zealand and I'm a huge otaku for anime. I love many different anime titles, Hetalia being among them, and I couldn't wait to get Season 4 to add to my collection. Trouble was when Season 4 came out, it hadn't even arrived in NZ yet and probably wouldn't for another few months or so. So I ordered the Limited Edition on Amazon. I had never used amazon before so I was a little worried. I had a multi region DVD player but I still wondered if it would play region 1. Nevertheless the estimated arrival date for the DVD was August 22nd so I waited patiently. To my surprise a week after I ordered the package had already arrived! It was packed well and in superb condition. The DVD played in my player, and it had everything advertised; the banner, the DVD etc etc. Thank you, Amazon, for the quick shipping and the great packaging! Now onto the review of 'Hetalia' itself. Season 4 is one of the more crazier seasons, so you know you're in for a wild, hilarious ride. There's not much plot like its former seasons, its main purpose to make you laugh and offend the Italians! Haha, but really, Hetalia isn't for the faint of heart. If you're easily offended then you may take offense to Hetalia, which takes a bunch of countries and personifies them into people, all the while poking fun at typical country stereotypes. (Italy is a pasta-loving womanizer, Germany is blonde with blue eyes and has a stick up his ass, Japan is...Japan, France is a pervert, etc etc.) The show is a lot of politically incorrect fun, and as each episode is only five minutes long, it doesn't 'try' to be funny or anything like that; it's just naturally laugh-worthy.  Anyhow, Packaging - ***** ((Five Stars - everything was there and in perfect order.)) Shipping - ***** ((Came quicker than it was supposed to, much to my delight.)) Anime - ***** ((Hetalia is a bit of politically incorrect nonsense for your enjoyment. It is, indeed, hilarious in its own quirky way.))  In the end, 10/10

The best actors are not actors. Filmed mostly in the streets of Srinagar, Kashmir showing the daily lives of a people living in an undercurrent of tension from the persistent religious conflicts between Islam and Hinduism and to a lesser extent Buddhism and other religious groups.  A small crew filming without the use of professional or even amateur actors. Actors recruited with no previous experience who, nevertheless, produced a most believable and naturalistic drama of love and survival. The survival tactics seemed petty compared to western standards, yet you felt their necessity of fighting for the smallest advantage; for small lies and for pennies.  My minor criticisms are in portrayals that seemed a little too unlikely such as a Kashmir woman working as a clerk, yet has a US educated physics background. The other area that seemed lacking was a greater, more in depth, understanding of our characters, the city, the region, the nature of the religious discord, the political entanglements from Pakistan, India and China in that region. But perhaps I'm asking too much for a very budget restricted (although you couldn't tell) production.  Besides the acting the script was engaging with it's mounting conflict, uncertainty, tension and resolution.

At last... Let me just say first off that my first exposure to FMA was with the original anime, and I've only glanced once or twice at the manga.  This series is very well done. I get to find out a bit more about some of the characters who got short-changed in the last series, and meet some that never appeared at all. And the animation is just gorgeous. The series does quarterback-blitz though the plots that were covered in the first half of the earlier series, but not enough to lost the meaningful impact to old viewers, and those new to FMA won't notice anyhow.  This is a great buy that you won't regret.

Thank you Kurosawa, thank you Criterion! If you know Kurosawa, then a summary or critique of the film is pointless. If you don't know Kurosawa and hesitate to approach foreign language cinema, know this: he is a God to Steven Speielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas and John Milius among others. His films are a unique combination of epic storytelling and heartbreaking empathy, and Kagemusha is one of his grandest spectacles, all in bewitching color.  If you know the Criterion Collection, then you'd think you know what to expect from one of their BluRay transfers. You'd be wrong. Travel back in time to when this film came out and chances are it has never looked this good: it's like watching your own pristine 35mm print, or as close to that as anyone can ever reasonably hope for. And the extras are legion.  Pricy? Perhaps, but worth every last penny.

exceptional This version of Loose Change gives a great historical perspective for the basis of absolute power corrupts absolutely. Could a goverment in a means to an end operate for the benefit of a few at the expense of the many. This version does a nice job of answering that question

Instant streaming - Devil Wears Prada The video streamed with no glitches, pauses or buffering.  It was clear and played like a DVD.  We enjoyed it very much.

Compulsive Watching Originally aired in 2003 in Great Britain, and in 2011 in the States, this BBC produced six-part series calls for compulsive watching.  Directed by David Yates and written by Paul Abbott, State of Play follows a group of journalists, John Simm, Kelly Macdonald, Bill Nighy, and James McAvoy investigating the death of a young assistant to a Member of Parliament, David Morrissey.  Apart from having an absolutely enthralling storyline, the series is perfectly cast. Watch for an Oh so very young James McAvoy and a wonderful Kelly Macdonald playing a Scottish lass. I love her accent.

Wow, I'm a new Carol fan Of course I knew of Carol Channing, but nothing in depth of her career or personal life.  This dvd will make you an immediate fan - wonderfully done, great interviews, the stories of some of her boy dancers will break your heart.

McCloud As You Remember Him As all of the other reviews have stated, you are getting a chopped up Season 1, but if you are a Dennis Weaver fan and love the McCloud series it is well worth it.  For the movie that inspired McCloud, you might also want to check out Clint Eastwood's "Coogan's Bluff".  Some will disagree, but there is no doubting that the 1968 film loosely, if not greatly, inspired the 1970 television series.

Excellent!!!!!! I have watched season 1 several times.  It is very well written and the acting is great.  I love this modern take on Sherlock.  Fantastic!

DVD Lover... I lover TV series for DVD watching.  This was a good deal.  The box has a button to push to make the red lights scan across the bottom like the car did...it didn't work.  It has probably sat on the shelf so long that the battery is dead...BUT...the DVDs are great.

G great item. very useful and this item is a great price. great item. very useful and this item is a great price. great item. very useful and this item is a great price.

Read the book, missed the movie... DVD release... WHEN????? Hello, I loved the book, but missed seeing the movie when it was in theaters. I am looking forward to the DVD release but am not seeing ANYWHERE when that will be! Does ANYONE know??? THanks!

Meet Tiana, Disney's First Black-American Princess! The Princess and The Frog is a 2009 Disney animated feature film that is the first traditional, 2-D animated movie for Disney since 2004 and features a new addition to the Disney Princess family, Tiana, the first Black-American Disney Princess. In the film, Tiana(Anika Noni Rose) is a young woman with a heart of gold, always aiming to live out her late father's dream to open a restaurant. With her mother(Oprah Winfrey)always giving out advice, Tiana never gave up that dream, One day, at the masquerade ball, Tiana, dressed up as a princess, meets a friendly talking frog, who happens to be a Prince named Naveen(Bruno Campos)whose has been cursed by a demented witch doctor named Facilier(Keith David). so in order to break the curse, Tiana must reluctantly kiss Naveen to revert him back to a prince, but she ended up become a frog herself! So Tiana and Naveen sets of of an adventure in the Bayous of Louisiana, meeting all sorts of interesting characters like Louis, the jazz trumpet-playing alligator and Mama Odie, a 197-year-old blind voodoo priestess and her guide snake Juju, and Ray(Jim Cummings), a wise-craking firefly. They eventually meet up with Facilier and fight to restore their human forms. The special features includes deleted scenes of the film, a music video by R&B star Ne-Yo and sneak peeks of other Disney favourites like Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue, The Black Cauldron, Old Dogs, James and The Giant Peach, Toy Story 3 and My Friends Tigger and Pooh Super Duper Sleuths. The Princess and The Frog is the one of the best and beloved Disney DVD everyone will love to watch, and it is the best way for little kids to get to know Tiana, Disney's first Black-American Princess! :)

As the title says, "The Complete Metropolis" As Roger Ebert once said, "Metropolis" is a "...mistreated masterpiece..." and I could not agree more. Before this edition of "Metropolis, all other versions were incoherent and were missing many scenes that were once thought lost. However, in 2008, they discovered something truly special. They founf a 16mm print of a near complete version of "Metropolis"! This print, while has terrible quality, had 25 minutes of once missing scenes that were crucial to story, such as Freder taking the place of the worker, 11811, more scenes of the robotic-like Thin Man, and at last, why Rotwang has such hatred for Frederson. The missing scenes, along with the 2001 print, combined to create the ultimate "Metropolis" experience! A newly recorded version of the original score by Godfried Huppertz has been added especially for this edition. The score is nothing less than astounding, and helps carry the power of Lang's visuals. With too many highlights to name, "The Complete Metropolis" is truly one of the greatest cinematic acheivements ever, one of my favorite films.

Just like at the movies as in 1963.. After Elizabeth Taylors passing I ordered her remarkable film Cleopatra. It was indeed a pleasure to finally add this movie to my collection. Considering the age of the movie and such I was very happy with the DVD. The sound track sounded fine the picture was good-- I use an Adcom  5500 Amp  a Adcom GFA 500 pre amp and Infinity Reference 5 speakers With EMIT tweeters and of course a Veloydne sub. I use a 2 year old Sony DVD player and a now ancient Sony Triniton monitor.

Awesome! This arrived immediately and in perfect condition! I couldn't find it at any other store and did not want a used one so I was very excited to find it available in New condition.

I am a fan so of course I enjoyed the Movie! I have been hooked on the Terminator series since the 1st and this one did not disappoint at all.  Special effects and the acting were excellent!  Christain Bale never lets me down - he has become one of my favorite actors ever since American Psycho.

super quick DVD arrived quickly and I LOVED this tape! I will do business again in the future and would not hesitate to do so!

Here's Lucy: Season Five - Better Than Ever! The fifth season of Here's Lucy will for sure please Lucy fans. Unfortunately Lucille Ball had a skiing accident and had to be in a wheelchair for most of the season. Lucy's daughter Lucie Arnaz got to show off her talent with guest stars such as Donny Osmond and others. The ratings for the show dropped. Ball was so depressed that she decided that the fifth season would be her last. They filmed a last episode with Harry (Gale Gordon) selling the office, packing up and remembering the times he had with Lucy (Lucille Ball), Kim (Lucie Arnaz) and Craig (Desi Arnaz, Jr.). At the last minute, the producers of the show convinced her to do the sixth season. She did. I already pre - ordered it and if I were you, I would do so too.

awesome alien flick this movie was badass! Its not often you get an alien movie thts different. The aliens were unike the story an acting wasnt bad either. I dnt rly see why ppl r giving it a bad rating. Bt i guess their entitled to their own opinions. Bt mine is its cool its different an special effects r pretty good. Thts wht im baseing my rating on. I reccoment ppl go see this movie.

Got It!! Looks like the Oh-need-erz! I won't go into a full critique, we all know what the movie is about!  Extended version has 1 or 2 "slow moments" but overall it's great!  If you don't like the extended version, then you can choose the theatrical release.  I recommend the soundtrack CD if you can get it!

My Favorite SNL Host Alec Baldwin can do everything,from Charles Nelson Ryley to Tony Bennet,and the Season Greatings skit is a classic,but the show that tears me up is the voice mail scene.This DVD cheers me up everytime I'm sad.

One of my very favorite movies This is an excellent movie -- one of my very favorites. It is the story of a non-traditional family that works and sometimes doesn't seem to work, like all families. It's a love story and a romance. The characters are believable and fun.  I've seen the movie several times on Netflix streaming. It's also available on Amazon streaming. I wanted the DVD so that I could see it whenever I wanted.

Classic Jim Carrey Great movie adaptation of the classic Grinch. Jim Carrey and others made it fun and enjoyable to watch. One of the better Holiday movies.

great movie-out of africa from Amazon my family rates Out of Africa movie as one of top ten movies of all time. It;s not given much notice as beautiful scenry and wonderful love story between Meryl streep & Robert Redford. these two actors are the tops in all the movies they have made.  i recommend this movie for married couples date night.  enjoy

FANTASTIC! MY HUSBAND STARTED WATCHING THIS MOVIE AND ASKED ME TO ALSO WATCH IT.  I WAS MAJORLY IMPRESSED.  THE TECHNIQUES USED, THE TIME LINES INVOLVED, AND THE MESSAGES WERE ALL SUPERB.  YOU DON'T NEED TO BE RELIGIOUS, BUT YOU DO NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE METHODS USED TO GET THE CHARACTERS' ATTENTION TO CERTAIN SITUATIONS.  YOU WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED!

Where are the rest of the Season's of Quincy Universal???? Ok, I am like everyone else, when are they going to put out the rest of the Seasons on DVD??? My family loves this show and we have been waiting for the rest to come out. Why do they tease us with the first 3 seasons if they aren't going to put any more seasons out on DVD??? Come on, what are you waiting for???

Best SF/Horror Movie Blend -- Period For those with no real need for behind-the-scenes stuff, the Blu-Ray for the first Alien movie is a good choice.  You get two (very slightly different) versions of the movie, and two commentaries (both of them good). You also get --for the first time since the 1999 DVD (remember that?)-- one-and-a-half isolated scores. (More on this later)  So many people go on about how the second film (Aliens) is the best of the series. I suppose propeller-heads *would* gravitate towards that one, but "ALIEN" remains the true classic. Visual effects, sound design, set design, ensemble cast, tight storyline, perfect editing and pacing, snappy dialogue, the most iconic design for an extra-terrestrial organism and alien setting Ever, and one of the greatest music scores of all time. It just might be the Only Thinking Person's Horror Film of any kind in the last 50 years. The pace is slow, but leisurely and suspenseful. You get to know this realistic crew and their very convincing spaceship. No false notes there. Then they explore a strange new world (courtesy of H R Giger) that "Trek" and "Wars" never would have touched. Following one of the benchmark shock scenes is one of the most relentless chase/hunt stories of all time, with a healthy dose of conspiracy (Very 70s) thrown in for good measure.  Seriously, if you took any large group of serious film or SF or Alien fans and had them watch "ALIEN" and "Aliens" over a weekend, most of them would likely concede that "ALIEN" was the better film, in so many ways.  About the isolated scores -- I'm not sure, but judging by the cue lists, this May Not be as complete as the '99 DVD version was. I suspect that there might be some kind of super-weird copyright issues involving the 1962 movie "Freud." (The producers put cues from the earlier film in "ALIEN," a decision that irritated Jerry Goldsmith to no end.) Despite this, the '99 DVD *seems* to have all of the 1.5 scores intact, thus remaining the most complete soundtrack of "ALIEN" in existence. Otherwise, I have the 2007 Intrada "ALIEN" soundtrack and Varese Sarabande's 2009 (limited) "Deluxe Edition" "Freud" soundtrack as covering 99.2% of "ALIEN" 's score(s).  As for how much of the soundtrack is on the Blu-Ray, I don't' know yet. Therefore, any fan of the "ALIEN" soundtrack might want to hang on to their '99 DVD and check/compare before ditching the DVD.

An elegant collection, worthy of "double dip" . . . Am still thrilled with my 9 film Korean release <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001LU2V78">David Lean DVD Collection Box Set [9 Discs, Import, All Regions] (Oliver Twist /Great Expectations / Blithe Spirit / This Happy Breed /Brief Encounter /Madeleine /The Sound Barrier /Hobson's Choice)</a> (+ "Passionate Friends", unlisted), so was a bit hesitant to buy the Criterion set (after all, 9-set was only missing "In Which We Serve", which was only previously available as public domain release). Bit the bullet, spent $55 for THIS set (after spending $47 for 1st set). Summary: a most worthy addition to library. Criterion set has the 4 listed films, including a wonderfully restored "Serve", numerous extra features (as listed in product description), a 45 page booklet, and just flat-out classy packaging (each film has own case -hardboard w/film photos, and plastic tray-), including shiny black accents for all film titles, all housed in similarly designed box. Substantial extra features, and now having clean copy of "In Which We Serve" (with subtitles!), made this a worthy purchase! (BUT: if your budget only allows for one set, still consider the Korean one. Has only a few extra features, but ALL films are very crisp/clean in video and audio. Don't be 'put-off' by foreign packaging -it is still a lovely box set- and audio/subs ARE in English!) To close, please don't disparage (too harshly!) this review. Yes, the Criterion is a magnificent set, but a lover of film might just want to enjoy even more terrific DL titles for same amount!

Z the book My girlfriend has been wanting to get this movie for a long time and I decided to get it for her as a Christmas present.

Death was never so CHARMING A classic film on a dread subject, Made charming by the times and especially Freddie Marsch ! For the slobo slug tea party types manners and style reign !  This film is the quientesential opposite of BUSH & CHENEY, For the masters of the universe on Ball Street charm school is in order.  No great action scenes just understated glee and un evangelical mischief. What do thee decect a ir reverant anti amyway style hypo christian pagan bent in my comments, Ah Ha !  A off twang love story well done, with amazing 1930's dialogue a ellegant twisted plot, For ELVIRA on one of her more ellegant evnings.  Sorry my spelling in ENGLISh is not up to snuff but them what do you expect from Graf von und zu !  Not a film for the prolates and lump moronic face tweet nerds of HEUTE.  We wish you a happy endlosung and bless the PRESIDENT who has style and intellect on his side !  Tschuss und bis bald Pee Pot schnutzes !

This set always makes the season complete! I really don't have to brag too much about these movies. They are simply classics which should be shared with every generation. The movies bring me back to those nostalgic days as children, and yet they give me great comfort as a parent, especially as I watch them with my family.  Pros: Blu-Ray enhancement was very nice and added some good features to the menu.  Cons: Would be nice to have some thumb tabs on either side of the cover box to remove the individual BD-DVDs.  Recommendations: Would have loved to have seen a few more movies in the pack, but they did get the 3 most important.

If you are even looking at this, you should see this movie. Did you even see the title I wrote? Couldn't be more clear!  Multidimensional characters, amazing cinematography, and just enough action for everyone to enjoy.  It is not a film for the faint of heart.

Excellent Another excellent ab workout with some new moves added to the Billy Blanks elite abs video. Got good results from using Billy Blanks elite abs in about 6 weeks. The word Ab bootcamp means ab focus, this video targets your abdominals. Worth buying.

love this company I got what i payed for got it fast i love this company and would use them again i have got lots of movies from them and already plan on getting more.

Grey's anatomy season 7 review I'm a hugeeeeeeee....... fan of Grey's anatomy. After that cliffhanger on the 6TH season finale. They have picked up right where they left off. It's the best show on t.v.

Olivier Richard III DVD This looks just like the original 1955 film & stars many of Britain's best actors.  It's an interesting contrast to the 1995 version (also excellent) that is set in a Fascist England of the 1930's & has a terrific preformance by Ian McKellen as Richard.  The play itself is as easily understandable & likeable as it was in 1600.

Love this Character I have been looking at the George Gently series for a long time and finally decided to buy season one.  I have to say I was really surprised at how much I enjoyed it.  Great concept and love the characters.  The scenery is wonderful.  I liked it so much I have now ordered series 2 and 3 and can't wait for them to get here.

Wonderful movie -- I am still laughing I love this movie it is fast moving and full of laughs -- it is full of little surprises.  But not for children -- adult humor and morals.

Sword of the Stranger on Blu-ray I received the item in perfect condition. I as well as plenty of my friends and family have enjoyed it. There were a couple instances when the movie stopped for a second, but it was only while watching on my player, so it very well might have something to do with my player and not the movie. All-in-all, a very good buy.

Very Good Movie from the point of view of a foster child. I'm usually not big on movies that one has to read but this one was well worth it especially if you are interested in adoption or providing foster care to a troubled child. This movie follows a severely emotionally/behaviorally disturbed child through the foster care system until he finally finds a family that starts meeting his needs. What I liked about the movie is that it didn't fall into any stereotypes in which they made the boy look evil like most adoption movies do. I hate seeing movies that show adopted/foster children like they are demons. With that said, this movie was truthful about behaviors that these children display: self injury, animal cruelty, stealing, fighting, violence etc. The only difference is that it also showed that the boy had a good heart too. Every adopted and foster child I have taken care of deep down had a good heart regardless of the behavior they showed. They were just hurt and trying to find their way in this cruel world. They were basically lost, "Naked" emotionally. About 3/4th through the movie, one can see the boy start smiling for the first time and connecting. That family helped that boy become a better person even though he still struggled with making proper decisions. The foster mother kept stating she didn't know what to do about him but she kept repeating, "He has a good heart." Great movie and that last statement basically sums it up.

One of the best movies about the America Civil War Like this movie so much I decided to buy a Blu-ray copy. Never get tired of watching it because of the way it details the lives of so many civil war heros.

Great Product and Great Value I ordered this item after searching on various sites. I had no idea what a deluxeset refered to. Upon arrival I understood; the extra items made the item all the more special to my wife and the price of the item was lower then some other listings that were just the movie. Everything arrived before the estimated time in good shape and as described still sealed.

Yes, it's really about Larry Flynt There's a love story here. One that proves love in and of itself is more important than money. It's too bad Larry had to lose his legs to find it. Great movie. One of my all time favorites

great job shipping quick, easy, would buy form them again, video came just like they said it would reasonable for price, got this gift for xmas thank you!!

Merlin: The Complete Third Season Have complete set to this point.  Different spin on Merlin as a young Merlin. Good acting, interesting story line and good entertainment. Can't wait for season four to be released.

Unbeliveable Results! I have been the workout Queen nearly my entire life.  So when someone comes along and tries to sell me a bill of goods, I'm like..."Yeah right liar!"  I worked out in the gym with weights; back in the day when I was "the" only woman in the gym.  I have done Yoga, Pilates, running, biking, hiking, you name it I've done it.  A few years ago menopause destroyed my figure and I did research for two years to fight the middle age spread.  I was going kicking and screaming.  Then one day I thought, "What about Madonna?"  She has more money than a King but I figured maybe, just maybe, she knew something.  I stumbled onto the name of her trainer and figured I'd try it.  What did I have to lose?  I wanted to wait until the 30 days were up but I am so thrilled by the results that I am writing after 8 days.  I have lost one dress size to date.  I am actually getting dressed to go out in a dress I have not been able to wear in two years.  This woman is a genius!  I will be fifty-five in two months and by the time I reach my birthday, I'm going to be able to put my bikini back on and flub my nose at middle age.  I look fabulous and I am definitely going to flaunt it.  I FINALLY found something that works.  God bless Tracy Anderson.  She is my new Guru.  The bad news is you have to work hard.  The first workout took me two hours to get through and I lost my cookies after the workout.  I woke up the next day feeling like I lost a fight to Mike Tyson.  The diet was easy for me.  I was already doing something very similar before I began.  After the fourth day, I felt like a true athlete again and today I not only breezed through the workout but then I had enough energy to walk two miles!  Try it, stick with it and soon you will never avoid your reflection without clothes in the mirror ever again.  This truly is no gimmick.

Christmas eve isn't complete until we watched this we really love this.it is are favorite version. got tired of looking for it every year so now we can enjoy it at our leisure.

Amazing I love this show I havent seen anything like it before and fell in love instantly. the characters are so real and the dialogue is great i love wity characters who come together i would def recommend this to people who enjoy mystery/cop shows :)

Penny Serenade DVD I love this old movie. I know I've seen it at least 10 times.  My vhs tape of this movie finally died.  Now I have it on dvd. So happy.

Surprisingly good movie! I didn't know what I'd be getting when I first saw this movie and I'm still not sure I love the use of modern rock songs in it, but overall it's very fun to watch, the action is great and it's also surprisingly funny. Well worth owning.

A Must For Every DVD Collection The Magnificent Seven is a classic everyone will enjoy. Great actors, action adventure brilliant gun fighting, horses and a sound track to boot! I had it years ago on VHS and needed it on DVD. wonderful special features interviews, photo gallery and more make a dvd better than an old VHS. Buy it, watch it and share it.... if my 8year old cousin sister and 18 year brother enjoyed it whose to say your whole family wont.  Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, James Coburn and Horst Buchholz Hollywood at its best!

Midler's old Magic and Style with lot's of Feeling! This film is simply a luaghing romp between two volatile partners who allow the machinations of scheming others to split them up. Thrown together again at their daughter's wedding the results are a solid comic farce that shows the best of Bette Midler's comic style and timing. I love this film and will conitinue to visit it when I need some laughter and feel-good feelings.

Anxious to try the DVD Wore my Gilad VCR tape out in the 90's..... glad to see DVD's are available.  Loved his workouts then, and am anticipating the same opinion now as I transition from gym workouts to home workouts!

Good flick! My son and I enjoyed the movie. My nephew also enjoyed it, glad it came with blue ray and DVD. Great deal too!

awesome Really good movie . Didn't know Gwyneth could sing so well and the rest of the cast are just great. Story line is pretty common unfortunately in the music world with fame being ephemeral ... and I can see why they changed the ending. All round really enjoyed the film and have watched it several times

not just for white people Mad Men isn't just for rich white people, this show is gangster! Come on guys in suits sleeping around and drinking all day. Everyone on the show has got so much swagger. This show makes The Sopranos look like Glee.

Great Classic from AMAZON.com This is a movie our family has enjoyed for many years .  I recently replaced our VHS with a DVD  for our home library. I was happy to find this flick on Amazon.com at a great price. Three generations of the family have this DVD in our library.  It is TIMELESS!

A must see experience I had read & seen a biography years ago about Mr. Peltier & have been a long time supporter of his right for freedom. I purchased this about 9 mo. ago & found it extremely interesting, with some facts I was unaware of. I only wish Mr. Redford would do another updated documentary, but am looking forward to the Wind Chases the Sun  & pray Mr. Peltier's health holds out long enough that maybe that will be the one that finally gets justice accomplished. My only regret is that I loaned it to my oldest son & have doubts if I'll see it again!!!

Creepily Good I saw this movie awhile ago and because I'm dating a guy who works at walgreens in the photo department, I thought it would be a good movie to get to make fun of him. It was actually a good movie though. Far from robin williams' normal silly character. Definitely recommended!

Great Show!!! First of all the discription is all wrong. The above discription is for Frankiinstein's Cat. The picture is the right listing. This is the details: These are big adventures from a very small perspective-that of a brave mouse named Eckhart, who has an irrepressible curiosity and sense of wonder about the mysteries of his world. Enjoy all 27 half hour episodes of this renowned family series which explores and celebrates the pioneering spirit and the joys and the challenges of growing up! One of which is the pilot "The True Meaning of Crumbfest". It is a Christmas episode, but the mice don't call it Christmas, they call it Chrumbfest. Besides the pilot there are 26 episodes.They have the pilot as the last episode as if it was a bonus. No other special features. This is a 3 disc set with 9 episodes on each disc. The packaging is a double standard case with a third disc in an envelope inside the case. It is fullscreen and is 621 minutes in length although I have never timed it. I am taking the boxes word for it. !!!Warning Parents: It is rated "G", but you have to judge whether your younger children should watch because there are some kid scary moments like a scary cat going after the mice. And a pretending to be friending fox locking the mice up in her house and threatening to eat them. But Eckhart and Sir Roswald (A Skunk) get there in time to save them, ect. Some kids might not be able to handle it. Some probably could You Parents have to judge!!. !!!Warning: These episodes are edited as far as the opening goes. There is only an opening on the first episode and then after the episodes go directly to the next title page and episode. There is no closing until last episode on each disc. The only exception is the "The True Meaning of Crumbfest" which has both the opening and closing. I know there are a lot of you who are not going to like that, so I am warning you now!!! Even in the episodes in the indivdual episode page there aren't any opening. It is in English and Spanish.

This second film captures more grassroots point of view I was privileged to see this film when Chris Paine displayed it at the EVTV's EVCCON conference in September 2011. While Bob Lutz is still a major character in the film it also focus's on Elon Musk and the sacrifices he mas made both personally and finically to make electric cars become a mainstream reality. It also features a grassroots EV maker in L.A. and shares his experiences. Honestly this film is what I envisioned the first one being before I saw it. This film also played a part in me purchasing a car and starting a conversion to electric as soon as I returned from the conference.  All the best, Aaron Lephart

Great Birthday Present for my 3 Year Old This item was great! It arrived faster than I anticipated and it was just what I was looking for. I love the Disney movies! They are definately worth the price! Money well spent to see my daughter's face when we got it: )

great film Great film! Very funny but real premise and obstacles.Not cheesy,really fun well done romantic comedy with wonderful lead actors and very funny supporting cast.

Rally Yo This has long been a favorite show of my kid years and now my children can also enjoy it.My order was prompt and even early to arrive.Id definetely do business with this company again.

RARO corrects the defects A Great film, and kudo's to RARO Video for jumping on the defective problem and replacing the inventory so quickly.

Wonderful memories and livings in all the sense of the world! This is an amazing journey through the piano and his performers. Even if you are not a deep conoisseur of the piano universe, it's absolutely fundamental for you tp purchase it; you'll be captured for this superb work of footage, edition and undeniable value and artistic ambition that implies the collosal effort in order to tell the whole story from Liszt until the present.  Adittionally, you'll have memorable and illuminating comments. Gyorgy Sandor, Zoltan Kocsis, Daniel Barenboim, Thomas Vassary, Eugene Kissin or Stephen Kovacevich help you to catch and understand what is going about every performer.  Richter with his exuberant and energetic pianism, the unerring poetry of Alfred Cortot describimg a section of Schumann's Childhood Scenes, the marvelous Edwin Fischer, the admiragble octaves of Horowitz, the introspection of Glenn Gould, the virtuosity of Cziffra, the wonderful cadenza of Beethoven's Fourth Concerto by Artur Rubinstein, the colossus of Joseph Hoffman or the living legend who was Ignaz Jan Paderewski. Of course, many other superb pianists such as Ferrucio Busoni, Teresa Carre&ntilde;o, Wilhelm Kempff, Dinu Lipatti, Rudolf Serkin, William Kapell, Yves Nat, Georg Demus, Vladimr Sofronitzky, Leon Fleisher, Robert Casadesus, Samson Francois or Paul Badura- Skoda were not included or merely cited. But even so, I think it should deserve other special volume.  At last you will be literally so absorbed, so fascinated with this invaluable document that hardly you will be aware 106 min have elapsed before your eyes.  Give yourself a favor and make his own request. Or think about a gift for a friend who loves the music.  An irrepetible experience from start to finish. Don't let it pass!

Just Brilliant! You'll find LOVE,Betrayal,Emotions,Relations,Comedy,Style,Patriotism etc etc.... Easily the best movie I have seen in two years... Absolutely brilliant. Akshay Kumar is at his BEST... look at the expressions.. Katrina Kaif was sweet too....with a true mindset for the role. The rest of the cast fits in well. Hats off to the Castor's...JUST RIGHT! The Theme was AWESOME.. Practical.... and these days "The Talk " of Every British or American Indian seniors. A full ten for this one.... Its a perfect GLOBAL and Indian Movie.

The King Of Comedy LOL <span class="tiny"> Length:: 0:21 Mins  </span>

Star trek Insurrection Excellent movie.  Filled with all you would expect from Star Trek.  All of the roles were laid out well and fun to watch.

Problem Child Double Feature This double feature movie pack is worth the low cost provided by Amazon.  Both movies are hilarious and entertaining.  And both movies being on one disc for a low price makes it even better.

Battle of the Bulge  DVD I received my dvd copy of the Battle of the Bulge very quickly and found it to play like new.  Thanks.

Campy but serious thrilling comedy I am addicted to this show; I watch it over and over again. I like the character development, the link to the dead, the family dinamic. It's interesting how gruesome certain scenes can be, yet it's comical at times. If you're looking for something new to watch I suggest this series.

Dam good film Dam good film.  This is a film about how each of the family circle of characters deal with what life throws their way...be it a profound mental illness, the loss of a loved one or the circumstance and impact of connection to such individuals.  Presented in a highly quirky yet effective manner, this film chronicles the break down of a significantly depressed Mel Gibson and the impact he has on those around him.  In the end, what saves each from their own self-imposed hell is the constant for each, the love of another.  The subject is presented as black humor for so dark is the depression of Walter, Mel Gibson, that to present this film as a drama would depress all in kind.  The plot is somewhat uneven but clearly mirrors the roller coaster that is the Beaver, clinical depression.  Mel Gibson helps carry the film with outstanding acting.  The other actors present credible efforts but are upstaged by Mr. Gibson.  The real star of the film, however, is the personification of Walter's mental despair, The Beaver.  For it an Academy nomination is much deserved.  This is a must see film for all with at least an ounce of intellect and/or sensitivity.  For the rest, I am sure the film will be quite depressing.

The OperaDou Jury "left reeling" after their first encounter with Jackie Evancho Jackie Evancho has built up such an incredible following in the US and UK as a result of her success on the "Got Talent" shows that it isn't easy to get an opinion of her that has not been "preconditioned" by all the thoroughly well-deserved enthusiasm. However, in much of continental Europe, she is relatively unknown - for the moment. We were therefore able to carry out an intriguing experiment. We organised a special session of the "OperaDou Jury" at our Home Opera Theatre in the South of France and did a "blind test", playing a couple of tracks from the CD and inviting the jury members to describe WHO they thought could possibly be singing with such amazing purity, perfect pitch and phrasing. The guesses were interesting, ranging from a 40-year-old (bald) countertenor to a choirboy or a mid-30s, amply proportioned, diva. We then showed the jury the "Dream with Me Concert" Blu-ray* (very efficiently shipped by amazon.com to arrive on October 5, the day after it was released in the US). They were therefore among the very first in Europe to see Jackie performing at that concert in full High Definition, on a 330 cm screen. To say that they were blown away would be an understatement! In fact it was quite a shock that left some of them reeling, not knowing how to react. One or two even felt "uncomfortable" at the idea of such a perfectly mature voice coming from such a tiny frame. For some, it was quite a culture shock as well. You can check out all these fascinating reactions in detail for yourself by going to [...] or else Google "operadou" and go to the "Jackie Evancho" page.  *By the way, this Blu-ray disc is zone and region-free, so is perfectly compatible with all players.

30 for 30 All movies are in very high quality. I actually own it and can give an honest review unlike the two buffoons before me. Tons of extra features. Great for anyone not just sports fans.

Better Than a Vacation to Fiji! This charming film is delightful from the first bark to the last peanut butter pit!  If you haven't seen the film and don't know what I'm talking about, let's just say that dogs and peanut butter is a more unbeatable combination than peanut butter and chocolate.  George Lopez and the rest of the voice actors give real heart and soul to all the darling dogs, even the ones with bit (or bite sized) parts. And of course, Papi rules!  This is Disney at its finest:  whimsy, fun, beautiful production value and great animated magic that takes you to a happy, light-hearted place which is sometimes just what the doctor ordered during these  stressful, difficult times.  I felt like I was on  a wonderful fantasy vacation with my lovely dog friends at the very posh Langham Pasadena.  Not only five star accommodations, but a five star film all the way! The talking animal effects are the most effective to date and helped pull me into their idyllic, happy world.  Felt as rested as if I went on a spa date.  Have fun and keep that silly grin on your face! It's Disney baby. Oh, and don't rent this one. Buy it!  It will keep the kids quiet and happy for hours as they rewatch all  the cute talking puppies, and you'll want to visit again with the  Shakespearean chorus of mariachi chihuahuas. Yep, you heard that right!

GREAT!! My movie arrived quickly once purchased and package came in great condition! Will def buy movies from here in the future :)

Monster n law Thanks for the great movie. This was a great Mother n law birthday gift. She enjoyed it alot. Even my father n law watched it.

A truly unique individual This movie told me so much about Annie Leibovitz that I did not know and reminded me of so many of the images that she captured that changed our lives. She is the essence of courage and creativity in her work and the choices in her life. Great movie - I watch it often.

IMPACTANTE!! Buena recreacion de la II guerra mundial con los alemanes y japoneses, valio la pena comprarla en este box de lujo, aunque tambien tengo los de metal

jeff dunham is the best i bought every dvd. this one too.. listen up do u like the oldies. there is a novelty rock n roll song i been looking for for years. i found it.. go to you tube and type in sick manny's gym. thank you.its about charles atlas

Everything To Gain Antoher excellent movie, very moving, well filmed, good acting, good cinematography. I prefer not to watch movies on my computer but this is worth it.  I cannot imagine anyone not liking it. I would prefer this Region 2 than a VHS though I still purchase some.  Another one that you will enjoy many times.

Heart Burn This is a very good, well directed, and well fantastically acted movie by two great actors.. Jack Nicholson really played his part and Meryl Streep made the film..if you want to have a really nice mature date/movie night, this film is a good choice.

A magical guided meditation from Malick I love Terrence Malick's films, though I understand a lot of people don't.  I even imagine I can understand why they don't;  he's not an easy watch for people who want a clear linear story told at a brisk commercial pace.  Rather, Malick invites us to muse with him - on people, on situations, on human concerns and failings.  For myself, I'm content to.  But I wanted to comment on this Blu-ray release:  it's beautifully done.  Malick's magical use of natural light and extreme depth of focus is perfectly captured; listen to the detailed sound stage and it's easy to be transported to the forests of the (old) New World.  And that's why I gave it five stars.  If I'd been able to remove just half a star I would have, but only because I'm greedy, and am going to say I wish - since they've been able to give us the full 172-minute "Extended" cut of the film on the one disc - that seamless branching had been used on this release to also give us Malick's preferred 150-minute cut, and perhaps even the subsequent 135-minute one that arrived in cinemas.  For me, different versions of the same film are fascinating, because they give some insight into how the film-maker saw his own work, and the priorities he used to structure his story - much more interesting to me than EPK-level fluff.  If disc space was a problem, I personally would have been willing to lose the "making-of" documentary, which I'm only likely ever to watch once anyway.  Multiple versions of this film would have made this release even better, so I would have withheld half a star to express that, if I'd been able.  Is this "Extended Cut" the best version of this film?  I honestly can't say.  But it's a wonderful Blu-ray release.

FOR THE KIDS NOT HAVING KIDS OF MY OWN, MOST ALL MY FRIENDS DO SO I BOUGHT THIS THE KIDS LOVE IT AND WATCH IT OVER AND OVER WHEN THEY R OVER VISITING. ME AND MY HUBBY SAT DOWN TOGETHER AND WATCHED IT, WE LIKED IT TOO.

Awesome stuff!! This was a great surprise when I found that I can get this DVD on Amazon. It is a unique concert and as a big reggae and Bob fan, I consider this a "must have".

Back to the future blueray So glad I purchased this box set, these are my favorite movies and now I can watch them in excellent quality

Great movie Great job Jack Black, a must see for movie goers. One of the better movies of the year.  Entertained throughout the movie.

Have the cd also. Love the cd so I bought the dvd. Have a collection of music dvd's. Just love music, live bands,live shows. Try to go to as many as possible.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Halows, Part I Harry Potter is by far the BEST series in both books and in movies.  We have been anxiously awaiting the release of the latest movie to DVD. Having seen the latest part 1 four times at theaters, we cannot wait to watch it at home.  With all of the limted choices offered to young people today, this series has captivated my childrens' hearts and minds for so many years.

Incredible disaster journey When this movie first came out, I was snagged by the trailer I had seen beforehand. The scene of the fully capsized boat instantly put the theater audience underwater with a captivating effect. The sound audio was just as effective. This movie is nothing short of legendary and has an equally successful comic parody in Mad magazine called The Poopsidedown adventure that was published soon after the movie came out. I need both sources combined especially with the brat kid warning fellow survivors to brace themselves for yet another tidal wave as soon as Shelly Winters dives in the water for a rescue. This DVD set is a great package deal for true fans, and the schematic overview is a nice treat enhancement to watch along the journey.

Fun Fun Fun Again, who can resist the key actors in this movie!  And, times have not changed when it comes to a new baby...for both husband and wife, and the grandparents!  Was VERY disappointed in the quality of the DVD, was not redigitized well, very cheap, over lighted, hard to see sometimes.

Obscure Treasure--Our 2 year-old's obsession This is a sweet film that didn't make a big splash or a ton of money. Christopher Reeve's final project. Simple, innocent story with funny bad guys, rather than scary, who get what's coming to them for cheating and being mean. Lots of silly slapstick. The characters aren't super-complicated and the humor is definitely geared young--you won't get the big private, grown-up laughs that some kid movies embed for us adults. But my two-year-old LOVES this film and loves playing baseball as a result. And I'm happy with the absence of unwanted influences: no real violence, no guns, no nightmares. Highly recommend.

Great Movie This movie is a great movie. Uriah has an amazing voice for someone his age. I never was a big fan of the type of music in this movie, but I now have a different perspective on it. The movie itself was fantastic, but I really loved the ending. This movie is, in my opinion, a must-see. Ooh-rah to all the men and women in the military, alive or otherwise. &lt;3

Didn't Think It Was Possible I didn't think that pulling off a high quality video production of a stage musical, particularly Phantom, was possible. But Really Useful has done it. For true Phans, this disc is worth every penny. And it wasn't a special "cameras only" event, they had a full house to entertain behind the cameras.  It is clear throughout the program that the set is a special 25th anniversary arrangement, specifically for the purpose of accommodating the cameras. The most obvious difference from the Broadway/London/tour regular sets is the use of a digital video background which enlarges the size of symbolic items for more dramatic effect. The orchestra is actually above the main stage, moved out of the way, no doubt, for cameras to move about in the pit. Even so, it makes for a spectacle to behold.  What is so amazing about this video is it is the exact, full stage production. Nothing has been changed for a television audience or timing. The performers are incredibly passionate throughout every scene, and in my opinion show more raw emotion than most film actors in modern times. Speaking of film, this is ten times better than the theatrical adaption of Phantom. It was filmed beautifully in high definition, so you get to see things even the audience can't see, or things you miss when seeing it in person. You can see every movement the performers make, the sweat on their faces, subtle costume rearrangements, and yes - even the microphones. But even the ability to see all that does not take away one ounce of the enjoyment of the performance.  If you've seen the stage production in person and cannot get enough of it, this is going to help soothe your addiction. At the end, Andrew Lloyd Webber takes the stage and leads the anniversary party, introducing many former company members - including the originals. Seeing former Phantoms get to take the stage again lights up their eyes, and it's just a great thing to watch. Looks like it was a heck of a night. There is also a behind the scenes feature to get an idea of what it's like to be a player. Enjoy!

The Truth Will Come Out Well, Where to begin? This movie had a lot of extremely good point's in this movie! I would buy this movie in a heart beat, but it's pretty expensive. But I really want it!

amazing show i love this show my favorite character is joe  like his singing and sole survivor im obsessed with this show

Gosh and yikes, what a mix of reactions here to this movie! As for me, I found this to be an  incredibly interesting and entertaining film,  with fabulous acting in every role and a well deserved Oscar-winning performance from Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher. But were Thatcher herself and her 20 years on the world stage well served by it? Regardless of what we may think of her and her politics, this was the woman who became the first and--so far--only member of her sex to attain the rank of British Prime Minister, the woman who closed Britain's coal mines and fought that war in the Falklands. Would any filmmaker have dared portray such a once-powerful and still-living person through the prism of old-age dementia if that person were male? Just asking. But as I watched I couldn't help wondering.  Jim Broadbent is marvelous in the role of Denis Thatcher. Since the real Denis went out of his way to stay in the background and is no longer among the living, no one, including Broadbent, knows how close, if at all, his version matches the original. The pair of young actors in the roles of young Margaret and young Denis are entirely believable as younger versions of Streep & Broadbent. The powerful all-male power broker roles were powerfully well played by actors whose names may escape you but whose faces you know well...possibly from Masterpiece Theater.  As for the DVD Extras: While there's no director's commentary version of the movie offered here, there's a very good "making of" feature that includes lots of commentary by the director on how and why she did what she did, along with Streep's comments on her role and working with her British co-stars and theirs on working with her. There are also some less interesting short features (because they are largely reruns of sections of the making-of feature that we've already seen) on: recreating the younger Thatchers; Denis, the man behind the woman and  creating the battle in the House of Commons.  The one on the role of costume design is interesting and well worth a watch.  The only other extra,  "History Goes to the Movies," is really just a compilation of previews of this movie, along with "My Week With Marilyn," "W/E" (Madonna's movie about Wallis Simpson), Ralph Fiennes's modern day "Coriolanus" and  2012 Oscar-winning Best Picture, "The Artist."

WELL PUT TOGETHER! After a rocky start, which included a loud heavy metal introduction(which actually had me confused, and thinking about just shutting it off?),.....I BECAME GLUED TO MY SEAT! I thought the speakers all had tremendous insight, and fascinating NEW information. This shortly became the most comprehensive documentary that I've seen on 2012 thus far, and would recommend it to anyone.

Love Jackie Chan I love these movies. This is Jackie Chan at his best. These movies are fast-paced, funny, and great to watch. If you're in a bad mood or feeling blah...these movies bring you back to life.

Sophisticated comedy at it's best. But this set appears flawed. I LOVED this series when it was on tv.  It was one of just a few shows I regularly enjoyed. Sophisticated writing, expertly acted by a fabulously harmonious cast. I watch the reruns all the time.  However, this particular set appears to have many technical flaws, as evidenced by the other reviews.  So I hesitate to purchase it.  Guess I'll keep looking...  I definitely recommend this series though, without reservation.  Enjoy.

My daughters favorite I know this has a lot of bad reviews and honestly I'm new to Baby Einstein videos so as an adult i dont have much to say... but my daughter does and she says YAY!  This is the only video, besides the "Classical Baby" series, that keeps her attention.  She is 15 months and laughs and is entertained the whole video.  From beginning to end.  So if your trying to compare it to Baby Einstein i guess go with the other reviews... but if you want you child to enjoy a video for her entertainment I highly recommend this one.

My Healthy Sushi (.com) This movie is a must see for all Americans.  We are not educated about where our food comes, what is in our food and what is being done to our food.  In fact, Europeans know more about our food than we do.  Before I saw this movie, I honestly thought I was a healthy eater.  My motto was shop from the outside aisles in the grocery stores.  I had no idea that I was being 'corn fed' by eating what I thought was healthier choices.  My mind was blown away when I learned of all the products that contain corn; ketchup, mustard, mayo, fish and more.  The products that contain corn (and a ton of chemicals) are endless.  After watching the movie, I was so fired up that I was just learning where my food came from in my 30's I decided to write a health blog, I have given health talks to women and I have hosted several weight loss competitions.  Since I have seen the movie (and tried to stay away from corn-based products) I have lost 14 pounds (which is a lot for me) and I have seen others lose as well. I highly recommend this movie.  It ay change your life like it did mine. -My Healthy Sushi (.com)

Religion versus holiness This is a movie about a battle over Jerusalem, seeking forgiveness, doing good versus evil, God's will, and figuring out and fighting for what really matters. This film did not follow a predictable formula in either the relationships or the storyline. Strong performances by Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons, and Liam Neeson. Edward Norton is great in a small role somehow managing to express deep emotion and passion from behind a mask. Despite being extremely violent, I found this to be a good, but not typical, Easter-season movie for reflecting on religion versus holiness.  Make sure to buy or rent the 193 minute director's cut!! And not the 143 minute version that was released in theaters. The longer version was what was originally intended and a much higher quality and critically acclaimed film. The short version cuts some key scenes including the resolution between Balian and Guy.

Brilliant! I love all the Guild seasons and season five just takes everything that Felicia Day has written to such a great place. I loved every minute of it, everything about the characters and there roles in this season is truly marvelous.

My Bloody Valentine 3D I was surprised I liked this, acting was actually not bad and it wasn't cheesy low low buget I found it entertaining.Jensen Akles did a really good job in it.

brilliant I watched the first of the triology and couldn't wait to finish the others.  The movies are gripping, once you start, its hard to pause the movie.  Hats off to the director and to the superb cast

A worthwhile way to spend an evening -- spoiler free review This film had a very brief and limited run at the box office and I don't think too many people saw it. By the time I got around to wanting to see it in theaters, it was already gone. It's really a shame because it's a wonderfully crafted love story, using a touch of sci-fi as a backdrop for the plot. I'm a guy and don't normally go for love stories. Without the sci-fi angle, I probably would not have gone for this film. I like hard science fiction, space battles, and aliens, but most of all, I like an interestingly told story. Here you have a really well told story with likable and implausibly good-looking characters. Your Mrs. might not want to watch <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0034G4ORM">Battle: Los Angeles</a> with you, but chances are she'll like TTTW. For her, there's the bare-butted Eric Bana (Henry), who arrives naked with each jump. For him, there's the gorgeous Rachael McAdams, who sadly, we do not see in extended stretches of undress.  The premise is simple. Because of a genetic anomaly, Henry jumps uncontrollably through time, along the timeline of his life. He meets people in his past and sometimes himself, but he can't change the past. Just like other time travel movies, don't think too much about paradoxes, contradictions, and logic bombs. If you do, you'll have a horrible time. Just go with it and concentrate on the love story instead. The chemistry between Bana and McAdams is electric. There are some touching scenes at the end as well, but I won't say more than that.  Not twist endings or last-minute gotchas that are so in vogue these days, or anything groundbreaking in terms of cinematography or style. This is just a good ole-fashioned romance done with innocence and charm, much like Forest Gump and Benjamin Button. It's entertaining and light-hearted -- definitely worth the time to watch it.

Classc! Loved showng this to our kids.  It is such a classic and we explained it as it went along.

An inspiration Superman the Movie is definately one of the best movies of all time.Christopher Reeve makes an awesome Superman and Gene Hackman plays a great Lex Luthor.No one can be too old or too mature to love this movie.I'm 13 and I love it.This is definatly a movie you should add to your collection

A GREAT SURPRISE This series has to be one of the best of this season. It is a DARK and suspenseful show that held our interest all season long. Hopefully the suits won't cancel this excellent show. Definitlely not children's fairy tales

YaHoo! Yippee! The old west is back!  I watch this movie over and over. This movie is a fantastic remake of an outstanding Western classic.  It is more intense and gritty.  The upgrade adds edgy tension; and there's an undercurrent of sexuality (Both Russell Crowe and Christian Bale are sizzling hot in these roles as rugged cowboys.) All actors involved give a realistic view of how hard life could be in the old American West. Russell Crowe as vicious outlaw Ben Wade is excellent.  He is evil and good simultaneously. He has amazing intelligence, honesty, gun speed and he loves his mother.  One of my favorite quotes of Ben Wade's after he murders a man who insulted his mother is "even bad men love their mamas," and how Wade sets it up for Dan Evans to be a hero to his son. Both actions epitomizes the complexity of Russell's Ben Wade character.  Russell plays Ben Wade so smooth. I love how he whistles for his horse.  Christian Bale's Dan Evans is also painfully believable.  Not only is he struggling financially, Evans is struggling, as someone who lost a leg during the war, to gain the respect of his community, his sons and to re-gain the admiration of his wife.  He takes on a dangerous job for two reasons in my opinion: to impress others and for financial gain.  It seems that Wade and Evans develop a friendship during their experience together.  Evans shares so much of his personal life with Wade.  Wade seems to give Evans the respect that he is seeking. That respect and possibly brotherly affection is clearly identified in the final scenes of the movie. Wade does what he believes is necessary for Dan Evans' typical teenage son William played by actor Logan Lerman to finally see his father as a hero and a strong man.  William is a nice addition and deviation from the original movie. He is sassy and is coming into his own manhood.  He is looking for a hero and a strong male role-model.  He does not see his father as either.  The end of the movie illustrates how William becomes a man and also sees his father as a strong man.  The end of the movie also allows the viewer to see how Wade creates what memory that both he and Dan Evans want William to have of his father.  It also begs the question who really "put" Wade on the train?  What is it about a rugged, dusty, dangerous "cowboy" that is so exciting? Actors Ben Foster and Rio Alexander members of the Wade gang are also deserving of some recognition.  The setting of the west is beautiful which is a contrast to the ugliness of the lives these characters are living.  I am surprised that this movie or its actors did not receive an Oscar.  While the original was great, this version is superior. I need to stop the review and analysis to avoid spoiling for others.  Both versions of 3:10 to Yuma are classics and deserve placement in any Western fan's collection.  Bravo!

Great Movie! Greetings All, What a wonderful movie this is, I waited a long time for them to release it. It was worth the wait, move is a great copy, clear and sharp. Singing in it is wonderful and the cast is great! Cheers! William

Just Like the Book I really liked this movie. I couldn't hardly put the book down! Really glad to see it being made into a movie. Glad to see they kept most of the scenes true to the book. The cast was what I pictured from the book. The acting was awesome. Being a southern I thought the movie was very southern and seem true to what was happening in the 1960s. The only part I think they rewrote from the book was the scene between Skeeter's maid and her mom. I think the scene was different from the book. Other than this the movie was worth every penny of my movie ticket. Glad it was good to wach!

Excellent!!! Ron Burgundy is the funniest guy.  The Afternoon Delight song is the best, the flute scene is great, the scene where Jack Black kicked the dog is the funniest and the News Anchor Rumble is off the charts!! This movie gets a 2 thumbs up!!!

Prof. Ratigan Reviews It's a puzzle!  It's like a big ol' mammogram.  That's what we call a malapropism and it's the backbone of Rango (2011).  I love a pun.  Preferably a pun that is as close to the "intended" word as possible-orange in "orange you glad I didn't say banana" sounds nothing like "aren't" while mammogram does sound like anagram.  Puns aren't all Rango has to offer, it does physical comedy, poop jokes, and much much more.  It's flat out hilarious.  A chameleon (Johnny Depp) is without an identity.  He does some acting, has a one act play, and a musical he's working on, but still he can't quite answer that old existential quandry-who am I?  After "an ironic, unexpected event, propel[s] the hero" onto the highway and into the city of Dirt, an improvisational response to an awkward bar scene gives him a name, Rango, and a colorful history.  Soon, as is wont to happen, he's sheriff of this dusty old town with the tycoon turtle (Ned Beatty) as its mayor and he's got a mystery on his hands-there's a water shortage and we aren't sure what's causing it.  Beans (Isla Fisher) knows there's been some water being dumped in the desert, but she can't figure it.  Off they go to find the answer, but our villains are crafty and Rango has to find out who he really is.  "Is this heaven?" asks Rango.  "If it were we'd be eating Pop Tarts with Kim Novak," replies the Spirit of the West (Timothy Olyphant).  The dialogue is great, but the soundtrack is wonderful.  Finally, a movie that has a pitch-perfect sense of music.  Perhaps this is in major part due to its magpie collection of the best sounds westerns have offered.  I flatter myself that I heard Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), The Magnificent Seven (1960), and obviously Ride of the Valkyries, to my infinite pleasure they played for longer than ten seconds.  But I almost cheered when they played Harmonica's Theme at the climax of the movie.  Chills, just thinking about it (well, thinking about it to the youtube link I just put there-DIE SOPA DIE!).  It's a travesty that the song Rango didn't get nominated for Best Original Song, but I imagine that particular category has seen more travesty than equity in its existence.  Oh yeah, this is an animated movie.  Freaking amazing animation.  It's dry and realistic.  The sun burns into your eyes to show that it's pretty hot in the desert.  Rango, which they obviously put the time into, is a scalychameleon but he doesn't glisten like a dinosaur in Jurassic Park (1993)-after all, it's raining at the park, but it's dry in the desert.  This bad boy's getting all ten on IMDB.  At the climax, I did want some heavily repeated close-ups on the eyes of the duelists, but hey, you can't get everything.  This movie was made (with others, I'm sure) by Gore Verbinski who is responsible for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) and the two pale imitations-but not the worst offender, at least.  He's also doing the Lone Ranger movie slated for 2013.  Not a devotee of the Ranger, I hadn't invested that much emotion into the idea of its success or failure, but whatever doubts I had have evaporated after seeing Rango.  Verbinski is well versed in the western-or at least its greatest incarnations-but should stop fooling around and bring John Logan in to rewrite the thing.  Looking at Logan's credits makes my jaw drop.  Some crap, to be sure, but a number of excellent films including the upcoming Bond movie, Skyfall.  Hehehehe.  That's how I feel right now.  Drawbacks?  Hmm.  Let's see...  None.  Go see it, go buy it.  Now.  Go.

Old English As all movies and tv shows do,they all try to keep up with current issues of the day. Prim Suspect, is no ecpetion and the writers of this series have a slant is "spot on" as the Brit's would say.

Two Worlds of Jenny Logan This is a beautiful love story set in the present and the romantic past. Lindsay Wagner's present day marriage is on the rocks due to husbands infidelity. She finds a victorian dress in her attic, which she lovingly restores to its former beauty. When she tries it on she suddenly is transported back in time to when a handsome young man owns her house. Of course there is another woman who wants him, played by Linda Gray of Dallas. It's an intriguing and beautiful love story.  You just hope she gets to stay with her new love in his time.

Connery Fan Its a great story beautifully acted by Connery and Bergin. It is a romantic story without specific love interest that captures your interest early and never lets go. Buy it!

Fun movie This is a good movie for the whole family to watch, Will Ferrel plays and elf that ended up in the North Pole with Santa Claus until he was an adult and too big to continue to play an Elf. Get the movie you will enjoy.

very happy I enjoyed the movie and it came in the mail quickly. It was a good and entertaining story about a man turning his life around.

greatest B-movie ever? In English-language film, this is maybe the greatest B-movie ever made (along with Touch of Evil).  Assured filmmaking and perfectly evocative of the American-in-Europe ethos of the post-War.  Music is stunningly good, especially the theme song in the famous tour boat sequence.  Plus, its a fun mystery with two icons: Grant and Hepburn.

Scary, Funny, Stupid, Unique and Gory = Very Entertaining! WARNING - MOVIE SPOILERS BELOW  Best spoof zombie film to date.  Unique and funny 1. These Zombies are Nazies. 2. Liked the fact that the girls and guys actively fought back using ingenious and sometimes funny zombie kill methods like biting the zombies themselves if they had nothing else, blowing them up with their own WWII bombs and aiming for a zombie head kill by whatever means handy.  They all "finish" the job of killing a zombie if they have that advantage instead of running away allowing the zombie a chance to go after them again.  Only one idiot guy in the bunch stood around scared while everyone rushed to protect the windows and he got eaten early on.  Mounting a WWII machine gun onto a snow mobile was hilarious and an ingenious way to kill the Nazi zombies. 3. Unlike the usual run of the mill zombies, these zombies are smart. They use binoculars, have a leader to coordinate their attacks, etc. 4. These zombies have anti-freeze or something in their veins to keep from freezing solid in the winter snow. 5. Human cuts off zombie bitten arm to avoid becoming a zombie and then gets bitten in crotch. 6. Not too many zombie movies have people falling into an outhouse "hole" 7. Not very likely that the two remaining guys will play "bait" to draw zombies to them while the 2 remaining girls try to get away especially when one of the guy doesn't know one of the girls.  In the world of equality today, not going to happen. 8. Hanging by zombie intestines over a cliff was very funny, unique and scary. 9. Usually zombies punch a hole with their fists though soil/dirt and make their way to the surface, these zombies punch up through snow. 10. The Nazis zombies were like pirates or that evil leprechaun, give them their gold and they leave you alone.  Gory 1. Not too many zombie movies draw and quarter their humans. 2. A lot of gory scenes  Scary 1. Liked the fact that most of the humans are ALONE when attacked which makes the film much scarier and each was brilliant in zombie killing strategies even while sometimes dying themselves. 2. Unique camera perspective of seeing death from a victim's eyes while being eaten alive. 3. These zombies can kill a human and instead of staying around to eat, they all leave their "dinner" to chase the stilling running humans which is scary because there is less chance for others to get away. 4. Can a guy who just sawed off one arm and was severely bitten in the crotch by a zombie outrun running zombies?  Stupid (on purpose or just plain stupid)but which make viewers scream "Don't Do That". 1. Do birds lay eggs in winter?  If not, then the storyline of the mama bird (crow?) giving away the treed girl's position to the zombies was bogus. 2. One of the girls is wearing a bright red coat which against the white snow makes her stand out from miles away.  It might have been a good idea to find another coat in that cabin or turn the red one inside out if the color inside was different/not so bright.  The other girl is wearing a white coat that cannot be easily seen in the snow at least during the day.  Both girls STOP running to STAND AROUND in the open arguing whether to split up allowing the zombies to reach them.  Sadly, this did not end well for one of them. 3. 2 surviving men who are on full alert having just killed zombies are saved by a their friend on a snow mobile.  The two men FACE the other man after the zombie kills and it is IMPOSSIBLE for them NOT to see 5 zombies walking up behind their friend close enough to kill him when there was an open field behind him and they could CLEARLY see anything coming. Unrealistic. 4. There is no way most women would go to an outhouse ALONE especially at night so that is an unlikely scenario> And it is just plain stupid for either a woman or a man to go alone as there are bears, wolves, etc. still around even without the zombie threat. 5. Blood comes out of zombies mouths who haven't bitten or eaten a human at all or bit one too far in the past to still have blood dripping from their mouths. 6. Girl who survives on her own killing zombies stupidly grabs her boyfriend who is busy killing zombies and who has no idea she was even alive let alone in the area and when she grabs him from behind, he swings around and stabs her thinking she is a zombie.  It is hard to feel sorry for her for being that stupid or to believe she would be that stupid when she was smart enough to stay alive for so long on her own. 7. Why didn't one of the 2 remaining men jump on the snow mobile mounted with a machine gun to either get away (with or without the other guy) or to use that very convenient machine gun while the other guy was occupied with watching his girlfriend die?  They both KNOW these zombies ALWAYS have more coming yet they stood around like idiots until the "head zombie" brought up more troops and then ran. Why did they drop their light cleavers and knives obtained from the shed?  The guy with the shotgun should have had cleavers/knives tucked in/around his jacket/pants/boots.  These guys left with no weapons at all. 8. The ending was predicable.  WHY do "survivors" ALWAYS pause to lean against a vehicle to catch their breath and then when finally inside either stop to cry and/or STOP TO put on their seat belt which when you have one arm is hard to do?  The guy could have tossed that coin or been long gone if he hadn't stupidly waited around.  Left Hanging 1 Never found out how the Nazis became zombies - infection?  Evil spirit spell? 2. Never found out if a human biting a zombie or having a zombie bite a human, turned a human into a zombie. 3.Never explained who the older man was who came in for a cup of coffee and warned them about "Nazis".  Why was he up in the mountains to begin with and camping alone in a tent in the middle of winter? 4. Were the zombies at the end of the film when the head Nazi says "ARISE" the zombies already torn apart by the humans (heads crushed/cut to pieces) and "healed" or were they new zombies laying under the snow all this time?  If just healed zombies, then these zombies are indestructible.

this movie is the prequel to the 1982 movie & yes i love it!!!!!!!!!! this movie blends in perfectly to the 1982 movie this movie is on par with the 1982 movie and yes this movie seriously is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is one of my favorite prequel movies its just as cool and as fun as the star wars prequel films!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

beautiful sight A beautiful sight (despite the fact that the released ArtHouse)! Very harmonious singing, vigorous orchestra. With the crucifix in the shooting - it was probably too much drama, but in general a very powerful production. All the performers were good, but I did not become a fan of Alvarez or Cedolinis, but has become more respectful of Oren and Raimondi. The work of video director worthy of praise, impressive scenery and costumes are good, but Tosca was sorry - she had to drag quite a monumental dress. The recording quality is excellent. Better than Turandot in Verona. This Tosca great pleasure and I sincerely recommend it. And, excuse me my English.

Great Buy!!! This is a great movie for all ages. I seen it in the movies in 3D and loved it. I couldn't wait to add it to my collection. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004LWZW8S">Immortals [Blu-ray</a>]

Far, far away from Will Ferrell & Co. I have read some of the poorer reviews of this movie, & I have to say that they completely miss the point. The movie is very funny, but it's not intended to be a Will Ferrell idiot comedy. It's intelligent, witty beyond compare, absurd, and full of remarkable performances. I love it! Certainly, the viewer will benefit from being familiar with Hamlet before watching this one, & even then, it's not easy to grasp everything going on in the first viewing. That just makes it better, to me. Maybe this isn't for everyone, but in my book it definitely belongs in my collection, and definitely rates at five stars. A little more headwork, but completely worth it.

Absolutely loved everything about this movie. Found this on Netflix late one night, thinking it was going to be a creepy demon movie.  So glad I watched.  5 stars, and I've shown it to several friends already... all of them really liked it.  I would have to say that this actually stunned me and showed me what a movie can be.  I'm just here to buy the DVD and thought I should share.

Cool DVD! <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002WBYE1G">Rock N Learn: PreSchool</a>  Excellent DVD. My son who is 2 years old was not into DVD's until I got this from Amazon two weeks ago and I am glad I did. I can take breaks at ease. Not boring for adults which is the best part. Liked it! Very educational.

Good for Lovecraft Fans (and Writers too) Wow! This was a REALLY good documentary. Very interesting. I makes you want to read all of his works or, if you don't have time for that, at least rent a bunch of movies based on his works. Also, if you're a writer or aspiring writer, this inspires you to get back to working hard toward writing your own works if you're one of those writers who procrastinate and tend to put off sitting down and getting to work.

Great Movie! This movie/documentary/comedy really makes you look at religion in a whole new way! Very informative and entertaining. Bill Maher is brillant.  If people can overcome the religious brainwashing we all received as children, they will realize we have all been duped!

Sound of Music is a beautiful film The Sound of Music is a beautiful film. Although made in the 1960s about a family in the 1940s, it holds up well.  It's a movie the entire family can enjoy together.  The songs have become standards.  Having recently been to Saltzburg and the German and Austrian Alps, it was fun watching the movie again and seeing the characters sing and act in places I had visited.  I highly recommend this movie.

This one deserves ten stars at least! Legendary documentary from writer/director Bruce Brown follows two surfers, Robert August and Mike Hynson as they follow summer around the world searching for the perfect wave.  Leaving California in November, they travel to Africa, then on to Australia, New Zealand and Tahiti, finally winding up in Hawaii, finding adventure and having a blast along the way.  Stunningly photographed, amusingly narrated by Brown, this has to be the most entertaining documentary ever made.  I enjoyed this when I first saw it as a kid forty-five years ago, and it has lost none of its charms over the decades.  A truly wonderful film!

right on target the product that i ordered was the product that i received. it was in perfect condition and arrived in good time.i will visit this company again.

Goodfellas | Blu-ray digibook Take a look at this in-depth review of Goodfellas Blu-ray Digibook on Youtube  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc-DTqeXvwA  Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Snollygoster123  This digibook has a glossy print on the cover and thick glossy pages, It is a must have for movie collectors

Universe The Universe series season 2 was exactly what I was expecting after the first season.  Only watched a few episodes so far but it follows the same presentation that the first season was like; educational, entertaining and anything but boring.  If you enjoyed the first season then this next season is more of the same style show that you should enjoyed.

The African Queen The Classic"African Queen" with Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn is one of the greatest movies ever made! The remake in Blu-Ray makes it even better. We watched it Monday evening ad enjoyed it totally. The clarity, vivid color, made it the great movie it still is and will always be. Hank Ciak

great movie My grandkids are 6 and 4 and watched this movie over and over this past weekend that they spent with Grandpa and me.  They watched other ones that I had purchased, but right now this is their favorite.

Wonderful Movie Wonderful movie!!  Given the number of stars in this film, they could never hope to do such an epoch today.  And, many of those stars had small roles.   It gives not just the overview of D-Day, but the facination of the film is the stories of small groups and individuals during the day and the confusion that took place on both sides of the fence.

"Helen, you idiot!" I have watched this more times than I can count and it never gets old. Blu-ray with extras would be a dream come true!

Magnificent! The defining scene for this movie is when Chris (Yul Brenner) and Vin (Steve McQueen) take the dead Indian to boot hill

Modern Film Noir Masterwork This is an astounding, unusual, yet refreshing, film noir of considerable character!  Gripping from the very first scene, it concerns the story of a Jack the Ripper type character menacing 19th century Paris.  And nearly everything about the movie exihibts perfection: from the subtlety of plot, to the acting, to camera work.  Gerard Depardieu stars as the heroic, but somewhat mysterious, detective - a former criminal himself, turning now to fight crime, and some of the forces he formerly identified with.  For lovers of modern movie making, to lovers of noir suspense drama, this movie is clearly a no miss, but be forewarned: it is certainly not for children, and probably not for ladies either.  But it provides blistering, raw, yet brilliant, entertainment for the rest!  Highly Recommended.

Movie time I ordered this movie last year and have watched it several times. To me,it is a great movie. I ordered the movie again from "Amazon" to give to my sister and her husband. They had never seen it and now like it as much as I do. I would rate it 5 stars without question.  Brad Pitt is one of the best actors around today. In this movie,he was outstanding.

Great flick! If you haven't seen this one yet check it out. Based on a true story and one of the best movies I've ever seen - don't miss it!

PUT ON DVD GOOD CONCERT, BUT NEED TO BE RELEASED ON DVD. I HAVE THE VHS COPY AND I KNOW IT WON'T LAST LONG. THAT IS WHY I NEED IT ON DVD FOR I CAN HAVE MANY MORE YEARS OF ENTERTAINMENT. I HOPE ONE DAY A COMPANY WILL PICK THIS UP AND FINALLY PUT ON A SPECIAL EDITION DVD OR BLU RAY WITH EXTRA STUFF ON IT.

Blood, cannibalism, adventure! a horror roller-coaster of a film! Horror films are meant to scare people, but this promises much more than just cheap thrills, blood or aggressive zombies. 'Hills have eyes' throws equal amount of light on both the characterizations and the atmosphere made. You are easily glued to the screen right from the beginning and forced to hold your breath till the end credits. The gore and violence is extreme, so if you like your screen turning all red, you will definitely adore this film. Moreover, the entire cast do a brilliant work here along with Mr Aja's wonderful direction. Overall, 'Hills have eyes' easily adds to the list of great psychological horrors like The Omen, Fright Night, Cat People, Exorcist, Mouth of Madness etc.

Best vampire movie ever made if you love vampiers... this is not the twlight crap this is not dimond covered vamps  this is the real deal, the Dimond in the stone, the best vampire movie ever good plot amazing acting stunning visuals  and the one of the most kick ass bad guys you will ever see, so creepy so strong so much power !

Love This Movie! My daughter and I love this movie.  Got an urge to watch it again and couldn't find it, so of course I turn to Amazon.  I just wish it would come out in Blu-ray!

You gotta love the "Rock" Not at all unhappy with this Kindle download.  I always look for movies we would watch over and over and not get tired of, this movie belongs in that collection!

Out of step I seemed like the only one of my friends that did not watch this program, so I decided to buy the first two seasons. Now I am in step with all  my friends.

Enough Said It's "Pretty Woman" with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere in one of the best feel-good movies ever.  (Plus great music.)  What more can you say?!

Excellent piece of work Great storyline, excellent acting.  Very many scenes shot in my home town of "Hard Hittin" New Britain.  Well written storyline, leaves you asking the age old question "is this real or a very accurate reproduction".  Gotta love the actor portraying the art expert, he did a great job.  Very well directed, definitely a must see...check it out...you won't be disappointed...

Clear Original This movie has become one of my favorites. Once you get over the fact that the main character looks like a 12 year old you can get into the highly original script. It takes some understanding to know whats going on in the film but if you can figure it out it is very entertaining. All the action scenes are very well done and the story is very meaningful and complex with an empowering message.

danger beneath the sea This movie was a military thriller as a retired  USAF instructor I was impressed how they followed military standards.  I just ordered my dvd.  Casper Van Dien has made some good movies.  Sarge

Very valuable I am an intermediate to advanced guitarist.  Played for about 25 years, with last 3 serious.  This set is not for beginners, but is perfect for an intermediate rock guitarist that wants to learn country style quickly.  If you don't know anything about guitar you will have trouble, but for someone who knows basic guitar it is very worthwhile.  Steve is not going to show you how to hold your pick and how to fret a note, but there are better lick library DVDs for that if that is what you need.  He shows you licks based upon scales and explains why they work.  The value is that you can extrapolate the techniques to build your own soloing phrases.  You realize why country guitar sounds they way it does, and for me it expanded my abilities exactly as I had hoped.  Very good teacher, but essentially better suited for intermediate players.

Once Upon A Time In the Midlands This is a very good story I am glad I got to see. It is different from some and I liked it. I have seen it more than once and I enjoy it. thank you.

James Bond review Ive always been a big Bond fan always wanted a copy of James Bond Tommorrow never Dies and now i have it. Highly reccomend this to any Bond fan.

Finally for DL I have been waiting for it to become available on Amazon for download for several years now and it is finally here. Very funny movie and all clean humor. It's Don Knots and Tim Conway at their best imo though it would be nice if they used the Actual movie poster art instead of the Artflix image for the product photo but that's not a big issue over all.

The dish and the spoon I loved this film.  I found it so poetic, involved in the pairing  of two unlikely people who in ordinary circumstances would never have been involved in each other.  They are both in pain.  She as the result of an adulterous husband.  He, having traveled all the way from England to meet a girl he met in London who dumped him.  The acting of both Greta Gerwig and Olly Alexander are  gripping...so believable.  (disclosure:  I am the screenwriter/directors Mother)

Refreshingly different I've never seen a Tarantino film before, only because none of his films interested me enough, so 2009's "Inglourious Basterds" is my first taste from his repertoire.  The first time I tried to watch "Inglourious Basterds" I gave up around the 50-minute mark. Don't get me wrong, the long opening sequence was great but the film bogged down with its focus on a French theater during the German occupation of WWII and the accompanying interminable dialogue (in subtitles). I just wasn't ready for this. I was expecting a Dirty Dozen-styled WWII film with lots of action and all that goes with it. What I got instead was a plot that focused on the aforementioned theater accompanied by long sessions of mostly subtitled dialogue.  Well, I finally decided to give it a second chance with the understanding that this wasn't some typical war flick. Strangely, the "interminable dialogue (with subtitles)" pulled me in and I slowly became engrossed in the story, which isn't hard to follow. I discovered that the drama is only occasionally interrupted by flashes of extreme violence. Until the end, that is, where all hell literally breaks loose.  There ARE elements that bring to mind "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007TKNM4">The Dirty Dozen</a>", including a group of anti-heroes intent on mercilessly obliterating as many Germans as possible and the fact that the real action doesn't kick in until the final act, but "Basterds" is hardly a Dirty Dozen clone. It may borrow a bit from notable films of the past but it absolutely possesses its own refreshing originality.  All great films have great characters. With "Basterds" we have the stunning M&eacute;lanie Laurent as the cinema proprietor, who drips with vengeance toward the Nazis; Christoph Waltz as SS Col. Landa, who mercilessly hunts down Jews, an articulate and suave love-to-hate villain; Brad Pitt as the almost-comical, but entertaining and memorable, leader of the Basterds; and super-sharp Diane Kruger as a German actress & British spy.  Tarantino is renown as a great modern director, and so it is. "Basterds" shines with confidence, style and a sense of the unexpected from beginning to end, the perfect antidote to the roll-your-eyes "blockbuster" syndrome that plagues modern cinema.  GRADE: A-

A MUST SEE!!!! This is one of the best Apartheid depicted movies I have ever seen! Whoopi Goldberg is amazing in this movie, as are the kids and the message they are trying to get the world to acknowledge. Do not believe what the government ALLOWS you to see and read, as it is ALWAYS different than what is truly going on!

The Movie "Molly" This was a very good movie.  I have watched it with my family several times and everyone that has borrowed it from me has really enjoyed it.  Life isn't always easy and this movie is a good example.  It isn't that you don't care for the people you love it can be very trying sometimes.  Elizabeth Shue played her part very well.  And there were some teary moments in this one, it was heartfelt.

A must watch movie . A must see movie time and time again.Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford times less,you would not think you are watching movie that was made in 1946.

Great workout! I have the 10 Minute Solution Pilates with Resistance Band video, which I love and have been doing several times a week for over a year.  I have tried purchasing other resistance band videos of which none came even close to the results/workout intensity as that video, until I found this video.  It's true she does change moves very quickly which can be difficult at first, but once you have done the video a few times you will appreciate that she doesn't take forever explaining the moves.  I did it this morning and was sweating and my muscles definitly feel like they got a good workout.  The nice thing about these videos is that you can increase the intensity by purchasing more intense resistance bands (just be sure to get the ones that are at least 6 ft long).  I highly recommend this video for anyone looking for a great at home workout!

KRONOS ATTACKS!!! KRONOS is presented here in a really outstanding (Wade Williams IMAGE version) dvd, with crisp, sharp detail. This is a 1950s must have, as the huge energy sucking monster from outer space simply cannot be stopped!...or can it? This is indeed one of the better examples of the era. Better than THE GIANT CLAW (what isn't?), though not as good as FORBIDDEN PLANET (what is?). On par with EARTH VS FLYING SAUCERS, and that means pretty good! And if you check out the SCREEN ARCHIVES web site you can now purchase the Paul Sawtell soundtrack to this classic.

I absolutely loved it!!! I had waited a long time for this movie to come out on DVD, but after reading the other reviews I started not to watch it. However, I saw a better preview on another DVD so I decided to rent it on Amazon Instant Video.  I enjoyed it so much that I plan to purchase a copy for my collection. Lynn Whitfield's last sermon was very believable and touching.  Perhaps, if you've seen the actual play, you may not get what you expect, but if you watch it without the comparison, I think you may enjoy it.  All I can say is watch it and judge for yourself.

Favorite Movie This is one of my all-time favorite movies.  It's a tear jerker, and sentimental, but it reminds us in a creative way what's important.

I loved this movie This was a great feel good movie.  I would recomend it for all ages!  The cast was great, and it was a true story too.

Absolutely life changeing! clannad and clannad: afterstory are absolutely amazeing. it actually brought me to tears. any fan of the non-action oriented anime will love this. lots of emotion!

Like Clockwork Easily one of the better flicks you find yourself hating to enjoy.  I recommend listening to the book in audio also.  5 Stars

Favorites Thelma & Louise 20th Anniversary DVD (Extended Collector's Edition) I enjoy this DVD every time I watch it. I saw it when it first came out and it is still hysterical and mixed with some excellent points of life. When pushed into a corner one does come out fighting. :)

Almost twenty years on, and still powerful as ever I saw this in on a big screen when it first came out, but my recent viewing was my first viewing it on DVD. I was totally engrossed, and the "Exclusive Documentary: Code of Conduct" was excellent, especially since I recently watched an episode of Andy Griffith with Jack Nicholson, as well as <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000022TSY">Easy Rider (Special Edition)</a>. The problems I had my previous times viewing AFGM are still there: The sexist comments Nicholson's Col Jessup make to Demi Moore's Lt Cdr Galloway are totally out of place, especially as this film is set with the Tailhook Scandal still fresh in the US military's memory and Galloway is from the Judge Advocate's office. Also, I always found LCpl Dawson's saluting Daniel Kaffee at the end of the film and saying "Officer on deck!" to be trite. Dawson seemed like the kind of kid who would still hold Kaffee in contempt. Saying that, without watching the "Code Of Conduct" doc in the Extras, I never would have known that the guy who portrayed Dawson, Wolfgang Bodison, was acting in his first role: he was a production assistant for Rob Reiner, and Reiner says he wanted someone in the role who had the persona & setup of Bodison, and Reiner drafted Bodison for the role. My huge problem with the "Code Of Conduct" doc is this: whoever did the graphics for the documentary TOTALLY misspelled every single rank abbreviation, i.e. Lance Corporal should be abbreviated LCpl, not Lce Cpl, and Private First Class should be PFC, not Priv FC.

Best buy I made on Black Friday! Was able to snatch this DVD set up on Black Friday for a mere $30 for my husband!  Was worried that it could not possibly be real, but it was!  5 DVDS!  The Original movie plus Legacy...and the quality is amazing!  We have not watched my 3D DVD yet, but am looking forward to it one of the upcoming cold nights.  Great movie for any sci-fi fan!

Shaka Zulu Review I was skeptical about ordering this DVD set because I wasn't sure about the company but they shipped my order in less time then the estimated time and it wasn't mishandled in the mail. I love the DVD set and I would recommend that anyone who used to watch Shaka Zula as a child purchase this DVD set to add to their collection. I am so very pleased with my purchase and I will order anything from this company and amazon.

good movie Most sequels are never as good as the first, but this one comes close if not as good, enjoyed it very much.

Best Potty training DVD for boys. I bought this DVD since I started potty training with my DD but she was more interested in another DVD but I keep it, instead with my son everything was different it was the only DVD he wanted to watch. He is a boy an his pediatrician told me to be really patient since boys take longer to be potty trained but this video was really helpful he was potty trained at 2years 2 months I started playing the video since he was 18 months.

All time favorite. Im glad the version I got was unrated because i think this movie would have definitely been worse if it was rated. Such a funny and awesome movie and I've probably seen it 100 times now! Good condition as well. Definitely worth it to buy!

About Sling Blade with Billy Bob Thornton If you wish to get laughs that you'll never forget, buy this movie and what Bill Bob Thornton make your sides hurt from laughter. Plus, you'll see one of the best acting performance from a man ever in his lifetime.  You'll not recognise Billy playing the role of a mentally challenged individual. WOW what a performance. If you don't buy this and WATCH the movie it's your loss.  SO BUY THIS A SEE A FIVE STAR MOVIE. YOU'LL WATCH THIS MANY TIMES. I PROMISE!!!

REVENGE!!!! This movie is downright gritty and the perps get EVERYTHING they deserve-right down to the crows peckin out dude's eyeballs! Very graphic and well-played by all actors. If you like this kind of stuff, you'll love this remake!!

If you are in grad school, you have to see this movie I anxiously waited for months for this movie to be released on DVD after viewing it at school.  This movie brings the best comic strip ever to your screen.  I love that the actors are actual graduate students.  How exaggerated is it from actual grad school?  Not as much as one would think, which is what makes it hilarious.  So go ahead, procrastinate for an hour.  You honest weren't going to finish reading all those papers today anyway, were you?

Amazing Movie This beautiful and tragic film is one of my all time favorites and should be considered a classic.  Del Toro uses an amazing score, sets, and emotion to create a wonderful fantasy.

Great Movie Letters to Juilet is a charming movie! The scenery in Verona is breathtaking! It's a perfect Lady's night flick!

Non-Stop Violence And Excitement: Not Much Plot, But A Must-See For Action Movie Ethusiasts "The Raid: Redemption" is a movie that pulls no punches. Or maybe that's all it pulls. It's been a long while since I've seen a film so relentless, so brutal, and so unapologetically violent. Writer/Director Gareth Evans' film is a non-stop barrage of fisticuffs, shoot-outs, and explosions. It is a well choreographed exercise in action movie mayhem and it succeeds wholly in its intentions. If you want a nuanced screenplay, in-depth characterizations, or an intricate plot--"The Raid: Redemption" might not be your first choice of entertainment. Don't get me wrong, I like and expect those things too. But if you give yourself over to the visceral experience of this down and dirty movie, it provides more thrills and excitement than a slate of Hollywood blockbusters. If you like action films, this micro-budgeted indie flick shot in Indonesia (yes, it's subtitled but, believe me, the dialogue is relatively minimal) has got to be on the top of your must-see list.  Evans reunites with the star, Iko Uwais, of his previous film "Merantau." While "Merantau" showed promise, it was plagued with a relatively uninspired plot and some serious pacing issues. While I'd still recommend it to fans of the genre, it didn't fully come together in the way that I hoped it would. Both Uwais, as a martial artist and a screen presence, and Evans, as a creative force, have upped their game in "The Raid: Redemption." Uwais plays an upstanding cop who is part of a SWAT team in Jakarta. The plot is very simple on the surface. The officers must infiltrate a slum apartment building that houses a gangland overlord and his band of criminal mercenaries. But on their way to the penthouse suite, they must fend off countless attacks as their numbers dwindle. There is a little political back story, as well, with corruption and greed factoring into the equation as to just why the building is being raided in the first place. You need more plot? Too bad.  What you get instead is relentless action. The pacing is dynamic and the tension escalates throughout. There are some terrific combat scenes, lots of gunfire, and an endless array of hand-to hand fight sequences. The martial arts aspect to the fighting is exciting and extremely well done without being too over the top. "The Raid: Redemption" did quite well on the film festival circuit (winning audience awards in Amsterdam, Toronto, and Dublin) and with the majority of mainstream critics (including raves from the Los Angeles Times and USA Today). The reason seems very simple. The movie doesn't aspire to be anything other than what it is. Evans focused on making a brutal and exhausting bit of ultra-violent escapism. And that's exactly what he and his team delivers. Is it a perfect film? Not particularly. Could it have benefited from improved storytelling? Probably. But what it does provide more than compensates for what it doesn't. In the end, this movie may not be for everyone. That's perfectly fine. But I suspect that the film's reputation will only grow in certain circles making it a true cult classic a few years down the line. About 4 1/2 stars, I'll round up for the sheer madness of it all! KGHarris, 6/12.

SOOOO HILARIOUS...I ALMOST PASSED OUT First off....I wish they had a sequel coming out! This movie was so funny and sooo hilarious, I literally have six pack abs from laughing. Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph are hilarious! The whole cast made this movie excellent!! I couldn't have asked for a funnier movie! I loved this movie soooooo much...I went to see it 4 times with different folks and all of us came out laughing so hard it was sad. There are so many funny parts that it makes the whole movie just completely and udderly enjoyable! I WILL BE BUYING THIS DVD...MAYBE X 4!

That the world may know with Ray Vander Laan That the World May Know Series (now twelve volumes in number and, prayerfully, counting) is a profoundly moving and highly instructive series on 'on site' lessons within the Holy Land, upon the sites where Jesus Christ, and those others whose lives and ministries are illuminated within the pages of the Bible, lived, worked, walked, laughed, cried and taught, providing the insight to the culture, the times, the geography, life situations, and circumstances in which they were so fashioned, that the message conveyed to all who would accept it, would remain alive within their very lives and surroundings; as such, recapturing these settings, Ray Vander Laan provides to us the intent and symbology which those who spoke with God's Voice, had passionately intended.  Some scriptures will gain a new depth, others will gain new aspects/facets which we were unaware comprised the 'whole picture', while others will gain such an impressive new emphasis, which up till now, had not been available to us because we have not lived during those times, and in those places, yet in this 'new hearing' imparting a new message to lift our heart, delight our mind, sustain the body, both humble and encourage the soul, and further illuminate our path walking in the steps of our Lord Jesus Christ. For many, like myself, too ill or otherwise unable to make the journey to join those fortunate ones experiencing this lectures series in person, this serves as 'the next best thing', and a profound blessing and a deeply moving (to the point of tears in many cases) testiment and testimony to our hearts, minds, and souls, of the Tremendous Truth and Living Love of our wonderful Lord God. I have watched these lessons countless times; they never get old (how could God's Message get old?), and my wife and I have given or loaned out many copies through the years to others who were similarly blessed. My review for each volume of this series will remain unchanged for each and every one, for any indepth review will be inadequate to convey that which is contained within; like someone who sees a work of art who does not have the words to adequately describe, or to do justice to, this masterpiece, all I can do is urge you to come and partake of this blessing and let the scriptures come alive within you once again!

Yeah, I watch anime... Could you believe the only reason (other than De Niro and close release proximity of Raging Bull) I picked up this film was because it was referenced in the anime, Eden of The East (a four star anime). Well, I got it expecting a blood bath of vengeance.  What I got, was a drama that was engulfed in the perspective of Travis (the main character) whose insomnia pushes him to get a job driving a taxi. "I drive around all night, I might as well get paid for it."  I'm not going to go into the movie, just look it up on wiki or something. The quality of the film is amazing, the sound... Well, I have no awesome theater system, but it sounds great coming out of my logitech 5.1 surround sound.  Um... special feature are present and you get it in a cool, but bulky case.  I love it though.. Wow, I winged it with this movie and I scored big.  Just be careful watching this movie, it makes you feel like crap afterwards.  Like, damn... Life sucks.

Very entertaining I enjoyed this, a little bit of action, little bit of romance, all in the time period I love. I highly recommend this movie.

Every generation loves this!  Timeless entertainment. I think we had worn out the old VCR copy so were eager to see this wonderful movie again.  Our grandchildren discovered it in the movie basket on the TV and almost gave up swimming to sit down and see it in the middle of the day.  They watched, they cried, they sang, they asked questions.  What more can one wish for?  Grandma and Grandpa enjoy it again and again, even without the "grands" around.

Scary movie I bought this for my 14 year old daughter, not knowing that it was a vampire movie. She was so excited as she had wanted it for a long time. She loves it!

The Great Outdoors We love to camp and my son told me this was a real good movie.  When we received the movie it would not play.  When my son was visiting he tried to play it on his computer but it wouldn't play for him either.  It wasn't worth paying to send it back because it wasn't that expensive in the first place.  I have had positive results with all the other movies and books I have purchased through Amazon.  I don't want to say anything negative about the movie since I didn't get to watch it so I will rate it according to what my son said.

thoroughly enjoyed every minute of this movie An outstanding effort, what a superb early summer this has been! The characters, effects, and story were all beyond great.  Bryan Singer is back and it clearly showed. Add Vaughn's touch and both display an amazing vision that rivals that of the now classic X2. They manage to keep the story intense and flowing but filled with depth and heart. They also kept an eye on what has come before without being burdened or overly tied to it. If you've never seen any x-film, you'll still love this movie. That said, it builds for another installment and I absolutely can't wait to see it and to see where we go next. The Singer and Vaughn team also manages to deliver a little bit of everything, and I mean EVERYTHING.  There's intrigue, romance, conspiracy, drama, conflict, historical context, retro flavor, fun, humor and of course, kick butt comic book style slugfests.  I think this is now the best comic book movie summer ever (even though it's not even officially summer yet) and I'm not exaggerating. 2008 was great but I think we have a new king. Thor was pure greatness and Captain America looks superb. This was the only question mark from Marvel's stable and they absolutely hit it out of the park. Erick and Charles are now given room to thrive and breathe, find their own voice and their own distinctiveness. The plot becomes more intricate as the situations become more dire. Not many adaptations have ever dug as deep as First Class. These are truly some of the most complex characters I've ever seen in a super hero based movie. They're a group of characters who are so well written and full of small, personal moments that they match the best of their rich, four-color origins. They become living, breathing people whom have pasts, presents and futures and I can't wait to see where this new cast takes us from this point forward.  I love this youger Xavier and the fact that his youthful flaws are fully on display. Charles is caught up in himself as most people are in their youth.  He is proud and confident young man, and he's ceratinly not the selfless person that we saw in the X-Men trilogy.  I love the fact that the writers were smart enough to convey these elements and show a young man in need of growth. They easily could've made him a "mini me" version of Patrick Stewart's Xavier. Instead they went much deeper and the result is much more interesting.  Charles'  relationship with Raven/Mystique is facinating especially when you compare both character to what they will become later. She's an assistant to him and he cares for her, but his ego causes unintended consequences. At times, Charles gives off a condescending, big-brother attitude and that fits so well to the growth the character needs to undertake. You see it in the way he treats the others. In the trilogy, he's exorcised that from his personality. Here, his ego is on a par with Magneto and that makes for an interesting dynamic.  Overall, just like X2, I had a great time and thoroughly enjoyed every minute of this movie.

Great Great flick.  Even better than when I saw it as a movie.  Sure makes you think, what if.

Timeless movie. I had never saw The Red Shoes until this Criterion release.  I've read somwher that the movie  Black Swan took a lot friom that movie.  That is true!  If you like ballet, then you will be served!  It's big, the set is wonderfull, the costumes!  OMG the costumes!  Especially that Watteau pleated coat the the heroin wears when she climbs the stairs!  And this 30 min sequence of pure ballet wich is going very surrealistic!  The were quite inventive at the time to produce effects without the computers!  This is a movie I'll watch again and again!

old movie fan I really love old movies that have stood the test of time. I loved Ernest Borgnine in "Marty" so it seemed perfectly logical to purchase "The Catered Affair" I thoroughly enjoyed the movie which showed the human struggle for something better in life. The story line may be simple but it rang very true and the viewer could certainly relate to the story and the actors portrayal of the situation.

Great Movie, Great Cast! This was an excellent movie. The right balance of funny and feeling. And SO many cameos. Worth watching for the surprises alone.

Love. This. Movie! I can not say enough about Sordid Lives. This movie is so funny that you will have to watch it over and over to catch all the comedy. The cast is amazing and the story has a fantastic message. Worth the purchase as you will want to watch this movie more than once.

A gripping military drama "A Few Good Men" is an enthralling U.S. Marines courtroom drama film. It is one of the most memorable courtroom genre pictures from the 1990s, which is attributable to Colonel Jessep's (Jack Nicholson) response to cross-examination questioning, "You can't handle the truth!", and the high quality of acting by Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, Kevin Pollak, Kevin Bacon, J.T. Walsh, and Kiefer Sutherland. The narrative of the movie allows the viewer to be presented with convincing perspectives from all protagonists, and whilst it is clear who is innocent and who is guilty well before the ending, it is the substantiation of these assertions, and breaking solid testimony that keeps the viewer captivated with interest.  Nicholas R.W. Henning - Australian Author

Finally Thank you to the director. Finally someone is identifying the vast array of people in our generation. I'm sick of being stereotyped by my age. Not all of us are the "me" generation. It's truly amazing what we as a whole have contributed to society and left behind!

Imitated, but will never be bettered The one flaw of LA Confidential is that it is only three hours long. I almost wish this was a 72 hours series on HBO - it really is that good. Everything here is perfect - the acting, the sets, the atmosphere and most especially the story.  Having been an Elroy fan for years, I was nervous when this adaptation arrived. But all my fears were unfounded. This film actually achieves the impossible - it is better than its source material.  The talent here were all at the top of their game when this film was made: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pierce and many more. The film almost reads like a who's who of new acting talent of the 90s.

when season 3 comes out? When will season three be available to buy on dvd?  I really hope it doesn't take to long. Season three was awesome! Hopefully it won't cost too much.

Just replacing old VHS edition Wonderful!  I also updated my Army of Darkness from VHS to DVD at the same time (different seller, though) and I'm so thrilled to be able to watch this with all the capabilities of DVD-viewing action.

like Independence Day but on the ground and better... the critics were idiots on this one most panned it or gave it average reviews. i believe that this is a realistic war movies just with aliens instead. like i say in the title its like Independence Day but on the ground and in my opinion better. it does have some of those military movie cliches but its still good. the way the cameras are it makes it feel like you are one of them right there in the movie with the actors. this is a really good war movie i definitly recommend this as a buy for sure GET THIS i thought i was going to be disapointed because of the critics reviews on this movie but thank god i didnt listen because they were wrong this is a GREAT MOVIE especailly since its pretty much NON STOP ACTION almost through out the whole movie the actors are great in this so hurry and BUY IT NOW!!!!!!!

Bronsons magnum opus Bronson's magnum opus and proof positive that actions speaks louder than words. Bronson is at his taciturn best in the central role of an ageing 1930's depression street fighter, whose plans don't stretch beyond the 'next bend in the road'. In the acutely rendered hard times of the period: Bronson, James Coburn (gambling debt ridden fight manager) and Strother Martin (drunk ex medical student trainer) team up to outwit and outfight local big shot fight promoters, debt collectors and street fighters in a series of debt laden bare knuckle fights. Love interest is provided by various distaff girlfriends (including Bronson's real life wife Jill Ireland), whose relationships with the trio last about as long as the realistic fights - not long. The New Orleans locations and authentic period details of contrasting poverty and wealth add gritty realism to the hard fights that follow. In hard times actions also speak louder than music. The musical score is unobtrusive and except for a Cajun southern gumbo musical riff unremarkable. I will guarantee though that fans of the main characters and realistic street fight movies won't be disappointed. A man's man film. Five stars.

I'm totally hooked When my husband started watching this show I laughed, thinking it would be like Walker, Texas Ranger. Then when he bought the blue ray I decided to watch the first episode with him and I was totally hooked. This show is great! I'm so excited the new season has started.

Great Movie 80s retro-violence at its best. Reminds me of "To Live in Die in LA" but so much better. Every actor plays their character perfectly. This isn't fast and furious, but it's not art house. Great Flick

Hilarious I love this movie, I know it is old but all of Richard Pryor movies are all so funny and a good movie to keep you laughing.

A Beautifully Animated Adventure I can't say much more than what's already been said. I adore the animation, I love the cute witty dialogue and the characters are fabulous Eris and Marina are fierce ladies! I'm a 20 year old dork that loves a good animated film and this is a GREAT one! :) The music is great too.

All about Dinosaurs! My son is absolutely crazy about dinosaurs.  He loves all the Hard Hat Harry Series very much, especially All about Dinosaurs.  I would recommend this video to children who are wild about dinosaurs.

Content is great, but what about a Blu-ray review? Almost all of these reviews of this film are about the film itself--the actors, the story, etc. but if if you are going to critique a Blu-ray version of a film then talk about the transfer to Blu-ray and not entirely about the film. How would anyone know to buy this version ?  I want to recommend to Amazon that when offering a Blu-ray they add to their page a Blu-ray rating along with you on content. That way we can see if the reviewers feel the addition of a Blu-ray version to their collection is worthwhile.

Behind Enemy LInes on Blu Ray For whatever reason, I wasn't expecting this Blu Ray version to be much good tho I had always enjoyed the movie itself.  Too many transfers of older movies are just done too poorly.  I was wrong.  The video transfer is really very good and there is a clear sharpness in the details without any noticeable grain.  However, and my eyes could be tricking me on this, towards the end of the film, where the gray sky is often part of the image, I would see grain there, in the sky.  Odd for me to see it there as in any of the dark scenes or even in the muted, semi desaturated colors of the landscapes, uniforms in individuals, there was no grain.  Just the sky.  Maybe it is my eyes getting older.  The audio editing and  transfer to DTSHD 5.1 was excellent on all levels.  The surrounds don't really come in until the pilots are in the jets, but then your entire audio system is put to work throughout the remaining film with clearly directed discreet channel use  Your subwoofer will have plenty of work to do and many of the scenes are totally system demo worthy.  I paid 6.99 for this DVD and it was well worth it.  Personally, I hate reviews that only supply book reports and opinions of the plot and characters.  I want to know about the Blu Ray's quality and that is what I focus on.  By the way, there are no extras other than commentary and a waste of space 'trailers'  If you think this review was helpful, please check that help button so I know I'm on the right track with this review.

Fun family movie Received product superfast and it was exactly as described.  Very pleased.  Definitely recommend this seller.  Of course, the movie is fun and Anne Hathaway is delightful.  Interesting twist on the classic fairy tale.  Great family movie.

Horriblely funny That was a wonderful evening of lafter spent with family and friend. We have watched it several times already and friends have borrowed ti and enjoyed it also.

The Ya-Ya's You will find humor, sadness, love and even some of your own family in this movie. If your looking for some humor, and the bonds of friendship from child to seniors this is it. A humorous touch on family, friends, and the bond they hold. The bond of friendship & love for each other and those who protect each others secrets.  Four young girls who are friends and remain friends into adult and senior years create a club as young teens. The Ya- Ya Sisters, they keep each others secrets, & have each others backs through laughs, sorrows, and a small case of mental illness (in those times it was not discussed). They grow up in Lousiana during WWII as young adults. They are wild and in one case in love. Then that love is shattered and the two most affected are the sister of the young man who is killed, and the friend who was in love with him and never really forgets or looses that love.  Then come marriages for all four and children all who grow up together. As the children become adults the trouble begins with one mother and daughter. Who although can not see the similarities of each other. The humor and laughs through out the movie start to become even more evident. Then there is the kidnaping of the daugther by the Ya-Ya's. You'll have to see the movie for the rest.

Big fans! I bought this for my husband who is a huge fan. He even grew out his hair into a mullet and permed it last Summer. Although I hope he never ever does that again, this has been a great series for us to watch together and laugh at.

High School History I found this video to be both informative and entertaining--a rarity in the world of documentaries.  Being forced to teach high school world history for the first time in my eight year career, has sent me on the hunt for worthwhile videos to supplement a bottomless curriculum.  While a bit longer than I had hoped (ideally a video for class is in the 45-50 minute range--one class period), I found The Madness of Henry VIII to be very useful in the discussion of one of history's more "unique" individuals.  The video does a great job of discussing the life of Henry VII, spending the majority of its time on his attempts to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, and marry Anne Boleyn.  While pushing the envelope of appropriateness on a few occasion, the students were engaged and came away with a much better understanding of the man, the break with the Catholic Church, and his insatiable quest for a male heir, than if they had merely read their history books.  To me, that makes a worthwhile history video.

Reviews on Amazon Done Prior to July 28, 2009 Are Bogus The Criterion version of Repulsion was approved by Roman Polanski. It was released on July 28, 2009. Any review that is dated prior to the release date of July 28, 2009 and which primarily criticizes the quality of the DVD (or is of a VHS taped version) is completely irrelevant to the Criterion version. Criterion's face-lift is clear as a bell and reveals little details that prior transfers failed to resolve. It suffers from none of the technical limitations of older transfers.  As to the merits of the film, it is frighteningly horrific, weird and sick, and incredibly claustrophobic--a great psychological thriller. If you want to see a horror film and like having the pants scared off of you, I promise you will not be repulsed by your choice. It's a superb character study, and Catherine Deneuve's acting is top notch. It made me never want to live in an apartment again.

Sionatra in a starring dramatic role Three would-be presidential assassins, led by John Baron (Frank Sinatra), arrive in the small California town of Suddenly - so-called because `It's the way things used to happen around here'. As their vantage point, they take over a house owned by retired Secret Service agent Pop Benson (James Gleason), living with his widowed daughter-in-law Ellen (Nancy Gates) and her son (played by Kim Charney). But the assassins hadn't reckoned on interference from the town sheriff Tod Shaw (Sterling Hayden) and a troup of newly arrived Secret Service men.  This black-and-white movie released in 1954 was withdrawn for several years at Sinatra's request after the assassination of his friend John F. Kennedy. It is only 75 min long and the sound quality is poor by present-day standards, but it is tense throughout that time and all the cast play their parts well. Some aspects of the Sinatra character, and even some of the dialogue he has, were reprised when he played arranger Barney Sloan in Young At Heart. For what it is, this film is still thoroughly recommendable, despite its shortcomings. I'm not sure I would want to see it in colour even if it was available in the UK because b/w suits the dramatic action.

A picture is worth a thousand words; this film deserves all of them! Welcome to the wonderful world of real estate, where the golden rule is "A.B.C., Always Be Closing (Glengarry Glen Ross)."  This means lie, cheat, steal and do whatever it takes to "get them to sign on the line which is dotted (Glengarry Glen Ross)."  A highly competitive group of real estate salesmen struggle to close deals in a tough market with weak leads.  In an effort to motivate the team, corporate bigwigs raise the stakes of the monthly sales contest.  Blake (Alec Baldwin), the corporate henchman on a mission to enforce the rules, announces the prize: "First prize is a Cadillac Eldorado.  Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired (Glengarry Glen Ross)."  The intense ultimatum is music to the ears of Ricky Roma (Al Pacino) who is the office superstar.  However, rivalries erupt under pressure and the office becomes a breeding ground of anxiety, tension and desperation.  Shelly Levine (Jack Lemon) clings to his faded glory while the other agents, Dave Moss (Ed Harris) and George Aaronow (Alan Arkin) concoct a profitable scheme to get them back on their feet.  When John Williamson (Kevin Spacey), the snide office manager, announces the good leads were taken during a robbery, everyone is a suspect.  Glengarry Glen Ross is a splendid film adaptation of David Mamet's 1984 Broadway play, directed by James Foley.  This is an exceptionally well-written script with a phenomenal cast that transforms material, which is not inherently cinematic, into an interesting and intriguing film.  The film does not rely on special effects to hold the attention of the audience; it achieves this with a natural dialogue that realistically portrays multi-dimensional characters.  The characters are complicated with a mix of good and bad in each of them.  They banter back and forth, interrupt each other and at times it's hard to tell who's right and who's wrong.  These conversations add interest and enhance the reality of the film.  Glengarry Glen Ross is not what anyone would consider a feel-good movie, but there is appeal in the testosterone driven behavior of these characters that use memorable lines like razor ribbon to cut each other down.  I find it interesting that some have claimed Glengarry Glen Ross is about the "evils of the free-enterprise system."  I feel it is more about basic human evolution and survival of the fittest in a cut-throat world.  This is evident in the fact that Ricky evolves to be the top-dog and consequently leads his mentor, Shelly, into proverbial extinction.  They are all like animals struggling to survive in their environment.  David Mamet contributes greatly to the film's success with an exquisite script.  However, the attention to detail within the set design is noteworthy because it adds irony and reality to the film.  A majority of the film is set within the walls of a drab, depressing office which is filled with inspirational wall hangings containing messages that seem to daunt more than inspire.  Additionally, a picture of Shelly Levine's daughter sits on his desk in serene contrast to the all-male cast and surrounding chaos.  The irony continues throughout the film and enhances the empathic feeling at the end.  Although some feel the performances of Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon stand out among the cast of equals, I disagree.  I feel each performance stands out individually without overshadowing the other and allows us to view into each of the character's psyche.  Some characters have more time on screen and are more likeable than others which may influence opinions.  Oddly enough my favorite character is Blake.  Blake does not appear in the play, but was added by David Mamet in the film adaptation.  He is a heartless narcissist who takes great pleasure in his nefarious behavior and even goes so far as to show everyone his "brass balls".  Even though Blake is a man I love to hate, he has some of the most memorable lines in the movie which I have been quoting for years.  As I reach for a cup of coffee, I can hear Blake's voice saying: "Coffee is for closers (Glengarry Glen Ross)."  The collaborative effort of David Mamet and James Foley produced a film which successfully transitioned a theatrical performance to the screen without losing any of its integrity.  The effective use of close-ups keeps the focus on the dialog which is the quintessential element of the film's success.  Glengarry Glen Ross. Dir. James Foley. Perf. Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey and Jonathan Pryce. New Line Cinema: 1992, Film.

Great Classic! Best picture and actor 1970. Looks great in HD. You can wait forever for a remaster or just buy it now.

On The Waterfront On The Waterfront is the gritty story of Marlon Brando's Terry Malloy. Previously a fighter, Terry is now mixed up with a gang who commits a murder that he saw, and how his conscious deals with that sight. Marlon Brando is one of the greatest actor and anyone who wants to see a good movie can watch this and enjoy it.  The movie sets up a world that feels very natural and flowing. From the beginning scene, which is perfect in setting up the neighborhood, up to the ending on the docks are all very clear realizations of how the world in the movie is. Not only are the sets great, the locations that Elia Kazan has picked are perfect for the story. There are moments where we find Terry on the rooftops with just the sky in the distance, making for some very personal scenes.  The script flows through this whole movie with some brilliant acting. Marlon Brando is so natural in his role, to the point of adjusting his shirt and asking if it looked good. It fit right into the scene and was so naturally done. Karl Malden, who plays Father Barry has some great moments, getting the people of Waterfront into a revolt.  Elia Kazan and Marlon Brando changed cinema with this single movie. They have combined to make a movie in which the script and movie flowed like no other. Not to mention the audacious pace, the light humor sprinkled throughout the movie, and the miraculous contender speech.

I love it. Great movie. Set in Baltimore, Maryland, the film follows the tale of the disadvantaged Tyler Gage (Channing Tatum) and the privileged modern dancer Nora Clark (Jenna Dewan), who find themselves paired up in a showcase that determines both of their futures. Realizing that they only have one chance, they finally work together.

Excellent! Spartacus with Kirk Douglas is still the original classic and a fantastic story that will never be forgotten by movie lovers. As there are already many, many lenghty reviews of the movie, I won't go into details. Just saying that I enjoyed it very much (again) after all those years and was surprised by the quality of the DVD. Excellent! Peter Ustinov and Jean Simmons deserve a mention, two of my favorite actor/actress from the past!

Angels & Demons This 3-Disc Collector's Edition is well worth the money. The movie was great and very well done. The extra features were very entertaining and informative. If your a Tom Hanks fan this is a must movie for you collection.

Support Your Local sheriff James Garner is great and very funny in this movie.  The service was good; I was was completely satisfied.

A fun Disney take on ancient China I haven't seen a Disney animated feature since Lion King, but I saw Mulan recently with my wife and have to say I enjoyed it. As somebody who studies Asia, I think it's about time Disney ventured into Asia (with the exception of Jungle Book, I believe this is the first animated feature based on an Asian story). The story, in short, follows a Chinese woman who joins the army and helps stop a Hun invasion. Disney of course overplays the traditional Asian values theme (honor the ancestors, etc), but fortunately it never takes this to the point of being insulting towards Asian cultures. The story has a good balance between character and childish humor - at least for the first hour - so both adults and kids can enjoy it. I was disappointed with the second half, after the Chinese troops discover that Mulan is a woman. Rather than take that revelation and get some really interesting character development, the last half our of the film is a predictable fare of Mulan and her compatriots stopping the Huns with some wacky antics. Despite this lackluster ending, overall it's not bad.

Amazing Movie If you haven't seen the movie, you are missing out! It is spectacular and very educational. I definitely recommend it to anyone who has ever questioned whether they or their homosexual friends/children were going to Hell. It's FABULOUS! I love, love, love this movie. :)

Beautiful movie! It is a well made movie with great scenery of Italy. I have been to Verona and some of the other locations in the movie so it provides wonderful memories. The movie is about romance and what it could have been years ago for a couple.

Perfect Season I became an Arsenal fan in 2006, so I didn't get the chance to watch the perfect season. Thankfully, they made a DVD out of it, and now I can bask in Gunners glory whenever I want, especially in these trying times when they haven't won a trophy since 2005. This is the only team to go through a Premier League season unbeaten, although Preston North End did it once in the old Football League, but that was before they played 22 games a season instead of 38. You'll enjoy it if you're an Arsenal fan for sure, and if you're not and want a football DVD, you should certainly consider it.

My favorite of the trilogy 9/10 Continuing on with my reviews of The Austin Powers movies I'm reviewing the 2nd Austin Powers movie I saw this movie in theater back in The Summer Of 99 2 times had a ton of fun with it laughing a lot & 13 years later I still do. I Know it recieeved mixed reviews form the critics but this is my favorite of all 3 movies. Made on a budget of $33 million made $312 million. Jay Roach returns to direct you have Mike Myers return as Austin Powers & Dr Evil he also plays a new villain named Fat B@  $+  ar  d. Seth Green returns as Scott Evil, Verne Troyer as Mini Me who this was his 1st big role, Heather Graham as Felicity & you have small cameos by Michael McDonald & Elizabeth Hurley.  The opening parodying Star Wars ois funny cause The Phantom Meance came out the same year & it's funnier now cause I don't care for The Star Wars prequels.  So after the 1st movie you have The Big Boy Statue's rear end open up an egg shaped object comes out & Dr Evil returns. Meanwhile Vanessa turns out to be a Femboat & tries to kill Austin she self distructs Austin is like I'm single again yeah baby! If you thought the opening in the 1st movie was over the top this opening is even more over the top with him going around the hotel. Then you have a cameo by Micael McDonald who works at NATO he's watching Jerry Springer. There doing this episode called my father is evil & he wants to take over the world. Scott is on this show & his Dad Dr Evil returns he tells Scott he is the diet coke of evil just 1 calorie not evil enough. A fight breaks out just like on the show. Austin goes undercover cause there is this model that works for Dr Evil. Then you go to Dr Evil's headquarer that is now a Starbucks we have the introduction of Mini Me. Dr Evil has a time machine & he's going to steal Austin Powers Mo  jo. Scott is like if you have a time machine why don't you just go back & kill Austin Powers while he's using the bathroom. Dr Evil "How about no." Number 2 says use your knowledge of the future play the stock market & we could make trillions. This line is classic Dr Evil says "Why make trillions when we can make billions." Also Dr Evil won't let Scott finish what he wants to say he sings whip it " When a problem comes along you must zip it." Dr Evil goes back to 1969 where he has a volcano lair & then you have the over done evil laughter. Austin is with this girl named Ivana they play chess & this scene is funny. She ends up telling him she was hired by Dr Evil to kill him but she can't resist Austin. Dr Evil has an opperative in The Ministary Of Defense named FB. He uses his knock out gas that comes out of his bag pipes to put out the people gaurding the room this character is hilarious. He steal The Mo  jo. Sop Austin has to go back to 1969. Austin tells his boss ok if I go back to 1969 & visit my frozen self then I would still be frozen in 1967 but how could I have been thawed out in the 90's oh no I've gone cross eyed. His boss tells him just to go & enjoy himself then he looks at the camera says that goes for you too. So he goes back to 1969 where he's at his apartment & there's this big dance going on you have this girl your introduced to Felicity who tells Austin that the girl wanting to dance with you works for Dr Evil. This action scene is hilarious where he sees this guy reflecting in her eye he turns her around when that man throws the knife it hits her. Then he opens fire with a machine gun Austin uses her as sheild & then he fires a bazooka at Austin the blast knocks them out the window where uses her as sheild. Felicity pulls up in her car & they escape. You have some of Dr Evil's hech men chase after Austin & Felicity they open fire Felicityshoots at them where the vehicle there in goes off the road & this guy comes up after the accident & theis guy gets annoyed if he is asked the same question 3 times he starts giving out information on Dr Evil where a lady comes by with a baby carriage up pops Mini Me who shots a dart into his neck he falls down a cliff & he's alive pleading for help. Dr Evil is going to have a laser put on The Moon he's going to call it The Alan Parson's Project. Scott tells him "The Alan Parson's Project was a progressive rock band from 1982 nobody knows what you're talking about." Dr Evil gets in contact with The President you have Tim Robbins in this scene for a cameo. He tells him if his demands aren't met he will destroy every major city every hour. That is unless you pay me $100 billion. The President & his team laugh. He tells him Dr Evil that kind of money doesn't exist. Dr Evil says show me the money he keeps referancing movies that haven't been made yet. He gives a demo of the laser it's a scene from Independence Day. I remember the theater breaking out laughing whe I saw this in the theater. Felicity is told by her boss to put this tracking device on FB. Which that scene is pretty funny. They think they have him but they find the tracking device in the bathroom. At the lab Austin pours a cup of the the test sample cause he wasn't paying attention he was talking to Felicity. When he drinks it what funny moment. They find out Dr Evil is hiding in Caribbean. Dr Evil is singing What If G  od Was One Of Us. While Austin & Felicity are setting up camp they are captured by Dr Evil's hench men. This scene is funny too. So they are captured put in another cell that is easy to escape. Dr Evil & Mini Me go off into space & you have people questioning what is in the sky this scene is another classic & the funniest scene in the movie. Felicity distracts the gaurd & he falls into the lava where you have some great puns by Mike Myers. Austin & Felicity go on Apallo 11 to get to Dr Evil's Moon Base. You have this funny fight where Austin fights Mini Me. Which Mini Me is flushed out into space. Austin goes to stop Dr Evil & he has 2 choices save the world or save the girl cause Felicity has been captured & put in gas chamber. He knocks the laser off course but Felicity dies. Austin chase after Dr Evil he shoots him in the leg he says oww you shot me you A hole. Austin says now I'm going to kill you. Dr Evil says you could or you could use my time machine go back & save her he does it & he gets help from himself 10 minutes ago where the laser is knocked off course & Felicity is rescued. Dr Evil smashes the vial with Austin's Mo  jo. She tells Austin you had it all along cause of all he did. So they go to 1999 where FB returns & of course he's taken care of. Dr Evil finds Mini Me floating around in space he vows revenge while they do there over done evil laugh. I love this movie even more than the 1st. The crude humor still works it's still self aware & it's fun. Jay Roach did a great job directing. Mike Myers did a great job he had to play 3 characters & he had fun with it. Heather Graham was good. Seth Green was good. Verne Troyer did a good job the little cameos I didn't mind. Austin Powers 2 I recommend no matter if I gave the plot out in my retrospective I can't do it justice. Next will be 2002 in film Austin Powers Gold Member.

richard harris this is a good family  movies,  i got it because i like richard  harries.  thank you

Tear jerker! What a movie!  It was quite compelling and very well done.  I sat in silence for a good five minutes after it was over,  "shaken" by the story and reflecting tragedies of the Holocaust. Told through the eyes of the children of a Nazi Commandant, this is a sad twist of fate for two young boys who befriend each other through the fence surrounding a concentration camp.  Keep the tissues close by!

great pilates video This is a great video, especially for someone starting out in Pilates. You really learn great positions to tone your lower body.

excelent masterpiece but disapointed dubbing lady and the tramp, In this time the renovation or restoration of the film itself is excelent. The bright colors and great original English soundtrack makes this film a great classic. However, the Spanish dubbing is a little bit disapointing; the main reason is because the grace is missing and the voices do not match correctly. It is hard and complicated to compare the original Spanish dubbing with the 1997 dubbing. Once again, the cats are not singing with feeling and the little chihuahua doesn't talk with a funy voice like used to have it. I understand that Disney has to work with a re-make voice becase of the legal problems. But, just imagine, how magnificent could be if we have these films (Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and Lady and the tramp) with theirs original Spanish dubbing and perhaps those who have legal concerns with the companay fix their differences and make a good deal in order to allow us to hear the wonderful voices that they placed on those films. I have not problems to listen the film in English or Spanish, but I expect a high quality product. If Disney was alive, he would request a better quality in the work of dubbing although he had to do it ten times or more.

heartwarming Just watched this movie again after not seeing it for many years and it was as good as ever -- you want to see how to do a simple, heartfelt Rom-Com? This is it. The ensemble acting is great, Sandra is excellent, the plot is, of course, contrived but it carries you along nicely because you want to be carried along by these appealing people. Gallagher does a great job of being the hapless, good looking,clueless "putz" & Pullman has the sly smile & happy eyes that make him the perfect match for Bullock. I was taping this for a friend (yes some of us still have & use VHS) & got hooked again myself. It is just sweet & caring and gentle.......yeah a "fairy tale" but a really well done fairly tale & one that allows you to feel like you are part of this family. You understand these folks & want them all to be happy.Nothing wrong with that!

Wonderful Movie This is a wonderful movie to watch over and over again.. I just do not need to own it right now.. maybe later

cult classic for punkrockers If you havent scene it well worth money gritty older movie but have great music and shows a side to the outcast most are to shy to show i love this movie

Drama then FIGHT!!! This movie starts out slow, almost painfully slow, and almost drags on and on, but don't worry its worth it.  This is an amazing movie, and worth the wait.  I see people complaining how could so few fight so many?  What people forget is that most of the soldiers that are killed are barely trained, and are not Samurai, thus the high kill counts.  Also if 100 are contained in a narrow street then you are only fighting three or four at a time not 100.  Let's not forget the Winter War between the Soviets and the Finn's: The Soviet forces had more than three times as many soldiers as the Finns, thirty times as many aircraft, and a hundred times as many tanks - and failed.  Military history is full of such battles, the Marines at Belleau Wood, The Alamo, or Antietam, etc.  Oh yes...and it's a movie.  What I really liked about this movie was the great use of tactics and cleverness vs. cheap movie tricks of making the heroes into supermen (this movie does this of course but to a lessor extent)  This is just as good or better than the Seven Samurai.

Almost Flawless Thriller Not going to say much since its all been raved about here. Watched this first by myself then a few years later I showed it to my wife. I figured I'd watch it a few minutes with her then move on to playing video games while she finished it. Didn't happen. It kept me watching through the entire film even the second time. Even though we started the film quite late and it's a long film, we couldn't stop watching until the end credits were rolling. Wish everyone could see this to set the bar a bit higher on what a good thriller is.

Wow! What a Cast;  dare you to name all the big time actors in this one!  Gregory Peck does an excellent job.  Buy this one even if you are not into westerns.

An Absolute Classic What can I say? This classic movie has it at all, definitely a film that will still be lauded 50 years from now.

back to the  future Order came in promptly and was in pristine condition. Played beautifully. Enjoyed watching it. It is one of my favorites. I had all three on vhs and decided to replace it on blu ray. It was a great addition to my dvd/bluray collection.

A+ LOVE HOW FAST AND QUICK ITEM WAS RECEIVED.  BRAND NEW, NEVER OPEN, NO PROBLEMS OR ISSUES WITH PRODUCT. WOULD SUGGEST TO OTHER BUYERS!

Am a big kid at heart I loved this movie and have watched it more often than not without a child present.  The item arrived practically new in its packaging.  And it came so quickly.  I will definitely order from this vendor in the future.

Best filmed Tempest to date (though that's not saying much) Let me say right off: I am a total Bardolator.  I teach Shakespeare, I am obsessed with Shakespeare, I have read and seen all the plays, and my love affair with the Bard began with seeing a live performance of The Tempest in 1975.  It was pure magic.  I also love movies, and I believe that in the 21st century, filmed versions of Shakespeare's plays are probably the best way to reach the widest audience.  The sneers and sniffs of snobs aside, I am convinved that if Will were alive today, he'd be writing movie screenplays (or even television), NOT stage plays, which today are aimed at a narrow, elite, theatre-going audience.  As a literature professor who has been teaching The Tempest for a decade now, I have always been singularly bemused by the lack of a filmed version that really captures the magical spirit of the play.  The old TV Richard Burton show is well-acted but silly, the BBC version has great actors but terrible, flat production values, Prospero's Books is brilliant but incomprehensible to all but those who know the play intimately, Derek Jarman's version is terribly dated and, despite being a good "film," just doesn't work as The Tempest, in my opinion.  The other, "scholastic" releases are plagued by poor production and/or undistinguished acting. And I won't even bother with "adaptations" of the plot, such as Forbidden Planet or Cassavettes's Tempest.  Until this version, the only truly excellent version of The Tempest was the HBO animated one, but at 25 minutes, not much of Shakespeare's story remained intact.  Just last week I had the great pleasure of seeing Julie Taymor's The Tempest in London.  It was absolutely amazing.  The magic was there!  The acting, for the most part, was brilliant.  The script contained enough of the actual play's language that the minor tweakings to make it easier for contemporary audiences did not bother me a bit.  The visuals were absolutely stunning.  The movie was a joy from start to finish.  I can't wait to see it again--repeatedly--to savor all the special moments over and again.  My only regret is that my students will be unable to see it this year due to the late release date.  [REVISION NOTE: This year's students had the opportunity to see this version, and they overwhelmingly LOVED it.  It brought the play to life for them.  At last, I no longer have to convince them that The Tempest really IS a great play! 01/19/12]  If you love Shakespeare, and if you enjoy movie adaptations of the plays, DO NOT MISS THIS ONE!

The Feeling of a New Relationship in a Bottle (movie) I loved this movie. You know that feeling when you're just starting a relationship? When every look is fraught with meaning, every sentence analyzed for double entendre? That's this movie. That giddiness oozes from the entire first half of the movie. It doesn't hurt that the cast list reads like a list of my favorite under appreciated actors. The stars, the beautiful Zoey Deschanel and JGL are both starting to get some recognition... but years after this movie. One of my favorites.

I enjoyed this immensely, like Spinal Tap Terrorism? A comedy about terrorism?? Yes. And it's very funny. And if you're uncomfortable about the concept, I was told that the versions of the American "Hogan's Heroes" which played on German TV overdubbed scripts which made the Germans look even more inept than they were portrayed in the original. I suspect the Germans don't want to give the Nazis any credit, and I think that's the path Chris Morris has taken with his cell of British terrorists.  The stumble-bum efforts approach slapstick, and the comic timing is brilliant. Morris's lens extends beyond the cell itself, into Omar's family and how proud they are of his goals; the cell leader's dull colleague; and the police. (One line from his colleague reminded me of a line in Robert Townsend's "Hollywood Shuffle" : "This ain't no jive a** hot dog stand you're working at - - this is Winky! Dinky! Dog! ")

Strangely Appealing I don't watch cartoons, but this isn't a cartoon; animated, yes, but in a flowing, beautiful way. The story is interesting and the visual compositons are stunning. Very much worth buying.

Retirees Unite! My husband and I pre-ordered this DVD and watched it the day we received it.  As retired "FEDs" we loved it, although there may have been just a bit too much of the Bruce Willis Show.  It was fun to watch how the younger generation really believes that the older people haven't a clue, only to discover that old age and treachery sometimes overcome youth and enthusiasm.

DARK SHADOWS I HAVE SEEN THE ORIGINAL IN THE 60'S AND ALSO BOUGHT ALL OF THE VHS TAPES.  NOW I AM UPGRADING TO DVD AND CAN NOT WAIT TO SEE THE DIFFERENCE AND OR QUALITY OF THIS ON DVD.

addicted I am completely addicted to this series.  If I could watch Season 5 all at once I would. The characters are interesting and I love the plot.

A must have on blu-ray. "On one level, the film is a 96-minute travelog. On another level, it is a meditation on the planet. The director, Ron Fricke, has taken his 70-mm camera all over the globe to photograph natural and human sights. Some of them are as ordinary as the traffic in Manhattan. Some are as awesome as a solar eclipse. Some are as desperate as the tribes of scavengers scuttling like crabs over the garbage dumps of Calcutta." - ROGER EBERT / November 12, 1993 A must have ob Blu-ray looks amazing!

Best Henry Fonda films ever This is a 'must have' for any serious film fan and collector, each one alone worth the price beginning with Mr. Roberts and culminating in the brilliant Advise and Consent which will change forever your understanding of how Washington REALLY works. This set also contains some entertaining and truly informative extras. First rate!

Sometimes Happy, Sometimes Sad This is the ultimate Bollywood movie with all the stars in one movie. Classic story about family with exceptional Bollywood dance scenes. A must have for your library

Just as good as the 1st season One of my favorite shows on TV. Props to History for making an entertaining show. Hope it goes for a long time. 5 stars.

Best movie musical ever An epic musical, flawlessly produced by Garland and Luft. A classic tale of stars treading on the (often perillous) arc of fame and popularity, has been beautifully told in song and story. Garland, Mason, Bickford and Noonan: superb actors -all. And that Judy Garland sang those great songs... They don't come better than this great movie musical,  the most brilliant of all: a seamless marriage of song and story, with it's one true competitor being Garland's Wizard of Oz.

Looks and sounds excellent. Great video quality and fun special features make for a worthwhile purchase of this Verhoeven classic. Even the reds look crisp and clean. If you've ever enjoyed this zany sfx romp, this will only enhance your experience.

A FITTING END TO CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S DARK KNIGHT SAGA (Spoilers Involved)! In 2005, filmmaker Christopher Nolan gave the Batman film franchise, which had stagnated with the dreadful "Batman & Robin," a powerful rejuvenation with "Batman Begins," a darker, more psychological take on the character that delved into how Bruce Wayne, the son of a slain billionaire and his wife, becomes a fearsome, cloaked hero known as the Batman. Thanks to Nolan's powerful direction, a brilliant script from Nolan and David S. Goyer, and terrific performances from a cast that included Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and Gary Oldman, "Batman Begins" restored faith in the franchise. This was followed in 2008 by "The Dark Knight," which pits Batman against the Joker and his plans to bring anarchy to Gotham City. This film became a box office phenomenon, and won a posthumous Oscar for Heath Ledger for his brilliant, and downright creepy performance as the Joker. With these successes behind them, Nolan and the team decided that, instead of dragging the franchise out indefinitely, they would close their version of the Batman story down with "The Dark Knight Rises." With high expectations set from two brilliant films, Nolan and his brother Jonathan came up with a brilliant, epic, and emotional story to bring their version of Batman and Gotham City to a powerful conclusion.  Like "The Dark Knight" before it, the film actually defies the expectations of the viewer, but in a brilliant way. When watching the film, one expects that our hero, with help from others, would successfully end the plans of the villain to take over Gotham, preventing any destruction to the city. Instead, Nolan decided to go against the more traditional route. Here, we see Bane, the main villain of the piece, severely injure our hero, and take him to a prison deemed escape-proof on the other side of the globe to rot, allowing Bane and his army of mercenaries to succeed in the plans to take over Gotham City, and create a "police state" with martial law, where the villains control everything, and it is up to a band of "resistance fighters" to figure out how to stop Bane. Wayne realizes he must overcome his injuries and fears to escape from the prison, and return to Gotham to stop Bane and his plans to wipe out the city with a Hydrogen Bomb. Wayne also realizes that he might have to give his own life to save his city.  At 165 minutes, the film's first hour is somewhat slow, but picks up when Wayne, having been in self-exile for eight years after taking the rap for Harvey Dent's crimes, once again dons the Batman suit to face his toughest enemy. Here, the story kicks into high gear, and leaves viewers on the edge of their seats for the remaining 105-or-so minutes of the film. Nolan's vision to bring grandeur back to the cinemas is clearly evident, as he has crafted a truly epic film, but never forgets the heart of the story, as we see the story of the Dark Knight come full circle, as he faces his greatest test, and must overcome tremendous odds to defeat the enemy. Christian Bale proves once and for all that he owns the dual role of Batman/Bruce Wayne, giving everything he has to make his final performance in the role truly memorable. Tom Hardy is very good as Bane, despite a tendency to be incomprehensible due to his mask (Which I think was a deliberate choice by Nolan, which makes him more menacing by not knowing what he is saying all the time). Michael Caine, Gary Oldman and Morgan Freeman also shine in their final performances as Alfred, Commissioner Gordon and Lucius Fox. Newcomers, such as Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Anne Hathaway, and Marion Cotillard also give inspired, solid performances. A welcomed cameo by Liam Neeson as Ra's Al Ghul is also great.  Once again, Nolan shows his strong craftsman as a filmmaker, crafting a film that mixes the Comic Book film, war epic and tragedy together in an intense, action-packed film that will leave fans of the trilogy pleased with the outcome. It's not quite as good as the previous film, and it doesn't top "The Avengers" as the greatest comic-book film of 2012 (or ever, for that matter), but it definitely ranks with "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" and "Return of the Jedi" as one of the best trilogy-cappers of all time. "The Dark Knight Rises" comes with my highest recommendation to Batman fans, and those who love great films!  Grade: A+

CRUSADER VERY GOOD MOVIE AND ACTORS,THE IMAGE IS BETTER THAN I 1VE EXPECTED,DESPITE IT WAS CLASSIFIED AS CRUSADER MOVIE,IY IS INTENSE DRAMA AND ACTION PLUS HISTORICAL MOVIE!

Stimulation for the theatrical mind. This is exactly what it claims to be. You being able to sit in on an acting class from one of the best renown acting teachers of all time. Regardless of how you feel about Meisner's technique (which I should point out does wonders for some actors,) being able to actually see him teach will make you rethink your acting and make you appreciate his keen insights more than any book you'd ever read on or even from him. Some may complain that it is difficult to understand because of Mr. Meisner's speaking difficulties, however, I found I had very little trouble particularly considering that he is subtitled. My only complaint, which is minor, is that because I was not familiar with certain scenes and was not given any information of what happened between shots of the video, it was, at times, difficult to understand why the students of the class and Meisner made some of the choices for playing the scene that they did. Again, overall this was a very minor hindrance in regard to being engaged and edified by the film. I recommend this for anyone seriously interested or involved in acting of any venue.

Very good movie A very good movie about a loyal dog I got this cuz I have a dog just like him and so much of that movie is just like her lol

Awesome Journey trhough Neo-Tokyo Excellent film that takes you through a post World War Three Neo-Tokyo. Kaneda and Tetsuo are the main characters and their rivalry/friendship drives the movie forward. The story is great and I remember starting this movie and then wanting to read the Manga, which is slightly different but still enthralling and epic. Overall it was a sensory journey through the streets of war ravaged people and government oppression.

Present well recieved I looked everywhere for this dvd could not find it anywhere except for here on Amazon.com. My son asked me to give this movie to him for his birthday. I ordered it, I recieved in time for his party. It was one of the best presents he opened, he was so excited, it is one of his favorite films. He wants to be Jack for Halloween this year. Thanks Amazon for carrying this hard to find movie.

A must see! We love Polar Express and after searching for it at many stores...this was our best price! A definite tradition for us each Christmas will be to watch Polar Express!

Wonderfully pleasant surprise For me, Stardust was a wonderfully pleasant surprise. It was full of adventure, comedy, wonderful characters, and an engaging storyline. Stardust is a film about a young man named Tristan who crosses into a magical world in hopes of finding a fallen star and bringing it back to his female crush in order to win her love. He quickly has to adjust his plans when he discovers that the fallen star is not in fact a piece of rock, but a living celestial beauty named Yvaine. First and foremost, Stardust is, as the book author noted, a fairytale for adults. While the film can overall be seen as kid friendly, there are some sensual jokes and violence in the film that may be too adult for young'ns. I found this film to be quite original in it's story and a joy to watch unravel. The several paralleling storylines are engaging and hilarious and the actors do an excellent job, especially Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer. It's just a fun movie.  **Spoiler Alert** I have to admit that one of my favorite scenes in the film is the swordfight between Tristan and the dead Septimus. They way they had the undead Septimus move throughout the fight was bewitching and it's something that I've never seen in any other film before. Not even Jackie Chan's drunken master moves can compare with the oddity and fun of that battle scene. Well done! **End Spoiler Alert**  If you are in the mood for a fun adventure with lots of surprising and action, Stardust is a good film to turn to.  [...]

Great product Great, fab, fabulous, terrific, superb and diva all in one package on one dvd. Includes great images. You will be pleased.

Fantastic way to make sure your kids wash their hands! I am so excited to see this video come out on DVD!  It starts with Bill Murray eating an egg that had landed in some zoo waste. Murray eats the egg although his daughter tells him he will get sick if he does. Then the movie switches to animation showing the job of the white blood cells and other body functions in a great animated story.  I have sent this movie to school for teachers to show for a health lesson. It is hard for children to understand what is happening internally when they get sick. This movie gives them a "visual" of the body functions that are working while they are sick. I own this movie on VHS I am definitely buying the DVD. It is as much fun for adults as it is for kids!

great i am never reviewing anything on here aging. I dont want to have to write a letter every time i buy something.

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THE FIRST "ALL TALKING" AND THE BEST WAR FILM EVER MADE! AS A VIETNAM (HELICOPTER CREWCHIEF AND DOOR GUNNER) VETERAN, I ENCOURAGE ANY YOUNG OR ANY AGE MAN OR WOMAN FASCINATED WITH THE GLORY OF WAR TO SEE THIS MOVIE, THIS IS THE REALITY OF WAR AND IT'S TRUTH AND UGLINESS IN RAW FORM! EACH GENERATIONAL WAR IS FOUGHT DIFFERENTLY WITH THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE WAYS IT IS FOUGHT TECHNICALLY, AND AS I WATCHED THIS MOVIE I COULD ONLY IMAGINE THE REALITY OF WHAT THESE WWI SOLDIERS MUST HAVE REALLY WENT THROUGH LIVING AND FIGHTING "IN AND OUT OF THE TRENCHES" IN EUROPE AT THIS TIME! THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THIS CLASSIC WWI WAR FILM IS CELEBRATED WITH THIS FIRST CLASS PRESENTATION OF A TWO DISC SET (BLU-RAY AND DVD) IN "BOOK" FORM. INCLUDED INSIDE IS A VERY INFORMATIVE BOOKLET ABOUT THIS EXCELLENT MOVIE WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY "LEONARD MALTIN", PLUS MOVIE FACTS AND HISTORY, BIO'S ON THE DIRECTOR AND THE STARS IN THIS MOVIE, ORIGINAL MOVIE POSTERS, SCENE PHOTOS AND MUCH MORE THAT I REALLY ENJOYED VIEWING! OVER THE YEARS I HAVE VIEWED THIS GREAT WWI MOVIE ON TV, AND HAVE PURCHASED THE VHS, AND REGULAR DVD, AND HAVE EXPERIENCED IT'S CINEMATIC FLAWS DUE TO IT'S AGE AND HANDLING, BUT THIS "BLU-RAY" PRESENTATION "MASTERFULLY RESTORED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS" IS THE BEST YET! IT IS TOTALLY CLEANED UP, SHARP IN FOCUS AND RICHLY ENHANCED IN B&W SATURATION, A JOB VERY WELL DONE FOR THIS 1929/1930 ACADEMY AWARD WINNER(S) FOR "BEST PICTURE" AND "BEST DIRECTOR, LEWIS MILESTONE", AND THE FIRST "ALL TALKING" (NON-MUSICAL) FILM TO WIN THE ACADEMY AWARD. THE ONLY FLAW WITH THIS RESTORED BLU-RAY VERSION OF THIS WWI WAR MOVIE IS THE SOUND QUALITY, BUT AGAIN I CONSIDER THE AGE AND TECHNOLOGY OF WHEN THIS FILM WAS MADE. A GREAT BUY AND A VERY NICE ADDITION TO MY MOVIE COLLECTION!

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wow! I sat there stunned with my mouth wide open the whole time not hardly believeing what I was seeing.  These people are definitely "colorful". You have to see this to believe it.

"In the FACE!" That's probably the best way to describe this raunchy, far-fetched and ultimately hilarious adult oriented comedy. The characters are put in the most ridiculous situations as they attempt to recall the events of the previous night, and their responses and reactions are what drive the movie forward. This premise could easily have been made into a lesser movie (see Hangover II), but Todd Phillips takes them to the farthest edge of Vegas and beyond. Personally I don't recall ever laughing as hard as I did when the guys are just coming to after their debauchery and discovering what has happened to their hotel suite. If you're one of the 5 people or so who haven't see this yet, what are you waiting for? Comedy classic.

Wonderful I just purchased this movie for my 2 year old just a couple days ago. It came promptly and I only had a couple days to wait for it.  We watched it for the first last night and she couldn't take her eyes off the TV. I love how fast the movie came.  I will for sure purchase from this supplier again.

Julie & Julia I love this movie. This was a gift for friends however not only does this movie inform us of Julia Childs start as a famous chef it also opens us to trhe importance of woemn in the work force no matter what career we pursue.Both Myrle Streep and Amy Adams are great.

Down to earth This is a wonderful movie, the kind that makes you feel empowered after viewing it.  While it isn't 100% comedy, it does have some very funny segments.  It isn't preachy but it does get a necessary message across:  respect and forgiveness.  Tyler Perry wins, again!

Love this movie To bad I waited so long to get the DVD.  It had become rather expensive.  I saw them in a store a few months back for a more reasonable price.

I Love Boo This has always been one of my favorite Pixar movies ever. Maybe it's partly because of how cute and adorable Boo is, or the sweet relationship she has with Mike and Sully. Sigh... Either way, I thoroughly enjoyed this one, not to mention the musical score by Randy Newman, which brings so much extra energy and life to the film. If all monsters were like this, I wouldn't mind having seven or eight of them hiding under my bed :-) Anyway, I just hope Pixar continues making more films like this, because these are exactly the kinds of films I hope to share with my own little ones someday.

All so plausible! If you expect a shoot em up, consider looking elsewhere. Stephen Gaghan's script is pure genius, but you have to watch carefully; everything significant - and much is - shows up again and again but you must really pay attention in order to see it. This is a cautionary tale and far too plausible to forget about, right after the credits. If you're a viewer who likes a movie that leaves you with questions which reach beyond the the film iteslf, Syriana is a good choice. Watch it twice.

Most Excellent Remake of Classic. Action, action, action. Loved the original with Charles Bronson (worth a look if you like this one) but think I like this version even better. Of course this is an action movie with lots of explosions, cars blowing up, gunfire and all this is well paced, sprinkled, throughout the movie. Perhaps more than anything, I like how the writers reworked the script of the original film and made it their own. This one I recommend for an action junky as can be watched more than once.

Powerful Story Such a beautiful film!  It is however, very violent and bloody, but so were those times.  Cinematography was outstanding. Vintage Nigel Terry and Helen Mirren.  And of course, the haunting musical score featuring Wagner and Orff.  This is moviemaking at its best!

Brand New Pristine Condition! I received my brand new DVD very fast! The DVD was new as described! Thank you!  This is an awesome family movie!

Awesome Movie! I saw the original movie the"Mechanic" back in the 1970's. This movie starred Charles Bronson as Arthur Bishop the hit man and Jan Michael Vincent as his understudy. The new movie has Jason Strathem in the role of the professional killer Arthur Bishop. Ben Foster plays the role of Steve McKenna Bishop's killer in training. Bishop kills a Columbian drug lord. He then recieves an assignment to kill McKenna(Donald Sutherland. This was his acrual mentor. Bishop carries out a few more assignments when he is approached by McKenna's son Steve to teach him the art of being a contrsct killer. Sreve helps in carrying out some of the assassinations. He does one solo and nearly gets killed himself. Bishop's employers do not like a new player in the field. They finally send out contract hit teams to get Bishop. Bishop turns the tables and kills his former bosses. Steve McKenna blows Bishop's truck up trying to gain vengance. There is a shocking ending that will dazzle you. See this movie. This one is as good as the original.

Love,Love,Love! This dvd collection is incredible, I was absolutely pleased above and beyond my expectations! I was very excited to see that all of the dvd's were in one wider case as well that makes them easy to store and less likely to lose as well! I also found another reviewer's comments helpful for giving me an idea of what to expect from each movie. 1,3,4,and 5 were great quality movies,2 stunk as I've heard it did, but the dvd itself was in great shape and I had no problem viewing it!  Havent seen wes cravens nightmare yet and havent watched Freddy vs jason yet but I have seen that before and am sure both of them work just fine!I wish the other collections of slasher movies came in such  convenient and beneficial packaging!

amazing in 3D Tim Burton brilliance Halloween town hijacks christmas in this visually stunning twisted and entertaining animation, the 3D is amazing, its hard to believe this movie wasn't originally done in 3d, so many layers with great depth, I can't ever imagine myself watching this movie in 2D again

science of healing If you did not know the affects of your attitude on you body's health this is worth while reading.  Attitude is everything. Dr Sternberg did a remarkable journey to prove its value in her life. It works for me.

An all time favorite Call me romantic, but I just love this movie!  It is one of my all time favorites!  The family dynamics are pretty accurately portrayed in a way that you know happens in real life every day.  The cheating husband, the devastated wife, her eccentric, but down-to-earth mom.  When all is said and done, the child is the one who suffers the most.  Of course, there is the "good guy" played by Harry Connick, Jr. who steps up and makes her realize that true love does exist if you keep hoping and open your heart.  Kinda sappy, I know.  It helps a lot that several of my faves (Sandra Bullock, Gena Rowlands and Harry Connick, Jr.) made up the cast.  If you love a good tear-jerker now and then, don't miss this movie!  Oh!  And the soundtrack is great too!

Excellent Warner Animation continues a pattern of excellence with Justice League: Doom.  After so many years, the creative team behind these animated movies can strike the balance between fan desire and audience experience perfectly. Of special note in the special edition version is an excellent documentary about Dwayne McDuffie. I honestly hope that this documentary finds its way onto the net (my apologies in regards to copyright), it is an excellent tribute to a great creator gone too soon.  If you are on the fence about purchasing this DVD, buy the special edition so you can get that documentary, it is that good.

great concert Found this very interesting, wonderful music, great quality blu ray, looks and sounds awesome.  Id definetly recommend this to my friends

Better value from Amazon.com UK Unless you're shopping for the deluxe edition of the film, you can purchase it from Amazon UK for under $20 (region free blu ray). The book and extras are nice, but I just care about the film.

Great Movie This movie isn't scary. This movie is just enjoyable to me. I use to catch it on tv now and again. Knowing how much I enjoy watching this movie my hubby bought it for me for Christmas one year. My favorit parts are when the movie goes threw a flash back in the hospital. When John and Patrisha are going threw a killing spree.

VERA ROCKS! Its a "JOB not a CRUSADE!" Yes, subtitles help... at first I did not like Vera, the character, very much. Ugly, dowdy, and self-absorbed, and then telling her partner "Its a JOB, not a CRUSADE". Yhea right Vera. Why give advice when you realy make the job a crusade yourself?  Episode two explains so much I missed plot wise, by not watching this episode first. Sometimes the photography is rather dark, but so authentic. I love Midsomer Murders. However, Single-Handed and Vera are now my two favorites. If anyone can tell me what "bierens" or some sort of slang for kids is, I would appreciate it.  The scene burning her father's possessions, and saying I like this "farm couple AND the scene helping a lost little boy who is hiding, when she lacks mothering skills, are priceless.  I purchased the video myself.

Swamp people our my people This was the best and rounded out the summer with Justified, new Hawaii 5-0,Memphis Beat-six or 7 gold stars for that one,then will still have NCIS AND NCIS LA. BLUE BLOODS AND BORDER WARS AND CREME DE CREME HILL BILLY HAND FISHING OR NOODLING. BOY OUR GALS SHOWED US ALL. SO PROUD LIKE ELIZABETH IN HER SWAMP  BOAT. THESE ARE THE KIND WE MARRY WE JSUT LOOK AT THE OTHERS WHILE WE LONG FOR RED NECK WOMEN!

really amazing This is a small press video that suceeds with such a powerful message  becuse its rough, and raw and honest. I hope all my firends on facebook enjoy. the downside, it could use some editing, parts got a little tedious.

Alien 3 Review I must confess that my appraisal of Alien 3 (at the time of release) was the same as many....What a dude!...over the years and over several watches I have come to terms that it is on par with the others.....Alien 4 is probably the worst of the set, however, even it has its merits after several views....the extended version of Alien 3 fleshes out some of the beginning of the movie...David Fincher deserves more credit than he was given......he actually did create a very good movie....give it a try again IF you were a disbeliever as I was.....you may find you were wrong....I would say watch the extended version to really make your judgment......I enjoy the entire collection on blu-ray these days....

My favorite movie from Amazon I fell in love with this movie when I saw it in the theater when it first came out in the 50's.  With the wide screen, HD TV it is just like being back in the theater.  It's great.  Thanks

Great chair exercise! I love this DVD.  It is perfect for a person who has problems standing to exercise for whatever reason.  It gives you a window into Tai Chi,  and David takes you through a series of movements that not only get your upper body moving but also center you.  If you follow his instruction, you will learn to breath better, have better control, and actually feel better.  Two thumbs way up!

A gift for myself thru Amazon Amazing characters with very interesting plots. I truly love the settings,the time's, but mostly the wonderful casting that went into this series. It really is one of the best along with Margaret Rutherford. But unfortunately she only made four. Geraldine McEwan is a gem.

Fabulous! As someone who watched the series and still watches the reruns, this movie sums up the series beautifully. All the characters are the same sexy, feisty and hilarious girls we've all come to know. Only this time our beloved Carrie is getting married to Mr. Big. But as with all SATC episodes it's full of drama, sex and humor. I enjoyed this movie immensely. It makes you laugh, makes you cry and gives you the overwhelming feeling of love. It was a perfect compliment to the series.

You creepy spy! I had seen the version of Rear Window that I recorded myself off the TV several times before finally getting the DVD. If the recorded version was great, of course the DVD was even better! I watched the special features and was intrigued by the comment about how all it really was was a shot of an apartment window, Jimmy Stewart reacting, a shot of an apartment window, Jimmy Stewart reacting, a shot of an apartment window, Jimmy Stewart reacting... etc. The film was so compelling I had actually never realized it was that simple!  Of course, there was a little more to it than that, such as Grace Kelly climbing fire escapes, the little dog sniffing the flower bed, the scenes in Jeff's apartment, and the final scene. But for the most part, that's all it was. And you know a movie is excellent when it keeps your attention for that long when it's simple dialogue, seemingly simple shots, and relatively few special effects. It must have actually been very difficult to film. Jimmy Stewart was actually reacting to NOTHING. And yet, each reaction had to be subtly different. What a challenge!  I remember watching the movie Disturbia a few years ago. I couldn't watch it without thinking of this movie. I don't know if they intended it to be an homage to Rear Window or not. But I do know that I might have liked Disturbia if only I had never seen Rear Window!

Chompers in Blu-ray I love this movie but watching it in Blu-ray format gave me twice as many goosebumps. Seeing such sharper detail on each alien's anatomy, and the face huggers, made me jump a few times. A must for the Blu-ray collection!

Good, but has A Feeling of Being Rushed The 2008 BBC version goes into more detail and I like it more. But this is still a good version too. The Movie it's self has NO CONs What-so-ever and has wonderful music in it. I highly recomend it to anyone looking for a clean movie to watch!

Cutest movie ever! This is by far one of the best animated movies I have ever seen.  Puss totally dominates the big screen.  I hope there is a sequel!

Elf Everyone should be well versed in the holiday time four food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corn and syrup. This will soon be one of the all-time Christmas classics if not already.

A Star Is Born, AGAIN!!! I just heard about the upcoming February 7, 2012 Kino release of the 1937 A STAR IS BORN. My wife and I have always loved this version (Of course, the 1954 version with Judy Garland and James Mason is also excellent!).  I'm giving this upcoming release 5 Stars, sight unseen, based on the assumption that it will be even better looking than the earlier 2001 release, which was made from the same, original 35mm nitrate print authorized by the Estate Of David O' Selznick, as this one is an HD transfer! We're not talking about ragged Public Domain Transfers here, folks!  As for the film itself, I think one thing that gets overlooked these days is the solid casting, and I'm not just talking about the two main leads, Janet Gaynor and Frederic March, as great as they are. Some of the biggest supporting players fro the thirties are in this film. I found Andy Devine and Edgar Kennedy to be quite good in their supporting roles. With the then celebrated actress May Robson (Best known for 1933's LADY FOR A DAY), and of course, Adolph Menjou, you simply can't go wrong!

Grease Love this DVD!!!  Reminiscent of my high school days.  Great music.  Lots of fun.  Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta have fantastic chemistry on-screen.  Makes you long for the good ol' days.

MUST SEE!!!!! AMAZING DOCUMENTARY OF A MAN WHO JUST WANTED A QUIET LIFE AND TO BE LEFT ALONE, BUT WAS COURTED BY THE OIL & GAS INDUSTRY WITH A CHECK FOR $100,000 TO DRILL ON HIS PROPERTY.  HE DOES THE SMART THING AND INVESTIGATES HOW THIS SORT OF THING IS DONE, AND WHAT DOES IT DO TO THE LAND & THE PEOPLE WHO DRINK THE WATER AND BREATHE THE AIR AROUND IT. DON'T MISS IT.  YOU WILL SOON UNDERSTAND THAT THE TERM "NATURAL GAS" IS A HOAX.  THERE'S NOTHING NATURAL ABOUT IT!

Intense workout! I had originally purchased the Level 1 dvd of this series and that was great, but I was getting to the point where I needed the next level, so I purchased this. It has been excellent! They cover some of the moves from the previous dvd but the intensity has been increased. The workout itself is about 55 minutes, where the other was at 45 minutes, so the time is longer but it's well worth it.

One of my favorite movies The Next Three Days is a movie full of suspense. It really kept me on the edge of my seat and that doesn't happen very often. Russell Crowe is absolutely brilliant as John Brennan the main character. The rest of the cast is also well chosen and their acting is great. The different characters are nicely developed, convincing and plausible. The dialogs are well written. There are many touching scenes where no words are spoken. It's just the acting and some background music which tell you more than any words could say. The soundtrack is also very well chosen. Layout and scenery of Pittsburgh play an essential part in the story line. The plot is very densely packed and fast-moving and consists of many small scenes. Some of the deleted scenes would have filled some gaps and provided the viewer with some helpful explanations. It's a pity that there is no extended version on the DVD. There are for example deleted scenes that would have explained how John Brennan came up with the plan to tamper with his wife's blood test to get her out of prison. The Next Three Days is definitely one of the best movies I have seen lately but nothing is perfect. You just can't push up the door knob of a car with a tennis ball. There would have been some other means like a device to intercept the door lock mechanism with remote control. John could have obtained such a device from the same shady neighborhood he got the passports from. I also didn't like the scene of Lara trying to throw herself out of the car just because John made a sudden change in plans. Why a second suicide attempt now when she is almost home free? A freaked out Lara pushing at her husband while driving could have just as easily caused the near accident. Anyway, I think the whole story is quite believable even though there are some very convenient coincidences. Just watch Reality TV and you will see even more unbelievable stories.

5 Stars, No Doubt I have absolutely loved this movie over the years and am now proud to own it. I use to rent it again and again from the local video store. Little girls love a story about a hero girl and her hero dog!  Tomboy and farmgirl Charlene "Charley" Wilson finds fun and adventure with her beloved dog Fuzz and tries to fit in to her small (California?) town, while her parents struggle with money and crop production worries. In a timeless story of social "class", down to earth Charley struggles to fit in at school with the snobby and richer girls. She is ecstatic to be invited to a backyard tea party at Carol Evans's, only to be made to play the part of the maid, and be treated even worse by Carol's snotty mom. Besides Fuzz, Charley's only other friend basically is a boy Fritz, whom are seen playing baseball together and Charley taking over his paper route while he is out of town on a trip. Classmate Carol comes around and invites Charley to her birthday party, and Charley's mom sews her a beautiful new party dress with a stash of "mad" money she has been saving up. But more disappointments crop up when Charley arrives at the party.  Even more worries arise when her neighboring farm man and buddy Alonzo becomes trapped in a piece of farm machinery and its up to Charley and Fuzz, the "little heroes" to saves his life. Alonzo is hospitalized, but will make a complete recovery. A startling revelation is made when Charley and family discover that sweet and friendly Alonzo is actually the father of Carol Evan's mom, and a humbled change of heart takes place when she learns that the young farm girl she had snubbed has now saved her dad's life.  In a sad and moving ending, Charley's beloved Fuzz is accidentally poisoned on a neighboring farm, leaving Charley to reflect on the life and times of growing up in her 10th year. This scene of reflection actually opens the movie, with an adult Charley's voice narrating. A painful ending makes way for a new beginning tho, as a while later Alonzo brings a new puppy for Charley, appropriately named "Little Fuzz."  This is a truly heart touching tale and wholesome movie for the whole family. After seeing this movie for the first time in years, i was truly shocked after googling Raeanin Simpson, the girl who played Charley, and finding out her life had come to an end in her mid 20's. So sad for a talented and spunky young actress.

Excellent Movie Gods and Generals is an excellent movie.  I highly recommend this movie, wish they would make more moview like this.

MY COUSINS WERE HERE DURING THIS THE REASON I GOT THIS DVD IS BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH THEY( CURT SCHLEICHER AND NEAL ECKHARDT) WERE NOT RIGHTFULLY IN THE DVD ITSELF, THEY WERE THERE IN THE MARINES JUST LIKE MY COUSINS DAD(GERALD SCHLEICHER) AND HID DAD LEONARD SCHLEICHER)I THANK THEM EVERY DAY FOR THEIR SERVICE!HOO-AH!

Doesnt Tell you what episodes your watching :C i just got it 2day when i opened it i realized there isnt anyting tell you what episodes there is on each disk. For example the one piece collection it tell you what episodes are in each disk like 1-6  overall my rating would be 4.5

Leverage - Season 1 I love the show, but started watching during the last season, so I need to catch up and this is a great way to do that.  It is showing me why the characters behave the way they do - filling in the history a little.

Very good I really liked this series, I hate that they ended it.  The story was really starting to develop near the end.  Also, the production quality was top notch.  Highly recommend, just be prepared to be left hanging.

Excellent I'm a big Agatha Christie fan.  I haven't viewed all of the movies yet, but have no complaints at this time.  This order came within the time frame mentioned with no problems with the package or the movies that I've watched.

Sela Ward movie I bought this movie for Sela Ward's acting but this story is a true crime story of what happened in a family when adultery is involved.

LOVE this show!! Great characters, excellent writing!!  This show is one of the best on cable TV by far. I am completely addicted!!

the best i loved this movie.ajay was wonderful.i am also in awe of amitabh bachan.i an still fairly new to bollywood and this was the first film i saw with him in it.i am now a fan.this is a must watch

Suprisingly Good!! I went into this movie not really sure what to expect, but I go to a ton of movies and this one looked like it might have potential. It was great.  I left the theatre pleasantly surprised. The acting was good, the story was done well and the action sequences were as good as any big budget action movie that have come out recently. This is one that I will own.

Excellent Tyrese and Meagan made the perfect couple. I love how they came together and made a modern day Bonnie and Clyde.

Great Movie Awesome for the kids and great for all ages too. I would recommend this movie to everyone i know. A+

Ice age: dawn of the dinosaurs This movie was outstanding for the whole family!  It was action packed, hilarious and wArm and caring all at the same time.  I could see it over and over again!!

Best Season of Best Show I started watching The West Wing at the start of Season 3.  The "Issac and Ishmael" episode, especially how quickly it was produced under the circumstances, was a magical piece of television.  The story of Bartlet's reelection stretches into S4, which is also a fine season, but the beginning of the campaign, tied into the investigation of the MS coverup, makes for some great political drama.  The comedy element of the show is there as well, and that just adds to the overall enjoyment of the series.  As a self proclaimed walking West Wing encyclopedia, I would hands down say this is the best season of one of the best shows of all time.  The final stretch of eps with the CJ being stalked story line, is also very very well done.  "Posse Comitatus" is one of my favorite all time episodes.  The Jeff Buckley "Hallelujah" over the Mark Harmon scene, followed by Barlet at The Wars of the Roses while the CIA hit is going down...just really, really good story telling and amazing cinematography.  If you like any of The West Wing...buy this season DVD!!

bluray iron man watching the sweat drip from iron man and war machine... this is a good piece to anyones bluray collection. being an iron man fan, watching him in a greater amount of definition is a bonus.

funny movie Classic. one of the funniest moveis ever made. its in the same class as Animal House. it a must for any comedy collection. this was one of the first VHS tapes i bought way back in the day, and i have owned it on DVD and bluray.

Great news shout factory will be re-issuing this movie on sept 20,2011 I am so happy that shout factory will be re-issuing this wonderful movie with danny kaye.I love that man he is just a feel good actor,now these money grubbers can eat there prices lol.I just hope that wonderman and other wonderful danny kaye movies get re-issued on dvd.As most people know Shout Factory is a distributor that gave is crisp trasfers of leave it to beaver, and that girl,so i expect the inspector general print from them to be even more better than the roan version print.Great Distributor hopefully with bonus features.

sarah narshall awsome Jason Segel is Awsome.  Great movie.  I loved it.  Jason is great, i loved him in How i  met your mother, and he is good in this.  I love his voice , he sings really well. and well what can I say, He looks good nude..

Good buy I ordered this movie for my girlfriend bc she couldnt find it anywhere.. I watched this movie as well and it was pretty good.. that mom is crazy lol... Well the shipping and order process went great and the movie was brand new still in the wrapper..

Great Movie! Great movie. Really enjoyed watchin it. Don't want to talk about movie because I don't want to give it up. Butit was enjoyable. Shipping was fast and arrived in perfect condition. Definitely recommended seller.

Love it Bought this movie used for very cheap. I have ssen it about 5 or 6 times already, but decided to get it to share with others. It really is surprisingly quite funny. I really didn't think too much before I watched it, but now I could just watch it over and over again.

Karen TV Watcher A s soon as possible I'll be getting more of Meet Corliss Archer.  I love the realtionship she has with her parnets.  They can be friends.  It's obvious that her mom and dad have not forgotten what is was like being teenagers, which is why they have such a good realationship with her.  And Dexter even though Mr. Archer yells a lot at hme, he likes Dexter who is a really likable person and he treats Corliss like a princess, which is the number one reason he likes Dexter.  It's not on the same level as other 50th Sitcoms, but it's still a nice show, and I like all the characters.  I recommend this charming, series to others.

Great film Most Americans base their perception about other countries & the daily lives of their citizens on what they here through the media. However, this film shows what it is really like to be one of those citizens, searching for a better life & the extremes they will go through.

Love it I'm not a yoga fan, but I love this DVD. It reminds me more of pilates than yoga because it's not "relaxing" like yoga usually is. I've done the DVD a few mornings before work and that works for me. It do the express option which is 30 minutes. I burn about 170 calories each time (I'm 140 lbs). This is a challenging yet doable workout. Buy it now!!

Secondhand Lions I think this movie has alot of heart in it, the actors are wonderful and the plot is very heart warming.

Worthy The 4th season, much like the 1st, 2nd and 3rd, will sit you on the edge of your seat and have you begging for more. Loved it!

"The Killing (1956) ... Sterling Hayden ... Stanley Kubrick (Director) (1999)" United Artists  presents "THE KILLING" (6 June 1956) (85 min/B&W) (Fully Restored/Dolby Digitally Remastered) --  Nothing can stop The Killing from greatness --- It's one of those noirs you can watch over and over again and discover fresh revelations in each viewing --- Sterling Hayden and the rest of the cast makes this one of the darker films ever to grace the big screen, and a more compelling noir --- Director Stanley Kubrick brings together an all-star team of actors from his favorite noir films - Hayden, Elisha Cook, Marie Windsor, Ted de Corsia, Coleen Gray, Jay C. Flippen, Joe Sawyer and Vince Edwards, and what's left is pure noir  Memorable scenes between Elisha Cook and Marie Windsor set the stage of events.  Sterling Hayden simply doesn't get the credit he deserves.  Under the production staff of: Stanley Kubrick [Director/Screenplay] Jim Thompson  [dialogue] Lionel White  [novel "Clean Break"] James B. Harris [Producer] Alexander Singer [Associate Producer] Gerald Fried  [Original Music] Lucien Ballard  [Cinematographer] Betty Steinberg [Film Editor] Ruth Sobotka  [Art Director] Harry Reif [Set Decoration]  BIOS: 1. Stanley Kubrick  [Director] Date of Birth:  26 July 1928 - New York City, New York Date of Death:  7 March 1999 - Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England, UK  2.  Sterling Hayden [aka: Sterling Relyea Walter] Date of Birth: 26 March 1916- Upper Montclair, New Jersey Date of Death: 23 May 1986 - Sausalito, California  the cast includes: Sterling Hayden - Johnny Clay  Coleen Gray - Fay Vince Edwards - Val Cannon  Jay C. Flippen - Marvin Unger  Ted de Corsia - Policeman Randy Kennan  Marie Windsor - Sherry Peatty  Elisha Cook Jr. - George Peatty  Joe Sawyer - Mike O'Reilly  Mr. Jim's Ratings: Quality of Picture & Sound: 5 Stars Performance: 5 Stars Story & Screenplay:5 Stars Overall: 5 Stars [Original Music, Cinematography & Film Editing]  Total Time: 85 min on DVD ~ United Artists ~ (06/29/1999)

Life is Wonderful! James Stewart is an "All American Actor", who goes out of his way for the woman and family he loves as well as for the people who made him the man he became. This movie is a sure classic drama for the whole family to enjoy.

classic this is a classic i used to watch as a little girl with my dad and now the tradition can continue with my children and grandchildren

Awesome product and very enjoyable to watch I remember watching The Sound of Music in the theaters and I loved it. I would watch it again and again when it aired on television.  When The Sound of Music 45th Anniversary Blu-ray/DVD product came out, I didn't really want to get it because of the steep price tag. When Amazon put it on sale for 70 percent off, I had to get it. I was glad I did.  The bonus material alone on the second Blu-ray DVD made it worth the price. I only had a chance to watch the first bonus material, which explored aspects of the film including comparing stage to screen, the story behind the songs as well as the restoration process.  As I write this, I haven't had a chance to watch the film but after looking at the restoration process, I can't wait.  If you're a fan of the film, definitely get it.

Invictus I was very pleased with this purchase. It was packaged very nicely, without any dents or scratches. It made an incredible Christmas present!

Better Than The Original Series It seems that Hollywood is not giving up on turning classic television series into major studio productions since many of them are really terrible : 'THE WILD, WILD WEST' ,  'THE AVENGERS' and 'I-SPY' definitely come to my mind: but sometimes they hit it right on the money and 'THE A-TEAM' is just that movie.  The screenplay by Director Joe Carnahan, Brian Bloom who also plays the main villain and Skip Woods enhances the television characters to the point where you wish you were part of their team. Courage, honor and loyalty are part of their personalities and the superb walk through the park acting by the four characters make this film an absolute joy to watch.  You can even forgive the overdone CGI eye candy because the action and intrigue jell perfectly. I never saw it theatrically so I am going by the unrated extended cut included on this DVD and let me tell you, there is not a wasted moment.  The writers also give the cliched female character played excellently by Jessica Biel some substance and Alan Silvestri peppers the Main theme from the original series throughout the music score. Between this film and Sylvestor Stallone's 'THE EXPENDABLES', it was a great year for Action movies.  Highly recommended.

Red tails I think this a great movie i really enjoyed watching this movie with all my family and I hope they keep up making more movies like this one.

Bambi Bambi is a timeless movie.  I love it and my grandaughter, at 2yrs old, loves it, also. Thank you for your Disney products. They are superb. Carolyn Cassels

A great movie, made better....Blu Ray I've been a huge fan of akira for a long time, but after seeing the "High and Low" in Blu Ray, I can say it is worth adding this title to your collection.  A beautiful rendition and clearer than I've ever seen it. This is a film worth watching and watching again. it works on some many different points.

VHS its VHS what can i say, at the time that was what we had in my kids room.  it works still to this day. no problems with it.

Lee Van Cleef is awesome I have ordered this movie before after reading about it and was disappointed because the picture and sound quality were very poor. This version is the one to get. Very great plot and Lee Van Cleef is awesome in the movie. DVD is one of the best Spaghetti Westerns along w/ The trilogy(Fistful,Few Dollars,Good Bad and Ugly) also Blindman.

Top Notch Thoroughly enjoyed this movie - laugh out loud funny.  Real Scots for the most part did the voice-overs, which was perfect.

Perfect Good-bye for The Duke The Duke wrapping up a brilliant career. The supporting cast is amazing. A couple of iconic, TV gun slingers appear in the final show-down. Ron Howard is the wide-eyed, idol-worshipping, kid! How cool is that!

Close Encounters Awesome movie.  Extra info included was really neat!  If you're a fan of Close Encounters I would definitely recommend this product.

Great Historical Movie A spell binding mystery where Jeff Bridges has the opportunity to play a calculating, geeky, stumble-bum villain who is quite clever at murder.

Great movie.. good plot.. This is a great movie, I think one of Vincent Price's best. Suspenseful plot, keeps you guessing up to the end.

Pleased with this purchase This was exactly what it said it would be. My wife is happy, which ultimately means I am happy. Came in great condition and arrived on time.

SAD MOVIE BUT I LOVED IT!!!! I really did love this movie. This is a sad movie but I know that this movie can be considered a true to life movie.  I really thought the acting was great and it was a sad but beautiful story.

Great movie You don't have to be a musical fan to enjoy this movie. In fact if you are not you may become one. A fun view start to finish with great music and dancing.

Good movie This movie was suggested to me from Amazon. I've never seen it before then. I am a fan of Brittany Murphy so I bought it. I enjoyed it. I wasn't sure I was going to enjoy it so much, but this movie was nice to kick back on a rainy day to watch.

home alone dvd Arrive quickly. Packaged well. Right item. I enjoyed ordering it off Amazon and not having to drive all around hunting it, and a great price, and delivered to my home.

Sahara dvd Outstanding updated print, super picture and sound.  As vivid as I remember it when released (I'm 70 years old!) and superb information and excellent entertainment for my two grandsons who are WWII buffs.

Taboo and Compelling This is a great time to release this collection, with the hype of the Hunger Games and all.  I read this book and movie long before the Hunger Games, and when I started to read those books, I swore it must have been based on Battle Royale!  Although the author of Hunger Games completely denies knowing of Battle Royale's existence before writing them, the premise is hauntingly familiar.  Throw children into very dangerous territory, and the last one alive is the winner.  Why would anyone want to watch such a demented film about children slaughtering each other?  Curious minds and taboo stuff draws many people's attention.  If it's done right, it can be an ominous masterpiece.  And that's how I would classify Battle Royale.  It is provocative, destined to cause controversy, and makes you think about the world in a not-so-great light.  This is actually Quentin Tarantino's favorite film since he began directing in 1992, and you can see why.  With the non-stop, gritty, brutal action and interesting characters, this is a taboo must-see.  While the Hunger Games is good, it seems a little fluffy compared to this.  This is very gritty and not for the faint of heart.  If you are a Hunger Games fan and curious about this though, you'll definitely love it.  Cult classic!

Why wasn't Rabbit Hole nominated for an Academy Award? I don't understand why the Academy passed by this movie. It is extremely well-acted, directed, and tells a story that needs to be told. I was expecting an all-out tearjerker, but what I found was a well-rounded, necessary story that just takes you to the edge of despair without sending you over.  The plot, of course, concerns a couple, Becca and Howie, dealing with the loss of their perfect, innocent four-year-old son. It explores the anguish, grief, and blame that the main characters and several peripheral characters deal with when confronted with the loss of a child. The most interesting point of view, in my opinion, is that of the teenager who accidentally killed the boy. His interaction with Becca is deeply affecting. He is of course dealing with his own feelings of self-blame, but at the same time, in some way offers Becca consolation. He is both the cause of her current torturous state, but, ironically, also the source of her inner comfort.  Other interesting parallels are drawn between Becca and her own mother, who lost an adult child years past but in a less innocent way, and the parallel between Becca and her sister, Izzy, who lives what may be deemed an iresponsible lifestyle and who ironically becomes pregnant. Izzy's pregnancy and impending parenthood cause an eruption of feelings in Becca.  This is an excellent, extremely worthy film to watch and own.

too compelling to ignore JUST WATCH THE PART WHERE HE (GARRISON) MEETS DONALD SUTHERLANDS CHARACTER IN D.C. IF THAT DOESN'T GET YOU THINKING - YOU'RE BRAIN DEAD BABY.

Great and inspiring movie I wish we had more movies like that now days. It's an amazingly inspiring story with no special effects, robots or aliens. There are no explosions, no murders. Just a story of regular folks, living their lives, trying to get by every day. And how everything can be changed by letting God to lead our lives.

Fascinating look at a different version of Christianity As we learn in this riveting documentary, there were originally over thirty gospels of Jesus, among them the Gospel of Judas. The history of this ancient book, which is carbon dated from the year 280 AD plus or minus 50 years, is a fascinating story in itself.  There were many versions of Christianity in the early days after the death of Jesus.  Some sects placed emphasis on the Book of Thomas, others on the Book of Mary, and around the year 300 A.D. a Christian bishop took it upon himself to decide which books would be the "official" books of Christianity.  He chose Mathew, Mark Luke and John, which we learn were not actually written by these apostles.  They were written at a later date after their deaths.  This book, written in the ancient language of coptic, was a copy of another earlier book written in Greek, but this is the only copy that has survived.  And it survived just barely. It was rescued from sixteen years of disintegration in a safety deposit box in New York city by a woman collector of ancient documents.  The Book of Judas is at odds with the "official" Bible.  It describes Judas as a hero.  It says he was chosen by Jesus to turn him in to the Romans for crucifixion.  It ends with the seizing of Jesus by the Romans.  No mention is made of the crucifixion or resurection.  It seems that in this version of Jesus' life,  Jesus wanted to be rid of his earthly body so his devine soul could be free.  What to beleive..... Take your pick.... I personally want to have every possible document available about Jesus' life so I can make my own decisions.  Which account rings true to you?  I highly recommend this documentary to truth seekers, Christians, and anyone who wants to hear some other versions of what may have happened to Jesus.  Even atheists who love ancient history or documents can love this.  It is totally fascinating and one of the most moving dramas in the history of humanity, no matter what you choose to believe.

Great Rainy Day movie thon.. Love all of the movies. It takes me back to when I was a kid and on Sundays and they would play them on TV.. Great Rainy day or sick day movies.. Like a big Ol' bowl of chicken soup.. Comforting... :)

Tough to watch but a must see! A look into the darkest parts of the human mind with sincerity and a touch of the bizarre.  Not for the squeamish or easily offended.  Seeing this movie is an experience that is eye opening and also makes you want to close your eyes and look away.  But never the less its a stark look at the reality in which we actually do live in. Not all of us...just some of us.  A true work of genius.  And I never use that label lightly.  Check out everything the director Garpar Noe has to offer.  He is a mastermind of masterful film.

Love It. I got my dvd with 'Extra Flair' LOL. This movie is a classic, it speaks the mind of almost every cubical worker I have known and/or worked with. It sums up how I felt about working in an office when I did. Even 10 years later this movie is just as funny, if not better then it was back then.

Excellent Story Excellent account of Charlie Chaplin's life. Beautifully filmed and interesting throughout. Great to see the film in crisp Blu-ray quality. This is a film I have watched many times and will continue to do so.

Great story; great production I've loved the Anne of Green Gables story since reading it as a child.  Making it into a movie hasn't hurt the story at all.  Seeing the "rest of the story" is an added bonus.

Brilliant !! The way 3 different moments in time are correlated reminds us the responsability we have as human beings:  what you do, the way you do trascends in others. Kidman, Streep, Harris and Moore acting is stunning. Cheers !

AWESOME This box set is beautiful...the blue ray transfer top notch and overall a great product. I love everything about this show...it's extreme violence, its in your face nudity and its beautiful to look at. This is a period show done right...I only wish season two was available right now.

Great Movie I loved this movie. Though it is older, it is just a good, fun love angst comedy kind of like John Hughes used to make. My nearly 8 year old daughter and her 15 year old babysitter liked it so it appeals to a few different age groups depending on maturity level. Even my husband said it was ok. There are a few lame points, but they are almost lame enough to be funny.

Amazing and complete!!! This 25th Anniversary series has a lot of extras and not selected scenes. The BD extras are amazing... The details showed here are incredible, the 1985 A and B has many details...

dennis the menace:season 2 Great dennis the menace episode, has a great cast around him,full of laughts and Dennis is a good example for kids today to follow!

Jane Eyre Great movie..Had some qualms of ordering from movie Mars thru Amazon tho, but took a chance. DVD arrived when promised,price was fair for this offer..I was very pleased with this transaction!

amazing. I loved this movie as a kid, and I still love it. Having it in HD is just icing on the cake. BUY IT

Eye-candy Steelbook + Great movie This item is super awesome. The movie is great, the Steelbook is one of the best Steelbook offered in the U.S. and the price of this item is $12. What else can you ask for? Grab this when you can, and you will be satisfied!

Excellent film Enjoyed the film: solid acting, intriguing plot.  I especially enjoy romantic comedies, and I found this one to be quirky, engaging, and fun.

A thrilling drama A couple who are cheating on their spouses concoct a plan to steal some money from the husband of the woman, and then run away together. Things do not go as planned, as a number of events threaten to unravel the pending get away. This is a thrilling and engrossing drama that will keep you on the edge of your seat throughout, anticipating what will occur next. Don't miss it.

Watched over and over I can not watch many movies time and time again, even if I love them. However, this is one of the rare films that I can watch every day and never get board. I love it and would recommend it to everyone.

great movie blu ray didn't make the movie look that much better, but I love this movie and I didn't own it on dvd so I figured I would just get it on blu ray since it wasn't very expensive.

Love it! Picked this up to replace my sad old DVD version. A few fun extras including the UK ending, great picture--but above all FABULOUS sound. It was like hearing everything again for the first time. Invited over a bunch of friends to watch and they all agree. You could get this for the sound alone. Very fun, love the packed in booklet too.

People are reviewing the wrong movie! This is the funny original movie. Not the crappy sequel "Without a Paddle: Natures Call" which isn't worth a rental. The original is worth the money to add it to your collection if you don't already own it on DVD.

great movie watching on  my motorola xoom This movie is great i love all the action and the story line is terific cant wait to watch part 2 im watching it on the go in my motorola xoom great quality right off the browser keep putting up good movies amazon :-)

Le Mans My father had me order this video and he said it was great. Arrived in a short amount of time. Great buy and great supplier.

Excellent Book Had thought of reading it and after reading the jacket, decided maybe I wouldn't like it.  My son gave it to me for my birthday (and how can you refuse to read something your son picks out for you????) and so I read it.  Loved the story, characters and learned how the French were involved in the War  (didn't know that)!!!  I couldn't put the book down until I finished it.  Would recommend ------definitely a GOOD READ!!!

Greeat classic! My kids are both in college and in the Greek system, but yet they've never seen this classic. I got it for them for Christmas and they both thought it was hilarious!

Magic School Bus Your kids will love all of the Magic School Bus videos.  They are all educational and perfect for approximately 4 year old and up.  You'll be amazed at the things your kids will learn from these fun videos!

Best documentary I agree with all the reviewers - this is one of the best, if not the best, documentary on UFOs that I've seen.  When I watched it for the first time, I have to admit I was rather scared.  With all the extremely credible witnesses around the world, I have to believe in UFOs, or intelligent beings visiting here, for unknown reasons. You will find this program riveting.  I also have "Phoenix Lights", and some reviewers compared the two and found "I Know What I Saw" better.  But my own view is that you can't compare the two - they are very different - one is about the Phoenix Lights sighting in particular (excellent! 5-star), and I Know What I Saw covers the best UFO sightings: mass Belgian sighting, UFO craft on a military base, pilot captains witnessing cigar-shaped lights (and radar to prove it), Stephenville TX siting in which the whole town saw a V-shaped object, French government 3-year study on UFOs and claiming the best explanation is "outside our earth", and many more really fascinating incidents which I can't go into any detail here. My advice is to buy both (they are not the same). Also, if you want a really good 3rd choice, get "Unsolved Mysteries: UFOs" - this is VERY good too!

Awaiting the entire Saga on DVD I look at everybody reviewing poorly about "Twilight", "New Moon", "Eclipse", and even starting to talk bad about "Breaking Dawn" (which hasn't even been released yet).  The actors and actresses in these movies do portray what the overall feeling in the books were.  Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart do a wonderful job of capturing the feelings of Edward and Bella.  After all, this is a FORBIDDEN LOVE AFFAIR. People say that in Twilight, Pattinson as Edward, looks in pain all the time, OF COURSE he does, read the book, he was fighting the urge to KILL her.  In each of the books, Bella is portrayed as a lovely yet clumsy girl, who really doesn't laugh alot, and has the sole responsibility of caring for Charlie (her Dad), she is dangerously serious (maybe wondering if her boyfriend is going to kiss her or bite her?), whose now moved from her Mother's house while a Junior in High School, with her Dad to the rainiest place in the US (which HAS to be depressing) and Stewart also did a great job portraying that. I feel these movies are a great addition to anyone's collection that honestly likes Twilight and the fantasy world it portrays.  As long as people realize it's fantasy and shouldn't expect the same cinamagraphics or realism as you would from a non-fantasy movie.  These actors and actresses portray Stephenie Meyer's feelings in her books to a wonderful extent and couldn't have been cast better. Try reading the books before "expertly" reviewing the films and the cast choices and situations will become alot clearer (you may want to also read the "Midnight Sun" draft by Stephenie Meyer, it's from Edward's point of view).  Also keeping in mind that the Producers do have a little artistic freedom to change aspects of the book for the movie versions as long as the overall concept and storyline is obtained.  Can't wait for BOTH "Breaking Dawn" DVD's!

acting If you are a fan of acting- want to see actors who act and not just walk, talk and tell jokes- see this movie.  I won't lie: I think that the editors botched up this movie.  But it is well worth seeing to see their performances.  Naomi Watts is always excellent in horror movies- and she excels in this movie too.  And Daniel Craig never mails in a performance.  One day this could be another "Layer Cake" like favorite.

Good Movie My kid and I both love the movie, the umpa lumpa songs aren't as good but Depp is great as Willy Wonka

Gang way all, Here Come the Brides! It's so wonderful to hear this show is finally coming out in DVD. No one will be disappointed. HCTB was one of the best and brightest on television. It was around when TV was true entertainment.  Now if only they would release The rest of The Big Valley I would be one happy TV viewer.  Bravo to the powers that be for the decision to release this wonderful show! My pre-order is in!

These DVDs really approach sexual relations from a different, more grounded and emotional perspective. The DVDs that I eventually got my hands on (I also purchased <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EMF9BE">Deliberate Orgasm Duet: Expanding Female Orgasm plus The Technique of Peaking and Extended Orgasm.</a>) were great at breaking things down into detail. My experiments with the techniques were very well received by my very pleased friends. Being single for so many years now, I was beginning to get worried that I would fall into the trap of being unemotional with my sexual encounters, but the techniques outlined in the DVDs really approach sexual relations from a different, more grounded and emotional perspective.

ARMY OF DARKNESS Great cult film, Bruce was at his smart ass best! Great conclusion to the Evil Dead series. Don't forget Evil Dead 1 and 2 also!!

A wonderful journey to the inside of the human intimacy... I think it's a beautiful movie portraying the insides of our souls - scared people, who want intimacy, try to find it in sex, are clumsy and close, want to be open, but are so scared to be stung by each other's quills. Such a true nature of human intimacy. Such a beautiful and a sad story at the same time. Completely symbolic movie, it has so much teaching, so many lessons...  There is the most beautiful moment of the movie and one of the most erotic moment in the history of cinematography - the moment of falling in love, gloating, being in the moment of beauty...  It's a loss to watch this movie as a story. It's a complete metaphor. A wonderful journey to the inside of the human intimacy...

Jackman's Final Two Episodes Hugh Jackman's time on Snow River; The McGregor Saga comes to an end in this three episode collection, even though Jackman left in the second episode. Guy Pearce returns as Rob McGregor in the third episode as he tries to stop a crooked businessman.  The episodes on this single disc are:  Prince of Hearts  The Grand Duke  New Business  Even thought I would prefer a complete season release instead of a handful of episodes, I still enjoyed the DVD as I only paid five dollars for it.

Brilliant John Wayne Movie Its just the Duke against the bad guys and he wins, who cares if its a little bit silly or incorrect its The Duke.  Brilliant, entertaining movie which is what its all about we don't need over the top graphic violent movies just decent stuff like this but unfortunately things have changed and they don't make movies like this anymore.

A Rastaman Vibration  Masterpiece! AWESOME! Thank you to the producers of this film on humanity's beloved brother Bob Marley. This is absolutely THE best depiction of his life and certainly the most thorough that I have seen. I really appreciated the producer's successful attempt to humanize Bob, beyond the spiff smoking music master that we always see him shown as.  He was a powerful being with the best of intentions for humanity, without regard for race.  His life is a testament for how we should all put our beliefs into action.  Anybody who wants to get an understanding of who this man really was, watch Marley and you'll find him.  I cried at the end.

More for Teens My daughter and I went to see this when it first came to the theatre. It was funny but not really my style of comedy. I give it 5 stars because SHE absolutely loves it!

Fun series with loads of fan-service. I'm happy with my purchase. I'm the type of guy who has very high-standards in terms of quality of animation, and QB delivers. The animation, colors and sounds are crystal clear on my LED HDTV. The cover may not look like it, but after watching the first whole season; I would classify this as a comedy/action/drama genre.  The dub audio track features Debora Rabbai as the main character. For those of you who watched <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00114UUMW">Agent Aika: Anime Legends</a>, or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000WN050">Ayane's High Kick</a> - she is the excellent choice for providing cute/sexy female voices.  Conclusion: Addicting story, vibrant characters (Nanael, the blue haired angel, is hillarious), excellent orchestral soundtrack and beautifully drawn characters makes this an excellent buy!

Unbelievably Wonderful! What a great story. I loved it. If you are an animal lover, you will enjoy it too. Moving and wonderful in every way. I would watch it again. A must see!

Good adventure/suspense movie I saw this movie a long time ago at the theater.  I remembered how good it was and I bought it so I could enjoy it again.

Awesome!!! One of the best werewolf films ever made. Teen sisters Ginger and Brigitte, outcasts with a penchant for the dark and morbid, are surrounded by overly permissive parents, ineffectual teachers, and the normal amount of angst that accompanies adolescence. However, just as Ginger begins menstruating she is attacked by a werewolf and is infected by the bite. As her malady progresses, she moves from killing animals to people, and younger sister Brigitte tries to hide the rising body count while trying to find a cure. The werewolf is glimpsed briefly at the beginning of the film and then not again until Ginger's final transformation at the end. In between, the story is capably and tensely held together by the changes in Ginger's personality, and the growing emotional and physical separation of the two sisters. The film perfectly blends the "curse" of lycanthropy with the "curse" of womanhood; more than once Ginger uses the term "monster" to refer to her changes. There is much to like about "GINGER SNAPS" and serious viewers will appreciate the symbolism inherent from beginning to end.

Cool Show~ I love this show so much. I can't wait until season 6 comes out on DVD. I have 1-5 on DVD now. It is a great drama show with humor and great story lines,and a wonderful cast. Such a fun show~

A Walk In The Clouds I have owned this movie on VHS for over 10 years I think, but now that my husband and I are starting a grape vineyard I wanted him to see this movie - It's a Classic. I only have DVD Players up right now and wanted to see this movie again.  I Love it!  If you have a heart, you will love this movie.

I LOVE LUCY AND THESE SEASON 4 DVDS!!!! I watch "I Love Lucy" since I was a kid and once the show became available on DVD that I had to purchase each season of the show including this fourth season that has some great episodes including one of my favorite "I Love Lucy" episodes featuring William Holden. If you're Lucy fan, it is a MUST that you buy these Season 4 dvds.

Excited! I love science fiction movies.  Man vs. the unknown or man vs. man's tampering mistakes.  Then man has to undo the error.  They are real exciting!!!

AWESOME DVD!! Totally enjoyed Big 4 DVD! All the bands rocked, particularly Slayer! They do an excellant concert. Can't wait to see them live!! Will definitely be buying more concert DVDs.

Dragonball Z Fusion Reborn/Wrath of the Dragon Great storyline, packed with action. Very good item to collect for any Dragon Ball Z fan. Wish there were more to this set. Thanks for a great product!

Yet another Studio Ghibli classic! As you might know Studio Ghibli is like the Japanese Disney, and probably my favourite studio in the world, but they've created another masterpiece that's blown my mind.  I was so excited to see that Studio Ghibli was doing their rendition of "The Borrowers" that I could barely even stay in my seat while watching the trailer. From the fantastic art, to the brillant musical composition, or the creative story, this movie is a must have for anyone. Not just the Studio Ghibli fanatics (like myself) but it's a movie that everyone can enjoy (plus it's irresistable to not watch something that involves tiny little people).  The only downfall, is that in this 94 minute movie was too short. The dvd was in top condition and the extras were decent though I wish they might've had a behind-the-microphone extra, but I digress.  Overall, You just have to buy this movie, because trust me I didn't even watch this movie before I bought it because I knew it was automatically amazing. This goes for any of Hayao Miyazaki's or Studio Ghibli movies, just buy them, you really won't regret it.

An excellent film Outstanding performance by Louis Calhern and the plot is exellent. Anyone interested in American pastime should view this film. Thoroughly enjoyed watching this film.

Total Domination!! This video was just pure Awesomeness. For Some reason it lets you see the sisters in a more in depth look, even though its a performance. From the beautiful harmonies to the crowd participation this video is a MUST! I recommend it for any Clark Sister fan. SN: ITS VERY RARE!!

Maximum Surrealism Original, bizarre, provocative, Maximum Shame reveals many of Atanes' principal influences, including surrealist progenitors such as Bunuel, Arrabal, and Jean Cocteau as well as Greenaway, Lynch, Cronenberg, Ionesco, Stanislaw Lem, Philip K. Dick and Boris Vian.  This film amply demonstrate Atanes characteristic gifts for composition and staging combined with a knack for finding evocative, barren locations that reinforce his themes of power, oppression, exile or entrapment and the dream of alternate realities where freedom might be possible. The film begins with a woman (Ana Mayo) giving a disquisition on the staggering number of possible variations possible in the game of chess before moving on to a consideration of the number of possible alternate universes that potentially exist in reality according to modern physics. After she finally retires her distressed husband (Paco Moreno) gets out of bed and foretells the arrival of a catastrophe, the arrival of a black hole into which the world will be plunged and most likely destroyed that very night. After pronouncing this grim prophecy and staring at the night sky in anticipation, he crawls in terror under the bed, disappearing into that dark space. In a blink of an eye he finds himself in the alternate universe that remains after the disaster. He falls into a squalid deserted warehouse presided over by the Queen on roller skates, played with relish by Marina Gatell, who trusses up her subjects in bondage gear and denies them the ability to speak or eat while she rants histrionically at length.  Wandering in this strange new environment the husband, the Rook (all the characters are named after chess pieces) encounters the Queen, who immediately assumes a position of dominance over him.  After allowing him to suckle at her breast she has him impaled through the throat with a spear by a mute, idiot character, the Pawn.  His wife, the Bishop, wanders through the warehouse in search of her lost husband. For the time being the Rook is removed from the "game." The Queen has under her control one primary captive, an attractive woman (Ariadna Ferrer) with a fetish apparatus on her face that prevents her from eating (implicitly she is the King but never named as such). The Queen's domination of her prisoner appears to be part of an overall attempt to prevent the realization of some kind of prophecy, which entails the loss of her power and a reversal of the power dynamic. Throughout the film there is a subtle parallel with Pedro Calderon de la Barca's great play of the Spanish classical period Life is a Dream. There is another plot strand that involves the Knight (Ignasi Vidal, an impressive vocalist featured in both of the film's two unexpected by very effective musical numbers), who suggests that he is an angel and who references blueprints for a device that can manifest transverberation, a term derived from Saint Teresa de Avila.  The machine that would result from these plans is designed to bring about extreme or ecstatic states: Mystical or sexual transport, violence or death, or some combination thereof--they are all forms of violent rupture with things as they are, possible transcendence or escape, an opening to another dimension or order of being (including perhaps union with God).  Maximum Shame eschews conventional causality and yet there is a progression from the earlier scenes to the climax that has an underlying logic. Even more than Calderon de la Barca's play Maximum Shame is permeated by dreamlike indeterminacy. Its plot cannot be reduced to one simple log line. Like David Lynch's Lost Highway or even Last Year at Marienbad it is open to multiple interpretations.  It defies any easy genre categorization as well, perhaps explaining the difficulty the film has had in finding distribution.  In Maximum Shame Atanes' presents what is perhaps the definitive delineation of his themes of power and oppression.  But here the consolatory power of dreams or fantasies seems in question since the entire alternate world is itself essentially oneiric if not literally a dream -- or more accurately a nightmare permeated with the dynamics of domination, dread and subjugation.  This alternate universe is a trap; a suffocating enclosed world, where every variation in the "game" ultimately leads to the same result. Whatever the actual rules of this mysterious chess match (and it hard to tell) it always ends in oppressors and the oppressed, winners or losers: there is no escaping the nature of the game itself. The nightmare warehouse, a locus of radical isolation and constraint, is a totalized system in the mode of the extreme utopias or dystopias of discourse delineated by Roland Barthes in his Fourier/Sade/Loyola (whom Atanes cites as an influence). The warehouse of Maximum Shame is very particular closed universe, a freakshow wonderland that Ana Mayo's Alice ventures into. But it is also and more disturbingly a distilled mirror version of the real universe we all occupy right now.  This is highly edited from an essay I wrote on Atanes (The Complete Exile: The Films of Carlos Atanes; Bright Lights Film Journal, issue 72) by Robert Smart AKA Rob Same, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008AZQ87Q">Madonna 666</a>

best Christmas movie ever I grew up watching this movie every Christmas season. Had to get it because it's no longer played on TV which is very sad. When it arrives i'll be watching it with my daughter.

a real classic I have always been a John Wayne fan. With Fort Apache not only was the action all you would expect but the location of the filming set this picture in a whole different kind if western. I feel that it is one of his best

Really changed my opinion I saw this documentary when it appeared on HBO and it really changed my mind about the legal system. It's truly stunning to think how effective corporate propaganda against victims has been and how most people don't know the true facts of the case. Thank you so much for making this excellent and informative film.

A classic army movie This is the third best army movie. The first best is Catch 22. the second best is Kelly's Heroes. Thank God they didn't use John Wayne in any of them.

A Bizarre entry in the Henson Library There are muppets in this movie, but they are apart of the craziest story that Jim Henson always wanted to tell.

ZORRO ZORRO IS VERY GOOD QUALITY SOUND AND PICTURE PERFECT! I HAVEN'T WATCHED THE ENTIRE SERIES YET BUT IT IS GOING GOOD SO FAR. DEFINITELY BUY THIS IF YOU DON'T GET THE DISNEY ZORRO.

Wow! An amazing movie, such a touching story! Based on real life Great acting, so realistic! Tissues are a must when you watch it!

A Wonderful Film!  More than a "Sports Movie" The movie and the true story behind it (which is contained in the special features section) are both entertaining and inspiring.  A great testimonial of the triumph of the human spirit.  It's a great sports movie, but more than that, it's a wonderful story of one person's life acheivement.

Steve and Keira are surprisingly wonderful together When first seeing the trailer for seeking a friend I of course wanted to see it ( keira knightley is my fav actress) and Steve Carrels movies are usually enjoyable . Had to hurry out to see it the second week out because unfortanatly people just didnt give this wonderful movie a chance and It was down to 2 showings around me. However boy am I glad I rushed out to be able to see it while still on big screen. Seeking begins with everyone being told theres a meteor heading for earth that the space mission to to stop has failed. The movie goes all comedy for the first 45 min or so. I loved how differant people had so many differant reactions some are soleum some go do things and party like they never had before ( "brought the heroin") some ignore it all together like his housekeeper (" se you next week .. you need more windows") . Those are the things that makes this movie seen so real, You can picture how many differant people would react so many diffferant ways. So Keira and Steve who live in the same building though never actually met go on a road trip to go find his lost high school love. Along the way the and there dog ( sorry) .. no really thats his name sorry meet some old and new people from both there pasts . Even havving a ccrazy funny dinner at a lone standing resterant fiendzees .. But near the last 40 mins or so of this comedy it goes away from all of that , comedy that is .. This becomes one of the most heartwrenching and heartwarming dramas I've seen in awhile . And by the end we learn that stuff and people come and go but if you can accept and frgive in the end its only who your with that truley matters.. A great message from a great film with two although unlikly duoes they are as good on screen together as some of the great couples that you can think of. Ill def buy this for my collection when it comes out .. and hope you do do its worth it . wish more people would give it a chance .. thanks for reading

Comedy That Withstands the Test of Time I purchased the complete set of News Radio and find the series to be just as hilarious today as it was in the '90s. The entire ensemble was a perfect fit, delivering quick witted lines that keep you laughing in every episode. Phil Hartman, Stephen Root, and Vicki Lewis are hilarious in this show, as are Dave Foley, Maura Tierney, Khandi Alexander, Joe Rogan, and Andy Dick.

OMGred... Childhood is a beautiful thing.  It is full of excitement and wonderment and an innocence that is a shame to see slip through a child's plush little fingers.  When I look at my eldest daughter, now three, and her lavish lust for life I can't help but wish it would linger longer than I know it will.  That seems harsh, I'm sure, since adolescence does take its time (she's only three for Christ sake) but I'm only twenty-five and my life is already a bowl of exasperation.  Gone are the days of spinning in circles and curious stares at nature and endless storytelling huddled in the closet of my room surrounded by countless stuffed animals.  Gone are the days of reckless imagination and boundless curiosity.  I'm an adult.  Yuck.  I'm often fascinated by theatrical depictions of childhood, good and bad, since there are so many layers to the mind of a child and it is impressive to me when a film understands how to capture and cultivate those layers.  In recent years I have been moved, quite emphatically, by a few films; most notably `Where the Wild Things Are' (for so many reasons it's pathetic).  The other night I happened to catch a film barely over thirty minutes in length that spoke so vividly about the world of a child with barely a whisper (the dialog in the film is so limited that it was classified a silent film by TCM).  That film was `The Red Balloon' or `Le Ballon Rouge'.  This thirty-four minute short film by Albert Lamorisse starring none other than his very own son Pascal is a beautifully intoxicating film that navigates the rich innocence (birth and death) of a child with stark significance.  The film simply tells the story of a boy who finds a balloon and spends the day protecting it.  It follows him around and listens to him.  The other boys in his neighborhood want to destroy the balloon and the adults in his life want to discipline him for having it.  Pascal loves the balloon.  As I mentioned earlier, childhood is so layered.  There is no real cut and dry answer as to the meaning of this film, for life is rarely that black and white.  Some have noted they felt the film spoke of escape from the loneliness of childhood; mean parents and bullies and the like.  I understand that viewpoint completely.  For me though, `Le Ballon Rouge' is more about growing up and leaving childhood behind.  That balloon is a representation of all the dreams and aspirations we have in our youth.  When you are young everything seems possible.  You can be anything you want to be, and most parents try to enforce that idea in the minds of their children.  How often though, does life work out that way?  Having those ideals is a beautiful thing, but a certain air of realism comes into play as we age, and before we know it we have completely disregarded the life we once dreamed we'd live and settle into the more realistic, the more attainable; the more `normal' life.  Look at the way the slightly older children regard the balloon.  The pawn over it, chase after it, seek to destroy it.  The adults in Pascal's life look down on the balloon and it's presence as a burden, going as far as to discipline Pascal for entertaining the idea of `the balloon'.  It is almost as if the people around him will stop at nothing to destroy his dreams.  And then the dream is killed.  `Le Ballon Rouge' offers us a glimmer of hope though, as we watch Pascal find new dreams shortly after his balloon is deflated.  In a flurry, balloons from all over rush to the aid of their dying friend and then surround young Pascal, adopting him as their own and causing him to soar to new heights (quite literally).  The beauty of `Le Ballon Rouge' comes in the resolve that dreams don't HAVE to die.  As I mentioned, all too often we give up on those dreams, shucking them aside to live a more acceptable life.  That isn't to say that adulthood is a series of painful moments and a swell of regret.  In fact, I wouldn't trade my life for anything (despite the frustrated responsibilities that dull my enjoyment of everyday).  Still, as parents we feel obligated to put our children's futures on a pedestal, desiring them to become something more than we ever could dream of becoming.  In a way, I feel that this is what Lamorisse was doing with this film.  Youth is beautiful.  It is exciting and charming and new and daring.  Youth is inspiring, and Lamorisse didn't want Pascal to lose that part of himself.  `Le Ballon Rouge' broaches the realities of youthful dreams with the hopefulness that those dreams don't have to leave us entirely as we get older.  It's a mindset; an approach we take to life.  Maybe we need to broaden our understanding of what a 'dream' really is.  We may let go of our balloon, or we may have it shot down and trampled by those around us...but if that happens we need to find ourselves another balloon.  I found two, my daughters, and they are the most beautiful balloons I've ever seen.

All of her items are good I've read thru the reviews and yes, some are better then others, you can find other people making them as well. Something about Rachel really grabs the attention of kids starting out. My son started watching her at 2 1/2 as he is speech impaired. Some of her videos are better then others, like everything else. My son loved her and enjoyed her music and needed a beginners level. We have several of her DVD's and will be donating them as he no longer needs them....they help siblings and parents too...it really helped all of us as my son become less frustrated when trying to talk and we could understand while receiving therapy!

Awesome! I had high hopes for this movie given that it was compared to the Indiana Jones Trilogy (the last movie never happened.)  It absolutely exceeded my expectations.  I loved this movie and my 6 year old agrees!

love it I love this movie,---just another "Eastwood" classic!!The best part is it comes with 2 other "Eastwood"classics "HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER"="2 MULES 4 SISTER SARA"

Excellent video Great movie - my 2 year old simply loves Cars and this movie sends a good message about friendship. My daughter also enjoys this movie. It is a hit for all ages!

unbelievable performance by Theron If you appreciate amazing acting, you have to see this.  But be careful and be ready.  It is extremely depressing from the beginning scene and never gets better...only worse.  The character Theron portrays is such a sad one in every way, I could only watch this movie for 10-15 minutes at a time.  Sometimes I thought I was not going to be able to finish it but am so glad I did -- just for the experience. It is important to get a sense of the very, very tough times of so many in our world.

Must-Have For Playboy Fan If you ever bought a Playmate Video Calendar DVD, this is a must-have since you can avoid buying them all individually, by getting this collection. That's just what this collection is, just two Calendars reproduced on one disc, so you have 5 discs for the 10 years in the decade. A bonus disc collects 3 final years of the '80s. The early years don't have the songs or music for each Playmate that we are so fimilar with with the current editions. If you already collected the Video Calendars when they came out, this collections doesn't serve much use. But if you are missing some years, then you can consider buying this, since it's a great value for under 20 dollars.

A Line Drawn. This is a review of the film as well as the 1 disc DVD. First and foremost, yes, the aspect ratio alternates in the film. For film purists everywhere this will likely be a distraction, but I dare say, only at first. I prefer the 2:35 scope like most but the switch to the other ratio is during segments which were "intended" to be a feast for the eyes. Most of the action sequences and crowded visuals are enlarged so the eyes can focus. I found the larger the action sequences were, the more focus I had. But again, that's just me.  The 2:35 holds for the majority of the film and some beautiful shots are framed this way (as you will see). Flynn's living quarters and the dinner sequence especially. The End of Line club segment holds the ratio and is quite powerful.  The movie itself will be up to you to judge. But simply stating, it is a metaphor for what happens if you decide to make everything perfect. There have been criticisms for underwritten scenes, lack of continuity, etc., but there is connection and everything makes sense in the end. Accepting the conclusion is an opinion you must make for yourself. TRON lovers know this but explaining it to young children may be difficult.  The visuals and music are a feast for the senses. DAFT PUNK's score is used well and is very impressive for a first time score. There are hints of Vangelis, Bernard Herrman, and others, yes, but the inspiration is used with care.  The film is explosive at times and it has moments of dialogue that stretch but this is for explanation of all the splendor. To simply say "that's the way it goes" just won't do. Fans of the original will get the "in" jokes and "winks" for the camera. Some may just be bored, and that's OK. Does that make it a bad film, I don't think so. Some of the visuals are done "BY HAND" and the costumes are wonderful. The CGI is at its' peak but some may scoff at the "younger" Jeff Bridges. To me, it was a way of using CGI to an advantage rather than just blowing things up.  The performances are good, especially by Michael Sheen as Castor. For the time he has on screen he steals the show. Bridges, who is getting his just desserts as an actor, delivers as always. Watch out for Olivia Wilde. I say give her 2-3 years and she'll be the toast of Hollywood.  So, obviously I loved the film. Blu-ray or DVD, the aspect changes, and I don't know what to think about the 3-D home version. I suggest you refer to one of the other reviews (which are well written). The idea has continued. Hopefully the idea will continue to expand and there will always be a TRON that we can escape to.  END OF LINE.

Best Denzel performance & Best Spike Lee movie As a youngin I saw his famous picture with the AK-47 by the window. My father would repeatedly echo"by any means necessary." This movie is the real reason I became a Muslim. Elijah Muhammad is greatest teacher black men and women will have in America. Malcolm was hurt about him having children with other women but Elijah did this thru marriage & Islam. Neva forget the one that helps u be a better person. Peace to Master Fard Muhammad (Allah in person)

hard to find in a store. My daughter has already burned through one of these discs. She absolutely loves the wiggles. Me personally can't stand them. But it's not about me.. So if your looking for a great learning tool and a good way to get your kid up and dancing, this is it.... Have fun!!

Something to watch time and time again Sandra Bullock nails her role in this movie.  She becomes the feisty character of Leigh Ann with an overwhelming mother's heart and a pragmatic kick your butt mentality. Based on the true life story of Michael Oher and his neglected life of a drug addicted mother and his homeless state as a teenager.  She bullies him into the car, refusing to let him sleep on the streets and soon the family has pulled Michael in.  Once he indicates an interest in Football, Leigh Ann stands by and pushes him in the direction of incredible success. Very few movies have touched me the way that this one has.  I especially like the pictures at the end of the movie of the real Michael Ohr and his incredibly lovely family.  It brings it all home!

Outstanding Performance Browsing in the TV mini-series section of my video store I came across this 2 disc drama about Elizabeth.  Lots of respect for Helen Mirren as an actress whether in Prime Suspect or Elizabeth 2. What a revelation to see her in this film, and I could hardly believe it was produced as an HBO movie. She lives and breathes Elizabeth 1 and is so absolutely convincing that she will always be my image of this extraordinary monarch and person.  I was so impressed with the film that I purchased my own copy and have been lending it to friends who seem to be enjoying it as much as I have.

the girls The Spice Girls, what more can you say, beautiful, bold, funny, this film is so fun to watch, I love these girls.

Awesome So I got O Brother, Where art Thou?, because I completely adore the movie, and George Clooney. The disc and the case was in perfect condition, it was wrapped and all was good. Thanks guys^.^ Now I can show my favorite movie off to my friends!

Cold War Classic In this nearly forgotten masterpiece, director Carol Reed weaves a grim tapestry of the early days of "The Cold War". Set in postwar gutted Berlin, a young Claire Bloom flies to Berlin to visit her military/doctor brother and his German wife (Hildegarde Neff). James Mason plays Ivo, an East Berliner with a shady past. This movie is difficult to review without giving away many spoilers in the plot. Briefly, Mason seeks asylum in West Berlin. Bloom is mistaken for her sister in law and is kidnapped and taken to the Eastern sector. Mason moves in to free Bloom. The images that follow their escape are bleak; fleeing through skeletons of unfinished buildings in stark snowy weather, a brothel, a boy on a bicycle devoted to Mason who eventually is the source of his downfall, is about all I can say without giving too much away.  The gritty B&W photography against the backdrop of war-shattered Berlin and the somber musical score, perfectly set the perspective of this gloomy drama. The performances by the three leads are superb. Mason had a long and illustrious career in films. Bloom and Neff were largely overlooked by Hollywood, however; Bloom fared somewhat better. Discovered by Charlie Chaplin, she had a spotty career in films eventually finding success on the Broadway stage. She is the foremost interpreter of Shakesperian ladies. She later won acclaim as an author if two autobiographies. She lends solid support and grace to every project she is involved with. Neff was wasted by Hollywood and became a bestselling author. Reed as many already know, is an acclaimed British director.  This film is only available on Amazon Instant Video. It has never been released in Region 1 DVD, and it should be. It is a great film that deserves preservation on disc and is highly recommended.

The gay documentary of the era BEYOND GAY: THE POLITICS OF PRIDE (2009, 90 minutes, presented by Ken Coolen). In this interesting and very cogent documentary, filmmaker Ken Coolen of Vancouver travels the world in search of Gay Pride - or at least to attend Gay Pride marches all over the world. I love the 'co-starring' role of the immortal Gilbert Baker, a Stone Wall Inn veteran and creator of the Rainbow Pride Flag.  But as Coolen says, "A Pride parade isn't the end of our struggle; it's just the beginning."  This is a fun film, neither stodgy nor excessively light - Coolen travels the world and profiles each country with a nifty little screen animation which he calls the "FREEDOMETER": it's a gauge showing the level of gay equality in each place. (America's does not rank as highly as you might think.)  Aside from profiling a few Canadian MPs, Coolen visits Zurich, Switzerland for the 2007 conference that kicked off their Pride parade. He profiles Ms. Clare Dimyon, a British Quaker and lesbian activist who flies Mr. Baker's Rainbow Pride flag from embassies all over the place. She has been to Latvia and Russia ... who knows where she'll end.  We are introduced to the brave Nikolai Alekseev of Moscow Pride; Tomasz Backowski of the Polish Fundacja Rownowsci ("Equality Parade"); the handsome Sahran Abeysundara and Rosanna Caldera of Equal Ground, the Pride movement in Sri Lanka (Ms. Caldera talks about the horrific practice of "curative rape" done to lesbians in her country).  Coolen also gets a heartwrenching interview with &eacute;migr&eacute; Gareth Henry lately of Jamaica, now living in Toronto. Gareth reminds us that Jamaica is statistically the most homophobic place on earth; Gareth himself has had 13 friends murdered, martyred to the cause, all murdered by police mobs!  This film begins and ends with Coolen organizing Vancouver's Gay Pride parade, and when compared to what we see in other places, it is a bitter reminder of how far this planet has to go to become truly civilized. In the meantime, I strongly recommend this film as family- and education-friendly, important and revelatory.  It may very well be the gay documentary of the era.  "Is [Gay Pride] a movement? Then we should move something!!" -Tomasz Backowski

Great movie This is such a great movie!  If you like foreign films you will enjoy this movie.  This guy is a cellist and his orchestra gets dissolved so he is left with out a job.  That is where the movie takes off.  It is a little slow in the beginning, however so well worth the wait.

BE ADVISED: "GMC" Release Is Season 2: Ep. 10 to Season 3: Ep. 14 This is the mistake I just figured out tonight (AFTER I removed the wrapper & discs)...  At the very bottom (the last sentence) on the back cover, it states: "Please Note: This Package Contains Episodes 23 To 45 Of Heartland As Seen On GMCTV".  I went online and compared the original CBC/Canadian lineup with the episodes named in the "GMCTV's Completed Second Season" set, and figured out that it is in fact season 2 episode 10 to season 3 episode 14 (so it's missing episodes 14 to 22 if you're like me and own the original Canadian set of the "Complete Season One").  FYI, Heartland in Canada has had an 18 episode run for seasons 2 to 5.  Upon further checking with different online retailers, I'm wondering if the Canadian releases are being phased out (it's getting harder and harder to find them on Amazon US, and even on eBay, even Amazon CA is selling these sets).  Although season 5 is set to release on Sept. 18 on Amazon.ca .  To sum it up, you CAN'T mix and match the releases (otherwise you will be missing episodes)!!  Decide if you want the first run/Canadian dvd's (which as I noted earlier- they appear to be phasing out), OR wait longer for GMCTV to release theirs (if they're just now beginning to air the middle of season 3 as the insert said, they may release their next set at the end of this year or early next.) _______  As for the show, I give it a 5 star rating; it's definitely one of my (few) favorite current shows I watch.  I actually first saw the show on the "CW Network" in the US in late 2010, and soon afterwards caught up on all the episodes posted online. Now, I'm current, and am awaiting the new season 6 on Sept. 16 (CBC/Canada)! _______  P.S. I contacted Amazon to ask which version they're selling currently, because under product details it lists "DVD Release Date: June 5, 2012"; so if they are selling the "GMC" labeled one, the picture needs to be changed to avoid any further confusion (the new picture has Amy & Ty, with wild horses in the background, and of course the orange bar with "As Seen On GMC")! The reply was: "I'll notify our catalog team about this and will ask them to correct the error. You'll see the change in 5-7 business days. We need to be able to verify the accuracy of new information from multiple sources."

The real deal David Khan's DVD program is perfect. As a student of another 'non-associated' school I felt that too much time was being spent on conditioning and not enough time was being spent on actual technique. I am not in the greatest physical condition and a class based on intense conditioning was not helping me. The format, the breakdown, and the clarity of the demonstration of the combatives is perfect. It has a private lesson feel.  I love this set.

Inspiring I bought this movie at a going-out-of-business sale at a local video store. No expectations going in, but boy was I ever inspired. I've since watched the movie 5 more times, most recently, during a stint where I've been working 7 days a week, 12 hours a day. And yes, again, the movie moved and inspired me. Not every Hollywood endeavor needs to be an epic, special-effects masterpiece filled with the latest big screen heart-throbs. This movie is simple but compelling, moves along well, combines great scenery, a nice story-line, humor, intrigue and a little, I wish-I-were-there aspect to it. I was surprised at the negative reviews initially, but hey, everyone has different opinions. The movie is what it is. If you love adventure, the idea of travel, of life lived on the edge, with unexpected twists and turns; this movie has something for you. If you're in a rut and want a diversion, want something that might give you a sense that there is something else out there, you should probably watch it. Of the people I've recommended it to, all have liked it while one said it did have a B feel to it. And it does. Again, this is not To Kill A Mockingbird, or Shawshank Redemption, or Avatar. It is a good, fun movie that might just be right for you. Enjoy!

Great movie Guy Ritchie has done it again.  If you liked Snatch you'll love Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.  Classic East side English gangster film with plenty of action and laughs to boot. Many actors you recognize if you frequent English films.

The BEST of the series! This is my favorite of the series.  Since I've only seen it on Comedy Central with all the "inappropriate material" deleted, I had to get the real thing so I can see what I've been missing.  Freakin' hilarious!  If you don't laugh out loud, you need to have your funny bone examined.

The ULTIMATE Comedy One word: Hilarious. You can see this a million times and never stop laughing. All though it is a good comedy, that doesn't mean there is no good acting. FYI: AMAZING ACTING. Sandra is at her prime. Ryan is a good addition. And it was PURE JOY to see Bette Whit perform. She was hilarious-her comments and facial expressions-PRICELESS! The chemistry is perfect between all the actors on screen and that is what produced a perfect movie, as well as a perfect script.  Spoilers: Good Scenes: 1) Campfire scene where Bette is Indian and Sandra does a dance 2) Bette fakes a heart attack 3) Ryan and Sandra tell their engagement story 4) Sandra and Ryan sing

The Greatest Historical Epic Of All Time This is the big one.  The one that made history and changed how the world looks at movies forever!  The story is simply awe inspiring, and the acting some of the best ever seen.  At the time, this was the biggest and most expensive film ever made, with thousands of actors, massive scale replicas of roman colleseums and triremes, and beautiful costumes and art.  The movie itself is rather long, but the plot and dialog is nice and thick throughout and will keep the audiance entertained.  This film is noteworthy for saving MGM studios from bankruptcy and for catapulting Charleton Heston to stardom.  The original epic movie, Ben-Hur is, was, and always will be one of cinemas greatest acheivements, and is a must own for any movie lover.

An Amazing Film that both entertains and shocks the audience. This DVD came in perfect condition from the seller.  What a classic.  Kingsly and Weaver take you through hell and back.  Great!  A MUST WATCH and OWN!  I'm glad its part of my DVD collection.

A Quick Preview <span class="tiny"> Length:: 3:11 Mins  </span>This short preview will give you a look at the content of this excellent DVD.  If you're a soccer coach, this 3-DVD set featuring very experienced Dutch coaches, will absolutely help you to teach your team how to play better soccer.

Amazing! My fiance is crazy about this movie and I have to agree that is funny and great to spend some quality time with your family in a cold day! Whenever we want to laugh and cuddle we watch the movie! Good quality sound and image, plus the extras and games are very nice!!

Extraordinary film Beautiful, and genuinely moral (in a substantive, rather than puritanical, sense). Although quite slow-paced, this movie is never for a moment boring--it's truly spellbinding; a term I don't use lightly.

best yoga dvd I've ever purchased This product is an excellent value.  There are 3 DVD's for a very reasonable price.  But my favorite thing about this set is that I'm able to do the beginning routines and look forward to progessing to the other routines.

A fun sci-fi comedy I'm almost embarrassed to say how many times I've watched Galaxy Quest. It's just good fun & has a number of well cast characters. I'm not good at remembering actor's names, but Prof. Snape from the Harry Potter movies and the guy who plays Monk are just plain great.

Great I bought the movie for a friend of mine and she was so happy. She wanted it bad, so I went on Amazon and found it, it was in real good condition and she has watched it over and over.

LOVE BUGS LIFE Downloaded Bugs Life for my youngest daughter (9) who had never seen it.  So fun to see her watch it for the first time.  It's now one of her favorites.

Great!! I bought this set from the fond memories of watching the first Gidget with my Grandmother. Each film is of fantastic quality and all together a great picture! Gidget goes to Rome is probably my least favourite of the set but all together they are each good movies that I and my family really enjoy! Wonderful pricing on top made this a great deal :)

America Live in Chicago I have a nice collection of around 200 concert DVDs', and I am extremely happy I just added this DVD to that collection.  Excellent audio and video.  I naturally have my top 20 concerts and this one has been added to that list, absolutely wonderful show.  If you grew up with this band, then it is a must have.

Great I have seen this movie before and wanted to add to my collection. Great movie, wonderful scenes and I get chills when I watch it. Have not had a great chill movie in a long time.

Amy and Kathryn's movies I bought a copy of Mary Poppins for my daughters and they love it. I saw this movie when I was a kid 40 years ago and wanted to share it with them. They are still sign Chin Chimeny!

A Film Classic This is a film classic on a large scale.  You may expect that when George Cukor is the director. and the producer is David O. Selznick of "Gone with the Wind" fame.  This was a time when the Hollywood studios controlled the actors and built up a vast stable of talent.  MGM studio enlisted some of its best for this movie.  The movie made Freddie Bartholomew a huge child film star. W.C. Fields is cast perfectly as Mr. Micawber, the deadbeat with a heart of gold whose opportunity for success is always just around the corner. Basil Rathbone does his usual great acting as Davy's cruel father-in-law, Mr. Murdstone. Lionel Barrymore is solid as the plain and beneficent old salt, Daniel Peggotty.  The supporting cast is also full of some of the greatest character actors in film.  Also included is a very young and beautiful Maureen O' Sullivan as Davy's wife, Dora.  Most who read this review know the story of Charles Dickens's greatest novel and do not need a retelling here. What they will be happy to know is how well the movie follows the novel, unlike so many other movies that do not.  Full of colorful characters, sharply drawn good and bad, and grand in its scale, parents and children can enjoy this youthful and innocent story of its time.  Not only is the novel a period piece of its time.  David Copperfield, the movie, is one of its time as well. This movie is well worth seeing, at any age, almost seventy years after its making, whether you have read the novel or not.

Simply Awesome! I remember seeing the first 2 of these movies with my dad and brother in the theatre when I was younger...and then number 3 with a good friend of mine after it's release.  Great movies!  I had owned them all on DVD at one point but had gotten rid of them eventually after I had gotten a Blu-Ray player, because I was decided on upgrading them to Blu-Ray, as I felt they were Blu-Ray worthy titles.  It took me a while, but I finally got this set of them, and just in time too, as Ghost Protocol is due out on DVD & Blu-Ray within a few days of me writing this review.  It, too, was also a great movie and I will be buying it on Blu-Ray as well.  Great movies if anybody has never seen them...I recommend checking them out!

Batman: Year One..... Batman: Year One is the latest animated movie from Warner Premiere. Based upon the Frank Miller classic of the same name, it tells the story of Jim Gordon and Bruce Wayne as they first come to Gotham City to clean the streets of evildoers. Hate to admit it but it reminded me alot of the animated Spawn series on HBO with its' grittiness. While this animated direct-to-video feature is a very close adaptation of Miller's novel and I enjoyed it immensely, I did have some qualms about the feature as a whole. First and foremost, by the time you get into the story good, it's over. Given, for something of this nature, that might not be such a bad thing. But, it would've help this feature alot more if we got to know the characters a little better to understand what drove them in the first place to do what they do in the feature. For that alone, it makes the story a little dry in its' narrative. Second, although a minor complaint, is the fact that Warner decided to go with the animation style it did instead of going with something a little closer to artist David Mazzucchelli.  For the most part, everything works in this feature. People will no doubt draw comparisons to the movie, Batman Begins, with this feature(it too was based upon Batman: Year One and Batman:The Long Halloween)...with people praising the movie more. However, I like this alot more as it follows the novel more closely. Frank Miller's story is outstanding.  While this might not be Warner's best to date, it is one that shows Warner is getting better at what they do. I hadn't seen a feature yet from Warner and DC that I didn't like(which, unfortunately, I can't say about Marvel and its' animated features as there have been a few misses). Still, if you're into ol' Batsy, you can't do any better than Batman: Year One.

Po is Back In this animated sequel, we rejoin Po (Jack Black) and the Furious Five in the routine rescue of a small village being stripped of any metal in their possession. While success appeared a forgone conclusion, something Po observes on an opponent leaves him dumbstruck and sends him flashing back to his childhood. Outraged by his combat failure, the Five and Master Shifu (Dustin Hoffman) inform him that he is not to join them in their duties.    Elsewhere, we learn that the party behind the plundering intends to use the metal for raw material in a weapon; a weapon that "stops kung fu". Upon hearing that it was a panda that nearly thwarted the effort, he's noticeably unnerved. The reason being that a soothsayer forcibly assisting him long ago told him that a panda would be his undoing. Meanwhile, Po has returned home to his father to unravel the mystery.    I don't know if I was expecting a second film after the first one, and it would stand up on it's own without one, but I enjoyed this sequel immensely. The origin story, the identity struggle, the final confrontation and most of the intervening events are highly entertaining. A worthy follow-up.

Thank you Debra! For the first time in a very long time I am actually motivated to get myself moving!  I was dieting for my health and stuck!  Thank you Debra!  You are someone we can relate to!  I was so tired of "Barbie" jumping around in her tiny leotard that I never could stay with it.  You're the best!  And thank you, Amazon, for offering ths terrific product!

Finally, they have got it right. This is the 5th time I've bought this movie. 1 VHS, 3 DVD, and now the Blu-ray in 2012. The deleted scenes/outtakes/edits are great for fans of the film. Looks and sounds as excellent as can be expected, certainly much better than the early DVD editions.  I don't know how they can improve on this version to make me buy the movie again. Maybe they can CGI the animation so it looks slickly professional and full HD, and not like one guy making crude animations. Or get Graham Chapman to do some commentary... I don't why Graham can't be arsed, it's not like he has been busy the last 20 years or so.

Damn good I have seen this movie numerous times and its been out for a few years now and couldnt believe i havent bought it yet.  So i finally bought it and it was well worth it.  This movie should be a must own movie for fans of fighting, action and very intense detective work.  Get it..

Lady and the Tramp Blue-ray/Dvd Combo in DVD packaging What can you say about a Disney movie other then an excellent movie and well re-produced on both DVD & Blue Ray. Have it for many years on VHS but once you have gotten use to DVD it is hard to go back to VHS, for the DVD adds so much more to the color and quality of the movie. This movie is lovely and the music adds another nice dimension to it. You will not be sorry if you purchased this movie.

great christian story I found the DVD to be a great christian story set in todays troubles and time. For me it was heart warming and helpfull. Just great viewing!

Love the Doc! While I don't feel this series was as strong as the first four, I wouldn't have missed it and can't wait for Series 6 which I guess has been given the "green light".  Just feel the writing and character development was better in the earlier series.  Don't feel Louisa's mother added much to the story and too much time was wasted on her.  It would be great if Doc Martin got a smart, savvy receptionist for a change to give him a run for his money.  I do think if you've enjoyed 1-4 you won't want to go without this,and here's hoping Series 6 will be back to their old, wonderful standards.  In the mean time, escape to Port Wenn!

Brilliant! Sherlock is back!! Such a clever, witty and intriguing series. Updated exceptionally well for the 21st century-- I really hope season 2 is in the works. You won't be disappointed!

Notorious slasher finally gets a worthy DVD release I'm one of those who has been waiting for this film to see a proper DVD release ever since the defunct Program Power label announced they were working on it over 10 years ago.  Sure, there has been a cut UK DVD release (from a poor quality master) as well as a bootleg VCD release, but after years of waiting, Code Red finally gives us the real deal.  NIGHTMARE, aka NIGHTMARES IN A DAMAGED BRAIN, is perhaps the most artistic and affecting slasher film of the 1980s.  It's also seriously sleazy and inappropriate for youngsters, going way beyond the R-rating that 21st Century Distribution tried to claim it earned upon its initial release.  Though it has its share of blatant faults (some as a result of interference by the film's producers), it packs a bigger punch than any other slasher film from the era that I can think of.  Sure, flicks like THE PROWLER were nasty in terms of gore, but NIGHTMARE goes a step beyond that and actually manages to be a truly emotional experience.  I have watched this movie maybe 20 to 30 times since I first saw it on video back in the '80s, and believe it or not, I get a bit teary eyed at key scenes even still.  The film's pluses include above average acting from the leads (specifically Baird Stafford, Sharon Smith and Mik Cribben), exceptionally gory violence (let's face it, why else would you watch a slasher film?), an overall vibe of unpleasantness, an obvious love for the material by the director, and a truly exceptional and emotional score by the elusive Jack Eric Williams (why hasn't his name popped up since?).  Minuses include some serious lapses in logic and a few blatantly phony special effects.  As for the DVD, the release had its share of setbacks, and knowing this, it's amazing that we have what we do have here.  There is not one but THREE different transfers of the film, and as others have said, the one you'll come back to is the 16x9 one on the second disc.  All prints used for the transfers have significant damage at the reel changes, but this is by far the best this film has ever looked on home video.  Unfortunately the lengthy interview with Romano Scavolini is not subtitled, but to my surprise, I felt that the other interviews and commentary clarified enough that I didn't feel as if I was missing too much as a result of this.  While the comments from Cleve Hall and Baird Stafford are especially insightful (as is the brief interview with Ed French), it is a shame that Tom Ward's piece (21st Century distributor) as he is interviewed by the film's editor, is essentially worthless.  It is obvious that Ward remembers little about the film's problems getting played, as he states there were no problems whatsoever when in fact the film was cut by many theater owners or projectionists due to complaints or anticipated complaints due to the excessive gore and/or sex.  Having the film's editor's voice on the interview without hearing him comment on the film is a missed opportunity as well.  If you know about the film, you probably know that it went out with the credit that Tom Savini was the Special Effects Director.  The various interviews clarify exactly what roles each effects technician played and how Savini's name got on the credits.  All said, I can strongly recommend this DVD to any fan of '80s slasher films.  I am well aware that for some reason this film polarizes horror film fans -- I have met a few who absolutely hate this movie -- but it really deserves to be revisited, and Code Red's efforts to finally bring it to us should be recognized.

Really Surprised Me !!!! Don't try to make sense of this movie or pick it apart. Just enjoy it for what it is- a really entertaining well done movie! It's a good old fashioned western meets a good sci-fi movie. It's one of the most unique movies I have seen in a long time. Cool looking aliens, good acting, mystery and lots of action. It's a fun way to spend two hours!

Magical and Enchanting I inadvertently saw this movie on one of my premium cable channels.  Greatly surprised as I did not see any publicity at all about this movie.  Even more surprising was the movie itself.  Virginia Madsen has been in many movies over the years and deserves a great deal of credit for her performances.  Morgan Freeman of course, is a wonderful actor with a soothing type of voice (hence his many narrations found in sundry types of films).  Here, he plays a former award winning writer of westerns that through the tragedy of losing his wife and his crippling, wheelchair confining injury has become a self-admitted alcoholic.  Madsen plays a soon to be divorcee with children.  They both meet at a lakeside resort and from that point on a warming relationship is developed.  Their performances in these roles are wonderful.  I found this movie to be somewhat magical, enchanting, entertaining, and just a plain enjoyment to view.  I definitely recommend this movie for viewing or adding to a family oriented DVD collection.

PRAISE FOR A CLASSIC THIS FILM HAS GOT TO BE ONE OF THE FIVE GREATEST MOTION PICTURES OF ALL TIME&CHANEY SRS GREATEST PERFORMANCE.I CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT THIS GIFTED ACTOR WOULD HAVE GIVEN US HAD HE LIVED FOR MORE YEARS.THERE PROBABLY WOULD HAVE BEEN NO LUGOSI OR KARLOFF SINCE CHANEY WAS CONSIDERED FOR THE LEADS IN BOTH DRACULA&FRANKENSTEIN.BOTH OF THOSE FILMS ARE PALE IN COMPARISON TO A MASTERPIECE OF CINEMA LIKE THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.

Excellent movie This movie was VERY good and enjoyed by all. the acting was superb and the action kept you going throughout the movie

by far the best documentary on the Apollo program Imagine sitting on a front porch talking to an old astronaut about landing on the moon. A very intimate film. Amazing score.

Loved it! :) I love this movie! :) it is in great quality and i would recommend it if you're from a foreign country. It worked well with my zone free DVD player :) I'm satisfied

Soooo damn good I fell in love with this movie the first time i saw it. The story, actors and music is amazing. I listen to the songs in this movie almost everyday. Its a love story that gets plunged into the mafia underworld. Even though its called Drive its not all about driving, its about what drives people to live and love. You will not be disappointed. Heres a link to the soundtrack all done my professional bands. Desire, Kavinsky, College... [...]

Good movies Cast Away is a good movie. I'm scared to go in an airplanes for the fact that it can crash. And you never know where the airplane will crash. Specially if it crashes in the water. I don't know how to swim. But either way this movie was interesting on all the way's he came up with to stay alive for four years.  But once he was found and went back home it is real sad that his long time girl friend, Kelly, was now married and they had a child. Kelly is the one thing that kept him alive for four years. Now that he is back you can see in Kelly eyes that she wishes she could leave her husband for her true love. But it wasn't going to happen. In the end it seemed he was going to find love in another woman.

Wonderful I have many Elvis videos; his movies, documentaries, concert footage, etc.  I really enjoyed this one because it shows what all my others don't; Elvis in the latter years.  This video is a must for all Elvis fans.  Very enjoyable.

No Comparison Comparing The Secret In Their Eyes with The White Ribbon is like comparing the works of Van Gogh with Rembrandt: both were master painters, but their works express very different techniques, historical times, and themes. Do I now find myself in the position of stating Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" is a greater painting than say, Rembrandt's "Portrait of Aristotle?" I will never do that. Both films are visual and thematic masterpieces, but operate very differently and tell extremely different stories. At its heart, Eyes is a lush, conflicted romance that is splendidly resolved after a terror filled tale of murder and revenge that occurs in the 1970s to the present; on the other hand, Ribbon is a laser-like, blatant, cool tale of repression and cruelty that focuses on destructive familial details in a small German town prior to WWI.  These two marvelous films are supreme examples of film art, neither appealing to all tastes. But at this level, each one should be judged on its own merits. Go out of your way to watch both, and learn how powerful and interesting certain films can be.

lion king II this is a great movie I enjoyed it very much would recomend it for anyone intrested. Also would make a great gift for that special person.

Dr. Dyer has changed my life! Dr. Wayne Dyer is a great speaker. He will capture you. He's real & great guy. He gets 5 stars from me and I'll bet you think the same.

A Must Have for Every Parent! I have over 15 years of experience with babies and have unwittingly used some of the techniques explained and demonstrated in this video, and I still found it to be enlightening and helpful to the point that I'm now giving it as my signature baby shower gift.  Every parent, mothers and fathers, should watch this video.  It will give mothers (whether new or experienced) a huge jump start in the learning curve of baby soothing and it will give fathers resources so they can be (and feel) effective and useful.  If you only purchase one educational book or video for your self-education as parent to a baby, this MUST be it!

Ghost Love this movie and Nicholas Cage brings it to life.  The special effects where excellent and the story line.  Not a dull moment in the movie and all around the acting of other cast was excellent.

One of the Best Documentary Series EVER ! Prepare to descend into the world of the most dangerous organizations - and men - on earth. Hosted by Robert Stack (Unsolved Mysteries), LORDS OF THE MAFIA is one of the most comprehensive and far-reaching exposes of Organized Crime ever made. It's a real shame that this Set is so difficult to find, this is without a doubt one of the best documentary series ever made about Organized Crime. One of the best documentary series ever made, period. CRIME INC, the documentary released in 1984, is a wonderful series and is probably the greatest documentary series I have ever seen. But in many ways LORDS OF THE MAFIA is more interesting than Crime INC, simply because it covers so many different criminal organizations and so many different countries. The United States, Japan, China, Columbia, Russia, Mexico, Italy, The U.K., Jamaica, even Vietnam are covered in these documentaries. Very impressive list. All the episodes are interesting and very well researched. Of course the host, Robert Stack, is wonderful and is doing ( as always ) a perfect job. His voice always add something special to a documentary, and him being the host of these episodes is really a plus.  Overall I highly recommend this DVD set, this series is really amazing. You'll learn more about Criminal organizations from all over the globe, from New York to Jamaica, from Vietnam to Russia. If you have a chance to buy this set then please do, you won't regret it, this is by far one of the best documentary series I have ever seen and this series will never get old. So this set contains 7 disc:  1. NEW YORK / NEW ORLEANS From Tommy Lucchese to Tony "Ducks" Corallo and Anthony "Gas Pipe" Casso, this is the inside story of the rise and fall of the first family of the Mafia in America, filled with extraordinary surveillance tapes and testimony from the men who helped topple their criminal empire.... For decades, Carlos Marcello ran the Big Easy as his own personal kingdom. But when he became the unwilling target of investigations by the Kennedy Administration, evidence suggests he engineered a drastic solution to his troubles.  2. JAPAN / CHINA Footage of sacred ceremonies exposes the inner workings of the legendary Yakuza, while Asian crime experts and undercover agents reveal how the group profits by blurring the boundaries between illegal and legitimate businesses.... With a heritage that reaches back centuries and an iron grip over their members, the mysterious Triads are involved in everything from human smuggling to movie making. In Hong Kong, San Francisco, and Australia, we see how their worldwide empire is run - and how law enforcement is fighting back.  3. MEXICO / COLUMBIA Go inside one of the most profitable criminal empires ever established - the trafficking network that moved tens of billions of dollars of drugs through Mexico every year. And FBI and Customs agents reveal why they were essentially powerless to stop it.... Pablo Escobar. In the early days of the war on drugs, he was public enemy #1. Top officials detail how he forever changed the business of drugs, and rare footage follows his career from its origins to his death in a hail of bullets.  4. LOS ANGELES / VIETNAM With roots in the racial unrest of the '60s, the Crips went from being a street gang to a nationwide criminal power. In an exclusive, first-time interview, Gregg "Batman" Davis, an original member of the Crips, dispels myths and sheds light on the group and the man behind it.... Go on the beat with the cops of Westminster, California, know as "Little Saigon," to see how former refugees are changing the face of crime. And in Australia, one politician's crusade against these violent criminals ended in tragedy.  5. RUSSIA / JAMAICA In the aftermath of the Cold War, a powerful new criminal syndicate has emerged from the former Soviet Union. This compelling look at the "Russian Mob" includes a defiant jailhouse interview with one of its ruthless leaders: Vyacheslav Ivankov.... The leader of the "Shower Posse" exploited his connections at the highest levels of the Jamaican government to establish a vicious criminal network that left over 1,400 people dead. But those same connections likely lead to his brutal death - burned in his jail cell while awaiting extradition.  6. BRITAIN / SICILY Vincent Harve, Director of National Crime Intelligence in Britain, details the differences that separate European crime syndicates from their American counterparts. And explore the saga of the notorious Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie, who dominated London in the '50s and '60s.... A comprehensive look at the Italian government's effort, spearheaded by the prosecutor Giovanni Falcone, to break the Sicilian Mafia led by Toto Riina, nicknamed "The Beast."  7. THE GLOBAL MENACE This final hour of Lords of the Mafia reveals how today's criminal syndicates have embarked on an unprecedented eral of cooperation. From the Sicilian-American "pizza connection," to the unbelieveable swagea investigators dubbed "20,000 kilos under the sea," This gripping program explores dramatic stories that show how much the world of crime has changed in the last few years.

Bravo! How can you go wrong with "The Nanny"?  Loveable main characters and supporting cast and such a delight leaving ya with a good feeling.

Worthy of any Buster Keaton Collection While there's no Cops, The Goat or Neighbors in this "shorts" collection, I found Buster to be his usual comical self.  Notable shorts are The Gold Ghost, Allez Oop, One Run Elmer, Grand Slam Opera (Buster's moves are great!!) and Jail Bait.  Loads of smiles and laughs!!  Worthy of any Buster Keaton collection.

Alvin and the Chipmonks: The Chipmonk Adventure Cute movie.  Good to watch when in the mood for something funny and silly.  Plus, for those of us who grew up watching Alvin and the Chipmonks its a great movie to watch when you want to feel better.

Can now watch it anytime I got tired of never catching it on TV, so I bought it.  I've read the books, so I'm disappointed the movies don't go further.  I'm a lover of Anne of Green Gables, Sound of Music, Christy, etc.  Yeah, now I can watch it anytime.

Definitely worth having!!! This was a wonderful movie to watch!  I'd heard a lot about it online, and of course was intrigued when I heard the same guys behind "Shawn of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz" were a part of it.  I definitely rate this movie in my top ten favorites.  The characters were all well-defined and engaging, the plot was intriguing and felt realistic, and the aliens are very well designed and utilized as villains.  I highly recommend this movie to anyone who likes humor, classic alien invasions stories, and clever, witty dialogue.

Eye opening movie This is a good movie - opens your eyes to the control that larger corporations have over the food that shows up in our markets.

A Movie to Watch a 1,000 Times This is one of the finest movies ever.  It was produced during World War II in 1942.  The filming of Casablanca has some very interesting facts and trivia.  For example, the individuals that play the Nazis in the movie were all Jewish immigrants.  I recommend reading the book, "Round Up The Uusual Suspect," The Making of Casablanca.

Let your voice be heard This is an excellent movie, outlining people's perception of being poor.  On one hand, you have a micro-economic thriving community that others view as the slum and needs improvement.  In the farmlands there are a people who feel that they have all the wealth that will last generations and a company that feels the solution to their issue is to tame nature.  This movie really gives a balanced view to all sides of the story and allows one to see that everyone has good intentions.  It really is thought provoking and definitely opens the door to a good discussion amongst friends.

Must-See! Red State is a BRILLIANT modern horror/thriller on dvd now from Kevin Smith (Silent Bob). EXCELLENT, thought provoking, politically charged, but entertaining. Must See! Probably better to see without seeing the trailer, but see it any way you can. Loved it.

love I had to have - all the Christmas movies I grew up with. All my friends want to watch - they grew up with these movies too

Orwell, Obama & 1984:  A Common Vision Since the ascendancy of Obama, I have used the title above to describe the vision of Obama and the totalitarian wing of the Democratic Party.  The ultimate expression of this vision is their rhetoric of Republicans as enemies of society, and the transformation of individuals from people into wasteful consumers of social resources in the form of healthcare, when such resources can be used to "better" society, a waste that the government must control.  (Betterment of society is a truth only the state can know).  The Obama vision of healthcare is well expressed publicly in Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel's graph of an individual's worth to society and corresponding worth for medical services.  Both babies and the elderly in Obama's vision will receive the least amount of healthcare due to their least value status to society.  To maintain infant mortality statistics, an infant will not be considered born for 24 hours and not contribute to mortality statistics unless dead after living into the second day.  The movie V for Vendetta is an amazing replication of the Obama, Pelosi and Reid vision for America.  Unbridled power by the state and the party that controls the state (explaining Obama, Pelosi and Reid's most violent opposition to justices and judges who do not believe in the Democratic Party totalitarian vision). The movie describes the sycophantic support of Obama, Pelosi and Reid by the mainstream media.  The movie makers anticipated  the future turn in American politics in the election of Obama and the control of the American federal government by the totalitarian Democratic Party.  Yet all is not lost, the movie also anticipated the Tea Party the grassroots up rising of ordinary people against the totalitarian vision of the Democratic Party.  Most amazing a movie.  The motto now will be Orwell, Obama & 1984:  A Common Vision; Ripe for V for Vendetta.

Older is Better Great movie!  So glad to be able to have found it and receive it quickly for a decent price.  I am finding these older movies more and more enjoyable and my 84 year old mother is able to follow them more easily than newer ones.  Now that many DVD rental places are closing it is hard to find these old movies but here it was on AMAZON!

Spooky buddies How could you resist those cute little puppies. Halloween costumes so cute. We have all the buddies. The series my favorite for grand daughter.

"Little puppet made of pine, awake. The gift of life is thine." In PINOCCHIO, Walt Disney's first feature-length cartoon since his historic <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00003CXCQ">SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS</a> (1937), the artwork amazes, one of its wonderful songs, "When You Wish Upon a Star," won an Oscar, and the story of a marionette come to life who must resist temptations (with the help of a cricket conscience) if he's to become a real boy, positively charms. Artistic highlights are the brief wagon on a rainy night scene and the longer "Gepetto in the whale" sequence.  Pinocchio is voiced by Dïckie Jones, who starred in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BT96JG">OLIVER TWIST</a> in 1933. Cliff Edwards, the voice of Jiminy Cricket here, was a popular 1920s recording artist known as 'Ukulele Ike.' Edwards is credited with inventing a style of jazz singing called 'scat.' Cliff referred to it as 'effing.'  The original Popeye, gravel-voiced William Costello, is probably heard as a statue, although IMDb assumes it's his FLEISCHER replacement, Jack Mercer. In his only Disney picture (not counting "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00007AJGH">Roger Rabbit</a>"), Mel Blanc's sole contribution is a hiccough (all his dialogue was cut).  Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 IMDb viewer poll rating.  (7.7) Pinocchio (1940) - uncredited voices of: Dïckie Jones/Cliff Edwards/Mel Blanc/Frankie Darro/Don Brodie/Walter Catlett/Marion Darlington/Evelyn Venable/William Costello

3D Was Amazing. Kept my attention SO me and the girlfriend sat down and she pulled this movie out. "NO, I am not watching that" and low and behold I lost the verbal debate as to what we are watching, cause she insisted I would like it, and boy did I ever. The graphics were flipping intense, the story line, the voice actors, the action just kept me enticed and the fact that I (20 years old) Loved this movie so much that I went out and bought for myself the next day. I only have great things to say about it

snuck a snuke up your snatch excellent movie, that's why I bought it, that and I haven't seen it in a while, and figured it's about time to start converting to Blue-ray. Good seller. New condition and wrapped up in plastic, fastly shipped.

Fishbone - the band that should have made it. Everyday Sunshine is the story of a band - a groundbreaking band, influenced by hip hop, metal, funk, and punk, and influences of many in these genres and more.  More than that, though, Everyday Sunshine is the story of the racism inherent in the record industry and how a band that didn't fit easily into a category was eventually ignored, even as thousands cheered.  It could have been millions, and therein lies the tragedy of this story.  But there is hope as well.  Fishbone is still out there, making music.  Angelo and Norwood, keep fighting.  Much respect.

Amazing There's really nothing much to say but... AMAZING! The additional scenes is a goldmine... a treasure any potter fan who wants to absorb every iota of magic the films (along with the books) have to offer.

Over and over I drive my husband crazy by playing it over and over again. a pleasant revisiting to the wonderful wizard of oz. and i love the mystic man!

Fascinating and Extraordinary This is a fascinating film, crystal clear image, high quality graphic and interesting story.  I watched 3 times on 3 different weekends in the morning. Each time refreshed me and opened my mind... It also gave me the energy and imagination to explore the wonder of our universe. Highly recommended. Well done NGC!!

What a Holiday! Oh the Madea Christmas what a play.  The singing is so good and the drama and comedy is just fantastic.  I had to subject my family to it when they came over telling them how awesome this play was.  It is but I just had to have another excuse to watch it again.  The story line and the message it delivers in a funny sort of way is so familiar. What a way to end a day!

cry This movie broke my heart. Every time I watch it I cry. What makes it more sad is that it is based on  a true story.

good movie This classic movie is a favorite of mine.  Replacing old vhs movies for DVD format.  Waiting to see new version.

Red "whistles" his way to movie stardom It seems bizarre that in all the years that Red Skelton was performing, I've never seen ONE of his films! I vaguely remember seeing the last few minutes of 1965's "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines", closing the film with his brilliant pantomime. Finally, MGM/Warner Bros. has given me the opportunity to see this gifted actor-comedian on DVD. And we get to see him in the beginning of his film career when the "Whistling" series established him as a major comedy star. A B-movie remake, "Whistling in the Dark" (1941) is an atmospheric & rather claustrophobic "scare" comedy--the type that served Bob Hope and Abbott & Costello so well, and who's success led to this film. As radio star Wally Benton (known to listeners as the clever & heroic "The Fox"), his radio adventures catch the attention of a sinister gang called the Silver Vane mob. Their leader menaces Wally into creating "the perfect murder". The film has some obvious cliches--creepy secret passages & such--but livened by Red's flair for snappy one-liners and his sure-fire physical comedy reactions. Using a radio as a way to communicate to a victim that he's in extreme danger is a stroke of genius. "Whistling in Dixie" (1942) is where the series really hits its stride as Wally & his girl (Ann Rutherford) respond to a distress call from a friend down South. The pace is more even in this one, and Red is given even more good moments to cut loose (when noticing that, while trying to obtain a marriage license, the judge's last name is Panky, he can't resist cracking "Got a Hanky, Panky?"). As "The Fox", Red is given opportunity to use old radio cases to get the gang out of tough spots (ex: when the bad guys lock them in an airtight bunker at an old fort). A great knockabout climax in a barn (with two identical Rags Ragland brothers running amok to make Red's head spin) ends it all. "Whistling in Brooklyn" (1944) bares testimony that the series just gets faster & funnier. Picking up from the last one, Wally & his girl are STILL trying to get married. En route, their plans are ruined when Wally is framed for murder, and he spends the rest of the film trying to clear his name & thwart an assassination at a Dodgers ball game. There's an amusing bit in an elevator shaft that aims for Harold Lloyd-ish thrills, but the real treat has Red--disguised as a ball player--doing some hilarious clowning on the diamond. A riotous slapstick fight at a shipyard brings the film--and the series--to a hysterical end. Whatever fans thought of Skelton's checkered film career--that he was misused as comedy relief in splashy MGM musicals and alternated that with fleeting little gems of comedy films--there was never any question about Red himself. Despite his surroundings, he always gave his all in what he did, an inspired movie clown at work. The "Whistling" series proved that!

THE HEIGHT OF NAZI EVIL, HYPOCRISY,& VENALITY This was a superb underrated film that deserved to be seen by a far larger audience than it actually attracted. As the wealthy patriarch of his family and a most decent man, Martin Landau portrays an Hungarian Jew, Joseph Krauzenberg, who uses his fortune to buy off the voracious Heinrich Himmler in exchange for the freedom of said family. Tension constantly builds throughout the movie as the tradeoff unfolds in the shadow of surrounding death, the even more predatory Eichmann, and the sexual desires of a German officer who covets the wife of "the couple" who are the Krauzenbergs' long time servants and claim to be Aryan but are in fact Jewish - a revelation that even takes Landau and his wife, deliciously played by Judy Parfitt, by surprise.  Will the deal go through?  Will "the couple" also be saved? Will there be a double cross?  Suspense coupled with an unexpected twist should keep the viewer on the edge of his seat. Furthermore, the characters depicted are not one-dimensional.  This is what adds so much to their heroicism or menace.  Nothing can be taken for granted in Nazi Germany.  Since evil is at times masked in an outwardly handsome appearance and trappings along with hypocritical and false morality only makes one recoil all the more. The scene where Eichmann is commanded by Himmler to kiss the hand of Parfitt in the face of their mutual despise and distaste is worth the price of admission. An earlier expletive from Parfitt re the Nazis also demands applause for the lady. The food taster brings his own touch to the mix. It would be unfair to give any more away but something else needs to be said about the magnificent film score by Igor Khoroshev. His music for me was almost on a par with that of John Williams' "Schindler's List". Yet, a separate CD audio recording of this excellent and moving score was never made. A real shame given how much it aided and abetted the overall mood of the film.

Meryl Streep, was she ever NOT good?? I love this movie.  I studied this case in college, and I am pretty sure the movie is very similar to the real-life happenings.  Meryl Steep is wonderful, but I think she's wonderful in everything, as is Kurt Russel.  I do appreciate the fact that Cher's character adds to the movie and doesn't overshadow the other performances.  I have always been intrigued by this case, and am fully convinced that she was murdered.  I think the film does Karen justice.

Beautiful Memories This movie brings back so many beautiful memories and the 45th anniversary limited edition is wonderful.  The book of information on the stage musical, movie, actors and the Van Trapp family was very interesting.  My husband and I took our mothers to see this movie just before we were married in 1965, so it brings back some sweet memories. The little music box included in the package was broken in our first delivery which had to be returned and another set sent to us.  The sets are numbered so the two were widely apart in numbers.  Not of great concern to me, but might be to some.

the natural: directors cut I received this dvd in new condition and it arrived before expected date. It is a Christmas gift. Great product, fast service.

Thor DVD This movie was exhilerating to all my senses (my spider senses especially). When Thor got his majic hammer back towards the end, I actually cried. I do hope he ends up reuniting with his love interest. Got to do it and have it !!!

Special I typically watch 2-3 ski movies a year, MSP, TGR, Poor Boyz, the usual. This is a very special movie, the best 2011/2012 movie in my view. Not as good as Steep, still my favorite, but good. My only concern, I am afraid that for next year everybody will try to copy this, and then it will get boring pretty quickly.

Remarkable! This is NOT a propaganda or a conspiracy film! I was lucky enough to purchase a pre-release copy of this film.  I watched it once, then watched it again, and even a third time.  I am very concerned for the future of our country and how Obama was able to become president.  Joel Gilbert the filmmaker took his time carefully putting together guite the timeline with all puzzle pieces fitting perfectly. He collected hard evidence while researching and digging deep during visits in Hawaii. This documentary will go down in history as one that helped save our country by opening the eyes of America. I give it a A++++. I hope it spreads fast so millions of Americans will be educated. WOW.

Little Vampire DVD Bought this DVD for my daughter.  It is such a fun movie.  We have watched it several times and we never tire of it.  A good movie for all of the family.

Love It Love It I love this video. The scenery was great. Brooke has a great personality and she keeps it real. This workout will have you sweating and it works the entire body with cardio and strengthen moves. Her technique reminds me of Gilad, and I love Gilad workouts. If you want a full body workout for 1hour. Get this it does the body good!

If you don't have a region 1 player I found this series by accident and instantly fell in love with it. The atmosphere is so real. It never gets too heavy because there is always great comic relief. The characters are quirky and charming. I love that even though Kenny was my favorite part of the show they didn't highlight him as the end all be all. The other characters are great too and all add to the storyline. When I bought this I thought my player was a code free player. I was wrong. For the last year I have been watching it on my media player program since it can switch between regions. I just bought a region or code free player. It arrived yesterday and I'm loving it.

Pleased Customer Jurassic Park is a loved classic and I was sceptical about buying used. I must admit though that the movie was in excellent condition. I am very pleased; not only with its condition but prompt shipping.

Very nice I just received this dvd and I enjoy it very much. It will be a keeper. I like to get hunting dvd's out every so often especially in the off season as I plan for next years hunt. This will be watched several times in the future.

john wayne westerns we are very satisfied with the movies.will order others as we check out the selections of what we already have at home.thank you for asking

Pirates of Silcon Valley I love this story! This is a good movie. Thank you Steve Jobs and Bill Gates because you have changed the world with your inventions and products.

Tenderly Poignant Beautiful cinematography with the exception of some race scenes that were too digitally tossed together. Otherwise the script was amusing. The cast was well chosen. The movie is family clean!!!!!!!!!!! The story has value and is engaging. I wouldn't want to own it, but definitly recommend seeing it.

This was like Independence Day,.... ON CRACK! This made Independence Day look like the Flintstones. I was so enthralled and entertained by thisI !  Despite the fact that this had no a list stars, this movie was awesome upon awesome!    I want more alien movies like this.

The Bucket List The Bucket List was quite entertaining as well as causing a person to evaluate life priorities. I enjoyed watching this movie and I would highly recommend this movie.

Thought Provoking Comedy Jumping the Broom is a movie that touches home for women with fiances whom are "Mama's Boys" to a degree. The character Jason loves his mother as a son but he also loves his wife-to-be Sabrina as a man loves a woman. The Christian overtones were gently included in the movie which gave it a tender viewing and understanding storyline from a mild religious point of view. This movie also portrayed different socio-economic backgrounds that could easily be depicted by any race or ethnicity. It was comedic and thought-provoking. After watching the behind the scenes segment of the DVD; it gave me a chance to delve a bit deeper with the characters and their individual stories. Movies are always meant to entertain us. Our personal understanding and emotional responses to film should always leave us laughing, inspired,or simply thinking about our own lives.

Nothing Changed Here Simply put, your enjoyment of this second Austin Powers installment will hinge on your feelings regarding the first one, as there isn't a whole lot of change in tone.  For a basic plot summary, "The Spy Who Shagged Me" sees Dr. Evil (Mike Myers) return to Earth to continue his battle with British super-spy Austin Powers (Myers).  This time around, the action takes place in the "groovy" 1960s.  Though the jokes are very similar (in some cases almost identical) to the original, a few key changes add in enough originality to keep things relatively fresh.  The addition of Mini-Me (diminutive Verne Troyer) creates another classic character.  Plus, just when you thought a female lead couldn't get any hotter than Elizabeth Hurley, they find Heather Graham (!).  Essentially, this movie is a simple continuation of its predecessor, for better or worse.  I thought it actually slightly eclipsed the first one due to less "Bond spoofs' and more focus on the crazy character antics/humor.

A fitness DVD that blends the joy of dance with the health benefit of toning and sculpting muscles for an improved physique Professional dancer, choreographer, and Pilates instructor Andrea Rogers presents Xtend Barre: Lean & Chiseled, a fitness DVD that blends the joy of dance with the health benefit of toning and sculpting muscles for an improved physique. The three segments of the program focus on the upper-body, the glutes/hips/thighs, and the midsection/core. Toning and cardio aspects are well-balanced in this graceful and enjoyable workout, which includes a tutorial segment especially for anyone new to the art of barre. Access to a chair and light hand weights are recommended to gain the maximum benefit from this excellent addition to DVD fitness and toning libraries. 55 min. Also highly recommended is Acacia's yoga DVD "Shiva Rea A.M. Energy".

Damn whata long ass film 2.5 hours of dialysis and i feel i am only half way through with the film!!!  I love this film. It is Costner's best only followed closely by Silverado. After those two i can't stand Costner at all.  The BD conversion is nice and the sky over what they CALL south dekota (actually Fort Hayes and Fort Sedgewick are in Kansas) are as beautiful as a California sunset. the ONLY problem i am having with it is when they yell in the movie it sounds like they are yelling into a tin can. I know it isn't the plaer or headphones i am using. I am using the portable Samsung with Bose headphones, so i am assuming it is the sound on the disk.  Overall though i am not sorry i bought this

Love it Love Downton Abbey!  It wasn't what I expected.  It was much better with many twists and turns. It kept my attention and made me watch episode after episode until I got to the end of the season.

Beautiful Story told in stunningly beautiful detail My daughter came home from 4th grade describing this movie to me.  Then, we looked up some of the scenes on YouTube.  For her birthday, I bought the 2-disc edition with the autographed poster.  It's a lovely story about love gone wrong, role-reversals, re-incarnation and justice and redemption. This is my first Bollywood experience and I am still thrilled after the fourth watching to continue finding new things (having to read subtitles might be a contributing factor ;).), new jokes, new sentimental moments, new sub-themes.  And even with the death and violent scenes, it is largely family-friendly.  I am impressed, to say the least.

Wonderful children's movie This movie was enjoyed by the entire family. We will watch it again and again. We also own Nanny McPhee Returns. It is a good movie too. The first is the best though.

Banish Fat  &  Boost Metabolism  DVD it works wonders The DVD arrived fast and in new conditions. I have used and seen other types of exercise DVDs but none that is as complete,fun to do and that really makes you sweat as Jillian's Banish fat DVD. Excellent merchandize and great seller.

Excellent video - excellent seller Enjoyed this movie for years on VHS & decided to get the DVD. Great movie - well written, acted, & produced. A true classic film! Excellent seller, as well. Great to do business with!

The inner Weigh I have struggled with my weight since I was 13 and I am or have been the "diet queen". Although I had all the tools of the trade so to speak... I am a therapist and healer and coach myself.... there used to be still a part within me that thought I had to "conquer".   In the last few months I dedicated time for myself, meditated every day, I bought the "Getting into the vortex CD" by Abraham which works along the same principles as the DVD describes.... and after really looking after myself, accepting and loving myself exactly as I am, making my own happiness and alignment with Source most important, the weight dropped off. I am now slim, fit and healthy.  When I got hold of the DVD I got really excited.... as it is the Truth! All change comes from within. I love that all presenters had struggled with their weight, so the teachings come from personal experience... so it is very real.  It is very precise, it gives you really good tips of how to turn your life around without focusing on your weight which is really just a symptom of not all being well in your world.  This DVD is a gift to mankind.... anybody who is serious about turning their life and their addiction to food around needs to watch it. I am now recommending it to my clients, I am creating a w/s centered around the DVD and have just passed on my copy to a governmental health organisation here in Australia.  [...]

Great movie Excellent movie! I am an American Pie fan. I love the entire series. I could not wait until the series came out on Blu Ray. The movie is GREAT on Blu Ray. The picture and sound is fantastic!!!! if you are a fan of this series, this is a must have for your Blu Ray collection.

Excellent -- one episode description is off... Love this hard-to-find product. However, I noticed on volume 2 of the 3 disc set, the description for one of the episodes was way off. The name of the episode is, "Pearls of Peace". The back of my case sums it up as, "Germs before wisdom finds Simon dabbling in biotechnology". Huh?! The plot had nothing to do with that, and I have found it more accurately described elsewhere as, "Simon financially invests in a friend's pearl diving scheme in Mexico, but the venture goes horribly wrong." It is, even more accurately, a love story. Enjoy!

I LOVE DOC MARTIN & MARTIN CLUNES This is one of the best shows I've ever seen. It is fun to watch the characters  interact with each other & Doc Martin. In each episode there are several stories going on including Martin & Louisa's ongoing attemps at romance & townspeople who are ill. Each episode is educational about an illness or a medical condition. There is drama & comedy.  The town is lovely, making me wish I was there.  There are fun little extras like a group of teenage girls that walk around town laughing & making taunting remarks at townspeople & a cute dog that loyally follows Doc Martin around even though Doc Martin hates him. I watched all six seasons & wish there were more.  Martin Clunes is an excellant actor.  I have started watching William & Mary & that is excellant also.

Very good A big fan of the chronicles. The price was reasonable, shipping was timely, and the product was new as stated.  There were no problems

Magnum PI  First Season Throughly enjoyed Tom Selleck, original cast and guest stars. It may be a little dated, but still a lot of fun to watch. The cinematography is great, makes you wish that you were also in Hawaii. Magnum is definitely a classic series that's worth watching again and again.

A Family Favorite When this movie came out I was a preteen and could easily relate to Mulan. I am not Asian but I still related to her attempt to find herself. This is one of my favorite Disney movies (Aladdin , the Studio Ghibli releases, and Lion King being some of the others). Recently, I purchased the VHS for my son and he absolutely loves the movie too. This will be a family favorite for a while.

still laughing and married If your looking for a good self help that both in your relationship can enjoy this is it.  We did not feel intimidated or that we were being bashed over the head.  Mark Lunger does a great job explaining how we all think and respond differently.  It did not solve our problems but gave us better understanding of each other and how we deal with problems so we can work through them better with each other.

Awesome!! I Loved this since I was a kid. Can't wait to get through all 600 minutes of this '90s goodness!!!

Herban Crime "Shut up and bring on the food!"  There are many releases of this film and there will likely be many more. Buyer beware regarding video and sound quality. There is a colorized version (why!) released by Legend Films (7/1/2008) which is accompanied by the original black and white version, so it is a safe purchase, although one reviewer has complained that the black and white version on that release has an omission.  An annoying aspect of the marketing of this film is that often the name of Jack Nicholson is placed as the star of the film which is not only far from the truth, but also an insult to those who were. Jack Nicholson was in one short scene and he was funny, but it was not even part of the plot and could have been omitted, although I am glad that it was not.  This is a dark comedy classic by the legendary film director Roger Corman. Pair this with "A Bucket Of Blood, also by Roger Corman, and you have a great, and I do mean, GREAT, double-feature of camp film-noir terror-comedy-satire movies that that are unique and original.  A "nerdy" employee of a flower shop managed by a hilarious shop owner in a run-down city neighborhood grows a one-of-a-kind hybrid plant at the home where he lives with his hilarious hypochondriac mother. He brings the plant to the shop in an attempt to save his job and to establish himself as a "somebody". The plant we learn is a carnivorous one with an appetite for human flesh and blood and the will and talent to get it.  The comedy is relentless. Every character, and there are quite a few, is funny. and as an ensemble, they blend seamlessly. Even the plant's line of "feed me" and "I need food" (etc) becomes funny.  This plant is more than a plant, as we learn when it hypnotizes it's "father" to find it food and later yields flowers with the faces of the people that it has eaten. The plant may represent an alter-ego of its maker.  A big part of the charm of the movie is that it does not take itself seriously. There is no attempt to polish the acting, the action or the dialogue. I'm guessing that every scene was done in one take with minimal preparation and I'm glad that it was.  This is not a great-achievement-of -film-art five-star movie. It is a entertaining-funny-enjoyable five-star movie. That is not to say that it is is not good film art. There is a reason that so many of the highly acclaimed and respected filmmakers and actors of later years worked for and learned from Corman.  Honorable mention must be made of the score. The music for this movie and for "A Bucket Of Blood" by Fed Katz are some very "cool" and "hip" avante-garde jazz jams, especially during the final chase scenes which are excellent.  Not all will like this movie, but for those of the camp and horror cognoscenti it is great classic and a must-see, must-have movie.

Had to get it when I learned it was a Movie of Faith. It had been so many years since I had first seen this movie, and for the only time until I just purchased it I did not realize it was a Movie of Faith, or to be politically In-Correct, a Christian Movie. So happy to hear about that on Moody Radio. I learn so much about myself, the world, life, and the Bible from Moody Broadcasting. That is how I happened to purchase Ben-Hur. I loved it when Jesus gave Charleston Heston, as Ben-Hur a drink of water. I was just a little girl when I saw this in the theater, so thanks to Moody Institutes Moody Broadcasting on KMBI I now own the movie. Thank you.

Charming and Heartwarming Believe it or not, Season Two surpasses Season One, all due to the sparkling performances of Jay North, Herbert Anderson, Gloria Henry, Billy Booth, Sylvia Field, and the inimitable Joseph Kearns.  They are all just so entertaining to watch---all pros at their craft, with special praise for the child actors.  Billy Booth and Jay North are so natural together.  Watch their scenes carefully, study their facial expressions, especially Booth's.  Just terrfific!  And Joe Kearns hit his career pinnacle, of course, after serving in supporting roles in film, TV, and most of all, radio.  His George Wilson may be predictable, but never boring.  Kearns' interactions with Sylvia Field (another charmer) and North are delightful.  The most amazing thing about the season (and all four seasons) is the wealth of character actors in semi-regular and guest appearances.  Mary Wickes shines brightly this season as mancrazy Miss Cathcart...some of her best work.  Irene Tedrow, always reliable, adds grit as Kearns' nemesis Mrs. Elkins.  Paul Barselow, Charles Lane, Jeannie Russell, and the rest make Dennis' neighborhood the place to be for character-actor fans.  Special nod to Spring Byington, playing herself in a guest spot between her runs on DECEMBER BRIDE and LARAMIE.  Innocent fun and hearwarming, especially when crusty Kearns realizes the error of his ways and the "Mr. Wilson" theme plays, tugging at your heart as it did fifty years ago.  Looking forward to Season Three already and hoping Four (albeit sans Kearns) will be released to make it all complete.

Love Johnny Depp It was so much fun watching this classic Johnny Depp movie. Definitely one of my favorite movies, I could watch it over and over again.

Simply, a great CG film... Ok, don't listen to all of the bad reviews on this movie... I am 16 and me, my girl friend, and a couple of my friends went to the movies to see this, and we all loved it (even the whole theater got up and clapped!) So don't say it was bland and had bad animation, remember this is Crest's first animated film (Their first film to be exact)and they know this. They did not expect it to be good (even know this was a box office success they got $20,000,000 more than they expected to get)and to make it even worse is Dennis Hopper died making this film so give some respect... Overall, this is a really great movie and I highly recommend this not for kids, but to older people too. I give this movie a 4.5 out of 5!

If Kevin Smith made Troma movies... This is my first exposure to the genius of "Bill Zebub," but it won't be my last.  Antfarm Dickhole should be required viewing by anyone crazy enough to get into ultra low budget filmmaking.  There is no acting, directing or photography to speak of, only a bunch of lumpy goth/metal type guys in their late 30s and plump stripper/groupie type girls in their early 20s saying and doing insane things for your amusement.  And in that regard, Antfarm Dickhole is a total success. It is constantly amusing, from start to finish.  The-- uhh-- plot--- is about a guy tormented by bullies who gets help from a colony of army ants that live in his urethra.  Many indie films have what is called "sub-Kevin Smith dialogue."  I'd describe what's in Antfarm Dickhole as "super-Kevin Smith dialogue."  Plus, I learned more in 90 minutes about the world of ants and the harmful effects of UV rays than I ever learned in seven years of high school.

Enhanced DVD release worth buying I have the earlier "Columbia Classics" DVD of the movie, but I bought this latest DVD version of The Caine Mutiny because it has a two part documentary "Inside the Caine Mutiny" and a movie commentary that are absent on the earlier release. Given the price of the "Combat Classics" DVD, it is well worthwhile to purchase this version just for those features alone. It was interesting to learn about the concerns Herman Wouk had regarding the movie production, as well as how the Navy came around to supporting the effort, and the comments about various cast members, especially Bogart's interpretation of his role. While the movie will never equal the power of the Pulitzer Prize winning book that spawned it, it's all we have and is definitely worth seeing.  This newest version also has been remastered for best sound and picture. I haven't had an opportunity to make any comparisons between it and the older DVD version but it seems to be a solid transfer.

Great Workout DVD - lots of options! I thoroughly enjoy this workout DVD.  With the three different options: yoga, pilates, fit and toned, it gives you enough variety to switch up your workout and not get bored.  Within each of these DVDs the workouts are broken down by trimester and then within that there are even more options.  The options can become overwhelming, but once you go through them once you can figure out which ones are best for you.  The length of each of the workouts is also on the menu, so that you know approximately how long each one will take.  They are as short as 15 minutes and as long as 60 minutes (the yoga workouts are the longest).  This is great for me because I don't have time to workout for 45-60 minutes, but the 15-30 workouts are just enough.  I feel the burn and still have time to do other things.  The fit and toned DVD is my personal favorite.  I don't enjoy Yoga as much and I do find this Yoga DVD to be a little odd.  It's fairly easy for a yoga novice, and I am giving it a chance.  The pilates DVD is good as well.  It all depends on what you want to do that day.  Overall I am very pleased with this purchase and am looking forward to the second and third trimester versions.

Nothing Like It Follow the directions, and you get in amazing shape for working out less than 39 minutes a day.  Couldn't be happier.  Way less painful/boring than the treadmill, way more effective & healthy.  If you're more into looking good/bulking up, I'd go with P90X.

Fantastic What an excellent film!  For a while I had doubts about this movie.  Although it had Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer on it, the cover looked suspiciously like a sappy fairy tale.  Finally, when I had run out of movies to watch on Amazon Prime (jokes), I reread the synopsis two more times, and started the film.  I couldn't have made a better choice.  This film was an actual adventure, with well-rounded characters that had complex stories and lives going on throughout the film.  I recommend 100%.  Enjoy.

TOMMY BOY!!! I LOVE THIS MOVIE! BUY IT! Chris Farley was an awesome talent. This is one of my 10 favorite movies. Chris and David Spade were a great comedy team.

Great Movie!!!! This was actually purchased as a gift but we saw it in the movie theatre and I have never heard/saw my children laugh so much at a movie. They loved this movie so much we have rented it a few times since seeing it at the theatre, I guess I should have bought a copy for us as well.  Delivery was fast with Amazon Prime.

the best Sci-Fi movies of all time the back to the future trilogy is the best sci-fi trilogy of all time. if you watched it when you were a kid then the quality in blue-ray will blow you away. if you haven't heard of it then you are either too young or lived on Mars until recently. I watched all 3 movies a gazillion times and enjoyed it every time.

Finally!! Over the years I have tried to collect movies from my childhood. You find many movies such as Rock-a-Doodle, Pebble and the Penguin, Land Before Time, etc. on DVD with no problem. I looked for this movie everywhere on DVD and had no such luck. Now with it coming out I can enjoy it like I was 5 years old all over again. It has very funny humor for any kid to watch and will be sure to put a smile on their face. I know it will put a smile on mine. When I do decide to have kids, this will be one of the many movies I will save so they can enjoy it too. There are way too many shows and movies out there for kids that are nothing like what I grew up watching. I definitely recommend this product to anybody, no matter their age.

Very Funny Movie, Must Watch!! Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins is a funny movie but it reminds you to never forget where you came from. Very funny cast and its something that the whole family can watch. Martin Lawrence plays the main character RJ Stephens who is a famous star who is about to marry the winner of the show Bianca (Joy Bryant),from Survior: Kiribati. Bianca is a power/sex crazed female who's only goal is to win at everything. RJ along with his fiance and son, returns home for his parents 50th wedding anniversary. While there RJ tries to show off his new found fame and learns first hand that all what he has doesn't mean anything if you don't have someone who really loves you and family.

History Classic A very real story of life for some in the old days, so moving.  Actors and cast did wonderful work in this, gives you a true pic of how things were sometimes.  One you cant forget.

Wonderful childhood memories I looove these videos brings back memories of my brother and i runnig to sing heatmizer and freezemeiser...great quality videos..love them!!!!

Love the wit Very mature, very French look at human desire, a little tragi-comedy of how easily desire involves us in the endless game of musical chairs called love.

perfect CD I liked this CD very much. nice and clear inestractios, perfect lessons. The women who is explaning is calm and clear in her language. My wife liked her. It is the CD My wife want.

A Great Traditional Western! `The Outlaw Josey Wales' would have to be one of Clint Eastwood's finest movies for both acting and directing. It has all the hallmarks of a traditional western that many fans of this genre have come to expect and enjoy. As expected there are many gunfights, superb landscapes, great personas, pathos, retribution and `sweet' justice.  I thoroughly enjoyed the movie from start to finish. The Blu-ray version is excellent. The landscapes in themselves are magnificent, the colour quality great and the sound top class.  All the actors in this movie produce an excellent performance and with Clint Eastwood at centre stage the movie becomes breathtaking from start to finish.

All the makings of a good melodrama This was made during the golden age of film making and it shows. Lavish costumes and sets, heros and villains, somewhat over the top acting- probably a real tear jerker in it's day. Garbo puts on a good performance, though I'm not sure it's any better then "Grand Hotel", another gem from that era. Good film to watch if you just want to step back a few years and see what they considered a blockbuster back in the day. If you like movies of that type, you will enjoy this one.

Haunting As with others who have seen this movie - and the simple word 'movie' just do this masterpiece justice.  I am not going to write a complicated review, as there is plenty of wordage on this site attempting to describe this film.  All I will venture to say that a fan of classic acting, music, and cinematography cannot walk away from this experience and not be somewhat haunted by what it leaves with you.  It's a wonder I was not familiar with the musical piece "Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod" (which actually means 'A Song of Love and Death', if my Deutsch is up to the task), but the melody has been circling around in my head since the first time I watched this film.  It doesn't help that I purchased Sarah Brightman's CD with a version of this beautiful piece, so all I can hope for is to watch another movie that grabs me as hard as did this one.  I came in here only to reinforce the other Five Star ratings and to highly recommend to anyone who enjoys a good old-fashioned love triangle movie with superb plot and acting. If I sold this movie I would put a 100% satisfaction guarantee on any purchase.  Enjoy!

Great Movie This is a must have for any Gundam fans. It is not as good as the Endless Waltz movie, but this is the second best Gundam movie I have ever seen.

The Green Mile fom Amazon.com My husband loves this movie so much that he plays it over and over. He played it so much that it wore out. I just had to get him another one. I was very pleased with the purchase, . I liked the packaging, the time it took to arrive, and as with any DVD I purchase through Amazon. I was completely satisfied.

LIVE AT LAST, THE LEGEND PRESERVED After years of hearing that a technical sound glitch would prevent this legenday event from ever seeing the DVD light of day, we get this amazing film that shows the Diva Herself conquering the elements. Miss Ross has performed better shows, but the legacy of this show is the most lasting of any of her performances. Its a great time capsule, a superb reflection of where music and Miss Ross were in 1983. This show was an enormous gamble, a testament to the ability of the superstar to realize her dreams. The viewer should remember that she was less than 3 years removed from her risky move to leave Motown, was a single Mom with 3 girls, and had a lot to lose if this show would not have been pulled off. She battled not only the elements but the odds in pulling this off, more than just pulling it off, Diana Ross created a moment that is instantly identifiable in the world of popular entertainment.  Film critic Pauline Kael once said that Diana Ross' efforts to star in THE WIZ may have been the single most dramatic example of will ever exhibited by a movie star. It was that very same strength of will and belief that allowed for the realization of the concert in Central Park, and indeed for the realization of her once-in-a-generation career.

master Greatest kung fu comedy ever. love it, thanks to who sent it. been searching for the original unedited version for over 10 years, i lost mine, ended up buying 3 new revised editions on dvd, pissed me off, rubbish voice overs etc.

Peter Sellers Left Us With A Remarkable Performance I have been a Peter Sellers fan for years and had only heard of "The Fiendish Plot Of Dr. Fu Manchu" through researching his filmography. I knew that it was his last film and that it was released after his death and because of this fact, I knew I had to have it. When I learned it had finaly been released onto DVD I snatched it up fast.  I give Mr. Sellers final film 5 stars as he delivers 100% of his unique acting style and delivers to us the brilliant characters that we are used to seeing from him.  The film is fun and full of wonderful imagery from the opening scene to the final shot. The story line is totaly whacky and easy to follow. Every scene is extremely enjoyable to watch due to Peter's unique way of delivering himself on screen.There is plenty of slap-stick comedy and set designs that you will only ever see in a Peter Sellers film.  I highly recommend this film to any Peter Sellers fan and am confident that you will be delighted to watch it.

Attracted to Attraction Well done movie and acting.....I've always liked movies that aren't predictable.....This is one......It's great, but very little known........He Said-She Said,.....Yeah it's got that too......

The Original Transformers This is just the best cartoon movie ever it had the best art work put to the test.It made plenty of head waves through out the world.

Totally enthralling 'traditional' ballet In view of the many enthusiastic and detailed reviews posted by knowledgeable followers of ballet, I will focus on a review aimed at helping the non-specialist who enjoys ballet perhaps on a less informed level (rather like me!).  George Balanchine, the choreographer, has created a full length ballet loosely based upon the Shakespeare play. The basic story is extended into a second act which is entitled 'At the Court of Theseus' and, like many other ballets at this stage of a story, the focus shifts from the basic narrative to celebrating the intended wedding/s. In so doing Balanchine has made use of Mendelssohn's music for the play augmented by a considerable amount of other pieces by the same composer. Fortunately these are complete items and not just 'bleeding chunks' stitched together so they work convincingly.  To this attractive musical setting has been added a totally traditional ballet with markedly beautiful costuming and attractive scenery. The choreography matches all of this with steps of grace and humour as appropriate. The whole ballet company deliver a high quality performance and it would therefore be invidious of me to single out solo artists for special praise. Instead I will comment that the considerable contribution made by the children at a number of key moments is absolutely charming and they all dance with evident delight throughout. In summary, the word 'magic' comes to mind!  Finally it must be said that the recording values are equally excellent, both visually and sonically (in surround mode) and it is hard to imagine anyone struggling to enjoy this veritable feast both for the eyes and ears. I join all the other enthusiastic reviewers with a clear 5 stars.

Great video to supplement bullying prevention program I show this video to 5th grade students during our bullying prevention unit.  It's entertaining and engaging while featuring real kids who have experienced negative effects of bullying.  The five non-violent techniques presented as possible responses to bullying are easy to understand, effective, and perfect for role playing.  This is a must-have resource for every elementary and middle school.

A Must See for the Entire Family! Dolphin Tale is a movie that will warm your heart (and have your child asking if they please have a pet dolphin at home!  It is based on a true story and begins with an injured dolphin (nothing graphic is shown) who is rescued by a marine hospital. The discovery of the dolphin, named Winter, couldn't come at a better time for Sawyer, a young boy who has just said goodbye to his beloved older cousin Kyle. Kyle has been called into active duty, leaving Sawyer feeling alone and discouraged. However, it isn't long before Sawyer and Winter form a special bond.  Without many friends and missing Kyle (who also is somewhat like a fatherly role model to the fatherless Sawyer), the sweet and outgoing Hazel, is a welcome friend. She and her father, Gary, who is a marine hospital doctor, join Sawyer and several others in the effort to save Winter.  I loved the wonderful show of family unity in this movie. Sawyer, his mom, aunt, and Kyle are all very close. Hazel and her dad and grandpa are also close. When Kyle returns home from active duty with a severe injury, his family rallies around him. Friendship plays a huge role in this film and a doctor from the VA not only befriends those trying to save Winter, but also joins in the fight. Another thing I enjoyed about this movie was the positive light shed on homeschooling.  Winter becomes an inspiration to all, but especially those with physical disabilities. A little girl in a wheelchair travels with her mother eight hours to see Winter, thus opening an excellent opportunity for discussion of how we are to show compassion to others. Kyle, struggling with his depression from the life-changing injury he received, is inspired by Winter as well. Another great discussion topic of how we should always be mindful and grateful of what our soldiers endure just to ensure our freedoms.  I would highly recommend this movie for the entire family. It is a movie that will stay with you long after the closing credits! I have added this movie to my Mom-Approved Movie Listings on my Wordpress blog.  Reviewed by Penny Zeller, Author of "77 ways Your Family Can Make a Difference."

Wedding Crashers (Unrated) Great movie! Lots of laughs and sweet moments. Definitely worth purchasing this movie.  I watch it over and over again.

gets down The art in this movie is amazing. The story is amazing. It just gets down throughout the whole movie! It is definitely worth buying.

Excellent Condition/ Promt Delivery Recently, I purchased the DVD set "Lost: The Complete Sixth and Final Season" from Amazon.com. I was very pleased with the price, condition, and delivery of the product. Even though it took a week to receive my order (standard delivery), it was worth the wait just for the savings I received. If you are "lost" at finding affordable DVD's,Consider purchasing them at Amazon.com. If you do,I think you'll be glad you did.

IRREVERANT, FUNNY, SAD, HEARTFELT, JOYOUS AND UPLIFTING. A BLACK COMEDY THAT'S GOT IT ALL Harold is 19. Maude is 79. He HATES life. She LOVES it and EMBRACES IT FULLY. Not alot in common? Well, they both like funerals. Gotta' start somewhere. This movie is a CLASSIC and RUTH GORDON is an ICON. Done in 1972, this movie is very much of that era, and yet, it is completely timeless. I saw it about 35 years ago and loved it. It has not lost anything. Maybe I like it even more than before. It is described as a black comedy. It's funny, but it is, also, so much more. It is a lesson. One we would all be so much better off learning. The CAT STEVENS sound tract is great and fully fits (like a glove) where this film goes. Interesting for me is the locale. Seeing recognizable sites in San Francico, Marin, and San Mateo county that are 40 years old. Also, Tom Skerritt has a part when he was billed as M. Borman. (I like cinema history and trivia) It eventually becomes a May/December romance. Sounds icky. BUT IT'S NOT. Again, THIS MOVIE IS A NATIONAL TREASURE. I SO HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT.

Each Viewing brings Six Days Seven Night Worth of This has been one of my favorite movies for quite awhile.  Not only does it show Harrison Ford's talent with comedy, but also how he and Ann Heche worked so well together, and it seemed like there was no script and that they were just reacting to one another.  David Schwimmer is forever terrific and I was surprised at Jaqueline Obradors, whom I recall from NYPD Blue...WOW!  My only complaint was that the picture didn't fill up my screen, as it was just about 12 inches tall and 24 inches wide, and the sound volume was not very loud, even though I had it jacked at high as it would go! I have NO complaints with the seller at all and they deserve a 5 wtar rating, as well.  Except for some pretty explicit swearing, which, added NOTHING to the quality of the movie, and use of tamer adjectives would have sufficed, I really love this movie!!

Henry's Crime...great movie about passion for life Henry's crime is a nicely paced, interesting look at how several people are finally motivated to take some chances in life instead of doing what is easy and comfortable.  I enjoyed the movie so much I watched it again.  The ending is great.  It leaves the viewer to consider how things worked out for Henry.  Did he make the right choice?

Revived by the Spirit of the Lord I have strayed away from the Lord by self-pity and depression. After watching this movie (and I too, was expecting a Hollywoodized movie and was so happy that it isn't) I was felt revived by Dean Jone's performance. He was "right on cue" and one would believe that Dean Jones, himself is a born-again Christian. The Holy Spirit just flowed out from his lips!!!  This film/play is for the whole family. Show it in church. This is one DVD that will enrich your life and give it increased meaning. In short, you yourself will feel the Holy Spirit's presence.  Be blessed. Get the DVD and share it with others and have others blessed also.

Party Animals Great dvd and content about political parties  and the shenanigans that occur as assistants/aides within the party fight to be heard. Power!  Stars Matt Smith of Doctor Who in an earlier role. Great stuff.

Fantastic Film! Comment: It is not too often that I use the words "great or wonderful" to describe a film... but I will when it comes to this one. I can only categorize this movie as a love "tragedy". This story definitely goes outside the box. Just when you think you know the plot it changes to something completely unexpected. All the characters were played by just the right actors and actresses. The settings were breathtaking. This Blu-ray format is perfect for this type of film taking advantage of "spanning vistas" and a beautiful canvas of colors. I recommend this film as a "mature" family film of the highest caliber. I was a little saddened to see it end like it did.

Paul dvd The dvd came on time and in new condition as stated. I saw this movie at the movies and it was very funny. not a good idea for children though. The language is for adults.

Re-imagining WW2 history This is a great Tarantino film, but kids, don't watch this for the history. It's no history flick, but an entirely re-imagined take on WW2, with a completely different ending. Divided into five chapters, each one is filled with tension that finally explodes so fast you barely have time to decipher it. This, of course, will remind people of the "Kill Bill" films. So be it. There 's a lot of unsavory violence as we watch Nazis being pulped with a baseball bat, and bodies being riddled with bullets. Brad Pitt is far from the lone star here, though his role is less central than credits make it appear. A fantasy movie. Great watch.

Christmas Eve Tradition I recently purchased <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VBIGD6">National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (Special Edition)</a> after my original VHS was unplayable.  This movie has become a Christmas Tradition in our family.  We watch it every Christmas Eve.  My parents and brother also have copies as we no longer live in the same city.  My parents and sister were at my house for Christmas and when we tryed to watch our beloved movie, no go.  I went on-line and found a copy in DVD.  It arrived a couple of weeks later.  It's great to know that this Christmas we will be set to once again enjoy the comedy of the Griswold family.

Vicar of Dibley final episodes - touching and funny Long time fan of the Vicar of Dibley and this final two-part program of the vicar's wedding to the handsome newcomer is touching and hilarious.  Has some great footage of making the program.  And for those who love the endings each episode where the vicar tells Alice a joke she never gets or takes it the wrong way, this is one of the best ones yet.  A gem of a DVD.

Great! This is a feel good movie. It makes a wonderful antidepressant. After you watch it, you can not be sad.

Amazing! I love Harry Potter and I love that all the films are together in one box set. I thought this was a great price and it was shipped right away. I would buy this product again from Amazon if for some reason mine got destroyed, or if it's possible to watch DVDs too much.

ponyo This is such a great movie. My 4 year old grandaughter loves this movie she will sit there and watch it over and over. I have seen it about 50 times since I got it for her.She  Loves it.

Paranormal Activity 2 This movie is awesome, it's a must watch if u haven't yet watched it, it's great if you love scary movies.

Family Fun! "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" is a fun family movie. A classic movie, it teaches many valuable lessons to our youth today. You are never too old to enjoy this movie. There are a few times in the movie where the music is suspenseful which may frighten young children but the suspenseful music is short and quickly turns to happier, singable tunes!

Smallville Season 10 What can I say.  Good conclusion for such a long running show - one of my all time favourites.  Would have liked to see more of Chloe Sullivan as she was the link with the other super heroes and Clark.  Love the later seasons with the Super Heroes.  Little disappointed with the extra's in the box set, was hoping for actors interview, more interesting behind the scenes look after for going so long it would have been nice for the fans after following the show for 10 years.

The Ultimate Ben Hur I've been a fan of Ben Hur since I first saw it in 1959.  This limited edition set of Blu-ray DVDs as well as the other special items included, offer incredible insight into all aspects that were a part of bringing it to the screen.  The Blu-ray transfer is excellent and the extras alone are worth the price of the entire set. It was an epic production and has stood up to the test of time.  This box set is something I will always treasure.

rc/the very best series The complete second season of Noah' Arc is very good. The complete first and seconds seasons have made me a Noah's Arc junkie, I can't get enough of them. I hope P. I Polk comes  up with something similar soon.The second season is naturally an extention of the first. I think the second season deals more in depth with the relationships and sodality of these four gay friends. Even when their relationships are being challenged, they are there for each other. Wade's and Noah's relationship is really put to the test. During this season, Noah is still searching for love (the right man) in every face he sees.But rarely does one jusi "find" love, one usually just end up "falling" in love with someone. I think the second season deals with more real life situations. The climacteric event at the end of the last episode is awesome. It is a nerve-racking cliffhanger. If you were happy with the first season of Noah, Arc, I'm sure you'll be very happy with the second season.

An absolute must see! I really enjoyed this documentary. In all honesty, any form of appreciation I could describe here would be dwarfed by the real endearing emotions I felt when sympathizing with the artists' unique stories and experiences. I was mostly captivated by the fun and joyful overture followed by a woeful twist of unfolded events that taught me how crucial it is to appreciate every type of art form and not underestimate the importance of its growth. Not to mention the significant role street performers play in keeping art alive in our city. Any artist or art lover will adore this film!

Amazing movie I absolutely love this movie! Jerry Seinfeld is a comic genius whether its in cartoon form or real life. He appeals to all ages in this movie. Love it!

Brilliant and Layers of messages.. This movie is one of my all time favorite movies. I think that it so so much more then a love story. It's a life story and layered with so much rich, spiritual meaning that it's a movie you have to see more then one time to really soak it in. If you are looking for something brilliant, thought provoking and entertaining this is your movie! I know it did not get a lot of great reviews but I personally think the reason for this is that many people just don't get it. I urge you to open your mind and give it another chance.

The World's fastest Delivery I love this movie.  It arrived in my mailbox so expeditiously, I believe it would have broken speed records on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, but that's what the movie is all about.  Thank you for your service!

Brilliant, exciting, thought provoking science fiction One of my favorite television series of all time along with 'The Wire' and 'Breaking Bad'.  Like 'The Wire' this is a complex, Dickensian study of human nature, not afraid of asking big questions, and meticulously plotted like a great novel, so that each episode is a chapter in a much larger whole.  Just as 'The Wire' used the overly familiar clich&eacute;' world of the cop show to jump off from and shatter our preconceptions, and 'Battlestar Galactica' uses the sci-fi series, and the idea of human versus robot wars the same way.  This is thinking person's sci fi, in the tradition of Arthur C. Clarke, or Isaac Asimov. It's about why we are how we are, what it means to be a human being, morality under constant pressure in times of war, fathers and sons, impossible loves, metaphors for modern and recent politics and real world situations.  My wife, far from a sci-fi fan was hooked after 3 episodes, and we tore through 5 years of shows in just a few days. It's that addicting.  The acting is all at least quite good, and some cast members are remarkable, creating characters full of depth, complexity and contradiction. The writing is terrific, allowing the characters to change and grow, but always in ways that make sense, creating seemingly inexplicable conundrums, only to find surprising, sometimes shocking - but ultimately logical and satisfying - ways to explain where they've taken us. The special effects are generally very impressive for TV, even if they're not really why you watch this show.  It also has some of the most tense episodes of television I've ever seen, and some of the season enders left me completely wrung out and blown away. I was sad to get to the last episode, just as one is sad to finish a great book.  The third season represented a bit of a transition to something a touch more surreal, a little odder, which would pay off fully in the last two seasons.  There are moments where the show seems to have lost it's way a bit, but it comes back quickly, and some things that have a 'what was that about?' feeling in season 3 will be very important in what's yet to come.  Trust the show.

Where's God When I'm Scared Review I purchased the video for our church library.  My daughter and I watched it first and it was so cute.  We loved it.  I know that any child who checks it out will love it too!  Great message.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0045XGILS">VeggieTales: Where's God When I'm S-Scared?</a>

Best Ever For me, will always be the best Robin Hood on the market. Shared with granddaughters and they agree it may be old but great.

Absolutely Marvelous!!! This movie was EXCELLENT.  I enjoyed every minute of this period piece from the moment it began until it was over.  This movie is so NOT about a vibrator BUT how we have grown in our understanding of women, men, and human sexuality.  Done with humor, grace, and charm I recommend this movie for anyone 13 or older(ESPECIALLY young women).  This film was done in beautiful costumes, in wonderful locations, at a beautiful time in history that I am so glad I did not live in! Thank my lucky stars for today!!! Please, if you enjoy period pieces with great wit and beauty? rent this today!

3 Movie Collection Marvel Animated Features (Blu-ray) The product came on time and in great condition. The movies themselves was worth getting for my son and I. Tracking the package takes alittle long because you have to wait for the systems to update but thats just a small shipping issue. Other than that I'm very happy with my purhase.

surprisingly honest and thought-provoking when i started this movie i didn't know what to expect but i was surprised by how far from a typical romantic comedy this story is... i honestly don't know how i would categorize this movie but i will say it is definitely worth watching.

Funnier Each Time I Watch It ...And I've watched it a dozen times.  Lubitsch shows his incredible comic range, as masterful at black comedy here as he was at touching romantic comedy in "Shop Around the Corner."  Benny's greatest performance, and Lombard is at her best as well.  A must see.

Wrong Place Wrong Time After reading several of Grisham's books which after a while become formulaic, "The Client" remains one of my favorite movie adaptations. The cast is powerful from the young protagonist to Susan Sarandon as his lawyer retained for one dollar, pitted against the photo opting high profile Tommy Lee. All the performances are stellar, the screenplay excellent, the pacing and complexities of the plot make it a keeper. If you enjoy suspense, this is a wonderful option.

Best films I think Casino is on top of the list of best contemporaty  films ever made. The combination of plot, location scenes and superb acting makes if one of the very best.  And you ccan add my vote with the the same comments for the best western ever made  -  True Grit

Fantastic! This was a fantastic movie with an incredible cast that recaptured the joy of the 1960s. It was like going back in time to the days of yesteryear! A time without international terrorism and a time where we were on the right track in America! Yes, there was Vietnam and the cruelty of the American South, but San-Francisco represented what was progressive in America. The Zodiac changed that and San Francisco would never be the same again.  Mark Rufalo and Jake Gyllenhall and Robert Downey, Jr. were awesome! The director, Fincher handles his cast and crew perfectly and had a deft cinematic touch with. I loved the subtle allusions to today vs yesterday. "We don't have a telefax yet..." Then there were the ubiquitous pay phones of the 1960s-1970s. Devices I wish would make a comeback in the 21st century. Allusions to Dirty Harry and seeing the Transamerica building go up were marvels of American cinema. Let's not forget the slinky commercial!! Wow! I've seen that commercial before and it is hilarious!  The killer, whoever he was, was a savage man. When Paul Stine was shot in the head, the call went out that a black man had committed the crime. The stupidity of Officer Dan Fouke (Shown, But Not Named In The Film) allowed the killer to escape. This point is hammered home in a powerful scene where Rufalo just stares at the poor policing of the two uniformed cops. While not directly mentioned, the subtle racism of the cops is an underlying current of the scene. They were so concerned about "getting a black man" that they let the murdurer walk right by them. "He was shuffling along," Houk says. "Did you even question him?" "No," Houk shakes his head. The thought never occured to Houk that night that there may have been two men involved in the crime, or that the initial report was wrong. His lack of imagination and two diomensional thinking, and yes, perhaps racism, ended up allowing the killer to escape and taunt the police again and again.  I saw the movie three days ago and have yet to see any of the special features, but when I do they will be the icing on this cake. Buy this dVD and you will not be disappointed.    A. Nathaniel Wallace, Jr.

Fabulous fun for your family! My seven year old daughter requested to see this movie for family night. At first, my husband was a bit skeptical as to whether my eight year old son and he would also be able to sit through a "teen girl" movie. Having not read the book, we were pleasantly surprised at how enjoyable this movie was for our entire family. The plot was interesting, and their were many emotional elements not lost on us, as parents. Though this movie may be marketed for little girls, this is a movie that will be appreciated by any family that enjoys clean humor, a well thought out story line and believable acting. It was really great and I would watch it again.

King with Clay Lips A sensitive and beautifully acted film that depicts a little known--to me, at least--fact of history i.e. that the Duke of York, the man who would become King George the VI of England, had a terrible stuttering problem.  It shows how he and his elocution instructor have to overcome the barriers of position and class to provide a modicum of relief for a King who is expected to give soul-stirring speaches during the depths of WWII.  Significant undercurrents are the stresses laid upon the person who will be King and the possible consequences of abdication.  The Duke of York's older brother--the man upon whom Kingship should fall--abdicates the throne for the 'woman I love'--Wallace Simpson, an American divorcee.  This film suggests that this abdication is not just about the intensity of 'love' but also an abdication of personal responsibility.  George VI, despite his fears and limitations, doesn't bow to his fears.  He proves himself something of a hero.  Did it heavily influence the history of the world?  Maybe.  The man who would be King--the lover of Wallace Simpson--was also strongly pro-German.  Granted, the monarchy had already been shorn of most of its authority but had an English King favored alliance with Germany, who knows what could have happened?

The Firm - an offer you can't refuse. When I saw this movie many years ago I fell in love with both the simplicity and the complexity of the plot. Based on John Grisham's bestseller and being a person who loves the 'twist' in a story, this was captured beautifully in "The Firm". Excellent acting overall with a number of famous faces including Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Gene Hackman to name a few. This has to be one of my favourite Cruise movies and is well worth purchasing if you haven't seen it before. The colour on the Blu-ray was superb with only a minor black blotching in one night scene - the rest was perfect. I would rate it 5/5 for picture clarity and 10/10 overall. Well worth buying.

Buy brand new from Amazon I am a customers of Amazon since 2007.  I am 100% satisfied the brand new condition as stated by Amazon.

outstanding! "Born Free" is a true classic!  The interested reader can refer to the many reviews for details about the movie!  It is excellent viewing for families, children, etc.  There are a few moments in which the movie drags along - making it boring at those moments for children of 2011.  that's when adults can engage children with questions about the film, characters, lions, savannah, etc., until it picks back up.  films were a bit longer back in 1970 than 2011.  it is made well.  it is not like many of current movies - 15 second longer camera shots per viewing, fine film, smooth transitions ... that's part of what makes it great.  everyone who knows me knows that i assign a grade to everything which i review.  this film, in my opinion, merits a grade of "A-".  I recommend this film for families, children, students of cinematography, etc.

Beautiful sites of Africa Great movie about dreaming and living out something that is unknown exciting and scary.  These things come with a high cost sometimes but the adventure and opportunity make your life rich and fulfilling.

I Loved the Entire Series As with all the Harry Potter movies, it takes awhile for someone who has read the books over and over to adjust to the things that are left out. But also as with all the others, the cutting was neatly done. I won't bother to mention what is left out, but concentrate on what is in.  We start with an attack on Harry and his cousin Dudley (yes, a muggle) by a pair of dementors. What the heck are dementors doing in Little Winging? Really good question, since they're all supposed to be at Azkaban, guarding the prisoners. That there is a massive breakout of convicted death eaters later in the movie suggests that something is very wrong indeed with Azkaban. Has the Ministry of Magic lost control? If so, who has gained it? Voldemort?  Anyway, the Order of the Phoenix rescues Harry from Little Winging and takes him to their headquarters in London, a house Sirius Black inherited from his family. There's a family tree tapestry that has several burn marks on it, including where Sirius' entry was. We don't get much chance to see the rest of the tree, though. And Creature has only a very minor role.  Harry discovers that the Daily Prophet has been cooperating with Cornelius Fudge in a campaign to blacken Harry's and Dumbledore's names, apparently because Fudge is worried that Dumbledore is raising an army to fight the Ministry because Dumbledore wants his job. That's nonsense, of course, although there eventually is a "Dumbledore's Army" in mocking response to Fudge's paranoia.  There are a lot of sub-plots that are somewhat distracting, but they are all there for a reason. Harry's infatuation with Cho Chang, for example, becomes important when she [not her friend, as in the book] betrays the DA under veritaserum interrogation. And Hagrid is missing the first semester, but that becomes significant because he brings back his half-brother Grawp, who ends up being more significant to the elimination of Dolores Umbridge than he had in the book.  Dolores Umbridge is the most obnoxious Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher the school has ever had, which is saying something. She is what we used to call a pink and black witch. In fact, I don't recall that she ever wore robes like the other teachers. She wore pink fluffy things, mostly very silly-looking stuff. She talks in a high-pitched kindergarten teacher voice, and is enormously silly. But she is vicious, really vicious. I will leave it to the movie to express just how vicious she can be.  Since Umbridge will not teach DADA correctly (she has them copying a beginner's book three times, so that they remember it, but does not teach any real spells), Hermione persuades Harry to teach those who want to learn for real, and creates the DA: Dumbledore's Army, named to mock Cornelius Fudge's paranoia. They discover the Room of Requirement, and learn a great deal until Umbridge discovers them and puts them out.  Then there are Harry's dreams, and something which is more than a dream for him. He dreams about Mr. Weasley being attacked by a large snake, but he's aware of a point of view that suggests he IS the snake in the dream. When he wakes up, he wastes no time reporting this to Dumbledore, who moves fast to investigate through the portraits of former headmasters in his office, who can visit other portraits of themselves elsewhere and report back to Dumbledore within minutes. One goes to the Order's headquarters one to the Ministry, and then to the hospital where Mr. Weasley is taken after he is discovered in the Ministry, badly injured.  But then Harry starts dreaming of other things, chiefly a closed door in the Ministry of Magic, and a long black corridor, and eventually a room full of glass globes. Finally, he dreams that Sirius Black is in that room and being tortured. He decides to go to London to rescue Sirius, and several members of the DA insist on coming along: Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Neville and Luna Lovegood. And without going into detail, they recover the prophecy (that's what those glass globes were) that relates to Harry and Voldemort, and they fight the death eaters who show up with Voldemort to try to get the prophecy back from them. Then members of the Order of the Phoenix show up, and fight the death eaters, too. Sirius is killed in the process, by Bella Lastrange. [Who, by the way, looks nothing like what I imagined her, but is very effective.] Finally, Dumbledore shows up and fights Voldemort to the point where he is vanquished - not killed, but vanquished.  It's a terrific movie, possibly the best of the series so far. Even though a great deal was left out or truncated from what was in the book, the cuts are well made and the story is completely engrossing.

Thor 3D BluRay Fast, sealed and at the right price. We do these family movie night get togethers almost every week. It was great to order this product and get it as promised for the weekend. Thor story was fair but the 3D was awesome on our 72" Mitsubishi.

TV @ ITS BEST! Tf you are a Dark Shadows fan, this is a must have! Starts @ very beginning...Netflix shows start when Barnabus came to town, but this tells you how Vicky & Burke met, & how Vicky came to work for the Collins family. Old black & white episode, Just as they were in 1966.

Loved It!!! This movie was fun and Kevin Hart was hilarious!lmao He has you laughing throughout the whole movie. The other actors were good too. This movie is a good choice for people over 30. Good Job!! xoxo

See this movie If you are or not a fan of Sherlock Holmes The original Sherlock Holmes by Arthrur Conan Doyle was an eccentric genius that could master any craft he undertook, which is why Guy Ritchie's (see all his movies) version, plot and characters are believable (In this day and age plots (and books) are like long tweets. No one reads them). It is also great story telling, pure macho, fun, opera, romance, all the characters, male and female are fully developed, great in an engaging plot that moves fast, never lets up. For Sherlock Holmes fans, I also suggest Preston and Child's (keep you on the edge of your seat) Agent Penderghast, series, a modern day Sherlock Holmes. He's the man.

The Dark Knight Rose Beyond The Previous Films Anyone not liking The Dark Knight Rises doesn't like Batman movies. It was the cream of the crop. Christian Bale was superb reprising his role as Bruce Wayne a.k.a., Batman. For those who didn't see it yet, it encompassed the previous two movies: Batman Begins and The Dark Knight and rolled into a great third movie. I personally saw it 3 times and loved it more each time I saw it. The action and story were great; add Bane and a surprise villian and you made one of the best action features of the year. A must see movie. Can't wait for the DVD release.

Not Fast and Furious This film's intensity begins in it's silent moments... and makes what is said and done, even more intense.  A great thinking-person's movie.  As slow as it moves at times, it catch's you off guard as to how fast it's over.  I'm not a huge Gosling fan, but he did an excellent job with this character. It's a movie, where after seeing it last night, I could watch it again tonight.

The Fast and The Furious Tokyo Drift This is my favorite of the franchise.  Many because of its exotic location compared to the others.  After seeing some of the others, I realize that the films aren't being filmed or released in chronological order.  It will be interesting if they bring Lucas Black's character back in a future installment of the series.  This product was delivered in a timely manner - and in the condition described by the seller.  If the opportunity arises again, I would definitely buy from this seller again.

Sweet Mama:( These are some of my favorite actors by far.  They did a great job.  I won't give any spoilers, but I will say " a mother's love is very strong".  It is just heartbreaking.

Great buy I've been collecting this show since I've seen the rebroadcasts around the fifth season. This is a ground breaking show. Although I am starting late, buying the back seasons allows me to catch up. This season deliveries. Not like your typical tv show, Criminal Minds gives you the perspective of criminal profiling. This season has a change of cast.

Children of a lesser GOD I am the proud Father of a 34 year old deaf Daughter, Amanda. She enjoys Marlee Matlin TV shows, but this movie is very close to deaf culture as I have ever seen. Mr. Hollands Opus with Richard Dreyfuss, depicts some of the same philosophies with a deaf Son. Amanda was first diagnosed as being deaf when she was 2 years old from not talking or responding to voice or sounds. My immediate concern was to get her into an educational program so she could thrive. The choice in Ohio was strictly oral, BOOO, they would tie the childrens hands behind their backs if they attempted to sign, (this was a big second amendment NO NO issue for me), so, I moved to Tennessee leaving an empty house behind. The three of us were living in an airstream trailer maybe 10 miles from the Tennessee School for the Deaf, when a house became available just outside the gates of TSD. Of course we learned sign language and Amanda was already signing at 6th grade level at 3 years old. This did not fare well with TSD because she would be out pacing her peers and not be in her age group. They suggested mainstreaming her into a Public hearing School and that turned into a disaster because none of the other Kids knew how to sign and the Teacher was annoyed that an Interpreter was in the room. Ohio and Tennessee, turn your clocks back 200 years. So off we go to Northern California Fremont, California School for the Deaf, for Family workshops. We loved California with exeption of one tiny little hitch, we would be on a waiting list. Oregon was our next choice, but there are few if any jobs there to support your Family. Then we went to Washington, D.C., Gallaudet University Campus, Kendal School, which was ideal premium, except it was located in one of the most expensive Towns I had ever come across. Then we decided to move to Maryland and place her in the Maryland School for the Deaf in Frederick, MD where we could afford to buy a house 1/2 mile from MSD and find work for both of us. I had my heart set for Amanda to receive an advanced degree at Gallaudet, she moved to WV and attended Fairmont University instead. Quick story when she was 3, I had to take a job in San Francisco because the bottom dropped out of Tennessee Valley Authority. Amanda wanted to meet Mickey Mouse, so all she could sign was I want to meet Mickey Mouse, imagine 3 days of this going cross country to Los Angeles enroute to SF. Okay we get into Disney and her little eyes locked in on the Mouse, she ran through crowds of people and went straight up to Mickey and signed "Hi, my name is Amanda" and Mickey, without hesitation, turned and signed,"how old are you"? They started dancing and we tried to find out the name of the person who was in the Mickey suit upon exiting the park, they said, send Fan Mail. Well that we did and 2 months later we got a letter from the Woman named CB. She was one of 20 people who wore the Mickey suit at any given time. She was the only person who knew sign language, as a hobby. What are the odds of that happening? Amanda keeps in touch with CB to this day. CB was an Angel that day in the Magic Kingdom. While in San Francisco we caught a musical by MUSIGN, since disbanded, but they opened up the eyes and hearts of many people into their world. Another movie well worth watching, Michael Crichton's "CONGO" about a signing Ape (more like me) and this Ape knows over 600 signs and still lives in California, named Amy. Sign language can be a universal language in any Nation or dialect, for important things like hospital, toilet, hungry, sleepy, drug store, car or whatever you can dream of. Try explaining GOD in abstract to a deaf Kid. A little effort goes a long way. This is a great movie, note that Marlee Matlin is a great Actor, she will scare the bajeemas out of you when she was cornered to use her voice. My Amanda has no idea how LOUD she can be. So sign softly, to know another language is to have another life. This is English for those of you who think language is hard, it is strictly a conversion of English to hand gestures, you've got the English. If I can sign, anybody can, even an Ape named Amy. I'll have to close by saying that Deaf people are not dumb as the age old thinking goes. I worked with deaf Graduates from Gallaudet University on Nuclear Power Plant Design and Construction, I worked with deaf Engineering Graduates from Rochester Institute designing Chemical Plants. I met with a deaf Man who couldn't get a job with an advanced degree in computer science, so he opened up his own Government software business and employed 500 people. I met a deaf and blind man on the BART train in San Francisco who signing in his hand was the only way to communicate with him. I asked him how do you know when to get off of the train? The computer stops the train several times before getting to your destination. He replied, well the doors only open 4 times and that is my stop. Curious, I asked whhere are you going? He replied, I am going to work. ??? Work? What kind of work do you do? He replied, I am a computer programmer. ??? Uh, really? He replied, yeah, I have a QWERTY keyboard just like millions of other Americans and I use a tactile reader device, like a braille reader to tell me if I made a mistake in my line code. Makes you feel very grateful that people like him are driven to live despite everything. Our Native Americans used signs to communicate. Well, that's all for now Folks, enjoy the movie. CUDOS Marlee.

Awe-inspiring So, I couldn't leave seller feedback, I'll leave it here, then. I'm along time buyer (fan) of Soundtrackers. Item arrived way ahead of time. In perfect condition. Excellent music. Awesome booklet. BUY IT! On the other hand, the person wo wrote my address on the package has VERY NICE HANDWRITTING.

:D I brought this for my mom for Mothers Day. She's been whinning and complaining that she wasn't able to find it in department stores. She's not 100% into buying things online so I took it upon myself to get her something that she's been asking for. It came just in time, she hasn't quit laughing since I gave it to her. So she's happy :)

Westerns are still popular I have always loved this movie. It is funny seeing how young Kevin Costner is in his role. Even if you see this a hundred times, the entertainment is so great.

The Help This movie touched a nerve. When I was a little boy I used to go with my grandmother to help her clean offices and 2 people's homes on weekends and I saw and heard many of the same things that happened to these women happen to my grandmother. She put up with a lot of bad stuff. It was always easy to get rid of (fire) my grandmother because she was accused of stealing stuff; especially on payday. Or she would get chewed out for not doing a great job and her pay was docked. She and these women went through a lot of stuff to take care of their children and grandchildren. Wow! This movie says it all. And just because it's the 21st Century don't believe it doesn't go on today . . .

Great adaptation of E.Allan Poe work! Just when i thought i was familiar with most of Poe's works this adaptation of Ligeia came my way via a friend of mine. I watched it and immediately fell in love with it. I went online to look up the original short story by Poe to compare and contrast what i had seen. And i intend to check out Roger Corman/Vincent Price's adaptation as well. As we all know, Vincent Price was the master of horror and all movies related to Poe! I think all the actors and actresses, some fresh faces and others well known like Wes Bentley and Michael Madsen. Wes Bentley has that unique look and presence that makes him perfect for his part as Professor Merrick and the actress playing Ligeia couldn't be more fitting! Inspite of her 'dark' designs to do whatever it takes to live forever, i found myself ralling for her success. This is definitely a DVD i will purchase to add to my movie library at home.

Entertaining I read the reviews before I purchased, they were right.  Great movie new Thomas look.  My two boys love this DVD ; 3 & 1

I FINALLY FOUND IT I have been looking FOR YEARS for this movie...when I explained it to people they kept telling me I was talking about HEAVY METAL ....I knew they were wrong..I love this show...and back when I saw it in the theater...when I was MUCH younger...the animation was AWESOME ...Ya  gotta see it if not for the animation....for the music

Fascinating Movie I watched this movie with my entire family and everyone enjoyed it.  The movie was really interesting and informative.  I would recommend it to anyone who loves Bob Marley's music.

One of the best westerns ever! I have enjoyed this movie ever since I was a kid. It never gets old.The acting and action makes it very enjoyable all the way through the movie.

Ron M This is a wonderful biography/movie. It adheres closely to the facts, avoiding the action-film distortions which are the bane of many "historically based" movies. The acting is superb, the story compelling, and the settings/uniforms very accurate. It presents a rarely seen view of the other side during the war.

I LOVE THIS MOVE This movie is one of the greatest movies of all time! i have to say, they should not have made this movie in 3D. in was to blury to watch.

Pulp Non-Fiction I wanted to upgrade from VHS to DVD.  I also got to share the movie with someone who had never seen it.  Classic.  I haven't perused all of the extras yet but good value from Amazon.

Pretty Bad*** This show is cool, i bought for my brother but I enjoy it too. Its hilarious and it's fight scenes are awesome. Its kinda expensive, but i think it was worth it.

Interesting movie Found this movie to be very entertaining.  This movie would be well received by all age groups.  I look forward to more of these movies.

Very funny!! We really enjoyed this movie.  Some action but a ton of fun.  Dennis Quad and Stanley Tucci are perfect for their parts.

Great American satire that is funny and smart! This is the funniest movie I've seen in a long time! It's also one of the very few great, original movies I've seen recently. It's obviously a satire on American culture, or lack of culture. Don't watch if you are truly a fan of Jersey Shore, the Kardashians, or Willie Hung from American Idol. If you are a fan of any of these... This movie is making fun of you, deservedly so.

Fairgame If you enjoy Australian, action-packed movies as i do then this one is for you. Cassandra Delaney stars as what you might consider a helpless woman alone in the outback, but wait till you see how she deals with her terrorist. A great addition to any action packed movie lover's library.

excellent from season 1-3 wow, I just read the couple of reviews that say season 3 fell flat.  I am very surprised anyone would feel that way, but to each his own.  I completely enjoyed every single episode from the first airing of season 1 which took me completely by surprise because like some others, I find very very little to get excited to watch on television any more.  So, I was hooked right off.  Season 2 and 3 are stellar television at it's very best!!!!  All the actors and actresses in each season make it a winner that can't be beat.  I am so sorry that season 3 is over and I can't wait for season 4!!! If you like likable bad boys you will love the character Boyd Crowder.  If you love to hate the villan, you'll love the Corals character in the third season.  It's programing that you will actually want to put down what you're doing and pay attention so you don't miss anything.  (Usually I'm doing something else and only half paying attention, because the program doesn't really merit full attention or the time that takes away from what ever else I'm doing, but in the case for Justified it totally does.

Excellent movie and not just for little girls! I've known of Tinker Bell since I was a little girl, mostly from movies such as Peter Pan, Hook, and seeing her flittering about the screen for many things Disney.  Until recently I never watched one of the Tinker Bell fairy movies though.  I had the opportunity to screen Secret of the Wings in 3D while I was in Los Angeles in August, and then rewatched it after receiving the Blu-ray/DVD combo pack to review.  Secret of the Wings is the fourth Disney fairies movie and finally explores winter.  The first four movies each focus on a different season.  Winter is often tricky to animate due to the snow.  Of course, Disney does a fabulous job because they make sure to study nature and keep it as real as possible - from the falling snow to the plants used for their clothing.  The biggest surprise in Secret of the Wings, besides the Winter Fairies and the Winter Woods, is learning that Tinker Bell has a sister named Periwinkle!  Neither of them knew about the other, so we get to join them as they become fast friends and catch up with each other.  This movie really shows some of the fun quirkiness you'll find between sisters and does well at forging an emotional connection.  Unfortunately, there are dangers to warm fairies crossing into the Winter Woods and vice versa.  It's so dangerous that there's even a rule forbidding fairies to cross which upsets the girls.  They don't wish to be separated any longer, but defying this rule causes trouble for the Autumn Woods and threatens life for all fairies.  It takes some serious team work to make everything right again.  I really enjoyed this movie (especially in 3D).  The writing is excellent in evoking emotion - I teared up several times the first time I watched it.  And... I still teared up at least once when I watched it again with my daughter.  One thing I will say is that this movie is not overly girly.  I know most people will think a fairy movie is for girls, but there are boy fairies in it as well.  I didn't find it to be something that only girls would want to watch - I think most little kids (regardless of being a boy or a girl) would enjoy watching the Secret of the Wings!  This movie has lots of positive messages about family, friends, team work, and even parenting.  When you learn about the rule about not allowing the fairies to cross over, I think you'll see how that can apply to parenting decisions and rules.  *I attended a press screening and also received a copy to review.

A Masterpiece, a Man Finds a Republican Utopia A Man Finds a Republican Utopia  "We believe that to govern perfectly, it is necessary to avoid governing too much."  It's not Casablanca, but almost as good.

Outstanding I liked the fact that the same key actors were in the movie but I must say the plot was campy and could have been much better.

Great Christmas Sitcom Classics! I have a "thing" for watching Christmas Classics of the 50's and 60's during the holiday season. Probably comes with being a baby boomer. I have purchased several through Amazon (read my reviews) and must say that the stuff Amazon puts out are very good, can't be found in stores, and the prices are among the lowest around anywhere. This one disc set has about eleven Christmas episodes of different 60's shows, which give a nice diversity and enjoyment to put one in the Christmas mood and spirit.  If you are a sentimentalist, as I am, and enjoy watching the old sitcoms, you will love this item. Merry Christmas and peace!

Stunning and enchanting This movie was a visual feast. I was surpised to adore Kristen Stewart in this film. The entire cast was magnificent; the cinematography and costumes were nothing short of stunning. I wept at the beauty of it, on so many levels.

Excellent I purchased this DVD for my daughter when she turned one years old. She learned how to count in order and out of order watching this DVD. I initially saw this On Demand and decided I needed to purchase this. It was definitely worth the money.

Fun First Season of Hip NYC Show! My wife and I were pleased with this show on the onset. The introductory music sets the vibe of a fun - on the scene in NYC - show. There are a few story lines and I found all of them interesting and none of the characters particularly annoying (in fact, they're all quite enjoyable and anytime you can be treated to Luis Guzman, you're in luck). I hope this show is returning to HBO or maybe another network?

An truthful approach to Understanding Islam. I have had the privilege of seeing this early. Pastor Mike Bogart takes a very honest and historical approach to understanding Islam. He shares how Islam began and the claims that Islam makes concerning its history and its doctrines. This is not political or divisive. This is a truly fair and balanced approach to Muslim beliefs and faith. I thoroughly recommend all people (regardless of faith) watch this brief DVD to be introduced to Islam and understand it in an unbiased manner.

Entertaining and informative This was enjoyable to watch and contained a lot of valuable information!  Having never attended a Tea Party event, this was informative about what occurs at these gatherings!

The Wrath This was a really good movie and I think that for in this period that people really belived in the GOD's. I also have the Cash of the Titain's and this was as good as the first of these movie's.

Big Jake This is one of my favorite John Wayne movies.  The stars are unending.  Plus - 2 of John Wayne's sons & Robert Mitchum's son Christopher.  Bobby Vinton (She wore blue velvet), the singer, is the McCandle son who is shot at the beginning of the movie.  This is a great movie for the whole family.  Full of action, situations with smart-mouthed kids and the importance of family.  Wayne's movies got better & better as he aged.

Elizabeth, The Virgin Queen Cate Blanchett did a stellar portrayal of Elizabeth, the queen who launched England into years of prosperity. During her years in power, England became the worlds strongest sea power. Loved the period costumes.

The REAL Birth of Cinema SF Unless the few snippets that are still missing can be found--and never say never--this is probably as "complete" a cut of this marvelous film as we are going to get.  Like many cut films, like "Lost Horizon", these  restored releases that bring back the lost scenes are proof how the Company Heads don't see things from the view-point of both the directors and the audience.   Even as a cut film, "Metropolis" is a eye-catching opus that allows the viewer to enter a futuristic city built upon the toil of the workers, who live beneath the city, and the upper class (you can read that as the "one percent".) The two finally come together at the cost of the city's infrastructure and many lives.  And while the solution seems over-simplified and possibly to some too sentimental, the film's visual power overcomes these problems.   In a way, this could be seen as the grandparent of films as "Blade Runner" and, of course, CPO in "Star Wars".  The sequence of city scapes--with elevated roads and airplanes flying through the city are marvelous to see.  If you view the film, notice the similarities of the LAPD building in "Blade Runner" and the New Tower of Babylon and the Mechanical Man to the androids of the George Lucas films.  The story-line is seen in too many stories and films to note.   Finally, while some of the actors seem to express too much--something you have to accept when watching silent films--the acting of Alfred Abel is extraordinary--especially with his face communicating the emotions of control, sorrow, lust and fear.  This is silent acting at its best as his body/facial movements speak the meanings that his mouth never could.   It should also be noted that this is a rather adult film with semi-nudity, bordellos, and other activities that are not for younger viewers.  I would also like to plug the German version of "Titanic" which was made under the Nazi government--a film so well made that snippets were borrowed for Britian's superior "A Night to Remember"--if you can get by the propaganda, you will find an interesting film.

Snow White VHS My granddaughter and I love the original version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.  It's great. The color and clarity are amazing for such an old movie.

Very good It is a very good movie! A classic and my kids love to watch it! Fun for the whole family!

movie :) I recently purchased the preachers wife and it arrived in a timely matter and the movie was in the condition that they said it would be in. I am very satisfied with my purchase.

I read it three times. I read it three times. What more can I say. his is one of the best books out there and tom Wolf is just great.

Excellent! I love the Tudors! This season adds to my knowledge of this lineage of history. The other seasons are must-haves!

A masterpiece Indeed a masterpiece. Subtly disturbing, creative framing. A score seeming at odds with the tone of the film but which ends up heightening the tension as a result. Fine performances. A must-see film.

Enjoyable! I really enjoyed myself! Great movie! I liked how it showed what it's like to walk in the shoes of each character. I can truly relate to the main character.

Finally on Blu-Ray... amazing movie Finally we got "Wings" on Blu-Ray (and/or DVD), the first movie won Academy Award for the Best Picture (and the only one Silent). Also the only movie to win an Academy Award for Engineering Effects.  The two guys Charles Buddy Rodgers and Richard Arlen are both sexy studs who had the first man-to-man screen kiss.  Not only this is groundbreaking: the air-scenes still are breath-taking. The actors had to learn flying and turn on the camera by themself and flying on the same time. Richard Arlen was in real-life a Pilot during the WW1. His Co-Star "Buddy" had to learn it during the filming.  This is Edith Head's first film as Costume Designer which came famous for her work in the following years.  Director William A. Wellman has on the final battle scene a came where he "speak": Atta boy. Them buzzards are some good after all! The movie based on Wellman's own experience in the WW1 where he was at "Lafayette Escadrille" (see movie with the same title with Tab Hunter, and his real life son William Wellman Jr. is playing Director Wellman Sr.)  Director William A. Wellman's wife Margery Chapin and daughter Gloria Wellman play the peasant mother and daughter whose house gets crashed into toward the end of the film.  The Blu-Ray: the picture quality looks - amazing!!!  The Soundtrack contains 2 versions: 1. Re-Recorded Score composed by JS Zamecnik with Soundeffects in 5.1 DTS-HD-Master Audio 2. Pipe Organ Score - 2.0 Stereo Dolby Digital  Subtitles: French/Spanish/Portuguese for the feature movie.  The Extras contains also subtitles in english: "Wings: Grandeur In the Sky" - ca. 35 min (a interesting Making Of!!!) "Restoring The Power and Beauty of Wings" - ca. 14 min "Dogfight!" - ca. 12 min.  The Blu-Ray Disc is codefree !!!!  Fazit: Well done!!!!

what an incredible film this film is so passionately made how incredible to unlock a family story of such depth! Yvette is a star

Painful...but in a good way (one spoiler) I'm in my 20s and I love classic movies, I love Jack Lemmon, and I'm increasingly becoming a Billy Wilder fan. I've seen this one, Breakfast at Tiffany's,Irma La Duce,The Apartment, The Pink Panther, Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd, and a couple others. So for me, Days of Wine and Roses was a twofer. This was a well-told, well-directed, well-acted film. I watched it on TCM and got a bit of the background of the story from Robert O. I went in with expectations and I was not disappointed. Without going into the plot really, watching the transformations of Lemmon/Remick's characters into alcoholic 'bums' (as Lemmon called them), was quite powerful. By the end of the movie, I was happy for Lemmon's character (he goes to AA and has been sober for a year), but his wife, who he introduced to social drinking has not climbed out of the pit. Lee Remick was great at the end appearing to want to change, but not wanting to see how "dirty" the world really was. It was really pitiful. When she left at the end, I felt Lemmon's character's pain bc his eyes sort of had hope that she would get sober, but at the same time, felt just as strongly that she was lost forever. For a set of actors to be able to convey conflicting emotions w/such ease in one scene is quite rare these days, so while it was painful, as a movie viewer, it was a joy to watch.

great chidhood memories I was 10 when I was first introduced to MIJ and have never foregotten him 50 years later. Classic,Great story & movie.

Totally Fantastic!  Can't wait for it to be released on Blu-ray. I've seen this movie three times at the theater, only in 2D so far, and have another viewing scheduled for next weekend.  This movie is adorable, so beautiful, the music is fantastic, the humor...delightful.  I didn't get a chance to see it in 3D, and wish I still could, as it is hard to find at theaters now.  I think this movie is best seen on the big screen to be able to appreciate the absolutely amazing colors, the action and the charm of it.  I was hypnotized as I exprienced this adventure with such joy.  Rapunzul is so sweet, the horse is hysterical.  I adored the scene where the little girls braided Rapunzul's hair.  So much hair!!!  The syncronized bird's eye view of the dancing was very cool!  Go see it, if you can still find it somewhere.  You will LOVE it!!!!!  And for sure, you should buy it!!

Stanley Kubrick's Essential Collection This is a good selection of movies, some of which I never saw. Lolita, for instance, I don't recall ever seeing, or if I did, my watching was probably limited to ogling Sue Lyon...never got into the dark interior of the movie. There are several movies that, in retrospect, must be considered classics: Spartacus, Dr. Strangelove, Full Metal Jacket, and A Clockwork Orange. The movie, 2001, a Space Odyssey, is probably best viewed in a more appropriate format, IMAX, or something similar, to catch the breathtaking scale of it. The set also contained several more movies: Barry Lyndon, Eyes Wide Shut, and The Shining. Also, there's a retrospective of Kubrick's life in pictures. For the $31 and change I paid Amazon.com for the nine movies, and the retrospective, I'd say, also, that it's a heck of a deal.

Love lives on beyond death Betty White shows her true depth in this heartwarming video. Even manly guys will struggle to avoid shedding a tear or two with this film. It will truly tug at your heartstrings.

Creationist or not, it will challenge your thinking! I was blown away by this DVD! As a Christian, the discussion of Dinosaurs was always a gray area, and basically left alone. It's really helped me understand where to place these ancient beasts in terms of God's creation. I would reccomend it to everyone. Give it a try, what do you have to loose?

Jim Henson &lt;3 I love the movies! Not a scrach on them, or the box I keep them in. The quality is great, these wernt burnt disks. I enjoy displaying this set with my other movies. I enjoy watching them even more :)

One of my all time favorites I first saw From Here to Eternity at a theatre that shows classical films on the weekends about 20 years ago.  I saw it on a Friday and then came back the next day to see it again.  I purchased the video about a week later.  And probably watched it three or four more times before finally tiring of the repetition.  The acting is superb.  Especially the performances of Burt Lancaster,Frank Sinatra and Deborah Kerr.  It has been said that Sinatra's performance resurrected his career and Burt Lancaster has always been an excellent actor.  But Lancaster's role as the tough but fair company top kick was mesmerising and that role along with his performance in Go Tell the Spartans at the end of his career are my two favorite Lancaster roles.  This film is in black and white and justifiably so--this color emphasizes the darkness and ominous atmosphere leading up to World War Two. As well as the conflict and tension percolating in the hearts and minds of the film's main characters.  I wait a couple of weeks or maybe a month and then I'm anxious to experience the tension and drama of this terrific film again.  I'm surprised that it only placed number 51 of the top 100 films of the 20th century.  It deserves better.

A Must See!!! This is an awesome look at the aftermath of Matthew Shepherd's death and how it impacted a community and society.

Good back then and good now! I watched parts of this movie at age 10.  Just purchased it from Amazon and viewed it in it's entirety 60years later. This time i watched acting which came off as not acting at all. I discovered facial expression's on Mr. Garfield and Miss Turner as if they were actually living each scene. Also  the scenery was pure nostalgia-- sadly -- a era passed. Wow i didn't know i could write a review so good :) JW

A BEAUTIFUL STORY FROM THE FOREST!!! BAMBI is one of the ALL TIME DISNEY classics that will stand the test of time...BAMBI got a beautiful, meaninful story, with soberb graphics...I've seem this film many times, and BAMBI will forever be a part of my memories...

Cinnamon Though I haven't bought this Dvd yet, I watched it on PBS this past Sunday.  I was overwhelmed!!  The music was electrifying in this version, if you will.  The singers?: they acted out their parts with facial expressions, the way they formed the words, the qivering lips and throats made this so exceptional to me.

Still going strong This was a really good concert; the sound and video were excellent and it goes in the player whenever things stink on TV (which is more and more these days...)  A great buy if you're a Rush'ian and if you aren't initiated yet, I suggest you prepare yourself - the guys are a bit off from a socially acceptable/cool perspective, but that is just part of the package with this monster group of musicians.  Fabulous (although a BR version of Rush in Rio would top this concert in a flash, $0.02 IMO...

Tell Me Please I just ordered the best Twilight movie ever! I want to know though, for those of you who have seen the extra footage, is there commentary by Kristen Stewart, or more importantly, Robert Pattinson? It doesn't say. It also doesn't mention if there are deleted scenes included on this DVD edition. Please tell me, I don't want to get my hopes up just to be disappointed that they're not there.

Buckaroo This is such a fun movie.  I watched it quite a while ago and wanted the DVD to add to my collection.  It's funny, campy and delightful all rolled into one.

"ONE OF MEL GIBSON'S BEST ACTING PERFORMANCE!" One of my all time Favorites. Mel Gibson gives a Stunning performance throughout in a compelling story of war, honor, and passion. The story grabs your attention immediately as there's never a dull moment in this historical film I can watch again-and-again. This is a Top Notch film in quality and in many ways is an epic as much as 'Gone With The Wind.' Fantastic story as it portrays the horror of war and what courage and victory means. Awesome in every aspect, and Highly Recommended!

Lovely film! One of the most moving films I've seen in a long time. What a team! Morgan and Nicholson seem so at ease with each other. I didn't feel like I was watching a movie. I felt I was watching the live of two dear friends unfold before my very eyes. Truly a good film and WONDERFUL acting!

one of a kind elvis portrays the music, action,and comedy of a era that will never be forgotten, everyone should own a set of these dvd,s

Pillars of the Earth Having recently read the book on my Kindle I was very interested in seeing the TV series on DVD. Set in medieval times in the town of Kingsbridge the story follows the life and death of Tom builder and his extended family, in the building of a new cathedral. I found it very captivating and although it deviated from the book in places it still followed the general theme. I thought I would watch one episode per evening but finished up watching two. Most of the charactures looked like I imagined they would I strongly recommend you watch this DVD.

Historically Accurate Based off of Robert Kennedy's "Thirteen Days," this is the chilling tale of how the United States and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear disaster following the introduction of Soviet nuclear missiles into Cuba. As President Kennedy convened what would be termed as ExComm, a group of trusted, now celebrated, advisors, the two countries came closer to pulling the trigger on a nuclear attack. In retrospect, Kennedy's ultimate decision to implement a blockade despite earlier pushes to invade Cuba was wise, as Khruschev had ordered that any invasion would be met with nuclear retaliation, a fact that the United States was not yet aware of.  This movie IS historically accurate. It is also quite entertaining, and an enlightening insight into the deliberations of the Executive Branch, the formation of United States foreign policy, and the practice of viewing yourself in the shoes of your enemy. Greenwood's performance as JFK is spot on, but, for me, Stephen Culp as Robert Kennedy took the prize. His performance was spot-on, an excellent portrayal of the dynamics of the younger Kennedy brother while advising JFK.

A great film that needs major restoration This is probably the best imitator of Indiana Jones there is. That's a compliment, and to the film's credit it never relies on special effects or the paranormal. The flight scenes are just as exciting as anything else I can remember, and Selleck is great in this role.  Compared to Indiana Jones's recent outing, this film now seems like a masterpiece. BUT the first thing this release needs is a blu-ray that upgrades the terrible sound and picture quality. THEN... Tom Selleck can start talking about a sequel!  Great movie.

KAIDAN Great Japanese film. The story-plot is very interesting and very easy to follow. This is a great DVD to add to your video library.

Education first! Wonderful movie for all coaches and the need to up the requirements to play high school sports. Too many districts only require a D to play, anyone can get a D, if students want to play bad enough require more of them in the way of academics.

Better then the first Happy Feet 2 is a great movie your kids will love. Unlike in the first Happy Feet there is no slow part. You will enjoy watching this movie with your kids. If just following Mumble and his sons story isnt enough. There is a really cute funny story following two krill Phil and Will.

Great for kids - my 9 year old's "favorite movie ever" We've seen all the pixar films.  I love them all.  My 9 year old especially loves Cars2. I think it is all the action.  Yet as a parent, I know is it good clean fun.

Great film!  Ignore the negative reviews.... This film is engaging from the opening scene to the last.  It was interesting to see just how a similar scenario could play out in real life.  The acting is excellent.  Ignore the negative reviews!

excellent movie I have to be honest and upfront about everything I write. I am forever linked to the Memphis Belle as my great uncle, Robert Hanson, was the radioman on the actual Memphis Belle on all 25 of her missions. I remember family reunions when Uncle Bob would borrow the actual film from Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane and show it to dozens of us. He'd mist up at every showing. It was this film that eventually was released as the documentary. I bought the VHS tape in the 80's.  When the Memphis Belle movie was released, the entire family went to the theater to see it. We knew that it wasn't going to be a true representation of the 25th mission of the Belle, but a compilation of what happened to the B-17 crews stationed in England. It was filmed in England and the surviving members of the Memphis Belle crew were "hired" as consultants, flown to England with their spouses, and had a wonderful time according to Uncle Bob. I have a picture that was taken of the movie's Memphis Belle crew and the actual Belle crew members. Many of the actors in the movie have gone on to have great careers. The filming inside the belly of the B-17 was amazing as it was to see the restored aircraft used in the movie. At a local air show, a B-17 was one of the many aircraft. I climbed that straight ladder into the center of the plane. I couldn't believe how narrow and tight the spaces were. What the men of the B-17 crews endured and what they did during WWII under such extreme circumstances is amazing. It is unfortunate that all Belle crew members are now deceased.  If you see this movie for nothing more than the historical value it offers, it is well worth it. It's imperative that we not forget the sacrifices made for us by previous generations.

A real hit Berlin musical With a host of stars and a score by Irving Berlin, we're off to a good start for this 1954 film from Twentieth Century Fox. Ethel Merman and Dan Dailey play a couple of vaudeville stars, the Donahues. Their offspring join them in the act when young, but the film is about what happens when they grow up and start out on careers of their own. Johnny Ray, in his only film role, decides to go into the priesthood, which is a bit of a shock for mum and dad. Donald O'Connor has a bit of a battle with alcohol but still manages to dance up a storm in `A man chases a girl'. His paramour is a showgirl played by Marilyn Monroe, who gives a scorching version of `Heat wave', proving that she can both sing and dance as well as look sexy. In `Lazy' she is joined by O'Connor and Mitzi Gaynor, who is the least troubled or troublesome of the Donahue children. Other Berlin numbers, besides the title song, include `A pretty girl is like a melody' (the Donahue parents), `Alexander's ragtime band' and `When the midnight choo-choo leaves for Alabam' (sung by the whole family), `If you believe' (Johnny Ray's solo piece), `Remember' and other numbers. A veritable feast of entertainment for nearly 120 minutes.

Back to the Future is back! on Blu Ray! Back the Future is back on Blu Ray (this review is for the 25th anniversary Trilogy on Blu ray): Let me start by saying this is probably the best Blu Ray picture+sound quality I have seen in any 80s movie and its superior to many titles from early 90s or 2000s for that matter (I own about 100 Blu ray titles if not more and have seen plenty). It is so excellent that I think it should be considered as a measure of quality for all other productions should try to measure up to. If you didn't know anything about 80s culture, fashion or any other element that gives away the timing of the film, you could easily be convinced that it was shot just recently  (that's how crystal clear the picture is).  I am not going to review all the films in the package as I am sure if you are already here considering purchasing this product, you are well aware of the movies. Back to the Future is a wonderful, fun, entertaining movie that has become a classic over the years. After 25 years, it still holds most of its power which is not easy to do for any film. The idea of a teenager travelling back in time and meeting his parents, messing up the time continuum in the process and then trying set everything straight, back to how they are supposed to be is pretty damn interesting theme (the theme evolves further with 2nd and 3rd films). Michael J. Fox is perfectly cast for the role as well as all the other actors. I love all three movies and Amazon's price is great deal (I got it for $35 when it was on special gold box deal). Even if the first movie is your favorite, I would still recommend getting all three movies for this price.  They also did an excellent job with special features and bonus materials. Everything you would want to know about the original idea, the production, the casting, script, interviews, Q&As, behind the cameras, deleted scenes, feature commentaries (multiple) and many more are included. Overall, I would give this item 10/10 on all categories, movies, picture/sound quality and special features. If you grew up in the 80s and if you are a fan, don't even think twice about buying it. If you grew up in the 80s and vaguely remember this movie, I would recommend that you buy it- you will most likely love it and it's probably better than you remember. If you did not grow up in the 80s then I recommend that you watch these movies with an open heart and I am sure you will be pleasantly surprised.

Corruption of the innocent in an Hasidic Jewish community This recent 2010 film is based on a true story that happened in the late 1990s.  A group of Hasidic Jews from Brooklyn were used as couriers to smuggle large quantities of ecstasy from Amsterdam into the United States.  They were able to get away with it for a while because with their distinctive way of dressing they do not meet the profile of drug dealers.  Jessie Eisenberg is cast in the role of Sam,  the innocent who gets corrupted.  He is 20 years old, shy around women, and dislikes working in his father's fabric business.  His friend, Yosef, played by Justin Bartha, is also an orthodox Jew  but is much more worldly. He recruits Sam by telling him he is importing medicine.  That ruse works for only a little while and then the young Sam gets smarter, is introduced to the high life in Amsterdam and starts to enjoy the money and the criminality.  How this all turns out is predictable, of course, but I really did enjoy this film.  Eisenberg is a fine actor and it is easy to identify with his conflicting emotions that are both comic and somehow pathetic.  The whole cast, does a fine job and the Hassidic Jewish community comes across as being real.

A rocky life turned around into something amazing... This movie is NOT about the game of Rugby itself but a story with multiple parts:  1. The relationship between a father and son that is rocky and through commonality eventually becomes repaired. 2. The strength a sport (even if portrayed pourly) or a family unit (team) can strengthen that of a troubled young man and turn his life around.  Was the rugby portrayed the way rugby should be.  Heck not. But the meaning and story of the movie is truly an inspiration.

beautiful film with a message I loved this film.  The music,  the scenary, the filming was beautiful.  It's a movie we enjoy watching over and over.  Teens especially will relate but there is a message for everyone who has a family - which is all of us.  Timothy Hutton is always worth the price of admission.  Definately a winner!

The Desk Set This was an older quirky movie and I loved it, in black in white and recommend it for all ages.

Film for Children My grandchildren love it and EVERY Grandparent should keep films like this to entertain the grandchildren  Keep the little Angels quiet without a fuss since the actually like this product and will thank you for letting them watch it.  The NEVER get tired of watching.

Fabulous Film Nothing but good things to say about this film. Great writing, great acting, beautiful interpretation. Uma Therman is fabulous as Fantine and Liam Neeson and Geoffery Rush make a perfect team.

HOLY HIJINX AND HEINOUS HUSSIES! Note: This review referes to the original BATMAN TV series, which is STILL not available on DVD! HOLY HECK!!! The BATMAN movie contained all the same elements, with the notable exception of LEE MERIWETHER as CATWOMAN.  BATMAN: BATMAN was my gloves-down favorite TV show as a boob-tube-addicted small fry, and remains a true guilty pleasure in my so-called "adult" years. The casting was absolutely inspired, namely ADAM WEST as our straight-laced intrepid hero and "short-man's-syndrome" originator BURT WARD as the abnormally zealous, "Holy (fill in the blank)"-spouting BOY WONDER. But the REAL fun/kitsch factor lay in the vividly colorful, deliciously overacting arch criminals, from CAESAR ROMERO's greasepaint no-goodnik JOKER to FRANK GORSHIN's hyperactively hilarious RIDDLER. Eternal character actor BURGESS MEREDITH made the waddling, cackling PENGUIN his most memorable role, and 6 foot goddess JULIE NEWMAR was absolutely put on this earth to don a skin-tight black catsuit and high heels. BATMAN's superhuman ability to resist her amazonian-dimensioned advances was far more impressive than the dozens of potentially lethal traps he miraculously escaped. A veritable "who's who" of show biz vets...comedians, musicians, Broadway stars, and bona fide Hollywood legends...lined up each week for a crack at bad-guy infamy; VINCENT PRICE, LIBERACE, OTTO PREMINGER, MILTON BERLE, TALLULAH BANKHEAD, CLIFF ROBERTSON, VICTOR BUONO, and SHELLEY WINTERS were but a few players in the nefarious rogue's gallery. On the good guy side, stand-outs included NEIL HAMILTON as the perfectly wooden, hopelessly naive COMMISSIONER GORDON...and where would the DYNAMIC DUO have been without ALAN NAPIER's loyal man-servant ALFRED?...undernourished, and in soiled bat-suits, I'll wager. Armed with the tricked out Batmobile, bottomless utility belts and purposely over-the-top dialogue, what ultimately brought the DYNAMIC DUO down? That's easier than answering one of RIDDLER's cunning conundrums...the third season introduced BATGIRL and a bevy of boring baddies like LORD FOGG, LOLA LASAGNA, and NORA CLAVICLE, had no cliff-hangers, no budget, no JULIE NEWMAR, no reason to continue tuning in, "same BAT-TIME, same BAT-CHANNEL"!.......  RATING: FIVE BAT-A-RANGS

Amazing Collection I mean really, do I have to even say anything?  It's Mel Brooks folks, and this is his movie collection.  I went through them all in a weekend, laughing it up the entire time, this is gold!

Awesome Entertainment Absolutly LOVED this movie, I had got it for a suprise for my son and when it came in the mail he didn't quit watching it for 2 weeks. The 3-D workd on any TV and if I must say so myself is pretty great.

First rate Just finished watching First Class and my impressions are positive overall, though at the same time a little mixed seeing that the filmmakers took quite a few liberties with the source material.  I was born in '67 and grew up in the 70's and late 80's in what was, arguably, the heyday of the X-men, just before the title took off under Chris Claremont and the great John Byrne culminating in the Dark Phoenix saga and the subsequent spin-offs. First,Banshee and Mystique came along decades later in the X-men. The Beast didn't get hairy until around issue 106 or so around the time that the X-men became the new X-men with the additions of Nightcrawler, Banshee, Storm, Colossus, and Wolverine, who, I'm glad, they remembered to leave out of this movie seeing that he wasn't an original member. Also, I would like to have seen the Juggernaut, Xavier's brother, and the Blob, both of whom were charter members of Magneto's evil mutants. Also, where were Jean Grey and Scott Summers, Marvel Girl and Cyclops who were also founding members of the X-men?  Anyway, inconsistencies aside, I really enjoyed this latest X-men movie. For the first time since they started making these movies, I felt like this was the most accurate and respectful attempt to capture the flavor of the comic. Even the old yellow and black costumes looked like the comic sans the big X on the front torso. The story was logical and provided a solid emotional justification for Magneto's fear and loathing for normal humans and showed how misfits could follow someone like him. The acting was first rate. I also like the fact that they stayed away from "big" actors who could distract from the story. As far as superhero films go, this is the best one since the Dark Knight. A real sleeper and very low key. Lastly, I think what separated this film from the others and made it better was that it had a different director, a better director, and it shows. Hope he does the follow-up.

On the wings of love David Cronenberg's version of George Langelaan's classic science fiction story plus a second disc loaded with special features makes "The Fly" Collector's Edition DVD well worth owning. "The Fly" also happens to be one of the 20th century's great morality plays.  Jeff Goldblum plays physicist Seth Brundle, who is experimenting with teleportation. The fire in his mind for this idea blinds Brundle to the fact that he's playing with fire. His name conveys tragedy. Seth was the third son of Adam and Eve (see Book of Genesis), the one to cover over the tragedy of Cain and Abel. "The Fly" teaches that human nature can just as easily lead to destruction in the sons of Seth as it did with Cain. "Brundle" is pretty close to "blunder," tipping us to the scientist's eventual downfall. But thinking deeper within the context of the story, we discover an even greater insight, one that the Jewish High Holiday liturgy teaches but we flawed humans seem to forget between one Rosh Hashana and the next - you cannot sin repeatedly and repent. In other words, sin deforms us and it's extremely difficult (for most, impossible) to become whole again. Seth's teleportation pods and the breakdown of his body and mind (superb makeup and special effects) comprise a wonderful parable of this.  Despairing about love (caused by not being at peace with the complexities of human relationships) is an easily overlooked but key element in Seth's undoing. On the surface most viewers will realize the wisdom of don't drink and teleport.  "The Fly" is a pro-life movie. Seth's plea to Veronica (Geena Davis) not to have the abortion - "Please don't kill me" - is deep pathos and very moving.  Veronica's admirable love for Seth amid worsening circumstances will ring true to all those that have cared for someone through cancer, AIDS, or some other debilitating illness. Figuratively, Veronica grows wings of love and her continuing visits to Seth's lab amid increasing danger and sadness establish the truth of what Beatle George Harrison once taught - "There's more to it than just these bodies of ours."  Cronenberg expertly builds the horror (Veronica's "Be afraid, be very afraid" line works better than a thunder clap) and he doesn't skimp at the end. Broken bodies and wounded spirits are before us as the curtain falls. Masterful from beginning to end is Cronenberg, who personally rewrote Charles Edward Pogue's screenplay. No words necessary to convey the great lesson at the end of "The Fly," just as true today as 25 years ago when the movie was released - sin kills but if we're humble and loving enough G-d gives us wings to rise above.

Hell to Eternity (Confused) I went on line to purchase the movie and did not realize I was buying it to view on line. I wanted a copy of the movie for myself. I love the movie and have not been seeing it on TV over the past few years and it was in my blood that night. So I watched it on line. I will be very careful in the future as to if I am purchasing to view on line or actually getting a copy for my self. Amazon is tricky that way.

So romantic! Even better on Blue Ray! This is certainly a girls movie, but I got my husband to watch it w/ me!!! He actually enjoyed it too. The movie is awesome in Blue Ray!!

Great service The quality of the DVD was as if it were new. Service was very fast. I recommend using this provider.

The "Real" William Shakespeare? I don't know if Edward De Vere (Rhys Ifans), Earl of Oxford, wrote the plays and sonnets credited to William Shakespeare or not.  Nor do I know if Queen Elizabeth I gave birth to illegitimate children.  What I do know is that ANONYMOUS is a fascinating, totally engrossing motion picture; a revisionist history, part political thriller, that provides a possible answer to one of the world's great mysteries.  Directed by Roland Emmerich, John Orloff's script seamlessly moves back-and-forth between several time periods, as it recounts the tale of a nobleman of questionable birth who writes magnificent plays and sonnets, yet because of the political environment of the era, must let another takes credit for them.  Much of the drama centers on court intrigues involving Elizabeth, brilliantly portrayed in her later years by Vanessa Redgrave and, as a younger woman, by Redgrave's daughter, Joely Richardson.  I am not going to divulge specific plot details, because that would make me a spoiler and this saga has too many deliciously intriguing twists-and-turns that a viewer should discover for himself.  The entire cast, which includes David Thewlis (as the nefarious Robert Cecil), Jamie Campbell Bower (as the younger Edward De Vere) and Derek Jacobi, who bookends the story as sort of a narrator, are magnificent.  ANONYMOUS, which has received an Oscar nomination for Best Costume Design, uses CGI to craft an astounding recreation of Elizabethan England.  Extras on the DVD from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment include audio commentary with Emmerich and Orloff, deleted scenes and a featurette, "Who Is the Real William Shakespeare?".  © Michael B. Druxman

Amazon Purchased Review It was exellent, to the point and very scary to think how we have  been encouraged, for so many years, to eat the food that is so detrimental to our bodies. The facts as presented should be life changing for us all!

One of the best ever film sequels "The Godfather Part II" is a brilliant follow up to the Corleone Crime Family story. Flashbacks provide deeper insight into Vito Corleone, and Michael Corleone certainly presents as a hardened Godfather, despite his efforts in the first film to not join the family business. The narrative is intricate and well presented, and loyalties even within the family are not spared from treachery.  Nicholas R.W. Henning - Australian Author

The Best Movie You Haven't Seen Absolutely amazing movie--not just martial arts movie. No high flying, attacked to a string craprobatics, but an amazing and true story about a man who upholds the dignity of humanity while preserving the martial arts that we love. Very inspiring--full of great action--and a heart tug.

Love this movie The movie was shipped to me with much haste. I love having different versions of the movie so I can easily share it with my friends and family. The quality of the film is well worth the price.

Lost in New York In Home Alone 2, Kevin gets out of the house and accidentally takes a solo trip to New York. Resourceful as usual, Kevin lives it up at the Plaza Hotel. On a busy street in New York, he runs into the same bad guys that had misguidedly come to his house in Chicago. The thieving duo recognize Kevin and vice versa. Tim Curry at the hotel begins to get suspicious about the youngster being alone. How long can Kevin keep his vacation on the upswing with so many challenges?

All time classic The Blu-Ray restoration is amazing, you can really tell the difference when you watch the special features that show clips of the original version.  This is an amazing movie, showing dance at its best.  The special feature highlighting modern day choreographers saying that this film is the standard for dance as it incorporates many genres of dance in one film that has a great story.  Gene Kelly makes the most difficult dance routines look effortless. Debbie Reynolds says that doing Singing in the Rain was the hardest thing in her life as was giving birth.  The chemistry worked with all the staff that produced a great classic movie.  The special features make this Blu-Ray disc even better.  If you like musicals and dance, then you will love this movie.

E.T. Ultimate Gift Boxset DVD i love this movie .. i remember when i kids see this movie. and i love with this edition .. 4 disc and a lot of bonus inserted it. And i will buy blu-ray edition i hope good transfer than oldies

It doesn't get any better than Hope and Crosby Easily the best comedic duo of all time.  I've enjoyed watching Hope and Crosby perform since I was introduced to their movies in the 90's.  This is a must have set of movies packed with physical comedy, witty one liners, and funny nuances of the characters.  If you like comedies, even if you don't watch many classic movies, you need the Road To movies.  These are the films that started my love of classic cinema and I am very glad I gave them a shot.  I was able to find the other Road To movies in other collections I purchased but these are the best 4 of the series in my opinion.

Ultraviolet??????? WHO CARES???? Just put the disc in the blu-ray player and watch the movie like a normal person!!! Who cares about Ultraviolet??? I don't!

Best Marketing Movie Ever If you are in the marketing or sales business, you need to purchase this and watch it several times.  It's not a movie like you would think, but more of a documentary about the black hair business.  If you watch as a marketer and absorb what is going on, you will learn just what your customer is willing to do, spend and go through to get what they want, not what you might want to sell.  If you can find a used copy get it.

Very Funny I love mystery and adventure type movies and I also like Jules Vern novels. I found this movie to be funny and keeps your interest.

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View it: Deeply moving, hopeful, and inspiring I am so happy that I came across this documentary on TV today (OWN).  It was compelling, thought provoking, and my experience was that it spoke to me to the core and has affected me deeply.  Not everyone will be ready for the messages... such as "Fatuous and self-absorbed" who does not even have the self awareness to catch that they are most likely terrified of the material because it threatens to tear down the "fatuous and self-absorbed" world that they have built for themselves.  But the fact they watched it in it's entirety and then took the time to review it says that there is something "unsettling" about it to them that may make them reflect on it and their presence in the world (why do they care so much?).  I don't think that Tom Shadyac was trying to say he knew all of the answers, I think he just presented a beautiful platform for us to reflect on and to discuss.  I highly recommend this piece for everyone.  Beautiful work.

The description needs a proofreader in the product description it says there is one disc but three are describes obviously the listing of 1 dvd is wrong  one episode has the name weeding impossible, but I would guess it is supposed to be wedding impossible which fits the description  also the word 'with' should be 'will' in the first line of the description.  that said, the show is a very interesting race to finish dozens of dishes in 6 hours with changes made on the fly if something is missing or ruined.  Anyone interested in competition cooking should like this season dvd.

50 Mystery Package I have watched two of the films in this package and I really enjoyed them. The actors are all top rate and the stories are very interesting. The film quality is not always the best, but that is to be expected in films that in some cases are nearly 70 years old. I would recommend this package to others who like movies involving mystery and intrigue with top notch acting.

The funniest British comedy series ever. Black Adder is the only British comedy series I have found to be on par with the best American comedy series. Rowan Atkinson is a combination of the best of Jerry Lewis, John Candy, and Johnathan Winters. The different characters he plays from one family through the centuries is original and hilarious. It's worth buying if any comedy series is.

Fine Universal Western, great cast Although he is usually associated with the long-running TV series, "My Three Sons" or some Disney productions, Fred MacMurray was a gifted actor in spurs and chaps, as well. He starred in a number of solid Westerns, starting with THE TEXAS RANGERS in 1936 and continuing through the late 1950s with several underappreciated vehicles, including the fine GUN FOR A COWARD. This well-cast Universal release (1956) features MacMurray with Jeffrey Hunter and Dean Stockwell as his brothers. Also in the cast are Chill Wills--always a pleasure to see him--and a number of Universal regulars. In some ways this film resembles GUNMAN'S WALK, with its interplay and conflict between brothers. MacMurray is solid as the elder brother Will Keough trying to keep his unruly family together, while romancing a gal who actually loves a younger brother (Hunter). Add to this some nasty rustlers and nestors, and you have all the ingredients for a solid hour and a half Western entertainment. Great Technicolor print; DVD-R format. No adds ons, but that's okay---GUN FOR A COWARD is fine little Westerns. Recommended (may we hope for more from the Universal-International vaults?).

Surprisingly Good I rented this based on a friend's recommendation who is really into indy films.  I've got to say I wasn't expecting much, but after watching it I was blown away.  If I hadn't been told it was an indy film I would never have known.  The character were well developed and the story was great.  I was drawn in from the first scene until the last.  I read some of the other reviews that said the CGI wasn't very good.  I have to disagree.  The CGI looked amazing to me in all but maybe a couple of scenes, and I have seen a lot worse in big budget hollywood movies.  I highly recommend this film.  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008R6LHGA">Fortress</a>

Good Movie This movie was just an awsome movie to see. It had a good story it has a lot of action and a lot of shooting and blowing  stuff up. Stallone did an excellent job writting, directing, and acting in this movie.

Stellar! I saw this in the theatre with my now wife, and we bothed loved it!  I thought it was very well done!  This is a definite must own for sure!  Words cannot even describe how excited I am about the upcoming Avengers film next year, and about every single one of the Marvel titles leading up to it!  So awesome!

Atmosphere to burn I kept rooting for the two main characters to make it together, since they were so compatible in every way, except one.  Their affection was genuine, and the limits to their relationship was obvious to all.  Others have said that this film is a one-note film; that unrequited love would be unfulfilling to each.  Her treatment to the other man in her life is sometimes difficult to bear.  She hurt her first love because she was afraid of hurting him, of course hurting him even more.  Dora Carrington was not a perfect person, of course, but her kind relationship with the gentle Lytton Strachey was sympathetic and winning.  Recommended, especially if you enjoy English period films, as I do.

led zeppelin dvds according to page when this was released, they were having an off night  i wonder what a excellent night for them would have been.  this was one of their best concert ever.  though when it comes to dvds, bootlegs like earl's court, knebworth, or their reunion fair a lot better.  especially the one from knebworth, which was one of bonham's last performance, he plays as if his life depended on it.  it was kind of ironic that he played that night with all his might, and that would be the last official video released.  even though they are a lot older now, their knebworth far out weighed song remains the same.  it is too bad that they full knebworth and earl's court performance was never released in full officially.  regardless the video footages are a testimony that these four lads from england, wales, and scotland did not go down like a led ballooon, but flew as high as anyone could, and crashed landed in 1980.  along with the beatles, they are still revered as the greatest  rock band ever that walked the earth among the giants.

There really are real heroes! It is good to know that life has some real heroes that show us what humanity is suppose to be and also the courage, strength, endurance to back up a simple, honest, and pure being. So this man Ip is a show to all what a real person is to be like. He is  spiritual in this life without Deity. I bow to such a person and so should you.

At first I was skeptical....... Yes, there are a lot of gaps in logic. Yes, it is a huge stretch of the imagination. Yes, it would have been better if some of the movie wasn't edited out. I truly wish they would have put out an extended version of this movie where the waylan industries speech started the movie. This would have made a lot of questions non existant. That being said.  This is a fun movie that provokes the mind to see outside the box and just enjoy a good old sci-fi. If you like any of the alien movies you will like this and enjoy the ending scenes. It is an updated homage to the old films and a good watch.

Why don't they make movies like this anymore?!!!! I first saw The Music Man when it came out in the theatre. My parents loved it and I grew to love it as well. My favorite part of the movie was when the barbershop quartet "The Buffalo Bills" and Shirley Jones sang together with "Lida Rose/Dream of Love". I wish they still made movies like this...

Love it! The movie is awesome, of course. I didn't have any issues with my purchase or the quality of the movie.

Love this movie, got it as soon as it came out. There's so much to say about this movie, but i'll keep it real short.  IT WAS AWESOME!!!!  Watched it again the next day lol.

Great serial, slight disappointment This is a review of the Timeless Media Group release of the 1935 Mascot Serial, "The Phantom Empire."  Empire is one of my all time favorite serials.  Given that, I fell hook, line, and sinker for this new overpriced 3 disc set from Timeless "Authorized By The Gene Autry Estate."  Gene Autry did not produce or own exclusive rights to this public domain serial.  This set claims to use as a source his own personal print.  For $35, I expected it to shoot the moon.  Not so fast, though.  Gene's "personal copy" was evidently a 16mm print, because that's what this looks to be sourced from.  No cleanup to image or sound has been done.  Dirt, scratches, and other trash are apparent throughout.  Timeless, not one of my favorite distributors (remember those great old Universal TV shows they licensed, and used horrible 16mm syndication prints as sources, e.g. Checkmate)?  I'm sure that Autry's agents forced Timeless to spread this 12-chapter serial over 3 platters to avoid over-compression, with the best possible intentions.  No restoration or cleanup has been done.  Sad.  The Serial Squadron sells a version of EMPIRE through their site, which is superior to this.  Also, VCI has their own version out that looks pretty good.  Nothing will ever be perfect for this title unless a first generation source can be found, and that's unlikely to happen.  The folks at Serial Squadron did clean up their version digitally and certainly looks the best.  So, if you have either the VCI or Serial Squadron versions, you can't do much better by them.  Timeless' price is ridiculous for what you get.  The only supplement to amount to anything is a brief intro done for Autry's Melody Ranch Theater syndicated TV show that ran his films.  It's actually an intro for an edited feature version of the serial.

Classic movie is a must see for all elementary science classes This movie has so many science elements in it that it is great to show it to science classes.  Life Science, Physical Science,Conservation, etc.

Crazy people but great entertainment. Started watching this on Netflix and couldn't take my eyes off for one second. This is probably the most dysfunctional family out there. I guarantee that once you start watching it, you will watch it to the end. Yeah, sure you may say "Wow this family is horrible" or "I can't believe people really live like this" but it's deffinately entertaining. I've watched it a couple of times and I must admit, I will probably watch it again. It will pull you in and leave you with wanting to find out more. Would love to see updates on them.

Cute Movie! I ordered this for my kids for Easter and it was a cute movie...! It is a great family movie.

Very violent movie, start to finish Anthing Tommy Lee jones is in I watch. This is an over the top drugs, money and character study of the leading plasyers. If you like fast paced surprises this one's for you.

excellent movie and comentary when i first saw this movie i dint quite fully understand it but once you reach the end and you realize the plot twist you see it with different eyes because you realize whats going on towards the end of it and its just a great movie over all and it has the entire movie on commentary by the U.S. dub actors and its absolutely great specially towards the end when the actor the voice of ED speaks of how this series has affected his and fans life's and its truly moving.  there is also "the making of the movie" which is the creators of the series which is Japanese creators with English sub which is good but I'm not really one to be reading the entire time because they speak fast so you have to read the subbing quite fast which is a hastle but you do learn a lot from there cometary.  oh and by the way this movie has a great plot twist which i did not see coming also the characters do look a bit different but in a good way its a bit refreshing the big difference i noted is the characters eyes  ONE last thing which is very important if you have not seen the entire series yet in the commentary there are spoilers but not something that will ruin the ending for you just somethings that you would rather not know if you have finished watching the series.  if your a true fan of FMAB this is a great addition and i would say a must buy.  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0071LEJTO">Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood: The Sacred Star of Milos Movie (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)</a>

Sarah Brightman - Behind the Stage Persona I agree that Amazon's editorial about this DVD is weird and off-base.  Why compare Sarah to Julie Andrews (who I also love)?  It's an apples vs. oranges type of comparison.  Sarah Brightman is the top-selling performer in her class, so why would she follow in the footsteps of Julie Andrews?  Strange.  Anyway, Sarah fans should be very happy to own One Night in Eden.  The concert is very well done, as is the camera work.  There are plenty of close-ups, so her male devotees can bask in her radiant beauty.  Sarah may have performed some of the songs a hundred or more times, but you almost tangibly sense the extent to which she puts her heart into each number.  When singing, Sarah goes into some other-worldly state, clearly focused on the deepest essence of every song.  With her British-perfect, pale complexion, long, dark, curly hair, and the eyes the size of a doll's, she's a physical work of art -- even if one were to subtract her voice completely.  What I found most interesting were Sarah's comments about her work, her creative and artistic mind that remains open to seemingly almost any new idea.  In her remarks, she confesses to being a life-long and unflappable optimist, and I think this inner, positive energy is what we partially view (and are enthralled by) as an audience.  She genuinely loves the exploration of new avenues of expression.  And, best of all, I found her personality to be 100% genuine -- no false airs, no pretensions, no vanity -- just a natural, charming, intelligent spirit.  This inner nucleus, spinning around a wonder-lust of possibilities, a girlish naivete interwoven with all things being possible, must (to some extent) account for the woman appearing half her age.  Buy the DVD and see if you pick up on this miraculous and precious vibrancy.  She's a gift.

Super Funny Major Payne was a favorite of my sons when they were young. Now, enjoying fun and laughter with the grandsons!

Beautiful, compelling, classic! I love this film! I hadn't seen it for a long time and re-watched again last night and it still stands up as one of the best musicals ever made. The songs are fantastic, the singing is truly impressive (especially Banderas with that sexy accent of his) and the directio, sets and art direction put you right in the picture.

mistake HI. every buddy makes a mistake , some dont make it right ?? and most do make it right. I just want to say YOU DID.   THANK YOU  THANK YOU

Dreams From My Real Father "Dreams from My Real Father" by Joel Gilbert, is an astounding film expose on the subterfuge, speculations, and pseudo-background of the "Master Deceiver." The covert history in Gilbert's documentary reveals the Socialist-Communistic ideology from his "real father", the money supporting the man, plus the political connections from the Ayers family; myriad questions are resolved, when the true agenda about the intriques become evident. The thorough research exposes the hidden quagmire in Obama's political chasm that hypnotically drew masses into believing the quasi-myth of "change" in American Utopia!

Twilight...my granddaughter LOVES it! My granddaughter absolutely loves the Twilight series; I had to watch the movie when I got it to catch up on what they're all talking about!  Thank You!

a great film for being made in the early 90's it is a sad thing that so many people give this movie negative reviews. it is much closer to the captian america comic then the new movie. granted there were some changes but it works out all right in the end. the story is steve rogers is chosen for an expertment that gives people super strenght and speed he is sent in to stop the bad guys from launching a rocket but is beaten by red skull and tied to the rocket he stops the rocket from hitting its target but it lands in the artic and he is frozen for 50 years. the first 20 minutes of the movie takes place in 1943 and the rest of the movie takes place in the 90's were he confronts red skull again. I encourage any and all to watch this version of captain america it is much better then the two 1979 tv movies and is as good as the new captain america movie.

this is a classic I hunted all over before finding a copy of this DVD on Amazon.com. It is almost impossible to find now, so if you get a chance grab one!

Exceptional 70's western gets deluxe treatment on Blu-ray In the wake of the many 1970's revisionist westerns Clint Eastwood reinvented his western personna once again with "The Outlaw Josey Wales". "Wales" was a sign post of Eastwood's final western the dark and, well, unforgiving "The Unforgiven" and, although not quite as dark as that film, "Wales" is certainly as dark as his previous film (which also paved the way for "Wales") the spooky "High Plains Drifter".  After Wales family is slaughtered he joins Confederate fighters led by Captain Fletcher (the always marvelous character actor John Vernon). At the conclusion of the war Fletcher convinces his men except for Josie to surrender to the Union all of them unaware that there are plans to execute Fletcher's men as part of an arrangement to save Fletcher's neck. Josie escapes with Jaime (Sam Bottoms) unaware that they are being pursued by Fletcher and the Union soldiers. Josie attracts a ragtag band of fellow travelers along the way.  The transfer: "Wales" has never looked this good on home video which highlights the flaws of mid-70's film stock as well as the look of the film itself. Grain is consistent throughout the presentation and looks quite nice adding to unique look. The colors are bolder than previous home video versions and the skin tones are just right for the look of this gritty film.  The film continues to show the influence of Eastwood's mentor Don Siegel ("Invasion of the Body Snatchers", "Dirty Harry")and Leone ("The Good, The Bad and The Ugly")but also demonstrates Eastwood's growth as a director.  "Wales" was a problematic production; writer-director Philip Kaufman ("The Right Stuff", "The Warriors", "The Unbareable Lightness of Being" and who co-wrote the script for "Wales" from the book by Forrest Carter) was fired during the shoot early on (after repeatedly butting heads with Eastwood over co-star Sandra Locke; it seems both wanted to woo her.) and Eastwood reluctantly took on the reins as director which forced Eastwood to push through the shoot without the usual prepartion he would have done as director. Luckily, Kaufman's excellent script survives largely intact and Eastwood compliments the script; it's hard to imagine what Kaufman might have done differently from Eastwood and while it is sad that he was robbed of the chance to complete the project himself, at least his vision somewhat survives.  THe film sports a nice 5.1 DTS lossless soundtrack that nicely captures the environment depicted in the film.  The special features are surprisingly good for this film. Unlike some companies that have been releasing catalog titles (even those with big stars or that have a following)lately, the extras here aren't just recycled from the previous version of the film.  The 30 minute punningly titled "Eastwood's West" gathers the usual suspects from co-stars to critics discussing a variety of Eastwood's films from the 1970's (although the focus is, not surprisingly, on "Wales"). It's an excellent short documentary.  "Hell Hath No Fury" the excellent featurette on the production of the film IS carried over from the previous DVD special edtion.  Kaufman is, not surprisingly, absent from the proceedings and that's too bad; it would have been fascinating to hear his take on what occurred 34 years later with the perspective of time. The chance in director isn't addressed really.  We also get the original vintage promotional featurette (although it doesn't provide much in the way of insight into the production of the film being PC). We also get the original trailer for the film.  A classic dark, brooding western "The Outlaw Josey Wales" has retained many of the qualities that made it so memorable in 1976 and the raw violence is still somewhat startling.  Warner has done a really good job of restoring the film for Blu-ray. The first edition comes in a limited edition "keepsake" hardcover book that has behind-the-scenes photos from the film.  Highly recommended.

Wallander: episode 1 - Before the Frost Absolutely loved it.  Hollywood should take lessons from this wonderful, realistic Swedish detective series.  The cast were all terrific including Jussi the chocolate labrador retriever.  Wonderful, wonderful series, We watched every episode and were sorry when it was over.  It is too bad that more episodes weren't made!

3 Horrors for the Price of 1 !!! How can you beat that? Three great horror flicks for the price of one? All well made films and all well worth the watch to those who have not seen them yet. You can't go wrong with this deal. If I am wrong about that, well then, you'll just have to KILL me!!!

Great Documentary I saw this documentary at the Michigan State University Film Festival and was able to meet 2 of the 4 young men involved.  I hope that it gets nominated for an Academy Award because it is worthy of one!

A great sequel (Amazon Instant Video) This is a very good sequel to the first Halloween film. It picks up right where the first film ended and will leave you on edge until the end credits. As some other people have stated in their review the picture quality isn't perfect as there are some white specks at the start of the film. They do not seem to reappear after the opening credits, however. This is also the first film I have rented through Amazon Instant Video and I was very satisfied with the quality. It played on my Roku XD in full high-definition and didn't have to pause and reload at all.

Great show but ripoff DVD. First of all, my complaint:  This DVD is only for the first half of season one.  I recommend that people stop buying these partial-season DVDs so that the producers get the message and stop ripping people off.  As for the program, I really like it that actors who play the deaf characters are really deaf (or hearing impaired)  and I enjoy watching the signing (even though I don't know ASL).  It's a beautiful language.  The only major complaint I have with the story is that Bay, who is raised in a very Wasp environment, is a "graffiti-artist" which is "explained" when she finds out that she's half Puerto Rican.  Talk about stereotyping!  I also think that Katie LeClerc (Daphne) doesn't really look like a sixteen year-old high school girl.  Perhaps that's because she's really 25.  But she does a terrific job so I can overlook the age discrepancy.  In general the show is great(if a bit too PC) and I'd recommend it to anyone.  Just wait for the full season DVD.

This Sarah Connor Better Than the Original I loved the terminator series and was really disappointed when the series was canceled.  I thought Lena Headey makes a better Sarah Connor than Linda Hamilton of the movies.  She is strong, but caring without seeming as psychotic and remote as Linda Hamilton's Sarah Connor.  I also like Summer Glau even though she does seem to be the kiss of death for a series.  The plot line of Shirley Manson as a terminator and trying to raise a child is also very interesting. This show has lots of action and the special effects are great.  Cameron's spastic level of social skills is a little baffling.  In one episode she can barely manage a conversation, and in the next episode she will seem to have a psychology degree (hyperbole, but it gets the point across).  This is an action-packed, fun series that should not have been canceled after two seasons.

Great DVD for any Godzilla fan!! This is a great addition to any collection for fans that like Godzilla! The commentary is a very nice addition for those that want to learn more about the production and history of the film.

Space 1999: The Ugly Puppy of Vintage Sci-Fi Space 1999 reminds me of an ugly puppy that is so ugly its adorable. This series was sooo bad its great. If you love the old Sci-Fi B Movies you will love this. On a decent TV with good speakers you will be satisfied with the pic and sound quality.I am not interested in Blue Ray. This is good enough for me. I know the first season was seen as "intellectually" superior but phooey. Watch season two for the monsters (I am a huge Godzilla fan). Actually one Monster with different feet, hands and an occasional tail thrown on) Corny , badly acted ;all true but so was Star Trek. Oh don't hate. You know its true. I especially love that as a kid I never saw the bad special effects. Now I can't get enough of the little plastic figures and vehicles zooming across the moon's surface.  The 70's mod decor and polyester fashion brings me back. If you are a Lost fan you may recognize one of the characters on Space 1999 as Farmer Ray. I didn't, someone told me. I have a pretty good collection of my favorite TV shows from my childhood and love the fact that this series was not forgotten. Take this series for what it is and don't over analyze. I wish it had lasted a few seasons more. I let myself get into the moment and corny suspense and its FUN. Maya was a great hero for girls.

Magical Muppets I first saw this movie at the theatre when the kids were young. Loved it then, love it now. The music is memorable and the one liners, especially Rizzo and Gonzo are hilarious. Highly recommend to add to you library as a seasonal classic.

The BEST gift for anyone with a newborn....stops crying instantly! This is my go-to gift for a baby shower.  It is the single best item to give to new parents.  It not only helps new parents to feel more prepared, but it gives the dad tools so he can help with the baby too.  Every person I've given this DVD too has thanked me profusely! It removes the helpless feeling that new parents face when their baby is crying. All these techniques really work and will change your life.

The Pearl Fishers come to Santa Fe Enjoyed this production performed in Venice with the incomparable Massis. What a voice. The music and staging are   beautiful and the CD captures the opera very well. We will have The Pearl Fishers performed this summer at the Santa Fe Opera in New Mexico and I wanted to preview it since I have never seen it before. Purchased it on Amazon.com   Estelle H Rosenblum

Love this movie This is such a great movie. I love the characters. Especially Edna!! She's the best! Hahaha the animation is awesome. Pixar did an amazing job creating this one. Great show especially for kids.

DRAGGING HEART!! I love this movie. It's fun, it's action-packed, it has great actors, and has a great supporting cast. the voice of Sean Connery as the dragon was genius!

Beautiful and educational for kids. Two thumbs up for the movie producers!  In a world of prevailing prejudice, it took someone with real heart, guts and sincere belief in art and humanity to take on this "unappealing" and difficult-to-make topic (a Chinese man as ballet dancer) and successfully made it into a very appealing movie.

Movie Great movie.  Quick delivery.  My students love this movie.  They laugh out loud!  You always know a movie is entertaining when 29 students can sit for 2 hours quietly.

Need more! Great show from back in the 90's.  I remember watching this show after school as a kid.  This and Beast Wars Transformers were epic cartoons and even years later, they still hold up to form.  Right now there are only two dvd sets out for Gargoyles.  We need to complete the 2nd half of season two and get season three on dvd.  Everyone should harass Disney until they finally give in and produce the DVDs.

Great book I found this book exceptionally good ,with good time limits with each lesson . most of all just being patient with oneself  I definitely recommend this , if you are serious about jump rope it's a must . Tom lavery

Amazing comedy is superb on blu ray This is one of those movies that has received such exceptional praise and a particular comparison to being a female version of THE HANGOVER that most people have high already set expectations before viewing this movie.  I did not see this in the theater and was filled with anticipation to watch the blu ray.  I love most of the women here and was not let down at all.  Funny though, after all the hype, it was not anything what I expected.  The comparison to THE HANGOVER?  This film involves a roadtrip but differs greatly for it is a comedy with heart.  Kristen Wiig is the true headliner here and she carries this film from beginning to end.  She provides many of the greatest laughs but her character also provides the true heart and emotion to this film.  Yes, it is a laughfest comedy with humor that is sometimes a little gross but under all that is a heartfelt story.  Maya Rudolph also provides heart to this film.  For the comedic part of the film the greatest performance is given by Melissa McCarthy.  This is a huge breakout performance for her.  If you aren't too happy after your first viewing of this film I highly suggest ginving it another viewing without expectation.  You will then see the many layers that make this film a huge success.  The blu ray comes with the theatrical version as well as the unrated version.  The video is amazing and colors pop while fleshtones are realistic and lovely.  Black/white ration is excellent and the picture just jumps off the screen with a vibrant crispness.  And the clarity shows every detail in every frame to great detail.  The audio is also excellent.  Dialogue is always present and clear and when music comes the surround speakers are put to great use.  This film honestly shows blu ray at its best.  And the blu ray edition also has hours of amazing extras that are not on the dvds.  I highly recommend this film.  It is an amazing comedy with an all female cast that will have you in stitches.  But try to forget the hype and try to not have any expectations for this film is different and better than it is being described.  This is indeed a great comedy that truly touches the heart.

Great Show Just love this series. Watch it on T.V every week. I ordered my mother and grandfather season 1 and they could not stop watching it. They watched the entire season 1 in a single weekend. I do agree that season 2 was not as good as season 1 but it is still fun to watch.

The.Unit If you enjoy military action movies, this is where you want to be. I purchased 4 seasons so I could watch them when and where I want. Check out one series and you will come back for more.

I don't know... I bought this a gift for someone. She loved it so much, that she refused to actually open it and watch it. So it's sitting on display, still in the wrapping, as it has become a collector's item to her. If you like the Bruins, I'm pretty sure that this is an amazing DVD to watch, or to just stare at, as she does. I gave it 5 stars for both uses.

A real tearjerker of a movie. If you like romance, you'll love this movie. If you like timeless stories, you'll love this movie. If you have a sore spot for elderly people, you will love this movie. If you have ever had a relative that struggled with Alzheimer's, this movie will resonate with you and I definitely recommend it, but only if you are prepared to cry for hours on out.

A Wonderful, Romantic Sense of Life Film As a man who views films as literature, for me, I find few films uphold a "this world" ethic and that makes this work a phenomenal achievement against films that seem to revere drug dealers, drug users, and murderers. Catherine McCormack's portrayal is stunning as Franco, who enters the life of a courtesan to be close to her love interest Marco, played by Rufus Sewell.  The majesty of the film lies in its philosophical commentaries. Franco is a direct contrast to the women portrayed of the era. The 'downing a banana in one gulp', contrary to the opinion of a local San Diego film reviewer, is not designedly for enticement except for film viewers. It is coupled with Franco's demonstration of her intellect, which showed a mind-body unity that Marco's wife Giulia De Lezze, played by the lovely Naomi Watts, finds "obscene." Where sex is viewed as a duty, Franco views it as pleasurable. Where women are relegated to the sidelines of society as mere producers of male heirs, Franco pursues her goals actively. Where husbands are chosen for women out of duty, Franco chooses whom she associates and has sex with. She is the Captain of her fate.  The evolution of the conflict between Maffio Venier (played by Oliver Platt) and Franco presents an interesting transition from Venier's unrequited interest in Franco, to envy of Franco's monetary and intellectual success, to his becoming the chief prosecutor in her inquisition as a "repentant" Christian. The trial of Franco before the inquisition for witchcraft foreshadows the transition from early Christian civilization, and its lingering moral values, to the burgeoning Renaissance. Facing a sentence of possible death, this conflict climaxes in Franco's uncompromising, unapologetic, and courageous defense of her life and choices. To me, this makes Dangerous Beauty an incredible "sense of life" of film that should not be missed.

&iexcl;&iexcl;&iexcl;Ay mi madre, que rico!!! Dios mio.  Que increible fue esa pelicula.  Quiero mostrarla a todos mis amigos gringos para que tengan el sabor de la cultura dominicana.  La musica, la poesia, la profundidad...me puse a llorar.  Hay que verla ahorita.  Chao muchachos

eternal sunshine It makes you definately  think about life,and the things that could happen or not! The strange and unexpected way life can throw you a curve every now and then.

Cult Classic in my opinion We love Ben Stiller. We are fans of most of his movies. He just cracks us up! We recommend this movie.

The help This Is A Great Movie It was about the Great State Of Mississippi Slavrey The Help Made me lagh & Cary During the Movie.It Was well Produce & Drected.I Sugest every one watch this Movie.I willsurley make you think how thing was in the past.

Blown Away! I could not help but to write a review for this movie. When I first read the description I wasn't sure if it was something that I would like. Boy, am I glad I clicked on the watch now button. The story is about a young woman that everyone (except the two doctors that are trying to help and protect her from the "medical community" and the news media) thought to be crazy and should be in an institution. Turns out that she was wiser and knew more about what is important in life than most people. The acting is superb. One of the best movies I've ever seen.

Film Noir Doesn't Get Any Better than This The original story was filmed by the great French director Jean Renoir as "La Chienne" which means "The Bitch."  The director was the son of the outstanding impressionist Pierre August Renoir; the son actually sold his father's great art masterworks to subsidize his effort to make films featuring his ambitious wife. In the end, Renoir felt deeply manipulated and divorced her. In Renoir's hands, this is a black comedy.  In Fritz Lang's hands, it becomes a tense sexual thriller and the tale of the dark descent of a man who is completely destroyed by his erotic longing for a beautiful woman who never returns his love.  Edward G. Robinson plays a shy, henpecked married man who works as an unimportant bank cashier/clerk.  In his spare time, he loves to paint and in fact possesses an original vision in his naive paintings. His wife humiliates him and announces the art is worthless.  The film really begins when the Robinson character believes that he has saved a gorgeous woman from being beaten up by a man in the street.  (That man happens to be her pimp).  Unable to take his eyes off this woman,  he allows his sexual desire for her take complete control.  All his normal ethics of honesty are misused in his attempt to raise money.  Let's be fair. A woman as gorgeous as Joan Bennett could demand favors from her admirer, particularly when he is so emotionally vulnerable. Obviously, she just leads him along, takes his paintings, and discovers that there is a hot market for them.  But all along, she is really attracted to her pimp, who is handsome in a cheap sort of way, mean spirited, and cunning.  When the truth is discovered, needless to say, things get darker and darker.  Compared to other scratchy and dull versions which have appeared earlier on DVD copies, this Kino Classics Edition is a superb translation of the original film onto the disc.  The cinematography of dark and rainy streets and confining apartments creates an exterior landscape that matches Edward G. Robinson's sexually repressed character.  As a cinematic treatment of a man's psychological descent into hell, this is one of the best film noirs that I have ever seen.

X-Men ; First Class Have always like the X - Men Movie's and I enjoyed X-Men; First Class as well. Definitely like the origin story on Profesor Xavier and Magneto. This was a must have to add to my X-Men Movies.

The movie has never looked this good. Sure the extras are good.  But the point is this:  I don't think this movie looked this good on the screen.  It is immaculate, and the guys who did the restoring work on the original print deserve a Nobel prize.

Great Start to GoT This is one of the best adaptations of a book to screen that I have seen. The special effects are nothing short of awesome. While I do have access to this via On Demand nothing can beat being able to watch these on DVD, so glad I picked these up and I can't wait for season 2!

Baby Birds galore! This is a great video for both adults and kids-- it works on just about any level!  My 11 year old grand daughter is really into baby birds and she's in love with this video-- amazingly it works as well for my 3 year old grand daughter. Wonderful close-up photography and clear narration, but the best part is something that can be watched and enjoyed together by a group of mixed ages. Also have 'How Birds Eat' by the same people, it's equally good!

Great 3d movie - fun and suspensful I have to say I didn't know what to expect, but with JC directing, I though I'd give it a shot, especially since I have a new large-screen 3D TV and there aren't many titles available. I was surprised by not only the production value (excellent 3D, photography, set dressing, lighting etc.) but also by the great story and acting.  Fun to watch.

Best prequel Movie ever filmed This movie was amazing. The director clearly knew what he was doing and also knew how to satisfy his Alien fans and keep them begging for more. This movie is a prequel of Alien and it clearly give you an idea of how the alien story begins. The birth of the Queen, was Flawless. Although I have to admit I wanted more. I wanted to see her in action. I am sure the director will give us more about it on his next firm. Indeed a most add to your Alien collection movie.

IT'S NOT THE WILL SMITH MOVIE, BUT... This movie does have it's ups and downs, but that does not hurt it in any way. It is still a very well made and exciting aliens taking over the world movie. The ending is not a happy ending, but thats what too expect in these kinds of movies. The movie is well worth the money-so buy yourself a copy and enjoy.

Great Shipment came in a timely manner and was exactly what i wanted, was also in great condition. Very pleased with the order, thank you!

Feel good film! I was loaned this film by a co-worker and enjoyed it so much that I purchased it. It is the story of a musically talented orphaned boy, who goes out in search of music and his parents. Adventure, music and a great story make this a feel good film!

Awesome The best trilogy so far. The series is awesome and kind of long but worth watching. I really enjoy purchasing products from Amazon...

Little known classic A great movie about King Arthur as a boy.  I love this one, and so does every child I know, as there are many musical numbers.  Highly recommend it!

No complaints. This is a great movie and has always been one of my favorites.  The acting is a bit corny, but the special effects and story line are great.

BEWARE Negative "Astroturf" Reviews of Progressive Books/Films! For his film (Astro)Turf Wars,(http://astroturfwars.com/) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004BBHVHO">(Astro) Turf Wars</a> Taki Oldham secretly recorded a training session organized by a rightwing libertarian group called American Majority. The trainer, Austin James, was instructing Tea Party members on how to "manipulate the medium". This is what he told them:  "Here's what I do. I get on Amazon; I type in "Liberal Books". I go through and I say "one star, one star, one star". The flipside is you go to a conservative/ libertarian whatever, go to their products and give them five stars. ... This is where your kids get information: Rotten Tomatoes, Flixster. These are places where you can rate movies. So when you type in "Movies on Healthcare", I don't want Michael Moore's to come up, so I always give it bad ratings. I spend about 30 minutes a day, just click, click, click, click. ... If there's a place to comment, a place to rate, a place to share information, you have to do it. That's how you control the online dialogue and give our ideas a fighting chance."  Over 75% of the funding for American Majority, which hosted this training session, comes from the Sam Adams Alliance. In 2008, the year in which American Majority was founded, 88% of the alliance's money came from a single donation, of $3.7m(13). A group which trains rightwing libertarians to distort online democratic processes, in other words, was set up with funding from a person or company with a very large wallet.  alternet.org

Sad... This is a great movie for Edward G. Robinson fans. But his poor character "Christopher Cross" just can't catch a break. Not even when he it seems that those who have wronged him are getting their just desserts!

second time for this version My granddaughter watched the first DVD that I bought so often that we needed to buy a new one.  We all love this version.

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Amazing acting! One of my favorite movies! I'm not really great at giving reviews, but here we go. "Monster" may have not been 100% accurate to the events in Aileen Wuorno's life, but it's still an amazing movie in itself. Charlize Theron's acting blew me away by how she was able to convey the emotions and deliver everything she had. You can actually feel her pain and anger everytime she's on screen. If you want to watch a crime drama movie with some romance that will give you an emotional reaction, then this is the one for you!

The Remains of the Day On my top ten list of best films..This film is not for those who like big action films. Everything is slow and full of meaning.. And my favorite male star Anthony Hopkins doing what he does best, act. Emma is wonderful also.It is to hard believe that some people actually take their jod so serious , but back then they did . And it happens today also.Although you may not notice who they are..Just a wonderful film all around... Again Amazon came to my aid. They always have what i want....Thanks

Unknown Unfortunately I had to return this as it wasn't in PAL format which is what I need to be able to watch it. I purchased a number of them and all had to be returned. If anyone has brand new dvd's in PAL format of Tyler Perry's range, please let me know!

Hilarious!!!! This movie was probably my favorite Dreamworks movie! It was sooo funny! It had a very good plot, lots of action, and just had a great feeling to it! My favorite part(not to be a spoiler to anybody) was when they did the three-way split screen when Puss was about to go on the rescue. The crow just goes "Cawwww!". LOL! Anyway, great movie and family film guaranteed!

funny movie I loved this movie, and have seen it a couple times,  all the actors were fantastic and the ending was hysterical I liked the fact they spoke to the audience  GREAT

Love it! Best Series Ever! :) Couldn't stop watching it, very unique and exciting shows! keeps you wondering the whole time.. Must watch!

The ending is amazing The movie started out a bit shaky, but the grand finale makes up for it entirely. This movie will definitely be one to remember so give it a chance.

Classic Alvin & The Chipmunks! This is a fabulous movie that I remember quite fondly. I would like to know why the DVDs are so overpriced. The VHS tapes are also equally--if not more--overpriced. This is a great movie, and it should be 99 cents.

Fantastic view into God's creation Chimpanzee puts a special narrative to what most of us will never see deep within the jungle.  Amazing how creation finds a way to care of its young and abandoned, even to the point of going against the natural order of the chimpanzee species.  Great movie!

I love this movie I am so glad I purchased this movie! It is one of my all time favorite movies and I have watched it several times since receiving it from Amazon. The acting and writing is supurb!!

Ah, those lucky Irish! You don't have to know the Irish or have been in Ireland to like this delightful little movie about - what else? - the luck o' the Irish. Its plot could apply to any contry and any small town where people know each other. So as not to reveal the clever story line, I'll just say that it deals with how newfound wealth affects a tiny community on a seaside corner of the Emerald Isle. The acting (in particular by some elderly performers) is superb and the scenery is lovely. Begorrah, you couldn't ask for more.

10 Commandments One of my favorite movies. Amazing special effects for such an old movie and the colors are amazing. Crisp and clear. I originally wanted to just rent this movie to watch, but it was not available for rent. I have seen it many times in my life and enjoyed every moment, so it was a no-brainer to buy it so that I can watch it anytime I want to. I can't imagine how long it took to make this movie with all the people involved, props built and used, creation of the scenery and all the other things that had to be built, that today are just simply created on computer. This is a must watch movie for the whole family! I believe Gods own hand was in its making!

Highly recommend! The story of Justin Bieber's rise to worldwide fame is almost unbelievable!  This video contains great footage and is super entertaining.  I would definitely recommend it to any Bieber fan!

Next Stop... The Twilight Zone I've been a fan of The Twilight Zone ever since I saw William Shatner's classic performance in Nightmare at 20,000 Feet. Normally, I'm skeptical about older shows being remastered like this for Blu-ray, but overall, I'm pretty impressed. In a nutshell, here's what I think about The Twilight Zone on Blu-ray.  GOOD - the quality of the transfers look very impressive in HD, there's no artifacts or other anomologies sometimes seen in the DVD version - the audio tracks have been restored and remastered and they give a lot of new depth to some of the classic episodes - a nice collection of episodes that still stand the test of time - great extras are included, including interviews and other behind the scenes bits  BAD - the set can be kinda pricey, so shop around for the best deal - some have complained of playback issues on this set, so make sure your blu-ray drive has the latest firmware updates  Even if you have these on regular DVD, I realize that it can be daunting to buy another series AGAIN, just to have it in HD, but trust me, it's worth it.

There is a postive message in the movie! My kids and I love it! I have a autistic 6 year old son and a 3 year old daughter. It's like a james bond movie but there IS a postive message. Many people have said there isn't any substance and any feel good moments in it but there is. Lightening Mcqueen gets embarassed of Mater and yells at him because he is being himself (goofy, and accident prone) around sophisticated people. Later Mcqueen becomes remorseful for treating Mater like that when he finds a note from Mater that he is going home.  Mater is sad because everyone sees him as a goofball and no one takes him seriously. He learns it's ok to be yourself and not to change. Mcqueens lesson is you can't be best friends with someone behind closed doors (only in radiator springs) and then be ashamed of them out in the open. If you like them, then you accept them for who they are all the time.  My kids loved all the action and racing. I liked it because it's a fun movie to watch. Some people need to lighten up with their reviews. It's a kids movie and it seems parents are expecting to enjoy it more than their kids, and when they don't then they write bad reviews. If your kids are total "cars" fans then they should enjoy it just because it's a "cars" movie.

Satisfied customer I was cery satisfied with the order. It was received in a timely manner and in perfect condition. I was very satisfied and happy with my purchase and would defiantely recommend it to others.

Still Amazing! after all these years I have been a Kansas fan since '76. They still sound fantastic. If you are a Wheat Head by any measure, then this is a "must have" DVD.

10 Rillington Place An outstanding character-study thriller with fine performances by Richard Attenborough and John Hurt, as well as others. I watched this as a downloaded film; therefore, I'm not able to provide information regarding the DVD quality.

wonderful a movie for the whole family to love I would highly recomend this movie even if your not a harry potter fan definately  a 5 out of 5 star movie great story line and fun for the kids and if you buy on amazon you can pick it up at a fraction of the cost you would if you found in your local retailers so sign in and pick yours up today

In my top 3 of ALL TIME Fav Movie's!!! With all these reviews, I'll make this one simple...    Christopher Reeve just simply has it, he has everything you want your Superhero to have; he's Charming, smiling, friendly, charismatic, confident, and his acting is absolutely brilliant!!! You don't get this from many actors these days, especially actors playing the roll of a superhero.    I put this movie in my top 3 of all time, right next to Shawshank Redemption and Superman 2! :D  Get the Ultimate Collection instead of just this 4 disc version, the Ultimate Collection has all 4 of these disc's included, as well as Superman 2, the making of Sups 2, Superman 3, the making of Sups 3, and Superman 4 also with special features! Thats 8 DVD's packed with everything you ever wanted to know about Christopher Reeve and how they made the magic happen,  All for only $15 bucks!!!

What a horse!  What a woman! What a film! No doubt you know that Secretariat was the crowning glory of horse racing, winning the Triple Crown in 1973.  What you likely do not know is the role his owner, Penny Chenery, a southern steel magnolia, played in allowing this horse to "run his race."  Chenery stood up to the old boys' club, an arrogant trainer, her brother, and her husband, then grasped the reins of the team of groom, newly hired trainer, and jockey to manage the career of this amazing horse.  She literally "bet the farm" and didn't flinch when she could have lost it and her marriage as well. What a horse!  What a woman!  What a film!

Can't wait to see the movie..... This was a classic movie for the times. Now to see it in B-Ray.. NICE,GREAT the sounds of music over time. Thanks Again

Indian Cinema at it's best! This movie is a gem for any collector. It will take you on a roller coaster ride of emotions and remind you of the importance of family. In simple terms: Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham "It's All About Loving Your Parents." Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham is a beautiful movie that deals with the issues of class distinction; brothers and the roles of women and men in marriage...

Fantastic! The show is amazing, the third season is excellent, and it came to me at the perfect time! I recommend this to everyone!

If anything, it has grown in stature The mid-1970s was a tremendous era for movies, with youngish film directors able to make bold personal statements thanks to a studio system that was not nearly as rigid as in previous generations. Unfortunately, that time would not last, but the result is that today we enjoy a time in which a very healthy "indie" environment helps shape popular tastes.  I spent a lot of time in movie theaters back then, watching what in retrospect amounts to blockbuster after blockbuster -- "Jaws," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," the first "Rocky" (which, people might forget, was a superb film) and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."  I was 14 when it came out, and had not even read Ken Kesey's novel yet. I went to see it, and was so moved I went back and saw it next week. After that, I read the book. After that, I read Kesey's "Sometimes a Great Notion." For awhile back then, Ken Kesey was my fictive universe.  I've recently revisited all that stuff, and also viewed Paul Newman's adaptation of "Notion," which isn't easy to find. (I think I rented it on Netflix.)  One of the differences between mere entertainment and true art is that art not only holds up but seems to deepen over time. And Milos Forman's film adaptation of "Cuckoo's Nest" has done just that. The movie basically swept the Academy Awards the year after its release, but come on ... is it really that good?  Acting: Check. Not only Oscar winners Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched and Jack Nicholson as R.P. McMurphy, but the entire cast, which included William Redfield, Brad Dourif, Danny De Vito and Christopher Lloyd.  Directing: Check. Forman had directed nine films prior to this one, but was still relatively unknown. I think it could be argued that his helming of "Nest" was a turning point in his career -- he would go on, after this, to direct "Ragtime," "Amadeus," "The People Vs. Larry Flynt," "Man on the Moon" and "The Ghost of Munich." His Academy Award for best director of "Nest" was well-deserved.  Adapted screenplay: Check, with some reservations. Bo Goldman and Laurence Hauben did make some changes that did not sit well with fans of Kesey's novel, including, apparently, the author himself. One common complaint was that the focus shifted from Chief Bromden to McMurphy himself. I can see this point; Bromden narrated the book, and it is his voice and his evolution as a character that drives the book. But doing the film that way would've been very ... artificial. Bromden was, we'll recall, pretending to be a deaf mute to fool the staff at the mental hospital into basically leaving him alone. Framing the film that way would have required a voice-over, and in this case such a device would've just gotten in the way of the storytelling.  Best Picutre: Was it? Here was the incredible competition that year: "Barry Lyndon," "Dog Day Afternoon," "Jaws" and "Nashville"!! Double exclamation point indeed! Rarely has there been a year with so many worthy BP nominations. ANY of these films would have been a worthy choice for best picture. I am a huge fan of Stanley Kubrick, but I think "Cuckoo's Nest" was a better film than "Barry Lyndon." "Dog Day" was basically a thriller with several social messages, while "Jaws" and "Nashville" were probably the most purely entertaining. But "Cuckoo's Nest" won, and few could argue it was less worthy than the others.  Bottom line: If you've never seen this film, DO SO. And if you can, get the two-disc version and watch all the extras. The story of this film is nearly as fascinating as the film itself. I won't spoil that story arc, but will just say it took a lot of time, effort and some false starts to get this fine film made.

Good memories Had to have this one.  I loved it as a kid, and my kids loved it on video tape.  Now on DVD, we can hae it for future generations to enjoy.  The cast is perfectly, picked, and the plot is endearing.   Sseller did a great job.

Love it! First off It's been many years since I last saw this movie. It's one of my favorites with Mark Wahlberg, And I was very happy when it arrived the day after I ordered it even though it still had another day to get to me! Once again I'm very pleased not mention it was free SH and I paid under four dollars and never even left the house. I Love Amazon.

Cute Film for Teenagers and Their Parents! My daughter originally recorded this program on our DVR player but it was taking up too much space so I ordered her a DVD version from Amazon.  It's a great story and well-acted.  I enjoyed it as much as she did!

Cinderella (Two-Disc Special Edition) Awesome! My girls and I all love this movie and watch it over and over.  The music is wonderful and so is the picture quality.

Pillars of the Earth The scenary, the costumes and special effects are fantastic. All the actors played a fantastic roll. I really enjoyed this movie the first time I watched it and once again when I sat  down with my wife to watch it a second time. It has a lot of suspence. I highly recommend this movie to everyone.

Mel Gibsons best One of my favorite movies since I was 10 epic in every sense of the word Mel Gibson truly brings to life William Wallace and his struggle to free Scotland from medevil England excellent cast acting and effects

"I think I'm falling in love with you, and I don't quite like it" Mousy heiress Lina McLaidlaw (Joan Fontaine) is all too aware that her chances of ever finding her Mr. Right are quickly dwindling.  So she decides to marry the very first man who has ever taken the slightest interest in her - Johnnie Aysgarth (Cary Grant), a charming ne'er-do-well who isn't looked upon favourably by the older members of Lina's aristocratic community.  After a whirlwind elopement, Lina and Johnnie return to the county, taking up residence in a mansion which they can barely afford.  Lina realises that Johnnie doesn't want a job when he can just as easily sit at home and live off Lina's annual income.  When Johnnie later sells off the gift that Lina's father gave them as a belated wedding present - a set of twin chairs that were family heirlooms - in order to pay his debts at the racetrack, Lina's suspicion is piqued.  Johnnie's personality seems to be slowly changing, and an ominous, darkly serious side of his temperament starts to emerge.  But is Johnnie capable of murder?  Coming hot on the heels of his first big American success, "Rebecca", Alfred Hitchcock's SUSPICION (based on the novel "Before the Fact" by Anthony Berkeley) actually carries more of the flavour of his early British films.  Set in a cozy English village with lots of tweeds, fox hunts and stately country mansions, it's comfortable territory for Hitch, who perhaps knew this milieu better than any other director in Hollywood at the time.  Joan Fontaine, who'd previously starred in Hitchcock's "Rebecca", once again fills the leading lady's shoes in this top thriller.  This time, Fontaine won the Academy Award for her exquisite performance, but I've got a feeling that the award was also partly meant as an acknowledgement of her earlier role in "Rebecca".  This was the first time that Cary Grant had worked with Hitchcock, and the first time Grant had seriously attempted to step away from his light romantic comedy screen-persona.  The result - Grant's performance as Johnnie in SUSPICION - was one of his great performances; and of course Hitch later used Grant so brilliantly in "Notorious", "North By Northwest" and "To Catch a Thief".  In fact, Grant's performance in SUSPICION became so worrying for the actor that the entire ending of the film had to be re-shot, to give the character of Johnnie some sort of redemption.  Grant was so concerned that his fans would not approve of him playing a murderous rogue!  This is one of the most spellbinding and utterly delightful films from Hitchcock's gallery of masterpieces.  Highly recommended.

True directioner Great quality exactly what I wanted! If you love one direction you will love this. Shows the entire tour all the sets the boys look amazing and it's great

Gr8 for doin Rain Day Weed Marathon Love Weeds have all the seasons on DVD and can't wait for next year. If you don't like Weeds I'll have Shane get you a pillow.

Very Scary! The first time we watched this movie we were all sitting in a ball on the couch! Over all a very nice horror movie, if you want to get scared! We all know the scary sound of Kayako's throat sound! My son's bedroom door creaks and sounds like it and creeps him out! I think It's one of the best horror movies we own! 5 *'s!

Rio Grande- John Wayne <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000X25F78">John Wayne-Rio Grande</a> I love John Wayne and I was very excited to find this DVD as well as others that I haven't been able to locate before now. I received it in a very timely manner and in great shape....I look at it often...Mr Wayne is timeless and so are his movies....Thank you!

Gone too soon. Watching this DVD only shows the grand epic that Michael Jackson was.  His genius creativity and process through this concert is so unreal; it would have been such an amazing concert to attend.  Too sad that he left us so soon.

Dark and Stormy Night, DVD This is another fine addition to the Lost Skeleton of Cadavra ensemble! It fits right in with the collection of seriously "Bonder when the "Trail of the Screaming Foreheads" will be out?

Fly Away Home My child grew up on this movie but couldn't watch it anymore as all we had was a VHS copy so I decieded to look on Amazon for the DVD. Found it and we were so excited we bought it. I ordered it and I rec'd it several days later super fast shipping! We sat down for a girls night and watch it like when she was little. Fun memories like when she was little as we laughed and cried together.

Great movie!! Enjoyed getting to see this film in blu-ray quality again. Great price for such an awesome price. Definitely a movie everyone should own

vamipes and lycans? IM IN! awesome set of movies and a great way to refresh your memory for the fourth installment. blu ray was crisp and clean not to many behind  the scene feature but good anyways. if u like sci fi i recommend this set for your collection :)

Funny This is a good movie. Kept me laughing. Special the parts when they are at the dinner table telling jokes. The dad and grandpa are mad at first. Then they are having a time of their life. But after the last joke they were ready to kick some butt.... lol.

Best George A Romero Zombie Film George A Romero's Dawn of The Dead is without a doubt the definitive zombie film it is my favorite of the series.It has believable Characters with good personalities. The Zombkies are the most believable I have seen. The Gore Effects by Tom SAVINI are the  best he is the master of gore. Unlike the last one Night of the Living dead where it takes place in a house this movie takes place in a Shopping mall whats not to love about that? I like the fact that Romero didnt kill off all the cast like in the last film. I understand that people need too die in horror films but there has too be at least one surviver.This film gos one step further then the last film in terms of gore its pretty Believable. I was so impressed by it this film is so creepy and scary at times but I can relate too the cast with them trying too survive it all cause its basically Survival of the fitest in this film. if you dont watch  your back the zombies will get you!!!!!!!!This movie is such a rollercoaster ride I was intrigued by this film its one of my altime favorite horror films and one not too be missed.    This film is so unflinching in its realism its insane I love it.The perfect film too see with your buddies that like this genre.There are some Laughs too be had but for the most part George A Romero is pretty seriuos when it comes down too the Horror Genre. My favorite Part of this film was when the Zombies ate some of the biker Gang.The biker gang had it coming cause all they cared about in the mall was the things they didnt care about the people one bit.    Zombies come in all shapes and sizes in this film. I can imagine the amount of Controversy this movie must have had when it came out cause it just doesnt let up in terms of the Gore!!!!!! If you have a weak stomach this isnt the film for you but if you can  handle it this film is definately a must buy not a rental.At a little over 2 hours this film is the longest of Romero's Zombie films. This is a movie that I will watch untill the day I die its that good.Gearge Romero has definetely come a long way since he first started making movies and this film is definetly withoubt a doubt his best work yet.I found this movie too be Spectacular a must own.    The actors in this film were really good and did an exellent job portraying there characters I felt like this is something that was real because of how effective the gore effects of Tom Savini are that just shows that he knows how too make you question what you see. What more can i say other then this film is one for the masses of horror buffs every horror buff with the stomach for this movie and the patients to sit for at least 2 hours should go out right know and add this movie too there horror collection.

Uplifting Christmas Romance Liked this movie even better than the first "Golden Christmas" because the two lead characters (played by Julie Gonzalo and K. C. Clyde) really look like they have genuine feelings for each other on screen.  This is a wholesome Christmas story that is romantic, and entertaining on multi-generational levels.  There is the young ex-couple (Clyde and Gonzalo) wondering why they didn't follow through with their instincts to marry when they were dating previously.  There is the older couple (played by veterans Alley Mills and Bruce Davison, who were in the prequel), that befriends the younger couple and gives them wise advice from the perspective of their own happy 40-year marriage.  And there is the beginning of another relationship between the two youngest characters (played by Gattlin Griffith and Alex Peters).  Will Clyde rush into a marriage to the wrong woman (played by Kelly Stables) for the sake of being married?  The golden retrievers play a supporting role throughout the story, and just seem to know what's best for their human owners.  Really enjoyable movie!

blu ray is stunning the blu ray release is stunning compared to the regular dvd release which is blurry--crystal clear--and gregory peck gives an outstanding performance--its one of my wifes faves because of pecks perf--and she does not like nazi movies--dont hesitate---crystal clear

Great funny movie! something about adam sandlers movies! just cracks me up. this is probably my favorite of his thus far!! i saw it in theaters, and i bought it when it came out! def worth a buy ;)

Absolutely Amazing I thing the graphics in this movie were absolutely amazing. I loved the lights on the people and the vehicles and that the rooms were dark, it just illuminated the lights to be even brighter. I loved the plot line. It was hard for me to understand as I usually don't watch this type of movie, but my fiance' explained to me what was going on and then I understood very well. Then I loved the plot of what was going on. It is hard to understand what was going on if you don't watch this type of movie generally, but if you are used to this type of movie you will love this movie. Definitely worth the money!

journey to the center of the earth this movie is great, it has action, emotional, and comedy scenes in it. i loved it. i recomend this movie to anybody who enjoy these types of movies. my 3 and 6 year olds even liked it. they thought it was funny.

Good old movie Good movie. Nothing to do with that piece of garbage of the remake (2011). This movie is not heavy in special effects, nevertheless is a good movie and more important is the original. The quality of the Cd is good. Worth having it in any collection.

30 years old and still my favorite! I am commenting because today is the 30th anniversary of the theatrical release of The Secret of NIMH.  As much as I am a Disney-phile, this independent film made by former Disney animators remains my favorite animated film of all time.  And from reading these reviews, The Secret of NIMH is a favorite of many.  Check it out, and you will see why!

Sherlock Holmes-Great movie! I really enjoyed this movie, expecially the back and forth between Sherlock(Robert Downey Jr.) and Watson (Jude Law).  Great casting! I've watched it many times and hopefully the second Sherlock Holmes will be as good as this one.

Good movie Good movie. DVD arrived quickly. I would have been 100% happy but the back of the case had a deep scratch about 1to 2 inches long. I like to take care of my cases so i was disappointed when i saw it.

Great Yoga I am loving using this set of DVDs since it covers everything I need to learn yoga from basics to more.  It is real easy to find and select what you need or want to work on and there are many different poses that I have learned.

This is Life with Derek. Life with Derek is here on dvd and I loved it when it aired on Disney and I wish they still showed reruns. I loved this show since I first watched it in 05. Season 1 was the beginning of what is to be one of the best Teen sitcoms ever.

One of my top 3 favorite movies of all time. I've seen this probably 10 times, it's one of my favorite movies.  Stop comparing it to the comic and just enjoy it. Perfectly cast, well done.

Tangled I love this movie. It is very entertaining. My kids watch it over and over. It is quickly becoming one of my favorites.

Best animation I've ever seen! This is not the best computer animated film I've seen but it is without a doubt the best animation I've seen. To briefly sum up the story, a chameleon embarks on a journey to find himself, winding up in the old west in a dry little town called dirt, dirt because it's bone dry because someone's siphoning its water away to the desert a la Chinatown, which this film makes parody of, among other classic films and themes.  I think that what really makes this film fresh is that it's for grownups. The plot is very sophisticated, the references it makes to films like Chinatown and Apocalypse now are definitely films that most youngsters today aren't familiar with. The animals in the film, unlike most films animated in the west here, aren't cute and cuddly; they're ugly and often downright scary. Like many have pointed out here, this film was poorly--I mean POORLY--marketed. But when you think about it, when we Americans think of an animated feature we automatically assume it to be kid's stuff. Other cultures like Japanese have a more broader perspective when it comes to what's considered kids stuff, which probably explains why adults here lump anime in with "cartoons" that we make over here. Here's what I mean: recently, I recommended this film to a woman I know and asked her if she'd like to see it. Automatically, she said no and when I asked her why not her answer was that her 12 year old cousin saw it and didn't like it. What? I'd like to believe that as a man over 30 that my tastes would be a little more sophisticated, a little more substantial than that of a 12 year old. Go figure.  Anyway, I really enjoyed this film. Saw it on the shelf at Blockbusters for months before I tried it, the cover didn't really look like much, hadn't heard anyone say anything about it. I am glad I rented it and later bought it. Adults may like it. Definitely not for kids imo.

Thanks to Richard Gere, I saw it I'd never heard of this film and the only reason I got it was because I'd reserved all of Richard Gere's films because he's one of my favorite actors. I don't know if it would've been a good idea for me to see this film at a movie theater. Nobody wants to be the one boo-hooing in a public theater because I damn sure was boo-hooing at home...twice. People who aren't into dogs may not get this film and will probably find it dull, but for folks who are dog lovers, you'll totally get into it. Anyone who owns a dog knows how loyal they are so it didn't even surprise me that Hachiko kept coming to the train station to meet his master, Parker (played by Richard Gere), after he died. What surprised me was that he did it for nine years. Wow, now that's dedication. I was happy that nobody bothered the dog the entire time he just kept coming back. This dog was all kinds of cute. From a puppy on, when I wasn't sniffling while watching a heartbroken dog, I was awe-ing at how absolutely adorable the puppy was. He wasn't too shabby as a full-grown dog either, but as a puppy, I wanted to bury my face in his fur.  This is probably the only film I've ever seen with someone who outshined Richard Gere. Although I'm a little sad that this is based on a true story and a dog really was in mourning for this long, I do think it's admirable to find out about the statue at the end.

Absolutely Perfect Sherlock is amazing! It is well worth the money spent  especially the comentary which is at times hilarious! Mine was brand new and it got here in that condition. I don't know how else to say how wonderful this show is and I love the way Cumberbatch portrays this character is qmazing.I hope everyone will get a chance to see this wonderful show.

Scooby-Doo: Legend of the Phantosaur If you are a Scooby-Doo fan then this is a worthwhile addition to your DVD collection. I am a longtime fan and I own every DVD from classic TV episodes through all the movies.

Halloween 2 blu ray FINALLY! In my opinion, Halloween 2 is one of the best horror movie sequals of all time.  It is scary, suspenseful, melodic, and creepy.  Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasance are both back for this one, that takes place directly after the first Halloween.  Michael Myers continues to hunt Laurie, as Dr. Loomis finds out a very disturbing secrect about Michael's connection to Laurie.  This has never really gotten a proper DVD release, and I'm so happy that it's finally coming to blu ray.  Any new transfer of the movie has to be better than what's out there now.  So, if you've never seen Halloween 1 and 2, or if your a big fan, then buy the blu ray's because everone's entitled to one good scare.

Great movie! This has to be one of my girls' favorite Disney movies!  It is so cute, and the music is fantastic!  There is also a lot of humor in it!  Well done Disney!

Nice Hot ladies, plenty of them, some silly jokes, and some decent sexy scenes. What more could you ask for from a film like this?

Hilarious So cute, funny and heartwarming. A must for nerds, geeks and civilians alike. The language is very colorful probably not for the young ones.

Great DVD My 18-month old will not sit through a whole episode of Elmo's World, yet he LOVES Elmo. I purchased this DVD a few months ago, and he LOVES it. We turn it on every morning. He loves the singing and all the different segments. It is a great DVD for toddlers who aren't into movies with a lot of talking but love music and singing. A must have for parents with tots!

happy bought it for my daughter she loves this movie she is 24 and a little girl at heart she is to funny she jumped up in joy when i gave it to her lolol love my girl

Too funny!! I loved this movie.  I just ordered it off Netflix because I read the synopsis and it sounded like something I'd like - and DID I!!.  I didn't see it in the theatre (even though I was tempted),  due to the poor reviews, even thought I love the cast.  Well, I watched it twice yesterday, a practice unheard of for me.  Laughs - 5 stars, location/scenery-5 stars, music-5 stars.  What else is there? If you've shyed away because of the critics, screw them and go see it.

A Gut-Swirling, Artistic Masterpiece This movie is one of, if not 'the best' work of art I have ever witnessed. Be warned: Not all will enjoy it, but all should at least give it a try. This is one of those movies that is so ridiculously unique and messed up that it could never be a 5 star classic movie, but in some individually dark, twisted, touching, beautiful way, it is better than any classic could ever be by an unmeasurable far. Very dark, very twisted; a depressing poetic beauty.  P.S.(There is also another negative review of this movie titled 'lackstruth' in which I commented beneath to contrast the claims. For those interested.)

For the student who wants to learn how to fight instead of doing form work or standing practice. So in the interest of full disclosure, I helped make these videos and I've been a student of Sigung Clear for several years.  This video is part 2 in a 4 volume set on the internal arts. You don't need the first video to understand this one. However if you are completely new to the martial arts or you find yourself struggling with any of the stuff on this video just get Volume 1 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007VTEDE2">Kun Tao Silat</a> and that should help.  What this DVD does NOT have: Forms.  If you are looking for sets or better ways to do standing practice you should look somewhere else.  The video starts by teaching you how to hit with more power. Then it jumps right into the fighting methods of the 5 elements.  Through this study of the methods within each fist you learn how to use them against an aggressive and unpredictable attacker. And it's much more fun than learning forms and then trying to memorize highly technical applications of each movement.  When we filmed these videos I had already been studying Xing Yi from Sigung Clear for a little over a year and I found that working through this material helped me refine my understanding of Xing Yi in a way that made it much more functional for me.  After working with all 5 fists the video goes on to introduce core Xing Yi principles including: Fortifying the Center, Bone Shields (The Thorny King,) and Spring Power as well as some two person Sticking Hands / Push Hands games that help you build some of the internal skill and power of Xing Yi safely with a training partner.  Whether you are new to Xing Yi or a Xing Yi veteran I highly recommend checking out this video.  Here's a list of the other videos in the Internal Combat Arts Series: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007VTEDE2">Kun Tao Silat</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007VTEE8M">Xing Yi Quan (Hsing-I Chaun) - Fighting Secrets of the Internal Combat Arts</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007VTEEPK">Ba Gua Zhang (Pa Kua Chang) - Fighting Secrets of the Internal Combat Arts</a> Combat Tai Chi (TaiJiQuan) - Fighting Secrets of the Internal Combat Arts (not on amazon yet but should be soon)

Great Product. This product was a gift for a family member.  They enjoyed the product alot. This is a great product and I recommend it.

The Silent Scream Nearly everyone here has raved about this 1946 gem of a thriller, but I was moved to add my own review for two reasons:  1. I recently watched the lackluster 1975 remake (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007K7IAXA">The Spiral Staircase</a>), which prompted me to watch the original again. This is a great chiller in the old-dark-house/serial-killer genre, and you can see the influence it had on a lot of subsequent movies. I've heard critics say that CHARADE is "the best Hitchcock film that wasn't directed by Hitchcock." I would describe THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE in exactly the same way.  2. While watching the film again after all these years, I was truly amazed by the performance of Dorothy McGuire. Wow! I'd almost forgotten how good this movie is, and how good McGuire is as the unfortunate Helen. She shows us what a great actor can convey without uttering a single word. Her performance is a virtual acting lesson, and I was so impressed that I just had to say something.  Okay, I said it. I love this movie. It's a perfect example of pure suspense.

Fantastic This is an awesome series.  There are lots of great fight scenes (the first episode ROCKED), and lots of great music.  Anyone who likes things like Rourouni Kenshin, Ninja Scroll, etc, will enjoy this.

happy customer Great Service, he kept in touch with me, the DVDs had no scratches. It was like I bought it new in the store. Definitely would purchase other items from here

scarey great and very scarey movie, surprise ending, are we all suspect to the devil if we do not give everything to Jesus Christ, I think we are even if we do surrender to Christ. A much watched movie!!!

Amazing. I love it Horrifying and magical. My favorite movie. Everyone I watch it with loves it. Makes you believe magic may exist if you open your eyes and know where to look.

Robotech: The Complete Original Series sinceramente el producto es muy bueno, estan todos los capitulos, y tuene mucha informacion adicional, es ideal para seguidores de esta espectacular serie.

Very Informative I found the videos to be informative and helpful.  Others who watched the video wanted to show the video to their children.  There were some great questions after seeing the video.  It helped poeple to connect and not only understand what Alzheirmer's is but what is involved with care giving.  A fabulous video

Great movie My opinion of professional sports is of greed and overpaid personnel at all levels. Therefore this movie was great and the action was great from cold selfish sports agents to pro football players of which cuba gooding did a great portrayal. He was the deserving player which was a nice touch.  I really like very few movies and watch very very few more than once. Jerry Maguire is one that I watch about every two years. I think it is that good.  I watched this movie when it first came out due to the suggestion of my 16 year old son at that time. I thought the movie was wonderful. I have the dvd now and have watched the movie 3 times now and just love it. I do not understand the pompous critical reviews. I liked the theme and the reality of the "get my cut" attitude of sports agents and pro athletes.

Great movie Alien. Great movie. Probably one of the best sci-fi/horror films there is. Good plot, good characters, moody and suspenseful atmosphere. But, I'm not sure if this is just my TV or not, whenever a character speaks, it's either very loud, or very quiet. My TV or the movie? Not sure. -Trent Foreman, Author of Nightmare

Total Drama Island Never Gets Old! Total Drama Island is packed with drama, laughter, and so much more! All of the episodes are in their original form; there are no scenes taken out, no lines deleted, and everything is crystal-clear. I can't wait for the complete season of Total Drama Action to become available! The price is just right for this DVD set. It comes with four discs, each one consisting of five to seven episodes. The last disc includes a rundown of TDI and some cast interviews. The cast interviews just show some of the campers doing videos of themselves and why they think they should be picked to be on the show. Total Drama Island is a great thing to buy for kids 13 and older, so get it now before they're sold out!

My first Elvis movie I had not seen an Elvis movie so I chose Blue Hawaii to be my first.  I went into this without any preconceived notion on how good or how terrible this movie would be and was delightfully surprised to find that it was a fun movie with very little cheese.  Elvis is adorable in his role as the son of a pineapple farmer, and seeing him perform some of his most popular songs gave them a new meaning for me.  All in all I was please with this film and I would recommend it to any one looking for a light hearted romantic comedy.

GREAT ACTION MOVIE!!!! This movie is action packed from beginning to end!!!  Sometimes the plot takes you for a wild spin, but if you keep your eyes glued you might be bright enough to figure out this unique and tantalizing plot.  For all you action buffs out there that need a film that's much less "mainstream" and more "original w a wild, twisted action plot"... THIS IS THE FILM FOR YOU!

Kung Fu Hustle It came in a couple of days with Amazon Prime membership. I primarly bought this because it has the original Chinese language audio. I'm not a fan of English dubbing over non-English movies. I prefer the original language with subtitles. A very good movie with lots of action and humor.

I'm hooked! I discovered The Walking Dead Season One on Netflix.  Now I am hooked.  I had to purchase Season Two.  I thought it would be more hokey being a zombie show and all but it surely is not.  Very quality work in writing, make up and cinematography.  I love it!

A True Western Classic Unforgiven earned a #98 spot on the initial AFI top 100 listing and moved up to #68 in their 10 year anniversary revote. It well deserves this ranking, if not a higher one. The movie features stellar acting, amazing dialogue, gorgeous landscapes, and a compelling story of a gunfighter who is trying to "do right" and leave behind his previous life of violence.  Eastwood is only lured back into strapping on his guns because his children are near starving, and the cause is just - a prostitute was cruelly sliced up by a cowboy. He enlists friend Freeman to help him with his task. Hackman and Harris are superb as other gun-wearing characters in this investigation of motives and characters.  Every person here feels authentic and real. The Sheriff wants to keep the peace, but can be a bully in his task. He has a quiet home he's trying to build, and he enjoys sharing his experiences. Freeman's relationship with his wife, the gentle way he deals with Woolvett, how he handles the shooting scene, are all amazing to watch. In each case the watcher gets drawn into what is happening through the subtle dialogue and the character's actions, rather than with bland statements found in many other westerns.  It's interesting that I watched this back-to-back with Shane. I am still surprised that Unforgiven ranks "worse" than Shane on the AFI lists. They handle extremely similar topics - how an ex-gunfighter copes with a world that has moved on around him. But Unforgiven is full of rounded characters, of powerful dialogue, and of a world we can immerse in. When Eastwood returns home at the end, it's an extremely powerful moment, and there was a real sense of the transformation which had occurred over the course of the film.  Unforgiven also gets great credit for how well it involves women in the storyline. Many westerns seem to feel that women were non-existent in the West, only there to be stolen by "wild Indians" or to scream in horror as their menfolk went off to do some fighting. In Unforgiven, we get a range of very powerful female characters. The main group are the prostitutes, who take a stand against being treated like property and who end up having an impact with their actions. Even Freeman's wife gives a subtle yet powerful performance as the reluctant one left behind.  Well deserving of winning Best Picture, Best Director, and Supporting Actor for Hackman's Sheriff character. To me this is what a western should be all about. The challenges of living in a rough land, the challenges of dealing with the tumultuous societal changes that were going on, the clashes between different groups of people, and the rough, wild, fantastically beautiful scenery that it was all set in.

The Universe Any movie that has to do with the Universe or space or animals I just love. Just added this one to my collection of space movies and my son borrowed it to take home for him to watch also.

great choice for kids My two girls age 4 and 2 love to watch this DVD. They never get tired of it and are always singing the songs from Annie. It's a great buy and a positive story.

A definite classic You simply can't go wrong with this movie. Mind you, this is not an accurate biography of the Von Trapp family - the real Maria was nowhere near as lovely or sweet as Julie Andrews, but this movie is a entertaining story nonetheless with some pretty awesome musical numbers.  Julie Andrews really shines in her role as young Maria as she goes to become a governess for the Von Trapps. Her sweet asnd steadfast personality allow her to remain cool under the pranks that the Von Trapp children play jokes on her (they even feel bad for it!) and how she eventually gets through to the patriarch of the Von Trapps himself. Set amidst pre World-War Europe (namely Austria), this is a lovely if somewhat fictionalized account of the Von Trapps. The music and dancing numbers themselves make this movie worth watching.

Outstanding transfer My review's purpose is to confirm the outstanding quality of this blu-ray transfer. Unlike many movies, it is highly recommended you upgrade to this version. The picture is truly outstanding.  I don't think it looked this good when I originally saw it in the theater.  It also contains the Japanese extended version.  The book is nice, but I'm not sure I wouldn't just buy the regular BD.

Riveting story Hanssen was perhaps the most destructive traitor in recent years. As a senior FBI official, he had access to closely held secrets and he sold many of them to the Russians. Despite his supposed Roman Catholic faith, he engaged in some very questionable sexual practices as well, inviting a close friend, an army colonel, to view tapes of his sex relations with his wife. The movie portrays all of this, and how he was eventually exposed, after more than 20 years of selling out his country. Good script, good cast, good acting, good directing.

family fav Our family loves this movie, from the kids to the grandparents everyone sits down to watch and laugh at this great Halloween time movie.

Alright, alright, alright! I'm not going to review the movie because I've loved it for nearly 20 years and it gets better every time I watch it.  We can all relate to Dazed and Confused because we know people just like the characters in the movie.  The Criterion edition is very nice.  The booklet is well done.  The articles and the bios are great.  The poster is neat.  I loved getting to see all the deleted scenes, audition footage, and interviews.  The "Making Dazed" documentary was almost as entertaining as the movie itself.  If you are a fan of this movie, you have to purchase the Criterion edition.

Powerful With A Call to Action This documentary was powerful and moving in the coverage of dual tragedies that impacted a very fine family.  It is somewhat similar to the terrible evil also visited upon the Petit family in Connecticut.  Both cases offered severe contrasts between good and evil.  Some of the comments on this board misguidedly attempt to rationalize things that the Bagbys could have done differently in order not to have suffered these terrible losses.  The point is that evil can force its way into the lives of good people, through no fault of their own.  The conduct of some of the family services bureaucrats, psychiatrist, and legal officers involved, was despicable and criminally negligent.  I have the highest admiration for the Bagbys in their drive and determination to change laws, while honoring the memories of their beloved Andrew and Zachary.  They are a beacon of hope and light and love in the midst of unimaginable loss.  I plan to make a donation to their fund.

Excelent Quality This product is in excellent quality. There were no scratches on the discs and the case was in great condition.

Great movies with great actors Like many of the other reviewers are saying this set of 4 movies is great. The movies themselves are great and the extras are just as good. In terms of actors you've got Academy Award winners Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe and Sean Penn just to name a few you'll see in these movies. And visionary directors Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma and Ridley Scott are at their best. All 4 of these movies are a 10 out of 10 and they all have either won or been nominated for many movie awards. I highly recommend this DVD set.

The classic that I grew up with A wonderful timeless telling of Lewis' book.  Appropriate for all ages. The soundtrack contains songs that you can sing 40 years later.  Hee Hee. And share with your children.

Excellent Blu-Ray Conversion The blu-ray upcoding of this 1968 movie is excellent. The picture aspect ratio is what all movies should be - wide screen with no bars on the top or bottom of the screen. The chase scene is still awesome...crank it up on hi-fi surround on a wide screen LCD! This is a 'must have' for all Bullitt movie buffs!

Love this movie ...R.I.P Whitney Houston I have always loved this movie but never bought it...after Whitney Houston's tragic death I had to add it to my collection. An incredible talent ...never to be forgotten and a great movie. R.I.P Whitney Houston.

I've Seen the Future and .... This video delves into the history of and the pros and cons of genetic modification of food. While artificial selection has been employed by botanists and agriculturalists for thousands of years, it is only in the past half century that we have the technology to strategically design plants (and animals) through modification of their DNA.  While our new abilities must be evaluated in the light of ethics considerations, the behavior of large corporations must be evaluated in the light of moral and legal considerations. Monsanto and other large corporations have been registering patents on genetically modified crops, and enforcing liability for wind-scattered genetically modified seeds found on non-customers' properties.  We should be aware of the activities of the corporations that profit from manipulating and attempting to "own" nature, and who are simultaneously decreasing biodiversity in agriculture, putting the entire world food supply at risk. Morgan Spurlock vastly advances our knowledge and awareness of these issues in this film.

i have this dvd i love this dvd u should buy it if u don,t have it she is really singing she played to sixty-four thousand fans on  that night i even saw her last concert live and it was such a great concert the voice fulled the rodeo

Beautiful film The chemistry between Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves is magical.  I'll try not to spoil it for those who haven't seen the movie, but the words and emotions they share in the letters through the movie draw you into what could be a great relationship if there weren't 'obstacles' in the way.

Cute This movie is very cute and very entertaining for children and of course adults too!  We loved this movie and will watch over and over. Will buy from seller again.

I was more than pleasantly surprised. When first I saw the advertisements for this movie, I had no desire to see it.  Shakespeare is certainly one of my greatest literary heroes, and any slight against him (especially when said slight was a claim of complete illegitimacy) was not to be well-received by me.  I was eventually convinced by a friend to watch this movie against my better judgement (it was a choice between Anonymous and The Ides of March; the R-rating of the alternative decided it for us), and am I ever glad that I was.  This movie is well-written, well-paced, true to the feel of the Shakespearean verse and, perhaps most importantly, very enjoyable to watch.  If you are curious about whether or you would have any interest in this movie, I can strongly recommend it to you.  It may be a bit long, but it never feels slow.  If, however you are like I was, and you are avoiding this movie on account of its premise, I urge you to reconsider.  I don't know whether or not it's true, but now, at least, I certainly want to believe it.

The dog whisperer The Dog Whisperer has amazing videos and books. If you follow his instructions you will be a great pack leader to your dog or dogs. I would highly recommend this product.

Sort these reviews by "most recent"! I'm mainly writing this to stress that there are multiple versions of this film available on DVD, and Amazon can't seem to differentiate among them.  If you're looking at Amazon's listing of the 2012 DVD release of this film, you're looking at a great disc. If you're looking at a DVD released prior to 2012, you're looking at a bootleg, and a poor bootleg at that.  From 1963-1970, the Beatles made five films: A Hard Day's Night (1963/64), Help! (1965), Magical Mystery Tour (1967), Yellow Submarine (1968 - they didn't really have much to do with it), and Let It Be (1969, released 1970, not on DVD as of this writing). If you're into the Beatles at all, you really need all five films.  If you've ever seen it before (and not many have), this is the best that Magical Mystery Tour will ever look. The Beatles were on their own, their manager and friend Brain Epstein having passed away a few months prior. They did the film on their own (mostly Paul McCartney), without a script, and it was a mess. Nevertheless, it contains videos for six songs that are classics in the Beatles' canon, and the videos for the most part serve the songs well.  The extras on the 2012 DVD are too cool to ignore and make the DVD well worth the price of admission.

preciso, puntuale. Preciso, serio. Veramente un piacere acquistare da lui. Spero di comprare molto presto ancora da te. Ancora grazie per la sua enorme gentilezza.

Excellent movie This movie brings to the forefront how a too busy a life of some can produce neglect of important relationship with others.

Great movie! Great movie. The directors cut version is better, I say that because it has a little more revenge in it. This movie has some of the best lines ever spoken.

Awesome series. An Ape fan's wet dream This series is awesome. The movies are well done even though their old school and the extra features are great. The included book is full of material and worth the read. This is a must have if your an APE fan and even a should have for all big movie fans.

One of the Greatest WWII Movies ever made If you ever get a chance to see this movie again or purchase it, please do it. It is a wonderful movie filled with all that is needed to hold your attention. It is Burton at his best and seeing a young Clint Eastwood working with perhaps one of the greatest actors to ever grace the silver screen, I think Clint did a fantastic job. Great plot, great supporting cast, and great story makes this a must see movie. It's hard to believe that this movie is over 40 years old. You could play it at any of the movie complexes we have today and you'd have people still pay to see it. A must see rental or purchase. A true war time classic.

A tender story about man's best friend and true loyalty. I first rented the movie Hachi and, after viewing it, could not imagine not having this sweet and tender movie in my personal video library.  I loved the true story of Hachi's deep love for his human.  Their relationship was mutual as you could see the pleasure each derived from being in the company of the other.  Hachi's deep desire to please was so evident when he surprised Richard Gere by doing something not common to his temperament, i.e., fetching.  This is a movie that, once seen, I cannot imagine it ever being forgotton.  Very highly recommended.  And, there is nothing in the film that is inappropriate for children.

Reviews4U This movie is one of those you have to watch late at night with a ton of soda and snacks and friends. It's butt-gusting (sorry, gut-busting) humor and a delivery of cheesy lines in a way only Jim Carrey could pull off. It's not a movie for everybody, though-there are many who will dismiss it as ridiculous. But hey, Jim won a Golden Globe for this performance: give it a shot!

For a modern B Western, decent I had heard a lot about "Death Wish" before seeing the movie on video.  A friend gave me the second, third and fourth sequel, and I have the Jody Foster remake titled "The Brave One."  So I ordered a copy of the original "Death Wish." Why was this movie such a box office success?  My guess is that this urban "western" answered the question: what if the good guys played by the same rules as the bad guys?  "Death Wish" hit theaters in 1974, at a time when American society was perceived as exploding into utter chaos.  People thought that their world was ending.  "Death Wish" was a chance to see the good guys win for a change. For a modernized B-movie Western, this isn't unwatchable.  And it is a classic. The DVD I purchased from Amazon is bare bones--just the movie, some movie trailers and subtitles in English for the deaf and hard of hearing.  The two audio options are hearing the movie in French or English. Notice that I haven't reviewed the movie.  Many hundred other people have done that.  At least one book analyzed the "Death Wish" phenomenon.  I decided to see for myself what all the hype was about.  I recommend that you follow my example and make up your own mind. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0013ILWLO">The Brave One</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001ONX8RO">Death Wish 2</a>

This Happened to Me!  Feb. 8, 1994.  Dr David Bell confirmed my slow death sentence saying, 'I'm surprised you can still get up' My now x wife had secretly a million dollars in potential disability benefits, and destroyed 20 letters addressed soley to me to cover it up.  She never mentioned it in marriage counseling that began in 1990.  When my 30 legal career collapsed, as judges I had trained or trained with began to question new 'unreliability.'  I believed that on the 2 or 3 hours a day I struggled moving from chair to chair the cognition problem receded.  The doctor hired by Social Security Disability concluded I scored in long term memory as highly as he had ever scored any one.  But concluded that indeed the illness had changed something as, 'you never would habe entered law school this way nor practised law for 30 years.'  Only my x and our 4 year old and 7 year old can imagine this nightmare condition.  I have tried a dozen times to watch this amazingly accurate documentary. No doctor other than Dr David Bell has even now an understanding.  Words simply cannot convey the feeling.  Amazingly doctors do not want sick people in their offices, it gives patients the feeling this doctor is impotent.  I live alone as I cannot bear to be around any activity for long periods of time. Even my mother quietly coming in to just lay a hand on me is frightening.  The weight of the lightest sheet I can find can be more than I can tolerate.  Sounds that can not be noticed except in the quiet between heart beats is deeply disturbing.  I stopped trying to drive but kept a car until i fell below 600 miles a year, at which point a car can not operate except with out sized bills.  You and your doctors know some one well who suffers from this!  Please get informed.  I have the neurally mediated hypotension variety, the type only the young bed ridden man has.  I can get out of bed, but I pay a terrible price for doing so.  I do not feel like a victim, I just do not have the energy to waste on those thoughts.  Life is hard enough, if I dwell or even need to explain what happens I weep for 30 minutes.  This DvD is a blessing as my family and friends will hopefully gain understanding and acceptance.  In the vacuum, mis information has thrived to my horror when I learn of the truly crazy ideas family and friends cling to as they try to understand.

A Boy and his Zombie There are tons of movies/shows about a boy and his dog... and I hate them. But when you put a Zombie into the place of the dog... Awesome. Every minute.

Great! If you haven't seen this movie, you need to. The acting is great. The directing is wonderful. And the story is amazing. Plus the black and white/ film noir style makes this movie very exciting.

Great Fun I've read the first couple books and I will admit that I prefer the show. You get more in depth with the show. You also get to see characters that only appear as side characters in the books become more flushed out in the show. Very entertaining. I love it. 5 stars. *****

Well worth watching.  5+ stars. Every adult should see this movie and weep, because there is so much abuse out there, that people are not even aware of.  A real eye-opener here for the "system" as well.

funny! Loved this movie, I love the blond guy in it! If you like him too, hes also in the show "party down" on HBO!

Great Movie I remember this movie came out when I was in middle school. Almost everyone at my school wanted to be like the four girls. I remember some of my friends throwing sleep overs and trying, light as a feather thick as a board.....LOL. The good old days. N E who, this is a fun movie to watch. Must give it a chance.

A modern Tristan und Isolde This is a Tristan for today. Myth for  now. I do not think that the traditionalists will like it. For example,the action takes place inside the saloon of a ship. Modern decor which slowly decays through the three acts. It is set in the early 196o's. The sets are about the reality of everyday life. We cannot really envisage, the inner life of  Tristan and Isolde.The action is  slow. For example in Act three, at the end ,there are no bodies laying around, just singers standing against the wall. When tristan sings in his delirium about the light, lights go on in a subtle way. The acting is superb. In my review for the Bluray Tristan und Isolde with Stemme and Gambill singing, I have gone into the History of this opera and how Wagner was influenced by Schopenhauer. He in turn was influenced by Buddhism and Hindu brahminism. I have shown how this came to be. So, the Day represents everyday life and the night, the astral planes, or another dimension. The love duet is not gibberish,but represents Wagners attempts to explain the Astral planes and Nirvana. It is hard to produce this opera, really as Chereau once said, you should hear it on the radio.  Robert Dean Smith has a distinctive voice and is better then Gambill in the Stemme version.Theorin has a big voice and is good in Acts one and three, but you feel she is attempting not to drown out Smith in Act two. Brangane Michelle Breedt is as good. King marke ,Holl, and kurwenal, Rasilainen are a credit to the opera . This is a live performance. I wondered what the Bayreuth opera house looked like inside ,now I know. The conducting of Peter Schneider is swift. This is how Wagner meant his operas to be conducted. His son Siegfried conducted in this manner, which he learnt from his father  when he was still alive. I do not like slow conducted performances,it ruins it.Amazingly,the two Blu rays, and three DVDs I have of this opera, are all well conducted and sung. Well done, Bayreuth. Now what we require is a live Ring from that August establishment.

&lt;3 Anyone who &lt;3 this classic must get this bluray! It also comes with the dvd version, playbill from other countries (fascinating!) and a soundtrack that will be appreciated by any West Side Story fan.

The Crabb Family #1 Hits. If you enjoy Gospel/Christian music and have followed the Crabb Family this is an excellent DVD. If you have never heard of the Crabb Family, when they were a group, they brought a powerful uplifting / inspiring message through song, praise, preaching, music to those who whom were blessed to hear them. They largely travel separately now each with their own ministry - but this DVD brings you back to that former time when they were The Crabb Family. Most highly recommended.

The Wild East DVD is THE version of "Death Rides a Horse" we've been waiting for! After decades of viewing poor copies of "Death Rides a Horse" on VHS and DVD, Wild East finally got it right.  A beautiful print, widescreen, 16x9, with extras including an audio interview with John Phillip Law, movie and tv trailers and a stills gallery.  Forget all other versions of "Death Rides a Horse"...The WILD EAST DVD IS THE BEST VERSION....EVER!  I bought two.

Endearing classic This is an endearing classic I purchased for grandchildren.  I hope they enjoy it as much as I have so many times.

BRILLIANT MOVIE--BRILLIANT DIRECTOR This movie is a smart, HAUNTING (no pun intended) film done by a brilliant young director that has gone on to create great cinema. The cast, headed by Nicole Kidmam, serves up a CHILLING story that weaves a stunning tale of a household haunted by GHOSTS. This movie is REALLY SCAREY without the gratuitous blood and gore that is the normal horror faire. Two thumbs up. 5 stars. A + SPOOKEY!!!

good got item on time; will purchase again from vendor; will tell my friends about it because price was also wonderful

Great beginner video This was not my first Yoga video, but it was the first one that was so well done that I looked forward to doing it every day.  I was a beginner when I started and I can't believe how much stronger and flexable I am.  I'm 46 years old, 30 lbs over weight and going through menopause.  I haven't lost an ounce of weight but continue to feel better and stronger.

Excellent film better than the original I watched it last night with friends and loved it. Very suspenseful.as for the DVD , LOL. Perfect presentation...I for one cannot understand how some people cannot open their eyes and understand its in reference to the main character being a hacker..I mean really ..

amazing movie i went into this movie without any expectations other than knowing it wasn't going to be your typical fairytale...what a story!  i was sucked in from the first few moments - and the movie was over before i realized...it's so rare to say that about a film!  the fantasy of a young girl trying to escape the horrors of her surrounding reality in the midst of a war with a sick pregnant mother and a tyrant for a step-father.  a real tear jerker - and beautiful movie!  i've been wanting to watch this movie for some time now and i'm glad i did!  not for young children - i'd say 13 or older...depending on how easily they get freaked out.  there were some scenes that even made me squirm!  there's a war going on...and war's not pretty!  nothing us 'older kids' can't handle watching...i've seen way worse!!  great movie - beautiful story - a must see!

Never say Never I recieved this item today, bought on the 10th June. I was obviously taking a risk buying this from the uk. But thankfully it worked on my laptop, so good deal! Packaged well... and a bonus i have it a month before its even released here!!!!!!!!

Thank You Thank you for this movie. It was received in great conditions and it played great as well. Its funny and no glitches through out the movie. Again, Thank you.

Great Film This is an intriguing film with a wonderful performance from Simone Signoret.  The DVD-R is anamorphic but, unfortunately, the picture quality is very grainy intermittently.  However, it is still great to be able to finally  purchase this film.

The Exorcist Little by little I have been replacing my rather large Laser-Disc collection of movies with DVD's. The turn around time for this DVD was par for the course in my experiences with Amazon...EXCELLENT! The product was received in mint condition. I was totally satisfied. I couldn't ask for more.

This is amazing.. Ok... I'm sorry if I anyone finds me offensive 'bit but seems lil too much I mean not saying it should be one sentence reviews, but some of these are somewhat abusing like to me. Taking up 1/3 of page basically telling (of course summarized ) most of story, feels selfish since I can't think of better word this moment. But I actually just bought it and believe most of em praising " just amazing" ^^ can't wait!! ^^

BLU_RAY Review Not going to rate the movie because it rocks.  For anyone worried about missing scenes on the blu-ray, don't be.  I just finished watching it and all the scenes are in it.  It's crazy how clear this old movie looks.  I'm glad my wife got this for me.  The blu-ray also has a really cool "making of the LOTM".  Just get it.  You'll be happy.

My favorite of the franchise 9/10 I've already reviewed the 1st movie I'll review He'  l  l bound which came out a little over a year after Hellraiser. Clive Barker didn't direct he stayed on as a producer. Tony Randel directs & he directed some episodes of Power Rangers In Space as well as Fist Of The North Star. Ashley Laurence Claire Higgans & Sean Chapman all return. It alsio stars Ken Cran ham as Dr Chanard, William Hope as Kyle & Imogen Boorman as Tiffany. Like another sequel Halloween II it takes place right after the events of 1st movie & it does feel like 1 & 2 are 2 parters. You learn that Pinhead was a guy who fought in WW I named Elliot Spencer & you see very briefly how he became Pinhead. Kirst wakes up in a place called Thd Chanard Institute & she's questioned about what happened. The Police find a bloody matteress which was what Julia died on. She tells Dr Chanard & his assistant Kyle that the matteress needs to be destroyed so Julia can't return.  Kirsty is woudering around & she meets this mute girl named Tiffany & she is very skilled in puzzle solving. Later that night she finds a message written in blood it says "HELP ME I AM IN HE'  L  L." Kirsty believes it's her Dad. Kyle is going to talk to Dr Chanard but he overhears a phone call with him with him tallking about The Lament Configuration. Kyle discovers that he is obsessed with it. Chanard uses a patient to resurrect Julia. This was very bloody & had a lot of gore. It was a different actress for skinless Julia. Chanard lets her consume further patients so she regain her form. Kyle tells Kirsty what he saw they go to Chanard's house. Kirsty looks through Chanard's stuff & finds out about Elliot Spencer. Kyle runs into Julia & he's killed. Julia confronts Kirsty & tells her she's the evil queen. Julia knocks her out. Chanard has Tiffany open the box which releases Pinhead & The Cenobites. They don't kill her cause she was forced to open the box. Kirsty comes to grabs the puzzle box & goes to find her father & heads into The Labyrith. Julia turns on Chanard throws him into this torture device which turns him into a Cenobite. Kirsty runs into Tiffany & she goes with her. She finds a house that looks like her father's. & it turns out that Uncle Frank sent her that message. Kirsty burns the house down Frank's flesh falls off Julia then rips his he  art out. Kirsty & Tiffany escape & Julia's skin is ripped off in some kind of wind tunnel. Kirsty feels like she let herself down & they have to head back to The Hospital. Then you have the 1st appearance of The Chanard Cenobite. Kirsty encounters Pinhead again she gives him a picture of him when he was human & they learn that they were all human once. Chanard then comes & he's after Tiffany which Pinhead & The Cenobites try to fight him which there all pwnd easily & that's really my only problem. In The Labyrith Kirsty disguises herself as Julia so Tiffany can solve the box & The Chanard Cenobite is killed. Kirsty & Tiffany leave & then some Moving Men are packing Chanard's stuff up 1 of the guys gets pulled into the matteress &then The Pillar Of Souls comes up. I know they tried to get Andfrw Robinson back but I think it was money issues & The Cenobites are taken down too easily. It did have a bigger budget behind it I liked the score even more than the 1st. Tony Randel did a good job directing. Doug Bradley was great. Ken Cranham was good. William Hope didn't have much screen time but he was alright. Claire Higgans was even more evil so she did a good job. Ashley Laurence was good still a likeable character. Imogen Boorman was good she's actually a martial artist. Sean Chapman was there he wasn't bad. The Blu Ray has inconsistent  transfer it looks better in some scenes & worse than the DVD in others  & then looks upscaled in others plus no features.  The 20th Anniversary DVD is the best release . This makes a great double feature with the 1st. He'  l  l  raiser III is next.

Sharp social commentary, delivered with low-brow style... Can a movie made with marionettes make a strong social commentary? Sure can...  These guys leave no group untouched. Liberal are hammered. Conservatives are flattened. American arrogance is brought to the foreground with pride!  The story of America's "world police" is peppered with displays of the ignorance of people of all sorts; gays, Americans, actors, women, men, middle-easterners, North Korea, etc...  At first, the marionettes were a "red flag" for me, but as soon as I saw preview of the puking scene (Gary outside of the bar), I relaized that I had to see the movie. Very, very funny throughout with biting, acrid humour. Some filth, some wonderfully stupid profanity, full marionette nudity, zany dialogs, and you have a fun film. Humour of the highest caliber, IMHO.  Highly recommended movie!

Great I love the standard deviants collections nothing has change I will keep buy them thank you. I had no problem's DvD was working at 100%.

vanity 6 I really liked this movie it was suspensful and a lot of drama, and action, and exciting. I really liked the fact that they had brought this movie on dvd, and the fact that vanity was playing in it before she started her singing career, plus I think she is very beautiful, sexy, smart and intelligent, and I'm glad she is now a born again christian.

Buy this EXPLOITATION CLASSIC before it goes out of print! A Stunning Film I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (1978), also known as DAY OF THE WOMAN, is a great exploitation film, and a thrilling movie for people who like revenge pictures.  This film actually shares the same plot as KILL BILL, and KILL BILL gets all kinds of awards and accolades, while I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE gets crushed by the critics, especially Roger Ebert, who called the film "vile trash."  For me, the film is just about perfect.  By the way, anybody who says they're surprised and sickened by what happens on screen should have known what the film was about when going to see it.  The reason is because the advertising for the movie was very direct:  "This woman will soon beat, chop, burn, strangle 5 men beyond recognition, and no jury in American would dare convict her."  So the film is a simple rape and revenge film, and a great one at that.  Difficult and intense, I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE ultimately felt liberating because she DOES get her revenge, and it's only a movie, so for me, the whole thing works.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind(1977) Wow! This Close Encounters of the Third Kind DVD set is affordable and it spoils you rotten! It has the 1977 theatrical version, the 1980 special edition, and the 1998 director's cut! Also, there's some extra features. I first saw Close Encounters when I rented a VHS tape from the video store in 1998. Roy(Richard Dreyfuss) encounters a UFO while stuck at a railroad crossing. He has a vision of a tower in his mind. Director Steven Spielberg succeeded in casting French film director Francois Truffaut as a French scientist. Melinda Dillon plays a single mother and lovely Terri Garr plays Roy's wife. The special effects by Douglas Trumbull, Greg Jein, Ralph McQuarrie, and Dennis Muren are superb. The animatronic extraterrestrials built by Carlo Rambaldi are first rate. John Williams' music score for Close Encounters of the Third Kind is flawless. The five note motif was spoofed by a school band on a TV show and in the 007 film Moonraker(1979). This film has the iconic scene with Roy making a tower with mashed potatoes. This scene was spoofed in UHF(1989) and The Simpsons.  The 1977 version of Close Encounters shows Terri Garr listening to an officer talking about UFO's. The 1980 version of the film shows the bright, colorful inside of the mothership. Cary Guffey is quite good as a three year old who is kidnapped by aliens. Close Encounters came out in 1977; it had to compete with Star Wars. Both films were referenced in Independence Day(1996). Times have changed. Steven Spielberg directed War of the Worlds(2005) and that film showed us some nasty, malevolent aliens from Mars. In the 1970's and the 1980's, Spielberg was willing to show us optimistic tales of encounters with space aliens. Close Encounters is a keeper.

Hoosiers is Magnificent! As any great sports fan would know, the movie Hoosiers has been considered by many to be one of the all-time greatest sports movies. Being such an avid sports fan myself, I had heard a lot about the movie but had never had the chance to see it. I had always been skeptical of it since it was based on a story that took place back in 1954. The thought of watching a movie that took place such a long time ago always scared me away because I figured it would be incredibly boring. After watching Hoosiers, I can say that was far from the truth. This movie is a top notch, five star rating in my book.  As the opening credits rolled, the movie confronted my fears by showing the lead character, Coach Norman Dale (played by Gene Hackman) driving in a beat up car to the rural town of Hickory, Indiana in the midst of falling leaves. However, the producers of the film portrayed the setting of the movie in such a unique way that even though it wasn't an action packed start, I felt as if I was transported to the movie and had no desire to be elsewhere.    For me, the best thing about this movie was that it wasn't just a typical underdog story; this movie had more depth. The main theme present throughout the movie is redemption. Twelve years prior to Coach Norman coming to Hickory, his college coaching career had come to an end for punching one of his players. He was banned by the NCAA for life, and he decided to join the military until finally landing the job as head high school basketball coach. Ms. Myra Fleener (played by Barbara Hershey),a teacher at the high school, set the tone early when she clashed with Norman and snapped , "A man who comes to a place like this, is either runnin' away from somethin' or he has nowhere else to go." Watching Coach Norman transform and establish himself in Hickory will inspire just about anyone.    The combination of all the cast members a part of the film is magnificent. Director David Anspaugh, writer-producer Angelo Pizzo, and the rest of the cast show their brilliance like never before. For Anspaugh and Pizzo, this was their first partnership but the two would later go on to produce another sports classic called Rudy. The two were a great team for this movie because they both grew up in the Midwest and understood the importance basketball had on small towns like this one. Not only did these two show greatness producing the movie, but they also are responsible for a lot of the actor's accomplishments. Instead of recruiting main stream actors to play the basketball players, they decided to recruit people based on their basketball playing abilities and give them on-set training for acting. It was nice as a viewer to see these actors come across as the real high school athletes that they are, rather than actors in Hollywood. One actor that did have an acting background was Gene Hackman who played the lead role of Coach Norman Dale. Hackman's performance brought a dynamic personality and important energy to the movie. It is hard to imagine anyone else playing this role as Hackman delivered a performance that seemed to balance the competitiveness during the games and the sadness during the softer scenes perfectly. This movie is a must watch to all!

Please let there be a third installment!! Rented this through Amazon Instant Video and streamed it to my TV through Roku (so convenient!). I enjoyed the first installment, and this one was surprisingly good. Acting and special effects were great. I hope there's a 3rd installment planned.

The Birdcage This is one of my all time favorite movies, when I found out my boyfriend hadn't seen out we HAD to rent it instantly!!!

A must see! The movie just make you want to do good for others and do community building. Highly recommend it! I showed in my home and everyone just loved it. Plus, give your opportunity for a discussion after the movie.

"The Scarlet Letter" is a favorite I am a tremendous Gary Oldman fan and Demi More was wonderful, great pairing in a great film. I recieved "The Sacrlet Letter" dvd in good time, in Great condition and for a good price. Thank you.

The Product Worked For Me I bought this DVD last spring and took the attunment many times since then. All I can say is that I felt a difference after taking it. During the attunment I felt relaxed, warm and tingling sensations in the hands and chakras and sometimes a little floative. I noticed an increase in psychic abilities shortly after viewing the DVD and I feel more peaceful within. I'm not sure why some other folks gave it a one star review? I suppose we're all entitled to our opinions, and I'm certainly not the easiest guy to dupe. If something is poorly done or flat out doesn't work, I will spill the beans loud and proud. But Steve Murray's programs have worked for me... I have quite a collection of his DVD's going and intend to purchase others soon. I have come across plenty of programs in my day that were total flops and frauds. But this is not one of them. Maybe it didn't work for the other folks because they weren't tuned into the energy and intent of the programs creator. The mind is a strange and wonderful thing; if we think something won't work, chances are it won't.

So much fun! The second season is great. The very first episode introduces a dog into the family. The dog plays a part throughout the rest of the season. It is good, clean, fun entertainment. I recommend it to anyone who likes old TV shows.

Fantastic! A totally fun, action-packed 2 hours. The whole cast is fantastic and John Malkovich's special brand of crazy is awesome to watch. Highly recommended!

Early Sci-Fi at it's best! We grew up watching these sci-fi thrillers at the drive-in and loving them. Some you could (and still can) laugh at just because they were "B" movies in every sense of the word -hokey sets,phony monsters,terrible dialogue-great fun. But this one is a cut above the rest by quite a lot. The sets make "Star Trek" look bad-sorry trekies. Obviously a lot of thought, time, and money went into this one and it shows. You can actually watch it and take it seriously (with a grain of salt), or you can just watch it as a great example of it's genre. The great thing about this edition are the extras. We weren't even aware of the other Robbie movie, and the story of Robbie is very interesting and makes the movie even more enjoyable. Highly recommended!

A Museum Piece I loved this intriguing and entertaining fable. It's about a realized dream for an alienated pre-adolescent boy, Antoine, who suffers indignities while growing up in the late 1940's. One haircut with a full-figured local hairdresser is enough for him to develop a fixation on her tantalizing half-exposed breasts. When she turns up dead in her salon from an overdose of barbiturates, he is deeply affected. The film jumps forward and we are introduced to Mathilde, an enigmatic young beauty. She is the new solo proprietor of a simple hair salon for men only. Antoine reappears as a selfish, rather shallow, and oddly disagreeable middle-aged man who discovers her shop and comes in for haircuts. Without so much as having coffee together, he proposes marriage and she improbably accepts. What? Why? It looks like a colossal mismatch. As things develop you get lulled into thinking, oh well, it works for them. He loves her as the fetish she represents. She in turn is pleased to gratify his needs and love him unconditionally. Seeing her attend to another man's hair stirs him sexually. He takes liberties to prove he controls her, body and soul. The mysterious Mathilde is a tabula rasa, a blank slate whom we attempt to make sense of. It's near impossible. Towards the end she surprisingly states apropos of nothing, "Life is disgusting" (at least that's what the subtitles tell us). It's our only clue and its totally out of context. Occasionally Antoine pops a cassette into a boom box and plays his favorite cacophonous Middle Eastern music, to which, befitting his eccentricity, he performs a wacky dance. I was charmed by the film's beautiful color and warmed by its luminosity. You'll see what I mean and I'm sure you'll be charmed too. After the movie, watch the Anna Galiena interview, a bonus feature on the DVD. Leconte made it a challenge to fathom Antoine and Mathilde's relationship and to understand the nature of Antoine and Mathilde themselves. The whole production - everything that went into making this movie is uniquely fine art. A museum piece.

The Neverending Story DVD Thank you very much for the DVD. This is a great movie and my kids enjoy is as well as I do.

Good movie I am surprise Rumor Has It didn't make it big for a lot of people on here. I actually enjoyed it. I thought it was funny and weird. I think they should give this movie a second chance.

Still laughing! a timeless comedy of real entertainment, somethiing light hearted to make you smile. No one was violently killed, a pleasant and attention holding Chev effort.

Sick movie Great action from start to finish. Would highly recommend if you like movies from director j.j. Abramhs such as super 8 and cloverfield

Great Transfer to DVD JOB Just finishing watching this DVD after having watched the First Season of Starz "Spartacus: Blood and Sand". Was feeling quite nostalgic, and as my girlfriend had never seen this old epic, as I had several times back when, and I decided to pick it up for a watch once again. It might seem quite tame by todays standards, but we found it quite enjoyable, and feel they did an awesome job in the transfer to DVD. As noted, it is fully restored and presented uncut. Only downside I could find (nit-pickin actually, lol), was the lack of a scene selection menu. So either you watch it through one sitting, or if you want to go back and find a particular scene in the movie, you have to use the fast-forward, or skip button to locate it. I won't bother reviewing the movie, or comment on it, as others have already done that here. I just found it a pleasure to watch the "original" as I remembered it, and would definitely recommend picking up this DVD if you are curious, or nostalgic to see Stanley Kubrick's Academy Awards (4) winning tale. Make some popcorn and Enjoy!

De Palma Classic One of Brian De Palma's earliest and best works.  Intense stylization and plot structure.  Travolta surprises with a convincing and disturbing turn as the Hitchcockian protagonist in the wrong place at the wrong time.  John Lithgow shows early on his ability to play any character to a frighteningly convincing tee.  Many of the shots of this movie evoke De Palma's distinct style.  One in particular is the rotating shot of Travolta in the sound room building a Terry Reilly style loop of ambient tape noise. The only thing I wish Criterion had done was to re-master the original audio to a 5.1 mix.  The sound work of this movie is one of its most striking features, and with such a quality blu-ray image there should be the audio to match.

Nostalgic I loved the set. It had many more things in the box. I have always loved the Sound of Music and will enjoy this set.

I loved it!! My thoughts: this Jane Eyre's version is  very good! The only cinematic version that I had liked this much was the Orson Welles version (1944). All the others weren't good so far. Mia Wasikowska is perfect as Jane, she expresses Jane's feelings using her eyes and few words (the right ones); she's like I have always imagined Jane Eyre would be. Michael Fassbender is excellent like Rochester. Actually, he is a great actor, and he can do any character he wants. From Magneto to Jung... The film is a little short, I agree, could have been longer, but only if a person don't pay attention, or is a "fan-atic" of another version can say that this story is incomprehensible for people that never read the book. Saying there's no "sexual drive" or chemistry between the actors is to think very low, very physical. The film is coherent and perfect, from beginning to the end. The great proof this is a remarkable movie is such diverse number of different opinions here on amazon.com. A great brazilian writer once said: "All Unanimity Is Stupid". See this movie! Anyone who likes Jane Eyre or is curious about it will like it, no waste of money or time.

One of the best movies that I have ever seen....... Close to my heart, I could watch this movie 100 times. I think this movie is touching and probably the story of many women out there. It touched my heart to the core. The acting, even by the children, is fantastic. Based on facts that really did happen to American Indian children in the 60's, (and other years) it will tug at your heart. I know it did mine..... I highly recommend this movie!!

Movie If your looking for a great movie to watch this is it. Jim Carrey played an excellent part. Yes, it is an old movie,somehow we missed this one. I give it 5 stars for a great plot and an awesome actor.

So far so good! I just received my Turbo Fire package in the mail, and I love it!  I have gone over all of the info, watched a few of the DVDs and practiced with the "New to Class" option.  I will begin the program full swing on 2/15/11.  If you want to see Turbo Fire at work in real life with a real life lady that needs to lose a bunch of weight, then you can follow my progress at [...]

Love the Army Wives series I have loved the Army Wives show from the start.  The fact that they include all the problems the wives, families, etc. is humbling to me.  Service people give everything they have for this wonderful country of ours.  The families stay home and have to deal with all the everyday problems.  Please keep this series going.

thank you once again UNITED KINGDOM!! my mate and i are total brit fans whenit comes to ANYTHING we watch on our tv. in fact we are beginning to talk like brits! my mom has this collection of crime dramas from britian and one winter, in a pinch for stuff to watch (we dont watch regular TV) we borrowed her prime suspect series, then, last detective, taggart, pd james, well... you can see wheer this has led! (O: now, a few years later we have watched them all ( all of hers) and started to watch quite a few of some she missed, wire in the blood, single handed, a touch of frist, foyles war, GOOD GOD its AMAZES me that the brits can put out great series after great series and then top that with yet ANOTHER GREAT SERIES!!! this particular one, downton abby is above and over the top of beautiFUL! intelligent!!! stunning!!! interesting!!!  you name it!! we bought both seasons and wait eagerly for the next, happy to have gotton in on the first years of the series and the pleasure we will have watching them all!  im in heaven!!!!!

I really enjoy this show. Three generations of my family have enjoyed this show. I really love this show. It's so silly and funny to watch. I just love how Ed is always getting Wilbur Post into trouble. My fave ep is the one when Ed is a songwriter. I just wish they still made get family tv shows like this.

We need more Christmases like this1 This is the pinnacle of the Vacation series.  All of the improbable situations seem so probable in this well-written, well-acted farce that you almost believe it could happen to you.

One of Edward G. Robinson's Finest Films!!!!! I have always loved this film.  It is a wonderful story of redemption. There are several films that Robinson made that had nothing to do with being a criminal.  It is in these that I feel his talent shines through in a rainbow of colors.

A great entertainment What a nice thing it is, to slip a DVD or two into the player, and be entertained.  There is no angst here.  There is no cinema noir here.  There is just a very fun movie, with lots of fun things about it.  David Niven is superb, as always, and so is Cantinflas.  By the way, when Mike Todd persuaded Cantinflas to do his first (and only?) English movie, Cantinflas was the richest actor in the world.  So he did this role of Passepartout just for the fun of it, or just for the love of it.  Mike Todd (TODD-AO !) is also a unique Hollywood character.  He produced one movie in his life, and it won the Oscar for best movie.  Evidently, he was a very persuasive talker.  The TODD-AO makes for a great widescreen movie.  The acting is fun, the movie is fun.  Highest recommendation!

aliens (blu ray ) sigourney weaver michael beihn and bill paxton after the first brief encounter with the alien host ellen ripley wakes up from a long sedative sleep and finds out that she's being court martialed after blowing up an multi million govermental space craft and being relieved of her duties and now must liaise a band of colonial space marines commanded by real life war veteran al matthews with michael beihns corporal hicks in second of command by returning back to the colony where she first had an alien encounter and with vilianous paul reiser over seeing the oporation and she's dealing with another humanoid android bishop another of waylund yutanis property and this time it's war where the team finds out that they're realy sent in on a suicide mission so burke can report back sounds familiar so one by one the team gets whiped out burke included so leaves ripley an orphaned child with hicks and bishop to survive and escape the planet so they thaught back in base as they claimed it a success they did'nt bank on the surviving alien kills bishop and goes after ripley and the child hicks is damaged goods so ripley prepares for the final showdown with the alien cargo aided by a power loader and an airlock to dispatch the alien cargo into space and crawls her way up to close the hatch and survive another encounter it's michael beihns lance henrickson bill paxtons second collaboration with james cameron following 84's cult scifi hit the terminator and later jeanette goldstein reunites with cameron for terminator 2 that michael beihn also appears in the special edition cut of terminator 2 both starring linda hamilton who i met at an uk convension in 2010 and arnold schwarzenegger.  poster tagline:THIS TIME IT'S WAR  frankie (cool rider)smales  frankie smales tv and movie review uk

Great old "fantasy" movie This may be one of Matthew Broderick's first roles but he delivers. Michelle Pfeiffer is perfection, as always. This story would be a GREAT video game!  For anyone who enjoys fantasy and magic, this one definitely delivers! LOVE it!

unexpectedly enjoyable I just saw this movie as a middle-of-the-night-and-no-one-else-is-up movie choice. I will probably watch it again!  Yes it was a bit cheesy, but I loved it just the same. If you are having a bad night and just need a little pick up where the good guys win, then this is for you.

Charles Bronson vs. Ted Bundy! Right down to the powder blue VW, the killer here is clearly patterned after "The Deliberate Stranger." Thank God that in this alternate universe CHARLES BRONSON is there to mete out justice as only he (and Eastwood) can. The sordid nature of the crimes are vividly detailed by director, J. Lee Thompson, so approach with caution, as this film is polarizing even for Bronson fans. Not as repellent as THE NEW YORK RIPPER, but certainly not one for the faint of heart. Recommended for the adventurous or jaded moviegoer.

FUNNIEST TV SHOW EVER! THIS SHOW RIGHT HERE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN IS BY FAR THE FUNNIEST TELEVISION PRODUCTION I HAVE EVER WITNESSED. NOW IT MIGHT BE BECAUSE IM A 40 YEAR OLD WHITE MALE THAT LIVES IN A TRAILER DOWN THE WAY FROM MY POP,LIKES TO ENJOY A LITTLE SMOKE AND DRINK NOW AND THEN, AND CUSSES LIKE A TRUCK DRIVER(WHICH I WAS FOR 15 YRS.),BUT STILL I THINK MY COMEDY SENSE IS PRETTY KEEN AND THIS SHOW HAS IT. WATCH HOW INEPT AND UNEDUCATED THESE ACTORS PORTRAY THEIR ROLES AND LISTEN CLOSELY BECAUSE THE REAL COMEDY IS SOMETIMES HARD TO SEE,THE INUENDO AND SUCH...ANYWAY I LOVE IT AND GIVE IT 5 OUT OF 5.

brillian Ever seen Sapphire and Steel?  This could be their film!  Love it, so atmospheric, horrible deaths, weird stuff going on.  It kinda makes sense but not - and that doesn't matter one bit.

Never Say Never CONVICTION is a David vs. Goliath story about determination, focus, love. . .and yes, conviction.  Based on the actual wrongful murder one conviction of Kenny Waters in Massachusetts in the early 1980s, CONVICTION centers around Kenny's determined sister, Betty Anne Waters, who basically sacrifices her own personal life to exonerate her brother--a journey that will take almost twenty years.  Over the course of this film we are privy to various flashbacks of Kenny and Betty Anne as children from a dysfunctional home who have no one but each other to lean on; hence the uncommon, deep, abiding bond between them as adults.  We're also privy to Kenny's constant run-ins with the law--when his fiery temper gets the best of him--so that a kernel of doubt is placed in the viewer's mind regarding his true innocence.  And if Kenny is guilty, then Betty Anne's subsequent actions border on unhealthy obsession, which ratchets up the tension of an already tightly wound story.  Hilary Swank and Sam Rockwell are exemplary as Betty Anne and Kenny.  Swank is terrific depicting a Betty Anne who puts herself through law school and passes the bar to help her brother, take on the red tape bureaucracy, and lose her own family in the process.  Rockwell is completely believable as the up-and-down brother wasting his life behind bars and losing faith in his sister's ability to triumph over "the system".  A stunning Minnie Driver plays Abra Rice, a fellow law school student who befriends Betty Anne and helps her take on a very stubborn status quo.  Determination and sibling love are put to the test throughout CONVICTION, as there is setback after setback after setback; yet when this remarkable story finally comes to its end, you'll be hard pressed not to be loudly cheering from your seat.  See this movie! --D. Mikels, Esq.

Jdm finest Great DVD for the true die hard Honda fan. If you love the type R then this is one DVD u gotta get.

Solid Private-Investigator drama "The Big Sleep" is a story of blackmail that includes a trail of murders leading private investigator Phillip Marlowe (played by Humphrey Bogart) into danger and romance.  Notwithstanding, Raymond Chandler's hard boiled detective manages to solve the continuous string of murders, one step ahead of the police and on a trail riddled with mystery. Lauren Bacall plays one of the General's daughters, Martha Vickers the other, and beautiful Dorothy Malone is seductive as ever as a book seller.  The plot is made extra complicated, because more motives to murder exist than victims, and the "extra features" note that Producer and Director Howard Hawks and screen writer William Faulkner admitted that they were never sure, from reading the book, who killed one of the victims. No matter, the action moves faster than the names of new characters. Elisha Cook, Jr. plays a good supporting noir role.

Act of Valor I rented this movie the same day I rented Safe House. I couldn't watch it on a trip I was taking, because even though I had downloaded it before I left my house, on the plane I got the message "can not view without wifi". Unfortunately I was on a plane so I couldn't watch it until I got back home. In any event I was able to watch this movie and would recommend this to anyone who likes action movies, as much as I do, and also because it gives great insight to what the Navy Seals deal with on their missions. So if you enjoy action movies or true story regarding the Military, RENT THIS MOVIE you will not be disappointed!

Slightly Underrated. One of Eastwood's best. Everything about this film resonates. Sure, you get some faith based weirdos who cannot handle a little filmic portrayal of their religion and wah wah. You can't look past the perfection of themes here. The faith in this line is just another 'faith' in general really. It's used to portray a child as isolated and attached to nothing but the religions he was brought up on. A child without a father. A religion that MIGHT produce confused and curious children who often want to know what lies beyond their confines... it doesn't matter which religion it is I wish people could see that.  Like it or not these kinds of emotions are what intense orthodox religion does to people in many cases. In some cases it teaches them some morals and in others it just solidifies a variety of other things both good and bad depending on the individual. The relationship between Costner and the boy is played to perfection. This is quite honestly one of Eastwood's greatest films. I think his current output is a bit overrated bar a couple films and I LOVE the subtly in the ending here as opposed to Gran Turino which imho was totally bonkers and unreal.  Anyway, the direction and photography are near perfect and the acting is stellar. People harp on Kevin sometimes but he really isn't that bad at all and in this one he is fabulous. Eastwood fits in perfectly as the ambiguous ranger and the child plays his part to perfection. You would think this

Cool Twist  on the zombie  film This is one of the great illiterate horror movies that came out of the early eighties before things got kinda ridiculous. Its got great atmosphere a pretty good story thats interesting and gets ya into it within the first few minutes top notch actors and like The Fog, Happy Birthday To Me and poltergeist etc. Dead and Buried has a terrific score but a as a zombie movie its not bad at all it plays more like a slasher however because Dan O Bannon didnt wanna copy Romeros stuff and had to make them different. The gore is pretty bad ass thers some good stuff including combustion, acid meltdown, and a syringe plunged into a incapcitated guy . all in all good movie worth the money

Coraline blu ray Absolutely love this movie! My step daughter has never seen it before,so purchased two! Timing of delivery was awesome,thank you so very much

Beautiful documentary I own the DVD version of this film and continue to recommend it to my friends.  This documentary is both breathtaking and heartbreaking in parts, but also hopeful.  It is beautifully written and filmed.  Like the mark of so many excellent films, the viewer is left wanting to know more -- about the plight of these and other abandoned parrot pets, about what is being done to prevent such abuse, about how to educate the public about parrots as pets.  It's easy to see how A Place to Land won a student Academy Award for the young filmmaker, Lauren DeAngelis.  I hope Lauren will continue to explore difficult topics and produce more insightful documentaries to the public.  Kudos to Lauren and her production team!

Faded Red This is the most comprehensive collection of the "Are You Being Served' series.  This is my favorite Brit-com and I never tire of the antics of the Grace Bros. crew.  I watched it faithfully for MANY years on PBS in the San Francisco Bay area.  When it went away I HAD to have the DVD collection!  Highly recommended!

Awesome movie!!!! This is an awesome movie, and is for the most part very historically acurate in case your wondering. It is deffenately one of the new favorites in the household thats for sure. It is a must see for every one, especially women wanting to know what suffergists went through to get all women the right to vote in the U.S.

MamaMia Full Scren DVD My purchase of Mama Mia, in full screen format on DVD was the best purchase I have made all year. The picture quality is perfect, and the sound is amazing. I enjoyed it tremendously, right up until my 11 year old Granddaughter came to visit and watched it with me. When she left two days later it went with her. Her Mother has informed me she watches it every day and is driving her insane with it. Thanks to the feature showing the words to the songs, when my Granddaughter is not watching the DVD, she is singing the songs. All in all justifying it as the best purchase I have made all year. Thanks Amazon!!!!!

ahmad shah massoud A fantastic glimpse into a pre 9-11 Afghanistan .The central character; Ahmad Shah Massoud ; is the type of man that legend follows.He warned the US about the coming terror and that very thing took his life on 9-9 .The writer that brought us The Perfect Storm [Sebastian Junger] can be seen scared out of his wits due to taliban in coming fire .Fortunately he survives.This one takes you there

dark shadows i had watched this one two this dvd is good two when i was a child i use to run home and watch it and this one is worth the money i say bye it if you are a fan charlene

One of our favorites! One of our favorite movies. This dvd was our replacement since our old one was so scratched up. Thanks Amazon!!!!

As always, one of the BEST on TV! It is without reservation that I share my endless "uncurbed" enthusiasm for this series, which is easily one of the best on TV.  I own the DVDs from all seasons, and usually can't wait to acquire the next one. I watch them over and over and am never bored.  The brilliant improvisational acting, as well as the hilarious humor and fabulous ideas for every episode are of the highest calibre. I highly recommend every season of "Curb your enthusiasm".

If you're an "Airplane!" fan, you'll love it! One of the unspoken GEMS in "Airplane!" style films, this one is a sendup of WW2 action/spy pieces.  The references are not as period as, say, the mentions of President Reagan in Airplane, so it ages nicer as a film, the jokes are understandable more for the next generation.  References to "Blue Lagoon" will probably pass, but are not needed to laugh at the jokes themselves.  Speaking of which, this one is more for young adults on up.  There's several sexual references, although funny, will definitely have parents scrambling to explain to their kids what's going on, or more likely, have them covering their eyes to spare explanation.  No nudity like Airplane!, but just be aware going into the film.  It's my personal favorite out of the spoof line, and yes, there's puns and some gross humor, but a more polished than the "Hot Shots" line of films (which I like, but there's more groans in that line up).  Watch for the classic, "Let me know of any change in his condition," line!

One of the best Doco movies For any Bob Marley fan. This is a must have. This film takes you on a journey which follows Bob Marleys life from birth to death. It show you interviews from his family to his closest friends. Some which has never been seen. You will not be disappoint for the film makes a connection with the great Bob Marley and integers you right from the start. The best of 2012. You will wish Bob was still alive today.

Open House Rocks This movie is disturbingly entertaining. I bought it to see Stephen and Anna. Anna isn't in it for long, but Stephen gets a little more screen time. His scenes are very memorable for a fan. Job well done. He does romance so well. If you liked this movie check out The Resident. It is along the same lines as far as story content. I was really surprised at how much I enjoyed it. Kudos to Anna's brother.

Spell binding For 90 minutes, I was rapt.  The actors delivered a tour de force performance.  This was the first movie I watched that had James Nesbitt in a leading role.  It will be the first of many!  This movie cannot be missed.  Watch it.

Love it! I purchased this item for my school's legal studies department. The instructor has been looking for the more current version of this film for years and gladly we were able to find it on Amazon for a great price.

Still revelvant 6 years later Simply put, "Maria, Full of Grace" is a wonderfully crafted emotional film about the hardships facing many people in Latin Ameria and throughout the world. The vivid drug use and violence hits hard because it is still a prevlant problem in the world. The first time I saw this film, I was shocked to say the least. It's remains a favorite "international" film of mine since its release.

Great workout This is a great workout! I was originally working out with Cindy Whitmarsh on Exercise TV, but after I changed my cable plan, I no longer had on demand. But, she is my favorite trainer on the channel. So, I decided to buy her dvd and share her great training with friends and family that may not have Exercise TV. She gets results extremly quick! You can literally feel the burn of your abs the next day! After a week in a half of her workouts everday, you can see the change in your midsection. I would highly recommend any of Cindy's workouts to anyone looking to tone and trim those abs.

Take time for this one I really enjoyed the human stories going on in this film, the music was really well chosen and the actors just meshed.  It brought to life so many realistic versions of what love is and can be for different people, and at different times of life.  The contrasts going on between their choices in sex and partners was tastefully executed along the backdrop; simple un-tarnished story of a 16 year-old's wish to have her first kiss, and the latest book she's reading.  Shiloh Fernandez' antics in the background were great, I hadn't seen him in anything yet but now I'll be looking for him.  My only question is, when will the soundtrack be available?

Great movie Sooooo this movie was great! I wont give a long review because i want you to view the movie for yourself, but it was really good!!!!

fast and great The product arrived fast and was of great quality, no complaints here.  I have nothing else to say, it was perfect.

love it My one year old and Husband have watched this movie together several times...it's a great movie classic that is just as enjoyable to watch now as it was to watch when we were little....the part with peter chasing his shadow is funny due that our one year old is always doing this.

Blu-ray release - 2012 Be aware, there is more than one Blu-ray release of this movie; at the time I bought this movie, Amazon listed three Blu-ray "Total Recall" releases:  2006,  2007 (Special Edition),  and 2012 (Mind-Bending Edition).  If you are new to Amazon, you may not have noticed that the reviews are all lumped together;  when checking out the reviews, you will find the version title just above the review's text.  Lion Gate's 2012 Blu-ray release looks fine and I have no issues with this product.  If you have never seen Arnold Schwarzenegger's version of "Total Recall", there are two things you should know.  Firstly, it is great science fiction.  It delves into the question of just who are we?  Are we the sum of our memories?  In "Total Recall" someone has replaced the memories of the main character, who believes himself to be a man named Quaid;  he still has the same skills, but his personality is different.  Secondly, you should know this is a violent movie;  how violent?  There are many scenes in which you could use the words: blood, bullets, and breaking glass in their descriptions.  I counted 17 violent scenes, 16 which involve gunfire and one scene where death was meted out with sharp pieces of equipment and a fire axe.  In spite of the violence, it is a well done action-movie, so riveting, so fast paced, that there is no time to get another popcorn. . . .  Picture (Blu-ray): 4.  Subtitles & Languages: English, French, and German;  Spanish is not included.  Bonus Features:  Schwarzenegger & Director commentary,  Director interview,  Special Effects,  Trailer,  Documentary "Imagining Total Recall", Restoration comparison, and Photo Gallery.

BRAINS... I have to say... Best movie ever.  As our world as we know it crumbles to the fall of zombies, there are 4 people that have survived.  Two girls got by by acting all lost and confused with no money.  When the zombies took over, took some chainsaws, and cut their path through the world again, by chopping off heads.  One guy keeps a rule book that helps him in times of "Not again!  When will they stop raiding my car?"  Another guy says, "My mama always told me that I'd be good at somethin'.  I bet what she didn't know was that that somethin' was zombie huntin'."  They meet and he adds a few new rules.  Rule 1: Cardio.  You wanna run away, gotta be quick on your feet. Rule 2: Double-tap.  Shoot 'em once in the stomach, once in the head. Rule 3: Always wear your seatbelt.  That makes it harder for them to get at you. Rule 4: Act like a zombie, be welcomed by other zombies, not gonna get killed by a zombie. Rule 11: Enjoy the little things.  (While they last...)

Man, these were the days. I remember the first time I saw this movie. I will never forget the first time I saw this movie. I wont forget the other thousand of times I've watched it either. This movie isn't for everyone, of course. It is probably more geared towards teenage females or anyone who happened to be a youth when this movie was released. It's been compared to Mean Girls. It's the Mean Girls of the 90's, except I think Clueless definitely nailed it where Mean Girls didn't. Mean Girls isn't bad, but it's not Clueless. Clueless has all the culture references you miss of the 90's and will make you laugh.

For The Love of Money I love the storyline of Set it Off.  It's an orginal script and keeps you interested and entertained.  All of the acting is fantastic.  There was chemistry between all of the actresses so it was believable that this could actually happen.  Unfortuantely 3 out of the 4 of them were killed but I guess that's what ends up happening when you rob banks.  Que Sera Que Sera.

adventure! product arrived on time and in condition described.  Fun adventures movie and adults and kids. we watched until it would no longer play.

Shhhh, be vewy vewy quiet; I'm hunting wascally Humans! The Predator is back! For anyone who just fell off the turnip truck and doesn't know it yet, the Predator is an ugly Mutha-F'er from another planet who loves to hunt down prey, challenging prey especially. The more challenging the prey the better. It is a rite of passage for their species, actually. In this installment of the franchise, the Predators abduct certain beings from different planets and transport them to the Predators very own game preserve/hunting grounds planet in order to hone their deadly hunting skills. In this instance they abduct a few Humans from the planet Earth such as a Yakuza gang member, a Mexican drug cartel member, a convict, a serial killer, etcetera, in order to match wits with them and to hunt them down for sport. And that is pretty much what happens here. The Predators are very lethal and vicious in this film, as well as are their Human prey.  The movie stars Laurence Fishburne, Danny Trejo, Topher Grace,...and Adrien Brody?! WTH?! Adrien Brody is no Arnold Schwarzenegger. Yeah, that's what I thought at first, but actually Mr. Brody pulls the character off quite nicely and is a certifiable Badass in this movie. Laurence Fishburne is also very fun to watch here as a survivor of sorts on the game preserve planet. But, lets be honest; you are watching this mostly for the alien Predators, which I can assure you, there is more than enough Predator action in this movie to satisfy your needs. Okay...there could have been a little bit more Predator action in this film than there was, but for what it offered, it was more than sufficient...for now.  I have enjoyed the previous Predator films, including the Alien Vs Predator movies, and I thought that this new installment actually added a little bit more excitement and adventure, and a lot more scary thrills to the classic Predator franchise than I thought would be possible. And it was also a lot of fun to watch.

Absolutely hilarious! If you love Adam Sandler movies you MUST get this one.  This is THE funniest one (in my opinion) yet.  After finding out that his middle school basketball coach dies, Adam Sandler's charachter and his family meet up with the other teammates at the funeral and spends the weekend re-living those good old days at a cabin by the lake!  Having children of their own now...they see how ridiculous things have become since they were kids and try to show their families how to have fun like they did.  Great one-liners, lots of laughs and with Rob Schneider, Chris Rock, Kevin James and David Spade playing his childhood friends now all grown up----you can't go wrong!

Long Riders Very good western movie. Lots of action and very few slow spots. Watching David Carridine in this role gives the actor a new dimension from his familiar "Kung Fu" roles. The story tells how the remaining Southern soldiers went to lawlessness after the Civil War. They were trained to conduct smash and grab missions. So they turned their talents from military targets to banks. The great undoing was the trap that the Pinkertons set for them at a particular bank. Many were wounded. Some died. And the James Gang escaped.

just watched Great movie, arrived quickly and was just as described by seller, very pleased with purchase.  Watching the third one tonight, spiderman week in my house, :).

classic si-fi classic si-fi with Charleston Heston,made in the early 80's still worth the time and effort to watch.. one of the all time greats, just remember this was 30 years ago..........

i love this movie. this movie is one of the greatest. it got to my house the same date as it was estimated. brand new.

_This_ is why we go to the movies Different people go to the movies for different reasons.  Some of us want to be entertained. Some of us want to be dazzled. Some of us want to be engaged by a story, or by characters that stick in the mind after the film is done. Some of us want to be transported to a different time or place. And some of us want to see talented actors create a bit of magic in the hands of a masterful director. Martin Scorsese's Hugo does all of these things. It is, more than any other film I've seen this year, _why_ we go to the movies.  The film is based on the novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. If you've read the book, then you know the story already, but for everyone else I am going to be careful here and not reveal anything that might spoil the film. I will say that Hugo is about many things, but at its heart, it is about obsession, discovery and how one person's story can lead to - and become entwined with - another's.  The film is set in Paris in the 1930's, in a railway station where an orphan boy named Hugo (engagingly played by Asa Butterfield) lives in the workspaces in the station walls and in the station's central clocktower. He spends most of his time keeping the station's clocks running (so that no one will come into the walls or the tower and discover his hiding places) and pursuing his obsession - fixing a man-shaped automaton designed to write with a pen which his father (Jude Law) had found in a museum and was trying to repair when he was killed in a fire. To feed himself, Hugo scrounges and pilfers food from the various food shops in the station, which draws the attention of the station  inspector (Sacha Baron Cohen). To feed his efforts to repair the automaton, Hugo steals parts from a toy shop in the station, run by the elderly Papa Georges (Ben Kingsley), who finally catches him in the act. He is befriended though by Papa Georges' god-daughter, a girl his age named Isabelle (Chloë Grace Moretz), who ends up helping Hugo pursue his obsession of fixing the automaton. Which, Hugo is convinced, has some secret message for him left by his late father. Where this ultimately leads... you'll have to see the film. Telling you here would only ruin the film's joy of discovery.  There are so many good things about Hugo as a film that it's hard to know where to begin. I can at least start by saying that the look of the film itself is dazzling. Scorsese creates worlds within worlds, taking you first back to Paris in the 1930's and from there into Hugo's hidden world within the walls and clock tower of the train station. And from there, other places that are equally wondrous.  The 3D is not wasted here and truly adds to the feel of Hugo's world of narrow passages and massive time-keeping mechanisms with their enormous but intricate gears, springs and pendulums all in motion.  And Howard Shore's beautifully crafted musical score evokes the period throughout the film, adding to the feeling of being transported to a different time and place.  Another thing that makes Hugo so worth seeing is that Scorsese is one of those directors who can bring out the best performance an actor has in them, which he does a magnificent job of here, from veteran actors like Ben Kingsley and Christopher Lee to comparative newcomers like Asa Butterfield and Chloë Grace Moretz.  And just as the look of the sets shows his attention to detail, the populating of the world with characters shows it as well as he makes the train station come alive with its regular denizens, from Sacha Boren Cohen's officious station inspector with his leg brace and the pretty young flower seller Lisette (Emily Mortimer) he secretly yearns for, to the comic attempts at romance between Monsieur Frick (Richard Griffiths), an elderly newspaper seller who keeps attempting to woo Madame Emile (Frances de la Tour), a cafe owner who dotes on her dog who unfortunately attacks Monsieur Frick every time he comes near. Scorsese also works in some famous historical Parisian residents of the period into the background, like jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt (Emil Lager), artist Salvador Dali (Ben Addis) and writer James Joyce (Robert Gill).  Highly, highly recommended for anyone who enjoys movies, and an absolute must-see for anyone who loves movies and what they mean to us.

The ultimate modern Kustom B movie Loads of amazing rods and beautiful gals flesh out this very original creative film. It is a B movie on purpose but contains none of the misogynistic misuse of starlets  few bad camera angles. I would put this up there with "Blast Off Girls" (though technically it is much better produced) for sheer wacky fun. A moment of respect in memoriam for the beautiful Kimberly Lynn Layfield. Kimberly and Lindsey really are the film's heart and soul. Highly recommended for Indie film buffs.

Great Movie This is truly DeNiro at his best, the plot is riveting the entire cast well suited to their roles and my personal judgement of movies is based on entertainment value (after all it is make believe) and in this genre of media the probability of potentially being real, Based on those factors this is a 5 star pick, if you're into good old fashioned bang, bang shoot-em ups, with some intrigue and mystery; well you will most certainly enjoy the ride.

A most excellent Christmas cartoon that is timeless What a great Christmas cartoon program this is.  Originally aired in 1965 this is Charles Schultz's genius at best.  Everyone knows the story of Charlie Brown and the meaning of Christmas.  A timeless tale that still rings true today.  The music of the late great Jazz musician Vince Guiraldi "Christmas Time Is Here" is outstanding and remains as a timeless Christmas tune.  Charlie, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy, and Sally are still awesome today as they were in 1965.  Christmas's of years past go by too quickly, but this timeless classic does not.  I look forward to watching it every Christmas Season, and will for years to come.  Most HIGHLY Recommended!

Love this show We have all the seasons and this show gets better as time goes on. No its not dirty jokes but its " Not about the kids." A lot of people brush over this show thinking its a kiddy show or wholesome Full House show. Its not. Its about a family that is way too close. Everyone that we have loan our dvd's to or have seen it, love it. Marie is a great character. A real mother who loves one son and not so crazy about the other one who wants her love the most. Peter Boyle, who played the monster in Young Frankenstein is the father. Brad Garrett the 6'8 brother does a great job as the jealous brother. This show is pretty much for all adults and not too bad for kids though they do talk about some real like things. The family is Italian and Catholic. Doesn't have too much to do with the show but Ray doesn't like church because he feels he's a good guy. Debra tells him, "Well how about we all come over here and sit around you on sunday." Not an exact quote. I'm almost sure you will like this show unless you need a lot of cussing or crude humor.

Genius Film-Making What could I say that has not been already said about this film...Iconic, Cult Film, Superb Acting, An All Star Cast, Dark Humor, Action...

Excellent & Prompt Service! We were amazed that the DVD arrived so quickly - nearly half the approximated delivery time! The DVD is also in good condition. As for the movie itself, it is made up of several interconnected short stories about love. Sometimes that love can be difficult and painful, sometimes it is strange and awkward, other times it is touching and sweet. One of my favorite stories is between a father and his step son, as they build a trusting relationship after the wife and mother - the person who bound them together - has died. All in all, it is a great movie to enjoy with friends and with popcorn. Please be advised, there are moments of nudity and sexual scenes.

For the whole family. I enjoy this movie. Fun music and has a good message for children. Love the characters! Good cute humor. I can watch this more then once and not get sick of it.

Great DVD Great, you get a very good workout with this DVD it's very well explained and the exercises are easy to follow.

Les Miserables 25th Anniversary Concert AMAZING!!! If you love Les Mis, if you like Broadway Musicals, this DVD/CD collection is a "must," for your collection!  It will have you in tears, and make you forever grateful for the power of a good Musical!

Deliverance, delivers big time... Deliverance (1972) has a well deserved reputation for being a terrific movie.  And while the years may have taken some of the edge and impact from John Boorman's film, the realism and terrific performances, make the film adaptation of James Dickey's story essential viewing, for lovers of suspense and wilderness horror, as four friends in the backwoods of Georgia, take a journey down a river that changes their lives forever.  Director Boorman takes an excellent screenplay, and then does a fantastic job of bringing it to the screen with a high degree of realism.  The dialog seems so natural, as Lewis Medlock (Burt Reynolds), Ed Genty (Jon Voight), Bobby Trippe (Ned Beaty), and Drew Balinger (Ronny Cox), friends from the city, are looking to take a trip downriver in a pair of canoes.  The acting performances are outstanding, headed by Reynolds and Voight, with newcomers Ronny Cox, and Ned Beatty both amazingly good, in their feature film debuts.  The way films were made in the 1970's involved more real action, but even so, the level of realism in Deliverance is remarkable.  The actors are actually in the canoes, travelling down the river, and navigating around rocks and through rapids.  Then when the canoes tip over, they actors not stuntmen, are in the raging waters trying to avoid getting killed, or cut up on the rocks.  Throughout the film, Boorman does a great job of positioning his cameras to capture the edginess of the action, even when boats are moving on the river, or men are in the water.  The notorious pig squeal rape scene, is still quite memorable and disturbing, as Beaty gives a stirring performance.  Ed's inability to free himself seems a little suspect though.  Other questionable moments include Medlock's sudden back injury, Drew's mysterious tumble into the water, and Ed's extremely fake looking accidental self-inflicted wound, and subsequent fall into the river, instead of the rocks below.  The group also makes a pretty weak effort at digging.  But otherwise, most of what happens seems pretty real and credible.  The film has several interesting transitions, one occurs when the group is attacked and Lewis uses his hunting bow, another is when they decide to cover up what has happened, and a third when Lewis is injured, and Ed has to take over, putting Voight in the spotlight.  There is some relief when the survivors get clear and reach civilization, but there is a cloud over them that may never leave, as they wait to be cleared by the authorities.  A story of the loss on innocence and survival, Deliverance is one of the classic coming of age stories from the 1970's.  It has given the song Dueling Banjos new cultural significance, and may have helped inspire the backwoods horror genre.  While not perfect, modern horror filmmakers could learn a lot from the film, particularly in the areas of characterization, acting, plot, and dialog.  The deluxe edition of the DVD includes a commentary by John Boorman, and a nice set of short featurettes covering different facets of the film.  There are some fairly recent interviews with the four principal cast members, and the son of the late James Dickey.  The author has a small role in the film as a sheriff.

Cool Movie I love this movie. Its awesome and I didn't know what happen until towards the end. I like Kate Hudson performance in this movie. I enjoy it every time I see it. Its set in New Orleans you can't beat that.

Every Bit As Good As I Remember There have been so many movies that I loved as a kid and bought as an adult only to wonder what kind of drugs I was as a kid.  This isn't one of them, it's every bit as good as I remember.  Plenty of 80s cheese but still a good movie.

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DVD Review This DVD features Mr. Perkins, who is baking a train shaped cake for Sir Toppham Hat's birthday. Quite a few individual episodes, all featuring the usual "learn a lesson" themes. As usual, my toddler loves it!

Delightful! This is one of the funnest and best movies I've ever seen. I saw it when it first came out at the drive-in and it stayed with me over the years.  Happy to have it in my collection.

This was even better than The Winds of War The love interest was a little forced because of Robert Mitchum's age but he did a great job otherwise. The casting was excellent.

The Big Chill. I was very pleased with this transaction. It came within a few days of ordering it and in great condition.

Wow! Harvey goes to the dark side! Everything you thought was going to happen (maybe) and more.  Season two finale is just as exciting as the rest of the series. Can't wait for season three!

best slasher film I've seen in years!!! I caught this hilarious film during Tribeca Film Festival. I just had to see what's the deal with the first Israeli slasher film. Boy, I was in for one giant surprise. the kind you look for in film festivals. It starts off like your typical slasher film and than it goes against all genre conventions: The killer on the loose; The heroic Virgin; The Last survivor. Everything is upside down in this horror comedy. It reminded me the originality of the first "Scream" movie (not the other two, they were not so good). Great Actors (also good looking), beautiful cinematography ( a slasher film shot entirely in day light-genius!!!), bad-ass soundtrack. I guess the crowd was delighted as me because they were roaring and clapping their hands every time somebody got slayed in this kick-ass adventure.

Must See Everyone should see this movie!  It is riviting....The information comes from Obama's words and book!  Once you see this you understand the decisions that have been made in the past 4 years...He has told us more than once his vision, but we did not listen....This is a very serious and frightening look at our future!  MUST SEE

Saw II Most sequels to a franchise fall flat and lose feel of what made the original special. However, Saw II was an awesome display of exploring the life and ill-fated life of John Kramer. While at the same time making an officer understand the pain he has caused to others; including his own son. Seeing Amanda return was a surprise as she was put back into another game, but all was revealed towards the end. Saw II was a great sequel to an awesome franchise. I definitely recommend this to anyone.

A tale that will stand the test of time ~ This is a masterpiece of cinema.  I can't believe that Omar Sharif was not the first, second, or even third actor considered for this part.  He played the role of Zhivago so beautifully.  I loved him and Alec Guinness in Lawrence of Arabia, and though they don't share much screen time together, they are truly amazing to watch.  The story takes place over several years leading up to and through the Bolshevik revolution.  The story is told by Alec Guinness' character years later to a young woman whom he suspects is Zhivago's long lost daughter (no spoiler, it's revealed within the first three minutes).  The resulting tale is one of love and loss.  Zhivago is torn between two women, and in fact two lives, but all is thrown into chaos during the revolution as well as World War I.  It is not a war film, the revolution and war take place mainly in the background, although the characters are swept into these chaotic events.  The story is so profound and we follow Zhivago and share in his love as well as his loss and heartbreak.  Truly a film of epic proportions, and one that has fine acting, masterful directing, and beautiful and haunting music.  A win-win if you ask me.

Yes, Logically Flawed, but Great Film Nevertheless. Rate: 9 Viewed: 5/12  5/12: Rebecca is a bit of an unusual departure for Alfred Hitchcock, and this one was very good. However, I found the logic of the plot to be a little bit flawed. It is typical for the newlywed bride to inquire about the picture of the first wife that she was going to succeed. In fact, we never saw her in the picture. Two, for somebody who owns a grand estate, it makes more sense for Maxim de Winter to prolong the marriage proposal until they are quite acquainted with each other. From the outset, the relationship was already doomed, and it was apparent to see that. Obviously, when the wife becomes the lady of the estate, she would assume the most power over the servants including the head of the servants. And it would have been logical for her to dismiss Ms. Danvers. Maybe the worst part of them, if Maxim hated his first wife, why not just make that fact known to his new wife? All of them being written, Rebecca remains a very flawed picture. No matter what, it is still very good. The performances by Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine were excellent, and it's really Joan Fontaine who made the most out of it, suggesting a lot of Ingrid Bergman Casablanca moments. All in all, it's Daphne Du Maurier who created the story, and it's Alfred Hitchcock who used his technical brilliance to make Rebecca what it is along with the outstanding performance by Olivier and Fontaine.

Great I orderend Chronicle on Amazon, very excited to see the movie again..to my satisfaction it came in the mail only a couple of days later and in great condition! thank you very much. I will be eager to order again.

Better than I thought it would be! I bought this DVD because I needed to add more money to my total. After watching it I was pleasantly surprised. The story was funny and held my interest all the way through. I watch a lot of movies and if I get bored I hit fast forward on the remote. I also do not like mushy, tear-jerker romances. This movie was none of those. Home Fries was a lovely, realistic, funny story that kept me smiling and laughing all the way through--and with no fast forwarding!

I am really surprised that this movie ever got made Surprised but extremely happy.  Finally, a movie that shows birders as we really are.  Nerdy, competitive and driven by an obsession that is difficult to explain.  As a long time birder I read the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0965901343">book</a> that this movie is based on many years ago.  I remember thinking, this would make a really good movie, but no one would even think of making it.  I was shocked when I found out that not only was it being made but that the cast included Steve Martin (who kind of looks like many real birders that I know) and Jack Black (who doesn't).  I stood in line at the theater the day that it was released and have watched it many times since.  I doesn't surprise me that the movie received mixed reviews.  This is a comedy that provides very few big laughs, it's more whimsical than hilarious.  It is much more like real life than a Hollywood comedy and I am sure that this has disappointed more than one cinema-goer.  However, for birders this is a movie that we can really relate to.  Great remote locations; scores of bird names that only those that have studied their <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0618966145">Peterson's</a> or their <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679451226">Sibley's</a> would recognize; and a lot of beautiful shots of  gorgeous birds.  Everyone who knows the feeling of standing in the middle of nowhere before the sun has risen on a cold spring morning waiting for a glimpse of a rare migrant should embrace this movie because it will probably be along time before another picture about us is made.

A Youthfull Ride. Every youngster would love this movie (Especially Tom Cruise's Fan's). He looks very cute in this movie particularly. Experience this youthful ride on HD Bluray.

AN OLD ONE BUT A GOOD ONE EXCELLENT! very clear, sound perfect, very enjoyable after having seen it many years ago.  Glad to add it to our collection. accurate mailing dates as well.

Great product Great price I ordered the Dr. Quinn series because of the extremely good price.  I had been looking for it in stores and was finding it difficult to find.  It arrived exactly 5 days after I ordered it and though I haven't gotten a chance to watch any of the DVD's yet, outwardly it arrived in perfect condition.  I am looking forward to many hours of enjoyment and thank Amazon for offering it at under $50.

The Great Dictator Great movie to watch, a timeless masterpiece by Charlie Chaplin. A movie the whole family can enjoy. It's funny, witty, and inspiring.

Loved it. I've got the soundtrack CD for this movie many years ago and now I see that the CD is very rare.  I haven't seen this movie since it was shown on HBO or Showtime many years ago.  I agree with the review that said this is probably the best of Kris Kristofferson's work.  He doesn't come off as an over acting tough guy. Yes, it is a very strange movie but the ending and end title song are the best. If you've never seen this movie, or like me, it's been a long time, watch the extras first. They're long and sometimes boring but it will help to explain the strangeness.

Great Vietnam Movie Being a Vietnam vet and a Marine I know a little about combat and the realities of same. This movie "brings it" with both story line, casting, portrayals, etc. Mel Gibson is excellent, Madeleine Stowe was great, and Sam Elliott was outstanding. I personally felt Greg Kinnear was best supporting. The movie, while intense told a story that needed to put out there, much like "Full Metal Jacket." Randall Wallace did a great job on the screen play script.  Harold G. Moore, who wrote the book "We Were Soldiers Once... and Young" as Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore .... well, there isn't much more that CAN be said.

A Favorite The Vikings is an epic. Nearly every shot (by Jack Cardiff) could be painted and framed as artwork.The score by Mario Nascimbene is perfect in keeping with the drama, and tech and make up effects (Douglas' eye) are top notch. There are so many memorable scenes (I will go through a fair amount of them later in this text) the animated beginning (Richard's father created Fleischer studios and Betty Boop) with Welles' rich narration, Douglas climbing up the draw bridge are two that really stand out. Like the best epics, the film is crowd pleasing as well as idiosyncratic. Truly, it is in my top 25 of all time films. The Vikings, shot in Oslo, was described by Fleischer as extremely accurate in capturing the viking way of life. The film was researched with help from the head of the viking department at UCLA. Blueprints from sunken viking ships were used to create new ships. The small horses (also true to period) were borrowed from an Oslo zoo. Odin was the viking god of choice. Details seen as incidental by some critics (because they did not move the plot), the tug of war rope fire, the running of the oars, the test for infidelity and the viking funeral imo go a long way toward capturing the accurate viking way of life and each scene stands out among the best scenes in the picture, particularly the funeral (fire, light, ritual and a sense of tragedy).  The plot heavy scenes are worthy as well: royalty, swords, double crosses, slaves, destiny and myth. It is worth noting that myth here, a nice change of pace from most epics, favors Odin (who can move see and fog with his will) and vikings over christain ideals (the Father is knocked down in sactuary). It all plays out like a rousing, colossal Prince Valiant work, a heroes journey but better than anything Joseph Cambell inspired (and there are parallels, the hero loses an arm, gets involved with a princess and is taken into hiding after being born of a queen and an evil man). Now, onto the acting. Princess Morgana (played by Janet Leigh) is duty bound to an old king and fated to be with a viking slave who happens to be a prince (will she have to convert to pagan?). For Einar (who views spitting as foreplay) she is an object of sexual conquest (even if Ragnar finds her too skinny). There is an odd but wonderful scene where Bridget (Morgana's maid) tells her not to think to harshly of Einar, "He can't help the way he acts....if it wasn't for those scars on his face, he's be rather nice looking." If Bridget preparing her for a rape? Whatever the case, Leigh has never been sexier than in the bodice scene. She does more than radiate sexuality though, giving each scene a quite intelligence and wonder, scared to be unprotected in the world yet smart enough to know when to give in and when to resist. Curtis (as Eric) is a quiet, serious hero (far removed from his Cary Grant mode), his best work until Fleischer's The Boston Strangler, played with enough lightness to sell the romance scenes and enough menace (consider the scene where he makes his intentions known to the king or he says to his falcon simply, "Kill.") to convincingly come out victorious. Douglas (far from his usual hero role) plays Einar as a force of nature with a justified ego, capable of great evil and darkness as well as mercy (saving a woman he is cheating with from an infidelity test and pausing so not to kill his brother). It is a hell of a showy role and Douglas plays it to the hilt. Top acting honors go to Ernest Borgnine, almost unrecognizable as Ragnar, king of the vikings. 5 years after playing Marty, Borgnine radiates enough wisdom, toughness and joy (for instance teasing his son, "They'll bite you all the more now that you are Einar one-eye.") to make you root for a whole group of pillagers. The scene where he jumps into the wolf pit, sword in hand ready to meet Odin, is one of my all-time favorites

Ridiculous! This is a very funny movie but it's a complete ripoff charging $49.95 for it. Amazon usually has great prices for movies but this is ridiculous.  I would buy it if the price was reasonable.

Muppet Christmas Carol is what Christmas is about The performance by Michael Caine is supurb.  The muppets become like real people it the production of A Christmas Carol.  Miss Piggy steal the show by just playing herself (it's a cooks thing).  I highly recomend it for both children and adults.  The songs stay with you the entire year.

dvd This movie was shipped so fast it was unbeliveable pluus it was a classic movie i love from my childhood it brings back good memories

Wise Guy is great! I love this series - it was realistic, gritty and also full of humour.  Ken Wahl did a marvelous job showing the conflict his character felt about betraying the people he was sworn to bring down but grew to like and in some cases, admire.  I did not feel the series was dated other than the technology used (i.e., pay phones - lack of internet).  It amazes me how far we have come in 20 years. The interaction between Vinnie and Frank and the great relationship he established with the lifeguard made the show more interesting.  I read somewhere that this series had been rated one of the top 25 ever and I think it fully lived up to that.

LUKE!  YOU ARE NOT A LEGO! I had to buy this movie for my little boy because he didn't believe that the Star Wars characters were any more than lego video game characters and toys.  Then I spent a good half hour trying to explain the relationships and background of all the Star Wars people.  Luke is Darth Vader's son.  Darth was a little guy and was trained by Obi Wan.  Luke was trained by Yoda.  Darth doesn't know Luke is his son.  It was hilarious - him asking me questions and me digging through my memory banks for the answers.  He loved the movie, and now knows why I think Han Solo is the coolest character ever.  He thinks Princess Lea is beautiful, Chewbaka is funny and R2D2 is neat.  Just like I did when I was a kid.  Pretty cool.

classic must see! timless! excellent movie that will stand the test of time! religious true to the Bible. Christen and non-christen would enjoy this beautful movie! ideal for Christmas, Thanksgiving, Lent, or Easter!for history buffs- marvelous silent film. you will be touched by this film! coutumes,background done perfect=made in the teens. one of mr demille finest works! chaos in the news-turn off tv, radio, computer. sit back- watch King of Kings !

An insane movie, in the best possible way One of my favorite podcasts recommended this movie repeatedly, so when I found out it was streaming for free, I jumped at the chance. And let me tell you, this movie is ridiculous. I started laughing when Sylvester Stallone shot out a gas tanker's windshield from a long distance with a teeny-tiny revolver, and the movie continued to be hilariously over-the-top. A retarded weapons genius, Teri Hatcher as an exotic dancer playing the bongos, a drug kingpin with enough weaponry (and armed monster trucks) to equip a small country, Kurt Russell in drag...you need to watch this movie right now. It must be seen to be believed.

The Best Of Hitchcock This is by far my favorite Hitchcock movie. I love the way Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly interact with each other and do it with the context of a murder mystery. I love the way that every time Grace Kelly shows up she has an elegant outfit fitting to the era. This movie has powerful acting and great suspense.

My Guilty Pleasure My brother was actually the one who got me hooked on Angel. This was a pretty good season. It's pretty entertaining, good acting, twisting plot-lines, decent graphics, and really pulls you in. I'm not normally one for anything vampire besides True Blood, but this was a good season! The end is 'WOW' (I yelled at the TV. COULD NOT BELIEVE IT). Thanks.

Great Series Life is a very good biological documentary.  I am a high school biology teacher, and my students and I both enjoy watching this!

Future Shock Of local Canadian interest is the fact that the control room and news studio scenes in this movie were filmed at CFTO-TV in Scarborough. Weird! Of historical interest, Beatrice Straight somehow won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for a role with only 5 minutes and 40 seconds of screen time -- the shortest in Oscar history for a winning performance of any kind.  Seen as a scathing satire of the changing face of network news when it came out in 1976, Network now seems prescient, almost creepily so. Our 24-hour-a-day news network world now delivers entertainment and scandal and blustery opinion far more than it delivers actual news. Reality TV has become the dominant mode of the dying networks. We watch people die 'live' on TV all the time.  Peter Finch, who would die of heart failure before he won the Best Actor Oscar for this movie, plays Howard Beale, a long-time newsman who's about to be fired from his anchorman position at moribund, fictional fourth-network UBS. So he loses it on-air, vowing to kill himself on his last broadcast. Allowed to apologize on-air for that stunt, he instead launches into an impassioned rant against the modern American world...and becomes a ratings hit.  So the network exploits him, shaping its new, news-free news hour around his increasingly bombastic, populist, apocalyptic rants. Veteran news producer Max Schumacher (an exhausted-looking William Holden) is appalled. So he's fired. Dunaway, as a new programming director, and Duvall, as the hatchet man for the multinational that's just purchased UBS, are delighted by Beale's ratings. A show that follows the real exploits of a homegrown terrorist group is greenlit by Dunaway, and also becomes a hit. Increasingly bleak hilarity ensues.  The world of Network is pretty much the world we now see on a lot of our TV channels -- Beale is Glenn Beck with a better writer (that writer being long-time, award-winning writer for stage, screen and TV Paddy Chayefsky). The performances shine; Lumet may have been the most gifted 'actor's director' of his generation. Ned Beatty even gets a lovely turn as a megalomaniacal, evangelical corporate boss whose speech about how there are no nations anymore, only corporations, sends Beale into his final rhetorical and mental downwards spiral. A terrific, bleak, funny film.

Touching I never seen this whole movie before buying it. For some reason I always changed the channel when it came on. The one that I have has two movies. Waiting to Exhale is the other move. Which is a movie I love.  Since Soul Food came with Waiting to Exhale I decided to watch Soul Food and Loved it just as much as I love Waiting to Exhale. It is touching and great in every way. I am very happy I have both movies now.

Today's Special I really loved this movie!  Got to see it in New York at the Sunshine Theater and the audience howled!  Its funny, sweet, charming, and I found myself moved to tears.  Like Babette's Feast, Eat Drink Man Woman, and other great culinary comedies (can't forget Big Night!), Today's Special hits all the right spots, and leaves you feeling hungry for more.  The performances are strong, with Naseeruddin Shah as Akbar stealing the show.  Who knew Madhur Jaffrey could be so funny!  Harish Patel, best known for Run Fat Boy Run, is at turns very funny, and tender.  The music was fun, and the food was definitely a star in this film.  I also loved the soundtrack of old Bollywood Songs, and the gypsy jazz score.  I'm going to pick this up, order Indian take out and watch it with my friends :)

Grrrrrrrrrreat! Aw c'mon. It's wrath of the Titans! What were you expecting, Macbeth? This is a surprisingly nuanced, triphammer paced rollicking actionfest of a talkie. When Sam Worthington falls from a hundred feet in the air, you feel it, when Aries hammers home a point with his bronze spear, you feel it, when Aphrodite gives the camera a long, soulful look, well, you get the idea. The cgi is JUST FANTASTIC and the basic storyline of Perseus caring for his son more than heroics gives the movie enough of a heartline so you don't get a chill in the air from too much meaningless action. All in all, I haven't been this willing to give kudos to a movie for a long time. Plus, the direction is fairly close to impeccable.

The Empire 5 Star 500 - #14 What do people pay for fame? Apparently everything in some cases. The dialogue in this movie is amazing. D-Day: Tomorrow morning you will have won your beach head on the shores of immortality. San Francisco: An oasis of civilization in the California desert. What theater was it in San Francisco? Was it at the Shubert? The more things change..the more they stay the same. A lesson in humanity.

Wonderful family classic When my husband and I recently watched this movie with our two young children (5 & 7) for the first time, we loved it as much as they did, and we had seen it before.  Cute family classic that is timeless.

power Rangers review I was ABSOLUTELY satisfied with the product I recently purchased!! The quality is amazing! I cannot say enough good things about it!!

PBS Inspector Lewis, season 5 This is the American blu ray of season 5 of Inspector Lewis by PBS.  The numbering for the British and American releases of Inspector Lewis series are numbered differently.  If you see the PBS on the DVD or the Blu Ray, you have the American version.  I have all of the Inspector Lewis and Inspector Morse sets, which are an outstanding series.  The PAL DVD set is always cheaper than the American DVD, and sometimes a better picture.  The American blu ray is better than the British Blu Ray, by a little bit.  The British Blu Ray is usually close in price, unless there is a price cut, then British Blu Ray is usually will cost less until the American blu ray does the same price cut.  I agree with most people, we do pay more for our DVD sets(American) than British DVD.  It does pay to have a region free DVD player.  I will be buying this new blu ray set, season 5 of Inspector Lewis by PBS when the price decreases.  Later Add:  I bought the Blu Ray set, region A/1.  This is the US/Canada reqion.  Picture and sound are outstanding.  The show is always tops.

Simply amazing! Who could even imagine a European band to learn three hours of complex prog music, all without the leader, who then arrives in Europe and they play the whole three hours with such spectacular results, after only or two rehearsals??!! Colin plays MP's drum parts and throws in new stuff. Everyone in the band brings their "A" game. Amazing musicianship. Great video and sound quality. The camera guys are mostly transparent, not obviously in the way, and very good directing. You can say what you want about the Christian content, but hey, who can write a prog album about the Jewish tabernacle in the OT and pull it off without being syrupy? The lame CCM market out there could learn much from this.

Funny spin and good moral to the story. A fun twist on this classic tale.  The Keebler elf was very clever.  I really liked the sporks too.  Beautiful 3D animation and many fun jabs at the movie:  Mr. Nezzer laughing with Todo in the beginning, 12 22 tooth birthday and much Snowia are all nice tributes.

Great Film!!! I was lucky enough to discover this film at a film festival several years ago.  For a long time it was unavailable.  I sang it's praises then and I sing them now.  This is a dark comedy.  Zack G. does a great job.  I think anyone who does not like this movie, either doesn't get it, or doesn't like themselves.  As another reviewer stated, it will make you examine your own happiness and yourself.  I'm so glad this is now available to everyone.  I look forward to the next film by the Drake brothers.

Wonderful Movie! I'm a huge Deborah Kerr fan so I knew that I would enjoy this film, but I didn't how much.  First of all, it was beautifully filmed in 1960.  The scenes of the sheep herding were pretty spectacular.  There was a lot of laughter in watching this as well, especially the sheep sheering contest.  I nearly busted a gut watching that.  Although I'm not much of a Robert Mitchum fan, I thought that he did a nice job with this role, but, of course, Deborah Kerr took the story to a higher level than it would have been otherwise.  She played Ida with true grit and determination, but also with an earthy sexiness that she rarely had the opportunity to play before.  Glynis Johns and Peter Ustinov were absolutely delightful and the young man who played the son, Sean, was believable and authentic.  This truly was a lovely film that is about family and what is means to have a home. One of my favorite scenes was in the beginning when Ida, Paddy and Sean were looking out onto a farm that was for sale.  Ida and Sean are longing to be settled and Paddy wanting to continue wandering. Paddy is making excuse after excuse as to why they shouldn't even consider settling and Ida letting him know that she's onto him. The look on Deborah Kerr's face as he's talking to her and she's looking over the fence is absolutely classic.  It's one that I've seen in real life with real wives when they are amused with their husbands' b.s.  I have to admit that my jaw dropped towards the end when Paddy told Ida what he'd done to sabotage her dreams. It was one of those scenes that breaks hearts and it was performed beautifully.  All in all, a very good movie that I highly recommend.

Downton Abbey II Incredable series, I can not wait until the 3rd season starts in September 2012. FREE MR. BATES!!!! Awsome Story line!

Loved the movie. I loved the book and so loved the movie. Tom Hanks and Ewan McGregor were terrific.  I'd have to say that the blu ray is far superior to the DVD, and I thought that the story and movie sere better than the Da Vinci Code.  The special features, and there were lots, were great to watch.  A must buy!

A film everyone over 15 should see Having just watched the film Gandhi, and this was the 3rd time, I'm deeply effected by its striking relevance and timelessness. It has significance to our own history--excluding our attempts to just annihilate Native Americans. And right now in 2012 we're living through the consequences of the Arab Spring: the birth of several new societies struggling to emerge out of dictatorships, achieve equality for their diverse populations, and establish democratic governments. Right now we're horrified by the huge numbers of innocent men, women, and children that are being murdered by the regime of Syria.    This film, Gandhi, is not only relevant, it is addictive. Each time I watch it I never want it to end. It won 8 (I believe) Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Lead Actor, Best Director, Best Costumes, and more. It was filmed on location. Ravi Shankar, the world's most famous sitar player (whom I had the honor to hear in concert and meet) contributed to the score. This film makes the viewer want to know more about Gandhi, more about India, and more about history. I'm a Jewel in the Crown fan, and watching Gandhi is essential for filling in the historical context from the Indian point of view. The Featurettes, especially the stupendous filming of the funeral on an actual anniversary of Gandhi's real funeral, is gripping to watch. Ben Kingsley brought Gandhi back to life not only for people around the world meeting the brilliant leader for the 1st time, but as you'll see if you watch the Featurettes, for generations of Indians as well. It's utterly amazing how the film was created. Learning that story explains why the film is so superbly accurate.    Just as amazing is how much the main characters actually look like the real men from history. I know these actors from other films but was stunned to see their resemblance to the historical figures. I believe this film should be mandatory in all high school history curricula. And it should be in everyone's film library.

Great Thriller Was really surprised, this is a really good thriller.  Modonna was surprisingly good.  If you like Erotic Thrillers this one is a must.

Poignant and Funny and Thrilling There is a rule in Hollywood: when a Democrat is in office, movies about the President of the United States should portray decent and honorable men, like Air Force One and The American President. But when a Republican in office, the President should be addle brained and/or evil, like the senile old man who launches a war in Clear and Present Danger.  Unfortunately, Absolute Power was released when Bill Clinton was President, so the critics were predisposed to damn it. And that is unfortunate, because it is one of Eastwood's best. If Bob Dole had been elected in 1996, this would have been regarded by The New York Times and The Washington Post's critics as the classic that it is.  The plot might be a bit far-fetched, but it is a great parable about the corruption of power and a reminder that truth isn't always on the side of the most powerful. No wonder The New York Times hated it! William Goldman's script is spot on.  The cast is A-1. Laura Linney is an attractive woman, but she does not have movie star looks, which makes her perfect as the daughter who discovers she really hadn't been abandoned by her jewel thief father. Judy Davis is terrific as the President's Chief of Staff slowly going crazy. A scene where she is dancing with the President while she discovers that the necklace she is wearing was worn by the murdered woman is a classic.  The action scenes are wonderful. A scene where Eastwood manages to evade two separate assassins and the Washington police is a great set piece.  Of all the excellent aspects of the movie, its humor, its thrilling plot, the very best is the endearing father and daughter relationship between Eastwood and Linney. They are both very fine actors and this element of the movie raises the movie far above others in its genre.

Beagle and royalties (Updated!) The film is excellent, and I am giving it five stars.  However, I have been informed in an e-mail newsletter:  "Please note - Peter still gets money from Last Unicorn movie sales ONLY through Conlan Press. That goes for this new Blu-ray edition, too. If you buy it anywhere else Peter gets nothing at all. Which really sucks when you consider that 1.8 million Last Unicorn DVDs have been sold in America since 2004, and only around 6,000 of those went through Conlan Press. None of the other copies earned a cent for Peter. So please encourage everyone you know to support him by buying the combo pack through Conlan Press, and nowhere else. Thanks!"  I don't know if this is also true of Amazon sales, but either way Amazon should address the issue directly and clarify this.  I am not comfortable putting something like this in an Amazon review - essentially a plug for another supplier - but I think it is important information.  EDITED AND UPDATED (2012):  Peter Beagle has come to an agreement on rights that is very satisfactory to all parties.  He is now in full ownership of the rights to this movie and gets properly paid for sales.  Disregard the above!

Must See Film This is a must see documentary... Thanks so much to Eric Merola for making this film.  And thank so much to Dr. Burzynski and all of his patients who made it possible.  I frankly believe that the FDA, the NCI and Dr. Samid should be criminally prosecuted for their actions clearly laid out in this film.  It would be one thing if all the film showed was criminal activity on the part of the American government... I guess we're all kind of used to that these days.  But the immense tragedy is the many, many lives that will be lost to cancer because of the limitations the FDA/NCI have applied to Dr. Burzynski's protocols... and the fact that the FDA/NCI have required chemo to be conducted in conjunction with Burzynski's protocols (which in and of themselves have no side effects).  I wonder how Friedman (formerly of NCi now with FDA) sleeps at night.

Buy this DVD. I missed out on the whole 'Raffi' experience as a kid.  I was introduced to 'Raffi' when my sister had her first child.  I remember thinking, he was a bit different.  However, at the same time I realized he was a genius ahead of his time.  Although the clothing and people in the 3 shows seem a bit dated, children love the songs.  The songs and the interaction are wonderful.  This is the stuff kids should be watching when they are watching TV.  It is more of an experience of interacting while singing and dancing, rather than just sitting and watching some nonsense.  Toddlers and preschoolers will love this DVD.

Just FUNNY! "Rat Race" is one of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time.  There aren't just ha-ha funny parts-- there are laugh-out-loud funny scenes throughout the entire movie.  It's one to turn on and watch again and again-- ;0)

Great pre-owned copy This is a wonderful pre-owned copy. I have been wanting to replace my VHS version of this film for years. The fulfilling company made sure to advise that the disc has scratches but plays fine, which is most definitely the case. This is a wonderful film and I am proud to add the DVD version to my collection.

Great fun Funny film from becoming to end.  Especially love the sign at the Bank of Evil (formerly Lehman brothers).  That was a great (and probably very un-PC) gag, especially after the Wall Street looting this country went through.

Understated Elegant Gem Of New Italian Cinema Guilia Doesn't Date At Night  Luca Bigazzi's photography gives us an impressionistic opening scene, perhaps derived from the art house classic Watersmith as Valerio Mastandrea plays a novelist, Guido Montani, curious about his daughter's new swimming instructor Giulia (Valeria Golino). His interest at first takes the form of self deprecating humor.  "You told her I can't swim?  You did.  Well, it's not true.  I can float."  Guido is writing a new novel that has overtones of Singing In The Rain, his protagonist falls in love every time it rains.  Another of his characters is a lapdancer.  How does the church view lapdancing, a parishioner wants to know - the dancer does it to impart momentary pleasure to the lonely.  Guido's protagonist also discovers that his new love, Sophia, has run off with an umbrella salesman, and the new novel seems hopeless.  Giulia is far far above her work as a swimming instructor. When the lapdancer's priest visits the lapdance club to experience what his parishioners encounter, the come on sexuality at the club is far less appealing to Bigazzi's camera than Giula's other worldly concern for her clients in the swimming pool.  It isn't gratuitous.  There's a reason for Giulia's ethereal stare.  Her history is a lurid one.  It's a moment of high comedy when the characters in Guido's new novel come together Pirandello style to help him work Giulia into the storyline.  No one ever finishes one of Guido's novels, but if he follows the story of Giulia's development, there's a chance that may finally change.  This film never found an audience.  That doesn't mean it isn't a fine film.  It means we've made a mistake.  And it may be the mark of contemporary Italian cimema as to why.  Everything, even monumental events like infidelity, murder and especially the meaning children bring to our lives, is delivered with the same understated monotone.  So accustomed are we to the histrionics in Fellini movies that we're ill prepared for the new laconic Italian cinema.  And Bigazzi's camera doesn't linger, doesn't allow us too much access, the exact quality we crave from the movies.  We demand entry into every character's innermost secrets, whereas this picture insists on giving its characters the rarest of qualities: privacy.  It's an exquisite and private ending as the attention Giulia's child turns down, is instead given to Guido's daughter.

BEST  HALF  HOUR  SHOW  AROUND Thius is one of the best series ever.  We get to follow a rising Hollywood star and his entourage through the ups and downs of the business.  It is well worth your time and money to get this one and go on to the the other seasons.  Great Comedy.  HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Ken Burns masterpiece When this first aired I made my daughters watch this series. It's the best history of the Civil War that there is. Very educational and covers all aspects and sides of the War.  A must for history buffs and reseachers. Bought this for my son-in-law becuase he had never studied the Civil War wanted to know more about why the Civil Rights movement came to be.  This is the best teacher around.

Sands of Iwo Jima Bought for my husband who likes World War II war movies.  HE really enjoyed watching it and adding it to his collecrtion of movies.

For Greater Glory (awesome) Great movie! Must See.  America is headed on the same path if we do not stop the progressive liberal anti God movement.

Perfect Condition I happily pre-ordered this DVD when it was first listen on Amazon.  I was extremely happy with the price, especially since I was short on cash and really wanted to buy the DVD--since I was a huge fan of the movie after seeing it in theaters.  The packaging kind of worried me when I first got it--it was only boxed in cardboard.  Though the product itself was in excellent condition, and so was the disc inside.

an inspiring story great documentary, inspiring story. a tribute to the survivor spirit. also teaches the importance of following established safety practices when traveling in back country areas solo or with others.

This show is so hilarious! This show is nonstop laughter.  Kenny Powers, played by Danny McBride is so crude and unpredictable, but you can't help by root for him and love him.  Season 2 was just as great!!!

Great This is worth the price and it was a great couple of stories. I am glad that I have this movie in my libary.

Great and entertaining for what it is! I was concerned by some of the reviews, but I can honestly say "Damnation Alley" is well worth the investment in both time and money.  The ending is somewhat questionable but the overall movie is entertaining as long as you suspend reality and don't ask any hard questions - exactly what I would expect from a good popcorn escape movie.

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (The Complete First Season) We have watched the DVDs of Mma Ramotswe and her adventures many times since receiving the set. I couldn't believe me eyes when I saw that Amazon had them available. I first became acquainted with this intriguing woman when I bought a set of audio tapes at a church sale. A few months ago when we lost our electricity but had a battery-powdered tape player, the stories kept us company until the power came back on, hours later.  We're now reading the books but our favorites are the DVDs which are highly recommended.  I'm just hoping that a second set will be available in the near future. I'll be one of the first to place an order.

great movie The movie arrived in a short time and was all I was hoping for in quality.  It was new as advertized.

Laugh Until It Hurts -- Which It Will Peter Sellers plays three characters in this unique film: (1) Group Captain Lionel Mandrake of the RAF, on loan to U.S. General Jack Ripper in a officer trade program. (2) U.S. President Merkin Muffley, and (3) Dr. Strangelove himself. You will also no doubt recognize George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens and a very young James Earl Jones.  General Jack Ripper has gotten "a little funny," as President Muffley puts it, and gave the order for the Strategic Air Command (planes always in the air) for Plan R, which was intended to be the American response if the Soviets had blown up Washington and higher command (presuming including the President and the Joint Chiefs) were unavailable. A "disclaimer" at the beginning of the film states that the U.S. Air Force assures us all that it could not happen like this.  Anyway, General Ripper not only set the planes carrying nuclear weapons to bomb Russia, he cut off all communication from his base to the outside world so that no one could countermand the order. Only he had the code which could recall the planes.  Much of the action takes place in the Pentagon war room, where a huge map displays the paths of the SAC planes as they head for targets in Russia. I'd ruin half the fun of the humor if I told you too much, but suffice it to say that this movie puts forth the obvious fact that nobody -- not generals, not politicians, not anyone -- was prepared to cope with this kind of an emergency. Except Dr. Strangelove, of course. He has an idea for everything. Now if he can only remember to stop calling the president "mein fuhrer."  One wrinkle occurs when the Soviet ambassador is called in and talks to the Premier on the hot line. He discovers that the Doomsday Bomb will be automatically triggered if any of these planes reach their targets.  You wouldn't think the destruction of the world would be funny, would you? Still, when you hear General Ripper explain to Captain Lionel Mandrake why he did it ("our precious bodily fluids"), and then see Keenan Wynn soberly warn that if he obeys Captain Mandrake and shoots the lock off the Coke machine to get change for the pay phone so he can call the President, the Captain will have to "deal with the Coca Cola Company," you just can't help laughing. There are hundreds of laughs in this movie, just to show you that annihilation of the planets human and animal life is indeed a laughing matter.  Try to believe the Air Force's disclaimer, and learn to stop worrying. After all, the Soviets are no more, so we don't have to worry about the bomb anymore, right? Isn't that right? Sure it is!

Something New to Primetime television 2 broke girls is hilarious. If you like vulgar humor this it the show for you. Its funny and at times its touching. They have really put together a wonderful group of people to bring out the best in this show! Highly recommend.

Good series, couldn't stop watching At first, reading the description of this series had me somewhat cautious. Directed by the same person who did Ghost in the Shell, i didn't know if this was something I could get into. But after watching the first episode, i couldn't stop watching! The story is a very good social experiment, and the characters who are chosen to save japan are varied and interesting. i loved it!

Classic Bogie - film noir at its finest Philip Marlowe's been around. You see, he's a private detective, so he pretty well knows the score. But you can't always be choosy about your clients, even when they live on the right side of the tracks. After receiving a referral from an acquaintance at the DA's office, Philip (Humphrey Bogart) goes to the home of the wealthy Sternwoods. The General is an elderly infirm man with a stoically discreet butler, and two daughters who were born later in life and who lead him a merry chase. Carmen (Martha Vickers) is wild and flirtatious, and Vivian (Lauren Bacall) is commanding and self-assured. Marlowe discovers how wild Carmen is when she playfully attempts to seduce him in the foyer.  The General likes to spend his time in the hothouse where he grows orchids--not because he likes flowers, but the warmth feels good. He's received a threat of blackmail in the mail and he wants Marlowe to look into it. Some guy named Geiger, holding some gambling notes allegedly signed by Carmen. Marlowe agrees to look into it, but as he is leaving, the butler informs him that Mrs. Rutledge (Vivian) wishes to see him. She is curious about why Marlowe is there, but he isn't exactly forthcoming with details, seeing as she's not his client. And why is she concerned about a guy named Regan?  It turns out Geiger has a bookstore, so Marlowe does a little homework at the library. He then dons a foppish disguise and makes some inquiries as to certain first editions of the girl who mans the store. Her lack of basic knowledge raises his suspicions, along with the entrance of a guy with a suspicious package in a plain wrapper that she buzzes into the backroom. He tries to talk to the owner, Geiger, but he's not available.  Going across the street to a rival bookstore, Marlowe charms a description of Geiger out of the more knowledgeable girl there (look for a young Dorothy Malone here0, and afterward settles down to wait. When a man matching that description exits the shop, with his driver, Philip follows them and again watches and waits. During the evening, he sees a flash, hears two shots, and as he approaches the house, he sees two cars flee the scene. Inside he discovers a rather stoned Carmen Sternwood, and a rather dead Arthur Geiger.  Marlowe returns Carmen to the bosom of her family, and then returns to the scene of the crime to discover that the corpse is gone. He notifies the police, while still pursuing his own investigation, which leads to, among other places, a high stakes gambling joint, and low class hoods. Marlowe has to figure out what's what and who's who, and hopefully not lose his life in the process.  Just before watching The Big Sleep, I read the novel by Raymond Chandler, so I was probably pre-disposed to catch discrepancies. Some made sense to me, some not so much. For example, in the book Vivian Sternwood is Mrs. Rusty Regan, but that was changed and I don't know why, because it changes the General's interest in Regan and his whereabouts. In the book, Marlowe finds Carmen in Geiger's house, stark naked and sitting on a throne, but I realize that would never have flown back then. Same for when she talks her way into Marlowe's apartment and is waiting naked in his bed. Censors would have had a cow, I'm sure.  Other than that, it's fairly faithful to the book. Well, excluding the part where you never do find out the significance of the book/books and the list (Geiger has a lending library of pornography, and the coded list is of his clients). Also, the man who avenged Geiger's death, without giving away any movie spoilers, is Geiger's lover, so that was totally glossed over.  Bogart is magnificent as Marlowe, I couldn't imagine anyone else in the role. Martha Vickers is competent as Carmen, but I didn't see Lauren Bacall as Vivian. In fact, I think she'd have made a better Carmen, but it's a no-brainer why that casting occurred, since she and Bogie were either married at that point, or at least together. In fact, a romantic aspect was added that didn't really exist in the book, basically because of that. To me, that's on a par with something they did in the film Evita, where a song that didn't even belong to Evita was taken from another character and given to her, basically because Madonna played her.  Other than all that, though, it's a very enjoyable film, well written and well directed and pretty well acted. True film noir and a classic. I don't think anyone but Bogie could have carried it off that well, though. A definite keeper for your collection, worth revisiting on a regular basis. And don't forget to look for Elisha Cook Jr. doing what he does best in a secondary role.

A True Classic The Third Man is a true classic, and worthy of its vote as #57 in the AFI top 100. Even over sixty years later, the story draws you in and keeps you fascinated.  The location is post-war Vienna, dark, seedy, watched over by four different countries who do not get along entirely well. There are bombed-out ruins in all directions. The black market thrives and the locals are nervous about the occupiers. Into this complicated mix of cultures and emotions comes Holly, an American writer of cowboy stories. He's upset when he finds his friend Harry has just died, and outraged when the police and others indicate that Harry was a racketeer. He is convinced that there's a conspiracy to blacken his friend's name, and he's going to get to the bottom of it.  He's soon chasing down the doctor who Harry went to, other friends of Harry's, as well as Anna, Harry's girlfriend. Holly begins to fall for Anna, and assembling together the threads of a story. But things are even more complicated than they appear.  The characters are great, and the cinematography is brilliant. The shadows hide and reveal characters, Motives slide and slip. The movie gets better with subsequent watchings, as you sense the hidden motives and see the subtle touches, the hiding of the photo, the playing with the dice. The children pushing the carousel because they can't afford tickets.  A classic scene involves characters high in a ferris wheel, talking about the people below as "dots" - about whether anyone really cares about those tiny dots. Does anyone really care whether they live or die? It's a powerful view of the world, and an insight into the way the characters view the world. I love the discussion about how the quiet Swiss culture produced cuckoo clocks, while the violence-laden Italian culture of the Renaissance created fantastic artwork.  While several AFI top 100 movies are good to watch just once for historical purposes, this one is well worth owning and rewatching several times.

Great collection This compilation is great.  I love Bob Hope movies and have been searching for a long time for a set like this.  Too bad there is not a set that has all his movies ever made but this set is the next best thing.  Def recommend it.

Excellent classic B&W movie. Comment: This is movies the way they used to be "back-in-the-day". Being "older"... I can remember watching these black and white movies on my parents state of the art Admiral 21" "tube TV" with "bunny ears". If you would like to relive the past or watch for the first time an excellent drama with outstanding acting for the day... this is it. The movie has been transferred to Blu-ray with "as good as it gets" quality. Just like reading an old classic book, this is watching old classics excellent movie, enjoy.

Powerful I found this movie very moving. I'm a bit undecided on the death penalty and I have to say this movie did not clear anything up for me, despite its obvious anti stance. (Its lack of showing any arguments whatsoever for the other side was its one flaw. The best movies about big debates let the viewer make up his or her own mind.) However, I feel the movie did make its point... in a certain way. You absolutely had to admire the dedication of the main characters. (Well, I've read the negative reviews which said they came across as nutcases, but David Gale gave up years of his life to his cause.) The only problem I saw with the twist at the end was that pro-death penalty advocates could argue that it was done on purpose. But they definitely made a statement, and you can't argue that.  You will never forget the twist at the end. It was a big shock, if you didn't see it coming. And yet, the movie has re-watchability.  The only other flaw I felt the movie had was, like so many movies today, they thought they needed to have not one but two explicit sex scenes. Well, the "rape" scene wasn't really explicit. But it was nasty and gross. Why?? Do people really enjoy watching these things? Yeah, I know some do. But they can go buy porn if they want to watch it. We don't need it in regular movies so all that is left is Disney (for now anyway). I read enough complaints here on Amazon to know sex is not as necessary to sell as they think it is. If you are familiar with old movies, you are aware that things that happen off-screen or are implied can be just as powerful and compelling when in the hands of talented directors and actors.

Way, way better than I expected. From the jaw-droppingly disturbing opening scene to the insanity that begins about an hour in, this movie truly delivers entertainment.  In large part the credit for this should go to the mesmerizing presence of cinematic demigod Lance Henriksen.  His Grand Inquisitor is positively seething with internal conflict and this fuels his sadistic quest to vanquish the heretics through any means necessary.  The torture and gore had me squealing, but there were also few subtle humorous moments that kept the film from being totally dark.  If I could go back in time and pay for this movie instead of getting it for free through Prime Streaming, I would.

so happy with this dvd! I have loved this movie since having first seen it.  This dvd of Dances With Wolves was in perfect condition and a joy to watch again.

Thoroughly impressed with shipping I ordered from another seller who canceled the order unexpectedly. I ordered on the 21st of December and received on the 23rd of December, right on time for Christmas. The DVD was neatly packed, new and sealed. This was a wonderful experience.

Clever, Fast-paced Robert Downey Jr delivers a new twist on the classic Sherlock Holmes and the result is a socially inept, very clever, confident, skilled problem solver. Jude Law's Wilson makes an excellent foil against Holmes and helps the movie keep its sense of reality by reminding the audience that Holmes is still, clearly, a flawed character who has his own problems, so we don't have to accept his eccentricities outright.  In short, it's fun and cleverly done. I'll watch it again and again. I look forward to getting a copy on bluray this holiday season.

Cool Hand Luke DVD My son wanted this for his birthday.  He was thrilled to get one of his all time favorite movies.

Top Class...... The Experience of watching TOP GUN on Bluray was top class. It has special features (interview with Tom Cruise TV Spots etc. A Must Buy.

Great buy! This item was exactly as shown.  We received it in time for Christmas and was exactly what we wanted.  Thank you!

Mainly a feel good movie. Outstanding performances by several well known actors/actresses.  This movie has a great story line that I can never get tired of.  Kind of a feel good, comedy, chick flick combined.

Funny and moving Well, this is definitely not a crowd pleaser. Having said that, I tell you that if you take the time to watch it devoid of prejudice, you might be surprised. The plot is consistent and the characters are believable! I had bought this movie when it was released, region 2, but now I decided to buy it also  region 1, because it is one of those flicks you find yourself watching again from time to time.

"Just think of lovely things and your heart will fly on wings..." GOODTIMES' PETER PAN 30th anniversary edition is NBC-TV's annual Xmas season broadcast of the Broadway musical that's based on James Barrie's turn-of-the-century stageplay.  Audio is linear monaural (not HiFi). As it's dubbed from a 1960 television tape, the sound is quite listenable but doesn't have the wide, dynamic range of modern CDs or even music LPs. Video quality is acceptable.  As of March 2011, "Peter Pan" was not available on a current DVD. A discontinued '99 edition is selling in limited quantities for astronomical prices.  Miss Martin's career-defining performance as the perpetual boy with the gift of flight anchors a charming and colorful tale of the Darling childrens' adventure in Neverland. It's an experience that every youngster should have. Also most appropriate for us older folks who "don't wanna grow up."  Highest recommendation!  Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 imdb viewer poll rating.  (7.2) Peter Pan (TV-1960) - Mary Martin/Cyril Ritchard/Maureen Bailey/Sondra Lee/Joe E. Marks/Joey Trent/Kent Fletcher/Luke Halpin/Joan Tewkesbury/Lynn Fontaine (narrator)

Great Movie! Love this movie! Good family night movie! Very clean!  Good for ages five and up! Much cheeper here than anywhere else!

thumbs up when i was a young kid a was not a big fan now i love this series.  all of the original movies.  there is also a special disk for behind the scenes.  a box set to get for sure.

Lost in flood so had to reorder whole set lol We lost the series in a flood and my son missed this out of all of his movies the most, so I re-odered it for him just cuz.  Thanks Amazon.

Not Your Mainstream This is definitely not a mainstream movie by far. This dark film movie, with it's dark comedy is a hit. Martin Scorsese is a master mind at putting movies together and this is no exception. Although most of the movie takes place in an ambulance or in the hospital, the dialogue and context of this movie is amazing. You can see the dark side of what is means to be EMS. The cast really brings this movie together.The journey that Nicolas Cage takes is a classic Scorsese Canned Film just shows his genius.

Moving We watched this as a rental.  It moved both of us to tears.  The movie is one of the best we have seen.  The story unfolds gently and captures the viewers' hearts.  I bought it as a gift for a relative who will be equally moved by the story.  Amazon sent the item quickly after I ordered it.  Many thanks to hardworking personnel.

Loved this movie in the 80s I loved this movie in the 80s and was pleasantly surprised to find it in widescreen on DVD, what a treat! It's got a compelling story and a great cast. I will be glad to watch it again and again. Kurt Thomas is amazing, it's too bad he didn't make more films like this.

VERY EDUCATIONAL This will break your heart to see how some people, especially children, have to live. These are not lazy people awaiting a handout. They are up at about 5am every morning to get to work there in the dump. I was wondering how much the U.S. has played a part in their predicament. I was also wondering how foreigners can move to Mexico and live like kings and queens while these natives suffer. This is a good film to show teenagers, so they can see how other people live and see that just because someone is living in poverty it's not necessarily because they are lazy.

One Of The Classic MGM Musicals Easter Parade is another of the wonderful MGM classic musicals. With wonderful songs, fantastic color, it has it all. This has to be one of my favorites in the MGM library...but then it is so hard to have a favorite when you are dealing with some of the best films ever made...Just a wonderfully packaged DVD.

Just what I wanted I love these movies and for some reason only had the second one at home.  A great movie at a great price.

Brilliant...... The Production and the direction were phenomenal.....It is a rare occurrence when a truly great movie hits the screen and this is one of them....I saw a few negative comments but after reading them I realized that those were the kind of people who think that "Something about Mary" was superb so pay no attention.

Review of Mr. Fox I received the DVD in a very timely fashion in great condition. I'm very happy with the service and would use it again.

Thorn Birds Absolutely Wonderful.  just as I remembered.  my entire family enjoyed as well and they weren't even born when this movie first aired.

celtic voyage This is a great travel dvd. It is alittle out of date but the information is very good. This shows alot of the places that you may want to see if you are planing a trip to Ireland like I did. And many of the places in this dvd package are places I visited while I was in Ireland.

Another Miyazaki great This is a great film if this genre interests you. The storyline is superb; the animation is clean and vibrant. I love this mans films.

A unique perspective of WWII in China Empire of the Sun takes the viewer on a journey into China as war consumes significant portions of the vast country. The story follows young Jamie Graham, an English boy who is living in the international district of Shanghai. Jamie finds himself separated from his family and fending for himself as war takes hold of Shanghai. From the point of view of a foreign boy, the film provides insight into how China and foreigners living there were ill-treated by the Japanese during WWII. The narrative is rich with humor, calamity and adventure. A young Christian Bale plays Jamie Graham, and his performance is energetic and convincing.  Nicholas R.W. Henning - Australian Author

Can't get enough! I loved the movie and the chemistry between all of the characters. I loved the music score, the scenery, the direction,the acting etc. I was enchanted by it. I saw it in the movie theater, watch it when it comes on TV and plan to buy the DVD. I wish more movies held themselves to the standard of this movie not burdened down with nudity and foul language. I could concentrate on the story itself.  I also hope that Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp will costar in a future movie that is as good as this one. I think they have something on screen for movie goers. I do think this movie is in the vein of a good Cary Grant movie with Grace Kelly or Eva Marie Saint. Congratulations to everyone involved in this film and who love it, too!!

Goodbye, Mr. Chips <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JO3W">Goodbye, Mr. Chips</a> I first saw this picture when it first came out.  I loved it then and I love it now. I just wish it didn't take so long to get to a DVD format. The movie is just as fresh and enjoyable as it was in 1968. The music memorable. I would recommend it for all who has romance in their hearts.

It was awesome just like the first two! I love this movie! It was received from Amazon in perfect condition, as if I just bought it from the store. The movie itself- awesome, it drew me in just like the first two installments. If you love paranormal movies this is a must have to add to your collection!!!

Rom-com magic If you despair over the current state of the romantic comedy, take a trip back to the golden age of 1987 and revel in the riches of MOONSTRUCK.  Garnering Academy Awards for Cher (Best Actress), Olympia Dukakis (Best Supporting Actress) and John Patrick Shanley (Best Original Screenplay), MOONSTRUCK was sparklingly brought to the screen by director Norman Jewison (IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF) in all its hilarious, character-driven glory.  Set in New York's Italian Brooklyn Heights neighborhood, Cher plays young widow Loretta Castorini, a freelance bookkeeper living with her parents, Rose and Cosmo (Dukakis and the late, great Vincent Gardenia).  Loretta is in a loveless engagement, settling for a future with three-piece-suited mama's boy, Johnny Cammareri (Danny Aiello).  But Johnny's mama is on her deathbed in Sicily (where, one gets the feeling, she's been for 30 years), and he must rush to her side.  Before he leaves, though, Johnny gets Loretta to promise to go see his estranged brother, Ronny (Nicolas Cage).  There is bad blood between the siblings and Johnny wants to make up with Ronny and invite him to the wedding.  Where Aiello's Johnny is a stick-in-the-mud, Cage's Ronny nearly bursts with operatic passion.  Stoking the ovens at the neighborhood bakery with his wooden hand (a bread slicer accident, caused when Johnny distracted him), Ronny is at first off-putting to the down-to-earth Loretta.  But it doesn't take her long to get caught up in Ronny's lust for life and opera, and under the influence of a romantic full moon, the two of them fall into each other's arms.  Love and complications are in the air all over MOONSTRUCK.  Cosmo is in the midst of his own affair with Mona (Anita Gillette), which Rose is wryly aware of.  And in the midst of sorting out her own feelings, Rose strikes up a relationship with middle-aged Perry (John Mahoney), whom she witnesses continually getting dumped by younger girlfriends at her local restaurant.  Everything comes together in a beautifully executed, farcical ending, in which Loretta's grandfather (Feodor Chaliapan) delivers one of my favorite movie lines ever.  (I won't give it away here.)  Everything about MOONSTRUCK is sublime.  With his background as a playwright (DOUBT), Shanley's screenplay is superbly structured, and his dialogue presents an embarrassment of memorable riches for the wonderful cast, which, under Jewison's insightful direction, hits all the right notes.  As her Oscar demonstrates, Cher has never been better.  And Cage's bizarro energy is reined in to a perfect level.  If you've ever looked at either of these actors' later work and wondered why they are movie stars, MOONSTRUCK will answer all your questions.  Veering between the realistic and the idealistic, David Watkins' cinematography gives the movie an appropriately romantic patina, as does Dick Hyman's wonderfully executed score.  Overseeing the proceedings, director Norman Jewison maintains a magnificent balance.  Like his contemporaries, Sidney Lumet and Mike Nichols, Jewison has never been a showy filmmaker with a signature style.  The philosophy of these masters is that the style of the picture should always be dictated by the story.  With a cosmic coming together of talents, MOONSTRUCK is probably Norman Jewison's best.

Wonderful Memory for me This movie will always have a wonderful place in my heart.  My parents took me to see it with one of my friends for my 16th birthday at the Lowes movie theater in Washington, DC.  This was when theaters were really decked out!  I loved the movie then, I love it now.  I love Audrey Hepburn as Eliza.  Don't get me wrong, I like Julie Andrews, but my memory of her is "Sound of Music" and "Mary Poppins", just as Natalie Wood is "West Side Story" (and Marnie dubbed her voice as well) and Deborah Kerr is "The King and I".  Strickly a personal thing.  Enjoy the movie for what it is, a wonderful collaboration of talent!

Move over, Edison, for this Neglected Genius. Edison was doubtless a creative genius.  He was also a self-promoter, taking credit for others' work.  George Westinghouse was the real thing.  For example, Edison had over a thousand patents, while Westinghouse held only a third as many; but most of Edison's patents were due to employees whose work was patented in Edison's name.  Westinghouse's employees registered their patents in their own names.  If they had been credited in Edison's way, then Westinghouse's tally might well have surpassed Edison's.  Westinghouse invented the the railway air brake, which revolutionized transportation. Westinghouse brought to market the first electric railroad locomotive and the first useful large-scale dynamo. And, despite the opposition of Edison, Westinghouse and his friend Nikola Tesla made alternating current (AC) the means of electrical power transmission.  Westinghouse was also a model employer.  His thousands of workers -- blue and white collar -- loved him.  Samuel Gompers, the first great American union leader, said that if all employers were like Westinghouse, then there would be no need for unions.  To top it off, Westinghouse had a long and loving marriage and happy home life.  Unfortunately, Edison outlived Westinghouse by 17 years and grabbed that much more of posterity.  If you want to see how industrial development can be achieved without the sordidness and cynicism which usually accompany it, then see this enlightening documentary.

Excellent Blu ray of one the best Westerns ever made This Blu ray is great. If you love the "The Wild Bunch" you love this Blu ray. When I watched this copy it felt like I was watching it for the first time. The color and details are excellent. If you want the "Wild Bunch" get this Blu ray.

Blast From The Past I enjoyed this as a TV movie when I was many years younger than I am now.  When I spotted it on Amazon I elected to grab a copy to watch with my 2 year old grandson.  I'm certainly glad I did.  The movie, with it's thinly veiled "you're unique, just like everyone else" theme, narrated by Ringo Starr and featuring many great songs by Harry himself, is quick moving and brilliantly sketched.  Add a 5.1 audio track and you've got a cartoon masterpiece.  I'm not sure if I get more pleasure from watching this video in an all new format, or whether it is the pleasure of watching my grandson sing and dance his way through each viewing of the movie, or if it a blissful blend of the two, but I've certainly gotten my money's worth from this purchase.  You'll love the action, you'll love the songs, you'll love relaxing and taking it all in.  Considering the great Amazon price, how could you possible go wrong?

Great Movie Great movie!  I've been waiting a looooonnnnnngggggg time for it to come out on BluRay and it's finally here!

Christmas classic There's many adaptations of 'A Christmas Carol', and this one is a nice modern-day adaptation. Rather than being set in 19th-century London and starring a old miser, we are presented with a powerful TV exec. All the characters in the original tale are given significant changes, some more than others. Bob Cratchit is now a black woman (though it was well done) and the Ghost of Christmas Present is hilariously rendered as a sort of fairy with a funny, no-nonsense attitude. This is truly a good adaptation of Dicken's classic, with enough changes to keep the story refreshing and up-to-date without feeling like yet another rehash of the story. Definitely watch and enjoy!

BIG Liam fan. I can never get enough of Liam Neeson and am slowly but surely collecting all his movies. He is just a great actor and this love affair started with Ethan Fromme. Geofrey Rush was an added goody, he plays such a good bad guy. All in all, I loved it.

Exciting and Tragic yet Very Worth the Watch I almost didn't rent this movie because of the latest reviews yet I am so glad I decided to check it out for myself!  It makes me wonder what type of people just don't like this movie...ones who need a fairytale ending? Ones who need more gore?  Or ones who have no desire to ponder the concept of life and death situations?  Liam Neeson does an excellent job as always and even though the viewer doesn't get to really know the characters that doesn't seem to be the objective of this movie.  It is fast, ferocious, and ultimately about man up against nature in all its majesty and terror.  Though, the wolves in reality most likely do not behave as depicted in the movie, that is not the point.  As antagonists, they could have been fictional monsters of any kind or even crazy psychotic man gone wild!  It's the movies!  They intend to suspend our reality!!  That is the joy of watching a good movie.  And this is a good movie. It will leave an impression that you will consider upon and if you watch all the way to the end of the credits you get to write your own ending.  Peace.

Beautiful film! I love this film and the way it explores the dilemma of a middle class Cuban family as the Batista regime gives way to the Castro revolution. The viewpoint is that of a pre-adolescent youngster who is confused by the changes he sees within himself and in society around him. I still find most touching his first little romance with the leukemia-stricken neighbor girl whose impending death symbolizes the death of Cuban culture. As a final request, the girl wants the boy's grandmother, an photographic artist, to paint the burial dress in her funeral picture pink like a quinceanera gown. Because of her illness, she never will have her quinceanera, a Latin tradition something like a Sweet 16 party that is held in a girl's 15th year, but the picture will imply that she did. As the plot progresses, the boy's family must decide whether to adjust to a changing society or escape from it and start anew elsewhere.

"I Am Not A Crook!" When you watch Anthony Hopkins play Richard Nixon you forget all about Anthony's Oscar-winning role as Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs", a feat I believed he would never pull off. This really adds credence to the kind of wonderful actor Hopkins is; highly identified as the mad serial killer he became known as, Hopkins tore into the role as the complex and very controversial 37th President of the United States. An Oliver Stone film, "Nixon" tells the dramatic story of a young boy growing up in California who would become the only President in U.S. history to resign from office on August 9, 1974 due to his involvement in the Watergate scandal.   "Nixon" also dramatizes the President's battle with alcohol and presription drugs and his battle to end the Vietnam War.   Although some critics loved the film "Nixon" became a box office disappointment grossing a modest 13.5 million dollars on a $44 million budget. The film received four Academy Award nominations including a nod for Hopkins as Best Actor and one for Joan Allen as Best Suppoting Actress for playing Pat Nixon.   This new DVD and Blue Ray release features over 25 minutes of rare footage never before released along with a new documentary on Nixon, trailer, a "Charlie Rose" interview with Oliver Stone, and more.   If you enjoyed this film others you may enjoy include "JFK" (also written and directed by Stone) which details the death of John F. Kennedy, and the movie "W" starring Josh Brolin as George W. Bush.

GREAT TV-SHOW---GREAT DVD's I received Season 4 Box set last month---Everything is fine with it.  Looking forward for all seasons to come out.

Scoreses' Last Great Movie Long story short, Casino was one of the first dvds I bought when I got my first player in the summer of '99. Standard flipper disc and the only special feature was the trailer. Watched it, wasn't blown away by it (having just seen the amazing Goodfellas), ending up selling it a year or two later.  Fast forward to about a year ago I happened to come across it in the loaded Anniversary Edition at a flea market for $5. I figured I may had been a little to harsh with it the first time through plus the History Channel documentaries sounded interesting so I bought it and let me tell you how over a decade later my views have changed. This is an amazing movie.  In a nutshell, Casino tells the operatic story of the rise and fall of Sam Rothstein (Robert De Niro) who, together with his best friend/ worst enemy Nicky (Joe Pesci) and his troubled wife Ginger (Sharon Stone in her Oscar nominated role) ran one of the largest casinos in Las Vegas and how they massacred it along with many people connected to them.  I don't know why but I'm suddenly very fond of Casino. Perhaps its because it doesn't have the ghost of Goodfellas hovering over it like it did back in '99. Whatever it is, its a classic. The performances are all top notch despite the fact, as one reviewer pointed out, Pesci still seems to be channeling his more Alpha role of Tommy from the prior film. The movie is very graphic in terms of violence and language but then that's all a Mob movie staple particularly the death of one of the key characters in an open cornfield. Batter UP!  The special features are numerous and are all good for multiple viewings, especially the aforementioned documentaries.  Its unfortunate that Martin Scoreses appears to have lost his golden touch after this movie. Bringing Out the Dead was interesting the first time through but not again. The Gangs of New York was too stage pretty, The Aviator was just boring and, while The Departed was a pretty good throwback to his Mob Movie heyday, it still couldn't quite cut it with all of it convoluted subplots that went no where. Maybe he's trying to make his new muse DiCaprio the next De Niro but its just not working because DiCaprio is just not a great actor.  Whatever the case, at least we have Goodfellas and Casino to remind us of his legacy. Its just to bad that they may have been his last.

A beautiful love story Going to be short, as other reviewers have and will get into the complexities of the movie.  All I can say about this movie is it is the love songs you will always sing, it is the first love you will always remember, and it is the story that we wish we would never had experienced.

My favorite disney Bambi is my favorite disney movie. I'm 78 years old & ordered the Dvd for myself. I have it on vhs. I truly wish if I want dvd that is all I got. I'm not going to buy blu ray.

Spike Lee hits on all cylinders Spike Lee is a genius period. He gets out of the way and lets people's words and pictures tell the story and does away with any voiceover narration. The DVD set is divided into four acts with a fifth bonus act updating the various survivors' lives.  The basic style is backlit portrait framing of the person speaking and just letting them go. This succeeds because of fantastic editing in piecing together all these disparate people's stories.  It's also great that Lee uses outside news coverage (mainly the BBC's) as well as local and CNN's clips. It gives a far better perspective on how the media covered the story. The images though will be burned into your skull especially of dead bodies just lying (or floating) on streets, freeway interchanges or just sitting in chairs next to the Superdome.  One of the acts mainly focuses on the levees themselves and what wasn't done in years past and what should be done to prevent them breaking again. Hearing engineers talk about the levees and the mistakes the Corps of Engineers made over 40 years (since the previous hurrcane, Betsy, hit NOLA in '65) and how the Netherlands gets it right should put America to shame.  The "Water is Rising" on the bonus DVD is just still pics set to a jazz soundtrack but is definitely worth viewing as they have just as strong an impact.  This DVD set should be required viewing by every single citizen of the USA so that everything is done to help rebuild one of the most vibrant cities in their nation.

Forbidden Planet A must have for ALL Sci-Fi Nuts!! Like Me... Robbie the Robot is just the greatest in his film debut and Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis and Leslie Nielson are just magnificent, not to mention the supporting cast. Look for People you've seen in many other movies, TV shows and stage. Get it in Blue-Ray its Fantastic!!!!

Wish I knew about this video before bringing baby home I cannot say enough good things about this video. We were the parents that thought our 2 week old did not like swaddling. If we wanted more than 2-3 hours of sleep at a time we had to bring baby into bed. With the techniques we learned our baby slept on his own for 5 hours. He was quick to calm and soothe, which were entirely elusive before the video. Thank you Dr. Karp!

Not to be missed! Everyone should be aware of this true story told in history and verified as to its truth.  Nothing like the holocaust must EVER happen again.  Be sure to watch, and thank God for our freedom in the USA!

Great movie I love this movie. It has the right ingredients of reality, humor, and camp. Just the correct dose for a bit of spine tingling and B Movie special effects. Brings me back to the days of my youth when movies excited one through music and psychological impact.

Nature video freak This video is absolutely beautiful.  I thought it would be difficult to top Blue Planet and Planet Earth, but Life is every bit as good.

Leaves you in Awe Wow is all I have to say about James Franco's acting in this film.  Franco goes far beyond those weed movie acting he is known to do and provides a completely inspiring role.  When you hear that a movie is going to be about a guy trapped in one place for 127 hours you tend to want nothign to do with it.  When was the last time a movie that takes place in one place about only one person been great?  Well this movie proves it can be.  The director does an amazing job pulling in snippets of the character's life.  The intensity of the climax of the movie is truly awe inspiring.  An absolutely must watch and a definite must for any movie collection.

It works! EA Sports Active works, and is worth every penny!  A little about me: I am less than 20 pounds overweight, and in fair shape.  That being said, this game makes me sweat and my muscles burn every time I use it.  It is well put together and effortless to use, and I like that.  Previously, I used Wii Fit and Wii Fit Plus.  I found them boring, unmotivating, and frankly not much of a work out.  EA Sorts Active is everything Wii Fit is not.  The 30 day challenge is awesome.  You set up your profile and can enter things like whether or not you want to use the Wii balance board (you do NOT have to have the board to use the game), music selection, and difficulty level.  I started on easy and switched to intermediate after a week and saw a big difference.  You can also set up how many times per week you want to work out, how many calories you want to burn, and how long of a workout you want...and you're all set!  A calendar is set up for you showing which days are your "rest" days.  Start up the game, and your entire workout is set up and ready to go...no long pauses between excercises to go back into menus to choose your next one.  After each routine the next comes up (there are tutorial videos at the beginning of each) and so on.  The workouts are easy to follow and there is always variety.  I am 3/4 through my first 30 day challenge and I've not been bored yet.  There are a couple of cons to EA Sports Active.  As with many Wii games, the motion sensors can be a pain sometimes, you have to hold the remotes just right for them to register.  But once you've done the workouts you get used to how to position the remote & nunchuck.  Also, the resistance band that comes with it is crap, just get yourself a good one at a local store and you should be fine.  If you are looking for a game that provides a real workout, without a hassle, this is the game for you.  I highly recommend it.

great war movie based  on true story Very interesting story about the death march in WWII. Tells about the men in the camps and what was being done to get them out before they were killed.

Edge of your seat series.... The series is yet another perfect example of how incredibly clueless network executives are. Apparently this series was one of the first casualties of the 2006-2007 season. After only five episodes they gave it the axe. Whichever NBC executive pulled the plug on this series, take heart you are stuck on stupid.  Well I just finished watching and then rewatching this on DVD and let me tell you. It is hands down one of the best first season's in the history of television.  It stars the brilliant Dana Delaney and Timothy Hutton as Ellie and Conrad Cain a very wealthy society couple who seem to have everything. But then their teenage son Leopold is kidnapped on the way to school one morning and thus begins their season in hell.  As a result of the kidnapping they engage the services of a man named Knapp (played by the amazing Jeremy Sisto) to find their son. His only priority is to find abducted children, regardless of the means.  The concept is rather cliche'..the desperate rich parents (what skeletons lurk in their closets? is there anyone who doesnt have a skeleton?)and the rogue wildcard working outside the system to bring justice.  But this show was far far far from cliche'.  What sets this apart is the simply brilliant plotline. The incredibly talented cast, and a pace that kept me from getting anything else accomplished today.  I don't want to include any spoilers, nor any hints of spoilers. But I swear to you. Invest your time in this series and it will take you on a ride that you will feel exhausted and exhilarated at the end. And then you will curse NBC. Who STILL continues to flog that Law and Order franchise for every drop of watered down blood there is, but pulled the plug after five episodes on a show that was simply genius. GENIUS.

order for present got my dad this movie his fav. came in fast everything was good i love amazon, happy it was in blu ray for him!

My review Before i'm attacked, I already own this set. How? well i bought the time life exclusive 40 disc dvd power rangers boxsets. so my season 1 vol 2 is the exact same volume being released in november. I'm not here to talk about the show. I'm sure if your here, its because your fully aware of this amazing series. This volume concludes season 1, ending on 60 epiosdes. This volume has the remaining 3 dvds, each dvd contains 10 episodes. this set comes with closed captioning for those who have regular dvd players, NOT bluray players that play dvds, those will not display the captioning. No, there is no loss in picture quality. since this season had episodes that lasted no more than 19min, a few at 18min. thats why they are able to put so many episodes without losing video quality, but because of that, they had no space to put in the episode teaser and preview for the next ep onto these dvds. its a sad thing, but who knows, if enough people flood shout factory with emails to add in all those caps onto a separate dvd release, that would be so awesome and i would totally buy it! once again, there are no bonus features on this volume. reason being, it would jack up the price. but think about it, 30 episodes for under 20 bux? c'mon! thats a huge bargain! most anime seasons are around 24-26 episodes and usually cost anywhere from 29.99 to 49.99 or heck, take a look at fullmetal alchemist brother hood collection part 1 and part 2, two different collections all part of the same season going for two completely different prices! and big prices at that, being that each collection is around 32 episodes. so this mmpr volume is a huge steal in price, please go preorder it! if you really want the bonus special features. time life and shout factory are selling mmpr complete collection seasons 1-3, check out their websites. but if you can afford the mega 40 disc dvd power rangers boxset, with 3 bonus discs AND the ultra rare easter egg, than go to timelife right now!  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0080730CK">Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Season 1, Vol.1</a>  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008VIMLNW">Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Season 1, Vol.2</a>

Exceptional I agree with several of other of the positive reviews here, and I'm not going to repeat what they said. What I would like to add is that the plot continuity and wrap-up is impeccable. EVERY loose end and plot thread is neatly and seamlessly tied up. This, in my mind, is a true work of art.

BEST BOX SET OF E.T. EVER I BOUGHT THIS LAST WEEK AND I MUST SAY I OWN OVER 2000 DVDS AND THIS IS THE BEST BOX SET I WILL OWN...IT HAS EVERYTHING FOR AN ET FAN....U WANT BE SORRY YOU NEED TO BUY THIS.....IF U COLLECT DVDS THEN THIS IS A DVD U NEED TO ADD TO YOUR COLLECTION

SO EASY! AND CREATIVE I'm a vegan, and have been for a couple of years, and am looking to incorperate more raw foods into our diet.  Which means, I'm not ready to go all out and buy all kinds of crazy equipment, like a dehydrator etc.  NONE of her recipes use a dehydrator, and all of the ones she goes over come in a little recipe book in the dvd packet.  I thought I would have to write them all down while I watched, but no!  She's so bubbly too, and she keeps it simple.  No wacky healthfood items.  This is an awesome start, and I'll probably buy her book now.

sleeping beauty dvd This movie was in like new codition ! It was delivered in less then a week ! What a great deal a disney movie in great condition and less then $10 !

More Options than Takeout! I am a member of the Spark Community for 4+ years now, and I love Coach Nicole's videos - I have them all.  I was so excited to hear that a bootcamp video was coming out, as I love trying to complete the Spark Official 28-Day Bootcamps that are held online in the Spark community.  At first I thought this DVD would only be bootcamp videos (which would have alone made me happy), but then I put the DVD in and hit "play".  First of all, there are options! Yes, you can have your cake and eat it too. You can follow the 28-day plan which is in a cool calendar format (for those literal people like me), or you can pick from different timed segments - 12, 20 and 30 minute workouts. GREAT for busy moms like me, too.  I love that the cardio plus the boot-camp style circuit training burns more fat in less time (again, busy mom here!)  I LOVE the cardio intervals.  There are three different intensity levels so you just pick your own speed and go with it.  I really enjoyed the 30-Minute Challenge Routine. This is like one of those combos at a Mexican restaurant. It's all in there and it's all so GOOD! Not just curls and squats, this mixture of cardio and ST will have your heart thumping and your body rocking. My husband did this one with me and he was dying! I had to encourage him to keep going.  The other women in the video do modify for you, too. The girl on the right is a lower intensity. I've read some reviews saying that beginners can't do it, but my hubby is a beginner and he was fine with the modifications - and a little reassurance from me.  Get your copy today, your body will love you for it.

An adorable movie for all ages! The Secret of Moonacre is a cute movie based off the book "The Little White Horse" by Elizabeth Goudge, although the stories are not that similar. This movie is good for children and very clean (I think there was only one curse word). With good characters, a touch of humor, fantasy, and mystery, the Secret of Moonacre makes a wonderful movie to watch as a family.

Xanadu I really love this musical/movie.  I love the group ELO who does the music for the film along with vocals from Olivia Newton John who is a winner.  Even though this movie is older, I would recommend it to anybody who enjoys music, dance and just plain fun.  I have purchased older movies on Amazon that are impossible and hard to find in stores.  Really like this.

The Longest Day Of all the WW II films of this genre, such as Battle of the Bulge, Is Paris Burning, etc., this one is far and away the most comprehensive, well-executed, and is a must see, must own for anyone interested in history of the Second World War.

Casablanca DVD This was by far my favorite Bogart movie, had it on vhs but wanted a copy on dvd. The great low price and quick shipping made it a deal, I couldn't pass on.

Great stuff Love it! Just what I ordered and what I wanted to have. I adore this show so much and now have the commentaries.

Funny Farm speedy delivery. couldn't find in a retail outlet in my area.  easy to find at amazon.  added to my chevy chase collection of movies.

great The item although used was fine.  It came in a timely manner.  I have used this company before, and have never had a problem.

Fuadach nan Gaidheal (Scots in Exile) Aside from being one of the funniest, yet seriously uplifting, Christmas specials ever, and the evil virtuoso performance of Rowan Atkinson, there is the irony of Josephus, or "Joe Sephus," from Palestine of 2000 years ago, in exile in late 20th C London, juxtaposed with Bernard and the hard-working Christmas elf-girl, from Scotland and also in exile in London; they all find one another and live happily ever after (or before) in a thoroughly whimsical fantasy with a moral (or three.) And guess who was a guest at the wedding in Cana!

Very funny I love this movie!  I have both part one and part two and both of them are just down right hilarious.  Buy it!  lol

Great Acting and Plot-- SPOILER FREE REVIEW I was a little wary because the trailer looked 'too good' and we all know how those usually go... However, this film lived up to the hype.  First, the acting was just so spot on.  Ben and the cast just nailed that white urban tough gritty characterization.  You feel like one of the guys.  And then, they were SMART about how they did things and didn't fall into the cartoonish trap that inflicts other films in this genre.  The plot wasn't contrived and felt organic.  Similarly, the plot progression was very natural in the chaotic way that is true life.  You didn't quite know what was coming but when you arrived you had that "it felt right" feeling.  This is film is in the top ten of bank robber capers, easily at the level of Inside Man or Ocean's Eleven (minus the comedy).  Get this film, you will not be disappointed.

A great collection Lionsgate deserves plaudits for their excellent four film collection series on DVD. I usually buy only blu rays now, but at this great price this was too good an offer to pass up. Even with international shipping, it was highly affordable.  I was surprised to find that the four films came in four separate discs, instead of two-fers or flippers. Disc art is minimal though. Lionsgate has not skimped on the extras either, with a decent amount of valuable supplemental material. One of the films had four commentaries, in fact. Again, I did not expect any extras or even SDH subtitles at this low price for all four films. Lionsgate has somehow managed to fit in all four discs in one standard DVD case, so do not worry about shelf space.  As for the movies themselves, the price of admission is worth for Cabin Fever and Descent alone, both excellent movies. The fact that their not-so-well-known sequels are included is a real bonus. Again, don't expect the sequels to live up to the originals, but they are nevertheless a good way to spend 90 minutes or so. The picture and audio quality of all four films are very good, especially if upsampled on a blu ray or an upconverting DVD player.  If you are a true horror/thriller fan and do not have any of the films featured in this collection, you should add this to your cart post-haste. This box set is highly recommended for all movie fans out there. I can hardly wait to sample the other four film collections issued by Lionsgate, which really has an excellent slate of horror movies. Note that some of the films are available on BD and DVD individually for perfectionists, but this is a real bargain that you will not want to miss.

Z What a a great additive story that has so much history.  Robert Downy Jr. played his character amazingly.  Very well told story.  I was heading to San Francisco for my first visit and other areas north, so I figured it would be fitting to check this out.

Hocus Pocus The dvd arrived in a very timely manner, the dvd was perfect and I would buy again.  Its great to be able to find movies that you cant find to buy in stores.

Makes grandkids happy I wrote a review for cars two.  My cable went out the grandkids missed seeing cars two.  I thought the store carry DVDs no they were sold out.  I found cars two at a great price. So, to make up the mess up of not seeing cars two.  I was able to order cars one and cars two used at the price one cars DVD movie cost. Kids love it.  Thank-you for used working as good as new, at half the price. Thank-you.

Maybe to cerebral for most people This movie was one of three that was recommended my Financial Sense News Hour.  The other was Inside Job and the last I can't remember :>(.  This movie is not for everybody if you expecting Zombies car chases and shoot out this move is not for you.  If want a well acted at times funny drama about the mentally on Wall Street this is well worth a look.  If you have been keeping abreast of the financial system since 2008 this is worth a look.  This is my one of my top ten moves (The only non military non science fiction, non horror).

Enter the Awesome! This is the Godfather of martial arts tournament movies.  I grew up watching this movie and all of it's imitators.  The sound and video quality are excellent.  I only wish it came with a digital copy.  If you are a fan of Bruce Lee or Kung Fu movies this is a must own.

The BEST workout! I am in love with this DVD! Jillian Michaels is an amazing trainer and I love working out with her.  She is hard, but she delivers results.  I have been working out with her videos for only 3 months and I have lost 21 pounds, 2 pant sizes, and inches around my waist! SO excited, I ordered 4 more of her videos and I reccommend this to anyone who wants to get in an intense workout in only 30 minutes, but you must be prepared to sweat and work hard, but you will see amazing results!

Everyone needs to see this movie! I wish everyone could see this movie.  It is so uplifting and inspiring in many different areas.  I cried, and I never cry in movies.  I wish more movies like this would be produced.  Support this movie, and show Hollywood there's a market for good, clean, moral, uplifting movies!

One of the best WWE stories every told I just received my copy in the mail this morning but I didn't open it until I got home. I watched the first 2 disks so far, and I must say this is good WWE DVD and a the first WWE dvd I have purchased in in a few years. I enjoyed how they told Show's story from WCW transitioning into WWF and how he had a few setbacks and the early years of his life. I did enjoy watching some of the matches during his time in WCW I found it kind of crazy how he rises to the top so fast against guys like Hulk Hogan & Ric Flair. I think the match selection on here perfectly chronicles Big Show's career from past to the present good job on the match selections WWE.

Great Series for children Again, so grateful to be able to find VHS tapes from Amazon or Amazon sellers. Thats all I can play for my grandchildren and they love the Bible stories. Thank you Amazon!

Nice compilation of movies All great movies.  Much cheaper than buying individually.  Watch for the hot melt glue that's used to construct the case.  Mine only had a small amount on two discs.

Amazing facts brought to light An interesting and factual exposure of the truly awesome works of our Creator. Keeps interest for all ages and highly recommended for both skeptic and believer.

AWESOME! GREAT MOVIE. I REALLY ENJOY HAVING IT IN HD DVD. SUPERB QUALITY. TO BAD HD DVD IS NOT MADE NO MORE.

Just what we wanted Ordered this movie to show my teens in comparison to the newer version with Rick Moranis/Steve Martin.  It is not a musical, but the original story line.  They enjoy this version just as much.

Malcolm X This is the amazing Spike Lee film looking at the life of Malcolm X. You see Denzel Washington in probably his best ever role, breathing life into this complex historical figure. It really makes you understand what things shaped Malcolms ideas and vision as he progressed through his life. The music is superb, the acting is great and the direction is an unique and captivating as ever. Not only is this great to watch and will keep you engrossed throughout, but you will come away learning something about this influential man. Well worth a viewing.  Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.

great movie! this movie is amazing i would defiantly recommend it for a christmas present! my movie arrived within a few days and it was packaged well!

What a parody! Mamma mia! I read in the booklet of a Naxos 1940 recording of Don Pasquale, that the italians have no rivals in the world of opera, being the  ablest  to create the most dramatic tales to go with the funniest ones.And if there is one composer that took this at musical peaks, it was Gaetano Donizetti.Seeing this buffa, you never would believe that he was the same man that wrote Lucia di Lamermoor, Poliuto,Roberto Devereux,Maria Stuarda,Anna Bolena et al.And much of the funny side have to do with the singers, specially Vincenzo Taormina, that it is the most comic travesti role(and like the first travesti roles,it is a man performing a woman) I have seen or heard. The rest of the cast, specially Jessica Pratt as the prima donna, Christian Senn as the composer and Simon Bailey as the primma donna husband, make a wonderful mix of the comic side,and in the times of Donizetti,sometimes very real too, of the machinations to do an opera.What a joke on our thoughts of inmaculated doings to produce the operas  we love most than any musical form.But, as usual in the comedy, the truth is said with a big laugh or grin, and it is not less truth for that.Viva la mamma and Donizetti!.If you really like buffa, this is for you.If you do not enjoy it ,shame on you,it is your loss.

Love Toy Story III! Such a great movie!  I have a hard time enjoying and admiring animated films anymore compared to the "old" days of Lion King, Beauty & the Beat, Aladdin, etc.  But this is a quality, fun flick for kids and adults alike!

DVD "SOLO" Good movie, main male actor as the husband isn't very convincing but I knew the lady who crashed her airplane, had heard the story of survival as told by the husband and wife and enjoyed the movie depiction of what took place.  This was a good religious family who came to realize a very near tragedy and it brings a reminder to each of us of lifes every day struggles we all go through and we need to cherish loved ones all the more.  Amazon has a wonderful vast selection of items,easy to find and select, with reasonable prices, for any taste.

review thank you so much for the movie i really enjoy it and it was also very very very on time. And it wasn't as expensive as most of the movies oon Ebay i think you did a great job. i am very satisfied with my purchess so thank you very much.

Great Classic Movie Great movie at a great price. If you like classic westerns this movie is for you. Has some of the great western movie stars of all time

awsome movie just gotta to love it blood guts fast cars hot chicks and guns what could be better but it always could be better

Great gift! I purchased this product as a gift for my mother. She has always loved this show. Product arrived in excellent condition & my mother loved her gift!

Movie On a Clear Day You Can See Forever I was really surprised that you gave me a free gift card to watch one of my favorite movie ahead of receiving it.  I have been trying to get the older movie that I have enjoyed over the years and so far they have came in great condition.

restored old style withcrafter If you love old horror movies , and I mean pre midsixties when things really got going with more money and such. Then this one is for you, they have restored this movie and it looks pretty darn good for a regular dvd. Before they restored this is was a mess of lines and scratches now it looks sleek with a few specks now and then. They even put back two minutes of footage.  This is a spooky and creepy flick by even todays standards except there is not blood or actual showing of sacrifices in this one. It was after all 1960 and british cinema wasn't allowing to vivid violence yet. This was made by the brits that year; with the great Christopher Lee featured in it with his usual menace.  However what sets this apart here is that some of the actors are veterans of the stage and cinema. This is  s superior b movie in that regard. When you can get experienced people both in front and behind the camera then this is a huge step up compared to the usual first timer b movie type of affair. This is classy and although it's in black and white  it doesn't hurt this one at all. And if you didn't know this was shot in England you would have thought that this was a american movie! It's about a coven of satanic witches in  New England U.S.A. after all.  Certainly there have been real evil covens that are not wiccans throughout history. (Satanists) but few of them actually killed people , still the whole premise is scary here even without the supernatural aspect of this movie. The scene where a  young woman looks out of her window to see black hooded satanists chanting through the fog as they head for her doom is really chilling. A modern horror fan might not be as enthusiastic about these earlier movies because they are not as explicit but this one is classy and done by long time screen veterans. Therefore you don't  have clunky acting or dialog in this movie. Serious film critics would give this horror gem high marks for it's atmosphere and acting. There are two long interviews with several actors here as well.  Patricia Jessel is outstanding as the lead witch in this one. She had a real menace to her acting. She died at only age 47 sadly in 1966. Quite young even for those days.  This is a tight little movie that isn't campy and was played straight, horror fans back then must have been delighted with this movie. As it treated them with respect and fine acting. This was also known as "Horror Hotel' but the original title suites it better.

The Bodyguard I think all Whitney Houston fans were feeling a little "Whitney" during her sudden passing, when I received the "The Bodyguard" it was in Mint Condition. It came three days after I placed the order...Thanks again Amazon!

great seller I ordered the movie for a good price. I thought it was to good to be true. I also thought it would take a a while to get my dvd. It only took a few days and the used dvd that i bought looked new. great seller.

Play Misty for me I never get tired of this movie.  She makes you jump every time.  She was one crazy lady.  Don't mess with Jessica Walter!

Gilligan's Island what a laugh I absolutely loved this series.  The box set is great and i really enjoyed the special features.  It's a lot of laughs and great enjoyment for the whole family.  So sit right back and you'll hear a tale............

Fantastic! I absolutely love this film! I have since I was six years old... My Grandmother accidentally threw it out with some old VHS tapes she had in the cupboard and I haven't been able to find someone who knows what I'm talking about (When I talk about this film being my favourite of all time) since! Thankyou Amazon, for bringing my childood memories back to life! I cried more this time than I usually do everytime I watch this touching film!  Thankyou again!

If you love Elves If you are the type that loves Elves in general, you can't help but love this version of Snow White.  Ok, not for the perfectionist, but just a fun movie.

The New 2012 Blu-Ray Does Justice to the Film Universal's 100th Anniversary series of DVD and Blu-Ray releases has kicked into gear with a cleaned up, and much improved, Blu-Ray of OUT OF AFRICA (2012 release).  Robert Redford stars as a British big game hunter whom writer Karen Blixen becomes enthralled with while helping her husband work on a coffee farm in Kenya; Meryl Streep essays the author, while Klaus Maria Brandauer is her philandering spouse. Together, they form a romantic triangle sumptuously filmed by director Sydney Pollack and cinematographer David Watkin, and beautifully scored by John Barry. The settings and photography remain the highlights of this Oscar-winning 1985 romantic drama, which tends to drag on at 161 minutes but always remains a pleasure to look at.  On Blu-Ray, its scenic attributes ought to be magnified, but that wasn't the case with Universal's first stab at bringing the movie to BD in 2010: that release's VC-1 encoded transfer was overly processed with DNR and generally derided as a flat-out disaster.  That botched release, happily, has been rectified with Universal's 100th Anniversary Digibook package of "Out of Africa": the new AVC encoded 1080p transfer offers fine detail, no apparent use of noise reduction, and beautiful colors that add immeasurably to Watkin's cinematography. This is the release that fans should've gotten a couple of years ago, and it's complimented here by a DVD and the same extras from the prior video releases. Several minutes of deleted scenes are included (in SD) while Pollack delivers an informative commentary track on the making of the picture. Universal has also reprieved Charles Kiselyak's fine documentary "Song of Africa," which includes interviews with Pollack, Meryl Streep, and Isak Dinesen biographer Judith Thurman. Film music buffs will certainly be interested in the comments of John Barry, who talks at length in the program about his score, the creation of the movie's central sweeping theme, and use of music in various sequences.

Really good story Linday Lohan is a lot older now than she was when this movie was made, but she was a very good actress as a kid. She plays twins who were separated as babies when their parents divorced. They meet up at summer camp and play all kinds of pranks on each other until they figure out they are sisters. Then all they want is to get their parents back together. This is really funny.

awesome movies from late 70's If you're a fan of scary movies then you'll love these two movies. "Devil times five" was actually scarier than "Mark of the witch" but they're completely different since the second one was more drama and the scary thing in it was the music, now that was creepy.  Too bad "devil times five" is only in full screen but "mark of the with" is widescreen. A good deal overall.

Delightful Since moving to Nashville and Christmas approaching, I asked my new co workers if they were going to watch A Christmas Story. Most didn't know what movie I was talking about. Shocking to this Detroit girl. Then I heard that my boss was buying  his young son a BB gun for Christmas and I knew they had to see this movie. My search took me to all the usual stores, Target, Walmart and even the Kroger video department. Nothing. Thank god for Amazon. Ordered it and it arrived in a timely fashion. My boss said his son watched the movie three times in one day. The BB gun as would be expected was his favorite gift.

The new Heidi from Amazon The new Heidi from Amazon  I saw this movie a short while back and thought it was a nice variance to the original Heidi.  My wife and I will enjoy watching this DVD many times in the future.

Loved it! I absolutely loved this movie~ I am a huge fan of anything action with a touch of comedy, so this one was perfect for me.  I saw the trailer very early last spring but missed it in the theaters.  I was so excited to see it on DVD that I could not wait to bring it home.  Loved, Loved, Loved Helen Mirren's character.  Boy can I relate to her, evening gown and a .50 cal no better way to spend an evening!  I am so hoping there will be a sequel  to this one.

great movie For me as a man this is one of the best lesbic and erotic movies ever. Highly recommended for everyone.

A great look behind the scenes of A Prairie Home Companion This is a fantastic look behind the scenes of America's greatest radio show and its creator.  I grew up with Garrison Keillor and the Prairie Home Companion.  My father and I would listen to his show while on long road trips down to Plant City Florida to visit my great grandmother.  Garrison's voice along with the stories and music would take us away on those long drives in the family station wagon.  While my mother and younger brother slept in the back seat, my father and I would be transported to Lake Wobegon and a time not so far past.  The show has stayed with me all these years and always takes me back to those trips with my father.  A Prairie Home Companion has a kind of magic that is rare to find today and very much worth discovering.

Very Soothing and Thorough Way To Learn Yoga! I really like this dvd for its feeling and completeness.  I think this is wonderful for beginners to hatha yoga. This is a follow-a-long yoga class where as you progress, Robin Downes explains each classic yoga movement and the breathing that goes with it. She continually emphazized that each person is individual and to do only what you can.  Be patient. There is soothing, cool jazz music in the background and the studio is warm and inviting.  Along with Robin, there are students demonstrating the yoga positions. Most of the yoga movements are done on the floor with a mat as cushion. The dvd has a great menu with the yoga movements separate so you can study them individually.  The class starts with breathing and ends with meditation just as any good yoga class should.  The dvd is introduced by John Salley and also includes an interview with Russell Simmons is included.  I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS DVD.

Another hair-raiser As always, Miyazaki delivers another masterpiece with Princess Mononoke. Set in 14th century Japan, it tells the story of a young prince named Ashitaka who must leave his people to find a cure for a curse he receives while defending his village from a boar-demon. He finds Iron Town and meets Lady Eboshi, a warrior women who runs the town and mines for iron. Her goal: to kill the forest god so no one will be able to stop her men from mining. Meanwhile, San (Princess Mononoke - who was raised by Moro the wolf god - is desperately trying to defend the forest from the humans who would try and destroy it.  There is no black and white villain in the story. The most likely candidate, Lady Eboshi, does try to kill the forest spirits, but also buys women out of brothels and gives them honest work. She also protects the lepers, those that would otherwise be complete outcasts with no way to support them. Although the story is set in the time of Japanese history that we normally romanticize (samurais, princesses in kimonos and emperors trying to avert assassination attempts, etc.) Miyazaki sets his story in a rural setting, where the emperor never appears in person, and samurais attack innocent villages. And of course, Miyazaki presents what is perhaps his most outright campaign for environmentalism. The forest he creates is large and wild, filled with gods and spirits that hate humans. However, to those that do not seek to harm the forest, the spirits can be fierce allies.  Overall, I would rate this as a very excellent movie. However, some parents might be concerned that there is too much violence and gore for their children. Yes, this is Miyazaki's most "graphic" movie, but it is limited to very specific scenes and emphasizes the point he is trying to make. War and progress often only result in the destruction of that which is most beautiful: nature and the human soul.

Great movie This is a really cute movie. My kids loved this movie when they were growing up. It is funny and a big hit especially with boys. The movie arrived in a timely manner, and we have been enjoying it ever since.

28 minutes later ............... Gave the movie a 4----give stars a 5, because the photo on the cover of the DVD, is really what you get to see in the film (so few Indy Film Covers do that these days) - so you already have an idea that they put work into the effects -- on to the story -- VERY refreshing to see a new spin on a zombie film, and was very pleased.  Starts off very 28 days later-ish ----then breaks into legitimate zombie creation, not just "infected" (in this film, you gotta die, then the virus mutates, and you come back and very-very infectious).  As I said, an Indy film but good scripting, well acted and funny were funny worked --film quality was good and they spent $$ on it, so looked nice----- it kept my interest and is one I won't hesitate to watch over and over again.  I got no problem suggesting you get it and for the price, really cannot beat it -- you will get your  $$ worth.

The Searchers with John Wayne This is one of the best Western movies ever made! I have watched it probably 20 times. Outstanding. Don't miss it.

Fullfilling This is a great story about the unselfish acts of a very successful actor dedicating a huge amount of his time to support and entertain US military personnel stateside and abroad. You can't watch this and not be inspired by Gary Sinise and his band. Gary Sinise is the model for the giving spirit.

MMMMM MARILYN Beauty and brains, I think the fact that Marilyn Monroe choose to produce Prince and Showgirl with her newly formed production studio showed that she was not a dyed blond dumb blond, she was way ahead of her time. In a world where movies were all but controlled by white men in Hollywood, California, Marilyn picked a movie that didn't have the "happily ever after" lets get married so I can have your babies, ending that people of that era were brainwashed into expecting. Prince and Showgirl is a great Monroe movie that, like several of her other movies, showcases her talents as a comedic genius. And there are slight glimpses of her skill at drama as well. It's just a shame that she had to use Lawrence Oliver as her co-star. He didn't seem to have a comedic bone in his body! I think he is the reason I don't like this movie as much as say Bus Stop, River of No Return or the Misfits. But still, Prince and showgirl is a great Monroe film.

Very Good I have seen other Mission Impossible movies, but this one is my favorite. Whereas the other movies were slick, flashy, and very orchestrated, this one shows the mistakes during execution and how they were winging it by the seat of their pants. I thought it was different and made the movie much more enjoyable.  I thought the storyline was amazing, very original. Part of the Kremlin gets blown up, the world is on the brink of war..sort of.., and a genius madman is at the center of the plot. A disavowed team of 4 with a limit of supplies and no support must save the world. It was a cool ride from the normality of my life, and I truly appreciated the story.  All of the characters were great. I thought Tom Cruise was very funny, and I really liked Jeremy Renner workout scene before the floating over the fan scene, hilarious. Paula Patton was a fierce fighting femme fatale! I loved her passion in the fight scenes, and Simon Pegg was very funny, also. A great team of actors, and I'm glad I watched it.  I do hope more Mission Impossible movies comes out, and I hope they show refreshing new ideas like they did in this one..  Thanks, Joy

Great This is a gift for my daughter, and I can't wait to give her this. She has begged me for this movie for some time! Thank you!

Brilliant! This is a brilliant series! I loved every minute of it; I'm only sorry that it ended!  There isn't much of a story to it (that isn't a criticism!); it just follows the day-to-day lives of the characters, who are four high school friends; nutty 'otaku', the diminutive, blue-haired Konata Izumi ('Kona-chan'), who also works part-time in a 'cosplay' cafe; intelligent and cute Kagami Hiiragi ('Kagamin') and her non-identical twin sister, the clumsy but lovely Tsukasa (who both have purple hair), and the pretty and bespectacled Miyuki Takara ('Yuki-chan'), who has pink hair, and is the epitome of 'moe'. The series (which comes from the same people as the 'Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya' stories) contains many and frequent references to other anime and manga (mostly courtesy of Kona-chan, and much to the chagrin of Kagami, who thinks she is crazy!), so I would probably say that non-fans of the genres might find it a little hard to follow; the significance of many lines of the dialogue probably being lost unless the viewer knows what they are talking about.  Each episode starts with a superb series of dance moves by the girls (somewhat reminiscent of the closing animation of the Haruhi Suzumiya series) which you come to find out is actually them rehearsing for the end-of-term festival, in which they perform a cheer-leader routine, seen in full in the last episode of the series, and which is mega-cute and cool!  The 6 DVD's contain all 26 episodes, which have English and Japanese audio, and 1 OVA (with Japanese soundtrack/English subs only).  I gather from digging around on-line, that there won't be any more animes of this story - a great pity - but I would highly recommend any fans of the genre get hold of this; it is a great series, and highly enjoyable; it is gentle and bonkers, and just totally lovable!

Worth Lots of $$ Tron Legacy was amazing. I originally saw the film 3 times at the largest IMAX theater in America at the 21st Street Warren Theater in Wichita, Ks. It was worth all the money that I paid to see it 3 times and then some. I recommend the 3D version if you have a 3D capable TV or computer.

Loved it I ordered this movie for my daughter it was one of the things she asked for for christmas, she watches it over and over,

Educational and fascinating for young children This video has been my child's favorite since she was a toddler. She always has questions about Helen Keller, therefor, it is quite an educational experience when she watches it. It is a short video that briefly describes the difficulties and triumphs of Keller as a child. I highly recommend this video for children and parents who want to gain compassion for those who are different from us, or to get motivation when we face our own struggles and difficulties in life.

Awesome job! I have been a huge Feynman fan for a while and have read multiple books by and about him.  THis movie does a great job showing who Feynman was.  Broderick was an awesome choice for the role.

Classic ! Keep it all in perspective.  Its a farce made in a time when movies that tried to be realistic were far from it.

Mezmerizing performance Diana Ross created one of the most memorable performances I have ever seen. I felt like she was related to me in some way. Her motherly way of handling the audience and her sheer concern for their safety was amazing. You could see and feel the love that she had for her fans. I pre-ordered and oh am I enjoying every minute of it. I remember seeing the concert years ago and thinking wow is she brave and beautiful. I feel the same feeling 30 years later. Thank you, Thank you!

Billy Jack will kick your teeth in! If I've read this once, I've read it a thousand times ... Billy Jack did not hold up well over the past 40 years.  Okay, well, neither did I.  That said, it's still a pretty good story with pretty good actors with pretty good direction and pretty good production values.  Best of all, Billy Jack is an iconic movie character that was fresh and original then, and still is today.  I saw this film for the first time with Steve, Karen, and Teresa in New York City before it was officially released.  We were about 20.  I didn't know it then, but Tom Laughlin was audience testing his film for the first time.  Needless to say, he must have been very pleased with our reaction.  It was on a triple bill with The Beatles' Let It Be and Gumshoe with Albert Finney.  Let It Be was like watching a movie of your parents getting divorced and Gumshoe was so unforgetable that I've forgotten everything else about it.  But Billy Jack was so honest that it was electrifying.  Tom Laughlin captured perfectly the times we lived in, and it may be hard to believe, but a lot of people really felt that way.  When I watch it today, Billy Jack message sounds so naive.  Then I realize that's because after a lifetime of lies and hypocrisy, any kind of idealism is bound to look silly, and I feel sorry for myself.  Billy Jack proves that sometimes the truth can only be told with lies.

Good values This is a must for every parent (father and son relationship)...it will penetrate your hardened heart and understand the feeling of a long lost individual...I was in tears when both the fathers and sons reconnected and reunited...its really a happy ending...thanks Amazon for the free and fast shipping.

Hops I downloaded this movie to watch on my plane ride home.  It was a freebie.  I had to make a few attempts before I could get the download to download properly.  This was my first time doing this.

A Good Reminder of Those Who Fought for Civil Rights in the 60s I was very pleased to get a step by step account of the Freedom Rides in the South during the early 1960s.  There were many young people who had tremendous vision for the future and the courage to take their conviction seriously with knowledge they may be killed in the process. I think this Country or at least the people of African American descent own Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) a great deal of thanks.  This outstanding Patriot was at all the historical events surrounding the Civil Right struggle in the 1960s, and he is still a fighter today.  My hats is off to him and all the others who participated in the historic changes that contributes to American's greatness today and for years to come- THANKS.

A delightful DVD in the Mist series. I would not miss even one of the DVD, Mist-Sheepdog Tales. I wish there were more avilable. I have a Border Collie, and am actually taking lessons in Sheep herding. This makes these stories so special to me. I am 56 years old, and I love Mist. They are heart warming, gut funny, with precision sheep herding. The stories are written with very clever talent by the real owner of Borough Farm in Devon England. The are simply delightful, and perfect for the whole family to watch. This DVD has Fern learning a lesson,and teaching a lesson, and Mist in her second sheep herding trial, and Jake and a golf ball and his fear of ducks that is a quack up! There is also a story about Macpherson the Ram, and Swift's getting older. These are real sheepdogs, at their real home with their real life Boss(owner). Thank you for asking me to write a review. It was a pleasure.

Wonderful This is a wonderful movie!  I first watched it when I was a teen and now am in my fifties.  Even people that don't care for musicals will love this movie! First rate acting, first rate songs, first rate directing! Watch it once and you will be hooked!

WWII Fan This series helped spark my lifelong interest in WWII. The narration and images all blended together to give one a sense of the drama that those times.

Selena Item arrived on time, was pleased with item and service. Have seen this movie several times on TV. It was nice to view it uncut and no commercials. A nice addition to my Video library. Jennifer Lopez nailed the singer Selena. That was one of the things that made this true story even harder to watch because of the tradgedy of the whole thing. You get a good insight to the short life of Selena and of what a sweetheart she was. A great loss to everyone.

A worrying, odd but excellent film There are so many bits in this film that make you want to turn away. For all of this it is a beautifully crafted film with some important messages. Kubrick really pulls out the stops and the parallels with some of what we see today makes the film even more worrying. Nice introduction to Lord Vader as well!

LOVE IT!!!! I Never get tired of this movie!  I laugh every time!  It's one of my favorites.  I highly recommend it!

Disney Gold Collection Pinocchio DVD Item received was exactly as advertised, and arrived within 3 or 4 days. I am very pleased with this seller!

Amazing movie This movie blew me away in the theaters and I had to own it as soon as a special edition was released. And I loved this edition until the blu ray version came out, because, let's face it, it's looks a helluva lot better on blu ray. But this set did come with some fun goodies that the blu ray didn't. So if you want some fun extras to go along with a great movie, pick up this set.

Excellent hi-def quality Beautiful hi-def print available for rent here brought new life and dimension to this classic. The restoration is incredible and what I would imagine this film looked like when originally released in theaters.

Disney Animated Classic #50: Disney's 50th Animated Feature is a Winner!! Since John Lasseter took over Walt Disney Animation Studios, a trend of quality has been noted in the features released since his commanding. Disney Animation Studios has a rich history and was one of the best (if not the best studio) in the animtion field. But since the 2000s, the studio became less and less succesful with awful movies that not only did not resonate with audiences but also were box office bombs. Since Lasseter took over the studio, only four films (Meet the Robinsons, Bolt, The Princess and the Frog and Tangled)had been released but each one of them are compelling and have pushed the studio up again. Following the phenomenal The Princess and the Frog (which also set the return of glourious hand-drawn animation into the studio), Tangled became Disney's 50th Animated film and I'm happy to report that is a sensational film that proudly fits that milestone.  Struggling almost 8 years in production and costing over $260 million, Tangled had a very troubled production. Formerly knwon as Rapunzel, the title was changed in order to appeal to boys and to draw more money from the box office. While the title change is somewhat a debatable decision, it seems it worked because Tangled became a major box office success earning almost $600 million in receipts. Although the title was changed and the trailers showed a "contemporary" story, make no mistake: Tangled is a tradional musical fairy tale and is a really good one.  I won't tell the plot here but let me tell you that the movie has a lot going for it: a compelling and likeable heroine, a brave and funny hero, adorable animal sideckicks and a memorable villain. Rapunzel is a very strong, free-spirited young woman who is easy to root for, the same can be said for Flynn Ryder the thief with a heart of gold. Pascal the chameleon and Maximus the horse are really funny and Mother Gothel is a very amusing villain. The animators and the voice actors have to be credited for doing such roundable palpable characters.  The animation is simply amazing!!! It's the first time that a CGI Disney film can be up there with the Pixar catalogue. The humans are rendered marvelousy and the sceneries are breathtaking (specially the lantern sequence). But what struck me the most was how amazing Rapunzel's hair is. Is so beautiful and believable that really adds to the picture value.  The score and the songs were done by legend composer Alan Menken and his new lyricist Glenn Slater. While the songs are good and serve their purpose in the film, they are far from memorable. They are not the best Menken has done and they are not at the same level as others like The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast or Aladdin. Still the ones that I really like were "When will my Life Begin?", its reprise and of course the Oscar nominated "I see the Light" (which should've won the Oscar).  Wrapping up, Tangled is an excellent film with outstanding animation, great characters and nice songs. An excellent Disney film.  Video & Audio:  Unsurprisingly by now, Tangled BD looks absolutely spectacualar. A lot of things can be said about the transfer but let me tell you that this disc is demo quality and will completely blew your mind. The same can be said for the 7.1 DTS-HD MA track which is dynamic, clear and potent.  The DVD also boasts a fairly impressive transfer for SD and a good 5.1 Dolby Audio.  Bonus Material:  You have some deleted scenes, two storybooks openings, a 50th animated countdown (which is great), a making-of featurette, two extended songs and 9 teasers.  While all the material is great, the making-of featurette feels really promotional and too short to be entirely valuable. I was hoping for a more compelling documentary that will talk about the music in the film, the anination and the production overall. Overall they are entertaining pieces but Disney could've done a lot more in the special features department.  Sneek Peeks:  You got some interesting Sneek peeks like:  The Lion King: Diamond Edition (Coming this fall!!!) Winnie the Pooh (in theaters July 15, same day as Harry Potter) Cars 2 (in theaters June 24) Dumbo: 70th Anniversary (not release date but is definetely coming this year) The Incredibles on BD (already released)  And more that for me are not worth mentioning. Also is worth noting that in an insert that came in the box, The Fox and the Hound: 30th Anniversary Edition and TFATH2 are also listed in a 2-movie collection 3-disc combo pack which will include a BD and a DVD for the original film and one DVD for the cheapquel. This set is going to be released this September.  Final Thoughts:  Tangled is another example that Disney is recapturing its magic again and delivering good quality animated films. With stunning video and excellent audio and a good (if lacking) assortment of bonus features, Tangled is a must-own title on BD. This set is great for the majority of us who won't buy 3D crap and doesn't care for digital copies. Tangled on BD comes highly recommended!!!

frenzy this is one of Hitchcock's best films! I have an issue with my internet speed and i was unable to stream the film with my compute but this film from this era is "Fantastic" the precursor to "Blue Velvet"

The Longest Day Rated a five because of the storyline. Not a big fan of black and white movies however. John Wayne plays a strong part along with other numerous popular actors. If interested in such movies, you will certainly enjoy it.

Excellent Movie I've watched this movie a couple of times now and always get something new out of it.  Definately worth the watch.  It will, hopefully, open peoples eyes to a new way of living.

A Classic -- Better than the book! This film is an Absolute Must for the Halloween Season. A beautiful vehicle for the young Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman (who used much of what she learned here in her Bewitched movie with Will Ferrell), this is a wonderful mix of comedy and classic horror, with some womanpower thrown in for good measure.I actually designed and made a copy of the fabulous brown sweater Nicole wears (without pants!). The clothes are just gorgeous as is the setting and the house. Dianne Weist and Stockard Channing are also perfect; the three generations playing off each other makes it interesting for parents and children also, tho not too young children. After I saw this movie I looked up the book on which it was based.  This is one instance when the script and the screenplay outdo the book, as Emma Thompson did with Sense and Sensibility. All in all, a great thing to have on the DVD when the families come through your house for Trick or Treat! Soundtrack is also great.

It just keeps getting Better! I love Boy Meets World, and was jumping up and down when I heard they were finally releasing the fifth season, and now even the sixth one is out. It just keeps getting better! It was well worth what I paid for it because I watch it all the time. So does my younger brother and he's not even a nineties kid! Thank You Lionsgate for releasing Boy Meets World on DVD box sets and Thanks for making it affordable. I know a lot of other nineties TV shows did'nt make it to being released and if they did the prices are through the roof...

The Family That Preys Love this movie!  Any movie with Kathy Bates is great, but this is just a heart-warmer along with being dysfunctional.

My new favorite movie. Maggie Smith at her finest.  If Mr Bean's antics made you uncomfortable, you will think better of Rowan Atkinson in this film.  Kristin Scott Thomas shows a new side to her rather subdued personality that is delightful.  And Patrick Swayze!  Roadhouse or Ghost this is not.  I never knew he had sleazy in his repertoire.  Granted I am a sucker for the British flicks, but this one keeps me thinking about the characters, and the fact that things can't get that bad if you have a nice deep pond. Enjoy

Audio Quality? I cannot find that anyone has commented on the audio quality.  My question is about the audio format.  Does it have a 5.1 surround sound track?  How about a 7.1 audio track?  I would hope that by now, the USA Blu-ray productions audio would finally catch up to the magnificent European productions that contain 7.1 DTS Master audio.  I realize that the description by Amazon lists the audio as DTS 5.1 HD.  My experience (sad to say) is that this info is not always accurate.  I am hoping to get a confirmation from someone who has played the Blu-ray disc.  Thanks for the help.

Much better than youtube My girlfriend/fiance watched this as a child. We were over at her friend's place and it was somehow brought up in conversation and then on TV via youtube which had poor picture and sound quality. The DVD is 100% better and well worth the price. She was very happy too since I gave it to her as a Valentine's present. I guess it brings back childhood memories for her.

Oswald Disney Treasure This is a fantastic collection of the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit shorts from the 1920s. It comes with an Oswald button and a card with sketches from a lost Oswald cartoon. Great addition to your Disney library. I just wish they were still making these!

Goodnight.  Goodbye! This movie is a great testament to what The Band had accomplished in their "short" 16 year career together.  Some have mentioned how Robbie Robertson seemed to come off as the star of the show, but this was only natural as he and Martin Scorsese were at the biginning of their friendship.  It's great to see Richard Manuel's humor in his story telling and Rick Danko's lovable demeanor.  I had always wished that they could have included more of Garth Hudson's thoughts about The Band.  A true genius is Mr. Hudson, while Mr Helm was a little grumpy.  Anyway, I was lucky enough to see the film when it first came out and I was just amazed by how powerful their music seemed to me.  Their playing and singing that night (Thanksgiving, 1976) let everyone know that they were still at the top of their game.  Maybe too, there was always a sense of sadness because the viewer knows that this was it for The Band.  As I look at this film again, the sadness is amplified by the fact that Messers Danko and Manuel have left life's stage, as well as some of their guests of that night.  This film is truly great!  When I first saw it, the picture was really dark. Now it's color is bright.  If you're interested in the music of The Band and you haven't seen it, please do so!  I bought my copy through Amazon.com.

Up To Date with Ben Hur I found this an excellent Buy, but have not yet had time to View the complete DVD.However, the Literature enclosed is outstanding & interesting. Very good indeed,L. Rhodes.

No happy ending...hard to watch I didn't know what to expect when I rented this movie. I find a variety of genres interesting and I try to keep an open mind.  This movie is very gritty and hard to watch from start to finish. It is not a simple, typical story about backwoods redneck bumpkins. It has a very interesting story line. The teen doesn't have time to worry about herself - she has less than a week to find her felon father or lose the shack that she lives in with her younger siblings and mentally ill mother. She goes through several situations that a man should be dealing with, but she has no one to help her. You won't get any satisfaction in the end - there is no real happy ending. She is never rescued or comforted by a love interest.  I liked the movie because I felt like I was watching something real...it wasn't sugar-coated. There are a couple of disturbing violent/morbid events. Forget all of the typical stories about rednecks living a hard life, smoking cigarettes, sleeping around, etc. These people are one gene above wild animals. They only have two speeds: #1. What's in it for me and #2. Anger. I thought this was a very well-written script, great acting by all, and great directing.  If you'd like to watch a movie that will take you from the emotional lows of a hard life to highs of triumph, watch "In the Pursuit of Happiness".

Awesome!  Hillarious! This is a very funny movie and i really loved it! The story was terrific. What a great spin off of the old fairy tales from years ago! I think anyone with a sense of humor would enjoy this one!!!

Down Periscope We have watched this movie over and over we Love it, it's funny without being stupid. Kelsey Grammer is perfect for the part he played and the other cast members were outstanding also.

funny this movie is one of the best and funniest movie we have ever seen I loved the one liners in it and also the actors were selected very well they fit the part Gene Hackman was great.

Sing a long This has been a great gift to sing a long to with our daugther. & new oldie to add to our coollection. package was great disc in excellant condition & fast shipping!

Great movie If you loved Dirty Dancing the original, then you will love this one as well.  Since it is set in pre Castro Havana, you will also learn a little bit of Cuban history.  The dancing is wonderful.

Classic Disney Favorite I remember Snow White from when I was a child and I used to watch it often. I bought this for my 1 year old daughter and neither her or my 2 year old son seemed interested past the first 2 minutes of it. Tried to put it in a few weeks ago, which is now about 10 months later and we all sat through it. I forgot how cute of a movie this was. My kids are really into all the different animals now and they kept saying look at all the animals and the princess. I think the classics are just as popular now as they were back when we were children, we just have to introduce them to our children and they will actually watch them and enjoy it.

One of the best movies I've ever seen! Only a few movies are this entertaining.  It didn't take much acting to top Jakes previous movies.  AWESOME!  I bought the Blue ray/dvd/digital copy.  These deals work great when you have blue ray in the master sweet and dvd in the living room. Digital copy for kids? haha

a blast from the past! i really got a kick out of seasons 2 and 3 of TOS remastered edition, as there was a strong undercurrent in those seasons, of the late 60s vibe back down on earth. i was born a decade too late, and [aside from worrying about the draft] would've loved to be a young adult in that hopeful era. the hair/sideburns were getting longer and the speech more mod-hip-slangy, and the dialogue more risque [i especially got a jolt when bones talked about bisexual tribbles! HAHA!! the 60s-era NBC censors had to be asleep or distracted by the ribald goings-on with Laugh-In]. as it was, i was a school-aged kid who watched Star Trek when it first came out on NBC, and i sat in the box which contained our family's brand-new Setchell-Carson console color tv set, and back in those days the TV color palette was on the fluorescent side, and everything on Star Trek looked like it was painted in day-glow colors. this remastered TOS edition brings back those vivid glowing colors perfectly, on relatively neutral modern flat panel TVs no less. and the soundtrack is in crystal-clear stereo surround to give the subwoofers a workout! aside from the distraction of my rambling "review," I HIGHLY RECOMMENDED THIS to trekkies and curious others.

Hillarious This is a hillarious movie. i thought that it was very funny. adam sandler is hillarious as jill. jack was okay but he made jill stand out all the way. if you like stupid humor then you should see this movie. if you have not seen this movie then i recommend you do.

Exactly what I wanted I purchased this DVD (About Last Night) because it's been a long time since I first saw it - and never found it anywhere else to see it again - it reminds me my middle twenties... So, I finally found it at amazon and it was very easy to buy the DVD, specially considering that I'm brazilian and live in Rio de Janeiro. Thank you Ana Beatriz Montenegro

R.I.P. Donna Summer I am too young to have experienced disco, but this is one of the films that makes me wish I had been able to truly experience the 1970's. Yeah, it's cheesy. The acting's not that great. But it's about a mood... a feeling. And every so often I revisit this little film to "live" a bit of the disco era. Just found out that Donna Summer died. Beautiful lady with a powerful voice. Watching it this overcast Saturday morning in her memory.  R.I.P. Ms. Summer.

Zookeeper Loved this movie. Kevin James is always so funny. We always love seeing Donnie Wahlberg! We saw this movie at the theater and we knew it was a must have! All around good film for the entire family.

The Special Longer Version I own this version of the film and it is pretty good.  But what I am wondering is Where is the "Special Longer Version"???  This is the version that was always available on VHS and seems to have never been released on DVD or Blu Ray.  What we need is a triple DVD and Blu Ray release of this movie that contains 1. The "Special Longer Version", 2. The "Directors Edition", and 3. the original "Theatrical Version".  I gave the movie 5 stars because its Star Trek and I am such a big fan of the entire saga.

North by Northwest This is one of the classic Aflred Hitchcock movies with Cary Grant.  My wife has watched it several times over the years on VHS.  I wanted to get it for her on DVD.  We both enjoy watching this movie.  I stongly recommend it

Heart pounding Always love movies that give you the sense that you are flying.  I enjoyed the teen male bonding, and sense of indestructibility.  Reminded me of Breaking Away and Carrie.

Pirates...again! Thought it had a tv movie/straight to DVD feel to it, the movie flowed very well and gave me the perminate smile like the other movies in this epic saga.

Greg Kinnear's performance I saw this film when it came out and found it thoroughly heart warming. What I missed was Greg Kinnear's finely turned performance as the father. True he was nine years older than when he turned in his Oscar nominated Best Supporting Actor performance in "As Good As It Gets." It was easy to overlook his performance there in favor of his model good looks. But seeing the film again recently, he accomplishes a marvel portraying a gentle but not effeminate Gay man who is totally devoted to his work as an artist. Fast forward nine years to "Little Miss Sunshine." He is now forty six and well into middle age. The good looks are blunted but still there. He is now portraying a father just as convincingly as he portrayed a drop dead gorgeous young Gay man. The two performances are an object lesson in acting which submerges the actor completely into the character. For comparable subtlety and skill I can think of only Meryl Streep. It's time this phenomenally gifted actor received the parts and recognition he deserves! "Little Miss Sunshine" is a wonderful film, but try watching it with your attention focused on Kinnear. It's a revelation.

Excellent! If you dont own the blu ray version yet, this is the one to buy.  My only complaint is that it is the cheaper type of blu-ray book where the disc rests in a sleeve rather than the plastic disc holder of better Blu-Books.

Paul Walker rules Screw the Fast and the Furious Films, this is the best Paul Walker movie ever. If you love dogs, then this movie is a must own!

Best Western ever Well, it may or may not be the best Western ever made, but it certainly is my all-time favorite. The characters are terrificly engrossing, the script is terrific, and of course the acting is top notch with Jimmy Stewart, Lee Marvin, & John Wayne.  The film is about a small time lawyer (Stewart) who makes a name for himself after killing the baddest bandito around (Marvin) in what seemed to be a one-sided gun duel. The lawyer then parlays his sudden fame into a political career culminating with a chance to become President.  But, the film takes some unexpected twists & turns that holds the audiences attention.  A must see for any fan of the genre.

Awesome Must Have DVD and One To Buy For Others Forks Over Knives provides logical reasoning to back up what so many people have experienced and claim to be the truth. Our SAD Sad American Diet is killing us. Do not listen to the loud voices you heard via the media about how great meat and dairy are. Don't fall for the fast food ads. They are all from industries out to make money and that is all. Sadly, God's "Do unto others...." doctrine is ignored because many in these industries would choose to even poison their own family members if it meant making money. Do you all remember when years ago - was it a couple of decades ago? that it was found that a company was selling tainted baby food! Raw fruits and veggies contain living enzymes REQUIRED by us to live! Read The Enzyme Factor. Dr. Shinya does think some meat is okay, and I am not sure about that, but he explains enzymes well from a scientific point of view. If you need guidance in how to go about going vegan, check out Hallelujah Acres and Rev. Malkmus in Shelby, NC. He cured himself of cancer in 1976 by going vegan and juicing and has helped thousands around the world, including many doctors, nurses and ministers. The concept of benefits of a vegan diet is not new. Have a blessed day and rejoice - God gave us self healing bodies when we provide our bodies with the right fuel!

change your thought change your life - Wayne Dyer Great book, and the learning is amazing, some of the chapters are happening right in front of my eyes.  This is a truly insperational book.  Not just for a ready but life changing!!

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Good video Had to have this video. Mental illness is so overlooked in our society and healthcare dollars are shrinking to help people suffering from it. Russel Crowe is great.

spaceballs (la folle histoire de l'espace ) tr&egrave;s beau coffret qui contient tenez vous le blu-ray et le dvd , tout cela en zone a et 1 beaucoup de bonus dans le blu-ray avec les anciens acteurs et mel brook . du d&eacute;lire assur&eacute; . star wars , allien , magicien d'oz en prennent pour leur grade mais avec un grand humour !  &agrave; voir et &agrave; revoir petits et grands de 7 &agrave; 77ans .  :-))))

whatever should be in 4x3 and I'll tell you why all Kubrick films except 2001 and maybe Eyes there is image on the top and bottom where the stupid black bars are for your modern day lcd/led/3D tv sets I watched these movies when they were on vhs when they were in 4x3 and in a nut shell he filled that lens in a box frame not a rectangle or a big rectangle but a square there are important images on top and bottom to fill the ol movie screens and ol tube tv sets. It's bull every movie before 2000 was mostly filmed without bars now its understandable you make a movie in a circle frame or any shape technology is that deranged. Even the new Godfathers 1/2 are wrong. Again missing imagery cropped from top and bottom because of tv technology which are all RECTANGLE I don't care what Lord Bullington/Leon says. Look at all the Kubrick 4x3 and compare to the now black framed and you'll see there is top/bottom detail missing. But I have to live with Blue Ray because it's better than all the past 1999 versions and prior since Laser disc quality/old technology couldn't be helped. Still I miss the image that was once there and now gone and to me it is significant like taking a expensive square work of art and cut the top and bottom to make it a rectangle it's insane. your friend, Stanley Kubrick I REPEAT THIS REVIEW HAS MERIT BUT LEON IS RIGHT I COMPARED THE 4X3 VIDEO AND THE BLUE RAY DVD AND THERE IS NOTHING MISSING SO MY REVIEW WAS WRONG BUT SOME OF THE OTHERS LIKE THE SHINING YES IT'S CROPPED. THE BLUE RAY IS THE DEFINITIVE BEEN CLEANED UP AND DONE WITH 2011 TECHNOLOGY WHY DON'T THEY PUT OUT A REGULAR ONE DOES EVERYONE HAVE BLUE RAY?

A Great Film to watch again and again This movie is truly a great film complete with an all star cast and unlike most science fiction movies this one is not predictable....you just don't know how its going to turn out until it happens.

Very pleased I wanted to get some Disney classics for my daughter, and I was very pleased with the description of this DVD and how quickly it shipped.

Son loves it Item received quickly and my son just loves this movie series.  He is able to watch a mini-movie and play a game on our computer.

Endearing! An awesome movie to make you smile with tears in your eyes.  This is an excellent example that you are as young/old as you feel.

This is really a nothing movie In one word, BORING! Plot is made clear in first minutes and best done are constant same look on face of lead actor appears keep him dancing as acting is nothing he can do, same expression over and over no matter what is happening. Beyond, no one in it brightens it one bit. In a word? BOOOOOOO

It's ok This movie is not as good as Ong Bak With Tony Jaa...If I were you Do not get this movie..I think it will be a waste of money..But this is just me how i feel...

Purchase Regrets The subtitles were often very difficult to read (white letters on white background etc) and sometimes flashed on screen to quickly to read.  It was too long and boring at times.  Had I known that the movie had subttiles I wouldn't have purchased it.  I read many reviews but none of them mentioned subtitles.  Now for the movie, the storyline is not bad but not that great either.  I definitely would not recommend this movie.

Waste of Time I have no experience with Ultraviolet, so I will just stick to the movie. Don't bother with this one. I really don't know what everyone saw in this movie. If I wanted to see Hangover, I would watch the original again, not a stale, copy placed in another country. Same settings and even lines as the first one, and they seemed to stretch scenes to help this piece of junk limp along. If youve seen the first one, you could anticipate the points of plot change in this one. Even same Kanye and Cash in the Soundtrack, really, they cant even change it up a little? I really like the first one, but I couldn't even finish this one, as I didn't care about it and I could pretty much guess how the last 30-40 min would play out. The jokes were to the point where I was looking at my girl wondering if I was missing something as there was silence between us(all of the funnier scenes were in the trailers, so if you saw that, don't go any further). No content, weak acting, humorless attempt; but just a horrible excuse to capitalize on a great first movie. Of course they would in this business, but I ended up leaving the room to finish my damn laundry...really! I borrowed this from a friend and I am so glad I didn't waste my time paying for this in the movies or on BR, cause I would certainly ask for my money back.  Show Hollywood that you expect more by avoiding this.

-10 stars a bent and twisted book put to film. rotten acting and screenplay. meyers world is a joke. the only reason this movie made money is because the education system has gone down the toilet and people cant read anything complex.

Disappointing movie I was sadly disappointed in this movie.  I would think it would show the continuing lives of the characters as they got older in a positive way.  Instead it was a doom and gloom movie.  Everything seeemed to go wrong.  This was supprising after the end of the series that showed things going so well and open hearts.  They seemed to lack compassion.  I was sorry that I went to the movie theatre and actually paid to see this movie.  Everyone is different but I cannot for the life of me see why more positive things were not in the movie and the growing lives of the characters.  Instead they seemed to move backwards in their growth.  The series, "Sex and the City" is by far much better.

negative review - there is a color problem with the dvd there is a color problem with this dvd.  it has a purple/green cast to it.  i presumed i could not return for a credit/replacement since i opened the jacket.

Sucks Don't waste your money on this movie unless you are into the crappy cable version of this movie cuz thats what it is.

Extreme Right-Wing Fringe Propaganda This film is a complete fanatical right-wing paranoid delusion from the mind of Dinesh D'souza, who has been widely denounced by any and all reputable news sources for his fascist, non-fact based views. He believes that President Obama, who met his Kenyan born father only once when he was 10 years old, is now under the spell of what he calls "...a post-colonial mindset."  This film is a racist propaganda film on par with the vile lies of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.  DO NOT WATCH THIS ANTI-AMERICAN PROPAGANDA.

Ten Commandments (2 Disk Blu-raay Set) Poor Quality "Ten Commandments"  The outside box said Blu-ray), the two disk marked DVD on inside.  The quality was the worest DVD I have ever purchased.  It was not Blu-ray - 1080P as I Paid for and ordered.  I have requested a replacement Blu-ray 1080P that I orderd at no cost to me, no response.  I request other customers send me information on how to get Amazon to live up to their advertisement.  PS  I Connected with Cathy of Customer Service, she did an outstanding job.  She has set up a replacement 2-Blu-ray-1080P disk to be sent to me.  She will set up a link for me to print a prepaid UPS form, to send DVD disk to Amazon.  Cathy of Amazon, did a good job,to restore my faith in the Company.  Ralph

Could not wait until is was over! Let me first start out that I do not read the books, I just watch the movies. I have always found the movies good entertainment and good movies in which to have children watching. In fact I have always look at the Harry Potter movies as children's movies along the lines of the Wizard of Oz from my day. However this movie was a chore to watch. I keep looking at the time remaining to see when it would end. The acting was amateurish, the lighting terrible and a poor transition to DVD with too much pixilation and a story hard to follow. This movie was too dark, moody and I hate to say it, a little too violent. This is not a movie I would want my kid to watch. It was nowhere in keeping with the genre of the other Harry Potter movies. What a waste of money and time watching this painfully BAD movie. This just seem to be a way for the franchise to cash in on the popularity of the other movies and they could care less if the movie was any good. It is like they just wanted to get something out so they can get the money from the movie and the movie tie-in games. If you don't agree with this assessment fine as this is MY opinion about this movie, Not your opinion! Base on some comments I guess some people still do not GET I. I am making a opinion on the Movie NOT the book. Very few movies based on books are true to the book. Books take hours to read movies do not! As a movie that is part of the Harry Potter franchise and comparing it to the other Harry Potter movies I think this one is TERRIBLE!!!!!!! I do like all the other movies in the Harry Potter franchise!

Abysmal...!!! The Green Hornet played as a buffoon. New Blu-Ray copies of this title are selling for just a couple of $$s... this should give you some idea of what a piece of garbage the movie is.  It's all been said before and the film has been almost universally panned, except for a handful of people who must be related to Seth Rogan, clearly the movie's weakest link. Rogan is grossly miscast and should stick to dumb comedies where his stupid attitude and smart mouth may find some degree of acceptance with a pre-pubescent schoolboy audience. Which misguided soul told this jerk he was funny..??? The casting agent for The Green Hornet movie should be taken outside and given a good slapping.  That being said, the movie as a whole is an interminable yawnfest. It took me three goes to sit through it before I tossed the dvd into the bin. This piece of cinematic pig swill makes one yearn for the Van Williams / Bruce Lee television series of the mid-60s.  Don't waste your money. Not funny enough to be a comedy. Too stupid to be an actioner. A total waste of celluloid.

It Looks like VHS! The quality of the blu-ray is about the poorest I have ever seen. What was the purpose of the transfer? I wish we'd kept the DVD.  And, by the way, the front insert says, "BEYOND HIGH DEFINITION." Total lie. Total rip-off.

Into the Wild Sean Penn is a big fat idiot. Even Hurt and Holbrook can't save this dog. I'd rather watch Julie Andrews singing "The Hills are alive with the Sound of Music", and folks you know that's painful.

Very disappointing Kate Beckinsale is back as Selene in a tight, black leather costume as usual.  This is the best part of the movie.  She is HOT!!!! The fourth entry of the "underworld" franchise is not enjoyable at all.  The film has a very underdeveloped (being nice) storyline. You do not connect with any character including Selene, which is hard to accomplish since you know her back story.  Action scenes are OK, but the film drags terribly when there isn't fighting.  I kept waiting for the movie to pick up or end.  It was unfortunately a contest that shouldn't be in your mind during a movie. Some of the story finally has a little more depth at the end but the clearest item was that there will be another one.

EUROPEAN FACIALS VOL 3 IS A JOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This DVD is worthless I wouldnt recommend it to my worst enemy. I was expecting really cool girls having some sexy fun. I was heartbroken to see its true colors. These so called girls should be ashamed of themselves!!!!!!!!!!!

boo I love the people in the movie, sadly the only time I laughed was when a cat jumped on a persons shoulder and scared them.

Great movie si-fi movie lovers are going to be hooked on it! Great movie Sy-Fy movie lovers are going to be hooked on it! It was so worth the 12 dollars i spent to get it.

This movie is supposed to be funny? Ok, I wasnt going to chime in with my critque of this movie, but after reading some of the reviews I felt compelled to add my two cents.  I bought this for my wife as a birthday gift because we had heard how hilariously funny this movie was.  My friend's fiance even went as far to see that this was one of the funniest movies of all time.  We had numerous people tell us how funny this movie was.  Add that to the glowing reviews from rotten tomatoes and you have some very high expectations to live up to.  We were very excited to watch this movie.  I cant even begin to tell you how disappointed we both were once we started watching it. Let me add that I like low brow movies just like anyone else.  I really liked Knocked Up, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, etc.  However, I also did not find The Hangover very funny, but I liked that movie a lot better than this one.  Like other reviewers have pointed out, the funniest parts (the few of them that were there) were in the previews.  I probably laughed a total of 3 times.  The rest of the time, I was wondering how long it would be until the movie was over.  My wife even fell asleep watching it.  How many times have we seen a movie where people get diarrhea at the worst possible moment and do something zany?  Seen it a million times before.  Does this movie have that?  Check.  It is supposed to be funny just because women are doing it now?  Also, how many times have you seen what I like to call the "sing-a-long" scene?  You know, the "funny" part of the movie when the characters lip sync to a song that was once a guilty pleasure for many people.  Does this movie have that?  Check.  I could have sworn that Harold and Kumar lip synced to the same song.  More or less, what I am trying to say is that this movie has been done 100 times before, but just because it is women doing it now, it is REALLY funny because it is out of the ordinary for them?  Yawn.  I wish I would have saved my time and money.

Horrible movie Had a few funny parts but it was really crude and disappointing. Jason Segel needs to redeem himself after such a long, in-funny comedy.

Appalling The only reason I endured this piece of dreck was to watch a few scenes (albeit somewhat brief) of the young Angela Jolie cavorting about in her birthday suit. IMHO there are no other redeeming qualities to compel one with any sense of dignity and taste to subject themselves to this film. Are there worse examples out there?... of course but not many (watch 'Titus' with Anthony Hopkins & Jessica Lange for that distinction).

Disappointing After watching the preview of the movie at the beginning of another DVD, I tried to find it for rental.  Unfortunately I couldn't locate it, so I decided to buy the DVD.  I should have given up when it was not available as a rental...after watching about 30 minutes of this amateurishly made foreign film, I shut the player off.  Complete waste of my money!!

Hypocritical How can they show that much skin and still promote Christianity when the Bible says that women are to dress modestly?

Ultravision - will not buy This rating is not about the movie, but about the digital copy technology. I have three other Ultra Vision titles (HP, Hangover 2 and Edgar) and the Ultravision digital copy is terrible. I travel (plane travel to EU and Asia) alot and having these digital copies is useless as you cannot watch on the plane. Not to mention if you are in a hotel, you would have to use the internet service there (most hotels you need to pay for this), or use the 3 or 4g service of your ipad and chew up your data plan. I have also tried to correspond with Flixster and their customer service is awful, I submitted a "ticket" to them back around Jan. 18 and (on March 19) the issue is still not resolved.  Very poor planning and even worse execution. I can't believe there are still movies being released with this technology.

That's not how its suppose to be When I saw this movie I was not too happy with it. It just didn't make sense to me how one man could take down an entire clan of ninjas. That's like an ant winning against a human, its just not possible. Even the grandmaster who has spent his whole life studying martial arts and the art of being a ninja was bested by his own student. Sure it is possible, but against 100 other well trained ninjas? Just too fictinal for me.

50th Anniversary Edition = 4 star movie with 0 star transfer I enjoy the movie, however the quality of the transfer is horrible on the 50th Anniversary DVD release of this movie. Not only is the film very grainy, it also appears that the video has horrible compression. I can't believe that any company would put out such a poor quality product and place thier name on it.  I also own The Muppet Movie (1979) and the quality is decent, which makes it puzzling as to why a movie released 2 years later (1981) is of much lesser quality. It's almost like they grabbed an old VHS copy, transferred it, added a menu and threw it on a DVD.  Hopefully Disney's quick-and-cheap to market strategy earned them enough money over the years to focus on putting cleaner improved copies out there as titles are released on Blu-Ray.  There's no way this movie came from something other than a multi-generation copy of the original. If you didn't get enough grain in your diet, pick this one up you'll be good for life.  The only positives being that it was affordable and available on DVD, it's still a classic muppet movie...

It was probably supposed to be campy This was supposed to be a film noir version with camp.  Didn't work.  Costumes and acting were good.  Goofball ending.  Sorry I watched it.

Barbie you dropped the ball on this one My girls(7&4) look forward to every new Barbie movie & we have them all!  This was a rushed bunch of junk. The movies were getting Sooo good for a while Island Princess, Thumbalina, Princess & The Pauper  even I liked watching them. Please get it together your viewers are young & they miss the singing & princess's.

Horrible movie ever made!!! Not worth your time to watch unless its free and still it isn't completely worth it. It's not scary or suspenseful at all this movie isn't anything but horrible.

Cure for insomnia Wow, what can I say that the title of this review doesn't already cover? I had been suffering from insomnia for weeks. My son had been bugging me to see this movie, so I gave in. Barely halfway through and I fell asleep. This movie was interminable, as Jack was still mincing around to that annoying score when I awoke. I looked over to see my sons were also as entertained as I was, both of them snoring away. While I only gave this film one star, I will be certain to purchase it when it does come to DVD. It definitely has a place in my collection as it is a sure cure for those sleepless nights.

One STAR is way to much credit for the movie. This movie made no sense what so ever. Turned it off after 10 min. Do not spend your money on this film... You've Been Warned!

Only one good thing about this movie Okay, when I first saw this I had never seen a single episode of the TV show, I had heard about it yes, but never seen it.  We were bored and had nothing else to do so we rented this movie and watched it on the recommendation of a friend.  O my GOSH what an awful movie, as someone  who never saw the TV series I wasn't disappointed by the COMPLETE AND UTTER LACK OF STAYING TRUE TO THE ORIGINAL STORY, but the whole thing was stupid.  Instead of some quick "bending" action almost every single fight seen was put into slow motion, okay, a little is fine, 95% of it, no it was very boring.  The dialog was awful, it doesn't matter that the actors where/are mostly kids, kids can act if they know how and are given proper DIRECTION, but whoever wrote this was just, oh I don't know, they sent their brain on vacation for that time.  It was pathetic, something that should have been dramatic and emotional just made you want to laugh. The story didn't even make sense, instead of feeling for these people who are really in dire situations you are just left trying to figure out what is going on.  Now, I did say that there is ONE good thing about this movie and that is that it got me interested in seeing the TV series, and boy, what an AWESOME series!!!  It has everything: action, adventure, a little romance, creativity, and it's funny, really really funny at times.  This movie didn't have an iota of humor in it, and one of the funniest characters in the TV show, Uncle Iroh, (my personal favorite character) doesn't even look like he does in the TV show, NOT AT ALL!!!  Since when are the Fire Nation people Middle Eastern?  They all have very pale skin in the TV show!  Zuko looks nothing like he should, Sokka is too old, Iroh is too thin, the list goes on and on.  Another major thing is: how in the world are they going to continue with the next two movies? (which I sadly heard is that M. Night is going to make three movies) They left out countless characters that have big roles in the next two seasons of the TV show.  If this is how he wanted to make the movie, he should just have changed enough of the last little bit and made up something entirely new, at least it wouldn't disappoint as many people that way.  In the extras DVD that comes with the TV series there is an interview between the creators of the TV show (geniuses) and the man who directed this movie.  In it he (M. Night Shayamalan) talks to the creators about how he was introduced to the show and how much he really loved it and how he thought he could make a great movie out of it.  Well, something changed between then and when he actually made it because the way the movie is you'd think it was made by some guy who had a friend's 4 yr old try to tell him about the TV show, that's the level of knowledge about the show he seems to possess.  Everyone in my house enjoys the TV show, we've now watched all three seasons,and we all decided that the only good that came of watching this movie was that it led us to the greatness that is Avatar: the Last Airbender.  If you are already a fan of the TV show and you've seen this movie, you know what I'm talking about.  If you haven't seen this movie or the TV show, then forget about this (it won't taint you memory that way) and just buy the TV series.

Seriously? This movie is indicative of the decline of the movie industry.  Apparently all creativity has disappeared.  This is another terrible remake of something that didn't need to be remade or re-imagined.  Don't waste your money.

this is a really bad movie the casting & acting is horrible, and the story is just dumb. not scary at all. don't waste your time.

Don't call this Art No I don't think these people are artist. Not even close. I watched 20 minutes of this documentary and painting after painting was nothing more than a mess of colors painted onto a canvas. You want to see real artists at work? See "Exit through the gift shop" documentary or watch some anime.

Bad DVD with Misleading Title "Produced by George Martin" is false advertising.  It should really be called "Giles Martin's Home Movie of George Martin's Career".  When I bought this DVD, I thought I was gonna get an insight to producing by George Martin, especially with all the subjects that were part of the DVD like Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr.  I thought it was going to be similar to Geoff Emerick's book on engineering at Abbey Road entitled  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592402690">Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles</a>.  Instead what I got was a "This Is Your Life" style home movie that George probably ok'd to give his son a producing credit.  It's a shame that such a brilliant man of 85 is not doing more to protect and enhance his legacy.  Do NOT buy this DVD.  It's an utter waster of time!

Crapola I am attempting to watch this movie on SyFy right now. It is extremely terrible. Please do not waste your hard earned money on this piece of trash. The acting is terrible as well as the special effects and the story. I was only able to watch 15 minutes of this. Too bad I can't go back in time to get those minutes back.

Disappointed I give this a one star out of 5 for the following reasons:  1) I love cute teen comedies like "10 Things I Hate about You," "Can't Hardly Wait," "17 Again," "Never Been Kissed," and everything by John Hughes, and this one doesn't even come close to those  2) The acting was really, really, really bad from everyone (even amazing actors like Stanley Tucci, Patricia Clarkson, Lisa Kudrow, and Thomas Hayden Church)  3) The script/plot was all over the place and maybe I'm just used to unrushed, yet fun and interesting movies like the ones mentioned in #1, but I had no idea what was going on or what the hell anyone was talking about. Or maybe I'm just slow :)  4) The movie did not feel genuine. Before you say, "IT'S A MOVIE!" a quality teen comedy can suspend your disbelief and make you reminisce/cringe (in a good way.) In one of my favorites, "17 Again," where a disgrunted businessman (Matthew Perry) is switched in the body of his high school self (Zack Efron) so he can go back and help his own kids who are in high school and try to repair the relationship with his estranged wife (Leslie Mann,)the acting is amazing. Zack Efron has great chemistry with everyone from his weirdo best friend to his "wife" to his "son." The feelings feel real and the movie, although fun and fast-paced takes it's time and hardly ever feels like the writers are "trying too hard,"--maybe once or twice. Easy A was the total opposite. I didn't feel a connection with any of the characters or the script on any level.  5) It is embarrassing that scripts this bad are not only produced, but actually do well. To me, this was the high school equivalent of "Dude, Where's My Car?"  6) I didn't even have the patience to finish this. I would rather watch Jersey Shore, and I hate Jersey Shore.

Not Another Awful Satire Not Another Teen Movie satires the teen movie genre but it has no plot, it just a mishmash of skits satirizing teen movies in popular culture such as Bring It On, Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club, Can't Hardly Wait, American Pie and American Beauty. The premise of satirizing high school movies was a promising idea but Not Another Teen Movie turned it into a completely dreadful mess. The jokes you can see coming a mile away as it was this crude, vile, filthy potty mouth humor which is suitable for a fifth grader. The trailer for this movie was more entertaining than the entire movie itself.

7 year old grandson very angry and disappointed Sooooo short!  Way too much money for a short, unsatisfying Lego adventure.  Sorry I bought it.  My grandson and my husband, both Lego fans, were so angry and disappointed.  Thought the story was absolutely lame.  The jokes did not make up for the disappointment.

alot of violence with no satisfaction at the end "The man from no where" goes no where with the plot. It is a movie with lots of violence to find a missing child. And by the end of the movie the child is still orphaned, living on the streets. The hero is a broken person who goes to jail. What a downer, disappointment.

Brad Pitt is soooo bad! This could have been such a good movie, but watching Brad Pitt try to act kept drawing me out of this movie.

It wasn't what I thought it was It's a great movie, but I can't watch the one that I recieved.  When I ordered this product I didn't know what "region 2" meant.  Now I know that it means my player won't play it as it was manufactured for a different kind of player evidently manufactured in the UK.  In as much as it would cost me more than I paid for it, I simply threw it away and will eat the cost.  My mistake.  Lesson learned.  It's still a great movie, but for those of you not living in "region 2" it won't do you any good.

I've seen this before A cute, big eyed alien lands in a saucer, befriends children on bicycles, and makes a phone call. It is a very cute British children's film from 1955 called SUPERSONIC SAUCER. It was laughable watching Spielberg remake this film in 1977 as CLOSE ENCOUNTERS (several versions; he strives for perfection, after all) and in 1982 as E.T., not to mention 1987 as *BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED. He continues to remake this British film. It is now vomitous. Are we not lucky to have "fresh" visions and "talented" filmmakers among us? Look up at the sky with a stupid expression if you disagree.

this is not s movie alright! Horrible. Confusing. Not even to be considered "artsy ". The only good parts were Slash's music and a deleted scene.  Very disappointed because I love Edward Furlong. It's the biggest waste of time since "Drive ".

Boo!!!! This movie [both of them] is a disgrace!!!!!!!!!! Even Brooke Shields hates she was even in it!!!!!  And the second was just awful with a capital A for awful. I never ever want to see either of these movies again!!!!

Was never able to download I was neve able to download the movie and never down a solution to e problem ...it only said that I may have logged in with another account..I don't have another account!!!!!!!!

Should be called Starship Stupors As a long-time science-fiction devotee I think this movie is an insult to the genre on a par with Plan 9 From Outer Space.  Low budget does not disqualify a movie from being excellent (see Monsters and Ever Since the World Ended for excellent examples).  But it is clear that some producers were cynically out to just make some bucks.  The plot is a terrible mashup of Alien Sci-Fi, Big Brother paranoia, and pseudo-religious pablum thrown in.  The movie does not really have anything to say on these worthwhile ideas (contrary to good Sci-Fi), but instead serves these things up, willy-nilly, to "check off the box" for widest marketing impact.  The special effects are passable given the low budget, and there is enough action and a few scenes of nudity to keep a frat house audience entertained.  Heinlein must be spinning in his grave.  *** Spoiler Alert ****  Try to imagine that the citizens of Earth have become so controlled that freedom of speech is accepted as a threat to all.  The military state has taken it upon itself to execute anyone who disagrees with the endless war on the "bugs" (the aliens from the first Starship Troopers).  Imagine further that religion has also become a capital offense.  It appears at first that the movie cannot make up its mind whether it is against the last 10 years of the wars in Afghanistan/Iraq, or if it is in favor of institutionalized religion.  But wait....  The military suffers an horrific defeat at the hands of the "bugs" on planet Roku San (the result of treachery we later find out).  A fleet spaceship is also attacked, and an escape pod is launched carrying, among others, the highest ranking member of the military (the mind-reading, rock star fascistic leader known as the Sky Marshall).  The escape pod makes a forced landing on a bug-infested planet.  While awaiting rescue, the survivors alternately bicker about the orders given them by their (non-believing) superior officer, quarrel lamely over religious beliefs, or get picked off by bugs on occasion.  The Sky Marshall lets it be known that he has found religion based on his communication with the brain of one of the bug-leaders - although religion is a capital offense.  All this happens against a background of growing unrest on Earth as protesters, led by the cross-wearing, wheel-chair bound Elmo Gonif, become more vocal and foul-mouthed.  Oh, by the way, gonif is a Yiddish word for "thief" or "cheater" or perhaps "con man".  Were the filmmakers subtly equating liberal/intellectual dissidence with Jewish-ness, while true goodness was equated with Christian acceptance?  The people in power are dressed similarly to Nazi military.  I'm sure that some of this was intended as campy tongue-in-cheek Sci-Fi, but there ain't much in the way of laughs or real humor.  You can see that many concerns of the conservative right are on display - government-sponsored anti-religiousness, unpleasant ineffective liberal/intellectuals abusing free speech, the need for an endless crusade that must be waged against a relentless, godless, enemy.  The movie contains these topical elements without using Sci-Fi as a means of actually examining them.  It reminded me of a high school student's hastily written essay homework, containing the important buzz words without knowing what to say about them.  Ultimately, the survivors find "true" (Christian) religion and are saved at the last minute by mindlessly repeating a prayer, though the Sky Marshall dies suitably horribly.  Their successful struggle to survive is seen as justification for BOTH the endless war AND for unquestioning adherence to the "true" religion.  I bet George Bush and Dick Cheney would love this message, and Heinlein (who became quite conservative) would probably smile at the ultra-conservative message coming from liberal Hollywood.  It's all done hastily and awkwardly.  If the movie did in fact have something meaningful to say, it was obscured and I missed it.  This one would have been good as fodder for Mystery Science Theater 3000, but as it is, it's boring, inane, and cynical.  I wasted 92 minutes of my life so you wouldn't have to.  If you're in the mood for thought-provoking Sci-Fi, check out "Monsters"

one star is too many This movie is terrible.  Sorriest excuse for a script there ever was.  Soooo boring.  There aren't even any good cheesecake shots of Olivia Wilde.  Waste of time and money.

Sorry I watched it A product of the Hollywood war on the Bush administration and character assassination of our veterans and patriots that believe and serve our country.  I decided to watch, just to see how much leftoid crap they could write into the screenplay and finally, at the end, could stand no more.  Funny how hollywood makes no anti-war films with a democrat in the WH.  Hmmm.

Stupid What was the point of this movie?why did it end so much in a horrible way?where did this guy come from? I'm glad that i had watched this moive for FREE online because this movie isn't worth anything, not even the budget it took to make this

Wasn't labeled as 'comedy' - shame on Amazon! Wow. Who thinks up this and then writes it as if it's autobiographical confession?  Brilliant that it's narrated in first person (with voice trying to sound like their target).  Aren't there laws against this type of slander?  And shame on Amazon for letting it show up as a 'first page' Prime selection as if it was a documentary...  Amazon, are you just another pawn?

One of the worst films I have ever seen I know I am in the minority but mother of god this was bad.  The acting is hammy and the music is so over the top it feels like mystery cinema.  Honestly, I use this film as the benchmark for all films that are bad.  Sorry!

This is not a "chick flick" movie This movie will give you nightmares. Be warned. It's not a "feel good" movie. It should have a X rating for extreme physical and mental violence against women.

DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY! I am a really big fan of the first Human Centipede movie, but the second one is flat out terrible.  If you haven't seen the first one, I highly recommend it, but do yourself a favor and skip this one.  You've been warned!

Not so positive Despite rave reviews by the press and most TNG fans, Yesterday's Enterprise, in my personal opinion, is a confusing mess at it's best.  It makes absolutely no sense when you add all the aspects and history of the Enterprise together.  Despite financial issues of the episode, to mix three different forms of the Starfleet uniform into an episode that is supposed to be comprised of just two different versions of the Enterprise is ridiculous.  And just exactly where in Enterprise history has there EVER been a female captain?  Only on this one nonsensical episode. To complicate matters, the Enterprise C is pulled forward into time supposedly 22 yrs, but to explain this whole episode, it should have been revealed that the Enterprise D apparently went back in time as well to an undetermined time period.  All we have is mix matched uniforms to even hint at this.  However, it is the only way any of this confusing mess could half-way be explained. We have a missing Worf and Counselor Troi, whom Tasha should have noticed were missing, and we have an added Guinan who Tasha should not have recognized but does.  Guinan's constant statements of "this is not right" doesn't even help this episode make sense. Another very confusing aspect of this episode, the conflict with the Kingons ended with "The Final Fronteer" where peace agreements start after Kirk and McCoy's "trial."  So why now, only 22 yrs into Enterprise D's past, is there still a conflict with the Klingons? That conflict ended years prior. The episode ends with everything just snapping back to normal, and none of the crew except, Guinan, having a clue what has just happened.  Did they have "time warp amnesia?" Who knows?  We never find out.  I am a huge Star Trek fan, but, in my personal opinion, this episode makes absolutely no sense and in no way should be considered a classic.

Think twice before renting - silly dialogue We love Chris Pine and Renne Witherspoon but this movie was just bad!  Sorry guys.  The dialogue was poor, not close to reality, and derevative.  Just silly!  Not worth 3.99.

When liberals eat beans, this is the result. THE HULK(2003) Directed by Ang Lee. A Universal Picture!!   Starring Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Nick Nolte, Stan Lee, Lou Ferrigno and Sam Elliott.   Through an incredibly complex and lengthy series of events spanning decades, genetic biologist Bruce Banner begins turning into a large green monster at inopportune moments which soon involves his mad scientist mass murdering father, the US Govt., the military and a "evil" corporation which secretly controls the country. Soon much Freudianism, proterrorist and anti-American propaganda, the occasional CGI sequence and a certain degree of smashing ensue.   This is a film that, though very well, if rather desperately and frantically so, directed with several very pleasing moments of excellent comic book style action--particularly during the picture's fourth 30 minute act never truly succeeds due to several serious conceptual flaws and primarily because its director Lee was a bad choice from the outset. It seems fairly clear that Lee was using the film has a trial run for his later grab at Oscar and Politically Correct Hollywood acceptance BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN. The basic concept of both films is that things were great and nifty in the 60s under a Democratic President where evil mad scientist terrorists are easily contained through legal means and sheepherders can rump roast each other with carefree abandon but once a Republican gets in office--in the later film Reagan in this film Bush--things just go to hell. Gays get murdered by evil Americans. Terrorist mad scientists, who now resemble Osama Bin Laden, are released. The Govt. is controlled by evil corporations. Persons are detained indefinitely and can be made to disappear and prisoners are tortured. Both Bush and Condelliza Rice appear as characters apparently complicit in the liberal paranoia. There is a Haliburton style corporation. And the main corporate villain left the military to make money in business--which might sound familiar to Julius Streicher readers--and has a suspiciously large nose. How Lee restrained himself from having said character wear a yarmulke one cannot imagine. Those darn "neocons" are everywhere!! Oh and innocent people turn into large green monsters.   On the face of it, one is surprised that the film was not forced into being a major critical success ala BBM until one realizes that Lee made three fundamental errors. In spite of an unrelenting strictly by the Party line talking point attack on the Bush administration, Lee 1) presents the US military is a fairly positive light valiantly striving to protect the American citizen from death and destruction as well as being reasonably efficient and effective--which, of course, is anathema to the groups Lee was trying to court and 2) placing an a verbal attack on same and the country that could have been delivered with little alteration by anyone from Cindy Sheehan to Ted Kennedy in the mouth of the film's villain--thus rendering it ineffective from a propaganda point of view and finally 3) putting all of the above in a film about a large green monster---which is not really the type of vehicle such forces like to work in. Gay sheepherders are far more appealing to the pseudo sophisticates.   Plus the film just simply has far too much baggage designed to make it acceptable to the parlor pinks. There is all this rubbish going on about the relationship between Banner and his father, Betty Ross and her father General Ross, Bruce and Betty, suppressed emotions and memories and some new age gobbledeegook about reaching one's inner potential. There is nearly an hour of rushed jumping through the hoops exposition before the Hulk (only called by that name once in the film and almost as an afterthought) finally makes his first appearance. The film tends to be a talk fest with the occasional token Hulk appearances to justify the title and presumably keep the great unwashed in their seats for the primary indoctrination sessions. The film runs nearly two hours and thirty minutes when easily an hour could have been snipped.   To be sure, the film does have elements from the book so presumably someone had some familiarity with the character. The aforementioned long fight between the Hulk and the military is spectacular and worth the effort of viewing the film. The sequence set in 1966 is, though a perversion, is from the last page of the original HULK story. Though here instead of a repentant communist destroying a Soviet base with a nuclear explosion, it is an irate American destroying an American one. The Nick Nolte character eventually turns into a, if a rather snobby, version of The Absorbing Man. And the film does use the correct names.   But they are the names only. Bruce Banner--played by the incredibly dull Bana--Betty Ross--played well by Connelly though as the de riquer STRONG INDEPENDENT PERFECT FEMALE--and Glenn Talbot are unrecognizable and might as well be called Bob, Mary and Ted. Nick Nolte's mad scientist character is incoherent. One rarely understands either his motivations or, frequently, just what the heck he is saying. The film also favors and takes elements and lines from the failed HULK TV program of the 70s. So one has a failure imitating a failure. Sam Elliott, though perhaps a tad too calm as General Ross--gives the best performance leading a gravitas to the proceedings whenever he is on screen. The film never has the Hulk speak thus depriving the viewer of the character's great iconic dialogue. The Hulk is also far too large in the film being somewhere around 30 feet tall when the character was usually around 8 to 10 feet in the book. Thus the film comes across as being the first American Japanese giant monster film rather than about the Hulk. There is also the very silly idea that the Hulk, instead of getting stronger as his anger increases, expanding in size like a large green balloon in one case breaking an opponent's jaw by suddenly expanding his shoulder size like sometype of inflatable shoulder pad. Oh and is it really necessary to point out that anyone who detonates a nuclear device on US soil killing Lord knows how many people is NEVER going to be released from jail..even with a Republican in office!!!   This is a film as a primary example of the dangers of letting a so called genius near anything even remotely entertaining. One wishes a "mere" hack had been given the film instead so Lee could go somewhere else to suck up to the Gay Agenda crowd and get his Oscar. The sequel was a far superior effort because it remembered something that Lee forgot a superhero film should be.   Fun.   Truly complexity is the first refuge of scoundrels.   And it could have been all so easy.   Bruce Banner exposed to a Gamma Bomb explosion.   Whenever he is angry or afraid turns into the Incredible Hulk.   And then Hulk smashes.   Hulk is the strongest one there is.   Hulk likes beans.   Very simple.   Instead all we get are the beans.   See it when one has some time to kill.

RIIIIIP  OFFFFF NO PORN.  NOTHING LIKE THE COVER.  SEEMS LIKE ONE BIG FREAKING COMMERCIAL. I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS BORING ASS VIDEO TO ANYONE.

There cannot be this many people who like this... I am a fan of B Movies and actually enjoy many bad movies but this is absolutely the worst movie I have ever seen.  It is stupid, boring and flat out a beating to watch.  Sadly, I saw it in the theater and I saw it again recently.  It still sucks.  There was nothing amusing about this.  I recall seeing it in the theater and watched no less than a dozen people walk out.  I am sad that I did not... I was too cheap to walk out of a movie I paid to see.  I actually expected it to get better...  After all, it had to but no.  At least it was consistent, it started bad and stayed bad.

Garbage This movie is completely worthless.  The director had a very successful debut with the first HC, but the sequel is pointless.  It consists of disgusting scene after disgusting scene strung together with little to no story in between.  I'm a fan of torture and gore, but when it's thrown together just for the sake of being disgusting, don't bother.  This movie's only real plus is the main actor, he plays the creepy/mentally handicapped character very well.  Other than that, utter waste of time.

TIN FOIL FLICK For a film called THE IRON LADY this movie was felt more like it was formed from Reynold's wrap. But what else would you expect in a movie made about a Conservative woman by a group of Liberal die hards? Its difficult not to bring politics into a film of this nature since the centerpiece is a politician. But when all that's offered is a one sided description how can you not?  For those who are confused while watching a film that jumps back and forth in time then stop reading and forget this movie. It does that from start to finish and not very well. The object of the movie, the Iron Lady in question, is ex-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, portrayed here by Meryl Streep in an Oscar winning performance. Just another example of why the Oscars mean so little these days.  The film opens with Thatcher in her later years post PM status and after the death of her beloved husband Dennis (Jim Broadbent). At this time Thatcher was dealing with the impending onset of Alzheimer's as well as the loss of the man she so desperately cared for. We watch as she attempts to force herself to part with those things left behind, clothes and the like. And while she does, so various items and things around her home lead her to remember her past.  We get glimpses of young Margaret as she works in her father's store while the other girls walk past. We she her listening and being influenced by her father's speeches to the locals touting the value of a solid business front not willing to cower to the Nazis as they attempt to bomb the country and force the people into hiding. These are the ideas that formed the basis for her beliefs but they are given short time here.  Flash forward as Margaret deals with her daughter or perhaps the other way round. We see her getting ready for a dinner with friends where her opinions are asked but she seems buried in the past and her guests seem more embarrassed than pleased to hear her views. Her daughter acts the same.  Back in time we see how Margaret meets Dennis but not how they fell in love. Margaret decides to take on the establishment and become a female member of Parliament. Her struggles in the face of chauvinism can be seen here with a touch of the problems she faced but more in focus as to the differences in clothing choices, a bright blue dress among a sea of black suits.  Then back to her slow slide into dementia.  The important historic moments in Thatcher's life are touched on but very lightly. Incidents like the Falkland War and the miner's strike feel like they are mentioned without any depth to them. Other items like the Iran hostage situation are ignored completely. With the amount of story involved in Thatcher's life I was left wondering why the film makers here decided that her illness seemed the most interesting part of her life instead of those more interesting historical moments. Then again when thinking about Hollywood's depiction of Conservative figures I recalled the attempt to make Ronald Reagan look senile and mentally ill as well. The friendship between Reagan and Thatcher is barely touched on in this film.  Streep won the Oscar for best actress for her performance here. I am at a loss as to understand why with the exception of the fact that she is Hollywood royalty and is nominated for anything she does these days. I saw little acting here and more impersonation. If that's all it takes to win an Oscar then Rich Little should have had an entire shelf lined with the trophies. I will admit that I've never been a Streep fan up front but this movie did little to change my mind.  It would be nice if folks in Hollywood would take a historical topic and present the facts untarnished by their own viewpoints when making the film. I have little doubt that there were bad things about Thatcher but there were good as well. A movie that would choose to present both sides and let the viewer decide would have been interesting. This movie did little but make you wonder how she stayed PM for 11 years. Then again the movie also made you wonder about her sanity the longer you watched.  To capture an entire life in 105 minutes is difficult at best. To present it accurately and fairly even more so. Some may watch this film and think they've learned about Margaret Thatcher. It only made me want to look deeper into her life as this felt more like fluff than biographical film. The only good thing this movie presented was the love and adoration Thatcher felt for her husband. Even a story revolving solely around that would have made a better film.

I Think The Director Left His Talent In The Mist. Wow! Was this movie another one in the long list of jinxed Stephen King adaptions, or was it just a bad movie all upon its own sorryful merits? I was kind of "jazzed" to see this one. I really like Frank Darabont (The Director), a friend said it had a "really nice sci-fi rationale" to it, and I was just in the mood to get a good "jump" from a monster movie.  Very Disappointing. The scares were so telegraphed. As to the ending - I sat hoping so very hard that it was not going to go in the foolish and predictable direction that it in fact went. This is a perfect example of leaving you wondering what these "experts" are really thinking. The effort & money squandered, to end on such a pitifully un-imaginative note.  I guess the one "highlight" comes through-out the middle in its depiction of the dangerous mob mentality that can take place from fear & ignorance. In this movie the Humans are 100 times more frightening than the monsters. Maybe that was the point, and if so "cheers" to Mr. Darabont, but this still doesn't attone for this pitiful ending. I am still "stinging" from paying for the two disk version to get my "scare" from the B & W version. Oh, and waisting two hours of my life in watching it. OUCH!

Roots of heaven Beware!I bough the film in blu ray format edited by Twilight Time at a rather hefty price . Unfortunately it does not play. the menu shows up but I cannot activate the start bouton on my all zones LG blu ray player. I own more than 500 blu rays old and new, all playing well,so I do not think its a software update issue, but rather a production defect. Has someone else experienced the same?<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006YW6XT0">The Roots of Heaven (1958) [Blu-ray</a>]

I'm confused One star is for Amazon using the same reviews for two different packages. I have no use for reviews relating to the artistic content of the series. I need reviews that state how well the product is produced and packaged.  Is it worth $40 extra for the set that comes in a house? Does the less expensive set have a higher percentage of defective discs?  Personally, listening to the Raymond character whine grates on my nerves, but my wife loves the show and wants the complete set. She has the first season which lacks the "play all" capability. Are all the discs like that or does the complete series provide the "play all" feature for every season?  Can anybody give me a run-down on the set they purchased?

Polar Express 3D The film is 1950's 3D vintage.  I thought that it was a real 3D movie to view on my 3D Samsung Television.  Made me nautious in trying to watch the amatuer 3D.  I threw the DVD away and found a real 3D version in Best Buy.  I feel that this product was misrepresented and I regret buying it from you.

Big Budget B Movie I thought this movie was going to be along the lines of Troy, Elizabeth, Kingdom of Heaven--at least Gladiator or 13th Warrior.  I have seldom been more wrong.  This was like an over-budget, badly dressed, epic-length gay pride picture.  The hair and acting and accents were bad enough.  The portrayal of all these supposedly great warriors flitting around, making googly eyes at each other, and referring to "armies of beautiful boys" would have been comically cheesy--except that this movie was supposed to be a serious epic, so instead of comically cheesy it was awkard and painfully embarassing.  Young men belly dancing, young men in heavy eyeliner professing their undying love for each other, young men bent over banquet tabled getting spanked in front of 100 other men...what was the point of it all?  It seems like homosexuality is the entire focus of the film, and they used the guise of a historical epic to fly it under the mainstream radar to the big screen.  There was no plot and no point. What few (very few) decent scenes there might have been in the movie are lost among all the men crying, men hugging, men dancing, men hugging, men kissing, men crying some more.  This was an uncomfortable procession of whirling, sashaying, blubbering men.  I'll need to re-watch Troy to get the images out of my head and replace them with an epic work of historical fiction that offers up real men and real entertainment.  If you're actually looking for a gay movie, go for it; if you're looking for a historical fiction film, save yourself the torment and disappointment.  I saw this for free with my prime membership, and still feel ripped off--I didn't waste any money, but amazon can't refund my time.

Do not purchase from this company!!!!!! They sent the wrong movie in the right case. I tried to contact them through a phone call but could not. I emailed them and they never contacted me!!!!!!!

No opinion I never received the item.  But they were very prompt in refunding my money when I alerted them to that fact.

Copied overseas? All three disc were bad so I beleived that this set was copied overseas.  I can't believe that Amazon would sell inferior products.  At least Amazon offers a refund policy.

Not a fan of this movie! I usually love John Carpenter's work but I hated this movie.  Vampires have only been around four hundred years?  And why are they living in crack houses in the desert?  This is one of those films that I feel is a part of the contemporary polarization.  Vampires are either romantic teenagers or nearly mindless killing machines.  It's one extreme or the other.  No one remembers balance anymore. I miss characters like Dracula who could be charming and occasionally sympathetic but still able to be predatory and vicious.  Now that is an interesting vampire. I miss vampires like that.

The Lion King Sing Along What I didn't like about this is the sing along was too fast and also the narrator that announced the songs sounded like he was tired and didn't care. My son usually won't move a muscle when a sing along is in and this one he walked away from several times.

Boring and inaccurate We all go into a book or movie with certain expectations perhaps based on previous experiences. I have not viewed the Tudors but chose The Borgias expecting something on the level of Deadwood or Rome. Deadwood and Rome both had complex characters, political intrigue, quests for power, and reasonable historical accuracy.  I couldn't get past mid 2nd episode of The Borgias. I found my mind wandered, I wasn't wondering what would happen to the characters (forgive me but I was more engaged in Entourage). Others have said the acting was wooden and I agree.  It was the historical inaccuracies that made me finally push the eject button half way through the second episode.  That was when the assassin Don Miguel was taken to the torture chamber. Cesare came in and sent the others away. He then told Don Miguel that he would tell the inquisitors that he could get nothing from him and that when Don Miguel was released he should insinuate himself into the household of the cardinal who saw him captured and imprisoned.  In 15th century Rome I don't believe that entire households were executed when the householder was murdered (as they were in 3d Century Rome) but I also don't believe that anyone walked out of a 15th century inquisition, the purpose of which was to find out if they were involved in the poisoning of a Cardinal, and then were welcomed into the home of another Cardinal.

Utter Tripe I love movies, I honestly and sincerely love almost every darn movie out there - while I can get into intellectual indies, I am a massive fan of blockbusters and fluffy chick romances, and, well, just about all genres!  I saw the previews, and while it looked pretty darn lame, the bit where "Jill" sits on the pony and its legs go out on all sides had me giggling like a little girl.  I read the reviews, saw that the movie has been nominated for an unbelievable number of Razzies, but I thought about movies like "The Pacifier," which got terrible reviews, but I enjoyed the heck out of.  So, when it was available from my local Blockbuster Express, I used a free rental, and got it.  I watched it with my thirteen-year-old daughter.  We'd just watched "The Thing," and she decided to go for comedy next.  I am not exaggerating when I say that it was literally painful to watch this movie.  It gave me a headache.  The beyond stupid jokes, the utter lack of likable characters (seriously - they're all just completely horrible). I was explaining it to a coworker, and trying to express what an idiotic concept, and even dumber execution it was "Adam Sandler plays fraternal twins Jack and Jill.  Jill is Adam Sandler dressed like a very unconvincing, unladylike woman, who Al Pacino is inexplicably obsessed with.  At one point, Jack makes Jill angry, so then Adam Sandler's male character is actually playing his female character, and there is no change, other than some pithy remarks from Al Pacino about him being less masculine." - it's convoluted and really, it's just plain stupid.  We turned it off after the Adam Sandler plays a man who is dressing up as his identical twin sister who is also played by Adam Sandler on a date with Al Pacino.  I have no idea how they got people like Pacino and Depp to agree to be seen in this, because it's a complete and total waste of time, money, shelf space, electricity, etc.

Terrible movie I understand that this movie does not assert to convey any kind of heartwarming message of Christmas.  If you want that type of movie, may I heartily recommend It's a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street, or even the animated Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas.  However, this movie does bill itself as being funny and funny it's not.  It's a tasteless, worthless, overly contrived piece of trash.  In my opinion, outlandish displays of stupidity are NEVER funny, they're just plain stupid and PATHETIC.

Don't Wast Your Money Good Production--good leading man--but stupid opener...everyone's weary of saving 3rd worlders, playing superman.  Always saving the 3rd World-ers.  Oh brother.  cliche, cliche, cliche/  It's 0bvious why it didn't make it, based on the opener episode alone.  He could've had a much better "best friend"  Waste of money

More inane comedy The Brits can do marvelous comedy with flare and panache. Unfortunately they can also do banal, inane comedy. This definitely falls into the latter category. I returned it after only one episode. Noisy, crude, pointless, not even funny.

i want my two hours back this is the worse movie with Will Farrell. The plot goes nowhere and is disjointed. And the whole movie is unnecessarily crude. Hey, I usefully like that kind of humor as long as there is a point to it and it's not just done for shock value.

Waste of my time Oh this was bad. Let's just say this. I only paid 99 cents for it and I still felt ripped off. I don't mind bad language when it is used in a way to make the dialogue more humorous, but it was throughout the entire movie which did not make it very funny.

Unholy "Priest" Min-Woo Hyung's "Priest" was a Korean manhwa about a gun-toting priest who sets out to defeat a gang of fallen angels bent on destroying the world.  Now forget about that, because the movie "Priest" has absolutely nothing to do with the manhwa. Instead, this a generic vampire-slaying/rescue/revenge movie set in a completely generic dystopic future, with a choppy rushed story and painfully predictable writing. Paul Bettany is mildly cool, but we're never really given a reason to care about his character.  It takes place in a dystopian future where vampires have... somehow turned the world into a desert wasteland, before being shut up in reservations. The only surviving authority is the Catholic Church, who trained vampire-slaying Priests to kill vampires -- but after the war, they were disbanded and are now shunned.  Several years later, a small-town sheriff (Cam Gigandet) enters the walled city to ask the help of an unnamed Priest (Paul Bettany): the Priest's brother and sister-in-law have been murdered by vampires, and his niece has been captured. Against the orders of the Monsignor, he sets out to rescue his niece... but he doesn't know that she's in the grasp of an old enemy.  Since it basically dumped the manhwa plot, "Priest" is cobbled together with bits of other movies: "Blade II," "Judge Dredd," "The Searchers," "Mad Max," a teeny bit of "Lord of the Rings," and especially "Solomon Kane." And no, it's nowhere NEAR as much fun as any of the above films, even the horrible ones -- it's too bad to be enjoyable, but not nearly bad enough to be funny.  And Scott Stewart is just AWFUL -- what else could you expect from the guy who made "Legion"? Horrible dialogue ("I can smell the blood running through your veins. Smells like... dinner"), chaotic action scenes that might give you a seizure, and lots of unintentionally hilarious moments (usually the ones in slow-motion). I have to admit, the eyeless jagged-toothed vampires ARE a bit cool.  But even a good director couldn't have made this mess anything but mediocre. There's barely a plot, lots of predictable "twists," huge plot holes, and only some vague attempts at backstory. Everything feels like it was lazily slapped together without much thought, and Stewart just rushes on through as quickly as he can.  Paul Bettany's character is as wooden as a plywood cross, and he's never really given any backstory or development to make us like him. He just drifts around in a quasi-religious, stone-faced haze of mild boredom. Gigandet is... okay; Maggie Q is pretty awesome as the buttkicking warrior Priestess, although I never understood why she was helping Bettany.  As for Black Hat... aw, Karl Urban, why do you do this to me? I really like you, but you keep starring in horrible, horrible movies! In this one, Urban is basically a bad guy who doesn't even need a NAME -- he's just the Villain In The Black Hat who talks in a villainous whisper.  "Priest" is apparently this year's dark fantasy/horror/sci-fi stinker -- a clumsy, tedious mess cobbled together out of better movies. Maggie Q is basically the only reason to watch.

The Dark Crystal These are the worst items I have ever purchased through Amazon.com.  I bought two DVD's being told it was for spiritual growth and planned to give one as a gift.  It makes Harry Potter look like non-fiction.  Strange looking bird-like creatures hideous to look at was so disgusting I only watched for a few minutes and would like to return the mess.  Everything else I ever bought through Amazon was fantastic and top shelf.  Elaine Badnarik

Doesn't Play on TV I was so happy to receive this on DVD. It is one of my favorite movies. When I tried to watch on TV, it would not play. An error message came up saying "Playback prohibited by area limitations." I am able to watch it on my computer but not my TV. Very disappointing.

Stupid as it gets This is the most idiotic movie based on a great movie, Avatar, I've yet seen.  The trailers made it seem better than it actually was.  I only watched about 20 min then turned it off.  It was so crappy, I could not stand to watch any more.  This goes back to the stupid alien movies of the 50's but at least they had some substance.  I DO NOT recommend this to anyone and it should be removed from your inventory. . . . . especially having to PAY for it.

WASTE OF MONEY I was excited when I got this movie for my daughter, but as soon as I started the DVD I was extremely disappointed. Ariel and Jasmine's "short stories" are literally one of the shows taken from their corresponding mini series ("The Little Mermaid" and "Aladdin") that aired on the Disney channel a while back. Poor quality and confusing story lines. The other two are just images taken from the movies and are told in a "story book" format. No animation, just the princess' voice. And they last maybe a total of 10 minutes. Like I said, complete waste of money.

I CAN' T BELIEVE THIS IS A Lions Gate movie and not something Asylum did. The acting was extremely bad. A nasty young man inherits a cabin in the woods that is cursed by the voodoo woman who they ejected. While he is arguing with his gf near a scarecrow, he punches/slaps her to the ground and spills some blood, I think. The movie isn't too coherent in anything. At one point they go into the basement and get a book. This is apparently some voodoo book. There are still animal bones (and a dog's skull) hanging from the basement ceiling which no one seemed to notice or care. They carried the leather bound book upstairs, but when one of the girls touches the book she passes out. Why? What was in the book? Why her and not those who carried the book? It seems to disappear from the story, possibly having to go back to the set of The Evil Dead.  There is some nudity in the movie for the sake of nudity. The first nude shot was of a female torso which had no face attached to it and clearly didn't belong to the woman it was supposed to be connected. And the scarecrow that comes to life, is missing half his right arm before he becomes animated, then suddenly has a whole one. What was really sad was that this stinker movie was dedicated to the loving memory of Ben Dixon's (director/writer/producer) father. Of course I really don't know what kind of relationship they had.

This was the UK Version and doesn't play on my TV! I was so excited that I finally found this movie and when I put it in my DVD player it said that it couldn't play so I tried my Xbox..still didn't work.  After trying several other units I was unable to get it to play as it is the UK version of the film and does not work in the states.  I am very disappointed with this purchase.  It was a waste of my money and time waiting for it to get here.  I can't even watch it.

Crazy in Alabama I ordered this movie and another as region 2 not understandin what that meant. When I received the movie it would not work and I could not figure out why. I emailed Movie Mars they explained but since it ws my fault it was not worth returning. I think they should make a side caption for region two explaining it. If I would have known what it was I would not have ordered it. These were a Birthday gift. I had to reorder the right region so I had to wait and give the gift late. Plus I just threw away the othe movies!

A Horrible movie this is the worse movie in the history of the world. there is nothing right in this film .you don't have enough money to pay me to watch this film. plot,acting, layout,and the whole film is a disaster

sleazy plot This film has some flashy scenery, and a topless Demi Moore before her overdone breast enhancement; still, a sleazy plot. Two friends and their daughters make trip to Rio, one dad decides to bone his friend's beautiful daughter, who is high school age. GROSS!

Nothing like the old series If you enjoyed the original series, this one will be a major disappointment. While the initial episode tries to cull forth the emotions and remembrances of times past, with the hiring of the former maid, your dissatisfaction with the series will be as culpable as hers was with the new household. The focus isn't on staff/employer relations as much as it is about the plight of the Jews and the rise of fascism. Did we really need Upstairs, Downstairs to feature such a well-worn subject?  What a wasted opportunity. Also, the series is mortally tainted with political correctness, like everything on PBS nowadays. Historical accuracy is sacrificed once again to serve a social agenda.

I know MOST of you are worth more than this Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Bill Nighy, and even Toby Kebbel are all wonderful actors. I dont think many will disagree with that statement. Sam Worthington is just about useless as an actor....unfortunately i may be alone in that thought. Not that Sam specifically is to blame for this putrid puddle of bile. For those unfamiliar with the story....go to google and look it up. For those who are, you have my sympathy for sitting through this garbage. Not a coherent or even interesting plot in the what seemed like forever that it took to conclude it. The writer needs to have his keyboard taken the hell away from him immediately, the director needs to be shot (in the leg...not condoning murder), and the entire class needs to be slapped and have their union cards suspended till they get to the nearest theater/acting class they can find.  Its like all the worst things about the fast and the furious were taken and molded into greek mythology. Please consider that before you waste precious and beautiful life on this crap.

Wait & See MGM has a reputation as being very cheap when it comes to restoring their classic films onto Blu Ray. I am suspicious of "Rebecca" because neither advanced copies nor information about supplement material has been provided prior to this release on Blu Ray. Wait and see. Hope for the best. I am not commenting on the film itself, it's a classic, hell I pre-ordered it. I want to see what the reviews are about the Blu Ray transfer.

Doomsday Film Fail This lackluster end-of-the-world film won't give you any thrills.  Doomsday 2012 is all the rage.  As a society, we go from one end-of-the-world scenario to another - and Hollywood happily obliges these fixations with films that attempt to prick  our deepest doomsday fears.  2012 Supernova is one of the few that attempts to scare audiences with a fictional account of what could be a real-life scenario on Dec. 21, 2012 - the day the Mayan calendar ends.  As far as end-of-the-world films go, 2012 Supernova isn't terrible, but it's not great, either. It focuses on one family only; most films have three or four story lines that gradually merge. Focusing on this family is just too much.  Brian Krause plays an astrophysicist who has been tracking a star that has become unstable in another galaxy. The star explodes and sends a pulse across space, destroying everything in its path with some major radiation.  While he tries to find a solution with Chinese and Russian scientists, he sends his wife, Laura, (Heather McComb) and daughter to find shelter at a nearby military base. Of course, it isn't that easy. The women have to travel in strange natural disasters caused by the star pulse's ripples.  In many scenes the mother and daughter are driving vehicles and trying not to panic. They nearly get caught in a landslide, flattened by rocks, swept up by a Twister-like tornado and get raped by a nasty backwoods guy.  Their plight gets old fast - and isn't really all that interesting. It wore on my nerves after a while. However, I really liked McComb's acting.  There is someone working against the scientists to make sure the pulse isn't stopped and Earth is destroyed. There are some good red herrings, but I figured out who it was fairly easily based on body language and lines. The astrophysicist goes into space on a death mission to save Earth.  2012 Supernova is okay, but not exactly a must-have. There is definite cheese with the lines and the acting, though you can expect that with any doomsday cinema - even the films with top-billed actors.  I will say, though, that this film doesn't seem as bad as (I remember) The Day After Tomorrow.  The DVD includes a blooper reel and a featurette called "Making of 2012: Supernova," which is interesting.  2012 Supernova has potential, but it isn't a must-watch. If you are desperate for a fictional fix of doomsday craziness, it might whet your appetite, but it will still leave you hungry for something more.

Irritating; not like first three This is in no way like the other three Ice Age movies. It is just plain irritating from beginning to end. The voices of Wanda Sykes, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Lopez, and Nicki Minaj are like fingernails on a chalkboard from beginning to end, and every crowd scene is made to sound like a ghetto basketball game.  Throw in a stupid take-off of Pirates of Penzance, a bored performance by the main characters (although they made Peter Dinklage into a manic monkey), and you get a stew of pain. I guess they decided it's time for minority voices to drown out the white males, and this is the stupidity they come up with. Blecch.  The only good thing about the movie is Scrat, but even that comes out being relatively stupid. The animal goes to the core of the earth, runs back and forth and makes the earth crack up. Riggghhhtttt.

Zero star This movie is so bad I actually wrote a letter to the studio. It is not even remotely funny. A waste of a talented cast. AVOID IT.

Hesher I cannot imagine what anyone found entertaining about this movie.  It has a idiotic story line with innumerable implausible situations, and at best, depressing.  Even in fast forward mode the movie was slow paced.  I agree with the reviewer who said "I kind of felt like I deserved an apology for the two hours I wasted on this depressing mess." A waste of time and $3.

A pile of crap every claim Behe has made has been refuted in peer reviewed journals. Call him what ever you what just don't call him a scientist  oh an by the way, Why do whales have genes for legs? if birds did not come from reptiles then why do birds have genes for teeth? why do humans have genes for tails?

By Far One of the Worst Movies I Have Ever Watched Skyline is one of those movies that has a intriguing premise in the beginning but falls flat to measure up to what it could have been.  The acting is quite horrible and puts the existence of films to shame.  The special effects are nothing to brag about, and that is saying a lot because the guys behind it have noteworthy credentials.  The progression of the story itself leaves me in utter disappointment of watching such a derisory film.  I will admit that the trailers for this sorry excuse of a Sci-Fi movie entangled me to view it.  When the film decides to pick up the pace along its slow plot, the action is completely predictable and unsophisticated.  Lastly the ending and the main character's "special ability" has no background or sense to it, that it makes me scoff at this extremely lackluster movie.

No movie Against all indications at purchase, no movie disk was included in my order.  Instead, I received only a special features disk.  Be advised against ordering the single edition disk if you want to see the movie!

Agree with others on the poor transfer to blu-ray I have to agree with that others that the transfer to blu-ray was very poorly done! Actually, my VHS tape displays more clearly than this blu-ray. Of course, the movie is fantastic, but on this media, it's not worth the money. I'm going to have to get the DVD version, if I can find one.

Very Disapppointed This is the worst movie I have ever seen Winona Ryder have a part in.  It seems to me that about every one word spoken starts with an F.  The writers of this movie must have a street language background.  And the movie is just not believable - I wasted my money on it.  Don't waste yours.  I ended up throwing this movie in my dumpster when I finished watching it.

Insidepulse Movies - Mike Noyes Question: What do you get when you take a Guy Ritchie type crime story with the pacing of a Jim Jarmusch film and have it directed by Kevin Smith?  Answer: You a get film about a bunch of criminal Brits who sit around the house talking about stuff.  However, despite the talent of the influence and the quote on the DVD cover proclaiming the film to be "profanely funny," Down Terrace is a boring blunder that fails almost every step of the way.  Read the rest of my review here:  It's also worth noting that the director contact me regarding my review. Despite my bad review he was a very nice guy.

Too gruesome! This movie is too gruesome and is of "B" movie quality!  I know this has a huge political agenda which is not why I watch movies, either.  It has a great cast, so that's why I wanted to watch it, but I couldn't get through more than 45 minutes of this movie as it was too dark, too gruesome, too political and just too low class! I think there are much better ways of making your political point than making a gruesome movie!

Seller NEVER sent us the item I would love to say this is a great movie but the seller never sent it to us. I have contacted them several times and all they can tell me is that they have no way to track their shipments. VERY DISAPPOINTED!!! And now the order is no longer showing on the Amazon website so I can't even dispute it.

Terrible movie that makes everybody fall asleep I regretted spending money and time to watch this lousy movie.  Better off taking a nap than wasting time on this

Disappointed The DVD will not play.  The product appears to be new but displays an on screen code or mesasage stating that it will not play on multiple players.

Flush of the Titans "Clash of the Titans" is a truly amazing film -- never before have I seen a movie that is so BUSY, and yet so staggeringly DULL.  This stupid movie was apparently made to cash in on the wild success of 300, but it pretty much missed everything that made that movie enjoyable. Instead, this remake of the classic cult film is full of everything and nothing -- Louis Leterrier crams it with horrible acting, endless CGI, and an obnoxiously preachy plot that ends up being brain-bleedingly boring.  A fisherman finds a floating coffin, which holds a dead princess and a still-living baby. He adopts the child, Perseus (Sam Worthington), and raises him as well -- until the god Hades (Ralph Fiennes) destroys Perseus' family and fishing boat. He's marched to the city of Argos, where he sees the king and queen declare war on the gods...  ... only to have Hades proclaim that if Princess Andromeda (Alexa Davalos) is not sacrificed within ten days, the kraken will destroy Argos. A mysterious woman named Io (Gemma Arterton) tells Perseus that he is actually the son of Zeus (Liam Neeson), and is the only hope of slaying the kraken and saving Argos.  Honestly, the story of Perseus is one of the awesomest, most movieworthy stories in Greek mythology -- you've got a demigod hero, a sea monster, a flying horse, and a snake-headed creature that turns people to stone. But apparently, THAT story isn't good enough for the people in Hollywood. They even mock the original movie in one scene involving the mechanical owl Bubo.  Instead director Leterrier crams all sorts of weird random stuff into the movie -- it's a constant onslaught of giant scorpions, CGI monsters, djinni, and witches who look like Guillermo del Toro discards. The plot feels skeletal and bloated at the same time, with horribly silly dialogue ("It is death who should be afraid of us!") and dozeworthy action scenes.  Even worse, the screenwriters seem hell-bent on pushing their own theological philosophy on us ("God sucks and ruins everything, so don't worship him") NON-STOP. There's scene after scene of "We hate the gods! Gods are awful! Let's stupidly anger them even though they're incredibly powerful!"... only for them to undermine their own message in the last reel.  And really, how can you go wrong when you have Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes in your movie, playing GODS? Well, you can cast the bland lump that is Sam Worthington as your lead, a pouting prettyboy who brings no charisma to his role, giving Neeson nothing to do except throw divine tantrums and Fiennes nothing to do except slink around being vaguely sinister (since a god of death HAS to be evil, right? WRONG!). As for Gemma Arterton, she just sort of wanders in and out of the story, serving as a source of convenient information.  "Clash of the Titans" would be better titled "Flush of the Titans" -- a reeking lump of brainless cinema that stupefies even as it preaches. The original is flawed, but infinitely superior to this one.

Redundant, especially if you don't care for lunges I ordered this set of DVD's thinking it would be a great compliment to the yoga classes that I already take.  Yuck!  I spent more time doing poses from my traditional class while I waited for boring sequences to end than I did following the actual routine.  The poses are incredibly redundant.  I found myself actually looking at the clock while following this for the first time.  Also, because there is not a lot of variety in poses, certain physical limitations can leave one spending most of their time in child's pose or modifying the routine with their own poses as I did.  It felt like an incredible number of lunge sequences, many of which include balancing for extended periods on one knee.  I can typically protect my knee with a towel, etc, but because of the flow of the routine, it was not handy to be constantly moving a towel back and forth.  I decided to try again with one of the short programs.  The short program feels rushed.  I don't think there is appropriate emphasis on using one's breath, which seems especially important during pregnancy.  I again found this program to be boring and redundant.  I gave up on the short form during another marathon of boring lunge sequences. I received a copy of Shiva Rea's prenatal DVD.  Although it is not very strenuous, it does have a nice variety of poses and emphasizes poses for muscles needed for carrying and delivering your baby.

Midnight in the Garden of Boredom and Oddity The shipping was great from Amazon. The movie is terrible. I guess someone thought throwing a bunch of odd characters together would make for a good flick. They were seriously mistaken. I didn't make it to the end but what I saw was extremely boring.

worse than ever I can't believe anyone found this movie entertaining. I would give it 1/2 stars if there was an option for that. It is just a waste of time watching this, and I am a big Uma fan, I am I thinking why did she bother to act in this, if you could even call it that. And the Whit character, and his special feature documentary, who compiled that waste of film as well. I can't see ANYTHING worthwhile from this film and thank goodness the public wasn't subject to it on the big screen long, I rented it, and I think it was a waste of a 1.00. I see no genius or purpose to it whatsoever.

Made me wish I got infected Oh man, brutally bad movie.  Acting wasn't bad, but story was like watching a History Channel documentary on this is what happens when a serious virus attacks.  Ending was the only part I liked.

Terrible! This is a really aggravating production of Der Fliegende Holl&auml;nder. I am open to wild or postmodern productions (I liked the Copenhagen Ring), but I hate when the production almost seems to make fun of the work like it is one big joke. The opening scene has everyone on a cruise ship. It is like a spoof of the actual story.  Senta is spinning a spinning wheel while the other women are getting glamorous for their men. Why would Senta have a spinning wheel on a cruise ship or in a spa? Makes no sense. This is the problem with Regietheater. One aspect works while something else is totally out of place in the concept. I don't need a traditional production, but if I am going to buy into the crazy concept, I need to be able to buy into it. Of course, if the director was aiming for a Brechtian distancing effect (Verfremdungseffekt), then maybe he achieved his goal. I don't know.  I think the singers do a creditable job for the most part, but most opera lovers are going to want to turn off the picture and just listen. I was hoping this would be a great addition to my Wagner dvd collection, but I regretted buying it. The singers are decent but not outstanding, so overall, this is an aggravating production that seems to make a joke out of the opera.

Twice ordered TWICE NOT DELIVERED!!! DISAPPOINTED I'm extremely disappointed in Amazon for continuing to show this item for order when clearly unable to deliver. I wanted for my hubby who loved in his youth.This is the 2nd time ordered. DON"T waste your time. I only did hoping the 2nd time would be a charm and thrill my hubby.SHOW some class AMAZON and remove stuff you can't deliver on.

zombieland bd When I went to open the dvd there was no plastic cover and the bd dvd was missing. The only thing in it was the digital copy. Now what do I do?

Stick, the movie? <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062184350">Stick: A Novel</a>I had just finished reading the book and when I found out that it had been made into a movie, I was curious. What a waste of money and time. I could not sit through the whole thing. Terrible acting and very dark.

The old Bond is gone. Some may think that's a good thing. I'm not one of them. I remember when James Bond had style, class and most of all, charm. This Bond has none of those things. I long for the old Bond, but I think he's dead.

Horrible, don't waste your time. Jack Black is terrible. Gulliver's travels could have been a good movie. But, unfortunately they cast Jack Black to play Gulliver. He is vulgar, inane, childish - but not in a good way. And, of course, he can't act to save his life. He must be related to someone important in Hollywood because there is no other sane reason for him to be cast in any film other than something that makes Dumb and Dumberer look smart and smarterer.  Even if you get this movie for free, don't waste your time watching it, unless you're stranded on an island with only two movies and the other one is a different Jack Black film.  I feel sorry for the other actors in the movie. For the rest of their lives they're saddled with this moron of a lead actor in the film that gave them the opportunity to shine.  Casting was done by Priscilla John and Jeanne McCarthy - I will avoid any movie with their names in the credits. And, director Rob Letterman should be just as ashamed for taking on this job. Black is listed as one of the producers, probably the only way he can get into films these days.  AVOID THIS MOVIE AT ALL COSTS!!!

Not Historically Accurate! Entertaining? Yes. However, especially with Jackie's oral history published, you can see how very historically inaccurate it is. If you want any semblance of facts, this isn't the one to go by.

horrible what a terrible movie. slow and zero plot. don't wait for an ending. there is none. did i say it was a disappointment!

great show but really boring season! this is one of my favorite shows but this season was the worst. and the most boring.and stupid storyline. why would they turn willow bad? worst storyline and worst season

True to the book...but painful to watch A lot of reviews here loved this, but I'm sorry, this is just pathetic 80's kitsch miniseries. Cleaned and sanitized for TV, the screenplay is nothing more than a redaction of the book. Now that has pleased all the "authoritarians" who post here heaping praises for its adherence to the book, but it just does not work when you're doing that to get past the censor board. Chamberlain is woefully miscast as an action hero simply because somebody wanted to give him another chance to be bare-chested for the ladies. He was outstanding in earlier mini-series (yeah, THAT one especially, all the girls loved THAT one). I myself really enjoyed The Counte of Monte Cristo, that's actually one of my favorites that he's done. That's the type of role where he shines. But he's not capable of being perceived as a trained assassin. It's actually laughable. Smith is passable in her role, and I think she really tried to give it a good go but again the screenplay doomed everybody from the start. One glaring rewrite was after the rape, they gave Smith a gun so she could go Charlie's Angels on the bad guy, another huge mistake. And don't get me started on the crappy love scene...that was oh...so...bad. As I said, it is very true to the book. So much so, any of you reading this review could have done as well. Just grab a pen and start crossing out stuff until you hit 3 hours of taping. What really has to happen to bring a book to the screen is to capture the essence of the book without deviating too far from the story line. And when I read the book, I had a picture of a grittier and meaner side of Jason Bourne. Now, I'm not going to tout Damon's series, it is more in line with what I thought the the book felt like, but yes it is waaaaay different because it was so updated to modern technology and the usual over-blown super-human capabilities that just ain't so. So much so, I am suprised they even bothered to call it Bourne, but they stole just enough of the plot concept to be forced to have to give credit where credit is due. It's a shame Ludlum himself wasn't around to give his opinion. I wonder if he ever said what he thought of the Chamberlain production. He was smart enough not to buy back the rights and every exisitng inch of film like Len Deighton did after the adaptation of his Game, Set & Match (which kept me riveted for 13 weeks on PBS). My advice is to pass on this, I wish I had but I got suckered by the over-praising of most of the reviews here(you people are too sentimental and are not being objective). It's 3 hours I wish I'd never spent.

The stupidest story ever told. Makes Transformers 2 and Showgirls look like Citizen Kane. This is the worst film ever to be produced in the history of cinema. The story feels like it comes from a 9 year old just discovering his attraction to girls. This is like watching someone play a bad video game for 2 hours. An absolute incompetent mess. I was so excited for this, and it just let me down. Snyder should never again try and fart and original idea from his brain. How could you mess up sexy girls, dragons, robots, and samurai warriors with chain-guns. This film looked exciting and fun, and I wasn't expecting anything more than that. The film opens with a music video montage, of what should be the emotionally defining moment. Instead we get a terrible cover of "Sweet Dreams", a song choice with all the subtlety of a fat man at the gym. We see the evil stepfather, who is so evil, he straightens his tie after his wife dies and gives a seedy smile. He may as well just say "YES! Now my wife is dead I can rape my stepdaughters." He does the tie thing not once, but twice. After Snyder skips over what should be important character development, we are thrust into a computer game dream sequence where the "plot" is unveiled. Basically, Babydoll needs 5 items to escape. Each item can be found in a different fantasy/level. These action scenes are so sudden that they have no tension. I don't care about these girls because you haven't introduced us. The action scenes look dumb and fun, but are played out in all seriousness. Snyder tries to mix fun action with a story about mentally and sexually abused girls.This is all done in complete earnest. Like an exploitation film that wants to be taken seriously. As I watched the movie I was simply critiquing it. I even managed to enjoy X-Men The Last Stand and Spider-Man 3 whilst I was watching them. This movie just flat out abused me without the common courtesy of having anything going for it. Sucker Punch cold have been so much more, but the lack of fluidity between scenes, and the feeling that Snyder thinks this might be important, was all a bit too much. Anyone who recommends this film, has horrible taste in film, period.

couldn't they find famous acotrs who can sing? This movie is a train wreck. The only one who can carry a tune is the actress that plays the daughter. I don't know how this made it to the public, anyone watching the dailies could have told you it stinks. The story was terrible, the camera work was worse & the actors except where noted above cannot carry a tune. It was like watching 2 hours of Jr. high bad music. I can't figure out why so many people love this movie. I'd rather have a toothache than watch it again!

Romney-Ryan Campaign Commercial? Is this a Romney-Ryan Campaign Commercial?? From the title, I am thinking it is. I'm certain of it. You see, it's the title. It captures them perfectly.

I Couldn't Get Past the First 5 Minutes!! Maybe it's just me, but this video was excruciatingly slow. I've been used to Jillian Michaels, and was looking for something a little more gentle, but with the same heart-pumping pace. This was NOT it. I couldn't watch more than 5 minutes of it. Even the Advanced section starts out with sloooowwww stretches and breathing. And unfortunately, despite how skilled this instructor may be, she wasn't super motivational to me. It felt like a waste of money. If you're looking to actually WORK OUT, get a Jillian DVD. They're great. :)

The Opposite of Fun The maniac who wrote this abortion is a giggle-dodger. So is Kal Penn, and the entire ensemble to be honest. Really, this film was so unfunny it made my ovaries bleed. Disgraceful.  Whichever nitwit defecated this onto paper obviously has no idea what parody means, mistakenly thinking to parody something is to just completely replicate it. That is more or less what this film consists of, scene after scene of imitations of other films, no joke, no comedy. If even a slight look of mirth sweeps across your stupid, pig-ignorant face during this film I'm going to come round your house and give you the lobotomy you deserve.Think I dont know where you live?  dont worry. I'll find out.

Extremely disappointed Ciaran Hinds, one of my favorite actors, portrayed Rochester as a hysterical bully. I was amazed that Jane, a sensible girl, would find anything admirable or lovable about the character.

sick rubbish, by a pervert Rubbish, is what I call this film. Unbelievable actions by the captives, sexual perversion which is rediculous and reflects the perverted mind of the director, who was incidently killed by a male whore.  Even if this work had artistic merit, which IS VERY DEBATABLE. The detrimental effect on society through desensitization and moral corruption would more than neutralize any gain in expression. Based on a debit to credit argument, this film is a LOSER.  This is what a BBC critic said of the film and I could not agreed with it more:  "But why the British Film Institute should re-release Pasolini's "Sal&ograve;" (which was awful in 1975, and is still awful now) is anyone's guess. Perhaps, at a time when promotional budgets for non-mainstream films are almost invisible, the BFI knows all too well that a film stuffed with brutal demonstrations of power and perversion of every kind will at least get noticed.  Yet the re-launch of "Sal&ograve;" is, just as the making of it was, a sad, if spectacular, waste of energy. Notionally a metaphor for Fascism (it is set in Italy in 1944), and specifically about the connection between politics, violence, and sexual excitement, "Sal&ograve;" has in fact no meaningful link to Fascism whatsoever, but is simply a display of twisted lust, spun by the fantasies of four extreme perverts, not to mention the director himself. Clearly Pasolini (who could either be exceptionally inspired or - as here - absolutely dire) had hit the creative buffers, and so - in his tale of four power-mad, sexually-warped members of the ruling elite - seems to relish serving up endless examples of the most gruesome conduct, which include the forced consumption of food spiked with nails, nipples being branded, and - most ghastly of all - the consumption of excrement. Needless to say, the young men and women horrifically abused by the four condescending establishment tyrants are treated like so much available meat."  Addition: I see that a number of individuals are offended by this review, stiff, this is not a true representative sample of the general population. See, the type of people who come here to view the Salo reviews are the ones who like the film and wish to purchase it. It is rather like going to KKK meeting and surveying that demographic to determine the average white's feeling towards blacks.  But I can assure you that 60% at least of the general public if forced to watch this nonsense, would be in agreement with me. This is supported by the fact that this film has been banned in numerious countries.  As one guy put it:  "It was pure torture imposed upon the film's viewers and I'm not sure I understand the point of it all. Establishing his fascist analogy didn't require twenty minutes of fecal consumption and countless rape scenes. "  I tell you the point, the film may have begun as an analogy of fascism, but it deteriorated into a display of the director's perverted fantasies. That is why it is so pointlessly excessive. A director using the theme of fascism as an opportunity to produce a perverse sadistic film. Another example of art used as a pretence, to really disguise a darker intend and desire.  Now the people who watch this film over and over, well all I got to say is this, be careful of them.... very careful.

True what? This movie uses maximum words to express very little.  The opening courtroom scene added nothing to the character nor the story.  whereas the original version used minimum words to great effect. If Jeff Bridges had notinaudibly mumbled ad-nauseum beneath those cobwebs of a beard we may have warmed to his character which was acted rather woodenly all way through, he did not develop his character except on about 3 occasions when he focused his eye on someone he showed some emotion and ability.  Very disappointing lead actor, wondering why he was chosen for a version of True Grit. "Maddie" at 14 appeared and was dressed as a stylish adult.  Didn't ring true.  As for her delivery, this actress did not mumble, she burbled throughout like a fishie blowing bubbles, same monotonous expression, but to be portrayed as so worldly and capable as a young teenager it was not believable.  Very disappointing lead actress. Disappointing re-make.  If a producer director and cast cannot do a story justice better than or at least equal to an earlier or original version,  why bother?  1 star.

Booooooring Sets up for a good story but gets tedious, repetitive, unrealistic, and just dumb.  Very good acting from the characters.  The story just wasn't there

Broken I purchased this DVD for my neice for Christmas and she opened the package and the DVD was broken. Will never purchase from Amazon again.

Made it to minute 36 I could only watch this movie up to about minute 36.  Perhaps it got better after that, but it was full of unrealistic situations (who has ever flown on a huge jet as the only person in coach, when has a stewardess ever yammered on when you've made it clear you want to sleep, and when has someone from the city ever left their keys in the car so the annoying small child relative could start it up and accidentally back it down the driveway) and boring cliches in the first 36 minutes.  I won't ever know what happens after minute 36, but I can live without understanding the whole "Exit 60B thing" -- assuming that was ever answered.

She sure does love herself! Not much about Rand's life to know really.  She was rich and thought that she was a genius.  She never developed past 13 and was probably a satanist.  And somehow, the religious right, and the fiscal conservatives come together to throw Jesus from the train in order to masticate Rand's magical journey through the wretched loathsomeness of wealthiness and atheism.  I'm sure there's a Southern Baptist preacher with all her books next to every version of the bible in their study and no clue to the massive hypocrisy of having two masters.  All in all, this was overrated.

NINTH GRADE ART PROJECT This is what happens when ninth graders write and produce a film. First off there is a difference between Goth and Vampire. The movie merges the two to the dismay of both Goths and Vampires and combines them into some cult religion which requires women to perform a ritualistic suicide. Trevor Goddard who played Blood, the evil Goth/Vampyr actually passed out during the making of the film when he saw fake blood. He is a cult leader who has a web site that reads like a bad Charlie Manson come on. "You are not alone. You are misunderstood, We are your family." Blood is the head of a cult called the Black Rose. Fatal (Nora Zimmett) is a girl in the cult who is pregnant and also does blow and smoke pot. Good thing she is off the heroin. There is Anubus (Mark Irvingsen) a club owner and associate of Blood. He is also a business student. Tom Weidder (Jeff Marchelletta) plays a gay student who helps Fatal and walks around with a goatee painted on his chin. Professor Fulton is the class instructor whose real name, Muse Watson sounds like one of the characters.  This is perhaps the "Reefer Madness" of Goth films. It is idiotic. Unfortunately it lacks the camp value to be entertaining unless you're a real Goth. Trevor Goddard fans will want to avoid this one, it is unbelievably bad. Even the phrase "Based on a Series of true Events" should tell you something about the film. Minus 2 stars.

Lousy Acting As a fan of action movies,I too was driven into the realm of The Green Hornet.Wow,I thought,a movie of the old stupid television show,man was I wrong,the television version is far superior against this schlock.Take my advice it's an actual sleeper,you'll fall asleep watching this dreck,especially the horrendous acting by Seth Rogan.Maybe he should retire from acting,because he certainly didn't do much of it in The Green Hornet,he's not funny in any sense.Althought the special effects were ok,the movie lacked that umph that other movies in the same genre have,I would rather watch the A-Team movie,at least it's funny and doesn't have to rely on a car to have people watch it.All in all it was a #2 on a 1-5 list,save your money for something good,because folks,this wasn't.

Boring I made the effort to journey to a theater to see the golly-gee-whiz-honest-to-goodness-3D, only to be disappointed in everything with this movie.  The 3D process was wasted on this mess of a movie that was just a lot of computer effects whizzing onto the screen in an blur, coupled with an incomprehensible plot and an ending that was, at best, tacked on in an attempt to make it meaningful.  Based on the reviews here, I'm in the minority, because I wasn't awe-struck with Tron: Legacy, and I certainly don't feel the need to own it, or even watch it again on DVD either.  The best review of this movie was this sentence by critic Bret Fetzer who wrote: "For all the techno-babble and quasi-philosophy the characters spout, this is a movie without an idea in its shiny head."  He praised it in other areas, but I liked that comment.  Ditto for me and it was a bore-fest as well.

Pure slander, awful production This should be labeled a mockumentary. It's nothing but unfounded slander, not to mention boring and cheaply slapped together. Barrack's mother was no pinup model even in her younger years. Even a monkey could see those photos were shopped.

Nonsensical This movie was a big disappointment.  I expected more of a super hero type than a bumbling airhead.  The 3D effects weren't good either.

One of the worst movies I have ever seen. Not only did this movie give the "games-to-movies" stereotype a bad name, it gave movies a bad name, in general. The character development is non-exsistent, along with a relevant story. They tried too hard to make it known that the movie was based on a video game, which was a horrible idea. Ok, we get it. Doom was a video game. The whole "first person" view towards the end was laughable and made the movie ten times worse, which I thought wasn't humanly possible. Oh, well. At least I saw the movie for free. I feel bad for the people that had to pay for it.

Abslutely Horrible Absolutely the worst comedy routine I have ever witnessed.  Beyond stupid.  Painful to watch.  Irritating to listen to.  Why would anyone make such a thing????

A massive failure to launch! I am a fan of Ridley Scott, and I really believe that Blade Runner and Alien are two of the great sci-fi dramas of our time, but this movie is an atrocious mess.  It is loud, un-intelligent and generic as can be.  The movie lacks any kind of character or identify, and would have been better pimped the "Alien" DNA for street cred.  The characters are extremely stupid and uninteresting, as was the entire plot.  I really thought this was a cerebral film, from many of the previews, but it turn out to be a truly horrible monster movie, with a mess that left a massive door for a sequel.  Not only that...as it basically copied the endings from Alien and Aliens and fused them to creative this mess.  I downloaded this in the early digital version, and I wish I had Redbox this garbage, as it would have saved me some bucks!  - The plot is generic, science team sent to investigate planet, science team finds discovery to shake the foundation of our understanding, the discovery turns out to be a monster. - The monsters are generic mix of biological and physical ghoulies. - As usual, everybody dies in predictable ways, except for the heroine (hero), and the open-ended closing to try and set up sequels. - Nothing new to the genre OR to movie making.  It's just a horrendous bit of monster movie boredom.  Skip this like the plague!

It not what you think! This is one of the worse movie I've seen.  I am glad I did not watch it in theater, I would have ask for my money back.  R U kidding me.  The actors hardly move from the &*()&*( room.  Do not purchase this movie!  If you hesitate, RENT it first then decide.

A waste of 90 minutes and 4 bucks I rented this movie to watch on a flight from Atlanta to Boston. I guess it was better than doing nothing, but honestly, not by much. I will admit I chuckled at a few points in the film, but more because it was so absurd and not because it was particularly funny. The writers apparently think that the more f- and s- bombs in the dialog, the funnier the script. Really, it's not. It's more pathetic than anything else. Frankly, the aggressively selfish overweight Jonah Hill swearing, threatening and criticizing a 13-year old and two younger kids, stealing the family car, stealing checks at a bat mitzvah party, heading into Manhattan in the middle of the night, buying drugs for a girl just so he might get laid (how he was going to manage that with the kids in tow is a mystery), etc. made me cringe much more than anything else.  Save your money.

Not much to admire here. Hack is a straight slasher-type movie with what the creators must've thought was an original take on the genre. Instead, it's a hack-neyed and unoriginal production. Save your money.

Boring! This was the most boring movie EVER! I only watched it because I had to for class but don't waste your time/money

Talentless losers from Seattle step aside, Justin Bieber is a true legend. Wutz up ya'll?  I love hard rock and grunge as much as everyone else does these days but this Pearl Jam group is just a bunch of talentless hacks that don't deserve the hype! First of all, Creed and Nickelback originally created grunge/hard rock wayyyy before Pearl Jam ever existed.  Not to mention, Pearl Jam doesn't really have the emotion and rhythm that good bands like Staind, Nickelback, and Puddle of Mudd have.... I think the entire Seattle scene was just a big trendy joke back in the early 70s! Bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, and all those other losers from Seattle didn't make it out of the 70s and this is living proof why they didn't!  For true music legends, check out talented singers like Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga.

Wake me up when it's over..... Bad lines, bad acting, bad direction, no chemistry, week story line. Actors acting in a manner consistent with unease and ...either dislike or fear of Tom Cruise; it came out in the movie.  Very strange.  Don't know what was up off screen, but this crew was you could tell couldn't stand each other on a real life level.  What a waste of $$ to create this film.  Definitely not on his A game. The lead woman, --can't act, unconvincing, too stiff and not a natural, bad timing.

Take some No-doze This one took two hours to get going. The whole first three-quarters of the movie was a constant theme: "Look how much we pal around and love each other!" The best part was over in thirty seconds. Avoid this bomb.

The only good thing in this movie was Ms. Streep's Make-up Artist I expected an outstanding performance by a Star, cast as an historical politician. The film shows the kaleidoscopic flashbacks of a senile old woman, that made few connections with one of Great Britons finest Prime Ministers. If you want to view "The Iron Lady," Margaret Thatcher, I suggest you review old news clips and pass on this tripe. I hope that Ms. Streep reads the screenplays of her future endeavors more closely before committing to play the character. This is a very boring movie that I painfully watched, hoping the next scene would be better. I was very disappointed, because I expected more from a great actress.

ENUFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I found it so tiring having to wade hip deep through an endless litany of the F word...... The film presents ((((((ugliness)))))) at its height in terms of humanity. The only bright presence in all of this was Wahlberg's character who seemed to reach above the muck I feel genuinely sorry for Lowell if this is the best they can produce........ I found the characters in The Town much more interesting and sympathetic than any in The Fighter. I realize it received NUMEROUS accolades but to say it presented any sort of redeeming value would be putting it mildly I realize my opinion means nothing but I felt the need to comment here.

Blu-Ray Media Edition Is Seriously Flawed The poor rating that I've given this item is in no way reflective of the HBO Series: Game Of Thrones!  The series is fantastic, and as a huge fan of George R. R. Martin's works, I'm thoroughly pleased with what HBO has done with this series!  The Blu-Ray edition, however, will make you feel Ned Stark's pain as you spend extremely long periods of time waiting for menus and episodes to launch.  I've often ejected discs from my OPPO BDP-83SE Blu-Ray player, thinking that it had crashed, after trying to launch an episode from the main menu.  Menus are so slow to respond to input, that I often end up deep within a menu that I had no intention of navigating.  I've become accustumed to the lengthy boot times of some Blu-Ray titles, but nothing compares to the discs included in this package.

You know the so bad they're good flicks..... You know the so bad they're good flicks....this ain't one of em. I wasted 10 bucks on this crapfest. Should have known better but hey I rolled the dice and came up short. This flick is terrible. I haven't been this bored and done so many face palms since I struggled through Zombie Lake. I really wanted Boggy Creek to be good because I'm interested in the source material. I beg all those looking for a waste of money too look elsewhere. This dvd is only good for a table coaster. It's bad, really really bad.

Just Bad Rarely write a review. It's bad don't waste you time.  Main actress good at action scenes bad at acting.  plot line weak.

What The.......!??? Quick synopsis: These 4 or 5 guys sit around their real estate office for 2 hours talking about not getting good leads....PERIOD.  This is SO boriing! I made it through 30 minutes and then I fell asleep. After I woke up I fast forwarded through to get to the GOOD PART, but there is no good part!!!!!!!!!!!!  Who wrote the 'good reviews' for this waste of film? Amazon, are you hiring people to do this? Say it isn't so.

Soylent Dick Says: Utter Trash How to woo a lady - be an oaf and spit grape seeds out of the window - what a wonderful example of how to impress females! Amercian trash with no story.

Fooled by reviews I bought this movie because I'm a huge zombie movie fan. I read reviews people wrote and thought this would be an amazing film. Boy was I mislead. I cant believe people thought this was 4+ stars. I gave it one and that was a stretch. How much was the budget for this $200? Never have I seen weaker zombie make up in my life. Its bascially white contacts and face powder with a splash of fake blood. Really? I cant believe a tv show "The Walking Dead" has such amazing make up affects for zombies and this craptasctic film had zero. I would think if the dead were walking around in the African heat it would accellerate their decomposition and they would look that way. Wanted to throw the dvd in the garbage after watching it and wanted the hour and a half back I wasted watching this. Dont be fooled rent it you will thank me.

what a rip off what a rip off..  on the front cover is a soccer ball, a football, a hockey puck, a tennis ball, a basketball and a baseball.  i got this video based on that cover and the only items from the cover they show you how to make is the football and the hockey puck.  furthermore, most of the items to make are extremely canada centric..  lots of hockey stuff and fishing stuff.  save your money and find better videos on youtube.

SAM!!!! I CRAM TO UNDERSTAND...WHY??? This movie was awful.  Those expecting Jules of Pulp Fiction Days or  Carl Lee Hailey in a Time to Kill or even Lazarus from Black Snake Moan will be sorely disappointed.  Sam, sometimes I cram to understand why is it quantity over quality with you?  Yes, you are the hardest working man in Hollywood but you don't have to do every damn movie that comes your way.  The Samaritan's plodding,  meandering storyline with improbable/illogical plot points does not hold anything to the film noir of yesteryear.  The only twist(spoiler alert) was incest and that was played for cheap effect.  Do not pay 9.99 or even 13.50(if you live in NYC) to see this movie.  I wonder if Sam might have dropped a bit from  the 1%  in having to do movies like this.  Sam,  your agent ran the grift on you when he passed this script along, Sam's agent, Elan Mastai and David Weaver grifted you, lastly folks out there-don't let them or this movie grift you.

Never got the movie... sent an e-mail asking "where is my movie?" never got a answer...will like to know How to get my money... Never got the movie... sent an e-mail asking "where is my movie?" never got a answer...will like to know How to get my money back?

Why don't they sell single Blu-ray's anymore? I have to say I have not viewed Red Tails yet.  I have been looking forward for it to come out on Blu-ray since I honestly cannot stay awake in the movies anymore for any movie.  One thing I would like to know is why in the world do I have to buy a Blu-ray, DVD and sometimes a Digital Disk, when all I want is the Blu-ray.  I've noticed that on almost every new release, you have to buy the pricey 2 or 3 digit version.  I now buy very few Blu-rays and when the movie isn't an action or big CG movie, I'll drop down and buy it on DVD or wait it out to buy the Blu-rays when they pop the price down to 9.99 because nobody wants to pay 25 - 30 dollars for the movie.  So whenever I see a movie that I cannot buy as a single Blu-ray, it will get 1 star from me for that alone.  Now about the movie again, as some of you mentioned, the movie in 1995 "The Tuskegee Airmen" is well worth the watch.  If you haven't seen that movie yet, catch it before you view this one.

zzzzzz I saw this film when it first came out in theaters. It is hands down one of the top 5 worst movies I have ever seen. Anyone that is a fan of classic thrillers, suspense, good acting, solid plots, or good cinematography will not enjoy the hour and a half of your life being wasted. The only thing terrifying about this film was watching Gary Oldman degrade a solid acting career. If you feel that I am just a cynical wanna-be movie critic for my comments, then by all means, watch it. The ending is so ridiculous it almost makes it worth it

It's like an M. Night Shayamalan movie. And not in a good way. Let's see, no character development, zero acting, no chemistry between the principle characters, long, awkward stares in place of dialogue (that's artistic, that is!), a plot stolen from "The Transporter" and achingly slow plot development. And, just like in an M. Night Shayamalan movie, you can count the number of times anyone blinks on one hand. But, of course, someone will slap an "art" label on it and rave about how artistic it is.  What a load of crap. Don't waste your time on this piece of crap film.

Cashing in Seems like the MPAA is trying to cash in on this one. Really really shoddy work compared to the first one.

Ridiculous and Racist Ok, here's some mind-blowing news that the director might not have figured out. Disco was an African American and gay music. Another fact that he might not know - Studio 54 was run by a Jewish homosexual. Fact # 3 - you can't have a long conversation in a New York City club because it's too loud to hear anything you say. You have to shout everything and the best you can hope for is a nod and a smile before it becomes too unbearable for words.  Yet somehow Stillman decided to portray disco in the same way he portrayed Upper East Side private club like a salon like environment peopled almost exclusively by wealthy white people pontificating on nonsense and cartoons, all the while wonder if their upper class white privilege is justified (short answer - why yes it is). There's some disco playing, but it's happily playing at low volumes in the background just so you know that it's about disco. There's not much of a story here but what passes for a sub-plot is stolen whole cloth from the travails of Studio 54 including the unfortunate hubris that would lead the club owners to brag about all the money they were ferreting away from the IRS that would lead to a raid that would find that money and the cocaine.  What ultimately kills this movie is the fact that it's unbearably dull. No one has any passion or interest beyond talking about trivialities (the Scrooge McDuck conversation gets heavy rotation) and in the end, one of the bland characters says that disco is really fun and great. And then they go on the subway and start dancing the white man's overbite.  Metropolitan has its charms despite being about people I normally find repugnant but this thing is just a sad little attempt to expand past the Upper East Side in that white racist fantasy of what New York could be like - if only the minorities weren't everywhere.

Absolute Crap Worst excuse for a video I have ever seen.  Put disk through shredder when I finished.  Gross. Stupid. Waste of time and money.  Save $ and just hit yourself in the head with a hammer.

A shallow, swirling mess........... The underwater cave setting of this film couldn't obscure the fact that it contains just about every movie cliche known to Hollywood. (Thank you James Cameron). About 10 minutes into this drama, you'll get the feeling that you've seen it all before. You have - just above ground. The dialogue is silly, the acting is poor, and the character's actions throughout the film defy all semblance of logic. Everyone dies in the end, and by the time you get there, you really won't care.

Timeline jumble only works if it's good Revember when Pulp Fiction, Memento and even 21 Grams came out and challenged the audience to rethink how movies could be done. They can be done backwards, they can be done out of order or they just didn't have to be so straight forward. In all three of those movies, the way the story was told added to the movie. They were unique and challenging. CATCH .44 appears to be doing the same thing, but for different reasons. CATCH .44 is doing it because they wanted to.  There is no reason to tell this movie out of order. Personally, I find it hard to believe and painful to watch as three people in a restaurant hold guns on each other, sweating with intensity, scared that the other is going to open fire, but telling each other stories as to how they each arrived at their locations. For ten minutes, guns are trained, stories are being told. I wanted somebody to just pull the trigger, right in the middle of those stories and then turn the guns on themselves.  CATCH .44 is a jumbled hodge podge of who really cares stories as to who is loyal to who and who made deals with who and they all would have faired better had we just seen the whole thing played out in real time, instead of seeing the bloody aftermath in the beginning and then again with a little bit more revealed, and then again with even more revealed and so on.  It's a bad movie, and there's a reason why a movie that learned it's technique from gems like Pulp & Memento, and has Forrest Whitaker and Bruce Willis, went straight to video. It's bad and is just a pretender in its artistic attempts.

COP OUT INDEED! I am a fan of both Willis and Morgan and I expected much more from this embarrassing mess of a film. The story which is really contrived is only part of the problem in this film, the actors aren't given anything to do but fumble around and try to make us laugh mugging for the camera. Even Morgan can only do so much with this truly terrible movie. I would rate it 1 1/2 stars because I like the stars and I somehow made it through this stinker!

Terrible Quality and Boring Why is it that so many people like Baby Einstein dvds? I'm always looking for educational programs that my daughter can watch. Based on the reviews and popularity of the program, I decided to take sneak peeks at it. I must say I was highly disappointed. The quality of the dvds is terrible; they look like something a low-budget company would make. Most importantly, the dvds are boring. My daughter was not interested in them at all.

Boring I couldn't get through this incredibly boring film. Not worth watching. Most of it is just showing 2 children playing. Worst movie ever made

Mike Mozart Sent me Here... The original Happy Feet was mediocre. This cheapquel was atrocious. Plot-less, obnoxious, modernized, any derogatory term you can think of, it probably applies to this "film". Don't buy, don't rent, don't glance at it on a store shelf, for your own benefit.

Bogus buy Movie did not play! Couldn't play in my region! Well you shouldn't sell to my region! Probly not at all

cool robots bad acting sloppy story The Decepticons play the Autobots like a used violin and demostrate Cybertron's AI still has a long way to go. While LaBeouf and Turturro act as if this movie is their character's last episode --- and they really over-act in this movie which is lacks the charm of the original TV cartoon.

This CD is defective D as a gift - we opened it last night to watch it and it doesn't work.  It stops for no reason, then skips back to the 'loading' phase at the very beginning. Very disappointing. Can I exchange it for another one that hopefully will play?

My IQ just dropped after seeing this I tried to watch this because I was soooo bored. I couldn't stand it for more than 10 minutes. They're so stupid to a point its not even funny. Somehow these people out-stupid Jackass, and I've had my share of laughs watching Jackass from time to time.  How do I describe these people? Shallow, too stupid to live, but to my amazement... arrogant. It is seriously like watching a bunch of 10 year olds socializing but with alcohol and sex. I can't believe these people are role models to children... and I'm 22 years old, not some old prude.  Ladies and gents... our culture has hit a new low.

The show was horrible, the games were awesome! As many of you already know, this series was based on a video game of the same name that was released by THQ in 2003 and was followed by 2 sequels in 2004-2005. While the games were amazing and fun to play, this series was just plain awful. Here are some of the RIDICULOUS changes that Nickelodeon made to the series: *Mind-Reader Juju is now Psychic Juju *Dead Juju is now "Party Juju" *None of the original voice actors from the games reprised their roles!!! *the characters are annoying, personality and voice-wise!!! *Tlaloc (pronounced Tuh-lay-lock) is renamed Traloc (tuh-ray-lock)! Its not that hard to pronounce! TUH-LAY-LOCK! *Tak's chicken suit was used once. *Only half of the jujus from the games are in the show! Where are Two-Headed Juju, Moon Juju, Fauna and Flora, and Tlaloc's minions Pins and Needles? They're there! They should be, but they're not in this show!  Why, NICKELODEON, WHY DID YOU HAVE TO CHANGE TAK AND HIS UNIVERSE! YOU MADE HIM SOUND LIKE A MORON! Don't spend your money on this DVD and don't watch the show! Just play the games! the first three, not 4 and 5, because the last 2 were based on this god forsaken show!

Introduction to tonal struggling Look at the drawing on the cover of this DVD. It's a drawing of a beautiful life model with an age of at most 30 years, with brown hair, eyes and eyebrows and a pale white skin, under normal lighting. Do you think this is a good tonal drawing ? I don't think so.  Is this DVD an introduction to tonal drawing ? No,  basics like tone, tonal scale, mid tone, tonal drawing, etc. etc. are not explained, within no time, a start is made with life model drawing, a portrait, with charcoal, behind an easel. Is this DVD an introduction to life model portrait drawing ? No, there is no introduction on proces to draw a portrait, how to draw the parts of a portrait, etc. etc.  Anita just goes along doing her thing, not giving any real instructions, murmuring along the way, struggling with a tonal drawing, which in my opinion doesn't succeed. I think the tonal relationships are not correct, the likeliness it at best mediocre, the texture is off, etc. She works a very long time, the whole DVD, on just this one drawing, which isn't great. All life model portrait drawing teachers I've had up till now, draw considerably better tonal portrait drawings and a lot faster.  If you have done an introduction to life model tonal portrait drawing before, you will probably already draw better then the drawing you see on this DVD. If you haven't done an introduction to life model tonal portrait drawing up till now, then this DVD definitely is not the place to start. In my view this DVD is a complete waste of time and money, I've kicked it into the bin.

Does NOT contain the original sounds. Buyer beware The first dvd of this movie contained the Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono soundtrack. If you purchased the blu-ray version all the original car sounds, sound effects, even some of the music will be altered or removed. Beautiful picture yes but the Mono soundtrack is not available and Universal has not stated for the reason why and have no plans to change a great movie that I grew up watching and loved when I was a kid. It's not worth it. If you can find the very first version of this movie on dvd, it has all the original sound effects.

You'd have to sew my eyes open to watch this again! I had high hopes for this film which I take full blame for.  I'm not going to spoil it because at the end of the day its just my opinion.  The movie started off swell, seemed interested but quickly took a nose dive into the abyss of "what the?!?!?!" I think it was poorly executed and as a matter of fact, if I could execute this flick and put it to rest, I would!  THUMBS DOWN!

. I received this as a Christmas gift.  Two of the first three disks would not play properly.  I love the series but the quality of the product is very poor.

Beware This item is not what it is labeled as. This is disc 1 for the original series, not Outer Story!

AWFUL!!! Avoid this movie at all cost! I can't believe I actually just watched this. This movie is piss poor!! The Bigfoot costume was awesome, but the rest of the movie was horrendous. This movie may have been worse than the Garbage Pail Kids movie.

Restless Gus Van Sant has seen his share of success over the years, but every once in a while, as with most all directors, he misfires. Such was the case with his latest film, Restless, a tale of unlikely teen romance that quietly breezed through theaters back in September. Based on a play by the film's screenwriter, Jason Lew, Restless continues the tradition of twee indie romances, complete with quirky affectations and random plot elements. Mia Wasikowska is Annabel Cotton, a terminal cancer patient with a fascination for nature and Charles Darwin. Henry Hopper plays Annabel's love interest, Enoch, who's lost his parents in a car accident and entertains visits from the ghost of a Kamikaze pilot named Hiroshi. Together, Annabel and Enoch learn to cope with the hands they've been dealt, all the while with Annabel's imminent passing looming over their heads. Unfortunately, Waskikowska's performance was about the only thing I found to like about the film, so unless alternately cutesy and melancholy love stories are your thing, you won't get much out of Restless.

THIS MOVIE IS HORRIBLE this has to be arguably one of the stupidest f'n movies i've ever seen in my life.  maybe 20 yrs ago, it would have been somewhat creative/original but not now.  don't waste your money or time on this piece of Sh't movie.  the action, story, comedy ALL SUCK... AND i'm KOREAN!!! i support my people's films but this movie is absolutely atrocious.  anyone who wrote a favorable review on this film is either working for their distribution company or an f'n moron

Great Movie, Amazon's Video Quality SUCKS!!! This is a great classic movie, and as today is my first day with Amazon Prime, I decided to watch an older movie since the newer movies were running too slow for good video. My internet consistently runs at around 20 Mbps, and I can't even stay connected to the server for this nearly 30 year old movie. I don't have this problem with Netflix or Hulu. If this is indicative of the service quality coming out of Amazon, my prime membership won't even last for the 30 day trial period.

Poor Documentary or Horrible Drama? I was very disappointed in the quality of the production.  If this is supposed to be a documentary -- mostly told through voice over and the actors are not speaking English -- then it needs some citation for it's information.  If it is supposed to be a drama -- the Bible scenes are acted out and there is scenery and costumes -- then it needs better actors.  This group of actors was worse than watching a third grade performance.  The biggest problem though is that no where on the DVD box or the videos themselves is it explained why these Biblical stories are being told this way. It was a waste of my money because there are much better documentaries out there and certainly much better dramas of the exact same stories.

TV shows make lousy movies The A-Team was one of my favorite TV shows.  The movie, IMO, is a total disaster.  The story is silly, the acting awful and the production horrible.  The only reason I finished watching it was to write this review and not base it on half the movie.  The TV show was fun and even charming.  The movie is tiresome and outrageous.  I expect to get some nasty replies to my review.  I invite you to say whatever you want.  However, the movie stunk.

garbage if you want other people's worldview and presuppositions shouted at you every thirty seconds then this is the movie for you

May not be the best for a female audience.... I am very open minded, liberal, and a lover of drag shows and drag queens.  My friend and I thought this was going to be a fun spoof with Drags queens as the stars.  We are also female which may make our view point different from that of males.  The drag queens play real females even though they start the movie showing them putting on wigs so you at first assume they are drag queens.  They have sex like women and make some seriously disturbing choices that most women would not make even to be funny.  It is so over the top stereotypes of how some people must think woman are that it makes you physically ill and we ended up turning it off after about 30 minutes. I think because it took itself so seriously, that the humor was lost for us.  I suppose this movie has it's place for queens and transgender audiences that relate better to the humor of the movie, but it was lost on us female lovers of drag shows because it portrayed woman so horribly. So I gave it one star for an audience like myself....liberal, part of the lgbt community, and female...but for others I guess they love it.  Just think about your point of view before you rent it...it may not be for the gals even though it has girls in the title.

the final destination i wish i could have that time back! i wish i could have gave this zero stars. this is by far the worst of the franchise. not only are the effects bogus and lame, the story is completely garbage. there is no connection to the characters,plot,or story as a whole. i feel as though i knew what was gonna happen long before it did. it should have followed with the franchise and tied things together with all the previous movies. the acting was HORRIBLE! even (Bubba) the guy from forrest gump was bad.feels like  maybe this was more of a film student class project with his friends as the cast.very unlikeable movie and hard to stay focused and keep attention. i hope this is not where they leave this beloved franchise, and someone else takes the reigns and does this some justice. this installment could have killed the whole series.  so do yourselves a favor and keep your money in your pocket and if you have to waste your time,watch it at friends house, so that you arent out any money. but make sure you bring a pillow and blanket, because this will put you to sleep.  i hope i could help in your decision on this movie. feel free to follow me on twitter @blupit30

Technically Excellent, But A Sterile And Boring Performance Get this release if you want to see a bloated Don Henley sing and not play the drums that often. Buy it if you don't like Don Felder and want to hear his clone Steuart Smith! Don't purchase this if you prefer Randy Meisner on bass and his excellent vocal on "Take It To The Limit".  Otherwise, buy their all of their albums or greatest hits.  No offense to Joe Walsh, but this reminds me of an extremely polished and professional oldies act on PBS.

Poor Quality DVD The DVD freezes in the middle. I will not purchases DVDs from this site again. Getting a good price is only beneficial if the product is acceptable.

Worst ever! This movie had no trailer to watch and I understand why, after renting the movie. This was the dumbest movie I have ever seen. It belongs in the toilet!

Incredibly unreal! Unbelievably bad! This movie has no reality whatsoever! I paid a penny for it and still feel ripped off! Don't know who the 5 star reviewers are but my guess is that they could be aliens where intelligence is non-existent and real movies are unknown. Save your time and money there are more important things to do with your life!

Glad I didn't pay 10.00 pp to see this. After all the hype about the movie and I just didn't like it.  Both my husband and I watched it and both had the same opinion.  Then I asked my co-workers and they said the same thing.  To hard to follow, what was real, what wasn't.  Now my son and his g/f both liked the movie, maybe it's a generational thing.  Both my husband and I are in our 50's and our son is in his 20's.  But, I would not buy the movie or see it again.

silly It must be weird for western fans to hear hard core wild-west bandits raving in a stylish Italian Its either that or the chipmunk-voiced dubbing in American. NO its not violent or sadistic. Take the bullet grabbing scramble from the man's guts because only paint gushed out and this was undisputable as blood is not orange-scarlet and its texture was all wrong. Likewise when it was striped over the hanged men who looked as if nooses make people doze off rather than die. Hanging is in reality is a very nasty slow death where the eyes bulge and the tongue goes black. The weight of the body and length of the rope is a mathematical calculation to get the neck to snap.  (Athough granted ALL hangings look like fall a-sleepings on films ) This film seems dated and yet  Hitchcock's "Psycho" from 1960 , 7 years earlier , had undoutable blood and terror  even in black and white. Italian Tv is truly awful these days-it is the token box droning chip-monk voices in the corner of the room with one type of voice respectively for man woman or child....this film comes out of the same waste-land of Italian film despite some brilliant eras and directors. There is a lot of talk about a scene when the bandidos come into a disturbing to the point of surreal town. True-the 1st shot of the naked kid was shocking. But more due to bad fiming I suspect. He was supposed to be pee-ing with back to the camera but hard as I looked I couldn't see any sign of a fountain so he must have been waggling down there for another purpose. Then the scruffy  bandidos seem to go into a trance ogling and salivating over a singer who is a truly beautifully polished woman. Is she so polished because she's a product of their parched imagination and in fact only a grubby ugly whore? That would be a surreal and clever little trick if the director had meant it so. But given the over-all trashy gaudyness of this film she's only a glamorous mistake that is distracting because there cant possibly be a hair-dresser in town. This film is fake to the point of boring and immature.

I got fooled... I have read some of the reviews, and maybe I am missing something but I only received 3 cds of nothing...no movie...nothing that the title implied...somebody let me know..because I am confused and disappointed....

Stupid This movie is boring, stupid and the acting is horrible. When the girl tried to scare the guy by coming out in a sheet with eye holes, I was all done with it.

Crap. They have Scottish accents through the first half of the movie. A ton of historical inaccuracies, like characters quoting Virgil who wasn't alive for another 200 years. Poor acting. Just an overall bad movie.

trust_ ...that you'll never get these 2 hrs back This movie is far from "..a must see" and far, far from deserving 5 stars that some people gave it. I'm a fan of slow movies, but in those cases, it's usually the characters that drive the movie.  trust_ is a disturbing crime drama that goes nowhere.  You'll end up hating the pervert so much only to be let down in the end.  Clive Owen saves the movie with some great acting.  But it isn't enough.  I applaud David Schwimmer for pushing people's expectations, but its impossible to expect anyone to like it.  Is this some cautionary tale about the Internet?  Who knows, but it sucked bad.  The movie in less than 30 seconds:  teenager is raped by sicko pervert guy, but still thinks he 'loves her'. Clive Owen is hell-bent on revenge (which would've been a hell of a better movie, but his revenge is unfulfilled) and his attitude causes family problems.  The girl finally is 'un-brainwashed' when she finds out the sicko has done it 3 other times with 3 underage girls.  Dad and girl make up, the end.  WTF-ending?  Did they catch the guy?  Nope.  Did they come close?  Not really.  I just lost 2 hrs of my life.  5 stars folks?  Godfather = 5 stars, Apocalypse Now = 5 stars, Rocky = 5 stars.  This movie?  I hated it so much that I'm writing this review of how bad it sucked and how much I hated it.

Why did  I do that? I read the other reviews but said it could not be that bad I was wrong! Mandinga is not the same as Mandingo.

The latest from SchemeWorks The latest film from SchemeWorks Animation is Kung Fu Panda. Originally submitted in 2001 to 2002 by Terence Dunn, SchemeWorks said absolutely not, then rapidly began work on the stolen idea for a 2008 release. Mega Mind was stolen from many submissions by people from all over the world. To add insult to injury, Schemeworks has announced several sequals to Kung Fu Panda in the coming years.

bad movie This movie was so terrible that I watched it in disbelief. I kept waiting for it to improve and the only time it did was when the credits started. The CGI kills were child like and only served to remind me of how bad the movie was. The acting and dialogue were horrible but were better than the writing. I can't think of a single reason to watch this steaming pile of crap. Save your time and money and skip this waste of I don't know what.

Dollar rental at best We rented this for a dollar.  What a terrible movie, acting and story.  I think they are beating a dead horse with the wave of  movies geared towards past comic book heros.  Save yourself some money, wait until this is on HBO if you still want to watch it.  Horrible movie.

"I hope he chokes!" Although it's not initially obvious, there's a history between Cary Grant (as French officer Henri Rochard) and Ann Sheridan (as Lieutenant Catherine Gates), and it's all bad.  They've been on missions before and they've all ended poorly.  Frenchman Henri wants nothing to do with "that American" woman and the feeling is mutual.  So, to prove their dislike, they bicker, and snipe, and shout at one another, endlessly, viciously.  They carry this verbal abuse through most of the movie; it's clear they hate one another, they even say so.  Now here comes the confusing part, this movie is billed as a romantic comedy.  But.  I kept waiting for the romance and the humor to kick in, where was it?  Instead, this tedious couple keeps up a steady flow of putdowns as they try their level best to humiliate and one-up one another.  Before this story of disharmony creaked to an end (that I figured would result in the murder of one or the other), snap!  He takes a nap, wakes up, and calls her darling, and two seconds later, they want to get "hitched, not itch."  When did sarcasm and disrespect turn into foreplay?  It's been my experience that when people have that level of hatred for one another it's neither funny nor the sound basis of a good marriage.  Yet, they marry 3 times: in German, in French, and by the army. I was stunned when I learned this was based on Henri Rochard's biography, I Was An Alien Spouse Of Female Military Personnel Enroute To The United States Under Public Law 271 Of The Congress.  One has to assume then that this was a true story (except for being French, Henri Rochard was Belgian).  If true, I can't help but wonder how long that marriage lasted and was it perfectly harmonious from that point on? At any rate, I didn't/couldn't enjoy this movie because the level of anger was too off-putting to be considered funny.  I don't enjoy watching ill-treatment of anyone by anyone and certainly not for entertainment sake.  Unless this was a promotion for anger management or marriage counseling, I don't see what purpose it served.  I'd rather watch His Girl Friday, The Philadelphia Story, or anything Grant did with Hitchcock (multiple times) then put myself through this again.  Not a keeper and I'm actually sorry I watched it in the first place.

Cinderella I purchased a two disc DVD set of the movie "Cinderella" (used).  The one disc was said to have a scratch, but would play just fine.  However, when I tried (several times) to play the movie, it would play about 60% of the movie and start over each time.  I reported the problem and was informed right away thet my credit card was reembursed with the full purchase price.  The point of this reviews is the fact that Amazon.com and "Lets watch a movie" stood behind their product and did not hesitate to correct the problem.  This gives me confidence that even if things go wrong, Amazon.com will stand behind their product and do thre right thing for their customers.

Poor quality, Jolie is better than this. I don't understand why a person of Angelina Jolie's caliber would do such a poor quality role as this and she did it in the tourist too.  Come on Angelina, let see another movie like Challengeling. Now thats acting.

Can't review what you don't have..... I ordered this box set from a retailer and paid up front.  A few days later, I got an email saying that it wasn't available and that the fault was due to bad information from the supplier's order fulfillment team (someone told someone else that the material was available, when it wasn't really on stock).  The order was cancelled, and my money was quickly refunded. I don't have a major complaint on the specific supplier, except in the area of inventory management and business data.  However, I have to wonder where Amazon is in all of this.  I understand the role of Amazon is really more of a marketplace coordinator here, but you would think that a system would be in place to coordinate another supplier, recommend another supplier, or to do SOMETHING to help fulfill this order. If I were not living overseas I would avoid Amazon altogether on items like this, as it just isn't really worth the hassle at this point.  I really enjoy this series, and the box set was intended to be a gift for my wife.  Looking forward to being able to write an actual review.....once I can find a supplier to send me the set.

Waste I realize it said it was a different region but I didn't know what that meant. Now we have a movie we can't even watch

Ol' Jug Ears The great big distraction is the surprisingly modern and way-too-light musical score over the visuals which is a shame because the footage itself has a wonderful archival feel  as though retrieved from a dusty sea-chest from within a spooky attic. This vampire has big ears that are comical to the point if distraction. A classic in its day but then the public were reeling from the magic of the newly invented cinema in any case. Nosferatu by Werner Herzog is far better. Klaus Kinski is responsible for the most ghoulish eerily real presence on film I have ever seen.

Don't buy this product This Video is a complete rip off.  The acting and staging look like a Jr. High School Play.  For $60, it should have a run time longer than 30 minutes.  Amazon should be embarassed to sell this item<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001E6V4O0">Charlemagne: Holy Barbarian</a>

Garbage! This is absolutely the worst movie I have ever seen! The poor writing and the contorted plot made it difficult to endure. We have an extensive dvd collection, and this was the first time ever that we threw a dvd in the garbage after viewing it. It was just too horrible to pass on to any other viewer!

Someone Call a Waa-mbulance This film examines the decline of the newspaper business from the point of view of the smug, self-important reporters who have been polishing the brass on the Titanic over the past dozen years.  They blame everyone but themselves for their failures.  Monster took our job ads.  Craigslist stole our classifieds.  Bloggers are scooping us.  It's everyone else's fault but their own.  Nonsense.  If their reporting was anywhere near the quality it used to be, people would still be buying the paper on and offline.  Of course the NYT lost revenue streams.  That's what happens in business.  This film reveals the cause of their looming downfall.  A failure to adapt brought on by snobbery and short term risk aversion.  The chose to trim the meat with the fat.  The result can be spelled out in four words.  Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, Iraq.

VERY MISLEADING This is listed with the original movie. IT has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the original series. Amazon is FOOLING customers with the sale of this item!!!! DO NOT BUY!

Movie "The Sting" Bought this movie for my parent's, it's an oldie but goodie for them. The movie came in great condition & has been put away in the collection series!

DVD Very disapointed in dvd.  Won't play on pS3.  Don't need a dvd in 6 different languages, only need it to work in English!

This Movie is Sorry I have not seen this movie since 2004, I am sorry to say that i support all black flims, but this was one the worst black films i have ever since. I did not like it and it was boring to me, I have seen low-budget black films with a better story line then this, you will either like this movie or like me hate it, so enjoy

pure cra* This is the first movie review I have ever provided and I write it only to save any other person out there a bit of your life.  Skip this movie, it is the worst I've seen in my life.

Disappointing I am surely a Shakespeare fan but want to consciously decide to watch a Shakespearean production. Here, I thought I was watching a drama-filled action movie...hardly. Gets a 1 for hiding the reality of the director's direction.

So angry, but can't resist any more... I appreciate the warnings from everyone and very much admire those of you who refuse to buy the dvds until they can be true to the series.  I've tried to be one of you, but I cannot deny myself the Ken Wahl any longer.  I am so ashamed of my weakness, curses to the corporate machine... and to the rest of you; Stay strong!

high kick girl too taikwondoish, and garbage i prefer REAL Karate scenes like Shotokan in REAL Karate circles we call it (Take-My-Dough) as in taikwon do, which really translates to Path of Wrong Assention People are SO Mis-Led these days !

I didn't buy this, don't know why I am asked to review it! I viewed this product with my curiosity piqued upon seeing the actress Mimi Rogers linked with the rapture. I quickly realized it was a parody mocking the Bible and did not purchase it but am sure I would NOT recommend it!

Straw Dogs Director Sam Peckinpah was a noted Hollywood maverick for his tendency to court controversy with films punctuated by explicit violence, and his 1971 film Straw Dogs is arguably the most famous of the bunch. Earlier this year, Rod Lurie wrote, produced, and directed a remake of Straw Dogs with James Marsden and Kate Bosworth in the lead roles of the victimized couple, and I was none too impressed by his efforts. Marsden and Bosworth are David and Amy Sumner, a young married couple who decide to return to Amy's Southern hometown after her father's death to help prepare the family home for sale. In doing so, they enlist the help of Amy's ex-boyfriend in fixing up the home, and lingering tensions build until David and Amy find themselves in a deadly confrontation with the locals. For what it's worth, I did feel that the remake succeeded in streamlining the original script a bit, but without the deft hand of Peckinpah at the helm, the film makes the mistake of celebrating its violence, rather than examining it. As such, I give Straw Dogs 1 star, and only those with a hankering for a bit of the old ultraviolence will find this a pleasing affair.

Utter crap I had to turn this off after about thirty minutes.  No human connection to any characters at all, just non-stop violence and gross outs.  Just because it is called an action movie doesn't mean that it should have all action and no plot.  I think there has to be some human connection with at least one character, I turned the film off because there was none.  There are a few good actors in the film but they were never given the chance to perform.  I rarely shut off a movie before finishing but it was just so incredibly bad and one dimensional that I did.  If it turned into Shakespeare in the final two hours then I might have missed out on a classic but if the rest of the movie was only ten times better than the first thirty minutes it would still be crap.  Utter drivel.  Next!

UPSET when I ordered this dvd set I thought it was NEW, when I got it, it was USED and in poor condition, not very happy!

Don't buy for the digital copy!!!! We recently purchased the Blu-ray BECAUSE it is listed as including a digital copy.  When we tried to retrieve it, we were informed that the option for the digital download had expired in 2009.  Great movie otherwise..

A DIRE, PREACHY DISASTER FLICK  1 OUT OF 10 I am in no way an atheist, but I certainly do not cut slack for religious films (Much to the anger of fans of the almost equally dire Left Behind) or any other films I hate (Which has also angered quite a few people). The Apocalypse is a horrible film with virtually no redeeming qualities to speak of and gives low budget films and religion a bad name because of how lazy and overly preachy it is by using religion as an excuse for its crappy writing. WHAT IT'S ABOUT: The film starts off with a group of campers being killed by pieces from an asteroid and then disastrous events begin occurring across the world, and things begin to get worse when it is discovered that an asteroid is heading for that will ultimately destroy it. People are also randomly disappearing for no apparent reason, which is making people believe that the rapture is happening. Two parents named Jason and Ashley then decide to travel to Los Angeles to find their daughter and be with her for when the inevitable happens and the only way out of this situation is by finding faith and believing in God. MUSIC: The score is terrible and feels like an afterthought, rather than being a priority for a disaster film. ACTING: Every actor in this film seems bored and ashamed of being in such a crappy film since no one stood out or showed any form of effort when performing. Whenever they did try and show emotion, they came off as being ridiculous and over-the-top. The dialogue also doesn't help since it is filled with shoe-horned and preachy Christian messages that are laughably awful and insulting. I had no reason to care about these characters since the acting and dialogue are horrible, and the script is so poorly written the characters possess about as much depth as a sheet of paper. ENTERTAINMENT: This film is horribly boring and it took me two tries to get through because I fell asleep watching it the first time. Aside from the unintentionally hilarious first five minutes, getting through the rest of this film is an uphill battle against crushing boredom (Much like Left Behind!) which makes the experience grueling as hell and makes you pray for it to be over with soon. The interactions between characters are already dull as can be, but disaster sequences also prove to be bad since the special effects are wretched and the sequences themselves are poorly constructed and badly edited. OVERALL: The only way I can recommend this film to anyone is if you're suffering from insomnia and wish to finally sleep because The Apocalypse is so dull it will put you to sleep (I almost never fall asleep watching films, so this was one of those rare films that made me sleep). Other than that, The Apocalypse is a wretched misfire that is overly preachy, unintentionally funny at certain points (Unfortunately not often enough), poorly acted, and horrendously written. Avoid at all costs. THE GOOD: The unintentionally funny first five minutes. THE BAD: Horrible script, horrible acting, horrible dialogue, wretched special effects, terrible music, and it's horribly boring.

banned in cuba! the dog fidel castro feared revolt among doctors and nurses for the blatant misrepresentation of cuba's barbaric health care system.

Sit in the dark and do nothing!!! My title says what this movie does. It certainly must have cost nothing to make! How much time can a movie spend in the dark with only a lantern lit and absolutely no dialogue? Well, this movie gets the record. What I really want to know is, what is the point of this film? To make you sit in front of it for an hour and a half waiting for something to happen but nothing ever does? Three families wander across the Oregon desert for a whole movie, with no action whatsoever and almost no dialogue. The most exciting thing that happened during the whole film was watching a donkey bay and a bird squawk! Well folks, that's about it. And the ending? Nothing, absolutely nothing is concluded. Wow, what a waste. Why are more and more movies like this even made? I don't get it. Why don't you all spend your money supporting my art, that I've been trying to get produced for years? At least you'd get your money's worth. Whew!!! Here's a link to my book. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004IEAEQY">S.O.S. Songs Of Sobriety</a>

Unrealistic I have seen real anacondas, I have pet real anacondas.  Real anacondas aren't big enough to eat a human older than 8 years old and are super slow snakes.  Other than that it's an okay movie.

DO NOT BUY THE ALL REGIONS IMPORT OF THIS MOVIE I love this movie but I got scammed. I purchased the "All Regions" Import Dvd of this movie from a person by the name of "Rong Ju Montage" of China. Do NOT make the same mistake I made. The DVD he sent me was JUNK. I recorded a copy of this movie myself from TV many years ago. I wanted a better copy so I bought the DVD. The DVD I received was a worse copy than the one I had made myself from TV. The picture on the DVD I received was blurry and of very poor quality. The picture also quite noticeably jumped around. Again, do NOT buy any Import DVD of this movie. Otherwise you will get ripped off.

What the hell....*SPOILERS* *HUGE SPOILERS DONT READ IF YOU HAVENT WATCHED*  Ok so let me begin by saying that was more than an hour of my life that I'll never get back. This movie is such a twisted wreck that alot of it deserves to be put back into the toilet it was created in. First off, there was NO sense of plot what so ever. Her dad is haunting her? The horse is haunting her? Some demon looking thing that looks like a moth is haunting her? She went crazy? See, these were all good plotlines, I dont see why the director couldnt choose one to go with. Second, there was a very decent couple of scenes in this movie. (The vicious make-out and the grisly end of the cheating piece of crap.) third, the ending was very confusing. The sister goes back into the house and sees what's in the closet, reaching out for it much like Molly. Does that hint at a "Lovely Hannah". I certainly hope not.  All in all, I give Lovely Molly a one star rating. Mostly because of the few scenes that were very good and great atmosphere. I would wait until this movie does tv premieres, it's really not worth your money.

It's really bad This movie is way to long...the story drags on and on it could have be done in half the time! It's a really really really really bad flick that's the bottom line!!

Product hasn't arrived yet... I'm still waiting for this product, it hasn't arrived; it was supposed that on January 13, 2011 - February 14, 2011 but it's now June and I don't think it will... I rated it with one star because the site didn't allow it to leave it in blank...but for me, they don't deserve any...

Described as new. Was not new. When I ordered this item (DVD of "The Thing" 2011), it was described as "New in shrink-wrap". When it arrived, I opened it to find that it was not new. It was a Rental. I noticed a few light scratches. I thought that if it played okay, I would let the fact that is wasn't New, slide. It played fine. I got to the "Bonus Features" to find that I could not access them because it was a Rental.  That pissed me off. How can someone describe an item as "New", when it is clearly "Used"? I contacted the vendor via email through Amazon on Jun 17 2012, to resolve this issue, and have received no response.  Amazon needs to screen these vendors a little more closely to make sure they are selling items as described. I will not use this vendor ever again and I am VERY UNSATISFIED.  How does one resolve issues when the vendor does not reply to your request?  If I could have rated this with zero stars, I would have. That's how pissed I am.

Corny Romano... When it comes to SNL inspired films, you kind of have to walk in expecting them to be rather corny.  I did that, but then again, there are a slew of SNL spin-off films that have carried their own weight or at least proved to be entertaining.  The problem I have with `Corky Romano' is that it just plain isn't funny; at all.  The premise is promising, in the vein of comedies of this nature, but it just doesn't deliver the goods as I had hoped it would.  I've never been a huge fan of Chris Kattan.  His breed of funny just doesn't work as well on him as it does on SNL castmate Will Ferrell.  Kattan tries too hard, and it shows.  Alas, some will like this and that is cool, but this comedy was NOT my cup of tea.  You'd be hard-pressed to find a gag or joke that lands just right; most of them flutter awkwardly to the floor.  You can skip this one and rest easy knowing you didn't miss anything.

The Spell Is Broken You would think that with all the stars in this picture it would be decent, but it just goes to show that Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell, Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Kristin Chenoweth, Carole Shelley, Katie Finneran, as well as comedians Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, Amy Sedaris, David Grier, and Mo Rocca can't fix the horrible directing and even more horrible script.  The premise of the story is bad enough - a jerk of an actor, Jack Wyatt (Will Ferrell), wants to be the star in a reprise of the 1960s TV series "Bewitched." To ensure that he is the star, he insists that the actress playing the role of Samantha is a complete unknown whose only talent is nose-twinkling. He also insists that she gets no speaking parts. Samantha is more of a prop than a character. You don't even get to see Samantha's face in the opening credits of the new show. Just imagine how boring "Bewitched" would be if Samantha had no speaking parts. And the movie is no better!  The movie's secondary theme almost overwhelms the premise, and unfortunately it is just as underwhelming as the premise. "Bewitched" takes plenty of shots at the excesses of Hollywood, but again the script is so bad that it unwittingly stands out as the best example of the excesses of Hollywood.  And wouldn't you know it, but the completely unknown person who gets to play Samantha happens to be a real witch who happens to want to give up the charmed life and marry a mere mortal. All she desires is a man who needs her. Apparently, warlocks don't need anybody. Isabel (Nicole Kidman) looks absolutely beautiful in this movie, and to be painfully honest, looking at her was the only thing that kept me watching. But the voice she used nearly drove me to stop watching. For whatever reason - the director? - she affected the voice of a naive, even emotionally infantile, little girl. She seems far more addled than her Aunt Clara. There is absolutely no chemistry between Ferrell and Kidman, which is okay, I suppose, because I didn't expect hot sexuality, but the romantic scenes, such as they are, are awkward.  For a movie about witches, there is surprisingly little about witches. The witchcraft is almost incidental, and with or without it this film is a bad romantic comedy. The cameos of Endora, Aunt Clara, and Uncle Arthur are horrendously bad. Nigel (Michael Caine), as Isabel's father, just seems to be reading his lines and I wonder why he ever agreed to do it. He is a Casanova who never tires of putting spells on young mortal women in order to bed them. Some people might call that rape.  This movie does not pay homage to the TV series and it doesn't induce any pleasant feelings of nostalgia. It's even worse than the reprisal of "Columbo" called "Mrs. Columbo." And it's not true what Will Ferrell (as Jack Wyatt) said: I DID notice when they changed Darrin in the original TV series. I much preferred Dick York over Dick Sargent.

Worst Movie ever!!! ABSOLUTE WORST MOVIE I have EVER forced myself through.  A guy in a box.  OK, A buried coffin.  Either way, that is the movie.  Him in the box succumbing to fear. Who wouldn't.  You're buried alive.  He does what any person would do, freak out.  He also does what most people know not to do.  Make deals with terrorists.  They never keep their end of the deal, so why would you even consider it?  Its a frustrating film that only makes you wish you could go back in time and tell yourself to save the time and money and clean the gutters or re-organize your bills instead. At least you would know that the agony would pay off in the end.  I don't want to spoil the film for anyone,.. oh wait.  I already did.  Its about a guy in a box, freaking out, making deals with terrorists.  At least it ended realistically.  Fortunately, after dragging myself through this "movie", I was actually able to finish watching "Hobgoblins" (1988).   My Advice,  SAVE YOUR MONEY!!! Some call the movie "cerebral" (bull), or "thrilling" (for like 1 whole minute at exactly the middle of the movie), or even "suspenseful" (which I must agree as you are thoroughly in suspense for the movie to finally end), but I call it "a big waste of time", "agonizingly boring", and "mind-shatteringly ridiculous"! I'd give it '0' stars if I could.

Molly's Mother Works for the Red Cross in the books - she is not a Rosie the Riveter. That alone would drive me batty. But now I'm reading of a missing brother, the Miss Victory dance ending differently - and what about her two friends - are they in the movie or not.  I don't think I'd even buy this.

Boring It's difficult to make a sci-fi movie without treading on some clich&eacute;s, and without using technology borrowed from other movies; there are more than a few alien invasion and robot takeover movies. As an audience, we've seen it all before, we like it, and we're happy to pay for some fresh material. Where a movie in this genre sets itself apart is in storytelling.  This movie feels like a poorly written sister movie to Battle Los Angeles, told from the perspective of civilians trapped in an apartment building. It's as if the producers heard about Battle Los Angeles, decided to make a competing movie, then rushed it to market so they could get their piece of the pie (this movie released 4 months before Battle Los Angeles). The two movies even begin with the same "flash forward, flash back" storytelling.  I don't care about these characters. They are vague, clich&eacute;d, and most of them are jerks. There are no character arcs. The characters are little more than "fresh meat."  There is no buildup of tension in the storytelling, and there are no emotional arcs; just some distractions to prolong the movie while the plot treads towards the inevitable end.  There are a few good things I can say about the movie. The "moths to a flame" / "anglerfish" concept is unique. The movie is a tragedy, which is rare in the entertainment industry (humans do not prevail; there are no cute little pink bows on everything at the end). The movie is only 1 hour and 30 minutes long. Otherwise this movie is a poorly executed collection of bits from other sci-fi movies and video games. Even the ending is a "hint of Stanley Kubrik" rip-off: The main character's brain is possessed within an alien robot body, standing over his pregnant girlfriend with an expression of, "Well, now I'm an alien robot. Wonder what that will do to my rap career."  Many movies give everything up in previews. This movie gives us little more than what we get from the movie posters. If you must, then fast forward through the drama and focus on the special effects.  This movie is a money grab.

Boring, Trite, Painfully Predictable Movie. Starring Out of the Window is More Interesting This movie was so boring, trite and predictable that I actually could not finish it - and I always make it a point to finish a movie, no matter how bad. But this overdid it and was SO LOUSY. Seriously. It follows the cookie-cutter recipe of girl trying to get to a city/person but her travel plans are interrupted due to "unforeseeable circumstances" and she has to rely on some good looking, rough-on-the-outside, chocolate-covered-candy-on-the-inside hunk with a "sensitive heart" who treats her like crap, to get to her destination. All with the obligatory falling face-down into the mud stuff and having your luggage stolen to sleeping in a cozy hotel where she gets to wear a nice outfit and sweep him off his feet at the dance the same night. It was great in "Romancing the Stone" but it is kind of lame and unoriginal in this one, as there is no comedy here and the two main characters dont have an ounce of chemistry between them. Everything is absurd and obviously set up to illicit laughs, like Adams' character continuing to walk around in high heels on dirt roads - even though at that point she still had her luggage on her and could easily have changed to comfortable shoes. But I guess if your script and "comedy" rely on her dragging her heels through dirt, cause it's supposed to be so funny, you cant have the character be sensible or have common sense.  Every scene is cliche and predictable and Amy Adams has a boring personality. The supposed heart-warming comedy and romance consists of scenes like Goode (main male character) actually ripping off the head of a chicken in front of her (literally rip off) and then they are seen five minutes later having a candle-light dinner over that. "Coq au Vin and vino after the slaughter". How truly romantic. I do eat chicken, but I dont cozy up with it first and then rip its head off to devour. Totally inappropriate and tasteless.  This movie is filled with junk like that. Not only do the characters not have any chemistry between them but they also themselves lack dimension. I loved Romancing the Stone and "Moonlighting" - you know, where there is some kind of antagonism between the two main characters and the way they come closer after a lot of obstacles, but in this movie it was just fake and forced. They seriously miscasted and I could not believe how truly boring and unimaginative it was. Rom-com doesnt mean predictable, stupid and boring.  I could predict what was going to happen in _every frame_ -  that's how lame it was.  I give it one star (it didnt deserve any) because of the gorgeous Irish landscape. Other than that I recommend looking out of the window instead of at this movie, cause chances are what you see happening out there is far more interesting and enticing than this comatose piece of crap with unlikable, dumb characters.

Another Must Miss.... HORRIBLE BOSSES is. Why there is a continuing need to put films of this sort before the market is cause for concern. The story is ludicrous - maybe playing out the fantasies most people control about disliking their 'bosses' is OK but actually showing it is another item altogether. Potty mouth dialogue, sociopathic behavior supposedly masked by three guys who 'really aren't all that bad', and placing the roles of Bosses who are over the top obnoxious and maladaptive in the hands of actors of the caliber of Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Anniston, and Colin Farrell is a gross waste of talent. Then padding the 'story' with appearances (albeit brief) by Donald Sutherland, Bob Newhart, Jamie Foxx and especially Ioan Gruffudd - there must be some favors owed somewhere.  It is a committee written script (Michael Markowitz, John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein) and it shows: this is more a disconnected series of standup comedian jokes than a story. Seth Gordon directs with a heavy hand on exasperatingly gross language and sexual innuendoes, insulting just about everybody possible. The only saving grace about this 'film' is the comedic timing by Jason Bateman and his cohorts in crime - Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis. There are some funny lines but the sorry mess you have to wade through to get to them is hardly worth the effort. It is an embarrassingly poor film, but as with the popularity of The Hangover et al it sells tickets. Sad. Grady Harp, October 11

disappointed wow so disappointed lots of good scenes skipped seems like its just going to fast love this novela but its just not worth watching with all those skipped scenes

contradictory The message behind this film is that humans are dumb and destructive (true, but whatever). Therefore, we obviously morally superior aliens will DESTROY YOU. Ha, ha, that'll show ya. If this isn't the dumbest contradiction ever I don't know what is. The aliens have a vastly superior technology. They can't use this to help save us in addition to the planet? Thanks a lot bozos.  The Director's Cut of The Abyss (a good film) also has the exact same message, which is why the Director's Cut is terrible.

Never get that time back The plot was awful, the storyline vague and broken and the characters unbelievable.  She falls for him after a day?  Gets jealous when he nails another woman that night?  Why was she in Mexico?  Why did he have her passport?  What were the creatures?  What made them attack?  What made them not attack?  This was one of my worst freebie choices yet.

Garbage, proved in the first few minutes. The men who served in that war deserve better and so does anyone who is going to view this type of material.  In the first 5 minutes it is extremely apparent that this mini series in very slighted in it's perspective, which is really almost criminal almost 50 years later.  The program runs over the gulf on Tolkien incident, which we know now is extremely suspect and controversial and also there is no mention of French colonialism regarding the division Vietnam which is really important information.  This program is really disappointing, in fact it is almost a rip off of Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam which is a really striking narrative of what the American Personnel in Vietnam were going through.  I also think the narration in this program done by actors really cheapens it since they have the voice actors basically reading the lines for eye witness who are available to recount things on their own.  People are entitled to their own opinions but not there own facts and this program avoids facts and putting the war in any real historical context.  The soldiers who went over there got a raw deal from the military, their government, and sadly from many American's who couldn't separate an unpopular war from the soldiers who suffered worse than anyone.  This mini-series is not comprehensive, has a definite agenda that ignores facts, and is totally inadequate which is just sad at this point.

Loved the series, Movie 1 was good... This is a stinker! The series was wonderful... I have all 6 seasons on dvd AND the first movie.  What happened here? Someone told them "forget the writing... we want bigger, far fetched  storylines and flash! Lets pretend that these 4 women have more money than GOD." I spent most of this movie rolling my eyes at what they were trying to get away with. I wanted a feel good story line, one that I could relate to!  All I got was nonsense and a lot of "Are ya kiddin' me?"

NOT Happy The first time I ordered this product I was happy at how fast it got here and was in great condition.  However, when I got to the final disc of the season, the big episode...it wasn't there.  There was a disc claiming to be what I was hoping to see but was actually the last disc of the previous season.  No problem, I'll return it and get a replacement.  Guess what?  Same problem.  Yes, I was able to return it and get my money back but doesn't get me what I want.  And no one has contacted me on how to solve this.

horrible blu-ray transfers It's sad that the DVDs from several years ago actually look much better than these "new" blu-ray transfers.  Hopefully Universal will re-release these at some point in the future with better transfers and will exchange them with those of us who have already purchased this set.

Unplayable This blu-ray of Alban Berg's opera 'Lulu' promised to be very appealing. I am sure it would live up to that promise, if only the disc could be played. There is some flaw in the programming so that only one menu option appears: "Scene Selections: Act".  Pressing enter, play, arrow keys, or any other key on the remote, are all to no avail. There is no way to actually play the disc.

Bootleg copy of Win Win? I think it was a fake copy. It would get to the menu section, but when you pushed  play, it went blank. Very disappointing on Christmas morning when it was something my son really wanted. We went to best buy the next day and bought the "real" copy which had a different appearances - both in the case and the actual DVD. Same price too. Won't buy a DVD on line ever again.  I really was very disappointed and dissatisfied.

The movie could be good if Amazon can get it to stream Haven't seen the movie. It would never run over my roku even though it is a model Amazon claims will work. The customer service is ill equipped and had no idea how to get it working and then they promised follow-up that never was sent. When it works it works, when it doesn't Amazon has no plan to help.

Highly disappointed This movie was poor in acting (except for Natalie, she was brilliant as always) and quality. It didn't seem to have any real plot or any depth what-so-ever. Just save yourself the disappointment and stay away from this movie. =P

Why would you buy this? You realize the next movie will be out by the end of the year? So why would you purchase an incomplete set? Ok, good.

defective product The movie is very good, having seen it the first time, but the DVD was defective and I don't know how to return it, having lost the packing slip. When attempting to show it, I only get an error message telling me that the DVD was not properly recorded or copied.

Just bad... One of the things that stuck out most was the fact that "Stefanie" was in a dress or skirt the entire movie, while in every book she wears mostly jeans and tshirts.  Small detail, I know, but I felt it just wasn't the same character at all.  Wasn't happy with any of the casting, nor the script.  Will stick with reading the books, which are much more entertaining.

Utter Rubbish This is possibly the worst movie I have ever seen. I could not finish it just fast forward to see the boob shot and ended it.  Shot in an old prison with no locks on the cells that must have held them sex slaves secure.  Computers used are old CRT monitors and a keyboard that is not even plugged in.  The only other movie that I have seen that is this bad is Santa Claus and the ice cream bunny.  Acting is horrible and the action scenes just plain funny.  Not nearly enough nudity to make it onto late night cinemax.  I am amazed this is even being sold or rented in Redbox. Shaking my head in utter disgust.

THIS SHOW IS NOT FUNNY I am baffled by 30 Rock.  I bought Seasons 1-3 at a second hand DVD & CD store and it has been an utter pain to sit through every single episode of all three seasons.  It's like torture.  I can't believe I wasted my time and suffered through them.  This show just is not funny in the least.  It's hammy, stupid, utterly unrealistic in any possible way, the writing is bad, the acting is horrible.  There are other similar "loopy and unrealistic" TV shows, such as Ugly Betty and Scrubs, that work (I love both those shows).  But 30 Rock is just bad.  It doesn't work.  It seems like in every episode they are struggling to make the show funny and the show falls flat on its face every time.  The show's "stars" Tina Fey and Tracey Morgan are just not funny at all.  Alec Bladwin is good and kind of funny, but it's almost like you feel bad for him that he's surrounded by such bad actors and given such bad scripts.  And in Season 3 they resort to these super hokey "guest star" appearances by people like Steve Martin and Oprah Winfrey that are just super hammy and so painful to watch.  Like I said, I'm just mystified at how bad this show is and how it's lasted so long.

Not in English This clearly did not say at the time it was not in English.  Overall movie was pretty bad.  Could definitely done without.

Not a Learning Video Our son has watched this video several times, and enjoys it very much.  However, I tested him today, and he still insists on counting, "One, two, three, six, nine."  No improvement over his counting before we bought the video.  The story is "fun" for kids, but there is no repetition of the basics, so that children will actually learn anything.  Also, the video has some insipid rock-music at the beginning, which is certainly not going to inspire children toward higher learning.....

Bad bonus materials We love this show, but when we got the season 2 DVD, and started watching the bonus material, we were totally repulsed by the language and crudeness of the materials included.  It was totally inappropriate without warnings of it being R rated material.  We have since sold the DVD and may not watch the show again.

1-Star Drama, 5-Star COMEDY Buy this DVD, pop open a bottle of beer (or a root beer if you are not yet 21), sit back, and be prepared to LAUGH YOUR A** OFF! It is HYSTERICAL! GASP!!! Dog barking! Hark? What is that sound?! It is...&lt;da da da DAAAAA> THE MUSIC OF EVIL! Yes, you can actually hear what the music of evil sounds like, only it sounds more like the music of HILARITY, thanks to the corny sound track. I guess it had to be corny to fit in with the props, acting, directing... Lukas Haas - LUKAS HAAS! - with his ears and SPRAY TAN and not even an attempt at an accent playing a Mexican Native...AHHHHHHAHAHHAHA! And then there's the plastic baby scene, the pearl with the glowing halo, the WIG (looks like the same hair donned by the Indian healer lady appears on a guy portraying a pearl buyer who looks an awful lot like Ricardo Montalban (in a really BAD gray mullet-head wig), the vanilla yogurt baby vomit (you may never eat vanilla yogurt again), and poor Richard Harris; a friend surmises that he must have had some hefty medical bills to pay and took the part out of sheer desperation. He neglects his character's French accent from time to time and lapses back into sounding exactly like Dumbledore. I suspect the glowing, golf ball size pearl may have thrown him off as it could very well have been a golden snitch sans wings. Then there's the fight scene in the hut, which defies written description. I've seen part of the movie in an English class. My copy should be here in a few days....going to sit down with a pi&ntilde;a colada and some chips and salsa and a box of tissues (for the tears....of laughter). Some excerpts from a few of the wittier reviews on Amazon: " Kino, as a young boy starts out "white", then grown up, he becomes Mexican/Indian with a bad looking tan" "We open the movie with a scene created only for the movie and it appears as if Kino is from white, European descent. As he matures, however, he becomes Hispanic with a horrible accent and Mickey Mouse ears to boot... If I had to guess, one of the creators and/or directors of one of the Monty Python movies took on this project with outrageous comedy in mind!" " Haas is about as convincing a Mexican pearl diver (pick either- Mexican or pearl diver)as a plastic Coke bottle in a sombrero. The dialogue is an ATROCIOUS mix of half-forgotten accents delivering a discussion between modern-day teen-aged car mechanics and the Frito Bandito. The music made me cry ...in pain." "My vote for the three silliest moments: The clam emitting some sort of yellow magical light just before Kino finds the pearl; Kino getting the crap beaten out of him until Juana walks up and then the bad guys run away; Kino, and this is a classic for all-time illogical moments in cinema, Kino using the pearl for a flash light just before he discovers the skeletons in a cave. I had to whittle it down to just the three silliest moments."  So, as long as you're not planning on taking this seriously, buy it: laughter is good for the body and soul. If Steinbeck is watching from the great beyond, I sure hope he has a terrific sense of humor. Oh...my vote for best actor: the dog Best supporting actor: the goat The baby gets an honorable mention (the real baby - not the plastic one with the darker skin in the different outfit) as he really was crying - probably because he was extremely angry at his real parents for ruining his career before he could even speak or crawl.

Small-minded comedy, 1.5 stars This film pretty much is the poster child for one star films (although I'll go ahead and say 1.5 stars). I appreciate Jack Black's humor, and I think that in the right role he can be quite entertaining, but lately he has really misfired on his comedies (Year One comes to mind). Gulliver's Travels is the latest bomb, so atrociously bad because it fails in so many ways:  1)It isn't as family friendly as it proposes. The film tries to get a wider audience by making this PG, but it the humor is lewd and not really suitable for younger kids. 2)It diminishes and dumbs down the novel to the equivalent of an episode of Beavis and Butthead. They try to take the novel and try to make it funny, but really it comes across as artificial and dumb (i.e. trying to woo the princess by singing Prince's song "Kiss") 3)The dialogue is flat, stilted, clich&eacute;d with prototyped, lame characters. Nothing original at all. The effort in the film comes across as lazy. 4)It isn't remotely funny and the attempts to get a few chuckles are through juvenile humor. (Jack Black urinating on the town, seeing his butt, singing a rendition of "War", etc).  Gulliver's Travels makes Nacho Libre look like Academy Award material.

Two words: aw. ful. &lt;strong>Infection&lt;/strong> (Howard Wexler, 2010)  Wow, this movie is bad. Bad in a Sci-Fi Channel Original Movie with Even Worse CGI bad. Bad as in "what in the world were you thinking when you came up with this silliness?" bad. Alien invasion stupidity (a lot of reviewers have compared it to Cronenberg's &lt;em>Shivers&lt;/em>, though I don't give Wexler credit for knowing that much film history; &lt;em>Slither&lt;/em> is a much more recent analogue) with a really, really cheap-looking sci-fi frame set sixty years in the future.  Plot: on September 9, 2009 (the day, we are told in the frame, that the "Modern Plague" began to decimate America--I have visions of computer viruses jumping from PCs to people, but no detail is given on what that is, exactly), a meteorite lands in a small town. It contains wormlike parasites looking for hosts, and immediately starts infecting anyone who comes near it. Meanwhile, Deke Evans (&lt;em>The Healer's Son&lt;/em>'s Bryan Brewer, who also wrote the script) has come back to town after doing ten years for murder. One of his old classmates, Bowen (&lt;em>Unforgiven&lt;/em>'s Lochlyn Munro), is now the country sheriff, and all he wants is Deke out of town on a rail. All Deke wants is to pick up his stuff from his mom's house (she doesn't want to see him, either), pick up his old girlfriend Sarah (&lt;em>Elizabethtown&lt;/em>'s Kelly Pendygraft), and find that rail. Problem is, he bumps into his mom, who has all kinds of venomous words for him, and Sarah is hanging out with another of Deke's old classmates, Billy (&lt;em>Stonerville&lt;/em>'s Brian Guest), the knuckle-dragging jock. Oh, and of course, there are a bunch of people roaming around the perimeter of town who have been infected by the alien parasite. And, of course, the only person who sees something is wrong is Deke...  Hits every clich&eacute; in the book, and hits them hard, with a steel mallet. Acting is pretty awful given the quality of some of the cast (Kent Faulcon from &lt;em>American Beauty&lt;/em> plays the deputy who Deke manages to convince there's something going on, &lt;em>Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea&lt;/em>'s Terry Becker is Sarah's grandfather, Deke's mom is played by the wonderful character actress Marcia Moran), the effects are ludicrous, and if that sci-fi frame isn't some of the worst film you've seen in the last year, I'll eat my hat with mustard. *

Weak animation by today's standard, aimed at 3D We saw it with our kids. Apart from some nice howling scenes animation is sub-par in today's standards and the entire movie seems like a result of a conversation revolving around how to put stuff in the movie to look good in 3D. Kind of like the movie of a train going from side to side that my father told me he saw many decades ago when stereo sound was invented. Barely nice for 2010.

First Half Is Awful I'm glad I only gave about $3 for this video secondhand. The first workout, the low-impact aerobics, was just simply awful and I normally like Denise's workouts. It's extremely repetitive which I wouldn't mind so much if it didn't consist of endless chachas first to the right then to the left. After constantly chacha-ing back and forth for a long time it started to make both my knees hurt, I assume from the twisting motion of immediately switching from right to left. The other moves weren't so bad, if a little boring, but the chacha part seemed to have no end and just when I thought she had fully switched to another move we were suddenly back into the chacha. I'm in my early 40s and do not have knee problems, so I'm thinking if it made my knees hurt then someone who has trouble with their knees anyway might end up with some injuries. I realize it could be me, that I somehow did the exercises incorrectly, but as someone who has faithfully exercised on almost a daily basis since my early 20s, I feel like a veteran with workout videos and doubt that it was all just my technique. I have not done the second half yet but according to reviews it's much better than the first half. I got bored before the first half finished and stopped it to do a different workout. I will probably try out the second half of this video soon to see if I like it.

double layer When I have purchased it, nowhere was noticed that it is double layer DVD, which I couldn't play on my DVD player! So I will appreciate a little bit specific technical details about DVD disc.

Huh? It amazes me that anyone, to say nothing of the uncountable in their lemming-like hordes, would choose as their favorite Xmas movie this banal, corny and tedious mess. Everything, yes, everything, is wrong with it, except that in many places the black and white photography is really beautiful  -  and some people want to COLORIZE it!  What would be left then? Treacle and dreck.  The SNL parody, on the other hand, is worth perhaps 4 or 5 stars.

I'm in the one per cent that didn't like this movie 1st of all I buy most movies to enjoy the 3d.This movie had academy nominations and supposedly great 3d.99.9 percent of people loved this movie.I was in the one percent that didn't.I found it very boring,it took me 2 nites to watch it.The 3d was nothing special at all,no pop outs. A very,very,overated movie to me.Traded it in the next day.Maybe kids like it,I didn't.

way too advanced for a beginner I disagree with other reviews.  This video is for advanced users only.  I have a 14 year old daughter who desired to lose some weight and become more active this summer by using this workout video.  During the first segment, "WARM-UP"  (lol), the actors/dancers jump right into a very fast paced and choreographed dance routine, with no instruction or time given whatsoever to learn any of the moves.  My daughter & I just looked at each other with a classic 'W..T..F....' look on our faces.  Then, several minutes later, they are doing full-blown spinning & hand/head stand moves..  One girl actually performed a break-dance style head-stand using her neck & shoulder as support,  which if not done properly would certainly lead to severe neck and back trauma.  These moves are not something any beginner could even attempt.  And remember, this is just during "WARM-UP"s..  If my daughter was as athletic and fit as the dancers on the video then maybe she could try some of the routine after replaying it several dozen times, but then again we wouldnt be buying the video if she was already in perfect physical shape and had taken dance classes before.  To quote the packaging:  "Created by pro sports dancers just for teens..",  Sure...  "Get fit, have fun, and learn cool new dance moves..",  Nope.  We wound up getting High School Musical 3 for a bargain price (its a PS2 game that plays on PS3), and she now has fun with dance moves that are presented in incremental difficulties.  Keeping it fun & keeping her interested is obviously the big challenge, and its been working great so far.  Just fyi, we needed PS2-> PS3 controller converters (2) in order to plug the floor dance pads into our PS3.  Hope the suggestion helps.

Ghosts of the Abyss Unable to watch it.  It is in the wrong format and not in english.  Can not get anyone to acknowledge the mistake and exchange it for a blu ray in USA format.

Are most the reviews here written by friends of the director? I don't wish to be snarky but this was a disappointing and honestly dreadful movie.  I'm a genuine supporter of LBGQT film and delighted at the thought of a well-done, realistic lesbian film. Sad to say, this was not that.  Though the actresses are physically lovely, the acting is wooden and unbelievable.  And the script is so cliched and heavy-handed that the acting by comparison is Oscar quality. So you can only imagine... Let's see, the movie begins with a ponderous, obnoxious voiceover by a guy reciting every spiritual cliche in the world about soulmates and love.  If this was a campy, self-aware humor piece, how fabulous.  But he's intoning each sentence with seeming piety as if he's conveying profound truths that in fact could be gotten from any fortune cookie or hallmark card.  Sorry to say it's downhill from there.  Loud invasive music at every turn, especially during sex scenes to make sure you know what to think or feel.  Every plot twist is telegraphed far ahead with everything but whistles and red flashing lights.  The director seems to so distrust the innate smarts of her audience she has to hammer everything over and over.  And over.  But hey, if you don't need subtlety, intelligence or wit in your cinema, you might enjoy this.  Otherwise let me suggest a few other lesbian movies that show cinematic restraint and power:  Desert Hearts, The Gymnast, Bound, Before Night Falls.  Those leave this feeling like an half-baked project for a high school film class.  I'm sorry to write so frankly but I felt a need to warn anyone about to waste twenty dollars here.  A writer friend who saw it called me and said, "I had to bail after 20 minutes. There just are no words."  Agreed.  I am truly happy the director and her partner found happiness together.  Just wish they had either made a different movie about it, or none at all.

Shakey Camera Throughout - Very Poorly Done This movie was VERY POORLY DONE - bad set design & creation, poor script, mediocre acting (Ron Pearlman was especially bad), one main character seems to have gotten his part due to his ability to constantly burp, and the camera work is especially bad.  They did invest in some good action sequences, unfortunately you're forced to watch them thru what appears to be a camera mounted on the shoulder of someone who just can't manage to hold still for a moment.  With this type of movie you should not have high expectations, and I did not - even so, I was hugely disappointed and I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS MOVIE.

Disappointed!! Ordered movie for the grandkids, received it, put it on and nothing.  The only thing that showed were the previews.  Movie was not available at all.  The grandkids were so disappointed. AND so was I.  Returned 10 days ago and still have heard nothing and no refund on the credit card yet.

Poor Quality Bought this movie as a gift.  Excellent movie however the quality of the movie is very very poor.  Would not recommend buying.  Appears to be a copy of another.  Would of returned it but there is a no return unless unopened (that makes no sense).

TERRIBLE adaptation... if you love the book You just cannot do this book in two hours - that's the most important thing to remember here. The feel of the film is RUSHED. Rushed, rushed, rushed. It's like viewing a dramatization of the CliffsNotes OF CliffsNotes of the novel. Seriously. It was like listening to an excited five year old tell you EVERYTHING about a wonderful day at the zoo. A jumble of elements rushing past you.  I'm guilty of dearly loving the book - I read it recently - that did NOT help me like the film! It's visually BEAUTIFUL... but if you love the book, this film will disappoint.  Plot elements were changed - some were eliminated. Dialogue was changed - unnecessarily. The dialogue in the book is sublime. Jane says things in this film that she NEVER would say - she only tells the reader in the book. The film should have had narration for those things.  There were some scenes with behaviors Jane would NEVER engage in. The film wasn't completely true to her Victorian values and character. Worst of all, the development of the relationship with Rochester - the love that grew between them - never was portrayed. Just taking the film on face value, one would ask why they decided to marry at all - why there was talk of love - when SO little was put into that part of the story.  Overall, this is probably the WORST adaptation I've ever seen of my very favorite book. I'm terribly disappointed. It's visually pretty and the music fits - but throughout the film, I kept cringing. You just cannot do this book in two hours. I don't recommend it.

dont even watch the preveiw when i saw the preveiw for this movie i thought ok this girl is going to make an alternate world in which she and he freinds journey to find a way out of their a mental hospital flashing back between that world and the mental hospital. when i saw the actual film i felt like throwing up. instead of her going into this cool world where she has to fight to live she goes to a dance studio WTF. the trailer dosent make it out to what its supposed to be. when she goes into the world where she has to fight is when she dances.ridiculous. then by the end of the movie everyone is dead then a man she invisioned in her fight world is really a real person? thats not the worst. the main character, babydoll,dosne't talk for the first half hour i though she couldn't then when she finally does talk i see the cgi and i just think this belongs in a 2001 movie not a movie from 2010. they look like the same technology as finding nemo. then the last over talk of the narrator tells you to fight? WTF i had no idea what was going on what so ever. the second i fnished it i wanted to chuck the dvd out out my window because i just felt like i wanted that disgrace out of my house. but not only that they call this a modern take on alice in wonderland. really, really. this movie goes on my top ten... of worst films.

Poor quality The VHS tape had flickers of yellow squares throughout it and began skipping all around. I checked my VCR with another tape and it worked perfectly. I was really disappointed with this product

Horrible Movie This is a horrible movie.  It is non-stop formulaic tear jerking drama.  This should not be listed as a kids movie.

Waste of time Only the second time I have left a movie theater (Batman and Robbing was the other one) in disgust that I wasted my time and money on this piece of c-rap.  Avoid at all costs; you have been warned.

Bad.....very bad.......... Wow, another hand held camera with people pretending to be scared. And seriously, could those people have been any more annoying? I was actually rooting for them to get killed.

Gas Lies July 26, 2012 Update  WSJ, 7/25/12  "The Environmental Protection Agency has given the all-clear to drinking water in Dimock, Pa., a tiny town that received national attention after people there voiced concern about contamination from hydraulic fracturing. In a statement Wednesday, the EPA said it conducted sampling of drinking-water wells that served 64 homes and didn't find any contaminants that would require further action by the agency....."  Review Update:  I wonder if Josh Fox will be reporting the naturally occurring presence of methane gas in Pennsylvania water supply wells, or the lack of contamination from hydraulic fracturing, as documented in a recent study at Penn State:  live dot psu dot edu backslash story backslash 55987  Note the following quotations from the study:  "A study of more than 200 drinking-water wells near Marcellus Shale natural-gas wells in 20 counties did not find statistically significant evidence of contamination from hydraulic fracturing -- a process used by gas drillers to release natural gas using a high-pressure mixture of water, sand and chemical additives."  "Conducted from February 2010 to July 2011, the study found methane in about a quarter of the water wells before any drilling occurred, but the concentrations were generally below advisory levels for treatment, Swistock said. The presence of methane can be naturally occurring or related to drilling activity."  Original review:  The scene with the flame coming out of the kitchen faucet can be attributed to shallow gas (stray gas) that has been a regular occurrence in the gas producing areas of Pennsylvania and surrounding states for many decades.  Stray gas can be encountered in shallow (&lt; 300 feet deep) homeowner water supply wells that are not anywhere near deep hydraulic fracturing activities.  The occurrence of shallow stray gas can be easily verified by asking local water well drilling contractors that have to deal with this problem in a number of areas, particularly where shallow coal seams are present.  Or you could ask me.  I was working on a new shallow (220 feet deep) water supply well in Pennsylvania earlier this year with flammable natural gas bubbling out of the water in the well.  One of the water well drillers I was working with said he has had to deal with this problem for many years (before the Marcellus Shale was developed).  The filmmaker obviously needed to do more research prior to releasing this movie. The presence of shallow, naturally occurring gas and oil is a known fact in Pennsylvania.  Now many people who are not familiar with the stray gas problem (which has NOTHING to do with hydraulic fracturing) are being mislead and opposing this technology for bogus reasons.

Yawn. Great waste of money.  Both my wife and I fell asleep just twenty minutes into the movie, slow isn't descriptive enough.

This movie is awful pak of lyes This movie is so disrepectfull of our President. It makes him look like some kind of Hitler. The people who maid it must be some republican GOP racesists. It must be all lies just trying to get Obama to loose the election. Anybody who knows President Obama knows that he is a good man who cares about people. The hayters who made this crummy movie are just greedie rich people who hayte anyone who is not rich.

Snuff porn Can't comment on the last 2 of the trilogy, couldn't get past the first one, one of the most godawful pieces of snuff porn ever filmed. Except for maybe The Passion of Christ.

terrible movie terrible movie: the worse movie ever made!  What a waste of money and time to watch it.  It was not even cute.  Preview lies!

Sadly a poor follow up !!! Don't bother guys !!! This was a terrible follow up to the earlier Evil movies. Acting was very poor and two heroines was a big big mistake no 2 was a real ham actress !!! As for the special effects Ha! Ha! Ha! the dogs were a joke, they were really fearsome until they split down the middle "stupid" and the Zombies with Octopus type mouths (looks like a Blade copy)were also stupid. Please don't insult the Horror fans out here with anymore of this sort of Rubbish. Second worst movie of late for us !! (The Road gets 1st place)

Great Movie, BAD LICENSE What kind of scam is that?  Buy it to own it but the license runs out in a few months.  What a bunch of scamming con artists.  I cant wait to see the studios file for bankruptcy over this stuff with movies getting produced and sold directly to viewers cutting out the studios.

The season when the shark was jumped This was the season where Kripke chickened out and reversed himself in order to deal with the fact that there would be more seasons than planned.  Too afraid to send both brothers to Hell or kill one off permanently, and too scared of the public to go with the fact that like 90% of Lucifer's criticisms of his universe's angelic hierarchy were 100% true, he invented a third brother we never heard of before so that we would have a spare floating around.  He decided that Kali needed a human to rescue her, even the good gods in other religions are all demons who all like to eat humans, and killed off almost every interesting supporting character except Bobby.

disgusting disgusting.  Didn't get past the lesbo scene.  Who needs this?  One more time.... disgusting.  Why arent' there warnings BEFORE you buy a movie that there is gay content.  Not everyone wants to see it.

If you are going to use this, you deserve more than a plastic butt. Being old enough to make this purchase, and making a purchase about this subject, I didn't want or expect to see a plastic butt used as a model. I think using something plastic removes most of the reality that you have to face if you are going to engage in prostate massage. Not once did I get any indication of response from the plastic butt. No groans, no body hair, and no escaping fluids. A large part of an education in any field is learning what the response will be. Nothing like that here. This was too clean, too numb and too sterile to be of much use. I wasn't looking for a feces caked anus, but I was expecting to learn that this could be an issue you will have to deal with and learn how to correct it. Looking at what appeared to be an over sized baby's butt (sweet, innocent and pure ) took this another step away from reality and into the world of make believe. Once more, I was not looking for everything messy this massage could produce, but I was looking for a very honest and straight forward approach to this matter. There are real questions and issues here and none of them where dealt with in a realistic, honest or informative way.

Why God why!?!?!?! First off, let me say that I love a good cheesy horror movie.  But this movie is a complete waste of time.  First, Issac Hayes is only in the movie for about 2 minutes.  Complete let down in that regard.  Secondly, the "Alan" character is so over the top and annoying that you begin to cheer for the bullies and hope that he dies soon. And when he doesn't the auidence is left very unfullfilled.  The other problem with this movie is that there is absoliutely no nudity in it.  It is a horror movie that takes place at a camp and no one gets naked, I want my money back.

FUBAR: Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition I was not familiar with Seth Rogen before this movie, but he has quickly vaulted himself into my "Why Bother?" List of actors/writers/directors. I was a great fan of the 60's show, which wasn't campy like Batman but kept us kids entertained with neat gadgets, simple stories, and Bruce Lee's mesmerizing martial arts abilities. All the major characters, from Britt Reid (The Green Hornet), to Kato, to the secretary, to the DA were competent and honest people trying to fight crime when it reared its ugly head. What does Rogen give us? Britt Reid is now a spoiled, foul-mouthed, incompetent boob who is kept afloat by the closet mechanical genius of Kato and the organizational skills of his secretary. The DA leads the corruption instead of fighting it. The police are the idiots who "get in the way" while Kato gets things done (with Reid basically along for the ride). Meanwhile, the main villain is a guy with a poor Russian accent (is that possible?) who belongs more in the 60's Batman series than this movie. The movie swings wildly between trying to be funny (it rarely is) and serious (it definitely isn't). It's not for kids (unless your kids are already foul-mouthed), it's not for Green Hornet fans (FUBAR), it's not for much of anyone.

Can't review movie A Cry in the Dark I cannot review this movie because I was not able to watch it, but you at Amazon should be aware that I was sent the wrong code for this country. Had to return it, and your customer service department did that for me nicely.  I still haven't seen the movie and I really wanted to watch it.

My first time ever giving a 1 star review The makers of this movie butchered the story. This had the potential to be a masterpiece that rivaled lord of the rings. None of the races are depicted correctly, the Elves, Dwarves, Urgals, even the Ra'zac are nothing like in the books. the only exception may be the shade durza. Probably the one character they could have gotten away with massive reduction in appearance, as it's pretty much an overpowering psychopath. (If you read the books then you will understand more about this character why I say it could have done with a reduction in graphics, and why killing it gains Eragon the title shadeslayer)  I can forgive appearances, and some omissions, and even a few changes to make the movie transition easier. However, outright changes in characters that break the overall story line, I hate with a passion. If they ever make a second movie it will have to further butcher the story, to compensate for the butchery of the first. Heck, I don't think they could make a second movie after this one that follows the books because of the way they butchered the story in this movie.  If you interested in this, then just buy the books instead. They hold a much better story, if you don't like reading then have a loved one read them to you. This movie is the first piece of artwork I have ever though of as worthless. If this movie were to disappear from history then our culture would be better off, as watching it will confuse or deter those who would choose to read the books.

A notch below awful. I had very, very high hopes for this film - even Roger Ebert called it "magnificent science-fiction" in his well-respected column.  I don't know where to begin in my disappointment. Just read through these "1 Star" reviews on Amazon.com. Most of them are right on - I couldn't say it any better. Personally, what bugged me the most were the characters in the film - totally boring and non-believable, a complete mis-casting. And the movie simply was not scary, not one scene!  Furthermore, all the alien monsters we've seen before in Scott's films - nothing new.  Finally, the whole premise was convoluted and nearly impossible to follow. I suspect Ridley Scott and his gang are laughing all the way to the bank on this one. They pulled off a major dupe job.

DISK DAMAGED The second disk does not play right, it freezes up on chapter 5 and the stays froze, I could not fastforward or skip a chapter. I also could not get to the movie menu to pick a scense selection.

Extremely Long & Boring I love Japanese movies as much as the next guy and I had high hopes for this movie after seeing the trailer on youtube. But this movie is just straight up boring! There's no way to describe it really, the plot goes nowhere and centers on unfunny experiences. The grandpa character is a character, meaning he's just too unreal to make you believe he could be an actual real life grandpa. Don't let the trailer fool you.

Crap To The Fiftieth Power Crap crap crap crap crap crap crap. As in a Festival of Crap. As in craptacular. As in a movie that would make Plan Nine From Outer Space look like Fellini and Dunston Checks In look like Woody Allen's finest creations. I personally cannot imagine how anyone with the IQ of a rhesus monkey would give this movie two stars, let alone five. I'm guessing that the cast members desperately e-mailed their moms and begged them to write bogus reviews on Amazone. Either that or an army of zombie reviewers, the clones of Rex Reed, are out there on the loose, writing wildly enthusiastic reviews of anything that was shot even remotely in focus.  I mean, if someone ever told me they liked this movie, I would immediately begin looking for their lobotomy scars. Shall I number just a few of the reasons? 1) Miserable, whiny music throughout the entire abomination that makes the Free Credit Report Dot Com band sound like the freaking Beatles and Rolling Stones all rolled into one. 2) Terrible plot with too many twists and turns--and yet completely and utterly predictable at the same time. 3) Cardboard characters, with Cybil Shepard playing a crazed mother, probably channeling her on-screen rage by thinking of her agent and wondering how she was roped into this woofer. 4) Possibly the worst dialog I've ever heard in a movie. Honestly, I've seen third grade Christmas pageants with better lines.  My God. I cannot believe I watched this craptacular thing, and am seriously considering divorcing my wife for choosing this on Netflix, no matter how many times she apologizes to me. Mind you, I NEVER write movie reviews on Amazon, let alone dish the dirt on ones this bad. But I feel I have a duty to humanity and to you, my fellow movie enthusiast. Listen To Your Heart will be 100 minutes of your life that you'll never get back again, precious time that will be better spent watching another movie, helping the poor, mowing your grass, rearranging your sock drawer, or even downloading midget porn for your later satisfaction. Anything but this. You'll thank me. Trust me on this.

what a disappointment Rented this b/c of all the hype. What a disappointment. I was almost uncomfortable watching it all. It seems like the best filming was during the stripping/dancing, and then the rest was low budget, fairly poor acting. I like C.T., I think he has skill...in this movie, he is just the meat. Matthew McCaughnehey was over-acting the entire film. Storyline was extremely predictable, and the ending was...well, what ending really? It's almost as if the writers just threw in a "love story" plot without taking the time to develop it, then the end comes and all of a sudden two people end up together? I could've skipped the flick. I've never reviewed a movie until now...just wanted to forewarn people. Wait till it's free for Prime Members!

Warning! - Read Blu-ray reviews only (May 2012 and after) Note that Batjac (John Wayne's company) / the John Wayne Estate and the Motion Picture studios (Paramount, MGM, Universal, etc.) are the only ones who own the rights or are "licensed" to release these and other John Wayne films. Many have been released countless times (McLintock! really comes to mind) as public domain films, and the quality was garbage. So far, with the limited information floating around, this looks like another one of those low quality garbage releases, and until we get more information, in my opinion, save your cash for now. I'm hoping we'll get an update in June regarding this set (from someone with real knowledge, and not some wanna-be Siskel & Ebert or a so called Hall Of Fame reviewer).

ughhhhhhhhhh It was boring and I felt like I was watching a student film.  The ending made me want to punch someone.  UGH! WTF?

Unjust and Condescending 60 percent of this portrays Thatcher as a crazy senior who cannot go to the bathroom alone and 20 percent as a silly girl with foolish ideas about frugality and hard work from being a "lowly" grocer's daughter. Supposedly she became prime minister only due to her stubborn bullying during a backlash against the labor and liberal parties.  It's obvious these filmmakers hate her with a passion.

Doesnt work Didn't work.  Streaming was sluggish and made it unwatchable.  Could only watch about 3 minutes and then locked up.  Tried it several times, same thing occurred.  Wont use amazon streaming again.

It did not move Please forgive me, I am writing this review and did not finish the movie. (hint hint)  The action was weak and the plot did not go anywhere. A good plot should create movement and direction, and this movie just seemed to be floating around aimlessly.  For example, there was a scene that started at 44:12 and Carano was walking down the street watching a guy who was following her, at 46:15 (2 minutes later) she started to run, and 47:56 (almost another 2 minutes) she got into a taxi and drove away. &lt;End scene>  And that is pretty much the way the movie moves.  Again, sorry I am writing a review of a movie I did not finish.

DON'T BUY IT It's extremely sad that Amazon would stoop so low as to sell a pirated DVD collection as new. I should have known from the price as you get what you pay for. What I got is exactly what other reviewers warned me about - freezing frames and totally crashing - one disc basically unwatchable. The fact that the DVD's themselves have no markings on them so you can't tell which of the 4 discs you're watching is a telltale sign these are pirated copies and not new as advertised. Shame on Amazon to risk their good name.

BE CAREFUL! My stupid mistake.  I was very excited to finally find this DVD in the United States.  Buying excitement set in  and I failed to read  every last word on the page.  This DVD is encoded and will not play on our DVD players.  By the time I return it to the seller and pay twice for shipping, it's not worth the time to return it.  I also paid for expediated shipping and it was not that.  Amazon needs to stay out of the shipping end of these transactions.  My DVD wasn't even shipped by the date I was supposed to receive it.  Amazon and seller had different ideas of what expediated meant.  Good bye Amazon...I'll shop elsewhere.

0.25 STARS: Love the cast, hate the movie.  It sucks "Hoboken Hollow" is a movie that just goes to show you that no matter how good your cast is, the movie will not be any good if the actors don't have anything to work with.  Such is the case with this movie.  The acting is not bad from actors like Robert Carradine, Dennis Hopper, Michael Madsen and C. Thomas Howell...those guys are good actors, but the script is lousy.  This is just a mess of a movie.  Basically, "Hoboken Hollow" is an attempt to cash in on the success of movies like "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", but there is only one "TCM" and that is the original "TCM", and "Hoboken Hollow" is not TCM.  There is no atmosphere, mood, theme or suspense to this movie.  The action is lifeless and uneven.  In short, "Hoboken Hollow" is a movie about a family that kills people just like the TCM family, but it just doesn't work here at all.  All you have in this movie is a bunch of blood, torture and gore signifying much ado about nothing.  What a shame...what a worthless waste of acting talent.

Viewers left hanging in mid air without an ending I have received and watched many movies and of course like everyone else I've had good and bad opinions about all of them.  I am not a good writer so I have never wanted to write my reviews about previously watched Amazon films.  This 1996 Poldark movie directed by Richard Laxton and produced by Sally Haynes is an exception. I write to warn others not to spend a cent on this DVD. Other reviewers have made comparisons between this version of Poldark and the long running BBC series.  I can make no comparisons because I've never seen the long running version. I actually thought all the lead actors in this 1996 version did a good job and that is the only reason I'm giving one star to the review rating.  The producer and/or director who approved the release of this DVD should be ashamed and explain to the paying public what possessed them to rip people off. This is the first film I've ever seen that provides no ending to the story at all. Several characters were set up to possibly form relationships and fall in love (Steven Cravenson with Clowance Poldark and Jeremy Poldark with Cuby Trevanion).  The DVD takes the viewer nowhere near resolutions with any of them. The one thing I think any film viewer expects from a film is an ending (be it good or bad). SPOILER:  The film exposes strong emotions growing between Steven and Clowance.  There is a dramatic scene between the two of them where the viewer is lead to believe some resolution will be worked out. Instead Steven runs after Clowance to presumably do just that and the film abruptly stops before they even speak.  It's so obvious that there has to be more film somewhere resolving some of the plot lines that were developed. The resolutions never occur-an ending was completely left out. Sadly, I liked what little story line was presented but with the abrupt stopping of the plot this DVD is a solid rip-off. Don't waste your money.

Mae West The Glamor Collecction Horrible  DVDs locked  up, skipped, because two DVDs were the same, half of the movies were the same poor quality

Was this supposed to be funny? I think the producers, directors, and actors weren't on the same page when they made this movie. It seemed like they were trying hard to go the Hangover route, but also trying to make it into a good-hearted comedy. Similar to the 40 year old virgin. which is probably why the two main guys were such geeks. I didn't find myself caring much about them and their situations.  I don't mind the raunchy crude comedy, but if you are going to go that route. You need to go all the way and be over the top. The whole thing seemed too scripted and didn't really flow.  Also, this movie should not be an hour and forty five minutes long. They need to have a director's cut and throw out about 20-30 minutes. I actually stopped it at an hour and thirty minutes. I should have stopped it a lot sooner. Although I didn't know what happened at the end and wasted all that time watching up to that point. I really couldn't care less, but If I had to guess, I'm sure I could figure out the ending.

Terrible acting Besides Malcolm McDowell, who is always brilliant, the acting in this movie is disgraceful!  I just couldn't stand it to the end.  Also the script is full of religious propaganda.  Please don't waste your time in this low budget, lower acting movie.

Rise of the Special Effects I was looking forward to watching "Rise of the Planet of the Apes." Instead I wasted 2 hrs watching a piece of badly written, badly acted, and boring piece of forgettable celluloid. No suspense, no thought, and no fun. This could have been a great movie if they spent more money on writers and less on computer graphics. Poor James Franco---literally poor---he must have needed a paycheck, was wasted in this cliched mess. Tom Felton (Malfoy from the "Harry Potter" movies) plays Malfoy with an American accent in this piece of crap. Speaking of crap---I just want to fling crap (like a monkey) at this horrible movie. Don't waste your time...NO STARS from me!

An embarrassment to Sedona! I can't believe the 17 5-star reviews that have preceded my review.  Sedona is a terrible movie no matter how you judge it.  To say that the story is weak is charitable.  The acting was mostly poor.  The characters had no depth.  The interactions were unrealistic.  The dialog was feeble.  And it was boring except for the red rocks.  I live in Sedona.  I first visited here 22 years ago and have loved it ever since.  It was my favorite vacation spot before moving here.  There was nothing in this movie that reflected any of the things that I love about living or visiting here.  I have never met anyone like the local characters in the movie.  No one just sits on their butt at any business in town or ignores customers.  If you have ever been to the Red Planet Diner, it is an experience in itself.  It can be a fun place to just look around and read the signs and observe the ET decor.  None of that character came out in the movie and the fact that most of the employees are hispanic was also not apparent.  Cultural diversity is one of the things that I love most about Sedona.  Not only do we have Black, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American residents, but we have a constant influx of international visitors.  The population ranges from the rich and famous to starving artists and new age groupies.  Diverse music and cultural events are commonplace and the art galleries are reminiscent of Santa Fe.  There are great restaurants and fine resorts.  Public art is everywhere.  Housing ranges from vulgar displaces of wealth to mobile homes.  None of this diversity was reflected in the movie.  The only thing that I could relate to was the fact that residents would jump in and help to look for a lost child.  After reading 17 5-star reviews, I was looking forward to buying extra copies of this movie to send to family and friends so that they could see why I love it here so much.  After watching this film, I just hope that it fizzles out before anybody I know sees it.  I couldn't be more disappointed or embarrassed.

Horrible This piece of **** is an insult to the original. George Romero should sue! See the originals ignore all "remakes" Romero's originals are dark edgy social commentaries. This and the Night of the Living Dead remake with Sid Haig are just "cash-in" product.

Some films should not be remade Here we go again, Hollyweird in its infinite greed has seen fit to remake a classic that was perfect in its original form. The movie was totally unbelievable in its entirety. The acting was predictable and the posers were perfect in every way. One would think that by looking at them would think they had just returned from a day spa! Of course maybe at least the current moviegoers will maybe watch the original. This would be the only reason to even remake this bomb!

No point in seeing this aweful movie. I love Adam Sandler's movies but hated this one.  In fact, I hated it so much, I only watched the first 20 minutes and turned it off.  This movie really doesn't go anywhere and is completely pointless!!!

Beyond Disappointing DVD You have to buy the DVD/Blu-Ray combo to get commentary and deleted scenes. This basic disc version lacks the extras.

Boo Webster defines Boo as "expressing contempt or disapproval, or used to frighten."  Unfortunately the film "Insidious" directed by James Wan can only fall under disappointing. Boo.  Not scary and not terrifying, painful, yes, in watching it to the end.  Warning: Possible spoiler between dashes.  -------------------------------  "Insidious," starring Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne play the father and mother who along with their three children move into a new house.  One of the young sons has the ability to leave his body through astral projection, also known as spirit walking, and becomes lost in the spirit world.  His shell of as body is now attracting spirits, evil ones, who want to come back into the real world.  Throw in some unexplained whispering and closing doors into the mix.  Enter the ghost hunters, a really laughable group, who must help the boy's spirit return.  The father, Patrick Wilson, who also has the ability to spirit walk, must venture into the spirit world to help his son find his way back.  ------------------------------  At times the movie and its spirits reminded me of a cheap "Funhouse" carnival ride. The only thing scary one might find in this movie of worn out clich&eacute;s is that their name may appear in the credits.  There are plenty of good horror movies out there, skip this one, but if you must see it go to your local library and check it out for free.  "Insidious" is worthy of only 1 Star.

What a dud! What a dud! Keep pinching yourself as you watch this tawdry little train wreck and remember.. "This was nominated for Best Picture and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GH3CR0">United 93 (Widescreen Edition)</a> was not." It seems our creative community can do nothing but sneer.. sneer at every belief and value on which this country was built, sneer at the very concepts of beauty and decency. I guess that's what they learn at film school. Maybe I'm too old.

Do not recommend it to anybody The movie tells you that to be happy you must have bad relationships, use heavy drugs to do things that you will not  remember next day and being irresponsible is a nice way of life. Unfortunately that is what the American movies are exporting to the entire world now.  I do not recommend it to anyone. Freedom of expression is not freedom to teach such things

Is a 3 disc novela and  I got disc 1 and disc 3 (duplicate) no disc 2!!!! Come onnnnnnn!!!!I'm really disapointed I just got disc 1 and the disc three is duplicated, I just saw the beginning and the end, the middle of the novela??? no idea because I have a duplicate disc, what can I do????

wrath? If you must have this dvd, wait till it is on the bottom of one of those $2 barrels at walmart, wont be a long wait.

Oh Boy Can't begin to enumerate all the things that are wrong with this film!  If it weren't for all the star power in this film, it would have panned.  Cinematically it's beautiful, but what a mess!  Don't waste your money unless you REALLY need a Hugh Jackman or Rachel Weiss fix, or you need something to gripe about.

Huh? I think my disgust is amplified by the fact that if involved Tarantino who outside of this piece of crap, seems closely linked to genius. The only events of interest were a very fine rear end and "El Coyote" (What does that mean in English). It was so bad it literally made me angry. A slap in the face. An impossibly long eclipse? Absurd stupidity... Right up there with "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes". Good grief! Do yourself a favor and watch Dusk Till Dawn and Dusk Till Dawn III and use your imagination to generate your own Dusk Till Dawn II.. Guarantee it'll be a damn sight better than this!

All Politicians are NOT Corrupt Pimps or Just Plain Nuts! I was hoping State of Play would have the guts to tackle head-on the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex! The American people need to be reminded about who is really in charge of a very large part of American society - the U.S. military and their weapon-making buddies. But instead we see a story about a courageous man standing up to those in power ending up being a lunatic himself! This is a very disturbing film that basically shouts from the rooftops: "All politicians are either corrupt pimps or just plain nuts! There are no good guys (or gals) in political power! This is a very demoralizing story that I regret having spent my hard earned money on - especially during a recession!  A few other messages wacky messages one can gather from this film: If you save someone's life in wartime they owe you a debt that means killing innocent people in order to save your buddy's political career! You can't tell your best friend is mentally disturbed even though you've known him for about 30+ years, since you were college roommates! Someone who has the courage to challenge incredibly powerful & corrupt corporations is just as bad as the bad guys! Some ex-hippy journalist is going to save the day because his cursing editor is mere putty in his hands, even though he is working at a large city newspaper! A 20-something blogger can rise to the occasion simply because she has "dewy eyes!" Wow! What a dopey and demoralizing story!  See: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805089195">The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives (American Empire Project)</a> and (American Empire Project) and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9676906743">Brainwashed for War - Programmed to Kill: The Military-Industrial-Media Complex Propaganda behind the Cold War, Vietnam War & War on Terrorism</a>

Do I have to give this thing a star?? I was thinking that there weren't enough truly raunchy films for women and then this gem came along.  Problem solved.  Not funny at all.  I can't think of a single redeeming quality.  I saw this in the theater and would have walked out if I hadn't been with so many friends.  I still regret not leaving.

over priced don't you think you are a little over priced in this econmy today i don't think any one would buy that movie i'm not trying to be mean just practical

WARNING! This movie is for 9 year-olds.  Little brother sees monsters no one else sees. Big brother tells him he's crazy.  This goes on for 50 excruciating minutes. BORING.  And the "monsters" are lame.  Nothing ever really happens.  The end.

TERRIBLE THE WORST! I WOULDN'T EVEN GIVE IT A STAR! Okay well, most of the info were things that most Directioners already knew about.I got bored, which I thought I could never do with a 1D video, let alone MOVIE! Secondly, it really, really, REALLY FREAKIN' PISSED ME OFF WHEN THE LADY SAID "Harry being the most and Liam being the least....." FIRST OF ALL, YES HAZZA MAY BE THE FAVORITE OF GIRLS, BUT THERE IS NO LEAST FOR US DIRECTIONERS. SECOND OF ALL, LIAM IS MY FAVORITE BOY IN THE BAND SO THATS KIND OF OFFENSIVE. WE SHOULD HAVE OUR FAVORITE, THEN LOVE THEM ALL EQUALLY! WE SHOULD NOT SAY "OH, I LOVE HAZZA THE MOST, BUT EWW LIAM" THEN THE MOVIE WAS ALLLLLLL ABOUT HAZZA! SERIOUSLY? HARRY USED TO BE MY FAVORITE, BUR I DON'T LIKE THE WAY THEY ARE TREATING THE OTHER BOYS! ITS SERIOUSLY GETTING ANNOYING!UGHHH I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THIS IF MY LIFE DEPENDED ON IT!

Deepak Chopra Does Physics Clearly, if consciousness is the ground of matter then conscious can choose... uh... something about you and your friend coming to a stoplight.  There's no difference between this film and a Deepak Chopra lecture in the complete lack of substantive content.  There is no there there.  We are to be convinced that whatever it is he's driving at is true because of the tone of his voice and his charming hat.  His experiments on quantum consciousness would be dramatic... if they were actually scientifically analyzed and proven.  But they're not.  He SAYS they are.  And sounds like he means it.  But... they're not.  He claims many things.  He uses the probability wave function as a metaphor for... pretty much everything.  He smirks a lot and tells cute jokes.  Non-locality of consciousness and discontinuity of creativity... is... um.  Do be do be do...  And then he espouses the basic Buddhist philosophy of compassion.  And somehow that is intended to tie back to quantum mechanics because he's a physicist.  The film is just a disappointing new age shrine to this guy.  It has no meaningful content on quantum physics nor on serious investigation into the personal experience of consciousness.  Instead, it's smoke and mirrors and pseudo-science used to bewilder the viewer into a false sense of enlightenment.  Don't waste your time.

Dear God No (don't make me watch this)! I purchased this DVD as a pre-release at Texas Frightmare Weekend. As someone who appreciates (good) horror movies, as well as (even cheesy) Bigfoot flicks, I can honestly say this was the worst Bigfoot movie, no make that any movie I have ever seen. From the opening (and seemingly endless) montage of the biker gang riding down the road, to the brutal rape and murder of a pregnant woman, by stabbing her in the belly and then cutting her open to remove the fetus, this was the worst acting, if you can call it that, I have ever seen. I was expecting a grindhouse style Bigfoot flick. It is advertised as "Bikers, Bullets, Boobs, Blood, Beer & Bigfoot". They left a few B's out. Bad Taste being the most obvious.

Suckingly sucks.... Most of the Harry Potter fans have expressed their opinion already.Too expensive and incomplete box set is the major reason. So Warner Bros just wants to make money out of us. The full versions with xtended cuts will definitely be in a box set after the Ultimate Editions are released. In a nutshell, HP fans were cheated on being given a complete box set this year. Easy, don't buy it!!!

Don't think during this film I saw it for speical effect but the story is a 1000 flaws.  Some are do dumb that I stayed to watch the retarded ending with is 'always blame America'. A horric cold spell happens that freeze people and machines in seconds yet wolves fun around like it is 40 degrees.  The classic flaw is when the father (completely forgot his name) actually walks from Washington DC and finds his son in the main library.  And, for politically correntness, there is a homeless black guy that just pumping out ghetto wisdom that saves the day.  The klutz who is clearly Dick Chaney repeats of his ways and thanks Mexico for illegal immigrantion.

Disk skipped right out of the box! The movie is great, no problems there. But it went straight from the box to the computer and I even tried it on a DVD player and it skips. Another person in this house had a copy that skipped as well, and I've played plenty of other DVD's on these that did not skip. I'm going to try to get a replacement for the defective disk. I also looked online some people who purchased the DVD from Amazon, Walmart and the Disney Store also had the same problem. :/

Awful. I saw this movie in the theatre & was pretty excited; it was filmed near me.  But Left/Right made me suffer.  These boys are obviously driven (how else would they have made a movie?) but that doesn't mean they can write or act.

Read the Book Instead! I'm so glad I read the book before seeing this movie.  I understand that such a long book has to be cut down to fit into a 2 hour movie, but they deviated so far from the original story that it was almost unrecognizable.  The acting was horrid, the story line was mangled - ugh.  Trust me and just pick up Nelson DeMille's book and skip the movie.

Bad very bad The movie invokes voodoo, demons etc.  If you care about what your children see I would not recommend this movie at all.  We threw away the movie into the trash.

Ego trip This could have been an interesting film.  Somehow, due to Kevin Spacey's over-identification with Darin, he had no objectivity and the result is a mess.  I watched it for about 45 minutes, really trying to like it, but finally exited it.  As many others have pointed out, Spacey is way too old to play the young Darin.  He sings allright but his moves are way too cool, too snappy, too everything icky...It was embarassing to watch this very talented actor descend into this terrible role.  He should have spent the money on good pyschotherapy to discover what motivated this obsession.

Series doesn't live up to previous versions! I've watched seven episodes of Series 1 thus far, and now ask myself "Where's the beef?" The BBC has a good reputation for putting out quality television programming, but this series fall flat for me.  I'm a lifelong `Robin Hood' fan--most series in the past have typically been filled with equal shares of good and evil; kindness and cruelty; bravado, derring-do, romance, intrigue, and loads of action.  Errol Flynn was one of the original Robin Hood's and, in many ways, set the standard (although Russell Crowe did a pretty good job a few years back). The one common characteristic of all of the Robin Hood characters is that they can shoot an arrow like no one else. They typically have that `pick off a fly at a hundred yards' accuracy.  This BBC series has its own interesting depictions of good (in the form of Robin, Marion, and Robin's interesting band of men and women), and evil (in the form of the nasty Sheriff of Nottingham and Guy of Gisborne). These two latter creeps have little compunction about killing, terrorizing, and stealing from the local (largely poor) citizenry.  Here's my main complaint: During the first seven episodes, Robin has had AT LEAST 10 GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES TO KILL ONE OR BOTH OF THESE EVIL-DOERS, yet has refrained from the act, only to let these two continue their terrorizing and murderous ways. It's not like Robin and his men won't kill, because others (mostly faceless castle guards and peasants) do get killed along the way, either directly or indirectly.  Watching the series has become somewhat painful, because the same syndrome becomes repeated over and over: The Sherriff dreams up some scheme to capture Robin; the Sherriff exhibits some despicable behavior to show that he hasn't let up on his evil ways; one of Robin's men gets captured; Robin and his men break into the castle; the Sheriff and his soldiers confront Robin and his men; Robin had a golden chance to do some killing one or both of the major evil-doers; there's a chase scene; Robin and his men cleverly escape (usually through the toilet chute); someone may or may not gets killed along the way (except for the Sherriff, Guy of Gisborne, Marion, or Robin--all of whom seem to be protected by angels (or iron-clad acting contracts)).  So one might draw any of the following conclusions:  1. The series writers were in major love with their main characters and wouldn't kill them off, no matter what--even if their storyline would have been much more plausible and enjoyable. It's not as if they were keeping the main characters alive to remain true to the story, because they have veered from previous telling of the story in major ways.  2. Robin has a mental illness, and won't kill evil doers, even if it means that many others will suffer from his reticence to kill them. This makes him look weak and pathetic--certainly not the person to be leading a revolution (i.e., constantly putting his comrades in needless danger, by not killing when he has the chance).  3. Robin may be secretly in love with the Sherriff, in a kind of sadomasochistic way. Robin's behavior in the series thus far allows for this possibility.  My complaint is not with the series actors, who all do a fine job of their roles. The problem seems to be with the script writing. The stories are repetitive in nature, and the characters--particularly the Sherriff--are parodies of how they have been depicted in other similar series. The series itself is starting to look and feel more and more like the old `Batman' series of the late 1960s--a real spoof of the original story. The Sherriff comes across as a cross between the `Riddler' and the `Penguin'--snappy answers to every problem, and just plain weird behavior demonstrated (e.g., a constant penchant for painting his toenails black)... Again, there are some serious plausibility issues here.  One suggestion to improve the series: As long as others are being killed off at regular intervals throughout the series (including Robin's men), kill off the evil doers themselves at regular intervals (whenever Robin has the chance), and keep replacing them with other types of evil doers.

The most ridiculous movie I've ever seen. And to think, I was on the edge of my seat through most of the first half of it. The character development early on, while quite weird, does have you wanting them to survive. The bombardment of the forest and the parachute landings of the Nazi troops was breathtakingly realistic and you could feel the fear of Frol and "The Lily of the Valley." What a great movie this could have been. From then on, it was almost comical, by the time you get to the massacre scenes, you could completely understand how all these people died. Rushing to meet the Germans in town? Wandering through vast open fields in the middle of the day? It was so silly that by the time the epic climax unfolds, you couldn't care less, and you are left wondering how much more bizarre will this get. And it does.  There are no historical records of any Eitzengruppen units being captured wholesale by the partisans, and even if they did, what did this freakish Nazi prisoner scene have to do with anything?  The director of this movie was clearly insane. If for some reason this condition was brought upon him by the horrors of war, I apologize for pointing this out.  What Germany did during the Third Reich was an atrocious crime upon humanity, a blood stain that will forever darken that nations history. This film does not even remotely capture the depth of depravity that was inflicted by the "master race" upon it's totally innocent victims.  The Holocaust was not some drunken frat party, as this movie implies.

Not Recommended for Anyone With Taste Do yourself a favor and skip this one. Trust me, it will only show you how evil mankind can be.

Superman 3 review This movie stinks. The opening looks nothing nothing like the ones from the films. They look like they added in at the last minute. Its like those Star Wars text things you get in most movie-editing softwares. It was also a bad reminder of those 3 stooges shorts starring Joe Besser. Infact this WHOLE film is a bad reminder of the Joe Besser days of the 3 Stooges. Richard Pryor is very unfunny in this stinkfest. I think he had more screen time then Superman did. There are some good points in the film like Superman saving the powerplant and the kid. The Evil Superman is pretty bad[bleep] and much more then Emo Peter from Spiderman 3. Sadly these good points fail to save the film in the long run. The effects and fights are standard. Overall,It still awful. I give this film a 1 out of 10.

About as scary as Lamb Chops Playalong. Bad acting,bad plot, bad special effects, bad plot holes,bad cast, and most of all it's just a really bad movie.  Chloe Moretz having a role in this movie is about the only thing people will remember this piece of junk for some years into the future. This is one of those movies where the you root for the zombies,ghost or whatever to kill people because they're all so annoying. I really really really wanted them to kill that annoying teenage girl who complained every about something every time she had a line. Even when they're running for their lives she falls down and complains she can't run anymore...when they only ran about 10 yards! No wonder the ghost zombie children tried to kill her even though she's "Kin folk" (even though that was probably just one of the many plot holes). I mean this is just a bad and very corny horror movie. I mean there's different levels of bad films. Films so bad you can't watch them and films that are watchable but just bad. This one is watchable but it's still bad!  Maybe they should of used some type of monster instead of Ghost Zombie children.

What a voice! My first and last Adele release. Great voice but in between songs  when she gets down with audience she gets down in the gutter with a foul mouth four letter vocabulary. What a disappointment!

Couldnt keep attention We bought this video for our son, who LOVES Elmo. Unfortunately, this video couldnt keep our son's attention for even 5 minutes. We did watch the entire video but there wasnt any actual potty time! My son goes to the bathroom with both of us but we thought if he saw a beloved character doing it, he might try it. No such luck since they dont show any potty time at all. I wouldnt recommend the video as for us it was $10 wasted. I wouldnt mind having spent the money if our son would actually watch the video but no such luck.

copycat, at best Won't pretend I'm an intellectual or a pro critic...in hindsight, I'm pretty stupid to think anyone could, or would even try to, make a decent prequel to what is basically a space creature flick (Alien). I went to Prometheus simply based on the fact Alien is one of, if not the best, sci-fi movies ever made (partially due to its simplicity).  I was expecting something on the same vein, yet new...what I got was a generic back story, copycat bits and pieces from the original Alien, a fake Sigourney Weaver, another talking severed android head (couldn't come up with anything else?), a lame octopus and a blatant setup for a sequel.  I want a real ending...and a good one.

Don't waste your time This is such a short clip that it is really a waste of your time downloading it.  You can go to the television and watch an episode of Great American Dad.

Full Frame + Blu-Ray = Failure There is really no reason a Blu-Ray should have a full frame aspect ratio.  It looks terrible on HD TVs.  Save your money and buy the DVD.

From somebody with no political affiliation I'm sure most people who watch this film already agree with what this film is set out to do. It only takes somebody aware of actual facts to immediately see that this film is a propaganda piece. An exaggerated one sided view which is extremely selective with what it allows in it. Don't expect opposing viewpoints. Don't expect any questioning of what is said.  This film will most likely work well on converting Americans who are easily manipulated, can't catch hypocrisy, and have limited knowledge of how events actually went down over the course of history.  For those who DO have that ability, you will find yourself wanting to scream at your TV and tell these people how things really are. I could sit here and pick apart many things in this film and try to do my best and let people have a better grasp on reality, but why would I?  The facts are already out there.  All they have to do is search with an open mind.  I'm not saying voting democrat is the answer. They have their own issues as well.  I've seen many propaganda films in my time, but this one will get any knowledgeable person really frustrated to know there are people out there eating this stuff up.

Do not waste your money!!!! The worst movie I have ever purchased. I can't even imagine how it got 3.5 stars! I bought it when it came out and will never watch it again. I should just throw it out

Age of Reruns This is advertised as one of the first of the commando raids by a new British undercover team going up against a crack SS Alpine unit. But in the film, the only thing these Germans are good at shooting at is the local civilian population. When they have to go up against the British Commandos it's a turkey shoot with the SS dropping like flies. It reminded me of the the old Combat series where Sarge and Hanley mowed down wave after wave of hapless Germans. It was cliche filled as one other reviewer mentioned and you may have deja vu when you watch it, thinking you have seen it before. The first part of the movie is your standard in training drills with a Scottish version of Lee Emery showing the potential commando recruits the ropes. There was just nothing new here. I was going to give a star and a half for the uniforms, but you can't do half star's. I usually keep the war movies, but this one was so bad, I tossed it.

Enchanted Great movie, poorly rated product.  Movie was supposed to be used, but in "very good" condition.  Movie was in poor condition, and wouldn't even play in one area of the movie (even on 3 different DVD players).  Probably won't buy from this distributer again.

where is zero stars? I went in wanting it like this movie, I really did. For the record, I'm a white woman, and I really like the "Rocky" films. Having been assaulted by my former partner, I knew exactly how Stallone's character felt when he said "the next morning's the worst,' and I can sure attest to that. I watched all six movies while locked into a hyperbaric chamber twenty times over the course of a month, from the metabolic holes in my head from the abuse on SPECT scan.., a very expensive month, too, since insurance paid for NONE of it. Which was well over 7,500. And I have good insurance! I was landed on my head by my hair onto a tile floor. You can see in the SPECTs right where I hit the floor. In answer to your question, no, they do the 'nice guy bit' until they think they have you, and then they start to turn on you in what starts out looking like 'just a bad day.'No abusive man goes out with a woman he wants to impress and calls here a horrible name at dinner on their first date, and slaps her in the face, it's more like the frog boiling to death in the gradually heated water. A frog won't sit in boiling water, he jumps out!  So, my personal experience correlates to the humble, nice guy in a bad spot--ie Rocky. Who if you'll notice gets his butt kicked by bigger and bigger guys in each film. I could relate to that, also. I can't stand arrogance, "I'm the greatest" never fails to bother me. Because it's naive, someone, especially in sports, will eventually win out over you. I didn't like this character. Arrogance doesn't seem to be a Muslim value, is it? Note in the second Rocky movie, Paulie suggests that if Adrian was acting up, knock her teeth out. Rocky says, "Well, you know I kinda like her teeth where they are.' You never specifically hear an anti domestic abuse message in the movies.  I dislike movies where the sex is gratuitous, namely because it gives people the idea that you can use people and have no consequences, when that's not at all the case. I don't like when women are like Kleenex, disposable and replaceable. I got that from the trailer alone, and I wasn't looking forward to the movie for that.  Even in the later films when Rocky did the 'homeboy' thing, which struck me as odd, considering he's a white boy, and it's bizarrely out of place on someone who had to be 45 at the time of the movie. I put up with it, because there were some nice scenes, even as far gone as "Rocky Balboa,' the scenes where they do the Adrian tour, and that he didn't just hop into bed with that girl. even the meat locker scene about the 'stuff in the basement' was interesting.  Part of why the character was an icon is because he gave a lot of people someone to emulate, and to look up to, which you sure don't get here. I wish you did. I was sincerely hoping for it. Remember, the original film was in 1976, when I was small, and the country needed someone to have as their hero.  Vietnam was just wrapping up, the muscle cars were pretty much gone, a casualty of combined astronomical gas prices, and insurance. We didn't have a heck of a lot to look forward to as a country.   I wish this could have given us another icon or character to emulate and admire.  I love the Rocky films because I was sincerely hoping for that here, a sincere, honest man, just trying to do his best, who loved his wife sincerely, wasn't treating her like a stray dog you can kick as you choose (and I love dogs)  and wasn't cheating on her with every woman in sight, full of skeeze we don't really need to see. He couldn't even beat guys up as a 'collector.' Frankly, I hope we get a chance to someday see another character like that again. But then, it's only been 36 years!  Also, Burgess Meredeth was brilliant as the old trainer.  I only had those hope for this movie. I'm sorry I was disappointed.

The guy doesn't talk!  This movie is horrible!!! Don't watch this movie.  The guy doesn't even talk most of the movie, even when people are talking to him!  Totally stupid and a waste of money.

Homophobic With so many teens commiting suicide how could anyone support a homophobic movie like this? Apathy is tacky. Humor that makes fun of the most vulnerable in society should be unacceptable.

Ripped Off! Rosewood is a movie I had seen years ago and liked very much.  I chose to purchase a copy so that my husband would be able to see it.  We were half way through the movie when it just stopped.  For some reason the manufacturer found it okay to only put 1/2 of the movie on the DVD.  I was truly disappointed that my husband was unable to finish the movie due to the manufacturer's inability to deliver a whole copy.  This movie is a true story of racial tension and struggle in southern Georigia.  It is a moving story that would have been wonderful to see a second time, but I guess that is not meant to be.  Do not buy this movie expecting to see it through to the conclusion.

call us disappointed First let me say we loved the first Ghost Rider; a simple story, excellent transitions, good acting. Along comes #2 Ghost Rider: We're excited. And it's an awesome ... letdown. The filming was jagged, with Photoshopped stills thrown in (what's up with that!), too many shots of the flaming head for no reason, a scene where he suddenly goes from nonfire mode to flamed and peeing fire (why?), his flaming chain scenes don't compare to GR#1 ... and on and on in that vein. The most insulting thing, according to my husband, was the motorcycle used didn't go with the sound of the motorcycle used, and everyone who's ever rode a chopper knows it. And when the main actor is upstaged by Idris Elba, you wonder what influence the directors had on Nicolas Cage, or was something wrong with Nicolas Cage? I think this movie was aimed at a lower age group/less critical audience. The director's fault? The writer's fault? The studio's fault? The actor's fault? Everyone raise your hand.

Not educational, not worth the money We love Bill Nye videos but this is not at all up to the quality we had hoped for or expected and DEFINITELY not worth the money. Is very very short-- about 10 minutes of educational content, no real teaching, and a lot of goofy little repititive slogans said over and over again.  Introduces some math concepts by name (fractions, proportions, etc) but doesn't actually teach about them at all-- skip this one!

Dull, not much gore, uninteresting story Don't listen to the people who go on and on about how sick and violent this movie is- if you pick it up on that basis, you're going to be disappointed. There's no actual torture here and no real gore. Just a bunch of standard stabbings and shootings with some blood splatter. The deaths are quick- this is NOT a torture movie. The kills are uncreative- just plain old stabbings mostly. You won't actually see much of the violence, either- the camera usually either cuts away and shows us blood splatter, or you just see darkened figures with no detail when the murders go down.  Low gore and uncreative kills can be saved by compelling characters or an interesting plot, but this movie has neither of those things. The plot is muddled and confusing. You think this movie will explain the fascinating psychology of a killer, but for the most part, it doesn't. The movie drags on and on, dull minute after dull minute, rarely revealing any new insights into the killers.  *SPOILERS*  The main killer is a crazy guy who thinks that steer heads and/or the body of his dead father and/or some scarecrow-like thing are ordering him to kill. He spends a lot of time screaming incoherent nonsense at these objects, which gets old fast. The source of his psychosis never becomes completely clear, but near the very end of the movie, the guy explains that he's killing humans to redeem himself for the fact that his father (who was a butcher) forced him to slaughter animals that trusted him. Um, OK? That still doesn't make a lot of sense.  The motives of the kidnapped boy, Martin, are even less clear. After living with the killer for 5 years, Martin still seems disturbed by the killings and even releases one girl at her request. Yet only days later, he's willingly leading a girl to her death and ignoring her cries for help. By the next day, he's already decided to start his own killing spree, despite the fact that he's been rescued from the kidnapper by that point. This sudden change in behavior is never explained at all. At one point, there's a classroom scene about "nature vs nurture" where a teacher says that a child raised in a hateful environment will become a carbon copy of the parents. So basically the explanation is just that this kid grew up with a killer and therefore became a killer himself? If the explanation is that simplistic, I can't fathom why we needed a 90 minute movie to explain it. And it still doesn't explain the kid's sudden change in attitude.  Martin could have been an interesting character. He has a disorder that causes him to be unable to feel physical pain. I thought maybe the killer would kidnap him, unaware of his disorder, and then torture him in a bunch of crazy ways, which Martin would be unaffected by due to his disorder, and which would either fascinate or frustrate the killer. But this most definitely does NOT happen. The killer is apparently somehow already aware of Martin's disorder, and he has no real interest in torturing him- he cuts him a couple times, but for the most part he hugs him and treats him as a son and an apprentice. So much less interesting than it could have been.  None of the other characters are particularly interesting or well-developed and they all just end up as victim fodder anyways. Also, it was hard to believe that this guy could kill so many local girls in a small town without arousing suspicions at all.  If you watch this because you want some creative kills, torture, and extreme gore, you'll be disappointed. If you watch it because you want a psychological thriller with an interesting storyline and characters and insights into the mind of a killer, you'll also be disappointed. There's really nothing here for anyone.

Don't waste your time watching this! The writing in this movie is horrible!  The action sequences are good - not great though.  I love HK action movies but don't waste your time watching this as there are much better movies out there.  If you insist on watching it, I suggest fast forwarding through and just watching the action sequences.

W*** of the Titans My normal method for coercing myself to sleep when I have a headache is to watch a bad movie, then write a bad review, then hopefully be exhausted enough to drift off to dreamland.  Enter the Wrath of the Titans.  As it turned out, I didn't have to write a bad review in order to fall asleep: the movie was bad enough.  Still, some thoughts linger, mainly of how dreadful a movie it was.  ***SPOILERS, PROBABLY***  Wrath of the Titans is one of those films which would not only have no reason to exist were it not for an astonishingly stupid decision made by the hero at the outset, but which is only kept going by a further series of stupid decisions.  Perseus is living a serene, godless existence as a fisherman.  Io (Gemma Arterton from the previous film) has died, leaving Perseus with a son, Helius, who is now a lad.  Zeus comes one evening to tell Perseus that, in the absence of human prayer, the gods' power is diminishing.  This includes the restraints Zeus placed on his father Kronos to keep him imprisoned in Tartarus.  Demons are already breaking free of the underworld to wreak havoc on mankind, but once Kronos escapes it will mean oblivion for gods and men.  Would Perseus please help?  "The world may be obliterated, but I promised my wife that I'd look after my son," is essentially Perseus's answer.  Consequences be damned, apparently.  Zeus smiles and vanishes.  Later that night, Perseus wakes up freaked out by a dream he had of the world ending.  Meanwhile, Zeus meets up with his brother Hades in the underworld.  Zeus's son Ares is also there.  While both are ostensibly present to help keep Kronos in Tartarus, they trap Zeus, whose power they will actually use to free Kronos, who will allow Hades and Ares to keep their immortality.  Why the double-cross?  Well, Hades still resents Zeus for giving him dominion over the underworld, and Ares resents Zeus for preferring Perseus over himself.  Mass destruction therefore makes sense.  Perseus changes his mind and goes on a quest with Queen Andromeda (who is even more useless than Perseus) to search for the entrance to Tartarus so he can free his father and defeat Kronos.  Along the way he runs into Hephaestus (played by Bill Nighy, who does that routine of his where he raises his eyebrow, leans forward, blinks, and then lurches back as if he's been spat on, which perhaps is meant to be visual comedy, and probably would have been had he not done it for {whats seems like} every film he's been in) who takes them to the entrance of Tartarus before he's stabbed by Ares, who is able to find them all because one of Andromeda's warriors prayed to him, even though she was quite explicitly told not to lest Ares discover her and kill her, which he does.  Anyways, after stumbling through a frustrating rubix-cube of a maze, the gang make it to Zeus.  Perseus attempts to free him.  It's hard going at first, but once Zeus tells him to believe in himself the manacles practically fall away.  Hades has a change of heart at the last minute, putting him at odds with Ares, who's still pissed off.  By now Kronos, a giant of volcanic rock and seething magma, has broken free.  But Ares still finds time to face off with Perseus in a temple atop a mountain, making Helius, whom he has kidnapped, watch the bizarrely erotic spectacle.  Perseus prevails, taking Zeus's thunderbolt (which Ares had stolen) and combining it with Hades's and Poseidon's tridents to form a mega-weapon that he shoves down Kronos throat, bringing on a cosmic bout of acid-reflux, thus annihilating the Titan.  Zeus, proud father of demi-god Perseus, crumbles to dust.  Hades does not crumble to dust but says his power is gone anyway.  Perseus gets over it all rather quickly, as evidenced by his putting the moves on Andromeda, who was an old flame of his after all.  It had been ambiguous when she first appeared, making for the only tension in this film.  A tension which was, in the end, worthless.  It seems Warner Bros. are contemplating a third Titans film, which is strange since they needn't have bothered with this one (or the one before).

If I was able to leave no star I would I love movies. I love war movies, especially. I am sorry to whoever came up with this movie but it shouldn't even be called a movie. Everything from the acting to the plot is terrible. Not even close to being OK and to think I payed to watch 45 minutes of it. I think I am more frustrated that I wasted my time. Seriously, no matter how desperate you are for a war movie don't watch this one.

LOL I began watching. I heared the first line of the movie and was very intrigued. Then the lights came on....  and I started laughing!! I lauhged so hard I couldnt even finish the movie! This morning my wife said shed never heared me laugh in my sleep.

Kill me now. I don't write reviews, however, after wasting an hour and thirty one minutes of my life I figured a few more wouldn't hurt. Please watch something else tonight.

MAJOR disappointment I just didn't get it. Not funny at all, ridiculous plot, and a waste of good actors. Bridges is annoying in his cheech and chong role. Goodman is equally annoying, and all he does is curse the whole time. I cant find one good thing to say about this movie.  I kept waiting for something, but it never happened. Absolute waste of 2 hours. The most perplexing part is all the good reviews it has gotten. HOW? and WHY? DO not waste your time!

forgetable It was totally forgetable. I never heard of these Saturday afternoon serials or any of the actors. It is obvious why. Your money can be much better spent.  I regret buying it as I;m stuck with them.

Missing 100th Anniversary Cover I just received my copy today and it is missing it's 100th anniversary cover?  What's up with that?  If I just wanted the regular disk I would have ordered it (at the time it was cheaper than the 100th anniversary edition).

Anothe darko production Twisted plot, crude, weird, watch if you like films from darko productions. otherwise skip this. I personally did not find this movie appealing.

Oh my goodness, that was STUPID!!!!  Not stupid good either. I watched it because I had heard of John Waters before and I am a fan of Chris Issac's music.  I really went into it not knowing what to expect other than Waters is known for  pretty eccentric and absurd movies.  That would be fine if it was any good.  The movie looked like it was shot with a Flip Video Camera instead of professional equipment.  The dialogue was worse than some of my 10th grade students put into their short stories.  And the idiotic plant, animal, tree, etc. animations were pathetic.  I want to know if the actors and all those involved really thought this was good stuff.  It's not funny, it's not sexy, it's not exciting.  It's a mess.

hmm.. Nothing special. just gross.. and not gross in an intriguing artistic way.. just gross like a dirty outhouse... boring and stupid.. glad it was free

Bad product description Don't order unless you own an all region player. I saw previous posts about this issue and ordered anyway in hopes that the product description was correct. Product description was wrong. They are shipping region code 0 not code 1 as listed. Lesson I learned wasn't the kind of lesson I was hoping for.

not happy I think that would have liked this film, but the language was not understandable.  Tried to get through it but couldn't understand anything.  I sent it back to Amazon, and they were good enough to send me another. However, the one they sent me was one that I got from Europe - that one was for a different region and my dve wouldn't play it.  That one was sent back, and that is the same oned that they replaced with the one above.  So it was useless.  Ended up dnot seeing the film.  Didn't want to return the film for and second time.  So, that't how it ended, sorry to say.

This DVD will not Play This DVD world not play on either of my DVD players; both the regular one and the Blue Ray.  The error message I got was, "this video will not play in this region" The DVD was purchased from a 3rd party (Nagiry) based in Germany. I can only assume there is a formatting issue. But there is nothing on the box or the description on Amazon addressing this issue.  I am very disappointed.

Worst Batman Movie I've Seen I began watching the Batman series starting with Tim Burton's 1989 film. The first two films were excellent, full of layered characters, surprisingly good dialogue, and satisfying action sequences. Even the city of Gotham looked good. This film, however, features groan-inducing dialogue, a completely incoherent plot, offensively fluorescent sets, and just generally bad acting. I would rather have watched Batman Returns a second time.

It's not a story I'd like to hear again. I was expecting this movie to be like Eternal Sunshine or Garden State, a youthful drama.  The lead in the movie was this entitled New York brat that checked himself into a mental hospital because he had a little stress from his prep school.  Give me a break.  I was hoping that by the end of the movie he would introspect a bit and find out that he was just being melodramatic, but instead the movie was biased to his point of view.  The movie was not believable and the characters were not developed well at all.

Fast Forward This film needs serious editing, 80% of the content is unwatchable, just plain stupid script,  you can watch this in 15 minutes by fast forwarding the boring dialoques.

dvd does not play I was very excited to get this movie on dvd which did arrive very promptly. Unfortunately, this disk from Movie Mars will not play on my dvd player. When I press play, the message CANNOT PLAY is displayed. I have ordered many dvds from Amazon and have never had this problem.

A Sloppy, Choppy Mess of a Film Initially, from watching previews and hearing the buzz about "The Devil Inside," the film appeared to put a twist on the exorcism film genre, and that would have been a good thing, because these types of films have been done to death in recent years. But as it turns out, the film stumbles out of the gate, and just when it finally gets going, it abruptly comes to one of the worst endings in recent memory.  The plot is a familiar one; a young girl becomes interested in having an exorcism performed on her mother, who has been locked away in an institution for two decades. She inlists the help of a few clergymen, who of course go against the wishes of the church to help a total stranger. Not surprisingly, the woman is in fact occupied by evil spirits, and when the priests and camera/film crew (sound familiar?) attempt to film the exorcism, things go terribly wrong.  The camera angles attempt to add suspense and intrigue to the film, but just end up giving the viewer a headache. The best "action" scenes in the film are filmed in such poor lighting and so cluttered that it is impossible to tell what is going on. The acting is an absolute abomination, as the cast fails to scare the audience or to emote in any way to the tragic and shocking events that are taking place.  The horror film genre has had two awful years in a row now, with "Insidious" being the only half-decent attempt at modern horror in that span. If "The Last Exorcism" was a lame attempt to combine "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" with "Paranormal Activity," then this film is a muddled, half-hearted attempt to cash in on that concept yet again. What do they usually say about horror films that are not released during, or at least close to October? They say that the film never should have made it out of the cutting room to begin with. I was nearly "possessed" to walk out of this film, but it ended before I had the chance.

Very Sad... When this film came out, it did not look interesting.  Aside from Bruce Willis going the Charles Bronson route in action films (an old man in Death Wish!), it did not look funny and Tracy Morgan is not funny!  No wonder this film came and went so fast!  When I tell people about this film they say "what?"  I guess that says it all.  You can tell a very bad film from the opening.  This film just opens up into the cops lives on the job and expect you to relate to them and to already like them.  They don't tell us their names, rank, who they are or why they are.  The director expects us to know all of this, or he just figured since it's Tracy Morgan and Bruce Willis - that is all that we need to know!  THis film had a poor opening.  Like the Hangover II, nothing was funny except maybe one little joke and all I did was chuckle to that.  The directing was horrible.  The plot was horrible.  The story was foolish.  The srcipt must have been written by someone's family member who who thought that they had talent and the producers let them write a script to get a credit!  This was a very, very poor effort.  I really cannot understand how eaither principle could recite their lines and think that it was funny.  Maybe it was the4 style of the director that threw it off?  Mabye it was the actors?  Maybe everyone?  Tracye Morgan is acting stupid throughout the film, but acting stupid is not funny, funny is funny!  I know that people work for a paycheck, but I do not see how these guys saw this as funny as they were filming.  This film was a disgrace as each scene that was clearly trying to beat you over the head with "funny" was dull and quite embarassing.  I just cannot understand how this type of "movie-making" is accepted in this day and age when most films are excellently done.  I really cannot understand this.  Was this film designed to ruin careers?  Aside from this empty film, the plot involves Bruce Willis' character needing to pay for his daughter's wedding (his duahgter looks too young to marry) which cost's about $50K.  He does not want his ex-wife's rich new husband to pay for it so he decides to pawn one of his baseball cards worth about $80K.  Sounds very interesting huh?  Of course before this exciting plot broke loose, we had no itdea the film was heading in this direction and once it did, we did not think that this would be it, but it was.  Willis get's the card stolen in a robbery and spends the rest of the film trying to find it after getting suspended from the force without pay.  Some how he finds the guy who has the card - a drug dealing Mexican gang leader who has a baseball collection in his hideout!  He asks Willis and Morgan to get something that he is missing and he will give them the card back.  They could have just taken and sold what they had to get for the guy to get the money!  This script must have been wrtten by the producer's young son.  Note to Hollywood producers - stop trying to hook your no-talent family up with good jobs in films just because they are a part of your people group!  Just because they follow the same customs as you do does not make them talented!  This film is not clever, not funny, full of cliches, very weak story and is just about as horrible as it comes.  The ONLY good thing about this was the picture quality.  I can even say that the editor was not great either!  Add to this an unrealistic NYC complete with "Hollywood hispanics" which are the kind out in Los Angeles in race and fashion, makes for pure fantsy.  I know the guys were Mexicans and other related peoples, but even when they are in NYC they do not dress, talk and act like they are in L.A.  Although I once spotted one in one of those loud pick-ups with a big "LA Dodgers" logo on it.  Clearly they were not from NYC.  This film is proof that not all films shot in NYC are hard-core, gritty street themes.  This film is better off having the negative burned.

KEEPS FREEZING On 2nd set of BD and they just won't play.  Amazon was great with sending a replacement but the new set is just like the 1st, it doesn't work.  My Blu Ray player works fine with all of my other movies, but I can't get past 25 min. on the 1st disk of this series without it freezing, jeking and then totally stopping.  I've updated my player, reconnected it all and now I think it's just the coding in the Game of Thrones.

It doesn't work The DVD starts working but after some minutes it stops, it does in different parts.  To start working again I have to take it out and begin once again.  I want a refund please.  Thanks,

One of the worst movies I have ever seen!!!! This movie was awful.  I am not going to go indepth with why I think so, but if I could return it for the $5.99 I paid for it and get paid for the time it took me to watch it...I would ask to get reimbursed. I love "zombie" movies with all my heart, but mixing zombies with sci-fi did not do it for me.  This movie was also NOWHERE near Peter Jackson's "Braindead/Dead Alive"...do not listen to the critic on the cover!!! Honestly I would not even recommend the rental of this movie, your time is probably more pretty valuable than the dollar to rent this "film". I guess I will have to stick to the classics and next time I will Netflix a movie before I make a blind purchase.

Nice to see Kirk Douglas, but... This was one of those films that great actors end up regretting. Kirk Douglas: one of the greatest. Martin Sheen: one of personal favorites. The Final Countdown: meh!

not entertaining This movie was a bad idea from the onset.  Poor animation of a poorly written graphic novel.  Likely better as a proper comic book.

Terrible. This movie was...terrible. I can usually tolerate some pretty stupid stuff, but Jenny and Carmen's acting in this movie was atrocious. And it wasn't funny. At least Eddie is a sweetheart.

PG-13 is too loose a rating! I thought that while the plot was a bit predictable it could still be a good "chick flick." I was very disappointed.  There was a lot (as in the amount of skin) of nudity!!!  Seemed like grounds for "R" to me.  And the turn of events were so subtle that it seemed as though the affections of the couple were out of place.  The nudity, however, was my biggest complaint!

Season 5 was A HUGE DISAPOINTMENT I was So Hooked on this show; not since I was a kid did I have to watch every week. It does start out fairly well IMO but the continued struggle back & forth between Dean & the Angels just seemed to prolong the agony of what needed to be done.. It just kept going back & forth & wasting time w/what they could have been doing. And bringing in the old favorite characters & doing what the writers did, really ticked me off. I think it was definitely a cheap move. Not sure if they had planned a 6th season but why just obliterate all the supporting characters.. It was Stoopid. I collected all of the 1st four seasons but have no intention of owning the 5th & don't have a clue what happened in the 6th. They really should have went out in a blaze of glory instead of jumping the shark.  I will remember "The Boys" fondly & Loved the 4 years of Pure Entertainment they brought... Thank You Sam & Dean

Buy at your own peril. The loathsome Echo Bridge strikes again!  Here's everything you need to know:  - Five single-sided discs for 37 episodes stacked on a spindle - The discs AREN'T NUMBERED, nor do they indicate which episodes are where, nor is there an insert provided with this information.  Think about this: THEY COULDN'T NUMBER THE DISCS - At least one disc (4) has a whopping ten episodes crammed onto it!  This makes no sense given the episode-to-disc ratio - Per above, there is noticeable pixelation/image break-up whenever several objects are on the screen and for fast-moving objects - No extras (expected) - For one last insult, the final episode (one of the series' finest) is actually OVERSCANNED.  The top and bottom of the image don't touch the screen edge and there are junk artifacts playing across the top, ala something you'd see on a bootleg or a work print.  I also noticed the first episode of Season 3 has the same issue, minus the artifacts.  No doubt other episodes have similar problems, but I wasn't about to waste my time on this set anymore  The above, coupled with the fact that EB couldn't be bothered to number the discs, and gives you a monochrome cover with images from the first season (for third and fourth season content) is beyond incompetence.  Fans are better off paying for the out-of-print Acorn releases which have a superior presentation.  UPDATE: I bought the Alliance version of Season 3 (http://www.amazon.com/Lexx-Season-Boxset-Brian-Downey/dp/B0040MGVE8/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1333499347&sr=8-5) and was relieved to discover that the image quality is on par with the Acorn release.  I have no reason to believe that their S2 and S4 sets are of lesser quality, so I urge fans to consider these too.  Just don't get the Echo Bridge sets, whatever you do.

Garbage!! Terrible!! Rip-Off!! Movie was not what was promised! Froze every 10-15 mins, had to keep replaying. Would and will never buy from this seller ever again!! Do not use or trust this seller, they will rip you off!!!

One of the Dumbest Movies Ever Made I have seen thousands of movies in the last 55 years, but this was, without a doubt, one of the ten dumbest movies I have ever seen in my life. It was basically a kid's movie, but done like an adult movie. The dialogue was totally wooden, and purposely so. The plot and scenes were totally lame. In fact, the further the movie went along, the dumber everything got. It finally got so stupid that, about three-fourths of the way through it, I just stopped watching. I can't understand, for the life of me, why someone would make something so inane.

Biggest Plot Hole Ever Caught on Film The GAPING HOLE in this story is the fact that Julianne Moore's character is immune to whatever is causing the blindness epidemic, yet despite being married to a doctor who is stricken, it never occurs to her that perhaps she should tell the authorities that she is immune and thus provide some hope for a cure. There is no way around this GLARING OMISSION in the story, so the entire plot falls apart. Not to mention, the film is as boring as watching paint dry. Thumbs waaaaaaaay down!

Forgettable This movie came across as one of those movies that was done just to make some money.  And why this group of great actors jumped on the wagon, I have no idea.  They are so much better than this movie.  Very cheesy and pointless.  The twist at the end is cute, but that doesn't save the movie from being really really bad.

Garbage The acting, script, direction were horrible. The makeup was a joke.  One of the worst movies I've ever had the displeasure to watch.

roustabout this dvd would not play. It would come up on screen that it would not play in my area. It had AL on front of the dvd which I guess it was not supposed to play in alabama.If it would not play in alabama then it should not be shipped to alabama.

Limbo Limbo, one of those "creative" movies without an ending, you hang in there for a two hour movie, too be totally let down at the "finish", I use the word finish, due to there is not an ending.

Can't watch "You will not be able to playback this HD movie via the Amazon.com website, or download it to your Amazon Unbox Video Player, or playback / download it to your TiVo.  You will only be able to playback this movie on your Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Roku or other Amazon Instant Video HD compatible devices."

Pro-Abortion Propaganda The title of my review sums it up.  No offense intended, but it is what it is. The film is well made. The acting is great, but it is still pro-abortion propaganda. The movie basically tries to present an extreme circumstance (filled with emotion) to make it seem okay to kill a baby. I'm sorry it never is.

An disgrace to the book! After reading Battle Royale by Koushun Takami I decided to watch this movie thinking that if it were anywhere close to as good as the book it would be good.  Unfortunately, it wasn't.  There were so many unnecessary changes and the acting was terrible.  Do yourself a favor skip this movie and just read the book.

Crap. Incredibly uninteresting film with characters you don't care about, a nondescript and swelling music score that all but drowns out whatever mumbled diagloue there is, and a computer-game feel to the aerial sequences. Really tedious. If you want to watch a movie about aviators in World War I, watch "The Dawn Patrol" with Errol Flynn and David Niven.

It's Kind of a Funny Story It's Kind of a Funny Story isn't funny even accidentally!The previews shown in the theater were the only funny parts and then when you see it in the context of the movie it just isn't funny!  The story never really connects all the characters in a meanful way.

DVD Does NOT Play The DVD was a gift for my daughter...so it took me a while to open it...and figure out that the DVd does not play. Not happy.

Out of Stock This supplier sent us the wrong video.  When we returned it, they advised us that the video we wanted was out of stock.  Because we did not wait 4-5 days for their "return" label, we got stuck paying for the return postage. Waste of time and money!

How can anyone give this more than 1 star??? (sorry for the typing errors if there are any.  I typed this on my iphone.  Not the easiest thing to type on)  (also, i should add that I'm a HUGE fan of season 1 AND the prequel)  REVIEW:  How can anyone honestly say this season was any good at all?  I won't go into the writing much, but my god... It was just atrocious.  I wont go into it because it would just take forever.  Lets just leave it at that.  I'll just highlight the low points real quick.  1) When did everything that came out of everyones mouth sound like they were attempting poetry?  I'm sorry, but I doubt they talked like that back then.  The first 2 seasons had exceptional writing where the way they spoke didnt sound so utterly rediculous.  Now, its like they are just reading right off the cue cards. 2)  Is there even a debate as to the writing being worse than a soap opera?  How implausible could things really get?  Again, the first 2 seasons were AMAZING.  What the heck happened?  Did they let the interns write this instead?  3) Did the entire budget go into all the excessive blood they used?  Becasue obviously the budget wasn't spent on anything else.  4(A)  Now the 2 characters they replaced.  First off, Navia (or however you spell her name).  Couldn't have chosen a worse actress, especially for that character.  I'm sorry, but I don't buy that Crixus was in love with..... that.  The old Navia had a certain confidence.  The new chick just plain didn't.  That is a combination of bad writing and her acting... So not ALL her fault.  But she was a terrible actress none-the-less.  Hey Starz... Maybe you should try to secure your actors contracts in your top shows for more than 1 season at a time.. Because when you don't, this is what you get as a replacement.  I guess this is a STARZ policy from what I've read.  They never sign anyone to a contract for more than 1 season.  4(B) Now onto the most unforgivable.  The actor portraying Spartacus.  Now, I'm not a hater when it comes to actor replacements.  In fact, I actually liked Kutcher in "2.5 Men".  Not as good as Sheen, but a worthy replacement.  But I'm sorry.  This Liam guy doesnt hold a candle to the one and only Andy Whitfield (RIP).  Has Liam ever made an expression before?  If so, then he sure as hell didn't use any in this show.  It seems like the producers walked down the street looking for a replacement for Andy, and saw this model/pretty boy walking down the street and asked him to portray Spartacus.  Im sorry, but the man just is NOT an actor.  He is a womans magazine cover model.  The guy doesnt even look like he could kill my grandma let alone the entire Roman army.  I'm sorry if it sounds like I'm overly harsh, but im just mad that the producers/writers have screwed up such an awesome show.  If they could do 1 season without its title character, then we know it can be done.  Because frankly, I'd rather say screw it to the Spartacus story line and go back to the Batiatus House... Oh wait... I forgot... You've already killed off your best actor/character.  To bad.  So in short, I most definetly will NOT BE BUYING SPARTACUS VENGEANCE.

A complete and utter waste of time... [SPOILERS] Actually, that`s putting it mildly. It this DVD were simply a waste of time I`d still give it 2 stars. The problem being that the Wolverine vs. Hulk episode is also offensive to Marvel fans of every age (the critics who gave positive Amazon-ratings notwithstanding, apparently.) While certain events in Wolverine`s history are depicted (Wolverine`s debut in The Incredible Hulk 181, as well as elements of Barry Windsor Smith`s excellent Weapon X -storyline from Marvel Comics Presents), nothing in Hulk vs. Wolverine is presented in a compelling manner. Apart from the Hulk`s rescue of two innocent bystanders during his initial confrontation with the Weapon X -squad, neither of the two protagonists, arguably two of the most tragic and complex characters in Marvel-lore, are presented as heroic beings - the Hulk merely smashes and roars, while Wolverine merely slices and snarls his way through this ordeal of a movie.  The animation is fine, but the violence is horribly graphic, rendering this feature unsuitable for a younger audience, while older viewers should feel offended by the lack of a decent plot and the non-existent characterization. The villains of the piece are merely `edgy`, but there`s no backstory to make any of them interesting. In the comics, Deadpool is much more than simply a wisecracking, guns and knives -wielding mercenary. I`m not entirely sure of his backstory, but the man was horribly disfigured during an experiment, which led to him becoming slightly unhinged. Lady Deathstrike traded her humanity for cybertech enhancements in order to gain revenge on Wolverine, whose mere existence she believed brought shame on her family. It would have been so easy to add some emotional drive to the movie`s narrative and many battles by referencing or even depicting said events.  In conclusion, I`d like to state that the movie left me, a longtime reader of Marvel Comics, questioning the appeal of characters created for the purpose of generating a never-ending stream of violent imagery. But no, it`s the makers of this misguided movie that decided to desregard everything that makes Hulk and Wolverine timeless, compelling characters worthy of the huge following they have amassed in the years since their creation. They deserve better, as did this this movie`s audience.

STOP ECHO BRIDGE!! I wish people could petition to run this company out of business. They are ruining everything new they release. None of their films have any extras, subtitles, all have bad sound, and picture quality is terrible when compared to other blu-rays, although it has much better picture than DVD. I could deal with no extras, but they should at least have 5.1 sound and captions. Halloween isn't the only one's they are ruining. I got Children of The Corn 5 & 6 on their double pack. I watched them. Same thing. No extras, no subtitles, bad sound, and average picture. I also picked up their Hellraiser 4 & 5 double pack which I haven't viewed yet, but I would imagine it to be the same. Customers that bought any of their blu-ray products should all write them and complain. I think echo bridge should refund half of the cost to each customer for every blu-ray they bought from them. You are getting ripped off if you pay full price. Blu-ray's are supposed to be famous for their variety of extras. Whoever heard of blu-ray's with no extras. That is so sad. The one that really gets it is that they should be ashamed of themselves for not putting captions on any of the new stuff they put out. That is a real insult. They will keep re-releasing all these new great movies in this form unless people take a stand and do something about it. I don't think I will be purchasing anything from them anymore at all. I feel cheated. I prefer captions on my movies. If you think what they are doing to blu-ray is bad, what they are doing to DVD is worse. Some of the movies they are re-releasing on DVD, not all, they are releasing as full screen formats when the movie was released prior as widescreen. Why would they do this? Not only that, some of them are nothing more than VHS transfers and it really shows. Most of their DVD's are the same way. No extras, no casptions, and bad sound. The DVD's that they do put out in Widescreen tho, will still be plagued by the same problems as the blu-rays. No extras, no captions, and 2.0 sound. I would recommend not buying anything from echo bridge till they get their act together. If people stop buying completely, they will change. From now on, I also will be checking into Alliance for the same film on blu-ray, read the reviews first on which one is the better version, and purchase the best one.

Idiotic action flick Insipid fantastic tale with some unbelievable fight sequences reminiscent of Crank speed. This might appeal to the kind of people who enjoyed Jerry Springer. Socially irresponsible garbage.

If you loved the original TV series, do NOT buy these movies. We watched every episode of the Christy TV Series in a two week span, and were so in love with the series that I rushed out and got the 3 made-for-TV movies to continue the story.  We honestly could not even finish watching them.  Viewed next to the original series, the "new" ones are painful to watch.  Even my 8 year old daughter said the movies were horrible.  So sad, because we thought the Christy TV series was one of the best things we had seen recently.

WOULD NOT LOAD I ordered new copies of this dvd from two vendors. I have five dvd players, Neither of these dvd's would load on any of the players. When I explained the problem to an electronics store representative, I was told that HD was an old format & would not play on newer dvd players. If true, this should have been explained in the listing. I returned the first one at my expense, which resulted in a refund so little that it wasn't worth the effort. The remaining one, I'll just trash.

The Mirror Crack'd The bad review is for the movie itself, which is really awful.  All those stars deserved better.  However, the DVD arrived timely and in great condition, so no complaints about the seller.

Waste of money I cant believe I wasted $3 on this, at least now I know why its Called "I Want to Believe".

Blu's arriving Dec 21, 2012? Hey where's the Blu Ray version?  This DVD has been available for months; has the 'blu' been taken by aliens up into the wild blue yonder?  I refuse the double dip option these companies want to promote.  When you contact the History Channel all you ever get is to keep watching the web site; presumably it's on it's way from Orion's Belt, probably due to arrive the morning of December 21st 2012....  Boycott dvd sales of this series until they release formats together!

Showing cultural contempt vis-a-vis "the Orient" Today, the ruling ideology could be found in the realm of the popular culture, first and foremost the movies. It is easy to dismiss this movie as an innocent light entertainment, but I think it is not that simple. What we are consuming is ideology of a specific kind, an ideology of caricaturing the other cultures, while asserting a dominance of the Western norms. I think "Ghost Protocol" incites fear, loathing, and ridicule vis-a-vis the "Orient" in a jokey kind of manner.  "Orient" is not a geographical term, but a cultural one. It is a gap that separated "the West" form "the Rest". The hallmarks are: a reflexive cultural contempt and even mild racism, expressed in patronizing superiority vis-&agrave;-vis other cultures. It has become, with few exceptions, a common thing in the Hollywood today.  For me, as a Russian-American, it looks like Russia has been placed firmly by the Hollywood in the realm of cultural "Orient". In this particular film, Russia was portrayed as a backward, dangerous, Byzantine country once more. Starting with the music -- they chose a grim, ominous music for the beginning of the "Moscow" scene.  A group of likable American spies sent to take down a world-threatening baddie, sort of a "Consigliery" to the Russian government. The plot in brief: the crazed Russian wants to incite nuclear war so that the planet may be cleansed and born anew, and he's doing the "pit two nuclear powers against each other" gimmick to make it happen. After the spies are implicated in a terrorist attack in Moscow, which destroyed the Kremlin, they went first to Dubai and then to Mumbai to clear their names by catching this guy "red-handed".  The music, the military uniforms, and all other intangibles - all this suggest to us a militaristic, aggressive, and anti-Western nature of Russia. The crazed Russian politician - curiously -- has a Germanic name "Kurt". Thus, the remorseful scriptwriters Nemec and Appelbaum have fused the pre-supposed "Prussian militarism", and perhaps quasi-Nazi ideas with the Russian "Oriental Despotism" and the ostensible technological backwardness of Russia.  That the Russians are backward is emphasized by the clich&eacute; that ostensibly nothing in Russia works (for example, the "pay-phone" scene). They also can be easily fooled by Ethan Hunt, could pretend to be a Russian without them noticing it. The ethnic divisions have been exploited once more (why not?) -- between the Russians and Ukrainians, between Serbs and Croats. The spies' helper is Bogdan, which in Russia is considered a Ukrainian name. Tom Cruise was thrown into Moscow prison for, supposedly, shooting six Serbs who ostensibly had been involved in the "ethnic cleansing".  In my view, there have been three slurring "shots" at the Russians: 1] for putting innocent people in prison (the rule of law is absent), 2] for having the nukes which are not secure enough (backwardness), 3] for not having the brains to come up with the devilish scheme themselves (unsophistication). Thus, we are presented with Swedish-German "Kurt" who came up with the crypto-fascist idea to clean the Earth form the "rabble" using the Russian nuclear weapon. He pulls the strings in Kremlin, not even a native Russian guy.  As usual with the Hollywood, all "Russian" scenes have been filmed in the Czech Republic. The producers didn't even bother to pick the native Russian speakers. Russian wasn't a native language of the "Russians" in prison scene and other "Moscow" scenes, except a single person - Vladimir Mashkov who played a Russian secret agent. All this looks and sounds really idiotic and incredibly patronizing. The movie is a collection of disconnected action "packages", TV series stitched together with white threads (Moscow-Dubai-Mumbai episodes). Appelbaum and Nemec's script are too jokey without being genuinely funny. In my opinion, they have created a dazzling array of techno-tricks that tries to be funny "ad nauseam" while making caricatures of the other cultures.

I won't purchase due to the UltraViolet Digital Copy The movie was very entertaining.  It is one I would have purchased except for (1) thing - the UltraViolet digital copy.  I refuse to buy ANY blu-ray that only comes with an UltraViolet digital copy. I've fought with those things since they day they came out. I spend a lot of time commuting and rely on the digital copies included with the movies I buy so I can enjoy them in transit.  UltraViolet is a nightmare - seperate programs, seperate accounts and the possibility that your "digital copy" can be revoked at any time.  I miss the good old days where you simply popped in a disk (or entered a code) and had a copy automatically added to your iTunes account.  As such, I will NOT buy this Blu-ray or any others that do come with the faux UltraViolet digital copy. I'm passing on "The Amazing Spiderman" same as I did with "Sherlock Holmes - A Game of Shadows" and "Men in Black 3".  I would have paid for the complete 3D deluxe blu-ray versions of these movies had they come with a TRUE digital copy.  If I want to watch the movie again - I'll add it to my Netflex queue.

yuk I can't say exactly why but Dr Who just doesn't garb my interest anymore.  Is it the writer, the producer, the directors? I just don't know. But this is sad. This is the first season that I just don't care to watch once. And I have a hundred or so episodes that I have watched over again many many times.

Hated it. Absolutely hated it! Had this annoying, "flashing" movie not given me a serious headache it would have put me to sleep. The shaky camera syndrome goes over the top with constant pops of static, electrifying flashes of light, fadeouts and rolling flips...all to the point of nausea. The camera never stops bobbing, dipping and weaving. We're supposed to believe this is actual lost footage of a real moon mission, but we had much better camera technology back then.  The astronauts are sent the moon, without flashlights, I might add. They land within walking distance of a failed Russian craft with its innards ripped apart. There's blood all over the place. The astronauts discover a mummified Russian cosmonaut in the bottom of a crater. A moon rock is embedded in his suit.  NASA knowingly put the expendable astronauts in harms way. They sent them up there to die. Nasa never had a plan to return them to Earth. Soooo, who retained the film footage that made this movie possible, especially considering that the entire ship blew up? The ending is predictable and lacking in creativity. It's absolute rubbish from the first frame to the last.  There's no point in going on about it. I don't want to give away the secret of the moon rocks, just in case someone decides to buy or rent this mess. Luckily, I only rented it for a couple of bucks. Trash movies like this are the reason I no longer spend big bucks at the theaters.

No good I recieved the product on time when I ordered it from GoHastings. I put the DVD away until Christmas when my son opened it. He put it in the DVD player and it froze up at the menu. I took it out and noticed a crack in the disc. I contacted the seller and they said since it has been more than 30 days, there was nothing that could be done. I will not be ordering from them anymore.

Defect in Sea of Grass DVD I experienced the same problem as other customers' complaints.  This DVD collection was sent to a friend of mine for her birthday.  She let me know the DVD for that movie, Sea of Grass didn't play correctly.  She was going to clean her DVD player and try again.  Obviously it's a defect in the DVD.  Who dropped the ball on packaging of this DVD collection to include a defective DVD?

Region problems When I purchased this dvd everything was in english. I could'nt for the life of me understand how I am supposed to be okay with a dvd that does'nt play on none of my dvd players . I can only watch it if  I change the region code on my computer,and even that you can't do but so many times. I am not pleased at all.

HORRIBLE MOVIE! This movie was terrible.  Not funny at all and the raunch that was in there wasn't even funny, just sick and stupid!  Even my teenage boys who laugh at everything said this movie was "god-awful" and got up and left.

Low production quality, juvenile humor This is just some guys gone crazy with a screen capture card and an old video game.  They use the video game characters to "act", but there's really no acting here besides the voice over, and the dialog could have been written by 12 year olds (who knows, maybe it was).  Definitely not worth any actual money to watch.

Have seen better made for TV movies Another one of those where they show all the funny parts during the trailer. So glad I did not waste my money at the theater on this one. Save your money on this one even on rental, just watch the trailer and save some time.

Cutting a film for DVD release is either idiotic or lazy OK....the film is great, Segal is in fine schlumpy form as an out of work actor, Babs is terrific and sexier than anyone could believe (then or now)  as a sort of call girl/actress. Robert Klein nails his couple scenes. The dialogue is hilarious and the whole movie works great. How do you mess up a dvd release like this...... You give zero extras and you ignore the theatrical R version (that is easily available!)  and release the sanitized later PG version? you got it! I know others have mentioned this but I'm shocked the studios would do this. Booooo! (ok i feel better!) The film deserves 4 stars in my opinion, if you can dvr it off cable I would highly recommend. The dvd gets 0.0 stars....Mr Blutarski

Beware!!! Terrible. Disappointing. Save your $7 bucks, it is not what you think I hesitated a bit before renting this, because $7 seemed ridiculously high for a rental that was just a documentary of a convention. But, I have always wanted to go to Comic-Co but could never justify the costs involved. So, I figured this was a way to capture some of that experience and cheaper than flying to California. I was really anxious to see the exhibits and all the people in costumes. FAIL!!! This is mostly not about the convention. Most of the convention footage is already shown in the previews. This is just a bunch of short interviews of people commenting on how badly they want to go, or what they want to do when they get there. The first third of the movie is not even shot in California. It is filmed in little hodunk towns, showing people in their daily lives babbling on and on about how much they are looking forward to the trip. That is actually the basis of the entire movie. It is just people standing in front of a wall answering questions like "Why do you like Comic con?" or "What do you want to do at Comic Con?" Who cares?!?!?! ANYBODY who would rent this movie ALREADY knows what the appeal is. We don't need to spend two hours listening to other people repeating the same reasons over and over. I cannot believe they had the gall to expect people to actually sit through this, let alone pay $7 bucks for it. Save your money! This is not what you think it is.

Wrong Version Received the item with great expectation to see Michael Caine in Cold War spy thriller.To my disapointment the Disc could not be read by the disc player.Probably a european version.

Worst Movie Ever Made! Worst Movie Ever Made! Need I say more? Nope.  Oh yeah, don't buy it and don't even attempt to watch this. I regret buying this. I want my $5 back!

Defective Merchandise The DVD could not be played in my player. An error message stated this DVD cannot be played "in this region."  The merchandise is defective.  Sincerely,  P Botos

Worst digital download EVER Got the digital download and its at 480i? Wow! First time I've actually paid for a movie and the last time I'll pay for a digital download.

Two Thumbs Down This had so many positive reviews that I thought the negative ones were just exgaerating.  No, these DVD's really are worthless (to me at least).  Our daughter is not autistic so if it helps with those kids great but this video did not show me anything profound.  Maybe if you never talk to your kid or know how to play with your kid then maybe you may learn something but I didn't & felt like I wasted my money.  All it was a low budget movie that shows different toys & makes noise.  Like a popping toy & it goes pop pop pop.  Or flashes balloons & says up, down & what color the balloon is.  My daughter has a ball pit & I throw the balls up & say up & when she hands me balls I tell her what color they are.  Why do I need a DVD to do that?  She gets more from interacting with me.  Randomly the ladies pop on the screen & will stick out their tounge or make a sound with their lips but that's all.  If I want my daughter to stick out her tounge I show her a flash card that says tounge or simply ask her to show me her tounge.  Again, why did I pay $17 for that?  When we had our daughter evaluated by ECI & they noticed a slight speech delay even they said they aren't going to do anything magical just to keep reading, singing & doing what we are doing.  She uses signs & can communate quite effectively through gestures so I guess when she is ready she will talk & your kids will too.  Save your money & just do the usuall - Identify objects they point to, incorporate signing, read, sing & try to remember to narriate every little mundane thing you are doing.  Best wishes to you & your family.

Anniversary dissapointment Blues Brothers My copy was pixalated a great deal. Unwatchable. The original side had a blank 20 seconds of silence as well. Horrible copy. The copying aparatus must be faulty, and there weren't quality control measures in effect. I returned it for a refund.Last week.I still want it. But Amazon is not able to supply it as Amazon is not the source. Yes I bought it through Amazon...Amazon is ALWAYS fast and hasn't made a mistake yet.

Blue Ray only has special features,,,,, I originally invested in this product because of the special features, however ONLY the blue ray comes with the special features!  The DVD in this combo pack is the movie by it self.  If you do not own a Blue Ray player, (or are not planning to own one soon), DO NOT GET THIS COMBO PACK.  Just get the DVD with the less extensive special features.  The movie is worth owning, just the packing of the separate features is misleading which is why I am giving this product 1 star. The movie itself rates a much higher score.

BORING what a a boring movie.  not well acted by anyone. it was one of those dark movies, everything just solemn. why hackman, why did you make this crazy movie.

??? well since the start it was a force of those that never said no to know but whos to no when all is no?

can't play in USA could not play on American DVD player--A great movie held up in copyright or ownership issues. Buy the book (even better)

why why why?! As if the last Barbie film which started off the 'New' Barbie feel and look weren't enough. They go and make a SEQUEL to it with even more shallowness, product marketing, fashion brands and guess what else?! Even more fashion! With BUYING wings to make yourself a fairy!  I was APPAULED with the Fashion Fairytale film and was hoping this would be a bit better, but no, it's just as shallow and 'plastic' like the last film.  The 'Fairy' idea was ridiculous. I don't know why they are putting fairies into these new Barbie films, they are just annoying and catty and guess what? Go shop at brand names! And just seem to have nasty natures. There was so much wrong with this film. It was overall a mess with nothing at all likable about it at all.  The real definition of a Barbie fairy is Elena, with a kind, caring and strong spirit.  I grew up with the original Barbie films which I felt inspired by and which I felt made me a better person and taught me a good lesson. I'm an adult now and I'm upset at Barbie's new pathway of appearances, boyfriends and nothing inspiring young girls. I felt as if the films went terribly downhill right at the Mermaid Tale film where the whole idea of 'purchases' and 'buying' started to surface.  I could totally tolerate Barbie's new plastic look and new voice if they would trash the whole superficiality of it, the annoying and catty fashion fairy idea etc and make it to do more with believing in yourself, following your heart and being brave and just showing good morals to children and making them feel inspired to be themselves and act their age.  I feel overall that children are growing up too much. I've seen reviews from children as young as 6 on websites talking about sex, vampires and saying it doesn't bother them and they like it and don't mind seeing it. And also writing up things like adults and overall just seeming like adults when they aren't. Then there's the way young children dress and even have mobiles! Even speak and behave like they are much older than they are. Even are fashion conscious! (child pageants don't help this really) I don't think these movies are helping!

Do Not Buy! If you already own "Live Without A Net" and/or "Live: Right Here, Right Now" then you already have the footage on this title, and the quality is awful to boot.  Amazon refunded my purchase without making me return it, THANK YOU!!  I checked it out and tossed it straight in the garbage.

A big disappointment. I have always regarded Nicolas Cage as  a terrific actor.  His talents are wasted in this vulgar, pointless and just plain awful attempt at a horror movie.  If you like Nicolas Cage, action flicks or well done horror plots better skip this one.

Terrible Movie Don't bother watching this movie. You will waste precious time from your life. Shamalan totally ruined this and he should be ashamed of himself for directing such crap.

Total waste of time Don't waste your time or money. The sets all look fake, the special affects are bad, and the acting is laughable. There are some good actors in this film, but they don't live up to expectations. This is a really bad remake of a really great story.

Can I have my money back? The only good thing about this movie is the ending. And by the ending, I mean the screen cutting to black and the credits coming on, thus signalling the end of this crapfest.

Really bad...like all dictators As an international affairs junkie, I was hoping for a little levity and a lot of laughter with this film. This DICTATOR like all dictators was a total failure. I love Bruno and Borat and Ali G, but simply The DICTATOR and Baron Cohen was a real disappointment and a total waste of time. My wife began reading her Kindle half way into the film, and I powered through hoping for a laugh...it did not happen. The idea of the movie is more funny than the actually movie. SBC really lost his edge on this one.

Gaping plot hole Plot hole: 14 year old girl is not old enough to engage in sexual intercourse, but she IS mature enough to have a thorough understanding of adult male sexuality and to single-handedly judge a criminal suspect and then torture and execute his punishment?  The movie is filled with other contrived plot points aimed to manipulate the audience. But what pisses me off most about this psychological thriller is that it plays around with stereotypes about sexuality, only to reinforce them in the most brutal and callous fashion at the end.

Crappy What a super crappy movie! Terrible ending, what a bummer. Don't buy if you value your emotional state at all. :P

Just say no. For God's sake.... Moderately good if compared to high school movies shot with cell phones, but not worth your time. Some good cuts that remind me of the sort of "eye-witness testimony" usually trotted out for UFO nuts at Ufology cons, but really, go find some drying paint to watch. Much more entertaining.

Weirdest problem ever. As I've seen Goodfellas many times I finally decided to look on amazon to buy it. The first (and only) time I tried to watch it the movie randomly stopped in the middle. I looked at the menu and it only went to scene 19 (right after Joe Pesci kills spider at poker). I tried it on another dvd player and it did the same thing.  I called the amazing amazon customer service and they credited the money back to me. The representative was super friendly! But the dvd didn't work properly.

Interesting, but I wish I wouldn't have wasted my time... Great cast, but the ending made me wish I wouldn't have bothered watching it. I like most dark, twisted movies, but not this one. I nearly fell asleep in the middle of it,  but then it became weird enough to hold my attention to the end. I wish I would have just turned it off, as it was a disappointment.

Nope. Terrible. Movie wise, it's nothing. It's not funny, it brings nothing to the table. It's one of those sequels done solely for cash in. Shame.

Wish I Could Make it Zero Stars When I requested this movie, I guess I assumed it was like "Jesus Camp," produced by an outside film-maker who was either neutral or actively critical of the Hell House program. But apparently it was done by someone within the church, because the only critical scene was a brief one of a few teenagers who had just been through the program. Their primary complaint seemed to be that a direct consequence was implied to every thing they considered a sin: you're gay, you die of AIDS and go to hell. You go to a rave, you're going to be raped and commit suicide. It's an awfully grim picture they paint.  They were complaining to the guy (I think he is the pastor of the church that put it on, but he may have been one of several ministers) who produced the program that it was unrealistic, only designed to scare people into joining their church. He didn't really disagree, he just thought that was a good thing.  The movie starts in August, when the early planning stages are explained, the actors and actresses, mostly teenagers, are selected. You get to see scenes of the construction of the house, the auditions for the parts, all sorts of things. Interestingly, they are just as interested in how committed the kid is to the church as how good an actor or actress.  The thing is seriously scary, gory, downright disgusting in parts. Then after you've "gone through hell," the last part is a room where a guy says there are people through that door who will pray with you and help you. Or you can stay here and assume you know where you're going when you die. You have ten seconds, and then we will close the door. (He actually counts somewhat slower than that, but it's no more than 20 seconds, I would estimate.)  I have studied propaganda and brainwashing techniques, and I was analyzing the details all through this. The most stark example is at the end, when time pressure to choose is upon you, and the assumption is that those people in the next room who will pray with you are the only way to get to heaven. Presumably you've already bought the idea that heaven and hell are real.  I cannot recommend this movie.

Reaaly bad movie  - poorly and unconvincing performances While I got the movie primarily for what I hoped would be cool dance sequences, everything about the movie was disappointing - from the ridiculous plot to the performances.  Quite honestly, even the choreography was filmed badly.  The technical quality of the 3D was fine - but nothing else was interesting in the movie.

Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix Movie freezes up 1hr into movie and then must fast forward ahead 15 minutes for it to start working again.  Also initial problem going through the previews.  The previews are all blurry and skipping sounds with the illustrations.  I was actually surprised it made it to the option to play the movie at all.

Overrated, like Ben Affleck This is one of those movies that is so derivative, you can literally start listing the films that Affleck lifted ideas from. Thief is one of them for sure, Heat is another, Ronin, so on and so forth. At least in those movies, the characters have personality and the audience can like them. The characters in The Town are absolutely unmemorable and unlikable. Even bad characters can be sentimental. Affleck just didn't try to make this film better. It's contrived, in every way imaginable. I can't believe so many people like it too. They must not have a Netflix account. Expand your tastes in film, people.

sucky The shipping went quite well but I didn't care for the movie.  Truthfully speaking, it sucked and was pretty much the worst movie I've ever seen, except for of course another bad movie I have seen, UHF with Weird Al Yankovic.

PRODUCT NOT WHAT SHOWN! I already had the basic version of the first set. (blue lion I bought all the rest of the collection in the tins.  I decited to upgrade my blue lion to the tin set.  The description said bonus features and more.  I know what is in the other tins  THAT IS NOT WHAT CAME.  I got the exact same boring dvds BUT put in a tin.  No thank you, I wanted the extras....interviews and such!  Not very happy.

Don't waste your money This was bloody horrible. Wait till it is at least 99 cents or free on Prime. Don't pay more for it...

disappointing The dvd did not work and I was not happy with that at all. The screen was distorted and unwatchable... The disk was not scratched so I was surprised by this, i was very disappointed.

First thing is narration This movie starts bad and gets worse. First thing is narration, God I hate that. The narration is by the female commander who just becomes more and more annoying. She's just not the commander type. As far as the male actors, they all do a much better job but still, the movie is weak. I could only watch half of the movie before I gave up.

About as well written and predictable as Burleques Must be me but I just don't think Gwyneth Paltrow is that good looking.  And she was totally wrong for this movie role.  The script was so lame you found yourself wondering what and who you are supposed to care about in this movie.  Seems like there were bits and pieces of other movies fit together to try and create something.  I never did figure out what.  Billy Ray Cyrus meets Tammy Wynette maybe? Music was only thing salvageable in this movie and maybe that is what it is supposed to be - a promo for videos and cds.

Why? This movie was horrible. I love mindless action as much as the next guy but damn. If Michael Bay were dead he would be rolling over in his grave. The story is non-existent. Acting is bad. Directing was all over the place. People keep making comparisons to transformers, but I do not think this is a fair comparison for transformers. It at least has a antagonist who talks throughout the movie and has an agenda. The invaders here have no real motivation and never speak or even make you dislike them at all. Save you money and watch an Armageddon rerun. It is a masterpiece of mindless action. This movie is just a piece of ____.

Irritating Sick, sadistic, ugly film........revels in cruelty.........the teenager is so irritating, sarcastic, cruel and such an ugly character.....one psychopath tormenting another......disgusting....

Snakes on a Plain The remake was inevitable.  As was Samuel L. Jackson's decision to opt out.  Bereft of any sort of redeemable qualities, Snakes on a Train is a cheap knock off, the cinematic equivalent of an ambulance chasing attorney.  The plot centers around an illegal alien named Alma and her friend/lover/whatever named Brujo - a clever usage of Spanish for the ignorant white viewers - on their way via train to Los Angeles to see Brujo's relative who can cure Alma of her illness.  A little thing about snakes coming out her various orifices alongside green jello and/or black sludge.  Snakes that look like garter snakes but are deadly venomous within seconds and have the ability burrow into human skin on their way to the heart.  It's cool though, because Brujo can take out a heart faster than that dude on Temple of Doom.  Actually, I take it back.  There really isn't anything cool at all about this movie.  The snakes are lame and smaller than advertised, the worst gunfight ever caught on film is thrown in for no reason, and the bad actors portraying irritating characters (read: all of them) didn't die quickly or gruesomely enough.  The rules for these movies are simple: boobs and deaths.  Both should be ample.  Ultimately, movies like this are never to be taken seriously, and I only laughed out loud once (when the little girl died).  That's not enough to rise above the magic tornado (hint hint) of suck this movie exudes.

wtf i have no idea what we just watched. this is not a zombie movie at all. do not watch this crap! it made no sense at all. started off good then went to crap. not recommended

Are You Serious?? If this picture was not so horrible it might actually be sort of entertaining as a comedy.  Production values, editing, storyline could hardly be worse.  The humor begins at the opening credits ... Bob Guccione! ... and Gore Vidal! Do you really need more?  It just goes downhill from there.  I suppose they managed a few decent name actors of the period due to the subject matter, Guccione's involvement and the overall low tone of the times. Who could possibly spend the time writing paragraphs and paragraphs about this thing?  Well, perhaps if one is an aficionado of giant plastic peni there might be some interest in this picture.  Its bad enough you just wasted all that time watching it.  Can't recommend this one at all.

READ THE BOOK. The movie is a waste of time. The book is so much better. If you like the movie, you'll hate it after you've read the book. There really is a huge difference.

if you have photophobia watch out Greetings fellow amazonians! I picked this up because I had heard so many great things about this show. When mongo and I got off work we couldn't wait to watch it so I fired up the dvd player and went in to take a shower, but mongo couldn't wait. He started the show before I returned and that was where we went wrong. When I turned off the shower all I could hear was mongo sobbing and glass breaking. I quickly dressed myself and ran out to see what was going on. He is photophobic, so much so, that even the word throws him into a talespin which he can't get out of. He threw my sofa out of the window, broke my table and both the tv and dvd player. He even rode over each of the disks with his rascal grinding them into my carpet. When it was. All said and done I am out two windows, a tv, a sofa, table and my friday night lights dvds. If mongo wasn't autistic I would leave him in this town when the carnival moves on next week.

What A Dud John Huston(Dir)once said,The toughest films to make sometimes turn out the worst,like Roots Of Heaven.He was so right. Errol Flynn gets top billing(Dont go get a cup of coffee or you might miss him.) A bad film with a great cast that went to waste.Trevor Hoeard(William Holden was the first pick,but thankfully,he was not avaiable),Eddie Albert,Orson Welles,Paul Lucas,Juliette Grego,etc Id pass on this one. Errol made one last film after this.Cuban Rebel Girls.(Bad as bad can be.) Two sad farewells to a great actor that made many screen classics.

Don't waste your money This 2 disc DVD set contains snippets of the early Stones.  No complete performances.  Any clip is shortened to 15 or 30 seconds then followed by endless interviews with people on the edge of the RS world at the time.  A complete waste of money.  For an excellent documentary of the Stones in late '69 to mid 70's purchase "Stones in Exile" instead. A much better DVD.

This is just sad I like Johnny Depp.  He's played many excellent roles.  This is not one of them.  It's not that he's not good here, it just that this should have never happened in the first place.  It's a poor adaptation and pales in comparison to the 1971 version with Gene Wilder.  I watched it with high hopes but I don't think anyone will ever be able to play Willy Wonka like Gene Wilder did.  It wouldn't matter how good Depp played the role, he'll never be able to usurp Wilder's version from my mind.  This version is mostly fine if you've never seen the original adaptation.  But if you have seen it then this version is worthless.  If you haven't seen it, then the old version represents a time bomb that you may eventually set off(by watching it) and subsequently ruin Depp's version for yourself.

Not what you're hoping it is. First and most importantly, DO NOT BUY THIS MOVIE.  I was looking for a movie that was a twist on the standard old revenge type movie. I think that's what they were trying for but they got too caught up in the brutality.  To be fair, the camera work and effects were well done. Most of the acting was well done. This was not just a splatter flick. I think that would not have been as bad. The point of a horror movie should be a sense of relief when you're done watching it. It should even shake you up a little.  This movie seems to be designed to make you hate life and mankind.  I made myself watch the whole thing so I could be sure I am judging it correctly. It is not well conceived. Just before I threw it out, I cut the disk in half and I have never done that with a movie before.  If I have to dig up something good to say about it, it would be that it really does illustrate just how truly awful it is to be a woman in a world with people like that in it. However, you can get that same point a hundred other ways. It is not worth viewing this movie to try to get that.

Still no product received I still have not received this product, so how can i rate it? I will be happy once i get it.

disappointed in every way I was hesitant but thought with Will Ferrell, it would be worth a try. Wrong. So very wrong. The previews made it seem like it was funny. It just isn't and life is too short to waste time watching this movie.

not much like french and saunders This video was horrible. We could not make it through more than half and it was a relief to turn it off. It was crude and tasteless which would have been fine if it was funny. I love French and Saunders but they were only minor characters in this mess

Very thin story line Not one of the better jungle films. Some of the adult men call her a little girl, and sometimes she looks like a kid, which is kind of creepy to me. I didn't really watch the whole thing through.

syfy channel originals bad i think most people who watched this movie over exaggerated how bad it is. i mean, it is bad, but not the worst movie of all time. i'd say it's no worse than a syfy channel original movie. the villains of the movie seem like they're made for a childrens sci fi movie. the movie is set in the year 3000, which is 1000 years after humans were defeated by an alien race whose technology seems less advanced than ours.

Not worth the time.... This movie goes nowhere....At first it seems like a comedy then blows you away with a blood splatter scene...then some confusion....but still never gets off the ground with a solid plot.  Don't waste your time....

The worst of the Harry Potter Films By the time  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) came along, I was bored with the series. Harry Potter, this all powerful wizard was about a powerful was a wet bag at a sand castle competition. So I did not hold out much hope for this film. The film did not let me down. The film is about running and little else. The must frustrating part was the Hermione Granger assault. Hermione Granger, consistently the most powerful, came over as an absolute wimp and just let the assault happen complete with Bonnie Langford's Violet Elizabeth Bott ""I'll thcream and thcream 'till I'm thick""  The only sad part is the death of Dobby. It did not bode well for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 which was marginally better than part 1!!!!

Worst movie of all time I would rather watch a litter of puppies being thrown into a wood chipper than this abortion of a movie. Other than the names of some of the characters and the setting of the Overlook, there are no similarities with the book, literally none. How could King give the okay for this version, it makes me sick. I haven't seen the miniseries yet, but it's hard to believe it could be any worse. What a waste of some good acting, too. Nicholson playing the real Jack Torrance would have been terrifying.

Do not Stream this movie you wont get to see it. I have Netflix and Hulu Plus. I never have any problems streaming movies from other venders. But Amazon stops every two minutes to catch up with its buffer. So if you want to watch a circle go round and round for two hours the go ahead and stream this. I will never rent another movie from Amazon.

Mocumentary goes from bad to worse The first half is inthe style of a nature documentary. It is enjoyable until you realize that most if not all the predator/prey scenes are staged and therefore unnatural. The cougar seems very tame but still manages to kill many planted prey animals. The Arizona landscape and Anasazi ruins are amazing, though the footage is grainy. The second half features an Indian boy and his white friend. Very charming despite the narrator talking over them at every moment. There is a faked nighttime scene filmed in broad daylight with a blue lens, then the stunt cougar is back chasing the boy's sheep and goats.  The Indian boy and his friend try to rescue a goat all the while tearing around ancient Anasazi ruins disturbing a national archeological site and sacred treasure. The cougar even has a fake tussle with the white boy.  If this were a movie with dialog it would be bad but charming (ignoring the sacrificed animals). But since it is a fake  documentary it ultimately made me angry.

Like Watching a Bug Die this movie is the worst film i have ever seen. EVER. If you watch this, i doubt you will make it through the first 30 minutes. it is absolutely TERRIBLE!!! CHEESY CAN'T EVEN CONTAIN THE AMOUNT OF FROMAGE REEKING FROM THE SCREEN!! I agree with the statement: Not just bad, REALLY bad. that is all.

Up the Arsenal? This is like what it would be like if "Field of Dreams" was remade in England with cricket instead of baseball, and that premise would STILL be more reasonable than this one. I am glad they changed the name for foreign release, perhaps the Farrelly brothers do have some shame after-all.

Torn between 1 star and 2 stars Shockingly awful.  I've long been generally amazed how Hollywood can churn out so many mediocre movies upon which so much money was spent and so much talent  lavished.  It is utterly stupefying how so-called professionals -- producers, directors, writers -- can so thoroughly degrade a franchise such as the once-great Sex And The City.  This installment could hardly have been worse if it were deliberate sabotage.  That the actors went along with this particular travesty may be testament to how horrendous the economy has been -- they must've been absolutely desperate for the paychecks to sign onto this trash.  They surely must be embarrassed by being associated with this film.  A shame and a waste.  The more I think about it, this movie rates only one star.

secrets Secret is a good name for what ever this is suppose to be. what a ripoff.Amazon needs to refuhd the rental fee.Please don't rent or buy.Ripoff!!!Ripoff!!! Ripoff!!! I didn't want to give it even one star but they wouldn't let me continue if i didn't.

Major disappointment We had high hopes for this Eastwood movie that was new to us, but it was one of the most poorly written screenplays I've had the misfortune to view. Don't waste your time on this one. Also bought Absolute Power which was way better if it like Eastwood and Hackman films.

WCW Slamboree 1995 review The World tag team title match between Harlem Heat & The Nasty Boys was not great but pretty good. The match between Kevin Sullivan & The Man with no name was awful. The Legends match between Wahoo McDaniel & Dick Murdoch was a dud. The IWGP title match between The Great Muta & Paul Orndroff was 15 minutes of garbage. The TV title match between Arn Anderson & Alex Wright was not great but still watchable. The Meng-Hawk match was a no-sell brawl. The Sting-Big Bubba Rogers match was bad. The tag team match between Hulk Hogan & Randy Savage against Rick Flair & Vader was pretty fun. Overall,despite the two good matches it still stinks. I give this ppv a 1 out of 10.

Americans, please don't try to do Python humor as it's been done a tad better This whole production was so impressed with itself -- serving up tepid 4th rate Monty Python rehashes, several of Bob Odenkirk's sketch characters, clumsy overly-obvious music, and one of the most abrasively hideous lead performances in recent film history. I'm sure the commentaries or interviews will claim this man was the "only one" who could play this part, but boy -- if they started off with a better actor in that central role and toned down the medical-marijuana-while-watching-Python-DVDs-in-the-background-and-pecking-at-Final-Draft screenwriting excesses they might have had something here. As it is, they have nothing. Avoid this terrible film and see films by directors doing something original and clever. You want Super 8mm? Go watch Guy Maddin movies. Support good art and let horrible crap like this get buried in your queue.

yuk-looser I have enjoyed several of Julia Roberts films, but try as I might, I couldn't even finish the movie.... tried 3 times, but just couldn't do it. Poor acting, story line............ not sure whats up with Miss Roberts, but the last couple of years she has elected to be in several BAD movies.  I hope she finds another winner soon, cause I won't spend any more money on her till I see some GOOD reviews.

brad dourif! why? Thirty minutes into this disaster I knew this was gonna suck. Brad Dourif's acting is just as intense as any other horror based role he has done but his dialogue was horrid. I felt embarrassed for Brad in this movie. As for the kid in the trenchcoat, his acting was laughably bad. Save your money and pick it up at the pawn shop which is where i am taking my copy to. As for the special effects , they were as atrocious as the acting. Special indeed.

CONFIRMED - Blu-Ray Only Includes Disney's Studio-Mandated CUT version Disney has ruined THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL yet again by only including the cut theatrical release version of the movie, minus the song When Love is Gone. This is a song that not only is the heart and soul of the entire movie, but it was at one point added back into the film BY THE DIRECTOR, Brian Henson. Nobody involved in the production wanted the song removed -- it was taken out by the studio because they felt little kids would get bored during it. As it is, the film still has an awful cut where that song was supposed to be...and the intended, full version of the film will remain sitting on a studio shelf because Disney wants it that way. Pathetic.

Poorly organized, maybe ok for aerobics pros Thankfully, I only borrowed this from the library--would have been highly disappointed had I purchased at ANY price.  I am only 2 months along, in fairly decent shape, but haven't been active for a few months and want to get back into routine.  First of all, she does not let you know what equipment you will need (see other reviews) to do this, and I really hated pausing to get what I needed as the video progressed.  I couldn't do 2 of the exercises because 1.) I do not have a chair that is wide enough to properly do the triceps bends (I'm not a big person, I just apparently have skinny dining room chairs!) and 2.) I do not have a big expanse of bare wall readily available to do the push-ups moves and still be able to see the video.  The so-called "warm-up" is WAAAAY too intense, especially if you are out of routine like me.  She changes moves too often, very annoying.  It gets a bit better after the crazy warm-up, as she actually explains the moves somewhat.  Like another reviewer mentioned, she doesn't tell you how many counts to do most of the time, then suddenly counts down once in a while.  It is not a fun video, and the challenge of it lies more in trying to keep up with all the switching moves and figure out modifications (if possible) for not having the exact same living room setup as she does than the actual workout routine.  Will be taking this one back right away and hunting for an easier to follow video that doesn't prompt me to 'pause if you need to pee'.

are you for real. BOOO. I know these movies are supposed to be for entertainment only but come on. I should have waited till it was 99 cents then I would feel like I have been cheated out of only a buck.

A Trainwreck!!! Let me keep this review short and sweet:  This has to be the worse movie I ever seen in all my life of watching movies.  I can't even go out of my way to call this one a camp, B-picture.  That is how ghastly this film is.  The storytelling is awful.  The cast is forgettable.  The directing and lighting is abysmal.  I have no I idea why a credible studio would spend a nickle getting this film made.  Thank goodness when I got this movie at Gamestop in 2007, I only spent $2-bucks and it skipped in between a few scenes (which I didn't care because I couldn't wait til it was over).  Buy this movie at your own risk.

Is there such a thing as a "C" movie This movie doesnt even measure up to a kindergarten play.  The story line was well conceived but just goes down hill from there.  The script fails miserably but no big deal, no one in the movie seems to have any actual acting skills either.  There wasnt a believeable moment anywhere in the movie.  Sorry but I do not recommend wasting any time on this one.

Good plot ruined by filth This plot--which was kind of cute--could have been told just as well without the truckloads of profanity and extreme excess of raunchy, outright disgusting bits (such as the "wetworks" man, the insertion of the toothbrush, etc.) After seeing this movie, I felt as though I needed a bath, and ought to have my mind washed out with soap. Our culture has degenerated to the point where obscenity is considered normal. So depressing! If you want to see a similar movie that's a lot cleaner, try "Office Space."

Not worth your time I wish i would have never watched this movie, hard to follow, very abstract, does not hold your interest at all. it would serve better as a screensaver on your desktop.

Not impressed I ordered this thinking I was being clever being one of the first in the UK to have the blu ray of this film when it arrived I was so happy I wanted to see it while it was in the cinema put couldn't has I was 8 months pregnant and cinema not the most comfortableist place... I put it in my blu ray player and it told me I couldn't watch it due to the region it was an American copy and couldn't be played over here. Now I think if that's the case it should have said somewhere that that copy couldn't be watched in the UK. Really not impressed

Silly Chick Flick This is a tedious slow boring movie of Scottish people trying to be funny....They are not.  I made it 45 minutes before finally turning it off in disgust.  I think the Director's family wrote the rest of these reviews as the seem to have no concept of character development or an interesting story...

Spoiler: A Great Disappointment For All Genre So I decide to rent this movie, cause I was feeling girly. I was in the mood to watch something funny, cute and interesting. The only thing that this movie had me questing at the end, was how the blue blazes is it worth $3.99, and who gave the ok to the writer or writers and dicter to turn this into a movie? This movie suck! it not worth the 3.99..hell it's not worth 50 cents. All the characters was nuts and the 2 main characters was just stupid, and speically the guy. He had plenty of openings to slip her the pill and run for his life. Cause clearly the girl was nuts and so was his girlfriend. The guy was a completely ball-less man, who had no guts whatever so ever. There was so many red flags and flashing lights the moment he walk in her house. He sees the condom in the trash (RED FLAG#1). She tell him she have a roommate but no edviceds what so ever that she have a roommate and her appartment only have 1 bed room and 1 huge bed (RED FLAG#2). But do he go? NO! He stays and what happen next folks? Well she fall "a sleeep" so they have you believe, only find out she wakes up and basically rape him while he is sleeping, and when he realizes that she is riding him like bucking bull, he wakes up. Does he tell her to stop? NO he enjoys it and happily to keep on going. Only to wake in the morning fines out she not on the pill. Then Realize, "OH SNAP! WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING?"  So what I'm trying to say is save yourself the 3.99, and time (don't even borrow the movie from a friend if he or she have it.) spend it on something else. I wish someone told me sooner, I should have read the damn reviews.

WORST BLACK HORROE MOVIE YET MADE SAD TO SAY I HAVE SEEN MANY BUT THIS WAS THE WORST SO LITTLE SPECIAL EFFECTS AND SMALL CAST OF GOOD VERY GOOD AFRICAN AMERICAN ACTORS BUT USED VERY MUCH WRONG COULD HAVE BEEN A BETTER MOVE LOW BUDGET BAD LIGHTING AND BAD JUST PLAIN BAD ALL AROUND

gave in to the dark side The show started out a little cute . . . a little annoying . . . . But by this season it totally gave into the dark side. It became another liberal propaganda show. There were lines about "dictators who own ranches in Texas" . . . . There were lines about how great and fabulous Hillary Clinton is . . . what a "role model" she is. There were episodes about how "silly" mothers of teenagers are who have an issue with LauraLai talking about her pregnancy to them in a school class speech. There is the entire kids sleeping and having their "firsts", done with casualty. There were episodes where LauraLai says "OK Now I believe everything Bush thinks." And of course the stream of guys floating in and out of these two women's lives and beds gets faster. It was just the decline of a show that was pretty entertaining to begin with.

SO BORING! Just terrible, interesting idea, ZERO payoff, I mean nothing. Not sure why it was even released. Answers nothing, builds no suspense. Dumb.

AWFUL I DID NOT LIKE THIS MOVIE AT ALL.  NEVER ABLE TO CAPTURE THE STORY LINE. PLUS THE ACTING WAS TERRIBLE ON ALL COUNTS.  M

I want my money back!!! Congratulations all around to the writer, the director and the producer. . . for wasting a perfectly great story concept by turning in to yet one more piece of mundane bottom-feeding garbage. First off the original story could have and probably would have been great the concept certainly had the potential. However after they turned it into a Psychotic farce it goes from having great potential to just being plain pathetic. First off if they had gone with the original story the idea of a soldier protecting the lost princes of a now deceased royal house they might have had a truly great movie. Particularly as the actress who played said princess did I thought a decent job. Especially  given she had no real motivation to be magnificant. (Her character it turns out, is a daydream in some psychotic idiots mind. I'm so certain that is such a really great motivation for an acress to do her best.) Same as the guy who played the soldier/Nutcase.  I"m sure after he read the script all the way through he really wanted to do his best.  Not even a recognized actor like Pat could save this film. Its a real shame Amazon didn't offer this as a rental before purchasing.  I am tempted to demand my money back. For the first time eve I wish Amazon had negative numbers in their rating system. Truly this movie is one of the most awful things I have ever seen. The actual story is all some psychotic daydream inside the mind of an idiot with a split personality. What isn't straight garbage is the most pathetic filler footage.

oh, sure, and elvis is still alive? This "documentary" is from the same person () who directed "Paul McCartney Really Is Dead" and "Elvis Found Alive".  Pure complete rubbish!  Don't you people get that This Is A Joke!?!  Just click on the director's name, right on the top of the Amazon page, and see for yourselves.  OMG people are gullible...

The worst movie ever My title says it all.  I can't believe I actually paid for this movie.  No plot, no substance, and probably the worst ending of any movie I have ever seen.

Skip this one and keep looking If what you are looking for has a thin plot, horrible writing and even worse acting, this is your movie. If you value your time, keep looking for something else, as this movie does not even deserve 1 star.

Kristen Stewart is a GOD awful actress lots of people around her that can act to drown out the fact she has only one expression on the dumb look face of hers, what a waste of an oppertunity for this story.

Another boring, exasperating director autobiographies European directors assume that everyone wants to know how they got started to become such creative geniuses. The movie seems to be bragging: "I was totally uncontrollable, undisciplined child, but look at the success i have become." Since i don't think a whole lot of his movies, i find the movie "400 blows" pointless.

I CAN PEE ON THE FLOOR!!! ahhhh life... Pity party extraordinaire, has his health, money, freedom, and Ngudu... Why writing that big fat $22.00 check and the life tome to a charity is funny reaches escape velocity faster than averting eyes in a jacuzzi scene... Props to at least addressing the New Life issues at 65+ but never touches topics that truly need insight, fake speech at wedding sez it all, flatlined.... Can;t believe there was an Oscar nod for this performance, oh yeah! forgot that hilarity ensues with that topotheline waterbed scene... Thanks Jack for the many pleasurable moments derived from ANY of your other films but had to vent on this choice. Apologies...

TOO MUCH FOUL LANGUAGE Too much cursing from the very beginning. I am so sick of a good movie script being messed up by foul language, saying really nasty stuff out of their mouths.  I wonder sometimes, where are these actors/ess parents. Even tho you are grown, you still have parents you have to answer to for the 'family image'. You can't go out and embarass the family with whatever you do in life.  If this had been me and they gave me that script, I would have showed them how to compromise on the foul language, and make it much milder and better.  if not, I would not be able to do this movie because of my 'MORAL PRINCIPLES, AND MY FAMILY'S MORAL PRINCIPLES".  My Daddy always told us...'don't go out there and embarass me and this family' in whatever you do.  We all knew that, but we are from the south.  I find that people from the south had more moralistic principles to live by than people in the north or other parts of the country.  Get mad if you want too, but I have run across much of this, and it has blown my mind.  In the south, parents don't care how old you are,50, 60, you are still their child, and they still have input into your life, if they see something you are doing is not good, or about to do.  They will also tell you, whatever you do in that movie, make sure that you don't embarrass us and yourself.  I'm so glad I grew up like this, because it sure has played a big roll in my life, and I've seen it in some of the Black stars in movies, who talked about the same thing...my grandmother told me...my daddy said don't do this...my Mother told me not too do ....or she/they would be on the phone so fast raising hell with us.  Thank God, some have kept their morals in tact. Many don't even know what morals, principles, or values are.  Thats' why the people are out of control in behavior.

I'd give it a zero if I could. Wow! What a load of crap!!!I want the 100 minutes of my life back that I wasted while watching this movie. My 5 year old hardly even giggled during the movie. Frankly, I think he was mostly freaked out by it.

Bad on all levels. I started the first disk and twenty minutes in I'm about to throw all four disks into the lake except I don't want to contaminate the environment. There isn't anything of value in this series. The dialogue is juvenile stupid. The acting is very obvious fake acting in practically every conceivable way from facial expression down to movement whether it's an action like shooting a gun or running or rummaging through files or talking - ughhh! The storyline is just bizarre absurd kiddie level make believe fantasy e.g. everyone on Earth suddenly stopped dying (even if only their head remains) from an email virus. How uncreative and unbelievably dumb is a scene with a helicopter and a sniper in the cabin missing at point blank range a rpg that goes through a house window and out the back window. Then he machine guns a car that the occupants of the house were able to escape in and does not even hit the car or anything even close to the car. What is the background of the person who made all this stuff up?  Comic books?  I can't believe the BBC is connected. They're beginning to resemble B level American studios. They've even fallen behind France, the Argentinians and Hong Kong as well as others in creative cinematography and storytelling.

Nothing to say disguised as art As someone who loved "Lost in Translation" for its ability to speak volumes with understated performances and economy of dialogue, "Somewhere" takes a similar approach but fails entirely. The characters are far less compelling, elements that might be construed as a narrative are threadbare at best and the movie, despite its lethargic pacing, quickly begins to feel like a self-indulgent exercise in examining the emptiness and monotony of an actor's life. This actor (the character, not Stephen Dorff), unfortunately for the film, isn't one who's interesting, gifted, articulate or insightful upon self-reflection. By about a third of the way in, this movie began to feel more like "Nowhere with Nothing To Say." This lame exercise disguised as minimalism signals that either the director has run out of inspiration or needs to get a taste of life outside of the self-absorbed self-fascination of Hollywood.

Misfire I am a big fan of Clint Eastwood.  I had high hopes from this movie, but it was a miss-fire.  There are three separate plot lines that eventually merge together.  The best part of the movie is in the beginning when a tsunami hits, but it lasts no more then a few minutes. French journalist Marie has a near death experience which makes her curious with the afterlife.  When she comes back to France, she changes her mind about writing a political book, and instead wants to write about afterlife.  Her manager thinks that a book on that topic would not sell in France and gives her a list of publishers in the USA.  This makes me think that people in the USA are either a) more open-minded, or b) easily duped. Your pick.  The second plot line is that Matt Damon had an operation in the past that made him connect with the other side.  If this were a super-hero movie, I would buy that idea no questions asked.  However, if this is a realistic movie, then you have to ask the question why nobody else who had a similar operation did not become gifted as he was.  Of course, it is easy to create a 'WHOOSH' sound in the movie to force us think that things like this can happen.  The third story line is about a shoolboy Marcus who has a twin brother. After his twin brother dies in an accident, he tries to find a way to communicate with him through psychics, but they are all fakes.  But then he meets Matt Damon and things change.  Somehow, just because Matt Damon is the star of this movie, he can communicate with his brother.  I just did not buy it.  I would put Matt Damon in the category of fakes as well.  Because there is not a single thing that separates him from the rest of the psychics, other than the fact that he is the star of the movie.  Assuming of course that this is not a super-hero movie.  I am rating this movie 1 star based only on its subject matter.  Acting, directing etc may be good but it was very slow going for me.

Arrived scratched with fingerprints! The disk arrived scratched with fingerprints.  Very disappointing to my little girl who was waiting for the disk to arrive.  I thought that by ordering a NEW, UNUSED disk from AMAZON, not a third party, that I would not have any trouble.  I guess I thought wrong.

boring The 1st 5 minutes and the last 15 minutes are watchable.  The rest is a bunch of uninteresting drama set behind the vague backdrop of an alien invasion.  The characters are presented in a way that makes them uninteresting.  we never care if any or all of them die. The dialogue is so phony and 3rd gradish that it made me want to watch a good movie about marines instead.

Ehhhh...not so much. For anybody who is a fan of the Stephanie Plum series - this movie is disappointing.  The personalities of the characters in the movie are not nearly as colorful as those in the book.  But, in my experience, that is very typical of movies made from novels.  On a side note - the first DVD I received was defective.  I arranged an exchange online with Amazon on a Saturday, and received a replacement on Tuesday.  You can't beat customer service like that!!!

useless company I ordered this DVD and was miffed to find an EMPTY package--opened the seal package to find to find NO DVD included. Sigh. I would NEVER EVER EVER recommend this company and cannot belive Amazon, which heretofore has been a great company, would accommodate them. Maybe my experience was unique? I hope so. Otherwise, I would not recommend.

foul language & indecent so bad I would rather destroy this copy than return it...even if it were returnable...could not in good consciounces pass this on to someone else...presentation of story is appalling...

Make sure you want it! I tried to buy 1 episode and got the whole season for near 30 dollars. If you figure out how to get money back let me know!

One of the Worst "Comedies" Ever Made This movie is just plain stupid--it's poorly written, makes no logical sense, doesn't know if it's a comedy or drama, and destroys the memory of a beloved classic (The Graduate). The premise is so wrong--that a woman will drop everything because her fiance questions why she was born 8 months after her parents married--that it's an insult to the viewer. Then they have the woman have sex at her first meeting with the man she thinks slept with her mom and grandma--hilarious!  There is nothing funny about this. The tone of the film flips back and forth like a light switch from syrupy love story to overplayed broad comedy, with a really bad music score trying to tell us when the serious parts are. To see the great acting talent wasted makes it even more of a crime.  This movie has no connection to The Graduate other than to misuse the characters and have them do things that make no sense in relation to the first film. It's a giant mess. Blame Rob Reiner for directing it, but most of the blame goes to the writer, who actually got paid for a movie that's basically one big misguided family sex joke.

terrible vendor I wrote to to the vendor because my Sony would not download the DVD. What a disappointment. Vendor said it was my fault for purchasing this type of DVD. I don't have a clue as to what the vendor means. All I know is I paid for a product I am unable to use and this vendor has lost a customer. I am not a fool but guess what? If the customer is always wrong why purchase anything from this indifferent vendor. Don't!!

A Real Snoozer I fell asleep on the movie.  I just kept saying I know that this movie is going to get better.  It never got better.  What about the 3D.  Even 3D can normally make a movie worth it.  I wish I had saved the $26.  Yes, I bought the 3D Combo at Amazon.  If I could return it, I would.  I love action and superhero movies in 3D.  I even love the Final Destination series because of the 3D and I don't seem to mind the acting or the fact that I always know how it will turn out.  This movie was a bit different.  Since I got the 3D TV there is very little content.  I have been collecting movies.  After purchasing a few movies that I did not like (Sanctum and The Nightmare Before Christmas), I thought that maybe I should stick to action films.  I really liked Drive Angry, Thor, and Green Lantern.  This one was was not all that good (acting, action, and 3D).  I would rent it if I could on Vudu.

Rise of the arrogant boobiosie What's really amazing is people buy this nonsense.  Apparently, all the ancient texts and myths about gods are "misinterpretations."  What they really were writing about were aliens.  And of course the "ancient astronaut theorists" know more than the ancients did.  Watch this series if you want to see a great trivialization of the Bible, The Iliad, The Epic of Gilgamesh, or any other ancient monument.  On one hand these "theorists" claim that the ancients used winged imagery and chariots as metaphors for UFOs because it was the only way they could describe what they saw.  On the other hand, the ancients used high-tech knowledge to construct the pyramids etc.  So if the ancients had high-tech knowledge of machines why would they need to refer to aliens as gods and use winged discs and other metaphors for UFOs?  But, of course, these "theorists" don't care how screwed up their logic is so long as their merchandise sells enough to keep them rich.

Stay away Superman I'm laughing at all the positive reviews on this movie&lt; I've heard that some of the plot is explained in the deleted scenes, my response is this. Superman would never leave earth without telling Lois, Two. If this movie really took place after the Richard Lester Superman II, he broke his promise. Because before he flew off the roof of the white house, he informed the president he wouldn't let us down again. But yet in this movie, he just leaves, and appearently leaves Lois with a kid, which is his. OOps did I spoil anything, I agree with some of the other reviews, this movies acts like it's ashamed to be a Comic book movie, and tries to be serious. While Bryan Singer did an excellent job with the X-Men movies, he clearly shows he has no idea how to handle Superman, it was a rehash of the first Christopher Reeve Superman movie. And for those who just let this movie get by with a pass, shame on you, This movie's idiocy was shoved into one scene. The infamous krypton island scene, now people have tried to explain it away, but you can't really fix bad scriptwriting, particularly when you establish rules in a movie. You can't just abandon them five minutes later in the movie, now when Superman lands on the island. He immediately loses his powers, gets beat up by Luthor's henchmen, then gets shived, but after Lois rescues him. He flies into the sun, recharges. And flies back to the island, but flies under it. Now here's where the problem arrives, Superman is protected from Kryptonite by wearing LEAD. NOT MUD, and he still has his powers, even after he's flying the island into space and his protection is falling away leaving him exposed to the Kryptonite, is he effected, Naw. Now once he tosses it into space, we get a drama scene, by the way. This movie is full of them, anyway he falls back to earth. This movie, much like "The Dark Knight" was not a comic book movie, it was trying to be serious. IT"S A SUPERMAN MOVIE, this movie isn't

Horrible movie w/shaky camera This is a terrible movie. There is nothing about it worth watching, especially the shaky camera works. It's almost like watching a video game; stupid.

The American President A great movie. Arrived broken though. The attachment that holds the dvd in place is missing three holders. Also, code bar on the back was damaged as well, it seemed as though someone had cut into it. In all, this would be a 3.5/5 sale.

It couldn't get much worse I watched as much as I could of this dreck, wondering why Jake Busey and Dominique Swain would waste their time working on such nonsense.  Bad acting, poor effects, silly dialogue, and a totally improbable scenario here.

NO CAPTIONING, despite it advertised as CAPTIONED */begin rant/*  Man, Amazon really has dropped the ball with their Closed Captioning effort (or lack thereof).  This rating has nothing to do with the movie, mind you.  It has to do with Amazon advertising that it is Captioned, yet no captions show up, even when telling the menu to turn on the captions.  Remember, Deaf people can't learn to hear, so we need captions, period.  To be in our shoes, turn your volume to MUTE and try to watch a movie.  Yeah, no fun.  The difference is that you hearing folks can turn the sound back on.  Thanks for hearing me out (yes, Pun intended)  */end rant/*

Not even a "so bad, it's good" kind of movie I saw this in the theater when I was eight years old.  Barely remembered it except I did remember that I was bored out of my mind.  Thought I'd have a better appreciation for the film now that I'm older.  Boy, was I wrong!  Had to watch it three times to get through it because I fell asleep twice.  What was everyone who starred in this movie thinking?  Anyone reading the script had to have known it sounded stupid.  Premise: Town band makes all the problems go away, ends wars, and makes everyone happy as soon as they start playing music.  Stupid, stupid, stupid!!!  Besides, who cares?  Boring enough for an adult, even more so for an eight year old kid!  Seeing this again refreshed my memory why I was so bored seeing it when I was a kid.  All my brothers and sisters went to see this with me thinking since it casted the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton that we were going to get down.  We sort of expected another Saturday Night Fever, not this boring crap of how this band makes everyone happy.  Effectively ended a few careers including Peter Frampton and Sandy Farina, who disappeared off the face of the Earth after this movie.  How did she get casted anyway?  Her singing is amateuristic, and the instrumentals to her singing sounded like something you'd hear in a grocery store or doctor's office.  This was an attempt at camp (i.e. names like Strawberry Fields, Mean Mr Mustard, Billy Shears, Heartland, etc.) that wasn't funny and fell completely flat.

horrible straight to dvd trash this movie was an extreme dissapointment. while hostel 2 could have been better, it still had some good gore and was entertaining. this was very lame and wasnt even entertaining at all. they killed the franchise with this turd.

Quiet Man Collectors Edition - Awful video quality Just took delivery of the Quiet Man - Collector's Edition.  There are several warnings about which edition to buy - most say the John Wayne Edition is to be avoided altogether.  I took deliverey of the Collector's Edition.  Showing on a DVD/Blue-Ray high end player on a 55" Phillips 1080 flat screen.  VIDEO QUALITY IS AWFUL.  Low resolution causes the images to be pixilated and blurry.  Amazingly dissapointing.  Do not buy this DVD unless you are a huge Quiet Man fan and are willing to put up with the terrible video quality OR can run on a small screen (14" or so).

BluRay 3 Disc Version - Defective Audio I love Apocalypse Now. and have purchase almost evry release of the film. While the video on the current release is truly wonderful, the audio is not.  The good side - The video on the BluRay 3 disc release is absolutely spectacular! Of course, the story (original version) is a classic.  The VERY VERY BAD side - The DTS audio is great until it drops. I purchased the set at Best Buy and viewed the original version. I quit after hearing 8 audio drops in 1 hour and 38 minutes of playing time. I replaced this copy with another (from Best Buy) and the audio drops were still present. I am hoping these discs are from a bad lot. I will try again by purchasing a copy from Amazon.  It is hard to believe that the producers would go to the trouble of reissuing this film with such spectacular video and such poor audio.  Buyer beware.

Terrible Had to stop watching halfway through.  Just terrible.  Frustratingly slow and the storyline just flat pissed me off.  Who has an affair on the night of their wedding?  No one we need to see a movie about.  Just terrible.

Aliens in the Attic This DVD won't play at all.  It was very disappointing for my grand-daughter.  So, I don't know anything about the movie.

Same old format and same old music This is no different than any other Cliburn comp. dvd. Only the players are new. It is always the same music they perform to. Time for a change. Who wants to see a contestant skip rope, eat a taco, or put on a cowboy hat. This is what they show. Only a few of the contestants are featured so you know already who is in the final 6. I am tired of watching Texans all glittered up going-'Gosh, them Chinese play real well Ma!' It is like the late Alexi Sultanov-a past winner-said-'It's a gimmick to make $$$$$ for Cliburn."

Very Disappointed I was very excited when I received this as I had gotten a great deal on this set. However, the 2nd disc (Chamber of Secrets) did not work. It seems that only the music and background noise made it on the disc but not the actual voices. I am very disappointed as it must now be returned and the price is substantially more than I initially paid for it, not that I would purchase it again anyways due to the poor quality. Also, I appear to have received the Canadian version, so Harry Potter and the Sorcer's Stone is now Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Very weird. Either way, I will probably resort to purchasing the individual movies and not the boxed set.

Wasted money This movie was a total waste of money. I hated the jerky hand held camera filming. It made me motion sick and i'm not prone to motion sickness. And who runs around filming during a monster attack!! he would have to hold up the camera while running and stuff, i mean come on. This stupid, contrived filming affectation was the absolute worst thing about this movie.  For a supposed monster movie, there is very little monster. The whole movie isjust running around with a bunch of shallow, annoying young people. The dialogue consists of "oh my god" and "oh s***" repeated over and over. Instead of getting to safty, these people go on a mission to save another shallow, vapid girl in her destroyed appartment building.  The girls run around in their heels the whole time.  Where did all the military people and equipment and weapons and emergency medical stations come from? One of the first things we see are buildings falling andbridges callapsing, and yet tanks and trucks and armed men are storming through the streets within the hour, streets clear of even traffic. Please.  I had more to write but its a waste of time even to type what a waste of time and money this movie was.

Nightmares Anyone? I bought this today (from Target) because my 3 yr old girl LOVED B&TB.  I am being serious when I say she was terrified.  There is hardly anything about Christmas in this movie.  It centers around a robotic, horrifying organ (the musical type people) that exclaims he wishes everyone was dead- um, Merry Christmas.  She has called me to her room 3 times now saying she is scared.  NOT WORTH IT.

bloody, disgusting and nihilistic I know that there is an audience for films like this but I am not one of them. I have only watched the first and second in this series and found them to be pleasant time wasters. In this one however I could not get beyond the idea that our heroine in this version is nothing but  a mass murderer who deserves to be put down despite the sexy skintight leather she wears. Sorry fans, but the humans are the good guys and the vamps and lycans are nothing but killers that deserve to be eliminated from the world. 'Underworld: Awakening'  is pure action from beginning to end and lacks any story, pathos, romance, sympathy, or vampire/lycan mythology that made the originals so interested. The CGI is obvious and uninterested from the fake cloud of steam that hides a naked Kate Beckinsdale to the less than interesting lycans. This leaves us with a 3D bloodfest which is why I guess 'Bloody-Disgusting.com' loved it so much. My thumbs are down - way down.

DO NOT ORDER THIS MOVIE FROM AMAZON OR AMAZON SELLER! The 1 star isn't a comment on the movie but a warning to anyone considering buying it on this site. Twice I've tried ordering it and from 2 different sellers and both times they sent me the original Fred MacMurray version rather than the Harry Anderson remake.  No doubt the original movie is the best, but you order a specific movie, you want that movie. Plus, you can buy the MacMurray version for a couple bucks or less, there's no excuse to buy that movie at the prices charged for this one!!!  Just a friendly (if frustrated) warning.

Do not waste your time watching The screenplay is very poor, fights are also poorly choreographed. Really you would not find reasons to watch this. Do not get attracted by reputable actors, they are not playing any major roles.

2 hours of my gone One of the worst movies in recent memory. Why is there no option to give ZERO STARS? I so wanted this to be a decent movie. Well, it was not ment to be. What was John Hurt doing in this I will never know.

Horrible This movie is "supposedly" based on the book "Shining Through" by Susan Isaacs. The only thing in common is the name of the characters, everything else was completely changed. Everything that was good about the book was ruined in the movie. When I watched it all I could do was laugh because all of the suspense in the ending was said out right within 5 minutes of the movie starting. Susan Isaacs should have never approved this movie for it does not relay any of the greatness of the book. If you liked the book I don't advise watching the movie. I am greatly displeased by this movie.

If you liked this movie, see a doctor. The movie its self was absolutely insufferable, the only redeeming part was that it was so bad that it was funny.  The actors felt uncomfortable and out of place, the attempt at a story was trite and predictable, and nearly every scene was shot in front of a green screen.  It was poorly put together, and the ending left the viewer bored and unmoved. It had a solid set-up to be a good movie, but it ended up being a huge let down and two wasted hours of my life.

Dull It REALLY does not take much to hold my attention, but this film was so dull I couldn't even stay focused for the whole thing.  I did not see it in 3-D, so maybe that's part of it, but it seemed to me that they could've done with a good editor to cut out some of the unnecessary bits.  At one point I looked up and they were showing albino alligators and wondering what the alligators would think of the cave paintings.  .....?!?!  lol

Mutiny on the bounty, no rating Im not too happy... The first disk was bad, it wouldn't work in three DVD players...I sent a email to Amazon but to date they haven't responded...the second disk is fine, its just the first one thats bad....first time this has ever happened in all my orders with Amazon.com.

Sooo Sorry ....... I am so sorry I waisted our money on this, it came in good time but was not what I remeberd for so long ago, my fault. I will not buy Alice Cooper ever again.

One Of The Worst Films Ever Made... ...horrendous performances, script and dialogue. Luke Gross is about the only actor to survive this cringe-worthy mess with any semblance of credibility. Would have given it a Zero is possible. My fast forward button was prominently used to get through this garbage. At least I had a credit from Red Box so didn't have to the suffer the indignity of paying to watch this drivel.

Ripped Off and Furious!! Amazon should refund EVERY customer that bought this Season set every penny they spent on it. It actually has 6 episodes from Season 3 on it and only 7 from Season 4! What the hell?! It doesn't matter if ION TV took over the show half way through, Amazon should have labeled this Season 4 Part 1 or said how many episodes were ACTUALLY Season 4! Myself and a large amount of other customers are furious about this and feel that we have been ripped off and misled. This needs to be rectified NOW!

not what i expected This is a full length movie about some winter games. I was looking for a dvd of several episodes perhaps with some segways inbetween the episodes. My son doesn't have the attention span to follow an hour of one Bob the Builder story. Maybe he'll like it later. We were looking for a dvd of winter based shows for the series.

Obvious anti-Christian bias This fanciful tale was barely historical. The muslim scholars they used were obviously going to portray islam and Saladin in the best possible light. The screenwriters relished showing Richard driving a sword in somebody, and twisting it, but not the same of Saladin. They portrayed the muslims as thoughtful, prayerful, and caring, but the Christians as vicious. A total reversal of the attributes of each religion. Simple basics: Mohammed - kill the infidel, Christ - love your enemies. The production value was good though.

criminal minds hijacking gone bad I really like criminal minds if they would leave the cast alone, but this one is seriously a great let down.  I do not J. Garafalo and I am really surprised she was given more a role than just an appearance and a line.  I do not like any actor or actress spewing their political agenda in any drama i am watching.  Get rid of Garafalo and then maybe.

You're kidding, right? For decades, I avoided watching "the scariest movie ever made" because of all the hype promoting this film as such. Obviously, for me and everyone else who WASN'T scared to death, this was an enormous letdown. I really expected to be traumatized to the point of needing therapy based on the reviews; at the least, cover my face while screaming or forever sleep with the lights on. While this movie had plenty of graphic language and visuals, it wasn't scary as much as gross and profane. Of course, one doesn't expect Satan to play nice and whisper sweet nothings, but the focus on excessive vulgarity rather than truly frightening elements was ridiculous and gratuitous. Satan manifests as a perverse sadist with a filthy mouth more than a horrifying entity. The script was weak and the acting poor. I actually laughed when the possessed Regan grabbed the priest's crotch during the exorcism. While the transformation of a young girl into an ugly & evil being was bizarre, a horror movie has to be more than extreme makeup and gore to freak me out. Unknown and unseen evil trumps over-the-top special effects. In fifty years, I've yet to experience a single spinning head, blood-thirsty vampire, zombie invasion, demon possession or paranormal activity. But I've heard odd noises, driven down desolate roads, passed creepy abandoned buildings and seen strange people, all of which were eerie. I know, it's only entertainment and opinions/tastes can be highly subjective. While many think this movie is the #1 ultimate horror film, for me it didn't live up to it's reputation. Vulgar and gross, yes. Utterly terrifying? A resounding NO!

DVD doesn't play in the US. Thank you for selling me a promotional screener that was NOT MEANT FOR SALE, to boot it was made for a different country and will not play on US DVD players.  Way to be both legal and ethical, pal.  I hope somehow you get fined for selling me something that was never intended for sale.

BLU-RAY version ruins a classic with its "DIRECTORS'S CUT" This is an amazing movie but the director's cut on blu-ray sucks!! they just ad some lines that kill the jokes! i remember this movie word for word! but the director EFFED UP!!!! WITH THIS VERSION!!!! DEFINITELY BUYING REGULAR DVD VERSION AND THROWING THIS BLU RAY AWAY!!!!

Definitely a big step down from the first Transformers movie. We thought this would be good, mindless fun after seeing Transformers and we wanted to see it before watching Dark of the Moon.  And yes, we expected it to be somewhat sophomoric and geared toward teenage boys, but we found the first Transformers tolerable and enjoyed the story.  Sadly, ten minutes into the movie we were ready to turn Revenge of the Fallen off but gave it another 10 mins to see if it would get better.  It didn't, and it actually got worse.  It goes beyond juvenile.  You can bet we won't even bother wasting our time or money on Dark of the Moon.

Whack This movie was very stupid and a waste of time. Please don't waste an hour and 30 minutes of your life like I did.

As bad as it gets Watch it if you dare but if you like a porno type movie with no sex combined with the MTV style of camera work you might like this one if you are dead drunk. Not even so bad it is good but just plain bad.

do not have item yet I ordered Jan 23 I went on a long vac just got home Monday Have not recevied this item yet I am getting worried it's for a birthday which is tomorrow other items came promptly

DIGITAL RIP OFF Great movie.  Great DIGITAL COPY RIP OFF.  Sold as the Blu-ray disc PLUS DIGITAL COPY.  IT IS A LIE.  You do get a "LIMITED TIME" RENTAL, you do not get a digital copy to keep.

diappointed This video was disappointing. It started out too fast and it was hard to keep up. I thought it would be primarily for abs. but it wasn't. I only viewed it once and put it away. I plan to sell it at my next garage sale. Should have purchased a better video for abs.

dud Wow, don't know what is wrong with this dvd, but it doesn't play.  I even exchanged it and tried it on various machines and it gave me an error message stating that there is no data on any disk.  Big dud!!!

The Dead Should Be Called The Dull. We all know that zombie flixs can be good but often are not. The Dead brings the zombie film to a new low. I know it was made on a low budget but that is no excuse. The acting is as dry as the desert that much of the movie takes place in, and the story is so flat and uninteresting that it could have been written by one of undead characters in the movie. The only thing slower and less scary than the plot are the zombies themselves. They are so slow that the only time they seem to be able to catch someone is when a main character is sleeping out in the open savanna with a roaring fire going to let them know where he is. Wich brings me to my biggest issue with this film, the fact that the zombies are so slow the director has to come up with lame ways for them to kill anyone. There is never a sense of urgency so the actors are stuck saying things like "We have to get out of here now!" when there isn't a zombie within 50 yards. Its like you can hear the director shout "Hey not so fast guys......Wait for the zombies". Seriously Steven Hawking could get away from these zombies and still have time to change his depend under garment. On top of all that the story drags on with tons of useless dialog, and goes in no real direction taking characters you don't care about into forced situations. This movie is dull dull dull. It's not funny, or scarey, or interesting. It's just bad, I would have given it zero stars but Amazon won't let me.

Whatever it is, it's not funny. Watching the film, "Get Smart" (2008) reminded me of two earlier big budget comedy films, "It's a Mad, Mad etc. World" (1963) directed by Stanley Kramer and "1941" (1979) directed by Steven Spielberg.  Both movies had large casts of talented performers, had a ton of money thrown at them and, for the most part simply laid there failing to fulfill their primary goals: to make audiences laugh.  Neither director had had very much experience in the comedy field, a serious handicap, which brings me immediately to Woody Allen, the most talented writer of comedy over the past fifty years, who, initially at least, had no experience in directing a motion picture.  The least of his films --  of those that he both wrote and directed -- leave both of the above films in the dust being successful and often brilliant achievements in screen comedy.  Steven Spielberg recalled the preview of "1941" at a local theater in Los Angeles.  "We stood in the lobby and the audience became quieter and quieter.  I went in and looked and several people had their hands over their ears.  I knew we were in trouble."  Today, the most successful comedy films, i.e. films that are actually funny, are those written and directed by the Coen brothers.  I didn't watch many of the television episodes of "Get Smart" as I had largely given up watching commercial television programs by that time, but I had seen Don Adams perform many times and he was an undoubted expert as a standup comedian, having funny material and flawless comedic timing, without which, the program "Get Smart" would never have been the success that it was.  Mel Brooks, Buck Henry, Don Adams and many others shared writing credit for the series.  Steve Carell who plays the lead in the film "Get Smart" does not impress me as a professional comedian.  I'm not certain what he is, but the one thing that he is not is funny.  Likewise the director, Peter Segal, shows little of the comedic abilities of Woody Allen or the Coen brothers with the result that nearly all of the attempts at screen comedy misfire here.  The director apparently decided to substitute fancy special effects in lieu of competant comedy writing.  The mistakes that are made in the film are numerous:  One example is Carell talking amorously to someone off camera, whom we are initially led to believe, must be an attractive woman.  But the shot of Carell talking runs too long without a cut which prematurely tells us that he is not talking to a woman.  When the cut finally does occur it turns out to be a cute little dog which does not play funny because the joke has already been sprung ahead of time.  In the trade this is known as telegraphing your punch line.  This is the fault of both the director and editor and the film is generally clumsy in this regard.  The scene in the airplane restroom with the darts misfiring is mildly funny the first time, but it goes on and on and simply becomes painful to watch.  The "comic" dance number with the overweight girl is both cruel and crude.  The joke about the poison capsule lays an egg due to inept writing.  In the hands of Woody Allen, this would have been written to be funny.  As the film goes on (and it does go on -- and on!) it becomes less of a comedy (if that were possible) and more of a high-tech actioner indicating that apparently no one involved had a clear idea of what the film was actually intended to be, the final 20 minutes essentially being an incoherent mess of special effects and chases.  For those of us old enough to remember the "Fibber McGee & Molly" radio show: when Fibber McGee would spring a joke that got groans instead of a laugh, Molly would say,  "T'ain't funny, McGee."  That pretty much sums up this film.

Insomniacs gather 'round! If you have trouble sleeping,....then try to watch this snooze bore fest. I LOVE COMIC BOOK MOVIES. This one is HORRIBLY boreing. Watch it, then get a good nights sleep.

Sound Bites The movie quality was fine, but the sound didn't match the actor's mouth movements.  Very disappointing, especially since my daughter was determined to watch the entire thing!!

Awful transfer What is the point of Blue Ray and HD if the technology is wasted on this dreadful transfer? Extremely bad job. Don't buy it and vote with your pocket.

Harold & Maude This is the second time I have bought this movie and I keep getting mailed a United Kingdom version that will not play on American DVD players.  I am out money for two movies and have no movie to show for it.  I don't know what to do to correct this.  Pam Davis

Don't BUY it. Freeze these scams out, you pay enough for TV  now and they want you to buy a season.  Borrow it. E bay?  Don't let them make enough money without going back to what you pay for now.  GREED

Not an accurate representation of the Leo Frank trial There were some issues getting this DVD to work properly that I never experienced before with other DVDs. I have heard others say there were some possible defects with it missing portions of the miniseries and so forth. I was finally able to get it to work and what I saw was appalling. This miniseries makes a grotesque mockery of history and what really happened at the Leo Frank trial. Dozens of people did not stand up in the middle of the trial and start singing with the result of the trial coming to a screeching halt. This miniseries about the Leo Frank case is one of the most racist, prejudiced, dishonest, slanderous and defamatory treatments against Southerners ever produced.

Dreadful Huge waste of Armand Assante. He's one of America's best actors but this film was well below his talents. One absolutely brilliant moment late in the film but this is one truly terrible movie.

Way too much gore. I would not suggest this flick again. Way to much gore. No plot to it at all. Sorry I made the choice to begin with.

Every Marine is a rifleman This film is complete and total garbage i mean its really bad. John plays a Marine who gets kicked out of the Corps after defying orders to save the lives of some Marines. I wont even get into that rats nest of crap. So he is discharged from the Marines and is trying to start working a civilian job. While on a road trip with his wife some people who robbed a jewelery store and happened to stop at the same gas station end up kidnapping his wife and begins his outrageously stupid and ill scripted pursuit. Fact is John was able to track his targets through the marsh and swamp while quite often they were on a road. The thought process that i have would be is that they could take any back road/dirt road or anything that connect to the main road they would be gone and he would be heading in the completely wrong direction. However somehow he is always able to find the bad guys. My biggest complain is that it is a movie about a Marine and he never really uses a gun, he takes them and never uses them. I think the person who wrote it doesn't realize that every Marine is a rifleman and i cannot think of one who wouldn't use a gun to protect his wife. This movie is your standard WWE/WWF film that solves everything with hand to hand combat scenes. I mean come on if i would of wanted to watch a fighting movie then that is what i would've bought. However i bought a movie titled MARINE i fully expect there to be FIREFIGHTS and shooting. That is what really irritates me along with the pathetic acting is that it doesn't make sense. Marines are trained to use guns but this guy doesn't seem to use them even when his wife is in danger.  I'm not really sure i can convey to you how bad this movie is.  It would be a good film for people who prefer hand to hand combat and like movies with really bad acting and holes in the plot so big you can drive a semi truck threw them.  This movie starts out bad and just gets worse and worse.  Horrible Movie 1/5 stars.

Robin Hood: Prince of Theives I have never owned a DVD movie that I had to turn over to the other side of the DVD to watch the rest of the movie. This movie was a waste of money! It makes me wonder if this is a black market or something else. This is nothing like any movie that I own.

Fails on nearly every level I won't waste your time comparing this travesty to the even worse previous film. I'm just going to jump right into why this film isn't worth your time. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance is a total mess. The story is paper thin and poorly told. You won't know whats going on until well after the first hour, and even then whats happening isn't very interesting. Nicholas Cage is given a lot of crap for this performance and, while he is moderately terrible, it isn't entirely his fault. This movies dialogue is atrocious, sounding stiff and unnatural the entire way through. No one is given anything remotely interesting to say, so why is there so much talking?  If all that wasn't bad enough the one reason anyone might want to see this film, the Rider itself, is terribly mishandled. Though the directors were clearly going for a darker, more brutal Rider, this one just comes off as spastic and goofy. Cheesy camera tricks, and the Riders laughable roaring kill any chance of the character actually being threatening. while the effects for the rider are greatly improved over the previous film, all it does is turn people to ash. While that may sound cool, it happens so quickly it loses any impact it might have had otherwise.  Now for the few good parts: The fantastic Idris Elba is the only likeable character in the film, but unfortunately is not given nearly enough screen time. The main antagonist, not Roark but Carrigan, early on was very impressive as a villain. In the previous film, the antagonists were pasty emo nothings that put me to sleep, so I was very impressed to see the film give a plain old vanilla mortal the chance to show that he could take on the rider; and then half way through he is transformed into a pasty, emo villain.  Nothing about this film works. The action is clunky and unsatisfying. The story is pitifully anemic and goes nowhere. Nick Cage hams it up for all he's worth, killing any chance at a mood, and the Rider is a twitchy, boring mess. Unless you are a die hard Ghost Rider fan, stay far away from this film. If you are a die hard Ghost Rider film, just read the comic, and stay far away from this film. Do not buy.

Bollywood meets Hollywood While the cast is impressive, this re-make of this classic fairy tale is - well - offensively lame to the extreme. I was truly happiest in the noted characters (more about that later) with Julia Robert's part in the telling of the Evil Queen - but that was about it. Nathan Lane? You must have been paid well. Prince Charming - Arnie Hammmer's best scene was when under a spell from said evil queen, behaving as a dog...a puppy, to be exact. Let's face it, it isn't as though he needs the money, is it? Lily whoever the heck she is as Snow White really needed her eyebrows plucked - I mean REALLY - and even hairier, her character took nearly identical ideas and scenes from Once Upon a Time on ABC. The Seven Dwarfs were by far the best actors and entertainers of all however, keeping closest to the original tale characters, and kept me watching the darn movie...yet these incredible actors received so very little accolades it was sad and downright wrong. Grimm's Fairy Tales are all melded with horror, intended to be so, and this? Well, I'm sorry I bought it. Actually bought this nonsense, yes, I admit it. According to Bollywood-style, there was, of course, a dancing/singing piece at the end after Snow White did NOT eat the poison apple! Who thought of THAT anyway? I literally forced my endurance of a piece of the ending which was, of course, the singing dancing happy happy joy joy Bollywood junk. Arnie? You have two or three left feet, but you're nice to look at in the scenes that took advantage of your chest hair. The storyline is not at all like the original, though it could have been enjoyable, had it had any merit of course - which it doesn't. Sadly looking at my wallet having been plucked by this awful film, I look forward to Snow White and the Huntsman to purchase - hmmm, perhaps rent, as well as continuing to watch Once Upon a Time and Grimm - both (almost) free on HULU. My opinion? Don't waste your money, and if you like Bollywood films well...to each his/her own. Be well, all.

Huge let down!!! Big budget and special effects cannot save what is essentially a poor story. Liam Neeson was completely wasted in this film, and not used as an actor of his caliber should be.

Can't seem to get the right item Love the movie, but after placing this order twice, I have still not received the correct item.  Going to try one more time.  Then, I'll give up and find it elsewhere.

Very poor quality reproduction. sound lacks clarity and image is noisy and has a very distant look to it. You can't enjoy this movie on this DVD. Sorry I bought it.  Linda

Don't buy until they quit using ultraviolet I liked the movie, but can't support this version until they include a true digital copy.  Ultraviolet is not the digital copy we've all been expecting.

Foghat and Guests Blurry Tribute This is the worst looking DVD I have ever owned.  I thought Joni Mitchell's Shadows and Light DVD was bad.  This is worse.  The audio is terrible as well. Look at the DVD jacket pictures, you have to wonder after seeing the video where they got those stills.  I really wanted a video reminder of what this band was all about in their prime.  Too bad.  The only way this would be watchable is on a 12" B&W tube tv.  Bloody awful!

Just awful I don't know if this will be any better not chopped into 4 segments and interrupted by a zillion commercials, but the TV presentation was the worst Titanic program (of any kind) EVER.  And yes, I've watched the Nazi propaganda version.  Take four different "hour" segments that all go back to pre-sailing, add too many unlikable fictional characters and stir in uninspired sets and nonexistent special effects and you get this abomination.  One review said, "You'll root for the iceberg."  That pretty much sums it up.

dont watch it you should just watch the avatar the last Airbender cartoons. the story is just absolutely amazing and you get emotionally invested in the show. just don't watch the movie.  this movie is horrible.

Somewhat entertaining...until you find out 'the rest of the story'. I liked the movie for the most part the first time I watched it, mainly because I loved looking at the beautiful dogs that were in the film. I did have issues with how the dog was being handled in the story, i.e. allowed to chase school buses, get loose all the time etc.  OK, yeah he was a dog with issues but there is a LOT that could have been done to manage him better.  My spouse didn't like the film at all, found it too disjointed as far as the story went.  There were some problems with the plot, especially the ending, I was expecting more, but no, it ended rather abruptly and not very clear as what was to happen next.  Maybe in a sense that was a good thing.  At least as far as the movie goes, if they took it to the actual conclusion as to what really happened in the end, I suspect the movie would have bombed.  It got worse for me when I found out the true story of Devon/Orson (what's with the 2 names for the same dog anyway?) when I found out he had Devon/Orson put down for supposedly being aggressive and nipping 2-3 people, a lot of which appear to have been largely brought on, or at the least exacerbated, by the circumstances in which Devon/Orson was placed in.  Things that bothered me in the movie BEFORE I learned of Devon/Orson's fate, as an owner of many dogs in my lifetime, mainly border collies and BC mixes for over 30 years, are this.  It seemed to me, he was WAY too ready to euthanize his lab.  The dog had slowed down with health issues such as hip diplaysia, some heart condition and could no longer 'chase the blue ball', but other than that, it appeared to me the dog wasn't in any pain, and content just to hang out, even if it was just a lot of lying around.  From what I understand, both his labs at this point were euthanized at 8 years old, and from what I have been reading, he said something to the effect (and I'm paraphrasing) that dogs don't live longer than 8 years, which most dog owners know is not true.  Maybe that's true with some of the largest breeds such as Irish Wolfhounds and the like, but certainly not the case with border collies, and I suspect labs as well.  For instance, my last border collie lived to 14 and she was blind and diabetic since she was 11 years old.  I understand not every dog owner has the time or resources to care for such a dog as long as I did, but the point is, a dog can live WAY beyond 8 years and they can be happy years for both dog and owner despite the dog slowing down or having disabilities.  She was content to spend many hours by my side just hanging out, still enjoying life, and no she couldn't 'chase a blue ball' any more, but I still cherish that time we had together and it was valuable in more ways, in some aspects, than if she was an agile young dog.  The other thing that bothered me that was portrayed in the movie was the small (and short, as in height) pen that was built for Devon/Orson, and after it was completed all these local Neanderthals gathering around disparaging poor Devon/Orson as he ran in circles round and round in the small pen.  To me, that seemed like one of the worst ways to treat a dog like Devon/Orson.  No wonder he nipped a couple people, especially if they reached over into the pen.  I remember thinking then, this farm has x-amount of acres there, why not build a decent good sized pen for Devon/Orson, and keep him away from such scorn and ridicule, which being a sensitive border collie, he may have picked up on.  After watching the movie (before I learned of poor Devon's/Orson's fate) even though I found some of it wanting, especially the ending, I was interested enough to look into more of what Jon Katz had written and I was frankly shocked to find out about what actually happened to poor Devon/Orson and like others feel he was used, exploited, then done away with when he no longer served a purpose and/or became too inconvenient.  I was going to keep the movie because as I said, I love looking at the beautiful border collies in the film, if for nothing else, but after knowing what I know now about the 'rest of the story', I'm not sure I ever want to watch it again.

Not Worth One Star! Do not buy this DVD.  Do not even rent this DVD.  If you are at a friend's house and he slips it into his DVD player, go home and scrape the rust off your drain pipes. This DVD does not even deserve one star.  This entire, and I mean entire, film was shot on a sound stage -- and it looks it!  Terrible mindless idiotic script, terrible acting from everyone, terrible photography, and the director should go back to plowing wheat in Kansas.  This is not even one of those films where you say to yourself "It has to get better -- just hang in there."  I tired that.  Regrettably, I knew within the first 5 minutes of this movie that it is total crap.  I want that hour and 28 minutes of my life back!  Damn, I should have scraped the rust off my drain pipes.

Peace, love & vomit Theme-Urban YUPPIES get fired find peace in country retreat with society's castoffs-yawn! I thought they stopped making movies like this?

LORD HAVE MERCY! I am so glad I saw this on netflix and not pay $13.75 in the movies for this garbage. If I did I probably would've strangled the popcorn guy.  The acting is god awful! They chose Mickey Rourke as King Hyperion? Really, REALLY!? I like Mickey Rourke as much as the next guy but, he does not fit the look of a greek mythological character, nor does his performance, I expect better from him. It doesn't even follow greek mythology. And since when are titans human sized? Also I had no idea GODS could die. 300 and watchmen were great, but I think they're trying too hard now. Troy was a masterpiece, it actually stayed true to greek mythology, and good acting, this didn't. Their clothes did not match the time that they were in. The effects looked like something out of a cartoon. I don't know which was worse, this or clash of the titans, you decide. If I had more characters to write I would go on and on about how many unmythological events were in this movie. Waste of 2 hours of my life. Top 10 worst movies of all time

Not very good Poor film with such a great actor. Will be traded in ASAP. Should have listen to my wife and not made this purchase, she said the clue was in the title.

What a stupid movie... This is one of the dumbest movies I ever seen. Not for the visual effects or the overall entertainment but for the hard to believe performances, the typical American clich&eacute;s (flags everywhere, all of them are heroes, the president flying a jet fighter like an ace, a drunk guy who, suddenly salutes like a GI Joe and also flights a jet with no training, his kids watching him die and not even reacting, and so on...).  As said, absolute crap.

Cheap DVD case! Looks like a copy! I wonder if every disc sent out looks like it was packaged in somebodies basement with photocopied paper and dollar store DVD case? I hate when people give reviews of the movie without buying it from here!

not very good When this movie first came out I was a bit leery and decided to pass. When I saw it become available  from Amazon streaming I thought I'd have a look. It just was not a very good film.  The dialogue was silly and  Di Caprio's portrail of the main character was not convincing. I'm glad I didn't pay more to watch it at the theater.

constant freezing The picture constantly stopped through out the movie, I ordered 7 movies it was the only one I had problems with

Erotic, sex & Love This is not a 3D Blue ray, I buy it in 3D, it's only 2D player. I'm not happy about that.

So Dissapointed that I Bought This This is such an amateur, gutless typically tepid Hollywood remake. The film spends way too much time superficially developing the vapid relationship between the lead character and his popular girlfriend. The lead character, Charlie, is made to be a phony who would turn his back on his best friend just to be popular. The lead character's best friend, Ed, is not nearly as unique as he was in the original. Most disappointing, is the fact that Ed's story arc is not handled with any psychological or deep-emotional impact as it was in the original Fright Night. Colin Ferrell does a good job as Jerry, but his character is written without any dimension. Like almost every character in this film Ferrell's character feels as if he has no past. He's just an idea on a piece of paper. David Tennent does a good job with his interpretation of Peter Vincent but the character in this remake is way too pretentious and cowardly, and Tennant's performance isn't charming enough to make the character endearing to the audience. The original Peter Vincent may've been pretentious and cowardly, but Roddy McDowell's performance, along with Todd Holland's original vision, made Peter Vincent someone you wanted to cheer for. Lastly, the special effects are completely unconvincing. You'd think when they saw how fake some of the special effects looked they would've said, "Maybe we should work on that some more."  Like it is with many remakes, the heart and soul is missing from the remake of Fright Night. Everything about the original seemed lovingly produced.  Unlike the original, this film just feels like another movie that the participants will likely forget just as quickly as this summer's movie-going audience forgot it. If you really want to see a good horror movie, I recommend you rent or buy something with some originality and guts, like the original Fright Night, or, if you want something more recent, Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil.

Wrong item! Purchased and paid for what was advertised as Puss and Boots, for my 3 small children to watch on movie night during our vacation. We all sat down ready for a nice family night, to find that we had been sent the wrong movie! The puss and boots short had been placed in the puss and boots movie case. My children were so disappointed and I was extremely annoyed. I would never use this seller again.

Too pretentious Too boring. Empty movie, mindless...  I was waiting for the story to build up, but minutes were passing by and nothing. I had to keep skipping forward to see if something interesting would come up, but to no avail. I don't know why Will Smith subjected himself to play this role, it was a bad move and movie for his career.

Save Your Time Please take this as a warning that unless you want to waste time out of your life that you will never get back do not watch this movie. I cannot even begin to highlight all that is wrong with this movies because I might actually reach the character limit allowed by Amazon. It was just that bad but I watched it for everyone else to save them the time that I wasted. There is nothing good about this movie.

No Genius...think differently Doc is long and same thing we have seen already. Steve was a business man. A great one. But no genius. If you have some kind of educational background, you may understand how he was no genius. It's like Steve said, "Think Different." Oh yea, never compare Edison with Steve please.

Good visuals but... The visuals of this movie weren't bad, some of the special effects were actually quite good but everything else about the movie was horrible. The acting sounded forced (especially the Queen) and the writing was horrible as well. I wanted to like this movie even though it had Kristen Stewart in it but it was not good at all. Also, it wasn't very original. The beginning is fairly classic snow white and then there is a scene that, to me, seems like it was taken straight out of the movie Princess Mononoke (with the deer-like thing in the middle of the forest on an island and then gets shot by the evil people). If you want to watch this movie I suggest you jump to the middle and skip any parts with the evil queen in them.

Preachy&Stagey I am sci-fi fan of fifty years. Save your $$. Check it out on Netflix streaming if you feel compelled.

With a total of 35mins content this is not worth the money I paid 10$ to get this and totally disappointed to find out that total duration of feature content is only 35mins. LeapFrog is ripping people off here. As for the content itself, it's nice but too little. No kid can learn anything substantial from this.

Movie 3, blu ray production ZERO The movie itself is (arguably) fine; the main problem with this product is the blu ray formatting itself. If you pause the movie long enough for it to go the "Universal" screen, it will never start again. It freezes at the point of resumption, and will not play. Similarly, if you eject the movie, re-insert, and try to select the scene you were watching, it freezes on that scene and will not play.  I fail to see how the Blu-Ray industry can keep shoving the "Blu Ray is so awesome" speech down our throats, when I have YET to see a single blu ray that will play from start to finish without pausing for several seconds at some point in the middle of the movie to "catch up with itself". DVD never did that. And DVD on a blu ray player looks great! All the industry needed to do was make a better dvd player, not an inferior new movie format.  This blu ray needs to be recalled until the formatting bugs are worked out!

Beware not a true digital copy This review is strictly for the format as the movie is as funny as the first one.  I wish I read the reviews first but not needing a review on the movie I did not think I needed to read them.  I expected a true digital copy as with most Blu-rays that I could download into ITunes but this is not that.  It is some horrible Ultraviolet digitial that forces you to create a Flixster account and download software to view a streaming or local copy.  I am going to return this to Amazon and wait until a real digital version is available or just buy the cheaper blu-ray with no digital copy if available.

i don't have the product! I don't have the product, please i need to know the tracking number. thanks! XX XX XX XX XX XX

Disappointing A few shorts are exceptional but this collection mostly demonstrates the very early stages of writing and animation development (in too many cases before it developed).  Perhaps of great interest to students of this art form but if your looking for entertainment quality and value, money can be much better spent.  Many of these features are not appropriate for children.

dont loose the reality!! The movie is one of my favorit, I would definitly rate it with 5 stars but keep in mind who really was Ernesto Guevara " a comunist, Murder , racist as is reflected in all his diaries and even more, the original Motorcycle Diaries Book.Read it carefully and you will find a lot of hidden expressions and comparissons against black people. Well enjoy the movie and it's spirit of freedom and traveling!!!

Unfunny version of Superbad in serious need of SteadyCam This movie was so freakin' bad!!! Unless you're a 14 year old boy don't waste your time. It seriously is like Superbad, but not even remotely funny.  I didn't laugh once.  A bunch of teenagers at a party and nothing really happens. I know they were going for the home filmed look, but the camera is SO shakey it makes you nauseous trying to focus. I really wish I turned this off right away, I just kept waiting for it to get good or something to happen. This just might be the worst move I have ever seen!

It's time for human slaves to meet their masters!!! And these masters are Michael Bay and his computers!!!  And we have no one but ourselves to blame!!!  This movie is like a 2.5 hours car crash. When you think it can't get any worse - it does.  It would deserve 2 stars if it didn't have any human actors. But Michael Bay is actually controlled by his computers, and they made him put these humans in this movie to make us suffer even more!!!  This is all I have to say. Transformers IV is coming soon to the theaters near you. Preorder your tickets now!!!

Stargate l The first copy we received of this was badly damaged & we had to return it.  As of this date, 1/11/11 we have NOT received an almost, watched once, copy back from the person who sent it to us.  I was very disappointed in the quality & hopefully the one he does send will be a good copy.  I will not order from this company again........the service has been slow (they sent it the cheapest way & I think Post Office would have been faster).  Janette Todd

Don't get what you pay for. Said it has the bonus episodes of the specials. The DVD I recieved did not.  False advertising! I was not happy I believe you should get what you pay for.They are selling these DVDs under false pretenses.

Biggest waste of time you can imagine This movie is about absolutely nothing. It's a "horror" film that is majorly watching a well to do family live their every day lives being happy and well to do that is... until dunn dunn dunn. Doors start to shut by themselves, a pot magically falls off a rack, uh oh! did someone leave the stove on? Woa! did that girl just get locked outside the house. Run! It's a shadow following you! I seriously don't understand how this movie ever made it big. To a horror fan this entire series is an insult boring, not fun, and is like one long Home Depot commercial. "Do your doors squeak? Problems with your stove? Need a place to hang your pots? Well come on down to Home Depot! we have all your house repair needs!" I mean I'm getting upset just thinking about the hour and something I wasted watching these boring people talk about their boring lives while they got scared from bumps and thumps in the night. Not to mention all the characters were annoying! Except for the Dog. He was the best actor. I hope he moves on to do better work in his Career. Maybe a Rin Tin Tin remake.  There is nothing and I mean nothing in this film worth watching at all. It's not scary, it's not suspenseful, it's just plain boring. There is no story, there is nothing of interests. This movie was strictly made to just make money off the hype from the first film. Usually in a film this bad you root for the ghost to get the characters but even that is a let down. I keep wondering why do these films exists? How is it that they become successful? Why would someone pay to watch this? You could pick the worst film ( and there are a lot of them) in the the Afterdark Horror Fest series and it would look like your watching a block buster like Avatar compared to this crap. This film is so bad it makes you appreciate other films that are actually bad. I feel compelled to go back and give all the low ratings I gave some horror films 5stars after watching this. This films has no purpose and no point and ZERO effort put into it. It's like being a fly on the wall in the house of a boring spoiled rich family. With a pool and a Jacuzzi and a foreign nanny. To think 2 more films exists after this. I'm glad I will only make it this far. I fast forwarded my way through the first one I didn't find tables moving by themselves scary.  0/5 forget that I even gave it 1 star.

Where has Kevin Smith Gone? This movie was totally disappointing.  I have been a Kevin Smith fan for a long time, but it will be a long time before I rent another one his movies.  Especially a pre-theatrical release that costs $10.99.  Thanks Kevin!

I expected more. I like British stuff. I like spies...but this movie kept putting me to sleep; however, there was this one bit where they were driving a convertible and pressed a button on the dash and hot tea came out of the tap. They drank it from actual cups and saucers while going down the road. When the credits started rolling, I realized that Voldemort had been in it...Ralph Fiennes as John Steed. Sean Connery was also in it. I do like his voice.

The bRecford Straight Lets get the record straight, Conan was a name made up by authors in a book. I know that Hollywood will try to exploit this as they have done in  the past. There is no.... Record of such being ever recorded in history. Another attempt by Hollywood to immortalize Muslim Religion to the masses of people in the USA who try to rationalize the middle east religion as one that is rational. Don't be fooled by Hollywood as they try to immortalize self created beings such as Conan for their personal gains... yes a good movie... but with alternative motives altogether. My Opinion of Hollywood IS not to be taken lightly.

The Worst Werewolf Flick Ever You would have to remeber those bad flicks those awful "Howling" movies for comparisons. I am sue that there are even worse movies but I am glad I have not seen them.

GET THIS MOVIE..... IF YOU WANT TO WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY.ANYWAY, THIS MOVIE SUCKS AND I SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO THE REVIEWS ON THIS PAGE BUT DECIDED THAT I COULDN'T DISMISS IT UNTIL I WATCHED IT FOR MYSELF...PLEASE DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE.ZACK IS ONLY IN THE MOVIE FOR MAYBE 10 MINUTES (THIS 10 MINUTE PERIOD IS THE ONLY TIME THE MOVIE IS ENTERTAINING)

Rio Item was supposed to be 'new'.  It has so many scratches on it, we can't watch it.  No instructions how to return or get our money back.

Refund This was by far the WORST MOVIE EVER. I have seen better scripts done by 1st graders and whoever the actor was who played, "Griff", go back to which ever state you came from. Who ever said you could act, lied to you. I wish I knew someone at Amazon so I could get my money and the hour and a half of my life back.

Weeds Season Seven (blue-ray) Very disappointing! Actors try to save a bad script; however, as every end of series it looks clearly how some people have run out of ideas...

DO NOT RENT The movie trailer makes the movie look fantastic. The trailer is in English. However, you have to READ the entire movie! It is in a foreign language. No indication of this on the description or on the movie preview. I wish I could get my money back. I fast forward to different points in the movie hoping that somewhere they would start speaking english. NO SUCH LUCK. I turned it off without "reading" the rest of the movie. I "watch" movies to "see" and not to read. I "read" books. This purchase was a total waste. Sure wish I could get my money returned for this falsely advertised item. Now I think I'll go get a book to "watch".

meh This must the worst movie ever made. Even Ed Wood has some better movies than this garbage. If you want to throw money away, buy this movies.

Terrible- Skip this title We were left speechless at the amateurish and poor quality of this production. The demeanor of the "team leader" (we only see him and his wife) made us question the validity of his findings.

poor I ordered the movie for my daughter and the DVD case was empty.  I am not sure what happened, but no DVD was on the inside.  She was very upset and so was I.

Le Miserable Movie What a miserable movie... I puked during the movie (on an empty stomach), then couldn't wait for it to end. Lots of foul language and disgusting drama. The movie has been made to demonstrate how miserable and ugly American life can be despite all the wealth. Cage is not alone, I've been thrown soda bottles at just because I was a bicyclist or a snow-plougher... Chicago is one of the most miserable cities in the U.S., weather, pollution and all that. I'm glad I bought it used for $5.

Aweful, but with a mediocre finale. First off, this movie is just about utter crap.  The ONLY redeeming quality is the final vignette.  This is surprisingly good and sentimental...or maybe it is just mediocre, but in comparison to the drivel you've been forced to watch up to that point, it seems amazing.  The idea of failing at suicide because your car won't start is actually a decent way to start the story.  They probably should have started with that, and then let the rest of the movie crash and burn.  As it is, probably only 3 people have actually watched that story, since watching the entire movie up until that point is an exercise in self-hate.  If, despite all the warnings you've been given here, you still think "oh, how bad can it be??" and decide to pick up the movie, once you realize you can't take anymore, fast forward to the last story and watch that.  Then destroy your copy, because this movie should be removed from existence.

Widescreen vs. regular DVD I ordered both Season 1 and Season 2 of Modern Family (as Christmas gifts). Season 1 appears to be a normal format, however I did return a "Widescreen Edition" of Season 2 for a regular format DVD (as the Season 1 was). I was again sent a Widescreen Version of Season 2. I give up. Isn't there a non-widescreen version of Season 2. Who wants to keep returning to the Post Office at this time of year. Not happy.

I wanted to like this but...it's so darn awful! I can't remember the last time I watched such an awfully un-funny comedy. I had extremely high expectations given the talented duo of lead actors, and perhaps that fact has tainted my opinion, but this crapfest was just that: a giant festival of crap. I simply can't think of the words to accurately describe what a horrible, abysmal, and downright awful trainwreck of a movie this was. Steve Carrell obviously tried to make the best of the character he was given, but even his skill was no match for the dreck the writers came up with.  I've never written a review for anything anywhere before but I felt compelled to write one here in the hope that at least one person would be saved from the traumatic spiral of festering poop that is Dinner For Schmucks. Avoid, avoid, avoid!

To "All The Young Dudes" I guess I will be the first to step up in the face of all of this gushing appreciation of this film, and say I thought this adventure of two valley "girls" and a flame thrower and a monster car, was pure garbage. And last time I checked, "garbage" was not an official new genre.  I know I am supposed to now qualify this opinion with a long explanation of my cinematic knowledge and apppreciations. Not for this film. I will say that I truly enjoy independent movies that "push the envelope". Directors that take a chance. That are willing to go the dangerous route of seeing their vision come to life. And then we have what I just endured. "Best movie of the year". WOW!  I will leave my opinion at this since I have already wasted 107 minutes of my life I can never recover from viewing this "masterpiece". I will offer one caveat....there is a cool extra detailing the workings of the "Mother Medusa" that pacified my motorhead, and at the same time also allowed it to recover.

I Hope the Book is Better I watched the movie as a primer to reading the book.  I hope the book is better as the movie is awful.  The acting is stiff and the characters are one dimensional.  The premise is detached from reality.  Leaders of a metal company and railroad congratulate themselves for building a railway line.  "We did it" they exclaim, yet the movie never once shows any real work being done.  Apparently the rail line gets built because the CEOs say "they" are going to do it and it magically gets done.  The government is depicted as being against the protagonists and for other vested business interests, but these other interests are only abstractions of lazy asses.  They never get fleshed out in any meaningful way.  It is an amazingly shallow and ridiculous movie.

Amazon Kindle a total ripoff Once again, I download and pay for a movie before getting on a flight and once I am airborne -----nothing there to watch... Amazon customer service in some faraway place with a person who barely spoke English was no help at all -- all he could say was "no refunds on digital purchases." A total ripoff. Oh yes -- the movie -- I still haven't seen it....

I couldn't believe my eyes... I caught this movie the other night on TV.I had never heard of it,but thought " Okay, Sean Connery, Science Fiction, how bad can it be?" In a word,awful.The effects were pretty good (especially that giant head),but everyone just seemed to be in it for a paycheck. And more than once, I found myself wondering what the heck was going on. Maybe I just didn't get the message that Boorman was trying to convey,or maybe there wasn't one. I could be wrong.All I know is that the image of Sean Connery in a red loin cloth is still burned on to my retinas.

Moat Boring Ghost Story Ever Nothing happens until the last 30 minutes and even that wasn't worth waiting for; I found myself answering email, checking out CNN.com and fast forwarding to see if there was something at all intelligent or interesting about this story. The acting is over-the-top ridiculous, loooong panning with the camera, making me think that they were trying to fill up empty time with long pans. Nothing is ever explained, the dots don't connect. Ending is hackneyed and completely predictable. Great big bore and poorly done. If you want a good ghost story, rent "The Haunting" (not the Liam Neeson version, though I adore him; get the Claire Bloom version) or better still "The Innocents." Sheesh, even Paranormal Activity was better than this.

Another Double Dip I loved the movie, but the now continual release of blu-ray followed by blu-ray 3D is just one more way of trying to get more and more money from a single film. The 3D print was in the studios hands back then. But they wait for everyone who wanted to have purchased it, the come out with a new or extended version.

Filthy & Scratched This DVD said it was in very good condition, but it came filthy and scratched. I'm returning it ASAP. I thought I was ordering from a company that had pretty good reviews...

worst movie ever This movie is horrible and offensive to boot. The animation series is one of my favorite stories ever with beautiful animation. I curled up on the couch with this movie excited to geek out to the story. The first few scenes of the movie I was just shocked at how awful the acting is. This is insignificant next to the blatant racism of this production. The "bad guys" are cast as middle eastern, playing into the most cliche hollywood stereotypes of the day. The animation series doesn't play into these simplistic cliches. Rather, it creates a world where many different viewers can be represented and explore the narrative of transformation and social change.

THIS MOVIE SUCKS I don't care if it's cheap. i don'y care if it's good blu ray quality. THE MOVIE SUCKS!. there is no enjoyable content in this movie. I was dragged to see the movie. you don't care about what happen's because it's so bad! . just because it's for kid's doesn't mean that it can be bad would

Possibly the worst movie I've ever seen I thought this was going to be a good movie. Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 95%. It's the worst highly rated movie I've ever seen. My girlfriend and I kept saying "WTF?" the entire time we watched it. It made very little sense. The Road Warrior is much, much better.

Caliqula (Unrated) I purchased this because I thought it was about the excesses of the Roman Empire. It was so awful and offensive that I stopped viewing it half way through. Next morning I threw it in the dumpster because I certainly couldn't give it to anyone else. Now that I think about it, the library may have accepted it...too late now!

Marketing Leeches First off the series is amazing as the manga, the anime is to full of fillers that lend you nothing to the real experience. I started buying the box sets and had gotten all the way up to "boxset" 7 then i just stopped buying. They release each boxset with fewer and fewer dvds/episodes originally you got 5 dvds in the first few boxsets at around 20 episodes or so each. Now its 3 discs with last i looked 11 episodes FOR THE EXACT SAME PRICE. Yes boxset 1 was 39.99 day 1 this if you dont catch it during there random sales is 49.99!?! Really half the content but same money. I dont blame amazon or any individual seller its the VIZ media group who set the prices originally plus considering 11 episodes a boxset i give up on buying anymore this season and have started to sell mine so i dont get irritated about having an incomplete series.  No thanks just find it online to watch, if ya wanna be ripped off each season then buy it.

5 Stars for the movie, 1 star for the product Seriously bummed out that they won't be opening up the matte for the IMAX scenes, feels like Paramount really cheaped out with this disc.  I understand that it's more expensive to go through the work of creating discs like Tron:Legacy, Dark Knight, and Transformers 2 for BD release with IMAX incorporated, but with how hyped up some of the IMAX scenes in MIGP were I thought it would be a given.  I heard from his twitter comments that Brad Bird doesn't like to see a shift in aspect ratio for home video, but somebody at Paramount should have had veto power on this decision.  For me this is a dealbreaker, and I'm sure that I'm not the only one who won't be purchasing the disc because of this.  For now I'll have to Redbox it when I want to watch, and hopefully we will eventually see a better release.

st helens 30 anniversary adition i bought st helens 30th anniv.dvd an did not like how they put this dvd thepicture is not clear it is not in widescreen it should be on blueray why do movie componies do this to good movies hope they put st.helens on blueray in widescreen do it right next time. dont buy st helens  keep your money wait for blureay.

worthless item This item was not as described.  The disc itself was filthy.  Movie stalled repeatedly and we had to go backward and forward to get it started again.  Sad.  Thanks Amazon for a great returns policy... never had to use it before.

Digital copy is a scam, I returned mine! Read all the other reviews, the digital copy doesn't work, it's not ipad, ipod, iphone, compatible... I'm not sure I'll preorder another movie from Amazon again....

25 Mins was all that was needed ! Wow  what a poor and misguided movie. The plot was boring and actors & dialog was bad. 25 mins was all I needed to delete/erase from my DVR sercive it was not worth watching for 2+hrs  and I am thankful I did not pay money to watch it or that I bought or rented it. The money saved could be used to pay for serveral DVD's with better plots and better actors.  Is gets 1 star and I  am beening kind at that.

No Swans in this movie Black Swan consisted of mental and physical mutilation scenes, theft, self-loathing, drugs, drinking, vomiting, long self-pleasure, male/female and female/female sex scenes, perverted old men touching themselves and the lead actress. Verbal and mental abuse, murder and suicide, and a sickly looking lead actress crying most of the time while supposedly portraying a ballet dancer who was picked for the lead part in Swan Lake.  It was monumentally disturbing on so many levels and ruined a nice evening.

Love the Movie, Hate the UltraViolet The film is excellent, but I find it extraordinarily irritating that UltraViolet continues to be adopted. You get no true digital copy, just a license to log in to their horrible website and stream it--for now. There are no perpetual rights to this license. I want a true, downloadable digital copy that's compatible with iTunes and WMP. Note to Amazon: Stop stocking titles with this horrible UltraViolet service! Fight to keep true, downloadable digital copies!

bad deal Though this title, "Cops," is rare to find as a stand alone DVD, this particular print is not worth your money.  Not only is the print quality poor, it has no sound track at all.  It is a silent "silent movie," which was never the way the genre was supposed to be--all silents had background music when they were shown.  Anyway, this copy of "Cops" looks like a bootleg copy from another source.  It is a bad deal--one might almost say, criminally bad.

boring I didn't finish watching this documentary it was that boring...  for me cant say anything good about it.. thought it was going to be a great movie if it had been made into a movie I think it would have been worth watching but not in this form .

terrible i guess it wasn't even worth the 12 cents + shipping. total nonsense. i could only watch 3 minutes of it.

booooooring Complete waste of time and $3. The actors weren't that bad but the story was so slow I had to fight to stay awake

The last of the Mohicans I would love to review this movie,,,,,we initially as required on the Amazon site, ordered it to be played in REGION B,section, movie arrives, sit down to watch, up comes the notice, "this movie cannot play on your system as it is REGION A, After 'mega amount' of non answered e-mails of what to do, we receive instructions for us to retain our incorrect copy, & an apology issued,"a correct DVD will be sent to you" as we had at the same time also ordered, a boxed set of ERROL FLYNN DVD's we were afraid to break the plastic sealed box, it was requested that we return the box unopened (we could not see any ID on either DVD items that indicated their playing region?), the Flynn box of 5 DVD's cost "approx", $32-00 to initially purchase, return postage cost $39-00!!!, recently the replacement 'Mohicans' DVD arrived, I again sit down to watch it , & "DA, DAR", guess what appears on the screen? yes,you're correct, "this movie cannot play on your system as it is REGION A", the single star rating is for customer communication, service, & in house selection skills,or specific reading of insructions at the warehouse  not the movie. As at this point we, have no Errol Flynn Dvd's (returned) 2 copies of the 'Mohicans' DVD's that are again unplayable) as well as an excess $7-00 in mailing costs for a unsuitable article, (though let it be said, that Amazon have refunded some of our costs)I now have nil of either lots of DVD's to play!,,,REVIEW 'Mohicans'? I'd love to, but I'd like to see it first!! Bob Bray, OZ

Violent, stupid and not sexy at all! Do not buy this movie at any price!! All that happens throughout the movie is the heroine gets accidentally hit, knocked down and otherwise injured. Unless you are a sadist, this movie will be, at best boring; at worst disturbing. It's not even funny at any time. Almost forgot, this movie is not the least bit sexy or even erotic, just dumb and boring.

WAY over-rated This is one of the worst series that Showtime ever produced.  Jeremy Irons is lifeless, and the rest of the cast are wooden, doing what most modern actors do, playing their roles as if they realize their place in history.  The scripts are formulaic, and the violence is gratutious.  If you loved the Tudors, stay away from the Borgias.......

Did not received this item I contacted the seller and he said the item was coming from Hawaii but I still have not received it. It's been 2 weeks since the final date it was promised.

NO DTS MA????????? wont think twice to check the audio format since its bluray thinking your getting FULL HD content WRONG!!!! whos idea was this?????? SUMMIT!!! I wont even rent it!!!!!!!!!!!!

VERY UNHAPPY!! The reason I ordered this set was because I wanted Deep Blue Sea and Sphere-- well guess what, when my package arrived it ONLY included Deep Blue Sea and Perfect Storm-- I was not a happy camper.  Contacted Amazon and they are going to issue a refund -- but I didn't want the refund I wanted my movie!

Dissapointing This was made during the writers strike from a few years back.  It's not very original, the songs arn't great, but I don't care for musicals anyway, so your mileage may vary.  Over all, it was kind of boring and difficult to sit through the whole thing.

That's a negative 1 star! I didn't see the original movie, but if it was anything like this one I can see why they waited thirty years to re-make it!  Bad, bad acting by Garret Hedlund, not captivating at all.  Insipid and boring, yes!  The only thing I liked was how good Jeff Bridges looked as Clu.  Jeff NEVER looked THAT good as a young man.  At the end of the movie the three of us regretted watching this instead of America's Got Talent!  Avoid it!

Look for another book ..... I found this author to give very few tips for the cost of his book or DVD. His instructiuon are confusing.

Gadzooks! This film lacks an essential ingredient: a statement that "any resemblance between characters and events shown and actual historical events is purely accidental." It is of negative value as a history film, in that the viewer is left more ignorant of what happened in 1645-1649+ than he was before he saw the film even if he originally knew nothing at all. The film "Cromwell," for all its own faults, is much better. Try comparing the trial scenes of the two films. It's a pity that so much money and talent were wasted to make this embarrassment.

Poor Reconstruction of Reality - This is supposedly 24-hours in the 'life' of Lehman Brothers. It fails to explain the investments that got Lehman into trouble, the firm's reaction to the news that it was in trouble is nonsensical, the original scenes are unbelievable, etc., etc.

OMG, what a BAD movie! Seriously...and I'm not a "blockbuster" only type person.  I love indi films, old films, unusual films.  This one just sucks.  Bad acting, slow moving, dumb plot with lots of "why don"t they just (fill in the blank?).  But don't listen to me...get it, watch it, waste your money, and see for yourself...you're not going to listen to me anyway...

Megaboring The only reason for taking time to write a review is to prevent others from wasting their own precious time and money on this movie. The animation is nothing special. The story line morally contemporary and only irritatingly offensive. I might have watched more than one-third of Megamind, if the makers of this film had spent more time on story quality than paying for actor's voices.

GREAT, FOR 12 AND UNDER IF YOU'RE MENTALLY OR PHICALLY 12 AND UNDER, THIS IS A FILM FOR YOU. GOOD PRODUCTION VALUE, TOO BAD IT'S WASTED TRYING TO MAKE HUMAN DREK INTO CHARACTERS WE CARE ABOUT. LOTS OF GOOD SCIFI FILMS OUT THERE. IF YOU HAVE A BRAIN, WATCH SOMETHING ELSE.

terrible The discs do not work at all, so I am very disappointed with my purchase! The disc came in a timely fashion and I was very excited to watch this movie, but neither of my dvd players would play the disc. It was a waste of money.

Biggest Stink Bomb of all time! I cannot tell you how much I regret having spent money on this horrible stinker of a movie. I enjoy a bit of low brow humor now and then, but this film seemed to have been put together for a very specific demographic: male, poor white trash - the kind of people who drive pick up trucks with big fat wheels, have guns (and go "huntin"), don't wash on a regular basis, can't hold down jobs or hold a decent conversation. What astounds me is how they managed to talk a couple of decent actresses into even being in this thing!! Frankly, this movie is SO bad, it makes Ishtar look like Casablanca. And I never thought anything could be as bad as Ishtar. The people involved in greenlighting this film, producing it, and "directing" it, should be tarred and feathered and dumped in some horrible nasty place where they can't bother people with such dreck anymore.

High Noon I cannot access the main movie, only the intro and menu pages. It is unwatchable.  The movie itself is great, I've seen it before.

Corpse I loved this show until this season.  Season 6 was full of amazing shows (The Doctor in the Photo was one of the best things ever on TV). And even the end of the season was fascinating in its way, how the romance played out. But this most recent season has been a disaster. The whole thing got simultaneously beyond gooey and they also upped the ick factor with the bodies.  Gooey and ick in one fell swoop!  And it kept getting more and more hopeless until the completely ridiculous finale.  The whole thing is depressing.  I can't imagine what would possess anyone to possess this season.  (The Eighth season started off depressingly, but the writing has picked back up again!)

Slow Down Tyler It seems that every year Tyler Perry has a new film that comes out and with this one, he should have slowed down and took his time because this has seemed rush. This movie doesn't have the magic like some of his earlier works like Diary of a Mad Black Woman & The Family That Prays.  This movie has all of Tyler's other films all wrapped up into this one and basically sloppily done. Lets see Bow Wow selling drugs is similar to Keshia Knight Pulliam being a prostitute in Madea Goes to Jail, the sister rivalry is just like Taraji P. Henson & Sanaa Lathan in The Family That Prays, the marriage problems is just like Why Did I Get Married films, baby mama drama is almost like Diary of a Mad Black Woman, kids with a smart mouth is like I Can Do Bad All By Myself. Throw in Brown from Meet the Browns, and Madea from all the other films she starred in and you got Madea's Big Happy Family.  Instead of hiring all these new actors to play Madea's family it would have been better if Tyler had elaborated on Madea's part of the family that we seen in earlier films. Like how Kimberly Elise and Shemar Moore's characters are doing, the characters from Madea's Family Reunion film, none of them have been mentioned at all in films that starred Madea. I'm far more interested in those characters than the characters that were in this film because they are just recycled characters from Tyler's earlier films. What about the child that Madea was a foster mother to that was played by Keke Palmer, I mean what is going on with them.  Instead cliched characters, snooty sister, men being owned by their wives, ghetto baby mama, a pot head, and Brown being unfunny as usual. Using Maury as a comedy is a big no. Maury's show sucks with the 1000% sure and running off stage, that's not funny, that's just tasteless.  Tyler should slow down and put more thoughts, character development, and great storytelling instead of having a family tragedy that brings everyone together in the end. That's been done so many times in films.

Random Acts of Stupid I liked Cabin Fever. It left off in a good spot for an interesting sequel. This was NOT that sequel. Every aspect seemed unfinished and random, like the movie was put together in a couple of days. Very disappointed. Not worth the watch.

very dissatisfied movie was not able to be played in my area.  I sent it back and was NOT reimbursed for postage Either way.  I would NEVER order from Amazon again!!!!

Misleading and STUPID! Dont buy or rent.  Just BURN! I swear it would get 0 stars if i could.  Even the music before the movie plays is TERRIBLE! Everything is terrible.  Just please dont.....

Yukky Yukky West! As a steadfast fan of Wild Wild West from its very first episode as a child; all I need to say is that this version with Will Smith stinks! It is awful. I watched it once, hoping for it to get better as it went. But, it got only worse. I am a Will Smith fan, but he and the entire cast were miss-cast. Will never watch it again.

Stupid script, pathetic acting, and horrible ending The only good thing about this movie is the special effects. The script and acting are horrible. Also, the ending is stupid.

One star is being generous. This movie is bad.  Bad casting, bad acting, bad script, and bad direction.  Even the special effects are bad!  If you are a fan of movies like Sahara, National Treasure, and Prince of Persia then this movie is for you.  Otherwise, stay far away from this uninspired, dull, soulless remake.  Apart from the obvious flaws you notice immediately into the film, the most disappointing is that this movie takes away all the charm the original Clash of the Titans had.  A perfect example is Bubo, the mechanical owl who helps Perseus in the first film.  He served as a R2D2 type character providing comic relief as well as being a guide for the hero.  In this movie, Perseus notices Bubo on a pile of junk and picks him up and asks "What is this?". In response, he is told to "leave THAT behind".  He is then tossed back onto the pile of junk with a shrug.  Enough said.

just plain bad a little too cryptic for my taste and somehow the only possible role gary oldman could be miscast for. there is no satisfaction and no real audience participation in the mystery so it just feels dusty and lame.

one of the worst ever boy, are the reviews here way off the mark. this is basically a three act play: character set up (passengers on the train), plot thickening (robbery and cabin fever), violent climax (ghost town show down). the problem is with the plotting of the lead characters. lee j. cobb is stridently annoying -- bawling, hollering, yelling, bellowing, hooting, roaring, screaming -- except for the stretches where he's drunkenly muttering. menace isn't created, only the impression that he's a mental defective who needs a hearing aid. julie london is quietly effective as the abused woman, if you believe a woman of her experience can fall in love with a man simply because he hasn't raped her.  it's bad enough that the chemistry between cooper and london is nonexistent; he flinches every time she touches him. it's barely tolerable that cooper has the gait of an arthritic farmer and would never stand up in a real brawl. the problem is that his character is deeply stupid. once a hunted outlaw, he saunters into a big town with a bag full of money. rather than deposit the money in a local bank where it can be wired ahead, he packs it with him on a train. rather than hide from train robbers, he stands around where one can conk him on the head. rather than walk along the tracks to the next town, he heads across open country to the shack where he knows his evil uncle used to live. guess what! evil uncle "dock" still lives there! and rather than sneak off in the night, he beds down in the barn. and while cooper and his friends have only come to the cabin because they've been stranded by the fleeing train -- as the robbers are quick to point out -- dock hollers and bellows and takes cooper back into his gang anyway. just like that! and so it goes, right up to the final anticlimactic and weirdly unconvincing shootout.  the cinematography, alternating between enclosed spaces and the big outdoors, and the cliched action movie musical score, as predictable as a borscht belt comedy routine, can't possibly redeem it. i have not seen *every* western ever made, but "man of the west" competes with "el topo" as one of the most confused and poorly conceived. a stagey and hokey bore.

Village And Children Of The Damned DVD does not work could only watch Village of the damned, also could never get the menu to work. The DVD was not much but I expected it to work. Do not buy.

Disappointed in the representation of the product I did NOT read anywhere in your write-up that this DVD was in Italian.  I wrote to the seller and asked if it could be used in the U.S. and he said it could just change the regional or country code.  (But you have to have an "all regional" player to be able to use it that I did not know at the time.)  So, I opened it and it did not work so now I am stuck with a product that we cannot use.  DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT UNLESS YOU HAVE AN "AND ALL REGIONAL PLAYER" so you can change the region.

well i watched for 5 minutes Well i watched for 5 minutes, and i didn't laugh once. It was the longest 5 minutes of my life. Do not watch this.  here is more words and stuff ok.

Very little action, pretty boring After seeing how great Captain America was, I figured I would give this one chance, but man, what a waste of time.  Natalie Portman is scrumptous, maybe she could make it something worth checking out, but nope, pretty boring there too.  Really only for the diehard Natalie fans.  No big exciting fight scene either...just a snoozefest.

Do not buy anything from this seller This DVD had nothing on it and did not work at all.  Further more I had no way to return the item.  There was no return information enclosed, no phone number and no return address!

Badly redone knock-off of another Veggie Tale See if this sounds familiar: Veggie decides to use theater production to teach the city a lesson. Veggie stakes a lot on production, then learns a local church is doing a show the same night, only with a star attraction which is sure to draw the audience away from Veggie's crummy more commercialized act. Veggie turns evil, steals the star with the justification that "it can't hurt", attempts to use star, theater burns down due to faulty invention, Veggie is ruined, forgiveness handed out in "spirit of the holiday".  Ring a bell? Right: Star of Christmas, possibly the least favorite and worst Veggie Tale until this one. Mike Nawrocki ought to be ashamed of the horrible repackaging of a prior VT, let alone one that was so badly done. The songs were terrible, the animation lousy, and the characters inspiring not a shred of empathy. Want to simulate the Christ-centered message of this DVD? You can't, because there's even less of a Christian message in this one than in "Star of Christmas". All you can do is hop around the room chanting the inane drivel, "Bunnies, bunnies, bunnies" until you can't stand it anymore.  Terrible DVD. If Amazon allowed negative stars, this earns it. It's the only Veggie Tale I didn't even let my kids watch, because it's really THAT bad.

Dumb Da Dumb Dumb Dumb!!!! I will agree with Ally....this movie is not worth purchasing and also even if it was free I won't even watch it.  I also think it was a waste of time and money.

39 Steps VHS This was supposed to be the remastered version, but was not.  Poor quality video and audio.  I do not recommend anyone buy it.

wrath of the Titans yes why i feel this way movie i have dose not work yes i got incontact with the seller and he sent m another copy with the same problem like really whats realy good waiting and seeing what happen next

Not the Original Film, so disappointed!! Let me start off by saying that I am utterly disappointed that two versions of this film are not offered on these DVDs. I can not find the original film that I fell in love with on DVD unless I purchase it again on VHS or go out for a blu-ray. I had to return this.  Pretty Woman DVD (1998) - Not the original film Pretty Woman 10th Anniversary - Not the original film Pretty Woman 15th Anniversary - Not the original film Pretty Woman Blu-ray - Includes both original and director's cut versions of the film  Someone come out with the original film soon! Damnn!

Absolute Crap!! There are no words to describe how crappy this movie is. I cannot believe I decided to waste my friday night watching this piece of junk. There is nothing in this movie, unless you are such a huge sucker for the emotional that you do not care if the attempts are obvious and fake. I would not have been able to sit through the movie if I did not have a 24 hour time limit to finish the movie in. I am desperately trying to remotely understand the good reviews that this movie got. There is very little action. And the little action that they did manage is as bad as watching monkeys brawling over a banana in the zoo. The only good part about the movie is Carey Caulfield. She isn't pretty or hot. But she has to be the cutest girl I have seen on screen.  If you have a three digit IQ, you will not like it. The action sucks, the acting is worse, and there isn't enough space in amazon's review section to describe how bad the direction and the actual implementation of the story is. Having said that, the story line isn't bad. But the way the story is shown is terrible. I mean for god's sake he doesn't even 'DRIVE' very well. I am 23 years old and if the society calls for all conformants to like this crap, I'm afraid I am going to have to move to a planet where actors can act and the actor in a movie named 'DRIVE' can drive. Anyway to sum it up in points:  PROs:  1) Very cute actress. 2) The story line is not too shabby.  CONs:  Everything else.  Watch it if they give it to you for free.

Cenderella Terrible service!!! Took to long to get. Then shipper sent wrong DVD.  Tried to contact them and there email was full. So I guess o stuck with the wrong item

Be very careful before purchasing The quality of these disks are very poor. Many are damaged and skip and freeze. Because of the size of the disk set, I didn't discover the problem until it was too late to get it taken care of. If you decide to order this set anyway, make sure that you check every disk upon arrival so that you have a chance of getting any damage taken care of. I am very disappointed with the order and the lack of response in getting the problem fixed. The 4 star rating fooled me into a sense of security and unfortunately I didn't read the reviews before purchasing this set. This appears to not be an isolated problem, but one that many others have had.

If only I was really looking forward to watching this film, asI have read the book and enjoyed it.  When the DVD arrived we settled ourselves down with glass of wine, and nibbles --only to find out that the DVD wasn't compatible with UK dvd players!!  If only that had been made clear when I ordered it! so I now have one unplayed DVD of The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo - any offers?

Not at all what I expected. Don't waste your $$ I get that this is suppose to be following a little boy and such, but I found it extremely boring and not at all fun!  The German was spoken super fast and there really wasn't much explanation as it was playing. The video would move on with no repeating and at the end quiz you.  There are better programs out there. We live in Germany and I was just looking for something that I could add to my home school curriculum for my DD to making learning German fun.  This was not it!  Look else where and don't waste your money.

Ugh Simply AWFUL.  Bad acting, bad story. Just plain BAD.  This is a graphic torture movie i could only take a few minutes of and then I turned it off.

Haywire a terrible movie With all the big stars this was an absolute waste of their talent. I have seen Gena in MMA and she is worth the ticket of admission but as lead role forget it. THeplot was stupid . The action sequels were seen in the trailer. This movie is not even fun to watch.

Poor quality This is a poor quality DVD. The first time we played it, it skipped briefly more than 5 times in the second half of the movie .

not what i was looking for... I thought I was getting a dvd that taught HOW to do two chi, not basically a glorified YouTube video showcasing his abilities...

Like two weeks without a bowel movement..... ...only not as pleasant!   Imagine the movie Ishtar and combine it with Leonard Part 6. Now tack on The Super Mario Bros. Movie,mix with Freddy Got Fingered and add a heaping helping of Jaws:The Revenge, Joe Versus The Volcano and The Garbage Pail Kids. Think that would be a piece of crap? Just wait until you take a whiff of this cinematic turd.   I honestly don't know what Hollywood AKA Shallowwood is thinking anymore when it comes to crediting the average schmoe off the street with common sense.   First off,I'm not writing this review because I am a "stooge-hater" "anti-stooge" or think that slapstick is stupid. Quite the contrary,I grew up in the 80s and every saturday night as a kid from 10:30 at night to 1 a.m. the stooges were on channel 11. Fastforward to 2012 and we get this mess...   1.)The stooges never emplemented "toilet humor"--whenever I watched the trio on tv,they never farted or talked about "boogers."   2.)The stooges were always about yukking it up at the cost of their own selves;they never bashed a religon and they did not promote an ideology--unless you want to count Moe Howard's take on Hitler during war time,in which case you would be defending Nazisim,in which case you would be an idiot.   Oh yeah! What a great family movie to bring the kiddies too! Ha!Ha!Ha! A nun takes a churchbell to the head! Ha!Ha!Ha! A nun gets a stooge poke to the eyes! Ha!Ha!Ha! First off this is really dumb,because all three stooges were Jewish. Secondly whenever there was a "save the poor orphanage from the mean ol' tax collector" scenario,it was never tied into a religous background. This was just a disrespectful act promoted by yet another anti-Christian/anti-Catholic lemming from Hollyweird.   Imagine how the Muslim community would have reacted if Alah took a poke in the eyes by Moe,or if Muhammad took a few jabs from Larry? The three actors who played the three stooges would have become the three dead bodies.  3.) This is Blues Brothers 2000 and The New Pink Panther all over again. John Goodman could not replace John Belushi,Steve Martin could not fill the shoes of Peter Sellers and Wingus,Dingus and FruitLoops (don't know the actual names of these "actors" and I don't care either) couldn't even come close to breathing life back into the old hollywood legends. How many failures does it take these film producers to learn that once the greats are gone,they cannot be reanimated--and certainly not when a new brand of "humor" is shackled around that persona's ankles.  If you want to introduce your kids to the comic stylings of the stooges,then show them THE REAL THING and pass on this 2012 mutilation. More fun and alot less crude garbage and militant propoganda. Oh,and I'm pretty sure Curly never tried to perform Heimlich on a dolphin....

Wow I just finished watching this movie. I have heard of the book but never read it. All I can say is I really tried to watch this and like it. I did. I like all sorts of spy movies. Flashy Tom Cruise ones, James Bond ones and ones like the Good Shepard. I have absolutely no idea what was going on in this VERY boring muddled movie. Twenty five minutes into the film I had to read the back cover of the box to see what it was about. Ten minutes later I started to nod off and wake up every five minutes or so. The other reviewers that knew what was going on clearly must have already read the book or seen the BBC series. What was that communist xmas party all about? The one they kept going back to that had all the spies at it? Characters seemed to just show up out of no where to fill a role and we were suppose to know who they were. Maybe because I kept falling asleep but I have no idea at all how the clues Oldman gathered added up to the person he ultimately decided was the spy. As far as I knew it could have been just as easily any of them. And why was the guy that was hanging around the kid so tortured all movie? What happened to all the others in the spy council at the end? Were they part of the plot? What?

Different disks freeze at same point on multiple devices I have a large collection of BBC dramatizations of classic English literature and was looking forward very much to the Charles Dickens collection, but when watching Great Expectations I found that episodes froze about 1 to 2 hours into the disk on both sides. I had played the disk on a Sony DVD player and tried playing it on our computer DVD drive with the same result. The video itself was great except for the freezing, which forced us to skip 3 episodes.  I ordered a replacement with the same results. I played Our Mutual Friend with the same result on both the DVD player and computer: episodes froze about 1 to 2 hours into the disk. Episodes earlier and later on the disk played without any problem. I was greatly disappointed and returned the collection for a refund--doubly disappointed because I had looked forward to purchasing volume 2 as well.  I'm curious whether anyone else has had a similar problem with BBC double-sided DVDs. I assume there's an incompatibility between the device used to burn the disks and our Sony DVD player and IBM ThinkCentre M51 DVD drive.  Subsequent to writing the preceding review, I bought the prior version of The Charles Dickens Collection, Volume 1, in which each title is packaged in its own slipcase. The DVD's in that version play without freezing. It was a used box set, but I'm happy to have a fully functioning set of the DVD's. I also have Volume 2 in the slimcase packaging, and those DVD's also play without problem.

WARNING!!! You will NOT get what is pictured! Unfortunately, I cannot give a different rating for the movie and the purchase I made.  The movie is very cute and that was why I was purchasing it.  The movie deserves 3.5-4 stars.  The rest of my review has to do with the purchase I made.  According to the picture, I was supposed to receive a Blu-Ray, a DVD, and a Digital Copy. However, the first item that was sent to me was the Blu-Ray only.  I called Amazon's customer service only to have an ignorant customer service representative try to tell me that I purchased a Blu-Ray, which is just a DVD.  After explaining to this person who was reading the script on her monitor that a Blu-Ray is NOT a DVD, she asked me to read off the ISBN number and then compare it to the number on my receipt.  I confirmed that the numbers matched, so I did not want the same item shipped to me again.  She assured me that she had fixed the problem and she was going to overnight the correct item.  When it did arrive, it was the SAME single disc Blu-Ray AGAIN!  I called Amazon AGAIN and was told that the description of the item was for a Blu-Ray and not for a Blu-Ray, DVD, and Digital Copy so they had fulfilled my order.  After complaining that the picture shows differently, she said Amazon was going to have the picture changed and they would give me a $5 promotional credit towards another purchase - you know, so I would have to purchase MORE from Amazon, and not the refund I deserved.  It's been more than a week (today is 1/15/12) and the same picture is listed.  No one has come to pick up the returned Blu-Ray, and I have NOT received the promotional credit.  By the way, I chose this product using the Amazon Mobile App and it has the same picture as well.  To simplify, if you are aware that you are purchasing ONLY a single-disc Blu-Ray and not what is FRAUDULENTLY pictured, you make the decision if you want to purchase this item.  Do NOT think you are getting the Triple-Play combo pack that is pictured!

THE GIRL EWITH THE DRAGON TATTOO WHY DID I PAY OVER $10 FOR THIS ITEM WHEN IT SELLS FOR $5.67?  I DON'T LIKE TO OVERPAY BY THAT MUCH.  AT LEAST THE SINGLE DISC VERSION WHICH IS WHAT I RECEIVED SELLSS FOR THAT

Terrible <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000056HEA">The Lion in Winter</a>Disgusting and boring. Makes all the characters neurotic. I am sure that Henry Plantagenet and Eleanor of Aquitaine were not the sad plebeians shown there. Why is Eleanor talking about syphilis if she died in 1204 and the first written records of an outbreak of syphilis in Europe occurred in 1494/1495? Wasted my money.

WRESTLE CRAP ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WOULD NOT RECOMMEND TO ANYONE I KNOW AND OR RESPECT. GARBAGE IS MORE ENTERTAINING!

Lame Bad, tired, going-to-far jokes that make this a very dishonorable film.  I should have seen it coming.  Lots of people like this kind of humor, I don't

Go Away Vanishing on 7th Street's trailer looked decent enough.  Unfortunately, that's ALL it had going for it.  I have stated many times before that the audience in ANY horror/thriller movie sometimes is asked to suspend logic, but I think ANY audience deserves a few answers--even fleeting ones.  None exist in this movie.  It begins with four different main characters coming to the realization that they may be the only people left in this City because everyone else has vanished.  All that is left behind are piles of clothing.  That brought me to question one:  why did they survive?  They then spend a good amount of time stumbling and mumbling through various and sundry situations, which brings me to question 2:  was this the ONLY city that had experienced a "vanishing"?  You are then treated to more and more scenes of utter stupidity and the constant chanting of "I exist; I exist" until they all start to be picked off by the "shadow people."  This led me to my next set of questions:  why couldn't they find some generators at a local store and have all the lights they wanted?  Why couldn't they light (and keep lit) a fire?  Why did they STAY in that City?  And last (but certainly not least) WHY DID I WASTE MY TIME?  Other reviewers have hinted at this movie's potential.  I'm just not sure that it ever HAD any potential.  I didn't really care for the majority of the survivors and they all continued to make such stupid, moronic choices I was actually rooting for the shadows!  Rated R for, hmmmmm, I don't know what for.

count of Monte cristo It finally arrived after waiting over a month....it was sent with no protective wrapping of any kind and was damaged...as was the case it arrived in...I was very disatisfied and not pleased...from now on I will only order strictly from amazon.

Dreadful! I remember the original Anaconda (1997) very well and it still hisses its way onto the television whenever Mrs B and I are channel hopping. It wasn't great in the nineties and it's certainly not great now so the prospect of Anaconda III: Offspring being anything but dire was something I could not comprehend but it did star The Hoff so maybe, just maybe, there was some brilliance about it.  The story is your typical one for this kind of film. Industrialist Murdoch (John Rhys-Davies) is funding a research project involving keeping giant anacondas at a lab. Unsurprisingly they manage to break free of their confines, killing the majority of staff that work at the lab but not the project leader Dr Amanda Hayes (Crystal Allen). Murdoch is understandably eager to recover the pair of giant anacondas that escape and enlists a group of hunters led by Hammett (David Hasselhoff) to capture the snakes. Dr Hayes joins the group as does Murdoch's assistant Pinkus (Ryan McCluskey) but with these anacondas not willing to return quietly do the hunters succeed or is it something of a bloodbath out in the wild?  After a violent but unspectacular opening the film tries to get going as The Hoff leads his group of hunters into the forest in search of the two anacondas. Locals, including an unfortunate farmer, do not fare so well when the snakes pass through his property but nor do Hammett's band of hunters who are well armed but somewhat powerless when coming up against the snakes. As the body count begins to rise, Dr Hayes reveals that time is against the group as one of the anacondas is pregnant and will give birth in the next 24 hours (pure careless if you ask me), filling the forest with hundreds of baby snakes. As usual the experiments on these snakes, all for the good of mankind (aren't they always?), have left them a tad smart and wily when faced with the hunters and it becomes pretty predictable who is going to be around at the end, of course. Hayes has to see things through to the end what with being the lead scientist and all and as for The Hoff, well, the film would suffer without having one of Germany's favourite pop stars sticking around for the final credits.  Those fascinated by the animal kingdom will find Anaconda III something of a turn off in its general inaccuracies. Though the anacondas offer plenty of blood and gore when devouring their victims they do seem to be eating a tad too often, something I don't think you would get in the wild. That said there were signs of some research into the anacondas when one approaches Dr Hayes as she is backed against a tree. Its vision appears to be infrared and because Dr Hayes has been rolling around in the mud the snake cannot see her, just as Arnie found when he took on the Predator in 1987. Having borrowed from Predator, the film also embraces the lunatics from the Alien films with not everyone in Anaconda III content with the snakes being killed when their rampage becomes out of control, in fact someone is hiding their true intentions which is the preservation of the snakes for future research even when they have killed so many people. I expect you'll struggle to guess who the villain turns out to be.  Anaconda III, where did it all go wrong for you? Well, the effects for the snakes are utterly embarrassing. One person is being eaten alive and at one stage it looks like it's just crawling on top of them! The acting is awful as well. Love him or hate him, The Hoff is always good for a discussion but his appearance in this makes me empathise with a man who is clearly struggling for money. I'd have applauded the film if he'd run in slow motion to the Baywatch theme but sadly it doesn't happen. Finally, Rhys-Davies isn't in the film very much but what a fall from grace! This man appeared in Indiana Jones films and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Like The Hoff, times must be very hard indeed. By the end of the film you'll have certainly had an experience, it's just a pity it's such a regrettable one.  Anaconda III takes all the bad elements of the original and enhances them a million times over. It's a tried and tested storyline, the effects are appalling, the is acting non-existent and not even The Hoff can convince me to award this anything but a poor score. If you enjoyed Anaconda maybe you can salvage something from this shipwreck but for me it's another nightmare to add to my collection where I constantly ask myself, "Why me?"

liberal hatefest this movie starts out blowing a baby away,then goes on a tyrade against god and anything conservative... disgusting movie put out by angry liberals

no movie when opening the pacage there was no movie just a blank case when paying for somthing u should in return get somthing that u payed for

Mr. Alienating I generally love Nick Cannon and always find him likeable in his interviews and other tv/entertainment snippets (I also think he is a talented entertainer/actor/singer/rapper/lyricist just to name a few hats he wears), but I found this show to be alienating.  I subscribe to the notion that one can find truth in comedy...however, (a big HOWEVER) this comedy seemed a little bitter to me; it felt like a case of sour grapes (to put it lightly). Myself, I often feel justified and bitter toward the northeast region of the U.S. because I grew up in the south and am living in the northeast region now and people constantly make fun of Southerners in the northeast and hold Southerners back from educational and professional opportunities.  [Just to let you know my demographic info: I am a white (caucasian to Nick)female in my mid 30's.  I am also a Lamb and belong to the Lambily.] So, I feel like I can understand Cannon's perspective a teeny bit...if I stretch it. So, I am disappointed in his show because I feel like it was more of a mockery of the white/Caucasian couple in the front row, a chance for him to let everyone know he's married to Mariah Carey in case anyone didn't know, and to let everyone know that he hates white people for being born white...and that he also treats them significantly different than other folk.

PEOPLE! Look at the Studio--- ASYLUM means AVOID! Sorry Folks, but everytime I see a movie released by THE ASYLUM ENTERTAINMENT, I avoid it like the plague.  All of their movies looks like they were made by the inmates of THE ASYLUM  Next time look at the studio - if it says "ASYLUM"  avoid like crazy and save your money

This Show is Not Very Good I am an oldies fan. The writers and producers of Andy Griffith & Gomer Pyle and the writers and producers of Leave It To Beaver were very talented people. I own most of the seasons of these shows and have watched them many times and marvel at the insight and creativity. Then I watch Dennis The Menace which I will refer to as DTM. DTM is a shallow, predictable, and almost irritating sitcom that barely gets a chuckle out of me. Unlike Leave It To Beaver, there is no "lesson" among the natural humor. Unlike Andy Griffith or Gomer Pyle, there are not the stellar acting performances and insightful writing. DTM, like it's comic strip, lacks entertainment value. My kids won't even watch it, and they normally "burn through" every oldies DVD season series I purchase before I can watch one disc. I myself have only managed to watch one disc of the season, but I will "try" to watch them all.  And NO CAPTIONS! Not good if you have a hearing loss (like several in my family have) or you want to watch late with the sound turned down to not disturb others.

The Stellar Spacey Hugely Disappoints Hard to believe the glowing amazon reviews.  The Ref is the story of a very dysfunctional family who say terribly mean things to one another.  And sadly, the film is about as fun as listening to that can be.  It fails on so many levels.  A home burglar decides the best way to evade the police is to kidnap a family, invade their home, and force them to host a scheduled Christmas dinner while he attends, wearing suit and tie, posing as a marriage counselor.  All of the film's subplots, the Scandinavian themed dinner, the drunk neighbor in a Santa suit, and the son's little black market side business to name a few, are pointless and add nothing to a story suffering the same problem.  I could go on about plot, but you wouldn't believe me if I did.  The rare humorous lines delivered capably by Glynis Jones as Spacey's mother can do nothing to save this mess.  What is so disappointing of course is that the film stars the usually outstanding Kevin Spacey, so the viewer begins with high expectations.  But don't expect shades of American Beauty here.  And The Ref is no War of the Roses either.  You hope for the funny, sarcastic, biting, and smart dialogue Spacey is famous for, but there is nothing remotely humorous or witty about the constant, non-stop jousting between Spacey and his estranged wife played by Judy Davis.  Likewise, by the time you've listened to Denis Leary's fifth or sixth forced and profanity laced emotional outburst, you're over them.  Good Morning America blurbs on the DVD case that the film is "Hurt your sides funny!"  Well, The Ref is about as funny as two daily hours of network morning "news" programming, and equally mindless.  As for the amazon reviewer who writes the film is his new favorite holiday movie, that's like saying packaged fruit cake is your favorite Christmas food.  Writers Weiss and LaGravense must harbor deep personal resentments toward family and viciously unleash them on their characters.  It's not clear what else could explain the words they've put to paper.  I can't imagine folks wanting to watch something so dreary as this at Christmas or any other time.  Once again, there is no joy in writing a bad review.  But The Ref is about as fun as an episode of Divorce Court.  Hugely disappointing.

Stage Fright Is Not Genetic Coyote Ugly is a movie about a young woman who moves from her father's home in New Jersey to New York City to become a singer/songwriter. To make ends meet, she finds employment at a bar and dates an Australian orphan. In the end, she succeeds and produces her own album. She stops working at the first bar because she's financially secure.

PG-13, Really? I won't go into the plot and all since that has already been done but will say two things: FIrst, this movie is amusing only because of Carell & Fey but as others have noted, there's nothing really special or creative about it. In fact, it could've been so much better with a little creativity and taste. It has an underlying theme of marriage being worth working at and that is great but all of this is undermined by the fact that it is so crude. This is my second and main point. It is PG-13 so we watched it as a family. However, if there were actually images that depicted the dialogue, it would be hard-core porn. It's only PG-13 because these things are portrayed verbally not visually. A strange double standard we have. I'm really not a prude but do you want your kids wondering if mom's book-club friend would really rather have sex with 3 men simultaneously than be married? Or that a common frustration in relationship is begging women for anal and oral sex? Or do you really want them able to clearly visualize what a club packed with prostitutes while men pick them over like a buffet line looks like? The fact that all this was done for nothing more than a quick laugh rather than serious discussion makes it all the more offensive. Whoever decided this was appropriate entertainment for kids is an idiot or worsel

Empty than a empty jar. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004AQR24W">The Expendables</a>WOW! Never thought a collection of 80s action stars will work in a mindless orgy of CGIs. So much unrealized potential. This could be an EPIC action movie apart from the lack of a credible plot or believable action sequence.

A kids movie - really Are you kidding me...  I watched this movie with my kids and was surprised with all of the curse words.  Must be a Hollywood thing.  Also a scene about the Easter Bunny - beware if you have little kids...

Overrated Nonsense This "comedy" movie is SOOOO Overrated! It's not even funny. At All! Just plain stupid. How this movie ever got the positive reviews like it did,is beyond me. Robert De Niro is a great actor...but what is he doing in a piece of sh*t unfunny film like this??? I'd much rather watch him in Cape Fear...or Taxi Driver...or Casino...or his VERY Underrated performance in The Fan. Watch those De Niro films instead,and don't waste your time or money with this crap.

Catering to the Lowest Denominator Catering to the Lowest Denominator This film is so cheesy it is practically a parody of bad action films.  The first 15 minutes are painfully trite and play more like a television drama episode than a planned narrative film.  The first scene shows a half-naked Angelina Jolie being tortured to the delight of perverts everywhere.  Then she is back in her desk job where lives out her normal spy life talking spy things to the mail boy and introducing herself as a spy so the political prisoners...I guess anonymity isn't an issue when you're a spy?  Then we have happy homemaker spy and evil Russians who (gasp) kidnap innocent children and train them to be assassins.  They might as well have thrown in the hero defeating Nazis and rescuing orphans and puppies while saving the whales and ending global warming. Trying to list all the plot holes in this waste of film would take an eternity, so I'll just point out the bad film-making and poor decisions:  1. I counted four painfully long exposition monologues and dialogues, including a 20 minute ending which clearly should have been cut. 2. The character's behavior is completely out of character for a spy and her motivations are either lacking or idiotic (I'm going to kill secret service agents in order to NOT kill the president to let him know I'm NOT a killer!). 3. Took about three seconds to figure out who the bad guy was...maybe you can beat my time. 4. A SHOE KNIFE!!??!! 5. Jolie's wigs were awful.  Only one look worked for her in the film, and it was not the gender-bending one which I found disturbingly unreal.  While I'm surprised that so many people seem to like this stupid and pointless movie, I'm more pissed that filmmakers who underestimate audiences to the point that they must believe us all to be drooling inbred imbeciles seem to be continuously vindicated by the success of the crap they serve to us.

A total travesty. Appalling. Avoid this if you like the book This is a shockingly bad adaptation of a classic spy thriller. It's hard to find words to express just what a let down this movie is. The original book (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) is one of John le Carre's best written and most expertly plotted novels, which tells the tale of how Britain's spies discover and then deal with a high-placed Soviet mole. The movie is a double mess, since the lazy script will make little sense to those who haven't read the book and will offend those who have. Characters appear and disappear, mumbling their way through flat dialogue, and little of it makes no sense. Who are these people? What are they trying to achieve? Why are they speaking in code? Why should we care?    The director takes vast and unwise liberties with the script. In the book, the British spies realise they have a problem when an agent goes to Czechoslovakia to make contact with a supposed defector and ends up being shot and injured in a wood at night. This isn't dramatic enough, so the film moves the action to the Hungarian capital Budapest (which is pronounced BudapeSHt, not Budapest, by the way, the researchers could and should have figured that one out), and the agent is shot in a botched incident which also kills the young mother of a suckling infant. This is gratuitous violence.    As in the book, the agent takes on a false name and becomes a teacher at a boy's school, where he befriends one particularly unhappy and lonely boy who happens to be a good observer. In the book the friendship deepens, whereas in the film the teacher suddenly turns on the child and tells him to get lost. With about 20 minutes to go the movie disintegrates into incoherence and you have the impression that the director just threw scenes together without bothering to see if they made sense. He invents a Christmas party for the British spies where they drunkenly sing the Soviet anthem, and then an agent on the run makes a confused appearance, and there's a search for crucial documents, and the mole is unveiled, and this all unfolds with about as much drama and tension as the monthly meeting of a knitting club. We don't care about the characters and we don't care about the storyline.    In short, this is a disaster. Stick to the book and the BBC series starring Alec Guinness as George Smiley.

Highly slanted and deceptive I rented this video looking for an interesting intelligent dialogue. As a Non Mormon I was looking for some insights.  Instead this was a highly contrived discussion with an axe to grind against Mormons. This was uninteresting and in annoying(I hate films that try to manipulate).  All this film does is assure people who don't agree with Mormons that they are right and try to tell current Mormons that they are wrong.  It seems like a waste of money to pay for such an obvious and tired dialogue.

Bad movie One word can describe the entire movie: HORRIBLE. Movie barely makes sense and is one of the most anticlimactic films I've ever seen. Production over all was terrible.

So much foul language! :( My boys (10 and 13) were dying to get this dvd collection and were thrilled to receive it for Christmas.  Imagine my surprise when I walk in and hear the comments about sex (I had nothing against the context, but it was totally unnecessary.)  The "F" words are bleeped, but are still quite obvious.  Way too much other foul language that isn't bleeped.  I was incredibly disappointed because the dvds have so much other great information and historical value.  Unless I can find someone to edit them, we will not be keeping them.  They hear plenty of inappropriate language at school; there's no reason for them to hear it at home as well.  It's sad, because it is so unnecessary.

Disappointing purchase The Blue Ray version of the DVD "The King's Speech" will not play on my Samsung 3-D Blue Ray disc player, purchased from Best Buys in August 2010, but instead sends messages that the player "needs updating".  I have tried to replace the disc, but find the replacement is the same.  I am unable to create a review of this purchase simply because it gave me nothing to review.

Disappointed Although I liked the story line, I thought Jean Hackman's promiscuity did not lend to the theme of the show. The fact that there was no resolution at the end beyond the murder, made it a little empty for me. It was so so, but not worth the time in my estimation.

Too violent for very young children My husband and both thought this movie was very violent for our 3 year old grandson. I was very disappointed with the movie...

terrible film, one of the worst action films. I just show half hour of it. The screenplay is for laughs, especially when the young heroine as a little girl stabs in the hand the bad guy who murder her parents. The whole film is a joke. Bad ugly actors and the whole thing was to common and multi used cliche. Stay away.

ripped off not happy that I paid $16.99 for this last week and recieved an email yesterday offering it to me at a discounted price of $4.99 ... REALLY not happy .... and I don't even have it yet!!!!!!

Search Amazon for this title - same blu-ray under different listings First, a friendly warning: You may have looked at this blu-ray and never searched for Dark Star in Amazon's search engine. Try it and you may find other listings for the same item - Amazon sells this and not at some out of this world price. The vampires are hoping this goes out of print to justify the prices they're selling it for. The real review: One could argue at video quality as the master recording itself wasn't anything close to HD. Audio... well, you can hear it. It's nothing to write home about. To be honest, I can stick the two version special edition DVD into the blu-ray player and it seems to be as good as the blu-ray disc up to about 37 inch screen size. Beyond that, the blu-ray grain in the video is more obvious, so...  -----  I see since I posted the warning review, someone actually changed the listings of the two Dark Star postings here on Amazon, now calling the other one (with the same picture) as region two / region one at 273 minutes (which doesn't exist, it was either 83 minutes for the full version or less for the theater version) - but without other number identifying changes (codes).  Update today (8-20-12) as Amazon now has news regarding a new release of this title by VCI (and not Ais which is that Alliance garbage out of Canada), and claiming it's the 83 minute version / claiming it's the full release version and not the edited form we were all getting until the two version DVD was released back 8 to 10 years ago:  Here's how Amazon is listing the October 2, 2012 pre-order information (and the one you need to look for, ignoring all other listings):  Dark Star - Thermostellar Edition (Blu-ray) (1974) Brian Narelle (Actor), Dre Pahich (Actor), John Carpenter (Director), Assistant Director: J. Stein Kaplan (Director) | Rated: G | Format: Blu-ray ----------------------- List Price: $19.99 Price: $14.99 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. You Save: $5.00 (25%) Pre-order Price Guarantee. This title will be released on October 2, 2012. Pre-order now! Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.

Has to be the weakest volume in the series Unless you're looking to complete a set, or you just happen to like one of these episodes on the disc, this volume has to be the worst one. I've seen all 43 volumes, and some are packed with great episodes...Volumes 2,3,8, and 11 are examples of all 4 on the disc being well made and well written. Caesar and Me and Sounds and Silence are the bottom of the barrel. Krozers Noshe. I would only buy this if you wanted to place the disc face down on the sidewalk and scrape it with your foot.

Warning Warning! I bought the combo pack. The DVD has a copy-protection called "Cinavia" which renders it unplayable on my Sony Blu-Ray player. Thus, buying the DVD of this or any movie with "Cinavia" is a waste of money. I can play the DVD on another, older DVD player, but apparently some Blu-Ray machines, plus PS3 machines will not play these Cinavia movies. There is no way to know if your Blu-Ray player will play a Cinavia-protected movie until you shell out your money, open it up and try to play it. At that time, no store will refund your money as the package has been opened. Be careful and do a search for movies with Cinavia and avoid them like the plague---else you will be wasting your money to this scam.

Worthless This is for 1st graders,if you have ever looked at a piece of steel your more advanced than this DVD. Waste of time and money , I purchased 3 of Covells tapes at once ,big mistake .... Nothing to learn if you ever took shop in high school you would be light years ahead of his tapes .Save your cash you can learn more by watching  a kids cartoon.

If you like the original then you're going to want to skip this one. If you haven't seen the original and you like cheap cgi filled monster flicks with little to no plot you'll like this film.  I'm not sure why they chose to remake this movie instead of just making their own vampire flick but they failed horribly.  The original was great horror film with plenty of very scary scenes and a great plot, this movie threw out the plot, every scary scene, the nudity, and all the great make up work. Instead they replaced it with a straight to dvd plot and a ton of cheesy cgi that made it seem more like a cartoon than a horror movie.  Skip this one and rent the original, you'll be happy you did.

circuot hi i would like to tell you about the movie but the company canceled it on me for reasons i dont understand but seen the movie its great and i did order it from a new company and waiting you wont go wronge with this movie

Excessive Use Of Farce "The Enforcer" is the third of the first three Dirty Harry movies (the others being "Dirty Harry" and "Magnum Force") and it is the worst by far. Not only is it the worst of the three, it is an objectively bad movie. I can't think of any reason to recommend it. It is a caricature of itself, if that is possible.  Lame acting of lame characters, lame jokes, lame plot. Mediocre in every way except for moments of good action cinematography. This would not even rate as good television. Give me an episode of Kojak over this any day.  There is excessive and blatant reference to popular political issues of the day (mid-70's) with no point to be made. It is trapped in the time it was made.  Clint Eastwood sleep-walks through this one. This movie appears to be simply an attempt to capitalize on the success of the previous two Dirty Harry movies. That would be alright if it was good, but...  There are these violent social revolutionaries with no purpose causing mayhem for no apparent reason except for the occasional bumper sicker slogan about "the people" and to get some money. What people? I don't know. They rob an armory. They blow up a toilet. They kidnap the mayor for a ransom. They should have asked a ransom for the toilet. They made obscure references to sabotage of a nuclear power plant, but what good is a threat if no one knows what you are talking about. Their secret lair is Alcatraz. Way to keep a low profile.  Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan of the San Francisco Police Department's Homocide Division has a woman partner with no law enforcement experience whatsoever, but that's a good thing because it advances the cause of women by proving that they are incompetent and can only achieve by special allowances being made based on their gender, female. She was able to shoot a few people with a gun, but only because Harry yanked her out of the way of the exhaust of a bazooka during a demonstration a second before it would have incinerated her.  Harry and his partneress, who never takes his good advise to stay behind while he tries to do police investigative work, visit a black peoples gang crib which allows for lots of dissing of white people proving that the problem of racism is actually that black people are racist and no white woman is safe in a room with black men in it. Huh?  It's a good thing that Harry's partner, Kate (Tyne Daley), doesn't listen to him when he tells her to stay behind because she saves his life by shooting a heavily armed nun gunning for the dirty one as he is threatening a crazed priest in a confessional by holding The Gun to his head. Don't ask. Never refuse to give Harry communion at the altar rail because he will prove that he is worthy by blowing your head clean off.  A movie that has an inflatable sex doll with a live instructor to show the 32 ways it can be used can't be all bad. Harry pops the doll with a lit cigarette, proving that even latex balloons get off on a little S&M now and then.  Sorry about the spoilers.  Don't bother with this movie, but do check out the classic "Dirty Harry" and the even better "Magnum Force".

No BluRay?  No way!!! I have been looking forward to the video release of this movie for quite a while.  I have the others, and have enjoyed them all, though #3 was a bit of a letdown.  Still, I liked it, too.  I will not buy this one, however, until such time as they come out with an ordinary, Blu-Ray version.  I have absolutely NO use for the digital version, and am not into 3D.  I'm retired, and every time I invest a bunch of money into something, two weeks later something else comes out.  So, no!  No 3D!  I JUST WANT THE BLU-RAY VERSION!!!!!  IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR???!!!!  I MEAN, COME ON, GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  DON'T TREAT AN OLD MAN LIKE THIS!!!  WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO?  GET AARP AFTER YOU???!!!!

Don't bother. I love dark/black comedies. "Heathers" is awesome. So is "Miss Nobody." And I love vigilante movies like "Falling Down." So I eagerly purchased this via Amazon streaming.  I turned it off after 10 minutes (when he shot the bratty teenage girl in her car). This is *complete* garbage. It does not "work" as a black comedy. If you want to watch a good black comedy, rent "Heathers" or "Miss Nobody." Those work.

Stunningly bad There is a reason this has 15% on RottenTomatoes, a score reserved for the worst of the worst. When this was on TV recently I decided to give it a shot. I like a lot of comedies: Austin Powers, for example, even the very stupid stuff in Borat makes me laugh.  The problem with The Love Guru is that it's not funny. You can tell easily when they are trying to put in the jokes, but you're just left scratching your head. A prime example is the guru rides into a room on an electrical magic carpet. Then somebody from the set (e.g. videographer) enters the picture, gets on it, and rides off. Not funny, just pointless.  It was the most I could to do watch 15 minutes of this. It deserved 0, but it got 15. I watched no more.

The Britany of Movies!! I'd give this a 0 in a horrible moment. This is the lip-sincer of movies. Like Britany Spears Bimbo Beat Blather, this is talentless, directionless, visionless, meaningless and has absolutely nothing to say about nothing. The "acting" if that's what you call it these days is atrocious, I could do a better job, and I am no "actor".

Worst SHOW! This has got to be the worst performance, EVER. Geddy Lee can't hit the high notes like he used to. I do not know why they just didnt cover Mike Ness songs. Maybe then they might be tolerable. I can offer a review of that venue: good place to go to watch LeBron James throw down thunder dunks, boring place to see a concert.  I did see several concerts there while I lived in Cleveland (Aerosmith, Smashing Pumpkins, The Who, Tom Petty, Roger Waters), but those arena shows are all the same.  I did enjoy seeing LBJ throw down thunder dunks there a few times as well, but now he appears there less frequently and with a different backing band.

Season is great, too bad that the set is completely ruined. I recently purchased all the Buffy seasons. In order to avoid paying over a hundred dollars I purchased the seasons used. Usually I do this and everything turns out fine, in fact all 6 other seasons are in pristine condition. Season 7 came to me water damaged, with food spills and so many scratches it would take years to count. Very disappointed, most likely will never order anything used again. I guess it serves me right for not seeing the actual product before buying. Moral of the story, don't buy used. EVER.

Snakes on a Plane The video didn't work. I returned it. The DVD was defective. I really wanted to see it. My money was returned.

on your mark. get set.  terrible. Pam is still hot but doesn't make up for possibly the worst script ever. I'm not sure I could write a better script but I'm fairly sure if I wrote that script I'd toss it in the trash where it belongs.

It's a joke! The single disk blu ray edition is a joke! It does not have extended features!! Which DVDs / Blu Rays do not have extended features/scene nowadays? Also, I heard that the Blu Ray /DVD combo version is another insult to the Twilight fans. If you would like to share the DVD or Blu Ray with someone, you are stuck as the DVD and Blu Ray on either side of the disk and not on 2 separate disks.

What a pointless horrible movie A paycheck for Liam Neeson ... but a waste of time for viewers. There's no real plot except to make Liam Neeson look like "the man". He knows it all, he will beat up anyone who does not see thing the same way he does. And then some kind of mystical connection to nature and the wolves ... he has why ... from shooting them.  Not point to this, no reason to see it ... no wonder it popped up on NetFlix for free.

A monumental waste of time... ...that tells us nothing new about the 25-year-old genre of black metal. Other than the fact that a)Varg Vikernes is not nearly as smart as he thinks he is, and b)Fenriz is, perhaps, smarter than he at first comes off.    The film largely alternates between interviews of Norway's most infamous nut-job Varg "Count Grishnackh" Vikernes (of the one-man band Burzum)and Darkthrone's drummer and creative force Fenriz. As with "The Lords of Chaos," the nonfiction book about black metal that came out a few years ago, the creators of this film allow Vikernes to hijack their work with hours (in both the movie and the extras)of contradictions and incoherent political views, which are often outrageously nationalistic and racist. He rants ad infinitum about the conquest and conversion of his forefathers by the early Christians, never once acknowledging the violence and destruction visited upon foreign lands by the Vikings. He asks us to believe he murdered Euronymous because he feared for his life after Euronymous allegedly told others that Vikernes needed to die as a result of some feud over royalties and/or political and musical beliefs - this despite the fact that Vikernes insists repeatedly that Euronymous was all talk and no action with respect to church burnings. So Euronymous is a wimp, and nothing but talk when it comes to arson, but a man of action when it comes to actually killing someone? Elsewhere Vikernes brags about kicking and abusing a female Chilean grammar school classmate because she didn't belong in Norway. This convicted murderer decries Capitalism, saying it's practitioners have no respect for life (that's a joke, right? Wrong), then proceeds to criticize his society's "socialism," saying it needed to be destroyed (by burning churches?)before it could be rebuilt.Vikernes is a guy who thinks Capitalism is evil, but forms his own record label so he could make more money from his royalties -some artists do this for creative freedom, but not Vikernes; his only concern, according to him, was money. He insists the church burnings were a form of provocation to wake people up to his political and religious views, then seems genuinely surprised that this extreme and destructive form of "speech" inspired copycat crimes by immature youth (hello? you're a metal musician, who did you think your audience was?)who made it all about Satanism. He complains that youth are given "no direction" in his country, when HIS actions were all about rebellion and bucking social/religious conventions. (Etc, etc. I could go on for untold paragraphs on Vikernes' senseless ramblings.)    All of this would be fine if a)any of it was news to anyone remotely familiar with black metal. (And for those who are not, the material would probably be mostly unintelligible.) But Vikernes has been spouting this nonsense for decades. And the interviews with Fenriz and just a few other black metal musicians offer nothing more than tired lists of influences and self-congratulatory pats on the back for being so "trve" and "cvlt" b) Vikernes' viewpoints were challenged. Being fair and non-judgmental in a documentary is fine, but why not give another point of view, especially when a little conflict would add some spark to such a boring, one-sided narrative? THAT would be interesting: a knock-down, drag-out between articulate (and Varg IS articulate) passionate debaters who have genuine insight into how Norway's social, religious and musical milieu gave rise to black metal.    "Until the Light Takes Us" offers no real insight into the deep and musically challenging world of black metal, is not artfully shot or edited, and has no pacing. And there is NO performance footage (other than a few poor-quality home video rehearsal clips) to break up the monotonous interviews.    Imminently skipable.

really? From all of the high ratings I expected the best yoga video ever; however, I was dismayed by everyone's attire (all looked like undergarments) and the way Kest kept involving himself in the participant's poses was quite disturbing.  For what I did try to follow without looking at the screen I found the poses to be stagnant and kept wanting to move on.

Just because its a foreign film doesn't mean its good. I watched this after reading a few of the good reviews. I should have read all the bad ones. This movie just plain sucked. By the end I was hoping the monster would kill everybody.

Minor films for the "B" movie fan While it's a fact that Ronny Reagun was a worse "president" than he was an actor, this dvd set arrives in time to prove it.  Decent remasters to add to your favorite Bad "B" movie collection.

entry mixed up I want to know about the The Chameleons (UK) music DVD, not the Russian movie the entry mixes in.  1 star because the page is useless.

Dump the Stump!!! If possible I would give this movie no stars. I try to give movies their due based on the type of movie it is. Well, this movie has no redeeming qualities!! I barely, I mean just barely, got thru it. I was tempted to turn it off many times. Bad acting, bad effects, bad directing, and did I mention bad acting! I tried, I really did try to like something about the DVD, but I threw it away as soon as I agonized my way thru it. Sorry, I never like to pan a movie like this.

Tinted lens, strange superhero powers, confusing villain The whole film has this dark tinted lens effect that really doesn't make any sense and is pretty annoying.  The hero has inexplicable super martial arts skills, and the villain somehow has a ton of followers even though he has no skill.

Horrible comedy Unappealing comedy that starts out slowly and then builds into complete stupidity. Lucy deserved better. The print is fine, and I applaud studios like Sony and Warner Brothers for releasing these obscure films, but don't be taken in by curiosity of seeing Lucy pre-"I Love Lucy" fame. Buy "Fuller Brush Girl" - which Sony has also released - instead. Now THAT'S a fun, enjoyable movie.

absolute junk! this is junk and nothing but a bunch of crack heads doing booty shakes.  There is a guy in it claiming to get a lot and yet he has to pay a crack head to have sex with him in this flick.  it is stupid and makes black kids from the hoods look like morons.  BARELY ANY NUDITY

Fast food for the brain dead I can't believe the positive reviews of this film. It is a poorly made, hysterical and sensationalistic view of the American Left and the Occupy movement. As a conservative, I was frankly embarrassed about the shoddy approach of this movie. Parts of it are barely comprehensible. Free thinkers should look elsewhere for insights, this movie was just awful.

I couldn't watch it the whole through, mockumentary or not. Made it half way through but I was literally falling asleep (at 2pm in the afternoon).  I love Joaquin Phoenix but no one wants to watch someone parading around like a jerk like that.  I'm just happy to know that it was in fact a mockumentary and he's not really like that.

no no I Didn't like it - kind of boring - I don't recommended it - but fast forward helped. Was hoping for a smarter movie...

KATELAND Dont waste your time with this one. LOOK ELESWHERE. It didnt do anything for me. Everything is phony. And it felt it too. Its GOODBYE SNOW DAY from me.

Ehm... I've never been into "Where the Wild Things Are" books. Never. I never gave them a chance but little did I know that the cover would pleasantly haunt me as I got older. So when I saw the DvD of this, I figured "usually the movie is NEVER as good as the book, so if I didn't like the books, the movie will probably be AWESOME!" Nothing to lose, right? lol yeah, except money...  Other people have reviewed this movie far better than I ever will, so I'll just keep it short.  The characters are bratty -- especially the lying child who has them (the Wild Things) naively believing that he is a King?  The movie itself is filmed like an old film (don't know quite how to describe what I mean) like, the camera is a little shaky, the shots are a bit mediocre, and don't quite draw you in. This further becomes a problem as you find nothing redeeming about the plot, characters, etc... so it only DOUBLES that you don't want to be sitting there watching it.  To make it more succinct, it's boring.  It just sort've drags on and on and eventually gets a little disturbing: * Possible * *SPOILER * H*E*R*E* *--> (oh you know, the main Wild thing just RIPS his close friend's arm off. Who cares, right? He said he was sorry. That should settle it).  * SPOILERS CLEARED, NOW. lol *  So yeah, don't know what the directors were trying to capture. But it definitely didn't capture it well. Sure, you can take ANY story -- and I do mean ANY story -- and claim it's sprinkled with DEEP * HIDDEN * MEANINGS * that you just have to string along to go with your beliefs (it's actually an interesting game to play, try it sometime) lol. But I won't buy it with this movie... I mean, despite the protagonist's terrible behavior, he manages to come back home, and is rewarded with chocolate cake?  Moral of the story: be a jerk, give your mom a scare, and then she'll give you cake! :D  Maybe this is how Dudley Dursley started his life.

Great Series Poor Set I read through all the reviews and all the bad ratings are on the packaging. Some had good luck so I gave it a try and I too found over 10 DVDs scratched. The set is really nice but the folders don't hold the DVDs in place. So the rougher the package has in shipment the more likely the DVDs are going to get damaged sliding around during shipment. This is why some have good luck and some don't.  The box set is very simular to the Alias complete set, which I have, and I had no problem with that set. If you have good luck with the shipping you will like this set. In the end I returned the set to Amazon for a refund, and bought the set season by season. Yes it cost me more but it was about the same as it cost me for the Alais complete set. All the seasons came in the same size case and looks good on my shelf. The DVDs are very secure in these cases and much better protected. If you want this awsome series in your collection and want to be secure with your purchase, buy the single seasons and enjoy.

The Haunting of My Patience, or, The Other Side of My Gastric Distress THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS (inexplicably a/k/a THE HAUNTING OF AMELIA, 2008: both titles are used in the U.S. but here you see the AMELIA title is used for the DVD). Sigh. Even on cable it's shown as THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS.  My review is SPOILER HEAVEN - and that's your first spoiler right there. Josh has been in a coma for a decade, but you would not know it from the way he looks - which is fine, by the way. He stays where he is happiest and lives out some sort of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross existence on the edge of death. He is, in fact, the ghost of a living person whose time may or may not be nigh.  The whole film consists of Josh's presence, his own little universe, which exists right along with reality. His sister and his niece discuss pulling the plug on him; his niece, a blossoming lesbian, is blossoming with the nurse who tends to Josh's comatose body in the hospital. This only works if you accept dead people thinking and acting like they did when they were alive, even though they are denizens of heaven. Or, perhaps they are not quite from the same "undead" regions you might think ....   .... Gorgeous Canadian native Brendan Fehr, an all-too-familiar-looking newcomer with hair that is deep purplish red, plays Josh. Josh has chosen to remain working in a place called Trackside, Connecticut, at a pizzeria right next to the train tracks on which his girlfriend was killed a decade earlier. He is something of a weirdo, consumed with grief and at 29, a directionless loser. But ... he's happy in his misery. The coma he's in keeps him happy, I guess.  Tania Raymonde plays Amelia, a pretty little 19-year-old who suddenly appears at the pizzeria looking for work. She's the spit-and-image of Josh's dead girlfriend, who has been haunting him quite a bit in any case (ultimately because she is his dead girlfriend, arrived from heaven to take Josh with back her).  At the same time, his former best friend Rusty (Chad Lindberg, PUSH) appears and begins essentially hounding him, trying to keep Josh in his sights at all times. Rusty is a pesky poltergeist, and he wants Josh to stay with him. At one point, Amelia and Rusty have a clandestine meeting, and Amelia tries to get Rusty to return to heaven with her and Josh. This film is extremely clever, not allowing us to get the slightest inkling of what is happening.  It was hilarious: the first time I ever saw this, I didn't know ANYONE was supposed to be dead and could not fathom what had happened when it was all over. Even poor Josh's mother, who visits him to see how he is, is DEAD. She is trying to get him to come to HER "neck of the woods". Of course, he refuses.  This review is my I-don't-give-a-pig's-ear-in-hell-about-spoilers. You have to have this movie explained in order to enjoy fully the brilliance of the twisted presentation. If you are lost watching it the first time, I highly recommend you ponder it and watch it carefully again, and again if need be.  It has its annoying qualities, to be sure. The sound is horrific, with the usual bad dialogue pick-up, yet the whiny college radio station music is LOUD and clear. None of the logic seems askew, but I think they badly tripped up in the scenes that show the living apparently able to see and perceive the dead. Or should we call them "the undead"?! The fact that Josh's sister is a medium only adds to the tedium.  I feel the director presents a brilliant yet painful-to-endure film, hard to follow and a migraine to fathom ... even after it's over you may be scratching your head til your scalp is detached. Hopefully my review, though spoiling it, helps you through it. This film copies unnecessarily from many other movies, and I would have presented it in a completely different manner.  Hence the very end, which is the one part I will leave unrevealed so you may judge for yourself. How sad ....  But I won't complain too much. It took me four days to work through this story, and it was my fellow reviewer P. Johnston who actually cracked the case. Therefore you may get it spoiled all you like by reading our posted comments (vid. below, click on the "comments" link and read away).  This won't go on my DVD shelf at all, and the wife was angry about "these damned puzzle films you have to work out yourself, so you can't really enjoy the movie." I half agree, but leave it to you to decide for yourself.  Remember, there's nothing grateful about being dead.

This video does not play We rented this video and could not watch it. Instead it plays the trailer again and again. Complete waste of time and money.

I wish I could give it negative stars It's really quite simple: if you're a huge ABBA fan, you're going to love this movie.  If not (I fall into this category), the movie will be torture to watch.  The only reason this musical and movie have such a strong following is that ABBA has a fanbase of baby-boomers that love their music.  Those fans, watching this movie, love the music so much that they are blind to the shallow characters, flimsy plot, and all of the forced, unrealistic scenes.  I had always thought it was backwards and just plain wrong to write a story based on the music of a band.  These fears were confirmed when my eyes witnessed this film.  As a theater major and actor, I have seen countless plays, musicals, and movies, so don't discredit my review and think that I don't know a musical is indended to be campy and corny.  The issues I had with this film had nothing to do with the corniness.  I will hear people say that they can tell the actors were having fun while filming the movie.  Unfortunately, that does nothing for me as the viewer.  Find a Jr. High with a lousy theater program doing "Grease."  They too are "having fun."  It's possible that my review would be different if the band involved were AC/DC or Paul Simon, but until that movie gets made, I feel I must warn the world that there are better ways to spend your time.

not for me i really never liked quitelys art, and the animation is pretty close to his style. the movie seems to be a mash up of a bunch of stories, especially the way the "mysterious couple" comes in and out of the movie so quick. didnt care for the voice work, lois has  more than a few moments where you just think 'yuck'. a few good action scenes, but nothing really exciting. and the ending is pretty dumb. overall i dont think this can compare to the excellent work dc animation has put out lately. glad i watched my friends copy before i bought it.

my name is........ahhh, what is this. let me get back in my grave oh jonny, what have you done to our great dark shadows, you killed it. may the darkness of dark shadows haunt you for all time. this movie should have been so much better. A death no one would ever want. Should have checked with the fans of this great t.v show. You made a big mess. the movie, and the soundtrack. I am sure there wont be a Dark Shadows 2, because of you. YOU GOT IT ALL Wrong.So, R.I.P.....Jonny for such a mess of a movie. THE REAL DARK SHADOWS LIVES FOREVER. You got it wrong, and as movies go, you killed Dark Shadows. and your a fan????????? REALLY?

can i give it 0 stars? Absolutely horrible, if you enjoyed the first one DO NOT waste your time on this sequel.  Once again, ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE

The second worst Nightmare [Topped only by Freddy's Revenge]: *1/2 Alice [Lisa Wilcox] finds out that she's pregnant but things are complicated when Freddy [Robert Englund] targets her unborn child and as Freddy continues his killing spree by systematically killing off everyone in Alice's life, Alice must find a way to save her child from Freddy. Although the setting is somewhat dark for this film, Freddy is sillier here than in any of the previous installments! Definitely not a good example of a Nightmare movie as the story has gotten weak and the acting isn't too good here [except for Lisa and Robert]. Despite the fact that Robert Englund is still appealing as Freddy [even when he's been toned down and reduced to a comedy figure who almost spends more time cracking jokes than killing], Robert is unable to save this sequel from being boring and forgettable. Also, even the murder scenes have gotten corny [check out the cheesy scene where one of the characters becomes a comic book character in an attempt to fend off Freddy in his dream!!] Unless you're somebody who loves all things Freddy you can skip this and the sixth movie. Followed by Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

Holy Smokes This Was A Stinker! I'm a huge zombie fan.....HUGE! I've read almost all the zombie books, seen all the zombie movies, I have lots of zombie T-shirts, a zombie hunter permit on my truck, I LOVE ZOMBIE STUFF! And I could not sit through this DVD. It was HORRIBLE! The characters were cartoonishly bad, the editing was horrible and don't even get me started on the zombies. Zombies that growl and have fighting skills???? Not a chance. I can deal with slow zombies, "28 Days Later" fast zombies or "The Walking Dead" kinda quick zombies. But I can't deal with these. I wanted to like it, I just couldn't. Save your money.

Avoid unless you simply have to satisfy an undiscerning three-year-old! Absolutely hideous! THE, without a close peer, worst Blu-ray I've ever seen. It's not even really DVD quality but, in some ways, VHS quality (and I don't say that to be hyperbolic or overdramatic) with the worst "rainbow shimmer" aliasing I've ever seen since the days of videotape. Add in the fact that an "off the shelf" print was used, it's in the specious 1.33:1 format and has absolutely zero extras and this makes for the most condescending throw-away effort I've yet come across. Certainly not worth the $11.99 I paid for it, or even half of that. But, hey, it was for nostalgia's sake and for my young kids' enjoyment, so what the hey--it's "only" $11.99. Let's be honest, there's very little chance in Hades we'll ever see another hi-def release of this forgotten gem, so it is what it is...

"Dumb" and "stupid" would be words to describe this film. I have to agree with the one-star reviews. Leonard Maltin's quote is accurate -- he says "It's bad enough that the material stinks, but director Berg shoots it in nausea-inducing handheld style, with pointless macro-closeups of the actors."  A waste of talent in a dumb movie. One star for some of the OK special effects. I'm glad I saw it, recorded from TV. I skimmed towards the end just to see how it ended. Happily, it did finally end. If you must see this film, rent it, or just wait until it gets on TV. I seldom use the word "crap" to describe a movie, but in this case, I think it applies.

wow.  Really crappy. Just not a good story, plot, or writing.  It was a waste of money and viewing time. I hope the sequel is a lot better.

Rent it First if you dare---The Seventh Seal,One Black and white movie I do not Cherish. I love Black And White Films,especially those with Meaning but..when I saw this movie after hearing/reading great acclaim(with the exception of Woody Allen a strange sicklittle man.)Bergman apparently had some daddy issues and that in turn influenced him in Matters of Faith sadly(I don't blame him his dad was a so-called "Minister" that's protestantTalk for unqualified and no tradition.)You can tell his Bias stretches into his "work" and while the movie has it's merits(the Man is a Crusader back from the Crusade,but sadly is questioning everything and God.)The movie fails for me it might appeal to the so-called intellectual crowd i.e., those who question God and God's Existence and read Castroite Sarte's work(who later on had to admit The failure of the so-called Revolution),The movie is drawn-out long and not even the beautiful camera work and scenes can save it and what is with the Jesus on The cross. It was as although some intentionally made Jesus to look bad on the cross..just a beard.. Add to the movie Chess and you have a egghead's revolution.Watching the movie was an experience I will not forget and will not repeat,given it's NeoPagan/New age(dancing at the end with death and Making the Dark Ages Dark just to fulfill historical myths.)

Mislabeled so who knows if it's good... I would love to review the documentary "Hungry for Profit" but I've received it twice and both times it's the wrong DVD. The box and disc are labeled "Hungry for Profit" but the actual documentary on the disc is "The Last Atomic Bomb". Looks like they aren't paying too much attention at headquarters. I tried to find Richter Videos to call them but their website no longer exists. I have no idea who is sending these things out. Already returned one, the other is going to be returned today.

Friends DVD We ordered this product in August - it is October 14 and WE STILL HAVEN'T RECEIVED IT !!!  We attempted to check on its status and have found no way to have the problem resolved

An insult to our intellegence. A blatant money grab by the studios. Time to put our money where our mouth is and stop buying all this crap. Its insulting to our intelligence and we should not reward this kinda lazy profiteering.

nut punch bad wow even when you know its guna be bad you can be suprised at how bad it can be  holy crap this was painful to watch  they could have even amde it fun like abd zombie movie  but nope

POOR QUALITY VIDEO AND AUDIO THE DVD WAS OF POOR QUALITY AND WOULD NOT PLAY ON THREE DIFFERENT DVD PLAYERS.  IT JUMPED, SKIPPED, AND I COULD NOT WATCH BUT A SMALL PORTION.  THE AUDIO WAS TERRIBLE.  VERY POOR.  I DIDN'T GIVE MUCH FOR IT, SO IT WASN'T WORTH RETURNING.  - KA

A comedy without humor Jack black's name in the credits lured me to this so-called comedy.  Neither my wife or I found anything funny about this movie about pathetic misfits.  It is depressing to see people so messed up.  Watching this film is a totally joyless experience.  Nicole Kidman mumbled her lines throughout the entire movie like she was s bored or stoned!  A terrible waste of talent!

More of a documentary than a comedy While there were a few humorous moments throughout the movie it was definately not a comedy. I read the reviews out there which influenced my decision to buy the movie vs waiting until the rental was available. I would definately wait until the rental is available. Most of the reviews must have been written by epople from the small town in the movie. In fact this would have been better served on the History channel. While interesting, again it is no comedy.

all these sophisticated reviews This movie was a poor movie --- about a guy who may be a great cook and a crummy Dad --- why watch it?  Makes him into some sort of hero.  Just because it is foreign does not make it sophisticated.

Boring and dumb I bought this movie because a friend of mine told me it was a bio-pic about Carlos Mencia, and that was all I needed to know. Turns out it is just a boring and VERY LONG movie about some terrorist. I was high on painkillers and still got nothing out of this movie which is just way too long. Very disappointed in this movie and also I am going to downvote all the positive reviews because they're obviously written by Philistines (PLEASE NOTE: I UNCONDITIONALLY SUPPORT ISRAEL).

Misleading item, do not buy This item DOES NOT include a digital copy. You would never know, since the product description does not mention it, but the digital copy expired nearly 2 years ago. Disney has terrible customer service and will not make good on this. Again, DVD only, can't recommend this purchase or misleading product info.

One Star for the Ridiculously Late Release!!! It is absolutely disgraceful that HBO cannot get the first season of this very good series released until AFTER the SECOND season is already complete!  I can only assume that this is their way of forcing more people to use HBO GO, a service that cable customers still cannot get!!  Good Job, HBO, of ensuring that more people will NOT tune in for the second season.  NO EXCUSE!!!!!!!

cats quickly bored i purchased this dvd because my cats really enjoyed volume I.  But this turned out to be a bust.  My cats were confused with the bird sounds in the backround and kept tring to find the birds.  The lost interent in the fish pretty quickly and i turned of the dvd after 5 minutes. I would not recommend this one at all.

Horrible What an awful piece of movie crap this was.  I Will never get that time back! Would never recommend this movie!

Are you kidding? I could not agree more with the other 1 star critics the movie is all bad I through it away after an hour or so of viewing.......What crap!!!! I will always tell it like I see it. Scott M

Textbook Awful. I hope J&oacute;hann J&oacute;hannsson made a good chunk of change to have his music used in the first mesmerizing teaser that lured so many to see this sure-fire Razzie contender.  We been had.  Who did these people have sex with to get this made?  This is Mystery Science Theater 3000 stuff; as much as the similarly-named Battle of Los Angeles that Netflix keeps trying to trick you to rent.  Note: the true measure of the badness here is not the special effects or the production budget.  Throw out everything good about the genre.  Keep all the clich&eacute;s.  Employ a producer, director, and/or writer whose main hobby has to be playing Call of Duty and who's been robbed the patience they were born with for not only reading books, but just watching entire cut-scenes or intros at the beginning of their video games, because they just gotta go blow some stuff up quick.  Add some really overzealous lighting techs who want to bath everything in solid "motif" colors.  That's Battle: Los Angeles.  Heck, I would bet the writing in Call of Duty is better than this stinker.  The dialog is so terrible you just have to see it for yourself to believe.  The news people, scientists, and officials talk like a(n) (possibly aforementioned?) pre-teen wrote the lines.  How on Earth (no pun intended) does this even pass the test audiences?  Is Facebook causing brain damage?  Quick, they're after our water!!!  Cuz, yeah, you know... it's like liquid and stuff.  After seeing this steaming turd, I don't blame the CGI people who worked on it for going off and doing the still mediocre Skyline.  I can see how, in spite of that film's SERIOUS problems, it's still bafflingly superior and they actually did have better ideas that the B:LA 'tards had no interest in using.  They still made the odd repeat misjudgment of opening the film with yet another unnecessary foreshadowing of a cinematic money-shot (take a tip from the porn industry).  As "Hollywood" and jazzed-up and pop-cultured (think of a petri dish of infectious mimetic waste) and all around happy-fun-timed Independence Day is, that's practically Oscar-caliber compared to this. ID4 is rather masterfully structured and paced, if you analyze it.  And aside from its last act... correction, aside from Tim Robbins onward (love the guy, hated that casting and how it totally lost its cathartic way after this point), Spielberg's War of the Worlds gave a decent high-drama post-modern, neo-realist whateva-you-wanna-call-it retake on the H.G. Wells concept.  Copped-out on the ending, but it's a Spielberg, after all.  B:LA practically rapes Aliens, Blackhawk Down, District 9, Independence Day, Terminator Salvation, and even first person shooters... it rapes and pillages their content and yells "HOORAH!" and says "Master Sergeant!" incessantly at every available opportunity until you get to the end and go, "dude, where's Dude Where's My Car?"  Could B:LA possibly be a worse film?  Not to mention you're left hoping real marines are not this annoying, otherwise it's Please, please find a war and a beach you can send them to get blown up on.  Fast.  From the letters home, they're clearly breeding.  And after all this time we were left endearing to them by good `ol boy Tom Hanks.  Here, they buy the farm and you just cheer.  That has to be some kind of travesty.  I could write and direct a better movie than this with half my brain tied behind my back.  Hit me with a bat so I can prove it.  No, give me the bat.  I'll beat myself with it for spending 2hrs watching this.  Oh... oh... the humanity.  Battle: Los Angeles.  You had me at, "It's a dog!  It's a dog!  It's a dog!  It's a dog!"

Sucked This was one of the worst movies I have ever watched. Would not recommend this to anyone.... Did not even want to give it one star.

horrible How this movie has only a PG-13 rating is mind boggling. Proof that morals have slipped even further. Viewers beware, this is an extremely violent movie, one that should have been rated R.

Vampire reincarnation roller-coaster ride If you like your popcorn fodder clocking in at 2 1/2 hours as a hodgepodge of "Dog Star Man" meets "Strange Days" meets junior-high sex ed instructional video a la John Holmes, this is the one for you, Pepe Le Pew. Gaspar Noe, that crepuscular (emphasis on "pus") French dip whose views on "family relations" make Mormon fundamentalists look like Mr. Rogers' neighbors by comparison, apparently thinks he's the next Kubrick, as if we needed another gasbag.  Stan Brakhage may have blown your mind when you were a malleable little snot, but if you're still watching experimental films as an adult, it probably means you've eaten so may tabs of acid, that you think your trailer is a spaceship. If you don't know what I mean by "experimental," take the palms of your hands and press them into your eyeballs until you see the kundalini express, and that should give you the general idea.  Yeah, yeah, drugs are like sex. Yeah, yeah, flocks of birds in the sky are like sperms riding through The Ubiquitous Uterus That Breathes All. The inside of your woman parts when they're doing the baby magic like the planets on photo-shoot day as Jean-Luc Picard rides by, releasing a captain's log out of his wormhole. Yes, yes, I get that there's lots of boobies and other private parts, but even a 5-year-old knows how to google this kind of stuff without having to sit through this Superman perspective of redneck romance.  Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this is just anti-abortion propaganda. Everyone knows the French hate us. And the Republicans hate most of us, so it makes sense. Personally, I think abortion is the only way to bring an end to this vampire reincarnation roller-coaster ride.

wonders of alaska dvd Absolutely the WORST video I've ever seen! It should not be sold on Amazon as I've bought countless DVD's from this site.  We have a HD projector with a 92" screen and the quality of this video is horrendous!  The color was gray, out of focus and worse than the VHS tapes we had transferred to DVD. I was so frustrated with this video both for the picture quality and the narration that it was turned off before it was 1/3rd seen. We have some beautiful DVD's both Blue Ray and HD which present Alaska in it's best form. Nothing I've ever seen was as discusting as this DVD. I'm sure it isn't even the lowest resolution for HD. It should be dumped in the nearest trash can.I wouldn't want anyone to think that the beautiful state of Alaska looks like this DVD. We lived in South Central as well as South Eastern, have taken the state ferry through the inside passage and the scenery is unsurpassed. Too bad this DVD was ever made as it is an insult to our most beautiful state. I STRONGLY recommend that you delete it from your inventory! Bonnie Loberg

Unbelievably bad This is clearly one of the worst films I've seen in recent years. The writing is wood. The plot is pathetic. There is absolutely no twist in the story. And there is some 10 minute of action towards the end.

Ordinary action/horror/sci-fi Hollywood I think the movie's near-hysterical marketing campaign did it in more than any number of flaws and acting problems in the movie itself.  Being billed as somehow the next generation of movie-making, an epic so incredible and so beyond the medium of cinema itself, with a plot supposedly so spellbinding and powerful that it has to be kept secret until the screenings.  And I can safely say there was almost nothing original, colossal, or paradigm-shifting in this entire movie.  The plot is basically the next step to the Ancient Alien craze brought on by the crazies on "Ancient Aliens" on History Channel (IF ALIENS DIDN'T EXiST, HOW DID THEY BUILD EVERYTHING?!  I DON'T KNOW, THEREFORE ALIENS), by having someone rich and stupid enough front a trillion dollars for a deep space vessel to follow up on what they think to be a starmap in the form of pictographic carvings found all over the earth from far-flung, disconnected civilizations all portraying the same set of circles in the sky.  Leaving side the obvious conjecture that maybe they all saw the same cosmic event or series of meteors rather than assuming it's somehow alien-related, the fact that this starmap leads where it does makes it a gaping plot hole, considering that the location the go to is one where the aliens clearly would never want us to ever find if we did manage to reach the technological level to find it and go to it.  Add to that the fact that it's a trillion dollar mission that could have ended up leading to nowhere if my hypothesis that it wasn't aliens was correct.  There are no real "characters" to this story; they're little more than cardboard cut-outs with their personalities etched in their faces and speech.  Archetypes largely consisting of people with no discernable purpose beyond dying and being "sciencey".  Their only role in this movie is as "Meat 1", "Meat 2" and so on.  Considering this is a TRILLION DOLLAR MISSION trying to find THE FIRST ABSOLUTE EVIDENCE OF LIFE OUTSIDE OF EARTH, much less ALIENS WHO CREATED US, this is facepalmingly stupid the cast of cretins they've gathered up for this mission.  I literally thought the random punk guy was some random mercenary hired on for protection, so I was genuinely shocked when they started relying on him being "sciencey" later on in the movie.  The rest of them are stupid enough to make people with even the most basic knowledge of archaeology and biology shake their heads.  Considering once again that this is a TRILLION DOLLAR MISSION bent on finding LIVING ALIENS, I honestly thought it was either an inside joke or a jab at the people when they walk into an ancient cavern on the alien planet, unopened in 2000 years, and start TOUCHING everything, stepping everywhere, and SITTING on the artifacts.  There's a reason archaeologists use those tiny little brushes to dust off found artifacts; THEY'RE TRYING TO PRESERVE AND DOCUMENT A SITE; THEY DON'T JUMP INTO A PIT OF BONES AND START KICKING SKULLS AROUND.  They also see fit to take off their helmets, just because the air is breathable.  Nevermind the fact that people are strongly urged to immunize just to visit another country for fear of contracting some unknown disease, these people are on a WHOLE OTHER PLANET UNTOUCHED BY HUMANS OR ANY LIFE FORM FOR TWO THOUSAND YEARS.  The TRILLION DOLLAR MISSION could've ended then and there with all of them dying of space-smallpox, and all due to their own stupidity.  Pretty much from the moment of their arrival, the movie plays out less as THE STORY OF OUR BEGINNING and more like a typical horror movie.  I had constant instances of deja vu with this movie reminding me of scenes from "Alien vs Predator".  Even the characters had exactly the same tones and reactions as those in AVP.  Michael Fassbender is a great actor, but his performance here is terribly uneven, though it seems more to me symptomatic of bad writing than any fault of his own.  His entire opening sequence of him watching Lawrence of Arabia, combing his hair like Peter O'Toole, riding his bike while shooting perfect hoops in basketball, and just walking around maintaining the ship play him up as a bright-eyed innocent, an android fully aware of what he is and giddy to learn more about the world and himself.  Then at random instances, he becomes sarcastic, dry, seemingly malevolent, even snotty, enough to arouse suspicion in a child, much less supposed scientists on a TRILLION DOLLAR MISSION.  He then pulls a temporary heel turn with a little "science" experiment that would be considered crude and reckless by Medieval standards of medicine---people DID practice quarantine back then.  I say temporary because as the film progresses some more, this action of his not only proves to be pointless, but is subsequently dropped and ignored for the rest of the film.  Then comes the whole moral of the story... I see a lot of positive reviews mentioning that it's okay that the story "doesn't explain" everything, or that it's not the film at fault if you "don't get it".  Well I got it.  What I got was grade-school navel gazing hiding its own childishness behind a slick veneer of cool and hip to dismiss any criticism as "You just didn't get it".  As much as I trash on "Ancient Aliens" on History Channel, I find the idea of paleolithic contact to be utterly thrilling, only waiting for even the slimmest shred of evidence to justify giving it further exploration.  This movie began with something like that, and close to the end, completely dropped the existential navel-gazing unaddressed to turn to the philosophical quandry of a bawling child wondering "Why is daddy hurting me?"  From there, another gaping plothole emerges; the aliens are suddenly hostile towards us, and the humans can't understand why.  They then proceed to make up reasons that completely ignore the facts; we're BAAAAAD people!  We burn fossil fuels!  We don't recycle!  We kill each other!  We eat animals!  We invent big shooty guns and bombs!  We touch ourselves at night!  It never gets that specific, but the "Why me?" wailing gets tired, fast, and suddenly I realized I don't care what the aliens wanted.  If they have a problem with us and are unwilling to negotiate, we can just kill them all.  They DID leave their planet full of a self-replicating biological superweapon ABANDONED for two thousand years, and then left us with the starmaps all over our planet!  The ending is typical, and would seemingly open the door for sequels, though of the sort that would be close to nothing like this movie, and thoroughly unwanted or uncared about.  Considering they had devised this great plan for the human race, it seems downright nutty of the scientist to STILL want to meet with them and ask them "Why me?"  As for visuals, I suppose they were impressive.  I wasn't impressed with them; CGI is cheap, fast, and easy these days.  A dozen movies are churned out with better and better visuals and plots and characters just as bad every year.  Boasting the greatest special effects with no substance to justify them will only make the movie look quaint and silly in 5-10 years when something better is done.  I found a slight comparison with this film and "2001: A Space Odyssey" and realized it was literally the exact same basic plot:  Man finds evidence of ancient aliens, invests in a deep space mission to seek out the aliens based on their map, stuff happens, only one survivor and their pet robot.  What separates this from "2001" is that "2001" told a story that needed no words; it was the story of us, open to all manner of interpretation, with scientists actually behaving like SCIENTISTS---Poole and Bowman kept their calm when they suspected HAL of lying to them, they casually gathered inside a space pod to discuss it, they didn't freak out and start cursing at each other or playing childish games of pretend with a damn SUPERCOMPUTER thinking they could outsmart a machine designed to read people like a pamphlet.  In "Prometheus", they don't let you think, at least not the way you're expected to.  You're not left thinking about our beginnings, or the ancient alien concept, so much as wondering the same dumb question of "Why us?".  In fact, when we saw the movie, the only thing we kept wondering about is exactly what the alien at the prologue did and whether he knew what was happening.  I don't think that is what the filmmakers wanted.

Terrible quality DVD Received the DVD after about a week, and the quality of the DVD was absolutely terrible. There was something sticky all over the disk, and the surface area of the DVD itself was all nicked up and smeared with something also.

Horrible movie This movie is so boring.  The first 45 minutes take place in the rain at night.  Great cast but the whole movie is just dumb.  No action at all, dumb story, unrealistic plot.  Can I please have the last 90 minutes of my life back?

The Nightmare Before Christmas My granddaughtern has wanted this movie for a year and could not find it.  Finally I found it for her and sent it to her for her birthday.  When she tried to play it, it said does not play in this region which is Washington state.  Was not happy had to find another one for this disappoint girl.  I will never order another thing from here again

Boring and slow Visually very good; great special effects.  That's it.  Not the fault of the actors either.  It moved very slowly, was boring, characters were boring and it felt as though it dragged on and on.

horrible I wish i could get this time back because it was  huge waste of time.  Seemed like a long CDC infomercial.  No substance, weird collages to music.  Very very bad movie & worst ive seen in some time!

Zero to Horrible in 3.4 seconds Starring Phantom Rolls Royce (as Ghost), Enzo Ferrari (as Enzo), Ferrari F430 (as Four-Thirty), Ferrari Scaglietti (as Scags), Porsche Carrera GT (as Porsche "Tia" Carrera), Ducati 999 (as Ducky), and Lamborghini (as Lambo), Redline provides nothing more than cars and cleavage.  As a secondary consideration, poorly playing the role of either Giovanni Ribisi or Paul Walker's character - I couldn't tell which - is Jesse Johnson.  Yep, Don Johnson's kid.  Although, if I had to put money on it, I'd say that at the very least Rod Stewart and/or James Van Der Beek were invited over for a wild night at the Johnson house.  Nonetheless, dude couldn't fill acclaimed thespian Paul Walker's shoes, much less Ribisi's.  Read that last sentence again.  Anyway, "war hero"-X - Carlo (Nathan Phillips) - comes home to find his brother, see above, in some sort of rip off of Gone in 60 Seconds.  And while I was certainly more concerned about the fact Carlo had a full grown beard while wearing his Class-A's, he was upset about his brother's criminal involvement.  He's possesses neither Vin Diesel's muscles nor Nicolas Cage's male pattern baldness, not to mention the fact that he can't act as well either.  After the emasculated pair go so far as to follow Fast and the Furious closely enough they engage in a fight with a rival Asian car "gang," the story turns into a family affair with their uncle Michael (Angus Mcfadyen) and Eddie Griffin playing, well, Eddie Griffin, acting as high-rollers in the illegal racing.  Boom-bada-boom, the Lambo inexplicably vaults into the air, somehow Michael ends up owning a hot chick named Natasha (Nadia Bjorlin), and she eventually teams up with G.I. Oh-No to avenge his non-driving brother's horribly directed death. Yawn.  This is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553377833">The Mystery Science Theater 3000</a> stuff for most people.  It's a lame attempt to capitalize off of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003QSJVV2">Gone in Sixty Seconds</a> and the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002LANLDK">Fast & Furious (2009)</a> franchise, but with much worse everything.  Including action.  I fast-forwarded the racing scenes to make them even remotely interesting or exciting.  Redline hits the wall and crashes harder than Dale Earnhardt.  I'm talking <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000068QPU">Kazaam</a> bad.

A disapointment This should have been funny.  This could have been funny.  But it fell flat for 95% of the movie.  The only worthwhile moment was during the credits.  So many great actors, but so little to show for it.  Plenty of better things to do with your time.

Waste of time Don't waste your time watching this movie. It goes around and around in circles to no where. This movie tries to do what classics like the Fog did so well but it failed miserably so find something better to do with your time.

Porn tries to cash in on the zombie craze... And fails miserably! This was probably one of the dumbest movies I have ever seen,which is pretty bad because I usually like B movies.Virtually no plot,completely inconsistent with every good zombie movie ever made,horrible acting,and ugly strippers who don't even dance well. Jenna Jameson has seen better days. I would not recommend this to any true zombie fan.The only people I can think of that this would appeal to is high school or college guys who can't get a hold of real porn and are that desperate to see some BAD fake boob jobs.

Poor sound quality! I purchased this DVD because it's one of my favorite movies, threw away the receipt, wanted to watch the move a week late and guess what - sound quality was so poor I had to increase the volume to the highest and still could barely hear anything!  Now this DVD is also in garbage and I purchased another one from Best Buy.  I guess you get what you pay for! :(((

Another waste of movie money I just can't believe there is a movie studio who would actually pay to have garbage like this produced. If I had three thumbs, I would give it three thumbs down.

what a waste I cant believe Lionsgate put this movie out.To say this movie was horrible,is an under statement.I just finished watching it and Im pissed off that I wasted my money.

Unfortunately unimpressive I'll put it this way. I'm at the scene with the babysitter. She looks like a barbie doll. I saw her and immediately started singing "I'm a barbie girl, in a barbie worrrrlldd" in my head. When you can do that during this sort of movie and still not feel any odd effect or feel jarred or anything at all.. well, that kinda tells you what sort of movie it is.  It's not that it's a bad movie. The acting is decent, the sets are very nice, costuming is perfectly fine and the writing is alright. It's just.. dull. Dull and long and... yeah.  I'm finishing this review just as the babysitter scene is ending and I'm STILL hum-thinking Aqua in my head.  Likin' Plastic. It's fan-tasticcc.

Save your money After watching several of the other Comedy Central Roasts, it is easy to say that this one comes in dead last in all aspects.  It's hard to describe how unfunny this one was, other than to say that it was a good idea for Comedy Central to add more comedians in later episodes.  Basically, most of the people seemed to be there just to hang out and half-ass tease him.  There was no energy from any of the roasters, the jokes were completely flat and pointless, the song was hard to hear and wasn't funny either, and the roastmaster himself made a few lame attempts at jokes but mainly just offered praise for everyone that came up to talk.  A roast, this was not. Maybe casual banter peppered with a few meaningless and random personal stories.  Thank God for Netflix because I didn't have to feel bad about stopping it before it was done.

I don't often give bad reviews... First of all I would like to say that I have not read the whole book- but I was put off straight away by some of the things mentioned in this book- such as you can't blame your parents you chose to be born through them etc...  This book is waffly and hippy-ish- I get the kind of person who will like this book- I was one of them. I dont mind the technique behind them- not my style- but I can see why people like them.  What I disliked thoroughly about it, is that the idea that things that are bad in your life are only your fault- to be truly disturbing. It is not an untrue idea, just a false one- and one that doesn't help people who want to for example get through depression or a difficult time in their life.  The idea that your parents are not to blame- what if your father sexually abused you?  This idea of falsely 'forgiving' someone doesn't help anyone- and has been shown by people who work in such fields.  Forgiving all the time, even without sexual abuse mean that you just repress your feelings... which means the real problems are never addressed...  The author is taking somewhat of a hard line approach here- but I honestly think that someone who is depressed and reading this book might find harm rather than good- which is why I have rated it one star.  I am sure that many people have been helped by it- but a lot of the ideas reiterated in this book are unhealthy and ought not to be read by the people who are the target audience of this book.,

WORST movie EVER - I can not believe this is considered a comedy..  It is so far from a comedy.  It is about a son who kills him self accidentally -  and  what plays out afterwards is in such poor taste  -  A badly written, badly produced, and badly cast movie -  It does not even deserve 1 star - but that was the lowest I could give.

Epic Fail All the parts are there, but... but... this movie sucks. Really sucks. No depth, no decent dialogue, no continuity, no epci feel, blood for bloods sake, and no heart. Save you money, buy hammer and break your own fingers. That'll be less painful.

Zero stars This movie is just a complete waste.  This must be on Amazon as a pre-theatre release because the  investors know just how bad it really is and have to somehow reclaim some of their investment.  The concept is great, but the movie is essentially OVER after the first 20 minutes. I say it's over after the first 20 minutes because after the "event" occurs, this story falls flat.  There is absolutely NO character development. I didn't find myself caring about any of the characters because  I didn't know anything about them.  I think a 10 year old would be able to develop better characters and a plot with more depth than this.  Seriously, this is a complete waste of money.  Wait for it to come out for free on Netflix instant watch and you'll thank me for saving you the $$$.

This is a dreadful film now but..... I first saw this film as a teenager and thought is was the raunchiest I had ever seen. I had obviously embellished the film in my head since seeing it but on watching it as a much older guy, I find it rather an embarrassment. I am quite sure that Jane Fonda feels much the same way.

my top 10 worst movies list. I even rated "Snakes on the Plane" better than this one. Graphics were simi ok, but whom ever directed this, doesn't need to touch another movie again. Seriously.

WAY overpriced... Sears has this boxed set for $69, and other sellers have it listed for under $100.00. This price is ridiculous.

Oyster Farmer/Dudd I purchased this movie because I usually like one of the actors work.  I was really disappointed in this movie and regret my purchase.  The condition of the product however was good.

Wasn't what I ordered I ordered the blu-ray and dvd combo pack. Instead I got the blu-ray and "digital copy" which doesn't work in dvd players.

If you can't remember who you had sex with last year I saw this movie several times when it came out. I remember some scenes. If you can't remember if you did or did not have an affair with someone the year before at a fashionable spa, this is for you. I write this because I am watching another of his films and am experiencing deja vu, all over again.

Definitely not what it should have been When I watched Ong Bak, I was captivated by the storyline and the martial arts. It even ended well. Then to know a sequel was coming out, I was excited and watched that too. That ended with a cliffhanger that leads us up to this one... part 3.  If I had to compare this movie to anything it would end up being the 3rd movie in the Matrix trilogy. It's a trilogy that started off strong, had a decent sequel then one heck of a sucky 3rd outting. This one is just that.  The storyline takes a back seat to religious fluff and the martial arts sequences (when you can even find any) are bland and boring.  This movie is a bad aftertaste to an otherwise great storyline. Only watch it if you want see something beyond what the first two movies offered for action and storyline.

The Departed - D.O.A. This is one of the WORST movies I've ever seen.  I was drawn in at first, but the storyline never gelled, and was eventually completely buried in extraneous garbage and ho-hum acting.  The main plot could have been interesting, but none of the details made any sense, and none of the characters came close to being fully developed.  - Who IS Costello?  A small-time thug?  A big fish?  A guy trying to crawl out of the ghetto? A psychopath who just likes to partake in ridiculously risky money-making schemes? What other crimes has he committed?  Why does he hate the church?  The film never answers any of these questions.  - Who IS Costigan, and what motivates him? He's got an uncle who was bad, and I think his dad was good.  So what?  Why, exactly, did he become a cop? Why do all of the bad guys know his bad uncle, but not him (and vise-versa)?  They know he was in the police academy, yet decide to let him join the gang!? After he's only been in the gang for 4 months, they learn there's a rat.  They have no problem shooting others in the head in cold blood, so why don't they do that to Costigan?  They don't just fail to kill him, we find out later that he is inexplicably the Costello's MOST TRUSTED!?!  Huh?  - Why does Sullivan risk his entire life and career for Costello?  Because he bought him groceries once? Why do we care that he was an altar boy?  What was his family life like?  Why does he enjoy lying so much? Why does he show no emotion ever - is it part of the character or just bad acting?  - Why is everybody else so one dimensional?  The weak, weak girlfriend caught up in a complicated subplot, who eventually learns the deep secret at the heart of the movie and does NOTHING about it. The token black cop from Costigan's police academy class who speaks exactly ONE line to set up that credential. The Alec Baldwin and Martin Sheen characters with zero depth - both actors phoning in their performances. The other gang members who have almost no discernible personality.  - Why are the state cops running a high-budget, low manpower sting out of the city police station with no interaction with the city cops?  - Are we really supposed to believe that an erased file on the computer system can't be recovered and is really the ONLY evidence that Costigan is an undercover cop?  REALLY?  Added to all this are the thousand subplots that go NOWHERE. - The baby. - The envelope given to the girlfriend, never to be seen again. - The very important, but never shown, FBI-informant angle. - The relationship never explained between the Sheen and Wahlberg characters. - The unexplained attraction the girlfriend has for violent men with psychological problems. - The innumerable undercover people on both sides that we only find out about AFTER their deaths, which we don't care about because we hardly noticed them when they were alive. - How and why did Costigan record all his conversations? - Is the oft hinted at pederasty directly related to any of the characters?  Not since "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace" have I been as let down by a movie.  Like that movie, none of the characters in "The Departed" have any motivation or redeeming qualities.  None of their actions or reactions makes any sense.  It's OBVIOUS who the good guys are and who the bad guys are, but I didn't like or hate ANY of the characters. The strongest feeling I had toward them all was WHO CARES?  I need to stop thinking about this movie.  The more I think about it, the dumber it seems, and the angrier I become for having wasted time watching it.  The fact that it gets rave reviews simply adds to the anger and confusion.

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Too scary for my 4 year old There is a character called the Nightmare engine.  This character and scene is too intense and frightening for young children.  I've never seen my son so upset from watching a rated G movie before. We will not be watching it ever again.  Don't waste your money purchasing this for your preschoolers.  This movie does not warrant a G rating.  Parental guidance is suggested.

I saw this on Netflix and want my money back The worst movie of the year 2011.  The acting in this film was a joke.  They were basically reading the lines.  So dissapointed in Mandy Moore who is a fine actor.  I can tell she tried really hard.  There were no chemistry between any of the cast.  Awful director and directions.  Even Mandy Moore was just reading lines.  We watched it on Netflix and would like to get our money back :  Yes. It is that bad.  Please do not buy this movie.

Probably just a fluke, but... I ordered this DVD because I wanted to finally own one of my favorite films. If you're reading this and wondering if the film is for you, know this; the photography is astounding. Most people I've watched the movie with grow bored with the pacing and lack of satisfactory exposition, but If you like a true mystery that doesn't hold your hand or promise you all the answers and a happy ending, this lovely film is an extremely rewarding cup of tea.  As you've probably already noticed, I gave this product 1 star. That's intended to be a comment on the physical product that I was sent, not the film itself. My disc arrived on time, and seemed to be in good shape. However, when I opened the case and attempted to remove the disc for the first time, the disc split almost in half immediately. Since I don't see any complaints from folks who've experienced anything similar, I'm assuming it was some kind of fluke - a flaw in the plastic or something. Still, I thought it was worth documenting. I'll probably try to get my money back.

Don't waste your time Stiff actors, poor plot, boring dialog and a terrible ending. I want my hour and half back, don't waste your time.

Keep Your Money !!! Man, this should come with a gas mask...what a stinker !!!  Use your money on something better than this. . . .

Background knowledge required When I first read the book I never expected it to turn into a movie. It's long, the characters are all business men, and there are quite a few philosophical speeches. This definitely isn't "Lord of the Rings". The movie felt like a heavily summarized version of cliff notes (worse than "The Da Vinci Code"). The dialog jumped from point to point without ever forming a complete thought, relying on your memories of the book to give it any relevance. The acting was far from good, however that may have just been the best any actor could do with such an "abridged" script.  Should you watch this movie? If you have netflix and you and your spouse liked the book: Maybe, if you can't find anything better to do. Otherwise, there's no point. The movie needs your knowledge of the book, but the book is a better memory without the movie.  Where are all the cigarettes?

Ice age 3  3D I can't even watch this movie, it's so bad and blurry in 3D I couldn't even watch it :(, I was very disappointing with it and would like my money back.   1  "Ice Age 3 3D" John Leguizamo; DVD; $21.99 In Stock   Sold by: Amazon.com LLC  It sure would be nice to talk to a real person at Amazon, but I couldn't find a # to call anywhere on your Amazon web page.  I contacted you guys 7 days ago and you told me it would be picked up at my house the next day, UPS never showed up the next day or any day at all, this is the worst service I've ever had, if I don't here back from you guys I will put a stop payment and never use Amazon again, look at your records I'm sure you will find that I've been a loyal costumer of yours for a very long time, it's not a very good policy for you guys to ignore a customer and let it get to this point. You guys really sucked on this order. One more thing, I've tried contacting you guys (Amazon) three times and you only answered the first time, the other three times I got NO RESPONCE FROM AMAZON.

Worst movie of 2012 Offensively horrible dialogue, mediocre acting, pathetically laughable special effects. At one point two of the main characters literally were "fighting" on foot, standing ON TOP OF A STAMPEDE, jumping from horseback to horseback; the entire scene being 100% CGI with unbelievably terrible graphics and "camera" movement and rendering quality.  No aspect was enjoyable in the least, entire project was just unbearable. I've seen dozens of vampire movies, and am a fan of the genre, the title sounds infinitely more interesting than the finished product, which felt like an uneducated teenager tried to analogize the Confederates with vampires.  As if it were a new concept, there were even "slavery is bad" motifs.

Pelican Brief DVD This dvd gets 3/4 of the way through the movie and cuts off.  I have tried it on 3 different dvd players with the same result.

Pass the Cheese This movie was laughable. Every single performance was over-acted, hyper-melodramatic, and cheesy in the worst sense. I half expected the horses and main characters to break out into song like some animated Disney children's film. In fact had this movie been an animated Disney musical it would have improved the watch-ability by lightyears. If you want a cartoony, horse themed travesty of a WWI drama then by all means enjoy, but for anyone hoping to see a serious period piece or thoughtful war drama, beware... it's a joke. It's just a goofy story about a farm boy (who curdles milk with an accent akin to Samwise Gamgee from LOTR) whose pet horse gets sent off to be a service beast in WWI, making unlikely horsey friends, and other equally one dimensional human characters, along the way back to his boy. I spent most of the movie trying not to laugh out loud at the absurdness of it all. Should have spared us all the agonizing 2 and a half hours and shipped Ol' Joey off to the glue factory in the first 20 minutes. This film being nominated for Best Picture speaks volumes for what an awful year it was for film. Boo I say

Mistake I ordered this DVD and discovered it wouldn't work in Region 1. My mistake. So I'm paying shipping on original order and return!! Then, I found the DVD on Walmart.com with NO SHIPPING, I can pick it up at store of my choice.  AND, price is about half of what I paid through Amazon.com.  BIG mistake ordering through amazon

Disappointing Went to look for a FAMILY video to have the whole family watch.  I figured THomas Kinkade and Lions Gate would be safe and good.  The movie dragged, the humor about his father was crude and coarse.  In the end the movie doesn't close well. The depth of the FAMILY part was shallow.  There was swearing throughout the movie.  Bought it, watched it and threw it away!  Mr. Kinkade in his opinion compares this to "It's a Wonderful Life."  Not a chance! Don't waste your money on it!

Not Alone...In Thinking "Gothika" Is Godawful! I just watched this movie again after not seeing it since I bought it used a few years ago. Talk about a fkg mess! I was cringing through this, and for all the wrong reasons, LOL. And after about an hour into it, I lost count of how many times it started over using deux es machina, throwing everything but the kitchen sink at the screen hoping something would stick, and nothing does! Wow, what a waste of film, and a waste of my time!  Director Mathieu Kassovitz does an amiable job of creating atmosphere early on, but it is quickly all wasted by an atrocious screenplay by Sebastian Gutierrez. Plus, I wasn't that impressed with Halle Berry's "generic" acting either. Yes, she's good, but not as great as a lot of people want to let on. On the other hand, poor Penelope Cruz, who is a great actress, is completely wasted here! I kept saying to myself that it would be a better film if it were more about her, but to my heavy disappointment, she is only in a few little scenes; matter of fact, you can count them on one hand. What a shame! And while I've never been a huge fan of Robert Downey Jr., he does some good acting in some things, and even does a good job here, but it is all in vain, for his talents are also wasted here as well; as are the talents of John Carroll Lynch, and practically everybody else that is in this.  You know a movie is bad when at the one hour mark, the lead character screams out at the ghost, "What do you want from me?!", and you start laughing and thinking "I just want this movie to END!" The word "convoluted" doesn't even begin to describe this film! It might have been better if they had stuck to either making a straight-forward ghost story, or a straight-forward psychological mystery thriller, but this film tries (too hard) to make all of the above, and fails miserably. It started out as a three, to four, star movie, but I quickly started reducing stars as it went along, and by the end it was barely even worth rating one star. I recommend skipping this one! Thank you! :>)

Not true to its title... It's an interesting movie but as far as representing true Christianity or what it means to be a real apostle or a man who loves God it is far less than accurate.  If you're just looking for something to watch rather than enjoy this movie works for that but I wouldn't get any beliefs about what an apostle is from this movie.

Amazon digital purchase sucks. Don't bother with the Instant digital download. The "free" unboxed player has crappy (non existant?) video scaling and the file won't play on WMP or VLC.

Um... seriously... what is this? Is this for real? Because I was grossed out... then I felt stupid for watching this. The only parts I enjoyed were the in betweens. This one really isn't that good.

Slow service Pretty difficult to review a product when I have yet to receive it. The item was ordered 2 weeks ago.

VCI VERSION -  CDR COPY This is just to alert any potential purchasers of this title ordering the VCI version. The one I have just received is a CDR copy. Nowhere in the product details is this mentioned. This is the second VCI title I have received like this. The same thing when I ordered their version of Undersea Kingdom. Both have been returned for refunds and I have re-ordered the Alpha versions instead. You have been warned.

15 minutes long :-( Way overpriced considering it is only 15 mins long and not 40 as advertised.  It's not even very interesting either.

Illuminati uses a movie about them to pretend to be a thing of the past This movie produced by those who brainwash us out in Hollywood, directed by the loser Ron Howard, starring the no talent Tomy Hanks, both involved with the globalist movement of the Illuminati.. telling people that the Illuminati is a thing of the ancient past as it NOW works to destroy humanity by way of collapsing economies.. This movie was NOT at all about the Illuminati.

Crap!!! What's wrong with you people? This movie is pure crap. It's NOT worth the money and NOT worth the time.

"Be  Warned  : This  Movie  Suck's !" At  the  beginning  I  really  thought  this  movie  would  have  some  potential, it  seemed  to  have  the  same  " mood "  as  another  low- budget  flick  called "Gone  The  Way  Of  Flesh"Boy , was  I  disapointed.The  1st  kill  scene  was  a  slit  throat  and  I'm  thinking  "where's  the  blood ?"Unless  you  consider  a  couple  drips  of  blood  enough.It  just  wasn't  realistic, If  someone  get's  their  throat  slashed  open  you  expect  blood  to  be  pouring !Throughout  the  movie  they  still  skimp  on  the  blood, it  was  probably  to  make  sure  they  wouldn't  run  out  by  the  end  of  the  movie.Etheir  that  or  they  were  being  careful  to  not  stain  their  freinds  or  relatives  carpet  during  the  filming  of  the  movie.I  got  a  kick  out  of  the  "back  room  of  a  bar " you  can  clearly  see  it's  someones  bedroom  in  a  house.And  the  acting  is  just  horrible, they  might  as  well  have  been  robots  just  reading  their  lines.Any  emotion  expressed  was  so  cheesy & fake  it  was  diffucult  to  watch.Loyd  Kaufman  was  the  only  one  in  this  movie  worth  watching,he  seemed  like  a  veteran  actor  compared  to  the  other  ones.I  have  to  admit  some  of  his  lines  were  hilarious(" I  hate  old  people.Their  disgusting."And  in  a  scene  where  he  get's  stabbed- nobody  can  make  screams  like  this  man)Other  then  that  this  movie  is  just  plain  awful and  the  characters  are  lame.Maybe  one  chick  gets  topless.Which  is  a  joke  cause  the  movie  warns  theres  graphic & explicit  violence  and  nudity.The  scene  where  a  chick  get's  needles  stuck  into  her  arms, you  can  see  the  fake  skin(maybe  face  putty  or  poorly  applied  latex) which  looks  like  burn  marks  or  scars.As  far  as  "graphic " violence  goes  I'd  say  " Well,sort  of.." The  scene  where  the  chick  get's  a  knife  shoved & twisted  around  in  her  private-spot  could  of  been  brutal,  but  ounce  again  "where's  the  blood ?" I'll  stick  to  a  toe tag  film.

What?! Best summed up in the words of a little critic whose mother had to carry him out of the theater in the first minute:  "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"  I wish someone had carried me out of the theater too.

BLASPHEMY!!!! Read The Gospels, And AVOID This Pathetic Excuse For A Movie. Note: I have seen a clip and a half from this monstrosity online, I have NOT not seen this garbage in its entireity, nor do I intend to.  This "Film" by Martin S. (an otherwise excellent film-maker; see "The Age Of Innocence," "Gangs Of New York") is nothing more than complete and utter BLASPHEMY. It not only perpetuates the heresy that Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, was not 100% divine, but also shows Him giving into sexual temptation and (willingly or not) kissing Judas on the lips. These, and other scenes, should serve to keep any true believer away from this movie. I was warned about the heretical content, but decided to view a clip or two online to see for myself (as I would NEVER, EVER, EVER debase myself by watching heresy; I thought about seeing it, which was in itself a temptation), and it is worse than I thought. I read the synopsis on Wikipedia and was horrified at the actual content, which is an utter blasphemy. The Gospel According To Saint John (chapter 3, verse 16) says , "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him, should not perish, but have everlasting life." And The Revelation Of St. John (chapter 22, verses 18 and 19) say, "For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book." Mr. S. has done both things; he has taken away and added to the Word of God, things which ought not to be done. Read the Holy Bible (preferably the KJV, as the post-KJV translations water down the Message of God's Word, especially the homosexual-friendly new international version) and avoid this heretical excuse for a movie, which is excrement. The Word Of God is true. You won't be damned if you're a Christian and you see this movie , but if you are a Christian, you would do well to NOT see this film, as you would know better than an unconverted the Truth of God. And you can tell the unconverted to NOT see this film. It is utter blasphemy.

noting impressive here Movie is not worth anyone's time. I was willing to over look the hair thin plot in exchange for an impressive visual pop corn movie. thats not there either. Visuals are lackluster and the cgi is WAY below industry standards.

Just plain bad. This reminds me of a student film. A bad student film. Bad writing, bad directing, totally unimaginative cinematography, and acting that would be generously described as amateur. I kept watching, thinking that it had to improve. I was wrong; if anything, it got worse. The only possible audience for this film is chihuahua owners who like to dress their dogs in ridiculous outfits. A complete waste of time! Go ahead, watch it, but you can't say you weren't warned.

Sterile, emotionless, and extremely bland I've never heard a worse performance or recording than this cheap sounding crap.  It is a low rent, amateurish production, which sounds as if it were recorded in an interstate gas station bathroom.  The performances are the level of a freshman high school band, and the complete lack of understanding of the music shines through in every moment.  Most recordings of alexander jero would have to be considered the "Showgirls" of the recording world.  Mind you, I've collected a few of them, primarily to marvel at the audacity of the awfulness.

Ghost Ship Review This movie is a underwhelming ride to weak plot points. The only A+ in this film is the blood & gore but most of the killings happen offscreen. The cast is so-so and so is the acting. The opening is pretty good but fails to help the film in the long run. It also has pointless jump scares. The Special effects are mediocre at best. Not to mention,the many plotholes in this film. I give Ghost Ship a 1 out of 10.

AT THE RISK OF BEING REDUNDANT It was highly validating to see all the bad reviews this movie got.  I just wish I'd read them before I'd clicked the purchase button.  It was as though they were working hard to make it as bad as possible -- especially the acting.  What's Bradley Cooper doing in this?  He doesn't need the money.  What would I have liked to know before renting it?  That it SUCKED!!!  Amazon, please issue me a credit voucher immediately forthwith.  You can refund my money even if you did steal my time.

how bad can you get Wow what crap!! Some very good actors (Paul, Philip, Marisa) wasted on a terrible, disastrous screenplay. George Clooney needs to get over himself, he can't act and now he can't write. The producers must have a really low opinion of their audience's intellect or just lack intellect themselves. Gee I didn't know politics was dirty, no kidding, tell me more. Government/Politics is Satan's playground show it otherwise don't make a movie about gov/politics and educate yourself instead of learning from soundbites on your boob tube.

BEWARE This release uses Ultraviolet for the digital copy.  As it states in the description it requires the Silverlight client for downloads to be viewed.  Do not be surprised when there is no iTunes compatible downloadable file and you will have to, yet again, have a special client to view the digital copy.  So, now we have what?  Flixster and Silverlight required to view Ultraviolet digital copies as well as the client WE CHOSE (in my case, iTunes and Windows Media)?  I wonder how many more trojan horse applications we will have to install in order to watch the digital copy WE PAID FOR.  Of course, it's only good for a year as well so...  BEWARE.  Ultraviolet is the worst.

Digital Copy a FARCE When I received this I attempted to download the digital copy following the provided instructions. The download failed to process and I received a notice that the code provided was invalid. I attempted to contact Universal and received no response. I then emailed amazon and asked for their assistance. I was informed that this was not their problem that it was between me and universal. I did NOT purchase from universal, I purchased it from amazon and it is amazon that did NOT provide me with the entire item that I purchased! FAIL FAIL FAIL!

What a disaster!!!!!!!!!!1 I tried to watch this film, I really did. If for no other reason but to see Heath Ledger's last performance. Well, what a waste of time and effort. What a mess of confusion, violence, and depressing images. I couldn't figure out what was going on, no matter where I picked up the film, at different scenes when it was of cable. It just never went anywhere, unless you count all of over the place, going somewhere. It was really a waste of time, also for the great actor Christopher Plummer. I can't figure out why any of the fine actors in this film signed on-especially the ones who filled in for Ledger after his death. And why three of them? To make the storyline, whatever it was, seem more confusing, weird, creepy and depressing? Well, mission accomplished then. If there are people out there, who justify this film with the prhase, 'this is my kind of weird', then that is what they are signing on for by watching this film. Some kind of weird-the worst kind!

Derivative, clumsy, self-conscious, trite - need I go on? Derivative, clumsy, self-conscious, trite. Rarely funny - or even amusing. The movie attempts to combine Back to the Future with The Hangover and achieves something that's not worth watching. John Cusack's charm helps make it almost bearable. Clark Duke isn't bad, either. Crispin Glover's talents are utterly wasted.

the product is different that you offer I bough with spanish subtitle, but this DVD coming only in English.  I do not why offer a product and send a different product, I feel cheated

This film feeds Negativity on Puerto Ricans I bought this film because I am a fan of Frankie Negron,I do wish he had a better role and different film.True I agree the with many reviewers,the director Val does not know much about Puerto Rican culture and feeds into the negative stereotypes and adds rap like Big Pun & Dmx etc..like we all listen to that music and making us look ghetto.Why not show a positive view of Puerto Ricans like hard working,going to school,arts etc..Instead we get a one side view,with bad acting,stereotypes,ghetto,bad directing etc..The plus side is good spanish music and Frankie Negron,but still that cant save the film.If you want to see good efforts watch "West Side Story","I like it like that","Cayo","Nothing like the.Holidays","Blue Diner","Yo Soy Boricua"(Rosie Perez documentary),"El Cantante" starring Jennifer Lopez(who does an Amazing job) in a story with complex family life of legendary Hector Lavoe with beautiful scenes of Puerto Rico and amazing music.Also, "Yellow" with Roselyn Sanchez.There are interesting stories,great efforts of Puerto Ricans,that do Not feed into the Negativity and actually tell an interesting story.Sorry,"Boricuas Bond",you go in the ghetto negativity category with Mexican ganstas and cheap crappy films with no substance.

Pre-opened, and resealed product When I received the item it seem to have been closed by home done shrinkwrap. after unwrapping I began to remove the tape that covers the top of most dvd/cd/blu-ray cases. Under the first layer there was tape from the original packaging. I would suggest against buying.

If I could give this zero stars, I would. I streamed this off of Netflix and was so glad I did not pay any money for this.  Absolutely horrible.  Two hours of my life that I will never get back.  I can't even say this was campy, conspiracy theory fun; it was bad all around - production values, acting, voice-overs... everything was slapped together so poorly.  Whoever funded production of this dvd should be ashamed... as well as dragged into the street and shot.  The fact that Netflix streams this pile of poo while you have to request the dvd of "Magical Mystery Tour" just baffles me.  Save your time and money.  There are so many better unauthorized Beatles dvd's out there.  Don't be lured in by the "Paul is dead" intrigue.  You will be sorely disappointed.

Awful... not awe-full. Steve is a musical genius but the chemistry here just defeats it.  He croons, looks like he is not in touch with the music or audience, and the video style and quality are barely 70's.  If you are a Traffic fan do yourself a favor and stick with the fond memories.  If you want to Stevie at his best, check out him and Clapton on the Live at Madison Square Garden DVD.  He brings his legendary life of talents to its peak... He easily keeps up with Clapton on the guitar and he even belts out blues like nobody's business.

Not the real episode This isn't the actual episode and only 2 minutes long.. it's not worth $2.99 for the HD version and should be free like every other preview for this show.

Make Sure You Pay Attention If you want the right version of Legend make SURE it says "Theatrical Version" before you buy. The directors's cut does not end the way the theater version does. It is disappointing to put it mildly. The "Ultimate" version is the only version that has both endings and the theatrical version is hard to find. I no likey the directors cut.

Don't Waste Your Money! DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY.  I took a risk on this movie because it was rated with four stars, but it fell absolutely short of being a good horror/thriller type movie.  The acting was not that great, the character development fell very short, and it had an extremely predictable ending. The movie had some grusome scenes, but it can hardly be described as horror.  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs comes closer to being a horror movie than this flick does. WILLY R Mesa, AZ

BLAH!!! Bought it to entertain the grandaughters. Worked for about 10 minutes and then we all lost interest and went into a coma. It's in the landfill by now!

Cheesy and Boring This has got to be one of the worst movies I've ever forced myself to sit through.  While the "diesel punk" styling was quite fun, the plot and acting were terrible.  Boring, Boring, Boring.  Long dull scenes interspersed with mediocre action and some of the cheesiest dialogue I've heard in ages.  Save yourself a few bucks and just watch the trailers.  As a long time Capt. fan since the 60's I was severely disappointed.

Stick to what you know, Kevin . . . this one's a dud! This movie was not as much provocative as provoking.  Being unsure, I saved it for my library list (Whew!)  The thinly  subliminal phallic cover "art" was not encouraging -- I'm no prude, but what a prosaic way to promote a film.  After watching the beginning, through moronic juvenile patter complete with constant flying f-bombs (boring and derivative), things were looking up with the character development of the crazy preacher dude.  . . . which gradually degenerated back into mindless and gratuitous violence.  No wonder Quentin liked it.  I bailed and went on Amazon to check the reviews.  They were far more entertaining than the movie.  Because of the opinion polarity though, I decided to turn the film back on and try once again.  Fast-forwarding through the gross parts, I came to the John Goodman entry, which held some promise.  Alas, twas not to be.  The promising richness of the Goodman character dwindled to the simple-minded, one-dimensional persona of a bureaucratic and cowardly shill.  Everything in this movie seemed caricatured and dumbed down for the teenage crowd, most of whom aren't yet aware of the layered complexities of moral and pragmatic decision-making edged by obeisance to the puppet-masters who usually dictate the outcomes of such events.  Now, THAT would have made a story worth watching!

Don't watch this movie Shame on the producers. Read the Bible before launching a project like this. Get the facts together. A boy is searching for an answear in how to get to heaven. The Bible is so clear that those who follow Jesus will go to heaven. There is no other way. The movie on the other hand says that anybody can go to heaven as long as you are good and have faith in whatever you want to believe and pray. Jesus is just a symbol. What a lie! what a deception! Don't watch this movie.

Not William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet I agree with Robert.  The vast majority of the actors in this production quite obviously did not understand the words they were saying.  This was an extremely poor adaptation of a great work.  There are many, many good productions of Shakespeare's work, why did they feel the need to try to "modernize" such a great story?  I found it to be absolutely pathetic.  It would have been "OK" if the actors had actually understood the work.

"THIS IS THE ARMY" lost the war This is an absolutely terrible DVD. I received it as a Christmas gift and tried to watch it last night (Thursday 12JAN12). The sound track isn't.  I cannot crank up my TV or home stereo system loud enough to enjoy this movie. The picture quality looks like someone filmed it in a theater and copied it to a DVD at home. Amazon should not be selling (or even giving away) these puppies. They have DVD mange and distemper.

Don't buy it! People please listen to these revies and avoid buying this DVD. It is dissapointing to have an erotic film missing erotic scenes. I guess that is my punishment for buying porn LOL!

Not a good movie SPOILER ALERT - SPOILERS MAY FOLLOW (you have been warned)  I really wanted to like this movie.  I like sci-fi and I like the occasional scary movie so even seeing that it was not getting good press I decided to chance it.  First off, this is one of those shaky-cam films and that just isn't a good gimmick.  The premise is that this is recovered footage, blah blah blah, but it is just a film style that is unpleasant for me, even when it is done well (and this is not well done).  There is a lot of blurred video that cuts abruptly and makes it hard to watch.  In addition, the audio doesn't match what you are seeing.  Sure, when someone talks the audio syncs up perfectly, but other times the audio track carries on and on all the time with radio messages while the videos are cutting and jumping all over the place.  If the video is cutting then the audio should as well.  And it does cut (complete with ear-numbing pops, squeals and blasts of static) but it doesn't do it at the same time the video does.  So not only is it shaky cam but the audio doesn't help matters any.  It is not a long movie but it is tiring to watch.  The movie starts out well enough and builds up the tension steadily but then near the end it just jumps into fast forward and ten minutes later you are done.  Watching it feels like a lot of work for very little payoff.  Almost as if they spent all their energy just setting up the introduction and then just slammed out an ending as soon as they could.  The ending (and really the whole plot) is just not that good.  This is one of those movies that gives you only a brief glimpse of menace and then never really has it materialize into something you can understand or appreciate.  It felt almost like they understood how implausible it all was and so they didn't offer you anything substantial as a way to avoid having you tear holes into it - and boy, you can really tear holes in this movie.  The whole premise (SPOILERS!!!) is that certain rocks on the moon "feel odd" and then sprout legs and attack you when you are about to escape.  The Department of Defense, with an unspecified level of help from the Russians, know something is up there killing cosmonauts and so someone at NASA or DOD or something figures they should send some more fresh meat up there without giving them any warning and only the most basic of instructions ("hey you, set up these motion cameras in case some Russians happen to walk in front of them").  Not sure what the goal there would be because if they knew there was something up there it would seem like they would want to have a well-informed and well-trained crew to get the most info possible but then you wouldn't have an Apollo 18 movie so...

Rental Never knew it was a rental. Good price and keeping it but disappointed. Make sure to not make the same mistake.

Boring I wanted it to be good, but it isn't. This film is boring and the costumes look like they're from a Las Vegas show. The only bright spot is Henry Cavill, whose acting is good in spite of the poor script and poor direction.

Booooooring! After reading the other review I was excited to see this film. I love Chinese films and I am not unfamiliar with slow paced contemplative screening. This movie had no redeemable qualities. The dialogue was so awful it was humorous. The acting was stilted and the story was disjointed and just plain silly. The only slight points it should get is for some (not all) of the cinematography. The colors were good and the props were well selected. Run from this movie!

They Should Have Locked This Version In The Attic..... I am an admirer of the 1945 MGM version of the Wilde classic (which I read a loooonnng time ago and only vaguely remember) and found this updated, augmented treatment, well, too obvious.  I always found the mystery of the Hurd Hatfield version really intriguing.  I would think, and try to imagine, just what debauchery Dorian was about.  But this version spells it all out in big letters and it just ruins all the delicious innuendo and need for imagination.  And yeah, Dorian's exploits turned out to be just about what one might suspect but I just didn't really need them depicted so concretely.  I would have been interested in and out and out porn flick that used this plot as a point of departure (I mean a really good porn flick, not the dreck and bad acting you always find with porn or erotica.)  And if not that, then I prefer a film, ala Mr. Lewin's, which leaves just enough to one's imagination.  I really liked Hatfield's sort of flat, wooden performance as well.  His Dorian seemed a beautiful mannequin (sp?, waxen almost, and nearly devoid of feeling and emotion...which made one curious about his unseen exploits.  George Sanders does tend to blather on an awful lot at a rather rapid speed and I thought Colin Firth was easier to watch and listen to.  All in all, this remake is a real disappointment.  Give me the beauty of black and white and the subtlety of a Production Code script.

Extremely disappointing... Summary: Extremely disappointing "movie".  Disjointed, roughly 30-minute vignettes that seem to have essentially no cohesion.  Animation flat and lackluster.  Plots tedious and banal.  Appears to have been created for Saturday morning cartoons and now just hamfistedly strung together.  If you enjoyed Atlantis: The Lost Empire, then I would urge you to save your time and money and avoid this.  Background: We were looking for a family movie a few weeks ago, came across Atlantis: The Lost Empire and picked it up on a whim.  Admittedly, the plot was wholely predictable and the good guys were easily picked out from the bad guys.  But no matter... the animation was rich, the story line at least acceptably coherent and you have to root for Milo Thatch as he wins the heart of adorable Princess Kida.  The ragtag band of heroic savants only adds to the enjoyment.  Our 9- and 12-year-olds really enjoyed the movie and asked for the next one in the series.  Serious bummer ensued.  We picked up Atlantis: Milo's Return, microwaved some popcorn, settled around the TV and fired up the DVD.  Immediately, the kids started to complain about how horrible the animation was.  The voices were essentially the same, but the characters looked flat, blocky and entirely lackluster.  The plot line that begins the movie is jawdroppingly banal: a huge Kracken takes down ships and steals their cargo.  The gang goes after it and... voila! gets attacked.  Off to the torpedo-armed pods and it's a battle with the city-block sized sea monster.  It sounds more action-packed than it really is.  Eventually, we are introduced to a weird, mist-shrowded island populated by a village full of creepy townspeople and run by an even creepier antiquarian with glowing eyes.  Bizarre.  The fact that the sea creature can somehow erratically mind control both the townspeople and selected members of our heroic band from time to time is never fully explained - it just happens.  And mercifully, the monster, creepy town and this arduous episode are vanquished with a kaboom.  At this point, we were only about 30 minutes in and were starting to wonder what just happened and where the good feelings from the first movie went.  Suddenly, a second episode just plops down out of nowhere...  Now, Milo and the gang are in the Southwestern deserts of the U.S., surrounded by unbroken miles of sand, cliffs and craggy individuals.  This time it's a battle against wind wolves with stolen thousand-year-old pottery, a villainous Colonel Sanders look-alike, and a stringy-haired antiquarian with a tall hat and glowing eyes...  We barely made it through this second episode, which ended as abruptly (after lots of explosions and dynamite) as the first.  Then the third, entirely schizophrenic episode begins.  It's the dead of winter, when some late-blooming Oden marches into the scene with lock-picking ravens that break into the zillionaire's house and steal the mysterious spear hanging on the study wall - the one that purportedly came from Atlantis and has the power to destroy the world - and we knew we were in for a doozy.  At this point, the 12-year-old excused herself to go read her Kindle, the 9-year-old begged for the iPad to play Angry Birds, and the rest of the party just fell apart.  No one made it to the credits...  Truthfully, we never checked the reviews before getting this movie.  So mea culpa.  My hunch is that these entirely disjointed, roughly 30 minute pieces were put together for Saturday morning cartoons.  The animation is of poor overall quality and the story lines are thin as gruel.  It was with huge irony that we realized that this "movie" fell victim to the very evil that The Lost Empire pontificated against:  Greed.  There's no artistry to it.  No decent script.  It appears to have been cobbled quickly together simply to do one thing:  sell a few DVD's.  It smacks of crass profiteering.  The one thing you can say about this poor travesty and the quick-buck hucksters that made it:  'ol "adventure capitalist" Commander Rouke would be proud.

Decent Movie About False Claims As a researcher of the events of 9/11 i am quite sure that the story told in this movie and another movie titled "Flight 93" are completely false, for example you can put the names of the passengers and the entire crew of flight 93 into the social security death index and virtually none of the names of these people appear as being dead, then you take into account that there was virtually no evidence that a plane even crashed in Shanksville, then there is scant evidence that these alleged passengers were able to make phone calls from their cell phones at these altitudes and there are also questions about whether United Airlines had seat back phones in 2001.  This movie and Flight 93 are both well made low budget movies but it's seems that these movies were made for propaganda purposes just like when the government killed Pat Tillman and then used his death and the fake story about Jessica Lynch for pure propaganda.

Simpsons Did it..... After hearing all of the positive hype, I had to check this out and was very disappointed.  Ok now, really? This movie is a poorly done ripoff of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (self awareness, obvious contrived dialog, etc) with a Scream storyline inserted where Scott Pilgrim had video games. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World pulled it off with good acting and a creative/fun arcade spin.  Where is this movie creative or different in a way that doesnt ripoff something else?  This does not deserve these high reviews.  It's not Heathers....it's not Mean Girls....it's not even Scream...it's just bad..period.

... Wow, what a terrible interpretation of the Fantastic Four. 20th Century Fox, please give the rights back to Marvel so they can fix this.

moneyball I bought this dvd for a gift and it was defective.  I replaced the dvd with one I bought at Walmat.

Dark Shadows Actually this movie I bought for my brother who just loves vampire movies.  I personally cannot stand horror movies especially vampire movies.  What a waste of money to even make such movies.  I can't tell  you anything about this movie.

cant even watch all of the series "Attempting to read media" straight out of the case disk 2. Tried cleaning, still nothing. And the title menus don't look great. Doesn't look like original disks (could be but doesn't seem.) Quality was poor on the first episode. Should have saved my money.

Not very good Where are the academy award winning actors Nicholas Cage and Nicole Kidman? They didn't show up for this movie. It is watchable, but well beneath both of their acting abilities and I'm surprised either one of them agreed to be a part of this film. I would wait till it shows up on tv to watch this and am sorry I paid to watch it, and embarassed for two actors who I usually like. Leaving Las Vegas anyone? Where is that Nicholas Cage? Please find him and have him show up before this imposter makes any more stupid movies and completely ruins his career.

2010 DVD (2010 edition) Amazon is wrong.  This is not 1.85 or wide screen.  The original movie is 2.35, and this DVD has that aspect ratio as well.  However, it is NOT anamorphic wide screen, it's standard 4:3 frame with letter boxing.  TERRIBLE!  Plus the transfer quality is bad as well.  Glad I only paid $5 for it but wish I had not bought it at all.  More shameful behavior from Warner Bros, the worst movie studio that exists.

DON'T DON'T DON'T WATCH THIS While I am pretty easy going on movies and usually only rate the very very bad ones, this one was completely the worst of the worst.  Lame acting, extremely bad plot line and not worth the five dollars I spent buying this used.  I wish I could return this, however I have opted to shred this particular movie so no one else has to sit through the agony of watching it.  It has been officially taken out of cirulation.

The Cure For Insomnia Angelina, alarmingly anorexic, hasn't changed her actioner character since she was Mrs. Smith. Didn't even bother to phone this one in. She just showed up. Movie was droning on at a decent speed until Johnny Dipstick came into the first scene, then ground to a screeching halt where it remained mired in mud to the end...I guess. I couldn't get past the first half hour. Johnny is lost with only his naked face, which was alarmingly puffy and aged. Without the ridiculous Tim Burton makeup and silly hats and pirates, there's no one there. No chemistry whatsoever between he and she.  Run! Run for your life from this one!

discrase to mexicans one of the worst movies ever made if could beat these kids for making such a bad movie i would all the stupid spy kid movies suck and come on we need more mexican movie extras not every mexcan movie extra has to be danny trejo or antonio banderas N terible acting

The Green Hornet Is So Bad I Had To Walk Out! My time is precious and I won't hesitate to salvage every minute I can instead of wasting another second on such a fowl film!  The Green Hornet had the feel of a TV sitcom. I could absolutely care less about any of the characters. The dialog was so bad it was incredibly annoying. The story is so poorly written the best actors in the world would not have made any difference! The Green Hornet was dull, unimaginative, tedious; and what a waste of money during a recession! But I'm glad to report that on a Friday night - in a big city like Baltimore - only a handful of people were in the theater! The only way to stop rip-off films from being made is not to pay to see them! I used to be a regular movie goer, but not anymore! After seeing the Green Hornet, I think I will continue spending my hard-earned money on good books instead of wasting it on trash like the Green Hornet!  See: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061806293">Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies: A Film Critic's Year-Long Quest to Find the Worst Movie Ever Made</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0740763660">Your Movie Sucks</a>

Horrible Not even worth watching for free.  Terrible.  Horrible.  Very Bad.  Should never have been made.  Waste of time.  Crap.  Trash.  Couldn't even finish it.

FATkidHOTmom Terrible, just plain bad....I'm disappointed in my self for actually sitting through it..J.C is one of my favs... and M.T. well she can still have my babies...

NO INFORMATION!!!! Why would anyone ever buy these or other movies when there is NO INFORMATION about what you're buying.  It's absurd.  It's insane!  How can anyone rate something with no specifics????? Is this a fault of Amazon or the producters? - don't know.  It's just ashame some of this will never be bought because no one bothered to provide even the slightest snippet of INFORMATION.

poor poor poor I have seen this movie on Laserdisc and was very eager to see it on Bluray.  I was shocked when I began watching.  I was completely amazed at the noise visible.  Every chapter was the same.  In fact there was so much digital noise that it proved totally unwatchable.  I believe the transfer was a complete failure.  If it was due to the wear and tear of the original negative or if the transfer wasn't even taken from the original I don't know, but it just wasn't worth the money.  I'd avoid it on Bluray.

Entertaining only because it's so absurd I haven't been a fan of Michael Jackson since Thriller, and I don't usually buy into conspiracy theories. But this documentary intrigued me because I believe Jackson was just bizarre enough and fed up with being scrutinized to do something like fake his own death, so I watched this with an open mind. "Pearl Jr." lost any credibility about 3 minutes in. She hangs her specious argument on flimsy bits of information that she presents as irrefutable fact. Among the evidence: she finds it suspicious that Marlon wore an FBI hat the day after Michael died. Not sure where she was trying to go with that one. Also, Janet wore white--not black--to a memorial service, so she couldn't really be in mourning. And although his legal name was apparently Michael Joe Jackson, the autopsy lists him as Michael Joseph Jackson, so it couldn't be him. Right, because it's far more likely that the autopsy was faked than that someone saw "Joe" and assumed it was short for "Joseph." She lays out a lot of "proof," but my favorite was this (a fragment of her "seven" theory): the ambulance and firetruck responding to the emergency call were both number 71, there are 17 letters in Jackson's name, and according to the Office of Personnel (which she pronounces "personal") Management (OPM) of Los Angeles, OPM71 is their code for a "request for leave or approved absence." This is followed by a cutaway to Pearl Jr., saying "I'm not making this up!" Yes, clearly this indicates that his death was a hoax, because I'm sure someone who was busy plotting to fake his death and subsequent disappearance would have taken the time to find and use such an obscure piece of information. Also of particularly ridiculous note are the entire "seven" theory, the similarities between Jackson and Elvis (they both lived in a place that ended in "land," for one), and the Band-Aid in the autopsy report. She even uses footage of a Jackson look-alike after his death that she admits was a confirmed hoax--not sure what she thought that would add to her story. Between her absurd and poorly presented arguments and her mediocre grasp of English grammar, pronunciation, and usage, she completely undermines whatever valid points there may be to make, which I now, ironically, doubt exist. I found myself rewinding several times, thinking I'd missed whatever link she was trying to make, only to discover that I had heard correctly and there simply was no link to be made. However, for sheer entertainment value, it's well worth watching--but see it free on Netflix, don't bother to buy this ridiculous documentary.

Ultraviolet Digital Copy is Misleading The digital copy coupled with this Blu-Ray set is more aptly named unlimited streaming copy. Which does me no good unless I have internet available.  Why would WB not include a standard iTunes copy like every other Studio out there. I rate the movie Five Stars I rate Warner brothers less then one.

There must be an answer Bought this junk to test my Panasonic Blu-Ray player,Panasonic Viera TV and Sherwood Newcastle Receiver. Did not notice the fine print "DTS Audio, Spanish 5.1."  As I do not have a DTS Receiver, but a very good DD5.1 one, and as my Spanish is limited to Hola, Gracias and Cerveza por favor, I received no sound. If I process the sound directly to the TV, I get stereo sound, which you can imagine is not good.  I have since noted several DVDs (Guns of Navarone, Pulp Fiction, for example) are available only in DTS.  Does this mean    a) one must check the label before buying - how do you do this when buying from Amazon?    or    b) one must buy a DTS receiver?  All answers would be most appreciated

Starts off terrible, then  goes downhill from there This is the worst movie I have ever watched from beginning to end.  It was nothing but a bunch of entirely unlikeable characters doing one stupid thing after another.  The only reason it was rated R and not PG was because of the Grandpa character, played by Alan Arkin, whose only accomplishment was seeing how many times he could say the F word in the mercifully small amount of time he was on the screen.  Paul Dano played a teenager who went from being silent (idiotic) to incredibly whiny (even worse).  An then after Grandpa died they continued to a beauty pageant where they all got thrown out after the girl did a striptease act.  Just as well - Grandpa didn't deserve a proper burial anyway.

Worst Sci Fi Ever! When I found this DVD in a used bookstore it looked interesting. I could not have been more wrong! The story line is stupid. People killed by being blown to smithereens only to wake up in an alien created alien world completely restored to a healthy life all injuries repaired, but as the movie progresses the aliens who did this claim they have limited ability and control over how the awakened dead behave. They have the power over life and death itself, but no power over any behavior other that making sure everyone speaks english so we can all understand them and they each other. This movie is so full of holes and loose ends left as loose ends it is extremely frustrating.  Just one mention of the un-natural crap brought out in the movie is that this alien world is approximately 100 times the size of the earth. If this were true then the gravitational forces would be too great for normal humans to exist, but everything appears as normal for the purpose of the movie and humans can stand up and move around as though the gravitational force was equal to earth. Another loose end left loose.  I have to wonder if homosexuality is written into the original book this movie came from because it appeared the director/producer of this movie threw it into the movie un-necessarily for purposes of indoctrination. We had children watching this movie up to the point of when two men kissed and then we paused the movie and sent the children outside after a brief explanation of the perverted abomination presented in this film- also showing that an awakened from the dead Mark Twain also approved of homosexuality which is historical revisionism and irresponsible of all involved in this garbage. Needless to say it but the homosexual garbage thrown into this movie further ruined an already terrible movie. Don't waste your time and money on this garbage unless you are one of those who prefer the perverted lifestyle. We don't. And this movie is going right back to the bookstore, but this time with a perversion warning written directly on the disc for the next idiot who might make the mistake of purchasing this garbage. I'm getting a refund! And whoever made this movie needs their a** whipped.

Keep the politics out! When I take my kids to movies, I want to be entertained, PERIOD!  I do not go to Pixar movies to be informed or enlightened.  I want a plain vanilla movie that is fun.  What I don't want is what Cars 2 attempts to dish out:  Another movie trying to exploit "Big Oil".  It really makes me want to puke!  Just what is Lightning McQueen?  A race car, not a golf cart.  And the villain in this movie?  A character who will profit from "Big Oil".  The very first scene is hundreds of oil platforms with smoking flares.  Give me a break!  What is ironic is that Pisxar's DVD is made from polycarbonate. Most polycarbonates of commercial interest are derived from rigid monomers, which come from.... wait for it... crude oil.  OMG!  I am quitting my job and marching on Wall Street!

Skipping discs The discs skip in this set. Son of Dracula won't even play. Horrible manufacturing job, Universal. Thanks a lot for ripping off your customers with crappy factory standards.

Asylum fans get punked by Leigh Scott, details at 11. &lt;strong>Exorcism: The Possession of Gail Bowers&lt;/strong> (Leigh Scott, 2006)  Hey, folks? The Asylum pulled a fast one on you. It may have been a test to see how film-savvy their audience is. And to make sure they were going to hit the lowest common denominator, they grabbed Leigh Scott to do this one, a director whose previous films, including such timeless cinematic classics as &lt;em>Hillside Cannibals&lt;/em>, one of the worst films I have ever seen, make him uniquely qualified to expose the stupid. As expected, a whole lot of people rose to the bait and complained that this was a total ripoff of &lt;em>The Exorcism of Emily Rose&lt;/em> (or, even better, claimed that this tripe was actually better than one of the only decent horror flicks to come out of Hollywood in the past decade). Folks, you got snowed, and your ignorance of film history is showing. And we're not talking ancient history here, either; &lt;em>The Possession of Gail Bowers&lt;/em> is actually a complete ripoff of &lt;em>The Exorcist&lt;/em>. Come on. The whole structure is straight-up William Peter Blatty. And you get those touches like the demon possessing a priest and the crawling on the ceiling (that was so ludicrous even back in the early seventies that Friedkin banished it until &lt;em>The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen&lt;/em> was released in someone's desperate gamble for money) and how much more do you need? Go back and watch Linda Blair looking cute and possessed and you'll have a much better idea of where Leigh Scott was coming from.  Given the first paragraph, do you really need a plot synopsis? Go watch Friedkin. Here are the deviations: the possession begins when  Anne (&lt;em>Universal Soldiers&lt;/em>' Noel Thurman, perhaps best-known--or she should be anyway--for providing one of the voices in the English dub of the interesting, in minor, Turkish thriller &lt;em>Gen&lt;/em>) and Clark (&lt;em>I Love You Philip Morris&lt;/em>' Griff Furst, Stephen's son) Pederson move from the wilds of Chicago to a little suburban place with a lot of McMansions and stuff. Anne and Clark took in Anne's sister, Gail Bowers (&lt;em>Invasion of the Pod People&lt;/em>'s Erica Roby, who has since left the acting field and is now an associate producer on &lt;em>The Amazing Race&lt;/em>), after the death of their parents. Gail quickly makes a friend, the trampy Francie (Rebekah Kochan from the Eating Out franchise), who soon enough turns the conversation of Gail's recently-departed parents and whether Gail has tried to contact them on the other side. Poof! Francie whips out a ouija board, and the game is afoot. Despite Gail's assertion to her religious-conservative sister that "a board game is hardly black magic!", as is the way of things in bad (and sometimes good but misguided) movies, it is exactly that, and a demon comes and sets up shop in Gail's soul. The fam tries to figure out what's wrong with Gail, etc.  To get this out of the way at the forefront: you don't mess with the Friedkin. Even if you'd reworked this script with someone who can actually write, cast this impeccably, and gotten a fantastic director, you still don't mess with the Friedkin. It is a project that is destined to fail. None of that happened, though, so you can't even give the Asylum points for trying here. Scott directed from his own script, and you can imagine just how will that works if you've seen any of his other movies (more recently, Scott was responsible for the ridiculous &lt;em>Flu Bird Horror&lt;/em>, for example). And then there's the acting, which is where the Internet's talking heads are most sharply divided. As you may have suspected, I come down on the "terrible" side. Furst reminds me of Ethan Embry, but with even flatter affect, and it's pretty obvious from the nudity that two of the three principal women in this shindig were cast for talents other than their acting. (Roby is the only one who gets out of appearing topless, which if you realize that before watching the movie spoils one scene that I think is supposed to be key--but how can you NOT realize it when she's trying to play the seductress whilst dressed in a thick cotton T-shirt? Come on, folks.)  Awe-inspiringly stupid, but not the worst thing I've ever seen. Won't even hit my bottom 100. But this is still one to avoid like the plague. (half)

disk error Unfortunately, the disc can not be read, try blue ray on multiple devices, but does not read, apparently is a problem area, the presentation of the disc and the box is fine, the problem lies in the disk is not stop reading.

Innocence Lost Two scientists in a long-term relationship create a human/animal clone.  What starts out as a suspenseful sci-fi horror flick, quickly devolves into a high strung drama about two dysfunctional, unlikeable characters and their ridiculous mutant.  The CGI is very poor and the characters never develop any redeeming qualities.  The behavior is just unbelieveable, and I must admit it became so silly, I laughed at some scenes.  This movie fails on so many levels, you have to wonder why anyone would sign on to this after reading the script.  Academy Award Winner Adrien Brody needs to fire his agent and the female lead needs a better makeup artist. Splice is not easy on the eyes.  This movie was rough.  An alien sex scene and a brutal rape later, you're left wondering what else the writers will throw at you.  This is not a movie for children, the faint of heart, or anyone who wants to preserve their sense of innocence. I would not recommend this movie to anyone.  I can honestly say, I had NO IDEA what I was getting myself into when I clicked "Rent"--and no matter what I tell you, I can bet with a great amount of certainty, neither will you.

Nobody is perfect - - (and either are the Beatles !) I had totally forgotten about how 95% of this movie was so absolutely and utterly and unconditionally STUPID this movie was back in the day.  I purchased this piece of garbage for the Beatles playing their songs - - which if you really think about it, were the first "music videos" ever made - - long LONG before MTV !  But if I would be perfectly and 110% honest about this film, I will tell you I spent the $18.00 to purchase this to have and own ONE SONG & VIDEO: John Lennon's "I Am The Walrus."  To this day STILL a TOTAL CLASSIC !  Dig it (but leave the rest of this waste of film footage in the garbage can.  Not fun, not funny, not entertaining - - just sheer BS !)

HORRIBLE!! This movie is absolutely horrible! It's not fit for young or old. It's full of profanity and it even shows the children sitting on the toilet. I purchased it because of a review that read, "I have difficulty finding movies I can show because so many are R rated. This one is wonderful. I highly recommend it for any Spanish class." NONSENSE. I also purchased it for my Spanish class students and do not recommend it to parents or teachers. I watched it last night with my family for the first time and my youngest son had nightmares because of a frightening scene. I turned the movie off just before the young actors commit suicide. I would return it if I could, but once the videos are opened they may not be returned. So, I simply cut it in half with a pair of scissors. PLEASE DO NOT BUY THIS MOVIE.

It is not really uncut The cover says uncut but it is not so in reality. The print quality of the DVD is horrible. Should have purchased a VCD instead of a DVD.

Horrible Service I paid extra for this video so that I could receive it the next day.  Not only did it not come the next day, it didn't come the day after that either!  I was very disappointed with this service.

Don't waste your money. Do not waste your money on this poor quality product.  The color is totally off.  People are blue. General quality is poor. On all three tapes.  We checked everything to make sure it wasn't our equipment.  It wasn't.  I bought one for myself and one for my grandson who was leaving for college and loves all things Monty Python.  I didn't give it to him.  It's a mess.  I'm giving it  one star only because you can't give none.

A Waste of Time To sum up: "Lake Mungo" is a waste of time. Rotten Tomatoes had a 93% rating on the movie and IMDB had a 6.1 (The latter can be better relied on than the former). And while Amazon reviews are skewed higher (it is rare to see an average of two stars or lower even when the movie is genuinely horrible), the Amazon reviewers got this one right. As for Rotten Tomatoes, make sure there are enough recognized reviewers seeing the movie (like 30) before you trust their word).  I will not give away the ending but I advise you not to stick around for it. There is one scary idea in the movie - and it is not worth the long wait. Nothing happens in this movie. It is a documentary-style movie filmed as a series of interviews. The concept might be "new", but it is annoying to watch and doesn't make for an absorbing experience. "The Blair Witch Project" did a great job with the documentary style and that movie was actually scary if you saw it before you knew the ending and before everyone was making fun of it.  Just because a movie is bad, does not make it a "thinking man's" horror movie. My two favorite horror movies are slow and well-worth the atmospheric build-up: "The Shining" and "Session 9". This movie will not be scary to the horror movie novice. Is it slightly disturbing? Slightly. It feels conjured up and forced. To quote "Billy Madison", "Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it".  A movie experience is a time-waster by definition, but it should be an enjoyable one. Even bad horror movies can be enjoyable - like Robert de Niro's awful "Hide and Seek". Not knowing that a movie will be bad is like eating something spicy not knowing it it will be - eating wasabi thinking it's guacamole or drinking vodka thinking it's water - it makes it that much worse. Bruce Almighty was a horrible movie but its pain was eased knowing it was going to be just that. I hope my wasted time will encourage you not to waste yours on "Lake Mungo".

Confusion & Nonsense This movie is such a mishmash of nonsense that I could not watch it to the end but turned it off part way througgh. I found the character Demi Moore played repulsive, doing illogical things, illegally entering the room of the renter & examining his things, etc. I have read and studied the Bible for over 40 years & am well acquainted with what it says concerning the end times when God judges the world.  Opinion here was presented as fact among other things. There is nothing in the Bible of which I am aware that indicates a baby can be born without a soul - soul-less - & be alive. A body without a soul is dead physically. Such a baby is referred to as stillborn. This movie is just confusion & chaos. There are apocalyptic movies that make sense but this is not one of them. It is a total waste of time

Sucks!!! This movie Sucks!!! It was not worth the money I paid for it...Pass this one by and spend the money on a way better movie...DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME ON THIS ONE. Thanks.

Please don't waste your time or money My first relevant question would  be - how old was the person who wrote this? My guess would be somewhere around 12. Good ghost films are rare to be sure, and some make a reasonable effort. This one does not.

Vanishing on 7th Street: What the hell did I just watch? No, but seriously, what the hell did I just freakin watch? And why Anakin never used the force or his lightsaber against these things is beyond me!!! I gave it one star because after all, you do get a free case for a dvd and inside that is a really cool and nifty little coaster .....OH and it makes the most awesome looking UFO if you throw it out your car window, over the Tappan Zee Bridge on a sunny day wit the rays of the sun hittin it and all. And people will be like, "oh wow, look it's a UFO and it's headin straight for the water, oh no!!" and you'll be like "ha, no it's not, it's just a dvd........ah, you know what..I would just avoid this movie altogether is what I'm saying.   ...Peter Griffin

Defect in Sea of Grass DVD 65 minutes into the 105 minute movie, the DVD ends with information pages stating that it was made for distribution in Singapore???? This is not how classic movie dvd sets are supposed to work folks.

great movie I love John Pinette and i love the fact that his DVDs are available on amazon.com, because you cant buy them in stores right now.

Sharktopus The military has created a half-shark, half-octopus hybrid but during a routine test it escapes and goes on a killing spree. I don't know how or why these giant mutant animal movies became popular all of a sudden, because they all suck, this one included. The story is garbage, just rehashes of rehashes, completely clich&eacute; and all done before, and done better. The CGI is bad, but in all honesty, I have seen a lot worse from the Sci-Fi channel. The acting is bad, the pace is unbearably slow and it's just an all around terrible movie. It would pain me, physically pain me to have to watch this again. I like Roger Corman, and he's better than this. He's made cheese in the past but it was very entertaining, this just takes itself way too seriously and has nothing going for it.

The quality of these sets is plummeting. I was pretty upset when they changed the quality of the box sets with the 5th set.  I was disappointed when the 6th set only had 12 episodes.  I was stunned that this box set only has 11 episodes.  I bought it anyway, and when it arrives in the mail there isn't even a GD slip cover to make it *almost* look like a real box set.  To make this problem worse, they decided to use that crazy super blue to hold the plastic onto the spine of the set, so it looks like complete crap on my shelf.  I'm tired of giving Viz my money and having them spit in my face.  I've already stopped collecting Bleach because of the horrible way they've handled those releases.  I kept trying to collect this set because my wife likes them and refuses to watch subtitles on my computer.  After this set, I might just tell her to deal with it.  I've had enough.  It's time Viz went the way of the dodo like all the other anime companies that have treated their customers like this.  The ONLY reason they're making ANY money with policies like this is because Naruto and Bleach were already hugely popular before they ever got their hands on them.  I'm not sure their huge popularity can save them forever though if they continue spitting on their customers like this.

Surprised I recently paid to watch it in my hotel room and could not watch it to the end, very dark and boring. I suppose I should not be surprised, since I could not finish the last HP book either, but I was hoping for something better.  Some of the reviews here seem to be quite favourable, so maybe it's me, but I won't be watching PT 2.  All in all a good series, just a shame they could not finish it off well

Puke .. in ..  my mouth Wow um what else to say but the first four minutes made me disgusted enough to feel slightly ill. I guess the review has to be 20 words long and so I suppose I'll also add that this was horrible.

Crime and Punishment God's Gun, 1975 film  The movie starts with a puppet show for children. A gang of men ride into town shooting pistols and entering the bank to rob it. Some men enter a hotel and grab a woman. The townsmen grab rifles and shoot at the gang to protect their local bank (and economy). There are casualties. The gang then rides out of town. Next we see a church and its minister. A young boy wants to shoot a gun. A dozen men ride into town. The saloon has dancing girls and gambling. Young Johnny walks into the saloon. "This is a respectable place." A thrown knife stops discord over a card hand. Self-defense? Those dozen men ride out of town. Jenny asks the men to do something about the Clayton gang. That minister decides to ride after them. He disarms them as they sleep in daylight. [Believable?] He invites one back to Juno City. The Sheriff smells trouble in this.  The prisoner in the jail awaits his trial. But his gang comes to town to free him! They shoot that minister. Johnny cries. Clayton is now the leader of the town. Who stole that horse? Three men chase him. One follows him up a tower. A mistake? The gang takes over the town. Johnny visits another town and sees a surprise! Clayton decides to redistribute the loot. We learn about the brother of that minister. Johnny draws a picture to explain. The Marshal and his men ride into Juno City. They are given a story to send them away. The gang double-crosses the judge, then go to the saloon for their amusement. [This won't be shown on broadcast TV.] Clayton laughs. A woman reminds him of his past! Clayton laughs again. A yell from a falling man brings a surprise. "He's come back!" The bell on the church tolls. Two men enter the church and regret it. Two more fall into this trap. Clayton calls for Johnny.  A man with a long coat approaches from the end of the street. One man doesn't leave. A dancing girl pays him off. The last man is captured by the Sheriff. Clayton arrives at a cemetery and digs up the loot of paper money. [They used gold and silver for currency in those days. A dropped coin is not blown away by the wind.] He dreams of a happy life ahead. But that minister shows up to surprise Clayton. The bell tolls again. "Mine is the vengeance." It ends as you would expect. The bad guy is cured of his wrongdoing. Johnny gets his gun. [So who got the money?]  This is less than average story but it is unintentionally funny in parts. It is a European version of a western adventure story set in the late 19th century. Does it remind you of some story from antiquity or an opera? Note how the actors in some scenes have inappropriate smiles, as if they are amused. The story has implausible parts. Can you identify some actors as European by their faces?

Of all the Stupid ideas... Would you buy Murder on the Orient Express if the solution of the crime was in the beginning? Hell, no. Especially if you couldn't avoid it. But Showtime does. DON'T BUY THIS GARBAGE. The final scene is unavoidably placed in their dopey show previews. You can't possibly miss it, unless you were warned. It they don't care for their customers, why should you give them your hard-earned dollars? The entertainment industry is always pleading with you to buy their products and not to pirate them. I can't help thinking than if I had obtained this by nefarious means, I wouldn't have known the ending before the opening credits. I spent the whole year avoiding anything Dexter related because I didn't want to run into a spoiler. Thanks for nothing, Showtime! Jerks.

Recent horror film can't outrun ancient cliches The Exorcist, The Entity, and Poltergeist are all very important movies.  In fact, nothing proves that statement more than the dozens upon dozens of films that have aped their premises.  There's a person or a family and they're being followed by something that they can't shake, so they call an expert in the paranormal for help.  As Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell proved, it isn't impossible to create a movie using that formula and have it deliver on its promises.  Drag Me to Hell had a great cast, a clever script, and taut direction.  Insidious has only one of these things.  With a cast made up of Patrick Wilson (Hard Candy), Rose Byrne (Damages) and Barbara Hershey (loooots of stuff), I'll let you decide which of the two this movie is lacking.  To start with, the script is bad.  I mean, really bad.  As someone who has acted in things with horrible dialogue and even written some things with horrible dialogue, I'm still surprised when I hear such wooden nonsense come out of the mouths of actual actors who have proven themselves with great performances.  They try, though.  Rose Byrne sits on her porch waiting for her husband to come home and when he arrives, one of those thoughtless "why are you coming home so late all of the sudden?" moments rears its ugly head.  The problem is, the movie is absolutely loaded with this tripe.  Of course, at one point in the film, the husband has seen something that can in no way be misconstrued, and he throws the exorcist, uh, sorry, the astral projection lady out of his house for being fraudulent.  Every single thing this movie does has been done somewhere else and has been done much better.  That isn't to say that there aren't any good ideas in the script.  For starters, astral projection is rarely in movies, so it's interesting to see it show up in a horror film, but the concept is wasted on a simple retread of the final act of Poltergeist, except it's less visually impressive.  This leads me to my next point; the direction.  A movie like this needs tense, gripping direction.  Instead, we get something that lacks focus. Director James Wan is not good at those things. Oftentimes, it's brutally obvious that the actors aren't even speaking to one another.  The pace often drags its heels and for too long, the movie goes through the motions of showing us the characters not doing much of anything.  That would be okay if those scenes had a point, but they don't.  They're just uninteresting.  This film definitely could have used some more liveliness all around.  Scenes that should be frightening come across as plain silly.  Oooh, there's a person walking back and forth outside.  Oooh, the door opened itself.  Finally, when the time actually comes for something that should be visually interesting to occur, Wan shows us a house with a little bit of fog and some darkness.  That's great, the unfathomable dimension is a foggy version of the families old house.  That's not scary or clever, it's just lazy.  That's a great word to sum up this movie; lazy.  Now, before I ramble on any further, I'd like to talk about the sound design, which is so overbearing and ridiculous, all it did was make me chuckle uncomfortably.  When the audience is supposed to be scared of something, we generally see no sign of it on screen, but the score ratchets up in intensity and starts making silly Halloween noises before finally cutting off BECAUSE NOTHING HAPPENS.  Oh, my, Rose Byrne used a hockey stick to look at what is obviously a pair of shoes.  Oh my god, it WAS a pair of shoes!  Naturally, the score has to reach a crescendo when that happens, and a comical crescendo at that.  It does redundant crap like that through the whole movie, too.  We get it, it's a horror movie, now stop trying to scare people with shaky violins and false scares.  I didn't mean to ramble, but this movie really is insanely lazy.  If you scare really easily, chances are you might like this.  If you like your movies sensical and intelligent, however, you'll probably be bored to tears by this tedious, derivative film.  I love Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne, but they should seriously try signing on to less idiotic movies from now on.

not knowing that it was totally a musical wannabe film this movie is the oposite of what many people expect when they buy it  i suggest renting it first before trowing away your money

Not as Advertised I was dismayed when I received this DVD along with 2 other similar DVDs in the same order to find that unlike the covers shown in Amazon.com, the dvds are actually cable versions and not the adult unrated versions as suggested.  Beware and save your money!

Sad excuse of a remake I had high expectations for this flick, being a big fan of both the Coen bros. and the original John Wayne True Grit. And I am sorry to report this was a huge disappointment the cast seemed as though they were sleeping through the entire film it was boring boring boring. My suggestion is to skip this pitiful remake and stick with the original it had more life! I would have given Zero stars if possible, what a shame!

lame Perhaps I am tired of seeing all the Cinderella remakes (so why watch it right??? well, as I am a singer I thought it would be fun). The coolest part was the Bollywood themed party (even though everyone looks too old to be in high school). Predictable plot. Of all the remakes, I've seen better...

Movie To Nowhere This movie disappointed me. Though the description made the movie sound exciting, it failed to deliver. It was a waste of money.  It was a difficult film to watch for a number of reasons, such as: 1), the audio made it difficult to follow what was taking place; 2), the acting was poor; 3) the writing (script) was poor; and 4), the computer graphics were awful. Note: I would have given it zero stars if that were an option.

This is a terrible movie Do not waste your time! This movie is a terrible waste of Reese Witherspoon's talent...disappointing in every way including violence.

Don't waste your time. Rented this and even though it was only a buck, it was still too much. Terrible acting, terrible plot, absolute waste of time.

Bad Movie I had the displeasure of watching this movie after it came out and I could not believe how boring and strange it was. The name Hugh Jackman will draw people to this expecting something much different than what it really is. I personally don't know anyone that thought this was a good movie and there have been jokes between my friends and I about burning the dvd to ash. I cant think of any movies I have seen in my life that have bored me more than this one. These 5 star reviews for The Fountain just make me shake my head...

Very contrived, cliched with poorly executed action scenes That is quite an accomplishment. The movie was the lousiest martial arts demonstration I'd ever seen. You will cringe as you see opponents appearing on cue to get beat up in awfully staged scenes. The plot, if there was one, is extremely contrived and unbelievable. The SWAT team in this movie is officially the world's worst. I mean, really, they had no backup? This movie has been massively overhyped and overrated on the web, and I find it all very dubious indeed.  Supposedly, there are plans to do an American remake. I really hope this doesn't happen, as this, the original film, was just terrible to begin with. There's a reason the film did not get wide distribution.  This may be great for young teens interested in mindless cartoon action, but for adults, 20 minutes may be all that they can stand.  Also, does anyone know what the Redemption part had to do with the movie? Way to pretentiously add it on to the American version!!!

Nothing Good To Say About This Movie This movie was one of the most unentertaining I've ever watched. Bad acting, no plot, no story line, no action, not funny. It looked like a low budget production. The set was drab and unrealistic looking. Even the fake beard on the Mortician looked like it was painted on.The movie is about a guy working in the morgue. The timeline for the movie looks like they are attempting to portray modern day. The morgue in this movie looks like early 1900s.The setting attempts to portray a large city urban area, however there is always a lack of people, sites,and sounds you would expect to see and hear in that type setting.  The only good thing I have to say about this movie is "it only ran for 90 minutes".I ordered this movie in HD. That was a waste of two bucks. The poor shooting locations and drab background settings were not enhanced by HD.

Terrible, Awful, Unredeemable! This film is an embarrassment to movie making. Don't waste your time or your money. How do I give 0 stars??

Buck and Veer (Contains minor spoiler) If a buccaneer's bark had this many holes, it would sink before ever broaching the high seas.  The script for this mini-series is so leaky that viewers may well discover difficulty in navigating the storyline.  They most assuredly must wonder at characters' rash actions, given that little or no motivational ballast is provided for so many of their abrupt and senseless decisions.  Worse, the plot consistently lurches from one pivotal event to the next, depriving the audience of empathetic anxiety and suspense.  Much of the presentation is like a tableau in which a sequence of scenes is splashed before the viewers' gaze.  One thus learns that a character did this or that, but not why.  Indeed, character development is all but nonexistent.  A viewer's head might initially swim in struggling to even differentiate one buccaneer from the next, as the girls spend more time giggling and spinning about than enriching the audience with knowledge of their personalities.  When someone in the story does something unusual, the audience is simply left at sea as to incentive.  An English noble weds an American with whom he shares a genuine friendship and affection.  Then it's made known that he has failed to consummate the marriage.  He playfully ravishes his wife.  She seems satisfied.  Then she spurns him.  He tries to bribe her into bed.  Then he beds a man.  All this occurs without any narrational evolution or elucidation.  The result is a flat, wooden, unsympathetic group of marionettes in a story that hits bottom well before its ending.

It's Complicated DVD I bought this movie because my girlfriend is a fan of Meryl Streep, as am I ...however, this is a movie that glorifies adultery...if that's what you want...get it...as for me...I trashed it. I know...I know...I've heard famous people say, "hey...there's no law against adultery...yes, there is a law against adultery if you believe in God...and I do...It's because of movies like this that we all compromise on the things we should believe in...everything's OK in America right now, but it won't be for long. Get the Isaiah 9:10 Documentary and see if that wakes you up...

Another wonderful movie nearly ruined on blu-ray by DNR The single star is for the blu-ray transfer, obviously not for the movie. I just saw the Spanish edition of this blu-ray, which I assume to be the same, digibook included. I guess Universal has released the same transfer everywhere, so this can apply to all blu-ray edtions of this wonderful movie. Even though Harper Lee's book is of course denser in detail and much richer, which always happens because books and movies are different media, I still think it is a fairly good, unpretentious, touching adaptation. I usually dislike kids in US movies, but these are truly an exception, they are just adorable. All actors are outstanding, and of course Gregory Peck's understating acting is truly exceptional. Not to mention the very brief, breathtaking appearence by Robert Duvall at the end of the movie. Elmer Berstein's score is a true classic, simply marvelous. The photography is also beautiful but...yes, the transfer is, once more, fairly disappointing. They have abused DNR once more and the result, although not as badly preposterous as, let's say, "Sleepy Hollow" or "Out of Africa", is still quite sad. Details are lost, borders appear blurry at times, and, most sadly of all, faces are rather waxy, very waxy at times. I just don't understand the obsession for getting rid of the celulloid grain, which was a natural part of movies for many decades; it was the way these wonderful movies were shot and watched in theaters for generations. Comparison with other black & white classics on blu-ray such as "Night of the hunter", "Casablanca" or "Citizen Kane" enhances all that is miserably lost in this one. A real shame. One would think that after the "Gladiator" affair, which had to be re-released with a new remastering toning donwn the DNR, this mistake would never be made again. But it does seem Universal is getting pretty good at spoiling wonderful movies. After watching the short documentary "100 years of Universal: restoring the classics" one feels really sorry that so much effort and care is spoiled at the very end with the absurd DNR obsession. They are even proud of removing the natural celulloid grain, and, gee, that is really upsettting!! Specially in the samples from this very movie, where you can see faces loosing detail and turning waxy as they show the restoration in process...One also fears the worst for future releases. Please, Universal, don't do crimes like this anymore.

Blue Ray Disc stops and stutters The movie Battleship was excellant and on par with the Transformer movies. I however cannot watch the Blue Ray as the sound goes blank and the movie freezes. This is not the first Blue Ray movie that i have had problems with so i will no longer be buying blue ray dvd's, as they are a waste of good money.

could not play I can't see anything wrong with this disk but it will not play in my DVD player, computer or PlayStation3. Insert in package says a "firmware or software update may be required for your DVD player" but my PS3 is up-to-date with all BluRay and software updates.

never  received  this  item  ... that i paid for  amazon... I  purchased this  item  and  NEVER RECEIVED it !!!  sent  the seller  WHERE'S  MY  STUFF to  inform  them  that i never  received  the  item.... but got no  reply  and  no  DVD ...GOOD  LUCK

No 80's music videos, only live at a dimly lit clubs and county fairs in 2005 You do not get anything you would even watch once.  Just live versions with few or no original band members.  The outdoor footage of what passes for Pretty Boy Floyd looks like it was made at the county fair between the greased pig contest and the cattle roping.  These are 80 bands, but clips made in 2005.  Buyer beware.

Steer clear!! NOT recommended! Poor quality DVD with 3 features on one disc  Number of discs: 1 Films: 5/10 Aspect ratio for all 3 films: 4:3 (-> heavily truncated image; orig.-formats: 2.35:1) Picture quality: 4/10 (-> VHS copy) Audio: English No extras ASIN: B000KGGZXK Studio: Image Entertainment DVD Release Date: 13 Feb 2007

So Fake This 'documentary' is so fake. Im upset I wasted my time watching it. None of it was believable to me. The fact that they tried to portray this as real is a slap in the face. Don't buy this, watch in on the internet like I did. The acting is horrible.

terrible terrible. the story is awful. i got sick like i was watching blair witch. cant say enough bad things about it.

Do not want Happy Feet Two is an incredibly awful movie, PLEASE do not waste your money on this garbage! Your kids will hate it.

Drop Dead Fred WHY is Drop Dead Fread, almost 50.00 new and 38.00 used on amazon.  I found it for 12.00 on other websites.  This is an outrage!!!!!!!!! I give the movie 4 stars and amazon 1 for being so over priced!

Bored to tears This isn't the DCU Animated feature fans have been waiting for. Actually all of the DCU Animated movies have been poor. I'm a huge GL fan and after seeing the abortion that was "Green Lantern: First Flight", I was hoping they redeemed themselves with this one. Unfortunately not.  I know they have creative license with the characters but how can esteemed figures in the industry such as Geoff Johns and Dave Gibbons work on this film and not tell DC to get it right? They butcher the Lantern mythos with the stories and and anyone who's read GL would hate this movie. I mean, the worst part is how boring this is. Unless you're a GL fan, you could really care less about stories of Kilowog or Laira. Even hardcore fans like myself lost interest in these stories.  My favorite part was when Krona was coming out of the sun and Arisia was like "This must be the Blackest Night everyone talks about". No, no, NO!  Movie aside, the special features...well, suck also. Not too much to talk about here. All in all. Don't buy this. Don't rent it. If all that you know of GL is from the first animated movie, you'll love this.

Very bad superhero film I was so amped to see this film; so much, that I decided to attend a drive-in to watch it.  What a waste of time and money.  This movie has to be the most horribly produced superhero pic in history, aside from it predecessor.  Captain America desperately lacks action, action....action! This is a primary requirement for superheroes, especially ones that debut in the summer.  Whoever gives this movie a four or five star rating was likely watching this film with sleeping masks on. I recently viewed Thor and it was much better viewing than this pic.  We could have done without this film, altogether. It just felt rushed, rammed together for the Avengers movie. Sad outing for a well-loved hero.  Doesn't deserve a sequel.  Joe Johnston(The Rocketeer) was definitely the wrong director for this movie...he's known for idiotic blunders like this one. Make it a Redbox night for this one if you want to take a chance on it. I wish I had.

It Has To Be Seen And Heard To Be Disbelieved The dialogue, the set design, the "performances," the plot development - What blender did it all come out of?  Who sat in the screening room and thought, "Hey! The kids will love it!"  It's almost as obscure and illogical as most of the performance art that I've seen.  They must have had a suicide hotline installed on the set.  This was shown on TCM as part of their "Underground" series, along with "Roller Boogie" on the same night.  See it if you dare, or if you're a well-mannered drag queen who wants a laugh at someone else's expense.

barely worthwhile for serious horror fans If you like horror movies like me you'd wanna rent this,but its a complete let down and kinda boring and story is awfully dumb. Who ever the butcher brothers are they sure lived up to their name by butchering up this plot to pure crap. The bad guys from the 50's where not scary at all and quite frankly stupid and embarrassing to the decade. The entire flim made no sense and the title screen gives most of the end away. I hope musician les Claypool did NT write the 'lights in the sky'(title screen/ending credits song) for is horrible horror movie. Don't let the Sundance film entry fool you its not even close to living up to those credentials. Do yourself a favor and just pop evil dead or something in the DVD/vhs player instead of wasting time on crap like this.

Very dark movie - hard to watch (& understand) I read a few reviews but just did not expect the very deep, disturbing and dark side of this movie. I love Natalie Portman, and just could not ever picture her in this kind of role.  Her acting was AMAZING - she is wonderful in the movie.  I just hated to plot of the story - too dark for me and the ending was horrible.  I am giving the movie away to a friend - with the warning to them that it is disturbing and not to let any kids near the movie (a sex scene inappropriate for kids under 18).

Sorry to say, not a winner by a long shot Preview looked interesting, but even though the 3D add some visual fun the overall movie did nothing for me. The jokes weren't funny and the ploit just didn't develop into anything amazing.  Save your money, I wish I had!

Boooooring Seeing the previews for this movie made it seem like an exciting action movie. Well, it was anything but. The plot developed slow and I was forcing myself to watch it hoping something exciting would happen. I was so bored I quit watching the movie and went off and did something else. I came back to it with fresh approach only to have my original impression reaffirmed. I am fan of George Clooney own several movies he stars in, but this is by far my least favorite.

Boyz N' The hood. Powerful? In what way? Let's see Cockameny Radical Black REVISIONIST History(we all come from Africa,Yeah and Jesus is Black),Anti-Reagan/Bush(Why cause every social ill is somehow the White Man's Fault?)And then you got the little kid is mother drops him off at his Dad,Great example!Classic cause you have Cuba Gooding Jr(Great Actor) and you have Ice Cube Jheri Curl style.If anything the film goes to show what the Black Community has done to itself as stated at the start of the Black Community,Why is it Bill Cosby and Clarence Thomas,Thomas Sowell and Other Black Conservatives are "sell outs"? and you have Race Baiters like "Professor" Cornel West,"Reverends" Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton(Tawana Brawley anyone?)say they Represent the community? I am glad this movie got spoofed.you want something go get it yourself and stop blaming others.

Hate filled propaganda Robert Spencer is well known Islamophobe and this film portrays Islam through same hate-filled lenses. If you want more balance information about Islam, I suggest PBS documentary - Empires - Islam: Empire of Faith.

Poor poor quality Simply poor. The quality of the 3D and the glasses are as poor as one can see, or not. Do not waste money on this!

Nothing New or Entertaining I saw this back when it debuted on NBC and felt it was mediocre then. I recently watched it and had to downgrade my opinion. This movie is NOTHING original. I don't know if it's a true story or not but it's exactly like a million other TV movies out there and the acting isn't even that good.  We have the same set up as a million other movies. Melissa (Candace Cameron, years before she was Bure) plays the shy, naive, virginal coed who goes to her first big frat party on campus (big surprise!) gets stinking drunk and is raped by jock Scott (Mark Paul Gosselaar). Turns out she completely misjudged him (gasp!) and she realizes that his sweet charms was just a way to get her into bed.  The best parts of the movie was before the rape which is probably twenty minutes. After that it goes downhill fast. We have nothing different from all the other million date-rape TV movies. Not. One. Thing. At first she's ashamed to tell what happened then when she does no one believes her. Her brother who is a frat brother of Scott's doesn't even believe Melissa at first. She walks around like a zombie and even continues to talk to Scott after what he did. This has been done a million times! Nothing, nothing was different about this movie!  The writing is horrible and the acting is unconvincing. Cameron gets on your nerves with her squealing and Mark is as dry as cardboard. None of the characters seemed realistic or three dimensional and seemed to be formed from cliche cutouts.  I found it hard to have sympathy for Melissa. Rape is never the victim's fault but she made some very irresponsible decisions and I didn't like how the character was so stupid. She was so naive yet she gets dead drunk at her first campus party then lets Scott take her upstairs. It was hard to find sympathy. Also the rape scene was pathetic and like something out of a bad After School Special.  The only reason someone should watch this is if they are fans of these two or are too lazy to turn the channel when the movie is playing. Otherwise skip it. There are tons of better TV movies that deal with date rape that feature better actors, more engaging characters and good writing. Skip it.  This is bad even for a TV movie.

yawn Made it 24 minutes before coma set in.  Great cast; weird script.  Think I'll check to see which Monk rerun is showing.

do not buy!!!!!!!!!!!!! do not buy this movie-a piece of sh..!!B rated at best! Promises a cult classic, but is so wrong in many ways!

Bile Filled Cliche' I watched "Gamers" because I'm a gamer and I love making fun of myself and my hobbies. I also was duped by the number of well known actors such as Beverly D'Angelo, Kelly LeBrock, William Katt, etc. I'm not sure if the writers' lives were destroyed by a role-playing game or they simply couldn't think of anything more original than the clich&eacute;'s, fowl language, and hate found in this script. Yes, we all know that every gamer is a virgin, has a dead end job and lives in their mother's basement.  If you're looking for light hearted fun, look elsewhere. I can recommend "Dorkness Rising".

Don't Pay Outrageous Prices for this Box Set! My review is not of the show. The show is spectacular. This is specifically about the DVDs.  While this Central Park Media releases were the only way to get Utena for a very long time, it's not the case anymore. Nozomi Entertainment/RightStuf has released the remastered box set for The Student Council Saga on DVD! (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004S7G6A4">Revolutionary Girl Utena: Student Council Saga Limited Edition Set</a>) And they have announced the release of The Black Rose Saga collection on DVD as well! (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004YCKK28">Revolutionary Girl Utena: Black Rose Sage Set 2 Le</a>)  On this set, the video and audio are both grainy and terrible. But the new box sets use the beautifully remastered video and audio from the Japanese release! Don't waste your money on the Central Park Media discs anymore (especially at these outrageous prices)! Get the Nozomi Entertainment discs!  These are the sets you want: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004S7G6A4">Revolutionary Girl Utena: Student Council Saga Limited Edition Set</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004YCKK28">Revolutionary Girl Utena: Black Rose Sage Set 2 Le</a>  At the time of this review, the third box set had not yet been announced. But trust me, you want that one too. The Nozomi sets are the way to get Utena!

Somone's Gonna Carry This Weight, Carry This Weight Straight To Hell... i had an interesting epiphany recently. a couple weeks ago, i reviewed the largely below-par film adapation of Kurt Vonnegut's book BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS...which i enjoyed just enough about to ultimately recommend, however tentatively. well, it's been suggested to me that, in light of the fact that i'm an admirer of Vonnegut and that BREAKFAST is easily my favorite of his books, maybe i went into the matter already determined to forgive whatever misfires i might find myself faced with. i was beginning to think the person in question might've had a point, but then it turned out i wasn't a practicioner of such bias after all. my memory had the raw nerve to dredge back to the surface a film which took someone i was even more obsessed with than Vonnegut, and reduced their work to something that made LAST ACTION HERO look like CASABLANCA. i've absolutely adored and worshiped The Beatles for as long as i can remember, and with an intensity not unlike the one i've already mentioned toward Sherlock Holmes. (the observant reader will note that my Amazon-requested psuedonym is an amalgam of two of the most familiar (as well as best) Fab Four titles.) so i quite like the idea of a theatrical showcase for such characters as Billy Shears, Mr. Kite, and Dr. Maxwell Edison. but quite frankly, this film couldn't of been a bigger mess if Ed Wood had directed it. the oddest thing is that, in every area other than the music, the film almost seems to be trying to distance itself from The Beatles. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band are from AMERICA, for crimony sakes!! they come from a rural, inland farming community that resembles Liverpool about as much as Mars resembles Vienna. to say nothing of the fact that three-fourths of the band being brothers reflects not the "real deal," but the film's ersatz would-be Beatles, the Bee-Gees!! I mean, honestly. #1 on the list of things i would've done differently is the treatment of the music. they use a very narrow selection of material culled cheifly from the SGT. PEPPER and ABBEY ROAD albums. two of their best albums, i agree - ABBEY ROAD is my very favorite Beatles album - but look what they missed. several entire albums - A HARD DAY'S NIGHT for instance, and THE BEATLES [aka "The White Album"] - are completely snubbed. "Hey Jude," "Day Tripper," "Yesterday," "Penny Lane," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Eleanor Rigby," "I Am The Walrus," "Let It Be," "Yellow Submarine," "Revolution," "Something," and "Back In The U.S.S.R." are only a few of the indispensible classics they just couldn't accomodate. yet incredibly, the single worst song in the entire Beatles catalog, "Strawberry Fields Forever," somehow made the cut. but as it turns out that's a texbook blessing-in-disguise, because they made another mistake in making the time-frame contemporary, so what songs they do use are, as a rule, heavily disco'd up. i want to hear the disco version of "Hey Jude" only slightly more than i'd like to undergo a root-canal with no nitrus-oxide. the story (such as it is) concerns some abstract, unspecified crisis for Humanity, initiated when the instruments used by the original Sgt. Pepper and his band to end World War I (don't ask how because they don't even try to explain) are pilfered from his hometown museum. the new Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, led by The Sarge's grandson, have to put a (finally) thriving career in the business on-hold to recover them. the villain(s) are repeatedly identified with the initials F.V.B., which turns out to mean Future Villain Band. there's something truly poignant about the fact that Aerosmith, in the role of the malevolent combo, deliver the film's musical highlight in their rendition of "Come Together." i forced myself to watch the film a couple dozen times or so simply because i liked the sentiment. it was no mean feat, after all, for The Beatles to bring dimension to a sketchy new brand music which was, at the time, little more than this curious, unrefined bastard child of blues and country. they brought style and focus, they made rock & roll rock & roll, to use the cliche'. (they pretty much invented music, if you want my opinion. even if you don't, they still did.) so they certainly deserve the sort of tribute the concept was intended as. many's the afternoon and/or night i spent analyzing the premise molecule by molecule, desperate to find some angle that could've salvaged it. well, as i've already stated, what broke my heart most is the vast number of truly fabulous Beatles songs they missed. i can't say that including those ditties would've made the story any stronger or the futile attempts at acting any less laughable. although it has to be said, it's an interesting irony that there've been quite a few similar projects in recent years which did the same for lesser luminaries - MAMA MIA! for Abba, AMERICAN IDIOT for Green Day - which are actually considered pieces of quality theatre as well as hits. why couldn't the single greatest act in music history pull that off? can't you ask me something easier to answer, like why the sky is blue?

Yawn... This was one bad movie...a-list actors relegated to b-movie parts...WHY The only thing that kept this movie watchable was Kirsten Dunst

Plain Awful The writing on this show, at least this season, is so ridiculous it's laughable. The plotlines are shallow, trite, and poorly developed. The dialog tries way too hard to be funny. The actors look like they are in a panic trying to get through the MASS of quippy cutesy lines they are forced to say that have NOTHING to do with their characters. Makes for bad acting when good actors must say stupid things. Kids in film school write better than this.

I hope Universal listens to the many complaints I love this film, and wanted to added to my dvd collection; however, after reading the many complaints regarding the poor quality of the dvd, I am going to wait until Universal puts out a better copy

Not really worth seeing once yeah bad plot, bad acting , bad directing, funny jokes you can count on your hand  not worth buying and Jennif Aniston role is just too be semi naked, probably the best part of the movie...............?

Despite stellar cast, movie really sucks. Oh my. This was bad. This was REALLY bad. How did this get any good reviews? It's so lousy.  This movie simply has no point and seems to have no purpose other than to wallow in emotion. 9 distinct wallowing sessions in which women experience severe disappointment. But the "wallowing" is painfully melodramatic. A crappy script ruins even good actresses. There was just nowhere for them to go.  I'm stunned at the amazing cast. How did they get themselves into such a jam?

The Uninvited While The Uninvited may not live up to the standard set by its source material, it's a reasonably involving thriller-- though not an entirely successful one. Emily Browning plays a young woman with a history of mental problems who, upon meeting her father's new fiance, is immediately suspicious; creepy goings-on ensue. The Uninvited is moody and well acted, but it also contains plenty of haunted house conventions and telegraphed plot twists.

Save yourself 2 hours and see something, anything else I had high hopes but this movie was just cheese. If you can overlook the hard to swallow plot and illogical actions of the crew it felt like a bad bad remix of the alien movies.

Ink I read some good reviews of this movie and decided to buy it unseen.  I actually got through the whole movie, but it was painful.  It actually made me mad enough that I had to sit through this drivel for an hour that I threw it away after watching it so no one else I know would have to endure it.  I usually like most any science fiction or fantasy based movie and I can usually appreciate a good bad movie, but this was a bad movie that acted like it was good.  I would not recommend this movie to anyone.

Garbage Ignore all 4 star reviews. This movie goes nowhere. Seriously&lt; i did not like it. Spending any more time on the review is throwing away useful time after wasted time.

Oscar Wilde Told Me He Hates This Movie I am not even sure what the whole second half of this movie was...I know it wasn't The Picture of Dorian Gray. This is my absolute favorite book which I have wanted to be made into a movie for years, just not this movie. First of all Ben Barnes is a convincing Dorian and Firth is a good Lord Henry but this movie is so far removed from Oscar Wilde's novel that it doesn't really matter. If you're wondering how far removed from the novel suffice it to say Dorian falls in love with Lord Henry's daughter. Some very pretty camera work, the score is wonderful, and the sequences that show Dorian's debauchery are quite thrilling to watch in a perverted sort of way, but there is a reason my friends why this movie never had a US release...it's terrible.

over rated This movie seemed to be nothing more than a tool for the advancement of a message.  If you hate "preachy" movies that attempt to beat a message into you, you'll really hate this one!!

Laurel & Haaardy 14 Episodes Item contained the worst L & H later movies and a group of short silent films with either L or H alone with other actors. A great rip-off  JP

Bogus - tota fabrication I'm surprised that anyone could believe such nonsense. The film maker should be sued for libel. The film was based on speculation.

Not the remastered Gladiator! I already own both of these titles.  I wanted the remastered Gladiator to replace my first release copy.  I got the original release.  Very disappointed.

GOOD MOVIE. TERRIBLE DIGITAL COPY SERVICE! If you are looking to receive a digital copy to watch on your iPad or iTunes like EVERY OTHER DIGITAL MOVIE you own, then think again. The only way to view digital copies with Warner Brothers new  "Ultraviolet", "Flixster" mess, is to download yet another app and view the movie through that app. It can't be imported to your iTunes library which for me = WORTHLESS DIGITAL COPY. Not to mention the fact that if you read about "Flixster" on Wikipedia, after you sign up for an account, the company automatically emails everyone in your address book to get them to sign up for Flixster. What a joke.  I will never buy a Ultraviolet Digital Copy again.  I'm all for competition but, I should still have the choice on which program I would like to use.  In my case, iTunes. I did after all purchase a movie that says "includes digital copy" so you would think I could watch it on whatever program I see fit.

piece of cake should be a piece of c*** overworked script, underworked, no name british actors, and an almost dream inducing (yawn) musical score combine to made a typically overrated brit film. about the run up and beginning of the battle of britain, this sleeper will have you taking leisurely strolls to the bathroom and the fridge.  i mean, when the highlight of a five hour movie occurs in the first 2 minutes, well, you get the picture or rather..dont get the picture! YAWN !!

haven't received it yet, so what do I know? I haven't received my video yet,have no clue other than it's taking a long time to be delivered. I wish I could say more.

The Hangover Part II - poorly written, filmed and acted I was terribly offended by this movie.  The frontal nudity and sexuality were not necessary.  If I were a transgender human being, I would be deeply insulted by the portrayal and as a Thailand citizen, I would be very angry.  I think the movie strove to shock us as much as possible and to insult. It was a harsh and mean spirited movie and lacked substance.  If you are a parent I would definitely not allow your children to see it.  I think even zero stars would be too much.

wish i could give it less than 1 star. i would give it a negative infinity i have no idea what posessed disney to produce this monstrocity but it is just terrible. thank god they didnt make a TV show. i couldnt get past the first five minutes before the poor saturday morning cartoon animation and terribly annoying voices got to me. milo's voice sounds disgustingly nasaly compared to the original, and it is an overall abomination of a film. in the original i really enjoyed the deep history, and almost spiritual feel to the city and the people, and the animation made everything look simply amazing. in this one, i really think king of the hill has better vivid animation. i wish this did not have any association to the original because it is simply terrible. i cant stress it enough!!! it makes me angry that disney ruined such an amazing film!!!!

FRAUD!!!!!!!!! Again, all the other reviewers are 100% accurate. I naively bought this yesterday. The track list does not come on the case, so i too, bought it assuming it was the same version as the vhs, but boy was i wrong. One of the greatest musical events in history, and they come up with this crap? NO METALLICA!!!!  Seriously????? And then, Robert Plant did 3 THREE songs, including the mind blowing Innuendo and a stunning Thank You, and they get cut out. Extreme, Guns, Def .... But Zucherro??? Oh, he's in there!!! Really bad choice here, why on earth did they decide to chop this up? $20 bucks down the drain.

Poorly made, manipulative piece of nonsense. I love movies.  I love foreign language films (with original subtitle tracks, no stupid dubbing). I know a good movie when I see it. This isn't one.  I saw this film without ever having heard of it or knowing what it was about, and boy do I wish I had beforehand, then maybe I would've skipped it. The basic premise is that Daniel and Ana, brother and sister, are kidnapped by a group of idiot pornographers (who are stupid enough not to wear masks to hide their faces) and force the siblings to have sex on camera. The film then follows the psychological effects of both siblings.  That in itself might make for a great documentary, but this film, even if it's based on true events, sucks. It tries so very hard to be edgy and deep and shocking and it just sucks. Mulholland Drive makes more sense than this movie.  First off, the kidnappers aren't threatening at all. You never get the sense they're actually going to commit murder if these kids don't do what the kidnappers command them to. Then, as I mentioned, the kidnappers don't wear masks. I thought maybe they would later be identified and arrested, but nope, that would run the risk of making this film interesting, which it goes out of its way to not do.  Don't get me wrong, the psychological effect of this terrible event does play out with a kind of uncomfortable tension, but the movie is just so ridiculous at how things play out. Daniel literally spends the bulk of the film avoiding doing anything interesting, then towards the end he does something terrible that's obviously meant to shock you because it makes no sense otherwise. I don't need a happy ending, but that doesn't mean I'll let a crappy unresolved ending slide by.  There are no likable characters in this film. Even the two victims, thanks to the shoddy storytelling, become very unlikable by the end (one by their actions, the other by their inactions).  I can't even remember the last time a film made me feel this angry or this stupid for actually having sat through it. And it's not like the trashy Hollywood CGI films or Michael Bay movies that I can make fun of because the subject matter is so dead serious.  There are so many much more meaningful foreign language films out there, don't was 95 minutes of your life on this one.

Incompetent The first film had many inaccuracies yet managed to hold itself together in quite an arresting way. The Golden Age is equally full of historical holes yet fails abominably. (The absence of Dudley and Essex, two key players at Elizabeth's court, did not go unnoticed.) The reason for this is, I think, less to do with factual errors in major historical events--such as details of the Armada--and more to do with inaccurate characterization. Clive Owen is decidedly charmless as Walter Raleigh, who should have been vain, captivating, and merciless. Cate Blanchett projects neither the majesty nor the flirtatiousness of Elizabeth, preferring to foghorn her lines like a novice transvestite. Laurence Fox's Christopher Hatton doesn't dance once. I know very little about Philip II, but that is ultimately unnecessary since he utters the same camp threats in every scene. The music is over-the-top and irritating. The writing is so preposterous that it's almost an afterthought. The camerawork largely consists of either silent sweeping slow-motion close-ups or silent slow-motion revolving shots reminiscent of fashion adverts. These techniques are used throughout the entirety of Mary Queen of Scots last segment, making it cringingly melodramatic. The director also relies several times on the "God's-eye-view" overhead shot he employed in the first film. I wished several times that God's eye would unhinge and squash Blanchett, thereby ending her strutting second-rate drag-queenery once and for all. And was I the only one that shivered when the film went chillingly jingoistic near the end?  In other words, how could they let this happen?

one of the most formulaic boring movies ive ever witnessed so tom hanks (the most boring actor in hollywood) goes back to college, buys a vespa, tries to become young again, falls in love with his teacher, played by the most boring actress in hollywood (julia roberts). absolutely nothing original or unpredictable happens.  if this is your idea of cinematic heaven, please go ahead and purchase. for those with intelligence, stay well clear.

a bunch of nothing with some occasional humor. It really was a bunch of nothing.  I want the 83 minutes of my life back.  The 4 and 5 star ratings must have come from the psychopathetic women resembling the leading lady.  I can't believe that I watched this to the end.

Pixelated as hell I bought the 4 disk BLU-RAY/DVD/Digital Copy/65 Minute Bonus Content from Best Buy. I loved the movie but the picture on BOTH the BLU-RAY and DVD were pixelated as hell. I know it isn't my PS3 or TV as they work great on every other movie. I took it back to BB and exchanged it. The next one did the same thing. I have seen other reviews indicating the same problem. The picture is very grainy and pixielated. This is extremely noticeable and seriously distracting during the movie. This is apparently caused by the transition from film to digital. Warner Brothers should seriously fix this.

BAD BUSINESS OVERMAN2000 HAVE NEVER RECEIVED DVD SET BUT WAS CHARGED ON MY CREDIT CARD IMMEDIATELY. HAVE SENT TWO EMAILS TO SELLER AND NEVER RECEIVED A RESPONSE. I THINK THIS IS BAD BUSINESS AND WILL NEVER ORDER FROM THIS SELLER AGAIN. ALSO, WILL THINK TWICE ABOUT ORDERING FROM SELLERS OTHER THAN DIRECTLY FROM AMAZON. I ORDER LOTS OF PRODUCT AND AM VERY DISAPPOINTED NOT EVEN TO GET A RESPONSE FROM SELLERS. WOULD WARN OTHERS ABOUT THIS PROBLEM AS WELL!

Very disappointed I looked forward to getting this movie as I had heard many good things about it but it was nothing like I had imagined or been led to believe.  There is very little actual history in it or real Christian experience except for the background because the main focus is a soap opera style romance and caricature figures. I agree with the reviewer who described it as a mixture of "tawdry Hollywood sex" somehow interspersed with a vague nod to Christianity.  The only decent scene was the arena scene where the Christians are going to their deaths singing hymns - but that's not enough to make it a great or even a good movie. Not personally to my taste anyway.

junk I don't know why I bought this - couldn't get through it - ok for playing guitar along plus fast forward but still, too silly. superficial.

Boring and cheesy I've seen over 50 Korean Dramas and this is one of the worst.  I've also seen the original Taiwanese version which is 20 times better than this.  The actors have no chemistry and the filming is choppy and cheesy.

Dead and buried Open Graves' premise had promise. A bunch of surfers stumble across a cursed board game known as Mamba. The game's board and pieces were made from the skin and body of a witch named Mamba Mosamba who was executed for witchcraft during the Spanish Inquisition. If you die in the game, you die in real life.  It's like Jack Chick's Blackleaf all over again!  Unfortunately, Open Graves is torn between being a hip by-the-numbers teen horror flick reminiscent of Final Destination and being an original movie about a board game.  The collective pretty people playing the game are preposterous stereotypes. Not one of them is likable.  The worst is the beautiful but acting-impaired Eliza Dushku as Erica, who makes googly eyes at hero Jason (Mike Vogel) over the board game.  The poor girl does her best trying to make board gaming look sexy, but after a certain point she's just looks ridiculous.  Since whoever wins the game gets their wish, and it's pretty much a guarantee that if you play SOMEBODY has to win, the simple solution is to wish you never played the game, right?  Fortunately Jason figures this out.  Unfortunately it means everyone has to die before he can get to that point.  Open Graves acts as if this is a huge revelation.  It's not.  Open Graves' concept is interesting but director Alvaro de Arminan simply can't deliver.  A side plot involving a cop who wants the game for himself falls apart at the end. Each death is intercut with stultifyingly bad poetry, as if that's supposed to increase the horror of a man getting his eye cut out by a crab.  Without a villain, movies about curses need to work hard to give the victims (and the audience) hope that they can somehow outwit the curse - Final Destination always dangled the possibility that the victim would escape his fate.  There's no way to avoid dying in Open Graves - it's a death march for a bunch of attractive idiots playing a game they don't like.  Not even the actors seem convinced.  The ending tries to be edgy.  Mosamba's appearance is the most interesting part of the film, and the special effects are competent enough.  But that doesn't make up for the rest of the mess.

Save your money and time and avoid this I was so pumped to see this movie.  I liked the trailers and the concept and Justin Timberlake but... the pot sucked, the writing was awful, the acting was so bad and it just fell flat.  Painful to watch at times.  And unfortunately Justin TImberlake is not that strong enough an actor to make this movie better and also Dakota Fanning is just not a hot chick.  She was a very cute young smart girl casted in the right parts. But she should stay away from trying to be this sexy woman for the big screen.

dissapointed i was expecting sooo much more! compared to the 1st one which i loved i thought it was silly and unimaginative compared to what it could have been wish i could get my money back!!

Buy this and get Boned! I bought this as a gift thinking it was a Boxed Set. It is nothing more that the first five seasons shrink-wrapped together.  I should have read the other reviews.  Do yourself a favor: add the individual seasons to your cart and save $20+

Cruelty To Animals, Nothing more I have to agree with the other one star raters, this film profiles abuse of horses and very little else. I would not want my kids to watch this and I turned it off halfway through - no point or enjoyment in watching further. I was wondering why it was out of the theaters so quick and available on demand - now, I know!

Can't get into it. I'm sorry.  Nah I'm not really sorry. I just don't feel the same way about this one as Oldboy and Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance. Sympathy was my favorite of them all that was a fantastic movie and also my 2nd favorite Korean film. Lady Vengeance didn't bring me into the story so much and I don't know why. It's strange and kind of reminds me of a Quentin Tarantino film and I absolutely have never enjoyed his cartoonish movies. I've seen a lot of them how can you not but of them all none have I ever liked(don't worry I never review his movies just because I know I don't like his work so you Tarantino fans can rest).  I've been trying to finish this movie for almost a year now, and I just don't care to see the rest. The movie floats around between serious,ridiculous,humorous, and WTF is going on? This movie just didn't seem real to me. Even if a movie is a movie and it can be fantasy,fiction,sci-fi or whatever. What makes it a good movie is when you can make those subjects seem real and almost possible to the viewer. When you show someone something that's just unbelievable or really out of place it just makes you feel like you're watching a movie. It doesn't captivate you or bring you into the world of the characters. This is pretty much how I felt while watching this film. It felt like a movie.  I hope to one day finish the last 30-25 minutes I have left of this film maybe next year.

morales what to say about this film? well, bad acting, bad script. not much more to say. corny even by 70s standards. use your money elsewhere.

B A D Bad performances, horrible music, is like a bad telenovela...why did he decide to do such a low budget looking film???? Sad.

Perhaps this is why people pirate movies So I love the series, I absolutely do.  That's why I figured I would by the blu ray and support it.  However, the blu ray arrived at my house (kudos to Amazon for helping with a minor issue there by the way) and its unplayable on my computer.  Turns out the DRM requires a HDCP monitor and a digital connection.  Now I understand yes piracy is a large issue, but when you make it impossible for people who actually buy the product to use it, that may be a good reason why that way has become a LOT more popular.  So the TL:DR  Don't purchase this, the DRM is terrible and there is a possibility doing the right thing can come back to haunt you.

It Sure Is Full Of Crap... I've watched a ton of stuff from Troma and this is by far the worst film they have ever produced. This is even worse than the stuff they put out on those Triple B-Header collections. I'm all for stupidity, nudity and cheapness in films, but this movie is pretty much an insult to anyone with even 1 functional brain cell.  This film looks like it was made for 5 bucks. The acting is horrible, which isnt really anything new for Troma so I can let that slide. However, the annoying Boner-Vision pops up way too often and the jokes are so lame even a 5 year old wouldnt find them amusing. Ha ha, farting noises every time someone bends over and gay voices for guys with big muscles. You can tell that zero effort and thought went into this. Do yourself a favor and dont waste time watching this crap. You're better off watching Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD or even Demented Death Farm Massacre over this.

Silent, Cheesy, Wannabe 80s We had a lot of fun doing "pop video style" commentary. Minimal dialogue. Cliched characters. Awful d-list soundtrack. You could tell they were going for a certain style but it wasn't worth going for.

zero stars this has to be one of if not the worst piece of cinematic trash I has ever been my mispleasure to view, who do I sue to get the hour and a half of my life back that I lost(wasted) watching this monumental stinking pile of ****. DO NOT BUY UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES back away from this page as fast as possible. Acting non-exsistant untrained pigs could have given better performances, this movie makes heavens gate seem like gone with the wind. If there is a just and merciful god every copy and negative of this film will be distroyed beyond recognition and re-use.

Not what it could have been I too am surprised at the glowing reviews of this movie, while the time travel theory isn't bad. The reason is, To save the whales. Really?!, Really?!, this is the only even numbered star trek Movie that isn't good. It opens up with an alien probe traveling through space, cutting the power of every ship and space station it passes. When it stops by earth, obviously it causes trouble. bringing storms, all the while giving off a sound, that no one can interpret. But, on Vulcan, Kirk and his merry band have decided to turn themselves in to the federation. Oh, i didn't mention the trial at the begining, where the Klingons want the federation to hold Kirk accountable for the death of the Klingons in the previous movie, despite the fact that those Klingons were violating there own rules. But I digress, on the way home, with Spock on board. They pick up the signal from earth, warning all ships to stay away. And they hear the probe, and Ding ding ding, spock figures out with a computer that it's a whale song, and now the movie reaches it's message, that because in the 80's we killed off all the whales. It becomes a saving the whales and the planet message, so much that cathrine hick's character while giving a tour, goes off on a tagent about whaling, and what whalers have done. And how bad those companies are, I understand what this movie was trying to do, but the execution of that story was bad. For example, after they rescue the whales from the villains of the story, the whalers. They go back to their time, crash the ship in the ocean set the whales loose. And they are able to communicate with the probe, and voila the probe is satisfied, and leaves. just like that, now at the end Kirk is reduced to captain. I do own this movie, and I have tried to like this movie. But, it badly misses the mark. Again, I know what they wanted to do. Buuuut, the execution left alot to be desired.

Depressing...Disjointed...Waste of 2 hours I am wondering if I even watched the same movie as the rest of the reviewers.  This was one of the worst "movies" I have ever seen.  It was depressing with no hope of a good ending right from the start. There was absolutely no plot whatsoever. The story just kept jumping back and forth between two families. It was disjointed and confusing. I never knew enough about any of the characters to care if they lived or died.  I couldn't tell you what the main idea or purpose was of this movie. I don't think there was one. Mostly just full of short portraits of racial prejudice, killing, and constant struggle just to survive. When the "ending" came, I was certain that my disc was skipping, so I rewinded it quite a bit. It turned out that my DVD wasn't broken or skipping. The movie just stopped at the dumbest place, and then the credits rolled. It's like the producer just ran out of money and quit shooting film.  If you want to watch a fabulous saga of racial prejudice, southern plantations, northern aristocracy, war, deep abiding friendship, family loyalties, betrayals, history, struggle...but still filled with hope and grace...watch "North and South."

Shaolin I can not give a review of this dvd as I am returning it.  This is all in Chinese with English subtitles only.  I thought the description said it was dubbed in English.  I had watching a movie in one language and trying to watch the action going on and having to read was is being said in the subtitles.  It just doesn't work.  You either miss the action or what is being said.

An American Bomb I applaud director David Zucker for making the movie he obviously wanted to make: an arch conservative satire that ridicules anything remotely perceived as "liberal," such as higher education, health care reform,and anyone who doesn't Love Sarah Palin. It takes a crazy kind of courage to make a film this politically biased in either direction in the desperate Hollywood climate of sanitizing and making movies as politically bland as possible in order to appeal to the greatest number of ticket buyers without offending anyone.  However, when a filmmaker tries to justify not showing his movie to critics because in his view ALL critics are inherently liberal radicals, and then even goes so far as to accuse whole theater chains of switching the ticket purchases from his alleged comic masterpiece to a film with less conservative ideals, you know the film is a bomb, no matter what your party is.  From the Amazon reviews a lot of people would seem to enjoy this outragious satire on Roger Moore. I'm glad they enjoyed a movie, any movie. I love movies. However the facts are An American Carol was lambasted by the vast majority of mainstream critics. I find it hard to believe that the majority of them are left wing fascists. And as for the positive Amazon reviews, they certainly weren't in the theaters when this film only grossed $7,000,000 from a production budget (probably not including advertizing) of $20,000,000. Justifying this loss by blaming innocent clerks and theater managers is not only libelous and irresponsible it's pathetic beyond words. If a film, ANY film is making money, every theater employee wants that film to stay in the theater as long as possible for job security. And 2008 was a bad year financially for all of us.  Whether you enjoy or not enjoy this film is a deeply personal experience. Michael Moore was already a self-parody by 2008, and anyone who does not like him can find ample reasons to laugh at him in some of his own films. For Zucker to make a comic criticism of Moore is akin to someone making a satire about the Three Stooges. The joke is already there in the original conception so it's beating a dead horse.  I saw  Zuckers baby when it was first released on opening weekend, in a packed house of very conservative audience members. In the beginning there was some chuckles from the viewers here and there. However as the film dragged, and dragged is the right word, on the occasional laughing sounds became fewer and fewer till there was dead silence towards the second half of the film. Personally, I was appalled. Not the by conservative agenda, we live in a democratic society, but by the total lack of comic inventiveness, timing or coherent humor. The jokes just splattered on the screen like red pantball smears.

Some of the Worst Acting Ever This movie looked like it might have an interesting plot.  However, from the beginning, the acting was so bad that a even good plot would have been wasted.  We ended this ordeal before the halfway point.

Desperate Housewives meets Back to the Future Some spoilers ahead  After reading a lot of other reviews here which suggest that the book is fantastic, I'm thinking that maybe this is a book that just doesn't translate to film. I did not read the book and I thought the both actors did a great job with the material....I just thought that it was obvious that the screenplay was working too hard to explain everything that the whole thing seemed contrived. So instead of concentrating on the the characters, what they are experiencing...you are too busy putting together a plot that really isn't the right kind of plot for a movie. This movie lost me at the  time travelling fetus. Maybe this works in the book, but the way it's presented in the movie it's just ridiculous. So then he doesnt tell her but gets the operation which is also ridiculous--its an obvious plot trick because no one does that in real life without discussing it with their spouse. Then she cheats on him with an earlier version of himself...this was like desperate housewives meets back to the future when I was expecting The Notebook. I just wasn't into it and was so focused on the ridiculousness of the plot that I couldn't care about the characters.

The Lorax My 1 star is not for the product in general. When I ordered this movie, I was expecting the 2012 recently made film that I have seen previews of. The remade edition that is still in theaters. However, this is the original version of this film, but you can not tell because it doesn't say any where in the title or on the front cover of this movie that it is the original tv one. So, when I got my package on the BACK is where is said that it was the original. I think that alot of people are buying this dvd thinking that it is the new version that is still in theaters. Well it's not, so don't waist your time or money trying to buy that dvd until it is out of theaters. I thought you could pre-order new dvd's like that and just wait until they had it in stock before you got it. I was willing to wait a few more weeks to get that particualr movie.  All in all I am sure that this is a great movie, but I wanted the new version still in theaters...not the original.

DO NOT BUY this selection of video DO NOT BUY this selection of video - the description is wrong - it states 301 minutes, but what they fail to tell you is that this is only 1 video and it is only 1/2 the movie - the seller I bought from jadenvermedia copy said it was a rental, but it must have been home-maid.  It started off in SLP mode then turned to SP and was fuzzy with a line that kept running through it.  Then at about 2hrs into the movie - it just cut out and went to blank tape fuzz.  Amazon needs to screen it's company's better and be accountable for accuracy of the products they choose to carry.  One plus why they even got one star is that Amazon does stand behind their satisfaction and does take returns with pre-paid return slip when warranted. To note - there are other selections to choose from when it comes to this movie - at the time I ordered there were not.  Check through the list and you will see a double video set.  I have not yet ordered, but can only assume from the description, this will be the complete movie?

~ I can't think of any age group this movie would be appropriate for ~ I had to make my 14-yr-old leave the room because the movie was full of potty language and sex talk. Seriously?! And this is supposed to be a story that a father is telling his 10-yr-old daughter? About how he slept around, smoked, drank, cussed, and his girlfriends slept with other guys? Really?!  And the little girl's talks about the sex education that she is learning in school. Lots of middle school locker room potty talk for the sheer shock value. Words like "thrusting penis" and "vagina" and "fallopian tubes" and sperm, and **** come out of this little girl's mouth. Yuk!  Are we training our children to be future audience members for the Jerry Springer Show?  It was just another movie about a lot of sleeping around and giving one's heart away prematurely before knowing whether or not that person is worthy of such a gift.  Too depressing for adults. Too sleazy for anyone...children, teens, or adults.  The good points? Ryan Reynolds is always charming, sincere, and a pleasure to watch. The young actress who played "April" was a delight...impossible not to fall in love with.  The rest I could have done without. Without the nasty language, the sex talk, the sleeping around, the strong-handed attempt to downplay divorce (hey! All lovers are the same - just replace the old ones and everybody will be happy) and a broken family, I might have actually believed it was a love story and enjoyed it.  But with all of that yuk distracting me, I feel like I need to take a shower to get clean again. I had rented it as a family movie. What an acute disappointment.

Did not like First of all I did not like the fact that before you saw the concert you saw alot of foreign junk--this dvd was made in the USA-------------why all the foreign junk----I am very proud to be an American and when I saw that junk it was an immediate turn off-------out comes the dvd and was sent back to the owner who gladly refunded me.

Porno instead of classic B/W film This product was a disaster. I bought this as a present to my 72 year old mom and what she recieved was a soft Mexican pornographic video. I am totally embarrassed with the product received by this vendor.

Netflicks replacement video We ordered it to replace a lost netflics video.  I did not order blue ray.  Netflicks is not crediting our account.  There is a previous owner un-removable sticker on it.  This was a complete waste of money. Netflicks verbally over the phone said it would be fine.  I think one of the reasons they wont accept it, is due to the label on the DVD.

Very Bad So frustrating when the 3D Disc is not functioning well. It get stuck at 0.22second.How can you solve it? If you are talking about a replacement, can you provide me a guarantee that that will work?

Two Hours of My Life Gone Uhg...  Boring, boring, boring, then something funny, then boring, boring, boring, boring, then something funny.  Like the dude's explaination at the park of what is like to have children.  Story was weak, really weak.  My wife gave it 1/2 a thumb up, and I gave it 2 down.  If you can watch it for free, and you have a magazine or book to browse while you watch, it is watchable. Or if ya just need a nap.

Nun and the Sergeant but no witch The rating doesn't reflect the quality of the advertised film as, like others, I received "The Nun and the Sergeant" which was burned onto the DVD. I don't blame Amazon as the DVD was sealed - this is MGM's fault. Let's hope they rectify the issue as it seems it's a large batch error.  If you want this title on DVD, the only alternative is to buy "Night of the Eagle" in R2 version from the UK site. It isn't widescreen (shown in 1.33 ratio) but at least it's available.

custmer review The absolute worst fire movie I have ever seen and the profanity made it worse. The only redeeming feature was the documentaries on yellowstone and wildland firefighters. The disc was in great shape and the seller got it to me quickly. Have no complaint there.

Disappointed I purchased a total of ( 3 ) of these movies. None of which would play anything. Not good.

Don't Know Who To Blame I love the series and enjoyed every episode I could see. This set has several disc with errors and I'm not certain if its defective from the manufacturer or if this was bootlegged and repackaged. When I say errors, some episodes do not play in its entirety and some do no play AT ALL. However because of the many episodes you have to view by the time you get to these issues your time for returning them has passed and you're stuck with the purchase. Will & Grace deserves better than this!

It's gotta be baloney. The left is beside themselves trying to stop the truth getting out there.  As an ardent news watcher and reader of the web and books, I can only say this:  We are so lucky to have Fox News!  Exposing the left wing agenda and how it is destroying our culture and our way of life.

bad quality and very old version The switch over to DVD is not good.  There is bad camera stuff and it's all so fake looking.  This DVD is too old a version.  It's not as entertaining.

This should not be in the Sci Fi category Not worth watching for Sci Fi. More emotional drama. Less of technical common sense. The major sci fi parts of the movie are the space ship collision and the tidal wave - both are a few minute scenes at the end.

Warner Home Video has confirmed that this set contains the NBC broadcast episodes, and NOT the extended episodes that were previ Warner Home Video has confirmed that this set contains the NBC broadcast episodes, and NOT the extended episodes that were previously released on DVD.

The Harvey Keitel Benevolent Fund Short attention span summary:  1. Why, Harvey Keitel, WHY???  Intended for immature audiences only, this movie tells the tale of Younggu, the illegitimate son of a mafia boss and his Korean lover, raised by nuns and eventually brought to the US to become his father's successor.  Slapstick of the worst kind ensues, leading to premature theatre departure.  The trailer gives a hint of what can be expected, but the movie is far, far, far worse than you can imagine.  Instead of watching this, send a cheque to Harvey Keitel so he never has to make a movie like this, EVER again.  Amanda Richards, August 1, 2011

Watch the cartoon, avoid the movie The cartoon was one of our favorite shows and had humor, nuance, personality, cleverness, interesting themes, good pacing, and clever plot twists. The movie has none of that. Huge disappointment.

Boring This movie is boring. The worst DC animated movie so far! Unless you love Green Lantern do not get this movie.

THE GERSON MIRACLE I have never written a  review before but felt compelled to write this.  I think this video is just a pot boiler and does not contain ANY new info and I am very disappointed that I spent money on this video - It is NOT edited and you have to view the whole video to see the contents as well  as that it doesn't tell you anything valuable at all.  Don't waste your money on this!

Made my #1 worst movie ever seen Overdone, obvious bad humor, tasteless and unfunny. My girlfriend and I toughed it out until halfway and then turned it off. It worries me that some people find this movie humorous and entertaining. I even like Will Farrell.

Worst Tim Burton Film of all time. When I saw the previews for this I thought it was going to amazingly good, as all of Burton's films are. Yes, I expected the film to be quirky and dark, as they usually are...but this movie was so boring I was actually waiting for it to end. I don't care what anyone says; I grew up watching the Burton movies but this was not one I'll ever be watching again. Not to mention that the plot was everywhere! Also, took my little brother to see this, he's twelve, and there was far too much sexuality in this film for children. If you must watch this with your kids, prepare for some awkward moments.

Disappointing A lame history of makind with little if any circus performances. Very short, which was a plus in this case. Find the label deceiving.

Simplistic, childish Terrible treatment of fascinating story.  Simplistic, clearly made for an American audience.  If you want the a realistic and detailed treatment read "American Brutus."  This film is cliche ridden.  For instance, in yard of fort, soldier noises:  "Left, right, left."  And on and on.  This is hardly better than a made for TV movie.  Robert Redford is no Ken Burns.

BORING!!! I am so sorry I bought this DVD....very long and boring movie.  Save your money! It was late at night and I bought this on a sudden impulse. I wish I had read the reviews....some okay reviews, but some not so good.  Nothing chilling about movie at all.

Horrid Menu! Terrible Editing! Not for beginners Be aware that this DVD begins with FIVE chapters all called "Power Up: The Best of Rodney Yee". Those chapters (which eat up a significant portion of the 80 minute DVD) contain Gaiam ads, Rodney Yee doing advanced yoga poses with NO instruction on what the poses are, how to breathe or position the body during the pose, what the names of the poses are, etc. Only approximately 14 minutes of the 80 minute DVD are usable for the beginner (Reflection and Surrender chapters). Mr. Yee seems to be an excellent teacher. It just seems that whoever produced this video edited it very poorly. The video should be marked "Advanced" somewhere on the DVD jacket. If you're a beginner, like I am, try Rodney Yee's Meditation & Yoga DVD. I thought that because Mr. Yee has been on Oprah and because this DVD was produced by Gaiam (who normally has great products) it would be a good DVD. I was wrong. Don't make the mistake I made: read the DVD reviews before you buy!

Stupid This movie was so stupid and boring!I wanted to see it because Eric Roberts was on the cover but he was hardly even it.You would think him being on the cover he would be one of the main characters,not so.They just had him on there to lure people with a big name to watch this trash.I don't if I just don't get this movie but all I know I barely sat through it.I recommend this movie only to your enemies as a torture device.Don't waste your time on it!

Skiptastic Very dissapointted in this DVD!!!  it arrived in a timely manor but has skipped three times in the first quarter of the movie. I have taken it out and cleaned the disk as well as changing players, to no avail... Will not be using this provider again!

As long as MIchael Bay will see his fans as cavemen, this will not stop. Sorry with my english for i am from Montr&eacute;al.  I still do not want to give up on Michael Bay. When i see him in interviews, underneath his condescending tone and his obvious self-love, i see an educated and intelligent man. I still have hope that he will mature eventually and direct a genuine great film. But right now, he is a teenager. Remember the speech about how Superman views society in "Kill Bill Vol 2"? If he disguises himself as Clark Kent, it is so that he won't be recognize and he will simply pass off as a "normal" human being. And when you look at the characteristics of Clark Kent, well it just goes to show what Superman thinks of a "normal" human being. I think the same of Michael Bay and how he views the movie goers out there, especially teenagers. He obviously thinks that most of us are dumb, sexually depraved and uneducated. The way he films women, the way he portrays the adults, the things he makes them say and do, the "comedy" that he puts in there and that he thinks will make us laugh, all of this makes me think that Michael Bay simply sees his fans as cavemen. And by reading some of the comments here, well my God, he's about right!  It is not a question of putting your brain to neutral in order to enjoy a good old "pop corn" movie. Not all "pop corn" movies are good. "Transformers 3" is a bad movie. Just like the second one. Probably even more. The characters are stupid. The dialog is corny. The intentions are childish. And we just don't care about anything. And why, oh why, do incredible and sexy women fall so much in love with Sam? It is so obvious that Bay was a shy and rejected teenager and that he couldn't get... well, nevermind. I don't know how Michael Bay and his team can watch a movie like that at a premiere knowing that other people will witness such a disgraceful work of art. How can they be proud of that?  God knows i enjoy all sort of films. Pop corn movies and art films. I loved the first "Transformers". But it is clear to me now that Steven Spielberg had more of a word to say in the first one.  And when i hear people calling this third film "Excellent" or "Perfect"... it's beyond me.  The first part of the film, the prologue that is, when it deals with the missions on the Moon, well that part is truly fun. Those small parts are the ones that make me think that Bay will, one day, make a great "Pop Corn" movie. But the more i see him going and the more i hear him talk, i'm starting to think that he won't be able to do it on his own, that he'll need someone else to help him along the way, like Spielberg in the first "Transformers".  Again, i'm all for "Pop Corn" movies. I enjoy them. But the directors must respect the viewer's intelligence. Michael Bay does not. He is clearly saying that you are dumb. And some of you are worshiping him.  Well you get the movies you diserve.

review Very very poor! If i can give zero star, i would rather give zero. Will not and cannot recommend to anybody.

will never order from this seller again i was contacted by seller and promised he would send another (don't know where the first one that was ordered and charged to my credit card on 12/2 went), gave me another tracking number and fell out of site again. rest assured i will not be paying for this due to my credit card privilege. please do not never order from this seller, who is really not a seller when the merchandise never gets to you.  i have learned from my mistake an will make sure no one makes the same one. not true to promises. false promises. i have still not been satisfied and they have my money, for now, but not for long.

Thanks, But I'll Pass! I used to enjoy watching this back in the early 1950s when I was a kid.  Unfortunately, I find it offers nothing to interest me today and they might just as well have let it rest in peace.

Item did not come in case DVD arrived in a plastic bag. This is very dissapointinng.  There was no DVD cover with the title of the DVD or brief description. It was just a plain Old DVD.

Terrible Temple This purchase was very disapointing.  The work is poorly done and the product is highly over rated.  It would have to improve to be bad.  Save your money.

You GOTTA be kiddin'!? Interminable Italian JAWS ripoff has high calibre cast members, toy boat attacks and 'life-sized' giant octopus all vying for most embarrassing moment award; only to be pipped at the post by the hilarious boat race massacre sequence.  Like the title beastie....this sucks!  Hank would have been particularly mortified.

Beware Pan and Scan This show was filmed in widescreen but has been cropped for DVD. If you search for this product by title, you can get find it on Region 2 from Germany. Granted, you have to buy two sets to get both seasons, which individually are more expensive than this set that collects the show in its entirety, and they require a non- or multi-region player. But it's probably only fair to judge the series as it was intended.  The show itself is very cheesy. I guess if you can watch something like Sliders, you can watch this. Depends on your tolerance level. Not a complex, imaginative or original show. But if you just need a sci-fi fix, you might enjoy it.

It's unknown to me why this terrible cliche of a film was ever made Totally retarded, "I've got amnesia, people are out to kill me, who am I and how can I stop this insidious plot that I'm starting to unravel" type of a film. Incorporates elements of the Bourne trilogy, Memento, Salt, some of those stupid Tom Cruise movies, etc. Dumb dumb dumb.

One of the worst movies I have ever seen Definitely in the bottom five. The screen play strains to include the well-known historical points of its subject into the film in the most ham-fisted and contrived ways in an attempt to build a feature film length linear story. It fails heroically. The skeleton story is padded out with fabricated hokum, Hollywood star turns by Warren Beatty in possibly his most annoying performance ever, and gratuitous violence galore. If ever there was a must-miss it's this pile of garbage.

Horrible Film I must have not watched the same movie as the other reviewers.....The acting is very good and the scenery is wonderful...and the peasant wife is a real doll.....that's where it ends...there is no "angel"..he is a demon...he said so himself...what a joke..the demon floating around the room with the wine maker...assuming they are making love in the air...hahahahahha....don't waste your time watching this...

Bad Disc - What's Your Number? I received the DVD in a reasonable amount of time but when I went to play the disc in my dvd player I got the message that it would not play. I could not make it work no matter what I tried. How can I return this DVD and get my money back?

all bad things must come to an end This is a really terrible movie.  Let me describe it by splitting the film into two sections.  Let me explain the first half first.  The first half of the movie is totally fitting for the Lifetime Movie Network.  It's about a woman who lives in an apartment building and, while a man is fixing a plumbing problem under her kitchen sink,  they fall in love.  Little does she know the man who has a history of mental illness.  Well she DOES eventually realize this but not until she's already committed to the guy.  Let me state that what the guy does for a living is completely meaningless.  He works in real estate and it's a family business, hence the constant sarcastic bickering between him and his father about "making the right choices for the sake of the family".  None of this matters though.  The focus here is on the man and woman attempting to hit off a relationship.  Well for the entire first half of the movie, the man and woman go through the routine ups and downs of being in a relationship, however since the man has a mental condition due to him having to tragically witness his mother jumping and killing herself when he was a child, this problem interferes with his ability to want to have kids with the woman and... now things get worse- MUCH worse.  Apparently the woman brought back personal feelings that weren't meant to see the light of day.  Now these mental problems have been unleashed.  Sounds fun so far, right?  Read on.  Let me mention that everything about the man and woman falling in love is flat out *boring* because I've seen an identical build-up of typical relationship highs and lows in several other films, so nothing different was done here at all.  I mean it was written in such a predictable way here that it's totally pointless to watch.  In fact the one and only scene that made an effort to stand out and be different is when the man gets furious at his wife who's simply minding her own business at a dinner party and he comes storming in the room, grabs her by the hair and pulls her out of the house.  Nobody at the party seemed to think this was unordinary behavior or stood up for the woman.  What?  Even worse is that whenever something good happens such as this, the writing completely falls apart so the very next scene shifts in another direction, thereby destroying all suspense that could have occurred.  Terrible.  It's obvious the man is crazy but nothing really suspenseful other than the guy destroying a book shelf and making a few threats ever seem to come out of it.  Now the second part of the film.  This is when the storyline completely falls flat.  This is when the amount of confusion will probably leave you speechless.  Well apparently the wife disappears, so we flash several years into the future with the husband as an old man, in a courtroom, and attempting to explain his innocence but... now the storyline is completely focused around the characters as OLDER people so suddenly it's like watching a completely different movie, and... get THIS- now we're seeing the man accused of murdering his wife dressed up as a woman *himself* and involved in conflicts with other older people that do absolutely nothing but confuse the living heck out of me.  Suddenly MURDERS are now occurring, which is odd because you'd think growing older would mean becoming wiser and less violent.  Suddenly as an old man, he's doing drugs with a friend in a car and wearing make-up like a woman.  Whatever (or whoever) is responsible for these murders being committed when it would seem these characters don't have much time on the planet anyway since old age has creeped in is beyond my understanding- WAY beyond it.  Bored by the generic writing of the first half and confused by the second half makes this movie an absolute failure.  A double dose of failure in fact because "bored and confused" is the worst of BOTH worlds when it comes to movie storytelling.  Ugh!  I strongly recommend avoiding this hogwash!

Gave my child nightmares - Not in the spirit of W. Awdry or the TV show We have read my six year old the original Rev. W. Awdry Thomas the Tank Engine stories since she was two, and she still loves them.  Even though her tastes are broadening beyond Thomas, she still regularly watches the TV show on PBS, and the show compilations on DVD.   "Thomas and the Magic Railroad" is not written or produced in the same spirit as Awdry's tales of good and bad behavior.  Good and bad must not have been dramatic enough for the sensibilities of the makers of this film, so they substituted a story of survival in the face of EVIL.  The staging and lighting of the film's villain makes Diesel #10 a railroad version of Darth Vader.  A ten year old would probably laugh all this off, but for years the Thomas series has been aimed at much younger viewers.  Watching one of the Sodor steam trains being threatened by a giant claw and pushed towards a firey pit freaks a six year old out.   I made the parental mistake of leaving my child to watch this film by herself without previewing it, it was a Thomas movie after all.  I came back in in time to see the firey pit scene and stop the movie.  Unfortunately that wasn't early enough to keep my child from having nightmares of an evil, claw wielding, snarling, diesel engine.  It was a thematic ambush, and I hope other parents who read this will be smarter than I was, and screen the film first.  I'm left wondering if the makers of this film ever read Awdry's stories, and if so how they got from the original stories to the plot of this film.

Wrong film sent, TWO times! I've made two purchases for Burn Witch Burn on Amazon.com, and two times I've been sent the right case, with the top of the DVD labeled with the correct movie, and the disk itself containing something called the Nun and the Sergeant. TWO TIMES! I don't even want Burn Witch Burn anymore. Amazon should just discontinue this film until it gets the correct film on every DVD it ships out. Once can just a mistake, twice is irrisponsible. A lawyer would call this bait and switch, don't you think?

Unskippable 2 minute ads on every disc I borrowed this season off of netflix, and I'm glad I didn't buy it.  There are 2 minute unskippable ads for Showtime shows that you are forced to watch every time you start up a disc.  Utterly ridiculous.  I recently purchased the complete Sopranos boxset, and was considering doing the same when Dexter eventually does a similar complete release.  That will not be happening if Showtime continues this garbage.

Rome Season 1 I never received the video on my IPad or Kindle Fire. Where is it???? I did not think the transaction went through. I purchase multi books online............

Killed It Halfway Through Reminded me of the Bourne movies, which I don't like.  Gritty and realistic, but the fun or thrills, like the WMD, are nowhere to be found.

Camera man was attacked by bees! The whole movie! The basic idea was ok but when it comes down to it zombies have very boring lives. It even would have been watchable if it didn't look like the camera man had Parkinson's and was being attacked be swarms of bees. This movie was ten times shakier than blair witch project and cloverfield combined. It was completely unwatchable.

Movie the Rapture I was outraged with this movie containing complete nudity!! I thought it was a Christian film and would NOT refer it to anyone!!!!! I was completely appalled with it!!!!

The Proposal Well, I watched The Proposal one time.  I was disappointed that such a good plot was smeared with crude actions, language that made me blush, and gross nakedness.  What did I do with it?  I threw it in the fire!

Insomniac Specials If you can remain awake through either of these two sleepers, you deserve a medal.  These are both painfully slow moving, unfunny, undramatic, and utterly boring movies.  Don't let the cheap price fool you, they are over priced at any price.  The only reason to buy these movies is if you can't get to sleep, watching either of these will have you snoring in no time at all.

couldnt wait for it to be over I'm not sure how this series of movies survived but this was aweful. The plot was so weak that every aspect of it was a stretch of some already far-fetched idea. Horrible.

promise not realized When I watched the pilot of this show with great enjoyment.  I loved the idea (even if it did kind of remind me of voyager.  But this was Stargate and the gate was hardly used.  Why not find any other species on the planets?  How about ruins?  No other species except hostile ones?  How about dead civilizations?  This could have been so much more than it was.  Could have gone after the over 30 crowd that stay home most nights.  It might have made a difference in ratings.  The youngsters on this show, except for SGT. Greer are completely forgettable.  Also, I found it offensive that Young would leave Dr. Rush on the planet.  In the first two Stargates we learned to honor annd respect our military.  I was apalled that they would portray our military this way (especially since I am a veteran).

Embarrassing Rubbish There's not much to say about this feeble Hollywood movie-by-numbers effort. Awful script, weak directing, wooden acting... everyone involved with this piece of utter nonsense should be thoroughly embarrassed. No cliche left unturned, no stale trope left unused. A movie without a single redeeming feature except, of course, that it finally comes to an end. Avoid at all costs unless you want a premature aneurism.

This is truly a awful movie This is the new generations Plan nine from Outer Space. I don't care if they made fun of people that think Nazi's went to the moon after WW II, the possibility of Sara Palin being president or even Nazi's in general, just make a good movie.  I had some real hopes for this movie. A large chested blonde playing a campy Nazi how could you go wrong with that, but these guys did.  If you are looking to make a cult classic take lessons from Rocky Horror. Personally I think these guys need to go back to making movies for the Internet.

Implausible, ridiculous and very strange The entire premise of the film is centered around an angel who decides that God's decision to destroy all humans via demon possessed humans is immoral and risks his life in order to save the mother and her unborn son (who incidentally enough, has powers to save the human race).  Once you suspend your disbelief at the ridiculousness of God being so inefficient and messy by using flesh eating demons to kill us off instead of putting on a nice natural disaster, you begin to realize how cliche the characters are, how cheesy the special effects are and how stupid the rest of the plot is.  The only cool part of the film was the granny demon. I'll never look at elderly people in the same way again :D

Music Man video Old VCRs clearly don't age well, even if in "factory-original" packaging. Will be getting a DVD. Picture trembles like it has Parkinson's Disease until the very end of the show, which is when you find out how great the show you just got seasick from actually was. I've got to see this show in well-preserved media

Movie is great, but UltraViolet is HORRIBLE I like the movie a lot (hence pre-ordering it on Amazon), but I'm beyond disappointed in the ridiculous UltraViolet digital copy crap that they've started using. I can't import it into iTunes, which means I can't manage whether or not it's on my iPad in any remotely easy way (major fail). Not only that, but when I went to register the disc on Flixster, there isn't even a link available for me to register the disc and download the digital copy. UltraViolet is a poor technology that hasn't been thought out and isn't wanted by the consumers. I want a digital copy that I can do what I want with, not one that the studio is going to tell me how I have to use. Like I said, the movie is great, but UltraViolet is garbage.

Subtitles It is unbelievable in this day and age that they would dare put this out without subtitles, but that is exactly what they have done.

What in the world... WHy would someone buy this?  The 4th movie is about to come out and then there will be another box release with all four movies in it...  Come on people...  Quit trying to rob everybody

Awful.  Just awful. It started out pretty bad.  But every time I thought, "Well, at least it can't get any worse," it managed to do just that.  With the exception of Tom Cruise (sorry, but I can't stand the sight of him), I like most of the actors and actresses in this movie.  However, there's a reason that most of the actors and actresses in this movie don't typically star in musicals -- they can't sing.  I winced.  I groaned.  I put my head back on the seat and closed my eyes.  I couldn't wait for the torture to end.  Fortunately, my friend spilled a large soda all over herself, and we had to leave about twenty minutes before it ended.  Personally, I can't figure why they'd cast Tom Cruise in the lead role in the first place.  Sebastian Bach or Jon Bon Jovi would have been better substitutes, IMO.  Sebastian Bach had the lead (stage) role in, "Jesus Christ, Superstar" for a while and Jon Bon Jovi has acted as a secondary character in many films -- they both can sing, they're both pretty hot, and they both were part of the 80's rock music era.  Tom Cruise?  80's rock star?  Really?  Ew.  I originally thought this would be like the movie, "Rock Star" with Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Anniston, which I kind of liked.  I thought it would be a movie with a kick-a$$ soundtrack of original recordings as opposed to covers by people who can't sing.  And EVEN IF the singing had been better, I still would have perceived the movie as a spoof, mocking the 80's music era.  What can I say, except that it was my friend's turn to choose -- I wanted to see, "Brave."

You might love this movie if . . . Did you doubt the authenticity of Obama's birth certificate?  Are you among the thousands of Americans who continue to question whether the president was really born in the US?  Then you should really dislike this movie.  Keep in mind, this documentary runs completely counter to the whole notion that Obama wasn't born in the US..  You have to pick which conspiracy you want to believe because they conflict.  It's clearly illogical to believe both.  Before rating my review as unhelpful, please go do some NON-partisan fact-checking on this documentary.  That aside, I highly recommend this movie to birthers who are considering converting to a new, fresh conspiracy.  Nobody else need apply.  (Definitely see Sky Captain's review from October 21.  Someone did their research.)

Poor acting I love the wine country and I was hoping this movie would be like Sideways ....but it was nothing close. The actors and actresses act so fake. I couldn't even finish the movie. I turned it off after 40 minutes.

Tarrantino by the Numbers First disabuse yourself of the notion that this is a movie about hit women.  They are three babes packing heat, but they have no clue how to do the job they have been assigned.  Director Aaron Harvey delivers paint by numbers Tarrantino  that officially clocks in at 94 minutes  but seems to last twice as long.  Harvey never misses an opportunity to slow the action down to a crawl and his screenplay makes no sense at all. Bruce Willis is annoyingly quirky but true awful acting honors fall to Forrest Whittaker.

Michael Ruppert Again They say that there's nothing more dangerous than a retired badge.  Michael Ruppert indeed stood before CIA Director John Deutsch at a South Central LA citizen's meeting, November 15, 1996, to say after Gary Webb's story in the San Jose Mercury News, owned by Knight Ridder (Knight family....Nike, China, slave wages)that he knew the CIA had been importing drugs for a very long time. Bill Clinton was afraid that in the wake of the Rodney King riots on top of Webb's story, that an all out race war would ensue...over one set of chains being replaced by another.  So why had no one really heard of Ruppert before that?  Why no bigger whistle blowing prior to Webb's story?  From 1992 he has so much to go on following Peter Brewton's THE MAFIA, CIA and GEORGE BUSH, with its connections to the Iran-Contra pipeline, to drug running and all manner of clandestine CIA/Mafia funds funneled in a myriad of ways and places. So here is Ruppert letting us know that he sprung the Pat Tillman case and that caused someone to smash his computers and so he's shutting down his newsletter, FROM THE WILDERNESS, and is now living in Culver City, Colorado and unable to pay his rent.  With a lengthy police career and pension?  With book royalties and one book in the Harvard Business School Library? And now a film...though it sure is dark in what looks like an Abu Ghraib prison cell with the interrogator, ah interviewer, off camera.  The message?  The world is going to hell in a hand basket. Plant a garden. Avoid debt. Buy gold. If all derivitites were called in tomorrow the world would owe $170 trillion dollars and there's not that much money available on the leveraged debt.  The $14 trillion of US debt is following the $170 trillion into a drain hole. Smoke alot of cigarettes, but you might also want to plant tobacco.  Or, though Ruppert doesn't mention this one either, plant some marijuana, cause it's easier to cultivate and may be needed after Ruppert gets lung cancer...thank you Brown & Williamson, Brown & Root,KBR and the engineers of big oil....whose petro-chem fertilizers make tobacco grow well, too, but kill bees in the process. The world is on a suicide course....might as well join 'em.  Ruppert is also the one who adamantly claims that Gary Webb committed suicide on December 10th, 2004 after telling everyone that he'd never do that, that he was being followed and died from two shots to the head. Two shots.  Happens all the time.

Movie Good, DVD Bad If I was reviewing the movie itself, I would give it three stars. While a lot of fun and I enjoyed it thoroughly, the plot itself had more holes than a colandar. It just didn't have the quality of the first movie.  I gave this review one star because of the DVD itself. Apparently, Sony took the full screen version and cropped off the top and bottom of the screen to make it appear to be widescreen. There were many instances of the tops of heads being truncated and, in the scenes where Zorro is talking to his son in Spanish, many of the English subtitles had been cropped out. I found that part especially annoying!  Frankly, presenting this as widescreen is out and out fraud. Sony should be ashamed (and shot or prosecuted) for putting out fraudulent products like this.

Waste of time. Felt compelled to stop watching about 1/2-way through. Once the dwarves come out, there's no rescuing the movie. Charlize Theron does a pretty good job, but the rest of the cast are pretty wooden and boring.

Terrible This movie was terrible. I purchased this to watch on a flight, expecting a typical mediocre rom-com that would at least entertain me and give me a few chuckle's for its ridiculousness. But really, you should just pass. While I normally love Anna Farris, the acting is terrible and the plot is so beyond transparent it's hard to stay interested. I at least expected a few good laughs but again, you could see the punch lines coming a mile away and the humor bordered on just plain dumb more than funny.

Who buys half seasons? Smart guys thats who. Anyone that buys half seasons of any show, or incomplete seasons for that matter is just plain dumb.  In buying partial seasons, you support higher costs offered by the producing company.  They do it to make more money.  Be a smart shopper and demand the abolishment of partial seasons.  By not buying them, they cannot make money and thus could end our suffering of partial seasons.

No French or Spanish audio for DVD I also bought  the 3-Disc Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Copy Combo Pack offered here on Amazon. The DVD included in this pack contains ONLY the  ENGLISH  LANGUAGE  AUDIO, although the packaging clearly indicates that it includes FRENCH and SPANISH audio.  In fact, it states that the French is Canadian French.

Boring. Stupid (I'll keep that one). Contrived. This was on HBO, rated three stars, so I thought I'd watch. Who ranks these? Where do I start?  First the dialog. Completely unbelievable. None of it sounded real. Zero. I'm also getting really tired of seeing middle-school aged children be the wise soothsayers, making all the adults nod sagely. I was creeped out by the borderline unnerving stalking of the son character of the babysitter, and the similarly creepy (and completely unbelievable) stalking her character did of the father. The single-mindedness the son had about the babysitter was entirely ridiculous. Doesn't the kid own an X-box?? Thirteen year old boys have the attention spans of gnats, and I would be a little weirded out if I was an adult around a kid who was that obsessed. The youngest daughter was a paper-thin throwaway character, mindlessly flitting around the movie, dancing like an autistic mental patient in her dad's new apartment, after her parent's marital separation. Oh, how funny! I'm surprised they didn't put her in an omnipresent tutu to really hammer home just how unaffected and breezy she is about--let me repeat it--her parent's marital separation. Was anyone else skeeved out seeing Steve Carell trying to get his groove on at a lounge catering to twenty-somethings, aka his daughter's age? Maybe this is commonplace in LA, but in the rest of the country, there's something really gross about it as well as tired. Barring the baffling attraction the rest of the country has for Ryan Gosling, as well as the boring one-note Emma Stone (who basically plays the same character over and over and over and over), I guess no other women who frequent the only bar apparently in town had any personality whatsoever. Kevin Bacon was supposed to be a reviled character, but I was like "thank God, someone interesting" every time he came onscreen.  And then they had to hit us with the cheesiest technique ever, one I refer to as a film's "Oh Captain my Captain" moment--at a middle school graduation no less. We're supposed to believe that an audience there to see their own child graduate is going to be in thrall of a rambling speech about love, clapping along? In reality, everyone would be shifting in their seats uncomfortably, hissing that maybe you should shut up so we can get on with it, which is exactly how I felt about 100% of this lame hackneyed piece of a movie.

Blu Ray not worth it. First off what people are saying about the quality is true.  This is pretty much an upscaled DVD.  If you can find the special edition DVD I think it has some actual extras like making of documentaries.  The only thing like that that came with this blu ray that I got from Wal Mart for 6 bucks is a 3 minute documentary that has nothing to do with the movie at all.

Seriously? This is quite possibly the worst movie I've ever seen. Is any of it based on fact (other than the existence of Caligula)? Here's my point: I don't care. If each scene was recorded in a scroll discovered by an archeologist (or film producer)in Rome, it still comes off as a vehicle for Bob Guccione to couch soft porn in a respectable setting. I only gave it one star because I'm afraid if I don't give it any stars the review won't get in the system, and I don't know how to give negative stars.

Rubbish I figured that I might try this out but as these types of movies are pretty stupid, this one will not disappoint.  All I take back from the movie is a nude chick walking around constantly and weird people/images.  I guess if you had one too many LSD hits, you might actually know what is going on here, otherwise a normal non-drugged person would just scratch their head and go WTF?  Good Luck....Id suggest renting as I did, rather than buying this tripe.

Unrecognizable.  No true Austen here. Maybe if you could completely separate yourself from the fact that this movie bears the title of "Mansfield Park," it might be enjoyable.  (And I am talking a very slim "might.").  But who besides an established fan of the genre would be taking the time to watch another adaptation of yet another Austen work?  I understand that some changes need to be made when transferring literature to the screen, but this was ludicrous.  Fanny Price is portrayed so far from the demure, quiet, undiscovered youth that she is hardly recognizable.  Just seeing her expression on the cover tells this is a newly created character bearing a very familiar name.  Liberties are taken with other characters as well.  If you have any interest in true Austen, don't waste your time on this film.

This is a BAD transfer of a great classic! Shame on you Warner Brothers!!  :( I cannot believe this five star classic would be treated like a one star movie. At least the film is widescreen, but it is not anamorphic and the colors are faded, there is very little detail in the picture. The blacks are horrendous!! This is a travesty coming from a great company like Warner Brothers Home Video. I was ashamed when I showed this movie to some friends. They even noticed how bad it looked. We tried zooming, stretching, squeezing, everything a widescreen tv can do and it would not make this dismal transfer any better. Now with blu ray on the market, Warner needs to step up in their picture quality for their DVD releases. I pray that Warner is working on a new restoration of the magnificent picture and sound that is expected for this classic. This great motion picture deserves better than what Warner has put out here. Just think, the blu ray should fit the whole movie on one side of a disc instead of a two sided disc like this one. And I would love to see this movie in 1080p! Talk about beauty!! But if you are a true fan of this classic, this will have to do. Personally, I wished I would have waited. There has got to be hope for this classic in the future on DVD and blu ray. Come on Warner, give this movie a new life!

Wow, really 4 star average? Guess I just didn't get it along with my wife. I love these types of movies, ended up being bored to tears.  No action, even less of a story and predictable as can be. Sorry but it sucked!

A little to wierd I am a big Rachel Bilson fan. I wanted to like this movie...but I didn't like it even a little. The movie is awkward with nothing but sappy moments strung together, and nothing else. Every character is very odd and wierd with the exception of Emma played by Bilson. Will has been following Emma for years unable to tell her that he loves her. When, finally he works up the nerve to tell her. It's not romantic, or sweet, but very stalkerish, and wierd. The whole movie seems uncomfortable with Willie talking in public to his dead parents, and not following Emma. The dialogue is very cheesy.Don't waste your time or money on this.

The Big Rip-Off Shame on one reviewer for giving "writer" Erik Jendresen kudos when he basically ripped-off Raymond Chandler's "Farewell My Lovely" in this dull, tormented film.  This is not a brilliant "tip-of-the-hat" to Chandler...it's an overt act of plagiarism. What makes it more disgraceful is that Jendresen butchered the story to the point of absurdity.  Bandaras is difficult to understand throughout the film which is a problem since much of the story is by way of his narrative, and Sam Elliot demonstrates once again that someone can enjoy a multi-decade career in films with minimal acting skills.  To call this bilge "film noir" borders on blasphemy.

Quite possibly the worst film I have ever seen in the entirety of my life... And my daughter hated this too.  This is rather depressing actually.  I loved `Yogi Bear' as a kid and so I was kind of excited to see they were making a film, but the trailer looked disappointing and so I was weary, but my daughter really wanted to see this and so my wife and I took her.  The film was a complete disaster.  None of the gags land, the humor is so childish it doesn't even remotely come off as funny and the acting is horrendous throughout, especially from the humans.  Anna Faris lacks any and all charisma, Tom Cavanagh is bland and defines `bad acting' and Andrew Daly plays `stock character' like, well, a stock character.  T.J. Miller (a regular on `Chelsea Lately') is funny, but no where near enough to resurrect this DOA.  The plot is generic and the execution is amateurish.  It didn't even make me smile in that awkward `this is so bad it's good' kind of way.  This film is just flat out awful.  Lazy, uninspired and forgettable; `Yogi Bear' is a giant mess.

Minus 8 at the least this was a really horrible movie. title should be "the brainless thing" Can be summed up as follows: shallow and one-dimensional unfunny lacks subtlety disgusting toilet humor a total waste of time and don't ever consider of buying it, waste of money too.

MOSTLY BORING and UNFINISHED I think the director was asleep at the switch. Some of the dialogue was very well done and the acting was very good by all players but the assorted scenes and settings were simply mashed together without a connecting thread. You get your standard riots and panic in the streets scenes, but I imagine most B-movie horror flicks have done that chore much better. To top it off, two of the major stars are killed-off almost immediately, one of them muddles his way through scene after scene without much at all to do and a fourth major star simply disappears (poof!) in the middle after portraying a very forceful and central role! Loose threads abound at the so-called ending. The only real satisfaction I got from my otherwise wasted 90 minutes was seeing Marion Cotillard and perhaps 1 minute or so of the other major stars.

Worst Move Ever As we all know, the best movie ever made is Road House with Patrick Swayze and Cool as Ice with Vanilla Ice is a distant second.  But, this review is not about these two outstanding achievements in cinematic perfection; rather, it is about the worst movie ever - Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen.  How can a movie packed with household name stars including a few with English nobility titles, crash and burn before the beginning credits finish running?  The movie lacks all the wit and wisdom of the 1930s - 1940s era films.  The slapstick is slapstuck and wouldn't even make past ABC's liberal comedy standards.  I wanted to laugh, really I did, but I just couldn't do it.  The movie just sucks.  I have never walked out of a movie that was in my DVD player, until now.  Literally, I got up, walked out of the room, left the house, got in the car, drove until I ran out of gas and checked into a no questions asked motel under an assumed name.  I didn't bring my cell phone or tell my wife where I was going for fear she would tell me about the film or make me listen to it through the speaker phone.  In other words, even if you are a bad cinema fan (Something Weird Video, Crown International releases, MST3K etc.) the film has nothing of interest.  Like skidmarks, it is a stain on the Charlie Chan franchise.  So, instead of wasting your time with this movie, "Ditch the zero, and get with a hero."  Re-watch Road House or buy the new release of Cool as Ice.

Unbelievable make-believe This is as calculated and commercial a film as can be imagined. Rredictable from the first instant to the last, it's as shallow and lifeless as they come. At some point, somebody involved must have had an impulse that was sincere and genuine, but there is no shred of authenticity left in this deathly film. New Year's Eve is a pastiche of numerous stories, most of them retreads, acted out by a large cast of celebrities. Only a handful of characters are given the opportunity to become at all "real," and many are just shallow and annoying anyway, so the viewer has little reason to care how the various trivial complications work out (though it's obvious that they will). Anyone looking for genuine human depth in the characters will not find it, though Halle Berry and Hilary Swank do breathe life into their parts. This film it its own kind of pornography. Heaven knows there's nothing remotely sexy about it; it's just that everyone is clearly faking it all the way through in a laughingly obvious way. The soundtrack is equally heavy-handed and obvious. Even viewers who simply want to eyeball the attractive cast members will be disappointed. Everybody's bundled up and hatted or pregnant or in some other way made unglamourous (except K. Heigl in an amazingly slinky dress, but she's such an unbearable, self-absorbed character that there's no appeal). The setting -- New York -- is also presented in a flat, dull, mostly ugly manner. I thought I would enjoy this film -- just looking for a light, charming couple of hours -- but it's such a cynical construction, so utterly heavy-handed and fake, that it made me really depressed. Yeah, the narrator gives us a dumb little lecture at the end about hope or something, but at that point I was sullen and pissed off at Garry Marshall's horrible direction. He, and everyone involved in this piece of crap, should be ashamed of themselves. I hope it lost a load of money, and I advise DVD buyers... not to. If you really enjoy reading greeting cards, maybe...

only 1 way to watch this movie This Blu-ray states on the back cover that you can watch this movie 2 ways and that is not the case. it does not contain the choose your fate version it just gives you the movie :( pretty disapointed because it says so on the cover so buyer beware!!!!!

No no no no no no no no.... When Tom and Jerry started talking I nearly had a coronary.  This movie was awful after that.  Avoid this at all costs.  Get the original Tom and Jerry shorts and enjoy.

pointless drivel of a story Seriously... what the heck was the big tension in this dumb movie?  A father wanting to reconnect with this kid after the world changes for the worse?  ... and his colleagues are willing to risk their lives - and yes, die- so he can get to his son.  So then what happens when dad shows up?  Does daddy make it better?  no... just  a pointless and stupid plot.  Did someone actually get paid to write this script?  Review: Garbage; not worth your time.

Avoid 2004 version like the plague! This is a good movie, but if you want 3-D do NOT buy the 2004 version. It has the RED/BLUE glasses. I'm holding out for the newest 3-D version when and if the price comes down.

An ugly bore, My memory was very kind to this godawful film. I had seen it only once before, on its initial theatrical release when I was thirteen years old. Watching it again last night, and after having read the books and seen Peter Jackson's far superior telling, I was mortified by how truly awful the movie is; every element seems calculated for maximum irksomeness.  First, the animation and art direction: Rotoscoping in and of itself is not a bad thing, but it often feels as if we are watching a live-action film intercut with a Saturday morning cartoon. The Balrog is laughable; the battle of Helm's Deep looks like three guys on ramparts getting shot by arrows. The Orcs are simply fat men in dime-store gorilla masks, black riders limp around like second-rate Lon Chaney impersonators... animation frees the filmmaker to show anything at all that can be drawn, so all I can figure is that Bakshi and his crew had very small imaginations.  The script is equally dreadful: The characters are two-dimensional, simply doing things without the context that lets us understand them as people. The pacing lurches along, dropping large chunks of exposition in between flat action sequences. Frodo deciding whether or not to listen to the Ringwraiths at the ford of Rivendell and Orcs running across Rohan are two sequences that go on far too long. Boring dialogue was at least lifted partially from the books, but is undone by the voice actors, who seem to be afraid to truly inhabit their characters and the world they live in.  I could go on, but there's no point; just pretend like this movie was never made and be sure to dash off a thank-you note to Peter Jackson; someone got it right.

this movie 'BLOWS' don't waste your money on this movie, I ended up tossing it in the trash .. it really sucked ..

Anti-Christian pro Muslim film The reason why I through this movie in the garbage.   Parading a man beaten and handcuffed looking like Jesus Christ on a donkey in front of an army of Muslim soldiers. This movie contradicts what the muslim bible teaches. This movie also portrays Christians as evil and muslims as good. They never showed muslims killing innocent people who wont convert in the name of Alah but portrayd Christians as the evil "occupiers" and bandits. Islam means to submit, that I am not willing to do.

"MINDLESS" Unrated R-X Movie R-meaning violence, sex scenes, and X-meaning X rated sex scenes!  The only normal part of the movie, was in the beginning, with the sex scene (including the UNRATED X scene in the shower) and kid falling out a window.  The rest of the movie was a blur of simulated therapy sessions (with a couple who were more like strangers than husband and wife) violence, more X sex scenes and a twisted and sick woman, more X and then I just turned it off.  It was a poor example of a movie because it was a poor attempt to make filming gross, graphic, sexual scenes an actual plot!!!  Surprised that an actor such as William Defoe would have even considered playing this role!

DONT BUY FROM THEM I JUST received my movie from them & it is COMPLETELY scratched up! i seen such good reviews from them so I didn't even bother checking the disc..I inserted it & within the first 30 seconds it was skipping. then it start completing skipping to like the next five minutes, then it skipped to the middle of the movie! I bought this as the said "new still in original packaging" but I was COMPLETELY MISLEAD! do not buy from them! these people below weren't rating them, they were rating the movie! I advise you buy this great movie from another seller

Really? Why bother when you can watch great B/W on Turner Classic Movies. My friend is a member of the Academy and voted it for Best Picture. This is just a matter of taste. I just kept thinking, "Are you kidding?".

The movie is good, the DVD is terrible I am watching this DVD as I write.  So far we are 20 minutes in and have not gotten to the main menu yet.  I don't need to see Four Video Game commercials and a documntary about a theme park.  I will never buy another WB DVD ever again.  I PAID for this?  Commercials?  No thank you.  Ditch all the junk and give us some extras.

Not worth the money!!! On a scale of 1-10 with 1 being the worst and 10 being the best I would rate this movie 1 and add "only because the scale doesn't go lower". The reviews on the back must have been paid for because for the life of me I cannot see why anyone would find it "in an acclaimed and visually stunning hit that's the coolest movie of the year". For starts the movie is in black and white and is done in anime (I think that is what it is called) where it is a "life like" cartoon. The actors are, sometimes, real but everything is else is cartoon-like. In some instances the lips, eyes, blood, car and in one instance yellow skin are in color. Color is used to accent something. I bought it because I like Bruce Willis. He's in the first story and it is 13 minutes long. Then there is a second story which was 34 of the longest minutes I've ever watched a movie. I have no idea how it ended, if it ended. The third story was so bad I couldn't watch more than 10 minutes. Seeing the movie was only half over I clicked further up the bar and came to a second part of the first story. This is where the yellow man showed up. Even though it was Bruce Willis it was BAD!!! (I bet he doesn't claim this movie on his resume.) Powers Booth was also in this part of the story and, though I like him, the movie was still bad. Not necessarily the acting but the plot and the whole thing. I usually like to watch a movie a second time and/or more because, sometimes, if you don't like it at first you do on a re-watch because you better understand what is happening. I don't think I can watch this movie again and am not even putting it in my collection. I may take it out and put it on the "community table" for anyone that wants it. I bet if someone took it it would end up on the table again. And again. And again, etc. Would take a special kind of person to like this movie (of stories) and I'm not one of them.

Horrible!!!!! It had the same jokes, weak plot, hardly any on screen time with the little kids. Overall, a movie that should have been made way better or never been made what so ever! very disappointed!!!

Childish and not funny We didn't watch the whole movie, and I'd like to get the time we watched it back, what a total waste of time.

Worst on every level Terrible in all ways...bad effects, bad plot, bad acting,.....I had to turn it off it was so bad...there was a car crash and they actually made the mistake of showing the ramp the car drives up during the scene...I could have made this movie on my laptop

Dreadfully boring, British PC fantasy Despite the fact that I very much like the two leads, this film was, frankly, horribly boring. There were moments of excellence, occasions where dialogue took a witty turn, but other than that this was a very dry, slow paced movie, particularly for a spy thriller. I don't say that a movie has to be car chases and gun fights like most American spy movies (there are none of those in this film), but it should be exciting at least. This was just...not. The mystery (if one can really call it that, as there was little mysterious about it) was uninteresting and obvious; the solution was predictable and dull. And the plot was the stuff of British PC fantasy, complete with brutally victimized and utterly innocent Arabs, evil, wicked, nasty and truly evil Israelis who murder innocents holding white flags and, of course, the big, bad torture-happy Americans. There was even a lovely, smart and witty Muslim intelligence agent (complete with sparkly black hijab) featured prominently, right off the bat, to complete the inclusive imagery -- inclusive to all but those nasty-innocent-murdering-Jews, presumably. I am all for making films that are "politically correct" in that they avoid nasty stereotypes and hateful/hurtful images; but I am not a fan of preachy films and "message" movies, particularly when the "politically correct" aspects of a film do in fact reinforce bigotry and hate. This is such a movie, featuring the virulent strain of anti-Israel hate that has traction in certain segments of British society and media. The story itself (spoilers) involves two conspiracies: collusion between the big, bad Americans, who are whisking innocent people (who somehow still provide accurate information about terrorist activity) off all over the globe to torture them, and the Prime Minister, who is not only aware of these nefarious deeds but also does not reveal what intel is recovered for fear of having to give up the source. The other conspiracy is the murder and subsequent coverup of an anti-Israel activist (Weisz' brother) by, of course, the wicked, mean and nasty "occupiers" (Israel). Nighy must uncover the truth of the Prime Minister's involvement, and also find information about the murder/coverup of Weisz' brother. That sounds interesting, right? Alas, it's not. It's all done in an almost surgical manner, with no more interest or emotion than you would expect to find in the most mundane of discussions; indeed, I've seen more animation displayed over the weather or minor changes in the stock market than this film gets over matters of international misdeeds, murder and espionage. All of which is too bad, because Weisz and Nighy gave good performances; they really do their best with this, and do manage to breathe some life in here or there. By and large, though, the script is just too dead to be saved, no matter how hard they try. This is one "thriller" that isn't "thrilling" at all. More like a "snoozer". 1/5 stars

Awful movie This is one of the worst movies that has ever been made. Ridiculous plot, irrelevant to the book, bad directing and a complete waste of time.

this movie blows i have tried twice to watch this movie, and i couldnt make it through an hour each time. I dont know if the director wanted the actors to just phone it in or if it just happened, but i dont want to see shitty acting weather on purpose or accident. It wasnt funny. I wish i never would have bothered

3D? the 3D dosent exist. I have 15 3D blu rays and this is by far the worst quality i have seen to date. The movie itself is painful.

Shadow Conspiracy I am not pleased with this DVD because I didn't pay enough attention to all the details, it is not the correct region for USA, be sure and check region when ordering DVD's. It is a great movie I have it on tape, but wanted it on DVD.  MAKE SURE they are for Region 1, for USA.

SSRI Madness I'm no big pharma fan but what a joke. This film is like a mid-century propaganda film. It does nothing but make false claims. It claims antidepressants actually cause neurotransmitter deficiencies. That there is zero evidence that they help depression and that depression is basically made up by the drug companies. It shows footage from the Columbine shooting several times when only one of the shooters had been previously prescribed antidepressants. Obviously antidepressants weren't the common link in that situation. I could go on and on. If you watch this, research the claims online and you will get a different picture.

1 Star FOR THE PRICE!!!!!!! I like this movie a great deal, but looking at the sellers as of June 10, 2012, I see $62 as the cheapest price and the DVD is USED! Are you kidding me? Why so expensive? I couldn't tell how many times that great hot place would have to freeze over before I pay $62 for ANY movie on DVD, especially one that's been on regular TV for years! Yes, a great movie, but don't give me the "hard to find" or the "not many made" jargon, this is rediculous, PERIOD!

Long and overdone It is as if the director were saying "look at me, look at me, am I not fabulous?", instead of giving us a truthful movie with a tight well-written story. Practically everything Elizabeth did and said was written down in her own time. It is very easy to follow history and produce a thrilling story about these events, but this director decided to give us lies and dress up the lies in his concept of art. Got news for him--the art lies in story telling, not dressing it up with costumes, dark moody sets, and special effects. Everything here is overdone. Poor writing with unrealistic sappy dialogue and historical lies cannot be saved with expensive (but gaudy) costumes and fancy camera work. The truth in this story would have been far more interesting than this ego-driven director's vision. For instance, did you know that Elizabeth refused to pay many of the sailors who fought and risked their lives to save her royal butt from the Spanish? Many of them died later of diseases and starvation while living in filth, but her royal partying went on.  But if you wish to find far greater evil, read the histories of the Borgia and Medici popes. This movie was long, tedious, poorly scripted, overdone, boring, sappily dialogued, ego-driven, and mostly lies. I should have turned it off half way through, but I wanted to see just how bad it was going to get.

A waste of two hours If you liked the books, you'll hate this movie.  Every visual that was described in any detail in the book, for instance, what the cabins at Camp look like, is completely different in the film.  Major and minor characters are left out.  The plot bears no resemblance to the book, and the changes are for the worse.  At best, the film was "inspired by" the book.  Save your money and don't waste your time.

I hate this, its actually Cars 3! I remember back in 2002 or so, there was Cars. Then 3 or 4 years later, Cars came back out, but remade. I thought it had another name and I went to see it and it was the same as the original, just with a few changes. Now the sequel is a kind of rip off. It makes you think that its the second movie when its really not. Oh, they also make you think that this is going to be the best movie ever. Its not as good as its made out to be. I didn't understand the plot, I was lost, and by around an hour, I dozed off. It was not appealing and my nephew hated it, also.

waste of money....get PPV! OMG! The most unbelievable storyline, worst actors, lame hour-and half I ever wasted. The Blu-Ray disc in this combo pack was defective and I have an Oppo Blu-Ray player! You can rent this on DISH PPV or Amazon and I will NEVER buy a movie before I first watch it PPV. Awful flick!

forrest gump WE ORDERED THIS TWO DISC SPECIAL EDITION, OF FORREST GUMP EXPECTING TO WATCH THE MOVIE, BUT INSTEAD IT IS THE MOVIE WITH A PERSON COMMENTING EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME...DISSAPONTING

Won't play - seems like some type of bootleg DVD This DVD won't play in my DVD player.  It seems like some sort of home made DVD, with the purple type backing which is similar to DVD-R or home recordable DVD's.

Please, take time to read, just facts, not just "my" words/view. Umm, glad someone enjoyed it with kids, about the only way to do it, but its rank.  I hate to bash, I am only here because I want to warn others, it is bad!  I am not comparing it to the first, or other movies, it stands on its own as thin and not worth any amount of money.  If you watched the first I bet this movie had some appeal to see the characters again, but that would be about it.  I have never seen so many clich&eacute; sayings in a movie (even those doing it to poke fun of those) but this one was stale with so many used over and over from the past.  Fast paced so you don't get bored or realize there is no content, or story line or good character content.  And last, first time the wife agreed with me; the movie was poor.  Don't often do this (ever?), but this disc is being returned!

Don't buy this video!!! My daughter refuses to watch it. This is the ultimate worst sesame street video I have seen so far and I have seen a TON!! I have tried to get my daughter to watch this several times and she is not interested.  She is 20 months. Its a really old video of large versions of the sesame street characters ice skating, its suuuuuuuuper slow and super boring.  It has low film quality and the story line is seriously lacking.  Don't buy this one, you will waste your money.

A bit of old tat Cheap stereotyped revenge fantasy.  How many times do we have to see this kind of nonsense?  Terry Stamp hams it up for Hollywood, right, Terry old son?  Peter Fonda falls into the same bracket. Forty years ago they charmed us with their youthful looks; it went to their heads and they ceased acting.  Don't bother with this tosh, okay mate?

Waste of time The only Vince Vaughn movie worth watching is Dodgeball.  The only Kevin James movie worth watching is Hitch.

Don't waste your time/money This isn't the first videogame-anime marriage. I've seen the first Dead Space anime, the Halo anime, and the Dante's Inferno anime. This is the worst. The anime stories (obviously made by different animators, given drastically different character models), are tied together with a CGI story with CGI so terrible it's actually laughable. The graphics from the video game look better than the bland and stiff CGI characters/settings.  I don't understand why the studio decided not to follow the main protagonist from the Dead Space games (which, by the way, are excellent). It really seems like a lost opportunity.  The story is pretty generic and bland: a recovery crew comes into contact with a shard from an alien artifact, it makes him crazy, it makes everyone crazy it comes near - then it creates the necromorphs (read: space zombies). So the crew has to destroy the shard to destroy the infection. Then shadowy government operatives want to cover-up the events and try to use the artifact's power. There's little explanation of who the operatives are, or why their methods are so hardcore, or how anyone would believe the ridiculous cover-up story. Honestly, if it wasn't for the language and gratuitous nudity, I'd think someone wrote this script for a children's Saturday morning cartoon - it's that bland and full of plot holes.  As a big fan of the games, I found this anime a real let down. Don't waste your money. Don't even rent it and waste your time.

Absolutely NOT colorized I am reviewing the box set depicted here which has UPC code 043396131736 which is strictly B&W.  Someone has apparently reviewed another product which does NOT have this UPC and which undoubtedly comes in a different looking box.  The DVD's are labelled B&W and no reference to color anywhere and no Menu selection to color and no toggling to color or instructions for color.  Amazon could do a service by making the product UPC clear and removing the misleading reviews.  I have to give it low marks due to the product misrepresentation.

Doesn't play on either DVD players My review is this. I ordered this movie thinking it would be great. It will not play on either one of my dvd players.

Bleah! Poor me, poor me.  I suffered so much watching this movie to the end.  Two hours long, que horror!!! This is the most horrific movie I have ever seen. It is boring as hell.  I was browsing through the movies and figured this one would be exciting.  I really do not care about the acting, but I was expecting the action to excite.  It did nothing for me.  The CGI wasn't very impressive either.  It looked very unrealistic.  You could tell it was CGI.  Geesh!  Wait until your library has it and check it out free of charge.  Through out the whole thing I had been wishing it to end and wish I had been watching something else.  It reminds me of an 80's sci fi movie the kind you laugh at now in the present.....generic and cheesy.  Bleah!

It's paint Aaaand it isssss the slowwww drying kind. My three dollars paid for this fair warning. You're welcome. Turn back. You're not welcome in this town. You would not like it here any way. Now git. Yawn!

boring bruce willis is in my top 5 actors but this is one of the worst movie i have ever seen in my life...simple as that...

Too long, too boring, and poor acting by Stewart I'll admit, the theatrical trailer made this movie seem exciting and worthwhile, however, the actual movie experience was a major let down. The film itself seemed to drag on without a deep plot to justify the additional length. It felt like the film could have ended 30 to 45 minutes sooner than it did with the second half of the film being a chore just to get through. Additionally, while I thought Kristen Stewart would show some improved acting outside of the Twilight series, this film proved to me once again that she is a C- actress at best. There's a scene near the end of the film where Stewart gives an impassioned plea to rally the troops for a final battle. However, her poor acting skills were only magnified by this scene with Stewart being so overly dramatic to the point where it was just ridiculous. In fact, several people in the theater actually busted out in laughter during this scene. I'm sure the director did multiple cuts of this scene and if this was the best they could get out of Stewart then she has no hope of ever becoming an elite actress.

Thinly Disguised When I bought this I thought it was Kirk Cameron's search for the foundation or history of America.  Instead I was treated to closeups of Cameron's face throughout most of the video talking about one aspect of America's founding, the religious persecution of the Puritans - mostly at their departure points of England and Holland. Though the film vaguely established the concept of freedom of religion in America (which we have mostly lost today) it did not delve into the hardships they faced to survive and what they did to water this beautiful flower that is so rare nowadays.

Lame! This is the most annoying DVD, ever.  There's not a single idea in it that any mother doesn't instinctively already know.

To the director: Go Back And Finish This movie! So for two hours we are watching what is essentially a survival story, only find that the movie ends before we can determine if the settlers can survive! Duh! Did the director run out of money? 20 seconds more of filming could have provided us with an answer. Instead we are left guessing! I would hazard a guess that if most of us would know that this movie would leave us hanging this way then we wouldn't waste those hours watching it in the first place. To Kelly Reichardt - Can I have my 2 hours back please? I will need to be paid to watch another of your movies!

Horrible Movie As a Jeff Shaara fan, I can say that this movie is horrible, even worse than Gettysburg, which was also a Turner B-flick. Painfully slow, and drawn out with incredibly dull directing through all the non-action scenes, which are about 90% of the film. I was skipping through a lot of it to get to the battles after a while. Since some of the actors are very talented, I have to assume it was the the script and directing that made this so painful to watch. Although some of the acting by actors/actresses I wasn't familiar with seemed to be at a high-school drama class level. The only decent portrayal was Robert Duvall as General Lee. Other than that, yuck.

Too bad Universal won't bother to fix defective discs. Well, I just picked up this set and, BRAVO UNIVERSAL, as of 12/20/2011 this set is still not fixed. Do a quick search on the internet and you'll see what I'm talking about.  Just as described by several people here, the first three episodes play fine and then right around the 4 minute mark of episode four the disc freezes, sputters and skips ahead about 60 seconds. I haven't bothered to play the other discs, but there are widespread reports about problems with them as well.  I've turned off access to the internet on the player (as some have suggested) and that doesn't do anything. I'm exchanging it, but don't have high hopes that the new one will work either.  Looks like I'll either forget about this season or be forced to buy it on DVD. Again, BRAVO UNIVERSAL!

I've been DERAILED Was looking forward to receiving this as it was a great price.  Unfortunately, I was sent the Canadian Alliance version, not the Weinstein US version as advertised, which means it was locked for my Australian Blu-Ray play.  (The US version is region free.)  Given the little amount I paid for this, I am not going through the process to send back, but buyer beware if you live in another country.

Very dissappointed with Dark Shadows Pretty simple....This movie put me to sleep.  Plot was shallow.  With few exceptions, the humor was sorely lacking. Not what I am used to with Depp movies.

worst film ever I saw this movie with my friend a couple of days ago. i said to her, this is real stupid, i could stop watching it right now and i could care less about the ending. She said, "we saw this movie already" and she is telling me what happens next so we start getting into an argument, she claims WE saw it  and i said, Vat ? i am getting alzheimers? Finally we figured it out. we started to watch this movie together about 3 months ago and i lost interest and i zonked out. adam sandler and all the whos who in jewish comedy were funny in other movies. but this one really eats the bird! skip it!!!!!!!!!!!

The Worst Doctor Who Ever! I've pushed the memory of most of the first Part of Series 6 out of my mind.  Unfortunately I do remember it was unfathomable and incomprehensible, the writing was purposely confusing in an attempt to intrigue the viewer and be mysterious but it ends up being nonsensical and even worst boring...even the actors seemed bored by it.  It's just the worse don't say I didn't warn you.  HOWEVER, there were so many complaints regarding Part I of this series (when it first ran on British TV), the producers changed course and made single story episodes that stood on their own and WHAT A DIFFERENCE!  Part II of this series is sold separately so skip Part I and purchase Part II, now that is enjoyable, this Part I...not so much.

waste of time Didn't like it. No my cup of tea. Scenes were covered or blocked. It was actually boring. Wouldn't give more than one star.

Don't waste your time SO Boring. Nothing new, sub par acting, less than sub par budget. Standing in a dark closet with a flashlight would be scarier and more entertaining. Waste of time and money.

Sadness I feel like I am taking crazy pills.  This movie is about as low as it gets.  I laughed a few times but really, this movie is about as vulgar, stupid, tasteless and about the biggest waste of time i can think of.  Usually you want a movie that makes you feel good or you get a good message, or you at least were able to laugh without feeling manipulated.  Not so with this trash.  What a disappointment, especially with such great actors.

Really Disappointed! I purchased this CD for my husband for his birthday. I ordered it, received it, and put the movie into our DVD player, and found out that the movie could not be read by my DVD player. That ment that the movie was reproduced in another country and could not be seen on our DVD player here in America. I, inturn sent the movie back to the seller, and have not heard anything since, except that my refund was applied back to my card. I thought that at least another CD would have been sent. I will not order again!

send me back in time so I can unsee this movie OK. So you invent one of the most amazing technical marvels in history and then name it SOURCE CODE!!!!!?!?!?! That's like building the pyramids and calling them rock piles. This movie had a good idea and then proceeded to ravage it with idiocy.  Seriously this is a pathetic scifi movie written for people who have half a brain. I will give it this... I was interested for the first half or so.  Then you realize the doofus who named the movie "source code" probably came up with the rest of the movie. Honestly it felt like someone who only writes cheesy romantic comedies for a living was given a treatment and forced to make a scifi movie. They were obviously way out of their depth when they made this.  I can't believe people are giving this over 2 stars. I know a ton of people who have seen this movie and not one of them enjoyed it.

DISGUSTED at WB's fraudulent selling of a digital copy that does not exist! I would love to touch on the merits and drawbacks of this movie, but I am so furious at having been defrauded about this particular package that I am at a level of rage previously unknown to the human experience.  Warner Brothers has really pulled a fast one with this 3D edition that was supposed to include everything with this "UltraViolet" digital copy. It's NOT a digital copy, but rather an authorization to access a streaming video of the original cut of the movie online. This is NOT the package I pre-ordered! When I saw the commercials for the "UltraViolet" digital copy, I thought there would be some special feature-- I never dreamed that special feature would be WB promising me a digital copy that I couldn't use in iTunes EVEN THOUGH EVERY OTHER DIGITAL COPY OF A MOVIE DOES. The digital copy you do get (IF you can get the website to work!) has to be played on some kind of Adobe player THAT WILL NOT PLAY THE FILE. So you're stuck with their online streaming swill even though you were promised a digital copy.  Sure they said "UltraViolet," but NO ONE KNEW WHAT THAT MEANT, and Warner Brothers did NOT explain it. I'm sure the people at the top are scrambling to figure out where to point the finger and how to explain to consumers what they didn't know and when they didn't know it, or how to blame consumers themselves, or pirates, or space aliens. Frankly, I don't care about the excuses. When I see "digital copy" I expect a digital copy and THEY KNOW IT. I did NOT expect to be locked into some kind of online digital cloud where it could only be watched at their whim on the device of their choosing-- in addition to being taken away at any time.  I can't return this for a refund because it's an open movie, nor can I exchange it for a different version. So I can't afford to get the digital copy from iTunes for the iPod my autistic nephew uses. My nephew doesn't understand why he can't watch this on his iPod and I can't explain it to him. All I can say is that their digital cloud is a bunch of hot air that smells REALLY bad, and this is a slap in the face to both myself and my nephew. I never did keep much track of which studio did what movie, but I will from now on. I will never forgive this studio for my nephew's heartbreak, nor will I forget it.  11/11/2011 **UPDATE** Five stars for Amazon customer service for refunding me the full purchase prices for this falsely advertised product! Zero stars to WB for pulling this stunt in the first place, and hoping they will learn not to try to pull one over on consumers in the future. Don't do it again, WB.... Kenneth is watching you, and he does NOT approve of your shenanigans. A'ight?

truly awful This movie is truly awful.  I am and have been a fan of vampirism for many years.  This movie was just ridiculous.  The only part of the movie that is even entertaining is the bar scene.  That's it, period.  I do NOT recommend this movie at all.

dont waste your time Ryan Reynolds' performance is terrible and the story has more holes than Swiss cheese. If you're over the age of 15 don't waste your time. This is the worst superhero movie I have ever watched. The first hulk movie with eric bana is better than this.

Another torture porn movie I had been hearing about this movie for a while.  A friend recommended it to me because I liked the first Saw and Hostel movies (though I hated the sequels) and thought this was on par with those.  The reason why I hate the sequels to those movies is because they are less plot driven and instead focus more on just the torture aspects to drive the plot.  Hence why they are often called torture porn movies.  They don't have any real substance outside of the gory torture scenes.  Well, after watching the episode of South Park where they made fun of this (along with Apple and the iPad), I decided I had to watch this movie.  I was extremely disappointed in it all.  The plot to get the young girls to the doctor's house felt extremely forced.  After that, the whole movie was built around (what was essentially) torturing these people along with the whole disgusting factor.  There wasn't any moment in the movie where I felt like I was going to be sick.  I can handle a lot so the disgusting part didn't bother but I also felt like that was all this movie had going for it.  Yeah, let's watch a vein get ripped out of an arm.  Oooh, aahhh.  How about watching a guy poo in another character's mouth.  Are you scared yet?  The plot just seemed rushed, contrived, and there wasn't much to it.  I feel that the gross out aspect is the only thing that this movie has going for it and it wasn't really that impressive.  If you are going to try to get me to throw up, the least you can do is get me a little nauseous.  So I don't really understand all of the buzz around this movie.  It had a forced plot, some gore, some gross out moments, and that was it.  The movie wasn't scary and I put it on par with any of the recently made Saw movies.  I actually received a lot more entertainment from the 22 minute South Park episode than I did this movie (which felt way too long).

Excessive foul language no savior for weak script. We wasted $4.00 renting this movie.  Nothing like Waterboy or Happy Gilmore. Crude humor which may appeal to a 13 year old boy.  Weak script - we turned it off after 15 minutes.  Wish I could have those 15 minutes back!  No more Adam Sandler for us.  Very disappointed.

waste of time and money Most of this film is shot in the dark. Very difficult to tell what is going on. Has some gore but not much of a horror film. Save your money for something else.

Nothing new or helpful Sigh, the trailer was enticing. Yes many people have read ALL the books about how thoughts create reality. Many people still struggle with changing their thinking. This movie unfortunately does not have the answer.  While there are a few good tidbits like their point that if you think the right thoughts some external source will deliver what you want is a misguided idea. However, the solution being offered by the movie which is that paying attention to our sensations is the missing link that will reset everything and open up unlimited possibility is also misguided an absurd oversimplification, confusing, and not even accurate. First, the explanation of sensations does not even make sense. The movie claims there is no difference in our body between an orgasm and a panic attack and that it is just the contextual interpretation that we make of the situation. Anyone who has ever experienced these two things would know they feel nothing alike. What the movie is claiming adds up to the James-Lange Theory of Emotions which was tossed out by people who do research on this subject long ago. The Cannon-Bard Theory or Emotions says we interpret our environment though a thought process which generates an emotion which is represented partly through physiological responses. Which the movie also claims is true. In other words, they can't get their story straight.  Most of what they are trying to explain is basic cognitive therapy but instead of using psychological language they make up their own terms.  The real answer to why we don't change our thinking is that 1) it is hard and requires conscious awareness at all times 2) most people don't want change badly enough to put forth the effort 3) Many people think this stuff sounds great but they don't really believe it will work ie, they have low expectation about the return on their efforts 4) It is much easier to just do the same old thing.  Many people say they want something but do nothing to make it happen. Why? Because they don't really expect it. Just like many people want to win the lottery but few buy tickets. Expectation is about what we really believe to be true or possible. Unlike what the movie says, you can in fact believe things in varying degrees. You can believe something a little or a lot. The action that we are willing to take on any subject is in direct proportion to what we believe to be true. If you are looking for real answers do not wast your money on this movie. Read a few good books on cognitive behavioral therapy.

They should have included the original version too If they had included the original version with this it would be awesome. The extras are nice to see what other ideas they bounced around but never used, but the extra footage in the movie itself ruins it. Some movies cut scenes because of time, but others cut them because they are horrible and take away from the movie. Its amazing what 6 minutes can do.

on principle i haven't seen this movie  but i guarantee it doesn't deserve  a 4 and a half rating so just on that i give it 1 out of 5

WHO ARE THE REAL VAMPIRES? There are many instances in literature and film where a famous person is placed into a fictitious setting and one of the key componants to the entertainment value of such a proceeding is the audience's anticipated ability to imagine alternative or hidden histories related to whatever historical characters are being utilized.  A recent cinematic example is THE RAVEN where the historically mysterious last weeks in Poe's life are the springboard for the speculative.  Many years ago there was a very fine film called TIME AFTER TIME that raised the question "What if H.G. Wells had not only written of the Time Machine, but had invented one as well?" The film then built upon this notion and the resultant movie - which also included Jack the Ripper being transported to the future, our present - was extremely well done, exciting, entertaining and even thought-provoking. There was also a Sherlock Holmes movie - THE SEVEN PERCENT SOLUTION - wherein Sigmund Freud is called in by Dr. Watson to help with Holmes' cocaine addiction.  There are many, many examples wherein historical figures are intertwined and interjected into fictional settings - and very often the results are fun, exciting, interesting, thought-provoking.  The truly crucial element in all cases where this artistic hybrid proves successful to one degree or another is winning the audience's ability to at least be able to say "It could have happened."  So, in the examples above, had Holmes been a historical figure, Freud could have crossed paths with him.  Poe, in his last unknown weeks, could have - no matter how absurd and unlikely - been involved in a serial murder case as shown in THE RAVEN.  And even though it is logically absurd, imaginatively the thought of H.G. Wells and a real Time Machine is truly delightful to contemplate.  But with ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER, what would have worked better as a five minute Saturday Night Live sketch, comes at us like this same flick's Lincoln's silver-tipped axe - cutting, chopping, killing everything in its path.  For starters, it cuts and chops and kills any entertainment value it ever might have had by sheer and simple overkill. And not just the overkill of the vampires and their victims: I mean yawn-inducing horse stampedes and ridiculous runaway trains that just never know when to quit!  And isn't it enough to take arguably the most famous figure in American history and make him into a vampire hunter?  Do the makers of this undisciplined train-wreck of a movie have to make him into a cartoon superhero too?  No man on the planet ever did or ever could leap and fly around in the silly horse stampede sequence or survive one one-hundreth of the physical extremes of the never ending train-wreck episode.  Only cartoon super heroes are capable of such gravity-defying, injury-immune acrobatics. Or should be. Superman or Spiderman - but not Honest Abe! (If Lincoln is able to leap tall buildings with a single bound, what is left for the Man from Krypton?) To watch and endure such sequences as mentioned above does a vast injustice to the heroic abilities of the truly human - and are an insult to the intelligence unless one is immune to or addicted to or financially enslaved to the Monster that is undisciplined, indiscreet, infantile CGI. This true Movie Monster has been stomping around for a long time now, crushing otherwise great and good actors in its path, stealing most things subtle and replacing it with the senseless spectacular - and the sounds and musical soundtracks that accompany these domineering digital depravities have mostly obliterated script literacy entirely.  Where is a silver axe to destroy this true Monster of the Movies?  But there is a larger issue at work here other than the misuse of CGI.  Does this allegedly "fun" film give early hint of a dangerous proclivity?  History is or should be important.  In a country where very few school kids (or even college kids!)(or even anybody!) even know who Abraham Lincoln is or, worse, even cares about why he is so historically great and enduring, along comes a movie that with its pandering to the current spike in the never-ending fascination with the undead and its catering to every conceivable cliche in the book when it comes to CGI-driven  and bloated actioneers, along comes a movie that takes the most painful pages from American history and spatters them not with the blood of men but with the blood of vampires.  So we see on screen an Abraham Lincoln who becomes President - not to keep the States United or end the much more insidious evil of slavery - no, this Lincoln's agenda is to defeat the vampire hordes who come to populate much of the South and by proxy the Confederate Army.  And the tide is turned at Gettysburg not by the sheer belief and bravery of the Union Army, but by plundered Southern silver being fired by rifle and cannon into the undead Rebels peopling Robert E. Lee's army.  And Lincoln's son Willie dies not of the truly tragic Potomac fever, but from a vampire's bite.  The point is that history is overwhelmingly trivialized in this silly, simplistic film.  It is one thing to speculate about hidden histories or might-have-beens in an artisic undertaking.  But when the history - as with Lincoln and the Civil War and Slavery - is virtually impossible to ever have been hidden and the might-have-beens have not the slightest semblance of sanity to back them, then the speculative work will suffer from a severe and deadly artistic anemia that has naught to do with the attack of a vampire.  The true vampires in this entire instance are the makers of this movie who suck blood and brain and bucks from the unsuspecting masses glutting on bread and circuses as Rome burns and Nero fiddles.  I can envision an ever darker, bleaker, scarier by-far future in film when some irresponsible and twisted film makers who just so happen to have an unlearned, unread, uncaring fan-based mandate might cook up a film wherein Hitler is also a vampire hunter and the Holocaust is nothing less than a purging of Europe's living dead hordes.  In short, to trivialize history is to trivialize humanity - and once that is acceptable by mass consensus...then anything, anything at all, could happen.  And usually does.

Do yourself a favor and don't buy this movie This movie wasn't horrible, but it wasn't very good.  I "rented" the movie from the library and was so glad that I didn't waste any money on this.  This movie has a different director and a low budget feel about it. Luke Mably was the only good thing about this. And because of his contract, he was forced to make this sequel. Trust me, you can tell that he's none to happy to be in this. Kam Heskin who now plays Paige Morgan, can't hold a candle to Julia Stiles, honestly Kam isn't very good.  I was disappointed because the original Paige, was determine and strong willed who believed in her following her dreams.  I understand compromise has to be made in any relationship but this sequel turned Paige into a wimp. Don't get me wrong there are some funny moments in this but even those can't save this poorly made movie.

Anne Hathaway as Catwoman is ridiculous Before i write this, understand that the only comic character i have ever had any interest in has been Batman. For me it is the only one that when it's well written it doesn't need to be illustrated.  If you keep up with the current series of Batman at all, you know that Nolan wasn't crazy about doing a second movie and really didn't want to a third one. What he really wants to do are Bond films, and being a Brit, that's probably what he should do.  That's why Nolan really is the wrong one to be driving any of the Batman stories. All he wants to do are superhero movies, but Batman is too complicated for someone who thinks that it's just another comic.  When i initially heard that he had Hathaway doing Catwoman, i figured it had to be a joke. You know, a complete misdirection of what they were really up to. She isn't edgy enough, she doesn't come off as dangerously intelligent, she definitely doesn't have the body or looks to pull it off, and there is absolutely nothing sympathetic about her. Seriously, who was his second choice, Meryl Streep?  Granted, there aren't that many women that could pull it off, if it's done right. Mimi Rogers and Kim Basinger would have been great if it had been done when they were in their prime, and of the actresses that have done it in the past, Michelle was fantastic. Michelle really played her as the tragic character that she is, whereas with Hathaway, all she is a pathetic petty criminal.  Right now, Heather Graham would have been one of the better choices, because it wouldn't be a stretch for her to pull off any part of that character. But Heather, or anyone else worthwhile, would not have done this movie considering that that there is absolutely no character development. With Catwoman it is nothing more than "okay, so i know that's Catwoman because she is wearing a catsuit?"  So i still went into it with an open mind, but it turned out to be worse than i could have expected. Hathaway can't even fake any chemistry with Batman. What she comes off as is a spoiled little girl, and that is probably all she can bring to it. And when she was suited up it was almost like Nolan was trying to embarrass her. Apparently it is more important to Nolan to resurrect everyone that had anything to do with Brokeback Mountain, and shoehorn them into Batman, then to go with someone who is believable.  The rest of the plot has as much bad as good, and still comes across as something that Nolan really didn't want to do. Parts of the Bane character are well done, but it is extremely disjointed, and again there is no character development. So when he appears you're thinking "okay, the guy that eats nothing but whey protein and L-arginine is Bane?" It will probably be a while before another good Batman movie is made, and it will definitely be made by someone other than Nolan.

the worst movie ever made. I dont know why these b-movies about zombies are even made.I guess alot of people like and love them but i think the movie making for zombie movies should be left to the big film makers because some of the crap that comes out should never come to dvd as a zombie movie fan and a collector i know a good zombie flick when i see one but this movie,after buying it i was so mad i broke it in half and in the trash it went if i could talk to the people who made it i would ask them one question what the hell were you thinking trying to pass this movie off to the public i mean they had to know from the jump it was not good.I FEEL RIPPED OFF and that made me so mad that i was robbed i dont care if this piece of crap was one cent it should have stayed as a idea in the makers head and thats all i think the major motion picture studios should start makeing more zombie movies and stop sitting on there hands.Alot of people love zombie movies so give us what we want i mean zombies are every where from books to video games but the crap i can do with out.For all real zombie movie fans here is a list of top notch flicks i own and recommend.HORDE,.REC,.REC2,ZOMBI,28 DAYS LATER,28 WEEKS LATER,RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD 1,2,3,QURANTINE,FLIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD,NIGHT OF THE CREEPS,NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD,NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD REMAKE,THE MAD,SHAUN OF THE DEAD,BOY EATS GIRL,EVIL DEAD 1,2,3,THE VANGUARD,DAWN OF THE DEAD,DAWN OF THE DEAD REMAKE,DAY OF THE DEAD,DAY OF THE DEAD REMAKE,LAND OF THE DEAD,IDLE HANDS,SEVERD,DEAD MEAT,UNDEAD,DIARY OF THE DEAD,PRINCE OF DARKNESS,SLITHER,DOG HOUSE,ZOMBIELAND,DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND,ZONE OF THE DEAD,MUTANTS,PONTYPOOL,DEAD AIR,I SELL THE DEAD,AMC'S THE WALKING DEAD,RESIDENT EVIL 1,2,3,4,DEAD RIOT,FIDO.I could go on and on these are great zombie movies so if your looking to buy a great zombie movie or movies grab these.

Bad dialog/pointless story Having seen Warren Oates in "The Wild Bunch," "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia," and "Blue Thunder" my antennas went up when I came across a segment of this movie (the opening credits) someone had posted up on YouTube. Hey, cool...Warren Oates as a private detective. This should be good. Boy, was I wrong. Some of the dialog between Oates and female lead Leslie Caron was awful. They try to talk tough to each other and it ends up sounding just plain silly. There are a lot of really pointless scenes in this film. One example is when Caron is getting food out of a vending machine on the train. A little girl comes along, takes the food Caron has bought and simply walks off with it. Caron and Oates do nothing about it. Huh? I've seen made for TV movies that were better than this. If you are like the previous reviewer who enjoys the California scenery from the early 1970's, just watch the movie with the sound turned down. Trust me, you won't be missing any of the plot since there is none to begin with.  So if you are a movie fan who just has to own every film that Warren Oates or Leslie Caron starred in, get this DVD into your collection. Everyone else, skip this disaster.

stilted Stalin forced his soldiers to fight to the death; capture or return had severe penalties let alone russian prisoners of war were literally half starved etc because there was no aid from Russian government coming in. Easily this film was propaganda to turn soldiers and recruits into cannon-fodder. Visually there is some nice photography but the battle on the ice is sheer boredom.  It points to all the lost artists/would be directors, who fled in exile and were left drinking absynthe on the side-walk cafes of Paris due to soviet censorship or persecution in the gulags.Eisentein stayed and compromised his art with a film(s?) such as this .So no- a poor representative for russian film. BUT,(soviet status protected)he brilliantly, and very dangerously, snuck in a satire of Stalin with Ivan the Terrible; a film also with most gorgeous photograpy,sets costumes etc... Watch that and avoid this debacle:The actors talk in bravo chipmunk voices. There could have been some interesting character development with the two suitors.Especially the blond one but it was frustrating to never see it happen.Really awful and aside from a few copies for the archives,burn it.

The Clyde Movies - still the same. Bought this because I thought, OK both movies on same Blu-ray disc and expecting sharper quality like blu-ray usually gives, and should have had some extras like maybe deleted scenes, interviews, and more??? But no, wasn't meant to be. These movies come on two discs (one movie on each disc) with nothing else.  My DVD versions of these movies, look better than these blu-rays do!!! I still can't believe there wasn't anything else on the discs but the movies themselves (just like the DVDs).  The sound on the original DVDs is much better, without the added on sound effects from Philo's fights, etc. I believe some of the movies are missing pieces here on the blu-ray. I haven't bothered yet to make sure of this, but you can bet I'll soon be playing the DVDs on my computer while simultaneously playing these blu-ray versions on the TV to find out for sure.  These blu-rays just look fuzzier (not as sharp) as the DVDs.  Warner, you've proven you cannot be trusted to put out a quality blu-ray product... It'll be a long time if ever that I buy another Warner blu-ray without verifying WHAT it contains and reading the reviews first.  What a joke!  If you're considering purchasing this, hold out for something better???

Some things do not stand the test of time... I recalled this being one of my favorite shows (in reruns on cable in the 1980's) as a teenager.  I couldn't wait to get this boxed set and see these episodes again...  Wow.  We forget how far action entertainment has come in the last 30 years!!!  Every episode:  Jim gets ambushed.  Jim fights with clumsy henchmen.  Jim gets away.  Artemus fools bad guys with disguise.  Jim gets girl.  Jim drops girl.  They ride off on train laughing.  I only manged to watch about 3 episodes and couldn't take any more...  Some childhood memories are best left memories.

I blame the Serbs Do not watch this unless you are being paid. I'm as happy with mindless action as the next guy, but unfortunately am cursed with an IQ above 60, so I could not ignore the premise, script, and acting, all of which were terrible.

Explosions, Explosions, and More (Explosions) I'm a fan of the first two Terminator films.  T2 is a brilliant piece of cinema, in terms of both special effects and plot.  The character development in the script, and the subsequent performances by the actors, was leveraged superbly by director and franchise creator Jim Cameron.  Even Ah-nold kept it together enough to portray a cyborg as something more than a one-dimensional machine.  So it was with some anticipation that I purchased the (hopefully) LAST installment in the Terminator franchise: Terminator Salvation.  It's depressing to note that, for the $200 million it cost to make this film, 500 college students could have had a 4-year free ride to Stanford, and we as a species would be significantly closer to a cure for cancer.  Alas, not so.  This film is devoid of any perceivable cinematic value, other than as an excuse to blow stuff up for two hours.  Given that director McG is famous for pyrotechnic stunts and infamously weak in plot and character development, I should have known what to expect.  But here's what I didn't expect:  ****** WARNING: SPOILER ALERTS ******  -- Endless cheesy homages to the original Terminator films: "Come with me if you want to live;" "I'll be back;" fleeing from danger in a mini-camper; one-armed shotgun pumping (btw, Sarah Connor did it because her other arm was BROKEN, not because it was "cool," Anton); a factory battle-to-the-death featuring molten steel and a "frozen" terminator; and, sadly, more.  -- Endless cheesy homages to classic films in general.  The elevator ride in the big climax before Skynet goes (predictably) boom, a la Sigourney Weaver in Aliens; McG's own characterization of the escape of Markus, Star, and Kyle Reese from the ill-fated desert gas station (oh, and yeah--just like in T2--a boy, a female, and a cyborg seek shelter in an abandoned desert GAS STATION) as being "like the Lion, the Tin Man and the Scarecrow" in the Wizard of Oz, in which they "ease on down" (The Wiz) "the yellow brick road" (The Wizard of Oz) in their escape (I'm surprised he failed to liken the motobots chasing after them as flying monkeys).  Disturbing, however, was McG's literal on-camera reference to a moment in which cyborg Markus heads into danger instead of fleeing as being "just like the firefighters in 911, who we homaged in that scene" (I kid you not -- see the Blu-ray theatrical release disc's extra features).  -- The inability of Sam Worthington to decide whether he should deliver his lines with an American accent, or his native Australian accent; and the inability of McG to direct him either way (maybe he was elsewhere on set blowing stuff up).  -- Christian Bale's mono-dimensional performance of John Connor, in which he appeared less animated than a T-600 and uninspired to deliver his lines in any voice other than a hoarse shout.  -- The completely galling, almost giddy revelation of Anthony Simonaitis, the Key Powder Foreman (again, watch the movie's popup-enhanced Blu-ray version) that, while filming the gas station demolition scene in New Mexico, "we had to keep a 50-feet column of fire (burning) for 2 more days; (so we) built a steel framework, hooked that up to a fuel tanker ... and burned 2000 gallons of fuel over the course of 2 days."  McG: The Ozone Layer just called; it wants its atmosphere back.  If there was an Oscar for Blowing Stuff Up, Terminator Salvation would be Academy-worthy.  Otherwise, this film represents nothing more than $200 million up in smoke.

boring read and stupid Wish I hadn't purchased this miserable read--I love books and have a pretty good tolerance for a variety of writing styles, but this one is just plain idiotic.  Reminds me that I could probably write and publish something that people would read.

Terrible Story The story line for this movie was horrible at best.  The graphics saved the movie.  Immortals was a dissappointment from my perspective.

Great movie, Terrible access By far one of the greatest martial arts movies of all time, but having the only viewing option as "streaming" , rather than being able to download and watch without pixelation from streaming, has convinced me to NEVER buy a movie through amazon again.

Awful. I don't know what movie everyone else is watching, but Another Year is a self-indulgent mess. It takes an hour and a half to go absolutely nowhere, and features an array of characters, none of whom are likable in the slightest. I saw a lot of movies last year, and this was absolutely the worst one.

Awful Terrible acting combined with a storyline that is not even porn-industry worthy. Worst 2 hours of my life. I can't believe there are people out there that actually enjoyed this film. Don't waste your time. As a side note, shouldn't there be sidelines somewhere on your college football field? This was obviously produced and directed by someone not too familiar with sports. This was just an awful attempt at an emotional sports film. I wish I could give less than one star.

Such a disappointment. It is the worst movie I've seen this year and I think this it is the worst marvel movie I have ever seen as well. Total crap.

Revolting This movie was as vile to me as either "Hostel," "Hostel 2," or "High Tension."  A remake of an 80s cult favorite, this movie decided to be as repugnant as it could be--and succeeded.  You've heard the story, so I won't bore you with it again.  All I can say is that if you were disturbed by the rape scene in the remake of "Last House on the Left," honey, you ain't seen nothing compared to this one, because it goes on and on and on and on.  And just when you think it's over, it starts again.  This movie belongs in a trash heap.

Wrong Director Whoever directed the trailer should have directed the movie. As is the case in the industry the trailers our produced by the marketing folks (usually). Anyway the marketing people knew Bob's movie was badly written, terribly directed and in general not very intelligent but with a good trailer they got some of us sucked in, good for the marketing guys.  Bob in the future hire whoever produced the trailer to direct and edit your next attempt at film making.  This movie is just bad cinema, definitely feels like a high school project.

Only because there is no zero Hey, I am a Tenchi fan.  I loved the first Tenchi and also Tenchi Universe.  However, when I received this one to watch, what a dissapointment.  The idea of Tenchi had plot and great voice acting (in English.  In Japanese, granted, Ayeka's voice is annoying.)  I watched threw five episodes and turned it off.  Let's talk about the characters.  There is NB, a robot who apparently doesn't have the internet to get enough soft porn.  Then Seina Yamada, the local idiot relative of Tenchi's who is jinxed.  Then Mitoto Kuramitsu, spitting incarnation of Mihoshi, only more brain dead.  And of course you have multiple women who want Seina.  Yeah, yeah, been there, done that.  As far as I'm concerned, Pioneer just milked me out of some cash and time.  To bad, this could have been better, but I guess there intended audience was a bunch of 12 year-olds.

If this series was rated PG-13 I'd buy all of them... This is a customer's review of the Underworld series, which I have only seen "EDITED FOR TELEVISION."  Why? Because I have some standards, and that's where I draw the line.  It's also the only way I can justify buying a movie--with the requirement that all of us can watch it (we don't have young kids).  What the movies have in common (no spoilers): 1) Strong female lead characters and actors that fit the bill. These women are tough, and they are tough while wearing black leather (which I suspect makes acting in damp scenes--of which there are plenty--uncomfortable!  And how they can wear those stomper boots while looking great and not going "clomp-clomp" when they walk and run, must be a movie-making secret! 2) Dark scenes with a bluish tone. If you don't see well in the dark, stop early on and adjust your tv's "brightness." 3) Scenes that are verrrryyy quiet or really loud. I live with people that need a little help hearing words during both extremes so we use the closed captions. They were distracting at first, but I find them helpful sometimes too, so now I use them for all movies. 4) A healthy dose of predictability, but often cleverly staged and/or filmed. 5) The bad guys aren't just bad. They're really evil bad guys (but sometimes conflicted about it). 6) So far, well choreographed fight scenes. The big budgets at work! 7) Much better than average Lycans! So good, in fact, that the viewer isn't constantly distracted by the poorly combed fake fur and laughably constructed costumes of lesser movies!  I hope that someone in the movie studio industry will take notice that there is a market for EDITED versions of these (and similar) movies! It would be so easy for them to add a PG-13 version of the movie to the Bluray (for new movies) and release an edited version that older teens and people like me can enjoy... And the studio would have complete control over the editing so there wouldn't be any proprietary concerns!  Then I could buy these movies, the Blade series, and others... I hope Underworld: Awakening is shown "edited to PG-13" soon!

Another Shaky Camera Movie Let's try facts instead of paid positive reviewers. (1.) Over 50% of the movie is composed of "talking heads". You don't know what talking heads are? It's a cheap production technique where all you see is someone's head talking to the camera; often in a monotonic pseudo-documentary style to save money and cover a lack of the following: acting, sets, props, plot and to lend a deceiving sense of credibility to a story. Large percentage of the film is fake security camera scenes of people talking or walking. No English subtitles to make up for poor audio quality, enunciation and for those viewer's with hearing issues. (2.) The Blair copycat formula of poorly lit places with shaky cameras e.g. Quarantine, [Rec], Poughkeepsie Tapes, Wicksboro Incident. (3.) Storyline is of the usual investigators of a make believe or highly exaggerated haunted "whatever" story. This one's a subway. (4.) Over 40% is the isolated claustrophobic running nowhere as seen from the point of view of a camera (or two). In this case, as is usual, we have normal lighting which seems to randomly switch off followed by viewing through a low light camera. If watching the walls of a subway tunnel is exciting then this is time well spent.(5.) Scary part as always is very brief and in this case just seconds.  A very blurry figure that likes to make groaning sounds (how creative) and snatches someone so quickly it also is just a blur. (6.) Ends with usual talking heads' actors telling us how frightening it all was followed by few lines in credits telling us who lives on and who just disappeared.

did you all really pay $69 for this ? haha i love the movie but its not worth that much, you can find it at least for $20 IN STORES

101 Dalmations Review The product did not work at all.  I tried it all 3 of my DVD players and received an error message for each one.  I am very dissapointed in this product.

Ominous Worst movie and acting ever. Don't waste your time or money watching this.Can't believe I wasted my time and money watching it.

Dragonheart II-Lacks a New Beginning I am a big fan of the original when I was small and I remember picking this sequel up at a Borders and begging my father to buy it when I was in my pre-teen years. I remember my eyes lighting up when I saw it on the shelf...I wish my eyes never even glimpsed it. I was so excited to watch the movie sequel...what I got was a major disappointment. I could let the whole "son of Draco" thing pass because in the first movie Draco comment about Bowen killing the "scarred one" and mentioning she was a female so its possible they could have had an egg together. It does give a opening to a hatchling through that loop hole. However, what bothered me about the movie was that I remember it being boring. Its been years and I haven't seen this movie in a very long time. I think the number of times I have seen this movie was twice compared to the original Dragonheart in which I saw hundreds of times. The most disappointing part of the movie that I remember was that the climax was a big let down. They build it up and it looks promising. The climax fight lasts at most...a few minutes and then the movie is over. I remember thinking that this movie was not worth the money my dad paid. I actually felt bad asking my dad to buy me it. It is a terrible movie and I say watch the original and let this one stay on the shelf.

Wait for the finished Saga This boxed set is a little misleading.  It claims to have all seven years, when in fact it only has 6.5 years, as it DOES NOT include the Deathly Hallows Pt.2.  For the price, you'd be wiser to wait for the complete saga, which I'm guessing we'll see around Christmas '11 or at the very latest early 2012.

Not for viewers allergic to emotional manipulation This is the sort of movie millions of people love because it pushes all the right buttons at all the right times, and it pushes them hard. It seems real enough that they feel like it is talking directly to them personally, and yet it is unreal enough to create in them a wide range of intense emotional reactions within a relatively short time. The vast majority of reviews here prove that the formula works like a charm for a lot of people. If you are one of them, you will love this movie as much as those reviewers did. But this kind of movie has the opposite effect on me, and since there may be a few others like me out there, it is worth giving my reaction to it too.  I am allergic to the heavyhanded emotional manipulation movies like this use to get the response I just described. To me it rings as false as a three dollar bill. The culprit is the screenplay, which goes for the emotional jugular in every scene, making every word, every action by every actor so fraught with emotion that I begin to feel suffocated. The result for me is an experience that is neither believable - at all - nor moving in any positive or pleasurable way. It leaves me feeling manipulated and cheated. A lot of great acting talent was squandered on this tripe.  I do not mean to offend those who love this movie but to caution those who - like me - do not react well to emotional manipulation. I love being genuinely, spontaneously moved emotionally by a movie, but the heavyhanded technique used here backfires on me.

that touch of mink Wrong movie sent and hasn't been replaced with correct one yet...very bad coustomer service..movie will not play on my dvd....wrong format

Shouldn't have "The Thing" name associated with it, whatsoever. I honestly love the original Thing movie.  I have seen it countless times, and it never gets old, a genuine classic.  This overly produced, bang-for-your-buck scare tactic movie should not have "The Thing" name associated with it in anyway, shape, or form (no pun intended).  It's mind numbingly predictable, and retarded.  The only reason I got lured into watching this finally was because of the name association.  I am going to act like I didn't ever see this, and keep the Norwegian story up to your own imagination, like Carpenter intended.  There was no heart in this remake prequel, whatever.  The only thing that they had going for them was the fact that they were able to show the minimal events that were showed in the original, about what happened at the Norwegian camp site.  That's it.  All the rest is predictable, mind numbing filler until we see:  The thing break out of the block of ice.. The "split-face" thing take shape, and be burned, and the ending sequence where the dog escapes from camp.  That's it.  God.  Have mercy on these so called film-makers.

If I were Megan Fox I'd be embarrased!!! This movie was so bad I only watched the first half of it on dvd after it came out on dvd 2010 and saw the rest of it on t.v. Worst horror film if you can even call it that, wasn't even scary! It was just Megan Fox depicting a teen girl whose eating and having sex with numerous boys cause shes possessed by a succubus because she went with a couple of guys in a band and they were trying to sacrifice her to the devil. A succubus is an evil woman demon. Really people? COME ON!!! I'm 19 but a lot of scary movies are stupid now. I like scary movies that are good and DON"T have cheesy teen sex and too much gore in it. Thank God I didn't go to the theaters to see this junk! I would have demanded the ticket people at the theater and the director, "Hey I wan't my money back." I think this should have been a t.v. movie since it bombed so bad in the theaters. And I also think Megan Fox should be embarrassed to be acting in this movie. Shes not that great of an actress and the only reason she made it is because she was in 2 of the Transformers movies and lots of teen guys have a crush on her thats it! Shes just eyecandy. If I were Megan Fox I'd be embarrised that I was in this terrible movie. And there was a corny part toward the end of the movie where her best friend (played by Amanda Seyfried) stabbed her at a certain part of a body and she says where. I mean COME ON! How stupid can you get? Don't waste your buying it if you must see it watch it on hbo when it comes on but other wise don't buy it!

Really? Super over priced set. Great tv show but you can buy each season for about $12 brand new. Dont buy this!

Unwatchable Bad, and not even funny bad. Watched 5 minutes with frequent fast-forward movement. Simply ridiculous. Bad script. Acting?? Worse than... (hard to find such bad acting to compare this to).

Terrible tone and awful characterizations. I like the first film, but somehow, between that and this film, the characters got annoying. Liz is whiny, Abe is a love-sick idiot who doesn't think clearly, and Hellboy cracks jokes that aren't funny.  I have to complain most about Abe. I don't care about the voice; what bothers me is how he caves and gives the villain the thing he needs to awaken the Golden Army all because the villain threatens his own sister--Abe's newfound love. Okay, so Abe just met this chick, and anything the villain does to her happens to him as well, so he can't kill her. So...where's the conflict?  Not sure if Del Toro caught that plothole or just didn't care. Either way, this movie is awful. I groaned more than laughed.

Tivo Rental Missing Audio Tracks I rented "Revenge of the Electric Car" on my Tivo.  When I tried to play it the audio had only the narrator and the background music. I couldn't hear any of the speakers. The movie was worthless to me.  I do not see a way to contact Amazon Customer Service about this.

NOT for the children I think I should start off by stating that I have been a Scooby Doo fan since I was a small child in the early 70's, before the introduction of Scrappy or "guest-star" appearances.  As such, my criteria for a good Scooby-gang movie that I am happy to let my children watch is that it HAS to be as close to the original series as possible.  (Although I don't mind the addition of musical sequences.)  That being said, it is my humble opinion that Zombie Island is the WORST Scooby movie ever!  I bought this movie for my children, and, thankfully sat down with them for the first viewing.  We did not get to the end of this movie.  My 5-year-old children were terrified!  My husband and I later sat down and watched the movie to see what the hoax was all about, and were truly disappointed.  The biggest problem with this movie is has real monsters -- Zombies and a pair of Lycanthropic cat women who retain their youth and beauty by stealing the life-force of unsuspecting victims.  What were the writers and film-makers thinking?!  The blurb on the back of the box says the monsters "might" be real and the story is "the most hilarious" of all time.  I didn't find anything funny in this movie.  I believe this movie should have been rated PG-13 for graphic horror.

Contrived and Boring Predictable stories about people finding romance on New Years Eve.  Amazing how many talented actors and actresses will stoop to perform in this totally forgetable movie. The only star that shines in this movie is New York City all decked out for the holidays.

Bad, bad, bad attempt at fun.... There's some nuclear tests by the French taking place in the Pacific Ocean, while some iguanas are watching nearby. Flash forward to the present day, a Japanese ship is attacked by something, with one guy surviving and when asked by people what happened he simply said "Gojira", which translated to Godzilla. An NRC scientist named Nick (Matthew Broderick, "Glory") studies this and arrives at the conclusion that a giant, radioactive grown lizard is the cause (which is a reasonable conclusion to make, in fact the first one I'd make) and that this lizard could come and attack the U.S.  Godzilla does arrive in New York, causing a massive wave of destruction yet somehow a cameraman named Victor (Hank Azaria, "The Simpsons") is spared despite being right in the path of his foot. From here on its about the military trying to stop Godzilla who continues to cause damage wherever he goes.  I certainly wouldn't expect a movie with Godzilla to be a well written or decently acted flick, but the dialogue, story and acting is just bad and I mean bad. The action sequences even the initial attack on Manhattan are fairly mundane and not very exciting, the explanation for Godzilla's visit is just laughable and the end sadly left open the chance for a sequel.  It was sad to see actors like Jean Reno ("The Professional") used in this tripe, he is funny but it seems forced to as he's much better than this. The director Roland Emmerich ("Independence Day", "The Patriot") really just seems to phone it in on a lot of this and the effort put into the destruction in the action scenes while good initially just seems hollow after a bit.  * out of 4 stars.

The end This movie is the reason Paramount scrapped this Star Trek universe and did a virtual "start over"  It wasn't awful, it was more like an ok episode of the series, but should never been given the green light for a movie.  To be financially successful, a Star Trek movie cannot appeal only to hard core fans, but must have broad appeal.  This movie had so many missing prices fora the causual observer as to make it totally confusing and un enjoyable for the masses needed for box office success.

not a US dvd My sister just got the dvd in the mail and said it would not play because its coded for region 2

I wanted it to end. I thought I would like this movie, I really did. But it just drug on. I could not really make myself like any of the characters. I honestly wanted him to just die and have it be done with. Maybe it is because I am not a wrestling fan, but I didn't like it.

huge disapointment They focus way to much on making us try to care about the characters, and fail. First 20 minutes of the movie could be deleted. The movie is 80% about some kids making a movie and the romantic connection between two of the kids. When E.T. goes home in the end, we're supposed to care and be happy for it. Fail. Very slow moving movie.

"The Last House in the Toilet" Oh come on, Pee Wee's Great Adventure was scarier than this! Pure garbage!!! It was pure cornball from beginning to end!

Ironically, this DVD is depressing! Will make things worse! The very first scene is someone crying and sad music, and it just stays the same from thereonout. We watch this to learn about depression, not to get more depressed- SKIP this one.

Couldn't even bring myself to finish the movie... It's pretty rare when I start watching a movie and don't finish it - I like having the closure of knowing how it ends. But with this movie, my desire for closure was outweighed a lack of chemistry between a bunch of flat characters. I tried to talk myself into finishing it, but I couldn't make it.  I think there was potential with the idea but it was horribly executed.  On top of a slow moving plot with poorly developed characters, quite a bit of it is disrespectful to God in a way that many people (myself included) will find offensive.  One part in particular was even blasphemous, and while those particular characters were not shown in a positive light, the song "What a friend we have in Arlen. All our sins and griefs to bear." was too much for me.  All I can say is that I'm glad it was free through Amazon prime so I didn't waste my money...

not worth the cash I was really wanting to watch this and within the first 5 min i could see that it was on a downward spiral, the effects are subpar and the story is loose at best. I'm guessing they plan on another show by the way this ended but I couldn't say i would go watch it, or even rent it due to how bad this one was. Not giving details just in case you do rent it, but i will say this it is very disapointing.

EVERYONE HAVE SOME SCI-FI DREAMS EVERYONE HAVE SOME SCI-FI or UTOPIA DREAMS ... This story presented here is probably dream artist who create this, or people who pay him to create this false. This story maybe can dismiss some people who don't know or do not want see what is happen in the real life today. I already see much better sci-fi movies that this is. This is SAD. This one star I give for this just because I don't have chance give any, this mean 0.

starts with a bang, ends with a wimper i'll enumerate the most glaring clich&eacute;s, weaknesses and the hidden political hints:  -the poor girl (hanna) is a super-human specimen born in poland, in a program managed by Ms wiegler, a german/american CIA agent. get the drift? poland? germany? and so we get a polish super woman who bests her creators (who didnt think much of the polish, about 70 years ago)  -few and far between fight scenes filmed mostly on the run and who end too soon  -boring interludes where hanna hitches a ride with a family of hippies where the husband is having an identity crisis and cant decide whether he's a conservative or a leftie like his wife. the family with the slutty daughter and the weird kid dont add anything to the movie. zero. nada. nein.  -i want to suspend disbelief at the clich&eacute; where hanna clutches to a humvee in the desert, at the speed it was going and assuming the humvee only drove on flat surfaces: the slightest sharp dune would have resulted in hanna being broken in two but i'll buy it...  -Isaacs (tom hollander) is the character that held the most promise; a seemingly ruthless blond german who whistles in an unsettling manner, reminding you of the killer nurse in Kill Bill, but we never get to see his ruthlessness at work and he's dispatched by erik (hanna's adoptive father/mentor) in the easiest of ways. a wasted character that exuded much evil but lacked the script to deliver. an action movie without a real tough bad guy is no decent action movie. think Bolo yeung, danny trejo, gary oldman, jack nicholson, dolph lundgren, alan rickman.. you need THAT kind of bad guy to measure up to the killing machine that is hanna. and you wont have that here.  -the clown character who's supposed to show hanna to her father, is another superfluous character who's addition (and weirdness) doenst bring anything to the table. the film maker just wants to impress us with weird characters that suggest a certain aura in order to give his movie some exotic flavor maybe.. he takes us to morocco then shows us all kinds of flashy and potentially interesting characters who end up being filler. for example, a chase between Isaacs and hanna ends with hanna jumping in the water and isaacs despite being a CIA killer, decides not to jump in the water and gives up the chase. some pursuits are really unbelievable, like the labyrinth chase between containers: doesnt anyone have a GUN? i mean nothing should be easier than shooting a target running in a corridor of containers.  -wiegler and hanna showdwn at the last few minutes of the film: hanna, pleads for no more killing although she's never been taught empathy or the meaning of pity and morals; she kills dispassionately and ruthlessly. then she runs, runs, runs away then pulls a deus ex machina; a makeshift bow and arrow from out of nowhere and manages to hit wiegler while herslef is being hit by a bullet from wiegler. wiegler, despite being the one with a GUN, and in typical CIA top agent manner, turns away and RUNS instead of shooting again at hanna who loosed up her only arrow. beyond lame. then hanna chases a disoriented wiegler before finishing her off with a bullet (retrieved from her pursuer-turned-prey)  -hanna beats the crap out of her adoptive father because he failed to tell her the truth that he isnt her real father and despite all what he taught her. the scene smacks of the pubescent 'twilight'-style, i-wanna-be-a-vampire-but-my-dad-wont-let-me and i find difficulty in buying such an over reaction. she should be facing Isaacs and his thugs but instead, erik gets to finish them singlehandedly. another missed opportunity to sho hanna's dexterity against several opponents. thanks!  i fail to see how this movie managed a 71% at [...] but there's only one explanation, and that is the lack of cultural baggage of its reviewers. all the fight scenes have been done better in previous movies, the movie still carries an unneeded 'pro-poland/anti-germany' agenda, the characters are never fully developped and lack serious depth, it's too long and could have easily been a 75 minute movie. and i'm TIRED (TIRED, i tell you!) of germans being portrayed as the bad guys... i'm sick of it. the only praiseworthy elements in here are the top notch filmography and sometimes the music, but technical prowess and score were never things that made me go see a movie!

How can so many people like this. I Think a 5 year old wrote it Waste of time, ridiculous story line.  Some may get a chuckle at the comically bad script but I am amazed at how many people are giving this glowing reviews. I think nostalgia is clouding their minds.

Bad DVD I suppose the movie was good for an old western however the quality of the DVD was lacking.  There was a section of about 10 minutes where the quality was so bad that we we not able to view it.

Will not buy Box Set I have the individual seasons and am very happy about them. No need to buy the box set, and certainly won't after reading these reviews. What a slap in the face to W/G fans, and that's kind of unacceptable. Has anyone considered writing the stars of the show? I'm assuming they would want to know their fans are being treated with such indifference.

Amazon needs a negative star rating This movie is so bad there can be only one explainaiton: Stoned guy gets his first video camera, takes it to a friend's house. Friend has some raspberry jelly, so they decide to make a snuff movie.  At least that's what I think happened because, seriously, there's no acting, no script, no dialogue, camera in constant motion and seldom on a subject, oh, and then there's the fake gore.

High school acting! I made a mistake paying for this...thinking it was the Showtime show.  This movie was terrible. The photography stilted, the acting sub par, and the story line confusing with misplaced flashbacks. Awful waste of time.

Polar Express 3D Blu Ray I have to start by saying I love this movie and watch it each year at Christmas time.  However the 3D effect is terrible.  We started watching the 3D version with great excitement but after 15 minutes we were forced to switch back to 2D so we could still enjoy this movie.  Save your money and stick with the 2D version.

overrated Only the LGBT community really appreciates their "issues & challenges".  This is just another niche series for a niche audience.  Years from now, it will be forgotten.

Typical Slow Euro Film. Slow and non-eventful even for a Euro film. Goes on and on then finally something happens at half way point then something at the end. I like good Euro films but this is a low point.

Very Disappointed I found the description of the product to be misleading.  I needed a more detailed description of what the DVD included.  I was very disappointed.  The DVD was nothing like I expected.  Additionally, I don't understand how to know if the product is what you expected without opening it. However, once this is done; the DVD can not be returned.  My suggestion is to call or email provider asking for more details of the product.

DVD Incompatible with American DVD Players _My Life as a Dog_ is one of my favorite movies, but I was very disappointed to find that the 1985 DVD listed as an "Arrow Classic" would not play in my DVD.  In addition, I was unable to send it back.  Amazon should stipulate which movies work in which players.  Otherwise, we become very unsatisfied with their service and selection.

Not Worth The Money Not really about farming with horses, more like a video resume for three inexperienced wanna be farmers.  The film uses horses and pretty pictures and child like musings to draw you in and then states the obvious about farming in NJ.  Land is expensive in New Jersey DUH, and working farms are not as plentiful as they once were, DUH. It suggests that wanna be farmers with no money need to be creative in how they access land and finance their business.  Wow, its just like trying to start any other business in a competitive environment. There, that is the whole film in a nut shell, save your money.  Don't pay for someone else s'resume!

Drive me off the cliff... I'm glad I'm not the only one who found this movie ridiculously boring and ill-paced.  I'm also glad that Kip Pardue has disappeared from film, since his presence was an ink stain on anything he graced.  He is just so dull.  This flick doesn't do him any favors.  Sure, the racing sequences are exciting, but they are all so overdone and glossy that they lose their edge and become preposterous eye-soars.  The remainder of the cast is also a mess.  Estella Warren makes a pretty bland romantic interest.  She's cute enough, but she's also ridiculously dull.  Sylvester Stallone has never been `talented' in this area, and he doesn't bring any of the glimmers of promise he mustered out of that overrated 1976 boxing flick.  Instead, he grumbles through this film as if he was merely tolerating it.  The only shimmer of light comes from a predictably catty Gina Gershon who is always a delight, regardless of the fact that she can't seem to play more than one shade of character.  In the end, this tiresome bore is far from worth the price of admission.  This is easily one of the worst films 2001 had to offer, and that's saying a lot considering that the year also birthed such travesties as `Glitter', `Jurassic Park III', `Swordfish' and `The One'.

IGNORE THIS SIREN SIREN is one of those movies you can't believe you watched, let alone bought!  Don't fall for the deceptional cover cause it has nothing to do with the movie. The mythical story of sirens who lured sailors to their death with their seductive singing could've made an interesting premise.  However, the script for SIREN bounces all over the place, inserting senseless allusions to what is real and what isn't.  Throw in the inevitably boring lesbian scenes to add to the confusion.  The siren herself is about as menacing as a slug and while lovely is hardly worth dying for.  So much of the movie doesn't make sense, and it's really boring.  The ending is both predictable and unimpressive. An ambulance ride with sirens blazing is more terrifying!

Not as bad as The American---but don't spend more than $1.30 The last Clooney produced film I saw was The American.  Soooooooooooo badddddddddddd.  Sooooooo Badddddd.  The worrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrst film I have ever seen---you should see it for that reason alone.  Honestly, I can't believe this is all Hollywood has to offer.  And, had I known Clooney WROTE this film, at least I would have been prepared.  If you must see it, go to Redbox and put down a dollar and change.  This is not a collector's item, unless you have some obsession with GC or RG.  I am always certain a movie is going to be toast when the sound is off---be prepared to miss a lot of lines from the get-go.  I had to turn the volume up as I went along until I had it on high.  Here's a rule of thumb, George, if you can't make it audible, then why do it.  SPOILER ON OUT  OK, Newsflash Geo, girls who ask a 30 yr old to F them are somewhat prepared for all life has to offer.  So, was she REALLY engaged in unprotected sex with the Governor?  And will someone tell me in what world girl-interns have access to the hotel room of a candidate at midnight---unless of course the candidate wants them to.  Such BS.  And let's just say he was that stupid (because he did make a point to tell OHIO that he wasn't a Christian), would he really, really want an STD to take home to his wife?  So let's just say somehow he routinely gets knocks on his door at midnight from hot young female interns while the secret service guy is off getting coffee (or sworn to secrecy) and he is also comfortable bedding said intern(s) in the middle of a campaign and neither of them has take any precautions---guess what, there is an assortment of pharmaceuticals one can take thereafter without going in for a "Procedure."  This is 2012. I assume since RG was leaving her for the day and considering the cost, she was going in for a "procedure."  And how long exactly had she been with this campaign?  OK, if you can get past that bogus inciting incident that happens wayyyy too late in the story, does she really have his personal cell number?  And is he really calling her on a campaign staffer's phone at 2:30 am.  I assume every single one of those calls is monitored by someone on the campaign.  Moving along--->I don't care how much this supposedly paranoid guy hates RG, do you really want to announce in the middle of a neck and neck race that you are shaking things up because one of your guys is a traitor.  You do that after the race.  And let's assume this campaign manager is so crazy that he would turn on RG like that in a neck and neck race (they happen to be losing), would said manager really just walk away when George turns on him.  Oh my gosh.  This was where the story was---this crazed guy would have gone after Geo with all paws and you know he knows about the chicks showing up at midnight.  He knows.  It's his job to prevent such things---he knows.  Moving along--->Now, why does a guy like RG (who pulls $1100 out of his own account to quietly solve this little indiscretion) not tell the crazoid campaign manager immediately about the meeting if he is going to do it at all.  Why wait?  And this is where it really jumps the tracks--->so RG is now jobless, and he says politics is his whole life, and then he decides he can extort the governonr.  Really?  Has he not heard of David Letterman.  I can't figure out why the governor wasn't wearing a wire and he then could have showed that he had RG on tape---then they could have played a game of real chicken to see who was going to blink first.  That would have been interesting.  But RG is a smart guy and would he have really not patted down George before this discussion and had it on his terms, where he knew he was safe from being taped?  The plot was just ridiculous.  And tell me, George---are we supposed to like someone in this film?  Are we supposed to cheer for someone?  Just asking.  Usually, that helps along all the sucky things that go wrong.  The ending is more of the same---we just see RG waiting to give an interview.  And we're supposed to wonder what he is going to say.  Really?  REALLY????  He risked going to prison to get his job back, and is he now unable to live with that decision and determined to get even?  Why?  And for what?  To go back to having no job, let's even say no HOPE of a job?  Who wants a loose cannon in the political arena?  Honestly, the only thing interesting was George talking about getting us out of our oil debt with the middle east.  Don't even get me started on the directing---at the beginning we watch this guy on this platform rise to the same level as the stage--->tell me why?  Was it so we could see it was a presidential debate?  It just made no sense to spend any time on that.  And we see this intern with all this coffee late in the show and another one asking for a phone---why and why?  Why waste time on that?  George---pal---believe it or not, there are skilled craftspeople out there.

dvds are region located??? ordered from amazon but dvd won't play in the usa.  i did not know that was a question that i should ask about products.  i like the movie so it would have been nice  if the dvd worked.

terrible just by using that camera technique where the director is depicting use of handheld video camera alone ruins this movie. They need to stop using this method of taping. It does NOT work. The movie itself is terrible if you can bare to watch it. just soo bad in every way. just stay away.

Tacky and Terrible with a Generous Helping of Stockholm Syndrome With a weary sigh and a sip of tea, I approach the keyboard to raise issues as a matter of principle. More of that later...  Despite the limitless budget,'Star Studded Cast' (couldn't resist that), brilliant photography and special effects, I found this Hollywood attempt to rewrite and condense 'The Iliad' disappointing. The script is ridiculous and the characters have souls of cardboard. The Gods could have provided a lot of fun, but have been written out.  This absence of the Gods causes a major problem; with this Achilles human rather than a demi God uneasy in the human world, his violent passions doen't make sense. He's nothing like the Achilles of 'The Iliad'.  I think that Petersen said, concerning the characters, words to the effect of: - 'There's no bad guys and good guys; that's old fashioned'. For sure; but there are always sympathetic and unsympathetic characters, and few of these characters are ones for whom one can feel much at all, and the script must be to blame.  I assume this Achilles is supposed to be unsympathetic until his talking to by King Priam and that is why he is depicted as insensitive and arrogant, but many of his acts, for instance, his shoving aside one of his gorgeous bed partners in the opening scene and taunting the admiring small boy, jeering at his 'War Prize' and later half-strangling her all make him come across as downright mean-spirited.  Briseis is obviously intended to be brave and impressive, but she soon surrenders to a bad case of Stockholm Syndrome.  This brings me on to the 'Matter of Principle' stuff. Sorry, I know this is a bore for many and raises issues which are unpopular and will lead to low 'Helpful Reviw' ratings plus flaming, but I have to raise this point. Honour, and all that...Hey, was that from the 'Troy' script?  I think this film - though it overtly opposes rape, ie, Achilles' rescue of Briseis from Agamemonon's troops - covertly romanticises the relationship between a potential rapist and his 'War Prize' (his underling, who knows him well, would hardly say in a leering tone, 'We thought she might - amuse - you' assuming rape, if he knew that Achilles didn't normally take his fun that way).  For sure, the Greek heroes were rapists to a man (or demi God) but that a modern film should romanticise a Stockholm Syndrome relationship dismayed me. For anyone who might be interested, I go into this aspect further in my article but I don't think quoting the html is allowed under Amazon guidelines.  If it wasn't for this abusive relationship aspect, I'd have awarded this two stars for giving me such a laugh with the actors hamming it up wonderfully as the only way of dealing with that script. What are you supposed to do with such lines as;- 'Of all the Warlords loved by the Gods, I hate him the worst...'.

wrong product information The product does NOT come with Spanish audio as is stated in the product description this may render it useless for some people.

Like a Plot from a Soap Opera This movie is like a plot from a daytime soap opera that would be played out over a year and a half, here pieced together to form a feature-length film.  Like most soap opera plots, it's corny and ridiculous and has many holes, flaws, impossibilities, etc.  The acting is also horrendous as is the script, loaded with corny and laughably bad dialogue horribly delivered by the actors.  It does have potential to be a so bad it's good piece of entertainment, if you're in the mood for that.  Then again, it really is so bad that you may not even find it that good.

horrible I'm a big fan of WWII movies and the previews made this one look like it would be good.  But it's the opposite.  Just plain bad, poor writing and directing.  Really?  Someone said we'll make this little kid ask where the black guy's tail is, and ask if he's made of chocolate?  Someone was like, "yeah great line, let's go with that."  Spike even wanted to make the children out to be racist I guess.

Suckered Damn, am I Pi#@^d off or what? I got suckered real good, I thought this DVD was the biggie recently screened in our movie thearters here in OZ. Reading these reviews I wonder if I am going to 'invest' 90mins of my life watching this movie when it is presented and sold as if it is the big budget movie staring Aaron Eckhart that I would class in my top 5 movies EVER and the best Sci Fi movie EVER I have seen. Well DVD and movie people, what do you think? Should I or should'ent I watch this peice of ..........

Sword Indentity Not much action, the fight scenes were boring.  Bad Movie! I don't have anything good to say about it, it was one of the worst movies I have seen.

Disappointing! This is one of the worst Leslie Sansone DVDs I've ordered. Poor quality taping. Only Leslie here, looking a little tired and unenthusiastic, and no wonder, behind her is an old, black backdrop (didn't like it years ago) and on the loudspeakers, all muzak that's been used before (didn't like that the first time around either and by now, it makes me want to scream). What a disappointment after my recent purchase of "Walk Slim: 5 Really Big Miles: Included inside - Toning Band, and Hit Music!". That was the best ever, with fresh faces and upbeat music. The latter is an honest product, worth the price charged; this DVD is not.

Not enough grass to feed a goat a whole day Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche did a "mo" (divination) about the film project.  He said it predicted something like "not enough grass to feed a goat for a whole day".  That about nails it.  Not enough content.  It's about idol and idolatry, mostly idolatry.  DKR is fascinating but he didn't give/doesn't get enough screen time.  His discussion of the guru disciple relationship is shallow and general.  For example, he talks about how it's silly for students to think he's omniscient.  He never mentions "lama khyen" in the VERY first line of his grandfather's ngondro (foundation) practice -- lama, please be aware of me (which I've also seen translated "lama, you who know").  He doesn't talk about the difference between a spiritual friend/teacher and a tantric lama.  He doesn't discuss samaya.  He doesn't mention the standard caution to study the lama for 12 years before making a commitment.  The extras have a 25 minute interview with DKR that's worth watching.  And the parts of the film where he's talking are worth seeing.  I can't recommend wading through the rest of it, though.

DREKULA If you love Neilson you might like this movie.  I actually walked out of the theater when I saw this when it came out. IT IS the ONLY movie I have ever walked out of after paying to see it.That's in 40 years.

A classic CLAMP series, but not at all worth the Blu-ray it's on There's been plenty already said about Chobits and its anime adaptation, but the real problem here is that this Blu-ray release is completely riddled with very serious problems that border the line of unwatchable; they're so bad, in fact, that the DVD release actually does seem to inexplicably look and sound better.  Little to no effort was done here to translate this into Blu-ray, and it appears to have done only bad things to it. There is literally no improvement in any area. The picture quality is the worst I've seen for an anime, bar none. Jagged edges are absolutely everywhere, the animation stutters so often it can happen very noticeably several times an episode, some frames are so ugly it's as if you're streaming them from a standard cell phone in 320x240 resolution back in the 3gp era, the colors are all horribly washed out and there is an unbelievable lack of vibrancy, practically all of the animation is blurred to some extent, and, to put it short, this is actually worse than any typical DVD release, including its own.  The sound, despite being advertised as improved, does not seem noticeably improved at all. Errors in synchronization are rampant, the quality sounds as if it's been ultracompressed into nothingness, there was clearly no effort whatsoever in the remixing and it's immediately noticeable, and the voices all sound as muted as if you're playing a standard-quality YouTube video off of a laptop. It's simply awful, and impossible not to be distracted by.  There are no redeeming features here to speak of. The menus are ugly and confusingly laid out, the extras are extraneous even by anime standards, and while I prefer dub over sub, upon looking at the text, the complaints are completely justified. All voice subtitles are white with a thin black border, but the text, for some impossible reason, is so incredibly jagged that I've had easier times reading subtitles on a low-band stream of untouched anime from 20 years ago. It's comparable to a VHS tape in quality. For me, this really isn't an issue, since I watch dubs anyway, but anyone who enjoys subs more are going to have a really, really hard time accepting this level of unreadability here on televisions and monitors smaller than thirty inches.  Considering that FUNimation has done excellent work with some of their Blu-ray releases, the neglect of care done for this series is shameful, even if you factor in the age of the series. With simply horrid video, audio, and text quality that is somehow worse than the DVD releases, there is no reason for this to even exist. Nothing I've said is an exaggeration; it really does look and sound that bad. It's a miserable transition into Blu-ray, seemingly done in one quick run with no care taken whatsoever to make sure it simply worked right.  It's safe to assume that, someday, somewhere, CLAMP's penultimate work, Card Captor Sakura, will be translated to Blu-ray, too. All I can do is wait and hope that a little more work is put into that so it's actually worth it after such a long wait, with no beginning in sight for any project of the sort. We might end up with a totally different format by the time that happens, the way things are going now.  Worthless and insulting.

very misleading I am very disappointed in the DVDs I purchased. 15 different supposed super bowl collection series DVDs. A series in which a different super bowl was what the cover depicts for each team. THE SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS then it gives the number of the super bowl in roman numerals. Other have Americans game the SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONSHIP and shows the ring on the cover. Did I miss something? Would that mean the game is what the DVD is about?  Wrong the only super bowls I have received in their eternity are the two Broncos' super bowls of the Super Bowl XXXII and Super Bowl XXXIII that came along with the 1977 AFC Championship Game in a three set entitled the Broncos 3 greatest games. Said nothing about super bowl games. The only reason I knew the super bowl games were included was I had researched it on another website what I should have done for these. All very misleading. Now I have to go through the hassle of returning 13 DVD. Very disappointed.  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0049S1NX2">NFL Super Bowl XLV: Green Bay Packers Champions</a>

Not Enough Research For an action drama, this movie delivers. Well-written dialogue, talented actors, and a realistic depiction of the early mistakes in the aftermath of the Iraq War (not enough troops to provide security, failure to provide food and water to the population, etc.). However, the production should have done more research into the search for WMDs. If they had, this would have been a much different movie.  Especially if this film had been made after the release of the Wikileak documents which give further evidence as to the existence of WMDs and provide documentation as to WMD caches which have never been reported before in the media.  Sometimes timing is everything.

Fake DVD The movie i ordered was a blue ray dvd and it will not play. not on my blue ray player, not on my dvd player, not even on my computer. there is something seriously wrong with the video i recieved, very dissapointed. will not buy from this seller again...

Awful Oh, it's the old amnesia plot, yet again. And again this looks like a latter day refugee from some 1950s TV show, replete with young Ryan Phillipe tearing his hair and screaming when nothing makes sense because he can't remember. The dizzy camera work, and excessive gore don't make it any easier to watch. Except wait, the memory does start to come back, in bits and pieces, only things ain't so good!! The problem is this has been done way better before.

scratched pretty much at every chapter recieved this dvd looked like it was in good condition.  But as I watched it I couldnt even finish the dvd because it was so scratched. I took it up to my local video store to have to cleaned even and no luck. So I got ripped off thank you very much for the so called guarntee!

NOT playable dvd did not play in any of my various dvd players and did not play on my computer which has a dvd drive so I was very disappointed with this purchase.

Broken Unfortunately, the disc was so tightly contained that my husband broke it getting it out of its packaging.  A great shame.

don't buy from mango64, fake copy! I bought Shrek forever and as soon as I got it I was mad because it is a fake copy. most people might not notice but the front cover had been distorted.  I emailed mango64 right away and demaned a refund. which i was given really quickly, proably to shut me up. we looked at the Dvd and it skips alot and has problems. just wanted to make sure nobody else got taken by this. Surprised Amazon would allows this to happen on there site.

Milestones These things are usually a waste of time. I have been listening to Pink Floyd since the 60's and was bored with this.

Don't waste your time or money The cover of the video will get your attention. You will see Fantasia and Faith Evans and that alone will provoke you to get this video.. BUT let me warn you Looks can be deceiving.. This was more than a disappointment. I was pissed because I spent $2.39 to rent this mess. I wouldn't spend 25cents on this. Please ma'am or sir don't waste your time or money.  You only see Fantasia and Faith two times maybe. The storyline was all over the place. The kittens weren't kittens they were more like bears. They were dressed poorly and some of the women in  this was too big to be dresses like that. I was embrassed. I will give Nicci Gilbert credit she tried but just because you were an actor in a Tyler Perry play doesn't mean you are a playwright. I am so glad that I didn't invest my money into this project and the marketing team should  be ashamed of themselves.. Totally misleading.

Didn't Waste Time Anyone can buy an HD camera and become a cinematographer overnight and these, believe or not 300, people showed how little it takes. They wasted no time in getting right down to the silicone masks, fake blood, etc. Even a '60s era Greek mythical creature films met some competition in this film's vultures. Or perhaps they were borrowed.  The film was so bad it was laughable (not funny laughable) and for the viewer the difficult part is trying to figure out if it was intentional.

Wow.....This Was Even Bad In My Opinion! OK, I'm a classic sci-fi/horror fan.  I adore so many of the films from the 50s and 60s that most critics and die-hard fans hate, but this film was more than this 'B' film fan could endure!  I can honestly say, if you viewed the trailer for this film, you saw the best aspects of it!  This film really could have been a lot of fun, given the idea, but I can't even say I had fun watching this one.  Very flat an uninspired acting, bad CGI and probably the worst mistake....no eye-popping kills, which, let's be honest, the only reason most would even give a film like this a chance, to begin with.  Save the money you'd spend on this and the time you would waste and check out some real classic 'B' film!

It's a Blu-ray alright, but NOT high-def! This is one of the worst Blu-ray titles I've ever encountered. For starters, while the movie was originally released in 1.85:1 widescreen, the (old) video transfer here is 1.33:1 pillarboxed, with black bars needlessly on either side of the image.  Worse, however, is the fact that this is a total rip-off bordering on outright fraud. The feature film is presented not in 1080p or 1080i high-definition, but in 720p STANDARD DEFINITION. You might just as well buy the DVD; the picture quality essentially will be the same. Technically the movie has been burned onto a Blu-ray disc, but how can GAIAM (and let me state the distributor's name once again: GAIAM) get away with calling this a proper Blu-ray when it most definitely is NOT.  Don't waste your money!

If you love Nicole Kidman or George Clooney, this movie is for you The story of this movie is pretty poor. What I dislike about this movie is that Nicole Kidman and George Clooney seem to play parts that I would think they are not suited for. I give this movie a 1 star rating simply because the story was pretty poor. Even a movie like Broken Arrow with a similar plot was a lot better than this. The reason? It had better casting, better direction and was more action packed. The Hunt For Red October written by Tom Clancy seems to be shadowed by this movie. The uniforms and the cinematography weren't too bad at all. Maybe I just don't like Nicole Kidman and George Clooney. I never really liked Clooney or Kidman anyway, but at least he was alright in Up in the Air. From now on I'll make sure I continue to avoid anything with Kidman's name on it. I was never fond of her anyway. Although she is pretty. Clooney may be desirable amongst women, but I would much rather watch Humphey Bogart! At least Bogart has talent. Bogart is a true entertainer. All that said, I had to turn it off after 20 minutes. Kind of B grade film material.

Russel Crowe Glory-Fest This is yet another movie where Russel Crowe attempts to recapture glory from the likes of Gladiator.  In fact, this movie blatantly copies Gladiator, Braveheart, and even Saving Private Ryan in one scene.  His character is basically interchangeable between Gladiator and this; so IE - he is not acting, simply "being himself on camera".  The part of his movie that were actually good are the scenery, sets, and costumes.  But the plot?  Or vacuous lack thereof?  Forget it.  Crowe plays a genuinely annoying/brash/arrogant version of Robin Hood, and I'd even argue that he acts nothing like any Robin Hood ever; not Errol Flynn nor Kevin Costner.  For Russel Crowe fans only.

Leaves viewer uncomfortable & depressed Hollywood becomes darker and stranger each year. Those who run the major studios often pump out so much horror, sick violence, vulgarity, and psychological deformity that one must wonder about how all this is screwing up the viewers.   Natalie Portman delivers her all, and for that matter the acting by everyone is far above average. I just wish that the flicks the Hollywood elite love to create and honor were actually honorable. This film is going to appeal to women from 14 to 30 primarily. The chronicling of a mental breakdown of a talented, hopeful, and impressionable ballerina is not good fodder for the viewer's mind or soul.    Having virtually all the characters around ballerina Nina almost conspire to ruin her psyche, health, and morality is depressing. The psychological instability that results in this neurotic adventure left me depressed. Adding in images of masturbation and lesbianism for the heroine is also inappropriate for our society as a whole, and young people in particular. Hollywood is obsessed with promoting violence, creating new ways to frighten viewers, and promoting homosexuality. I know a lot of people are getting sick of their not so subtle propaganda.   What a great waste of talent and time for all who were involved in this. In a declining economy and society with worries growing weekly, we don't need this type of negative reinforcement. Movie goers need to boycott the intended disturbing & terror images and stories. Instead paying to see uplifting and spiritually positive flicks is the only way to return Hollywood to it's former glory. I have read about how the weasels who control this place make it very difficult for film-makers to get such films to the public. Cutting off their money is the only thing they will ever understand.

AIDS-Phobia!!! Don't Watch. Terrible Public Message As soon as I realized where this movie was going, I became terrified. I guess that's the thrilling part of the movie. I am astonished by the positive reviews. Maybe they are all young people. Maybe they haven't thought much about AIDS. Maybe they believe in false imprisonment and retribution in this setting. Maybe they cannot detect the heterosexism and AIDS-phobia. These are real issues. This movie trivializes them. Go ahead and vote that this wasn't a helpful review. Just because I disagree with you this does not mean my review isn't helpful. For mature individuals, if you want a complex discussion of AIDS, avoid this.  No one INFECTS YOU with HIV. Your failure to protect yourself leaves you vulnerable to the virus. The entire premise for this movie is terrible.

this edition of the class is a complete DISAPPOINTMENT!! Words can't even begin to explain how outraged I am with this VHS to DVD transfer.I use to watch the VHS version all the time as I kid and I loved it. Recently the DVD was purchased for me and I hated it..... And I'm curious to see if anyone else realized the change in ALL the characters voices?? I noticed it right away and it was absolutely disappointing. Even the music sounds off. I would rather buy the VHS version over again then waste my money on this DVD version...Please don't waste your money!!

If I could have I would have given this movie zero stars I can't even begin to tell you how much this movie lowered my IQ by merely watching it. What happened to Cameron Diaz?? she used to be funny in an intelligent way,I guess dating boy band members really did a job on her! I wouldn't subject my worst enemy to this poor excuse for a comedy.

Learn Bharatanatyam DVD DVD is of poor quality. DVD player is not able to play it but I can play it on my desktop, probably format issue.Video is good for kids who wants to learn BharataNatyam.

SUCKS I'll keep this short and sweet this movie is BAD. I'm horrified to find some reviewers giving this anymore then a two star rating and for those who gave it five stars well how many stars would you give an actual good movie? By given this five stars you are implying that this movie is as good as it gets and it ain't. Cursed by Wes Craven was a better werewolf movie then this hands down and I didn't even really think that it was all that special. So there five star lunatics take that!

Really bad What is wrong with these reviewers? This was a total waste of 5 bucks. It only confirmed that, like the storyline, the muppets ARE 'dead' like Richman says. I miss Jim Henson.

Down load is awful start stop start over stop start over again Looks like I am not the only one who was unable to watch this movie on amazon prime. Half hour to see the first five minutes TWICE.

No Go I have no argument with this product but that's chiefly because I can't watch it! It is for area 1 (USA) and I live the UK (area 2) I think it should have been made very clear when I bought it that this was the case. I am very disappointed.  David

WARNING: UNFUNNY, TOO-'CLEVER', HEART-RENDING One-star due to false labeling this film "funny/smart/heart-warming" when it is truly "unfunny/too-'clever'/heart-rending"  True, the acting is superb and the writing feels spot-on at many points.  But the plot is soooooooo contrived and the characters are so distorted so as to overshadow the acting and writing.  From my perspective, one can view this film as 'funny' and 'heart-warming' only in a sick/bad/shallow way.  Because the truth of the film is otherwise to experience this film as gross/inauthentic/mean-spirited.  Earns one-star because zero is not an option and because Bening and Moore soldier through with great performances.

if you need to retch, watch this .... it's not a movie but i don't know what it is the acting was So atrocious i had to stop it 5 minutes in and go throw up. once my head had cleared i was sure i had lost 25 IQ points and if i had forced myself to endure it to the lame end a turnip would be considered a genius when compared to what was left of my mind. they need a scale that goes into the negative to properly rate this. SAVE YOURSELF! SKIP THIS ONE!

Talking cars: Horrible idea. Worse with no organization. In ways I felt the same about this movie as I did with Gnomeo and Juliet. It is just terrible and not organized. I think a reasonable car movie would be something involving all of the NASCAR races on ESPN and ESPN 2 with real people in the cars racing them and do the animation that way. I hate it when there are talking cars. Cars aren't meant to talk. They are meant to drive and stop when supposed to without talking. This is my opinion. Just because you don't think this is right doesn't mean it's not helpful. Be kind.

Didn't Get Past First Episode And, I can watch it "free" on cable.  Really just unbelievable:  Electricity, all kinds, go out world wide.  I know in scifi you have to suspend some disbelief, but really how can this really happen-scientifically(even science fiction wise)?????  Then when the electricity goes out, the whole government of the USA colapses, and the country divides up into smaller fifdomes. Do the writers realize that prior to the 1900s our government worked just fine for nearly 125 years without electricity!?  Also, there where many functioning government in  human history going all the way back to the egyptions?  Not worth my time, and they'll probably cancel it without a resolution just like Terra Nova.

Truly Dreadful I like Jonah Hill and I thought there would be a few laughs on this one, even though I know it was panned by critics First and foremost, this is not for kids. Any parent not sure, should watch the first 5 mins and you know what I mean. This movie has no laughs. Having young children read ridiculous dialogue that would never happen in real life makes it worse. Adam Sandler movies are very well known for this tactic. I dont want to discuss the plot, or lack of but you wont find Jonah mentioning this movie to anyone. This is not funny like Superbad or movies with some crude humor.

Worst half of a movie I've ever spent so much time trying to stay awake through So, I was looking at several 3d blu rays today in Best Buy, and asked an associate between a few of my ideas which one I should get, and he absolutely recommended this to me over the others, even though i said I wasn't sure I'd like it and that I don't like movies with bad plots and fighting like the movie 300, to which he re-assured me that this movie is entertaining.  As soon as I get home, I rottentomatoes this, along with my other choices, only to see that this has an AWFUL rottentomatoes rating, worse than the others.  Then I go to amazon, and see so many people arguing about it, many claiming it to be the WORST 3d in the world while many of you tried to convince me that it isnt THAT bad, just a typical B-movie with good effects.  Let me tell you, I have never fallen asleep 3 or 4 times across 4 hours and had to wake up and rewind back to what I remembered watching for any movie like this, only to still get about 1 hour in, not know what was going on, and not want to ever watch any more of this piece of garbage film that never should have been made.  And as for the 3d, where is it?  You can take the glasses off for most scenes and only notice a few blurry little areas on occasion, because thats generally the degree of 3d to this film.  3d only serves to make it look a bit clearer with a bit of depth, but has NO real stand-out 3d, at all.  Please, save your money for something better, like pillows and blankets so you can take a better nap than the one youd be taking if you tried to sit through this film.

Awful! Sometimes a really bad movie is so bad that it's funny. Not the case here, these are both just plain bad. I'm a fan of Heather Elizabeth Parkhurst, and that is why I bought it. If she had looked more like "Flopsy", I would have thrown another star at it. Don't spend more than a dollar on this!

Great price, worst.packaging.ever. Bought this because I'm a big Sci-Fi fan, and I wanted to collect all of SG1.  The price couldn't have been better, and I soon found out why.  Out of 54 discs, maybe five didn't have a single scratch.  A good third of the rest had deep circular scratches that looked like they had been damaged during manufacture.  Also the layout had no logic to how the discs were inserted.  I requested a refund and will be mailing this back promptly.  In my opinion MGM dropped the ball completely, they should have used the thin jewel cases and could have fit all the discs in an ever so slightly bigger box.

Saying this is terrible is being too nice to it This is a waste of the space time continuum.  If you liked this you are as stupid as you are dumb.

When Variety said "repulsive", I don't think they were talking about the effects... Slime City (Greg Lamberson, 1988)  If you're a fan of cult horror films, you've probably heard of Street Trash, an infamous 1987 splatter comedy by Mike Muro. The year after, sleaze merchant Greg Lamberson made his debut with Slime City, a picture that rips off Street Trash in every conceivable way save the plot. Which, if you think about it, is kind of impressive; you take everything else from a movie and attach a completely different plot to it? I like that. Not enough to change my original rating, because it's still a low-budget piece of tripe with no worthwhile actors, fumble-fingered direction, and the most godawful soundtrack this side of Ravenous, but you've got to admire the guy's gall.  Plot: Alex (Robert C. Sabin, who aside from debuting in I Was a Teenage Zombie, has appeared in nothing but Lambersom flicks) moves into a new apartment in a not-so-good neighborhood. On the way in, Alex and his pal Jerry (T. J. Merrick, who never acted again) are greeted by Nicole (Ghoul School's Mary Huner), and they both immediately fall in lust. Which makes life kind of tough for Alex, who has a girlfriend (also played by Huner!) who just won't go there. So he's trying to keep his hands off his new neighbor, but she's coming on strong. Meanwhile, Roman (Dennis Embry, who also never acted again), who lives upstairs, invites Alex up for a meal and feeds him something Roman calls "Himalayan yogurt."It's not, of course; in fact, when Alex wakes up the next morning, he's covered in slime and has an almost irresistible urge to go out and kill people. Obviously, there's something very wrong going on in this building besides the rent-control corruption...  That Lamberson was able to lure Kealan Patrick Burke, one of the fastest-rising horror authors on the planet, to star in the sequel, 2010's Slime City Massacre (which I haven't seen yet), is some testament as to the lasting effect this movie has had, on at least one consciousness anyway. But man, is this movie awful. The acting isn't all that far above grade-school level, the direction not any better. Even the lighting is bad enough that there are times the movie looks as if it was shot on DV (and I don't mean that as a compliment). This is an amateur film in every respect, and not a good one at that. (Charles Pinion released Twisted Issues the same year, also an amateur film, but so much better than this.) You may want to watch it if you stumble across it just for some of the unintentional hilarity, but you'll regret that you wasted ninety minutes of your life on it afterwards. *

Fun Story.  Bad Audio.  Shame on Amazon. I've rented this from iTunes before but wanted to see the extended version so there is some grounds for comparison.  The biggest difference is the audio.  The iTunes version has great audio but the Amazon version nearly blew out my speakers.  On the Amazon version, the sound effects were at a normal range but the dialogue level was so low.  So low that at moments with dialogue and sound effects you either couldn't hear the dialogue or your sound is turned up too high for the sound effects.  So for watching a fun, fresh take on a classic story I'd give it 4 stars (cant be helped.  It has Kristen Stewart in it).  For audio quality, I give it a 1.  In all fairness, it did have sound.

Impossible I did not like this movie at all...made me sick, so I turned it off! But, that's just me, you go ahead and enjoy it if it's your cup of tea, it's not mine! I find it grossly disgusting!

Kiera's worst performance Very overdramatic acting to Kiera and overall what really was the story? Dissappointing and should not be in the "thriller" type category of movies.

WTH Clearly there are hundreds of people who wish you ill. Do not watch this movie... It sux through and through.

long very long Not terrible, I actually watched the whole thing but it was very long.  Two hours, I think.  Demi Moore worked okay for the role.  A lot of character development, possibly to a fault.  Boring.  Still didn't get an answer to several questions and a new character introduced with 15 minutes left.  Kinda dumb really.

101 Dalmations - Movie does not play at all I received the movie and saved it to play for my granddaughter when I kept her for a week.  I was so disappointed when we put the movie in and it started to drag from the start, and then completely quit.  I tried other movies to make sure it wasn't my DVD player, and they were fine.  Tried the movie again, same result.  I'm going to email and see how to get a refund or another DVD.

Brilliant acting in a total waste The film is a poor ripoff of the Oscar-winning film "Crash".  Intersecting lives at a non-stop pace in contrived situations.  Forest Whitaker, Sarah Michelle Geller, and Brenda Frasier overact excellently  in a poor script that never touches us or is believable in any way, even in an allegorical sense.  Andy Garcia fumes in an absurd Al Pacino imitation and Emile Hirsch tries his hand unsuccessfully at clowning.  Kevin Bacon is not bad at displaying his late-life-in new-found self image of being a loving good guy. At least Julie Delpy with nothing to do didn't look absurd.  All in all the picture is a noisy mess, a pretentious, boring, irrelevant depiction about chance encounters in life that the Director seems to think he knows something about.  So much talent wasted in a piece of trash - rhymes with bash, dash, cash, rehash, CRASH!!!  Avoid it.

groannnnnn Despite Charlton Heston giving his entire single talent to this offering (yes it is the same one-dimensional character we have grown to love from the "Ten Commandments' to 'Planet of the Apes',  this movie never seems to rise above it's banal screenplay and moronic dialogue. Lovingly filmed in multi-color "racist stereotype",  this film is perfect for those who never look beyond their own narrow existence and unquestionably accept for fact anything that is set before them. Enjoy!!!

Very disappointing I am sad to say this is the worst season of House. It started out having potential.  But, went down hill about midway through. The finale was absolutely terrible.  This season was so bad that I am not adding it to my collection.

Cannot see The copy of Michael Collins was faulty and kept stopping so I have not watched it.Posssibly you can do something about this for me

Disappointed The quality of this DVD is horrible!  It looks like someone copied it off an old VHS tape in the garage for 5 bucks... there are obvious rolling lines during the darker scenes (quite a few in this movie) and the audio is almost mute unless you crank your TV up beyond reasonable levels.  I was hoping for a good copy of a favorite movie... still looking after returning this twice... I suggest you look elswhere.

Waste of Human Time Immoral and disgusting.  There is no redeeming value from this movie.  I stopped watching it and fast forwarded it to the end.. terrible. Avoid this. I rarely review anything on Amazon, so I am being straight forward about this. Please avoid this strange, immoral, and no value movie!

Horrible DO NOT BUY - this was the cheesiest. Overly-dramatic, poorly done, what a waste of money and time on my  part, and effort on the part of the people who produced it. It was more like the Jim Gordon-Supercop story and even in that context it sucked. Extremely disappointing. In rating it Amazon wouldn't let me choose zero stars - so I gave it one. But trust me -if negative stars were an option.........

Didn't work at all This DVD was melted or something because once opened you could visibly see the wrong with the disc. The disc was not recognized by my computer and was a waste of money.

Not like the book This movie was a disappointment.  I was expecting to see a movie version of the book.  This is not it.  This would have been such a wonderful movie if it did not include a parallel modern storyline.  I would have loved to see a version faithful to the book.  If you haven't read the book, read the book and skip the movie.

AWFUL !!!!! What a waste, too bad I can't give 0 stars.  Extremely slow and boring, but I kept waiting for something to happen (shame on me).  Then they played this horrible music - and increased the volume when they did it - during some slow-motion scenes at several points during the movie. I used the mute button to get past it and could have used the fast forward, nothing was missed.  Thankfully it's less than 90 minutes (don't remember the exact length) I was just so very happy it was over, but still dismayed that I had wasted time on this movie.

Weird My husband rented this movie because he needed a good laugh,however there was no sound at all. Tried restarting amazon on the tv,still no sound. Tried to watch again the next day and still nothing,idk what is wrong with this instant video but we had no luck watching it.

Really? Wow.  My wife, pre-teen-age son, and I rented this movie based on the positive reviews here.  We were very dissapointed.  I love good indie films, but with "Gerald," the acting and writing seemed to match the film's low budget.  The main premise of the movie required greater than normal suspension of disbelief; that's fine, but pulling that off requires top-notch writing and acting.  I didn't think the man who played Gerald was believable as a mentaly impaired man, as his acting was 100% evident at all times and seemed to draw upon nothing but cliches and stereotypes (no Rain Man here, not even close).  The characters of the lush and the transvestite were so cartoonish and one-note that they both seemed to have escaped a mid '90s Saturday Night Live skit.  We had to give up on this movie after a half hour or so and there were zero laughs among the three of us during that time.

Too much $$$ for a cheap reproduction I agree wholeheartedly with other reviewers on here who believe that great movies like this is worthy of being properly remastered & reproduced. I will never pay so much money for what amounts to a VHS copy to DVD. What a rip-off!

It's not 1-star because of the film... ...it's because this is the lousiest transfer of film-to-DVD that I have ever purchased.  Each scene, entirely washed out and 'dark'; it's almost like watching it in black and white.  Not the TV, not the settings on the TV, it's just a lousy product ... and I can see from the other reviews that I'm not alone in thinking this.  Ah, well...

not just the subtitles This film looked entrancing; unfortunately, I couldn't watch it. I waited for the latest Blu-ray release from Magnolia, but that didn't help. The problem wasn't the subtitles because I couldn't see them. There was a time bar across the bottom of the screen that COULD NOT BE REMOVED. It blocked the subtitles. The dubbing track sounded awful and the bar was annoying even without the subtitles. And the authoring errors didn't end there. The menu at the end of the film was frozen - you couldn't watch the special features without restarting the movie, a real pain because there was no direct access to the menu without sitting through the crap that preceded it. All in all, this is another baboon authoring job that seems all too prevalent on Blu-ray discs (but very rare on DVDs). A pity, because this film seemed to be very impressive. Unless Criterion rescues it, I guess I'll never know for sure.

WARNING - Don't buy under any circumstance. This is a total rip-off.  There is nothing blu-ray about this.  No wide screen, no sharp picture, nothing.  It was unbearable to watch.  I'll be sending this back to Amazon right away.  I don't even care that much if they give me any money back, I just want to get this god-awful thing out of my house. This will be the first thing I have ever returned to Amazon after purchasing I don't know how much stuff.  Love Amazon, but they should not even be offering this without a product warning attached.

Would watch again on a bet I agree that Daniel Craig is an excellent Bond. Even with the poor storyline I would watch this movie because I enjoy his portrayal. I also agree the ridiculous storyline about wanting to control the some water supply is weak and contrived and that there is nothing memorable about this movie. I was saddened by how uninteresting this film really was, even with Daniel and the action sequences... and I'm pretty lenient when it comes to story if the action is good and the eye candy acceptable ;-). So for me to say I probably wouldn't watch this again unless on a bet is pretty bad.  I guess I'll just have to rewatch Casino Royale until the next Bond film comes out... and pray they have a better story line!

Bling Bling I did not want the movie in this format. When I realized I made a mistake  I could not change my order. I have never watched the movie. Not only did I waste money on this purchase. I never saw the movie I was looking forward to.

PASOLINI for the masses? IF this is common fare for our brain-numbed tweens and teens - why not double-bill this 24/7 with "SALO" - same premise - different period???

bollywood movie my ass I was looking for a romantic Bollywood movie bout an underdog winning a girls heart. I was expecting a performance a notch below SRK. Boy was I wrong. This movie has more English lines than Indian, da songs are terrible, the dialogue even worse, and priyanka Chopra's acting is simply unbearable. Simply put if u are a fan of old school Hindi movies such as KKHH, DDLJ, KKKG, RNBDJ, etc, and are seeking similar romantic Indian entertainment than run in the opposite direction if this movie. I wasted 2hrs if my life with this garbage, save your 2hrs for anything else.

Worst pirates I've ever seen I had never seen this movie or read Robert Louis Stevenson's book, although I may have seen a different movie version and read the first chapter or two of the novel - both of which I forgot many years ago. A couple of days ago I found myself in the mood for a pirate movie and got this one from the library. There are classic movies about pirates, classic movies about deserted islands, classic movies about buried treasure. Unfortunately Disney's Treasure Island is not a classic movie if by classic you mean good or entertaining.  This is the most boring and stupid pirate movie I have ever seen, and one of the worst adventures I've seen as well. Watching this one thinks that Disney must ruin everything they touch, but try to remember that movies from the same era like Swiss Family Robinson and Davey Crockett were actually good. The actors in this movie are terrible - every single one of them manages to overplay and underplay their part at the same time. Long John Silver should be frightening and talk with a YARRR growling voice, but instead he comes off as a half-drunk Irish clown in training. The boy can't act either. The screenwriters and director completely butchered this story to the point where it doesn't make sense. The ocean and island both look like manufactured lots at Disneyland. The action scenes are hokey, but at least they show blood.  This movie is so boring that I kept falling asleep off-and-on through the last half hour. My fiancee only kept watching to get it over with. We both hated it. Painfully, dreadfully, excruciatingly boring film. Worst pirates ever. Veggie Tales "pirates who don't do anything" are cooler pirates. Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster missionaries are cooler pirates. Freaking Muppets are cooler pirates. These pirates all need to be keel-hauled.

Unbelievable, Unexciting The storyline is slow with many action scenes being simply unbelievable.  I cannot recommend anyone watch this show, which is sad because the show concept could be very fun.

I can't finish about one-tenth of one percent of the movies I watch... The Maze (Steve Shimek, 2010)  I'm sure, if I looked really really hard, I could have found a worse way to start off the day's movie-watching than The Maze, a worthless direct-to-video mess from Steve Shimek, whose major claim to fame is Dragon Wars (to which, I am pained to report, a sequel is being filmed as we speak). But off the top of my head, I can't imagine how. Let me put it this way: I've seen thousands of movies over the years. My spreadsheet lists 2,854 as of right now, and I know there are a lot missing from that list I saw before I started keeping a record back in the mid-nineties. Before today, there were eight films on that list I haven't seen all the way through; they were simply so awful I couldn't finish watching them. Now, there are nine. I finished watching such execrable messes as Spiker, The Living Impaired, the recent remake of It's Alive, Open Water 2, and Zombies Ate My Neighbours: The Movie (the highest film I've actually watched all the way through on my 100 Worst Films of All-Time list; it's at #2). But this? Nope. It joins the smallest subset in my entire movie-watching career.  There is a plot to it, though it's one of those plots that can be summed up in one sentence: five kids break into a corn maze one night and find there's a killer in there with them. And I rush to add that movies with plots this simple can be done correctly, and are on a fairly regular basis. But if plot is not going to be the main strength of your film, you have to have something to balance that out. Bela Tarr makes plotless films all the time, and they're fantastic because the characters are so finely-detailed that you can't help but be drawn into their day-to-day lives. Tarr is also a true auteur with the camera, the kind of guy who makes every shot pregnant with meaning. And yes, I realize it's ludicrous to even think about comparing Steve Shimek with Bela Tarr. I certainly didn't go into this expecting Satantango. But still, it's illustrative of my point: when you don't have plot, you need something else. This movie has nothing. The characters are badly-acted cardboard cutouts. You can find more nuanced and dimensional characters in a random Steven Seagal film. The camerawork is competent at best (and it is rarely at its best). The soundtrack exists, which is the best thing I can say about it. The set is, well, a corn maze. I've seen a couple of other horror flicks try to use a corn maze as a set, and it has yet to actually work. But here's the real kicker. At no point, at least at no point during the hour of this mess I was able to choke down, is there even the merest iota of tension or suspense. Given that this is supposed to be a horror film, or at least a slasher-film actioner, that is an unforgivable sin. (zero)

scorpion king 3 I was expecting a pretty good movie as I enjoyed 1&2.Wow was I disappointed no plot rambling story line.Lots of action but it sucked,poorly done.Billy Zane could have phoned in a better performance I think he "under the influence" or just brain dead.

boring, slow, & rediculous this movie was boring it's slow from start to finish & it's totally rediculous it's a waste of money & a waste of time pass on this one

What a waste!! What a waste of time! After viewing the original I had higher expectations for the new director's cut. With all the flashbacks it was difficult to follow what was going on at certain times. Keep your finger on the fast forward button, this is the only way to watch this film.

Save your money This movie is barely watchable for several reasons.  The first is that most of it is shot in near-total darkness, so it is hard to know what exactly is going on.  The second is that it is even harder to care.  There are two main characters: an elderly priest, played by Anthony Hopkins, who casts out devils while chewing the scenery, and a young seminarian, who has "doubts", and keeps asking for some evidence that devils actually exist.  Has nobody ever told him that belief in devils is a Properly Basic Belief for which no evidence is required?  There is also an instantly forgettable female journalist, and a few children who provide the typical "look, I'm possessed" stunts that about 90% of modern teenagers can probably do.  Add an unsurprising plot twist and a happy ending, and that's it.  The only scary thing about the movie is that millions of supposedly sane people actually believe this rubbish.  Finally, if you do decide to buy it, be advised that you had best be proficient in latin and italian, because - at least the VCD version I bought - the producers evidently believe that subtitles are also the invention of the Devil.

Watch out! Badly authored Blu-ray disk may not work Can't tell whether the movie is any good or not. The disk is so badly authored that my top-flight disk player won't play it at all.

Not so Hot! sometimes the disc would load, most of the time it would not, it jamed the machine and I had to unplug the player to get it to re set, other 3D titles played fine so there was something wrong with this disc.  On one attempt it did load but there was no 3D effects, we went through the entire movie, the tv stayed in 3D mode and activated the 3D glasses but there was no 3D effect...... something clearly wrong so I sent it back, Amazon is a great company and as such they were great taking the defective title back, I did not re-order another of the same movie.  I also had purchased the 3D TV and dvd player from Amazon at a great price as always.

Not worth the time to watch............ I just watched this movie on a recorded DVD a friend owns. I'm not sure where his original copy came from. UNLESS the DVDs offered here have added time and added scenes and longer torture views with close-ups, I can only say the following!  They are posturing asses, I've seen worse in a lot of movies. The acting is awful!  As usual when there are subtitles the actor talks for 2 minutes and the sub states " huh". Come on!!!! As for any fear factor, there isn't any. I've had more fear crossing the street in midtown Manhattan. The version I watched didn't have any extras, ie: interviews with director, cast etc. Just the movie! It was 734.2 mb in size and 1 hour 51 min 49 sec long. My recommendation is if you are thinking of buying this, donate the cash to charity. Don't waste it on this piece of whatever.

damaged DVD This product was very disappointing. I knew it was second hand but it was almost impossible to enjoy watching it as there were so many gaps and breaks

Horrible movie Knowing that the book is ALWAYS better than the movie I watched the movie with caution. I curious to see how the story would be shown. Well, what I watched was not even close to the novel.It is a completely different story with small pieces of the book thrown in. So very disappointing. The movie is HORRIBLE! If you enjoyed the book, don't bother with the movie.

Worst zombie movie I have seen in a long time. I watch a lot of zombie movies. I know they are not usually the highest of quality but this is the worst. The story line has nothing to it and the main characters are horrible. You actually just want them to do die almost immediately. The movie is not even so bad its funny. It is just poorly written and poorly made. Me and my husband could not even finish it. Very sad and lame movie.

A FRANKFUL BORE If you must have this film, wait 'til it's sold for a penny. That's all it's worth. None of it makes any sense, it's the sort of boring viewing which makes you wonder why you're wasting your precious time.

Unmitigated poppycock! This is some of the worst nonsense I have ever seen.  There is not a particle of truth in it from beginning to end.  The facts about President Obama's father are better supported than those of almost any candidate in the past century. While I can understand that there are people who produce this kind of "fairy tale" in the hope of a moment's fame, I cannot comprehend why anyone would be taken in by it.

WORST MOVIE EVER Although we all like to see the pretty people fail, mental breakdowns are not very amusing when they hit the two hour mark.  You will need Xanax to recover from this movie.

do not buy When I first saw the previews of this movie I thought this film was going to be great. When I finally saw it i was very disappointed. The acting is terrible, scenes are very predictable. Overall just terrible film. Its like they try to remake single white female except it takes place in college.

Avoid this! This movie was so poorly written. There are just too many things bad about it to even list them. The good things? Betty White had some funny lines and the last scene with her and Cloris Leachman was funny. The dancing scenes and the revenge tactics were just silly and not needed. What a waste of not only a good cast but there was a possibility of a cute movie that was ruined by horrible writing.

How to ruin an otherwise beautiful opera This is K. 111, an early pastoral Opera by a youthful Mozart, setting to music an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Parini.  This DVD from the M22 collection shares with the others in the boxset the strong technical qualities of good image and DTS sound; I won't add any more comments on the technical side.  Adam Fisher conducts in 2006 the Orchester des Nationaltheaters Mannheim.  Iris Kupke is Venus, Sonia Prina is Ascanio, Marie-Belle Sandis is Silvia, Diana Damrau is Fauno, Charles Reid is Aceste, Christian Banzhaf is Voyager 1, and Katharina V&ouml;tter is Voyager 2 (these "voyagers" are the narrators, see below).  The Chor des Nationaltheaters Mannheim is terrific, as is the orchestra. Singing, as in all other discs of this series I've watched so far, is excellent across the board.  Again, the stage director (David Hermann) adopts the annoying concept of substituting spoken German narration for Mozart's recitativo accompagnato. We get two narrators, one male and one female. I didn't like this solution before in other DVDs of this boxset, and I continue to dislike it here.  More Regie stupidities are present in the predilection for epileptic seizures this staging seems to have. Chorus members, actors, narrator often engage in seizure-like movements, when they're not behaving like zombies or Frankensteins, sometimes under stroboscopic lights (I guess they want to induce seizures in the audience as well). Why do these idiotic stage directors think that such shenanigans are cool? It's a mystery. I can't fathom who advises these folks or applauds them when they do such things. I have impulses of slapping them silly and making them write 200 times on a blackboard: "I am dumb and I do dumb stagings."  The poor chorus members are very much abused by the stage director. Some sort of chorus singers union should file a law suit. They have to wear silly mustaches, carry around pots of fern (why?), engage in - what else? - seizures, while trying to sing sublimely (they do manage the latter).  If you can get past the silly and annoying staging plus the narrators interrupting the beautiful music all the time to describe the action in a language different from the original one adopted by the libretto, then you may enjoy the musical aspects of this piece. You get a very good orchestra expertly conducted, a very good chorus, and very good singers singing beautiful arias.  Diana Damrau looks impossibly cute as Fauno, and steals the show in her aria Se il labbro pi&ugrave; non dice, which she sings while she is pushed around on a swing. It's her on the cover picture, but the picture doesn't do her justice. She looks cuter on the DVD. Unfortunately, Diana sings only twice, it's a small role. When she comes back for her second aria (which she sings just as well) it's exactly the same set-up with the swing. I guess the director ran out of more "clever" ideas to make it different, but one is thankful that he didn't make Diana have a seizure. She does give to the narrator a pair of 3D glasses at the end of the aria. Oh wow, bravo, Mr. Hermann, this was *really* artistic, 3D glasses, how clever! There are some geometric figures on the floor drawn on green and red so supposedly if the audience wears 3D glasses as well they'll be treated to some squares and rectangles in 3D. This certainly makes Mozart's music much better, right, Mr. Hermann? Oh boy... By the way, don't be fooled by the cover picture - Diana's two scenes are the *only* moments in this production when the visuals are not utterly ridiculous. Everything else goes downhill from that.  Contralto Sonia Prina in the title role does very well in vocal terms - if only she didn't have to engage in jerky movements all the time like a half-finished Frankenstein...  The costumes seem to be aiming for some sort of contest to pick the most ridiculous and silly looking garments, and they do a good job at that.  The tenor singing Aceste has a very beautiful soaring voice, but the poor guy has to wear a fur jacket. His character is a priest. One wonders why in the hell a priest downs a fur jacket. Whatever.  Marie-Belle Sandis in the role of Silvia has mostly a beautiful voice, with some failures (see below). Again, I'm impressed with how this festival was able to book scores of excellent but unknown singers.  So here is the bottom line. Some imbecile named David Hermann thought - "I'll look very clever if I stage this opera with ridiculous costumes that have nothing to do with the libretto, and add to the mix lots of seizures and robotic jerking - it will be certainly received as high art. The bad part is that there's this annoying music by this old timer Wolfgang, so let me throw in a couple of narrators to interrupt it at all times so that the public doesn't get distracted by the silly music and pays attention instead to my clever high art."  The only thing that saves Mr. Hermann's production from being one of the worst fiascoes of all times is a group of stubbornly talented singers and musicians who in spite of all the abuse can still render beautifully Wolfgang's excellent arias, choral music, and terrific overture.  Not recommended, unless you rip off the sound track, edit out the narrators' voices, and just listen to the singers and the orchestra. Since this would be too much work, just get a CD of this opera instead; there are six or seven options in the market, and you'll be spared all the silliness.  Edit - at the very end in the final trio both the tenor and the soprano show some vocal strain, so I'm bringing down a notch my enthusiasm for the singing. The contralto continues to do well until the end. Hey, but on the other hand, the stage director treats us to gym mats and the narrators keep walking around, tripping on them and falling, how clever. This certainly makes up for any vocal strain, you know, people tripping and falling, that's funny, right? No? Yeah, I didn't think so either. What a mess of a staging.  In the "Making Of" bonus feature, the stage director and the set/costume designer Christof Hetzer (who should share the blame for this mess) say that they were given "the freedom to change the work." You mean, to ruin the work, right? Why in the hell did you think that Mozart's work needed changing???  I'm also very disappointed in Mr. Fischer. As a seasoned conductor, he should show more respect for Mozart's work. He says in his interview that the way the stage director changed the piece, it helped because then Mozart's recitatives didn't sound silly. Really, Mr. Fischer? Because I think they weren't silly to start with, but your underlings made it so. Talk about denial! As the musical director, sir, it was your responsibility to preserve the musical integrity of this production, and you failed to do so.

Terrible movie-waste of money One of the poorest excuses for a movie.  I love Joe Flanigen, but this movie was so bad.  It looks great, but trust me, the production must have been done on a dime.

Worst movie I have ever seen! Wow, I've seen some real stinkers in my time but this has to be by far the biggest steaming pile of excrement of them all! To those who haven't seen this yet, I recommend you don't waste 92 minutes of your lives on this like I did. I could go into further detail about why this movie is so terrible but I've got better things to do, just check out the other 1 star reviews on here.

Most overrated movie that I have seen in a LONG TIME I bought this DVD based upon the rave reviews that were published when it was first released. OMG! This is the worst piece of garbage that I had seen in years. It was so bad, that I could not force myself to watch the entire movie. I ejected it from my dvd player and promptly threw it out.

Only enjoyed about 5 min. of the movie This movie has been a waste of my time, even my little brother fell asleep while watching it. I had to wake him up and leave after about 40 min of watching.

Utter garbage. This flick was a total waste of my time. a "suspense" film should be full of twists and turns, surprises and secrets. "The Woman In Black" is anything but. It is about as straight line as a freeway, and about as exciting and intriguing as the same freeway during rush hour traffic. If you like Harry Potter, I'm sure you'll love this. If you'll watch anything once, go and watch this...however, if you like quality flicks, you'll regret this one.

Don't bother Don't ruin the visual you created from reading the books with watching this movie.  The movie actor/actresses just don't do the books' justice.  Someone should have looked a LOT closer at the selection of who played Staphanie, Ranger, Grandma Mazur...well, actually the whole cast.  Really...so sorry I watched this - now I have this sad visual of the book characters.  Stick to the books.

Great Movie, Horrendous DVD John Wayne...Kate Hepburn...Strother Martin...how could it not be a great movie, but...the quality of the DVD couldn't have been any worse.  Since this film is several decades old and stars many great actors, I do not need to review the film itself so I will stick strictly to the product and how it is presented.  The transfer is terrible.  The aspect ratio should be correct but it doesn't play right on a HD LCD widscreen TV.  It plays in a small box with black bars all around and no amount of fiddling with the setup changes that.  The film transfer is loaded with scratches and color drop-outs which is a shame because this film was beautifully shot in some amazing scenery.  Don't waste your money , even at 4.99, on this movie.  spend the extra dough and get a better transfer or wait until the Blu-ray release.

Just Bad.... This is just a bad bad bad movie...if this is the best women get then we are getting shafted. Very few funny parts and I want my time back :)

SUCKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS THIS ALSO SUCK I WAS LOOKING FOR REAL AUTOPSY VIDEOS THAT SHOW THE REAL THING JUST A WAST OF MY MONEY IT ALSO WANT IN THE TRASH................

LOL...popcorn? Ok, so I watch a lot of stupid movies in order to fill a ballot of my personal awards that I pressure myself into making accurate and legitimate.  I'm a `lists junkie' and I feel the need to categorize and catalog what I feel is the best of the best.  It's like my own variation of ADD.  In that attempt, I often find the dumbest films in categories like `Sound' and `Visual Effects' because, well, it's hard to find a truly inspired film that uses those effects as a showcase.  So, while looking for films from 1991 to see, I stumbled upon `F/X2' and I thought, `I bet this will have some great special effects'.  I was half right.  One cannot expect the special effects to be as top notch as recent ones because, well, this is a 90's film.  The effects are going to be dated.  Sadly, in a year that brought us `T2: Judgment Day' and `The Rocketeer', I was expecting something bigger, bolder and better.  Instead, I got a slew of gimmicky effects and some stripped down action sequences that were cheesy and rather laughable.  I mean, I thought this was an action thriller, but beating someone up with a mechanical clown, while unique, wasn't exactly thrilling, and then beating someone up with grocery hams was downright hilarious (in a bad way).  The effects towards the end get better (when there are actual explosions) but the tense scenes are overrode by terrible acting and dialog ("what if I made a copy"...intrigued mean face..."did you?") to the point where the film just isn't interesting; like, at all.  Thankfully Brian Dennehy is charismatic and holds our attention for a while, but the obviousness of this film is bland and the overall impact is extremely poor.  And honestly, what is this film's obsession with food?

WILL THE PRODUCERS PLEASE COMMIT HARI-KARI? This collection of discs mostly contains static-camera recordings of symposia presentations. The sound quality is far from tolerable and the content borders on incomprehensible or silly. This is not even high-school level material for an introduction of any of the topics. Most people on camera are extremely poor at providing any significant information or even have the ability to provide a decent lecture. If one has never heard of Roger Leir, Travis Walton, or Billy Meier, this is not the way to become acquainted with them as they themselves are indeed worthy of attention. Various non-symposia interviews suffer, too, from a tacit silliness of production. Then there are the negligible segments that are advertisements for people, books, or other videos masquerading as contributions.  If there are people whom you detest, it might be entertaining to tie them up and force them to watch all three discs. Seriously, I've never come across anything quite this unsavory and insulting to all who purchase it.

Gloomy!!! Very disapointed in this movie.  Was very hard to sit through. Certainly would not watch it a 2nd time.  The sexual content ruined this movie and limits the people you can share it with.  We cannot add this to our movie collection and will toss it into the trash can.

Unviewable Ok if the area code was on there at order time i would not have purchased it. Please show area codes upon selection AMAZON. A B OR C PLEASE. CANNOT WATCH IT.

Oh,the HACKING horror This guy needs to get a grip (sorry for the golf pun).  I'm 62 and have a 1.6 handicap and actually have a golf swing unlike this guy.  Embarrassing.  Interesting that one of the golf courses shown as a backdrop in the film is Silver Rock in Palm Springs where they play some of the Bob Hope professional golf tournament.  Its 7,500 yards of wicked challenge that a guy like this in the documentary wouldn't even break 100 on and yet he has the arrogance to think he can play professional golf with the big guys who break par on that sucker.  Yup, this guy moved on to the national amateur championship for the GOLF CHANNEL HOGAN FLIGHT!!! which meant he was a 8 to 11.9 handicap at the time and he played against a bunch of weekend hackers who were just out for a good time.  I just played the Nicklaus Ritz-Carlton in Tucson where they play the Accenture Match Play in the winter and its an impossible 7,800 yards for someone at my level and I could whip this guy cold.  He needs to show a little more respect for just how incredibly good the big guys are on tour and the professional women as well who would make mince meat of a hack like this guy.  I'm a 1.6 handicap and I've always thought that if there was a crippled senior tour where some of the greats were playing out of wheel chairs I might be able to make the bottom rung of that tour.  At least I'm realistic.

NO AUDIO on BluRay movie...Shame on you Warner Bros. I purchased this set and the only problem is with the audio on the BluRay version of the movie. Everything else works on the BluRay as well as the DVD. The DVD movie plays fine however I cannot get the BluRay audio to work within the movie. It will play in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese etc but not English. The BluRay player is new and yes, I did upgrade the software to the most current version. It is a new Samsung BluRay player and all other BluRay's work fine.

SOMETHING DREADFUL !! Even by HGL standards, this movie is a complete disappointment.  It is all  bad in every respect - it even fails to be amusing in its badness. If by some bizarre magic, one were actually able to consider BLOOD FEAST to be the pinnacle of movie-making, SOMETHING WEIRD would fall at the very bottom.  The basic plot concept has some promise, but the acting throughout sounds as if the actors were reading their lines for the first time after a night of no sleep. In fact, the best thing about this DVD is the cover.  Unfortunately, actress Elizabeth Lee never looks so pretty at any point in the film, not even in the scene from which the cover is taken.  This is mainly the result of horrible, garish makeup, especially around the eyes.  The potential viewer should pull a copy of the cover off the internet and avoid a waste of money and time.  (I gave this one star only because one cannot award less than that.)

Very Disappointed The theme music is not the standard that I think that we all remember.  Only buy this video if you are into the early and I do mean early shows.  See the list of shows posted by an earlier reviewer on this video.  Maybe I should wait for the one that says the LAST 34 shows, now that one I would enjoy and at least the theme music would be the music that I remembered.

In space no one can hear you yawn... I have been reviewing on Amazon for 13 years, have posted almost 1600 reviews, including those for several hundred movies, am a former Top 50 reviewer (under the original ranking system, not the new one, which rates you higher the more positive votes you get, and so discourages more objective and especially justifiably negative reviews), and this is one of the few times I've ever given anything a one-star review.  First of all, I admit to being easily entertained when it comes to movies and am not that critical of them usually, and if a movie has ANYTHING going for it at all I usually rate it three stars. To earn a two-star or one-star rating from me a movie really has to be almost incredibly bad with practically no redeeming qualities at all.  Unfortunately I have to admit that this movie manages that in spades. If the movie was actually worth watching, the shaky, jerky, amateurish camera work a la the "Blair Witch Project" and other similar "found footage" movies might have been forgivable, but in this case just manages to make the increasingly implausible and nonsensical plot and story line even more annoying to watch.  &lt;&lt;Spoiler alert!!!>>  Three astronauts are sent to the moon on a dangerous secret mission without being told by the DOD what they're up against. This makes no sense at all. We know this since the deputy director of defense admits they understood the situation and what happened to the Russian astronauts before the American astronauts arrived.  As time goes on (at least the movie does a decent job of building up the suspense, I'll give it that much) the threat is eventually revealed to be a bizarre new life form that looks like ordinary moon rocks--except that they can suddenly sprout legs, climb into your space suit, and eat your face. Horrors.  When the you-know-what hits the proverbial fan (hard to do in an airless environment but this movie manages even that) the director tells the two remaining astronauts that they've been contaminated and that they can't be recovered. Really? Maybe they should have told them the Russian astronauts had encountered a deadly threat so that they could have taken steps to protect themselves in the first place.  The desolate Lunar landscape is rendered realistically, though, as well as the interior scenes of the landing module. At least that much came off well. But the movie takes a long time to ramp up and once it gets going--basically in the last 30 minutes--it's almost over. Fortunately.  As an homage to the sci-fi and horror genre of the 50s and 60s with its cheesy monsters, bad acting, silly plots, and hokey special effects, this movie might be forgivable, but even "Plan 9 from Outer Space" manages to be entertaining in its bumbling sort of way, which this movie is not. If you're looking for "Plan 10 1/2 from Outer Space" then this movie might be for you. Otherwise commit it to the depths of space from whence hopefully it will never return--or at least, like Haley's Comet--only once every 76 years. ;-(

Bad bad bad bad bad............... "Green Lantern" is one of the worst superhero movies I've ever seen. There are almost no redeeming qualities, and it is a painful, if sometimes unintentionally comical viewing experience. The dialogue is abysmal, the visual effects subpar, the performances weak, and the story limp.  Green Lantern is a superhero I didn't know too much about going in. The opening of the film tries to compact an entire series' worth of comic book lore into a three-minute jumble of exposition. Basically, it's explained that there are a a couple thousand protectors of the universe called the Green Lantern Corps. They wear green rings that are powered by green lanterns, which give the wearer the power to create anything that they can imagine (sword, machine gun, giant fist, etc.). The Lanterns are kind of like Jedi, using the Force (green energy) as a weapon against the Dark Side (the yellow lanterns of fear). The Lanterns are ruled by a council of elder aliens who sit atop large pillars. Whether they sit there constantly or just during meetings is unclear.  Ryan Reynolds plays Hal Jordan, the cocky pilot who has been "chosen" by the ring to be the next Green Lantern. The whole story operates under an inherently silly premise, and one which clearly is more easily visualized in comic book form, so I can sympathize to an extent with the hurdle the filmmakers had to cross to try and make it seem legitimate. However, they approached it the wrong way, relying too heavily on Ryan Reynolds' jokey persona to poke fun at how asinine everything around him is. "I pledge allegiance to a lantern, that was given to me by a dying purple alien", he stutters. And later, "I always knew I'd be a green supercop, defending the universe".  Ryan Reynolds may have the body type for the Green Lantern, but he was probably not the perfect casting choice for this movie, or even a decent casting choice. Reynolds is one of those guys you tend to like in spit of yourself; yes, he seems like an egotistical douche, but in the right set of circumstances, he can be charming. Needless to say, this movie does not have the right set of circumstances. He's even more of an ass than usual in this film, awkwardly infusing humor at every possible moment, and cheesing up the melodrama in the more dramatic scenes.  The main villain of "Green Lantern" is a giant space blob that feeds on fear, called Parallax. It's a shapeless blob that has a disembodied head floating amongst the goop. I would talk about what a lame, uninteresting villian it is, but I'm too distracted by the fact that it's a direct rip-off of Hexxus, the villain from FernGully: The Last Rainforest. Martin Campbell, you've come a long way from "Casino Royale".

Dumb Movie What a dumb  movie, horrible story line and pathetic acting . If you got 2 hours you would like to waste and you got nothing better to do in your life, then this is movie for you.

Ham-handed direction, unnecessary film I decided to place my pre-conceived feelings on the film aside and watch "LET ME IN" with a friend to see how it held up as a movie, and (obviously) to the original film. Without getting long-winded, I walked away with this as my overall feeling: the director (Matt Reeves) did nothing on his own to make this film work. He re-created a lot of the same scenes and shots, and stylistically made the film look similar to the original, but in a way that felt forced, and knock-off, ham-handed and amateur. The care didn't seem to be there for each shot, the painstaking craftsmanship was gone, and what was left was a shell of a film, with it's only legs being the memory of its predecessor. I can't recommend the film to anyone, and would implore you to watch the original (LET THE RIGHT ONE IN) to see what a beautiful, and unique movie experience is supposed to feel like.  Truly disappointed, and put off.

Movie Quit in middle and wouldn't reload. Watched movie till halfway point and then just quit playing. Tried several times with no success and even moved to a different machine. Only paid $ 5 so I should have suspected something. Not worth the effort to mail back to seller.

displeased I was not happy at all with this order. When i ordered this product there was no identifier that it was a European version. So when I went to play it on my dvd player it did not recognize the disc.

Brutally dumbass crap!!!! This film is without doupt, in my opinion the single most terribly directed movie of all movies I have seen in the past 11 years, and believe me, there has been a lot. I cannot honestly picture just what got Wes Graven and team to produce the whole thingy in the first place. Well, because I haven't read any interview or anything taken with him and the film crew which might explain all the fuss and all the mess. The five star reviews here must definately be by people who really like this film. Well I don't. I feel this is no attack on the senses and that the worst part of the film is the music. Wes Graven knew he had done much better movies than My Soul To Take (consider A Nightmare On Elm Street. The music sucked, the film sucked, they forgot to let the guy make his promise - I cannot honestly know if I saw any part of the 10 or 20 minutes or so I saw of the film, that was up to any good. If the universe has an explanation for what went wrong, maybe Stephen W. Hawking has the answer. Hollywood, what is the matter with you?

status of the dead Anyone interested in the current status of RETURN...DEAD should check out their cable stations.  I'm not sure of the station, but I made a DVD hardcopy (not in HD of course) of the broadcast.  It runs roughly 90 minutes and is absolutely complete, down to the music and dialogue, with all proper music credits at the end.  It's HD, but the sort mentioned in the reviews of the Blu-Ray.  Nothing to write home about, but comfortable enough to read the eye-chart in the office early on.  It's the first time I noticed it, in fact.  With all I've been reading, I'm not likely to buy a copy yet.  Even my old laserdic was complete.  Things are supposed to be getting better about music rights (though we know why we never saw Wiseguy's 'Dead Dog' arc on disc)

Ridley Scott blows it with this one Ridley Scott has certainly directed some great films, but this one is wretched.  The visuals are interesting, but the plot is confused, the screenplay is terrible, the acting is mediocre, and it's full of holes both in the plot and in the overall conceptualization of the story.  It's like a series of science fiction movie cliches strung together almost randomly.  The occasional allusions to issues of human origins and meaning do not add anything, they just make it sillier.  The best way to watch it would be to turn the sound off and enjoy the set designs.

Still not received. Over 3 weeks late. I would love to review this product but un fortunately I have yet to receive it. I ordered it over 2 months ago. I am very disappointed with this seller.

Delivered from the United Kingdom in PAL format. After traveling to San Francisco and touring many of the local sites, we wanted to see the video of Esacpe From Alcatraz. We ordered the movie from Amazon and it was delivered in a format not usable in the United States.  We have attempted to view the DVD in more than one player including a premium unit. No use at all.  I would recommend that everyone pay VERY close attention to any fine print before you orded any DVD's on Amazon.  One would think that ordering in the U.S. for the U.S. one would receive a DVD in the correct format.  Will not order DVD's on Amazon again. Sorry.

SUPER BAD WOW! What a bad movie. The movie opens with a bar tender taking a girl to a house where she is killed and eaten raw. We then go to the credits and three people show up at the same house wanting to hunt for ghosts...which they find. The cannibals are ghouls, trapped inside the house. If you enjoyed low budget 80's super VHS horror films, this one will make you feel at home.  Sex, Nudity (Carol Rose Carver, Vida Ghaffari?)

Rat's talking to a dead person thru movie This could have been a good movie. It started out good, and was very funny. Lot's of laugh's, however, when the rat started talking to the dead cook as a ghost in his imagination....something just didn't sit well with me on that.   Adults, okay, you get it, but is this something I want my young children contemplating? That maybe they can talk and have conversations with imaginary dead people. What a shame, the sneaky filth they try to fill our Children with.

ANYONE WHO UNDERSTANDS "FILM," WILL HATE THIS I'm going to finish this show because I spent like $40 on the darn thing, BUT ... &lt;spoiler alerts ahead> ... halfway through, I'm desperately scrambling to find some reason to like it.  I mean ... quick ... name your top 5 favorite horror films of all time. Name what you see as the critically recognizable best top 10 horror films of all time. Know what all 10 of these films have in common? YOU LIKE AT LEAST ONE FRIGGIN CHARACTER! I mean, sheesh! Every last person in this thing - over hours and hours - fails to present one scene that makes you care if they live or have their heads chopped off!  Obviously, every last dead character is detestable. And the neighbor, Jessica Lange, is supposed to be detestable (telling her daughter to spit into a cupcake for the neighbors; locking her mentally challenged daughter in a closet with mirrors, etc....).  But our three living house owners are also all horrible human beings. The daughter is BEYOND rotten to the core. She's falling for a dead, Columbine killer clone ... so much so that she lies about her mom's trauma AND orchestrates it so that her mom is stuck in a house that is destroying her. I could go on and on and on. She is, in my oppinion, the most detestable of all the characters though.  And then there's the mom. Look, the husband cheated. That sucks and it's a jerky thing to do. But, she doesn't spend even one scene trying to be nice to him. She screams at him every friggin episode. She drives him from the house, she whines incessantly. She tries to move to Boston with the daughter. She. Is. Awful. HORRIFIC.  The dad's probably the best character. But he sure doesn't make you smile and he did cheat on her wife.  Horrific.  Please. Someone please tell me - give me a reason - to like any character in this thing, some reason to root for these guys. Anything?

Not deep enough as far as this viewer is concerned GOING UNDERCOVER(1988) Directed and Written by James Kenelm Clarke.   Starring Chris Lemmon, Jean Simmons, Viveca Lindfors, Michael Gothard, Adam West and Lea Thompson.   A bumbling Los Angeles Private Investigator is hired to be the bodyguard of the bratty yet attractive daughter of a famous scientist as she takes a cultural tour of Europe. Soon he finds himself entangled in a Soviet plot to control the weather.   A simply hideous "comedy" spy thriller that is wretched on every possible level save one. When 80s films went bad, they went bad in grueling ways and this film is as good...bad example as any. Overlit, cheap looking, badly edited, subliterate script and just boring, the film also poorly acted by a resigned cast incapable of doing anything with the material and a lead whose talent is extremely suspect. It is truly depressing to see Simmons, Gothard and West trapped in this thing. West must have had his name taken off the credits since his appearance was a complete surprise.   The only.........and I do mean ONLY bright spot is Lea Thompson as the bratty scientist's daughter. Though why coming out of RED DAWN and in the middle of the BACK TO THE FUTURE trilogy, she agreed to appear in this horror, I cannot say but whenever she is on the screen, the dreary proceedings perk up considerably. Sexy, radiant and surprisingly well dressed and coifured considering how garage sale the rest of the costumes appear, it is obvious that she is a star and going places. Meanwhile it is equally obvious that Chris Lemmon---Jack's son----is not.   Agonizing.   Save for Thompson completists, no recommendation.

Not a set This is a great price for a nice, bare bones collection of movies, which is perfectly fine by me. What is not fine by me is the fact that some of these movies were wide screen and some were full screen. A few had auto-play while others had previews. I don't mind if they're simply reprints of the original releases, but they could have at least been consistent with the products they reprinted. I am the kind of person who has to have wide screen, and wants things within a set to have the same basic functions (especially when advertised as such); please bear this in mind as you take in this information.  Also, the set that I received had five damaged discs; no physical damage or dust on the discs themselves, but they would not play past ten minutes into the movie, and some could not access secondary menus. This grievance is specific to the set I received, but buyer beware.  I will be returning this item and waiting for the next (likely more expensive, sadly) release of a Harry Potter boxed set.

Annoying, weird story lines, and one "scary" part We borrowed this DVD from the library and rushed to return it after one viewing.  The DVD bothered us so much that I had to peek on Amazon to see what others thought of it.  I was shocked to find everyone on here loving it with 5-star reviews!  My daughter (almost 3yrs) liked this DVD enough (except for the scary part, which I'll get back to), but I tend to form my opinions of DVDs based on how well the whole family, or at least one parent, can sit through it with the kid.  My gripes are as follows:  1) Horrible character voices - breathy, high pitched, whiny, baby sounds like nails on a chalkboard for me.  2) Strange story lines - girl steals mother's locket, and in the end the mother is just fine with it.  Mother gives young girl her baby sister to take to school for show and tell.  Girl loses baby sister.  Yikes!  I know I shouldn't take it so seriously, but I sort of do.  3) A statue head/face slowly cracks and falls off, which terrified my daughter.  For the second time in her life, she clapped her hands over her eyes desperately (the first time was for a giraffe skull at the zoo).  This is my first time reviewing a kids' DVD.  I suppose I felt I had to offer another perspective to balance out all the 5-star reviews.  I will never get another Angelina Ballerina DVD!

Why not join the 21st century? Movie is great and well worth the watch, this a review on this packaging. They should not make Blu Ray/DVD combos in DVD packaging anymore, its a new format it has its own style and yet they offer more plastic for no reason. I blame Disney for this trend since they offer it on most of their re-released titles, but you can't expect to get all your blu-rays this way so why not convert and just order the properly made, Blu-ray in Blu-ray packaging.  That said awesome movie very funny and had a nice message to it with some very funny ladies, buy it in the right packaging, please.

Broken DVD The DVD did not play. I had to search previous left comments to find an address to send the DVD back so I could receive a credit.

Definitely expendable Only view this movie if you don't need to buy it. The most unbelievable part of the movie is at the time I wrote this over 80 people had given it 5 stars. The use of Bruce and Arnold was a total come on and served only to devalue the movie. I wish I had borrowed this from a library instead of paying for it. This movie was definitely expendable.

March of the Wooden Solders Unfortunately the video is not as clear as when it comes on TV during the holidays. I was hoping it would be clearer than when it is shown  on the local channels as it is a Blue ray DVD. It does have the option to be viewed in either black and white or color, but both are not up to standard. Very disappointing, Very bad copy of original.

boring... how can someone sign to do such a bad movie... what a waste of money what a waste of money to produce such a flop. No topic, not creativity, not anything of value... wish i could get my money back... or even further my time wasted on this

Remember Me Sadly, when the DVD arrived and opened, there was a split in the DVD.  Worried about not being believed and having to insure shipping for return, I just discarded the item.  I am truly dissapointed as I paid for the item and didn't even get to view the film, Remember Me.

p'd off <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002OID4VS">The Sopranos: The Complete Series</a>  I just recieved the soprano complete series (or so they claim its complete) last night. The first dvd i inserted was season 2 disc 1 episodes 1 to 3,to coincide with the last program that i watched per my on demand cable service. The dvd was season 4 (a duplicate) doesnt anyone check these. So i checked the rest of the dvd's and lo and behold season 6 part 1 disc 1 episodes 1 to 3 wont read on either of my dvd players (which are 2 months old) nor will my p/c player read this disc. So my so called "COMPLETESET" is missing a total of 6 episodes. Now mind you i havent tested if all the discs will play the episodes as listed. I just checked each one at the index screen.

5 star movie, Blu-ray version has new, awful subtitles This review is for the Blu-ray version of the movie.  I saw this movie in the theater. I own the DVD version. The DVD subtitles match what I remember from the theater.  The subtitles on the Blu-ray are new, and they reduce the dialog in the movie to a bad B grade kung-fu movie.  This is one of my all time favorite movies. I give the movie 5 stars.  If you love this movie as I do, you will be bitterly disappointed with the Blu-ray release.  ---Example: Original theater and DVD dialog  Isn't it a bit late to be out?  You've brought me the sword?  I do as I please.  Where is your master?  What's it to you?  Had enough flying?  You've got potential. You've studied the Wudan manual, but you don't understand it. You need a real master.  Do you think you are a real master?  Like most things, I am nothing. It's the same for this sword. All of it is simply a state of mind.  Stop talking like a monk! Just fight!  then tell me where Jade Fox is.  On guard!  (fighting)  Real sharpness comes without effort.  ---New Blu-ray dialog from the same scene:  Isn't it a little late to be out? You can give the sword to me.  I'll do as I please.  Where's your master?  None of your business!  Had enough flying?  You've got potential, but you've misunderstood Wudang's secret manual quite a bit. You need a real master.  A master like you? It's a meaningless title.  You're right, it's all meaningless. School is meaningless, the secret manual is meaningless, even this sword. It is just a stste of mind  Don't talk like a monk just because you're in a temple. Just fight!  Then tell me where jade Fox is!  Move!  (fighting)  True strength is light as a feather.

gross I've warned my family and friends about this one.  It is very gross.  Fortunately, I was warned in time before ever seeing 2 girls 1 cup, which as I understand it is similar to this.  I'll let you connect the dots.

Wanted it to get better One of those movies that they show you all the funny parts in trailers, really disappointing.  We continued to watch it in hopes that it would get better...Dont waste your time...

Not worth it! Disc's were scratched~skipped & didn't play in the 2 (TWO) different sets I recieved. Amazon was great about refunding full purchace price. Waste of time!

Don't like I normally love all of Jillian's work outs - except this one.  It probably is good if you are completely new to working out, but as far as having already worked out prior - this is not good.  UNLESS you are looking to make sure your form is exactly correct.

Meltdown First, this film is not in Cantonese as mentioned on Amazon, only in English (poorly dubbed). Second, it's a ridiculous satire of Jackie Chan & Bruce Lee and disgusting. Third, Jackie Cheung, imitating Jackie Chan, looks so silly it is difficult to believe that this movie was ever released. Fourth, the only reason to see this movie, if at all, is Jet Li (& that's the reason I bought it) although he does not play as important a role as if I would have liked. In conclusion: Don't buy it!

No The video is of two people clumsily swing a bike around on its back wheel. It reminds me of a fight scene from a home made movie.

Old Format This DVD set is most likely an early edition of Thomas the train as the trains are not animated and the story line is narrated. It is as if someone is videotaping an actual train set and it is completely narrated by a male.

Dealer failed us Item was defective and would not play on any of our three DVD players.  The dealer--not Amazon--would only provide a refund, not a replacement.  We were not given an explanation for that decision.  We are very displeased and will not use that dealer again.

Waste of Money I thought that there would be some actual footage of a triathalon. I was mistaken. Just two guys standing in front of a chalkboard for two hours.  Breathtakingly Boring!  They could have released this on an Audio CD.  No action at all.

Sexy-comment-tette Mae West was the ultimate sex symbol in the 1930s and 1940s. She retired from movies in 1943, and only returned in the 1970s. Unfortunately, she seems to have thought that she could simply pick up where she left off.  And I'm going to try not to be ageist, but her final film, "Sextette," made me squirm -- it's kind of embarrassing watching the octogenarian West awkwardly creaking out double-entendres at men fifty years younger than herself. But the rest of the story is a mess as well, involving an audio tape, the UN, and secret agents.  Movie star/sex symbol Marlo Manners (West) is marrying her sixth husband, British lord Sir Michael Barrington (Timothy Dalton). Their honeymoon is to be spent at a posh hotel, which also happens to be where all the world's leaders are congregating for some kind of conference.  And while Sir Michael embarrasses himself for the press, Marlo is approached by a gaggle of her ex-husbands (including a presumed-dead mobster), all of whom are still desperately in love with her. And her evil manager (Dom Deluise) has convinced her to destroy the audio tape of her memoirs... except he keeps fudging it.  If you've ever read a bad self-insert fanfic, you pretty much know the feeling that "Sextette" inspires... except it also makes you sad to see a great star looking like an awkward, lecherous mummy. It's all about how Marlo is the sexiest creature alive, and everybody with a Y chromosome -- including men SIXTY YEARS YOUNGER -- desperately wants to have sex with her.  Most of the story is devoted just to that. Marlo sashays awkwardly around the hotel, creaking out dialogue mostly made up of double entendres ("Do you get a lot of proposals from your male fans?" "Yeah, and what they propose is nobody's business").  But "Sextette" does try to come up with more of a story... and it's a disaster. It's thin as paper and yet horrible convoluted. It tries to cram in wacky comedy, spy thrills and international intrigue, only to hamfistedly try to wrap them up in the silliest way possible. Also, there is singing. Horrible, awkward singing.  As I mentioned, it's simply saddening to see Mae West as a hollow shell of herself, slathered in mortar-like makeup and looking somewhat mummified. She's also the only actor in this movie who doesn't look heartily ashamed of herself -- Timothy Dalton, Dom Deluise, Tony Curtis, Alice Cooper and the rest all look vaguely embarrassed, as if they can't remember how they got here.  "Sextette" is a little like watching your grandmother make a pass at your boyfriend -- embarrassing and horrendously awkward. Just pretend West never came out of retirement.

Zzzzzzzzzz..................... Please, please if you value the next 90 minutes of your precious life DO NOT WATCH THIS BORING MOVIE. It is pointless, turgid, poorly done, the story line is ridiculous, and the acting dismal.

Teen Angst Populated with even more caricatures than the first film, this batch of creeps never break from type.  Everything about them and the plot is predictable.  Plot.  Excuse me, I give them too much credit.  This was really just a bunch of gory sight gags strung together.  That, and a prom from hell to rival the one in Carrie.  As for the gun toting death squad that rushes in from nowhere, huh?  This was like Porky's only people died.  The animation didn't help the cause either.  Weird, just weird, and not in a good way.

terrible movie This was one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Hanks and Roberts are akward, the story line broken and did not connect. Horrible movie, dont waste your time or money!

In Darkness great movie but sold me as new and it skips and has lots of problems. the story is intriguing and untold so it is nice to see what happened for the people that went into the sewers.

Not funny! Maybe I didn't see the same comedy routine as everyone else but I didn't find this funny at all. I laughed maybe 3 times in a 90 minute routine. Not good....

How terribly, awfully politically-correct The characters are nothing but caricatures, and there is nothing interesting, refreshing or artistic about a movie that perpetuates misconceptions.

Possibly the worst movie ever.... Slow moving.....Over the top violence.....horrible dialogue....what I feel is wrong with the world today....very sad it is considered entertainment.....absolutely disgusting...

...and TIME! Their ONE source gives his own credentials, for god's sake!  I expected SO much more from this documentarian. Maybe they just got lucky with self-making material in American Movie?  This isn't a documentary; it's a camera in a room with a guy whom they should be helping, not exploiting.  I ejected after 11 minutes. I recommend skipping this one entirely.  BTW peak oil is real. Read Richard Heinberg's books for info from credible sources, conveyed by a person who is well and balanced.

Wretched, like watching someone kill a puppy. While a guest at a friend's home I was forced to watch this epic mess. Few movies in my life have left me feeling so horribly cheated of my time and attention. Recorded in mumble-ly British audio. There a few beautiful scenery shots. However, it is the story itself that is without merit, in my own humble opinion. It is a tale were everyone looses, the good are punished along with the evil. Macabre, and depressing like watching someone kill a puppy.

A great concept doesn't make a great movie. The idea is great but the movie is trash and the acting is trash. They could've made a great movie but they didn't.

Watching this movie required effort... Just finished watching this movie.  This movie had a great idea -- original and appealing.  I absolutely love all things Shakespeare.  HOWEVER, it was very difficult for me to get into the movie, because of all the shifts from present, past, and earlier past.  I couldn't easily follow who was young Edward, old Edward, young Cecil, old Cecil, whose father, the multiple Earls, etc.  I had to REALLY REALLY pay attention to figure out all the characters which took away from enjoying the story!  All in all, it seem jumbled together with the varying timelines and subplots.  While concept was great, there was clearly not enough focus on executing a solid story line.

THIS IS AN ENGLISH DUBBED VERSION The fact that this particular title, the original French production indeed, is DUBBED IN ENGLISH is not indicated appropriately in the title for the listing. This is BAD. I paid my $2.99 and a mere 5-10 seconds past the credits discovered this awful fact. I stopped the vid at the 2 minute mark, didn't watch another second of it, never re-opened it, then tooled about Amazon "all" (confinement to the "prime vids area was a joke beyond measure) in search of a means for (a) exchange and/or (b) refund. Nothing. So folks, if you light up this film hoping to hear the dulcet tones of Mssr Serrault, you shall be sorely -- SORELY! -- disappointed.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001NSV5RU">La Cage Aux Folles</a>

1313 Series: Nothing as usual. All 1313 series are the same: A "Great" review about the best movie ever!!! It is obviously biased and made by the film makers. Then I read many bad reviews of actual customers saying that there is no action, no trill, no suspense, no sex, and no love scene, NOTHING except plain boring repetitive scenes in which you see young half-naked borderline teenagers doing nothing. This series does not reflect in any way previous DeCocteau movies and genre. It was a way to make quick money. It is sad that they systematically add a great review to lure people into buying their product.  Everyone is disappointed or pissed about these movies feeling they have been ripped off. I needed to react seeing those fake "Great reviews".  Customers can use reviews too to re-establish the facts!

From Dawn to Decadence "Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical(view of existence) value-judgments. Man's profound need of art lies in the fact that his cognitive faculty is conceptual, i.e., that he acquires knowledge by means of abstractions, and needs the power to bring his widest metaphysical abstractions into his immediate, perceptual awareness. Art fulfills this need: by means of a selective re-creation, it concretizes man's fundamental view of himself and of existence. It tells man, in effect, which aspects of his experience are to be regarded as essential, significant, important. In this sense, art teaches man how to use his consciousness. It conditions or stylizes man's consciousness by conveying to him a certain way of looking at existence."  The emotion involved in art is not an emotion in the ordinary meaning of the term. It is experienced more as a "sense" or a "feel," but it has two characteristics pertaining to emotions: it is automatically immediate and it has an intense, profoundly personal (yet undefined) value-meaning to the individual experiencing it. The value involved is life, and the words naming the emotion are: "This is what life means to me."   - Ayn Rand  The above quotes compose a quite brilliant definition of art. And when I first read them at 17, they stayed with me. Essentially, the art you make...the art you love...is the art you are. That is, any representation of your vision of life that you have concretized in some tangible form is ART. This film is ART. But what makes good art? That which shows why life is worth living. Bad art...horrific art...is that which shows why life is not worth living.  There have been many horror films made over the years. Films like The Wicker Man were effective because they showed two sides of evil, and stay with you as a warning. Some are fun, some are ridiculous, some are frightening (The Shining) and others are kind of brilliant (The Stand). Part of the allure of horror is that you can enter the chamber where your fear exists, battle it out, experiencing all those emotions...and WIN. You can beat the fear, destroy and vanquish that evil whether they be Daleks or zombies.  But lately, entertainment from Oprah to Jersey Shore...has been about exposing people, humiliating them and watching them destroyed in front of you...emotionally...spiritually...physically...sexually. I mention Oprah and her associates (Sally, Dr. Phil, Jerry Springer, etc.) because they opened the doors making it acceptable to laugh, snicker and sneer at the most horrendous failing of human beings way back in the 80's...at all levels. Then their child was born...Reality TV and it's conjoined twin of "mind-porn"...videogames where the goal is to murder and rob people...this is the new culture that SOME of us live in. Too many in fact.  This film...is the culmination. From Aristotle to Erasmus...to John Locke...to Jefferson...to the end of our civilization and the beginning of something...new...and quite horrible.  You think I'm being melodramatic right? Not really I'm afraid. The first thing that occurred to me when I heard about this film...was that someone would go and try this after seeing it. I don't believe in censorship so that's not the issue. But what sort of depraved, disgusting human being would want to see this made real as ART? Even as a punishment for a child molester? Shall we destroy evil by adopting and practicing it? And in this film, these are not child molesters, are they? They are victims. So it was quite interesting to see that the Director is now making a sequel that will beat the actual psychopath to the punch, and showcase a "fan-boy" copying the actions of this lovely doctor.  Really...saying this film and the director is "sick" is simply underwhelming. He is in fact what we have been waiting for...begging for...he is a mark on our culture of how far we have fallen and proof positive that this civilization...western civilization no longer has confidence in its ideas...its convictions. It no longer loves the beautiful and hates evil. It stands for next to nothing except for hedonistic enjoyment of destruction...or mindless authoritarianism...  Lighten up right? No. Not this time.  Amazon should be condemned for selling this atrocity. Censorship is only possible with the Government. But any private company can make a choice on what they sell and stand by it. As to the Director, he is what he made here. This is his artistic vision. I hope that he stands for it, and by it, as I believe he does. Or perhaps, we should say, it's what's inside that counts (pun intended)...and this lovely Director is the only thing actually connected to this film ...that is literally full of it...

Kiosk Rating &lt;1 This movie is so bad that even grocery store rental kiosks are not carrying it let alone most every other conceivable distribution source. Usual markers of bad - low quality echo like sound quality; no subtitles; cheap foreboding same few piano notes to enhance whatever tension might occur except that that consists of a few Halloween store bought knife in the chest props. Settings consist of a couple of houses and some high school that was appropriate given the high school drama class level of acting. Highly improbable storyline of parents trying to kill off young son for the money. Parents try altering the wiring in the wall light switch which was dumb because it wouldn't do anything but throw the breaker -  bad science. Son finds bills stamped in large red letters that say overdue - they don't come that way. He also finds an insurance policy on him in font so large it must have written for someone with 20/200 vision. He then gives his parents a tablespoon each of powdered rat poison from which they immediately start frothing and die. Doesn't happen; at their masses with that amount it would take days with probably little long term effect.  Movie was good for testing the ff button on the remote.

Alice in......................... huh? With a premise this interesting, how do you go wrong (without giving the project to TimBuuuuuuuur...ton)? Weird in the worst ways, songs written by the deaf & blind in addition to awful voice acting.  The only redeeming quality is the animation which isn't that spectacular in and of itself.

Indoctrinating young girls or entertaining This movie had very little of the story's original plot. The most obvious change was  making Snow White the "Hero" of the story and making the prince a weak man who needed a woman to save him instead of the other way around. Sure, young girls should be encouraged to have confidence, but this movie is clearly trying to teach them that they don't need a man for anything. Maybe some would call me old fashioned, but I prefer a story where the hero is a man!

F-that Didn't get my movie at all, and since I was moving around and it was so cheap, I just let it be, but yeah wasn't happy at all, cause I love the movies and the show...

Shaky-Cam at its very worst....No Plot...No Character development Another pathetic shaky-cam movie. There is not a single frame of the entire movie where the camera is not deliberately shaking, or being rapidly zoomed in and out, or abruptly panned here and there. This ridiculous filming technique makes the entire film unwatchable. The only way this movie could be actually watched would be to rip it to disk, process it through an anti-shake video filter, and then view the result. I pray for the day when TV monitors will have image stabilization software built into them so that shaky-cam movies can actually be watched.

Pour salt in my eyes!!! The main problem I have with Salt is that everything about the film is absurd (not over the top in a Hollywood blockbuster sort of way that requires suspension of disbelief...but rather completely stupid defying all logic and practical reason sort of way). There are many instances of this absurdity, which I won't get into specifically since I don't want to give away the retarded plot. I have a code of ethics after all. Suffice it to say that it is exactly the type of film where nothing is as it seems, but maybe it is...or perhaps not. Whatever! And, who cares about Russia? A cold war film in 2010?  The action sequences are quite breathtaking, but the problem is that you want Salt to die in each of them since she is so unlikable to the audience....also the stunt scenes don't just strain credibility, they snap it like a chop stick.  Angelina--a dainty precious little butterfly--is also not even remotely believable as a super soldier. This film would have you believe that Salt could take out Jason Bourne!! HAHAHA!!!! 90% of skinny pimp face teen boys (albeit post puberty) could beat the living crap out of someone with Jolie's body type. I mean if a film wants you to believe a fat ugly 60 year old woman is a hot supermodel, you'd have a tough time no matter how the other characters appear to respond to her sextastic charms. Same goes here. Sure, the 6'4" body builder just got his arm broken by Jolie's vicious karate chop.

Mean-Spirited, Misogynistic, Homophobic, Simple-Minded Ugly, mean-spirited, misogynistic, homophobic, simple-minded movie that assails the audience with violence and adolescent hate fantasies and cheap gimmicks, while posing as art. The movie revolves around two things: a sadistic rape that is basically torture porn, and a gay-bashing revenge fantasy that is a release for those who hate gays and want to see them smashed into a bloody pulp. Other than that, there is no content. The first twenty or thirty minutes has the camera whirling around constantly, so that it will produce severe motion sickness in most. Whereas writers used to use great acting, writing, set design, staging and so forth to create changes in the audience such as catharsis, now I suppose a physiological change, from physically well to physically ill, passes for a state change or catharsis. (Motion sickness rather than emotion sickness). This is why it's basically a porn film. It's designed to work only on physiological responses, to produce a "violence erection." The telling of the story in reverse produces the same effect, that is, to so utterly disorient the audience that it can't follow the story and is forced to rely only on its physiological responses. As such it's the very lowest form of entertainment.

Possibly the worst thriller made This has to be the worst thriller I ever seen and I seen some crappy movies in my life. The Watcher is a film so dull that the very fact is called a thriller makes me laugh uncontrollably. Nothing in this film works. From the beginning we are introduced to the neurotic detective (Spader) who can not sleep because he never got to catch that one killer who outsmart him (they got pretty original with this script) Then we are also introduced to the killer (Reeves) who is randomly dancing (first laugh out loud segment in the movie) well to be honest Im not sure if he was really dancing but well lets say he was doing his thing. So we already know who is who and what they both want so there is no real mystery. That would be fine if there was some tension on their relationship but Spader and Reeves seem to be working in complete different movies. Specially Reeves who plays his part in the most pedestrian way, he says Im going to kill you in the same way he says good morning. With no change in tempo, pitch, enthusiasm. Even a robot has more charm. Oh and I almost forgot about Tomei who is Spaders psychiatrist and by the end is going to end up in someones hand?? No u dont know? For realz? ok then maybe this movies is really for you. Anyways some plot-less movies still have value added by their special effects and suspenseful chasing sequences. This movie is not one of those. I seen better effects in the A-Team and Im talking about the 80s TV show.

DUMBER than Dumb Tried to watch it - kept thinking it had to get better as it went ---  But,  nope  Total waste of time.

did not work product did not work,  Kept on putting it in several times and kept on getting incorrect disc.  I have ordered other discs and my Toshiba dvd player is workimng.  I have a bad back so returning this item and even being on computer is ver painful..  I fell on 2 rawhide bones on back and used a cheap warming pad on back which burnt skin off back. To me this is a very big iconveneince.

Complete Ripoff I'm getting all 6 seasons for my brother for Christmas and this is a scam.  I can get the 5 seasons for $74.95 individually, leaving $91.54 for the box itself.  Even adding season 6 is $106.03, leaving $60.46 for the box, which is still too expensive for a box.  At [...], Scott T Williams said that "When bundling things together, they should give a discount for buying the bundle, but it should NEVER cost more for a bundle." and I agree.  I am getting; 6 seasons of Supernatural (1-5 for $14.99 each, total $74.95; season 6 for $31.08), a bunch of Jeff Dunham DVDs (Spark of Insanity and Arguing with Myself for $7.49 each, total $14.98; Very Special Christmas Special for $8.49; The Jeff Dunham Show for $9.73), Gabriel Iglesias Presents: Stand-up Revolution for $14.99, and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (Dimension Collector's Series) for $5.55.  The price is $159.77, A $6.72 PROFIT BY NOT BUYING THIS!  It would normally cost $251.31 for the box set.  DO NOT BUY THIS, BUY THEM SEPARATELY, IT'S WAY CHEAPER!!!!

VHS tape problem The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh movie is back in the Disney "vault"; ie. unavailable for a few years.  We purchased this VHS edition that is older, but supposed to be new.  Unfortunately it has the blips through the first (and in my opinion cutest) adventure.  VHS tapes can wear out from use or heat.  DVDs can scratch.  We need an inventor to think of a new storage media. No problems with shipping - just defective product.

HUGE letdown HUGE letdown.  Instead of trying to remake the book exactly as was, should have taken the concepts and projected them on a contemporary or futuristic story.  Instead, shackled to the impossible job of replicating the original, you get a wooden caricature, with shallow acting and cliche lines.  For me the worst part was that I really wanted to take my 11 and 15 year old's to see it to learn about capitalism, but the totally unnecessary and gratuitous sex scene was the final straw that said this was not worth watching.  Instead of capitalism, I'd have to explain adultery.  This film had the opportunity to win a new generation of fans, but instead gave detractors even more ammunition to criticize Objectivism.

Absolutely terrible What a waste of time;  absolutely terrible.  It doesn't make any sense, and the story unfolds so slowly and arduously, it's more than boring.  A waste of time and money.

One star... at least for the first one half I can only honestly rate the first half of this movie, as that is as far as I could stand to watch it.  I read the other reviews, and knew it was a risk, but the trailer looked interesting and the cast, etc. looked worthy.  But, the bad reviews had it right.  Don't waste your time or money on this one.

Total Stinker!!!! Having just come back home from seeing this in the theatre...I felt I had to say something now before I became too apathetic to even care...In short....Don't waste your time.  This was the "sequel" to Jet Li's incredible Fist of Legend (the remake of Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury), and sadly this time not even the great Donnie Yen can save this movie.  Set sometime after Chen Zhen's exile from Shanghi in the 1920's, Chen Zhen returns under an assumed identity to start a new life as a freedom fighter in the hopes of expelling the Japanese out of China.  Bogged down with a terribly slow plot, uninteresting characters and a stunning lack of fight scenes, this film loses steam after the first 30 minutes.  If you've seen the trailer, you've seen the best parts of the movie and scenes that weren't even in the film... which might of actually made it better.  I've spent a life time watching Martial Arts movies...Trust me, this is an epic failure!  I could go on, but it's not even worth the time.  Do yourself a favor and watch Legend of The Wolf or the Ip Man movies and forget you ever came across this one.

I asked Amazon for my money back I like movies. I'm a patient guy. I've tolerated more bad films than you can imagine. I never asked for my money back. This one time I did. Nuff said.

Fullscreen advertised as Widescreen! I was really looking forward to getting this.  I like the movie ...had never seen it in Cinemascope (aside from it's letterboxed titles on broadcast tv). The product description must have been written from "imdb" specs, rather than the actual clamshell back.  When I saw "fullscreen" - I never removed the cellophane.  The Amazon return process was painless, however.  Received full credit.

garbage I find it hard to believe anyone would call this a movie.  Garbage, i love summer trash movies but this doesn't even leave the crap yard.  Save your money,

butchering If you think there is a final line no movie should even close, think again. This bloody mess not only reaches, it flies right over it. By far. Morale is absolutely not an issue.  A job is a job. Human bodies are dissected by coldblood killers hired by evil Union corporation in order to take back forgs - mechanical organ transplants. From those who defaulted on their obligations. Cut out from paralized humans, with no anestesia. Humans are left to die. Kids are not spared.  Movie is supposed to give something, entertain, impress you. This butcher can only entertain serial killers and give you PTSD. If you choose to see this movie - make sure you have a stomach for it. Warn you, it can not be unseen.

aliens in indiana Why did they have to have aliens in this series. There are hundreds of great unsolved mysteries of the world that could have made a better story. Southparks portrayal of this movie best describes this movie. Beware Indiana Jones fans. Don't taint your eyes

Movies from Amazon I rented a movie for the first time on Amazon. I rented the movie for a work event but couldn't get the movie to play.  Kept coming up with errors.  Tried to watch the movie from home since it was a 48hr rental and still couldn't view the movie, received the same errors. Not sure I would rent movies from Amazon again!

Bundle price should be less The bundle price is $134.99 on sale. Buying them individually would cost $107.67. It doesn't add up. When bundling things together, they should give a discount for buying the bundle, but it should NEVER cost more for a bundle.

Disappointing Much too slow and too short. I'm not yet at the intermediate level of pilates and I still found this too easy. While it was hard for me to do some of the positions, at the end I wasn't even tired nor did my body feel like it had been worked out. I found the simpler 10 Minute Workout more satisfying even though it was at a lower level. Very disappointing.

Terrible narration The narrator has a very irritating speech impediment. The visuals are great but his voice seriously detracts from an otherwise good presentation. Why National Geographic would permit this distracting situation to exist, is beyond me. We finally had to turn off the video after about 10 minutes. Unless you are very tolerant, you might find this presentation to be a listening challenge.

Pinocchio is a better story... I was very very disappointed... Great start (first five minutes) then a senseless salad of chases and violence, a non ending torture of patience in anticipation of something meaningful that never materialized. Pinocchio, Little Red Riding Hood, and Three Little Pigs blended over a soundtrack that was unsuccessfully trying to mess with your head. The last funfair scene tied the room together... Very very bad.

Worst enforced advertising ever Non-skippable trailers are common nowadays, but this movie had the longest advertising intro I've come across - even worse than Disney movies. Not even the 'stop' button worked. Adding insult to injury, the movie froze part way in, and my DVD player has to be rebooted, forcing us to watch the trailers again. At least fast-forward helped us through the second round.  The advertising feature for the Orlando theme park is a real deterrent to repeat viewing of the DVD.

Too slow to engage me Not as great as I thought it would be.  Very slow throughout much of the movie.  There were some scenes that didn't seem to add much value to the storyline.  The story seemed to rely on the tension created by what was not said between the characters.  I just didn't find it entertaining and sadly must add it to one of the few movies I didn't finish watching.

Not funny! I took my grandkids, ages 3 and 5.  They see a lot of movies like this.  We were all disappointed.  The three year old kept telling me the movie would have a good part soon.  They liked the pink ninja bunnies and that was it for the entire movie.  I didn't give them my opinion in case they were enjoying the film, but they weren't and I thought it was lackluster and sadly silly.

Not another Independent movie I saw Little Miss Sunshine after raves from friends of mine who saw it in the theater. What it turned out to be was a film that felt like a jumble of ideas crammed into one movie. I quote Peter Griffin"It insists on itself". Every single character has too many quirks. Greg Kinnear is trying to become a self help guru. Paul Dano's Character is taking a vow of silence. Abigail Breslin plays a chubby girl who is picked at the last minute to be in a preteen beauty pagent. Steve Carell plays Toni Collette's gay brother who just tried to commit suicide. Alan Arkin plays the heroin addicted grandfather who teaches his granddaughter(spoiler)to dance like a stripper for the pagent. Throw this wacky bunch of characters into a VW bus and watch hijinx insue. It felt like one of those horrible spoof movies made by the guys who did Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans. As if the screen writers thought,"Hey, lets throw in a bunch of overly quirky characters into one film". To be honest Toni Collette was the only character that was remotely grounded in this movie. As I watched the film all I could keep thinking was "Really? After everything that keeps going wrong, this batch of idiots are still determaned to go to that stupid beauty pagent"? Sorry. Not only was it not believable, it was downright unwatchable.

Get Stewart Some X-Lax Maybe its just her acting but Kristen Stewart looked constipated the entire movie with a some relief in the final minutes of the film.  Also Theron who is super hot was made fugly by CGI and lowered the entertainment value of the film for me.

Un-Usable I've heard good things but since the one I received only plays in some other part of the world I couldn't say. And Wally of Amazon can't seem to find a U.S. version I guess I'm just FOL.

If this one is not... the worst screenplay ever to end up in the black, then what is? Please comment!  The script break every principle (let's not get that one wrong)every ***** screenplay guru whose books are selling on this site recommends.  Absolutely lousy acting, and an unbelievably pretentious storyline to begin with.  And I loved Independence Day. 2012 is JUNK.  The only apocalypse is that of the criteria of the film viewing audience (or perhaps???). Enlighten me, o dogwalkers!!! Don't forget those little plastic do-hingees.  You mavens of cinematic art!

Horrible. This is easily the worst movie I have ever seen.  Boring, boring, boring, boring, with brief breaks to be disgusting before it returned to being boring.  After reading all the rave reviews, and having spent time in a somewhat cult-like religious atmosphere myself, I expected to be entertained and enlightened.  I so much wish I could get that 2 1/2 hours and $7.50 back.  Horrible, disjointed, ridiculous movie.  The only good thing is Philip Seymour Hoffman, who never disappoints with a performance.

manned mission to the sun  !?? I found this DVD in a pawn shop for 2 bucks and decided to give it a shot since I love sci-fi of all sorts and I had read some reviews here.  Here is my problem with this movie - the whole idea is from an old joke, 'did you hear about the morons who are planning a space trip to the sun, its OK. they're going at night'.  And that is the problem with this movie.  But not only is that the dumbest idea ever, they're taking some device that will re-light the dying sun.  The crew members seeem to be along for the ride so they can make mistakes, endanger the mission,  fight with each other, and save humanity, the earth, all life, and even the solar system.  I'm glad there is a real scientist who is doing commentary for this film, he should on the next ship to the Sun.  They should have sent an unmanned computerized ship and skipped this movie all together.  I enjoy escapist sci-fi like Star Wars and more serious hard sci-fi like 2001 or Moon, but this kind of nonsense wrapped in a shroud of 'real science' is junk.  Written by college drop outs for high school drop outs.

DVD As a teacher who purchased this DVD for my class I was very disappointed when the DVD did not work in my machine. I then took it home and tried it in my DVD machines at home and it still didn't work. Waste of money. will never purchase from here again.

Not as Described The description says the language is in English.  However, it is not.  The bonus material has English subtitles, but I bought this to watch the feature.  I've contacted the seller for a refund.

TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE AFTER RECEIVING THIS DVD WE WENT TO WATCH AND THERE IS ONLY ONE DVD IN THE BOX AND IT IS NOT THE TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE.......IT IS A DVD ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE THINK OF JOHN HUSTON........SO I FOUND IT TO BE VERY MISLEADING. AND FOR THE LIFE OF ME I CANNOT FIND ANY WHERE THAT IT SAYS IT IS NOT THE MOVIE TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE.

Barbie, A Disappointing Movie This was the first Barbie movie my family watched.  My 5 year old has been begging to watch it for weeks.  This is one of the worst children's movies I've seen in some time.  The theme -- mean-girl boyfriend jealousy -- is inappropriate for young children. The characters are too obsessed with fashion.  It's the 21st century; surely it is time to move away from the stereotype that shopping is the only thing on young women's minds.  The writing and plot are insipid("Gloss Angeles?") and the quality of the animation is poor. We've not seen the other movies, but I've read two of the books to my daughter; they were equally awful.  Mattel is ruining their Barbie franchise with these poor-quality products.  Disney did a fantastic job with fairies; both the movies and the books are excellent.  I've not seen the My Little Pony movies, but the books are readable and age-appropriate.  Disney and Hasbro can produce high quality stories to accompany their product lines. Why can't Mattel?

Sooo bad! We usually enjoy some terrible movies because they're fun because of being awful.  We made it all the way through this one but it didn't garner any laughs, just a couple groans.  Don't bother with it unless you like watching Nia Peebles in a skin-tight outfit, swinging a sword.

Slow and dumb It's freekin slow and there's nothing scary until the last 20 minutes.  The daughter is the only one that can act.  Half the Cenobytes are just lame.  One's a fat lard that's... I guess he's supposed to look cool cause he has shades on.  But that doesn't help to distract you from the 5 fat chins he has.  And the shark hybrid guy.  That's supposed to be scary when you chomp your teeth like a wind up pair of plastic teeth?  And upside-down monster thing.  Special effects have left you far behind.  That we can forgive.  What we can't forgive is how you fight with the girl and you manage to get her hand but somehow, with your mouth right there, you can't pull her in and get a chunk of her.  Really??  I just watched No Tell Motel last night and that had all sorts of people talking about how slow it was.  I found it entertaining enough to want to get to the end.  They would have turned this off in 10 minutes.  I'm glad I didn't pay for this.

Hold on there, pardner! Don't spend fifty bucks on this wooden nickel when you can get the real deal for nearly the same price:  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001JAHPMG">Bonanza: The Official First Season, Vol 1 & 2</a>  That's an eight-disc set covering the entire first season.  Original theme song, too.  Update:  I see the price has come down by about half on this.  Not bad, if you can't afford the season set.

Possibly worse than both HIV and apartheid combined for Africa This is by far the worst documentary I have ever seen. It is not only lacking in any substance, it could be the worst film possible. From the start it is clear that the Klein brothers have little direction as to why they are going to Africa in the first place. They are not well read on anything on the continent. They have to ask around to find out information which is obviously going to be biased. Why they went to Africa is unclear other than that they say they are going to explore aid money being sent to the continent. They really have no reason to go there other than to film something that they think will be controversial, or as it seems, because they are spoiled white kids who want to piss away some money doing something they could claim is awesome. The brothers (or possibly characters that the portray) are obnoxious at best. They have very little insight into anything. They broach a massive development topic at such a broad angle that the film is completely vacuous and unsubstantial. They will randomly film themselves having a conversation that is supposed to be profound about "giving money to a person with an eye infection" and such but come off as absolute imbeciles. They had no reason to make this documentary and prove very little with it. They have no specific path and clearly just packed together the film that they had on an extravagant trip of poverty tourism. Sadly, it is possible that someone was actually pathetic enough to let this affect whether or not they should send money towards African aid. This could mean that this monstrosity has actually harmed African development. The film does feature a great deal of pretentious beards that were almost enjoyable, so there, one positive statement. But continuing, I don't think I have ever seen something so shallow ever. These kids came to my school to promote this and, sadly, actually drew attention. Essentially, this film is disgusts me and was likewise received by the class of people who are all actually qualified to talk about anything. Luckily, I think this may be the beginning of a career doing something better (as this was detrimental) for the Klein brothers who need to redeem themselves.

0 stars I have not seen this movie, and I do not intend to see it. Sorry, but people should know that Sony's Direct To DVD movies are all crap. I can't think of one that was worthwhile. Heck, even the ones that are mainstream are pretty much poo on the bottom of my show. Sony sucks and the Hostel series is nothing without Eli Roth or even Quentin Tarantino, sorry, but Hostel has gone from Graphic Torture Porn to the likes of an episode of The Walking Dead, lame and watered down.

don't bother Very slow and very silly. Laughs are few and far between. This was a complete waste of talent and 2 hours of my life.

Hallelujah trail This dvd is flawed.  The dvd has sound but no picture at the start and again after the intermission.  To watch the movie you must go to scene selections, at least that works.    Great old funny western story though.

No english ! Unfortunately, this is not in english so I have not played it.  There was no notification when I ordered it that it would NOT be in english !!

Disappointed I know this is like $5 but I expected a decent movie.  Very poor film (there's even footage where you can see sensor dust spots that were not removed) not appropriate for Blu-ray, erratic editing, not a very good narrative, I definitely do not recommend this movie.  This is elementary level movie in any case, maybe kids would like it.  This could have been much, much better.

not a movie most like a preview not worth the money for a couple of minutes of a preview. always check how many minutes the so call movies are.

What to expect... Pros & Excons is the only, I repeat, the only movie I have ever stopped after 20 minutes, and thrown away. This movie has the camera work, lighting, and dialogue of a b-rate skin flick. The conversations are horrible and unbelievable, not because they are outrageous, but because they are too simple and not plausable. Many scene's look as though the director was attempting a Guy Ritchie British Gangster movie and FAILED miserably. Many of the actors look, and act, like they belong in the 5th or 6th spin off of American Pie. If you enjoy witty dialogue, a real plot, characters with more depth than the people from Jersey Shore, and/or anything interesting, AVOID THIS MOVIE. If however, you enjoy obese, non-muscular people intimidating good looking middle aged fit guys during a card game bet, or junior high level humor, then this movie is for you.

Depressing and terrible! A horrible and depressing portrayal of everything that is superficial, cliche, and stereotypical about the gay (and bear) community.  I can't help but wonder if this movie was produced by a bunch of bear hating homophobes, they did the gay community and bear community a disservice with this crap!

Only because You have to give it one star to review it...This movie was by far one of the worst movies ive ever seen.it was worse then the first one...nothing happend for I dunno the first hour...i almost turned it off like 5 times...the only person I felt bad for wasnt even a person it was the dog..i wont watch the next one...just awfull..ud think this day and age hollywood could do better..when she got dragged down the stairs twice, I mean sure it was the same demon from the first movie so it made sense but still. If u like scary movies like I do...then dont waste ur time on this one.

Extreme, Crazy, Unrealistic Don't waste your time or money on this movie. Full of crazy and extreme plots that are not fact based.

Dumb da dumb dumb This movie is really really DUMB.  'I just signed up for the money dude.'  'I had no idea we were going on a 5+ year mission.'  'By the way, now that we are 2+ years into this gig, what kind of bene's do we get??'  'Hey, is that a cigarette holder inside your helmut?'  'Kwoool.'  'If your glasses fall off of your head inside that space helmut, it's okay, just take the dumb helmut off.'  'Hey, what do you think is in this cave?'  'Oh, no! It's a mean alien!'  'Listen, there's a weird sound at the door, let's open it.'  'Oh no, it's a mean alien!!'  'Why don't you like us? I have to know.'  'Wow Dad, you look like you are my great great great grandfather while I am still so young and pretty'  .........at least the Alien series had Sigourney and a modicum of decent acting in it.

Mr. Mancuso needs to 'leave the planet' As an American Indian, I feel that what Frank Mancuso, Jr. did to this series is beyond words.  He could have done much more with the Ironhorse character. Instead he had him killed off. I hope I never meet Mr. M.  If I do, I'll have a hard time keeping my mouth shut and giving him exactly what I think...which is unprintable here. And I won't even mention that he had Norton Drake killed off also.  Has anyone seen what's happened to the career of either actor?  How Mr. Mancuso can say 'it was a business decision' is beyond me.

Believe Me... Don't Waste Your Time or Money Probably the worst story line for a movie in recent memory.  The movie had some much potential but it failed so miserably I wouldn't watch it again even for free.

riffleman no very dissapointed was not what i thought i was ordered lead me to beleive it had thre different and when it came had same three as first now have three with same esipodes on them

WARNING Came fast, but does not play in ps3, xbox360 or most American DVD players. It is a PAL disk, which is not the american format. BE WARNED

Yuck! I would prefer to give this movie no stars at all. We did not make it very far into the story, as it was so foul.

Unsatisfied I just wanted to exchange this for the one I wanted.  The company did not send a return postage paid email for me to do so.

Duh Huh. I thought neocon ideologues didn't make documentaries. I stand corrected. Congratulations, folks! Here's the thoughtful non-fiction film you've been looking for to counter the billion others out there that you refuse to watch. If you are among the rest of the world that appreciates journalism and critical thinking, this is probably not for you.  Sarcasm aside, This film is so up its butt. The only thing serious about it is how many suckers take it seriously. That's some scary business.

Product returned for refund. Promptly checked the discs and found all but a quarter of them to be "used" or even "abused" in condition. The sleeve design is crappy (I didn't have any discs rolling around loose in the box, like some customers have, but a few were about half-way out of their sleeves while others were jammed-in excessively tight), but the extent of damage on a number of these discs went beyond what I've seen even with rental DVD's. Clearly a quality control problem in the production stage.  Thankfully, Amazon refunded my money.

disappointed blu ray disc does not work for Rocky I, II & III.  DVD for Rocky IV is defective but blu ray for Rocky IV is good.

I understand why Jon Hamm removed his name from the credits This was such a lowbrow piece of trash. Judd Apatow should be put away and not be allowed to make any more movies. I only watched it to see Rose Byrne, but even she couldn't help it. Unfunny. Slow. Crass. Dimwitted. Predictable. Rude. Repulsive. And those were the positive comments. For a 99 cent rental download, I even feel ripped off. No wonder Jon Hamm had no screen credits. I would want my name removed as well.

Horriable movie I love Johnny Depp. But this is one of the  worst movies I have ever seen.  It is slow. It drags and drags and drags on. The story line if there is one is hard to follow. I couldn't even make it to the end.

The blooper reel was funnier... Man oh man did this season suck, I can only remember a handful of funny moments, in fact I think I'll list them now:  -the Implication -the Who Got Dee Pregnant episode -Frank's sex scene in Lethal Weapon 5 -Charlie talking about beating up Dee's baby (which was only funny because of the bloopers)  and that's it. The whole season is a bunch of misses that are just embarrasing to watch, it's painfully obvious the original crew didn't write these episodes and instead it was handled by 'professional writers'. So the characters aren't really themselves this season, it's more of the characters trying to play themselves (that sentence made more sense in my head) and it is awfully predictable. "Oh boy, here goes Charlie again, isn't he sooo craaazy being a school janitor??". Ugh.  Also it's always sunny's blatant product placement is more obvious here, the whole Dennis gets Divorced episode might as well take place in a subway, because I only really remember that you can get a sweet breakfast at subway. Their coors lights are omnipotentally present as well, always facing the camera and reminding you that if you want to be cool like the gang, you better drink the beer they drink.  I remember episodes like Mac's big break, Mac & Charlie: White Trash, and The gang gets a new member, and can't recall a single joke from the whole thing. It's just the characters going through the motions, and they look as bored as I feel watching this season. The whole second half of "the gang buys a boat" where it shows Frank, Dee, and Charlie on the boat, where was the humor? Instead it felt like some stupid 'bonding' moment, and I'm supposed to lap it up thinking "that's my favorite gang, doing what they do best", no. Maybe moments like when everyone is smiling at Dee's baby works for the die hard fans who are just happy to see their favorite characters again but when they stand around acting sappy I get bored, fast. Little Seventh Heaven moments like those do not fit with this show at all.  See the reason why I liked IASIP in the first place was in the earlier episodes the gang was always scheming to screw each other over, episodes like The Gang Runs for Office or The Gang Dances Their Asses Off showcase this well, and it was entertaining to see who'll come out on top in the end and how, but in the new episodes they're just a band of misfits being awkward in the real world, talk about lazy writing. It's such a bummer that the same show that had the really well written Mac's Banging Dennis' Mom episode to The Gang Get's Stranded in the Woods.  Lastly IASIP had some fads catch on, such as Greenman or Dayman, but here it's just painful watching them try to force it. In the single aforementioned 'good' episode I think the dialogue goes like this verbadum: "I browned out that night" "Wait browned out, what's that?" "Well it's sort of like a black out but not as much" "Wow I'm going to have to add that to my vocabulary from now on and constantly use it" (they never did after that episode thankfully) "So anyways I was browning out that night *wink*". Oh and on a totally different subject you can order your awesome "Browned Out" shirt from the offical store!

Blu-ray is Not "Fair" at all. I was suspicious from the beginning that a film of this import was being slipped onto the blu-ray market with little to no fanfare.  I read the other reviews on Amazon criticizing the transfer from the restored 1994 DVD, and dismissed the manufacturing complaints (blurred, foggy picture around the edges) as probably owing to faulty equipment.  I was foolish. The disc is a mess.  From the moment the credits begin to roll, it is apparent something is not right.  The gorgeous background flowers are grainy and in questionable focus, and there is indeed fog around the edge of the picture in the opening outdoor scenes.  Then the fog follows the action indoors and never leaves.  Every once in a while there is a scene without fog and in crystal clear resolution.  Those moments are dazzling, and it makes you realize what the film might have looked like.  But it is very apparent that not only are there serious transfer issues with the disc, but also serious manufacturing problems as well.  Stay AWAY from this blu-ray, and complain bitterly to CBS for their shoddy work on this less than fair lady!!!

A BLANTANT HALF TRUTH OF WHAT ISLAM REALLY TEACHES If you want to know the entire truth about Islam, do not use this DVD as a reference. According to the Koran, Moses, Abraham and even Jesus are all MUSLIMS. The God of Islam is Allah. The Torah and the New Testament have been plagiarized and the Koran is the result. The Torah is over 3,300 years old. The New Testament is 2,000 years old. The Koran is 1,300 years old. The Koran claims to be the original Word of Allah. The God of the Old and New Testament according to the Koran is Allah. This movie is an absolute public relations propaganda piece. Be warned. I encourage you to research Islam. Research Islam's origins; the truth lies there.

Not worth the watch Both Carmen and Jenny could have saved this movie but instead tried to act in this movie. In doing so they made it impossible to enjoy.

sad sad movie It is a shame that after such a great movie as the black pearl, we have to put up with this garbage. This was a poorly written (and acted) movie that drug on. Where did all the wit, originality, and humor go? The first movie was a gem.  This one must have been written by the monkey!

RIP OFF Do NOT buy this horrible transfers of horrible prints looks worse then video tape, they should be put out of business for selling this crap.

This movie is terrible! They should pay us to watch it. The characters are not likable at all. The story was absolute nonsense. The acting was terrible. This movie does not have one redeeming quality to it, not one!

How did this film get made? A fellow reviewer notes that this is the worst film he has seen for some time; I would go further. This is one of the worst films I have ever seen in my life. The script takes a mediocre novel and makes it worse by extracting either the most clunkingly awful dialogue or the most pretentious gobbledygook in the book. (If you know anything about philosophy you will want to put your fingers in your ears as author, director and screen writer present half-baked rubbish  as deeply insightful "Oxford speak".)  Good actors are made to look very bad, and some mediocre actors are simply terrible. I do not know what happened in the editing room to produce such a disjointed, virtually incoherent, mess of a film. By the end of a very long ninety minutes even the actors look embarrassed as they realise what their agents signed them up for. As another reviewer notes, the surprisingly favourable reviews here on Amazon raise plenty of questions in themselves, so I suggest you check Rotten Tomatoes or The Numbers to see the actual critical and box office verdict on this train wreck of a movie. And, no, it is not bad enough to be funny.

Not a Credible Source I cannot believe this film was made, and that people rate this four stars on average is shocking. Sure the topic is interesting and relevant, but the guy is sitting there talking about how we're spending billions on the oil thats not there while he makes a couple million talking about what other credible experts have said. Im sorry, but I do not recommend this to anyone.

Throw Mamas From the Train This weak (and relatively early) Pam Grier vehicle is blacksploitation bordering on sexploitation, yet is not strong enough on either count to really satisfy. If you want the former, there's lots to choose from, including Grier's classic <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000053VBA">Foxy Brown</a>; for the latter, there's plenty in the Roger Corman canon, even <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002V3Y1O">The Hot Box</a> (by Jonathan Demme, who co-wrote the story here). If you're intent on seeing the ebony-ivory tandem of Grier and Margaret Markov, their second collaboration (1974's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000JGKR">The Arena</a>) is the one to get.  This is shot on location in the Philippines--the story is confusingly (and unconvincingly) set in Central America--by that bastion of exploitation, American International Pictures. Despite my proclivity for the genre, the honest reviewer in me must disclose that Black Mama, White Mama is simply not good, even by period standards. Little plot and even less quality acting. Cartoon villains and ketchup-packet blood. Overall, I agree with fellow reviewer DJ Bill that the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005TQ6N">soundtrack</a> is the best thing going here.

It's a Clip Show It just shows clips from the movies. If I wanted to rewatch the movies, I would rewatch the movies. This adds nothing to the franchise and is just a waste of time. The only thing it has going for it is that it's free, so the only loss is time.

Once again hoodwinked by Amazon I bought this BLU RAY movie because of the glowing and universally positive reviews of the EXTENDED CUT.  Of course, the EXTENDED CUT is not on BLU RAY is it?  No, it is surprisingly on an additional STANDARD DVD while the theatrical version is on the superior BLU RAY.  Thanks Amazon, thanks a lot.

Pretty bad I hate to diss these low-budget efforts, which are usually a labor of love for the filmmakers.  Some things in this movie were ok and it could have been entertaining, but... it fails the laugh-out-loud test.  The vampires look like they got their choppers at a Wal-Mart on Halloween.  (The graphic on Amazon is quite misleading.)  The victims just kind of stand there in a stupor while the vampires gnaw on them and rip off body parts.  Any witnesses to this mayhem behave exactly like the victims; they just stand and stare.  God forbid anyone should run away!  There is some nudity, but not particulary vampiric.  Once they attack, there's no seduction, it's strictly dinner time.  Even if you are on a quest to see every vampire movie ever made, try to put this one off as long as possible.

How do I give a .0003 star rating? No need to go on about how bad this movie was- I would just like to mention that all the horrible reviews are dead on!

Upset The Dvd I purchased off of Amazon.com did not work. It was their "prime" as well, which is even more frustrating because it is guaranteed to work.

boring this is a very poorly written movie, you can easily predict was each person is going to say next. the preview makes you believe that this might be a funny movie, it is far from being funny at all.

The Covenant is Twilight before Twilight. The Covenant is simply a horrid movie that will truly only appeal to the Twilight crowd if you want a vastly better series go watch the Harry Potter saga its dark and mature storytelling is what fantasy should truly be.

I hate the fact I couldnt watch it! In order to download the movie I had to buy the movie first.  Seemed odd.  Then when I tried to download it, AMAZON told me they could not dowload it because I was not in a country that AMAZON was permitted to dowload to my machine (I was in my apartment in Paris).  So I was charged anyway, with an incipid apology.  By the way, after this awful experience I tried iTunes.  They didnt have that prohibition.  Score:  Amazon 0 iTunes 1

Repackaged Saturday morning cartoons 60s Just a heads up if you have Saturday Morning  Cartoons 1960s, then DON'T buy these! They are the SAME  cartoons! I don't know why they just repackaged them. Why not Saturday Morning Cartoons 60s Vol 3??

Remastered My You-Know-What I generally do not use the space provided for product reviews to comment on the condition of a particular piece of merchandise, or draw attention to a less than reputable buyer.  In this case, however, I'll make an exception.  The DVD I received today, being sold through Amazon LLC, the one listed as "Passport to Pimlico" (Remastered Edition), is obviously a homemade job.  The outside label is a color photocopy, the one on the DVD itself is black & white, for goodness sake.  Flip the DVD over and you can clearly see the band that home recording makes on a recordable DVD.  The manufacturer, A2ZCDs, seems to be a professional outfit, with a significant catalogue, nice-looking web site etc.  But I'm not sure why this sale wasn't listed as coming through a third-party vendor.  (At least its coming from Amazon makes it easier to return.)  But more significantly, isn't the home manufacture of DVDs simply, well, illegal?  Doesn't that constitute piracy?  My assumption when I read the word "remastered" is that the print is made from an existing negative, or significantly cleaned up; I certainly expect that the studio, filmmakers or at least film historians have some hand in producing the disc.  Perhaps whoever runs A2ZCDs has done some work of this kind on home equipment, but this doesn't excuse misleading the general public.  It could be that I'm way off base and that the copyright on "Passport to Pimlico" ran out years ago.  Perhaps no-one owns the film and we all have as much right to photocopy and sell it as the next guy.  If so, my (guarded) apologies to A2ZCDs.  I do think, however, that buyers should be aware that they are not receiving merchandise that in any way reflects what most of us who collect films have come to think of as "remastered" or even professionally produced.  I have a Panasonic DVD recorder and make my own DVDs of films I've videotaped off of TMC.  In my wildest dreams, however, it would never occur to me to sell them.  Maybe that makes me an idiot.  If so, at least I'm an honest one.

The Powers of Matthew Star All this movie is, is a remake of the 1980's Tv Show "The Powers of Matthew Star" if you want to see a better version I would suggest going and pulling that old show out of the dust.  Its really sad that they couldn't create an original movie and that they had to rip off an old tv show. But that is Disney for you, let's screw everything over for a profit.

madagascar2 not great, kids did not really enjoy it.  they are 7 and 6yrs their comments were its boring and not too funny

Sucky Movie I like a good Horror movie.  This one got fairly good reviews. They lied, or were planted.  The movie sucks.  Very bad acting by unknown actors.  Usually expected. But these people were the bottom of the barrel of Bad actors. The movie plot was very weak. But most annoying, was the overused sound effect of the startling  loud banging of a large steel door, at the end of a long hallway sound, that ALL  these elcheapo Horror movies use anymore, to surprise you, especially after a very quiet scene, where the actors are practically whispering to each other.  Then, you already expect the loud BANG, noise to happen. And it does.  Too often.  I hate movies with no substance, and excessive annoying startling sound effects.  GRINDhouse Road must be a gag title, the Movie Producer chose, because this garbage is rehashed Grind Garbage effects and acting and plot used in all the low budget trash.  It isn't worth a second watching.  The first was annoying enough.

Wow! HUGE Disappointment! Not in the movie itself, though... Don't let the title of this review mislead you. I am a HUGE fan of this movie! It's the fact that this particular version of the film looks HORRIBLE! The picture quality sucks! The images are all dark and it's set up for standard format, unlike the Anchor Bay version, which I wound up ordering after I saw this version.  The DVD menu looks like my 9 year old put it together! This has to be some sort of foreign version or something, but this particular DVD version is crap. Even watching it on an HDTV won't help. The quality of this DVD is awful. Went to a video store and got a few bucks credit trading it in for another movie.  Make sure if you're going to by this movie that it is the distributor is ANCHOR BAY. Very disappointed.

Gotham Naught All "limited animation", not like 'Filmation', but like scanning storyboards.  Clutch Cargo was lively, frenetic, compared to these.  And Weird (really weird.)  Disappointed, Disappointing - but opinions vary 1-5.

Poor Acting So much has been said and written about Ellery Queen Mysteries. Curiosity got on me and decided to buy this DVD. The first episode was astounding! The following three episodes were okay, but afterwards, the acting of Hutton became fussy, the plots were sloppy, and later simply boring.  Ellery was portrayed as an absent minded sleuth, yet a careful analysis of several episodes revealed he was not so. Queen freely gave clues to his "Nemesis" Simon Brimmer. Furthermore, I found it strange that the Inspector Queen almost left all the investigations to his son, not to mention, it was unrealistic that Suspects agreed to be asked by Ellery.  The key word here is Disappointing in terms of acting, plots and logic. It was not a great surprise, the network decided to cancell it after one season.

This belongs in the garbage pail This film is disgusting, and truthfully, I'm disappointed by the reviews, which is indicative of how low our society and the movie industry can stoop. We watched about ten minutes of this trash and finally had enough.  There are plenty of worthwhile films to enjoy but this was a total waste.

Not great, not good. This is not a comedy. I guess it could be a dark comedy, but it's not very good. Which is is sort of a shame because it tries very hard, not to be a comedy...to be good.

Very disappointed due to the DVD being defective. I purchased this movie because I had seen it several years ago and loved it.  Got a little over half way through and found that the DVD is defective.  Guess I'll have to go through all the hassle of returning and then reordering.  I despise having to return something!!

No issues with seller, the 3D didn't work on my Samnusng 3D TV This is not a review of the seller, the product was shipped as promised and on time by the shipper.  I never watched the film, so keep in mind I'm not reviewing how good the film is, but the 3D DVD itself.  I purchased this because I have a Samsung 3D TV (7000).  I just assumed this would work on my TV, but it doesn't.  I tried the paper glasses to see if they work, and they do to some degree.  However, I have no idea how you could sit through the entire film with those paper glasses.  Regardless, the 3D didn't work on my 3D TV, so I'll just keep it and watch it in 2D instead.

Destroy All Copies A terrible movie is bad enough, but a terrible movie "based on" a wonderful book (by which they mean: uses the same title and character names) is a crime.

The "kid" sounds like a middle aged smoker from New York I couldn't stand the sound of the guys voice. Its raspy and sounds like an older guy with a New York accent.

A waste of time! I read the book which was pretty good. BUT the movie was A waste of time.  Right after I watched it I threw the DVD into the garbage can.  I usually pass movies to others to see but I would not give this trash to anyone else.

Don't Buy It! - Horrible Audio Syncing Problem on Blu-ray Disk. Despite the reviews of others that noted the audio syncing problem on the Blu-ray disk, I purchased it anyway thinking it may have been resolved. No such luck. It is almost unnoticeable during the first part of the movie, though I found myself questioning whether the audio and video were in sync or not - or if it was just me. Halfway through the movie there was NO DOUBT. The lips of the actors were WAY out of sync with the video. Long past distracting, it became unwatchable. I had to take the Blu-ray disk out and put in the standard DVD in order to finish watching the movie. Now I know why they include both DVDs!  What a disappointment. What a Shame. What a waste of money, I already owned the standard 40th Anniversary Edition. Amazon should pull this off the "shelf." This wasbad enough to make me write my first review... I feel cheated. And it is NOT my Blu-ray player. My Blu-ray player is a high end Samsung and it plays all of my other Blu-ray DVDs perfectly.

patronizing stuff What a waste of money.  Disney had to come up with a story to keep our separatists happy.  My girl wanted to watch it but it's going in the trash before Disney can brainwash her.

Skip this movie I've stopped very few movies without finishing. I just couldn't make it through this one. I think this movie got such a high rating because of the pro life message. I've found other movies with a conservative or religious message to get a skewed high rating like this movie did. A 1 star rating by me was generous. This story was not engaging. I don't want to slam the acting but I could not connect with the characters at all.

noise the music is freaking horrible, & the characters look like they're from the '70s. Could turn out to be good but after 2 aweful songs w/in 10 minutes I couldn't take anymore.

Horrible` This is a horrible movie I threw it in the trash after watching 10 minutes.  Don't waste your time and money.

Very  boring Found it boring, wasn't my type of movie. Really just tried it to get a free amazon prime movie, but I only lasted about 20 minutes into the movie before turning it off because it was so bad.

This is one of the dumbest, stalest movies I have ever seen. If it were not for Ashton, this movie would be even worse. At least he and Heigl are pretty to look at, in every single scene. Literally.  The premise of the movie has been explained. But the laughs, they are never funny. They are over-played, typical non-laughs that only young children (who have never seen the old stand by jokes) would even chuckle at. Things like "I was in the France love bubble..." "I was in the France love bubble then, too" make the movie even worse. The fact that everyone is a killer, there is no real gore (thankfully) and every scene is just so pretty...comes together in a really weird way. A happy, model-looks couple and everyone is out to get them. Typical crazy-annoying neighbors in an uptight rich community. A father in law who doesn't seem to like you (the son) at all. I make the movie sound like it  has depth and layers, but believe me, it doesn't. It's just cheezy love in the beginning, and lots of running around holding guns like they were on fire.  Blah If you really want to watch this, rent it. Don't buy it.

Rarely clever. For those who enjoy a particularly mean - spirited type of vicious humor. Laughs few and far between. Hard to watch.

Utterly Disgusted Terrible, terrible, terrible. I rented this film for .99 and I want a refund!  This is the first time I've ever been motivated to write a review because a higher standard production is expected from all parties involved!

Pure Nonsense It is hard to imagine a romance movie worse than this one. The poor screenplay is 'enhanced' by the robotic actors and uneven direction. About the only positive thing about it is it's short length.

Sad Just Sad I first saw this movie years ago but I remember I didn't finish it because it was so bad. I decided to recently give it another chance since it was on television and I should have stayed away. This movie saddened me because it was so unbelievably funky and I mean that as in stinky. This movie was one of the worst movies I have EVER seen in my life. It was horrible. The acting stunk, the humor was nonexistent, the writing pathetic, the plot predictable and it had more holes in it than a cheese grater. The film also seemed to be filmed on a budget of 100 dollars or less.  The reason I found it sad the most was because of Alicia Silverstone. I was a big fan of Alicia's back in the 90's when she was one of the hottest actresses around. It was pitiful seeing her in something like this and all I could think about was how fast she faded from super stardom.  As the movie went on I kept wondering and asking myself why in the world Alicia would be in this crap? I know the mighty has fallen but this was pathetic. This movie would've been horrible if anyone was in it but it was sad to see Alicia waste the talent she has left on this. But I guess beggers can't be choosers.  I will forever be an Alicia fan and for those who don't remember her glory days, please do not watch this and make a decision about Alicia based on this grotesque film. If you really wanna see Alicia in something decent then check out her older films. Even Excess Baggage was better than this. You can also catch her in various co-starring roles since this movie and they are well worth it compared to this crud.  The music wasn't even good. Nothing about this film was redeemable. Peter O'Toole and Joan Plowright were the best things about this film. At least they were half funny. Everyone else was...sad. Just sad. This movie should have never been made.  Skip at all costs or if you must see it, wait until it comes on television. This film isn't worth buying from the dollar bin.  Rock my world? Really? How about just keeping me from throwing up during this ridiculous movie?

Just watch this for free on Hulu... I watched this show for free online on funimation and hulu.  It's only 2 disks with a total of 12 episodes and no special features to speak of.  Don't get me wrong, it was an entertaining series with some good animation and a decent storyline, but to set the price at ~[...] base is nothing short of ridiculous!  1 Star for this product, not the series.

don't waste your money The fist one was good, but this one is just an excuse to make money. Is basically the same movie. Just check the reviews.

Lady In Cement The DVD was so badly skipped that half the scenes were cut out.  I could not even follow the story  Unfortunately I had to leave town on business and did not get back in time to return it.  Now I'm stuck with a non-viewable product.  I will never purchase a product from Amazon.com again.  If I could return it I would. A complete waste of time and money.

Caveat Emptor... "Region 2 encoding (This DVD will not play on most DVD players sold in the US or Canada [Region 1]. This item requires a region specific or multi-region DVD player and compatible TV."  That's what this item's description is on the Amazon.com page.  Don't believe the hype - this is actually Region 1 / A and will not play on European DVD / BD players.  I'm presuming that it's either incorrectly tagged and will play on US / Canada players, or it's another world region than 2.  I'm one-starring this as it's a review on 'this item', not the movie itself, (which would be 5 stars).  I returned this item to Amazon a week ago, haven't heard anything / been refunded yet, I guess I'll write this one off to losing 20 quid as a UK customer who took something at face value...

This Return should have better not occured!!! How someone can proclaim something as a tribute without having the most important musical partners involved is beyond my understanding. Gram's duet partner Emmylou Harris definately has to be in a tribute concert. And not having Chris Hillman on board (in my opinion Gram's most important musical collaborater) is really really shameful. I don't know why they haven't performed in the concert but when you look on the official Gram Parsons page, there aren't even links for Emmylou's or Chris's website, so I can only assume that the estate of Gram Parsons further wants to lead the public in believing that Gram was the founder, inventor and mastermind in creating the country rock genre, thereby bypassing the efforts of Chris Hillman, Poco and a lot of other country rock acts. But you really have to think about that history could have written a different story if Chris Hillman and Roger McGuinn would have vetoed the going into country (rock) music for the Byrds "Sweethart of the Rodeo" album or Chris Hillman wouldn't have given Gram the advice to contact Emmylou Harris. And not to speak about the first Flying Burrito Brothers album, that wouldn't have been half the masterpiece without Chris Hillman.

Green Mashed Potatoes With Syrup Bash away.  "The Quiet Man" is sentimental, picture-postcard, shamrock-y claptrap. It's not funny, it's not dramatic, it's just hokey, embarrassing and insulting and condescending toward the Irish. Aren't they picturesque, and aren't their primitive ways just ever so too-too? Marion Morrison aka John Wayne, always a bizarre and to me repulsive screen presence with his awkward combination of machismo and limp-wristedness, never could act his way out of a paper bag. The rest of the actors, talking like Lucky Charms leprechauns so Americans will believe they are Irish but be able to understand them, play it all as broadly as a cartoon even though their work in other venues makes it clear they could do better. Best director for John Ford for this effort? I think maybe the Academy had just got in the habit, as it was his fourth award. No doubt you're sincere if you think this is "highly entertaining" and filled with "lovely scenery" and "captivating performances" from Wayne and the admittedly striking and authentically Irish Maureen O'Hara, but please do forgive me if I don't join you.

Issue with the Unbox version of this movie - it isn't what it's suppose to be! I purchased "Creature" thinking this was "Peter Benchley's The Creature" mini series from 1998 (as the picture shows and what the description above indicates.. This is NOT THE 1985 Klaus Kinski MOVIE "CREATURE" set in outer space!   Not only that but the downloaded video from Amazon Unboz is the first 1 hour and 30 minutes of the actual 1998 mini series "Peter Benchley's The Creature" and it's missing the other 2.5 hours! This movie mini series was originally 4 x 60 minute episodes and this in NOT what you're getting when you download!   Somehow no one has caught this up until now (March 1, 2011) or Amazon hasn't fixed it yet.. Sorry to be the bringer the bad news here (for those of you expecting to see the whole mini series or the Klaus Kinski Sci-Fi Space movie..  [...]

UltraViolet Digital Copy SUCKS! UltraViolet Digital Copy is no good. You can't use it with iTunes, you have to download WB/ Flixster player as it will not play on anything else otherwise you have to stream it to watch. SUCKS! I no longer purchase anything with the UltraViolet Digital Copy.

Defective product - missing episodes First let me say that I adore the West Wing series.  I would rate it 5 starts.  Aside from the fact that many of the discs would not play correctly on several of our disc players/laptops (we finally bought a new DVD player and that solved THAT problem), the first 3 discs of season 3 were entirely missing!  We didn't discover that until after the 90 day return policy.  We are on season 7 now, the last season of the series, and when we sat down last night to watch the second disc in that season, it was labeled correctly, but it contains episodes from season 6 that we already saw.  I can only hope that the rest of the discs in season 7 are ok. Noticing other reviews about the English subtitles, I will add that the set we got did have English subtitles through season 4 or 5 but then that was no longer an option.  I would not do business with Moms Video Store again due to the defective nature of the set of discs that I received.

Not worth the plastic it was copied on. This is a God awful movie.  Mickey Rourke tries but fails to recapture his galant image from the orginal 9 1/2 weeks but fails miserably.  Poor Angie Everhart was either desperate for a movie role and sucumbed to the casting couch or truly was in a state of despair when she performed for this role.  After viewing this DVD I threw it away, it was not a movie I wanted in my colection, it is just garbage.

Snooze I work in the aerospace industry, and I usually love any kind of movies even remotely related to aviation.  I've also liked a lot of George Clooney's other movies, so I thought this would be worth paying the $5 to download on-demand.  I was wrong about that!  It was a snooze-fest.  Long and dull.  I would wait until you can stream it on Netflix for free.

Disc didnt read Disc didnt read....my blu ray player sounded liked it wanted to eat it and spit it out for hummus...nice gift for valentines days amazon...right on point...

Dumbed down version---------horrible!!!!!! This is not at all what I thought I was getting. I own the New Media Bible original VHS version. It is 1000 times better. Flawless choreography between the scripture verses and Hebrew and Aramaic background and the actors. That is what John Heyman intended.  This is more than a rip off but a artistic embarrassment.  Reader's digest would do themselves and their viewers a favor by releasing the original version with Alexander Scourby (you cannot do better for a narrator!!!).  Please release the original. I had waited years for this version and my wife purchased it for me. If you will not, please at least acknowledge this is not the original.

BEWARE Cut Version! I sold this DVD version of Wayne's Alamo on Ebay after I watched the CUT documentary. And where was the documentary cut at? All the interviews with the Mexican actors, or participants of the film were deleted from it!!!! When I watched it a few years ago, I noticed something wrong with it, and I soon realized the parts where the Mexicans were interviewed were cut out of the documentary! A trip, indeed. This is a piece of crappola, and MGM s/be ashamed of itself....but, knowing its past history, I know it isn't ashamed of itself in this racist cut of a documentary! It just wasn't the same without those Mexican participants somehow! It was lacking spirit because of their slanted cut of those Mexican participants in the film, shame on you MGM!!!

Groupthink has once again taken hold in Hollywood All too often the general public is convinced by a certain group or individual that something is not what it first seems.  There Will be blood falls into this category - somewhere along the line, some very influential people in the media and in the movie business got together an said that this movie was so dull, so complex and so over produced, acted & directed that it MUST be a masterpiece.  Other movie reviewers don't want to rock the boat and agree, calling it one of the best motion pictures in history, an instant classic and then go on to convince the general public that if they don't agree then they must not be smart enough to understand the movie.  This is not a good movie, I really think that anybody who actually sat through this movie would agree - they would have realized around the 90 minute mark that they are wasting their time but then think back to how this movie is critically acclaimed. They continue to sit through the movie and walk out confused, irritated, slightly depressed and have a slight headache from the sound track and then go and tell all of their friends how smart, complex and stimulating the movie was.  Don't fool your self into thinking this movie is something that it's not - this film is complete garbage.

not a cult classic but you're being told it is. this is a terrible movie and i question the credibility of anyone awarding 3+ stars.

VERY DEEP/PROFOUND!(if you haven't passed highschool english) People kept recommending me this movie over and over and it sounded pretty interesting, think Monty Python meets 1984, now think about it again, wait that sounds pretty awful doesn't it? Well that's this movie in a nutshell, but lets go over why it sucked in detail shall we?  -Stupid Love Plot: Terry Gilliam tries to ape George Orwell by throwing in a forbidden love story, but here the guy falls in love with a lesbian truck driver and their love and bonding are shown through 'zany' 'wacky' car chases through many expensive sets. Why does he love her again? Because she looks like someone in his dream; wow this is genius, someone pass me more crayons to chew on.  -The Main Character: the main character is a bumbling pathological liar, feel sympathy for him yet? Don't worry you won't, he pretty much is a clumsy oaffish drone that decides to throw it all away to 'follow his heart', and this is basically the jist of the movie. He's getting into wacky chase scenes with the police that is supposed to be funny or informative or something? Really though it just felt like one big budgeted cartoon that took itself seriously, and you're supposed to relate to this clod.  -Other characters: You see his mom a few times getting her face stretched, then you see her in a coffin later in the movie. Wow plastic surgery... BAD?? Wow Terry, that's deep man. You also see Robert Deniro who probably was drunk on the set show up as a 'vigalante air conditioner repair man'. You read that right. He shows up, beats up the two government repairmen, fixes the idio-I mean hero's air conditioner than zip-lines away. It's like Terry Gilliam got his son in kindergarten to write that part. Oh and near the end when the hero's dreaming of his escape Robert DeNiro's character comes to aid him but then gets smothered by pieces of paper floating around. *Cough* *Cough* Wow man this movie's like blowing my mind, beauracracy... BAD? That's like, too deep man, pass me the bong... Other characters show up I guess to spoon-feed the presumably stoned audience the same boring message over and over: beauracracy bad. We get it Terry, thank you, you can show us something new now, yes thanks Terry, we... get it! Moving on now, yes?  -The Stage Designs: The designs are admittably impressive, however with all of Gilliam's works they serve almost no purpose to the plot and is basically just Terry going "look guys, I've done drugs before!". Set piece after set piece is trashed/destroyed as a car plows through it or a character runs through one, and the fact that five minutes afterwards none of the set designs stuck with me goes to show that Terry's 'surrealism' is all bark and no bite. The main character's dream sequences weren't much better either, it was some dungeon's and dragon's fantasy that shows that office drones have dreams/aspirations too.  So yeah, it's all one big lavish waste of time. The script/message is nothing new to think about if you passed high school, the story is strange and uninvolving and I didn't care about any of the characters or the main characters ultimately selfish aspirations, the only part I did like however was the ending, it was suprisingly grim which was a nice twist on things. If only the ride to that part had been more enjoyable.  *Edit* For people telling me I don't 'get' it, wake up, there's nothing to get from this massively overrated live action cartoon geared towards pseudo-intellectuals.

Avoid this girly anime ... RETCH BARF ! I got this based on a referral. I'm used to Appleseed, GOTS, Vexille, Afro Samaurai.  I didn't even watch one whole scene.  The animation was lame, the story more so.  2 buns down ... My toilet is more interesting. :(

If you're expecting the movie to be like the book, forget it ... A few people pointed out my error on the running time - some politely, some not so much. I especially liked the guy who called me a hater then suggested I move to China (does that qualify for irony?).  Other than my mistake on the run time, I stand by my review. It is my opinion of a movie based on one of my favorite childhood books. I appreciate all the comments, and I've given each one the consideration it deserves.  Read your kids the book instead.  Other than the Lorax and the Once-ler appearing in both, there isn't much the movie has in common with the book. If you're looking for another movie that demonizes business and makes business owners out to be liars and only out to make a buck, this movie is for you. If you were expecting a wonderful tale based on Dr. Suess' book, you may want to wait for the remake (I'm sure there will be one in the next two years).  While the animation does a good job of presenting the story, it misses out on all the wonderful little details that a Dr. Suess book is known for. (The movie "Horton Hears a Who" does a pretty good job.) This movie is over ninety minutes long, but despite that the characters never get a chance to develop. Other than comic relief or the obligatory love theme, most characters are there to push the anti-business agenda that runs throughout the entire movie. Everything is superficial, and the movie tries too hard to push that anti-business agenda instead of telling a wonderful story of the consequences of not taking care of the planet. A total miss. Don't waste your money.

Really? With all the positive reviews, and an inclusion on Robert Ebert's great movies list, I thought this film would have at least have a single redeeming quality. Nope. I guess if you liked the 3rd Matrix this might be up your alley. Melodramatic and predictable in the extreme.  The plot feels like it was written by a middle school dungeons and dragons club: the characters are flat, the pacing is totally off, and the fight scenes are essentially taken straight from dragon ball Z.  All I can hope for is that mystery science theatre 3000 does a reunion episode so I can get something out of this film.

Not Up To The Original Artwork was up to Disney's top notch quality. However, although it had its moments, I feel that it does not live up to the quality storyline telling of the original 1961 classic.

Bad transfer Sad transfer on blu-ray when compared to my original hong kong DVD release with english subs. Scenes missing, simplified and incorrect english subtitles. Not worth it. Too bad I can't return this blu-ray.

The makeup artists were good, but... It seemed that the intent of the movie was to portray Lady Thatcher as little more than a power-hungry and selfish person who, as a conservative, was out of touch with everything and everybody.  Rather than focusing on her accomplishments or place in history, most of the movie is devoted to alzheimer's disease.  Kudos to the makeup artists.  The rest was very disappointing.

bad message for teens This movie was mainly about teens having sex.  The rest of it was about divorced parents having sex.  I would not recommend this movie for teens or anybody else.

Horrible, not worth your time!!!! The worst Stallone flick ever!!!!!!!! Do not buy this....In fact I am amazed they still offer this movie for sale...It was nicknamed "Judge Dud"!

Depressingly Poor Horror Movie This movie could have been so very good, instead it was so very, very, incredibly bad.  It is really painful to watch this film.  When you want to film at night, or make it appear as if it is night, you should still (as the watcher) be able to see something of what is going on for the most part.  Unless of course it's for thematic reasons that we are plunged into darkness which was not the case with Seventh Moon.  The movie was just badly filmed, there's no if, and, or but about it.  The plot was really interesting, for the third of the movie where they stuck with it.  A honeymooning couple is in China, enjoying the countryside and the festival of the seventh moon.  They are enjoying the local sights and culture, and planning on visiting the new husband's family that still lives in the country.  Their driver/guide is supposed to be driving them off to their family when they fall asleep on the long drive and awaken to find themselves in the middle of proverbial nowhere outside of a small town.  The driver makes several cryptic remarks and goes off to find some help, stating that he has become lost.  Enter the spookiness.  The couple realize (the husband was still asleep until woken) that they are alone and a great period of time has passed, they exit their vehicle and travel through this town calling out for their driver.  The streets are empty; the houses appear to all be blockaded.  The ominous atmosphere is palpable in these scenes, especially when they come across a strange scene of animals from the Chinese Zodiac secured as if for sacrifice in the middle of the town.  Things get even eerier when they return to their car to find it covered in blood, as if to lure some form of wild animal.  Secure in the knowledge that they should get the heck out of dodge they drive off, and now is where the poor filming really starts to annoy you.  I'm not going to delve deeper into the plot except to say that the movie takes a huge nose dive about halfway through.  It's as if they decided that the suspense they had been building wasn't worth it; let's just take a detour into magical cult happy land.  It killed the entire film to me.  I was left staring at my screen with an incredulous expression.  The ending was especially ridiculous and typical to the American Horror genre.  I had high hopes for this movie, not coming into it but because of the opening.  I was really impressed with the buildup and happy because the tension and eerie nature of the entire situation the main characters are put in was different from the typical ghost/zombie/undead horde flick.  Unfortunately the film takes a massive 180 degree turn from what could have been a suspenseful and dramatic horror into a very typical, easily predictable, trite tale.  It took this movie from a two to a one star, because it was like watching the director throw away all the potential of Seventh Moon in favor for what might "sell" to the horror audience.  Once you add in the filming and how ridiculously dark many of the scenes are (and clearly not intentionally) it's unwatchable.

Horrible movie - don't waste your money I read the reviews before renting it - very glad I only rented it enstead of buying it - the reviews posted  seemed to think it was worth watching. I couldn't DISAGREE more. One of the WORST movies I have ever seen. Terrible filmography and ridiculous story arc. Rocks coming to life in the shape of little killer crabs without some explanation of how they can exist in space? . . . Stupid, moronic filmmaking. Don't waste your time or money on this trash.

this is horrible I would have rather thrown my money in a well than to watch this movie it was soo bad i cant believe i watched this movie

AWFUL - go watch paint dry instead! There's so many things wrong with this movie that the only way I could review it is to compare the main character (Tony Starks Jr.) in the Iron Man movies as portrayed by Robert Downey Jr. with the way Seth Rogen portrays Britt Reid (Green Hornet).  Tony Starks is cocky, brash and obnoxious.  But he is also brilliant, wealthy, a guy who can invent and create cool gadgets, has some father issues to deal with and he's dying.  It made you want to keep watching how he would resolve these issues, whether he would die or fall madly in love with his assistant Ms. Potts who he really cares for.  I really could identify with this character.  Who wouldn't want to be brilliant, wealthy and have an assistant as beautiful as Ms. Potts? It was fun watching the Iron Man movies.  Seth Rogen's portrayal of Britt Reid is also cocky, brash and obnoxious but he's also loud-mouthed with a Peter Pan syndrome to boot. The only enviable quality he has is that he's rich but I suspect that's so he can indulge in his childish behavior.  That's OK as a starting premise for a character.  After all, I like to keep watching a movie to see how the character develops.  [SPOILER] However,  there's a scene where Britt Reid has a fight with his assistant Kato.  Keep in mind that Kato, in prior scenes, would dispose of much deadlier opponents with ease and here he was having a difficult time fighting with Reid - who in previous scenes would run away from opponents - didn't make any sense.  OK - I thought, maybe he'll get the living daylights beaten out of him by Kato and this would transform him, change him in some positive way.  But no, both of them fall into a swimming pool during the fight (again, given Kato's fighting prowess in previous scenes, this didn't make any sense).  Of course, Kato can't swim and instead of a chance for the Kato character to help transform and move the movie in a positive direction, Reid saves Kato and we're left with the same Britt Reid character.  Eventually, I stopped watching as the movie was becoming too tedious to watch.  There was nothing fun about watching this movie and in the end I was annoyed at the character - made me want to beat the living daylights out of him for making me waste my time watching this.  It's a shame that Christoph Waltz' talent is wasted in this awful movie.  He was so good as Col. Landa in Inglourious Basterds.  Rent this movie (cheaply) if you have nothing better to do.

Are we talking the same storyline here? ..what I mean to ask is are we talking about the story by Lewis Carroll,or is this just another one of Tim Burton's efforts to darken and otherwise degrade established plotlines?Willie wonka went from a charming child's tale to a dark,dreary muddle once Burton got his hooks into it,and the same might be said for his version of Alice in wonderland.. Lewis Carroll's original is  a clever fable meant for intelligent victorian children,in that it clearly referenced prevailing victorian personalities of the 19th century...Obviously the average intelligence comparison between the sort of 10 and 12 year olds who could both understand and appreciate the sort of thing Carroll did and the lack of intelligence that applauds the sort of thing Burton has done is startling,if not also disheartening.. Certainly the visual quality is arresting but a film should not rest on visual quality alone.. While it can be understood why Burton would want to "update" the plotline a bit(for,afterall,how many 21st century children,or adults for that matter,even know who Queen Victoria,the model for Carrolls Queen,was,much less care?),but re-writing the plotline is quite another thing...And re-write the plotline is what Burton has done so that in the end this muddle can only be said to be BASED ON Lewis Carroll's classic.. How many of us complain when,after reading a favourite book we go to the theatre expecting to see a faithful adaptation of it and instead find much or even all of what was in the book altered?Worse,how often is some reality story,some"ripped from the headlines"tale made into a movie that has nothing or next to nothing to do with what actually happened in real life?Walt Disney's original cartoon classic was able to keep the basic elements of the original"Alice in wonderland"plotline while eliminating a lot of the 19th century political and social overtones,and that version worked very well..Burton,always the meddler,always determined to"improve"a classic storyline in order to align it with his own dark and dreadful visions has emasculated the original here,given it a feminist undertone,elevated the one charecter that would best suit his star Johnny Depp,and then threw away pretty much all that has made"alice in wonderland"a childhood staple for generations in favor of his new,inferior plotline.. Some have said that Tim Burton was"born to film Alice in wonderland"I've seen this slop and my question is if he was"born to film Alice in wonderland"when,if ever will he do so?

Waste Waste of time. Crap. Waste of time. Crap. Waste of time. Crap. Couldnt follow what the story meant or what the movie was all about...Dont waste your time or dollars

Bread and Circuses or, The Last of the Mohican Mayans or, 1519: A Conquistador Odyssey  On the plus side, the main character, Jaguar Paw, is likeable. Reunion of him with his wife and children is an effective and moving moment. Photography has many beautiful shots. At moments the film conveys some vague sense of authentically capturing the demented and eerie aspects of Mayan civilization. Action plot has nice escalation. Acting and direction are both good.  My difficulties with the film: (1) Not that we really get to know Jaguar Paw in any great depth, but the other characters are completely two-dimensional; they are just so many cardboard cut outs to get blown away as in a shooting gallery. The two human sacrifices shown are even played a bit from the point of view of the crass spectators depicted in the film--just something to show for the adrenalin and shock value. At best, we might be invited to feel disgust for those participating, but hardly any sympathy or humanity of the victims. Mainly its just a sinister parody of open heart surgery followed by rolling heads. (2) While Mayan society, by mainstream accounts, was in decay as they were practicing human sacrifices, they were also in civil war, a point which the film curiously omits--in favor of presenting the Mayan populace as, well, a bunch of dolts.  Ok, so it's not supposed to be a documentary.  Yet the film is needlessly farfetched in reducing an entire civilization to idling nincompoops, investing their time and energy into nothing more than placating the tricks offered by a handful of bloodthirsty rainmaking frauds--who hire out to scavengers to trap innocent bystanders for sacrificial victims--frauds who while clever enough to deceive multitudes, can only stand there and look dumb if ever inconveniently faced with a natural occurrence such as a solar eclipse.  It's a bit like watching some twisted revival of 1930's Tarzan-movie-type racist portrayals of your generic, "natives," as a new and pretentious, "epic."  (3) The main character, though in a number of ways likable enough, is not so subtly presented as being favored--by some unnamed "force," Luke Skywalker style, as it were-yet also with absolutely no explanation as to why; it's just drummed into the audience ad nauseam, that he has somehow been arbitrarily picked to survive both Mayan depravity as well as the Mayans getting bumped off by the Spaniards.  In a word, I can only describe these aspects of the film as "hokey." Relating them to the film's title, and reading between the lines, one might surmise some influence of Calvinist theology--where salvation is offered only to a few, rather than to all--but this would nevertheless seem completely extrinsic to the actual plot development. In this sense, given (1) and (2) the Spanish ships which appear at the end might as well be the monolith appearing to apes as in the beginning of `2001: A Space Odyssey.'  While the bewilderment of Jaguar Paw and his enemies was well directed and the scene effective--you do get the sense yourself of seeing something strange as for the first time, even though what was shown was familiar to the audience-one is no less led to wonder if the point of the scene, so to speak, is just to see Jaguar Paw as one of Kubrick's apes.  So in the end, it is not even clear, for the reasons just stated, that Jaguar Paw--though an outsider living in a small neighboring village-deserves any more respect than the other dolts in the film.  The ambitious scope of the film is admirable, trying to give an eye-level view, as it were, of an ancient civilization, in its tragedy as well as in its humanity. However--though perhaps it could have been a good action flick in an unusual setting--the film just here winds up with too many irons in the fire, with even the action gratuitous and stilted.  The basic direction betrays the obvious talent of a skilled film maker, but its effectiveness is cut to ribbons by a hopelessly inane plot.

Not impressed I really was not impressed with this movie at all.  I've seen one of the actors on other things before and don't remember him as a poor actor, but you can just tell the acting is atrocious.  The ending really sucked too.  Don't waste your money.

One of the most horrifying horror films I've seen!!! So, the only reason you exist is as property to be used as organ donors; when needed, you will be cut open and your organs will be removed, and when you can no longer be kept alive because there's too many of them missing, you're dead. This is nightmarish beyond belief! Think Nazism. Think Satanic ritual killing. Think of the most sadistic, hellish concept imaginable; you have no right to your life, you belong to someone else who tells you why you exist and when and how you will die. The reviewers who think this is a meditation on what it means to be human completely miss that this is a horror story beyond belief and indulge in the type of thinking that enabled and empowered the most evil regimes of history, especially the 20th century regimes of Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Amin, Pol Pot, ad nauseum. A pox on all your houses!!!

Not what I thought I was buying! I thought I was purchasing the Edward G. Robinson movie.  It was not.  This starred Charles Bronson and Christopher Reeve.  Also the picture quality was horrible.  I threw it away!

A TOTAL DISAPPOINTMENT DISAPPOINTMENT  WATCH IT FIRST , AND THEN DECIDE IF TO PURCHASE OR NOT  TO MY OPINION: THE NATURE SCEENS ARE NOT SUFFICIENT IMPRESSIVE AND BEAUTIFUL  POOR ACTING !  VERY BAD ENDING TO MY OPINION  THE MOVIE SHOULD ALSO HAVE MUCH MORE ROMANCE SCEENS AND FEELINGS , EMOTIONS , BUT IT'S NOT !  THE SEVEN DAWRF - RIDICULES ! A JOKE !  WHEN I WATCH A MOVIE , I WOULD EXPECT IN THE END TO FEEL - WOW .. IT WAS IMPRESSIVE .. BUT NOT THIS ONE! IT MAYBE START GOOD , AND THEN - GOING DOWN  IN A WAY , I THINK I CAN COMPARE IT TO END OF THE MOVIE - THE EAGLE - WHICH ALSO HAS A BAD ENDING, AND ALSO WAS MADE BY UNIVERSAL STUDIO'S !  IN FACT, BECAUSE OF THE BAD ENDING I AM NOT GOING TO PURCHASE THIS MOVIE !  If we do not laugh, cry, get excited, as we watch the film, so what's the point ? A film with such an end ... Take the fun out of seeing it again ever !  It seems that Universal Studios do not put an emphasis on the end of the film They finish the film quickly and pass to the next project..

So bad....I still remember it I saw this movie with my best friend from highschool back when it was originally in theaters in 1986 at the Woodland Hills movie theater in Tulsa. To this day we both think it was the worst movie we ever saw. (And we saw a LOT of movies)  For those of you that liked it...I say only "Beep, Beep".

If you have absolutely nothing to do...watch this What a waste of good talent.  Depp tried to carry the movie, but didn't quite make it and relied on a shower scene to make it interesting.  The rest was boring as hell.

Awful stupid pointless movie to waste your time I can't really thing of any aspect of this movie that is worthy of positive note.  I love the end of the world kind of movies, and since Michael Biehn (sp?) is in this movie I thought it might be fun to watch ... I actually rented it online.  What a dog of a movie.  If you want to see something with the idea of this movie, watch "Lord Of The Flies" because that is all that happens here, the people in the movie degenerate into rapists, murderers, insanity - not to mention stupid.  This is already many multiples more words than this piece of garbage deserves .... 1/5 - AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE.

Awful Movie with Great Cast I have little to add to the one and two star rated reviews.  The film sucks.  It apparently rips off Nicholas Roeg's incredibly great film Performance (as in Performance, London Blvd has a rolls royce, a house in a dumpy area of London, a hero who's been in prison, a failed artists, etc).  But London Blvd is entirely banal.  You can see the ending coming an hour away.  William Monahan wrote the screenplay and directed.  It's quite an atrocious film.

Dull This movie is painfully flat.  It ought to be great and i am usually a fan of Matt LeBlanc but he doesn't do the period stuff very well.  He's just not suited for it.  Sorry.  Eddie Izard on the other hand is terrific.

camelot I liked this but wasn't there only one season. If I remember right, they cancelled and left us hanging. I don't think I want to buy the DVD and go through that again.

Extremely bad image for such a new film. There is a terrible issue with what some are calling "grain" on JURASSIC PARK. But I've seen blu-rays which show film grain, and in this case, it appears to be something else. I've become accustomed to film grain, and I've even grown to appreciate it as part of this artistic medium. With JURASSIC PARK, it looks like static or white noise...especially during the scene where Hammond shows the DNA film to the park's four guests.  If you've seen THE AFRICAN QUEEN on blu-ray, then you know that there is no reason this problem should exist. JURASSIC PARK was shot in a more controlled environment with such greater technology. If they can make THE AFRICAN QUEEN look as good as it does (it looks beautiful, and stunningly sharp), then this film, which is more than 40 years younger, should look at least as good.  There must be a defective batch of discs, which were released. Because it really is unwatchable.

Good for racism, that's about it Search the best movies of the 30's and see what what this trash is up against. Gone with the wind, the great dictator (40), all quiet on the western front, mr. smith goes to washington, king kong..... and then this.  7/8th of the movie has a no conflict, ordinary, depressing life sort of "Our Townish" feel. The power of the actors is evident and when the baby gets deathly ill on new years night the movie is on track for greatness. If the writers killed the baby, this movie could have been great. But no. Just like the biplane flying from the Rocky Mts at 12K feet to New York on one tank of gas with "serum" to cure the baby crashed, so did the movie.  A happy ending with the baby saved and the spineless main characther instantly going from a crying blathering idiot to a "Thanks boss for the 5,000k to save my baby and thanks for making me junior partner.... now F-U.  Your company sucks and there's going to be some changes around here and if you don't like it......Here's my baby, he can say MAMA!"  However, this movie does have one of the best examples of 1930's black stereotyping. The family goes through two houskeepers that just didn't fit.  Guess which 'race' the third was?  Guess how she worked out?  Guess which food she used as a metaphore when consoling the wife? (nope... the other one.)  Guess which food she cooks for the family on new years eve? (even after she's let go due to finances) *ring... who could that be? Oh, it's our former housekeeper! She's got nothing better to do at 11:00 new years eve but come by and share some stereotypical food she cooked for us! yay!  Finally:  Sound transfer aweful. Don't buy it.  Watch it online for free:  archive dot org

Endurance Test *** This review may contain spoilers ***  Okay, I stayed with it until the end, hoping that it might get better. I usually like Amy Adams, that's why I spent my four dollars on this in the first place. But my willpower was wasted...MAN, what a terrible film! Amy did the best that she could with a very weak, unsupported plot and scripting, but even her singing, which in Enchanted and Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day were quite charming, was just above pedestrian in this sad little film.  And I couldn't even sit through Alec Newman's attempts after that first number. I got quicker and quicker with the fast forward button as the movie progressed. I use that phrase loosely. Not much progression here.  Jazz standards, which I love, require a richness and clarity of voice that from their showing here, neither of these performers have, sorry to say. And no one, short of Harriet Sansom Harris as Nate's assistant, could save their portion of the tired script. Though I will say that Mr. Newman's dramatic chops gave a better showing of themselves after his character lost his job and his girl and finally dealt with the loss of his mother. Just, please, Alec, don't let them put you in a musical, ever again, for all our sakes!

Too bad it was only the weight ..... In a nutshell, much was said prior to the release of this junk about SR shedding weight for this role. Well, too bad he did nothing to also shed or at least ease up on his worn-out on-screen persona. It has officially grown WAY PAST irritating!

Worst Movie Ever Does not even come close to giving a look at what EOD is about. Makes all EOD techs look bad. As a Retired Navy EOD Tech I hate the movie. Bought it watched it then returned it. It is sort of like the 80's Navy Seals with Charlie Sheen. If they are going to make movies this poor then they should make a fictional Rate (job) in the military so not to disrespect them real Heros and Warriors.

Rent If You Must, Do Not Buy Yeah, I am with all the other bad reviews.  It was very disappointing, and sloooooow.  This film would have worked better back in the late 60s and 70s, when kids ran away from home and joined communes.  Everyone shares every thing, including their bodies.  It just doesn't work in this millennium.  Basic Plot:  Martha's mother dies.  Her sister is in college.  She lives with a bitch of an aunt.  She runs away and is taken in by a farm commune.  Two years later, she's had enough and phones her sister to come and get her.  Her sister soon discovers that Martha has really radical ideas about money, property, open sex, etc.  There is a major plot hole:  Did Martha not have a personality and values prior to joining the commune?  She acts like she is a visitor from another planet who does not understand communistic farm life or human relationships.  She is a dumb valueless lump of clay that they can mold.  Who was she for the first 18 years of her life?  Pass on this one.  Save your money and wait for it to come on HBO or Showtime if you are curious.

A strike out Someone recommended this movie to me because we both love baseball.  I bought it recently, and after 20 minutes, I turned it off, and put it down where all the "never again" DVD's are stashed away.  I won't bother to even try and understand how or why it's a baseball movie.  I just finished watching Moneyball, and that was a real movie, and a true story about baseball. I've seen Field of Dreams, and that was a great baseball movie and even though it was a fantasy, I liked it. A League of Their Own, yeah, I liked the story, and really liked Bad News Bears.  But this was nothing more than a porno film with a baseball background.  If you like that kind of stuff, you'll like Bull Durham.

Not for Beginners This instructor has no clue what a true beginner can do (or can't do).  I've purchased probably 10 beginner DVDs and this is by far the worst.  Unless you can already bend in half and stand on your head, this video is not for you.

Total Borefest! Same movie remade... This movie was terrible... its basically a remake of the first one in terms of introducing something new.... it was the SOS.... totally a waste of money.

This movie was unnecessary, BUY THE '79 ORIGINAL STARRING ALEC GUINNESS Imagine a remake of Goldfinger with someone else playing james Bond instead of Sean Connery. That is exactly what you get with Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy because the definitive version of this book adaptation already exists. The six part TV miniseries filmed in 1979 starring Sir Alec Guinness as George Smiley is not only thee only version of the book worth watching on film it is the ONLY one the author truly loves (buy the 3 DVD set and listen to Le Carre say so in the interview).  Not only did the '79 adaptation capture the best elements of Le Carre's novel without it feeling boring and talky, Alec Guinness literally took over the role of George Smiley. In fact, Le Carre found himself thinking of Guinness as Smiley while writing the third novel in the trilogy (Smiley's People).  With such an established masterpiece adaptation of a great novel, WHY DID ANYONE BOTHER TO REMAKE IT???? Adding insult to injury, this remake is hardly faithful to the original novel which irritates established fans of Le Carre's work like myself. Bearing this in mind, WHO DID THEY MAKE THIS FOR ANYWAY?????  DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND BUY OR RENT THE SIX PART '79 VERSION STARRING ALEC GUINNESS AND TALK THAT MASTERPIECE UP INSTEAD OF PRETENDING THAT THIS MOVIE IS GOOD BECAUSE IT'S NOT.

a dreadful bore I absolutely love fairy tale stories, however, this film is just a big mess and it's hard to articulate what I hate about this film. The actors are good, the art direction is excellent but sadly it is simply a bore.

Looney tunes; spotlight collection vol 2 Wanted more of Michagan J. Frog- only included a feature- not too happy with this- advertising should have been better for this DVD

Inspector Coliandro is possibly... ...the worst production I can recall in many years. The plot is stupid and dull. There are NO sympathetic characters at any level. The acting is over the top and at the Junior High School level. The direction is done with a baseball bat rather than a baton. Writing is about as amature as anything I can recall. All in all, Inspector Coliandro is a monumental stinker, worthy of negative star rating. The only decent thing is the font used for the sub-titles. Detective Montalbano this aint.  December/6/2011 In fairness (a major personal failing of mine) I felt that my harsh review of this project may have been over the top and possibly I missed something that would rescue the film from the cherem where it was dispatched. I dug it out of the trash barrel and replayed it again. giving it a chance. NO. I was correct the first time. It totally sucks. No saving grace. Nada. Effes.

terrible The worse adaptation of a shakespear play ever. Dont waste your money. And the sound is not keyed in, had to constantly turn the surround sound up amd down.

YOU GOT TO BE Kidding!!! A 30  year old 2 star movie with no sdh or subtitles for 20 dollars!! I don't think so. Are they really selling these overpriced no subtitled dvd-r ripoffs?? It's a shame and a disgrace-If they want to sell these old titles they need to package them/subtitle them and price them fairly-they'll sell-money will be made and movieviewers will be happy. Sounds simple doesn't it?

Aimed at simple minds The technical aspects are basically true, but the movie itself is pue phony political prpaganda.  Far too many examples to cite.

Don't waste your time! OMG! This could quite possibly be the worst movie I have ever attempted to watch, and I want to emphasize ATTEMPTED; I was unable to finish it. I kept thinking it would get better, give it some time, etc. Boy was I wrong. Corey Feldman's groveling speech impediment and psuedo-tough guy act was God-awful and pathetic. In fact, the movie might have been worth watching without his ridiculous character. My wife began to fast-forward through parts of it just so we could TRY to get to the end (and the movie is only 81 minutes long!). At 72 minutes in we decided to stop for the night and watch the 9 remaining minutes in the morning. But when morning came we couldn't bring ourselves to watch the rest of it because it was so pointless we don't even care how it ended!! So I can't even offer a spoiler alert!!  This movie certainly is an embarrassment to the original Lost Boys- which for those of you who might be wondering, I greatly enjoyed. My advice to everyone: rent the original again and enjoy it. Don't waste your time, like I did, on this dud.

Thoroughly silly film The dumbed-down storyline of this film is typical of Hollywood failures of the 1970s.  It presents the idiotic idea that a young journalist, who has already been identified and targeted by the villains would be used by the Mossad as an infiltrator into the very organization which is aware of the young ninny and his dimwitted attempt to uncover them.    There are no convincing characters in the film, except for the one character who is playing himself, Simon Weisenthal.  Voight delivers his usual lame performance as a mildly retarded person who, improbably, manages to overcome his opponents simply because they are even dumber than he is.    This film is about as convincing as the TV serials inflicted upon us during the same time period in which "The Odessa File" was made.

Amazon Gets one star Everyone can relax. I was correct and should have been refunded the $3 and Amazon finally admitted it. You are all raving about me giving a movie one star when it was Amazon I was mad at.  Don't you think you all are being just as big of jerks as you say I am?  Going on and on, raving about a poor rating for a stupid movie. Get a life!!  I ordered this item on 1/24/11.  About 15 minutes after I ordered it, Amazon lowered the price by $3.  I tried to cancel it and reorder, but the site had already locked me out. I figured I would be billed the current $12.99 that was advertised.  NOT SO, I was billed $15.99 and when I wrote to say that I thought I should get a $3 refund, I got a snotty little email back stating essentially that they didn't care if I went elsewhere to purchase my items, they were not refunding the difference.  I have spent thousands of dollars on Amazon in the past year, but being a good customer doesn't make any difference to them.  They don't care about you and don't let them tell you the do. They have now admitted that there is a pre order price quarantee, that the person responding to me was incorrect, and the $3 was atomatically refunded today.

African Queen the movie would not play on either one of my dvd players, it is used, and worthless, and am very disatisfied

Garbage Trust me, this movie is a waste of time. Slow, dull, and boring. If you want a movie where you yourself have to draw conclusions on every single detail then this is the one for you. No direct plot and other than the first scene and some action scenes, this movie was terrible. Don't believe me??? (here are my movie faves)  Citizen Kane Gladiator Inception The Patriot Troy Titanic  here are my worst  Joes Apt, Catfish, Drive, What's Your Number, any tyler perry flick

Not cool A rehash of the first film, almost to the T. Seriously, you guys were drugged and had another incomprehensibly crazy adventure. It sucks that this film had zero originality.

Not a SteelBook, its an Ironpack This product is not a STeelBook, Its a Ironpack. It is poorly made and incorrectly labelled by Amazon. Try to notify them that its documented wrong so they will fix it.

"Open minded" Christians already seemed to have their minds made up... Some Jehovah's come to my house every now and then, and I welcome their presence...it gives me a chance to sharpen my skills in debate.  Anyway, they recommended this "documentary", and I obliged to watch it.  The film flimsily establishes the wonder of the universe in a purely--albeit simple--scientific manner, then invites you onto the "scientific" carpet, only to hastily pull it out from under you.  The title says it all, and here is their point: we, as a species, are here despite insurmountable odds; we are a rarity.  Our planet is a rarity.  Therefore, someone or something must have designed the universe.  This is a gross breach in logic.  It's true, our presence is unique.  Our planet is unique.  Our solar system is unique.  As is our galaxy.  But the universe is an inexplicably dynamic place, and Christians have had their minds made up for thousands of years.  In a different time and place, they would have burned you at the stake for believing this "science," and now it's God's design.  Hasty Christians.

Wagon's Least John Candy was one of my favorite comediens, but even he couldn't pull this one out of the trash. It was silly to the point of being stupid.

Worst Hellraiser movie ever I haven't even this sorry excuse for a hellraiser movie yet and can already tell from reviews from other sites and the fact that doug Bradley himself didn't what to have anything to do with this movie that it is not going to be a worthy sequel to the long running hellraiser franchise. I just hope that when the remake comes out that it has doug bradley and is worthy.

Makes Pirahna 3d look like Academy Award Winner! Let me first say I have met Robert Rodriguez in Austin,Tx on more than one occasion. I loved Desperado for what it was. Machete is pure garbage plain and simple. Jessica Alba actually looked frightened when she had to kiss Danny Trejo LOL! Absolutely no logic whatsoever and whoa! TRASHY! DO NOT waste your hard earned money! Rodriguez is known for making large films on low budgets. This film must have spent all of the money on the Casting. Two very enthusiastic thumbs down :(

Anne of green gables trilogy Bad quality images and the movies freeze and jump from one scene to the other one without being able to see it. I call right away and reported but the response I received wasn't the one I expected.

another world entertainment(awe) danish print is restored. both the early 2000's anchor bay print and all versions of the blu-underground print have two scenes out of place. get an all region dvd player and go to sinerama2 and get it from them ask for trevor. theirs is fully restored. in is a region 2 format. and a much better print.

Save your money and read the books instead I am a huge fan of Evanovich. I laughed so hard when I started reading the series that I was crying...the only reason I was crying when I watched this movie was because it was so painful and confusing as to how they could have taken such a great and funny book and ruined it to such a degree. If you have the unfortunate luck to watch the movie before you read the book, don't despair...they have very little in common.

Just Awful Bryan Kest is a terrible Yoga instructor. Yoga is supposed to be relaxing, and he talks throughout the entirety of the DVD. I just wanted him to shut up. He is also shirtless and looks like a dumb hippie. His workout out is nothing like P90X Yoga. P90X Yoga looks professional, is soothing, and gets you into shape. Bryan Kest's workout is run of the mill, not soothing, and not worth the money.

Bad One of the worst cluster ****s of a movie ever produced. This piece of crap is nothing kore than leftist venom directed at the right. It is desperate and poor crafted. The leads are all awful. The message clubs you over the head repeatedly making it's political point. The story is so absurd and clownish, it is insulting. It's just awful. If you can even watch the whole thing without becoming hostile, more power to you. You are more forgiving or dumb.

A Dubious Honor: Sandler's Gender Bending Opus Is, Indeed, An Award Season Champion Created in 1980 as the anti-Oscars, the Golden Raspberry Awards (the RAZZIES) may not have the same high profile as their illustrious counterpart but they sure are a lot more fun.  Honoring the worst of the worst, this tongue-in-cheek ceremony not only eviscerates truly bad movies, it boldly challenges convention.  It has become more entrenched in recent years with lucky recipients actually attending to receive their dubious accolades.  Notoriously Sandra Bullock and Halle Berry attended to pick up Worst Actress awards, Bullock (for All About Steve) even in the same year she won an Oscar for The Blind Side.  In 2011, Adam Sandler's "Jack and Jill" broke RAZZIE history with an impressive 11 nominations.  Few will argue that "Jack and Jill" is a good movie.  At best, it's defenders will say "But it's Adam Sandler, what did you expect?"  A fair point, but I think that sells both themselves and Sandler short with a pass for lowered expectations.  Sandler is talented and can make good movies, but some seem content to allow idiocy to pass for entertainment.  That's fine.  I like dumb as much as the next guy, but only at home for free--not paying premium movie prices or purchasing a DVD.  There is a big difference.  Either way, "Jack and Jill" is a preposterously inept film that marks a real low point in the career of Al Pacino (poor Pacino is besotted with a female Sandler).  Sandler plays twin siblings, a male and a female, and the sight of Sandler in drag is presumably all the effort anyone made to provide actual comedy.  Isn't the very idea hysterical?  Not so much.  But I do credit Sandler and "Jack and Jill" for achieving film history.  He is the only actor in history to be nominated for Worst Actor and Worst Actress in the same year.  Here's a complete rundown of the picture's record breaking nominations (most of which it has odds on winning):  Worst Picture Worst Actor: Adam Sandler Worst Actress: Adam Sandler (yes, actress) Worst Supporting Actor: Al Pacino Worst Supporting Actor: Nick Swardson (shared with Just Go For It, so I didn't count it a full nomination) Worst Supporting Actress: Katie Holmes Worst Supporting Actress: David Spade (yes, actress) Worst Director Worst Screenplay Worst Remake/Rip-off/Sequel Worst Ensemble Worst Couple (Sandler and Sandler, Sandler and Pacino, and/or Sandler and Holmes)  Is "Jack and Jill" worth seeing?  That's up to you.  Is it worth paying for?  That's really the question.  My advice:  if you absolutely have to see this, wait until you can catch it for free.  If we keep buying these DVDs then they'll just keep making movies of the same caliber.  KGHarris, 3/12.

Waste of money I sent for this DVD because I've been wanting to learn Tai Chi for years. I work nights, so it's tough to get to a class. Unfortunately, I can't tell you anything about how well it teaches because it broke when I was taking it out of the case! I'm totally disgusted and won't buy from this company again.

One real crime here The real crime in this movie was that it was made. Not even the gag reel in the DVD extras is funny. Even for those that are looking for something silly and unpretentious, this movie will be a totally waste of time. They tried to be funny, crime, suspense and action and they ended up with nothing.  Only one thing was interesting: Tea Leoni. She was cute.

An Embarrassment As I sat through this horrific piece of crap I kept thinking how embarrassed I was for such a great actor like Al Pacino to be in it.  He needs to fire his agent or whoever it was that thought being a part of this travesty would be a good career move.  Don't get me wrong, Adam Sander can be funny.  The Wedding Singer, Big Daddy, and 50 First Dates are among his best. This film will rank as not only one of the worst Sandler films, but one of the worst films I've seen in a very long time.

The latest slap in the face for HP fans... Really WB? $350 for this? And this is the SALE PRICE? You have GOT to be freaking kidding me! I have purchased all of the films individually as they've come out, so already own the films, many of them two-disc sets with "extra features" themselves. I am a huge HP fan, so would happily re-purchase them, if all of the extended versions (with ALL deleted scenes) were included in a box set. For more casual fans who just want to own all the movies, there is already a box set that's about $300 cheaper than this! And many huge HP fans already re-bought the films as the individual Ultimate Editions came out. So really, who in their right mind would buy this? This really is a damn shame. The franchise has been over since last summer, now would be the perfect time to finally release a collection that included all eight of the extended films in one place. This is just a blatant attempt at WB to steal yet more money from the HP fanbase. I will be opting out. To everyone else reading this - vote with your wallets. This is ridiculous. The economy is not great, no company should be allowed to get away with charging such an absurd amount for a laughable product. Avoid at all costs!

Absolute Worst Movie *SPOILER*  I just didn't like the fact that the lady ended up getting what she wanted, all she cared about was herself.  It wasn't funny at all, it was grotesque and I don't like to think that society can be this way.  What's worse is that so many well knows actors were in this movie. Just repulsive the attention this movie got just because of that.

Possibly the worst zombie film ever made I saw the used DVD in a pawn shop for $2 and thought: Why haven't I heard about this? Why wasn't this shown in theaters? Within the first few minutes of this film, both questions were answered. My next question: Why was this awful thing ever released? Well, awful doesn't begin to describe it and one star is way too generous for this remake - which isn't really a remake. This is a clumsy and feeble "reimagined" version of the George Romero classic. Believe me, I sat through plenty of clunker horror films in my time, but this is nearly unwatchable. Not only do I want my $2 back, I'm inclined to sue for compensatory damages to my senses. All of the parties responsible for this travesty should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. On paper, the cast looks promising, but I can't help but say: Ving Rhames and Mena Suvari - really?!? Shame on you. If you take the shameful acting, lousy script, terrible story, godawful makeup, ridiculous effects, and gross misuse of a classic horror film title off the table and concentrate only on the horror aspect of film, it stands as possibly the worst zombie genre film ever made. According to this "reimagining," dying a horrible death (which this movie should have done) heightens one's strength, speed and wall/ceiling-climbing abilities. The film's effects team (a term I use loosely) jerkily accelerate the speed the film in order to make the zombies appear to move with superhuman quickness. The effect is painfully obvious and only causes the viewer to regret choosing to watch this atrocity. Sadly, the living are even less realistic than the undead. Suvari portrays (again, loose term) a tough-as-nails officer in the armed forces who doesn't carry a loaded gun. Um, hello?!? Zombies! Among the main characters: A vegetarian zombie who refuses to eat human flesh. Wow. It's difficult to be scared when you're too busy laughing.

The third serious is one agonizing "jump the shark" moment after another! I loved the first series and most of the second series; however, I think this set of series began to "jump the shark" toward the end of the second series. When "Alex" completely departed from character by becoming hysterical, stealing the radio van, driving off into the night and dying/committing suicide, it was a weird and unnecessary departure from the folksy, whimsical, cozy-mystery tone the series previously exhibited. She should have stayed in character and gone back to London leaving Hamish and Isobel to live happily ever after. Clearly, this was a device to stretch the stories into a third series. The third series is just an unmitigated disaster with everyone out of character, unlikely, bizarre story lines, crude sexual humor and humor at the expense of an unlikely and unlikable character with artificial limbs. They must have changed writers for the third series. I honestly wish I had not watched it. It spoiled my enjoyment of the first 2.

Review on the disc format This is $7 more than the DVD for BluRay and Ultraviolet streaming.  Not worth it.  You can't watch ultraviolet on a plane on an iPad.  I don't buy discs with Ultraviolet anymore.  I would have bought this one if it came with DigitalCopy, but I'll just same my money and get the DVD instead.

This movie sucks! This movie is the equivlant of track 27 on a CD.  Relied on the fruits of the first movie - Girl with the Dragon Tatto to get me to view.  Worst movie of 2011 and their were alot of stinkers this year.  Save yourself two hours and select something else.  Would have given no stars but not an option.

Just ok. Emphasis on colorful scenery made this movie pretty dull. It doesn't come close to Crouching Tiger. Don't buy this movie. If you must see it you can get my copy. I put it in the trash.

The Pope of Greenwich Village Check this out!!  The frigging DVD doesn't work at all.  I have tried this piece of crap in three DVD players and the frigging DVD does not work.  What is the address to Amazon to get my money back.  I strongly recommend not buying this piece of crap.

Load of propaganda The usual right wing propaganda flick. Not surprised since it's funded by the notoriously pro-Israeli Clarion Fund. Aghdashloo should be ashamed. If you are going to speak out against your country, due it on the factual basis of torture and human rights abuses. Not concoctions about WMDs and war plans against the US.

Boring, totally fails to engage the viewer If you're going to make an allegedly off-beat life-affirming comedy about oddball interesting characters with personality flaws you need to make them funny and likeable. Right away Jeff Who Lives At Home falls flat, because Jeff (a gentle pot-smoking 30-year-old loser living in his mother's basement) doesn't engage you. Five minutes in and you're already wondering where the film is going. Jeff's unsympathetic and unlikable brother works in a paint store and is having a bad time with his wife, who objects to his purchase of a Porsche. An aggressive man mistakenly calls Jeff at home looking for Kevin and in his drug-addled state Jeff becomes fixated with everyone and everything named Kevin and gets on a bus across town where he bumps into his brother and... we don't really care. The plot sucks, I'm afraid, and what takes this movie to the bottom of the ocean is bad casting and bad acting. There are plenty of awful movies which have been dragged over the finish line by good actors but this isn't one of them. I left with half an hour to go and my wife tells me the action only became more and more trite and more and more unbelievable.

perhaps the worst film I've ever seen As a former film student, I'd have to say this might be the worst IDEA for a film I've ever heard of. Can the execution of a horrendous idea end with a good product? Not in this case. The writer takes various unrelated classic literary figures (most of which have nothing in common even thematically), masticates, then expels them onto the silver screen with a result you would expect...you'll derive more pleasure watching what you just ate for lunch spin down the toilet after taking a laxative than watching this film...  And no I didn't read the dumb comic. I'm not 12. And that's always a dumb irrelevant argument. All films, ALL, must stand on their own, independent of the source material.  incomprehensible

An Insult Absolutely amazing.  I cannot believe so many people could be duped by this dungheap of a movie.  The movie, at best, is an insult to any gay man or woman who is seeking to find a lasting and meaningful relationship.  You DON'T find one by lying your a$$ off from the get-go.  And if you believe this is the way the REAL world works, then you'll also believe that West Hollywood isn't populated mainly by twinks.  The premise for this movie is a gay man (playing a lead as a super-hunk STRAIGHT male on a soap) is supposedly outed by his lover--for publicity purposes or whatever.  He holes up at a little B/B in Palm Springs (where else?), swims nude a lot, talks to his agent, and tries to make the viewer feel sorry for him.  Enter the second gay man--the poster boy for the gay marriage issue.  He, too, is on splitsville with his lesser half because of an alleged extra-maritial affair.  Gasp.  The two meat, er, meet while lounging at the pool, lustfull glances are exchanged, and viola, they're in bed.  NEVER saw that coming.  But, I digress.  What you then endure are seemingly endless hours of well-intended dialogue--just not BELIEVABLE dialogue.  Oh, and we get a twist.  Seems straight-playing soap boy LIED about what had really happened in his life AND poster boy for gay marriage LIED as well.  Isn't that the way we all begin our relationships?  It seems straight soap boy was the one that leaked his porn tape; it was poster boy's lesser half that cheated, but he decided to take the fall.  Yeah; right.  And these are magic beans.  I'm sure that if I had spent a good portion of my life trying to sell the idea of gay marriage, I'M gonna' be the one that takes the fall when my marriage falls apart over a rumoured extra-marital affair.  And what's even more ridiculous is that the two liars get mad at one another when the "truth comes out."  As if it was ever in either one of them.  Rob Williams doesn't have a clue about making a believable gay film.  But, apparently it doesn't take much to fool you guys.  Not recommended in any way, shape, form, or fashion.

awful This is a horrible, horrible movie. Don't waste your money. Don't be tempted by Johnny Depp, don't be tempted by 70's music, don't be tempted by anything. i watched this all the way through in hopes that my 3.99 would be redeemed. it wasn't. rent anything else, it has to be better than this.

That thing you do I can not play this as it is in a European Format!!!  I did not know that the format was different and would not play til this movie. So it is not a good experience!!! And I only gave a star because I had to.

Pretty good Wrestlemanaia, edited music There are plenty of reviews for the event so look else where for that, it was good not great. This is a short review for the Blu-Ray release only. There are almost no extras and there are edited songs on the disc. I could forgive editing the music on the lesser PPV's or on collections but for the biggest event of the year why couldn't they pay the royalties to get the real songs for the event or never use licensed music to begin with. I was going to give it a 3 since the HOF had my favorite wrestler, Shawn Michaels, in it and Wrestlemania had a couple of good matches including Edge's last and possibly Undertaker & Triple H's last but nobody ever reads 3 star reviews. Most people want to see what was good or bad about the item so they'll read the 1's and 5's. It's not a bad package if you're not bothered by editing but if it does and you don't care about the HOF just wait for your favorite match to be released on a future collection.

Embarrassing for the cast Midsomer Murders used to be a charming, entertaining series, but even spending time with the familiar characters does not compensate for terrible stories.  Even Barnaby and Joyce's relationship has deteriorated; he is impatient and she is shrewish.  Save your money and your memories of what used to be a lovely program.

Not compatible with portable device This movie is INCOMPATIBLE with my Sony NWZ-S545 Walkman, even though Amazon claims otherwise.  Beware if you are purchasing movies for use on a portable device.  I had previously purchased another Amazon movie which worked fine on the same device.  This means that Amazon is unreliable and I won't be buying digital movies from them again.

Okay concept-- misstep in the execution The premise of this movie is intriguing, but should have been put into a 1 hour special or something. The story went on and on with scenes that made no sense (like they edited out the part that tied it all together or something!). The final ending was really predictable (part of it anyway)- I feel the director needed to either tie all these scenes together better or cut all the things out that didn't seem to contribute to the storyline. Very disappointed.

The most horrible, boring movie I have ever seen. If you like watching a guy on a motorcycle drive across Canada and than sleep with someone when he is engaged to be married then this movie is for you. This movie was Not rated but, should have been rated at least a PG-13. I would never waste my time watching this show. Absolutely horrible.

Watch out! Outdated format It is an "HD DVD"; i.e. it cannot be played on any normal DVD player, except for some 5 + years old Toshibas. There wasn't any hint to this fact from the seller; thus for me the video is completely useless and I have bad feelings about that seller.

Not Horror, Just Gross I like a good horror movie, and this is not it.  Evil characters should have well written motivations; the doctor in this film does not.  He tortures his victims for no good reason what-so-ever.  This film is just gross with no compelling story elements in it at all.  The plot is boring and predictable.  In the end there is nothing entertaining about this film, it is pure shock value, nothing else.  There is no meaning or message to carry away from the torture depicted here.  P.S.  What's worse, the creator of the film admits he only created this film to get audiences used to his gross ideas so he could make another film that is even worse.

They should be charged with fraud for making this movie! Horrible cant even describe the acting. And then there is the low budget. Horrble story line. Did I mention that the acting was bad?  I bought this movie...watched 15 minutes of it...then threw it in the garbage. And I never throw movies away.  Did I mention that the acting was bad?

I need help I bought your Glee Second Season Dvd pack and I am very unhappy. The disks are not working. I have tried the disks on many different players. I would either like to return it or get a refund. I hope you can help me.

This 3D bluray is defective. I purchased this from amazon and it would not play on both a sony and samsung 3d bluray player.  It would either eject and say disc error or load forever, or occasionally make it to the menu, but the movie would only play for a few seconds then lock up.  Even though I've never had a bad dvd or bluray before I thought that particular disc must of been bad.  I sent it back to amazon and they sent me another brand new one.  Guess what?  Same exact problem.  Sony also makes the swimsuit sports illustrated 3d bluray and it plays fine along with all my other 3D and 2D blurays and dvds.  The few seconds I saw of the film between it locking up did show great 3D and was really pretty to look at, I wish I could watch the whole thing.

Disappointing content I saw this Movie on Television when it first aired and I loved it. I vowed then to someday own a copy of it. Well... now I do...and it is a crime what someone did to it! scenes have been cut from it and the long distance scenes  have had the sound butchered from them so that you cannot hear what is said. I expected to get a copy of the original...UNCUT movie... but that is not what I received... the movie I received...I could have gotten off the $5 rack at Walmart! MOST DISAPPOINTING!

HORRIBLE! DID NOT EVEN FINISH IT. I USUALLY DO NOT WRITE REVEIWS BUT NEEDED TO WARN EVERYONE ABOUT THIS WASTE OF TIME.DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY OR YOUR TIME. GREAT NAMES IN MOVIE BUT THAT IS ALL.

Sex Drive Sucks The video was not close to anything worth watching. The plot, script, production, direction were substandard, at least for me. For Hollywood it probably met their substandard checklist for a quick production to bring in some revenue. I cannot really say anything kind. However, given that we all have better things to do, don't waste your time or money on this movie.

Unbearable Shallowness of Spielberg This movie is full of stereotypes against a serious topic. Spielberg appears to be in awe of the mighty empire of the sun, and despises the Chinese in every way. In parallel, there comes high class British rich people, and the usual greedy Americans. Apparently Mr Spielberg didn't do his history homework. In the end of the movie, the usual American ground troops marched to the empty prisoner camp. But the fact is, there were no American ground troops in China in the second world war.

Robbed by Amazon. Bad disk, can't be returned. I was watching this with my kids and we got about 3/4 of the way through it and the disk started to skip, then stopped working altogether.  Amazon's return policy won't allow me to return it because it's 3 months old.  I feel like I've been robbed.

Maudlin, Predictable, and Unfantastical I made the mistake of watching this with my 6-year-old son, and really regret not having screened it beforehand. I thought it'd be a fantastical romp through an imaginary world, but I guess I was duped by the advertising. The fantastical makes up about 2 minutes of screen time.  While the actors were all terrific, the story itself was a wretched depiction of the real world as a cheerless place filled with nasty children and uncaring adults -- not a great message for kids.  Spoilers follow, so those of you who still want to suffer through this thing, read no further.  Leslie, the charming, free-spirited new girl in town, befriends our protagonist Jesse, a depressed kid who's constantly picked on at school. Naturally, having seen this plot a hundred times before, I knew Leslie would be dead by the end of the film. No charming, artistic, free-spirited and friendly child is allowed to survive in a film like this. (I thought she'd be done in by cancer, though.)  There's also a ton of Christian soul-searching, which I was totally unprepared for. After his friend dies, Jesse is wonders whether she will be damned to hell for not believing in God. And his dad's lukewarm response is something like "I don't think so, son."  Further, the movie makes it seem like most children are complete bastards, and that adults don't care. There's also a weird thing where Jesse's teacher whisks him off on an unauthorized field trip with no permission slip. Talk about fantasy. Try doing that in the real world without losing your job!  I suppose I'm to blame for not screening this thing beforehand, but again, it was sold to me as something entirely other than a tragic after-school special.

Get rid of Ultraviolet Will not buy any Ultraviolet digital copies.  Forces you to use flixster.  Make it compatible with ITunes again.  Loss of a sale due to this.

to badly scratched up, again hastings has generally done good with dvds. lately i have been getting badly scratched dvds from them. they have always buffed them  out until the recent past.it pisses me off because the darn thing wont play right all messed like this.lets see if i can get a response this time. BD Miller

WILL NOT BE GRACING MY MOVIE SHELF I was thrilled when I heard an X-Men Anime was coming to America.  I was even more thrilled when I heard it was coming to television, to the channel 'G4'.  I was not able to watch this series on Friday nights, but managed to view the encore on Sunday mornings.  WHAT A LET DOWN!!!  As another Amazon reviewer said, it's like porn without the porn.  I was not coming to watch porn.  I wanted to see X-Men, in action, spliced with the feel and look of Anime inkers.  Let me be clear, this is actually NOT porn.  But the female characters, exps: Storm and Emma Frost, look so rediculous with their G-cup sized breasts your not sure what your watching.  Your are teased every episode.  I don't think I saw one female with proportionly sized boobs.  Felt like I was watching Queen's Blade sometimes.  Action wise this sucked.  This a talking Anime, and I hate animes where everyone justs stands around and chats.  One factor though above all I thought would be stellar, that was Wolverine.  Anime is extremely bloody and violent at times.  I really thought the writers and animators would put his Healing Factor threw the ringer with epic scences of him getting mangled and recovering.  I NEVER saw it.  Truth time:  I hated this series so much I gave up on it.  Could not make it threw the entire series.  From what I've been reading, sounds like I didn't miss anything.  Don't waste your money.  This is NOT epic.  Spend your money on the original 1990's X-Men series now out on DVD.  MUCH better purchase, kind of dated in it's presentation; but still an infinitly better purchase than this "Anime".  You have been warned.

Right To The Point: This Movie Sucked. I had the misfortune of sitting through the whole movie, and I began to contemplate gouging my eyes out. After the end credits, I sat in disbelief that I actually wasted 83 minutes of my life watching this piece of festering crap. I honestly don't know how I haven't gone deaf, or at least insane at the sound of his incessant squeaking voice. If ever you find yourself in the same situation as I was, immediately leave the room. To Nickelodeon: I want my 83 minutes back.

Rifftrax-Worthy But even if Mike Nelson & Co. never get together to tear this movie apart, it's still watchable in a so-bad-it's-good way.  Everyone knows Nicholas Cage will take any project that comes his way, but this one was particularly ill-conceived. There is, in fact, no story to be found in this movie. Oh, there's a vague outline for a terrible story here, and that's what they used as a shooting script. See, the Devil has a son with a Gypsy woman (or something), and he wants to take over the kid's body because his current body is only human and dying, but the kid's body is half-devil and immortal, I guess. There's a mobster guy who looks like a 24-year-old Jim Carrey (with a slightly better haircut) who is tasked with retrieving the kid for Satan. And Ghost Rider is there for some reason, and an African guy who, I think, used to have devil powers, but prayed them away, maybe (I guess that's supposed to be some kind of cultural commentary). And the mobster turns into Edgar Winters at one point, and gains the power to make things moldy. No, really. He takes a sandwich out of a lunchbox as he drives and makes it moldy. Also, he kills the African guy by making him moldy.  Nicholas Cage looks about 20 years older in this movie than he did in the original Ghost Rider. He also has begun to look like k.d. lang with a receding hairline, which is weird.  Now that I think about it, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance has no Vengeance in it. It's wholly lacking in any kind of Vengeance, even the Spirit of it. It does feature some extremely jerky camera work, though, and bizarre visual asides. The CGI is singularly lacking, and seeing the terrible special effects it becomes obvious that most of the film's $57 million budget went towards Cage's salary and Botox injections. We do get to witness a scene that goes on for like, five minutes, in which we watch Nick ride his motorcycle and have some kind of spazz-attack while his face repeatedly changes into a semi-skull and back, which is somehow less dramatic than you'd think.  Also, apparently, the Ghost Rider pees fire. No, really. I'm serious! They show it like, three times. I couldn't say why. You'll just have to watch it if you don't believe me.  The best scene is one in which Nicholas Cage has lost his powers to Ghost-Ride because he prayed, or something, and Satan is about to kill him, but then the kid (who doesn't want to be possessed by his devil-dad, I guess) vomits fire on Johnny Blaze's face, which makes him able to Ghost-Ride again, only now his head-fire is blue instead of orange. So, there's that.  The best thing I can say about this movie is that I made it all the way through, which I can't say for The Green Hornet. Anyway, if you do decide to watch this, it'll go a lot easier if you take a shot of tequila every time Cage looks mournful and regrets his Ghost-Riding. You'll only make it about 20 minutes.

Remastered? I'm not sure what "remastered"means in this case but this DVD is of very poor quality. After ordering the DVD the movie was broadcast on TV and the quality was vastly superior. Perhaps quality controls are needed to assess how products are described.

Unless You Are 12-16 Years Old, Skip It I can't understand how anyone over 16 could like this movie. In my opinion, the hallmark of a great action movie is intelligent plotting and realistic action (e.g. Die Hard I or The Departed or Casino Royale). This comes nowhere near, offering nothing more than mindless action. It's like a YouTube compilation of Samurai fight scenes from movies. Unless that's you're thing, skip this one. I'm still trying to figure out how it received such high marks on Rotten Tomatoes...

Oh. My. God. It was just so.....bad. My neighbor's kids provide better action in the backyard. The model airplanes used were somewhat amusing. Then there were the accents: the "southern" guy who sounds like he's drugged. I'm from the South, for me it's like using Rosie Perez for the voice of James Earl Jones. When Germans run for cover, the ones on the left run right, the ones on the right run left. The leader standing in the middle, who by the way is wearing a black leather coat in the summer, just stands in the middle of the road. Soldiers put camo grease on their faces, but run around with their white necks and chests showing. The whole time, a soundtrack plays drums, it sounds like background music from that old 1942 arcade game. There are a couple actresses in it, I believe the "Italian" ones are American. Their nice to look at, but only have a few lines. The guns sound like cap guns. While some of it is decent, most of the acting and filming is just nonsensical. If you really want to watch it anyway, do what I did: Wait until you're seriously bored in a hotel, have a beer, and shout advice to the characters on screen. "Run!  Get a better agent!"

Dragging very slow, storyline is weak, photography ok, acting ok, would not recommend wasting time unless it is free and you have time to kill.

Not worth your time This movie was very boring and repetitive. Doesn't even deserve a single star. The first one was bad, but this one makes the first one look not so bad.

Classic Racist Movie This movie was just more of the classic racist theme of  'a white man saves the day' and in this case a retarded one. As usual, in keeping with the white savior theme, a white man rescues a black man and helps the black man start a business.  This movie is just more of the prevailing racist propaganda perpetuated by Hollywood that portrays a retarded white male as more intelligent than a black man.  And we wonder why racist stereotypes persist.

How convenient! How convenient that Amazon placed this in its new free watch section just weeks before the election. Shame on you, Amazon. I am appalled. This movie is just a bunch of propaganda.

Fly Away Home My granddaughter said when she and her mother went to play the DVD it was cracked.  I don't know how or when this happened but I will have to get her another one.  Thanks anyway Maxine Waggener (moseys_mom@yahoo.com).

Captain Fabian If your looking for another Don Juan,you have come to the wrong place.Bad as bad can get.(At least I could watch Cuban Rebel Girls as bad it was) How Errol ever got Agnes Moorehead and Vincent price to do this is a mystery to me.(I wonder if they were still talking to Errol when this was finished?) Errol is credited with the screenplay(Ill bet he later regreted that)William Marshall,ex actor(Santa Fe Trail with Errol)director. as for the story,1840 New Orleans.Errol is a sea captain who gets involved in a murder along with costar,Micheline Presle. In this economy(or any other)My advice is save your money.

What happened Dwight? The first 10 or so minutes are hilarious but as soon as it jumps to present day it all falls to crap. Wilson is the best part of The Office but he didn't do anything for this movie.  After the few minutes it just becomes one long kiddy movie with bad acting and bad music.

Absolute Tripe This infomercial masquerading as a documentary gets 1 star for proving, beyond a shred of a doubt, that Netflix has some tweaking to do on their viewer rating prediction algorithm.  Why else would it predict a 3-star rating for this film? There has never been, nor will there ever be, even a micron of evidence supporting Gerson. The treatment simply doesn't work. Not only that, it is dangerous--coffee enemas are potentially lethal, as are the low sodium levels induced by this quack diet.  [...]

Undecided I have not gotten the tape to play. I am having a friend over soon to help. Perhaps, I have not connected the VHS correctly. Ask me again later this month please? Awaiting, impatiencely to review. Thanks.

Only wish you could give 0 stars Came across this movie this weekend on Comedy Central and I must say it might be the worst movie I have ever seen.  I honestly think if I had a flip cam and a day I could make a better movie.  Will Arnett could be the most unlikable person on the plant (and not in a good way).  This movie had the writing and acting that belongs on a soft core porn but with no nudity.

Worst Mary Carey Movie ever I got to admit I am a huge fan of mary carey and this one was highly disappointing,the acting was horrible but thats to be expected being a T & A flick but not much T & A in this one so pass on it if thats what your looking for.

Do not waste your time on this smut I am so disappointed with LeVar Burton for creating this film.  I'd come to expect only the best from him over the years.  What this film wants to be is a serious film about dying and living your life to the fullest in the meantime.  The entire film takes place in a hospice facility.  The elderly main character is dying (presumably from cancer).  After his roommate dies, he gets a new one, this time a young man who too is dying from cancer.  The young man's girl friend is a frequent visitor.  It is obvious that they are deeply in love and want to spend what time he has left as fully as possible.  This storyline is inspiring and beautiful.  I only hope I can face death so gracefully.  Unfortunately, this touching storyline cannot triumph over the filth and smut emanating from the language and thoughts of the elderly main character.  This film is disgusting.  The language is filthy and the main character, Alvin, thinks and talks only of sex.  I did not keep a tally, but I would guess that there were at least 10 F-bombs and a couple dozen G-D-I's in this film.  As another reviewer mentioned, when the film begins, there are sexual images on the TV in the hospital room.  There are also graphic talk and gestures about sex throughout the film.  The main character has frequent visits and conversations with a ghost/vision of his late wife, who died young. These conversations often revolve around sex as well, including one particularly graphic conversation concerning their wedding night. When his young roommate's girl friend helps the roommate reattach a tube late at night, this is shown through the drawn hospital room curtain as though it were a sexual act.  When the main character finally decides that it is time to stop feeling sorry for himself and fully live what time he has left, it's just not believable.  He develops an interest in another dying patient, played by Adrienne Barbeau. I'm sure that we are supposed to find the relationship genuine and refreshing, but unfortunately, the relationship seems to be built on Alvin's desire for sex.  For instance, I was hopeful when Alvin acted chivalrous and graciously opened the door of the tub room for Adrienne and her aide to enter.  But Alvin couldn't stop at just being chivalrous, he had to reopen the door to get a peek at naked Adrienne - and so do we.  This is an upper, frontal nude shot of her - granted she was minus a breast due to a mastectomy. The film is unrated but would definitely have been given an R if it had been rated.  As I do not view R-rated movies as a rule, I will not make the mistake of getting an unrated film again.  I wish I would have listened to my better judgement and turned the thing off.  Don't make the same mistake.  Do yourself a favor and do not buy or borrow this film.  Really bad film, LeVar :(

Oh no!!!! Please no!!!! All I can say is Catherine what in the world are you doing???? 1. Get out of the hellicopter. It was cool the first time but that's enough already. 2. Did you really think we want Billy Burke again so soon? 3. Amanda can't act worth beans. 4. Thank you for not casting Shiloh in Twilight!You wouldn't have made a dime.

Really Bad! I have tried watching this movie at least 4 or 5 times. It's a mumble jumble. It skips from one scene to another and makes me believe a part of the plot was omitted. I expected a better telling of Shakespeare's life. Sorry, Tim Curry groupies but this movie is putrid and a waste of money.

Artsy crap! I'm sure that I'm going to get a bunch of comments telling me that I "just don't get it" like anyone does when they write a bad review of something artsy but here goes.    This is the only movie with Charles Bronson in it that I've ever seen and not liked, he's one of my favorite actors. And I love westerns, pretty much anything with John Wayne or Clint Eastwood is gold. Hell, I even love most of the cheap spaghetti westerns but this film SUCKED!!! Every damn scene is drawn out till it's completely dead and dried up. It's ten minutes of silence and camera panning then two minutes of talking then ten minutes of silence and panning again. Over and over.  This is not a western. It's a artsy joke. Easily the worst cowboy movie I've ever seen!

Don't buy Movies are cut short.  No endings.  There is no way all of these movies can be on the disks.  Couldn't see the end of them.  Waste.

Dead In The Water A child actor narrator and a twee soundtrack (worse than the Lemonheads). As to acting..there is none. Just long slowly panned cameras, close ups of lips that may or may not be getting ready to say something meaningful or not. The living girl in the film has her mouth permanently open in surprise,shock,strong emotion, or ready to bawl. The dead girl (the zombie one,not the living catatonic one) has the best role. She barely moves and doesn't speak. Did I mention that there is a lot close ups and treacly music? Yup..scene after scene after scene. Mostly the movie is about two twin adolescents who have some issues between themselves,which frankly is as boring as this entire film. Not a trace of humor.Not a trace of Life in this movie.

Boring this was just as horrible and boring as tinker, taylor, soldier, spy. i thought that it would of been better but it wasn't it was just plane out boring. if you have not seen this show then i recommend you don't

4 stories, not worth being told SPOILER ALERT!  Wow.  I saw someone had given this film a 1 star rating and thought to myself, self, it can't be THAT bad!  I was wrong.  It is.  There was some promise but it seemed as if all character interactions were base on something that happened without the viewers knowledge.  Not one conversation truly made any sense.  It's as if each scene was divorced from the rest of the movie, and furthermore, not concerned with conveying any coherent message to the viewer.  A man is a drunk; a kid runs away from home; a man sales bootleg whisky; he also sales damaged boats; his partner want to stop selling damaged boats; a woman wants to start dating again; the drunk man wants to get sober; a boy wants a boat; a kid returns home.

Silly movie I'm sure that back in the early 90's when I seen this as a kid it probably blew my mind, now its just downright funny! This movie is filled with amateur martial arts, bad acting, and useless characters. Im not even gonna go into detail just watch it to get a good laugh and to see how far martial arts movies have come today.

Terrible movie! Possibly one of the worst movies I've seen in the last 5 years.  Obviously, the director did not do any research about wolf packs or wolf behavior.  Also, the sound effects that they used were completely unrealistic - the most ridiculous being the "growling" sound emitted from the wolves - this was actually a sound that elephants use to communicate with each other, not wolves.  The special effects with the green eyes in the wolves and the wolves themselves were awful displaying how a low-budget film should not try for special effects like these.  I can't believe that Liam Neeson wasted his time filming this story with sub-par writing and poor directing.

Mortal Kombat:  Crapnihlation How horrible is this movie?  Oh, let me count the ways!  First, the actors are horrible.  Motaro is a smiling dork of a Centaur.  Sindel looks like an 80's porn star.  Shao Kahn is the big, brutish alien dude that walked around silently in the X-Files recurring "black alien in my eye goo" episodes.  Sheeva wears pathetic red spandex, sports rubber appendages and speaks with a bad microphone feedback sound.  And the rest of the "bad guys" can be summed up as crappy cyborgs in plastic outfits with penises jutting from their chests.  The plot is nonsensical, the special effects make Conan the Destroyer look like a cinematic masterpiece and adding "animalities" to the story is just epic suckage.  If this isn't enough to deter all but the most masochistic, there is actually one part in the movie that plays the music from American Pie when Jim is dancing on the webcam and smacking his own ass.  No, really.  It's in there.  Raiden has been replaced by a crappy actor with short hair and worst of all, he actually does the flying tackle move on Shao Kahn with that horrible "Jocky-suba-wabba-wabba!" scream from the first MK game.  My recommendation:  Pick up any old Sonny Chiba, Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan movie for better martial arts and plot.  Better special effects and voice acting too.

Same Old Story Comparing the 2011 "prequel" to the 1982 original is like a masterclass in the difference between modern Hollywood and even the Hollywood of just a few decades ago.  The Thing (1982) was a gory horror/sci-fi film aimed mostly at teens and nerds (or both, like me)  but it has great performances, edgy dialogue, and truly frightening and disturbing scenes.  The Thing (2011) has interchangeable characters who might as well not even have names, by-the-book CGI, no atmosphere, and no suspense. It barely even has the jump-scares that normally Hollywood can be expected to deliver.  In 1982, Kurt Russell scraped hot wires in petri dishes of blood to divine who was a monster and who wasn't. In 2011, Flavor of the Month Actress #7209 shone a flashlight into the other characters' mouths to see if they had fillings to divine who was a monster and who wasn't.  'Nuff said.

You call this tape hard? If I could give this tape half of a star I would. Body mechanics are horrible in this tape. I developed patellar tendonitis from some of Jillian's tapes, she goes too fast and compromises good body mechanics. I have about 4 Jillian Michaels tapes, and I like all of those. They are challenging and different workout wise, I like the results I get from her tapes, up until this one. I'm 27 and 5'9, I like staying in really good shape. However, this tape was very disappointing. Only levels 3 and 4 are SEMI-challenging. I'm annoyed I wasted money on this tape.  I also thought Jillian was the most rude and annoying in this tape, so far. Not everyone that does Jillian Michaels workout tapes is 300 or more pounds. Some of us used to be competitive atheletes and want to stay in shape. At one point in this tape she literally asks if you are going to cry and makes a crying motion with her hands, that was it for me. In order for me to want to cry your tape would actually have to be hard, just F.Y.I Jillian. So, right now I'm going to have to do another workout, because your level 4 sucks! Thanks for nothing. I think I'll stick to insanity from now on. Shawn T. is awesome and I don't have to put him on mute!!

The Vampire Lovers With the exception of Peter Cushing and The two lezzed up charlatans the movie is boring and slow moving, but once you arrive at the nudey scenes it is very much worth it,all in all it is more of a let's wait and see some action type of movie since the plot is obvious than a real scary treat.More like a Treat only which is good enough.

Terrible, boring movie The one star is because you can't choose no stars. This is a ghastly movie that looks like a (poor) high school student project. Everything about it is cheap, most indoor scenes are shot against harshly lit, bare walls. The camera rarely changes angle during a scene, the acting is quite poor, the dialog is often drowned out by the background music. There's very little action; much of the film is expository. The costumes look like they came from WalMart's Halloween section. I could go on... this movie doesn't even qualify for the "so bad it's good" category. Rather than spend $20 on this, I would recommend you burn a $20 bill. That would have more entertainment value than the film, and it'll waste less of your time. This movie gives Canadian filmmaking a bad name... oh, wait a minute...

Slow I saw a few high rating reviews but found this a slow and dull storyline and movie. Honestly, I wish I could get the time I spent watching back just so I don't have to remember it.

One star is too much for this...... I don't know who gave high rating for this crap, maybe producer friends?!? Keep your money. Except two minutes near the end this is a very cheap movie.

Beware-not for ALL kids Beware if you have young children and think this is a family Christmas movie - there is a conversation in this movie regarding S.C. that is NOT appropriate for all audiences(and it was totally not needed for the storyline)  IMO they should have included a warning on the packaging or a PG rating rather than G.  Could have been a cute story if it weren't for the horrible writing/acting.  I'd recommend skipping this one...

BOMB! This is an awful movie! Even Johnny Depp (and I'm a huge fan) could not save it. Depps' role is as bad as the picture and Traci Lords is wasted also. This is a must NOT see. The director has to be a total buffoon.

improperly identified Very Dissatisfied. DVD was "incompatible" for use with normal equipment. Appears to have been manufactured for UK market.This fact not part of the item description.

WORSE EVER FOR CHURCH MOVIE CHURCH: the movie  Squalling, HOLLERING and SCREAMING to the top of their voices, IN TALKING AND SINGING. LOUD, LYING, people dress crazy making a fool out of Black people. They could not decide whether they wanted to make a Church movie with gospel singing or a club with jazz singing or a musical sing-a-long.  ACTING AWFUL- jumping from one scene to another with no connection.  Women dressed, looking horrible, wild and they need to stop making our Black people looking and acting like fools....by our own Black people.  We need to stop following the negative and dicriminatory pattern that Whites set for us years ago.  We need to take back our dignity in everything and especialy in movies and plays.  A 2 hr. movie, only the last 15 minutes when the man came in with the million dollar check did they sing right, act right, and church swas good church.  I had to fast forward a lot in this movie.  It just got on my nerve...but wanted to see it thru to see just how such a mess of a movie was going to end.  The ending script could have been a good movie had it been written property and intelligently by a professional with writing and script skills.  I certainly could have written this 100% better than it was.  I'll get my day for sure.  Movies like these are great teaching lessons of WHAT NOT  TO DO.

Worst Movie Ever The movie has about 5 actors and two sets. It's almost completely dialog and runs in chronological order, so it's like a play and can get boring because of the sameness. Connick gives a great performance as a convincing bad guy (as he always does. If you want a bad guy, choose him), but the rest of the cast is lackluster. Not necessarily because of lack of talent. I think it's more due to the poor writing and direction.  The plot is about a lonely, needy woman who latches on to a stranger who says he's being hunted by the Army. He was part of a Tuskeegee Institute type experiment where bugs were implanted in him and they are spreading. The movie strains credulity. Since it relies on believability for entertainment value, it has none. As a mental health worker, I hate seeing psychosis done badly, so my opinion may not be in the majority.

fairyflop Usually I enjoy watching the Barbie movies with my daughters: Island Princess, Princess & the Pauper, Swan Lake, Nutcracker, Diamond Castle, Three Muskateers (ok, not so much), etc; I encourage other parents to buy these movies for entertainment value but this time I sat here silently begging for the movie to end. Barbie competes against Dreamworks and Pixar animation. For the most part, Barbie seems to be doing really well. Not this time. The story was dry, the acting lacked passion and the animation left a lot to be desired. The antagonists have a change of heart with no real obstacles or life lessons. The protagonists succeed with very little heartache or realistic hope of success. And Ken now represents every other baby-bop boy-band with no real substance. This one is a total disappointment. I'd like to see a movie establishing depth in a relationship with Barbie and Ken if Mattel really wants to start addressing "real-life issues" and encouraging our children to grow up before they're ready. I'd rather have the fairytales and bed-time stories that help our children tap into their imaginations and encourage them to dream. However, I do appreciate the vignettes in the special features or more fun section of the DVDs that show real people doing real-life activities - painting, dancing, designing. This encourages and teaches our daughters to pursue their dreams and reach for their goals.

Stop, Do Not Purchase!!! The silly Dobby "bookend" is in no way worth a basic no frills dvd, at a premium price. The picture quality is poor!! There is no DTS!!! Oh but wait all of this should be compensated with a poor bookend at a premium price!!! Do Not Buy This!!! You will be sorely disappointed.

DREADFUL! Dreadful exploitation of the Susan Boyle name.  Don't get taken advantage of like I did.  Just because something has her name on it does not mean it is a valuable item.

Really boring.  But, at least there's no payoff in the end. Slow, very well acted waste of your time.  This movie is a one trick pony and the trick gets old after the first five hours of the movie.  Reviews that talk about courage are ignoring that this movie is pure fantasy.

Jeez, what a boring, unfunny movie I've heard about this movie for years.  Finally sat down and watched it, with great expectations.  Total disappointment.  I cannot believe this piece of junk is from the same guys who wrote Fargo.  This movie is so self-conscious and full of itself that its every attempt at humor is infused with desperation and heavy-handed "cleverness."  Lots of profanity-laced, repetitive tirades masquerading as hilarious dialogue.  (Enough with the f-word already . . . it stops having any impact at all after the first few times and then just comes across as puerile and immature.)  What a waste of time of time and Oscar-nominated (in other films) talent.

Can I Give It Zero Stars? I am a huge Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake fan, but even they could not prevent this movie from being an epic fail. This movie is just awful. I tried to figure out why, as I was watching it -- and there was time to mull this over, as I was completely unengaged in the stupid story -- and I came to the conclusion that it's not the actors' fault at all. It's a repugnant story to begin with, and an unfunny, soulless, pointless script.  Think "School of Rock" without a shred of wit or charm. Think "Stand and Deliver" (the movie this teacher shows in class day after day as she sleeps off last night's binge) without any drama, heart or morality. Cameron Diaz plays a hugely unlikable witch with a B, who hates everybody and everything, including kids. She's borderline abusive in her teaching duties. Of course all the good and decent people, you know, the good teachers, who enjoy their careers and love kids, they are of course made out to be morons.  So the main character is detestable, and her behavior as a teacher is unbelievable. What teacher sits in the car in the parking lot and gets loaded, even having a conversation with a student while hitting the pipe, and is allowed to just keep working as a teacher? She sits at her desk and ignores the kids, swears at them, mocks them, throws things at them...and these are young, middle-school-age kids. It is ridiculous, unbelievable, and disturbing, but on top of that, the movie commits the worst sin for a comedy: IT'S. NOT. FUNNY. I don't think I even smiled in in the hour and 15 minutes I gave this dreck before turning it off.  Recommendation: Oh good grief, no. If some night you have a choice between watching "Bad Teacher" or staring at a blank wall, choose the wall.

Will not Play on Some Standard DVD Players BE WARNED: This DVD will not play on my standard Sony DVD player even though Amazon describes it as "Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)" The reason is that it is in PAL format. So dig through the fine print in your DVD player manual to make sure that it will play PAL format before you buy this DVD. My Region 1 Sony will play NTSC only, so it will not play it.

Random much? Given what I saw in the trailer, I wasn't expecting much. It's good to see that sometimes, you can judge the book by its cover.  This flick was random. The plot was random. The acting was random. The time period was random. The cinematography was.... well... I'm sure you get it by now. If someone in the production team for this film had a wild hair, it got incorporated into the script. Mission Impossible rappelling bit? Check. Steampunk style airship battles? Check. Oriental martial arts wired combat? Check. Indiana Jones/Lara Croft tomb raiding? Check. High flash rapier duels? Che... oh wait... most of the rapier fighting was outclassed by brawling. But at least there was a lot of brawling.  The core concept behind the Three Musketeers is the often quoted "all for one, one for all." It describes how personal loyalty, honor, and courage can and MUST stand against corruption no matter how much power (political or religious) backs the actions of villainous men. But in this adaptation, it's all about independent action... treachery and betrayal from within... lost hope... and trickery to ensure that everything turns out all right. Maybe that sort of 'shades of gray' storyline seems necessary to appeal to today's audiences; but if so, we should all be horribly shamed by our part in it.  Ironically, the one big deceit in the original (Anne's infidelity with Buckingham) is flipped into the reverse... a plot by the Cardinal that sends the diamonds to England to force the French King into going to war. Anne and her young King are evidently supposed to be the naive, innocent romantics of the piece. Fortunately, the heroes are able to capture an airship (literally a period wooden galleon suspended beneath vast canvas balloons - complete with fore, aft and broadside cannon placements) and save the day. Well... except for that fleet of airships crossing the channel there at the end. We wouldn't want to miss the opportunity to set up our sequel, would we?

LESS than 1 star! I've never written a review for a movie before, but upon wasting an evening watching, "Bending All the Rules," I felt it my obligation to warn others. This movie's plot was not at all concise. It just dragged on and on. There was apparently NO EDITING! Nothing at all must have made it to the cutting room floor. Poorly-recorded dialog from dozens of inconsequential characters failed to propel the plot and just wasted valuable time. I had just seen Bradley Cooper in "Limitless," and expected a movie of close calibre. I like indie films too, but "Bending All the Rules" (filmed in 2002) wasn't even up to par with a student film. The leading lady Colleen Porch was bland and intolerable. I actually think Cooper and David Gail's (the other lead guy) acting was acceptable, given the terrible scripts they were given; however, the movie was poorly written, poorly filmed and poorly edited. I was embarrassed for Cooper during the "sex" scene because of his laughable facial expressions and the way it was shot. He must have died of shame when he watched the final product. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME WITH THIS ONE!  (And since I mentioned the name, "David Gail," if you want an intelligent, tight, intense plot with twists and a mind-blowing ending, check out the movie, "The Life of David Gale," (2003) starring Kate Winslet, Kevin Spacey, Laura Linney. It's one of my favorite movies of all-time.)

A Verne Classic Gets A Modern SyFy Treatment: Pleasantly Silly, But Not Much Fun Thank you, SyFy!  You've done it again!  Sadly, though, this time you've somewhat missed the boat (or the balloon).  The original presentation of "Jules Verne's Mysterious Island" is another epic of bad movie mayhem.  For the record, I love SyFy films for reasons too numerous to indicate.  I have ranked some of their abominable classics at every step of the ratings scale--including five stars.  But to really stand out, an intentionally bad movie has to embrace its silliness and be an unapologetic bit of fun.  "Mysterious Island" embraces its silliness, to be sure, (to the point Verne would be rolling over in his grave) but it somehow still misses out on the fun factor.  I wanted to laugh along with the cast of nincompoops, but instead I found their exploits quite tiring, grating and underwhelming.  The cast was decent, I've liked leads Lochlyn Munro and Gina Holden in other projects.  And the presence of the great character actor Pruitt Taylor Vince was a welcome addition--but then I remembered it was SyFy and Taylor Vince was gone before I even noticed his presence (this is a cunning SyFy trick, get a name for the credits but only pay him for a couple of scenes).  The plot of "Mysterious Island" begins with a group of Civil War soldiers taking an inexplicably strange balloon trip through time and space.  The guys end up on a (you guessed it) mysterious island with dangers around every corner.  There is a large sea creature, pirates, swamp monsters, and the most cunning foe of all--men wearing shag carpeting as coats.  This being SyFy again, you only get glimpses of these dreaded evils (poorly done) and mainly have to content yourself with scary sounds.  The drama, such as it is, is executed through amateur theatrics as the cast react to unseen horrors.  To complicate matters, the gang encounter two modern girls.  This creates the possibility for some of the movie's most uncomfortable scenes dealing with political correctness and racism.  It's quite painful really, especially since one of the women is only concerned with her make-up kit and flirting.  I might be concerned for survival myself, but who am I to judge.  Our heroes start to lose their own (don't worry, you're not really invested in anyone) as the secrets of the island are explained by a mystery man.  A daring plot to escape is enacted and the movie ends rather abruptly after an out-of-left field display of self sacrifice attempts to make previously loathsome characters more noble.  "Mysterious Island" certainly has all of the components necessary to make it a bad movie necessity, but ultimately I just didn't care.  In the end, I just didn't even think it was smart enough to be dumb fun.  And for SyFy originals, that's a crucial misstep. My advice, catch it for free on SyFy before making a blind purchase--that way you know what you're getting.  KGHarris, 4/12.

This guy should have quit after the first nine... Horrible waste of time.  I absolutely loathed this guy by the end and so did everyone else I watched it with.  Self-centered mooch spends a few years selfishly "improving" his game and enjoying coaches, trainers, experiences all paid for by anyone associated with the movie.  He bemoans his relationships with his two dads but bolts to Scotland when his wife is due with their son to seek more enlightenment.  Grow up dude.  The preview was very misleading and this guy had no chance of ever making it on the tour.  Wish I had that grueling hour and 45 minutes back.  What a joke.

horrible after communicating through email 6 different times, they still can't get my mail address right,I say "apt 4609" and they don't even know what "apt" stands for in an address! afterwords, I said thats my apartment number....4609, so she said "ok" I'll mail it to 4906! &lt;~~ wrong number!!!  all in all, I will not use them again. it was a Christmas present, and I still haven't got it! ( Jan 10 )

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I Stephenie Meyer's vampire-human-werewolf romance has captured the female demographic since the first book was published back in 2005, and the film adaptations have understandably been a huge hit as well. The latest chapter in the saga, which amounts to the first half of the final book, debuted last November to the tune of over $280 million in domestic totals and a worldwide gross exceeding $700 million. By now, it's well known that the Twilight films aren't very good, but that didn't stop hordes of fans from watching the marriage of Bella and Edward, the subsequent consummation of that marriage, and the ensuing complications that arise when a human attempts to birth a vampire. Even within the franchise itself, Breaking Dawn Part I is the worst, it's slow, joyless, and loaded with unintentionally hilarious moments. But let's be honest: this film was made exclusively to satisfy its existing fanbase, who are only too eager to eat it up; everyone else will have to be content with the fact that there's only one more to go.

Suxs.... NOT FUNNY! I wanted to buy this movie but my boyfriend decided we should rent it first from redbox before buying to decide if its really a Great movie. Well the movie was BAD really BAD... and WORST of ALL its NOT a FUNNY movie! I feel so BAD for Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler they're really, really GOOD actors but the people who wrote, produced and directed this movie should have done much better because now they just made two great actors look really really BAD!!!

SUCKS! One of the WORST I've ever seen. This was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I shut it off early.  Bad acting, stupid plot, boring, trash, etc. Too much whining and shrieking.  All of the female characters were STUPID and annoying! Grow up!

Totally hokey! This movie came highly recommended so I bought it. Unfortunately, it was totally hokey to me. The people in the video didn't come across as legit or viable farmers. Those complaining didn't seem credible. Sorry, I wanted to believe the information but it came across as fabricated, exaggerated, drama. I am sure some aspects of their information are correct, but the greatest liars take truths and expound with false accusations on partial truths. That's what I felt this movie did. I felt completely duped!  Again, I purchased this hoping to teach my children something; instead I got to show them the hidden agendas of the producers and how poorly their accusations were supported. There was a lot of ranting and little validation.

GENERIC A box office flop when it came out, and forgotten now, though the book was from the author of SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, this movie is just another middle east terrorist story mixed with the cliched crazy Vietnam vet.  Nothing special about the action, or acting.  The lead-up is more interesting than the climax! It's not enough that tens of thousands of Americans might die, 10 times as many as with 911, so the movie has President Carter show up at the football game, to make the terrorists really seem bad!  Not exactly boring, there are enough action scenes, it's just that the overall movie is so uninspired. TWO MINUTE WARNING, another football terrorist movie, came out about 6 months before BLACK SUNDAY, and has a better cast, partly cause it's treated like some 70s disaster movie.

the far frontier roy rogers dont buy this dvd the far frontier roy rogers it says it is in color but it is not it is in black\white picture quality is poor it is not digitally remasterd dvd cover says the far frontier is in true color i orded this on amazon disapointed.

no sound at all I tried to watch this movie and cannot get sound to play at all.  All other movies play just fine.. Very disappointed.

Great film terrible copy. I've seen a good bit of this on PBS but thought I'd buy an entire copy to view during a recuperative period from surgery. The series (Burns) is excellent but the copy I received was terrrible. Not sure how to complain to Amazon and not sure which vendor it came from. I'll look futher on Amazon and perhaps they read these.

Idiocy laced with attempts at pathos I can't make up my mind about this movie. After watching it, does it make you want to throw up, or lose all faith in mankind?

I'd rather eat ramen than try to stomach this stinker What an awful movie. The story was awful. The acting was awful. For such a great actress like Murphy who starred in 8 Mile, Don't Say A Word and Sin City, to do this movie she must have been kidnapped and held at gun point or was flat out desperate. I would even go as far as to say this movie could have ruined her legacy.... but lucky for her no one watched it.  Here's something funny about this film.... they spent $32 million making it. The same budget as Source Code starring Jake Gyllenhaal, which was a box office blockbuster and went on to make $147 million.. Just goes to show a movie about time travel in an alternate timeline >>>>>>> cooking ramen.  RIP Murphy, so sorry you were involved in this stinker just before your untimely death.

No Blu-ray: Just say no to discrimination This note is for Blu-Ray corp. & the film studio & distributors only:  We have no problem with you making Blu-Ray versions for those format owners... but not when you deliberately discriminate & deny DVD owners from having any extra's as we had on all of the first 6 movies. You purposely denied all extras on our DVD versions for this last movie. Your denying the hundreds of millions of DVD owners the extras & final ultimate edition of the last Harry Potter movie will accomplish nothing & only turn us against Blu-Ray permanently. We will Not be forced into buying blu-ray. No matter how much we like the film series, we wont be blackmailed by greedy Blu-Ray corporate coercion for this final movie.  You made the Harry Potter ultimate edition on movies 1-6 in DVD format. There is no excuse for not completing the set for both parts of movie 7. By trying to coerce us into buying in Blu-Ray by denying the extras we got with movies 1-6 in DVD format, you are only turning us against your overpriced Blu-Ray forever. You might get away with discriminating against DVD owners on this one movie, but Blu-Ray & its parent companies will pay the ultimate price when the hundreds of millions of DVD owners permanently boycott your overpriced products.  Remember HD-DVD? It went down the drain as well. Do your really think we are going to dump the hundreds of DVDs in our collections just for one movie so we can pay 3 times the price for your overrated product just so your corporation can stuff their pockets? Just visit the Blu-Ray aisle any video store & you will rarely see your products move. Those aisles are practically abandoned.  You may have thought you could take advantage of a captive audience of a highly popular movie by using blackmail tactics to coerce millions to convert to your product. All you have succeeded in doing is creating hundreds of millions of DVD owners as enemies who will go out of their way to boycott Blu-Ray & its parent companies in perpetuity.  Creating Blu-Ray versions for those owners is just fine. Make it in both formats. But when you deliberately deny the same product extras to hundreds of millions of DVD owners just to coerce us into converting, that is a petulant, greedy, nasty slight toward 2/3rds of the fans who own DVD's. It is also the worst possible mistake Blu-Rays corp. could possibly make. This pettiness will cost you dearly.

Incoherent, Incomprehensible, Illogical, & Smutty - Yet Pretentious! John Hurt is an Oxford professor and Elijah Wood is an admiring doctoral student.  The film opens with a lecture on Ludwig Wittgenstein, who is "Considered by SOME [emphasis added] to be the greatest philosopher of the 20th century" (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).  John Hurt's professor character dramatically quotes from Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico Philosophicus: "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." It's all downhill from there, as Hurt & Wood join forces as amateur sleuths and as the one-time hobbit becomes the object of lust of two young women.  Garbage, pure and simple.

One Day....One Star.... I was really looking forward to seeing this movie as I enjoy watching Anne Hathaway and love a good romance. From the start it looked pretty good and the premise of their first (remembered) encounter in July 15 1988 and peeking in on the same date through the years was a an interesting idea.  Somehow, the movie seemed likable but disjointed, as you only had a bit of insight into what had happened the entire year before.  I found it especially hard at the end to feel anything but disappointed.  My husband and I both looked at each other, shook our heads and said nearly in unison "Worst movie, EVER".  Overall, I am not quite sure who may like this movie, like I said I enjoy a good romance, but this just isn't one I could recommend.

wow Dex you let me down! Well thank goodness for Breaking bad or TV would have totally gone down the drain with  Dexter season 6.  NO imagination anymore.

Ayn Rand would have never let this be released While I am a firm-set liberal, I wanted to read the book to say that I have read it. It was beautifully written, with a lot of wonderful imagery and a great story to tell. I don't necessarily agree with the whole theme of the book and the ideals behind it, but I do think that the population of greedy people that believe the government is there to them to support them has grown exponentially in the last couple of decades. It's not to the point where this book ended up, though.  With that said and the imagery still bouncing around in my head, I was extremely excited to see that SOMEONE had finally gotten the film going. I looked at the production still and saw that the settings were magnificent and the rails and Rearden Metal looked exactly like I envisioned them. So a couple of weeks ago, I saw the DVD at Target and immediately grabbed it. HOWEVER...  Two nights ago I got around to putting it in. I realized immediately that I had wasted my money. There is nothing tying the plot lines together, the character backgrounds are extremely shallow, with some pivotal characters having NO name until 40 minutes later! The director seems to think that Lilian and Hank Rearden have a wonderfully loving relationship. It was hard for me to follow and I had just finished the book in September. It was jumpy, emotionless and terribly thin compared to the writing and detail in the books. I turned it off when the screenplay completely omitted the 3 months that Rearden and Dagny spent traveling the country, meeting the poor people in the village and wound up at the abandonded 20th Century plant. Instead, the movie version had Hank sending someone off to take pictures of the engine that Dagny had originally dug out of the metal scraps to the point of bloodying her hands.  I would NOT recommend this book to anyone looking to see the book jump off the screen. It won't, and you'll be lucky if you get any kind of emotional response out of it.

Will not play in Region A... I purchased this movie after a long search for a compatable region.  Upon receipt, I attempted to run the Blu-Ray movie but the blu-ray player identified it as having "the wrong format".  I then called Panasonic, who walked me through the firmware update and said that the player was designed to play in region A or A/B/C and that it should now work if the movie is as advertised. It didn't.  Another movie I just purchased this week having been released last week, plays just fine. Panasonic said it was the disc that was faulty or the format was not as advertised.  I will just have to wait until the US decides at some point to release Miss Potter for a local audience.  I have returned the item for a full refund as "not as advertised".

Meth dealers with a heart If Disney made a movie about severe poverty, drugs, and violence it would be just like Winters Bone.  Everyone keeps talking about how bleek and dark the film is, but that's really only because of the setting, back drop, and weather throughout.  The story itself is actually quite sappy, corny, and laughable.  To start with, we have a violent, drug addicted uncle who for the first half of the movie is abusive towards our main actress, he's violent towards her, attempts to get her to snort some meth, and even appears as if he just might molest his 17-year-old niece....but then.....presto...by the end of the film he's bring little baby chicks to the other children and he's sweet as pie.  Awww, he's even called "tear drop", because deep down he's a good guy.  Then, we have our bail bondsman.  An evil, slimey critter during the first half of the film who then (out of the goodness of his bail bondsman heart) gives our actress a sack -o- cash at the end, which will allow her to dip that squirrel meat in caviar for the rest of her life!!  We additionally have a group of sea hag women who beat, slap, and kick our main actress...drag her into a barn where other violent meth dealers are hanging out.  They, out of the goodness of their meth dealer hearts...let the girl go despite the fact she can implicate them all in a murder if she keeps snooping around.  Then, later, the sea hags return and are sweet as pie and could not be more helpful really.  The only charactor who didn't pull a 180 and become a good decent person, was...of course...the cop.  What a shocker, an evil sheriff who has no decency in him whatsoever.  So, the meth dealers are really good folk but the cops are bad. It's no surprise the Academy loves this tripe, cough Crash cough. It's essentially a Disney tale of a girl looking for her father, and a town who initially resists her every effort...but then...they go soft and provide her all the help she needs to become rich and we all ride off into the sunset holding hands smiling.  Gag

Disappointing and Slow This movie was not scary or even close to frightening. It was extremely slow and took way too long to reveal anything close to being considered horror. Find another move!

Michael Hutchence deserves better I sent this as a comment to Deborah Wilbanks, but thought others should see before they buy this DVD:  I have to agree 100% with Deborah Wilbanks' review and am giving it one less star than she did. It is so sad and uncomfortable to watch. It brought me to tears and I cannot believe the band agreed to put this out. Some of the numbers are gut-wrenchingly soulful (i.e. Searching) and one can see that Michael Hutchence was pouring everything he had into them. Many of the songs in "Elegantly Wasted" tell what MH was going through/feeling at that time in his life. The live performances of some these songs are amazing but that is secondary -- at this concert the man's pain and sadness is palpable and the thing that stands out the most. And maybe that is most gut-wrenching of all -- watching the train wreck happen and knowing what was to come just a mere five months later.  I cannot understand how his band-mates could have mistaken this for the same old, same old MH high on drugs & booze.  If you want to see live performances of the "Elegantly Wasted" album go to youtube and watch the Aspen 1997 concert, the extraordinary performance of "Searching" in Sept 1996 at the ARIA awards.  RIP MH. The 'Mystify' DVD should not have been put out there, you deserved better.

lorax movie the Lorax movie came, but was in a paper cd envelope. Like it was a home made CD. When I placed the order it showed the original case with it.

1.35 STARS: Ah, now that's rich!!!!---Albert I must say that "American Crime", for all its flaws, did bring a smile to my face.  "American Crime" is a movie about a serial killer who films his victims before and sometimes while he kills them.  Employees of a news station discover the tapes made by the killer as he deposited different tapes at the news station itself.  So, since the police don't buy into their story, these guys decide that they will try to crack the case all by themselves.  However, when one of the news station people leaves town, Albert with "American Crime" decides to get involved.  To me, it is Albert's character who almost makes this movie worth watching.  Played by Cary Elwes, who proved to me that he can flat-out act, Albert's exaggerated English accent and demeanor are nothing short of hilarious at times.  Of course, the problem is that "American Crime" is supposed to be scary, and while it has a moment or two worth noting as being potentially creepy, I must agree with other reviewers that this movie's documentary style becomes VERY annoying VERY early and hurts the movie.  "American Crime" is plagued by what I would call "lazy plot execution", a theme only too common from the horror movies we've seen over the last 20 years.  Indeed, the execution is largely a failure, the acting is okay for this type of movie but "American Crime", in its attempt to be different, falls flat on its face in its ability to create any atmosphere or sustain any suspense.  Quite frankly, it has a couple of creepy moments, a couple of funny moments (Elwes), but it fails in its essential purpose.  "American Crime" is uneven, disjointed and lacks substance even if it has a sense of style, but the problem is that the style it uses works against the grain of the movie and annoys the audience.  I would not buy this movie or rent it, but if you catch it on the tube, watch it for Elwes's character...he's pretty funny.  In the end of the movie, the creators of the movie think they are being clever and while they do keep you guessing, one can only muster a half-hearted wry smile by the time the credits roll.  1.35 STARS for Elwes and a couple of creepy moments, but this movie is a 10 on the annoying meter.

Waiting for it to end I couldn't finish it. I was really excited to see Waiting, too. This type of comedy is right up my alley. But the dialogue was not funny in the least. From the start, Ryan Reynolds sells this game to the new guy where you have to show your genitalia to another employee and make them look. And if they do, you get to kick them in the rear. Are you laughing yet? Because this joke was sold for at least 3/4 of the movie (that's as long as I lasted).  The jokes were laid out in a way to make sure you'd get the joke. No subtlety at all...which completely kills the joke. The PITA customer said the food has been horrible the LAST FOUR TIMES she's been there. And the obvious answer to that is, why do you keep coming back? The problem is, she emphasizes the LAST FOUR TIMES, because the writer/director wants to make sure you don't miss the joke in there. They're dumbing down their comedy which makes it much less funny. This is done throughout the movie.  So what you have is Ryan Reynolds as the star of the movie, who is a natural at comedy but has no good dialogue to deliver. You've got the guy from Ed and one of the crappier Die Hard movies as a depressed kid because he was a high school honors student but too lazy to use that to his advantage, and the good looking girl that loves him. Apparently he's not dorky anymore.  After about 45 minutes or an hour of enduring this thing, I'd had enough and decided to turn it off and watch some Arrested Development instead, since I was in the mood for something funny. I don't need a comedy to be hilarious in order to hold my interest, but I need it to at least be interesting.  By all the 5 star reviews this movie received, maybe you'll find this one funny like they did. Although I can't imagine why or how.  By comparison, I'd give 5 stars to The Hangover, American Pie (only the first one), Pineapple Express, 40 year old Virgin, and Role Models. 4 stars for Clerks, Chasing Amy, Stepbrothers, Undercover Brother, and Hot Tub Time Machine.

Awesome song! Awesone song! .......and that is about it! I first watched this movie, again for free, when I was a teen and I thought it was as cool as Dirty Dancing! Omg love love love that movie! But needless to say as an adolescence I was not very hard to please. So there you have it ..... buy the cd.....not the movie :)

Everyone Hates Ultraviolet I'd comment on the movie but there's a bigger rip off that's worth commenting on.  Like a lot of people, I pay a little extra to get Blu-Rays and DVDs with digital copies so I can take them with me on my iPad. The pretty much accepted standard is you get a code that'll unlock the movie for iTunes or Windows Media Player.  Ultra Violet ISN'T that. It's a streaming service from Flixster. That means you get to run up against your bandwidth quotas and don't actually have the original file for when you're either off line (happens a lot for those of use with WIFI not 3G iPads) or when Flixster inevitably folds and switches off their service (as has happened with countless DRM driven schemes before it).  They could at least have the integrity to call it a Streaming Copy not a Digital Copy to avoid misleading people. But, sadly, misleading people in to thinking they bought one thing so you can try forcing them over to another service where you keep more control was apparently the goal here.  So, a one star review - as many, many others seem to be doing - as punishment for misleading their consumers. Collectively, enough bad reviews hammer their sales and will be about the only thing that forces them to take notice.

BLECH!  Season 1 was good. By season 10 the show was bad. The finale had him in cgi - lol bad! The show worked at its core when Jonathan Kent was still on and you had father and son moments. The dynamic of him with his parents made the show like you'd expect an early start of Clark's life to be. Somehow by season 10, they got wayyyyyy off track! The whole blue blur crap, and Clark looking like the only idiot alien who is afraid to fly... It just got bad.  The finale was pretty pathetic in that you don't see him in the full suit. They just cgi (and bad cgi) him into a crappy costume that you get a glimpse as he helps a plane ala Reeve/Routh from the movies.  EWWW stay away from this one folks and wait for the "Man of Steel" movie starring Henry Cavill.

Can I give it ZERO stars movie sucked, plain and simple.  Kaboom sucked as well.  Folks can form their own opinion after watching it but I would give this and Kaboom Negative stars if I could.  I almost feel the director should pay me for wasting time watching his junk.

Waste of time to watch I wanted to like this because I liked Dwayne Johnson in comedies like Tooth Fairy. It's unfortunate that he chose to work this movie. It stunk. Obvious plot. Completely unrealistic concepts. The script was so poor that it gave many decent actors no room to create any dynamics in their characters. If your choice is to watch this movie or none at all, grab a book or go to sleep early.

HORRIBLE Hands down the WORST movie I have ever seen.  So ridiculous.  Horrible. Even if I wanted something that was a little goofy/ light-hearted, this is absurd. It just dumbfounds me that so many "stars" would participate in this, but I guess everyone has their price.

IT WAS SO WARPED IT COULDN'T PLAYED I had to return this DVD because it was so warped it couldn't be could not be played, and I TRYED THREE DIFFERENT DVD players!!

Terrible movie in Italian Bette speaking Italian? NO NO NO. This movie is not worth watching. I love Bette Davis and Joseph Cotton but this movie with its subtitles and our Bette speaking Italian ..well...it ruins it all for me. I suppose this is when she could not get work in Hollywood and did make a couple of Italian movies but the other one I know of is in ENGLISH not subtitled.

Terriable This movie moves slow and goes nowhere. They seem to build the movie to be a great romance but in the end it is a big disappointment.

Watch Out for the Bootleg! I don't know what site or what company she got this from, but my mother bought me this box set for Christmas. It is obviously a poorly done bootleg. I don't want to tell her she got duped to spare her feelings, but I did want to let others be aware of people trying to sell these poorly done and illegal reproductions. MAKE SURE YOU GET THIS SET FROM A REPUTABLE SELLER!

Don't rent this film...from Amazon The Godfather is a classic, and a wonderful movie.  The quality of this film from Amazon was HORRIBLE.  I have high-speed internet service, and streamed it on a fast computer, but it was like watching a scratched DVD, and the audio was off.  Watch on Netflix or rent BluRay...or even VHS would be better.....

Unwatchable I can watch just about anything but I could not handle this. It is not the actors/actress fault. It is everything else, especially the music. Terrible, terrible. I have already written more than this movie deserves. Do yourself a huge favor and ignore this one.

Politics Aside it's a BAD movie Too many people are giving this a 5 star rating simply because of their ideology. We shouldn't care about right wing or left wing..it should only be about entertainment. The screenplay did not bring the famous novel to life, on top of it the acting was perhaps the worst I've seen.  If you want to watch the movie for entertainment purposes only then this is not the movie for you.  If you simply want a movie to agree with your political theory and you don't care about quality then this is for you as well.

Kindle Special Offer Redeem your "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Kindle Special Offer at Amazon.com by 4/24/2012 and get 50% off another mystery film.  Is this an Oxymoron or what?  If you're read anything about the UltraViolet Digital Copy system, you will know it is useless on your portable device unless it is Wi-Fi connected....try that on most planes, a road trip, or camping.  This movie is OK, so was the Swedish version, but my advice is read the book if you want the real story, and in-depth character development.  I could not put the book down; the movie would be hard to follow if you haven't read the book.

Nauseating, disgusting On the cover by supposed 'reputable' reviewers, it stated such things as 'uproariously funny,' but after 3o minutes and much fast forwarding attempting to get to any funny stuff, I could take no more.  If one finds vile, graphic toilet scenes, or someone spitting at others from a rooftop, or predictable, stereotypical character behavior funny, then this may be the movie for you.

Terrible customer service I'll admit, I mistakenly bought this item without reading all the details, which I rarely do.  I knew nothing about different codes for different areas (stupid BTW).  I paid a sensational amount for shipping thinking I was still getting a decent deal.  The product showed up as advertised, albeit I felt the seller was a bit deceitful by not highlighting that this disc is not compatible with US DVD/Bluray players.  I attempted to contact the seller to return the item a month ago and haven't received a response.  That's bad business and deserves a 1 rating on ethics alone.  Don't get duped by this seller.  You won't be able to get your money back.

Great for beginners This DVD would be a great workout for beginners.  For someone who is very active and used to Insanity/p90x/bob Harper workouts, this DVD is pretty boring.  Maybe it would be a good workout to do on a resting day.  I didn't really like the homemade feel to the video; the lighting and effects were somewhat annoying.

Must Miss Category THE BOUNTY HUNTER fizzles without ever being ignited. Sarah Thorp wrote this ambiguous tale and Andy Tennant (who ha done some good movies) 'directed' it and likely the only reason it ever made it into theaters lies in the decision to place name actors in the leads.  That doesn't even help.  Milo Boyd (Gerard Butler, grossly miscast) is an ex-cop turned bounty hunter whose track record is less than acceptable. He lands a chance to redeem his failing career when he is assigned to bring in his bail-jumping ex-wife, a news reporter Nicole Hurly (Jennifer Anniston) whose 'crime' is as foolish as the script. The 'cute twist' is that Milo and Nicole were married but found their commitment to work a barricade in maintaining their marriage.  The rest of the film is Milo chasing down Nicole who happens to be tracking a news story on a criminal and somewhere along the way the two have moments of reconciliation quickly botched by the clumsiness of Milo's bounty hunter abilities and Nicole's investigating warps. The chase becomes more of a stagy thriller than the intended comedy romance - and there is absolutely no chemistry between Aniston and Butler on the screen.  Tiny cameos are embarrassing, even in the hands of actors such as Christine Baranski, Cathy Moriarty, and Gio Perez.  It just doesn't fly.  Grady Harp, September 11

Tries To Do Too Much And Ends Up Failing At Everything After the incredible success of the "original" Spiderman series (now known as "the Tobey Maguire one"), director Sam Raimi & Sony could not agree on a fourth addition to that franchise.  As such, Sony decided to dump Raimi and reboot the series again despite the very short time frame.  While this movie will almost certainly rack up huge profits at the box office over the summer months, its utter lack of heart and anything original/interesting will eventually become known and be its undoing.  For a basic plot summary, "The Amazing Spider-Man" reboots the Spiderman franchise with Andrew Garfield as the title character and Emma Stone as Peter Parker's teenage crush Gwen Stacy.  Also along for the ride is Rhys Ifans as a scientist working to perfect inter-species DNA mixing, which of course sets the stage for the battle between Spidey & The Lizard.  There are so many things wrong with this movie that it is actually just easier to go over them in list form:  -The main problem is that the direction from Marc Webb and thus the overall tone of the film is just wrong.  It tries to be a high school drama, action/adventure romp, "Dark Knight"-style hero film, and even a part goofy comedy all at once.  It fails at all of these aspects because it just doesn't establish an identity.  Whereas "Dark Knight" works because it is so visceral and the original Spidey flicks work because they are more playful and light (like reading a comic book versus a graphic novel), this one falls squarely in the "muddled middle". -Andrew Garfield is a great actor, but his character is written so wildly inconsistent that it is literally laughable at times.  There is no believe character progression or development whatsoever.  One minute he is a goofy teenager, the next a brooding soul, and the next a punk, changing between the three for seemingly no reason at all. -This is too soon after "Spiderman 3", plain and simple.  The first 45 minutes are so get tedious because, well, we already saw this stuff not so long ago.  I can completely see what Sony was trying to do, but it just should not have been done.  As previously mentioned, it will make a ton of money (at least at first) but inevitably suck the life out of the franchise. -Finally, there are also some scenes in this film that will almost make you laugh out loud as to their ridiculousness.  Maguire's Spidey always teetered on the edge of dramatic/campy, but this time it descends into stupidity.  You never know what you are going to get from scene to scene.  The only bright point of the experience: Emma Stone's performance as Gwen.  Despite the fact that she is terribly miscast as a high school student, Stone gives her character at least some charm.  It is more than can be said for anything or anybody else in the movie.  Overall, "The Amazing Spider-Man" was one of the biggest letdowns I have ever experienced in the cinema.  For me, it is closer to 1.5 stars on the ranking scale.  In a Hollywood era where superhero movies rule right now, this one is a complete and utter dud.

Mental health drivel. I guess someone had to make a film like this.  It seems like the "important films" that get small audiences but "deserve" more attention always deal with someone's inability to deal with a mundane problem; i.e. I had a poor childhood, so-and-so abused me, I was deprived of this, that and the other thing, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah...whatever.  Okay, I admit it right now that I prefer watching a venerable no brainer like "Smokey and the Bandit" verse a therapy session disguised as a feature film with a couple of name actresses, but that's who I am.  I think someone ought to address whoever the screenplay artist was, get the real doctor's and patient's names upon whom this screenplay was based, and then present them to the world for all to see.  Not that that would make any difference, but perhaps it might serve to producers to select more entertaining fair mainstream audiences.  It's well acted, dressed, and otherwise executed, but the story,  though not contrived, just seems to be someone venting about their personal problems.  I'm simply tired of those kinds of films.  Enjoy.

Son 2 and Daughter 5 - disappointed, not as good as Cars This was my children's first trip to the movies. Neither one of them liked it. Too much action, too much death, the storylines were too complex, not enough of the core characters, and it did not have the heart of Cars. BIG LETDOWN! If I let my son he would watch cars everyday. My daughter and son play cars all the time. My daughter told me that she did not really want to see cars 2 again. Maybe the movie is for 8-10 year olds?

Low quality copy I'm not returning this item, because it isn't worth my time, and it arrived quickly and served the purpose that my friend and I were able to see the movie on the evening we wanted to.  But it was a barely mediocre copy of the movie. No logo on the disc, bad color and contrast, passable sound.  It says the vendor was "Amazon LLC" - be forewarned if you think you are buying a quality original.

Disappointing, but arguably the most faithful adaptation Darn. Right off the bat - it's AlLan QUATERmain, NOT ALan QuaRtermain. Of the five film versions of this novel, Cedric Hardwicke is the ONLY actor even roughly approximating Haggard's hero in age and appearance. But what the....?!?! Who are these two O'Briens we have? The young lady (Anna Lee) has the worst stage brogue to date. I guess back in the 30's, the film industry thought EVERY film needed romance and comic relief. Be off you you, you and your shamrock medallions! Where's Umslopogaas? What do you mean, that singing dude over there? Paul Robeson may have a terrific voice, but here it's totally wasted, and besides, Umslopogaas is a mighty warrior, not some chant leader. (And why the name change to Umbopa, anyway? The bad part is that "Umbopa" stuck through ALL of the remakes, too.)  Even with all that, it remains the closest to the source novel. The thousands of Zulu extras brought in for the war scenes are great, and the mine is pretty convincing if not as grand as what the mind's eye would create.  Stll, this is really showing its age - after all, it's 75 years old, and much closer in time to the period it's representing than we are to it. Do yourself a favor and skip ALL of the film versions - read the novel, instead.

Merely meh... The thought of John Travolta and Nicolas Cage in the same movie is just like an overload of dreckitude that I can't even fathom the idiot who thought this up, but apparently it went over well so what do I know.  I still question the taste of the world when I realize the draw that these men actually have in Hollywood, but I wash my hands of it.  It's about twenty years too late, but it appears that the world has started to smart up to these guys.  `Face/Off' is your standard action thriller in the sense that it lacks a lot of brains and instead infuses a lot of dynamite into each frame.  Cage is his usual bland self, and he basically sleepwalks through the majority of the film.  He tries to be all flamboyant and edgy in the first part of the film, but it comes across as stagy and laughable really.  John Travolta fares much better, because his mockery of Cage's flamboyancy is more believable and more fun to watch.  The idea of face swapping is rather preposterous, especially when you factor in the vast differences in the builds of these actors and the supposed technology they claim to use in the film is merely shrug worthy.  The thriller aspect of the film is light, but the action (especially the film's bookends) is heavy and fun to watch.  I shouldn't have expected more, but I did, sort of.  Woo has a way with action scenes, but he's produced far better in his career.  In retrospect, this film doesn't hold up in the way it did back in the 90's and I'm sure half of the film's supporters would feel that way too upon a recent viewing.

IDIOT IS AN APPROPRIATE TITLE Have you ever seen a movie where you saw the trailer and thought man that looks funny...only to be completely disappointed once you saw the film? Welcome to OUR IDIOT BROTHER.  Ned Rochlin (Paul Rudd) is an innocent. Well not quite. I thought more of him as a waste head with visions of a grander world where no one does wrong to anyone else. It's the ideas that the hippies had in the sixties, a peaceful world where everyone can do what they want without affecting anyone else. Too bad reality always seemed to creep in.  As the film opens Ned finds himself arrested after selling grass to a local policeman. He was duped into doing so when the policeman convinced him he didn't have a problem with Ned selling drugs and needed it for a headache. Ned is convicted, spends his time in jail and when released comes home to find out his girlfriend dumped him for a new guy and doesn't want him around. Not only that, she refuses to give him back his dog Willie Nelson that she honestly could care less about. With no place to go, Ned returns to his mother's home and looks for ways to save up money so he can buy into the organic farm he and his girlfriend owned together.  Into the picture arrives Ned's three sisters and along with them their own problems which he places himself in the middle of as he roams from one to the other living there while working. The first is Liz (Emily Mortimer) who is a stay at home mom married to documentary film maker Dylan (Steve Coogan). The couple is the stereotypical by the book parents whose skills are learned through the things they read and hear about as opposed to living life. Their child must get into the right schools and behave the proper way even though he hates the things they make him do. Ned finds a connection with the youngster and they become quick friends but not quite so much with his folks. Ned takes a job working with Dylan carrying his equipment but one night finds him "shooting" his subject, a Russian ballerina, in the nude. Yes, they're having an affair and Ned accidentally leaks this to his other two sisters and causes a stir.  The next sister is Miranda (Elizabeth Banks), an up and coming writer for a classy magazine who is hoping for her big break. She has a chance to interview an heiress and the magazine wants her to get as much dirt from her as she can since the heiress was involved with a rather nasty fellow who videotaped their sexual escapades. Ned is working as Miranda's chauffer and inadvertently strikes up a conversation with the woman resulting in getting more information from her than Miranda does since the woman insists on not talking about the scandal. So determined to get the scoop and the job she covets so much, Miranda uses the information Ned got while simply talking to the woman, information he doesn't want her to use, that she'll go to all lengths to get it. This of course leads to Ned moving in with sister three.  Natalie (Zooey Deschanel) is a wanna be stand up comedian and part time nude model who is anything but funny. Ned moves in with her and her lesbian girlfriend but soon learns that Natalie is pregnant from a one night stand with the artist she poses for (and who Ned poses for as well). You can see where this is heading right now. Ned accidentally reveals all to the girlfriend as they attempt to retrieve Willie Nelson from his ex.  So here is the big problem with the movie. You find yourself in the company of a group of people that you could care less about. Not only could you care less about them, you find yourself loathing each and every one of them. I found myself wishing each of them would move on and I wouldn't have to hear any more about them. Ned is the sympathetic character here but he's such a dunce at times that you just want to slap him and say bud, wake up and smell the coffee.  I guess this means the actresses do a great job here. After all none of them can truly be as terrible in real life as they appear here, right? And Paul Rudd is always good in nearly everything he does. His Ned is a guy you'd love to spend time with, just not telling him anything about yourself.  The worst sin of all that this movie commits is that it never makes you laugh. That's pretty bad for a movie that was advertised as a comedy. Looking back I think I may have chuckled once or twice from start to finish, but being a comedy that's low praise. With all of the better movies out there to rent or watch this movie falls into that category of avoid at all costs. Only die hard Rudd fans will get anything out of this. Others will just be tossing good money away.

Wasted Premise This was an exciting premise, and when I saw Fonda, Bridges, and Lumet's name attached I watched this thinking it would be a forgotten gem.  It starts off promisingly...Fonda wakes up next to a man with a knife in his chest.  But it's downhill from there.  Instead of a taught thriller, the movie digresses into far too much about the two main characters and becomes more of a character drama.  It's not even interesting and completely loses focus.  The things that happen (and far too few things happen) are unrealistic and disjointed.  The plot developments (who is the killer) come way to late in the movie to be compelling in any way.  Characters are introduced in the final act that really should have entered sooner to develop any real sense of surprise or suspense.  The tone is uneven, even comical at times, which isn't helped by the inappropriate score.  Strong performances don't save this mess.

one hilarious episode, two overdone I thoroughly enjoyed the second of the three episodes--the expert seducer and the brainless wife. The first and the third were overdrawn and overacted jokes that were not hilarious in themselves and were overdone and unpleasant, not saved by the occasional wit and dead-pan rapid fire delivery. In any case, none of the characters is likable or admirable.

Trailers were funnier than the movie The trailers were skillfully editted and presented a funny and cute movie.  The title is accurate - "bad teacher" - language, sex, drugs, shallow nature all of which would be inappropriate for a young audience.  A more mature audience would probably not appreciate this movie.  Teenage boys will likely give this movie 5 stars.  Where as an adult might rate this at 2-3 stars.  Teachers may find this movie offensive.

WARNING: Will NOT play on most Samsung Blu-Ray players One would think that Disney would test their releases on at least ONE Samsung player.  While it's not uncommon for new blu-ray discs to be incompatible with existing blu-ray players, it's still disappointing to rip open the Amazon package, pop some popcorn, throw the disc into your player, and then spend the evening banging your head against the wall while trying to get the thing to play.  It's also disappointing to have to spend more than an hour on the phone with both Disney and Samsung support while they play the finger pointing game.  "It's Disney's fault," "No, it's Samsung's fault," depending on who you ask.  Apparently, ALL Disney blu-ray releases coming out since April, 2011 or so have this problem.  Each disc will freeze on the Disney magic castle loading screen and hang there indefinitely.  Samsung has promised a firmware update for their devices in order to enable playing of these new releases, but if you have a Samsung player, BE WARNED that it can take "up to six months" for a new firmware update, according to Samsung support.  Technical issues aside, I enjoyed this movie -- which is why it's so frustrating not to be able to watch it again!

Freaky If I knew a person anywhere near as freaky and sick as the actress Natalie Portman displays in this wreck of a movie, I would steer as clear as I could from them, as I have on many occasions in the past while living in NYC.  I guess this "sicko" mentality is par for the course for New York.  This woman shouldn't be dancing, she should be in a psychiatric ward - full stop! We will look back on this over-pretentious attempt to be artistically "inclined" in a decade and think "what was that all about?"  Sort of like "American Beauty".

Hungover from the Hangover This month, two hotly anticipated sequels were released- Pirates 4 and Hangover 2. For me, this should have been an awesome movie month. Well, OK, Bridesmaids and Thor were awesome movies- however the thing is, these aren't sequels, they're original concepts (OK, well not really original- I'm talking original as in "The start of something").  OK, now Pirates wasn't a bad movie, it had its share of entertaining scenes, but felt undercooked for the most part, and sadly, Hangover 2 suffers from exactly the same problem... except Pirates 4 was unfortunately much better.  Now, I LOVED The Hangover. I remeber when it came out back in 2009 and I loved it so much, I saw it twice. Every viewing was just as entertaining as the first. When I heard a Hangover 2 was being made, I was excited. I figured the first movie was good enough to have a solid sequel, and Todd Phillips knew what he was doing was good. So I patiently anticipated this movie, and when it got released, I was one of the first people in line.  Unfortunately, this is no sequel. It is essentially a remake of the first movie. Why is that a problem? Because the first movie was way funnier.  The plot is essentially exatly the same... except this time it's set in Thailand. This time, Stu is getting married to a beautiful Thai woman, and Allan is not invited- he has even been rendered Catatonic for that reason. Yet after a bit of convincing, Allan is suddenly invited along, and alredy having problems with the chosen best man- Teddy, Stu's wife-to-be's brother. After a rather disconcerting celebratory dinner at the resort, the gang, with teddy, go down to the resort's beach and have a few drinks... and then the first movie happens... again.  I'm sure I don't need to tell you the rest, because I'm assuming you have seen the first movie already, and if you have, you've seen this movie too.  The problem with Hangover 2 is that it's just plain not original AT ALL. While it did have a few belly laughs, in particular a scene involving Stu discovering he had sex with a transvestite stripper, they felt forced, and I had felt like I saw it already two years ago. Plenty of people I know, my girlfriend and manager at work included, asked "Why didn't you like it? It's exactly the same as the first." The latter sentence is exactly why I was disappointed- I felt that with this being a sequel, they could have introduced something new. Sadly this wasn't the case- everything came from the first movie, and by the end of the movie, I just wanted it to be over. Because I saw it two years ago already, but much funnier. In my opinion, only one movie got away with being a carbon copy of its predecessor- Escape from LA.  That being said, maybe if you haven't seen the first movie, you will love this. But if you have, well, hoo boy, prepare yourself for a mega disappointment. They practically REMADE the first movie, all the way down to Stu singing a song about the crap they're in and then some. If you must see it, rent it on blu-ray- it is not worth the $15.75 UltraAVX price I paid to see it.  OVERALL: 4/10  PROS: -Some great laughs -The cast is great -They did the "Photo during the end credits" thing again  CONS: -A remake, not a sequel -Way too familiar -Familiarity even drives the film to the maddening point of predictability -None of the jokes seem natural at all- forced at best, really.

Movie Moves Too Slow I love that it is about the lives of two sisters, but like I said in my title the movie moves too slow. It's not for me. I don't recommend this movie to anyone.

Couldn't wait for it to be over Spoiler alert - main character discovers adult sibling and nephew; movie follows their new relationship - develops like a romance. Creepy.

DOROTHY IS SPECIAL One of the fun facts they used was that they changed the slippers back to the original sliver slippers in the book, while retaining the ruby slippers in the film. The movie is confused and disjointed. Eventually all the major plot holes are filled in, leaving just plot continuity problems common to most kid films. The part I enjoyed most of this kid's film was when Dorothy tries to pick up Billy Boyd at a bar and when Billie Westbrook (Eliza Swenson) gropes Dorothy (Paulie Rojas) in an attempt to give her more up top. Noel Thurman plays Glinda the good witch of the north who is dressed up like Brumhilda.  Dorothy writes books based on her suppressed memories. The whole plot centers around a magic book that contains a magic word that can only be opened by a magic key which Dorothy stole and hid but can't remember. The bad witches want it back. This we get in the opening of the film which tells a long drawn out story of good vs. evil similar to Lord of the Rings background. The character of Dorothy was a bit sickening as was the dorky Allen (Ari Zagaris) who appears to have been a poorly developed scarecrow.  The best characters were gnomes played by Sean Astin and Ethan Embry. The spoke in limericks. Christopher Lloyd attempted to bring life to the role of the Wizard with his Madhatter garb, but couldn't do so for the lack of decent lines. There is also a good amount of violence and some killing in this kid's film too. I am not sure who the target audience is supposed to be.

Clumsy This movie,stated as based on true events, is more like a Telemovie with little budget. Viewing it for the first time, without knowing the actual motive for the kidnapping and crime, one is left wondering for most of the duration just why did it happen and what is going to be the outcome. The after events seem almost not in keeping with what has happened. You would expect that at least the police and parents would be involved, but no, just an awkward complication regarding a future marriage and another seemingly strange out of character event. The notes at the end of the movie finally suggest what the motive was and this is an important issue, but this movie needed a much better script and director to let it have impact.

Not very good. Remember the good old days of J-Horror? When Japan was cranking out horror movie hits like The RIng, The Grudge and Infection. Well, the Sylvian Experiments tries to bring back those days. But, unfortunately, it fails. The pacing is too slow and there aren't really any genuine scares in this latest release from the land of the rising sun.

Absurd Speculation The major fault of this conspiracy theory is there are too many people in on the plot.  And everyone knows everyone.  The twenty-plus people involved cannot keep a secret like the assassination of JFK quiet for long.

the best movie until i read the book The movie before I had read the book was excellent. I had no clue why my brother said it was awful compared to the book. I decided to read the book myself and it dumped the movie in the trash.  Good things:  The actors were the perfect people for the parts and saphira was perfect.  Most of the cities except furthen Dur were perfect as well.  Bad things:  The razac dieing and getting beet up. WHAT! The razac killed Brom and escaped then played a crucial part in Eldest making it impossible for a 2nd movie.  This movie could have been the next LOTR but they didn't they not to, instead they made it in to a it an hour and a half movie not having time to expand the characters.  Let me lay this out flat. The movie is nothing like the book. It is a hole different story in general. The rose sapphire in furthen Dur, the flight to find the razac, even the morning sage at the end of the book isn't there.  The movie is okay by it self but the only reason I would buy it is because it had the name Eragon and Saphira in it.

new co. disappointing though they had two good veteran actors the net has opened up a whole new world for young independent artists and giving lots of people room to breath away from the big movie and tv control freaks. I have seen 4 of the 5 that i found, and this was the worst, bad period props...they had two good veterans (actor-the evil sociopathic dr. and actress-played the backwoods healer)who did as best they could with the script and helped the new kids when they shared a scene.   keep writin kid just don't let em give you the bum's rush and take a minite to consider the times you are shooting for...you'll get there.   of the other three that i saw on netflix; there were some very good parts if a little spotty sometimes. the voice over was awful. some of the art was very well done and the makeup wasn't bad on the live ones.   they did stupid things that will glare out at any who know much about the civil war era or even what it was really like to live back then.  the pistols were so shiny silver (like the toys given children in the 50's) any woodsman or fighting man of any kind would have seen the glint good enough to kill you before you knew you were dead.  and it's just plain stupid the way they sometimes pointed thier guns at each other (while making all sorts of noise talking and emoting for thier portfolio clips...}and not fighting. You NEVER point a gun at someone, loaded or not unless you are going to use it. boys back then learned to shoot almost as soon as they could hold a weapon and their daddys would have taken it away and knocked the kid flat,there was no room for carelessness.   I suppose my main b*tch is that children watch a lot of tv a lot like horror and scifi; if there are guns; gun handling NEEDS to be accurate.   the costumes were down right wrong in some cases. the so called southern soldier had no southern accent nor did any of his sothern friends. they should have made him a northener at least. none of the cookware was darkened by flame and hard use, and no frontier settler would ever just drop a torch in the tall dead grass and run off. their neighbors would have linched them. all these things kept popin me back out of the story.   At least they found a sturdy horse like the farmers prized.   the lead did give a credible battle cry when he rallied his troops   dispite all of that they did give it a try and I doubt may of the actors have been off a college or comunity stage before...and i believe this movie company will be a power some day if they can tough it out. It looks like several small groups around the same flag. It is good to see some of the veteran old guard lending thier help. they certainly didn't get paid.

Great music, poor DVD Musics are great! Even better than "Live at the Hollywood Palladium".  But this DVD's quality is very poor! It has wrong aspect ratio, actually this film is 4:3(Standard) but DVD player recognize as 16:9(Anamorphic). So you'll watch the film stretch asaide, it's very strange.  I'm sorry my english is not so good, but I have to tell this to you All.

not totally satisfied Buying movies from Amazon are hit or miss. I go out of my way to buy them new and sometimes they have the security sticker that you get in new movies and sometimes they don't. They are always rapped but this particular dvd had no security sticker over the opening so it makes it look cheaper and not new in my opinion. Especially when you give it as a gift.

Very cheap acting I would have expected a better film with George Clooney.  In all a fairley good flick.  Bought it on demand.

Let's make a hit, says JJ Abrams. So much for making a good movie. JJ Abrams has made hit movies. Has he ever made a good movie? With Super 8, he wrote, directed and produced two movies, and sacrificed the good to make sure he had a hit.  Super 8 begins just fine, the story of a group of young teens making a movie about zombies. Charles (Riley Griffiths) is determined to enter his movie in a film contest. He's the director and writer. Joe (Joel Courtney) is his best friend and make-up specialist.  When Charles recruits Alice (Elle Fanning) for a role (she can drive and they need a car), Joe starts to learn what puberty can do to a fella.  We're off on a small town adventure of stealth movie making, improvisation, determination, spontaneity and, as far as I know, effective zombie acting. One night when the kids have sneaked away from their homes to film a night scene at the railway station, Charles sees a train coming. "Production values!" he happily exclaims and sets up the scene so the train roaring by will be in his movie. Bad luck. A truck drives onto the tracks and smashes head on into the train. There's a massive derailment only Hollywood CGI can create. It goes on and on.  Now the young moviemakers are center stage in a new movie, this one about an alien creature captured by the Air Force and in the charge of a particularly ruthless colonel and his men. This movie is made to insure a hit with that real-life demographic, the 16 through 28 crowd. Yes, in the crash the alien, which looks something like a quick-stepping giant tarantula crossbred with the real mama from hell in Alien, escapes. Thanks to a couple of film cartons the kids dropped as they ran from the crash, the colonel figures out someone might have seen too much and filmed it. Soon dogs run away from town, engines from cars are stolen, electronic gear disappears and people vanish, all in clouds of wowzer and predictable special effects.  In the course of Super 8 we'll follow young Joe through adventures that now are by the numbers...evacuations, tanks, house explosions, great caverns, missing townspeople including Alice hanging upside down waiting to become alien snacks, Joe's face-to-face heroism with the big bug, and one of the most non-thrilling examples of spaceship building in any movie. Although the alien looks like something really big that escaped from an insect zoo, it turns out that, despite its chomping down on people with slobber and lots of teeth, it's really just a guy (or woman) who is scared and lonely, who has been treated badly by the Air Force, and just wants to build a spaceship so it can go home.  JJ Abrams creates a warm, nostalgic story about kids back in the Seventies who are energetically making a movie while keeping it secret from adults. The kid actors do a fine, believable job and we like them. Their small town is a great place to live in. Charles' family is a wonderful mix of love and chaos. We're hooked with these kids and with Charles' movie. And all this just becomes loose ends. (We do get to see Charles' movie during the credits...like an afterthought.  In his determination to win a big audience, Abrams sacrifices all that in favor of by-the-numbers demographic pandering and CGI. Abrams worked for Steven Spielberg for a while and Spielberg is a producer of Super 8. Spielberg's influence is all over the movie. If you liked The Goonies, which I do, you'll like a third of Super 8, a movie with no center, just calculation.

Had potential.. but fell short I give this movie 2.5 stars.. not deserving of a 3, but a little better than a 2..  This movie had lot's of potential.  The plot line was interesting.. BUT.. it definitely fell short.  It seems to me like the script writers got bored towards the end.  There was no heart put into it.  The ending was atrocious.  It was simply that.. it just ended..  No struggle, nothing.  Just shot the bad guy and it was over.  Come on, this a movie, we would have liked to see some kind of a struggle at least.  All the unrealistic escapes and alludes made by Jill could have been forgiven if the ending was right, but it just wasn't.  The movie kept me entertained.. up until the end, when I knew it was going to be a terrible ending.  Boring.  Made watching the whole movie seem like a waste of time.  If there is one thing I can't stand, it is a movie with a horrible, just end like that ending.  And this movie was one of those.  For entertainment, I would watch it.. but if your expecting a good movie, I would skip it..

Misplaced Curiosity First off, I must admit that I have been intrigued and tantalized for many years by all of the scandalous hype that has surrounded this film - particularly the lewd and lascivious scorn heaped upon it by many of its critics.  By and large, I must say that I find myself agreeing with much that has been said.  If you enjoy viewing scenes of wicked and evil debauchery, this might well be a cup of tea to please your taste buds.  It most definitely is not mine.

A 50 Cent/Val Kilmer movie, with a total of 3 minutes of screen time with them total. That's not a bad thing, movie is. I say C- What do you do when the law doesn't help?  After his brother is brutally murdered Sherriff Spencer (Luke Goss) is let down by the people he hoped would help.  Taking matters into his own hands he goes undercover in the gang that did it in order to get revenge.  Looking at the cover it seems like another 50-cent/Val Kilmer movie, which makes you think twice about getting it.  Vinnie Jones, Fiddy and Kilmer have a total screen time of about 2 minutes.  Luke Goss is the main star of the movie.  I was not expecting alot being that I thought it as a 50 cent/Kilmer movie, although "Gun" was not as bad as I expected so I had a little more expectations for this one.  This was a movie that started off flat and never improved. The acting wasn't as bad as I expected though. It was not terrible, but had all the drama and excitement of watching a dog play fetch, fun for a while then just sitting waiting for it to end.  This is a movie that a lot of people will like, I just can't get into this kind of thing.  I give it a C-.  Would I watch again? - No I wouldn't

Good trailer, movie....not so much While flipping the new and recent releases, I saw this movie, watched the trailer and thought "I HAVE to see this". Wrong! The premise is pretty straight forward: a young woman (who doesn't believe in ghosts) works at a haunted house as a tour guide. She's given 3 simple rules for the house, on of which is "Never go inside at night". Stemming from the peer pressure, she allows them into the house at night.  Now I'm not looking for a whole lot originality or top notch acting but this  movie left a lot to be desired. There are 3 main females, all of which look too old for the role they're playing. It doesn't help either when the movie is in HD and the camera is directly in their face. Acting wise, the worst offender of this was this black guy (can't remember his name) they called in as a ghost specialist of sorts. His persona and voice irritated me immediately. Then there is a scene where he begins to go off on a rant and I didn't know whether to laugh or just cut the movie off. Beyond that, I didn't get any suspense from the movie and it almost felt like the trailer and movie were from two different cuts.

Not thrilled, certainly doesn't compare to Bionic Man I got the new Six Million Dollar Man DVD set <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004E83KVU">The Six Million Dollar Man The Complete Series</a> and my entire family was enthralled at how enjoyable the episodes were! Even the last season which certainly was fragmented was far more fun than I recall but I was very young at the time. As soon as we completed those DVDs, we got this, Bionic Woman, Season One DVD and we are SO dissappointed. the first few episodes are good but it starts to go downhill in quality about the 4th episode and never comes back. She just doesn't have the Star staying power that Lee Majors has.

"And Therein Lies its Limitations" Maybe 2 1/2 Stars. Unfortunately, this film tries to integrate a number of disparate modalities, and this dimishes the import and impact of the message.  At times a comedy, at times a tragedy at times a musical!  It attempts to be all things to all viewers and therein lies its limitations.

Definitely nothing special about this movie... Just recently rented this movie from Redbox. Wasn't expecting anything terrific, and I got what I expected. Totally unrealistic story, and definitely not anything I'd recommend to anyone. Can a couple of high school kids really make successful escape attempts from both terrorists and the C.I.A.? If your parents were murdered yesterday, would that really set the stage of your heart to begin a romantic relationship today? Does Taylor Lautner really look like a typical high school kid? It's likely your answer to the previous questions will also be the same answer to this question: Will you enjoy this movie? Think about it, then choose. There are many other movies out there that can better occupy your time!

annoyingly neurotic The 2 lead characters would never have dated much less "been engaged". They were so mis-matched that the premise of a wedding was UNbelievable anyway.Owen Wilson was wasted because he was merely a body-double for Woody Allen. The writing was childish- not even good at a fairy tale level- & the interesting people from the 1920's were basically foils for Woody's dream of being able to go back in time and suggest ideas to them that they then would be remembered for in the future.(or so the lead character could use his inside infomation from the past to win arguments in the present) Quite the fantasy and not a bad idea but poorly realized in this movie.I think this movie was made BY Woody Allen FOR Woody Allen & that too could be OK If the writing and acting were better. The opening is a love letter to Paris and it is beautiful & the first half of the movie was....... tolerable but then it became a repetetive waste of time. And a giant boring cliche. Yikes what a let down after having this movie recommended to me by some friends and reading all of the glorious reviews in entertainment magazines. Did they see the same movie??  Made me sad because I wanted to like this movie and I really really did not enjoy it. Neither did my husband. He came up with the "annoyingly neurotic" phrase. You expect some of that with almost any Woody project but this was over the top..........Owen WAS Woody as much as he could be &  he did a great job with the vocal inflections and hand mannerisms but the movie could have been so much better if he had been allowed to use his own persona or create a new one for his character. But even then the whiny, petulant, little boy lost routine might have de-railed any actor in this role. 2 stars because it wasn't horrible but it could have been SO much better.I won;t watch it again it won;t be in my permanent movie collection.

Decent Movie I have to admit, this movie is creative with its portrayal of the characters. However, I get the feeling that the film is painfully low-budget. While the main trio of kids capture their characters, the writing makes them very bland, uninteresting characters. Pippi still has the carefree attitude and friendliness that Lindgren's writing conveyed, but Tommy and Annika both seem to have lost any personality they had originally, and they originally only really existed to be shown as ordinary middle-class children. The storyline is very good, and the movie is appealing to younger viewers. However, the sub-plot of the men hoping to tear down Villa Villikulla feels like they're trying to pad the film out, and it would have been better to leave that out. Overall, the movie is worth a watch once, but you'd be better off reading the books about Pippi.

Uhh, not really "The Messengers" was good the first time I saw it, but now I look back and it and think "That was actually a pretty dumb movie". The black-and-white beginning was pretty cool, with good cinematography. The actual plot of the film starts and it looks OK, but later it kind of goes downhill. The scares are just OK, and the entire plot...I do not like it. A dead family haunting another family. That sounds pretty stupid, right? The whole CGI isn't that great, but that's what kinda makes it creepy, but they look like creatures and they crawl on the walls. It just looks stupid, as if it was just your average PG-13 film. The acting wasn't anything special, either, and obviously, if it's Kristen Stewart, you're not going to get any amazing acting, at all, (she was already in another family-moves-into-a-house sucky horror film that was horrible, "Cold Creek Manor", but this is just a pinch better). The ending is not really great at all, either. If you're looking for some good horror that's worth watching again, skip "The Messengers", and look again

Not again... Camelot does to King Arthur what Twilight did to vampires.  What used to be a cool, powerful figure is now some thin, late-teens style twerp.  I couldn't make it through this whole set, to be perfectly honest, just because Arthur sucks.  You can't have a good story revolving around the Camelot/King Arthur legend if your Arthur sucks this bad.  Others have mentioned the PC cross-culture stuff, which historically doesn't fit well with the setting, but I don't really expect anything different from my TV these days.  That doesn't bug me as much as Arthur being such a tool bag.  I miss the days when male leads were masculine.  I'm all for strong female characters on TV, but they shouldn't be dudes.

No conclusion to a poorly written drama. This so called 'miniseries' sounded like something that I would enjoy watching.  Ideas were supposed to come from the books Riverworld (which very well could of being has how I have not read the books I would not know).  If the movie takes some ideas from the books then I would love to read them, however if none of the ideas come from the books then I might just be wasting money.  I will still be looking into getting the books to compare the 'miniseries' to, I just hope they are better than the 'miniseries'.  Okay, so enough about my rant about books.  In these two episodes that span three hours (yes I said two episodes that span three hours, three pointless hours) there is really nothing going on.  The main character Matt dies, gets reincarnated, and has to save this fictional world.  He meets up with other people who have also died and been reincarnated.  The plot is there but it is severely lacking in building up of a climax, and any major detail as to why they are doing what they are doing.  The last ten minutes of the second episode just confuses one.  The first episode is dragged on, and the second episode isn't that much better.  Let me go into things that I liked.  I liked the idea behind the 'miniseries'.  That is really all that I liked.  Now it is time for the bad.  The historical characters seemed fake.  I mean this as to they acted differently than how I was taught in school (of course this could just be me.  I have been out of school for a while now so I could just have this idea from somewhere).  The plot was lacking, the characters acted out of character.  The main character was a complete and total waste of time.  Every twist that they try to throw into the plot just makes the movie that much worse.  Again I have never read the books that go along with this 'miniseries', but if you have read the books, please by all means STAY AWAY FROM THIS 'MINISERIES'.  If you are completely bored and looking at something new to watch, don't waste your time or money here.

GAY PORN??? DISSAPOINTED... iT WAS GOOD BUT NOT XACTLY WHAT I WAS ACTUALLY LOOKING FOR. I DID NOT LIKE HAVING TO READ THROUGH ENTIRE MOVIE THE GUYS WERE GOOD LOOKING THOUGH...Mike Berry

I liked the Kevin Bacon best I can see why the movie did not do so well in the movie theater, I was hoping to see Julian do more danciing

very bad production after you pop-in the dvd you are forced to watch (blocked FF and skip) an ad for another movie. The ad is very long, very bad and the quality is horrible. The sound in the movie itself is poor and it is very hard to understand the dialogs. No subtitles. the movie is cheaply made. perhaps some people can find this movie funny, we did not. we lasted about 15 minutes before the movie went back into the red envelope...

Ditto Look, even if these movies are for kids, can't the bastards in Hollywood TRY to be a little creative? Would it really kill them? It's the same plot, again and again and again: a kid is an outsider in his society; he is ridiculed, he makes major mistakes, his parents can't relate to him (especially his father), but he has a certain ability and he ends up saving his town/village/world/family from certain destruction, at which point everyone realizes he's just great and the feel bad about having demeaned him in the past.  HOW TO TAME YOUR DRAGON---the son of a Viking chief is a misfit, living in a village harassed by dragons. The son, who is an inventor of sorts, brings down a dragon with a catapult, then befriends said dragon. Boy saves village.  PARANORMAN---the son of a fat man is able to see and speak with dead people. Other live people cannot do so, so they think that he's nuts. He lives in a Salem-style village where a witch was hanged centuries ago. The witch comes back to destroy village. Dead people give the boy clues to stop her. Boy saves village.  RAIN WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS---the son of a shopkeeper is an inventor whose inventions cause havoc. He invents a machine that turns rain into any kind of food. The village becomes famous. Unscrupulous mayor wrecks machine, which goes totally out of control and starts to destroy village. Boy saves village.  CHICKEN LITTLE---the son of a rooster causes an alarm in the village because he thinks that the sky is falling when a metallic object falls from the sky. He is ridiculed for the panic. Another object falls and the village is attacked by space aliens. Chick saves village.

It's ok... Despicable me is not a terrible movie or anything, but most of the movie seems like cheap slapstick moments. Nothing really keeps any of the scenes together to find it really funny, or really interesting. Great for distracting little kids, but that is about it.

It's all right.  Watch "Jin" if you can. This movie is just so-so.  The actors perform really well but the story is just not that interesting.  If you can, please watch a TV drama called Jin.  Osawa Takao and Ayase Haruta are the lead actors.  Unfortunately, the drama is not released in the US and has no English subtitle.

Not What I Expected! As the DVD package it is excellent. But, as a movie weak! A warm'd over "Dirty Dozen"! And this is coning from a person who love's both the "Dirty Dozen" & all of Quentin Tarantino's work (so far). I guess I was expecting more form this than it is...Only buy if you must...

A Total Surprise I was expecting an interesting, thoughtful, well-balanced movie about relationships. I was completely surprised to find that it was nothing more than a pro-abortion movie disguised as a mainstream movie. Every pro-abortion person in the movie is portrayed as intelligent and multi-dimensional, and every pro-life person is portrayed as a one-dimensional moron. When the idea of adoption comes up, the movie uses the tired old line of "not wanting to bring another unwanted baby into the world," completely ignoring the fact that there are tens of thousands of couples in this country desperately wanting to adopt babies every year, but, since there are simply not enough babies available for adoption, these couples finally end up adopting babies from other countries. And, as is common in so many movies, the "star" ends up seducing a married woman and destroying her marriage, and yet we are still supposed to see him as the "good guy."

Incredibly BORING! A family is torn apart by the accidental death caused by their 16-year-old son of his girl-friend. The father (Liam Neeson) continually interferes with the case for his son's benefit, while the mother Meryl Streep wants to play it down the middle. It just goes on and on and on.

jack benny as a jack benny fan was disappointed that the dvd would not work in my computer.  returned it to amazon with no problems.

OK... but So much hype about this movie I was expecting to laugh my other end off. Didn't. OK movie, some funny scenes but sorry I actually bought it. Renting would have done the trick.

Not bad, but not good either! Mortal Kombat was a cool video game movie, better than I expected as a matter of fact! But Mortal Kombat: Annihilation on the other had was a disappointment in many ways...! What was good: 1. Robin Shou returned as Liu Kang! 2. Talisa Soto returned as Princess Kitana! 3. Sandra Hess was an equally good replacement for Bridgette Wilson! 4. Lynn Red Williams was an excellent Jax and the best actor in the movie! 5. Most of the battles were well done! 6. The movie had an excellent soundtrack!  What was bad: 1. Did Johnny Cage really have to die?! 2. Baraka looks very fake! 3. Shoa Kahn is seven-feet-tall in the video game and in this movie he is only 5 1/2 feet-tall! Brian Thompson played him great, but he was not tall enough! 4. Stryker and Kabal are mentioned in the movie, but it would have been nice if they had a scene in the movie, somewhere... 5. Jade is supposed to be african/american not asian! 6. Scorpion was a fierce fighter in the first movie, why was he so weak against Sub-Zero in this movie at first and then some how ended up being the better fighter in the end?! 7. Sheeva was killed too easily! 8. The battle between Liu Kang and Baraka was too short and weak! 9. The fight between Raiden and the three Reptiles was just a waist! 10. Why do most of the costumes look like they were designed by five-year-olds?! 11. How come they based the second movie on the third video game?! 12. Why does the whole movie feel like it's got a B-movie scale to it?! 13. Where did those big CGI monsters come from?! 14. The visual effects were not very convincing!  Overall: This was a major let down for many fans (including me) of the video games and the first movie! I'm hoping they will make an R-rated Mortal Kombat movie someday! They still coud have done a lot better with this movie! My grade: C or two stars!

Hmmm It was sort of a weird movie. I did not like how the end just abruptly ended. I still don't quite get what was going on with Johnny. I won't say it was bad, but I also won't say it was good.

Not so great Supposed to be a comedy, but I didn't find much humor.  Just another of these self-indulgent looks at someone who is still pining for the glory days of high school.

Low budget. Like a made for TV movie.  Wish I had my 2 hours back and could "un" watch it.  Glad I only rented it.

Bad Choice When I purchased this item, I was expecting a concert, not a review of the artist nor a commentary, which is all that I received. I have since, sold this DVD to a used DVD store. I don't recommend this to Meatloaf fans, bad choice.

Not worth it I love the Resident Evil francise: The movies, the games, the story, everything. This movie was not very good.  First of all, it went by so quickly that when the credits come up, you're left confused. The main climax to the story didn't seem so big so it makes you think there should've been more to the story.  Definately not worth the purchase. If you feel like you need to see it, rent it. Sorry. I was really excited about seeing this, and it was nothing.

A Gay Fantasy Come True I met Harvey when he would come to L.A. for the annual parade in June.  He was not a swish, like Sean Penn plays him.  Sean Penn is a limousine liberal who was raised in Malibu, California.  He hung out with Charlie Sheen, a master of self restraint.  Helen Keller knows more about gay people than Sean Penn; he should stick to travelling out of the country so he can stick his ignorant nose into international politics.  There's a reason this movie is selling brand new on Amazon for five bucks and change, sales must be poor.  You can say you don't like this review or call me any politically correct names you want, but it won't change the truth.

Just a walk through the desert... Don't waste your time. The ending didn't explain anything for me. Maybe if you know a little about the "myths" they talk about in the movie you may find some entertainment in that, but even then the movie doesn't delve deep enough into the characters or plot for anyone to really care. Not to mention there was no action at all. The movie does move at a pace that kept me interested in seeing and learning more, but it was like they ran out of ideas... and money... and ended it abruptly. Ok if it were a made for TV series, and this was just part 1, but a horrible movie in a whole.

Boring sword and sorcery A young warrior (Michael Copon) gets on the bad side of a powerful king (Randy Couture) who has allied himself with the forces of darkness.  This is a tired, dull Conan lite wannabe with poor performances, lackluster effects, and a clich&eacute;d screenplay.  Other than that, it's pretty good.  Couture would make a good Marine drill sergeant, but he does not inhabit the ancient world convincingly.

Pretty Bad This movie pretty much sucked. The only reason for two stars is I saw it on TV so I was able to stop the stupidity and bad acting at no cost.

Poor quality streaming--not worth your money I'm a prime member, and I bought the season premiere. I didn't realize that the video quality would be fuzzy and that the second part of the episode (shown on the same night) would be an additional price. On one screen, the second episode was listed as free, but when I downloaded the first part, suddenly the second part was an additional fee.  If Amazon charges for video streaming, it should at least deliver a clear picture. My connection time was excellent, with all the bars, but the video stopped a few times to "connect" and I had to reload the page once.  Apparently this is a problem with Amazon.  Best consider another source or pay the HD premium price to watch. It's a bit ridiculous to pay $6 to watch one evening's episode of Mad Mad, though.

Old time flicks If you like the drive-in movies of the 60's and 70's with the show and flash of boobs then this is the movie for you!

Red Shoe Diaries DVD Red Shoe Diaries DVD was in poor quality, could not even hear or see the actors the majority of the time. Had scratches, poor packaging with broken DVD case and covering. I will not buy from this seller again!

My POTC Reviews Part II So I wrote these for my blog originally, but I decided to put them up here as well. If you liked this, read the others because they're meant to play off each other.  Pirates of the Caribbean II: Dead Man's Chest  Okay, I think it spelled bad for this movie when it opens with Will and Elizabeth's ruined wedding. I think if they had gotten married then, nothing bad would have happened and the bloody love square wouldn't have come back with a vengeance. I would like to take a moment and shed some light on a good character that was in the second and third movies. And that is Lord Cutler Beckett (played by Tom Hollander). Yes, he's the baddie, but I liked him because he had a good baddie character which was more than you can say for the good guys unfortunately.  Anyway, so Elizabeth ends up getting put in jail because of them helping Jack Sparrow--how long ago? We don't know, it could have been days or months, but I still don't get why it didn't just happen at the end of the first movie. Will meets Lord Beckett who tells him something along the lines of "bring us Jack Sparrow and she goes free". So he goes off to do that. Meanwhile, Jack realizes that he's in big trouble with Davy Jones because of a long overdue debt. This is where the story really starts to get weird. Elizabeth ends up getting broken out of jail by her father, she steals letters of marque from Beckett, and she has to go and run off too, because she can NEVER stay put!  Another thing that really bothered me about this series is that they take things from actual pirate lore and turn them into really weird sci-fi things. Like the black spot. Originally (as you will find in Stevenson's Treasure Island) The black spot was a sign, a little black piece of paper that would be given to someone who was about to 'get whacked' (now I'm using Gangster lingo, but you know what? these movies aren't accurate anyway so I don't care) This was kind of how it was in this, but not really. And Davy Jones. From what I remember from actual folk lore, Davy Jones had nothing to do with the Flying Dutchman. The Flying Dutchman was a ghost ship cursed to forever roam the seas, it had ghosties, not these weird half man, half sea creature things.  And then it just gets weirder. You find out that there is a heart in a box (again nothing that had to do with any real folk tales or pirate lore in any way) and, frankly, this just did not do it for me at all. At least in the first one with the Aztec gold there was the allure of gold and shiny things for the pirates to steal. No pirate in his right mind would want to find a heart in a box. They are so superstitious that in real life they probably wouldn't have talked about this thing in broad daylight and without a hushed voice and many rituals guarding against evil spirits. Seriously, they thought it was bad luck to see a cat on the deck and they were just eating the rats.  Oh yes, and then there was the subplot when Will gets captured by Davy Jones (courtesy of, you guessed it, Jack Sparrow!) and finds that his father is one of Jones' fishy crew. Normally I totally go for the whole father-son angst story line, but this didn't have enough of something or other and just didn't work like most of the plot lines in this series. You have to give Will marks for trying to make his relationship with his dad work, but it didn't really have much promise to begin with. I mean, his father was, in actuality, dead, so it was more of a Hamlet thing than anything else, and it didn't go so great for the Prince of Denmark either.  And why did we need the weird voodoo lady/sea goddess? What is this? Homer? At least she wasn't as annoying as the rest of the "female brigade", but she was kind of on the freaky side and yet another character no one really has a reason to care about.  And the thing I hated most about this movie were the RIDICULOUS fight scenes especially in this second one. At least the first movie seemed to look more like actual fighting and less like Morris Dancing (yes, for some reason that three way dance-I mean fight, in the end just make me think of Morris dancing). And the random nonsense scenes like when Jack Sparrow is running away from the cannibals. What was that, fifteen minutes of stuff that did absolutely nothing to move the plot along? And the part with the round bone cages? UGH!!! It wasn't even cliche, and for the record, Indiana Jones could have done way better in that situation! But the part that really annoyed me was the water wheel fight. Seriously. That has got to win the award for the most overblown fight scene I have ever seen that was not supposed to be a spoof. It's not even amusing, it's just silly! And the three-way fight (afore mentioned) during which Elizabeth is being so blasted annoying, was so unnecessary. A plus in this movie though, Norrington looks really good with his real hair and a beard.  And seriously, the end? Elizabeth actually kisses Jack Sparrow so she can chain him to the railing so everyone can escape from the kraken. (Oh yes, did I mention that beastie? Again the kraken had nothing to do with either Davy Jones or the Flying Dutchman). Barf.  I would have just gone for the good old cosh on the head. But she was too stupid to think of that because she's a brainless female character.  And so it adjourns back to the voodoo sea goddess' house and everyone is randomly sad about Jack Sparrow even though he was perfectly happy to get everyone killed, especially Will, and randomly Elizabeth still has feelings for him after all that.  Best part of this movie: Barbosa is back for the next one; yay, right?  Or so we thought....

Spoof Of A Parody Of A Satire... This movie has everything! Government conspiracy! Aboriginal people spouting mumbo-jumbo! Shape-shifting ballet! Extinct species / human hybrids w/ pouches! And so much more! HOWLING 3: THE MARSUPIALS should have been a ridiculous classic. Unfortunately, it has so many long stretches of dullness that it seems to be days long! If only about 40 minutes had been lopped off, it could have been a hilarious masterwork! Ugh...

Latter-Day Night Biscuit Expecting a good follow-on to It's Latter-Day Night Live Comedy I was sadly disappointed.  My family and I set through the entire comedy monolog with the hope that it would get better. Sadly it did not.  Save your money!

No Nazis and very little zombies This movie was a stinker. The cast's acting was wooden and their voices sounded like they were talking into cups. The tiny, framed screen was also highly annoying. There was no climax to this movie and I ended up not caring if anyone survived or not. Most of the killing comes within the first fifteen minutes of the movie and much of it is caused by the "elite" unit of commandos sent to do...something? I was however entertained by the guy with the golden curly perm. It's a shame they made him a red shirt. Don't bother with this movie, it's a waste of time and money.

Boring Too predictable!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wack!!!! He is not that funny and I feel he is better on the radio. I hope he continues to tell jokes when not in person because this dvd was lame.

Weak compared to previous Best Of sets There isn't much to say beyond that this set advertises over 30 full fights but that is simply untrue.  On previous sets there were full fights that played as part of the feature montage in addition to several full bonus fights. I believe 2010 had 40+ full fights while this set only has around 5 full fights. It's a disappointing highlight reel from the year and many of the highlights aren't that great.  I was upset with this compilation.

Disappointing Sequel I felt this movie overused the "ghost/spirit" shots and showed the "ghost/spirit" too much. A movie like this should be able to show very little of the actual ghost/spirit for better effect. Definitely a movie made to cash in on the popularity of the original.

This Movie Had Potential - But Falls Flat!!! This Movie was a BIG Disappointment. It starts out good, then quickly turns into a CHEESE FEST!!. Director Pierre Morel did a Terrible Job!. Way too many Unrealistic Scenes, Needless Violence, People getting shot up and Bryan Mills getting away with WAY to much Stuff!!. It should have been a half hour longer (with more realistic portrails of events). Liam Neeson is normally good in most movies, But not here. For me the WORST PART of this movie is when Bryan Mills (Liam) steals that Car to get away. The part where he reaches under the dashboard, yanks a wire harness out, Hotwires the Car and then Quickly DRIVES OFF - YEAH RIGHT !!!!. What about the Locked Steering Wheels that ALL Cars have nowadays!!. Plus all the other - MANY BAD - Scenes in this movie. It could have been good if it was More Believable, Less Violent and all the CHEESE was left out.

Whew, Remakes I can barely sit through this movie. When I first watched it, I thought it was just because I was tired. But no, the movie itself is boring. It feels like TO MUCH of a fantasy world, and my eye tired of the generic, thoughtless scenes. Maybe I'm being harsh, but I just couldn't dig this movie. The second time I watched it, I turned it off half way through and wished I had never spent the money.

Weak Entry from Tim Burton Tim Burton, Johnny Depp and "Dark Shadows" would seem to be a match made in heaven, high-camp or otherwise. Unfortunately, it's not. The story, which combines a Gothic love triangle, lazy jokes about 1970s pop culture, and 200-year-old vampire Barnabas Collins's struggle to break a curse set on his house by the witch whose love he rejected in the 18th century and restore his family's fortunes, never comes together in any meaningful way. The movie is overpopulated, and we are given little reason to care about any of the characters.  I didn't hate "Dark Shadows," but I couldn't shake the feeling that this was a movie in search of a reason to have been made. It wasn't played straight enough to be taken on its own terms, and it wasn't played over-the-top enough to be campy fun. Burton's always-enjoyable visual style is wasted on this overlong, dull film.

Really disappointed with DVD only release the three 'mini movies'  appear not to be included with the DVD only disc release.  Really not happy with that..  wish it had been spelled out somewhere.

Why I am unsatisfied with my purchase. Movie is top drawer, but the 2nd tape jumps all the way thru. The jumping is a pain in the butt, but I'll keep it because I don't want to pay anymore to get it replaced. It was new when I bought it & I have watched it 3 times, and always regret having bought it. It's a shame the movie that is new has to come with one of the tapes defective. If I knew I wouldn't have to pay more $$$ I would have returned it. Every time I watch the movie, I regret having spent $$$ on it. Guess I'll have to buy DVD's from now on. Darn shame.  Ralph Sherrow 510-397-0951

Lame Lame and hard to follow due to the slow pace. I found myself wanting to clean the house instead of finishing this movie.

More a sentimental favorite than a really good movie... This is one of those titles I had seen in the movies originally on a theater screen, and then on television but hasn't been on in years...So I was overjoyed when it was released just recently by OLIVE FILMS on bluray for the first time in any video format. I must say aside from minor pleasures, the film is pretty silly and hasn't been given a proper restoration of any kind. There is some minor gatefloat in portions, some scratches and a bit more grain than should be too...Unless (as is the case with me for personal reasons) this film is one of your wants, I wouldn't waste your money. See when I was a kid myself and my long deceased younger brother Michael used to go and see double and triple features twice a week during summer...And THAT is purely why I wanted the flick.

Interesting Premise, not an Interesting Movie While the overall premise of the film is interesting, this movie was not executed in an interesting way. Vantage Point shows us a terrorist attack on the President of the United States from several different characters' point of view. The idea of this movie was to take a scene and show it from several different perspectives that would slowly reveal to us who was behind the attack. That would be interesting, except for the fact that there were too many different points of view, and not enough interesting moments happening between them. Each viewpoint is started with a few-second countdown to 12:00 P.M.. After three times, I groaned when this scene would pop up again. After three viewpoints, you just want to know who did it and you really, really don't want to see the attack again. Of all the characters in the film, only four of them are interesting enough to follow. The others just add monotony to the film. Cut their scenes out and it would have been a much smoother and exciting ride. No offense to anyone, but I would definitely cut out the little Hispanic girl from the film. She was so annoying! And when she ran out into traffic and just screamed for five minutes while the ambulance slowly came at her... just ticked me off.  **Spoiler Alert** Yes, I know that without her jetting out in front of the ambulance the bad guys would have likely escaped, but it was still annoying to have to watch. **End Spoiler Alert**  Another disappointment of the film for me was the Control Room scene with Sigourney Weaver. If you are the director of a live broadcast involving several world leaders, you would not be as relaxed and motionless as the people in that Control Room were in that scene. Weaver would be constantly talking to cameramen, yelling orders to crew members, watching each TV screen for better camera angles, and she would certainly NOT have time to take a phone call during the show! Someone did not do their research. Sorry, I'll step down from my soap box. Overall, the film had some interesting plot twists and exciting moments, but it was too redundant to be an enjoyable watch.  As far as questionable content: Since the film deals with terrorists, there are some disturbing images, violence and profanity throughout.  [...]

bought it for the 3d... The story was weak, the acting was terrible and the dancing was awesome. This move got high ratings for 3d. My opinion? the 3d sucked. I have a 100 inch screen and my 3d is done with a projector and a 3d converter. 3D movies look awesome with my setup. Other 3D movies I bought from amazon is "Under the Sea", "Legends of the Guardians", and "Alice in Wonderland". These movies had awesome 3D effect.  This Stepup movie 3D was by far the worst out of my 3D collection. I was tricked by other reviews saying the 3D in this movie was on par if not better than Avatar. Lies. Unless Avatar had sucky 3D! Maybe it's just me but I watched this entire movie almost cross-eyed. The 3D effect was maybe too strong? When it popped, it was too double imagey and it gave me a headache. There were moments in my other 3D movies in which I saw double but not this much. It was like the whole film and I wanted to watch the movie in 2D instead but the problem is I would be stuck with a crappy movie in 2D instead of 3D crap. Putting crap in 3D automatically makes it better normally. Not in this case.  So I'm stuck with a horrible movie with horrible 3D with the only redeeming value is the nifty 3D cover. I wish I could rent 3d movies from netflix.

Good Film It was a good film, but it bored me to tears. I doubt I'll watch it again. There were a few good scenes, but nothing I remember.

I laughed out loud, but not in a good way... Wow! I actually watched my youth destroyed tonight. Virtually every song I ever loved was butchered by a nasal Julianna Hough. Diego Boneta, a name I had never heard before tonight wasn't too bad. The scene with Alec Baldwin and Russell Brand singing, "Candle in the Wind" by REO Speedwagon was the final nail in my coffin. Although they were not half bad, it was disturbing. That song was an anthem of love for teen girls in the 80's. I don't think I will ever get that image out of my head. Tom Cruise's character Stacy Jaxx reminded me of what I think he would be like in real life, a total space cadet.  I had not idea it was a musical when I got there. I now understand it was a musical, but is there such a thing as too much music in a musical? I had to laugh or I would have cried. I am not sure if this was supposed to be a tribute to the 80's or if it was meant to mock everything that was fun about the 80's. At least my son and I had a good laugh. I plan to buy the dvd for people in my life that I want to ruin their youth too. I expect it to sell for less than a dollar.

Wasp Woman -- Clipped Wings! Any fan of Roger Corman will enjoy this movie.  It retains its innocence, yet has many tongue-in-cheek moments.  All the Corman steadies are here; Susan (Machine Gun Kelly) Cabot; Barboura (Bucket of Blood) Morris; the inimitable Bruno VeSota and Lynn Cartwright, whom I didn't see again until she played older Gina Davis in "A League of Their Own".  Unfortunately, this is a poorly edited copy, with scenes cut off.

Funny bad I have issues with monster movies where the female lead is always dressed and looking sexy tousled, her hair and face just so, even as she sweats her way from one near-death to another. That was the funny part for me. I laughed. There is no chemistry between these two as they try to make their way home to the US from the alien-infected jungles of Mexico. Yes, the movie tries to make a social commentary about immigration and keeping the Mexicans out. Here, a huge wall is there to keep the aliens out, unsuccessfully, it turns out. I'll credit the film with not overdoing the scares. There is more threat of scare than actual scare. The aliens looks like giant shrimp, and while not entirely believable, they look okay for cheap special effects. The other effects are better, such as the wreckage left behind where the aliens have been rampaging. The script stinks, and the two lead actors are bad. Should you watch? Maybe. Just don't expect much.

very poor quality The video came in a ripped package. I did not have a chance to preview it until a few days later and it was very poor quality. It crackled and turned black in many parts and was just overall very poor...I bought this for my grandchildren and I cannot show it to them because of the terrible quality.

Dog of a movie I thought the idea for the film was ok and had promise but it ended up being kind of stupid. Not the worst I have seen and it could have been done a lot better. Save yourself the money and wait for TV release

Predictable slapstick Sequels are not usually that great. This one is no exception. The main gist of the movie is that, following "Meet the Parents", Pam and her parents go to Gaylord's house to meet his parents. While Pam's parents may have been more traditional and strict, Gaylord's are liberal, loose, and fun-loving people, and those differences cause obvious clashes during the movie. Also not surprisingly, Pam's father still has some doubts about his future son-in-law being man enough to take care of his little princess.  There is some comic element to this movie, and I guess I would have to admit that there is a little thought in the plot, when the couple gets a little surprise in the middle of the story. And if you're into slapstick comedy with the usual cliched situations, you may just find this entertaining. For myself, it was hardly worth watching once, but never again. The comedies I like are the ones that are actualy funny.

STOP with the damned handheld camera! "Heat" and "Collateral" are two of my favorite films, so you can imagine how psyched I was to see "Public Enemies." Suffice it to say that I was hugely disappointed. First and foremost, I HATED the cinematography. I would have happily paid for Dante Spinoti's tripod, out of my own pocket, if only anyone would have asked. STOP with the damned handheld camera! It didn't convey "you are there," it conveyed "you are nauseous." Also, Johnny Depp and Christian Bale might as well have been mannequins. They're wonderful actors, who were given no opportunity here to act (i.e., to show any significant character development). Michael Mann is a great director, but in my book, this is a misfire.

*sigh* This video was well put together (edited well, good music, nice visuals).  I do like that the atmosphere is so meditative (as opposed to yogercise types).  But I feel like I didn't learn anything from this video.  I am a beginning yogi, and I just wanted more.  The workouts were moderately taxing...and if you are not in good physical shape, they will really do the trick.  But I would finish and feel unfinished and a little let down.  Also, I understand the benefit of repeating poses over and over to reach a maximum workout.  However, I think a video would be best to teach you how to do it yourself.  Instead of watching her do (essentially) toe touches, I would rather her do it a few times and suggest that the viewer pause the tape and do 25 reps....or suggest that when you try the routine again alone do 25 reps.  You know?  It just would feel like I am learning more for my money that way.  I come from a small town where there is no yoga instruction.  I am also a single mother.  I would like a video that mimics the quality of a real yoga session.  I have yet to really find that in a video.  Can anyone make any suggestions?

Maybe u have to be high 2 like this Its an interesting time-capsule from the 1970's.  The actors don't have grills or tatoos.  But it is hard to make sense of what is going on, so stay away from this turkey.

Put your brain on hold **1/2  In the not-so-grand tradition of "When Worlds Collide," "Earthquake," "The Day After Tomorrow," "Armageddon," "Deep Impact," "The Core," etc., "2012" is a big-budget disaster picture with a low-budget mentality.  Just how foolish it will look in 2013 is anyone`s guess - though it couldn't possibly look any more foolish than it did when it was released in 2009.  And all courtesy of that Grand Poobah of disaster flicks, Roland Emmerich.  The doomsday scenario in this instance comes in the form of exploding solar radiation that has become so intense that it's begun to cause the Earth's core to melt (like a microwave oven, we`re told), resulting in the wholesale destruction of the planet's crust.  This obviously doesn't bode well for the people dwelling on the surface, where life as we know it will soon cease to exist - just as the Mayans so cannily predicted centuries ago.  As with any disaster-movie worthy of the title, the story involves little more than an assortment of stock characters trying to keep one step ahead of the impending apocalypse.  This particular cross-section of humanity includes John Cusack as a writer of prescient but less-than-commercially-successful sci-fi novels, Amanda Peet as his ex-wife, Danny Glover as the President of the United States, Thandie Newton as the President's daughter, Oliver Platt as his self-interested Chief of Staff, Chiwetel Ejiofor as a brilliant geologist, and, for comic relief purposes, Woody Harrelson as a bug-eyed, trailer-dwelling, crackpot conspiracy theorist whose theoretic conspiracies turn out to be anything but crackpot.  And because of the enormous and far-reaching nature of the disaster, the movie can borrow bits from any number of previous disaster movies and get away with it; thus, we get a touch of "The Day After Tomorrow" here, a smidgen of "The Poseidon Adventure" there.  Heck, there's even a hint of "Wall-E" in the closing moments.  There's always an odd and uncomfortable moral principle operating in films of this type: namely, who cares if the whole world is going to hell in a hand basket, so long as our intrepid band of survivors (usually including an adorable pet or two) makes its way to safety.  And the trite and corny estranged-spouse melodrama involving Cusack and Peet that Emmerich and co-writer Harald Klasser have seen fit to plaster onto their vision of a worldwide holocaust is enough to make us start rooting for humanity's wholesale annihilation long before the movie's hit the halfway mark.  Apparently, in contradiction to what Rick said at the end of "Casablanca," the problems of a couple of little people DO amount to a hill of beans, after all - at least in the eyes of Hollywood.  Of course, one doesn't go to these types of films in search of grand themes or complex characterizations, but rather for the epic and wanton destruction of all things animate and inanimate - and in that respect, at least, "2012" delivers the goods.  In fact, the action and special effects are so preposterous and over-the-top that one can't help but admire the sheer, unadulterated, childlike trashiness of it all.  So hunker on down to watch humanity get the [...]-kicking of a lifetime - just make sure to have plenty of popcorn and Jujubes on hand to help get you through the experience.

A Dud Among Pigeons I thought it was drawn out way too much. A simple idea that could have been effective becomes indulgent with too many talking-head characters in the beginning who don't really have anything to do with the plot. Plus they are poorly played.  The two main actors are really good, but they talked and talked and talked. Way too much dialogue, it would have been far more effective cut in half.  One close shot of the man's feet walking along toward the beginning of the film really annoyed me because we can clearly see he is walking in place. Why include that shot since it is not really needed and it instantly kills any believability?  The decision to make ADAP in black and white also annoyed me because it's like a sign saying "this is an important film." But unless there is a legitimate story reason -- like The Artist for instance, because it needed to look like a silent film -- doing so always strikes me as a pretentious decision on the part of film makers.

Lies, Damn Lies, and Homespun Tab Unlike some of the other reviews on here, I found the long section on getting proper tone and positioning very useful. I can see how this wouldn't be appropriate for a beginning guitarist, though.  But when Homespun tells you "includes tab," what they really mean is "here's a tiny booklet with some licks, but none of the four included songs are tabbed."  When I phoned Homespun to ask where the alleged tab was for the four songs included, a very nice lady was sad to tell me that they don't exist. When asked how a buyer is supposed to know which of their DVDs that say "include tab" actually *don't*, she was at a loss.  I really want to support companies like Homespun, I know they struggle against P2P piracy. But they're flat-out lying to customers about what's included when you do the right thing and buy instead of torrent. They certainly won't get any more business from me unless I've checked it out beforehand via alternate methodology.

Topper and Topper Returns A sad reminder that fond memories of movies gone by should be left alone.  Topper was long and slow and mildly amusing.  Topper Returns was an embarrassment to watch.  Poor Rochester was forced into the only kind of roles that African Americans were allowed to play, and the other actors did not fare much better with that lame attempt to play on the success of the original movie.

Not a big fan I wasnt happy with this. Only cause I expected more. If you are looking for basic easy go with this. If you are looking for more intense and better go with Jari Love: Get Ripped & Chiseled and SWAT Workout: Ultimate Body Definition...those are way great!

A Letdown of Shakespearean Proportions All the elements I usually love are here: vibrant 1930s costuming, Gershwin music, Branagh, Timothy Spall, and did I mention Shakespeare?  Instead of a clever, comical, creative and fresh take on one of Shakespeare's lesser known works we instead receive a bizarre mismatch frantically performed by actors who are in way over the heads: Mathew Lillard, Alicia Silverstone and Alessandro Nivola - I'm looking at you.  A reprieve goes to Nathan Lane for actually being funny and appearing to understand the meaning behind his lines.

Boring While the readers of the celebrated series of books may enjoy this film, to someone who has not enjoyed the pleasure, this is an increaisngly boring film. By the end, nothing, absoluetly nothing had happened. The parents disapper or die, the kids get carted around and the villian escapes (and he alternitive motive is never revealed). The story of the littlest elf would have been more entertaining. The acting itself is fine and the costumes captivating, but the actual storyline...like I said.

A christmas Carol With Fredrick March It wasn't what I was expecting.  A little too old for my taste, but over all not too bad for the money.

A Fantasy Comic Opera The Blues Brothers, 1980 film  The movie begins with a view of a big city at night. The dawn reveals a smoky haze, and a 19th century prison in Joliet. A prisoner is brought out. [A lot of padding here.] A song to amuse the audience. Then we see a stunt with an old car on a drawbridge. They visit an orphanage that has financial problems. Are they a disappointing pair with filthy mouths? Can they raise the money to pay the taxes? And so their quest begins. "I have seen the light!" We see a song and dance. [What are they putting in the communion wine?] Elwood doesn't stop for a red light and is pulled over. We have a car chase for entertainment. [I guess that destructions is supposed to be amusing.] We see chain stores that are now just memories. [Was that the theme from "Peter Gunn"?] A rocket launcher? We see a cheap hotel. The police arrive, there is an explosion.  The brothers stop at a brick apartment house. They plan to reform the band and look up a friend in a fancy restaurant. There is an example of free speech by Illinois Nazis. Another song and music for entertainment. "Toasted white bread." Another song and music for entertainment. They look for the last man in pawn shop. Ray plays a piano for old songs and dances. A woman throws flames. The band plays at a "Country & Western" bar. They have chicken wire in front of the band. More songs. Stand by your band? There is another comic skit and pursuit. They want a big venue for the biggest audience. Can they raise an audience? Will there be a problem? "Keep the change." There is a song for the audience until Jake and Elwood arrive. Others are waiting as well. And so the big show begins, the audience cheers the songs. A record producer offers them $10,000 as an advance. Is it a deal? "Where did they go?"  A lone gunwoman shows up to complain about Jake's past actions (or lack thereof). They make a getaway. Police cars and a tour bus follow them. Who else? Three is a comic crash on the highway, an din the city. [Don't try this at home!] Then the Nazis chase them onto a highway under construction. Finally their car arrives at the Richard J. Daley Center. Can they get to the Tax Assessor in time? Yes. The last scene shows a performance in prison. What are the prisoners eating to energize them so?  Was this film intended to attract tourists to Chicago? It seemed funnier when I saw this thirty years ago. Maybe those skits are funny in the Second City or a TV show, but now seem dated. Note the uncensored use of firearms. Does this film have any socially redeeming values?

Blades of Glory You have got to be kidding me, this movie is somewhat funny.  At times boring tho.  Do not buy this blu ray for 25 dollars!  This movie is maybe worth 9.99.  Amazon your crazy trying to sell it for that much!!

Not what I expected I rented this because of all the great ratings. I wished I would have read them all first. The movie wasn't horrible, but like others have said, the acting was amateurish (the exception being Jasmin Guy in the Nurse Mary role, which was quite good), and the plot was meandering. I also felt manipulated, so wanted to give others a heads up about the movie. Some will love it, but for many, the "message" is heavy-handed.

What the hell..... I had high hopes for this movie from the very start.  The retro shot back to 1968 to start the mood and the "myth" that surrounds the entire story (which has real potential if it wasn't so poorly acted).  The acting is the major problem with this movie.  I will admit, the ending was no shocker.  I loved Justin Long in JEEPER'S CREEPERS, but in this he was as weak as he could be...nothing.  The real problem lies with the lead...Alison Lohman, she is dreadful.  You have absolutely no connection with her character. She is just going through the motions.  No development, no empathy, no sympathy, no hatred, no nothing.  She is one-dimensional and that is the real disaster of this movie.  As I stated, I felt the story line had potential, with perhaps a bit more polishing of the script, but definitely with another lead actress in the role.

Waste of film and talent Generally I really love these old WWII type movies but this was neither comical or adventurous or poignant or anything.  Henry Fonda is the only good things about this movie - playing a (rank?) serving under James Cagney who is a HORRIBLE actor in my opinion, but I'm not sure anyone else in his role would've made the movie any better.  Cagney is a nobody who was evidently treated as such his whole life and somehow managed to work his way up the ranks to having command of his own vessel.  They basically serve as a supply ship and therefore never really get IN the war - which bothers Fonda to no end. Fonda keeps putting in for a transfer in hopes of getting on a ship that will see some action, so he doesn't feel so useless. Would feel he did his part.  Cagney treats the crew like slaves, morale sucks but the guys appreciate the small things Fonda does for them (like letting them get away without wearing shirts when they're sweating to death - whereas Cagney demands proper dress from them regardless).  The men are sorely in need of some R&R and haven't had it in well over a year.  Fonda finally gets it for them and they cause as much trouble on shore leave as they humanly can.  Lemmon's character is useless and annoying and is supposed to be comic relief but doesn't pull it off.  POOR writing, bad story and Lemmon and Cagney just made it that much worse.  There was perhaps 10 min of interesting footage in this film.  I was sorely disappointed and would NOT recommend.  There are MANY other war movies out there that ARE good - look elsewhere for those.  Pass this stinker up.

?????? What the hell was this movie all about? The first 45 minutes were good. But that was just the build up... the scenes leading to the final revelation or something like that. The rest of the movie should have been about how it's all tied up/ makes sense. Or, that's what it should have been.... But this movie has one of the most implausible, ridiculous endings I have seen in a long time. The main character's motivations are unconvincing and do not make a lot of sense till the very end. The movie has it's moments though. Some witty lines and some steamy scenes thrown in here and there. But overall, its a just a mess. There's no real plot, to be honest. And did I mention that the title is completely irrelevant?

I'm surprised they weren't fighting Shark-jumping zombies... I just watched it last night, and thought this was one of the cheesiest films I've seen in ages. Its obvious that 3D doesn't add much to a lame film...

RAMPAGING SLAUGHTER Neighbor is a plotless movie that is strictly made to show a series of sadistic and horrifyingly systematic torture and slaughter of helpless victims.  The sadist is a young woman, obviously insane but no explanation is given who she is and why she is doing these unflinchingly depicted murders.  The unknown actress playing the role has to know this will be her first and last movie role because who in their right mind would ever hire her unless it was the Marquis DeSade.  Since there is no real storyline I will cite a few of the ways people are tortured so this will be a warning to whether someone out there would ever want to watch this sickening piece of trash.  A young girl has her mouth sawed open leaving her with a lop-sided grin that stretches ear to ear. This same young girl is cut open from the crook of her elbow to her wrist until her blood gushes out faster than an over-flowing bathtub. However the stage blood in this scene is not even convincing stage blood and looks like watered down tomato juice.  She really goes to town on this same girls' boyfriend.  She uses a sharp instrument to turn his big toes to mush.  This is the nicest thing she does to him. She also punctures his cheek with a dentists' pick.  uses an electric drill to bore through his thigh and de-caps his knee with a pizza cutter. She also inserts a long sharp instrument into the young mans' penis and although it's obvious it was a prosthetic the scene is so vivid and squeamish I felt the pain in my own penis.  The sadistic young woman also electrocutes, poisons and burns someone alive.  This, I hesitate to call it a movie is a gorehounds delight and from the five-star "plant" reviewers you would think this is the best movie ever made.  It isn't. Not by a long shot. And since there is no reason for the gruesome going-ons(even Freddy Krueger had a motive in the original "Nightmare On Elm Street), i can not recommend this sadistic piece of trash but it does deliver in the gore department and blows even "Hostel" in the torture genre out of the water.  I happened to see the R-eated version of this picture and there is an unrated directors cut out there.  God help us.

So not funny it is painful to watch I recommend watching the review made by the guys from "Half in the Bag" from redlettermedia dot com and then if you still consider yourself a true Adam Sandler fan go ahead and watch the movie. The acting is horrible and mostly stupid, specially during the time when both Adams are in the screen. The jokes are racist most of the time and they aren't even that funny to begin with. To sum it up, there's literally a commercial for royal Caribbean inside the movie.

NOT the Richard Basehart version of "Connecticut Yankee" This isn't actually a review of the DVD's content as I didn't get past the title screen of "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" before I discovered Digiview had entered the wrong cast on the cover. I was searching for Richard Basehart's 1970 portrayal of King Arthur and found Boris Karloff's 1952 Studio One version instead:[...]  For all I know the Studio One production could be awesome, but it isn't what I was looking for so I will have to return the DVD. Just a warning to anyone else who was looking for the version advertised on the DVD.

...it's okay It's not as funny as Hangover many things seem recycled from that movie not to mention other movies. In this movie Zach Galifianakis, like in Hangover, plays a sort of lonely sad idiot who seems to have no friends, has a penchant for drugs, gets other people in trouble, and then makes them want to kill him and at the end of the movie somehow, for some reason they (or in this case him, Robert Downey Jr's character) forgive him. There other similarities that I don't want to give away. Anyway, I just found it mostly boring. There might have been maybe a few laughs here and there but it mostly seemed boring, recycled and unfunny to me but, hey judging by the number of positive reviews chance are you might like it. If you liked Hangover you MIGHT like this one. A couple of beers...or whatever could possibly help you enjoy this film even more but chances are if you didn't like the Hangover then you won't like this one...

Don't usually go to extremes on reviews, but I thought it was awful In order to give some context, I thought The Hangover and Old School were hilarious, but this thing was terrible.  They seemed to have followed the philosophy that if you can't come up with real humor, substitute vulgarity into that gaping hole.  So that's what they did.  I very rarely give below 2 stars or above 4 but this film was pushing it to get a one.

NOT GOOD! If you havent read the book, don't bother watching film. I have read all the Earths Children books and was really looking forward to the movie only to be very dissapointed. It didn't follow the book and was a little confusing. I think it should be re-made with todays technology.

bummer. i paid money for this???  what was i thinking???  pathetic scare factor, poor acting, low low low budget film.  i need to get a life if this is what i have come to watch.  if you like yourself watch something else!

Classical story- could have been done better The audio mixing on this movie is terrible. The story is humorous but not exactly a blast. It's a classical story of the hero growing up towards what he thinks he wants and then growing above that to find what is really important. Is NOT badly made, just mediocre.  Not so bad if you wanna use the story to teach a kid.

Interesting Story - NOT PG The story was bittersweet, the singing was good but this is not family entertainment.  I would not recommend - I thought there was too much negativity and immorality to be redeemed by a "happy ending."  Lots of sex, drugs and some cursing...the PG rating needs to go up.

Differs from book in important ways. I read this book to my 2nd grade class and we LOVED the book, but the movie was so different that is was frustrating for us. No encounter with the bear, no dog caught in steel trap, no feast in the Indian village, no encounter with Attean's grandmother. Ben becomes a recurring character in the movie, and most of the emphasis is put on the difficulties of Matt's parents trying to get to him, which is not addressed in the book except in one sentence. Attean's finding his manitou in the movie: "First I have to find my spirit." Next scene; "I see you found your spirit." "Yes." VERY disappointing!

CAUTION! First of all I thought that I had purchased a documentary not a sermon. I found many unusual NON BIBICAL TEACHINGS in his sermon. According to Mr. Klein the antichrist is a system not a man. Mr. Klein stated several times it took him eight years of research to come up with who the antiChrist and the two beasts were but, never clearly cited his sources.  He vaguely uses Daniel chapter 8:1-8 and Revelation 13: 11-17  as his proof, but in doing so he contradicts his own words. At times he does not finish his thoughts and once admits he gets confused. Below is Daniel 8:1-8 (Mr. Klein use this as support the antichrist and second beast is a system) I, Daniel, had a vision, after the one that had already appeared to me. 2 In my vision I saw myself in the citadel of Susa in the province of Elam; in the vision I was beside the Ulai Canal. 3 I looked up, and there before me was a ram with two horns, standing beside the canal, and the horns were long. One of the horns was longer than the other but grew up later. 4 I watched the ram as it charged toward the west and the north and the south. No animal could stand against it, and none could rescue from its power. It did as it pleased and became great. 5 As I was thinking about this, suddenly a goat with a prominent horn between its eyes came from the west, crossing the whole earth without touching the ground. 6 It came toward the two-horned ram I had seen standing beside the canal and charged at it in great rage. 7 I saw it attack the ram furiously, striking the ram and shattering its two horns. The ram was powerless to stand against it; the goat knocked it to the ground and trampled on it, and none could rescue the ram from its power. 8 The goat became very great, but at the height of its power the large horn was broken off, and in its place four prominent horns grew up toward the four winds of heaven.  If you read on to Daniel 8:20-22 the bible as always explains Daniel 8: 1-8.  DANIEL 8:20-22 The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kings of Media and Persia. 21 The shaggy goat is the king of Greece, and the large horn between its eyes is the first king. 22 The four horns that replaced the one that was broken off represent four kingdoms that will emerge from his nation but will not have the same power.  ALL OF THESE WERE MEN WHO WERE KINGS. LARGE HORN BETWEEN ITS EYES IS ALEXANDER THE GREAT.THE LARGE HORN THAT WAS BROKEN OFF REPRESENTS ALEXANDER'S DEATH IN HIS PRIME. THE FOUR KINGDOMS WERE ALEXANDER'S FOUR GENERALS (MEN) WHO EACH BECAME KINGS AFTER DIVIDING UP ALEXANDER'S CONQUERED LAND AMOUNGST THEMSELVES.  Revelation 13: 11-17 (Mr. Klein also uses this as support the antichrist and second beast is a system) 11 Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. 12 And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13 He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. 14 And he deceives those[e] who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived. 15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or[f] the name of the beast, or the number of his name.  THE BEAST FROM THE SEA IS AN INDIVIDUAL (THE ANTICHRIST) WHO WILL BE OVER THE SECULAR WORLD SYSTEM. THE FALSE PROPHET (SECOND BEAST) IS AN INDIVIDUAL WHO WILL BE OVER A RELIGIOUS WORLD SYSTEM.  I have no issue with the fact that we (Mr.Klein and myself) clearly do not see eye to eye on this, as I am sure many will not agree with my view (my source Dan chap 8 & Rev chap 13)I am not a bibical teacher or in anyway been called by our father to teach scripture. This is my view only,but for those who are considering watching this, do so with prayer and bible in hand. 1 John 4:1-3

"Casino Jack" Goes Bust Kevin Spacey gives a virtuoso performance in director George Hickenlooper's freewheeling look at flamboyant D.C. lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Unfortunately, the overlong "Casino Jack" (2010) suffers from a scattershot, flippant approach - wearing out its welcome before the halfway mark. Good support from Barry Pepper, Jon Lovitz and Kelly Preston cannot salvage the film's dramatic flatness.

not enough dancing, not enough singing, too much pseudo psychiatry I am not sure what others see in this movie.  I was unimpressed.  The singing and dancing were on the sparse side.  The "psychiatry" thing, freudian allusions, conscious and unconscious mind might have been cutting edge in 1938 but fall flat now.  My wife and I got through this movie, but it is not one we would watch again.  The DVD was a reasonable quality, the sound was adequate, the image ok.

Another VCI screw-up - no subtitles on uncut Spanish language version! 15 years before the American A-movie hit "Alive", low-budget Mexican exploitation extraordinaire Ren&eacute; Cardona made his own B-movie version of the true story of survival of the rugby team that crashed landed in the Andes that had to resort to cannibalism to survive. I've always been far more of a fan of the B-movie exploitation side of cinema and for years wanted to see this lost 'classic' to see how it compared to it's big budget American counter-part. When news that VCI was going to release the film I became excited, even more so since the DVD release was going to contain both the 86 minute American cut of the film as well as the uncut 112 Mexican Version of the film. I've been burned by VCI before (with their defective DVD release Spaghetti Western Double Feature Vol 2: Bullet for Sandoval / Any Gun Can Play]]) and I'm afraid to say again that we are 'graced' with yet another defective release.  The back of the DVD box artwork states that it also includes the original uncut Mexican version in 'Spanish Language with optional English subtitles.' This my friends is false. Sure it contains the uncut Mexican version... but with NO SUBTITLES! Ironically the shorter English dubbed version does but NOT the uncut Spanish language version. So unless you speak Spanish then you're out of luck with the uncut version.  For me the DVD is worth keeping since it still contains the cut American release but this is a real major flub by VCI. A lot of fans of the film were excited for the uncut version but without English subtitles then it's pointless. Shame on you VCI! I will definitely question ever buying one of your DVDs again with out thoroughly researching before hand.

Another Unnecessary Sequel Though it's nice to see Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy back together, the motivation is woefully lacking in director Walter Hill's follow-up to the 1982 action-comedy. Apart from a few engaging setpieces, everyone goes through the motions for a big paycheck. "Another 48 HRS." lives up to its title - derivative in the worst sense.

FAILED ( -_-') "The Resident" is 2011 drama/horror/thriller film that basically puts an emphasis on the saying "if it's too good to be true, it probably is".  It is about a woman (Juliet Dermer played by Hilary Swank) that goes looking for an apartment to stay at, eventually finds one that is just too good to be true; affordable, extremely spacious and not only that, the landlord is a good-looking, charming man that cares for his tenants (no, really, a landlord that cares!). The landlord (Max played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan), however, ends up forming a dangerous obsession to Juliet and the movie trailer pretty much sums up the whole thing. Everything you see in the official movie trailer for this movie is pretty much what the movie is like.  Two stars is actually a generous rating in my opinion because this movie did not succeed in anything that it was meant to succeed in.  The movie failed for a few reasons.  Reason 1: I think this reason is ESPECIALLY true for me, but the villain, Max, is too good looking. He plays the role of a sick, invasive, and mentally unstable pervert that peeks through hidden crevices in the wall throughout the apartment. Or at least he's SUPPOSE to seem that way. However, the way he looks and the way he acts never truly gives me that impression. Usually, the role of the villain in question is suppose to be fulfilled by a sickly looking man that's not so attractive and is more suspicious looking. Personally, I wanted Juliet to dump Jack, her boyfriend/ex? and go with Max.  Reason 2: The plot and storyline of the movie is incredibly straightforward and predictable. There was definitely no mystery in who the villain is as it is clearly revealed fairly early in the story. So due to that, you never remain alert to the details to the movie because the main perpetrator has already been revealed. The ending held no surprises and the action scenes lack all sense of suspense.  Reason 3: Drama, horror, thriller. Was the movie dramatic and made me feel connected to the character? No. Did the movie scare me or give me the sense of being horrified? No. Did it contain suspenseful, thrilling moments that put me on the edge of my seat wondering what'll come next? No. Predictable from beginning to end.  Throughout the movie, you'll probably be thinking "oh I've seen that before".  Don't watch the trailer, it's basically the whole movie compressed. It's one of THOSE movies.

Six Feet Under 3rd season Slightly flawed. This is the second time this has happened (not the same seller). Will only buy new from now on.

Disappointing Collections Some of the films have poor audio quality. At least one film listed on the box cover is not on any of the DVDs. The cover art suggests 20th Century wars, but some films selected dealt with the Civil War and others. Other selections were very unknown films. I would not buy this type of collection again.

constantine video dvd video would not play in either my 3 dvd players so i ordered another video from someone else. the dvd wasn't van helsing. the dvd was constantine and it was fubar. so what is your idea of correcting the bad dvd i received.

Slow, very obtuse plot... Bleh. Very disappointing after watching the first Holmes.  The plot rambled so slowly that I either lost interest or forgot about the direction of the story completely.  The writers were just at a complete loss.  Uninteresting characters, especially Noomi Rapace's.  Who is she?  Why is she there?  Hard to finish.  Spare yourself.

Nothing New or Original Here This movie is just another entry in the series to try and make money.  There is nothing new or original in the film, just more of the same.  As always, the first movie was the best, but this is just another sad excuse to make the studio more money.  There probably is going to be even more sequels, but I know better to stop here.  Mimic 2 was better, though, because at least the main character had a background in entomology and explained how the cockroaches behaved.

First Rate Cast, Third Rate Movie I bet this movie sold instantly in a pitch meeting. Imagine some of the biggest stars as characters in one of the most commercial murder mystery series ever. Unfortunately the script creates cardboard characters and the plot has no subtlety or intrigue. The actual movie isn't as good as any of the previous Miss Marple movie incarnations or subsequent TV versions. For some reason her character is absent for much of the movie. If you're looking for a good "modern" Christie movie then buy Murder on the Orient Express.

As others have said, movie good, packaging poor if you're a collector, or you want the movie to last, DO NOT buy the Blu-Ray/DVD/Digital Copy combo package. I can not stress this enough. This packaging is the worst I've seen in my 30+ years, and I've seen some pretty horrible packaging (Charmed 8 seasons in one 'book', 24, 1-6 in a flimsy box not even held together well, etc).  the problems with this packaging are quite simple. You've got discs (dvds, brd, etc) in the cardboard itself. The package opens up into a 3 panel system. On the leftmost panel is the BRD, in the middle, a dropdown (which some haven't actually been able to get dropped down) with the digital copy and paperwork/postcards behind it , the rightmost panel holding the DVD.  The BRD and DVD take some messing with to get out. Guess what this means? they get scratched. The digital copy in the center seriously feels like it's glued in there.  Honestly, the movie is great. I'm not one of the "you must stick to the book 100%" people, that's just wrong. The packaging, however, is cheap and horribly done. Wait for the packaging to be fixed, or changed to proper packaging before you buy this, or you'll have to purchase it again and again and again, as the packaging treats the discs pretty harshly

Real problem playing it on my device. The thing just froze and went out before it even got going past the first act.  I wish I could have seen more.  I may buy it at a video store if possible.

Wiseguy fans! Stand up for your Dead Dog Arc!! Hey Mill Creek Entertainment! Cough up the bucks and put the Dead Dog Arc episodes on DVD!  LIKE THIS FACEBOOK PAGE: [...]  Somewhere between the "White Noise" and "Call It Casaba" episodes in Season II of the Wiseguy series, there was an awesome and viewer-favorite sequence of episodes called the "Dead Dog Arc." Unfortunately, these episodes have not made it to DVD because the music rights would be too expensive. So, like the Steelgrave arc finale, where Nights in White Satin was stripped from one of the greatest scenes in TV history for the sake of saving a few bucks, the Dead Dog arc episodes are not available.

Complete roadblock While some parts I liked, the movie seemed like a step back in the series, there was less continuity. In the movie universe, when the hell did Harry started noticing Ginny, in the books, they gave somewhat closure to the Cho crush, but they didn't show that in the previous film. The other thing is, what happened to the battle, the producers said that they cut it out to prevent repetiveness. That was what some people wanted to see, for me it would have been a taste for whats to come in the final hogwarts battle. Lastly, I got large helping of teen angst, I get that they are teenagers, but if I wanted to see that, I would have watched the CW. Thankfully they made up for it in the Deathly Hallows.

Same old stuff On this DVD all Kevin did is  rehash old stuff from his last two DVD. No new routine, or people. To tell the truth it was boring

Sherlock Holmes Poser This movie has nothing to do with Conan Doyle's character of Sherlock Holmes.  Despite highjacking character names and "The Lady in Red" this Holmes nothing in common with the traditional Holmes character.  Gone are Holmes' analytical strengths and deductive reasoning to be replaced with violence and movie effects.  If you want authentic Sherlock Holmes, leave this in the trash bin and check out the BBC series with Jeremy Brett, a genius who truly understood the complexity and brilliance of the Holmes character.  You will undoubtably see what a pathetic imitation this movie represents.

Say Noe To Drugs - Falls Short of the Mark This film had real potential.  It was almost like watching a video game from first to second person drug play. The problem is that director Noe got caught up in his panning scenes.  There is so much traveling through walls and above buildings that the film is slowed down to a snails pace.  It could have been reduced by about 40 minutes to help move the film along.  Almost 40 minutes of slow sideways panning movement to represent the the out of body experience was far too much.  By the time the (in your face) punchline was reached, it was no longer worth the wait.  With a proper edit, this film could have been a winner.  As it is, it is finished after one viewing and very unsatisfying.  Good luck on staying awake through the thing.  Perhaps viewers should sit upright and drink a lot of coffee.

Paranormal Activity goes "Hollywood" This installment gets an A+ for cleverness but a C for scares.  What made PA2 so good was that although it was a Hollywood cash-grab sequel, it carefully built on the minimalist scares of the original, while building the mythology. I actually like the sequel more than the original.  Part 3 is just as clever in its construction as Part 2, and I'm grateful to the filmmakers for giving us what we **remember** VHS looking like, not what it **actually** looks like!  But the problem with PA 3 is that it's more "hollywood" than #2 was, making the unknown horror of the first two films into something closer to a "franchise monster" like Freddy Kreuger or Chucky. We now know roughly the size and shape of "IT", we know what "IT" sounds like,  "IT" now has a name and, as we see, an origin of sorts.  #3 also suffers from Hollywood sequel-itis. For example, if pots and pans falling on a kitchen floor was scary, then the entire contents of a kitchen falling is scarier, right? Right? Nope.  Another Hollywoodism: Anything for a scare. Even if it doesn't fit, or make sense with what we already know.  And then there's the standard "They definitely know they're in danger but stay anyway," which worked under the circumstances of Part One but makes no sense here, especially with the kids in danger. If you sat and watched videos of your kid being pushed around by an invisible monster, you probably wouldn't have her sleep in the same room that night. Probably...  So, ultimately, I guess I'm glad I know the whole story (or as much as I need to know). But if you're on the fence as I was, fearing a letdown after the first two, my advice is quite while you're ahead and don't see it.

Confusing - Poorly Edited This movie was confusing - not sure if it was the writing or the editing. There was a hole side plot about a prostitute that went no where.

Not so great.... I bought this movie because several people I know said it was a very good movie.  I was not impressed with it. In my opinion, this is a movie to be rented, not purchased.  Secondly, it took several days before amazon shipped my order out (it seems they only ship things out quickly during the Christmas holiday season).

Bad, had me shaking my head... I wanted to see this when it came out in the theater, and was intrigued by some reviews I read where people described this as smart, funny, and with an interesting twist.  WHAT?  So glad I waited for video, because this is barely worth the cost of renting, much less paying to see in an actual theater.  We have almost no character development here, not even much in the way of stereotypical horror development.  I didn't care AT ALL about any of the characters, except the stoner, who was the only one to show even a modicum of common sense. Further, though, this just simply wasn't scary.  What's more, it wasn't even funny.  And it certainly wasn't "smart" as some reviewers claimed.  In fact, it was absolutely stupid.  I won't spoil it for those who insist on watching this, but there was just no explanation for anything that went on here.  The entire premise of the movie made absolutely no sense at all.  And I'm not a big snob - a movie with huge plot holes can be fun, so long as the story moves along, the characters are decent, and/or the satire is good enough.  Here, we get none of that.  As the characters are killed, we could care less.  There is so little buildup to the movie becoming "scary," it's just, well, not scary.  I'd add here that I am truly horrified of zombies, but even THEY can't scare me in this one.  Just lame.  See it if you're curious, but don't expect much.

Don't waste your time Liam plays a character whose undercover cop career has reached the point of turning him into a mental wreck with serious gastrointestinal issues.  The story stinks, the acting is mostly marginal (Sandra Bullock is good as always, but is a small role here) and this was simply just a total waste of time.

Laughably Bad This film had to be a class project out of the Fine Arts Dept of the College of the Desert, mentioned a couple of times in the movie.  After all, aren't they the ones who gave Mary Bono singing lessons in the days when she and Sonny would put on their furry vests and try to sing at their restaurants in Palm Springs?  Before she went on to fill the congressional seat that Sonny had before he hit a tree?  Okay, back to the film.  Bad bad bad acting.  Terrible, laughable script.  Boring boring boring plot.  HUGE waste of time.  By the way, I never come back to read comments on my reviews, so don't waste your time and vitriol.  I've noticed how people are with their comments - just because you don't agree with them.

Subtitles I read all the reviews and searched through many movies and decided this is the one I wanted to watch. No where did I see the word subtitles....but it sure is. If you dont mind them go for it...had I known I would have moved on. I hate ready everyword....

Marlene Dietrich: The Glamour Collection (Morocco/ Blonde Venus/ The Devil Is a Woman/ Flame of New Orleans/ Golden Earrings) Well the product presentation is poor, let's hope the DVD's aren't of such quality. will review again after i watch the films. check the pictures of the set as received. btw, i'm not rating the content yet. this is about the physical "collection" per se. Not cool.

Elvis in the shadows If u are looking to see Elvis look again. This documentary has Elvis in the shadows, u never see his face. I like the documentary but was disapointed in not seeing his face so that I could judge for myself, the voice was his and he had a lot of knowledge about Elvis, but my conclusion is, still don't know.

OK I am a movie buff and I'm always up for a good scare. This movie was ok but lacked a "good" scare moment if you know what I mean. If your just looking for an ok movie with a hint of scare than you'll like this movie. The acting was great don't get me wrong, but the script was missing something...

Casa de Stinko The first thirty minutes of this movie were very entertaining. The concept was great. The cast was very good. Just looking at will Ferrell can make me laugh. Unfortunetly after 30 minutes the movie runs out of gasolina. I would have walked out but unfortunately I watched it on a plane.  Amigos, save your Pesos on this one.

cursing was a huge turn off i got this for my husband as a christmas present. i watched these with my dad as a kid (the TV version) and didn't enjoy it as much as i remember. plus the F word was mentioned maybe 50 times in the movie. a turn off for sure.

Lots of fighting, little plot There's nothing quite so frustrating as a satire that totally doesn't work. "Fighting Elegy" is supposed to be some kind of brilliant attack on, I dunno, machismo or militarism or whatever, at least according to film critics and scholars. Funny, isn't it, that I interpreted this thing as a really poorly made and juvenile film about a bratty kid who gets into a lot of fistfights (rather like a Z-grade version of "Fight Club," which is also overrated).  Where do I start complaining about this film? The character development of our poorly acted protagonist is very minimal. We know that he's in love with a girl named Michiko, though we don't really know why, because he has zero chemistry with her. Because he can't have Michiko, our hero works out his frustrations by getting into a series of totally unconvincing - yet still rather violent and borderline sadistic - fights. The fights come with comedy sound effects, reminiscent of the Adam West Batman (THWACK! POW! ARRGH!) Every once in a while, the director tosses some Catholic imagery into the mix, like a crucifix with a big spotlight on it. What does all this mean? I'm afraid my poor brain was not up to the task of unpacking imagery of such, um, depth. I just thought it was pretentious.  Despite the fact that the film is quite short, it's repetitive and draggy, as the hero constantly gets into fights and then gets into trouble for having the fights. My interest was somewhat sustained by some good imagery - like the two "lovers" holding hands through a rip in a shoji screen - but a few good images do not a good film make. And, as is common with director Suzuki's pictures, the editing is so scatterbrained that I often had trouble following the action. (Shortly after making this film, Suzuki was sacked by his studio for making incomprehensible films. Some critics think this was a tragedy, but I'd have been tempted to fire the guy too.)  I suppose I'm being too hard on this movie, because it at least tries to be distinctive. But "Fighting Elegy" happens to belong to a sub-genre of cinema that I particularly dislike; it pretends to lampoon and condemn violence (I guess), but also seems to celebrate violence at the same time, and in the end I thought its message was garbled beyond comprehension. Honestly, I'm really not sure why Donald Richie, a usually razor-sharp critic of Japanese film, is so fond of Suzuki and his work; I much prefer the quiet dramatic force of an Ozu movie, or even the pop culture bliss of a Godzilla extravaganza, to a lurid and tacky film like this one.

Tea: After one sip, I think I'll pass. Overall this was a total miss for me, story wise. The story follows a hit man (Brosnan) who ends meeting and soon befriending an "average joe".  A while later, the hitman shows up on the door, of the average joe and his wife, asking for a favor. Obviously, the acting was great, great actors. However, the story was lacking for me. It didn't "hook me" into it, whether it was the hitman's character not being strong enough or the plot not being strong enoug, it's a toss up.  The story and the main character have to grab me, have to make me want to know how it ends, what happens. That's the whole point of writing movies. You create a great character and then put them in the middle of a fire (so to speak) and push them to their limits. This was ho-hum for me in both areas. So, no, I won't be buying this for my collection.

Double Standard Alive and Well As a teacher of teens (currently on a sabbatical) I am always on the look out for films that will appeal to this age group and provide good material for discussion, and possibly a valuable message about life.  Did Easy A deliver? I guess some students would really take to this film and there is plenty of scope for discussion, but ultimately it was a big let-down for me.  Don't get me wrong, there are some really funny moments in the movie, and for these moments alone the film is worth watching, but I happen to like my dialogue peppered with a strong dose of realism, and this was sadly lacking. This movie is just so smug and self-aware that it is quite nauseating at times (like Juno, another movie I couldn't stomach). Now I could deal with the bad dialogue and constant stream of one-liners that turn the characters in caricatures, but the thing irked me the most was that Easy A makes such a big deal about how liberal and "contemporary" it is. In reality the message of this movie is highly conservative and reinforces all the tired clich&eacute;s about finding prince charming and living happily ever after. Oh yeah, and good girls always get their man in the end. Pass me the bucket.  Why did the main character have to be a virgin? As this film is all about sexual politics wouldn't it have been a whole lot more interesting if she was an actual "slut" (ie. anyone who is not a virgin in the context of this film) who, based on her experiences, decided to make a stand about the rigid double-standard that is still alive and kicking in high schools around the world? When she started dressing like a scarlet woman and sewed the A on her clothes, I found it very unconvincing and condescending not to mention confusing. What exactly was she trying to say? Fair enough she had a case when everyone started gossiping about her after they thought she'd slept with one guy, but when she agreed to let people believe that she'd slept with pretty much anyone who asked (and for money) the film loses all right to a serious message.  Did she think that young women she be free to go around exchanging sexual favors for money at school without condemnation? How was she standing up against the sexual objectification of women by dressing like a prostitute for most of the movie? Why were there no actual "sluts" in the film that she could have developed some solidarity with? What the hell was the musical number about at the end when she jumps out of a woodpile like a stripper at a bucks night and proceeds to prance around the auditorium in lingerie? (while the principal does nothing to stop her!). I think this was meant to be empowering but I'm not sure how, especially as the whole thing was orchestrated with the help of her new boyfriend.  The movie was clearly trying to draw parallels between the way women were treated in the times of the Scarlet Letter and today, but at least the Scarlet Letter was about a real "slut" ie. someone who had broken the unspoken rules of a patriarchal society and paid the price. By making the main character a virgin (and her best friend too), this film is tacitly reinforcing the idea that girls who have sex are sluts. It's no coincidence that the only female character in the film who does have sex is the school counselor (and Olive's English teacher's wife), who is committing adultery by having a highly unethical relationship with a student. It's also no coincidence that Olive is persuaded into lying about having sex out of a desire to help the socially challenged boys who seek her out - in others words she is a very good girl indeed.  How is this in any way helpful to the millions of teenage girls around the world who do choose to have sex and then have to grapple with the double-standard when they are labeled as sluts? Young girls are bombarded with so many images and messages today that tell them that to attract boys that need to look and act like porn stars, but when do this they are often judged and ostracized. So-called "raunch culture" is something that I feel strongly about because I think it's just so damaging to young women, especially the ones with low self-esteem who are more likely to try to gain acceptance through sex, and in my opinion this film did nothing to challenge any of this. In the end it reinforced the negative and confusing stereotypes that it was claiming to challenge by sending the message to women that they need to be highly sexualised but also pure and virginal at the same time - the virgin / whore thing all over again.  A truly courageous film would have made the main character a much more complex and interesting person. Someone that has had sex (for real) and earned herself a reputation, and then decided to do something about it (the best movie I've ever seen along these lines is Chasing Amy) That would have been a message worth listening to, and the gorgeous Emma Stone could easily have pulled it off. She also would have been a much more relatable character for the "scarlet women" of today who can't go on facebook and announce that, hey it was all just a big joke and they didn't actually have sex with those boys. In a perfect world young women would wait for the right guy to come along and sweep them off their feet, but we don't live in a perfect world, and this film's ultimate message is that abstinence will be rewarded. Not a bad message in itself and I agree that girls shouldn't rush into sex, but let's not pretend that this is groundbreaking stuff that does anything to challenge the double standard.  I know the film thought it was being ironic through references to 80s movies, but at the end of the day it really is just another ideological fantasy dressed up as a hip, wise-cracking, self-referential comedy. As far as teen movies go I much preferred 10 Things I Hate About You. At least the two main characters had a little bit of grit - Kat had slept with the wrong guy (for real, not pretend), while Heath Ledger's character was a juvenile delinquent. The musical number he performed actually fitted into the film and was so much more romantic and enjoyable than the terrible song and semi-stripper performance at the end of Easy A!  Sorry, but this film gets a D from me.

Tedious assault on history The movie begins with a great deal of excitement and a sense of some ancient parable of forboding. Yet it then disintegrates into a series of gratuitous violent scenes. Mickey Rourke is good for that kind of action. Freida Pinto (of Slum Dog Millionaire fame) is a welcomed addition to the cast but not even she can save this script for scene after scene of murder and mayhem. A good film for an after-football game when you team lost. A good way to vent!

After great start, very dissapointing My wife and I don't watch TV (just get stuff from the library)and have little exposure to episodic series like this. But we've recently realized how fun to get involved in an unfolding story, like the 4400. This has a great beginning - interesting time in the US, interesting characters. It's very well filmed. After the 3rd or 4th episode, it got less interesting and repetitive. And then it just seemed like the writers started depending on sex and violence to carry the show through. Someone said the 2nd season was 'way better than the 1st, which I can't understand. The 2nd season seemed horrible to me...getting more like a horror film then anything else....but we were hooked! Just watched the last 3 episodes last night and it's a great relief to be done with it. My brother and his wife only made it through about 6 episodes....i think if you like main-stream TV you may like this, but if you're a little more high-faluting you'd better stay away.....24 hours down the drain! if you haven't seen it yet I would recommend you investigate the 4400 instead.  2 more things. The introduction is fantastic! We watched it pretty much every time. And the acting is very very good - no fault finding there.

Incomplete Episode In the set I bought, the episode "Monster from Another Planet" on Season 2, Disc 2, is incomplete. When Tennessee & Chumley decide to see Mr. Whoopee, the screen goes black for a commercial break and the episode just ends without showing the conclusion. The timer on my DVD Player has the episode listed as being over 5 minutes instead of over 9 minutes like the other cartoons. Does anyone else have this problem, or do I just have a defective set?

...but the special effects were great How often have you heard that? Well, in this case it's true. The characters were totally unlikeable -- and not in a funny way. I kept thinking, "If these are the last people on Earth, humanity is doomed." And the story. Well, not unlike Cloverfield, we don't really know what's going on throughout the movie, except that there are some bad guys from outerspace messing up one of our big cities. And, OMG, the ending. Don't even get me started. What a crappy ending...but the special effects were great.

What ever happened to talent? I guess this is what progress is, no more character, no more talent. If they're going to destroy movies like Footloose, why don't they just make their own movie and call it something else. I remember a time not too long ago when they remade songs and movies and many times they were better than the original, not anymore.   Every part of this movie was mediocre at best, including the music, acting, dialogue, filming, directing and producing. This is a good example of what happens when you let your children grow up with no guidance, let them be who they are and try not to influence them as they grow up. We now live in a time where the young have no talent and no character, they are just a bunch of sheep with no common sense. They really should have have thrown in a few gays and lesbians so it could have totally fit the cookie cutter mold.   This movie is just another movie that I would call "Fill", Something that's there to fill in the gaps between the good movies, which are few and far between these days.

Journey to the Center of Ennui This movie is not bad enough to be good and not good enough for a second viewing.  The acid test for many movies is "do you care about the characters".  I found myself wishing that the monsters at the Center of the Earth would eat Treat Williams and his co-stars quickly, to avoid a 3 hour slog full of wooden acting, stilted dialogue and primitive special effects.  I agree that the human-like lizard monsters were pretty cool, and the whole center of the earth environment was pretty cool.  Trim this puppy down to a solid 70 minutes and you might have had a cult classic - but alas, not a mini-series.  If you can buy a used copy for about the price of a video store rental, as I did, then it is still worth a purchase.  One thumb half way up is better than none.

Not For Me I don't do well with Bollywood movies, but thought I could overcome it and watch this one.  Nope, didn't like it at all.  Too much like Hollywood phony stuff.  Not for me.

RED Was looking forward to this, given the talented cast and reviews I had read.  What a disappointment! So much potential, but this was just silly, cliche and extremely predictable.  Looked like they had fun making this movie...glad somebody did.

It's good...Not great Good plot...good story...just didn't like kristen stewarts sighs!....u pulled it in twilight...ok...other movies NO!  I wish I could totally get my moo-laa back!

NOT A BLURAY CASE i have quite a few blurays and hddvd's and they are all uniform height. i have adjusted the shelves to fit them. So i order this bluray and it comes in a FULL SIZE CASE that now will now fit on my shelf. NOT COOL, very dissapointed.

Too Predcitable. This movie I just found too predictable and figured it early. FF and yup I was right about everything. It's just strange to believe That a woman would hate another woman so much and she would go through all this trouble. I just didn't by the film because the motives behind it all were just too...well shallow. This might have been a good movie in the hands of better writers. The entire Kidney thing is just a sub plot you can figure out 30 minutes in. Sadly it's supposed to be a strong point of this movie because it revolves around this organ jacking business and it fails. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance this movie isn't. I gave this move 2 stars because I enjoyed watching the "bad kidney girl" suffer. Her character was pretty annoying and needy and those few scenes rewarded me with a reason to watch then than skip over it.  Overall this movie is so so and it gets a so so rating.

Opulent, beautiful cop-out First - the film is opulent, beautiful, masterful on a visual basis.  Worth watching if you appreciate beauty and good cinematography.  5+ stars on that basis.  However 2 overall.  When Hugh says "I'm going to die" jubilantly, it resonates emotionally on the level of Jarjar Binks going "weez-a-goin home!"  I love the part about the Spanish conquistador, determined to win through to the fountain of youth, determined to NEVER die.  The implications of immortality - or even long life - are extremely intriguing.  We get old just as we're getting the hang of things.  Just as we are starting to gain wisdom, our minds start going senile and our bodies lose the power of action... how amazing would it be to have the body of a 20-30 year old for 1,000 years, or even thousands of years?  All the different things you could do, places you could go, people you might know or love.  It's quite an interesting proposition.  ...but they cop out.  As far as the purpose of this film goes, as far as what it is ABOUT, it fails.  One film I highly recommend would be Rozencranz and Guildenstern are Dead<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000XB90JS">Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead</a>.  At one point, Rozencranz talks about being dead in a coffin... you'd be trapped in a box wouldn't you?  Of course, you'd be dead but that's the point.  If I said straight to you, I'm going to put you in a box, would you rather be alive or dead, naturally you'd choose to be alive, because maybe someone will come along and let you out.  So Hugh is trapped in a bubble with the Tree of Life, trying to make it to some new, viable place where life can continue, realizes he can't make it, and is suddenly and inexplicably jubilant that he is going to die... but this is the point of the movie, right?  They fail to get us there.  You can wax poetic of how death is good, necessary, whatever, but uh... okay, you first.  I'm not saying you can't get there, I'm just saying they jump to an embrace of death without showing us how they get there.  Naturally if I were trapped in a bubble with a tree for a long, long time, I might feel a LITTLE like dying.  But there's always the chance  of something else, isn't there.  Going new places, meeting new people and so on.  If you said I'm going to stuff you in a bubble with a tree, would you rather be alive or dead, I say definitely alive.  What was this guy doing for the thousands of years he got to live, what did he get out of it, why did he decide it was good to die?  We never see why in the film.  Obviously it's tiresome to be stuck in a bubble, but with immortality, time spent there is an insignificant fraction of your total lifespan - it would be like giving up on life because of that one time you spilled a glass of milk as a child.  An intolerable span of time to experience at the time, but it's ok now.  Are the writer and director still alive?  They didn't jubilantly end it all yet?  Then WTF is this movie about then, what did they actually believe and were trying to convey?  One more recommendation <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005TJ7EFG">Melancholia</a>  ...which more honestly and bravely tries to approach the idea of mortality.  Also beautifully done.  On the other hand, if you want a movie about immortality, you could do worse than the original Highlander <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051E9INK">Highlander</a>  ...the immortal main character is world-weary, funny, deadpan, and still basically good after all his losses over the centuries.  And still has the will to live.  I find myself liking this film and its main character infinitely more than The Fountain despite any flaws.  ...And yes, The Fountain is structured a little bit like Slaughterhouse 5, but I think you'd have to be kind of dumb not to be able to follow what's going on with the different timeline, what the film is really about, etc.  As far as what was going on in the film and why, I never had any unpleasant moments, but as far as the overall purpose the film is supposed to be working towards... not great as far as I'm concerned.

Another Loveless Story Sex when drunk and fist fights when sober equals love?  What does hate look like on Brokeback Mountain?  I thought Brokeback Mountain was an anti-drinking story, but then I read reviews by "professional critics" about a "love story," including some debate about gay, bisexual and "simply human" relationships.  Well, I disagree.  I've been in love, and I did not need bottles of whisky to perform sexually, or band aids and cold compresses for cuts and bruises after sober interactions.  The only tragedy I noticed while watching the movie was the father, Ennis Del Mar, not being there for his daughters.  That tragedy was mostly portrayed by limited interactions between Ennis and Emma Junior.  Apparently, whisky and extramarital affairs do not leave ample time or energy for adequate parenting.  The actors did not successfully convey any other emotions to me.  The western accents and the impoverished setting gave the "shirt scene" with Ennis a kind of Buffalo Bill feel (Silence of the Lambs, not William Cody).  Two stars: Canada was beautiful.  The rodeo clown was convincing.

Blood and Sex Nightmare Not a whole lot to review on this movie as it had little to no plot but enough T&A where it needed to be. Thank You!

Good concept, poor execution This was a good theory to revolve a movie around (I won't spoil it here), and after the first 15 minutes and learning the plot I had high hopes.  Regrettably the movie fell victim to poor dialogue, wooden performances, and odd camera work.

Nothing can save a movie if the story is bad Visually, it is very good. The colors are brilliant. The special effects are very good. If you do see it make sure it is blu-ray.  The acting overall was quite good, I thought. I did like the acting of King Hyperion.  What let it down for me was the story which I thought was terrible.  So I would not see it again nor recommend it.

The Wasted Life of a Young and Privledged Boy This is all about the afterlife of a good looking, middle class, smart, blond headed Anglo who drug fried his brains during his freshman year in college and subsequently dropped out.  His afterlife consisted of being a Beach Bum in Southern California in the winter and tent camping with a girl friend among wild Grizzly Bears of Alaska during the summer.  Given that some of the screen sequences he took with his hand held camera are remarkable, his narration of same was limited. In fact if you removed all versions of the "f" word from his vocabulary, the Alaskan portion would be improved, but shorten considerably. Don

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince I only bought this movie so my collection would be complete.  It is by far the worst of the Harry Potter series.  I guess one flop out of 8 movies is okay. The movies had until now, took great pains to follow and depict the most essential parts of JK Rowlings amazing tale.  This one was a big miss.  Deathly Hallow part I was awesome, and I  am counting down the days, minutes, and hours, until part II premieres.

It will stay with you.... Ok, I just watched "A Serbian Film" and lets get one thing straight...it is deffinately sick, perverted and wrong in every sense of the word cut or uncut version.  The director can try and justify his film by saying he was trying to show how people in Serbia are treated and oppressed, but bottom line is he set out out to make the most disturbing film he could that would cause controversy which in turn would give him free press and notoriety and he succeeded.  If other reviews are trying to convince you that it was created for art, political or any other reasons then they are fooling themselves and being dishonest with you.  Plain and simple....If you want to watch a sick and dememnted film involving graphic violence, nudity, rape and child rape/pornography that you will not soon forget, then by all means knock yourself out but if you even think for a second that this is something you would rather not see then you should not watch.  Personally, not much bothers me in film but I feel kinda dirty and like I may have been a participant in a very wrong crime for watching this.

goes nowhere This movie goes nowhere. Thank goodness I watched it free with prime. I kept hoping the ending would make the whole movie worth watching but it doesn't. The ending doesn't tell you anything. watching this movie is a waste of time.

Kept waiting for a surprise twist that never came While I was watching this, I kept waiting for some surprise twist, but one never came.  I predicted early on about the girl, but thought there might be a twist concerning the flashbacks of the mom.  There wasn't.  The flashback is pretty straightforward.  There was no real suspense either.  For instance, the scene where this person is attacked by bees wasn't the slightest bit scary and seemed weird how that scene ended. I thought the story sped too quickly in some parts, too.  For instance, Renee's character didn't show any signs of believing in the occult, yet overnight she becomes paranoid.  That needed a better development.  I give this 2 stars because I thought the young girl gave a good performance, though she came across as more bratty than menacing.  Clearly this movie wanted to be the next Omen, but didn't offer anything surprising to make it stand out.

Sketchy I am pretty sure this is not an original case of the movie and there is a glitch in the film at the same scene every time. For one, it's a two disc dvd but the inside of the case is unlike any other Disney 2-disc dvd case I have ever seen. My mom has this same dvd and her case is totally different. It came sealed but I think the person who sold it must have done it themselves because the Disney Magic Code for rewards points on the inside cover had already been used. Pretty sketchy if you ask me. Definitely won't buy from an outside seller next time..gonna stick to Amazon seller even though it's more expensive!

5 stars for Rutger Hauer, 2 for the shotgun, minus 5 for herr director This film put me in a bind. I wanted to stop watching this worthless animalistic sick-minded crap, but I didn't want to miss Rutger Hauer's insightful, thoughtful & poignant, Dirty Harry-esque performance. He is as good in this as Mickey Rourke was in 'The Wrestler' or 'Sin City'. Molly Dunsworth was also quite good as Abby, the prostitute he protects, and who dreams of a better life. Jason Eisener however, is a self-important, fat, untalented Canadian who didn't deserve a picture deal for his amateurish movie trailer. But I'm happy that Hauer was able to get some recognition for his ability to be creative within this putrefied dreck. I'd like to have read Ebert's review, but he boycotts gore (Hostel for example) so that's an impossibility. In the future I hope Eisener can only attract actors to his projects that I don't like. Ben Affect would be great! Thanks.

Was NOT educational I thought this product would introduce my husband and I to new ideas and techniques.  It failed horribly.  It was just like watching mild porn.  I didn't learn anything from it.  Oral sex, strip teases, talking dirty, and sex toys are not new to me.  The positions were also VERY common.  I was expecting them to come up with something that everyone hasn't heard of.  I was greatly disappointed in this product.

Limited Nudity Its everything you would expect from a Troma film, minus the senseless violence.  Most of the nudity is far from the camera in the background.  Theres a good full frontal scene that earned the movie an extra star.  Its totaly corny... to the point it is funny.  Coulda been way more skin in it.

Needs frequent flyer discounts for me to travel again Some may applaud Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's efforts to direct a film which ushers the viewer to a more sophisticated era of filmmaking.  A time with Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, and Grace Kelly.  Ultimately, however, the boring dialogue, the predictable ending, the mediocre performance from the two leads, and the jumbled direction/screenplay - is this a thriller, a romance, or a comedy? - turned this into a messy James Bond imitation, with nowhere near the suspense or seductiveness.  There is neither legitimate espionage misdirection nor substantive comedy.  French police are in cooperation with various agencies on the trail of the beautiful Elise Ward (Jolie).  They conspicuously follow her from her home to a local coffee shop where she appears to be dressed for a ball and boringly orders the exact same item in the exact same chair as she always does.  The chase begins after a mysterious note from someone named Alexander Pearce gets hand-delivered to a perpetually blas&eacute; Elise.  Apparently the snobbish attitude leached aboard the British accent.  Aboard a train she soon meets American math teacher Frank Tupelo (Depp), who proceeds to legitimately bore everyone within a 3-mile radius for the foreseeable future.  The cast roll-call is outstanding, but it says something that nobody could outshine either of the disappointing leads.  Paul Bettany and Timothy Dalton play Police Inspectors, the former because he needs the roles and the latter because of subtle one-upmanship.  Steven Berkoff is [insert name of generic bland guy].  Rufus Sewell is namelessly and insignificantly inserted.  Weighed, measured, and found wanting.  So what could possibly be left?  Unlike the movies it portends to imitate, The Tourist is nothing more than the films from which it wishes to separate: CGI and visually dominated films bereft of realistic plot or competent dialogue.  This film is nothing more than beautiful landscapes and the looks of its two stars.  In that regard, Depp often looks disheveled and uninteresting, and Jolie, despite the fact that she's dolled up from into to credits, is not nearly as interesting as all the other characters seem to think she is.  This film serves as nothing more than a Venice tourism promotion and for Angelina Jolie's Google image search hit count.  Jason Elin

Weird movie Weird movie, weird camera work, weird acting, weird choice of actors. The acting constantly swung back and forth between almost pretty good to downright awful, with no in between. Very low budget. Like $10 budget lol!! It have a few interesting moments. But very, very few. Watch at your own risk.

voiceover narration kills the buzz Let's face facts, Woody Allen has long since ceased to be relevant to cinema and seems to make "films" based around this narrow New York bubble he exists in.  Thankfully, he finally made a movie outside of that bubble and gave us what most of us want--a sensual pic set in a beautiful foreign locale (Barcelona natch!) and occupied with a range of characters running from the gorgeous and mysterious to the plain and mundane.  Even so this movie falls so flat. The ending just seems like he ran out of money and shut the camera off. Pluys the way he actually treats relationships is almost cartoonish. the potential in the story is there but he's unable to weave multiple storylines (hey, Woodman, go watch a guy Ritchie caper flick to see how it's done in the 21st century) without seeing them simply left hanging and unresolved.  Also, stop treating us adults like we can't figure out the gaps in scenes. the voiceover narration is like some sort of instructions to the blind. It's beyond annoying. First rule of cinema, if you have to use narration, especially a third person one, to explain what is going on you've done a terrible job in filmmaking and are flat-out lazy.  There are zero extras on the version of this DVD I watched the flick on. That's sad as a whole Gaudi/Miro travelogue and making of is what I was dying for. Throw in the whole Javier No Country and Penelope Cruz dynamic in real life it'd be interesting to know what went on during the production of the movie.

Missed several parts I heard so much about this being shown LIVE and so I wanted the DVD and I was so excited to buy it and watch it...but although brand new and still in the case with no scratches, towards the middle of the DVD, it was acting like it was already scratched.  It kept freezing and breaking in between......  So sad.....due to that I missed a few of the songs and videos and did not get the opportunity to enjoy all of "The Story".

War Horse We thought that this movie was a very Dark one.  We also thought that it was very long for the story it was trying to convey.  We are sorry that we spent the money on it.  We wish there was a way to return it.

Last of the Vikings DVD I have to agree with the other reviews on poor quality of this Alpha Video reproduction.  Very fuzzy picture, hardly any clarity. Voice dubbing distracting. Would have preferred having option of watching in Italian with English subtitles.  No options for viewing it that way. Transfer was made in zoom mode, i.e. Images are cut off on edge of screen so heads are sometimes out of picture edge on tight close up shots.  Was hard to watch and I really wanted to see this film.  Does anyone know if version of this film in Warriors 50 Movie pack is any better? The 50 movie pack was put out by Mill Creek Entertainment.

Unfocused Michelle Williams (with a British accent) plays an unnamed young woman (just credited as "Young Mother") from East End, London, whose husband and 4-year-old boy are killed in a terrorist attack at a soccer match. Ewan McGregor plays Jasper Black, a rich newspaper reporter who has an affair with her.  The British film is part character study, part mystery and part introspective drama, and succeeds as none. Not to spoil the film's "surprises," I can say it is an overtly melodramatic tale told against the background of very immediate political issues. "Incendiary" doesn't know subtlety. With too many voiceovers that never end, and a graphic sex scene that looks out of place, the unfocused film doesn't know what it wants to do.  Michelle Williams (she is top-billed) shows what a talented player can do, as a mother with unresolved grief over her loved ones (and guilt for sleeping with another man). Without her superb acting the film would have been a total mess. Ewan McGregor is underused, and so is Matthew Macfadyen Terrance Butcher in charge of the anti-terrorism division. Their underwritten characters add very little to the half-baked script.  The 2008 British film, based on a 2005 book of the same title by Chris Cleave, is written and directed by Sharon Maguire, better known as the helmer of "Bridget Jones's Diary" (2001). This is neither a thriller nor a mystery (as some of you may be led to believe). "Incendiary" struggles to be an insightful and thought-provoking drama, which sadly fails to give us any insights into human nature.

Wrong region :) Was looking for this season for over 10 years and when I finally find it and spend almost a fortune for Amazon to send it ... It's the wrong region :). Really love the season and am thankful to have found it but I can't watch it in it's true glory

annoying movie Tried to watch this movie last night. It always seemed on the verge of being good, but could never quite make it. After a time, it started to really become annoying and i felt embarrassed for the actors. Kevin Spacey is on of my all time favorite actors and that's one of the reasons i watched it. Jennifer Aniston I only recognized by her voice at first. She looks like she's done something to her face. I do not recommend this movie. I could not finish it.

Watch closely and it will become obvious. Given the talent of leads Bill Pullman and Julia Ormond, I settled in to watch this movie with high hopes. The ensemble was comprised of over the top characters, which draws even more attention to the smaller details and more grounded characters. There was a flaw in the third, maybe fourth, scene that made the ending predictable. That said, it was a story I kept watching simply because I had not seen characters like this before who were so unapologetic in their deeds and responses. Though it is not a movie I would recommend or purchase, it was no doubt memorable in its performances and its grim hopelessness. This is another movie in the fast-rising genre where extreme violence passes for horror. Unfortunately, Surveillance never rose above that nor took advantage of the unique qualities it did possess.

Please enter a title for your review: this film makes poor use of it's source material and is more focussed on portraying billy as emotional and egotistical than showing the work he actually did with stats. even without comparisons to the more cohesive faster paced book the generic "good dad" scenes are as cliched as they are irrelevant, and the scenes when players are being traded don't explain why he wants whichever players he wants, just a series of meaningless names said back and forth and then a victory cheer, and we're supposed to cheer with him like we know what was achieved? the director might as well have just made up some more fanciful fictional explanation for how billy found new players and made the fantasy baseball movie he really wanted to make where emotional outbursts and cocky one-liners are the more relevant hallmarks that define winners. the actual stock footage of the fan-made signs in the stands spanning the A's record breaking 20 win streak packed more punch than any of the fictional bluster. given the critical and popular reception though i can't argue with results. the director did give people what they wanted.

Logan's Yawn I first saw this about 25 years ago and had some pretty good memories of it. The carousel idea was especially interesting, since I believed then, as now, that all things are renewed upon so-called death. That is the part that truly brought me back for another viewing.  During this particular look-see, I was troubled by the way the plot bounced and ebbed and jerked around and ran itself into logistical walls. There were also too many trite and/or cornball elements. One of the little dome models was apparently made of bubble wrap.  I didn't even finish it.

I would not call this funny Zero chemistry between Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher. The title makes it seem like this will be another Vegas caper flick. Not. Very little actually happens in Vegas here, though what does happen is what passes for the funniest part of this unfunny date movie. The rest is a yawn, at best. Nothing is even remotely believable. Watch if you have nothing better at hand.

A Hellish, New World Order Film! First let me say that this film sucks!  I can recall way back when this came out that it was hyped up, released, out of the theaters and then on cable a few months later!  Now anyone from back in the 80's knows that it took a while before films got put on cable - especially the great ones, so for this to be on cable so soon gave me a red flag!  You know, since it's release, I have made serveral attempts to watch this film.  A couple of times on cable upon it's debut and about ten years later on TV.  I guess the turn-offs were every tough guy stereotype in film is in here.  Shades, all black dress, designer gun, does not talk much, is always calm, fearless, brave, works alone, toothpick, self assurance, needs no guns - you name it!  Add to that his 1950's car which was a turn-oof to me because I do not like those cars and what we have here is a film that tries to be cool but fails.  Now, I JUST watched this today!  Yes, it took me this long to watch it.  Every other time I tired, I always left off after the supermarket scene.  I did not know what the film was about up to that point and even after I did not know what it was about.  You have a group of crazed slashers who go around killing and talking about their goals.  Only when you watch it all do you realize what it and they are about!  Thanks to Youtube, we are able to get a better idea of these New World Order sickos and their devilish aims.  Yes, the main antagonist says to Stallone: "Do you want to go to hell with me?"  He also adds:"We kill the weak so that the strong survive!"  He also said something about the "new order."  So without fully explaining the killer's reason for killing, this kind of sums it up.  At the time of it's release, I doubt that anyone would have a clue as to what was going on, many would not today.  ONLY in this context does this film have any cohesiveness to it.  On a story note.  Bridgette Nilsson barley saw the killer and they wanted to remain secret, but they blow their entire cover to kill someone that barely saw them?  They would have been better off not trying to kill her as she could not pinpoint anyone!  So this film is good a pointing out the NWO theme in film yet again.  I am guessing that this sick cult of madness must be real!  President Bush I made it public when he announced a New World Order and Michael Paine (husband of Ruth Paine of JFK assassination lore) also said that he and Lee Harvey Oswald were trying to accomplish a new world order!

FOR MEN ONLY Ladies, don't even waste your time reading this review, much less seeing this movie. Take my word for it: It ain't your kind of flick!  Being a female myself, it might seem a contradiction to make such a statement. However, my clear mind and good taste was swept away by a few well-written words -- words that came from film critics who loved this movie. Keep in mind what I forgot: if film critics love a movie as much as they loved "Drive," you're looking at some kind of film noir, art house flick ... at best.  Guys will love this movie for its violence, naked women and car chases. It's a macho mess of madness, fast cars, blood and guts and sheer machismo. Although Ryan Gosling is an antihero in "Drive," he is completely immersed in it's bloody action.  Forget that it's supposed to be a love story, because if "Drive" is a love story, then "Reservoir Dogs" must be a musical! It's really raunchy, but even worse is the wait for something to happen. Plan on napping through the first half while the action builds slower than a crusty oldtimer limping across a busy intersection with a geriatric walker --  you know, the kind with tennis ball legs. But hey ... you get to see a bunch of your favorite actors of yore perform. Actors like Ron Perlman and Albert Brooks, along with a brief cameo from Christina Hendricks.  What pulled me into "Drive" is the words of my favorite critic, Roger Ebert, who said, "'Drive' is more of an elegant exercise in style, and its emotions may be hidden but they run deep." Roger really let me down on this one. His elegant words are pure drivel about a movie that really belongs on the cutting room floor.  Do what you want, but remember ... I warned you!

Not Very Good - Obvious Low Budget Film I guess the main problem I have with the movie is that the town of Pripyat is not presented very accurately. The bumper cars were not even in an enclosed area. The mural on one of the buildings looks like it is brand new. The town just does not look like Pripyat. There is no way that the tourists could have ever ended up in the old nuclear reactor just by accident. People actually work there.  I know it's supposed to be a horror film. The story idea was good, but I think a better job could have been done. The town was not realistic. The way the woman dies from radiation sickness is not realistic. I seriously doubt that the 25 year-old flashlight that they found would work after all those years. The Geiger counter sounds were obviously fake. When you look through the window in Yuri's office in Kyiv, you can see a van drive by that reads "Srbija" in Roman letters - so you know it wasn't actually filmed in Kyiv.  They did actually do a decent job of getting Eastern European actors, although technically Dmitri Diatchenko is American.  If you're looking for an informational film about the Chernobyl power plant accident, don't bother with this movie. There are plenty of good informational documentaries about the accident and Pripyat on YouTube.

The Oscar That Shouldn't I fail to see all the hype about "Social Network." Having written website code since 1997, I was not so impressed. The creator of facebook simply put ideas together creating a website that people like and now facebook is worth billions of dollars. Going to the movies is about entertainment and not about whoever has the most toys wins all the awards. I did not find a great deal of appealing entertainment in this movie. "Social Network" is 10% witty and 90% fast Indi 500 dialog that rambles on like "Lips, shot out of a gun." However, actor Jesse Eisenberg never misses a beat while singer/actor Justin Timberlake, never seems to find his groove. How this movie won Golden Globes, Critics Choice Awards and London Film Critics Circle Awards, is an unsolved mystery, even for the laughable famed detective, Jacques Clouseau. In a year of movies the likes of Black Swan, The Kings Speech and Secretariat, if Social Network wins best picture at the Oscars, it all about politics and not about good entertainment. This movie is a two potato, three potato, just because of Eisenberg's performance.

The Moose Hunter GAME CHANGE (Playtone for HBO Films, 2012) was a slight disappointment, only because I knew I would have to soft sell my review. This film purports to cover the 2008 presidential campaign in the Republican camp. Remember that? Senator John McCain ran with Sarah Palin. Roll apologetics! As a fictional portrayal of a recent historical event, it shows the side I HATE ... it won't be easy for me to review this.  Senator John McCain (a competent but by no means brilliant Ed Harris) is forced to allow himself to be saddled with Public Idiot Number One, the failed ex-governor of Alaska Sarah Palin (Julianne Moore, who cannot hold a candle to Tina Fey - I guess they were a little too scared to ask Fey to do this). Although touted as being seen from a campaign manager's eyes (a typically goofy, over-the-top Woody Harrelson), I saw this from Sarah Palin's black, button-like eyes instead. Indeed, some reviewers have stated they see this film as a political biography of Palin.  There is nothing coincidental in the film's final shot of Palin/Moore leering at the crowd like Adolph Hitler after having been denied her weird insistence on giving a vice presidential concession speech. But then this whole thing centered not so much on her weirdness - or her blatant stupidity - as it concentrated on the public's fascination with her and its hatred for President Obama.  All I know is I felt a certain hatred rising in me all over again seeing this so soon after it happened in real life. That is a feeling I do not like, and I fight it. With people running loose and free like Palin, it is nearly impossible to win that fight. This seems to me to be a tortured (and phony) apologia, with everyone trying to hang the blame for Palin somewhere, while simultaneously trying to show what a sterling character McCain is. Whether that is the reason this film fails to smooth away McCain's known rotten spots or what, I can't say. While I have some respect for McCain, that respect has nothing to do with his time as a senator.  Since I recall it so well, I lost even more respect for him after the 2008 campaign.  This film is a lousy attempt at recreating the excitement surrounding the fabulous <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007Q350I6">Recount</a> (vid. my review), though I also thought I saw an attempt at the level of brilliance of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00274EYK4">Frost/Nixon</a> in there too (vid. my review). I also perceive a precedent being set here: soon we'll be seeing the cinematic apologia for George W. Bush. It'll be a job the Catholic Church couldn't accomplish. I hope I'm wrong!  [By the way, I know what 'apologia' is, and I am aware that it does NOT mean "apology". Did I say "apology" anywhere? There is no apology for Palin or for Bush. In fact apologetics gushes in when there is no possible apology.]  GAME fails on so many levels, though it is an artfully done piece. This has good skill interweaving the film with the actual interviews and events. Especially compelling was Anderson Cooper's interview. It escapes me why people say the transitions weren't smooth from reality to the film. You truly will cringe whenever Palin/Moore is onscreen, and I think that is all the producers wanted to accomplish.  All told, I must give this a cinematic reviewer's D minus. And for the record, I am not "filled with all kinds of hate" as one commenter indicated; to the contrary, I love my country and love cinema even more ....

Seriously, am I the ONLY person who has ever reviewed this movie that thinks mincemeat muffins sound delicious? &lt;strong>The Gay Bed and Breakfast of Terror&lt;/strong> (Jaymes Thompson, 2007)  I've actually had a number of people, in the months since I watched this, ask me what in the world I was thinking. I don't get it, because to me, the answer is obvious. It's called &lt;em>The Gay Bed and Breakfast of Terror&lt;/em>. I mean, come on, how can you NOT want to watch a movie called &lt;em>The Gay Bed and Breakfast of Terror&lt;/em>? This is a movie title that promises laughs, or at least uncomfortable giggles. Acres of stupid satire rivalling only the acres of fabulous fashion. Oh, and there will probably be a serial killer running around. Score! Sadly, the reality was far from the promise, but it wasn't entirely unwatchable.  Plot: Helen (Mari Marks) and her daughter Luella (Georgia Jean) run a small bed and breakfast in the middle of nowhere that experiences a sudden surge in popularity when all the hotels in the city fill up for a weekend get-together (it's never explicitly stated, but the chance everyone in this movie is &lt;em>not&lt;/em> referring to LA PRIDE is essentially nil) before everyone who's planning on attending gets a room. And thus, five couples (and one [censored for Amazon consumption] sister) check into Helen and Luella's Sahara Salvation Inn, home of the country's best mincemeat muffins. And, oh, yeah, a homophobic serial killer (bet you didn't read about that in the brochure...).  To be fair, &lt;em>The Gay Bed and Breakfast of Terror&lt;/em> does deliver some hefty doses of satire, and Jaymes Thompson's script is loads better than his direction (he left the director's chair to producer Sean Abley when Abley took much of this cast to helm &lt;em>Socket&lt;/em> later that year). And the movie does offer a few broad laughs based on that satire, though most of them are uncomfortably close to prejudice (ooh, let's make fun of the lipstick lesbians!). Still, it does manage to hit the mark a time or two (its slaps at the "plotting" in modern porn films are hysterical, and there's a promising subplot with two characters who discover they may actually be hetero... though it gets dropped when things start getting complex). Or it would if anyone involved in this movie were actually an actor. There are a few folks who have some nascent chops that could be made into something good (Georgia Jean seems especially promising), but much of this cast were obviously in it for the love of the thing. It is unfortunate indeed that enthusiasm will only take you so far. **

Awful Horror Film, but Entertaining Comedy! The protagonist has a lot of very funny lines and comedic scenes during the first half.  Unfortunately, when the movie attempts to shift into horror mode, it fails magnificently.  First of all, it's simply not scary.  Secondly, and more damningly, every scare scene is preceded by "scary music" rising on the soundtrack.  Why is this a problem?  Because it's supposed to be 'found footage'!  Why would 'found footage' have scary music on it!?  It completely ruins the realism of the film, and turns it into just another terrible Hollywood product.  The twist ending was an absolute scream though.  I laughed and laughed at its audacity.  I loved it!  So... yes, terrible horror movie.  But entertaining if you're in it for the chuckles.

Missed it by a whole lot more then this____ much Over the last few years with internet and chat developments, I have met many American people and discussed classic TV thousands of times... the one topic I was always surprised at was how many Americans I had talked to who had not heard of "Get Smart"...would you believe it?  Logging into Amazon right now to see how many 5 and 4 star votes this movie has gotten, I can only come to terms that they are the ones who have no idea that this movie is based on a classic 1960's TV show. If they had have seen the original Mel Brooks creation starring Don Adams as Maxwell Smart: Secret Agent 86 (Also the voice of Inspector Gadget) and Barbra Feldon as 99, as well as all the terrific supporting roles by so many other great actors, then they would see that this movie does not hold a flame to the original series, and is almost a complete embarrassment to it.  The 40 Year Old Virgin playing Maxwell does not portray the character of Max well. Maxwell should be sophisticated, charming, a smooth talker when he wants to be while also being a bit goofy, a stumbling klutz, and almost cartoon-like in certain ways. Steve portrays him as a geeky loser who can not produce the timing needed to pull off the classic quotes.  Whoever is playing 99 was about the only one I think did any research on her character. She sounded a little like Barbra Feldon, and looked a little like her in ways, but she did not act like 99. She needed to lose the bitchyness and self involvement.  The chemistry between those two characters was not there. First they hate each other, then all of a sudden Max breaks wind and she finds him charming, and suddenly they're an item? For starters, the original 99 and 86 would never insult each other, it felt too uncomfortable to see these two fighting and arguing and trying to out do each other for a better part of the movie. I know they trying to update this thing to tell the story in a modern day way, but there are some things that do not work with these well known and classic characters.  Whoever played Siegfried almost looked the part at first, and at first I thought this evil sinister approach might be a good idea... but when he delivers a classic Siegfried line... he says it in a way that is just not humorous. Maybe they where going for it, but I think it failed.  The Rock, Dwayne Johnson is in here as agent 23, big deal, he seemed to add little to nothing being in this movie.  Larrabee as a bully? wt???? The Chief did not seem to be a good casting choice, the two poor attempts at geeky side-liners needed to go, and don't forget the stale as hell jokes of the fat person comedy relief gags... oh yeah, the sudden hit by a bus thing... we've seen that 1000 times already and it wasn't funny the first time. Are Hollyweed writers still on strike or something?  What this movie needed badly was Mel Brooks. Why wasn't he asked to make this film? Go over the script, add something, just SOMETHING to this movie to improve it and make it feel like something new, with that old familiar feeling to it? Least Mel would have gotten some kind of laugh from the pathetic attempt they had at an updated "cone of silence" gag.  On the comedy scale, I did not laugh as much as I hoped. I had a few chuckles, but nothing that I would say was hilarious or genius. And the worst part about it is, no matter how well this movie does, you can tell they have already written a sequel.. hell, there is even already a spin off available on DVD of the two geeks, and this movie isn't even on DVD yet.... gimme a break... there is no way anyone will remember the spin off to this in 2 years time.  I have talked about all the cons so far, so can I say anything nice about the movie? A couple of things; It was good to see the original Siegfried (Bernie Kopell) get a cameo appearance in a decently thought of idea to pay homage to the original Get Smart series vehicles. Interesting to see Bill Murray trying to be funny again, and err... if I happen to think of anything else, I'll get back to you.  Overall: Barely got to being an average movie. It's pretty much what you expect from a classic TV show to a movie, all looks, and more concern with setting up a sequel then to make a movie both old & new fans will enjoy.

No. Just, no. If you like seeing a camera taped to a rotating fan for 70% of the movie...Then this movie is for you.  So many flaws also. It's 1988 and it looks to be filmed in HD.  The overall setting looked to be in todays world. The first two sucked, so I shouldn't be surprised this one does too. It brings absolutely nothing new.  Leaves unaswered questions that will probably wont get answered. The only thing that was good,  was the littlest girls acting. Two stars just for her.

Not for large TVs! Like the other review says this is not enhanced for widescreen televisions! The picture is very small on large TVs taking up only the middle area of the screen and leaving black bars on the left and right side as if it was a standard image not widescreen.  However, on smaller TVs the picture does appear widescreen and looks decent enough. Only buy this is you plan on watching it on a small TV. The image is passable on my 24 inch TV but it is basically unwatchable on my 46 inch.  The image is soft and the colors are fairly washed out compared to other WellGo USA releases. This is sad because I want this company to do well since they are one of the only companies bringing movies over to the US nowadays.  I haven't watched the entire film yet so I can't comment on how good or bad the movie is just the quality of the DVD.

product defect dvd appeared to be in good shape wien it arrived. we played it a few days ago and everything was fine for approx 70% of the movie. it then atarted stopping and blurring and getting out of focus. i played another movie later and had no problem. would like to get a different one if possible.

looks good but really boring I was really excited to see this movie but then 30 mins into it I was just waiting and waiting for it to end. Don't believe the hype. Interesting true story but one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

Parable That Needs a Better Storyteller On the surface "Passion Play" is a crime drama about a down-on-the-luck jazz musician Nate Poole (Mickey Rourke), who, after getting nearly killed by a thug, encounters Lily Luster (Megan Fox), a woman with a pair of wings on the back. As a sideshow performer Lily has been traveling with the owner of the show Sam Adamo (Rhys Ifans), but the presence of Nate prompts her to take a step to see the world outside. Cast-against-type Bill Murray also appears as "Happy" Shannon, a gangster who is also attracted to the beautiful winged woman.  Yes, a winged woman. Megan Fox is Lily with bird-like wings sticking out of her back. As the film's title suggests, "Passion Play" clearly has a philosophical or religious overtone, which remains vague at best, buried under the dull dialogues and a meandering story in the mid-section. What is the film all about? Saving someone's soul? Redemption? The beautifully-shot final scene (photography by Christopher Doyle) is clearly trying to tell us something, but what it is, I confess I don't know.  Written and (first-time) directed by Mitch Glazer, a writer for two modernized version of Charles Dickens, the 1998 version of "Great Expectations" and "Scrooged" (co-written with Michael O'Donoghue), "Passion Play" looks like a unique combination of a parable and a noir, a combination that might have worked as a short film.

Love the Stone Movies, but this one tanks. The first three Stone films were awesome. The next three were quite good. The latest, Innocents Lost, was a big disappointment.  1) In this latest film they re-use lines from previous Stone films way too much.  It happens so often that it's kichy.  One use would be nice, two...maybe, but this became dumb after a dozen of them.  In this film, a young girl dies and we learn that supposedly, she and Jesse were very close friends in the past.  She calls Jesse her "best friend."  2) I'm all for adding new characters, but this felt forced and thrown in.  Why not just make it one of the young women Jesse was actually friends with in the earlier films??  3) The new chief was not the same actor as the last film when he was interviewing for a job.  That's okay, you can't always get the same actors to return.  But this guy is not even the same character--what happened there?  4) What happened to Molly Crane?  Did I miss something or is she still out of FMLA?  Viewers want her back (or at least we want to know what happened  5) The dialogue (what was a hallmark of these films) seems rushed and shallow in this latest film.  6) But perhaps the biggest disappointment is what's happening to Jesse.  He's a cop who has some problems, but he's always had something special where it really counts.  However, in this film, he is losing this.  The parts of Jesse that are pathetic are drowning out any inner strength he had.  We like the complicated nature of his character (in all the other movies), but if he's made into too much of a looser, we lose sight of his white hat.  When this happens, he's no longer complicated and thus, no longer interesting.

Incredible Season - atrocious quality DVD The 2006 season was a lot of fun to watch, particularly the battle between Fernando Alonso and Michael Schumacher. The main feature of this DVD runs 3h20m long. There is lots of race footage but where it really stands out is some great extras within the main feature like the interview with Gerhard Berger for example, or the many additional interviews with members of the various team's crews.  However, the reason this DVD is so atrocious is because they fit both the 3h20m main feature and several extras all onto a single dual-layer DVD. That's around 3.5 hours of video on a single DVD9. It just doesn't fit! The pixilation and macroblocking runs rampant throughout, anytime the footage on screen is fast like the in car footage, especially the parts when they do a picture-in-picture looking at Massa's qualifying lap at Monza behind Alonso for example, it's like watching a video on dial-up with such pixilation you feel the resolution has dropped to barely 200x200. Not a word of exaggeration, it is really awful.  Most features on DVD will average around 6~7Mbps with up to 10Mbps for peaks of particularly hard-to-encode scenes. This DVD runs along at 3~3.5Mbps. It is truly pathetic that this one made it out into consumer's hands. The next year the 2007 DVD went to 2 DVD's and it was a huge improvement.  Hopefully the 2011 season, the first one to finally move to HD broadcasting, will be presented on Blu-ray. It is comical that we have had "Bass Fishing" in high definition since @ 2004 and the world's premiere motorsport took until 2011...but that's Bernie's influence for you.  This is a great season worth watching if you can stomach the brutal picture quality. Wish they would re-issue this as a 2-disc set.

Quality Dissatisfaction I waited a long time for this DVD to be released. I even pre-ordered. Unfortunately, the quality of the disc I received leaves much to be desired. The quality is so dark I have to completely blacken the room (never watch during the day) in order to make out what is on screen. The first time I watched it, I found myself having to remember snatches from the book in order to know what was going on on screen. The video was so dark I could hear voices, but not make out the action.  I may have to re-purchase from some other source.

... overrated Could be spoilers in here... if anything could really "spoil" this non-plot movie. Two stars for the actors, even with the atrocious accents. None for the rest of it.  I was really looking forward to seeing this movie. Unfortunately, it did not live up to the hype. The movie should have been called, "Guy who knows a girl with a tattoo." Or maybe, "Guy With Bad Judgement Skills." I have not read the book, nor have I seen the Swedish version, so I had absolutely no idea what was going on, and I did not develop any connection with the characters as the movie progressed, other than protectiveness towards the girl, who's body language (but not really anything else she did) reminded me of my autistic brother. I think the director did a poor job of conveying any plot, character development, or mystery. And honestly, is Sweden really like that? A ward of the state at 23? No psychologist visits, therapists, something? If so, I am really, really glad I do not live there. I have tattoos and am fairly antisocial, I would hate to be put in an insane asylum for being slightly different from your average Jane. And just as glad I am not walking around with people who set people on fire for no reason. (They do not say in the movie there was any motivation other than insanity to her act).  The mystery in the movie was boring as well. I did not find myself drawn in at all. I had figured out what happened to the girl, (not who did it. they don't give enough information for that), before they even finished telling who was on the island. I never felt any sense of connection with the victims of the killer, they don't give you any information on them other than they died, and broke some biblical taboo. There is no sense of looking in the killer's head either. Why did he do it? Why was he so obsessed with that section of the bible. Was it because he was a Nazi? The rest of the family didn't seem to care they had Nazi officers in their family, seems rather proud of it to me, even though they did not seem antisemitic in any other way. Why did they all hate each other so much? There are so many unresolved plot points it's ridiculous.  The violent rape scenes are not edgy in any way, violence is easy, and the second one was over the top. While I realize they are in the books (from reading other reviews), their lack of context in the movie make the visual completely unnecessary. (Yeah, she's been victimized her whole life. However, you don't know this from the movie, you have to learn it from other sources.) Later on she says she set her father on fire. Never says why. It was very poorly done. The actual rape could have been alluded to with just sound (and no, they did not have to be that graphic. I left until they were over. I am rarely so enraged by a movie). I have no plans of ever watching this again, nor of seeing the next two.  I could go on and on... but I won't.  I'm sure there are a lot of people who will jump on here extolling the virtues of the book, the other version, etc. I am just not interested in reading them, or seeing it, though I usually like foreign movies. I read many good books, and I am sure there are many more I have missed. I just don't think this is one of them. If you want to read some good mysteries (real mysteries. you know, with a plot, motivations... evidence being revealed piece by piece) with female empowerment, and overcoming the horrors of a tragic past, the Eve Dallas books are wonderful. Or "The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady" which I found to be engrossing, and a good take on Asperger's, and Alzheimer's, as well as a very good mystery as to the main characters motivations.

Missing scenes changes movie My widescreen edition of The Deathly Hallows Part 1 has the deleted scenes available to watch.  I was shocked the first two scenes were cut (Harry with Aunt and Harry's good by to cousin shaking hands).  They totally changed what happened at the beginning, omitting some of the most human reflections in the whole movie.  Can you imagine watching the famous movie "Gone with the Wind" today with the final cuts they would make?  Yeah, the story is the movie and the action was only to reflect the times the characters were living through.  I really believe Chris Columbus would have forced the inclusion of the missing scenes if he had been directing.

the trailer is better than the movie. the trailer is better than the movie. the plot, location, and protagonists are good. but the content of the story and the dialog are not. the trailer got my hopes up too high for the film.

ICE Felt A Bit Cold Science fiction and anime are a match made (mostly) in cinema heaven, but I'll have to admit to being at a loss for words over much of what transpired in ICE.  It's the future (or maybe it ain't).  There's a queen (or maybe she's just a dictator), and there are these fancy female police officers (or maybe they're samurai warriors).  It all feels like it's supposed to be really important or culturally relevant, but given the tale's structure I'm at a loss to tell you anything definitive about it ... other than the fact that it all felt a bit cold.  A drastic calamity in Earth's environment somehow causes every male on Earth to die.  For reasons not quite explained, the remaining women go to war - it appears to have all been territorial issues - and, not unlike SyFy's recent update of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, the human population is down to the quintuple digits.  The survivors break into two primary factions - one driven to live out their days in pleasure, one driven to stop our inevitable extinction - and now a full-scale war begins ... as I said, for reasons that are never quite clear.  ICE appears to be a story about nihilism and a society's desire to manifestly destroy itself.  I say this principally because the disc's packaging hints at it as well does one key scene from the film: a male infant appears mysteriously in a museum, and the human response is (confusingly) to kill it.  And kill it they do!  With a super powered machine gun!  Why they did it remains a bit of a mystery, though I suspect there may've been another nefarious element at play here; however, if it was, it escaped my understanding entirely.  Don't get me wrong: much of ICE looks good - certainly the way any respectable anime would - and there are a handful of folks here I believe I'm supposed to care about.  Rulers and soldiers and small, plumb girls who ride motorcycles and seem to have some magical, mystical powers derived from only God knows where.  I just didn't care for them - mostly because their world launches out of nowhere - like a bizarre dream - with little explanation or follow-up of circumstance.  The audience jumps from, say, 2012 into the future, and it all happens with little to no explanation.  Additionally, the narrative is broken into chapters (three, I believe), which function like a three-act play, but the story never quite recovered from that opening sequences to the point where I felt comfortable in knowing what was transpiring.  It all feels like this was adapted from a larger work - maybe it was, though I've been unable to find anything specific online - and I'm wondering if that may be the cause.  Come the conclusion, I'm given a plausible explanation for the events I witnessed, but, again, I found myself left with a big `so what' of indifference.  If the context for what I saw was that important, it might've been better to have provided it up front instead of after 90 minutes of confusion.  ICE is a production from E-Net Frontier, Eleven Arts, Seminal Films, AAA (Acteurs Auteurs Associes), and Cine du Monde.  DVD distribution is being handled by Seminal Films.  It looks and sounds all well and good, though the disc comes with minimal special features.  RECOMMENDED only for serious fans of anime.  While plenty went on here, I have to admit to being lost through an awful lot of it.  A few characters were compelling enough to keep me hanging on, but, all-in-all, I'm not entirely certain if all of it was a dream, an alternate reality, or a time travel quick trip.  In fairness, some of this may've been lost in translation (I've seen this happen more than a few times with animes given inadequate subtitling), but, without enough special features to point me in the right direction, I'm only left with a best-educated guess.  In the interests of fairness, I'm pleased to disclose that the fine folks at Seminal Films provided me with a DVD screener copy of ICE for the expressed purposes of completing this review.

mmmm....poor I think it's a nice gift with a nice presentation, but once we watched the dvd it's was a little bit poor. I know italy very well and i have to say that this one it's like a "museum" description of the country, and you can not listen to native speakers talk in it's own language...you always have to do it in english...so sad.

Idiotic sequel to a decent movie The 90% of the plot does not make sense. The pictures and acting are still good though.  There is some strange fixation on the Jews: in the first part Jewish women were helpless victims of the crime, in this one it seems important to highlight that the clueless police officer in charge of the investigation is Jewish too.

Crudely Written A Persian acquaintance recommended DAVID & LAYLA as did many bulletins I found at Amazon, so I did not expect such a weak story and unbelievable dialogue, especially emanating from the crude David.  If you like any kind of farce, this will fill up time, but if you look for great throwaway dialogues that links to plot points, stick to FLIRTING WITH DISASTER, the modern-era successor to SOME LIKE IT HOT.  Until the wedding scene, the cinematography in D&L is barely home movie level.  My class did enjoy that scene, but the overall consensus was skip it.

Never Judge A Movie By It's Title! With a title like this, how can a cult film fan turn it down?  After all, who else would this film be aimed at? Unfortunately, a cool title and wacky premise is all the movie really has going for it.  I mean, it is just barely interesting enough to sit through(and that's being generous, judging from the reviews here and other sites). The wonderful folks at Asylum(a cult film company that makes Full Moon look like Paramount) must think cult film fans are real idiots and will greet anything cheap and offbeat with open arms.  Sorry, but you need a bit more than a snappy title and crazy ideas to make a cult classic.  It's all in the execution. The plot(if you really care, and if the title hadn't tipped you off) is about a bunch of scientists in Antarctica(nobody in this movie looks cold) who are captured by Dr. Josef Mengele and his Nazi goons, who have been living under the frozen surface for decades.  How have they been living there for so long?  By swapping out body parts of course!  Fresh body parts are hard to come by in Antarctica, so Mengele has employed a traitorous scientist, Jake Busey, to lure scientific teams into the hands of the Nazis.  This newest batch is wanted, not just for their parts, but their scientific expertise.  You see, the Nazis are still hellbent on world domination, and they need to get their robot Hitler up and running before they can proceed with their "Fourth Reich" scenario. Hitler's head has been preserved, and attached to what looks like the evil "Cain" robot from Robocop 2. Will our scientist heroes free themselves from the clutches of the Nazis and stop their dastardly plan?  Of course they will!  Like they'd make a movie where the Nazis actually succeeded in their plan and took over the world! Again, plotwise, it's schlock heaven, but realitywise, it's crap.  One of my biggest gripes about this(and so many of it's kind made these days) is that CG is relied on for damn near EVERYTHING!  I realize in this day and age, that this is the most economic way to get a film made, especially a cheap exploitation-type film.....But I really don't care.  It's lazy and looks terrible, absolutely terrible.  It looks so bad that it is a major distraction, and half the time you're wondering if you're watching a movie or a Playstation game.  Of course, anymore the lines are becoming blurry between the two. But other than that(which is a big deal) there isn't much else engaging going on.  There's alot of crazy stuff you could do with the concept, but it's all kinda halfassed here.  The actor playing Mengele is decent, as is some of the mutant Nazi makeup(yes, the only thing that isn't CG!), and those things very well may be the only things that kept me(barely) holding on for almost 90 minutes. You're much better off revisiting Ilsa-She Wolf Of The SS, an exploitation flick done right......and on about a third of the budget of this film!

not "grrrr".  More like "fehh". Although dated, the movie started with a good concept.  Ultimately, it fizzled.  A scene in the trailer, produced to entice the viewer into believing that there will be an ultimate showdown of man v. beast, never occurs.  Major disappointment.

The Road to Nowhere Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd and John Landis have seen better days. "Spies Like Us" (1985) fails to recapture the spontaneous humor of the Hope-Crosby "Road" movies. Bob Hope's cameo (his final film appearance) and Paul McCartney's title song remain among the few highpoints. A "Saturday Night Live" episode from the Chase-Aykroyd era delivers considerably more laughs.

Its the Menu silly... The whole series and content is fabulous, no complaints there its a 9.5 star show. But who ever created the Menu for this boxset should be FIRED immediately. Worse navigating menu I have ever come across. Viewer should be able to see whats available on the disc not be told after selection load a different disc.....and the loading times, especially the first disc. Look I dont write this review to put you off, you must get the series as I wrote content is fantastic. Am just writing to make you aware as many others have done to be prepared for difficult navigation through the discs. Being aware is forearmed.  PS. Boxset is Region Free.

Perfume not our cup of tea This murder mystery was not one of our favorites--but we are not fans of period pieces.  We didn't care for the dirty, gritty aspects of this period film.  The ending was rather fanciful too.

Two Hour Video Game You know a director doesn't have faith in the story, or the acting, when the background music is never ending. On, and on, and on it goes trying to build drama and insight into an empty, visual show 'n' tell with all the depth of a video game.

Kung Fu Panda dvd the DVD stops at a certain spot in the movie, we need to fast forward that part then the rest works fine.  Guess that's what you get for a low price!

The next of nothing... I hate it when sequels to films basically regurgitate the same storyline with different actors and expect us to accept it as `the next chapter'.  I say this as a rabid fan of the original, and so I really wanted to love this.  But, that same line of reasoning can be used for any of the countless sequels to films that needn't have sequels.  `The Skulls', `American Psycho', `Wild Things', `Cruel Intentions'...yes, they have all had sequels (direct to video I might add) that trashed up the original script (because `direct to video' usually means more nudity) and tried to cash in on something that was, for the moment, popular.  Sadly, this rip-off actually made it to theaters and has a fan base for some reason.  Sure, you may think that it tells a fuller story but that's only because it lacks any subtlety.  The film changes very few things in order to try and claim a sense of originality, but at the end of the day this is a poor man's version of the 1984 classic.  The visual effects and makeup team do their jobs right, helping to create a visual world of wonderment, and the dazzling array of colors and crispness does make a prettier picture than the darker, more solemn original; but the visual quality is suppressed by the fact that this film can't deliver anywhere else.  Jonathan Brandis may have been cute, but he couldn't capture the same depth of character that Barret Oliver found in the original film.  This is a loss, and one of those films that any enthusiast of the 1984 cult masterpiece needs to avoid at all costs.

pointless and predictable The second and third sequels of the GODFATHER try to milk the brilliant first part for all the money to be had. Don't waste your time.

Beautiful... Just reading the title of this had me howling with laughter, and the movie did not let me down.  Does anybody else find it hilarious when Borge (Bogus George) recounts the night when they were called to the accident scene ..he gives a detailed, gruesome description of Paul's burnt, decapitated, broken body and all of a sudden Maxwell pipes up "He kinda looks like a walrus, doesn't he?"  Outraged, young Lennon proceeds to pummel Maxwell and shout "I'm the walrus, dammit!  I'M THE WALRUS!!!"  Another high point is where Borge scoffs at how stupid Faul was to believe that they were going to India to study transcendental meditation when they were, in fact, going there so Mahareshi could attempt to steer Paul's soul into Faul's body.  I must say, I'm a little disappointed that Brian Epstein's untimely (and suspicious) death wasn't written into the conspiracy.  Too easy, maybe?

WANTED IT TO BE GOOD . . . [NO SPOILERS]  Before seeing this movie, I was fully aware of its low Metacritic rating. In spite of that, I decided to give it a try. After all, BATTLE: LA got trashed by critics and I found that movie to be not as bad as everyone said. Not only that, but I love airships, steampunk creations, WWII battles, fantasy novels, feudal Japan and photogenic women. You'd think this would be my perfect movie. I wish it was! . . . but it wasn't.  The biggest complaint I heard for Suckerpunch were the slow-motion scenes. Honestly, the slow-motion didn't bother me one bit. In fact, it was actually a RELIEF to be able to see the action instead of feeling sea-sick due to shaky-cam techniques so jarring that you'd think that Jaws was holding the camera in his mouth during a frenzied attack.  But while the slow-motion wasn't an issue, there were tons of other things that were:  1) The movie uses slow-motion to make everything look "cool". Bullet cases raining down, huge monsters sliding across the ground, gravity-defying acrobatics that would make any ninja jealous. Unfortunately, it's not like we haven't seen any of this before, so it may not impress you for very long.  2) There is almost no emotional attachment to any of the characters. When things happened to them, I felt as empty as the clockwork Nazis and robots that they killed by the hundreds.  3) Baby Doll's surreal music-triggered worlds are certainly entertaining at times, but the harsh truth is that probably 2/3 of the movie takes place in a depressing asylum and boring bordello dance-school. In fact, it seems like the only way they could prolong this surreal world escapism was by resorting to slow-motion while fighting copious groups of enemies.  4) Finally, I could have done without all the narrator-spoken philosophical questions used to try and4pass this movie off as "intelligent" and "serious". The ending, instead of blowing you away, bores you with admonishment. I thought this was going to be a mindless, surreal fantasy romp, not AESOP'S FABLES.  ALTERNATIVES:  If you like the "Girl uses her imagination to replace reality" plotline, then I highly recommend PAN'S LABYRINTH--a film with a far better story and engaging soundtrack.  If you're into perverted chef's and weird characters in general, try Mervyn Peake's GORMENGHAST books. You won't find a more twisted chef than Abiatha Swelter.  This movie tries to show that you can use the power of your mind to make realities more palatable. Unfortunately, no amount of imagination can delude me into thinking that this movie is anything more than a fantasy with a lot of flaws.

Passable pic What can I say Kevin Sorbo IS easy on the eyes.  The story is easy to follow and not too bad.

good I saw the movie with Spanish subtitles, and the reality is that were poorly timed, poorly written besides, I think we should improve this in future products that will make films in India.

Compared to the original--it stinks. This action-thriller-spy movie just goes to show, great actors don't necessarily make great movies do--good scripts do. The original had James Caan & Robert Duvall; this remake has Jason Statham & Robert De Niro sounds like it couldn't miss right? Wrong. It's all action and complicated plot points and no soul. All explosions, gunfire, and fights and none of it matters. The original had the assassins/friends turning on each other with Duvall putting Caan out of the business by wounding him severely, but not killing him. The rehab & revenge angle of that film made it worth seeing. Here we have a genuine 'buddy' film but the 2 buddies kill people for money. De Niro is also a 'family man' with a Wife & kids we never see, while Statham has a beautiful girlfriend waiting for him back home who just wants to reform her man from his wicked past thru her undying love. Dumb. Jason Statham is a genuine action star and has made some good movies (The Transporter is one), and De Niro made a similar(but MUCH better) film, "Ronan" but both tough guys 'flop' here. And Clive Owen? He's a great actor (watch him in The Croupier)--but he makes a lot of crummy movies like this one and he's too good in his good films to make 'crap' like this. Watch the original--its 10X better.

Not accurate... The movie quality is great and the story is cute, but its' not biblically accurate.  In this story Jonah has a little hermit crab who travels with him and is constantly trying to get him to obey the Lord, which is of course not in the real story, lol.

Overrated This movie just didn't move me like it did others.I thought it was boring and to long.It took me 2 sittings to finish it.I had high hopes for this movie hearing all the good reviews and I really wanted to see it because Jackie Chan's son was in it but unlike his father he has no screen presence.I think that it wasn't for Jaycee being Jackie's son I don't think this movie would have gotten such rave reviews.If I could I would have gave it 2 and a half stars.Overall I thought this movie was overrated but you might like it since it seems I am in the minority.

If you like boring scary movies... This movie is so repetitive and unoriginal. I'd give it one star but that is like giving 0 stars in my opinion (since one star is mandatory). Some of the acting was ok, so it gets 2 stars. Seriously though, skip this movie. I kept zoning out and dozing off until I heard the screaming; the same thing kept happening over and over again. It's one of those movies where the foreshadowing is so pointless because without it you already know what's going to happen, so you can't really be surprised, only annoyed that they thought this was actually going to be engrossing.

What was it? As a biography, it is lacking.  As a general movie, there is not much there.  OK to watch if you have nothing better to do.

THEY BROKE THE VIRGIN Cuba was an undercover cop separated from his family. He gets found out and his family is killed. Afterward, he teams up with Jack Daniels to live a miserable life as the Toronto police force's "Dirty Harry light". In the city there is a drug lord with a techno dance club, where sex can be had in the restrooms as lovers snort lines off each others body (you know the place). Mike, a young drug dealer wants out. He cares for his younger sister. He hijacks a statue of the Virgin Mary made of heroin paste and ransoms its location to his former employer (guess how that works out).  I didn't think Cuba could get a worse role after "Hit List", but I was wrong. After so many good films, he is getting dog after dog. It is time for a new agent. The film has the lousy plot of a disjointed grindhouse film, but none of the other qualities that make it watchable.  During the argument/fight between two guys over who took the statue, the acting got so bad I had to ask, "Was this really the best take? Couldn't they have shot the scene over?"  The movie pretends to make a statement on drug trafficking and redemption, but falls way short. 1 1/2 stars.

Overrated movie trailer Read:  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0012U5R9G">The Roman Ritual [Rituale Romanum]: Vol 2: Christian Burial, Exorcism, Reserved Blessings, etc [Latin/English</a>]  Disbelieving "Reverend" Cotton Marcus could have faired better if he had been a believer with the above ritual book than remaining a con artist. Did you see how he treats his own Bible by throwing it on the floor of the barn?  I had expected a lot more more this movie after watching the overrated movie trailer. Protestant "Reverend" Cotton Marcus turns out to be just a showman, a con artist whose faith in Jesus had him doubting the existence of God to the point of him considering becoming a "real estate" salesman instead of a pastor. Like the modern roving "ghost busters" and "psychic investigators" with fancy gadgets, Protestant "Reverend" Cotton Marcus doesn't really believe in the existence of the evil one, dismisses pleas for help as nut cases, cons victims of their money (it's always about the money when it comes to these "pastors"!), uses tricks (eg. sound recordings, etc.) to scam the victims' families - till he meets the possessed Nell (the lead actress in this movie). Is he and his crew in for a surprise when the gentle-looking girl turns freaky.  This movie tries to mimic "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" which is a superior movie:  (1) girl in white dress (2) the scene at the barn (3) back bending special effects  Scenes are shot from the eyes of a camera man with a camera that can't remain still. Watching this movie could make you dizzy! Hold the camera steady, Mr. Director! This movie could also remind you a little of "Blair Witch" which is much scarier than this "Last Exorcism".  Victims in this movie are the possessed girl and her father. The rest of the other characters are just a bunch of jokers who are unbelievers trying to find themselves rather than helping the victim Nell. The "Reverend" got a change of heart in the end and confronted the being in the tower of flames. I'm sure you can guess how this movie ends: the film crew gets snuffed and evil wins again.  I had hoped for a better ending or something based on a true story. I was disappointed.  The marketing department must have spent a lot of time and effort in creating that movie trailer and nice poster, but the movie itself turns out to be disappointing. What a waste.....  If you or anyone you know faces what the victim faces in this modern world, go consult a Traditional Catholic priest who knows more about these things. Avoid the liberal "Catholic" establishment, disbelieving Protestant pastors, and any other entertainer with fancy EMF/themostats.  Watch:  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BTJDGC">The Exorcism of Emily Rose - Unrated (Special Edition)</a>  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000524CY">The Exorcist (The Version You've Never Seen)</a>  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/079073804X">The Exorcist (25th Anniversary Special Edition)</a>  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001BCUB46">A Haunting - Seasons 1-4</a>  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002348RFQ">The Possessed</a>  Read:  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0595246184">The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren</a>  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061238171">The Dark Sacrament: True Stories of Modern-Day Demon Possession and Exorcism</a>  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006065337X">Hostage to the Devil: The Possession and Exorcism of Five Contemporary Americans</a>

Not for me. . . I didn't like this film. I have a good TV and DVD player but even they didn't make up for it. I recognized most of the places but still would have appreciated a bonus feature that allowed me to choose whether or not I wanted some kind of narrative. The photography was beautiful though. I don't know, call me thick but I just didn't see the point. And the music made me nervous. Couldn't wait for it to end.

Not My Cuppa Tea I really, really enjoyed the earlier movie versions of Harry Potter but this one wasn't my cuppa tea. The earlier ones seemed to be "action pack" from start to finish while I found myself going to the refrigerator a lot with "Deathly Hallows." Just wanted it as an addition to my collections. Not one to watch more than twice.

Poor I didn't like this movie much.  It was allegedly a kid's movie, which we showed it to my 4 year old.  Maybe it was too old for him, and too juvenile for my wife and I.  Stupid story line, bad acting.

Great Movie - Obnoxious DvD ads on the Blu Ray Disc Since I loaned my regular DvD copy out (and of course forgot who had it) I ordered the Blue Ray version.  All I can say is if you want to watch this move, plan ahead - like a good driver - look way down the road -  put it on the DvD player  an hour or so ahead while it runs through all the obnoxious ads, (and as the years go by ads for which they are irrelevant) then after dinner hopefully the Downfall's menu will be ready for you.  So far it has had 5-10 minutes of ads, with no ability to skip to the movie menu  Honestly if I had known they were this obnoxious I wouldn't have bought it.  They should be paying ME by the minute for every minute their odorous crap is on, preventing me from watching what I thought I was paying for.

Be Kind Rewind `Be Kind Rewind' is a film that looked great in the trailers and then failed to live up to it's promise. Following a VHS video rental shop that has all it's stock wiped and then re-records the films in their own unique style, this film was set up for plenty of laughs that didn't deliver. Jack Black was pretty nondescript this time around and from funny turns in films like `School of Rock' it was a disappointment to see him tread water and under perform here. The ending fizzled out and left you with no feel good feeling or indeed any strong feeling either way. I don't mind a Hollywood cop out, cheesy, happy ending in the right context and genre, but this film didn't even deliver that! This is a comedy film with few laughs and is one you could quite easily miss without worrying about it. Only a film for huge fans of Jack Black.  Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.

Saturn in disappointment-SPOILER ALERT!! What was a promising, enjoyable and at times even funny, turned typical formula gay movie.  We have a bunch of friends who are both gay and straight who for the most part get along while dealing with the ups and downs of life including cheating husbands. Half way through the movie, the the cutest, central gay character had a stroke in his late 20's, early thirties and spends the second half of the movie dying, which he finally does. Then we fear for a part of the film ending for the anticipated suicide of the surviving partner, which almost happens but doesn't. The film closed on a game of ping pong. What is it with film studios and their scripted screenplays where at least one of the main gay characters has to have a tragic ending? This guy not only suffers in a comma, but dies leaving behind grieving friends and family. Can't we turn out movies now a days where all the gay characters have happy lives or at least lives that don't end by the end of the movie? This crap has been going on since the 1950's and it's time to change the formula!

2 Minute trailer far better than the entire film! I had been wanting to see this movie since I saw the previews - since seeing it, I could have just as well stuck with the previews.  It was as if someone filmed short clips and stuck them together - there were many parts of the film that did not transition very well, and there was very little chemistry between the actors in the movie.  To keep this short, I will not be watching this movie again.

Azi-Fi, NOT Science Fiction I saw a DVD of Rocketship X-M.  The last time I saw the film I was 13, in 1950, and I found it rechnologically indigestible.  I wondered whether my memories of it were a bit harsh, so I viewed the work with some interest, My memories were vindicated. I don't recall whther you've ever seen the film, but humanoid inhabitants that have survived an atomic war that has sent them back to the stone age.  The ship's party (three men and a woman) are attacked by these Martians, and there are casualties.  The hero, the lady, and the lead scientist blast off and crash on the return trip, getting killed in the crash crafuel/oxidizer ratio. Some gaffes: the Rocket engines (called "motors" in the film)  quit, and the ship stops dead in space and hangs there, like an insect in amber.  When the Martians attack, the crew fights back with wifles and pistols (interesting equipment for a lunar expedition).  he enfonrs use a combination offuel and oxygen, witth sufferent proportions as the rocket progtrsses through space, and the engines use pure fuel, no oxygen for thousands of miles fefore they quit.  (The lady is a peize-winning chemist; she finally figures out that one needs an oxidizer to support combustion. )  In the the theatrical release, rocket takeoffs were presented using footage of V-2 rockets, but these were edited out from the DVD. Time hasn't improved this one

Dissapointment I was excited to watch it but,within 10 minutes of watching it the foul language started.I'm a fan of it but,it doesn't need the language.

Good if you're religious, otherwise skip it I could see where this film would be enjoyable if you are a religious person who enjoy uplifting films about how everything is part of God's master plan. I am not such a person, and really disliked this film.  I rented this film to watch with my kids because I thought it would represent a good life lesson about what it would be like to be a child with a serious illness. I was a bit worried that the film would be overly religious, but based on a review I read at Amazon which said that it was a good movie even if you were not religious, I rented it anyway. Suffice it to say, I disagree strongly with that review. The acting isn't bad. The production qualities are okay. But watching the film was like fingernails on a chalkboard for me.

Extremely disappointing... I surely did not see the same movie that the other reviewers seen.  This was nothing more than flat-out bad and a total waste of time.

What truly is the subject? NOTE: Initially, this review reflected a positive rating. After many comments here and on other reviews and the intelligent reviews written by Helmut, ginmar, Giordano, I am now declaring I was wrong in assessing the movie so positively. However, I am leaving this review intact to remind myself to think first and write later, not to be so naive in accepting a director's premise but consider all components of the film, then evaluate.  "Unthinkable." That's the title of Samuel L. Jackson's latest film, a title filled with questions and debate. "Unthinkable" is a film about the unthinkable.  The story opens with two important pieces of information: (1) A manhunt has been instigated against one Arthur Younger (Michael Sheen) and (2) "Henry Humphrey" or H (S. Jackson) is picked up for questioning amid frantic efforts to keep him off-limits. The viewer is as baffled as Agent Brody (Carrie-Ann Moss) and her staff whose job it is to seek out potential terrorists.  Then they all come together for the unthinkable. However, as the story is presented, the viewer must consider the multiple meanings of this stark, ominous word "unthinkable."  1. Let's start with the obvious: Torture as a weapon. As H says, "Since the beginning of mankind torture has been used in war." Torture to extract information, torture to weaken defenses, torture to break a man (or woman), torture, a gruesome, unimaginable, unthinkable thing one man does to another in the name of war and captivity and information. Speak and you won't be tortured--or not.  2. Torture as a tool of government, suppressed, heavily classified to the point of "this room does not exist, H does not exist" because the United States is a democratic government and does not sanction torture. Or does it? Unthinkable.  3. Torture as an occupation. Does it take a psychologically unhealthy, downright evil or maliciously formed person to inflict torture on another as a job? This film says no, that torture can be reasonably employed by a rational man who understands its needs and necessities. Is this unthinkable?  4. Can the ethically strong person succumb to the "necessity" of torture? On several occasions, H tests Agent Brody, a moral, upright person dedicated to the law and to ethical behavior. Is it unthinkable that she might yield to torture's "necessity?"  5. Is it unthinkable that a man who claims to love his Allah and his country--the U.S.--would plant three nuclear bombs destined to destroy millions and millions of people? Is his claim to right and justice unthinkable? Is his point of proving the military's use of torture to obtain locations of nuclear bombs unthinkable or just?  6. Is it unthinkable that a woman also can murder as calmly and viciously as a man?  7. Can women and children be used as torture's tools? Is this meaning of the title--unthinkable?  Conclusion: No matter how the viewer comes to this highly controversial, difficult film, s/he will find a fair presentation of the unthinkable subject of torture. No conclusion is reached by the director. Instead, he presents a balanced perspective of all sides. I feel a bit creepy using the words "fair" and "balanced" in the same paragraph with torture, but what unfolds in this particular film, although very disturbing, is informative, scary, and reflective of the nature of drama: to make us think. To think and discuss, to reach a consensus of opinion to act is not unthinkable. And perhaps that is the ultimate meaning of the film.

damaged dvd the movies are great unfortunately these must be used since the french connection dvd skipped and had visible damage on the disc.

The Justin Bieber of Comedy Films. Felt like a 90 minute commercial of a much better movie. I'll start off by saying, I hate comedy. Because I believe everyone has there own opinion and reviews are more helpful when you know where the reviewer is coming from. I say I hate comedy, but I love funny. I hate comedians, but I love funny people. I believe comedy should be natural, I don't like it when people try to be funny, I like it when people are funny. That's not to say there is not a skill or art in comedy, on the contrary, comedy is art. And just like any other art it should express something, it should be personal, and it should be true.  First i'll say this movie is missing a lead. I'm a huge fan of Will Farrell, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Steve Carrel, The Office, Parks and Recreation, Martin Lawrence and Dave Chappel. Not the most profound group of people but there is something natural, original to all their comedy. This film misses the personality of someone truly funny. Will Farrell said that for the longest time he tried to be funny and it did not work, then he stopped trying. You see so much of his personality in everything he does it's just so creative. Most people either love or hate his movies but one things certain, they are never just appealing to a crowd or speaking to our generation in languages they think we'll understand, so much of what is referenced goes way over many peoples heads but they love it anyway do you know why? because those guys are just being themselves and it either works or it doesn't.  Contrast that with this movie. This is to comedy movies what Justin Bieber is to music. Everything, the plot, the jokes, the characters, the setting even the music, it's all so generic! It tries way too hard to appeal to the younger crowd. It just seems like every second of this movie was created by a bunch of execs who were desperately trying to find things young  16-20something year olds like. I mean hasn't this been done a thousand times? I tried a while to figure out why I didn't love this movie. Maybe due to the fact that I didn't see it right away, so I guess I could have gotten caught in the hype train. Maybe the fact that some of the same guys that loved Anchorman with me recommended this to me, it might have given me unrealistic expectations. Maybe it was just the first movie in a long list of these kind of movies that made me go (haven't I seen this before?). But no, I think back on all those other movies and there is something that this one lacks. Think about all the funny movies that have come out in this era, they have something, some quality, an X factor for lack of a better term, that this one just lacks. I would call it originality. But it's more than that. They were genuine, honest; and this was contrived, and lacked confidence.  To wrap it up, it was just way too mainstream, too safe, too cliche, and derivative. I felt like i was watching an hour long super bowl commercial, of a much better movie. I challenge you to watch this movie and find an ounce of originality or honesty in it. Please, maybe I missed something, but I tried I really tried to like this movie. Loose analogy, I keep thinking of how MTV killed every authentic genre of music it touched, how when a bunch of executive major label suits sit around and think of what will appeal to a younger audience, you usually get songs that are very catchy, but ultimately unmemorable (AKA pop music). This is the same kind of thing. Very catchy, but unmemorable. Me and my friends still dye laughing when we recount the same old jokes we've repeated a million times from Talladega Nights, just one of many examples. I literally and I'm not kidding, can't remember a single joke from The Hangover. Like a weekend in vegas it's fun, but then you wake up later and wonder, what really happened?...

Dark... Maybe we'd have enjoyed this movie more, if we actually could have seen more of it. As it was, our dvd was too dark to see even half of the movie on our big-screen tv. Was it like this for other people? Why waste time making a movie that cannot be viewed worth a damn?

Lacking so much that I'm just not interested It missing a lot of videos, make no mistake.  In the case of the early Roth videos, the clips were so primitive (I think the three clips from their first album were all filmed the same day, just like AC/DC did for their "Back In Black" video and Def Leppard did for their "High N' Dry" clips) that it doesn't really matter if you have them on DVD or not...go find them on YouTube and watch them in all the clarity you need.  But the later clips with Hagar were high-production affairs that got regular MTV airplay and should definitely be here.  Like KISS, this band clearly needs to release a proper comprehensive music video collection in the DVD era.  Videos not included:  Runnin' with the Devil Jamie's Cryin' You Really Got Me Loss Of Control (Oh) Pretty Woman Dreams (Blue Angels version) Feels So Good Top of the World Amsterdam Fire in the Hole

Eh Had great potential but the ending fell flat. Couple of creepy parts, but overall  predictable and NOT scary. Skip it!

average Not what I expected. I lost interest before the first movie was over and did not watch the other 2.

Disappointing Story Based on Real Life OK, we know Matt Damon knows how to play a spy: dead-pan, giving nothing away on his face. But this one is without all the judo and guns. This is a spy who does it all with thinking. Does not make for a very big action-type story, but it is interesting.  Edward Wilson is a member of Skull & Bones, and we get some inside information on what that's like -- assuming it's accurate, which how would I know? Let's just say that what I do know of secret societies in general, it seems authentic. So that's the first thing that puts him in line, on the insiders' network for espionage work during WWII, in the OSS. Once the war is over and they realize they are going to need spies in the face-off with the Soviets, he is recruited for a major role (apparently number three man) in the CIA.  After that, the plot gets very, very complicated. He learned early on that there is no one he can trust, and that becomes more and more true the longer he is involved. Unfortunately, his son grows up to want to be a CIA man, too. And that is really why the plot is so darn complicated.  I'm not going to spoil it for you. I can't anyway; I didn't understand half of what went on. I will need to see it another couple of times to figure it all out. But I wonder if I will bother. Frankly, it was disappointing.

Failed my expectations Having read the reviews on here, I have seen a wide variety of complaints.  What was my biggest complaint? The story itself. The focus is mainly in Lilliput - just a few minutes of the movie was in Brobdingnag, and there was NOTHING of Laputa or the talking horses or anything else. This took away from the story a lot, and trivialized it. Jack Black was funny, but the Lilliput story arc had so much useless filler added to it that it defeated the story - I wish the writing had been more faithful to the book.  For a really great visual telling of Gulliver's Travels, try the one with Ted Danson. It was a made-for-TV movie series, but it actually did a pretty darned awesome job with Johnathan Swift's original tale and was creative and fun. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00003ETJV">Here</a> it is.

Boring The girl IS attractive, but doesn't show it all.  Tease-video.  Don't waste your money.  I bought this because of the Amazon Reviews. But, NOW, I know better than to trust a handful of positive reviews.  Anymore, if there aren't at least 50 reviews, and leaning towards mostly positive review, then Amazon won't get my money.  Lesson learned.

Slow and boring.... No wonder it didn't get renewed for a second season.  The two main characters are handsome and beautiful, but that's all this series offers.  The stories are slow and boring, and there is endless talk.

Poorly Constructed Script Not sure if it's the script or the editing but this movie is a jumbled mess. It's so disjointed I wasn't sure what time period we were in; what time periods and homicides were suppose to be a part of the factual basis to the movie; not sure of the outcomes for all the bad people and good people. Most of the characters seemed like black and white (only bad/only good) cutouts. Boring stereotype of prostitute life, johns and dumb cops. Usually when a movie is based on some factual event there is note in the credits to that effect with actual outcomes yet the lack of such information makes this movie a very dubious rendition. Since this was a so-made-up plot I would have scripted Chloë Moretz into an even more pivotal role.

This Documentary Was Nothing Short of Elementary... A simplistic documentary that, oddly enough, relies on psychedelic visuals and an eclectic soundtrack to carry a lesser Wikipedia article. Sorry, but by the weight of the title, I was expecting more. It wasn't all bad. The narrator's voice was smooth and consistent, and some of the information covered was interesting, such as the Cottingley Fairies, but other mediums have done it much better. My biggest gripe was the long musical interludes between the narrative. I love my music, and if used with the right visuals and context can make for a profound lasting impression. Sadly, this wasn't the case here, the music interludes were merely mechanisms to stretch this documentary to a credible length. Another problem I found was the mastering. The volume levels were all over the place.  Both fans of the occult and fans of Sherlock Holmes will be disappointed by this amateur production.

The Ceremony Never Begins Narrated by Johnny Depp, "When You're Strange" (2009) is a muddled Doors hagiography notable for its previously unseen footage and the lack of a single interview. Writer-director Tom DiCillo has essentially given us a condensed remake of the 1991 Oliver Stone film - with the genuine Lizard King in all his chaotic glory. Unfortunately, there's no attempt at structural clarity or historical accuracy. The fact that the Vietnam War gets more attention than "Morrison Hotel" says it all. Meanwhile, we're still waiting for a definitive documentary about The Doors.

Not for Me Found this to be insipid, and was unable to finish it.  Cut my losses early in the film.  Poor acting, bad script writing, and just plain boring.

Horrible music score I was terribly disappointed in the music score of this fantastic film. During my viewing of the first five minutes of this restoration of Piccadilly I couldn't help but feel that the music was acting like a rude audience member poking me in the shoulder. It does not sit well with the film. In fact, it seems the musicians said "oh well, close enough" and called it a day. Since the music doesn't settle in, I had a hard time settling into the story myself. The 1940s music became a major distraction from the film itself, which is the worst offense a film composer can commit. I stopped viewing it well before the first 20 minutes. I might go back and watch it without sound from the DVD and pull a few 20's jazz recordings from my collection to re-score it. I'd love to get this film loaded into a film editing program like Final Cut and redo the entire soundtrack just to see and hear what could have been.  I wondered, at first, if the score wasn't just poorly researched and selected stock library music. Then I viewed the extra feature with composer Neil Brand, wherein he stated his preference is for 1940s Film Noir and he approached Piccadilly as such. It's a major misstep. In the end it seems like Brand was watching a different film or they just synched up whatever leftover music they had from another production. The most ridiculous part is within those opening scenes where you clearly see one of the jazz orchestra players open up the sheet music to reveal the song "Sweet So and So" but what comes out in the score is not that song. It results in a serious disconnection between image and sound.  I've seen other silent films re-scored with soundtracks outside of the film's era that have worked much better than this. Notably, Jeff Mill's soundtrack for Metropolis works a treat and it's quite surprising since Mill's music is minimalist Detroit-style techno music.  However, Mills had a feeling for the film he was working with. Brand, on the other hand, seems like he - via his score - would have preferred to have been somewhere else working on an entirely different film, that is, a 1940s Noir film. Frankly, I don't think the music he created would have done Film Noir justice either. It sounds like a horribly plastic, "musicians going through their paces" sort of affair.  Piccadilly deserves a much better treatment than what Mr Brand gave it. It's too bad there isn't another version of this available.

Not really very funny. the product was used in nearly new, but it kept skipping at the end of the dvd. I could not watch the last 10 minutes of the move. I gave the dvd away to my friend.

Lying Reviewers What a horrible little film. Perhaps 'horrible' is a little harsh (but only a little), but it is in response to the overwhelming positive reviews. If you look at other websites, this film is general DISliked. Also notice that the single largest place of origin of these positive reviewers in Los Angeles. Also notice how one reviewer encourages you to "check out this director's other works". I'm all for dissenting reviews, but this is just fishy.  Either way, this film does not work. We are supposed to feel bad for Gabriel when his boyfriend, Marshall, has reservations about their 7-year relationship. Who wouldn't have reservations? Gabriel is whiny, rude, and sardonic. He doesn't put-out despite the main characters repeated attempts at intimacy. On a more superficial note, Gabriel isn't particularly attractive, either. Furthermore, Gabriel leaves their home when Marshall's feelings are revealed.  The film ends with the main character admitting that he is selfish, emotionally unavailable, etc. That may have been the screenplay's intent, but the film didn't show that at all. It shows the opposite. As previously stated the main character is much more amicable and mature than his boyfriend which directly contradicts the plot.  The only things going for the film is that some of the characters are well played and attractive, and the premise is good.  If you are looking for a new gay-themed film, go watch "You Should Meet My Son!" or "Is It Just Me" (though not quite as new).

Not good One of the top rated reviews states that this is the smart mans version of Casino or the Godfather. I don't think so.... First the worst part is the soundtrack. It's a laughable Disney soundtrack. Second, the characters are also Disney-like in that they are so freaking cliche. Lastly, it doesn't have a smart twist at the end. I loved "No Country for Old Men" but for this to be a Cohen brothers movie... I feel embarrassed for them. Not worth the 2.99 rental.

Ian McKellen's DVD ACTING SHAKESPEARE To me, Ian McKellen can do no wrong; however, this DVD was a bit disappointing. It's a one-man show in front of a live audience which he addresses between each characterization. He's wonderful elsewhere (Lear, MacBeth, not to mention Gandolph), but here his performances of various Shakespearean characters seem a bit shallow and lacking in context and color.

Alas! -- Wasted Potential This is a film that could have been an engrossing, poignant drama recounting the corruption of innocence by an abusive Catholic clergyman, but which, instead, chose to relinquish perspicuity in favor of artsy-fartsiness and wound up leading its eye-squinting audience down one confused path after another.  After fifty perplexing minutes of time-and-space-disjointedness -- unable to keep track of who, when, where and why -- I decided my otherwise obsessive need for sticking it out to the bitter end could be better served screening my unopened mail.  Joel Kovacik

Iron Sky The reviews stated that this movie was a "B" movie and they were correct. The movie plot was ok but the scenes were not realistic especially on the dark side of the moon. How do you drive a normal 1945 automobile on the moon?

Not so hot Low budget Poltergeist rip off. I expected more somehow. Acting is fairly good, effects are cheezy. I'd give it a pass.

Big disappointment With all of the Oscar buzz surrounding this film, I decided I had to watch it. What a disappointment! While the film is stunning visually, and I like the homage to early film maker George Melies, the plot and pacing was so slow, I wanted to turn on fast forward.It's ironic that the film is shot of 3D but the characters are really two dimensional.  Just not what I expected from this esteemed director.

When a divorce lawyer just won't cut it... This movie watches like 1970's progressive, feminist agitprop, 30 years late. The movie definitely has it's moments, but any way you want to slice and dice it, it is ultimately over an hour of a guy sitting in a chair, watching a video on TV of his wife complaining. Yes, the plot is compelling and there's some interesting twists in there, but I found the stationary nature of it bothersome, and caught myself skipping ahead several times.  There are some inconsistencies with her grievances that lead me to believe this is less a tale of a neglected, under appreciated wife, than of someone who was a bit off her trolley. Infidelity on his part is hinted at, but never confirmed. At first she complains about her body "not being what it used to" and accusing him of "getting some on the side", then later complaining about his horniness and that he only married her for her body, apparently unaware of the obvious contradiction. Assuming anything she accuses him of on the sexual side at home is true (I will assume it will with the boob grab early on in the movie), that's obviously a little creepy, but the sort of things I think any sane woman would have brought up when the events actually happened. The picture painted for me of Steve is that he takes his home life for granted, perhaps a bit of a pervert with his wife, but in the end he loves his family, and all-in-all isn't a particularly bad guy.  I realize it's "a movie", but as this movie takes place in the the realm of the plausible, and even possible, it's hard not to juxtapose this against real life implications. Her grievances obviously come out of left field, indicated by his look of surprise at all of this, leading the viewer to believe she's never brought the matter up. 14 years of marriage (at least, one of the children is 14), she's never brought it up, and when she finally does, this is how she does it? If there was ever a, "passive-aggressive complex of the year award" she would definitely take it for this little stunt.  Ultimately a not a terrible movie, but would have fared better as a lengthier "short". There is kind of a clever twist with the "video" angle in the last 10 minutes.

A Dystopian Corporate Satire With An Explosively Good Beginning That Seems To Lose Its Way As Jared Drake's "Visioneers" establishes its bleak portrait of the corporate world in a dystopian future, I loved the idea and premise behind the enterprise.  Low-key, mundane, and loaded with banal monotony, the work day that Zach Galifianakis and his colleagues must endure as office drones is brought to life with exquisitely uncomfortable awkwardness.  As the DVD cover suggests a marriage of Mike Judge's "Office Space" with Terry Gilliam's "Brazil", it seems a relatively apt comparison from the film world--but Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" also seems to be a relevant influence.  But taking these great cues and starting with a winning hand, it soon becomes clear (especially in the film's second half) that the screenplay really doesn't know where to go.  It's a shame, too--I was rooting for this to be a little undiscovered gem--but I started watching this with three friends and by the end, only I remained.  Billed as a black comedy, anyone expecting a riotous and laugh-out-loud film should check their expectations before proceeding.  Galifianakis works for the renowned Jessups Corporation--headed with great comedic aplomb by D.W. Moffett.  Preaching happy thoughts and productivity, the office has become a mind numbing existence.  His discontent wife (the always reliable Judy Greer) seeks solace and comfort from a book on happiness and current fads to fill her empty days.  And his brother (a spry James LeGros), recently released from prison, takes up residence in his backyard and is soon leading a movement to endorse freedom of expression.  In a land where critical thought and feelings are frowned upon, it's not easy to get by.  When people start to explode, literally, from boredom and repressed emotion--it serves as a catalyst to reevaluate life.  The office scenes can be quite amusing initially--although you have to be careful expressing boredom cinematically because sometimes it can come off as boring.  There are frequently static scenes of characters staring expressionlessly into space for extended time periods.  I really loved Greer and the skewering of media related culture.  I'm a fan of all the principle actors, but after a bit--they seemed to get stranded.  LeGros' sub-plot, in particular, builds in bizarre ways without much narrative clarity.  The movie veers into a more realistic territory (the uncorrupted country) where our hero attempts to make an actual human connection with his dream girl.  I didn't much care for this gentler world and don't feel it integrated particularly well with the rest of the film.  The ending, for me, was completely unsatisfying as well.  On the plus side, the film is different and some of the cast is appealing (those that aren't completely lifeless).  On the negative side, pacing will be an issue to many.  I didn't mind that as much as the film had no follow-through from its intriguing premise.  A good start just sort of continuously wound down into nothingness for me.  KGHarris, 6/11.

Rosebud I didn't know what HD DVD meant.  I don't have a machine that will play it and I can't return it because I opened it and I didn't save my reciept.  I know that it's my mistake for not knowing that I couldn't play an HD DVD on a regular DVD playing.  I wish there was a statement explaining that.  If I could return I would rate it much better.

dougv Good photography and a worthwhile goal to use science facts to support Christianity. Unfortunately, the film is very slow moving.  The narrator takes way too long to make his point and he says little as he presents his case. My profession is teaching, and the average audience would turn him off. The film uses overly dramatic graphics and music, well before he makes his conclusions. Don't spend your money on such a film.

Writers stole dialogue from Breaker Morant I'm about a third of the way through this (watching it over lunch breaks) and I was just taken up short by the dialogue I just heard; it's literally a paraphrase of the very same lines taken right from the movie "Breaker Morant."  The captain has just arrived at the suspects jail cell.  Her exchange with him asking about his experience, all the way up to where he tells her that he only knows what he has read in the papers is line-for-line virtually the same as the exchange between The defense attorney and LT Morant and his men when they first meet in the prison in South Africa.  What a shamelss ripoff of writing!  And from a production backed by Robert Redford?!?  How shameful.  The movie just dropped at least one star.  I will add to this if I find any more sequences that seem to be copied.  ...OK, I now watched the first courtroom sequence and the cross examination of the divinity student, the raising of objections by the prosecutor, the "you are a liar" outburst from a prisoner, the style of the defense attorney beginning by bumbling and then finishing strong were all extraordinarily similar to the first courtroom sequence in Breaker Morant where Captian Robertson is torn apart. Did the director and write have no decency?  It is such an obvious rip-off of that movie.  ...Again when Mary objected to the inkeeper's lying testimony and was told that her objections prejudiced her case, this was almost word for word from Breaker Morant.  The scene where the army captain changes his story and McAvoy is flabbergasted was also very reminiscent of the scene in Breaker Morant where the general refuses to confirm the order to execute prisoners.  Overall, if you were to watch the two movies side by side, you would be struck by the similarities in the courtroom dramas, as well as in some of the other scenes and the overall sequence of the narrative and shots.  Even the times when the court adjourns were similar.  I have never seen such a flagrant copy of a movie's rythm, scenes, dialogue and even shots.  Maybe this happens a lot more than I know, but I'm just shocked that the production designers, writers, director or whoever was responsible for this did not even make an attempt to hide it.  It's remarkable and so very disappointing coming from Robert Redford.  I have such great respect for his lifelong body of work, but this movie has truly changed my perspective.  If he can't make movies any more without copying from someone else (or allowing his staff to do the copying), then perhaps it's time for him to hang it up.  On the other hand, Breaker Morant is a truly excellent army-themed courtroom drama, also based on real events.  It was made in the early 1980's but the production stands very strong even today.  Rent and watch that if you want to see this genre done well. In the end, because of this plageurism-like copying, I had to give the movie 2 stars.  Oh, and Evan Rachel Wood acted terribly, Kevin Kline over-acted his role, McAvoy's wife was just wooden and terrible and many of the other characters were nothing more than characatures.  Even without the copying, this movie is not deserving of more than 3 stars.  The costumes and sets were good though, as was a lot of the cinematography.  If you like costume dramas like this, those elements might make it worth a watch.

TOO SLOW! I usually work out in the mornings and love to watch action / war / epic films to help me get through.  I had to turn Gods and Generals off because it was so slow and tedius.

Let Down I just want to express my utter disappointment that this was another entry into the category of Horror Films That Have No True Ending.  The initial premise is unsettling, but in a dark, subversive way. The set-up is great, the characters engaging, the acting is perfect, and the stage is set for the protagonist (a professional assassin) to melt-down on the job. We see the moral disintegration of the lead, and I assumed that that would be the heart of the plot. But, guess what... that is NOT the story. The whole thing goes sideways when, near the end, without warning, the viewer and the characters are immersed in a scene straight out of The Wicker Man complete with goofy masks and a sacrifice parade. No details, no explanation, no story flow. The protagonist just goes along with it, and other less central players who have populated the story from the beginning are quickly revealed to be a part of it... THE END. No climax, no full circle, no logic... juuussst THE END.  Either the writers/producers/director of this film are horribly unskilled at their job, or this thing was improv from the get go, and they couldn't figure out how to end it.  I give two stars for the acting, and for the chills created by what the viewer is led to believe is the disturbing plot. Other than that, the viewer is left with a WTF vibe by the credits suddenly rolling, and there is absolutely NO plot resolution. I literally JUST watched it, and I feel a bit like I have the cinematic equivalent of a woman forced to deal with her man's impotence. FRUSTRATED and UNFULFILLED.

Product Improperly Listed I purchased this as a gift for Father's Day, happy that I had FINALLY found a widescreen copy of "Blast From The Past." Under 'Format' it says (among other things) "Anamorphic . . . Widescreen, Full Screen." Given how old this was, I took that to mean it was perhaps a double sided disk for each version, or perhaps they skimped on extras to put both versions on one side or something. Under 'Aspect Ratio' it also says "2.35:1" which is a fairly common widescreen format. However, the disk that I received was only Full Screen.  Upon contacting the seller, they couldn't even tell me whether it was a mistake on their end (ie they sent the wrong version) or if it was a mis-listing on Amazon. They wouldn't even tell me if there was a widescreen version available. The best I got out of them was "Return the item, and if the proper version is available we will resend it. Otherwise you will get a refund." Is it so hard to reply with, "We're sorry, we don't carry a widescreen version, we can refund your money if you return the item," or "We're sorry, return the product and we will promptly send you a widescreen version"?  Not knowing how much time it would take for them to send it back, and because I didn't know if they would send one back or just refund me, I just kept the movie for a Father's Day gift. But I'm a little peeved that this sort of mistake happened in the first place. Given how hard it was to find a supposed widescreen copy in the first place, I'm wondering if they even released this in widescreen. Regardless, there's no excuse for this being listed wrong (which, at the moment, despite my protests to both Amazon AND the seller, it's STILL listed wrong).  If you don't mind the full screen version, then by all means get it. But It's a little irritating to buy this for somebody who only owns widescreen TV's.  FYI, both me and my dad LOVE this movie, the movie itself would receive 5 stars if that is all that I were reviewing. But as Amazon puts it, I'm reviewing my 'purchase,' not just the 'product.' The product was great, the purchase was not. And it's because of how much I love the movie itself that I put up 2 stars instead of 1.

Wanted to like it, but got turned off... I watched this on Netflix and was getting some amusement from it.  The action scenes were okay, the plot was uh... I guess it was there.  The fan service was typical but not unappreciated.  But then I got to the torture scene.  It may have been short, but I'll never know because I was instantly repulsed and decided to have it end right then and there.  I can handle and even enjoy your typical action violence found in movies just fine, but I'm not one to appreciate the torture of women, or anyone really, except terrorists.  Some people might be okay with it (which isn't really a good thing, but to each their own) but for me it was a deal-breaker.  I'm glad I didn't pay for the DVD like I was going to a while ago.  I won't give it one star because the animation was pretty decent and some of the characters were shallow but charming.

Annoying I have to admit that through most of this movie I was a little annoyed. The main character, Maggie, has some serious issues with self esteem and basically has a "poor me! I'm fat and no one likes me!" attitude throughout most of the movie. Every scene in the movie has something to do with her thinking she is some sort of victim because she is fat. here are some ideas she expresses repeatedly through out the movie: "You don't want me to be prom queen because I'm fat!" "Everyone gives me dirty looks!" "I can't wear the cool clothes because they don't have them in my size!"  The movie played out like it was supposed to be making us feel sorry for obese women because it's sooo difficult for them to find clothing in their size (Most department stores don't carry anything smaller than a size 6 in misses, but they have an entire section devoted to plus sizes. Hmmm...). Maggie repeatedly finds reason to think that EVERYTHING that happens to her is because she's fat and the other girl is skinny. It's get to the point where SHE is the one making her obesity an issue.  She is also portrayed as literally running to the fridge and scarfing down a box of ice cream and crying whenever she is upset. Her mom expresses concern that she could get diabetes, but she doesn't want to lose weight because she could be giving into the pressures of being thin.  So...it's better to be emotionally volatile and basically have an eating disorder, diabetes and a whole host of other problems, rather than just trying to lose weight because then she can't be a martyr for fat girls?  As with most Lifetime movies, there is an element of cattiness and hatred toward other women. In one scene, an obese woman says that there's a "b*tch at the gym who stares at my thighs" but that she thinks about the fact that her "boobs are way bigger than hers" and she feels better. So I guess that's how women are supposed to feel good about themselves...by trying to put down other women so they feel better?  Lifetime Movie Network has made a movie that teaches fat women have serious emotional eating problems, but that we should just "accept" them that way and not encourage them to change because it might make them feel bad. Oh and, all anyone cares about is how fat and skinny you are (it's waaaaay overdone in this movie). There were also only two fat girls in the entire school...lol. Obesity is MUCH more common than that now. Come on!

Low quality with high potential Some aspects of life in a max security prison are realistic in this show; the brutality, the gang wars, the racial tension. However, there seems to be no supervision anywhere in this prison. Prisoners pretty much govern themselves. It would have been interesting to see very real aspects of prison life that add to this tension and build problems, such as the fact that prisoners are subjected to bunk checks several times a night which means no one really gets more than three hours of sleep at a time, and the process visitors have to go through to get in to see their family members which is a pretty intense process. What Oz Season 1 seems to be is a fairly standard soap opera drama set behind prison walls. Add tattoos and a lot of people "finding God" and you have season one. The concept has potential, and it seems a shame that this potential is wasted with lackluster plots and stereotypes.  A big problem I have with this show is the acting. There are a couple of good actors in there, but overall, the performances could be taken right out of a college film student's art house movie. Most annoying is the wheelchair bound narrator who fancies himself an urban poet and for inexplicable reasons delivers monologues from inside a spinning glass cube. One of the more interesting plot lines is that of "Tobias Beecher", a white collar lawyer who ends up unwillingly being the abused "prag" (sex partner) of a white supremacist. This plot line is better written than some of the others, I think, with some serious inner emotional conflict. Unfortunately, the actor playing Beecher is not very convincing and lacks the skills to pull it off.  I recognize though that this show, even with it's faults was among the first of it's kind, and very daring in it's content and I can respect that. It is not awful. It's watchable, but with a certain amount of patience.

Depends on your goals I started this work out thinking I could loose 15 maybe 20 pounds in the 63 days.I did Hip Hop Abs a few years ago and lost 40 pounds.I am on my 7th week of Insainity and to date have lost 3 pounds.I really busted my hump with this program and up till now thought it would pay off.Im 5 foot 3 and a half inches, start weight was 158,throughout the first month of the program I stayed at 160 so there was a 2 pound weight gain.I made sure to eat right and cut out everything that taste good ,today is my third day of week 7 and my current weight is 155,but that too fluctuates some days are 157.I really poured my heart and soul into this program and cant really believe that as much as I worked I still look the same.I Was so worried that I wouldnt loose what I need to that I added turbofire after the third week of begining insainity.So here I am doing 1 and a half to 2 hours of hard intense workout everyday,I will have to stop the program in 9 days for a vacation to flordia,so im sure there is not much time to loose much more.I took before and after pictures every 2 weeks and see no diffrence.Im not saying dont buy this program,I just want other Ladies to know that you may not get what you hope for with this one.

From Someone Obsessed with Musicals Let me start by saying I had never seen the Fantasticks before I saw this on television. I recently watched Les Miserables 25th anniversary performance on television and loved LOVED it. When I heard that this was another musical I thought it would be just as lovely. It seemed lighter and sweeter that Les Miserables in the commercial advertisements. A story about two young people falling in love with a fantastic carnival and a charming Ring master in the background. My sister and I eagerly watched it. It sucked. The Ring master guy (I forgot his name) was our favorite character. He was the only one, besides the girl's father, that was remotely interesting. The songs all sucked, completely and I've forgotten all of them, unlike other musicals whose melodies linger in your head long after you watch them. I didn't hate it but I found myself dying with laughter at the sheer ridiculous nature of the plot and the characters. When the girl suddenly proclaimed her love to the ring master guy I was like, "What the hell?" It was all confusing. Even with better singers and better songs it would have sucked because the plot is sugary sweet without any depth. Maybe the broadway play is better? Maybe.

Not like the first movie it is CG Computer generated characters look great, the story is a little strange and gets weirder by the minute.  If you like Japanese Anime you will like it otherwise not that good and I usually am not too critical on this type of movie.

The Movie is an incomplete copy. I was expecting to see the entire original film as I had seen on regular television in the 70's.  Disappointed that some of the film had been edited out.  Still, I wish the Studio which owns this movie would release it to DVD in its entirety..

ok not that funny Maz was the only guy that was funny and creative. Everybody else same old jokes bashing themselves and it got old real fast. I got the dvd used through amazon for $3 and includes free shipping so that was fair to try out this dvd.  I was definitly fooled with the 4.5 star rating.  I thought this was going to be as funny as Russel Peters but he is on a totally different level of comedy.

Good atmosphere but misses depth and realism This movie is trying to be great, but is kind of ridiculous.  It is a tried and true plot (read: seen it), and the reliance on violence at the end would work if a) there wasn't an endless supply of enemies that far outnumber the amount there were supposed to be, b) the one who was hacked and killed didn't spring back at the end a la Monty Python with a flesh wound, and c) the fighting didn't go on, and on, and on, with enemies pausing and waiting for the heroes to turn back to face and kill them.  There is such overacting and the outcome is so predictable (minus the dead guy appearing at the end) that it's really not worth the time, and doesn't do justice to the effort with the scenery.  I would have liked more subtlety in both the acting and the story, and less gratuitous, unrealistic, and unimaginative violence at the end.

Recommended by a friend. Too predictable.  I figured our the plot in five minutes.  You win some you loose some.  Whatta ya going to do?

An interesting curiosity Having read Michael Simkins's superbly entertaining and very funny book about his life as an actor ("What's My Motivation?") I wanted to see this movie because he describes how he played his minor part in it, with a phoney Irish accent that managed to fool the German director. To Simkins's disappointment it didn't launch him into a successful movie career and instead, this movie went straight to video and even his agent had difficulty finding a copy. I see from the opening and closing titles that they even got his name wrong and he is billed as Michael Simpkins. Anyway it would be a reasonable late night movie to watch on cable but it is deeply flawed. The script is leaden and full of cliches. I don't know what decade they were aiming for, but it feels like the 1950s with furnished rooms in a dingy area of North London yet there is a 1980s Toshiba laptop computer in several scenes. Anthony Perkins delivers a quality performance, of course, but none of the other performances are better than mediocre, probably because of the very poor directing. There are worse films that have made it to DVD so perhaps this deserves a wider audience.

Serious let down. What happened? First, let me just say that SJ season 1 was amazing, as in 10/10. I've watched all the episodes of season 1 many times over, noticing new details and fully appreciating how much work was put into each one. Season 1 was art, awesome and hilarious.  Now that I have finished watching most of season 2, I'm really disappointed in how low the standards for humor and animation have stooped! Right off the bat, you'll notice in the first ep how the animation has changed. Now it looks more digital and "clean", lacking the original hand-drawn look that made season 1 so visually awesome. The jokes are not that funny, maybe stuff I would have laughed at in 7th grade. The whole season really just tries too hard to impress and appeal, but in the end it falls short where season 1 flourished. I don't know who they hired, but this new season honestly just sucks compared to its predecessor. It really just goes to show how such great things can be easily ruined by one new idiot in the production team. With that said, my expectations for season 3 are not that great. Either they will continue spewing out this filth, or maybe they will come to their senses again and redeem SJ by making a season as good as the first. Either way, SJ season 2 will still be terrible. Now I have to watch season 1 again just to get the bad taste of season 2 out of my mouth. Superjail season 2= crap/10

Blu ray done right please. THE QUIET MAN is my all time favorite John Wayne movie. It is also one of the most beautiful movies ever put to film. Of course, you wouldn't know that, from the horrifying job done on the previous DVD transfer. If ever a movie needed and deserved a make-over, its THE QUIET MAN. Someone please get to work restoring this. We fans would love to see something along the lines of a BEN HUR restoration. I've read online that a 2K copy exists (somewhere). Films like this are national treasures, and should be treated as such. Maybe, the persons owning the video rights are being jerkish. No idea why we haven't seen this 5 star film with a decent treatment. As others have stated, the DVD for THE QUIET MAN, looks like a straight copy from a VHS tape. The only time I can even stand to watch this is when its Turner Classic Movies. (Ted, send me a copy)...Seriously, don't bother with either of the DVDs floating around out there. Just wait for the BLU RAY or keep your eye on TCM.

Poor Film Quality I love John Denver and I had high hopes to see this DVD.  I thought the filming quality was poor. Usually, they can "dress up" these older VHS remakes but it was like they just copied a VHS into the DVD format with no enhancements. Another thing, on Disc 1 , it froze up 3/4 of the way through and I have a state of the art set up so you can't blame it on the machine

Racing great- movie boring!! Short and simple. The scenes of the race cars are FANTASTIC! The story is long and boring. Come on, 3 hours!

barely interesting- Buy the book instead I feel this movie was a waste of money after reading the book. If the titles were hidden, I would never have known the book was related to the movie. The novel deserves 10 gold stars.

239 Reviews Tells You That The TV SERIES, Was GREAT!! As there have already been 239 reviews written before mine, the chances that anyone will even get to my review is quite slim. However, I enjoyed the show so much and my daughter did, that I also felt that I needed to do a review of this movie. That Mandy, who played Rube, and the actress who played Daisy in the series were not in this movie, was such a big let down, and I completely agree with the others, who have said that the actor and actress they put in, "as replacements" were simply not at all good actors, and also not the least bit fun or even interesting. The character Rube, always had such a caring, fatherly humanity to him, and the character Daisy had been allowed to develope from a self centered person into a really caring and decent person, who had feelings for Mason. NONE of that was in this movie. And, the story made no real sense. The reapers, who had always been told by Rube, that their purpose was a "good" one, in that they removed people's souls before they died, so that they then didn't suffer, and then gave them guidance and helped them to make the journey that they needed to make to the light. That was not here. And, then for the group to decide that the "solution" for them, as they didn't like their new boss, was to murder him?? First off, aside from it being shown that he was uncaring and self centered, there was NEVER anything at all in the movie, as far as his behavior went, that could have even remotely been enterpreted as "justifying" him being murdered by them. And, they had always been shown to be good, decent caring people. They had never been "murderers", at all. The only time that anyone had ever been "killed" was when a truely "evil" man had hooked up with Daisy, and then when she tried to break things off with her, he had attacked her and tried to kill her. Mason had come to her rescue and saved her life, but in the process of doing so, had become so angry at the man, that he had accidentally killed him. Then something evil had come out of him, an evil "graveling", which were the things that did kill people, and it was kiling people and tried to kill mason. That was when George told him that she wasn't afraid of him, and said, "I never did like you." and ran her hand over his arm the same way that they did in order to take people's souls. But as he had NO soul, in his case it just caused him to disinegrate. But, they never intentionally killed anyone. So what the script had them doing was completely against their characters, and caused them to not be seen as the caring people they had been in the series. There was never any explaination of why Rube was gone either, and at the end, when they were speculating, about, now that they had murdered their "Reaping Boss" they now didn't know what was going to happen to them next, hundreds of blank postems float down all over George? What exactly is that supposed to mean? And then she says, "Oh, I am SO screwed." Well, again, "WHY??" As Rube always gave them postems with the names of the people they were to reap, the address of where it would happen, and the "TOD" for "time of death", so they could find them, an unanswered question could have been, "Who was it, who gave Rube the information for him to pass on to the Reaper?" That was never answered. If postems had fallen with the information on them, then you could figure that possibly, it was now going to be George's responsibility to do Rube's job. But they were all completely blank. The series was great. But, especially with the time that has passed, since the series was on, it isn't going to be brought back. ALL of the orginal characters all seemed to have been so well chosen for their parts. Every single one, seemed to be so believable, and completely well developed as people, and the interactions between the family members were SO real. We found "ourselves" in the series over and over, in the ways that the parents and girls interacted. In the movie, NONE of that was there. The only part I liked at all, was that George did finally talk to her sister. All through the series, by her leaving things for her sister, she had, already contacted her, and her mother, in various ways, so that her sister, knew that she was around. Why not at some point allow her, and them, to know that she existed, and that she was alright, and happy in her new life, and looking over them? And then, because they would have that comfort, they would be finally able to "move on". That was the only good part of the entire movie, and the only part that made any sense. Great actors and actresses from the series were given a really stupid movie that made no sense at all to do, and had to do it without two major characters from the series. A major disappointment, especially when we all, who loved the series so much, knew how great a movie they could have made with just a little more effort.

Not a cult classic. Not so bad it's good. Not very gory. Really just not worth it. You may have stumbled across this as Horror Planet.  Then it was renamed and issued a new title, not unlike Contamination (not to be confused with Contagion) which was also released as Alien Contamination.  I'll breakdown the premise for you--as if the title didn't blatantly perform that task already.  A team sets out on an archaeological expedition to another planter investigating a tomb that when unreported from a previous, abandoned expedition.  Their goal is to identify the cause of extinction of an alien species.  Now since the planet's surface temperature is a constant 89 degrees below zero, and noting the title of the movie, I'm gonna' go ahead and guess that this un-heavenly body has been serving as a big alien sperm bank.   The story jumpstarts when some of the investigators are spelunking through bauxite cave and see a moving shadowy figure inside a crusty white chrysalis-looking structure which, for no reason at all, just explodes!  An unconscious scientist is then rushed to the medical bay clinging to a handful of crystals which contain "living matter."  The "exposed" crew begin to exhibit a bit of space madness.  What maddened me was that neither these crystals nor the explosion were ever explained.  In fact, these scenes should not have been included in the movie.  Deleting them, with no replacement whatsoever, would actually improve the movie.   This flirts with being an exploitation movie, but never quite crosses the line.  The alien resembles some anatomical structures you may recall high school sex ed.  When we first see the "Inseminoid" it is inseminating a female crew member (who, of course, is naked on an examination table).  As if possessed, the now-impregnated and considerably stronger woman gets a little stabby with a colleague.  Naturally this worked up an appetite, so then she eats a corpse.   The violence (I hesitate to call it "action") is very poorly executed and complemented with the liberal overuse of blood.  Other gore is minimal and uncommon; a severed head prosthetic here, a cut up leg there.  I expected more.  I guess the F/X store ran out of rubber guts. I was hoping that some scenes would look like throwing a side of beef in a wood chipper.  Needless to say, I was disappointed.  Making matters worse, this movie really doesn't go anywhere.

Great DVD but mine's flawed This is a great story presented by John Hammond with great music. Just a pity my DVD had a flaw, so it doesn't play properly.

This cut down edition is disappointing I really liked the original series.  I owned the original series but loaned it out and it was lost.  So I bought this as a replacement.  I saw that there were different versions and thought I had picked the correct one because it said it was the complete set.  Wrong.  I really enjoyed the original and do not understand why it would be edited down.  What is missing is the small talk that is normal.  I felt that the original release made it feel like you were really along for a trip that most of us will only do vicariously through Ewan and Charlie.

Not much Jeff Speakman in the movie I bought this movie for I wanted to watch Jeff Speakman. Before buying this product I however, read the reviews and already knew that there's not much Jeff Speakman Kenpo action.  Still I placed an order - I just wanted to collect all movies that has even a minor presence of Mr. Speakman.  The movie is being sold by Zoverstocks who send this product from the UK. The arrival took about 20 days from the date of despatch. However, the wait was ok, considering the price of the product is incredibly low at 1 cent ($0.01). with shipping it cost me $2.99.  the storyline of the movie is a definite B grade. No good, but if you are a Speakman fan, and you want to have all movies in which he even had a smallest part, buy it.  PS: The Picture and sound quality of the movie is good, but no subtitles available if I am not mistaken.

Not for the Non-Player Dead Space: Aftermath is the follow up to Deep Space and based on the video game of the same name. The USG O'Bannon has been sent to Aegis VII on a mission to find pieces of an alien artifact.  Only four members of the crew make it down to the volcanic surface.  The animation is kind of cheesy when compared to all of the CGI we see in today's movies.  The movie follows the four survivors individually and we get a 'Rhoshamon' type of story told by each person.  When they find the 'artifact' it seems to have a hallucinatory effect on humans and turns dead people into a type of zombie. People who play the video game will enjoy this, but for the rest of us the seesawing between three dimensional present and two-d dreams flashbacks.  For me this was just a waste of my time not understanding the back story and not caring about the front story, and the violence is pretty lame and doesn't add anything except to the gore level.  So no joy here.  Zeb Kantrowitz

Great movie, bad Blu-Ray <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AQR3E4">Interview with the Vampire [Blu-ray</a>]  I had a few extra dollars on an Amazon gift card and hadn't seen this movie in some time. It fit the amount I had left to spend so I ordered it to add to my new Blu-Ray collection. While I enjoyed the movie as much as I remembered, the disc did not meet the high standards I've come to expect from Blu-Ray. No popup menu, no real selection of features, and a video transfer that would be acceptable on a budget DVD, but not in 1080p. The intro by the director looks like a worn VHS tape. It's certainly watchable, but I expected much better. I got a movie I wanted to enjoy again in pretty good picture instead of amazing Blu-Ray picture.

waynes world when i finally recieved the dvd it did not have a case, just the disc. i feel ripped off paying money and not getting the whole package i expected.

Volume 2 doesn't work I bought this for my stepfather for his birthday a few weeks ago and he was very happy. He worked his way through the first three disks (volume1) without a problem. Then when volume two started, the disks were unable to play. Disk one is corrupted and stops half way through the first episode and disk two doesn't even play. I put the latter in my PS2 to check if it was just the DVD player and I got a response "No information on disk".  I don't want to give this product a completely poor rating as the other four disks work just fine. But Amazon really needs to check the integrity of their products before they ship them out.

Xena Warrior Princess:Season 2 Everyone stick with Anchor Bay of any Xena seasons as this is a poorer copy. 2 stars is for DVD quality not show as show is 4 stars.  Bought season 1 & 2 as my Anchor Bay season 1 one of the disks were defective & wouldn't play at all. When I compare picture quality of Anchor Bay to this one is obviously poorer quality

Very weak Most of the details of this movie have been covered in other reviews.  There three issues with this movie.  First of all, the kids exhibit criminal behavior from beginning to end of the film.  Apparently, this is all completely excused by the end of the film, because it was all in a good cause.  I would have felt a lot better about the kids if they had actually gone out and got a job and taken care of their dog in that manner.  Second, the whole plot is really weak.  The kids have no money, but some how have enough money to put together an amazing number of contraptions and get the power turned on in an old hotel.  If they had that money to begin with, why are they pawning rocks for twenty bucks?  Finally, the acting is not very good.  Kids exhibit little emotion and the adult characters are two dimensional, to say the least.  The only saving grace of the movie are the dogs which are well trained and cute.

Patton Oswalt Steals The Show Diablo Cody writes about alcoholism in a way unseen in movies. She is the Auteur of a tripped out beauty queen who wants to go back to high school and her boy friend, who is married with a kid. His new wife feels sorry for her and it explodes. Patton Oswalt is a star finally. Theron called in this role.

narrow screen I hate the narrow screen it takes away from the movie. The movie is great as far as the acting and the story goes all these wide screen movies should be made in HD so they fill the screen and add to the Quality of the picture.

lion's gate blu ray Like the previous blu ray from AU a few years ago, this one too omits the essential subtitles from Ada's sign language to her daughter about her relationship and the Maori's dialogue.  It makes no sense that they missed these important parts of the film. Unlike other criticisms, though, I think the print is actually very good.  Some of it is grainy, but this was filmed with many dark scenes and in the jungle, and I don't recall it being much different in the movie theater.  The color is great and the sound is great.

Like video - hate the ultraviolet experience! This was first time to have to deal with Ultraviolet/Sony in order to obtain my 'free' included digital copy of a blu-ray/dvd movie.  Amazed at all the hoops you have to fly through in order to have the digital copy on your computer.  Still wondering if it will still be there in a year or so.  First you have to register and come up with an ID and passwords on 2 sites, or was it 3?  I lost track late in the day.  And one site kept logging me off, and after I input the small code after help from my magnifying glass, the code did not work, but then all of the sudden the video was on my site anyway, maybe it was the praying?  But still, I could not get the digital copy where I wanted it most, to my iTunes digital file.  I did figure out how to download the download manager and I think it did actually download to my computer instead of just the Sony cloud, but I will not bet my life on it.  And had the same problem with Universal too.  No, I do not care for the promo emails so why bother?  I am not a 12 year old kid that wants the magic rings or emails telling me the videos to get since I often sit through the 20 minutes of movie reviews when I do rarely see a video at the theater.  I just miss the days not long ago when you could just stick the dvd in your dvd drive and voila' the digital file downloads to your iTunes file with no hassle or work to do.  So now, you got to pay 20 bucks for the video, and then pay again by wasting your time to get the 'free' video.  Amazing!

`Boo'mbs... For a film with so much buzz, especially for its director and his bag of tricks, `Monsters' is disturbingly ineffective.  I should have listened to my Ammy buddy MKIA, but then again, even he said I may like this.  I wanted to.  While heavily clich&eacute;d, I just wanted this to scare the pants off of me, and we all know that atmosphere is the scariest thing of all; and this film supposedly had a lot of that.  It doesn't.  Okay, so the film takes place at a time when alien life forms are terrorizing humans.  These gigantic squid like things have been contained in Mexico by a gigantic wall that runs along the Mexican border.  A young photographer is in Mexico chasing after his big break when his plans are derailed by a sudden attack and the need to escort a young woman back to the States (that young woman happens to be the daughter of the photographer's boss).  Their journey back to the States is littered with oddly placed emotional connections and a few scattered attempts to scare us with brief glimpses of alien creatures.  Take away the fact that this monster film hardly showcases the actual monsters; the film itself had major promise.  I mean, I'm all for a film about emotional growth and human bonding in the times of trial.  The script itself, while heavily clich&eacute;d, could have really proven deeply arresting, and the final scene is expertly handled (and by final scene I mean just that; the split second before the credits begin to roll).  Still, there are two things that really prohibited this movie from being any good; Scoot McNairy and Whitney Able.  These two actors are atrocious.  I mean, they probably put in the worst performances of the year; period.  There is no chemistry, and the dialog they have to suffer through is horrendous.  I know that this film was done on a small budget, which actually says a lot for the crispness of the scenes (the cinematography is especially marvelous) but you can feel an air of `cheapness' in a lot of the voice over work (I don't know if the sound wasn't good on the original shoot and so they basically dubbed all the dialog, but there are many scenes where the crispness of the vocals is distracting and phony sounding).  The `scary' moments are few and far in between, but they are effective to a degree.  The opening scene is pretty great and got my hopes up very high, but in the end `Monsters' barely registers with the viewer save for some beautiful cinematic shots and a shivery score.

I want that old thing back Of course I watched this season anxiously, but it just didn't hit the spot like it usually does. Maybe I was skeptical from the beginning since I figured you can't get any bigger or worse than the devil. Although entertaining, it was all over the place. fairies? dragons? then they had this mother of all issue last maybe 1 1/2 episodes then it was gone!Also the chemistry seemed a little strained between Dean and Sam which I thought was hilariously pointed out in The French Mistake episode. All in all it was like Chinese food, I was hungry again in an hour for something more fulfilling.

The worst movie I've not finished in a long time I've owned it for weeks, still have not been interested enough to finish it  Wait until you can watch it free ...!!!

Captain Ridiculous! I was all set to like this film but found it wanting.No one could have taken Captain America seriously in the 40's let alone today.The thin plastic or cardboard shield on his back, far from being intimidating or as protection was ludicrous. And how did the director, Joe Johnston not know that the army was not integrated in those days?But then again one shouldn't expect relevance or getting history right these days!

Just about the rarest B musical movie ever This is a brilliant and most entertaining B musical.  It even garnered an Academy Award nomination for the song "I've Heard That Song Before" - music by Jule Styne; lyrics by Sammy Cahn and a big hit for Harry James around 1942.  No really big names in the cast but a lot of fun.  I've been hunting for a copy of this film for years, but I've never seen it on television and until now it's never been issued on video.  So why the poor rating?  Because it is a terrible print; very dark and fuzzy.  I can only guess that it was the best copy that Synergy Entertainment could find. A great disappointment; I shall nevertheless continue enjoying it regardless of the poor quality as there is little likelihood of anything better showing up in the future.  Full marks to Amazon for sending it so promptly - it arrived much sooner than they promised.

Exploration of the human fear This movie was intended to be a melodramatic exploration of human fear.  A young man, an orphan, living with his uncle is exploring death of his parents in the attempt to know them better, since they both died when he was very young.  His uncle, afraid to stand up to his own imperial father, imposes on himself a life of a blue collar tow truck driver seeking redemption for his own shortcomings that led to this tragedy.  There is also  high school French language teacher, Sabine, who also teaches drama classes in the same school.  She has her own fears to conquer that deal with loneliness, loss of family and her own spouse.  It is interesting to observe how all these characters get to have their lives unfold and mangle together.  Young actor, playing a teenage boy Simon is too rehearsed in his acting and in my opinion that greatly undermined the movie.  Interesting exploration, but not as nearly powerfully told to the audience as tom Egoyan's other movies.  I found it to be overbearing at times.

Yawwwwwwwwwwwwn! Do you like zombie movies? Do you want to see a zombie movie with zombies? If you answered yes to either of these questions than this movie may not be for you. However, if you want to watch a couple of bit-rate actors murmur bland dialogue, in practically the same setting the entire movie, you might just rate this movie as average. This movie is like being stuck in a junior high school AV club for one and a half hours with a deep voiced radio host and an annoying producer, neither of whom are very funny nor intelligent. Once again, Zombie movie without Zombies.

SUCKS!!! This movie was NOT educational my child cried every time I put the movie in it was a waste of my money.....never again will I buy an Elmo DVD

EAST OF EDEN on VCR Of course I bought the movie because it is an outstanding remake and, I think, improvement of the same titled movie starring James Dean.  Even though I had seen the movie previously, I did not remember that it was 6 hrs and 15 min. long.  If I had remembered or read the movie details, I would have realized that a 6 hour movie on a single VCR tape will necessarily be of poor picture (recording) quality. A movie this long requires at least 3 VCR tapes in order to produce a high quality recording.  Notwithstanding this shortcoming, by the time I had watched about 15 minutes, I simply forgot my dissatisfaction with the quality of the picture and became totally intrigued and engulfed by the story's flow from one generation of family members to the next.  The ending leaves you satisfied and wanting to tell somebody about what you just watched.  Jane Seymour, Warren Oates, and Timothy Bottoms provide excellent performances that make this epic three-part movie a rewatch.  If you can afford the price, I recommend buying this movie on DVD rather than on VCR.  I penny-pinched and now regret it.

Replacement So I had it on dvd, now I have it on blue-ray. Love the movie and still do. The main reason for this purchase was the picture, which is very crisp and comparable to the rest of my blue-ray library.  This product has quite a few extras: Some fun extras. Some tedious: the alternate film wake up Ron Burgundy... pedestrian. Some senseless, purposeless, and crass for the sake of crassness alone: the commentary sounds like Will and the director filling time talking about anything but the movie. I listened to the first 5 minutes, then skipped ahead a few chapters and each sample had less to do with movie than the last. I usually get a big kick out of commentaries. This commentary was no more than a ruse so they could print "commentary" on the cover of the box. People who like commentaries: hold no false hope for some behind the scenes insight into film making motivations, the creative process, or style of direction. Not included. It wasn't even funny... maybe that is the joke...  I would have happily given up most of the extras to save some clams. My main squeeze and I split the cost, otherwise I would not have paid more than $19. Knowing what I know now about the "quality" of the extras, I would have liked to have waited for the price to drop, or found a used copy.  Value: $12 for 1080p version. $17 for fluff.

wait for netflix! Rented this for $1.99 on special from Amazon video. Paid $1.98 too much. Wait for Netflix folks! Only nice part....Katherine McPhee is hot!

poor sound quaitly thae movie is great but the dvd it self is poorsound keeps fading  you have to  keep playing with the volume contro; on you tv

Starts good, then gets really predictable This movie started off good, it was really interesting and engaging for at least the first half or more! Then it started to show a very typical pattern of predictability and although the actors did a good job the story I lost interest with and I was not a fan of the ending.  Some may like it, I watched because it had good reviews but I was not impressed and can now say I've seen it but will probably never watch it again.

A little strange I was a little disappointed in this movie.  Another EMT told me to get this movie because it is about working the streets and handling the after affects of this profession.  However, the actors did not deal with the stress in a productive manner.  It was interesting to watch the movie with a paramedic that was in the profession in the 80's.  He could relate to having partners and dispatchers that were portrayed in this film.  That is hard for me to believe that people could be so unprofessional.

Disappointment This is a disappointing movie.  Its simply a 2 hour demonstration for your 3D TV.  Every single scene is just some object or person in the foreground and an extremely overused depth of field effect to accentuate the 3D.  I watched the 2D version and it was pretty bad.  The story was just a slightly modified version of the original.  The effects were also pretty crappy.  This movie was obviously made to sell 3D TVs and nothing more.  Also, for some reason the animators of the people couldn't make their upper lips move.  This was obvious and annoying.  At least the soundtrack is decent.

Cute but not my cup of tea It was a comedy and the jokes seems too obvious for an American. The situations that were dramatic were unrealistic and would never play out in real life. I won't be renting episode 2.

OK comedy  Funny but not great I felt this movie under delivered in the humor department.  There were a couple of VERY funny scenes, but all in all, came up a bit short.  This is a good movie to catch on cable, but not as a pay-per-view or in the theater.  Cameron Diaz was very funny, but was a bit saddled with some forced dialog; trying too hard to be shocking.  While Justin Timberlake delivered a solid performance, his character was so creepy, it made the audience uncomfortable to watch him.  The one scene with Diaz and Timberlake was just plain disturbing!

Extremely disappointed... I'll start by saying this; I am a huge fan of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel.  In fact, it is probably up there with `The Road', `Lord of the Flies', `American Psycho' and `The Remains of the Day' as one of my five favorite novels ever written (that I've read, obviously).  When this film was green lit and Hollywood was buzzing over it, I was ecstatic.  While I can't say that I worship Daldry, I do think that `Billy Elliot' is a masterpiece and I really, truly loved `The Reader'.  `The Hours', in my eyes, was a bore and a mess and a missed opportunity, but I see some of its merit.  I was underwhelmed by the casting decisions, mainly because Bullock and Hanks aren't my ideal actors (far too commercial for a film like this) and Horn was a complete nobody (I mean, he's from Jeopardy Jr. for god's sake) but the supporting cast which included Sydow, Davis, Goodman, Caldwell, Wright and Gandolfini (I can't believe they cut all of his scenes!) had me excited, and this prose is just so good.  Some books are just not meant to be adapted.  This makes me want to cry, but it's true.  I had this epiphany while watching `Everything is Illuminated', also adapted from a Safran Foer novel, and it happened again while watching `Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close'.  Safran Foer's writing is too absurd and intricate to be captured on the big screen.  A lot of his character development, while interesting and engaging on the printed page, comes off as painfully unrealistic on the big screen.  I told my wife, about halfway through the film, that Oskar is almost identical to the way he is depicted in the novel and yet I never had the urge to push him off a bridge while I was reading the book.  Daldry's take on Foer's novel just doesn't work.  Foer's novel is too complicated and too detailed, and Daldry misses a lot of that detail.  I understand that the prose had to be focused more, considering that they couldn't make a five hour movie just to fit in everything Foer put in his book, but then again if you aren't going to incorporate all the facets of the book that make it so special, maybe you just shouldn't make the movie.  By skipping some of the books important character development (that whole backstory with Oskar's grandmother and the renter is especially important to the impact of the story) the film falls flat in areas where it should have really soared.  I'll break up the negative by saying that Max Von Sydow was extraordinary and deserved that Oscar nomination; maybe even the Oscar just for that `STOP.  NO MORE!' scene alone.  But alas, back to the pit of despair.  I was especially upset with the film's editing choices.  The construction of a novel and a film differ, and a novel can get away with excessive use of flashbacks because they can be clearly defined and incorporated in ways that don't take away from the particular sequence being depicted at that moment.  In film, flashbacks can be tricky, and if they aren't defined properly they can take away drastically from the film itself.  There are a LOT of flashbacks here, and while backstory is necessary to the development of this particular story, the way that they are administered (especially with the incorporated of that horrid narration) kept me getting increasingly more and more frustrated.  They took you out of the moment and put you somewhere else only to take you out of that moment and cause you to scramble to put yourself back where you were before the flashback started.  That narration didn't help much either.  I don't really like narration, unless it is essential.  `Little Children' probably has the best use of narration I've seen in a long time, but it is a rarity to find a film that uses it appropriately.  The fact that Oscar feels the need to tell us EVERYTHING is not appropriate.  The audience isn't stupid, but the narration makes us feel that way.  Then again, Thomas Horn's delivery is atrocious and adds to the annoyance of the narration.  I hate picking on the kid, but it is easily the worst child performance I've seen since that last Sandra Bullock movie.  It's just so painful to watch because he tries so hard to be awkward that he comes off, well, awkward, but not in a good way.  The character of Oskar Schell is an odd one, sure, and so maybe it's just that he doesn't translate well, but I found Horn's manner of speaking to be so incredibly obnoxious I wanted to punch my television screen.  In the book, Oskar thought about weird things and he was unusually smart and curious and he had this maturity that was laced with so much immaturity that he was a compelling character, but I didn't read effeminate, and that is how Horn plays him, which is just odd and off-putting.  Also, the way he talks as if he's reading a book, so rehearsed, is just strange.  I'll end this with some positive ink.  The score is AMAZING and the film is gorgeously lensed.  Sadly, technical aspects don't make for a great movie, and this film fails at nearly everything else.

Not for Me This was an annoying film.  Bad acting, writing, and plot.  It felt too American/Hollywoodish, and then I saw "Miramax" on the cover.  No wonder.  I'll stick to foreign films with reality themed and with unknown celebrities.  Hugh Grant, once likeable, is no longer.  I guess my tastes have changed.  Beautiful scenery, though, including the kaola that is near the road at the beginning of the film.

CHECK YOUR DISC ASAP! I had the same problem as another review - the box has both movies on the cover, but when I watched it, I ended up getting the Widescreen and Full screen version of the first movie, and nothing for the sequel.  Overall, the first movie is still great, but I was disappointed that I couldn't continue with the second

"A Good Woman" The movie is about a man who "betrays" his wife by having an affair with another woman. Sadly, this is what has become very common today.  A movie about adultry; no thanks.

Average movie because there is no real plot! This is a parody of any horror movie. The special effects are really well done and the acting is really good, but at no point in the movie we believe the plot (because there is no real plot). And the end while totally predictable is totally out of control.  The "plot": five friends go to spend a week end in a cabin in the woods next to their college campus; they discover in the basement a journal that has one sentence in Latin; the "virgin" reads it and then all hell breaks loose; they do not realize until the end that everything is orchestrated by a corporation that competes globally. They finally make it inside the headquarters and release all the creatures that kill all the employees.  The best line comes from Sigourney Weaver that unfortunately we only see for 2 minutes at the end of the movie. While she is introducing the five stereotypes of any horror movies (the athlete, the hooker, the geek, the drug addict, and the virgin) she looks at the "virgin", and the "virgin" goes: me a virgin? Then Sigourney Weaver gives her THE answer: we work with what we have!!!  At no point in the movie we are scared nor we care for any of the characters.  Two stars only for the special effects but this movie has no real plot and no purpose!

Timeless Media, Please!!!!!!! Bought today from Sams Club.  Must have got in early.  This is the worst season set I have seen from this company.  Have purchased the previous 4 seasons.  They say the episodes are taken from the original Universal master tapes.  I don't know what vault these were stored in but they might have to check their storage methods because these sure look dupey as well as worn out quality.  On disc 9, the Frank Carter Story, you will need 3D glasses because the entire episode is ghosting throughout the entire show.  Gave me a headache after a few minutes and had to turn off.  Terrible quality, I hope that Universal treats their other shows better than this.  The shows themselves are great just the poor picture and sound quality of the episodes.

Nice - but NOT true to the books (some spoilers) I'm honestly not sure why all these other reviews (up to this point) have been stating that the movies follow the books so closely. Hallmark is running a marathon of the LCS movies today, so I'm watching them as I type this. Let's be honest here - they don't follow the books, at least, not after the first one. That doesn't mean the video series doesn't have merit (see my more positive comments, below), it just means that a LOT of stuff is different. When I say a LOT, I mean stuff like this (watch out for spoilers, here):  - Missy is 9 when the video series starts off, while in Love Comes Softly, she is much younger. I think they had to do this in order to keep from having to age Katherine Heigl in the next movie.  - Though they at least attempted to stay true to Love Comes Softly (the first book), the movie ending is completely wrong, and is an obvious attempt to add excitement to what was originally a peaceful (love coming SOFTLY) resolution to the book.  - The second book is still largely about the lives of Clark & Marty and their children. However, the MOVIE focuses entirely on the relationship of Missy and Willie (Willie had left town at a young age due to a tragedy in his family, and came back claiming to be a guy named "Nate" - again, NOT true to the book at all).  - In total, FIVE LCS movies (that's right, FIVE) are entirely about Missy and her "family". Her family being made up of mostly randomly adopted children. After Willie is killed in the line of duty (because he was the sheriff of their town...what???), Missy moves back (with her only child- a son???) to live near Clark and Marty. There, she falls in love with Zach Taylor, who, I'm sorry, ISN'T ANYWHERE IN THE BOOKS, let alone as Missy's love interest.  - Belinda, who was originally Clark and Marty's surprise youngest child, is - in this series - an orphan who arrived on an orphan train with her brother, and is promptly adopted by Missy, thus becoming Missy's daughter. Belinda's story from then on seems to be a mish-mash of her's and the younger Melissa's storylines. However, here I sit watching Belinda and Drew get married at the end of Love's Unfolding Dream.  - Names and story lines are turned upside-down all over the place. Clark and Marty's other children are barely given a thought, though the books are peppered with events of their lives. (For instance, so far there is no Luke - Belind'a older brother doctor, part of her inspiration - anywhere in the films.) Ok, now Love Takes Wing is starting...and did Belinda just say she "couldn't save Drew"??? We now find Belinda sharing the spotlight with her friend Annie and opening a clinic in a frontier town. Skipped Boston completely. From what I understand, "Annie", played by Haylie Duff, will be the main character in the final film. And here is a depressed Belinda completely rejecting her faith (in anger - I'm sure this will be resolved by the end of the series) and claiming that God doesn't exist.  Now for the positive comments... So far (I am now well into the seventh movie) conservative values are upheld fairly well. It is mostly family-friendly, though I wouldn't let my own preschoolers watch it, due to some of the themes of death (we see this come up at least once in each film) and occasional mild, very brief violence. I do cringe a little at lines like "if you're doing the right thing, everything will work out", but over all, the themes of love, faith, and compassion come through in at least the first six films. No harsh language, sexual situations, or overtly graphic scenes. Though I have only noticed scenes directly involving prayer or scripture in the first two or three films, it does seem as though there is an attempt being made to at least keep some of the focus on Christian values. Hence, the two stars.  As my kids get older, I will definitely consider adding this to our video collection as a good option that will appeal to us as well as our kids, but again, not sure how ANYBODY could think these films follow the books. A lovely little series, but if you're really interested in Janette Oke's works, read them before watching.

Average action and its plot blows. This anime has average action scenes, most of the episodes are loaded with filler, the main character dies at the end, the plot takes too long to develop and get to the good parts, bad writing destroys it, some of its character designs aren't good, its main character: Masane dies at the end and by the time this anime leads up to a cool antagonist, it ends up being a let down. This anime would've been a lot better if it was developed a lot better and if its issues were fixed. 4.5/10

Brooks and Hitchcock Make for a Fruitless Marriage An opaque send-up of Alfred Hitchcock's legendary suspense pictures, this probably sounded better on paper than it looks on the screen. It's to be expected for a Mel Brooks movie to be filled to the brim with cheap puns, obvious punchlines and loads of sight gags - that's part of his allure, actually - but this seems thin even by those standards. A basement-level plot might have something to do with that; beneath the dense surface of each of Brooks's best pictures lies a surprisingly rich, inherently funny basic storyline. That's missing in this dim, forced tale of good, evil and jealousy in the hallways a California psychiatric ward. If Blazing Saddles is a novella, High Anxiety is a two-page pamphlet. It's got some value, but not enough to justify a very long sitting.

Way too intense... I was very excited to start Jennifer Wolfe's prenatal yoga dvd, and so tried the long routine on the first disc.  After about 20 minutes, I realized that the routine was very intense, with few restful periods, and also very heavy on lunges and downward dog--to the point where I thought if I had to do another lunge, I would turn it off!  Well, I did end up turning it off and decided a few minutes later to see if the short routines would be any easier.  They were merely shortened versions of the intense longer routines.  I'm very active and pre-pregnancy did yoga for a few minutes every morning, so am not completely new to the yoga world.  Having said that, I simply cannot imagine anyone except maybe prenatal yoga instructors themselves enjoying this dvd.  I had wanted a yoga routine that would help ground, strengthen, and connect me to my babies (i'm carrying twins), and I mostly just overheated, felt overstretched and tired as a result.  Not recommended.  Just discovered online a prenatal yoga video by Lara Dutta Under the guidance of Prenatal Yoga expert Tonia Clark, and it is just what I was hoping Jennifer Wolfe's dvd would be.  I love this new video.  Hope this review helps!!

Terrible sound! Kate Beckinsale looks nice. Kate Beckinsale is pretty in this, as she always is. What ruined this for me is the sound quality. When Tweedledee and Tweedledum do The Walrus And The Carpenter, you literally can't hear them over some background electric guitar. I'd say find another version or read the book.

Both Picture and Audio problems My star review is based on this Blu-ray, not the film.  I did NOT notice the audio syncing problems that others have commented on.  I'm thinking that might possibly be a problem with specific players (older ones?) playing the disc.  Don't know - all I know is no syncing issues jumped out at me.  What I do know is this Blu-ray has:  1) Poor picture quality. Perhaps it is because I just recently watched the Sound of Music Blu-ray which was STELLAR, but from the opening scene of this I was VERY disappointed in the picture quality.  Very heavy pixelation.  Honestly it looks like they didn't remaster at all and just tried to plop the source material into HD without any kind of help for such an old film.  I really am thinking that's pretty much what they did.  The colors were alright, and there were some scenes where you could clearly tell that this was indeed HD.  But unlike The Sound of Music, those scenes were few and far between.  2) Poor audio mix and options.  This thing comes with a 7.1 DTS-HD mix and that's the only English audio option available (minus the commentary of course).  Maybe if you have a 5.1 or 7.1 setup, it sounds great (others have seemed to imply it does).  I watched with a Stereo setup and I can tell you that this 7.1 mix does NOT downmix very well to 2 channel stereo.  Again, unlike The Sound of Music, which did do so nearly flawlessly, this one didn't.  It sounds like they moved a lot of stuff at least partially into other channels that you don't really hear very well because they didn't appropriately mix them in the main L/R channels.  The levels themselves are also really soft (I had to crank my volume WAY up) to even be able to listen.  I like Blu-rays to have lossless 5.1 or 7.1 mixes, but if they're not going to ensure it also sounds decent in stereo, then they need to include a different audio option (i.e. Dolby 2ch) that does.  3) A non-common type menu.  Doesn't use the standard type interactive menu we've all grown used to, but rather a text-only "pop up" menu.  For the life of me, I couldn't figure out how to get to the menu to access the special features - the "menu" button on my remote did nothing and the disc instantly starts playing the film when it is inserted.  After some searching online, I discovered it uses a "pop up" menu.  I did see a "title/pop up" button on my remote (far away from the menu/navigation buttons) and when I pushed it, low and behold, a menu did indeed pop up where I could access the special features.  Clearly the pop-up menu option is a way for disc manufacturers to avoid the expense of having to create those full-color, custom interactive menus, but can instead just program these text-only pop-up menus to jump to features on the disc.  Fine by me, but it would be very helpful if they would bother TELLING YOU on the packaging that it is a "pop up" menu that requires accessing it in a different way, especially since most people are not even remotely familiar with this.  I know out of the Blu-ray's I own, it is my first experience with it.  Before realizing what was up, I was frustrated - frustrated enough to look into returning the disc!  Given that's what I did (and I'm actually a "techie"), I would expect this mistake alone to lead to people unnecessarily returning these discs and costing the manufacturer serious money.  I hope they realize that.  Bottom line: I've never watched the DVD so can't comment too much on comparison between the two, but I would think it entirely possible that a person could just stick with the DVD and probably not be missing too much and possibly might even enjoy it more.

Disappointing--could have been so much better I expected a lot from CAPTAIN AMERICA considering it got very good reviews from critics and moviegoers alike. I am in the minority in that I did not find it to be that great of a movie. My reason is pretty simple: the movie is packed with amazing special effects, is stylish, rich, and honestly looks fantastic. Unfortunately the characters are a major let down.  To have a good protagonist, you need a few things. One is a special skill, ability, or other reason to like them that differentiates them from secondary characters. Maybe they are a great leader (Patten), have a brilliant mind (Sherlock Holmes), are athletically gifted (Chariots of Fire), etc... They also need a good weakness, something that shows their human side. Sherlock is a dope fiend. Patton can't see the basic human needs of his soldiers. You get the idea. It's the interplay of the greatness and the weakness that makes them interesting and fun to root for. Luke Skywalker is likeable as much for his massive potential as a Jedi as for his naivety and occasional stupidity.  As far as I can tell, Captain America's only weakness is that he started out very weak. That's cured in the first 15 minutes of the movie, leaving a character so virtuous, powerful, and convincingly good that the central question of his ultimate success is never in doubt. He is stronger, faster, and just so gosh darn-it likeable that his larger struggles against Red Skull and his minor romantic complications seem overbearingly devoid of risk. You could argue that his being overlooked as a soldier and turned into a marketing piece for the Army would constitute a weakness, but that is an external factor, not an internal one. I wanted his former psychology of being the little guy, the weak one, the picked on, to take him interesting places. Not create an emotional shambles, but at least present challenges for him. What do you do when you suddenly have the power you never experienced before? I wanted to see him make a few mistakes and learn from them.  Couple that with weak secondary characters most of which are introduced messily (the united nations team of misfit soldiers, all of whom seem modeled of someone else, rather than actually being someone themselves are the prime example), and you have a movie with a lot of pop and little substance.  The story is average, but feels too full of stuff with nothing really explored that well. Red Skull had the potential to be frightening, but he basically whines to his minions when things don't go his way, hides, or escapes. He only faces Captain when Captain forces the issue, and again, it's resolved so quickly and easily, the audience never has to worry about the outcome. Antagonists should be frightening, not just unlikable. Contrast Red Skull with the most recent incarnation of the Joker from THE DARK KNIGHT if you want to know exactly what I mean. The Joker terrified because he was not dependent on anyone else, because he had gravitas, because he was so much the antithesis of Batman. Red Skull is just a Nazi with incredible strength. He's no more or less frightening than a normal man with normal abilities.  I would argue Captains' finest antagonist would be a character who is strong through his mind and devilishness, not brute strength. Someone to juxtapose the raw Tim Tebow-ness of Captain against malicious forethought and planning. I wanted Captain up to his eyeballs in stress, fighting for his life against traps and dirty tricks. Give him meaningful, complicated choices that expose the man under the Red-White-and-Blue.  All in all CAPTAIN AMERICA was an ok movie. I did not hate it. I just did not find it fulfilling. It does have a few great moments, probably the best of which involves the movie staple of forced moral decision (should I catch the bad guy or save the baby / old woman / falling buss of nuns) and takes it a very funny and unexpected direction. Other highlights include a very well done chase scene, and the film's first 5 minutes which harken back to the X-files or ABYSS in their creepy perfection.  2.5 / 5 Stars. Worth renting, not buying.

Interesting, but amateurish. I found this documentary lacking any real depth of research. The Christian interviews were weakly orchestrated, and Flemming seems more interested in "sticking it" to his former place of religious indoctrination, the Christian Village Schools in California. Also touting that Richard Dawkins is included in the film, I found that the well-known athiest is only produced as a recorded telephone interview, a secondary portion within the commentary features.  While I believe his intentions were sincere, Flemming missed his mark in creating a convincing argument denouncing Christianity.

Baseball movie actually duller than baseball Thrill to the general manager interacting repeatedly with his daughter and ex-wife. Jeer at the late-middle-aged baseball scouts arguing around a table. Stare at the supporting cast talking on phones, sitting at desks, walking down halls, spitting from dugouts, and chatting in locker rooms. Two stars for the fat statistician, who steals all his scenes.

My ears! I hate this movie.  The awful sound effects and music made it unbearable. On top of that it didn't have a good story.  The acting was alright.  I'm also a fan of the man with no name trilogy.

The DVD's quality was not good We were not able to see the complete movie as the movie was stuck in the middle and was not able to watch it.

Unnecessary Foul Language The video was a great source for describing the events up to and around the Wall street debacle.  Unfortunately, the movie folks wanted to keep the guidance rating up so they included most of the offensive language in the movie. Paulsen seems to have a potty mouth.  I had wanted to show this video to my HS econ classes but the language would get me fired if I did.  We don't use the "F" word at school even though the kids hear it often on HBO and seem to use it rather frequently as the adjective of choice.  I guess I will wait for the " censored" version.

A disappointment given all the talent involved I stumbled across a description of this film a few years back and thought "How did I miss this one?!? Louis Malle, Donald Sutherland, Sean Penn, Jack Warden, & Wallace Shawn in San Francisco and I've never seen it (or even heard of it)?!??!" Well, turns out there's a good reason why: it's supposed to be a funny, breezy film, but it's actually very dull and joyless. Moreover, the soundtrack is wretched 80s synth sounds punctuated by a cacophonous Michael McDonald tune that plays over the credits. It's also a boring, pointless film and a challenge to watch so much talent return so little; almost as if no one tried very hard. Easily the worst performance I've seen for Donald Sutherland. On the other hand, Wallace Shawn and Sean Penn are quite good. However, if you're curious about this based upon who was involved...don't bother.

Like a really tired version of "Death Wish"/"Walking Tall" A really basic plot that you've already picked up from the previous reviewers. Slow moving, and honestly seemed very amateurish to me.

Senna Triple Play DVD The seller did not state you could not watch the DVD on US equipment. It said triple play, DVD Blue Ray digital. Fortunately I could download and watch the show on my laptop. It is a great documentary on Senna that would only be even better on a large screen. If it is available in US compatible format and you are a F1 fan buy it! Brought back memories of how much I despised Ballestrie and Prost, the glory of France instead of the glory of competition.

Could have been more. (THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS)  I saw this movie about 3 years ago on TV and really enjoyed it. I thought there was strong emotional depth, impressive acting, and a well-structured storyline. However, the next time I saw it which was about a year ago, I was underwhelmed. Don't get me wrong; it's not a horrible movie. It's just not as engaging as I thought it was. A lot of this does have to do with its tired, overused premise: the rebellious students oppose conservative, authoritative parents with the help of their liberal teacher. Now, you can take any premise and make it into a good movie, but DEAD POETS SOCIETY doesn't bother to give us anything fresh or insightful. It's just "Find yourself" and "Seize the Day!" and "Believe and you will succeed" for 2 hours.  I still think the acting is generally fine, especially from the kids. I'm surprised that only Ethan Hawke and Robert Sean Leonard were the only ones that went anywhere after this movie (correct me if I'm wrong). The adults aside from Williams however are not as effective. They're just stereotypical, hard-core conservative snobs who want to only keep the kids from "expressing who they truly are in life." Not much depth is given to them. Robin Williams is good too, but not as spectacular as most people claim him to be. When he's onscreen, he's enjoyable and effective. When he's not, I don't miss him. I guess it has to do with the fact that there's not much to his character. He's just a wise, caring, liberal teacher who only wants to help his students. That's not bad, but he seems more like a representation of the movie's idea of Carpe Diem than an actual character. Mr. Keating also acts more like a plot device because he is only around when he's either a) teaching a class, or b) helping a student(s) outside of class. I guess that's why I don't miss him when he's not onscreen. The rest of the movie is about the kids taking his lessons and applying to their daily lives. Nothing wrong with that, but it would have been better if we saw Keating more as just the teacher/moral support. Bland characterization, however, is not the only problem I have with this film.  The biggest problem for me is the third act when the Robert Sean Leonard kid commits suicide. What the heck happened?! I would be emotionally involved if the film bothered to show signs of him struggling with suicidal thoughts. But this seems so sudden and out of nowhere. The kid does the play, his father doesn't approve, and he kills himself. That doesn't work. This is the part that makes me wonder why this movie won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay because when I see a movie that has a sporadic act of tragedy, I don't think, "Oh, my goodness! This is so sad and moving!" I think, "What the heck? Did the screenwriter run out of ideas?" Here's the thing: Suicide can be a powerful dramatic tool if handled correctly. It can work in a story that sets itself up as a tragedy. But this movie sets itself up more as an inspirational and uplifting drama, so this act of despair seems out of place. Even at the end where the kids stand up on their desks and protest, I still had a hard time getting past that kid's suicide. Another thing that bothers me about this is that it's such a cheap way to show how damaging conservative attitudes can be and how helpful liberal attitudes can be. This can be an effective lesson but here it's told clumsily. The screenwriter forces the audience to care instead of simply telling a story and allowing the audience to be naturally affected by it. I'm sure the person who wrote the script meant well, but this comes across as a little condescending. It seems like they're saying, "Care for these characters right now!" I'll feel what I'll feel, just show us these people and their lives.  That's all I can think of for now. Hopefully, I didn't rant too much. I understand why people like this movie because there are a couple of good scenes and again the kids do a great job. But personally, I think the movie just needed to avoid the cliches and dig deeper to become something really meaningful and poignant.

Extremely disappointed I love a good scary movie. Not a movie that just tries to gross me out, but one that makes you hear weird noises in your house while, and after watching it.  After reading all the reviews about Henry, I knew I had to have it.  The day it arrived, I was like a kid in a candy store. I waited until that night to watch it. Being alone at night watching a killer movie is cool. Needless to say it never even raised a hair on my arm during the entire movie.  Maybe I was too hyped up from reading all the other reviews, but the second DVD that came with the set was a lot better than the movie itself.  I've watched every movie ever made about serial killers, and mass murderers. I rate this one at the bottom of the list.

LOVE US VERSION?  DON'T BUY THIS! I had already watched the entire first season of SHAMELESS US, so the British version came off as a less-interesting imitation (even though the Brit version came first) with a far less-attractive cast.

Idiosyncratic, But Aloof, Character Piece Mismarketed As A Comic Gem Every year, there are a fair share of idiosyncratic character pieces that pop up in the indie film scene that are loaded down with critical hyperbole proclaiming them as comedic masterworks. And nine out of ten times, these films (marketed as comedies) leave mainstream audiences perplexed. "Jack Goes Boating" is a prime example of just such a film--albeit one with a pretty impressive pedigree. Directed by and starring the great Philip Seymour Hoffman with the terrific Amy Ryan providing support, let me make one thing clear before I go any further--I am EXACTLY the audience for this film. In fact, when it was in town theatrically, I was going to go but it only lasted one week in our local movie houses. So I knew what this film was, had my expectations firmly in check, and was eager to jump right in! Well, truth be told, Hoffman's work left me a little cold with its remote awkwardness.  I appreciate films that can mine comic inspiration from the world's disconnectedness. "Jack Goes Boating" assembles the requisite damaged oddballs and brings them together to achieve maximum quirkiness. I'd describe the plot, but it is really rather superfluous. In summary, Hoffman and Ryan play an unlikely pair brought together by their married, but increasingly troubled, friends (John Ortiz and Daphne Ruben-Vega). That's about it. Will the pair be able to overcome their own problems to unite as a post modern example of healthy couple-hood? Or will you care? That might be a far more astute question. On some level, the viewer must be able to connect with the characters--preferably to like them, but absolutely essentially to understand them. Here, the characters stand as constructs--bits of weirdness with no real world explanation to their social deficiencies. If you knew the central characters in your real life, you would run in the opposite direction so as not to be sucked into their unexplained and self-imposed misery.  I didn't hate the movie, per se, I was just completely removed from it. Anyone, however, judging the marketing campaign and picking this up as a robust comedy might feel a bit betrayed. I knew what to expect. Still, Ryan is glass menagerie brittle while Hoffman is monosyllabic awkwardness. Neither character is developed much beyond superficial qualities that would brand them social pariahs. Ortiz stands as the only member of the cast that possessed an iota of joy or genuine warmth--and the film progressively makes him less and less palatable. At the end, I didn't care about anyone in the film and in a program billed as "heartfelt"--this is a major stumbling block. There were moments I quite liked, but as a whole, the picture never gelled to be anything other than odd. KGHarris, 5/11.

I wanted to like it. I hated this movie, but not because of the subject matter, rather I hated the acting by the Hollywood superstars (so predictable, not genuine or believable at all) and I really hated the disrespectful way the topic of same sex marriage/relationships was handled.  It was so cliche' and felt very disrespectful.  The material was there, but the director and the actors flubbed it.  My favorite part of this movie was the development of the relationship between father and daughter.  That felt real and authentic and likely, although I find it hard to believe that a guy who was so seemingly immature could be such a successful entrepreneur in today's volatile consumer market.  I was also not thrilled with all the gratuitous sex that seemed to be thrown in just to hold our attention when the acting couldn't.  Such a disappointment!!!

Not what I expected as a big stooges fan This is not a collection of shorts, as you would expect it to be. Rather, it's a disappointing collection of odds and ends. As others have noted in other reviews, there are only a few shorts. You're better off finding a different collection if you want to see the shorts, just as I will end up having to do. I think the case is very misleading as it says there is over 11 hours of material there and it doesn't specify what the material is.

Unlikable main character I was dissapointed in this movie. The main character, Elisabeth Lane, was found to be rather unlikable and seemed to do a rather poor job acting. The housewife seemed to decidedly lack morals and was wont to give into her romantic impulses rather quickly. I won't be recommending this movie to others as it does not live up to the wholesome classic movies that I love. The premise of the movie sounded good, but overall did not live up to expectations.

A Silly Movie I love Alfred Hitchcock movies, but this is a silly movie. It's hard to believe that Alfred Hitchcock directed it and that James Stewart agreed to star in it. I found myself disliking all of the main characters and I didn't care what happened to them. In order for a movie to be suspenseful, you have to have some connection with the characters. Doris Day was just awful. The boy, Hank, is an obnoxious little brat. I was hoping that he would be strangled or drowned.  At the end of the movie, Doris Day sings a set of corny and poorly performed songs for a group of European aristocrats who would never listen to such common pop music- and are all enthralled by it. What was Hitchcock thinking? Not worth watching.

What a disappointment! This Blu-ray is boring and misguided. How such incredible country can be depicted in such a lackluster way, takes talent. Or maybe anti-talent.  The "stunning high-definition" was neither. The subjects, the shots, the angles, the cinematography in general, was amateurish and unspectacular.  Speaking of subjects, they chose to waste a significant amount of time on the human history of the region. Recreating Custer's Last Stand and Wounded Knee has nothing to do with the grandeur of these parks. Then they threw in the life and murder of Wild Bill Hickok. I am not joking.  These parks are vast enough to fill over an hour of a "stunning high-definition" Blu-ray, with a tour of the best features. This is what I expected. That is not what I got.

Ending Ruined It Begins with superb concept, capable actors, fresh cinematography.  But ONLY Peter Falk holds our interest.  Then the director has no clue what to do.  Nick Cave's poseur song and the woman's trite monologue undo every ounce of resonance.  Roger Ebert is dead wrong about this film.

Elle: A modern Cinderlla Tale This was an ok movie. Only gave it two stars. About girl who works for her uncle who owns a record company. She dreams about becoming a singer and eventually realizes her dreams when she wins a audtion.

wasn't what i expected mmm i didnt even finish the movie because i fell asleep to it. Not as much action as i thought there would be

Heavily biased with a slant against the US Military... I have an interest in both Cuba and the Middle East, and thought this documentary would be interesting.  Like some of the other reviewers, I was extremely disappointed.  Too much sympathy is given to the detainees, and their plight of being unfairly imprisoned.  National Geographic has clearly taken the side of trying to "expose" improprieties and alleged human rights violations.  I believe there are reasons for each of the detainees to be held, and what they do there is (and needs to be) classified for good reason.  These are not thrillseeker liquor store hold-up robbers with "Born to Lose" tattoos on their chests...  And unfortunately there is almost no mention of how the base exits in Cuba with so much animosity between the two nations.  Why does Cuba permit the base to operate there?  That seems like pretty important information to be included in a documentary about Gitmo, but there is not a word about that.  So, yes, it is a glimpse into the life of a guard at Gitmo, but it certainly was overly sympathetic to the detainees, even painting the former prisoners as upstanding family men, and who are now political servants in their own countries.  There are some things that the general public just simply should not know about, just ask Jack Nicholson's character Col. Nathan R. Jessup in "A Few Good Men":  "I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it! I'd rather you just said thank you and went on your way."

Wasn't Bad., wasn't Good..,  **21/2* stars Inheritance is one of those movies where you've got the great star cast, You got the perfect location, a workable set, decent cameras & lightin.., But mannn!, Your script is weak when it came time to put the "Boo!!!" into people... It was about as scary as holding a flashlight up to the chin.. When you decorate your house for Holloween scary.., Being pulled over by a cop scary.., The script was just weak... The young actors have done some Great stuff, I can vouche for them.., But the director & producers weren't serious about this product when it came to suspense or horror, Even the "Ritual" love scene drew a "Yawn" and we're talking about the " Up & Coming" Golden Brooks who's movie debut didn't leave any singed or wow recall in my mind the way a Sanaa, Halle, Gabrielle or any "idol worthy" actress gets a "double take" for... the movie's a watchable C+

SAD! I fail to see how this family is documentary-worthy. What was the point? Seemingly to say, "Look at these wacky hillbillies, doing cocaine in the hospital right after having a baby and shooting their uncles in the face! Isn't that kooky?!". They didn't strike me as all that wild (just extremely messed up) and I certainly wouldn't describe them as wonderful. All of the adults just seem like over-grown teenagers. I did not understand why the film makers chose to use captions when the matriarch of the family, Bertie Mae, was speaking. I could understand her just fine. Meanwhile, Kirk and Sue Bob are mumbling up an incoherent storm and there are no captions to be found. I was hoping that the special features might be more interesting but it was while watching them that I REALLY became bored and disgusted. Bored while watching "The Original Jesco Tapes" or whatever it was called, because this guy is just blathering on and there is nothing interesting about it. Two different dogs get kicked by two different members of this "wonderful" family which is where the disgust came in. Then they show Mamie crying over her dead mother, Kirk crying because her baby was taken away and Sue Bob crying because her son was sentenced to 50 years in prison for shooting someone. The voice-over is the film maker saying how "these people have real problems and real emotions". It's clear that they have real problems, but to me having real emotions includes having sympathy and empathy for others. Are we supposed to be impressed that these people have managed to eke out some tears for their own sad situations? I feel very bad for all of them and especially for the children in the film (they really should stop reproducing). I don't have a problem with someone making a film about this type of family, I just don't like the fact that it's presented in such a light fashion.

help me speed up this movie! Look, I haven't read the book nor plan to but this movie is something Hollywood pats their backs about. "Oh, look, we've made a movie from a bestselling book about an injustice...that happened now 50 years ago! Let's navelgaze at how bad our past was and congratulate ourselves for not employing illegal aliens as maids now...oops, OK, well, we treat our maids well and pay them union wages...Oh, we don't...Oh, never mind, just watch this movie then." I guess that means the movie about Latino or Filipina maids abused and bullied across the globe will come out in 2062.  Anyway, I found the actual movie ponderously slow. It takes a full hour and a half of buildup to get interesting. Why so much back story? We get it. Pick up the pace!  The acting is overall good bar Dallas Bryce Howard who can't act her way out of a paper bag. The token bone of a love "story" for Emma Stone was unnecessary and seemed completely irrelevant. There is a distinctive lack of males in this chick flick overall and even the abusive husband of one of the maids we never even see. Not that the one scene is not effective but it was like they wanted to show an African-American world where men only existed offscreen. In fact the major references were news stories of the time shown in a magazine article on Medger Evers and the TV broadcast of the Emmett Till murder. (Those of you unaware, Wiki both names and learn something of the Civil Rights Movement from something other than movies).  The story would have been better served by tighter editing, axing at least 30 minutes off the long drawn-out snoozefest start and having way way more of Ocatvia Spencer's character onscreen.  The extras are shameful. All we get is deleted scenes. Come on! This DVD was a perfect opportunity to have an actual mini-documentary on what life was really like for these maids in Mississippi in the '60s. After all, the movie is really supposedly a life lesson on the evils of racism.

no special features The movie it self is still a classic and I love the book format and packaging but it was a disappointment not to have any special features, behind the scenes and interviews with the actors and director which is common with most DVD'S especially with BLU-RAY. Very disappointing.

are those yeti's trainable, cuz I've got room I try very hard to abstain from arbitrary criticism,  so I will say something positive...love Brendan Frasier (hope the spelling is correct) and the yetis were the most adorable things I've ever seen (are they house-trained, 'cause I really, really want one). And they each get a star. And that's pretty much it...yup.

No Fox?? This is a Terrible season of X-files because Molder is replaced by another actor... The new actor is decent, and the story line is pretty much the same, but it just isn't the same without the quick witted Fox Molder.  I am now watching Califonication to get "my fix" of David Duchovny.

Not good We had high hopes for this movie but it disappointed us.  The first 30 minutes were good and then it stunk.  How could they write such a bad movie !Don't waste your time.

stupid movie I don't know what went wrong but they really didn't develop Jacey's story so that the title and presumably the premise of this movie fit. It was supposed to be about this kid who felt sorry for himself . . . a confused kid . . . wishing he was on the "right" side of the tracks. He was envious of this rich family that had 3 girls. So he did what the rich family's dad said . . . he tried to sleep his way there. He actually slept with all 3 girls. But like I said this was a half baked idea of whoever created this movie. It just turned out to be another modern story that tried to tarnish the image of the 50s. It showed a promiscuous guy (JaceY) and promiscuous girls (the Abbott girls). That was pretty much the story. I seriously doubt any girls in the 1950s would tell their dad that they just slept with a guy (but not the word she used) while standing there with the guy while grabbing him between the legs. That just didn't happen. While it could happen today it would still be rare and only in certain families. But this is the kinda of stuff this movie was about. It just turned out to be a situation of a loser dad (Jacey's dad) who squandered his life and failed to capitalize on his talent for his or his family's sake. So his eldest kid picked up where his dad left off. So the kid grows up thinking the Abbots took advantage of his dad and at the same envying them. There is a sweet character in this movie and that was Phoenix's character. He was realistically portrayed as a guy of the 50s or even today I think. Also the plot around the town rumor around the mom and the Abbott guy was half baked also. So all this turned out to be in my eyes was a movie showing a sleazy kid acting recklessly on his hormones with sleazy girls. I don't call this entertainment.

Bad quality streaming Watched this movie streaming, but it skipped throughout the entire movie; was not due to connection, everything else worked fine.

This Is A Real Floater Alright Sappy, formulaic Sandra Bullock drivel of a movie.  I think she's highly overrated and usually cast in the similar roles of the feisty fighter of some sort or another.  This movie is pure floater material that needs to be flushed.

Tedious I really wanted to like this movie and after reading a few good reviews, I thought the rest were all haters. Ummm...no. This movie was awful. I forced myself to finish. S-L-O-W, plodding and predictable storyline. Semi-cute ending earned it 2 stars instead of 1. Honestly, I would avoid at all costs!!!

Eastwood's Spacey, Vacant Western Makes Shockingly Slow Progress Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman play two retired wild west bounty hunters, back in their saddles to chase one last bounty after decades of silence. Agonizingly slow, its two leads take their sweet time collecting their belongings, mounting their horses and trotting at a leisurely pace across state lines, sharing less than a few sentences along the way. We gather that Eastwood was a shady character in his day, reformed by the love of a deceased wife, but he seems more like a caged animal than a redeemed spirit and we're never given much reason to pull for him despite the presumed change of heart. Though his beloved bride's spirit lives on in the couple's two young children, he barely acknowledges their presence before leaving them on their own for a month to randomly hunt a new bounty. Freeman tries to drag some character development out of him on the trail, but Eastwood holds onto it with an icy grip and piercing eyes, and there we sit for the rest of the picture. Gene Hackman is noteworthy for his portrayal of a smarmy, cocky town sheriff with a chip on his shoulder, but on every other count this is a western that misses with each squeeze of the trigger. Despite a few beautiful panoramas, the world feels stiflingly tight and compressed. Outside of Hackman, there's no fire and passion in the cast, even when Eastwood turns the page and transgresses to his wilder young persona. Finally, the atmosphere, crucial to all films of the genre, feels too clean and polished where it should be gritty and dirty. Much as I would have loved to see Clint don that familiar parka and revisit the days of his Sergio Leon sunrise, it's just not happening here.

I Don't Get It I'm a huge Cary Grant fan, but this movie is baffling to me.  The first part is pretty good, but as soon as they hop off the boat in NY it goes bizarro.  For the life of me, I can't understand why she would keep from finding him after the accident.  If she really loved him, how could she stay away?  Through that whole last part of this movie I kept asking my wife to explain it.  If it pride it was pretty stupid.  Oh, and let's not forget the singing!  What were they thinking??  I don't get it!  All those annoying singing segments.  For me, even if you take out the singing and the crazy last part, there is still something missing.  It's just a weak story that is saved only by the greatness of Cary Grant.  I read it is a classic, but not for me.  I do acknowledge some nice film work, including the stairway kissing scene, but those are few and far between for me to like this movie.

Vey disappointed There is only about 40 minutes of real concert. I would like to see this concert re-released in its entirety. Feel cheated

Nothing special, just the usual shortlife popcorn cinema I just went to the cinema and wanted to watch a movie, and this one was the only new available one. There are some senseless moments in the movie, example the kid slides down into the gap at the scrap yard where he finds Atom the Robot and manages to dig him out and carry him up on the surface on his own  ....yeah sure...and then these stupid dancing scenes the kid makes with the robot....worst to come after the finale the declare Atom the peole's real hero.Sometimes when watching such movies I get the feeling, they start making the movies without a real script...they just do time to time a brainstorming which ends more in a braindead.

For the Orange version Hopefully the new version has this corrected, but I purchased the orange-covered version in 2008. It holds potential, but when it was edited they completely skipped the stretches for the second leg.  If you google you will find other comments on this, so please be aware of that when looking at these DVDs.

A bit too juvenile for my taste I can't really say much good about this movie. There are a couple of moments in it worthy of a chuckle or two, but I generally feel that it falls more into the "stupid" category. I am giving it the benefit of the doubt with 2 stars instead of 1. Note that my review only regards Billy Madison, not Happy Gilmore, as Billy Madison is the one Amazon offered me the chance to review. Happy Gilmore was the better of the two in my opinion, however.

Who is this for? I picked this up thinking it would be a movie the whole family could enjoy. Fortunately, the kids opted for something else to do and midway into the film I was glad. The PG rating is given clarification before the movie begins and discloses that it contains crude humor, and they weren't kidding. PG-13 would be more accurate. I'm not sure who the intended audience is. It's too crude for young children, in spite of the cute little lizard, and not that entertaining for adults either.  The story starts slow, but then when Rango reacts to a potentially dangerous situation by taking on the necessary traits that will disguise his fear and weaknesses, the film livens up somewhat. He remembers that he can be whoever he wants to be and portrays himself as a hero of the old west by telling a tall tale which sets the stage for the rest of the story. His verbal tango is actually a good scene. I did laugh in places, but overall, the movie doesn't match its potential.  P.S. After reading other reviews I'm getting the gist that Rango is a series of old western spoofs along with other genres. As with all spoof movies, they are more enjoyable if you have seen the original productions.

Booooooo...... While Jeff Bridges did a good job in the lead role, the script of this movie comes across like a light-hearted comedy. There was no suspense, and everything was predictable. Not only that, the bad accents the actors spewed out were so heavy that it was nearly indecipherable. The last few minutes of the movie is simply hokey non-sense, typical Spielberg tripe.

It just tries way too hard How my ratings work: 5 - I really liked/loved it 4 - I liked it 3 - Could've been better/worth a look 2 - Just didn't live up to the potential 1 - Simply awful  I gave this movie two stars for Robert Englund, otherwise I would've just given it one star. With a title like Zombie Strippers you'd think this would be one of those so bad it's good movies that would be just fun to watch. Sadly, it is not. There's really no point in going into the story (what little there is) as I'm sure other reviews have gone into that already. I get that the movie was going for a low budget camp feel, but it was executed poorly. Knowing it's based loosley on an absurdist play doesn't help either. This isn't the kinda movie where you try to get your political and philisophical beliefs out there and continually bash it over the heads of the viewers. This is the kinda movie where you expect to see nudity (and not just zombie nudity, ew) seeing as how it takes place in a strip club. Robert Englund does what he can with his role as the sleazy owner, and you can tell he's trying. The plot is weak, the characters are poorly developed so it makes it hard to feel sorry for any of them (especially the good girl joining the club to help pay for her grandmother's surgery) and you end up kinda hoping they all get bitten and turned into zombies. I'd say the most amusing part is when one zombie uses billiard balls to perform a more amplified version of the ping pong ball trick (I won't go into detail to what that is). The zombie effects aren't bad, but I wish they'd have used more practical effects and not just cgi blood (it was a low budget film for crying out loud, use some squibs it looks cooler and more realistic). Finally the politics, and my god does it go into the politics (which will be outdated not long after this movie came out). I know Bush didn't do a great job as president, but there are just way too many movies, tv shows, books, etc already making fun of him and in much funnier ways that they have no place in a movie like this. You don't watch these kinda movies to hear political commentary, you watch them with the hopes that some attractive girls will get naked (preferably while still alive) and to see some good old fashioned splatter. I'd like to say it's worth a look, but it's not. Want to see a good horror comedy check out Shaun of the Dead, Dead Alive (or Breaindead in certain places), Bubba Ho-Tep, and Planet Terror (more of an action horror, but still plenty of funny moments).

Jeremy does not save it What's wrong with the British? Why am I sure that, had HBO done the Borgias, they'd have wrung it not only for raunch, but also for torment, suspense, vivid emotion. There is something so anodyne about British story-telling. Correct but cold. Precise but clunky. Give me slick any day. Manipulate me emotionally: make me larf, make me cry, glue me to the sceen. US TV achieves this consistently in recent series. The British just don't get it.  Jeremy Irons is delicious of course and, at some moments, almost saves the show. As he is anointed pope he staggers into the arms of his son, overcome by what he mistakenly believes might be his own holiness. He is mannered, but in subtle, riveting ways.  I bought series one because of Jeremy. Sadly, even he can't tempt me to finish it.

Not the worst "monster" movie I've seen, but the worst I've seen in years... Just picked up this movie from the library the other day. On the DVD jacket it says such things as "Not your typical monster movie!" and "Best monster movie of the year!" The first statement is entirely true. This is not a typical monster movie. The second statement could only be true if no other monster movies were released in the same year as this movie. Though the premise seems pretty OK, and the production of the movie seems to be pretty high quality, the story-telling is dull and the movie ends with little direction or closure. This isn't a movie you'll watch again and again. Once is plenty! The movie actually moves very slowly and the romantic attempts in the movie fall completely flat. Not a big surprise as they seems completely implausible to begin with. Give this one a pass, is my opinion.

Did anyone else have a problem with the Blueray disc not playing past intro? It pains me to have a negative review when it comes to Harry Potter, but this is over the disc and not the movie.  I love the series and would love to be able to watch it again!  Here is the problem.  When I first received this movie, I was able to watch the BlueRay a total of two times before it would stop after the intro.  The third watching attempt was a few days past 30 days and it would stick with no option to get to the movie.  The DVD version plays just fine.  After a little struggle, Amazon made a one time exception and replaced it.  Now, after receiving it and deciding to watch it again I am encountering the same thing.  This time I am SOL. I have a top of the line Sony BlueRay and have never had any other issue, so I know it is not my player.  Maybe they were given a bad batch from WB?  Did anyone else have this issue too?

Lopsided documentary I thought this documentary was pretty flat. Usually, if someone is wrongly convicted and incarcerated, I would feel a great deal of sympathy for their circumstances outside prison. However, this film was presented mostly from viewpoints of the exonerated. It left me feeling  the documentary was biased, unbalanced, and lopsided. There were short brief soundbites from prosecutors and a few attorney generals, but nowhere in-depth for an understanding of what really happened or even the circumstances of each individual case.  While I believe there are reforms that need to be addressed within the justice system, this film did not touch upon those reforms. Rather, the film presented an approach that malingered the justice system, judges, criminal policy, attorneys, and advocated for repeal of the death penalty. Such bias rendered the film ineffective.  By portraying complex issues in a limited one dimensional way, the documentary failed to elicit emotion, or even present good perspective on what's going on. It seemed like all the prisoners were just intent on getting compensation and immediate acceptance from society. Since most, if not all prisoners claim innocence, and most, if not all family members claim the person would never do such a thing - just proclaiming that you were innocent and that the court system should have known/is broken - really isn't a convincing argument.  Were these men really innnocent of the crime, or released based on weak/not sufficient evidence, procedural grounds, or because the system didn't want to retry the case?  I would skip this film.

Potentially awesome, realistically dreadful Some any fantastic ideas are in this film. However, it takes on a profoundly predictable and overly tripe structure. So much wasted potential. The action was epic and the visual were stunning. But such lackluster storytelling was intolerable. Two hours utterly wasted.

An epic waste of time Touted as "the story of the real King Arthur," this confused wannabe epic is anything but. Rife with sloppy historical and geographical inaccuracies, confused narrative and inane, anachronistic dialogue, this is Jerry Bruckheimer at his bombastically air-headed, self-indulgent worst. Pros and high points: excellent cinematography, an imaginativly choreographed battle on a frozen lake, and the lovely Kyra Knightley as a butt-kicking Xena-esque warrior princess in a leather battle brassiere! Cons and low-points: pretty much everything else, especially the scene where Clive Owen as Arthur tries to rouse his troops a la William Wallace in "Braveheart," except that he's riding back and forth in front of only five or six guys, which, somehow, just doesn't seem to work quite so well in long panning shots. If the writers had done just a little homework they might have succeeded in making this halfway historically passable; as it is, set in AD 490, some seventy years after the Romans bugged out, and at least ten years before the arrival of Christian missionaries, the timeline is hoplessly off. Arthur is portrayed as a disciple of Pelagius, who had already been condemned as a heretic nearly a century earlier. You can look this stuff up, for crying out loud! We won't even get into the downright IDIOTIC geographical problems. Except for the delightful eye-candy provided by Ms. Knightley, this is an epic waste of time.

Not nearly as good as "Band of Brothers Seems like someone said "let's see if we can squeak even more revenue out of the Band of Brothers success". The acting fell far short of the original, although the filming was decent. The story line was disjunct and you never quite got to know any of the characters. I'm not a prude but I didn't appreciate the unnecessary nudity (somewhat of an HBO trademark I guess). Finally, as a music lover, the score just never hit home for me. I'll probably donate this to the library. I won't want to watch it repeatedly as I do with Band of Brothers.

Jim Carrey is OK rest of the movie is trash. I enjoy Batman movies Batman 1987,Batman begins, Dark Knight,... but this movie well it sadly got worse with the next installment don't waste your hard earned on this garage. Really stupid story-line.

Eleanor: In Her Own Words (American Playhouse) [VHS] This is major boring stuff! Good luck trying to stay awake while watching this film! The whole film has one actress/actor giving a long drawn out speech, nothing more.

lots of booms and bangs Not very good. I like each of the actors, but the collective chemistry just wasn't that good. I like action films, but this didn't measure up.

Not as Expected. I thought this would be a good pro-Israel movie like Munich, Cast a Giant Shadow, etc. It is not though. It could have been a good movie if it had a bigger budget. Why is there no footage outside the tank? There was in the "Beast" film.

Movie is a joke! I bought the movie to see the 3D visual effects. Although that part passed with flying colors, the movie content is foul-mouthed and full of nudity. A waste of my time and money.

A taste of the blarney I owned but eventually gave away a DVD copy of this film because of its poor video quality. I wonder why Criterion hasn't jumped on this classic? Having said that, I wouldn't give this film a five star rating for either story line or acting -- it's more an Irish feel-good movie. But because of the strong Irish flavor of, I presume, a bygone era, it is enjoyable. I partcularly get a kick out of Barry Fitzgerald's criticism of John Wayne's self-styled introduction to Maureen O'Hara: "Just who gave you permission to play patty cakes in the holy water?" That slays me every time! I hope Criterion or someone will do right by this movie eventually and then I'll buy it again. The current quality level makes me wonder if the distributors think: Let them have chopped liver now and, when we eventually do it right, we'll sell it to them again. If that assumption is correct, it's time!

missed the mark, by a long shot! At the end it says written, directed, produced by M. Night Shyamalan. Well he failed on all counts. Although I enjoyed the seconded half a little better then the first, that's not saying much. Even if you're not familiar with the show it's still a bad movie. It's dark and confusing and we never connect with the characters. It's like he threw the script in a pot, stirred it around, took out some key ingredients added some other junk and served it up. He took out all the comedy and all the romance. Why the changes in the name pronunciations? Why say the Avatar never gets married and has a family? So not true and it goes against the 3rd book when we find out that Zuko is the Avatar's great grandson. It ruins everything, what a shame! I guess he was trying to make it his own or improve on it, but you can't improve on perfection! This is one of the best television series ever made. I hate anime so I was hesitant to watching it but my kids made me sit through one episode and I fell in love. Boy did I almost miss out on a good thing!! Buy the series on DVD but leave the movie alone.

Crystal Allen, John Rhys-Davies, And A Giant Snake Go To Romania... Picking up where "Anaconda 3" left off, "Anacondas: Trail of Blood" is another dreadful CGI monster movie, with occasional amusing distractions. The major distraction is the sheer number of characters. There are at least four groups of mutually disagreeable people roaming in the woods, all serving to either senselessly bloat the film's running time or serve as snake chow. The film opens with a mad scientist making a serum from blood orchids (see "Anaconda 3") that will make snakes regenerate when injured, and will somehow cure rich but evil mogul Murdoch's (John Rhys-Davies) bone cancer. (Right.) Murdoch wants that serum, and dispatches a Romanian hit man and his team to kill the researcher and if necessary his lovely assistant, Amanda (Crystal Allen, who looks better than most people in fatigues.)  This sets into motion the primary motive factor of the film: walking around in the woods. The snake is rarely seen, and when it is, it is hilarious. I especially like the long-focus silhouette shots of it eating bad guys. Amanda meets Alex (Calin Stanciu,) a student paleontologist who is also independently walking around in the woods near Bucharest. Alex is perhaps the character I sympathize most with in the film, and as his reward he comes away unscathed at the end. Next up a wholly loathsome group of anthropology researchers are on a field trip for business and pleasure. You will know you can't tolerate them as soon as the worst car dancing scene in history ("I am a slave to rhythm.") unveils itself. You will literally be counting the minutes until they meet the snake. It takes longer than you think. While Amanda is trying to blow up a secret greenhouse, the anthropologists make a grisly discovery at a camp. Since there were gruesome killings at the camp, they just decide to hang out there. Crystal explains a lot in flashbacks and in contrived exposition, while over in the anthropologist camp there is a spider bite requiring emergency surgery. Oh the dramatic loose ends!  Meanwhile Alex has lost his keys, and decided to spend the night in his car: in short order we learn that Crystal Allen is apparently also a stunt driver, that giant snakes scream like little girls, and that the best way to avoid a super-fast predator is to run out of protective buildings and into open fields. Disparate groups fleeing the serpent join up and then split up for seemingly no reason; the accents of the local actors really get difficult to understand, especially when they are screaming, so you know it's exciting! Great leaps of logic occur with startling frequency. Question: if you are holding a machine gun, and a giant snake is slithering towards you, do you fire at the snake in an attempt to kill or injure it, or do you fire wildly into the air, aiming at nothing to allow the snake the best possible chance to eat you whole? Obviously, you fire into the air.  Eventually everybody winds up together in the camp, and Crystal won't give up the serum until the goons threaten Alex, so she agrees to go get it for them. This involves a lot of amusing subplots including a secret compartment in a bedroom floor, a hilarious and awkward kiss distraction, a pointless grenade suicide, and even a scene which harkens back to "Jaws" as its muse. There's quite incredible gunplay in a tent, Murdoch's short-lived cure, and fisticuffs aplenty. There's self-sacrifice, a ludicrous floral coda, and action ending, with lots of people proving that you can get shot and get right back up as if nothing happened. I will not reveal the totally gratuitous conclusion that actually makes the title technically correct and invites yet another sequel, but I hope that Amanda retires and teaches botanical herpetology at a local community college somewhere, because they need someone with real world experience.  Sure, "Anacondas: Trail of Blood" is bad, but did you expect otherwise? The CGI is lamentable, the acting terrible, the premise and meandering disjointed plot are not focused, but there are moments of over-the-top camp value that fans of cinematic cheese will appreciate if they are in the mood.

Crazy movie! an Acid trip on film! What were they thinking??? This movie is unbelievable! I dont think they were thinking at all. The only reason I bought it is because Jayne Mansfield is in it for a brief second, seen attending a premiere. It is a crystal clear copy of this film, which previously i only had a horrible colector copy. It is typical of the Hippie type documentary films that were being made for Drive-in propaganda at the time in the late sixties. If you are thinking you can sit and enjoy an intellectual film about the sixties, forget this film. If your buying it because of some other reason, that is the only reason to do so.

Not that great. Felt like the movie was hugely contrived and had heaping doses of hyperbole. Glad I only paid the rental price.

Heard it before. Weak. Without a doubt Lavelle Crawford is an amazing comedian! From Def Comedy Jam, to Comic View, to Last Comic Standing, he delivers pure laughter. The first time I watched <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002WNUVHK">Shaquille O'Neal Presents: All Star Comedy Jam - Live from South Beach</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002AT4JPG">Martin Lawrence Presents: 1st Amendment Stand-Up - Season 3</a> I literally died laughing from Lavelle parts in those and my lungs almost gave out because it was all fresh material in those two. This DVD, however, is the absolute opposite. He recycled the material in which he used in that Shaq's special and another stand up. There are very few laughs to be had here if you already viewed all his previous material. The material I did not hear before wasn't particularly funny either. The last 10/15 minutes of this Stand-Up was funny however. Another thing I noticed is that they censored some of his curse words, like the F word, but some parts, they allow it. If you never watched a Lavelle Crawford stand-up before, this shouldn't be a big deal to you. But if you want the best out of him, I encourage you to check him out in the Shaquille's DVD special I listed above. The jokes he re-used here are 100x funnier in that stand-up. I was ecstatic to check this DVD out...but sorry, this sucked in my opinion.

If you love Philadelphia Story, You May Be Disappointed with This Film... I consider "Philadelphia Story" one of the most entertaining films in my movie collection. So, when I found out there was a remake, I thought, "Why not?" The sets and production values of "High Society" are much better than the original, but I found it far less entertaining, less believable, and the acting far less engaging. Others may go on and on about this movie, but I was disappointed. Nothing new with far less vitality than the original.

THIS GHOUL MOVIE MAY FESTER ON YOU... I'd like to give this movie 2 & 1/2 stars, if I could. This film is not a horror classic but for it's low budget and very amatuer cast, it is a so-so living dead film. I have seen better, much better and a few worse but what hampers this film is the direction, plot, cheesy dialog and the fact that there were no true actors in this film at all. The problem with a film like this is that everyone in the cast could not really act a bit. Their dialog was recited as though it was cardboard.    Herein lies the problem; the less experience the actors have, the less dialog they should have. But the more dialog inexperience actors have, the more apparent it becomes that they aren't trained or experienced actors at all. And so it ends up looking like a student film more than anything else. But you may enjoy Flesheater more by watching it a second time around. Sometimes the dead grow on you. Compare the acting in this film to The Walking Dead TV series and you'll see that even the dead zombie extras in Walking Dead are better actors than most of the actors in Flesheater.  Ironically, we are living in the day when a student film or some other low budget production like Blair Witch Project or Paranormal Activity, shot on Hi-Def video, can make amatuer filmmakers millionaires overnight, thanks in large part to the Internet and direct to DVD sales for our ever growing collection of horror DVDS at home. So everyone grab a camera if you want to be rich. Almost any idea can make you a small or large fortune these days. You just have to go out and do it.    At any rate, I don't think writer/director/star Bill Hinzman was shooting for more than anything but a cheesy horror flick to begin with. After all, it's been said that that was George Romero and company's aim in 1968 when they made what would become an unintentional horror classic, complete with a mostly amatuer cast who had virtually no acting experience and yet they managed to pull it off.    I heard that George Romero was pissed off at Bill Hinzman for making this film and it is clear why that is so. Hinzman, an original ghoul from Romero's 1968 low budget classic, Night of the Living Dead, was himself the main ghoul in Romero's film and was seen throughout the film in infinate amount of camera shots. It can be argued that Hinzman's creepy ghoul performance was one of the main reasons Romero's film became so iconic.    Several decades later, Bill Hinzman, who had not pursued an acting career after Romero's movie in 1968, decided to shoot his own living dead film with him as the lead ghoul. He looked alot like he did in Romero's film, although his age clearly showed with the passage of time.    But some of the scenes and dialog in Hizman's film, The Flesh Easter, were clearly taken, borrowed or stolen, depending on how you look at it, from Romero's film. Even Vince Survinski, who played a minor role in Romero's film, plays the same type of role in Hinzman's film, has the same name and does the same thing as before, hunt ghouls and unknowingly shoots two live people he assumes to be ghouls.    The crime in this matter centers on Romero's film company losing the copyright to their film by a mistake in the film's opening credits where the copyright insignia was left out after the film's title was changed. Add to that a major oversight by the Walter Reed theater chain who distributed the 1968 film and lo and behold, Romero and his partners should be among the world's wealthiest people today. Should be but aren't. Mind you, I don't know all the details about Romero's plight but this would be like 20th Century Fox losing the rights to Planet of the Apes. Imagine.    Romero and company has literally lost billions of dollars worldwide due to their 1968 film being classified as public domain. The U.S. Register of Copyrights office did nothing to help Romero regain his rights. They should have paid off a big politician in Washington, D.C. and perhaps it could have been 'straightened out with a waiver'.    Ironically, Hinzman may end up making more money from his Flesheater film than Romero did with Night of the Living Dead, which, by the way, Romero first tried to call, Night of the Flesh Eaters, at one point, before the Walter Reed Organization changed the title to Night of the Living Dead. In the 1960's, horror films made in the United States were few and far in between, at least the good ones were, with the exception of the Edgar Allan Poe films A.I.P. made with Vincent Price and usually directed by Roger Corman.  Sometimes horror can be combined with sci-fi as there is a fine line there. To me, the two made-in-the-U.S.A. films of the latter part of the 1960's that stood out were Planet of the Apes and Night of the Living Dead. Remember the Venus Probe  sattelite, which exploded in the Earth's outer atmosphere, which allegedly caused the dead to rise from their graves in Romero's film?  Romero hinted that scientists found high levels of radiation from the Venus Probe explosion, radiation that drifted down to Earth and was carried on the winds and then suddenly, and mysteriously, the contaminated air seemed to resurrect dead bodies as ghoulish cannibals hunted the living in a nearly catatonic, mindless state of being, reanimated bodies with no souls, except for an animal instinct and a predator's urge. This was during the Apollo Moon Mission and the space race.   If Night of the Living Dead had been the original title, George Romero and his partners would have never lost the copyrights. Or if the film was released as Night of the Flesh Eaters, with the copyright seal intact in the credits, they would have retained the rights to the film.   The fact that Romero had, in the celler of his office, a copy of the film with the name, Night of the Flesh Eaters, with the copyright intact in the opening credits, could have helped his company regain the rights to the film but that reel of film was lost in a flood.   So Romero never had proof on any reel of film that his movie had the copyright seal under the film's first title. When the film's title was changed and sent to an optical film lab to change the title, no one instructed the technicians there to include the copyright seal along with the new title of Night of the Living Dead.   Romero's company and the Walter Reed Organization assumed the people at the lab would have had the sense to know that the copyright seal should have been included in the re-editing of the opening title. It was not. This oversight was not fully realized or appreciated until years later when home video, video rental stores and videotape recorders became common in homes all across the world in the early 1980's.  Suddenly small companies sprang up all around the country and went into business to duplicate movies onto the VHS format that were classified as public domain, meaning no one had retained the rights. All this was due to a controversial change in U.S. Copyright regulations around 1977, which made it necessary for copyrights to be re-registered every 20 years or so and this unfair regulation was applied to copyrights on films, scripts and books that were produced decades earlier.  This was a way for the federal government to make more money by charging more fees for scripts, films and books that had been previously registered years earlier. Like having to re-register your car every two years with the Department of Motor Vehicles. The new regulation created confusion and legal battles and people unfairly lost the rights to their once protected works if they failed to retain their rights in a timely fashion.  Smaller film production companies who made films from the silent film era to the 1970's, and who may have gone out of business along the way were easy game for the video pirates of the 1980's who seized these public domain films for duplication and distribution to make alot of money from someone else's time, effort and investment. Imagine the Beatles losing the rights to their songs to public domain limbo?    When Romero and his partners realized it was not going to be an easy thing for them to retain the rights to their living dead film, they had no idea the nightmare it would turn into as the film fell into the public domain and the hands of many thieves in the video world reached out just as greedily as the ghouls in Romero's film who had so fiendishly reached out for human flesh, like junkies scrambling for their next heroin fix.  In 1983 I was offered a job to work at a video duplication company in New Jersey who specialized in duplicating public domain movies onto VHS. The company owner pointed to a VHS copy of Night of the Living Dead, saying it was one of his best sellers. I couldn't understand why, at that time, Romero's film was lost to public domain. I turned the job down because the salary was so low. But I wouldn't have felt too good making pirated copies of Romero's classic film anyhow. Public domain is another word for rip off.   For Romero and his partners at Image Ten; between the changes in copyright laws and the confusion and mistakes by the optical printer who changed the title and the Walter Reed people failing to catch that mishap, it became the perfect storm. For those of you who don't know, the Walter Reed Organization was not a movie studio.  They owned a limited chain of movies theaters around the country at one time and Romero was able to get the best deal from them in 1968 because they offered a better profit percentage deal than what the movie studios had offered. But even percentage deals can be shady due to creative accounting practices that cook the books and cheat independant filmmakers and other artists of their fair share of money.  I first saw Night of the Living Dead in 1968 when I was nine years old. It did not become a classic right away, although New York Times film critic Judith Crist hailed the film as a horror classic. It wasn't until the mid-1970's that Night of the Living Dead was revived in the theater circuit as a Saturday midnight showing, usually as part of a double feature. A little known fact is that some of the music used in Romero's film was first used in the low budget horror film, The Hideous Sun Demon, produced in the mid-1950's.   In the mid 1970's, Night of the Living Dead was also shown in so-called movie art houses, little movie theaters independantly owned whose popularity relied more on showing low budget independant films as opposed to major motion pictures from the big movie studios. Some of these films were resurrected from the vaults, some were more recent film productions, many foreign films.  Night of the Living Dead was unable to secure a rating such as a G or an R because of the brief nudity of a female ghouls' asscheeks and the fact that these were the resurrected dead who not only wanted to kill people but eat them alive as well. Many newspapers refused to permit Romero to place ads for his film in movie section of their newspapers for lack of a rating.  The cannibalism that had been portrayed in Romero's film was so shocking, it slowly became what they call an underground classic. It was the type of film that is helped by word of mouth. People who saw Romero's film the first weekend it opened at the Paramount Theater in Staten Island raved about it to me and I saw it the next say.  By the time that movie ended, I walked out of that  theater, not quite the same nine year old kid who had wakjed in. The film changed my perspective of horror, of reality and altered my sense that we lived in a safe world, even though I had my fair share of fights with other kids.  Romero's film was on the underside of a double feature that showed Dr. Who and The Daleks with Peter Cushing as the first film. A few rows in front of me and my 12 year old cousin, Mina, sat six black teenge males, about 17 to 19 years in age. I cannot tell you how many times these black guys were jumping up in seats from fright throught the presenatation of Romero's film. This was 1968, a decade of polticial assassinations, the Vietnam War, social and economic chaos, changing lifestyles, the drug and hippie counter-culture and here comes Night of the Living Daed.  From the eerie music and stark black and white cinema-photography of a lone car traveling into a lonely cemetary on a cloudy day presented just the right morbib atmosphere for the opening scene in Night of the Living Dead. As those black teenagers sat stoned from pot smoking, me and my cousin, Mina, sat munching on popcorn, chocolates and soda. In my neighborhood, we used to go sleigh-riding in a cemetary on a snow covered hill in Staten Island, even at night. The gates were never locked so anyone could go in there any time they pleased and the cops never chased us away. But after I saw Romero's film, I limited my sleigh-riding activities to the day time in that old cemetary.  In 1979, Romero unleashed his living dead sequel called, Dawn of the Dead, which showcased ghouls eatting people around the clock and people and ghouls killing each other in new and unique, albeit bloody and gory shocking scenes. I saw Dawn of the Dead four straight weekends in a movie theater that was situated inside a shopping mall. Most of the scenes in Dawn of the Dead took place inside a shopping mall.  From the very first scenes of Dawn of the Dead, I still recall the wild screaming by the theater-goers who were mostly teenagers as they gasped and jumped in their seats and girls grabbing their boyfriends squeeling like pigs and girls clutching the arms of other girls who were screaming and closing their eyes. Very inter-active. They screamed and then they laughed at themselves for screaming like babies throughout the film. It was a fun but frightful film to see.    Anyway, a word to the wise, be sure you copyright your films, no matter how low budget or amatuerish it may be. And be sure to show the copyright on the opening credits, in any kind of advertising or DVD packaging. And always remember to RETAIN those rights, whether you alter the film's title or not and whenever the expiration date comes due for the copyright to be renewed because the U.S. Copyright office wants to keep making money for their agency by charging as many fees as they can. When you write a screenplay, use your real name as the author, because you don't want to chance getting screwed in an unforseen way in the future.  I was lucky enough to meet George Romero in the summer of 1986 on Broadway near 57th Street in Manhattan. He was walking with one of the SWAT team cops who appeared in Dawn of the Dead. I had recently bought five hundred dollars worth of shares of stock in Romero's company at the time, Laurel Entertainment, who produced Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Tales From The Darkside and a few other horror films.  I stopped Romero in his tracks as I reached out to shake his hand with a smile and babbling about his living dead films. He was gracious enough to give me his autograph as I mentioned I had bought stock in Laurel. The actor who was with Romero was the crazed Swat Team cop called Woolie in Dawn of the Dead, who was shooting blacks and hispanics in a housing project building, not caring if they were zombies or live people. He laughed when I recited a bit of dialog from that scene.  I had bought an original Night of the Living Dead movie poster three years earlier for a hundred bucks at the Bat Cave in Greenwich Village and wanted to ask George Romero to autograph it for me but he was only in NYC for that day and there would have been no time for me to run back to Staten Island and get back to Manhattan as Romero had business meetings to attend the rest of the day and night.   I had met Romero's special make-up effects artist, Tom Savinni, informally, at a sci-fi convention in a mid-town Manhattan hotel one Saturday afternoon. Savinni was browsing the dealer tables where old horror comics were sold. I told him what a great job he did on Dawn of the Dead and Creepshow. Like Romero, Savinni was a nice, unassuming type. I wish I could work for these guys.    In 2010, I asked the U.S. Copyright office for a hardcopy of one my screenplays that I wrote more than 16 years earlier and they charged me about $435.00 for a 120 page copy of my own script! Believe it! That's another thing, no matter what, always keeps copies of your scripts, even if it never sells or never becomes a film. You might want to rewrite it years later, only to find you can't find a copy of it anywhere in the house. Hell, I would have never written the damn thing to start with, had I known I was gonna have to shell out more than $400.00 for a copy of my own script. Thanks for putting up with my thoughts.

Not what I expected I did not like this film.  I got a t-shirt from my yoga teacher with the picture from the movie cover, so it sparked my interest.  I find yoga and its origins interestig, at least I thought.....The film was strange and I really just didn't like it.  I had no idea about some of the things that they did and I don't really see the point of standing on on leg until it swells up to an unrecognizable limb, pulling a vehicle with your penis, or surrounding yourself with animal dung.  Perhaps that is closed minded, but it's just my opinion.  I continue to like the yoga practice for its physical and mental benefits, just did not enjoy this film.

Less than impressed Movie arrived and I was less than impressed from the get go. It was rated as "in good condition" when I purchased it, but when I pulled it out of the shipping envelope, the case looked really old and damaged. The cardboard movie cover looked like it had water damage and was stuck to the plastic case. I had to spend 5 minutes getting it off, tearing it in the process, before I could even open the movie case. The disc was floating around inside when I finally got it open.

great cast, some fun set pieces, but it's just not very good Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Woody Allen, Romy Schneider. It's an amazing cast, and perhaps my expectations were too high as a result. Others have complained about the quality of the DVD transfer and cut scenes. The quality of the script was a worse problem. Way too much time is spent in repetitive scenes establishing the paper-thin characters. Yes, we understand that Peter O'Toole is good looking and that women like him. We understand that Paula Prentiss is crazy. You don't need to show us again. And again. And again.  A few of the set pieces work well -- I liked the scene with Peter O'Toole and Romy Schneider fighting in front of her English as a Second Language class, as the assembled students repeat their lines in unison. Has nobody else done that? It seems like such a natural comic premise. I also liked the scene with Sellers and O'Toole trying to romance Capucine by yelling romantic things to her window in the middle of the night, and inadvertently romancing her fat, male neighbor as well.  The script suffers for having no essentially normal characters in it. Everybody is wacky, and there's really nobody to stand as proxy for the audience. The ending, with everybody converging for a final round of hijinks that will resolve all the subplots, is I think supposed to evoke Shakespearean comedies (Shakespeare is referred to several times in the script before that point). The bard deserves better. So does the audience.

Yuck This movie is incredibly overrated. The pacing is off, the main character unlikeable, and the story was dull. My wife and I were disappointed.

Horrible This movie was awful! Would not recommend to anyone. Bad acting from great actresses and no story line. The language was terrible and they tried too he'd to be like the Hangover but didn't even compare. Very upset I wasted money on this however glad I did the before theater rental so I save another $20 from the theater!

stops and continue... The movie itself is great. I'm a big fan of Fast and Furious movies... For this item (both theatrical and extended versions), I noticed that at one part of the movie (where Dom & Bryan are having conversation that they will do the final job and disappear forever), the film stopped at the part of Dom's line "...forever" with no sound and continued again.:-(( I watched this in the big screen and didn't notice that.

The Worst Superhero Film Of the Summer. Let me say I've never read the Green Lantern comic when I did read and collect them. I was never really interested in DC comics. The just didn't have compelling characters outside of Batman and I only started reading Batman after I saw the movie back in 1989. Right now I can't name any of the major hero's from DC outside of Batman, Superman, and Wonderwoman. I can name Flash also but that's only because of the TV series that came out back and 1990 which was a good show. I think that's the problem with DC comics as a whole their hero's aren't as well known or recognized outside of the big two Batman/Superman while Marvel has many likable and recognizable characters like Captain America, Spiderman, Wolverine, Daredevil, to name a few and even a lesser know character like the Punisher is probably better known than the majority of the hero's/Villains in DC comics. So I don't think there will be many who truly enjoy this movie outside of the ones who read the comic.  Now I don't want you to think this is the worst comic book movie out there but it is the worst of the this summer by far. But there have been worst. The Fantastic Four movie that was never released. I have a friend who has a VHS copy of the movie and the movie is the worst comic book movie I've seen. Jonah Hex, Catwoman, Ghost Rider, Punisher: War Zone to name a few of the terrible ones. No I'd but Green Lantern on the level of the first newer Fantastic Four movie which was bad but not horrible.  Now that I put you in a downer about Green Lantern I'll go on about what I did like.  I like that DC and Warner Brothers took a chance with this character. Since reading into the back history of the character he has to travel to other planets and fight in space. So this is the first comic book movie I can think of that takes place much of the film in space. It's a risk I don't think many movie studio's or Marvel will risk right now. So I need to give DC and WB credit for taking a chance on some levels it worked well. For example in taking us to a alien world and introducing us to alien Green Lanterns. I'll get to what I didn't like about this later on in my review.  Next I liked Ryan Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively. Ryan Reynolds(Hal Jordan) is a good but not great actor who has done mostly comedies. He does bring life to Hal Jordan but the writing and script didn't help him much. After seeing this movie I'd have preferred if he had done DEADPOOL. I think he was born to do that character but I don't know if it's going to happen. I hope after this movie bombs which I'm pretty sure it will studio's will still give him a chance to star. Then there's Blake Lively(Carol Ferris) who plays Hal's love interest. Again she is hampered by the bad script but she still brings her beauty and charisma along with her acting talent to this film to brighten it up. She's one of the few bright spots in the show Gossip Girl and was outstanding in THE TOWN. Sadly these are the only two characters who are the least bit interesting.  Finally there's the special effects which were good but not great. Going into this movie I thought from trailers this would be the worst part but I was wrong the effects were pretty good. The worlds I saw were believable and the alien characters looked alive.  Now onto the what I didn't like.  There is the story/writing of the movie. You won't understand anything if you haven't read the comic. Outside the Narration in the beginning you don't get anything. Not details on who the Lantern's are or who the immortal guardians are and this supposed great evil in Parallax. Then there is the high school script and dialogue is out of a a student film you'd expect a child to write. That's how bad it was some of the lines were laughable when they were clearly not intended to be. Finally there's the two useless bad guys which were uninteresting and weren't really that bad or at least didn't seem that bad. Loki and Sebastian Shaw in Thor and X-Men: First Class seem more alive and evil than the two bad guys in this film combined.  Now we go to all the useless actors in the film. Tim Robbins(Senator Hammond) is a ghost in this film as you won't remember him once he's gone along with virtually all the other actors except for the two I mentioned above. That includes Angela Bassett(Dr. Amanda Waller), Jay O. Sanders(Carl Ferris), Geoffrey Rush(Voice of Tomar-Re), and Michael Clarke Duncan(Voice of Kilowog) to name a few. Then there is Peter Sarsgaard(Hector Hammond) who I guess was supposed to be tortured soul/villain but he was uninteresting and unlikable and wasn't much of a villain. Finally there is Mark Strong(Sinestro). Mark is a good actor and makes a good villain. Sadly he was underused in this film and I wish he had been the bad guy and I hoped he would have been when the guardians gave him a yellow ring. Unfortunately it wasn't to be and we were stuck with Hammond and Parallax.  You'd think the action and special effects would coincide with each other but the don't with this film. While the special effects were pretty good the action was terrible and downright boring. I heard this movie cost around 175 million to make and you'd think with that much of a budget they'd have better action. I can't think of one good action scene in this film and the climax where Parallax invades earth and chases Hal Jordan around the solar system is terrible  The last thing I'll talk about is the score/soundtrack which there isn't one or at least I didn't notice one. I think this film would have been helped out by a good score/soundtrack.  I was hoping this movie would take place entire ally in space. I would love to have seen a superhero Star Wars type of film. I think it could have worked that way with a better bad guy and better writings. They studio had the budget for it and I'd like to know what they spent all that money on because the couldn't have used it all on this film judging by the finished project.  Overall a bad film but not a terrible one. I have no doubt this will be the worst superhero film of the summer and one of the worst I've seen but no the worst. So I'd skip it and if you need a superhero fix go see THOR, X-MEN: FIRST CLASS or wait for Captain America. This film isn't worth your time or the money you'll spend on it.

Was this the right Conan? Was this the right Conan ? Was what I was thinking throughout this movie. It wasn't terrible, although the thought of a new Conan ( not Arnold ) didn't work for me very well. Every time I heard his name I was looking for someone else. Sorry I guess seeing the original Conan what, some 30 years ago has spoiled me for any future Conan actors. Unless they come up with a incredible movie, which this is not, to clear my mind of the character actor.  The opening scene where the boy Conan gets surrounded by those 4 or 5 invaders and beats them all down and chops off their heads? Yeah, that would of happened in real life, a 10 year old boy destroying 5 invaders by himself. That kind of lost me right there. But I  bought the movie and i'll keep it and watch it again once in a while. But this new Conan movie didn't even come close to beating the original Conan the Barbarian.

SLOW odd film This movie was very slow and strange with Lady Thatcher's hallucinations of her deceased husband. Brilliant performanance by Meryl. Not really an exciting film of Thatcher's life to watch.

what a let-down Director Vincent Ward used to be the next up-and-coming thing in New Zealand, but it will be interesting to see if his career ever recovers from this bomb, reputed to have cost over 20 million to make but which only earned about 800,000 USD at the box office.  It's not hard to see why it failed so miserably:  1.  Ward, trained as a painter, does not have a worthy command of character.  His characters make decisions that he never upon or explored.  Morton's final decision in the movie seems unnecessary and almost spur-of-the moment.  2.  The film is a downer throughout.  You don't feel satisfaction when the woman finds her son, when the war finishes, or when she makes her final decision.  3.  Ward's view of the whites in New Zealand is absurdly one-sided.  They are utterly without any redeeming qualities, embodying greed, evil, rapaciousness, etc.  This is a little ridiculous.  After all, it was the eventual hegemony of the whites that put an end to the senseless, aeons-old fighting among the Maori tribes.  Not to mention much improved medical care and those awesome top hats!  In the end, the movie gives you every reason to hate white culture but no reasons to honor the Maori, other than the fact that they live is some very picturesque forests.  4.  Morton -- an actress whose bona fides are beyond question -- delivers a terrible performance in this film, her worst, at least that I've seen. They say she was sick for weeks during the production, and it shows.  Pity that, but still . . .  5.  I don't think they did such a great job on casting.  A lot of the Maoris had potbellies.  In the 1860's, they would have been a lot more wiry.

May I Please Have That 75 Minutes of My Life Back? This suffers the same fate as the Smokey and The Bandit franchise...good first movie, fair second one, and painful to watch 3rd installment.  I tried, I really tried for the sake of my kids who were watching with me but there is just nothing at all satisfying about this effort.  Dull from start to finish and my time was wasted.

Crime in a Boarding House There Was a Crooked Man, 1950 film  This story begins with a man playing with a ball on the sidewalk. Mr. Collins kicked a cat! This is a boarding house, where people live in a room and eat watered soup. [Note their lives.] A man sees the new boarder "Paul Collins" coming down the stairs. One man can identify people by their footsteps. Mr. Otis was crippled in an accident. We see conflicts among people because of their behavior. A woman finds Otis stabbed to death in his room! Kay Abbot asks Haila Troy to wait before reporting this. Two men find items of their clothing missing. [Unlocked doors.] Fred Rogers arrives home after being absent for six years. A scream tells the maid found the body. The police lieutenant questions the people about their alibis. Mrs. Girard tells Professor Simons quarreled with Otis. Simons is wearing a different pair of shoes. Mr. Collins left the house.  Kay Abbot tells what Otis did to her; he took a valuable letter that she borrowed from her job. Jeff Troy and Haila visit Professor Simons and ask who could have impersonated him. Jeff Troy goes to question a man whose business card was found in Otis' room. Kay tells about her husband, who was trying to retrieve that letter. Haila screams when a strange man enters her room at night! Jeff returns and learns what happened. Otis was operating a scam to borrow money from people. They learn about Simons' past. The police learn about Girard's past. Mrs. Tory notices the Professor's rare shoes and gets away. The police know about Simons now.  This story tells about the lives of poor people who live in a boarding house and their problems. It exposes the scam of borrowing people from recent college graduates by pretending to have gone to school with them. Are there still people who request funds by claiming an affinity?

Interesting Premise, Clumsy Storytelling At first sight, "Splice" (Dark Castle being its co-production company) belongs to the minor genre, namely a sci-fi film about brilliant (and often misguided) scientists doing some morally debatable experiments. As you know, the subject matter has been treated in films countless times since Dr. Frankenstein and his monster, but "Splice" directed by Vincenzo Natali ("Cube") attempts to give some emotional depths to the overused topic. "Splice" is not just a sci-fi thriller. Well, the trouble is, whatever "Splice" wants to be, the film looks very silly.  Two maverick scientists Clive (Adrien Brody) and Elsa (Sarah Polley) hired by a pharmaceutical company that wants a new medicine have made a groundbreaking invention: a totally new life form. The genetically engineered "creature" (named "Dren") looks like a human with a long tail. Here is an opportunity for ethical debate or "Species"-like campy horrors. Instead of them, Natali's "Splice" tries to focus the fragile relationships between the scientists and its subject, or something more disturbing.  So far, the film is not bad. The special effects are also decent. The problem is, in order to make its point the film ignores details that are essential to building up believable characters. It is painful watching characters (not just Clive and Elsa), who should be enough intelligent to discuss moral dilemma, making stupid decisions over and over again. Those scientists don't even know what they really want. The company is so sloppy in managing their "properties" on which they must have spent millions of dollars. So why should we take the film seriously?  It is even more painful watching talented actors playing unbelievable characters exchanging silly dialogs. But the greatest problem is that "Splice" is predictable and boring. Once you get the drift of the story, you know where it is going, and it is exactly what happens in the muddled third act.

Review. VERY dissapointed. This movie sucked. All the hype about Tony Jaa doesn't show through in this movie. The story line was bad. The only fight sequence worth seeing is near the end when Tony Jaa is fighting this "Man Mountain". But for the price, it's not worth it. If gotta see this, RedBox this movie. At least the dissapointment in this movie won't be nowhere near as bad when your only spending $1.00 to watch it.

Violates laws of physics and is not even science fiction. Watched twice out of incredulity. Intriguing premise badly implemented. Even the disk does not follow the Newtonian cause/effect nexus we know on this planet--standard  DVD commands such as find scenes do not work, which in turn make it impossible to uncover the "reality" (if any.) Supposedly flashbacks of (anti?)hero who devolved from reputable insurance agent to  justified vigilante, with such memory loss that cannot function in this space-time despite carrying inch-thick file of documentation and writing, yea  bodily tattooing, important considerations as to who/what (has/is to?) occur(red). Like Run Lola Run, but less coherent. Unreliable narrator cannot maintain distinctions between multiple realities and  his constant shifts of P.O.V between color and b/w are unhelpful;  happenings and identities shift, even between friend and foe constantly and nothing is what it appears. Cannot exist in this universe, assuming Occam's Razor applies in an America filmed in 2000. Therefore either (1) space and time fold back on each other at the individual level without warning or (2)it's a drug-induced bad trip. Drugs are mentioned throughout and fantasy desiderata such as protagonist killing a gangster to take on his Jaguar and girlfriend and even clothing, not to mention a free $200,000 to live on without a job, with no law enforcement or Mob penalties (scot free)are much in evidence. WAS the killing, if actually happening, actually justified?  Don't try this at home.

Very Poor Season Seven It seems all series in their final two seasons take a drop in storyline & writing skills.  House M.D. is no exception.  Loyal followers of this series have come to love Gregory House's roller coaster character.  The one constant has always been that he is an egotistical jerk, but absolutely brilliant at last minute diagnosis.  We forgave him being a jerk as long as he saved the patient.  Also in previous seasons he was an opiate addict, which added dimension to his character (in a very negative way).  Finally he "kicks the habit" -- until this last season.  What the writers failed to understand is that viewers don't mind their heroes having serious character flaws, as long as there is the possibility that this can be overcome -- it's called character arc in the business.  For House to slip back into addiction is lazy, bankrupt writing, which therefore makes all of the plots, and sub-plots depressing and "we've seen this before".  All of the other major characters don't fair well either -- they are charactatures of previous episodes and bring absolutely nothing new to this seasons plots.  They are redundant.  Viewers wanted to see House's brilliance in solving impossible medical cases -- that's what makes this semi-medical series fun -- not him continually gulping down a hand full of Vicodin every ten minutes and making stupid decisions (personally and professionally).  We wanted to see House conquer Mr. Everest and be at the top of his game -- we wanted to see a guy we could like.  The writers didn't understand this.  The viewer finally concludes at the end of this boring season that House does not deserve to be called a medical doctor, nor should he ever be allowed near a patient even as a candy striper.  He is not a friend to anyone, least of all himself, or the viewer.  If you have to see this last season -- which you no doubt do -- then rent it, because you will only watch it once.

Silly Fun! Of course this movie is silly. It's supposed to be. It is fun and I loved it. The undertones of all the silliness shows the conflict between Israel and Palestine. And that's the silliest thing of all. A comedians look at "Can't We All Just Get Along?"

Great Effects - Shame It Can't Fix The Lack of Story The short and sweet of it......the effects and CGI were awesome, but the complete utter lack of anything I'd call a story leads to a one lousy movie.  Save your money and don't spend more than a $1 at your local RedBox or Netflix.

Trash but not entertaining at all I actually like trash movies if they have some style. But this one is so badly written, filmed and played that there is no entertainment value in it at all. I did see 2 more movies of this studio that have at least entertained me in a certain way. This one didn't. Bad acting (no surprise), bad special effects and simply extremely boring. Don't touch!

The Final Hulk-Out: "Death of the Incredible Hulk" Perhaps the less said about this 1990 television film the better, as David Banner finally escapes the curse of the Incredible Hulk by plummeting to his death following a small plane's explosion.  Minus the poignant performances of the late Bill Bixby and Elizabeth (Highlander: The Raven) Gracen, there isn't much else to see here, unfortunately, as co-star Lou Ferrigno's presence again is demoted to only a few quick scenes.  Per the standard TV film formula, David Banner is within arm's reach of a permanent scientific cure from his monstrous alter-ego, but it is sadly not to be.  Throw in some unsettling Russian spies (including a chilling Anna Katarina and Andreas Katsulas) as the ruthless villains, and the film demonstrates some surprisingly dark potential.  However, the all too obvious budget constraints (i.e. Bixby opts not to even show his Hulk metamorphosis on camera this time) severely limit the entertainment value of his final Hulk project.  It has been reported before that Bixby intended a subsequent "rebirth" film featuring a talking Hulk and quite possibly Brigitte Nielsen as She-Hulk (per the few publicity photos taken of her for the role), but his failing health prematurely ended the project.  Bixby subsequently passed away of cancer in 1993, leaving a timeless and classy legacy as one of television's greatest reluctant heroes.  His last appearance as David Banner deserved a far more satisfying goodbye than this film's budget could afford him.  Yet, as its director, at least Bixby could end the saga that he and Ferrigno began together on his own terms.  Rating: 4.5 **** /10.  To complete David Banner's television journey, it is worth seeing once, but the overall film is mostly a disappointment.  The minimal special features are okay for what you are getting.

Interesting scifi concept It did have a twist ending. No great special effects or anything, strictly low budget.  It is filmed like a documentary, so if you like that style, you will like this one. Kind of like an X-files story. I rented it, and It's worth watching once.

What just happened! The first Ghost Rider film and Drive Angry were bookends of redneck fun for fans of mindless action and Nick Cage. I liked them both. But this film feels like a foreign attempt to recreate American drive-in style entertainment and it comes off as odd in all the worst ways. The special affects are great, but the acting and directing are off kilter. Even Cage comes off as a parody of himself.

GOOD MOVIE - TERRIBLE BLU-RAY In my opinion the best movie Dario Argento has ever made, although I didn't care for the ridiculous end too much. I saw it on VHS when it first came out. Popping in the blu-ray I was abot shocked at the horrible (and I mean horrible) picture quality of this transfer, which is as grainy as a bad VHS copy of a 70s movie (the same problem the blu-ray of MARTYRS has). I read in some review that the picture quality was "very good" and that the movie "features a thick layer of grain that, again, preserves the filmmaker's intended vision". I find that hard to believe. I don't own a DVD of this movie, but as a previous reviewer said, it can't look worse than this. The sound however is excellent, and features the dubbed English version and the original Italian track.  The movie itself I found quite good, except for the ending (I'm not an Argento fan, so some of the fans out there might object). I found THE STENDHAL SYNDROME suffered from the same problem that TERROR AT THE OPERA suffered from, it doesn't know when to end. What you get is a ridiculous plot twist to allow the movie to go on for another twenty or so minutes, depriving it of all credibility.

No Audio Commentary on all episodes  for Stargate SG 1 S8 I bought the Complete Series of Stargate SG1,and to my surprise Season 8's disks didn't have any audio commentary as mention in the Complete Series so I decided to buy Stargate SG 1-S8 Box Set; and to my amaze no audio commentary in episodes niether.  I am returning the box set!  By the way, Threads in box set and complete Series is a 105 mins.

Google search more effective Don't waste your money.  You can look up Billy Gohl on the internet and learn more about him.  The "movie" is more of a slide show lasting 15 minutes with narration.  Then you get to watch the same 15 minute slide show without the narration.  I had never heard of Billy Gohl and was ver interested in this documentary, but was very disappointed when I viewed it.  Even the 15 minutes of narration repeats information several times, undoubtably to prolong it.  I enjoy true crimes and mysteries, especially serial killers, but this documentary is not worth the purchase price.  It views more like an amateur film student project.  Again, the internet will provide more satisfying results if you want to learn the story of Billy Gohl (pronounced like ghoul, somewhat ironic).

digital copy not available outside of US I ordered this in large part for the digital copy. However, when I went online with the authorization code it denied me because I was logging on outside of the US. Amazon should be clearer about this in advertising this and similar bluray/dvd/digital copy sets.

Censored version This version has more than 5 minutes of cut scenes and poor sound quality (mono).Has good image quality but does not fill the entire screen of a widescreen tv...sad...

my only disappointment This is the only album of Diana Krall's , and I have them all, that is a disapointment. I do not have words to discribe the magic of her live performances including a personal presents at a preformance in Las Vegas Hiltons concert hall . This album lacks that magic , maybe one too many , maybe RIO .

Pass I was thinking this film might touch a bit on the corruption and the inherently non-Western customs of Beijing, and how they related to the architects building the stadium, but mostly, it's a lot of random and ethereal statements (subtitled or in difficult-to-understand English) from either the architects or a few politicians. There's no meat to this film, and anyone wanting to really learn anything about the building of the Bird's Nest or about the culture in Beijing will be disappointed.

I wish I had better things to say....I really do. The reason I say that, is because this movie brings back very scary;yet fond memories for me. Some sort of a sentimental nostalgia, being the first movie I saw at the age of 7 when it came out, to truly scare me out of my skin. I came to love it for that reason. But as I got older, and read the book which I LOVE, I began to see MANY flaws with the TV mini series (ughh) adaptation of Stephen King's classic.  Before I go any further, I want to make it clear that I fully realize probably 95% of the time or more, a movie adaptation cannot do a book justice and I can appreciate that fact no problem. However, this take on the book was so full of holes, so censored, and so much different from the book, it was laughable. I literally would sit there laughing watching the movie after I had read the book, thinking wtf were they thinking?! It's like they wanted to take everything from the book and make it the opposite.  Now for one thing, I'm a realistic person. I understand that it's hard to make a movie based on an 1,100 page book. But by the same token, if you're going to do it, do it right. Don't chop it all up into an abortion of a movie. For example, they changed male characters to female and vice versa. They completely omitted the beginning part of the story and spun it into something lame and VERY short. There is no real substance in the movie version...they just cherry pick parts of the book; but the worst part is that they CHANGE almost all the parts! That's what bothers me so much. In my opinion, a book like this, along with The Stand, should not be a made for TV movie. It should have been a motion picture so that they wouldn't have to sugar coat and censor every bit of the story and turn it into an utter train wreck! I don't see how King could have possibly been happy with this at all.  But now I'll leave you on a positive note. First I'll say this: If you want to be truly scared and experience a classic - a horror masterpiece, then do yourself a favor and read the book! Yes it's long - about 1,100 pages long...but worth every page. I read it in less than a week, because it's THAT good. I would recommend doing what I did and watch the movie first, because there is ALOT to take in with the book and the movie actually helps with the imagery. Also, it's a pretty darn good cast of actors. John Ritter, Harry Anderson, Anette O'Toole etc...but the best of them all without question, is Tim Curry who plays the murderous Pennywise The Clown. He plays a perfect Pennywise. It's somewhat bittersweet because the cast is great, but the movie may make you (like it did me) feel shortchanged.  I hope that this review was helpful to you. My goal was to write a review based on my feelings towards the film and how it compares to the book. I tried keeping it short and also tried to not give anything away. I hope that I was able to help you make an informed decision on whether or not it's worth seeing. It's not a complete dud, but I just couldn't with good conscience give it anymore than 2 stars.

Chick Flick Lite in a gorgeous setting: Production detail: A+  Love stories: D+ This film is chick flick lite set in the midst of gorgeous and stunningly accurate production details.  If you just turned off the sound and watched it you'd be fine and what's more, you'd also be able to easily follow the general line of the two romances, so called, because they've been done before ad nauseum. Substituting melodrama for romance, the two central relationships are unbelievabe, trite, and silly and each "love scene" is accompanied by jarringly tender music, just in case the viewer needs a cue. Richard Gere plays the same role he's played in so many other films -- "It won't be long before you succumb to my intrinsic irresistibility and begin to love me as much as I love myself" -- and one cannot possibly imagine what the gorgeous, classy Vanessa Redgrave character sees in the unattractive William Devane whose lines are equally trite and arrogant.  Sure, I get it, the Yanks were overconfident, but the screenwriters really bombed when it came to writing Devan's part.  Either that or he just bombed in the delivery.  Probably a combination of both.  The film often jumps from one scene to another with no apparent attempt at keeping alive an interesting storyline and the overblown music often threatens to smother the dialogue, which for Americans trying to understand real British actors can pose a problem.  As has been mentioned in another review, the enormous amounts of time that these soldiers spent on their new British girlfriends is way off the mark: apart from one very cool scene where a group of servicemen are obviously prepping for the invasion, these Americans do nothing but flirt and date.  The film, however, is loaded to the brim with realistic touches, so much so that it feels as if the viewer had been dropped into pre-D-Day Britain and which makes this a great film for WWII history buffs with a particular interest in this time/place.  And the acting, for the most part, is decent, especially that of Redgrave (of course) and Lisa Eichhorn, who both give very good performances. Why they fell for these particular Yanks is believable only because they were lonely but once begun, these romances are inspid and go nowhere. Perhaps the screenwriters ran out of time or the filmmakers were hoping that audiences would swallow anything when presented with a film about love and war.

Two Steps Away From Being The Worst Screen Version Of The Biblical Story. This version of The Ten Commandments originally aired as a two-part miniseries on ABC in 2006. This new rendition of the Biblical story of Moses, found in the Bible and wonderfully told on screen in 1923, 1956 and 1998, is literally two steps away from being the worst screen version. That distinction goes to the steaming pile of animated crap starring Christian Slater as Moses and Alfred Molina as Rameses. What follows are the pros and cons of this version.  Pluses  I. A stirring main theme by Randy Edelman (Gods And Generals, Gettysburg, Dragonheart). Nowhere near as epic as Elmer Bernstein's grand theme for Cecil B. DeMille's epic remake of The Ten Commandments, which he had filmed as a silent movie earlier in 1923, but still a good one.  II. Dougray Scott's valiant attempt to portray a doubting Moses. Granted, this was a strength/weakness of this version. Moses at times came across as almost heretical several times when describing how God spake unto him. More on that in a moment.  III. The inclusion of the battle with the Amalekites, which is omitted in the 1923, 1956, 1998 and 2007 screen versions. Though Miriam and the women joining the battle is probably inaccurate to Scripture (the Bible is silent on this), it was a good decision in terms of drama.  IV. The inclusion of God providing manna in the wilderness & Moses getting water from the bitter stream which was called Marah and Moses striking the rock to get water from it (a symbolic representation of Jesus, the Water of Everlasting Life), all of which are omitted in the 1923, 1956 & 1998 versions, were also good choices.  Cons  I. Moses describing God as short-tempered and I can't remember what else. Moses also says that God thinks about things and needs someone to help Him do His work. Even Jethro describes the desert as a place perhaps big enough for even a god not to find you. Such views are entirely anti-Scriptural.  II. God speaks six sentences at most in the scattered brief moments that His voice is heard. In the Burning Bush scene, He does not tell Moses exactly who He is, merely I AM WHO I AM, and apparently, Moses has to figure out the rest for himself, which does not make any sense whatsoever. (In the Biblical account, God saith unto Moses, Certainly I will be with thee...after that thou hast brought the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain, among other instructions, which He giveth unto him). When God spake unto His servants in the Bible, He spake clearly and not in parables, leaving them puzzled as to what He saith.  III. The plagues were not depicted as they occur in the Bible, as some of them come on screen with no explanation whatsoever.  IV. The golden calf looked so fake and was so much smaller than in the 1923 and 1956 versions.  V. The parting of the Red Sea was poorly done with the CGI available now. The 1923, 1956 and 1998 versions did the parting of the Red Sea in spectacular fashion (though the 1956 version is obviously the definitive one for adults and the 1998 one for kids)  VI. The Ark Of The Covenant was very poorly done and very small as well. Even the non-Christian film Raiders Of The Lost Ark got the look just right.  VII. The Israelite committing adultery with another Israelite could have occurred and it provided a twist to the story, but I think it was thrown in there to sex up the drama for a modern audience (though no explicit nudity is shown).  VIII. Too many scenes of the Pharoah holding his son, either in his arms or on his lap. Nasty. Besides, the Pharoah looked gay with all the eyeliner on him.  This version is Not Rated, but contains some graphic violence and two brief sexual encounters.  Stick with the magnificent 1923 & 1956 and kid-friendly 1998 screen versions. Avoid this & 2007 screen versions like the Bubonic Plague.

Simply Boring I love Demetria Mckinney because she is the bomb in House Of Payne.  This movie is so boring I almost felled to sleep on it.  The movie is taken place in a office with Demetria and her husband talking to a counseler about their marriage.  The whole time in the movie Demetria is using vulgor language because she is angry with her husband about their marriage problems.  The movie has a dumb storyline and should not have been made.  I am so sorry I wasted my money on this movie. If you love bootleg, budgeted movies than this is the one to buy.  Maybe next time Demetria because this was a total disaster.

Bleah Well of course I knew this was gonna be bad, but with the trailer showing the Mega Shark eating a passenger airplane, the film was screaming out to be watched!  But yes, it is really bad. 95% of the film is spent watching the cast emote and talk about the two monsters and only 5% of screen time is devoted to actually showing them. The budget must have been really low because even with this tiny amount of on screen time the filmmakers still repeat several of the shots multiple times, such as the Mega Shark (I love calling it that!) bombing through the water towards the camera, or the Giant Octopus opening and closing its tentacles like an umbrella.  Nearly all the creature shots are underwater and VERY murky, and the few that aren't are SO brief that you can barely see them. Let me list them:  Mega Shark attacks a plane: about 2.5 seconds of monster footage. Giant Octopus attacks an oil rig - about 3 secs of monster footage. Mega Shark eats Golden Gate bridge - 3 separate 1 second shots of monster action.  And all of this is in the trailer! So if you want to see almost two hours of Debbie Gibson and some bunch of no-name actors waffling about science, aquatic life and plans to capture the creatures, all seemingly filmed in one cardboard set featuring dials and switches that slightly look like a warship deck only with different red, blue and green lights on it for different scenes, then this film is for you. If you want to see a giant CGI shark and octopus destroying CGI ships, planes and bridges, watch the trailer and save yourself a whole lot of time.  What saddened me slightly is that you can tell the film makers went to some effort to make this, it's proficiently filmed and at least they did stage a few good scenes but if you call your movie "Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus", you gotta deliver a hell of a lot more mega shark and giant octopus than this!  Luckily things improve in the follow up film Mega Python Vs Gatoroid, when the cast and scriptwriters start taking themselves less seriously...shame this one was just before that change of heart because there's no humour at all

Really Lame The Office seasons one through five are very good.  Season six was awful and even painful to watch at times.  The actors are still fine, but the writing stinks.  Evidently they've run out of ideas.  It's no wonder Steve Carell has left the show.  In season 6 Ryan (an interesting character) was used very little and they've got him back in a relationship with Kelly (doesn't work and isn't funny).  Instead, they used Oscar quite a lot -- he's one dimensional and it adds nothing to the show. The idea for The Office was great (buy the original BBC version -- it's the best).  For anyone who's worked in an office setting you know there are an unlimited "strange but true" situations that could be explored in the show and would be hilarious.  Unfortunately, the writers of The Office must have run out of steam.  I paid $14.99 on Amazon for season 6 and it was $14 too much.  Tip:  End your collection at season 5.

Beware of Geeks bearing laptops In principle, I'm all for the approach and the use of new technology that the experimental Catalan theatre group la Fura dels Baus bring to opera productions.  In practice however, I can never get past the dumb ideas that they sometimes base their concepts upon.  Although I have avoided it myself, a lot of people like their Valencia Ring cycle, and I can see how their approach to total music theatre would work with Wagner - much as it suits, in principle, the dramatic theatricality of Hector Berlioz (they've done <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004W5WL">La Damnation De Faust</a> in the past).  In practice however, I'm afraid their production of Les Troyens just doesn't work for me.  Seriously.  What genius (that would be Carlus Padrissa) though it would be a great idea to take the metaphor of the Trojan Horse virus back to its source and make it literal?  The phrase, "Beware of Greeks or other outside hostile agencies bearing gifts of laptops carrying viruses that may compromise the integrity of your system", doesn't really have all that great a ring to it.  Even if you were to find this feeble concept worthy of more than a minute's consideration, there's little to support it in this staging, which is an impressive spectacle certainly (you are always guaranteed that at least from la Fura dels Baus), but it's also a complete hotchpotch of ideas and concepts that look a complete mess and don't come across particularly well on video.  Some of the scenes mixing projections and live action, hanging singers and acrobats from cables, are impressive, enhancing the nightmarish visions of Cassandra and representing the death of Laco'on well in the first half, but really, does this bring anything meaningful out of the work, or is it just half-baked concepts and Cirque du Soleil spectacle?  Conducted by Valery Gergiev, the Valencia production at least remains hugely entertaining from a musical viewpoint, although I wouldn't put it above the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003757W1A">John Eliot Gardner version</a>.  The singing is mostly of a good standard, particularly the two female leads Elisabete Martos (Cassandra) and Daniela Barcellona (Dido), but again, personally, I prefer the performances of Anna Caterina Antonacci and Susan Graham in the Châtelet production.  Gregory Kunde is however certainly a better Aeneas than Lance Ryan here, who I thought delivered everything in a dreary declamatory fashion and in a tone that becomes unpleasantly nasal on the high notes.  His poor diction moreover painfully murders the French libretto.  The quality of the Blu-ray itself - the entire opera on a single BD50 disc - is reasonably good, the image as clear as it can be on a dark stage that uses a lot of back and front-screen projections.  The audio tracks - PCM stereo and DTS 5.1 HD master audio - are both fine, if there is little to choose between them.  Overall, if you don't think too much about the terrible concept and are able to simply just enjoy the spectacle of the staging, this isn't a bad version of Les Troyens, and it's certainly well performed - but there is a much better version out there already on Blu-ray in terms of production values, spectacle and overall quality of the performance.

Repetitive and over-hyped They say of Vivaldi that he didn't compose 600 concerti, he composed the same concerto 600 times. It seems that Bocelli sings the same song over and over and over and over . . . Moreover, while there were some subtitles when Bocelli said something, there were no subtitles during the songs, which were nearly all in Italian. Perhaps if I knew what he was singing about I would have enjoyed it more. It was also grotesque to describe him as the greatest singer in the world, no, in the universe, and the trumpet player he had on as the greatest trumpet player in the world - forget Domingo or Pavarotti (still alive when this performance took place) or Marsalis et al. Bocelli has a pleasant voice, no more, kind of an Italian Mario Lanza. Perhaps if he had sung familiar arias or songs (his Besame Mucho was in my opinion the best effort of the night), this might have been enjoyable, but as it was I was quite simply increasingly bored.

This is not Margaret Thatcher I hope at some point somebody really makes a biopic of Margaret Thatcher and her amazing accomplishments.  She is portrayed in this movie as a misguided woman who rose through the ranks by neglecting her family.  Her accomplishments, especially helping end the cold war, are mentioned briefly in passing.  The movie spends most of the time in her old age, where she is conversing with the ghost (or memory) of her dead husband and saying incredibly mean things to her daughter.  REALLY?  That's what the movie makers came up with?  They were so afraid to praise anything Margaret Thatcher did that they made her look like an abusive, neglectful, slightly crazy and out of touch woman instead of the strong woman she was and is.  How awful is this to do to somebody just to further your political agenda?  She is also the longest serving and only female British prime minister of the 20th century.  Total personal wealth rose by 80% under Thatcher.  The Labour Party Leader in 2011 finally admitted that Thatcher's policies in the 80's were correct.  However, you won't see much about her great accomplishments in this movie.  Yes, Meryl Streep can act.  But the fact that she accepted a role to diminish this great woman actually diminishes Meryl Streep in my eyes.

Not as expected. The trailer is better than the entire movie itself, so don't bother to watch the whole thing. Read the cliff notes version on wikipedia.

More Torture Crap Scar is very similar to last years Chain Letter, in that is another torture porn movie masquerading as a teen slasher movie. I wasn't a big fan of Chain Letter, and I'm even less of a fan of Scar. If it weren't for Angela Bettis or some old-school slasher moments early on, then this would be a complete waste. And I absolutely hated the reveal of the killer. It was someone that I initially liked and I didn't want him/her to be the killer. I really wish this torture porn era in horror would end already. I liked Saw and I liked Hostel, but almost everything in this subgenre that has been released since those two films have been either average or horrible. Scar isn't horrible...but when that's the nicest thing I can say about a movie, it's far from good.

Unsettling, quirky, and peculiarly charming, but not good Low budget Italian horror with an American star.  Good? No.  Unsettling, quirky and peculiarly charming? Yes.  Worth the time it takes to watch it? No.

True Blood: The Complete Second Season (HBO Series) Am rating the service, not the item, since I have not yet received it.  Ordered on Feb 6.  It is now March 10. The second hand supplier's service sucks.

One disc was scratched The entire collection came in good condition besides one disc which was unplayable so that was disappointing. Other than that everything else was fine. I do not recommend this product if you want your collection to be complete.

Cheap thriller with some big names I really do not know what to make of this movie.  It is supposed to be some sort of heist where three girlfriends team up to be gun wielding tough girls handling transaction of the drug money.  There are reference to Bruce Willis (who happens to play a role in this movie) and his movies form the 80s.  I guess it is supposed to be a nostalgic backdrop to the fact that three leading female actresses were probably born in 80s when Bruce Willis was making it big in the action movies.  There is a lot of story telling and joke telling in this movie.  It is a futile attempt to get action moving from one point to another.  Bruce Willis' performance is his typical role: self-centered bad guy with plenty of female companions that are in his company for one purpose only (I will let you guess which one).  It is Forest Whitaker that give an amazing performance in this movie.  He plays delusional psychopath who can do many accents and even perform some impressive stuttering impressions.  In any case, if you are in the mood for goof ball movie with some recognizable (actor) faces, lots of shooting and funny comebacks, this is a perfect movie.  Otherwise, do not waste your time and money.  It is a low budget, "let's fill our time with an easy project" kind of a movie.

Don't waste your money, as there are plenty of other DC movies better than this. I saw Superman/Batman: Public Enemies and I loved it, so I wanted to see this movie. I am also a Batman fan, I love Batman and everything about him. I rented this on Netflix streaming (don't bother with Netflix, you are getting cheated out of your money) and (to say the least) it did not appeal to me. I liked the acting (especially Kevin Conroy), but the story was bland. Unlike other DC Universe Animated Original Movies like Batman: Under The Red Hood or Justice League: the New Frontier, rather than telling a compelling and moving story (such as The Dark Knight or Batman: Arkham Asylum) it just seemed like a way to make money. Batman by the way plays a supporting role rather than a leading one. You can almost predict everything that happens. Any one who has seen Pirates of the Cariibean: On Stranger Tides will know what I am talking about. It is called "Jumping the shark." The acting may be good, but it is so stereotypical that you can predict everything before it happens. Like I said before, the story is bland and tipical. Don't waste you money.

Magritte video - not suitable for school viewing I ordered this DVD to supplement my surrealism project I teach to my art students.  Good thing I watched it first!  Magritte has SO many cool works of art....and yet the focus in this movie seems to be on his nude paintings.  Several times the camera even zooms in for a closeup of the breasts!!  I'm not a prude by any means, but come on.  A couple of times they even showed a live nude woman....and I have no idea why they needed to do that. Shock value?  Anyway, it's a useless video for my classroom.  THe only views of the majority of his works are in passing in several art museum shots from far away.  Crazy.  Would not advise this for a classroom viewing.

The weak one of this series I absolutely loved the other Underworld films, but this one felt rushed, with poor story development, a bad pace, and some fairly terrible cgi graphics.

WILL NOT watch again. I rented this, not expecting much. I had 7 movies picked out, and i needed 8 because 8 is my lucky number. lol. But this movie is very Dark. It has a depressing feel, and you cant hardly see some of the scenes due to the Lighting.( Darkness.)

Sad, depressing, nothing happy to pass on It is well acted.  It is sad.  It is depressing.  It is not for me.  Others think it has positive things in it, but I did not see them.  Maybe that is today's society for most, but it is not where I want to dwell or even think of.  It was a mistake for me to view it.  Sorry I can' recommend other than saying these young actors really did depress me....and since they are well paid Hollywood people they don't have much to complain about in their daily lives.  Must be good acting.

Can't argue with the price Backwoods Butchers contains four films, all low budget, low talent affairs. "Butchered" is the worst of the lot by far, a rambling, meandering story of some teens getting slaughtered while on a camping trip at a beach. The problem with this film is that way too much time is spent trying to develop the characters and conflicts within them and it is frankly beyond the actors capabilities to carry that type of situation. Once they get to the secluded beach to camp and the killer shows up there is no suspense and no gore or anything else to make the film worthwhile. Rating: half a star. "Bread Crumbs" tells the story of a porno shoot gone bad when two killer kids show up and start terrorizing the film crew. The kids are kinda creepy, there is some gore but it is certainly not all that scary....after all, it is just two creepy little kids that could have been easily overpowered at any point in the film. Rating: one and a half stars. "Mother's Day Massacre" comes across as a sort of reimagining of the original 8o's Mother's Day film. Two disturbed sons and their mother wreack havoc on a group of teens. There are a lot of other subplots in this one involving some very sleazy characters and a strangely out of place abortion sequence. This film even has the creepy gas station scene which is usually a staple of these types of movies. It moves along pretty fast and is never really boring. Rating two stars. "A Bothered Conscience" is probably the best of the bunch telling the tale of a couple of hillbilly types who do not like tresspassers. The first half of the film is basically scene after scene of tresspassers getting killed. The second half gets weird when zombies and ghosts show up. It held my interest the most out of all the films in this collection. The only real complaint is that this film is mastered terribly on the DVD but is still watchable. Rating two and a half stars. In conclusion, due to the almost give away price you can't really go wrong in giving this disk a try.

A movie about a man that losses his girl. Poor Donnie Yen spent years wooing the princess and she forgets about him in 3 days and falls in love with a random guy she met in the woods. She even decided to leave her throne and her kingdom for this one single man she really doesn't know much about. This is all tied together with a Disneyland war is bad theme. Not what I was expecting to watch. If anything it just shows why women shouldn't be in positions of power because they are lead by their emotions over logic. Hard to say the truth but that's really the only message this movie tells. The princess is more interested in her love life than protecting the Kingdom and her people. If I were alive back than I'd move out her kingdom A.S.A.P. before we get conquered. So So movie 2 stars for having Donnie Yen and -3 stars for him not doing any Kung fu moves.

GREAT PREMISE DERAILS David Hyde Pierce is Warwick Wilson, the consummate host.  We see him carefully prepare for a dinner party - he impeccably sets the table and times the duck for exactly 8:30 p.m. And then career criminal John Taylor (Clayne Crawford) enters the scene posing as a friend of a friend.  He tells a sad story of being mugged and losing his luggage.  But as the evening progresses and the alcohol flows, a very different dynamic is revealed.  This twisted psychological thriller reminds that appearances can be most deceiving.  Although the critics did not embrace this film, I kind of enjoyed the LA based story, especially the apparent premise and first half.  Before the story derailed, it captured a lot of what the City of Angels is all about in terms of how far we will go to satisfy our fantasies.  As the poster says, "Dinner parties are a dying art."  Nick Tomay is co-writer and director.

Dang! Another Disappointment! If this isn't the worst movie I've ever seen, it comes awfully close.  Predictable to the point of cliche.  Decent (but not great) effects.  Not a single surprise. So-so soundtrack.  I haven't been so disappointed in a movie since "the incredible hulk" was previewed when the first Spiderman came out. Best part about the movie on demand is that I was able to resist instance purchase for 14.99 and go with the 24 hr. rental.  I saved eleven bucks!  Woo hoo!

Some good death scenes, but stupid dialogue There is nothing like the original, and this movie doesn't nearly live up to it.  Only worth buying to see the death scenes.  (My favorite is when the killer makes a guy drink gasoline, puts a lit cigarette in his mouth, and he explodes.)  The acting an dialogue is pretty bad even for a B-movie.  I didn't dig it.  The kid getting bullied goes and picks fights with people.  When they start picking back at him, he starts whining that no one likes him.  Several actors from the original movie appear in this one in adult roles (SPOILER!!!!!!!! - including Angela, who is actually the killer, not the kid getting picked on).

I really wanted to like this but . . . I just watched this on Netflix - well most of it - and was disappointed.  I like historical movies and Jackie Chan but it was very difficult to keep up with this film, much less have an understanding of what was happening. It took me a few minutes to realize that the Chinese characters and English subtitles on the sides of the screen were to identify the participants, not the actors, mostly because I was trying to keep up with the dialogue subtitles.  Then the screen started displaying more and more information - descriptions of the timeline and actions.  Now, I am an avid reader and have a decent reading speed but I just could not keep up with three separate groups of text running simultaneously with the action.  The acting seemed decent, the production values great but I felt like I should have read a book first.  My memories of this time period in China from World History classes are 40+ years old. Finally turned it off.

Bad B-Ray? I've a substitute. Love this movie, truly the transition Western between stagey Hollywood productions and the more realistic 60's Westerns be they American or Spaghetti. ONE-EYED JACKS is as stylish as it is exciting and Brando's performance and direction is top-notch despite some critics' claims of egotistic self-indulgence and an inflated budget and shooting schedule. Karl Malden should have won an Oscar and Ben Johnson and Slim Pickens shine in supporting roles. A very rewarding viewing experience. And I just finished watching it now.  Bad Blue-Ray? Full Frame? Sick and tired of this film looking like crap. Feel like Ben Johnson complaining, " Get that stinkin' fish outta here."?  The dvd I just watched was the DIGIVIEW slim case version, the one with Brando's face in the top corner, with below him Malden and Pellicer and then a group of 5 ruales. It was wide-screened with exceptional color and sound. You'd really have to be nit-picking to hate this version. I enjoyed it very much and can recommend it to all. At least give it a try. You've got little to lose as it's readily available from many Amazon sellers for almost next to nothing.  Until a major studio release gives this film the CRITERION treatment it deserves, I'm very pleased with this DIGIVIEW version. It's the best I've seen, and believe me, I've seen a lot of rotten copies of this Western classic.

Not up to par with Manhunter 5/10 Now I know that Dino DeLaurntiis passed on recently this isn't ment to be mean at all but back in 1986 Manhunter flopped at the box office for whatever reason De Laurntiis said "I do not like Manhunter it is not Red Dragon." So he had no involvment with Silence Of The Lambs but when that movie was a hit he saw money so he produced the sequel which I will admit it was a decent sequel but honestly it would've been like when Hallloween III flopped when John  Carpenter & Deborah Hill stopped producing cause  everybody wanted Michael if you remember.  Then  when H4 was a sucess Carpenter & Hill decided to come back & produce the Halloween movies.  A year & a half later Red Dragon was released many aren't aware that this is a remake of Manhunter based off the novel by Thomas Harris. I say watch Manhunter 1st if you haven't saw either movie. It has a huge cast a great cast great job but that's really it. Anthony Hopkins returns as Hannibal Edward Nortan plays Will Graham Ralph Fiennes as Francis Dollarhyde Harvey Kitel as Jack Crawford Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Freddy Lounds. Basically you start off "Will Graham is looking for a killer "Graham" thinks he's figured out he's dealing with a cannibal. So it can't be good "Graham" finds a book how to cook people while at his friends house Dr Hannibal Lecter. I'm thinking why wasn't this cut it is so predictable cause William Peterson talked about it in Manhunter. Both "Graham & Hannibal hurt each other we go to a few years later & FBI director "Jack Crawford" asks for "Graham's" help. so he goes looking for a killer named "The Tooth Fairy" It really does feel like most of the lines are reused from Manhunter like when Ed Nortan says a line the William Peterson delivered much better the way Norton does it & his facial expressions are too laughable. The scene where "Graham" talks to Hannibal is line for line just like Manhunter. While William Peterson was intemidated by Lecter in Manhunter cause of there history he stood his ground even Jodie Foster stood her ground Ed Norton looked like a nervous wreck like he was going to hide in corner. Were introduced to "Freddy Lounds" only it's not as cool as Manhunter. & "Francis Dollarhyde" I'm sorry compared to Tom Noonan's Dollarhyde Ralph Finnes Dollarhyde is wuss. Noonan was more interesting they mentioned his messed up life but they didn't totally dwell on it. A lot of his actions througout the movie he's begging to be caught. Finnes "Dollarhdye" is just way too cliched hearing voices & all. Tom Noonan's Dollarhyde would have no problem kicking Finnes "Dollarhye's" a  z  z. I mean there is a scene where he is at this newstand the guy tells him to come back later he purchases a paper anyway looks at the guy with a threating look. Lecter giving out the Graham's address is still there "Dollarhyde" takes "Lounds" has him in that wheel chair sets him on fire & goes down the same street where that newstand was at gee that guy at the newstand could put 2 & 2 together. The Brooklyn Musem scene was a giant WTF?! The finish is different cause "Dollarhyde" makes it look like he kills himself it turns out that it is the guy that he killed in Reba's yard. Basically the movie thinks it's smart & it is pretty predictable cause a lot of the lines & scnes are used from Manhunter. Basically "Dollarhyde" shows up at The "Graham house & we get a lame duck finish.  The Ending Dr Chilton tells Hannibal that there is a lady from The FBI & Lecter says "what's her name? LOL brillant not! I know it's closer to the book then it's a s hi t  t  y  book then. Ted Tally why didn't you just make a Hannibal sequel get Jodie Foster back or even William Peterson & end it on a good note. Brett Ratner wasn't a good choice to helm a Hannibal movie. I like Rush Hour 1&2 even X3 is better. Edward Norton is a good actor but he doesn't cut it for Will Graham. It's worth watching for Anthony Hopkins. Harvey Kitel was ok but he's done better like Bad Luitenant. Ralph Fiennes is I'm not farmilar with but he didn't cut it for me. Phillip Semour Hoffman is just there. It's wathcable it's just not up to par with Manhunter. I mean if you like this movie that's fine but it's my opinion.

Be aware of the agenda Stonings, disfigurements, and "honor killings" of various kinds take place in many cultures of India, Africa and elsewhere.  They strike us as especially horrific because unfamiliar. But how many American women are killed each year by jealous husbands and boyfriends?  How many US military women are raped or sexually abused (1/3)?  Isn't stoning prescribed in the Torah/Holy Bible of both Jews and Christians (Leviticus) for many trivial offenses including blasphemy and breaking the sabbath? Is stoning more horrific than death by Hellfire missiles, cluster bombs or white phosphorous, decapitation by machine guns, artillery, napalm, burning and collapsing buildings, or any other manner of mass murder inflicted by the US and Israel upon comparatively helpless people innocent of anything other than attempting to defend themselves against attack, invasion and occupation?  And why was the victim chosen for dramatization Iranian when this occurs in so many other societies as well? Why was the disfigured woman recently shown on the cover of Time magazine a Muslim when this occurs in so many non-Islamic societies as well?  For the same reason our media have demonized and derogated Arabs and Muslims for over 50 years.  To justify military murder, resource exploitation, and dispossession of these people by Israel and the US.  There is an agenda at work, and it could lead to WWIII if Iran is attacked by these heavily armed, organized racist maniacs calling themselves democracies.  I hope people will see beyond the theatrical and cinematic merits of this production to the propagandistic content which can make it all the more dangerous to world peace.

Good cgi. If you like B SiFi movie's go for it. Poor production quality and directing. Not much to the storey either. Toward the end of the movie a woman cop gets killed during a shootout with the robots and a few scenes later the same scene is used again. If you like the movies that the SiFi channel makes you will probably like this one. I had to fast forward through all the time wasting arguing scenes (a favorite way to fill time when there's an idea for a movie but no storey). I would say it could have been cut down to 30 minutes with the material they had to work with.

Waste of money Story line was bad.  Acting wasn't great, either.  Corny and stupid.  I wish I hadn't spent the money on it.  If you are deciding whether or not to buy it, rent it first.  Then you won't waste money on the full price of the movie.

Bad poor content The cartoons are not well made and boring,,, I own it and wont even sell it to save someone else the agravation,,, i might give it away to a child who still entertained by just looking at the characters and doesnt care about the story.

BEWARE OF REGION CODES For those who are unaware, pay close attention to videos which come from other countries.  The item description should include a Region number.  That number must match the number on the back of your video player or you will be unable to veiw the video.  I recently purchase a video from Rarewaves in London, England.  While the seller identified it as Region 2 and had a note to see DVD format, I think they should have used more "attention" focusing words in their listing.  Not knowing about the Region thing left me with a video that I cannot watch and would cost me more to return, than I paid for it.

Zombie movies are Lame and this one is no exception. If you enjoy watching a friend play the Sony Playstation for an hour and 20 minutes then you'll probably enjoy this movie.  Jessie Eisenberg should stick to films about computer geeks.  Harrelson proves yet again his natural born instinct for killing.. in this case, zombies.  This movie didn't try to take itself seriously obviously but was still a far cry from funny or anything even approaching clever.  But if you're looking for all the plot intricasies of a video game then you may have found your movie here.

My Favorite Martian, 3rd Season This is one of my favorite shows. The first two seasons were excellent and the DVD's of them are great including graphics & finding your favorite episodes. However, this third season was not done by Rhino as the others were and therefore, has poor graphics and the way this inferior company put it together is quite annoying. Also, being the only season filmed in color, I feel that this final season loses its charm. I had hoped that Rhino would do the third season also but for some unknown reason chose not to and it is indeed, a shame.

not for prime time If you enjoy 3D views of extreme gunshot damage, you may be in luck.  Throw in a liking for some general low class behavior scenes by the leading woman, and general violence from start to finish and this movie might be for you.  If you think it is a high speed driving movie in 3d.... it's not.  It's closer to a combination of some of the recent vampire fare coupled with an End of Days tweak.  I didn't expect much, but bought it because it was 3d.  I still was disappointed.  Cage probably did what he could with the part, but it was an uphill battle that he couldn't win. Oh, well, it was selling at a discounted price.

Oh God... Many classic films have had sequels that were more successful than the original: Godfather II, Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Lord of the Rings Return of the King.  However, the makers of Twilight: Eclipse decided to do away with such comparisons and made the exact same film a third time.  Yippee.  3 down, 2 more 'films' left.  Keep strong everybody.

The Series Reaches a Dead End In the horror world there is a loyalty that you won't find in any other genre. No matter how many bad sequels, awful remakes, and painful prequels Hollywood brings us, we just keep coming back for more. Case in point, "Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings." The original "Wrong Turn" was a fun if fairly derivative slice of hillbilly horror that struck the right cord with horror audiences. It was not a box office hit making just $16 million on a budget of $12 million but the film sold millions of dvds and we can thank it with starting the series that no one really asked for. "Wrong Turn 2" turns the tables by turning the first film into a reality show. It was fun, campy, and delightfully over-the-top. The less said about the third film the better. Now, eight years after the first installment, we have "Wrong Turn 4" a prequel that sets to up the stakes. But...does it succeed?  The film opens in 1974 at the Glenville Sanatorium with Dr. Ryan (Arne McPherson) showing a local psychiatrist Dr. Ann McQuaid (Kristen Harris) around the psychiatric hospital. The cannibals from the previous films-One Eye, Three Finger, and Saw Tooth now are locked up in the institution as children. But the cannibals escapes and sets other insane patient free in the hospital. Then cannibals savagely murder an orderly, Guard, Dr. Ryan and Dr. McQuaid. The film then switches to present day where a group of college kids, Kenia (Jennifer Pudavick), lesbian couple Sara (Tenika Davis) and Bridget (Kaitlyn Wong), Lauren (Ali Tataryn), Jenna (Terra Vnesa), and Claire (Samantha Kendrick), along with their guy friends Kyle (Victor Zinck), Vincent (Sean Skene) and Daniel (Dean Armstrong) are going snowmobiling. They are heading to their friend Porter's cabin in the mountains. They get lost in a storm and seek refuge inside the now abandoned Glenville Sanatorium. Little do they know, the three now adult cannibals are hiding out in the sanatorium and murdering trespassers. The movie makes it unclear as to the whereabouts of rest of patients set free by cannibals.  The group of teenagers explore the asylum, and decide to wait out the storm. After a montage of rolling around in wheelchairs, acting on illegal drugs, drinking booze and acting like teenagers, the storm still hasn't stopped so the teenagers are forced to sleep in the desolate building. In the middle of the night, Vincent, suffering from insomnia, walks around the asylum and finds Porter's mutilated body - apparently he didn't make it to his cabin either. He is then killed by Saw-Tooth having a metal rod shoved into his chin and out through the top of his head. The next morning, everyone discovers they are still snowed in, and Vincent is missing. The gang splits up to look for him, and Jenna witnesses the cannibals cutting Porter up. She runs back to tell the others and they all meet up in the auditorium. Something wrapped in Porter's jacket is thrown at them and Kenia opens it up to reveal Porter's severed head. Screaming and panicking, the group flocks around the door, trying to get out but the doors are locked. The three cannibals-up in the balcony, throw down a strip of barb-wire and loop it around Claire's neck, pulling her up to the balcony. Kyle tries to save her, but it is too late and the barb-wire tightens, severing Claire's head. Horrified, those who are left of them (Kenia, Sara, Bridget, Lauren, Jenna, Kyle and Daniel) run outside and try to escape on their snowmobiles, but the engines won't turn and it is revealed that the cannibals had stripped them of their spark plug wires. Lauren sets off to ski down the mountain to retrieve help and the other six run inside to try to defend themselves.  "Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings" is all sorts of lame. Bad CGI, atrocious acting, and thoroughly unlikable characters are just the start of this film's problems. When will filmmakers realize that when we don't like their characters, we don't care who lives and who dies. When we don't care, the movie is robbed of any and all suspense. Speaking of suspense, it is fairly obvious that ****SPOILER ALERT*** all of our "teen" characters die and all three hillbillies live as we know they were around for the "first" installment. This is just lazy filmmaking all around with some effects that have to be seen to be believed and no I don't mean that as a compliment. Any turn away from the cover box at your local video store is a turn in the right direction.

Not so great mediocore for Sam Raimi Sam Raimi has had some great movies. Its interesting how he tosses in a bit of his own touch of comedy in his movies. I cant understand how some of these reviewers are glorifying this movie so greatly, my only guess is most of those reviewers are probably between 15 & 30 years old, anyone who is older than that and is a movie buff already knows Sam took bits and pieces from his past movies in the 80's & 90's and threw them in a big pile, the finished product is The Cabin in the Woods.  The acting was mediocre, the special effects were average, the plot, well the plot was predictable, boring, lacked the element of surprise. I have 3 teenagers, ages 16, 15, 13 & all of them couldn't understand what the big rave was on this movie. At the end of the movie they were like, is that it?  You can find bits and pieces of "30 days of night", "Drag me to Hell" & "Evil Dead" is this movie, the shadows of those movies are in the acting, the sets & the plot. Just take a look at the old cabin they go to in the movie, it has to be the old set of Evil Dead, the cabin is identical. That's just one example. The movie is ok if you have no other choices to pick from, but don't waste your money buying it.  I know of the "plants" on this website that are here promoting certain movies. I dare to say most of the 5 star reviewers are plants. Lets take a look at the reviews on this movie in say....6 months...I'm betting we'll see the table turn and this movie will be down to 3 stars or less.

Not a Great Dane Obviously, the people who made this movie had never lived with a Great Dane, nor had they read the Marmaduke comic strip.  Disappointing.

Not great I am a great fan of Greek mythology, but the second movie in this series, like the first, is not great.  Given the special effects and the writers available today, it's truly sad that the producers couldn't come up with a better story.

The British ... always more unhinged than we think ANOTHER YEAR (2010) is a strange, seemingly directionless voyeur's dream. Simply put it is Woody Allen without Allen, and without anything Allen usually brings. An older couple, while happy enough together, witness the various problems and melt-downs of their friends. That is essentially it.  Jim Broadbent of course shines in everything he does. Here he makes a stodgy, boring old geological engineer look and sound interesting. The others also hand in the finest performances. To all that I say, So what?!  The trouble with films like these is that I always view them as misguided theater, which I know the Brits can never resist. Film should do SOMETHING, not just lay there. Even theater has great, awesome moments. When you put a load of people in front of a camera and tell them to regurgitate the "best of", or relive acting school - well, you get a film like this. It's an actor's dream as well as a voyeur's, but does nothing for an audience.  Look, what I mean to say also is that if you've lived it, you don't really want to see it in film. If you haven't lived this yet, you don't really want to see it in film. Double jeopardy. We can all live without it. Kudos to the actors who are legendary (or up-and-coming in a few cases), but I always want to know ... why make a thing like this at all?

Strange Instructors I know a lot of people wrote about the creepy and strange demenor of the lead instructor and I would have to add my voice to that.  About the instructor: She was wierd and creepy always staring into the camera and and sqinting her eyes to inflect more intensity at times.  Her tone of voice was very condesending and she doesn't explain the excerises very well.  She pretty much just says "we are doing it perfect so just watch us to learn the proper form".  But the problem is, it didn't ever show any good camera angles to see the form.  About the workout: Its ok but I think there are better ones.  There is not a lot of variety and most of the movements are not anything new or innovative.  I don't think I will be using this one much since there are so many others that are better.

2 stars for his 2 fists Goon is a true story about Doug Glatt.  Being a fan of hockey and a fan of all the main actors in this movie made me think I'd really enjoy this movie, but I didn't.  The acting is very dry, but probably had to be because that's how the script was probably written.  The movie is very slow also and keeps you wondering when it'll be over.  If you're into hockey and like true stories then you might like it, but I doubt it.  I had a better time googling and reading about him then the movie portrays him.

Learn about Goya else where I received this movie as a gift. I enjoy art history and period movies so naturally my friend gifted me with a movie he thought I'd like. I felt it tackled several issues at a time but superficially so. Goya himself played a marginal role. Perhaps those taken by the movie enjoyed portman's brief exhibitionism/S&M moment? I wasn't particularly moved. Her performance was mediocre and the movie didn't handle anyone issue with depth or in such a way where one is able to develop some sort of sympathy for any of the characters. It was the fast food approach to the Peninsular War to Goya as an artist, to the Spanish inquisition and a slap in the face to poetic justice even. Two stars because the scenery was beautiful but it was neither informative nor entertaining. Of course everyone's opinion is subjective. I had more expectations from the movie given the title but since Lorenzo and cell concubine are front and center on the front cover it should be a clue as to the role of Goya and his weightiness in this movie.

Not Joseph Kuo's best I love Joseph Kuo films.  This didn't feel like one.  It's kinda like a swordsplay / heroic bloodshed / drama with bad fight choreography.  "King of Kings" with the same cast is a little better, but not much.  Pass

Intermission - You'll take a lot of them during this movie Clever opening with Colin Farrell lulls you into thinking you are about to watch a slam dunk of a movie only it ends there. The talent is wasted in this flick, and that is what disappoints the most. The dialogue and Irish accents for American audiences might be hard to follow, but there are always subtitles for those that get lost. Not much more to say on this one, just not worth the view. I'll stick with Guy Ritchie movies (whose movies are hard hitting and put the viewer in the action).

Another poor entry in a series without any hope left I've been a fan of the Puppet Master series since I first saw Puppet Master 2 on Sci-Fi Channel's Halloween horror movie marathon over a decade ago. I loved seeing these little puppets kill in each of the series' installments. I even enjoyed the rather corny 4th and 5th entries, when they fought against demons. But to be honest, the series lost something after the first few films. It seemed that with each new entry in the series, the films were getting worse and worse. Not only were the plots becoming more ridiculous, but the effects used to make the puppets move were actually becoming less believable. This trend has continued all the way to the most recent film in the series, Puppet Master: Axis of Evil.  The film takes place during the time of World War II, immediately after Andre Toulon kills himself in the original Puppet Master, so as to prevent the Nazis from discovering the secret to making his puppets move without strings. A partially-crippled furniture maker working at the Bodega Bay Inn stumbles upon Toulon's room just as his Nazi pursuers are leaving and takes Toulon's chest of puppets with him when he returns home to Chinatown in LA, where his mother lives. Most of the film revolves around the protagonist trying to disrupt a Nazi-Japanese plan to blow up a US weapons factory with the aid of Toulon's puppets.  The story certainly isn't bad, but far too much time is spent on the interactions between human characters, rather than between the puppets and the people they try to kill. It goes without saying to anyone who's followed the series to this point that this isn't the first Puppet Master film to be without the creepy edge of the first three films. The puppets simply aren't scary anymore, though that seems to be Charles Band's intention, as they're implemented as tools of war by the American "good guys" against the Axis Powers. This may have worked well in the third film, but it's simply cheesy in this one. The special effects used to make the puppets move are perhaps the worst in the series as well. There is no CGI nor any complicated effects used whatsoever. Practically every time you see the puppets moving, it's not a whole body shot, so that they can be cheaply moved using the parts not shown. It's a horribly amateur style, especially considering how much better the effects looked in past movies. When a film of the same series made over 20 years ago has better special effects than the most recent entry, you know something is wrong.  Beyond the poor special effects, the acting is downright atrocious in some cases. Most of the characters are actually pretty believable despite some ridiculous circumstances, but a few of the actors and actresses just aren't up to par. The "Dragon Lady" in particular was simply awful. Not only were she and her henchman clearly not Japanese, but you could tell that all her lines were being read phonetically, as she had no connection to the words she spoke. It was as if she simply guessed on a whim which words might require emphasis, and she usually got it very wrong. I may be nitpicking here too, but if she is Japanese (so much so that her English is poor), then why would she be speaking to her commander over the phone in English? In one scene, when Tunneler is drilling through someone's head, you see blood cover the victim's face, but when the camera switches angles, there is no blood to be seen there. There are just so many inconsistencies like this in the film that it's hard to take it very seriously.  There are a few plot twists that may have you sympathizing with certain characters, but for the most part you'll simply be wishing that the film would end. Unfortunately even the ending is a dire disappointment. It so blatantly leaves itself open to a sequel (which I can't imagine anyone would be looking forward to) that it fails to even close up the story of this film even partially. There are a few slightly redeeming factors, such as the attractive cast, the nicely detailed sets, and the well-replicated early-forties settings (including the well-done Chinatown), but what good are any of those if awful special effects, overrating, and a largely dull script stand in their way? The puppets, which have always been the main draw of this series, are barely featured in Axis of Evil, and when they are, the effects are so poor that the fun of watching them kill is completely gone.  As for the DVD itself: the picture quality is actually rather good, though the archival footage used near the beginning clashes somewhat with the modern filmed scenes. The extras are also pretty decent, though it's unlikely you'll care enough to watch them after viewing this film. It's just unfortunate that none of these qualities matter much when the film itself is such a letdown.  I truly wanted to like this film. My expectations were at the lowest they could be considering how poor the past few installments were, but it somehow failed to meet even those most minimal of expectations. I can say with confidence that I will never watch this film again, and I most certainly won't be anticipating the inevitable direct sequel.

Not one of Lana's best movies In the last days of WWII, an American journalist (Lana Turner) falls quickly and deeply in love with a British reporter (Sean Connery). Just as she begins planning their future together, he admits he's already married.  This romance/melodrama is worth watching for the very young and charismatic Connery and the equally young and talented Glynis Johns, who plays his wife. Lana Turner, on the other hand, makes the movie almost unwatchable. Her platinum hair, thick make-up, and glamorous wardrobe don't fit a wartime correspondent and her acting is terrible. Every line is delivered in a breathy, petulant voice with indulgent/silly over-acting. Several supporting actors, including Barry Sullivan, are excellent, but Lana almost destroys the movie. She is clearly much older than Connery, but this is never discussed. I've watched it twice, fell asleep both times, and re-watching it was a chore.  The black and white movie is partially filmed in a charming English village but stock footage and fake outdoor sets detract greatly; the overall look is cheap. A silly, overwrought script that never really touches the heart makes this a movie for Sean Connery fans only.

Not Much Here Besides Excess I'll be honest, I sat through the hour and a half mess that was RoboGeisha and I'm still not 100% sure what the movie was about. There's a lot of blood and violence but there's not a lot of sense to it all.  I like movies that try really hard to be serious and fail miserably. Plan 9 From Outer Space and The Room come to mind as movies that worked because they were disastrous. RoboGeisha on the other hand doesn't even look like it tried to be serious. It was a joke from the start, plain and simple.  RoboGeisha will have its appeal to some. Some people enjoy the over the top action and lack of apparent plot. Crank and Shoot Em Up come to mind. But RoboGeisha lacks the fun that I found in either of those movies. Unless you're really into Japanese B movies, there's not much appeal to this movie.

For those who thought Chariots of the Gods was a work of nonfiction Designed for the gullible and the easily impressed, "The Fourth Kind" (as in "Close Encounters of ...") is an alien-abduction tale that is long on gimmickry and contrivance and short on credibility and suspense.  Milla Jovovich plays a hypnotherapist in Nome, Alaska, who, in 2000, allegedly discovered that some mighty strange things had begun happening to the residents of the town, incidents very possibly extraterrestrial in nature.  The movie mixes re-enactments of the events at the time with audio and video recordings purportedly showing us actual, first-hand accounts of those events - although anytime anything of any real interest or significance starts to occur, the sound and images conveniently go to static.  Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi, this warmed-over serving of "Chariots of the Gods" foolishness - combining ancient Sumerian dialects with invasive body-cavity probing - is strictly for the tin-foil hat crowd.

Pretentious Filmmaking at its Best Even a long-time fan of Terrance Malick's films such as myself had a difficult time with this work. Malick is known for visually beautiful but incomprehensible filmmaking and he does not surprise anyone here in 'Tree of Life'. If anything, 'Tree of Life' is his most incomprehensible film to date and a second viewing (almost a requirement for any Malik film) does not do much good. It also does not help that, as usual, Malik offers little explanation. Like all of Malik's other films, the DVD set offers little extras to give the viewers clues  about the intent of the film. Segments of a life told in disjointed scenes that bounce through time with mumbled dialogue and an overlaid voiceover tell the story (sort of) of a failed father, a solid but suffering mother, and 3 boys. Sean Penn plays the reflective older son remembering the past; Brad Pitt plays the loving but frustrated father. All of this is wrapped up in a prologue that represents the beginning of the universe and an epilogue that represents heaven. This is the most emotional film that Malik has ever made yet still the viewer is kept at a emotional distance from the characters  Perhaps this is why the film has been compared to Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey'; that and the long forming of the universe sequence early in the film. Any Malik film is worth seeing and 'Tree of Life', not one of his best, is not an exception. However viewing might be best done as many people first saw '2001: A Space Odyssey' back in the 1960's; stoned.

Too long, too much FUD. This documentary should have been no longer than 45 minutes. While the director was a very interesting person, the documentary just seemed to go on and on. This movie relies heavily on lighting tap water aflame, rather than interviews with scientists. While illuminating, this documentary seems to lean heavily toward Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt rather than scientific analysis. That said, there are some scary scenes in this film - but nothing that would surprise anyone with a basic 1-minute description of how the hydraulic fracturing process works.  I was very surprised and disappointed that this film did not cover the relationship of hydraulic fracturing to earthquakes.

Cub Scouts on first camping trip As several have written, the story is a composite of things that happened, not the actual story of the Memphis Belle.  Given that, it was enjoyable to watch many of the scenes of the aircraft in flight.  As far as the crew, every cliche ever imagined was pulled into play, and the crew didn't behave as if they had 24 missions under their belts - more like it was the very first mission for an untrained crew.  Childish interaction, continual chatter even after the captain instructed them to keep the intercom clear.  Maybe forgiveable in the heat of the mission, but my experience as a Huey Aircraft Commander in Vietnam tells me that when the chips are down, even a squirrelly crew member focuses on the job at hand, not schoolboy bickering.  And, although perhaps needed for the benefit of the audience's understanding, it strained credibility for the captain to instruct the crew on the minutiae of things they need to remember.  After 24 missions, I would think they could finish each others' sentences.  Poor screenplay, poor direction, fun to watch the big bombers in action.

tries to be more than a potboiler, but surprisingly weak for Corman I am a fan of Corman films, for all their crude effects and mediocre acting.  This film wants to be a kind of existential Darwinian drama, where 2 men find themselves surviving with one woman that is serious trouble.  Set in Puerto Rico, a lawyer comes to visit a vacationing real estate mogul in order to deal with his latest indictment.  From the start, the guy is arrogant and uncaring, while the straight, if flaccid, lawyer is his resentful foil.  Then there is the wife:  she feels trapped and unable to get close to her swaggering husband, so is provocative to the lawyer and a drunk.  All is going according to plan until they emerge from a dive to find all animals on the island dead; it appears that this has happened all over the world.  As the mogul attempts to take over, the sexual tension becomes unbearable and the men fight.  Now that is a good premise for a script and it is pretty well written.  What sinks the film is that the acting is so bad that I couldn't believe any of it.  You can tell that Corman yearns to develop the themes and even the dialogue is more interesting than your traditional horror film, but the actors have little chemistry and their performances are unbearably flat (not helped by the booth-dubbing that added voices later, after filming on-site).  Not recommended.  There are funner 50s horror films.

Why remake it? I don't understand hollywoods deal with remaking every movie they can think of. The original was fine and this movie has very little to do with the original. An assassin starts training a kid. That's about all they have in common. That's what I don't get, why even bother calling it a remake. Just make a new movie.  The original seemed to focus more on the details of the hit while this movie just focused on the death scene for the most part. And god forbid that every movie not end with a happy ending. Sometimes the good guy/main character dies, it keeps things interesting. Which is one of the things that made the original better.  It's worth the $1 rent but not worth buying.

Don't Believe the Hype Hmmm...7 glowing reviews about the DVD, all posted within 3 days of its release, all by people who've never posted an Amazon review before. Suspicious? I think so. Here's the truth from someone who's NOT affiliated with the movie: it's a competently made film with pretty good acting, especially Bruce Davison as the sheriff, but while it's admirable in its attempt at an old school "slow burning" horror movie, it's very slow and way too tame (even for PG-13). The worst part, however, is the ending, which resolves nothing and pompously assumes we want to see a sequel.

Less Time Spent Counting Down, More Time Spent Scaring People The problem with Countdown to Zero lies, not with it's message (no nukes, we're gonna kill ourselves with these things, we're playing with fire, etc.), with, which, I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE...but in its execution.  The film spends a lot of time talking to various physicists, military minds, politicians, officials, Valerie Plame, Gorbachev, and Jimmy Carter...plus people on the street who know nothing about who has nukes, how many they possess OR if they even think about the near-defunct unthinkable scenario of a nuclear exchange.  They do know one thing: there should be no nuclear weapons on this planet.  The film is around 90 minutes long and spends five minutes talking about how something the size of a tennis ball could lead to such destruction. The last five minutes of that length being optimistic about what we, as a nation, as a civilization, as a planet, can do to rid the world of nuclear weapons.  The rest of that 80 minutes is spent talking to people who hype up nuclear destruction in the most fantastic ways possible.  Accidents, madness, religious nuts leading to nuclear terrorism...we're dead any way you slice it, claims this documentary, showing us nice shots of various cities (including New York several times as if that's the only city in the States that matters) via security camera or via Google Earth with Photoshop "blast radiuses" to further scare you into wanting to move to the country.  The threat of nuclear terrorism is especially dumbed down, making it sound as though making and delivering a nuclear weapon is as easy as cooking up a porterhouse steak and serving it to a hungry customer.  All they have to do, they say, is come across a place that has enriched uranium and take it...or they can buy it from somebody...and then, once that's done, all they have to do is smuggle it out of Russia through, oh, say, The Middle East.  How do you smuggle it out?  The documentary skips this part and moves right along, giving us isolated incidents where the only reason people with weapons-grade Uranium were caught was "serendipity". Yes, every single arrest was pure luck. None of it had to do with intelligence, just simple luck. Somehow, I don't buy that.  But the documentary goes on, explaining that "once it's out, they can simply ship it to the United States". Does it go into details? No, not really. It's packed with a pair of sneakers in this instance. I knew those Air Jordans cost me $200 for a reason.  Valerie Plame says that our radiation detection systems at ports are weak since we can only scan so many crates and we would have to be "within a few inches" to actually detect something.  I don't know if Ms. Plame knows that we don't just use radiation scanners, we also have intelligence that tells us to look for containers that pose a risk to the country, pre-screening said containers before they even get here, x-ray scanners to determine if anything dangerous is on board BEFORE we send in scanners and using containers that are more secure.  Facts, schmacts! The documentary isn't concerned with those! Nukes are the boogeyman!  After this threat is discussed, we're told that the five superpowers aren't the only ones with nuclear weapons - we have North Korea, India, Pakistan, Israel, and possibly, Iran to worry about. This is quite right and it is frightening to think that Pakistan and North Korea are volatile and unstable or that Iran and Israel are bitter enemies with dangerously conflicting ideologies.  Plame goes on to say that we "know" that Iran wants nukes. They've "proven" it to us. I'm sorry...how? Every single year, since the early 2000's, an official says that Iran will "have a bomb soon" or that Iran will have one "within a year or so". It's 2012. They still don't have a bomb. Does Plame mention this? No. I don't know if it's because that makes things less interesting or less scary to the viewer but it is, certainly, far from objective.  But the worst offense here the chapter that discusses accidents that could lead to annihilation such as the recounting of the 1995 Norwegian Rocket incident:  On January 25, 1995, Norwegian and American scientists launched a rocket to study the Aurora Borealis. They had already notified the Russians that this was to take place. Unfortunately, those orders never reached Russian military heads and they, apparently, thought that the United States had launched a pre-emptive first strike against Russia. Yeltsin, it's claimed, was given "five minutes to decide to launch a counter-attack".  It didn't happen.  Why?  As Ploughshares Fund President, Joe Cirincione, explains it: "luckily, Yeltsin wasn't drunk and didn't believe it". Classy, Joe. World War III was averted because Yeltsin was sober.  Ira Helfand, part of "Physicians for Social Responsibility", elaborates further on the incident saying that Yeltsin SHOULD have killed us all that day and he didn't. Helfand, however, doesn't have answers for us. He makes it sound even more ominous: "We don't know what happened at the Kremlin that day..."  This segment is completed by using stock video footage of former Russian President, Boris Yeltsin, glowering at something off-camera in the most somber fashion possible...and that's it.  What this film conveniently leaves out is that, according to several reports (and this is my own research), Yeltsin gambled on the notion that a) it was one object b) launched from Norway and he had great doubt that a massive nuclear attack would begin with just one object, even if it was a rocket carrying an EMP. Forces never went on high alert. Both an American AND Russian general confirm this. The Russian General (Vladimir Dvorkin - on the scene at the time) further stated that the President was NOT inclined to shoot back because of one object because it didn't fit with American military analysis.  To not include this is irresponsible and reckless.  I'm really shocked because Helfand and Cirincione seem like fairly intelligent people. Here, they sound like they're handing in their essay homework after skipping and research from the school library.  It's really too bad that Countdown to Zero spends so much time half-truthing its way around the screen, scaring everyone because I, for one, also think that these weapons are pointless and horrible and shouldn't be used by anybody...but movies like this do little in proving that.  We KNOW what nuclear weapons can do. That's why nobody uses them. It should go without saying that we'd all be screwed if they were used. But the documentary hammers home old, paleolithic information to remind us just how bad they are.  Instead of doomsaying, precious time could have been spent on elaborating on measures taken to decrease the threat of nuclear annihilation, on eliminating these weapons. But, when it finally does get to that point, we get tiny factoids and pipe dreams with NO description of how positive goals could be achieved or maintained, which is just a colossal misjudgment on the part of the filmmakers.  It's a shame when a documentary says it's going to "Countdown to Zero" and, instead, counts how many ways we could die.  -- Matt

Attactive actors wasted on a most ridiculous story Does anyone break up with the love of her life to marry a sick neighbor, and says she has no choice?  People actually let a movie with this ridiculous plot made? Really? Seriously?

Wrong photo on cover I love the B-52's.  In fact, I'm in a B-52's tribute band.  But the photo on the cover of this DVD is from the album Funplex, which came out in 2008.

Captain America:  The Six Million Dollar Man in Disguise I'm going to bring up something that I feel should have been brought up a long time ago.  The two 1970's made for tv "Captain America" movies for CBS (and I put those in quotes for a reason), were really just the producers' excuse to cash in on "The Six Million Dollar Man!"  As you might have read by the other reviews, these two "Cap" movies bore little resemblance to the Joe Simon/Jack Kirby comic of the 1940's, or even to the Stan Lee/Jack Kirby revival of the 1960's.  There's no Bucky Barnes, no Professor Erskine or Reinstein, no Red Skull, no Nazis, no Peggy or Sharon Carter, no SHIELD, Nick Fury, etc., etc., etc.  As for Steve Rogers, this version of him isn't so eager to serve his country after being rejected as 4-F (though, to be fair, in this version, he is an ex-marine.)  What you will get is Len Birman as "Dr. Simon Mills" who's keeping "the original Captain America's" super steroid and injecting it into reluctant "Steve Rogers" (Reb Brown) after a fatal accident (well, attempted murder made to look like an accident) in order to save his life.  Afterward, Mr. Rogers becomes a secret agent directly under Dr. Mills.  These two exhibit a father-son/older brother-younger brother type of relationship suspiciously similar to Richard Anderson's "Oscar Goldman" and Lee Major's "Steve Austin."  While "Steve Rogers" is on the operating table, there's even a shot of the doctors and their patient that's extremely similar to the opening credits to "The Six Million Dollar Man" (with those over head lights!) and after the injections, "Steve" even muses how, with his new found strength, if he holds something too tight, it will break (Lee Majors says the exact same dialogue, practically line for line, in the "Six Million Dollar Man" pilot episode "Cyborg.")  Most telling is the sound effects.  Whenever Reb Brown does something "super", we hear that electronic sound of his muscles that sounds just like when Lee Majors jumps, runs, or bends steel!  Perhaps the tv execs were thinking along the same "follow what's selling" formulaic lines that Kenneth Johnson thought when he "developed" "The Incredible Hulk" for CBS (he wasn't behind "Captain America", but he did make "Dr. Banner" and "The Hulk" more like the 1960's tv portrayal of "The Fugitive"...even renaming "Bruce Banner" as "David", like the actor who portrayed "Dr. Richard Kimble", David Janssen.)  The show is worth getting...if you grew up in the 1970's, and you want the two movies for purely nostalgic purposes.  After all, I bought it for that reason alone.)  But if you didn't, and you expect to see something similar to the recent "Captain America:  The First Avenger" movie, or even similar to the 1990 "Captain America" movie, you might be either disappointed, or even find yourself scratching your head and going, "What the hell?!"

If you've read the books, don't bother These books were so gripping and entertaining, I was really excited to see that the Swedish version of the movies was available and ordered the set of movies with my last book of the series. As both my husband and I had read the first two books at this point, we watched the first two movies while reading the last book. What a major disappointment that whole story lines were omitted and events changed, presumably to accommodate the reduced time necessary for a movie. The casting was another let-down. Noomi Rapace, to me, was wooden and sullen, though I found many more emotions in Lisbeth Salander's character. The whole thing was apparently produced with a budget for a made-for-tv movie, so out of the country scenes were eliminated or ignored. I would have been much happier watching the movies if I hadn't read and had no intention of reading the books. I also would have sat through a mini-series based on each book that followed the storyline more faithfully. We are fans of foreign films and routinely watch sub-titled films, but did opt for the dubbed version with the last two of the series. Ordinarily I would expect the Swedish version to be truer to the subject matter, but now will see at least the American version of 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' to see it they've done it better.

Extremely POOR reproduction quality for "HD" Movie It's a very interesting movie and since I was involved with a large, close knit Italian family for several years, there were many parallels to real life based on my experience...not a bad thing at all.  Very enjoyable.  On the rental: In addition to having to restart the movie 2 times, the supposed amazon's HD version of the movie is such poor quality it looked like an old VHR quality so that was very disappointing to watch a blurry picture.  I did register a complaint though I doubt there will be a change to this particular offering based on the response I received.  This was my first and last movie rental from Amazon.

Just ok Not near as good or close to the book as the one with Brannagh and DeNiro. This apparently was a made-for-tv movie and the production just doest measure up.

far fetched with an agenda Good cast wasted on a typical anti-military plot. Sorry but I choose to believe that most soldiers are good, respectful men and women of honor. Yeah, they'll always be a few bad apples and a few cover-ups, but this story was ridiculous. I kinda got the direction this movie was going from the very beginning when the General told his listeners that "nobody wins in a war". Really? Tell that to all the men and women who sacrificed everything to defeat Hitler. If winning isn't the objective for going to war, what is? This movie was uneven, often confusing and of course they had to throw in a creepy sex theme to degrade the actress who played the murder victim. Getting tired of Hollywood's degradation of actresses for entertainment value. Bad movie.

The worst of the series? First of all I am bored to death reading all these complaints about 3-D. Anyone without any clue about the movie could not have any decent idea about its substance unless he went back ten or eleven pages to find any nugget of information about it. Almost all reviews are blah blah blahs about 3D. Yes you have the right to complain about it but I don't think it merits four to five huge paragraphs about the wisdoms and atrocities of 3D technology or whatsoever without anything about the content of the movie.  That said, this is the worst of the series I have watched so far. I had watched the first two ones years ago and the second one (the ending of which starts up this drivel) still thrills me. But this one, despite the introduction of famous hockey mask, loses all the steam of the first two. Yes there are several corpses around, yes there are interesting killing styles but characterization is far worse than the first two and all are butchered in a way faster than before, almost back to back without any tension, any chase whatsoever. A man enters into a barn and is killed finished! A man steps out of the room upside down on his hands and is killed finished! Yes this is a slasher movie but wouldn't it be nice if we had some nice chase scenes? No, Jason appears, slashes and the business is finished. No tension whatsoever.  Secondly (I guess because he now dons a mask) Jason walks around as if he was another member of the team. He runs around like a housekeeper; I almost expected him in one scene to chat with the victim girl; as if he would come and drink tea. So overt, so obvious, nothing subtle. The first two had some subtlety at least. When you see the killer that clearly, you only watch it to pass the scene. After all you know that he will kill whatever happens.  After this nonsense and laughable romantic dialogues are passed, the only good bit starts: The scenes involving the heroine, Chris and Jason are the only strength of the movie. The actress is good at her performance, there is a nice tension build up at least with some length. This way the movie makes it closure somehow satisfactorily.  Nevertheless, watch this if you are vowed to watch the entire franchise like I did. Otherwise avoid it.

Poor quality DVDs, although great series I am huge fan, evidentely.  Otherwise, why would I spend money on the complete series... I have enjooyed this set for over 3 years now, did not get it at Amazon, but at a Best Buy store.  I have watched the whole thing once every year and now I am really disappointed with fact that many DVDs have somehow lost quality or even worse, don't work any longer.  This is not like a movie my kids watch every weekend as happens in many families with favorite films, this is a collectors set where no individual disc has been played more than 5 times... ever!  They are not scratched, although I would have liked better packaging, as I have to be extremelly careful when getting them out of the pockets or putting them back.  I began my 2012 marathon but sadly found out some discs start jumping from a chapter to another or right to the credits of the episode.  Also, sometimes, the image would get all weird, like when the discs have scratches.  Finally, some of them would not work on any of the 4 different DVD and blu-ray players that we have at home or the desktop or my laptop...  and I am just beginnin with season 2, I don't even want to try with the rest...

Just another ploy for someone to make $$ off knowing Elvis... I was very disappointed in this!  42 minutes ???  And it is just someone who "knew" Elvis talking about him.  Didn't say anything I had not already read or heard!  To me it is just another shot at making a buck off of knowing (?) Elvis Presley.  Would not waste my money to rent it again - much less BUY IT !!!

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Yes, that is exactly what it was. I did not care at all for this movie and it was way to long and dragged out. Tom Hanks is the only good thing about this film and he was not in it long enough to be bothered watching.

Disappointed not anything like the Original Prince Caspian Wasn't what I expected sure the Action and Special Effects were Neat but as far as the story goes I Didn't Like it I,ll Tell you why first of all I have read the book Prince Caspian by CS.Lewis and Loved it but the Stupid Filmmakers Completely changed and Ruined the Movie first off they started the film  with Edmund and Peter Fighting their schoolmates which was totally unnecessary also speaking off Fighting later on in Narnia Peter and Caspian fight and don't get along very well. which in the book they are a Wonderful Team. they also made Caspian blow the Magic Horn too Fast and the last thing I couldn't Stand was a Ridiculous ongoing Romance between Susan and Caspian. the Lion the witch and the wardrobe was Much Better in following the Book More Closely. also they made the wear-Wolf Battle too Extreme and went Overboard on the Violence and Magic in the book its supposed to be just a Little Part. for someone who likes an action packed Fantasy Film then you should buy it but I wouldn't Call it Prince Caspian.

After School special The movie had promise but degraded into a bad after school special. There were some gems mixed in with the crap. Skip this and pre-order 21 Jump Street.

why get married if it ends up like this? What a totally depressing representation of marriage. I have never read the book and did not know what to expect, but the movie sounded interesting, as I find period pieces enjoyable. The first couple of hours were not terrible and actually drew me in, but then the main characters got married and everything went downhill quick! Marriage, as protrayed in this movie, is a horrible, dreadful thing where the men never stop their side affairs and the wives are forced to find lovers. One man tells his wife, on their wedding day, mind you, he only married her for her money. The other is a homosexual, who we discreetly find out about when the horse groomer gives him a flirty wink, and then we find out in whole, when they are discovered wrapped in each others arms, sleeping in bed (with smiles on their faces). Nan is the unfortunate married to this fellow. But what is quite hard to understand is why Julius (her husband) pursued her so ardently in the first place if his feelings are for men. Second, is why Nan had such fun with Julius before she married him, and then when he wants to sleep with her, she shrieks and crys. What happened to change her feelings? No explanation. She goes completely cold on him after that and seeks out the man she would have married if he hadn't left for a job in a faraway country, but now has returned. The few characters in this movie who seem to think marriage is for life, and that if both husband and wife would put aside selfishness and try to please the other - a good marriage is possible, are made to look loony. Basically this is a movie that shouts if you're not happy, find a way to make it happen. The whole second half of the film was like a bad soap opera and for this reason, I'd say skip this movie if you put any value in marriage.

It is a movie not worth its hype This is the movie that made Hanks famous and also fetched him an academy award. Therefore, I had a lot of expectations going in to watching the movie. At the end of the movie,  I realized I had watched a linear narration of a man life from beginning to the end. Though it was interesting to watch, I'm not sure if I would watch it another time.

BOB HOPE The Vietnam Years 1970 Ordered this DVD because I was on the USS John F Kennedy when he was aboard. I was kind of disappointed as they only did a very quick out take on all of his stops that year and only 3 or 4 of the skits were even shown and only one performance of one of the people with him.. We all loved and appreciated Bob and the people with him. This DVD will only give one a very brief look at his performances. Apparently this is a copy of his tour that was edited for release to the TV audience and trying to get 8-10 stops in to an hour was just too much to be really good. Just wish someone would put together complete shows for each of the places he visited. To Bob, Thanks for the memories.

No great secret but an interesting discovery NAVY SECRETS (1939) Directed by Howard Bretherton.  Starring Fay Wray, Grant Withers, I Stanford Jolley and Robert Frazer.  When the plans for the US Navy's range finder go missing, it is up to Naval Intelligence to recover them. However exactly who is doing the recovering and for whom is not quite clear as a mysterious woman and dumb petty officer spend a night on the town flirting shamelessly and meeting various persons both annoying and shady.  A film that is hard to discuss in any detail without revealing important plot points. However the following is safely said.  1) This is a Monogram film and all that means is present here and yet this is still an above average effort by the studio that, in spite of a weak center, turns out to be a very respectable little espionage film that should more than satisfy the fan of both the genre and movies of this period.  2) Though the direction is usually uninspired, every now and then, the director pulls a nice bit of moodly lighting or on location shot that pleasantly surprises. The dialogue---though striving mightily to be clever--is frequently lumpy and badly delivered and yet still has the occaisional bit of intelligence indicating SOMEBODY knew something about the subject at hand. There are lines near the end referencing the Brooklyn Navy Yard and Manila that add a nice bit of versimilitude.  3) Though the spy ring is probably meant to be German, they are general enough that they could be working for anyone. Reds, Italians, Spain. Anyone.  4) Though liberals insist that, before Feminism, political correctness and the 60s came along to raise the great unwashed from the mire, women were portrayed as all being helpless and inferior, the fact is, as with everything liberal, it is simply not true. As this film is a glaringly obvious example. True film historians take note. This is required viewing.  5) The film is a real showcase for Fay Wray in a role miles away from Ann Darrow. Not only is she superb giving probably her greatest performance but she easily carries the film. Wray fans needs to see this film.  All the above in mind. An above average Monogram is still about average when compared to other studios.  However this was enjoyable and gets a recommendation.

forgettable and only if its free I'm writing this review 2 weeks after watching the movie and I can't remember a thing. It had okay action at best. I used a discount code to get it so not that big of a loss.

Entertaining Romantic Comedy, Nice Looking Bods. One of the highest rated films of all times is "Casablanca", a romantic film set in wartime.  As in literature, Romance and all its entanglements and disasters make up a good portion of Hollywood's output.  Yet, when it's paired with comedy, while a few classics are produced ("Bringing Up Baby" comes to mind) most of the genre is pretty fluffball, rarely earning critical respect even with the passage of time.  "No Strings Attached" is not going to end up on one of the better lists of All Time Movies.  "No Strings Attached" as the billboards and cover imply, has tried to up the ante with Sex and near nudity, but the film remains nothing more than sweet entertainment, albeit for a more sex-tolerant crowd.  It's a dead ringer for "Friends With Benefits", at almost every point, and the fact that the leading men in both films, Ashton Kucher in this one and Justin Timberlake in the other, are men who make the heart flutter but get almost no  respect, is just one more parallel.  If you've seen one, you've pretty much seen the other, but if you're in a funk and need diversionary entertainment, yet can't stand the thought of "Mama Mia"; streaming both films back to back is your corn-syrup-laden box of Mac n Cheese.  Mac n Cheese with real  bacon, because all four of the main actors are simply delightful when spared the antics of the wardrobe department.  Oddly enough, with all the nudity and simulated sex, neither film is the least bit erotic.  Your evangelical relatives will never believe you, but what do they know?  Basically, the two main characters are introduced at Camp, bump up against each other in College, and finally find themselves in LaLa land as adults; she's finishing med school, and he's an aspiring writer with a famous dad whose shadow he finds diffiicult to escape.  But, he does have that which many new grads won't, these days:  A swank, designer-made house, a BMW, and a job.  In any case, she has commitment issues, mother oriented as it turns out,  and thus they agree to be Sex Friends, something which seems to puzzle everyone they know in Los Angeles, but would be so 2011 in San Francisco.  In effect,  they have a relationship a lot of gay men have, with pregnancy not being an issue; lots of sex with no entanglement.  Except that they get entangled.  That's not as bad as it would seem:  Seventy years ago such "loose" women had to be punished, and usually Hollywood killed them, or in some other way wrote them into purgatory by the end of the film.  And it was always the women.  It's still the women. The guys here are exactly what they tell us women want, but these women don't want them.  Ah well.  If you keep eating that mac n cheese you're going to die.  If you expect to find deep meaning in Romantic Comedies, well you're still going to die, but from something that pops up while you're distracted.  Just sit back and watch,  it's only entertainment; for serious, thought provoking  content there's always Al Jazeera.

Shame you can only get the director's cut This is one of the best movies ever made, full stop. I really wouldn't know where to begin in praising it. The terrible shame is that it is only available in Blu Ray in a director's cut. Many years ago I happened to find the theatrical release in DVD in the US (I live in Oz) and happily turfed out the director's cut. I would never buy the director's cut again no matter how magnificant the Blu Ray quality. The reason is because just about every inserted scene is vile. It changes the whole tone of the movie. When you watch the director's cut you come to appreciate how essential editing can be. The best example is in the greatest scene in any movie to depict genius. It is the moment when Madame Mozart comes up to Salieri without her husband's permission and with his original manuscripts, to apply for a teaching position. Salieri looks at the manuscripts and sees they are completely perfect - not the slightest correction in evidence. They are the first and only draft. It is as if Mozart received dictation from heaven. In marvel Salieri looks at them one after the other as we hear snatches of the brilliant music, and then he drops them through his fingers; he tramps on them as he turns away and says he can't help. The scene is completely convincing. This marvelous moment somehow is chopped into several bits in the director's cut and a whole day of activity is inserted; not only that, but the day involves him forcing his way onto Mme Mozart. The dramatic impact and focus on Mozart's extraordinary brilliance is completely lost. It's disgusting and unnecessary. Just about every aspect added into the director's cut is puerile in this way.

maybe I am being petty but...also may have spoiler in my review. The acting and plot are not very good. I live in the Midwest. I know where the  Fond du lac reservation is. I have been on parts of it.  In this not located in Pembroke Co. Its located in St. Louis and Cartlon Co MN. A plus, I liked in the movie that it showed places that are in the area. I know its sounds trival but the snow scenes bothered me. Sometimes there was snow and other times there wasn't. I looked to much like scenes were filmed at different locations and different times of the year. I am not American Indian and i feel hesitant in making some of my comments.  There is too much in this movie that seemed inaccurate too. I don't speak Ojibwe so I don't know what language was actually being spoken but the credits had --cree. The Fond du Lac reservation is part of Lake Superior Band of Chippewa (its an Ojibwa band). The language is Ojibwe not Cree. Would have been nice if they acknowledged that.   Spoilers: They had that guy who was hung like Jesus(he was the one who they got the permit from) that movie eluded that he was in collabarating with the mayor. The mayor (of whatever town they were at) is not going to be in charge of BIA or tribal board. When talking of the awful things that happened to american indians, the white geologist said he never learned these things in school. This may be petty, but i learned these things in school. This movie didn't do a very good job of portraying the damage done. It was like the spent a minute saying what was done and showed some flashes of the past. The little said was what I learned in school but there is more to this. It also likes the villians out of the  Catholic Church. The idea that the priest was going to cover for the past didn't ring true to me. Yes i know they did terrible things in the past..but it wasn't just priests and nuns that were too blame. Children were ripped from there parents in the past.  How the aunt could alone sign in Rain to the hospital and get electric shock treatment is not believable. To my knoweledge its not that easy to get someone locked up in mental hospital much less get Electric Shock treatment. I don't buy her boyfriend of 10 years(tribal police officer) would just leave her there at the mental hospital. He talked to the american indian running for mayor who is a lawyer and i would like to think he would know legal ways to protect her. Not say wait a few days. I could go on with my rant but I will stop. I just find it so unfortunate that this subject matter was treated so poorly. A little research could have helped along with a more thought out plot and better acting.

I was surpised I thought the plot could have alot more meat to it - this movie caught my attention because of the title - 2:22 - and i bought soley on that premise - however after viewinging it, i did not find it that interesting at all.

"Hijacked" - A long, boring and drawn out movie where the idea is better then the execution. Couture is not a good actor at all. "I'm not in a position to delay your departure, but if you choose to fly I strongly recommend you double all your security efforts." Paul Ross (Couture) is a special agent who is great at his job but not his personal life. He has just broken up with his fianc&eacute; and his best friend just got killed. To make matters worse he has just boarded a plane that his ex is on and it has just been hijacked by people working for the crime lord he is looking for. I have to admit that I had really low expectations for this one. Most wrestler movies are not that impressive and after watching this one I guess same goes for MMA. This is a movie where the writers said he can put a UFC guy in this and have him beat people up, that will make people watch. The sad fact is that that it true. The fighting was good, but the movie overall was totally flat. No emotion, no intrigue and I actually found myself wanting to shut it off or fast forward it. My inner struggle actually helped because my talking to myself not only was more entertaining but made the time go by quicker. I was hoping for "Air Force One" meets "Passanger 57". I couldn't have been more wrong. On the plus side there is a scene of nudity halfway through...so there is that. Overall, a movie for really hardcore wrestling/mma movie fans. I had to struggle to get through it. I give it a C-.

Don't waste your money on this older version of "Sparkle" After having seen the 2012 version with Whitney Houston and Jordin Sparks...who both did an AMAZING job...I was curious about this older version of the story.  DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY. This story is poorly told and the editing was done extremely poorly.  To be honest, after watching this movie, I had a hard time piecing together what I had just seen.

Odd Movie I like Clive Owen. But Mr. Owen you definitely do some odd movies. Sort of like William Defoe... I like Mr. Defoe but his recent movies are beyond odd. Mr. Owen hasn't reached the level of oddness as William Defoe but they seem to be in competition.

Babel The beginning story line was very good. Not knowing exactly what the movie entailed, I was very confused when the movie changed to the story in Japan which I felt had nothing to do with the beginning story. I thought it was some X-rated movie that somehow got spliced into another movie. I would not have watched it. It took me three times trying to finish the story in Morocco before I realized the kind of movie it was. I even had money refunded for my Kindle because I didn't know what the movie was and apparently they wasn't aware of it at Amazon. Loved the Brad Pitt part.

Four was a bore Bored me to the point that I walked away. A shame as I love Vaughn and find he and Witherspoon both to be good actors. I was just bored with the storyline.

Betrayed I rented this due to the other negative reviews and I am glad I only rented it. I like Milla Jovovich but even she did not seem to be invested in this role of betrayers betraying other betrayed betrayers who betrayed betraying betrayers ad disgustum. She may not have been in this except her husband  directed it. A rather pointless exercise. Was this a comic book story? It was laughable but I did not find it funny. Too bad. Swashbuckling. Rushing to the aid of damsels in distress. Rushing hither and thither. Breaking and entering. Intrigue as far as the eye can see. Airborne battle scenes as if at sea. Crashing atop Notre Dame? Was Director Anderson making a statement?  And everyone lived unhappily ever after.

No real story to latch onto Monster Brawl is one of those rare cases where the movie is exactly summed up with the description on the cover. It's literally just a series of sequences in which famous monsters are paired in the ring...over and over and over, with no real point. Had the creators added some kind of subplot or other story line, we might have had a cult classic here. As it stands, this is a failed experiment. Jimmy Hart was funny though. He was the highlight of the movie.

Remington Steele, seasons 1, 4 & 5 The format for selecting an episode is horrible.  You can't play all episodes, you must select one episode and only one.  When the episode is over then you must go back to menu and fight to find another one.  There is no description for each episode either.  Foxhome video did a lousy job of formatting these dvds.

Not that great. It's amazing to see how many people recommended this movie and give it a five star vote. Maybe it's because I went into it after reading reviewers comments and they hyped the movie up more then it was, but I went in expecting something mind blowing, and all I found was disappointment in what I would hardly call anything more then a science fiction movie re-inventing what you think about Trolls. It's definitely not a horror movie, nor a thriller.. it's not scary, unless you are a complete wuss that is afraid of your own shadow, and the re-invention of Trolls as large monsters that the Norwegian Government don't want people to know about is just plain silly.  ::Plot:: 3 College kids are out and about looking for something to film, as they haven't got much else better to do. They find a town where there is a dead bear that has supposedly been shot, but some of the people they interview beleive it was not shot, as no one has laid claim to the kill, and tracks around the bear look suspicious. The trio end up following a man who they think may be a suspect to the bear shooting. They follow him into the woods and end up running away from a strange sound caused by something big that is chasing them. They team up with the man who they where following, who just happens to be the #1 and only Troll hunter in Norway who explains to them that he doesn't mind them filming what he does, as long as they do exactly what he says. He also explains that the government know about the trolls and that he is paid to hunt them down if they go outside their territories nearer to human populated areas. He also explains that he doesn't care if they film this secret, because the government pays him very little, which I found hard to swallow, but OK. The Norway leaders only need one guy to hunt these things... sure. Okie Dokey then. Anyway...The 4 of them go on a hunt of trolls, learn how trolls are tracked, their species, and how to get a blood sample of one for a veterinarian. ::End Plot::  With everyone saying this is a must see movie, and how scary it is, It makes me wonder what other movies those people have been exposed to so far? Because this movie, it's not all as great as it's being hyped up to be. It's kind of like Blair Witch style but they are on the hunt of large mammals that either explode or turn to stone when they are exposed to ultraviolet UV rays.  Sure they CGI is not bad, but that does not make a movie brilliant. I was drifting in and out of consciousness by the end of the movie. I dunno, maybe I prefer my scary movies to make sense or have a more interesting plot going on, but I didn't find this movie as gripping or compelling as some others have been saying it is. I'm not saying don't see it, I know people have different tastes, and although this didn't appeal to me, I'm sure other will. Like many of my reviews, it's more here as a reminder to myself why I didn't enjoy it all that much.

Awful Audio I was very disappointed with this DVD. This has always been my favorite version of A Christmas Carol, so I was looking forward to watching it after not having seen it in a long time. Throughout most of the movie, the background music was way louder than the dialogue, so it was extremely difficult to hear anything.

very angry I am very angry, sent me a DVD in French, and I needed to subitulos in Spanish like this in the description, I think it is disrespectful

mediocre Uninspired and plain boring for long stretches, this movie seems to think extended vomit scenes are the pinnacle of humour. and stunt driving. and running a joke into the ground austin powers 3 style. The only good thing about it was Melissa McCarthy, she was funny and genuine. Otherwise it was a total waste of time.

A Bad Movie If it wasn't for some boobage (tons of old lady boobage, tho.), I would have given this movie only one star. A really bad movie and the Jennifer Aniston character is pretty weak.

What was this all about? What is it with so many incoherent screenplays these days?  This guy tries to survive slowly going insane in a creepy apartment because if he lasts long enough, he can have it to live in.  Okay...and it ends ironically and rather predictably. What is the point?

Bad remake, boring, slow, no gore scenes. NC-17 movie its a good movie but can NEVER be compared to the original that was banned in the US for extreme rape scenes. This one is calm, not much gore, pretty slow, nothing extreme, i would say this one is a NC-17. Nowadays there are tons of horror/slasher movies with lot more gore and disgusting scenes and the women is physically tortured than this remake! Pretty boring actually.. She falls in the river and shows up a month later with not a single scar.. It doesn't even show how this city girl survived in the woods for a month!!?! She just shows up with new clothes and make-up.. now that is weird..

A Touch of Evil This movie was OK. It was not what I had expected from heavy hitters like Charleston Heston and Orson Wells.

Terribly done movie The movie isn't as fun as the colombine film was. There is one part that is good and that's when he drives the armored truck up to the banks in NYC demanding the taxmoney back.

Chateau Oh No! Do not spend money to watch this movie. It lacks a compelling script, employs minimally competent actors, and has a painful soundtrack. Watch Sideways instead. (And I like rom-coms. Seriously.)

Lucas Gone Wild! Vastly Inferior to the real Star Wars movies, the Original Trilogy Star Wars on steroids. Lucas Gone Wild! with CGI effects. Style over substance. In a nutshell, that is what you have with these 'prequel' movies. After the fact add-ons to the true movies that should have stopped at 3. Now, with more toys to play with, Lucas forgets about what makes a good movie, WRITING and DIRECTION, and instead goes balls out to cram as many special effects cheese he possibly can in virtually every shot, literally trying to fill the sky with machines and robots. Its all so excessive and ridiculous. Who even can remember the convoluted plot lines? Everyone instantly knows and can succinctly recap the plot lines for Star Wars, Empire and Jedi, but you can't do it with these CGI laden messes. Lucas tries so hard to impress us with his new found technological wizardry ("I'll show em what I 'meant' to do with Star Wars!' w/ evil maniacal laugh) that he forgets the ONE most important thing he SHOULD have learned at USC's film school etc----PLOT AND STORYLINE are what makes a good movie in the end. 2001 A Space Odyssey is a classic not just because of the incredible for its time special effects (1968), but because the STORY and the PLOT was interesting and compelling, and still is after all these years.  Some dweebs (see comments below) forget that these movies were meant to appeal to the wide-eyed child in ALL of us, like any classic movie in this genre does (ie see Wizard of Oz). They weren't meant to be forgotten or ignored once you turned 18. Instead, Lucas concentrated too much on appealing to the computer geeks and forgot how to put together a story.  These prequels are the equivalent of a Super Sized McDonald's Happy Meal with a whole bunch of toy prizes packed in. The under 35 cell phone obsessed American Idolized computer game hypnotized generation will devour it in minutes, only to be forgotten about and hungry again within hours, with the toys quickly abandoned and scattered. These are consumed but not ingrained, they are digested and pooted out, but not seared into the cell structure. So sad it came to this.....in a galaxy not that far away.

ghost town i like dr. pinkus..he has the typical british dry, wry sense of humor.The role of Tea was not one that really showed her talents as an actor. In fact, other than the Pinkus role, the other characters do not appear to be fully developed. The story line was appealing. The movie had a light, feel good nature to it inspite of dead people lacking closure. Dead people lacking closure how unrealistic is that? In the end, the movie left me questioning whether i liked it or not.  Perhaps the movie left me in the state of the undead with no closure.....

DO YOU LIKE PIE? Art (Jon Foster) works at the Book Barn by choice as he studies for his exams. His dad (Nick Nolte) is a crime boss who has a job lined up for Art who lacks assertiveness. Phlox (Mena Suvari) is his boss and sex partner at the Book Barn. He meets Jane (Sienna Miller) at a party and they hit it off. She is athletic, sexy, charming, talented, and drinks to excess. She also has a boyfriend, Cleveland (Peter Sarsgaard) "like the state" who we soon find out is bisexual. The three of them start hanging out together.  The first thing you notice is the annoying narration by Art because they couldn't make a decent screen adaptation. The characters of Art and his dad were poorly constructed. When they got together, you just wished the scene would be over. Jane is an interesting character who we never got to know, and Cleveland is a character we perhaps learned too much about. This is a story of Art trying to find himself one summer in Pittsburgh. For hard core indie lovers and clearly not my cup of tea, but one that might go good with Milk.  F-bomb, sex (straight and gay), and nudity (Mena Suvari).

What a downer! Yes, the performances were great, and yes, the craftsmanship was exemplary, but to what end? To remind us that mentally unstable human beings are capable of committing horrific acts? Well, duh!  I normally enjoy small-town character studies, but I don't understand why anyone felt that this particular movie needed to be made.

Great movie for two tempermental 14yr old children :D I have to admit, I quite liked the first half of this movie. The plot was complex enough to keep me wondering who was who and what was exactly taking place. (2 stars for that!)  But after that football game was over, the movie went downhill from there. I was really excited for the potential plot twists and international intrigue, I mean who doesn't like a sandbox scenario of when all hell breaks loose between the USA and Russia? But truthfully such a scenario would be too big for such a film.  After the football game, you could almost 1) predict exactly who would die in what order, 2) guess what Ryan would say (very passionately I might add), and 3) be surprised how Russia and USA would respond to each other like two 14yr old children fighting over who called "shotgun" first. Of course leave it to Dewey (from Malcolm in the Middle) to instigate the whole argument from the back seat as he smiles sheepishly.  All in all not a bad a movie if you know a little bit of how the military works and want a good laugh OR if you want to root for USA and Russia to duke it out with each other. Not to mention watch Ryan reunite with his girlfriend in the middle of a nuclear holocaust in less than 5hrs after saving the world. Enjoy!

The Worst Movie of All Time Gets The Worst Commentary Track of All Time The only people interested in buying this will be people who have seen it on MST3K and would like to have a [1] good, uncut copy that might make more sense with [2] a commentary track explaining why the movie turned out so rancid.  Well, it scores a 5 on the first point.  Picture is crisp, a few shots are restored [only the last part of the truck driver sequence contributes to making things clearer], and the muddy soundtrack [which the `bots have a lot of fun with] is clearer -- I was amazed to learn that the `bot's didn't make the bubble pipe noises, Dr. Logan's pipe does sound like that!  The disc itself is nicely produced, with menus not unlike the old Rhino MST3K sets.  But it gets 0 stars [if possible] for the commentary track, as well as the `bonus' interview with director Rebane.  First of all, the "interviewer" and interlocutor on the commentary track admits that he's only seen the movie once!  What?  It's obvious this hipster doofus just heard about the movie and decided to make a few bucks, or else was just hired by the DVD company, and he "prepared" for the job by skimming a few blogs or maybe just the Wikipedia site.  As a result, he never asks the questions the rest of us have been asking about this uniquely bad film.  Nor is he able to challenge, or even notice, the truly bizarre story Rebane tells.  What's known is that Rebane ran out of money and sold the uncompleted film to his "friend" Herschel Gordon Lewis, who years later shot new scenes, using new actors, along with a "campy" narration by himself,  to produce a bottom of the bill filler for Southern drive-ins.  Thus, the abysmal quality of the results.  People have spent years speculating who shot what, or why certain characters disappear or possibly just get replaced by new actors.  Rebane, however, claims he shot the whole thing, with Lewis contributing only a few shots [along with the "intentionally campy" narration and equally ridiculous title].  Why on Earth would anyone claim to be the auteur of this junk?  What's worse is that Rebane isn't even a reliable narrator.  Wow, he can't remember the details of a film he made 50 years ago!  Hey, we've all been there, but things would be much better if his interlocutor had seen the film more than once, and was able to ask the obvious follow up questions!  For example, it's long been thought that Rebane's film ends at about the 30 minute mark, at which point there's a jump cut, after which several characters disappear and the plot shifts.  There's even speculation that the new character called the "brother" of Dr. Logan is actually the same actor who played the now "dead" character in the first part.  Well, Rebane explains that the "Dr. Manning" character was cut because the actor was lost, due to delays in filming [remember, Rebane succeeded in filming the whole movie, so it was from the length of the shoot, not from starting up years later].  Then, later, he starts to explain how the new actor was found, and how they wrote him in, but it's during a scene where he's across a table from the Dr. Logan's "brother," whom he keeps calling "Dr. Manning's brother" so you soon realize that he's talking about one of the actors, but describing the other actor's character! Here's where a qualified interviewer would say, hey, is Conrad's brother played by the same actor or not, but no such luck.  The icing on the cake is that Rebane blames the whole disaster on -- the unions!  He really seems to think that if it weren't for those "thugs' he'd have made a movie to rival The Magnificent Ambersons!  Needless to say, since Rebane attributes the film's "quality" to union interference, and the "interviewer" has only seen the film once,  neither even notices, less explains, the film's iconic blunders.  For example, the infamous scene with several references to "the music" and dancing, where no actually music was dubbed in, leaving the actors sounding like lunatics; nothing, they just talk right past it.  The most unintentionally "funny" moment is when Bill is gassing about the unions again, and neither one of them even notices the notorious moment when someone makes a "phone" noise offscreen; was this a cue to the actor that was meant to be replaced with Foley, or what?  In short, this is the worst commentary track since the first Fawlty Tower's set, where they couldn't get anyone but some assistant director who snores through each episode, waking up every now and then to deliver some irrelevancy like "Boy, it took a long time to set up that shot."  Verdict: 5 stars for the quality of the disc and print, 0 for the commentary.

Diamonds Aren't Forever Connery is back and bad, old and mad. Yep the major bad guy Ernst Stavro Blofeld bumped off his wife (Bond's wife that is not Connerys) in the previous instalment and Sean is here to settle the score, presumably because Lazenby's Bond is still distraught. Would have loved to have seen George Lazenby in a kick arse, revenge driven James Bond film but we got the next best thing and what the audience and film makers wanted at the time - the return of Sean Connery.  Diamonds Are Forever was an attempt by the film producers to emulate the success of Goldfinger the movie that turned Bond into an International franchise success although the mixture of elements that went into making Gold finger were perfect in the early 1960's, the early 1970's seems to make these elements jar.  Sure it's set in America again, this time in Las Vegas, Features a dubious female side kick Bond has to seduce to the good side and Shirley Bassey is wheeled out again to belt out another impressive Bond theme that is up there with Goldfinger. Oh the director Guy Hamilton is also back for what turned out to be the first in the run of Bond films he would do this decade.  It has all the hallmarks of a classic romp but...it just lacks. It's probably because of the producers desire to make it all gadgets and razzle-dazzle for the audience. Action set pieces pop up everywhere and a lightness of touch seems prevalent, if nothing else, to avoid being anything as serious as the previous Bond entry.  Sean does a great job you'd never know he's been away from Bond apart he looks more lines and rugged with quips aplenty O' Toole that he smacks around like a championship boxer would an unskilled opponent. His dead wife is never mentioned or alluded to as the reason he's chasing Blofeld and he seems to have got over his wife's death too quickly. Jill St John looks STUNNING in a bikini as Tiffany Case but her character is pretty light on with stuff to do apart from change wigs her dubious background is never really covered. For a seasoned smuggler she seems easily startled and helpless.  Charles Grey steps into the shoes of Ernst Stavro Blofeld this time around and so totally different to the other two Blofeld's you wonder if he's the same person. He wanders, lacking menace, with an air of an evil Noel Cowerd and acts very much a generic Bond villain, although he does dabble in a bit of cross dressing at one point. See? I knew there was one bad guy into that! But then a generic Bond villain in a very generic Bond movie makes sense.  There are a couple of high points Bruce Glover and Putter Smith as Blofeld's sinister henchmen Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd the first openly gay assassins in cinema who go round knocking everyone off before Bond gets to them and the doubles Blofelds creating of himself with some form of mud aiding the plastic surgery. Great bit when Connery shoves him into a bubbling vat of the stuff at the beginning.  But that's about it...the ending is a big anti climax, we never get the final showdown between the the two arch foes just a few second league explosions on an oil rig and it's all over, we never see SPECTRE or Blofeld ever again, just presume they've been caught and all sent to prison. There's the tail scene involving the two assasins being dealt with then the film just abruptly ends, you are almost think you'll hear Sean say "oh well here come the end credits..."  Maybe they should have stuck to the idea of Goldfinger having a twin brother seeking revenge and maybe that would have made Diamonds emulate the success of Goldfinger. Still the box office was up after this flick and the producers didn't look back. Good bye Las Vegas and good bye Sean Connery you're getting out at the right time say hello to the more cartoonish and dumbed down Bonds of the 70's................

Even Al Gore wouldn't bother clearing the haze out of this skyline I'm really stumped.  I don't think I've been this let down by a film in a long time. I mean, really. This was a film that had a great amount of potential to be a simple sci-fi thriller... and then I was left after the credits thinking "What was that?!?!?"  People are right when they say that this movie has great special effects- the special effects are amazing, and even pretty!!! But that script...  ...THAT DAMN SCRIPT.  Excuse me for sounding vague in this review but it's been a long time since a movie left me feeling as cold as Skyline did.  I was able to tolerate the dumb character choices and inconsistencies. I was able to tolerate such stupid things like the woman getting angry about the photo of her boyfriend cheating on her when there's an alien attack.  But the dialogue is AWFUL. Seriously. I think I laughed at pretty much every line spoken in this movie. It's like they hired a fanfiction writer to write this movie. I can't remember the last time. time I've laughed so much at someone pinning someone else to the wall and yelling "You're disgusting!!!"  And the ending. What the hell was that??? Despite the dumb dialog and inconsistencies this was a cheesy fun movie and then THAT comes?!?!?!?!?! Oh dear.  I'm actually really stumped. And lost for words. This movie is that bad. I would give a movie this disappointing one star, but it gets two for the fact that it had a lot of potential for the most part.  Avoid.

Poor quality This is a wonderful movie that I viewed on TCM. The problem with this dvd is that it is poor quality. I was not able to view it because of it's quality.

$48??? Is this for real? $48? I want it, but I will be looking else where for it. Not gonna buy it here. WOW!

The first two were much better. I enjoyed X-men and X-men 2, but felt that Last Stand could have been much better.  Magneto is a great villain, but why does he have to have so much screen time in practically every film?  There are so many more villains from the comics they haven't even touched yet.  I've been dying to see Mr. Sinister or Apocalypse on the big screen for over 10 years.  It's always Magneto Magneto Magneto.    And don't even get me started on what the writers did with Phoenix.  Just some psycho who goes around killing for no reason at all.    And what was with that Sentinel in the opening scene?  I'd have loved to have seen more of them.  Less regular joes with cure guns and more giant mutant hunting robots, please.  Now that would have been a heck of a final battle.    So if they ever make an x4 I'm guessing the villain will probably be Magneto... again.  He's one of my favorite villains so I can't believe I'm getting bored with him in this film series.  I think the actor did a magnificent job, but it's time to branch out a bit more when it comes to X-men villains.  Onslaught anyone?  Days of Future Past kind of movie, maybe?  Ah well, a blind guy can dream.

A Dissapointment The 3D on this film was almost non-existent! The movie was not all that exciting. I love post apocalyptic movies and this one is not going to be at the top of my favorites

movie Bought this for my 10 year old daughter - she is not interested in it. Haven't made it all the way through movie - lost interest and did something else.

not that great I've done alot of workout videos but this one was just pointless. the cardio was okay but i didn't like the 10 minute toning segments. some of the moves were lame and didn't make sense. the lower body segment was very disappointing. the moves doesn't really target the buns & thighs. Normally you would feel some type of burn when working the lower body but i felt nothing. you could've sat on the floor for 10 minutes and got the same result. Same for the abs segment. If you are going to create a 10 minute workout, make sure the moves are really intense and effective. I would not recommend this dvd for those who want to lose weight. this is more for toning and firming. if you are looking for a good toning video i would definitely recommend Jillian Michaels' No More Trouble Zones. For a real bun & thigh workout...try Winsor Pilates Bun & Thigh Sculpting. For a real total body makeover in under 30 minutes, try Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred.

Seen it all before You've seen it all before. Something is going on inside the government and people who are investigating it are getting killed.  Charlie Sheen stars as the Assistant to the President (Sam Waterston) who is being hunted by a determined Stephen Lang. Donald Sutherland plays Sheen's mentor and Linda Hamilton plays a reporter caught up in the plot. Theodore Bikel has a small part as the man who exposed the conspiracy.  There are several chase scenes which albeit are exciting, also seem incredible. Can you really chase someone through the luxury hotels in Washington shooting at them and pushing everyone out of the way?  It's a little funny to see Linda Hamilton running from the stern faced Stephen Lang who appears "terminator" like as a killing machine who ploys down everyone who gets in his way. Hamilton later confessed that she thought the film was "mediocre".  This was the last film for George Cosmatos (1941-2005) who made only 11 films between 1973 and 2004, including "The Cassandra Crossing" (1976), "Rambo 2" (1985), "Cobra" (1986) and "Tombstone" (1993).  It isn't so much that this is a bad film, it's just that it has been done many times and much better - "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962), "Seven Days in May" (1964), "Soylent Green" (1973), "The Parallax View" (1974), "The Conversation" (1974),  "Three Days of the Condor" (1975),  "Blow Out" (1981), "No Way Out" (1987),  and "Conspiracy Theory" (1997) to name a few.

Untapped Potential & Promise Unfulfilled Honestly, I wanted to like this movie but it did not even come close to making use of all the rich possibilities inherent in the production.  The desk clerks were interesting characters with good chemistry, the Inn was intriguing and much could have been made of the premise.  Instead, what the viewer gets feels like a meandering mix of Reality TV (by the way of some low-budget/inept paranormal investigation and incidental/unrelated dialogue/action) and uninspired Urban Legend/Ghost Story (other similar tales exist of jilted lovers haunting the scene of their suicides, etc.)  I'm all for building up characters, setting the mood, pacing the scene and developing the plot, but truly, there is a difference between leaving interpretations up to the viewer and just leaving them out entirely; the director needs to provide tangible clues and bits of evidence that build on one another and are ultimately quantifiable.  A little misdirection can also be a good thing...  It's not enough to just swing a crystal, slam a door and suggest that something horrible happened in the basement. (Is revenge the only motive behind the phenomena; can't some other tantalizing historical tidbit make itself known?)  And it's also not enough to just give us snippets of issues/angst, as experienced by the characters, without making them an integral part of the mystery (such as helping Eleanor "come home" in "The Haunting" and revealing to Jack that he's "always been the caretaker" in "The Shining.")  "The Innkeepers" plays something like a feature length "Scooby Doo" episode that got tweaked by Tobe Hooper in the last quarter. The vague outcome of this film isn't a reflection of style, but one of laziness and/or a lack of craft.

Fades very badly after a strong start An international traveler coughs a couple of times during a layover at Chicago airport. Four days later she is dead. Her young son dies shortly afterwards. Within a few days the mystery virus has struck down tens of thousands more and the world is looking at a rerun of the 1918 Spanish influenza outbreak, only much worse. There is no known cure. Social order starts to break down and looters rip through stores, looking for food, water and a homeopathic medicine they think might save them. This is where we are half an hour into Contagion and the director hasn't missed a beat. We're gripped. What could go wrong next? What calamities await? Unfortunately, the film starts spinning out of control at this point, and by the end has turned into a shapeless mess which we don't care about. One reason is a sure-footed script that stumbles badly, another is a cast of characters we don't care about (they keep dying off), while another is the irritating fact that the director is trying to cram too much in. He wants to show us what happens, as well as what might happen, plus the personal conflict the (two-dimensional) characters are experiencing, plus what the long-term implications are, and let's not forget the protesters who are furious at what they see as official inaction and incompetence, and we have to find space for the so-called independent journalist-cum-blogger who casts doubt on the authorities' attempts to find a cure while peddling the homeopathic cure and hang on, is he independent, or is he shilling for a firm and making big bucks out of it? Let's also not forget the lone father trying to keep his teen daughter away from her possibly infected boyfriend. The film gradually collapses under the weight of the loose threads and some pretty bad acting, which is a shame, since this concept had promise. Next time they should focus on a smaller roster of more fleshed-out characters.

Columbia Pictures is Owned By Sony Pictures Home Entertainment; Hint, hint! 40 Guns to Apache Pass was a Columbia Pictures production. This review is of how Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has ignored our greatest war hero and not of the poor quality of this offering. This release is not one of Columbia Pictures/SPHE's. Our greatest war hero's memory deserves better treatment. I will purchase this DVD when Sony remasters it for DVD release. Even better, Sony should remaster Audie Murphy's remaining movies not yet released on DVD onto a series of Blu-Ray collections befitting a man of his stature. Randolph Scott deserves the same multiple Blu-Ray collections of his many westerns he starred in. C'mon Sony, start mining those golden nuggets in your vaults, polish them up (remaster) and release them in standard DVD and Blu-Ray to protect them for posterity and to give us western movie collectors something worth buying. I buy 20 western DVDs and Blu-Rays to 1 modern movie today because they knew good story telling back in the day and morals of right and wrong were reinforced with their telling. Today, we have many people wondering through life without a moral compass. But, I digress. Please give Audie and Randolph the respect they deserve and do it right! You have gold mines in your vaults if you'd only realize it and treat their fans and these stars of long ago the way they should be treated. I have written to SPHE already. I hope others will too. Happy Trails, partner!

It's a comedy......Right? I found the movie super funny, I thought it was hilarious with "The popular lawn" and the magic diary. Me and my sisters watch it all the time just to make us laugh.  I recommended it to my friends and when they watched it, they told me how the couldn't stop cracking up.  I'm laughing about it right now as I write this review. I thought this would be a awesome comedy for grown ups or teens.  Kids-I wouldn't recommend... I'm not sure if it was suppose to be funny or what, but it makes me laugh all the time.  If your wondering why the movie is so funny, it's because the movie is so incredibly stupid. I also find Barbie as a bad influence-and not just this movie,but in all of them. According to the movies, she has about five husbands and a boyfriend, and she proves that she can to anything even if it's impossible to mankind. She also proves that only blondes can do anything and are the prettiest.  She's either a princess, actress or a fairy or mermaid.  She never makes mistakes and is always perfect. Again, the movie is super funny but barbie is a bad influence. And why does barbie want to be popular? She already is!

Mat Workout DVD: She needs to give more direction Maybe this is her first workout video, but she moves pretty quickly and expects you to follow her without any verbal direction. I have no doubt it will get me in shape, but I'm disappointed in her presentation.

Not one of MacFarlane's best cartoons I am a huge family Guy fan and was disappointed with buying this video because it was not that funny and it was under 60 minutes long.  There were some skits which were good to laugh too but it did not make up for the whole video.  It is best to rent this video versus buying it.

RUNNING ON EMPTY This is my fifth FRIGHTFEST film and I must admit I'm disappointed in most of these films.  Only PIG HUNT and DARK HOUSE have met my expectations.  Considering films like DUEL, JOY RIDE, CHRISTINE and even MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE, ROAD KILL comes up short.  There are mny incredulous things about this movie, but most irritating is that three untrained youths are able to drive a "road train." The acting isn't bad considering the script and the inept direction.  The girls were especially annoying. I've only 3 left in the series but I'm in no hurry to see them!

Good production . Bad director This movie starts great and has a very exciting story line and keeps you excited until the end but the ending is poorly written and directed. I already thought of couple of endings that would make the movie more exciting and suiting the story line.

Weakest of the Shrek franchise Unlike the other Shrek movies which are generally light and funny, this one is much darker, with more focus on a very disturbing villain. In fact, my kids were a little bit scared with all the witches and a sociopathic Rumplestiltskin. It seems to me that the writers just ran out of good ideas for this franchise. In my humble opinion, they should have stopped at three.

An Epic Story Made Small Some of you may remember the old Howard Hughes movie The Congueror. The punchline of that movie is that Hughes chose John Wayne to play Genghis Khan. Of course that was at a time when American film makers routinely picked white actors to play Asians or Native Americans (Peter Lorre playing Mr. Moto and David Carridine playing a Shaolin Buddhist monk) We haven't seen many caucasians cast in Asian roles in the last few years. Marco Polo is about the only exception I can think of. The producers chose beefy ex-rugby player and former Marine BRIAN DENNEHY as Mongolian-Chinese emperor Kubla Khan. Every time Dennehy appeared on screen I thought of John Wayne playing Kubla's grandfather. While Dennehy seems like a bit of a ham fisted choice, he was far more interesting than leading actor Ian Samerholder who managed to breath little life into his role. The backdrops for this movie are beautiful, but the videography (it clearly looks like it was shot on video) was workmanlike but un-inspiring. Marco Polo is a very small interpretation of an epic journey.

The film is a masterpiece...but wait for a better transfer. Image quality is great...but somewhat cropped on the sides. The film is easily five stars, but this Blu-Ray transfer only gets two. Despite so many reviewers complaining about film grain and shoddy picture quality/clarity, the main problem is that the image has been tampered with in regard to size. The picture quality is perfectly fine, considering that this film was not shot in hi-def and not even with a very big budget (this is as clear as M*A*S*H will get...and the image clarity is better than ever).  The only problem I have, is that the film's title did NOT fit on the screen (the left leg of the letter "M" and half of the right leg of the letter "H" are off screen when the title is shown during the film's opening). I immediately threw on my old standard DVD for a comparison, and that one fit perfectly. In fact, on the standard DVD, there is a comfortable margin of space on screen to the left and right of the title. This sizing error continues throughout the entire Blu-Ray version of the film. At one point, Altman holds a shot which is intended to be a take on "The Last Supper", and the character sitting on the far right end of the table is only half in the frame (this compromises the artistic intent of the director). I checked my television settings, and they were all in proper order.  This is one of my favorite films, and I hope this problem is remedied. I hope Criterion will eventually put out a release, as this is also a very important film.

The Nudity Is The Only Good Thing Nude Nuns With Big Guns has only one thing going for it, and that is nudity. The nudity is good, but the story is mostly dull. And how can a movie with a title like this take itself seriously? I don't know, but Nude Nuns With Big Guns does take itself too seriously. I expected a campy good time, but what I got was a straight-faced action movie, and those are the worst kinds of action movies.

What went wrong? How could this happen? Now, i am a HUGE fan of T&E. Their show is, in my opinion, one of the funniest things out there. And yet they somehow managed to completely and utterly botch this movie. Anyone familiar with their show knows that it's very fast-paced and quite unpredictable, firing off joke after joke without letting things drag on. And then, somewhere along the line, they created this... thing.  The pace feels utterly glacial compared to the show, and every punchline can be seen coming from miles ahead. It feels like some distorted attempt at self-parody, except it's not even funny! Scenes are dragged out, returning characters from the show feel neutered at best and unrecognizable at worst. As for the actual comedy... well, it barely even qualifies as comedy.   Realizing that they can get away with more in movies than on TV, Tim and Eric decide that in lieu of things like "jokes" or "punchlines", they'll just stick to mostly gross-out humour. Now, of course the show itself also has plenty of that, but there it's veiled in a layer of absurdity that sort of disguises the basic nature of it. Here it's just crude humour, with nothing else. Oh, Eric got pooped on. Oh, a dude crapped his pants.   There are the rare moments where they actually manage to squeeze a laugh out of you (hence the two starts instead of one) but you'll spend most of the film groaning, regretting your purchase, and just wanting it to END. After watching this, i'm a little scared - i used to LOVE these guys, but now it feels like they're dead to me. I think this might be the end for Tim and Eric. God damn it, guys. You ruined everything. This movie has thoroughly shaken my faith in what used to be my two favourite comedians.

Too Slow and Dull. Viewed: 6/11 Rate: 3  6/11: Like Shaft, Stupid Fly displayed serious pacing problems. The movie was so slow that I began to compare it to a dull pencil. It was also one of the rare examples that the music was actually a lot better than the movie per se. In fact, the music was best heard while sleeping throughout the film. In fact also, from wiki, "Super Fly is one of the few films ever to have been outgrossed by its soundtrack." No wonder. Meanwhile, it had been stated that Stupid Fly was an important film of 70's. Oh, pray tell me...what's so important about it? It was a one huge cocaine commercial to me. And oh...the atrocious fashion being sported by the pimps...what a sad sight. At least it was responsible for starting the trend of creating "pimpmobiles." Hmm, interesting...not. Anyway, there was not much of a plot during Stupid Fly, and I am supposed to sympathize with Priest for his trying so damned hard to get out of cocaine dealing business? What about all of the victims and addicts? Pathetic. Good news, I actually did appreciate the rawness displayed in the picture; I was literally hoping for it to be a huge selling point but sadly not. Of all actors in the cast, I liked Carl Lee's performance. Pretty gritty. Can't say the same for everybody else; just horrible stuff. The ending was too lame to watch: all the phony moves and for nothing special. All in all, Stupid Fly was a great example of the Blaxploitation genre, but let's get real: it's the music that's the winner. Gordon should have taken a college class called Pacing 101; the audience would have thanked him for it.

it was ok Not that understanding because it's all in foreign language. Subtitle s are moving by to fast, also not a whole lot of action.

Not exactly illuminating A fairly well made picture but it is certainly revisionist history. I have no doubt that Wallis Simpson saw things this way but, as they say, I think there is more to this story. Her previous marriages had a great impact on this romance, for example, but they are not included. The fact that she fought him on the subject of abdication was glossed over. She certainly never expected to spend the rest of her life in exile but she entered history as a mean spirited gold digger. This movie doesn't change that.

Really bad. Poor plot. Not funny ... when you expect funnier movie from Katherine Heigl. The whole thing is overall weak. Not worth seing.

For the love of blubber If truly obese women and the men who feed them are your thing, this deliberately exploitive raunch film will send you running for more mashed potatoes. Feed wasn't meant (I think) to be taken seriously. An Aussie cop is determined to track down what appears to be an Internet fetish killer in the U.S. He does. We learn a lot about strange love, unforced feeding and human blubber. Alex O'Loughlin, who wrote and stars, and the fat suit worn by the lead actress do the best acting.

A bit of a letdown... I can't honestly give this three stars.  Although the realism immersion into the environment and that these monsters exist is nicely done, the movie is simply about a man and woman's journey through the infected monster zone, and the monsters are more of a backdrop.  I was hoping for a bit more action, and creature involvement, but the only time you really see a couple of the monsters a bit closer is near the end where two of them seem to be somewhat making out with their tentacles, but then quietly depart, but even then, it's all in the dark, hard to make out.  I guess a moment where you're supposed to feel some empathy towards the creatures or something.  Let's see, they destroy everything, millions of people displaced, or killed... ya, sorry, no sympathy whatsoever.  The ending was abrupt, and left things kinda hanging between the guy and the girl, queue your brain to insert your own hopeful ending here I guess.  Don't get me wrong, not a bad movie, decent effects, and cinematography, good realism, ok for a one time viewing, just a bit lacking for my taste.

Not A Complete Achievment Firstly, hat tip to Glenn Close for her dedications to this charactor/story and finally made the film and earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination.  She also seeked out the able hands of director Rodrigo Garcia who sucessfully adpated an Israeli TV series into 3 seasons of "In Treatment" on HBO.  That being said, I can't say the film is a sucess.  The main problem is Glenn Close's portral/make-up of the title charcter who fails to allow the viewers to truly  feel her pain/misery with sympathy and sentiment in return.

Product is great... Manufacturing, not so much! The set comes in a cool tin case and has a bunch of cool extras. The only problem is two of the discs were covered in what looked like a a dusty glue solution that had to be cleaned off. Believe it or not those discs work fine albeit stained. However disc 3 of Superman 1 won't even load. Tried it 5 different dvd players, three computer drives and 2 home DVD players, with no luck. I've read about all the problems WB had with these sets and now I can personally attest to the fact... What a shame.

Hard to follow but beautiful. I purchased this because the synopsis was interesting to me, and even though I thought the imagery was beautiful and eerie, I felt like this fell a little flat. The plot seemed paper-thin to me. I watched it with my girlfriend and it was very hard to follow. The ending was strange and obscure, and we wound up 'not getting' most of the movie. I know that some reviews have said that there is a lot of symbolism in this film, but I still fail to see it. When I write, I use a lot of symbolism, and if there actually is some of this going on in the film, it was so bizarre that I completely overlooked it. The film left me a little bored overall, but I plan on giving it a second chance anyway. After all, I did purchase it.

Agreement about the edits I will agree with the other reviewers here on Amazon.  I purchased this at the warehouse and viewed the first 3 episodes with my wife tonight.  The episodes are between 23 and 28 minutes long.  These are edited down to about half the original broadcast.  Do not get me wrong.  Some of the skits are very funny.  The barbarshop scene w/ orsen wells and Jimmy Stewart made me laugh for its 5 minutes of wit.  But the episodes all have end credits that show snapshots of scenes from the show broadcast, and you can guess easily what you misses on the DvD realease.   In addition, the audio mixing is terrible.  Watching this DvD with a 5.1 system, you loose vocal in the center channal at the end of the first episode/ disk 1.  If these broadcasts were recorded in Mono, realease them in Mono.  Fans will not criticize Dvd producers for that, but I will criticize the mixing here.   Dean Martin had a great show on NBC.  Keep it simple.  Realease the episodes in Mono and unedited.

LIV TYLER FALLS FROM GRACE Liv Tyler has come a long way down since LOTR. After they paid for her to be in this film, they didn't have any money to pay the electric bill as most of the movie is shot in the dark. Scott proposes to Liv and has a nice evening set in a secluded home (one nicer looking than my dump). The only problem for Scott is that Liv said "No," she is not ready, but she is still his gf and sex is still on the table.  Rather than be happy, like most males, Scott mopes about and plays lousy tear jerkers. At this point I am hoping the intruders would come in and kill him, but they don't. The movie drags on. Scott leaves Liv, who is now subjected to people banging on the outside walls as we get to see her slither around in the dark all in a panic...no phone, no gun, just a kitchen knife. This is the intense horror that I didn't feel.  Not the best home invasion film out there.  PARENTAL GUIDE: F-bombs, near sex, back nudity.

I glad I did not pay to see this junk ! I am so thankful that we consumers have more than one way to watch a movie like this what a dog After about 30 mins of this stupid dialog and decided to watch one of my old movies that you do not mind watching again. RED is a 1 time view at best poor acting, poor plots, goofy lines, I am afaid it only gets 2 stars or D and I am being  kind at that and the movie makers can do better than this and until they do I will save my hard money for a truly excellent one.

COULDN'T EVEN FINISH IT I tried....I really did....but the characters were so boring.  Maybe it's because I'm a grandmother, but I found myself thinking how immature they were and that they all needed to grow up!  They were irritatingly self-absorbed people so that lines I think we're meant to be funny .....well, they weren't at all.  And they talked like teenagers who just discovered four letter words....I mean, I throw them around when it feels right but Westfeldt seemed to depend on them instead of genuine dialogue far too often.  Like I said, maybe I'm just too old to appreciate these "adults"......

Even die-hard fans, don't bother I'm sure this was an incredible show at an incredible venue, but you'd never know if from the DVD.  This is the worst produced DVD ever in the history of the world.  The audio quality is horrible, and the video isn't much better.  For gosh sakes this is LAS VEGAS in the super showroom built to house Ms Dion for five years, you know they've got the very best sound and video available, but this DVD is just a bad afterthought.  It's a shame, because Ms Midler has always been captured best live on camera, and she has a whole catalogue of HBO shows that were extremely well done (but apparently aren't available today).  I've loved Bette Midler her entire career, but this DVD is absolutely a piece of crap.  Do not bother.  It is an insult to one of the great talents of all time.

Half a star for Mischa's boob, Star and a half for Shantel's great butt. Yes, I actually bought this movie, I have an issue with buying things on Amazon, I need help.  Any hoo, I've read on a couple forums that apparently this movie was in production limbo for years and finally went direct to video, not a shock there, Mischa Barton seems to be filling her post O.C. resume with films like these, strangely all of these have something in common.......her boobs.  It's as if film producers figure forget plot or quality, let's just base our releases around giving Mischa fans her puppies.  With that said, the real attraction of this film is Shantel Vansanten, and one of the reasons I bought the film like a fool.  Her acting actually isn't bad, and neither is Mischa's, the real issue is the supporting cast which is mostly unknown and lack any kind of appeal ( yeah I'm sure these actors are probably famous or known in their native land, I just don't really care ).  The plot isn't much better, two girls fall in love, it involves tatu, they laugh, they love, do drugs, get involved with some boring guys, yadda yadda.  I really liked the look of the film,  I wouldn't expect anything less from a director like Roland Joff&eacute;, who is over qualified for a movie with such an uninspired script.  Now to the reason for viewing, Shantel's perfect posterior (provided it's not a body double, all signs point to no).  Trust me if you're a fan of her's dropping the 10 bucks is well worth it, forget the rest of this crappy movie, fast forward to about 45 mins in and enjoy the view.

Waste of money I had high hopes for this little syringe, but it doesn't hold much water, is a pain to refill, and makes me gag when I try to use it.  A waste of money.

Very bleh Not that funny, Will Ferrell has some hits and misses and I obviously see this as a miss.  It does look VERY GOOD on Blu-Ray though!

Insidious is horror for 13-year-old girls and people who think Suspiria "wasn't really that cool"... Insidious is horror for 13-year-old girls and people who think Suspiria "wasn't really that cool"...  This movie was a down right failure from the jump. Piss poor acting. Genre clich&eacute; after clich&eacute;. Some of the cheesiest dialogue sequences in the history of cinema. And the shame of literally lifting entire scenes from POLTERGEIST. These are just the beginning of a laundry list of issues that plagued this somewhat hyped horror release from the same two ass clowns that brought us SAW, and some art school drop out who gave us that other idiot ghost movie with the [expletive] acting that ripped off some other [expletive] movie and blah blah blah... ahhh [expletive] it. This is as predictable as predictable gets and more effective scares could be found in an episode of the Jersey Shore.  I didn't enjoy any aspect of this movie. Everything about the premise to me is either flawed or just downright retarded. You do not develop any sense of connection to the characters, so i ended up not really giving a [expletive] what happened to poor little annoying Dalton or his forgettable family. Woven in between ridiculous diatribes on corny metaphysical theories you are bombarded with dated and tired scare tactics that look as if they were made for an art school project by a moody emo kid. And the final blow to this absolute [expletive] storm of a horror flick, is the "big twist" at the end is revealed as... you know what if you still wanna know what it is, please, go see it. Cause you are probably going to love this film and you already think i'm some kind of elitist [expletive] who [expletive] hates on everything cause im a bitter old stubborn douche bag. Well i am. So go [expletive] off and waste another 103 minutes of you pathetic and pointless existence and watch the [expletive] out of Insidious.  In closing I would like to make a public service announcement: Comparing this movie to genre heavy weights THE EXORCIST and POLTERGEIST is an insult to both afore mentioned films and true fans of well-made horror.  Grades: Acting: C- [lead roles were pathetic], Story: D [for sheer stupidity and lack of originality], Cinematography: C+[for some stylish edits albeit nothing groundbreaking], Music/Score: C [low sounds followed by HIGH PITCH sounds] Scares: C [yeah we get it, scary dude in the corner, weird noises...right] Overall: C- and that's being [expletive] generous. Wake up Hollywood and release ANYTHING with a grain of integrity. Please.

A Limited and Deeply Flawed View of American Education The conceit of this movie, a supposedly gritty, real-life look at American public schooling, is that at-risk teenagers are hardened, terrifying criminals-in-training whose only hope is for savvy white people to swoop down into their lives and save them. This old, deeply ingrained narrative, is not helping anyone. The idea that teachers are these noble, infallible heroes who should be given a medal for even setting foot in the war zones that are public schools doesn't leave much room for sympathy with the students themselves.  When Lucy Liu screams at a blase young woman (her very attitude is seen as reprehensible, when in reality, what teenaged girl isn't blase?) with all F's whose plans for after graduation include modeling and being in a band, calling her a shallow, disgusting creature with no ambition, it's filmed as a moment of catharsis for this poor educator at her wit's end; as a teacher myself, I found it appalling, as with many other scenes where teachers get the best of their no-good students.  There's no accountability here for the role adults play in the lives of troubled youth, no understanding for why these young people act the way they do. Instead, this is a sensationalist view of schools by someone who doesn't know a lot about them. Yes, at-risk students are angry, often aggressive, and often don't have much respect for authority figures. But there's more to them than that, and it takes more than a white hero spouting tough love to change their lives and their attitudes. They need the support and understanding of a whole team of adults who are willing to take responsibility for the roles they play in their lives; with teachers like these, who are so embittered that they basically despise the sight of their own students, it's no wonder they're so miserable, and Tony Kaye's lens is an extension of this hateful gaze.  I gave this two stars, rather than one, because of the many excellent actors who were involved in this film. Adrien Brody's performance was one of the only things that kept me watching a movie I found so problematic.

Blah..... I expected so much more from Cheryl Dunye...this movie is just what the title of the subject I chose is.."blah"..The best part of the movie was the END.  overall, I am not impressed.

Good for most people just not for me I read a few of the 1 star reviews and to a point I can understand their frustration and where they might be coming from. I was going to do a 1 star but in all fairness to the people that enjoyed this movie I can understand this too.  This movie may be up your alley if you're a mother daughter duo.  The movie deals with the main character being a female in a time where women were only suited for one type of role.  Since she was a princess her role was to find a suitor and help him rule as the successor to her father's kingdom.  The only problem is she doesn't want to be any part of an arranged marriage or to even play the role of a princess.  She would rather be out on a horse with her bow and arrows playing with the boys.  The movie begins showing her off her archery skills which are amazing, and goes on to show you the conflict that arise because of the differences between her and her mothers expectations on life and sacrifices(this movie definitely has a mother daughter type theme to it).  In order to escape the role of having suitors visiting her and being the successor of her parents kingdom she seeks out the help of a witch.  How she comes about finding the witch is somewhat interesting but the movie doesn't really go into much detail about it. Ultimately the wish that she makes in order to get herself out of her situation has a huge consequence on her mother and the rest of the movie deals with this issue.  I was really disappointed with the writing in this movie.  The mother and daughter had some depth but the overall plot was weak.  You have a character with the ability to play with the big boys yet you don't really take that concept anywhere. She can also see things other people can't (the sprites or spirit things that lead her to the witch) but there is no real depth to that part of the story either. The entire mom changing into a bear didn't work for me.  A bear transformation movie that did was "Brother Bear".  Something else that I noticed while I was in the theater watching this with my niece was other kids weren't really giggling over any of the "funny" parts of the movie.  That's because there wasn't a whole lot of laugh out loud parts in my opinion. I feel if you are comparing it to previous children's movies you can always find a comedic character to appreciate.  "Brave" tried to with the three little brothers but over all it was nothing special.  The evil bear at the end and his reason for being where he was and looking how he looked was actually pretty dark.  My niece got scared when he was introduced, and I know she didn't understand the concept of how his selfishness and greed had lead him to do what he did to his family and countrymen.  There is an overall moral to this story that everyone could share.  It was meant more in relation to a mother and daughter in the movie.  Even though my niece was scared towards the end she still liked the movie and so did her mom.  I have a feeling most men are not going to write a review for this movie so I feel I should.  I am a 31 year male  (just got out of the Corps in May) with no kids.  I enjoy going to movies with my niece.  I love kids movies, animated films (except "Dumbo" because I balled my little eyes out as a kid and refuse to watch it again), and Pixar.  I honestly could not relate to any of the characters in this movie nor did really feel a sense of connection to the issues being talked about with the characters.  I know that this was my biggest problem in watching "Brave". Movies I enjoyed because of a connection with a character would be "The sword in the Stone", "Aladdin", "Lion King", "Shrek", "The Emperor's New Groove", "Tangled", "The Little Mermaid", "The Princess and The Frog", "Wall-e", and "Finding Nemo".  I could name a ton more, but that would take awhile.  Some of the movies I named also had catchy tunes to their story which made them all the more enjoyable.  I know the writers are trying a new approach to their storytelling with this movie. I just feel they could have done more, and I hope the next female adventure that they make, they do!

Seriously, Borrow Before You Buy I love Scooby Doo, but I found this 16th movie terrible and even agonizing to sit through. I thought (# 1) "Zombie Island" was great. (# 2) "Witch's Ghost" was really good. (# 3) "Alien Invasion" had some great moments. I didn't much like (# 4) "Cyber Chase." (# 5) "Legend of the Vampire" was great. (# 6) "Monster of Mexico" had its moments. (# 7) "Loch Ness" was good in a different way. (# 8) "Aloha" had its moments. (# 9) "Where's My Mummy" was pretty good. (# 10) "Pirates Ahoy" was one of my favorites. I didn't much like (# 11) "Chill Out." I thought (# 12) "Goblin King" was phenomenal. I didn't much like (# 13) "Samurai Sword." (# 14) "Abracadabra Doo" was decent. And (# 15) "Camp Scare was actually quite good.  This 16th film "Phantosaur" seems to have been written with simply the intention of getting another Scooby film out. (One a year?) While other films like "Zombie Island," "Pirates Ahoy" and "Camp Scare" seem to be well written stories, this 16th film seems to be a bunch of cheap jokes strung together. Shaggy gets into a fight with a motorcycle gang, and this really has nothing important to do with the story.  Granted, this is a cartoon and not Shakespeare. But every art has its flow and its rules. And this movie seems to destroy everything that makes Scooby Doo so child friendly, but yet interesting and suspenseful even on an adult level.  Believe me. I love Scooby and it's really painful for me to write such a harsh review here. But just compare this 16th film to a classic episdoe like "Scooby Doo and a Mummy Too," or even the most recent film "Camp Scare." It's almost like "Phantosaur" is making fun of Scooby Doo.  Probably the most annoying thing in this film is how they exaggerate Shaggy to such an annoying degree. Shaggy swings between an annoying Coward and an ego maniac daredevil in this film through hypnotism. Well, this is absurd. Contrary to popular belief, Shaggy is NOT A COWARD. BUT RATHER, HE NEEDS A REASON TO FIGHT OR FACE DANGER. Just look at "Camp Nightmare." He runs from danger when possible. But when Scooby is being attacked, all of a sudden Shaggy shows bravery: "Hey fishface! Get away from my buddy!"  Maybe some of you will like this film. But BE WARNED. I have loved Scooby Doo all my life from the 1st episode "What a Night For a Knight." I loved "Boo Brothers" and "The Reluctant Werewolf." And I liked most of the material from "Zombie Island" to "Camp Scare."  But I found this 16th movie painful to sit through.  BORROW BEFORE YOU BUY!

DEAD SPIN! An okay scary movie but waaaaay too long. It seems to go in circles and never ends. I think it's still playing on my DVD player right now ..... Now THAT'S scary!

For someone who is not a Depp fan this was not good. DO NOT expect Fear & Loathing type greatness. More like "Tourist" I say C+ "Do not confuse love with lust, nor drunkenness with judgment." Journalist Paul Kemp (Depp) has moved to Puerto Rico in order to start over. Getting a job with the local paper he meets a varied cast of characters.  During his conversations he begins to discover things about everyone. He now is left to decide weather to use his writing for good for him or others. I have to start by admiting that I am not a Johnny Depp fan. To me he plays the same type of character in almost every movie. There have been a few of his movies that I do really like though. "Fear & Loathing" is one I happen to like so I was looking forward to this one. If you go in (like I did) expecting the same type of movie you will be dissapointed. This is more comparable to "The Tourist" in the way that ten minutes in you lose total interest in the movie and only keep watching because the girl is hot. Depp fans may love this but I did not. Overall, a movie that most Depp fans will like. I give it a C+.

not very good This was a stupid movie.  The acting wasn't very good and I did not care about the characters at all.

Devolves into drivel Steven Greer is to be commended for producing some very interesting documentaries about UFO's.  This one starts out as being somewhat interesting because we see some great UFO videos for the first half hour.  I personally don't get tired of watching these.  But later on, we have some author comparing the UFO phenomenon with Genesis. Again.  We tiresomely hear, again, that UFO's have been sighted for thousands of years on earth, and again, the mindless Bible quotes that supposedly prove that our Biblical ancestors witnessed UFO's.  At this point it becomes a sedative for me.  How disappointing this was.  There are a couple of very believable U.S. Navy pilots describing encounters with UFO's that tailed their jets.  There are several retired military bigshots who know about the UFO coverup.  This part is compelling.  Then we get the authors who want to sell their books, and they expound on a variety of crackpot theories mixed with religiosity without any type of evidence either firsthand or otherwise and I am not only bored but disappointed.  Anyone who sets out to make a documentary on UFO's had better make it as credible and serious as possible and take pains to avoid unkempt, hand waving hicks with far out theories.  Unfortunately, in an effort to fill up an hour and a half of time, every kook who has written about UFO's was shown here.  Steven Greer himself should have taken a few lessons on how to talk to the camera to sound serious and believable.  His inappropriate grins were disconcerting.  This is a subject which should get serious attention from scientists and the media.  Instead it is all too aften shown as something that seems to look foolish and hackneyed.  This starts out well but quickly crosses the line.

Not up to the book's standard If you liked the book, don't see the movie. The main storyline is missing, the stars far too old for 12 year old Percy, and the attempt to appeal to older teens makes it a bad view for all of us.

Big disappointment The actors are in place, the storyline has potential, but.... So much of the movie is CG, and if what I "see" as CG actually isn't, that just makes it worse. Dialogue is replaced by subtle hints and gore, lots and lots of gore. The battle between the Titans and the Immortals is never really explained, never really fulfilled. A god who murders his own child for a seemingly small infraction; gods who sit back and wait to see if the evil person actually able to release the Titans does so; a wall that contributes to thousands dead with nothing gained by it, a young man who has Zeus's favor but why? Wow! Time is so short and fleeting, and that is time I can never get back again! Don't waste your time.

What's the big deal? I don't know how this movie received so many raves since it's not such a big deal. A group of narcistic youths get exposed to a funky parasite/disease which makes them, like, melt. There's really no horror or suspense here. The only thing of entertainment value is how these shallow charactors deal with each other's demise. This is a 15 minute premise dragged out into a full fledged movie

Digital Disappointment Love these 3 movies, but when you shell out $30+ it'd be better if you didn't get TWO digital copies of Part II and 0 digital copies of Part III. I don't even know how I'll get Part III now that the other 2 have already been downloaded.

Boring This didn't really excite me. I bought Jillian McMichaels Trouble Zones and they had a very similar workout. In all the seller shipped on time package was new but I just wasn't excited with it. Passing it along to my little sister.

Bad teacher and BAD Movie I thought this was a stupid movie. It was boring and I fell asleep watching it the first time. Glad I did not waste my money and just rented it.  I thought for sure it would be funny after seeing her star in Something about Mary.

Overzealous Fans 5 of the 6, Five Star Reviews are from the same People, I mean come on already. I understand that your fans of Conan and that he really needs them. Remember, there is a reason that he didn't make it on the Tonight Show, he's just not that funny and couldn't hold the original Tonight Show audience. He has a tired and very bland type of humor, that appeals to insomniacs, and couldn't come up with the talent to hold the mainstream Tonight Show viewers. It had nothing to do with any mysterious plot between NBC and Jay Leno, to get rid of Conan. Conan didn't want to go back to his previous slot, acted childish over his incompetence, and quit. Now don't get me wrong, Jay Leno is no Johnny Carson either, but he was at least able to capture the next generation of Tonight Show viewers. I think that the only difference between Conan and Charlie Sheen and their ranting over studio treatment is that Conan wasn't on drugs and looking like he was next in line to see his dealer. Conan has a talent for a certain type of audience, and they will always like him and therefore may always have a job somewhere, but stop crying about the talent he imagines he has, and try and improve, instead of staying with the tired old routines, like they are going to get better the next time he does them. Growth comes with change.

Battle? Well, I saw a lot of Marines, but I saw very few aliens.  I saw a lot of running by the Marines.  I wonder if they had a small budget.  Anyway, this is one of those movies where all the best parts of the movie are in the trailer.  Save your money and your time.

Not Widescreen A bit disappointed that the dvd I received was standard definition, not widescreen as the description stated - and didn't realize it until I was removing the plastic wrap :(

A Murder Mystery in the Old West The Grand Duel, 1972 film  A man drives a stagecoach with passengers into a town. One man gets out. Armed men watch him as he walks toward a house under siege. The talk tells about the story and characters. Suddenly a man runs out of the house and escapes being shot. [Incredible acrobatic feats?] The Sheriff doesn't kill for money. There is a shooting and a surprise getaway. A chase on horses for action. He went that-a-way? The stagecoach continues on its journey. It picks up a passenger whose horse died. They reach the town of "Silver Bell". [This is funny in parts.] Two men play checkers with shot glasses for pieces. Another pair plays poker. Clayton speaks but remains aware. A trap sets off a pistol when the door is opened. The bounty hunters besiege the cabin. Clayton knows who killed old man Saxon. There is more shooting as the wanted man goes outside. A double-cross to avoid sharing the loot? "Don't' count your chickens before they are hatched."  The bounty hunters torture their prisoner to get him to tell where the silver is hidden. An old man is thrown into the street by the Saxon brothers, then shot. The people clap their shoes in protest. [Some foreign custom?] The stagecoach arrives in Saxon City. Clayton tells Marshal Saxon about the murder. The Saxon brothers run this town. Two more men fall to gunshots. A new bride arrives to marry a Saxon brother. [Comedy?] Who killed the patriarch? Philip Premier was convicted of the murder. Outside two more men fall to gunshots. Clayton talks to the head of the Saxon brothers. Outside men shoot at each other. There is a halt, then more gunfire. Philip is captured. David Saxon boasts of "law and order". When the Saxons get that silver they can dominate the state. "Never ask me that question again!" Clayton addresses the crowd in front of the gallows. He tells who was the murderer! "What's his name?"  Will there be a duel between Clayton and the Saxon brothers? Is three against one fair odds? Only one man is left standing. Will Philip find love at the end? Will justice triumph? Do some people reveal their true character at the end? Will you ever watch this movie again?  This is like some ersatz western where bits of famous movies were patched together to provide a story of the Old West as seen by a European. It is funny in a few scenes. One authentic part is the realism in the costumes. People don't look as if they just stepped out of a clothing store with new clothes that remain dust-free in all the scenes.

Messy & Patchy - Avoid Like Kryptonite! My first full length Superman animated feature has been incredibly unfulfilling.  Have read bits of All Star Superman but it's never made an impression.  The problem: trying to squeeze X # of characters and scenarios doesn't make this fly. It just creates an unfocussed, disjointed story.  Luthor is about the only constant here (and I enjoyed him).  But despite some credible Superman moments...the rest of this is disappointing.  Spoiler: Superman dies at the end, but it's all pretty anti-climactic.  Makes me yearn for the days of Christopher Reeves' Superman days, when storytelling was so much tighter and less contrived.  Think I'll stick with Marvel animation and films!!

Hobo with a shotgun Just cause somethings different dosent make it good. They took a horrible approch with this movie honelsty it was new but nothing really exiting about it. Blame lies dirrectly on the director and writer cause the acting was great. Im glad I watched it but I wouldent really recomend it to anyone or watch it again.

Not what I expected I have seen some stories of how faithful our founding country fathers were.  I wanted to hear the stories again more from the first person perspective.  This was a lecture of how our country has drifted away from the constitution.  Some or many lawyers and black rob judges have become so radical and liberal minded they have turned their back on the principals of the founding fathers,  I agree totally with what this says and it is more a challenge to our generation to wake up and realize how perverted our legal system and judges and politicians who are almost all lawyers too, have become.  so I hope this helps you understand what you are buying better than I did.  It is a shame that some how we let one man who smoke pop all though college (Now wears a black rob) over turn what millions of people have worked on and voted on.  It was never intended by our founding fathers.

Let Down! This movie was a very big let down!  I read many reviews that said how Ti West's movies keep you on the edge of your seat and that they are good, but this movie to me was very boring and dull.  They did not even show a ghost until toward the end of the movie.  Plus the ending left me confused about if the girl involved was imagining these things or if there was actual ghosts.  If you are a true horror fan or like ghost movies stay away from this movie.

Pretty horrible sequel The only good thing I have to say about this sequel is that it follows the 1st one. Angela only appears in a cameo at the end, the acting is horrible, Ricky is barely in it, when I first look at the case I thought Issac Hayes would have a big part. Pretty bad move.

Wait for the price to go down before buing this item I bought The Snoop Sisters dvd to add to my collection of NBC Mystery Movie episodes.  I had pleasant memories of the show.  But, my memory deceived me. The show is slow paced, even for '70's fair and is often down right boring.  So, please wait for the price to come down...dramatically, before purchase.  There are three disc, which include a movie and four episodes.  There are some good moments, but not for the current price.  You may want to spend your money on Ellery Queen instead.

A good story but a BAD movie THE DESCENDANTS got a lot of press around awards time, and it deserved none of the accolades it received. I don't know if critics thought they had to like it since it came from Oscar winning director Alexander Payne, or if it was because it started Hollywood Golden Boy George Clooney, or if it because it had a nice, sweet, anti-business message. For whatever reason, critics got it wrong. It's unfortunate that this movie is a total bore, except for Sid (Nick Krause) and possibly Julie Speer (Judy Greer), the slacker boyfriend, because the story is a good one.  The plot is simple. A man (Matt King, Clooney) is caring for his wife who is in a coma. He discovers she was cheating on him. She is going to die. King has to cope with losing his wife, and never getting to confront her about her cheating. He also gets a chance to meet the man who she was cheating with. The movie had all sorts of opportunities to create a story about forgiveness and reconciliation. Or, it could have gone darker and crafted a story of revenge and bitterness. Instead, it takes the approach of apathy. I'm not saying King or his two daughters (the non-entity Scotty, or the foul mouthed, cute 18-year old Alex) don't care about their mom or her cheating ways. I'm saying that the viewers have no reason to care. Perhaps one of the reason I cared so little is because of the stupid side story about the descendants. It seems King and his numerous cousins have descended from Hawaiian royalty and they face a big decision on who they should sell some property to and make millions. That story line added nothing to the plot.  If this movie hadn't been lauded as one of the best of the year, I would have enjoyed it. Instead, I'm tired of watching movies Hollywood claims to be good and being bored out of my mind.  I remember reading a story about Matthew Lillard, who plays the man the wife cheats with, Brian Speer. It made it sound like his part mattered in the movie. But it didn't. He was hardly on screen at all. He didn't matter. Just like this movie. It doesn't matter.

Garbage A politically correct (and therefore tasteless) look at the British Crown. It is very disrespectful of the monarchy and the Royal Family, and early on plays up the death of Diana (who was a failure as a wife, mother, and human being). There is nothing to commend this disgusting film.

NOT Speilberg's best work at all!! When I first saw the trailers for this I was instantly drawn in. The moment I found out that SPEILBERG had done this movie, I knew it was a MUST SEE. After waiting almost a year to see this train wreck of a movie, I was VERY dissappointed. The movie dragged throughout and there was no , EDGE OF YOUR SEAT type moments, we all just sat there waiting for ANYTHING.  The timeframe of the movie was perfect and the cinematography was excellent, but the story line was weak and lacking. This movie came to theaters the day I got married and I am so glad we did not go see this. I want the $5 back I paid to see this. This movie could have been a BLOCKBUSTER, but it is honestly just horrible. Speilberg is losing his touch and he should never work with JJ Abrams ever again!

This was not really a good movie This was not really a good movie. Not only was it a bit boring but also it was supposed to be a free download as some sort of gift to me from amazon, however, it was never downloaded, it just played on my computer once. Still, it was a good lesson for me. I will never attempt to purchase a downloadable movie through amazon because of this issue.

Keep your expectations low, if you decide to see this `Secretariat' isn't among the best in the long line of movies about racetracks and horses and the people who run them. That's saying a lot, since it's got the best story of them all, at least given its protagonist, the near-miraculous Secretariat. It also has some very solid casting, including Diane Lane, a fine actress who's also very easy on the eye, and John Malkovich, from the very top drawer. Being a Disney production, it was also evidently well financed. For all this, a weak script and poor direction hamper this movie with one-dimensional characters and low production standards.  Its biggest flaw is the feeble characterizations. In one of the film's best scenes, an adversary to the Lane character is rather easily bested by her in a public forum where their repartee comes closest to sparkling dialogue. That rival is otherwise confined to growling and shaking his fist at her from a distance, and yet he is the nearest thing in this film to a colourful secondary character of interest. No-one thought to include a few more to give this movie some panache: no cigar-chomping Roscoe worrying over a racing form; no sweaty gamblers in the stands being henpecked by blowsy broads; no allowance-risking teens playing hooky to get a taste of the track. Nada. A more smart-alecky jockey might have added spice, as would giving the stable-boy more than just two or three lines - at least two of which he addresses to the horse!  With such a top-flight cast even this might have been okay had they put their leads to better use. But the script is limp almost throughout, characterizing the protagonists through trite observations. The Malkovich character's inept golfing and garish outfits are subject to some ribbing - although nobody flinches when at least once he inexplicably appears in something quite stylish. Also, the dialogue between Lane and her hippie daughter too often involves heartfelt compliments about each other's good looks. Yawn.  We're told that this daughter's youthful activism mirrors her mother's strength of spirit, but that's as far as it goes, hardly helping to develop either character. In another lurking subplot, or so it might seem, the protagonist lives not with her husband but with a rather masculine woman who happens to elicit some of her warmest smiles, and at least once even embraces her consolingly. But if you begin to reckon that something will emerge from this, you'll be disappointed: it, too, adds up to nothing.  Again, not much is striking in the art direction. Costumes and settings for this presumably early 1970s story do not stand out. The DVD's added features focus on how the racing was filmed from up close, deftly from a hanging camera, from the jockey's viewpoint, etc. Crafty, but nothing in the film quite conveys the exoticism of racetracks, which are elegant places where fortunes are hopefully made and lives are often broken - and this story is, precisely, about a big gamble. A hand-held sweep through some echoing grand hall, especially of the action at a racetrack's betting wickets, might ratchet up interest and show these near-mythical venues' excitement and atmosphere. This last is what this Disney production most lacks. In fact, like Lane's frequently telephoned interactions with both husband and daughter, many of the racetrack scenes were probably filmed in a studio. Sadly, it shows.  This may be one for the kids; just be sure they're very young.  Others: keep your expectations low and you might not end up disappointed.

Apollo 18 shouldn't have happened I usually enjoy movies with a space theme, and I love seeing scenes with the moon, but this story was a bit hard to follow beyond the basic theme as something bad was up there and very hard to watch.  The scenes were deliberately poor quality and shaky. This is one space movie I will not be watching again.

unhappy was unhappy that I received a vhs movie when I could have gotten a dvd copy for a couple dollars more and amazon never sent me the return info

Clumsy dialog allows for only the weakest performances I had no expectations of this film, really. A friend of mine mentioned it on Facebook with no comment about its value and I thought "hm - I think I saw a link to that one on Amazon Instant Video". That said: the film still managed to disappoint me progressively more with each scene, sequence and plot element. It makes a single interesting analogy between the communicability of a pathogen and that of a piece of information. This analogy fizzles to nothing, however, with nary a satisfying comment on how information can be both liberating and destructive. Further, Soderbergh's episode-like narrative "cells" serve only to make a boring film seem somehow longer than its 1.75 hours. That is to say that the pacing on a story like this is troublesome enough without slicing it into clips spanning a too-wide range of characters, locales; plot structures. I'd have given it a single star if not for a few good sequences like the interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Not bad enough to regret having watched it but pretty damn bad, let me tell you.

messed up dvd's!! So far I have loved Insanity....but would be nice if I could use all of the discs. 3 of the 13 don't work, very disappointing especially after paying so much for it. My advice-buy from BeachBody.com!!! not some random seller.

Biblical But Unimpressive The book of Esther lacks nothing for a great film. I hoped this would be it, but I was disappointed.  It's probably one of the more biblical versions, but the quality of the production and some of the license taken with the story is annoying. The false noses on some of the Jewish characters is laughable, and most of the acting is terrible. The most annoying part is the way the film makes King Ahasuerus out as some weak, whiney young man who over-reacts to everything like a toddler, and can't think for himself.  I work in youth ministry, and I was hoping to show clips of this as we study Esther. I don't think I can show scenes of this to a room full of teenagers, though, and expect them to take it seriously.

Predictable I was interested in seeing this movie and how this subject was treated.  While this film and I may agree philosophically, I have to say it's one of the most poorly written and acted film I've seen in a long time.  It lives up to every negative stereotype of Christian movies.  Rebecca St James is a far better singer than actor.

good story concept, but BORING!! the story line for this movie is good, in theory, but the execution is boring.  i found myself hoping it'd be over soon.  the movie dragged on.  very disappointing because, like i said, the concept is a cool one.  i love JT, but i do NOT recommend this movie.

Lame and Uninspired Everything you have heard about this lame and uninspired film is true. Even if you are a fan of the Stephanie Plum series, you will find this film lacking in story, pacing, and acting ability. The entire cast is miscast and hampered by a poor script that barely captures the likability of Evanovich's Stephanie Plum novels. Thankfully it will only take an hour and a half of your time to watch this film, so do so if you want a bland diversion for the evening. The film plays out like an incomplete pilot for a TV series which I suspect was how it was originally developed. It has just enough information to introduce the viewer superficially to the characters without really getting to know them. The setting of Trenton, New Jersey is superficial  as well and captures none of the uniqueness of this working-class urban area.

A deliberately bad movie?! Quentin Tarentino could have been a great success as a magician or a con artist. For months he even convinced me that this was a good movie, instead of the strange experiment in recreating the things that make a bad movie a bad movie. It feels like Christoph Waltz, Dianne Kruger and Melanie Laurent(all the serious Euro-actors)set out to do a serious WWII movie. While they were doing that; QT and all his Hollywood buddies got together on another part of the set and decided to make a travesty worthy of Ed Wood! I mean, a WASPy Brad Pitt spying in occupied Europe might be believable(within the script's loose interpretation of reality, that is)but the fact that he sounds like FogHorn LegHorn even when he attempts to speak even one non-English word is ridiculous!!(GRASSY-ASS!! BON-JOR-NEEW!!) QT conned us all with his trailers promising a non-stop, orgy of Nazi-killing! Almost every single action scene can be seen in the trailer. Except, strangely enough, for the clip of the guy in the Bowler hat firing an MG42 on the run down a corridor! I can't even find that clip on any of the extended scenes promised on the covers of DVD packages! The deleted and extended scenes are just more TALKING!! I remember Jamie Bell was on a talk show with one of the stars of this movie. He made a negative comment about his own WWII movie, DEFIANCE, and praised Inglourious Basterds for its action. Obviously, he was kissing ass and hadn't seen the movie!!! Even the violence is a disappointment! All of the characters who had a memorable personality in the Basterds get killed in a shootout with a Gestapo Agent and a band of drunken Germans and an overgrown Girl Scout! The rest, except for Brad Pitt, Eli Roth and two guys who I can't even tell apart from each other, just disappear. Eli Roth, as the Bear Jew(seriously, couldn't the supposedly brilliant QT come up with a better Nickname; Das Golem, Samson, maybe)makes you wonder how he could be Jewish as he is such a HAM!! All he manages to do is convince the audience that he probably does act out his Hostel scenes on his own time(probably on homeless men and unsuspecting co-eds). There have been a ton of bad WWII movies made recently. You can rent most of them for #2.99+tax. QT, managed to con everybody into shilling out $9.00 and more for his bad movie when it was in theaters. Now he wants $29.99 and more for bogus Special Editions!If you want an WWII-action movie with comedic and fantasy touches watch Kelly's Heroes and Where Eagles Dare.

An Uninspired Movie Based on a Very Inspiring Book This movie claims to be based on the book "One Child" by Torey Hayden, but I have read the book and this movie is a very superficial rip-off of the book. The movie overlooks many important details from the book and doesn't take time to properly develop the characters. If you read the book, you come away feeling like you have experienced something life changing. That's because Torey Hayden writes with such intense feeling and emotional depth. This movie barely touches the surface of what we find in the book. The movie, of course, is about a dedicated special education teacher who tries to break through the wall of defenses that this six-year-old girl has built up around her. The child has suffered so much abuse and neglect that she is incapable of trusting anyone. The movie doesn't spend enough time showing what this child was like before the teacher finally broke through to her. And the movie also doesn't spend enough time exploring the range of emotions that go through the mind of the teacher (as well as the other children) as the child slowly begins to emerge from her self-imposed emotional prison to join the real world. I have found that movies are almost never as good as the books they are based on. But at least some movies try to get close to what the book is saying. However, this movie doesn't even seem to try. It just glosses over the book in a half-hearted attempt to entertain its audience and toy with their emotions without giving them anything of real substance. Well, I say "shame on them". In my honest opinion you should forget this movie and read the book. The book was published in 1981 and is available through Amazon.com. If you read the book first, I can almost guarantee you won't like the movie. At least that was my experience.

Funny, but needs to be R-rated This is funny, but it had too much sexual humor. It should be R rated. I would not watch it again or recommend it.

Don't Bother If you are thinking of being suckered into buying this, don't bother. The sound and print quality are execrable. This is a real no-no.

slow incredibly slow movie; I almost could not finish watching it.  one of the most boring movies I have watched in my entire 48 1/2 years.

Good Looks Are Not Enough First, the good news: this DVD from Sony/Columbia features a beautiful transfer in anamorphic widescreen, with sharp images and bright colors.  The bad news is that the movie itself is one of the weakest entries of its type, with a yawner of a script and some of the most ridiculous dialogue you're ever likely to hear.  I'm actually a fan of soap opera-type melodramas such as VALLEY OF THE DOLLS and THE CARPETBAGGERS, but this one is totally forgettable.  Its biggest weakness lies in the fact that all the significant characters in the story are dull, unhappy people.  They smoke a lot.  They drink a lot.  They hang around the beach in tight swimsuits.  They trade grumbling insults like "You're ninety-percent MAN, ten-percent RAT!"  A film like this MIGHT have turned out to be a keeper if it contained a few lighthearted moments or even fell into the so-bad-it's-good category.  Alas, it's so intent on being serious "adult" entertainment that it gets itself stuck in neutral and never goes anywhere.  If there's any reason at all to check out this film, it's to see screen veterans Lana Turner and Ruth Roman in the same movie, looking a bit past their prime but still attractive.  Unfortunately, however, you're likely to fall asleep while waiting for them to do something interesting.

Not that Funny....very disappointing :( i was expecting this to be really funny....especially since it had Cedric The Entertainer and Tommy Davidson.......but was sadly mistaken....i really , really did want to like this....i tried to laugh at certain parts, but if u have to try and laugh..its not worth it.....**sigh**

This Could Have Been Done Without the "F" Bomb! The movie showed an excellent behind the scenes look at the mounting tension within the governmental agencies and the military on 9/11. Sad to say, I can't share this movie with the kids. They could have made this movie without using the "F" Bomb throughout. Take that out and it's suitable for children 10 and up. Just my opinion...

Disappointing.. The first two movies were great, they were filled with jokes and laughter. Their jokes were racist to every group out there not just one and thats what made these movies great as they played on every race and sex stereotypes instead of attacking just one group. Now this does not offend me but may offend others.  The Third movie ended up branching off completely different, I suppose thats why it had no direct connection to the past movies like they did for one another. It takes place in the future opposed to 15 minutes into the future. A poorly written film that lacked jokes and laughter. The adventure was nothing compared to the other two.  Don't expect this to be the same as the last two movies and even if you haven't seen those it still won't be a great movie.

One of those films... where action is almost not visible:( I watched last year "Phantom" by the same director and thought it couldn't be worse. Unfortunately it is. The beginning is really promising. Two gay lovers are closing their anniversary date with a romantic kiss. Their happiness doesn't last long however. Car accidents happen. From then on we observe very peculiar serie of events. The worst is that the action slows down dramatically. The shots are loooong and don't make the whole thing more clear. Even if the acting is good it doesn't change the whole impression. The actors seem to be as much lost as I was at some moments. If I had to point the best one, it would be with no doubt the one who portrayed the graving mother. The scene at the cementary at the grave of her husband is still in my mind. Well, the ending...My jaw literally dropped. And it's not because it was so amazing. On my list with the most ridiculous film endings the closing scene from "Two drifters" sits proudly in top 3!

Shadow of a Doubtful Transfer I've seen worse transfers but this one is not great. The opening titles are cut-off, they start with the director's credit and the film begins. The gray range is OK from black to white but it appears that this transfer is from a video that had "Time-Compression" used on it. As you watch in some panning shots there appears to be a "strobing" movement, a bit jerky, like we used to see on old TV shows that needed to get more commercials in the time slot. Get the Universal product for this film...much better!

WELL PRODUCED CRAP Basically just another torture movie.  If that's what you're into - and lots of people can't seem to get enough of it in these days - then you'll probably enjoy it.

not bad not good i decided to give the movie a chance and watched it..don't like the fact its presented backwards..i couldn't stand the spinning camera view..at one point i'm asking myself what the hell is happening..those graphic scenes were really well made and a bit realistic witch grabbed my attention..the rape scene did go on a bit to long but i could feel the desperation and terror she must of felt..so the death scene,the rape scene,and the beautiful Monica Bellucci naked are the only strong points in the movie..so all in all for me it was not a bad movie but also not a well made movie..did i mention the spinning camera? yeah that was horrible

Cheaters! I won't "spoil" the series for anyone who hasn't watched, but it promised a lot, and delivered only a little. Very disappointed. It's going to take a lot for me to watch next season, especially if I have to pay for some of the episodes.

X-Files season 2 I ordered the second season of X-Files. I did receive my order quickly, but one of the discs would not play. :(

No Real Laughs Here There are no real laughs found in this short piece (actual story time is 69 minutes).  Cross' character walks through the movie in a daze, at the mercy of the opportunism of every other character in the film.  There is no character development and it is difficult to care about anyone in the story.  I agree with the former reviewer that the film's intro held great promise, but the payoff from this setup never materializes.  2 out of 5 stars.

Carnivore Those wacky kids are never going to learn. You don't just break into abandoned houses, hoping to party with your buddies, and expect to get out of there alive. It's just not the way it works. That old house everyone says is cursed? It is. The stories folks tell about something evil living in the house? It does. The rumors of teens going into the house and never making it back out? They're true. So when your brilliant idea is to get your friend, his girlfriend and his girlfriend's sister, along with a case of beer your brother bought for you, and go spend the night in the old Romero house, you can't be surprised when one or two of you gets their guts splattered all over the wall.  In this particular case, the house in question is owned by the US Department of Intelligence, which is using it as a secret lab where they're working on a top secret project to create the ultimate killing machine. The problems only start when the secret project kills its creator and gets loose in the house. Agent in charge Dana Anderson is dispatched from Washington DC along with two incompetent field agents to contain the situation and deal with the Carnivore. But before they can get there, Scott and his buddy Marc, Marc's girlfriend Dee, and Dee's sister Bobbi are going to hang out and get drunk in what, on the surface, appears to be just another empty Illinois house. Granted, if they'd stumbled upon the hidden lab beneath the house . . . no, it wouldn't have matter; these four were way too stupid already and would have stayed and wound up dead anyway.  See, the Carnivore won't kill unless it's threatened, but its creator, Dr. Westmont, was in the process of helping the creature with its pheromone imbalance: seems the creature can't tell the difference between fear and arousal. So when Marc and Bobbi sneak off to spend some horizontal time alone, the creature, mistaking Marc's turned-onness for fear, attacks.  The other three make their escape, but not before the cops show up. Sheriff Holt orders Deputy Bryant to check out the dead body, which leads Deputy Bryant to having his face chewed off. Sheriff Holt makes his escape, but not before Dana Anderson shows up with her DIA field agents, Liddy and North. Anderson and Liddy go inside to check out the situation and, hopefully, contain the Carnivore with a tranquilizer dart. At least, that's the plan, but Liddy desperately wants to use his Uzi, so we'll see how that goes.  In the end, after 80 minutes of this nonsense, I have to say that whatever grand scheme writer/director/producer/executive producer/production designer/editor/set constructionist/camera operator/cinematographer/etc Kenneth Mader had in mind for his big debut, CARNIVORE must surely have fallen far short of that mark. At least, I hope so, because if this is the movie he INTENDED to make . . . he's drawing inspiration from the totally wrong influences.  I get that CARNIVORE qualifies as a micro-budget movie and was probably made for a couple thousand bucks, but there's nothing wrong with hiding that fact and trying to make your movie look like you put some effort into it. I'm sure creature effects are expensive, I get that. Then you know what, don't rely so much on showing the creature. There are ways to work around that, to shoot the monster in a way that doesn't reveal just how goofy the cheap costume looks.  Also, this is a horror movie, ease up on the comedy relief. In fact, with as little tension and suspense as this movie has, there's very little need for any kind of relief in the first place. But if you insist, then do so in moderation. As it is, Mader's got three small plots all coming together to form the greater whole. There's the teens in the house plot, the agents in transit plot, and the cops on duty plot. And every single time we switch scenes, one of these characters is cracking wise. Marc in the house thinks he's hilarious. Agent Liddy is just smarmy and arrogant but dumb as a post, which comes across as silly. And Randy Craig, who plays Sheriff Holt, obviously thinks he's Kevin Pollack.  As for the acting, I'm going to go out on a limb and say Mader hired either his friends or a bunch of locals. Considering none of the principles have gone on to star in anything else, I'm opting for the former. And trust me when I tell you, Mader, despite being a "filmmaker", is not friends with any actors. At least he wasn't when he was making CARNIVORE. They gave it a shot, but they obviously knew they were making a cheap, crappy horror movie, and they each set their skill level to accommodate.  I'm all for the DIY approach. It would be the way I'd want to do things if I made movies. Quality control and all that. But jeez, dude, there has to be some quality to control. CARNIVORE was just a cheap, silly movie that doesn't even succeed on a cheesy level.

The DVD cover I just took the plastic part of the DVD off last night. (I already have the film on VHS). The bottom left part of the DVD case broke right away. I don't think this should happen when I paid that much for the special edition. It should have a nice paper cover over the plastic cover, and the plastic cover should be of higher quality. Also, if it was packaged in something to protect it better maybe this would not have happened, but I don't know if that is why it happened.

A not-so-good  performance of a great operetta I was excited to get this to add to my Gilbert and Sullivan DVD collection.  Unfortunately, I was very disappointed.  In fact, I like my daughter's high school production better than this one!  There are good things in it, Frederic (Simon Gallagher) and Mabel (Helen Donaldson) are both very well portrayed, and their singing is excellent.  After that there is only a string of disheartening performances.  The Pirate King (Jon English) engages (OFTEN, or is it ORFEN?) in well-rehearsed "improvisations" that I did not appreciate at all.  General Stanley's daughters ("The Fabulous Singlettes") come out carrying microphones and singing in a style suited to an audition for American Idol, not Gilbert and Sullivan.  Then they lit up cigarettes (filtered). Their performance was dismal.  There is no opening overture, and after the curtain calls, the cast engages in a "pop-rock/disco sing along" with the audience.  The audience there enjoyed it, but I think I would have walked out.  The operetta is already really funny, and I found the incessant improvisations either tasteless, or boring.  I am sending this dvd back, and hope for a full refund.  Overall, there are just too many improvisations and poor performances mixed in with the good performances for me to enjoy it, and I don't ever want to watch this version again.  Ever.

What's the big deal here? In judging a romantic comedy, you can judge it on 2 things- the romance and the comedy. 1. The romance- is just ridiculous. Very desirable E network reporters don't date unemployed slacker potheads who are overweight and immature. They date star atheletes, musicians and wealthy businessmen. 2. the comedy- a few chuckles here and there but not a ton of laughs. Simply being crude is not funny- there needs to be some humor attatched to the crudeness. So it scores poorly in both areas. I saw the movie after it was a big hit in theaters and DVD so I was expecting something good. I will say the music is very good but do wish the great soundtrack was put in service of a better film. 2 Stars.

Not The Best Killer Scarecrow Movie Yeah, I know that Husk doesn't come out on DVD for another month, but I watched tonight on the SyFy Channel, so I'm reviewing it now. Husk is a killer scarecrow movie that is derivative of other killer scarecrow movies. It's also derivative of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, in that a group of friends get stranded and go searching for help. What they find is a creepy house with a dark secret. If you've seen a ton of horror movies like I have, then you've seen this plot, or some version of it, play out many times. Husk is rarely exciting and is often boring. The only time it's even remotely entertaining is when a scarecrow is onscreen and that isn't as often as you'd think. Can anyone make a fun horror movie any more? And how could I possibly like a movie that has one character playing chess during a crisis. And the ending is rushed. Oh, for that I guess I should be grateful.

So-so Movie Friends and I got together for a pizza and movie night.  We all love Jack Black, and the rest of the cast, so this was a natural choice.  It was an okay move but nothing great.  I think one of the detractors was because there was a running monolog throughout the film.  None of us left feeling like this was a great movie. or even a really good movie.

broadway show original cast I had he CD of this show (very good)  Thought I would like the DVD... WRONG....WRONG !!! The singers take a beautiful song from this show and literally sing it to death... Who give one hoot if somebody can hold a note for a minute.  The entire show is indicitive of a black church revival.  Count me out and I wish I had my money back. Not only do they over do/over sing/scream holler and carry one, they are by far the most unattractive group of performers ever !!!

Profoundly Boring Beautiful film - yes. But the story? Without giving anything away, I guess all I can say is that it starts off in one direction, skids sideways into another direction, and then totally jumps the rails into a plot that ends up having little or nothing to do with what you thought was going on. And while in some films this is a really good thing - in this one there is no big reveal, no big amazing denouement, just switching gears for the sake of switching gears. There was no real character development, so no real affection for the characters. Bored enough to wander off and start playing Facebook games, and completely unthrilled by the ending. Sorry. It was very pretty, though.

Heavy on looks, light on substance While this anime has good voice acting, good animtaion as well as some funny parts; its really not that special when compared to many other animes that don't take themselves too seriously like this one does. Anyway, this anime's issues are what keeps it from being a good one and makes it become more like a mediocre one. It's issues are:  - Its plot is paper thin and the characters aren't developed enough.  - This anime relies heavily on filler and not enough on plot and character development, filler dominates this entire anime and makes it boring.  - It's script is weak and too light-hearted.  - It's action scenes don't have enough substance to them and are too simplistic. They need to be a bit longer and a lot more exciting.  - This anime is too light hearted in its plot, its execution and its main antagonist: Odin, has a very weak reason for wanting to kill Loki. This god basically wants Loki to die because this god found out that through a prediction that Loki will bring darkness upon the world around us. This is a weak reason for Odin to want Loki dead, when there is a so much better way for Odin to deal with Loki about this.  -Nothing really happens in terms of plot development in this anime.  - Hel a.k.a. Loki's daughter, is a pointless character and doesn't really add anything to this anime; she is part of the filler in this anime.  [...]  Overall these issues plague this show and make it more along the lines of mediocre rather than the opposite of this. 5/10

The Unwatchable Molly Brown Hmmm, I can think of a few other titles for this film---how about "The Unwatchable Molly Brown" or "The Unlikeable Molly Brown"? Uh-oh, you can see where this review is going...  As is so often typical of films portraying actual historical characters, any resemblance this film has to reality is strictly coincidental; there isn't much here that has anything to do with the true-life story of Molly Brown. And that's a shame, because her story would make a good biopic; no need to invent so much of the material. That said, the 1960 Broadway musical was a big hit, and it was perhaps inevitable that the show would make its way to Hollywood. Though, I have to wonder why anyone would buy a property and then delete a full two-thirds of the score that made it so successful in the first place, when transferring the story to film.  Now, I do like Debbie Reynolds; she's a capable singer and actress and I've seen her in a few pictures that I've enjoyed very much. Plus, she just seems so darn nice in person! However----while this was one of her favourite roles, I'm sorry to say that I think she is absolutely terrible in this film. Every single scene is played at the top of her lungs to the very back row of the balcony; subtle she isn't. And in the process she reduces Molly to a shrill one-note caricature. I don't think I've ever, in my entire life, seen a major actress in a mainstream motion picture play a role in such an over-the-top, sledgehammer fashion. My mouth was practically hanging open in astonishment as I viewed this picture; I could hardly believe my eyes (or my ears). Yes, I found this film downright painful to watch; I winced my way through it. And even more surprising was the fact that Debbie received an Oscar nomination for her performance---what the heck?!? I'm serious, this was unbelievably bad---and downright annoying.  On the plus side, the male lead had an extraordinarily fine singing voice. And the film featured some strikingly beautiful western scenery in the first portion, and many amazingly opulent period costumes and interiors in the latter part; lovely. (Plus, it's always a kick to recognise the famous "St. Louis street" on the MGM back lot---a few exteriors were shot there.)  But despite the positives, I can't imagine that I'd ever want to watch this picture again, even if a few of the numbers were kind of catchy; it's simply MUCH too over-the-top for my taste.  (Oh, the sequence set on the Titanic, which gave the film its name, only lasts a couple of minutes on-screen. And in fact this picture used black-and-white footage from "A Night to Remember" to depict the ship; they didn't even bother shooting any new footage for the sinking.)

disappointing decrease in quality The MI5 series started as a no-nonsense series with spooks able to deal with all kinds of situations. But as the series continues, and especially in the 5th season, it becomes politically correct to modern standards. Suddenly the officers don't carry arms anymore, or at least very seldom, and the enemies are sought more within the British system than outsides, especially in the Arab and/or Muslim world. There is less violence than in the beginning, and there is more "let's talk about it" atmosphere. Very disappointing. But the situation changes if suspected Israeli agents come into play. Suddenly they are the bad guys, suddenly they are more violent than any other counterpart MI5 encountered in the last 4 seasons and suddenly the SAS, when storming an embassy (again) can shoot straight. Of course they shoot the Israelis, even when they are on the ground, numb from an explosion. You wouldn't (and haven't) see this when it comes to Muslim terrorists. But as it's only Israelis, nobody cares. Oh, and yes, of course, in this seasons more than ever before the Americans are the bad and stupid ones, and the spooks of her Majesty are of course, although outnumbered and out-resourced, the heroes. Rather cheap and disappointing. Another thing is that after politics economic powers took over: I appreciated the car diversity in this series - Peugeot, Lexus, Renault, Jaguar, LAnd Rover ... all kind of cars. Since season 5 the Volkswagen Group took over, and Harry switches to Audi, Ruth to SEAT, the SAS arrives in a VW van, and even the Israeli ambassador drives a Porsche (which no Israeli ambassador I know would do). It is a pitty. I strongly reconsider buying the following seasons. So, for all the viewers who would like to see unarmed far-from-reality agents acting politically correct, bashing Americans and Israelis - go and watch MI5. For those who liked the first three seasons - don't continue to season 5. Keep the good memory of the first seasons.

Still wondering who this film was actually made for.... I have to agree with what the other one and two star reviews have said; it goes so far overboard trying to pack so many interviews into a relatively short period that any real message is lost. It would seem that this film was made by the ASC for the ASC, with the sole intent of seeing how many accomplished cinematographers could be interviewed. Presumably, the subject of style was supposed to be explored, hopefully showing how great cinematographers translated story into visual language. That didn't really happen. It was loosely touched upon in a series of extremely short snippets that altogether lacked substance. Bummer. Nice looking interviews though.

Kept me interested This is an old 3D technology and is not compatable with the new 3D TV's that are out. However, we watched the 2D version and thought the quality was still very good, clear and interesting.

Are you kidding me? The movie was going really good. It was tense, exciting, nerve wracking....then the ending just ruined it all.  Most of what you see in this film is just what the killer is imagining.  I'd say only 15% of the movie actually happened.  Everything else is just a dream.  We don't figure this out until they reveal the ending.  While this could work for most people, many of us have seen this same plot device used many times before in other movies or TV shows, so the idea is old and basically just ruins the film for me.

Definitely not good... but not so bad. The story is terrible. As many have pointed out, the plot holes are many and huge. But, the acting is not so bad.  And the alien, Terl, played by John Travolta is actually an interesting character and a villain you could love to hate.  But the character falls flat in the latter part of the movie. The alien Psychlos are much more interesting than the heroic human characters.  When the story revolves around the duplicitous Psychlos, the movie is actually fun. One does need an enormous suspension of disbelief to accept this movie as serious science fiction. So forget that. But as a send up, probably unintentional, it stands alongside "Independence Day." I enjoyed the movie. It is fun in spots, terrible in others and borders on boring in the last quarter. But I don't regret watching it. It is certainly not the worst movie ever made. But a lot of people have thoroughly enjoyed poking fun at it.  Why not watch it and join the fun?

2 stars for the blu ray transfer and 5 for the movie Warner Bros was able to put just enough effort into this release to get the film onto a bluray disc and nothing more.  There is a perfunctory commentary track from director Gary Goddard and a well preserved theatrical trailer and that is it. The lack of extensive extra material might be excusable if this was a first rate high def transfer but unfortunately it never manages to look very good.  I suspect this is the same transfer used for the previous DVD release.  The colors are bright and well saturated but there is an enormous amount of grain and noise throughout the film (and not just in the effects shots where you might expect it) and there is a fair amount of wobble and instability in the print.  They have not even bothered to put art on the disc itself, just plain black (a more and more frequent occurence with major studio releases).  The disc comes in a thin, ultra cheap eco case.  Warner did nothing special whatsoever for this disapointing "25th Anniversary" edition and if you already have the DVD you might want to save your money.  This disc IS a bit of an improvement but it is definitely not the dream edition fans of the film have probably been hoping for.  They didn't even bother with a 5.1 mix for the soundtrack.  You get stereo and thats it.  It seems the major studios have lost all interest in putting out quality editions of catalog titles on bluray disc.  This one is about as ho hum as they get.  A great fun film, with a cult following deserved better treatment than this for its (barely) high def debut.  At least the retail price is cheap.  It should be because this is a very shoddy cheap release.  Sad.

No chapter index - bummer! I bought this DVD because, many years ago, I worked on this film. I've had the VHS tape for a long time but, because I use the film in teaching a class, I bought the DVD, hoping that I could access certain scenes quicker than winding and rewinding a video tape. I was wrong - there is not chapter index so, if you want to cue up to a particular scene, you have to hit the Forward Button on the remote to get it "kind of sort of" where you want it. So, I now am going to use both the DVD and the VHS tape for the two scenes I need.

Pretentious Nonsense A pretentious western that complelely misses the mark. Probably every black cowboy or gunman in the old west would laugh his head off at it.

A true example of lazy film making The citizens of ancient Greece spoke with a mish mash of Australian, Cockney, and english accents apparently. i know this was probably going to be trouble when in interviews the star went on and on about how he was allowed to grow his hair out for the role. No one really mentioned story or characterization in six pages of interviews. So I went in expecting a thin story and a fun ride. little did I know it was a ride to Hades by way of the river Crap. They somehow managed to make a thinner story than they did in the Clash of the Titans remake. It feels less story and more like a rough draft of the first story outline.

Not one of Disney's best I bought this movie for my grandchildren and was disappointed. I'm not sure why,but they didn't care much for this movie. They lost interest in it after only a few minutes. This movie, in my opinion, will not become one of Disney's "classics".

depressing This flick reminded me of Open Water. 2 honeymooners decide to take a trail ride in the Grand Canyon. It has a very depressing survival theme. The quality of the movie is excellent. The acting is superb and I like that they use real animals (not fake CGI). However, the plot goes south during the movie and you don't have a good feeling when it is done.

plot holes and unrealistic Okay, I admit I watched the whole 24 episodes, but I won't try season two.  By the 20th episode it was so full of plot holes I almost stopped but I had to finish the story.  Action scenes and music were good, but that's about it.  Spoilers---  Why would they have to blow up a whole plane when they could have just killed the one person before they got on board?-  for gratuitious overblown drama, an example that describes this whole show.  For people with so many resources and so much training, they sure screw up a lot.  On the plus side, Dennis Haysbert and others give good performances, though it's sad what hackneyed writing Dennis Hopper had to bear.  I'm willing to give some license to an action show, but the plot holes were far, far too many to forgive.

The worst of the series Mildly amusing at times. But the worst of the Vacation series! The actors playing the Griswald children in this one are by far the most annoying of the series bunch! This one just missed the mark!

Titanic: The Soap Opera Whether you tend to like Julian Fellowes' "Titanic" for the centenary of the ship's tragic demise really depends on your approach to the material: if you want a quality fact-based drama, this film is not for you; if you want a soap opera based on class divisions, conjecture, and fictionalized characterizations, this might possibly satisfy. The production is long and highly fragmented, is told with much non-linearity and from multiple viewpoints, is somewhat repetitive, and is frequently just plain boring.  The actual sinking of the "Titanic" is certainly a dramatic enough story without introducing scads of characters it was impossible to identify with, and even harder to care about. As but one example, I found the improbable and impetuous relationship between Italian waiter Paulo (Glen Blackhall) and a British maid to be exquisitely painful and cloying, and probably the single most annoying "highlight" of the movie (though other onboard relationships fared little better.) The film had decent sets and middling effects (they certainly don't hold a candle to James Cameron's megabudget blockbuster) and the DVD comes with a few token extras, mostly related to the making of the movie.  I have been interested in the "Titanic" since reading Walter Lord's masterpiece "A Night to Remember" as a boy (the film of the same name is still the best of the "Titanic" lot) and was genuinely looking forward to this miniseries. Sadly, it is one of the lesser "Titanic" cinematic outings, although for people who tend to romanticize the accident it is full of intrigue, lurid details, and characters that are largely imaginary. Despite some strong performances (and some naturally much more appropriate to a soap opera) this presentation is highly fragmented for viewing (due to point of view and commercial break issues) and is far less compelling or interesting than it should and could have been. I never thought a film about the most dramatic shipwreck in modern history could be so boring.  The story we all know so well should have been told much better, and lensing the movie in highly fragmented "Soap Opera-vision" was a very poor choice. Julian Fellowes' script is not genuinely instructional about the accident and contributes little towards understanding or appreciating the wreck and its significance to early twentieth century American and English culture as the world entered the machine age. My recommendation: watch "A Night to Remember" or even James Cameron's version instead.

3D technology still not good No complaints about the movie itself as it was for my daughter, but this is about the 5th 3D blu-ray I've gotten through Amazon that chapters of my BRAND NEW FRESH OUT OF THE WRAPPER blu-ray skips or freezes causing us to miss between 5-10 minutes of the whole movie.  This was a poor attempt at 3D by disney (as are many I'm finding regardless of producer)that there might be 1 or 2 points where the 3D actually works and they are quite intentional such as a spear pointing straight at you.  I guess I expected movies to be much better at this point, 2 years + out from Avatar (blue people, not the awful movie version of the cartoon from Nickelodean), but not many movies have made the effort.  I'm still buying 3D movies sporadically if it is a movie I want to keep regardless if 3D works or not, but I would by alot more 3D blu-ray if they would make an effort to create a true 3D experience.

Doesn't live up to the hype I am not a huge fan of gory horror, so I'm always looking for a really scary movie.  This is not it.  Pointless T & A, unfinished storylines...just not scary like I'd hoped.  This film just does not live up to all the hype (people had to leave the screening? Fainted?  Hardly.) Not worth the price, just wait for regular release.  Disappointed.

Bad acting, bad script I had high hopes because I liked the book, but boy was this a bust.  The acting was lame, the script poor, the whole thing was obvious, and too long.  The only good thing was the pretty scenery.  They didn't even seem to spring for casting lessons for the leading man.  Only when his double is fishing does it seem credible.  Skip it!!

Weak I ordered this play because of the reviews.  I'm not sure what everyone saw in this play but I found it to be weak and a bit phony.  I love Brian White and the role he played but the rest was just blah.  The BFF was too much the way she threw herself at Paul, who does that?  Her acting was a little over the top.

Hysterical Feast for Bad Movie Lovers Picked this up in a five-buck Echo Bridge 6-movie pack at K-Mart that also had some TV versions of Robinson Crusoe and mummy movies. Never laughed so hard in my life. Highly recommended for connoisseurs of bad cinema.  All those who give this movie a negative review should watch those abysmal big-budget studio Allan Quartermain movies in which Richard Chamberlain plays H. Rider Haggard's main character as a guy who wants to bed all of his male co-stars, in which Sharon Stone wears far too many clothes, and in which James Earl Jones plays an African tribal chieftain with such obvious embarrassment you can practically see the tears in his eyes and hear him thinking to himself, "Remember, Jim, this is paying for that vacation house in Old Saybrook, Conn."  And really, all that money invested in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" still didn't make it make a damn lick of sense, and made me feel like George Lucas screwed me. "Star Wars made me very rich and very fat. Thanks. Here, I dressed up some of my feces as Indiana Jones for you to look at for two hours."  At least this one doesn't pretend to be anything other than crap, and on that level, it's a helluva lot more enjoyable than "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull."  Stuff you gotta love:  -- The swarm of millions of somethings that are as big as birds, buzz like bees but looks like a pixellated screensaver, which causes the entire cast to cower under a rock but which poses no threat or danger whatsoever.  -- The leading lady says she twisted her ankle and couldn't possibly walk on it, and in the very next scene is hiking up a mountain.  -- The leading lady's makeup is heavier than that lady's in your town who drives the pink Mary Kay car. Honestly, she looks like she's auditioning for a role as a Tammy Faye drag queen.  -- They reach the fabled King Solomon's Mines by walking in a general direction up a dirt road. And when they get there, they just stand around and do nothing.  -- Earthquake! For no reason!  -- The two white guys who are found being held captive by an African tribe, but then proceed to do absolutely nothing for the rest of the movie.  -- Everything collapses! For no reason!  -- The big fight between Allan Quartermain and the villain that looks like an improvised b-slap match between the Burger King and Abe Vigoda.  -- Finally, there is no Temple of Skulls. It's never sought. It's never reached. It's never mentioned.  Folks, five bucks at K-Mart. Can't buy a Happy Meal for that.

meh 2 stars This movie was recommended by a friend or two, and after watching, I remember why it took me so long to finally watch it...my initial reservations when it first came out were definitely not unfounded.  The film has a good basic premise and a few likeable characters (mostly John C. Reilly and Melora Walters), but it falls under its own self-worth and pretension. And there's no shortage of "actor" moments with such a big cast, as each one seems to have their personal grandiose scene.  Not to mention the ongoing Aimee Mann soundtrack, which used in a particular scene, the actors break the fourth wall and actually lip-sync along with the lyrics. This takes the viewer right out of the movie while bashing them over the head with contextual lyrical meaning.  I can respect "trying new things" in cinema but this movie did not suit my tastes. And this review barely scratches the surface, as there are plenty of other gripes, but by the time this one was finally over I was relieved to put it back in the case indefinitely.  Oh yeah and I forgot to mention, I bought the New Line 2-disc version "brand new" and there was a lot of digitized compression and distortion throughout the first half!! What gives???

Kids were uninterested! I watched this movie with three children (ages 3, 4 and 6) and none of them seemed to stay interested in the first or second Happy Feet movie. I thought it was a cute movie but perhaps it is better for older children?

Disappointing bio pic Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) was the 28th President of the US, best known for having served as President during World War 1 and then tried unsuccessfully to get the US to join The League of Nations. "Wilson" is a 1944 Technicolor film with a star studded cast that covers the basic highlights of his life, from Professor at Princeton, Governor of New Jersey, and then President.  Alexander Knox (1907-95) plays Wilson and for his performance he won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Oscar (but lost to Bing Crosby in "Going my Way"). Knox appeared in 50+ films between 1931 and 1986. He was a victim of the blacklist in the 50s and moved back to England.  Charles Coburn (1877-1961) play one of Wilson's advisers, but he has very little screen time. Coburn appeared in more than 50 films, from 1933 through 1962. He was nominated for an Oscar 3 times and won once ("The More the Merrier" in 1943). I remember him best as "Piggy" in "Gentlemen Prefer Blonds" (1953).  The great Thomas Mitchell (1892-1962) plays Joseph Tumulty, another Wilson advisor. Mitchell has considerable screen time, but it's taken up by Mitchell running around and shouting.  Mitchell is best remembered for playing Scarlett O'Hara's father in "GWTW" (1939), as Uncle Billy in "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946), and the mayor in "High Noon" (1952). Mitchell was the first person to win an Oscar ("Stagecoach"), Emmy, and Tony.  Sir Cedric Hardwicke's (1893-1964) plays Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. His strong voice and stony appearance graced nearly 100 films. He played the evil bishop in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1939), Dr. Livingstone in "Stanley and Livingstone" (1939), and King Arthur in "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" (1949). I remember him best as the Pharaoh in "The Ten Commandments" (1956). Hardwicke plays Lodge as a one-dimensional and one syllabic character.  Geraldine Fitzgerald (1913-2005) was nominated for an Oscar in "Wuthering Heights" (1939). She plays Wilson's first wife.  This was a pet project of Darryl Zanuck (1902-79) and received 10 Oscar nominations and won 5 Oscars but was a box office flop. This was even more devastating since it was the most expensive film production, costing more than even "GWTW".  Zanuck had high hopes for this film. He was nominated personally for an Oscar twice - "G-Men" (1935) and "The Longest Day" (1962) - and among his nearly 200 films are such notables Oscar winners as "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940), "How Green Was My Valley" (1941), "Gentleman's Agreement" (1947), "Twelve O'Clock High" (1949) and "Pinky" (1949). He once said - We are in this business primarily to provide entertainment, but in doing so we do not dodge the issue if we can also provide enlightenment." Unfortunately he provided very little entertainment in this film, and not much enlightenment. And at more than 2 hours it is really too much to bear. Alexander Knox apparently was told to play Wilson as if he were constipated, and watching him in virtually every scene is simply too much to bear.  Other Presidents have fared better in films. For recent Presidents, JFK is probably the #1 source of film material ("JFK", "The Missiles of October"). Overall, Lincoln would probably be #1 ("Young Mr. Lincoln", "Abe Lincoln in Illinois") and Washington would be #2 ("1776", "The Crossing"). Both Roosevelts have done well ("Sunrise at Campobello", "Eleanor and Franklin", "Rough Riders", "The Wind and the Lion"). There is only one film about Wilson and this is it. So on that basis only the film has some interest.

Not Funny This dvd and comedian didn't do it for me.  Nothing funny here.  I probably won't try again with a different performance.  Not my type of humor.

Good Movie - Dirty Disc Bought this movie and had problems getting it to play. Had to take it out and clean it even though it was supposedly brand new. The DVD cover looked like it had been used and rewrapped. Should have sent it back but...

Time ran out... I couldn't resist.  The film certainly didn't.  The script itself is plagued with so many `time' related clich&eacute;s within the dialog (can you spare a minute, etc.) that it was laughable, which is not something this film was shooting for.  I honestly didn't mean to come on guns blazing in the first paragraph.  I'll lighten up for a second.  `In Time' is a science fiction film about a future time when no one ages over twenty-five.  Sadly, you only actually LIVE till twenty-six unless you're rich.  The currency is time and so the more you owe the less you live.  In order to survive you have to work your fingers to the bone and conserve your `time'.  Will is twenty-eight and lives at home with his mother.  He is a minimum wage worker and his mother, who just turned fifty, works her fingers to the bone as well, and yet they are still living on mere hours, just trying to make enough to get to the next day.  After a bar brawl, Will winds up getting his hands on over a century of `time', but certain events lead him on the run with a beautiful socialite as Time Cops try to restore order by `cleaning Will's clock'.  The idea is interesting.  I mean, it's not `really' interesting, but it could have been promising.  Instead, the film feels rather skeletal, with no real attempt to uncover any depth in the story.  Instead, it's a lot of running around and shooting and whatnot, which doesn't help differentiate this from any other random action thriller.  That, and Justin Timberlake is hard to take seriously.  It's his voice.  It is perfectly suited for the radio, and I happen to love me so `Sexyback' but the feminine nature of his voice makes it hard to take him seriously as an actor, unless his character benefits from that `pitch'.  It doesn't here.  It's not all Justin's fault though, as no one here really manages to deliver a decent performance.  I blame the script for that because these characters are just bland and uninspired.  The set pieces are nice and the editing is sharp so as to create some nicely placed action sequences (and when Will takes revenge on some thugs it was an inspired touch) but other than that this is a borderline bore of a film that never gets proper footing.

A disappointment after some pretty good Seagal films After years of bottom-of-the-barrel direct-to-DVD-films, Seagal has made some decent films in the last couple of years, so I've come to expect more from him now than I did 3 or 4 years ago.  In "Born to Raise Hell", we get the usual ingredients, an eastern Europe setting (Romania), a crime boss, strippers, and of course, Seagal. Unfortunately, we also get uninspired writing and a slow moving plot. It doesn't start out well when Seagal, in narration, tells us that "six months ago my partner was killed. I'll find those responsible and bring them to justice" (approximate quote from memory). Seagal wrote this film and he's written a half dozen films before, so he should know one of the main rules of screenwriting: "Show, don't tell". Seagal films by nature, like Arnold films, Stallone films, Dolph Lundgren and Van Damme films, are star vehicles, one man shows. But this one suffers from a weak protagonist. We never get to know or care about Seagal's character and too much time is spent on secondary characters. I felt more sympathy for the Dimitri character, played by Dan Badarau. Towards the end of the film, he becomes its real star. First time director Lauro Chartrand is apparently an experienced stunt man but not a great director. Strange camera angles and silly jump cuts give the film a cheap, amateurish feeling. There are some action scenes, of course, but they're not that good (mainly shooting scenes, little fighting) and with the dull story we never really care.  "Born to Raise Hell" is decidedly less entertaining than some of Seagal's other recent films. For Seagal fans only.

signing time volume 1: My First Signs DVD I can't tell about the content of the product, because it arrived broken, actually split in two.  My schedule is so busy at this time, I haven't had a chance to return the broken DVD for a workable one.  I hate returning things even though I know your company takes effort in making it easy and simply.  I will eventually returnthe DVD, but wanted to let you know of my feeling about receiving a broken DVD.  I had plans of sharing with my grandson who was visiting, hope to get it by the next time he visits.

Moneyball Entertaining movie, only to be left with, WTF, ending.  Left with, Why did I watch this movie.  Save your money.  Wait for Netflix, or even a TV movie.

Expected Far Better ! Act of Valor is a poorly scripted, ridiculously executed Hollywood film makes it all seem forgettable and unimportant. The real SEALs deserve better than that.  Movie was streamed from Amazon and was terrible, constant stop and starts and over all poor quality of the picture

Boring I love old movies, but am not a big fan of musicals. However, this wasn't even a very good musical in my opinion. Danny Kaye is brilliant in anything he does, and Rosemary Clooney was charming as always, but it seemed like the entire second half of the movie was dedicated to Vera Ellen's unremarkable dancing skills. The songs were kind of boring, and the dancing sequences in the second half are only mildly less interesting than a drum solo. The story itself could have been interesting, but they chose to spend more time on the dancing and singing than the actual story, so it felt like a lot was missing in the overall feel of the movie. I have not yet seen "Holiday Inn," this movie's precursor (and from what I understand, pretty much the same movie), but I think I would still recommend that one over this, which seems more like a A-list sketch comedy than an actual movie.

Durge This film is durgey and dank in combination.  I'm not a fan of Ryan Gosling so I think that is why I didn't connect with his character.  Michelle Williams is hit or miss.  I liked her in Shutter Island and If These Walls Could Talk 2.  Another thing I didn't like about this film is it was filmed docudrama style. There was something odd going on when the camera was rolling.  It was filmed pretty harsh so it wasn't easy on the eyes.  I understand they wanted this film to be charactery, with alot of character types roaming around. I saw right through this attempt.  I also hated the character that played Michelle Williams other love interest.  He was a typical white guy who looked like he should stick to gay porn.  I DID NOT need to see her having sex and bent over.  I can see how some people could relate to the story, but this film was depressing and dark in a bad way.  All the dialogue and drama was in vain, I couldn't care less about either character, it's like break up or shut up.

Cliche's and bad historical fiction - blues fans don't bother I was looking very forward to this movie, the cover made me think it would be about a guy playing cigar box guitar, but no, its some sort of modern looking pseudo-hobbled-together guitar.  It uses modern cigar box pickups with an Epiphone or Gibson neck.  Check out wikipedia to get an idea of what was happening in guitars in 30's to 50's.  Aside from that, the first half hour is full of cliches - did the writer actually do any research on Alabama in the 1950's?  Not even a trace of accent, a mixture of 30's and 70's clothing, the actors use phrasings which are contemporary.  I laughed for the first 45 mins or so.  The whole thing rolls out like a 50's version of "Booty Time", except Booty time was a lot funnier.  Should I say, somebody's fantasy of the 50's?  The entire plot "situation" is painfully foreshadowed, we know from the first 15 minutes how this is going to end.  The whitey sheriff who likes Glover's wife's cooking (apparently she invents KFC), reminds you of "Smokey and The Bandit", which may have served as research material.  What movie about blacks would be complete without a rich white women donating an un-useable dress to her maid: I was surprised it wasn't torn, but it was too small...  There were a few genuine moments, but this movie is a bit too Disney - a fantasy world somebody cooked up.  Some of the scenes have a surreal look and the featuring of a few big name performers was nice.

(2.5 STARS) See for Keira Knightley's Nuanced Performance "Last Night" stars four gifted players Guillaume Canet, Keira Knightley, Eva Mendes and Sam Worthington. It also has Peter Deming's nice, atmospheric photography and Clint Mansell's mesmerizing score. Largely set in New York, the film has everything that would make a witty and insightful drama about loyalty in marriage, with a realistic look on married life, told in a romantic but not sentimental fashion. Sadly, well-acted as it is, the film lacks something emotional that would draw the viewers into the characters' world.  "Last Night" follows the story of married couple Joanna (Keira Knightley) and Michael (Sam Worthington) living in New York. While Michael is in Philadelphia for a business trip, Alex (Guillaume Canet) Joanna's ex-boyfriend arrives from Paris to meet her. In the meanwhile, Michael in Philadelphia is alone with his co-worker Laura (Eva Mendes), and he is clearly attracted to her.  What will they do? The unpredictable story has some touching moments, but after all, it is very hard for us to care about these characters, especially Sam Worthington's Michael. His uninteresting character works against the film's attempt at creating suspenseful romance. Knightley and Canet fare much better, but with barely enough chemistry to make us believe the flimsy back story of the characters they play, their romantic relationship is not very involving.  "Last Night" is a drama that is sometimes pretentious (see the ending) but overall watchable, thanks to the compelling performance from Keira Knightley.

Weak! Boring the script was very dry it could have been so much more but it was complete crap if you want to see this movie rent it from redbox do NOT buy this movie.

The Iron Lady Merly Streep is excellant in this movie. I didn't find it that interesting in it's story of her life. Shifting back & forth from her early days to current events was not a format I liked.

Good action movie but hardly based on a true story I really enjoyed this movie from the start. The plot was excellent, built around a classic suspense script turning an ordinary man into a good-guy Hollywood hero. Actually, not only a hero, but the real Bruce Willis clich&eacute; type of a hero. The sad part, which none of the other reviwers seem to acknowledge, is that it's so painfully obvious not based on much truth. The story is just way too much Hollywood with probably no other sources than Yahias own. I would not bet any money whatsoever that even 10% of what happened on the screen is based on any real events. It didn't surprise me when I searched for Yahais story on the net and found that his account has been questioned by journalists from Guardian and BBC, and probably many others. This type of story just doesn't play out in real life.

bowel loose I want to be clear the only reason this film is getting 2 stars is because I like the remake of some of the songs and willard danced better in this remake.  I have never bothered to review a film before, but I felt after watching this film it was my duty to warn people.  the bad acting random lines from old movie, the dance off at a drive in movie theater were all the girls danced like they were swinging on poles ohh wait they did swing on poles.  This movie could have been so much better, the 15 people that gave it 5 stars must have been all men and had the film on mute.  old movie 5 stars, new movie money better spent on mcdonalds cheese burger, both have fillers, but the burger at least tastes good!

To everyone who (rightly) has complained about the horrific packaging When I saw how ridiculous this packaging is, I checked on here to make sure my package wasn't a fluke. By no means have I read all of the reviews about this packaging, so if someone else has already covered what follows, bear with me.  I thought the packaging was so absurd that I had to do something about it.  The back of the case shows [...], so I went there to that site on Saturday evening.  I found a customer service email address that, honestly, I didn't think applied to my situation because I hadn't purchased the set directly from that site (I bought it from Best Buy). I sent them an email telling them what I thought of the package and that I had seen many other negative reviews on Amazon.  I didn't really think anything would come from my email, but it felt good getting it off my chest.  Much to my surprise, I just got a phone call from a customer service supervisor at 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, less than 48 hours after I sent the email.  She said that they have heard some complaints already and are "monitoring" the situation. When I told her that my discs seem to have glue residue on them, but that I wasn't sure if it would affect playback because I haven't had a chance to watch the movie yet, she told me not to try.  There is a chance the glue residue could hurt the blu-ray or DVD player.  She suggested that I take the set back to Best Buy to exchange it for another set, and to open the new set in the store to verify that there is no residue on the discs in the new set.  She encouraged me to call back if I had any problems with the exchange, that she could process an exchange for me, but that it could be a lengthy process. So, while this is not a "fix," it definitely feels like a positive step in the right direction from Fox.

Alot of buildup, no bang. Disappointing. I watch and love many depressing and disturbing movies, dystopian or not, and I was hoping this would be another sad but eye-opening or maybe deep and heartwrenching film that sticks with you long after you've watched it.  Not so.  The movie has a good build-up, that's for sure. It keeps building, and building, and... it ends.  No plot twists.  No resolution, not even a falling action...not even a climax.  The thing builds and builds, and just ends!  I feel like I watched a pointless story with really no ending.  They grew up and all did what they were bred to do and that's it.  Afterward I was left wondering, "Why did I even watch that?  Why was that film even made?  Was the book this much of a dead-end too?  If so, why's it supposedly so celebrated?"  The movie went nowhere.  I have read that this film displays the difference between British & American filmmaking and if that's true then, I guess as an American I want alot of plot in a movie, twists and turns, rises and falls... and I guess the British are just happy with a story.  ...where nothing really happens except the natural progression of things.  A bit of a bummer because I was hoping for something that really grabbed or disturbed or at least preoccupied me, but unfortunately it didn't happen.

Typical American Cinema Ten minutes into watching this and I already feel my IQ dropping!  I cannot imagine that trash like this gets written and money wasted producing and distributing.  If you ever wondered why Americans are so 'dumbed down', you need look no further than TV and the cinema.

Terrible.. for even me...and I usually love these guys! repetative and boring. One of their first movies that I actually could not finish. I'm not going to write a huge script as to why this movie doesn't work, just know that it didn't. I am very easy to please when it comes to movie selection and almost always love movies that these actors are in but through this movie it was just lame. sorry.

DVD not properly copied The movie packaging was excellent. The movie did not start with the menu screen as my other DVD movies. I had to manually select the "movie parts" so that my media player could run all in sequence. The movie was very good until I got to the 5th scene (The part where they are in the township with the containers and Denzel has to escape across the rooftops) when it suddenly switched to Spanish. My disappointment was such that I almost did not want to watch the remaining scenes, but it then switched back to English for the last two scenes.  Should I return this DVD or should I just forget I ever saw it?  Disappointed.

E-C-WWE After WWE re-launched ECW on Sci-Fi in June of '06 it was natural the idea would come up to give the brand its own PPV. However it should've just stayed as an idea as outside of two matches this was easily one of the worst PPV events WWE ever put on. The two advertised matches were good, but the rest of the card was average to terrible and not very well booked.  -Tag Team Match, MNM vs. The Hardy's: This was one of the two advertised matches, it was billed as One Night Only and it was a very well done tag match. Reminded me of tag team wrestling of old as both teams were allowed the time to work their opponents over and they all told a good story. There's the usual quick double teaming from the Hardy's, MNM use dirty tactics to gain the advantage and work both Hardy's over seperately cutting off the ring. The match is just great storytelling so watch and enjoy. Matt hits a double neckbreaker on both MNM, then Jeff hits a Swaton and covers Nitro to win the match. Great opening contest. 10/10.  -Striker's Rules Match, Matt Striker vs. Balls Mahoney: In a pre-match promo Striker says he is enforcing his rules to in no certain terms assure he wins. Its more wrestling than anything as Balls was actually a high school amateur wrestler so he had a wrestling background. Its not too good though, the gimmick of Striker's Rules really brings it down, Balls uses an arm bar, but soon after goes into the ringpost and Matt works over his arm and shoulder, but Balls won't stay down. Nice rolling arm bar by Striker, but doesn't get a tap out, Balls comes back hitting jabs and hits the Nutcracker Suite and covers for 3. 3/10.  -Sabu is found laid out cold and it looks like he won't compete in tonights main event, much to the crowds dismay.  -Tag Team Match, Elijah Burke & Sylvester Terkay vs. The FBI w/Trinity: Well Burke and Terkay were an odd pair, with a mix of size and quickness, FBI are a good team and this isn't horrible, but there's not much chemistry between these two teams. There's some good quick tags from the FBI, with some arm drags by Guido, then Terkay comes in and impressively catches Guido and throws him over the top onto Tony. The FBI dropkick Terkay out of the ring, but Tony gets a huge punch from Terkay then hit with a facebuster and Burke covers for the win. 4/10.  -Tommy Dreamer vs. Davari w/The Great Khali: Dreamer had issues with both Davari & Khali in the weeks prior, Davari gets tossed around by Tommy, with some dirty tactics by Davari, who gets helped to the ring by Khali, who pulls the ring rope down but the ref sees it and ejects the giant from ringside. Tommy gets worked over as Davari targets his neck with a sleeper hold, Dreamer comes back hits the Tree of Woe dropkick but soon after gets rolled up for the win. 3/10. The aftermath saw Dreamer chases Davari but Khali comes out with Tommy in hand and chokeslams him onto the stage.  -Paul Heyman talks to Hardcore Holly about replacing Sabu in the main event, which was met with a chorus of boos.  -Mixed Tag Team Match, Mike Knox & Kelly Kelly vs. Kevin Thorn & Ariel: Easily the worst match of the night, Knox and Thorn do well I guess, Kelly and Ariel are just eye candy. Kelly & Knox had issues due to Kelly having eyes for CM Punk in the weeks prior but early on they seemed to be on the backburner as Mike seemed to want to make sure his team won. Once Kelly was in the ring and she was beaten up by Ariel, Kelly and went to tag Knox, he dropped down leaving his girlfriend to fend for herself. Soon after Ariel hit an modified STO and covered her for the win. 1/10. Side note: At least Ariel and Kelly looked good, but this match was horrible. But at least the aftermath was nice with the Sandman making an appearance and caning Thorn a lot, much to the crowds delight.  -There's a pre-match promo from Paul Heyman where he talks up the chamber and the level of violence the crowd will see in the main event chamber match and also how the original ECW is dead and that the Big Show will lead the charge of the new ECW.  -Extreme Elimination Chamber Match for the ECW Championship, Big Show (Champion) vs. Bobby Lashley vs. Test vs. CM Punk vs. Rob Van Dam vs. Hardcore Holly: Due to the chamber gimmick its decent for this card, but as far as other chamber matches go its the least of them. Four men are in separate pods each with a weapon and RVD and Holly start out for the first 5 minutes, Holly hits a nice suplex from the chamber floor into the ring. Punk is out next and uses his weapon a chair then takes it to both guys, but gets the chair back to the face. RVD gets bloodied and sent face first into a chair in the turnbuckle, then Test is out next and uses his crowbar on both Punk and RVD. Punk gets hit with the frog splash from RVD and Punk is gone, Test nails a boot to Holly but the ref waves him off after a 2 count and he gets Holly out of the chamber (guess he was injured before).  Test does hit an impressive elbow from the top of a pod and RVD is gone, now Test has a bit to rest before Lashley is next but Heyman's security prevents Bobby from coming out so he uses the end of his table to poke a hole in the chains of the pod roof then hits a big clothesline from the top to the ring. Lashley sends Test into the wall of a pod then works him over and hits a spear and Test is gone, its down to Show and Lashley. Show brings in his barbwire bat and they have a decent match, Show goes into the pod wall but Lashley gets thrown into the ring and beaten up. Bobby hits a spear out of nowhere and covers Show to win the title. 6/10.  Extras include interviews with the chamber participants  -12/5/06, ECW, ECW Championship Match, Bobby Lashley (Champion) vs. The Big Show: Two nights after the PPV, we have this re-match where they both battle pretty well, Show knocks around Bobby and Lashely comes back hitting some impressive power moves including a big power slam for the win as Bobby retains. 6/10.  The event itself wouldn't have been so bad if it was a 3 hour TV taping and not a PPV that people paid big money for. The opening and closing events are the only ones worth getting this for, but it needs to be a very cheap price.

FESTIVAL OF RAUNCHY HUMOR AND VIOLENCE The boys are ready for another bachelor party and this time beautiful Thailand plays host to the gang of irresponsible nitwits. It's Stu's turn to get married (Didn't he marry a hooker in the original film?) Jamie Chung plays his lovely Thai-American bride Lauren. Her parents are planning a beautiful wedding in Thailand. Stu invites his best buddies Phil and Doug to join him but this time the bachelor party will be dinner at IHOP. No more shenanigans for Stu. He has a conservative future father-in-law to impress. After what happened in Las Vegas, Alan is out of the picture until Stu is convinced to invite him along. Is Thailand ready for this gang?  Alan promises to behave but an impromptu bonfire party for the guys at the beach goes wrong--very wrong. The guys are joined by Lauren's teeange brother teddy. Of course, the next thing we know, Stu, Phi and Alan wake up in a strange Bangkok hotel with no idea of what happened. They've lost Teddy but gained a monkey and somehow the mysterious Mr. Chow is with them. There is one more item of note in the room but I won't spoil the surprise.  The humor quickly turns dark and even more raunchy and vulgar as the guys try to figure out what happened last night and desperately try to find Teddy who may be "lost to Bangkok" which must mean he'll never be seen again. The guys's fill in bits and pieces of their lost memories and end up with a Buddhist monk, a facial tattoo, a destroyed bar...should I go on?  I felt bad for Thailand that such a silly movie was filmed in their lovely country. Although the wedding is taking place at a beautiful seaside area, the guys end up in a seedy and ugly part of Bangkok. I found several things distasteful about this film. The monkey is shown smoking and "works" for criminals. The item found in the hotel room that I have not mentioned specifically is such a major issue and it is taken lightly. It's bad news for that item to be there. Stu has unprotected sex with a Thai prostitute and there is no mention of consequences except that he "cheated" on his future wife and obviously has a thing for prostitutes. Be prepared for an extra surprise in that part of the story.  Ken Jeong returns as Mr. Chow, a rather embarrassing character and a not very politically correct protrayal of an Asian character. Chow is something out of a bad comic book. Just looking and listening to him makes you want to cringe. Bradley Cooper is back as the pretty boy of the group. Justin Bartha has a smaller roll in this film as Doug.  HANGOVER II could have made better use of the beautiful Thai scenery. The raunch could have been toned down. Alan is so much trouble yet he gets to come along and chaos ensures. The way the monkey is presented disturbed me and the whole story of the extra item in the hotel is unnerving because of the ramifitcations which are barely mentioned later. You have to watch the credits to see that pictures of the night that were taken to get some explanation of the mysterious item. HANGOVER II was terrible and I am sure HANGOVER III is on its way,

antiquated program and info. I liked that's why I gave it 2 stars. Nevertheless the documentary has obsoleted and out-of-date content. The price to me seems too pricey for the quality and the narration content; I enjoy the imaginary of the insects, you will be able to see close enough  many insect, but the resolution its blurry thus details are left out.

Very dissapointed... I feel kind of like I'm the only one who didn't like this film! The plot was very weak, and never really grabbed my attention. Alot of times during this movie I felt my mind wandering. I think the plot was boring and tried a little too hard. The cinematography was fairly well done, the score and music forgettable. Robert Downey Jr. was fine as Holmes. I'm a Holmes fan, but not a huge, obssessed one, so I thought he was fine. But Rachel McAdams just CANNOT act. I'm sorry, but she acts the same in everything! I was expecting for this movie to be a fun, well done adventure. What I got was a boring, weak film that had no inspiration. I wonder how the sequel will be...

Interesting, But Not Concise, Film Version Of Dickens' Classic Novel. Note: I saw this movie with XFinity On Demand.  This latest screen version of Oliver Twist is directed by Roman Polanski (the man who fled the U.S. while awaiting trial on a charge of having sex with a minor). So, please keep that in mind when deciding to view a movie he directed. Having said that, I can review the film thoroughly.  The movie isn't a solid interpretation of the novel (but then again, the 1922, 1934, 1948, 1968, 1999 and 2007 film & television versions haven't been exactly faithful to Mr. Dickens' classic novel, either), but it's nowhere near as bad as the 2007 TV miniseries (though the 1999 miniseries, while stellar in some parts, stumbled royally in other areas). As another reviewer noted, Monks & Mrs. Corney have been eliminated from this screen version, as have been Mrs. Bumble, Doctor Losberne, Harry Maylie, Mrs. Maylie and my favourite character from the book, Rose Maylie. Oliver's entire backstory has also been entirely cut from the film, so you lose half the reason you need to have to feel sorry for Oliver.  I recommend this film for one viewing only. Rated PG-13.

eh A shallow concept cannot be re-told as a great drama, regardless of the number of hotties you have on the backlot looking for their break  I'd give it two rotten tomatoes for weak writing, and stiff (intended ) dialogue.

Sinister My two year old son is OBSESSED with all things Thomas. And he is terrified of this film. It's so sinister and creepy, and very dark. He hides under the chair in the corner, or he runs to his father or me and buries his face into our chests and cries when the diesel engines appear. And Percy is really sad in it a lot, which upsets him very much. He becomes devastated when Percy cries in the film. Percy is normally so upbeat, and he becomes a very depressed little engine. The music and mood is so dark and disturbing, and we really don't recommend it at all. It looses the innocence that is Thomas & His Friends.

A very crisp blu-ray strictly for those that believe in ghosts - Boo! Eastwood's tabloid take on the afterlife is just as trite as his sports movie about soccer; his bright, white-light scenario is Weekly World News material.  It is not hard to see executive producer Spielberg's schmaltzy wishful thinking pervading this childish excursion into the phenomenon of psychic silliness.  There is an audience pleasing tsunami sequence at the outset; but all hope of ongoing insights are flushed away just like the tropical tourist trap.  It might work as a fantasy for adolescents, although they are unlikely to tolerate anything this slow, let alone subtitled sequences.  Uh oh, gotta go, Mommy is yelling at me from heaven for giving this a bad review!

Cases are in FRENCH!!! I love the movies, so I bought them all in Blu Ray. When they arrived from Amazon, two of them, New Moon and Eclipse, had French and English on the cases. The movie itself is in English, but the case shows in French. The image that you are seeing on the site is not what I actually got. However, the movie will play the same, so I might not be sending it back. I ordered from the American Amazon site, and I paid for it with American money, not Euros or whatever they use over in France. The price had a $ not a deformed E. So I do not understand why they would send me a French version of what I actually wanted. I am giving this 2 stars because the case is upsetting me.

28 Days Later Decent film marred by various illogicalities and derivative plot identical to Cronenberg's Rabid and Romero's Living Dead films. I didn't care about the characters, mainly because their actions were often unbelievably idiotic. Take for example a scene at night -- with rabid zombies roaming about -- our protagonists squabble about falling in love and f**king. Stupid. Another moment that sticks in my memory involves the silly third act, with Cillian Murphy freeing a shackled zombie at the military outpost in hopes that it will "naturally" kill the nefarious soldiers who are holding his two friends captive. Also, the demise of the character played by Christopher Eccleston, who's hiding in a car, waiting for our heroes, shoots Cillian's character (Jim); Brendan Gleeson's daughter takes off in the car with Eccleston -- going in reverse -- and "naturally" drives next to the aforementioned zombie. The zombie busts through the back of the car, taking Eccleston. Ridiculous.  This film has nothing on Cronenberg and Romero.

gives SWAT units a bad name... Tactical Force (2011) is a severely dumbed down action/comedy, with a ridiculous story, idiot characters, bad acting, and empty dialog.  Besides some occasionally funny moments, some of which are unintentional, about all this film has going for it, is a few decently executed action sequences, and a fast pace which helps keep your mind off how weak the story really is.  There's plenty of gunplay and abundance of ridiculous talk, as some criminals attempt to eliminate a police SWAT team.  Steve Austin (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000SM6FKY">The Condemned</a>) plays Captain Frank Tate, the leader of a LAPD SWAT team.  The team is suspended after breaking protocol up during a robbery, and is sent to a training facility located in a warehouse, to perform training maneuvers.  Two rival groups of criminals are already at the facility, looking for an unspecified "item".  After killing one of SWAT cops, the crooks band together to finish off the rest of the team.  With weapons loaded with blanks, Tate, Sergeant Hunt (Michael Jai White, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007NRWLZ0">Spawn</a>), and Officer Jannard (Lexa Doig) are forced to retreat.  The trio manages to take out a few of the criminals, and acquire some real weapons, but they are still severely outnumbered and unable to call for help.  Taking some desperate chances, they find themselves with a mysterious prisoner, who might provide a key to their escape.  It's clear from the start that Tactical Force has no serious intentions, and with everyone overplaying their roles trying to outdo each other, the attempts at humor are seldom successful.  As mindless action flicks go, it's decent enough entertainment, but anyone seeking a suspense thriller with an iota of intelligence, is in the wrong place.  Tactical Force is recommended to Prime members, but that's about it.

Failed To Deliver I'd been looking forward to this movie and I finally got around to watching it last night. It stars Gerard Depardieu as Inspector Bellamy and Marie Bunel as his wife. The genre is mystery-suspense.  The movie begins with the Inspector on vacation in Nîmes when he gets pulled into a murder investigation.  Besides the Inspector and his wife, there are a number of other interesting characters. There's the Inspector's alcoholic and bitterly estranged brother who decides to visit; the murderer who wants to confess; the murderer's long-suffering wife; the murderer's mistress; and finally, the gay couple down the street.  It has all the ingredients for being a deliciously wonderful film. But it fails to deliver!  Depardieu is the principal character and he needed to carry the movie. Sadly, his performance was quite lackluster. The director (Claude Chabrol) would have been better off expanding Bunel's role. She had a lot more life in her.  The movie never grabbed me. It was boring and the pace too slow. And I didn't care what happened to the characters.

Two Thumbs DOWN I've seen plenty of TV used car commercials that were funnier. The plot, if you can call it that, is trite, contrived and boring.

overrated... ...normally, i really do appreciate any film in general - one person's creative vision will always be someone else's disappointment. generally - i'm not a huge fan of war movies...i will watch the very few that peak my interest as this one initially had based upon other reviews before i rented it... my problem with most war movies (and especially the media) is bias.  i will say tho - that both sides were painted fairly equal (in guilt) in this movie...now, for those who are unaware (having been acquainted with both serbians and croatians) - that war has been going on for FOREVER!!!  i know a serbian family who got a call one day...this man was informed that his cousin - his cousin's wife and their children were found naked and hung to death in their own barn...as a croatian fella told me how his brothers house was burned down...so - there are two sides to every story...and both parties are guilty...this movie somewhat points that out.  in the end - war's not about land - religion - it's about testosterone...and this movie touches on that as well.  was it worth watching at least once?  ehhhh...if you're really bored...lot of funny moments - some really great lines...the ugliness and confusion of war...and that it's really the folks in the highest positions that instigate and perpetuate wars...and when i say 'folks'...i mean 'men'...shows the media's power and bias as well as sometimes the side that's painted as the 'monsters' are simply defending what they feel is their own...and that the real monsters are the media and those who are not actually in the front lines.  it's very strange to me that here's a people who speak the same language and live on the same land...and many think it's about land and religion (which is just a guise) but like most wars...it's really all about testosterone!!

A Re-Interpretation of the Legend Sherlock Holmes, 2009 film  The film begins on a cobblestone road. Horses draw carriages. A man with a lantern is attacked in the dark. We see a weird ceremony being held over a young woman (like some porno-horror movie). Can she be rescued? Lord Blackwood is unmasked. Inspector Lestrade arrives with his Bobbies to arrest the gang. Next we see Baker Street. Watson plans to move out, Holmes is bored at home. They dine out, Holmes meets Mary Morstan (who needs no introduction). Holmes gets a glass of wine. Next we see a bare-knuckle fight in a pit. Holmes fights a bigger and heavier opponent, and wins. We see a dark and dirty London. Holmes wears no hat! Blackwood makes a prediction: three more. Holmes gets a visit from Irene Adler, she has a request. Holmes has a trick here. Inspector Lestrade summons Holmes about Blackwood! Dr. Watson is involved too. Blackwood's coffin is opened, there is a surprise! [How did it happen?] They enter an apartment to search for clues. There is drama and entertainment. [What, no revolver?]  There is a chase for action in a shipyard. Lestrade wants Holmes to see a High Official who wants to stop Blackwood from doing evil. Holmes visits Irene Adler and opens a bottle of wine. After he is rescued, he visits the rooms of that High Official. Sir Thomas is dead. There is a meeting. Blackwood plans for a New World Order. He can't be stopped! These important people control the police. Holmes and Watson explore the shore. They find a slaughterhouse and rescue a woman. There is a trap! The story continues. Can Holmes defeat the villainous Blackwood? Holmes uses symbolism to foretell Blackwood's plans. Is there a plot to attack Parliament for a coup d'etat? Holmes deduces that a poison gas will be used to kill Parliament. Can they overpower the villains and stop the infernal machine? [You know the answer.] There is a final struggle high over the river. Holmes explains how the magic tricks were done by Blackwood. The villain falls from his heights, like Lucifer. Irene Adler survived to tell about the Professor. "We'll see about that." Then a Bobbie brings news of a murder, and Holmes has a new case.  Do you remember those Sherlock Holmes movies from the 1940s? This is a modern version with a bigger budget but not a better story. Its more complex than those simpler monochrome movies. You can see the special effects of CGI, they are not overdone. This story is different from Doyle's writings, and overlong. Aside from the scenery, this could have been a "James Bond" adventure story where the world is saved from a powerful madman.

Not working I got it in the mail and took it home to watch and it was not working! I worked on it and I am going to try to clean it again. Very upset! If it won't work then it wil have to be returned!

This Darwin biopic has no teeth The husband and wife acting team of Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly star as Charles and Emma Darwin in this truly subpar realization of a most fascinating subject. The theory of evolution by natural selection is one of the most controversial ideas that any human has ever come up with. Shouldn't the film about the man responsible for this idea have some intensity and passion, perhaps stirring up some some debate of it's own? Apparently that was not the intention of the filmmakers. They made a film as genteel as could possibly be made. It's even strangely disrespectful of Darwin himself, portrraying him as a raving loon at times, possibly a schizophrenic. This is really off the mark. Of course the man was deeply distressed by the death of his daughter but the movie has him running around like a crazy man, talking to her ghost.  The focus is too much on Darwin's family dynamic, ( someone we see all too often in biographical films of great historical figures ), and not enough on what made Darwin the legendary scientist that he was. The filmmakers take the unfortunate path of trying to have the audience relate to Darwin in the most cozy and sentimental way. The more honest road would have been to make a film about his passionate exploration of the natural world and how he came to the understanding of his theory. There is little shown here about Darwin's enthusiasm and commitment. The film mostly focuses on his endless suffering. The daughter is too prevelant in the story. One wonders if she's the main character.  The performances are respectable. Bettany played a similar scientist in "Master and Commander" opposite Russell Crowe. That movie was a sea-faring action adventure but Bettany's characterization of a naturalist was far better than his dreay role here in "Creation". Jennifer Connelly has played suffering women for so long that adding another role like this under her belt doesn't distinguish it at all from her previous work. Overall, I would say this film could have been something if it wasn't afraid of the subject and attacked it with more passionate conviction. I have seen these kind of lukewarm biopics all too often about great figures in human history.

not worth dropping in to visit After watching it I found out it was a remake.  I would have rather wasted my time on the original with subtitles than a revisit which was boring.  Not that I think the original was any better, but at least it was a new idea.

A Day Without a Mexican The movie covered an interesting subject, but I believe it did not go deep enought into the situation.  I guess budget constraints prvented a more thorough and interesting presentation of the movie content.  The DVD that I received through Amazon was processed quickly and without problems. I like the prices I get through Amazon and the efficient way they deliver my purchases.

Tries to be cute, but fails miserably Judge Franck Tabouring, DVD Verdict -- "Waiting for Forever tries really hard to come across as a heartwarming fairy tale, but as much as I hate to say this, it simply doesn't succeed. I can see how this film could have had some potential on paper during early developmental stages, but as a finished product, it's loaded with annoying flaws that make it nearly impossible to fall in love with. The movie takes quite long to introduce viewers to every character in the film. While that is certainly admirable, it doesn't necessarily move along the story we should be caring about. We're also forced to fight our way through a bunch of backstory, and while it definitely helps build the central story, it sure could have been reduced a little. By the time Will makes contact with Emma, I found myself unable to care about either one of them. I wish I could say I loved the performances in Waiting for Forever, but that wouldn't be true. While Bilson has a few solid moments giving her the opportunity to show off her acting talent, Sturridge seems to struggle with the portrayal of a crazy dude running after the girl of his dreams. Let's just say his delivery remains stiff throughout. The only one shining in every scene he's in is Richard Jenkins, who plays Emma's sarcastic dad. Then again, we're talking about an actor who pretty much always hits the right notes. I give this to director James Keach though: he sure managed to deliver on great production values. The film's shot well and looks great, and anything from locations to costumes just fits the mood. On a similar note, I must applaud 20th Century Fox for giving the film a superb Blu-ray treatment. Presented in a 1.85:1 widescreen transfer, the movie boasts a clean image quality rich in colors and sharpness. Audio tracks are balanced fairly well too, so technically speaking. Special features are nowhere to be found."

Alexander not so great My first criticism in this review is leveled at Amazon.com. With three "cuts" of this movie, obviously Oliver Stone felt a real need to differentiate these films from one another, "improving" them until he was satisfied.  Why then, when we look up each of these cuts on Amazon, is the same Amazon review given (the Revisited review)?  I would like to have had their professional take on each edition, and some details on how & why number two is different from number one, not just how the last is different from its two previous renditions. The information would be very helpful in deciding if I should give the other versions I have not seen, a viewing.  Also, why has Amazon combined all of the public's reviews into all three editions.  For the vast majority of reviews it's impossible to tell which edition they are reviewing.  Not very helpful at all!!!  As far as the movie goes (I saw the second one, the Director's cut) I can understand why this movie got mixed reviews and ended up well below the hoped for high marks.  The movie comes across confused, starting out with narration, is almost documentary-like in places, jumps into much needed story content, often detours back in time unchronologically, then attempts to figure out how all this fits together to form one big cohesive picture.  Which it hardly does.  The movie rather fails to come across as epic, it mostly feels just long.  Not that there weren't some successful aspects.  I enjoy most of the acting by the lead performers.  It was good to see Val Kilmer back in a substantial role after being in so many "B" movies.  Angelina Jolie is mesmerizing as usual.  And Colin Farrell demonstrates his capabilities in portraying emotional content with ease and credibility.  And there are a number of well-renowned actors in minor roles, though their contribution fails to help this disjointed story.  I liked some of the cinematography very much.  The portrayal of Babylon was intriguing.  With THREE versions of this movie available, we have a clear clue that something has been amiss with this movie from the beginning, and with the incredible time commitment of this film it's going to be a long time before I'll watch the other versions to see how they are different, or, more importantly, if the story gets any better.

The tradition of shabby home video releases continues for "48 HRS"... this time on Blu-Ray "48 HRS." is a terrific action-comedy that gets everything right for its genre. The action is tough, but not overdone; the comedy is funny, but not over-the-top; the direction by filmmaker Walter Hill is skillful, edgy and playful; the San Francisco location shooting makes for a wonderfully dark, atmospheric and gritty backdrop; the dated-but-effective soundtrack is awesome in its own "1980s" sort of way; and the script is tight and witty, with sharp characterizations and crackling dialogue that is sometimes vulgar, yet always smart. Best of all, the two leads are at the apex of their star power, making the film a joy to watch.  Indeed, this is the film that made Eddie Murphy a superstar, and it's easy to see why. Raw, dynamic and totally charismatic, it is not hyperbole to state that Mr. Murphy's first film performance easily ranks as one of the greatest film debuts in cinematic history. Young, lean and hungry, Murphy plays a semi-tough street hustler/convict with just the right combination of streetwise smarts, slick charm and youthful defiance. While Eddie exudes a certain level of cockiness throughout the film, there are (thankfully) very few signs of the (often unbearable) egocentric smugness that would later come to define much of Mr. Murphy's later 80's film roles. On the other hand, Nick Nolte is no less great, playing a burnt-out, casually racist cop that somehow manages to retain a gruff charm even as his character alternates between being obnoxious and racially offensive. The two actors have distinctly different acting styles, yet the contrast works, as the two performers have genuinely great chemistry when performing together.  If I have one caveat with the film, it's the rampant male chauvinism (a typical characteristic trait that many of Walter Hill's films share) that permeates throughout "48 HRS.", a quality that hasn't aged particularly well over time; fortunately, it's not enough to taint one's overall enjoyment and respect of the film's achievements as a superior piece of pop culture entertainment. Thanks to the many knock-offs' this film has spawned over the years (e.g. "Midnight Run", "Lethal Weapon", "Bad Boys", "Rush Hour", etc.) aspects of "48 HRS" undoubtedly seem hackneyed by today's standards, but even so, the film manages to engage and thrill in a way that still feels fresh after all these years. A five star film (out of five).  Unfortunately, Paramount has never seen fit to release this highly influential film in a home video release worthy of its quality. The first DVD release from 1999 is in non-anamorphic widescreen, and barren of any type of special features. The second DVD release from 2007 is a decent (if minor) step-up, a budget title that paired up "48 HRS." with its inferior sequel "Another 48 HRS" on one dual-layer, single-sided disc with no extras. While this guaranteed a rather anemic bit-rate for both films, the presentation for both films is in 16x9 anamorphic widescreen and (surprisingly) both look and sound pretty good, all things considered; unfortunately, as with the 1999 release, the 2007 edition contains no special features. Finally, a third release followed shortly in 2008, an "I Love The 80's" DVD edition of "48 HRS.", which unfortunately is the exact same bare-bones non-anamorphic widescreen edition that was released in 1999. It seemed that "48 HRS." would never get its due respect on DVD, leaving fans to hope that the inevitable Blu-Ray release would finally do the film some justice.  Well, prepare to have your hopes dashed, as Paramount has released an incredibly weak Blu-Ray catalogue title. The 1080P picture quality is certainly sub-par, as the master used for this Blu-Ray release looks worn, faded and tired; in other words, the film master used for this release is crap. There is dirt and excessive film grain rampant throughout. Contrast is mediocre, with blacks alternating between looking pretty good and dark grey. Colors pop slightly better than the DVD, but generally come across as muted and flat. Sharpness wavers from scene to scene, with some scenes looking pretty good, and other scenes coming across as so soft, you'll swear you're watching a shoddy DVD. About the only thing this Blu-Ray picture has going for it is that there isn't any noticeable DNR or edge enhancement... but considering the overall disappointment of this Blu-Ray release, this is a small consolation at best. This is not the worst Blu-Ray title I've ever seen, but it is certainly one of the most disappointing, considering the caliber of this film.  The audio fares little better, with the Dolby True HD 5.1 sound coming across only slightly better than earlier DVD iterations. Bass is decent at times, but stereo separation overall sounds weak and muddled, even for a 1980's action film. Overall, about the only thing you'll notice different about this Blu-Ray soundtrack from its 5.1 Dolby Digital DVD counterpart is that its mixed louder.  To add insult to injury, there are no extras to be found outside of the included trailer.  At a ridiculous sticker price of $24.99, this throw-away catalog release is absolutely sure to disappoint both hardcore and casual fans. While the picture and sound quality is a step-up from the non-anamorphic 1999 (and 2008) DVD release, it is in fact only barely superior to the 2007 16x9 anamorphic widescreen release, and has no special features to speak of. Therefore, unless you can grab the Blu-Ray for $10.00 or less, I recommend the 2007 double-feature DVD release of "48 HRS" over the Blu-Ray release. The picture and sound quality on the 2007 edition is good for a DVD (especially when upconverted), the price is right at 9-12 dollars brand new, and it's the only home video version of "48 HRS." that comes with any special features, namely the sequel "Another 48 HRS" (as a side note, the "48 HRS." DVD double feature is still the only way to see "Another 48 HRS." in 16x9 anamorphic widescreen, as the stand-alone release is presented in non-anamorphic widescreen only).  If Paramount chose to release "48 HRS." on Blu-Ray as a double bill feature similar to the 2007 DVD release, the $24.99 sticker price would be far more tolerable; in fact, this is exactly what Warner Brothers has been doing recently with the release of some of their catalog titles (e.g. "Analyze This"/"Analyze That" and "Presumed Innocent"/"Frantic"). While those double feature releases carry no special features, the comparable $24.99 sticker price certainly feels a lot less painful. Of course, the most ideal situation would be for Paramount to wake up and (finally) show this film some respect, by giving "48 HRS." a proper home video release, remastered and full of special features... because ultimately this is what a classic film like as "48 HRS." really deserves. Chalk this up as yet another Blu-Ray disappointment.

Pretty costumes, but thin plot, fair action Not having very sharp action scenes for an action movie, and having rather hokey dialogue and plot, all I could really appreciate were the pretty costumes. The movie struck me as a failure. And the cast members have all done much better work elsewhere. Crouching Tiger, Hero, Flying Daggers this is not, not even close. Others seem to rate the movie highly, so maybe I'm not the one to listen to here.

Not a lot of potty training content. This is a cute Elmo video w/ lots of singing and dancing about the potty, but there is no real instruction on how to use the potty, so it's not very instructional.  My daughter likes the video, but it did not help us to potty train at all.  One part of the video that really bothers me is during the segment where Elmo and his friends discuss all the different words for pee and poop.  They use a word for poop (dookie) that really bothers me personally, and after my daughter said it a few times, I decided to get rid of the video.

Uninteresting writing, great cast It was watchable, but there were many times when I was dying for the scene to be over and the next to start.  The story was good, the actors were great.  Reese Witherspoon is adorable and played the part well. Paul Rudd did a great job.  But the dialog and the pace were not good.  And poor Jack Nicholson.  I wish he had better lines. My GF liked it and I didn't mind sitting through it, but it is two or three stars at best.

One BIG flaw! This DVD has one BIG (so to speak) flaw. The man demonstrating the routine is wearing shorts which leave NOTHING to the imagination. Don't get me wrong; I congratulate him for being so well endowed, but I don't want to look at that while I'm trying to clear my mind and follow a yoga (or any workout) routine. Otherwise, it's a good routine, so you may want to pick this DVD up if you're into that sort of thing. I personally can't watch it.

sad I don't have the movie but it was on TV & saw about half. I'm sure parts were cut but from what I saw this movie was so sad, especially when the pregnant girl was tortured & killed. Maybe it showed what it really would be like if something like that happened but I see enough horror on the news & watch a movie to get away from life. One person said it was like Zombieland & Dawn of the Dead. Have to disagree. Zombieland WAS a comedy, gross in some parts but funny with a good ending. But really, they have electricity but can't take a shower?  It's a fantasy, funny movie that I enjoyed.

Better than the DVD, but very poor for BluRay! I watched the BluRay last night on an OPTOMA DLP projector.  While it does look better than the DVD, it leaves A LOT to be desired.  First off, the film is at a 2:35:1 ratio, instead of 2.20:1, which is the correct aspect ratio for a movie shot on a 65mm negative/70mm printed format.  This leads me to believe that a 35mm source was used.  Second, AND BY FAR THE WORST, is the color shift from left to right in the WHOLE movie.  10% of the screen on the left and 10% on the right had different color density.  On my projector, the left had greenish tones, the 70-80% in the middle looked good, and the 10% on the right was pinkish.  During the night scenes, the pinkish on the right looked green, as if too much light was going through the film when it was projected.  This is completely unacceptable, especially for masterpiece!  Another thing I noticed is that jitter is noticeable during some scenes.  This also indicates that the transfer is not recent.  I would not be surprised if CBS used the exact same restoration, with no additional work, that was prepared for the 1994 laserdisc release.  The audio, while better than anything I have heard on home video, should also has been improved.  While there is a nice dynamic range, it still sound restrained, and there is a weird reverb added to the back speakers during musical numbers, as if this was an old Dolby ProLogic home theater effect that was kept.  After the movie is over, the closing credits are exactly the same as on the laserdisc box set, listing people who worked on the restoration with a 1994 copyright date.  When I bought the disc last weekend, the first thing that went through my mind when I picked up the packaging is that it looked like a bootleg.  So sad for such a distinguished movie!  Even though I had read the reviews, I bought it because it does look better than both the laserdisc and the DVD.  This is only because the bluray platform supports higher resolution, not because of work put into the film by CBS.  Oh well....maybe the rights will be transferred again and a more respectable studio will release it in the manner that "Sound of Music" was restored.

Predictable and oddly paced A small town girl named Lorie Walker is injured, which forces her to abandon her dreams of becoming a professional ballerina. After a chance encounter with an old friend, she is convinced to appear in a rap music video. The director of said video is immediately smitten with her beauty and takes her away to Los Angeles to become a Video Model.  The music video's Lorie appears in are of the lowest common denominator standard (her debut video seems to only consist of the lyrics "I got a big booty cutie" repeated over and over) and her roles only demand that she stand around and look pretty for the camera. If you are not a casual fan of modern (and may I say, low grade) hip-hop, these will be the first hurdles you have to cross to become invested in this film.  There are pacing issues throughout the film. Sometimes scenes seem to drag on, then other moments  rocket to moments that are overly dramatic without warning. For example, soon after we watch Lorie stand around at work (which IS her work), then go on a boring date, we see her sister get slaughtered outside of a gas station. Before we have a chance to catch our breaths, we're right back to a series of scenes that slow the story telling to a crawl.  Having Lorie's sister dying seemed to only be included so that her ghost could visit Lorie in her dreams and offer her moral support...I suppose phone calls would have been too dull a concept for the screenwriter. Such a tragic event should have anchored Lorie, but instead it only makes for temporary guilt trips down memory lane before she vaults right back into lines of cocaine.  Speaking of those lines of cocaine, Lorie's downward spiral is typical of these types of films. She is new to Hollywood so it is only a matter of time before she falls in with the wrong crowd and loses herself to drugs. Lorie goes from being the most in-demand girl for rap videos (for what that's worth) to being kicked off of the set for, what appears to be, choosing not to stand still during scenes. Naturally, the stakes are raised higher than that, as her drug use makes her start to alienate her true friends, including her best friend from her old town who has recently signed with the NBA...because apparently she came from a town of lottery winners who eat four leaf clovers for each meal, as well as getting nearly raped by a sleazy "movie" producer while high.  Meagan Good, who plays Lorie, is a talented young actress who helps to make this story function on some level. If not for her performance, this film could have been intolerable.  Writer/Director Doc Duhame does try to add some flare with a few stylish shot choices and scene setups, proving that he is competent behind the camera, but he the story he has written is still predictable and overly long.  find more at [....]

Returned merchandise This purchase was for a birthday gift. Unfortunatly This person was unable to use VHS. Merchandise was returned and then reordered for DVDs. Still awaiting a refund.

Great show but Not UNCENSORED Most of the episodes are censored. First episode is uncensored but almost all of the others are bleeped out. Really sad. Look Fox/Seth we're all grown ups here. Not gonna offend anyone. Still love the show though just think we got screwed again.

not that bad but not that good either till this day i havent found a horror film that tops the original exorcist.you dont need blood and gore to make scary. just give the public a face of scars and their set for life. this movie is not that good but the original was excellent.

1 side doesn't play The movie is great,and the packaging, shipping, ect.; was great. My problem is that you have  the full screen version on one side of the DVD, and then the letterbox version on the other. The full screen side will not play. I really wanted to send it back for another one but my work schedule has been too hectic, so I was rather forced to keep the DVD. Amazon was great , as always, with shipping, ect. I wish I could trade the movie for another copy of it.

Not for the ages stated This video says it is for middle school and high school. When I get it home and watched it, it is clearly not for high school students. This is not age appropriate for my students and I regret this purchase. This is not the sellers fault. The video has the grade levels printed on it. This is more for 5th - 8th grade in my opinion.

Disappointing There is very little substance in this movie and the plot is very generic. I would not recommend it, especially not for the scenery.

this is color?? I was sadly disappointed and should have heeded the warning left by one reviewer regarding the picture quality.  This film looks as though someone colored it with magic markers in the most garish colors imaginable.  However wonderful some of the dance routines might be--as noted by some of the better reviews here--I was too distracted by the poor quality of the picture to appreciate them.  Sorry.

TAYE DIGGS ,WHEN YOU MADE THIS WHAT WERE YOU THINKING??? TAYE DIGGS ,ONE OF MY FAVORITE ACTORS..LOVED HIM IN STELLA GOT HER GROOVE BACK; ALLEY MCBEAL;LOVED HIM IN KEVIN HILL...BUT WHAT IN THE WORLD MADE YOU THINK THAT THIS COLLADGE WOULD WORK IN A TV SERIES...TOO MUCH GOING ON AT THE SAME TIME....STORY LINE MADE NO SENSE...AND TAYE YOU WERE ONE OF THE EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS..WHO DID YOU CONSULT DURING THE WRITING...I DISAGREED WITH ON OF THE REVIEWS ,BEFORE I SAW THIS...BUT NOW I AGREE WITH HIM...ALL OF THE SHOOTING...KILLING ...CAR CHASES...WHAT WAS THAT ALL ABOUT...WHERE IN THE WORLD DOES IT HAPPEN THAT THE SAME DAY STILL REPEATS ITSELF EVEN IN A MOVIE?...THAT'S WHY YOUR SHOW WAS CANCELED......IDEA? WHY DON'T YOU TRY AND REVIVE KEVIN HILL ...BRING BACK ALL THE LOVELY LADY ATTORNEYS AND ADD BETTER MALE SUPPORT CAST AND CLEARER LOCATIONS ...BETTER APARTMENT OR CONDO FOR AN ATTORNEY..GET A DIFFERENT BABY TO PLAY THE PART OF YOU CHILD...DITCH THE MANNY AND GET A NANNY.....THIS WAS A AMAZON PURCHASE...MUCH LOVE..WILLIAM O.

Feeling Separated Sorry to say - underwhelmed.  Saw this with three close friends - major film buffs all. We all walked out of the theater wondering what me missed - everyone seems to rave about this film, but it didn't connect with any of us.  Though we sympathized with many of the characters, their dilemmas were seldom so deeply involving as to rise above typical melodrama with an Iranian spin.  Though A Separation won the best foreign film Oscar, I found Bullhead, another nominee, far more rewarding and far more intense.  But that's just me.  Hoping you find this more enjoyable than I did!

disappointing Why a reboot? Only five minutes were amazing. Don't bother if you ever saw the first Spiderman which is miles better than this. And since most of the movie was talking so why did they shoot it in 3D? It is just a way to raise ticket price, I'd be happy to pay more if the movie was better but that is not the case here. I'd watch the first Spiderman again.

THE RAP INDUSTRY IS MODERN SLAVERY There is a slasher killing rappers and amazingly enough the cops are out looking for the guy. Two policemen take on the case. Good cop, Det. Johnson (James McDaniel) a black man who knows very little about rap and the white  Det. Francelli ( Michael Mosley) who is curiously a walking rap encyclopedia and also plays the "bad cop."  The slashing is mostly at the beginning of the film. At this point it turns into a lengthy who-dun-it with street interviews for filler material and a Spike Lee message. The production attempts to roll but then sputters on dialouge. The film needed to properly space out the killings and a more thrilling way to connect the dots. Like so many 21st century African-American productions, this film was long on dialouge and short on action. Some acting would have helped.  Parental Guide: F-bombs, N-word, no sex, no nudity, some implied sex.

unused i could not download this item so i cant rate it.i also took and deleted it off my videos and did not watch it

OVERRATED A serious disappointment considering all the positive reviews. If you want to watch a VERY average B horror movie.......this one is for you.

Boring This movie. What to say about it. After seeing it last night, it's not bad, it's not good. It's just boring. From what I read from one critic, he said he was laughing at parts that weren't supposed to be humorous but other than Bella's dad who got some funny lines and her back being broken, I found nothing funny. The two action scenes near the end would've been nice but they take place at night and the way the action is handled makes it very hard to make out. There are quite a few things that aren't explained such as how can the werewolves all of a sudden "talk" in their beast mode if before they never displayed such an ability? How can Edward, who is essentially the living dead, produce sperm in order to get Bella pregnant? And I don't know if this is a plot hole or if this was explained and I missed it but why does Carlisle keep human blood at the house when his group of vampires drink animal blood? Up until now the werewolf/vampire treaty has never been broken so I wouldn't think he'd keep it there for an emergency but like I said I don't know if that't something I missed myself or if that's a plot hole.  If you saw the trailer than you pretty much got what happens in the whole film which itself is padded out with repetitive exposition (such as everybody stating how dangerous the baby will be) and several unnecessary flashbacks and dream sequences. In fact, other than ripping off another, more highly successful film/book franchise in splitting their last film in two & more money, I don't see how there's enough material to even support part II that they couldn't have fit in here. Even for Harry Potter, the last movie split in two is a money ploy and I'm pretty sure, fans of Potter and Twilight alike, would've sat through their respective final films as a whole. Not even Return of the King was split in two and it's probably longer than both parts of Deathly Hallows & Breaking Dawn put together.  Nothing interesting happens, Bella essentially gets what she wants without learning anything. She hasn't evolved over the course of the previous films, she's remained the same and, other than a few cuts and bites, she hasn't suffered to get where she is now. I'll probably get a lot of flack for this but in Lord of the Rings, Frodo suffers by carrying the fate of the free people of Middle Earth. Harry Potter suffers practically from when he turned one when his parents died and in the subsequent films/books, his godfather, friends and headmaster die for him. What happens to Bella? She falls in love with a vampire while playing on the emotions of the perpetually shirtless werewolf boy. She was almost killed by evil vampires in the first one, got emo and suicidal in the second one after Edward left her and some people died and were turned into an army to kill her in the third but she didn't give a crap about any of those people who disappeared/died even after learning they were turned into vampires in a plot to kill her. In this she gets married, has awkward sex, learns she's pregnant with a horrible CGI baby and gets turned into a vampire through sheer convenience of the plot. The acting from all three leads is pretty bland, even Lautner who I previously said was the only good actor for movies 2 & 3, is rather bad. The background vampires of the first three films get actual stuff to do while the background werewolves are split in two factions. One is out to destroy the abomination that is Bella's child while Jacob (even though he tells them to go away) leads two others for some vague reason but they're hardly featured so I didn't care if they lived or died.  So Twilight fans are probably going to love it, regardless of the problems that have existed since film one. If you're not a fan, don't see it. This isn't the worst film that I've seen this year (here's looking at you Green Hornet) but as the first of a two-part finale it doesn't feel like it. Other than this vaguely hinted vampire war, this film doesn't build up to that until an after thought, after credits scene with the Legion of Vampires. The author could've actually done five books.

Not a pleasant Cruz Unfortunately, I didn't enjoy this movie very much, and I enjoyed Penelope Cruz even less.  I found her voice and the dialogue to be annoying.  I'm glad I didn't have to pay anything to watch this film, but I lost a few hours of my life that I'll never get back.

Rent, don't buy I did not like this movie.  It is about a bunch of college students who created a social network while in college.  The guy who actually created Facebook took the idea from other guys and made it better and made it his own.  The other guys sued him.  Because Facebook was worth a fortune, he pays 65 million to the guys to shut them up.  And of course, you know the rest.  Facebook is worth billions.  The guy in the movie who created Facebook was a little smart a..  I hope the real man is a much better person.  A lot of the movie is filmed in the deposition room (if that is what you call it), their dorm rooms, and partying with some wild girls.  You probably will never watch this movie more than once so I suggestg renting it before buying it.  I will never understand how this movie was nominated for best picture by the Oscar committee.

Incredibly Sexist and Somewhat Racist I would not suggest allowing children to watch this film unless you are completely comfortable with perpetuating sexist and racist stereotypes. Annoyed by depictions of female being "saved" by male counterparts, and glowing depictions of "life being perfect" for Natives prior to arrival of whites is a bit of a stretch. This film perpetuates several misconceptions about Native Americans, which are incredibly unnecessary.

Very Poor Picture and Sound -- DVD Version Would Suffice Perhaps this is the best that can be done transferring an old video production to Blu-ray, but the picture and sound quality are no better than can be achieved in a transfer to DVD. The sound is harsh, the picture, while not noisy nor marred by digital artifacts, is soft and the colors are murky. And it's presented in its original, made-for-TV, 1.33:1 ("full-screen") aspect ratio. If you want a copy of this so-so movie, save some money, buy the DVD.

Blurred Realities This is a film in which Juliette Binoche plays a magazine writer doing research for her next upcoming article. While doing in-depth interviews with two of the subjects of her article, she's also juggling being a mother and a wife.  As best I could make out, the magazine article is about Parisian college students having to depend on prostitution for paying their way through school. The two women who portray such students in the film are almost vignettes within the overall context of the movie.  Though this is meant to be a character study of Binoche and (to a lessor extent) the two female students, I never connected with the story. Perhaps subtitles aren't always adequate. At times the movie seemed to border on being soft-porn.  Plot  A writer too wrapped up in her project, blurring the lines between her own life and those of her research subjects.  I give the movie 1.5 stars out of 5.

Don't take this "documentary" seriously. Although the man in this film probably HAS lost weight and is probably healthier than we was before his "fast," a juice fast in in no way a good long term diet. If a person only drinks his/her "food," most of those nutrients will be wasted into their urine. Solid foods are important, and I don't see why films like this encourage liquid diets when solid foods are an option. The reason people today are unhealthy is because of the types of foods they choose to eat, the amount they eat, plus the sedintary lifestyles that those people lead, NOT because people don't "drink" their diets. When people juice fruits and vegetables, although they are consuming a lot of the nutrients that are present in those vegetables, they are also throwing away other important substances such as fiber. They also may be, depending on WHAT is juiced, consuming LOTS of sugar without the fiber to slow the absorbtion of those sugars. Have you ever had PURE carrot juice? It's like sugar water. If you eat a carrot or two, you'll probably be full. But a carrot or two's worth of juice will barely fill you up, leading to more eating, when you've already consumed the calories of two carrots. With media like this, many people will think that carrot juice is healthy, when generally, it is NOT. I write this as a warning to people who watch this and take it at face value: DON'T. I think it's wonderful that some people may find this film inspiring, and try and make their health better. But do some research. American doctors have been WRONG about nutrition for DECADES. New information is available, if only you look.

Discs good digital not good for Canada The DVDs and Blu ray are great BUT the only reason I bought this version is because it includes a digital copy. But it will not work in Canada, ITunes says it is not available to non-US customers,  which is NOT mentioned anywhere in the description, so obviously I fell a little ripped off.

Surprisingly bad I can't even remember the first movie, so I can't say it's bad in comparison to that one - but it is just plain bad.  The plot was so weak that a lot of it didn't make any sense at all.  Also, there were scenes where there was so much financial jargon being thrown around that understanding what they were talking about required a PhD in finance.  It would have been easier to understand - and probably more entertaining - just to watch the financial news.  Worst of all, on places it looked like a made-for-television movie about the home mortgage bubble bursting - cheesy and melodramatic.  There were Dynasty moments, too, like a completely gratuitous fancy motorcycle race between really rich guys. The board room scenes were inexplicably mafia-esque - dark rooms, heavy Italian accents, vague metaphoric threats and even a tiny old man who acted like some kind of mafia don, only talking in a whisper or with a threatening nod.  I kept expecting someone to whip out a machine gun and shoot them all - that would have made more sense than the actual movie.  The main characters weren't bad - all good actors - but it isn't enough to make this a good movie. It was just nonsensical. Don't waste your money or your time.

Watch other movies - not Super 8 I usually don't rate movie at Amazon. But this movie is just not good enough that I need to voice my opinion. I was expecting more from Steven Spielberg. The plot is too vague. How did the Air Force got the Alien? There is only one shot that you can see more clearly the face of the alien - but it was dark. The communication and inter action between the Alien and human are just not enough in this movie. The movie end quickly without explaining too much. Movie is about 1 hour and 45 minutes long. There are better movies out there - just not this one. I'm disappointed. I wathced the Blu-ray version and the picture sharpness and color are excellent in our 46 LCD TV.

Joss, We Hardly Knew Ye. . . . Personally, I wouldn't rate this as one of the worst films ever made; that honor would have to go to *The Idaho Transfer* with Peter Fonda, for me.  But I will say, when I saw this in the theater (paying the long buck for it), I was swayed by the reviewers who said it was a twisty and twisted homage to all the horror cliches we've all grown up with.  And Joss Whedon knows how to make good material--so I was expecting another "Buffy-ized" snark fest.  Wow, was I disappointed. . . but for a couple big reasons: A.)I didn't care a whit about the characters &lt;caveat to come>; B.) It was, for me, gratuitously bloody and ugly with an attitude that said, "Gore is wooooo scary" (SCTV Count Floyd voice inserted here).  To explain (A.): I KNOW we're not supposed to care about these characters.  They are cartoons, and they are supposed to be; that's why this is an homage.  Of course they're stereotypes: that's what's being parodied, for gosh sakes! I hated the Stoner--but come on, how many times do we need to laugh at a psychotropically configured moron (Jeff Spicoli, is this your kid?)before the stereotypes become stereotypes of themselves? I love homages, but not when they bring nothing new to the table with their characters.  I suppose some folks who don't mind the constant barrage of doltish characters spouting the F-bomb (Note to filmmakers: If you want to appear "edgy" and on the cusp of "hip," watch *The Big Lebowski* which uses profanity to further characterization and mood)--and you don't mind last-minute "Time to up the violence quotient since we're running long and we don't want to alienate short-attention-span audiences with dialogue" sequences--you may enjoy this film.  But, Joss, where were your characteristic wit and joy that made us love *Buffy* and *Angel* and *Serenity*?  I wanted so badly to like this film, but ended up feeling I'd lost valuable IQ points.  And the popcorn I bought was stale too.

Pass Lame, lame, lame. This is why guys have the wrong idea. Every single bad thing happens. There's no story, no documentary (but they keep telling you that there is), the stuff is totally made up. This is like those letters to Penthouse, I never thought this would happen to me.... you know, some editor wrote all those letters.  Why hate this? Aw come on, an 18 year old super hot chick that wants her priest. And then she does the priest. And then she gets pregnant. Another hot chick that wants her teacher, so she traps him into doing her.  Then this brunette, that is way super hot amazing, blackmails her GRANDFATHER into doing her. If he won't, then she's going to tell her parents he raped her. He ends up doing her (oh man she was hot, oh way hot) for months. He tells her parents and then they trap her in her lie. But the whole thing ends up in court and she goes to jail.  Three girls have a bet they can do the hot new teacher. On a school trip, one fakes being sick. They trap him in a barn. She strips down and makes him do her while the two others watch outside from the window. (oh it's so small, oh it's getting bigger, oh it's sooooo big). The two get the idea that they want some of him too because it's so big, so they do this big old foursome in the barn. But then they all get caught by the teacher.  Some sweet hot girl masturbates and dreams of her boyfriend who is too shy to do her. The boy dreams about his girl and masturbates (here they actually show him stroking his all soft penis and small, but there's no splooge shot). She decides to get some lessons on sex, so she goes to her old uncle and he does her. He decides he needs help too, so he goes to his old aunt that does him. Then the boy and girl get together all educated and they do it. Happiness.  Three girls get the guy that runs the pool to open it up for them at night so they can go skinny dipping. Oh during the day, they see his super hotness walking around with no shirt on, so the three of them take off their tops and call him over. He tries to kick them out for taking off their tops. Somehow one of the girls convinces him to let them in that night. Back to that night, one of the girls leaves. The two left over pull him in the pool and do him. He gets caught and fired.  These are stupid stupid lessons. All these teenage girls are hot for stuff they aren't supposed to have and get trained by old men. Then they get in trouble or they get the old guys in trouble. I hate the subtext.  Yeah the breasts are really nice. Oh the variety, the sizes, the perkiness - oh yes that's amazing. The bushes, oh there is a lot of bush. There's even a few with bush under their arms. This is 70's medium core porn. There's a penis here and there, but not a hard one. And there's no penetration or close ups of the best part, no splooge anywhere. There are a lot of close ups of breasts, thank goodness. And the chicks are super hot and cute.  It's in German, so shrinkage for me. If you care about the story, you have to read the subtitles. You can turn them off for full view.

Someone needs to retire from movies Movie was Okay and I would not watch again. But after 3 drinks it did start to look better okay .

Surprisingly... bad! I usually Love Daniel Radcliffe, and his movies are always very good, but this one was not on the "Good List". I was very disappointed with this movie. I tried to make good out of a bad situation, but for me, this was a miss. The movie had a few startling moments, but that was it. I found the story line interesting, but the movie was very boring in my taste.

the out crowd This is a pretty boring attempt at suspense.  Let me ask you a question.  Do you like the overdramatic teenage/young adult concept of popular TV shows such as Beverly Hills 90210 and the OC?  Because that's EXACTLY what kind of suspense the In Crowd is centered around.  Some might call it poor acting- I just call it an undeveloped, misleading concept.  Young women in college (many of whom are quite beautiful which is probably the only reason I'm not giving the film a 1-star rating) walking around the property having typical conversations and living the typical lifestyle that most people that age prefer to live but... we're supposed to find this overdone concept suspenseful in some way, which is where the fault entirely lies.  In the very beginning a girl gets released from a mental hospital and her "friend" says "You'll never make it out there!  They'll see what you're really like!"  This leads one to believe the woman being released has a sick, twisted side to her character but... instead, she's actually VERY normal and it's the *other* girls she meets at her new home/workplace that have the psychological issues (well, one of them at least).  For the first hour, there's really no mystery or anything out of the ordinary that would lead one to believe there's something wrong with anybody or anything taking place.  Just young college girls acting normal and participating in normal activities and relationships.  It's awful.  It's misleading too.  I recommend skipping it because you won't find any suspense, interesting characterization or storyline development here.  Only near the end when a girl gets murdered in a cheesy hard to believe way do we experience any excitement. Skip it.

Academy Of Mental Pygmies I give this turkey two stars for two reasons-I like 1920s art, clothing, and decor, theatrical ploys like foreshadowing and symbolism (which are always fun),  and the performers act their hearts out on this paper-thin script. And that is ALL , folks. The story was more predictable than a kids' movie. The main character is foolish, rude, ignorant, vain, selfish, and a drunk. The female love-interest puts up with all his abuse for the whole story, as she (and we) "know" he will change five  minutes before the end of the film.  Wow.  Yeah. That. Now for the bad news- it uses a "what-if" suspention of belief plot device about 10 minutes in-for no reason! Then, about 45 minutes farther along, they add another impossible pretext -also unnecessariliy- which contradicts the first one.  Was this the first big hit written by an 8 year old compusive liar??  Hollywood likes to pat itself on the back for taking risks, trying something new, and remembering the pioneering efforts of the great directers from 90 years ago. Or feeling as if they had.   The politics around who votes on academy awards is less rigorous then the process of picking a small town's dog-catcher. (No offence meant to the latter. Thank you guys.) Oh well-- see you at the movies!

What happend? What happend to Wes Craven?His movies used to be so good.I guess he doesn't have the touch anymore.This movie was bad in so many ways.I think it's time for ol' Wes to retire.Do Not waste your time or money on this cr@p!you'll be sorry if you do!

ABBA songs from the 1970's become a musical, Mamma Mia! The touring musical, MAMMA MIA! now becomes a musical movie. Rated "PG-13". Running Time: 1 hour, 48 mins.  Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) is getting married in your birth town of Kalokairi, Greece. She wants her dad to give her away, but she doesn't know who her father is. So she invites all three men, Sam (Pierce Brosnan), Bill (Stellan Skarsgard) and Harry (Colin Firth). They think that her mother sent the invitations. She has not told her mother, Donna (Meryl Streep) yet.  Also in the cast: Christine Baranski, Julie Walters, Dominic Cooper.   Meryl Streep and Piecre Brosnan singing?  The singing in this musical is mediocre, but you might enjoy the songs which came from the Swedish pop-rock group, ABBA (1972-83).  ABBA was Benny Andersson, Anna-Frid Lyngstad, Agnetha Faltskog, Bjorn Ulvaeus. Their songs were so popular, they were used in 1999 in the touring musical, MAMMA MIA!.   I did not like this movie too well, but I thought Amanda Seyfried was perfect for her role. She did a wonderful job.   Option to turn on "Sing Along".   Option of Language and Subtitles: English, Spanish, French.   Feature Commentary with Director Phyllida Lloyd.   Meryl Streep also sang in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000AM6IS">Silkwood</a> (1983). <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001NFNFLC">Ironweed</a> (1987). <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000059XTI">Postcards from the Edge</a> (1990). <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000H6SXYM">A Prairie Home Companion</a> (2006).   If you did not like the movie, Mamma Mia! (2008), may I recommend:  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001KZOVJK">Evil Under the Sun</a> (1982).   It's a good Agatha Christie mystery. It's not a musical, I promise.

Oscar-winner: Best Use of the Ping Pong Ball! Wow! Pretty bad, even for early Corman! Odd mix of mobsters, hipsters n' monsters... but ya gotta love that bobble-eyed Creature that must have cost $3.95 at the local TG&Y! Too bad they don't give Oscars for Best Use of the Ping Pong Ball!

terrible I give it a 2 only because of a couple of interesting scenes and good camera work.  Loved Fargo and Big Lebowski, liked other Coen Brothers movies.  This is the first that I really didn't like.  No plot and no real meaning, which would be ok if it were funny, but it wasn't.

Another lackluster wanna be blockbuster Like most big budget films, the characters in this one are flat and one dimensional. Especially the children. About the only emotion is Cage's usual over the top screaming, though the leading lady gets some good screaming in as well. Other than that there were flat performances all around. There was minimal character development, and what there is did not give me a sense of emotional investment in them. If you don't have interesting characters, and you don't have a great story, what have you got?  Still, the film does have some good points. The storie is ok, nothing unusual, but one thing I liked about it is that the details were actually well thought out, a rarity in films of this nature.  Though I am not a fan of Cage (the man almost always looks like he is either on prozac or valium half the time and screaming and yelling like a badly behaved child the other half) I thought this movie might be good in spite of him.  But the truth is that this film  would not have been saved by a great actor, it may have been slightly better, but not enough to make a real difference. In fact, to be fair, Cage's performance was probobly easily the second best in the film. The effects were good but could have been better as well. In one action sequence (not giving away anything here, I don't think), there is a plane crash  which looks good but the aftermath is just rediculous. People on fire, running every which way... it just looks rediculous. Nothing like what a real plane crash looks like. The survivors almost act like video game characters. Completely unbelievable. Additionaly the flames are obviously computer generated, which just adds to the mediocrity.  But in the end it was just another disaster movie with a couple twists. Some good, and some, one in particular, entirely too cliche and utterly superflous to the story. However, I have to give the film makers credit for not going with the standard Hollywood ending. It made me feel a little less dissapointed in having sat through the entire movie  Spoiler Alert! Ok, I'm just gonna go ahead and say it. The alien ending (as well as their appearance through out)  was just trite, and cliche and did absolutely nothing to add to the movie. It was completely pointless and if anything, only served as a detractor to the film. It  made me feel kind of like I was being coddled by the producers. As if it would be just too much to see a child die in a movie, even if we don't actually see it. Honestly that seemingly tacked on subplot may have made the difference in this movie going from being better a than average Hollywood production to almost total crap.

WELL MADE EXISTENTIAL CRAP An infuriating movie, full of some fine moments and at times, brilliant filmmaking. BUT it's still a pretentious half assed bore at times as well. For every great scene or moment, there's three more frustrating, unfinished scenes that are mired in self concious twaddle.  It's almost as if the very talented Joe Carnahan started with an unfinished story and has blown it out with brooding, contemplative moments that only occasionally work. Ironically, had this been the man battling wolf thriller it was promoted as, it really might have been something.  Thank God for Liam Neeson, it's his strong presence and natural gravitas that anchor this otherwise muddled experience, in fact without him it would be almost unwatchable.

3D??? I bought the 3D version of this movie about a month ago and I had been saving it for the right moment to watch it.  I had already seen the 2D version and thought it was an okay movie... not the best, but entertaining.  After watching other movies on the same level, I realized that 3D makes some movies more enjoyable.  Not this one.  For the first half of the movie the 3D didn't even seem to be working.  There was a couple times when I thought about placing the 2D disc in and finishing the movie that way because the 3D version wasn't worth wearing the glasses for 2 hours.  So far, this is the worst 3D movie that I've seen.  It didn't help that I had just watched Immortals right before it which was much better in 3D.  I really didn't like that film in 2D and though 3D didn't make the story better, it was a visually stunning work of art that I couldn't turn off.  Anyways, stay away from this one.  Luckily I bought mine on sale and it included the Blu-Ray, DVD, and Digital Copy.

Ugh...cheap fantasy Let me preface by stating that I love fantasy movies. I love the genre. To be able to escape the mundane and experience the impossible makes for a nice few hours of entertainment. This movie though...not so great. I do have to say though that the director himself stated that he opted for horse riders who can act vs. actors who can ride horses. Big difference in quality.  The story was average: group of knights help village, one falls for a girl, there's a dragon somewhere, blah blah. The only saving grace for the film was the setting. My God was the setting gorgeous. Besides that pass on the film.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Extended Edition Film is in ENGLISH SUBTITLES, amazon didn't specify that is was, ruined my evening I didn't feel like reading dialog for 3 hours.

All the makings of a B movie! Bad acting, dumb plot, Naked chicks and a demonic cartoon monster that is released from what looks like the book of the dead and possess one of the girls, than goes on a killing spree to free other toons from the book. somewhat entertaining to watch, is it so bad its good? well, there we're parts I laughed at, mostly the bad acting but all in all its really lame stuff.

Why Bother ? Given the cast I was looking forward to this movie.I have appreciated Dennis Quaid since Breaking Away. However, what is going on here? His performance feels so inconsistant. At one point it's like he's doing a bad Donald Sutherland imitation on zanax. Stop the freaking mumbling! Sarah Jessica Parker was just so dessipated and mundane. She flatlined. The supporting cast's work which at times was favorably noteworthy, could not balance out Mr. Quaid and Ms. Parker's downward spiral. At times the script offered a little something something, but for the most part this poorly metered, badly directed movie was numbing. There was nothing redeeming to be found in the set designs, hair styles, lighting, interiors... no where to run! It all just contributed to the uncomfortable fragmented muddy design of this boring production.

I AM GLAD I am glad I did not have to spend money to go to a movie theater to see this awful, awful movie.  This is not a comedy.  This is a filthy, dark movie.  I gave it 2 stars for the efforts of flying all the way to Thailand.  The rest is real Garbage with capital G.  It seems that there are very few comedy writers left in Hollywood nowadays.  It is such a pity to see so much money spent to produce such garbage.  The movie put me in a very bad mood for several hours.  No wonder, a lot of people are quitting going to the movies.  What I hated the most about this movie, was the total lack of creativity.  Very boring and repetitious.  Too bad.  The acting was actually pretty good, but the plot and storyline, was very, very bad.  I bet a 4th grader could have come up with a better plot and writing.

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The Wall The product mentioned that it was for all regions but I couldn't play this particular disc in 3 different players, a reg dvd player, a blue ray player and an xbox player.  We tried a regular movie in them and it worked fine.  I'm not saying there was anything bad about the disc but I shouldn't have to change country codes just to watch it then switch it back to watch other movies.  There was no reading material in there either, just the disc which I found kind of odd.  No matter though I'll just find another one.

A laugh track, really? I started watching but quickly turned it off.  A laugh track, really?  The 80's called and they want their tv shows back.  The jokes weren't all that funny.

Good video, poor disk These Families of the World videos are great, educational tools. However, they use poor materials and are overpriced. For only 2, 30 min. segments, $30 is ridiculous! New, professionally made movies are not that expensive! Taking advantage of educators like this is beyond belief. I own several of these and the material used to make them is very low grade. For this price you would expect better quality DVDs. My copy of Puerto Rico families was only played 2x. When I went to clean the disk it cracked down the middle. I looked at the back and the disk quality is that of a burned disk copy, not the professional grade you expect from a DVD purchase.

Misleading title, a bit disappointing I think that some of the negative feedback this film has gotten could have been easily avoided had they simply chosen a less suggestive title for the film.  I, like many folks, went into this film on the basis of a few blurbs about it and its inclusion in a few "Best of the year" film lists but other than that, I really had no preconceived notions.  So I viewed with an open mind and clean slate and here is the good and bad:  THE GOOD:  - Though not quite "jaw-dropping" as some reviews claim, the effects are nonetheless well done if a tad stiff. - The actors are decent in their roles and play their parts appropriately. - The lush scenery is a wonderful backdrop for the whole film.  THE BAD:  - EXTREMELY sparse on the titular "Monsters".  Only three real encounters with them (very brief) and only one of them gives any clear view of the creature. - The film plays up this melodrama of a weird, seemingly forced love story between the two main characters which seems to be most of the focus of the film and unfortunately it is not done well enough to support itself on dramatic pillars. - Not very exciting.  A few moments of tension but they mostly leave the viewer feeling cheated. - Overall a disappointing narrative with many missed opportunities.  Lest I be criticized for one of my comments let me please clarify.  I do NOT believe you have to see the monster in a film and believe there are plenty of films where not knowing what it is or looks like adds to the tension and excitement of the film.  Mystery can indeed be a wonderful bit of spice in a film.  However, this film does not function like that.  It isn't going for that gritty realism/confusion where we don't know what's what - it just seems...bland.  And if this film is called Monsters, one can hardly be blamed for at least assuming that there would be several in the film.  Of course, assuming must make me a fool I realize but I really believe if this film had been titled ANYTHING else (e.g. "The Zone", "Crossing the Border", "$5,000", etc.) I for one would not have felt a little let down that I didn't get to see monsters.  So if you are going to see it, know ahead of time this about the dramatic relationship between the two main characters NOT the monsters/creatures/aliens/etc.  I think this story had potential and really does sound interesting but the whole thing is just a hodgepodge of missed opportunities and this assumption that if you present us with main characters we will automatically care about them, their problems, and their feelings.  Not all audiences have this Pavlovian response.  And that assumption hurts this film making it impossible to recommend to those looking for a good creature feature or to those looking for a dramatic adventure.  Unfortunately, the film achieves neither end successfully.

Entertaining enough for what it is Michael Dudikoff returns as the original American Ninja, Joe Armstrong, in American Ninja 4: The Annihilation, but you may forget this long before he finally makes an appearance near the 44m mark. Joe is now a teacher for the Peace Corps and ex-superior Gavin (David Sherwood) cynically laments that "his head is full of peace, love, and life". When Gavin shows up at the church where Joe teaches, pleading with him to reconsider his non-involvement with the violent plot, Joe still takes a few moments before deciding whether to rescue his friend from certain death.  That friend is Sean Davidson, the American Ninja played by David Bradley in American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt. He's been captured by Colonel Scarf Mulgrew (James Booth) and Sheik Ali Maksood (Ron Smerczak), who have succeeded in making a nuclear suitcase bomb to wipe out New York. A previously-deployed Delta Force team also failed at subduing the duo and everyone will be burned alive within a week.  This includes Carl, the token black guy who serves doubly as a replacement for Curtis Jackson (the awesome Steve James from American Ninja 1 through 3, absent here), and the annoying sidekick who serves no other purpose than to make the hero look good. He's so useless that Sean expresses utter disbelief that he's getting shafted with him for the mission... you can almost hear him thinking "Dude, I am so not fighting ninjas with Carl. Carl? That Carl? You've got to be kidding me!" When ninjas later descend on Carl's hiding place, he fires three close range shots only to have each bullet dodged; this not only accentuates Carl's ineptitude, but indicates that Sean, in the midst of ass-kicking nearby, is faster than a speeding bullet.  Joe eventually saves the day by enlisting the help of a ragtag mob from nearby Sulfur Springs, a "rallying point" for those generically pissed off with Mulgrew and his wily ways. Before Joe walks off into the sunset, tiptoeing over fallen enemies and comrades alike, he duels it out with the one-eyed Super Ninja, one so adept at his art form that not even the lack of depth perception can defeat him.  Mulgrew is a genuinely great villain, though his "ex-British police officer" status wouldn't suggest as such. Not only does he first appear at the local bar in a puff of smoke, but he gets some entertainingly evil dialogue. When a captive asserts that the demons from Hell are coming to get Mulgrew, he replies to "tell my friend the Devil I'm not ready to come home yet." He's regretful (lamenting that he "shoulda killed [Sarah] when I killed her father"), intolerant of religion ("Are you mad? There are no bloody priests: I shot them all months ago."), and quick on the draw, both in guns and lovemaking ("I think she needs a stiff talking to ... I'm going to have you, but I won't keep you too long"). His Sheik cohort barely warrants recognition, save for clapping on both success and deadly failure in his outdoor Ninja Olympics obstacle course.  With just one more installment in the series, The Annihilation is entertaining enough for what it is: ninjas, fight scenes, and villains, but it doesn't really excel at any of them. It's nearest win is Mulgrew as villain, but he plays it almost too straight, creating a situation where the comical nature of the rest of the movie drags his performance down, making him seem decidedly and unfairly unfunny. Still, to quote the ending, it's "not much for words, but comes through in the end."  Death by: 1: ninja, spike; 2, 3, 4: machine gun; 5: ninja, sword; 6: ninja, bow and arrow; 7: gun; 8: gun, fall from great height; 9: strangulation; 10, 11, 12: gun; 13: hanging; 14, 15, 16: ninja, bow and arrow; 17: ninja, strangulation; 18, 19, 20: ninja, shuriken; 21, 22: spear; 23, 24: ninja, knife; 25, 26, 27: ninja, sword; 28: explosion, fall from great height; 29: explosion; 30: ninja, shuriken; 31: ninja, crossbow; 32: ninja, snapped neck; 33: ninja, knife; 34, 35: burning; 36: machine gun; 37: machine gun, fall from great height; 38, 39: explosion; 40: machine gun; 41: explosion, fall from great height; 42: shotgun; 43: fall from great height; 44: explosion; 45, 46: fall from great height; 47: sword; 48: fall from great height; 49, 50: rocket launcher, explosion; 51: ninja, explosion; 52: ninja, beating. Sleaze by: None.

A Let Down I'd call it a let down though I wasn't expecting much going into it... Of course I was hopeful this would be "one of the good ones" amongst this genre but I was disappointed.  The movie is about this woman who is an alcoholic. Her boyfriend is in jail, turns out he is a serial killer. The woman starts going to AA meetings for her alcohol problem. She meets this seemingly nice guy at one of her AA meetings and they start dating. At the start of the movie we get to see the serial killer- the old boyfriend- doing his thing to his victim. I have to say that the guy who played the serial killer wasn't bad, in fact he may have been the highlight of the movie, he did pretty good as far as acting is concerned and overall personality of a serial killer. The rest of the cast didn't impress me. It felt as though some of them were hired right off the street to act in this movie. They didn't capture my interest.  If I were to explain to you the whole plot of this movie and give away the ending you would probably say "wow, that sounds good"- that's the problem- It sounds good but it isn't.  So, we find out the boyfriend serial killer has escaped from jail is looking for her and now the old girlfriend needs a place to hide. She goes with this AA meeting guy to a cabin in the woods to hide out and then bam... Twist in the story. The ending sounds good on paper but on the screen it just didn't work for me. It may have been the actors hired for the roles, all of them who couldn't pull it off and make this interesting. The serial killer boyfriend did Okay though. Disappointing uninteresting ending and ended too soon despite the whole movie being somewhat boring. As in, the whole movie was boring to a degree then the ending you're left wanting more explanation.  In a way it was somewhat cliche, but it did have a point to it I guess, though not enough to make me care or be impressed or make me want to watch again. I'd give it between 2 and 3 stars.

mixed feelings This movie had a great premise, and the story itself was unique and interesting. With the right screenplay, the story would have really shone. However, some parts of the story were rather flimsy, and the ending... meh. If the story was significantly adjusted in some parts, then the movie would have stood a serious chance. As it is now... no. Definitely rent this movie, for me it was hard enough watching just once.  I would however recommend that you watch the alternate ending. I actually liked it better than the 'real' ending.

3D Review by a 3D Connoisseur My ratings are based mainly on the QUALITY OF THE 3D, not the video content.  There are about 7 out of screen effects that extend about 10% of the way, from the screen to the viewer. 5 at 25% and 5 more insignificant effects extended to 30%.  Like most IMAX films, this one also has large differences between right and left views. The live footage 3D had the parallax pushed to the limit often and exceeded it a few times. The CG scenes are even worse. More sensitive people may feel eye strain or get headaches from watching this movie. However, if the 3D in other IMAX films were OK for you, this one should be too.  Active Glasses Users: 19 instances of crosstalk with 11 of them being pretty bad. (on my system)  MY 3D RATING = FAIR  (poor, fair, good, very good, excellent)  Note: As far as the percentages go, everyone's eyes are different. What I see at 25% you may see at 15% or 35%. To fully realize how far something is out of the screen for you, pause on an effect and direct a partner with an extended finger to the tip of what you are seeing. You may be surprised.  Click on `See all my reviews' for the lowdown on other 3Ds

I rented this movie from the library: And I am now sorry that I did because in many respects it was and is horrible and I won't likely be renting it again, I cannot understand for the life of me why the actress Rosanna Arquette would want to portray herself in the matters and manners as this only to be killed by those two creep brothers that she did in this film even of she is acting, maybe she's wasked up as an actress now or this film will do it to her. I agree with the synopsis in the trailers that this is a film that is relentless in parts and does not give up but the violence is overwroght. And they did not explain what the people in the hazmat suits were doing with the bodies of the children that were in the cryogenic chambers after they took the daughter of the character being played by Arquette. It's like a claustrophobic type movie.

Standard rom-com, with a Dickensian twist Ghosts of Girlfriends Past was completely panned when it came out, so I avoided it in the theatres. I caught it on HBO recently, and I must say, I didn't think all the vitriol was well-deserved. It's cast well, and though the basic premise is a bit cringe-worthy, I thought it was executed smoothly.  Here's the skinny: Connor Mead (Matt McConaughey) is an insecure teenager who finds the girl that he loves kissing another boy at a school dance. Humiliated, he vents his frustration to his Uncle Wayne (Michael Douglas). The consummate ladies' man, Uncle Wayne steps in and teaches Connor all the tricks he needs to get what he wants out of women - without ever getting too close. The vestiges of these lessons keep Connor from ever truly connecting to Jenny (Jennifer Garner), the true love of his life.  Years later, when Connor's little brother, Paul (Breckin Meyer), is getting married, Connor travels to the wedding only to be haunted by ghosts of his past girlfriends, who vow to change him for the better.  I thought performances were solid. Though the storyline is trite, the actors did a good job with it. I also thought there was good chemistry between Garner and McConaughey, and Michael Douglas' oily Uncle Wayne gave me some gleeful moments. Go in expecting the standard rom-com, and you won't be disappointed.

Wow... How horrid This was really an awful movie.  The entire first half was about The Rock being a jerk.  The second half of the movie went back and forth between Rock the Jerk and Rock the Nice Guy, which was simply not believable.  The plot made little to no sense.  The acting was awful.  I suggest just watching the last 15 minutes, and you can get the jist of the entire movie.  SKIP IF YOU CAN.

Stumbling a bit Futurama takes an unfortunate step back with this volume. Their return season was met with mixed reaction, but i felt it was still solid enough to stand among the masterful first 4 seasons. Unfortunately, volume 6 is less then stellar. The characters start to feel like charicatures of themselves. They act a lot more cartoonish, inconsistent and the whole season has a very tongue-in-cheek tone to it. Futurama did occasionally touch the 4th wall in it's previous seasons, but this is just too much.  When the characters speak, they sound almost like they're reading from a script, and this is because many of the jokes this season feel very forced.  The plots are also quite lazy this time around (a yeti syndrome huh?), and they move at a much faster-pace then accustomed. Futurama was never a very fast-paced show. It usually takes it's time to dive into the main plot of an episode and then steadily reach the conclusion.  Volume 6 is like a roller coaster of up and down moments. Episodes like Ghost in the Machine, Law and Oracle, Mobius dick, cold warriors and reincarnation still retain that Futurama charm and have the clever jokes we know and love, while other episodes like Benderama, Yo Leela Leela, and Tip of the Zoidberg (yep) feel far too forced and stand as some of the worst in the series.  There is a bright side however. Bender has some great moments in this season and really starts to revert back to the character we know and love, because it seems the writers are no longer milking his popularity. The professor is what he always is too, at the top of his game. Fry and Leela on the other hand are probably the worst aspect about the whole season. Fry has been reduced to nothing more then a dumb hopeless romantic, and Leela goes from wanting to save a creature in one episode, to having a thurst for bloodshed in the next. (yes, i know that it's a spoof of moby dick)  Overall, this is definitely the worst Futurama has to offer. For 20 bucks, the season is worth it. There are some highlights here that show us that this show is still far from mediocrity, but know that 20 bucks is exactly what this particular season is worth.

Clash of the Titans blue-ray The Preview movie had audio, but the movie itself had no audio would be great to repurchace this movie when they have fixed the audio issue.

Where are the extras for DVD users? I am a huge Harry Potter fan and pre-ordered the single DVD version of the movie. When I realized that there were no extras on it I actually considered buying the 3-disc blu-ray DVD combo pack, but apparently you can't watch the extras on DVD. What's up Warner Bros? Are you not making enough money on the franchise? You need to fix this.

A Disappointment Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie is a documentary that follows two "underachievers" from Portsmouth, Ohio, named Dallas and Wayne. The two became obsessive Bigfoot "researchers" as a way to pass the time.  There is nothing in this movie to "grab" the viewer. Dallas doesn't really believe in Bigfoot - in fact, he fakes the evidence that he presents on radio shows. Wayne appears to be clinically depressed at his lot in life.  At the end of this movie, my wife and I agreed that the film was a waste of time. Don't make the same mistake that we did - skip this one.

Meh... Ghost Rider is... Meh... I didn't really care for it. The acting was sub-par, and I really didn't care for the story too much. I mean I guess it'd seem cool to some, but it didn't appeal much to me... The effects were pretty good in places, so that's a highlight I suppose. But overall, I just didn't really like this movie. -Trent Foreman, Author of Nightmare

like the fourth film the makers got lost on x? RAves are filled with idiots who take x , which makes holes in your brain and does damage to your spine. But it's the ONLY way they can STAND TECHNO music. this one features a rave and was probably supposed to appeal to rave people. but the filmmakers took x themselves probably and never watched the first three movies.  In this one they take zombie juice from the canistors and become the wrong kind of zombie.  In other words these zombies eat people and not their brains. The humor is strickly drug related , I think , like the fourth one that someone who never saw the first three movies made this. In romania or russia , just like the fourth one.  Still it has a few moments of fun, but it should have stuck to the mythos of the first thrre movies which are very good. I have all five and even though this is a bad movie , I love bad b movies too, it smears the name of the original with it's loss of sticking to what the first three were about. I would welcome a blu ray with the last three together though.  I collect series of movies. But on dvd this looks fine, and I would have been more forgiving if it didn't have the 'return of  the living dead' name on it.  The acting is what you'd expect , at least they spoke english and that means they had to learn it as it wasn't their native tongue. So that's in their favor, but that's about it.

Worse than I Remembered If it weren't for Marlon Brando wearing an ice bucket, Val Kilmer doing an impression of the corpulent star, and Fairuza Balk providing fleeting moments of sympathy as the "panther girl," this deservedly maligned adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel would be completely unwatchable. As it is, this rendition of "Moreau" is still pretty awful - and actually worse than I recall it being upon its original, end-of-summer `96 theatrical release.  Much has been written about how original director Richard Stanley was fired several days into shooting, only to sneak back onto the set of his would-be film by donning some of Stan Winston's make-up effects. The tumultuous nature of the shoot was also intensified by star Val Kilmer's decision to back out of the film's main lead, bringing Rob Morrow in to fill the vacancy...until Morrow had the good sense to bow out, leading David Thewlis to take over. If that wasn't enough chaos, John Frankenheimer replaced Stanley, bringing something less than a clear vision of how to handle this (so far) most recent version of the oft-filmed tale.  The resulting film is indeed a directionless mess, with lost-at-sea Thewlis being taken in by Kilmer, henchman for Dr. Moreau (Marlon Brando), whose work mixing human and animal DNA has lead to the creation of a number of beasts that roam his uncharted tropical island. It doesn't take long, though, before the hybrids start to question their true nature and overthrow Moreau's despotic rule.  Brando appears about a half-hour into the picture and departs after chipping in less than 30 minutes of screen time - it's basically an extended cameo that's patently bizarre (Moreau first shows up drenched in sunscreen and later gets a massage from "daughter" Balk by having her place ice in a barrel that sits on top of his noggin) but dramatically non-existent. Moreau's neither interesting, scary or sympathetic in the picture - a problem that also extends to every other character, including Thewlis' unlikeable "hero" and Kilmer's utterly bizarre turn as Moreau's second-in-command. Apparently difficult to deal with on-set, Kilmer's performance matches the alleged reports of his behavior during production - once Brando has departed, Kilmer turns up the insanity by stuffing his shirt with pillows and pretending to be his top-billed counterpart in several outrageously funny sequences that have the feel of improvisation. Ditto for Kilmer's howler of a death sequence, which has to be seen to be fully believed.  Though Kilmer's deranged performance might offer bad movie lovers scattered minutes of amusement, the film provides few pleasures otherwise. While the movie is certainly unpleasant, none of it is engaging dramatically. Frankenheimer brings a leaden touch to the entire picture, failing to play off the obvious eccentricities of Brando or Kilmer and missing the chance to bring some much needed dark comedy to the project. Obviously hampered by a haphazard script, the movie is bereft of action set-pieces and concludes with a confounding, preachy social message that's heavy handed to an extreme. On the visual side, Stan Winston's weak make-up effects rank as some of the great make-up artist's lesser accomplishments, and Digital Domain's early CGI effects are likewise pedestrian. Gary Chang's score is, at least, better than expected, though a far cry from the superb effort Laurence Rosenthal provided to the superior 1977 AIP version with Burt Lancaster, Michael York and Barbara Carrera (which is available on Blu-Ray in a region-free Australian release).  New Line's Blu-Ray edition of "The Island of Dr. Moreau" includes the slightly gorier 100-minute, unrated cut of the picture in an AVC encoded 1080p transfer. Though lacking any obvious use of DNR, this isn't that stellar of a presentation, with some noise evident in the day time shots and not a ton of HD detail present. Nevertheless, I'm guessing the problem lies with the source material and this is probably as good as the picture will ever look. The DTS MA audio is decent, and extras include two theatrical trailers (featuring the unforgettable combination of dialogue lines "Father???....Oh My God!") and a brief Making Of promo featurette with Kilmer, once again, acting off-the-wall. Perhaps it was a method performance?

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Good attempt but mostly misfire. A strong attempt at a satirical look at the sorry state of the current developed world. However, the humor is not good enough to carry the movie.  This would've made a good 20 min skit or very short movie. I'm mostly sorry for having lost the time I spent watching it.  I think the review by artanis65 is spot on, but more generous than my review.

Might be fun for kids, not so much for adults I always had the curiosity of checking this out. I just wish I had seen it when I was a kid rather than now. Quite honestly, I just think this was stupid as hell.

pretty bad, if not entirely so Most network television is awful (Fox occasionally is "on" but then seems to often cancel their best shows when they do get it right.)  This is why I haven't bought a TV in 30 years and only owned one during that time for a few years when someone pitied me for not having one and foisted one on me.  I've seen terrific HBO and Showtime series on DVD, but very little of network TV is even half-tolerable.  So people who watch a lot of TV may not notice what's wrong with this show because they are so used to this wrongness.  It's like someone's been putting dog poo in their food for so long, they say "yum" when they get that taste again.  But dog poo is dog poo and not meant to be consumed.  To wit:  1)  It's glacially slow.  You can summarize the whole season in 25 words. 2)  It spends 25% of the time of each show recapping the previous plot points.  So it's slow in the first place, and now it's even slower.  The whole thing could have been a six-episode, commercial-free okay miniseries, like Lost Room (though not nearly that good) with a satisfying ending and been done with for good, and it could have (in that case) been pretty good adventure show. 3)  The dramatic pace is sacrificed for advertisers' needs as timing commercial breaks is the number one priority.  Again, people are so used to this, they don't see what an artistic travesty this is--but it certainly is one.  For this reason, I'd much rather watch mediocre BBC than any NBC.  It does a few things better than average tv.  The blanding-down of characters and situations so typical of American network TV isn't quite as bad here--you do have a sex worker (albeit with a heart of gold, yawn) and a sympathetic heroin addict. (On CBS, they would have blanded them down to a romance novelist and a drunk.)  Other valid points some other negative reviewers have made, and I won't repeat, but I will say I thought the acting was fine and like most people, found Hiro the most engaging of the characters.  Life is short, and spending it watching awful TV to get to something this limp so you can think it's "good" is just tragic.  Talk to your kids or take up a musical instrument or read a book instead.

Beautiful scenery but not much talking (more of a pantomime) The movie was okay but had to follow the actions and body language throughout the entire movie to not get lost.  The beauty of nature was astounding!  There was a story!  Just not to much verbal communication.  I got lost several times but I can't even understand what happened at the end?  Ahh, did she just die like that?

Slow moving with heavyhand acting This is a grade B film that moves at turtle pace with heavy-handed acting.  The plot line sounds good but it is carried out weakly. Jesse James has been shot and is laid up. His brother Frank refuses to split the heist of a robbery until Jesse is well. The three members of their gang want their share and want both brothers dead so that they would no longer be chased by marshals. A woman tries to talk Jesse into giving up his criminal carrier. A marshal tries to arrest Jesse. Frank buys a woman from a man who is mistreating her.

Save your money!!! Dont bother to buy Blu-ray or DVD. Dont even rent. If you can get a free copy from your friend may be. its an awful movie. Disgrace to the original novel.

Would Prefer a Good Documentary For me, this story could've told in 30 minutes.  I'm going to watch a good documentary with the actual person -- Aron Ralston, and will likely find that much better.  I did not care for the flashbacks and the visual thoughts of the character in the movie, it just made it more drawn out and boring for me.

A Big Disappointment Despite a Very Capable Cast...... I am a huge fan of bawdy, gross-out comedies by directors such as Judd Apatow and the Farrelly Brothers. I watched the bathroom scene in Hall Pass about 10 times, laughing until I wept. In fact, I would have sworn that no amount of coarseness, vulgarity, bad taste, or political incorrectness could interfere with my enjoyment of movie.....until I watched Horrible Bosses.  What a colossal disappointment! Each of the cast members has been outstanding in at least one previous comedy; but, with the exception of old pro Kevin Spacey, each was dismally inept in this one. Most of all, I cannot imagine what motivated Jennifer Anniston to accept the utterly thankless role of a revolting, foul-mouthed nymphomaniac. Is her career in such a decline that this was the best she could do? When a beautiful woman spouts filth, it has to be convincing; but in this case it was more a source of embarrassment (for her) than titillation. It was like watching a close friend get drunk and humiliate themselves in public, while you wince at their idiotic behavior and pray that you can eventually erase it from your memory. In this case, I don't think I can.  When you get a group of proven, talented actors together and the result of their collaboration is pure trash, the responsibility must fall upon the script, the director, or both. Granted, there were a few glimmers of humor in the production, but they were smothered by long periods of boredom and slathered with gratuitous vulgarity that simply was not funny. If a character's role contains inadequate humor, like that of Jamie Foxx, then simply give him an outrageous name and repeat it over and over and over. The entire script reeked of Junior High School locker room humor and lacked any degree of finesse or underlying wit. Surely the majority of those involved in this production recognized its significant shortcomings, yet it was released, or should I say, inflicted, upon the public in its current form.  The bottom line: any amount of crassness and vulgarity can be tolerated or even enjoyed if it is genuinely funny. Without attendant humor, it quickly degenerates into boredom and disgust. Such was the case with this very disappointing production.

Silly Mess The movie waa a perfect waste of money and time.  It is a gay movie i guess.  I'm really not sure exactly what it was.  But, I'm sure it wasn't for me.

UNIMPRESSED ! I really like all the cast members of this film.  However, I found the film to be predictable and very slow.  I was not impressed.

Okay This was from the standpoint that all translations are okay, and they are not.  Some would consider this unbiased, but I would not.

A let down after the first but you will probably want this in your collection to go with the others. Goldblum makes the most out of a "less than perfect" script and there is a little too much violence for me. I liked the impending threat of the first movie, rather than just the graphic "got ya" in this one.

Not as awful as the book I feel King's success came from the ability to take cliches from the horror genre - be it vampires or mad dogs or just sudden violence - and give you really skillful dread, coupled with fear of loss of the characters you grew to care about. If you want a truly iconic trio of his works to get the full impact of his talent, read The Stand, The Shining and Salem's Lot. Truly brilliant stuff.  When I saw that this monstrosity got four stars, as one of my recommendations, I did a double take. In all honesty, It was the last of his novels that I read. It was bulky - which I always thanked him for, so that the good ones lasted a long time - and yet empty of interest for me. I had been losing faith in his ideas over the course of several short story collections - The Mist and Apt Pupil excepted of course - and some dud novels. This was the proverbial straw that broke the King's back.  I'm giving this two stars because Tim Curry was inspired. He is the penultimate villain. (Put himself and Gary Oldman in a film as competing bad guys, and you'll guarantee five stars from everyone.) I was going to give it three on his account, but dropped one because I remembered the sex magic ending that took lame to an entirely new level. Gag, puke, rowf. This film, like the book, was a non-stop cliche, but one that failed to excel.

Mediocre film. Putting aside that "A Christmas Story" is a classic, this follow-up is still not that good.  The roles are miscast-especially Ralphie and Randy as the kids playing them are too young and don't act very well.  I love Jean Shepherd's stories and have re-read the written forms of them many times and still enjoy them.  Some of the major problems with the film:  1. Tried to cram in too many of Shepherd's stories into the plot and made all of them shallow and poorly developed.  2. The stories they did put in were significantly modified and made silly/stupid instead of staying true to Shepherd's writing.  3. Stupid stereotypical Hollywood characters--cheesy Hillbilly neighbors, the "bully", Ralph's friends turned into nerdy runts.  4. What's with the dog Barkley?  Another attempt to make the movie "cute"?  I bought and watched this movie hoping for a decent portrayal of some favorite stories.  After one viewing, I'm going to toss the DVD and stick to Shepherd's books!

Who Cares? A suicidal girl. Overbites galore. Shattered selves. Imaginary friends and events. Family tumult. Art school. An anti hero. It was all a dream.

Not worth it! Having read Nicholas Sparks previously, I knew that this would be a story to pull at the heart strings.  However, I was just convinced that Allie and Noah had fallen in love - their characters seem to be "one-note".  Ryan G. had a stupid look on his face most of the time, and Rachel M. did that funny high pitched laugh most of the time.  And the ending was just too contrived.  I did think that the visuals in this moving were stunning - that was the real star here!

Defective disc I'm a hugh fan of the Doc Martin series - Have watched all four seasons and am eagerly awaiting season 5.  In the meantime, I purchased "Doc Martin, The Movies" because of my interest in understanding how the PBS series came to be.  Unfortunately, the first disc in the 2 disc set was defective and resulted in a return.  The second disc was fine and so all was not lost but I did so want to see that first movie.

great ideas, very poorly executed the only reason I gave this 2 stars instead of one is because of polly mcintosh. shes a great actress and turns in a powerful performance. this is the only reason to watch the film. angela bettis and sean bridgers were good too, but nothing special. May was one of those great films that just stuck with you. great acting by angela bettis, huge empathy and so fourth. but lucky mckee really is a one hit wonder. his follow ups have been pretty boring and poorly executed. there are so many problems with this film, theres always a terrible actress/actor that ruins the scene in his movies. in this case it was the son and the teacher. HORRIBLE acting. Plus the music is just AWFUL. it does not fit in the film at all. just when you feel your getting sucked in, it turns into a MTV alternative video and the music just sucks and goes on FOREVER. i cant stand when a director forces you to listen to their idea of "cool" music. its annoying and really is a poor excuse to actually compose a score for the film. the bad acting and the music really are the 2 things that drag the film down. this, the woods and sick girl just can never live up to May. i think when previews of the film came out that people walked out, im really thinking it wasnt because of subject matter, it was the stupid music. one second you have a movie, then you have a music video with fade in/out and all the fluff indie directors try to go for. i really wanted to like this film, but after 3 flops with lucky, im done. as a huge horror fan, please rent this before you buy it. every time lucky mckee tries to get better, he just makes things worse with his college movie attitude and poor choice in supporting actor roles. your supposed to grow, not take steps back. Polly, Sean and Angela deserve better than this crapfest. fyi nothing happens until the last 10 minutes of the movie. yep seriously. when it does, its not very climactic at all, or even remotely worth the boredom that led up to it. very predictable and just boring. another director would have been a better choice. great idea for a movie, bad choice in director. check out Kevin Smith's Red State, i saw the devil, house of 1000 corpses, tucker and dale or the reef. these films have more shock and talent than this turd.

Um, am I high or is it just the movie> Okay first of all, I am a huge fan of weird movies, I am not a Terry fan because I actually never saw his movies before this one but I am a tim burton fan, I love weirdness. This movie started out with some promise. The costumes were beautiful, the story was interesting. Then there was a side story to explain what was happening...okay good, now we can get on with the movie...okay, another side story explaining the past side story, hopefully that was it and...oh, okay, flashbacks. Then confusing plot points and, wtf, did I smoke a joint before watching this movie? Did my review really confuse and annoy you to the point of not wanting to read it anymore because it's wasting your time? Good, because that is how this movie is. If you like confusing movies, then this is your cup of tea. I love fantasy movies and I love unique storylines but I cannot watch a movie when it doesn't make sense. And let me just say, I am the biggest fan of johnny depp in the world, I love every movie he has been in, he is amazing, and I still didn't like this movie...not even johnny's amazing acting skills can save this lcd trip of a movie.

Boring.. A very boring film. The film almost feels like you are watching a documentary style film. The characters do not tell enough of a back story to draw the viewer into the film itself. Don't waste your money on this one. There is not much of a love story at all...it's just 2 aimless guys going to farming school and there is barely any interaction between any of the characters at all. I was hoping one was going to hang himself just to add drama to the show.

Tyrannical hegemony over my time. Eh. Some cute vignettes, but that's it. Does not hold together well. Characterizations not even believable in comedy...better was "You Don't Mess With the Zohan". Although the problems with Adam Sandler's hair were in another latitude...

OK enough I liked the setting of the film and the concept. I felt the script was a little cliche'd.  They tried to make it a buddy movie, especially the last lines.  I was most struck by the absence of any women.  You know the Bechdel test -It includes two women, who have a conversation, about anything but a man.  Not only couldn't it pass it, not a single woman has any lines of dialogue.  None.

Brooklyn Decker's breasts...and some human vs alien stuff Plot? nope. Character development? nope. Things blowing up? yep.  Willing suspension of disbelief is severely tested in this one. Aliens are basically the same as the aliens in Independence Day, albeit a little less goopy. One scene featuring a captured alien is pretty much stolen from ID:4. The Mighty Mo still has live ordnance on board??  One redeeming quality: Every time Brooklyn Decker runs, it seems the camera angle changes to get a bouncy cleavage shot.  overall an amusing 2hr diversion, provided you don't have high expectations.

They must think teachers don't LOVE HP Absolutely overpriced! When DH part 2 came out, I went and bought all of the other movies on Blu-Ray and they were each about $10!!!! I've been waiting and waiting for this huge collection to come out because I'd LOVE all of the behind the scene material but I just can't pay $350 for me to have 3 copies of each movie! Maybe they'll have a contest where we can write an essay to win one for free! LOL because otherwise I'm out of the running.

not my thing female standin for kurt russell as lead is a waste of film...and this rendition is a rerun, not a prequel, until the last half hour or so...good fx, but like most sequels (which, for the most part, this is), has been overanalyzed, underwritten, and lacks spontaneity...ciao.

You, too, can be disappointed with U2 Just got this with a gift card and feel like I wasted money.  I have been a long time U2 fan, since the '80s, and have always enjoyed their music and video productions. I had looked forward to watching this on blu ray, and should have read these reviews first. This is by far the worst concert film I have ever seen. It has the quality of an amateur 16 year old videographer. Too many cuts/edits/jerky cam/zooming in & out. Very distracting and completely removes the viewer from a concert experience. I would expect this kind of camerawork for a music video, but not for a concert film.  Can't finish watching it. Headache-inducing. 2 stars for the sound.

Yikes!  This Is Awful! I really wanted to like this movie and forced myself to watch it after an immediate whiff that this was a stinkeroo right from the start.  I wanted to like it as it has some good actors and I like Masterson.  Usually don't watch anything with Stewart in it as I feel she is one of the worst actresses around. Despite being talentless, they cast her in a difficult role of capturing a girl with that type of illness - not easy to portray.  The overall acting in this film was just terrible.  Of course, they didn't have much to work with as the scriptwriting and dialog was almost laughable at times.  The music, in places, was out-of-sync with the scenes.  When music distracts me (in a bad way) from what's going on, that's not a good thing.  The sets were fake-looking.  What else can I say other than I'm sorry I backed the wrong horse by watching this one.

sleeping potion Harry Potter might actually be Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up.  He never learns any emotional self control, and everyone is keeping secrets from everyone else.  This movie developed slowly and then crept along at a snail's pace.  You simply want to slap the characters and say "Get on with it!".  If it weren't for the villans, the film would have been even worse.  My daughter will have us purchase it and she is readin the books and realizing how much better they are (in some aspects) than the movies however....they both grow old very fast.

From the Dead of Night This is a movie that has nothing to do with the description of the container it comes in. It was nice to see Lindsay Wagner since the days of her "Bionic Woman" tv series, but this movie is an odd one.

Bad Guy Having (allegedly) seen his first film at age 33, Kim Ki-Duk is a director unfettered by convention or fashion. More focused on stylistic beauty rather than the dictates of logic, narrative or viewer expectations, he has created some remarkable works that stand well outside of the cinematic mainstream, both Western and Korean. His films generally sell abysmally in his home country, and while overseas critics have embraced several of his works (particularly the more restrained Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring and 3-Iron) other critics have objected to the viscera of his films: the scenes of mutilation, violence and gross misogyny that break up his movies like ugly stab marks.  And `Bad Guy' is certainly ugly, so ugly that Tartan Films have packaged it into their `Asia Extreme' category. The problem with being unfettered by convention is that you can sometimes end up too distanced from any rational humanity. The contrived plot of `Bad Guy' sees a college girl, Sun-Hwa (young for her alleged 23 years, it should be noted) targeted by Han-Gi, a near-mute, thuggish stalker (played Ki-Duk regular, Cho Jae-Hyun), a man that always, in every single scene, seems ready to hit something or someone, taut, angry, wound up with himself. When Sun-Hwa refuses his extraordinarily clumsy advances, he devises an illogical scheme that tricks her into an act of theft that, a corrupt middleman explains, can only be repaid by entering into South Korea's prostitution industry, a sordid racket, over which has a sideline, voyeuristic, role. Han-Gi, his postured forever slumped, his unrevealing eyes always targeted at somebody else, then watches furtively through one-way glass as she is systematically raped by customers, intervening only to protect her from extreme harm. To get through her days in the squalid brothel, if not keep sane, Sun-Hwa slowly creates a world that ultimately requires Han-Gi in it as her dubious protector, and even occasional lover. This, of course, has been Han-Gi's intention all along. Much of this defies logic. In particular, Sun-Hwa's disappearance from the home seems unnoticed by her family, her friends or the college that she attends. As an Australian lawyer, I feel obliged to also note that Han-Gi's machinations would probably amount to slavery under our legal system.  Slotted in amongst the dirt, the film has many moments of beauty and creativity typical of Kim Ki-Duk's better known films, and the actors are skilled enough to almost make what is patently unconvincing convincing. Almost. Kim Ki-Duk is, essentially, a good director and this cannot be dismissed the work of an exploitative hack. But his cinematographic skill, and the remarkably intense performance of Jae-Hyun as Han-Gi, are in no way redeeming of the general misogyny that pervades the film and the fact that Han-Gi's romantic fantasies are largely a form of planned, protracted rape. The hypocrisies underlying prostitution have been the subject of many Asian films, Kenji Mizoguchi's Street of Shame and Shohei Imamura's Insect Woman being two of the better ones. But the characters of those films were more than objects for a sexual control, and the world they inhabited was better realised than this crude movie, which in the end I am not inclined to forgive.

Unpleased i love this movie & was looking very forward to watching it & when i got it in the mail it was a Blu-Ray disc which is NOT what is advertised. Instead of the Two-Disc it Showed , i was sent The Movie & the soundtrack which im not too excited about. If i could i'd go back & order the ONE DISC . It didn't even come with as case. Regardless Forrest Gump is a movie i fell in love with & its recommended by me to be watched.

Great movie - terrible transfer. I purchased this movie after seeing it in theatres and it is clearly a masterpiece of film making  However, in the Blu-Ray transfer there's an abboration in the anamorphic lens used to make the transfer that causes the image to be non-square and a light bar to appear running down the left side of the image, approximately 20% of the way into the image, that appears and disappears approximately every fifteen minutes.  On any sort of good viewing equipment this is noticable and highly distracting.  The audio, on the other hand, is a superb mix, possibly one of the best I've ever heard, with more detail than was available in the theatrical release thanks to the additional bandwidth available on a Blu-Ray disc compared to the DD/DTS/SDDS tracks on the film print.  Overall, although this is a great film, this review only receives two stars because for such a major release Warner Brothers should have double checked the digital transfer from film, and it's clear that they didn't.

Mega disappointment. I bought this movie because I'm a fan of the singer Tiffany. Unless your a die hard Tiffany fan I recommend that you stay away from this dvd. The special effects are lame and the acting is subpar at best.

Pace way too frantic/manic for me.... I wanted to like this DVD. A lot of other people certainly think highly of it. But I just couldn't believe how "fast paced" it was...and "fast paced" is not the right term - manic is more like it. Although I'm in my mid-40's, I have been very active/fit my entire life, I do pretty intense yoga and exercise DVDs don't usually throw me for a loop. With this DVD my knees and back routinely hurt the next day and I was afraid I would eventually injure a joint. The exercises are good, but the pace is frantic. In fact, when my 9-year-old son saw me exercising to it, his comment was "Mom, you look like one of the chickens when the dog is trying to catch it." Not sure what exactly that meant, but I knew it couldn't be good. Gave it away the next day.

Sometimes we make poor choices... Bruce Willis.  What a career.  I love this man, and he has showed immense range over the course of his career.  He's one of the finest actors we have ever had, and also one of the most under-appreciated.  It is for action junk like `The Last Boy Scout' that he is oft remembered and thus oft disregarded.  This is a blandly constructed gimmicky little film that thinks it's being clever by regurgitating elements used quite often in the 90's and upping the ante by exploiting violence in a way that feels shameless and crude.  Bruce Willis plays, yet again, a PI and he is teamed with Damon Wayans (spare me) who plays an ex-quarterback.  Together they help solve a murder.  The action scenes are nicely done thanks to Tony Scott and his knack for glossy action construction, but the story is borderline bland with its lack of core excitement (everything is obviously manufactured and thus easily forgettable) and the central theme that corrodes the film's every frame is beyond off-putting, not to mention the amount of corn this film contains.  Willis doesn't offer anything new and Wayans is just plain awful.  I know he's supposed to be comic relief, but relief would be having him offed in the film's first few frames.  Oh, and LOL at Halle Berry's involvement here.  Seriously.

Marginally entertaining My twelve year old daughter and I watched this one rainy afternoon. Yes, I agree with many reviews; it was a giant campy, cheese-fest. Often I couldn't understand the dialogue due to the blaring soundtrack  "Muzak", but it was watchable if you aren't expecting a primo multimillion dollar blockbuster. I would describe it as mixture  of ABC's Once Upon a Time and Disney Channels Wizards of Waverly Place. A little bit of dark drama with a bit of whimsy and a very  low budget.  The story twists about how Dorothy ended up in present day were intriguing and I appreciated the effort to include characters from several of the Oz books. My daughter & I have our own theory as to the true identity of Nick Chopper. Which many viewers were led to believe that he was Dorothy's tin man but were confused when it seemed that he wasn't. We believe that Nick is Dorothy's tin man, but he still doesn't have a memory of it or how and why he is there, The tin man that fought the Gnome King was probably Captain Fyter, a second tin man introduced in a later book in L. Frank Baum's Oz series. Nick Chopper is the human name of The original tin man in the first book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. So of course this is left as a mystery In The Witches of Oz, to be explained in a sequel. Yes, there is probably a sequel planned to answer all of those pesky unanswered  plot holes & twists that everyone has been talking about. Although it's not the greatest miniseries ever, I will probably watch the sequel because I'm a sucker for anything OZ.

Disappointing I have always enjoyed Frampton's work, but was disappointed with this dvd.  Though there are some good performances from Peter and the band, I don't feel this is their best performance.  I own quite a number of concert dvds; and this one ranks very low.  The lighting and sound quality are not great, and the video editing is the worst I've ever seen, as noted in other reviews.  I own Live In Detroit on audio c.d. and I feel that is a better performance.  I will probably buy that DVD in hopes that it is better.

Walt Disney version was better This movie had it all: bad acting, bad directing and bad writing.  At some point Hollywood decided that special effects could substitute for these things.  One of these days they will wake up and realize they can't.  There are a number of young, attractive women in Hollywood today who can act: Kristen Stewart is not one of them.  She and Robert Pattinson should get married, take the fortunes they made doing the Twilight movies and spare us anymore pathetic efforts at acting.  Casting directors should help them make this decision.  Charlize Theron is too good an actress to have squandered her energy on this movie.  Watching this movie was a total waste of time. My advice is to re-watch The Lord of the Rings which this movie tried to emulate to no avail.

Boring Movie This is one of the most boring movies I've ever seen. How many scenes did they think we really wanted to see of those two gazing into each other's eyes.  And, wasn't he wearing a wedding ring when he met her and a woman who was apparently his wife was seen in the background of one early shot. Then the ring disappeared with no mention of a wife and what he did with her. The movie was a very good example of exploitation on a grand scale of a woman with very little actual expertise or judgement and there just wasn't anything else to the story. Richard Gere's eyes have always been way too small and too close together but the glasses just made it look worse. This movie is a waste of everybody's time. The makers and the viewers.

RIO - BluRay The BluRay movie is a great movie but the disc we purchased has caused us problems from the beginning. The discs doesn't load properly when inserted into BluRay player. We have used the disc in 3 different types of BluRay players and we still have the same issue. Either the disc will not load and/or when it finally loads it locks up in the middle of the movie and you have to completely shut down the BluRay player to force it out. I guess we purchased a bad disc. We have not been pleased.

Glee Very disappointing.  I guess you have to see them perform to truly appreciate their singing.  The songs alone didn't do it for me...

One Star quality Three Star oddity I just saw this movie on late-night TV. Here's my take with no references or research. I'm stunned that anyone could love this movie except as pure camp or 70s relic. Stilted acting, odd editing, novice cinematography, simple direction, cheaply made. One star. As a campy b-movie: Three stars. It's almost like a euro art movie, even Fellini-esque, except I don't think that was the intent. Are you reading this review to make a purchase/rent decision or to validate your opinion of the movie? Hmm. If you like "normal" movies and just want a good normal movie to entertain you, then skip this one. Too weird. If you are alone, like "Repo Man", and it's late at night and nothing else is on, then, sure, give it a try. Bizarre and entertaining. Archeological. Baretta as a simpleton. Disagree with any of this? Great. I'm going to sleep now...

Ridiculously Cheesy I saw a screening of this film in a local cinema last night. I loved the book but I didn't like the film. I think the poor storytelling and character development don't do justice to the book. Plus the acting is bad, the "special effects" are terrible (you expect more from a film shot in 2000, even if it was low budget), and it is a very loose adaptation of the original source. I did enjoy the lighthouse scene. I don't understand all the hype about this film but maybe I'm just not familiar enough with the genre or have to learn to appreciate it. Or maybe is a film that is more enjoyable when you haven't read the book. I just cancelled my pre-order and I'm hoping one day Hollywood (Tarantino?) makes a more worthy adaptation.

If I Never Knew You Very disappointed they once again cut "If I Never Knew You." Who cares that it's included in the supplements! The fact that it's not in the actual film is so frustrating and ridiculous. Why are the people at Disney so clueless???

Marginal howler lacks bite Largely formulaic film which features OK as well as sub-standard SFX, (though Rick Baker involvement). Apparently film maker Wes Craven wasn't pleased with this outing either, but that is another story. Nothing new here, though some OK scenes and decent camera work occasionally shine, (such as the opening scenes). Overall I found it rather boring and not scary. Though not a total loss, this was largely an example of missed opportunities, further marred by a couple of lame sub-plots aimed at the young-uns. While this is no AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON or THE HOWLING, I would still recommend it for rabid Werewolf film fans. You certainly could do a lot worse.

On the Upside the Credits Do Finally Come.... ....but it's a long two hours before they do.  Breaking Dawn, the book, was unequivocally the worst piece of "literature" I've read, and I've read thousands of books in my life. So I wasn't going to bother seeing the movie, as I'd gotten the impression it followed the book pretty closely. But I was curious to see what the screenwriters (most of whom are probably still in rehab after being strapped with trying to adapt this piece of swill) could have done with it. Plus, I got a free rental. As it turns out, no magical healing powers of rewriting for screen could mend this debacle of fiction. Though I give the writers credit for at least trying, if only, as it appears, half-heartedly. For instance, they did try to put a Band-Aid on the glaring inconsistency Meyer dragged into the book about vampires being able to have children. (Meyer, hack writer she turned out to be, broke the Golden Rule of Writing by not sticking to the parameters she'd established within her own fiction.) But this Band-Aid was merely a vague reference by Carlisle, I believe, as to it being rare but having happened before, and Edward using a Yahoo search engine. Hey! Job done! I'm convinced, aren't you? And nice cross-product promotion while we're at it.  They also tried - realizing the obnoxious and incomprehensible use of a name like Renesmee (pardon if I screwed up the spelling there, but does it even matter?) - to make a funny scene of smirking and dubiousness by some of the characters when the name was introduced. Again, the attempt was half-hearted, and the scene fell flat. I mean, really, what COULD they do with that? Nice try guys. Oh, but the "love scene" was good comic relief at least. When Edward broke the bed frame in the heat of..... what was that? Passion? I burst out laughing and couldn't stop! That WAS supposed to be funny, right?  Sadly, the remainder of the movie stuck all too faithfully to the book. The chemistry between Bella and Edward was truly dead. The characters behaved vaguely and out-of-character. (I suspect the actors were actually in a state of shock at having signed up for this project.) The romantic aspects were awkward and empty. And Jacob imprinted on the baby. Speaking of Jacob, just as in the book, he let me down. For, in the book, he seemed like the only one any sane, reasonable person could relate to, because he realized the insanity of the situation and what needed to be done to fix it, and yet in the end, he became a victim of the Body Snatchers, too.  Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Rosemary's Baby; this movie carried similar themes to both of those films. It's too bad the writers didn't just outright abandon the idea of trying to keep the lovey-dovey nonsense in Breaking Down and just aim for a horror film from the start, because THAT might have worked. As it was, it ended up being a horror film anyway, just not the right kind. Horrified is the word I would use to describe a film that was all too clearly used by Meyer as a platform to promote her anti-choice religio-political views. It was like watching a public service announcement on the subject, it was so heavy-handed. Perhaps even more appalling were the other themes presented, such as pro-domestic abuse (or at the very least, pro-turn-a-blind-eye-to-it advice), pro-anorexia, and pro-arranged marriage. Some people have referred to the imprinting of Jacob and the baby as bordering on pedophilia. I think maybe that's overstating it a little. But there's no denying the disturbing implications of the adult Jacob exchanging a meaningful we're-meant-to-be-mates-someday gaze with Bella's newborn infant. Truly shudder-worthy. And don't even try to argue that the wolf imprinting wasn't about mating, as the Tweens, in their denial and blind devotion to Meyer have tried to do. I'm sickened that the studio would invest in something aimed at young adults that contained so many twisted and disturbing messages. Then again, looking at the not-so-special special effects, they didn't invest that much.  There were moments it felt like I was watching the CW.  It's sad to see the 5-star reviews for this.  5 stars? Really?  (Although, it quickly becomes noticeable how brief those reviews usually are, having not much to support the rating.)  I have to wonder, though, if these people have ever seen an actual good movie or read an actual good book in their lives, or else they're just not very discerning in their tastes and judgement.  Sadder still is that publishers and Hollywood pander to this indiscriminate demographic. :/  I was going to add an extra star for the costume designer's wedding gown creation. It was very lovely, and I know they had no guidelines to go by, considering that Meyer only bothered to describe it in her book as... what was the word? "Gorgeous"? Oh yes, that was helpful. However, I have to take that star right back because I was continually distracted throughout the movie (which may have been a good thing) by wondering what was up with all the Cullens's hair. It appeared to me as if they were all wearing cheap wigs. I'm not sure if they were or not, but I kept noticing it, so....  Then again, I am giving the second star right back for one wonderful addition to the movie that occurred as an addendum during the closing credits: that of Aro having his receptionist killed due to her poor spelling and grammar.  Honestly, the only useful message this movie offered. Take it to heart, kids. :)

So So Elvis Film. Elvis got about everything he wanted in life except what he wanted most.To become a first rate actor.Elvis along with other actors like Dick Powell and Frank Sinatra complained that they were doing too many musicals.Dick Powell got his his big chance with Murder My Sweet and Frank Sinatra with From Here To Eternity which sent them on their way.Alas,Elvis never did. Getting back to Blue Hawaii I thought the soundtrack to this film was much better than the film itself.(Cant Help Falling In Love,Rock A Hula Baby,Moonlight Swim,etc) However,just for the songs alone the film is worth seeing. The only time Elvis and Angela Lansbury ever worked together. Jenny Maxwell and her husband were murdered years later.(No conspiracy ideas,Please.) Also in cast Roland Winters,Steve Brodie,Joan Blackman,(Who plays Elvis Love interest)and Iris Adrian,etc.. Its too bad Elvis didnt make more Flaming Stars and King Creoles.He could have, sooner or later made it like Frank and Dick did.

Disappointed In Stone & Farrell I expected a lot more from Oliver Stone especially after reading the product description. I expected to see a Gladiator/Spartacus type of movie which added to my disappointment.  While it may have been historically accurate and even though I'm not a prude as I was a prison guard for 25yrs. the sexual immorality as Stone depicted in the movie which he portrayed to be Alexander's heart throbs, was disgusting.  In addition, to see Colin Farrell galavanting around looking for his next love affair in a blond wig was also very disappointing. Hopes this helps to give a complete review whether you agree with my summary or not.

Excellent story, terrible DVD So disappointed. One of the best foriegn language films that I've seen on IFC. Ordered the DVD to share with a friend who is also a WWII buff like  myself. The English subtitles are incomplete. I was fortunate enough to see all the subtitles when I originally viewed this film on the Independent Film Channel. I ordered this as a gift for a friend and was saddened to see that many of the subtitles are simply not there.  I had to explain this story to my friend BEFORE he watched the film and that takes a lot away from the story. I don't know who was in charge of subtitling this film, but they were asleep at the switch. That's ashame because it is such a moving story and needs to be told to as many audiences as possible. I'm happy to say that my friend got the story but only because there is a historical record to back it up.  If you are not familiar with the Scholl story and do not understand German, I can't recommend this DVD. The story is very moving and you don't necessarily have to understand German to see what is going on in this film, but it helps.

Disappointing Didn't like this as well as the original version. Ending was way different and I liked Kristofferson in the original release.

Radical behavior Radical terrorism. Some disturbing scenes of protesters and vandalism. It's unfortunate that people are pressured to take extreme measures like the ones reported on here. Capitalism is not "evil". Corporations are not "evil". People are typically greedy and mean. It's easy to blame to assuage frustration. Scapegoats. Godlessness. Read Romans 1. This film is sympathetic to the activists. It's not really fair or balanced. A lot of angry libs will watch this and feed their self-righteous loathing of "the system". If you somehow believe that G Bush was a terrorist, take a hard look, after you sober up, at Obama and all the raving hate-filled negros in political office and running the streets as Black Panthers in America.

The least of the Fred Astaire movies After a long search for Yolanda and the Thief, I finally obtained a copy. It wasn't a total disappointment because there were a couple of wonderful dance numbers but on the whole the movie is a waste of time in spite of the efforts by Astaire and Frank Morgan, both of whom gave their usual professional performances.

the worst movie I saw this year Despite the great cast, this film fails to make sense on any level.  I suppose if that is the definition of "indy" then, yes, this is a great indy film, completely full of itself, so full that the actors are directed to stare blankly at the camera at times and just let the viewer try to figure out what is going on.  Ultimately it does become clear that the film has a lot to do with pedophilia (a great actor - Cieran Hinds - given almost nothing to do except THINK about his past actions) and dysfunction (what a waste of Ally Sheedy's talent to give her a cameo as a deranged narcissist and then forget about her). It was a waste of time, money, and most especially talent. I give it 2 stars instead of 1 because the actors kept me believing that it would get better.

Not what I expected from the other GLOWING reviews! I have an excursion booked for a cruise this coming summer to see this beautiful place first hand. I discovered a link to this product on the NCL review page for the excursion (Here: [...] ). Actually the link was to another site, and then a link from there to here.  Back to this short video... After reading the reviews on here I must say that my sights were set VERY high for this product. While I did enjoy the footage, I feel that some of the other reviews are essentially padding the product. It appears that many of them are clustered around a few dates, and paint everything as "captivating". It is not "captivating" - the video quality is fair/good - but just know that this does not approach "documentary" quality - more like a spliced together home movie with several nice shots.  I found it interesting that several of the reviewers also shared reviews of a few other products. I sense some behind the scenes manipulation.  I am OK with paying the $1.99 to view it through the Amazon Instant Video app on my TV, but would feel gouged if I had purchased the DVD.  Again - it was nice to see some footage of where I'll soon be, but this product is not at the level it is portrayed here... even if it was "endorsed" by "famous actress" Angie Dickinson...  ;)

Not a good reflection upon the series!! My low rating is NOT a reflection upon this wonderful and outstanding series!!  Sgt. Friday should arrest the producers of this box set, send them to the CDC, put them into one of the CDC Prisoner uniforms, and leave them on the yard.  The quality of this DVD box set does not do this wonderful series justice.  I thought the first season box set was a joke coming on two disc that are double sided, but season three (the second box sex I examined) takes the cake!  While it comes on single sided disc, which allows for art work, the transfer is of low quality in the resolution for DVD / Blu-Ray and is providing washed out color in many places.  The worst, though, for our deaf citizens and those in a crowd (as I say the bar impaired) is the lack of sub-titles.  At least season one has sub-titles and has quality transfer.  The sub-titles exist for the series, as my local TV station has cut versions of these episodes with sub-titles.  One expects a DVD box set for a season to have the uncut and sub-titled episodes, after all not everyone has perfect hearing or is in a quiet situation.  I give the series 5 stars and this DVD box set .5 stars for an overall rating of 2 stars.  The ONLY reason to buy this DVD box set is because you're a Dragnet fan and it is the only game in town.  Hopefully, once the series (as with Twelve O'Clock High) goes into the public domain, someone will do a better version of season 3.

CONAN: Is This All There Is? As someone who watches a lot of films, I know that there are certain flicks I'm simply prone to like more than others.  B movies - good ones and bad ones - have always been a fascination of mine.  Over my years of writing about films, I've tried to narrow down specifically to what interests me most about these `side' pictures, but I've never been able to nail my arguments exactly on the head.  I tend to think it's that, like any good purveyor of film, I'd like to think - if the opportunity presented itself - I could pen a great screenplay.  I could give it all the right pieces; I could cast the right actors; I could devise the right look and capture the right feel.  I could produce a pretty solid blockbuster, one that would net me untold riches, praise and adulation of fanboys everywhere, and a contract to continue churning out film after film for the entertainment of the masses so the cycle could repeat itself over and over again until my sad passing.  Then, I watch a film like 2011's CONAN re-launch, and I figure, "Why bother?"  I quickly follow up that thought with, "Is THIS the best we can do?"  If THE LORD OF THE RINGS franchise taught the entertainment industry anything, then that lesson would be that, simply, "There's an astonishingly huge audience for well-made, well-produced, well-assembled fantasy films."  The Conan property - in many respects - has great similarity to Tolkien's works: (1) it involves its own world creation; (2) there are strong men and strong women as central characters; (3) there's more than enough swords and sorcery to keep an audience captivated; and (4) there're creatures and castles aplenty!  Sure, maybe Conan - with its heavy emphasis on blood, broads, and broadswords - is more of an adult-themed fantasy property, but I think you get the drift.  There're volumes and volumes of source material on top of Robert E. Howard's written words, and, it's clear that the makers of the film were familiar with the pieces that make-up a Conan story ... but how could they have gotten it so horribly wrong?  I suppose there's something to be said about casting a relative unknown in the lead role.  Jason Momoa cut his teeth on SyFy's "Stargate: Atlantis" but he really came to fruition in the role of Khal Drogo in HBO's "Game of Thrones" series.  Transitioning into the role as the lead Cimmerian could've required stronger acting chops only if the material (i.e. "the script") required it, but let's face facts, folks: we're not talking Shakespeare here.  Robert E. Howard essentially grew Conan for the pulps of the 1930's (not that there's anything wrong with that).  Thankfully, this reboot kept Conan light on talk and relatively heavy on action.  `Nuff said on that front.  I suppose there's something to be said about placing the property of Conan in the hands of a relatively `fresh' director.  Marcus Nispel's filmography on IMDB.com lists 16 films, but many of them appear to be documentaries associated to music videos.  But there was the 2004 remake of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE.  He also directed PATHFINDER, a film that might be aptly described as very Conan-ish in appearances.  He also directed the re-imagining of FRIDAY THE 13TH in 2009.  While these are not necessarily any highbrow properties, one could wonder what a more skilled craftsman behind the camera might've done with the script.  I can say that the film includes one horribly edited horse chase sequence ... first, Conan's trailing behind the baddie ... suddenly, he's alongside the baddie ... then he's behind the guy again ... now, he's somehow coming at him from the front ... ??? ... ???  In the hands of a more experienced director, this probably wouldn't have happened.  And, then, there's something to be said for story ...  The film is an origins tale.  Studios seem to prefer some tweaking of any hero's beginnings when they re-visit a franchise, and CONAN is treated no differently.  After being cut from the womb of his mother dying on a battlefield (no other context is given nor apparently felt needed by the scriptors), baby Conan matures into a young, bloodlusting killing machine.  His father (played with little effort by genre-regular Ron Perlman, an actor who deserved better material than this) tries to tame his boy's predilection for violence, but his untimely death at the hands of the film's villain - Khalar Zym (played by the underrated Stephen Lang) - essentially gives the lad his life mission: to avenge his father's murder.  (So, at this point, we're basically looking at Batman in a loincloth!)  However, the next we see Conan, he's grown into manhood, chiseled his own abs, and - lo and behold - never really done anything about going after the men who killed his old man.  It's a good thing that the script suddenly called for a chance encounter with one of the bad guys, or, otherwise, Conan may've suffered his first mid-life crisis before he avenged dear old dad.  (This assumes that the average Cimmerian's life expectancy craps out around 38 years old.)  Keep in mind: I love B pictures, of which CONAN clearly is a variety.  I also love the property; I think "Conan the Barbarian" is one of Robert E. Howard's greatest creations.  I also love fantasy films.  But, again I ask, "Is this the BEST we can do?"  All of the right pieces were there.  There's some solid location shooting.  There's pretty standard costuming and effects work for a B picture.  Much like the Conan of written legend, there are plenty of heavy, surly types that need to be dispatched at the hands of our hero.  There are even plenty of maidens to be wooed; in fact, the earlier scenes from the film showed the greatest promise!  Conan's hanging out in a dimly lit tavern.  He's drinking and yucking it up with the men and he's virtually surrounded by the best scantily-clad women a casting director could find!  It's fantasy come true, lifted right from the pages of any Conan comic book!  Too bad the best stuff ended right there.  Meanwhile, back to the story ...  Khalar Zym's quest?  Well, as best as I can surmise, there's this magical mask (the one covered in the film's obligatory opening sequence narrated by Morgan Freeman?) that renders the wearer ... what ... er ... magical?  Mystical?  Well, let's just agree that it's powerful!  It never gets clearly defined, but, suffice it to say, once Zym has the mask, he'll have the power to bring his dead sorceress/wife back from beyond the grave ... not that we're ever shown any footage of their loving marriage to believe he'd want to do it.  We're just supposed to accept his quest it at face value.  Besides, his wife's only scenes were those of her burning at the stake by ... well ... it's never quite explained, but I'm sure they meant to do it!  Alas, we're never quite clear as to why that happened.  It must've been because either (A) she was a sorceress or (B) it was Monday, and that's what rapers and pillagers do on a Monday in the Hyborean Age.  Lo and behold, Zym has a daughter, Marique (played by Rose McGowan in what must singly be the absolute worst casting mistake for 2011).  Now, don't ask me why, but, apparently, Marique has the hots for her old man (she tries to seduce him in one scene).  Despite having an obvious attraction for dad that could be better acted upon with mom out of the picture (hint hint), Marique still joins daddy dearest on his personal mission to bring big bad momma back from the dead.  Why exactly?  Again, we're not told, so, as an audience, we're just supposed to accept the obvious irony.  Sadly, Marique preens about every scene, dangling menacingly her Freddy Krueger-like finger blades, and spouts her nonsensical lines in an almost fairy-tale voice that only further distorts any logical foundation for her character.  (I'd really like to see the director's notes to Ms. McGowan on this one!)  Seriously, you could take all of the parts of the world's best sports car and lay them on the floor of an automotive garage.  You could follow a massive instruction manual to assemble it properly.  But, unless you complete the task properly, you're not going to have the world's best sports car.  You may end up with a reasonable facsimile (think the first Conan movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger), but that doesn't mean anyone's going to want to buy it.  Likewise, CONAN - as a motion picture - had all of the right pieces.  A burly actor in a role that required burliness!  Magicians and sorcerers!  Voluptuous women throwing themselves at men!  Buckets of bloodspray every time a baddie is gutted alive!  A fairy princess (of sorts) that needs rescue!  Caves full of skulls!  Oceans with monsters!  Swords as big as a man!  Castles aplenty!  But I've absolutely no idea whether the makers consulted the owner's manual or not when they made this picture because what we're left with was such a bruised and bloodied mess that should've been vastly more entertaining than it was.  Recommended only if you like epic failures, of which this is one, but I'll still give it two stars for effort and because, as I've said, I like B pictures.  So sue me.  It's make a great B picture.

The Best (Bruce Lee) will Always be Imitated, but never Duplicated Another martial arts actor attempts to imitate Bruce Lee on one of his films (Fist of Fury, realeased in USA as Chinese Connection), but again fall short.  It's amazing to me that the movie Bruce Lee made back in the 70s is still better than the modern made imitation of his film.  I would say the best imitation of Bruce Lee's movie was made by Jet Li in "Fist of Legend", but even that fall short compared to the original Bruce Lee film.  Bruce Lee will always be imitated but never duplicated.  He was the first martial artist with an open mind that combined all effective techniques from different martial arts from all around the world, not only the Chinese style, but Korean, Japanese, and even American (boxing).  He trained with the best to become the best fighter that became a legend.  Far as reviewing this film, they seem really hard to imitate Bruce Lee in every way possible with "Kato" mask look and even Bruce Lee's famous fighting sounds.  It just doesn't seem natural or original.  At least Jet Li portrayed/expressed his character in his own way so it looked more genuine than Donny in this film.  I'm surprised by the high rating of this film, but I guess if you never saw the original or Jet Li's version, this version is not bad.

Sorry, I did not like this I went to see it because of its high recommendations among reviewers, but frankly I left the theatre feeling cold, disillusioned, sad and disappointed.  I like to feel good after watching a movie...  and I felt, well, empty and disappointed I spent my $$ on it.

Good...But Not Great There are several DVDs in this collection (~20).  My family and I have only watch about five of the DVDs more than once.  Besides these five DVDs, there were others that were interesting and/or good to watch.  Overall, I don't think that we got the value of our purchase...considering the alternatives.

Disappointed Visually stunning, yes.  Some cool action, yes again.  Was it as good as part 1 & 2, NO.  I felt as though in part 1, Jaa showed us what a bada$$ he was with the stunts and bone-crunching fight scenes.  In part 2, he showed us his adaptability with the various forms of martial arts.  Part 3, he was all about story telling.  Which is fine, but all this magic and dancing when Jaa is an ACTION star?  For me, I was disappointed.

Philadelpha exp Very tuff to watch without falling asleep or just throwing in trash. Intresting if you make it throught the hole thing as I did but you better be a real sifi guy or this is just more trash

Damaged Goods I received two DVDs in a recent order.  Both were significantly damaged and could not be played.  One was replaced and a replacement was not available for the second DVD.  May look elsewhere for upcoming DVD purchases.

Please Don't Make Me Watch This Ever Again I was taught; if you don't have something nice to say, consider keeping quiet.  So, this will be a short review...  I was raised by my English Grandmother on the Arthurian stories; call them legends if you wish.  I love this stuff, always have... always will.  Please note that when I say that I love this stuff, I am not referring to the television series in question.  For me, this series is just not watchable.  Granted, everything about the series seems to be "inspired by" the actual Arthurian stories.  For the modern, PC, younger audience that did not grow up with the old books and stories this may be just the thing.  Not for me.  The production quality and the transfer to DVD are good.  That is about it.

BEWARE:TRANSFER SPED UP A KEY! Could of been one the best of the stones dvd's out there,but someone (one of the stones or producers?) decided to speed up the complete concert up a key! If you are not a musician or dont have relative pitch you might not notice so much,but something will just not sound right.You've heard all these great songs before many times,but not in a raised key.Charlie Watts plays most songs faster live anyway,but here they sound just wrong.Want proof,just try playing a keyboard (like Ian & Stu) along with the dvd.A sharp,C sharp,G sharp...it nevered happened in the stones world.Plus the speeded up transfer makes them sound like chipmonks! A disgrace to stone fans.You are warned!

Pure Porn I expected way more from this series,  It was just an Xrated movie, with about the same story line. Could have been done easily in 1 1/2 hrs.  I have "Game of Thrones" season 1, and even though I have read all of the books published so far, and have given up on the author.  It is a 10, and Spartacus is a 2, don't waste your money!  Even the sex is tedious.  The acting was good considering what they had to work with.  The scene sets were terrible. Enough said, don't waste your money.

What a waste of talent This is a beautifully-shot, intensely-acted film that, unfortunately, has no intrinsic merit. Long and nasty, it is disease on film, no matter how accomplished the film making. I feel diminished in my soul for having watched this. Kim soo-huan's hunt for the killer in the beginning of the film was excellent. The rest was a waste. Referred to as a revenge/horror movie, the true horror is that the over-the-top violence becomes, ultimately, tedious.

Not a reliable source Kent Hovind is not a scientist, biologist, or archeologist. He was a Christian school teacher who begain collecting and compiling information and theories about creationism and evolution into a series of lectures and sermons. Some of what he has to say is good, while some is rejected by even creationists. Dr. Hovind is also a believer in conspirarcy theories regarding the UN, the US Government, and 9-11, and is a tax resister (which led to his conviction on tax evasion charges). While this has little to do with his work on creationism, it does call into question his credibility.  If you want to research or study creationism, I recommend that you pass on Dr. Hovind's work and check out material by organizations like Answers In Genesis and Creation Ministries International. They employ real scientists and are much more reliable sources of creationist material.

Underwhelmed by a potentially good movie With better character development, this could've been a really good movie.  Jennifer's victims aren't just random males, but males who are caring and will be missed.  Why?  What kept Jennifer and Needy, two opposite types, friends for so long?  Why did the teacher have a hook for a hand?  These questions go unanswered and instead, you just follow a killer luring victims to their death, over and over.  And this wasn't even scary or suspenseful.  The bad acting hurt this film, too.  Megan Fox is stunningly beautiful, but she has no range.  It seemed her most important goal in this film was to look as sultry and sexy as possible.  But since she didn't give much else, I couldn't relate to her.  Amanda Seyfried didn't show much range either, making her character come across as uncaring.  She's unmoved by Jennifer's decision while they're floating above the bed.  She cheats on her loving boyfriend for no reason and feels no remorse for it.  I think that scene was just to appease male audiences will some girl-on-girl action.  But they'll be disappointed because there's very little nudity in this film, so if they're watching this film hoping to see a lot of Jennifer's actual body, they won't.  This ending of this movie left me feeling underwhelmed, as did the entire movie.  And that's a shame because it had potential to be better, but didn't take it.

Reminds me of American Idol. The ages old question, often faced when judging American Idol or whatever show contestants, is do you vote based upon the contestant's heart wrenching desire or upon their ability to just get the job done at the level expected.  So, when I see some people want so badly to make a film that they go so far as to have each participant perform multiple tasks each (e.g. be an actor, editor, producer, coffeemaker) then whom am I to be the ogre and say, "Sorry, but ..." OK, the "but' part is that although the storyline had a bit of potential, "but" had they taken the time to write and rewrite and think and rethink it all through such that they came out with not only a coherent creative product but something that captured the viewers' attention. That's the point - right! Otherwise it isn't an art form without the viewer.  And the final tally is! One vote for a hodgepodge of drinking, partying, brief dumb sex sorta, guys hanging with their car mods and similar boy toys with a bunch of stuff thrown in that made no sense. Two votes for I'm not an ogre and you could see that they tried. If a bit of objectivity is needed in this vote then I offer my inverse ratio theorem - movies are as good as the inverse ratio of the number of songs and credits "special thanks". So 26 songs and 62 "special thanks" equates to about a two rating. By the way, those numbers are midrange. I've seen much higher numbers.

Neurosis And nausea The acting is over-wrought and the pretentious nature of this neurotic dancer story creates an atmosphere of dread and nausea.Special effects are used to accentuate her dementia. ..Natalie Portman And Barbara Hershey do a theatrical job wringing their hands, in a disturbed mother daughter love hate frenzy.Here you have the cliched mom "didn't get to be a star" hateful stage mother,and the bulimic possessed anorexic daughter.The end is predictable and  sensational.What happened to the days of understatement?Who will die for art?. It's all been said before. The movie is OK,but just OK,and not something to look at twice.It doesn't live up to its art house film aspirations.If you don't enjoy eating disorders and  self mutilation leave this one on the shelf.The acting is good,but the viewer has to decide if the movie is.

Boring This movie is incredibly boring. It was recommended by a Facebook link that showed suffragettes who'd been beaten, starved and jailed. I'm halfway through it and have seen nothing to do with the FB link. I don't think I'm going to make it the rest of the way.

Boo - My wife made me suffer this eyeball murderer, Good HD quality though Worst movie I have ever had to suffer in the confines of my own home.  This is a total chick flick and should be flagged as such.  I'm having nightmares involving this movie playing in an endless loop...

They Live...Again When will people learn to stay the hell out of Indian burial grounds? Especially the ones that look like B-movie sets?  After the accidental death of his ex-wife Chase Matthews (Anthony Edwards, "ER", THE FORGOTTEN) and his son Jeff (Edward Furlong, T2, AMERICAN HISTORY X) move to Ludlow, Maine to start over. There he not only has to deal with his late wife's ex-boyfriend Gus who happens to be Ludlow's sherrif but his son manages to become the local outsider who's only friend in town is Gus' stepson Drew who knows just how cruel his step dad truly is. One night, Gus kills Drew's loyal German Shepard and together Drew and Jeff bury the dog beyond the Pet Sematary. The curse comes true and once again, Ludlow is cast in the horror of the supernatural as the dead return to life and begin to prey on the local population.  While its first half is entertaining enough, the second half falls completely apart. According to the legend, which Zombie Gus even re-enstates to Jeff (?), you have to "bury your own" but that doesn't stop Zombie Scarfboy from coming back after Zombie Gus buries him. And Chase proves to be a pretty piss poor father when a week goes by after tragedy strikes again and he still has yet to see how his son is coping. Look, I get it that you're giving yourself a Pity Party over your dead ex-wife but your son is still alive and apparently going insane. Man up and help your kid. And of course Zombie Gus has no problem killing people but he has a soft spot for Jeff who knows his dirty little secret?  Mary Lambert crafted a superb and very scary movie that was Pet Sematary in '89. Had anyone else made this sequel I might have been a little more forgiving of its shortcomings but since she healmed it as well I am force to see her as a One Hit Wonder. And 2000's THE IN-CROWD only help solidify her of this title.

Good movie but with a very misleading trailer First of all, the movie it self really wasn't that bad. But I think that it is wrong to show people a trailer of a movie like this to get them to watch it or buy it, and then when you watch the movie for yourself your expecting to see those scenes in the movie, and you never do or they change something about it. They were alot of scenes that were cut out of this movie that were showed on the trailer letting people believe that what they showed on the trailer was in the movie.   I'm not going to go into much detail. But one of the scenes that I'm talking about is the bathroom scene with the two little girls. Not what the trailer showed at all.   If they are going to cut the scenes out of the movie that were on the trailer that your expecting to see, at least they could show them as deleted scenes or something like that in the speceal features.   Movie did have good sound and picture quality. If it was not for the misleading trailer. I would have given this movie 4 stars.

Tom Cruise was the only good thing in this movie I watched this movie because I was on a flight to India.  I actually expected it to be decent.  Not great, but ok.  It wasn't.  The music was distracting, it didn't add to the overall story.  I liked the songs, but they seemed to take away from the story, which was lackluster at best.  The two leads were annoying.  I love Alex Baldwin, but his bad wig was so ridiculous I couldn't take the role seriously. It was hard to tell if they were trying to make it a parity or trying to take themselves seriously.  The only good thing in the movie was Tom Cruise.  When he came on the screen and in all his scenes, he brought the movie to an all new level.  He is the only reason to watch this movie.  A good example of how a great actor can still be great in a really bad movie.

Ho. Hum. YURI NOSENKO: KGB(1986) Directed by Mick Jackson   Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Lauter and Josef Sommer as James Angleton.   In 1964, KGB agent Yuro Nosenko defected to the the West. However it was greatly suspected within CIA circles that he was, in actuality, a double agent sent to A) Discredit a previous defector named Anatoly Golitsyn and B) deflect any suspicion that Lee Harvey Oswald was a KGB assassin. Consequently he was put in solitary confinement for four years and constantly interrogated until finally being confirmed as a genuine defector and released.   Jones plays the CIA agent---name changed---who was Nosenko's handler and who believed that he is a double agent. The film pretty much sides with the idea that Nosenko was a double but it does appear particularly since the collapse of the Soviet Union has made further information available that Nosenko was genuine..........which puts this film is an awkward position since both it and its hero are wrong.   This BBC film covers much of the same material as in the miniseries THE COMPANY including the search for the legendary Communist mole in the CIA..known only as Sasha. It has a solid handling of the period especially the automobilies. Unlike THE COMPANY, it is more favorably disposed towards Angleton. The acting is so low key and underplayed as to be practically catatonic. Even though it leans towards the Jones' characters's take on Nosenko, the film hedges its bets a great deal and the film lacks a real resolution. It is unclear just what the film is attempting to accomplish.   It is not a bad film but neither is it an especially good one either.

Western horror movie from the B Movie Ranch. If you don't pay attention, this is what you get!  I wanted the obscure movie "Devil Rider" (1970) Starring Sharon Mahon, Ridgely Abele, Johnny Pachivas. Plot: A young rebellious girl hooks up with a biker gang. Her mother hires a private detective to find her and bring her back.  However, at the time, I didn't know that there was a 1970 AND a 1989 movie with the same title - but completely different plots.  There was no box cover on the Amazon movie page (I just added them), and no plot or reviews.  The "stars" of this 1989 barker are: David Campbell, Wayne Douglass and Rick Groat.  I gave it 2 stars because it does have some redeeming qualities - if you enjoy the old strange horror movies that was prevalent in the 50s and 60s drive-in theaters.  And they do throw in a buxom, full-mooned naked woman at the beginning to keep us guys watching - just in case there is more (there is not).  The acting is very amateurish and the plot is basically a murdering cowboy psycho that cannot be killed, who returns to continue his killing spree of 100 years prior.  You've been warned!

Why spend $50 when you can get it for $20 with Hearts of Darkness? Owning this boxed set makes me feel like an idiot--the Blu Ray with Hearts of Darkness goes for $20.  An A/V club featurette?  Really?  Save your money and buy the Blu Ray or any of the other single movie versions, there is nothing in here worth an extra cent.

Alright BUT very predictable The Resident could have been great if it wasn't so predictable. To me what makes a great horror/thriller film is that it is unpredictable. I could guess almost every single thing that was going to happen in this movie BEFORE it happened which I hate. Hilary Swank plays a character who is an ER doctor in search of an apartment. She finds the ideal place that is afforable and has a hot landlord who really cares about his tenants. Once she moves someone starts watching/stalking her but who could it be? You see Hillary's character going through the same routine every night which is boring. Also it doesn't take long for the movie to let you know exactly who it is which is an EPIC FAIL!!  These are the reasons that this movie falls really short: 1. Very predictable 2. The movie trailer gives away almost everything 3. The stalker is unreveiled too early in the movie  If you have a free evening The Resident isn't a horrible movie to watch but I can find a lot better movies instead. I watched it once and that was enough. It is very forgetable not to mention (again) predictable.

Typical artsy fartsy Ok, the acting was good, but I am the type of movie watcher who wants to be entertained.  If I want to strain my brain, I will pick a good forum and try to stir up a debate.  So, if you like the kind of movie which doesn't really go anywhere, but has dark pockets of cerebral imbalance with matching mood music to titillate the artiste in you, well....have fun.  At the end, I said....why did I waste my time.  Oh, sure the critics loved it, and some audiences, but for my two cents, it was not entertaining, but painful.

Unpleasant movie watching experience This is an odd movie by Sam Garbarsky, a Belgian former advertising person who now makes feature films. Although it technically well done and has received respectful reviews here and other places, I found it unpleasant and depressing.  The two principal actors, Marianne Faithful and Miki Manojlovic, are excellent in difficult parts. However, the atmosphere is distasteful. Irina, a middle aged woman who needs money for her grandson, is constrained to go to work giving anonymous handjobs in a seamy sex parlor. In the first place, this is a preposterous premise; it is just hard to believe this is what any 50 year old conservative grandmother would actually do in real life, and there is nothing we learn about Irina's background that would make this plausible. Second, the atmosphere of the sex shop is unappealing and the movie spends a lot of time there. Third, her son and daughter-in-law are disrespectful to her, cruel really, which I found even more unpleasant to watch and seemed unecessary to the premise. When her involvement as a sex worker is discovered, her son and her friends are merciless in their contempt. If that is not enough to depress you, the backstory is a terminally ill grandchild. Really cheery way to spend a couple of hours. There is a love story between the principals, but it's not enough to redeem the whole.  Not every movie has to be fun and lighthearted of course but difficult or disturbing films reward us with a powerful drama or a powerful truth. In this case, I did admire the filmaking skill but watching this was just not enjoyable, and I failed to see the point. If you would like to see an also difficult but much more uplifting European drama of family conflict, I recommend "Edge of Heaven."

Great cast, nothing else. Kill Theory (Chris Moore, 2007)  To call this movie "derivative" is almost redundant, and that will be brutally obvious within ten minutes of you starting to watch it. But, that said, this type of thing has been done, and done far better, quite recently despite being derivative (the 2009 British film Exam is one obvious example), so what is it about Kill Theory that makes it barely watchable at best? (Though I grant you, you knew "barely watchable at best" was coming the minute you saw "After Dark Horrorfest" on the box, didn't you?)  Plot: deranged killer-type (Heat's Kevin Gage) traps a bunch of recent college grads in a secluded house and gives them an ultimatum: only one can survive. If more than one is still alive at sunrise, he will kill them all. After a bit of convincing that he's serious, they all start plotting against one another.  The big difference between this and so very, very many other movies of this ilk is that the entire cast of young-and-beautifuls is made up of rising stars who are in that sweet spot--they're recognizable enough to be called stars, but are still not household names. The top dog of the bunch is Agnes Bruckner, who started out in such critically-acclaimed fare as The Glass House and Murder by Numbers and has since made really bad movie choices, but she's backed up with a bunch of kids who aren't slouches; Sons of Anarchy's Theo Rossi, 8 Mile's Taryn Manning, Mean Girls's Daniel Franzese, Brothers' Patrick John Flueger, and I could keep going until I'd filled an entire thousand-word review here. You get the picture--this is not some no-budget cast not capable of acting their way out of a collective paper bag, and the talent assembled in front of the camera in this movie is the only thing that saves it from becoming another intensely stupid new-model slasher a la Nine Lives. But director Chris Moore, working on his first feature (you know him as the producer of movies as wide-ranging as Good Will Hunting, American Pie, and Feast, but he has never directed before this), has very little idea of what to do with all this talent, and writer/producer Kelly C. Palmer (also debuting) does very little to help him in this regard; you know where all the twists are, and if you don't see the Big Reveal at the end coming within the first half-hour, you just haven't seen enough slasher films with mystery pretensions. Still, part of being onscreen talent who's actually, well, talented is that you actually know what to do in front of a camera even when faced with an incompetent director, so there are a few scenes here that actually work (mostly in the beginning, before the main piece of the plot falls into place and we're just getting to know the characters). That might be worth it, especially if you're a fan of any of the principals, as I am of Rossi's. Otherwise, you can let this one pass you by. **

Aweful Blu-ray quailty! One of my favorite films, but the quality of the BLU-RAY is a joke, it wasn't even that grainy on my regular DVD.  Just buy the original DVD instead of paying the extra, since it really isn't a feature.

Eh, the kiddies will like it at least As usual this movie had its witty writing and mostly typical character responses to keep it entertaining, but it isn't going to be a holiday favorite in my house. I love the Shrek movies (Shrek 3 being an exception) and I was going by previous reviews to decide whether I should shell out the bucks to buy this movie. Many reviewers said it was overpriced. It is. I thought the 30 minutes would be valuable, but they weren't; it was definitely rushed. Fiona's response to Shrek's anger over having their first Christmas crashed by their rowdy, obnoxious friends was more annoying than usual because it was overly dramatic and makes her character look weak, in my opinion. Overall, I'd advise you to pass on purchasing this movie for more than $5. And you can definitely find better movies than this out there for $5 if you know where to look.

DVD Skips though it was supposed to be New The DVD was supposed to be new. It took quite a few minutes for it to even start playing on my Xbox and then at the end it wouldn't stop skipping and I got the "trying to read media" message every couple of seconds. The packaging was horrible when I got it too. I only spent like $5 so I'm not heartbroken but I definitely won't order from them again.

Probably more fun for those who like extended camping sequences This is the movie that adapts the first half of the dullest and dreariest of the series of books by J.K. Rowling. (Not the longest book, nor the book with the most events, but I'm sure Warner Brothers is now kicking themselves and wishing they'd started splitting these back at Azkaban to make twice as much money.)  I haven't changed my opinion of the book -- which is, by far, the worst of the series, with a sag in the middle like a couch that Hagrid just sat on -- and the movie is as deeply faithful to the book in the way that this series of movies always has been...and that means, of course, that it's full of dull, dreary camping sequences, in which Harry, Ron, and Hermoine mope at each other for what feels like the full eight months the book covers.  (Somewhere in the middle of that, my younger son quietly stated that he wasn't having any fun and went up to his room to play. When your movie isn't more entertaining than playing alone with dominoes, you've got a serious problem.)  The plot makes as much sense here as it did in the book: which is to say, it's still the quintessentially English story about a boy who definitely isn't too smart for his station, but is indomitable enough to muddle through because his heart is true. Rowling has no interest in a resistance movement against her magical dictator, nor does she care about what's happening to the UK under Voldemort (much less the rest of the world, which nearly doesn't exist in the Harry Potter world), or even in depicting Harry Potter as any kind of leader or competent hero.  No, instead Deathly Hallows 1 is the story of three friends (who hate each other) hiding out in the woods instead of trying to find the seven magical [Plot Coupons] Horcruxes, which they need (along with three pounds fifty in coins) to send off to Rowling for an ending. And this movie doesn't even get them to the point where they actually start to accomplish their quest, so it's entirely ominous beginning and dreary middle. This is the movie you have to get through to get Deathly Hallows 2, and you'd have to be a stone Potter fan -- the kind unwilling to admit anything connected to Rowling is less than fabulous -- to strongly enjoy it as a movie in its own right.

Walka Walka Walka out of the theater I really like the Muppets. Not only during my childhood but as an adult. Jim Henson's Muppets are very unremarkable puppets, but through his genius he gave them dynamic personalities that contrasted their bland exteriors. If you watch some of the original movies like The Muppet Movie, Muppets Take Manhattan, and Muppets in space you'll notice a subtle brilliance. The Muppets work not only as entertainment, but also as satire of entertainment in general. Specifically as a commentary of what it is really like to work in Hollywood. About the failures, the obstacles and the individuals who just haven't made it yet.  This movie has none of this. None of the spirit, the heart and the warmth.  When I heard Segal (and Adams) were involved, I was excited. Segal shows a lot of fandom towards the Muppets, but being a fan isn't enough. Much of what pours through in the writing seems like Segal's own private fantasy. Like some wild adventure he would've liked to have had with the Muppets that really has nothing to do with the Muppets. The movie never seems to be about the Muppets, but rather seems like it's about Segal, Adams and his Muppet brother. The three least interesting additions.  These problems show up in the musical numbers, which usually drag on far to long, are bland and uninspired, and feature whole chorus lines of dancing humans. Dancing humans? The original Muppet movies typically got by with incidental human interactions. The musical numbers were almost always Muppet driven. Not these. They look like something more appropriate for Hairspray.  This is confusing for me. When I started the movie I was offended by the glaring lack of focus on The Muppets. Where is the whirlwind romance between Piggy and Kermit? Where is the Rizzo side story? Where is the hilarious stand up of Fozzy Bear, or for that matter, where is the not-so-hilarious stand up of Fozzy Bear? The Electric Mayhem? I remember laughing in previous Muppet installments, now I sit anxiously waiting for musical numbers to wrap it up.  The story is cliche' at best, which isn't even a problem, but becomes one since the movie lacks any heart. The Muppets were never particularly plot driven anyways, but the characters are important, and with their noticeable absence from the plot it's forced to rely on it's weak plot and forced cameos. Cameos used to be reserved, by the by, for real talents who added to the movie's Variety Show feel, but now their just Tween icons who awkwardly try to fit in where they don't belong.  This movie, at best, is a passable musical. Sadly The Muppets are a VARIETY show, and it's that variety displayed through unique personalities who all represents various aspects of "the business" that made the Muppets so special. Also this movie removed the edge and grit that brought the Muppets so close to home. The overly polished atmosphere of this film gets away from the Indie atmosphere that was always present during the Henson era. The Muppets always felt like a charming low budget variety troupe' on the verge of making it, and when you have a back up crew of 40 dancers you lose that. When you lose that, you really lose the novelty of it all.  If there is any consolation in the two star review it's that I believe Segal did his best. I think the nostalgia element is there, and certainly I appreciate that he is a fan, and not some Hollywood Exec just trying to make a buck (how ironic). I think he unwittingly proved that without Henson, or a much stronger understanding of Henson, that any attempt to revive this franchise is probably not worth it. My suspicion always has been that without Henson this franchise is dead, and from the looks of it, it is. He still left us many wonderful hours of the old Muppets on DVD. If I were anyone I would rewatch some old Muppets if they wish to relive the glory. Skip this little number, it ain't worth it.

What the..... Charlize was great. She brought back memories of my phyco b**** from hell stepmother. That was worth a star. The story is a good one, the eye candy was ok too.... But Kristen's inability to act was a huge downfall. It's like she struggles to convey emotion with her face.... So not worth it

Not the best in the series and there's only one hillbilly? Third film in the Wrong Turn franchise and upon watching it there are some things I am curious about with it like with the previous two installments of the series.  The first two involved someone making a wrong turn then ending up seeing the cannibal hillbillies that they eventually run into if not killed off early like in the second film.  This movie to me feels like that they made it a 'Wrong Turn' film, but the deal is that nobody had made a wrong turn anywhere.  The film deals with inmates that have to go about getting transferred I believe, and end up running into only one hillbilly which I do not know is one from the previous films had shown or were killed off by movie's end.  Although the writing and acting in the movie weren't that good nor wasn't that bad somewhere inbetween those, but this movie I think people should go about renting at some point to watch it.  If you're  fan of the series than you may enjoy it more than I have with the movie but if not, don't go about expecting too much out of this movie when you watch it.  Overall I give Wrong Turn 3, 2 stars out of 5.

Subtle Tease That Doesn't Quite Deliver This is not a terrible movie.  At times it captures both marital and sexual tension in subtle ways.  However, some of the dialogue is unrealistic (say, when Keira Knightley says to her former lover after two minutes, "Tell me something that counts"), and the film as a whole doesn't have enough substance to fill 95 minutes.  I'd think of it as a short story trying to masquerade as a novel.  The overall effect is something akin to a tease: Will they be unfaithful, or won't they?  The question is fine, but by the end, you don't care that much because the film hasn't revealed any fine nuances beyond what you get in the first 10-15 minutes.  Sam Worthington is a little like a statue in heat: You can somehow tell that he wants Eva Mendes, but he's so wooden that he's almost funny.

Scratched When I originally got the DVD in the mail, I wasn't in much of a hurry to watch Gurren Lagann; I just bought it so I could later watch it with some friends. After about a month I finally ripped of the plastic wrapping and to watch it, but when I reached the 2nd DVD in the set I noticed some skipping. I then decided to check all the DVDs. 2 out of 6 had some major scratches on them, luckily only 1 of the 2 had some major reading issues. At this point it was too late to return so I am stuck with it.

School Boy Fantasy My Week With Marilyn is all about Marilyn Monroe's appeal and stardom. The problem is the acting, script and direction is a B+. Michelle Williams is definitely beautiful, but she lacks that amazing charm and charisma that Marilyn possessed. Williams was better in the more melancholic, painful scenes, but it was frustrating, it could've been a much better character study. Even if the film is a true story, it comes off as too much of a school boy fantasy, and the main character can hardly gain sympathy for playing the girl next door and then running off with the lead actress. The direction of the film told the story, but it lacked a memorable iconic moment. Lets get a few shots of Marilyn by herself, or at least some archival footage of the real Marilyn. Kenneth Branagh and Dame Judi Dench were the scene stealers for me, and Julia Ormond was lovely as Vivian Leigh. The movie left me wanting to see the actors actual films, like Streecar named Desire (Leigh), The Seven Year Itch (Monroe) and Hamlet (Olivier).

BOO! Before I watched this, I started out with a five star rating.  I started subtracting stars from it as I was watching.  I ended up with two stars after subtracting three stars because of the reasons mentioned below.  -1 star for the graphic penis piercing scene. -1 star for the nauseating sex scene with Twink Caplan (there was no nudity, but I felt really gross watching it). -1 star for Robert Loggia's terrible character and third-rate acting!  There were a few laugh-out-loud scenes, so it is worth a two star rating.  I am a huge Tim and Eric fan, but this was a terrible idea with a terrible outcome.  After opening the package and watching the movie once, this movie has absolutely no value.

The Sargossa what?!? This is a totally silly Polish film from 1965, I only watched it because there are all these signs on the outside saying that it is the favourite film of Jerry Garcia, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppolla (interesting, right?), but the film itself is not quite what you'd want to commit three hours to. It is interesting to some extend, in that it shows an event, and then jumps back to the event that precedes that (through some storytelling or otherwise), and just meanders about through various sword fights and other hallucinogenic episodes (mostly involving a skull-shaped chalice). Delicous. The common image throughout is of the two criminals tortured and left to die, the two voluptuous sister, and woman's two breasts. Beautiful.

Trite with Good Moments This film, with the exception of the Jane Fonda/Alan Alda exchange, was predictable, trite; and boring.  It is hard to decide which wase worse: the Cosby/Pryor or the Mathau segments.  The Maggie Smith/Michael Caine portion had its moments but her performance was hardly worth an Oscar.  This was clearly not up to Neil Simon's normal level of humor.

Poor OK, the queen was not bad, the forest was interesting.  That being said, the angst was so thick you could cut it with a knife.  The end was so poorly done and so flat faced that it reduced my review a star for just those few minutes.  The story was so predictable that it actually put me to sleep (in the theater, not even comfortable chairs).  I have to say, unless you are a twilight fan, flee from this movie, it is a one watch movie at best.

Like a drunken barf drenched one night stand Take me home tonight contains lackluster dull uninspired dialogue performed by 2nd rate actors with an 80's soundtrack featured as a dominating tool to make up for this and to bluntly remind you that this is happening in the 80's. Well the soundtrack can't save a movie that is dead on arrival. Take me home tonight lacks what 80's director John Hughes had in spades and that's interesting characters, good dialogue, quality story, actors with charisma and the personality to bring a quality script to life, actors that make you care about the characters they are playing, and most of all fun. Seek Ferris Bueler's Day Off and Sixteen Candles for proof of John Hughes craft or if you want a more risque teenage comedy/drama then seek out the artful classic Paul Brickman movie Risky Business and skip this piece of trash. It may sound cliche but they really don't make em' like they used to.

2 stars because the 2nd movie was even worse! I thought this movie was really bad at first but after seeing the second movie, this movie is just a bit better.  Where to start? I usually love Marvel films so I thought I should watch this movie. Well, this movie was the first time I have ever seen Ghost Rider and learned about his character's origins. Ghost Rider is really Johnny Blaze in the day time. I think Ghost Rider isn't a bad character but I think he just average one. His powers aren't really interesting as he only has his chain and bike and his eye stare. But later he has a shotgun. So, he not that powerful.  What interesting about this character is that he is a full human in the day time. Then, he feels all the fighting injuries that ghost rider received the previous night. Ghost Rider doesn't feel the pain or can get injured too bad, but as Johnny he could die from some injuries. So, he is all beat up in the day and is healing mostly from the fights during this time.  That's all I really liked about the movie. I didn't really care for the fights scenes or the love interest in the movie. The bad guys that Ghost Riders fought were really bad because they were too week. Ghost Rider really didn't have to do much to beat them.  This movie is definitely a rental and not a buy.

Too violent for comedy, too light hearted for horror. The juxtaposition of extreme violence with the light hearted comedy in this movie just didn't work.  All the actors did a fine job, especially Tyler Labine and Alan Tudyk (he could play a terrifying bad guy in a horror flick), but seeing a man jammed into a wood chipper, another impaled on a fallen tree, and Alan Tudyk tortured isn't funny.  The attempt at humor alongside these scenes were crass rather than funny.  The violence in this movie was simply too extreme to think that this movie could be considered a comedy.  And all the attempts at comedy kept the movie from being a decent horror movie.

Bluray skipped at the last crucial scene I got this dvd pretty quick which I was really happy about, but when I finally got to watch the movie...well at the last part of the movie it skipped!! That was really disappointing...

Depressingly, haunting From the beginning when they showed the huge mansion, I thought it would be tough to make a good movie with rich people. And in this case this assumption proved correct. The life of the rich who are politically connected is really depressing if this movie is true. I found it annoying although, seeing Rocky's future trainer was the only interesting part of the movie. Big thumbs down on this downer.

disappointed It has some action, some very little acting, and not much script.  I've really liked Battle - Los Angeles and was hoping for more of the same type of action.  You won't really find it here.  The action is too far fetched to be anything but laughable...but then, maybe it was supposed to be comedy.  I guess I like my action to be just a little more realistic - I mean, come on, get an old battleship commissioned and ready to fight in hours - it would take months if not years.  And to run it with a handful of personnel - impossible.  The script was 'see-thru', you knew what was going to happen in the movie from the opening scenes.  Guess I was just expecting more.  Don't expect much and you might like it.

It is what i is! Seeing that I was the star of this movie (Rick Stratton),... I can review it a little more rationally then the one BONEHEAD that reviewed it prior!! First,... It is a pretty crappy, low budget action movie. You should expect that going in. Some acting is bad (Local hire in the Philippines), and, some acting is pretty decent! Some battle scenes are decent enough too.... Some are not so great. As far as the PREVIOUS REVIEWERS comments on unrealistic locations!! LOL! PRETTY FUNNY, AND, JUST PLAIN STUPID AND IGNORANT!! "MOST" of the locations we shot in were the EXACT same as "Apocalypse Now"! "Platoon"! And "Hamburger Hill"! Ha! We even had some of the same crew, and backround players that were in all three blockbusters! ALSO,.... The other reviewer is an idiot also with "The worst movie ever made" comment!! You ever see "Year One" with Jack Black? I could go on with 20 other unwatchable movies where they spent Millions! When you spend a couple of bucks, and get a fun Turkey to watch,... I think that, that is acceptable. Laugh when its bad! And, enjoy it when it's ok, and they're blowing stuff up!! When you spend MILLIONS with "Supposed" big stars, and it sucks!! THAT is unacceptable!! And, just plain irritating!

Read the book... Read the book (it is superb), skip the film. This made for TV effort by TNT has so many departures from the original story it is almost a different tale. In addition, trying to condense 800+ pages into three hours means some serious editing has been done. The result is a choppy difficult to follow film that leaves the viewer disappointed. The book could be remade into an excellent film multi-part film by a good film studio with a good budget and a script that more closely follows the book (like the LOTR films for example).

"Oh fatal error of misguided" direction I have just been watching Joyce DiDonato's performance of Dejanira's "mad scene" from this production.  This is the first time I've seen the acclaimed DiDonato in action.  Even so, I am tempted to blame the director -- whose work I do know -- for this misguided interpretation.  Yes, it's a mad scene -- but this is a HANDEL work, not a 21st century one.  The vocal line is to be SUNG, with no resorting to speaking voice.  If you want to hear a correct, Handelian rendition, listen to Sarah Walker's completely SUNG version, with great phrasing that amply suggests the despair and fright without resorting to exaggeration.  This is up on YouTube, with the score as a visual so that you reviewers who seem to be new to Handel in general and this oratorio in particular can follow the way Handel wrote it.  Those wild leaps in the music signify Dejanira's madness without any sitcom exaggerations.  As for the performers looking like their roles: that's a bonus, but opera -- especially Baroque opera -- is about singing, and I'd bet DiDonato, based on her reviews, is perfectly capable of singing that scene.  As I said in a comment to another review, I once had a Salome directed by Luc Bondy (the director of this Hercules) about which he said essentially that he always hated that opera and he thought that was a good thing for a director.  Why not listen to a Hercules performed by people who love and appreciate Handel?  The Walker recording has John Tomlinson and Anthony Rolfe Johnson as well.  And such lovely diction...

Starts strong, but a rather depressing story-line. Beginning with one of the happiest, and most uplifting songs I've ever heard in my life, titled "Life's A Happy Song," this film was headed in all the right directions.  Instead, it takes a dark and rather depressing turn, doing for the Muppets what "Babe: Pig in the City" did for that franchise.  Jason Segel and Amy Adams are very likable as the main actors, and the new "whistling" Muppet is great, but it would have been good to see some of the funnier character like Ratzo, Peppe the Prawn, and Gonzo doing some funny bits.  There are so many great characters to work with here, they really missed a golden opportunity to bring back a winning franchise.  Next time, maybe Disney will let their Pixar team tell the story...

I feel as if I got scammed by Paramount Let's start out with the film. I would say that this Transformers film rivals the first one in quality. It's really that good. I would give it a solid four out of five. This was the first film that I had seen in IMAX 3-D after returning to the states from being stationed overseas. I was completely blown away with the 3-D effects and sound. However, I feel as if I have been duped by Paramount in that when I opened my blu-ray combo pack there was a 5 or 10 dollar off coupon for the Transformers: Dark of the Moon 3-D, Blu-ray/DVD+ Digital Copy! I know that the studio is trying to squeeze every dollar they can out of us, but come on! They probably had the 3-D version ready but wanted to milk us some more. I would not recommend buying this version and waiting on the newer one scheduled to release soon.  So to summarize:  Film- 4 Shady Blu-ray release business practices- 1 (negative if I could)

Bad science This documentary is filled with junk science and statistical trickery. When it is at its best, this documentary shows a mere correlation between the consumption of animal food products and health problems (forget evidence of actual causal links; the film doesn't draw any distinction between correlation and causation). But a lot of the time, it doesn't even show an actually factual correlation.  For example, the film claims, without any evidence, that the "scarcity of animal foods" is the reason that heart disease drops in German occupied Norway in the '40s; they have no actual numbers on animal product consumption to draw a correlation, its just a guess. They don't even suggest the possibility that a war might have effected the rate at which heart disease was reported. They may as well have claimed that "physical proximity to Nazis reduces instances of heart disease", as that is no less supported by the evidence that they present.  Likewise, the film relies heavily on anecdotes. We hear about people who are healthy because they've "changed their health destiny" (as one anecdote describes it). Even when most of the anecdotes clearly involve exercise and a generally improved diet, the improvement is always treated as being a result of "low-fat plant based foods" exclusively.  And as mentioned before, the film doesn't care about causation. The documentarian accepts practically magical assessments of how diseases are caused. We are presented with the (unsubstantiated) claim that cancer is a "switch" that is caused by the percentage of protein we ingest; there is no discussion of how this "switch" actually operates, just that there is a correlation, and that correlation is adequate to conclude thusly. The film ignores that the general cause of cancer is pretty well understood, insofar as how it is a result of damaged DNA. But their ignorance of any mechanism that could actually cause cancer is treated like a STRENGTH; the film is leading us to believe that it is a STRENGTH for their position that they don't know how animal protein causes cancer.  The fact that this documentary has such a high rating demonstrates how poorly educated we all are about science. The documentary draws conclusions from a mere handful of studies, many from decades ago, and even uses them and a couple of anecdotes to demonize real science and medicine. The film is a veiled attack on modern medicine, as hints are dropped left and right about how bad modern medicine is, and how diseases can be "reversed" if you just eat differently. The documentarian repeats that the number of doctors who espouse their theories about health is "small, but growing." The important point is that converts in medicine to an exclusive diet of "plant based foods" is small.  That said, they don't get everything wrong, but the things they get right about super-stimulants like fast food are so polluted by their junk science, I can't recommend anything other than skipping this film. Just eat better and exercise more. Yes, fatty foods and a diet with a ton of meat is bad, but that doesn't mean any amount of meat will kill you, or that a whole foods plant based diet will cure you of all your ills.

This could have been so much more if the filmmakers had b***s (guts). I got this thinking it was going to be a sexy jungle epic.  Well, sexy, no - the Asian star was not utilized at all except for looking on as things happened - she was definitely attractive but it seemed as though the filmmakers were afraid of her sexuality, so much so that they didn't consider using it to make the film something to remember.  As it is, it is a lot of fluff without a bottom line.  As for Karzan, the 2nd feature, it may actually be more enjoyable because it's low-rent enough to provoke a lot of laughter, whether intentional or unintentional.  Overall, these two films are nothing worse than the usual jungle dreck that has been previously released over various decades.  They just fit right in with the dreck and let the viewer down, instead of keeping him, well, up.

The new Lundgren movie...is there anything else to say? I have seen worse from him though. Still kinda lame. I say C-. "I bet somebody $20 that you wouldn't find that stash tonight. I guess I lost." Dave (Faris) & Emma (Evigan) have found the perfect house in a great neighborhood with great neighbors. While on their first night there they discover a hidden closet filled with heroin. Thinking the best option is to leave and call the cops they walk outside and their neighbor tells them that that is a bad idea. Running back into the house they have no option but to toss out the stash to the people waiting for them, but that is not all they were looking for. So going into this I had low expectations because of the fact that this is a Lundgren movie. In my opinion he peaked in Rocky. This is another mindless action movie that is good enough to keep you watching but still a movie you forget as you are watching. If you are a fan of Lundgren you will like this movie. If you aren't I have to say I have seen worse from him. Overall, everything that a typical Lundgren usually has. Lame plot, acting and a movie that you forget as you watch. I give it a C-.

Blu-Ray, "Forbidden Planet" Here is the {Bottom-Line} on the Blu-Ray edition.  The Video portion is just fine.  The Audio that is suppose to be as I recall in 5.1 Surround is, "Pitiful".  Sorry folks but you might as well here it the way it is before you order the Blu-Ray edition.  I'm not going to get into the Movie in regards to the Special effects etc. I think all of us know about that. The real question that should be answered in this Review is about the Blu-Ray and if it is Good or Bad.  Terry Honaker

Started to go downhill As soon as I first saw this movie I felt like it was going downhill. They started to make the story more 'funky' and 'fashion' related. With buying tails and all. Also, Barbie doesn't even look the same anymore. I'm a MASSIVE fan of the stories up to the Diamond Castle (didn't like the Thumbelina tail, thought it was ridiculous...didn't follow the Thumbelina plot at all! And also I did not like Christmas Carol and The Three Musketeeers)  I'm a HUGE fan of the traditional Barbie stories with great morals. (Rapunzel, Swan Lake...etc). Which I grew up with up and am now an adult. But seeing the huge change with the movies makes me really upset. Young girls aren't learning anything from these movies.  Even though Kelly Sheridan did voice Merliah, I was still horribly disappointed with how modern and hip they tried to make Barbie. The story was cute, but not the Barbie stories I know and love. The film had great animation as well.  This was the last tolerable Barbie movie I have watched and not completely cringed throughout it. After they replaced Kelly Sheridan it has gone completely 'PLASTIC' and 'SHALLOW' and just to market Barbie products

Not as good in my opinion I am a Woody Allen fan and bought this because of the reviews. I guess it was not my cup of tea. I couldn't watch it for more then 15 minutes. I wish I could figure out what exactly I didn't like about it.

How 'bout filming it with some lighting next time? This was one of those "turn out the lights so no one can see how NOT scary the action really is" types of movies.  Fortunately, it's not as bad as one of those "shake the camera a lot during every scene so no one can see how NOT scary the action really is" types of movies.  Oh wait, this movie had both darkness AND shakey cam effects, but it was so damn dark the entire time that you can't tell it's shaking too!  Yes, 95% of this movie was shot in the dark with glimpses of moonlight or car lights or flashlights or cellphone lights thrown in just so you know that the movie is still playing and that you didn't buy a defective DVD.  This movie is equivalent to having a friend walk downstairs in your basement, turn off the lights, then flicker a flashlight on-and-off while running around naked.  You then are upstairs and get down on the floor and scream under the door at your friend in the basement.  There, I just saved you the price of this DVD.  Honestly, the creatures in this movie looked good and some of the scenes had some good effects, but the story suffered with a few hiccups along the way and the last half hour was a dud.  Sorry, can't recommend this.  Try "I Saw The Devil" if you want to see some recent great scary filmmaking.

My first Conan experience is my last. I've never seen the Ah-nuld version of Conan so this was my first and last foray with the barbarian.  Just a dreadful film, the continuity is just terrible and the dialogue inane. When Ron Perlman is in a production I know it's either first rate or a paycheck role for him. This one is clearly a paycheck with some residual deal I'd wager. I think Jason Momoa was cast for his ability to scowl. Rachel Nichols, lacking her natural blonde hair, is sorely misused. She's either a tough, kick-azz heroine or a screaming damsel in distress. She's way too smart for this role. Stephen Lang is unrecognizable and that is probably to his benefit. He can leave this off his resume and deny all involvement.

OVER HYPED The year is 1987. Two couples are taken on a cruise in the South Pacific lead by Captain Macho (Manuel Fihman) a portly Hispanic who does not know port from starboard. They land on what appears to be a deserted island for sun, fun, and cocaine. The movie stars Amanda/Kitty Cole (co-writer and costume designer) and Suzi Lorraine, best known for her appearances in the soft core Misty Mundae movies.  I was under the mistaken impression the movie would be about young couples frolicking on an island, then having to fight off cannibals and zombies. It is not. PLOT SPOILER The landing party dies in quick order, except for one girl. There is a needless flashback scene to add some time to make this movie 70 minutes. The rest of the movie was how our Ms. Cole tries to integrate with the tribe. The movie was short and misleading. It is a movie with zombies, but not a zombie movie. It is a movie with cannibals, but not a cannibal movie. The acting was above norm, but overall the film was fairly lame.  F-bomb, sex, no nudity.

Stupid movie The directors must think we are all stupid.  But in reality, they are.  This movie makes sure to put inappropriate family dialogue (sexual) in the first 10 minutes, spoiling it for parents of children.  We turned it off after we had had enough.  I watched it later alone to see if we should let the kids watch it.  It did get better with less sexual innuendos but the characters were Americans???? acting as Brits????  The whole thing was just stupid!  So many of the characters acted like idiots.  The only redeeming message was that like Dorothy, she had the power all along to change her face.  She just needed to like herself the way she was.  Don't waste your money on this.

Dissapointed The very loose and hard to follow story line made for difficult enjoyment of the movie itself, too much of the kung -foo fighting for me.

Most Overrated Series Ever This is probably the most overrated and overhyped series of all time.  The few episodes I watched lacked originality and were just cheap copies of early comedies.  A poorly written and poorly acted series that was populated with pretty faces.  Watching it on DVD reminds one of this and begs the questions, "is there a better way to spend this kind of money?"

Too Many Interviews, Not Enough Golf I am an American who attended the 2010 Ryder Cup in Wales.  As an attendee, I could not see everything; so I wanted to see what I missed as well as relive some of the highlights that I saw so I purchased this "Collector's Edition."  The "Official Film" was approximately 154 minutes and consisted of 10 minutes of the Junior Ryder Cup at Gleneagles, Scotland, 24 minutes of interviews and other preliminary activities, 110 minutes of the competition, and 10 minutes showing and describing the holes at Celtic Manor.  The competition coverage did capture most of the highlights, but I would have liked to have seen more golf and less of the Junior Ryder Cup and the interviews - particularly since the interviews featured such clich&eacute;s as "In match play, anything can happen," "We played with a lot of heart," and "I'm proud of each and every one of them."  "The Ryder Cup Diary" was approximately 78 minutes and showed some of the behind-the-scenes activities.  Other than the Wednesday night dinner at beautiful Cardiff Castle, which had a few scenes with the American team, it was all about the European team.  Much of the "Diary" was compelling, with interesting revelations such as Luke Donald's piano-playing ability.  But ultimately, as much as I like and respect Captain Colin Montgomerie, I got tired of hearing his never-ending, hackneyed assessments of the otherwise-exciting event.  My primary criticism of the two-disk set, however, is that it was only produced in PAL (European) format, which is not compatible with American DVD players.  After I sent several emails to their customer service representatives, the Amazon people agreed to reimburse me for the cost of converting the disks to U.S. format.  Unfortunately, there was some loss of quality when the disks were converted.  So, I was glad that I got to see the only videos taken of the 2010 Ryder Cup, but the viewing experience was not as enjoyable as I hoped it would be.

Tea: All flash and bang but no depth in flavor. Overall not as good as I hoped. And the only reason I made it through was because there was nothing better to watch. The story picks up hooking the first movie, and introducing us to Jack's (Jeff Bridges) son, who has grown up without a dad, and has become a rebellious youth. The visual effects were fantastic. The story was incredibly lacking in plot, characters, and theme development.  It wasn't believable .  I wasn't drawn in.  I wasn't hooked. The original was a lot better, in the story, characters, and theme. I would not buy this for my collection.

Something Is Just "Off" About This Sequel "Silence of the Lambs", the movie from which "Hannibal" is spawned, was an exercise in  creepiness from beginning to end.  The scenes with Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins are almost alive with tension, while the overall plot is well-executed and creepy enough to make you legitimately "weird-ed out" on more than one occasion.  Sadly, this sequel fails to live up to any of those previous benchmarks.  For a basic plot summary, "Hannibal" sees Clarice Starling (now played by Julianne Moore) as an under-appreciated F.B.I. agent.  Out of the blue, Starling is contacted by Mason Verger (Gary Oldman), an old victim of Dr. Lecter, who portends to have some new information regarding the whereabouts of Hannibal (Anthony Hopkins).  Though difficult to pinpoint exactly what is wrong with what could have been a blockbuster sequel, I believe it is the combination of "little things" that really do this movie in.  For instance...  -The tension in "Lambs" comes from the fact that one can never quite "figure out" Hannibal.  At times he seems like a civil genius, yet obviously he is also quite twisted psychologically.  This produces a sense of fear in the vein of "what will he do next".  This movie holds none of that intensity, with Hannibal being portrayed as an "old romantic" instead of a cutting-edge personality.  -The lack of scenes involving both Hannibal & Clarice is also unforgivable.  That is where the first movie really succeeds, and here it comes both late and not enough.  -Maybe it is the writing, but Foster's Clarice was much more interesting than Moore's doppelganger.  Whereas Foster was vulnerable and conflicted, Moore is just "straight arrow" with no compromises or shades of grey.  Either character would work in the context of the films, but it is the sudden shift between them that makes Moore's performance just seem wrong.  -Finally, the "Buffalo Bill" main plotline of "Lambs" far outshines anything this film has to offer.  The visuals of the faceless Verger are striking, for sure, but his character is terribly developed.  He is built up to be the "primary villain", but I found myself not caring about him whatsoever.  In essence, "Hannibal" (while not utter, 1-star type trash) is a failure due to the fact that it changes the formula so much from its predecessor.  The tension is gone, the interesting characters are gone, and what remains is a lot of police procedure and talking.  A shame, considering the potential that was wasted.

Snow White I have not ordered this item.  I will not order this item. I almost did, until I took a second look at the price.  This item is so overpriced, that it will not become a part of my Disney collection.  I can't believe Disney would charge this much for a Blu-ray disc.  I give the movie 5 stars, but the packaging and cost bring it down to a 2.  Sorry Disney.

Nice try, but Rogen fails I admit I had doubts going in to this movie, I mean Seth Rogen as a super hero??  I gave it the good ol' college try and went in with an open mind.  First, it couldn't make up it's mind.  Rogen tried to be a playboy/comedian/action hero/serious leading man and failed miserably at all three.  He wasn't funny and couldn't remain in one type of character for any length of time.  I couldn't take him seriously as an action hero as he simply doesn't act or look the part.  If he was serious the entire movie and acted like a bad a$$ then it may have been better.  Chou plays Kato and he is pretty good.  I'm not a huge fan of the slow-mo fight scenes but he did a great job being funny/bad-A during the film and I hope to see him in other films.  I would say with a different actor playing the green hornet it would have been a much better movie overall.

So slow This movie has all the elements to be great but fails miserably. It's a cute enough story but the acting is incredibly flat and one dimensional. I'm sorry, I love Kristen Wiig on SNL but in movies she's just not that dynamic enough of an actress to hold my attention to be convincing at all. That pretty much goes for all the actors in this film. Decent story but a very slow and boring watch. Pretty disappointing for a movie about roller derby.

Scattered and Rambling; Of little interest to musicians This film is unfocused and of little interest to musicians who hope to get an inside look at the Stones' process of developing songs in the studio. I was looking for something along the lines of Let It Be, but this is all about one song only, and large sections are buried under seemingly random rambling by a male voice affecting a literary quality.  Then there are the completely unrelated sections taking place out on the street and in a junkyard and elsewhere.  If you're looking for absurdity mixed with psychedelia and 60s music, I'd recommend the Monkees' Head which is much more fun and also very interesting and thought-provoking.

Oh boy were do we even start with this one. How can you sum up this movie? Well... it's about a little girl (who looks like Anne Ramsey) that is sent to live with her father because her mother wants to enjoy the single like. Young Anne Ramsey is forced to live in a spookie house now with her father and his girlfriend Who was "supposed to be young but she's not she's old". As young Anne Ramsey finds herself adapting to life in her new house and her new "unmedicated" life. In doing so she starts to hear voices coming from the basement "Creepy voices btw". Come play with us "Young Anne Ramsey" the voices say. Then the ridiculous movie takes you from one chuckling to flat out laughing by the time it's over.  This is a remake of an older horror movie by the same name. As remakes usually go 90% of the time they're never as good as the original. I don't recall ever seeing the original film but this movie does feel like a remake.

Unfunny, Undubbed, Unlikable Basically this is a new Galaxy Angel cast, with unlikable characters, unlikable stories, and pretty much everything that was good about Galaxy Angel before this series gone.  I wonder what these people were thinking before they made Rune, the previous cast had lots of life left in them, they didn't need replacing.  Anyway on to the facts  - DVD contains 4 episodes - Japanese audio audio, with Eng subs - No English dub  And lastly, Bandai Visual USA who had the license to this went out of business so really, you'd be buying this with no company to support except maybe Amazon or the seller who gets the money from you.  Avoid this show if you love the previous Galaxy Angel shows.

The Last Godzilla movie until 2014/ The Earth Defense Force must eliminate nearly every monster Godzilla has had a run in with. A mothership appears with Aliens called Xilians. They are the ones who unleashed the monsters for the final war. However, this war of the monsters and Xilians is not over yet. They need the help of Godzilla.    In the cast: Masahiro Matsuoka, Rei Kikukawa, Kane Kusugi, Masakatsu Funaki, Don Frye, Kazuki Kitamura, Kumi Mizuno, Kenji Sahara, Akira Takarada.  Kenji Sahara was also in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FA4TLQ">Gojira / Godzilla Deluxe Collector's Edition (Gojira/Godzilla [1954] / Godzilla, King of the Monsters [1956])</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005NUF5">The War of the Gargantuas</a> (1968), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00003IXDZ">Destroy All Monsters</a> (1968), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006FD9I">Godzilla's Revenge</a> (1969), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002V7OE2">Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla</a> (1974), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00125WAYG">Terror of Mechagodzilla</a> (1975). Just to name a few.  Choice of languages: English, Japanese. Subtitles in English, French.  Special Feature: Behind-the-Scenes of making this film.  Running time: 2 hours, 05 mins.  Rated "PG-13".  This movie was too long, but Captain Gordon kept my interest. Obviously, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002Y69NG">The Ultimate Matrix Collection (The Matrix/ The Matrix Reloaded/ The Matrix Revolutions/ The Animatrix)</a> influenced this story.   This is the last of the Godzilla movies from Toho Co. Ltd and the Millenium series.  Update: Godzilla will return in 2014 in CGI and 3D by Legendary Pictures. Director, Gareth Edwards. Producers, Dan Lin, Roy Lee, Brian Rogers.

A small defect is annoying My review is one which I take the blame for since amazon was never informed. The DVD has a small segment where it turns very slow as there is a defect. I decided to keep it because it is easy to not send the disc back. Amazon met all its obligations--sending the DVD on time,confirming the order and had the provision that I could sent the DVD back if there was a defect.I am pleased with the way they acted.

Good movie, 3D is terrible Good movie but do NOT pay for the 3D version -- it is NOT 3D -- fake 3d with red/green glasses.

vigilante low budget filmaking not at its best. kudos to the film makers however for finding ways to finance a the film anyhow but really just a Death Wish knockoff. non original.even the commentary was boring. nowhere worth the retail price.

ONLY a new song combined with 2 pre-released stories I purchased this for my kids for Christmas thinking it was a new story, but instead it was only a new song about Bob lending a helping hand and then two previously-released stories (Lyle the Kindly Viking and Big River Rescue) both of which we already had.  I find that very misleading.  I paid around $10 for a new song!!!  How disappointing! Buyer beware!

Beware if you plan to use the digital copy on iPad or iPhone !!!Nearly impossible to use on your iPad or iPhone!!!  Digital Copy only supported by Flixster.  To clarify, there is nothing wrong with the actual movie or DVD that you receive.  The movie itself is great and my children absolutely love watching Dolphin Tale.  The problem I have with this DVD combo is that I specifically purchased this version of Dolphin Tale so I could put the movie on my iPad.  However, instead of the normal digital copy disc, I received a download code.  When you go to the site for download, you are forced to install a Flixster app on your computer in order to be able to view the digital copy.  As far as I have read, the only way you would ever be able to view this movie on your iPad is to use wifi or 3G/4G service, download a Flixster app, and stream the movie.  THERE IS NO WAY TO PUT THIS MOVIE INTO ITUNES!  This will be the last Warner Brothers combo I purchase until they make their digital copies compatible with iTunes, like they have been until recently.

Disapointing As much as I loved the movie this collectors edition was not worth purchasing. It came with no blue ray cases or regular DVD cases. The Identity disk is smaller than I expected it to be and worse yet the Identity disk itself is the DVD case for all 4 of the disks (The digital copy only gets an external cardboard sleeve) To take the disks out of the case is nerve racking due to having to press the button and pull up on both ends of the disk one at a time where the fit is so snug that it causes the DVD to bend slightly. I have read some reviews after already opening mine seeing that people accidentally broke their disks trying to remove them from the case. They are also stacked on top of each other causing them to rub up against each other. The Disk itself looks pretty decent but the stand it rests on has a cheap feel to it due to the sticker placed on the front and back of the stand from the light bike scene. I would return this if I could however due to having opened the box already I would not be able to returned an opened movie. Overall I am displeased with this purchase.

Not too sure, disappointed at this point Well, I am a P90X fan and have done it over the past 3 years so many times!  I have done many hybrids of it as well by inserting Insanity, Insanity Asylum and of course P90X+.  I find the P90X+ Kempo much better so always substitute there.  I am stunned to say the least about this new one.  As with many of the other reviews, I walk away wondering if I burned any calories or not.  The real kicker for me was this morning with Shoulders & Arms.  I am a shoulders girl and I like definition, no lean for me.  In my opinion, there is nothing like a woman with nice shoulders in a tank top.  That said, I was floored at how little we did today with this routine versus the Shoulders, Arms & Tris on P90X.  I would walk away there knowing I did a killer muscle workout!  Not with this one.  Again, I found myself wondering if I did anything at all to maintain muscle.  I'm 47 years old so it is important to work the muscles to maintain them and this just didn't do it for me.  I found phase 1 to be the same way as others did.  I am so focused on not falling on my butt and getting hurt that the weight has been compromised.  I will keep it for now and like others, substitute some in with my P90X.  I am looking into the Supreme 90 that I'm hearing about now.  This is such a bummer to me!

The Series is WAY Better I got this movie for cheap and have been watching the animated series. It's good to see where the series begins, but the movie is pretty bad. I bought it to complete the collection, but definitely recommend getting the clone wars series.

mess The scenarist of this movie probably had lots of schemes before him while working on that project as otherwise he could not have made this story due to innumerable twists and turns he introduced.  But the viewers have no such help.  They have to try to keep the track of all that's happening right now and right there.  Perhaps some can but there is absolutely no need to go to movies to be bothered with such hocus pocus.  Try linking the beginning of this movie and its end -  the two have absolutely nothing in common.  That's the major problem of this movie - it only exists for real in the head of its scenarist.  Scorsese skillfully directed although with lots of quite cheap horrors tricks (rats, hurricane), a forgettable piece in his career.  Di Caprio and Ruffalo do well, the best part of the feature.  There is so much cockiness in other roles and such posturing that I find it really hard to bear (not actors' faults though).  The best example is Kingsley who was well cast but the role he's got is totally unbearable.  All in all, completely disappointing.

Pleased or Not? Unfortunately two of the movies were extremely poor quality. Even thought the two movies kept freezing every couple of minutes and then restarting it was very nice to see these flicks once again.

Not for Young Children The movie is not something that young children should see. A lot of the content and comments are geared for adults.  (Minor swearing in one part and adult innuendos throughout the movie) "New Age" thought is in the movie, such as prayer to a spirit god. Singing during the movie was very distracting. Too bad....the story line could have been good without these things.

Not that intense! I was disappointed with this DVD. I have enjoyed the other Core Fusion DVDs; while they are not as intense as my other workouts, I could find a place for them in my routine to strengthen and tone, and provide an alternative to some of my heavier workouts. The workouts on this DVD did not hit the right mix of cardio or toning that I expected. The only workout that I will do again on this DVD is the 'Power Sweat' segment. The other workouts don't raise the heart rate, and don't contain a good mix of toning moves. Maybe the diehard Core Fusion fans will enjoy it - but for newcomers, try one of their other excellent DVDs.

Infuriating film, spoiler review An earlier reviewer commented that those who dislike this film are fans of films like Hostel and lack the discernment to appreciate something like the Innkeepers. I am not a fan of Hostel, and there were a number of things I liked about the Innkeepers. I enjoyed the naturalistic approach to the characters, the leisurely (and realistic) story development, and Sara Paxton's winning performance as Clair. But the film was ruined for me in a single moment - when Clair goes into the basement to trigger the climax. I cannot abide movies that hinge on a character doing something no one in the real world would ever, ever do - a spontaneous burst of insanity clearly designed to get that character into a life-threatening situation. Clair herself says she doesn't want to go back to the basement, even as she moves to descend the stairs. It's absurd. Absurd and obvious and nothing that happens after can suprise or shock or even move us. Seriously. The screenwriter spends all this time creating a likeable, believable character - then throws her out the window and substitutes a mindless, self-destructive idiot for the last act simply because he's either too lazy or too unimaginative to create a plausible means of reaching the finale. It's infuriating. It isn't sloppy film-making, it's sloppy writing. It's sad. I give it two stars for Sara Paxton's performance. Her wasted performance.

Achingly Pedestrian With A Profoundly Tiresome Finish Intended as an indictment of the one-percenters, but falling completely flat due to a lifeless script that has been done more times than Pamela Anderson has been mounted.  Always affable Richard Gere plays Robert Miller, investment fund guru and billionaire. A power player on The Street with the grandiose nickname of 'The Oracle', given in response to his ability to forecast trends and seeing opportunities that the average manager did not. A man who is respected by his peers, adored by his investors, and loved by his family. He has it all. And as we get past the glossy introduction scenes, the dark and ugly revelations are quick and decidedly unremarkable.  Unsurprisingly, Bob is a lying philanderer abusing the love of a good wife; a corrupt businessman who has manipulated and leveraged his company's assets into a wholly illegal and monstrously devastating position. And a self-absorbed narcissist who, when pushed, reveals his twisted inner essence. In a nutshell - evil dressed in a power suit and handsome frame.  Yes, we get it. The one-percenters are moral frauds and ethical failures.  Not a particular fresh revelation.  And based on the brief revolting experiences I had scoping out various published society pages of Gotham, Malibu, Bean Town and the Potomac palaces - almost certainly an accurate portrait of most of the upper echelon and their stunning disconnect from us, the remaining 99%. Only $2 million dollars indeed.  But an entire film restating the obvious isn't particularly creative or enjoyable.  A production made worse with the stunningly linear role of the oh-so-tragic figure of Mrs. Ellen Miller, played by Susan Sarandon. Ah yes, she of the steadfast homefront, withstanding her partner's past indiscretions, supporting his weakness - loving the man for all his foibles and shortcomings until finally discovering who she had really married. And in a final&eacute; worthy of a Lifetime Channel flick - a karmic resetting of the scales by delivering societal goodness under a false banner of generosity. Cut to the award scene where she delivers slow perfunctory claps from a sitting position while everyone else is standing and cheering in admiration.  Depressingly predictable.  The sole presence that I found even mildly engaging was Stuart Margolin as Miller's personal attorney. I have very fond memories of the character actor as the persecuted neurotic goof from a multitude of comedies during the 70's and 80's. Screening him some forty years later as a calculating thousand-dollar-an-hour legal eagle was surprisingly enjoyable. But noting his wonderful performance was like noting a sweet cherry on top of a bored moose's steaming dung pile.  I would love to say that there was something here worth spending entertainment funds or precious time out of one's life - but after thirty or so minutes I started to press the FF every few frames; skipping over ground that, quite frankly, started to put me to sleep. Literally.  Destined for the OWN Channel's rotation.  Movie Note:  - In all honesty, to get a better sense of these people and their lives, I would strongly suggest watching "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005FITIIC">Margin Call</a>" from 2011.

Gave it an hour and it never took off. We watched the movie for an hour with high expectations based on the reviews. However we turned it off and didn't finish. It's way too slow and very boring.

Lost its way Started out good, lost its way ..... which is sad considering Robert DeNiro's in it, which was the reason I bought it.

Underworld Fan, not impressed with this one I almost turned it off. I am not a movie snob, and I don't mind pointless violence. However, the rest of the Underworld series has had great story lines, AND great violence/action. This one has a VERY weak story, and mediocre action. You can tell that they didn't have as good of a budget for this film. All in all, it was ok at best.

Bio - DVD It started off really well.  Got a little choppy and then ended abruptly.  Almost as the rest of the information didn't get transferred to the DVD.  Very strange.  I would be a little concerned about purchasing another DVD made by Bio.

Good B Picture. What can I tell you? Fighting Seabees is a WW2 John Wayne actioneer from the Republic B-Picture factory. Pro character actors in a propaganda, morale booster (had an uncle who served in the Seabees) genre offering that has no resemblance to reality but nevertheless is a window into the era's pop culture.

Weak comedies, horrible video I like Edgar Kennedy in other movies but these are terrible. Unfunny, jokes that fall flat, cheap production values, many scenes that looked unrehearsed or poorly planned, etc. The transfers are terrible with muddy and fuzzy black and white and terrible audio. I didn't know these were from the Alpha company. Having mistakenly bought from them in the past, I can tell you that you should avoid anything coming from that company. They simply don't give a hoot about quality and their only interest is turning a buck over as quickly as possible.

Really? I'm just gonna go straight to the point. Tabs (prints have no standard notations) have mistakes all over the place. 5 short solos written rhythmically all wrong and even have some wrong notes (where? For example: Solo#3, Bar 2, Beats 3&4, or  Solo#4 first bar of the second line, Beat 4...).  Also, the most important part: I have a filling that tabs for the final song were written by me when I was 10. First of all there is no BARS or Beats, not even a note values (you have to ques the chord changes....) Player does not follow the metronome and his tempo is all over the place. Which makes it even harder to get the idea of the melody or phrase. It has some good info (especially for the beginners) in it but you can not do the 50% good and other 50% whatever job and sell it as a PRO Video lessons. Please, do the pro job that people can use. Over all I would not recommend this DVD.

About half good Thoroughly enjoyed the half about the Golden Gate Bridge.  Really unbelievable.  Eye opening, I had never heard anything like that about the bridge before. The half about her relationships and living in her city, not so much.  The style showing scenes from all over the area were great at first, but then started to feel like a slide show.  Slow paced, could have used a little more creativity.  Overall, would not recommend.  Too dry and artsy to be considered a documentary.

Too too.  Beautifully shot and erotic...but pretentious. There are interesting ideas in "Sense," and the performances are uniformly excellent, as is everything from the sets to the musical score, but I found it ponderous, pretentious, and ultimately unappealing.  Another reviewer said it's hard to categorize, and that's true, although not necessarily a bad thing.  Pressed to find a category in which to put "Sense," I list it with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000QGAU4E">Children of Men</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001LLH8SE">Blindness</a>, which to my mind were both superior films to this one.  I think what "Perfect Sense" might have been TRYING to be more like is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004EQAVHI">Never Let Me Go</a>, which is in every way better than "Perfect Sense."  If you haven't seen "Never Let Me Go" yet and have a choice between that and this--do yourself a favor and go with "Never."  (But if you're in the mood for sluggish sensuality and diffuse prettiness, you could do much worse than "Perfect Sense"--if you can stand being merely engaged rather than rapt, it will do.)

Sorry, but this is just depressing dreck I know I'm going way against the curve here. This movie is filled with fine actors, and faithfully tells a Steinbeck story that English/Literature teachers love for some reason.  However, I think that Chaney's performance as the dim-witted Lenny is really just adequate. To me it seems forced and overplayed. Charles Bickford probably has the most balanced performance in the film. Most of the others are pretty one dimensional. In fact, Lenny's character isn't the only dim-witted one. The son of the boss and the son's wife are none too sharp, and neither is the one-handed man. Burgess Meredith is OK, but doesn't hit a home run.  Now, I like good dramas more than the next guy, but I like to be at least entertained or educated in some way by a serious drama. I found nothing entertaining or educational about Steinbeck's story. His cruelty to virtually every character just turned me off. If you can get a life lesson out of "Don't let someone shoot your dog because they think its a good idea", then maybe you learn something here. Lenny's problems are not something that are going to be encountered by many in their lives. The look at the problems in the marriage are shallow, and marriage problems have been much more meaningfully and skillfully portrayed in at least hundreds of films.  But what about the emotional wringer this movie unleashes?!? "I'm so sad when the dog is shot", gush some reviewers. I'm sorry, that's just one of the oldest and cheapest tricks in the business. Kill a dog in a movie, and many people will cry. Its not great artistry, its a stone cold lock. And wow, if you feel like crying over a dead dog fulfills your need for great cinema, this movie is a bonanza! They not only kill one dog, they kill TWO!!! And the second one is a PUPPY!!!! Bring out the towels, hankies won't do the job!  If you enjoy a couple of hours of unrelenting depression, by all means snatch up this film and hide the guns, drugs, and razor blades.

Weak story, Poor preformances, WAY too long... Look, I get it. Everyone wants to do a "New Vision" of a classic tale. I tend to cut stories like these a lot of slack, because imagination should be rewarded, and often is rewarding to experience. Not in this case, though.  The best that can be said for this movie is that I don't feel like I wasted my time having watched it. It was mildly entertaining... every once in awhile. The main problem I had was that the story takes very broad strokes and seems to centralize on explaining plot points that do little to enrich the viewers experience and do almost nothing with the points that would have added depth to the tale. It also had at least an hour of film that rightly should have been excluded since it did nothing but bog the story down.  However, the weakness in the story could have been salvaged if Kristen Stewart hadn't been cast in the lead. Now, don't get me wrong: I think she's a wonderful actress. She put on a VERY good performance in "Adventureland". Granted, the movie really kinda sucked, but her role was very convincingly played, and she gets credit in my book for that. However, Kristen needs to play to her strengths... which, ironically, is her ability to portray a vulnerable and weak character. Hated "Twilight" and the franchise it spawned, but after having read the first book, I have to hand it to her: She played the part exceedingly well. Charlize Theron can portray the full gamut, from ultra strong to pityingly weak, but Kristen either doesn't have the chops or hasn't tapped into that part of her personality in order to give a convincing performance. The Snow White in this movie needed to run the range along with Theron, and Kristen was not up to the task, and the movie suffered as a result.  I debated on giving it 1 star instead of 2, and in the end I decided that 2 stars was more fair. It was a decent attempt, and the other performances, while not Oscar worthy, were at least par for the course (Except Sam Spruell: That dude should never be given more than two lines in ANY movie, and no line over 5 syllables). The storytelling was meandering even at the best of times, and no one seemed to really WANT to be there, but the cinematography was very well done, a few new elements to the classic tale were well received, and while this is not going to be on my Christmas bluray list, I can appriciate the movie for what it truly is: A fair attempt at an original vision of a classic tale.

No Storyline I was so disappointed when I saw this.  The special effects are really neat, but the storyline is pretty much non-existent.  Thor is a cocky prince, smarts off to his dad, loses power and sent to earth.  Meets girl, they fall in love after two minutes, then it's the final battle.  There should have been more.  Just seemed way too short.

a sadistic and unflinching tale of vengeance... Revenge pictures involving students have been done before, however The Final (2010) takes the concept to a mass scale, as a group of abused high school students, takes their revenge on another group of students they perceive have wronged them.  Part of After Dark Horrorfest Volume 4, director Joey Stewart's presentation is very dramatic, full of ceremony, and gratuitously violent.  Although the reality factor is close to nil, the film does not back away from being brutal and sadistic, featuring and glorifying torture and disfigurement.  With deeds ranging from being just being petty and mean, to physical violence, the film shows various students being put down, bullied, and hassled by some of the beautiful and cool kids.  Dane (Marc Donata) is the leader of the downtrodden group of outcasts, who having reached their limit, are plotting revenge on a grand and deadly scale.  Quite easily, the outcasts trick the cool kids, by inviting them to a bogus masquerade party at an isolated house in the woods.  After being drugged, the offenders wake up and find themselves prisoners in chains, in a large room, where their captors still wearing masks, stand over them condemning them for their past deeds.  From this point forward, the film is mostly a series of ceremonious torture scenes, that may make you squirm a bit.  The torture is often accompanied by eerie banjo music.  One involves a girl given the choice of clipping off the fingers of another hostage.  After she declines, the other hostage is given the same grim proposition.  This is topped by Dane's sadistic knifework, that is reminiscent of a scene from Wolf Creek.  A couple of hostages manage to escape into the woods, taking the scene from the chamber of torture to the outdoors, where the mayhem continues.  It's a rough neighborhood, as after escaping, Kurtis (Jascha Washington) one of the hostages, is first threatened at gunpoint by a cop, and then knocked out and tied up by a nutty neighbor (Matthew Posey).  Eventually Kurtis manages to call the police.  As things begin to unravel, the resolve of the outcasts begins to wane, and those that remain decide their own fate.  The actions of the disgruntled students in The Final might be compared to the events at Columbine, however those killings were largely random, involved explosives, and were not directed at gaining revenge against specific persons.  While perhaps cloaked as a warning to those that engage in bullying, that their "actions have consequences", The Final is mostly an extension of the revenge and torture genre, taken to a very mean and sick extreme.  Vicious and brutal, the ceremoniously administered punishments mainly appeal to the dark side of human nature, glorifying the infliction of pain.  The outcasts are in no way heroic or noble, and are not justified in their actions.  That a few in the group have some remorse, is perhaps the most positive thing that can be said about these twisted individuals.  Some films promote sadistic acts as part their marketing, but fail to deliver.  The Final is one that actually comes close to reaching a cold-hearted sadistic place, and crossing over into gratuitous exploitation.  The cast also features Lindsay Seidel, Eric Isenhower, Justin Arnold, and Julin.  The writing and dialog are quite dreadful, and the gore is not done particularly well.  This is one party that is definitely not for the squeamish.

Terrible LOL I love the massive amount of cliches they managed to pack in this.  My personal favorite is the retarded, 2 brain cell tough guy with the short hair and deep voice.  Wow.  I went to high school with guys like this and they are working at BK now and I'm making way over 6 figs.  Lame.

Good story ruined by horrible animation Beware, this is a good story, but the animation is so stylized and choppy it makes it almost unwatchable.  I was tempted to watch with my eyes closed.  The story and voice direction are strong, but when you see the characters and the action, it really makes you cringe.  I wish I would have rented this first.  This is the first DC movies I have regrets in buying and will make me preview now before buying.

meh Grew up on Tin-Tin books... this is mediocre at best.  Glad that I didn't see this in theaters. Three more words to fills this..  don't bother.

More like a Soap than Sci-Fi Not much good to say about this movie. It has potential in the beginning but runs dry within 20 minutes. If you are more into the drama end of Sci-Fi this might work for you.

$43 PRICE IS RIDICULOUS!!! I have this in VCR tape form and simply wanted to buy it again in DVD form, but the $43.00 price is ridiculous.  Most yoga DVDs are $7.99 to $14.99.  The price would have to come WAY DOWN for me to consider re-buying it!!  For that reason, I am giving this a bad review.  If you want people to experience a good kundalini class, you must make it accessible for the average person's ability to pay for it.

Difficult unless you have years of experience and no hip  hop music in it I bought this after I had my daughter, since I did not have time to go to the gym. I thought I could tone up and learn some fun dance moves. The first thing I will say is this is very fast paced, even the teaching section is fast paced. In my opinion many of the dance moves are very complex, at least for a person that only has one year of dance experience in hip hop and jazz. Another thing I did not like about this video is that the music is very bland and repetitive, like something you would hear in an old school 70's work out video, it is not modern and fun to dance too. If you are looking to a fun work out video, with music that makes you want to work out, and easy moves to learn, this is NOT the video for you and if you have no dance experience this also is NOT the video for you.

Mainly kid oriented I watch other movies of this kind with my 16 y.o. son, but this is the most 'weak' and younger kid oriented in my opinion amongst those we watched together.

Not the fun I expected I bought this DVD at a used bookstore.  I am taking it BACK.  This workout was very boring.  I was looking for a Zuma like DVD, this is not it!

waste of $$ This movie is of poor visual, content, and story/plot quality. I love westerns but this one was very disappointing and a total waste of money.

No where near what I remembered If you were a teen like me when this came out, Battlestar was still a big deal. I guess when you grow up, though, sometimes your younger brain remembers things differently. I forgot how cheezy the acting was. Sure, the effects were state of the art at the time, but still, acting is acting. It was still fun seeing the Galactica finally reach Earth, but beyond that, it was a let down.  I should have stuck with my own memories. They were better than reality.

I cannot believe people gave this a rating above 2 stars!! The Island...now what I was looking for was the Scarlett Johansenn movie but I ran across this instead.  I have to admit that the description intrigued me and it had Michael Caine in it so I was game.  Now, I will watch about anything and the story line was initially interesting but that is pretty much where it ends.  What I can't believe is that I sat through the whole thing.  I think I was waiting for the thing to get better but, alas, it did not.  There were several branches of the inital plot where characters were not fully developed and did not follow why they did what they did or what happened to them in the end.  Where they thinking sequel?  I doubt it.  However, the bad acting where several of the pirates had the stilted language and then would speak in fully "Americanized" slang just did not cut it.  Bad editing or bad acting...probably a bit of both.  I cannot believe Mr. Caine took this role.  All I can say is just 2 Grrrs!

Blu-Ray not as advertised Amazon's description for the Blu-ray edition states, "Also included is Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956), the popular 'Americanized' version starring Raymond Burr..." This is false. The Blu-Ray version does NOT include the Americanized cut. Amazon appears to have lifted this wording from the 2-disc standard DVD set, "Gojira / Godzilla Deluxe Collector's Edition." And considering this Blu-ray's poor image quality (described in other reviews), that standard DVD set is clearly a better choice at half the price.

The Accountant: "Wouldn't wanna be you when Satan finds out!" --- Milton: "What's he gonna do, not let me back in?" DRIVE ANGRY (2011) is a hellish comic book-style movie (aimed at adolescent boys of all ages) that includes a netherworld "hero"  named John Milton (get it?), lingering images of ghastly head wounds, totally nude women (one catfighting on the street has enormous...charms), overloud hip-hop and headbanger music, and a variety of classic muscle machines (Dodge Charger, Buick Rivera, Chevelle SS, etc.).  At times an endless car chase on back country roads and at others a lame attempt to gross out the viewer with splooshing gun and axe wounds, the story goes from one indignity to the next at a rapid pace. Dumbest moment has to be several thugs breaking in on a scowling Nick Cage while he's copulating with an unclothed blonde. They engage in a motel room shootout as a contortionate Cage never allows his coitus to be interruptus. When the enemies are all dead, Cage's "date" is left cringing in the corner in a state of near-dementia. Hahaha.  Upon reflection, a healthy touch of insanity (or masochism) is what's needed to sit through this thng.  To briefly describe DRIVE ANGRY's non-linear plot: after the leader of a devil-worshipping cult decapitates Cage's daughter and mounts her femur on the upper end of his walking stick, he steals the dead girl's newborn daughter. Cage, who's rotting in Hades for unspecified sins, escapes with a multi-barreled god-zapping rifle and goes on a quest to avenge his daughter's murder and get back his grandchild.  The Grim Reaper, in the form of an elegantly-suited "Accountant," follows him to Earth and hunts down Cage and a young girl he's convinced to help with the rescue. Dozens of cars, a chemical truck and an RV are wrecked, explosions abound, and there's hamburger on the highway as bad music pounds like a migraine. We wade through all this to reach the grand finale at at abandoned Louisiana prison, where the cult leader plans to sacrifice the child to Satan on the next full moon, a midnight ceremony that features a fiery pentagram, grimy whirling dervishes and the requisite naked chicks, 40 followers in all. How can Nick possibly prevail against such daunting numbers? Hint: he's already... nevermind.....  You don't really want to see this do you? OK, as a dollar REDBOX rental... maybe. Have aspirin and a barf bag at hand, though.

Drawn Out and Irritating There's something intensely irritating about this video effort. Firstly, the production values are very poor which makes for a less than enjoyable viewing. Secondly, the postage from the US to Australia was highly inflated by the distributor.  Thirdly, where to start? Let's start with just who the Nephilim are. Genesis 6:4 is the place to start  wherein it states: The Nephilim (meaning fallen) were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God (B'nei Elohim) came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them; the same were the mighty men (giborim) that were of old, the men of renown.  The Nephilim and the B'nei Elohim are identical. They are the fallen angels who somehow had reproductive capacity, and mated with human females to produce offspring called "mighty men" (giborim). In mythology, it became an honour for a woman to cohabit with such beasts, as she would bear a giant demigod, a "mighty man of devastation." With so many "mighty men" in the world, immorality and injustice grew, and they ended up fighting each other for earthly supremacy and had pretty much excised the human gene pool, as all people were far too contaminated by their evil inclination. God decided to blot out this Antediluvian world, and basically start again. None of this was explained in the video.  I just don't think that the title of the video is justified. If it were to be justified, the video would need to explain how the Nephilim or giborim reintegrated into the stream if history with the Illuminati. Where were they prior to 1776? Such a video title implies a level of expertise and knowledge that I did not think was evident in the video.  The information is powerful but clich&eacute;d and at times just plain wrong. As much as I could persevere with the video, I seem to recall the presenter proposing a Papal/Nazi/Nephilim/Occult connection, which itself is a clich&eacute; perpetuated by revisionist `researchers' from the 1960s onwards (Pauwels and Bergier plus Francis King come to mind).  Nevertheless, Mr Grupp seems to be a well-intentioned individual exposing serious issues and I wish him well.

Not impressed My little one did not like it at all and I don't blame her. Is so boring. Nothing like the real movie.

What hath William Peter Blatty wrought? "The Rite" isn't a terrible film--I certainly enjoyed it a bit more than the Vatican II bashing propaganda book upon which it is based--but it derives so heavily from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001992NW4">The Exorcist (Extended Director's Cut & Original Theatrical Edition) [Blu-ray</a>] and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000399W9">The Exorcist III</a> that it is enough to make one blush.  They attempt to replicate both of these films in one with only a touch of irony: any fan of these two demonic classics--perhaps, along with the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00079Z9X2">Amityville II: The Possession</a>, still the best in this huge genre--will know what I'm talking about.  Father Luckacs (Anthony Hopkins having fun) is Father Merrin in the first half and Father Colin, the young doubting priest, is Father Damien Karras.  When the nails have been spit out and a few (sparse) meaningful conversations about certainty are exchanged between the two, Father Luckacs gets possessed.  He becomes Father Damien Karras in The Exorcist III--the possessed saint who needs to be freed from his bindings.  The visions, hallucinations, that kind of thing were appealing (if you're a fan of this genre) but the thesis set forth isn't really convincing at all.  In Italy there is a higher rate of demonic possession than anywhere else, yes, and you will see more priests performing the ritual.  Italy also has a high rate of sexual abuse with young women and incest than almost anywhere else in the country.  Spitting out nails and coins doth not a possessed person make, not even close.  Talk to any nurse who works at an ER and they will tell you that mentally disturbed people regularly swallow coins, even sharper materials like glass and cigarette lighters.  And they spit them out.  I do believe demonic possession is possible and has happened, but overall this conservative hatred of Vatican II and the freedom it created has translated into these kind of unconvincing book to movie deals.  I enjoyed the movie, though, because I'm a Catholic.  Recommended for entertainment purposes only.

See THE NAKED PREY and KINGS OF THE SUN instead APOCALYPTO(2006) Written, Produced and Directed by Mel Gibson. Score by James Horner.    A ho hum film about life in the Mayan empire before Christian civilzation put an end to barbarism and human sacrifice. Numbingly violent and gory with a final half stolen from THE NAKED PREY, this Gibson film is done in by its own blood soaked excess which constantly removes and dulls the viewer to what is a nothing special story in any case. J. Lee Thompson's film KINGS OF THE SUN is a far superior take on the same material in every way.    Hardly a bad film and not more violent from anything from the SAW films to DONNIE BRASCO, anti-Christian bigots set to hate this film because of Gibson being a Catholic take note that you are plunging into an intellectual cul de sac. This is a modern film in nearly every respect---which is to say it is for you.

I did not care for this movie I found out about this movie, through a wikipedia search tied to Jackie Brown, one of my all time favorite movies(Michael Keaton plays same charecter in both). I ordered it, and watched it the day it arrived. I just thought the plot was thin, and I never became invested in any of the characters. Watch it if it comes on free tv if you want, but do not buy it for a first viewing.

8 oz. of Disney, a pound of schlock and a pinch of Wallenberg First off, this was an EMBARRASSING experience. We all agree about Wallenberg's [pronounced VOLLEN-berry] intelligence and amazing heroism. If he didn't he should have won a Nobel Peace Prize. He is a breathtaking inspiration for decent, principalled people everywhere. Let's start our dissection with the script - it is schlocky, dumbed-down, with often inadvertently hilarious [take for example the appallingly humorous rendition of Shtormy VED-derr] sequences. Humor and forced levity are injected at intervals to lighten up the gravity of the genocidal subject matter, but this is inappropriate, because mass murder isn't comical. The characters are very tinker-toy and what they say is mechanical and for the most part unconvincing. The Jewish people are depicted here [just as the Nazis characterized them] as ragtag, sloppy and dirty. Only the Hungarian wasps and S.S. are well dressed. Think of these comments as you revisit the docudrama and you'll see what I'm talking about.    Now for casting... Wallenberg was wealthy and privileged, but, alas, not handsome. Why cast a pretty boy who has poor acting skills to play a hero? This is not some one who could pull off charm, moral strength, resolve, or intimidation. Shouting at appropriate times doesn't cut it... If you needed a heartthrob, Paul Newman would have been a far better choice. Let's look at the character Fodor: he stands around in many scenes wearing an arrow cross uniform and carrying a rifle. What did he accomplish to move the script along? He never saves or helps anyone.  If the British could bypass their anti-Semitism for a brief moment, maybe they could do justice to this great man, for they are the greatest theatre craftsmen on the planet. The very dry, pale film with Stellan Skarsgard is far more serious and believable than this deplorable kitschwerk.  And if you are curious about what I did after seeing this parody of a moral icon... I threw it directly into the trash.

5 stars if DVD came with widescreen film version This is a 5-star flick but it's reduced to a 2-star review on Amazon because you're missing half of the film with this 'pan and scan' version.  The day a its released in the original widescreen version is the day I buy a copy.  Until then, we'll continue watching the widescreen version on a recorded VHS copy done when PBS played it years ago.

All Star Team= not so hot Really wanted to like this show; love the 4 gals they brought together; Wendy Malik & Jeane Leves in particular from Frazier, and the amazing Betty White you figure it can't miss right? Well, you can. Its the typical scenerio, bring comedy  'All Stars' together and it SHOULD be awesome/hilarious, and it just isn't. Frazier, Just Shoot Me, and Wings were all 8--10 comedy shows in my book, but this new show rated at best, a '2' for me. So bummed! But just like when Kelsey Grammer went from Frazier to his next show "Back to You" (which I thought was hilarious but was a "1 and done" season follow up) it takes more than 'Stars' to make a great show. I bought this brand new and wish I hadn't--cause in a short time it will be for sale used on Amazon for less than half price cause its not very funny--that's my take.

Had promise but didn't quite make it I was in the mood for a good 2 1/2 star movie (sometimes they're just what you need), and rented this one. (As I write, it is out of stock on Amazon, it's the first day of the movie's release to DVD). The plot concept was interesting to me, but the movie is so implausible, that I ended up stopping it well before it was half over. Implausible even for a ghost movie? That's pretty implausible. And didn't mind the low-budget look, mostly refreshing actually, but shouldn't doctors wear badges and have stethoscopes? Liked the acting, though, and very realistic main character, Barbara.

WARNING: NOT A DIGIBOOK! Great show, but I'm PISSED that it isn't packaged in digibook packaging like the first two seasons! That's one of the things I loved about collecting this series. I am VERY disappointed.

professional movie, but not professionally made I had seen this movie atleast one time before and remembered what a great movie it was. Unfortunately I was sad when I received the movie to find it was not even in HD and the picture quality was quite bad.

Teenage Angst, Freudian Mayhem The first half of this movie is sustained by our dull interest in a collection of characters sprung from the lunar landscape of Long Island's affluent North Shore. Frozen in place and cut off from themselves and each other by some kind of common, underlying rage, the drama's damaged heroine, Laura, is the only one of this happy bunch stirring to some kind of actual life.  She is the recognizable, pained woman who loves her husband in spite of his infidelities (the early scenes between herself and her husband Bob are the best in the film) and whose unfulfilled longing for her own identity crowds out the needs of her child, in this case her young son Dennis.  We're not sure, as things begin to unfold, where the story is leading and the actors don't seem very sure themselves and this is not a bad thing, as the writer stays closer to life rather than hewing to the dead weight of movie formula. Although the machinery creaks a bit and the wheels visibly grind away, the film's set up at least holds out the possibility of moving in some spontaneous directions.  But this is not to be.  The story comes to a crashing halt, midway through, when Laura and her brother in law Paul, another lost soul dressed up as a "free spirit", have their first real scene together. In his annoying and sickly way, Paul explains to Laura that he has loved her for the past twenty years, since their days in high school together, and has married her overbearing sister Kathy as a way of being "near" to her. Now, a woman with just an ounce of intelligence and adult awareness and one who possesses a real family and not just a movie family would have responded by at least acknowledging, if not yielding, to the moral obstacle posed by Paul's confession.  How else can the plot of the film be driven forward? This passive-aggressive creep is telling Laura that he has used another human being who also happens to be her sister, for the past twenty years, and who has also by extension betrayed his own children just so that he could continue to look at Laura's ass from time to time. Laura handles Paul's scummy revelation by retreating into a look of childish nothingness, as if she can't quite comprehend anything going on around her. She questions his self described sham marriage with a line culled from Sarah Palin's talking points: "So how's that working for you?" Huh? Is this the first time since high school that Laura and Paul have seen and spoken to each other?  From this point on the writer obliterates any semblance of an adult world on screen by sucking everything into the idiotic vacuum of almost pre-teen fantasy.  We come to learn that in this movie's sealed universe what is moral and what is good, camouflaged within the phony guise of "soulfulness", is equated with being physically attractive and with what one can get away with. Paul rapturously tells Laura that although her sister, his wife Kathy, is fat and ugly (and thus morally bad and deserving of her husband's betrayal), her hair, seen in a certain light, is just like Laura's! What a relief: Paul has been able, after all, to derive some infantile satisfaction from this willful horse of a sister he is tethered to.  Consider, too, as to just what Paul in this scene is revealing about himself. If he's gotten his sexual kicks in his own marriage by being within Laura's general physical vicinity, he must also be getting his kicks knowing that another man is sleeping with her each night, just nearby.  It's as if the writer is portraying through Paul the sociology of male impotence.  Notice how the male characters who are sexually active - husband Bob, the radio DJ, the guy who pounds away at Laura while being watched by the writer himself in the form of his "King of Queens" sitcom - are represented as boorish, morally repugnant people; and one of them, Bob, is even deserving of death.  As things proceed, the actors, in a kind of dazed panic, appear to have to search for things to say to each other just to get to the end of their scenes.  The level of cringing, arbitrary conversation in this film - Paul's referring to his daughter's food arrangement as "vaginal" - is astonishing. By the time Laura and Paul have gotten through their obligatory big kiss scene and Laura is afterward mute and panting like a dumb dog (signaling to Paul, we suppose, the adrenaline rush of both of them betraying her sister), and later on uncomfortably holding each other looking as if they haven't a clue why.... well, we feel as if we are witnessing the finish line at a Special Olympics event for emotional cripples.  The thoughtless grunts of teenage angst passing for dialogue, Laura's "Remember when you said you liked me, well now it's in reverse" frame "A Little Help" not in the intended post 9/11 era but to an earlier time when someone actually listened to Dion, and when radio DJs and millions of teenage boys referred to placing a "bag over their head" when pumping their narcissistic fantasies upon those unattractive but lucky women with whom they agree to have sex. Such are the joys of this film.  And then there's the business of the barking dog, next door to Laura's house. Not content with letting the dog alone to act as a symbol of incessant family encroachment that has driven Laura nuts all these years, the writer inexplicably creates a scene literally showing us just who the dog really is. And lo and behold it's someone's old, crazed and shriveled mother, Mrs. Bates from Hitchcock's "Psycho", brought back from the dead and let out of the cellar to hysterically menace Laura and Dennis on the front lawn.  As this nightmare of a woman, filmed in a kind of dream sequence, has no real connection to the story, it's as if the writer is suddenly throwing aside his fictional characters and screaming at us as if to say, "you think my characters have problems, take a good look of what I've carried around all these years."  When the son is clumsily exposed in his fraud at an outdoor lawn party, after having participated in an excruciating scene that smacks of child pornography in which his stomach blubber hangs over a chair while his back is tattooed with a full length image of the burning twin towers (I looked to see if this grotesque image included bodies jumping from the top floors), mother Laura enters a tracking shot right out of "Night of the Living Dead".  The house lawn suddenly looks like a cemetery and everyone's been transformed into muted zombies. "Enough of my stupid characters", the creator of this movie again seems to be saying, "I'm going to show you what the world looked like to me when I was a kid!"  Laura's final screen moments with her Dad (that old pro Ron Leibman), when she questions why he hadn't stood up for her when she was young, completes not anything remotely anticipated by her story but rather suggests another, presumably more intimate family history than the one portrayed within this film.  What devolves into a cold, cynical, mess of a movie views in many ways like an extended therapy session wherein the audience is forced to puzzle through images of an arrested and tortured psyche. But I suppose, on some level, "A Little Help" represents an advance in Freudian self awareness as compared with the writer's previous animated television series, "The Adventures of Baxter and McGuire", which chronicled the saga of a pair of testicles being menaced by a huge penis.  Anyway, until we consider this writer's next cinematic effort it's safe to assume that Vittorio de Sica's film legacy remains unchallenged by "A Little Help".

JANE AIRHEAD Sorry...but Jane Eyre was an intelligent and very opinionated girl full of energy and passion.  This girl had very little personality at all,  not enough for a master to take notice of a servant.  Not even close.  I blame the director.  He seems to have taken more interest in Rochester's character while leaving poor Jane wondering around like someone had slipped a sedative in her drink.

Didn't Work for Me At All This film version of Sarah Waters' brilliant novel "Affinity" seemed rushed and muddled and had very little emotional impact on me. I recognize that it must have been challenging to adapt the book, whose strengths are its detailed character development and slow ratcheting up of psychological tension. Although the book has action scenes and dialogue, much of the story is built on the internal thought processes of characters which cannot be as easily conveyed in a movie.  The film's use of flashbacks to show the backgrounds of the main characters (a device used effectively in the book to slowly reveal character and keep you on edge) were too fleeting and, even for someone who has read the book, confusing. Two other weaknesses undermine it. The lead actresses, altho lovely to look at, are sort of one-note, not very subtle actors and I didn't feel any chemistry between them that would support them developing a real passion for each other (which is rather crucial to the concept of "Affinity"!). There is also a third character who plays a critical role in the story who is only brought in minimally at the very end of the movie. If you haven't read the book, you are likely to wonder where the heck she suddenly came from and what her motivations are/were. I wonder whether they shot additional scenes with her that maybe ended up on the cutting room floor, because her placement in the movie just seems so clumsy.  The special features section of the DVD includes interviews with the director, producer and screenwriter (the great Andrew Davies, who penned the excellent screen versions of "Pride & Prejudice," "Bleak House" and "Little Dorrit"). I couldn't help thinking as I listened to these three men repeatedly refer to the women characters as "girls" and make simplistic statements about female needs and desires that the whole project would have benefitted from having women at the helm.  Sarah Waters' book "Affinity" is a really gripping, emotional story. Skip this video and read the book. The film versions of Waters' <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000A4T804">Fingersmith</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00011Y1QC">Tipping the Velvet</a>, both produced by the BBC, are MUCH better and highly recommended!

not for 3D t.v.'s this video is not for 3Dt.v.'s. it comes with its own cardboard glasses that are not comfortable and do not work very well. the 3D feature is horrible. but if you want the regular 2D version, then this one is good. I have an LG 3D t.v. and can not see this movie in 3D without their own cardboard glasses. i will give this movie away to someone who does not have a 3D t.v.

Pilates for Beginners and Beyond Pilates for Beginners and Beyond is very boring and slow.  I tried the workout once and put the DVD back into the box.  It is a waste of your money.

missing subtitles most disappointed. no subtitles is inexcusable. the show moves fast in the dialogue and one would need those even with perfect hearing.

Put me right to sleep. This movie is the perfect cure for insomnia. You will get your badly needed slumber during the long and quiet segments with the actors chatting. Suddenly the sound will increase by 100% with dramatic music during the wolf attacks. This will be your alarm clock so you don't oversleep. You will definitely be snoozing for the very disappointing ending. Stay tuned for a brief scene after the credits which may of been included due to audience complaints. It is quite obvious that wolves never act like that, so just think of this as a horror movie or the senior version of "Teen Wolf". Don't waste your time or money on this one.

Boring A slow moving boring movie.  I was hoping for more laughs.  The actors appeared to be doing the best they could with the material they had to work with.

Disappointed I am disspointed with my order. I purchased the first season, looking forward to enjoying "Murder Takes the Bus". Due to my work schedule It was a awhile before I able to take the time view the espisode; and when I did I noticed that the tape freezes  near the end of the movie. When I attemped to return this item, I found out I had to return within 30 days. I was one day late. I have purchased items from Amazon before and never had any problems until now. I have since discovered that other episodes in this series have freeze portions as well. Also I don't like that both sides of the dvd was used for recording and that could be why the quality is so poor.

Rather Boring It was rather boring and lack lustre.Matt Damon was detached from the movie and the situations at the start,It is slow paced and lacking in thrill.Utterly disappointed i chose to watch this on family movie night.It leaves one in suspense with most of the characters they pursued in the movie,it lacks proper development for characters such as the blogger,Why are they introduced to the movie ,is it only to prolong it,i think they would have been able to expand on his character.This are just some of the aspects i found lacking in the movie however my dissatisfaction should not deter other movie lovers from watching it.It  just wasn't my cup of tea.

Bernie is boring! There was no real action to this movie.  I ended up walking away from the movie as it was so boring.  I am only giving the movie 2 stars because it was not the worse movie I have seen.

This Means War Doesn't  (Spoilers) Let me say first that I agree with a lot of what the other reviewers have said both good and bad. The audience was quite happy with this movie, and it made for a nice date. It's a piece of fluff -- but it's bad fluff. Now, wait, I was going to give the good parts first.  Tom Hardy. Tom Hardy.  Some funny bits, like the paintball scene, the way each guy spoils the other's dates.  That's about it.  I'd add Chelsea Handler for a couple of funny remarks, but I really don't see what she's doing in the movie. Uh, and the cinematography is often very good. That's about it.  The bad parts are really, really bad. For the romcom format, this is a disaster. There is no chemistry between Chris Pine and Reese Witherspoon. I mean, when McG has to mount a kitchen counter to show Pine and Witherspoon how to do foreplay, you know there's a problem. There is no chemistry between Tom Hardy and Reese Witherspoon, either. Uh, I forgot another good thing: the chemistry between Pine and Hardy is great; they play off of each other (think Eames and Arthur in Inception)with genuine comedic talent. Which is surprising given their out of the box casting. I'd read that both men wanted to add some fluff to their resumes but they're wasted here. What they need is a vehicle that has a good script and a good director. Reese Witherspoon did the Oscar-winning June Carter Cash role years ago, and the Legally Blonde thing even longer than that. McG says she wanted to show off her sexy side here. That may have something to do with the zero chemistry thing. Plot problems: the premise is weak. Two incompetent covert-operations agents have been grounded, and so they play around with surf-dating. Would you believe -- they both fall for the same woman! Complication: they are closer than brothers, than partners, they "would take a bullet" for each other. However, when the time comes to test this bond, the men become twelve-year-olds and begin a series of gotcha/gotcha-back stunts. The plot has a lot of holes in it. What's Chelsea Handler doing in the movie? She provides nothing to fill out Witherspoon's character or to move the plot forward. She's given some witty impromptu lines. What's the bad-guy thing doing here? It's superfluous and badly done. The action scenes could certainly work with the stunts the two agents pull. And why is Angela Bassett in this movie? OMG The amount of wasted talent is humongous. McG's direction is, is, invisible. There is no direction here. All three of the actors try to build something with Legos, but McG insists on tearing it down.  As a director, he shoots good videos.   Now for the worst criminal of all for the movie: the screenwriter(s). Let me start with the story's ending. It's ridiculous. "Don't choose the better man," Handler tells her, "choose the man who will make you better." Is she kidding? Reese does choose one of the men, but lest the audience feel cheated for the fate of the other -- kind of ruining the romcom's happy, satisfying ending-- he is given something to look forward to without Reese. I'd say he's the guy who really wins the "war." I read an interview where Hardy and Pine suggest writing an ending which would have been far more satisfying, not to say really funny, but McG nixed it. He did say, though, that there would be an alternate ending on the dvd. If the dvd sells for three bucks, I'll buy it for that. (And Tom Hardy. Did I mention him?)  Oh, this is supposed to be the bad stuff. The screenwriter(s) must have been on crack. Or were paid two bucks a page. Will Smith and Reese produced this, and you'd think they'd have burned the script after reading it. Witherspoon has mentioned that when she thought one or another of the scenes "wasn't working," she'd change it. I mean, she admitted that. Whoa. The dialogue is not good enough to be called cliched. It's embarrassing. Since its release, both Pine and Hardy have had the charity to damn it with faint praise. Good for them. There is no cohesive story; the plot is choppy and some scenes gratuitous. It's like a string of miscellaneous scenes that someone forgot to edit.  Verdict: So-freaking-so. Have a couple of drinks before seeing this. Suspend all disbelief. Do not expect a good romcom. Do not expect comedic performances. Think back to your high-school days and the people you knew then, the popular girl, the sweet nerd, the jock, in an impossible triangle. Did you like them then?  You won't like them now, either. Save your money instead of seeing this on the big screen. Rent the dvd, pop some corn, cuddle up on the sofa, and enjoy the fluff. Just don't expect it to be good fluff. In the meantime, rent a good Hepburn-Tracy movie if you want an intelligent romcom -- and a really funny one.

NICOLAS WINDING REFN, OPUS 6 Don't worry ! Even Refn, during an interview, confessed that he didn't understand Bronson's psychology and that he put a lot of himself, of his own dark side, in the portrayal of the hero. Moments of surreal poetry alternate with raw violence here. It's interesting but, in my opinion, Bronson can't compare with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041KT3P8">Valhalla Rising</a>, the director's masterpiece. Already forgotten, unfortunately.

The story could have been made more interesting. The photography is beautiful. But the pace of the movie is painfully slow. After awhile I just gave up and turned it off. Too bad, a few brief cuts to past events would have made the story much more interesting.

Not for me. I really didnt like the first hoodwinked movie but I thought I would go ahead and try out the second one though.  I wouldnt waste your time on this.  It has alot of adult humour and situations that I really didnt want my kids to watch.  I know that I find my family watching more family oriented movies but this one really didnt work for me.  the animation was great and it did have some funny parts but the whole thing didnt work.  I guess that was why this is rated PG and for good reason.  Overall I would stick with other  cartoon movies for your kids.  Some humour and stuff is fine but too much is not a good thing.

Grace - Give me a Break The disk worked fine, but the contents of the film where not at all about what I hoped for. It is primarily for homosexuals. The Mom-Son was just to too dark and ends all wrong. Boys who like boys will just love it.

Very Disappointing (In Spite of "Pan's Labyrinth" Star, Ivana Baquero) Kevin Costner is John James, a newly divorced writer who has moved into an old house in North Carolina with his daughter and son. It is a very quiet place surrounded by woods, beautiful and comfortable, but it seems there is something strange is going on as his teenage daughter Louise starts acting oddly - she becomes more rebellious and even covered in mud sometimes - and there is a strange mound in the backyard of his house.  "The New Daughter" is very disappointing because it is very dull. The story relies too much on conventions of thrillers with a haunted house theme, taking too much time on suggesting what is obvious to most viewers. Things get sillier in the film's climax where our protagonist played by Kevin Costner making some inexplicably stupid decisions (why don't you just leave the house with your children?)  I was intrigued by the film's cast, especially Ivana Baquero, known as the heroine of "Pan's Labyrinth." She is not bad, though she deserves better material. Samantha Mathis also appears, but her role is rather a thankless one and she is totally wasted. Luis Berdejo, co-writer of a 2007 Spanish thriller "[Rec]," is the director. It is sad to know that this is the last film of James Gammon.

Rubbish, foolish nonsense Call me unsophisticated or even uneducated if you will, but the truth is: I didn't like it! The storyline is rubbish, foolish nonsense, without the excuse of being a movie for children. The characters are almost grotesque, in the edge to bad taste. Some caricatures of famous people are supposed to be funny, but they aren't. On the bright side: the music is great and the background scenery is excellent, with very exquisite color palettes.

Price comment only This DVD is in pre-order status and is priced like our fuel.  A DVD at $25.49 (blu-ray is $.50 cheaper) will certainly stop me from purchasing it.  May I suggest no one pre-order this movie until the studio (Universal) drops the price?  Avatar (20th Century Fox) got away with a blu-ray release in a bare bones edition which included NO special features.  A first for blu-ray that I have noticed.  Take a stand or this will continue.

Paranormal Activity 3....... You know, I've been a fan of these Paranormal Activity movies since it debuted a few years ago. The first and second movies were pretty decent, although you can tell they were made on a low-budget. The first two relied more on getting to know the characters and heavily on very slow-building tension, which is why I loved them so much. That makes me wonder why this one just went off-track. PA3 is, quite literally, a weak mess of a movie. You'd think these guys would up the wow factor of this movie, considering how the first two were, but no. I know they were trying to tell the backstory to the series but they could do that and still wow us. The acting was very dry and that made it unbelievable to me. I mean, the knockoff movie:Paranormal Entity, was way better than this one. I was really disappointed and just can't recommend anyone buy this movie. If you can find it in a bargain bin somewheres, okay-maybe then. But for full asking price-No. These guys better get their game on in the next movie or fans are going to jump ship, plain and simple.

Soap Opera This is so typical of many of the miniseries of the late 70's and 80's. They shamelessly wallow in the excesses of the 'sexual revolution' and usually have sensational, lurid plots and poor acting. If it wasn't for the exotic locations and excellent photography they would be no better than your average soap opera.

BORING! This movie didn't have enough scary parts in it. It's not like there weren't any scary parts in it, there just needed to be more. The beggining to this movie is VERY boring! Once they go onto space, it gets a little bit more interesting. However, it's still pretty boring. I woudn't reccomend buying this

A Major Disappointment I was so looking forward to this re-make that I dug out my old John Wayne version DVD and watched it for the first time after seeing the film in the theatre during its first run.  I was pleasantly surprised that this original version remained a great entertaining western.  I watched the new version on DVD last night.  Supposedly the Coen brothers used more of the dialogues from the book but I found the lenghthy dialogue weighed down the dramatic tension of the film.  The worldliness of the 14 year old girl on film was hard for one to believe and the young actress didn't have the special quality to bridge that critical gap (maybe no one can). Jeff Bridges' performance was disappointing (Coens partly to be blamed).  JB didn't seem to have the statue required to bring that Rooster Cogburn to life.  Matt Damon was given the difficult role of the Texas ranger.  As usual, MD made the best out of it.  Josh Brolin and Barry Pepper were not given much to chew on.  The  2 major set pieces were poorly executed.  The gunfight at the cabin in the original version was exciting and occured during a beautiful morning.  It was pitch black in this new version and unexciting and without tension.  The famous horse back charge at the climax is a great disappointment in comparison to the original version.  The epilogue seems unnecessary even if it might be based on the book. Other than the fine cinematography, this film seems over long, ponderous and lack of grit.  A major disappointment.

waste of time Wells, this movie was a waste of money, time. I slept through the whole movie. I do not recomend to watch.

Not worth it! I was so looking forward to watching this wonderful old movie again.  Stay clear!  The sound quality is awful!  Made trying to watch a real chore, not an enjoyment.  Don't buy until there is a better version.  Video quality no the greatest either.

This season is no better! This season is no better. Then buy it and watch it, I recommend better to wait a while and buy it cheaper, not worth $ 40 today.

Not as Good as Iron Monkey or Chocolate Donnie Yen is superb in Iron Monkey.  Yuen Wo Peng did the martial arts choreography for that film.  When you do a martial arts film the film should be shot so that you see the full bodies of both, or most of the major combatants.  Unfortunately Ip Man has way to many close ups.  A foot kicking a knee is a bore, even if you know whose foot it is.  Chocolate is also brilliantly shot. It's about a Thai girl kickboxer whose moves are incredible, and who does it all herself.

Steve O I Was Disapointed In This One. There Wasnt Much Steve In This Dvd. But The Parts He Was In Where Great. If Your A HardCore Steve O Fan You Should Have It.

Where is the promised scenery? I have been reading/listening to Wayne Dyer since Erroneous Zones.  I am a big fan, but the description said: "inspirational lectures and majestic scenery". I have fast-forwarded through most of the first 3 DVDs and find nothing but lectures (and a view of the front of the chapel at Assisi). I tried listening to the first one, but it was the same stories I've heard many times -- including the one "that I've never shared with anyone before" (yeah, sure).  I do have great respect for Wayne Dyer (excuse me, Dr. Wayne Dyer), but this set is nothing like what I expected. Just to be sure, I will also fast-forward #4 and if I find the promised "scenery" I will correct myself with an UPDATE to this review. I really would like to see those places!  If you are a new Wayne Dyer fan you might get a lot out of these as the lectures cover a lot of his previous works. Keep watching, the price is rapidly coming down -- the set started out at $70.  UPDATE: Well, my apologies! The "scenery" is all on the 4th DVD. Lots of pretty pictures but not what I had assumed it would be. There is narration by WD but it is simply more description of the trip and where they were and what they did. It does not have direct relevance to what is being shown. Example: Some folks were going down winding steps into what looked like some type of grotto or tomb. I would have loved to know what it was and what they found, but there was no direct reference to specifics -- except, that is, to the day of "merriment" on the galleon which went on for an extended period of time and there was lots of description of that.  It is going to take lots of meditation to correct the bitterness I'm feeling about this purchase, but I had looked forward to these DVDs ever since Dr. Dyer announced they would be making them. I'm just very disappointed. BUT I REPEAT others may find them of great benefit!

Baseball movie Thought this would be a good family film, if only the swearing wasn't there, I could agree.  Good story line.

Such a Dissapointment I wanted to like this movie.  I really, really tried to like it.  And I did love the first 10 minutes or so, but the rest of the movie is just not good.  Maybe it isn't all bad, but it sure isn't a Halloween movie.  I was so dissapointed in the film.  After the awesome 2007 remake I just knew this movie would be great, but Zombie goes in a totally different direction.  While I can respect that fact that he wanted to try and do something unique, it just did not work.  Sorry.  If you are a fan of the series, then I will tell you to check it out simply because it is technically a Halloween movie, but I would not suggest buying it.

only so-so It did not really tell the whole story very well . Maybe I just read too much about the battle and spent a week there , but I did'nt get much from this dvd .

Shame on Shout! Factory After purchasing Season 1 of Hazel and thoroughly enjoying my discovery of this classic sitcom, I purchased season 2 only to find it is not subtitled or close-captioned for hearing impaired viewers like myself. I notice that Sony company actually released season 1 which does include close captions, and I couldn't wait to begin watching the following season, especially since it's in color. Why Shout! Factory decided to forgo this important option to MANY viewers is beyond me. It's also quite upsetting that I am unable to watch these 32 color episodes i've been anticipating so much. Well, I can technically watch them, but i'd really have no idea what the heck was going on without captions or subtitles. Thanks Shout! Factory, for making Hazel inaccessible to this viewer. Hopefully someone important in the company will come across this review and be kind enough to add them in for the season 3 release.

This movie's writer was Edgar Allan Poo I was shocked to see this movie was 90 minutes long. It felt like 4 hours! Slow, boring, confusing, irritating.... I'm amazed I possessed the sheer willpower to make it all the way to the end of this dreadful piece. An extremely tough movie to get through. It doesn't really offer anything in the way of entertainment. If you have nothing, and I mean NOTHING, better to do then you could give it a shot. Otherwise there are hundreds of thousands of superior films. Such as Under Siege or 2012 or Cops and Robertsons or Boomerang or Troll or..... Well you get the idea. Just be warned, two stars was VERY generous.

Poor packaging I love this movie, and you get a lot with this set! We got ours from a local store and it is a good thing we did as you will soon understand. When I opened it up the discs started to fall out. We started watching the blue-ray and found a big scratch on the disc. Thankfully, the store had another one, but being the cautious person I am, I had the store open the 2nd one before we headed home. The disks in this one were even worse. Everything was a mess. At this point the store brought up a 3rd set. We though third times the charm. Things were still broken in this one as well some of them scratched also. In the end between the three set we managed to piece togther a whole set and we were happy. So all in all check the discs when you get this.

betty blue Tame Tame Tame not bad just Tame--- story content interesting, Acting believeable and convincing, scenery and general filming was just great but I just barely could stay awake, the dialog was riveting at times, the emotions could be felt sometimes the sex/love scenes tend to be tepid and a bit put on (maybe overdone? fake looking?)even the wife dozed off if it had been free even it would barely been worth the gas to go it it---

Terrible ending. The movie keeps you watching then leaves you hanging in the end. My wife said to make up my own ending and I told her I don't watch a movie to make up my own ending.

Flip Flops This video tape flip flops all the way through. It is not our VCR because it plays other videos perfect.  There is definitely something wrong with this video tape.

Almost worthless. Live Animals (Jeremy Benson, 2008)  Live Animals isn't necessarily a bad movie, really. It requires something of a strong stomach, and you have to be used to low-budget horror films to really sit through it. But neither of those things make it bad by default. Where it really lost me was in its almost aggressive lack of doing anything original with a subgenre that's already tired; in fact, you've seen the Big Twist(TM) in a couple of other "torture porn" films. Which raises the question: why on earth would you bother sitting through this one?  Plot: a bunch of young-and-beautifuls are abducted from a party by a white slaver. They have to try and survive/avoid becoming crazy or mindless.  Yep, that's it. You've seen it before, usually done better (Hostel, Turistas, et al.). The only "original" aspect to be found here is the white-slavery bugaboo that's been used to scare kids and travelers for generations without there being any documented evidence of same since, roughly, American colonial times. Suspension of disbelief can only be taken so far. Leave this one at the bottom of the pile until you've seen every other torture porn movie in your collection. * ½

The spy who irritated me Angelina Jolie plays a spy with a secret - go figure.  The problem is, that she may actually be a sleeper agent from the Soviet Union with designs on bringing down the US of A.  The whole 'is she or isn't she' theme wore thin really quick and about two thirds of the way through, I nearly gave up.  But I figured I had invested that much time and I needed to see it through.  I should have quit, because the end took me from indifferent to angered.  There were a few decent action sequences, but there's no way I'd recommend this confused film to anybody.  I'm not a hardcore Angelina Jolie fan, but have enjoyed most of the action films that she's headed up.  Salt was certainly the exception to the rule.  Do yourself a favor and just tape the next Bond marathon on BBC for your spy fix.  Salt will just leave you wishing you could recapture those lost two hours.

A Confused Murder Mystery The Long Goodbye, 1973 film  The story starts with a man sleeping on a bed until a cat jumps up to awaken him. He lights a cigarette. [The beginning is drawn out.] Philip Marlowe's friend Terry Lennox asks for a ride to Tiajuana; he had another fight with his wife Sylvia. The next morning two police detectives come to question Philip, then arrest him. He is photographed and fingerprinted. [Was he drunk?] The lieutenant tells him he was arrested as an accessory to murder! What does he really know about Terry? After three days in jail he is released. Terry Lennox is dead, the case is closed. A man offers him a ride home, and talks about Terry. Nobody claimed the body. Next he takes a missing person case and visits a gated community. [Is that a 1930s Lincoln?] Mrs. Roger Wade has a pet dog. She covers up for her husband, a drinker who has to dry out at a sanatorium.  Marlowe locates the sanatorium where Roger Wade is being held. "I'm here to help you." Marlowe takes Roger home, he doesn't feel well. Roger can't write anymore. Eileen Wade believes what the newspaper said about Terry. Some men meet Marlowe and take him back to his rooms. "Find it." Marty Augustin tells Marlowe that Terry stole $355,000 thousand from him! "Find my money." Marty shows he is cruel. Philip follows Marty to a home in that gated community and sees him talk. Later Marlowe returns to Wades. Roger and Eileen talk to each other. Then Roger talks to Philip. [The story drags here.] Roger says Marty owes him $50,000. [Believable?] Philip gets a letter from Terry, it has a picture of James Madison ($5,000). Philip goes to Mexico to investigate Terry's death. There is a funeral march in the street. Philip finds the Wades there. Dr. Varinger is there to collect his fees. [The story drags again.] Philip drives home with Roger and Eileen.  Roger walks into the ocean. Can they save him? The police investigate. Philip asks Eileen if Roger could have killed Sylvia Lennox. The police know all the facts about Roger; he had an alibi at Dr. Varinger's sanitarium. Philip questions this alibi. [The story drags again.] Later Philip visits Marty and tells him he hasn't found the money. Joanna is there. Marty acts crazy again, and threatens Philip with mayhem. But a package arrives to end this threat, like a deus ex machina ending. Marty got his money back and he's happy. (He has to pay off people.) Philip sees Eileen drive by and follows her car with its custom license plate. A minor accident puts Philip in the hospital. When he looks for Eileen he finds she moved away. Next he returns to Mexico to investigate Terry's death. He walks down a long road and finds a solution to the mysteries. There is a shocking and surprising ending. [Was this a parody of "The Third Man"?]  Why do second-rate writers think they can improve on the writings of first-rate writers? However clever, a parody isn't the equal of an original mystery novel. This movie is too serious to be a comedy, and too funny for a murder mystery. I suspect this confusion made it a commercial failure. The movie runs on too long. It has language that can't be broadcast, situations that were changed from the novel (not Raymond Chandler's greatest work). Was that old bearded writer meant to resemble Hemingway? He killed himself after psychiatric treatment. "The Third Man" was a better story about a premature death notice.

Made-for-TV quality with little focus on 9/11 I was shocked to see this came from Oliver Stone with such a weak and predictable script and cable-TV quality production values. The plot uses the backdrop of 9/11 to get immediate audience sympathy but if the story had been about buried coal miners instead, it would have been more obvious what a one-dimensional screenplay was being used here.  The film suffers from a very long saggy mid-section where not much happens for nearly an hour, apart from cutting between the buried men and their distraught families. Much of the A-list talent is lost on restrictive roles that any character actor could have whistled through. And fundamentally, for such a tragic and monumental event, this film fails to capture any of significance of what happened.  For a better "man buried alive" story, try 127 Hours. For a significantly better film about 9/11 that truly captures the emotion, I'd recommend United 93. Otherwise, this is very weak movie that attempts to use 9/11 to pull at the heart strings but wastes the talent and doesn't deliver.

Big disappointment Having seen two of the performances from this video on Youtube, I was very disappointed in the entire performance.  I have seen other performances by Peter Gabriel and he is always a dynamic performer.  Most of the songs on this are very melancholy and slow, the performances are subdued.  I knew when I was watching this that it would go on the shelf until the next yard sale or donation run.  Do not waste your time or money on this.

Not bad, not great. 28 Weeks Later is a good movie, but not great. Its worth watching once, and even worth owning so you can show your friends. Its not the timeless kind of movie that you could watch twice a year though. If you're looking for a timeless masterpiece in the zombie/horror genre I suggest Dawn of the Dead (the new one).  Thank you for reading my review! If you enjoyed it, be sure to rate it as helpful.

Trouble On The High Seas Featuring Guns, Speedboats, Heroin, And Terrible Love Ballads "Dangerous Charter" is a fairly standard early 1960's heist movie set on a very old yacht, the "Medusa." The print is in terrible condition with numerous distracting scratches and flaws present and a very abrupt opening title card. The premise is simple, if daft. Three fishermen, led by the dapper Marty (Chris Warfield,) find an abandoned yacht with a dead body onboard. They take it to port and find the man has died suddenly and without warning from mumps (!) and since the boat's owner cannot be found, they are given the boat as their reward. It turns out the previous owner of the boat, the urbane Mr. Monet (Peter Forster,) wants the boat back. No wait. He doesn't. There's a charter to Bolivia. No, wait, a hijacking Mexican lobsterman helps redirect them to Catalina Island (which is clearly visible in the background of much of the film.) Monet is mean. Then he's nice. Then he's mean again. People do illogical things and utterly fail to help their situation. Mayhem ensues. It's not actually the boat Monet wants, it's the $500,000 (1962 dollars, remember) worth of heroin hidden on it. The stirring conclusion involves a hail of gunfire, a speedboat, a spear gun, a bomb, and a very unlikely betrayal.  In other words, it's all very formulaic, right down to the multiple awful guitar-backed ballads Marty belts out to love interest June (Sally Fraser) and the campy, often ridiculous banter that passes for dialogue. This is an undistinguished almost forgotten film, and has nothing to particularly recommend it. Having said that, it is also inoffensive and there are many, many worse movies to spend your time watching.

Annoying And Dissapointing... I love vampire movies and this was one of the oddest, didn't make much sense, vampire movies ever.  Why Stefan, John Karlen of Dark Shadows fame, beat his bride on their honeymoon, except that he appeared to be a real SOB generally made zero sense.  And why was Stefan's mother a man?  The movie wasn't even scary!  A clunker and boring!

Disappointed My daughter (and us too) are big fans of the buddies series of movies, we own all of them.  We bought this expecting the same family fun movie, but we were greatly disappointed.  My daughter can watch the other buddies movies over and over, she never picks this movie to watch.  Too scary and lacks the same charm of the other movies.

Disappointing I hate to give something YogaWorks related only two stars, but I found the workouts on this DVD disappointing, and I wouldn't recommend this DVD.  There are two workouts on the DVD: a 9 minute Fit Abs workout and a 43-minute Core Yoga Flow workout.  The Fit Abs workout doesn't really have any yoga-specific elements and doesn't utilize any of the traditional core-specific asanas (e.g. navasana).  It's a series of crunches and plank exercises that you would do in any gym class.  The Core Yoga Flow workout is very slow. This longer workout does have more traditional sequences and asanas, but it's not exactly a flow workout where you move through one pose for each breath throughout the workout.  I was hoping that with this DVD I could incorporate some of the YogaWorks energy and focus on flow into my home practice.  Unfortunately, the DVD doesn't deliver.

promises to be better than it is How could a book so good end up as a movie so bad? It makes the appearance of being a classic, with it's star-studded cast and cinematography, but fails miserably. There's just nothing worth watching it for. Stick with The Black Stallion and Black Beauty.

did not receive This was a gift for a very close friend but for some reason he never got it and I did not get a reason why so I would rate this transaction very low...

Not as informative This movie only describes trans fats in detail. I thought it would talk about many food additives like HFCS, colorings, preservatives, artificial flavors, etc. It did mention aspartame but left no concrete information about it. It was interesting to me that the movie maker was a nurse who did not even know what "partially hydrogenated oils" were.  This is an okay movie for true beginners, those who eat fast food and don't ever read their food labels. If you already take the time to read labels and buy healthy organic foods rather than fast food then skip this one.  I am a vegan of over 8 years and was hoping to find a good film on food additives, but this is not it :(

Shallow and superficial The film is simply repeating a number of platitudes, such as "China manufactures goods", "the workers are poor", "the bosses are rich". Therefore I think the film is totally lacking any substance. More than that, the omnipresent director Kopell is getting stuck on the most pointless facts of life that dont educate the viewer in any way. For instance, his van got in a fender bender with another car, and he documented the long ensuing argument between drivers.  He probably believed that we all needed to see that and now we comprehensive the depths of the Asian mind much better. Then he spends a lot of time in Chinese "dancing clubs" that are also secret brothels.  So the viewer will find out that there is prostitution in China, just like in any other poor country...  I would have never figured that...  So if you are into the simple things of life, you might bear to watch it, but if you want something to make you think try these ones: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004XWHU0E">China's Century of Humiliation</a>  or  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000LXHK0E">China From the Inside</a>

Great for nostalgia, but horrible movie I began searching for this movie a few years ago, because I loved it as a child.  Clearly nostalgia stays strong and memory fades because I had no recollection whatsoever of just how horrible this movie is.  For starters, it drags on soooo incredibly long before anything happens with the stamp traveling.  It was literally over an hour before any action happened.  Everyone in the movie seems to be an avid stamp collector- men on the streets, people in China, Australian mad men...that was so unbelievable! The plot is probably the worst out of any movie I've EVER SEEN!!!  The acting was horrible beyond belief.  Despite my nostalgia, I don't even know if I'll let my children watch this movie, for fear of insulting their intelligence.  Too bad I can't get my money back...

More failures than successes (spoiler alert!) ONCE AGAIN ****SPOILER ALERT**** skip opening paragraph to avoid big ones and there are smaller ones sprinkled throughout!!!!!!!  After watching this "escapologist" and his support team fail in a "flooded office" escape stunt in the pilot, curiosity drove me on. I admired greatly the fact that rather than redo the experiment or rig things to make it look successful, the team was willing to show an honest failure. In fact, not only did the escape fail, but the safety mechanism in place short circuited as well, requiring a previously unannounced backup plan. The backup safety, involving a sledghammer frantically beaten against the final escape route, had me on the edge of my seat.  ***END OF SPOILER***  As I watched subsequent episodes I noticed several things. First, apart from the pilot episode, there was a marked absence of any EMT or ambulance rescue squads present for the stunts. I found this extremely irresponsible and highly unusual for a show airing on the Discovery channel.  The educational factor consumes most of each episode. The "escape" is outlined early on and the bulk of the episode shows either the design engineer or Jonathan himself preparing in various ways for the big "event." Most often, this involves much smaller tests of equipment and/or human endurance.  For me personally however, what made the show fall flat (and made me opt out of purchasing the season after watching a couple of episodes via Amazon Prime) was the presence of Mike, Jonathan's sidekick from college and trusty bff. For reasons never explained, Mike often gamely joins in the smaller tests apparently against his initial will. As a result, he endures such things as hypothermia (the scientific excuse being that he's got more body fat and will therefore react differently.) Far too often it reduced the show to little more than an attempt to get me to laugh at another human's suffering. Is it really necessary for us to watch an angry bee sting the tip of a man's nose (twice no less) to tell us that it will hurt like crazy?  One truly good thing about networks such as Discovery, Nat Geo, and The History Channel is that shows that miss the mark seldom last long. These "niche" channels will give a program a better chance to succeed than the primary networks, but the audience for these networks is such that the program directors can quickly spot a dud or a smash as viewers quickly vote with their feet and then use their mouths. Translation - a dud gets abandoned en-masse and ratings for a hit grow each week because either way, word gets around the blogs and social networks in a hurry.  One Way Out aired a 10 episode run and then vanished forever. That, coupled with the Discovery logo on the front cover of the set should tell you to proceed with caution and skepticism before opening that wallet. You may find this show to be of your liking. I felt the educational/entertainment value was outstripped by the unnecesary tendency of presenting pain masquerading as humor. No number of disclaimers (and there are copious "don't you dare even  THINK about trying this stuff" warnings in each episode) can prepare you for the jocularity of men screaming in pain.  I think a little more "Mythbuster" science and a lot less "Jackass" humor and this show might still be on the air.

Michael Myers: Demystified Rob Zombie immediately sets about committing the worst mistake you can with a horror villain: He shows us way too much.  First we get a painfully long look at Myers childhood. His white trash parents, abusive step-father, bullies at school, etc. Myers snaps and kills a bully. Then on Halloween night he kills his step father, after strapping him down to a chair with duct tape. It beggars belief not just on a practical level, but the child playing Myers just does not seem all that disturbed. We are supposed to assume he is based on his actions, but it's not present in the performance. At all.  Then Myers is shipped off to the Mental Hospital where he meets Dr Loomis and then grows up. We are treated to many scenes letting us know what a bad ass Myers is now. Eventually Myers escapes and then a much less effective rehash of the original film is played out. None of it is the least bit scary.  That's the main problem here. It's obvious that Mr. Zombie sympathizes with the Myers character above all else. He has little love for Loomis or anyone else in this film (except Myers mother...paging Dr Freud...)  This is a love letter to fan boys of, not Halloween, but the Myers character. It's apparently societies fault that Myers goes berserk, and his victims are not so much victims, but deserving targets of Myers rage. It's something a disaffected 14 year old might come up with. The sort of sheltered poser that got all their ideas about what is "gritty and real" from, well, bad Halloween sequels.  I suppose none of this is too surprising, considering the cult following Myers has built up over the course of several sequels. It would have been nice to see the series dragged back to its original premise though, where Myers was not a hero and we were supposed to care about his victims.  Gone is most of the supernatural element of the original. We are firmly in fully human psycho territory here. How boring. Especially since Zombie has nothing to add, he just regurgitates all the well worn clich&eacute;s. Brain dead style over no substance.

Not my cup of tea I watched this movie with my friend, who loved it and had raved about it. I went in expecting it to be a pretty good movie.  The two star review should tell you all that you need to know. I just didn't like it. I don't know if I wasn't paying attention closely enough or what, but I got three of the guys mixed up all the time. They all had dark hair, and to me, they all resembled one another. I couldn't even recall their names at the end of the movie. I referred to them as the best friend, the gay one, and the bad one.  I think what bothered me most was that Olive basically brought the whole predicament on herself. After Marianne labels her a slut and the whole school is talking about her, you think that she wouldn't have gone any farther. All right, I can understand helping her gay friend; that made at least a little sense to me. But letting boys pay her in order to say that she went to second or third or whatever base with them was just ridiculous. If she was so unhappy that no one at school liked her, why not stop and try to repair her reputation? Also, I really didn't think that the boys would continue to pay her so they could say she did something with them. By that point, I would think that there were so many rumors going around about her that another one wouldn't even be noticed.  One of the more minor problems for me was the dialogue. Olive, and not to sound like an idiot here, used too many big words to be believable for me. I like using words that no one else understands, but I don't use them every other sentence. I don't know if anyone else had that problem or if it was just me. Plus, I didn't like the faux-British vibe she gave off. Again, that might have been just me.  Finally, I wasn't a big fan of her parents, who were a little too lax in their parenting for them to be realistic. I didn't mind that as much as the other problems. There were some funny scenes with them.  It wasn't the most awful movie I've ever seen, but it wasn't terribly entertaining for me either.

And the point is...? Good art requires some subtlety, totally lacking in this film. It hits us across the face with the message, which, it turns out, was not the one intended. Absolute power corrupts? Not Pasolini's point. The Fascists were monsters? Not exactly his point. His point is, according to the extras, that consumerism is the new Fascism, reducing even human beings to mere commodities, whose function is to serve the pleasures of a few. But the message is totally subsumed and occluded by the symbolism. Further, the symbolism is vitiated by the sheer absurdities presented us. Catarina Boratto, the primary female lead, reminisces about the cast's reaction after every scene was shot: They all broke out laughing. Some of them must have thought it was a weird kind of comedy. It wasn't until they saw the final edit that they realised the kind of film they had helped make. To be sure, comedy can be used to convey social or political ideas - witness Charlie Chaplin, or some of the Mel Brooks movies - but comedy was not the Pasolini's intention, which makes it a failure. Further, the consumerist message is not even hinted at in the film. In fact, one doesn't even get an anti-Fascist message from it. It is simply the corruption inherent in power and lust. I thought it was worth two stars primarily because the extras were enlightening and beyond the usual DVD package.

Creative editing, but weak plot This movie falls into the category of everything being good except the story sadly.  The camerawork was great - cool angles, well framed shots, etc.; same for audio, atmospherics and even (mostly) acting.  Sadly however, the story was not good at all, and borders on incoherent.  As you watch this film, it feels like an exercise in who can be the most incentive member of the team, except the screenwriters, so you end up with an artificially, somewhat over the top film that lacks meaningful substance.  It reminds me of Guy Ritchie - IMHO Lock Stock and Snatch are brilliant stories and very creative camerawork and editing, but his later movies had everything the same minus the stories.  So it is here.  Its an ok watch if you're bored, just don't expect the story to have any meaningful impact.

weak movie This movie has a very weak storyline that is not helped by the horrid acting throughout. Also there are only two basketball games in the whole movie which are not really entertaining. A bunch of slam dunks is really all you get in this one. Add this movie to your collection only if you are going for quantity and not quality.

I Love Bruce Campbell!  I Love Burn Notice!  This Tepid Prequel Misses Some Of The Allure Of Both I watched "Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe" with a fair amount of expectation and anticipation. I have watched the "Burn Notice" series from its inception with my spouse and I think that it's fair to say that it is one of our favorite weekly programs. Add to that, I have been a tireless devotee to the brilliant Bruce Campbell for more years than I care to recognize in print (decades!). So, this made-for TV movie seemed like a can't miss proposition. And, indeed, it begins on a decidedly whimsical note as Campbell faces a military tribunal for an escapade gone wrong. With his trademark bluster, Campbell challenges authority like no one else! His character has become a fan favorite over the years due to his verbal interplay with his series's co-stars Gabrielle Anwar and, most notably, Jeffrey Donovan. Donovan directs this tepid prequel and puts in a cameo, but its just long enough to highlight what's missing from this incarnation of the Burn Notice saga.  As much as I liked the comedic stylings of the present day military sequences, one would expect a terrific, funny and larger than life episode to showcase Sam's outrageousness. In fact, the jungle exploits between a corrupt military junta and a ragtag band of rebel fighters just seems far too easy and conventional. In a set-up used in countless other films, Sam is sent as an observer to a third world nationality and discovers that all is not as it seems in their plight with rebel forces. Soon Sam is in the thick of things protecting an altruistic hospital (sweet) and its strong and dedicated American/Canadian doctors (no language barriers here!). But it is a sassy rebel orphan who really seals the deal in this film. Painfully unreal and contrived, the girl exists to personalize the story--but is just one more example of a character construct as opposed to a real person. That's right, the great Campbell's principle foil is a precocious teen--uggh!  The strength of Burn Notice, as I mentioned above, is in its verbal pyrotechnics. The characters play off one another with rapid fire dexterity, and Campbell is an integral part of that success. Here, the script lacks the savvy and the smarts necessary to make this must-see entertainment and Campbell's big persona fails to have a match in the likable, if forgettable, ensemble of the film. Another part of the series' charm comes from stylish adventure and a palpable sense of danger. Here, the action is straightforward and lacking the visual flair we'd expect from the show. And as for danger, there's never a doubt as to the outcome of this fairly generic tale. As a Campbell enthusiast, I prefer his campier film forays and as a Burn Notice fan--this only hinted at the elements which distinguish the show. I watched it, it was pleasnat enough, but I can't imagine a second viewing. If you don't watch Burn Notice, though--you're missing out. I suggest you start there! KGHarris, 4/11.

Too Predicable Tony Scott is much better than this.  He has produced many great movies but this one was just ok in my opinion.  The title basically tells you about what you are going to watch leaving little to really see.  Maybe a different title and few adjustments here or there could have made it better.  Overall, if your a Denzel Washington fan for sure worth a watch but look towards 'The Last Boy Scout' or 'The Taking of Pelham 123' for a better Tony Scott production.  Peter J. Miller

Poor Sequel, Lost its "magic" I honestly loved The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre starring Marilyn Burns. The cast was likable, diverse, and great. The environments were dark, creepy, and mysterious. Even the original house has a bad feeling about it. The death scenes were gritty, original, and great for its time. That was the original...  The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 however, is a poor sequel, installment, and ridiculous entry in the series. Why did they go from living in a house to a hole underground? Why does it contain more comedy than horror? The ending was even quick and unfortunate. You barely get any closure as to what happens to the remaining people and the deaths were quick and sparing. In fact, this film doesn't even feel like a Texas Chainsaw Massacre!  Don't waste your money or time on TCM 2. The original (1974) and the remake (2004) are the best ones to go with.

Not that great We went and saw this movie at a special showing at the theatre and i have to say it was not that great. i feel it was way to predictable. for a low budhet movie it was not horrible could have spent a little more time on it.

Too Bad They Didn't Have A Bigger Budget Flesh eating zombie movies are always about the people trying to survive a zombie outbreak. If there's an exception, I haven't seen it.  Autumn focuses almost entirely on the humans. The zombies don't even pose a threat till sometime well into the second half. It's also a very low budget film with no great actors, make up, effects or action. Instead, this is an opportunity for a bunch of young film makers and actors to test their wings. I don't expect any of these young people to become household names, but this is still a decent effort. Better action would have made this a much more watchable movie, but I still liked it. Many scenes are very effective. Carradine must have appeared for moral support and to lend his name to help sell this film. If he got paid and his fee robbed the film makers of the money to make a better movie, they screwed up. I never heard of the novel. Maybe I'll read it someday.

Marilyn No extras??? Making the minimum effort and bearing the price in mind, Why could Fox not pull out the 1963 documentary, narrated by Rock Hudson that they released theatrically capitalizing on her death earlier that year?  It has never been seen since, never available on DVD, and would have served to make this collection a must have!  Seems they are missing the boat on this.......and the price?  I don't think so.

"Ugh! I got brains all over me!" When the King of Blaxploitation Fred Williamson, the Hong Kong Action Queen Cynthia Rothrock, and Oscar nominee Robert Forster got together to make a movie, the resulting debacle is almost as entertaining as it is inept, with the added flaw that there's nothing particularly cool or outright funny about the film. Personally, it was a hoot watching these three stumble around this disaster of a cop thriller, but at the same time I was mighty depressed that there was no part of the movie I could get behind and declare "now THAT'S what I came to see." Don't bother getting this one unless your sole purpose is to subject yourself to cinematic weirdness.  The plot: a serial killer dubbed the Video Stalker (Robert Prentiss, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002DRDBY">The Alamo</a>) kidnaps, tortures, and kills adulterous young women, compiling videos of their lives and death. The only thing standing in the way of his crime wave is the unlikely duo of trouble cops Dakota Smith (Williamson, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000053VB6">Black Caesar</a>) and Kristin O'Connor (Rothrock, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6305235155">Yes, Madam!</a>), who will have to untangle a web of police corruption if they hope to succeed in their mission.  Personally, the best part of watching this film was counting all of the embarrassing technical and storytelling mishaps the movie subjects itself to. The entire production is veritable comedy of errors superficially disguised by decent cinematography. There really are too many stylistic bloopers to list in a review of this length, but some of the more obvious ones include... (1) the killer - whom we later find out has a criminal record - handles all of the material he leaves behind with his bare hands, but no one ever thinks to identify him by his fingerprints; (2) when chased by the killer's van, his first victim (Nina Richardson) is literally run down but even then refuses to scream for help, and subsequently sells a taser attack like a sleeping pill; (3) during an early motorcycle scene, Fred Williamson's double is obviously white; (4) when Smith investigates the aforementioned van, its door is being held open by a clearly visible arm not belonging to the killer, and (5) when Smith crashes his motorcycle in an explosive inferno and his body is nowhere to be found, the cops on the scene are quick to assume he went to the liquor store. All of these things happen within the film's first fifteen minutes and accurately herald the tone of things to come.  Despite technically being a thriller, "Night Vision" provides an okay offering of action, mainly in the form of a few shootouts and a car-motorcycle chase. Despite the presence of Cynthia Rothrock, there's only a bit of karate - mostly featuring her at the end, but Fred Williamson also has short brawl halfway through the flick wherein he throws some very sloppy kicks. The acting isn't as bad as much as the writing is, which more or less demands hammy deliveries from all of the performers with the exceptions of Robert Forster (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000068DBD">Jackie Brown</a>) as Smith's comrade and Robert Prentiss as the killer, who do respectively good and bad beyond their written roles. Truly, Robert Prentiss makes an awful antagonist: his character is certainly evil but his performance is so weak and weasely that his out-of-nowhere, police brutality-style death feels a lot more satisfying than it has any right to. Oh, and then there's dwarf rapper Bushwick Bill playing Smith's buddy and fellow Alcoholics Anonymous attendant: he's not a great actor and doesn't really contribute to the story, but the director apparently felt he was interesting enough to keep bringing him back for scenes throughout the movie. Alrighty.  As far as Cynthia Rothrock goes, this is definitely the strangest film she had done since <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0024F08FQ">Undefeatable</a> and the most all-around inept one since her fare with Leo Fong. I can't really speak for the careers of Fred Williamson or anybody else involved, but I think it's safe to say that they'd too appreciate us leaving this film mostly forgotten, and rightfully so. Only hardcore completionists and aficionados of nonsense need give this a look.

Not So Good Having seen The Tuskegee Airmen and being a huge Cuba Gooding fan, I was disappointed in this film.  Cuba Gooding does not have a significant role in this movie, which was a letdown for me.  The action scenes are good; the flight sequences and dogfight scenes are well choreographed and produced.  The movie seems a remake of Tuskegee Airmen and definitely not an improvement.  The plot is loose; there's not much of a build to any sort of climax and at the two-hour mark (approximately), the movie ends.  The only wrap-up is a series of written FYIs exactly like Tuskegee Airmen.  I might have enjoyed this movie more had I not seen Tuskegee Airmen before.

Disappointing I was hoping this DVD would be worthwhile because Jane Fonda has always produced good workouts. Unfortunately, I was wrong.  Katrina and Karen are amateur personal trainers (at best). I am not even sure Katrina and Karen completed a practice session before filming the DVD. The actually workout itself isn't terrible, if you can get past the actors' performance of the exercises.  I am really surprised Jane Fonda would put her name on this video. If you are looking for a serious workout with a professional trainer check out Kelly Coffey-Meyer 30-minutes to fitness programs.

High Concept, Low Yield I'm a big sci-fi fan, but I found this poorly written and directed blockbuster to be pretty disappointing.  Daniel Craig proves once again that you need more than a buff bod to be a leading man.  He has zero charisma here, and like many second-rate British actors, he can't pull off even a broad regional American accent (like Western) to save his life.  Apparently the giant budget here didn't include a dialog coach -- or Craig just has a tin ear.  Fortunately the man can fight better than he can act, and the early scenes, where his gunfighter with amnesia tangles with some bad guys, pack some genuine punch.  Then come the aliens lassoing townsfolk -- it seems that the aliens hadn't discovered levitation rays back in the nineteenth century -- and the film gets relentlessly more silly and incredible.  About the only actor who rises above the nonsense here is the luminous Olivia Wilde, as a friendly (and extremely comely)alien.  I hope to see her again in movies much better than this one.  The DVD includes a number of extras, including making-of featurettes and director's commentary, if you have any curiosity about the production after watching this plodding "floater oater."  The long and short of it is, you need more than a high concept to delight an audience, even a contemporary one with lowered expectations.

Political drama for the simple-minded I waited for the twists - in every political drama you've got to have twists, but the one single twist is so absurd and adolescent in its lack of intelligence it's laughable.  Stylish film, watchable actors - I'm sure Blair-haters and `Stop the War' merchants wet themselves with excitement watching this, but as an intelligent political drama it failed big-time.

much ado about nothing. I love those 3 stars.  Wow, what a cast.  All they needed was a plot.  My wife and I watched loyally for almost an hour, waiting for some substance or anything actually funny.  It never happened.  We walked out (turned it off).  Perhaps films like this had more cultural context in their own time.  But I am old enough to appreciate value in a classic setting.  I just didn't see it.  Very disappointed...not serious and not funny. I couldn't have cared less about those characters, beautiful though the stars certainly were.  All 3 of them were badly miscast in those fluff roles.

Book is much better! I saw the movie before I read the book and thought the movie was okay. Your typical romance movie where love prevails all.  Then I read the book. The book is so much better! Much Much better and I'm appalled at the changes that the producers and directors made. The only thing that the book and movie have in common are that a man and women were in love. They got in a car accident and the woman loses her memory of her husband. Which is a good story! I just wish they wouldn't have "connected" it with the book. Then it wouldn't be so annoying.  If you want to see the movie rent it. Don't buy it. Or just never read the book.

DVD release not on BluRay This isn't as much a review as much a question. Are they releasing Season 1 again next month but not on BluRay, why???

Flipper Disc Watch out for this version of the Blu Ray + DVD.  This is a Flipper Disc meaning one side of the disc is the Blu Ray and on side of the disc is DVD.  You shouldn't have a problem if this kind of thing doesn't bother you.  I just wish they'd say it on the package so those of us that are bothered by it would know.

I thought this movie needed some work, in many ways! I have been a die-hard Transformers fan for 90% of my life! I loved the first movie, but this one..., hmmm.... What I liked about the movie: 1. The action was hardcore! 2. The basic plot was good! 3. They used a lot of interesting concepts from the different Transformers universes! 4. The soundtrack rocked!  What I didn't like: 1. Megan Fox served no purpose except for Sam's love interest! 2. Leo served no purpose except for comedic relief! 3. Too much sexual humor in the movie! 4. The visual effects were not that convincing a few times! 5. Devestator is suposed to be indestructible, and Mud-flap and Skids sould not have been able to 'bust-up' his face with ease! And he got taken out by one shot from a giant rail gun?!?! Ehhhh....no! 6. Megatron is supposed to be the leader of the Decepticons, where did this Fallen character come from?! 7. Mud-flap and Skids look and act terrible! 8. I wish we had more insight to the new Autobots and Decepticons and where they came from! I the first movie we got to know the characters, but in this movie some new characters were just thrown at us without back round info!  Overall this movie is a disappointment! I recommend it for fans who wanted to see hard-core action, but not recommended for everyone! Especially not for kids! My grade: C or two stars!

Great storytelling since episode one, but... Contains multiple spoilers so if you haven't watched then you shouldn't read further!  I absolutely loved this show, as did most everyone in the nineties. The underlining alien colonization story that evolves over the course of the nine year quest for "the truth" comes to a conclusion in season nine, sort of, that is.  Season 9 is not the best by far, as other reviewers have already cogently expressed, and any continued haranguing of the season 9 would be superfluous to my point.  The show was always first to shed light on the strange, the controversial, the unexplained, and occult phenomena; even being the first show to capitalize on the Mayan calendar end date of December 22, 2012!  I have nothing negative to say either about the production or about the cast, and their politics for leaving the show, or creator Chris Carter's choice to carry on the show after David Duchovny left at the end of season 8. My biggest complaint is that there has not yet been a full-length feature film that depicts the event s that is set to transpire on December 22, 2012 concerning the alien colonization of the planet... Season 9 left us hanging, or waiting that is, until 2012.  A major film that succinctly picks up where season 9 left off is warranted and owed to us loyal viewers; WE WANT THE TRUTH!  A film plot, a very good film plot I might add, is just waiting to be written. Here's one idea just using what season 9 has left behind in the form of breadcrumbs toward a major film adaptation. Perhaps this film begins in the year 2011, where William, who would be central to the film's plot and about 12 years old in 2011, could return with the alien power (previously thought removed by Agent Spender) to lead the alien colonization. Because if we recall from one of the last episodes from season 9, if William wasn't able to have been raised by Mulder and Scully he would've turned out to be, essentially, the antichrist alien leader, but if Mulder and Scully were to raise him he would've have turned out as a super-soldier who sought to overthrow the alien race . (Confusing I know.) However, since Scully gave him up, believing that adoption would protect him, William could essentially have turned out bad! Thus leading the alien colonization and reuniting the entire cast for one more adventure to save the planet! This story writes itself!  Instead, the writers/producers have created two stand alone films that do nothing to perpetuate this initial plot line nor is it ever addressed in the second film.... This only sours passionate longtime loyal viewers from caring.  I have heard that a third major film has been talked about, but it might be getting a little late since December 22, 2012 is rapidly approaching... I guess the Truth will have to stay out there indefinitely.

Typical Woodsy-Allen I should have known!!! These Woodsy-Allen movies, they're all about misunderstandings and lack of respect from each of the characters. The McAdams character: I'd say she's the weakest in the show as she has no respect for Wilson's character. The "know-it-all" douche is so cliche.  But, pretty standard for a Woodsy-Allen movie. I'm glad I only blew a buck + tax for this movie.

5 stars for the movie, -3 for forcing me to buy Blu-ray I know Blu-ray is the bee's knees and everyone likes to watch pretty colours on their 9000x4678 pixel wall-sized TVs, but some of us just want to watch movies and not be suckered/forced into buying something we don't want/need to get them. If this was DVD only (which was supposedly announced but I have yet to see it after a month or so) I'd give it 5 stars easily. I saw it in the theatre and it was touching, beautifully shot and not a "cat snuff film" as one reviewer put it (has that person EVER seen a single nature documentary? What's the point of saying it's a nature film and then sugar coating it? "Now we see the lions and hyenas and zebras sharing a big ball of cotton candy!")  A review on one site said Sam Jackson's narration doesn't always fit well and I'd agree but not enough that it bothered me at any point. There are many sad moments in the film, but that could be said about many movies and it adds to the impact rather than being simply depressing...and that's from someone with a near-zero tolerance level when it comes to animals being hurt in any way (below zero when it's humans doing it.)  If you have Blu-ray, get this for sure...though they're also forcing you to buy the DVD which I'm sure will make a nice coaster. Otherwise, wait for the DVD that may never arrive, waste a Blu-ray disc or download the digital version from the Disney Store site. At least they didn't pull this stunt with Winnie the Pooh.

animate movie bad movie.any moment i think was a real movie and nt a animate movie. but its my falt. next time need to read al about the movie.

the first three were very good, but this one was horrible lets hope the next one is better.  its funny the first three were very good.  sadly, even my favorite, Taylor Mason, was not nearly as funny.

Needed a Face Lift This film seemed to have a bit of potential at first. It was obvious it was going to be a rehash of a lot of the old Leatherface clich&eacute;s, but Nikki DeLoach's good humor was infectious and the couple launching off on their new life in the isolated old house was likeable. So I was ready to overlook the townsfolk with secret knowledge of the house's dangerous past - the gathering of frolicsome young people at the house, ready to be picked off by the killer while they were in the act - and all the other formulaic plot elements that the "Scream" series does such a good job satirizing.  But then things got really dreary. Leatherface, Michael Myers, and all the other killers in that tradition might have seemed almost superhuman in their ability to rebound. But the key word with them was "almost." They might be inexorable, but it was still possible, however remotely, that they could be representing real people. A viewer could justify the time spent watching these films with the "based on a true story" rationale. After all, Ed Gein was a real person who really did drape himself in human skin.  But the killer in this film seems to rise from the dead. He emerges from a mishmash of supernatural shenanigans. So there's no way I could feel I might learn anything about the heart of true evil by watching this film. And so it lost me.  "Mask Maker" is well-photographed and has a few scary moments. But over all, it's a false-face.

Too disturbing I gotta say this movie was way too disturbing for me!!! It was well made, but I am having troubles getting it out of my head!!! Very heavy and not at all for weak people!

I was so disappointed! It started off pretty good.  I liked all the historical accuracy and what looked like the actual cobblestone of today's historical Baltimore.  I thought that it was cute that he had a pet raccoon and petted a dead rodent in the street.  This all being an allusion to the conspiracy theory that, perhaps, Poe died from rabies.  It was slighty fun to see him argue in a bar.  I really like all of the trivia and literary allusion.  But it just was stupid and it dragged on.  I honestly don't remember how it ended.  It wasn't very well made.  And Poe as the red hot lover of the blonde actress with the constantly heaving breasts was pretty unbelievable and kind of gross.  Disappointing because my video rental lady said that she loved it.  I want my money back! Oh, and by the way, I'm an English teacher, even though I used the vernacular!:) So I enjoyed some of the clever details like the pet raccoon which I do think is made up, but funny, because of the rabies rumor.

Smut peddler I thought I would like this but after watching a lot of goop, gore, sex and violence in almost slow motion I was left with a bad taste in my mouth.  Are most human beings this nasty?

NOT GOOD AT ALL From other reviews I thought it would be a good movie. They don't tell you the movie has sex, language, trashy, slutty. If you are a christian, you want to know these things, so you don't buy this trash and throw away your money.  I'm angry that reviewers don't tell the truth about movies and don't say that there is drugs, sex, sex scenes, foul language, some indecent scenes, too much violence. Then we can read their reviews and make a intelligent decision NOT TO BUY.  REVIEWERS... tell us the truth in your reviews so we can get a clear picture of whether the moview is decent enough to buy or not. If you are a christian, then tell us...you will not like this movie.  It has D, S, L V.

A terrible movie with great potential When Ridley Scott was brought the original script to the movie, called Nottingham, Ridley decided to make changes he thought were "better". In the original movie, the main character, unknown, would have been a sheriff in Nottingham defending it, while the whole of the scenario with Magna Carta would have been going on. It was less tacky and it even had greater taste. Why Scott would do this was to further himself; being a vain person, he mutilated the original project and brought down something that was truly inspiring.  Alas, it would be unfair to only point at the flaws of Russel Crowe in Robin Hood; by which there were many, the other actors, who played King John, William Marshal and Eleanor of Aquitaine all did SPECTACULAR jobs. The roles they took could not have fitted them better and had the film not been changed and the main character (who is not Russel Crowe) been more English and dignified; in contrast to Crowe's gruff appeal, the film would have been a major success than the failure that it was. Granted, the other actors did not do a bad job at all, and it left me wanting of them in the film.  However, I draw the line when they're attacking Holy Mother Church. Ridley did it in Kingdom of Heaven; while making the desert brats look good, and he did it again here. He doesn't have to, but he did. He ignores the fact that the medieval western world is strictly a Catholic world; with the exception of the Moors in southern Spain (A story altogether different and much more inspiring than this garbage). Viva Espa&ntilde;a! And good king Juan Carlos I!  Other than my nationalistic love of good Spain, and its monarchy, the film is not generally crap, as others might think so. There are still good things about this. Like the music, the visuals and the combat scenes (although the Saving Private Ryan bit was just too much, really? A higgins boat???)

Disappointed Full of FOUL language. NOT the Jeff Dunham that I love. I wish I never would have bought it. It seems he has resorted to bad language to fill in the time. While it had it's humorous points, it was not what I would've paid for by any means. The skits just are in poor taste and I am so very disappointed in him. Whatever has caused the change in his material, I hope he cleans it up before he does another DVD or show.

Faulty discs I love House. However, after we got into this season, one of the discs doesn't work properly at all.  One episode will not play at all, the next one plays 3/4 of the way through then stops and then won't continue.  Frustrated, we haven't continued to watch any more. There is no visable damage, so I am not sure what happened. When I contacted Amazon about this they said because it was after the 30day return policy than there was nothing they could do.  I am really annoyed.

Great Acting Horrible Movie We just watched this last night on Amazon streaming and I was so disappointed. Had Meryl not done such a phenomenal acting job I would have given this 0-1 stars. I expected this movie would bash Margaret Thatcher because she was head of the Conservative Party but this went beyond that. It was bizzare and almost Felliniesk with the whole movie revolving around her implied dementia and halucinations of her long dead husband. It never stopped.   Here we have a movie about one of the strongest women of modern times rising up through an all boys club and becoming the longest reigning PM of Britian and all it want to show is her declining years in a delerium!?!?!? What is going on? I would have loved to have known how her career came about, who helped what brought her to her convictions, her relationship with Reagan. I could go on but what's the point. It was horrible and I cannot recommend this movie, despite the outstanding performance of Myrel Streep.

good video/audio, lousy singing like so many, i'm a huge billy joel fan.  but his voice is just so off in this one (lots of sharp/flat notes) that it's hard to watch/listen. some parts with the duets with others are fun though, but overall, very disappointed.

Probably the worst ever After receiving Baby Beethoven as a gift for my daughter, she loved it and we decided to collect them all.  This one, however, is one of the worst.  There's very little activity to keep her attention for long.  Ths little girls in it are cute, but they don't really do much,  I would pick Beethoven & Mozart over this one anyday!

Kahin Pyaar Na ho Jaaye........evidently means scream like michael Jackson and get drunk . Okay....This one is not really a buyer or a keeper and unfortunately I bought it. The wedding singer premise never held any appeal for me so I've never seen it. I'm so fed up with THIS movie already just go look up the synopsis on wikipedia where all good crap goes to die.   This one start's out very cute for about 30 minutes than it of course degenerates as his love has to leave him...Enter ETOH TOXICITY to the movie. I was at maximum capacity for B.S. because not only do I have to deal with that crap in the E.R. but the version Salman Khan was doing was highly annoying. The I'm drunk and braying like a donkey or doing stupid analogy jokes or screaming like michael jackson goes on for far too long. In the states we have two catchy sayings  " step away from the CRACK PIPE "  and "kill it before it multiplies" (cockroaches). This means you mr director. Lock him up and throw away the key. They give Salman a new love and then with really bad timing on the directors part, AND THE AWFUL TIMING OF THE SUBTITLES ...they break his heart for the second time in under an hour.  From the beginning the subtitles are missing on over one third of the dialogue and when they start them back up they are for the next topic so you have no idea what they are talking about sometimes. I'm beginning to see why they didn't bother. This was a bomb all over India according to the ratings and it is quickly evident. There are no romantic lines , sub-par humor no action of purpose or intent .IT'S BORING. I think they were going for modern rock because the song they are dancing to on stage right now is neither catchy nor beautiful nor interesting because I'm typing this while it occurs . No pretty costumes and I should mention I'm a huge fan of Rani Mukerji and even she can't save this "not even good enough for a weekday soap opera writing". I'm giving up on this one it's just too annoying....and I'm stubborn as a tick so hey..you be the judge because I'm about to be the executioner. ...CLICK...OH LOOK THERE'S NETFLIX...and look "Bunti aur Babli" is offered on streaming....thank GOD.

I fell asleep midway through yes. I did fall asleep because i thought it was cheesy, and not scary whatsoever. and by saying I fall asleep I mean literally. I kinda woke up from loud sound effects when Anthony anderson was getting killed, then found myself to fall back to sleep because i didnt really care how many times he got stabbed. the movie just didnt have that scary factor of the first and second. it seemed better than third. but that doesnt say much does it? its also really distracting to stare at courtney cox's Botox ridden face, and Sidney character just cant carry this franchise anymore. I personally didnt feel the groove on this but maybe if I watched it one more time I might change my mind. at this moment i gave it 2 stars. would I recommend this? yeah maybe a 15 year old slasher fan would enjoy it to the end. and nothing's wrong with that. and seeing ghost face again was nostalgic enough. but i hoped a better movie after 10 years of absence.

No English dub and ridiculous subtitles ruin an excellent movie. Batou takes the lead role in this excellent sequel to Ghost in the Shell, but avoid this particular DVD release from Dreamworks which has no English dubbing and subtitling that includes sound effects for some reason (which I found to be very annoying).  There is another release available from Bandai including a premium edition, dubbed by the SAC voice actors and properly subtitled; however, they are five times the price of the Dreamworks release which is ridiculous for a movie and hardly justifiable considering you can purchase both GitS: SAC and GitS: 2nd Gig for that much. For those of you for whom money is no object, here are the links for the Bandai release here on Amazon. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001K98MFA">Ghost in the Shell, Vol. 2: Innocence</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001K98MFK">Ghost in the Shell, Vol. 2: Innocence (Steelbook with Soundtrack CD)</a>  {It's unfortunate that Amazon groups all reviews for GitS 2: Innocence together as the terrible Dreamworks release is clearly a different product from the Bandai version.}

Get this movie for the Rifftrax Wow.  If you want to see a bad movie it doesn't get better then this.  There is no real script,it's just a rip off of dozens of other movies and tv show.  The SFX are worse then those in the almost 50 year old movie The Birds(one of the movies it rips off,think about that for a second.  There are no actors in this thing,just friends of the director giving the worst line reads you will ever see. Don't even get me started on the sound.  If you held the cheapest mike you could find in wal mart under water you would get a better recording of sound then this movie has.  This movie is the worst thing I have ever seen,Plan Nine,The Room,and Manos look like Citizen Kane compared to this garbage.  One thing I will say is that the disc is pack with extras,if you want to know how the worst movie ever made was made you can find out.  Only get this movie if you want a good laugh and/or you are getting the Rifftrax.

Talk about cheesy effects!!! What a major bummer this one is.  Acting was subpar, special effects finished it off.  What can one expect from Syfy, and Asylum?  I would like to see a good Titanic 2 done right.  I have noticed that most of Asylum's handy work is pretty tacky.  The Titanic movies, even the older ones offer a much better cast of actors, and even special effects.  Do yourself a favor, wait until the price of this movie comes down a bit before you buy it.  Then you won't be out of a whole lot of money!  It's that pathetic.  The only disaster here is the movie itself.

Doctor Who Season 6 Bait and Switch I am a Doctor Who Fan, and that is one of the reasons I continued Amazon Prime after the free trial. (Of course the free 2 day shipping also ties in). I watched  Season 5 and the first 5 episodes of season 6 using Amazon Prime (no charge).  Tried to watch Episode 6 tonight, after a couple of months, and found that this show has now apparently been removed from Prime!  Disconcerting, and disappointing!  Did Amazon remove this from Prime as part of a "bait and switch", or did BBC America screw you over and make you change the rules.  Stupid on BBC America's part, because I will find another legal/add supported source.  Stupid on Amazon's part, because I am now questioning the value of my Prime membership.  It appears that Amazon/BBC have conspired to come to the usual Content Gatekeepers Lose/Lose Solution!  Garth

No Need To Over Intellectualize This One Boring movie about a spiritual zealot who obsesses over his daughter's photographic memory. He mistakenly believes she has a mystical connection to god.  In the mean time he destroys relationships with everyone else in his family.  Son and wife both have some serious mental issues and have taken his rhetoric to an absurd end.  Like any story of addiction, the destruction is obvious to everyone but those addicted.  Lame flick, but I give it two stars because Juliette Binoche is so sexy.

Wikileaks Fantasy The movie is relatively tired and formulaic, you can spot the 'traitor bad guy' fairly early on and it's just a standard spy/action movie. It's preachy as all hell about how terrible the intelligence community is, and involves a file that's very damaging to Western intelligence agencies. Basically, the movie is a fantasy about how awesome it would be if the wikileaks documents had made any actual impact in the world.  Could have been a lot more interesting, there was ample opportunity for a more mental/psychological aspect to the movie with Denzel Washington's character; instead the movie takes a hard left turn and never comes back.

Disappointing I was expecting this to be a good movie since I like a lot of Jonah Hill's other movies.  However, it was not very entertaining and not very funny.  There were a few chuckles, but most of the time I kept asking myself "why am I still watching?".

Big Business against the people I give this movie two stars because it is a good movie. Why I don't give a higher rating is the theme. The theme is "big business is bad and we have all these sweet wonderful people who are the victims". Hollywood hasn't changed much over the years. The movie even celebrates the Russian revolution. I'm a person, who living in a house trailer with holes in the floors and cockroaches, paid my way through college and do well as a software engineer. For those misinformed; communist countries do not allow the freedoms to pursue careers being motivated by financial success. Amazon, I wished you would have some good American loving movies to watch.

Avoid if you want ANY extra features. First, I really enjoyed the movie. Like the other two films, this was a lot of fun to watch because you can disengage and simply enjoy the action.  The bad news is that if you care anything about extra features, this is not the release for you.  A blu-ray like this is completely unacceptable and is truly a money grab.  Wait for the next release which is suppose to come out later this year.  From now on I'll pay more attention to the release notes.  I haven't bought anything like this in quite some time.

Choose.......another movie This is girlfriend\wife horror.  'Choose' plays nicely with limited blood and deprivation.  So if you have to get it cause you want a horror you will do ok.  It is really limited by its own boundries but overall not very good and you have probably seen it before (and better).

Dissapointing The most common SMAW (stick/Arc) welding rods are 6010 and 7018. This video talks about 6013 most of the time. This is more like a selling  tool for a Premier Power Welder that bolts on to your vehicle like an alternator rather than a training video for welding. They should've used a basic "buzz box" or a Miller bobcat and focused more on welding techniques rather than the versatility of one Premier Power Welder. ... Don't waste your time or your money.

A Tour to Forget Put together Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie, as glamorous as ever here, then throw them into a situation in which Russian gangsters and British intelligence officers are after them. Place most of the scenes in Paris and Venice. Add a twist or two. This should be a thrilling movie, but it's not.  "The Tourist" opens with Angelina's character under surveillance in Paris. A mysterious man, Alexander Pearce, is wanted by numerous agencies and criminals for having stolen billions of dollars and disappeared. Angelina is his girlfriend, and everyone assumes she is the best way to find him again. She receives a hand-delivered note from Mr. Pearce telling her to get on the next train to Venice, and to befriend and travel with a man that looks like Pearce--to distract and deceive the authorities, we assume.  She does as she is told, picking out Depp's character, who is a math teacher and widower from Wisconsin. Soon, he is caught up in the intrigue, since many now believe he is Pearce. This is further confirmed by Angelina's budding love for him and her impetuous decision to give him a kiss in full view of those keeping her under surveillance. Yes, eventually, we get a few chase scenes, a few twists, and some humorous bits of dialogue. But this movie plods along on poor writing, with every gangster being cut from cardboard, every intelligence officer lacking intelligence, and even the hints at chemistry between Depp and Jolie stifled by a plot that is surprisingly thin for such a grand international thriller.  I had high hopes. They were far from met. Yes, "The Tourist" has its moments, but this is one tour I'd rather forget.

Not up to BluRay Quality I love this movie.  It's the best depiction of what it must have been like to fly with the U.S. Army Air Corps in Europe.  I have seen it literally dozens of times.  I purposely waited for the BluRay version so that I could have the best possible quality picture.  Instead, it's grainy and not much better than the DVD version I recently rented.  Very disappointing.

Very Boring, and Unrealistic - Burt Lancaster is a Texas billionaire who prefers star-gazing to managing his international oil company. The original plan is to buy a small Scottish fishing village so his firm (Knox Oil) can drill in the North Sea.  The townspeople are excited by the chance for riches - except for one resident living alone in what best could be described as a shack. He's the key, however, owning four miles of beachfront. Lancaster comes onto the scene to push negotiations and eventually agrees to just back away.

REALLY!!!!!! 2 hours of my life i can't get back. TRUST THE REVIEWS ITS REALLY SUCKS!!!! i only give it two stars, bcuz Charlize Theron did such a great job. i kept hoping that it would eventually pick up and i'd stop falling asleep, but no such luck. i even went back just in case i missed something while i was sleeping, but i missed NOTHING. uuuuurgh i'm truly disappointed, becuz i was excited about the cast and concept for the movie. Next time i'm going to Mickey Ds Dollar Menu with my 3.99 :(!

Interesting, but Failed to Horrify I'm constantly amazed by how those closest to the movie business--directors, producers, and writers--so often misunderstand just what makes a movie good.  At times they seem childishly simple-minded:  "Well if people liked X, we'll give them a movie with even more of X in it!"  Such is the case with director Tobe Hooper's follow-up to "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974).  While there are commendable features to "Eaten Alive" (1976),  the film's excesses doom it to idiocy.  "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is considered a classic by many film buffs, and I think not without reason.  "Chainsaw," for all its shocking violence, is almost gore-free.  Although Hooper presents scenes of a girl being hung on a meat hook and a cripple being chainsawed in a wheelchair, we don't actually see these things.  The amount of blood in the film is negligible:  the horror is almost wholly inferred.  (Such is also the case with "Halloween.")  But in "Eaten Alive" we have killings by pitchfork, scythe, and crocodile, the bloodletting always quite explicit.  In "Chainsaw," narrative unity is foregone for the purpose of nightmarish imagery (and the movie is indeed very much like a nightmare).  "Eaten Alive," in contrast, attempts to have a plot--which, given the content of the movie, has no chance to be anything but foolish.  And not only does the plot constantly remind us of the foolishness of the story, but much of the material is nothing but boring filler between scenes of violence.  And finally, "Chainsaw" contained no scenes of sex or nudity, but "Eaten Alive" presents us first with a whorehouse, then with sex in a hotel, and finally with a hotel guest strutting around topless.  Dumb, dumb, dumb.  The success of "Eaten Alive" is in its almost autistic Southern mise-en-sc&egrave;ne.  Hooper creates a hotel buried so deeply in a Louisiana swamp that one cannot see more than fifteen feet from the porch of the hotel.  This is a world unto itself.  Neville Brand, as the crazed hotel proprietor, is good, but he is mostly wasted.  The film focuses instead on the plot rather than its madman.

Overrated Being a fan of Tom McCarthy's directorial debut, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001WTWDI">The Station Agent</a>, I had high hopes for this movie. I was sadly disappointed. When the main character's major problem is boredom, you know you're in for a boring movie. At times it was like watching an after school special.

Flashpoint The Fourth Season I was disappointed with this product because it did not set out the entire season 4 episodes as per IMDB website. There were episodes from Season 3 (as distributed here in Australia)and only the first few from what was classified as season four, so basically I wasted my money buying it. Unfortunately there is no longer an Australian distributor for Flashpoint.

Rather lame remake of a classic Unfortunately, I have come to this movie only after seeing (several times) Billy Wilder's classic version from 1955, starring Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart and William Holden. In comparison, Julia Ormond, Harrison Ford and Greg Kinnear, respectively, pale almost painfully. Julia is stilted and lifeless from the beginning to the end, having nowhere near the charm, grace and poise of Audrey; Harrison looks clumsy and awkward in both his serious and his comic scenes, and he - despite all my affection for him - is simply not in the same class as Boggie; and Greg may be said to be the greatest disappointment, as he cannot hold a candle to the vastly underrated William Holden.  Nor do the changes in the script fare any better. The uproariously hillarious Larrabee father from the original movie is here completely omitted, while the role of the mother is unnecessarily expanded. Sabrina's Paris romance is as dull as anything and so are a number of other scenes, either lost in excessive sentimentality or artificially over/underacted. The scenes common to both movies are embarrassingly inferior in the remake. The latter, on the whole, attempts to be more serious than the original, but it only becomes a great deal less entertaining. Just compare the voice in the beginning that describes the Larrabee family and mansion: both the text and delivery are WAY superior in "Sabrina" (1955).  I guess without the dubious benefit of comparison, the movie is not that bad, but it wouldn't get more than three stars even in this hypothetical case. If you have never seen the original version, I suppose this may be a fairly enjoyable way to spend two hours, although many scenes leave a good deal to be desired. But if you have seen Billy Wilder's gem, better be prepared that the remake, though basically the same story, is a different affair altogether. But if you haven't, unless you have some inherent dislike to old movies, I suggest you give Audrey, Boggie and William Holden a try. For my part, I wonder why Sidney Pollack and co. wanted to make this remake in the first place. They could hardly have won against such a rival and, for my part, I repeat, they lost rather badly.

The Only Dummy Is The Writer "Magic" poses the question of whether ventriloquist Corky Withers (Anthony Hopkins) and his dummy Fats are two separate entities or Fats is just an extension of Corky's twisted psyche.  Alas, the answer is telegraphed too soon so whatever suspense director Richard Attenborough is trying to muster is drained away.  Anthony Hopkins doesn't help matters by chewing the scenery in a performance that's neither terrifying or funny.  Ann-Margret is essentially wasted by being called upon to model tight sweaters which, in retrospect, is not entirely a bad thing.  Hight point of film is Burgess Meredith as Hopkins' agent.  Author William Goldman should sue the screenwriter but be adapted his own book.

A Let-Down As noted by others, the DVD set includes only two discs, and includes only those previously unreleased cartoons noted above.  It DOES NOT include the third "bonus" disc or any of the added cartoons.  Since the DVD release is titled the same as the Blu-Ray, it seems to be rather deceptive marketing on the part of Warner Brothers.

WHERE'S THE HUMOR?  HELLO! This one lasted about 15 minutes for me.  It was awesome to see so many actors and actresses I recognized from other movies and shows but I didn't find anything really humorous and that's why you watch a comedy.  HUMOR: D minus; STORY/PLOTTING: C; CHARACTER/PLOTTING: B minus; OVERALL GRADE: C minus; WHEN WATCHED: January 2011.

Lame heist movie There's nothing new here as "Takers" is just another heist movie with some decent action sequences, plenty of explosions for explosions sake and the usual car chases.  Oh yeah, guns ablazin' in L.A.  all the while.  And if you think that Hayden Christensen and Paul Walker are bad actors, wait until you get rapper T.I!  Idris Ilba and Matt Dillon add a touch of acting credibility to a pretty lame movie.

"Two dollas" That's how much I would have paid to see this movie (unfortunately it cost quite a bit more). Simply put, the movie is about post-traumatic stress disorder. It centers about a concentration camp survivor and how his horrible experience has damaged his personality in such a way that, if personalities could be likened to natural landscapes, his would look like the Mojave desert. Lumet uses flashbacks from the concentration camp period to make his point, as well as various other symbols. Steiger's performance is excellent, but the subject matter is inevitably bleak and I found the movie hard to enjoy because of it. For me it had little entertainment value. It sure is great when a movie makes you think, like this one, but what if all the thoughts that it evokes are depressive ones? At least that was the effect on me. So, if you had a long and hard week at the office and want to sit down Friday night to enjoy a movie that would entertain you, uplift your spirit and soothe your tired brain, then maybe this isn't the one to watch.

Meh... I felt it was a waste of time. Sorry not for me. I watched the entire thing overall I feel it was a waste of time. Very one-layered. Good acting but then again it was all in a box.

I Guess I'm the "Everyone" This Movie Isn't For... A couple of the other reviewers here have pointed out "this movie isn't for everyone" and I'm proof.  I was anticipating something good having heard about real-life dancing outlaw Jesco White and this movie based loosely on his life (very, very, very loosely based on his life or reality at all in retrospect).  Unfortunately this is more a study in insanity than a story about Jesco White, so I was disappointed.  Surely there will be many who appreciate this movie for its very harsh, stark portrayal of one man's decline into all sorts of mental breakdown and resulting physical violence.  It is admittedly powerful, hard to watch stuff.  Sadly, after enduring the brutality there wasn't much to take away.  It's far too interpretive and abstract to really give a glimpse into the real Jesco White, and it never bothers humanizing the characters at all.  Perhaps that was the point - are these hillbillies real human beings at all?  In any case, for me White Lightnin' was a missed opportunity more than anything.  I don't know much more about Jesco White than before, and if he's anything like those in this movie I probably don't want to.  But something tells me there is a more interesting, human, & true story to be heard...guess I will move on to one the real biographical movies about White next.

I really wish I saw in it what others did I rented Battle Royale due to the number of multiple-star reviews, but by the end I wondered what all the hype was about.  Yes, it's pretty clear that The Hunger Games owes some of its ideas to Battle Royale.  The basic concept and many of the ideas within the film (zones, "off-limits" areas, gangs working in tandem, deceit, etc.) were very much a part of Battle Royale long before the Hunger Games series was penned.  But when I watched the film, what overwhelmed me was not the violence but the melodrama of the whole thing.  I lost count of the pained expressions, the looks of yearning, and declarations of unrequited love. The movie had just about every teen movie trope I'd seen in countless other films.  The geek.  The abused victim with a drunken parent.  The good boy.  The bad girl.  The girl gang.  The computer geek with a plan.  All of them were written with the expertise and subtlety of a screenwriter with no more than a couple high school Literature classes under their belt.  The characters were so broadly written, and cliche'd, that the sheer over-the-top emotion was hard to sympathize with.  I also was surprised at the glaring warnings about how the film was rated R-15 (or whatever it's called in Japan), where anyone under the age of 15 is banned from watching the film.  Other than a few squibs, the violence primarily consisted of fake blood spray, stains on shirts, and an awful lot of cgi blood.  In fact, a film like this would barely rate a PG-13 in the U.S.  I could also remember virtually no profanity that would have justified anything more than a PG.  The violence is only shocking, perhaps, in the manner in which it was perpetrated against teenagers, but it was actually rather sanitized compared to films like Kick Ass and even Attack The Block (itself not terribly shocking.)  So in the end, you get an over-the-top, melodramatic, and at times nonsensical film of attrition that follows a pretty routine formula to an end that most anyone could have predicted from the start.  There were few twists and turns, an awful lot of CGI blood, and one HECK of a laundry bill at the end. (Getting all that red blood out of those white shirts must have required a year's supply of bleach!)

Miscast Russell Crowe drags down a good drama About 95 percent of my problem with this film was with the lead actor.  This was an excellent story -- taken from the thrilling BBC miniseries of the same name -- with an otherwise great cast, good script, good director; but Russell Crowe stuck out in this like a saguaro cactus among orchids, and not in a good way.  He just didn't belong, and he didn't do that great a job: he was phoning in his performance, based on an outdated, stereotypical view of what dedicated journalists are supposed to be like.  I just couldn't buy him as a serious journalist (sorry, but I am one -- in Chicago, where great journalism, like politics, is a spectator sport).  The really good investigative journalists don't drink much anymore (if they ever did), or they wouldn't be able to do the work.  Moreover, they know they've got younger, hipper reporters nipping at their heels and managements who'd rather hire the newbies than seasoned reporters because the former cost less, so it's pretty competitive.  But it's still not like the Brit tabloids: we have rules, and ethics.  And all that is still different if you're part of the DC press corps, which tends to have more of a herd mentality than we do (remember, Woodward and Bernstein bucked the trend, and they were metro reporters, not on the political beat).  All that said, Russell Crowe, besides being obnoxious and sloppy in this role, just doesn't have credibility as a still-hungry beat reporter trying to get a scoop, keep his ethics, and still keep his job.  I thought about whom I would have liked to have seen in the role instead, and both John Cusack and Gary Sinise come to mind.  Sure, they've been wasted lately (Sinise on TV and Cusack in disaster/horror films and romantic comedies), but these guys are in the right age bracket and they really have the chops.  Either one of them playing opposite Helen Mirren would have made the screen crackle (and Ben Affleck would have been running to catch up, but he probably would have notched up his performance a bit to compensate, and that would've been good).  I recently watched Grace Is Gone and Truman again, so I was pointedly reminded of what Cusack and Sinise are capable.  They're a thinking gal's actors: like Clooney, they can seriously step up when you give them challenging material.  Russell Crowe??  Not so much.  Give him a swashbuckling role or one of a world-weary cop wherein he still gets to smash a few heads, and he's fine; but don't give him a serious interior drama that requires too much thought, 'cause he'll disappoint.  As he does here.  I found his performance to be terribly distracting, and that considerably damaged me following the action.  Helen Mirren (love her! what a tart, snappy boss she made), Affleck, Rachel McAdams, and Robin Wright acquitted themselves well enough, but I can't help but think that even Mirren and Affleck would have done better if they'd had Sinise or Cusack to push back against.  Comparing this to the original Brit production, I'd give the Brits five stars and this two, mostly because of Crowe's failed role (without him, it'd be more like three and a half to four stars; and with Cusack or Sinise?  Whoa.  *That's* competition).

Better Than I Remember But Still Pretty Bad I have very dull memories of this film from when I was a kid. I feel that the only way I can explain my opinion is a brief history of my connection to the books. Otherwise it's not clear where I'm coming from. I first saw <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005MP59">The Hobbit</a> when I was about 8. I was immediately hooked and read all the books. Of course, I was 8 so I had a great deal of trouble remembering what was going on. The fact that Aragorn changed his name three times did not help at all. So while I knew the basics of the story a great many details had eluded me. Upon finishing the books I naturally wanted to see the movie. So the next time my family went to the video store (yes VHS. I'm that old) I immediately chose that film to watch.  My memories of it are somewhat fuzzy, which was my reaction at the time as well. I had a hard time following the film even though I'd seen the book. It seemed fragmentary and portions of it were so far from the way I imagined them that they didn't make sense. Being used to the more unique style of the Hobbit I was somewhat disappointed by the more realistic look of the animation. When the film ended right in the middle of the books... well, as you can imagine I was pissed. Although by that point I was bored and confused. My brother (who hadn't read them) was even worse off. So years later when the new films came out I was as excited as I could be.  For a while I've been meaning to watch this film again, to see how it compares with my memories of it. I rewatched the Hobbit too, a film that held up a LOT better. So my review is based off of this viewing with bits of my old memories filling in what it feels like for a child watching it. I would like to start with the good things that I didn't remember but there really is something else I have to cover first: the animation. I remember not liking the animation as a child but I had thought it was more a stylistic thing than a quality one. But the animation here is really terrible. I understand that a lot of this is budget related but it's still hard to watch. Large portions of the film are rotoscoped. Worse than that there are large portions which are filmed with actors in terrible costumes and just run through a filter to make them look less real. As a whole the effect is inconsistent and ugly. Just plain ugly. When they actually bother animating them the characters look good. I particularly liked the look of Frodo, a look I remember hating as a child.  So, about the characters. Some of them are quite good. But many of them are bad. Really bad. Rather more are unmemorable and generic. I'll deal with the good ones first. As I said, I rather liked Frodo. I felt he captured some aspects better than Elijah Wood, who I also loved. This Frodo spent less of his time looking all teary eyed and was more assertive and a more active participant in his fate. The biggest problem with him is that the animators like making him twitch around like a child, possibly due to his size. Aragorn is also quite good. I know the Nostalgia Critic preferred this Aragorn to the one from the new films, and while I wouldn't go as far as that I can see why. John Hurt is excellent in the role. His Aragorn is more noble and stoic than Viggo Mortenson's and seems less wild, while still embodying the rough and ready ranger. His performance is all the more impressive because he has some really hard lines to deliver. He's probably the only one who is UNDER-animated. Gandalf is quite good as well. He also suffers from mysterious arm spasms every time he talks but his voice is calm and measured. Sometimes he waves around out of sync with what he's saying which is quite weird. I still prefer John Huston's Gandalf from the Hobbit or Ian McKellen's from the new films. Saruman is quite good as well, despite the writers' attempts to destroy him. They call him Arriman to distinguish him from Sauron except when they forget and call him Sarimun which makes it more, not less, confusing. Galadriel is less creepy than Cate Blanchett, which is nice. I think she's the only character I actually like better in this version. Gimli is barely in it but what little you see of him is quite good. For some reason he's as tall as the rest of the men, which is odd to say the least.  The bad: Sam is dreadful. Period. He's a crazy, stupid peasant. It's absolutely horrible. He has no dignity whatsoever. Elrond and the elves in general look just like humans. Given that they weren't limited by makeup limitations this is especially perplexing. Treebeard sounds perfect but he looks like a strange kind of turnip. The enemies (except Saruman) are all done poorly. Sauron looks even sillier than he does in the Jackson version with his giant horned helmet. The Dark Riders have all the menace of a cripple in a cloak. First off, they're not black. More a light grey. Second, they jerk around like they're crippled. And then sometimes they just turn into people wearing horned costumes with glowing red eyes. The orcs are always people in costumes who waddle like fat drunks in Halloween costumes. Their only noticeable attribute is their giant fangs. The Balrog looks like a winged lion. It also flys around, which makes me wonder why it lets itself fall into the pit. There is nothing ominous about any of these designs. I don't like Gollum either. He's astonishingly low key and very slow. Not a threat at all. Oddly his animation tends to be better than those of the other characters. Another odd thing which affects all of the characters is that they like to roll their r's a lot for no good r-r-r-rrrrreason!  And the mediocre take up most of the cast. There are a lot of characters in the Lord of the Rings. Often times they don't even bother introducing the characters. Merry and Pippin are indistinguishable. And if the creators don't bother why should anyone else care to differentiate them? Bilbo is barely in it at all since it starts with him leaving which gives him no time to make an impression before he leaves. The funniest scene with him in is when he's "tempted" by Frodo's ring, by which I mean he has a random seizure while looking at it. The hobbits generally look like little children, which makes me wonder if the animators decided to make them look like children because they're the size of children. Legolas actually looks different from humans in the way no other elves do. His eyes are tilted at a steep angle which makes him look rather etherial and nonhuman. He's also voiced by Anthony Daniels (C-3PO) who sounds even more effeminate than Orlando Bloom's Legolas. Honestly, I don't really like elves anyway so maybe others will like him better. Theoden is... there. That's all I can say about him. Boromir leaves very little impression except that he's a Viking complete with horns and giant beard. Strangely enough he left a bigger impression on me as a kid than he did the second time around. I remember him literally pinned to the tree with arrows but it turns out that it wasn't like that at all. Which is strange because I have such a strong memory of it. As a whole the character designs are more Anglo-Saxon than high medieval, which seems more fitting for the humans than the elves. Tolkien might have liked that better though since he worked a lot on the Anglo-Saxons. Problem is, the Saxons never built anything like the huge cities or vast armies he describes, which makes the world seem small and underpopulated.  Going back to the animation, the background plates are terrible. They're under-detailed and hideously colored. The whole film has a strange color scheme in fact. Sometimes it is decent enough but other times it goes into monochromatic mode for no discernible reason. When using live actors especially the background vanishes and is replaced by shades of red or grey. It is all very ugly. The magic tends to be accompanied by crazy sparkles and flashing lights which reminds me why so many '80s fantasy films failed. Saruman actually shoots balls of light at Helm's Deep. It seems to me that when you need to sell something extraordinary you do it by making it seem ordinary, not by adding a lot of flashy lights as if to shout "Ooh! Magic happening here!." The music in the film is rather good, even though they almost never use it. Often when they do use it it seems out of place too, as if they felt there should be music so they just stuffed it in.  It was a mistake to combine these books into one film. There are a series of climaxes that never match the natural flow of the film. As it gets closer to the end this problem gets worse. The plot leaps forward at a breakneck pace which skips over much essential information to reach the battle of Helm's Deep in time for a final battle before the film ends. As the audience for this film went in expecting to see the whole story played out the ending of the film in the middle of the second book is a massive letdown. That's my main memory of the film and it's still valid. The ending is abrupt and surprising. Plotwise they are rather more loyal to Tolkien than the Peter Jackson films were. Timelinewise there are very few discrepancies to the book. They achieve this by often jumping from one scene to the next with no transition. They actually skip most of the council of Elrond and when they reach Lothlorien they jump right from talking in the forest to Galadriel's hall. But while the timeline is better, the world itself is off. Badly off. From the little details that Jackson & Co did so well to the constant changes to the lore this film changes a lot. While Jackson's film feels like it takes place in Tolkien's universe this movie takes place in some dimly lit and strangely unfocused and primitive world which could never be mistaken for any sort of reality.  So that's the movie. There are some good things in it, but they are well hidden. It's not positively bad but it is silly and uninteresting. Anyone interested in seeing this world on film is of course infinitely better off watching the new <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0026L7H20">trilogy</a>. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005MP59">The Hobbit</a> is an excellent adaptation in a different style, designed for children. I grew up on it so I find most of its flaws nostalgic. Avoid <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005MP5D">The Return of the King</a> animation. It's far worse than this one. It's done by the same people who did The Hobbit unfortunately, and their childish style doesn't fit well at all with the more adult subject matter. The <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0618640150">books</a> are of course beyond amazing.

Was Not Movie Indicated Although I tried to cancel this purchase, there seemed to be no avenue....until here.  The problem was not the movie....I liked the series. I had already seen the first 2 Witches, and wanted to see the most recent one.....The Good Witch, Family.....which is what the title said.  When I began watching, I realized it was not the Most Recent (The Good Witch, Family), but the original movie.

i have seen worse... A slasher who done it...it was ok considering we had nothing better to do at the time.  The movie starts off with a woman telling a bed time by a fireplace to an unseen baby in a bed then gives the unseen baby a doll.  Then the movie flashes into today's time and a small group of actors/friends gets hired by an eccentric wealthy man to perform a rendition of Little Red Riding Hood for his grandson's birthday party.  When they arrive on the premisis they are greated by an odd gamesmith who works for the man who hired them.  When they get to the house the discover the man who hired them is equally odd and also that the party consists of him and the grandson.  The man who hired them for some reason repeatedly addresses one particular member in the acting troupe as Sederic when his name is Frederic...However, the young actor continues to respond to the wrong name instead of correcting the man.  Also, the man seems to feel very comfortable with Frederic and asks him to basically tuck him into bed and read him a story....at this particular point in time I would think the Frederic character would draw the line; however, Frederic went right along with the old man.  Also, one member of the acting group if mute and bisexual and honestly I am not sure what her character is doing in the movie.  The mute bisexual doesn't appar in the performance the actors are putting on and her longest scene is when she is having sex with her girlfriend.  Apparantly, when they are having sex they are also being watched and photographed by an unidentified person.  The viewer isn't given any reason for the photography...I guess we just assume he is a pervert rapist.  The grandson, Nicholas, is also rather odd.  Nicholas doesn't really speak or have facial gestures.  Nicholas just sorta stands/sits with a blank look on his face for most of the movie.  Again, the viewer isn't given a reason as to why the child acts that way.  Also, the killer and the reason behind the killings is rather lame.  Actually, considering the death scenes the viewer can figure out that the character didn't die and there is a difference between the killer's initial death scene and the other death scenes.  So yeah we figured out the killer early on....so it wasn't very much of a who done it for us.  The character of the police officer was off, he seemed more like a young guy wanting to party than a respected officer of the law.  The movie was boring in some spots and never built up any since of horror/suspense.  There were not any scares nor was there alot of gore.  The acting was pretty lackluster and the voice over in English made it worse.  The characters were lackluster and the reasoning behind their actions was rather lame.  The only reason I gave it 2 stars:  I liked the setting, the views through the keyhole were rather different and the wolf costume was stylish.

not good This was a big disappointment. Three uninteresting characters rob a bank, take two boring hostages, and end up being pursued by the lamest killer in the history of horror movies. This wussy Jason rip off gets kicked in the nuts by a twelve year old girl on several occasions. Not scary, not bloody, not funny, no nudity, no jokes. A shame, really, because I like the premise. (criminals stalked by a psychopath)

CURSE OF THE WEREMONKEY This is a low budget film which looks like it was filmed on super VHS using some bad CG special effects. Before the credits we see the killer vampire, so it really isn't a who-dun-it BUT it does have a plot twist that comes about a third of the way into the film, making it not much of a twist at all. The big huge cross shown during the credits made me think this was some kind of Christian movie plus the guy with the "GOD" baseball cap. But then Jessica (Michelle Craine) takes a shower and there is nudity! She is attacked by a black paw. (Nice to know Black Tooth is still alive, but what about White Fang?) Oh Wait! This is for a low budget motion picture being filmed within a low budget motion picture...using a camera worse than my nephew uses to record his kids Kindergarten graduation.  The gang heads up to a well kept summer home to film the rest of the movie, "Curse of the Weremonkey."  Lynne Jacobellis teases us by running around most of the movie in a bra and unbuttoned Daisy Dukes, but that wasn't enough to carry the film. Killing and Blood? Yes. But the acting and dialouge was really bad. The premise for the movie and the twist was a basically sound idea, but it was poorly executed.  F-bomb, sex nudity (Valentina Castellani, Michelle Craine) 1 star normally, Michelle Craine not liking clothing adds a star.

mediocre Not particularly scary, and rather ridiculous at times. It wasn't horrible, but it was still a let down. I was a little impatient about the film just finally ending.

Never an origional thought in there lives This is typical of the time in which it was produced. Screen writers then (and now) have most probably never written anything original and as such must depend on the hard work of others. In this case, Mark Twain. Don't waste time and money on this rewriting of a classic.

Typical Pride fare A mixed-bag of soft-core erotica from the folks at Pride video.  Like most of what they seem to produce, this one is a mixture of very good and very bad segments.  There is no discernible theme in "Exhibition", although quotes keep appearing that seem to be trying to link the images to myth and legend and spirituality.  The DVD case claims it is a collection of five "music videos".  Well, I guess this is video, and there is music, but the music is pretty annoying and the images are all-too-often self-consciously arty.  The DVD starts off promisingly with two good segments that celebrate the nude male form in motion.  The first features a couple of guys wrestling.  The second takes us underwater.  Both are quite sensual.  Unfortunately they are very short.  And things go downhill rapidly after that.  We have to endure a very long, very dull sequence devoted to dancing and partying, I guess.  It's all very psychedelic, with lots of bright lights and splashy colors.  And then we are treated to some absolutely ludicrous moments that deal with shamanism, pagan gods and religion.  At only fifty minutes or so, the video seemed to drag on at least twice that long.  I fast forwarded through much of the last twenty minutes or so.  One of these days someone will have to gather a bunch of Pride videos together and extract the good scenes to make a compilation DVD.  "The Best of Pride" they could call it.  I'd be willing to buy!

The schtick gets old. I grew up watching and loving The Three Stooges.  I don't mind a good slapstick from time to time.  I had heard of the famous "road" movies of Hope and Crosby.  My wife and I are always up for some old school filmology.  And so it was that I went into watching these road movies with some decent expectations of genuine laughs and liking the main stars (I've liked them in plenty of other things).  I ended up being quickly disappointed.  Beginning with "The Road To Singapore" I grew to quickly dislike the relationship between Hope and Crosby.  I understand that this was at the heart of these movies but the constant usury between the two, with Bing always the older and always getting the girl, did not tickle my funny bone.  And Hope's constant mugging!  Ugh.  The constant selling out your friend for money was tiring.  After watching all four I felt that "The Road to Zanzibar" was only slightly better than "Singapore", with a female couple parralleling Hope and Crosby's schtick.  "Road to Morocco" was the best of the bunch, with the two giving some nods and winks to the camera.  "Utopia" followed the formula but threw in some (for the time) salacious commentary as the third wall was frequently broken.  The relationships that they fell into with Dorothy Lamour and others were never close to real--I've seen lovebirds take longer to fall for each other than these pairs!  I'm sorry to say that I, nor my wife, enjoyed these movies.

Cornball cliche city. Indian reviewer needed. Our PBS channel here rated this movie quite highly so I bought it off Amazon when the DVD was released. Later my wife explained to me that the channel is kind of obligated to praise Australian productions whether they are good or not. More fool me. This Australian production set in Calcutta scripted two of the most clich&eacute;d, cardboard cut-out, caricatures from clich&eacute; town imaginable as the Australians. The male channelled a credible Russel Crowe lite if you like that sort of thing while the woman played brittle and wooden perfectly subjugating any acting to her role as a fairly good looking clothes horse. As an Australian I am ashamed that foreign viewers might actually think we have couples like this. The scripted parts lacked credibility throughout as one predictable set piece melodrama clich&eacute; followed another. My question to any Indians reading this is: How accurately was Calcutta represented? How much of a caricature were the main Indian characters in the script?  From my never been to India perspective they were far more appealing than the Australians and one had to like the main Indian guy but I have a nagging fear I may be swallowing a fat set of patronising clich&eacute;s here. Tell me! Two stars because it made India look so beautiful in place. None for the script or the acting.

Mystery, thats true I have everything that the Beatles ever put out on vinyl and yes, I own a copy of each of their films. That being said. The movie was filmed in Black and white and recolored, its broadcast on the BBC at premier, I believe was also black and white which was a total waste as the color aspect of the film is lost and hence its a snore fest.  Everyone is so strung out or post trip that really its a total shambles as far as any perceived plot. The only scene that gave me a laugh was of John shovelling spaghetti on a plate. Otherwise, the music scenes of I am the Walrus and The Fool on the Hill were a total waste even if you had dropped a blotter to relate.  I rarely post really really negative reviews, but in all honesty, save your money, this sucks in a supremely quantum fashion. It should be a one star, I gave it 2 because I love their music so much. Sure, everyone had taken acid or done drugs, thats not the issue. This is a rambling directionless film directed and edited in some futile hope that you get it and in reality there nothing to get, everyone basically trips their nads off and you have to see the genius in it. I dont.  Even under the guise of Pop culture or pseudo surrealism, this is a big can of suck. I am upset on 2 levels, 1) I cant ever get the time back I wasted in my life watching this and 2)its just so very poorly made.  Part of me wishes I could give negative stars. One Caveat, it is still better than Ishtar, and on Ishtar, I will say the only positive thing I could recall was that the movie was shown in an air conditioned room.

Horrible Acting, Hokey Plot In Time is a complete waste of time.  The acting is horrible and the story line is flat out dumb.  The best part of the movie was seeing that Johnny Galecki from Big Bang Theory can do something other than play a nerdy PhD.

A fairly annoying show I enjoyed Baka & Test when I started watching the show. It looks cute, has a fun and colorful cast of characters, and I still really like the first ending song. But, by the fourth episode I was tired of it all. The story wasn't going anywhere and the same old jokes were coming up leaving me more irritated than amused.  Baka & Test is primarity a comedy, and most of the time their jokes contain dark humor and or hyperbole. For example, one girls cooking is so bad it kills people, and when a particularly pervy boy catches a glimpse of a girls underwear the resulting noseblead is so massive he is left lying in a pool of his own blood.  There really isn't much to Baka & Test besides it's humor. It's kind of like a sitcom. A school segregates their students by inteligence and has this virtural system where students battle each other using avatars who gain power from their test scores. Everything following the set up is more or less a string of jokes. I would have enjoyed Baka & Test a lot more if the characters were more likeable and if the show contained better jokes or at least ones that were less repetitive. But, because the show is what it is I was irritated by a majority of the show and find it to be below average in quality.

Donald in Mathmagic Land The video is interesting and educational but according to the instructions we are allow to play it only 5 times. I suggest to the company to give at least 20 times in order to share with the family.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo-Two Thumbs Down You know how people say don't see a movie based off a book? It's true.  I understand that they need to leave things out, but do they need to change things too? How hard is it to read the book and base the script off of what the characters say and do, instead of changing and rewriting?  I found so many things wrong with this movie that I was angry at myself for even watching. On a positive note, I will say that the actors did a wonderful job. If I didn't read the book first, I would have thought that movie was great. I'm just hoping that the American version is as good as actor, Daniel Craig (Mikael Blomkivst), says.

Worst Ending I've ever seen! I don't know anything about the original. I'd assume it didn't end as COMPLETELY IDIOTICALLY as this film.  If not for the stars of this movie who I really like, this would be a 1 star review.

UNREAL ESTATE FOR SALE BY OWNER is a strange, somewhat convoluted ghost story.  Using the unsolved infamous Lost Colony of Roanoke in the late 1500's, writer/star Scott Cooper weaves a psychological tale of paranoid SCHIZOPHRENIA.  Cooper utilizes gloomy settings, often incoherent passages and a totally ineffective conclusion.  Cooper himself is totally wrong in the leading role.  He has little emotional range, stiff and unconvincing.  More talented actors are wasted in cardboard caricatures:  Tom Skerritt as the credit-stealing father; Kris Kristofferson as the enigmatic homeowner; Rachel Nichols as the tolerant wife; Scott Wilson as the country doctor; Tom Bower as the disgruntled sheriff; Joanna Cassidy as the registry clerk, and an unrecognizable Skeet Ulrich as the redneck mechanic.  And what happened to the whistling realtor? I did find myself involved in the movie, which is mild in terror/gore which is often refreshing.  But it's not scary and the payoff is disappointing.  Rent it, but don't buy.

COME BACK, SCOTT...ALL IS FORGIVEN There's a pure Scott Evil moment in JUSTICE LEAGUE:DOOM about halfway in once Batman's contingencey plans have fallen into, and have been darkly adapted, by the hands of Vandal Savage where it hits you that, no one, not one of the Legion of Doom, stuck around to verify if the plan...actually worked.  No, they jump in, fight, pull of their gimmick and then head back to the Legion of Doom headquarters and hoist golden cups and plan for their upcoming conquest of the world, while all the while, the very people they were sent to kill, there very people who could stop them...aren't dead, dying, yes, but not dead.  They don't turn on a television, they don't pick up a newspaper, they don't have iPhones to get text messages and no one has signed onto their Facebook account for days to find out if they actually pulled it off (even though Superman's slow death is being braodcast live around the world).  Like Dr. Evil in the AUSTIN POWERS films, everyone involved with the Legion of Doom all seem content to assume that their plans have worked perfectly and nothing will stand in their way, while Scott, more the realist, would simply rather put a gun to each of their heads and pull the trigger...boom!; and you're done.  What's more, Savage's plan is as loopy as they come, but, it hits you that if he simply just went forward with it without trying to get rid of the Justice League, it would have worked.  There never would have been enough time for anyone to stop him and how they get out of it never would have occured to them - Savage would have won...but, super villians, like Braodway plays, all require someone to overact on stage and here it's both Savage and the plot - wrought!  But, there are highlights.  Having Bruce buried alive in his parent's grave, his own father's coffin even, is something of a dark line crossed here - it's very adult, cruel and for a moment Bruce's world comes collapsing down as he's confronted with the fact of what might have been if he had been killed either instead of, or alongside, his parents that night in crime alley - he would be buried in the same earth, with only Alfred to mourn them above.  Instead, his turn toward survival is a momentary insight into the Batman / Bruce Wayne divide - who turly crawls out of the grave is an interesting question - sadly, not answered here.  The animation is good and the pace is quick.  There's very little down time between the action and what action there is good (both Wonder Woman's battle and Green Lantern's ring work are standouts).  Voice acting is top notch nearly all around.  I have to single out Cyborg though as being more TEEN TITANS (BOOYAH!) than JUSTICE LEAGUE and the rework on his armor is too muted for me.  His role is very limited here and if he's going on to play a larger part in the JLA (as he is in the current DCU JLA book), then it would be a good idea to give him a larger, more central role in their next release to cement that fact.  The ending comes on too fast and the resolution is too pat; Batman, as in the original TOWER OF BABEL, is shown to be more Harvey Dent than their boon companion as he works both sides of the coin for and against his friends - his reason are just, clear and right, but his methods leave a lot to be desired.  Although Green Lantern's rational look at what Batman did is refreshing and Superman's desire to keep Batman both a member of the League and as a friend shows that balance of optimism and realism that has kept them working together for decades.  Overall, JLA:DOOM's bell tolls for no one; it's more just a Tuesday for the JLA and another crazy moment of living on a Earth populated with Dark Knights and demi-Gods from the stars - you carry on, get your coffee and keep wishing it was Friday.

Dreadful Marilyn Monroe stars as Elsie, a London chorus girl who catches the eye of a visiting Prince (Laurence Olivier).  He's in town to attend King George's coronation along with his teenage son, the King of Carpathia, with whom he is at odds, politically.  Elsie comes to share a midnight supper with the Prince and ends up resolving all the problems between father and son, thus insuring world peace.  Yes, the movie really is that dumb.  And annoying.  I didn't care about any of the characters and, in fact, found the leads quite unlikable.  Elsie is the stereotypical dumb blonde who is (of course) the smartest one in the story.  Her giggly, breathy bimbo act gets very old fast. Olivier's Prince is a pompous, lascivious bully who hates his own and the son is unpleasant, as well.  I couldn't root for any of them and thought the plot was predictable, corny, and most of all, tedious.

For Die-Hard Fans Only! As others have said, this is a very low-quality product.  Looks like third- or fourth-generation VHS.  When I placed my order, I assumed that it was an band-authorized DVD, but I can't believe anyone would want their name attached to this.  The audio was okay (if that matters), with a few drop-outs here and there.  I can't believe this is being offered by all of the major music retailers.

BAD PICTURE!!!!!!!! THIS PRODUCT DOES NOT SHOW WELL...QUALITY OF THE PICTURE IS NOT GOOD...IT'S BLURRED AND NOT CLEAR, HOWEVER, THE PRICE WAS GOOD. PLEASE BE AWARE CONSUMERS.

Good idea poorly done How can you rape someone if you never unzip your genes? How can a nieve 16 year old girl sneak up on and stab a pracitced home invading psychopath in the back? How can you hold together a an action/horror flick if every fight scean is 'fudged' by quick cutting showing little actual violence and an unrealistic outcome?  This film does have some good acting in the first half, and has a truely frightening premise; a charming psychopath worms his way into a 'nice' family and then turns on them for a home invasion. Unfortunately, the wrighters and director took an oddly and almost puritanical aproach to this film, rendering it almost senceless and mostly absurd.  If your going to do sexual violence in a film, do it, and don't make any apoligies. If your going to do a sexual preditor, do the same, but show more skin. We've had a decade or two of vampires acting out romantic and violative relationships; if we are cinimatically going to explore the more frightening real aspects of human evil, lets do it without a fig leaf. This film doesn't.

Boring Movie This movie looks like it's going to be a very funny story about a cat who happens to be so full of himself, well, it is not that good. The only funny parts are in the trailer. You have been warned.

Attack of the haunted pool cleaner I totally disagree with the Amazon reviewer, who of course has to praise the film lavishly so that people buy the DVD. The truth is, very little happens during the first 75 minutes of the film, and the final 15 minutes are disappointing.  The problem here is two-fold.  First, the repetition - night after night of nothing happening gets boring fast.  Secondly, there are hardly any scares in the film (pool cleaners exiting the pool are not scary; neither are falling pots, closing doors or crying babies) and what few scares there are rely on cheap loud noises to startle the audience. I didn't like the first film, but at least its scares were well-earned.  For example, there is nothing here as remotely creepy as PA1's images of the girl hovering over her boyfriend for hours or the paw prints in the baby powder.  To make matters worse, there are some ridiculous things about this film such as the family not moving out once they saw the footage of the mom being dragged by an invisible presence.  What??!!  Any sane person would have left the house immediately.  This should have been much better.  I'm not a movie director, but I'm confident that if I had the same budget to work with I could make a much scarier movie.

From Venus It is a class C movie that actually should be a class D. I was an EXTRA in the movie so I bought it to see myself. The movie is real wierd and hard to follow.

A bad old blast from the past What do you get when innovative people chase a buck? Well, this movie is the answer to Here is the last of the series, and we can all thank the sprits for that because it was by far the worst. This one attempts to set up the events that unfolded din the earlier movies, and follows the same formula to get there as well. So, what you have is the same movie (basically), but with the bonus of seeing some 80s fashion. Not my idea of a great movie. So, you can imagine that I was very underwhelmed.

Not worth your money... essentially 100% filler With Naruto box sets costing as much as they do for as few episodes as you get, forgo buying this filler arc.  Rent it first or watch it online THEN make up your mind as to whether or not you want to buy it.  In my opinion, this arc is not necessary and not as good as the main story line.  Sure, it is hands down the best filler arc to date for the series (in my opinion) and they even throw in some funny stuff regarding Tobi and Deidara.  Plus the arc does neatly tie in to the real story line.  But ultimately, the main story stuff is very minimal and you will not miss anything by skipping this set.  I will never own this set... but I am so buying the next one!  Back to the main story line!!!

Very Disappointing... I am a fan of this musical and have heard many casts do it and do it well.  When I purchased this, I thought it would be the same version (or as good as) the "in concert" version I saw on TV in the 90's.  It let me down in many layers... First the director has chosen to take nearly every song at a blistering speed.  Not only is it unpleasant to hear, but the vocalists are "singing" so fast they can barely get the words out.  This leads me to the next problem where the singers aren't singing as much as they are shouting quickly.  There are a couple exceptions - the Bishop, Fontine (did well in solo but nothing else), the Innkeeper, and maybe a couple others.  Out of a cast of probably 60 plus a choir, that's pretty sad.  Also, they've cut chunks out of songs.  It doesn't feel like any of these people or directors have actually played any of these characters on stage.  It feels like someone plopped them in front of a mic.  If you like this musical do not get this!  I am currently hunting for the older one.  Sorry to have to leave an unpleasant review.

Not exactly what I was expecting..... Based on the documentary description, I was expecting more information on other genocides.  There was a brief description on the Chinese mass murders during the middle of the twentieth centuries and I thought the motives behind the Armenian massacres and Pol Pots regime could have used more description.  I also thought his conclusions, particularly on why people participate as executioners, was too simplistic. There were a lot of interviews with survivors, including the victims, executioners, and politicians.  These interviews were by far the best part of the documentary.  Their messages were heavy and I felt that Goldhagen could have cut his narrative in half and doubled the impact of the documentary.  The video footage and the matter-of-fact tone that the people in the interviews spoke were chilling and provided some really great insight into genocide.  What was disappointing for me was that I felt the narrator, Daniel Goldhagen, was way to visible in the documentary and consequently detracted from the overall message.  His apparent need to be seen really bothered me.  There were too many cuts to him during the interviews where he would be looking blankly at the speaker, or of him walking across a field with children around him.  He came across as self-righteous at times, particularly when he was trying to outline ways to prevent genocide in the future.  After interviews, he would frequently interject some of his own adjective filled thoughts, but what can you say (or add) after a man describes hiding in the forest and watching his sister and her family get hacked to death?  Even when he took his father back to his childhood home in the Ukraine I thought Goldhagen over reached.  While visiting, it became clear that his father was in a different world while thinking about the relatives who had been executed, while Goldhagen tried to make it some sort of picture perfect moment.  Overall, this might be a good introduction to genocide during the last 100 years, but if you are willing to pick up a book, I would recommend a Century of Genocide by Totten and Parsons.  They cover more genocides, providing political context and eyewitness accounts.

Not Really That Good After watching a "Top Five Most Disturbing Films Countdown," I thought I'd finally give this film a chance, after years of consideration. Well, it was a let down. Yeah, I'll grant that it has a certain off-putting quality and it isn't exactly light viewing. But still, it is basically a very low budget, amateurish gore-fest, with little redeeming quality. The closing scenes are pretty vivid and the impaled girl is fairly horrendous. But, in the end, Cannibal Holocaust is pretty weak. The final detractor is the fact that several animals were actually killed during its filming. So not only was it amateurish, it was unnecessarily barbaric. In the end, there are many more legitimate films which are far more scary, disturbing and creative. Take a pass on this BS and try: Irreversible, Antichrist, Jacob's Ladder, Requiem For a Dream, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1973) or many many others.

No French language This item is listed as having French audio available.  However, there is only English available.  I bought it for the reason that it did offer French.  I am not sure this is worth the trouble of returning.  Just an FYI for anyone else buying this for multiple languages.

Folks, please review the movie and not the content... 1.  It's amazing how people just let their emotions guide their movie reviews.  I understand that folks like a nice patriotic movie (or at least most folks); I'm in that crowd.  On the other hand, let's deal with reality here and specifically review the actual movie and not the content of the movie.  2.  Bottomline, this film's main downfall is the lame - stiff - unnatural acting.  The cinematography is good, the writing is fairly good, the storyline is good enough for me (I'm a fairly easy guy to please), but the acting is just terrible.  I mean, as you're watching this film, you're just completely conscious that these guys are trying to act natural, but that they're just not pulling it off.  With the above being said, with anyone with a military interest or background, it's a no brainer to watch the film just to see what the hype is about,  but a one time view is going to suffice for most.

For film completists and hardcore fans only. Interesting how utilizing more or less the same material produces vastly differing results. 'Get Smart' was a funny, clever, and exciting reboot of the classic tv show. This side project, filmed at the same time, was none of that.  And if that wasn't enough - the funniest bits are the brief outtakes which are interspersed into the end credits. So what does that say about this mini-film?  Mostly pointless save for the following:  - We finally get to see "Hiro" and "Charlie" hook up! Yay! Was so heartbroken when she died in Heroes.  - Terry Crews is a favorite character actor - and watching him doing a silly dance is almost worth the rental price. Almost.  - You can never get tired of Larry Miller's wicked wit, regardless of the production. Gotta love his outtake: "Well, it IS the Navy." (laughing) :-D  For completists and hardcore fans only.

A Review of the new Widescreen Anne DVD set I love the first two Anne of Green Gables films. I first viewed them on PBS and had the original VHS tapes released by Disney. The first few DVD releases by Sullivan were of very poor audio and visual quality. This new - expensive - set gathers the four films together, all in 16x9 widescreen. I do not like the other two films, so I will comment only on the first two.  These were originally filmed in 4x3 format, with television in mind (I read that they may have played theatrically overseas). I'm not an expert, but these new widescreen formats do look cropped. So, information is lost with these new transfers. Is that so bad? Yes, because I feel the original aspect ratios of these films should be 4x3 (or 1.33:1) as they were originally broadcasted. Worse though, the image quality seems to be so digitally scrubbed that a lot of detail that was originally visible is no longer visible. The audio seems OK; the default is the original 2.0 stereo mix. Annoyingly, the closed captioning seems to have been done by nitwits. For the first film, the first disc (thankfully, each movie has two discs) has fairly good captioning. The second disc has the captioning all IN FULL CAPS, and is rife with errors. Very poor quality!! At this price point, I would not recommend fans to rebuy these films if they are already owned. However, as an FYI, I contacted Sullivan Entertainment and they said they have no plans to release the films on blu-ray.

Not very good The songs were good. The movie was terrible. It had a very predictable plot-line. It was almost like it was a rip off of coyote ugly. (which is a much MUCH better movie)

Beware AVID/ITC VHS version in EP speed I saw this movie back in the 1970s, and although it admittedly is not on my list of "Greatest Films of All Time", I did enjoy it and wanted a copy of it since it doesn't get played on TV much anymore.  After reading all the negative reviews of the DVD issue, I decided to play it safe and order it in VHS. Unfortunately, the version I got, put out by ITC through AVID Home Entertainment and Live Home Video Inc. (all these names were on the video slipcase) was recorded in "SLP" (otherwise know as EP) speed instead of SP like most VHS tapes are. As a result, the picture and sound quality are poor - the images are fuzzy at the edges and the stereo separation is barely noticeable, and I even tried listening with headphones! Hopefully this movie will be re-done in regular DVD since I don't own a Blu-Ray and won't buy one just for this movie...

Stranger, But Still Fiction You know, I really didn't expect to like this movie. For one thing, I'm no big fan of Will Ferrell, who plays the lead. But then Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson are also in it, and I like both of them, so I'm game. Besides, the movie was given to me. Now, that might have been because the original owner was disappointed in it, or for some other reason. Ah well, I had time to kill this afternoon.  The first ten or fifteen minutes lived up to my expectations, but eventually, it started getting better. By the end, I couldn't help being touched. It's a very, very weird movie, but a thoughtful one in significant spots. And just the thing for a philosophy major.  Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) is an IRS agent with no life to speak of outside of his job, and his job is pretty darn boring, too. Did I say no life to speak of? Then why is someone speaking of it? Narrating it, actually, in a female voice with an elegant British accent (Emma Thompson). OK, he's hearing voices. After a really mad talk with someone in his office (a resident therapist? Someone from the Department of Human Resources? It's not clear.), he does the rational thing and goes to a therapist. The therapist says it's schizophrenia, but he says the voice isn't telling him to do anything, it's just narrating his life as if he was a character in a book.  Turns out he is. He goes to see literature profession Jules Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman), who decides he's got to find out what sort of book he's in, figure out who the author is, and contact her.  Meanwhile, two other things are going on. Karen Eiffel, his author (Emma Thompson), is suffering writer's block and can't figure out how to kill off her main character. Her publisher sends her an assistant (Queen Latifah), who pledges she will help her in any way she can, but she's never yet failed to get an author to complete a work on time. So with unflappable calm, she goes to considerable lengths to help Eiffel, but nothing seems to work.  The second thing that's going on is that Harold is falling in love. A rather hippie-like young woman (Maggie Gyllenhaal) runs a bakery shop and has neglected to pay a part of her taxes in protest against the way the government spends it on the military budget. So Harold's job is to audit her records for the last three years, and she presents them to him all jumbled together in a cardboard box. She admits she normally keeps very tidy records, but she did this to annoy him. She thinks she really hates him because he's the IRS. But the author knows, and eventually Harold knows (the voice in his head) that they are falling in love.  So Harold must find Karen Eiffel and persuade her to change the book's ending and not kill him off. Does he do it? I can't ruin the outcome for you; that would be cruel.  The metaphysics is a little hard to follow, especially when you've had just enough education to follow the lack of logic. I daresay a moderately intelligent teenager with no higher education to cause him or her to think about it too hard would find this a wonderful movie. I'll just say I enjoyed it somewhat, and admired the Eiffel ending, even if Professor Hilbert was a little disappointed.

The journey, meh, the ending bleh The begining sounded as though we would be hearing a tale more upbeat, even with a murder. And honestly, I had higher hopes with Alan Rickman and Dustin Hoffman being in it. And I have heard from flutely-tuty reviewers of how highly 'scented' the movie was to break away from main stream hollywood. Bla bla, I love a great indie. I even like noir. This was noir-navore (carnavore,get it? lol) Ok, seriously, to me a movie lover, not a cult movie lover, I really didn't like it, sorry. What's a movie without an ending to reminisce? Can we really be expected to enjoy the last 'drops', and be told to enjoy it like the movie? To be seduced into a romantic version of why you really liked the movie, but were afraid to say it was crappy? The emperor and his clothes kind of thing? Yeah, save yourself those precious hours and find another movie.

Is this the version where he stays with woman til she is old, grey, dies? Is this the version where he stays with the woman til she is old, grey and dies?  That is the version I saw and want to buy and see again. Remember Queen's music, saw 1, 2, 3 at theater, hoped for help in reviews. the 3rd one was not worth repeating, perhaps II. Who was the woman I yearned for, even aged, with silver grey hair, was reminded by commercial with similar woman, 30 years, now 65 Plus one on Sept 17th. - Tom (bluepuma)  Will stick with David Arkenstone CD's purchase otherwise.

don't spent over $3.00 on this movie What a great concept for a "zombie" movie! A reality show combination of Lost, Survivor and Amazing Race with "zombies", sadly I have seen enough of these true reality shows to realize that the writers of Doomed have not seen them, didn't have the talent to write a movie script combining them all together, or just didn't care! Doomed had the look and feel of a made for Sci-fi channel movie, which isn't always bad, it just means that with a little more time and energy, the movie could have been really great! On the plus side, it was not a "zomidy" and there were no Nazi zombies! The acting was pretty good, the main problem was the believability of some of the characters' actions and dialog, and I blame the writers for this! The makers had the money cause filming, production, make-up to costumes, it was all top notch, it didn't look like an early 1970s episode of Dr. Who! For an overall, this movie doesn't make my top fav list of zombie movies, but hands down, it is a whole lot better that the crap movie Night of the Living Dead 3-D!!!

Disappointments Galore! Wow, I knew this movie got some bad reviews when it was released to theaters, but I didn't think it would be quite so bad.  I really had no interest in seeing the film in the first place (even though I'm a fan of this type of genre).  However, I also heard that Red Lights was a sort of so-bad-it's-good type of movie (which I love).  It was not, though.  There was no fun involved here.  No unintentional laughs, really (except for DeNiro's bizarre performance).  No premises or scenes that were so outlandish or unusual that they made me smile.  The movie was just blah.  It grinds on to a who-really-cares twist at the end that I might have seen coming if I was interested enough in the movie to pay close attention as I was watching.  Even Cillian Murphy, who always gives 100%, seemed unsure or bored with the movie as it played out (this is probably just my perception - but the performance seemed stock).  Anyway, the film really is bland with some unusual casting (DeNiro, Sigourney Weaver) that does not help matters in the least.  The story, and its execution, are tepid and lifeless.  I realize I'm not discussing much about the story here, but I don't want to spoil anything (if that's possible).  I don't know, a lot of people, based on the reviews I've read here, seemed to have liked it.  Maybe if I watch it again on its own terms, I'll enjoy it more.  Doubtful, though.  I can't recommend it.

crappy dvd The dvd skips and it doesnt work properly.  I was dissappointed when watching this dvd after i had spent the amount of money on it in the first place.

Unacceptable DVD Authoring I enjoy NCIS quite a bit and enjoy the whole series.  However, this product is a piece of crap.  The episodes were authored onto the DVD in low resolution.  That means that on a big screen the images are VERY BLURRY with serious JPEG artifacts.  I would love to give this back to the company that made it and request a better DVD set.  This is not a problem with one episode or just one disk; this is a problem on every episode and every disk in this series season.  I would have given this product 1 star if it wasn't a TV series I love.

Hardly worth watching Boring. Predictable.  Same story line almost every movie has.  Boy loses girl, meets another that's unattainable except she is and they live happily every after.

Painful The 3 stooge actors did a great job portraying the original stooges, but I have to say, watching all the crazy antics and eye pokes, etc. just got annoying after a while. If you're not a really big 3 stooges fan, I'd say not to bother watching this one.

Lawrence Welk would be proud A+ for thoroughness! (In fact, beats each topic to death). Debbie Merrill talks and talks... making this dvd perfect for kiddies and those with patience with all the "motivational" (corny) gab. The contents could have been melded down to about 20 minutes easily by taking away the OVER explanations and (corny) cheers of exuberance: "Come on - you can do it, power girls!". I kept fast forwarding through the gab to get to the demonstrations. On the very plus side, Ms. Merrill has a good way of breaking down a technique and getting you into that technique - if you could just strip away all the other junk. She constantly quotes these self-invented quips to help you remember how to do something - but there are so many I doubt anybody could remember them all, their value is questionable and in many places unnecessary.  She evens sings and skates for the final chapter - somebody help me. In the background (she's teaching out in the park somewhere) are many of her students, many of whom look painfully embarrassed but wanted to get there face in the video. They contribute by demonstrating but you will be observing a lot of not too good technique that isn't corrected (looking at your feet, slumping over out of balance, etc.) What I like about the Bobby Hull, Jr. dvd is that he points out these kind of things (through a voice over later) as his students are demonstrating. Ms. Merrill (she should audition for Lawrence Welk Show) does invent some pretty nifty mini-drills that you could use as a beginner but she could cover a lot more material and make the dvd worth the buck.

Not to good I really like John Carpenter and my favorite movie growing up was Escape From New York. I own every movie he directed and this one is at the bottom of my Carpenter favorites. It's not bad, but it's not good either.

Good Costumes - Poor Casting, History & Acting This is the worst film about Wallis Simpson/Edward VIII I have seen to date and, coincidentally or not, also the least historically accurate. I don't have a problem with filmmakers deviating from fictional stories (e.g., adaptations of books) but when depicting actual people and real history, I think they have a greater responsibility to be accurate. I am not expecting a documentary but why make stuff up when the real story is plenty dramatic enough for anyone as is? This film could have been made as the fictional story of "Alice" and "Edmund," heir to the throne of "Louvinia" if the makers felt too restrained by the facts. As for their physical romance, maybe the reason it hasn't been depicted in other versions is that the other versions were trying to be factual?  The Duke in his lifetime threatened to sue anyone who claimed there had been an affair. More telling: even during the abdication crisis, when the opposition specifically investigated the question in hope of finding dirt that would throw a spanner into Wallis' not-yet-final divorce (thus ending any question of Edward's marrying her), they found no evidence of an affair. The idea of women going about socially with men other than their husbands may seem odd to some viewers now, but it was common at the time for women of Wallis; social set and did not raise eyebrows unduly as long as conventions were maintained and until/unless it led to a breakup of the marriage(s). The Prince's previous two long-term attachments prior to Wallis were also married women.  The lead performances (Joley Richardson as Wallis and Stephen Campbell Moore as the Prince of Wales) - comparisons to other films notwithstanding - are dreadful. Richardson resembles Wallis, from certain angles anyway, but her voice grates with that same flat, generic "American accent" that I hear often in British productions. And though this is ostensibly a sympathetic portrayal of Wallis per the writer's comments on the DVD extra, I didn't see much that was likable or sympathetic about Richardson's take on Wallis. I also thought Stephen Campbell Moore was out of his depth in his role, does not in the least resemble the Prince, and at 26 was way too young to be convincing as a 40-something man of the world (I note that the Prince of Wales, though "boyish" was not, in fact, actually a boy when he met Wallis).  The 1930s sets and costumes are well done, down to little details like the Deco bottle of nail polish on Wallis' dressing table in the opening shot - it's too bad they were so sloppy in other respects. The 1978 miniseries, Edward & Mrs Simpson and The Woman He Loved, 1988 (unfortunately not on Region 1 DVD) tell this story much better with better casting and greater accuracy.

Dissapointed... I absolutely LOVE True Blood and was very excited to purchase the second season to add to my collection.  After I recieved the set of dvds, I found that the dvd holder was missing the outer sleeve.  I looked past this because the dvds were still protected and the outer sleeve isn't all that important.  HOWEVER, when I went to watch the fourth disc in the set, it was COMPLETELY recorded over loosing 3 episodes.  Absolute dissapointment.  I didn't order The Lion King, I ordered True Blood season 2.  I wish the seller would've looked through the product thoroughly before they sold it.

Been there done it ,got my tee shirt, I saw saw paranormal activity 1, 2 and now 3. this last of the franchise was my least favorite. The first two were very creepy. I  fully understand this film is suppose to take you back to the beginning. I felt the movie was slow and didn't offer anything we haven't seen before.I got the impression there was a Subliminal message from the film maker. 'We need to milk this dry". If your'e going to ask us to come back, show us something new  and inovated, not the cheap tricks of having someone jump out of a closet with a mask.

Decent, but nothing particularly special I rented this movie from Redbox because the trailer had looked interesting. The acting and premise of the movie were promising, but the story seemed underdeveloped. Daniel Radcliff ventures to a mysterious small town where the people seem to want to get rid of him as quickly as possible. We learn this is because of a local superstition that results in the death of the town's children. Sounds interesting enough, but the story tends to drag, and there isn't really anything to differentiate this movie from others in the genre. Throughout the movie we see similar sequences played over and over--a good portion of the movie is just Radcliff walking around a house.  The story falls short and does nothing to invigorate an already stale genre. This movie is worth a rent at best, which is unfortunate because I was looking forward to seeing Radcliff in a new role.

For Those of You Scoring at Home. . . HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU stars Jennifer Aniston.  Ben Affleck.  Drew Barrymore.  Justin Long.  Scarlett Johansson.  Jennifer Connelly.  Kevin Connolly.  (Is that confusing, or what?)  Bradley Cooper.  Ginnifer Goodwin.  (As if we didn't have enough Jennifer/Ginnifers.)  In other words, HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU stars every Generation Xer in Hollywood--with the exception of Ashton Kutcher.  Why Ashton lucked out, one can only wonder.  Here we have a meandering, colossal ensemble of intertwining story lines and sub-plots--all having to do with how miserable love makes us.  What sends this film to terminal yawn status has to do with the sheer number of story lines and sub-plots; after half an hour the viewer just becomes exhausted trying to keep up with all of them.  If I had had a vote (which I didn't) I would have promptly jettisoned the Connelly-Cooper-Johansson love triangle, as none of the three characters are remotely likable.  (I heard a Wicked Witch of the West cackle every time Connelly appeared on screen; can we say the word "severe"?)  The most interesting story line centers around Goodwin's hard luck character falling for Long's character--who views their relationship as purely platonic.  Or does he?  Or do we really care?  Don't answer that.  Legions of actors--bushels of story lines.  Best take notes, or keep a score card, if you can even get into HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU. --D. Mikels, Author, The Reckoning

Chris Nolan dropped the ball on this one Alright, this is by no means a 'bad' movie, but when following up a classic like 'The Dark Knight' it will make a sequel look worse if it does not come close to matching up with its predecessor.  And the 'Dark Knight Rises' does not come close.  This movie had a plethora of problems.  For one, a jabbering story line about identity theft which disappears mid-way through the film.  It merely served as a plot device so it would justify the catwoman being in the film.  Also, the complete lack of build-up to Batman's first confrontation with Bane.  It reminded me of George Clooney's Batman fighting Mr. Freeze with no build up whatsoever.  In the movie, Bane does not rely on the venom to give him super strength, which means he beats Batman without the aid of anything.  This means that some guy who grew up in a prison can defeat a man who has mastered every form of martial arts? eh,no. They should have done their homework on that one.  Another unforgivable flaw is the fact that Joseph-Gordon Levitt has more screen time than Batman. What? (Meaning more screen time than Christian Bale in the Batman costume).  The run time is a bloated 2hr and 45 mintues, filled with too many philosophical conversations.  Basically, this movie takes the plot from the Arkham City video game (Gotham becoming an isolated island with roving criminals) and the Dark Knight Returns (where batman has taken an eight-year hiatus from crimefighting).  So much for original ideas.  By doing this, Chris Nolan cuts off the cliffhanger from the last movie at the legs.  Weren't the cops supposed to be chasing batman around as a fugitive?  They just fast-forwarded that and that is how the storyline is resolved.....awful.  The puzzling romance between Bruce Wayne and Talia, one moment their talking business, the next their doing business in bed.  Again, no build-up, it just sort of happened. Awful.  The action sequences are few and far between. To make matters worse their not exciting, they come across as flat and bland.  Listen to the music during the movie, it's just the main theme over and over again.  The variety for the themes from the last movie is gone.    I think the momentum from the last movie has carried over to this one, making people believe its better than it really is.  On the plus side, Christian Bale does a more palpable Batman voice, gone is the growl.  Tom Hardy steals the show as Bane. And the first fight between Batman/Bane was easily the best scene in the movie (despite no build-up).  As a stand alone movie, this is a decent action film.  When compared to the 'Dark Knight'.....not even close.  When they release the trilogy, the should just put the 'Dark Knight' twice.

It totally sucks, don't hate, but don't care either. It was too stupid, and I speak Spanish! I expected funny, but it probably would have been better if done in English.  The Spanish just got in the way.

Slow and not well thought out Saw this movie, On Demand (free with coupon, thank goodness). I really wanted to like it, and the previews looked like it was well made.  The actual movie however was very disappointing.  The visual effects were stunning. The acting was sub par at best.  The casting was not very good. John Lithgow was a good choice, but Franco was no good in the lead role.  The love interest was never developed, so you never cared about them. Getting to the story of the apes, it was just not reasonable to believe what was being told on screen. You're given no bridge as to how the serum made the primates able to know things they were never taught. It is like the serum made them omniscient, not just smart. I also found it insulting when the enraged, protective Caesar attacks and severely wounds a person, that it was not put down. Come on! Really?! In real life there is no way an animal that was stolen from a research lab and attacked a person would take another breath. They should have come up with a different mechanism in the story.  Just plain bad writing.  I hate to say it, I actually enjoyed the Mark Wahlberg version better.

Save your money Starship Troopers had a certain "pulp cinema" charm--even had bug-eyed monsters who wanted our women (for their brains even).  The sequel is terrible.  Virtually all the action happens on one set, the acting is bad, and the script is weak.  It is actually simply a bad horror movie, not science fiction.

1/3 Alice, 2/3 Harry Potter Alice in Wonderland is the tale of a little girl lost in a land of nonsense. A land of NONSENSE! This movie has hardly any nonsense at all. It feels more like a Harry Potter movie than Alice in Wonderland. I wanted Alice. Alice get's trapped in a surreal dream-like Wonderland where everything is nonsense and there is tons of wordplay, puns, ect. And the nerve to name the movie Alice in Wonderland. It's not that story. They should've named it Return to Wonderland: The Battle to Make a Harry Potter movie with Alice Characters.

Sheesh what happened to the zombies?  They all forgot they were zombies. Not much of a horror movie really.  The fact that the zombie first start out as little "pet me" creatures was novel.  But it took too  long, in fact 7/8th of the movie before the zombies wake up and start acting like zombies, but then the movie is over...  Oh well, at least it kept the non-zombie actors safe.  Outside of that there is not much tension to get the movie plot revved up to be an action movie nor a horror movie.  It was more like a "Once upon a time movie, when all world fell asleep and woke up zombies except a few".  Could have done alot more with this movie and since the director did not want to have mean zombies, he or she could have saved the movie by taking it down a humorous avenue.

Stop me if you've heard this one before... THIS DOES CONTAIN SPOILERS  Final Destination was at least interesting when it first hit the scene eleven years ago. The cast was solid, the story was at least somewhat intriguing that first time out, and the deaths were a bit more plausible. The series continued to get more and more ridiculous with each sequel though. The outrageousness began with Devon Sawa's character getting killed off by a tragic brick incident that we never even got to see in the second film. The franchise jumped to 3D with the third film and has basically offered the same experience over and over again the entire franchise ever since. Everything plays out exactly the same; a premonition, a set of characters escaping a devastating tragedy, and they all start dying in this aforementioned death pecking order. Most would argue that the Final Destination series is only good for the deaths, but even those get pretty tiresome as the franchise progresses. So now everyone is about to experience Final Destination 5 and it does nothing more than fit the predictable mold you're probably expecting.  Eye-catching credits start us off. At first it just seems like plain white text on a black background, but then random objects begin to enter the fray; ladders, knives, hooks, and chains. It's as if they're being thrown right into your lap, but then the screen shatters as if this was all being shot behind a giant pane of glass. Over and over again these objects shatter through the screen with a fair amount of blood being added in for good measure. The cool thing is that most if not all of the objects are throwbacks to deaths in the franchise. The unfortunate thing is that the appeal of the credits is worn off about halfway through the credit sequence. It's way overdone and becomes really monotonous by the time the movie finally begins.  The story offers up the same plot points you've come to expect with Final Destination. This one revolves around a bridge collapsing and is incredibly gory right from the start; people get impaled as their heart practically leaps out of their chest and off the screen, somebody gets covered in tar as they're clinging on for dear life, wires snap and take out unsuspecting individuals, a woman falls into the water below as a car falls on top of her, thin metal rods sitting in the back of a truck impale a man, etc. It's pure devastation, as you can imagine. But of course it's all Sam Lawson's (Nicholas D'Agosto) vision. He manages to get a few of his friends and co-workers off the bus that's parked on the bridge who in turn start getting picked off in the order they died in Sam's premonition. They tease with the fact that the order can skip you if you take someone's life, but the addition is very minimal and doesn't really change much. It isn't long before everything jumps back into order. Remember the "New rules. New decade," slogan from Scream 4? This offers something similar but has even less of a follow-through. Final Destination 5 seems to heavily imply that Tony Todd's coroner character either knows how to cheat death or has a helping hand in it. It would kind of be interesting if it did go that route rather than having the same exact storyline for five movies, but alas it wasn't meant to be.  The deaths are just really preposterous this time out though. Candice (Ellen Wroe) takes a nasty fall off of some gymnastic equipment that looks like she jumped off a three story building while Olivia (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) has her eye lasered to a bloody pulp before tripping over a plastic stuffed animal eye, falling out of a window, bouncing off of the front end of a car, landing on the pavement, having her other eye pop out of her head, and having said eye be rolled over by a passing vehicle. People were screaming bloody murder at the deaths in the theater, but they were laughable at best. Excessively grotesque deaths that are both unbelievable and nonsensical are just incredibly humorous for some reason.  The story between these characters during the calmer moments of the movie is just lame, as well. It felt like a reality show drama like something you'd find on MTV sandwiched in between "The Hills" and "Jersey Shore." Sam is a chef who has the opportunity to go to Paris for an internship, but is willing to throw that all away for Molly (Emma Bell) who he considers to be the love of his life. Since he's throwing this opportunity away, Molly decides to break up with him because he's giving up his dream for her. She spends the entire movie being wishy-washy over the matter. Sam also works at the same office Molly works at along with Olivia, Candice, Peter (Miles Fisher), Isaac (P.J. Byrne), Nathan (Arlen Escarpeta) and their boss Dennis (David Koechner). Candice, an intern, is dating Peter, Isaac seems to have a rolodex of women at his disposal, Nathan has constant altercations with one of the factory workers, and Dennis spends his time calling the police over "strange" things occurring at the office. These are the survivors of the bridge incident that are picked off one by one.  The one cool thing Final Destination 5 has going for it is that it has a way of making the entire franchise come full circle. Pay close attention to the final scene and you'll understand. This scene is easily the most enjoyable thing about not only this film, but the past three.  Final Destination 5 is extremely formulaic. It takes pride in being over the top, unbelievable, and flat out ludicrous at times. While the fifth film in the franchise doesn't necessarily offer anything you haven't already seen before, it still has a way of returning to its roots by the time Death takes its final victim. Final Destination 5 is a gory, predictable, crowd-pleaser that the general movie going audience is sure to love.

Digital Copy Expired WB has decided to only honor the Digital Copy for 6 months. If you zoom in on the back of the Blu-Ray you will see an expiration of the middle of September. I am a fan of this movie in the Harry Potter series, but please save your money and buy the single disk addition and don't give WB any additional revenue as they have decided to screw the purchaser by no longer honoring the Digital Copy because it was "a limited time only," but their are still happy to sell it to you the purchaser!

A dreadful way to capture a ballet I love Wheeldon's work but this DVD is a disappointment.  The video editing is dreadful, often giving us choppy cuts between medium shots and close ups, when we should be seeing the entire stage or at least the entire bodies of the dancers. It's viscerally annoying and completely spoils the flow and rhythm of the dance. Joby Talbot's score is also dreadful - filled with tinkley effects rather than memorable melodies and recurring themes. The only redeeming aspects--and they aren't redeeming enough--are the sets, stagecraft, and special effects.  If you love dance, you won't love this. This critique, by the way, is meant as a review of the DVD, not the ballet, which can't be properly appreciated as presented.

A mess with a couple great scenes. This film is overly cliche and way too ridiculous in context. I am sorry but I would have given this 3 stars if this hadn't one of the most awful and predictable endings in movie history. All I can think is Clint was on meds or people around him were saying it was great. I almost shut it off before the credits. WHY?  Why would you end a film with such horrible acting, context, and direction that goes against pretty much what you were trying, or so I thought, to build up the entire film. Sure there was going to be a confrontation. But a whole house of people? Come on man. This is just beyond reality. I was immediately taken out of the film by the end but some of the wooded as hell acting and script surely did not help up to that point. It is pretty obvious that Americans have been so damn inundated by soap opera and TV shows that they can't even judge a decent film anymore. If this is five stars than damn near anything with a good message is five stars.  The gangs are portrayed as a bit too mindless and Clint himself is too gruff and disembodied to suddenly change ways and start loving and caring for these people. THERE IS NO SUBTLY in this film but with a couple of the better scenes.  I will say the dinner between Clint and the neighbors was a great scene and made the enormous gap in their relationship seem worth the jump. I like scenes like these in films. But this film has far too few of them. I can't give this any more than 2 stars because quite simply it's not that great even besides the ending. I really thought I was in for a masterpiece here and came away quite disappointed. Clint's output has been quite up and down lately in my mind. Films like Mystic River are much better imo, albeit they have the same tendency to annoy with the ending, and ones like these are mediocre because they do not build properly for one and another because of the quality of the acting and script.  Mystic River had a lot of things going for it that this one simply does not. I for one saw the ending in that film to be much more subtle. I wasn't sure of Bacon's plans for Penn's character and to me it was more ambiguous than not. This one is just outright crude. This man has made films as great as The Bridges of Madison County, A Perfect World, and Unforgiven and he has also made entirely overrated stuff like Million Dollar Baby and tripe like Space Cowboys. You never know what you are in for but it seems in his old age he likes those shocking endings. This one is not as bad as Baby but I can't say I enjoyed it that much. That's how she goes.

anarchy I found this to be an uninspired dreary and sadistic little movie.  Tobey Maguire was OK ... he softened up the content slightly with his soft approach to everything ...  you can understand why this film did such poor boxoffice

Lots of Flash, little substance I, like many parents on here had 2 children who absolutely loved the first "Cars" movie.  What made that first movie so magical is that it could appeal to all audiences and didn't rely on cheap thrills or gimmicks to sell the story.  In short, it had a timeless message all could relate to much like most of Pixar movies do.  That is why it is so disappointing to rate Cars 2 so low after how wonderful the first one performed.  In short, Cars 2 plays down to the complex themes associated in the first one and relies on shock value and action to carry the movie which, are at times, inappropriate and superficial.  While I appreciated their reverence for older spy movies, I don't think it is an appropriate theme to play off of for a children's movie.  Cars trying to kill other cars didn't sit well with me.  I also thought there was a lot more 'potty humor' which I think is okay to have at times but was overplayed in this movie as another cheap humor tactic.  This overall direction revealed the shallowness of the movie and as I watched it with my child I felt like this movie wasn't created to say something, but moreso to cash in off of the profit and popularity of the first.  Looking at the characters, the familiar faces you thought would be reappearing were mostly bit parts save for Lightning McQueen and Mater (who actually is more the star of this movie).  At the end of the day, the movie felt more like a 'straight to DVD' and it lost a lot of the heart most Pixar movies tend to have.  While I have some very strong criticism of this film, it needs to be said that the graphics of the movie were once again top notch and that themes about friendship, although feeling like an afterthought, had good intentions.  I liked the new characters they were trying to introduce.  In the end, Cars 2 is a movie that lost its message and got caught up in the height of the first one which results in a movie with some great flash, but not a lot of substance.

thin effort, not much there except a great house on the beach Ok acting. Thin plot. I never got this movie, and it wasn't really suspenseful or entertaining, or much of anything. There's a ghost writer for memoirs who goes to a beautiful house on the beach where his subject lives. The writer isn't the first in this job and his predecessor died, probably was murdered. By whom, and why? There's a mystery around that and the tension lies in the writer, who isn't an investigative reporter, acting like he is one except that he seems to have not an ounce of common sense considering the situation. I didn't really care about any of the characters as I didn't really learn much about any of them. Kim Cattrell seemed to do a good job in a fairly minor role that was reminiscent of Kim Novak in a Hitchcock movie.

Well . . . Meh, it was ok. I thought parts were funny, but the dry humor got tiresome after a while. I won't watch it again. (and Jane Lynch is WAY overrated)

WHAT WENT WRONG?? Based on the excellent `March of the Wooden Soldiers' from LEGEND films, I was looking forward to this release of `Flying Deuces'. But, I am sad to say that LEGEND has let us down this time round. First of all it was the CUT print they used, and it was very grainy too. To get the best from the colorization I actually had to turn the colour up on my TV! Let hope LEGEND realises they have made an error and do it again with a decent uncut print that does exist.  Rob Lewis - The Laurel & Hardy Magazine : [...]

Que l&aacute;stima... It's so unfortunate that evidently you cannot turn off subtitles in Amazon instant/Prime videos, or at least not for this one; and the ones for this film are particularly intrusive -at least early on. I tried to send feedback through the indicated link, but submitting just made the window disappear without acknowledgement and I couldn't tell if my complaint or plea went through. Perhaps this instant-viewing service is only for English speakers. ;)  This is not a helpful review of a film I was looking forward to, but which I decided to stop. Yet, it may be useful input for those that don't need subtitles at all and/or prefer the option to view an uncluttered projection of the artists' original work. Thank you and I sincerely hope the rest or all of you enjoy the film on which I had gotten good reports.

It has nearly two months. Still product is not delivered. It has nearly two months since I ordered the BD discs. Still the discs are not delivered. Is there a way to track international order ?

The Devil Sucks Lollipops In Toledo (Spain, not Ohio), a woman named Lisa wanders away from her tour group after seeing Telly Savalas walking the street carrying a lifesize, human looking puppet.  Lisa is creeped out, and instinctively knows that Telly is up to no good, but does she remain in the relative safety and anonymity of her tour group?  Please, if she did, Mario Bava wouldn't have this delirious, demented mash-up of a film called "Lisa and the Devil".  After straying down a few side streets, Lisa, in short order, manages to meet up with Savalas and his puppet again, injure and perhaps kill a man who is getting a little too friendly, and then climbs into an antique limo for a ride with an elderly man, his much younger wife, and her driver/lover. The car has problems and the quartet winds up at an isolated estate in a forest where everyone seems to know Lisa, or at least someone who looks like her.  Trying to describe what follows would be pointless because it's more a feast for the eyes than for the brain.  There are murders, blood and gore, supernatural shenanigans, and necrophilia, but don't be fooled; these parts never add up to a plot. Which is not always a bad thing.  Some of my favorite Italian gialli have come up short on plot points, but have loads of style and suspense.  And I'm a huge fan of Mario Bava, although even the best directors have their off days.  For me, "Lisa and the Devil" is Mario Bava's off day.  It's eye candy, but after awhile, it gets tiresome watching these extremely odd people stuck on this crumbling estate, their numbers dwindling as Lisa, herself, meanders around, witnessing various horrors but in no apparent hurry to escape.  Savalas sucks on his trademark lollipop throughout the proceedings, which, while adding a certain camp factor, detracts from whatever menace his character seems meant to exude.  Alida Valli, who revitalized her career playing horror movie villains, is on hand as the blind matriarch of the estate, and she's so deadly serious that she seems to have drifted over from the set of a completely different film, perhaps an Ibsen movie. By the ending, it all seems like a disjointed episode of "The Twilight Zone" or "Night Gallery".  I've read comparisons of this movie with movies by David Lynch, and while that all may seem logical on paper, or in a thesis, when watching the actual movies, well, there simply is no comparison.  Bava has style to burn, but Lynch has a cinematic elegance that Bava can't touch here.  Lynch's set pieces (in the absence of recognizable or explainable plots) pull you in, his creations (for the most part) are recognizably human; Lisa and her cohorts seem unreal, like characters made up by writers, with little relationship to actual people.  Which may be the point.  See the movie and decide for yourself.

be sure to check the discs As many have stated, I also got the wrong disc.  After reading the last few reviews, I was hoping the problem was fixed.  So not only am I missing the stop action "year without a Santa Claus", but the other two shows too.  I've yet to try to return it or contact anyone, but why should this problem still be happening?  Customers shouldn't have to return discs or make calls for a problem that has been known for over a year.  I feel this doesn't speak well of Amazon.  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  I wrote to Amazon and within hours I received an email and will receive a refund.  However in order for me to purchase it from another seller, it will cost a bit more.  I hope I receive the right disc this time.

NO I was not happy with this at all, despite being a huge David Attenborough fan. From the beginning, way too much of the crew including extreme cleavage shots kids dont need to see. Greatly prefer the tried and true format of other Attenborough dvds with his occasional appearance and main focus on the wildlife.

Good theme, mediocre execution The idea is, i suppose, to celebrate the way love brings together families from different ethnic backgrounds. The children go along tolerantly with the domineering Greek family, and this is supposed to warm our hearts. But somehow this strikes me as a single-joke comedy, and the joke in itself is not hilarious--unless you are a Greek EXTREMELY attached to Greek traditions.

Major disappointment! This movie was a MAJOR disappointment - great cast, terrible screenplay.  NO meat to this story.  It relied solely on the draw of the ensemble cast.  I feel bad for them that the story was so thin.

Meh! I guess it didn't stink on ice. But no one apparently ever sat down and worked out what the film was supposed to be. If it was supposed to be an exercise in making a new silent film in the old style, it just didn't happen. And who would care, anyway, outside of a film class assignment.  If it was supposed to be a new form of silent film, at least it wasn't the classic style. But again, who cares? It wasn't any kind of new story. Tiresome.  If it was supposed to be a film about the silent film era, it was seriously marred by the inept attempt to emulate the old silent genre.  Yes, it won Oscars. But note that you can win Oscars any day with a halfway competent film about the film industry. SAG people are such narcissists.  So, meh! You'll probably want to see it, just because...  But don't expect much.

Video Quality Somewhat Variable There are several dozen reviews dealing with the movies (plot, direction, etc...), so I will limit my review to the quality of the Blu-ray transfer for the Trilogy box set alone.  Although the information given here on Amazon implies that all three films are done at 1.85:1 aspect ratio, in reality 'Dragon Tattoo' is transferred at 2.35:1, and the other two are done at 1.85:1. Not that this is an issue for me, but while 'Dragon Tattoo' is clear and razor-sharp, the other two films suffer from much compression artifacts. I suspect that these latter films ('Played with Fire' and 'Hornet's Nest') were shot at 2.35:1 and recomposed to 1.85:1, and the quality of the picture suffered terribly from it. The visible graininess is in your face, and distracting from time to time. I do hope that the release of the uncut Swedish originals (supposedly due sometime in 2011) are an improvement over this set.  I love the stories and the characters, and would have bought these regardless, but not one reviewer here makes mention of the video quality or the disparity of the aspect ratio's from the first film to the next two. For those who, like me, have come to take for granted the high-quality picture of the majority of BD movie releases, the second and third disc of this trilogy will come as a surprise, and as a disappointment.

Sometimes nostalgia is better left untouched... &lt;strong>Godzilla vs. Megalon&lt;/strong> (Jan Fukuda, 1973)  If I recall correctly, &lt;em>Godzilla vs. Megalon&lt;/em> was the second movie I ever saw in a theater. (Oddly, I am utterly convinced that we originally went to the theater to see &lt;em>Gray Lady Down&lt;/em>, but that's impossible if IMDB is right about that movie's 1978 release date; the theater in which we saw them was in a sinkhole by that time.) It wasn't released in America until 1976, by which time I was a dedicated monster movie fan thanks to the good old Saturday afternoon creature feature on CBS and the Chilly Billy show, which I think ran on NBC late-night Fridays (Chilly Billy, for those of you unfamiliar with Pittsburgh lore, was Bill Cardille, who played a reporter in the original &lt;em>Night of the Living Dead&lt;/em>, but I didn't know that for another five or six years). And I'd been a rabid fan of all media Japanese since Ultraman hit American shores. So this Godzilla business? Monster movies from Japan? Sign me up, baby! Now, as I mentioned, my memory here may be failing me, but I swear we actually went to see &lt;em>Gray Lady Down&lt;/em>. Some of the kids were restive, so we (a) switched theaters to see &lt;em>Godzilla vs. Megalon&lt;/em> instead and (b) since we'd missed the opening fifteen minutes or so of the movie, were allowed by the theater staff to hang around for the next screening without paying extra. Man, the things you could do in a movie theater in 1976! In any case, I was overjoyed by it, as I would expect any eight-year-old would be. I hadn't seen the movie again since, so I sat down to revisit it in 2011, thirty-five years after my first experience (coincidentally, on another blazing-hot summer day). To say the movie hasn't aged well would be... overly kind.  Plot: an undersea nation called Seatopia (you have to wonder if it was that idiotic in the original; both seeing it on the big screen and in the all-region DVD I was able to track down recently, it was dubbed), distressed at the surface-dwellers' nuclear testing, calls Megalon to destroy civilization. A couple of bumbling inventors, Goro (Katushiko Sasake, who seems to have appeared in a different role in each Godzilla movie that came out in the seventies) and Jinkawa (&lt;em>Shinkansen Daibakuha&lt;/em>'s Yutaka Hayashi), along with Goro's criminally cute little brother Rokuro (&lt;em>Dodes'ka-Den&lt;/em>'s Hiroyuki Kawase in his final big-screen appearance) find out what's going on when a couple of Seatopians raid Goro's lab in order to steal his most recent invention, a robot named Jet Jaguar. (That Jet Jaguar was an Ultraman rip-off was obvious to everyone who has ever seen the movie.) The Seatopians hope that they can learn to control Jet Jaguar and use him as a proxy when dealing with Megalon and Megalon's odd bounty-hunter-from-the-stars pal Gigan. So the heroes have to get Jet Jaguar back, get to Monster Island, and recruit Godzilla, who after all had previously made a career of doing exactly what Megalon was planning to do, and convince him to... save the world. Yep, save the world he had tried so many times to destroy.  Horrorbid, an online magazine dedicated to horror (obviously), recently ran an articled called "the five worst big-screen adaptations of &lt;em>Godzilla&lt;/em>". &lt;em>Godzilla vs. Megalon&lt;/em> ranks at #3, behind only the two "reboots" from 1998 and 2000. (For those of you who care, numbers 4 and 5, respectively, were &lt;em>Godzilla's Revenge&lt;/em> and &lt;em>Godzilla and Mothra Battle for the Earth&lt;/em>.) And let's face it, this is not the movie you (or I) remember from childhood. That could be because, as one IMDB reviewer notes, this is the only film in the entire Godzilla franchise that was specifically conceived, shot, and marketed to an audience of children. To say the filmmakers had no clue how to do that is an understatement, though to be fair we were all bowled over by it back in the seventies. But now I look at it and realize "hey, these guys were treating us like... well, the idiots we were, I guess." The writing is shoddy at best, the acting unintentionally comic. The special effects... well, better than in Godzilla 2000. (And I don't care what Horrorbid says, Megalon was cool.) But man, even in a series known for slapping the viewer in the face repeatedly with its ecological message, &lt;em>Godzilla vs. Megalon&lt;/em> is over the top. And I think that's what really gets me about the franchise's thankfully-aborted attempt to crack the kids' market (which, of course, they already had); they felt they had to further dumb down an already dumbed-down message. Gah. That sort of thing drives me up the wall.  For nostalgics only, but that said, you might be better off letting your nostalgia continue to drive how you think about the movie. A rewatch might destroy your fond memories--take it from me. * ½

Deeply disturbing. Sleeping Beauty is one of those films that sound intriguing but just end up being a huge letdown. The writer/director of this film tries too hard to be the female version of Stanley Kubrick. She uses a lot of his style like long, drawn-out takes and barely any thought-provoking dialogue. I just couldn't believe how deeply disturbing this film was and I'm usually a big fan of celebral/artsy movies but this one is so unsexy and completely pointless that I lost interest halfway through the film. The only reason I'm giving Sleeping Beauty 2 stars is because of the daring, fearless performance of Aussie star, Emily Browning. Browning is captivating to watch but even her talent isn't enough to make this film a winner for me! Such a disappointment.

More phony than funny I heard mostly good things about Easy A, but after viewing, I am a bit astonished by the many favorable reviews, especially considering how relatively commonplace this comedy is. Easy A tells the story of one high school girl who uses a rumor of having sex to boost her popularity. She finds that things quickly get out of hand, and she tries to protect her image, keep her friendship, and more importantly try to find out who she is amidst all the high school mayhem and gossip.  The film attempts to be satirical in some ways and genuine in others, but there are missed opportunities to make it a funny, unique movie. Instead, there is a run of the mill approach to direction, characterization and plot, and it suffers from being rather false .  Easy A is surprisingly mediocre, its presentation phony and superficial, using caricatures rather than characters to sell its plot, with its story and lesson being somewhat petty.  Indicative of Hollywood high school land, we have prototype antagonists, cardboard to the max, whose sole purpose is to fling degrading insults at the protagonist. The film further shows its immature approach by using Christians as the major antagonists as a parallel to Hawthorne's hypocritical Puritans (in The Scarlet Letter). (Apparently Christians are fair game as being portrayed as disingenuous in Hollywood...Where are the Hollywood PC police when you really need them?) Olive's parents are ridiculously unbelievable, quite annoying, having apparently been transplanted directly from the set of Juno to Easy A, as their super duper hip, cool demeanor towards anything and everything Olive has to throw at them doesn't faze them a bit. (That scene with Olive and her mom talking and her mom describing her sexual exploits...ummm..yeah, right, like THAT would ever happen). Meanwhile, Olive's friend Rhiannon (Alyson Michalka) is the biggest nitwit of them all, and I'm still trying to figure out how they were "friends" in the first place. Not only was their friendship shallow and insincere, but it was pretty much unnecessary to the movie's plot other than bringing in some contrived conflict. And, as a whole, the movie pretty much reeked of phoniness trying to embody some serious life lesson, but really comes across hallow to the core. Easy A sells itself as some modern rehashing of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, but it is a very flimsy, superficial one at that. It's too bad, because Easy A could have been a clever satire.  The one saving grace of Easy A is Emma Stone. While I liked Emma Stone's performance, I didn't think the script (or its lack of originality) did her any justice, or gave her much to work with. Her character Olive, however, does have some depth (unlike virtually every other character), but everything about the whole fake sex thing seemed so dumb and contrived. (Are all the students, counselors, teachers and principle at this school that gullible, dense, and dim-witted? I guess so.)  Still, I liked her better in The Rocker and Zombieland, where her sarcastic, witty demeanor and acting ability shines, and she does not have to carry a film.  Easy A is pretty the stuff of your standard Hollywood tripe. Any references to John Hughes'80s films should be left at the door.

Just a warning about the advertised image. I had to return this product, because I thought I was getting the blu-ray combo (blu-ray, and dvd). But when I got it in the mail it was just the blu-ray. Now it would've been my fault if the advertised image had not shown a movie cover with the blu-ray + dvd at the top. For some reason I couldn't exchange it, and I had to order it again, which I decided not to do. So this review has nothing to do with the movie itself. Just a warning for those that might be confused about the advertised image.

It was pulpy in it's story line, without real meat! I suppose this was a good movie if you are  a  member of Opus Dei. I knew little of its founder however I still know little of the founder except that he was featured as a meek pious man . While the story was based in the Spanish Civil War- I felt that we needed far more substance and uniqueness such as was found in the Mission.

Don't waste the money... Unless you are a diehard fan of the series, don't waste the money to watch this. People complain about reviews from professional critics. However, I find that it's often the user reviews that seem a bit off. Someone actually wrote on this site that this movie "doesn't have many flaws". If you give this movie 4 or 5 stars, then how many starts did the 1st one deserve? Does the original film get 5 starts and 2 smiley faces? Or do you give it 5 +++ stars? What about movies that were actually better than any of the Underworld movies? Look, I'm a huge fan of vampires (the violent and dark kind, not the brooding teenage kind). I'm also a huge fan of the original series concept. However, as much a I like Kate in tight leather, this movie was horrible and the worst of the lot. The acting and story live left much to be desired. The actor who played Michael Corvin is clearly not in this movie. The shots are far off or manipulated in some way shape or form to hide the fact that Michael (the original one) is not in the film . This series, like the Matrix series, destroyed a great idea. They appear to have bled it dry. I made sure to avoid this movie in the theaters ($11.50 and up for a ticket), but I was willing to watch it because of my love for the series. However, I wish I hadn't spent the money. The child vampire concept is also silly. Vampires are dead things and shouldn't be having babies. There are lots of flaws in this movie. I could name a lot more, but this is a 2 star movie at best. If anyone gives this (I'll be generous) 4 stars or higher, avoid their reviews like the plague in the future. Who knows, maybe they worked on the movie or have a relative who did. Anyway, 2 - 2.5 stars at the most.

They tried to turn this movie into X-Men 4. If this movie would have been done correctly it should have just revolved around Wolverine, Victor Creed and Stryker. Thats really it. The writers however decided to try to turn this into yet another X-Men movie by bringing in way too many additional characters and trying to form a team. Why is Gambit in this movie? I understand that he is a favorite of many who love the X-Men comics but he feels so forced in this movie. It was like the writers said "We need to get Gambit into an X-Men movie or the fans will hate us. So lets put him in this movie where he doesn't belong at all!" And then there is the elephant in the room Deadpool. There is so much outrage from the fans of Deadpool being completely unlike how he is in the comics. In the movie, they remove his mouth. WTF? He is supposed to be 'the merc with a mouth'. And then they make swords come out of this arms like Baraka from Mortal Kombat. Then there are the visuals. They clearly ran out of time to finish many of the CGI effects and this movie shows more than any other that I can think of. The scene where Wolverine is in the mirror, his claws looked like they were drawn in with a pencil. It looks so bad its actually hilarious. Then they cast Liev Schreiber as Victor Creed (Sabretooth). Now, I have no problem with Liev, I actually think he is a really good actor. But Sabretooth is supposed to be huge. Quite a bit taller than Wolverine at least, and he looks tiny. Hugh Jackman does everything he can to save this movie. He really has his character of Wolverine nailed down and I like it, and many of the fans like it. But this movie could have been avoided entirely. In X2: X-Men United they have flashback sequences to tell the audience of how Wolverine got his adamantium skeleton and those few sequences are better than this entire movie. So this movie ranks in my opinion the worst X-Men movie tied with X-Men 3 The Last Stand. They are both so horrible I don't know which one to pick as worse.

Mopping up the Muppets Which Muppet movie exactly did all these glowing reviewers watch?  I take no backseat to any fan over the Muppets.  My family and I watched them almost without fail in the 1970s and 80s.  What an entertaining and fun TV series.  My wife and I have seen many of the Muppet movies since then, our favorite being the Treasure Island Muppet movie.  But this latest movie flopped, and badly.  It wasn't funny, other than a few chuckles.  It lacked that offbeat wit emblematic of the Muppets of old.  Only the hobo scenes in the theater clicked.  The movie repeatedly pounded on the theme that the Muppets were washed up, faded, forgotten by Hollywood and their fans, etc. etc.  I'm sorry to say it, but with this kind of production these bleak comments will certainly come true.  I could live with the movie's "be yourself, we're all one big family, we gotta make choices" gooey stuff if it'd been offered up with even just a whiff, a wink of sly humor.  Disappointing.  I hope another Muppet movie comes out--I'll watch that one for sure since I think of myself as a "muppetly man"--both to give the franchise another chance, and to let it avenge this current offering.

Not that great.... The box was in good shape but some of the disks skip.... If it starts off skipping then I have to just forget about watching the episode all together.

Yuck I just didn't like it. No big explanation. The 3D was so... unnoticeable. I didn't know most of his songs and he was so passive about his performance, nothing grabbed me. I want to step on the disc and fling it into the air.

Probably for older kids I though this movie would have more buddies in it and be funnier.  We were so happy we had it in time for my son's birthday. It's always hard to find things that are for halloween but are not too scary. We turned it off after the first 15 minutes and even that was too much. The scary looking, glowing eyed, evil dog sucking in the puppies souls as payment for a portal to the underworld in order to unleash all the underworld creatures on Fernfield?! Totally have to shelve this one for awhile.

Silly This is a case of the scriptwriter asking himself, "What stupid things can I get these characters to do & say & that's the only thing that is important." There are apparently enough people who think stupid is funny to give this otherwise boring film a good rating. As for me, the film was just stupid to the point of embarrassment. I could only look at half of it before I got so disgusted with it I turned it off.

I Farted 3 Times While Watching This Movie! Killjoy 3 is a pretty dang inaccurate title for this horror sequel. It didn't kill me and didn't bring me dang joy. Oh, but I did fart 3 times while watching it. Killjoy 3 is a pretty dang stupid movie, and not as much fun as some other recent movies from Full Moon Pictures. Gingerdead Man 3 would be a dang better choice if you want a Full Moon movie with a dang "3" in its title.

Iron Sky After the Nazis were defeated in 1945, some of them fled for the dark side of the moon, from which they would re-emerge when the world would least expect it...  Sounds like fun, right? Silly, perhaps, but uniquely pulpy in its promise. That promise has seen the production of Iron Sky chronicled in geekier circles as it sought fan financing over the past few years, and now, we find ourselves faced with a finished film whose stabs at relevance bog down its irreverent intent.  It's the year 2018, and a President who is not wholly unlike Sarah Palin has been convinced that re-commencing lunar missions will secure her forthcoming re-election; after all, the moon harbors energy resources like Helium-3 without the rigmarole of Middle East politics. What the President and her astronauts don't realize is that the Fourth Reich has been harvesting the element for decades now in preparation for their coming invasion, and they see the unwitting arrival of the Americans as their cue for retaliation.  As directed by Timo Vuorensola, the film certainly doesn't lack for scale as the camera swoops along the swastika-shaped moon base and all around the fleet of space zeppelins, and if anything, the visual effects on display here surpass expectations in their efforts to replicate the bigger-budget bombast of countless blockbusters. The main war machine itself, as revealed in the third act, is a minor marvel of constantly moving gears and parts.  Alas, that's more than one could say for the film itself. The few inspired touches that directly correlate to the original pitch - a truncated version of Chaplin's The Great Dictator passed off as pro-Nazi propaganda; the climactic "meteor blitzkrieg" - are buried between bits of stillborn satire in which Palin is President, the Nazis find themselves in great need of iDevices and the sole surviving astronaut, James Washington, is a slang-slinging African-American forced to appear in whiteface against his will.  With hokey references to James Bond, Dr. Strangelove and the Downfall meme of all things, Iron Sky feels more and more like a lost Austin Powers sequel that already feels exceedingly dated in its humor. The cast, including wide-eyed, raspy-voiced Udo Kier, is fully committed to the bit regardless, but their straight-faced performances can't transcend jokes involving an Einstein look-alike, the warship USS George W. Bush and a subdued but cheap reference to 9/11 during TV news coverage of the Nazis' initial attack.  The latent potential for this being a new cult favorite does crop up from time to time, mostly during the full-on intergalactic assault that makes up the third act, but the film is more often than not dominated by creaky political incorrectness that transforms the goofy prospect of moon Nazis from something admirably silly to something outright stupid. As it turns out, in space, no one can hear you laugh either.

Not recommended I saw the movie.  At first I didn't understand what was going on and then realized that the movie was saying that Margaret Thatcher is now a doddering, crazy old woman who walks around talking to her dead husband.  I decided to do some research and realized that she has indeed aged alot in the last 20 years and according to her daughters book is having some memory problems.  Carol Thatcher, her daughter never implied that her mother hallucinated or talked to her dead husband.  My belief is that whoever wrote this did not like Margaret Thatcher.  This movie as in the movie 'The Queen' typed up conversations that went on in the intimacy of her own home where no one could have listened to.  The movie was full of ridiculous implications about what Margaret Thatcher said or did in the privacy of her own home with her family as in the movie 'The Queen' (which I believe was done to gain sympathy for the Royal family).  I am hoping that after Mrs. Thatcher's passing, Carol Thatcher will write another book and add all the juicy tidbits she left out of her first book as did Lorette Lynne did after her husband died.

I wanted to love this movie I just got around to watching this movie on DVD.  I'm a fan of romantic comedies and an even bigger fan of James Marsden.  Katherine Heigl was very good but I just didn't connect with her character.  I just found it odd that everyone was supposed to know that Jane was in love with her boss but her own sister DIDN'T KNOW??? I didn't like Jane's best friend either.  The way Jane almost killed them in the car accident didn't seem to forsee a romantic hook-up.  The only saving grace of the bar scene was having Marsden sing a few bars. Marsden has a great voice and I loved him in Hairspray. Overall, a so-so movie at best.  The performances save this from being a total bomb.

Over hyped! The preview looked good but the actual movie is so lacking. I was quite disappointed with the whole movie. Actions were slow and not a lot. Script was so-so and nothing special.

Skip the 2 Disc Deluxe Edition I loved this movie, so much so that I wanted to get the "behind the scenes" 2 disc edition to learn more about how the story was written and how the movie was developed.  In my opinion this is a good example of how NOT to do a 2 disc edition.  Long on storyboarding and deleted scenes and short on "behind the scenes" stuff.  What a disappointment!  I'm keeping my single disc edition of course, but the 2 disc edition is going right back on the market.

Pretty but dull... I rented this film because it apparently did well at Cannes.  On the plus side it was beautifully shot.  On the down side, it was dull.  The subject was intriguing but I found I didn't care about anyone in the movie.  Where I should feel sympathy, I didn't.  Where I should be shocked, I wasn't.  Everyone just meandered through their existences.  There was no redeeming vale to the main character.  An apathetic creature. My goodness, she was a terrible friend. Perhaps that was the intent of the movie.  She had no emotion until the end of the movie, and then it was out of character.  I'm sure there will be those who will enjoy this film, but I'm not one of them.  Yawn!

Carlos "The runnin man" Condit Typical Greg Jackson special. Supposedly we were told this would be a "war",but instead we got a remake of Forrest Gump running. The lead actor was Carlos Condit. What happened to the Natural born killer? Maybe that's why he so easily agreed to a rematch? On top of that what was the Judges watching? What a letdown!

JCParis This version of the wonderful masterpiece "Senso" is a huge deceit, incomprehensible from The Criterion Collection. What happened? Why these ugly colors? Why to try to "cook" the colors? Not to recommend. Buy the european "Studio Canal" version...

They ruined the Theatrical version!!! The Blues Brothers is my all time favorite movie. It was released the year I was born and Ive grown up watching it to the point that I know it word for word, scene for scene, sound effects and all. I was so eager to get this blu ray but disappointed when I watched it to find that what Universal has done is they have overlapped the theatrical version and the extended version so it is meant to run "seamlessly". I have a huge problem with this because when watching the Theatrical cut (the only cut in my opinion) it now has many things different. The extended cut didn't just have extra scenes, the soundtrack was vastly different too and song pieces were different versions and sometimes had added verses. James Browns song is very different in the extended cut as was Cab's Minnie the Moocher.  So to me I can really notice when a scene is not in sync as it should be when "seamlessly" skipping past an extended cut scene. This is probably a very minor issue for most people but to me it is a big deal and lazy on Universals behalf. The video quality is amazing here and the sound quality is decent but I just can't get past the butchered theatrical cut and can see myself going back to the dvd version the next time I watch it. Of course as soon as universal release the 35th anniversary blu ray with all this fixed and a 7.1 mixed soundtrack then I'll be buying it day one.

I live in the wrong country for this film Read the title.  It was not made expressly clear that this film was not a USA formatted film.  Therefore, I purchased a movie I can never watch, great product right?

John Wayne would be less than impressed with these "cowboys" I worry for Daniel Craig. It seems like it will take a lot for him to prove to the world that he's capable of doing more than playing James Bond. And furthermore, it doesn't look like he'll be any more able to pull off a performance as Mikael Blomkvist in the upcoming Dragon Tattoo remake. Because just an hour ago, I got out of the movie that may just be solid proof of his inability to act outside his comfort zone... Cowboys and Aliens.  I'll admit I didn't have any expectations for this movie except just a fun and enjoyable blow-em-up alien flick. In fact, something with such a title as "Cowboys and Aliens" should not be boring. And a cast like Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, and Olivia Wilde should help offer SOMETHING of that promise. Unfortunately, the movie has its head so far up in the clouds, it thinks it's something other than what it should be.  I will say the movie got off to a good start with the opening moments, where Jake, the film's protagonist wakes in the desert, unaware of where he is, and then the following scene with Jake beating the men up and stealing their clothes and horse was great too. Speaking of the protagonist, I'm not sure why we don't find out his name until about 30 minutes into the movie, or so it seems.  Anyways, back to the "plot". He appears to have woken up with a bracelet made of iron on his left wrist, which leads to what may be the most ham handed Chekhov's Gun example later in the film. He appears to have no memory at all and later finds out he is a wanted robber, and is imprisoned after a bar fight. One night, aliens attack the town, and it is unknown why (nor is it really explained, save for some weird gold subplot later innthe film). And there's more attacks, and the men go on an adventure to stop the attacks, and blah blah blah... The end.  Oh and I forgot, Olivia Wilde is in this. What she was even in there for again I'm completely empty at the thought of too, and maybe my summary wouldn't be so vague had there been STUFF HAPPENING in the film. Sad thing is, her performance is the best thing of the movie.  Honestly I am amazed. I haven't had this much trouble trying to find the words to say about such a frustrating film. How could a movie with such a concept be so BORING. There is basically almost no fun in the film. When a movie is called "Cowboys and Aliens" and there's no fun in the movie whatsoever, that is not a good sign.  In fact, why are there aliens in the movie, anyway. They are indeed very pointless and they feel forced in just to create some pointless conflict involving gold, which gets left to naught in the end. And we rarely see any of the aliens anyway. In fact, we see more spaceships than aliens. And the aliens look dumb anyways. Do they give razzies for CG? Because they look so bad, they make the aliens in Battle LA look awesome.  The movie gets two of three stars for Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde, both the best things about this film, and the third star for the beautiful Arizona locations. The rest... yawn.  OVERALL: 3/10  Pros: Olivia Wilde and Harrison Ford give good performances, as well as the location is great.  Cons: Cowboys And Aliens is essentially a fun-less, boring, slow and plodding dirge with boring action and pointless subplots that do nothing but drag a film that should be 85 minutes to a boring 2 hours.

It's okay but a bit too whitebread for my liking. After being put under a spell a group of fairytale characters are brought into our reality. All the famous story book characters are there in the small quiet town of story brook. The only one aware of who the identities of the towns folk is the one who cast the spell in the first place. The Evil Queen Sorceress who put them all under her spell for the sake of her own happiness. I'm not sure what that happiness is because she looks to live a lonely life still. Anyhow the show plays out with a ridiculous start. A bounty woman is confronted by a 10yo boy who turns out to be her abandoned child. The boy leads the woman back to his hometown of Story Brook. Now here is the part about the show that is why I give it 2/5. The kid is annoying and he's in every scene. The story can do without the long lost child plot if it was just a mystery to be unsolved. Instead of that you have a whiny tag along through every scene who only serves as "plot exposition". His role isn't really necessary and it seems awkward that he is even placed into the show. The show is already about a long lost child and now it becomes about a long lost child that has had a long lost child...not sure what the writers were thinking.  Aside from annoying characters the other parts of the show are quite interesting. The "real world" the fairytale characters live in isn't so much the "real world" it's more of a "picture perfect sunshine and smiles" town that in itself is an unrealistic fantasy compared to the actual real world. That would be the second problem with the overall design of the show. The punishment of the curse is to bring the fairytale characters into the real word where they will live in the misery of reality but they all seem to be just living fine in a peaceful little town.  The curse is more of an amnesia trick to make the characters forget who they are but, who they've become seems to be better people than they are in their story book world in some cases... so that is also another strange part to the story. To enjoy "Once Upon A Time" you really have to put your mind on cruise and just take the show for what it is. It's a light hearted series and should be treated like that. I enjoyed watching it but, somethings I felt could have made it much better like removing the kid for one and just letting Emma figure out what's going on through her own methods.  Each episode is broken up into the actual fairy tale about a fantasy character and their present day life. You get to learn just enough about them but their stories are never really finished. So what you get are broken clips of a fairytale with no ending. The fairy tales in Once Upon A Time are loosely based around the real stories. They are actually written pretty well to tie the story together. I enjoyed Little Red Riding hood's story the most. I've so far watched 20 episodes of the series and still find a lot of the show to be overly cheesy. The mixture of good actors and bad actors trying to sell you the reality of a fantasy world come true doesn't help. Where some actors are very strong others are weak and don't exactly bring you into the story like they should. I mostly watch the show for Regina and to see what plot she can come up with. When you have a show full of mostly annoying characters you just find yourself rooting for the bad guys.

Mehh. I was disappointed with this video.  The only other one of his I'd seen was 'Madea Goes to Jail.'  I liked that one a lot.  But, this one had a message that was a bit confusing. The whole cast got all Jesus-y at the end, but the content and overall gestalt of the plot gave a big huge wink to extra-marital affairs as if they are a normal, acceptable part of life.  Also, there were some pretty slow spots that seemed like a good time to get up and check my e-mail, being pretty sure I wasn't missing anything.  On the upside, there were some very funny scenes, and the singing was excellent.  The "moral" of the story, however, left me scratching my head in wonder.

Unmet Expectations The Game has the potential to be an exquisite thriller if it had remained the homage to revenge fantasies it started out being. However, towards the climax of the film, the rug is rudely ripped out from under the feet of the viewer as we are now treated to a film that decided to be a thinking man's thriller. In order for the Game to be a thriller, there would have to be genuine thrills instead of jaw-droppingly pallid scenes involving Douglas plunging to near-certain death only to "miraculously" survive. Apparently, the filmmaker has mistaken roller-coaster ride style shocks for thrills of a psychological bent.  The pseudo twist ending made the film an incoherent mess and failed to invite the viewer to reflect at all. And I watched this film closely.  In summary, the Game is an entertaining watch if its on TV for free and you've nothing better to watch.

Not the History You're Looking For After seeing part of the first episode on the BBC while deployed in Kuwait, I had high hopes for this series, but as the British would say in typically understated fashion, those hopes were unfulfilled. I won't dwell on the presentation or the script, which were frankly appalling. For me, it was the content itself which rankled. The series simply doesn't cover British history very well. Although the series includes many fascinating tidbits, particularly regarding the intriques of the succession to the British monarchy, it is disjointed and unfocused. It even stumbles in covering the history of the monarchy, by completely ommitting the War of the Roses.  Mr. Schama misses the mark in two ways which are intertwined. My first objection is with Mr. Schama's choices of which subjects to cover and which to leave out. A couple of examples will suffice. In the coverage of the reign of Elizabeth I, one might expect some detailed coverage of the Spanish Armada and William Shakespeare, right? There is barely a mention of the Armada, and none of Shakespeare. Similarly, during the times of the American and French revolutions, and the Napoleanic wars, one might expect to hear the juicy details of the battles of Trafalgar and Waterloo. Each receives only a single sentence in the narrative with no details whatsoever of these battles which were pivital to the history of Britain (the ostensible subject of this series). Instead, Mr. Schama focuses an entire hour on English Romanticism, dedicating about a quarter of that to the tragic story of one Mary Wollstonecraft. Admittedly, I had never heard of her, and the story Mr. Schama presents of her is indeed intriguing, but I'm sure Mr. Schama himself must certainly agree that her contribution to the pageant of British history was insignificant.  Along with the failure to separate the important stories from the sidenotes, the series - to my American mind - fails to properly target the audience. The series was produced as a joint venture of the BBC and the Discovery Channel. As such, one might expect that the American audience might be considered in addition to the British. It was not. Consequently, many subjects that might be taken "as read" for those educated in British schools and living in British society will simply go over the heads of average Americans. For example, at the end of the episode covering the reign of William of Orange, a brief mention of the Battle of the Boyne is made. In his annoyingly sardonic fashion Mr. Schama tells us that points will not be awarded for telling who won, saying (rightly) that nobody did. Then as the trailing credits begin to roll, we are treated to an audio clip of the Reverend Ian Paisley spouting his usual vitriol - no doubt at one of the annual troublemaking sessions held by the loyalists at the site of this famous battle. Having lived in Britain during the height of "the troubles," and having been treated quite frequently during that time to both audio and video of Mr. Paisley's rantings, I was able to take Mr. Schama's point. Sadly though, the average American will surely be left scratching her head, wondering what the guy yelling bile into a megaphone has to do with an 18th century British ruler, and (hopefully) wondering what's missing in her education that left her unable to "get the joke."  I can't say that this series is a total loss, though. The coverage of the life and death of Thomas Becket was fascinating, as was the final episode comparing and contrasting the lives of Winston Churchill and George Orwell. The coverage of feminism during the reign of Victoria was also interesting, although Mr. Schama then failed to follow through on the lives and works of the British Sufferagettes. On these strengths, I've given the series a two-star rating, rather than the lowest.  Give this one a miss if you're looking for a well-integrated overview of British history. If you're looking for artfully entertaining vignettes that are marginally related to British history, and have $160 burning a hole in your pocket, then by all means...

The True Story of PISS in Boots We decided to give this film a fair chance and watched all 80 minutes.  We had thought this would a great educational film for children as we recognized famous pieces of western music such as, Beethoven's "Fur Elise", Mozart's "Magic Flute" and Verdi's "Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves."  All of which were perverted by amateur remixing.  The theme and moral of the film teaches children that bearing false witness will grant you women, fame, and fortune. Not to mention the awkward moment when Peter and the Princess are found in an empty bedroom in which they say "Soooo, now what?"  There is also a question of what the film makers are implying by introducing a talking Jamaican monkey.  If you look past the discontinuity of the plot, the poor voice overs, the animation, and the creeper chamberlain (weird pedophile pants!!!!), it was still an horrible film!!!  Expel this from your TV like your body would expel urine.

Product not as Advertised The product details online say that the aspect ratio is 1.33:1 (4:3). The box and all the CDs say 16:9 widescreen and it is wide screen (16:9) when you play the CDs.  This means that this is not an original version as advertised. It also means that top of people heads are cut off and what takes place at the bottom of the screen is missing.  You get 5 CDs not 4 so what I am guessing they are advertising (selling you) one version and shipping a different version.

I'm Not Following... The Tourist was one of those movies for me that I kept thinking to myself through most of the entirety of the film, "What in the world is going on here?". And because of that, it was a movie I had to finish to find out what happened or else it would drive me crazy. I gave it two stars because the colors and pictures were stunning - especially of Venice (I also adored Elise's wardrobe). Unfortunately though, I don't know how this was nominated for so many awards... maybe just because of famous actors? Who knows. If you must watch this film, do so if only to enjoy a great wardrobe and very high quality pictures.

How's this movie get a 4-1/2 stars... This movie looked good until the very graphic battle scene. The battle doesn't make sense, one of them said 13 against 130. If you do the math, each of the 13 assassins only need to kill off 10, but they kept killing the soldiers, probably around 20 each, and there are still more soldiers showing up.  Still weirder at the end, one of assassins was killed but then he came back to life running around like it was nothing...

Sherlock Holmes Collection Vol. 1 Collection of four Sherlock Holmes movies staring Basil Rathbone. I received four disks but two were the same movie and I was missing one. It just so happens I already owned the one that was missing so I didn't complain but it shows poor quality control.

A Slow Cheese-Fest Some movies are so bad that they're good. This one isn't one of them. It starts out very slow. The first 15 to 20 minutes is basically a badly acted chase scene and an introduction to a kid that works at a fried chicken place. As it starts to pick up, the toys come to life and start terrorizing these poor individuals that get trapped in a toy warehouse. Not much is explained at first, but it does eventually explain stuff later. And I will admit the graphics weren't all that bad. They don't compare to today's graphics, no, but I liked how Baby Oops a Daisy had facial expressions. Made him more entertaining. I also enjoyed watching the Jack in the Box. It was amusing, with its crazy laugh. But even so, everything is still sort of slow. The pace never seemed to pick up. Even when the toys go on their killing spree, I felt like taking a nap. I felt nothing for the characters when they died, because none of them were likeable. And the ending... is completely stupid. I won't spoil the movie for anyone, but I was left thinking, "Seriously? What the hell? That makes no sense!"  Usually I'm one for cheesy horror movies. Even when they're bad, I can usually find humor in them. At least enough to make them entertaining. But I have to say, there was very little entertainment in this movie. I thought Oops A Daisy's lines were pretty stupid. And only one scene with him really made me laugh. I couldn't even laugh at the ending. It was just ridiculous. So watch at your own risk. A lot of people like this movie, you may be one of them or then again, you could end up like me, wondering what the hell you just watched.

Not particularly memorable Don't remember much of the movie as we were drinking heavily while watching it on the deck. You had to suspend reality right up front as the President's daughter would have been brutalized immediately in a prison take over situation, space station or not.  Kind of labored after that.

Could have been 20x better The first 50 minutes of the movie were great.  The last 50 minutes were great.  The middle??  Absolutely horrific.  I was totally intrigued with the story for the first part, then the middle just went to hell with a focus on leonardo decaprio and cameron diaz.  The last hour was good, but I was still too bored and irritated from seeing the middle to enjoy it!!  Watch the first hour of the movie then skip to the last hour and you'll get the same story without the trash in the middle that gives absolutely nothing to enjoy.

Barely entertaining, actually quite annoyed I wasted my $2 credit on this. First of all, I enjoy watching ghost hunting shows. They are usually pretty entertaining and the evidence they get is, for the most part, rather good.  This, on the other hand, just goes to show that there are people out there who fake footage to try and get famous.  The only reason I didn't give this 1 star is because there are a few genuinely good creepy clips. An entity in a window, a room where you can hear a little girl say "mommy", well done on those parts. BUT, there were a few clips that just made me roll my eyes and go "How do they expect me to believe that?" One clip in particular shows someone laying in bed and the blanket is supposedly pulled off. I thought to myself, "if the angle is right where I can see the whole bed in the shot and the blanket got pulled off, that'd be awesome!" Nope. The camera is positioned ridiculously close to the person in the bed. And worst of all, when the blanket comes off, you can see the person open there eyes for a couple seconds, close them, then pretend to be sleep and pull the blanket back up.  Other times are just as annoying. Every time they hear a knock, one of the investigators is never in the shot, leading me to believe they're off screen making the sounds themselves. There's another scene where they are in a house where a rocking chair supposedly moves. One thing that caught my eye about this scene was behind the rocking chair, it looked like a curtain was pulled back a little bit. Didn't really think too much of it until the camera started to pan away and you can see the rocking chair get pulled back by something off screen. And of course as soon as the chair is completely off screen about a second later, one of the investigators comments on the chair moving.  If you've got 50 minutes to kill and don't mind wasting your money on something you'll regret later, watch this. But I would not recommend it.

Gimmick as story Somebody running away from something scary in a gimmicky setting with twists and turns; that's Westworld. One-dimensional characters, inane dialogue, cheesy costumes, predictable machine goes berzerk "story", and generic sets are the essentials that provide the thrills in this over-long movie. Like a majority of scary movies and the stories from which they are derived, the premise is to pile very contrived problems onto the harried protagonist trapped in a "Bloodybones is on the first step-Bloodybones is on the second step-Bloodybones is on the third step..." dilemma (Michael Crichton and Stephen King are the masters of the genre}. There's nothing new under the sun and there's nothing new in Westworld.

In 3 words - The Innkeepers was bleh, meh and blah This was a blind purchase for me. The plot sounded interesting, a ghost story, scares and suspense. But after watching this film, it became apparent to me why classic horror still rules the roost and why modern horrors like this really dont work. If youve read other reviews you know the story of the last 2 innkeepers in a hotel that are interested in discovering and communicating with ghosts. So our characters Claire and Luke spend about 80 of 101 minutes looking for these ghosts while old deceased hotel guests check in. Problem # 1 - would you be so accommodating to a guest so obviously not quite there. Problem # 2 - when Claire is told by*Lee* to get out the hotel before youre killed, what does Claire do ? Stay in the hotel, is left alone by Luke and goes wandering off into the hallways and back to the basement where the ghosts are waiting. Hello !?!?!? Some payoff, hard jolting scares of our ghost attacking Claire that really meant nothing. Claire should havent even been in the basement in the first place. Was this movie worth being so patient for that ending? NO. Was House of the Devil better ? Yes. Claire (played by Sara Paxton) was so naive that it wasnt funny. Calling out "Lee" in the basement when she was clearing seen going upstairs was absurd. Maybe Ive seen too many horror movies to know whats going to happen in a movie like this , or is it I know what a good horror movie is - and this wasnt. If youre not going to do anything with your characters for over 90  minutes you could at least make them interesting. Or competent. Id say this would appeal to House of the Devil fans. For others on the fence, maybe rent it. Remember these reviews are just opinions be it 5 star or 1 star, and the best reviewer is the person watching it with their own two eyes.

It's Forced I understand this movie is Christian and trying to get a message across. However, regarding the proclamation signing scene, I just can't picture men doing something like that. I can tolerate it in a movie because a movie is just a movie. But it just seems really cheesy to me the way they portrayed it in the movie. Also, they have a Courageous Men's Bible Study now. So I guess men in churches across the country will be doing this ceremony too. Which..just seems a little odd. The movie had several very slow-paced scenes which could easily have been cut out to make the over-long movie a tolerable length. They switched storylines so many times that it was hard to stay focused and about an hour and a half into the movie I was bored and wondering when it would end. Although they had a couple well-done action scenes, overall the movie felt like it dragged on. In many places the dialogue sounded forced and cheesy. I really wanted to like this movie because I am a Christian and movies are meant to send messages and be fun but this one..1) too long. 2) too forced.

I'd rather have cleaned the toilet ...at least then I'd have been productive  Did the film make me suffer in agony? No.  Did I enjoy it? No.  My one word description of it is "Bleh." I did, however, appreciate that it was clean. I hate it when kids movie sneak smutty references into them. We have no kids, so I can't say whether or not kids would enjoy it, but I felt like it was one of those movies that are a little too dumbed down for kids.  Plot: 2 Animation:4 Soundtrack: (depends on how much you dig Elton John) Jokes:2 Joke Delivery:1 Script: 2 Terraferminator voice over by the Hulk: 4.5

slow and boring. refund please The dreariness of this movie made us want to take some pills and turn on the gas.  We can't believe we watched it to the end! This was, yes I said was, our date night movie, a real mood enhancer, pass the bottle of pills!

Book review: The Jerk, published by Warner Books <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000IKQMO0">The Jerk</a> is an entertaining movie, particularly if you evolved with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416553657">Steve Martin</a> throughout his career.  Many people don't know that he is also an author, writing books like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0517330806">Cruel Shoes</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786888016">The Pleasure of My Company</a>.  So here is what The Jerk - the book - is and is not.  It's not the screenplay (a real disappointment... this was my expectation, since the screenplay WAS written by Steve Martin).  It's not a true reflection of the movie (there are little quips and jabs throughout, in addition to the screen shots and some quotes).  It's not a great reminder of the movie.  What this book is, is a little souvenir book.  It's not the best overview of the movie (like you would find with the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1562827642">Coneheads: The Life and Times of Beldar Conehead : As Told to Gorman Seedling, Ins Commissioner, Retired</a>.  No hidden production gems, and no "the rest of the Navin R. Johnson story" material.  Disappointing.

Yawn 1.5 stars. An unorignal plot with a cliche and predictable story-line. Even the mandatory "twist" at the end falls flat; it's contrived and you can see it coming a mile away. This is a lame rehash other other similar (and much better) films.  Not recommended.

Too many cliche scenes It seems Nicholas Cage likes to cover all the bases as an action star.  Starring in roles ranging from bad cop (Snake Eyes) to treasure hunter (National Treasure) to un-dead rider (Ghost Rider), Cage has finally reached the role of Crusading knight in this 2011 box-office bomb.  Also starring Ron Perlman and Christopher Lee, this movie tries to be a supernatural action thriller with sword fights, evil wolves, witches, and a brutal fight to the finish with the devil and raised spirits.  However, all of this was quite cliche as every scene seem copied from a previous movie.  The night when the wolves attack was all too similar to scenes from the second Underworld movie.  The bridge crossing reminded me of a similar scene in Shrek.  And the women actually being possessed by the devil; well that was seen in numerous movies about exorcisms.  The only new part was Perlman's gallows humor (literally) as a sidekick knight.  The DVD contains nothing special; no extended edition or alternate ending.  Overall, an OK movie that is not worth the purchase price either at the theater or at the DVD store.

Disappointed Given the great reviews and honors I expected something special.  But there wasn't a moment I wasn't aware of a script being acted out, actors being minutely directed (not one actor at any time looked relaxed or spontaneous), and some sort of social agenda going on, though for the life of me I still can't figure what that agenda was.  I found the father being cast out as the Devil and the mother who strayed being all sunshine, light and goodness treated as an angel at the end illogical and a false note. But, then, the whole film kept striking false notes for me.  I guess one problem is I've known so many gay people with kids and in my experience nothing unusual or conflicting goes on in their lives that doesn't go on in anyone's lives.  And none of their lives would make a movie, that's for sure. Adrift in the Heartland

Worst of the series I enjoyed the previous Resident Evil movies.  But, this movie seemed to be crafted entirely for the 3D experience, and not so much for advancing the plot.  There is plenty of action, but it's almost all in slow motion to show things coming at the screen.  I don't have a 3D television, so none of this impressed me, and I would have rather seen the action at full speed.  The movie has a terrible plot and dialog.  There are a lot of things that just make you want to yell, "B.S.".  When Alice is flying into LA and the city has fires all over the place with plumes of smoke everywhere...she notices that there are no signs of life, not even the undead.  Well, who started all the fires then?  Landing a plane on top of a building.  And why did they light so many torches in the prison?  Just how much light do they need?  When did Alice find out how to clone herself?  Where did she find the facilities to do it?  Who's the big guy with the monster Axe and where did he come from?  Shouldn't Umbrella be trying to figure out how to fix the problem or kill all the zombies?  After all, you can't live forever underground.  Sooner or later you'll run out of food and need a safe world to return to.  So many plotholes.  I found it hard to make it through this movie.

Exactly why I don't watch movies at the theater... This is quite simply the worst movie that I can at least remember watching.  I've sat through some boring ones which have all had for the most part either some interesting, personal or humorous points to them and I can safely say in my opinion this had none of those.  I'm no movie critic at all, don't get me wrong.  I'm not going to get in depth about how directors should or shouldn't have done their jobs better or this and that differently, I just know this was a bad movie and I'm leaving it pretty much at that.  I actually think this is my first movie review on amazon.  What I can say is there was no "personal" factor in this movie at all.  They did a poor job making the characters likable, and through the entire movie it was hard to feel sorry for anyone because of that.  I still can't figure out who the lead role was, it seemed for the most part to be equally spread out between the two "main" characters.  I am a huge sci fi fan when it comes to extra terrestrials, I am also a big universe and the cosmos lover as well.  I put 2 and 2 together thinking I'd like this and boy was I ever wrong.  It was like Alien meets arachnaphobia meets Blair witch project.  My wife and I literally were  offended when it was over that we wasted time that could have been well invested elsewhere on this one.  I don't recommend it at all.  Unless you borrowed it for free, but you'd still feel ripped off.  A prime example why I wait until movies are affordable enough from a rental standpoint and don't waste the 30.00 driving to the movies.  The only reason I gave this 2 stars is because I feel like 1 star is the equivalent to saying I hate you to someone.  That's just downright mean.  2 stars for the fact that someone can make a movie.  I know I can't.

Not Good This movie pretty much sucked like the rest of them...  I love how they've taken a great survival horror game and made corny glammy action chick movies out of it (sarcastically speaking of course)...  One thing that cracks me up is that it's a zombie apocalypse but everybody is well groomed and clean and all the girls have great perfectly brushed hair and make up looking all pretty and stuff... The resident evil movies could've been good but they ended up pretty much being a joke...

ugh this is just not my style at all...I had no connection to the characters and found them all unlikeable so the thought of them all exploding was not a bad idea at all....

Do Not Understand these 5 Star Reviews? What made this movie so...BAD?!!!    Brian Singer and his Idea that Brandon Routh should mimic Christopher Reeve's acting was a huge mistake. Now this is not me wishing it was Reeve playing Superman (or looking to far into things), Singer is the one who said himself that Brandon reminded him the most of Reeve and this is the main reason Routh was cast for the roll, as this movie was to be a sequel to the 1980 movie Superman 2. BIG MISTAKE!    The thing with Brandon that killed it for me was his lack of emotion and carisma as Superman (as Roger Ebert states from the Chicago Suntimes). Many say that it was the script and his lines which made him boring in the film, but even in the love scenes with Lois he was missing that connection and emotion for me.  With this said, Routh came off as a wanna-be, not nearly as good version of Chris Reeve, but it's not all his fault.  This was a huge mistake on Brian Singers part (Director) to cast an actor to play the roll of another actors interpretation of the Superman character. Basically Routh was acting to be Christopher Reeve, not Superman.  Spoiler ALERT!    Another huge problem for the movie is the fact that Superman leaves for 5 years, comes back to earth, only to find out that he has gotten Lois Pregnant before he left, and then ends up finding out he has a kid!  This goes against everything Superman stands for morally!!!    So basically, The son (Superman) becomes a father and the father becomes a dead beat dad who owes 5 years of back child support!    Another problem, Superman becomes a stalker!  When he finds out Lois has a boyfriend, he Fly's over to Lois house and uses his X-Ray vision to see through her house and spy on her! WTF!!!!  Creepy indeed!  The character of Superman would NEVER do such a thing, this is bad writing from 2 guys who did not understand the character.    Combine all this with lack of action, a bad story, and a wanna-be Chris Reeve, and what do you have... Superman Returns!    The new Man Of Steel movie is being made as I type this, to be released in 2013. It looks VERY promising, and from what has come out about the story, the leaked set pics, it's looking amazing!  This and the fact that the "BUFF" Henry Cavill has been cast as Superman, and he can act, is something to keep your eye on!    All in all, 2 stars for Superman Returns, and that's being generous!

Mirror Mirror When I purchased this movie if I had known the story line I would have never purchased this particular movie. The animated Disney version is 10 times better and if I could return it I would.

Not for everyone If you have any mobility issues, this is not a video workout for you. It is fast-paced and does quite a bit of standing exercises. The older woman in the video looks like she's in a lot of pain and discomfort throughout the entire program and the guy gets lost trying to follow the female instructor. So, if you've got joint pain, difficulty standing, or decreased range of motion, I would not recommend this video.

Stone me now. This film calls itself "epic" and "outrageous". Bad choice of words. I'd go with disappointing and eh. It's not horrible, it just doesn't come close to living up to the cast. Of course I'd guess this movie was made just before this group became who they did.  It would be a decent watch if you're a major Luke Wilson fan, or Alicia Witt. Jack Black is only in it for maybe 10-15 minutes. The ending was also anticlimactic despite what it said it would be. Still, a decent way to kill 96 minutes with a buzz on I guess.

TINKER TAILOR SOLDizzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ! I watched this movie knowing that the movie was based on a book by a well known author.  I thought this should be interesting. It didn't take long to realize that the movie was much like the book - dragging on and on, and on and on.  The grass grew three inches in the yard between the time I started watching and the time the credits started rolling. So, after getting a good nap, I got up for some action of my own - I mowed the lawn. Yawn!

Keep your dvd and sve yourself some change. First of all its not even widescreen and the sound is terrible as well as picture quality for blue ray. It looks washed out and the sound muffled. you will find a similar complaint to the first terminator..  Are they trying to lessen the old school action hero movies now?  All I know is I stopped this and popped in the dvd and enjoyed it more. that bothers me because I blindly went out and began upgrading my collection.  Its hit or miss with blue ray. My guess is later they will come out with another edition for you to buy thats enhanced with "features". also no special features on on this .   My surround sound and big screen tv plays the dvd version with flying colors compared to this ?  Hell I'd rather watch the vhs cbs fox video release of this its so insulting.

Traded this one in for a handful of magic beans I truly believe that DC beats the socks off Marvel when it comes to feature-length toons, and I also think Warner Bros. animation studio is probably the best in the West since Disney abandoned traditional animation for lame Pixar CGI.  Furthermore, I think that many of the DC animated super-hero flicks are just exceptionally entertaining, with true adult appeal as well as a high re-watchability factor, but The New Frontier definitely ain't one of `em.  Apparently intended to be a sort of super-hero nostalgia flick, The New Frontier struck me as more of a propaganda film, like something that might have been used to "convert" communists or social nonconformists during the cold war.  Featuring lots of violence within an optimistic 1950's milieu (atypical for DC animation) it just seemed distractingly over-stylized and the story over-simplistic in its attempt to convey the producers original intent of a "Silver-Age" DC comics feel.  The overall effect just felt way too contrived and furthermore the whole patriotic theme really didn't resonate with me in the way that, say for example, Marvel's recent live-action Captain America did.  As far as voice-acting, this one features a lot of stars and, as with so many of DC's films, is top-notch but unfortunately the dialogue is borrowing from a sort of Howard Hawks 1950's model and again for me it just wasn't very convincing or engaging.  I really hope that Warner Bros. animation continues to produce more DC films like Superman/Batman: Public Enemies and Green Lantern: First Flight and maybe stays away from the Silver-Age nostalgia stuff in the future.  Also, having watched probably most of the animated DC films that have been produced at the writing of this review, I can honestly say that they are typically exceptional and definitely worth watching and therefore please don't think that The New Frontier is representative because it's definitely not.  :o)

Meh I like to dance, but I'm not very good at it.  I'm a bit of a klutz.  I'm familiar enough with Bollywood style dance that I thought that this would be a good addition to my dance DVDs, and another fun dance/workout.  I wasn't thrilled with this DVD.  When it comes to Bollywood style dance, I'm a beginner.  I have a couple of Bollywood dance DVDs, and I figured that trying a Bollyrobics DVD would be excellent.  This dance workout is by no means for beginners.  Some familiarity with Bollywood style dance is definitely needed.  I tried to get through one of the three dances on this DVD.  I couldn't get through the step-by-step.  I have enough coordination that if someone walks me through a dance, I can do it, I can learn.  I learned and was able to do a fairly fast waltz for my wedding, so it's not like I have two left feet.  But this...this I just couldn't do.  I felt that the transitions were too quick.  Maybe I'm still very much a beginner, but I need the steps to a dance taught to me more than 2 or 3 times at half speed before going into full speed.  I also really didn't like the woman who is doing the dances on the DVD.  She didn't seem to be very enthused about the dances.  She's an excellent dancer, but she doesn't seem happy about it, at least during the step by step portions.  I sat down and watched the actual dances, and she half smiles a couple of times during them.  The fact that she doesn't speak the whole time is disconcerting.  She came across as very robotic, and against the digital backdrop, rather cartoony.  Like it wasn't a real person on the DVD.  The voice over was alright.  Not very informative and helpful, but pleasant sounding.  There are no extras on this DVD.  Most of the dance workout DVDs I own have at least a bonus performance by the dancer.  Absolutely nothing.  The only "perks" beyond what look like good dances is a choice of voice over languages.  So if you're brushing up on your German, Hindi, or whatever while you learn to dance, you're in luck with this one.  I did like the music on the DVD.  It did make me want to get up and learn to Bollywood dance.  The music, I think, is the one saving grace on this one for me.  At least I enjoyed something on this DVD.

Drags, Drags, Drags, did I say it drags? If you like scenes that take three times longer to play out than necessary, with lots of nothing, sitting, staring, haunted looks, confusing flashbacks and no explanation of anyone's behavior, this is the flick for you. It also helps if you are fascinated with red (no, not from bloodshed, just....red.)

GONE AND QUICKLY FORGOTTEN GONE is a by the numbers thriller that offers an interesting premise but unfortunately left me disappointed. No matter how cute Amanda Seyfried may be, I've never felt she had the maturity to carry a movie (MAMMA MIA, IN TIME, LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD), and of course she has most of the screen time in GONE.  The real problem is the script makes her do reckless and often stupid things that are pretty unbelievable.  A good supporting cast is basically wasted in roles that serve only as people for Seyfried to "bounce off of."  This includes Daniel Sunjata, DEXTER's Jennifer Carpenter, Wes Bentley, Nick Searcy, Joel David Moore and Michael Pare. The film also has no twist ending, concluding rather flat. A more imaginative script may have distinguished the movie but GONE is easily forgotten.

Cheesy Serial Killer Flick Not Helped by Cast of Stars Aw, C'mon.  A super-successful president of a manufacturing facility, and "Man of the Year" is a .... serial killer?  This dubious premise of the film strains credulity right off the bat.  Then the subsequent plot elements really don't help.  It has the look and feel of an extended cheesy CSI episode, with wealthy perpetrator, an attractive head detective on the case who looks like a model playing at detective and acting tough (Demi Moore), 3/4 of the police being women etc.  It just doesn't wash overall.  If you suspend credulity to accept the ridiculous premise, then I grant that Kevin Costner does a credible job as Mr. Brooks and William Hurt as his mental alter-ego, always egging him on to do more crimes.  Costner/Brooks keeps saying that killing is his "addiction", just like alcohol, for which he goes to AA meetings so that he can (unsuccessfully) keep it under control.  He does a "job" and a younger, slimy, geeky peeping Tom (Dane Cook) photos him doing it.  The peeping Tom then blackmails Mr. Brooks into bringing him along on his next job.  (Warning:  Spoiler Alerts Ahead)  The film is mildly entertaining, but is ruined by silly, unrealistic plot elements.  For example: Demi Moore's character is kidnapped by a muscle-bound escaped convict and somehow, though handcuffed, she escapes the getaway van by being flung out the door at 40 mph and smacking into the windshield of a parked car!  This would break multiple bones and cause massive internal injuries in any person, but the beautiful Ms. Moore just gets a superficial head gash and jumps back into action.  Then she's going through a divorce (because she has inherited $60M!!) and her ex is a ridiculous, primping, pretty-boy with a 21-something girlfriend lawyer, negotiating with Moore's own lawyer, a young black woman with no hair and huge earrings.  C'mon!  It seems purposefully unrealistic.  (Of course the smirking boy-toy husband is doomed because he's so unlikeable.)  The final super-ridiculous element is Mr. Brook's spoiled BMW-driving college freshman daughter, a skinny model-type herself, who, the plot would have you believe, has the serial killer "gene" and knocked someone off with a hatchet when at college at Stanford.  I'm just thinking, "Ridiculous!"  So I didn't like the set-up of the perpetrator as the serial killer, because he's unrealistically portrayed as a wealthy industrialist and community leader.  The movie didn't convince me on that.  But of course, the public doesn't want to see lonesome losers or black or latino gang members as the perps; the White Upper-class Successful Rich Perp is so much more interesting and PC at the same time! (see The Lincoln Lawyer).  And I didn't like the set-up of the detectives on the case because Moore's character is too unbelievably in the CSI mold (Pretty Woman Acting like a Tough Detective and out-machoing the men).  And I didn't like the plot element of the skinny, wealthy college daughter turned serial killer, because it likewise doesn't seem realistic.  And the characters involved in Moore's divorce seem be put there mainly to irritate and strain credulity even more.  (Full disclosure I don't watch CSI-type TV shows for the same reasons I mention here.)  As for the three Star actors in this movie, I'm wondering if they took the roles because their careers are fading and they have to settle for second-rate movies.  2 stars for cheesiness.

MELVILLE ROLLING OVER IN GRAVE This is an Asylum production, known for bad films. The technical aspects of the movie are about zero accurate except for the fact submarines go under water. You can not extend a periscope at 1700 feet beneath the water and see anything, let alone take a picture. You cannot poke a periscope through ice, nor can a submarine do a 90 degree up bubble without uncovering the reactor core and immediately going right back down the way they came. They don't then splash on the surface as the Seaview used to do. The list is endless of the gross technological impossibilities.  How did Ahab rise from an enlisted sonar technician to becoming the Captain of the Pequad? I think after losing his leg, he would of had a medical discharge. The movie stars Renee O'Connor (whale scientist) of Xena fame who wears a bikini top in the beginning, sporting her new set of love handles. She manages to do some decent acting amidst a sea of bad actors and stolen lines from the original "Moby Dick". Like Supercar, Moby Dick appears to be at home both on land, sea, and in the air. Ahab is obsessed with finding the white whale that took his leg while he was an enlisted man and goes rogue.  There are worse film out there, and most are produced by Asylum.

Don't Be Afraid of WHAT???? I am a fan of the horror genre.  Especially films dealing with the supernatural.  So I love the original versions of "The Haunting" and "The Innocents" both made before 1966.  I also love the George C. Scott film made in Seattle in the early 1980's titled "The Changeling".  So each time a new horror film comes out and the promos look inviting, I watch it.  Fortunately I watched this film over the last TWO nights on pay per view, that is the first hint,  and won't have to be concerned with unloading this film back on Amazon or to eBay.  Let me say at the outset that Guy Pearce's acting was the worst I've seen.  Not only did he look unwell, he lacked any attraction in the portrayal of his character which acting has made him so appealing in other films such as "L.A. Confidential" and "Ravenous" and "The Time Machine".  The girl chosen to play his daughter was excellent as was "Mrs. Tom Cruise" Katie Holmes.  In fact they were terrific.  The only problem there was the actor chosen to play the small girl looks remarkably like Katie Holmes and in this film Holmes portrays the girlfriend of Guy Pearce who is the actual father of this child; the biological mother is out of the picture.  Perhaps a different choice of child actor would have been better. The similarities between Holmes and the child actor are that remarkable. I also expected alot more from this renowned and intelligent director.  But he did not deliver.  While getting great acting out of Holmes, the child actor and the supporting csst, he could not make Pearce anything but someone I would avoid doing business with and someone I certainly could not feel emotional about either as a daughter or a girlfriend.  At times he was like a brat straight out of an 80's flick.  I must say the setting was pure Gothic and Art Nouveau straight out of William Morris world.  Deliciously beautiful.  Cudos to those designers.  The "creatures" were as revolting and therefore as successful as you could have wished a movie ghoul to be.  Cudos to whoever thought them up.  But the story stumbled along implausibly after the first scene, set some 70 to 100 years earlier than the story in chief, which was downright scarey.  The party and dinner table scene late in the film, the innumerable times the child was left alone when noone would do such a thing given suspicions about her "mental state", and the scene where both adults are sidelined late in the story so the "ghouls" can get to the child are examples of storywriting that I think needed more work.  All the money that went into making this film! Think of how much more difficult it is to raise money for films now.  Given this and all the great actors and directors out there and all the designers and F/X artists who can "blow your mind" today's films should eclipse older films every single time.  All this film made me do at the end was delete it from my collection and long for something that would really, really, make me hesitant to shut off the lights at bedtime.  So I watched "The Changeling" again and shivered and jumped at every sound and bump in the night.  "Don't Be....." should have made me do that.  It promised it would.  It did not really deliver.  But the horror of "The Changeling" was enough to wipe out the memory of this unsatisfactory experience completely.  Too bad.  Such a waste.

A non-deliver I'm giving this two stars because Gosling and Hoffman do their best to salvage a dismally directed political showcase.  The message is weak a cautionary fade to black story that makes you wait for the onion but it never comes. Clooney--once again--is representative of the unrecoverable down turn that is Hollywood today, in that he is a type cast with propaganda to convey, and zero ability on either side of the camera.

I Hope Their Estates Get A Share... Remember when WB released 2 MGM A&C's Lost In a Harem & In Hollywood 5 or 6 years ago? At the RRP of $14.95? For TWO movies??? Now we're being asked to cough up @ $25 for 1 film - on a DVD-R - with no extras (not even a menu page!!!!!) C'mon guys, we're a little too greedy, ain't we?

Isn't worth caring about, even for hardcore Stones completists Judge Victor Valdivia, DVD Verdict-- Don't be misled by the packaging: this is not a concert DVD. It's a longform music video in which the core of the Poor Boys band, mainly Wyman, Watts, Jones, and Wood, accompanied by singer Chris Rea and session musicians such as guitarist Andy Fairweather-Low, pretend to perform for a '50s audience in a small dance club as they lip-sync to songs from the album. There's a very loose storyline in which the club's owner holds a dance contest and ends up patronizing the club's janitor, played in a very brief cameo by Ringo Starr (thus making hash of the DVD's claim that this marks "a collaboration between members of the Beatles and The Rolling Stones"). There's elaborately choreographed dancing and bad acting, but no actual live performances.  Clocking in at a mere 30 minutes, this is as slight and forgettable visually as you might expect. By the standards of music videos of the era (this was released only four years after the launch of MTV), Willie and the Poor Boys is a nice supplement but it adds nothing to the album. At least a documentary about the recording of the album would have interesting, partly to hear these major artists talk about the music they grew up with and also to hear more about Lane and his battles with MS (he eventually died of the disease in 1997). Even a tribute concert might have been worth seeing, if only for a song or two. This, on the other hand, is just pointless. Maybe back in 1985, this would have been a decent extra but given that the album ultimately had a negligible commercial and artistic impact means that this is hardly worth an entire DVD release to itself. -Full review at dvdverdict.com

STINK LAND....... With a movie of this gener you have got to have at the very least strong acting and good makeup this film does not have one or the other the makeup is a joke and the acting is the punchline please do not waste your time or money, I turned this film off and threw it in the trash after 15 minutes however I did save the case as to get something for my money. The only reason I gave it 2 stars is there is actually even worse movies of this genre than this one. Don't bother.   SCOTT M

synchronism synchronism of pictures and audio is sometimes really bad!! so it is too expensive, in my opinion. and what about clapton? he's on the cover-photo but but not in the video.

Back to The Future for those who like crudeness So, they take the whole plot from Back to The Future and add, profanity, crudeness and other gross stuff, including poor acting and no one notices this? Even, Krispin Glover who played the father in Back to The Future is now  the bell boy. Skip it, even if free not worth the time  you will never get back.

Didnt keep my attention I have to give it to them, the action was good at the beginning of the movie. But they didn't keep me interested. I don't know if it was the story line or what. I started going to sleep before I got half way in the movie. I hate that because I thought this was going yo be a great movie. :-(

blu-ray features are bad :-( Biography of U.S. General George S. Patton, who, after beating German Marshal Rommel in North Africa, led his troops in an unstoppable throughout Europe. Unfortunately blu-ray features are bad, said to include subtitles in Spanish, not included, only brings audio in Spanish, so if you want to see the original version with subtitles in Spanish, sorry, will be disappointed.  best regards

Tedious treatment of the BIG questions For ninety minutes a middle-aged white American male, who doesn't tell us much about himself, interviews anyone who will agree to talk, from the kid next door to Richard Dawkins to Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.  They discuss the big questions:  Why are we here?  What does it mean to be human?  Is there a soul?  What happens when we die? What is the meaning of life?  Unfortunately each person gets to speak for less than two minutes, hardly enough time to explain life, the universe and everything (unless you're Douglas Adams and the answer is "42").  By about half way through its clear the film-maker isn't getting anywhere, he isn't narrowing things down, just continuing to roam the world questioning.  Not surprisingly, he concludes that  we need to keep on questioning and learning, otherwise we start dying.  I was just waiting for him to say "life is like a box of chocolates..."  Perhaps the most interesting idea he missed out on was the one that could have helped him most.  The Buddha called these kind of questions The Unanswerables.  He refused to address them because he believed there was no way to know.  Speculating about them would simply drive you to distraction (as this film ably demonstrates).  More important, he said, is to understand how you know.  If you understand this, you understand what is knowable, what is not, and how to live accordingly.  If you're just starting out on your own journey of questioning, this film might actually be a good place to start.  It shows quite clearly how little we understand.  The Buddha seems to have called it pretty well during the Iron Age.  Here we are 2500 years later going round and round on the same questions and getting no closer to a "real" answer.  #

Goodbye, General The concept of "Custer's Last Stand" was such an iconic phrase in America, similar to "Remember the Alamo," that the producers tried to build a story around it figuring the title alone would pull the kids into the theater.  This was one of only three serials produced by Stage & Screen Productions, before they went bust during the Depression.  If serials were measured by the size of the cast or their length, this would be a 10.  There are 62 actors, the first chapter lasts an amazing 40 minutes, and the rest of it seems to go on forever.  As you can probably guess, this serial has very little to do with General Custer.  He's the commandant of the fort and puts in an occasional appearance, while most of the action happens between the nearby settlers and the local Indians until the very end.  The thin story line involves a sacred arrow which will reveal the location of a cave full of gold, and who has the arrow--all to kill time until they can get to the battle to justify the title.  Needless to say, the arrow changes hands constantly.  And we never even get to see the cave it represents!  The acting is generally terrible--they look like they're rehearsing for a play in junior high school.  Apparently they never re-shot a scene in order to save time and film, so we have to watch while the actors seem to be trying to remember their lines, ad-libbing much of the time, and fluffing many of the lines they do remember.  It's painful to sit through the whole thing, so I confess I did a bit of fast-forwarding.  There are many story lines intersecting throughout the film, only a couple of which are fully developed, thus adding to the confusion.  Rex Lease (The Clutching Hand, Lone Ranger Rides Again, Daredevils of the West) is General Custer's chief scout, Kit Cardigan.  Three different women vie for his attention, none of whom had much success in serials or elsewhere in movies.  The cast is loaded with apparently genuine Native Americans, headed by Chief Thundercloud (Tonto in the Lone Ranger serials), as well as High Eagle, Howling Wolf, and Iron Eyes Cody.  Historical characters such as Buffalo Bill, Calamity Jane, and Wild Bill Hickock wander through occasionally, but they don't add much.  Well-known serial bad-guy George Chesebro is quite effective as a disgraced Army lieutenant who redeems himself bigtime in the final battle.  The battle itself is not bad, reinacted pretty much as people picture it from the famous painting.  You won't miss much if you just watch Chapters 1, 13, 14, and 15.

Made a disaster of the book If you watch this please do not read the book first. I was so ready to enjoy this movie, because the book was so good. Timothy Dalton as always was great, but why in the hell did they have to rearrange half the book when they made this movie, and they added a slew of stuff not even in the book, it blew the whole thing. The movie starts out ok but gets worse as is goes. As long as you have not and will never read the book, this is an ok movie...but wow are you missing out if you don't.

Unreal Was looking forward to seeing this with my wife and daughter. Went to sleep pretty quick. Unrealistic characters and story. All of the white people were one dimensional cartoon characters. Kind of reminds me of a not very good high school play. Growing up in the south, there were some people like this, but not the majority. Dont waste your time watching this.

Jackass 3D looks to be ANAGLYPH 3D! Beware folks...nowhere on the dvd cover do you see the "3D-Bluray" logo, but you do see a picture of colored-plastic anaglyph 3D glasses. Beware, this probably isn't a 3d-bluray disc meant for the modern 3d-bluray experience!

Musically Very Fine, Incongruous, Distracting Production Berlioz's Les Troyens is one of the greatest and most beautiful operas ever written.  Musically, it is very well served in this blu-ray from Valencia.  Valery Gergiev deserves plaudits for his marvelous conducting of this sprawling score. He has at his disposal a virtuoso orchestra, outstanding chorus and soloists and they serve him and Berlioz well. Pre-eminent is Italian mezzo Daniela Barcellona as Didon.  Her ample, lustruous voice fills the part in ways that reminds one of its previous big voiced great exponents such as Christa Ludwig and Jessye Norman.  One could think of more polished tenors as Aen&eacute;e than Lance Ryan, but he fits the part ably if shy of outstandingly.  Then there is the marvelous work by the Portuguese soprano Elisabete Matos as Cassandre, a strong dramatic voice I did not know until now; I hope to encounter it again.  In short, musically this is a splendid reading and were one watching with one's eyes closed, it would be a marvelous recording in vivid surround-sound.  I thoroughly admired the work that Carlus Padrissa and La Fura dels Baus did for Wagner's Ring also in Valencia.  Indeed, for me those performances constitute the most satisfying filmed Ring so far, musically and visually, and the production,even if unconventional, always illuminating text and music.  With Les Troyens, they totally missed the boat.  They set the opera in what perhaps can be considered mythical cyberspace.  Troy is dark, and the Trojans are dressed in what look like hockey uniforms (what is usually presented as dance, here becomes a boxing match with ropes and rounds cards).  When the opera shifts from tragic Troy to sunny, happy Carthage, what we are given is the claustrophobic insides of what looks like a cyclotron, and the costumes get even more nonsensical, incorporating computer screens.  All of this absurdity enlightens nothing, calls attention to itself, and fights some of the most beautiful music ever written for the operatic stage.  I felt like giving the disc only one star or none given how inimical to the work the staging feels.  I gave it two stars because the musical values are so strong.  I wound up repeating the second Carthage act from the Royal Hunt and Storm to the end just to hear the ecstatically beautiful music, this time with my eyes closed.  Yes, it is very well performed once you shut your eyes.  The worse aspect of the Valencia production is that for any lover of Les Troyens you sense a most disturbing tension: warfare between the mise-en-scene and the score it is supposed to serve. It's almost offensive in the disregard shown text and music.  So ... caveat emptor.  If you want a very well performed Troyens that does not visually offend, though with perhaps less of the musical, modern orchestra impact encountered here, I recommend the one from the Chatelet conducted by John Eliot Gardiner with a beautifully sung Didon: Susan Graham. The orchestra performs in period instruments.

Not recommended Seeking Justice is, at times, a suspenseful if also fairly implausible and poorly acted movie. Nicholas Cage is merely passable in the role of the man-in-too-deep character, Guy Pearce is flat as a smooth talking bad guy, and January Jones is tepid as the victim/wife. I never felt engaged in the characters and this made the hundred minutes or so seem longer despite some fairly quick pacing once the movie turned from suspense to action.  On the whole, the flat acting, a shortage of truly unique twists, inexplicable scenes (the Superdome....why??), and an unsatisfying end left me feeling disappointed in Seeking Justice. It's not an awful movie by any means, but it's not anything I'd care to see a second time. I'd not recommend buying it until after you've had a chance to see it for free on cable.

Artistic but pointless, absurd, and disconnected This movie has a non-linear storyline like Pulp Fiction, Amorres Perros, and Babel; but unlike Pulp Fiction, Amorres Perros, and Babel the stories in "Paris, Je T'Amime" no connections at all, which makes the film pointless and meaningless, and Pulp Fiction, Amorres Perros, and Babel the stories in those films have a lot connections between the stories, which give the films a purpose. But this film is total crap if you compare to Pulp Fiction, Amorres Perros, and Babel.

Seemed lk a hugh waste of time Scott if u wanted to do a remake of the Alien franchise please just do that next time..this movie was a boring,dull and lifeless failed attempt..ughhh highly dissappointed in this film

This is SO not New Yawk Every once in awhile I see a movie about some particular horrible circumstance and wonder...if I had actually experienced what happened on screen, would I enjoy the film? Do war movies seem as thrilling if you've been in a war?  Are movies about terrorism or a hostage crisis as entertaining if you've actually been a victim? Does a movie about a phone booth in New York City seem as authentic if you're familiar with New York City?  Phone Booth has one hook - the phone booth.  It's a one-act play with a camera singularly focused on its star.  If fifty percent of the film is the location, the other fifty percent is that actor.  Phone Booth manages to mess these both up in astounding ways.  The first problem is that Phone Booth takes place in New York City but wasn't filmed in New York City. This is immediately obvious to anyone familiar with New York City. It's not New York City - it doesn't feel like it New York City, it doesn't look like New York City, and there's a big honking LA bus in the background at one point.  We're supposed to focus on the fact that the phone booth is the remnant of a bygone era, about to disappear forever because it is too slow, too old, too calcified with the advent of mobile phones. Instead, all I could focus on was how this was so not New York City.  It's what people who don't live anywhere NYC think of it though, complete with hookers screaming at people. And that's who the movie is for - folks who don't actually live in the city.  It's also very much a pre-9/11 film.  For anyone who lives in NYC, the police response in Phone Booth is an insult to the officers who protect the city every day.  If Phone Booth fails on a purely geographic level, the rest of the film's burden is squarely on the shoulders of the lead.  It would make a lot of sense for that lead to be a New Yorker, but it's understandable that the director might cast a wider net.  You'd think though, that he'd at least try for an actor who is a U.S. citizen.  But no, we get Colin Farrell as Stu Shepard.  Farrell can't fake a New York accent to save his one-dimensional character's life. Worse, Shepard is a stereotype - he's what people think publicists are like.  So Shepard's a bed-hopping, money-grubbing, smooth-talking "operator" who makes connections, breaks hearts, and gets it done, baby.  He is a walking, talking archetype in a cardboard city backdrop.  That leaves our villain, the silky voice on the phone.  Kiefer Sutherland's purr is perfect for this part, although he seems a little too fond of cocking his rifle without ever un-cocking it. That's not enough to save the preposterous plot, which is a deconstruction of a slimy human being with the ever-present threat of violence. Sutherland's character creates a moral quandary by forcing Stu to choose between his mistress (blank cipher Katie Holmes) and his long-suffering wife Kelly (Radha Mitchell).  The only other relief comes in Forest Whitaker as Captain Ed Ramey, who shows some modicum of introspection and character development. Ramey stands head-and-shoulders above all the other characters because they're all so unlikable. The sniper doesn't even seem to have a motive - he's more the righteous voice of the audience's moral rage against "city people."  We're meant to sympathize with him as he strikes down pimps and publicists, but really this is about making the audience feel better about not living in a big city.  And that's who this movie is aimed at.  If you think that New York City is filled with pimps, prostitutes, and publicists, that snipers are lurking from every window, and that New York's Finest are incompetent boobs, this movie is a passable thriller.  For the rest of us?  It's a pale imitation of the real thing.

Subtitles?? There's no information on Amazon's instant view/digital page as to whether buying the digital version gets you the option to have subtitles.  The preview is dubbed, so I'll assume that buying the digital version means you're stuck with dubbed only and have no ability to use subtitles and Japanese dialog instead.  So no sale.  Amazon, please provide this metadata for digital content so your customers can make an informed purchase.  Both you and Netflix seem to hide this info as if it's irrelevant, but in reality it's the difference between a sale or no sale.  Netflix appears to be dubbed only, so why don't y'all offer the option for subtitles?  As it stands, I can't buy any anime digital content because there's either no metadata provided or it appears to be dubbed only.  Please fix this.  I know anime fans have been asking Netflix for years to provide subtitle options so I'm sure they've been asking you too.

Lost in Translation 2 Murray basically recycles his performance in "Lost in Translation"--the same dead expresson, mournful staring into space, catatonic portrayal of mid-life crisis that's out of proportion to the situation.  You wish he'd snap out of it, maybe get some Zoloft or something.  The film's premise is strained so I don't assume it's meant to be taken literally: if Murray's character really wanted to find out who the mother of his son was he'd just wait till the kid showed up and ask him.  And other details, like pink typewriters tossed out in the yard, aren't particularly realistic. On the other hand I wouldn't call it surreal or dream-like, either.  This is the second Jarmusch film I've ever seen (first was Down By Law), and though he has a reputation as an independent film maker, there's a lot of Hollywood and TV sensibility here in the character cliches that pile up: flaky pet psychics, repressed real estate agents, biker chicks, well-off software developers, Lolita-like girls.  Sometimes the jokes are so strained even the characters don't believe them (the "Don Johnston/Johnson" thing, the Lolita thing).  I liked the relaxed pacing of it all, though. And I liked the Ethiopian jazz of Mulatu Astatke as background music.  But it doesn't merit a second viewing.

Unoriginal character development. Wow, how original: A high school scenario with the following characters:  1)An attractive new kid who's misunderstood and harassed.  2)His new friend, the science geek.  3)The attractive female who becomes the love interest of the new kid.  4) The bullies who taunt and attack the new kid and his geeky friend. Oh, and get this - the  leader  of the bullies....his ex-girlfriend is the attractive female lead who's now going out with the sensitive and misunderstood new guy at school/main character. He's really angry about this.  And hey, there were all these cool and original scenes of the bullies harassing the new guy and his buddy at their lockers in the crowded hallways....wow, I've never seen that in a high school film!  Such an amazingly original set of characters.  Oh, and how many high schools have you seen where everyone looks like they're in their 20s and they're ALL amazingly good looking?  There were some interesting action scenes, a somewhat interesting sci-fi storyline, and - admittedly - some beautifully filmed scenes in this film. However, the worn out "high school film" formula made this a tiring watch. Too bad, it had some potential that was wasted on the cliches and predictable character development.

not the worst I watched Hellraiser Revelations with very little expectations, my curiosity stemmed from the replacement of Doug Bradley as pinhead. they could of done worse Pinhead was very well done and the other version of pinhead in the movie was a nice touch. The general acting was typical low budget horror movie acting. At 75 minutes it wont take up alot of time out of your life and if your a fan of the series any pinhead is better than no pinhead.

Eat Drink Man Woman DVD [ASIN:B00005JKG1 Eat Drink Man Woman] The DVD copy of this otherwise excellent movie was of very bad quality. The resolution of the picture was low so the picture looked out of focus. The picture colours were redish and the picture was also shaky in some places. Total lost of time and money.

Can't play it outside DVD zones PROs As a documentary, it is "fair" quality, and an interesting compilation. CONs It was not clear that it would only play in US-players. Taken to Europe, it would not play because of the zone difference. This was not obvious by the details prior to purchase.

My Fair Lady Blu-ray - Buyer Beware - wait for fix "My Fair Lady" is one of the greatest musical films ever produced. The Blu-ray looks good - but a defect in the transfer leaves the image a bit lighter at the far left and right edges of the screen - It looks like you're watching the film in a theater - and someone left the side theater doors open allwoing the lobby light to pour in vs. watching the film in a completely dark theater.  Wait for CBS/Paramount to correct the problem before ordering

Lots of chords and scales... not much jazz. I have been teaching guitar for 12 years and I'm always looking for new books for my students.  This week I went through Beginning Jazz Guitar by Jody Fisher... and the book is pretty awful.  In the 1st 3 Chapters you get multiple fingerings for 3 octave scales and tons of voicings and inversions for 7th, 9th, 11th and 13th chords(including some very challenging shapes)  What you don't get is music... Someone shouldn't be required or even encouraged to learn 6 different fingerings for a major scale before they learn a single simple melody.  Students also shouldn't have to learn every inversion of every 7th chord before they learn some simple progressions.  Do you really need to know multiple voicings for a Cm13 chord before you learn a Blues or Autumn Leaves? This book would be totally overwhelming for someone new to jazz guitar and I can not recommend it at all.  This book does eventually get to some more musical examples but by that point my students would be so frustrated trying to play difficult chords shapes that they would probably set this book on fire by page 60.

Go Watch the Orignial I actually the remake first and then the original. The remake show up on showtime. I know its was basic off a Brian De Palma movie. I hope it was good. The only reason I gave this two start because of Chloe Sevigny & Stephen Rea. I like both actors. This script was horror and the ending was even worse. It made no since. I some movies try to have a weird ending or open ended. This movie should be watch at it. Its not the worse movie I've seen. I recommend in this case stick with the original. I got the original on Netflix instant. If you must see this film use ur netflix or rent it from redbox.

Typical Gene Wilder Overacting. Between Gene Wilder's overacting (as usual) and Charles Grodin's grating self that he is, this movie keeps getting worse to me every time I see it.  Kelley LeBrocke is hot...but even she can't save this awful movie. Gilda Radner was about the only interesting person in this film. Sorry she had to go so early.

Just so-so as a movie. Unless you've been a flight attendant, I would not waste any time on watching this movie. It's pretty much a waste of time.

some great visual composition, but terrible problems with plot and tone The movie MouseHunt starts with a visual tour of an old string factory. The set design is delightful. The camera work is perfect. The choreography of the workers and machines is a pleasure to watch. It bodes well, and similar scenes later in the film are also excellent, as the camera follows our hero mouse as he navigates rube-goldbergesque paths through the old house in which he lives.  Unfortunately, everything else about the film is much worse. The story involves two hapless brothers, reduced to penury and near-homelessness, who discover that a decrepit house willed to them by their father is fantastically valuable. All they need to do is to make one $1200 mortgage payment. They decide also to kill a mouse living in the house.  As a result, we get 90 minutes of humiliation and mayhem, as they are stripped naked, dropped in icy ponds, hit by busses, and totally destroy the house. I found myself wincing over and over again. The guys were simply not hateful enough to make their suffering amusing. I just wanted it to end.  In the end, thanks to a deus ex machina, things turn out a little better for them, but by then the damage has been done.  Much of the movie might be amusing to a ten- or twelve-year-old, who would take it as a live action cartoon. However, the opening scenes prominently feature corpse abuse, and later development include discussions of kinky sex, and other things you may not want to share with your pre-teen.  Two stars rather than one because many of the visuals were excellent.

Don't bother! To paraphrase an old joke, "As far as video producers go, Carmine Appice is one of the best drummers I've ever seen."  From strictly a video production point of view, this DVD is one of the most amateurish that I've ever bought. I realize that having a new video switcher is great, but honest to God, you don't have to use EVERY SINGLE ONE of the transitions. Put it this way... if this video only had star wipes, it would look quite a bit better. The audio during the live band segments was a lot more "live" than necessary, leading one to believe that Carmine also recently acquired a new reverb toy. Very disappointing to have his name associated with this, since he's a killer drummer. Love ya, Carmine... but stay behind the tubs, and away from the switcher, okay?  From a continuity/consistency point of view, this DVD is also a "fail". Some songs have a segment that shows Elliot playing these great solos in the context of a live band, and then letting you play along with the live band while Elliot plays rhythm. But not all. So what's the point of some but not all?  Okay, enough rant about the production. Elliot Easton is a terrific player, and has crafted some of the most memorable solos of the 70's and 80's. Would that this video went more into depth on them. All we get is Elliot playing the solo up to speed, and slowed down just a bit. I do like that he shares some of his thought process with us on some of the solos, but not all.  Another thing that's very interesting is that, to me, Elliot shines best when he's scripted out his solos in advance- y'know, studied for the test, done the math in advance. Every once in a while during the jam tunes, a little bit of that Easton magic shines through... but for the most part, I can see this level of playing at the open mic sessions at the local pub.  Please don't interpret this as me trashing Elliot, because I have such high respect for him as a player- but it's very revealing to see him out of his standard element. It makes me realize that we all have strengths and weaknesses in our individual styles (except for maybe Vai, Satch, and Morse... but they aren't from our planet anyway).  So in short (ooops, too late for that) I'd say "pass" on this one. Anybody wanna buy a used DVD?

Terrible Movie Wow, this is why they fired this guy from Harry Potter.  He can't take a book with a ton of scenery and character development and make it into a movie.  I know it is a kids book, but the director bombed this one.  Too bad there will not be sequels because the books are great.

Well-acted, ponderous, nihilist porn Well-acted, ponderous, nihilist porn, the dual point of which is that (a) you should live your life amorally, however you want, since existence is inexorably pointless, or (b) you should give up and die, since existence is inexorably pointless. Paradoxically, therefore, so is this movie.

YAWN!!! I don't know what I was expecting from "Burlesque", but it disappointed me on nearly every level. It's basically just a vehicle for Christina Aguilera. Let's go through the threadbare plot first...small town waitress Aguilera dreams of being on stage. She quits the day job and goes to LA...stumbling across a Burlesque club run by Cher, she wangles herself a waitress job, then eventually wangles her way onto the stage as a dancer and then - yes! - her big break suddenly comes when she unexpectedly bursts into live song and the audience is blown away. Well, the fictious audience in the film is, anyway. The real audience watching this movie will have seen that coming while they were outside buying tickets to get in.  It's not a badly made film, it's just so awfully lame. Christina can act passably, but she suggests no depth whatsoever: she just reads the lines and leaves it at that. Cher is much more interesting (as I expected), although with her botoxed face, the acting skills that previously shone in films like "Mask" have all but vanished - at one point she comforts a character with a hug, and then "poignantly" grimaces behind his back - but she can't even move her face enough do it! The bald guy with glasses who played the sharp-tongued gay stylist in "The Devil Wears Prada" turns up playing an exact same character here...how lazy. And the sub-plot involving the former star of the show who is upstaged by Aguilera is as weak as dishwater. Her one big act of sabotage is to switch off the pre-recorded vocals that the girls are miming to right in the middle of Aguilera's turn. Oh but - what a surprise - Christina chucks the mike away and belts out the vocals herself and saves the show. Where's the tension in rivalry when we all saw that one coming a mile off? Even "Showgirls" had more convincing back-stabbing than this.  Further things that fall flat are the songs that punctuate the running time. Apart from plenty of the show numbers, we get Christina belting (she belts most things) out a number alone in her diner with a mop, then a bit later on we get Cher ostensibly rehearsing a song, which is an "I Will Survive" style torch song about being strong and not giving up, played just after her character has come to the edge of despair over huge debts. I mean, give us some credit here - we do get it! Plus there's no way the song she sings would ever be featured in the show - what burlesque audience would pay to see an song like that? Having her rehearse a happy song but showing her sorrow in an undercurrent would have been far more rivetting. Same goes for Christina later on, when the character finds true love (oh you knew that, didn't you?), the scene is immediately followed by her singing a sultry slow song about true love... wearing an evening gown! Again rather odd because the club earns it's money by the performers singing raunchy songs while dressed like strippers. Again, it's sledgehammer symbolism that insults the viewers intelligence.  The only high points of the film are Cher, who steals the show (shame about the wax facial expression), and if you're a Christina fan, she does her thing as well as in any of her music videos - which is all this is really. A lot like the video to "Lady Marmalade", but without all the other girls. But apart from that it's dull, dull, DULL. I watched it on a plane, and it was about my 3rd choice. I think thats the best I can say about it.

Not  "completely digitally" restored... Everything was great about this box set except that starting in season 2 many episodes are not digitally remastered like the packaging claims. Some of them are like watching old worn out video tapes. They should all be restored with the technology of today. I was disappointed since this is a complete box set and it's an all time classic from the atomic era. Also it is expensive so I assumed it would all be restored and cleaned up so beware. Nobody else has mentioned this in their reviews so maybe I got a bootleg or a bad version. Who knows but I was disappointed. It doesn't have subtitles so that was a surprise.

Focuses More on Chord Technique Than How To Finger Pick Barely any emphasis on right hand string picking. This video focuses more on chord techniques than how to finger pick.  I see that this DVD received many good reviews, so I picked up a copy. I am an experienced acoustic guitar player. I am great with my left hand on the neck with chords. But I never learned how to finger-pick the strings with my right hand. I only know how to strum or pluck the strings with a pick, and I do that pretty well. So I picked up this DVD with all the great reviews, to finally figure out how in the heck to pluck the strings correctly with my fingers. If you don't know how, or have absolutely no idea how to finger-pick, like me, this DVD will be disappointing.  The video begins with him introducing several acoustic songs and discussing the history of finger-picking songs. He spends a long time instructing on your left hand chord positioning on the neck. We begin hitting the strings with the right hand or finger just to get through the songs. But the focus is mainly on chord positing on the neck, not how to pick the strings.  When he finally gets to showing the picking technique, he starts you plucking with one finger, then two. Then, in less than a minute, he assumes  you have the full technique with your thumb, index and middle finger. And immediately changes the subject back to chords and songs. The rest of the video assumes that you know the picking technique, and he moves on to more difficult songs. And that's the rest of the video. Never really concentrates on how to pick the strings. I am left as uneducated and unlearned on how to finger-pick as I was before I bought the video.  I am serious. If anyone wants to add their comments to this, go ahead. But I stand by my review, and this video is for people who already know how to finger-pick, or have the basic hang of it. Finger-picking is not easy, it is a hard thing to do. It's lIke typing. If you don't learn how, you will probably type with single fingers instead of all ten. You can't spend one minute on that, and 59 minutes learning about the typewriter.

Funny Movie The premise: Dragons were dinosaurs ergo dinosaurs walked alongside homosapiens. Ha ha.  This is one of those special classifications of movie that Right Wing Conservatives are always accusing Liberals of making. It has one perspective only and harps on to the point of hilarity. Beside that issue, the movie is actually quite funny. It's like they have all these well-educated, supposedly smart people, saying all these really stupid things that are easily disproved.  Having actually read books on the mythology of dragons in Britain for example, I can tell you that the word dragon is a synonym for 'worm'. That's right, earthworms are actually dragons. But they don't look like dinosaurs do they? Hmmm. Medusa is well documented yet I really can't bring myself to believe that there was ever a lady with snakes for hair. But, if you are to proscribe to this movie's point of view, you simply have to incorporate any and all such myths into your view of the world.  At one point, they highlight what looks to me very much like a razorback pig, and then claim it's an 'anatomically correct' Stegosaurus, Then they point out carvings of fantasy creatures (yeah, there's as many as 80 instances of these things around the world, compared with countless millions of images of horses, cows, etc.) in churches, etc. I mean, that makes it real, right?  What is more, mythology is chock full of creatures, animals, and beasts of all sizes, large, small, feasible, and completely ridiculous. And I mean chock full to brimming. So, to echo one commentator, why is 'history' so full of these stories? Well... touch&eacute; my religious friend.  My final question, fellow reviewer, is, where are these creatures today? What happened? Obviously, there was no cataclysmic annihilation event or we wouldn't be here. So, why aren't they walking through the woods out back right now?  You can watch this movie if you like, whether you're a Young Earther or not, but I would urge that you don't lest you are made a fool of such poppy-cock. But don't listen to little old me, be foolish all you want. Just try not to laugh too hard.  *** Update *** Having gone back and read the research concerning 'soft tissue found in dinosaur bones': It was widely reported in July, 2008, "[...authors of original report...] contend that what was really inside the T. Rex bone was slimy biofilm created by bacteria that coated the voids once occupied by blood vessels and cells". Busted!

HOLY HOT MESS OF A MOVIE For SyFy, this isn't worse than anyother tripe they put out. It's got Ving Rhames and Lesley-Ann Brandt is pretty kickass. With one exception, the cast is actually pretty good. Which leads us to-Taryn Manning. She has to be the WORST actress in the history of zombie films. She can't act her way out of a paperbag. Her character, Romona was also the most useless character I have ever seen in a movie. She gives "too stupid to live" a whole new meaning. Her friend is being murdered, what does she do? RUN AWAY and yell at everyone else because they didn't save him! The special effects are sub-par, but I kind of expected that. There were a few major errors that would have been cheap and made things look more realistic, but they producers were obviously too lazy to figure out. For instance Henry kills a zombie with a chainsaw, then right after he stands there holding the chainsaw and you can clearly see THERE IS NO CHAIN on it! How hard would have been to use a fake prop chain or put a chain on after the "kill". The film moves along find until the end and SPOILER alert: there are not one but TWO freaky, fake as f@!& looking zombie tigers at the dock. It was like they didn't know how to end the movie, so they just started throwing crap out there to see what would stick.

Disappointment This trip down memory lane did not work for me.  What was funny when I was a child, now pretty much not at all.  Fodder for Goodwill.

Disappointed I just got a new 3D TV and blue ray player. I thought this would work on my new tv and player, but it didn't...it was all blurry. It is such a great movie, we just had to watch the regular version. I was disappointed that nowhere did the description say that it would not be compatable with a 3D TV or blue ray player. Presented in 3D is misleading. Still enjoyed the movie itself though.

Failed attempt at comedy western If you didn't already get it from the title - "The Good Guys and the Bad Guys" - this is a tongue-in-cheek western from Burt Kennedy. It stars Robert Mitchum and George Kennedy as aging rivals from opposite sides of the legal fence, who must join forces and confront their own decline in the face of a changing west.  Robert Mitchum (1917-97) received his only Oscar nomination for his role in "The Story of GI Joe", but movie fans know that Mitchum was a terrific actor who deserved far more acknowledgement, but his "bad boy" persona undoubtedly interfered. Mitchum is probably best known for his performances as Philip Marlowe, and his work in films like "The Night of the Hunter" (1955) and "Cape Fear" (1962). He is ranked by AFI as among the top 100 villains of all time. I liked him best as the drunken sheriff in "El Dorado" (1966). Mitchum plays a retired sheriff.  George Kennedy (1925) is best remembered for his role as the convict who beats up Paul Newman in "Cool Hand Luke" (1967) for which he won the Oscar. He could play a good guy (e.g., Major Armbuster in "Dirty Dozen", Chris in "Guns of the Magnificent Seven", Patton in "Brass Target") and a villain (e.g., Red in "Thunbderbolt and Lightfoot", Ben Bowman in "The Eiger Sanction") and was also adept at comedy (e.g., "Airport 1975", "The Naked Gun"). Kennedy plays an outlaw, and Mitchum's nemesis. Kennedy had gone straight, gotten married, and had a child, but when his wife died, he returned to his evil ways (Obviously Clint Eastwood was inspired this film).  Martin Balsam (1919-96) plays the town's mayor, and is clearly the inspiration for Mel Brooks' role in "Blazing Saddles". Balsam won the Oscar for "A Thousand Clowns" (1965), had two BAFTA nominations ("All the President's Men", "The Taking of Pelham 123"), and an Emmy nomination ("Raid on Entebbe"). He gave good dependable performances in more than 100 films.  John Davis Chandler (1935-2010) plays a gunslinger. Chandler specialized in playing villains in nearly 100 films, often westerns such as "Ride the High Country" (1962), "Major Dundee" (1965), and "The Outlaw Josey Wales" (1976)  David Carradine (1936-2009)  is best known as Kwai Chang Caine from the TV series "Kung Fu" and from the "Kill Bill" films. He appeared in more than 100 films and was nominated for a Golden Globe 4 times and for an Emmy once. Carradine plays the leader of the outlaw gang, who ousted Kennedy because he is too old.  David's father, John Carradine (1906-88 ) plays a conductor on the train that is at the climax of the film. He was a part of John Ford's Stock Company and gave memorable performances in "Prisoner of Shark Island" (1936), "Stagecoach" (1939) and "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940). He's best known to us today for his continuing role as Serenity Johnson in son David's TV series "Kung Fu" (1972-1975).  Douglas Fowley (1911-98) makes another memorable appearance, this time as a hermit and long time friend of Mitchum. Fowley appeared in more than 200 films and is probably best known for his role as Roscoe Dexter in "Singing in the Rain" (1952). Fowley had a mini-career on TV with a full beard and his best "Gabby" Hayes imitation, and that's how he looks in this film. He's so good you won't recognize him.  Burt Kennedy (1922-2001) directed nearly 50 films, many of them westerns, including "The Rounders" (1965), "Return of the Seven" (1966), "The War Wagon" (1967), and "Support Your Local Sheriff" (1969). Most of his westerns had strong comedic elements. By the 1970s he was working primarily in TV, again making TV westerns. He got his break as a writer from John Wayne and worked with Budd Boetticher and Randolph Scott on their westerns.  Roger Ebert called it "a fairly good western" but noted "the movie never seems quite sure whether it's serious or not." Regarding the star, Ebert said "Mitchum eventually has to carry the picture, as he has carried so many before, and his scenes work even when they shouldn't." The NY Times was not so kind - "there's nothing even mildly compelling about this anemic, fumbling and altogether aimless little exercise that soundly squanders some fetching color scenery and a trio of professionals like Robert Mitchum and two Oscar-winners, George Kennedy and Martin Balsam."  In 1969 "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" was the big box office king, followed by "The Shoot Horses Don't They?", "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", "Midnight Cowboy", and "Easy Rider". "True Grit" and "The Wild Bunch" rounded off the top 10. So it was a great year for westerns. The big Oscar winner was "Midnight Cowboy" (Picture, Director) and John Wayne won his only Oscar for "True Grit". Other notable films that year were "Hello Dolly", "Once Upon a Time in the West", "Putney Swope" and "Z".  There have been more than 100 "comedy westerns". Here's a list of some of the best: Mel Brooks' hilarious "Blazing Saddles" (1974), Lee Marvin's Oscar winning "Cat Ballou" (1965), Billy Crystal in "City Slickers" (1991), Bob Hope's "Son of Paleface" (1952), Jimmy Stewart's "Destry Rides Again" (1939), Gene Wilder as "The Frisco Kid" (1979), the Marx Brothers' "Go West" (1940), W.C. Fields and Mae West in "My Little Chickadee" (1940), Don Knotts as "The Shakiest Gun in the West" (1968), Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood in "Paint Your Wagon" (1969), and James Garner's "Support Your Local Sheriff" (1969).  Against these classics, "The good guys..." doesn't stack up that well. At its core, it simply isn't that funny and as an action western it fails too.

I didn't go in with high expectations... and I was still disappointed. This review contains SPOILERS.  You have been warned :)  After seeing the trailer, I thought I might be able to enjoy the movie, despite the fact that Kristen Stewart was playing Snow White. So I went into it thinking, I'll just focus on the story and Chris Hemsworth (whom I greatly enjoyed in Thor and The Avengers).  The story started off oddly, first with the queen thinking she wanted a daughter with skin white as snow and lips red as blood and hair dark as a raven's feathers and then she suddenly had a daughter that would grow up to be that way.  Was she some sort of witch, casting a spell to cause her daughter to be that way? Did a fairy overhear and use magic to make that happen? It just seemed odd to me, especially as the queen plays no real role in the story and Snow White's description could been told to the audience in another way.  I also thought that deus ex machina was envoked once or twice, especially in Snow White's convenient discovery of the nail... I suppose one could argue that her previous actions (from years earlier) were allowing her to find the nail as it was the fairies that live in the bodies of the birds that led her to it... however, what would be wrong with revealing that she has had the nail for years and was just waiting for someone to actually enter her cell in order to use it to make her escape? *shrug*  Snow White's ability to stop a troll's rampage simply been standing in front of it seemed very contrived to me. Now, if this had happened after the fairy-elk-god thing had blessed her, yeah, that might have worked.  Not only would that have explained the troll walking away, but it also would have given the fairy-elk-god-blessing scene a reason for existing.  Maybe I'm just obtuse, but having seen this film only once in theaters I couldn't figure out a time in the movie when the fairy-elk-god's blessing affected anything. Maybe that is why the poison apple does not kill her, but none of that is alluded to in the film, so I am just hypothesizing.  The poison apple was also another point of contention with me.  Not once was it mentioned that Snow White did not in fact die from the apple.  Maybe it was assumed that those in the audience have all seen Disney's Snow White before (which I have, but it has been a long time, so I don't remember the particulars), and thus know this part of the story.  Anyways, I find it amusing that the Huntsman does find a rather convincing way of kissing Snow White (though I don't understand the desire to kiss a dead body's lips, but that's a whole other topic) without having any knowledge that true love's kiss breaks the spell. However, afterward the entire incident is not explained.  Instead Snow White walks out and starts muttering about iron and swords and then incites the crowd into fighting.  All that aside, I did like the way the evil queen deceived the king and the way that Snow White's childhood friend manages to join the riders of the evil queen.  Overall, I did not like it.  Also, what was with the evil queen standing in the fire?  Her clothes and hair did not appear to burn and yet her skin blistered.  I don't claim to know much about burning people, but I'm pretty sure clothes and hair go first. IMO, there was no need to add that to the film when it had nothing to do with the story line or character development.

Great movie! This 'Blu-Ray Essentials' re-release is not. Be warned...contrary to the text in the graphic of the packaging above, this is NOT a re-issue of the 30th Anniversary Ultimate Edition. It only has 1 disc (not the 3 in the 30th Anniversary Edition). The disc is actually labled 'Disc 1' and it looks like they simply inlcluded Disk 1 of the previous versions.  The disc does contain all three versions of the movie (Orginal, Directors and Extended cut) and you can watch it an option where it will display text to tell you the differences in each version, but that's it. None of the other special features, extras and documentaries are included from previous versions. Hopefully, Amazon will update the image/packaging photo. Reading the cuatomer reviews was not helpful either as they all referred to prior 'Ultimate/Anniversary' and other previous editions, as no one had yet reviewed this new 'Blu Ray Eseentials' re-release (a version which is oddly not available at the other major retailers like Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, etc.)  There are no formal reviews of this 're-issue' out yet and the few sites where I did find any information, they were all completely wrong as it had the same incorrect packaging/slipcase image and said it included all the special features from the previous versions.  If you don't already own a previous Blu-Ray version and all you want are the three versions of the movie on one Blu-Ray disc, then this version maybe for you, but you can spend $5.00 less (at of 3/11/11) and get the 3-Disk 30th Anniversary Ultimate Edition, with all the Special Features included. I sent this one back and I will be buying the Ultimate Edition and save 5 bucks.  This is one of my favorite movies of all time and watching it now still sends chills up my spine, just like it did when I saw it orignally in the movie theater when I was 10 years old. You need this movie in your collection, regardless, but do not buy this overpriced bare-bones edition.

It has moments of potential The british actors aren't strong enough to carry the movie, and neither is the kiddie alien.  The story follows a completely unoriginal track, and the jokes feel stolen from other movies.  This could've been fun, but instead it was dull & boring.

Not much more than what the Bible offers. I don't know what I expected from this video, but it doesn't offer much more than the Bible narrative of the apostles.  People explaining just what the four gospels explain.  It's a discussion of what the Bible says, but you can read the gospels and learn the same thing.  It shows paintings while the narrators do their explaining.  There are no live actors.  I don't know who the producers were aiming at when they produced it, but I was more than a little disappointed.  And quite honestly, I became bored.  SD

Its ok Love SciFi But this one was a let down. i am not sure where it was going. Love Michelle in this one. But she couldn't save this one. I know that it feels almost like the one with Bruce Willis in it.

ONLY IF YOUR A BIG FAN Ok first the good stuff great sound good 3d and if your a Tron fan you will probably enjoy it.For the rest of us the movie is dark all the way through there is  no in your face 3d to speak of story line will put you to sleep wait for 2hours and then your treated to one good scene I wont tell you and ruin it I would recomend it only if your a big fan.

Great DVD, poor quality equipment I bought "Cardio Hoop" yesterday, along with the Ultra Hoop to add to my routine. Being that this was my first Hoop experience, I was looking for something very basic and easy to follow; I found "Cardio Hoop" to be just the thing. I liked that Kamala Mathis explained each move before starting or moving to the next, and that each step was repeated enough times to get the hang of it without having to pause, practice, rewind. I just wish I were equally satisfied with the Ultra Hoop. I initially loved this product because it's large and weighted, so I really had to work the core and lower body to get the thing moving. Having said that however, the hoop kept falling apart during the workout and eventually broke just as I was starting to feel the burn. I'm returning the Ultra Hoop, but keeping the "Cardio Hoop" DVD with hopes of finding a better quality hoop.

Boring. Don't Mock Me When You Say This Is a Great Picture. I Know You are Just a Sheep. Viewed: 1/11 Rate: 3  1/11: I yawned one too many times during my viewing of A Man for All Seasons. All I could think of is, "Who cares?" Indeed so! This stuff happened 500 years ago, and nobody cares what happened that time. Seriously, this picture bears no relevance to me; it's like, "Oh gosh...this is a serious picture about a conflict among the nobility of England during 16th Century." But excuse me...I am an American living in 21st Century. Who the hell cares? Anyway, wow...what an overrated performance by Paul Scofield. But that's okay...too much drugs were consumed during the 60's. Actually, I decided to see A Man for All Seasons for Robert Shaw, a very underrated actor, and as usual, he steals the show whenever he appears. Basically, the plot is that a noble refused to consent to a divorce for the King and was summarily executed for it. And that's all about the film. I couldn't believe my eyes that I wasted two hours to watch all of that. I knew it was going to be a disappointment the moment I found out the name of the director for the film, and it's nobody but Fred Zinnemann. He has always been a vastly overrated director, and he is awesome in bringing the mediocrity out of a film in the best way possible. In A Man for All Seasons, he did exactly that just like how he did with High Noon, From Here to Eternity, and The Men. All in all, give me a break.

expected No one else gave it 2 stars so I thought I'd be the first. The movie could have been better.

Not that great Most of the reviews were pretty good on this. My daughter is 3.5 years old and I felt this was way too young for her. I feel she is pretty intelligent, but all the reviews said they had kids about this age and the cartoon/story line is ridiculous. My daughter watched it for about 5 minutes and was bored out of her mind. If you're looking for a fun Halloween movie for your kids, this is not the one. No matter what age in my opinion.

fluff I had the time and figured it couldn't be as bad as everyone said. I was wrong. Dark Shadowns could have been a comedy if it had been funny, I'm not sure what they were aiming for but they missed the mark.  We all know Johnny Depp loves his make up but this was so over the top, the only thing it had in common with the TV version of Dark Shadows was the name of the caracters. Very disappointing.

Faster rant 3.5/10 Here's a random review of Faster released in 2010 it's hard to f  v  *  k up a revenge movie but this movie & M a s  ht it  t  y  but those movies did it.  George Tillman he directed Soul Food & Men Of Honor good movies but he wasn't right for this movie.  Stars The Rock as Driver, Nilly Bob Thorton as Cop, Oliver Jackson Cohen as Killer, Moon Bloodgood  as Marina & Maggie Grace as Lily. Story is this guy Driver has gotten out of prison he's going after the people that killed his brother. He goes into an office & kills this telemarketer. He goes & kills this guy who makes snuff films. Cop who was in on it hires a hit man named Killer you don't buy this guy for second he looks like he belongs in a chick flick. After he kills the snuff director he has a shoot out with Killer that reminds me of Kill Switch. Killer isn't doing this you know to help secure him & his girlfriends future he does as a hobby for 1 Godd  a  mn  dollar. Were introduced to Cops ex wife Marina & we have some over dramatic garbage about taking their son to his baseball game she threatens custody. Killer goes & marries Lily & he promises he will quit being a hit man. But he has to finish job Driver has an ex girlfriend it's over dramatic BS between them. Driver finds the guy who killed his brother you have a lame fight in the bathroom that reminds me of SF Legend Of Chun Li. Driver stabs this guy like 2 times he goes down. He asks Driver please tell my son I love him & I'm sorry. Driver calls that guys son & says something bad happened to your dad. WHAT NOOOOOO! I would've had him do this instead " No my job was to send you to he  'll  & I'm putting you there." Here's a great piece of dialogue Cop is talking about what happened to the guy Driver stabbed Cop says it's a hunch he has his partner says "Yeah so did Quasimoto hsve a hunch & look where that got him. These 2 didn't have a good interaction. Driver still has the cell phone that guys son called & tells him he will come after The Rock has an ok line he says "You do what you need to do. But you better be sure cause it's a long dark road. It turns out that guy is still alive Driver goes to the hospital finishes the job. Lame shoot out between Cop & Driver. You have a bad car chase with Driver & Killer. Driver has a clear shot for Killers head but starts shooting out his tires which allows Killer to shoot him in the neck & apparently it can be stiched right up. Driver is listening to a church station on the radio & 1 guy that was there when his brother was killed was this traveling preacher he asks for forgiveness & for whatever reason I buy it. Driver spares him. Killer confronts Driver & he says why don't you take me serious. Cause you belong in a chick flick. Cop says he was in it all along shoots Driver in the back of the head & pays Killer 1 dollar. Driver has a metal plate in his head so he got up & he kills cop & Driver goes off into the sunset. I thought this was a bad movie & it has the same problem that a lot of action  movies suffer from today they try & make them a "smart movie"  & they forget about the main reason you're watching THE ACTION! It's so pretentious it's not funny. George Tillman is a good director. They should've got an action director like Richard Donner, Renny Harlin or Mark L Lester. The Rock really doesn't do much. Billy Bob Thorton is there but he has nothing to do. Moon Bloodgood was awful. Oliver Jackson Cohenwill kill your love for action movies. Maggie Grace does nothing she did more in Taken. I'm glad this movie bombed. So I'll do more random reviews next.

Sodomy, Torture, Rape, and Animal Decapitation Geeze.  This review is based solely on the movie.  I did not see the apparent prior version or read the books, but I did not expect this.  Sex -- no problem.  But, explicit sodomy/rape, forced oral sex, torture, animal decapitation, photos of murdered and tortured women and lesbian sex -- I could have done without.  The screams in the sodomy/rape scene were heart-breaking and sickening -- certainly not "entertainment" by the wildest stretch of the word.  I personally do not understand why there were so many positive reviews on this film.  My son and I both enjoy Daniel Craig as an actor, and thought the promo looked good. I was surprised he accepted this role.  The movie was 2 hours long or more.  The first 3/4 was very slow.  The last 1/4 was fast-moving and interesting, and saved the film from death.  The movie begins with a winter scene in Sweden.  Mikhail (Daniel Craig) loses his savings in a court battle over "inaccurate reporting" as a magazine journalist.  He reported a story without being able to prove it.  Meanwhile, a separate side story gets our attention about an unconventional young girl trying to survive.  She is living off a trust fund and is an exceptional part-time independent investigator. Watching the two stories side-by-side for some time, you wonder how they will eventually come together.  Although Rooney Mara gives an outstanding performance as Lisbeth Salander, the troubled young girl, in my opinion, her abilities are wasted in the violent storyline of this movie.  Veteran actor Christopher Plummer requests Craig come to his mansion on the Island in or around Hedestad, where he offers Craig a nice sum to write his memoirs.  (According to the internet, Hedestad is a ficticious place, but if you happen to be traveling to Stockholm, the Stockholm City Museum is currently offering a guided tour that visits real locations that the book mentions.) What Plummer is really asking is for Craig to investigate the murder of 16-year old family-member Harriet, killed many years ago.  Her body was never found.  The Island is all owned by members of the same family, many of which who do not speak to each other.  Craig moves into the guest house on the property and begins to investigate.  With the price of movies today, don't waste your money on this flick.  I see that some folks think it was brilliant.  Needless to say, I did not like the overall movie and I offer you my humble opinion as well, and why, so that you can make an educated choice of whether or not you want to see it.  If they had left out the behaviors mentioned above, I would have still only rated it an overall 3 because it was interesting but much of it was very slow.  No, I will not watch it again and I will not buy the video.  I hope you do not take your young children with you if you choose to go to see this movie.

Strange! This movie has beautiful backgrounds. You can tell that a lot of love went into the coloring and design of most of the scenes. However, the character designs were, for the most part, awful. Very basic, not much to look at. The story could be "ok", if it didn't drag in certain places. For example, when the mother chicken is on the ground shaking with fear, and she's being accused of stealing. That scene was just too long. The cop should have picked her up, and taken her off to jail. Instead, several seconds pass while she's "ahhh" on the ground, while rabbits and chickens are saying "you did it"! And "did you do it?" In other words, the pacing is awful. Also, the movie moved from an old fashioned (looking/talking) town, and then the youngsters began acting like rapers? They sing a weird rap style song, and this didn't fit into place with the rest of the film's feel/flavor. The movie also began to get a little creepy by the end. It almost becomes a G-rated horror film...I can't fully explain it. Too strange in the swamp scene. I assume that this swamp scene is the one that all the parents are refering to (not appropriate for kids). Other wise, if not, then I don't know what they're talking about. As for the romance between the two rabbits, who cares? The songs are awful, and the lady bunny wore too much blue eye-shadow...if that was suppose to be eye-shadow? For those who just love to watch really bad or strange movies, then this movie still might be too much for you to appreciate. I often love movies which everyone else hates. However, in this case, I vote with the majority of "yuke".

Damnation Alley We have just purchased Damnation Alley.  We were not happy with this release.  We have the recording on a dvd from tv from 15 years back and this new version has left out several scenes in the first 30 mins. It didn't show George Peppard talking to the General about sending a representatives to Albany and when the one man that caused the fire traded playboy mags for whiskey.

The Heist wasn't about the Tower One of those movies I'm glad I didn't pay full freight to see at the theater but disappointed I didn't wait until it was free.

Not a fan I like the cast of this film and thought I would love the movie.  4 of us were watching this and about 20 minutes in someone spoke up and we all agreed that it was terrible and turned it off.

Precursor to Sopranos Had it been made in 1953 or 1963 "Honor Thy Father" might be considered a great gangster film. But instead it was made in 1973, post "Godfather" (1972), and as such it is more of an embarrassment than a success, even though it was a TV movie.  The film is based on the critically acclaimed bestselling 1971 book by Gay Talese (1932), about the trials and tribulations of the Bonanno crime family in the 1960s.  The film stars Joseph Bolgona and Raf Vallone, as son and father, with Brenda Vaccaro as Joe's wife and Richard Castellano (he played Clemenza in "The Godfather") as one of Joe's senior aides.  (FWIW - This was only Bologna's second film. His best performance, IMHO, was in "My Favorite Year" (1982) where he played Sid Caesar. In that film he does a sketch about a mob boss, and I couldn't help but see that mob boss in his performance in this film. BTW - Caesar's mob boss was a caricature but Salvatore Bonano was not intended to be.)  The executive producer is Charles Fries who specialized in TV movies and made more than 100 of them, most of which are forgettable. Among his better ones were "LBJ: The Early Years" (1987), "The Rosemary Clooney Story" (1982), and "The Neon Empire" (1989),  Some might compare the film to an early version of "The Sopranos", which may be true, but as a film in the gangster genre it certainly doesn't hold up well when compared to "The Godfather" or "Once Upon a Time in America" (1984), or even to such lesser films as "Mean Streets" (1973), "Goodfellas" (1990),  "A Bronx Tale" (1993), or "Casino" (1995). All these films dealt, in one way or another, with the personalities and the family life of the mob, and all were able to provide a more satisfactory film experience. Of course, these other films were big screen releases, and TV movies in the 70s were far more limited in terms of what they could show.

Unimpressed I was in Fallujah for this operation and missed all the broadcast news coverage at the time.  I was hoping to see...well, something more than what I got.  I would have been mildly disappointed if someone had given this to me for free.

Simply an unlikable & cringe-inducing "romance" 'Something Borrowed' is based on the novel of the same name by Emily Griffin which I've never heard of. It concerns a group of thirtysomethings as they struggle through a love rectangle or trapezoid or whatever shape is made up by Kate Hudson ('How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days'), Ginnifer Goodwin ('Big Love'), John Krasinski ('The Office'), and the unfortunately named Colin Egglesfield ('Melrose Place').  It's also occasionally a love pentagon or hexagon if you count Ashley WIlliams & Steve Howey.  As are typical in stories about differently shaped loves, there's lots of betrayal amongst of friends, panicking of unfaithfuls, heartfelt conversations covered in rain, and unnecessary stupidity of everyone involved. . . but, that last bit is expected in any romance, cinematic or real.  One major problem with a film about infidelity is that it's impossible to really like anyone involved with the scandal.  Here, we only have the Rachel, the woman who betrays her friend (Goodwin); Dex, the fianc&eacute; who betrays his love (Egglesfield); and, Darcy, the woman betrayed by both (Hudson).  Typically, you can associate with those cheated on solely through sympathy, but that was made difficult for two reasons: 1) Darcy's a secondary character who seems to always act like that girl who always gets too drunk at college parties; and, 2) The movie constantly acts as if it's going to reveal something negative about her past (spoiler: it does).  Granted, no one deserves to be hurt this way for being annoying, but she's still not an enjoyable character to watch.  Maybe things would be different if Darcy and Rachel's roles were swapped, but we all know of hindsight's perfection.  Left alone behind all this despicable behaviour is the typical nice guy Ethan (Krasinski) who, along only with Dex's dad, acts as a voice of reason in the film.  Unfortunately, he's like an umbrella in a hurricane, unable to rescue this mess of humanity from themselves.  Now, I suppose this is a film that's not meant to be enjoyed on the level of a typical romantic comedy; but, with this cast and a sugary, generic title like 'Something Borrowed,' a viewer should not be forced to withstand the cringe-inducing behaviour like that of Dex & Rachel.  Never have I so wanted the leads of a romance to be hit by a New York cabbie.  Then again, I also wished that fate upon myself for a while to alleviate the misery of watching these monsters.  Clearly, writer Jennie Snyder & director Luke Greenfield, who have both successfully worked in romance before this film, have talent that should carry them through their futures, but a film this unlikable was not their best step forward to that future.  A romance hasn't been this depressing since last year's 'Blue Valentine,' but at least that film succeeded because of its sad nature and didn't have to battle against it.  Final Verdict: 4/10.  -AP3-

Bare-Bones Blu Ray Version Beware this Blu-Ray edition. It is simply the movie with none of the extras that are included in the "Collector's Edition" DVD. No audio commentary, no documentaries or featurettes.

Does Santa Exist ? If you are a non believer you will remain one after watching this vid. If you are a believer you will remain one after watching this vid. Same old arguments for Christians. Hitchens seems at times and I think he even made it clear at one point he was a lil frustrated in Craig either not understanding him or simply ignoring his answers. This vid I think clearly shows what you get when you try and talk to a brick wall...nothing. I think one big let down I felt was that Hitchens was not his normal in your face arrogant self. That became evident very early on.  Nothing new in this vid.

Plot good, acting not so good I put this on my wish list, because this seemed like the sort of movie I would like.  It happened to come on t.v. before I bought and boy am I glad.  The movie had so much potential, but the acting was so over the top it made me cringe and change the station several times.  I am not saying don't buy the movie, but just be forwarned.

Unfortunately, Just As Bad As 'Friday The 13th Part 9' I am a fan of the 'Leprechaun' series. I really enjoyed the magical slasher element along with the humor in parts 1, 4 and especially 5. After watching part 3, I was very disappointed though. Once again, we get a change in powers and myths and the beginning of this chapter has no connection with the end of the last one. The change of setting is fine, but we definitely don't get enough of the leprechaun in the first half of the film. Instead we get stuck with lots of gambling and magic acts. The acting, especially by the lead male is pretty bad and the only thing that stands out is how underrated Warwick Davis is as he outshines the rest of the cast in the acting department. You can get this movie in a couple of different 'Leprechaun' sets. I wouldn't recommend you buy this movie on it's own even if you are a fan of the series.

All the collectionThe The collection was very good except there were no closed captions. It was very hard to understand sometimes. Good selection of films.

Not a Liberal A friend asked me to buy the book for her.  I myself am NOT a fan of Michael Moore.

Sliced n diced. What a shame,just when the show starts it's over. Why can't they give you the whole show instead of about 20mins. Very disappointing. I feel like I wasted my money. It's not the show it's that there's not much of it. Dean Martin was so great this set is not. Shame. Just wanted to add it's really fun to watch. I didn't know you can go on YouTube and watch some segments there. Some of the shows are about 37mins long. If your a fan you might like this collection.

Not exactly what I expected When the Voltron Collection One arrived it was not the same edition as I expected. Even though the Collector tin was part of this purchase the Collectors Edition was not inside. A Second edition release was inside and not the fold out collector's edition.  Even though this was the series I wanted, it is not the edition I was expecting to receive.

A Symptom of the disease that is french cinema I endlessly bang my head against the wall in frustration at the cinema of France. I sometimes feel that the last filmmaker to come out of that country who understood that films are meant to be entertaining was Georges M&eacute;li&egrave;s.  I desperately want to love the 400 Blows and its kin, but am consistently let down by one factor.  These films are bored.  Not boring, that clumsy insult thrown at many intelligent films, but bored. French cinema is infected by ennui. They exude a sort of cocky indifference to all life. Like any good Frenchman on the silver screen, Antoine Doinel lays about, smokes and drinks and discusses everything with an absurd detachment from everything around him.  This tale of juvenile delinquency and family dynamics should be absolutely riveting, its core concept is intriguing, and it has truly beautiful cinematography, but it is all wasted by the film's sheer indifference.  Also, the supposedly mindblowing ending sequence and final shot was set up rather obviously  in an early bit of dialogue, and in no way connected with the rest of the film. Everything, from Antoine's tragic personal history to his larger aspirations are merely talked about. Show don't tell.  No doubt any comments on this review will talk about how I didn't get it. If you are tempted to do so, consider this, did you actually enjoy this film, or were you merely told to? If you like it legitimately, nothing I say can take that away from you. If you are merely parroting the abysmal state of film criticism right now, please develop an independent thought.

Not all interesting Not all interesting thought it was a thriller, turned out to be a dud. It was a boring movie with no purpose or theme, this is just to satisfy your ***** and it does not deliver on that too.

Meh... What "Breaking Dawn" adds up to is a watered-down version of a godawful book.  It doesn't have the audacity to be as godawful as the book.  It doesn't do much of anything.  It's just "meh".  The wedding scene drags out interminably, to the point where you wished they had climbed out the window and eloped.  The South American scenery is beautiful but the honeymoon scenes don't come close to being interesting.  About the only thing remotely interesting is Bella's nightmarish pregnancy; her post-delivery transformation is a big yawn.  Characters... what characters?  After planning the wedding, perky little Alice has nothing to do the rest of the movie.  Emmett's and Jasper's parts have shrunk to the point that if weren't in the film nobody would miss them.  I liked Seth in the book but he's not developed enough in the movie.  And Leah, who was a feisty character in "Eclipse", is just plain pathetic in this movie.  Rosalie is semi-convincing as doting auntie, and Taylor Lautner gives a pretty good performance as Jacob, although his imprinting on a newborn had me retching.  Actually, Kristen Stewart gives the best performance in the film; we can almost feel her pain as whatever is growing inside her is eating her up from the inside out.  Billy Burke gives his usual understated, standout performance as Bella's dad.  And Robert Pattinson, as usual in this series, just looks gorgeous without making much effort at acting.  The movie tries to improve on the book in spots and fails abysmally.  There's an unintentionally hilarious scene where all the wolves have a big pow-wow in dubbed English.  One almost wishes they would bark and howl with subtitles translating what they were howling about but that might have been even funnier.  And the big transformation scene, which is the linchpin of the book, looks like a poor imitation of some scenes out of "Fantastic Voyage".  But since the book had Bella lying like an inert lump and never twitching an eyelash while she was being burned alive internally, I guess all the movie could do was show her lying like an inert lump.  It just isn't very interesting to watch.  So what we have to wait for in Part 2 is Bella being a very well-bred newborn, Jacob imprinting further on Renesmee, and the climactic battle scene with the Volturi in which everybody stands around yacking and then turn around and go home.  I'll pass.  Judy Lind

What happened? With James Cameron doing writing and directing of the first two Terminator movies, I was hoping that he'd have a part of the third movie like usual.  Though I have heard he wanted to but wasn't going to be given full creative control of the movie then they ended up getting other people like writers and director.  I don't know which part went wrong but it seems like there are some things like in the writing that got a little messed up, due to like with the story line in some sense.  The first movie obviously took place in May 1984, then the second film took part in sometime in 1995, but according to the opening of Terminator 3, the second film took part in 1998 which would be 6 or more months after Judgment Day had occurred.  It was interesting to see what kind of Terminator that they would try to come up with for this movie and even though that it was a female that played the new one called the 'Termatrix' or 'T-X' for short.  Some of the stuff I think was nice on paper but the execution of it could've been better in the end along with maybe the writing could've been better as well.  While watching the movie it, to me it seems like it don't have that 'Terminator' feeling to it like the other movies had and I think the crew that worked on the movie should've understood the mythology of the movie franchise better maybe this movie could've been better.  Overall I give it 2.5 stars out of 5.

Its Ok Well it wasn't the greatest zombie flick, but it was OK.  Some obscure zombie flicks you don't even get all the way through them, but this one was ok enough to watch

Defective DVD. DVD was defective. It stopped several spots and could not be watched completely. I cleaned the CD and try to watch again but the problmes persisted. Also it took long time to recieve DVD. Not very happy with this transaction.

Clautrophobic Francoticism Why claustrophia? TDK, usually an excellent producer of videos, unfortunately chose to display this production with blank white sidebars bracketing its 4:3 picture format on my widescreen monitor; thus, one's POV is akin to watching the world with blinders on. And what a world- wonderful sets and costumes by Franco Zefirelli. Unfortunately however, Franco frantically directs hyper-frantically to say the least. The entire stage is often packed with chorus and supernumeraries moving about and gesturing as if they had just each consumed 12 cups of strong coffee laced with metamphetamine. So there: a very disconcerting clautrophobic 'Francoticismic' experience; almost makes one wish that Don Jose chose the viewer for his victim. Carmen as depicted in Bizet's opera is an enticer of men, tres-tres sexy; unfortunately Elena Obraztsova is neither. Isobel Buchana, Micaela,is O.K. Placido Domingo, Don Jose, is excellent. Carlos Kleiber and the Vienna Staatsopera Orchestra are wonderful. The picture sharpness is excellent as is the sound(in LPCM Stereo format only, however). The two stars are for these latter performers. For a far superior production all the way around: check out Anna Caterina Antonacci, Jonas Kaufmann, Norah Ansellem, Antonio Pappano conducting at Covent Garden (available in Blu Ray)

Subpar Ever since Borat came out, the quality of Sacha Baron Cohen's movies has gone straight down. I do not recommend this movie.

Carnage and gore in search of a plot I was pretty disappointed with what I thought was going to be a fun episode of Robert Rodriguez or Quinton Tarantino style retro-flick.  I think that was the idea as this movie was hinted at in one of the "Grindhouse" trailers.  While it's nice to see Rutger Hauer again especially with the in-your-face title in hand, the film never gets past the raw carnage and bloody gore of the premise.  Hauer is a railcar hopping hobo who stumbles upon a nasty town that for some reason nobody leaves.  The population stays in spite of the fact that the police and politicians are controlled by the evil Drake and his 2 equally evil sons. They stay in spite of the fact that it's acceptable to board a school bus and kill all the kiddies with a flame thrower...and of course, for no reason.  I found the movie pretty stupid without much to recommend.

Thank you, Ronnie Did the Illuminati force the NBC to cancel this show...?  Kidding!  I admit that I didn't like "Dark Skies". But then, I watched it when "The X-Files" were going down the drain, too. "Millenium" was never out of it. The plot of "Dark Skies" is too convoluted, and almost too conspiracist. And yes, it picks on Carl Sagan.  I can understand why a certain kind of conspiracy buff may like this series, which was cancelled after only one season, but personally I just found it boring. The same UFO-government conspiracy concept played out all over again. Besides, I don't like the nerdy 50's fashion.  Why do you think urban legends become late night entertainment, while the REAL conspiracies of the U.S. government (or any other government, for that matter) are dropped down the memory hole? Well...?  I almost think it's a conspiracy!  Or perhaps the more down-to-earth conspiracies (the plot is set during the Cold War) aren't entertaining enough... I mean, who cares about Ronald Reagan supporting Osama bin-Laden and Pol Pot, or sending hard cash to ayatollah Khomeini, when we can all worry about Carl Sagan's connections to alien abductions, right?  You've been conned by the Illuminati. Major majestic time.

Not very good so called "Cowboy type of guyz." I thought I would try out and see how these great men came to live in a nation so one sided. The actors do or seem not to put their soul into it. It does not matter if it is a B-cut movie or a major class movie, i am sure there could of been better actors who can really show the love and detail in playing a roll to make the movie more Life Like in the real world. over all 1 to 10, 10 being the est and 1 the worst, I have to give it a 4.8.....Just cause it is not something i would just stick in for a movie, I am gong to keep the movie in my collection of westerns i have already been building for over a decade. thanks al'

Disappointing and annoying So many times during this movie, I wanted to scream "Fight for yourself!" to Thumbelina.  I am not familiar with the story of Thumbelina - but it just seems like such a bad story if the movie is accurate.  I am trying not to have my daughters buy into the whole princess thing too much.  (As I say this, our house has Disney princess stuff all over it.)  However, this movie leaves me very disappointed.  She believes what others think about her and doesn't find her self worth in herself.  At the end of the movie, she fights a little bit, but there are other girlie movies that have much better messages.

This is misinformation. My step-mom's family got this in the mail.  We were visiting when they watched it.  I don't understand why someone would pay to make a movie that is almost entirely an attack on a dead woman.

KaBOOM! Yes, the action works on a purely kinetic level.....with the clich&eacute; jaunt on top of a futuristic vehicle, the oft-used flight through a window (car and person), the horizontal grip on a weapon (standard issue in the movies/TV from the 90s on.  Supposedly, it's a hip way of mishandling a gun?).  The `quips' are forced, the overall humor lame.  At this point Sylvester only did one character, repeatedly.  Snipes cackles a bad impression of Cesar Romero's Joker, and the only `performance' that made me cringe more than Sandra Bullock's was Benjamin Bratt's wide-eyed ninny.  Why do people always overcompensate when trying to approximate innocence?  Why are cackling villains so prevalent in the movies? It's sad when you have to admit the most realistic performance in this film belonged to Denis Leary. I can easily see why Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal turned down Stallone's role. Jack Black was supposed to be in this film.  Where was he hiding? There was also a charge of plagiarism lodged against the film by sci-fi writer Istvan Nemere.  This would not be an idea I'd want to admit someone stole from me!

BETTER YOGA PROGRAMS OUT THERE!!! I tried Shiva Rea Yoga, but I have to tell you I LOVE Namaste Yoga much better. Seasons 1 and 2 have been shown repeatedly on FIT TV and other channels, but it was hard to get hold of copies that weren't too costly. Finally, Namaste Yoga is available. It is the best yoga program! It's one you will keep doing. Namaste gives you what you want from yoga without all the "stuff and nonsense" that other programs try to put in, unnecessarily, from my viewpoint. Kate Potter, the creator of Namaste Yoga has figured it out. I have been doing Namaste Yoga for years, and I don't think I ever want to stop. I never thought I would stick with it that long. I want to be doing this when I'm 80 or 90! It makes you feel so good, it's great for everyone, all levels. You feel like you've had a massage after you do it, and this feeling lasts with you throughout your day!  It has a really mellow feel, yet during the main segment of each program, you feel the workout! Yoga is wonderful for joints and arthritis, keeping the body fit during heavy snows in winter when it's not as easy to do other types of exercise. Trust me, go with Namaste Yoga. It's worth the extra money by far!!! You get what you pay for. Do not waste money on $15 yoga programs. I know Shiva Rea tries, but I just don't think her videos have the widespread and lasting appeal of something like Namaste Yoga. LOVE IT!!! You won't be sorry, Namaste Yoga is a better program by far.  I never put Shiva Rea's dvd in anymore.  I'll probably donate it to the local library, re-sell, or give it away.  Shiva is only so-so.

Lackluster performance by main character throughout series. We were very disappointed in the Wycliffe Series One because the main actor who played Wycliffe was too unresponsive to the actions in the story.  Compared to other British mystery series, it was dull and not worth the time spent watching it.

OK movie, but special effects were horrible. I could create better looking explosions on my own PC - who were the special effects people ?  Hopefully they were fired, explosions were nothing more than layered over the actual screen shot.  Horrible.  Movie itself not bad - it's a no brain shoot em up.

5 stars for the show, 2 for the price $24.99 for a mere 3 episodes is ridiculous. One could argue that with the length that it's equivalent to 6 episodes of a normal TV show, but that's still a ridiculous price.  Shame, because it's a great show and well worth watching. Wish I had recorded it 'live' when I had the chance. Course, I can also watch it on Netflix or Amazon Prime any time I want and I don't have to pay the exorbitant price for it.  Correction - I can get it from Netflix but not yet Amazon Prime. Gotta work on that Amazon - your selection of titles on Prime is still pathetic and you've got new competition with WalMart in the game.

Moments of brilliance interspersed with long stretches of agony I was very anxious for True Blood Season 3 to open with Sookie's getting her house put back in order. I mean, really - how long is she going to carry on with those patches of moldy mud speckling the walls and dried vines woven through the staircase banister and trailing across the curtain rods? I know for a fact that her Gran would have a conniption fit.  Instead, True Blood opened with Sookie anxiously seeking help in finding Bill, so hell-ooooo, Alcide. The whole Bill-gone-missing thing is part of the original Sookie novels, but the way he's found differs a bit. I found I didn't mind the liberties Alan Ball took with those details nearly as much as I minded the whole Maenad Madness huge, enormous, season-stealing detail of *last* season, so all was well. It got a bit boresome from time to time with Lorena -- did we really need to travel through every single era since the Civil War, seeing Lorena and Bill in little vignettes (Gay Nineties, Roaring Twenties, Prohibition-era...the only thing we missed was Lorena and Bill draining acid-tainted hippies at Woodstock) to have proof that Lorena was a Bad Vampire? Anyway, the whole Russell Edgington thing played out well (Talbot was brilliantly funny) and I was breathless if wondering if the HBO Eric and Bill would break faith with Sookie in ways that the Book Eric and Bill never would have. Tantalizing!  But. But, but, but.  In between all the interesting scenes, one is forced to deal with Jason (whom I still love) getting all cozy with Crystal Norris from Hotshot, and here's where the series lost me. In the books, Hotshot is an inbred, overbred little crossroads clan, filled with inter-related people who were secretive, and poor but proud. In the series, the citizens of Hotshot have become hillbilly meth-cookers (Hoyt gets a great line when he says, "This girl is from Hotshot? If her first name is Crystal, her middle name is probably Meth"), and they're all so weird, you can practically hear the banjo music theme from "Deliverance" playing in the background. It's impossible to say what attracts Jason so wildly to Crystal -- animal magnetism? -- but she's the complete opposite of every girl who has ever attracted Jason before. He's always tended toward the trashy and flashy, but Crystal is pure-d backwoods hick. I don't get it. The storyline was so dragged out, so pointless and dumb, that by the time Jason decided he wanted to be a p'leeceman so's he could go 'n whup them dudes fr'm Hotshot f'r bein' s'mean to his Crystal, I wanted to pin a shiny brass star on his forehead.  And this is from a character I *like*  Which brings us to Tara. Rutina Wesley is such a fabulous actress and she does not deserve this hideous role. As in the books, Tara gets involved with Franklin Mott (who has morphed into Mickey in the series) and it's just one more looooong dullllll tale of Tara being worked over by a man. This story is so distasteful, I don't even feel like going into it for the sake of a review, but let's just say that she ends up in a rape crisis group. I want Tara to move to Chicago in the worst way. It was awful. I hated every second of it, and spent my time fast-forwarding through Tara's scenes and fuming at the ineptness of Alan Ball. You'd think he would have learned from the Maryann storyline from Season 2 not to provoke the (largely female) audience with nasty sex. Orgies didn't flip anyone's switch in Season 2, and rape scenes don't do it in Season 3. We can only be thankful that it didn't take up most of the season.  And as if that all weren't enough, we had to suffer through the story of Sam and his hideous birth family, which dragged on and on and on and on and on and...oops, sorry, and didn't end well, which you could see from the very beginning. Any time you meet your biological dad and he's wearing nothing but baggy, greyish underpants that barely contain his enormous sagging package, you just know you're not in for a happy reunion.  One big, bright spot in the season though was the Jessica/Hoyt/Summer triangle. It was adorable and funny.  My feeling is that the series is veering way too far away from the novels, thereby losing its integrity. That loss of integrity is resulting in increasingly overwrought story arcs that are painful to watch. I miss the times in the books where all that was going on was Sookie sitting in her lawn chair, painting her toenails and drinking sweet tea. That was actually one of the things that made Sookie so personable. I realize that a series based on a character who was seen washing her hair, doing her nails, weeding the flowerbeds or cleaning out the closets in every episode would get very old after a while for different reasons, but maybe that would be better than the feverish and frenzied pace that's been set so far. It doesn't make me want to watch True Blood more; it makes me want to watch it less.

PLATITUDES, TEARY SENTIMENTALITY AND BLOOD EVERYWHERE Imagine a Hollywood production imitating a Chinese film company energetically trying to mimic a Hollywood movie production of a typical Chinese warring generals film. That's the most imaginative image in SHAOLIN, which knocks off every device every which way.  There's non-stop sentimental posturing and resurrections of most every cliche' of Chinese battle field genre. So much so that the star power of Jackie Chan and Andy Lau curdles into melodramatic geysers of tears and splattering blood which will become more and more familiar as SHAOLIN goes where everyone has gone before. Don't be surprised if a giggle or two escapes you. Especially when arch villains suddenly become contrite faced with syrupy beatitudes. Terrible, ghastly villains are suddenly, amazingly transformed by virtuous monks sacrificing themselves - and many innocent kids and peasants - while noble monks (some pushing ten years old) are righteous perfection, forgiving and self-sacrificing. Most scenes are overplayed, camped up. Too much too often.  Martial arts' action is very familiar, frantic and pushed 'way past believability. There's even a pushy imperialist military armament salesman caricature who sneers and struts and spouts arrogant imperialistic jingoisms. Toned down and made more pompous the bit could've been funny; but as is it's just too heavy-handed.  In all, SHAOLIN is more of a cartoon that an period action feature. For me, a really big over-the-top disappointment.

A bit too much... Purchased because I enjoyed the Transporter movie series.  This movie is very different and a lot more vulgar.  I had to get rid of this movie because the language was just too much.  It was a waste of money.

Not Worth All the Fuss When I heard this was coming out, I was really excited.  I did think that, beginning with Superman II, the franchise was more camp than action movie.  So I was hoping to see what different direction Dick Donner had planned.  Apparently, it was different camera angles.  The beginning is the same, the end is the same, there's details in the middle which are different, but add nothing new or worthwhile to the story.  I wish I had rented it instead.

Soundtrack Bad Yes I did buy this DVD in hopes of fulfilling a childhood memory. But like other reviewers I found much fault in the soundtrack. In watching the movie I kept having to turn the volume down or up. The score jumped from a fever pitch to nothing audiable. I was afraid the neighbores upstairs would complain about the sudden blast. I no longer believe that Criterion is a wonderful company that comes out with 'special produced DVD'S. And their prices are much too high for what it really is.  Sincerly,  Robert L. Anderson

Movie was OK but not great Personally I thought the movie was not very realistic and drawn out.  I didn't find it particularly engaging.  Based on reviews, I expected it to be much better.  It is ironic that the film is getting so much notoriety now due to the BitTorrent lawsuit.  My guess is that there are some sour grapes there from the producer having a film that was critically acclaimed but a flop in the box office.  I can think of some others that fall into the same category.  Get over it Voltage.  Personally I don't condone or use BitTorrent, but I think Voltage needs to go down in the annals of failed companies given that they can't accept a lackluster film's performance and, instead, believe it is someone else's fault.  If you want a thriller look elsewhere.  Several other genres do that much better.  If you are looking for accuracy, then definitely go elsewhere.  If you want OK entertainment then the movie will accomplish that.

Whomever is in charge should be in trouble A story should only be as good as it's conflict resolution. Likewise, a "murder mystery" must be judged on the solving of that mystery. In this series, the ending was so bad that despite the positives of this series (and there are a lot of them), it truly deserves it's negative review.  Let's talk about the positives: A teenage girl is missing. A female detective, Sarah Linden,  about to retire and get married yet she is assigned to the case on her last day of work before she moves. Her replacement is a [seemingly] naive, very unprofessional looking transfer out of narcotics. They form a skeptical apprentice/cynical mentor relationship.  The actress that plays the detective Mireille Enos is absolutely fantastic and projects incredible charisma even though her character is quite silent and brooding (she makes the show). She is a complex and very dedicated professional that makes great sacrifices to carry out her work. The rest of the show is essentially red herrings and places the viewer in a position of guessing who will turn out to be the killer.  The show is very slow paced, can be excrutiating emotional and is meticulous in piecing together first a disappearance and then a murder mystery.  Although sometimes too slow, Enos portryal was so compelling and fresh that I had only positive feelings about the show...until how the series ended.  This is no spolier alert since  the ending of "the Killing" is no secret. The series slapped the faces of it's audience by creating a false arrest and leaving open the mystery. That was a cheap ploy and an insult to the dedicated viewers.  As I stated at the beginning, a mystery must have resolution. This did not which made the commitment a waste of time. The producers have advertised that in the second season they will "really" solve the mystery but "The Killing" has lost me. I'm on to something else now.

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves As I was watching the movie with my hubby, the DVD first of all did not have a Label which was strange.  I have never encountered that before.  All my previous orders with AMAZON of NEW CD's or NEW DVD's have always been Superb, except for this one.  There was no label on the DVD, and the movie looked old and not crisp at all.  I thought something was different but I put it on anyway and at the middle of the movie after the scene where the obesed priest is kidnapped and taken to Sherwood Forest and Lady is about to see Robin Hood taking a bath in the waterfall, then kaput.  It ends!  What!? Never have I ever experienced this, not even when I have bought used ones.  It was very disappointing.  I am sending it back today in hopes to receive either Full REFUND OR another NEW DVD of the sam movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, with Kein Costner.  I love all his movies. Hopefully this situation will be resolved quickly. Sincerely, Irma Anaya

Too many holes, one epic movie fail Leaving the terrible acting aside, the plot of this movie is horrible. (Kstew's facial expressions had us howling. Especially the one when the huntsman was talking to her, encouraging her or something. She looks at him like he just suddenly started speaking Japanese. It is an epic acting fail.) You could have had the best actors out there, and this would have been a failure. I think whoever was responsible for this movie just couldn't decide what they wanted it to be. Action, angst, madness? It tries all and fails miserably. Seriously, "Mirror, Mirror" is better than this.  **************Spoilers*************  My problems with the plot:  ***Someone needs to read "The Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord" (number 2 can be read as "sewer" instead of ventilation duct. Number 3 is especially applicable.)*****  1. Why is there a nail in the wall of a castle? Anyone?  2. She took him out with a scratch to the face. Come on, at least leave him with one less eye. (the whole pedobear thing was really over the top as well. We already know he's evil. don't make it too much) Why do the whole fake-seduction routine anyway? come on, she (the character) should be perfectly innocent at this time. Guile should be beyond her.  3. Why tell the dupe he is being duped right at the exact moment when you shouldn't? (see suggested reading above)  4. If the dark forest is so dangerous that no one comes out alive, why does EVERYONE come out alive?  5. If the movie is supposed to be about "inner beauty", why do the women have to disfigure themselves? Because the evil queen is crazy, right? but crazy isn't reliable, so this is a logic fail.  6. Why are all the queen's henchmen ok with all this? They aren't apparently getting anything out of this, the first time some real work comes around, the first thing she does is outsource it. And she can make minions out of glass, so why does she need henchmen anyway? Why did she need a "real" army when it's pretty hard to kill a broken piece of glass?  7. Apparently her brother wants her as well. Ewwww. too much over-the-top evil. (If my brother ever tried to kiss my neck like that, he would soon be my sister)  8. How come Snow White knows how to ride a horse after being locked in a tower most her life? (I'm pretty sure the first horse is a magic fairy horse, but still. And bareback even.) Or dance? Or tame trolls? (or ride in plate? or swing a sword?) And why are there fairies in the tale of Snow White? Weren't the dwarves and her "perfection" enough to swallow already?  9. If she's been locked in a tower most her life, how do all the soldiers know to yell "get her"? (Get who? never seen her before, is she new? What, I thought the princess was dead?) How come the whole castle knows who she is, but no one else does?  10. Why, why, why , WHY the flock would you throw away your shield? WHY?!!!! If you suddenly know how to fight, you do not throw away the best thing to keep other people from using a sword on you!  I'm going to stop here, or I will be writing all day!  *********End spoilers************  I think this movie is a perfect example that all the originality in Hollywood is dead and gone. It's the same garbage over and over, trying to squeeze a buck out of anything that doesn't run away fast enough. Plot holes you could drive a semi through, no research on the way things work (the Grey is a massacre of the natural order), physics has no hold on Hollywood... I can't think of any movies in the past couple of years that made me go "Wow, that was flocking AWESOME!" that didn't start out as a book or a game first*. (are TV shows done in Hollywood? Walking dead is completely engrossing. I can't get enough. {yes, WD was a comic first, but still. Spectacular acting, perfect cast, etc} Same with "Once Upon a Time", and "Grimm". Maybe Hollywood should just give everything over to whoever is responsible for awesome TV shows.)  ****Edit****  *How did I forget "Tucker and Dale vs Evil"? That is the best original movie I have seen in years. (Avoid if you dislike gore)

I guess seeing the 2010 version marred my ability to enjoy this one. OK, so last year I saw True Grit (the 2010 version). It was excellent. I really enjoyed every bit of the movie (saw it in a theater).  Then when I noticed the 'original' at Red Box, I figured I have to watch that one too!  I know times change, and the 'duke' is supposed to be infallible, but this 1969 version was comparatively awful.  John Wayne was actually quite good as Rooster, but the woman who played the girl was terrible. The girl who played the part in the 2010 movie was superb. The part when she traded horses with the fellow in town, that was superb.  Anyway, I guess if you lived through the late sixties (I was 3) this movie would not be too bad to REWATCH. If you did NOT live through that era, and are expecting anything like we have now you will be SORELY disappointed...  I would buy the 2010 version on BluRay but would not even rent the original (again) on DVD. I'll pass... Now to hear people are saying the BluRay encoding was poor, stay away!

Poor picture quality First of all, we love VeggieTales!  However, the picture quality on this DVD is terrible.  It actually appears that the DVD was created by recording from a VHS.  Do you remember how little white lines appeared when your tape was having "tracking" issues?  This DVD has those too!  Thanks for the blast of nostalgia, but I'm a little concerned that this is a pirated copy of Veggie Tales.

The Boors I should preface this by stating I really do NOT like Oliver Stone movies (other than Natural Born Killers), for some reason I feel very disconnected to them. And he does it again with the Doors. On the recommendation of my son I watched this on a borrow and I have to say I watched the entire run of the movie and still know NOTHING about THE DOORS. The movie is instead filled with psychedelic filler of the highest order and Jim Morrison comes off as nothing more than a sullen drunken crybaby.  All the relationships seemed forced and nothing about this era or group seemed interesting at all, and I have to think that's simply not true in real life. A lot has been made of Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison and for all the hype I've heard I can say I was mildly let down, which could be more a fault of the script since NO ONE not even the lead had any type of depth or worthwhile backstory, so what more can an actor do? I actually thought Meg Ryan was the stand out, and that doesn't say a lot.

The programs are okay but the visuals are unacceptable. While I don't have access to the Military Channel. I saw a preview of the "Great Planes" series on the Zune marketplace and it looked interesting. The basic gist is that it covers the history of certain aircraft in the United State's arsenal. I looked for a DVD of the show and at the time the only one that was available was a older disc that covered mostly fighter aircraft, which I'm not as much of a fan of personally.  Since the newer season I saw included mostly bombers such as the B-1 and transports such as the C-130 I was hoping that this disc would include them.  Sadly they don't, it's just a newer version of the DVD I described earlier.  Which is fine if you wanted the programs about the Fighter planes but that's the least of the problems.  The video quality isn't the greatest either, in fact it's horrendous. I wasn't expecting high definition on this disc but when the disc is played on a computer and, I'm just suspecting on this, a flat screen TV the picture is extremely small and looks like it was compressed.  By that I mean if you play a DVD on a computer, it will be in standard definition on the computer screen. However, the media player programs such as VLC would expand the picture to cover the full media player area.  Here it doesn't and in full-screen it is extremely blurry and any text on the screen is virtually unreadable.  I could understand if it was just the vintage footage that looked bad since it was made before high-definition existed but even the new footage where the host talks with people who worked on the planes looked bad.  So programs are fine but the visual aspect is what kills it.  As such I can't recommend it at all.

Pretty Lame Maybe I was expecting too much from this movie but it was hyped up a lot.  I was thinking it was gonna be really scary.  I usually like anthology movies but this was just lame.  It's was like watching something like the Blair Witch Projects but as an anthology.  This gang of guys who film stupid videos to sell online are hired to steal a VHS tape from a house.  One of them ends up watching all these random tapes he finds and each of those shows its own horror story.  Most of the stories were kind of lame and reminded at best of some of the crappier episodes of Freddy's Nightmares, as far as acting and writing went.  Just a lot more low budget than that show was obviously.  There is one story with a killer in the woods who kind of reminds me of Jason.  There are some creepy parts there but overall this movie was just really slow and boring.  The framing device, with that gang of guys, was shitty as hell.  I hated watching those parts and the actors were annoying.

The Great Whitewash I admire and respect Clint Eastwood beyond words and I've watched Leonardo DiCaprio's growth as an actor with mounting approval.The outstanding Naomi Watts - who I've never seen give a poor performance - and the great Dame Judi Dench, who was fantastic as  Edgar's mother. So, where was the mish-mash ? The script set out to find a fence right in the middle of the two historic forces. One believes Mr Hoover should be canonized, the other side would like to hang,draw and quarter him. So from there you research and research again, and remove the splinters from the derriere and tell it how it was. Just as Louis B Mayer removed Thalberg from his position of power at MGM, so too did Hoover on numerous occasions remove rightful FBI operatives from the limelight when catching notorios criminals,and took on the glory himself. He victimised any FBI agent suspected of homosexuality and drove them out of the Bureau. Yet he was one himself. He befriended underworld figures through the horse track, had no compunction about betting large amounts on "fixed" races,and was always reimbursed if a race didn't finish how it was supposed to. Hoover's hand didn't go into his pocket too often. It was because he compromised himself in this way, that he would never agree to any crack down on the very people who were lining his pockets. His refusal to acknowledge the existence of the Mafia was laughable. Clyde Tolson joined the FBI in 1928 and three years later became Hoover's second in charge. Tolson and Hoover virtually lived together,lunched daily together,and always holidayed together each year. Hoover had the bugging devices in place to blackmail anyone in a position to remove him from his Directorship of the FBI. This was touched on in the movie,when Hoover asks his secretary Helen Gandy to destroy his secret files on prominent Americans,plus all accompanying tapes should anything ever happen to him - which she did. He blackmailed LBJ,JFK,Monroe,Nixon,and in 1964, he wiretapped Dr Martin Luther King. He even had a wiretap on Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt,taken in a hotel room with Joe Lash, who was an advisor to FDR. The evilness of Hoover, which knew no bounds - was skated over by Eastwood. Because of the inability of Preidents to stare down Hoover - he kept his job. For this reason, a closer investigation of Hoover's activities should have been essential to the making of this movie. For some reason, it didn't happen that way. And the movie suffered irreparably because of it.

Strange... and confusing.... Very strange movie... Waited for the good part... and just got more and more confused.  Strange ending... would not recommend.

When Fact is Scarier than Fiction Red State is Kevin Smith's attempt at roasting religious fundamentalism and the ATF alike. As an attempt at the horror/thriller genre, Red State falls flat. As an attempt at thriller/action, Red State falls flat. As an attempt at horror/thriller/action/comedy, Red State falls flat. The horror of the movie is eclipsed by its real world equivalent. The action was scripted by someone who doesn't understand how government law enforcement agencies operate or how firearms are properly used. The comedy is infrequent and lacks the wit of Smith's earlier films. Red State is a frankenstein monster of genres, mashed up into one low budget exploitation film.  The Horror: At its heart, Red State is a horror film focusing on a fundamentalist Christian group. The novel starts out with three horny high school kids looking to get laid. The three receive an online invitation for sex that turns out to be a trap set by the religious nut jobs. Standard "stupid teenager" plot device aside, I felt like the setup had plenty of potential. There are so many real world examples of religious extremism that Kevin Smith should have had no trouble crafting a truly chilling thriller. The Five Points church is obviously a fusion of the Westboro Baptist Church and the Branch Davidians, made famous by the Waco siege. The trouble is, Kevin Smith's Five Pointers aren't all that original or scary. The group consists of a bunch of bigots lead by Pastor Abin Cooper, supreme bigot. These are the people that picket funerals with offensive chants and self-righteous bs. But when Abin Cooper steps up the pulpit during a nightly service and delivers a fire and brimstone sermon I couldn't help but feel bored when I know I should have felt aghast. The sermon (followed by the execution which actually was horrifying) was uninspired. I've heard sermons like that before. In movies and in real life. I've heard End Times sermons far more terrifying, spoken with far more conviction. Abin may have charisma, but lacked the necessary gravitas to pull off a dangerous religious nutjob. Real life is often scarier than the movies we watch, but the Five Pointers are a lazy imitation of the Westboro Baptists and the Branch Davidians.  The Action: After an escape attempt by the horny teenagers, the ATF becomes involved and any of the thin layer of creepy that existed vanishes abruptly. At this point the movie becomes a half baked copy of the Waco siege. The Five Pointers and the ATF get into a gun fight (almost immediately after the ATF arrive) and from there the movie becomes a rather lame siege. You can tell by the way the ATF agents act and move that little to no research was invested in giving an accurate performance. Honestly it's a miracle (pun intended) that they didn't all get slaughtered at the beginning when they were clustered around the main gate of the Church compound. The aspect that made the Waco siege so gripping and shocking was the sheer amount of tension built up over the course of fifty days. There is no tension or build up to be found in Red State. The one thing I do have to commend Kevin Smith for is showing both sides of the event. Most people believe that the ATF and FBI were seriously at fault with their execution of the Waco siege and that belief is also apparent here in Red State. The ATF in Red State are almost as villainous as the Five Pointers, killing unarmed civilians by that old evil excuse "just following orders." Of course, this is over done and so the impact is minimal. Like I mentioned above in the section titled "Horror," this is another case of fact being scarier than fiction.  The Comedy: Kevin Smith is perhaps best known for his cult classic Clerks movies, as well as his portrayal of Silent Bob. Kevin Smith movies tend to have a real world sense of humor that packs an enormous punch because of its witty cynicism. That same humor is absent in Red State. As a horror movie you wouldn't expect a great deal of comedy and that would be a fair assumption. That said you can see where Smith tries to inject humor into the mixture but these moments fail to carry any amount of levity to the atmosphere. There is one bit at the end where the Special Agent in Charge explains the nature of the "heavenly trumpets" that I laughed pretty heartily at but that seemed to be the height of comedy in Red State.  Red State is a genre mashup, and an effort by Kevin Smith to produce a unique horror film. As such Red State is a fail. For anyone interested in a clash between religious nutjob fundamentalists and government agencies acting with negligent abandon I suggest watching the documentary WACO: The Rules of Engagement. For anyone interested in a religious slasher I suggest Frailty with Bill Paxton and Matthew McConaughey. If you want a poorly written film with little research and no tension go ahead and watch Red State.

buddy cop/coroner cliches galore My wife and I purchased the first season from Itunes and was sorry we did. We are fans of both Angie Harmon and especially Sasha Alexander but they both feel terribly mis-cast in this series; the chemistry between Sasha and Angie feels forced. Rizzoli's parents seem equally if not more mis-cast, and I would cringed every time they had parts in an episode. The actual cases that Rizzoli and Isles have to solve seemed very generic (cue the mandatory serial killer that fixates on the main character). We had great hopes for the this show but characters where not interesting enough to keep us watching the generic plots. I give the series two stars instead of only one, because at least it isn't reality TV.

Not for our family! The disc was fine. We had high hopes for this techie-type SRK film! The acting was good. BUT...This is NOT a family film. It is scary. We like Bollywood movies...but this one got turned off. Violent. Creepy. Sexual Innuendo. This movie is Bollywood TRYING TO BE Hollywood. We expected extravagant from Eros, but not EVIL!

Below Average Movie..... Perfume is a ridiculous display of wealthy neurotic NYC yuppies and their self-centered lives.  It is a waste of time to watch this one, unless you want to see what is wrong with America today.  That these people probably do exist, and have positions with some prestige, is a testament to the decadence of NYC in specific and America in general.  This movie is just one absurd, disjointed, and boring scene after another.  The only reason I gave it two stars rather than one star is that it does reveal, albeit in a non entertaining manner, the sick and tragic people involved in the NYC art and fashion world.

Grumpy Old Climbers A Beautiful promotional film for Patagonia clothing with a sweet soundtrack. Unfortunatly too many wardrobe changes for a documentary. It's hard to believe so much ice melted while the crew fixed the mast and Jeff surfed with the local girl sporting the new Gibson. And dissapointing  the legends and pro climber were so lost and ill prepared. Why are Yvon, Jeff & Kris so grumpy? Have they considered lowering the retail cost so the clothing is more affordable to surfers, climbers, snowboarders, etc, or perhaps increasing factory worker wages, instead of removing fences on their remote and distant land. Perhaps a real documentary, a story about meaningful corporate contributions  would make for an inspired sequel of hope. One the three amigos could could sincerely feel good about creating.

No idea what was going on there. That movie just didn't make any sense. I'm guessing if you're a 'JCVD' fan, it might make sense. But yeah, I was just clueless.

Special-effects movie, nothing more, move along The movie would have rated 3-stars except for the silly ending. I weep for the reviewers who found this movie "profound". On the other hand, loved the Beethoven 7th. Even a bad movie can't keep B down.

Not as good as I was expecting with this cast... I recently viewed this movie and found it to be far less enjoyable than I had hoped. This was disappointing, as I really like actors Chris Hemsworth and Sean Bean. The story was also set in chicago, and living in the Chicago suburbs, it's always fun to see the local metropolitan area up on the screen. What I was expecting was an action movie with some sort of twist to the end. What I ended up with was a plodding story with a completely unbelievable antagonist. Likewise, the protagonists behave in completely unrealistic ways that just make you roll your eyes and ask "Seriously?" I can't figure out how this movie has received so many high review scores. I'd say it is below average in most every way.

no audio I'm familiar with Mimi's wonderful playing but was disappointed in this DVD. The audio for the performances and interview would not play. There was audio in the intro part but that's it. I ordered a replacement and had the same problem. Must be a bad batch. I had to send that one back too and request a refund. First time I've experienced this with a product from Amazon.com.

Half-baked cow pie. Let me preface this by saying I am a total movie buff/ nerd who owns more than 1000 movies.  I am the type of film watcher who can find some redeeming quality in just about anything.  In fact, I look for the nuggets to take something good away from an otherwise bad egg.  I'm not one of those high-art fops who get sucked into thinking every film has to have underlying and nuanced messaging delivered through every aspect of the film making process.  Let's face it.  Sometimes a movie is just a movie and being entertained is enough; it is what it is.  Having said that...  This is probably the worst piece of crap I have EVER seen.  As a late 70s kid who grew up in the 80s, I love Rutger Hauer.  The 80s through the early/ mid-90s were right in Rutger's wheel house for me.  Were they all gems?  Heck no.  In fact, most of them were mid-low budget scrappers shooting to entertain people.  As a kid, and now adult, I've always found something likable about his acting style.  I recently saw Blind Fury on cable and went on an Amazon Rutger Hauer binge, snapping up every early/ mid- career film I could find starring Rutger Hauer because of the memories it brought back.  I bought Hobo with a Shotgun only because Rutger Hauer was in it.  I knew did the film, but I wasn't able to see it in the theaters.  THANK GOD.  I love the "grind house" genre, but this wasn't even that.  I think they were seriously shooting for that type of feel to the movie, but in trying to mimic the genre qualities, they almost ended up with am un-intentional parody of the genre.  The gore factor is high and redeeming of the exploitation/ grind house genre, but it totally missed the mark with me.  This my first impression after seeing the movie.  I hope it grows on me (and I am sure it will with serious effort).  I was going to give it a one, but I am holding out hope it will grow on me.

Host of this show is way to light in the loafers.  Talk about annoying. I could take only 15 minutes on this show.  OMG, run away.  The content is overshadowed by the horrible, annoying, concentric type narrator/ host.  He is not someone that appeals to most others.  My wife agrees.

Awesome Series, DVD Set No Good! While the series itself is great this set isn't! Bandai as of lately has decided to repackage the shows in cheaply made cases, and cheap disc art for the DVDs... I have the first 4 volumes of Gundam Wing... All were in good cases and the disc art had a foil effect... For this set the disc art has a faded look and plain looking... The case is horrible... The first tab that holds dvd 1 in the tray has come apart... Resulting in me having to glue and tape it together again... Same goes for the tab that holds dvd 5 it's now coming loose... Sloopy job... And it's worth the $40.00 price now...  Take my advice get the series in the separate volumes!

NOT Extended Edition Bought Date Night from Amazon.  The product description says its the extended edition and gives a list of special features.  The one I received is a "Rental Exclusive" with no special features and is repackaged.  Obviously Amazon is loosing their touch.  I am very disappointed that Amazon can't even be bothered to send me the version they advertised as having.  Buy from someone else, maybe even go to the store, because paying that much for a basic copy from an old video store, is simply not worth it.

Too Long The Kite Runner is incredibly long. This along with some intense scenes left me with a very bad taste in my mouth.  I'll tell you what I thought of as this movie dragged on and on. Remember the Robin Williams movie Bicentennial Man?  That's what it felt like I was watching. You follow this character from boyhood to adulthood. Near the end, once he adopted his step-whatever, I thought we'd continue and watch this new boy grow up.  For heaven's sake, enough with the long, boring movies already.  The actual film is interesting. Dealing with what it's like to live in Afghanistan before and after the Russians invaded and the rise of the Taliban, you get a very raw sense of how horrible it must have been for those living there.  I don't recommend this movie unless you loved the book and enjoy long, drawn out films.

Fast downfall of a once promising show So what happened to GLEE?! In its freshman season, it was such an original and involving show with well-chosen classic songs interspersed into confident storytelling and performed by a diverse group of young talent. Now, in the second season, it devolved into poor stories and generic plots with way too many "modern" songs than don't even sound good when sung by the original artists! The creator, Ryan Whatshisname, really started smelling his own water!  So, where to start with the weak Season 2?! First, the show destroyed the great relationship of Rachel and Finn, the centerpiece couple of the show in Season 1, turning Rachel from the ambitious, go-getting diva in Season 1 into a clinging, needy fangirl in Season 2. And Finn from the sweet, funny, gentle giant in Season 1 into a rather hypocritical oaf in Season 2! Actually, I don't blame actor Cory Monteith (who should have been nominated for an Emmy in Season 1!) for this. He was just acting the plot of the bigheaded creater Ryan Whatshisname!  In addition to messing up Finchel, I literally disliked EVERY single pairing the show tried in Season 2! Quinn-Sam was boring. Tina-Mike was nondescript. Artie-Brittany and Puck-Lauren were contrived. Kurt-Blaine was phony. And Quinn-Finn was baloney! None of the relationships had any solid foundation or advanced the show in any way, shape or form. Characters were literally just thrown together. Why? Who knows?  As for the subplots, Santana's sudden love for Brittany and the Brittany-Artie-Santana triangle was supposed to pass for character growth and development, but I drew NOTHING from it at all; the acting was decent by Heather Morris, Kevin McHale, and Naya Rivera, but nothing special; Rivera fans have been screaming for an Emmy nod, but frankly, it felt very gimmicky to force me to empathize with rather unlikable character.  Again, Finchel was broken up mid-season just for the heck of it with that stunt Rachel pulled with Puck just to manipulate fans and to add to Finchel's "star-crossed" lover status. The ONLY subplot that was any good was the bullying storyline of Kurt (again Emmy nominated Chris Colfer) by Dave Karofsky (Max Adler, who SHOULD have been nominated!). There was a major development during that storyline that I wonder if they are going to continue into Season 3, ignore altogether, or play off as irrelevant. Who knows with this show now?!  And what happened to Shue and Sue? Will Schuester was made into an irrelevant non-factor in Season 2 and for all intents and purposes, he's the star of the show! Mr. Shue's sole role in Season 2 was to pine for the annoying Emma and shout "guys" every other line! And Sue Sylvester has become a total caricature of her brilliant Season 1 persona, whose sole role in Season 2 has become to throw cheap insults at Will and fire Cheerios every other ep for the hell of it! Matthew Morrison and Jane Lynch (again Emmy-nominated just because she won last year!) ought to gang-tackle Ryan Whathisname for the trashing of their characters!  Finally, the music! Ugh. Most of the songs are from the 2000s, the current worst decade of music in the history of music! The world just heard this crap yesterday! Who wants to hear it again? Season 2 has way too much of the soulless, generic noise that has overrun the music world in the 21st century! And I despised the Warblers in all their faux-singing/dancing glory! In Season 1, the music was excellently fused into the storylines and helped move the plot along, while in Season 2, the music was there just for total grandeur and showmanship. Ep 19-Rumours (best ep of season by default) was the only one devoted to classic songs by the great band Fleetwood Mac and interspersed well into the storyline. Also Ep 21-Funeral was a very emotionally involving and satisfying one, mainly thanks to the reliable Lynch's convincing performance in the wake of a tragedy, even if it was the only ep where Sue's character was done justice.  The minor positives of Season 2 are the wonderful cast addition Shannon Jones as the no-nonsense, but likable Coach Beiste and also the cameo characters played by celebrities Gwyneth Paltrow, John Stamos, Kristin Chenoweth, and the great Carol Burnett. Just like in Season 1, the show got the cameos right in Season 2. But, unlike in Season 1, it got virtually everything else wrong in Season 2!

OK..... Tho there is a lot of material, there is no organization to the lesson flow.  A LOT of the "lessons" are just him jamming with little to no explanation of what you are seeing on the screen.  Tho no where near as bad a rip off as the Lil Steel Volume 1 Songbook from steel guitar mojo, it is still not worth the $$.

A "Big Reveal" Film From A Director Who Doesn't Get It Right When making a "big reveal" film, a top-notch director must realize that the "reveal" cannot be the entire picture.  One must also include fair doses of character development, believable actions, & compelling drama in order to make us care enough for the reveal to actually mean something.  Sadly, Neil Burger does very little of that within "The Illusionist".  For a basic plot summary, this period piece centers on stage magician Eisenheim (Edward Norton), who conjures up apparitions that are utterly stupefying.  When Sophie (Jessica Biel), the former love of his life, comes back into the equation, Eisenheim must make the decision once and for all as to whether or not they can carve out a life together despite being from completely different social classes.  Despite the fact that "The Illusionist" was clearly made with care and a very good intent, it ultimately fails to impress for two specific reasons:  1. There really isn't much to get invested in.  The characters are little more than cardboard cutouts (the human element is only "talked", not actually "lived"), while the events transpiring around them are never explained (e.g. Eisenheim's actual tricks).  2. There is no "grit" to the picture whatsoever.  In Christopher Nolan's masterpiece "The Prestige", a similar magic-themed film, the director takes you deep inside the world the characters are living in, pulling no punches along the way.  We see it all...the good and the bad and all the raw emotions that result from it.  In "The Illusionist", however, stereotypical "class differences" and "the controlling husband" are used in place of real emotion.  Those stereotypes may have been true of the era, but in this case they needed to be felt instead of just referenced.  Overall, then, I cannot recommend this one to those who like their movies deep and full of character growth, as it is quite superficial all the way around.  Yes, it does have a "mind-blowing" reveal, but because it fails in so many areas before that point, it loses all its credibility, so to speak.  I highly recommend "The Prestige" as an alternative yet still containing very similar themes.

Two for curious stance on a few true indictmants of the press Girls Gone Wild of Presidential Politics? Yeah, the previous reviewer's comment in spot on. Mostly strident silliness although it did point out one or two times when the pro Obama press went a little too far. One of those times concerned the story Sarah Palin's child and her daughter's pregnancy. Ooops! bad reporting? Or left wing conspiracy....... =;->  To me it looked like dirty tricks. What gets me is how The Right and the GOP scream bloody murder when the Dems resort to dirty tricks, yet the GOP really invented these shocking techniques in modern politics starting with the Muskie letter. Can you say Swift Boat?  Obama may turn out to be the best President in modern times..... and the Crazy Right can't stand it.

Informative but incomplete and one-sided. I agree with the stated intent of this series. We (speaking of Americans in general) need to know more about our history. Years ago I realized there was a big hole in what I knew about indian history. I had a vague image of the first thanksgiving, knew that the U.S. calvary chased indians across the west, and that was about it. I tried to fix that but I couldn't find any straightforward texts at the college I was going to. I found enough to come to the conclusion that "people were being people" and left it at that. Lately I've been dissatisfied with that and started researching again, which is why I've been watching these videos.  The videos are well presented, have a lot information, and do a good job of distinguishing between different indian tribes (one of my pet peeves is we tend to talk of "Indians" and "Europeans" as if they were two homogenous groups - every contact was different because the groups of people involved were very different). Unfortunately they portray Indians in general as innocent victims living in practically utopian societies while the Europeans were monsters. European atrocities are given in gory detail, without proper context, while indian atrocities are only mentioned in passing, if at all. Some examples: the Mayan civilization is described with admiration without mentioning their human sacrifice practices. It says (more or less in passing) that the Aztecs performed human sacrifice on special occasions but doesn't go on to say that was at least eighteen times a year, in several cities, sometimes thousands of people at a time (oh, and when several hundred Spaniards attack with over 75,000 natives, that's not a Spanish invasion, that's an uprising of an oppressed people). To be fair, it did describe the first recorded Aztec human sacrifice. It describes the Great Swamp Massacre of the Narraganset in detail and portrays King Phillip in the best light possible without ever mentioning any of the atrocities committed by his forces or discussing the traditions of torturing prisoners that the tribes in that area had.  It would also help if histories made clear the devastating effect of disease on Indians. When the pilgrims established Plymouth there were an estimated 5,000 Wampanoag (and that was after they'd already had a smallpox epidemic). By the time of King Phillip's war there was only 1,000. That's without any major war (the pilgrims got on well with the Wampanoag, it was the puritans that came after that soured relations).  I don't think history is served by whitewashing either side or any group. Nor is it served by sitting in harsh judgment of situations or people we don't really know or understand. I'm still looking for a straightforward, general history of the time period that tries to be objective and fair to all sides. I have found a couple of good resources, though: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400032059">1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus</a> does a good job of discussing what things were like before Columbus arrived and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307265722">1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created</a> discusses the ecological, economic, and sociological upheaval that occurred afterwards. And for good summaries of some individual indian tribe histories, search on "first nations histories".

Disappointing I loved The Grudge and thought The Grudge 2 was pretty good, but this was just disappointing. The story continues with the Chicago apartment from the previous film (which I thought was the weakest part of the film). One cast member returns briefly and everyone else is new or is replaced by a new actor. I loved Kayako in the previous films, but didn't care for her in this film due to the new actress. The plot is pretty boring and at times I wanted to shut the movie off. The film also ends on a cliffhanger, which is likely to never get resolved. There are a couple special features which are pretty boring and a bunch of trailers for other films. I only recommend this film if you really love The Grudge series.

Drama about Wall Street Swindling Margin Call, 2011 film  The movie begins with a time-lapse photo of lower Manhattan, the financial center of America. Grim-faced people leave their offices carrying their belongings in a cardboard box. Another down-sizing? A young woman walks around checking names on a list. Most people are being "transitioned" from their company. They can take their personal belongings, their access is revoked. [No warnings at all? It's always best to keep very little of your personal belongings at your office.] A man's phone doesn't work either. The manager talks to the survivors. Later he grieves over his sick dog. [Harry Truman said if you want a true friend in Washington buy a dog.] One office worker gets a surprise when viewing his computer and calls his co-worker. "Look at this!" A projected loss greater than the value of the company? The top manager is called at 11pm!  They learn about the projection of volatility. Can they find Eric Dale? There is a meeting with upper management, they look over the reports. There is a problem. It can't be hidden! Can the figures be verified? These Mortgage Backed Securities were popular, but increased risk in case of decreased value. [Were they examples of fraud?] The top manager is there because of his judgment in predicting the future. Can they avoid big losses? By selling to suckers at the current fair market value price! Will they ever trust them again? "Remember this day." Will somebody have to take the blame for their problem? Who else? Eric Dale reminisces about a bridge built 22 years earlier. Will he come back.? Who will be let go next? Does the cigarette smoking symbolize their unhealthy actions? "Is it the right thing to do?" [The story has slow spots.] Eric Dale returns to the office! The guys below take the blame.  There is a meeting about unwinding the assets of the company by liquidating its holdings of fixed-income MBS today. There is a promised big bonus for this fire sale. They unload big blocks as soon as possible, taking losses. Sam wants out. The top manager mentions the dates of previous crashes and depressions since the 18th century. Sam will stay, he needs the money. Will there be new opportunities in getting out of this mess? Sam's dog died. [Does digging the grave symbolize self-punishment?]  This is not as dramatic (or educational) as Oliver Stone's 1989 movie "Wall Street". This seems like a lower budget production (filmed at night). It really doesn't educate the viewer about the swindling in the Wall Street Jungle that caused the implosion that caused the worst economic depression in seventy years. Mortgage Backed Securities were a sophisticated swindle where low-rated mortgages were magically transformed into high-rated mortgages and sold to investors abroad and at home. When people couldn't pay their mortgages (due to low wages and high taxes) they defaulted on payments. This caused the value of MBS securities to crash. [Did this also cause the debt crisis in European countries?] In the 1930s FDR's New Deal passed laws to prevent the swindling that preceded and caused the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Since the 1990s Congress repealed many of the New Deal laws that prevented frauds. Novel financial products were created to swindle investors by hiding the risks. That can't go on forever, and there was a day of reckoning. Overvalued securities plummeted down to their true value and wiped out many investors. Will Wall Street ever learn the value of honesty?

Great film, but with techical flaws during play. This is a great film.  It was used as class room instruction at the Air Force Officer Training School in the early '60s to illustrate different command/leadership syles. It ranks in my top 10 films of all time.  The only reason this did not have a 5 star rating is due to technical flaws during replay.  I suspect I just had a defective DVD.

Beware, some disks may not function properly... I would be totally happy with my purchase if all of the disks worked properly.  The unfortunate thing is that when you order a box set that has this many movies, you might not be able to get through all of them in the 30 days you are given for a return period by Amazon.  I've had this box set for just over 30 days and have run into my first problematic disk.  I was watching "Shadow of a Doubt" and the movie just stopped about an hour into the film.  I pulled out the disk and looked for a scratch but it was brand new, without a scratch.  I tried playing it in a different DVD player and got the same problem.  There is nothing worse than having a movie quit on you after you've invested all that time into the story. I bit the bullet and rented it from Amazon instant video so I could catch the ending.  I feel pretty let down this happened and feel that I should still be able to return this product and get a replacement.  Also, I should be given a refund for the rental fee I paid with Amazon Instant Video.

IRONIC, A DAMAGED SEASON OF DAMAGES . . . (This series set new standards for its kind. They raised the bar. So that two-  star rating reflects disappointment re two seasons of five-star winners.  DAMAGE'S Season's One and Two were so sharp, so starkly realistic in depicting the depths and heights of each principal character; plotting, motivations, sudden twists which were spectacular but remarkably believable and came easily from carefully-drawn, personalities and situations.  Not so in Season Three. Here, characterizations are a great deal thinner, their natures not as developed or believable. It's not the as-always great acting of Close & Co, but the writing. Characters seem cartoon-ish, abbreviated, stereotyped.  There seems to be more superfluous characters. Add to that, central characters were given hasty-seeming melodramatic exit scenarios to wrap up their parts. Those extraneous characters were given quick hello's and then contrived reasons for sudden goodbye's.  There won't be any spoilers in this review, because there are just so many of them; shocking denouements which suddenly usher characters out; most seeming rushed and melodramatic; maybe called for by stereotyped characters there only to justify some plot twist.  Overall it seems this season was designed to end the series. I hope it won't be; I pray that if Damages is to go they go out in a blaze of intelligence and far-more sophisticated plotting, acting, dialogue and sophisticated entertainment. Amen

Just stay away from it......... Paint by numbers typical Sandler fair with eye candy and scat humour for the guys, disguised with a loosely romantic comedy plot for the ladies.  Hollywood unthinking drek that spews $$$ into undeserving and untalented people's pockets.  What really took this down was all the songs by Sting who clearly helped finance this mud and I swear he was in a cameo as one of the hula dancers.

Great show, doesn't work on PS3 I love HIMYM, and season 4 was a a good season (not as good as the first 3 but worth every minute). The 2 star review is because these blu rays do not work on ps3s, or at least the older ones. So if that is your primary blu ray player, avoid these until the issue is resolved!!

Mother and daughter are reunited with arch-nemesis from high school.  Had potential but never got going. I didn't like it. I sa After getting a big job promotion Marni (Bell) comes home for her brother's wedding.  She is horrified when she find's out he is marrying Joanna (Yustman), the girl that was evil to her in high school.  While helping Marni come to grips with the fact that her son is marrying Marni's arch-nemesis, Marni's mom (Jamie Lee Curtis) is shocked to find out she has the same problem with Joanna's aunt (Sigourney Weaver).  This sounds like a really funny idea, but the laughs never really happen.  It seemed like they had one idea and just kept doing it over and over and over.  The entire movie is about Marni and Gail (Curtis) trying to prove they are better the Joanna and Ramona (Weaver) in every way possible.  The one big problem I had is that by trying to show Joanna how mean she was to her, Marni goes way overboard and ends up becoming worse then Joanna ever was.  It may be because I am a guy, but I really did not enjoy this, not even Betty White saved it for me.  I give it a C-. Amanda gives it a B-.  Would I watch again? - Not a chance

unintentional hilarity I want to know why there is such a strong ESPN connection here. We see ex-ESPN football analyst (and career NFL backup quarterback as well as being notorious for getting fired due to sexual harassment charges) Sean Salisbury with Matt Leinart (another so far career NFL backup QB but he's parlayed that USC college fame into this cameo role) at the Playboy Mansion early on.  Then ex-ESPN sports anchor Dan Patrick shows up as a cop (say what?).  Throw in Hef and "The Girls Next Door" women, and it's a veritable party of B-list celebs.  Colin Hanks must have got a nice paycheck to show up in this disaster of a flick.  Hey, I love B movies but this has virtually no laughs. It's basically Legally Blonde redone on campus by worse actors and even worse scriptwriters. It does have a lot of scares (Rumer Willis's face for starters).  What a train wreck and the only saving grace is Emma Stone looks like a talent to watch. She seems the only actress in the bunch who has any comedic sense and timing.

I fell asleep I was trying to decide which movie to see after work btwn this and X-Men. I checked out the time length and that really should have been a clue. How much of an origin story can be told in 90 minutes? As a disclosure, I have never read a GL comic, but I am a fan of the superhero movies. I was fully prepared to like it so much that I would buy an anthology of comics. The patheticness of this movie makes me want to check out the comics to see what the real story is about, but forget about ever adding this movie to my collection.  I had a few problems with this movie. As much as I love Reynolds as an actor, I did not see him as this character. I felt like I was watching Ryan. It's as though I was always conscious of him. As for Blake Lively, I've seen Gossip Girl, so I know who she is. But in this movie, she felt like a gimmick. As though the producers said, "which young starlet should be in this movie?" I felt that Ryan and Blake had no chemistry. Some people, IMO, just don't fit this genre (cough cough Katie Holmes cough cough). Their kiss at the end made me cringe. In the beginning, when she was in pilot mode, I was surprised and thinking "oh OK, so she's gonna be different from all the other distressed damsels" (again, I've never read the comics). I thought the movie would have other plans, but it ended up being cliche.  I mentioned in my title that I dozed off. Well, the last scene I recall was Peter Saarsgard in pain in his bed, and then I woke up and Green Lantern had formed some race track or something. I have NO clue what I missed and only figured it out based on the plot summary.  Lots of wasted familiar faces here: Tim Robbins, Angela Bassett (total surprise) and Mark Strong. The battle scene with Parallax was over so quick. And I'm no scientist, but how did Hal get so close to the sun w/o getting singed?  This just wasn't up to snuff. I fully expect this movie to be shunned in a way similar to the Eric Bana version of the 'Hulk." Although this movie does seem to be given a bit more credit than that one, it will always be overshadowed by the incredible superhero flicks we've in the last decade.

life you learn n life you live???? always confused about this important perspective spouted by the Lady in White... this is most profound I 'spose cause when you are young you do crazy things and then have to live with the consequences, hmmmm, quite deep!! If anyone is fam with the game how can they possibly enjoy this pos, if they are trying to convey parallels with Homer OK then let's go there, hero's have more ignoble goals etc but otherwise they deserve to die??? Redford gives his typical deadpan monotone delivery but looks too old to be 32 and Iris just keeps having to leave in every scene before she actually does a proactive slip with the big reveal during the game... Roy is sposed to be so incredible but lost his confidence for SIXTEEN years, ok, fine, he's not even allowed to practice??? they are shocked he can hit?? Memo wears that GORGEOUS white bow gown after the headlines to further entice him to quit the game and have lotsa quid, for a stalwart who never intimates ANY leeway for bribery 'cept of course for the pretty babes who want to kill him, he is never a shoe in... although when I suspend my entire disbelief I can enjoy the last moments of the film with the family reunited, it hits the heartstrings and that is most memorable... Duvall prolly turned in the most impressive performance, otherwise, recommend for die hard Redford fans...

We found a witch! May we burn her? "Season of the Witch" is one of those movies that probably would have gone straight to SyFy/Sci-Fi, if it didn't have an A-list actor attached. It's a murky, rather rushed historical creep-out that blossoms into silly horror at the end, after a long journey where not very much happens. Ron Perlman is awesome, though.  Disgusted with the slaughter of the Crusades, knights Behmen (Nicholas Cage) and Felson (Perlman) desert the army to return home to... somewhere. I think it's England, but I'm not sure.  They arrive in a town infested with the Black Death, and are quickly arrested. But the local bishop (Christopher Lee) offers them a way to clean their slates -- take a witch (Claire Foy) who is blamed for the plague to a distant abbey where she will be depowered courtesy of an ancient spellbook. The embittered Behman doesn't believe she's a witch, but he agrees nevertheless.  Along with a priest, a soldier, a swindler and an altar boy who dreams of knighthood, the two knights take the suspected witch on the perilous journey. But soon Behman starts to suspect that there's something unnatural about her -- she has super-strength, summons wolves, and even makes one man hallucinate right to his death. But no one can guess the horrific truth about what she is until they reach the abbey.  "Season of the Witch" isn't a horrible film, but it is resolutely mediocre -- it has the feel of a movie where nobody was really trying very hard. In fact, the first three-fourths of the movie just sort of ooze by with lots of dirty medieval villages, spooky hints about the witch girl, and lots of misty forests full of giant wolves.  Even the cameramen and screenwriters aren't trying too hard. It's almost impossible to see what the heck is going on in the fight scenes, except that there are lots of swords and leaves. The dialogue is pretty standard buddy-cop stuff, and is laid out in a hodgepodge of inconsistent accents. Are these Crusaders SUPPOSED to sound so American?  The movie does pick up for about ten minutes when the characters reach the abbey -- storms of darkness, zombie monks, incantations, and a decent Linda Blair impression. The problem is.... we see the bad guy. And it looks RIDICULOUS -- I've seen Star Trek prosthetics that were scarier than that, especially when it starts flitting, scuttling and spinning around the place.  The acting is pretty lackluster -- Cage is phoning in his performance, and most of the supporting characters are so blandly underdeveloped that you can't really care when they get offed. I will say that Stephen Campbell Moore does a decent job as a priest whose faith helps him overcome his fear, and Robert Sheehan and Claire Foy are very earnest in their roles. Oh, and Ron Perlman is lots of fun as Felson. It's pretty obvious he knows he's in a stinker, so he decides to have fun with his laid-back, fun-loving character.  "Season of the Witch" could have been a semi-decent horror thriller if it had kept the bad guy hidden, but that makes the entire climax fall apart.

Misleading Title This "movie" was actually 4 short animations. Only the first one was about Superman and Shazam. I can honestly say this rental was a waste of time and money. The other animations were about Specter*, the Green Arrow, and Jonah Hex*.

ALL FOR SHO KOSUGI This was my very 1st time watching this Sho Kosugi classic - I've seen the huge VHS box back in the day at the video rental stores but never got around to renting it.  Anyway, the movie was a little low compared to Sho Kosugi's standard of "Revenge of the Ninja".  It actually cut to a lower resolution during the "deleted" scene where his wife was murdered in the hospital, and that seemed really weird.  Overall, it's a must if you're a Sho Kosugi fan.  The actual fighting is pretty pathetic compared to today's standards, though.  Oh well...  It was the 80's, right?

RENT THIS, DON'T BUY. The cover deceives you into thinking the movie is more than it actually is.  Not scary.  I want to be scared out of my wits when I watch a so called scary movie.  Young people go up in a small plane with their friend who just got her pilots license who is totally useless when things start to go wrong.  The friends are stupid for going on this little trip.  No one put a gun to their heads.  And the ending didn't make much sense (to me anyway).  I wish I would have rented it, I would not have bought it.

Beautifully shot, terrible narration This has some of the most beautiful shots I ever witnessed in a documentary.  Migrating antelope, breathtaking landscapes, priceless cat behavior - in retrospect, this movie would be far better if without the narration.  Instead I was force-fed an uber-anthropomorphic plot that was unforgivably dumbed down.  Examples include stating that a baby cub "thinks her dad is the best in the world" and calling crocodiles "dragons."  I'm constantly reminded how much the mothers sacrifice, how much they love each other and so forth.  Love and sacrifice are by no means exclusive to humans, but throughout the movie I get the feeling that Disney is trying so hard to show me how similar lions and cheetahs are to us by assuming an omniscient role with respect to their thoughts. It would be far more powerful to just narrate their actions - only touching on thoughts or emotions when its most obvious. For instance, if cub that is playing with its mother, it might not actually be thinking "I love you so much" perhaps she is simply thinking "this is fun!" As far as the extent of anthropomorphism, it felt just a hair shy of "Homeward Bound," which makes it one of the weakest documentaries I can remember. I realize this style is intended for children, however, March of the Penguins - a great movie for kids, does a far superior job in this respect.  Instead of taking on the impossible by attempting to tell me what the penguins are "thinking," it focuses on their actions, allowing me the freedom to project. Children have an innate ability to learn.  Dumbing things down to the point of calling crocodiles "dragons" is a disservice to that, as well as to how interesting and beautiful the natural world is without the need for the supernatural or anthropomorphism.  If you want to see it for the beautiful filming, then make sure you have your iPod charged and ready. Sorry Sam Jackson, it's not your fault.

How to ruin a classic series Step 1. Obtain a classic, if somewhat old, and well-loved series from yesteryear.  Step 2. "Re-master" the series using modern effects.  Step 3. Release said abomination to the public.  I'm sorry, but my memories of Gene Roddenberry's classic have been brutally raped by this horrid, horrid abortion of money-hungry studios.  The effects of the original show were always a little lame, but they went with the time period and they did not look out of place. The new effects are pathetic. Almost no money has been spent on them and they look cheap and nasty. What's worse, they stand out as modern effects amid the original 60's sets and therefore pull you right out of any immersion you have in every episode!  The DVD's themselves are double-sided. In other words, cheap discs! The last time I saw a double-sided disc was Starship Troopers. Who in their right minds uses these anymore?  I know Messrs Lucas and Spielberg have a history of "updating" their movies, but please don't ruin shows from my childhood as well!  This lot is going straight on ebay and I'm now on a hunt to find a set of the original, un-butchered episodes somewhere.  If you loved the original show, save yourself the pain and DO NOT buy this!  EDIT: I've just learned that the 2009 blu-ray versions of the original series let you CHOOSE whether to watch the original, or "enhanced" effects. So it looks like I'll be getting those, then!

Just Not Good I was looking for something smart with good character acting...I mean, we all know the story. Instead, the script was unimaginative and cute (not my taste). Julie Roberts seemed to be marking time in her role. It was background noise for making dinner though. So, not entirely without value.

cliched I'm not sure if some of the people who gave this movie 5 stars saw the same one I did. It was amateur-ish and cliched. The story was acted well enough, but the writing was just awful. It also had a weird sound editing issue, where you couldn't hear the actors when there was music in the background. Overall, I'd skip this one, it just is not original or interesting.

Disappointing with mild entertainment Snow White is a child's fairytale. They should've never touched this one. They could've chosen a better lead actress for the heroine. I have yet to have seen her do a better then average job in any film.

Disappointed For someone who adores musicals and most of the actors of that era, this set was a disappointment and really not worth it...although the purchase price is minimal.  The musicals are badly reproduced, black and white, and old--I mean reeeeeally old!  It is not worth the money.

i spit on your grave dont like these movies at all ,rather read about it in news lifes to short to dwell on bad things like this.

Why Can't Hollywood Be Bothered To Have At Least One Talented Lawyer Review Scripts? Alright, here's the deal. Those of you who are entirely ignorant of the law will enjoy this film (assuming you like suspense, criminal dramas, etc.). Hopkins, especially, is brilliant.  That being said, anybody with a legal background (at least a decent one) will be able to drive trucks through the blatant holes in this film.  Without revealing spoilers, most notably, the climax of the film is entirely wrong. The legal doctrine cited does not work that way.  This is all probably pointless, as most lawyers I know stay away from legal shows and movies for precisely this reason, but worth mentioning nonetheless. It's easier to overlook a minor plot point in which the law is distorted...much more difficult to overlook the climax.  For (decent) lawyers: 1 star For those without a legal background (and who don't care): 3 or 4 stars...it's well acted and in an alternate universe without American legal doctrines to stand in the way, the plot is engaging.

much ado about nothing I am a great fan of Robert Duvall, but the newly released film Get Low, also starring  Bill Murray and Cissy Spacek, is a terrible waste of time -- promising horrific revelations about an old man (Duvall) who has been a hermit for 40 years, but finally yielding nothing that was worth the wait.  Skip it --it is a two-hour shaggy dog story -- you will derive more enjoyment from rearranging your sock drawer.

I don't like it It is not well explained.  and the slow motion is too exhausted to follow a long. The flash does not help either.  The forms were ok.  that is the only worthy part of it

Disappointing I had high hopes for this Christmas film (great actors), but was disappointed with the poor script writing and low budget it was given. The story had potential. Too bad these two wonderful actors' talents were wasted on stilted dialogue and sloppy writing.

Eh... They're all back, they're in Thailand, and they don't remember a thing. Again. Ed Helms, Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and Justin Bartha all return in this sequel to the wildly successful 2009 comedy. This time it's Stu (Helms) who is about to be married and his friends are in Thailand for the wedding with Alan (Galifianakis) being brought along out of pity. However, this time Stu is determined to avoid being drugged. Imagine his surprise when, once in Thailand, that is exactly what happens. And while a member of the party is, again, missing, this time it's his future brother-in-law Teddy (Mason Lee) who is nowhere to be found. And upon inspection of their unfamiliar surroundings, they find his finger on the coffee table still bearing his class ring.    I'll admit that I, unlike most viewers, saw the first film and considered entertaining rather than hilarious. The second film is certainly lesser, at least as entertainment. In 2010, an action/comedy titled The Losers introduced the idea of `green terrorism' by demonstrating a fictional explosive with all the destructive power of a nuclear bomb that created no radiation or fallout. The Hangover II is essentially a "green comedy". Whatever esthetic differences there might be, it's primarily recycled materials from the previous film.

Good Music but choppy video I bought this DVD a week after I saw Dierks in concert. The concert I attended was excellent - a very high energy show. I wanted to get this DVD to see if I could capture that excitement in a DVD I could watch at home. The music on this DVD is recorded extremly well. It is so clear I had to look a few times to make sure they weren't lip syncing. Nope it was him singing and very well with tunes I love. So as far as the band and the music I easily give this disk 5 stars. The problem is the video portion. One reviewer said that they changed images about 50 times a minute. I thought that was an exaggeration but he was spot on. There is no scene in the whole DVD that lasts more than 5 seconds. I know there was a great concert there somewhere because I heard it. But I couldn't see a concert. It was like an MTV spin where the scene changes almost constantly. If you don't mind that buy the DVD. If you do then see Dierks live as he puts on a great show.

terrible casting and boring I would give it one star except for the interesting fantasy characters; however, they didn't play any meaningful role...just eye candy.  When the movie came to it's climax, I couldn't watch anymore.  The movie was too long boring and the characters looked as if they felt out of place.  The two lead female roles were horrifically miscast.  I couldn't buy either one of them. Charlize Theron especially grated my spine with her feigned anger and evil infections. There was nothing sly or wily about her. The character was just too superficial.  She just couldn't pull it off. I also didn't like her face for the part.  She doesn't have an evil face at all.  I'd sure would like to have seen a beautiful, sexy and sleazy woman for that part.  She looks too much like a woman you would proudly take home to dear ol' mother.  As for Kristen Stewart, she could not muster up an emotional expression to save her soul.  She especially looked out of place on a horse.  She had no idea what sort of emotion to convey.  It was silly. The movie was a good try, but I could not get hooked at all.  I was more of a bystander in the same room as my TV.

SPITTING ONE MORE TIME Okay so the truth is there is no spitting nor are there any graves in either the original or remade version of I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE. The title was made by producer Jerry Gross for the original film in order to get film bookers in the south to book the film again, which had already failed in cut form under the title DAY OF THE WOMAN. With the additional removed sequences back in place, a take that MPAA attitude, a sensational and unforgettable ad campaign and tons of free publicity when Ebert & Siskel slammed the film (hard to believe Ebert could do so after watching his BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS which he scripted), the film went on to make history.  And now Hollywood, in its never ending search for something new...okay no not new...in their attempt to remake every movie ever made, we get this latest version of the film. It follows the same basic story. Jennifer Hill (this time played by Sarah Butler) comes to a country retreat for a month only to be sought out by gas station attendant Johnny (Jeff Branson) and his pals.  This time around the gang seems more backwater good ole boys than even the original displayed. Is it any wonder country folk have no use for big city folk when they are constantly portrayed this way? Anyway, the group attacks and rapes Jennifer more than once and in more than one location. ***SPOILER ALERT*** When she contacts the local sheriff to come to her cabin in the woods for help she learns too late that he's part of this group as well. Having been raped and sodomized by this group, Jennifer crawls home and plots her revenge.  The same plotline passes here as she takes her time trapping each one and taking out her vengeance in the most brutal ways possible. While the rape sequences of Jennifer are as disturbing as they were in the original, the revenge sequences here take up more time than they did in 1978. Not only that but her methods fall more in line with today's images of torture than those in the original. The original was more about her just exacting her revenge with only one taking any amount of time. Here, she slowly does unmentionable deeds to each of her protagonists, with something especially disgusting in store for the sheriff.  With more money to spend this version of the film has a much crisper look to it. The photography is well done, the acting intense and believable and the story continues to promote the genre of film known as revenge movies. Does it leave you with a bad taste in your mouth like the first one did? Yes, it does.  Its one thing to make an original film and not know what the audience will think of it. Its quite another to take a disturbing film and make it over again, adding little more than well done gore and more over the top kill scenes. When released the film didn't do much at the box office. Perhaps that means that the audience for what is known as torture porn films is dwindling. We can only hope.  Does the film offer anything new? Not that I could see. Yes, the performances were well done, yes it had a polished look to it. But is it a movie that you'll want to stick on the shelf next to BAMBI and MARY POPPINS? Not likely.

sad I have all the Alien and Predators dvds.  The 1st Alien was a different spin to outer space aliens, good.  I have never been crazy for S Weaver, maybe decent in The movie with the 9' blue creatures.  I love the predator creature.  P1 was ok.  Of course it had Gov Arnie who could never act, not even as a Govenor.  But the first exposure to the creature was good.  P2 was fantastic.  Glover did his typicasl good job as an actor.  At 1st when they said a 2 was coming out, I thought, oh crap, another Arnie movie.  I was glad to see it is about the creature. There is so much that could have been done with these 2 creatures, but it looks like they were just trying to use the first movies to promote the junk they started producing, trying to save money.  Too bad, they could have made some serious money off these charactors.  Predators with Adrien Brodie was a good come back.  Let's see where they take us.  Don't blow it like you guys in the industry did with the Lake Placid series.  It will take a miracle to fix that one.  But you still have a chance after Predators to bring the creature back in style.

Had potential, but bad execution. "Eragon" is the film based off of the book of the same name written by Christopher Paolini. If you've read the book, then it's hard to believe that you are following the same story. It seems like they quickly scanned the book, took the major characters, and then re-wrote the entire thing. No film adaption of a fantasy novel has ever been perfect, or even contained every detail that was present in the book, but it felt as if they disregarded the book entirely when they wrote the script.  They added dialogue that wasn't present in the books, as well as added scenes that weren't in the story, and went as far as changing an entire scene altogether. The best example would be the final fight scene with Eragon and Durza. Nothing about that scene is even remotely close to how the battle was portrayed in the book. When the film originally came out I didn't notice any of this because 1) I was young and 2) I kind of rushed through the book. However, I recently re-watched the film and it gave me the desire to re-read the entire series. Well I just finished book 1 and it left me speechless as to how different the story was in comparison.  As I said they did change major things, but it wasn't just that. They changed minor things as well. How Saphira's name was chosen, how Brom died, their time in the Varden, the list goes on. They left out the relationship that was built with Brom and Eragon, as well as the relationship that was built with Murtagh, they ddin't mention Jeod or Solembum, Angela was only present in one scene and I wasn't happy with how they portrayed her at all, but I don't want to bore you with a big list.  As a standalone film it is easy to find things that you can like about it. As a film based off of a novel? Not so much. If you want to give the film a try and haven't read the books, then I encourage you to do so, but rent it first. If you have read the book then I would suggest you skip this. Honestly, I only have it because of my love for the series.

Written by Mary Shelley Spoilers thar be, Maytees.  Is a man created by man still a creature of God or is it a monster? Do we have the right to create meta-human life? What if we are the children of unknown fathers? For answers please consult Frankenstein. For self-important, barely comprehensible drivel please consult Prometheus.  Great direction can save poor scripts. A director seduced by CGI shooting an incredibly weak screenplay by an overrated pair of writers will not. How on Earth Lindelof and Spaihts got the gig is beyond me. There are strong writers in Hollywood and others trying to get a break that could have done a better job, a MUCH better job.  Ridley Scott, like Spielberg, has forgotten what making a raw, honest movie is like and is far too distracted with how excessive CGI can make it look pretty. Alien was a dark, cold, spartan film set in a bleak, merciless universe. The budget and effects limitations at the time meant that Scott had to use his imagination to create dread. Here he has all the money and effects he can ask for and the resulting film is the polar opposite. Less is more. A filmmaker like Scott should know that. All 4 Alien movies were filmed on a soundstage (save for one 'beach' shot in Alien 3). They were confined and claustrophobic. Prometheus is set in massive, wide-open spaces, which I assume is supposed to make us feel desolate and isolated. But when it cuts back and forth between interior and exterior so much the opposites negate each other, meaning we feel neither confined nor abandoned.  The story is set a number of years before Alien in which a bunch of expendable characters (including a lot of nobodies) travel to a distant planet (a 4-year round trip) to find the beings that created life on Earth. When they get there they discover...a load of confusing, muddled nonsense that is far from frightening and is only just barely above mildly interesting.  Alien was populated with 7 single or double-syllabled characters that felt real and authentic thanks to their quiet interactions and dialogue. We learned their names and positions quickly. Prometheus has more characters than I can count (some appear out of nowhere and quickly disappear as fast) with some of them not even being coherently named. Not that coherence is this film's strong point.  Noomi Rapace is cute as Elizabeth Shaw, the lead scientist who believes in 'The Creators' (the Space Jockey creatures), but she's very miscast. Michael Fassbender as android David is the only other character who gets a notable amount of screen time. You'll care about none of them.  Scott once said that the film wasn't a prequel to Alien (after originally announcing that it was) then changed his mind a short while later. If this was supposed to keep us intrigued it didn't work. If anything it only got the confusion going before anyone even saw the movie.  It has some lofty ambitions, and succeeds at neither of them. The opening scene of a Creator sacrificing himself at an indefinite point in history to create mankind by putting his DNA into our water is nonsense. Was disintegrating himself the only way of doing this? Could he not have just bled into the primordial soup? Did he create the dinosaurs too? Was it a scene set just after the last ice age? Did they accidentally create primates in the process? Why did they create us in the first place? How did the early civilizations learn of the Creators? Did they visit? Why did they have a star map that led to a planet that was just a testing field?  The creation of the famous Xenomorph Alien is so convoluted and preposterous. Let's see if you can follow this:  Android David finds a vase of goo in the pyramid/mountain place. He touches it to his finger. He deliberately puts his finger into Holloway's champagne, infecting him as he ingests. Holloway gets sick. Before the symptoms become obvious he mates with his infertile lover Elizabeth. She becomes pregnant and quickly goes into labor. She aborts her 'hell baby' by caesarian section but just leaves it there in the operation room. Some time later the angry Creator is attacked by the full grown hell baby and is consumed by it, to a degree, for unknown reasons. That dead Creator then births a primitive Xenomorph.  Pardon me, but that is a load of garbage. I honestly cannot believe something that ludicrous made its way into, what is essentially, an Alien movie. The original had so much purity and mythos. Did Ridley Scott not even watch his own movie for pointers? Lindelof and Spaihts have really painted themselves into a corner with that dumb ending too. When Shaw gets to the real Creator planet she will be the only human being in the film, if that is the way the speculative sequel will go.  The mystery of the Space Jockey has been completely ruined. It could have been so much better. But Scott needs to be brought back down to Earth (pun intended) and he should have chosen his writing team more wisely. Still, it was nice to hear Jerry Goldsmith's Alien theme, albeit briefly.

A for Effort, D for Execution and Writing I can tell this project has a lot of heart and soul into it.  Unfortunately, it is just lacking in Execution and the Writing/Script is riddled with holes and has problems in the way of flow, cohesion, and movement.  The script feels like it was written by someone who doesn't quite know the industry or how to write real dialogue and scenes or has no real clue about the world of finance.  I was more or less fine with the direction and cinematography and feel that if the actors had a good script they could have made a decent film. But the overall story just tried to do too much in too short of time frame without real conflict and focus.  There is nothing in the way of "set up" everything is just sorta thrown together and the arch is just too broad to be effective.  I mean, we start from childhood, then adolesence, college, graduation, quick stint at a job, getting promoted, starting a company on the side, losing the company, losing the job, getting offers overseas, doing an illegal job...  ugg, its like a mile wide and an inch deep instead of being something smaller and deeper and more engaging...  This movie could have really benefited from watching the Movie "Hustle and Flow" and "Boiler Room".  Hustle and Flow was a great movie because of laser like focus and incredible writing.  Same with Boiler Room, that movie is probably a better guide for what this movie could/should have strived to achieve.  In any event.  I can tell this movie was made by people who cared and wanted to make a good movie, unfortunately, that isn't enough to overcome a bad script and bad writing.

Dissapointing dvd release After years of waiting we finaly get one of my fav stories. But instead of an added bonus of new cgi effects with a complete story, (like they did with "invisible enemy) we get a butchered "fake" wide screen version.  Top and bottom with black bars, and 25 minutes cut out on a 2nd disk.  On the first disk we get the full vhs length, but with original effects. They did show some of the "original broadcast" that has more footage previousy cut from the vhs, but only as a special feature and with printing over the top so I can't just add it in myself with the computer.  Also, I was hoping that the photo gallery would have some production stills of peri in her bikini.  No such luck since it is erroneously thought of as a kiddie show in england.  I wish they would have plain jpegs of nice quality and size accessed by computer on one of the disks, but no one seems to do that.  Over all, Long awaited for and dissapointed. Wish they would do it right and on blue ray.

From evils past and evils yet to come... "What shall it profit a man if he should gain the whole world and lose his own soul" Mark 8:36  The Blu-ray treatment really brings out the visuals of naked women and white horses.  I have to confess this type of film is not my cup of tea. I just wanted to see a young version of many famous actors. Introductive music sounds an awful like Serguei Prokofiev was not only an accomplished composer of the twentieth century.  I am surprise that mixed with all the phony debauchery there is a real story. This is the only thing that brings it up a notch from "Fellini Satyricon" (1969)

Very very thin. The theme is the femme fatale: a highly neurotic woman who can never be happy and who keeps seducing men to gain power over them. This theme does not emerge until late in the movie and it does not redeem it. The men who fall for the woman are contemptibly stupid and J. Morreau is not THAT beautiful. There was also no indication why the woman is so neurotic. A marginal movie.

Entirely Disappointing and Over the Top Vulgar I looked forward to seeing HORRIBLE BOSSES when I first saw the coming attraction trailer. What a great cast and everyone can relate to having a horrible boss or two in his or her career. The reviews were not so positive and I decided to wait for the DVD release. I know some reviewers loved the movie but I thought it was exceptionally vulgar and a total disappointment. It didn't fit the recent run of similar movies where the crass humor is funny and silly in a harmless way. I thought it would be fun to see good girl Jennifer Aniston in a bad girl role, but nothing seemed to work in this film.  Three best friends set out to rid themselves of their horrible bosses. Along the way, they come in contact a "killer" played by Jamie Foxx. His character's name is so wildly vulgar and in bad taste that the name cannot even be mentioned in the review. The name becomes an ongoing joke. Kevin Spacey is the boss from hell..much like his character in SWIMMING WITH SHARKS. Jason Bateman, Colin Farrell and Donald Sutherland are also great actors whose talents are wasted in the film. Farrell plays completely against his sexy image and is almost unrecognizeable as another horrible boss.  Charlie Day is the dental assistant being sexually harassed by the overly sexual dentist played by Jennifer Aniston. I had never seen Charlie Day before and I enjoyed his character at first until he started sounding more and more like Bobcat Goldthwait in his mutterings. Another actor wasted in this film.  In the beginning as we are introduced to characters, there is a freeze-frame and words describing the character appear on screen. It's a silly trick that maybe have been novel in the 1970's. It only seemed to lower the seriousness of the film.  I had hoped for a silly and funny movie but it turned out to be a silly and stupid film.

Not Funny Not only did I find him not funny, but also annoying.  Not a good combination.  This comedian is not for me.  Thanks anyway.

It's passes but barely This movie is ok but lacked in many ways as well. It failed to tell a great and true story in a great way, but it did succeed in remaining family friendly. I think that this story needs to be told in a more graphic and realistic manor than what was done in this film. This film had plenty of bad acting and is more deserving of a local TV special, not a hollywood film. That being said it is not terrible, just not all that great.

Taste something bad after watching this movie and can't really laugh about it. This stupid movie try too hard to please older women.  Wonder why were these big time superstars (all my favors) Merly Streep, Colin Firth, and Pierce Brosnan so eagerly jumped in to show off their amateur singing skills but for what?  Everything is every fake in this movie don't know if it were purposely designed. But one thing is very true - all the main characters acted like they were highly under the influence of some chemicals. The mother (Merly Streep) and her two old lady friends looked like drunken old sluts from the beginning to the end of the movie.  Taste something bad after watching this movie and can't really laugh about it.  ( Merly Streep actually did pretty well -almost professional in singing if indeed she sang all the mother's songs.)

Not Sure Why This Musical Was Made Allow me to begin by saying that I love Andrew Lloyd Webber. I think he's brilliant. The stories are complex and winding, just as the music is. The music is always so beautiful in his pieces.  That said, the storyline of this musical is horrible, even with the rewrites done for this filmed Australian version. Nothing can save this plotline, as it honestly reads like very bad fanfiction. But there's some redemption, as the music is still beautiful and complex. It very much conveys the Coney Island feeling of strange and wonderful very well. Parts of the musical read like Rogers and Hammerstein (such as "Look with You Heart," that could easily fit into something like 'The King and I' or 'The Sound of Music') while other parts are classic, 1970s ALW, such as "The Beauty Underneath." The cast is good. I do think it was well-cast. The production is beautiful--from the stage to the lights to the sound. But in the end, it is still related to this awful plotline that I'm not entirely sure why it exists. I think the music is complex and beautiful. The staging is beautiful and complex. But nothing can save this bad, almost melodramatic storyline.

King Dethroned DAVY CROCKETT: KING OF THE WILD FRONTIER (1955) Directed by Norman Foster.  Starring Fess Parker (as David Crockett), Buddy Ebsen, Jeff York, Basil Ruysdael (as Andrew Jackson) Hans Conried, Mike Mazurki, Don Megowan (as William Travis) Nick Cravat, Douglas Dumbrille, George J. Lewis and Kenneth Tobey as Jim Bowie.  This...the first historical television mini series beating out even the British by several years.....tells the story of David Crockett Frontiersman and Democrat politician during the Jackson administration...his early life, tall tale adventures, his time in Congress and his heroic end at the Alamo. The series was produced out of sequence with Davy Crockett and the River Boat Race and Davy Crockett and the River Pirates which should be viewed first in continuity being made last.  The series was such a success that it created a national craze for things Crockett.  That acknowledged one must say that its popularity is inexplicable. In Hollywood, there are two schools on how to make things accessible for children. A) Treat them as if they are morons. B) Treat them as if they are sexually degenerate longshoreman trolling Times Square. Walt Disney tended to opt for the former and this series suffers for it.  Disney was apparently so terrified that the viewers might be thrilled and/or apparently worse educated by the American history being dramatized that he did everything possible to turn it into formless empty dayglow glob.  One could go on for pages but just off the top of one's end. The Harpe Brothers appear in the first two eps. Horrific beyond belief, they were America's first identified serial killers. Disney portrays them as a slightly gruffer version of Laurel and Hardy. During what should have been a thrilling brutal fight between another historical murderer named Sam Mason and Crockett, presumably to keep the kids from enjoying themselves, Disney keeps cutting to a humorous fight between Ebson and that funny lug Big Harpe. In Davy Crockett and the Creek War, instead of portraying a barbaric Indian cult called Red Sticks who went on a terroristic genocidal slaughter of Americans secretly armed by the British during the War of 1812 which is the history. Disney portrays an Indian chief NAMED Red Stick who goes on a very generalized rampage because some secret bad White men have cheated him somehow. Davy then persuades him to make peace as we know genocidal savages all long to do---when in reality, the Red Sticks were defeated by the forces of Andrew Jackson at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814.  The Davy Crockett goes to congress ep is the worst as not only being deadly dull but so hollowed out lest the kiddies actually the learn something that it is impossible to know what is going on. Historically Crockett oppossed Andrew Jackson's Indian removal bill directed against the Cherokees. Good luck trying to figure that out. All we are told is that Jackson and Crockett disagree about something but when the two finally meet in the White House to discuss it instead to two frontiersmen secretly start drinking some backwoods hooch. OH THE MIRTH. Davy then makes a speech in Congress about how Andrew Jackson is not behind the Indian Removal Bill but unspecified secret bad people. He then chides Congress for not doing its job and marches out to thunderous and utterly inexplicable applause. And so a chance to dramatize an important and fascinating bit of American political history has been lost. One imagines Disney was under presure not to criticize a Democrat President? There is no other reason for this pathetic shell game.  Finally Crockett gets to the Alamo and that particular ep is pretty good as it is hard not be moved at the deaths of brave men particularly two the viewer has been with for several weeks. Of course the history is mostly made a hash of and I do not recall the enemy ever being identified as being Mexican and we never meet Santa Ana. Must be the secret bad people again.  The thing is not agonizing. I enjoyed seeing the cast--almost all who are primarily known today for their work in Fifties science fiction films and other genre related productions---play different types of parts and one is happy they got work. Their acting is not their best as Disney tended to equate mugging with giving a performance and encouraged his casts accordingly. The Davy Crockett song is simply fantastic and the best thing about the series.  But ultimately it is a wasted opportunity and I would not show to the kids. It makes one wonder if this was why the Baby Boomers turned out so badly? They all wanted to be Davy Crockett wearing dirty clothes, protecting Red men--Vietcong or otherwise, drink secret hooch and fight against the secret bad people?  Worth watching once one supposes since it is famous and was an important part of 50s culture. Just do not expect to be enlightened, ennobled or entertained.

CONFUSED! MINE IS NOT TRUE 3D I am truly confused. Reading the reviews it sounds as tho many rec'd a disc that is true 3-d. Mine has a 2-d disc and a 3-d disc that uses some cheasy kid cardboard glasses.  I have a true HD 3-d I just purchased a few months ago and was really looking forward to watching this in true 3-d.  I notice the casing does not say blu-ray.  Can anyone expand on my understanding (after the fact) that unless you get blue-ray 3-d you are not getting the true 3d dvd to be watched on the new tvs?  And why did some buyers get what seems to be the real deal as advertised and others such as myself get the "low budget" version?

Informative but not a winner Nostalgia has some interesting footage.  The Atacama scenes are haunting. The Pinochet references are too incomplete.  The personal anecdotes while interesting don't complete the tale. The philosophical rants are trite.

I needed more This Movie should have been so much better!!! It seemed to me that whoever paid to make this movie ran out of money and rushed what should have been a 3hrs movie into one that was over just as fast as it started.. The lead actor wasnt that great and did the movie a terrible injustice.. I was so looking forward to this movie only to be let down every step of the way.

Great Movie, poor streaming! The movie itself was good, but I ordered the HD version and that is not what I received.  The imagery was very grainy and at times froze.  I don't know if I would go with HD agin through streaming.  Movie was good though.

AND THE OPERATOR SAYS 40 CENTS MORE FOR THE NEXT THREE MINUTES... Maria Bello stars as Lorraine, a divorced mother who has trouble coping with life. She is unable to take charge of her life and blames herself for every misfortune that comes her way. While spending her last dollar at a convenience store on pizza bagels for her and her son, she gets carjacked by Roy, (Stephen Dorff) a somewhat understanding, yet terrifying bank robber who gets along great with her son Chad, who BTW needs a father figure. The movie takes you to a point where it can go a number of different ways and downhill would not have been my first choice, but that is how it went.  Good acting, although Mario Bello becomes less convincing as the plot turns unrealistic.  F-bomb, no sex, no nudity.

Not MS's best I was kind of disappointed in this DVD.  I am a long time MSG fan.  But this band seems to be the mediocre MSG.  Barden's voice is shot - he has no range at all.  Neil Murray is a journeyman bass player at best.  He's not a fraction as good as Barry Sparks.  Simon Wright does ok on the drums, but I'll take Shane Galas.  The cat is out of the bag on this band on Into the Arena.  The middle solo that Sparks and Galas used to give & take on is noticeably missing.  And lacking.  And Barden cannot range the lyrics as before.  Plus the song selection basically sucks.  Seems to be middle of the road MSG to accomodate Barden's now limited capability.  Plus the mixing is off.  Can barely make out Findley's rhythm guitar under Schenker's axe.

This was not a good film I recently watched this dvd with a few of my friends and before it was over we all agreed that we didn't like it and it was the biggest disappointment EVER!!! We did watch the video completely in hopes that it would get better, but it never did.  I'm an avid movie-watcher and I try to support African American films as much as I can but this film, this film simply SUCKED!  I think that Fantasia and Faith Evans were both doing someone a favor by lending her names & faces to this project however; they should definitely be more selective in the future because a film like this can ruin their chances for being considered for real films in the future.  I guess by now you know that I am not a fan of this film.  Poorly written script, weak plot (if you want to say there was a plot), weak acting, and "Yes", weak directing.  In a nutshell - "Don't waste your time or money."

Marvin's room Sorry, wish I had not bothered with this one. I am a Meryl Streep fan, but even she could not help this one. Not a chic flick, not a drama, not a family movie... not sure who it was for.

Object to DVD-R I object to Amazon selling and the studio releasing movies on DVD-R. This format will not last as long as the regular dvd's but is priced the same. To discourage the practice I will not buy DVD-R.

Tyler Perry's A Madea's Christmas The Play REALLY COULD NOT ENJOY THE MOVIE BECAUSE IT KEPT ON MESSING UP. I KNOW THE MOVIE WAS JUST FOR A DOLLAR BUT I REALLY WAS EXCITED TO SEE THIS MOVIE. AND DISSAPPOINTED THAT I DIDN'T GET TO ENJOY THE FULL EFFECTS OF THE MOVIE.

Kalifornia "more like "Kill ifornia" Not one of Brad Pitts stellar perfromances. He is carried through by his co-stars. If my lady did not insist on watching ithe end, I would have stopped it at the half way point and sent it packing. The movie is long and drawn out with little conviction and action in between long boring drama segments.

Holiday Switch This movie was very similar to a movie made 1990 with Jim Belushi and Linda Hamilton call "Mr Destiny".  One of those wish I  lived a different life movies.  Although I found "Mr Destiny" more entertaining, "Holiday Switch" had an interesting surprise at the end.  I doubt that I will look at this one again.

Don't bother; unless you love Scooby AND Musicals Wife and I don't like musicals but we like Scooby and the gang. Unfortunately, the negatives of this movie being a musical out weight the fact it's Scooby. Our kids like the show but get bored during the songs. For my wife and I, it's punishing to watch. Not sure why it gets such favorable reviews.

disappointed - First time ever.... I love "The American President" and have it on VHS tape.  I wanted to move up to the DVD.  I ordered this DVD along with several others and some time passed before I viewed it so I missed my "return" window.  This was supposed to be a double feature but "Dave" was not on the DVD.  The DVD I received freezes up seventeen minutes into the movie. There are no visible marks indicating any damage so I don't know what the problem is.  This is a new experience for me.  I have always, before now, received quality products.  Guess I am stuck with it.

battle; los angeles will, where do i start ,  i throught the movie was sooo boring and stuiped, all that money for a $6 movie thats what it will go for next yr.THE camra is all ways shaking up-down poorly made movie. So if any one is looking to buy this movie DON;T, it sucks................

Dont Do it If you are a guy, dont let your girl talk you into this one.  She said "it has funny parts" but dont get suckered in.  It might be a good movie for girls but it is brutal for most guys to sit through if they are anything like me.

Some good laughs, but not many The Promotion is a comedy set in Chicago featuring two guys fighting it out over a retail promotion. There are some genuinely funny moments in the film, but these seemed to be few and far between. There's some swearing in the film which I feel is totally unnecessary to the plot and further spoils the film. Good to see bits of Chicago in the film and a couple of brief appearances from actor Bobby Cannavale. All in all, watch it if there's nothing else, but don't expect to be amazed.

amusing modern movie inspired by Illiad, but not the Illiad If you take this work as inspired by Homer's Illiad, but understand that it is not the Illiad, then you can enjoy it as a wonderful action adventure epic film complete in itself.  However if you are overmuch concerned with the integrity of comparison between Homer and this movie, you will be disappointed.  The enjoyable aspects have been well covered in other essays. I will touch on the one negative that can't be eliminated however, which comes from comparing the works, that was key to Peterson's film but likewise, integral to Homer.  That element is the voice and action of the gods.  To Homer, and to the Greeks, the work was surely as much about gods as men.  In the Illiad, the gods enflesh themselves, they talk to each other, they talk to mortals, they fight and they are key and indispensible dramatis personae.  Peterson eliminates them.  With all the imagination of a post-war, modern-day Freudian atheist, he just purged their existence as if they were imaginary.  As if there were no cult of Hellenistic gods that existed for centuries, that were the subjects of real worship, and the inspirational archetypes even for Christians in centuries since Constantine.  All that is gone, flushed away, and here you have the Kali-juga iron age  version instead.  Here the only Apollo is a dead statute that Achilles gets to deface and destroy.  In terms of the cultural vacuum of today's West, this is an apt artistic choice, but one that is made so unselfconsciously that it in itself is a desecration, a de-sacralization, of the Illiad, that is very much a religious epic as much as an adventure.  By doing this Peterson makes way for a thrilling and enjoyable action-adventure film, based on the story of Troy, but he cheapens the content.  Yet in a way, could this work have been done in any other way today?  Concerning what we know of the irreligious, materialistic attitudes of "Hollywood" today I think probably not.  If one can forget the religious and cultural signficance of the Illiad, then you can really enjoy this film.  I don't recommend it to peple who take the source inspiration seriously as they will tend to be troubled by the desacralization, and a thousand lesser changes such as other reviewers have mentioned.

OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!! Troll 2... the classic bad movie that has spawned a massive cult following and had it's own documentary made about it. Essentially, the way I would describe this film is a movie that fails in every aspect that makes a movie good but yet, manages to be so enjoyable and very ''watchable'' unlike a load of other ''bad'' movies out there. This movie is very odd, very stupid, and really camp. Now here's something I find interesting. I've always thought that this movie and it's concept would easily been a little acceptable if it were a movie made in the 50's or '60s when those poorly made camp flicks (Creature from the Black Lagoon, Plan 9 from Outer Space) were a dime a dozen.  This movie however, was not made in the 50's or 60's... It was made over the course of three weeks in Summer of 1989 and was released in 1990. But it really does feel like one of those bad movies from the 50's and 60's. It has a horrible script, horrible costumes, horrible acting... I could go on but that would take too long.  There are a number of reasons why this movie is so bad. The main reason why this movie was so bad was because the production crew's inetractions with the actors ended up being a total train wreck. Most of them were native itallians who could speak little to no english. Most of the actors thought they were being cast in this movie as extras. They arrived to the set... and ended up being handed a script. The costume designers made very fake looking costumes for the goblins. It overall had zero production value and this is also evident by how it was filmed in only three weeks. Hey, at least it lasted longer than Kim Kardashian's marriage.  So, you may be asking why this film is called ''Troll 2''. Well, basically in 1986, a movie called ''Troll'' was released. Troll 1 was not a very good film itself either. A few years later when this movie's production was happening, they were originally going to call it ''Goblins!''.  Troll 1 and Goblins were two totally unrelated movies. Well, the stupid marketers decided to ''cash'' in on Troll 1 and rename ''Goblins!'' Troll 2. And alas, the two unrelated films ended up being part of the same series which explains why there are no trolls in this movie, but rather, goblins. Wow. So, anyway let's dive into the review!  Plot: 2 out of 10  So, here's the plot of this movie. There is a family known as the Waits Family. They consist of four members. Joshua, Holly, Michael, and Diana. Joshua and Holly are the two kids and Michael and Diana are the parents. Michael and Diana both want to go on a vacation to a place called Nilbog. They have already worked out a plan to swap houses with one of the residents of the town.  Meanwhile, our protagonist, Joshua (who is clearly off his meds in this scene... and probably off his meds for the entire movie) is being visited by the ghost of his dead grandfather, Grandpa Seth. Seth informs Joshua that in Nilbog, there are goblins. The goblins that reside there can use their magic powers to impersonate humans and hate any sort of meat. Instead they must have plants and vegetables etc. The only way the goblins can get the food they like, though, is by feeding humans some weird green plant-like stuff. When the humans consume it, they turn into green plant-like stuff as well. So, why can't the goblins just eat the original green plant-like stuff? Answers to this... are never going to be explained...  So, the Waits family heads out to Nilbog, and like in any good bad horror film, nobody except for Joshua sees anything ominous at all about the town. Even when the owners of the house they're swaping with stare at them in a creepy way, speak in a low-keyed voice, and leave behind food that has some sort of green slime drizzled over it. Nope, nothing wrong here. Just a couple of jolly, nice, and likeable fellows!  Of course, Joshua, who seems to be the only one who sees any problem with these people (and knows about the goblins) tries to stop his family from eating the food that is infested with green-plant like stuff. Suddenly, good ol' Grandpa Seth arrives. He is somehow able to stop time for thirty seconds, giving Joshua enough time to think of a plan. You want to know what our good friend Joshua does? You really want to know? Joshua pulls down his pants and pees all over their food, being the good hero he is. Of course, this is not the end. Joshua has to help keep his family safe. What should he do? Well, I'm not telling you because that would take too long and because I don't want to spoil this Anti-Masterpiece so there you go.  Okay, while I do admit that the plot is very original, it's original in a terrible way. Seriously, goblins who eat plants that were originally people? A boy who gets help from his dead grandfather on dealing with goblins? REALLY, That's just stupid. Really, really stupid. Of course, it's the sheer stupidity that makes this movie the epic Anti- Masterpiece it is, so I'm not complaining.  Script: 0 out of 10  My god, the script in this movie is bad. It's horrible in every way, but yet so laughable. The lines can just be putrid. Right after the part where I cut off the synopsis, Joshua's dad, Michael screams at him ''You can't p*ss on hospitality!''. A character named Arnold who is introduced later in the film says (very blandly) ''They're eating her... and than they're going to eat me... OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!'' Joshua also gets his fair share of stupidity too. Joshua yells ''Nilbog... is Goblin spelled backwards!" later in the movie. I'm going to try not to spoil every ridiculous and laughable thing this film has to offer, but I am going to warn you... there's alot.  Acting: 0 out of 10  As supported by everything I wrote above, there really is no acting in this movie. A good 98% of the dialouge is unbelievable and unconvincing. You almost have to see it to believe it. It's tough to accept that a movie that does not have at least one half decent actor in it exists. Well, this film (as well as The Room) is living proof that a movie like that can exsist. As I said though, I can't really show you the acting, but go ahead and type in ''Troll 2 scenes'' in on Youtube. You'll be in for a laugh.  Costumes: 1 out of 10  The costumes in this movie are terrible. Now, don't get me wrong. They would make for an awesome Halloween costume. But, when you're trying to make a movie that's supposed to be scary. I think you should put effort into making costumes where the creatures can TALK. Except for the final scene (And even in the final scene, the lip movement looks horrible) and when they're in their human form (which does not count) these monsters never blink, never open their mouth, never give you the impression that you're looking at an actual creature.It just gives you the feeling that you're looking at some kid asking you ''Trick or Treat''. But hey, it's a terrible camp movie so this only makes it all the more better.  Score: 7 out of 10   I think this movie actually did have a somewhat good score. It's not phenomanal or anything, but next to every other aspect of this film, it sounds like something John Williams composed. It's pretty atmospheric and does sound a little like something from Castlevania but I would say it is probably the one thing that was done somewhat right in this entire movie.  Closing Comments  Troll 2 is something I would reccomend to only certain people. To anyone who loves ''So Bad, It's Good'' movies, this should be at the top of your wishlist. If you don't like watching bad movies in general, including ''So Bad, It's Good'' I say you back off from this one.  Have a good day!

2 1/2 stars for a lame sex farce This is a pretty lame attempt to make a sex farce.  In spite of a top notch cast headed by Jeff Bridges, the movie only has a few smiles and nothing laugh-out-loud funny.  In this small rural town, we see that it contains all the small town necessities such as a porno video store and a strip club and prostitution.  Oh, and the 2 ladies that own or work at the mattress store are not only gorgeous but also lesbians!  What a town.  Bridges character can't seem to hold down a job and after losing his wife to another man, decides to produce an "adult" film.  Since he can't really afford to hire real actors, some of the locals fill in.  Sounds promising, but the movie's most scandalous scenes are just off-handed sexual remarks.  We don't really get to see much skin unless you count a lingering view of Ted Danson's ass.

Has not aged well If this was the only film/video document of the '81 tour, you might be inclined to see it as a down time in the band's long stage career. A much better video tour document is from the bootleg Hampton, Virginia show on Keith's 38th birthday, December 18th, 1981. That show was televised on a pay per view basis. Good bootlegs can be found at various flea markets that blow 'Let's Spend the Night Together' away. Maybe someday the Stones will release an official version of the Hampton, Virginia concert.

worth watch movie Out of the performances,  Richa Pallod  impresses. She is a young in the industry, but she makes the film watchable to a certain extent.  Rakesh Bapat  is improving and complements his co-star well. The veteran actors are wasted and the rest of the cast are average tv serial stars. Music by  Nikhil-Vinay is average. There is a song after every 5 minutes, and this slackens the pace of an already slow film. The comedy track is also quite lame and amateurish.

TOTAL CRAP, MUCH? Okay, I rented this sorry excuse for a movie to see Brent Corrigan and he was there... far about 2 minutes.  I have no seen so many offensive stereotypes and crude gay jokes thrown into one film.   If you want to watch something good, get JUDAS KISS.  Lord, I wasted 90 minuntes and $2.99!  Randy

How could he?! This is the worst movie ever! I can't believe the main character didn't jump on the jailbait when he had the chance. If he doesn't agree with society and society's laws then he must have not agree to the underage law of 18. He is a freaking hypocrite! I wanted to see some action not homosexual singing on the stage. What a fool! That poor girl. She must have felt like unwanted and ugly when she was rejected after throwing herself at him. He got what was coming to him at the end. Stupid idiot.

Typical French movie I liked this movie when I started watching it. I remember thinking: please, let this be a thriller with a surprise ending! But no, it turned out to be just another typical eccentric French brain flatulence where you keep wondering what the heck it is all about. I used to hate French movies, but I have seen a few good ones lately, so there is hope. Two stars because I did not hate the first few minutes.

Dear God No... don't make me watch it again!! Sorry, I gave up on this one after a character in the film enjoyed a drink he called, "Vertical Hatchet Wound." (I refuse to go into more detail about the drink) I'm all for low budget.  I'm all for over the top.  I'm all for the "so bad it's good mentality."  I am NOT all for this ridiculousness.  It got 2 stars instead of 1 just based on the shear amount of boobs in the first 15 minutes of the movie alone... but even that couldn't get me to sit through the whole thing.

Very poor writting The scenario could have been written by a Walt Disney production. It's predictable and near to stupid. But the entertainment is great, the singing impressive and it's great to see that Cher can still move her face...

More of a Documentary than a Movie. I bought this movie in hopes of understanding more about how decided the races were back then but this Movie lacks alot of Knowledge about that and has a very tragic ending which was a shocker.. Not really something I'd recommend to anyone.

Ok, i'll admit it's lame I typically like Casper Van Dien's low budget stuff, but i have to admit this felt a little under cooked. Computerized plane goes out of control, passengers freak out, Casper comes to the rescue, and it's all settled in lightning speed. If i had to pinpoint a problem, it's a lack of real tension. The plot is just a little too simplistic to serve as a compelling action-adventure vehicle. Still, it's not his worst film.

a reunion not to watch This was just a bad movie not Worth buying just plane bad the first was the best this one was just plane bad don't wast your money.

Veganism?  Maybe, but film omits details, unanswered questions Forks Over Knives, I suspect, will strike viewers in a polarizing way.  Meaning, Vegans and vegetarians will probably see this movie as touting gospel, while Southern-style Beef lovers, will see it as complete garbage.  For me, I found the movie one-sided...It provided evidence that it wanted to share, in order to prove its point, while leaving out critical information and unanswered questions.  For example:  PALEO MOVEMENT:  Many folks from the paleo movement, would point out, that approximately 2 million years ago, human beings began walking upright, and lived, almost entirely on eating the beasts that they killed.  They were hunters/gatherers, and lived this way, largely free of cancer, heart disease, and modern day degenerative conditions (known through anthropological records), up until about 10,000 years ago, at which point, man discovered agriculture, began growing its own food, relying on grains, and from that point forward, we then begin to see anthropological records showing modern degenerative diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and through the industrial revolution, and on in to modern day, this has only gotten worse.  In other words, our ancestors ate meat, and they were significantly healthier than we are.  I don't think Dr. Campbells' research or conclusions ties its conclusions to anthropology in any way.  In fact, the film completely ignores the issue entirely.  PROTEIN:  If I am understanding Dr. Campbells' solution, he is saying, completely disregard the need for protein beyond a vegan diet...Don't worry about it, just eat veggies and fruit, because protein is plenty in  whole foods and plant-based foods, right?  Well, I'm going out on a limb here, but I think that means about 10% to 12% of this diet, is protein.  The rest, is basically complex carbs.  12%?  That is incredibly low.  That means, if an average diet is around 2000 calories (and that's being generous on a plant based diet), only about 200 calories would be protein.  one gram of protein is 4 calories, so, we all, equally (atheletes and couch-potatoes alike), can live a vibrant life, on only 40 grams of protein.  So, all our amino acids, all our building blocks, for all our muscles, no matter what condition, no matter what activity level, can be had from 40 grams of protein.  Did you see any studies rendering this conclusion, in the documentary?  Nothing beyond opinions from a handful of PH.D.'s, who happen to be vegans themselves.  I find this a very hard pill to swallow, and in fact, somewhat dangerous.  See, I heard what the film said, that protein is a big scam, but, what I did not hear, was evidence supporting that conclusion.  NUTRITION:  What about Omega-3s and FISH?  The film completely disregarded the volumes of modern scientific evidence, including population studies, demonstrating that enormous health benefits of cold water fish, and the fatty acids contained in said fish, such as Salmon and Tuna, can have enormous benefits to us human beings.  Furthermore, I'm a little disturbed by the physical make-up of many of these folks in this film, claiming to have the perfect diet.  Aside from the champion MMA guy, did you see anyone in this film, that had a healthy physique, with lots of healthy muscle, good bone structure, and just glow of overall health?  I didn't.  I saw some folks just coming down from high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, and some elderly folks who, frankly, are happy to be alive, and I'm happy for them, but come no where close to setting the kind of examples that folks like Jack LaLane set.  I'm not being cruel here...I'm sure they are healthier now, then they were before, but the film sets them up as having these vibrant, active lives, and I don't see it.  I've seen healthier folks, healthier seniors, many of whom do not subscribe to an all vegan diet in order to thrive.  SCIENCE:  We run into a problem, when we have a doctor, that examines a few studies, and forms a conclusion, and then that conclusion becomes said doctors dogma moving forward.  Even though Dr. Campbell is bucking the system, anti-establishment, not following everyone elses' dogma, doesn't mean he is not suffering from his own.  Sorry, but where are the double-blind studies, over a period of 10-20 years, demonstrating, that a vegan diet, is the best diet?  They may be out there, but this film, really only shows one small study, Dr. Campbells own study, of 18 patients, and that's it.  Well, that is not enough.  There have been other doctors like this in the past:  Dr. Atkins, and Dr. Pritikin, both come to mind.  We can take golden nuggets from the research of these kinds of men, but should not make it a foregone conclusion that their dogma, is any better, than anybody elses.  VARIABLES:  I don't have a problem with the chinese population study, or even the clinical studies, or even the Norway study.  Information is information.  But, what I do have a problem with, is the fact that there are so many variables, how can Dr. Campbell come to the foregone conclusion, that these studies all relate to meat?  What about the viability of the studies themselves?  Norway, for example...How do we know that the lack of disease, could have simply been a lack of adequate documentation, in a time of turmoil, during world war II?  How reliable was that study, in other words?  What about the China study...How do we know that other variables, besides meat, was at play there, such as environmental, pollutants, toxins, and/or, the same issue as the Norway study...People are simply interviewing other people, with armchair training, from China in 1970's, no less, and we should conclude that it is absolutely viable data?  So, in conclusion, I think this film did a good job selling a point of view, but in the end, it only provides one side of data, and is therefore, nothing more than a parlor trick.  And by the way, I don't eat meat or chicken, and I don't eat any processed sugar or processed foods.  My diet is largely vegetarian, but I do eat eggs, yogurt, and fish.  I'm just sharing this, in hopes that this review will hold a little more weight.  My disappointment is in the film itself, not in vegans or vegetarianism as a whole.

dissapointed i recieved the video in good time, but it was missing the digital copy code.  the disk is here but no code.  I will update this review ifI am sent the diital copy code (and it works).

decent It came more scratched and the back of the disc was foggy.  Not sure if I would recommend many used dvd purchases.

They totally wasted an interesting idea. Let me get this straight...this movie is telling me God wants another Democrat in the Whitehouse and the love for a woman was the only thing that saved us?  Whew!  That was close.  Emily Blunt has good screen presence but that didn't save this movie.

Great movie, inexcusably poor release Park Chan-wook's 'Thirst' is a great film. Not much to say that hasn't been said already. It's superbly made and has great performances, especially Song Kang-ho as the tormented vampire priest. Despite it's long length (over 2 hours) I would also say its one of the director's more accessible films. It's pretty violent and sexually explicit but there's nothing as disturbing or potentially upsetting as the content in the Vengeance Trilogy, and the plot is pretty straightforward. It's not Park's best (that still goes to Oldboy) but's up there.  It's a shame, then, that Universal seriously dropped the ball with this DVD. For one thing, they neglected to put it on Blu-ray, which is inexcusable. Nearly every film nowadays, even direct-to-video slasher sequels, get Blu-rays, and Universal couldn't give one to one of the most famous and critically acclaimed international directors out there?  But even then, it's possible for a standard DVD to be a quality product. Even if it's not high def, you can still have a good transfer and a healthy amount of special features. But Universal couldn't even get that right. For one thing, there are no special features at all even though the international releases had plenty to use. Not even a solitary interview with the director. Nothing. The quality of the presentation is pretty shoddy as well; the transfer, is simply put, crap. It's inconsistent with poor detail and lousy contrast.  Even more insultingly, they burned in the English subtitles. Universal was so cheap that they couldn't even give us the option of changing them. So if you're Spanish, you're going to have to deal with two sets of subtitles on your screen. Pretty much every foreign film DVD in the last decade has had the option of turning off or changing the subtitles.  Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of alternatives. If you possess a region-free Blu-ray player, you can import Tartan's disc from Amazon.co.uk but that leaves out most customers. The best one can hope for at this point is that Universal decides to cash in on Park's success when his American debut 'Stoker' comes out and release a better edition, but I'm not holding my breath.  The impression is that no one cared when producing this DVD, they just wanted to put out the cheapest version possible and get it out there. There really is no excuse for such a subpar release, especially one from a director such as Park.

Tea: A strong idea for a brew, but that's about it Overall a great inpsiring true story about women in aviation that was several sandwhiches short of delivering it to screen. The movie follows Amelia on her final flight, with flashbacks that take us back to how she got on her first officially noticable flight, and continues to follow her life up to that final journey around the world. I wasn't impressed with her as a character in the movie (the way they portrayed her and designed her in the script) nor did I enjoy Ms. Swank's interpretation of her (I see she is one of the executive producer's which means she has a major say in who plays the title role).  And I was not terribly intrigued with how they portrayed her marriage and that relationship.  It did not understand why they chose what they chose to include in the movie, leads me to believe they left out a whole bunch of other things.  I wonder who it was that gave that direction to the script writer, if they were so directed. I did not like the pacing of the movie either, as it seemed to drag on in areas, perhaps because they tried to cram too much into one movie. If you're interested in aviation, you may or may not want to see this movie.  Course if you love Ms. Swank, then this is the movie for you. I won't be buying it for my library.

Review Even though the movie contained some major actors, the movie wasn't very good. It had a very bad and slow plot. I don't recommend this movie.

Plotless action movie with noise being the only tension. I gave it  2 stars instead of 1 because I liked seeing the characters again. There is absolutely no bothering to sustain story or credibility. To wit: the most powerful mutant, a class 5, who can shred matter with her mind, and evaporate entire (large) lakes in fit of steamy passion is killed by a (Wolverine's) large salad fork. Disappointing. Expensive. Dumb.

wish I had known This was one of my favorite movies but wish I had known before I purchased it that it is not viewable in my region.Ut was my mistake and a costly one.

A Very Poor Compilation You know those classic slap-stick "Three Stooges" shorts that are always on TV? Well forget those because only 4 of their 220 short-films made it into these 7 discs. Those 4 being the public domain shorts that have been released time and time again. The rest of this set is comprised of the team's early work with Ted Healy (which was before the Stooges even developed their act), some late "Curly Joe" material and cartoons. Fans who see this impressive looking box-set will be puzzled and disappointed by the lack of what the packaging promises. It is very deceptive.

Justice is not served in this film... If this was a horrible movie, I think I would've gotten into it more. The problem with Seeking Justice is that it's so dull and maybe could've been a better film if it was placed in better hands.  There's very little to commend in this movie. For the talent that's in this film, they all seem to just sort of sleepwalk through their roles. The premise of the movie, that you have a group offering you vigilante justice for a dark price, is an interesting one. It's just that one of the biggest mistakes was hiring Nicholas Cage. He's one of the weakest points in this film and while he doesn't do an absolutely terrible job of acting, he doesn't seem to really be into his role either. As others have said, he just phones in his performance for a paycheck. Since he's the focus of the entire film he just drags everything down with him. I think I could've overlooked a lot if not for this, such as January Jones being able to quickly cut through a pair of handcuffs within a minute or so of rubbing it against some metal. (I doubt it's that easy IRL.)  The special features on this DVD are rather light. You get a behind the scenes featurette and the movie's trailer, which sort of just shows me that nobody was really all that invested in this film and just seem to have wanted to get this movie onto DVD as quickly as possible to make back the money they sank into the film.  This just could've been so much better, which is what made the film that much more of a disappointment. It's not a horrible flick, but it's something that I recommend renting rather than buying. If you really must own it, just wait for this to hit the eight dollar bins at Wal-Mart. It's just one of the many disappointing and forgettable films that Cage has done over the years, so odds are it'll be there before the year is out.

line dance The steps are a little hard to follow, would be easier if you could see the back view as well. Thought there would be more than just a few dances on this video.

Glee ripoff! I love Dolly Parton, and I think Qween Latifa has one of the best voices around, but this film, a studio stuge project, and a clear rip offf of Glee, basicaly sucks.  There is no dynamec to the plot, all the minor charicters, and by that I meen not Dolly or Q latefa, are backed up by so second and third level talents that it's almost painful.  Some Xtians will like it, but as entertainment for the masses, it falls short.

Not so grate : ( I brought this workout tape bacause of all the great reviews. If you are used to another pilates method, I don't think you will like this workout. I didn't feel any kind of burn while doing the exercises. I think this would be okay for beginners.

Unsubstantial, melodramatic, pretentious and neurotic Maia Morgenstern is beautiful and magnetic and looks like pictures of the saint, but the film is arsty, affected, and melodramatic, with scenes from her life, which, if they actually occurred at all, are pulled out of context and have little meaning to the viewer, particularly if said viewer was hoping to find out more about her. I wanted to learn about her early life, her studies, the personal and philosophical influences that led to her transformations from Jewish to atheist and eventually to Catholic, and the evolution of her thought and her holiness.  Instead we see her, with no preamble, [SPOILER ALERT!] go home and tell her mother about her conversion and watch her mother's disowning of her. We see her give a lecture at whatever university where the questions are interrupted by the manipulative comments of an apparent old flame who is never fully identified but is now apparently a Nazi named Heller. Flashbacks of them dancing in the old days to music - a lugubrious mixture of gypsy violin, klezmer and tango - and of a cross that breaks off a chain around her neck come to her as she lies sprawled on the ground floor of the university with a bloodied face after tripping on the stairs in her anxiety to flee her tormentor (nothing is explained).  A scene follows where she is dismissed from her post at the university because she is a Jew. Then she hugs another man who asks her to marry him but she says she loves him but she can't, and then she goes off to the Carmelite convent from hell, where, among other things, she counsels a postulant who is unsure of her vocation to listen to her doubts (especially sound advice in regard to this convent!). In that scene, she goes through St. Teresa's seven rooms (or levels) of spirituality in what seemed to me to be a gross oversimplification. We see her being sent to a convent in Holland for safety and then being hauled off to Auschwitz where she is shown in sihouette walking naked into the gas chamber. There she is held by her mother (who had already died of natural causes at home without their ever being reconciled) in a kind of pieta. The end.  Convent scenes are interspersed with pictures of Edith writing at her desk, whispering quotes from her writings (none of which were particularly gripping out of context). Other sounds include the previously mentioned lugubrious music alternating with artistic silence - drips of water, footsteps, whispering nuns, etc. The lighting is unrelentingly dark. To tell you the truth, I'm not even sure whether it was filmed in black and white or just as drearily as possible.  I bought this for our family in-home retreat, to show my (very intelligent) preteen and teen daughters a modern saint and to watch a good story and maybe learn something and be inspired, but we found it confusing and depressing. I guess you could see it as a darkly romantic elegy for St. Edith Stein aimed at people who already know all about her, and it does have some beauty to it, but I found it ultimately unsatisfying and annoying.  By the way, it is dubbed in Italian with subtitles, though it was originally filmed in Hungarian. If they could dub it into Italian, one wonders why they couldn't also dub it into English. Or why we couldn't just hear it in Hungarian with subtitles.

The Iron Lady This movie concentrates on an elderly Baroness Thatcher with flashbacks to her glory years as PM.  Not terribly accurate at times. Is is likely that the Iron Lady would have so many regrets now when she seemingly had non during those years of civil unrest and cutbacks in Tory governed Britain?  When she was powerful she steamed ahead and mowed everything in her path...

Something went wrong Well,I'm really sad to say that I just understood nothing about the movie.   I tried the subtitle in English,but it didn't work.   I speak neither Russian nor Polish,so...   By the way, my deal with the shop was ok. It is NOT their fault.They delivered the good on due time and answered all my doubts.

This was not the direction this movie should have gone I am a little surprised this movie gets about a 50% rating on RottenTomatoes.com.  I guess that shows there are at least two types of Stooges fans out there: those who are purists and did not feel this movie could work, and those who are either Farrelly Brothers fans or are just impressed by good Stooges impersonators.  The latter probably did not really care one way or another whether the movie is in color, is set in modern times, and has music in the background (none of those things were in the originals, and do not work for me).  I think more of those who did not have this purist approach have weighed in here on this movie, since at the time I wrote this the average rating on Amazon was 4 stars.  The same people who gave 4 or more stars probably don't mind listening to cover bands rather than the real thing.  That's all fine, but more often than not the original is better.  In the Stooges case, the original is a LOT better.  When this movie was first known to be in the planning stages, I was excited.  Being a long-time Stooges fan but knowing I would never have a chance to direct something like this, I was hoping whoever did would do a GREAT job.  In general, I was very disappointed.  The three Stooge characters (Chris Diamantopoulos as Moe, Sean Hayes as Larry, and Will Sasso as Curly) are very talented and gave it their best shots.  That's where the positives end.  So many people said this movie should never be made.  I thought it might be worth a shot, but it would really take a lot for it to work.  This movie does not, and now I can see those detractors were right.  I can't say I have seen every movie that is a remake from some earlier film (TV or theatrical).  It's generally not a good idea. An exception is the Brady Bunch Movie, which was great since it was a spoof of a show I pretty much despised.  Also, the Batman movies are more serious than the TV version (more like the actual comic strip), so those movies have gone in a different direction.  But on to the Stooges.  At least for me (and almost anyone else I discussed this movie with before it was released), the Stooges belong in their 30's or 40's environment, or before that time, such as in their Civil War episodes, or out in the Old West, or the Pilgrim Days, etc.  Here are some things I think would have made the movie more appealing: -Black and white.  Even the colorized versions of the originals on YouTube do not look as good as the black and whites. -Same "'30's-40's" vintage look as the originals (including the same "change of scenes" look; reference the originals to see what I mean) -Story lines from those times or before, but in a new or different situation or time. -No musical background, unless it is incidental to the episode (like an orchestra in the background as part of the story line, etc.).  Mood or rock music does not suit the Stooges. -Great character actors (Vernon Dent, Bud Jamison and several others really made those original episodes that much better) -Using the REAL introductory music for each episode.  The movie used some karaoke version, and at that played about half of it.  What's the hurry?  Was the original music too expensive? -Showing each Stooge interacting with the character actors on their own, rather than needing to be together ALL the time as they are in this movie (except for part of the film when Moe was off on his own).  The originals made good use of this. -Having the three Stooge characters more the same size.  All of them should be a bit dumpy.  Moe (Chris Diamantopoulos) and Larry  (Sean Hayes) were too thin, and Curly (Will Sasso) was too tall.  Picky, yes, but critical to the interaction of the characters and the multi-head clunking situations. -Less overacting by the characters.  Again, Chris, Sean and Will really are very talented, but with better direction and writing, they could have been either closer to the originals, or possibly as funny in a different way if given better stories.  A lot of the scenes seemed to have the characters trying too hard to mimic things the original characters did.  The original characters seemed to have some new wrinkle in each episode, with very little copying from one episode to the next. -Having three unrelated, very different stories, rather than the three connected stories in the movie. -Think more like, "If Curly was OK and never had his strokes, what would have his next episodes been like?"  Talk about a lofty goal for this film, but worth the shot.  If all of the things I mentioned did happen in the movie, most likely it still would never match the originals, but at very least it could have been a lot better than the "Joe's" (sorry Joe Besser, it just wasn't your calling).  It's tough to sound fair through all of this, and I'm sure I sound very critical.  The originals (or at least most of them before Curly had his strokes) were just so good.  I say all this because there was a lot of time to get this movie ready, and I just feel the whole direction was wrong.  The two stars here is a bit generous.  All of that is for the efforts of the Stooge characters.  However, I disagree their performances were "spot on" as some reviewers have mentioned.  Just watch 5 or 10 minutes of this movie and compare it to a similar amount of time in any of the better Curly episodes.  I think you will agree.  The original characters have a lot more multi-dimensional attitudes, expressions, mannerisms, etc. that did not come across in this movie. A chunk of this movie might have been OK for a 5-minute Saturday Night Live skit, but that's about it.  I only hope that skit would not include the typical Farrelly gross-out humor, as seen in the movie's maternity ward scene.  Truly a waste of film, but enough said about that.  I hope a sequel to this film never comes out, because most likely it would continue in a similar modern direction this one took.  If it were to go in the more "vintage" direction (and with different directors), I would be glad to keep an eye on how it goes.  Despite all my rantings here, believe it or not I do have a life outside the Stooges (well, at least I've never gone to the Stooge conventions).

A disgrace to Step Up If what you like about Step Up is the dancing, the acting, or the story...don't bother buying Step Up 3. The acting is horrible, the story could have been written by a 5 year old and it would be the same or even better. The dancing is not that bad, however all the special effects and 3-D bullsht keeps you from really seeing it. Step Up 1 and 2 were a good work, the 3d one looks like they came Up with an idea and made it in one day

OK, where is the real Superman 2 on Blu-Ray Why so invested in these stupid director feuds.  It is far more understandable the feud between Burton fans and Schumacher fans (the difference in style was overly obvious in the Batman franchise) than this feud between Donner and Lester and yet I would think it would be stupid for Burton to go back all these years and wipe out Schumacher's work in Batman Forever (in terms of Batman and Robin, lets just forget about that movie ever existed.)  What we have here with Superman 2 was a culmination of two directors and it was a box office and critical success.  Donner got paid for Superman II and what more is had a long career with Warner Bros.  So it not like he is owed anything.  So why would Warner Bros. even make this "cut and paste," rough cut called the "Donner Cut," the only Superman II available for Blu-Ray?  I have no problem presenting the alternate version.  It certainly is interesting but as someone who grew up with the theatrical version it feels in many ways wrong.  Too many sequences are out of place or missing; and swapping the triumphant opening with Superman saving Lois Lane in the Eiffel tower for Superman not saving Lois Lane jumping out the window seems like a bad move (especially considering Lester does a better job with the same scheme at Niagra Falls).  Superman II should be a bigger and bolder film than the original but what we get with the Donner cut is a film that is a rehash of Superman I.  No offense to the Donner fans out there...By all means have your Donner cut, but I'm plenty sure the rest of us probably would prefer the re-mastered theatrical version when they are buying it on blu-ray.  Oh but wait here is a novel ideal that has been done with other movies on Blu-Ray...Provide both the theatrical and alternate versions on one disc.  Its not like either version of the film have ever been packed with special features that would rob the massive Blu-Ray of disc space.  Donner's ego or legacy or whatever you call it here is the winner and Lester loses after 30 years.  I'm sure its sweet revenge for Donner but the truth of the matter is the fans of the movie who loses out.  If WB doesn't release the theatrical version its the fans who ultimately loose.  WB may be fine with that. Its just a shame how they treat films from the past.

mean spirited Minor has sex w/ teacher #1.  Minor implies (or maybe I just inferred as the history teacher did) that minor would have sex w/ history teacher, teacher #1's friend, after she becomes student body president.  History teacher sets out to unseat minor to protect himself from her.  Finally, years later after graduating from college and now a young senate page, Tracy appears to be repeating the pattern she's established w/ older men; the implication being that she's having sex w/ the Repulblican Senator from Nebraska.  The ending seems to imply that Tracy Flick is going to get far in this World.  This could have been a really interesting story if told in a certain wat, but mostly I was just repelled by it.

First-time filmmaker tries to tackle enormously complex subject This is the director's, Bryce Wagoner's, first film. In fact, this is his first time working on any film. Until now, he was working at a bar and voice-acting in several video games.  After Porn Ends has the look and feel of something a first-time filmmaker would create. Wagoner picked a sexy, attention-gathering topic and then he treated the enormous complexities with something that looks straight out of a film school textbook that he skimmed. You are unlikely to get much out of it unless you want a Where-Are-They-Now of porn actresses.  For a look at the porn industry that is surprising, insightful, and mature, check out David Foster Wallace's essay "Big Red Son" which appears in his book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316013323">Consider the Lobster and Other Essays</a>.

Not family friendly, plot has weaknesses I realize there are many people who enjoyed this episode, and rightfully so.  But it also has some shortcomings, and parents with younger children may not appreciate the shock value of the undisclosed controversial scenes.  Downton Abbey has some very fine acting and my low rating isn't so much a reflection on that aspect of the show, but rather reflects my disappointment in certain weaknesses in the plot, and also because there is no warning about the gay kissing scene in the description, which ruined the show for our family.  We avoid any sort of excessive romance or kissing (not just gay) when watching shows with our young children, and this was really too much to explain to them.  It was completely unexpected and inappropriate in a Masterpiece Theatre show.  Amazon should mark this program as for "mature viewers" or add a "parental warning".  Additionally, there are some very nasty characters in the film, such as a higher ranking maidservant who purposely trips a valet with a disability out of spite.  So unlike many other films in this genre, think twice before letting smaller children watch.  I would never have watched this with my family had I been warned about the content.  Now for the rest.  There was some very good acting, with a mix of experienced, talented actors and some who are less so.  In this first episode we are already seeing a great deal of the characters, and the interaction between a variety of persons with different backgrounds certainly adds interest.  Unfortunately, some of the characters are not only mean but downright annoying and unlikeable in any way.  Furthermore, the plot focuses a great deal on their evil plots and bad character, and not enough on the good - although at least there was one maid character who so far acts in a virtuous manner, but wasn't otherwise likeable enough to really enjoy.  I would have also liked some more interesting dialogue and character interplay.  The dialogue was rather flat without anything really clever or amusing such as I have come to expect in this genre - the plot depends too much on hatred and spite.  I did like that they portray a physically challenged man quite positively, and show the evils of discrimination while also bringing out the dilemmas one can face in trying to be fair towards those with disabilities.  If there were more positive characters to enjoy, and if there weren't the unadvertised and gratuitous men kissing scene, I might give this three stars.  But it really didn't measure up to my expectations, and in a "masterpiece theatre" show, the controversial scene was unexpected and inappropriate and should have been disclosed in the description so we could make an educated decision about watching.

Yet another repeat collection.. I just don't understand why Discovery/GAIAN puts out these collections with content from their previous collection sets. With this new collection - Buster's Biggest Crashes, you get four episodes. The first, "Buster Special" is a clip show - Adam and Jamie really don't much of anything new, just rebuild Buster and reminisce about previous shows were they have destroyed Buster. The bits of episodes that you see in this 49 minute episode are;  - Exploding Toilet - Barrel of Bricks - Hammer Drop - Raccoon Rocket - Killer Laundry - Mad Trombonist - Forrest Fire Scuba Diver - Elevator of Death - Boom Lift Catapult - Plywood Builder - Ming Dynasty Astronaut  The second episode on the DVD is the Cooling Six-Pack from the Collection 1 DVD set.  The Third episiode is Buried in Concrete from Collection 3 DVD set.  The fourth is the Mega Movie Myths show - from the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000LPS2SQ">Mythbusters - Mega Movie Myths</a>  If you already have all or most of the other collections and specials - feel free to skip this new collection. One other thing that really bugged me about this DVD collection, the picture is presented in Full Frame 1.33/1 aspect ratio, but inside that square - the show is in letterbox format - so on a new flat screen tv, you end up with wide black bars on either side of the picture and black bars on the top & bottom of the screen. Annoying to me, but at least they did one thing I liked - there are subtitles on all of the episodes.

doesn't stream to Apple TV via ipad Hopefully the content is great, but I may never know since playing the video from Amazon thru my iPad to my Apple TV results in "audio only" playback. This is apparently due to some licensing snafu with Amazon. I guess it's iTunes video for me from here on in (not a fan of watching movies on a handheld device at home).

Characters might be too strong a word... I was disappointed that such a well-touted story would have such lackluster characters.  For all the alleged intellectual and philosophical contributions, the debate presented so impractically one-sided that it misleads viewers into believing there are no alternatives to Dagny's beliefs.  Atlas' characters have all the depth and subtlety of a comatose beauty queen.  The protagonists are perfect and completely interchangeable self-inserts.  Meanwhile, the antagonists might as well be played by Sauron and his army of orcs.  In fact, I'm not the first to make the comparison:  "There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."  I'm afraid the same may apply to the movies.

... While the idea for this movie may have been intriguing, it needed to be developed more. The story felt slapped together, and I had a hard time maintaining my interest through the film, it was a chore to sit through but I wanted to see how it ended, got dang it! Finally we see the reason for 13 ghosts and why the house is the way it is, but honestly, it was just too unbelievable for me. The only nice thing about the whole movie was the glass house and its creative design.

my son didn' care for this movie and neither did i. it was boring from begining to end. i think it was a good deal but is not an original so for that it shouded cost only 1 dollar

Would not recomment at this price The cover art was the best thing about this movie.  Had I bought this for around $5 I would not have been as disappointed as I was.  I guess I was expecting more for the price I paid.

Not much more than a sop to fans I came late to Twin Peaks, having heard about it for years, but didn't get around to seeing it until this year (2012).  It seemed to end on a cliffhanger, not surprising since it wasn't picked up for a third season, so Lynch had no opportunity to tie up the loose ends of the "Windom Earle" story, and bring the series to a coherent conclusion.  "Fire Walk with Me," for some reason, is a prequel.  It answers nothing that wasn't apparent from the TV show's first season, and gives no hint of events after the second season.  We get to see most of the characters again, some in cameo or bit parts, with a few notable absences, and a different actress playing Donna.  The plot is trivial, not much more than a vehicle for Lynch to explore the depravity and criminality lurking just beneath the surface of what appears to be a wholesome small town, in a poor reprise of the far superior "Blue Velvet."  So now that I've seen the franchise in its entirety, I can move on without feeling left out of anything.  Leopold Bloom "No more rhyming!  I mean it!"  "Anybody want a peanut?"

Glitch in the Way Back Machine I still enjoy stumbling on this show when I'm channel-surfing, but I only ever stay a few minutes. Why? I like the characters, Red has "a certain je ne sais quoi"--I think it's the Navy vet vibe--and I just love the hair/fashion/set elements. I remember these outfits!  But there are a few details I find impossible to overlook:  1. The laugh track is particularly grating. If you can ignore it, great. But once you realize it's there, you'll get a headache.  2. Sometimes they use slang that is much more modern than the 70's. Annoying.  3. This is unforgivable: Donna goes to Marquette and there are posters for the MU mascot, the Golden Eagles. I attended MU in the 1970's and our basketball team dominated EVERYONE ELSE....and we were the WARRIORS.  "Golden Eagles" is the new team name now that Warriors (and the little Willie Wampum avatar) have become un-p.c. But that's a recent change (and a dumb change: golden eagles are not indigenous to the Wisconsin area). So as a falconer AND a Marquette alum, shame on the producers.  So is "That 70's Show" really all that 70's? Maybe a little--if you turn the sound off and if college basketball is totally meaningless in your life. (Which probably means you attended a Loser school.)  GO WARRIORS.

Perfect for Uncritcal Eastwood Fans Overlong, poorly acted, cliche-ridden shot-em-up with pretentions to seriousness and post Civil War relevance.  Nice job by John Vernon as Fletcher and the usual exciting suspend-your-disbelief Eastwood-style armed confrontations.

Unfortunately Not My Cup of Tea I found this movie to be inane and just plain not funny to me. I had a very hard time watching the entire thing. It didn't hold my attention at all.  After watching the trailors on TV for this movie, I sort of expected something slightly like "Dumb and Dumber" maybe. The humor was too subtle or something and there seemed to be long stretches where there was no humor at all. At the end, Paul Rudd's character was pretty much the same as the beginning. Quite honestly, I felt that the storyline just went nowhere.  My husband watched this movie some months before I did either on pay-per-view or one of the movie channels on our satellite and he told me he wished he'd have known I was getting it from Amazon because he would have saved me the trouble. He didn't like it either and generally he likes comedies a lot more than I tend to.  There just was nothing outstanding about this film for me.  Bottom line: This one is not a keeper.

Weak Stuff. Viewed: 8/12 Rate: 3  8/12: Quick Change is another hopeless comedy with an all-star cast. The only surprise I have is that it wasn't made in the 80's. I only laughed twice: the bus scene and the dark alley scene. The latter is a lot funny if you think back to A Streetcar Named Desire. I am sure there are plenty of more of references including Dog Day Afternoon for other certain moments. Otherwise, there isn't much happening. The plot doesn't make any sense. After planning the bank robbery, they have had the escape route thought out as well. All in all, Quick Change is a big miss for Bill Murray fans; the always reliable Randy Quaid is awful in this.

Don't Wear the Dress if You Can't Pronounce the Name, Honey! Nomi Malone got her dress at Versace, yet she pronounces it "Ver-sayce."  The sleazy bigwigs snicker at her as they patronize her mispronunciation, and it left me with the distinct impression that snickering was the theme of this film: that is, I or anyone else with any sense would snicker at this sleazier version of 1967's Valley of the Dolls.  At least that movie was fun and semi-serious.  This movie was a laugh-riot a minute, so it's impossible to give it one star.  Really, sometimes I love bad camp complete with bad acting, but I would have to say that this film breaks new ground.  Elizabeth Berkley looks totally hot in this movie.  Funny, because I never thought she looked that great on Saved by the Bell.  Here she looks like a taller brown-eyed version of a young Kylie Minogue, only her hair is really overly processed and frizzy.  I must admit that I love to watch this when it aires on TV--and lately it's been on like it's going out of style, as if it was ever in--but I would never buy it for even a penny.  The acting and the script are so bad that it's addictive in the way you hate "Copacabana" but can't help getting it stuck in your noggin all day.  Because I haven't seen the very dirty version and don't care to, I find Kyle MacLachlin absolutely horrible in this movie and think he should sue whoever did his hair.  There is more nudity, pouting, bad dancing, and glitter in this fiasco than there are alien abductions in the Bermuda Triangle...DUDE.  The best thing about this flick is Gina Gershon, and even she is embarrassed by her role in this thing.  Hey, this may completely be up your alley, but it's not up mine.  Then again, how can I lambast a movie this bad when admittedly loving Pauly Shore's Encino Man?  Hell, I say I don't like this piece of awful offal, and yet every time I happen to be home when it's on it stays on.  Maybe it's because I enjoy the unintentional comic aspect, and still can't figure out why ANYBODY would want to be a pouty trailor trash diva's best friend.  It's on again this afternoon, and my greatest fears will likely be realized via remote.  In the meantime, that damned Barry Manilow song is paraphrasing itself in my head..."Her name was Nomi.  She was a showgirl..."

Lacking chemistry in this Jane Eyre version Very disappointed! The main actors are all great actors, but I found that the director did not use them accordingly. I found this movie very boring and even though I'm a huge fan of the book, I don't mind loose versions, but this one is too incomplete, missing important parts and characters of the book, so why to name the film "Jane Eyre"?. In my opinion the main problem is the lack of chemistry between Mia and Michael. I saw this DVD three times to see if I was wrong, but still, you don't feel the chemistry of the two main characters and without that, there is not Jane Eyre. If you want a good version, with actors that make you feel like you are really leaving the story and that they care deeply about each other then buy the 2007 Masterpiece Theatre version with Toby Stephens and Ruth Wilson. To me that is the best version.

One track series and minds What does this show teach us?  It teaches us that anything that's big and flat was once used as a landing pad for alien spaceships. Can you think of any type of stone structure with a flat surface? According to the people in this show, aliens once landed on it. It doesn't matter where in the world it is, it doesn't matter what it was actually used for... no, it's a landing pad for spaceships.  It teaches us that anything that ever mentioned beings from the sky, be it from religion or myths, or stories told eons ago, can only be aliens. Angels, gods, they were all really aliens. Anything mentioned that involves magic, really was alien weapons or alien technology.  It teaches us that natural disasters were caused by aliens. They said that if humans built too close to volcanoes, it in turn made the aliens living inside the volcanoes angry. The aliens then erupted the volcano to teach those pesky humans a lesson. You see, Volcano gods were really aliens.  It teaches us that art from the ancient world that can't be interpeted clearly has to be alien influenced. Forget abstract art, they don't believe in it. If it looks like a plane, it's a plane. If it looks like a rocket, it's a rocket. It's it looks like a space guy, there's your evidence right there, it's a space guy. They even try to paint a guy's hat/head in a carving as being an elongated aliens head.  It teaches us that humans are the product of aliens. We are their creations, as one of the alien experts on the show put it. No evidence presented, no facts, nothing of substance. The guy said it, so it must be true, right?  I could go on about how ridiculous this show is. Present me with facts, present me with something of substance. Instead, they try to turn anything involving religion into "the aliens really did it". They look for things that are not there in architecture, they paint ancient humans as unintelligent beings, which I find a bit insulting myself. Ancient humans were too stupid to build this on their own, they were too stupid to figure this out on their own with their "limited" technology, as they in the show want you to believe. They have a revolving door of "theories" that they repeat over and over again. You'll hear this stuff I mentioned in one show, only to hear it in another show, only about a different religion or culture.  The people on this show are not real scientists, they are not trying to present facts or theories of substance, these are people that actually believe in aliens. They don't try to hide that fact either, they mention it several times. One guy says that he doesn't believe in angels, but aliens, oh, yes, it was the aliens that really did it.

Be careful this "DVD" is 13 minutes long I watched the 60 Minutes episode of "Alone on the Wall" when it aired and thought this DVD would have some other footage or coverage but to my dismay it really is just the 13 minute aired episode. The story still is pretty amazing if you haven't seen it but not worth the price for a 13 minute segment. There is also a National Geographic video on their website which is also called "Alone on the Wall" which documents Alex Honnold's story.

Disappointing I felt this movie was terribly disappointing.  My issues are:  1. She seemed to get freaked out/scared WAY to easily.  I was wondering why she would react so terrified to such simple stuff.  She knew her dad and uncle were there, so hearing sounds isn't really abnormal.  2. They advertised this as in real-time style, but by the end of the movie, you realize that was entirely pointless (SPOILER: there is a twist that makes the real-time aspect completely bogus since what we've been watching isn't what was going on.  So what we saw wasn't even the correct unfolding of events).  I feel the movie was very cliche with an ending that's been beaten to death.  Some may find this scary, but I was just scratching my head wondering why she was so freaked out so quickly.  And wondering when I would finally get a good scare. Never happened.

Only for Delon fans As I stated in my title, this dvd is ONLY FOR DELON FANS. That being said,I found the film extremely slow, with a lot of "repetitive" parts, like the sequence on the subway. Also, I couldn't get, why, did Delon used gloves to hide his fingerprints, and at the same time kills his victim, at a Club filled with guests, where anybody could see him. His suits and shoes, are of an extreme fashion design, but at the same time, he lives in a horrible (dump), apartment. This is a film, with a very unsatisfying ending, where one finishes the story with a lot of why this or why that....I agree with one of the reviewers above, the best acting came from...yes you guessed it...the bird in the cage. SKIP IT.

Just Breezecuse 1 star is to dull but five are to hot- maybe not=and comon will this review make or break your decision?? Oh then buy it.  what they dont tell you is its 2 discs 1 is mostly post waters stuff and the other is mostly DSOTM, It sounds great and if your worried about how it looks then maybe you should be wasting your money on a music DVD Im sure you dont need me to tell you about The Pink Floyd sound as they were formerly called.

Message is Great but..... This is not one of Tyler Perry's better plays. Although the message in the play is awesome, the total play itself is rather boring, it really needed an appearance by Madea.  Aunt Bam is funny, but not funny enough to handle the entire play by herself.  If I had saw this play from someone buying it first then I wouldn't have purchased it myself.  If you are a parent and trying to send a  message to your young teen about drugs, then this is a great teacher play but as far as entertainment, there are funny parts but overall you'll be rather disappointed.  Sorry Tyler.

black swan doesn't fly right I must say this movie was incredibly disappointing. A very bad film. Neurotic Natalie Portman doesn't get an anxiety-filled look off of her face for one minute. She is thoroughly unappealing as a character. Throughout she is a tortured soul--but one who no one could ever care about. Her demonic female rival in the film, Mila Kunis, who is out for ballet blood, is equally unappealing. There is no worthwhile revelation in this film: We all know the unbelievably intense desire it takes to be a successful ballet dancer. This film does nothing to elevate our knowledge. Well then: Is it supposed to be scary? It wasn't. Is it supposed to increase our awareness of the pressures of "dance?" It didn't. Was it supposed to show us complex artistic personalities? Forget that. Mission not accomplished. If the purpose was to illustrate that masochism is around in this artistic genre...well maybe. That's about all the various major characters in this film are good for. But even the masochism is poorly portrayed. What I mean is that one sees the pain and just says "yuck" as opposed to "I wish it wasn't happening." Winona Ryder--whose character was the former ballet lead until she suffers a debilitating accident--was wasted in this movie: She just seemed like a player in a bad "B" horror flick. One doesn't care about her either. The male mentor of Ms. Portman, Vincent Cassel, is just an oversexed crude cad. (Why would anyone go to him for advice as Ms. Portman does? Why would any woman find him attractive? And why--one ponders--was he ever hired by a reputable ballet company? Yet he's central. (As he would be in a badly done feature like this one.)  If Barbara Hershey, Portman's mother, had sprouted horns, it would have added some sane symmetry to the putrid movie--as in what should happen in a bad pic of this kind.  Even the dancing was uninspiring in this film, although the dancers do manage to get up on their tippy toes. But we don't see much of that. What we mostly see is people in wheelchairs cutting themselves, female neurotics cat-fighting or bloodily wounded, weirdo hallucinations, and an all-around strain of repulsive creepiness within characters that is hard to take.  Some viewers might say the film was "interesting" or "unusual," a "psycho-thriller." I say: I can't remember using my fast-forward button so much, and that I just uttered "good riddance" when Natalie Portman was lying on her back severely stabbed at the end of the movie.

un released - not This is a very mis leading title for a dvd because yards of ECW shows  were released in the UK by the now tragically defunct Delta Music label. Inevitably they showed up on auction sites after they were deleted so the only honest way for McMahon to have put this material out would have been to release stuff that had been hitherto unseen.

Wouldnt watch again Watched the trailer, and my expetations were high considering the other documentary style thriller movies that are currently out, however, this one fell short. Only 2 scenes in this movie that lived up to being a thriller movie and that was it. Even with the lag of time between scenes it wasn't worth waiting for the conclusion of the movie. Poor.

bad soundtrack lovely picture quality but bad soundtrack transfer. the cute 'come out' song is particularly bad - the orchestra sounds 'wobbly'. my old vhs copy is way better. a pity, because this early sinatra movie has some musical gems.

Missing Third Year I received the "complete" set for Christmas and was watching it in order.  To my dismay, there were TWO sets of Year TWO and NONE of Year THREE.  What a disappointment!  Because I've opened years One and Two (1 of them), I cannot return the entire set.  VERY disappointed to discover that I can find NO CONTACT info to be able to ask for an exchange of one set of disks for the other...  Venting, here, doesn't get me Year Three, I know but it will serve to warn others.

Not the one I was totally disappointed. This is mostly photage from rehearsals of a new 2007 staging of Hair. Endless casting and rehearsals that are completely unengaging.  I was hoping that I had found a documentary of the making of Milos Forman's film, but if this documentary had been done more skilfully it could have been interesting by itself. But the continuity is terrible, and it's just plain sloppy. Perhaps there is material for a 25 minute show in this, but then it is bloated up by nonsense to force it up to a length that can be sold on DVD.  If anybody wants to help me: Where can I find the fantastic documentary about the making of Forman's film? It's mindblowingly good, and goes through all the casting of the film and the magic that made it possible to do the film on relatively low budget at just that moment in time. How the right people just seemed to pop out of nowhere, just when they were needed.

Broken case and skipping scenes When I received this the case was cracked including the spindle that holds the DVD.  We watched the movie regardless and found that we had to skip a scene as the disk was damaged in that area.  I give this a rating 2 as we were able to watch most of this movie and the case damage was superficial.  If you don't mind the possibility of a cracked case or possibly slightly damaged disk, fine, but I would not recommend this seller to a friend.

Dissapointing ending I have waited a long time for this movie. If you are a fan I would wait some more. Do not buy the US edited version. I eagerly awaited the climax of the film only to find it ends abruptly after the song 8th Day. The last scene of Kate after her breakdown is completely missing. Feel very let down.

There are better options in this genre I'm being pretty generous with the 2 star rating.  To begin with the featured lead, Rain, has no chemistry what-so-ever with his co-star Naomi Harris.  That would have been helpful because none of the acting is.  Yes, of course there is some well choreographed stunt work but it isn't enough.  I think this movie was supposed to have some sort of graphic novel feel, but it played more like a video game given the massive amounts of blood squirting everywhere.  This just isn't very good.  There are better options out there for this genre.  The Blu ray transfer and the DTS HD Master Audio is very good.

Grant as a villain. No, wait... "Suspicion" is a 1941 crime drama from Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine with Nigel Bruce, Cedric Hardwicke, and Leo G. Carroll. It was based on a 1932 novel "Before the Fact" by Anthony Berkeley who is considered the "father of the psychological suspense novel."  By 1941 Cary Grant (1904-86) was a major star. He became well known for films like "She Done Him Wrong" (1933) and "Sylvia Scarlett" (1935). But Mae West took credit for "She Done Him Wrong" and "Sylvia Scarlett" was a box office flop, and it wouldn't be until "The Awful Truth" (1937) that he would emerge as a star.  Though generally well regarded (AFI rates him 2nd greatest male star ever), Grant never won a major acting award and received only 2 Oscar nominations in more than 70 film outings. I liked him best in "Gunga Din" (1939), "His Girl Friday" (1940) and "The Philadelphia Story" (1940). This was the first of 4 films he made with Hitchcock, who said of him - "the only actor I ever loved in my whole life". Bear in mind, Hitchcock was fond of saying that actors should be treated as cattle.  Joan Fontaine (1917) co-stars as Grant's  wife. She's the younger sister of film great Olivia de Havilland and was a star in her own right. Fontaine was nominated for an Oscar 3 times, and won for this film - the only actor to ever win an Oscar in a Hitchcock film. She worked with Hitch the previous year in his American debut, "Rebecca", and among her other notable films were "The Constant Nymph" (1943), "Jane Eyre" (1944), "Ivanhoe" (1952), and "Island in the Sun" (1957).  Nigel Bruce (1895-1953) is best known as Dr. Watson  in all 14 of the Rathbone Holmes films. Bruce had quite a distinguished career apart from the Holmes' films, appearing in many British films like "Treasure Island" (1934), "The Scarlet Pimpernel" (1934), "Charge of the Light Brigade" (1936), and "Kidnapped" (1938). He worked with Hitchcock in "Rebecca" (1940) and "Suspicion" (1941). Bruce plays a friend of Grant and he gives one of his most remarkable performances ever.  Cedric Hardwicke's (1893-1964) strong voice and stony appearance graced nearly 100 films. He played the evil bishop in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1939), Dr. Livingstone in "Stanley and Livingstone" (1939), and King Arthur in "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" (1949). I remember him best as the Pharaoh in "The Ten Commandments" (1956). Hardwick worked with Hitchcock again in "Rope" (1948). He plays Fontaine's father.  Leo G. Carroll (1892-1972) appeared in 6 Hitchcock films, an accomplishment exceeded by only one other actor - Clare Greet who appeared in 7. Carroll is best known for his TV series "Topper" (1953-6) and "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." (1964-8) but he gave excellent performances in more than 50 films, including "A Christmas Carol" (1938), Wuthering Heights" (1938), "The House on 92nd Street" (1945), and "The Desert Fox" (1951). Don't sneeze or you'll miss Leo. He plays Grant's cousin.  Franz Waxman (1906-67) provides the musical score. Waxman was nominated for an Oscar 10 times and won twice ("A Place in the Sun" and "Sunset Blvd"). He was a favorite of Hitchcock who used him in 4 films and earned 2 of his Oscar nominations ("Rebecca" and "Suspicion"). At times Waxman's music could be overbearing (e.g., "Objective Burma"), but when he was good he was great. Waxman is good in this film, using the music to heighten the tension without distracting from the action, and playfully altering Strauss' waltz to fit Grant's behavior.  The film did well with critics and the public. It was the 15th highest grossing film of the year, but garnered only one Oscar. 1941 was a terrific year for films - "Citizen Kane", "The Maltese Falcon", Sergeant York", "How Green Was My Valley", Meet John Doe", "Buck Privates", "They Died with Their Boots On", "The Sea Wolf" "High Sierra", "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", and "A Yank in the RAF".  Personally I find the film lacking. The cheap sets and special effects that Hitchcock was so accustomed to using in his work at British International/Gaumont are out of place in a 1941 American production, even if it was RKO. And bear in mind that "Suspicion" was produced by Hitch, so he couldn't blame Selznick as he was wont to do.  In addition, the tone of the film is shaky. It begins as a romantic comedy (see his "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" that came out at the same time) and moves awkwardly into a suspense thriller, or is it really a film about a woman's descent into paranoia. The inability to keep his eye on the mark is undoubtedly caused by the casting of Cary Grant into a film that calls for him to play a psychopathic degenerate gambler to kill his wife. The film follows the book reasonably well with some notable exceptions - Grant's adultery, his involvement in the death of Fontaine's father,  and the ending.  But by taking the threads of the book and removing significant thematic material, we are left with an unsettling story. In later years Hitch claimed that he was forced to accept these changes, but his biographer Donald Spoto claims he was fully aware of the changes.  Fans of Hitchcock or Grant can find many many better films to watch.  FWIW - Look for Hitch about 48 minutes into the film, mailing a letter. And the dog you see is actually Hitch's own dog

We Bought a Zoo After the 2000s yielded the first bad films of Cameron Crowe's career, the writer-director released two films in 2011 that were okay: the rock doc Pearl Jam Twenty and the family drama We Bought a Zoo, which hits store shelves this week. We Bought a Zoo is based on the memoirs of Benjamin Mee, who, after the death of his wife, purchased a struggling zoo and moved his family onto the property in hopes of reopening the facility to the public. With Crowe behind the camera and working decidedly within his wheelhouse of character-driven drama, as well as a cast that included Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Haden Church, and more, I thought Zoo might find itself in Oscar contention. Unfortunately, while I found the performances noteworthy and the film overall pleasant, I also felt it was too predictable and overly sentimental, with sweet spots that weren't entirely earned. It's not the best we've seen from Cameron Crowe, but it might suffice for anyone looking for a safe, harmless little yarn.

What's the fuss? Includes spoilers I posted this review at IMDb already, but wanted to share my thoughts here as well.I'm a person that will stay away from a really hyped movie until after the noise dies down. Seeing movies over-hyped tends to cloud my opinion.  I finally caught this today, and I really don't see what the fuss was. As full disclosure, I didn't see any of the other movies in the Best Actress category, so I cannot say who deserved to win, but I was incredibly underwhelmed by NP's performance. Natalie's expressions were Stressed and More Stressed. Oh, and add a look of paranoia. Not a lot of range in this. My opinion of course, but with all the accolades, I was expecting to be blown away. I felt like I was watching NP play an obsessed (and mentally-ill) ballerina. In my opinion, Portman came off as very aware of this being an Oscar-bait role, and thus the performance never seemed natural or organic. As a note to that: MAJOR props to the special effects team. I thoroughly enjoyed Nina's visual transformation near the climax from the White Swan features to the Black Swan. I did shudder during that scene.  As for the story, I expected more. It was dark, but based on reviews, I expected something much more disturbing and maybe more unusual? I did turn away from certain parts, such as the breaking legs and the bloody feet scenes as things like that make me queasy. Based on my one viewing, it seemed to be a study on mental illness. Shades of Fight Club and Memento(both are superior), but without soul and genuine intrigue. I don't mind a movie left to the viewer's interpretation, but this movie made sure everything was up in the air. This movie asked us to make a lot of assumptions. We never saw Beth (Winona Ryder) dance. So it's unclear why (aside from being the prima) Nina idolizes her. We never see the other ladies audition, so Nina winning the part could really be a result of the director's creepy fixation on her than of talent. We don't see what makes Thomas' "visceral" Swan Lake so unique, in terms of how much of the actual performance we see. All we're watching is Nina's descent into further madness, which is fine, but I expected the climax to consume more of the run-time. No, I don't need anything spelled out, but the way the movie left things felt so obnoxious and lazy. On the other hand, could all the light/dark/black/white have been more obvious? I've never seen Swan Lake, but based on what I've read, this was a perverted interpretation. The gratuitous sex scenes were cheap (Monster's Ball cheap) and did not move the plot. Even Portman commented on how the scene w/Kunis was how you get people in the theater. The old train pervert served no purpose as well. I was hoping the movie would show appreciation for ballet, but it didn't, and I'm not a dancer. 127 Hours showed both the wonders and the dangers of nature, for example. The dream sequence in Oklahoma was a better tribute to ballet. Then again, two characters did talk us through the storyline of Swan Lake, so I guess that should have been a clue that we wouldn't "see" it.  Another thing that bothered me was we're to believe that Nina is obsessed about being the Swan, but she doesn't seem obsessive about anything else. Not asking for much, but something as simple as having to brush her hair w/100 strokes every night or some OCD-type habit. Don't think the vomiting applies b/c I think that was stress- related. I guess self-mutilation would work, as stated earlier, anything with blood or if I felt blood/peeling skin/etc coming, I looked away. Plus, this was not done in the open, so I feel they could have added something that other characters saw. The couple of "mean girl" ballerinas in the beginning of the film seemed like perfect candidates to hone in on some quirk of Nina's that would point to her problem. How is it that her obsessiveness is so contained? If gratuitous sex could be added, then surely, Aronofsky could have developed Nina more.  Mila Kunis' character wasn't as fleshed out as I expected which leads me to believe Nina imagined her. I believe the movie was about Nina's disturbed psyche likely brought on by her repressed childhood/adulthood and it culminated into her killing herself. She had a mom that was trying to live through her, and she had the internal struggle of not being good enough in a highly competitive profession.  As a superficial observation, Natalie Portman is only 30, but looked a lot older. I get the reasons for her weight loss, but visually, it did her no favors and she came across quite harsh onscreen.  NOT attacking Portman, but she looked no younger than Winona which made it somewhat unbelievable that Nina's supposedly this great dancer, but has yet to have a leading role at her age. I can't remember if they said how old she was, but anything other than 29/30 is not believable. Certainly not at a peak age which I hear is early 20s.  The ending was a letdown and possessed a cheese factor. When Nina said "I felt it...It was perfect...That was perfect." (complete with a smile), my ears actually heard " All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up." So cheesy. Probably won't watch again as it didn't live up to the hype. Mulholland Drive might have been a better movie. In fact, Summer Glau as a tortured ballerina dancing 'Giselle' ('Waiting in the Wings' episode of Angel) exhibited more emotion, intrigue, and coherency.

MORTIFIED I SHOWED THIS TO MY 5 YEAR OLD!!!! So I read about the movie on Amazon and checked out the top few reviews & thought - hey, my kids are 5 & up. We'll watch this together to introduce our home study unit on Australia. NOBODY MENTIONED THE TERRIFICALLY VISUAL & HORRIFYING SCENE RIGHT UP IN THE FIRST MINUTES. Poetic? I think not! Dad's brand of loosing it means that he tries to kill the kids (all played out on the screen so you can't wonder about it - he tries to shoot them then lure them back & finish off the job). When he fails to kill the kids, he blows out his own brains & lights the car and himself ablaze! The camera doesn't miss the gory bounce of dad's blown out head bouncing in front of the burning VW.  and "poetically" flashes back to that several times in the first 30 minutes or so. When the camera panned in for "crotch stares" of the aborigine's bum & then captured the sister's panties as she swung on the tree we clicked off. I had no idea what was coming next - another dead dad bounding in front of the burning VW, maybe a little Aborigine on School Girl lesson on the birds & bees? I dunno. This is definitely not rated for a reason... it's not because of frontal nudity on the Aborigines checking out dad's charred VW. It's not for the girl in her bra washing clothes at the waterhole.  Its for graphics we don't want to explain to kids - suicide and homicide to start. Word to the mothers.... Caution!

A little disappointing... I just bought a new computer with Windows 7. I always like to take full advantage of any product that I buy so I decided I wanted to learn all the "ins and outs" of Windows 7. My former computer had a Vista operating system and the one at work is Windows 98. I knew there should be a lot of nice features to take advantage of. Unfortunately, this seemed more of a beginner's book for learning the basic Windows Operating System and not necessary zeroing in on Windows 7 in particular. It would be good for a beginner, but it wasn't what I was looking for.

Dirty Dozen It Isn't Strictly by the numbers WWII "lack of" action movie. This movie is modeled after the dirty dozen, only without the budget, the talent, the script or anything else. The characters are generic stero-types of ones you've seen a hundred times before and better in other films. None of the actors seem the least bit emotionally invested in their roles and the script could have been knocked out over a weekend without benefit of a rewrite. Sorry, gotta call it like I see it. This one is below average. Dirty Dozen 5 stars. Kelly's Hero's 5 Stars, The Inglorious Bastards 1 Star.

4 Star Story with 2 Star Acting Before the Devil Knows You're Dead is a depressing but well conceived story saddled with hugely overwrought acting by two main characters.  From the overbearing bombastics of Philip Seymour Hoffman to the seething bug-catching stares of Albert Finney, this is one huge opportunity wasted.  Hawke and Tomei do their best to rein in the proceedings, providing a quiet, suffering dignity to their tortured souls, but the excesses of the former just about kills the momentum generated by the story.  By the time the last scene rolls around we want to take the pillow to both Finney and Hoffman.  And Lumet for his jump-time storytelling technique.  Tragic waste of a great opportunity.

Great Actors, just bad production and script. This movie had the potential to be great.  I really loved the actors chosen Robin Givens, Mel Jackson, Miguel Nunez, etc.But the script was a little weak. It did have its funny moments, but I'd recommend renting it before you buy it. However it is $4 to rent for 48 hours from Amazon,(thats what I did) yet it costs less than $7 to buy. Not a good sign.

"Diet Sci-Fi" for sure... To adapt a phrase Mr. Jeff Goldblum used in Jurassic Park - "You Do have 'MONSTERS' in this movie about monsters don't you?". This was the repeated refrain throughout the majority of this movie all us who sat watching, and WAITING (zzzz) for monsters to appear. Sorry, but Blair Witch Project was a FLOP for the same reasons, as were Cloverfield, and many others who well deserved nothing less. I was "generous" in giving it 2 stars in my opinion. The First - for a potentially great storyline despite the Producer's lack of delivery on what was promised. The Second star - For what cinematography there was in the film, some of it was rather good.  The characters were not that convincing;i.e. - Give the average woman a little more intellectual credit than to run around the jungles of South America so scantily clad that the usual "monsters" down there would have made easy prey of her! Given the state of dire panic the South Americans would have been in, the wandering tourist Gringo storyline just doesn't work. More likely, here what would have happened: The stupid "gringo" white guy would have had his asp kicked, his valuables pilfered, and his sluttily dressed female companion abducted, gang-raped, and if she survived; held for ransom to her rich American Daddy who would have paid for their extradition from the infected zone. THAT would have far less suspension of disbelief!  An utterly unrealistic, very naive liberal no doubt wrote this screen play. We shouldn't expect much better from them until the get REAL.

Not Animated This video does not contain any animation. It's just the three authors telling their stories. There aren't even any illustrations like with Reading Rainbow.

Good Movie, Sloppy Delivery Was disappinted in the delivery of the DVD.  Case was broken so the DVD was loose.  It skips in two spots, doesn't distract from the movie, but it is annoying.

Never got to see the end! We streamed this movie, which was OK, except that we were never able to see the end. Heard sound but no video.

One of the worst movies I've ever seen. Yes the movie was meant to be a spoof....and yes I actually chuckled a few times but it was just SO bad. Do NOT spend your hard-earned money on purchasing this unless you've actually seen it and think it's great.

Blu Ray for 1& 2 has none of the DVD extras. Spider-Man 1 & 2 Does not include any of the amazing behind the scenes content originally released on the DVDs.  Why would a studio release two extraordinary FX films of this magnitude and incredible production values on a format that can hold so much information, and fail to include the extras?  If you're a fan of behind the scenes content, hold onto your DVDs.  Movie - A+.  Blu-Ray value for Spider-Man 1&2 - FAIL.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt 1 Let me preface this by saying that I have not liked a Harry Potter movie since Chamber of Secrets, the last one that Chris Columbus directed. Sorcerer's Stone and Chamber of Secrets truly felt magical, filled with spells, unusual creatures, and wizards' robes. You really felt like you were in fantasy world. Understandably, as the series progresses the tone gets less happy and sparkly, and more ominous and gloomy. I don't think that should mean the magic factor has to be downplayed, or at least keep them in wizard garb. From Prisoner of Azkaban on they all look just like like regular kids at some boarding school in Europe, who just happen to have wands. Most of them shouldn't even know what muggle clothes look like, let alone sport the latest fashions.  I did myself a disservice by rereading the book right before seeing the movie. As a total HP geek I of course want the movies to retain all details, but I realize that each movie would have to be about eight hours long for that to be possible. While reading there were many times where I thought, I wonder how they'll translate this info to film, and turns out their answer was to simply cut it. In the book we learn a great deal about Dumbledore's past, his family, and his connection to Grindelwald - the great dark wizard before Voldemort. The movie glosses over these things, mentioning them in passing without explanation. Instead they chose to waste time by drawing out the camping trips and adding in extraneous scenes like an impromptu dance session between Harry and Hermione. They also didn't have the kids using the Invisibility Cloak at all, while in the book they spent practically all their time traveling under that thing. While I can see from a cinematic standpoint that you can't have your main characters invisible for most of the film, it seemed like a strange thing to leave out entirely since the Cloak is actually one of the Deathly Hallows. I was, however, really impressed with the animation of the fable, The Three Brothers. For a moment I was afraid they were just going to have Hermione sit there and read it to us, but the little cartoon was a nice break in the film and was very artistic. It was surprising to me how gory this film was; they showed George's damaged ear and Ron's splinching in all their bloody glory, and even The Three Brothers tale (a children's story) was quite grisly and grim. I guess they didn't rate it PG-13 for nothing.  Throughout the movie, I couldn't get over how old the kids looked. It feels weird to even call them "kids." Harry has a perpetual five 'o clock shadow, Ron is gargantuan, and Hermione seems to have fallen out of a J. Crew catalog.  All in all, it wasn't a bad movie but it wasn't great either. There were definitely a lot of moments that I enjoyed, but I think too many important details were left out or changed that I can't reasonably give this a good review.  [...]

This or nothing... The print of "Three Word Brand" comes from a source many generations from the original.  Image is washed out and soft.  Hard to watch.  Transferred at the correct speed, but every few minutes, for two to three seconds, the image slows then accelerates before settling back to the correct speed.  The musical score is astonishingly inappropriate.  But, until a better source comes along (soon, please!), this is the only option to see this spectacular late William S. Hart feature.  I didn't look at "The Square Deal Man" as there is already a superior alternate edition on the market.  Again, it's Alpha Video roulette to see what you get.

Should be renamed "Angelina" The movie was okay. I won't watch it again. 99% of this movie was Angelina, Angelina, Angelina. She kinda looks like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman - especially in the last scenes when she's wearing the black dress. Depp played a slow, dumb, tourist(there's a plot twist with this). Each "scene" in the movie dragged on for too long. It wasn't exciting, the climax took forever, and the action was almost non-existent. I love most of Depp's movies and I think Angelina is a great actress...but this movie was just too slow and boring. Even if you enjoy older glamorous movies - which I think is what they were shooting for with this one - this movie completely misses the mark. If it was a little more James Bond-esque it might have been better. The characters aren't developed enough and you aren't drawn into what they are feeling. Angelina's range of emotions was nil. When the "bad guy" has a knife to her throat and is threatening to kill her, she doesn't even breathe hard. Maybe she can no longer make a sad or frightened expression due to all of the botox. Who knows. I think the low ratings for this movie were 1/2 the actors' faults and 1/2 the screenwriters' fault.

Not a good movie This movie is awful front to back.  It's watchable but ultimately an empty experience.  Not that the lead role was miscast but because the story just feels forced and most of the actors don't look happy being in the movie.  If I wanted to see robot actors I'd watch short circuit.

Ironically More appealing for 14 year Old Kids. Some Reviews Listed Ted as one of the funniest movies that's ever been produced in a long time. How true that statement is? It all comes down to your sense of humor I guess. Humor is subjective much like everything else but it does have some universal rules that gives it an objective view. So, if the masses thought that a specific film is funny then it should be. Unfortunately that wasn't the case with Ted or at least from my experience.  I won't come here and say somethings like: "this is the most terrible movie that I've ever seen, Just stay away from it.Oh My, the amount of racist, sexual inappropriate jokes is a turn off and everyone be as far as possible from this indecent and corrupted piece of disgusting photography that has a general outline also called as a movie for moral's sake and good old PG films"  Actually the sense of humor unlike many others who didn't enjoy this film is probably not the main reason I didn't like it. I'm used to Family Guy I won't say it's the best show on earth because I personally don't find it hilarious but it's watchable and sometimes though rarely funny. The so called Shocking content wasn't also why I give this film a 2 star I'm not a Prude by any means! Actually the more shocking and inappropriate the better. The Cast was good, the premise has been done before but not in a R rated form so that was kinda new. So What went wrong? I don't know I just think this movie is somehow lacking.  I personally was hoping to laugh like there's no tomorrow, however that didn't happen some jokes were funny but the majority of the film wasn't which is somehow skipping the point of this story, I mean it is supposed to entertain and humor you through out right? versus a couple of scenes.  It was really hard to feel sorry or sympathetic for Ted *the main character* because he wasn't likable at all. Not mainly because he smoke pot and bullsh*t a lot. But because he just wasn't. He was obnoxious, unbearable and totally without an agenda for the future, he was just like a Paris Hilton bear version those people who do nothing all day, and just party all long and then do it all again, while the rest of the population is working their heads off for financial security. How can anyone like these people seriously?  I think the character of Ted is quite two dimensional which is bad, because it had the opportunity to be much more. It could've at least had some redeeming qualities like a bear wisdom for example? So, yeah wasted potential.  All in all, this movie tries so hard to be different from your average Rom/Com, mainly because it's R rated and it's about a teddy bear who can not only speak but smoke pot, drink bud lights, party, mess around, have random sex and date hookers. But that's about as different as it's going to get from a Rom/Com. A more intelligent sense of humor and witty dialogue would've really helped this movie stand out but the writing was totally ignored I guess. Because who wouldn't wanna watch an R rated movie of a Bear named Ted? It's like the producers said Oh, the premise alone should attracted audiences and makes it a good movie so why bother with anything else.  I can only imagine Ted appealing to a more younger audience, an audience of 13-16 year olds and occasionally men. Because the sense of humor is don't ask why funny for that age category for some reason. Mainly because those kids believe that the likes of Family Guy will make them look cool, Hey I'm watching a potty filled humor tv show that my parents will kill me if they ever find out. I know everything about sex references and racist jokes now and they think am all innocent and sweet how special am I! I can visualize two 14 years old stealing this movie after it came out on dvd and their parents were watching it with a couple of adult friends while on weekend get together spent drinking beer, and just laughing their heads off at every single boring joke this film has to offer.  I've outgrown this sense of humor, really it's no longer funny or shocking. It takes a lot for anything to be shocking and disturbing nowadays.  You're the judge watch it and see, but wait till it comes out on Netflix or you can rent it on your tv for a lesser price.

Boring I can't exactly pinpoint what bothered me about this movie, but I didn't like it at all.  There was nothing that connected me to plot or characters.

Might have been better as a Twilight Zone episode Alfred Hitchcock's name appears again and again in reviews of Phone Booth on Amazon, and not by accident. He was known for his ability to work within the narrow confines of a single "room" and a few characters, with nothing but dialogue and character development to create tension. He would often explore the darker recesses of humanity in suspenseful morality plays. What makes his work so compelling to this day is his capability of drawing out the most sinister of acts from seemingly normal characters with sympathetic motives (and vice versa), as well as the depth of his characters in general. His morality plays didn't sit an obvious antagonist down under a bright light and make them sweat and confess. Killers were never simply bad guys with black hats. Hitchcock allowed the characters to reveal themselves gradually rather than painting them with broad strokes from the beginning and giving them expectations to fulfill, and instead gave them depth and complexity. It's watching the film which gradually reveals to you who these people really are, and it's often the conscience of the antagonist that is their undoing.  The original television series of The Twilight Zone ran after Hitchcock had been established, and in a similar vein to a lot of the contemporary thrillers of the day, but with a few distinctions. The genre was science fiction, and most of the stories were simple morality plays instead of murder mystery or suspense. The episodes for nearly all seasons were only a half hour in length, which was just the right amount of time to establish a premise, create a (un)sympathetic character and reveal their sins in harsh black and white. The confession moment so prevalent in mysteries wasn't necessary, as the genre of science fiction allowed for novel (though contrived) plot developments, and the outcome was the punishment. It was melodrama, but that's all it was supposed to be, and it was (for the most part) done very well. Rod Serling was fantastic at his craft, but his style was much more direct than Hitchcock, in his character development and especially in his method of the morality play. There was never any ambiguity (save for the obvious), and by the end the guilty were justly punished, but abstractly through events or their own conscience- not by some other person who had it in for them, which would only serve to distract from the main character. Only one season featured hour long episodes, which may indicate that even an hour was a little too much time for the type of stories Serling liked to tell.  I haven't said anything so far about the film I'm reviewing... I am not sure that Hitchcock would have directed such a film as Phone Booth. Yes, there is some character development in Colin Farrell's publicist, but the sniper remains the disembodied voice of conscience as well as the consistent source of many deus ex machina plot developments, and sometimes even the narrator. The problem is that the sniper is undoubtedly a sinister character right from the beginning - he is an unreliable narrator, which is not necessarily a flaw, but making that work is difficult and doesn't pan out here. We are supposed to believe that his lackluster history in the performing arts made him so disgruntled as to want to set up a small time slimeball publicist in such an elaborate way, which is unfortunately all we ever learn about him. He's killed people for their sins before, we learn, although why he picked them isn't clear. Despite the flimsy backstory, there is very little questioning of the conscience of the sniper, which would make for much more interesting character development and narration. Instead we get to hear him cackle and toy with his victim, similar to 24 and horror films like Saw and their contemporaries- ham-fisted modern versions of the morality play with a disembodied voice acting as God or the Judge, a conscience, to draw out a confession and dole out punishment.  In fact, at various points Kiefer Sutherland's disembodied voice was so melodramatic it brought to mind the evil business tycoon Dan Halen in Squidbillies, and at other moments it reminded me of his role in 24. All of which is to say, this is not very sophisticated stuff, and in some ways this is kind of a mean-spirited take on some rather mundane misdeeds by the victim (who, for instance, thought about cheating on his wife but never did). I understand this was meant to be character development, that we feel some sympathy for the publicist by the end, but it's the inevitable outcome of this type of simplistic morality play.  It's worth mentioning that, at the outset of the film, the only character who has committed serious crimes against his fellow humans is the sniper. Yet he is supposed to be the conscience who punishes his victims for crimes against their fellow humans, which pale in comparison. But there is nothing of the rogue about him, nothing to make him more human and sympathetic, so we're left with a flat personality who seems more of a sociopath than a hero. But this might just be the development of the killer character in slasher films, the conscience role taken to an extreme, to become the judge, jury and executioner of what and whom he perceives to be immoral, with no depth to the killer's character beyond the revenge fantasy. It often seems like those stories are the product of some people's fantasies of taking revenge for all the petty indignities they have to endure, and all the awful people they meet every day and the terrible things they do, which is, well, all of us and all our flaws. It's like watching someone indulge in an adolescent daydream best unspoken- someone who doesn't like people all that much, when it comes down to it. It tells me more about them than the characters they created.  One lesson both Serling and Hitchcock teach about the thriller/suspense genre is that building tension, revelation and punishment are all more compelling than redemption. Without revealing too much, Phone Booth did not learn that lesson. A few tense moments kept me engaged, but the last half of the film meandered and failed to do much besides drive home a heavy handed moral message through the sniper's voice. The idea that the sniper would continue to act as some watchful eye didn't reassure me. I get the feeling that somewhere in the development of this movie, someone felt very strongly about the type of character Farrell is supposed to represent and decided it might be funny if a sniper took him out. Or maybe it would be even more entertaining to watch him squirm and try to get a confession, and, hey, shoot a pimp in the process- no loss, right? It's as if there is real contempt for the people portrayed, much more than is deserved and can sustain my sympathies for anyone involved.  Phone Booth isn't original, but that isn't a problem in itself. Other films since Hitchcock's Rope have used one room as a setting and just a few characters to build and maintain suspense, such as Dog Day Afternoon. Besides the obvious fact that the cast is outstanding, what makes a film like Dog Day Afternoon work is the characters and how strange they turn out to be. The would-be robber has a complex life and is clearly way over his head, but he has just the right kind of motivation to go overboard and take it as far as it can go. He's someone you can understand and sympathize with, even though he's living a chaotic life and is not managing his problems very well- you surely wouldn't want to be him. You know what's coming but can't help but be on his side as he walks the tightrope in the situation he created, trying his best to control the outcome. The sniper in Phone Booth has very little depth, which is unfortunate because he is potentially the most interesting character of the film. The character is wasted on a paper-thin role of the Voice of Conscience. The best moment of the movie is when things don't look so certain for the sniper, but it never ends up revealing anything we don't already know.  As my title suggests, the premise of Phone Booth might have worked well for the original series of The Twilight Zone. Chances are Serling would have trimmed the story down to its elements, maybe opted for the phone booth being an incognito time machine and removing the sniper character, and made it work in 25 minutes, which is all the time anyone needs to tell this story. If Hitchcock had made this film, it would have been about the sniper or perhaps someone who is watching the sniper. As it is, Phone Booth is not terrible, but it fails to be a great film or even decent. Colin Farrell turns out a better performance than I expected and is not bad on the whole- save his accent. Kiefer Sutherland has serious presence in voiceover, but his character ends up being irritating, unfortunately, and a bit overdone. All other characters are ancillary at best with serviceable performances. It's mediocre and too long at 81 minutes.

Waste of a 3D movie Good movie!...reminds one of a Toy Story movie.Fun movie with a cute love story..If you like Elton John music,you'll love this movie,if not don't watch.All the music is Elton John.The 3D in this movie was forgotten!..This is the 1st 3D movie in which i didn't feel more involved...no wow factors,i checked to see if my glasses where on a couple of times,some parts in the grass look good,but thats it...The 2D is just as good as the 3D...I give the movie 4 stars and the 3D 2 stars.  SEE ALL MY 3D REVIEWS:THANKS!

Good start, tense middle, puzzling end This docu-film begins with a biography of preacher Marcus Cotton, a man with contradictory religious beliefs who preaches in order to make money. He does exorcisms on the believers, knowing full well it is a trick although a well intentioned one.  Cotton gets more than he asked for when he meets Nell and the Sweetzers. The family covers up a rough past and uses Nell's apparent possession as a way to escape their troubles. The father hopes that her exorcism will solve their problems.  The start and middle are great, filled with creepy atmosphere and the witchery and entrenched superstitions of the South, but at the end it unravels, giving the audience too much to believe in too short a time. At times the film makers have their own conflicts about whether they wanted to make a true "Exorcist" style film or a film about religious frauds, faith and reason.  Last Exorcism will treat you to a decent but uneven spectacle.

Typically overhyped drivel. I don't usually buy comedy movies because the're just not funny unless you have a "thing" for toilet humor, this garbage is no exception, 1 or 2 funny moments, that's about it. If you must see this, rent it, save your money for something better, which won't be hard to do.

Not 'The Scorcerer'... I searched for the G&S production of 'The Scorcere'. This one said 'The Scorcer' and 'Cox and Box', but the total runtime is only 39 minutes, and it looks like it starts with 'Cox and Box', so I can't see how it contains 'The Sorcerer' at all!

Greatest horse ever.  Lousy movie.  Wait til it's on free TV This clumsy, cardboard  "Seabiscuit"-wannabe is a poor attempt to pull on the heartstrings of the millions of us who fell in love with Big Red in the summer of 1973.  His mind-boggling finish at The Belmont will never be repeated.  But that's about it for emotion in this film.  The passion is all left in the barn due to flat performances by everyone on screen (except the horses). What little pathos that exists in this yawner is, like the characters themselves, never well developed.  We don't learn to really love or hate (or even care for) anyone, including Secretariat's loud-mouthed antagonist or John Malkovich's clown-suited trainer character.  I'm stopping now because I just re-read Robert Horton's' editorial review (at the top of all reviews) and he is saying exactly what I'm saying -- but MUCH better.  Save your money on this one. Re-rent and reread Seabiscuit and see what great storytelling looks like.  This ain't it.  Too bad, because Secretariat would have left Seabiscuit in the dust.  But not at the theater.

Perfect movie to put you to sleep This movie is another one of his most boring films. I have trouble sleeping and thankfully this film was the best yet to accomplish that most difficult task of sleeping. Rarely an exciting moment, if ever there was one. I normally would've rated this movie a 1 Star for extremely boring and/or dull, but the acting wasn't bad so I had to be fair. I wouldn't recommend this movie, unless you're the biggest nerd out there and can stay focused long enough and really, really care that much about baseball.

Hmmm...Classic minus Hitchcock... To be fair, most people reviewing this version HAVE seen the original classic. A good survey would be that of the 18-25 set that have no knowledge of the 1960 classic. Context can be everything sometimes. One tip for the viewer of this remake is to change the TV's settings: Reduce 95% of the color to near black and white and then reduce 50% of the brightness. This changes the mood of the film almost completely. Well, after that, we should remove Vince Vaughn as the lead role. Perkins was not known as a comedy actor. Christian Bale, much better choice. Also, we should switch casting roles of Julianne Moore and Anne Heche. Moore, just has that more serious quality in her persona plus classic beauty which plays perfectly against an average looking wiry socially awkward male type. The other roles make no difference, but Crane's boyfriend does have that distracting southern drawl. So there, it's been said before,"Why mess with a classic?" Well, let's see, an excellant version of an updated classic is 'Cape Fear' with Robert Deniro.

Crappy movie. Great fire demon battle at the end. Badly put together, just like the original. A movie with a bunch of great actors saying corny dialogue amidst expensive special effects. Loved the final battle with the rock demon, though.

Colossally Disappointing Despite its superb cast, True Grit hangs on the screen for an hour and fifty-one minutes as dry and lifeless as baccala. Jeff Bridges' incoherent mumbling left even this denizen of the Deep South yearning for English subtitles. Glad I chose to rent and not buy.

Delivers what it promises, but nothing more We bought this movie because we'd heard so many reviews saying it was a great comedy.  Sadly, it's just a mediocre lowbrow comedy (which is fine if you know what you're getting).  A few bright spots (the reconciliation cake; the TSA schtick), but most of the jokes were boringly predictable; the plot was poorly integrated and ultimately pointless.  It's basically a 10 minute comedy routine padded out to movie length.

Bland and boring! No background music, very dry and bland. Glad I previewed as a rental before purchasing. Gaiam produces much better quality videos anyday! I suggest Maritza or Rodney Ye for meditation and yoga!

Very BELOW average looking Blu - Ray.... I'm not reviewing the movie....I am reviewing the long awaited disc as I just picked up the blu-ray at a store that had them out a few days early and I'm reporting that its shockingly ....bad!  The colors shift from time to time, the image is very de-saturated and at times early in the film just plain not sharp truly it has all the look of a made for TV movie.  This looks worse than most of my standard DVDs and is easily one of my poorest quality Blu-rays image wise. In fact I also picked up the relatively ancient Abbott and Costello film "Buck Privates" on Blu-Ray <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006YNYQGQ">Buck Privates Collector's Series [Blu-ray Book + DVD</a>]today and it is positively stunning!  For all you fans of this lost epic.... be ready to be broken hearted seeing what should be breath taking locations washed out ..a real disgrace. This was done by Golden Harvest who have the Bruce Lee movies. I've purchased imported Blu-Rays of those and they are stunningly sharp and feature rich colors and 2:35 aspect ratio which a location epic like this would have benefited from. Ronnie Taylor is a terrific cinematographer so I assume the problem is in source material and transfer?

unimpressed Due to interviews and such with both Snoop and Wiz I had higher expectations for this movie. Not very funny at all, pure disappointment. Typical late night comedy worth a one time watch at most.

Love the movie... but I hated the fact that I had to fix it in order to watch the whole movie it played the 1st half fine, however, the other half it just stopped and said the disc wasn't there I cleaned  the DVD player and it did the same thing, so I got it fixed since I didn't want to return it  It didn't cost much but still, I love the movie and happy I have it but the fact that I had to walk 2miles just to get it fixed is just crazy...I didn't return it cuz I didn't want to walk an extra 3miles to the Post Office

Something that could have been great I am a comic fan.  As such I demand more from comic book movies than just a casual movie viewer.  I am the guy who notices all the things the film makers got wrong.  "How can Superman talk in space?"  "Wolverine can't have an Admantium bullet pierce his skull!!"  "Why does Magneto have none of the powers he does in the comic book?"  "Why doesn't Donald Duck wear pants?"  Needless to say I'm a stickler for questions and for details.  This movie failed on many levels.  **Some spoilers ahead**,  First off Paralax is not a former Guardian, it is the first being to feel fear in the Universe.  Paralax is more like a powerful spirit, not a space octupus.  When it is seen, it looks like a yellow bug, a fearsome yellow bug.  The Guardian's would never in a billion years turn to the power of fear, and never make a ring to channel it.  Also why would there even be a Yellow Power battery?  The Guardians would not make such a thing.  Ryan Reynalds sucked as Hal Jordan, stick to stupid comedies Ryan, your no superhero.  Also your Deadpool sucked.  Blake Lively is a terrible actress as well.  Michael Clark Duncan was the wrong voice for Kilawog.  Mark Strong was wrong for Sinestro.  Sinestro should look more like Lee Van Cleef...  The Green Lantern's powers were imagined wrong in the movie.  No auras envelope their bodies like in the comics or tv.  The power rings looked all wrong.  The costumes looked like crap also, like they were painted on or something.  Also the power ring's battery looked like something that was half assed at the last minute.  Action wise this film was extremely weak.  Even worse than Iron-Man 1.  Also Hal "defeated" Paralax way too easily in the film.  First of all Hal in the comics up until 5 years ago could not defeat Paralax.  I doubt a sun could kill it.  Hal was actually possessed by Paralax and did horrible things before dying.  He became the Spectre for a while...  Aliens were rarely seen in the movie, with the rest of the Green Lantern core only seen in glimpses.  In conclusion.  Casual viewers did not like this, comic fans or those like me familier with the source material hated it.  Nathan Fillion would have been a great Green Lantern.  But as usual Hollywood opts for pretty boys who suck at acting.  No sequel will be made on this.  I will only buy someday if Amazon is practically giving it away, (because I am a completist, and must own most comic movies), for say 4.99 or less.  You have been warned...Watch X-Men: First Class instead.

No de-stressing with this yog video While out of practice but definetly not new to yoga I found this video very difficult to follow.  The voice over did not match the moves and I found myself plaing catch up the whole workout.  There was little stretchng until the end of the workout.  The only positive I can say was that it was a challenging workout, though definetely for a seasoned yogi's.

Dry, Boring, Uninteresting I bought this movie to show to my high school students.  Usually any kind of movie, regardless of its quality, is well-received.  However, many of students said they would have rather done worksheets than watch this movie.  It is extremely boring (I had trouble staying awake).  And while the information is interesting, the movie doesn't go into anything in depth.

Reviewer #1 This is a mediocre movie that was unbelievably boring and over-rated. I would not recommend it.  I don't understand why it was nominated for an Academy Award. Pure politics. This was Brad Pitt's worst role.

Not sure why I didn't like this one... Only two movies ever made me feel like taking a shower after watching them because they were so raunchy. The first one was "Watchmen" the second one is this POS.  Although I never have seen the original of I spit on your grave I think that makes it better because I can freely judge this movie. For the most part the first half of the movie just plays out like some late night porno. A girl walks around wearing a skimpy outfit gets hit on (what else is new?). She goes to a cabin alone to do what I don't know play with her laptop while drinking wine I guess. Apparently she's supposed to be a writer? Yeah I buy that. So writer girl prances around half dressed and sometimes in her underwear. She gets the attention of some locals and the obvious rape happens. I guess that's why I didn't like the film so much.  Since this focuses on the rape so much it seems "FORCED" to say the least. I don't get the sense that the girl is being raped. I don't get to feel her trauma or her pain. I have no connection to her character. It's as though it's thrown in there to get it out the way. "Last House on the Left" had a better rape story. You got to know the victim and you felt a connection seeing her pain as she got raped. You wanted to see revenge for what they did to her. If your movie is going to be about a woman getting revenge at least build her character up so that we care about the revenge part. This was just like a dark porno (if they even make those) and a so so one at that. You actually feel that she did worse to the rapist than they did to her. Just because they developed her character so poorly.  All I know is that the girl is from the city,dresses like a slut, smokes marijuana, and drinks A LOT of wine. That's all you get to learn about your character. How am I supposed to even care what happens to her? She might as well as be an extra in the background.  Long story short this movie seriously lacks a decent plot. Pick this up if you like watching a girl get revenge on men in a way that would make Jigsaw smile.  2Stars best part is the T&A from the main character that saved this from being a Lone star rating.

Gundam Seed FAIL When the original Gundam Seed tv series came out, it took the spirit of the original MSG series and gave it a modern refresh that proved popular for a whole new generation of mecha fans, and became the shot in arm needed for a tired franchise.  Good characters, original plot twists and cool MS designs.  Gundam Seed became a fan favorite for post 2000 Gundam fans and deservedly so.  All the good work created by Gundam Seed was nearly undone by its rather pathetic sequel, Gundam Seed Destiny.  The series started off on a good note, taking a Zeta Gundam-esque approach by making the former antagonists (Zaft) the new protagonists and introducing a new cast of characters including pilot Shinn Asuka, whose tragic past was directly caused by events of the previous Seed series.  However this new approach to the Seed storyline more or less falls apart about halfway thru the series with horribly written characters, a storyline that loses its way, and a main character who grows increasingly less interesting and unlikeable as the show goes along.  The story gets so off track that the writers (I have no idea what they were thinking) end up bringing back the original case from Seed to become the main characters in the forefront of the story, almost as punishment for what a poor job the original Destiny stars were doing.  This results in a story that concludes almost as a pathetic carbon copy of the original Seed series, and in my opinion, killed the franchise despite its high ratings.  In a way I'm glad this happened and the anticipated Gundam Seed film was never made, because all the lessons learned in this failure led to the creation of a far superior series, Gundam 00.

A Real Review This movie is pretty bad, slapped together generic story and complete lack of acting ability across the board. How does that make a 5 star movie? That's easy, take advantage of peoples patriotism and the idea that disliking a moving that is "celebrating our men in uniform" is not an option unless you are a communist.  If you really like listening to semi real sounding military jargon delivered via terrible acting, this movie is for you. If you can ignore all the normal requirements of a "good" movie and simply focus on military dudes shooting at stuff sometimes, this movie is for you. If you are looking for an entertaining, well crafted, thought inspiring film, skip this one.

Fun, but not particularly special This wasn't a paricularly bad movie, but not one that I'd ever need to see again.  There's nothing special about its story, its the same cops/robbers type repeatedly done, which is not per se a problem, but it certainly offers nothing inventive.  Overdone concepts are ok if they're at least entertaining, and this movie is at least somewhat entertaining.  My issues are over acting and production values.  For the most part, no really recognizable faces are used, and their inexperience really shows - meaning the acting is weak.  Its not horrible, but there's quite a few scenes where the bad acting becomes noticable (but not quite grating either).  The production values were odd though.  At times the film felt big budget, with grandiose and big attempt shots, but they ultimately fell short.  It kept feeling like the director was trying to achieve too much with creative camera work, while not really nailing the fundamentals.  Creative camera work cannot make up for weak acting other other basic issues, and that's where my primary issue with this film lies.  Probably worth a rental, but I would not advise a blind buy.

Great movie, terrible DVD This is a great Disney movie. Certainly not top 10, but very entertaining. People butthurt over it not being accurate to Greek mythology need to lighten up. I don't think there's a single Disney movie that is completely true to its source material, though admittedly Hercules probably deviates the most, when you look too deep into it, you lose what the movie was supposed to be.  That being said, I really regret buying this DVD. It's in widescreen, but it is not anamorphic, meaning it doesn't automatically fit to your widescreen TV like most DVDs do. In fact, this is meant to solely be viewed on a full screen TV (or in 4:3 mode on a widescreen TV). If you want to view it in Zoom you lose some of the picture AND it looks terrible. The picture quality is one of the worst transfers Disney has ever done, and considering this movie was only a few years old when this edition came out, that's pretty bad. The special features are pretty decent, and I hope they carry over to a future edition.  This is the most recent release of Hercules, and it's been a decade since it hit the shelves. In the day and age where Disney is rereleasing all of their films on Blu Ray, Hercules probably isn't too far off, and will certainly be released in a combo pack that includes a DVD copy. I'd say wait for that to happen.

Rather disappointing The film does expose much of what is wrong with the US's public education system, but then ultimately offers simplistic answers. The film is also largely gutless in dealing with the socio-economic issues. It instead argues that bad high schools create bad neighborhoods, but then contradicts itself when it gets to analyzing just how bad most of the education at suburban and rural schools is. The socio-economic issues are not limited to inner city schools, nor is bad education. This film tends to make the teachers looks like the causes even when it says it's trying to be fair. The one expert they interview the most is Canada and he himself is contradictory and a mixed 'bag'. No where does he or the filmmaker really give enough evidence that Canada and his people can scale up their approaches in order to provide a national solution.

"Over 90 minutes" that I won't get back... In order to identify something as "ultimate", it should be a foregone conclusion that a comparison against likes would be in order. This is not the case here; we get to see only one weapon that was disassembled in a different video put together with one set of parts that were already chosen. The video is broken up into sections, one on assembly, one on shooting the weapon, and one on gunsmithing. The first section, assembly, is just that (don't assume you'll get anything on disassembly - you won't); it references other video products (for sale, of course) and gives no information on the range of choices, only some limited information on the choices the made for this one build and where to get the parts (Brownells for almost everything, apparently). The second section is of mild interest - we see a woman of small-to-average stature fire the weapon a few times. We are presented with a recommendation to use light bird-shot loads for home defense and shown the effect of both bird-shot and slugs on drywall (actual load not identified - certainly not any kind of buck-shot). The third section on gunsmithing is probably the most useful with a little information on shortening a barrel, honing a barrel, and one or two other items. The host does seem to understand what he is doing, but there is little actual material covered - the "over 90 minutes" (accurate if you count the commercials, etc.) is not a montage - the actual work is fully performed... sadly that is just using a screwdriver for the most part (also a hammer, briefly). Production value is average overall, lighting was decent and there was attention paid to keeping the action basically viewable. The wind on the microphone was obvious (only one day to get the outdoor part filmed?) and the primary cameraman did show up on the second camera as well as the subjects.  Pros - The host is knowledgeable and speaks clearly - All of the assembly is shown (one weapon assembled one time) - The source for parts is identified - Chapters 1 and 2 can be used effectively to treat insomnia (3 can if you are not a gunsmith)  Cons - The entire dis-assembly process is skipped ("go buy another of our DVDs") - The range of available enhancements is not listed or identified - There is little information on why the particular parts were chosen as opposed to others (there is a good, albeit lengthy description on the magazine follower choice) - Everything here is available on the web - often presented in a more usable format - The description (and other review) seemed to indicate a great wealth of information that was not there - the entire detail on "combat light options" = put a flashlight on the weapon  This might be of very mild interest to would-be gunsmiths looking at a Remington 870 shotgun as a first project, but if you are looking for a good, in-depth review of the options available or how to fit the not-quite-perfectly-fitting parts together, look elsewhere.

same movie different name "Psychopaths Sex With Hostages" and "Tortured" are both the exact same movie only with different titles.  The only real difference between the two is that "Tortured" has about 5 Minutes of Zombies at the beginning of the movie after the woman who gets raped and killed comes back to life after her dead body comes into contact with toxic waste.  I'm guessing if your looking at this review, then you aren't looking for a movie that's going to win an Academy Award your looking for something that has no socialy redeeming qualities what so ever.  The scenes that lead up to the sex scene are boring make little or no sense and will cause you to fast forward through them (plus the thick British accents make the dialog difficult to understand).  The rape/sex scene (again the same scene in both movies), is graphic and violent. In many of the movies that you will buy on Amazon, the woman's "sensitive area" is blured out or something blocks the view of it, not the case with this movie, the woman's legs are spead wide by the rapist and the camera zooms in as she is raped with a gun.

Another Mess From Classic Media.! ....Not even in cronological order.!..ugg.. Well I did my research, got all the titles & release dates together and re-authored the disc..Now I can watch it in sequence, something the "Experts" did'nt mention.Cronological order for the blue circle set is (1,2,3,4,6,5,7,8,10,11,12,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,22,21,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,9, 30,31,13,32 &33).Im 64 with a large animation collection and won't see my want list released,like UPA & Columbia Toons, but if your young and love the history of the genre don't support lazy quick buck artists like CM on the Harvey Toon Sets.!..There is only one way to do it, THE RIGHT WAY.!

Can remakes get any worse? I recently watched this poor excuse of a remake and expected much more considering its 1.5 million budget. Apparently, better cinematography and one or two better actors can't save this flop. The first problem here is the girl they cast for the leading role. She's supposed to be a novelist but she has the physique of a pro volleyball player. I don't get that. Writers tend to be softer looking because of their sedentary lifestyle. Long hours of writing and research tend to do that to writers, generally speaking.  The next issue I have is with a certain phrase that's become popular in our culture. This phrase turns out to be a big pet peeve of mine: "my bad." It's a close tie with "basically" followed by "actually" coming in at third place. Why I mention this is because the script writer decided, with his infinite wisdom (move aside Shakespeare), that "my bad" belongs in the script. Perhaps to cater to the vapid youth of our society. As a result, Butler is made to look less intelligent and better suited for the role of lifeguard if they only had such a role in the film.  Moving on, Butler's acting was 99 percent unconvincing, much like her co-stars, with the exception of Andrew Howard (Sheriff Storch) and Tracey Walter (Earl). Butler failed to draw me into her world of pain because she didn't get into character. Her tears seemed fake and so did her attempts at expressing fear. As far as this round goes, Camille Keaton from the original movie wins hands down.  Lastly, the acting got reversed in this film. What I mean by that is, in the original I.S.O.Y.G., Keaton stole the show while her co-stars didn't. In the remake the co-stars did better than Butler. Go figure. The person(s) responsible for casting could have gone to a school like HB Studios in New York and found a better pool of actors while saving a fortune.  Okay, enough bashing for now. On the upside, the cinematography is way better, naturally, and the . . . wait, that's about it. I don't have anymore positives to mention. Darn!  I'm going to end this review right now so I won't have to mention the unimaginative kill scenes and the unrealistic way Ms. Hill managed to subdue her rapists. Also, I refuse to mention how a low-budget exploitation film bested a modern, high-budget remake. Wait a sec . . . I just did!  My honest recommendation: rent only, watch on cable, or stream via Netflix.

Officialy the worst Willis movie I've seen This is the worst Bruce movie I have seen.  I only gave it 2 stars because of some of the good one liners.  But I'm not sure if it was possible to swear anymore then what they had the actors swearing.  And no I am not offended by swearing.  I probably swear more then I should and I can honestly say this movie just might annoy a drunken sailor.

slow The underlying concept of the movie is good -- but it moves so slow.  There is a message if you can stay awake till the end.

it wasn't THAT bad There are some aspects of this movie that I like: the acting is OK, the special effects are generally pretty good (even though certain parts are a little unrealistic), and I was always wondering what was going to happen.  To me, the problem with this movie is that some important movie elements---character development, storyline logic, realism, and the ending---are all lacking.  I don't think any particular one of those elements are especially terrible, it's just that none of them really work all that well here and all these sub par elements combined make this a sub par movie that had lots of unfulfilled potential.  Nevertheless, it kept me entertained, and I honestly don't think it's as bad as everyone else seems to think it is.  If you decide to watch it, my advice is don't set your expectations too high and don't take it too seriously, and you might enjoy it despite its flaws.  2 and a half stars

This was pretty terrible Granted, I know this is not meant for someone in my age group (although I can't imagine anyone in any age group finding this entertaining), this movie was pretty awful, and this is coming from someone who enjoys the occasional "Arthur" episode.  Still, I cannot get behind this movie.  It was rather stupid and so for anyone in their 20s who thinks that he/she might be reliving the good ol' days by watching this movie, I can assure you that you will not.  Not only that, but how you base the majority of the plot of a 60 minute film on the mistaken beliefs of some illiterate animals is beyond me.  I found myself pausing this movie several times to regrow my brain cells, so it actually took me something like 5 hours to get through.

Not What It Could Have Been I have never really found a version of the King Arthur legend that I preferred to any other. I had semi high hopes for this series but it never quite worked for me.  Banished in the wake of her father's marriage to a new queen, Morgan le Fay (Eva Green) is determined to reclaim the throne. Hoping her father will take her back after their estrangement, she gives him one last chance to redeem his previous bad behavior and return her to the line of his succession. At his adamant refusal, she brings about his death and casts his wife, Queen Igraine (Claire Forlani), from the castle. With the kingdom at peril and concerns high over whether or not a woman can lead, she knows her first responsibility must be to form an alliance with her father's mortal enemy, Lord Lot (James Purefoy). Intrigued at her proposition that they rule side by side, he agrees to help her defend Camelot against potential usurpers, not realizing there is another claimant to the throne.  Arthur (Jamie Campbell Bower) has no knowledge of his royal ancestry and lives a simple life in the country, constantly teasing his elder brother by stealing all the best women right out from under his nose and pleasantly troubled by dreams of a beautiful woman (Tamsin Egerton). Then a mysterious and slightly sinister man appears on the doorstep of the family hovel and informs him that he is the illegitimate heir of King Uthur. Since the day he helped bring Arthur into the world, Merlin (Joseph Fienness) has not touched magic again. But he will need to learn to master it if it he is to defeat Morgan, assist Arthur in climbing a mountain to draw the sword from the stone, and make certain Camelot rises again...  This cable station has a history of putting controversial content ahead of scripting and while Camelot does suffer from being pointlessly gratuitous, the script is surprisingly solid and the characters are interesting, Merlin most of all as we attempt to discern his motivations and understand his reservations about magic. Fiennes has an excellent grasp on him that makes him likable but also a little sinister and his scenes are among the finest, but it is Eva Green who wins the day with her empathetic but dark Morgan. I know she's supposed to be the villain but I liked her, far more than I probably should. The real problem here is Arthur. I had  hard time liking him and when you're actually rooting for his sister to take the kingdom that shows something is wrong. The writing struggles from being a tad formulaic at times but there are some excellent twists and turns, as well as unusual takes on various legends. (How Merlin comes by Excalibur is chilling and haunting both, as well as their approach to the Lady of the Lake.) The costuming is adequate and imaginative and the setting and backdrop breathtaking (it was filmed in Ireland).  In some regards this series is quite good and in others it fails miserably, mostly because a lot of people dislike the actor who plays Arthur. I never minded him so much as I disliked the figure of Arthur -- he is something of a hypocrite and completely selfish, but does gradually begin to mature as the series unfolds. The manner in which the audience comes to know Morgan is a good one (we never know from one episode to the next whether to hate her or have pity for her) and Merlin is perhaps one of the greatest, most ambiguous depictions of the character in recent film. Alas, Starz' emphasis on turning the story into a soft-core porn romp leaves much to be desired.

why such a high price??? Haven't bought this season yet.  I'm wondering what on earth makes this collector's edition $100 more than the non-collectors edition?  Sure it has 1 extra disc, but is it gold plated??? I'll wait until the price is lower.  I'm just not ready to spend this much, even though I really enjoyed the series and have all the previous seasons.

It's a cartoon - funny now and then, but not much more A live-action cartoon with genuinely funny moments, not least the A-Team moments (lots of them) where dozens of automatic weapons fire nonstop and nobody gets even a scratch.  Cars plow through other cars and even buildings, and everybody walks away grinning and unscathed.  Formulaic soundtrack included at no extra charge.  And at the end, the tired old capitalists-are-bad construction from, forever ironically, wealthy Hollywood-based capitalists; all the bad stuff was the result of Evil Corporations.  I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked!  For some reason this lowbrow crap continues to sell.  Glad I invested no more than a Netflix rental queue slot.

Boring - This movie may have been funny in 1959, but no longer. The acting is contrived, and it over-relies on Peter Sellers playing three roles. The European duchy of Grand Fenwick comes under economic stress when its sole export, wine, is copied and undersold by an American firm. Prime Minister County Mountjoy (Peter Sellers) proposes that they declare war on the U.S., Grand Duchess Gloriana (Peter Sellers) is reticent until she understands the point is to lose and then receive massive aid, so the plan is approved and Tully Bascombe (Peter Sellers again) is placed in charge of the attack. They arrive in New York (conducting a bomb drill), capture its leading scientist, his daughter, and newest bomb, and return to Grand Fenwick. Love brings the scientist's daughter and Tully to wed, the Americans surrender - giving up the wine that undermined Grand Fenwick, as well as $1 billion in aid, and everyone lives happily ever after. The bomb turns out to be a dud, just like the film.

It's NOT better then ELP Bought it after reading positive reviews. Great dissapointment. It just doesn't sound like ELP. I admire Marc Bonilla for trying hard and playing ELP music, but sorry, his voice is no match to Gregg's (even now days, with what's left of Gregg's voice). And even more of the same with his guitar playing stile. Basist is o'k but makes the music sound too hard and monotonous for ELP. I don't see anything this guys doing better then original ELP unlike others say. Sound and picture quality is o'k. Bonus material isn't helpful unless somebody enjoys watching naked (Keith's?)ass. I wouldn't recommend this DVD. Buy ELP Live in Montreux instead, it's so much better. P.S. Front photo shows famous church in Petersburg. They couldn't find any nice shot in Moscow?

Not One Of My Favorites I gave this show two stars because that's all it had, Kate Jackson and Jacklyn Smith.  Farrah only had to be herself, one dumb blond playing another dumb blond.  She was never famous for her brains or her talent which she had neither.  Lindsay Wagner was a far superior actress winning the Prime Time Emmy for best actress for that year.  Even though Farrah later claimed that she won that Emmy. Which made her not only brainless but a liar as well. Farrah never won anything.  She was nominated for her role in the Burning Bed but didn't win.  Which I thought proved a lack of judgement on the part of the Prime Time Emmy Awards for even considering that she was good enough for a nomination.  As you can probably guess from my review, it's safe to say I was never a fan of hers.

After this film stepping into the water is a whole lot easier.... **SPOILER ALERT**  There is a point in fiction when you rub your eyes and think to yourself... Why?  Why would the directors of any film take so many liberties with what we all know to be completely inplausable.  It's like several people sat around a boardroom table and said,  Ok,  this script is kinda slow, let's throw in human controlled sharks, and oh yeah!  Let's also throw in an internet ploy to make money off of said shark attacks that we hillbilly types have assembled for our profit...  Really??  Let's also take sharks and ignore any rational traits of said sharks. We can make them move at impossible speeds and with ridiculous intelligence so that they "stalk" their kills and then we will have a bull shark jump 5 feet out of the water to eat a guy on a sea do...  Really?  Even if you break it down to the most simplistic level the movie is a "tough swimmer to swallow"  Even the 3d elements seem misplaced and sporadic at best.  I can remember at about Jaws 3 I got to a point where it was more about what impossible things were happening than the movie itself.  This movie was no different for me.  It's a shame because the idea had potential... Just like it did  back when Jaws put on the 3d glasses.  Do yourself a favor and watch THE REEF for a better and more realistic take on human survival within the ocean. Open Water is also a much better option.  But sharks swimming around a lake with cameras????   To quote the infamous DR. EVIL in Austin Powers... "Why can't we just add some freakin sharks with laser beams..."

Roy Orbison Black & White Nights Bought the Blue Ray to replace my older DVD.  Older DVD has much better quality and more interactive information.  Bio's on all the "Friends" which are on the DVD have been removed from the Blue Ray Edition.  Boooooooo!!!!

Too fantastical a fantasy Some spots of witty dialog save this movie.  But unless you enjoy fight movies with no attachment whatsoever to reality, this one will be hard to swallow.  Angelina's well known emaciation really shows here--- she looks as if she has muscle wastage, so it's hard to believe she could knock out legions of professional assassins in hand to hand combat.  The usual trailer-load of bodies is left behind but Brangelina, of course, are barely scratched.  The last fight sequence was 10 minutes of 20 men shooting at them with face to face semi-auto rapid fire, but Brangelina ducked, somersaulted, & spun effortlessly away from every bullet to sashay away into the sunset. It was so ridiculous what measured enjoyment I had from the beginning of the film was completely lost.  A weak plot and a slightly disturbing view of marriage all add up to a so-so rental.  I wanted escapist fantasy, but this was so absurd I felt the writers, producers and fight choreographers were just plain lazy.

Night of the Fox--the book is one of Higgin's hidden treasures--the DVD not so much Night of the Fox on DVD was a bit of a disappointment. I like George Peppard, who in his younger day would have been perfect for the part, but I had expected more. Michael York was very good with his double role, the Jewish actor/Rommel. In fact, he was better than expected. This is probably one of those times, a film based on he book would have been better. The made-for-TV film itself, although accurate to the book's intent, missed with both style and suspense. It seemed flat as many made-for-TV movies do. Commercial breaks were obvious, and if there ever was a time to cut out some dialogue, this was it. Suspense, the most crucial element was absent as well. Now, I'm willing to chalk that up to having already read the book, but the conflict, intrigue and confrontations with the enemy didn't leave anything to the imagination, which leads to suspense.  The book itself was no surprise to me in that I expect any of Jack Higgins' Word War II products to be better than those he writes of more contemporary times. The book is far superior in all the things he normally gives short shrift to--like character and plot. Even his dialogue, which is sometimes unnatural as we are told the same information again because one character has missed it, works well in the novel. Still, he tells the kinds of stories and has heroes we admire. The novel's flow is much nicer, the characters more real and believable, and the story full of twists, and the suspense breathtaking.  Not so with the film. When it was made into a TV movie/miniseries, it failed in not being nearly as good as the book, although I think with the right director and realistic casting it could have been. The pacing was deplorable. It was a sit-at-home-if-you-have-nothing-better-to-do, or you're sick in bed and can't move too much... It is ironic that you take time reading a book, but not a film. A film has generally, at a maximum, two or more hours to win you and keep you. This one is three hours (in two parts), but it still feels long.  Higgins' is always a quick read, but this novel was more for savoring. Night of the Fox is my favorite Higgins' book to date, and I think I've read most of them. The DVD was my treat to myself. I am a Peppard fan from way back, but this one truly missed the mark and won't knock your socks off. With patience, there is a good story there, but reading the book is better.

Disappointingly Superficial I had hopes that this would be an interesting and detailed look at '70s political violence, but I was surprised at the relative superficiality and repetitiveness of the film. Was the political content minimized to avoid offense to someone? (Johnnie Walker and Hertz make repeated appearances.) It's hard to see any motivation for Carlos's actions, beyond machismo, and the lackluster screenwriting makes for a protracted viewing experience, to be sure. "The Baader Meinhof Complex" was much more successful at compressing complex historical events; and better yet, one could watch a real film like Costa-Gavras's "Z."  This one just seems like it was made on auto-pilot.

Incorrect movie added to UV account I purchased  Underworld Trilogy (Underworld (unrated), Underworld: Evolution and Underworld: Rise of the Lycans) (+ UltraViolet Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] and redeemed the digital code on 5-5-12 at [...] Sony added Ultraviolet copies to my ultraviolet account at  [...].and at [...]  The correct copy (134 min) was added to the sony account however the wrong copy of Underworld (122 min) was added to my uv account.  The underworld (unrated) 134 min  2003 ([...]) should have been added instead of  Underworld 2003/ R/ 122 min. ([...]) which unfortunately  is only available in a SD version on Vudu.  The transfer to Blu-ray was excellent but stars were deducted for not getting the correct digital version of Underworld.  Update 6-5-2012! The correct digital copy of Underworld (Unrated) was finally added to my Ultraviolet account on 6-4-2012.I can now watch the digital copy of the movie I paid for in HDX on Vudu.

Big Daddy + Singles = A Flop HAPPYTHANKYOUMOREPLEASE is a very paint by numbers movie that does little to add anything original to the movie landscape.  This movie borrows heavily from two movies that you wouldn't necessarily put together:  Big Daddy and Singles.  Sam Wexler (Josh Radnor) takes young Rasheen under his wing when he gets separated from his foster family on the subway in New York.  However the story lacks the Sandler brand of comedy to make this compelling.  What you get instead from Sam is someone fond of the one night stand who tries to get a little more serious with Mississippi (Kate Mara) who is a bartender/cabaret singer.  There are two other sets of couples in different stages of relationship crisis (the Singles angle), but it is difficult to find any sympathetic characters in this hodgepodge story.  The best performance comes from Arrested Development favorite Tony Hale as Sam #2 - a subtle nod to his onetime AD love interest who was known as Lucille 2.  Otherwise there is little that is memorable about this movie.  I would recommend skipping it all together.

Always picks hot chicks Sandler is pathetic.  I used to be a fan of this guy but now every single movie he picks extremely hot women to be his wife/girlfriend/love interest, whatever.  Like we are supposed to believe this ugly dude will be married to all these hot chicks.  What a joke.  Sandler is a joke.

Kazan scrapes bottom in "Grass" The Sea of Grass (MGM, 1947) was director Elia Kazan's second film.  Lutie Cameron (Katherine Hepburn), a St. Louis society woman travels to New Mexico to marry cattleman, Col. Jim Brewton (Spencer Tracy). Brewton's disdain for homesteaders and his devotion to the prairie quickly drives a wedge between him and his new wife. Lutie turns to Brewton's rival, liberal attorney Brice Chamberlain (Melvyn Douglas), for comfort which results in pregnancy. Lutie abandons her newborn son and a daughter and returns to St. Louis while Brewton raises the boy as his own. With questions about his legitimacy constantly floating around town, Brock Brewton (Robert Walker) grows up to have quite a chip on his shoulder, eventually running afoul of the law and dying in a shootout. Upon hearing of Brock's death, Lutie returns to New Mexico and reunites with Brewton and daughter Sara Beth (Phyllis Thaxter).  Kazan was extremely critical of The Sea of Grass and often referred to it as his worst film. Tracy's performance is cinematic sleepwalking and the thought of Connecticut diva, Hepburn, having to rough it on a ranch in New Mexico is preposterous. Her overdone costumes are laughable. It's hard to imagine what Brewton and Chamberlain saw in Hepburn's Lutie. Darned if I know. Kazan later related that Hepburn's constant retreats to the set washroom to freshen up drove him up a wall until he finally just gave up. The only likeable performance in this film comes from Edgar Buchanan as crusty cook, Jeff.  After The Sea of Grass, Kazan generally avoided spoiled marquee headliners. Unlike his first film, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, there are absolutely no distinguishing features in this movie that would characterize it as a Kazan project.  Don't waste your time on this clunker unless you're a Kazan completist. No commentary is provided which is understandable.

Be Aware This is not the 3 films in 3d. Like many of the Blu rays sold by Amazon this is not all the films in 3d Blu Ray

Very dissapointing, too much violence, torture & death Well even after reading the reviews I couldn't imagine Cars 2 being so dreadful after how wonderful the first film was.  My children all enjoy the first film.  However, I was mortified when I saw a car being tortured and then killed!  At this point I was so thankful that my children weren't even interested enough in the film to watch more than 5 minutes and by this point in the film they had lost interest entirely.  While the plot is OK - it is not geared towards the same audience that the previous film had been, and it is quite complicated for young children to follow.  I do not want to explain why cars are being tortured for information to my 4 year, let alone my 8 year old.  I am shocked that this film doesn't carry a PG13.  It is unfortunate the beloved characters from the previous movie are almost all left behind.  Further the movie isn't just dark in the sense of the plot, but it is just dark.  The previews on YouTube have the best parts of the movie - stick to those and you won't waste your money or be terribly disappointed.  I wish I could take the movie back.  It was a complete let down and waste of money.

more of the same not much action nor history but marginally better than their other films...Another day at an reenactment..except your feet don't hurt after..

OK...Give ME somthing more! One word "Croatoan."  If you watch the tv show Supernatural you will know...but if you haven't ...or have not learned it in school...ur lost...just give us something! srry bad movie

Great special effects, nothing else (Warning Possible Spoiler)  "Clash of the Titans" not realistic when it comes to historical accuracy, but then again most movies based on greek, roman or any other mytholgies never are. This is a remake of the campy but cool 1981 version, and this one features way better special effects and acting and storytelling as bland and predictable as it comes. Sam Worthington (Terminator 4) stars as Perseus son of Zeus who is raised by a fishing family that is killed when Zeus statue is destroyed by an army defying the gods. Perseus is discovered by soldiers of Argos and after discovering he is Zeus' son is asked to take the task of defeating Hades and killing a creature known as "The Kraken". What follows is a series of battle scenes with various monsters that while impressive really don't have any reason to them, they just happen.  Zeus (Liam Neeson, "Taken") wants his son to take his place as one of them, while Hades (Ralph Finnes "Red Dragon") wishes for the destruction of all man and wants to become the leader of the gods after being cast out by Zeus some time ago. There's also some race called the Djinn, which are neat looking conjourers that live in the desert that really are about the only cool characters in the whole movie.  You get it all in this movie, giant scorpions, bad acting, a battle with Medusa, bad dialogue, the Kraken, and stale characters. Its a quick film, maybe 95 mins before the end credits start, but unfortunately all the thought and effort seemed to be put into the special effects. Again the acting, writing, stale characters really bring it down.

Disappointed Was drawn to this movie because of the all-star cast, but the story line and lack of integration between the characters, not to mention the extremely slow pace of the dialogue, all left me feeling as if the movie was lacking.  Only watched the film in its entirety in the hopes that it would get better, but it did not.

Dopey and confused Tim Burton's take on "Dark Shadows" is absolutely bizarre. There's a straightfaced prologue, some excellent period touches, and some truly atmospheric cinematography. Unfortunately, all of this is put into place to serve a truly poorly-thought out film that can't decide what it wants to be and ends up being one disjointed sequence or sketch after another.  Burton's goal seems to have been to create a mashup between "Austin Powers" and "The Addams Family," and to be fair there are a few laughs in this film. (I particularly enjoyed the jokes about Alice Cooper, although Alice's cameo isn't that great). I'd be more forgiving of this take on "Dark Shadows" if the film were more consistently funny. But it isn't, and maybe the fault lies in the source material itself. "Dark Shadows" was undeniably campy but it was never self-consciously funny, and introducing outright comedy into the film adaptation just rings false.  The shame of it is, the cast would have been fantastic in a straight film adaptation or reboot. Johnny Depp in particular would have been the perfect Barnabas Collins.  There are many better horror-comedies out there for you to see. Only Burton and Depp diehards are going to want this one.

3 out of 10 perhaps Crowe is unconvincing as the cold blooded killer, spending a great deal of his energy being charming and likable. Bale is very good. Everyone else is very bad. Really lame casting. Especially the deviant sidekick "kid" who is given a lot of attention in the film as if his character is compelling or as an actor, he's a lot to offer. Neither is the case. This guy is simply annoying.  The direction is ok, the production is sub par, the score is tolerable, supporting cast is dreadful as is the script. Fonda gets shot almost point blank in the gut. They take him to town where the Vet pulls out the slug and within minutes he's up and about and on the trail again.....RIDING A HORSE AND BEATING UP ON CROWE WITH HIS RIFLE BUTT. Really tuff!  Then, while the party is camped out, they come under attack for some reason by 3 Indians who start firing upon them from afar. I suppose they thought it might be more fun than waiting till the white guys are asleep and sneaking in to slit their throats. Anyway, Crowe sneaks up on the 3 and kills them while the rest of the party is cowering around the campfire in an apparent attempt to be as visible as possible, and then returns to be a captive. Silly. Then, the evil kid offers the local townfolk $200 for anyone who kills Bale. In an instant, the normally good, law abiding citizenry turn into a bunch of crazed greedy killers.  It just goes on and on with this kind of nonsense. You'll probably love it as everyone else seems to.

Sleepy in Seattle, err, San Francisco These disaster-type flicks should never be made (this is in that genre, is it not?).  After all, have you ever seen one that was any good?  Maybe the first "Poseiden Adventure" I suppose.  Perhaps "Titanic" had its moments.  But then again you might argue, "Well, why did you rent this film then?" and you'd have a point.  Now, I'll get onto that point.  I used to live in Seattle, but I just got too tired of the rain - and all those really friendly people, some of whom you will see on screen - so I decided it was time to move.  And while I lived in Seattle, I was not there at the time of the protests.  I was out of the country at the time, so I had to watch this fine city get torched to the ground from afar.  I guess that it was better than being there based upon the actual footage that's in this very-mediocre-at-best film.  But anyway, I decided to rent this movie since I wanted to see what happened finally, many years later.  Now, this is a fictionalized account.  I wanted to also watch because I had just reviewed "Young Adult" - which I really liked - and I noticed that Charlize Theron was in this one as well.  In "Battle" she plays a gal who is married to a cop, where she is pregnant.  Now, some very artificial plot device is used to show how his line of work adversely effects her and therefore both of them.  Won't say what that device is, but I will say the following:  Ugh.  Now, for full disclosure, I'm not much of a fan of protests and protesters over all, especially in the United States.  "What do you have to protest about?  Having to pay slightly higher gas prices?" might be a question I might ask.  While I fully realize that this country is far from perfect, we don't really have it all that bad so, why do people put their lives on the line for such pointless reasons?  Well, protesting is your right, and protest away.  But it's hard to protest the following:  this movie is pretty forgettable.  And this movie probably shouldn't have been made.  And I surely shouldn't have wasted neither my time nor my money on this disaster.

Good production value, can't say much about the rest We purchased this locally for about $10. The quality of the box set isn't great. The outer box/sleeve is thin and too small - the three disk boxes have to be crammed in and I expect that it will be damaged by the time we finish watching the season.. The boxes and disks are not numbered - how hard is it? I looked up the episodes and numbered the inserts and disks. Like the title says, the production value is high - the actors are good and all the little details add to the experience. Beyond that, I have to admit that I fall asleep almost every time we watch an episode. I'm one of those skeptics that likes ghost stories, and these stories are repetitive and predictable. For good reason, based on the subject matter, but I was really hoping for more.

Disappointed When actors try to become professional singers, the results are usually disappointing.  In "Across the Universe" they try too hard, hoping that the audience will be impressed with their singing.  Their renditions are too self-conscious, too forced.  It would have been better to use professional (talented) singers, rather than trying to turn actors into quality singers.

What happened to her following her own advice? I don't know the chronology of Jackie's workout videos, but I do know mine.  I started with the Xtreme Timesaver workout and was extremely impressed.  Jackie consistently stressed the importance of proper form and implored you not to rush through the moves, as it was more important to do the exercises properly and with good form (both for effectiveness of the exercises and to avoid injury) than it was to try and maintain a certain tempo (like that of the music!). All that good advice seems to have been abandoned in this video, which finds Jackie and crew rushing from one exercise to the next and, during each of the exercises, maintaining a tempo that I found to be downright dangerous unless you had impeccable form.  It was nearly impossible to keep up, especially in the 15-minute total body workout. All in all, a huge letdown from Xtreme Timesaver, which I highly recommend.

Xtend Barre I can't say that this tape was bad, it was just too difficult for me and have done several Bar Method tapes with no problem. The biggest problem was that Amazon charged me $18.81 plus $2.96 tax for restocking!! Huge waste of money!

Made for tv type movie The production value is about on par with a cable network movie. Maybe a tiny bit better. I'm surprised at all the horrible reviews though. This is no great movie to be sure but it's nowhere near the worst. Not by a long shot. It is as most have noted absolutley derivative of any jungle movie you have ever seen. Everything about it is mediocre. Not bad mind you but mediocre in the true definition of the word. It's not even close to being bad enough to make fun of and it's just a single notch above being able to hold your interest. Buy it? don't you dare, you'll be sorry if you do. Rent it? might be worth it if you really like jungle movies. Watch it free? it's worth a watch if there's nothing else that piques your interest.

Disappointing I tend to not be a big fan of remakes of classic films.  If you want to see a movie about an astronaut trapped on a world filled with talking apes, why not just watch the classic?  Nonetheless, I decided to give this movie a shot in the theater when it came out.  There has been plenty of criticism of the ending--and it is richly deserved, in my opinion.  Despite the fact that it is much closer to how Pierre Boule ended the novel than the 1968 version did, it is still much, much weaker than Charlton Heston on the beach.  I also had a real problem with the apes.  I thought they looked less like apes than the original ones did.  If nothing else, that part of the effects should have improved in the decades since the original films were made.  Instead, they looked like big muppets--for the most part.  (The newer "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" does not share this problem--nor is it a bad film).  This film just wasn't enjoyable in very many ways at all for me.  If you like Tim Burton movies generally, you may feel differently.  I never have been much of a fan of his.  It's a weak story, badly put on, that adds nothing to the original stories.  Fans are better off sticking with the old series or going with Rise if you want to watch one of these movies.  This effort is the "New Coke" of the Apes franchise.

WRATH OF THE SPECTATORS After the remake of the first movie, I was expecting a little more from this sequel.  I mean, really, with the power of 3-D creation available today, why make a creature such as the "hydra" so ugly in this movie?  Killing off the girl before the sequel even starts?  What the hell?!?  I paid to see this in a theater, and viewing it once was more then enough. This one is a RENTAL at best...

Don't turn out the lights now... Wow, what a thrill ride...for a helmet special. Buy this if all your DVDs no longer play and its either this movie or watching WNBA (They got next, right). This movie really sucked. My wife taped it off HBO when DTV gave us a free preview and it was just terrible, like Adam Dunn at the plate. I'm not really sure why she taped it. When we first moved into our apt. and ordered DTV we had five free months of all the premiums. She loved it cause she liked taping movies. I loved it cause I was able to tape Lingerie, Life on Top and my favorite, Sin City Diaries...Oh how I love Max after Dark. But back to Swimfan (that is the reason why most of you are here afterall). Basically Swimfan it involves this fat porker girl trying to smash out a guy who looks like Freddie Prinze Jr. if Freddie had someone with baseball cleats (maybe Bill Brubacker from "Summer Catch") walked on his face. His face is pretty much as bad as Cameron Diaz...Yes, I know bad...but not as bad as Fergie...jesus christ. Eventually, the porker nails the the Freddie guy in a pool in an awkward sexual position and then all mayhem starts, but there aint no Allstate agent around (CeCe Pedro)! I love to watch the scene cause I dont know how the porker is able to float in the pool and I'm not even sure Freddie's junk would be hard enough to pleasure the porker unless he had two BK Big King's (yes this movie was in 2002 back when the Big King ruled) in his swim trunks. She makes some BS comment about how big his junk is but she cant even keep a straight face when saying it. After he smashes the porker she goes around trying to break up Freddie and his rather homely GF. This works for a while but then the old GF realizes that the porker really is crazy and forgives Freddie. The porkers odd slightly handicapped cousin helps frame the porker and she gets arressted but manages to kill the pigs that were escorting her to jail or juvenile hall and then she comes back to kill Freddie and the homely GF. Would I recommend this movie to friends? Yes, if I was looking to no longer be friends with them. I cant believe I wasted an hour + 30 mins on this film when I could have been watching Lingerie, playing NBA 2K11 or thinking about Djokovic! Very bad and Liberace. This Freddie guy cant at and none of the stars are attractive enough to make you want to watch this garabage. CC F-U HF10

Pretty bad even by Japanese B-Movie standards Let me start by saying I'm a fan of gonzo action and over-the-top cinema in general. I love the latest bunch of Japanese B-Movies coming into the U.S. Market. Titles like "Machine Girl" and "Tokyo Gore Police" are pretty campy and certainly over-the-top, but are also fairly well made and cohesive. Unfortunately, I cannot say the same for "Alien vs. Ninja." From the trailer, you know what you're probably in for; gore, crazy ninja fights, Japanese dudes in rubber alien suits jumping around and tearing people apart. And yes, there is a lot of that stuff going on. However, there isn't much more to this title. There is essentially no plot. Bunch a ninjas are running around the forest doing something and some aliens land in meteors and start killing villagers and other ninja. The fights are fairly well done, though not as intense or violent as they probably should have been. They seem more like Power Ranger battles than anything else. The only real blood letting occurs when the aliens attack. From a gore-hound point of view, this film actually disappoints a bit since there isn't much on-screen gore that isn't a digital effect. Characters are fairly one dimensional and the gimmick of alien parasites taking over the captured ninja is underutilized. If you can find this one at Red Box for a $1 rental, it's worth it for the few chuckles. But overall you'll be left feeling like Funimation edited out the best parts or that maybe the best parts didn't exist to begin with.

If It's Not Broken... I will admit two things right off the bat: First, that I am an unabashed history nerd and inordinately fond of beautifully portrayed historical films; second, that I am of the camp who has actually read Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See and fell in love with the moving story of Lily and Snow Flower and their deep and complex bond. While this movie wasn't terrible, this was not the beautiful and heartrending story told in the book. I openly admit that I was hoping for a visually stunning, dramatic, epic, and emotional film portrayal of a story that had the potential to be all of those things and more. Those who have not read the book might very well enjoy the movie, but I was just too disappointed to do so.  As with many other reviewers, I was pretty let down by the addition of Lily and Snow Flower's supposed modern-day counterparts, Nina and Sophia. I get where they were trying to go with it, but it just didn't work. If it had been just an intro, maybe... but it wasn't. And it got really old, really fast. They bounced back and forth between the two different stories, and the end result was that neither got the attention it deserved. As they were entirely created for the film, I would have liked to have known more about Nina and Sophia and their friendship. I would have liked to have seen more of a connection between the two stories (aside from using the same actresses); the provided thread was awkward and tenuous at best. I would have liked to have seen more of Nina's struggle to redeem herself to her family and recover from her setback. I would have liked to have seen a few more examples of Sophia's supposedly unwise life choices. I still don't quite understand what Hugh Jackman had to do with *anything.* I feel the two stories would have done better just made into two completely separate films.  Also, many of the details that made Lisa See's story so gripping and special were completely lost. Most of the most dramatic and haunting events from the book were almost completely cut out of the movie if not flat out missing, including Lily's ultimate condemnation and public betrayal of Snow Flower. Even if they had included it, no one would have understood why it was so devastating for everyone involved. We never understand why Lily was so desperate for love. Snow Flower's undeserved descent into poverty and shame is barely touched on. The foot-binding and typhoid epidemic are glossed over, and the highly traumatic and life-altering escape from the Taiping rebels? If you go by the movie, a couple dozen folks hustled to a field about a mile or so down the road, spent one night outside under multiple quilts and a very light snowfall, there was one death, and then they were all magically back home again not even worse for wear. No sense of serious danger, hardship, or horror whatsoever. It isn't even emphasized why that singular death was as pivotal to the story as it was. If I hadn't read the book, I would have wondered what they were even doing out there in the first place.  In conclusion, the movie is not un-watchable. It does have some touching moments. To me however, it just was not Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.

Didn't receive it. I ordered this video for my girlfriend around the 28th of January but never received it.  I called four different post offices without any success.  I called the seller to see if he would help locate it without success.  The whole order has been a hassle.  To be fair, the seller did send it from his end promptly (within two days). In my opinion it's the seller's responsibility to get the product to me, especially since I paid for postage.  I shouldn't be the one tracking it down.  His only suggestion was to cancel the order, which I did.

Great Story but Poor Translation to the Big Screen I really wanted to like this retelling of the biblical story of Esther but was mostly disappointed.  The casting was spotty, with the accents especially veering all over the map - some sound British, some sound middle Eastern, and one or two sound pretty much Californian!  The direction was a bit of a mess too, with confusing cuts in and out of vital plot line points and weak character introductions and integration.  I watched it with 3 other reasonably intelligent adults (though they might not say the same about me!) and all of us found it a bit tough to follow at times.  It contains most of the major elements of the story of Esther but still manages to make the simple Bible story confusing.  On the plus side, the cinematography was pretty good for a lower budget production and the acting, though inconsistent, was fairly solid overall.  In the end, I would suggest reading the story of Esther rather than watching One Night with The King.  The written version is easier to follow, more interesting, and will take significantly less time to enjoy.

Such an easy solution to their problem!!! Anyone with half a brain knows that all the wedding planner had to do was call the last woman she'd scheduled and told her that she'd penciled her down for the wrong date, switched it, and the Emma and Liv didn't have to even be bothered by the mistake that hadn't been their fault at all. If you're paying someone thousands of dollars (we'll assume that's what they paid Bergman's character) to plan your wedding and they can't even get the date right and they're haggling you over it, then you need to go somewhere else. Furthermore, if I'm working for someone and I accidentally put in the wrong dates, why wouldn't I simply go back into the computer once I've figured out the mistake and just correct it?!  That's all any of them had to friggin do!!!  This is just supposed to be a cute brainless movie about friendship and love with a pretty backdrop, but I thought the premise would've made a lot more sense than it did. It's like the writers just didn't bother to figure out anything more creative other than that and it sucks. The rest of the movie is entertaining at least, but I just couldn't get that little fact out of my head the entire time that there's no way something like that would happen in real life.

Just Not Funny I watched the first 4 episodes from season one because I heard a few people talking about the show. Just simply not very funny. I may have chuckled a couple times in the entire 4 shows I watched. It's a little sleazy, which would be ok if it was funny. Maybe someone can tell me what parts are funny, I couldnt find them.

Cheaper to order from the UK Even with the exchange rate you'd be better off ordering this package - and it's a real fanboy must-have package for the completist - from Amazon UK. Works out at about $420. Stil ludicrous for what you get, but if you desperately want it...

Very Disappointing Expected an entertaining film with some great dancing.  While I can see that this may garner rave reviews within the gay community, as a stand-alone movie, I found it tedious.  I actually thought for a low budget movie the production quality wasn't too bad.  The music is really good and the two leading sisters are somewhat engaging.  However, the script is dire, sorry to say that the acting is pretty dire and most disappointingly, the dance sequences in "So you think you can Dance" are so much better than in this movie.  Clearly the dancers are top notch, but the choreography in no way does their skills justice. All the charm that Benji Schwimmer showed on television evaporated in this movie.  I guess it was meant to be a very stylized movie, but I found it heavy handed and almost completely humorless.  Melanie LaPatin seemed like a caricature of Bette Middler on speed, Benji Schwimmer a caricature of Jack from "Will & Grace" and the caption on the back of the dvd, "Strictly Ballroom meets Dirty Dancing" is very misleading in terms of quality, though you can see what they "borrowed" from Strictly Ballroom.  I really thought that if nothing else, the dance sequences would make up for any other shortcomings and sadly this wasn't the case for me.

Didint understand much I'm not sure what the plot was for this movie, I really don't know what i got the movie either maybe i wasn't in the right frame of mind or maybe it was cause of the sex scenes? i don't know but wasn't all that great.

Disappointment for Tarsem Singh fans, what happened to the story??? I came to see this movie with a very big bias I will admit. I love Tarsem's filmmaking and his altered perception on common stories. I thought "The Fall" was hands-down one of the best movies of the past decade and thoroughly enjoyed The Cell.  With that said, when I heard he was making this movie a year ago I was really excited and started reading up on it everywhere. When I got to the theatre I was still sitting around for 20 minutes after the film was done expecting there to be a epilogue that explained a lot. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE STORY??!!! It felt like the producers took the script and cut it in half over and over again and we only saw scraps of what could be! In greek mythology Hyperion is a Titan, I kept waiting for them to explain that he escaped and is seeking his revenge disguised as a human, which would make sense as to why he is doing everything and knows certain things and is so much stronger than everyone, but NO, nothing, the movie just abruptly ends. What gives?  As with any movie by Tarsem the film is incredibly lavish and the design tends to be the strongest element in the movie. The only problem with this is that you can tell they only filmed inside sound studios because which is weird because most of the film takes place outdoors. It really made everything feel closed in and isolated, which worked against them I think. I think they were trying to make things more intimate for the 3D effect, but this movie really didn't need to be in 3D!!!  As far as the acting goes, Henry Cavill was alright as an action star, but due to the crappy storyline there really isn't much to work with. Mickey Rourke is good of course as a ruthless king, Frida Pinto is so-so, nothing too earthshaking here. What was surprising was Stephen Dorff making a comeback as a sidekick thief who tags along for the adventure. Luke Evans also does a good job as a stern and commanding Zeus.  When the Blu-Ray was announced and they stated that there is over an hour of additional footage and an alternate ending I thought that it was a must see because the theatrical version was so bad, so I went out looking to rent it. Unfortunately the company that produced this created 3 seperate versions of the blu-ray and then only released the standard version to rental companies like Blockbuster and Netflix. That means that if you want to see the full version story that you were intended to see from the director then you have to purchase the Blu-Ray. Total crap!

Not bad Some parts are ok, but the rest is a little sleepy. I bought this movie because Will Ferrell stars in it. I like him in his movies. But this one could have been better.

nostalgia It gives me a picture of the past, simple, but harsh living conditions  It also relates how the natives , their food sources and freedom were almost destroyed all in the name of progress,greed etc.The nature of man hasen't changed all that much

shabby production Hard to believe E. Wharton had anything to do with this story.  From the beginning I thought the womens costumes were not authentic, and the women playing the "Buccaneers" had character traits not in accordance with a woman of that time period.  The language was more in tune with a woman from the 20th century.  It was almost offensive. No woman from this time period would dress, or act in the way they did. Mrs. St George was ..well, just awful, just so overdone I don't know why they bothered to include her in the cast, except to put down women.  If you look at the movie as a broad, overdone soap opera, well I guess they made the mark.

Country Strong If you like depressing movies this is one to watch. This movie isn't really about country music success it is about characters with tortured souls. Disappointing and depressing.

Non-USA Format - Shirley Valentine I was really looking forward to seeing Shirley Valentine again - great acting, BEAUTIFUL SCENERY, and a good story....but the Non-USA format DVD I purchased would not play on my DVD player.  So disappointing!

Archaic dialogue not the only problem... Count me as the part of the viewership who did not realize this would be in Shakespearian english before renting it.  Figured I'd give it a chance anyway since the reviews were so glowing.  After this experience, I doubt I'll be delving into any more Shakespearean movies featuring authentic language.  Problem is, even with the subtitles on it's almost impossible to figure out what they're talking about.  Seems like it would've been much more effective to keep the soul of the film while using not only a modern setting but modern language.  Then, the crux of the story again makes no sense.  A war hero apparently wants to be a high-ranking official so he talks the commoners into naming him consul.  Five minutes later, his political enemy changes these same commoners' minds - for, ludicrously, not taking off his shirt - while also convincing them that he should be put to death.  I realize Shakespearean tragedies need to be...well...tragic, but this one seems to be stretching a bit thin.  It still gets 2 stars for excellent acting, but I found nothing redeeming about the plot, execution, whatever.

Tepid Attempt to Replicate U.S. Blockbusters Decent film with laughably bad moments where somebody clear said "make me an American blockbuster".  Gratuitous attempts to tap into a sense of national pride are tempered by timid nods to cultural relativism.

Bad, boring, B Bad acting, idiotic dialogs, clumsy action, predictable situations... Yawn. Perfect for a Sunday afternoon after being dumped by your girl/boyfriend.

Difficult to see the moves This DVD has a very small image of the dancer/instructor against a very large background. I don't want to have to put on glasses to see the moves which I am trying to execute during a workout. I have a collection of over 70 workout DVD's and this is the only one during which I couldn't see the instructor well enough to execute the moves.

OMG This was horrible I won't say much other than do not waste your time or money on this movie. It is horrible, I loved the first ghost rider but this was not even close to watchable.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Nyquels SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (Dir. Guy Ritchie, 2012, 122 minutes) was splashy, fun yet somehow tiresome. Much like a television show with a tremendous budget. You will note my review title making a pun with my old term NYQUEL for a boring sequel that just doesn't cut it.  In brief - just as it is presented in the film, too brief - Professor James Moriarty shows his face and tips his hand. It is exactly as I expected he would be played in this film but the actor disappointed me. I like him, but not like this. In an effort to capitalize on war supplies, Moriarty makes certain a war ignites. While Holmes and Watson skip around like hyperactive rabbits, Irene Adler senselessly vanishes, Mycroft gets about 3 minutes screen time, and the story could have been done in 80 minutes so it is a bit sad.  Tremendous humor permeates certain scenes - again, not enough to save this sinking barge. With the years they had to make this film, I am somewhat shocked at its lackluster cinematic quality. The slo-mo invented by Akira Kurosawa gets old and saggy after more than a few seconds, and ought not be used more than once. Here I counted something like 13 instances; that is a sign the director did not know what else to do to fill up that time. Which he need not have filled anyway. Tossing in some Gypsies ... not sure if that was just poor judgment or poor judgment along with an insulting, racist portrayal.  Oh well. This is a let-down compared to the first film. I never expected that, but at least it is better than the atrocious BBC TV modern update, SHERLOCK. And if I may update this review a bit: if you enjoyed the first film, as I did (see my review), you will probably sit through this but you will be unimpressed. The people who say otherwise in my view simply have no sense.  If you like a high-budget hyperkinetic video game, then this is for you. Only beware: the Facebook-comic book-video-game crowd is out to get anyone who negatively reviews this film!

You were never lovelier Firstly, it plays automatically in Russian but luckily there was someone around who knew how to turn the Russian off as there are no English instructions! The film itself is pretty awful, just saved by some good Fred Astaire dances!

horror; yes /  zombie movie; no I must admit, I find infected living people over reanimated dead bodies more realistic / believable when it comes to zombies (thank you 28 Days Later).  However, I find the way the "zombies" in Pontypool become infected totally absurd... a phrase of the English language turning folks into zombies / "virus being spread through language", really? Sure, it is a new spin on zombies and the writers thought outside the box and good for them... but that idea made about as much sense to me as filming a remake of Night of the Living Dead in 3-D... (ooh, giant joint coming at you in 3-D... ahh,  3-D pot smoke in your face), but infection via language just killed the movie for me. 28 Days Later and the remake of Day of the Dead (minus the annoying stereotypical Hollywood action Nick Cannon character) are two great examples of zombie movies where the writers thought outside the box! I just wish the makers of Pontypool had made a non "zombie" movie with their new fangled yet far fetched idea, or just stuck to some of the good old ways of zombieness. And now to touch on the comparison of Pontypool to Dead Air.... I don't care which came first... there is no comparison for me. Not to sound like a zombie movie snob, but when I want to watch a zombie movie, I want zombies (wither infected humans or reanimated dead bodies) trying to eat humans and humans trying to survive and not get eaten by zombies. I also need to be able to suspend disbelief, a "lets pretend for just a moment that this could really happen.", and language being the cause of "infection" was just too ridiculous for me. Dead Air had believability and lots of zombie chomping action! Pontypool was a well written and produced movie. The actors were great at acting. And the plot, aside from the way people became infected was great, for a psychological horror movie, but there was just not enough zombie action goodness for me. With that said, it is by far a lot better than many of the studio budget and no budget zomidy and zombie horror movies that are lurking about, ready to cheat us out of our hard earned money, like a corporate interested (Dick Cheney) Republican politician! And there were no Nazi zombies or teen angst boys having sex with a bound dead girl.

The 3D shots are great, but the narration and background reflect the environmental activists' agenda I guess I should have paid more attention to the actual title of this DVD. As a new Sony 3D LED owner, I was looking for something reasonable to show off the 3D capabilities of my new TV to friends and family. The other reviews on Amazon gave it high marks for its 3D effects and that sold me. Less than 5 minutes into the video, I realize it's a product of the environmental movement that seems to think we should put everything back the way it was 50 years ago. One example early on is a statement that environmental activists are debating the pros and cons of tearing down the Glen Canyon dam so that the silt that is prevented from traveling further down the Colorado River can be reintroduced. I noted on the cover as soon as I opened it that it was narrated by Robert Redford and on the back cover it reveals that Robert Kennedy, also a known environmental activist, was one of the principle characters. One or both of them make references to global warming as though it's accepted fact when we know that's not the case...even scientists can't agree it's happening. All in all, I'm quite disappointed in this Bluray DVD, and I think if I ever watch it again, I'll turn off the audio and just enjoy the scenic shots.

Disappointing! Emma Stone was absolutely hilarious in Super Bad and House Bunny. Not so much in this movie. Must be bad writing?? Lisa Kudrow isn't even remotely funny in this either! Was looking forward to this one, but it is terrible.

No thanks! I was in the mood for a good plot and didn't pay attention to the description of the movie.  When the singing started, my interest departed.  Nothing about this film appealed to me.

A slow and very abstract perspective... I must say, upon first viewing this film and watching how Emily Browning the Main character went about dealing with her rather busy and complex life in "Sleeping Beauty". Brought me great joys to view her mannerisms, and non-verbal queues as to the frustrations she is dealing with in her everyday walk of life. Then finally when she is hired to be a escort (so to speak) I found that the movie just stayed on a very even, borderline vanilla appeal, and subtle look into the darker sides of prostitution and how the rich get their jollies.  I found the movie dragged on for an endlessly long period of time. Furthermore, at the end of the movie the viewer is surely left holding the bag when getting a chance to view her experience from a 3rd party perspective. Hoping to see the horror or at least Browning's reaction to what she is not privy to during her sessions with rich Johns. PROBLEM IS you never to get it?!?!  If it were not for Browning's oddly captivating beauty, and her quirky mannerisms. The film would be considered absolute rubbish. Spend your money in a different direction if you are looking for a riveting climax and/or thought provoking ending. You will not find it in this film. This is one of these films that keeps you in a semi-suspenseful fit, wondering when the other shoe will fall, but never does. The repetitive bedroom scenes with similar script and cast of characters only drags on forever, and probably takes up at least 30 minutes of this lengthy hour and forty-two minute film. There are rare moments of brilliance but the director and story miss the mark on what could of been a very good piece of cinematography.  Don't bother wasting your money....  -nuff said

movie The movie itself is a good enough show but i was dissapointed it did not have a proper case. it must have said that in the add but i missed it. thanks.

Nothing like Bollywood Nothing like you see in Bollywood dance, very slow and the moves weren't that great. Regret that I spend my money in this DVD. This DVD is for elderly women that will like to get in shape.

very graphic I loved the books.  I was stunned at how the HBO show is so sexually graphic.  I went back and checked the books and there is some sex but that isn't the focus of the story.  There is so much more sex in the show.  It is unnecessary for the story.  I wish the story line was followed more closely.

Just fell short! Despite the name of the movie, you won't be shown that much actual gambling. In fact, if you wanted to see a gambling movie about gambling and how that works this isn't at all it. You could count the actual amount of gambling that is going on in the whole movie, and it would be about 8 or 9 minutes! This is one and half hour movie, so this movie is definitely NOT about "the odds" of gambling. This movie about the affects of gambling. I thought the movie could had been named better, maybe "Desson". Why? Because all you'll sees in the whole movie is Desson. There is not one single time where you won't see Desson.  So, the movie is about Desson, a high school student, that lost a large amount money in illegal High School gambling. The movie starts off like your typical movie where you see Desson helping out his best friend Barry from a bad situation. He then meets his high school female love, Heather. And there's a gambling ring leader, Paul. Then, you continued to see and get to know more about the characters and other characters.  As the movie progresses, Barry body is found dead and now Desson on the hunt to find out who did it. As everyday passes, Desson gets closer and closer to the truth with Barry's murder mystery. By finding out small clues and talking to people, Desson will find out what really happened to Barry.  Towards the end of the movie, you find out more and more about Desson life and maybe Desson isn't the guy, you may have thought he was. At the climax of the movie, Desson actually has a deep dark secret that he hasn't told anyone, even his decease best friend, didn't know about it.  I though this movie had a lot going for it, the story and the characters. But, the movie does fall short on some aspects. Many times, the slow/boring moments and this drag brought down the movie. The movie should had found a way to sped up the movie more, I found myself just waiting for something really interesting to happen. I thought Desson should actually find out more information every time, so he would go on to the next clue scene sooner. Maybe this would have sped up the movie more.  ***Spoilers Below***  I didn't like how the movie wanted to do too much with the characters. I believe that the movie wanted to go somewhere with Paul and Terry relationship more, but the movie was all ready dragging out. I believe Terry is actually Paul's Dad because Paul calls him Dad at the end. This would allow more scenes to tell between Terry and Paul, but this wasn't needed and in fact, Paul should had never even said Dad at the end of the movie. Leaves the viewers wondering more about what happened to Terry after the movie and Paul.  The ending itself I didn't like either. The ending doesn't exactly tell you what happens with Desson. He does find the killer of Barry, and he does go to Jail that's good. But, then it goes off and shows the audience that Desson still has a bunch of money from the Terry. Then, it shows that Desson also has a Barry's Cell. So, it is unclear what happens with Desson and the money because then the credit starts. There must be around thousands of dollars in his hands. You see Desson smiling at the end, but what does that mean? Will he keep on gambling? Will he turn in the money to the police? Will he give the money to his Dad? Maybe to Barry's family? Maybe he used the money to rent out an apartment?  It is possible that Desson will give the money to Heather for her gambling debt, but there is too much money there not to be left over. But, it is possible Heather doesn't even have a debt anymore because Paul got in trouble with the cops too and he can't collect money, if he goes to jail. I don't know. This movie just didn't give any clue to what would happen to the money. I feel the movie should not have just dumped the ending like that because it brings down the movie story by leaving the viewer with questions.

Not as good as the original series First a rough view of the plot.  People have stopped dying all over the world.  Except for Jack who is now mortal.  Anyway, people not dying causes all sorts of problems and this reunites Jack & Gwen along with an American contingent.  Do not get fond of the new characters as they die off faster than characters wearing red in the original Star Trek series.  And it turns out that all of this IS a corporate plot in the end.  The good:  Very complicated plot that brings back items from Jack's past and ties it all neatly together at the end.  Most of the acting is very good.  There are times when the elements that made the original Torchwood series compelling surface.  These are good.  There is a good bit of action thrown in and a surprising bit of character development (while they live, that is).  The bad guys are really bad but also surprising.  The series did a decent job of dealing with some practical issues of no one dying and the impact on, for example, the family of Gwen and others.  And it is all Jack's fault, of course.  But he does fix things.  In the end.  The bad:  This is VERY little of the elements that made the original Torchwood series compelling.  You have to pay attention to catch some of them.  It is easy to get lost in the plot.  Oh, and if you dig somewhat frank scenes of homosexual sex and courtship thrown in - Jack is clearly not bi anymore if he ever was - then grab the family and snuggle down.  Oh, for fairness I guess they threw in some equivalent scenes of heterosexual sex.  I think this was to keep the family theme going.......  The best actors were the secondary one throughout the series.  Gwen and Jack had little chance to shine.  Which is surprising in that the length of the series should have allowed more of Jack and Gwen in action.  Speaking of the length, the care the writers used to draw the complicated plot from mainly Jack's past but also of several other characters led up to a bit of a fizzle for a finish.  But enough folks survived to leave hope (if that is the best term for this) for follow on episodes.  In summary, there are some strong point to this mini-series.  Some compelling acting, a complicated plot that does tie together, and such.  There is little of the strengths of the original Torchwood that made that series compelling.  If you liked the original series, then this can be most disappointing.  If you are looking for something different, this may be a series for you to purchase.  Do not let small children watch this.  It is not family fare and that is sad.

Poor DVD Quality I wish that people would stop reviewing the actual movies on Amazon and review the technical qualities of the product (the DVD) only.  There are other places on the web to give movie reviews (IMDB for example).  I bought this DVD because it was cheap, had two great movies on one disc, and didn't mind paying less money for the DVD version of these movies as opposed to paying more money for the Blu-ray versions.  I knew that I wasn't going to get hi-def, Blu-ray quality copies of these movies by getting the DVD but the image quality on this DVD is severely lacking.  The picture quality is not sharp and is fuzzy at times and there are a lot of film scratches and blemishes visable in the images.  It's as though I bought VHS-quality versions of these movies to play on my DVD player.  2 stars only because this thing was only $6.  But even at $6 it's a bit of a rip off.  I believe this DVD was meant for sale in Canada as the DVD cover is labeled as such.

Not great This movie doesn't have much going for it beyond the great cast. I'm a big fan of Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston, but this movie just plodded along. The jokes were contrived and there was nothing really driving the plot forward. A lot of the characters were pretty horrible. There's a long scene where Paul Rudd is saying foul things into a mirror that just went on forever, and was not funny.  I'd skip this one unless you are a die hard fan.

Movie - Great.  Blu-ray Transfer - Terrible Let's get this out first - I think this is a great movie. "The Rundown" is just a lot of fun and I owned the DVD copy of the movie.  When I saw the price of the blu-ray version of this movie, I was sold.  Little did I know that the blu-ray version was an example of a poor transfer and hardly worthy of purchase.  If you don't have the movie yet, I'd go ahead and buy the blu-ray.  If you have the dvd already, don't waste your money - I doubt you can tell the difference between the two.

Matchstick Men Wow it was not at all what I expected. I was thinking it was full of action and it was not. If you are a Nickolas Cage fan you might like this film but other an that it was not interesting for me any way. Came fast and great conditions.

not very good Rod Cameron was a fine cowboy actor in the 1940s and in the 1950s turned to television. This spaghetti Western from mid-1960s is fairly pathetic movie.

Slow and boring Since I bought it I felt I needed to watch it.  It was way too slow and boring for me.  It is basically two people who meet and spend the entire movie(s) talking.  I didn't want to even watch the second one but I'm cheap!  I even checked my email while watching it.  I would not recommend this movie.

not for me I bought this video because I thought it would be a fun exercise.  Wrong.  It's a very slow moving lesson on how to belly dance. It moved way too slow for me.  I have already given the dvd away because I knew I would never watch it again.  I only paid $8 for it, so I don't feel too bad.  I just wish it would have moved faster and I could have gotten some good exercise.

Non-traditionally traditional romcom I thought this was going to be a movie about a woman making a choice to be a single mother. I thought it would be from her perspective -- the difficulty in making such a choice, the coming-to-terms with her singlehood, the joy of becoming a mother, finding friends along the way. Instead it was a movie from her best (male) friend's perspective, about how he thought it was a nuts idea, but because he had (secretly romantic) feelings about her, he would support his 'best friend' no matter what. In the end, it was not at all about her choice to pursue motherhood, it was about how best friends finally get around to speaking clearly with each other about their feelings, fall in love, and get married. Only to conventionally live in a nice, large suburban house while entertaining a group of 8 year olds at their son's birthday party. What was the hoopla and controversy all about anyway? It ultimately said that the traditional way - marriage - is the best way after all.

The Good Guy but unenjoyable film Did not like this show at all too much unnecessary language for me and very predictable outcome without a real conclusion.  Not great performances by the stars which is a shame.

Below Average Cartoony and doesn't really takes off. No sense of adventure nor danger to the protagonist. His Ring/Power makes every attack and counterattack or defense like a cartoon, yet the Warner Bros cartoons does it better and with more wit. Blake Lively is so one-dimensional and forgettable. The movie has dull dialogue interspersed with loud sounds to try and keep you awake: Not successfully, because I keep falling asleep and had to watch this movie in 3 sessions. Don't buy this one at full price.

and then there was unfortunately the end... I went and saw this film when my boyfriend and I first started dating as just something to do. And for the most part we both REALLY enjoyed it! It was done in a documentary style that was relatively convincing. There were moments that I felt legitimently scared or concerned about what was going on. Throughout 99% of the movie I was very impressed and actually thought that it was one of the best horror films that I had seen in a long time. But then the end came. I have NEVER been so incredibly disappointed by the ending of a film I think ever. It completely killed the whole film for me, my boyfriend, and for everyone in the theater (or at least it seemed that way). The "ending" was so bad that I almost feel wrong calling it an ending. That was what made it so bad-- THERE WAS NO CONCLUSION! The screen just all of a sudden went black and then words popped up saying something along the lines of "no one ever found out what really happened." So, in conclusion (see, there is such a thing), the so-called "ending" to The Devil Inside was soooooo incredibly bad and lacking that it does not make the movie worth seeing in the least. If you do watch this movie, I suggest watching it at 2 in the morning and falling asleep about 10 minutes until the end and NEVER EVER getting around to finishing it. You will be much happier that way.

6 hours (1/2 a TV season) for $122 Boy what a rip-off!  12 half-hour episodes, totaling less than 6 hours, half of a normal television season, for $122!!!! This is even worse than the original $150 Paramount had charged for the Star Trek DVD seasons, those were complete 25 hour long episodes.  Save your money & buy these affordable Peanuts decade sets: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001VFM0TW">Peanuts: 1960's Collection (A Charlie Brown Christmas / Charlie Brown's All-Stars / It's the Great Pumpkin / You're in Love / He's Your Dog / It Was a Short Summer)</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002LIZWS4">Peanuts: 1970's Collection, Vol. 1 (It's a Mystery Charlie Brown / Play It Again / A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving / It's the Easter Beagle / There's No Time for Love / You're Not Elected)</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0038AN1WI">Peanuts: 1970's Collection, Vol. 2 (Be My Valentine Charlie Brown / You're a Good Sport / It's Arbor Day / What a Nightmare / It's Your First Kiss / You're the Greatest)</a>

superman 2 R Donner Cut Some disks are defective. WB problem. Some disks cannot pLay or get stuck. This cut is not as good as original...but it is nice to see something different. NEW SCENES, ETC...

One Night with the King I didn't like this movie really. It was almost typical of what hollywood does when they either don't have the facts as to the events they are using as a basis for the movie, or they prefer to change it according to their belief system. Believe me, the bible account is quite exciting enough. I am particularly fond of this account for oh so many reasons. I noticed that this was popular, and without really paying attention to the product notes, I got sucked into looking at it. I would only recommend others see this movie to compare with another to see the difference. The problem is, when you see the other (as there are a number of these movies out there), you really don't want to revisit this one again.

not unless you dance I was excited to get these video's - I tried to follow the dance steps but it was very discouraging.  Unless you dance I wouldn't buy this

Cant believe it was not a good movie. How do you have a movie with Nicholas Cage, loads of nudity, tons of violence, deamons, shot guns that shoot deamons, and a Dodge Charger be such a horrible movie.  I work in brazil, and as there was nothing else on in english i had the privledge of watching this whole movie. ( which i would not suggest )  The effects were decent, and it did have action in it, but the dialog was nothing but horrible trash talk, and i think it was directed by a 12 year old.  I would rather buy a box of salt to pour into my eyes than be forced to watch this movie again.

Cool Action Wasted On A Stupid Teen Drama For the first hour this movie says nothing and goes nowhere except to a "Smallville"-esque high school where typical teen angst-ridden drama ensues complete with a soundtrack of popular "in" music only and reels of product placement. The brief glimpses of action and thought-provoking story are so brief that you'll miss them if the overly-serious teenage romance doesn't put you to sleep. What's weird about this movie is as "made for the WB" as it feels, it frequently rises above the immature crap, though most of that is due to the performance of Timothy Olyphant, which, unfortunately, is far too underplayed.  What this movie has going for it are the last 15 minutes, when FINALLY the heroes bust loose and there's superpowers bursting out everywhere, monsters battling it out, and guns and explosions galore. All the action of the climax, however, is nearly ruined by the stupid high school football field placement, which, of course, is a metaphor for the level of dim-witted teenage maturity this movie never quite breaks free from. (Yes, I just called all teenagers dim-witted. It's sort of a hobby. Sue me.)  All-in-all this film had some pretty entertaining moments, but there's so much backwash that I would just as soon spit it out than finish watching it.

No Comment Seriously, no comment. Coudln't go through after 15 minutes. Read a good book, do your chores, hang out with some friends, but don't waste your time.

Sickly sweet amount of singing I had expected a lot from this movie based on the trailer. While the graphics were great the delivery was not. It would have been better if they spent more time on the story and dialogue and less on the cheesy songs that filled the entire movie. Even my 9 year old twin nephews couldn't handle it. The saving grace was the message it was trying to get across was a good one.

Inheritance Too lovey dovey for me. It was more like a Mills and Boons type romance. The costumes and settings was good but not a classic movie in my opinion.

Life, the Universe...and Absolutely Nothing "Captain we appear to be picking up a distant transmission...it's coming from Earth, a cinema somewhere in London, England...it is very faint and keeps crackling in and out of focus...extraordinary Sir, we appear to be picking up the inner monologue of someone watching the latest Alien film...Captain, there seems to be a warning encoded, it keeps repeating MILD SPOILERS CONTAINED WITHIN, PROGRESS WITH CAUTION, MILD SPOILERS CONTAINED WITHIN...do you wish to proceed Captain? Alright Sir, I'm patching you in..."  ................this can't be the start of the film, who's that bald chap sitting by a waterfall? Ah no, not another trailer. Enough of the trailers already. Is this a Tool video? It sure looks like a Tool video. I didn't even know Tool were still making videos anymore...No this is actually the film, definitely the start of the movie. Definitely not a Tool video........................  ................this is meant to be someone's dream huh? Looks very structured for a dream to me but then my dreams are always pretty 'out there', especially that one where I was a seahorse and I was taking off my trainers all the time sucking tea through the laces and then..................  ................I don't think the robot would have watched my dream...I think he would have turned it off. For a robot he sure likes his hair. It's nice hair don't get me................  ................I can't remember Alien moving this fast, that first film was all about the suspense, the creeping dread...are we in a rush? Just how much are they trying to squeeze into this film? S-l-o-w d-o-w-n. Weren't we in Scotland two minutes ago? How big is this crew? Oh look, is that Charlize Theron? She can be a bit up and down, was impressed with her in Monster but generally not too...................  ................ok, so weren't these two stranded scientists absolutely terrified of their own shadows two minutes ago, now they are embracing their inner Steve Irwins and trying to tickle alien life forms...................  ................oooooh icky...think we saw that one coming...................  ................I still don't feel I know much about any of the crew at all...oh, there's Charlize Theron again. She's a little wooden in this. Ah ok, they just made a joke about that in the film so that's...heh heh...that's kinda funny. Still wouldn't mind seeing her get killed off though, is that wrong? I think that might be wrong. Does that make me a bad person? I don't know..................  ................is it me or have I watched people put on and take off space helmets a hell of a lot in this film..................  ................so that's the future of medical science, a very big staple gun...and wasn't that one of those grabbers you get in the amusement arcade? You can't pull an alien out of someone with one of those, nine times out of ten you'll end up getting the Angry Birds plushy...............  ................those helmets are still on and off, on and off...not the most dramatic of devices all told.................  ................ok, that wasn't a huge surprise. It was a ship. In the shape of...a dog turd?!!! Now that IS a bit of a surprise, some definite creativity there................  ................time to wake up sleeping beauty then...time to find out the meaning of life, our origins...this is it...oh, he just wants to fight..................  ................flying dog turd!!!..................  ................you can't outrun this giant turd Charlize...Oh! Oh that is beautiful...poetic even! She is crushed by the giant whoopsy! Oh, this film is almost redeeming itself here.................  ................this film is taking an age wrapping up, sheesh. What is that? Oh, an alien! Like the ones we know and love! I'd almost forgotten about them...................  ................well that was disappointing................  END TRANSMISSION  Unfortunately 'Prometheus' will go down as the cinematic disappointment of the year - there's little new here, the film brings up a few interesting ideas but doesn't know where to run with them, the plot is threadbare, there is a painful lack of suspense and horror (even the music is pretty poor and fails to help to build tension), the characterisation is for the most part non existent, many of the performances are unengaging, the dialogue functional at best. All the best ideas were done before and better - the 'pregnancy' scene was nowhere near as dramatic as the one in Alien, we've seen the robot before and played more effectively by both Ian Holm and Lance Henriksen (Fassbender doesn't have the machine like coldness and appears too outwardly evil right from the start), Noomi Rapace is no Sigourney Weaver and isn't charismatic enough to lead this film, the alien life forms aren't as interesting as in the previous films (compare the brilliant designs of the egg pods, facehuggers and aliens themselves to the random collections of tentacles and dark eyed baldies in this film, no comparison - the psychosexual imagery which is perhaps the main theme of Alien is more often than not comedic here rather than unsettling).  The saddest thing of all is that there IS a good idea for an Alien film here - it just never satisfactorily materialises in this guise.  [see Comments link for further thoughts on 'Prometheus' after a second viewing]

I really wish I could have at least liked this one. I picked this movie up for a song around 3 years ago with the understanding that this was a "great zombie film". I was sadly disappointed as I wasn't impressed by the zombies, fight scenes, story, special effects, or characters. I believe this might have been a half decent Anime movie if they had made one instead of this low budget dreck. I really wasn't impressed with the cliche, moody, and sword wielding main character. Fans of Kung Fu movies may enjoy this... it wasn't my thing. I enjoy many Asian films and many low budget zombie films... this just isn't one of them.

Greatly Disappointed! Sad to say I expected a lot out of this movie.  I heard several good things and some of the previews for The Other Guys provided a nice chuckle or two, but this movie as a whole did not perform up to expectations.  Now, first of all I'll admit I love Will Ferrell movies.  Okay, maybe not all of them.  But yes, he makes me laugh.  I loved Taladega Nights and Step Brothers has become one of my all time faves.  This one though, not so much.  There are some funny bits here and there.  Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes, and Michael Keaton provided some funny moments with their respective characters, but not enough to for me to enjoy the film.  If you like funny buddy cop movies and want to laugh, then maybe this might work for you.  But really, you could probably do better with something else.  The Other Guys flat out under-delivered!

bad acting Concept was good, the acting was terrible and the movie is so long.  I was counting down the minutes until it was over.

dvd did not work the only sound that came thru was the backround music, no audio. this was the second time i ordered this dvd and and i think i got the same dvd back because i had the same problem. i sent them both back. its not my player because i've ordered other movies from amazon and they work.

not what i thought it would be when i first saw the title, i thought it was his recent stand-up special, also named 'hoodies'. Now i found out that its only his tv show. Still ok, but not what i thought

Shinjuku Incident I was a little disappointed in this movie.  It starts out slow and never seems to gather much speed.  Jackie Chan doesn't seem to be his usual self and there is no comedy as in most of his films.  I have watched it only once.

Great acting vehicle but . . . spoiler warning :  that ending sucks, truly sucks.  ... with an abdominal wound like that, a ballerina manages to dance the entire black swan routine and the follow-up finale before she collapses from pain, or starts to bleed profusely, never mind expire because of a loss of blood?  I mean come now !!  A far more realistic ending would have seen out a fight between her and her imaginary rival only to find, at the end of her dancing tour de force, that it was her domineering mother she had stabbed to death.

Great video Very informative...i really enjoyed it and will watch again with friends and youth to know more about this topic. Great for history classes or college course, good for instructors.

Promising Promising, but a little stupidity creeps in. For one thing, we keep seeing the same three bad guys over and over again until their faces get boring. A skilled director of thrillers (which Schlesinger is not) would have known to avoid that.  But Lawrence Olivier is so memorable that the movie is worth watching for his performance.  The dental scene, of course, is legendary.

Four Lions Scattered and not quite as advertised Four Lions was not as funny as I had hoped from the trailers. In fact if you've seen the trailers, you've seen the funniest bits already. It wasn't awful but it did tend to ramble a bit. I would have liked to have seen the story line for Barry's conversion in there somewhere. I don't feel ripped off after purchasing it, and I will probably watch it again a couple of times. It might grow on me. If it does, I'll review it again!

Not bad, would've liked to see a season 2 After the first three or four episodes, I was ready to give up on The Event. I was sick of the flashbacks, and the predictability of scenes involving the young couple. What kept me interested were the White House scenes (Sorry, trying to stay spoiler free). I thought the acting there was top-notch. As I watched more episodes and the overall story began to come together (flashback-free), I began to really enjoy the show and root for many of the characters: Agent Lee, and the head of Intelligence (forgot his title) were a couple of my favorites.......And then it was over. The Event often alluded to during the show was never actually shown. Not a problem for season 1, but I really would've liked to have seen a season 2. I hear that won't happen. Too bad,

Things that shouldn't be in a PG movie OK up front sorry about the grammar. I didn't see this in the theater. Cause remakes of movies for the most part are not good. Taking a great story and turning it into crap. Is something Hollywood likes to do, but shouldn't. How this movie ever got a PG rating was beyond me. This movie is targeted for kids. But misses the mark by a mile.  PG movies target for younger kids. Should never show the backside of a person. Nor should the use of urination as a means to get a laugh. Finally it's clear that the film makers are liberal in their beliefs. To indoctrinate that war isn't or is a good thing. Is something that should not be in a movie targeted for younger children. Simply put, the film makers took a fine piece of artistic work, and turned it into crap with their re-make.

Much form but little substance. I give it 3 stars primarily for the Coen Brothers form, and Stormare's performance, but that is being generous. It made promises it just didn't keep. I enjoy minimalist, small town, character driven movies, but in the end (and the middle) this one just didn't deliver.  The plot was very thin. It tried to rely on the down home, small town atmosphere it created and the personal conflict of the characters...but it didn't work. The dramatic tension was limited to what Stormare produced in his fine performance, but these were isolated scenes that didn't carry over to the rest of the movie. It didn't play itself out in a compelling manner.  The "troubled cop with a past seeking redemption" theme was not fully developed and was not brought to a satisfying end and it was pretty humdrum when it was all said and done.  I could see the intention of the music and the chapter headings, but they were poorly executed and became an annoyance. Why so loud?  I was excited about watching this movie, but find myself in closer agreement with the negative reviews than the positive. Ultimately, this was a hollow attempt to match the Coen Bros. form, but they forgot the substance.

Disappointing Final Season but with an EPIC Finale! Let me start off by saying that I have been a DIEHARD Smallville fan since its inception in 2001. Although I have thoroughly enjoyed each season, season 10 is definitely the weakest of the series.  One of the problems of this season is that they take DC's greatest villain Darkseid and reduce him to a "smokey" afterthought. Smallville has always done a great job of integrating villains from the comics and putting their own little twist on it to fit a CW budget but Darkseid fails to make the cut considerably. Lex Luthor, Brainiac, Zod, and even Doomsday have all been transfered from the comic book pages onto the TV screen with great results but Darkseid literary makes an appearance for like 10 seconds in a total of 22 episodes. There is so much untapped potential with the Darkseid character which ultimately makes this season disappointing. Another disappointing element to this season is the sub plot of Oliver Queen revealing his identity to the world. This contributes nothing to the overall plot arch and what makes it worse is that it was directly ripped off from the movie Iron Man. The introduction of Cat Grant leading the opposition against the superheroes is pointless as well. Her character is annoying, irritating, and contributes little to the season. They should have used the hot Cat Grant from season 8 and perhaps introduce an interesting little love triangle when Lois Lane leaves for Egypt. Like I said, most of this season has so much untapped potential. Another disappointing element of the season is the return of Chloe. Chloe is one of Smallville's most popular characters and her return is shoddy at best. The episode "Collateral" which introduces her return and is a rip-off of the Matrix is perhaps one of the worst episodes of the series. Other elements of the season such as the Vigilante Registration Act, The Suicide Squad, and the government's involvement of superheroes is shoddy, contrived, cheesy and unsubstantial at best. The episode Fortune which blatantly imitates the Hangover movies all but exemplifies the problem of this season in that it borrows from all sorts of popular movies and in the process loses its identity as a great Superman show. Also, Clark Kent decides to shed the Black trenchcoat and wear a Michael Jackson inspired "Thriller" jacket to reflect his growing optimism and hope necessary to become the Man of Steel. Unfortunately the new costume is very very cheesy. He would have probably been better off he kept the Black Trenchcoat untill he becomes the Man of Steel.   Despite the disappointing nature of season 10, The series finale blew me away. I have to say the Series Finale is the best series Finale of any television show EVER! They did a perfect job of wrapping up 10 seasons of great memories while leading the groundwork for his role as Superman. I was absolutely shocked at the quality of the final episode especially since the rest of the season was mediocre. Other highlights include the season premiere as well as the 200th episode "Homecoming" which are some of the top episodes in the series. Overall, If you watched all of the other seasons and enjoyed them I strongly recommend you pick up the Final season to see how it all ends. The package is a mixed bag but the resounding conclusion will more than make up for it!

The Fight That Should Not Have Been This is the 4th film released in the ESPN series 30 (stories) for 30 (years, 1979-2009).  This is a good film, telling the sad story of the last hurrah of the "Greatest", Muhammad Ali.  While a good film, it could have been so much better (3 of 5 stars) had it addressed the central issues of the fight between Ali and Holmes.  Essentially, the film brings together a collage of interviews and film clips that led to the build-up of the Ali-Holmes 1980 fight.  Interspersed are interviews with the central characters from the present, namely, Dr. Ferdie Pacheco, Angelo Dundee, Larry Holmes, and Holmes's wife, Diane. Only Dr. Pacheco addresses the central issue of this film: why was a spent and ill Ali allowed to fight the champion Holmes?  Pacheco addresses this issue, but in my view, he does not express it strongly enough.  This fight should have never taken place - period.  The film quickly reviews how the (mis)match developed through brief clips of Ali regaining the championship for the then record third time against Leon Spinks (9/1978), followed by his retirement. Ali had lost the title to Spinks seven months earlier, a travesty in itself, as Leon Spinks was an Olympic boxing champion (1976) who only had 7 professional fights.  Ali announced his retirement from boxing, and in order to crown a new champion, Larry Holmes and Kenny Norton fought for the title the same year, with Holmes pulling out a win in a magnificent fight.  Ali was restless and bored in retirement, and like all former champions, the lure of the spotlight, the cheering fans, and of course, BIG money, inexorably led him back to challenge Holmes for the championship.  In Ali's case, the film makes it clear he already needed the money, just two short years into retirement.  Eight million dollars for Ali (two million for Holmes) was too much to resist.  The fight was signed, but before Ali was allowed to fight, the Nevada State Athletic Commission insisted Ali had to pass a neurological exam at the Mayo Clinic.  At the time the results of the exam were not made public, but clearly, deficits were present in Ali's neurological system, apparently not enough to call off the fight, and too early to call it Parkinson's Syndrome. The film clips leading up to the fight clearly show an unenergetic Ali, slow of foot, slurred speech, a remarkably placid Ali, with the beginnings of the deadpan facial mask so characteristic to those with Parkinson's.  Ali was clearly in the early stages of a neurological disease, and it was evident to everyone around him.  Yet, only one person, Dr. Ferdie Pacheco, Ali's personal physician, had the fortitude to declare that the fight should not take place.  Pacheco had resigned as Ali's physician several years earlier, as he saw the physical decline in Ali's skills and refused to be a part of any more fights that would damage the man he loved.  Ali's trainer, Angelo Dundee, who had been with Ali since the early 1960's, is interviewed in the film, and as his manager, Dundee did nothing to prevent the horrible physical beating that his friend was to endure.  He unfortunately went along with the charade that Ali was a worthy opponent for Holmes, when in fact; he knew the opposite was true.  Dundee declines responsibility for the beating, stating he could not stop Ali even if he resigned as his manager.  Let's be  frank, as much as I'd like to give Dundee a pass on this matter, clearly, he knew Ali was severely compromised, knew he did not belong in the ring with Holmes, and yet allowed the fight to continue 10 brutal rounds until Ali was brutally and helplessly beaten.  In my opinion, Dundee in good conscience should have not signed on to the massacre he knew was going to happen, and at the very least should have stopped the fight early on to prevent the beating Ali endured.  But Dundee did not stop the fight until signaled to do so by Ali's spiritual manager, Herbert Muhammad, who controlled everything Ali did.  Herbert Muhammad pulled all the strings in the background (much like the man behind the black curtain in "The Wizard of Oz"), and he needed Ali for the money Ali brought him.  I also take fault with referee Richard Greene, who had the responsibility to stop the fight once he saw Ali was helpless against Holmes.  Holmes indicated to Greene throughout the fight to stop it, as Ali was defenseless, but Greene inexplicably did nothing.  There is plenty of blame to go around, and Ali himself is to blame as well, but his handlers certainly should have prevented this fight from happening and did nothing.  They were complicit in the slaughter.  Holmes emerges in this film presentation as a man still haunted by the legend of Ali.  Holmes was a great champion in his own right, he dominated the heavyweight division from 1978 - 1985, but even so, as a man now in his mature years, he still seeks the acclaim he feels was denied to him by the legend of Ali.  Holmes is certainly one of the most successful heavyweight champions ever, having invested his earnings intelligently and prudently, yet, clearly, despite his comfortable life, he comes off bitter that he was not recognized by the boxing establishment for the true champion he was.  This 30 for 30 film is certainly gives us in the 21st century a glimpse back in time to the close of the Ali legend, but unfortunately, in my view, the film does not take to task the Ali entourage that allowed this travesty to take place.  Just as the fans sat in stunned silence during the beating of Ali by Holmes, so too, his handlers were also silent in preventing this match from taking place.  Ali deserved better from the people who loved him.  konedog

You Don't Give a Name to Your Breakfast... I have to say, going in, I'm no expert on horror flicks, and I don't typically go out of my way to see one. But Roger Corman's Sharktopus has a gut-level fascination that compelled me to see what it was about. The cover art reminds you of the 60s B-flicks of which Corman was such a staple of quick and prolific.  S-11 is a shark/octopus hybrid created as a killing machine for the navy. Remember Barf in Spaceballs -- half man, half dog, I'm my own best friend; and in Matinee John Goodman picking up a rubber alligator, "Manigator, Alliman...?" You have to put the analytic critic in the back seat and just enjoy the ride. The sharktopus is a fascinating creation that fills the screen with surprisingly well-rendered graphics in and out of the water. The movie keeps you wanting to see more of the monster, if only to check out its moves. And the appearances aren't stingy like most monster movies.  The story doesn't require too much analysis. Experimental beast loses it's control mechanism, going renegade. Most of the people will end up as shark-bait, so there isn't a surplus of characterization to the munchy morsels along the way. The mercenary and inventor's daughter who hunt down the beast don't exhibit the typically credible human emotions of fear around a morsel-munching shark that just as easily tentacles it's way on land as in the deep. It's a pretty wild ride with high body count and pretty graphic crunchy splatter effects, it that's your thing. Not appropriate for kids. The feeling is SciFi made-for TV movie, not on the same level with Jurrasic Park, Cloverfield, or the recent King Cong.

Stick to British Movies I love Hugh Grant. He has charisma to spare and is a master of self deprecating humor. This is the first non-British movie I've seen him in and though it included elements of British movies like over the top characters and farce, here it just didn't work. The story line, main cast, and acting were all good, but the execution not. Though normally a film is five stars simply by having Grant in it, here I felt bad for him, especially the italian/mafia accent, to the point of FF/ skimming through the last 1/3 of the movie to get it over with. Now, off to rent a About a Boy, so that, as for this movie, I can fuggeddabouttit.

Scorpion King 2 This movie was just like Scorpion King 3 I lost interest in the first few min of the movie I saw one before on TV it may have had different actors I am sure some one will like them.

Love the product...not the packaging I was so excited to finally find this movie for my brother and I, this was a huge childhood memory for both of us. When I recieved my package the envelope was completely ripped open exposing the product, luckily it did not fall out or get ruined. I was disappointed since usually Amazon is very good about packaging. The movie is such a funny, silly movie and I loved reliving some old memories.

not terrific, not terrible, worth a viewing I have not seen this film for a few months so memory is not completely fresh. There are a number of subplots and the weaving together is not entirely smooth, BUT there are some highly entertaining bits in this film. There's also handsome and talented James Fox, beautiful and talented Jacqueline Bisset, and sexy and talented Kenneth Branagh in his youth.  Nice sex scene involving Branagh and I won't say who else, and he has a good comic turn with his character who is a jerk in some ways. I think the movie tries to cover too much territory with several plots that can't all be developed fully. However, there is gorgeous scenery in addition to the aforementioned stars, and it's fun, for the most part. Some mystery woven in, too, for those who like that. I do agree with the other reviewer who suggested watch this, then watch SHIRLEY VALENTINE which is even better.

Good family film A little predictable and sometimes the storyline didn't make sense but had a lot of funny lines and good music.

Great Scott!!! When reading my movie review, I'd like you to please consider the perspective of an individual who has seen many films in his life - most especially the horror genre has always fascinated me since I was 7-8 years old. There is nothing like the exhilarating feeling of a good scare whether you are watching a serial killer storyline unfold or a supernatural narrative take place. Having had the rare pleasure, but more often the discontentment, of having viewed many a Horror movie, I have instinctively learned to anticipate the plot of a story or predict the scenes. It isn't only that I've seen so many films with a similar scheme, but rather that there a lot of film studios that are only interested in making a profit and fail to make a good effort at hiring decent screenwriters, cinematographers, directors and so on. After all, it is a business and financing films for a profit is worthy of concern.  I'll end this involuntary history lesson by briefly acknowledging the return of Hammer films as producers of The Woman In Black - since the 1930's, Hammer has come to be known as a well-respected institution. Imitation being the highest compliment possible, other film studios began adopting a `Hammer formula' and churned out films like there was no tomorrow, unconsciously causing Hammer to collapse and shut down amidst the sea of Hammer "wanna be's". Marking Hammer's return to film from its deep slumber is the gothic supernatural thriller The Woman In Black.  I would like to echo what has been already stated about the film - disturbingly moody, palpable environment, eerie soundtrack, etc. but also offer a comparison between The Woman In Black and The Changeling. No, not the Angelina Jolie movie, but the George C. Scott film from 1980. The most striking aspect of these 2 films is the obvious fact that both Radcliffe and Scott play widowers males still grieving over the loss of a loved one. What follows is the collapse of rational thinking through a fractured emotional state of being into the belief of an afterlife and everything that comes with that notion. Both films allow the suspense and scares to build to a crescendo instead of implementing scenes of gore or devices of carnage. Both characters become infatuated, almost to the point of being spellbound, by the mysterious goings-on respectively but whereas Scott is adept at allowing the physical and emotional out pour to connect visually, Radcliffe is only capable at portraying a sense of melancholy. Even at the end of the film, he seems slightly impassive and misses an optimal opportunity to come about full circle with the destiny of his life via his actions.  Bottom Line: There is plenty to like about The Woman In Black and if you go into it armed with patience (the action unfolds slow but deliberate), the firm awareness that Radcliffe will not be portraying his trademark wizard boy alter ego, and a firm acceptance that horror can be defined in many varied ways (that includes Justin Bieber's music), then you will be handsomely rewarded with a clever, well fashioned film. Radcliffe has done well and I'm confident he will find his footing in the world before too long, but special note that bears mentioning is Ciar&aacute;n Hinds who is in great form as Radcliffe's new friend in town.

Looking for a pre-teen clean film... Reviewed Wind Jammers tonight. While the acting was a bit quirky at first you quickly are taken in with this film. I was originally a bit put off by the 'over the top' portrayal of the servant's as "Yes Sir" blacks... I couldn't believe that the film and writters were trying to push it as being funny. As the film progresses you begin to realize why. IT is a an all White club that the new member has a black daughter. Follow Justice as she seeks to prove that you are more then your make up.

Chocolate Among the Pineapples One sees President Obama briefly at the beginning and end of this doc.  It doesn't go more into his life than that.  This work does not explain who a Kansan and Kenya fall in love in the last state. This is the type of doc that a news channel would make.  It doesn't have the quality of what one would see on PBS or the History Channel. I thought this would start with World War II and all the Black soldiers that arrived on the islands then.  However, it practically goes back to Captain Cook. The work tries to be diverse in terms of profession.  You do see singers and veterans here.  However, I did think the work dwelled a little more on the elite (e.g., doctors and lawyers) than it should have. Since Obama's rise, everybody has heard the contested term "postracial."  One may think that Hawaii is soooo diverse that Blacks would easily be accepted here.  Luckily, the work shows something more complicated.  While the doc shows Blacks who love the state immensely, many say there is anti-Black racism there.  Some of the figures discussed in the work eventually returned to the Mainland due to racism in the Pacific. Hawaii supposedly has a HUGE percentage of multiracial residents.  One woman of Black and Asian descent is interviewed.  What was really diverse was seeing a Black musician who had been adopted by either a Polynesian or Asian family.  Still, I do think they could have shown even more multiracial Blacks than present. People who enjoy this doc should also read Beth Bailey's book "The First Strange Place."

Buy DVD versions instead We own all 6 case files of Sherlock Hound on DVD so we were excited when we spotted 'Dogs of Bowserville' which wasn't an episode we recognized. However, this tape is actually a collection of these two DVD episodes - 'A Small Client' (Episode 3, Case File I) and 'The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle' (Episode 5, Case File I).  The rating of 3 stars is for the quality of the VHS compared to the DVDs. We rate DVDs at 5 and highly recommend Sherlock Hound. Very good cartoons!

Big disappointment I love Danny Phantom and I am still a fan as of now. However, when I got both season 1 and 2 (or so it claims on the DVDs) I was thinking I would have all the eps and watch them even after the show was canceled. However, I was very disappointed to see only just half the eps from season 1 on the first packet and the rest of it on the second one with just a few eps of season 2. My advice for all of you who love Danny Phantom and want all of the seasons, don't get these DVDs. Buy them somewhere legally online and download them to your PC and watch them from there.

Good, but not as good as the rest :) I loved the car scenes (I mean, who doesn't, it's what the series is about!) & I am personally a huge fan of drifting. This movie could have been a lot better as far as the actor's. It felt very forced & fake to me...  All in all a good movie though. The drama is good =D And Han :( Well I wont spoil it for those going to watch it but I really liked him in this.

Not A Bad Remake,  But I'll Stick with The  John Wayne Classic. Just saw True Grit while it was entertaining  the new version is lacking that something that  made the  original great. although jeff bridges did a great job, alot of the performances were flat and  uninspired. i really like the coen brothers better as quirky comedy writers and directors then the serious stuff there's trying nowadays.  but  it was'nt a bad picture, but i'll  stick with the john  wayne classic.  This film is pretty much is just a shot for shot remake of the 1969 Classic acted by different actors with a few tweaks here and there for no real good effect to it. and what's with all the night shots? they seem to like to do those alot and the actress while good was a bit too young for my taste as ms. Ross, a different  actress would've been better to play the part.  Anyway it's  not a bad remake, but it could've been better.  It's PG-13 for Strong Violence and Lauguage

The Ruins dvd I was disappointed in the movie. A little too gory. Wouldn't recommend unless you like bloody movies. Too much left out from the book.

Good family movie. The Spy Next Door with Jackie Chan was good for a family movie night, but if it had been just me or just adults, it would have been disappointing.  Acting was pretty poor.  The Spy Kids sereis is better. The kids enjoyed it and were impressed to know that Jackie does his own stunts though stunts here were minor.

I regret buying it- I will not watch a 2nd time I bought the DVD cause I REALLY wanted to see it in the theatre and did not have the chance.  It was a good performance, but just a crazy insane batxxit story.  I am a fan of ballet, but this was just wacko.  It's a movie I will watch once and never again.  I wish I would have rented it. The dancing was not good enough to make me watch again.  I think if you are into mental illness you will enjoy watching more than once.

interesteing I usually hate Will Ferell i think his acting is atrocious however this film is hilarious because the whole concept is based around two forty something year old men who live with their parents then end up living together when their parents get married it is in my library of movie's and i do occasionally watch it.

Cute movie for young girls! I bought this movie for my little sister and found that I actually like it too! It's really cute and Jane Lynch is amazingly funny, but she always is. The acting wasn't terrible and Selena Gomez and Drew Seeley are adorable. The music all though not my taste was actually really catchy. There were some things I felt that could have been changed but all in all it was a pretty decent flick.

What happened? This is great. Here Come the Brides season two has been finally released. But where are the closed captions? I bought this for a friend who is severely hearing impaired. If season one was closed captioned (which it was), why wasn't season two?

I was disappointed In the days of LD and VHS NG produced a wide range of interesting reports that concentrated on the animals. Recently there has been a trend towards talking more and more about the background and the people involved, so much so that the animals are almost coming second. This release is entitled Big Cats but in reality is as much about the Jouberts, the Masai and government politics. That is all very well but in no way does this compare with the vividly close to nature presentations from the BBC. A large part of the video is from SD recordings many years ago and the overall video quality is far below say Planet Earth and overall not much better than a DVD. The editing was a bit hit and miss and the subtitles and program advertising from the Lion Warriors segment was particularly muddled and poorly finished. Overall I was unimpressed and for the price I found it poor value and NOT something I would pop in the player to get closer to say the Lions who were by far the main actors in this series. Tigers who feature on the box hardly appear in the videos. Having said all that the second presentation on the Leopard Queen was by far the best and the only one I am likely to repeat. Rent perhaps but I regard this as not worth a purchase and following on from a sloppy Great Migrations and a rather ordinary Relentless Enemies from the same source I feel the NG nature videos are now no longer competitive. The BBC is just so far ahead and increasing their lead with every release. Pity really as my old NG LDs still give me pleasure but of course the picture quality is now very dated.

paraplegics given short shrift I tried to give this idea a chance, faith healing rock band, and with such a great cast was impressed at the get go.... I followed the script down a rabbit hole and found it engaging but somewhere lost my interest as many elements fell apart... Truthfully I started my doubts when $1500/mo living expenses were not enough on Skid Row.... r ya kidding me??? that's a freakin mortgage payment, no roomates or favors from the healed????... so started to pick apart the overacting by Orlando, Laura, and Julia, so unworthy performances although Orlando needs a serious vehicle for this type of acting... he was incredible but in the wrong time zone... the basic premise is: Do you know your place?  I never thought that was the right question and faltered miserably in the answer. Mark should do well when he trusts his own instincts more vs his dear friends.

Entertaining enough, though a little dull at times Entertaining enough, if sometimes a little dull. Acting is generally good.  It lacks real pazazz somehow. It's really a prep for sequels more than anything. I particularly enjoyed Jackman as Wolverine & Anna Paquin as Rogue.  Bruce Davison as Senator Kelly did a nice job as well.  I found the first part of the movie more interesting than the last half where all the fireworks take place. It won't knock your socks off or give you fond memories, but it will provide a nice piece of entertainment for an evening.

Skip-able We bought this on Amazon Instant because we had gotten hooked on the Doctor Who series on Netflix and were watching each episode in order... However Netflix didn't have "Planet of the Dead", so Amazon Instant came to the rescue.  The video quality was great and all, but the episode itself was just okay, and if you're like us and are newly hooked Doctor Who fans, and want to watch the whole series, this particular episode is not integral to the overall Doctor Who plot, doesn't have any past beloved characters, and is overall "skip-able" if you don't want to shell out the $3 for it on Amazon Instant.  Not saying it was a waste of time, just not fantastic.

Lost Heritage Pierre Mombin (Luc Saint Eloy) goes on a voyage to a remote yet breathtaking part of Africa to claim an inheritance and to gather more insight regarding his royal lineage.  He eventually learns that he is the descendant of Olimbe, the younger brother to Olanga.  Olimbe was set to reign as King but out of jealousy and envy, Olanga sold Olimbe into slavery. This treacherous act incited a curse over the land.  Mombin's return to Africa fulfills a prophecy of old that peace would be restored only after Olimbe's descendant fought a great fire.  When Mombin arrives in Africa, he is under the protective care of Prime Minister Ogou, a respected elderly leader.  Ogou teaches Mombin about the cultural traditions and codes of conduct of the Southern Kingdom.  The humor arises as Mombin fumbles over some of the customs.  For instance, when a woman bowed down to greet him, Mombin bowed on his knees in return. The natives look at him in disbelief and Ogou is there to save face by pulling Mombin up.  Another hilarious moment was when the witch doctor, Anoko, couldn't be found, Mombin regrettably learns the tradition that the King follows second in line to help deliver babies.  As Mombin becomes comfortable with royal treatment, he ponders, `Slowly, Africa started to get inside of me. [Africa is] far from the stereotypes of famine, war, and AIDS.'  Meanwhile, King Agbor of the North offers one of his daughters in marriage to Mombin. This is a political move to keep peace between the Northern and Southern Kingdoms.  When Mombin is told by the princess in secret that she is pregnant and wants a life of her own, he gives the princess and her lover a generous financial gift so that they `could follow their own destiny'.  Mombin thinks modernly and tries to interact with the native elders as such.  When an issue arises, Mombin recommends the elders vote on a solution.  Ogou replied, `Democracy is not a word to translate in our language....It is the King who decides'.  The film has more twists and turns in the plot that may catch you by surprise.  As the film ends, Mombin saves the kingdom from imminent destruction, and the curse is lifted as prophesied.  Christian Lara is masterfully skilled at weaving the clash between traditional mores and a renaissance of new ideas throughout the film. I appreciate that Lara captured the richness and glory of African terrain.  Although the film is potent, I find it difficult to declare Lost Heritage as family-friendly.  A great deal of cinematography focuses on topless women bathing and dancing. Heck, even a topless mermaid speaks to Mombin in a vision. Whether Lara is pointing out that the women in this kingdom are proud of their bodies and walk around unashamedly, the fact remains the women are still forced into prearranged marriages and must run away to have true love. Or maybe Lara knows that in film, sex and naked flesh sells.

dissapointed thought there might be some extra features on the DVD, but this is just a bare bones good copy of a great anime movie....watch it with surround sound, the music is awesome!

WHAT DID I JUST SEE This is one of the movies that you aren't quite sure what you saw when the movie ends.  The story is about this creep and woman-hater Chris Cleek who finds a wild woman in the woods, captures her and shackles her up in his cellar.  He's out of his mind and doesn't try to hide the woman - so he introduces his family to her and claims that he's taken her so they can "help" the woman and "civilize" her.  His brand of helping her includes rape and torture.  Equally sadistic is his mean-spirited son who goes along with whatever his dad has in store.  The woman impacts different family members in different ways - Chris' submissive and out-of-it wife goes along with Chris but finally reaches the point of being done with his cruel ways; daughter Peg who may be pregnant protects the wild woman and feels horrible for all the tortures she is enduring; the youngest daughter seems as if she doesn't fully understand the situation but comforts the wild woman with music and generally takes a liking to her.  When a well-meaning teacher visits the family to discuss the possibility that daughter Peg might be pregnant, the movie crescendos into a strange finale including the discovery of another eyeless wild woman who thinks she's a dog, cannibalism and some gory deaths.  To say this movie is weird is an understatement.  Not much scares me but admittedly the hissing, black-toothed wild woman with a look of death in her eye was so convincing I got the chills.  I'm not sure if they were trying to hint that Chris had also had incestual relations with his daughter and that's why she was pregnant, but it seemed that's what the movie was trying to lean towards.  Oddly enough Chris Cleek reminded me of George W Bush or at least that's what I kept thinking.  I'm not sure what I got out of this movie and the ending seems to leave some guesswork.  The person who played The Woman was excellent in her role and really nailed the primal requirements to be such a person.  I can't say this is a great movie - it's just very different and you will stay hooked to it to see exactly what's going to happen - especially when the movie escalates.  I guess I might watch it one more time to get over the initial shock of 'what the heck did I just see' but to me the story follows the lines of many of those torture type movies with a small twist.  Watch it if you want to see a horror movie about a cave woman who is actually quite scary and you want to see a whole bunch of strange crap going on.  Don't watch it if you are sick of capture and torture movies.

Excalibur [Blu-ray] I love the movie, it would be 5 stars, BUT...the quality of the blu-ray disc: It is grainy all the time and it crops the top and bottom of the movie!!! WHY??? Finally, the least important, the packaging is "spartan" just the plain disc. Maybe a good quality DVD looks better and with NO cropping !

More troubled young love Remember little Freddie Highmore from 2004's "Finding Neverland"?  Well now he's a tall, lanky 20 year old playing a well-to-do high school senior at a private school in New York City.  He is struggling with his studies and is at risk of not graduating.  Smart enough, but he's lost interest in school and spends most of his time creating interesting sketches.  He meets a cute fellow classmate, Sally Howe (Emma Roberts) who has her own issues.  She's the daughter of Charlotte (Elizabeth Reaser), herself only 36 and still full of vigor when it comes to men and the flash of Manhattan.  Unfortunately there's not much new here.  We have a couple of attractive 18 year olds, struggling with what they will do with their lives.  It's hard to be terribly sympathetic with kids on the "right side of the track" not even worried about going to school.  In one scene, George (Highmore) who is still a virgin, is questioned by Sally (who isn't) about it.  He struggles with an honest answer, so she suggests they get it on.  This freaks George out, so for the next 20 minutes we try to figure out what George's real problem is.  I kind of lost interest at that point.  Still first time director and writer, Gavin Wiesen actually does a pretty good job with the direction if not the boring script.  Highmore and Roberts hold their own with the lightweight material.  Michael Angarano is along for the ride as a former student who has made a name for himself as a painter.  He becomes a mentor for George and a lover of the shunned Sally.  I had to look twice but yes that's Alicia Silverstone as one of George's teachers.  The Blu ray transfer is OK but nothing special.  Shot in 35mm film, it has an appropriate soft appearance.  It has a 1080p resolution and a 2.40:1 aspect ratio.  The audio is DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 which is clear and centered for the most part.  The surrounds don't really come into play until our couple go to a noisy nightclub.  Here are the special features on the Blu ray disc:  Audio Commentary with Director Gavin Wiesen New York Slice of Life On Young Love Fox Movie Channel Presents - In Character with Freddie Highmore HBO First Look - The Making of The Art of Getting By Theatrical Trailer

Not as good as i'd hoped We were looking for a sci-fi series to investigate after Fringe.  With that as a comparison, probably nothing would match up.  These characters are of the 'one-note' variety and I find it hard to care about them.  It does grow on you after awhile however and can be interesting and fun, but not terribly original or surprising.

Misleading title I LOVE Julia, let me say that and have been devouring everything I can find about her.  I was very disappointed, however, that the title of this is misleading.  I thought SHE would be baking, but it's a series of other people baking and she is standing next to them.  I got a copy from the library, wanted to check it out before I bought it and am sure glad I did because I will pass on it.  Actually, some of what I remember was contrary to techniques she taught on her videos--the people in the video used different techniques, so if you remember some of hers it will seem a little confusing.  Just seemed like an attempt to keep her in front of the camera but really isn't about her.

So-so Some good action in this film, but the content was a bit beneath the acting caliber of Caveziel.At least the film had a specific ending.

The best Hindi Movie So far....in 2007 The movie was great!!!. I saw a good Hindi movie after a long time. I have sure heard of Abbas-Mustan duo but got a chance to see their movie in Naqaab. I can see why they are making waves in Bollywood and Indian Cinema.  This movie started like a triangle love story movie with a slow pace. I thought come on.... Hindi movies are always like this... but the directors kept us a question mark, nagging from where Aksay Khanna is introduced. After the interval... believe me it was racy, twists and turns, funny sometimes and finally the ending sealed the movie as one of the best movies of this year!.  Bobby Deol... he comes as a multimillionaire and he is in love with Urvashi Sharma... they live together in the same bungalow in Dubai. She works in a restaurant and they planned to get married. In the engagement's's party by Urvashi she meets Akshay and subsequent meeting she falls in love with him. Bobby has played a meaty role with ease. He shows good acting in the first half as soft spoken lover and in the second half he plays/dons all kind of roles. I loved him in this movie.  Urvashi Sharma.... first thing first... she has a great body, sexy eyes... my wife was jealous on her!!!!:). . A cute doll and she plays her role to perfection.  Akshay Khanna.... well... he comes as a charming boy... does lot of tricks, deceives and flatters to win the love of Urvashi and us. He is good in his role, subtle in the second half.  All other supporting cast have done great job to lift the movie.  The movie has all elements of masala bollywood cinema and yet strikingly different from bollywood movies which has big stars like bachans or rai's or khans or johor.  Go watch the movie!!!... if you have appetite for a different cinema.

A fun story if a bit too naive and incredible A tad too predictable (yes they were eventually going to meet and fall in love, we got that twenty minutes into the film, did we not?) and way too incredible for a plot. Hanks and Ryan are at least a couple of notches below "You've got mail" that will come out a few years later. Still, a fun movie for an easy light feel good night at home.You can get it pretty cheap on Amazon now, and it's worth a few bucks. I got the impression the two protagonists were a bit immature, while in "you've got mail" they had fully grown into their roles.

Enjoyable comedy This was a rather good and entertaining movie. There were some funny spots. Worth checking out. This would be considered a girly flick.

Nice... but subtitles completly off.... Hi, I loved Vexille the first time I saw it, even if it got flaws, i still enjoyed it! I have the DVD version, but as I got a new TV and blu ray player, I thought of buying this version. The image quality is great, and sounds is amazing... but... the subtitles don't match at all... They are totally different from the DVD version, and if u play the english dub with english subtitles, you will understand. It doesn't match the Japanese voice either... I dunno why they had to redo the sub, because on the DVD version it was perfect. But it's kind of confusing, it's out of synchro, and it's just wrong 25% of the time.  I guess if you watch the japanese version with english dub, the wrong translation won't affect you (in case you actually don't understand japanese). But will still be kind of out of synchro.  A little disappointed...

Wrath of the Titans This one I didn't feel was as good as "Clash of the Titans".  I liked the monsters and the mythological creatures, but I felt with this one, they were trying to explain the myth, the why's and wherefore's, Perseus' son, the demise of the gods and so forth.  I actually liked Sam Worthington better in the first one.  On a more superficial level, I thought Sam Worthington looked better and more like a "Perseus" kind of character with the buzz cut, rather than having all that hair flying around, but again that is purely on a superficial level.  But as I said I liked the monsters, and I thought the actress that played Andromeda was pretty and did a good job.  I remember her from the Kira Knightly "Pride and Prejudice" - and she is wonderful in that.  If you want to get this for mythological accuracy and things of that sort, don't bother, I didn't get the impression that this really even connected to the first one, but if you want to see cool mythological creatures, Sam Worthington wielding a sword and a "smart alec" pegasus ... then this isn't a bad choice.

video/audio sync issues Disc #1 of the collection is pretty good.  Huw Lloyd-Langton is pretty befuddled throughout, but his music is a bit more focused, and starts to catch a pretty good groove when some members of Brainticket come out for his last song.  And Brainticket has a very enjoyable set...as stated in the other review, the female vocalist has a punkish theatrical stage style.  Her vocals (when not heavily effected electronically) are unfortunately sometimes off pitch, but she adds a good visual flare to the proceedings.  Hell, just getting to see a live Brainticket show at all on video is so unexpected that you just have to smile while watching it.  And the band's leader comes across, in the interview section, as a very cool, creative guy that you'd really like to jam with and share a beer afterwards.  Disc #2 starts out with a video/audio sync problem for the first song (the wonderful title track from "Tab in the Ocean"), which is most evident when you see vocals continue after the mouth is pulled away from the mic.  Kind of distressing, because initially you think that the vocals were overdubbed later...which I'm sure they weren't, but it's hard to enjoy a concert video when the production has these kind of inexcusable flaws.  After the first song, the video/audio seem to sync up, and "Desolation Valley "is great.  And the light show is outstanding throughout both discs.  When Nektar starts playing their more recent material, though, fans familiar with those later albums know that things are going to get dodgy.  Although well performed, songs with titles like "Doctor Kool" pretty much tell you all you need to know about these sub-standard songs.  For so many of my favorite 70s artists, it seems like once that creative well runs dry, it REALLY runs dry and it never comes back.  Hard to see how people who wrote such great songs all of the sudden can't write a good one to save their lives.  Someone should write their master's thesis on this phenomenon.  And.....no "Nelly the Elephant"!  And now I've seen that the new Nektar album coming out is cover songs by artists like Supertramp.  Really....?

Meh I guess because its meant for little kids, I found the movie ok. I saw this because I had a free movie ticket and nothing else was good in the theater. I mean I enjoyed it but it felt like a Dr. Seuss movie. There were rhyme after rhyme after ryhmes. I mean some were so bad, they were a tad lame. Some were very odd, that a codd croaked (oh my god, now Im talking in rhyme). Now the movie did have funny moments and I loved the voice cast but I felt this wouldve been a good rental unless you have kids.  One thing was that it had an obvious message of save the trees which was everywhere in the movie  Pros: -Funny moments -Voice actors -Good rental  Cons: -The rhymes -The sillyness -Obvious message

Four Western Adventures Six-Hour Video Theater, 1996 VHS  This VHS tape is recorded in EP mode. You may have to adjust the Tracking Control on your VHS player for best results. These four films provide classic stories about conflicts set in olden times. Some of these films may be available in other collections. For detailed reviews, refer to each individual film.  "Vengeance Valley" (1951) is a story about family conflicts in the Wild West. Ever see something like this among relatives or friends?  "God's Gun" (1975) is like a classic morality play. A gunfighter changes his life by going after outlaw killers.  "The Grand Duel" (1972) is about a gunfighter who protects a man accused of murder. This man is innocent of the charges.  "Beyond the Law" (1968) is about a reformed outlaw who becomes the sheriff of a small town. But has he really changed? There was a famous true crime that may have inspired this drama. Al Jennings, after serving his prison term, became a Hollywood writer and actor.

Pretty good movie I rented this movie to entertain my two young boys. They were interested in it at first but it didn't keep their attention as well as some other Disney movies. I think because it gets a little slow at times such as when the bears are traveling. I think there could have been a bit more action and some more animal characters. I do like the plot, setting and animation.

OK but not great! Saw the movie today. It was a OK movie. I will rate it as Good minus.  If you are a fan of comic, you get to go to support it whether it is good or bad.  I am a fan therefore I got to go!  As for regular movie goers, I think Thor and X-men First Class are better made.  The story is very simple. The CGI is OK, but nothing memorable.

Deep Blue Sea Excellent action and startling surpises....the sharks are monsters and create a lot of anxiety.  A few good characters like LL Cool J as the cook.  This is good, light entertainment.

Save Your Money The All Creatures Great and Small movie is okay. Nothing at all wrong with it. But for those who have seen the television series, this movie does not compare well.

The DVD The story was good, but, the DVD itself was very poor. There was mumbling and stoppage and in parts of the film the picture was cloudy.  Not good.

Style over Substance Aisha, which just came out last summer, is Bollywood's version of a modern Emma. Set in the high society of Delhi, it follows Aisha in her misguided matchmaking attempts. Like Emma and Cher, Aisha is a spoiled rich girl who means well but is really clueless. This one follows the book a little more closely than Clueless did and includes more characters, like the John Knightleys and Jane Fairfax (Aarti). Here, the Miss Taylor character is Aisha's aunt. This version's Knightley (Arjun) is still her childhood friend and brother-in-law's brother, but younger this time. Emma dislikes Aarti, his colleague from America, but she doesn't realize it's because she's jealous. Dhruv (Frank Churchill) is her new uncle's son and they flirt for a little bit but she's just not that into him so he goes for Aarti instead. There is an Elton character, but he's not a pompous jerk at all, just a bit dorky.  I thought this version borrowed too many elements from Clueless rather than Emma. Maybe that's inevitable in a modern setting, but I'm not sure. Aisha has a best friend, Pinky, who's only equivalent is Dionne. She disapproves of Pinky's love interest (I won't give away who it is!), like Cher did to Dionne. Like Cher, Aisha loves to shop till she drops. The Harriet Smith character, Shefali, comes from out of town and Aisha gives her a makeover....sounds pretty familiar! Emma never gave Harriet any sort of makeover. She liked Harriet because she was very pretty and sweet already. I dunno, maybe I'm reading too much into it.  For anyone hesitant about seeing this film because they don't like Bollywood, I just want to say- don't let that stop you. This movie is very, very Westernized. At least half the dialogue is in English, possibly a bit more. There are some "musical" scenes but the music is Western-style, not the typical Bollywood singing. The characters don't break into song either- rather the music highlights what's going on onscreen. These characters behave very much like rich Westerners would (I've read criticisms that it was trying too hard to be American, even) and there are even a couple kissing scenes.  I thought this was a good movie, but not great. The production values were obviously very high- everything looked great. Unfortunately, I think that was part of the problem- they focused too much on style over substance. The script needed a bit of work. The whole Jane/Frank story was handled very poorly in particular. Still, it was a fun movie, even though, like Clueless, it's not going to go down as one of my favorites.

ok, i preferred New Jack City Not enough story line or plot. Christopher walken is weird..as usual.  A lot of stupid scenes.  Maybe for the time it released it was awesome.

No Big Deal but OK My kids were mad I chose this movie to review since they thought it was going to be dumb.  They were pleasantly surprised that they actually enjoyed it.  The under ten crowd laughed lots and the older kids made good  comments and have even re-watched it.  From my perspective I wish I hadn't gotten it.  I hate to buy movies unless I've seen them because chances are it's not worth owning.  I disliked the potty talk, the not quite swearing like "What the mother goose", tons of name calling and even a scene where the squirrel is acting like a playboy.  It's been forever since I saw the first one and I don't remember any bad stuff -in fact I remember being surprised it was as good as it was- but like I said it's been awhile.  I wouldn't be sad if I'd spent a buck at redbox and then found out it was something I didn't want my kids watching all the time, but I feel like I wasted a good amazon vine pick this time around.  At least I can warn others before they spend their hard earned money on an inferior product.  If you're buying get Gnomeo and Juliet instead- cheesey but I loved it and the kids laughed plenty.

The Quiet Man DVD I  know and love this film, but the quality of the DVD was a bit off. In some scenes the actors motions seemed speeded up as though the copy was created by a nonprofessional. This may be a pirated version. Purchased via Amazon.

Great footage and story, but the most horrible sound score and narration Chimpanzee is a most fascinating story about how one baby chimps' drive helped it to overcome very difficult "life obstacles"; however, I would recommend watching it with the sound off and captions-on since the sound score and narration is most horrible.

Meh I was okay. Someone else said that it's similar to The Road with vampires....very true. The vampires were cool, the acting was good, but the story was not really what I was expecting I guess. It's more storyline like The Road and less Zombieland like I thought it would be.

Good movie..maybe not a must see but enjoyable Good movie..maybe not a must see but enjoyable.  Jack Black was really good in this movie too!  I had to google the true story and it was very interesting.  Like the video at the end of Jack Black meeting the real Benny.

good...bad...great...I'm not sure I watched this movie last night as a "time killer".  I was intrigued by the premise and give it a chance. The plot is a "by the numbers" 1950s "B" movie updated to 2010 sensibilities.  Sarah Polley; (who has always reminded me somewhat of Jodie Foster)and Adrien Brody try their best to make the characters believable and the actress who played "Dren" is the real star of the movie.  But the plot gets muddled half way though the movie as Dren has sex with Brody's character and then has sex with Polley's character as "Dren" has a sex change which is explained earlier in the movie by two blob-like creations who eventually kill each other.  I wanted to like the movie but the premise in the second half of the movie just didn't work for me and left me somewhat flat because it seemed to get more and more silly.  The ending which I'll spare you, didn't work for me either.  In any case, there are enough good aspects to make the movie watchable, but don't take it too seriously.  You'll be in for a big letdown.

No Collapse Surely there will come a time when the oil runs out. However, there will be no collapse.  The recent discoveries of vast shale gas and oil reserves in this country and the technical advances which will allow their production will allow time for us to move to a solar economy.  This also suggests that similar finds will be made  throughout the world.  Oil will become more expensive but it will be available for a long time (maybe as much as a hundred years).  This not to say we should not move to renewal energy sources.  It is just to note that we have time to do so.

Routine Suspense Vehicle Not a bad plot-line, though nothing new.  As it happens, the execution was somewhat amateurish, and there were a couple of flubs, like when the female lead says to the cop and hospital officials, "Oh, you want something which will prove my boyfriend's existence?"..as she pulls out the pill container, which suggests that his name is on this container.  No, it's HER "meds," so this made no sense. I will admit that the people playing the security people were not bad:  I could identify with being brow-beaten by security jerks. Happened to me just two days ago, actually.  I was also put off by the pretty awful make-up job on the lead:  Overdone, coupled with what appeared to be lip injections.  I was able to predict that..if this were a set-up deal to snag a big pay-off from a young rich woman, that her boyfriend was in on it "from the get-go."  So, no big surprises here. I would rate this a "B," if this is the filmmaker's first attempt.  It was fair background, as I was working on two household projects, but I wouldn't pay to view this picture.  PEACE!!

good, bad, and cheezzzz The surfing in this movie was legit.  Quality. Nice wives and plenty of big airs and that good stuff, well pleased.  Only complaint is all the other crap between surfing.  The intro is hella cheezy, literally a cheezy light pyramid and they're all gathering around it.  It sounds funny but its meant to be serious in the film.  This sort of cheezyness continues throughout surf segments.  Got to be bothersome.  The other thing i didnt like was that you maybe hear a total of 7 words from the actual surfers the whole time.  It's like 6 dudes (cant remember how many exactly) flying around the world to some sick, exotic looking locations, and not a peep. I could keep going but i dont want to get too subjective.  I would try n get this dvd cheap or just do the instant download for $8 or something.  Its definitely worth watching for the surf alone but the $20 plus i have seen for it, not so much.

Yawn!!! I wanted to like this movie I did. Katherine Hepburn is young and a great actress as always it took such a long time to get to the point of the movie. Everything is rather slow and thought out. The attempt at humor was too little too late for me. Overall, my opinion would be to watch this movie only if you are fans of both stars.

Yes, behind the horror is a real-life metaphor. As I peeled back the layers of shock horror, gore, and torture from this film, I quickly discovered it is a veiled commentary describing the inhumane treatment and scientific tests Nazi doctors and scientists conducted on the Jews before and during WWII.  The dehumanization performed by the German, yes, German doctor parallels the same treatment given to the unfortunate Jews in and around Germany during that horrific period.  It removes the buffer between non-Jews (who weren't afflicted by baseless genocide) and the chosen ones, instead inserting two Western (American) young women.  With this switch, the audience can now experience the villainy only felt warmly before in history books and televison programs.  Overall, this genre is not one I personally enjoy...but if you like horror/torture movies, the ending will successfully complete a well-made and acted movie.  Please do not allow anyone under 18 to watch it, though.

Could have been better Click started out with a lot of promise, and it had some funny parts, but unfortunately, the movie sputtered out in quite a few parts with cheap and low-brow jokes. The movie had a lot of potential especially given the plot device, a remote-control that affects reality. There were some very good and funny parts, but overall, I cannot give this movie more than 3 stars.

Some cheesiness but overall a great movie! I remember seeing the Scorpian King when I was 10 years old. And I wasn't expecting to like it as much as I do now. It has adventure, action and some romance. Its about a man named Mathyus who is hired to kill an evil ruler and his sorcerer. When the evil ruler Memnon kills Mathays's brother hes really out for revenge. There was some cheesiness to this movie So I'm warning you its a movie you'll either love it or you don't. Like the part at the very begginning where Mathayus rescues his brother he says boo and everyone is scared running! COME ON! Thats very cliched right there. And then the "romance" between The Rock and Kelly Hu was kind of far fetched and predictable. First they hate each other then they like each other then The Sorceress has a vision where Mathyus was going to be shot by an arrow and killed. And then she tells him and is like, I can't have you die! Then Mathyus tells her don't worry I make my own destiny then they have sex. My thoughts were like, "Wow that was quick." But all in all besides the cheesiness it was a great movie anyway.

Very Interesting Well actually because it said IMAX I thought it was in 3D. So, I was dissappointed because its not... It was interesting to watch, but it would have been lots better in 3D

Not as good as The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe This is a good movie, yeah, but not, like, really good. For one they just changed way too much from the book. I mean yeah, things will change in movie adaptions of books, but this one took it a bit too far. For one, that little romance with Susan and Caspian was just stupid. Peter and Caspian bickering all the time was also stupid. A few other things, too, but I won't go into them. It's a pretty good movie, but not great. -Trent Foreman, Author of Nightmare

3 1/2 stars for an important, if flawed, movie about horrific violence in east Africa There are numerous things wrong with this movie beginning with the title (sounds like something Tarantino or Rodriquez would make) and ending with its 2+ hour length.  There's also plenty right, perhaps beginning and ending with bringing attention to the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent people on the African continent.  You never know how much of the depicted events of a "true" story really happen but the overview seems uncontested.  Gang member and heroin addict Sam Childers (Gerard Butler) is released from a prison stint to find that his wife (Michelle Monaghan) has retired from her lucrative pole dancing career to work as a clerk.  It seems she has found Jesus and has been reborn.  After a hellish night on smack where Sam and his best friend Donnie (Michael Shannon) nearly kill a hitch hiker, Sam also sees the light.  After Sam's conversion he has 2 missions.  One is to build a church and nursery in his eastern Pennsylvania community and second, to help the people of northern Uganda and southern Sudan which is being overrun by the Lord's Resistance Army headed by the vile Joseph Kony.  When Sam has some success in Pennsylvania, he underestimates the violence and political issues in Africa.  He has problems raising money, so begins to borrow against his house and eventually sells his successful construction business.  Sam slips off the deep end often.  Too often for my liking.  Still, Lynn (Monaghan) and his daughter (Madeline Carroll) stick with him even though his violent rages and financial malfeasance would usually bring on a lawyer at some point.  This is where the director (Marc Forster) and writer (Jason Keller) seem to get carried away as well.  To their credit, however they don't shy away from the violence and unspeakable horrors that transpire to this day in east Africa.  Some absurdities aside, the film moves quickly and is technically well made.  The 1080p transfer is generally well done and consistent with recent movies.  I did notice a bit of flickering on the opening scene but that may have been an aberration.  Overall the contrast is quite good and some of the African landscape is well presented.  The film is shot in 2.40:1 aspect ratio which is carried over here.  Although I don't talk about it much above, the film has numerous scenes of gun battles including automatic weapons, rockets and bombs.  This is well layed out across the 5.1 channels all presented in lossless DTS-HD Master Audio.

Can't wait to see the second one - where they do it all again A well-put together but absurd comedy about a wacky Wolf Pack, out for fun at a best friend's bachelor party. A great cameo by Michael Tyson is welcome, but the film is not as side-splittingly funny as it is awkward and uncomfortable; for truly side-splittingly funny (as well as some good scene stealing, and even some real character development), you need to look no further than the female version of The Hangover, which is called Bridesmaids. Of course, us guys can't admit that to other guys ("Huh? You thought a film called `Bridesmaids' was funnier than `The Hangover', which all of us have lived in our lives and can totally relate to? I haven't even heard of that film, much less seen it"), but it's actually true. The "oh-I-get-it-now" moment at the end is pure Scooby Doo, and the "henpecked boyfriend finally figures out that his girlfriend is a bitch" cliche resolution at the end is a bit superfluous. But don't get me wrong - the "Wolf Pack" speech alone is worth the price of admission, both for its surrealness as well as its twee naivete, as are the early scenes when Zach Galifianakis is introduced as the goofy brother-in-law. Good one, guys.  Gettin' ready for deja vu with the sequel...

High on Beauty, Low on Plot This is one of those movies whose obscurity doesn't surprise me. This is a well-executed, beautifully-crafted movie, but its plot and pace never amount to what it promises.  This is the story of the upcoming King Arthur, more specifically when he is a little boy, employed as dishwasher for the local earl, whose pig-brained bully of a son is set to become the next king if no one can remove the sword Excalibur from its rock. Arthur's future looks bleak until eccentric wizard Merlin, along with his dry-witted owl Archimedes, arrives on the scene. Having travelled through time, Merlin knows Arthur's significance and sets to train him up to believe in himself through a series of field tests involving seeing himself in different situations. So Merlin changes Arthur into a fish and a squirrel, resulting in hilarious romping until Arthur stumbles upon the lair of the oddly fascinating albeit wicked witch Madam Mimm.  The trouble with this movie is that not much of significance happens. The plot seems pretty secondary. Most of the movie involves Merlin and Arthur on their little training missions. Excalibur plays a pretty small part indeed, and the movie doesn't really end on much of a high note, either, even though it's supposed to be one. So much more could have been done with the plot. This movie goes overboard with acting and forgets the plot. This A to B structure worked with the Jungle Book, but in the case of the Sword in the Stone, it's a point of storytelling that doesn't sustain itself.  Of course, what the movie lacks in plot it makes up for with visuals. They are stunning, I can tell you. The animation is beautiful and flowing, especially in the case of the wolf (a character I wish I had played more part in the movie) and the scene where Merlin and Mimm duel by turning themselves into all manner of creatures. In the hands of these people, this makes the Sword in the Stone worth a view for its visual excellence, making up somewhat for the thin story and development.  A pleasant, beautiful view, pretty low on substance but with a lot going for it in the visual department.

Kentucky Fried Movie Had this on video , funny funny and funny. Evan Kim is also very good with the martial arts in this movie. One of the original and funniest films I have ever seen.

So bad, but so good If you're looking for legit entertainment: Don't buy this.  If you want to get some friends together and make fun of this completely bizarre and borderline incomprehensible story, DO buy this.  The English dub is so bad, on the quality scale it goes below "awful," bypasses "Crap" completely, and circles back to "mildly amusing."  It's easy and fun to watch this and just laugh at the poorly acted dialogue.

FRENETIC BARRAGE Here, I have a billion ideas and I want to cram them all into your forehead all at once! A frenetic barrage. The design/calculation seems to have been to disorient, confuse, and flash as much as possible. Not new age (!) in any way. Not for heart attack people, high blood pressure, or  anyone adversely affected by strobe, or light-speed wormhole travel. The music doesn't help--it's all hyper-upsetting. Lost opportunity art wise. Any worthwhile moment is rubbed out by the need for speed. Too bad.

Excellent ride. I really enjoyed this workout and the flexibility it allows.  However, the music stinks.  Turn on captions, mute the tv, and enjoy some high tempo tunes of your own.

RELEASE THE BACKGROUND NOISE! What can I say?  These sequels always have a possible story that suffers to get in the way of the special effects and noise.  Yes, the movie had good acting.  Yes, the movie had good special effects.  And yes, this movie had a top notch cast. Unfortunately, NO, this movie's story did not hold much of an interest as it was overwhelmed by special effects and noise. Although there were many good parts, the movie droned on and on creating a mind numbing effect that surprisingly induced sleep and apathy.  For this movie, less means more.  It passes as a good "there's nothing else on" movie. Take your girlfriend and tell her to bring her knitting, but don't forget your latest edition of Biker Babes to flip through during the show.

A dramatic look at 1970's glam rock It's always interesting to go back many years and watch films with rising young actors who are now household names.  So it is here with this film written and directed by Todd Haynes ("Mildred Pierce").  When glam rock was at its pinnacle in the mid `70s in London, Brian Slade (Jonathan Rhys Meyers, "Bend it Like Beckham") is at the top of his game.  Paranoid that he will be killed while performing, the Bowie-like Slade fakes his own murder on stage without telling anyone.  Once the hoax is made public, his popularity plummets and he disappears.  Ten years later, a one time fan now a reporter is assigned to write one of those "whatever happened to" articles.  Arthur Stuart (Christian Bale, far removed from "Batman"), is a closeted homosexual who had fantasies about Slade as well as an American rocker (Ewan McGregor, "Haywire") that was Slade's idol and eventual lover. During Arthur's investigation, various people in Slade's life tell stories in flashback scenes with a narration.  Some of these go back to 1969 when Slade met his future wife Mandy (Toni Collette).  McGregor in particular is impressive as the drugged-out bi-sexual Curt Wild even doing the full Monty during a performance.  Both he and Rhys Meyers did their own singing and are very effective.  The film does get bogged down at times and can be confusing in terms of flashbacks, dreams and real time.  It is also about 25 minutes too long.  The subject matter however seems honest for the era.  There are plenty of scenes involving orgies, drugs, bi-sexuality, groupies, and sexual experimentation.  Here's a trivia item.  Recent Oscar nominee Janet McTeer ("Albert Nobbs") does the female narration although she doesn't appear in the film.  The Blu ray transfer is in 1080p with a 1.78:1 aspect ratio.  The quality is inconsistent.  The colors are vibrant and well presented, but their are several scenes that are grainy to the point of noise.  This really isn't a big deal.  The DTS HD Master Audio is very good and certainly needed for a film like this that provides a non-stop array of music.  Some of which is original and some of which is new.  Don't look for a lot of in-your-face action in the surrounds.  The music is more immersive, which is a good thing.

Half and half... There are some things about this movie that I loved.  The cinematography is amazing, especially those crystal clear close ups that feel so glossed yet so dirty at the same time.  The score is marvelous, and really finds so much color and texture in so many different moments of the film.  The plot and actual pacing and the way that themes are presented with semi-originality is also a blessing.  But then there are let downs.  The acting as a whole is over the top, and not in a good way.  The film also suffers from lack of true focus in the thematic elements, getting serious then campy then serious and failing to blend the two in a way that feels complete.  I also found the graphics to be somewhat cheap and on the verge of `Sci-Fi Network' feeling, until the end where they miraculously felt more grounded and lived in.  That said, for what it promises to be (a monster movie), `The Host' delivers for the most part.  It is fun and it has so many rich elements at play here.  I wish it had been better, and it is nowhere near the creative splendor of some films it is attempting to compare itself to (seriously, `Jaws'...like, you're kidding right?) but it does offer something.  I enjoyed this and I'd recommend it to friends of mine who are into this genre.  In fact, MKIA, you should check this out since it does pay homage to the dated monster movies of old that you are in love with.

Fifties gem My husband and I are 50's sci-fi fans. We own just about every 50's sci-fi there ever was made. We own this film in black and white. Having watched this movie more than a few times I can honestly say it is pure cheese. It is so bad it is good. Some 50's sci-fi's are so bad as to be unwatchable. This is a watchable movie. It is full of corny songs and hot rods. The teenagers look like 18 going on 35. The monster is actually a real lizard. The theme music will stay in your head for days. 50's sci-fi's are in a limited supply. We watch and re-watch all the movies in our collection. When I saw that the movie had been colorized, I had to watch it. Colorizing a movie can either be bad or good. In this instance, it is good. I felt like I was watching a new, undiscovered 50's sci-fi. What a treat! The colorization was good, the sound good. Streaming via Amazon is outstanding. I have been streaming movies through Netflix and it is pretty poor. Movies can be jerky, stop and start. The sound quality is so bad as to make some of the movies unwatchable. Not with my experience with Amazon. Picture, sound and speed have all been excellent. I intend to rent more movies in the future. In conclusion: if you love 50's sci-fi movies, can tolerate some stinky cheese, then this movie is right up your alley.

Not for everyone Some sort of Modern/futuristic take off of a  Shakespear type tragedy. The words are in Old English so its kinda hard to follow. I enjoyed, though my woman got up and went to sleep. But its got a little war in it and I followed it to the end.

Interesting for thought, but not terribly moving Screen shots were a bit repetitive (close-ups of blinking eyes) -- one too many times that didn't evoke any feeling.  The plot, up until the halfway mark was very good, interesting and moving - we finally understand Jorgen's weird behavior.  However, the plot and the story line could have been improved once we get to the end in terms of the relationship between Jacob and Jorgen - something was a bit left out (but I can't put my finger on it.)  The plot was interesting, although a bit melodramatic and not totally believeable, but thought-provoking nonetheless. The end was perfect in a way, "from the mouths of babes."

Fischer's performance is great, the BD is not an outright recommendation though... This film receives a deal of praise here about the performances, and I agree Jenna Fischer's performance is worthy of many accolades, but in the end the film and BD have too many annoyances to give it a super-high star rating.  The story follows a soon-to-be-widowed mom as she traverses her personal vices of drinking and apathy towards parental responsibility while her family, her lawyer and almost anyone else around her manipulates their way into her decisions - which accumulates to an underwhelming ending of each thread introduced. Her acting was superb, believable and really without fault for all that she had to do, as was some of the supporting cast input (especially Kim Coates as the lawyer). But so many scenes piled up of multiple characters yelling, dog(s) barking, kids having tantrums, and more yelling - that it became more irritating than worthy each time. By the end, the screening audience was not impressed with the film, but loved Jenna's determination to get it right.  The Blu clarity is solid, the 5.1 DTS gets overused in the yelling matches (which helped make the scenes even more intolerable as all five channels had people yelling/dogs barking for what seemed like minutes on end), but the supplements are too fluffy to recommend. Each of the interviews last several seconds followed by long clips from the film. Chris O' Donnell is given 2nd billing on the cover and in the credits but only has a few scenes so I would say this film is not a must-see for his fans. Region coded A with English subtitles only. Rob Benedict gives an average shot here and was much funnier to watch in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000PMGS6S">Waiting... (Unrated and Raw) [Blu-ray</a>]. As a side note (and I know I get riddled with hate mail on this sometimes) but the cover art was thrown together again without checking as they flipped the shots so the car is driving backwards, and also the film title is what she never really gets...if you do watch I hope you enjoy it.

I Got Charged Twice Apparently the Tivo box upstairs didnt have enough room on the harddrive, so when I ordered the movie I did get charged but it didnt download even after I emptied the harddrive.  I ordered it again downstairs because I kept receiving a message stating that there was not enough room and was charged twice in the end.  The movie was awesome though

Fun to watch but... I like this DVD collection.  My only disappointment is that the songs are missing.  I knew something was strange when the songs get cut out.  For example, there was one episode where Mario sings rolling on the river.  That's missing, as well as some other songs that they sing in the episodes.  Copyright issues?  Perhaps.  It would have been better if they spend extra money to get the songs intact.

Not for TOTAL beginners This DVD is not for your absolute ground level beginner. I keep having to look up at the TV to see where she is, which causes me to slow down and lose my place in the flow parts. She moves too fast for an utter novice like me. I can see liking this video after I get a little stronger and a little more familiar with yoga, but I'm going to need something slower and easier for starters.

Enjoyable but Very Corny! I would compare Case De Mi Padre to Blazing Saddles.  Funny but also very campy.  Probably wouldn't watch again. Very funny take-off to Spanish Telenovelas.

Good, But Not One of Hitchcock's Best Made in 1936 as the Nazi's were gearing up, it is about 1916. That allowed director Alfred Hitchcock to depict Germans as enemies without trying to tell the current story. You know, "Don't worry; it's only fiction."  A British author's funeral is held, so that he can resurface under another name, Ashendon. He's now a secret agent sent to the Swiss Alps to assassinate a double agent. His assistant is a crazy man known mostly as The General (Peter Lorre), the actual assassin. When he checks into his hotel, Ashendon discovers he is a married man, and that his wife Elsa (Madeleine Carroll) has gotten there before him. She's a spy, too, that has been sent to make him look harmless: a married man with a different name instead of the well-known bachelor that had been his previous identity.  Robert Young plays a dashing young man named Marvin who flirts outrageously with Mrs. Ashendon.  The details are sufficiently complex that I don't want to spoil it. There's a wire-haired dachshund that figures in the story. And all the girls the General is forever chasing. And an expert mountain-climber, a chocolate factory, and trains. Several trains.  My only real complaint with the film is that it's in black and white and fairly dark, so that much of the time I could not really tell what was happening. My impression is this was partly the way Alfred Hitchcock made it, and partly the way time made it. It has been a long, long time, after all, and the original film is probably long since gone. This is probably a copy of a copy of who knows how many generations.  Good story, on the whole, but not so easy to follow. As in proper mysteries, I didn't guess the end until it was nearly there

should have made this one first should have made this one first, as a second, you can figure out what going to happen three days in advance. race scenes are the same and no better than the first movie, almost boring.  AFTER WATCHING second or third time it got better

Solid '60's thriller (...and don't mess with the baboons!) I saw this movie back in the day (when it was new) at the drive-in.  All I could remember was the final image of a man and a baboon locked in a bloody death struggle... so when it hit blu-ray, I had to check it out.  Solid thriller.  Great cast (oh, Susannah...York!  Dee-lish!), interesting predicament where survival is not so much against the elements as against each other.  A few cheesy effects in the animal and hairpiece department.  All in all, recommended.  Note: this is another film collaboration between actor/producer Stanley Baker and writer/director Cy Endfield, who had previously worked together on the classic war/adventure ZULU.  While this flick isn't on Zulu's level, it's still a solid drama/thriller well worth watching.

This is not a movie review, this is a product/case review At least on Amazon right now, this is the only 3 Disc (BD, DVD, Digital Copy) version for sale. So I had no choice. But the photo Amazon includes does not show this case as being anything other than the standard plastic case with a sleeve.  Which I would have loved. But nothing I hate more than a crappy storage case for a 3 disc blockbuster title.  I have included pics. I give this product 3 stars for "OK". Even though I hate it. If you want a movie review, check out the many movie review sites. If you want a film transfer review for video and audio quality, check out blu-ray.com.  This is one of the most annoying storage cases I have owned. The worst was the Toy Story complete box set, which was so bad that I returned it at a loss and bought all the films individually with multiple versions just to have the better cases.  So what makes this storage so bad? Check out the pics. It's basically paper sleeves for the discs (2 of 3), folded together. And then that folded mess it stuffed into a box sleeve, and then that sleeve is pushed into the box sleeve you see in Amazon's photo. If they would have duplicated the outer box art and disc specs from the front and back, onto the internal Box sleeve, I could at least ditch the outer box sleeve and store just the inner box sleeve on the shelf. But the inner box (while it does have specs like rating, time, etc on the back) is not as detailed as the outer box sleeve.  So it's annoying when having to get out the discs and more importantly I don't trust paper sleeves to protect the finish of the discs due to sliding motions across the disc surface.  Again, no other choice if you want BD and DVD in the same purchase/set. And even if I wanted to spend more and buy them separately, you can't on Amazon. They sell the DVD only or this set. I wish everyone would just stick to the standard BD case or case/sleeve.  UPDATE: It's not even standard BD case height! They could have at least made this crappy box look good on the shelf with all the other Blu-Rays. Who wants to mix their BD movies with their DVD cases? Again, if there was another combo set to buy, I would return this one.

OK..I guess. I was never one of the Puss In Boots fans when he made his debut in "Shrek 2". But ever since I rediscovered the Shrek movies, I fell in love with all the characters all over again, especially the cute kitty with the sexy Spanish accent. So I saw the DVD of his movie being sold, and, having not seen it in the theatres, I decided to give it a try. And I'm glad I did, because it's an entertaining funny film. But when comparing it to Shrek, it kind of looks much worse than it does on its own. There were several parts of the movie that just weren't interesting. However, there is one highlight in the movie, involving one of the new principal characters: Kitty Softpaws. She's the love interest in this movie, and she is fantastic! Her character is so smart and sassy that every girl admires her, and my favourite parts of the movie by far are the times she takes Puss' stuff: His boots, his money, his hat...it's just funny to watch her take all this stuff without him even noticing. The story is OK, but nothing special. Maybe there are a few twists, and the end is good, but in my opinion, it's hard not to switch the movie off right in the middle. But I still recommend it, if you can get it cheap. It's worth a few watches, and if you've gotten through the first 45 minutes, keep watching, cause it improves.

Mathew McConaughey's persistence pays off, much to Clive Cussler's chagrin... Sahara (2005) is an action adventure that largely delivers what you expect from a big budget film of this type, a likeable hero, a beautiful damsel, exotic locations, epic scale, cool action sequences, a touch of humor, a little romance, an ancient mystery, and hidden treasure.  Except for a major bad guy, it's all there, packaged within a decently constructed story.  The film is based on a Dirk Pitt novel, one of over a dozen written by Clive Clussler, whose first book featuring the character was published in 1973.  While the books featuring Pitt, an ex-Navy officer turned salvage expert, may be fertile material with cinematic possibilities, prior to Sahara, only Raise The Titanic (1976) had been made into a feature film in 1980.  Cussler had apparently been so dissatisfied with the way Raise the Titanic had turned out, that he refused to permit any of his other Pitt novels to be made into films for over 20 years.  Mathew McConaughey had great interest in playing Dirk Pitt, and contacted Cussler to discuss the possibility.  Eventually Cussler agreed to McConaughey playing his beloved character, although the actor had to agree to dye his hair dark, and wear green contact lenses, to match Cussler's description of Pitt.  With script approval, Cussler greenlighted the production, however he later had major objections, and took legal action against the production company.  The movie incorporates many of the major elements from the book, a winding tale centered on Pitt's search for the CSS Texas, a US Civil War ironclad, he believes is lost somewhere in the African desert.  As ironclads were not the most seaworthy of craft, the possibility that one travelled from the east coast of America to Nigeria, would seem to be quite remote, but that is the premise here.  Dirk Pitt fans may have strong feelings about how the character is presented, and how well the novel is translated to the screen.  Those without preconceptions, may regard Sahara as just another adventure in the style of Indiana Jones, with some James Bond influences.  Dirk Pitt comes across as a rather generic, nice guy hero type, who while not seeming particularly nautical, is perhaps more affable than in the books.  The principal casting is solid, with Steve Zahn as Pitt's best buddy Al Giordino, William H. Macy as James Sandecker, the head of NUMA (National Underwater and Marine Agency), and Penelope Cruz as doctor Eva Rojas.  After rescuing doctor Dr. Rojas in Lagos, Nigeria, Pitt convinces his boss Sandecker, to allow him to head up the Niger River in a NUMA boat, to follow an obscure clue.  Eva Rojas hitches a ride on Pitt's boat to Mali, before departing to find the source of a plague.  General Kazim (Lennie James) the ruler of Mali, is colluding with businessman Yves Massarde (Lambert Wilson) who is running a secret solar power plant in the middle of the desert, that is poisoning the water supply.  Kazim attempts to eliminate both the medical team, and the NUMA expedition.  Pitt's boat is attacked, and sunk.  Proceeding through the desert via camel, Dirk and Al manage to find Eva, just after her medical team has been massacred by Kazim's men.  While travelling by Jeep, the group is taken in by natives, the Tuaregs, and taken to their city in the desert.  There they meet Madibo (Paulin Fodoup), the Tuareg leader, and Al discovers a clue to the location of an ironclad in the desert.  The stage is set for an eventful final act, where the heroes discover the secret plant, the remnants of a lost airplane, and buried below the desert sands, the long lost CSS Texas.  The buildup is nicely done, but with Kazim attacking in a helicopter, the end of the conclusive chase is a little lame.  While the reality factor is low, overall the film is a pretty lively and entertaining romp, with a lighthearted tone.  Regarded as a box office bomb, Sahara had a massive budget reportedly topping $130 million, and has apparently yet to make a profit.  Also part of the baggage that has become attached to the film, is the falling out with author Clive Clusser, which resulted in a lawsuit being filed against the production company, who in turn countersued Cussler.  The cases have gone to trial and the appeals process.  Judgments have been rendered, but a final resolution has apparently yet to be reached.  Odds are, we won't be seeing any new Dirk Pitt films anytime soon.  Among the many special features are two commentary tracks, one with director Breck Eisner, and a second with Eisner and Mathew McConaughy.  The first is more informative technically, while the second is more informal.  Besides being the star, McConaughy served as an executive producer, and was crucial in making the project a reality.  Clive Cussler's involvement is briefly discussed, but there is no mention of any legal matters.

Lip Sync Issues I have the DVD version of the Complete First Season, and there are serious issues with lip synchronization on several episodes.  This happens not just during the singing, but throughout the entire episode.  It makes watching the episode almost painful.  Very disappointing.

Good acting, but too long The total experience of this movie would be have been improved if the editors would have cut about 30-55 minutes of the slow and 'dead space' time.  The actors are good, the story ok (not unusual), the background music superb for enhancing suspense, but the pace crawls until the end.  I would have stopped half way through but I liked the young female actor and wanted to see what happened.

RIP Mr Lynch I saw this film when it first aired back in the old days.  When I saw that Mr. Lynch died, I had to revist and find out the  name of the flick. I must say that if you are NOT afraid of clowns you will be after you see this movie.  He was so scary and gross--I thought that was make up but I find out today that he was actually scarred after setting himself on fire during an LSD trip in the 60's.  I only give it three stars because it was so repulsive to me.  He was like a extra twisted pedophile (all pedophiles are twisted but he took it to a really slimy sleazy level--nothing charismatic or friendly about him! Not a seemingly friendly Gacy type or a handsome Ted Bundy, and before you say Bundy was not a pedophile, he raped and killed a pre-teen!) But I digress, that is the way it seemed to me, rather it was intentional or not. So it grossed me out.  BUT the film was very suspenseful and as I recall well acted (I could never watch it again)and probably someone who has a stronger constitution  could watch it and even enjoy it to the degree that such films are enjoyable.

Too clever for its own good. I liked the movie, but it wasn't all that scary. It was too tongue-in-cheek and didn't find the right balance like, say, the Scream movies. It also didn't help that the underlying plot was too corny. I won't spoil the REAL villain of the movie, but if you've seen a season of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," then you've basically seen "Cabin in the Woods." Why not just round up the sacrifices and kill them? Why the convoluted showcase? The movie might have been more fun had it been more straightforward instead of constantly throwing plot twist after plot twist.

"You're starting to lose that Nathan Hale thing you had going" Aided by a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0780022513">Yojimbo</a>-derivative plot, a decent cast of action players, and his physical similarity to Ray Romano, karate practitioner Fabian Carillo adds his name to the growing list of modern action heroes making their starring debut in the medium of DTV films. "Latin Dragon" is apparently Carillo's dream project, as he not only starred in but also co-wrote/conceived and produced the film; but beyond the novelty of Carillo's being one of the first few Latino action heroes (contrary to the DVD's tagline, Antonio Banderas and costar Lorenzo Lamas technically had Carillo beat by several years in this respect), his movie isn't all that special - just a so-so low-budget martial arts flick that has nothing really wrong with it but doesn't have a lot going for it either.  The story: Daniel Silva (Carillo, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004S895">Best Revenge</a>) arrives home in the aftermath of his teacher's murder at the hands of a deadly street gang. Taking it on himself to put an end to the widespread street violence, Silva will need to face off with an ambitious crime lord (Gary Busey, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0790729695">Lethal Weapon</a>) planning even more death and destruction to achieve his ends.  The storyline's pretty standard, although this counts as one of the few films I've seen examine the self-destruction of the Hispanic community via organized crime. The acting content's pretty passable: you can take or leave Carillo for what he is, but folks like Gary Busey and Robert LaSardo (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001ILHY1I">Death Race</a>) help him along in strong supporting roles, and James Hong (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000067J1G">Big Trouble in Little China</a>) and Tony Perez (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000YIGNCW">Right at Your Door</a>) add their natural talent and enthusiasm to a handful of scenes.  The production values and editing quality are in the higher middle rungs for this kind of movie: there are some occasional slip-ups in quality and more than once you'll have to contend with stupid rapid-fire editing montages - not to mention a pretty childish-looking opening logo - but otherwise it looks just about as professional as an independent production can, with good cinematography capturing its colorful urban L.A. setting just fine.  The fight scenes are what I was interested in primarily, but they may be the least interesting aspect of the movie. Fabian Carillo shows off his extensive martial arts knowledge through varied choreography, from basic roundhouse kicks to intricate aikido wrist throws, but overzealous editing severely diminishes the four brawls. The finale of these features Carillo in a two-on-one fight against Deron McBee (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0780622057">Mortal Kombat: Annihilation</a>) and Lorenzo Lamas (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003XMKU0M">Renegade</a>) - a rare instance of Lamas using his established stardom to put over another performer, nevertheless marred by the fact that he uses a stunt double half of the time and the fight's extremely unclimatic ending.  There's not much more to say about this one. If you're interested in martial arts flicks, you could do better than "Latin Dragon", but it's still a decent first solo vehicle for a fellow you've never heard of but who could become a considerable player in the action game if he's up for some self-improvement. Purchase at your own discretion.

Disappointing Save your money a pale comparison to the original.  Lighting is poor throughout, acting almost as bad, none of the suspense or karmic retribution that you would expect.  As with most remakes leaves a lot to be desired, buy the original if you have yet to see it, much better investment.

REVEALING, TIMELY & RELEVANT IDES OF MARCH directed by and starring George Clooney is so current and hot it almost blisters the home video screen.  If you're still naïve about the nature of politics and politicians, perhaps it's time to see the cynical truth; things are much the same as it was between Caesar and Brutus.  But when I hear the hypocritical, self-serving remarks of potential candidates for a Presidential nomination, Clooney's movie seems suddenly tame and reserved.  Ryan Gosling is terrific as an idealistic political advisor whose eyes have been opened to the ease of selling one's soul to gain power -- and perhaps revenge.  The great cast includes: Evan Rachel Wood, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei and Paul Giamatti.

An ok CG movie, cool to see Leon and Claire though This is Capcom's first attempt at a full CG only movie, and it's not too bad. This film has some clich&eacute; parts, but since it's a resident evil film you kind of look over it. This movie ties in Resident evil 2/3(What happens in the aftermaths of raccoon) and Resident evil Code veronica/4 (Continuing the story of Claire and Leon) and leads up to the events in Resident Evil 5. I think this is pretty cool how they tie these stories in with the franchise, hell it even slightly ties in with the movies (Claire and raccoon city).  The story is ok, but the whole "screaming girl" has been old for years now, and got annoying during this film. The coolest parts are the tie in with the series, the Zombies, and the details of the guns. Not much really shines during the story, the dramatic events fail, and the only other movie that has more staring than this is Twilight. I mean how many movies have to do the pull away when someone is getting attacked by a zombie before they realize it got old years ago.  The graphics are pretty good, especially for a CG only movie. While it's not good as Resident Evil 5, the guns look great, and the people look semi real. Another part that looks good is when they shoot the zombies and the way they die is pretty detailed. The buildings do look pretty cool, and kind of has its own unique look to them.  The acting is pretty good, and I believe they used the same voice actors for Claire and Leon that worked on the previous games. Everyone else, eh they are sub-par, and it feels like they are reading it off a script. I even think one of the voice actors in this movie also voiced a character in Resident Evil 5.  The special features are pretty cool, with about thirty minutes of behind the scenes footage and talking about this film in the franchise of Resident Evil. While it's all Japanese dubbed, it's watchable with subtitles and you really don't notice it. The "Bloopers" are pretty entertaining and some of them actually made me laugh. They provide character profiles, but it's just 1-2 paragraph's about the characters and not like a timeline of what they have been in.  Overall I say to buy this if you're a fan of the Resident Evil franchise; Especially 5, since I believe what happens in this movie is what Chris talks about in the opening credits.  ~ Written: August, 2010  Positives: * Nice tie in with the RE franchise * Well made guns via CG * Finally nice to see Claire is something new after years * Cool zombies Negatives: * Most voice actors suck in the movie * Annoying screaming zoom in? Really? * Sub-par story

Not Bad It's a decent start for someone who's trying to get off the couch and into life. If you're already doing some sort of exercise on a routine basis, this is probably too easy for you and would be a disappointment.

no dvd included sucks!! Although I'm thrilled to own blu-ray "Lebowski" -- I am pissed that I have to download the dvd.  I think we should receive a hard copy instead of an idiotic number to download, especially when we have more than one computer and don't burn dvds.

prince of tennis confussion when i first saw this on toonami i thought it was not bad but im wondering why is it only in japanese and not in english dub is it a typing error or something. i say this because i saw this box set in dub on a different site but their wasnt none left so are they going to change that?

as good as you would expect it to be X-Men: The Last Stand is the exactly the kind of finale to the trilogy that you would expect if you've seen the others. stripped down plots cobbled together from the long history of x-men comics with small appearances by notable characters. but there are some nice bits too.  plot-wise, if you are a fan of the comics and are hoping the film will be true to them than you're probably going to be disappointed. it's not that the story is bad necessarily... just not good. one gets the feeling they didn't know exactly where they wanted to go with it or what they wanted to say and everything they did say was already done to satisfaction in the previous movies. however, to be fair, coming up with a finale to an x-men series, that works, is extraordinarily difficult. considering the massive amounts of story arcs, characters, and the fact that the actual story isn't going to end anytime soon... this isn't the worst job they could have done. overall, while it doesn't work remarkably well, it's a decent film.  on the other hand, where this film really distinguishes itself (and indeed the whole trilogy for the most part) is it's casting choices. half the appeal of a comic book adaptation is seeing your favorite characters portrayed in a live-action presentation and, in this, the film succeeds remarkably. Kelsey Grammer is wonderful and very fitting as The Beast, Vinnie Jones does a smashing job as the Juggernaut, and whoever came up with casting Ellen Page as Kitty Pride should be given a medal. her performance is probably one of the only really outstanding things about this film. of course the other actors from the previous films do great jobs too and seem to really want to bring their characters to life (especially Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart). unfortunately, the script and story just doesn't give them much to work with.  basically, as long as you aren't looking for anything amazingly faithful to the original idea and come expecting a hollywood interpretation, it's a fine film. not mind-blowing or astonishing but not a disaster either.

Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure Having viewed most, if not all, of Michael Palin's adventures, this one is a trip down a well-traveled memory lane.  Mr. Palin's fresh and unbiased approach to showing us today's Cuba is a welcome relief from the usual tripe fed us by our media.  He presented a Cuba trying to forget the old and irrelevant Hemingway's Cuba; one copying with the challenges presented by the US economic blockade and forging a better future for its people---and along the way showing some interesting tidbits. Mil gracias Senor Palin.  Rolando Arango

Wander.  Lust? If you've seen the previews you know the gist of the movie: Jennifer Anniston and Paul Rudd are a married couple who end up in a commune named Elysium, that may or may not be a nudist colony.  In and of itself that was enough to reel me in.  Ultimately, however, I was a little disappointed.  As often happens in life, a couple - George (Paul Rudd) and Linda (Jennifer Aniston) - makes a mutual sacrifice by following the dreams of one and risking the lives of both.  George and Linda get in over their heads when her documentary pitch gets rejected and he gets fired, leaving them with no money to afford the recently purchased expensive, downtown NYC studio apartment.  Left with no choices, they pack up and move to Atlanta where George's brother Rick (Ken Marino) has a menial backup job.  On the way they search for a place to stay they end up at the aforementioned Elysium (I was hoping they'd find the motel from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000RGN2JI">Vacancy</a>).  At Elysium they encounter an assortment of offbeat, outcast, and oddball who live their free-spirited way.  The experience at Elysium, and the soul-crushing life possibilities at Rick's house, is enough for George and Linda to question their current situation, their preoccupation with technology and industry, and contemplate a life-altering decision.  Sadly, Wayne (Joe Lo Trugilo) is quickly revealed as the only nudist of the group is, immediately tempering the excitement and anticipation of a possible Anniston or Malin Akerman uncovering.  Speaking of Akerman, one of the strongest aspects of this movie is the combined cast.  Every bit player is someone who could carry a portion of a film in their own right.  Most are funny.  Alan Alda, Justin Theroux, Kathryn Hahn, Kerri Kenney, Lauren Ambrose, Michaela Watkins, and Todd Barry all bring something to the table.  Alan Alda, while up there in age, can still deliver in any role.  Being a fan of raunchy comedy, I really thought I'd like the film more.  The script is predictable as can be, but it's easily dismissed for people who can shut off their brain for two hours.  I'm also a fan of Paul Rudd; his sarcastic delivery is hilarious.  Unfortunately this film didn't deliver nearly enough laughs, and disappointed me just like Couples Retreat.  One scene has Paul Rudd in front of a mirror, preparing for a tryst with Malin Akerman, and he's obviously adlibbing for an extended period of time.  It's painfully unfunny to watch.  Verdict?  Not crude enough to win me over in a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0010R08PO">Superbad</a> sort of way, and not heart-warming enough to convince me in a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000MR1V22">Little Miss Sunshine</a> kind of way, but good enough at each that I sort of enjoyed it.

Harry Potter and the Emo Camping Trip I've seen all the Potter films, and really like the early ones.  Much of what I like about them is the "magic" - colorful costumes, magical creatures, Hogwarts (both the setting and the school atmosphere), and John Williams fantastic musical score.  Unfortunately, most of that is missing here.  The kids are on the run, so the whole Hogwarts school setting is absent from this film, and instead they spend most of their time in a drab tent, camping in the drab wilderness, dressed in really drab muggle clothes, in drab lighting (the whole movie seems to take place on an overcast day - don't try watching this when the sun is coming through your windows, or you won't be able to see much of the film!).  Sadly, they don't have John Williams doing the music for this one, and the composer chooses not to utilize Williams's iconic themes from the previous movies, leaving an important connection to the feel of the series out, and the music doesn't do anything to create a magical Harry Potter atmosphere.  Another major part of my enjoyment of the early films was the friendship between the 3 main characters (although there were tensions at times).  In this film, the characters are pretty much uptight the whole film, and their relationships are strained.  Although I understand the significance to the plot, this makes watching the movie more tense than relaxing for me. Also, an important part of the film is to show the frustration and lack of progress of the book - the film succeeds in this enough, but, like my previous criticism, I don't find feeling frustrated and like nothings getting anywhere to be my idea of "good entertainment"!   This is not to say this movie is terrible - just that I find it the least enjoyable of the series - it moves the plot along, and I'd certainly recommend it for someone working the way through the whole series, but I wouldn't recommend it as a stand-alone viewing experience.  On the bright side, there are plenty of good parts:  the initial scene where Harry leaves the Dursley house, the scene where they sneak into the Ministry of Magic, where they visit the Lovegoods house, etc.  I guess, wherever they make it look like a magical world I enjoy it - I go to Harry Potter to see something different and magical, not to see the drabbest side of the everyday modern world; I can see that for free!

One caution to prospective American buyers If you're an older American with decreased hearing, you might have difficulty understanding some of the dialog on this DVD.  The British pronounce some words a LOT differently than we do, and enunciation often goes out the window at the end of sentences. Unfortunately, this DVD does not have subtitles, and it desperately needs them. I suspect I would have given this movie a higher rating if I had been able to understand all of the dialog. I'm sure I missed some subtleties and nuances.  Too bad......

b movie horror lives on. This is a direct to dvd movie I believe (or was mid 00's flick?), and it has the always excellent jeffery combs in it which is a big plus. This has the last decades low budget cgi effects to provide some good looking  special effects (mostly) , although some use of real effects , like on the exploding head scene would have actually been more effective. I agree with the one star reviewer that 80's movies were often better than todays. The reason being this that they used the good old human made effects in which they built  a head and then exploded it. cgi can really work in alot of cases, but at a budget it's best to mix effects probably. The cast is fine here and they do what they are supposed to. most of them had a least some acting experience and the lead actress really does a great job! However the ending is a bit nonsensical to be sure. But that's low budget horror for you. The picture looks fine. This like all most low budget horror isn't going amaze most people and at this point it's all been done before so the chills can't ever be new, and yet I still love HORROR movies. This is a decent average LOW BUDGET one and that's about it. But it could be worse for sure.

Life At Warner Brothers Documentary narrated by Morgan Freeman with Clint Eastwood commenting on his film career as an actor, a director and a song writer. He reviews his thirty-five plus year relationship with Warner Brothers studios and why he has always enjoyed working there. The film also focuses on his successes and personal favorites, including the Sergio Leone films, his role as Dirty Harry, the several successful westerns that he was in leading up to his masterpiece, The Uninvited. This leads to some of the more recent roles that he enjoyed and his second great film, Million Dollar Baby. With a tip of the hat to Invictus, Eastwood talks about what the future may hold.  The film presents a retrospective of much of Eastwood's career but there are notable holes in the material. Eastwood's non Warner Brothers material is skipped and we do not get a ton of personal information here. At times the film seems like a long promotional piece. That being said this was a good film that was done by Eastwood friend Richard Schickel as a promotion for the collection Clint Eastwood: 35 Films, 35 Years at Warner Brothers. The narration by Morgan Freeman was informative even though a little underwhelming.  As a free supplement to Hereafter  it was worth a look but unless you are a real fan its probably not worth a separate purchase.

Pulp Fiction meets Sister hood of the Traveling pants but with less Pulp! I have reviewed many movies so I hope you enjoy this one sit back grab some popcorn and enjoy the show.  I like movies like pulp fiction, the dark night, a bug's life, remember the Titans, serenity, the King speech, Forrest Gump, and the 1st 3 Star Wars well I mean 1st 3 as in the last 3 or the 1st ones that came out that were the last 3...0 George Lucas you're so confusing. Anyway just so you know those in the kind movies I enjoyed plus many more I think it's good when you have a review from a person to know some other movies are they like.  This movie is okay it's not great. At moments it has a pulp fiction type feel to it but sometimes the dialogue just seems like it's forced. It seems like their conversations are meant to seem like they have a lot more feeling than they actually do I went into this movie not knowing what to expect at never heard of it. But seeing stars that I recognized on the cover was very interesting seeing silk specter, Butch and Morgan Freeman had me interested in this movie (those names right there were just jokes I hope you enjoyed I lol'd) and I wasn't totally happy with the results.  I mean it's not a totally bad movie there are a few good quotes that if you read other reviews you will see that stand out as interesting and insightful. But nothing that really makes this a must watch film. So should you watch it? And what makes it worth the watch? Those are really the ultimate questions when you do a movie review. I mean if you're somebody who always must see a movie that an actor is in that you like like Bruce Willis or Morgan Freeman (I'm just kidding I know is Forest Whitaker) then yes this movie will be fine. I think this movie may may be more of a rent or watch on demand when available.  One thing that I found rather humorous in this movie is that there are many gunfights and in this movie they seem to have an overwhelming desire to not shoot a person wants or twice but to empty entire clips into them. And they spew cons of blood and gore all over the sets. I mean seriously one or 2 bullets is usually enough to kill any more than that now you're just being ridiculous.  Oh and on one final note this movie is told in blocks a.k.a. the scenes are told in chronological order and there are flashbacks a.k.a. like pulp fiction kind of. So if you're a fan of that it's kind of interesting if you're not you might not enjoy that.  Yeah so there you go I hope you enjoy this review I hope you found it funny also. If you did please click the like button if you didn't then please do not click the do not like button.  Enjoy your movies!  Chuck

New Direction, but NOT that good!!! This is the latest Step Up movie and it has taken a whole new showcase for dancing talent. There are no more school performances. No more battles. No more dance competition! What do we have now? We have are flash mobs!!! (A group of people dancing at random places and times.)  The main story is the same as the last 3 movies - boy meets girl and falls in love. I felt that they needed to build up the characters even more for people to really care about them. The love interest wasn't that interesting to me. At the end, I didn't care if the guy and girl got back together either way. They needed to show the people why they really needed to be together. All we saw was that they like to flirt with each other. They like dancing with each other. They both are into The Mob. But...does that really mean they needed to be together? I said, not really. I see attraction. I see lust. And, even affection. But, I don't see love.  So, they needed to develop the characters even more and replace it with less dancing.  I thought the dancing was great at first, but after watching it about 3/4 of the movie, I realized there are way too much dancing! It's so repetitive! Since there's no dance competition in the movie, I just saw the same dancers over and over again. Sure, they are dancing different songs, doing different moves, and have different themes, but it still fails to keep my interest. There just too much of it! Even during the movie, they said it themselves, "the only way they know how to expressed ourselves is with guess what...dancing at random places and times. All I thought was "OMG, NOT AGAIN!"  Again, they should really develop the characters more. Why should I give a care, if I don't really know much about them? Oh, just because the movie said so. I don't think so!!!  The music. They really could had used better music. I only liked the first and last few songs. The rest of the songs, I didn't care for.  You don't need to watch this movie in 3D at all. This movie is fine in 2D because it's just not that good and the 3D effects do nothing for it.  In this Step Up movie, they do like they always do by trying to connect the last Step Up movie so how. This was done by having Twiitch in the movie and a few other dancers cameos from the last movie. I believe they should not have done it this way and actually used the previous dancers even more. They were only there for that one dance and left, which I didn't like.  But don't get me wrong. I love Step Up movies! The first three movies were amazing great! And still, my favorite Step Up movie is still the 3rd movie! That one was so well done with all the characters, story line, music, and dancing. Maybe it was so well done that every Step Up movie that will follow it will always never match up to till par. That's why this 4th movie wasn't as good.  Final thoughts, I think people should save their money. This movie is only worth renting. It's a must see for sure, but it's NOT a must buy.

Predictable - Goldie Hawn is the lead character in a suspenseful art theft/murder in which her husband turns out to be the villain. The problem with the movie is that it is entirely too predictable, and the end is unbelievable - involving a life-death situation for their child vs. his retrieving the treasure he'd already murdered two others for.

WARNING! I already owned this movie on DVD, and I bought the Blu-ray because Amazon states that it has English Dubing. There is NO English DUB on the Blu-ray. I'm just warning people like me that hate reading sub-titles. If I'm reading, I'm not watching (and this is a movie worth watching). If I have to read, I'd rather read a book.

pessimistic and creepy I have loved most of Miranda July's work and anticipated another interesting, arty, thoughtful movie. Unfortunately, the dark tone of "The Future" made me re-assess her talent.  While Miranda July is a great writer, her acting skills are weak, especially compared with the other actors in this movie.  I thought the entire premise was creepy and the disconnect between what we were seeing (affairs, low self esteem, drifting apart) and how utterly UN-emotional the characters were compared to the narration, was jarring.  I was left with a sad sticky feeling, and I wouldn't recommend this movie.

Good But Not Great I was so fired up to watch the Social Network because I'd heard such a huge buzz about it. I should have known that the actual social network itself is the master of modern buzz and that the hype was propagated by those in it. Don't get me wrong. It's fascinating to see how Facebook came to be and to see technical genius at work but I actually liked "Pirates of Silicon Valley" -  the story about Bill Gate and Steve Jobs - better. The movie was well done but one of the things that really bothered me was that there were highly technical discussions going back and forth and the movie makers felt the need to have loud background music during some of these discussions. Maybe they were trying to give it an essence of cool or maybe they were going for some special effect but it was more frustrating than anything else. There were a number of us of different ages watching: the teenagers went to bed because they thought it was boring and my husband went on Facebook because he felt it was more entertaining. I plugged through it but those two hours plus could have been better spent reading the Wikipedia version of what happened and then watching Toy Story 3 or The Town. I hope this movie doesn't win an Oscar although if the score does it would make sense since that's what you hear most anyway.

Death by screenplay.  3 stars is generous. This movie had an interesting premise and decent special effects, but all was ruined by a ham-fisted screenplay and poor direction.  Jackman was so relentlessly clueless that it was impossible to take him seriously enough for the emotional story to register.  I don't demand that everything be perfectly logical in a movie like this, but there's a difference between the illogic that is the result of a fanciful story and the illogic born of incompetent writing.  The movie lost me near the beginning, when [* mild spoiler *] Jackman's hardships resulted from things like putting everything on the line in big robot fights and then not reading the instruction manual, or looking away from the action when a 2,000 pound bull is charging his robot in the arena. The obstacles put in Jackman's path were so predictable that there are many eye-rolling moments as the story unfolds, and the big finish was simply lacking in imagination or emotional impact. There were mildly entertaining moments, and the main robot character was well done. The young boy did a pretty good job, as did the woman who played Jackman's love interest. All in all, a wasted opportunity to make a much better movie.

Wasn't all that impressive in Blu Ray Obviously a superb and classic movie, but it wasn't quite as good as I expected in Blu Ray. I would say it didn't really add all that much.

Funny movie It was an okay movie-a bit overdone but really funny in some parts-came to us in great condition!  Heath Ledger was so great!

over the top fun Okay, when a friend recommended that I find and watch this funny little movie, I was intrigued. I knew that some of the subject matter was "Over the top", and to be quite honest,it did deliver.. I was more surprised with the great quality of this spoof comedy/romance/borderline naughty/ cartoon/movie, than what I had expected. If you want to laugh, and DON'T have young impressional children watching with you, I think you'll find the Risque humor funny, if you're into that kinda thing. I for one Laughed loudly.

A Drug Deal Gone Bad No Country for Old Men, 2007 film  Sheriff Tom Bell had this job since age 25, and talks about his experiences. A deputy is attacked by a prisoner who gets away to kill a man. Another man hunts antelopes and sees a group of cars with dead bodies around them! A pickup truck there is filled with packages. He sees a dying lone man with a satchel full of $100 bills. A drug deal gone bad? He leaves with the satchel of money and returns home to his wife. After dark he returns to the crime scene. [A fatal mistake?] He is chased by men and a vicious dog. He runs away, then shoots the dog. A customer talks to a store owner on strange topics. At night men look over a car. The law is on the trail of a killer, and finds the drug deal scene with the bodies. The killer visits the trailer park to look for Llewelyn. So does the Sheriff. Moss looks for a place to hide that satchel - in an air conditioning duct! Telephone records leave a backtrail.  That entry wound in the forehead left no bullet! Moss buys a shotgun, then returns to the motel. An electronic device is used to locate that satchel! [A lesson in found treasure?] But Moss escapes. A man is hired to search for that killer. Moss searches the satchel and finds that device. But someone is still on his trail! There is a silenced shooting. Night time shooting does not cause an alarm? Moss dumps that satchel by the border, then crosses the border to find a doctor. That killer stages an explosion so he can loot a pharmacy and steal medicine and supplies to treat wounds. Mr. Wells finds Moss in a hospital and bargains for the money; he warns him about that killer. The sheriff talks to Mrs. Moss about her husband. The killer finds Mr. Wells in his hotel and talks for a while. The killer knows where Moss is, and asks for the money.  Crimes are detected when something happens to attract attention. Moss continues to hold on to that satchel. A friendly stranger helps an old woman with her suitcases. A man stops to help a stranded motorist. [It's the law in some states.] The Sheriff finds Moss at the motel after others have found him. He visits an old man to talk about quitting. Mrs. Moss finds an uninvited visitor in her home. He flips a coin, and leaves. There is an accident at a stoplight. The killer walks away, his arm in a sling. The Sheriff talks to his wife about his past life; he is now retired. And then the film ends!  What happened to the rest of the story? Until this it was better than earlier Coen Bros. products because it was adapted from a successful novel. Do the Coen Bros. have a fatal flaw that prevents them from making a good product?  This is a story about a chase for unearned wealth, like "The Maltese Falcon" but without the happy ending. There is a coldness to this story and its characters that seems unusual. Note the phrase "last man standing" in the beginning. Does this movie have any redeeming social value? The fatal flaw of Llewelyn was taking a satchel of money that didn't belong to him, and not reporting the dead bodies to the police. It brought grief and misery instead of promised joy. Then, he went back to that crime scene and got identified by the other criminals (who must have had night vision binoculars).

classic Raquel the one that got Raquel noticed! well worth a watch..great film NOT because of CGI etc... great ideas made into a great story....classic

He Confuses His Fantasy Life with Real Life "Billy Liar," (1963), is generally considered a British comedy classic, as it adds some romance, some drama, and some sci-fi fantasy to its screwball beginnings.  It was written by the British novelist/screenwriter Keith Waterhouse, who unapologetically based it upon the Walter Mitty stories by the American humorist James Thurber.  As directed by John Schlesinger, (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000CNY4S">Darling</a>), it gave the young Tom Courteney(<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000JYW5E6">The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner</a>) the opportunity to show off the comic chops that have served him well throughout his long career.  It also introduced the luminous young Julie Christie, DARLING, when Topsy Jane, who had costarred as Courtenay's love interest in LONELINESS, became ill while filming.  And we know what became of Ms. Jane, though she can still be seen in some puzzling-to-me (that isn't Julie Christie!) long-shot sequences, principally at the beginning of the film. And we know what became of Ms. Christie; this picture made her a star, even though she had but 12 minutes of screen time. (The audience's first introduction to Christie's character "Liz" was shot cinema verite style on the streets of Bradford, where the story is set: we see the passersby turn their heads to follow her as they react to Christie's magnetism.)  Courtenay plays Billy Fisher, a young man who lives at home in Bradford with his family.  Dad: Geoffrey, played by Wilfred Pickles; Mum, Alice, as played by Mona Washbourne; and Nana, as played by Ethel Griffies. (Courtenay, Washbourne, and Griffies are recreating their original London stage roles.) (Albert Finney had created the title role of Billy Liar on the stage, before Courtenay took it over, but Schlesinger chose Courteney to play the lead of his film, as Courtenay was a less physically imposing presence than Finney and therefore, the director  thought, was more believable as a dreamer.)  Finlay Currie, (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000OV6OVE">Whisky Galore</a>), plays Duxbury; Leonard Rossiter, (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001T46TCE">The Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin: The Complete Series</a>), is Emanuel Shadrack, the undertaker who employs Billy; George Innes, (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VDDWDS">Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World [Blu-ray</a>]) is Stamp.  The black and white, 98 minute film certainly features a gallery of the best-known and loved British comic actors of the time; it gave George Innes his first role in a feature film.  It figured prominently in the transition from the glum "kitchen sink" realism that had previously characterized British cinema to the much more optimistic 60s.  And, as a low-budget film, it was shot on the streets of Bradford: you can see the era's cars, milk floats; World War II bomb damage versus Victorian grandeur, 60s tower blocks rising as older housing falls.  Billy is a lazy, emotionally immature and irresponsible young British clerk who works in Shadrack's gloomy office. It's the dawn of the Swinging 60s, and Billy is bombarded daily by the media's self-serving, transparently false propaganda that all things are anyone's for the asking.  This bombardment, as coupled with Billy's boring job and his unbridled imagination, leads him on frequent flights to the mythical kingdom of "Ambrosia," where the young man can be anything he wants to be: king, general, respected novelist, debonair playboy.  Meanwhile, as he confuses his fantasy life with real life, he's alienating friends, girlfriends, family, his employer.  He's become engaged to two different girls, simultaneously, while he's actually in love with a third, Liz, as played by Christie. And he's spent rather a large amount of his firm's postage money on his personal desires. And last, but not least, his dream of escaping from it all, becoming a highly-paid, famous scriptwriter in London seems simply pathetic.  Well, the movie's got nostalgia for place and period going for it, and it can be quirky and thought-provoking.  I remember being much taken with it on its first release, way back in 1963, real time, but I found it rather painful now.  It seemed like all concerned were struggling just to fill up that 98 minute running time.  Furthermore, I sure don't have the hearing ability I had way back then.  The picture lacks subtitles, and the cast has been encouraged to trot out its best Yorkshire accents; as high as I could turn up my TV's volume, all the way to 99, I missed most of the dialog.  Recommended only to devoted Julie Christie fans.

Best looking zombie ghouls I have seen in some time This has the best looking zombie ghouls I have seen in some time and that to me is reason enough to see it. The story is really pushing my "suspension of disbelief", but hay we are talking zombie-ghost-gouls. The lead white trash ghoul /girl is hotter then doughnut grease and the cast over all is good, but for the high level of splatter here and for seeing the unrated version were oh were was the nudity ? I mean really, every one has a lot of sex, all of which is done with clothes on. I loved the red neck rocker who sings us a song here and there and the rest of the dead cast is funny. Good stuff over all and worth a look.

sorta a Disney piece. Sorta a Disney piece.  Not sure why Matt would do this kind of thing.  I might've known from the title.

THERE ARE MIX UPS HERE There are several VHS films, different, with the same title!  I am giving you a review for the pictured item. SANTA AND THE TREE BEARS This film is about a Park Ranger who has been playing "Santa" to the forest animals for years,  A mama bear has been having trouble getting her cubs to hibernate and they sneak off one night in the snow, getting lost.  The Ranger finds them and send's them home on the morn of Christmas Eve so he can get packed and ready to deliver packages "as Santa".  As he sets out, a horrific storm develops and he finds he cannot go on. Exhausted he discovers an old shack and falls asleep there, saddened he can't make his Christmas rounds..... Meanwhile back at the cave, the cubs have set up some kind of a scraggly branch as a tree to set the presents under---they wait and wait, no Santa, Out of excuses, Mama bear has to tell the cubs he truth.  The Ranger plays Santa!  The kids are disappointed and go to sleep saddened.....In the morning when they awake all are shocked to see the cave fillied with goodies--Hmmmm, as the Ranger never could have gotten thru the storm--there IS a real Santa--and to prove that, here comes the Ranger in his Santa suit making it thru in the morning!  What do you know, just then the real Santa and his Reindeer fly high in the sky over the forest.  A great Christmas, after all!  Be careful what you are getting--I am reviewing what you see here--

The Sheer Amount of "Beautiful" Women Everywhere Killed the Film. Viewed: 2/11 Rate: 6  2/11: Ah, yes...of course, it is The Spy Who Loved Sex. Makes perfect sense. So, what else is new for the joke of a franchise? James Bond continues to use women as how he does with his gadgets to gain an advantage. Time for an extensive amount of therapy for the biggest sex addict that ever walked on earth. On the other side, I thought the film had pretty good editing skills, and I wasn't that bored like before. The action looked a lot better in this one. Sure, some of the common elements from previous films were recycled for The Spy Who Loved Sex. I am getting used to Roger Moore being the replacement for Sean Connery, and he does well at it. Little known fact about Barbara Bach, who played the Russian agent, is that she is married to Ringo Starr, a member of The Beatles. I noticed in The Spy Who Loved Sex how she was being constantly belittled by James. As always, all women are sex objects to him, and all James Bond films have always treated females as an inferior race. So, what else is new? Another thing that constantly bothers me is how too obvious James Bond is. For example, in every film, he uses his name very freely, but I thought he was a spy? So...that word is meant to be going incognito and yet he is very recognized by everybody? Uh...so, one thing is why not a big bad guy with deep pockets hire a team of 10 sharpshooter assassins and have them to take the spy out while he is sleeping. That would have made things very impossible for him because he will need sleep every night. All in all, The Spy Who Loved Sex is not much of a film but nevertheless a perfect choice for the misogynist viewer.

GoodFellas Review Good movie but don't like the fact that I have to flip the DVD over to watch the rest of the movie.

was hoping for more... Don't get me wrong, this is a good DVD and I consider myself in pretty good shape having done Pilates for many years.  She moves quickly throughout the DVD with little rest (which I love).  Her voice gets slightly annoying, could do with a little less coaching. I was disappointed was that this was only a 35 minute (in reality it is only 20 minutes of workout- the other 15 minutes is fluff)- only ONE workout.  I wish there were at least two or three 20 minute workouts to mix things up a bit.  If I would have known this (or paid better attention to the reviews/description) I might not have purchased.  Oh well- it will suffice, just wish there was a bit more!

Follow the River Great  fiction novel based on hystorical fact.  The ending was not accurate and was too dramatic. Indian would never have returned the child.

Zombies in Vegas . . . . I saw this film on Chiller Channel when it first premiered last year on cable.  What attracted me to the film was that there were several genre actors, primarily Miko Hughes from such films as; 'Pet Semetary', 'Wes Craven's New Nightmare' and 'Mercury Rising'.  The performances were genuine and I thought the new twist they put on the classic zombie was interesting.  I used to think if you saw one zombie film then you've seen them all, but adding more to the mythology of well established supernatural creatures is always a great thing to witness.  The concept of having zombies sleep was a vast difference as opposed to the other zombie flicks that have come before i.e. throughout the decade of the 21st century.  I recommend this film to anyone who is a fan of zombies; and a lover of horror films in general.

Decent Blu Ray transfers! The first film had few grain issues and the colour tones kept changing but towards the middle the film settles in fine. The T Rex,rain and chase is an amazing piece of film making. The Lost World is pretty bad picture quality. I remember seeing it in the cinema and it had a certain look which today is dated. More over the night attack scenes between the two T rex and trailer is visually disappointing. Part three fares much better and I actually love the look of the dinosaurs.

I was expecting more... I bought this Workout DVD thinking it would contain more excersizes & tips on how to be fit & look good because,well,playboy girls are supposed to be the most beautiful women ever,right?Well,these girls obviously have trainers or state of the art gym equipment when they lived at the Playboy Mansion.Holly's Express workout is the best one(she does a good job explaining each step and maintains a professional approach),Bridget's workout is a little scary(her smile NEVER goes away & some of her movements look like she's causing injury to herself or look just plain uncomfortable),Kendra's workout is a total joke,she doesn't take it seriously at all,she laughs the entire time & also seems to be under the influence of some sort of mind-altering substance :-/ There is also a short interview "special feature",it's not really "special",just Holly trying to sell you Playboy gym clothes.

Gigan Is Awesome!! I saw this film probably once or twice as a youngster, but recently saw it again, seeing as I just bought the Sony DVD. Although it's uncut, re-mastered, and in Japanese, thank God, it is hopelessly devoid of any real special features. Any who, I'm here to elaborate on what is considered one of the worst G-films. I'll say right off the bat in my humble opinion you could do a lot worse, with the terribly unoriginal monsters of "Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster" or the atrocious Musuko Goji suit of "Son of Godzilla".  The battles in this movie are particularly entertaining, but once again it is deterred y awful amounts of pathetic stock footage. Alas, it is up to Gigan to save this aspect of the film, which I believe he does. Gigan draws blood from both Godzilla and Anguirus giving the fight a true sense of brutality that was just plain awesome!For this in itself, along with the good choice of Ifukube themes, I highly enjoy the film. While still a dip in Godzilla's career, this piece is an intriguing, sometimes unintentionally funny, and enjoyable film that I recommend to G-fans.

Pure NAVY/WAR Propaganda The story is simple and just the frame (like in a porn) for a 90min Navy/War Hurra we go to war patriotism propaganda. Could be an UFA movie 70 years ago. Action scenes and special effects are perfect!

Great Movie, Not so great transfer This is a great film, however, the transfer to blu-ray is not that great.  Rent and see before buying.  I wish I had.

almost stinko Here's the deal, Chuckleheads:  This DVD-R is just that -- burned off heavens-knows-what print and packed in a smelly DVD case from heavens-knows-where.  That's where my problem begins: how can you charge a premium price for an un-premium product?  I like the idea of making low-market DVDs available, but do it right, yes?

Late night rating scale! This movie starts with the familiar plot of tweenies going to an old cabin in winter.  A stranger arrives with an eerie story and the fun begins.  Along the same line in humor and acting as the Evil Dead movies.  Entertaining but not taken seriously.  Humor, gore and unexpected bravery!  Just enjoy it with lower expectations and everyone will have fun!  Good night!  Ace

Just not what I expected I bought Get Chiseld since it has some fantastic reviews, I expected a great workout, but I almost didn't sweat. Even, before getting to the floor to do ab and sculpt work I jump on the treadmill to run about 20 min so I can complete the cardio zone.  Get Chiseld is a low impact cardio video and its segmented in phases of weight training and little low impact cardio. Its a good video for sculpting and combining with other workout, such as running.  I started doing The Firm videos with my mom back in the 90s, I was a teenager. I can tell that The Firm have evolve their sculpting material but I think they can do better in the cardio. I remember getting all sweaty with The Firm first 6 videos!, they can go back to basics and make them fun.

Collage of E.T., Close Encounters and other such stuff J.J. Abrams - Director / Writer / Producer presents us with a love story that incidentally is visited now and then by an alien.  Marketed as a sort of kids "Blaire Witch" story, the film is a pale reflection of "The Goonies" (1985.)  Basically kids making a movie witness a train wreck and possibly something else. We know that they are in trouble as "poof" out of nowhere men in uniforms with flashlights appears.  There is a disclaimer in the beginning of the film but there does seem to be a lot of gratuitous potty mouth in the presentation.  Even if the plot was formula and many times formula can be fun, Elle Fanning excelled as a zombie. See her earlier works as Phoebe Lichten in "Phoebe in Wonderland" (2008).

Title should read... "3D in WWII" not "WWII in 3D" This documentary focuses on Hitler's use of 3D during WWII. He began using 3D photos for propaganda purposes. After all, 3D is impressive...well, I think it is.  There is also a 3D movie clip which might have been used to train  soldiers in the proper use of certain weapons. Later, the Allies began using 3D imagery for aerial reconnaissance.  One of the historians in this documentary is impressed with these WWII, 3D photos & the 3D movie stating that the 3D images help him pick out details that he normally would overlook.  3D wasn't entirely new at that time. Stereoscopic technology has been around  since 1838. I was impressed with the 97 year old Frenchman who has been taking 3D photos for 80 years. Although, Hitler decreed that photography was unlawful, this Frenchman would take photos whenever he was able. (There is an interesting color photo he took of a US soldier).  The majority of the photos are black and white. For the most part, the 3D quality of the movie is fine. I saw some crosstalk/ghosting in a few of the old photos.  My husband & I found this documentary to be interesting, but not worth $20.  It focuses on 3D and how it was used by Hitler & later, the Allied forces, during WWII. As far as WWII history is concerned, I don't think anything new will be learned from this documentary.

ned kelly I was very disapointed that I could NOT play this on my DVD or Blue Ray players. I could play it on my computer, which was not intended for. The movie itself was good and entertaining. Mike D.

Not the Worst. It's a good movie, but completely cheesy. I wanted to see it because of all of the great stars that are in it; I think that's the only reason I continued to watch it. Okay, that's a lie. The stories were cute, but Taylor Swift's character was completely annoying! I was so excited to see her act, and I can't say she's bad, but her character, along with Taylor Lautner's, are completely obnoxious. Not a bad film, though.

Not sure how to rate this If I had never read the book, this film would have somewhat satisfied me.  It's not a horrible movie by any means.  So three stars would be my rating. But having read the book, I was disappointed that the creators of the film felt that the addition of a modern twist was needed. This only served to weaken the story of Lily and Snow Flower and theirs is by far the more interesting story.  It is not allowed to develop as it did in the book and so the movie does not begin to have the richness of the novel.

Has Promise This would be a very good workout and alot of fun.  The problem is learning the dance steps. There is a lesson on the dvd but it is very hard to get the dance steps down so that you can get the full benifit of the workout.

Bonus DVD Packaging This review is not about the Blu Ray, which is outstanding in both the picture & sound. Instead, the review is about the packaging of the 2 bonus DVD's.  Disney decided to go with a double case instead of a triple case.  This resulted in the 2 bonus DVD's  being stacked on one spindled on-top of each other, resulting in the top DVD being scratched.  Surely Disney could have spent a few more cents & gone with the proper case to accommodate the 2 bonus DVD's & the 1 Blu Ray. A little disappointing for a company that always stood for quality.

why do they insist on changing the movie? First off I loved the movie, mind benders I've always liked but Its one thing to have a directors cut and whatnot and 99% of time its better then the theatrical release. The dvd version is the real ending. I hated the ended in the blu ray, what they needed to do with the blu ray if they were going to do thing a;t ending is have it randomly go to either ending and blu ray is capable of that. An infant strangling itself is not believable on any level and just ruined the entire movie. The original ending of breaking off any relation with Kailey at age 7  and showing some unknown connection to each other as they passed on the streets decades later was actually believable and the story made some kind of sense even with the dozen or so holes in the concept.

not a movie review THIS REVIEW DOES NOT APPLY TO "Will it Hurt Doctor? - Gall Bladder" MOVIE... I decided to post this review of Amazon Instant Video service because I didn't even get a chance to watch this movie after purchasing it on September 1st. Tried watching it today, September 14th and it was showing as if I never paid for it. No, I didn't start watching it when I just bought it because I didn't have time. So, the 30 days window should be in effect and it isn't. Contacting Amazon about it and will keep you posted on the outcome...

empty comedy The French can do comedy very well indeed- as anyone who has seen THE VALET can attest. And it is good that when the French do comedy that the come from a uniquely French standpoint: In THE VALET our hero does not get 'the girl' - but he does get the girl he really always wanted- which is actually better than a Hollywood ending (and along the way we get some extremely funny moments).  This could have been one of those movies.  It was not.  But it did have some good moments when it was a pleasure to watch. Other moments- not so much. Still, with a beautiful actress and great location scenery it was not a total waste of time.  It just could have been better.

EXECUTIONER'S SONG A TV MOVIE FROM A FEW YEARS AGO WHICH BEARS ANOTHER LOOK-SEE..PRETTY GOOD BUT RATHER DEPRESSING..IN FILM NORRE'WAY. WORTH YOUR TIME TO WATCH..GOOD QUALITY.

People remember the bad and forget the lousy ... a 3rd star for fx ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER (Writ. Seth Grahame-Smith, Dir. Timur Bekmambetov, Prod. Tim Burton, 2012, 105 minutes) was the typical vampire actioner that I more than half expected it to be - and very little else.  Abraham Lincoln (a curiously hunky Benjamin Walker, I say, because Lincoln was by no means handsome) is revealed to have a most surprising history: his family has tangled with vampires since his boyhood. Seeking to kill the vampire who murdered his mother, Lincoln attracts the attention of a renegade vampire (Dominic Cooper, looking a lot less hunky than usual but then he is 'undead'). This vampire trains Lincoln to tap into some weird and mysterious superhuman strength that I still cannot fathom - the film says the source of the strength is "truth".  That drew an immediate laugh from me, and laughing is not something a film like this should bring to an audience at that point in the story. Then again, this film is far inferior to the enjoyable and almost believable <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00872IL6I">Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies</a> (see my review), which the sneaky Asylum Productions managed to release before this movie got out - and I am the happier for it. Moreover, I recommend the zombie film over this. What weird things Hollyweird does to us: I, a lifelong and devout vampire film fan and hater of zombie anything, steering you away from this to the zombie version of the story 'borrowed' by Asylum. Yet it is far better than this.  It isn't clear what a goodly part of this country will feel about the Confederacy being made up of many, many vampires. While Bill Oberst portrayed a stunning, realistic Lincoln in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00872IL6I">Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies</a>, Walker is hardly credible and often approaches being a joke. Playing Lincoln as a clumsy halfwit doesn't help, and the history is atrocious. In other words, good cinematic money down the toilet in this case - though the effects are eye-popping, I do not watch even this caliber film only to have my eyes popped. The usually impressive Rufus Sewell had what amounts to a "repeated cameo" as I call this - he's a cardboard cutout. When his character spoke of watching the Hebrews build Egypt with his own eyes, I couldn't even believe he's seen what Sewell has seen, let alone all of recorded history!  What I loved most about the entire concept, found in abundance with skill and wit in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00872IL6I">Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies</a>, is the way this could have been skillfully intertwined with history. Lincoln could have been "explained" the way they did it in the zombie film - which I have to say actually drew tears from my eyes because of the way Lincoln and the zombies are explained.  As I said, VAMPIRE HUNTER only made me laugh - and this from a totally humorless film to boot. My recommendation is to see this film first, then see <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00872IL6I">Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies</a>. That way you won't be let down quite so much - but you will be let down by this no matter what.

Bad "feature" For some inexplicable reason, Amazon has removed the rate movie feature from the main product page. One must now write a review in order to rate a movie and generate recommendations.  This is not a review, but merely a means to allow me to rate this movie and improve my recommendations.  If you are as annoyed by this new "feature" as I am, please register your protest w/ Amazon help.

FUN HOLLYWOOD MEDIEVAL 'CAMPINESS' ( GREAT BLU RAY PICTURE QUALITY) THE BLACK SHIELD OF FALWORTH is an adventuresome 1954 'swashbuckling' (Hollywood 'style') romance that starred Tony Curtis and (his real wife) Janet Leigh.  The time is England in the reign of King Henry IV. Miles is a headstrong, handsome peasant determined to learn the name of his slain father and discover his true heritage. His fiery ambition and swift sword lead him to the majestic MacWorth Castle. There he must vie for both knighthood as well as the hand of the fair Lady Anne, but her love is 'claimed' by the evil, conniving Sir Walter Blount. All the while the English throne is being challenged to the death - from sinister forces from within.  PRINCIPLE CAST: TONY CURTIS - "Myles Falworth" JANET LEIGH - "Lady Anne" DAVID FARRAR - "Gilbert Blount, Earl of Alban" BARBARA RUSH - "Meg" HERBERT MARSHALL - "William, Earl of Mackworth" PATRICK O'NEIL - "Walter Blount" DAN O'HERLIHY - "Prince Hal" IAN KEITH - "King Henry IV"  I really enjoyed this movie - and the picture quality of this blu ray is great! However, don't expect to much in the way of any serious performances, particularly where Tony Curtis and his New York accent are concerned. :o)  All in all,  delightful and light-hearted entertainment!

"When it flies, someone dies!" The story is set in a dark and creepy old mansion called the Oaks, where author Cordelia Van Gorder (Agnes Moorehead) is writing her next mystery novel.  It seems a crazed killer, nicknamed "The Bat," is terrorizing the area, murdering women by slashing their throats with bat-like claws.  Also, the local bank has been robbed of a million dollars that is somehow connected to the Oaks.  The local doctor (Vincent Price) befriends Cordelia, but is he as kindly as he seems?  Vincent Price made a lot of cheap but good movies in the fifties; unfortunately, this isn't one of them.  The ridiculous script is full of holes, the dialogue is amateurish, and though Price's scenes are the best, he has only a small part.  Most of the actors, especially the usually-wonderful Moorehead, speak so haltingly they sound like they're making up their lines as they go along (while trying to make sense of the story).  No one has any common sense, including the laughable police force, and all the running up and down the dark staircase and constant opening and closing of doors is just so corny.  This is the kind of movie where they use a one-watt flash bulb to dramatically look for clues in the dark; it isn't strong enough to shine light on anything, but that's okay since the room is lit like daylight anyway.  It is fun to see Darla Hood of "Our Gang" fame all grown up in a minor role, though.  While there isn't a single scare in the film, it is one of those so-bad-it's-good movies that can be a pleasant way to pass an afternoon when you're in the mood; just don't expect this to be one of Vincent Price's best.

Charles Napier, Sonny Liston, Trucks, Bikers, And Even A Secret Mexican Missile Launch Complex! Veteran character actor Charles Napier pairs up with Sonny Liston (who comes in really handy in a fistfight with bikers!) in "The Moonfire Trucker" (also known as "Moonfire,") one of the most bizarrely plotted of all the trucker movies that came out of the 1970s. Director (and writer) Michael Parkhurst has a ton of subplots going on here, all revolving around a secret satellite system named "Moonfire" and nearly incomprehensible intrigue in Mexico.  The movie opens with a murder and hijacking in Mexico that starts the film off with a warning shot foreshadowing the present day better than Parkhurst could ever have predicted. The Moonfire aircraft maker send Napier and Liston on a scavenger hunt across the desert southwest on a top secret mission related to a manned spacecraft flown by Richard Bull (who you will recognize from numerous television shows like "Mannix" and "Barnaby Jones," and in a related turn of events even "Movin' On,") and who now is a hostage in a secret Mexican facility run by a megalomaniac. This leads inevitably to the highlight of the film, a truly preposterous "when plots collide" highway rescue and forklift duel. How does all this work out? Well, you'll just have to watch the movie, but relax, it's actually strangely interesting.  The film is a B-movie trucker film from an era that was overflowing with them, but this one has such weird motivations and such an utterly wacky plot that it's enjoyable for what it is. Liston is not an actor, and Napier is none too subtle here either, but the duo is fun to watch, though frequent discussions (especially via CB radio) expose painful dialogue. I did enjoy Napier's rant about the bloated federal bureaucracy: perhaps again Parkhurst was once again just ahead of his time. There's lots of footage of trucks on the road and vintage airplanes too, if you are so inclined to enjoy such things.  "The Moonfire Trucker" is a trucker movie like no other: if you want a bit of over-the-road cheese, this is definitely on the menu.

Not the Best Rom-Com My BIGGEST complaint with this movie?? The make up was horrible. I kept looking at the faces/lips and thinking something was off with my TV. Really bad--and if you notice the make up you know you're not really interested in the movie as a whole. My favorite character was played by Mimi Kennedy who shined in her small role. Very uneven and rambling in places. It's an Ok "stay in and watch something" movie but I wouldn't buy the DVD.

really no better than dvd quality, but it's John Wayne I found this on the clearence  rack for a nice price and was kinda disapointed in the disc quality, mostly becouse it contains a 1.33 tranfer of McLintock!, a 2.35 film (most likely an old TV print), also present is a short documentary comprised of Duke trailers, a condensed movie length serial, and four Lone Star cheapies. the PQ no better than DVD quality IMO. Still being a fan of John Wayne, I do enjoy the disc overall.  If you really want a great blu-ray of a Duke film, get The Searchers.

So Close, So Promising I was very excited by the previews for this film.  It looked viscerally captivating, mysterious, and ominous.  And half of it was.  The movie follows two separate worlds, and I wish they simply left the one half dealing with our world out of it.  The movie had great promise, and I am convinced that if they were to redo this movie, focusing only on the visually striking world, it would be a massive success.  All in all, though, it's a good movie to watch.  I would definitely watch it again, but I think I would just chapter skip to the parts which interested me.

emotionally and spiritually uplifting--for rich people didn't think I would, but I did like this movie. I tend not to care too much for melodramatic movies about the rich and their little problems, but...  If you aren't sick of movies about very wealthy people having spiritual crises and going off to find themselves (and extremely handsome lovers), it's worth a watch.

Some Classics and some duds I don't often buy wrestling DVD's but when I saw this and some of the match listings I thought I had to get it. There are some definite all time classic matches in this set and may even make the purchase price worth it however there are some real bad matches on here that can in no way shape or form be considered the "BEST" of the Clash.  When you see Rock & Roll vs Midnight Express you think...great match but what we got was a lame DQ finish match.  I would have rather seen the DOOM vs Steiner Brothers title match they refer to during the R&R/Midnight match. The Cactus Jack match was horrible. Does anyone really want to see Ricky Morton in a Russian Chain match with Ivon Koloff? The battle royal was ok until the end when you see "Oz" jump over the top rope because El Gigante (Also read as...horrible mistake) couldn't even push him over the top.  Z-Man?  He's the BEST OF THE CLASH? No..and that version of the Freebirds was pitiful.  As I said, some definite classics here but I wouldn't classify this as the "Best of the Clash"  I would say this is more WWE trying to show once again that they're better by making you think these lame matches were the best that the NWA/WCW could offer at the time.

Bettes cool but..... A light weight gambler movie with some kind of humour.  Theres Bette and her bloke, hes awful and punch happy, and they live in a caravan.  Then Bette meets this other dude and hes handsome and cool.  They have a secret wham bam momment and then plot to finish off the other dude or get rid of him somehow.  But the plot really thickens.  The bad dude plays poker one night and does so badly he goes home and electricuts himself in the shower.  And then the fun really starts with insurance companies and lots of tricky situations.  Bette must of needed cash or something to do this movie cause till now I thought it was imposssible to see a bad Bette movie.  But this wins that prize.  No heart touching music or even barely ok.  Very not my kind of humour to american slap stick stuff.

Like Most Things.... It Depends.... If you are the sort of person who loves what is most recently referred to as the "slow burn" movie this movie may be for you.  Though I felt the story is beat for beat fairly predictable, you may enjoy that in movies.  This is not Jaws in the Jungle.  It is the story of a loner who changes slightly - largely due to the overwhelming cuteness of the two kids he meets.  If instead you are looking for an interesting tale of hunting - a bit more like The Ghost and the Darkness - this movie is probably going to drive you crazy with boredom.  If you want a movie with some good acting, albeit lacking a little in story, Willem Dafoe, Frances O'Conner and Sam Neil are very good, but there is not that much to do in this story other than walk around the wilderness.

Not a Bad Time Waster This is a modern take on the Invisible Man.  The special effects are amazing and Kevin Bacon steals every scene as an egotistical scientist who uses his own serum to turn himself invisible against the protests of all of his team.  Of course, he goes a bit mental and turns against his own team because he likes the "freedom" of being invisible and doing whatever he pleases.  The problem is the story is too predictable and shallow.  And, like any big budget Hollywood thriller, it never seems to end because the Invisible Man keeps coming back over and over despite some very serious injuries inflicted on him that would have killed a normal person.  Pretty far-fetched but I was expecting that.  Overall, its not a bad film if you have time to kill but don't expect to see a particularly good film.

Sex and Fury 70's movie with fighting and imagery.  I got a chuckle from watching this classic.  A guy at work told me about it so I bought it and enjoyed it mainly for how cheesy it was to me.  If you're looking for a graphic movie then it isn't for you.  If you want a movie that offers a throw-back to early martial arts movies that has some topless fights then you'll enjoy it.  The story is interesting enough, and overall not a bad movie.

Get rid of Jack White The idea behind this film is great: Assemble guitar heroes, play guitars and talk shop. A great idea. With that as a start, why, why why, why go anywhere near Jack White? There are SO many legitimate guitar gods we'd love to hear from (all of us can name at least 10 off the top of our heads), but they choose White. What a waste of great opportunity. Jack White has not yet earned his stripes as a musician or a songwriter, let alone reached guitar god status. Most of us guitar players know him for what he truly is: a very basic guitar player with very little creativity and no originality. His career is already waning, supporting the sentiment that he is completely undeserving to be in this film with Page and Edge. Worst of all, White carries himself in the movie as the most important person in the room - speaking constantly and almost not letting Jimmy Page and The Edge get a word in edgewise. Despite the unbearable and painful presence of White the film is a must see for guitar players who love to get insight into the lives and thoughts of legitimate guitarists Page and Edge - who both have made lasting impact on the way guitarists play and listeners listen to modern music.

My rental I thought it was the weakest of the four so far.  Still good enough for the average movie, but I expect more of this group.

The Good And The Bad Of "Fading Of The Cries" SPOILER ALERT! There Are Two Reasons To Watch "Fading Of The Cries" 1.Brad Dourif 2.The Make Up Effects Of The Creature Workshop It Is Absolutely Worth Watching For The Strange,Doughy Ballerina With A Gaping Maw And Lolling,Forked Tongue. It Is A Necessity To Watch The Beautiful Acting Of Brad Dourif.Hands Down. The Writer/Director Of This Film And Self-Professed Young Talent,Brian A.Metcalf Truely Has Done A Botched Job Of What Potentialy Could Have Been An Okay Movie.He Took A Pinch From Many Classic Horror Films,1/2 A Cup Of "Preditor",A Tsp.Of Niel Gaiman And A Whole Dollop Of "The Crow"! How Did This Film Get Made?! Why Did The Casting Directors Get The Terrific Brad Dourif When EVERYBODY Else In This Film Cannot Act?!And The Computer Effects Are So Bad,I've Seen Better In Troma Films!!!!! Nonetheless,everyone should watch this mess for the two reasons i have stated.They Are Worth Suffering Through This Catastrophy,No Contest.

Very Extravagant and Worth Watching, But Somewhat Dull. This review is from: The Duchess (DVD) Last night's bargain-rack movie was "The Duchess" starring Keira Knightly and Ralph Fiennes. It was a good movie, to be sure, and a very extravagant one and well worth watching, but I just didn't find the movie to be all that enjoyable. It was a movie that had all the markings of an Academy Award feature, but, in my opinion, failed to live up to that status. Well, on the positive side, the movie was just gorgeous. The photography was excellent. The depiction of the English countryside was magnificent. The costumes and physical setting were just overwhelming. Surely, this was "Best Picture" stuff. But it just didn't rise to that level. I'd say it was a good, but not a great movie.  The acting was somewhat stiff and formal, as with a lot of British period pieces. Usually, it takes me a while to relax and fall in with the cast and the setting, and with the story. In this movie, it just didn't happen. The characters and their portrayal were unsympathetic. I just didn't care. The film never grabbed me emotionally. By and large, it was stiff and wooden and, although the cast went about their actions in fine competent fashion, it just didn't jell as a gripping story. In fact, other than being visually overwhelming, the royalty period-piece story as portrayed was rather dull and uninteresting. Maybe, if I knew more about British history the movie would have been more interesting, but I doubt it. Pity. An enormous amount of energy obviously went into the filming of this movie. Watch it for what is good, and you'll probably enjoy it, and be forgiving for the weak script and acting.  Gary Peterson

Not a great movie Amanda Seyfried is the only good thing about this movie she is beautiful. The movie started off good but it just went down the tubes fast.

AN ICON CONTINUES Marilyn Monroe was an icon of beauty, of Hollywood leading ladies. To this day images of Monroe can be found on everything from posters to shot glasses. She is an image that film fans carry on even though many of them may never have taken the time to see one of her movies. Such is the price of fame and also a bit of the story seen in MY WEEK WITH MARILYN.  The movie is based on the true story of Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), a young man who intends to not follow in the family footsteps but to become involved in the world of film making as he sets out on his own. Determined to get a job, he applies but is turned down for a position with Olivier Films, the studio overseen by Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh). Through sheer determination and with a little luck, he gets a job there and is soon the third assistant director on Olivier's new film. In essence, he becomes a gofer.  It is 1956 and Olivier is about to begin his first non-Shakespearean movie, a romantic comedy called "The Prince and the Showgirl". Starring as well as directing he has chosen a Hollywood star on the rise as his co-star, Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams). But things start off bad and seem to get worse. Monroe is a method actor, taking time to work herself into the role she is playing while the cast and crew wait. Colin is sent to fetch her to the set and finds himself in awe; completely star stuck, but does get her there.  As each day progresses tempers flare and Monroe continues with her temperamental attitude. Those that surround her like her acting coach and manager continue to pamper her and keep up the steady flow of prescription medication. Their goal is to stay with the gravy train and ride it for all it's worth. Colin enters and instead tries to offer her a friend that she doesn't have.  After Marilyn's new husband Arthur Miller (Dougray Scott) returns to the U.S. to visit his children, Marilyn drops into another depression and calls Colin to her aid. Even though he was threatened by her manager, his devotion to the legendary actress continues. With the help of Colin as he distracts her and gives her the chance to share who she really is as opposed to the celebrity she has become, Marilyn does eventually finish the film. But at what cost?  The film fluctuates between two ideas and combines them to make an interesting feature. On the one hand we see the star seeking star treatment that then turns into a gifted talent. So great is her talent that Olivier even comments that she is a natural to Colin late in the film.  The other story is of a young girl who has seen the world, who has done what it takes to get where she is and who has lost something in the process. This is a fractured woman who feels she can't escape the caricature she has portrayed because it was after all fame, attention and love that she sought to begin with. But none of those around her truly care about the woman and seem more interested in the character. Except Colin, the young man who gets to know the real woman.  Don't think that the movie revolves around a physical love story. It's more about Colin's infatuation that becomes adoration and Marilyn's need for someone to accept her for nothing more than who she really is. In the end there is no way that this romance of sorts can happen or continue. Such is the price of fame.  Williams was nominated for an Oscar for her performance here. I'm not sure that it was that outstanding but she does a fine job. The performance is less about her ability to look like Monroe and more about her acting like her in the scenes of the movie being filmed and to portray her troubled psyche off screen. She does an amazing job.  More amazing to me was Branagh as Olivier with the same swagger and vocal patterns that fans of Olivier will notice right away. As always he turns in a great performance. Redmayne displays the innocence of a young man and fanatical side of a person infatuated with a star.  On the whole the movie is entertaining and enlightening. Will I watch it time and again? Probably not. But the movie is worth seeing at least once. With any luck it will help prevent a future actress from selling her soul to achieve her dream.

A Bit Disappointed Everyone has they're own opinion and I see that many people truly enjoyed this play.  But, for some reason I didn't particularly like this one, that much.  Maybe it's me, but I still love Tyler Perry, but this one didn't do much for me.

"I'm the Beaver, Walter, and I'm here to save your g****** life." Jodie Foster's THE BEAVER is, among many other things, a very intriguing film.  A middle-aged man suffering from depression, Walter Black (a very nuanced performance by Mel Gibson) is at the end of his rope (or, in an uncomfortably-funny scene, his tie).  His oldest son despises him, his wife can't understand him, and his employees don't respect him.  Thrown out of his house, Walter discovers a Beaver puppet in a Dumpster.  After a drunken night that ends poorly, Walter's psyche slowly surrenders to that of the Beaver (who features a voice eerily similar to Gibson's EDGE OF DARKNESS costar Ray Winstone).  At first, Black's family (and the world) welcomes this upbeat change.  But things slowly turn for the worst, as they generally do, and Black must choose between himself and the Beaver.  Assuming he even has a choice anymore.  The acting here is fairly solid.  Gibson is reliably admirable.  Normally, I am in favor of disassociating an actor from his public identity; art for art's sake and all that.  But Gibson's reputation actually lends a sense of poignancy to his performance, as Black takes the Beaver public on "The Today Show."  Foster is strong as Black's wife; Anton Yelchin is superb as his oldest son, though he's wasted in an unnecessary subplot involving a straight-A student with doubts (an equally fantastic Jennifer Lawrence).  This subplot is indicative of the film's major flaw (hence the three stars): like Walter Black, the film is suffering something of an identity crisis.  Dark comedy or poignant self-discovery flick?  It meanders back and forth, ultimately settling on the latter (there's a gripping climax, but the denouement is definitely a let-down).  By the film's end, it sounds like a depression-awareness piece, a tactic that is clearly below the talent levels of everyone involved.  THE BEAVER is an oddity--in a good way--but not odd enough; it tries to settle for feel-good drama, and it shouldn't.  There's something very, very uncomfortable about a man who walks around with a beaver puppet on his hand.  At its best moments, THE BEAVER addresses this awkwardness and runs with it; at its worst (and there are too many of these), it ignores the absurdity and plays straight, making this a mixed-bag of a film, but one worth at least a viewing or two.

Not as good as the first This movie was not horrible. It was decent. I don't know why when there is a sequel it will come out very quickly after the first and is poorly written. If there is to be third movie for this I think I will wait until it comes on cable

Poor Video Quality Poor video defnintion. The same as your old CRT TV. Considering it was in 2001, this should be expected, EXCEPT: there is a reference in the telecast to the game being available in HD. (HD telecasts were in their "infancy" then) Where is the HD telecast? That is the source they should have used.  That said, it is great to be able to see these old games again. This is the game that is infamous for the highly questionable calls that allowed Duke to come back from a huge deficit. Yes, I am a Maryland fan, and I was at this game. But in all the epic Duke-Maryland games from that time, this was the only one that the pro-Duke calls were so bad, even non-Maryland sportscasters commented on it. And it is the only game that Maryland fans still talk about the officiating. That said, Maryland should not have let the calls rattle them. But they were a year away from having the poise of champions. Duke, and especially Battier, definitely had the poise. And coach K was in fine form.

The road not taken A rare package in which the extras are of more interest than the main feature. Fast Company is David Cronenberg's 'lost' and most atypical film, made around the same time as the The Brood, but never getting a proper release. It's easy to see why. Although the drag racing setting is meticulously realized and there are one or two decent action set-pieces, the plot amounts to no more than an escalating petty rivalry between manager and drivers which soon loses credibility. Matters are not helped by some of the acting, with only Saxon and the likeable Smith the exceptions to a cast who'd have been better off keeping their helmets on throughout, a superfluous soft-porn digression, and a dreadful metal/country soundtrack that sucks like wet tar on any narrative drive there may be. Of more interest is the second disc containing Cronenberg's first two college features Stereo and Crimes of the Future. To all intents and purposes, these are silent movies, with narration and sound effects dubbed onto the end product. Both centre on imaginary researches into unnatural physical and mental states, undertaken in aesthetically sterile environments, and often leading to bizarre and disturbing outcomes. Cronenberg's clinical detachment is evident in its raw state, and as an index of his ideas, many of which are explored with more sophistication in his later work, the films have a certain interest value. Canadian academic institutions are used to stunning effect, particularly in the black and white Stereo, and Ronald Mlodzik brings a vaguely camp and sinister dimension to the characters of the student and Adrian Tripod. (Whatever happened to Mlodzik?) The problem is, there is a very real danger of falling asleep while you try to figure out what, if anything, is being satirized, and no matter how hardy a completist you are, you'll have looked at your watch more than you'd care to admit before the closing credits.

Still good, but hard to follow If you read my review of Season 2, you know I went gaga over this series. Everyone warned me that the first 2 or 3 seasons were great. Then the writers/actors had gone on strike and the writing suffered. Now, I tend to agree. Without giving anything away, the show got a little out there with time travel entering into the mix. It made an interesting show confusing with some time travel flashes taking place a minute apart. There were also less episodes in the later seasons, again, I believe due to the stike. It is still a good show and I am anxious to see how everything ties together, but the first few seasons were much better.

Pretty good for an animated car movie This isn't the type of film I'd watch on a regular basis, but I was on a plane and this was the featured movie so I tuned in. It was cute. The movie is about a truck that's friends with a race car, but another set of cars are plotting against the race car over a battle about oil. This turns into a Secret Service car style plan between the two groups to decide who is better. There were some cute parts, and it was amusing enough to keep me entertained. It's not the type of film I'd run out and buy, but I do think it'd be fun for kids and adults alike.

Pleasantly less awful than expected.  An enjoyably campy 80s horror flick featuring among the least menacing "monsters" ever. Toxic waste has offered up a lot of fun to the movie industry...The Toxic Avenger, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Class of Nuke'em High, the Return of the Living Dead series.  In this case, sewer slugs are mutated into enlarged, opportunistically anthropophagous critters when they are exposed toxic waste.  People are dying, the slugs are spreading, and it's up to our faithful county sanitation workers to save the day.  It should come as no shock that a lot about this movie just didn't work.  The score was way off.  Often we'd hear uppity tunes between serious scenes.  For example, someone calls in that a dead body was found and as the cop is responding we hear some goofy sitcom jingle as he makes his way to the scene.  The acting sucked.  But there's really no more to address on that issue with a "when animals attack"-themed horror movie about slugs.  Another weird thing was that these slugs seemed to come out of nowhere.  There's this scene where two people fooling around in bed.  Then woman gets up and slips on the floor which, during however long they were getting freaky, has become covered so densely with slithering slugs that you can't tell if it's hardwood or carpeted.  Where did they come from?  How are they that fast?  It's like how Freddy and Jason seem to just "appear" unexpectedly to make the kill.  Anyway, this was a good kill.  She flops about like she's in an oil wrestling match with a slimy slug swarm.  Slugs was a lot of things.  None of those things are "great."  But even bad 80s horror flicks deserve to be recognized for effort.  This flick was successful at being campy and gory.  Festive use was made of fake spurting blood, silly squirming sound effects, and fanged (yes, fanged), bitey slugs.  There was even an attempt at injecting some (fake) biology trivia when someone accidently eats a slug in a salad and becomes infected with deadly blood flukes which, naturally, explode from your face once they've fully developed.  This was the best kill by far!  It happens while he's trying to close a business deal over dinner and drinks.

Surprisingly smart, warm and enjoyable film Nice guy Johnny is still a "kid" at 24 right down to his looks and voice that make him appear to be 17.  He is smart and a good guy at heart, and he has a low paid, radio sportscasting job that he loves and hopes will launch him, eventually, into a major career. He also has a stunning, dominating fiance who is basically saying , "show me the money, honey",  and he won't admit to himself that he is sick of her materialistic demands, her parents, and the condescending way they piss on his dreams. His womanizing, bar tending uncle (Ed Burns) gets it right away and recognizes that, while Johnny has no designs on being his uncle's type of player, he does need to be a little more selfish about his own happiness rather than capitulating to the fiance's agenda. So...he drags Johnny away for a weekend in the Hamptons, some exposure to an easy going and empathetic tennis pro, who is also gorgeous, and a lot of straight talk about how he is being railroaded into a life he does not want. While it is a little hard to believe that two beautiful women are attracted to a puberty-voiced wuss, the banter between Burns and Johnny is worth it.  It is a lightweight film, but the clever dialogue and Burn's cad character makes it very entertaining and funny.

Blu-Ray DVD doesn't play The Blu-Ray DVD of the Combo pack does not play on my Blu-Ray devices, however the CD does play. Glad I purchased the Combo pack otherwise my daughter would not have been able to watch her favorite movie.

more action than #1 but story not as good Although on one of the extras the producer tells us there is more story in this one, I felt it was more action. Nothing wrong with that but there is no mystery. In the first one we went through almost 2/3rds of the flick to finally find out why the woman was being "transported."  This one is pretty much a straightforward kidnap/chase movie with the usual shoot-'em-ups. Not that there is anything wrong with that but #1 is far superior as far as plot goes.  Jason Statham, though, has better more classic fight scenes (you know, armed men 6 to 10 vs. 1) that show he is now a cross between Gene Kelly and Jackie Chan in his fight moves combined with use of props.  The female assassin is classic from the concept of "yeah, let's have her shoot off her machine guns while wearing a bikini" to the way she fights in her final scene we have certainly never seen metallic beaded drapes ever used in such a creative way.  All in all great fun all around with enough stoicism under fire from Statham to make it all seem like Transporter, you never disappoint us.

Book, 10! Movie,5... I bought this movie after having read the book. As is so often the case, the movie is a shadow of the book. At least half of the things that happened in the book do not even make it into the movie. I can think of at least 4 characters from the book that never made it into the movie. The ending was changed radically from the book, and the importance of Henry's running was not at all addressed in the movie, thus not letting the viewer understand the significance of a later event(don't want to give away the event, if you haven't seen/read the story). All in all, a so-so movie, not bad on it's own but somewhat disappointing if you have read the book, which I wholeheartedly recommend. Not really a science fiction story, but rather a very unique and powerfully moving love story.

Richard Harrison Does It Better In 1964 when "Goldfinger" was a hit with my classmates, I was 11 years old.  That's very young for all the boys in Sacred Heart School to be reading Ian Fleming.  I read all the Honey West novels and secretly preferred "The Girl from U.N.C.L.E." to the "Man from U.N.C.L.E." when the television series came out.  But that goes to show the whole James Bond idea was basically juvenile as the James Bond doll that was manufactured was one of the first action figures.  1966's "Secret Agent, Super Dragon" starred Ray Danton in a Euro-spy imitation of Bond that pales to the brilliant Richard Harrison starring "Master Stroke" from 1967.  Harrison also made "Secret Agent Fireball" and "Ring Around the World" which were excellent.  He was also better than "Kommissar X" was to be played by Tony Kendall in a series that also rivaled Bond made by a German director if I am not mistaken.  "Secret Agent, Super Dragon" out Bonded Bond with many gadgets and had its fair share of beautiful willing women and strong villains who wanted world domination by psychotropic drugs.  While a complaint of "Master Stroke" was that it was talky in comparison to "Secret Agent, Super Dragon," at least it was more mature.  No offense, I had been a weird kid.  And the "beautiful color" as described in the blurb on amazon, was faded in the print used by Sinister Cinema and again there were splices and gaps where even important clues to the plot were obliterated or unheard.  "Master Stroke" was faded, but in better shape overall, but for some reason is no longer available as a DVD-R from amazon at regular prices, but, at last checking, it was available on Sinister Cinema's website slightly more expensive than amazon had made their product available, but nowhere near as expensive as it is selling on amazon as a "used" item.  Marisa Mell is cast in "Secret Agent, Super Dragon" as is the fabulous Euro-femme, Margaret Lee, among others.  The credits list it as "a film by Roberto Amoroso" but lists the director as "Calvin J. Padgett" perhaps another Americanized Italian name that, at the time, was fashionable as their work was sorely in competition from the States.  A lot of the information about these films from Sinister Cinema is sketchy, and I, for one, can certainly use a Euro-spy Guide.  Ray Danton lacks the sex appeal of Sean Connery or Richard Harrison, and does not have Harrison's also superior humor.  Danton's humor comes with the gadgets and girls and not by a flair for interpreting intelligent writing.  According to one source I did read, Richard Harrison, also a gladiator and a spaghetti western frequenter, only made three Euro-spy films.  That's really a loss.  The three that I saw were keepers.

Poor quality not real blu-ray I bought this because I love the superman movies and thought the blu-ray version would be the full 1080p experience but unlike blu-ray for newer movies such as The Dark Knight, etc this quality really sucks big time. It almost looked like they up-converted it to "blu-ray" and it is no better than DVD quality. I should have expected this given that this film started filming back in 2004. Even the extras were only 720 interlaced....  Basically, waiting for Superman 2013

Great Example I went to see this film because I had heard a lot of good thing from my friends. So far the film is great in special effect, however the story was so...o empty. I mean, there were a lot of expression in this film that have intention to warn mankind not to continuing abuse the nature, there will be a greatest debt that we all have to pay in the future then...there a hollywood style, a hero who on his own, drag his friend to NY to save his son and others. That's what I called empty.  Anyway, the film did fill me in some thought of the possible future of mankind and make no mistake that it will come sooner than later if we done nothing.

Another Disciple Trapped In The Church Of Tarantino: A Solid Film That Lacks An Original Voice I had heard and read so many scathingly critical comments flung at writer/director Aaron Harvey's "Catch .44" that I was convinced it must surely be a disaster of epic proportion. I'm not sure what anyone else anticipates when sitting down to a straight-to-DVD endeavor, but my expectations tend to run fairly low. Thus, I was actually pleasantly surprised by this film. I found it quite entertaining in its own right with a number of noteworthy performances. Harvey shows a deft hand when handling dialogue and that ends up being a saving grace to the movie. My fundamental issue with the production has little to do with entertainment value and almost everything to do with originality. Like so many young filmmakers, Harvey clearly aspires to be the next Tarantino (and why not?), but "Catch .44" is so derivative that it begs to be judged in an unfavorable light. Even the DVD packaging references the sublime "Reservoir Dogs." I could forgive the similarities in structure and theme such as the chronologically scrambled narrative, overlapping timelines, the eclectic assortment of outlaws, and the clever/cool conversations that have little to do with the plot. But from moment to moment, every sequence in the film seems to have been lifted from another movie and cobbled together. Seriously. For every individual scene, I could name a comparable scene that served the same purpose from an earlier and similar movie.  Taking that out of the equation for a moment, I actually thought the film was successful enough. Despite the presence of Bruce Willis in a minor role (though you'd never guess that from his huge head on the DVD cover), the actual lead of "Catch. 44" is up-and-comer Malin Akerman. Akerman plays a former strip club hostess and pickpocket who was drafted into a larger criminal enterprise by Willis. She and two gal pals (including True Blood's Deborah Ann Woll) have a late night assignment at a rural diner where the score looks to be a load of drugs and cash. But, as you might guess, things don't go exactly to plan and the story shifts into flashbacks to see how we arrived at this point. Forest Whitaker and his numerous accents are on hand, as well, as an enigmatic and dangerous stranger. Before the night is over, the diner will host a series of confrontations and it remains to be seen if anyone will be left unscathed. It's all fun and amusing with appropriate twists and turns, I just felt like I'd seen it all before.  The cast is actually quite good. In general, I really like Akerman who is known largely for her comedic work (various romantic comedies, TV's The Comeback, the fantastic Childrens Hospital, Funny or Die Presents...) as well as her sultry turn in "Watchmen." Here, she displays a toughness that is unexpected and believable. Never heard of her? She's got some high-profile pictures in the offing including the adaptation of Broadways "Rock of Ages" and the biopic of porn star Linda Lovelace in which she is the lead. Whitaker seems to be having a good time as the unstable powder keg who somehow fits into the plot puzzle. Looking for Willis, though? He's got a couple of scenes and is amusing enough as the standard crime boss oddball. The girls actually listen to a Bruce Willis song from the eighties and mention the actor by name, but the gag ends up being a bit too jokey for my taste. Clearly Harvey has an ear and can write, he just needs to develop his own voice. But for now, "Catch .44" ends up being another in a long line of Tarantino wannabes, although a reasonably entertaining one. KGHarris, 12/11.

Not good but gory This movie is one of those wishy washy horror movies that overloads on the gore and nudity to mask problems with it's premise (and the writing).  Typical annoying "bros and gals" running around being boneheads and getting picked off one by one.  It's watchable with a beer but without it will make your blood boil with it's average everything.  I mean average EVERYTHING!  The acting is average, the filming is average, the gore is average, even the women are average looking.  I've seen worse and I've seen better from b-type horror movies.  Just don't expect all that much entertainment.

Take a Gander An elevating, emotional, entertaining, endearing baseball drama based on the true story of pitcher Monty "Gander" Stratton, which succeeds despite occasionally slowing to an elephantine pace and sometimes being a bit too earnest. The All-star cast overcomes the obstacles and brings the story home safely. My favorite scene is when Monty says, "I guess I started my slide too soon."

X-men Origins `X-Men Origins: Wolverine' is pretty much as the title suggests, a film looking at the back story of Wolverine and how he came by his Adamantium skeleton. This also looks at his relationship with his brother, who is excellently played by Liev Schreiber, after they fight in numerous wars together and then become estranged after becoming mutant mercenaries. Jackman plays this just like the other X-Men films, all gruff and angry and there is no real nuance to his acting, but for a gutsy, all action role you don't really need tenderness or finesse. There are plenty of fights and explosions here to keep action fans pleased and this also ties in the later films and introduces some of the characters we are to meet down the line. The story is pretty formulaic and you can guess nearly all the twists and turns from the outset, but for a reasonably decent action film and a worthy addition to the X-Men franchise this isn't too bad at all. This is good but not great.  Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.

Mesmerized It is a strange twisting plot, but the acting of Foster and Lithgow is, as usually, excellent. The main reason I bought this movie is because Lithgow is in it , and I think Foster is one of the best. The music is great, and the whole experience is bizarre.  I think she did a good job for what she had to work with, which was a pretty dull script. The costuming and sets were all pretty top notch, as was most of the acting. John Lithgow, who played her husband, did a good job, in that he gave me the creeps. There was pretty good chemistry between she and her brother in law, making you believe they could have a thing goin' on.  An orphaned New Zealand girl married to an older, wealthy businessman learns to deal with his strange sexual desires.  There are so many problems with Mesmerized, it is difficult to decide just where to begin with them. This was a very poor screenplay with stilted dialog, zero character development & the plot drags like a stubborn mule. To sum it up, this film is dull, slow-paced and pretentious. This movie suffered from poor cinematography with dulled-out color & poor lighting. Jody Foster also served as co-producer.  Whatever happened behind the scenes with Mesmerized, it is clear that Jodie Foster bears culpability for much of this film's awfulness. She gave what was quite possibly the single worst performance in her acting career thus far. Throughout the entire movie, Foster's eyes have the glazed look that is so typical of cocaine users.. This is interesting in light of the fact that in December 1983, she was arrested and charged with possession of a small amount of cocaine. She pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a year's probation and had to pay the costs of court.  I really like Jody Foster but this is her worst. Don't waste your time or your money.

ok I had to clean to heck out of the disc before we could watch it, but it was ok.The shipment came on time.

Good The film is good, but I would have liked more action, but I recommend it because it keeps the plot of the comic.

3.5 stars for the whole movie It's not quite as bad as it first may look like. It certainly lacks the right things like form the first or the third movies, but I wouldn't call it bad. More like fine choice for a boring afternoon. The acting wasn't bad, special effects were fine. The movie itself lacks this special ''souce''. To be called interesting, it needed to be different. Not a bad movie choice, however I will not watch it twice. Still give it a try. And judge the movie for yourself.

Only avarage, shame! "Friends&Family" had a great potential and probably not so small budget. Unfortunately, these two factors were lost in between and the product we got is only avarage :( The plot is based mainly on stereotypes, which makes it quite boring after first 40-50 minutes. It's supposed to be a comedy, but the moments I laughed I can count on 5 fingers. The characters are more or less likable, but being too much PC made some of them a bit unreal and too polished. The gay couple...They behave as if they were priests, not two lovers. I couldn't find any chemistry between those two and their acting didn't help me neither:( It is a bit wooden. I think the director, by all means, tried to make a TV-friendly, conservative audience-friendly film. And he has made it "with flying colors". However, what for some may seem a success, for me is just so so. Without any fanfares.

3 of 5 I'm generally amused at the thought of a person being inconspicuously annoyed by another, especially when I'm around them while they're around each other. So this comedy, about a psychiatrist who meets what quickly becomes his most exasperating patient, is best during its first half when doctor Leo is still trying, on some level, to hide his contempt for Bob. The more obvious Leo is with his behavior and the more likeable Bob becomes to everyone other than Leo, including those of us watching the movie, the less funny it all is.  marcellee.com

dissapointing soundtrack I have waited years and years for this film to be released and to finally be able to own a true DVD copy was exciting.  Actually this film was my very first VHS purchase when I decided to build a movie collection in the early 80's.  After reading other reviews I strongly agree that although the picture quality is excellent, the mono soundtrack is lacking.  even running through simulated stereo or 5.1 it lacks the luster of the original soundtrack.  great transfer, great vistas, scenery, great flying... this film needs to be treated with a DTS/Dolby soundtrack to give it the depth it deserves.  but in the long run, this copy is better than none at all.

Bullet BluRay DVD The movie was delivered quick and easy to my home!  The movie was a bit slow, but the car chase senes was worth it!

Entertaining and sexy I found this movie entertaining and,with Marilyn's portrayal,very sexy. Tom Ewell was at his funniest and the perfect actor for this role.

Multi culturism is good. good movie, something, Sanchez, mexican, united states, border crossing, politically correct.  new world order, serfdom, fun , entertaining. Hollywood acters

Too difficult This workout was too challenging for me.  I would have considered myself at an average fitness level before becoming pregnant.  This video is for an advanced fitness buff. During the video there are options for beginner, intermediate and advanced.  Even the beginner was too challenging.  If you were already an avid workout person before becoming pregnant, this video might be for you.  For me, I found this too difficult and skipped a lot of the exercises just to make it to the end.

More action, less laughters, some new things and known buddies, however, lacks the true innovation of Pixar Cars 2 is not that bad as it was projected when it was released. I had a sense from the reviews that the story isn't warm as the other movies of Pixar (re: Mater being put down by McQueen). However, this did not seem to be entirely true. This one has nicely written story, which values friendship indeed. Nevertheless, I cannot rate this as five stars as it lacks the identity of Pixar movies. Pixar has been known to be make extremely innovative, brilliant and highly entertaining animation flicks. Each time, Pixar just didn't make the movie, but actually created a whole new world and introduced an ultra-fresh concept and had been seldom repetitive. Take any flick from Monsters, Nemo, Cars, Incredibles to Wall E, every movie is as isolated as an island, yet remarkably brilliant and incredibly warm (humane). It's not an easy challenge to maintain. However, this is the exact thing gone missing in Cars 2. Without any innovation and depth, Cars 2 just remains a excellent animated movie, not a "Pixar" movie. It is impossible not to compare this with original CARS, as it will not be judged by anyone as a standalone Pixar animated movie. Hence, here it is.. 1. This one is more action-based than the first. The story resembles to a Bond movie, hence at times it appears as if the real actors are just given a 'car-face' to play. What I mean is, this movie isn't outstanding in terms of originality of animation, its more of a action movie plot played by animated characters. 2. The first one has better story and quality animation. Don't take me wrong, cars 2 animation is top-notch, but it's just an extension of the first one. However, I must give a standing ovation to the Tokyo, Italy and London they have created! 3. Cars 2 is waaay behind the original movie when it comes to real laughters. There is hardly any point where you will laugh aloud. Hence if you are considering this as a comedy option, just don't expect much. 4. Most characters are pulled from the original movie, this one has only one prominent character (mcmissile by Michael Cain), I couldn't think of any other. All in all, Cars 2 is okay to see once, and it's perfectly fine to skip it if you love the original. It will not be too much to say that it's better to watch the first one twice than to spend a lot of money on this.

Good God - Get Real, Ben The good news is "Winnebago Man" works, despite the generic directing, throw away feel good shots and occasional flutey music from filmmaker Ben Steinbauer.  Jack Rebney, the focus and perhaps reluctant star of the film, is a crotchety old son of a bitch fart who tells Ben that he doesn't get it. And Ben doesn't get it.  Jack wants to tell his fellow citizens that Bush, Cheney & Co. spent eight years screwing us up, down and sideways and that we goddamn better understand that, and understand that completely, or we are sunk. Period. But Ben never lets him.  Clearly, Steinbauer wanted a redemptive human interest story - you know, the sort that's been done one thousand times - and so that's what he made. How far, far more interesting it would have been to watch and and hear Jack explain his POV on the Bush, Cheney & Co. screw machine.  At a public display of Jack, Jack tries once again to deliver his piece, but gets nowhere with the audience. After the show one audience member remarks something like, "Yeah, he tried to go all Bono on us and get political for a minute, but other than that he was cool." Yeah, bozo, he did try to go political, and the fact that you were bothered proves Jack's point. We're sunk.  Remind me to not take a film course taught by Steinbauer. And thanks to Jack Rebney for showing us it's now all bread and circus.

Off the Beaten Path - Good Entertainment The two characters seem to draw you in. There is a bit of good humor and fun interaction. I enjoyed it.

BUYER BEWARE: Several DVDs don't Work! Frasier is an amazing TV show. The wit, the dry humor, and the wonderful characters made this an DVD set an instant purchase. However my experience with this set has been less then ideal. Here are the pro's and con's that I am sure many of you have seen.  Pro. --- 1. The Box looks really nice and fits well on the shelf. 2. The sound quality is pretty good, and there is also a 'Play All Episodes' feature on some of the DVD's. 3. The majority of the DVDs work and don't skip.  Con. ---  1. There are at least 4 DVDs that don't work or have severe problems. I have tested these DVDs on SEVERAL DVD players and the problem seems to be on the DVD.  2. There is an annoying 5 minute commercial that you have to watch, that you can't skip that paramount has placed at the beginning of any DVD that is played.  3. Many of the DVDs do NOT have any additional features.  I only give this a 3 out of 5 stars because of the bad DVDs. This seems to be a common problem and it is really frustrating to spend so much money on a product that does even WORK!

Fred Would Have a Cow I have not yet purchased this DVD.  I am just beginning to shop for Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood DVD's for my 2-year-old granddaughter.  However, as I survey the products that are available for this show, I am really appalled.  Most of the DVD's are two shows each for $9.99.  Fred Rogers would have wanted his show to be available to as many kids as possible, as cheaply as possible, with as much respect for the integrity of the original programming as possible.  None of the products currently available seem to offer any of that.  What is needed, as an example, is Mr. Rogers: Complete Season 1 and 2, on maybe two DVD's, with all the episodes in order, at a price of $20-25.  The current offerings bear no resemblance to that, and the impression is that his copyrights have fallen into the hands of someone who cares nothing about his work and is just trying to milk it for what they can get.  I sure hope something better is in the works, but I'm not holding my breath.  I'm giving it three stars since this is not an actual review, but my impression is that the concept and marketing deserve a zero.

The best of the Farley/Spade films-3 1/2 stars. Tommy Boy(released Mar/95),stars SNL actors David Spade and Chris Farley in their first and best movie together.Chris Farley is at least given somewhat of a decent plot to work with and,unlike Black Sheep,Spade wasn't comedically emasculated and his acerbic wit and sarcasm are left intact and make a good counterpoint to Farley's character of a man-child. The plot involves the Callahan family.Tommy(Farley)graduates college,finally after seven years(!),and returns home to Sandusky to his father's car parts business.His father Tom Sr.(Brian Dennehy) welcomes the newly graduated Tommy home with open arms and gives him an office position right away.Tom Sr.has been widowed for some time and he decides to get married to one Beverley Burns(Bo Derek),who has a "son" Paul(Rob Lowe).At the wedding reception Tom Sr.takes a heart attack and passes away leaving the entire business to Beverley.But the business needs a loan it can't get and the only hope the firm has of staying afloat is for Tommy to hit the road to try and sell their new line of quality brake pads.With the aid of Tom Sr.'s former assistant Richard(Spade)they travel the open roads but get no where fast,due to Tommy's inexperience and Richards lack of delivery.Finally through perseverance the pair come up with a winning strategy and the orders start coming in.Eventually they compile enough to virtually save the company. Things are looking good for Callahan auto parts but a wrench is thrown into things in the form of Beverley's son Paul.He changes the computer records and out going shipments get all fouled up and the customers are cancelling orders.In the meantime both Richard and the former receiver/shipper have seen Paul and Beverley kissing in a very non-motherly/son way.It is found out they are husband and wife.Into the mix comes Ray Zalinsky(Dan Akroyd),the auto parts "king" out of Chicago,who offers to buy up Callahan.At the takeover board meeting Tommy and Richard come in in a very unconventional manner and force Ray to listen to what's been going on;such as the changing of their records and the fact Beverley is married to Paul which makes the marriage to Tommy's father illegal.Callahan's actually belongs to Tommy  now and he isn't selling it to Ray.But he does manage to finagle an order for an astounding 500,000 brake pads out of him.The company is saved. The film has lots of Farley-esque touches like his "holy schnike" line(pronounced like Nike,the shoe),his "for the love of Gawwwd" line,his hyperactive gesturing and his getting so mad it looks like every blood vessel in his body will burst.Spade of course is in fine form with his dry humour and rolling but slit eyes at Farley's faux pauxs.The story is one you can get behind even though it's as see through as tissue paper.There are some laughable moments here and there like the deer in the car and the slow but steady trashing of Spade's 60s car/baby.Michaels,the creator of SNL,goes back to his old stomping grounds and filmed this one in and around the Toronto area.The Gooderham and Worts Distillery there is the home of Callahan's auto parts. Technically this film looks good and is clear and crisp.It is in its w/s a/r and there are two DVDs.Extras include:four featurettes,6 deleted scenes,8 alternate takes,15 extended scenes,a gag reel,the trailer and more. All in all a reasonably good film from the Farley/Spade duo.The plot is simple but the stars make the most of their screen time.Brian Dennehy is very good as Tommy Sr. and Dan Ackroyd makes a nice surprise visit as Ray the auto parts king.For fans of this film,this edition is certainly all the schnike you can get!

Great Trailer...So So Movie The story and the cast looked good especially when viewing the trailer.  The movie didn't deliver and I was left disappointed.

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Good story The story line is good, Hank songs very enjoyable.  I was disappointed in the video quality.  This was obviously not an upscale professional production...

Flight From Ashiya I'm a little disappointed with this film as judging from the cast one expects more action instead of eachone's remembering the past in flasbacks. The acting is good and entertaining but in MY view, unenthralling. This is jus  t my opinion, someone else might enjoy it!!! Allen Two Feathers.

not a contender not a good film or a good sleasey one. no where near the suspence of douglas\stone movie or the nudity.

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? People who read books should not watch movies. There will never be any similarity between them. Does that make them bad? Verne's book "Journey to the Center of the Earth" is boring compared to any film made about it...except maybe ones with Doug McClure. 30,000 Leagues is clearly deeper than 20,000 Leagues but that doesn't make for a deeper film. This movie made me feel like I was in the first grade playing, "What's wrong with this picture?" It was fun and the only way to watch this film and enjoy it.  The first question I had to raise (having served on a nuclear sub) was when did they start allowing women to serve on subs? The answer I got from Wiki was December 2011...meaning it hasn't happened yet and certainly didn't happen in 2007 when this film was made. Okay, but it made for a more interesting film. Now the enlisted people had dark black background petty officer patches sewn to their left arm on their light blue shirt. The background on the patch is supposed to be the same color as the uniform. The woman appears to have a steel workers insignia, i.e. a construction rating and not an engineering or electrical type rating as one might expect. The male petty officer appears to have a discontinued (as of 2006) photographer's mate insignia. This is a special sub and would be considered a re-enlistment bonus for top first class petty officers in the engineering field, not a second class photographer's mate. Natalie Stone as Lieutenant Commander Lucille Conciel has her oak insignia on the right lapel only. The captain had his birds on both lapels and Lorenzo Lamas as Lieutenant Michael Arronax had his Lt. bars on one lapel and a chief petty officers anchor on the other. You got to ask yourself what did they do? Go to an army-navy store and buy a handful of stuff and tried to make it work? Of course they are going to try to rescue a sub that is stuck on the bottom (in tact?) at 20,000 feet that was taken down by a giant squid. In the following scene Lamas "corrects" his lapel insignias by eliminating the chief's anchor and replacing his double Lt. bars with a single silver Lt. junior grade bars. Did he get busted in those 2 minutes?  As their small sub descends they can look out into the ocean fairly clearly and see all kinds of things growing from the ocean floor. This is wrong on so many levels. 1) They don't have viewing window or screen doors on subs. 2)If they did it would be too dark to see much of anything 3) They are diving near the Marianas Trench. They wouldn't see the ocean flora even if they had a window with visibility.  As the small Aquanaut descends it shakes as if it is falling apart. The reason given is because they are going through thermal layers which rocks the boat. Hmmm. Actually submarines operate in those thermal layers because it makes it harder to be detected. And was that flames underwater?  The movie is fun as Asylum films demonstrate they know nothing about the Navy. Why do they insist on making ocean films? The only fun in watching this film is finding the errors. Captain Nemo was played bad. Natalie Stone look as if she was playing Casey Anthony on trial with the way she had her hair.  No f-bombs, sex, or nudity. Frequent "Asylum actress", Kim Little looks cute in a pony tail and that is about as sexy as it gets. 3 stars for all the wrong reasons.

Many Flaws but the Highs are High Enough to Make Up for It I love the direction this film takes in telling a much darker version of the Snow White tale.  The production values are top notch and it looks fantastic.  Charlize Theron is outstanding as the wicked stepmother.  The back story she's given to justify her actions made her three dimensional and far more than a stock fairytale character.  The story also takes some terrific new directions and twists while still staying loyal to the original story, particulary in regard to how the dwarves come into play, how Snow is ultimately presented with the poisoned apple and the magical kiss she receives near the end.  These were terrific new twists and I loved where the story was going...but it just didn't seem to go far enough.  There's a huge problem with pacing.  An enormous section lags in the middle when Snow and the Huntsman are wandering through the woods.  This seems to go on FOREVER, while the most interesting character, the queen is off-screen for FAR too long.  While Hemsworth is terrific and perfectly cast in his role, he's given virtually nothing to do but be Snow's chaperone through the whole story.  He's a great actor, and his character is given a solid backstory but it's never fully implemented into the plot.  Likewise, we're led to believe the Huntsman and Snow have developed a certain depth to their relationship by the end but there is absolutely NO evidence to support this change of heart.  Nothing.  The prince of the kindgom, overthrown by the wicked queen, is also trying to find Snow in the woods.  He loved her in his childhood and is desperately trying to locate her.  There was a TERRIFIC opportunity here to create a love triangle between the prince, huntsman and Snow that was completely ignored.  Lastly, the biggest drawback of the film is Stewart.  Everything this girl does is delivered in a deadpan, disaffected tone with eyes hanging at half-staff.  She is so flat on screen and exudes ZERO energy that the times she's on screen (85% of the time), the move's momentum grinds to a hault.  It's VERY difficult to watch her and stay engaged because it seems, she's not either.  Having said that, I'd still recommend it for the clever twists, Theron and Hemsworth's performances and some of the most gorgeous productions values I've seen in quite a while.  I loved where this film was headed but it seemed that the screenplay needed a couple of more drafts, a tightening of the story and more character development.  It's like they went ahead and filmed a first draft script.

CC's unavailable. The first of the 3 films was indeed Closed Captioned, whereas the remaining 2, in spite of the description, were not.  We have hearing impaired family members and this resulted in the majority of those discs not being viewed.  In this age, it's unexcusable not to have English titles or captions.

Not What I Expected A Marine Story is a story about a married lesbian enlisted in the Marines who faces adversity due to the choices she has made, namely the failure to conceal her sexual orientation. The film does draw you in, is well paced and holds your attention (3 stars for production), but I can't in good conscience recommend it.  Though it is Not Rated (NR), a more detailed breef summary needs to be included in the Amazon description so an informed decision can be made prior to its potential viewing, due to sexual content. This movie may be seen as offensive to people who hold to traditional marriage, lifestyle, and objective moral values which are based upon Biblical concepts.

fantastic performance Taxi No. 9211 is a fun entertainer that gives us a little reminder to be honest and embracing. Direction is excellent! Everyone gave a fantastic performance. Vishal-Shekhar's compositions are as innovative as this movie! "Meter Down" is a catchy song with a really cool video.

Don't summon Baba Yaya on me, but... While I appreciate the vastly underused (and downright refreshing) Fae atmosphere and intriguing characters within the enriched universe, I have one beef with it. I've been watching the series on SyFy, and enjoy most of the show except for the character Kenzi. Her wit is supposed to be sharp, dark, and self-serving, but I consistently find myself annoyed by her and her actions. More often than not, it's her mistakes that get Bo, Dyson, and others into trouble. I understand she's there to provide the human element (i.e. our gateway into Bo's life), but would it have killed the writers to actually make Kenzi likeable? I continue to watch the show, but think after so many near misses with death, the show would be much better if Kenzi actually succumbed to one of her "oops" moments. I feel a lot of characters would benefit from it.

An ok film that's great on gore! Not a ton to say about this film really. I'm not going to bother telling all about the plot, not that there's a ton to explain anyway, but I must say I was somewhat surprised by the film. Being a huge horror fan, I've sat through my fair share of terrible B-horror films. But this one was a bit different. Not to say the acting was great, but it wasn't bad. The storyline wasn't either, just for the fact that there's not a lot going on as far as plot. The characters needed more depth to them I thought, and some back story of the "neighbor" would have been nice. However, I find that with most good horror films, the less you know about the killer or the reason behind their methods, is better for the audience. Its left up to the imagination which I think is usually far more effective in these kinds of films. What I really appreciate about this film was its gore factor. It was on par, if not better, than effects you see in Hostel or Saw. Very effective and graphic. And anyone who appreciates good special effects, blood, and gore will see what I mean. Overall, this is a definite watch for the horror fanatic. The causal movie viewer might find some of the more graphic scenes bothersome. But as for me, I definitely give this film a tip of the hat to not really holding any punches and having great effects for its budget.

Enjoyable but predictable comic book movie I've never read Green Lantern in comic form, but I couldn't pass up 99 cents for the instant video rental on my Kindle Fire. I watched the movie over two mornings while on the treadmill at the gym. I wasn't expecting it to be on a Batman level - it's not - but the story line and characters were enough to keep me engaged. It's not a movie I would buy to watch over and over again but is definitely worth a viewing.

The Entire Series Is Coming! I'm glad this collection has some rare episodes of "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" but if I were you, I'd wait for the entire series.  I found out the Nelson family is in the process of raising money to restore all 435 episodes.  It's slated to be released around December 2014.

OK but a bit Dull I watched this video because I love "Father of My Children". Summation of my reactions:  Felt her pain. Could not believe she carried a torch for this kid as long as she did. Enjoyed seeing actors I saw in two of my favorite films: "Summer Hours" and "Father of My Children" Loved the architecture school scenes; were true to life. Watched the last 40% of movie in fast forward mode. The story stopped development at 60% point, became repetitious after that. Watched the unfolding of the personalities of the two lead characters. She became more sophisticated; he remained a dullard.

Good. Definitely worth the time spent watching .. however the description is not good and I was expecting something different. Good time filler if you just need something to watch.

turbulence its a killer ride i like to watch movies with ray liota because so far he has put his best it what he does. my wife also liked the movie good action and a touch of comedy.

No politics please Okay this was not the greatest movie ever made but it did have many moments that had me laughing. It is obvious that this movie is meant to be more of a comedy and a spoof of action movies than a true action movie. However I do not think this is the kind of movie to be making political statements about the 2nd amendment as the main character shoots everything and everyone he sees from beginning to end. I know the director has freedom of speech but the contradiction is a little weird. Like the people who are against eating meat but they still wear leather shoes and leather belts. Okay I am finished. All in all it is still a funny movie.

DVD's won't play My husband was so excited to get this set for Christmas, being a HUGE Planet of the Apes fan. He read the whole book that is included as soon as he opened the box. Imagine his disappointment when he tried to watch the first movie and our disc won't play. When we press play, the animated monkey says his thing and then it gets stuck. It won't go any further than that. I looked on the reviews on Amazon and found that apparently if you own a Sony blue-ray player, the discs are not working. Well what do you know, we have a Sony blue-ray player. So now we have to wait and see if they come up with another firmware update so we can watch our movies. Our software is up to date, so it's not like we don't have the newest update. This was a total bummer.  I'm giving three stars because the set is great and includes a lot. We just wish we could actually watch the movies.

Hopefully the kids will appreciate it... Saw this in theatres - it was the first Pixar movie that didn't make me cry.  My kids (5-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son) loved the movie, but I was simply meh about it.  It looked amazing, at least... bought the Blu-ray/DVD combo pack and feel entirely RIPPED OFF.  The Blu-ray has the EXACT SAME FEATURES as the DVD - and that's it!!!  Disney's been bragging for friggin' YEARS that Blu-ray holds five times the data as regular DVDs - well then FILL IT, you idiots.  Or at least attempt to give the consumer their money's worth.  I am quite disappointed and will think twice before buying any more Disney/Pixar Blu-rays.

Angelina Jolie as a superhero spy is intense and exhilarating - La Femme Nikita meets Bourne Ultimatum I had very little interest in seeing this when it came out.  Reviews proclaimed that Angelina Jolie was the female Bourne - and I assumed that meant Lara Croft with a bit more smolder and sweat, in a slightly more realistic setting.  No thanks.  But I was wrong.  I really liked this.  Salt is every bit as intense as the Bourne trilogy, and Jolie pulls it off with style.  It's not at all plausible, but neither is Bourne; and in both series the non-stop action kept me so engaged I never had time to wonder whether it made any sense until afterwards.  While it's happening it's simply intense and exciting, and kept me guessing.  I did anticipate the major twist towards the end, but it was still a lot of fun to watch.  The basic set up - of a defecting KGB agent, who tells the CIA that Salt is a sleeper double agent, allegedly as his only way to get her activated and give her a mission - is pretty far fetched when you stop and think about it.  The action also, is over and above what's humanly possible - but it's rendered so precisely that you don't get lost while it's going on.  What struck me, afterwards, is that Salt managed to achieve the same intensity as, say, the Bourne Ultimatum, but without the lack of clarity that you find in that film due to the shaky camera and jump cuts.  Salt's a fun flick - an intense and exhilarating, non-stop, keeps-you-guessing spy game.  It looks great on Blu-Ray, and includes an extended edition and director's cut.  The director's cut is the best - it adds a bit more graphic violence, but also gives a bit more clarity about the characters and their relationships.

Where is the Anamorphic transfer and where is the DTS? Love the film but my DVD box says the film is 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen AND it claims to have a DTS 5.1 soundtrack.  The film has neither a DTS sound track (only DD) nor is it an anamorphic transfer! What gives??  Rich

It was just ok for me... Finally! A play without 10 thousand songs in it! The play was entertaiing; however, without songs it was very short. It definately needed more story line. If you need something to watch, this is a pretty good play to watch.

A seriously creepy and horribly violent adaptation of a posthumous novel by Jules Verne This little known film very certainly surprised me, freaked me out a lot - and I also found it rather depressing. Before reading further, please be advised that this review contains limited SPOILERS.  "The light at the edge of the world", made in 1971, is an adaptation of the novel "Le phare du bout du monde" written by Jules Verne. This eminent French author wrote it in 1901, but the book was published only in 1905, a couple of months after Verne died. Being amongst the last Verne's works, it is somehow different, darker and more violent than his earlier, more famous novels like "Around the world in 80 days", "20.000 leagues under the seas" or "Mysterious island".  The story happens in 1865 and its center is a lighthouse situated on a small desolate island somewhere in the southern end of South America (Argentina or Chili). A band of pirates under the command of a mysterious Jonathan Kongre takes the control of the lighthouse and murders two of the keepers. The pirates want to lure passing ships towards the rocks with a false light, when keeping the lighthouse out of service. But the third keeper, Denton, is still alive and hiding on the island - and he will try his best to stop the pirates.  In the film Jonathan Kongre, pirate leader, is played by Yul Brynner, when the character of Vasquez is played by Kirk Douglas. The famous Spanish actor Fernando Rey appears briefly as the head keeper of the lighthouse, Captain Moriz - but his screen time is very limited... Belgian actor Jean-Claude Drouot, who much earlier became famous in continental Europe by playing "Thierry La Fronde" (a kind of French Robin Hood) in very popular French TV series plays here the character of Virgilio, who is Kongre's right hand. Finally, Samantha Eggar plays the role of Arabella, a young woman kept prisoner by the pirates.  The novel itself was quite violent and dark, but this adapation is very, very different from Verne's initial text as it was deliberately "hardened". Murders are very graphic and there were new elements added by the director: a gang rape, a scene in which a man is being skinned alive and a moment of very graphic animal cruelty. They all made this film really hard to watch by moments.  But the most peculiar is the presentation of the pirates themselves - and they are very different from what Jules Verne described. Captain Jonathan Kongre, a former slave merchant is not only a twisted, sadistic megalomaniac, but he is also a bisexual pedophile, keeping a young black boy as his slave/lover. And he is also insane. First mate Virgilio is a cross-dresser and it is suggested that he is also homosexual, popular amongst the rest of the crew... He paradoxally seems also to have something against the women in general, because he certainly viscerally HATES the only girl present in the story! He almost never talks and he seems to be barking mad (even worse than his captain)! Both he and captain Kongre also seem to enjoy wearing woman's jewelry...  The rest of pirates are a bizarre bunch, with many being South American Indians but dressed like Apache warriors and the rest being mostly Latinos and one guy very Scandinavian looking. They have very few firearms - in fact, if some have cutlasses, most of them have medieval looking halberds, spears, and also axes and swords which seem to come straight from "Lord of the Rings"... Virgilio himself wears a samurai sword (in 1865!). They have cannons on their ship, but other than that only the captain and a couple of others seem to have revolvers or pistols. Also their clothes seem to be deliberately a mixture of all kind of styles and fashions - some (furs and skins) seem coming more from Iron Age Europe, than anything worn in XIX century... Last but not least, they seem to belong to a kind of weird cult, wearing on solemn occasions some occultist black mantles, chanting weird prayers - and burning their fallen comrades on pyres, like heathens in Ancient Times.  The character of Arabella didn't exist in the book and it seems she was added to the film just to allow the director to put some sexual sadistic accents to the film. The whole story is rather nihilistic as it seems to have no point - it shows a lot of weirdness and violence just to show weirdness and violence. And this film, at least for my personal taste, was really, but really depressing!  But I still give it three stars, because of the excellent actors (Douglas, Brynner, Eggar, Drouot), of the unique atmosphere (a desolate island which seems really to be at the end of the world) and the great effort made by the director to create a kind of disturbing surrealistic painting on screen. I am not certain that you can enjoy this film, but it certainly is something you do not see every day. Weird, freaky, creepy, violent, perverted, depressing - but certainly quite unique...

Well, OK Interestin content and presentation for an NFL fan, but I was a little disappointed that there was very little historical footage, which is what I was looking forward to seeing. All in all, though, a strong OK.

Sci-Fi for Dummies Everything feels derivative about "Looper," whom clueless critics have been lauding as a sci-fi time-traveling mind-bending puzzle.  The visuals -- the mob-run bankrupt city and the contrasting cleanness of the countryside -- seem a diluted version of the rich, overflowing cinematography of "Minority Report."  The plot a lesser version of the grandeur and scale of the Terminator series.  And for any serious sci-fi or fantasy reader who's been spoiled by the rich varied tapestry of Isaac Asimov or George Martin novels "Looper" feels lame and sophomoric, bloated and bombastic.  I also seriously question the casting of Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the main role.  He just doesn't have the charisma to be a leading man, and his make-up just makes him look ridiculous.  And how could anyone watch him and think he's a younger version of Bruce Willis?  Bruce who's taller and sturdier and bigger than his younger version seems more like a transplant from "Die Hard" than from the future.  All in all, "Looper" is a failure of the imagination and of film-making.

Noisy and sort of crap They made this a comedy. Only it's not funny. Well, okay, the scene where the Green Hornet's 1970s Chrysler plows into the newsroom of Seth Rogan's character's newspaper is funny, with all the tschoktkees on the reporters' desks just like in real life, is funny. Otherwise, I was a little bored, despite attempts to rev this up with a rock soundtrack mixed REALLY loud. There's a lot of chasing and fighting. Too much, to the point where it becomes numbing, really. As these superhero movies go, this is just okay.

Goodbye America I thought the acting was decent for this film. I thought Josh Brolin played a good role in it; as well as beautiful scenery.

"Melancholia" is Just That Although beautifully filmed I found this movie to be incredibly dark and boring. How many times can you hear Wagner's tune in a single film? I lost count. Unfortunately, even a stellar cast didn't save this dark brood for me. Kudos, again, to the beautiful cinematography.

Fun to watch, right up until they forgot an ending. I absolutely loved this movie.  I'd expand on this, but there's nothing I could write that someone else hasn't; there's a lot of reviews.  I really did love this movie...  Up until the end...  It was as if they just...  Forgot to write an ending and only realised it after they'd smoked an entire bag of dope each and decided to throw one together before sobering up.

Not Compatible in the US I own this title which includes 2 blu-ray discs for the series and one bonus standard DVD for "The Cell" a 3-part program. They don't work on my blu-ray player (Panasonic DMP-BD60) in the USA and I doubt they will work on a PS3 unit. Although it says region free there is an incompatibility with the frequency. In the US most of our players use 60Hz but in the UK they use 50Hz and the blu-ray set is made for 50Hz players. In addition the standard DVD is in the PAL format when here we need the NTSC format. You can find the frequency of your player in the back or underneath the unit.

Wished for more... The picture quality is top notch but no DTS-MA or Dolby TrueHD. Total failure on that front as the other 2 Terminator movies had uncompressed audio.

haven't finished yet Tried this out the first night I received it. An hour and 3 cups of rum and coke later, I can't find it. Guess I'll update my review when it turns up.

Not as 'good' as the game I initially purchased this movie thinking 'Cool, offbeat scifi.' Then I started to watch it and realized it was a cartoon movie based on a video game I'd never heard of.  Thankfully I have an 18yo brother. I texted him and sure enough he knew of the game and had played it. He said he'd heard of the movie and was interested in watching it, so I sent it along.  After watching it he said it was 'o-k', but not as interesting as the game.  I asked how many times he'd played and he said 'once', but for 15hrs straight :)  He said someone not familiar with the game could follow the movie, but probably wouldn't 'enjoy' very much.  Overall, just a good movie for an 18yo guy.

Has its moments! I'm old enough to remember the original Clash of the Titans which was released in 1981 and when I heard there would be a remake I had the same opinion I often do i.e. what's the point? There are so many aspiring scriptwriters out there that you'd think Hollywood would have no need to remake classic films or indeed Americanise popular hits from world cinema, I mean where's the originality? That rant aside I approached Clash of the Titans with the hope that it would improve on the original, which has its moments but was by no means a masterpiece.  Both Clash of the Titans films are very loosely based on the Greek myth of Perseus, slayer of the gorgon Medusa who also saved Princess Andromeda from being sacrificed to a sea monster. The film actually opens with some background to the myths that told of the Titans that were overthrown by their sons, three brothers Zeus (Liam Neeson), Hades (Ralph Fiennes) and Poseidon (Danny Huston). While Zeus became ruler of the heavens and created mankind, Poseidon took charge of the oceans leaving a Hades (tricked by Zeus) as reluctant ruler of the Underworld. The film switches to the tale of Perseus (Sam Worthington) who is found by a fisherman, Spyros (Pete Postlethwaite) in a floating coffin at sea when he is just a baby. Spyros raises the child as his own and when Perseus is grown up he faces a fight for his own survival and that of the kingdom of Argos that foolishly renounces the gods. Zeus turns to Hades for help and the god of the Underworld insists he will release the feared Kraken to destroy Argos in ten days unless they sacrifice Princess Andromeda (Alexa Davalos). Perseus becomes the leader of a quest to find the means to destroy the Kraken and save Argos from the retribution of the gods.  Having appeared in Terminator Salvation (2009) and Avatar (2009) recently it seems Sam Worthington is drawn to the potential box office hits and in Clash of the Titans he gets to traverse the ancient historical path of Russell Crowe in Gladiator (2000). After the background to the rise of the gods to power the film quickly moves onto the mysterious origins of Perseus found in a coffin at sea with his dead mother alongside him. Though the kindly fisherman, Spyros, may have suspicions about the child's origins he raises him as his own regardless and the family continue a seemingly carefree existence. When Perseus is grown up the family are at sea and witness a statue of Zeus being felled along the coast. The culprits are immediately made to suffer when Hades appears and kills the bulk of the soldiers as well as Perseus' family. Perseus is taken to the kingdom of Argos where the ruling monarch King Kepheus (Vincent Regan) and Queen Cassiopeia (Polly Walker) believe Cassiopeia and their daughter Andromeda are superior in beauty to Aphrodite. Having been granted permission by Zeus to bring havoc to Argos, Hades soon appears and begins killing soldiers and ageing the boastful Queen. He realises that Perseus is a demi god and we soon learn of his background as the son of Zeus. Andromeda is then put forward as a sacrifice in ten days otherwise Hades will unleash the Kraken to destroy the kingdom. Argos turns to Perseus for help and a band of soldiers join him on a quest that forms the high point of the film.  Aware of his origin, Perseus refuses to welcome his heritage as a demi god, refusing aid that the gods send him though welcoming the advice and support of Io (Gemma Arterton), a woman who cannot age having been punished by the gods after refusing their advances. It is Io that tells Perseus of his origins and helps train him for the difficult encounters on his quest, most notably the fight with the Gorgon Medusa whose stare turns anything to stone but her severed head is considered the best way to defeat and kill the Kraken. Though far from faithful to the myth of Perseus, Clash of the Titans still has nods to many of the Greek tales. In one scene Perseus leads the warriors into the Underworld where they buy passage from the ferryman Charron who takes them across the murky waters to the home of Medusa. The Gorgon herself isn't as fearsome as I recalled in the original, she is portrayed as a beautiful woman here though one that has been cursed by the gods and that serpent tail with matching hissing hair does little to make her appealing. That said, in the 1981 version I vaguely recall that she wasn't as easy on the eye, a more apt punishment for gods jealous of her beauty when she was still human. The battle with Medusa is probably the best bit of the film; the soldiers gathered not heeding the warnings of facing the Gorgon by staring down and not meeting her gaze. The death toll in the exchange is horrific but as per the myth Perseus does triumph in the end.  Watching Clash of the Titans I found some moments very appealing, mostly the combat scenes but by the end I was left feeling disappointed. The film isn't particularly faithful to the myth of Perseus. The wonderful winged horse, Pegasus, is encountered by Perseus as a herd of such fine horses rather than emerging from the beheaded body of Medusa while the concluding segment with Perseus' battle with the Kraken doesn't ring true either. It was a sea monster in the myth that Perseus defeated and in the aftermath he married Andromeda. Clash of the Titans has two endings, one appears faithful to the myth but the one I watched was very different. Perseus became a king in the myths but despite his lineage in the film our hero has no desire to be a king or a god in Olympus. There is just enough time at the end for a spot of romance, one that overcomes death, which is always handy but even as the end credits roll you'll be feeling that's a very abrupt way to conclude a film.  Clash of the Titans has some good moments but as a whole it's a pretty weak affair. Greek and Roman history is a popular theme for Hollywood at the moment but since Gladiator the standard has been pretty poor and this latest version of Clash of the Titans, sadly, has done nothing to redress that balance.

pretty good I like Covert Affairs, but it is still building dimensions. I tend to compare it to Alias and I see the importance of the difference with Covert Affairs. The truth is that there is still a better view of the CSI with Covert Affairs but the depth of characters is thin and I am waiting for that breakout year. This is true with almost any series. There is a year that puts it apart for the pack.

It Doesn't Quite Gel I was somewhat underwhelmed by "Moneyball".  Perhaps my expectations were simply too high.  The film is based on a book by Michael Lewis.  I had previously read "Liar's Poker" and thought it to be a great piece of modern literature.  The film also had a top quality cast including Brad Pitt in the lead role.  What could have gone wrong?  I'm not really sure but the whole package didn't gel.  In brief, "Moneyball" covers a season in the life of the Oakland A's, an American major league baseball team.  The franchise is not rich as it is based in a comparatively small and not particularly wealthy region.  In fact, the team has only a third to spend in comparison with the New York Yankees.  On this basis alone, the team will always lose in the long run.  However, within this difficult environment, the viewer is introduced to Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) who is the manager of the team.  Billy understands his situation and knows he cannot compete on the basis of money alone.  He has to be creative.  He is assisted in this task by the chance discovery of Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) who is a nerdy baseball statistics geek.  It is Peter who convinces Billy to look deeper into the numbers to locate unwanted and, therefore, cheap, playing talent.  Although the film is based on a true baseball story, it fails to please.  Something is missing.  To baseball aficionados, my word may seem sacrilegious.  However, the fact remains that the film is based on a weak thread and the quality of the cast is unable to overcome this handicap.

Too much or too little? I love films based on history and historical characters. I've seen this one time and time again and I still have the same mixed feelings as the very first time when I saw it on screen.  Part of my problems have to do with Colin Farrell who either was miscast as Alexander or was required to play a "human" version of Alexander and comes out like a bit of a whimp, at least at times. Now if there is one thing that Alexander could NOT afford to be, it is precisely that, especially among his fellow-Macedonians. A Macedonian king did not live for very long if he wasn't tough, strong and ruthless. Philip was and so was Alexander, although this is not shown by Colin Farrell who, when he gets angry, seems to become more hysterical than anything else. This, in my view, was much more of a problem than deciding whether Farrell's Irish accent was "acceptable" or not. Anyway, they are all speaking English, not Ancient Greek or Macedonian!  A related problem is the way the relationship with Hephaïstion is treated. No problem with the relationship per se: it certainly has to be treated because it was crucial in Alaxander's existence. I did however have a bit of problem with the way it was treated, with Hephaïstion "doe eyes" at Alexander and with the two "boys" falling into each other's arms and crying on each other's shoulders at the slightest provocation. Since they were both athletes, both fully mature and both seasoned killers (as all of the Macedonians were), this did not sound very realistic.  On the other hand, most of the other actors (Val Kilmer as Philip, Angelina Jolie as Olympias, Anthony Hopkins as Ptolemy, in particular) are good or even excellent, and so are the actors playing a number of the secondary characters such as Parmenion or Philotas. The costumes are meticulously researched and superb. The battles scenes, and Gaugamela in particular, are quite fantastic. It is however both strange and a pity that we only get treated to the two last ones - Gaugamela and Hydaspes. How about Granicus and Issos? And how about Cheronea, with Philip against Athens and Thebes? And how about all the sieges, in particular that of Tyre which lasted 7 months and was so difficult? Rather than the story of Alaxander's great deeds and those of his Macedonians, we only get a selection with many events being entirely passed over and some inacuracies introduced. For instance, Kleitos saved Alexander's life by cutting of a Persian's arm at Granicus, not at Gaugamela. Kleitos was the commander of Alexander's Royal squadrom (the king's horseguard, in effect) until he was murdered by Alexander, and he had this command already under Philip.  In the film, Oliver Stone also skirts and dances around two issues which had been raised: -- First, did Alexander have a hand in his father death? He does not say so, although he seems to suspect something, given his behavior, and Stone seems to have blamed the conspiracy Olympias only. Historians and novellists have picked different interpretations, depending on how they view Alexander and we will probably nver know for sure - Second, was Alexander poisoned? Oliver Stone does not believe this was the case although the boss was clearly getting more erratic and murderous so that they could have been incentives to do away with him as a preventive measure.  So, the treatment of Alexander is largely the modern view adopted by historians: an emphasis on the man rather than the conqueror or the legend. The problem is that, when it comes down to the execution, the "human touch" seems overplayed and Colin Farrell made a very poor and unconvincing Alexander in my view...  Anyway, I loved that film, but largely because of Colin Farrell's performance and because it only tells part of the story with huge chunks left out, I can only give it three stars...

Ok for a Low Cost Rental At a $1.99 this was Ok entertainment.  Shot on video--film would have been way to costly for a project like this--it was entertaining without being absurd.  Plot holes--yes.  Ending left me feeling a little cheated.

Divided The ending could have been better explaining the white soldiers? Rescuers? Scientists? or whoever they were.  You would have seen plastic tunnels everywhere when she got out.  I guess my stars will be "divided" for this reason.

A Good Movie I watched Citizen Kane for the first yesterday, and I liked the film and thought it was good, but I would not call it the best movie ever. The good: Orson Welles is solid in his portrayal of Kane, the story has a great moral to it, and it has aged well overall.  The bad: It drags in some places and the can be boring at times.  Overall Kane is an great movie, but it is not the best.  Many people have already given good reasons why this was so I will just quickly say that innovations and firsts do not make a movie the best.

only OK I totally loved the first two seasons, but this one was rather weak.  I did not buy a lot of the plot and story as well as the erratic behavior of the characters.  I almost did not care if I finished this season.  Rather disappointing...

Don't Call It Horror; Call It Spoof, Parody & Satire I don't get clowns. I don't get either the horror or the humor of big red noses, over-sized shoes, and don't even get me started on balloon poodles. That's why I was hesitant to watch this movie, expecting to find some slapstick take on the horror genre. Instead, I found a satirical gem of a movie.  The plot of the film is Friday the 13th but instead of frisky teens at summer camp it's, well frisky clowns at summer camp. Be warned, the horror and slasher aspect takes a back seat to a broad attack on any number of contemporary issues; from rap music to reality TV to steriods to mimes they are all in season. Pay attention, the one liners, quips and jokes are easy to miss.  I'm still giggling over the Clown Klux Klan reference.  If the movie has a weakness (and gets only 3 stars) it's the forced low brow potty humor that was out of place in a sea of otherwise smart and crisp humor.  Don't watch this if you are looking for a slasher flick. If you're a closet clown looking for a movie to reinforce your identity I wouldn't recommend it either.  If, however, you are crusty, sardonic and a smart ass, you'll enjoy it.

Not Cohen's best, but funny In his latest opus, Sacha Baron Cohen offers his unique interpretation of a romantic comedy. Hilarity ensues as a dictator of a made-up Middle Eastern country is replaced by a body double, winds up in New York, and finds love in the Big Apple. It's the best parts of Coming to America and Trading Places, all in one movie.

There's Something Strange In The Neighborhood The Good -- This movie's tightly paced and while certain scenes seem to lag, they're over before they overstay their welcomes.  There are some genuinely creepy moments that were missing from the remake. I won't spoil them here, but suffice to say, this movie continues the trend of making Asian school girls scary.  The Bad -- The end resolution comes out of nowhere. Yes, one could piece together what the spirit wants, but it's just so abrupt that I couldn't care less about the movie at its reveal.  Despite some creepy moments, Dark Water doesn't offer much that hasn't been seen before or since, which is a shame since it's well-made with decent acting all around.  The Ugly -- The physical reveal of the spirit at the end. The physical effect with accompanying sound effect is cheesy and made me laugh. Add this to the already hackneyed ending and an average experience stays average.

great but disc was scratched I got this as a Valentines Day gift for my fiance he LOVES spiderman. However the 2nd disc wasn't packaged right & was loose inside the case resulting in scratches! So of course it doesn't play right. Was a bit disappointed.

I mean, it's the peanuts. It's the peanuts and it's good no matter how cruddy it looks - but it you have a decent sized HDTV, you're not going to be impressed with the so called "blueray" quality. It's just okay, a bit fuzzy, but still a good watch. After all - it's the peanuts.  I have no opinion on the audio. Sounded fine to me.

Too much hype. The movie did not follow any recognized mythology, instead it delved into pure Hollywood creativity. It could have been a winner, instead it is relegated to the dustbin of Hollywood flops. The scenery was great, the storyline was abysmal. The acting talent was wasted on a lousy scrip. Too bad, better luck next time.

In the middle between bad and good I've been a fan of the series from the start, way back when the first movie was released.  I can say that this one, the fourth in the series, puts me squarely in the middle on my opinions.  The movie was good in general.  I give it 3 stars for general satistfaction.  If I were rating it on Mila alone, it would be 4 or 5 stars, but I must rate the movie as a whole.  The Pro's:  The story continues the series well and picks up right where it left off.  Alice goes to Umbrella HQ to attack them, just as promised.  The storyline as a whole has good progression and is logical.  The Con's:  Some things seem to be just dropped in as a tribute to the video games or simply as a cliche.  The big axe-wielding zombie from Resident Evil 5 is there for some reason. (???) In RE5, he had a reason for being there.  In Afterlife, it just seems contrived.  Also, this is not really a zombie movie, in my opinion.  There are some sequences where zombies do appear, but a vast majority of the movie isn't about zombies.  It's more about Alice vs. Umbrella.  Anyhow, I was generally satisfied, and I didn't demand a refund on my movie ticket; however, the others in the series were better to me.

De interes para las personas de habla espa&ntilde;ola. Buen producto, pero para aquellos como yo, que no hablen ingles y que requieran subtitulos para ver las peliculas debo aclararles que solo las peliculas 1, 2 y 3 poseen audio y subtitulos en espa&ntilde;ol, es absolutamente falso que la 4ta parte posea dicha caracteristica como lo rese&ntilde;a amazon en los detalles del producto. Solo trae audio en ingles y Frances y no trae ningun tipo de subtitulos. Adicionalmente, ninguno de los discos de caracteristicas especiales poseen dicha caracteristica, solo ingles. Nunca entendere la razon de no colocarle a los productos dicha opcion que no ocupa mas que unos bytes adicionales en el disco habiendo tanta gente en los estados unidos que hablan espa&ntilde;ol, realmente y lamentablemente no cuentan para las productoras de cine. Entonces, amigos de habla espa&ntilde;ol ya saben a que atenerse.

Nice film This is a nice. mild old fashioned kind of film.  I'm an adult, much given to complicated films, but I was pleased with it--pretty good acting.

Trying Too Hard to Be Cool "Bulworth" (1998), starring and directed by Warren Beatty, is a funny political satire but not nearly as intelligent as Tim Robbins's "Bob Roberts" (1992).  "Bulworth" features Beatty as a burnt-out politician who obtains a ten-million dollar life insurance policy and then hires a man to assassinate him that weekend, the insurance to go to his daughter.  He is taken to a routine engagement with a black congregation.  Because of his imminent death, instead of reading a speech of platitudes he speaks the "truth."  People are shocked, outraged, and delighted.  Invigorated by truth telling, he begins to party raucously at a black nightclub.  More stops, including a political debate, show Beatty speaking more truth.  The news has a heyday.  His campaign manager has a near-breakdown.  And then Beatty, realizing the good he can do by speaking the truth, tries to call off his hit man.  The major problem with "Bulworth" as a political satire is that all of the film's "truth" is simply radical liberalism.  And I'm not necessarily against that viewpoint (I liked "Bob Roberts" immensely), but the movie portrays Bulworth's truth-telling as not his own true opinions but actual Truth--as if there is only one truth and everybody really knows it.  The position of the film is not a hyper-reality, as was "Bob Roberts," but is clearly meant to be grounded in our actual world.  Thus Beatty and "Bulworth" posit that anyone who disagrees with Bulworth's truth-telling is deluded, stupid, or, most likely, a liar.  Indeed, in our postmodern age the idea for this comedy seems more than a little contrived.  For a few chuckles, "Bulworth" is well worth watching.  But for political insight, "Bulworth" is a mediocre fizzle.

Digital Copy Expired Great movie, but I am very disappointed that the digital copy feature expired last year (Jul 2010)  I'd love to have had access to it for my Ipod.

Good theme and story, but dragged out for way too long! I'm a huge Aamir Khan fan and I liked not only the theme of this movie, but also the solid performances of all the actors. My biggest problem with the film, however, is that it's way too long. The movie should have been re-edited for American audiences and at least 45 minutes of useless dialogue should have been removed. The main point of the story is very interesting, but as I like my movies to be more about quality than quantity, I had to skip many of the scenes just to get to the main point of the story. Again, Bollywood, if you want international audiences, especially Americans, to find interest in and view your film, please do us all a favor and edit them for time. Indian and other audiences may not care -and may actually like the longer running times- but tastes being different, we Americans do want our movies short and sweet.

False Advertising? I am not here to write a review of the movie. I am here to sound off about false advertising from this distributor. Maybe it was a fluke or an oversite, but the "prop flower" that was suppose to be included was not. This is not a huge issue for me, but others may be really upset if they don't receive ALL the items that were advertised. It's the principal.

Book or Movie? I read and enjoyed Lehane's Shutter Island (2003) before I watched and enjoyed Scorsese's Shutter Island (2010).  For this story, in my opinion, it's best to choose one or the other. As a life-long Scorsese fan, I couldn't pass up his 2010 psychological thriller. But for my money: this story is best told on the page.  Read and enjoy.

reasonably entertaining parody ***1/2  "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" is a parody not only of "Walk the Line" and similar musical biopics - replete with the seemingly inevitable dead kid brother (see also "Ray") - but of musical styles and pop-culture trends as they have evolved over the past half-century.  The movie starts in the 1950s as a young backwater hick named Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly), an Elvis Presley-style crooner, takes the country by storm with his hit single "Walk Hard." From there it's on to fame as a Dylan-inspired protest singer, a turn as a disco-diva, and, finally, the wizened recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award in his 70s. And, along the way, of course, there are the inevitable bouts with drug addiction, the time spent in prison and rehab, a wife ("SNL"'s Kristen Wiig) left at home to raise the kids, a mistress (Jenna Fischer from "The Office") who's his one true-love and who stands by him no matter what, endless arguments with his managers and fellow band mates, groupies and orgies for the taking, furniture- and crockery-smashing tantrums, songwriter's block, stardom as a 1970's TV variety-show host - you name it, it's in here. There's even a hilarious encounter with the late-era Beatles, who seem well on their way to cutting each others' throats, let alone splitting up the band.  All of this is, of course, played for laughs. Written by Judd Apatow and Jake Kasdan, and directed by Kasdan, "Walk Hard" is never more than passably entertaining, filled with as many jokes that fall flat as those that rise to the occasion. It's definitely not up there with the best of their work. Still, a 50/50 ratio isn't a particularly bad one as far as mainstream comedies go these days, and Reilly is so good as Dewey that he makes even the lesser moments more-or-less ignorable. There are also fun turns by Raymond J. Barry, Margo Martindale, Chris Parnell, Harold Ramis, Jane Lynch, and many others. Moreover, the music (by Michael Andrews) and singing (who knew you had it in you, Mr. Reilly?) are both terrific, and they alone are worth the price of admission.

Fair investigation but... If your looking for something like "Ghost Hunters" this is not it and it's nothing like the "drama" thrown in with "Ghost Adventures". The last investigation showed that they did have in place cameras for watching what went on in a room through the night but only used them on that one. On going through a building on one the cameraman was filming at the very back of a caravan group of people going down a hallway. Then in a lot of evp sessions it looked like a convention sitting around the table. On the opening doors inside the house in the last they said that no wind was coming through the windows to cause them to open but the attic was open to both doors. In their own video you could see dust flying around inside the residence of the axe murders. This said they still had some very good catchs at the theater and some of a flashlight being switched on at request. I don't see why any of these "ghost hunters" in any shows don't wear "night vision" to see in the dark instead of just a nigh vision camera to see (the ones walking around at night outside are people who don't live in the country that know rattlesnakes move at night - but not shown in this video). The ghosts wouldn't know if they were wearing and wouldn't care. The "Ghost Lab" seasons are very good and maybe the CCPI will get their investigation and video procedure worked out in time.

Achieves It's Goals and Ambition, then again, their achievment is not a lofty task, and has been done much better and funnier. With the suspicion of rodents in the sink, Withnail surrenders to the magical powers of booze to warm himself in his disturbingly chaotic apartment. If proper care was to be taken of Withnail and his friend, simply called I, they would be best placed in quarantine out of safety for other Londoners; for their sloppiness has lead to unbearable, depressing conditions which demands that they leave London and venture to the countryside for a short holiday.  Withnail & I treads along by displaying Withnail's gay, eccentric Uncle Monty and the trouble that the two have to encounter to get his country cottage-though much of the trouble has yet to hit them. With much turbulence, such as bad weather, they reach their destination safely, thinking their vacation is bound to take a turn for the best. However, as they become familiar with their whereabouts, they find that they have chosen the wrong location to alleviate all their inner-city turmoil. From hunger and fear of death, the men encounter variant other issues that make this as unpleasant a vacation as it possibly could have become. Only a visit from a familiar face could have turned this vacation to the travesty it should have been. Not only is this granted, but includes hilarious episodes of mischief that makes I's planned vacation as distressing as life was in his crummy apartment.  Withnail & I is off-beat even for an English comedy, rarely offering jokes and rather reaping the benefits of its comedy from the two diverse characters, and the talented actors portraying them. The characters are similar in their interests and their profession, but much different in their temperament. I is a mild-mannered, shy actor while Withnail is an out-of-control, capricious, emotional, drunk persona who unlike I has completely been unsuccessful in his acting career as of late. With such characters, Bruce Robinson can easily profit from their back and forth dialogue and not be forced to resort to cheap gags to produce a few laughs. As funny as the dynamic between Withnail and I may be, it is limited when compared to the physical comedy of Uncle Monty in regards to I which is among one of the most amazingly, laughter-inducing conversations between straight and gay men in films in recent memory. There also a few gags that still seem both creative and funny, such as the one involved in the cooking of a rooster which is horrifyingly cruel and audaciously realistic.  Writer/Director Bruce Robinson has said that I is based on himself while Withnail is based on Vivian MackKerrell whom he shared a house with. In the supplemental booklets, included in the Criterion Edition, Robinson states that even though as an actor or writer the real Withnail ( MackKerrell) did not have the passion or interest to be successful, "Vivian was brilliant at being Vivian. That was his genius, and everyone who ever met him was overwhelmed by it...his company was worth the price." And in these few sentences lies the entire folly of the film. Vivian MackKerrell's charm can be understood or granted, but Withnail's cannot. It is wise of Robinson to admit that "there isn't a line of Viv's in the Withnail & I, but his horrible wine-stained tongue may as well have spoken every word. Without Viv, this story could never have been written." The issue with Bruce Robinson film is that he has Vivian's drunken and infatuation with alcohol deeply rooted in Withnail, but has been unable to translate Vivian's charm on screen. It is unseemly why anyone would want to even remotely tolerate Withnail's drunken tantrums and tirades, his pessimism, disregard for the emotions and wishes of others, and basically buffoonery in all the serious aspects of adulthood. Of course, there are people who have such characteristics, but with a certain appeal that makes them intriguing to be around. Unfortunately, Withnail lacks that quality and it seems odd that I has tolerated him for so long-and still continues to do so-even after the events during and after the holiday. Many alcoholics are interesting people to be around because besides drinking they seem to have other interests and insights, but Withnail is in the purest sense of the word an alcoholic without any redeeming qualities.  This entertaining film treads along nicely, never tiring or boring its audience, but after some time it becomes a realization that this is no coming-of-age film nor is it attempting to blossom gracefully or offer any additional insight about relationships, alcoholism, and English culture of the late 60. No, the film is simply Robinson's template for testing his writing chops and paying a tribute to one of his dear friends. Withnail & I has often been cited as one of the best British films of the last twenty five years which, if true, would seem proof of England's demising film Industry in the face of usually more apt American films. An overrated classic as it may be, Richard E Grant's breakout performance as Withnail, and Robinson's problematic but effective screenplay make Withnail & I a heartfelt effort.  The Criterion Collection edition of the film also includes a thirty minute documentary with Bruce Robinson and the principal cast on the making of the film.

A cheaper alternative for the first two Naruto Uncut DVD boxes Naruto Uncut Season One Box Set Volume 1 is a six DVD set that contains the first twenty-five episodes of the series.  The first disc contains five episodes, the second disc contains four episodes, the third disc contains four episodes and bonus features, the fourth and fifth discs contain four episodes, and the sixth disc contains four episodes and bonus features.  When you open the box, it becomes readily apparent that this is a "bare bones" release, because there are no booklets or inserts included in the set.  When it comes to the actual discs themselves, they are basically the discs from Naruto Uncut Box Set 1 and Naruto Uncut Box Set 2, with minor changes made to the bonus features included on discs three and six.  The first bonus feature on the third disc is "Production Art."  This consists of model sketches of some of the characters.  The next feature is a preview for Naruto Shippuden.  This is followed by "From Sketch to Screen Episode 1," which is eight pages of storyboards.  For each storyboard, you can choose to see the clip that the storyboard is for.  In the extras, you can also see the English credits.  A link labeled as "Shonen Jump Home Video" takes you to three trailers: Naruto Shippuden the Movie, the Naruto Shippuden: Ninja Council 4 video game, and Bleach the Movie: The DiamondDust Rebellion.  There is also "Shonen Jump Magazine & Manga," which has ads for Shonen Jump magazine, an ad for the Naruto manga, and two ads for other Shonen Jump manga titles.  The first bonus feature on the sixth disc is also "Production Art," which includes more model sketches of some of the characters.  The next feature is the exact same preview for Naruto Shippuden that appears on the third disc.  After that is "From Sketch to Screen Episode 22."  Like the "From Sketch to Screen" feature on the third disc, this feature has eight pages of storyboards, and you can choose to see the clip that the storyboard is for.  You can also see the English credits on this disc.  The link for "Shonen Jump Home Video" includes the exact same trailers that appeared for this feature on the third disc.  This is also the case for the "Shonen Jump Magazine & Manga" section of the extras.  If you enjoy the Naruto series and haven't already bought the original Naruto Uncut box sets, then this would be worth your money to consider purchasing.  You get double the amount of content of the original sets, but pay about the same amount as you would have for one of those original sets.  I wrote this review after watching a copy of this DVD box set that I purchased.

just cant go it right now.... The acting is still great so it really isn't fair to give a low review plus I think the writing for this show has always been so artful. I know there was no choice really in the season opener with the departures of the other actors but the dynamic chemistry of the original cast and their dealings with other characters was what kept me glued to the show and propelled me last year to watch two seasons back to back in three days and anxiously grab each 3rd season show as it became available on amazon.  I am not that invested anymore I wish I was there are so few things I do watch lately. Once I forget how great I thought this show began and I can get over the character losses ( I think I could understand more an actor change than all the character shuffling so quickly) then I will take another stab. But for now the season opener episode will be a lone digital download of season 4. I'm just not even interested in this vampire war premise the way it has evolved so quickly in that it is almost just too campy of a storyline. It isn't so much about "being human " anymore as it is grief, death, occasional humor all in this nutty war concept where the villains take themselves too seriously to even be scary enough when suspending disbelief as a viewer. Turner's Mitchell was more frightening at times when he struggled with hunger or anger. I guess I was spoiled. Again...I mean to take nothing from those acting currently they are great and I wish nothing but the best success for the actors who moved on......but the draw that I felt to this show and the unique concepts it posed just isn't there for me. Still I encourage you to check out the episode and see for yourself and eventually I think I will check out a few more of the episodes to see if I'm pulled back in.

ok,but still Carpenter It's an ok movie and it is entertaining to watch. It just is not one of Carpenters best. I really like Carpenters style in directing and the special effects for the time were nice.

enjoyable Decent movie with a young Dennis Quaid as well as a couple of other big names. The movie is a bit dated, but still enjoyable to watch.

In the mood for a laugh? Not academy award material, but if you're in the mood to have several chuckles and a few belly laughs, this one deserves a look.

A good concert but...... This lady has an incredible voice that lends itself comfortably to different genres such as jazz, blues and country. However the concert was ruined by her complete lack of education and insensitivity to the fact that not everyone who likes Adele's work enjoys hearing F-bombs every second word. Like a 10 year-old who's just discovered swearing, she uses the F-word much as another person uses adjectives.  Adele, if you want to restrict yourself to concerts in London where your filthy mouth is acceptable, good luck to you. You will find, as you begin to travel the world, that your potty-mouth style will not endear you to the vast majority of the fans you crave.  A very good concert marred by this one, ongoing lapse in judgment.

I'M READY TO BE TUTORED The moody Caroline Wexler moves from the big city to a small town where the kids do a lot of drugs and are inbreed losers with 6 toes. The story at times is third person, at other times Caroline narrates. She tells us of a tale of a girl in school who worked as a stripper until 2AM then showed up for school and took extra classes. The football team, she tells us, would heat up quarters and throw them at her while she walked through the halls. A "serial killer" (dubbed a serial killer after first body was found) kills the girl and they find marks of heated quarters on her legs.The waste dump fire and serial killer were under utilized as metaphors/symbols.  After her death, it appears the overly mature Caroline is the prettiest girl in school. She seduces her teacher and a classmate. As time goes on we discover the teacher has the persona of a psychotic character portrayed from his own novel and has developed an unhealthy need to continue his relationship with Caroline.  The movie makes clever use of juxtapositions to create humorous scenes. There are also slow scenes and slightly annoying first person narration. The soundtrack was fairly lame. The climax scene is supposed to be a culmination of the scenes building up upon each other. In an indie, it is not necessarily predictable, but it is at least metaphorically or symbolically part of the movie. This one was not. It was a complete let down and a lack of closure by the writer. Want to watch a clever indie, try "Chumscubber."

Happy with order, not so happy with movie As an Anne Hathaway fan, I didn't think I'd ever be disappointed in her movies.  This is right up there as one of the worst movies I have ever seen.  Although I was happy with my order, I would not suggest this movie to anyone.

GOOD...... AS FAR AS IT GOES Firstly these ARE very entertaining discs. They show off, the too often underrated skill of Dean in comedy and his ability to work with guests. His guests are often great with some absolute gems of performance on here. I also love Dean when he sings with others, he was a master at that. The rapport he establishes with his guests is also amazing. BUT there are yawning gaps where Deans solo songs should have been. I can only speculate these are missing due to copyright. And that is definately a big loss Shame this could have been a grand Slam but its just a hit.

This is the same thing as the first series + a little sister! I feel that this second series of the anime was little bit more enjoyable than the first series. There isn't much difference between the two series. The few differences is that you get to see Moka little sister in this series and all she does is try to get Moka vampire form to come out and stay forever. Also, you get to see the parents of the other girls now too.  So besides the few differences in this shows than the last, it's pretty same thing . All it is, is Moka and Tsukune want to be together, but the problem is that there are so many other girls that want Tsukune too and the parents get in the way too now. Then add in a slight easy problem to fix in every show so that Moka can fix with her kick.  Moka still solving the problems at the end of every show with just a few kicks. Still really boring.  She does "kicks" because those are her only moves that show her pantis. If she punches people then you won't see her pantis, so she only kicks when she fights.  Fan service is great and all but there's just too much of it here still. It just boring so fast. Their skirts are way too short. It's like they are not wearing anything sometimes because you are always shown from below skirt level to see them.  There nothing else to say about this anime because that's it.  But...the spoiler alert....the second series just have Tsukune show some more power since he got some of Moka blood in him now. You will see this at the last show of the series. He not exactly human anymore but not a monster either. He just above a regular human.  He wants to be with the nice Moka more than her vampire self. He shows this by trying to get her a new rosario from her father.  Like I said before, this show was just tiny bit better than the first series. But still average overall anime.

Trashy fun in deep space... Paul Verhoeven has a real cult following.  Most trashy directors do.  I mean, looking at his filmography, it's hard to find a `great' film in the bunch and yet many celebrated cinephiles count films like `Basic Instinct' and `Showgirls' as two of the best films ever made.  I'm assuming they follow this logic up with the whole `so bad it's good' argument, but honestly I can't rally behind this.  Of all the Verhoeven films I've seen, `Starship Troopers' is easily the best.  Having read Robert Heinlein's novel while still in school, I can say that Verhoeven's adaptation isn't especially faithful, but he does pull some of the more blatant themes and uses them to propel forward the action in a way that pulls your eyes into focus.  In like Verhoeven fashion, `Starship Troopers' is at many times exploitive and does seem to have an occupancy with flesh and sexuality, and the soap operatic relationship circles does have an eye-rolling effect on viewers who are looking for a more focused action epic, but `Starship Troopers' does get a lot of things right.  The action in particular is stunning.  This is a bloody bath of alien warfare, and those bug creatures are grandiose and grotesque and totally hit every mark, and the gore factor is a huge plus for a film of this nature.  The `hidden agenda' here is a nice touch because it adds weight to some of the more ridiculous aspects of the film.  This is essentially a satire pointed at governmental control in the guise of a mindless sci-fi epic and it does manage to make that point rather effectively, but to use that as an excuse for some of the more glaring issues the film has (the acting, the clich&eacute;s, the wasted development) is kind of lazy.  There are many `smart' satires that straddle that fine line and actually balance out the exploitive with genuine wit, and `Starship Troopers' doesn't quite get that.  It is a fun film, sure, but it is also an easy film to criticize because it seems to relish in its own inadequacies.

SHolmes-Game The movie was not as fresh as the first but still entertaining enough. Robert Downey Jr makes a good and funny Sherlock Holmes.

A Bad Movie...That Succeeds at Making Me Feel I love the original Planet of the Apes film.  In my view it's a classic.  I feel the movies that came after were far less than the original, and yet I'm glad for them because I really liked the characters introduced in the original movie and wanted more. This movie is one I hesitated to own because I always found it very painful to watch.  And that is why I think it succeeds.  This is campy, and very '70's...yet to this day I still care for Zira and Cornelius and feel pain by the end at their murder.  So for that reason I think the movie succeeds.  Anytime something comes along that makes me feel along with or about the characters--that's a ride I want to go on--even if it is 40 years old and very dated, almost silly by today's standards.

Not what I expected... I had been to Rio de Janeiro a few years back, and was expecting a fun-type animated adventure through this most enigmatic city. The actual premise is OK, but I was also immediately in touch with a film that was a bit pandering to the infant mentality. I immediately thought "Kids ain't that dumb". It's admirable that the mating habits of animals were suggested, and suddenly it became a romantic comedy, with perhaps every racial stereotype along the way to add to the proceedings, except any semblance of Brazilian.  Quite simply, I wasn't very entertained. This is entirely due to a poorly structured script. The acting was fine, and there was a lot of clever animation and displays of the glories of the city, but I'm sure most kids will write it off as stuff they'd already seen.  Routine, considering where animated features have gone, like SHREK or WALL-E or UP. I was just hoping for some originality. The Oscar-nommed song didn't blow my socks off, either.

WTF...which one of these is actually the "Unrated" one? There are 2 VHS's for sale here--one has the bosom in a red lace bra and the other in white, but the info detail says they are both rated R and they both are listed as running 90 minutes.  As for the DVDs, there are 4 for sale--all from other regions, which means they are PAL discs and even though the runtimes are listed as 94 minutes that may be just the same as the 90min. version once you factor in the conversion.  I've heard some people mention that there is a RATED AND an UNRATED version of this, and obviously the UNRATED version is the way to go...but really, the info on here is so piecemeal it's a joke trying to figure out which one of these to buy!

Great to see again, but... While it's fantastic to see this again after so many years, and kudos to Synergy Entertainment for putting it out at all, this release of this classic Childrens Film Foundation just ain't up to spec.  Firstly the packaging looks like something you might have picked up from the market. I wasn't expecting a leaflet with critical essays on the film, or a a leaflet at all, but it looks as if the sleeve and DVD cover were printed on a home printer.  This would have been forgivable if ten minutes into the film the bottom right hand of the picture hadn't been obscured for half a minute with a Synergy Entertainment watermark. I expect preview images/films downloaded from an online gallery to have a digital watermark, but not something I've actually paid money for. The least you should expect is a copy of the film that doesn't make it seem like you've grabbed it off a dodgy warez site. It whips you right out of the nostalgic wallow that most people who purchase this DVD want it for.  Other than this the picture quality isn't too bad. The sound's a bit fuzzy but, as I said, was just nice to see it again. Just a shame Network DVD didn't get to it before Synergy...

Good movie, Bad quality This is a good movie, but the quality of the DVD is pretty abysmal. I was expecting a higher quality picture. The subtitles are not very well done either, with many misspellings and some parts not subtitled at all. I hope to find more of Shah Rukh Khan's earlier movies put onto quality DVDs in the future.

Tim Burton and Johnny Depp: Part 8 I consider myself a Tim Burton fan, but even I will admit that he has had more stinkers than gems over the last decade. This is somewhere in the middle. Johnny Depp, in his eight outing with Burton, turns in his typical weird creation, but I really enjoyed him in this vampire role. Eva Green makes for a sexy villain. The rest of the cast, set design, atmosphere and 70's tunes are strong as well, but the story really goes nowhere. There are some clever gags and dialogue that kept things interesting, so I was never truly bored. I liked enough about it to say that Dark Shadows is worth a Blu-ray rental. Go see The Avengers again or save your money for The Dark Knight Rises.

MORE ENTERTAINING THAN EDUCATIONAL THE ADS SEEMED LIKE THIS WOULD BE PRETTY GOOD.  BUT I SHOULD KNOW BETTER THAN TO BELIEVE THE HYPE.  I SUSPECT THIS MIGHT HAVE BEEN AT LEAST PARTIALLY A COMPILATION OF SOME PREVIOUSLY SHOT FOOTAGE ON OTHER 'EXPEDITIONS'.  WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR WAS SOMETHING THAT REALLY PROVIDED INSIGHT AS TO HOW THE VARIOUS HUMAN GROUPS INTERACTED WITH THEIR ENVIRONMENTS AND EACH OTHER.  THIS WAS SORT OF JUST ONE SHOT SCENARIOS OF WHAT HAPPENED IN SOME AREAS OR WITH ONE SUBGROUP IN THE AREA.  NOT QUITE UP TO THE STANDARD 'PLANET EARTH' STUFF BUT STILL ENTERTAINING.  CONTENT MORE LIKE AN OLD SCHOOL FILM STRIP IN SOCIAL STUDIES BUT WITH BETTER  PHOTOGRAPHY.

Will not keep it in my collection of DVD s The strong accent of the main character was difficult to follow by me. I suppose the movie is only good for lazies like me who do not want to read the thick book and prefer playing MahJong instead. Some historical interest (Re H.K. colony).

Howard I havr listened to Howard for years as group performer nnd as a single.  This is my first time seeing him as a single in concert.  The music is great and the performance is really woth watching.

Crude as filmmaking at times but gets its message across ***1/2  Nine dollars and a tent - that's all hip-hop artist Pras Michel (of The Fugees) brings with him when he goes undercover to live on Skid Row disguised as a homeless person.  His purpose?  To experience first hand what life is like for those who live on the streets, and to share that experience with the world at large.  "Skid Row" documents the nine days and nights he spent trying to make it in the homeless capital of the world, Los Angeles.  The movie hits us with a slew of depressing statistics and provides a brief history of the place, while Pras learns how to survive through begging and panhandling and by maneuvering his way through a world few of us will ever know - or even care to acknowledge. The movie, shot with a hidden camera, is a fairly straight-forward documentary, though the substandard sound recording makes some of the dialogue hard to make out.  But the message shines through in Pras' heartbreaking encounters with drug addicts, runaways, and friends and families of individuals who have gone missing and may be living on Skid Row.  The enormity and seeming intractability of the problem can make watching this film an overwhelming experience for the viewer, but there are glimmers of hope in seeing how many of the individuals who work with the homeless were themselves down-and-out at one point in their lives (many are themselves recovering addicts), but somehow managed to pull themselves up and are now giving back to those they left behind.  Pras and the others involved in the project deserve praise for their courage and gratitude for opening our eyes to this terrible human and social scourge that should concern us all.

Visually Stunning Beowulf is the oldest known legend in the English language, adapted from a series of what we can only presume was the Norse mythology of the hero that inspired such figures as King Arthur. The original poem is somewhat tedious and disjointed, and this recent film is only partially like it, filling in the story and making some major changes in order to promote it toward modern audiences.  The kingdom belonging to King Hrothgar (Anthony Hopkins) is being terrorized by a violent half-demon by the name of Grendel (Crispin Glover), whose sensitivity to noise makes him particularly wrathful against the shouting and carrying on that transpires in the local mead house. Leaving devastation and rampant bodies in his wake, he threatens the lives and livelihoods of all, and Hrothgar desires to find a man capable of defeating him. His hero comes in the form of Beowulf (Ray Winstone), known for his acts of astounding courage and the defeat of numerous sea monsters and other devils of the northern world. Respected by his men and feared by his enemies, it does not take him long to cast his eye on Hrothgar's beautiful but emotionally distant wife, Wealthow (Robin Wright Penn).  In a climactic battle that leaves carnage rampant in its wake, Beowulf wounds Grendel enough that he is forced to crawl back into his cave and perish in the arms of his mother, a water demon (Angelina Jolie). Her rage is absolute and only hours after Beowulf has been claimed as a hero, honored by the people and given the gift of a magnificent golden horn, she returns to extract vengeance for her son's murder, leaving him no choice but to hunt her down and defeat her as well. But once in her cave of wonders, Beowulf comes to discover that the lure of absolute can be stronger than anything he has before encountered.  When I first saw images from the film, I wondered if my eyes were playing tricks on me, because it was not immediately apparent that this was a live-action animated feature. This may be a trend that takes off in future years, since computer technology has come so far that they are now capable of making realistic human images, and in that sense Beowulf is an absolute masterpiece. There are moments when the computer animation is not fully rendered (the horses look the most fake, but all of the humans, dragons, and other CGI creatures are absolutely astounding) but most of it left me with my mouth open, because visually it is magnificent. Sometimes the characters look almost human, their facial expressions are so real. Other reviewers have remarked that it's impossible for a cold 3D image to convey true emotion, and to a degree, this is true, but Beowulf is not meant to invoke any magnificent response in its audience other than excitement, so it's ultimately forgivable.  The film I rented was the director's cut, which I have since learned does not differ much from the theatrical release other than in terms of blood spatter. It was fun -- and it looks incredible in HD.

A B movie This movie has a weak story and weak acting, but still was fun to watch.  It is a B movie.  Hopefully more Japanese movies get more upbeat scipts and budgets.  this along with moany others shows a lot of potential.

Watermarked! Oh, Alpha Video, I bet that intermittent Watermark is going to save you millions in lost revenue from the Public Domain Film pirates! A Watermark? REALLY? (Film: 5 Stars. Alpaha Video: 1 Star)

not quite richard tauber With early memories  (1940+), I hoped for more of the old songs made famous by Tauber! Two or rhree were there, but the programme as a whole could only be described not bad, but not wonderful! The singers wer quite good, but the nostalgia was not there. Nor was there a need for still more Straus in a LEHAR GalA CONCERT!    Verdict- passable but not 5 star.

What happened to three of the characters? This movie is ok if you haven't read the book.  I can't believe that the author, who also wrote the screenplay, left out three of the characters that were in the book, and a really terrifying scene near the end of the book, which involves two of the characters that were eliminated from the movie.  The book is far superior, and even more scary than the movie.  Skip the movie-read the book!

Free To Roam Hall Pass is a somewhat funny, yet typical buddy guy film in which more or less clueless married guys think life sucks for them until they have that epiphany that their wives are really pretty awesome and life is actually worse without them.  Owen Wilson & Jason Sudeikis star are those guys whose wives give them a "hall pass" for one week which allows them to go out and sleep with as many women as they can without any consequences.  They of course can't pick up women as they are older and out of the game, but when Owen Wilson actually has a chance to sleep with an attractive woman at the end of the film, he realizes how much his wife means to him.  The film is filled with the raunchy humor of films like Wedding Crashers, but it is a little too derivative to be a classic like that film.  It has some clever jokes and nice performances especially from Mr. Wilson and Jenna Fischer as his wife.  Mr. Sudeikis is amiable, but Christina Applegate is grating and annoying as his wife and you could see why he may want to stray. Richard Jenkins is pretty funny as what should be an over-the-hill player. Hall Pass is an average comedy that will make you laugh in spots, but also drag in many places as well.

Having trouble sleeping? This movie is a total snooze fest.  Kind of like a poor man's along came a spider.  You've seen it before and it hasn't gotten better.

What They Did in the War Red Tails, 2012 film  This movie was inspired by true events. It starts in the air war over Europe where P-51 fighters escort B-17 bombers. Some fighters are distracted by decoys so the main force of enemy fighters attack the bombers and shoot them down. Next four obsolete P-40s fly over Italy in 1944. One attacks a truck on a highway, then they attack a steam locomotive train. They return to base and read the news. There is a discussion in the Pentagon about this unit. The talk tells about the conditions. One pilot visits a local family. The pilots talk about combat. "Operation Shingle" will place them in support of a beach landing. They approach enemy fighters and fire on them. Four follow a fighter to attack an enemy airfield and destroy ME-109s on the ground. The colonel needs fighter escorts for the B-17s to reduce losses.  One pilot visits the officer's club and starts a fight. A DC-3 brings a colonel with news of new P-51 fighters for their group. Lt. Joe Little rejoins his unit. The Colonel explains why bombers must be defended. Their new fighters will have red tails (for easy identification). They begin to escort a hundred bombers through flak. This time no bombers are lost. One pilot is wounded. Another attacks a war ship. One plane crash lands. A captured pilot is sent to a POW camp. Film cameras recorded the attacks on that war ship. Bomber flyers thank them. They are warned about the German jet planes. The prisoners plan an escape from the POW camp. They will attack a tank factory on the outskirts of Berlin. The Red Tails will fly the first leg. But their replacement does not show up. ME-262's attack the mission with their faster speed. But the P-51's shoot them down (and take casualties).  They stay "on mission". Sophia gets the bad news. The Colonel talks to his men. The captured pilot returns alive. The Distinguished Unit Citation is given to the 332nd fighter group. They received 90 Distinguished Flying Crosses. Sixty were killed in action. The credits at the end thank the Czech Construction Crew. Production services provided by the Croatia Unit, and filmed at Prague Studios ; also Italy and Slovenia. This is worth watching once but it could have used a better script or story. "Flyboys" or "The Battle of Britain" were better movies.  "Double Victory" provides a history of the war from the viewpoint of African-Americans. The 1925 War College Report shows the attitudes of that era. The P-51 was the most advanced propeller-driven fighter in the war. The life expectancy of a fighter pilot was 15 to 22 missions. The ME-262 fighter was 100 mph faster than the P-51, but were shot down by P-51s (and Spitfires and Typhoons). [These propeller-driven fighters were more maneuverable with a shorter turning radius.]

MY GRADE: B minus to B. This is a fun movie that doesn't take itself too seriously.  A spy assassin dude tries to give up his life to marry a girl who is tight with her alcoholic mother and controlling father (played by Tom Selleck).  There's a nice homage to the MAGNUM P.I. mustache and all those crazy spy action comedies from the old days.  Just about everyone you would think would not turn out to be an assassin turns out to be one.  It's definitely over the top so again if you try to compare this to a serious drama you will be disappointed. Additionally, if you don't get the inside jokes or references to the old spy comedies, well, you'll miss some vital points.  The main characters have a somewhat good to good chemistry (that would be Kutcher and Heigl).  The trash talking on Ashton K is unfounded. The budget for this film was $75M and it made a bit over $98M at the Box Office.  CHARACTERS/DIALOGUE: B; STORY/PLOTTING: B minus to B; HUMOR: B minus to B; MY GRADE: B minus to B; WHEN WATCHED: end of June 2011.

Special effects very nice but stupidity ruins the movie I really like the terminator series of movies. What is wrong with the movie? The robots are way too stupid. The people are pretty stupid too.  Thats the main problem. If the director understood warfare tactics only alittle it would move made the movie the best yet.IT would be have more suspense and really more interesting. Id of liked all the people to hide and dart around. That is a major let down.  This is suppose to be the future. The people and machines have been battling for awhile now. They should be expert in killing in each other. I would of liked the people to know where to shoot and robots not to miss. It would of been good if they had some kind of technology to trick the robots. An example, Have the people have remote control toys that drive out and fly around. The terminators can not track more then 10 objects at a time. Something clever. IT would of been so much better. It would of gave a glimpse of the future. The humans and machines merging into one.  Its kind of stupid that the robots shoot and miss and the people are better shots. The people stupidly run away and get killed.  At this time it would just not be possible to be that stupid.   I can understand the use of firepower to suppress an and stop the enemy. The blind shooting and unlimited firepower of terminators is stupidity. The flying robots could afford to use alot of rounds but the humanoid terminators need to be smarter in using firepower.  Then the stupid moments of love and girls are in love and stuff like that. That was pretty disappointing. Id liked some fun and smart alec language. This movie could of had some memorable moments. IT had plenty of opportunity for great banter.  Seeing the movie once is enough. Polish up the movie like I say and people will say its the best yet. PLEASE LISTEN IF YOU ARE THE DIRECTOR.  The first terminator movie is the best of the series. T2 is ok. T3 is going downhill.Terminator salvation is an improvement but does not meet the high standard of Terminator original.

Not great, not disastrous... I like most all of the Perry Mason seasons. The last one is a little tough as Raymond Burr gained a lot of weight & combed his hair forward as if preparing for Ironside. The young law student is the problem here in Season 5. The show is a mature adult show. Perhaps they were pandering to teeny-boppers w/ a pretty-boy, who subtracts rather than adds anything. Sadly, LT Tragg is slowly phased-out, even though the head of Homicide being an overweight man in his 70's is completely unbelievable, you just love him anyway! Luckily Hamilton Burger is re-hired after the wild escapades leading to his firing after Season 3 (see Wikipedia). Unfortunately (or fortunately) we never got to see "The Case of the Pot-Smoking Nudist DA". I deducted 2 stars for missing old friends, & unnecessary new additions. Otherwise this is a 5-star series.

West side blu ray package Deal of the day item nicely done I'm glad I didn't pay more than $25.00 for it . Not really a book that comes with it more like informational flash card for adults. All aside a huge movie fan would appreciate the gift enjoy.

Understand Disappointment But... As a fan of Ridley Scott, I understand the reasoning for releasing the movie in a director's cut edition.  And I understand people's disappointment in purchasing something that they thought might be something else.  BUT...why wouldn't you research before you buy?  Or read the synopsis?  I have the ultimate edition and like both versions of the film but would not have purchased either by itself on DVD or Blu Ray if it was only one version.  Ridley did a similar thing with Alien but was convinced into adding the scenes he originally removed.  And that version honestly is a mockery of the original.  Either way I get why people could be upset if they are a true fan of the original movie soundtrack.  I own the cassette and cd of it myself.  Jon Anderson's Loved by the Sun won't leave my head now for another year.

Sushi !! or You need quiet when a hot dog is singing? Love this movie, just not the Deluxe edition of the DVD.  I have watched this movie so many times--probably a hundred.  I can quote lines from it at will.  I used to have a coworker who loved it as much as me and we would banter around some of the lines as we passed by each other's desks at work!  What a fun movie!  Sadly, when I moved two years ago, I decided I had watched it enough and donated my copy to the library.  Recently when I learned the news that Nora Ephron had passed away, I wanted to watch the bonus features of the original DVD again to hear her talk about the Upper West Side one more time. I regretted giving my copy away. Moving sometimes makes one do really silly things!  When I went to buy a new copy and learned there was a new Deluxe Edition, I bought that instead, thinking it would be even better!  I was wrong.  The Bonus Feature on the Deluxe Edition is not very good and the discussion of the movie between Tom Hanks, Nora Ephron, and Meg Ryan leaves a lot to be desired in my opinion.  It does have a good feature called, "You've Got Charisma" which talks about other screen characters from the 40s and 50s who have on screen charisma.  If you want to own this DVD, I recommend getting a copy of the original DVD because of the great Nora Ephron in the Bonus Features describing the Upper West Side!  You'll be glad you did.

eh... I purchased this movie bc I was interested in films about westward exploration and such during the 1800s.  Having never read the books, I went into this blind.  The storyline was disappointing and there was hardly any depth to the characters asside from Shadrack and the Colonel.  This film, for me, was just "eh"...but my 8 month old liked it.

Close, but no cigar.... Philip Hoffman (L.Ron Hubbard/Lancaster Dodd) is a religious predator, and Joaquin Phoenix (Freddie) is his intended victim.  It's hard to miss the homoerotic overtones between the two men.  Dodd would do anything, push any button (including "manliness"), to get his recruit.  Mainly he uses a kind of recorded questioning technique that garners all the important details about his target's life, which he can later use to manipulate him.  Freddie is crazy (one reason why he looked like prey to Dodd, not to mention his potential role as "the enforcer"), but not crazy enough to fall for it all. At the end, after his most important relationship has been ruined, Freddie is able to remain true to himself and his own goals (but still crazy, possibly even crazier because of the cult).  The acting was great--- religious predator, his techniques, his narcissism, his control/manipulation, and all of his victims.  And it showed that a targeted victim can eventually resist the undue influence, wealth, and power of a cult.  But I think the script was weak.  This was a chance to really make a statement about cults, about religious predators, their wealth, their tactics, the fact that these kinds of leaders permeate the American landscape, often disguised as "mainstream Christian" religion, but very very destructive and evil.  But the movie failed in that respect.  I don't think that Scientology, or any of our many mind-control Bible cult leaders, are quaking in their boots (about their tax-exemption) because of this movie.  And none of the potential recruits have been sufficiently warned either....

Blu Ray quality on first film is "OK", other films are good The video quality on the first disc is muddy and lacks detail. Video quality on the other two trumps the first easily. Hopefully they go back and do a proper reauthoring for any future releases.  If you own the stand alone Robocop Blu Ray, that's the same disc included in this set.  The first movie is ultra violent and this copy contains the extra violence from the Criterion release (so it's the unrated version of the film). This is a good thing.  Audio quality is very good over all, though the second two films seem to have gotten a little more loving there as well.  I paid 25% (75% discount) of the MSRP during an Amazon sale. It was worth this price as a set. If you have to pay $25 or more for the set, pass for now and wait for another sale. Or, wait for a re-release of the original film on Blu Ray, as it certainly deserves better treatment than this.

Good storyline, ridiculously over the top stuntwork While I enjoyed the story line, the stunt work was so ridiculously over the top and unrealistic that it ruined the movie for me.

1/4 of the book - maybe To be fair, it isn't possible for a studio to make a movie of a whole book. Three stars only because so much is necessarily left out and the characters just didn't ring true to me after reading the book for the third time in my life.  My recommendation: READ THE BOOK!  Know his whole story - it's amazing, wonderful, and accurate.  The paperback printing of the book is available through Amazon at a very reasonable price.  P.S. Michaelangelo didn't look a bit like Charlton Heston.

2 and 1/2 Stars: Not Quite True, Not Quite Legendary, But Quality Entertainment I don't know how much of TRUE LEGEND is either `true' or which is more `legend', but I found the end result of Director Yuen Woo Ping's work to present the story as an incomplete parable - one where perhaps the viewer can draw inspiration from to seek out answers to questions regarding martial arts history - but certainly not a `definitive work.'  Or, at least, I wouldn't hope so.  I can only suspect that, if this is based on true events, there may be more story here than what made it to the screen this time around.  While TRUE LEGEND has moments of great entertainment, it felt only half-baked to me, a somewhat mixed bag of effective acting, tremendous fighting, and excellent choreography.  And I couldn't help from wondering what a more accomplished director may've been able to do with the material.  The biggest detraction to TRUE LEGEND is that the end result actually feels more like one, big, sprawling combination of two smaller, incomplete halves.  By the conclusion, I found myself wondering if the project had originally started out as two films - a first flick with a planned sequel - that, for budgetary considerations, were merged together.  The first half runs about one hour and ten minutes, and it deals with Su Can's conflict with a vengeful brother, Yuan; the second half runs about forty minutes, and it explores Su Can's nearly-accidental "discovery" of fighting which prompts him to modify his Wushu style combat into `the Drunken Fist' style.  I say "nearly-accidental" because that's how, narratively, it's structured, with Su Can happening across a demonstration of this new style.)  On reflection, it's easy to see that the first half has plenty of meat-and-bones, though I'm not entirely certain as to how the film could've been expanded despite the fact that the lovely Michelle Yeoh was tremendously under-used here.  Perhaps much of her character was left on the cutting room floor?  There's no way to tell.  Comparatively, the second half is spent almost entirely with fighting as Su Can finds himself battling (to the death!) China's invaders in scenes vaguely reminiscent of territory already explored spectacularly in IP MAN.  Of course, the fight choreography is incredible - TRUE LEGEND arguably contains some of the best hand-to-hand contact put to film - but the story suffers as a consequence.  These two halves are introduced and bridged by graphics which serve to `fill in the gaps' between Su Can's filmed adventures; it's a serviceable technique ... it just isn't all that interesting.  It's worth mentioning that one of the greatest strengths of the film - aside from the martial arts, of course - is the talent of the actors.  As the Su Can, leading man Man Cheuk Chiu brings not only tremendous physical prowess to the role but also he almost exudes a classic `leading man' charisma; when he's onscreen, he owns the screen, and everything accompanying him bends to his obvious charm.  As the nefarious Yuan Lie, Andy On snarls his way through scene after scene, doing his best to match Su Can's graciousness with equal parts venom; these two men are brilliantly paired for the respective roles of `good' versus `evil', and the film benefits greatly from their opposing chemistry.  Xun Zhou is suitably lovely and demure as Su Can's wife and sister to Yuan Lie; she's photographed beautifully and is clearly seen as the inspiration to these two opposing forces.  Like Helen of Troy, it's not hard to see how her loveliness brought these two men into conflict.  The remainder of the players all perform suitably, though some feel underused (as was the aforementioned Michelle Yeoh), but they're most inconsequential to the film's narrative focus.  All in all, TRUE LEGEND is entertaining.  Throughout, it's smartly photographed, well-staged, and flows gracefully - like a martial arts routine - from start to finish.  It just felt more than a bit incomplete to me.  I would rather have enjoyed a greater exploration of these characters - perhaps a handful more of the subtle moments explored between husband and wife Su Can and Yuen Ying - which may've ended up on the cutting room floor or were deemed unnecessary to the fight pace set by the film.  A few other scenes could've pushed the creative envelope, and they could've gone a long way toward honoring the `truth' and `legend' implied by the film's title.

A Great Movie Poor Sound This DVD was a replacement for the VHS tape I have. I was very disappointed in the DVD in that the sound was very poor in listening to the Japanese segments, you could bearly here them. This is not a version that I can recommend to anybody.

love it but dissappointing The story and script are engrossing and Billy Bob gives a fine performance. I have no more to say than the 5 star reviews here. But I have criticism of casting Halley Berry in the lead role. Not because she does not give a fine performance and it is a Dvd I would buy to re-watch again at times but I am too annoyed to buy it. Lets get it straight-she is supposed to be playing a pore black southern woman. So I feel cheated that Hollywood casting should cast Halle Berry whose features are Caucasian if the coffee-colored skin tone is removed. Here was the time to cast a wide nosed thick lipped woman which is far from lacking in beauty. See Michelle Obama or Whooped Goldberg etc. And then there would have been a true inter-racial movie. But actually its not about a subtle racicism as much as what the stereo-typing of beauty is as projected the media. So was this all part of a cop-out by Hollywood to ensure main-stream commercial appeal? Anyway its sad,speaking as a Caucasian female myself, to see even high profile black-pride men with a pale-skinned black woman on their shoulder in too many cases. Here was the opportuniyt to break the media's hold on stereo-typing beauty and it would have made Monster Ball more real since. One of the main themes of the film was exactly inter-racial not pretend so with Halley Berry

The sarcastic dialogue was okay. The sarcastic dialogue was about as far as the enjoyment goes. How can someone continue to devote their attention to a movie when it is clear from the beginning that this Jackie_O chick wasn't the only one who should have been under psychiatric care? His fiancee should have just given her fiance his ring back. Maybe I would watch it on T.V, but I wouldn't go as far as renting or buying it unless I was going to watch it with someone. the movie was a little predictable for me. all except the incestous affair.

It has it moments An enjoyable science fiction movie, with better than expected acting, that builds up to a predictable series of events and a bit of a corny conclusion.  Not bad for some afternoon entertainment.

guns galore reconstruction of gunfight at ok corral and subsequent events garner and robards suited together as earp and holliday several films have been made about this historic event tombstone in particular and my darling clementine all differ i suppose one would have had to been there  to record full events

Okay movie It was a good movie but I would have rather the movie be shown as them hiding out in the panic room unknown to the robbers and trying to get a phone and the theives come upon the idea that someone else is in the house.

Not bad at all!! I give this 3 stars because it is not the best. I do how ever recommend it to collectors of Superhero films and any who collect Superman to complete thier collections. I find that I do enjoy it and it is fun. My daughters loved when they were young. I must have watched this movie 50 times at least over the years. It is obvious that the Salkinds lost thier way with this tale and it needed better writing. The actors as much as they get ridiculed did a fine job. I think the production was lost between serious and camp and did not know which way to turn. The commentary with the director is fun and infomative I recommend you watch it at least once with it. Great price and really not as bad as some say.

Lost Opportunity for a More Creative Romantic Comedy With Drew Barrymore and Justin Long (and some chemistry between their characters), "Going the Distance" could have been an engaging romantic comedy. The film, directed by Nanette Burstein ("American Teen"), has also some original ideas and a brief but decent support from Christina Applegate as the heroine's protective sister, but the end result is underwhelming, and sometimes even irritating.  "Going the Distance" begins with an intriguing premise. While working for a New York newspaper, Erin, (Drew Barrymore) a 31-year-old Stanford grad student, meets a recently jilted guy Garrett (Justin Long) at a bar. They sleep together that night, believing that their relationship will not be a serious one. As it turns out, they are mistaken. Six weeks pass, and Erin has to go back to San Francisco after her intern job is over. Erin and Garrett strive to maintain their love across the country.  Despite its promising start with an interesting concept of lovers separated by a long distance, "Going the Distance" fails to make the most of its unique (and immediate to some) setting because of its flat narrative and uneven tone. Garrett's friends Dan and Box are little more than an excuse for vulgar and unfunny jokes that do not belong here.  "Going the Distance" starts out trying to be something more than just a typical romantic comedy, but loses steam pretty quickly after the nice airport scene before its disappointingly unoriginal wrap-up. This is not a complete mess, thanks to the leads, but is still a lost opportunity for a romantic comedy with originality.

Decent Enough TV Movie Purchased because this was one of those flicks that had a tantalizing scene - one that stayed with me for many years as I caught a portion of the film at some point, but for reasons I can't recall, never finished.  The scene features one of my favorite character actors, Wes Studi, as a senior smokejumper talking about how some survivors of fire can functionally be alive, but are, in actuality, the living dead. He explains to a young recruit how fire can superheat air to the point where it cooks your lungs. That, even if you survived the flames while in a fire tent, you'd find yourself desperately thirsty - a thirst you'd never be able to quench. All the while as you drown in your own fluids. Yikes.  Crazy stuff. And stuff that sticks with you long after the source material has long passed from memory. So I finally picked up a used copy for a decent price, intent on finally finishing this film.  While my curiosity and need for closure was satisfied - my interest was not so easily sated.  'Superfire' is a tv movie with an assembly line script, typical melodrama and cardboard cut-out characters for the actors to step into. No real talent required. And I hate saying that because I happen to be a fan of D.B. Sweeney. An actor who teetered on the edge of stardom back in the 90s, but seemingly lost his mojo at the turn of the millennium. Sadly so, because he still has the chops for good roles. (check out '<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001715A92">Jericho</a>' - one of those amazing short-lived programs that hardcore fans prop up long after its cancellation, myself included)  Tells the story of James Merrick, a cocky flying firefighter who plays fast and loose with the rules. His arrogance costs him everything during one terrible mission. Ignoring instructions to lay down fire retardant at a specific location, he instead goes with his gut instinct, missing a group of trapped smokejumpers. Because of his mistake, they all burn to death. His fianc&eacute; is among those killed. Career in ruins and emotionally devastated - he spends the next few years out of the country flying cargo.  An unusually dry season and shortage of qualified pilots forces fire service management to bring him back into the fold. Understandably, no smokejumper wants him as part of their team. In fact, they're openly hostile to the idea. He's a pariah and he's told in no uncertain terms, do the job exactly as instructed, or he's gone. There won't be a third chance.  Merrick knows fire like a fish knows water, so he has to suppress his instincts when conditions for a legendary conflagration, a type that hasn't been seen since the 1700's, appears to be building. Not only will it destroy one valley town, but unchallenged, it will take out several others along a mountainous range; affecting tens of thousands of people, their homes, businesses, and an incalcuable loss of life. And unimpeded, the superfire could engulf half of Oregon.  But after his previous mistake - will anyone listen to him?  Includes the knucklehead/indepdendent teenagers who find themselves trapped in the mountains; the sexy senior pilot who, despite her intense dislike of the man, slowly begins to realize Merrick may actually be right; the business and political leaders attempting to avoid panicking the public in fear of losing their seasonal holiday money, etc, etc. Again, pretty boilerplate. Decent enough small screen flick, but nothing special of note.

not that scary This isn't a bad movie per se, and you might want to see it if you like the first (warning: you may like the first movie less after watching this). There is too much CG and a confusing plot. Also, Samara is out of character: in the first movie, she's a demon spawn, in this one, she's a needy child who just wants a mother. I think I'm going to read the books and see what the "canon sequel" is like.

Katherine Heigl can't save it As someone who loves the books, I was excited to see the movie. The trailer was funny. But the movie itself just kind of limps with editing that misses the comedy and music that's just a bit on the nose. Katherine Heigl is actually well cast as Stephanie Plum. She does her bit well, but she doesn't have much to work with. The rest of the characters are two-dimensional, and played that way. I don't necessarily blame the actors, they've all done good work in other movies. It's just that the film never catches its rhythm. Still, if you enjoyed the books or are a Heigl fan, this movie might be worth ordering.

Straight transfer of a fuzzy VHS, no cleanup done at all. &lt;strong>NON: Live in Osaka&lt;/strong> (No director listed, 2004)  It's great to finally have this footage, the video from which the live portion of the &lt;em>In the Shadow of the Sword&lt;/em> album is lifted, on DVD. That said, if you were expecting anyone to have actually &lt;em>done&lt;/em> anything to the footage during the DVD transfer--you know, like remastering it--you will likely be disappointed. It's still fuzzy, grainy, hard to make out much of anything that's going on. And the sound quality is identical to that on the CD (it's the fuzziest, most bootleg-sounding recording on my list of 100 favorite albums). If you've already seen the VHS version and you've got the album, you can safely pass on this until there's an attempt at a remastered version. ***

Another Recipe from Nicholas Sparks JK Rowling has the Harry Potter Series, Stephenie Meyer has the Twilight Series, and Nicholas Sparks has the Nicholas Sparks recipe book series. Sparks is the Sparks Author of romantic stories where the main characters usually don't experience the typical happy ending, characters questioning their Christian belief or faith, and whose stories tend to center around a tragedy.  He sells everything he writes and many of his books are readily adapted into blockbuster movies: The Lucky One, The Notebook, The Last Song, A Walk to Remember, Dear John, Message in a Bottle, and Nights in Rodanthe. Though the stories are repetitive and filled with clich&eacute; phrases such as `How do you explain something that you can't even understand yourself?' they do serve an audience hungry for these kinds of tales.  THE LUCKY ONE won't let those people down.  Sgt. Logan Thibault (Zac Efron) is a marine serving in Iraq and we are introduced after some lugubrious footage to the actual war scenes in Iraq where Logan finds a photo of a girl with "keep safe" written on the back. He is admiring it when his unit is attacked. He survives and credits the photo for saving him. He tries to find the owner but can't, assuming he was killed. When he goes back to the States, he finds it difficult to adjust and is still haunted by what happened. Analyzing the photo, he finds in the background a landmark that tells him she is in Louisiana. He then goes there and finds her. He learns her name is Beth (Taylor Schilling), a divorced mother of a cute kid Ben (Riley Thomas Stewart) whose loathsome sheriff ex-husband Keith (Jay R. Ferguson), who happens to be the son of the small town Judge Clayton (Adam LeFevre), makes life miserable for Beth. Beth and her grandmother Ellie (Blythe Danner) still mourn the loss of Beth's brother drake who is still `missing in action' in Iraq. Logan tries to tell her what happened but can't get the words out. She assumes he's there to apply for the job they advertised looking for someone to help at her family's business, a dog kennel. He says yes but at first she gets an uneasy feeling from him but Ellie decides to give him a chance. It isn't long that he makes a connection with Ben and his music ability, has confrontations with Keith, and the rest is entirely predictable Sparks-type ending.  Will Fetters adapted this one for the screen and Scott Hicks directs with a rather heavy hand on the organ tremolo. Of the cast Blythe Danner gives her usual excellent professionalism. The rest of the cast is according to the tastes of the viewers. Efron apparently beefed up his physique for the role but forgot to beef up the acting. The film could stand a good editing to relieve the ennui.  Grady Harp, August 12

Flawed but thought provoking... This genre is not something i enjoy, and i only watched it because it was cheap and i didn't feel like studying...  The flaws that other reviewers have mentioned are definitely there... Nevertheless, i think the movie does work as intended. It is a pretty disturbing plot, in which all the characters are affected in a negative way by the events, and the frequent unfairness and injustice of life is presented rather accurately.  Definitely, not a Hollywood ending. I think it was worth 99 cents for those who like this type of movie, but i would rather not have seen it and studied instead...

Only for 'Versus' Completists I am an unabashed 'Versus' fanatic for the last 10 years and will show it to anyone who has never seen the film. It's campy, over-the-top, Japanese Horror-Action goofiness at its finest and I love it for it.  I have owned 3 different versions of this film: the nearly bare-bones R-Rated DVD <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00009EIRW">Versus</a>, the amazing "Ultimate" 3-disc version with tons of extras and the added action scenes <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000JBXP5W">Ultimate Versus</a> and this new Blu-Ray release. As such, I can only recommend this to fans of the film looking for the best audio quality of all the releases.  I note the audio because the video transfer leaves much to be desired. It is a transfer of the R-Rated version with the color enhancements present from the "Ultimate" version but with the added action bits left out. However, film grain and heavy print damage is hugely apparent even though certain details are definitely enhanced. I can certainly chalk this up to the low budget of the original production but it certainly could have been handled better. For this, HD fanatics will definitely be disappointed with the picture. Fans of the film can pick between watching the Blu-Ray or watching the "Ultimate" DVD on an upconverting player and still enjoy it.  Audio-wise, there is no comparison: The Blu-Ray boasts DTS Master 5.1 Audio that offers the best sound of any version of the film and is fantastic to hear. Otherwise, the extras are all SD and have existed from previous versions of the film.  If you are looking to get Versus in any form and don't care about the HD or DTS audio, go with the "Ultimate" version <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000JBXP5W">Ultimate Versus</a>. If you already have the "Ultimate" Version, grab this to have an HD version of the R-Rated cut to complete your collection of this great film.

Good movie, good DVD Since Amazon unfortunately lumps all reviews of a given work together regardless of medium or edition, I'm writing this to say that my copy of the "Endhiran 2 DVD Special Edition" version is just fine. Good quality, good subtitles, good packaging. Appears genuine and not pirated. The film is not a masterpiece, but it's great eye candy, the story is not overly stupid (albeit predictable), and the acting is fine.

I'm surprised at these reviews I'm honestly surprised at these reviews, because the movie is not that bad.  I watched it months ago with some friends and we pretty much enjoyed it.  I mean it's not The Dawn of the Dead or anything, but it's still a good watch.  I personally liked it because the zombies weren't the run of the mill granny-slow walking zombies.  They actually run and keep you jumping.  I think this is one of those that you have to see for yourself and not really trust the reviews.  Honestly, it's not THAT bad!!!

A Walk to Remember I normally do not like this type of film. I actually randomly came across it on youtube and eventually got the DVD. I really liked the movie. I found the character development of Landon rather interesting and well done. However, I cannot give this movie four or five stars due to two problems. One is Mandy Moore. She plays a Christian in the film, but sure isn't one in real life. I find that to be almost insulting. Then again, I never could understand how actors could play characters that are at least safe to expose children to, if not worthy of admiration, but in real life be some of the most morally bankrupt people I have ever read or seen in my life. The other problem I have with this film is the cursing. It has a lot of unnecessary cursing. The director, if I am remembering this correctly, added quite a bit of cursing to make it seem more 'realistic.' I found it distracting and irritating. I hear enough cursing at the university I attend. I don't need more when watching a movie. Even more ironic is the inclusion of songs by the Christian band Switchfoot. It seems this movie could not make up its mind what tone it was trying to set. I must say it is a good story, but I would recommend not showing this to kids under thirteen, to use a standard cutoff point, if you are trying to not encourage swearing.

Great HD & Surround, Lackluster 3D, Mediocre Movie I was on the fence with this film the first time I saw it, but I liked it a bit more the second time around.  I appreciated the performances, humor and character development more, and after seeing "The Avengers" and then re-watching this film I had more appreciation for the tie-in with that blockbuster.  It also tied in nicely with the "Iron Man" films (don't want to say how or that might spoil it for some).  However, the pace of this film was a bit on the slow side for my taste, and I didn't really care for Steve Rogers' merry band of soldiers or Red Skull.  (The same type of serum that turned Rogers into a super soldier turned another guy's head red and made his nose fall off? What's up with that?)  The visual effects used to reduce Chris Evans from his usual pumped up, muscular self to a 90-lb. weakling were amazing, and the effects were good throughout most of the film.  However, there were a couple of scenes where I thought the effects still needed some work, like the flying wing and few moments that looked like the actors were standing in front of green screens.  Anyway, there were some funny moments and good action scenes, and the HD and 7.1 presentation was great.  The 3D effects were disappointing though.  This wasn't really a surprise given the fact that the movie was filmed in 2D and converted to 3D in post production.  The titles and main menu utilized the 3D gimmick well, but not much else.  One question remains though: why does Captain America bother to wear a cowl when the world knows his identity? Seems pointless, and his costume looks better without it.

Superconductor DVD Review: Blonde Ambition Mark Anthony Turnage's ambitious opera Anna Nicole is a scathing indictment of American celebrity culture, materialism and media hype. It's an opera about the things in society that have replaced opera in the popular culture. Its focus, the rise and fall of a girl from Texas named Vicki Lynn Hogan, who became an international celebrity as Anna Nicole Smith.  Mr. Turnage's score incorporates modern percussion, jazz elements, vaudeville and pure burlesque, underpinned with the clashing, slab-like chords that are beloved of modern composers. He also knows how to write a vocal line for Anna herself and the constant onstage chorus, mixing speech and song with acidic word-play that is sometimes too clever for its own good. The libretto (by Richard Thomas, co-creator of Jerry Springer: The Opera) is one of the work's strong suits, and does not once tone down its language, taking pleasure in the profanity of American English.  An example: at the end of the first act, Mr. Turnage fragments and twists the wedding music from Lohengrin as Anna is married off to 89-year-old oil billionaire J. Howard Marshall. The reference is made, then shattered, twisted and musically glued back together to illustrate the fragmented state of American that led to the celebrity rise of the title character. Irony becomes idiom, three words that describe the music of this opera and the life of its curiously vacant title character.  The score changes idiom in the second act as Anna gets settled into married life. In the "Jimmy Choo" duet, an ode to fetishism and greed is built  around the onomatopoeic sound of the famous designer's name. Mr. Turnage lays on the orchestral textures, moving out of the jazz idiom as Anna balloons in weight, gets further hooked on drugs and falls from grace. Here the music references Stravinsky, Bernstein and Copland. In the last pages of Anna's life, the musical idiom regresses even further, looking back towards Verdi and Puccini as the tragedy spools out.  Eva-Marie Westbroek takes a bravura turn in the title role of the stripper-turned-celebrity-turned would-be heiress. She veers from vapid, girlish innocence into a Faustian bargain with her plastic surgeon Dr. Yes (Andrew Rees). Once her breasts are augmented, Ms. Westbroek does a great job of managing the same physical challenges that were faced by Ms. Smith, acting out the pain and drug addiction in chilling detail.  This is a vocally difficult role, with high, soaring dramatic lines over a sometimes thundering orchestra. Anna goes from raw, idealized sex appeal to an obese nightmare wolfing down pizza, Twinkies and Jif peanut butter as her decline accelerates and the story moves into the 21st century. The Act II scene played  in front of the Smith refrigerator is like H&auml;nsel und Gretel gone to hell, with Stern (Gerald Finley) as a drug-dealing witch. The work mines a deep tragic vein with the overdose of Anna's semi-autistic son Danny and the final tragic death of Anna herself.  The sugar daddies--er, baritonal leads are taken by fine singing actors. As J. Howard Marshall, Alan Oke is a talented physical actor, showing the octogenarian's mix of frailty and lust with good comic timing. He even manages a twisted chemistry with his 26-year-old bride--one sees that they understand and even sort of love each other. Mr.  Finley is brilliant (though poorly recorded) as sleaze-bag lawyer/drug dealer/pimp Stern. Susan Bickley gives a searing portrait of Anna's mother Virgie, a stern law-and-order type who evokes Holly Hunter in Raising Arizona. Mention must also be made of Peter Hoare, dead-on as CNN fixture Larry King.  Although this is a valuable record of the opera's premiere, the production of this DVD was clearly rushed. Sound balance is messy and flawed--probably caused by the issues of hiding microphones from the audience and balancing a large band in the house, a small one onstage and the rock elements in the score. Voices are poorly caught and occasionally drop out altogether. The camera occasionally doesnt know where to look for the action onstage.  There is no question that Mr. Turnage built an important opera from the ashes of Vicky Lynn Hogan's life and career. For now this DVD presentation from OpusArte is the best that New Yorkers can hope for at the moment.

it ain't as bad as they say it is.... being a very harsh critic of 'newer' movies, as i'm semi-old at 44, and have been exposed to the classics, as well as your standard fare of 80's, 90's and the new millenium offerings, i had been a huge skeptic of this film, especially after reading it's theater debut reviews. myself, being a drama/suspense fan, sci-fi originally had been merely an afterthought for most of my life, save for the first alien film, the thing, and the first star wars films. be that as it may, as an avid movie goer, i still, on occasion, found myself in the unconfortable seats of my local movie plex, viewing the latest sci-fi offering, but had skipped this one because of the terrible reviews i had read. well, when this finally, or i should say quickly, made it to dvd, i hesitated, but eventually succumbed, and rented it. while watching it, i was not unimpressed, nor bored at all, but it held my interest quite easily. the c.g. was imprsssive, and the storyline, while not oscar worthy, was acceptable. the acting no better or worse than your avg. sci-fi flick, or any genre, for that matter, of the day. while it drums up memories of a few other sci-fi offerings of the last ten years, it has enough fresh moments of it's own to stand apart from those films, albeit on a slim margin. it's tough to give more specifics, without giving up the ghost, so to speak. i have to disagree with the critics, and give this film a 'worth watching' rating. after all, what sci-fi movies ever win an award anyway?

Get them both! I suppose I consider myself a superfan of the show, and have seen it the most of any musical out there. That being said, I can't really pick a favorite over-all show, since the performances are so different. I will say that the 25th version has WAY more musical numbers than the 10th and makes more sense of some storylines than before. My argument for the 25th would be to fill in the missing blanks...and I love a good Thernardier couple either way. Props for casting the same lady as Madam Thernardier both times, made that an easy decision for me!  But, with the exception of Lea Salonga as Fantine in the 25th, the 10th just feels more...real to me. I guess I am partial to the 10th, mostly because of the performers involved. Jean Valjean is a somewhat flexible character vocally...but I love Colm's delivery in some areas better. Who Am I, Bring Him Home, etc. Also a toss-up for Javert (except for his death...Philip Quast gave me the shivers on his last note), Eponine, Cossette, and others. But for me, Michael Ball will forever and always be the voice of Marius, and Nick Jonas just doesn't bring the depth to it. Empty Chairs at Empty Tables doesn't have that raw, suffering emotion to it that Michael Ball gave it in the 10th. He really made you believe he was the only survivor. Nick brings the pop star to the table, and I feel the casting was more for looks than for voice. He can sing the part...just not as dynamically as Michael did. I am a musician, so naturally I notice music changes as well. I find that the 10th had more dynamic and powerful music, especially during the musical 'call-back' to Bring Him Home, after the battle sequence. For some reason, it just feels more somber and sad. Also I find that One Day More is somehow more electrically charged in the 10th.  Take a risk, get them both and decide for yourself. Now if only there were some way to mash together my favorite numbers from each show...hmm...

Well... I admit when I first watched this movie years ago...I thought it was horrible just horrible. The only good part was see the "lead" girl naked. I quote lead cause about a third of the way through the focus shifts from her as the main character to one of the males. All that was before I got more interested into plot development and mythology. As years went by and I thought about it, its not a bad movie. While the twist at the end has been done before in some ways it still works. Plus there is an interesting theory used for why violence was used in the Inquisition and medieval trials. Its differently worth checking out.

Not great, not as bad as all that. I was nervous about watching this with all the negative reviews but I enjoyed the previous movies so gave it a try.  The story is fairly predictable and some of the characters are not very deep.  This is especially true of Jessica Alba's character (she did a good job, there was just nothing to work with for her character).  She plays a very one dimensional drug rep who coaxes Ben Stiller's character into promoting a new ED drug.  Overall, I think they stuck with the formula that worked for the first movies but it is getting a little over done.  I did laugh several times in the film but mostly you smile at some of hte scenes.  In the middle it does drag out a bit and again, is fairly predictable.  However, that said it is overall a solid comedy and worth a rental-not so much on the buying in my opinion.

Ranson Pride The Last Rites of Ransom Pride is a piece of modern-day western film-making which seems out of the Something Weird catalog.  The Film's  cast seem familiar to TV and Movie watchers everywhere.... Blade's Kris Krissofferson, Classic 90210's Jason Priestly, NCIS's  Cote de Pablo, Game of Thrones's Peter Dinklage, True Blood's Lizzy Caplan, and Dwight Yoakam. With a cast like this you expect good things, what you get is a disjointed darken  mess. Don;t blame the cast, blame the script they had to work with  It takes place in 1901, however the look of the film seems early 1940's. This film  is shot in a dark hues and shadows that you cannot see who is who unless they speak. Even the sub titles for the Spanish that is spoken seem written over stylish in a font almost like Chinese.  The story is as most simple western's genre is.  Juliette Flowers (Caplan) is trying to bring her lover's body home from Mexico for burial. His body is held prisoner by a disfigured Mexican voodoo priestess Bruja (Spanish for witch) played in too much make-up by Cote de Pablo, whose father was killed by Ranson Pride.  In this odd trek of a Journey, Juliette and Ranson's brother Champ (Jon Foster) encounters Pride's  bereaved father (Yoakam), a bitterly articulate dwarf (Dinklage),  and Pride's uncle who is a  scripture-quoting killer (Krissoffeson)  Director Tiller Russell, who is know for his documentary filmmking, has shot this film too dark and in shadows. That does not transfer were to a blue-ray or DVD watching. The performances of his actors seem over  staged and over done, rather than coming from a real place. When a film seems real, it works..thar is why this does not work at all.  If you like star vehicles, watch this. However if you like westerns, miss this at all costs.  Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD

Just like the trailer... The movie trailer told you everything you needed to know about this one. Scorching title track ("The Wolf" by Fever Ray), Amanda Seyfried and those "great big eyes" of hers, Gary Oldman trying (and failing, yet again) to make this movie cult, and two hot men with miraculously coifed hair despite the fact they live in a farming village, population: 250, location: The Woods. The women too are so packed with makeup I was waiting for the Avon lady to show up at any moment. (Perhaps Dianne Wiest from Edward Scissorhands?)  The dialogue is so supremely awful at times you have to hope director Catherine Hardwicke was aiming to make this film as much like a fairy tale as possible. If I remember right, old-time fables are not known for their witty banter. But saying that, Hardwicke failed to commit fully to the fairy tale theme. She's got the imagery down, but the themes cockeyed. This movie tries to be unique, yet stays within the boundaries of a Hollywood blockbuster. As a viewer, you feel like you're watching something that could be great, but somehow misses the mark because it quickly drags the story to fall within your expectations again. I wanted to be surprised - and sometimes I was - but overall, I'm disappointed this film wasn't better considering how amazingly fecking awesome it could have been.

Good movie for the family The story line was just okay, but the animation looks fantastic on Bluray.  Also my kids loved the "bunny splat" mode on the disc.  You can throw bunnies at the screen throughout the movie using our PS3 controller.  The combo pack falls really short because there was no "digital copy" included.  The studios have to understand this should be a standard for combo packs, charge $5 more, but include the digital copy!  Also amazing to see actor like Matthew Taylor monitoring and responding to the fan via Amazon feedback.  Power to the people!!

voyerism It kept me entertained not because it was good but in fascinated horror as an ex-.Londoner.This film has a documentary type value for how far English culture has sunk post-Thatcher.It shows the working class ware-housed in " the projects ". Its all explaned in"Life at the Bottom" by Theodore Dalrymle. Basically the upper classes moved into the middle-classes. Want the proof see how middle-class Kate Middleton married Prince William. This has the effect of down grading the working classes further.Plus a shocking lack of investment in their education and mobility even if they aspired to it. So this film shows the extent of dumb-down.  There used to be a certain Lore even being at the bottom but Dee the crack-head is full of the most awful.short-cuts on the short-cuts in the way he talks and thinks..Even the cool head trying to buy his gun turns out to have a veneer of sense or self-control. Then the film is marred by A Nutter roaming the the project as king of the hood.He's too old not to be tucked up in a cell with Comcast ( nevertheless involved with a nefarious life on the out-side by cell-phone or during visting time.) But he is in the film because he's the innate trigger for all the violence seeing as its his gun. Its a boring film because there is too much footage spent on blokes getting their face smashed in. However Dee puts in a great performance at the end.

Women in Tights I really looked forward to this movie, hoping it would be Natalie Portman's break out role, but alas it was little more than <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001TOD92C">The Wrestler</a> with ballerinas.  Aranofsky has no knowledge of how the ballet, much less the creative process, functions.  What he tries to create is another visceral experience, filled more with "wet dreams" than any sense of dance or the stage.  Since Natalie is obviously not much of a dancer, we see this production almost entirely from behind her right shoulder.  Symbolic perhaps, but downright annoying when it comes to seeing any dance.  Of course this movie is not about dance, it is about poor Nina's painful metamorphosis, as she tries to shake the claustrophobic world of her mother (Barbara Hershey), who had forsaken dance to have her, and get past her own limitations of "perfection."  Mila Kunis adds a little intrigue as Lily, but Aronofsky uses her as little more than a sexual foil to Nina's growing ambitions.  The ballet master might as well have been played by Piers Morgan, as he does little more than frown and genuflect when Nina fails to give him the "black swan" he so much desires.  He taunts her into masturbating, supposedly to unleash the sexual energy he is looking for in the role.  Portman spends most of the time looking lost and confused, not sure where Thomas (Seymour Kassel) is going to go next, until she finally gets her moment on stage and literally becomes the black swan.  Although I have to say I was impressed with Winona Ryder's portrayal of Beth.  Ryder is virtually unrecognizable, and gave the character more emotional energy than any of the other actors did their characters.  In the end this is little more than a children's story with some steamy scenes for adults, fading out exactly as had The Wrestler.

Not very great The sets are impressive - particularly in the Beast's lair, which is bizarrely beautiful - and the photography is good.  The acting is tolerably up-to-par.  Some of the effects are good (flames coming from hands, a fairly decent stop-motion animated spider, just to name a few.)  BUT, the characters are one-dimensional (or, in the case of the hero, no-dimensional.)  The music is bombastic and annoying, and I'm pretty sure the soundtrack is monaurial.  The plot is inanely shallow, taking much for granted which should have been explained or justified, and spending too much time on trivia (seriously we needed more story, less rock-climbing & horse-wrangling.)  It's a quest, the dark-fantasy equivalent of a road movie, which shouldn't be hard to make interesting.  Unfortunately no time is taken to establish a sense of wonder, so our exploration of the world of Krull feels exactly like a tour of the British sound-stage where most of it was shot.  The band of adventurers meet with many challenges along the way, but these obstacles are overcome with such childish ease they become tedious.  The viewer starts muttering "Let's just get to the end already!"  The fight scenes look slow & amateurish, and the editing has been carefully done to minimize any excitement or suspense the viewer might feel.  Any effects which are not good (see above) are terrible (flaming horse hooves, a plastic-faced cyclops, a self-destructing "changeling" just to name a few.)  Rear-projection and rubber puppets were used, with no attempt to disguise them.  This movie is a mixed bag; I can't really decide whether I hate it, or sorta like it.  As I said, the set designs are gorgeous.  The movie contains many fascinating fantasy concepts left woefully undeveloped in its juvenile and pointless script, good ideas left bare and bereft like a skeleton without any flesh on its bones.  This COULD have been a good movie, so on the basis of its potential I will give it the benefit of the doubt and award 3 stars.  Just barely.

Another non iTunes digital copy! Ugh!! Great seller.  3 stars for product. The not so great review is for the product only. Seller gets 5 stars. I have nothing but disdain for any digital copy medium other than an iTunes Digital Copy. The process of procuring said copy is cumbersome & unreliable. Even after two rounds with Paramount tech support I am still unable to download my "included digital copy". My last correspondence was "nevermind, I will make my own digital copy". Ultraviolet digital copies will never become mainstream as long as they have these types of issues. iTunes has always been "enter code & bam it's downloading". I refuse to purchase a blu-ray with a non iTunes included digital copy. I still haven't seen "The Lorax" for this reason.

Eh This isn't a great movie, but it isn't awful either. I chanced to see this on TV the other day, otherwise I wouldn't have seen it. It's an all right flick for a rainy day afternoon or whatever, but I can't recommend this even for rental unless you're a die-hard Eddie Murphy fan. There's a few funny parts in here, but the film pans out at a so-so 2.5 out of 5 stars but because I can't give half-stars, I'll just give a three.

Filled a time gap The special effects were good...however, the story itself was pretty plain.  No real plot line, nothing cohesive or new, simply a handful of rehashed story concepts smashed together with some good effects to hold your attention.  There were even portions in the movie that to me (a sci-fi fan) didn't make sense.  Aliens travel the galaxy to dominate earth...and their spacecraft has to "hop" around the ocean?  Yeah...kind of a leap. ;P

it was ok just ok definitely not a must see. I was expecting more from what seemed like a great movie. I almost fell alseep on this movie. over all i give it a c+

"We're never going to find the portal.  We're going to be trapped here forever!" King Tut was not who we thought he was, according to this miniseries.  He was a super duper gold winged guardian of goodness for all mankind....or, something like that.  It lost a little in the translation.  At any rate, he flew! Meanwhile, eons later, another super duper hero appears to champion the cause of goodness....or, something like that.  Casper Van Dien, as Professor Danny Freemont, is the only one who stands between us and the abyss of darkness that looms large, thanks in part to an EVIL group known as The Hellfire Council!  Poor Danny Freemont (I loved how they had to use his full name all the time, like it was a brand name), is hardworking but bested at every turn by an old geezer, Professor Sinclair (Jonathan Hyde).  Danny Freemont might be young, handsome, and enthusiastic but he's no match for the EVIL Professor Sinclair, who dispatches people left and right, sometimes in full view of witnesses! Yeah, this was your typical race against time to find the 4th piece of an ancient emerald doodad type of flick.  Said doodad has great POWERS!  And it's pretty.  The Hellfire Council thinks it's their ticket to worldwide domination but the EVIL Professor Sinclair knows better.  Danny Freemont doesn't know a damn thing but he keeps trying because he's plucky.  Oh yeah, there's also a soothsayer whose premonitions look like a bad LSD trip. That pretty much sums up the plot.  Plus....there's a lot of digging perfectly round holes, time for gambling, a ton of phony treasure maps, a spy, Danny Freemont's reputation is ruined, and there's a real snarky doctor of something or other (Leonor Varela).  There's also CGI winged monsters that may or may not be real, depending on the POV. Casper plays Danny Freemont like he's a used car salesman....HAVE I GOT A DEAL FOR YOU!  As an actor, Casper is functional, he gets the job done but he's not memorable.  Jonathan Hyde, as the truly EVIL Professor Sinclair, looks like he missed an open casting call for The Matrix.  His performance as the villain probably kept his Shakespearian colleagues in stitches.  He sneered a lot.  He sneers well.  But there needs to be more to villainy than bugging out your eyes and sneering.  As for poor Malcolm McDowell, who has not aged well, he sits a fine seat and would be great for ads about constipation.  Not a happy face. As adventure films go, this one went on for a very long time before it got to its Oz-like ending.  The climactic battle sequence lasted about two blinks.  Best part of the experience, the dynamite guy with little patience for those who can't make up their minds.  I know just how he felt. I didn't mind viewing this once, but that's my limit.  Not a keeper.

LOVE the Wiggles, but .... We were anxiously awaiting this release.  We LOVE the Wiggles.  However, this dvd is the least favorite of them all.  The music and dancing are fun.  The days of the week are confusing and since when are they associated with a certain food?  Certainly they could have found some more creative and meaningful way to celebrate food.  They are the WIGGLES!  Also, the introduction of the new Field baby and the song on safe ways for a baby to sleep is totally innappropriate for a preschool video.  Since when is this a responsibility of a child or even a child's thought?  I do not want my child worrying about Sudden Infant Death.  This is an adult concern entirely.  We want our fun and silly Wiggles back!  Toot-Toot Chugga Chugga!

an interesting premise, but weak writing prevents Catacombs from being a more effective thriller... A chilling, and at times claustrophobic adventure, the subterranean horror thriller Catacombs (2007) is set in Paris, where far below the surface, an extensive system of underground tunnels and chambers is supposedly home to a crazed cannibalistic killer.  While the film is generally well shot and effectively creepy at times, much of film's effectiveness is lost due to the poorly written characters who behave illogically, in an attempt to heighten the drama.  While Catacombs does deliver some solid thrills, the annoying characters, and suspect story, contributes to a film that leaves you with a bad aftertaste.  Spoilers follow.  Victoria (Shannyn Sossamon) comes to Paris at the invitation of her sister Carolyn (Alecia Moore, aka Pink), and is introduced to her friends, who take great delight in scaring her for fun.  The sisters and the rest of the group attend a secret rave party, being held illegally in the underground tunnel system.  The group slips away to take a dip in a subterranean pool, but Victoria decides to head back to the party.  Wandering through the tunnels, Victoria has just been joined by Carolyn, when they are attacked.  Carolyn is apparently killed, and Victoria is being chased through a maze of tunnels, by someone wearing a goat's head mask.  Victoria manages to escape, and rejoins the rave party, when the sudden appearance of the police, causes a mass exit, during which Victoria is knocked out.  She wakes up alone, and attempts to find a way out, but discovers that she is trapped behind locked gates.  She encounters Henri (Emil Hostina), who is also trapped inside, and using his map, they attempt to make their way to the surface, but later come to a parting of the ways.  Amazingly, Victoria's skimpy party dress doesn't get torn to shreds during her ordeal.  The situation is extremely farfetched, but given it's a horror film, it's not that difficult to go along for the ride, and ignore things like the practical considerations of setting up a bar, and lighting and sound system in a cave, which then magically disappears.  Once Victoria is alone, things do settle down and become more tense, although she proves to be very loud and annoying, and when in danger, always seems to do things that draws attention to herself.  Shannyn Sossamon carries the film well enough, and appears to be taking the term "scream queen" to heart.  Although noisy, Victoria actually does some intelligent things, and several times is on the verge of getting to safety.  Along the way she acquires an axe, and they become inseparable.  When Victoria falls into a pool of water, she somehow manages to swim to safety, while still clutching the heavy tool.  And she can also run like a jackrabbit, not injure herself, and maintain her balance, while still carrying the pickaxe.  This is no easy task, but for Victoria, the pickaxe seems light as a feather.  The twisty ending provides a definitive finish, to a story filled with mostly unlikeable characters.  Put through hell, you can certainly empathize with Victoria, but only so far, which makes the film something of a disappointment.  The conclusion leads you to believe that there is no masked killer in the tunnels, but had writers and co-directors David Elliot (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002NXSRVG">G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra</a>), and Tomm Corker, managed to feature a real threat, that suddenly appears and kills everyone, Catacombs might have been a much more satisfying thriller.

Should you buy it? I'm a big "BritCom" fan, and also own the series.  Yes, it's true the series is much better than this movie.  As has been stated previously, there really isn't a lot of new material here: it's truly a stitching together of a new script from patches of dialogue from the series.  So if you think you've heard the joke before, you have.  However, that being said, many people can't afford the price of the series (although thankfully, I noticed that it's been on sale for half of the original asking price).  If for some reason, you love AYBS but can't fork out the money for the series, this isn't a bad way to get a taste of it.  That's what I did, and although I hardly ever watch this movie anymore (I'd much rather pop in one from the TV series), it can satisfy your AYBS cravings temporarily.

Not the best, but watchable. The animators for this took away from the episode more than they added to it, and the story did seem somewhat out of character, and The Doctor was portrayed more on quirks than actual substance. But as a collector of all Who knowledge, I'll give it 3 stars.  Decent, but definitely could have been better.

Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before... SPOILER FREE (mostly)  Cabin in the Woods is a movie who's success depends largely on how much you pretend the core joke is funny.  For me, It was funny as in smirk funny, but not really LOL funny.  For some people, this will be a riot.  For others, a stale shaggy dog story.  I'm a little in the middle.  On the surface this is In the Mouth of Madness meets Army of Darkness.  I don't think it's as threatening a premise as the former or as charming as the latter, but it does burn 90 minutes with some occasionally creative touches.  Maybe this is more Evil Dead meets Buffy.  Is it SAW meets Blade? Or is it Event Horizon meets Big Brother?  All of the above.  That's the whole point.  The "monster's ball" of mayhem sequence is probably the most riotous fun of Cabin in the Woods, but the rest of the movie doesn't quite hold up.  The ending especially is pretty flat.  The rest of the film builds so much to it and it feels like Goddard and Whedon forgot that in referencing so much other mateiral, they really need to write something good of their own. The whole thing feels as disposable as a Big Mac container. There was a better last 2 or 3 minutes instead of what/who they threw up there before the credits roll.  Or they ran out of money, which is a possibility.  You could do worse, but I've already heard this joke a few times and it was better told and more entertaining when Kevin Williamson called it Scream.

Beware of "rental versions" from used / third party sources In a very embarrassing move from Summit Entertainment, they released a separate "Rental Version" that not only removes special features, but also the HD audio. Be very wary if purchasing this disc used or from a third party. Personally I would assume it to be this ruined rental version unless they specifically state in their description or title that it is **not** the rental version.

Mediocre, but Mildly Entertaining War Film Men in War (1957) is a standard small unit war drama film, which depicts the remnants of a platoon from the US 24th Infantry Division during the opening stages of the Korean War. All of the events occur on a single day, which is listed as September 6, 1950. The main protagonist is Lieutenant Benson (portrayed by Robert Ray) and the main antagonist is a Sergeant First Class Montana from the First Cavalry Division (portrayed by Aldo Ray).  The film begins with the aftermath of a North Korean attack on Benson's unit, which has left him isolated from his normal chain of command. Apparently the rest of his battalion `bugged out' or was killed and the sole radio is soon knocked out by a sniper. Ray shows up with his catatonic colonel, in the process of `bugging out' himself. This film was produced without DoD cooperation and on a very low budget and it shows throughout. Indeed, the quality is about that of an episode of the later TV series Combat! (and since Vic Morrow has a minor role in the film, it really feels like Combat!, just minus LT Handley and Kirby). Overall, Men in War is a pretty mediocre war film, which is why one reason that it is so obscure, but it is mildly entertaining and the other reason for its obscurity derives from the amnesia that the United States has about the Korean War.  While the enemy only make rare appearances in Men in War, there are a number of other items that were omitting that greatly reduce the verite of this film. First, there are no Korean civilian refugees, even though this was a major problem for the US Army in Korea in September 1950. Second, there is no indication of US aircraft overhead, even though the US Air Force was pounding the North Korean Army pretty hard at this point. Third, heat does not appear to be a major factor in this film but in the real Korean War in September 1950, heat exhaustion and dehydration were real problems, too.  In addition, the filming location in California is a poor substitute for the mountainous terrain along the Naktong River - it simply isn't even close. Put it all together and you get a rather generic war film, as if Platoon had been filmed in somebody's backyard.  The film is obviously set up to focus on the conflict between LT Benson and SFC Montana, despite how silly that appears to anyone with military service experience. This device has been used repeatedly by Hollywood, including in Platoon and later movies, but it usually just nonsense inserted to add dramatic tension. It's a war for Pete's sake, isn't their enough dramatic tension already? Despite what other reviews have expressed, I found Robert Ryan's portrayal of LT Benson as rather weak. Ryan himself was nearly fifty when he played this role, which makes him ludicrously old for this rank. He also spoke pretty good Korean, too, for someone who could only have been in country for at most two months (more than I could speak after a year as a LT in Korea).  I was struck by his casual lack of concern for the welfare for his men and his pig-headed pursuit of a `mission' that was clearly OBE (overcome by events). Aldo Ray's character is far more in tune with the situation and most of what I liked about this film was SFC Montana. He knew the deal and seemed to be the only one with any real combat savvy.  Ryan leads his half-platoon to utter obliteration in pursuit of a ridiculous objective and then seems to shrug his shoulders, "guess my boys are all dead."  He reminded me of Rip Torn in Dr. Strangelove: "My boys let me down." Not exactly paternalistic leadership.  The other thing that's memorable about this film is the sense of defeat and isolation, which is something that modern audiences are not so accustomed to seeing in a film about American soldiers. Most modern war film tend to emphasize technology and how ours is so much better than the opposition's, but in this case, it's just not a factor. The US Army suffered some terrible defeats in the opening months of the Korean War and it was not unusual for small units to find themselves on the run, as depicted in Men in War. Despite possession of atomic bombs and strategic bombers, the US infantry were hard-pressed and often fighting for their survival. Today, war is almost seen as a "safe thing" (low casualties, robot drones, minimal risk of defeat, etc), but if Men in War can remind even a few people today that there are no guarantees in war - even that our troops can lose - it may still have some value.

A mindbender that left me not knowing what really happened This was a hard story to figure out because I didn't know what to make of the characters.  Was Marc crazy?  Was his wife crazy?  Was his wife sadistic?  Were all his friends in on some sadistic joke, too?  The truth is hard to figure out because it's unclear if this story is being told in chronological order or not.  If not, then is the story moving backwards?  Are we seeing flashbacks?  Are we going in circles? That remains unanswered, so if you like tidy endings, this movie isn't for you.  As far as the meaning behind this story, I thought this might be an artistic way of expressing unconditional love for someone.  When you love someone, it feels wonderful and warm...but it's also full of doubt because trust issues are involved.  Towards the end, Marc makes an important decision to leave evidence behind.  By doing so, was he making a decision to love Agnes anyway, despite his doubts?  But then, doubts never go completely away, do they?  Can you ever really know someone?  But then I thought maybe this has to do with being overly dependent on someone.  In one scene, he writes to Agnes, "Without your eyes, I see nothing."  And so, maybe this is really about a person who stays in an unhealthy relationship because they can't let go.  Without this person, they are nothing.  This movie was quite the mindbender, so much so that I left not knowing what really happened.

personal opinion I have been a great fan of Mission impossible since its Conception.Realizing the "age" of the principal actor,replacement of the charactors ,and the technical advancements,for some reason this series, at least for me, lacks the drama and suspense ! have always enjoyed before.

Mission Impossible meets Angelina Jolie I did not see any reviews or trailers before I watched Salt, so it surprised me. I thought it was going to be more comedic, as in Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Instead, Angelina plays a Russian in a role more similar to the Bourne series or Mission Impossible movies.  Either way, you know it's a Hollywood movie with a mega star and budget, so there will be special effects galore, a semblance of a plot with holes large enough to drive a truck through - pop corn movie? Yup, that's the sum of it.  Some of it is predictable, there were some surprises, the ending was so obviously a set up for the sequel - couldn't they have been a little more subtle?  This movie certainly did not exhaust anyone's acting skills, nor will it ever be considered art. But it is entertaining, fast paced. I'll rent the sequel, but not buy the DVD.

Well...it took an hour, but... Jefferson in Paris has some major shortcomings--the slow paced beginning, and the over emphasis on the dramatic French back-drop; the on-paper, verbose courtship with an idealistic, love-starved woman...however, at the half-way point, I felt certain themes were nicely realized.  Poor clueless Maria Cosaway, told all about the greatness of American society, but her politician would be lover.  Thomas Jefferson, who loves freedom almost as much he loves his own opinions.   Greta Sacchi gives a sensitive portrayal of this dame with no clue--and you can't help feel sorry for her when bitter-with-her reason-Patsy breaks the news that Jefferson has been seducing his slave, Sally Hemings (which history supports.)  Nick Nolte and Thandie Newton smolder here, by the way, and actually feel that their characterizations were better (in terms of head games and lust) than Neill/Ejogo in the CBS miniseries.  However, Mare Whittingham's Martha is much more vicious and sour than Paltrow's (but maybe that is just as well.)  My advice; see both.  This film is not as strong, but it has excellent moments and subtleties; including James Earl Jones as Madison Hemings, who in fact discussed his paternity/parentage after the civil war.  and the Soundtrack is amazing.

Perhaps 1 too many MI?? All the elements of a Mission Impossible (MI) are there but for some reason, this one seemed to lack a certain snap for me. Felt scripted to me. I know, all films are scripted but this one had that, lull between "events", special effects, feel to it. Oh, this one is Ok but nothing special and I still like the first MI film the best. When only an action film will do and nothing better to watch.

Doesn't quite demand your attention... While I feel that as a film, there isn't much here that is going to pull me in for another viewing, it is hard to really fault `Along Came a Spider' since it does so much of what it attempts rather precisely.  The suspense is there when needed, and the twists come and go with intended impact and yet, when all is said and done I can't seem to really care to see the film again.  I think maybe that has to do with the fact that, while it does everything with fine effect, it doesn't do anything `special'.  `Along Came a Spider' is a decent crime-thriller that sports a fine performance from Morgan Freeman (who could very easily have phoned this in and yet he surprisingly doesn't) and a clever twist here and there, but that is all.  I much preferred the films predecessor, which is actually a sequel to this film (`Kiss the Girls') which, while certainly teetering on the generic in certain respects, contained a savagely sincere performance from Ashley Judd that elevated the film immensely.  `Along Came a Spider' doesn't equal that intensity.  It is far from a bad film, but it isn't a film you'll remember in the morning.

OK film from the late '70s Killer's Delight, also known as The Sports Killer and The Dark Ride, is a serial killer film from 1978 that is not especially frightening, insightful, or suspenseful. The basic premise is that young women are turning up dead, evidently victims of the same killer. Sgt. Vince de Carlo (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6305161895">James Luisi</a> and his psychologist girlfriend (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001XRLWPQ">Susan Sullivan</a>) are on the case, but it's clear that their involvement also puts them at risk.  There are some nice aspects to this film. It's generally well acted and does a fairly good job of capturing the look of the late '70s (always interesting for nostalgia). At about 80 minutes, it's lean and doesn't overstay its welcome. But in the end, there just isn't all that much to recommend about Killer's Delight. Apparently, this movie was loosely based on the real-life <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416559590">Ted Bundy</a> murders.

Ok But Kinda Boring This movie is a stripped down version of Resistance Fall of Man + Black Hawk Down + District 9.  The Prawns from District 9 come back to take all the food from our cats.  They bring the Angels borrowed from the Chimeran this time.  Angels means trouble!  The retiring solder is being pulled back for duty.  And you know the rest.  I think this is an ok movie if you don't ask for too much drama.

Great Film, But The Outfits Got To Go I thought this would be series was great fun. Wonderful production values. It was not done cheaply like so many rebots, remakes, etc. etc. etc. At first I could not accept young Ryan Carnes as The Phantom, but when I realized that this was like a sequel and not a remake, I was fine with it. Young Kit (Carnes) was yet another son of the last Phantom. Too bad the last Phantom died because it would have been great to see Billy Zane reprise his role as the Phantom. I am in my 70's and I've been a fan of The Phantom since my Aunt Mary used to read me the comic strip in the Sunday American here in Chicago. So I do know a little of the subject of which I speak. In fact I learned how to read because of my interest in the comics such as Dick Tracy, Smilin' Jack, Invisible Scarlet O'neil, Brenda Starr and Terry & The Pirates.  And before I go on with my review, let me say that, that outfit the the new Phantom had has got to go. It's terrible. Too bulky, terrible headpiece. I don't know what they were thinking with that terrible outfit. And you couldn't even see if it was really purple! What were they thinking-an Iron Man type outfit? They can make fun of the spandex outfit all they want , but that was The Phantom. Billy Zane looked great in that original Phantom suit. And that silly outfit Kit was in was not really The Phantom. Just another Super Hero jumping from roof to roof. And that very complaint of mine may be the reason the two part series was not picked up to go on in a reguler series! No doubt. To bad too because like I stated it was a good story and concept. And one more complaint (sorry about that) if your a fan of Isabella Rossellini and expect to see her a lot of her in this film, forget it. Isabella has a short role in it. All together she may be in the movie 10 or 15 minutes. And she too had an ugly headpiece. A gawky foolish blonde wig and terrible make-up. Why a great actress like Isabella would take such a role I'll never understand. But when she speaks you can close your eyes and hear the voice of her Morher Ingrid Bergaan. Who in my humble opinion was one of the greats in The Glory Days of Hollywood. The colors in this film are gorgious. Sharp & clear. And the acting is some of the best I've seen. And the new young Phantom is a good interesting actor and very youthfully good looking. I sincerly hope Ryan Carnes makes it. He's got the looks and talent. And in the 'Glory Days  he would be a big star. Well the film was made a couple of years aga and I didn't even know it existed until I seen it advertised on Amazon. Well that's my humble review and if anyone would like to drop ma an email, fine.  robert,anderson110@comcast,net

Skip It I've learned not to expect too much from most horror movies, but I still manage to be entertained by most of them.  This is an exception.  I wanted to like this movie, but it just never came together.  The scares weren't scary, the story didn't make sense, and the times I felt like something big was going to happen all fell flat.  If you can see this one for free, and have time to waste, go for it.  Otherwise, don't waste your time.

Don't expect 'Raging Bull' and you'll be satisfied Hadn't seen 'Rocky' in twenty years or more until just recently.  I was reminded that it's a somewhat peculiar mix of saccharine, entertainment, cliche and inspiration.  More interesting than much of the movie is the story of how Stallone got it made and how it vaulted him to superstardom.  Would give ol Rock three and a half stars if I could.

Slow to pick up Although, the message and the graphics of this movie are quite alluring,  I found the movie to be a little too slow to pick up.  The first hour is very uneventful and only well within the second hour of the picture, we truly see the movie come alive.  I loved how they presented the old movies and how they were made.  The acting was pretty good.  Although,  I find the Hugo character, very whiny for most of the length of the movie.  I think, they should have cast a less sad and whiny character to play the part of Hugo.  Not the boy's fault of course, but how the character was imagined in the movie.  For me, was good to watch only once.

Galactica 1980 and other Battlestar movies. Like many Battlestar fans, I was disapointed with the way Galactica 1980 was done.  I recently saw the episodes from Galactica again and I still feel the same about it now as when the series first aired.  I do agree that the last episode about Starbuck is the best from the 1980 series.    I have not read all the reviews yet, so I don't know if anyone has mentioned this.  But I remember in the early 80s a channel from the Califonia Bay area aired a series of Battlestar movies on tv.  Some were multi part episodes shown together like the first movie, the Gun on Ice Planet Zero, etc.  Others were individual episodes connected together, such as Murder on the Rising Star and the Young Lords, Fire in Space and The Magnificent Warriors.  One of movies that was made of two individual episodes was The Return of Starbuck from Galactica 1980 and Experiment in Terra from the original Battlestar series.    The movie starts of with the Return of Starbuck, following the episode the way it aired in 1980 up to the point where the pregnant woman was found.  At this point the program takes a different turn.  All footage and reference to the mysterious woman is eliminated and instead goes to where Cy and Starbuck have the shootout with the other cylon warriors.  After that instead of Starbuck being stranded on the planet as seen in the Galactica 1980 version, Starbuck gets into his makeshift ship made from the wreckage of his viper and blast off to rejoin the Colonial fleet.  Here the show transitions into the episode Experiment in Terra.  I clearly remember seeing this and being happy that Starbuck at escaped from the planet and rejoined the fleet.  I don't know who specifically handled the producing of these movies, but it seems that with last one I just mentioned, the people behind it wanted to erase the mistake of leaving Starbuck stranded on the planet and the greater mistake of having the Doctor Z character in the Battlestar cannon.    I'd like to know if any other Battlestar fans out there remember these tv movies, what they thought of them and if they might one day be put on dvd.    As for the Galactica 1980 set, it is worth having for the Starbuck episode alone.  I much prefer the other version where Starbuck escapes the planet and I hope that will be on dvd one day.

very nice DVD - I saw his this past weekend too! Nice DVD.  Could be better.  Chuck is a bit too rude to Keith in rehersal footage for my liking.  But hey... Keith was cool with it.  Certainly not the DVDs fault for this, that was Chuck's own doing.  Would have liked to see more concert footage.  Chuck is the man.  Saw him perfrom this past weekend in Easton, PA.  85 yrs old and still bringing the audiance to their feet.  Very cool!

The Jackal I bought this as a gift for a family member yrs ago. They like Willis, Gere, and this type of thing. They loved it.  I watched it later my self and thought is was decent. The acting was alright and the story was pretty good.  It's worth the watch and some find it much more entertaining than I did, but it's not a bad flick.  It has a few intense and thrilling parts, but it's not a white-knuckler imho.  (3*)

Horrible packaging So first let me say that I am a huge Stargate fan and I love having the complete series in 1 box set. That said the "box" is a terrible package for dvds. Did no one tell them not to pack or ship dvds in cardboard? I am only on season 2 so far and 4/10 of the discs are scratched deeply. So much so that my disc doctor cannot help them. I will need to send them out to be resurfaced. So if you are a serious fan be warned. Also if I had it to do over I would purchase seasons seperately because at least that way they come in plastic slim packs.

Just Dull. A Misfire for the Coen Brothers. I love Coen brothers' films, and their percentage of hits versus misses is impressively high. "True Grit" is a dud, though. It isn't so much the material as the treatment. The film is based on Charles' Portis' 1968 novel of the same name, which was first adapted for the silver screen in 1969, a film for which John Wayne won his only Academy Award. I have not seen the 1969 film, so I can only hope that this one is more interesting in comparison than it is on its own. It takes place in Arkansas of the late 19th century. Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) is a clever, headstrong 14-year-old come to Fort Smith to claim the body of her father Frank Ross, who was murdered by a ne'er-do-well employee named Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin).  Mattie is a shrewd, pushy businesswomen who manages to wrap up her father's affairs profitably, and she is not content to let her father's killer waltz off into Indian territory never to be seen again. She insists that  Chaney be brought to justice, and, when she finds out that only US Marshals have jurisdiction in the Indian Territory, she offers the meanest, most pitiless Marshal she can find $50 to find Chaney. Deputy Marshal Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn has shot 23 men in his 4 years on the job. He turns Mattie down, but the young woman has a way of imposing herself, and soon she is off on an adventure with the trigger-happy Marshall and a Texas Ranger named LaBoeuf (Matt Damon) who wants to bring Chaney in for killing a state senator.  Coen brothers films are fascinating for the astounding variety of perspectives on a fundamentally disordered universe that Joel and Ethan Coen endeavor to explore. They all have the same, very particular, world view. The differences are in how the protagonists cope with that world, according to their own personalities and limitations. The Wild West is, on the face of it, an ideal milieu in which to set this existential drama, as it is a harsh environment where people lived at the mercy of nature and of each other.  There are 3 protagonists in "True Grit", but we know Mattie better than the others, and the story is her recollection. There is a lot of black humor, which is welcome in an otherwise plodding narrative. Cogburn talks too much -and mumbles, at that. The film runs too long by at least 15 minutes, and most of it seems to be spent bickering. I found none of the characters the least bit interesting. Their adventure is dreadfully dull. And "True Grit" doesn't have anything interesting to say about their interaction with a world they can't control. I was left wondering what fans of Westerns will make of this film. Cogburn is a caricature, and LaBeouf is underwritten. Mattie is the only fully-written character. While I enjoyed watching her argue with people in Fort Smith, she's as drab as the rest once they embark on the hunt.

HIGH ON THE ACTION & AVERAGE ON STORY High octane action galore but the story is uneven and even unsatisfying in certain parts.  Flashbacks to the love story give the tale some texture but it's not enough.  Jolie isn't very believable to me as an action hero when she starts going hand-to-hand with people bigger than her (maybe if she did judo instead of direct attacks) which takes away from believability for me.  I would only recommend this if you like action scenes over story or you just like looking at Jolie's pretty face.  DIALOGUE/CHARACTERS: C plus to B minus; STORY/PLOTTING: C plus to B minus; ACTION SCENES: B plus to A minus; OVERALL GRADE: B minus; WHEN WATCHED: February 2011.

Good Installment but there is something missing This was a good actioner - nothing too bad, great effects, decent acting but something about it just didn't click.  Not sure what exactly it is even as I write this.  I just didn't buy into the back story about Ethan's wife getting killed or the crew he was working with.  They just didn't really gel on screen or make me care one way or another.  Cruise didn't really have much going on emotionally, other than looking 20 years younger than he really is (I think I may need to check out this Scientology thing!).  Which left me watching a bunch of really big, cool set pieces, stunts and effects, but with no really emotional engagement.  When the resolution comes at the end of the story, I was just kind of ready to shut it off.  Not a bad film, but nothing too special either.  Probably better to see it in a theater with a bunch of fan boys, than at home on the couch.....

Remember this as a funny movie! I only remember it from watching it in the past, but wanted a copy of it to watch with my grandchildren.  Of course, I'll watch it first to review! -

A guy-flick for sure, not history as claimed. This version claims to be based more on literal translations of several old prose tellings, and is more realistically done here, but much was still changed and its odd in places. The art direction and cinematography are stunning, and I can believe this Arthur more than most, Clive Owen giving an good performance, but there is little recognizable about Lancelot's involvement.  Even less so is Guinevere here, made a Woad (a Celtic pagan) not a princess, just a pagan woman, dressed in rags.  She is cast and played, implausably, by the emmaciated looking actress Keira Knightly.  In one scene, she is washing up in a 'sheer see-through' tent {in winter as it snows outside} while giving Lancelot a come-hither look.  She'd only recently been rescued from near death yet is already thinking sexual liason.  And while it's still the dead of winter in the film, and all the men are heavily clad in leather and armor, Guinever is then dressed only in a barely-there nightgown and thin cloak, of too fine a material, and usually with an exposed shoulder. I was freezing just looking at her! She's later seen here as a wild-woman of sorts, a skilled archer and hand-to-hand combatant.  While it's known Celtic women fought alongside their men, it's nothing like anything I've read about Guinevere. Again, here she fights while scantily clad, her bust squashed down by leather straps, while the men are covered in furs. {chuckle}  This is definitely a guy flick.  It also ends rather tilted, becoming fairy-tale and does not blend with the realism of the rest of the film.  It's enjoyable as entertainment, but it's no more believable than any other film on the subject.  As an artistic endeavor, I give it 3 stars; but as history, which it claims to be, you decide.

Surprisingly Fun Romp I don't know why I listened to the critics and did not see this in the theater. The movie was not as deep as Iron Man 1 but still quite good. Ryan played a very young Hal and he did it well. My only complaint id that I just couldn't believe he had been in the air force. Blake played an okay Carol. She wasn't given much to work with though. And that is my primary complaint with the movie. The support characters, including the other lanterns were completely forgettable. I never even remember hearing the name of Gal's best friend. At least in Thor/Iron Man the support characters were brought to life and made interesting. If there is a sequel they need to make us care about Sinestro's fall. Maybe draw that out and focus on how Carol becoming a Star Sapphire affects the relationship with Hal. Anyway better than what I heard via word of mouth. 3.5/5 stars.

STUDENTS WAY TOO OLD Excellent acting job of Mr. Poitier. Solid writing. Students who are supposed to be FIFTEEN are way, way too old. ALL in their 20's. Shame they couldn't of at least cast a few teenagers.

Not what is shown  in the picture... This product says that it is a DVD and CD included... it's only the DVD.  I'm disappointed, but what am I gonna do about my $4.97 including shipping and handling??  I purchased it from Peachtree Food Services... maybe that was my first mistake.  Be aware!!!

Funny movie but NO free digital copy!! The movie is good, but if you buy this for the "free digital copy", you are out of luck. Mine came with no insert that included the unlock code. Not a deal breaker for me, but the second disk in this package is basically worthless.

Paranormal Activity 3 - The Phantom Menace Much like before, the family in question sets up a video recording system to monitor house activities.  This time it's 6-hour cycles of VHS.  Old school baby, tracking problems and all.  Speaking of problems, the third installment of this franchise - one I have enjoyed somewhat - goes significantly off-track in this prequel revisal.  In previous (read: future) films the spirit (Toby) is unmistakably evil, but in this version the paranormal has a range of emotions...as odd as it sounds.  Friend to foe, playful at times, the consistency is severely lacking.  Compounding this problem is the bizarre twist at the end in which the family history alluded to in the previous two films is sloppily exposed in an abbreviated final act.  What this film does deliver is historical perspective and solid acting.  The viewer finds out why the family's lineage has been haunted, as well as the source of the haunting.  But, as mentioned, it just isn't cohesive enough to truly enjoy.  A seasoned viewer is likely to watch this third installment and crack jokes through most of the scenes because we know just about when attention is required.  While fresh the first time I saw this style of horror, the novelty has worn off.  Additionally, how am I supposed to resolve the conundrum of a truly scary demon from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002VKE1K2">Paranormal Activity</a> is named Toby?!  Decent, but not as good as the previous versions, wait for DVD.

For the USA only?????????????????????????????? Yes guys, this was not released in the Uk? IT was of it's time and was great to watch and have as a lesson in what could be done by a great group. Thank you for the memories,but who's idea was it not to release it in the Uk or Europe? Probably the same people who let people without Uk postcodes get tickets for the reunion gig at the O2, after saying you could only apply if you had a Uk postcode?  You can probably tell that I am a little bit cross about Money talking! but hey has'nt it always been that way.

All aboard the intriguing stage to Laramie. An assorted group of people are waiting in Christian Flats for the stage to take them to Laramie. Once the empty stage arrives it's evident that it has been the victim of a Cheyenne attack, but out of need and bravery, the hardy souls decide to risk the journey regardless........  Very much a minor Western in the grand scheme of the 1950s offerings, Dakota Incident makes up for what it lacks in quality, by being an oddly structured film of intrigue. The actual "incident" of the film isn't until about the half way point, because prior to the inevitable Cheyenne attack, there is no shortage of character forming. In fact this might be the longest prologue in Western history! Basically crooked John Banner (Dale Robertson) is shot and apparently left for dead out in the hills by his two so called allies. Getting to the town he proceeds to annoy everyone with his oafishness and of course catch up with the two who wronged him. In amongst all this we are also following the interests of the few who will eventually make up the stage passengers. With sultry Amy Clarke {Linda Darnell}, John Carter {John Lund}, Regis Toomey's Minstrel and Senator Blakely {Ward Bond} being the main principals. All of whom have back stories as to why they are making this decidedly perilous trip.  It's very good stuff for its first half, in fact I tip my hat off to the makers for really giving the characters some substance. Yes we may not like them really, but at least our attention is held and as they board the stage, we are intrigued as to how things will pan out for them. The second half tho is a mixed bag, the action sequences are poorly put together but are off set a touch by the nice locale work at Red Rock Canyon State Park. While using the "Trucolor" technique really adds a vivid look to the action. None more so than the sight of the vivacious and curvy Darnell, resplendent in bright red dress, firing away at the Cheyenne with her newly acquired rifle. Dale Robertson and John Lund are average at best, but again it's not hurting the film too much because Darnell, Bond and Toomey are holding their ends up. The ending is perhaps a bit twee for some tastes, but it does work and closes the picture on a competent note.  Republic Pictures have done far better films than this, and this one is a tough picture to recommend to even the hardiest of Western fans. But it's got a beguiling factor, and an oddity that means it's definitely one to at least try to see if the chance should arise.  A cautious 6/10 from me.

Interesting pre-quil movie, but have seen better It was interesting to learn how they all came about if you were not the type of person who read all the comics. However there was many parts that seemed slow and the amount of action in the movie was sort of lacking and corny. Some of the other X-men movies set the bar much higher and even though this was a decent movie, just didn't measure up in my opinion.

She could have just said, buzz off. I will admit there are a couple of "WOW" moments in this film, but over all, it's too much of a dirge to provide any real chills or thrills.  It starts slow but doesn't build suspense; it simply switches gears....abruptly.  The tone, the behavior of characters, everything just changes course and it isn't subtle.  Take Ian McShane's character, one second he's a rather nasty doubting Thomas, the next, a believer.  What happened in between?  It's feels like there's a step missing.  The same holds true for Renee Zellweger's performance; she goes from bored and aloof to wildly out of control in a blink.  There are also a lot of inconsistencies in the story, too many things that don't make sense (rules of the game changed for convenience sake?).  It also doesn't help that the child makes a poor villain.  They have to resort to f/x to make her seem sinister.  In the end, she just comes across as a snotty, petulant child rather than anything truly frightening.  (Exactly what was the intent of this evil child?  It's never made clear.)  I'm glad I got to see it, but there's nothing compelling about it that would make me want to add this to my collection.

Maybe I am missing something I used this last night, and maybe my expectations were too high. My TV has a billion different settings, and all this disc seems to provide is a few basic test card calibrations.  Again I am not a pro in this area but I didn't get a good feeling of value after going through the tests.

If You Become Rich. Don't Go On a Strange Trip An early Hitchcock film which has been ignored because it wasn't made as a suspense picture, which is what Hitchcock was mainly known for.  A couple during the Depression copes with lack of money but proud that they have roof over their heads and something to eat.  When a relative leaves them some money, after so much deprivation, they choose to go on a trip around the world for adventure.  What happens at first is the usual flirtations with wealthy people and scoundrels who spend down their money and cause them to lose interest in each other.  In Asia on the way to Burma, they realize they have lost their money and almost lost their heads to other people.  They try to get home as frugally as possible by taking frigates and ships carrying freight home.  A ship wreck lands them in a Chinese Junk with Chinese sailors and their families.  Lessons of life are learned with a true appreciation of the kindness of others, and eventually each other.  Nice story and nice Hitchcock.  Rich and Strange.

Only dummies will buy this book. I must have been a dummy to buy this book.  The only help it gave me was dealing with libraries, a new feature to Windows 7.

It's Could Be An Awesome video but... In order to varying my workout from my usual treadmill interval training and regular weight lifting routine, I decided to try some workout DVDs. I must admit I didn't enjoy this type of workout (via video) until I tried Robert Ferguson Essential 12 Minute-Workouts-Burner-Kickboxing video. I thought videos were lame, but after trying this one (the 24 min and 36 min clips of the video), and I was sore the next morning, I kinda got hooked so I decided to buy more of them. Anyhow, I liked this video so I'll give it about a 70% rating (i.e. hence the 3 stars) . Jackie is good at what she does, but she could use some improvement. I'll just start with the pros about it...  Pros  1. The workout is short, but intense as hell! I timed the workouts and they are about 8 tto 10 min. each, but she works you out so hard that it feels like 30 to 45 minutes because I got that burn quickly in my muscles. Working out has been a staple in my life for the last 10 or 15 years, so Im not coming from a newbie or couch potatoe perspective. I am about intermediate level and this workout is no joke. I just tried it last night and I know I will get better, but I am confident that an interrmediate or advance level exerciser will find this to be a good challenge.  2.) I like the fact that this is not a dark, gloomy, dismal looking video. I cant figure out for the life of me why people like Jari Love would have a dark and drab dungeon looking place to film fitness videos in. It's depressing to look at dark room when you want to be energectic and feel lively. Though this video does not have the most colorful, lively decorated, studio, it doesn't look like a depressing set in a cave and since excercise is not my favorite thing to do, I have to have all the mental stimulation possible so I appreciate this video for having a decent setting for its recording.  3.) I liked that the women who are obviously in great shape didn't try to pretend like they were inanimate objects void of pain like some of these videos girls and boys do. They are in good shape, but they weren't too prissy and perfect to show that this workout is tough so that made me feel like I wasn't so out of shape like I did on some of the other videos I have used even though I work out pretty reguarlarly.  Cons:  1.)  Jackie really needs to let the folks at home know when she is about to transition into another exercise. I believe someone mentioned this issue when I read the reviews before buying, but I was like, " that shouldn't be a major issue, i'll just keep up." Well it is a major issue. I mean major to the point where I gave it three stars. A person of her caliber should know that you have to let the audience know when it's time to transition into the next excercise instead of just quickly jumping right into the next exercise without any notice to the audience. She did this time and time again through the whole video and it's really annoying to the point that it made me feel flustered. I mean I had to keep rewinding and pausing to get myself right for her speedy Gonzales quick fast in a hurry self. She doesn't even tell you what you will need for each exercise so you just have to look at it, and hope you have what you need nearby. This is an issue for me because I had to keep stoping to catch up so I could adjust properly and I had to go run and get my mat and dumbbells and this wasted my time. As I said, it was a bit flustering to me and a turn off. I am sure with time, I will know the video by rote memory, but when one is just starting, it is critical to know when the trainer is transitioning to the next execercise and she doesn't do that at all in this video. Someone said just watch the video before you perform the exercises, well this would be good if I had a photographic memory to rely on but I don't. I just think as a professional, she should know better....  2.) I suppose I just got used to Robert Ferguson's video where he has the timer prominently displayed on the right side of the screen. I don't like this when I am on my treadmill, but it's so great on a dvd workout video. This video could use a timer on it because you have no clue how long each workout is. I didn't see the time for any of them on the video's menu so this was annoying. I had to use my kitchen timer to guage the time of the video clips.  3.) Lastly, She could have displayed the name of the exercises she performs  in the video, because I like to write down my training routine, but I would have to go back and listen to her until she gave the name of the excercise and I don't really like doing that.. Most trainers like Jillian Michaels, etc. will have that info to appear on the bottom of the screen, but not Jackie :-(  At any rate, it's a good video and I will be using it again and again, but there is room for improvement indeed and I don't think I will buy another one of her videos anytime soon. I'll stick with Jillian, Tamilee and Robert for now.

Meh and Misogyny I won't go in to great detail about the plot and merits of this film as others have done an exceptional job doing so. My contribution is around the odd and rampant woman-bashing in the film. I can deal with the gratuitous T&A (even if it is a bit silly when it's thrown in as if we're all 13 year old boys or as though this is a "Porky's" flick) but the constant use of "b*tch", "wh*re", "sl*t" and the like was more than a tad over the top. In fact, in one scene, as the heroes cross a bridge in the desert, there is a sign leaning against the bridge that reads simply, "b*tch*--ya know, just 'cause, I guess. I'm not particularly sensitive, if at all, and deal well with blue humour or things that cross a line for satire or irony's sake, say, but, honestly, the woman-bashing/misogyny is pretty pervasive in this movie and it started to grate on my nerves after say, oh, the 15th time I heard a woman degraded with the "b" word.  Ok, apart from that large bit of aforementioned patheticness, as far as B-grade vampire flicks go, this one is pretty standard. The story line is standard ("I must kill the vampire that infected me before I 'turn'!"), the vampire back story is standard (some blah blah about Romanian soldiers from yesteryear who made a pact with a demon for immortality or something blahdy blah like that), the blood and gore scenes: Standard. The acting was actually quite decent. So if it's a Sunday afternoon and you're in the mood for some B-grade vampire fare that isn't gonna necessarily "wow" you with its cleverness but won't bore you with bad cinematography, bad acting, or a particularly terrible script, well you can't get much more average and "meh" than this film.

Great Video, Disappointing Dolby TrueHD Sound The DVD only had 3.0 sound (left/center/right) using a Dolby Digital/DTS 5.1 receiver (no sub-woofer sound, no surround sound).  I bought the blu-ray, and the sound was the same.  I recently bought a new A/V receiver, with HDMI inputs/outputs, capable of decoding Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio.  I was very disappointed that the sound didn't get any better.  When I play "Boogie Nights" on Blu-ray, my new receiver displays "Dolby TrueHD" 5.1, but I still only get sound out of the left, center, and right speakers.  Absolutely not sub-woofer bass, and no noticable sound from the surround speakers.  I thought I heard a sound from the surrounds, so I backed up the movie and walked up right beside the left surround speaker.  I could barely hear a little sound.  So I know the problem is not with my receiver (I get surround sound and sub-woofer bass listening to other movies).  So I am very disappointed.  Could I have a defective Blu-ray disk, even though my receiver displays "Dolby TrueHD"?

Relaxing, amusing and entertaining story, modest in its aims, but real The Lord's of Flatbush (1974) most likely will have been an easy target of critics for its modest aims, which was to portray adolescents (below 21 years of age) in America, and for recreating how the world was seen by 3 high school pals, also comprising a sports clique (not a real gang, in today's terminology.) Conversely, it is precisely because of its modest aims, that this movie is relaxing, amusing and entertaining.  The fact that Sylvester Stallone (shown very early in his career, almost 10 years before Rambo, and a few before Rocky) has a major part also adds to the watchability from strong personality and presence.  Almost 30 years later,  Perry King's acting is reminiscent at times, of Woody Harrelson's. Finally, Henry Winkler has a supporting role, perhaps the originator of his 1970's TV series character as a motorcycle fan and "wise guy" as they say, not a menacing character in any way.  The filming, the story and emotional depth does not show its age...relationships, friendship, romance, youth, irrationality, acheiving an understanding of the world, the complexity of life and of oneself are timeless topics.  Bravo...for this movie - that doesn't take itself too seriously, yet has meaning from beginning to end.

A shrug for Atlas Shrugged I was hoping, from looking at preview clips, that this film would be a good interpretation of Ayn Rand's blockbuster novel. But low budget and perhaps a rush to production led to a less-than-optimum film. Here's my impression:  1. As usual, the rule, "if it's not on the page, it's not on the stage" holds true. The script is lacking. Example: a scene with Dr. Stadler, the tragic, amoral genius of the State Science Institute and Dagny Taggart. Suddenly, in a discussion of the decision to condemn Readen Metal for political reasons rather than scientific, Stadler launches into a story about the three brilliant students he and another professor (Hugh Akston) shared. No explanation about why this was so germane to the discussion. A big "HUH" unless you'd read the novel. Hugh Akston (the noted philosopher and distinguished professor) here is interpreted as a hippy burnout. I don't think a philosopher who taught "A is A" and "Everything is Something" would be a hippy burnout. And no one is surprised he's running a diner; this would be surprising for the noted professor from Patrick Henry University, but not for a hippy burnout, so no surprise, no drama. Bad choice.  2. Poor cinematography. While I applaud the way the low budget used stills of existing cities, rails, and other scenery, the vital expression of speed and excitement in the first run of the John Galt Line fell flat due to bad cinematography. The impression of speed just didn't happen; and a few well placed cameras or sped-up effects could have worked here. The long shots of the Colorado mountains decked with autumn aspens, shot from helicopter, just didn't work to convey the feeling of a speeding modern bullet train. And on that note, the cab of the engine of a bullet train CANNOT just have an armchair for the engineer and have a couple of people (Taggart and Rearden) standing behind in the mostly empty cab. HELLO! This train is supposedly speeding up to 250 mph. What about INERTIA? Anyone remember Newton's Laws of Motion? No.  3. GREAT VILLAINS, flat heros. The villains are spot-on and the acting is good. Orren Boyle, the greasy, layabout steelmaker and Wesley Mouch, the Washington hack are cast well and their acting is good. You do need a good villain and here we have two excellent ones. Lillian Rearden is PERFECT. Her smarmy, sly sarcasm and bitterness are expressed with every twist of her lips.  But the protagonists are all cardboard. They LOOK good (except for D'Anconia, who is a bad budget version of Banderas.) But Dagny's toughness is just a still severity, and the supposed fireworks when she and Rearden fall in love are absolutely as flat as a wet firecracker. Bah. "I want to kiss you." Right. That is hot. Really hot.  The acting is not up to the mark, and that's the fault, I think, not only of the script, but more of the direction. Villany is easier--your role is defined (be bad, be evil.) But noble and good and heroic are harder. More motivation, color, conflicting emotions needed, and that's the job of the director to bring out (in the absence of better actors.)  Summary: nice try but no cigar. The film IS true to the novel's premise, and the mixing in of current events (the recession) is chilling and adds to the production. But the poor script and acting and cinematography make this a second-rate film. It could have been so much better.

The Action Kingdom The Kingdom is introduced with a concise history of the modern rise of Saudi Arabia and other notable Middle Eastern events. I found this to be an informative start to the film.  There is action a plenty on offer, but this is generally bulging with clich&eacute;s and predictability.  In terms of the narrative it is often far-fetched, yet it is still reasonably entertaining and provides plenty of shootout excitement.  Nicholas R.W. Henning - Australian Author

The Lovely Bones If you're Peter Jackson, you have what you need to do what you love:  A terrific digital effects company, more oscars than you have fingers, and the motivation to to simultaneously lose fifty pounds while adapting old classics into new ones.  However, before you become an elite, you need to know the feeling of disappointment.  It's happened to the greatest; mediocrity does not discriminate and, for some reason or other, it eventually finds all of us (unless you're a Coen).  That said, for everything going against him - an obscure source material, his inability to learn from his editing mistakes, and a project that grew saturated under overproduction - Jackson could have done far worse.  Financially, he's experiencing his first flop but, as a visionary, it's less of a downhill free fall, and more of a short tumble down the stairs.  Evidence may suggest that Jackson knew the predicament before he even slouched into the director's chair.  Ostensibly, "The Lovely Bones" is an example of terrific execution:  Powerful imagery, strong performances, and a good message, all wrapped around an unconventional concept that resonates with children and adults alike.  Unfortunately, some stories simply don't translate well into other mediums.  Although "Bones" certainly is of no exception, The issue lies with Jackson's overconfidence in his ability to lather visual wonder over something that is inherently disjointed and anticlimactic.  It works for archetypes like the Ring trilogy; it works for old favorites like Kong; it doesn't work here.  Jacksons' flaws had been obvious for years, but the strengths ultimately offset the glaring flaws.  It's easy to forgive when everything else works so well and, for hopes of not sounding overly critical, "The Lovely Bones" is a very good movie.  Its ability to fuse the tangible with the intangible is a joy to watch, and sequences featuring "the in between" are breathtaking, even post-Avatar.  You've seen a lot it all before, but not quite like this.  The absurdly awkward pairing of Wahlberg and Weisz notwithstanding, each actor does their best with what they're given.  But the real standout trio is Tucci, Sarandon, and relative newcomer Saoirse Ronan.  Ronan's striking innocence makes her ascent into the supernatural voids compelling, if not entirely heartbreaking, while Sarandon and Tucci, especially,  are absolute revelations.  Nearly undone by the shallow, fractured foundation that lies just underneath the surface, Jackson proves once again that his presence makes things better than they really should be.  Only time will tell precisely when the toothpick breaks the back but, for now, we can all enjoy the director's majestic visions while they last.

"Ho Hum"... Typical low-budget "disaster" film.  Mostly pathetic acting but still (and I really don't know why) a good way to kill 90 minutes.  One "blooper" (can you really have a "spoiler" for this type of film?)was when the news anchor lady said "icebergs are forming" in the ocean off the Miami beach.  Icebergs don't "form" from salt water!  Oh well, "science is never wrong" (a quote).  Enjoy!

Good for mind altering rides Here's a so-so sci-fi thriller that for its day provided some hallucinogenic visuals that mostly appealed to those in mind altering states as I recall.  If you're clear headed, well it isn't as good.  Pierce Brosnan overacts and Jeff Fahey is dressed in some ridiculous overall getup as the mentally challenged `lawnmower man' who is experimented on by Brosnan's Dr. Angelo. Being retarded also means you can never comb your hair, but coloring it must be OK.  The doc is working for the Feds developing some sort of ability to improve brain functions.  When he turns from chimps to humans...you know what's going to happen.  If he doesn't have enough trouble, Angelo is sabotaged with a switch of the drug which has proven to increase the violence level in the subjects.  Naturally the Feds are developing some sort of super soldier as they often have in movie history.  So in spite of all this nonsense, there are occasional levels of thrills, generally when we go on the mind altering rides.

Its OK I must be crazy, with all these 5 or 1 star reviews to sit right in the center.  I thought it was worth watching if you enjoy a little rauchy comedy and romantic comedy.  No doubt, this movie is a hodgepodge of the two.  It's definitely not the funniest movie I've ever seen, or even seen recently.  I do not however feel like it was a total waste of time, there were a few scenes that made me and my husband laugh pretty hard.  It just wasn't all the way through the movie, and the hype from everyone telling me it's the best movie and so hilarious left me expecting more.  Temper your expectations!  The pacing of the movie was a bit of a problem for me, every so often (much like SNL or Mad TV) there is a joke that just isn't that funny and goes on for way too long.  M. McCarthy was the best, when she was in a scene I knew it was going to make me giggle.

Decent, but dated and a bit boring Bought this video for my son and realized that it was a long-winded documentary that tries to use fairly old graphics to describe a world for the first explorers in North America (and the animals they encourtered), Austrlia's Aborigine's and other areas of the world.  The Graphics were probably made in the late 70's/early 80's, so someone who views this as if they were watching the Walking With Series graphics is going to be very disappointed.  It was informative in some aspects, but I wouldn't say that this would be comparable to the Discovery Channel DVD's of Prehistoric Animals.

Expecting more from this cast There were funny moments for sure, but Richard Prior is inherently much funnier than this role allowed him to be.

A Fun Movie! I did not get to see this in the theater or read the book, but the title itself sounded intriguing, so when I was given the opportunity to review this I took it. While the idea of Abraham Lincoln being a vampire hunter was very far out there, the movie itself was well made and action packed. Please be aware that you are not going to get a historically accurate depiction of Lincoln in this movie, but instead a movie that is full of great visual effects that will kee you on the edge of your seat from beginning to end! As someone who did not read this book, I will definitely say that the movie was one that was fun. The acting was not emmy award winning, but you will definitely stay engaged and will get sucked into the action and special effects!

He's Back And He Ain't Screwing Around Thankfully I didn't watch the the English version of this film, as I hear it's pretty rotten.  However, as the title suggests, Godzilla is raiding again!  Though it's obviously Godzilla, his roar is different and he's referred to as, "The Gigantis Monster".  This is the second Godzilla film in case you didn't already know.  It's also in Black and White and starts that long standing tradition of Godzilla duking it out with another giant monster, in this case Anguirus(look him up if you really wanna see what he looks like).  The fight scenes are a bit different here as they are done in a sped up stop motion animation at times.  Looks kinda cool, I wonder why it wasn't used again. Well, Gigantis threatens Japan for a bit, but the showdown comes later on an arctic island as he fights a Japanese aerial assault. Not a bad sequel.  No longer a "message" movie about the fears of atomic radiation, but a straight on monster movie as we've now come to expect from Godzilla.  Not the best of the films, but fun.

Solid but Flawed Kung Fu Documentary "Cinema of Vengeance" is your basic in-depth documentary of the Hong Kong film industry from a mid-'90s perspective, directed by martial arts aficionado Toby Russell (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00009IB4M">Death by Misadventure: The Mysterious Life of Bruce Lee</a>). It's mainly a visual timeline, covering broad eras from the early of black & white Chinese adventure pictures to the first real kung fu films, the golden days of the Shaw Bros. and Golden Harvest studios, the heyday of Bruce Lee, the gangster-influenced era, and finishing out on the time of John Woo's growing international appeal. The movie features a fair number of TV and interview clips of some of the more notable names in eastern martial arts films - Sammo Hung, Bruce Lee, Gordon Liu, Lau Kar Leung, Ti Lung, etc. - but also lesser-known support players like Sophia Crawford and Yukari Oshima, and even a handful of western stars including Don Wilson and Gary Daniels.  If you're into this sort of movie purely for the subject matter, you ought to buy it default. The only example I can think of which tops this one in cumulative content is Samuel Jackson's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00007AJE2">The Art of Action</a>. A lot of the information you get here can these days be gleaned by hanging around internet forums and reading up on the stars individually, but it's still nice hearing these things confirmed personally by the guys. I'm not sure if any of the interviews are exclusive, though, or at least whether or not you can find all of the same stuff on Youtube. A plethora of video clips are also featured, most of them fight scenes from movies of varying popularity: you see some stuff from classics like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005YUNV">Drunken Master</a> but also scenes from relatively obscure stuff like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6304239602">Interpol Connection</a>. Overall, though, the clips are from lesser-known movies, which is disappointing if you were expecting a grand package of classics but kinda cool if you're open for searching for hidden gems.  There are a couple things the film does that irk me. The first is the amount of emphasis placed on John Woo and his gunfighting stuff: the film isn't the first to do so and yes, Woo's action is amazing, but it's not kung fu, and just because Woo is one of the most successful Hong Kong directors doesn't mean it has to be included by default. Secondly, the film makes direct references to the American action films - mostly ninja-related stuff - but doesn't complement it with any clips from relevant movies. This is particularly frustrating when Steve James of the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005N89J">American Ninja</a> series discusses his character from the movies, and it's immediately followed by a clip of some low-budget Taiwan film that James wasn't even involved in. It's a weird situation: normally, I'd assume that director Russell simply couldn't get the rights to feature clips from Cannon studios, but he has Menahem Golan (co-owner) in there as an interviewee, so what gives?  Apparently, the movie has received multiple releases, but the only one I've seen is the Fortune 5 DVD, which features a blue-tinted photo of Bruce Lee on the front and claims to be digitally remastered, but I don't buy that - it looks like a basic VHS transfer. It's still watchable, though.  Part of me wants to give this give this film a higher rating, but the fact that it's no longer as singular as it must have been in 1994 makes it easy to take off one star for the faults of its content and another for its flawed DVD quality. You shouldn't be deterred from buying it if you're an all-around Hong Kong fan, but others should know they have a bit more variety to choose from.

sorry to say... This movie just isnt that funny. It's not even witty. There are some moments, but watch the trilor cause they're all there. Nice attempt but comes up short.

Annoying, aggravating, and extremely over-rated Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys."  Shut up!  I honestly cannot fathom the universal adoration that the masses have for The Goonies. It's one of the most overrated movies I have ever seen in my life. Only the Von Trap children and the brats Spielberg cast as the Lost Boys in Hook have irritated me more than The Goonies (with the exception of Chunk). Before I get into the movie I'll give you a run down of the cast.  Sean Astin as Mikey: seems as if he is phonetically reading off cue cards (a-la Peanuts) rather than fully understanding what he is saying.  Josh Brolin as Brand: a constant damper on the adventure as he does nothing but attempt to diffuse the fun with his constant 'grown-up' perspective.  Short Round as Data: so lovable in Temple of Doom, in the space of one year he managed to become the most annoying characters in movie history. Very little he says can be understood. His inventions are cartoonish, out of place, contribute nothing, and spoil many scenes. Whenever he opens his mouth I just want to grit my teeth down to the gums.  Corey Feldman as Mouth: would be tolerable if he stopped screaming so much. This applies to the whole cast, but especially Mouth. Is better when he's serious instead of sarcastic, which isn't often unfortunately.  Kerri Green as Andy: again, she would be bearable is she just shut up. Her random petrified rant about looking after her body is completely un-called-for and spoils the scene.  Martha Plimpton as Stef: likable, but doesn't have much to do or serve any purpose.  Jeff Cohen as Chunk: adorable, and the best (and youngest) actor of the bunch by far. Cohen's talent is infectious and it's a shame that the rest of the child cast undo his effort. In the scene where he confesses his previous misbehavior you can see that Robert Davi is loving it and cannot hold in his laughter.  John Matuszak as Sloth: also adorable, but his "Hey, you guys" moment spoils everything.  The Goonies was the second of three films in a row that Chris Columbus wrote for Amblin. If it had the shades of darkness and horror of Gremlins before it, or Young Sherlock Holmes after it, then it may well have been a true classic. Richard Donner (a loud, monstrous director who I really like) even used darkness to great effect in Scrooged a few years later, but here he seems to be really distracted by the fact that he's laughing at the antics off-camera and unable to see that, as a finished film, it's not as funny as he thinks it is. I mean what teenage kid, in the 80s, played with marbles or pretended to be James Bond? He directs these kids as if they were 7 or 8 instead of 13-ish. A film depicting more realistic teenagers would have won me over right away.  The titular gang themselves live in Astoria, Oregon and are failing to enjoy their last weekend together before the rich folks tear down their houses to build a golf course. That is until Mikey suddenly remembers the treasure map up in the loft. So off they go to find the treasure of pirate captain One-Eyed Willie against the wishes of downer big brother Brand. They soon discover that the entrance to the subterranean world where Willie lies waiting begins underneath an abandoned restaurant used as a hideout by the Fratelli crime family. They only just barely manage to sneak into tunnels without being noticed, leaving Chunk behind to have his own sideshow adventure. Once inside the tunnels they encounter a gauntlet of traps set by Willie to prevent anyone getting his loot.  Sound good right? And it would be if handled by a different director, or was scored by someone other than Dave Gruisin, who turns in a fully generic effort with no standout themes or melodies. Silvestri and Goldsmith were very busy in 1985, but nobody Gruisin, who I have never heard of before or since, was the wrong choice. I fully believe that Columbus' script was worthy, as I have read the novelization and it's far superior to the film, but for above listed reasons it doesn't work for me as a film.  A lot of The Goonies has been rudely forced into pop-culture too. How exactly is 'The Truffle Shuffle' funny? Why do people fondly remember this? It's...nothing. Why do people always quote Sloth's "Hey, you guys!" as if it's hilarious. It isn't. It is absolutely not funny at all. By the end Donner allows the action to become campy and farcical, disrespecting the story and pathos. There are moments towards the climax where I honestly feel like switching the movie off.  Stick with the novelization, and be thankful a sequel was never made.  The Blu Ray features an above-average 2.40:1 1080p picture with Dolby TrueHD sound. All of the extras from the 2001 DVD have been ported over with no new material.

Filled in some blanks from the first movie..... While this is a nice continuation from "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo", it didn't have the same impact for me as the first movie.  I felt it was rushed and all the information you needed was not provided on how things hooked up between the new journalist and Lisbeth.  It did however provide background information into Lisbeth's mindset and what happened to her. Some parts I didn't feel were believable, but it did keep my interest far enough for me to want to see the last installment.

Boring songs but a beautiful set and a nice story. I was very exited when I saw this blu ray for sale Phantom of the Opera is one of my favorite musicals and I also love many of Andrew Lloyd Webber's works, I must say however that I am a little disappointed. Now some critics of this musical complain about the story but I think the story itself is fine. Most musicals do not really have that exiting stories, you see them for the music, take Cats for example is is basically about a bunch of cats having a party to determine which of them get to be reborn, there it is not so much going on but the music is awesome. Love Never Dies have a ok enough story for a musical, I actually got quite interested in it, and while it is just a basic love triangle story it is not bad. Basically what happens is that ten years after the end of Phantom of the Opera it is made clear that the Phantom survived, he Madame Giry and Meg have moved to New York and started a side show. In the meanwhile Christine have become a famous opera star but her marriage to Raul is in trouble as he has become a drunkard and have gambled away all of their money. Christine comes to New York to hold a concert to earn money for her husband and the story from there is rather predictable, but it works.  The problem with this musical is the music itself, it is boring. Now there are few songs, mostly people sing what they are saying in a conversation, the problem is when there is no rhyme that just end up sounding forced, of the actual songs there is few is memorable. In Phantom of the Opera there are so many great songs, and they are catchy to, you can listen to them once and be humming them in the shower for weeks. In this new musical the only two songs I can really remember is Love Never Dies and Devil Takes The Hindmost, all else just is a mass of music, yes it is pleasant, it is nice to listen to, but it says absolutely nothing and is for the most part bland.  Another problem I have with this musical is that everyone are A**holes. In Phantom of the Opera sure the Phantom was a villein but you could sympathize with him, this time around he is an obsessed idiot, Madame Giry and Meg do everything for him, Meg going so far as to prostitute herself so he could have the money to start his sideshow, and he toss them aside, he also threaten to kidnap Cristine's son. Raul who is the night in shining armor in the first musical is now a drunk, unpleasant fool which treat his wife and son as nothing, something which bothers be for off course it happens that the once night in shining armor turn out to be a jerk, however in a romantic story that sort of realism is not what you want to see. Meg Giry tries to kill a kid ad so on, I know I am mentioning some spoilers here but seriously why is all the characters portrayed this way. Now I love to see layered characters and even down right villains, but when everyone are jerks it get really hard to care for their fate in what is a love tragedy.  One thing I do like in this musical is the set, the Phantom's sideshow is wonderfully strange and Gothic, everything look beautiful. I also love the actors, they can both act and sing and they do an amazing job, the little boy has a bit to squeaky voice but all in all the cast is amazing. Another thing I do like is that they never show the Phantom's face. Now this is something that bothers me in most film and musical versions of The Phantom of the Opera, there is really no way to do the make up properly. The Phantom is supposed to be so ugly that he makes people faint, even die of fright, but when they show his face they usually have just made him have a few scars, perhaps some unseemly birth mark. Now I know a few people which scars on their faces and they do not make you faint in fright. By just showing people's reaction to seeking the Phantom without his mark they convey so much more about the horror of it than if they had shown his face with cheap makeup.  All in all Love Never Dies is pretty weak, the songs, the story and all of it can not hold a candle to Phantom of the Opera, when that is said the story is okey, the music, while bland is pleasant and there is a couple of good songs in there, the set is beautiful and the actors are good. If you really like musicals then this is worth a watch and I personally love that we get a continuation of the Phantom's story. If you are not a big musical fan however Love Never Dies will probably not change your mind for while it is okey it is far from great.

Two out of three aren't bad! I knew what I was getting into when I bought it...you don't go buying a three pack of any sci-fi (sorry SyFy) movies without knowing you're getting a set of b-movies... Hybrid was the most interesting of the three, with it's blending of typical werewolf story and mystical experiences, I liked that one a lot. Hellhounds was the one I was more interested in initially, it's more fantasy than horror/sci-fi. The Hellhounds of the title are barely in it, and quite frankly not as important as the sword & sorcery theme of a descent into the underworld to rescue a lost love while dealing with treachery and jealousy. Nothing spectacular, but not a bad bit of fantasy fiction. Grizzly Rage was, to be frank, just stupid and bad. It is the worst stereotype of the carefree kids do something stupid, get in trouble, and do more stupid things repeatedly while being stalked by a grizzly bear who does very few things the way an actual bear would.

Fast Five This one was different from the rest. There was a lot more drama, and talking, mixed with some action. I guess I had high hopes for even A LITTLE more racing scenes is this whole movie.  It was more of an action movie with guns and muscles than what the original The Fast and The Furious started with.  Even though the director said they're trying to "evolve", get away from the racing stuff. It was a little disappointing to only see one real race, which wasn't exciting at all.  Then when you think there's going to be a race, they edit it out completely.  Probably because we know whose going to win in the end, sure, but it's still fun to watch.  "The Rock" (Dwayne Johnson) was a great addition to the movie. His character in this playing "Hobbs" was hunting down Dom, Brian and the team.  Also bringing back some of the other characters from the four movies before his one was a great addition.  I don't know, you be the judge.  If you like action movies with guns blazing mixed with some standard cars and destruction. Then you may like this movie.  If you only liked the other other fast and furious movies before this because of the street racing, cars, or feel of it.  You may or may not be disappointed.

5 star season, 3 star highlight film Having been a Packer fan for a while I own the 1996 SB champs video on VHS. I think the 96' highlight film is directed much better than this one. Reason I say this is the audio. Whereas the old tape featured well-orchestrated music which helped to dramatize the action on the field the backround music on this one is dull. Still, if your a Packer fan, this DVD is great to watch due to the content.

The Good Shepherd 'The Good Shepherd' is one of those films that could have offered so much more, and sadly didn't. The cast was good, the direction was good, the story was good and yet nothing seemed to gel and you're left feeling strangely dissatisfied with everything. The story is very slow paced and although I can normally enjoy films of this type, I found this to be quite a laboured affair. Set against the backdrop of WW2 and the bay of pigs fiasco this story has some great historical touches and added some authenticity to the plot-line. I found it very strange how Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie seemed to age very little as the film progressed, especially with Damon looking the same at the start as at the end which is supposed to be 22 years later! At least they gave Jolie bags under her eyes, but that was about it. There were some excellent cameo appearances from the likes of Joe Pesci and the few scenes with De Niro were very good. Overall, if you like espionage type films, but without the thrills and action, then this is the film for you, otherwise you can safely give this a miss and not worry in the slightest.  Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.

Prometheus got me thinking but miss the scares of Alien I really enjoyed the film -- the special effects were beautiful and truly epic and artful.  Though overall the film seemed to miss the mark, for me anyway. It was definitley a thought provoking film about creation but the rest of the story brought nothing new to the genre or franchise. The thing I enjoyed about the first film in the series was the claustiphobic feel and the lonliness of space - I was hoping that would be reflected in this film as well. The acting in this did not feel fresh to me and unfortunatly being a big fan of the first, I enjoyed the improvisation of the acting and how it didn't feel scripted at all - which brought realism and humanity to the first Alien film.  And truth be told I was looking for a few more scares but that is just me.  I would recommend the film a good watch but not the classic chills like "Alien" or the classic thrills "Aliens" gave us.

WHAT AN EXTENSIVE LIST OF REALLY GREAT ACTORS. GREAT DIRECTOR. SO WHY WAS IT HARD TO STAY AWAKE FOR ABOUT HALF OF THE MOVIE Mostly, I was disappointed with the slow pace of much of this movie. Somehow, I feel it had the potential to be really good, BUT IT WASN'T. I was bored through about half of it. It's a cop/robber movie that drifted in and out, sometimes thinking it was a socio drama. The melding of these two genres didn't work. TOO BAD!

Movie interesting... Quality... could be better Even a 80years old movie could looks good ("All Quiet on the Western Front", "M") when it's restored.  Well... "Bird of Paradise" is a interesting movie with two sexy actors Dolores Del Rio and Joel McCrea and a few interesting supporting actors Lon Chaney Jr., Arnold Gray (Priest in "She", Passenger on Yacht in "The Most Dangerous Game" and a Reporter in the 1933 "King Kong").  Its a love story about a young "rich" (?) american who's sailing with his friends to the South Sea and meet a beautiful nativ girl on a island. Both are in love but she's already "promissed" to another native man from island...  Handsome looking Joel McCrea is playing the american. His next film was the famous "The Most Dangerous Game" (Arnold Gray, here as "Walker" is also in "the Most dangerous game").  The movie is easy to follow and I guess in his time very exoctical for the audience in 1932. This Blu-Ray doesn't contain any subtitles (like SDH) which is for Blu-Ray (in my mind) a must (!!!).  On the Back-Cover its written, this movie his restored and in HD. Hm... possible its in HD. Its the age? Hm... after I have seen any other 80years old movie who looks much better.. i think there was more possible. Also the Soundtrack could be better. For me (i'm bit hard hearing) it was a bit difficult to understand the dialogues. In other words: I was a bit disappointed. Many people don't expecting a good quality for a 80 years old movie but its really possible (see "All Quite..." and "M" or even "Metropolis" looks in the most scenes better - except those where was found a few years ago and believed to be lost).  TRIVIA: The native village huts were later reused for the inhabitants of Skull Island in RKO's classic King Kong (Source: IMDB).  FAZIT: interesting movie and because I like hottie Joel McCrea and Arnold Gray's connection with the classic "The Most Dangerous Game". But the Blu-Ray could be much more better. Please "Kino", take more care for your further releases.

Great movie,great visuals but audio syncing problems are disturbing I am trying to watch all the classics my Mother tried to get me watch when i was a youngster...this was one of them..although not a big fan of musicals this movie was great..the visuals for a film made quite a while ago were fantastic like it was made a few years ago...so bravo  the problem is that despite the great restoration work the studio did for this release as far as the video portion of it they insulted the hard work of those who worked on it by doing a HORRIBLE job on the Audio!1..first part of the movie I didnt even notice but by the later part of the middle of the movie words are completely spoken before hearing the beginning of the word..its so out of sync that its almost unwatchable ..how can you restore a classic and drop the ball on the audio?

Okay This movie was okay. Not fabulous, not awful. I didn't enjoy it as much as the books. Not as funny and the fake Jersey accents were brutal.

I couldn't really enjoy this movie as much as I could have because it was nothing like the books. I have enjoyed the Princess Diaries book series from the time that I picked up the first book and finnished the last one. Princess Mia from the books was a fun and spunky character that finds out that she was a Princess to the throne of the principality of Genovia because their prince had a fling with her artistic mother and because her father is now unable to have any more children, she must take up the title of Princess. Instead of being in the city of New York, they put it in San Fransico. Instead of being alive, they state that her father dies, but I can't really blame them for that since they were trying to make it kid friendly and as sad as it is saying that he is dead is much easier than saying that he had prostate cancer and because of the treatments he is now sterile. Mia's Grandmere is portrayed by Julie Andrews (an actress that I am a huge fan of), but I felt that she was not right for the role of Clarisse, why because she was too nice. Clarisse in the books was not evil and abusive in the books, but she was very strict and just didn't understand Mia's more modern views on life which would cause them to get into huge arguments. All the high school snobs (like Lana), were pretty close to the books, but Michael my Michael was ruined. Yes Michael was in a rock band, but that wasn't all he was, he was smart, a computer and tech genius, very good looking, and had a personality that most girls would swoon over. In the movie we get this kind of grungy guy that wasn't that good looking and didn't have much of a personality, it is because of how he was presented in the movie is probably why his relationship with Mia in the movies didn't last. Loveable charcters like Tina and Borris were taken out of the movie and replaced with this guy Jeramiah who was a magician and had crayon red hair. If this and the sequel had been stand alone movies, then I would have liked them more, but they are not and that make me not like them as much as I could have.

cats and dogs... an abundance of each Cats & Dogs is basically taking the cuteness factor of kittens and puppies and tries making a storyline out of them fighting at war among another... in hyper mode.  There's seriously something extremely creepy about this particular animal flick that makes it more like a horror film than any kind of adorable animal-loving family movie.  I believe I know what it is.  It's the way the animals go from acting completely normal and playful one moment to suddenly (out of nowhere) switching up in a way to try and make the speaking voices fit their moving mouths, making it appear like the dogs and cats are actually talking.  Yes that's right, it's one of THOSE type of animal films.  The kind where the animals move their mouths and actually talk.  It's done a little odder than usual this time around however.  Even their eyes look extremely weird the moment a change up occurs- the animals look drugged out of their minds.  It's honestly quite frightening but I suppose the movie producers were going for as much realism as possible concerning a talking animal...  Then take into consideration many times you will witness the animals suddenly speed up and act really goofy and uncharacteristic, and folks, we have a horror film belonging in the same category as that old 80's classic, Devil Dog.  Take the bloodhound for instance.  He suddenly speeds up and totally screws with my head upon doing so.  Strange.  The beagle puppies are of course adorable, and the kittens are as well but neither of these things are enough to win me over.  The pacing is WAY too fast and unusual for me.

OK Industrial Espionage Film Sneakers is a tense, well-done thriller with a flawed premise: there could exist a single box that would allow the owner to run the world.  Robert Redford, looking older than he is, teams with an very good cast including Ben Kingsley, Dan Akyroyd, River Phoenix, James Earl Jones and a host of other familiar faces to take this little box (that looks remarkably like an 80s-era answering machine) from Kingsley.  The fun in the movie is the planning of the heist, complete with a phony computer date and rather easy surveillance of a top-secret facility.  Of course, things go awry in the heist, and much tension arises.  All in all, a good but not a great film.  It gets more unbelievable as it goes on, which detracts from the over-all fun of the film.  And, of course, the Republican party gets bashed in the end.

chic flick wife liked.  i tolerated.  casual entertainment.  she made me buy it so she stimulated the economy. and i am tired of writing

Pirates of the Carribean, On Stranger Tides. I won't say it stunk,. I won't say it was lousey, but I will say, I'm sorry I wasted my money to buy it and even sorrier I wasted my time watching it.  Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Five-Disc Combo: Blu-ray 3D / Blu-ray / DVD / Digital Copy)

Point Blank: A Parker Movie? Let us see. Lee Marvin is tall and lanky; Parker isn't. Lee has light hair; Parker doesn't. In my opinion, Lee does a lot of stuff looking like he doesn't know what stuff he is supposed to be doing. The movie is alright I suppose but I had a hard time tracking it with the book (The Hunter). I like Richard Stark's voyage into this type of books and I understand why he would not let them use Parker's name in the movies.

upset alright so i just got my fruits basket and im not very happy right now i pain $33 for it and theres a stain on it but it was covered by the wraping with the little pic pathlet thing and its big and ugly and im upset and dont know what to do there not going to take it back i unwraped it but the only way to see the stain was by unwraping it. i have bought from amazon 5 diffent times and i injoyed it alot but i dont know this is making me have doughts about it, and dont know what to do. Fruits basket was the first anime that i ever watched and i always wantted it but theres a big stain right above Tohru's head and i dont like it any ideas?

Good deal, but beware: case and scene names are in korean Bought this for my husband since he's a huge fan of the first movie, and wanted to see the second. Arrived on time and packaging was good. In transit (or maybe before) one of the plastic pieces holding the DVDs in place broke, so the DVD was loose in its case. But it wasn't scratched, so no harm, no foul.  Biggest complaint is that the case and quite a bit of the DVD menus are in Korean. It does have Japanese audio with English subtitles, but everything else is in Korean. I didn't see anyone else mention that in the reviews, and it took us by surprise when we opened up the box and couldn't read most of the writing on the DVD case. You can still play the movie just fine, but if you're a fan of selecting scenes, or want to watch the special features, you will not like this. It's all in Korean.  Also, translation of movie is merely ok. Not horrible, but there are a lot of grammatical errors, spelling errors, or simply just wrong translations. Husband speaks Japanese, and a couple of time he would stop the movie to comment that the translation was not accurate at all. Like the main character would say "We need to run north" and they would translate it as "We can't stop running." Stuff like that. Nothing too big, but still kind of frustrating considering the amount of money you're spending for professional translation/subtitles.  But if those things don't bother you, then I would strongly recommend this product.  PS: The region encoding is advertised as only region 1, but it's actually good for all regions. So that's a plus. :)

More like 3 1/2 stars Logan Hugh Jackman) and his brother Victor (Live Schreiber), long-lived mutants with amazing powers of healing, go from close siblings to deadly enemies, eventually facing off in a huge battle that involves lots of other mutants as well.  A lot of people hate this movie, but I thought it was pretty good.  Jackman remains the perfect embodiment of Wolverine and Schreiber makes a scary Sabretooth.  It covers a lot of ground and none of it is great filmmaking, but it provides a lively and entertaining history for the character and has plenty of good action scenes.  There's a nice tie-in to the first X-Men film with a surprise cameo at the end.

Disappointing audio Love this movie.  Read the book with son #1 and decided he needed to see this classic.  The video is good but the sound isn't.  It went from loud (when there was music)to extremely low.  At one point we had the TV volume up as high as it would go and still had trouble making out the dialogue.  Bummer.

Watchable The movie plays alright but it's impossible to turn off the closed captions or change any of the other options.

Sound quality is ragged Difficult to hear dialogue.  Classics they may be, but for us ol' timers, very hard to hear what is being said,  'specially since it is spoken in Kings English!

Not as good as the first one, but still entertaining I'd give this 3.5 stars if I could. Fun movie. Not nearly as good as the first one. It suffered from being too long, and probably mixing two much shockingly gross violence with humor (example, bodies flying out of a mortuary vehicle and the morgue scene). They needed to tone it down a bit.

Because I brought this product for viewing in Australia I have had problems with the region. I will not buy DVDs again I have viewed this before and know it is a good film to use in High school to compare with Othello. However, I needed it for Australian viewing and it was the wrong region. This was disappointing and I will not buy any DVDs from this site unless I can be guaranteed of Australian region.

Disappointed I'm glad that I checked the Criterion issue of Stagecoach out of the library rather than buying it. While the transfer is marginally better than the Warners' issue and the extras on the second disk are worthwhile (especially the piece on Yakima Canutt), other things are quite disappointing. Jim Kitses' commentary is arrogant and tedious; he misses Ford's clear (and well documented) intention to have the Ringo Kid/John Wayne as the centering point of the ensemble cast. Scott Eyman's commentary on the Warners' issue is more interesting, more accessible to nonspecialists, and easier to listen to; it also reflects his expertise as the author of Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford (2001). In addition, Criterion provides only a single subtitle track (English) while Warners' offers English, French, Spanish, and close captioning. Finally the Criterion booklet is problematic in many ways. The typefaces for cast/ credits/ headings are difficult to read. Some pages are almost impossible to read because the contrast between the type and the color of the page is insufficient (light yellow type on a dark yellow page is only one example of poor design choice); the disk menus suffer from the same readability flaws for any but young, sharp eyes. It is nice to have Ernest Haycox's original short story in the booklet, but as this is easily available online, it is not of significant benefit. Finally, the essay by David Cairns in the Criterion booklet is well worth missing. His descriptions of the actors are unprofessional (a description of Thomas Mitchell as having the "body of a giant baby, face of a sodden chimp, yet oddly noble of aspect" is appalling). And, more research into the background of Stagecoach would be valuable (for example, he claims the scene where Hatfield primes to shoot Lucy so she doesn't fall into the hands of the Apache comes from Birth of a Nation (1915), when it is far more likely to have come from the Thomas Ince/Francis Ford The Invaders (1912) and/or DWGriffith's Battle of Elderbush Gulch (1913)). All in all, this Criterion issue is quite disappointing. I regularly buy upgraded DVDs when they become available in order to have the best material available for the film classes that I teach--and I was particularly looking forward to the Criterion's Stagecoach, a film which I consider to be one of the best westerns ever filmed. Sadly though this is one DVD that I won't be buying.

Not as bad as I thought! The movie had a decent story but was from no part of the comic lore.  Cheesy in parts, exciting in others--it was a diverting piece of entertainment but the CGI showed a bit much

3,000 miles to Graceland. Tries too hard to be hip a-la Pulp Fiction/Quentin Films, Elvis is great and the Action is good but it's one of those films that Poses and tries just too much with no purpose whatsoever.

Solid When I watched this film I thought 'oh cool!  The guy who plays Jay from all those Kevin Smith movies is in it'.  But when I finished watching this film I thought 'Oh my! This was a movie that could have been'.  It wasn't a terrible movie, there were some actual funny parts to it and some sexy scenes including Erica Cox.  Yet, the entire movie seemed to be juvinal and lacking in plot.  Furthermore, the movie seemed to be small in scope.  The actual terror and threat beyond the apartment that the characters lived in seemed to be non existant.  It just seemed to be no threat to me as an audience member.  Yet there were some moments in it I enjoyed.  Like the music from barney when he had to clean up after Erica Cox, it was kind of funny for me.  So I give it a 3 star because it was a plus and minus movie that couldn't decide what kind of movie it wanted to be.

At first I liked it... I was seven years old when I first saw the video for "...Baby One More Time." From that moment on, I've been obsessed with this chick!! The awesome outfits, amazing dancing, flawless music, and her beauty! Who didn't fall in love?! I bought into the "Britney Brand" her and her management have created from day one. I stayed up to date with all the current Britney news and what not. I even stuck around when she married, had two kids, divorced, went a tad bit crazy, and returned to fame. I admit, she's not the same! In some ways, she's better! In others, she's not the same!I was first disappointed of the release of "Blackout." It has never been my favorite album. It's grown on me since, but I feel it's not up to par with her last efforts. Also, I don't care for "dance music." Her lack of promotion. I was disappointed that she just doesn't care anymore. I was very excited about "Circus." One of my favorite Britney albums. It was an actual pop album. Some catchy songs, some ballads, a general theme.  Completely disappointed by lack of promotion for that album as well! At first, she did interviews, performances, and came out of her shell a bit. Then she never did anything else with promotion besides the "Circus Tour." Let me tell you! That tour, I wanted to me absolutely amazed! I expected her dancing, high energy, and amazing smile. Nothing! Now, it's another "dance album." A bit better than "Blackout," but even more auto tuned!? Seeing the videos on Youtube for "The Femme Fatale Tour" I was unbelievably impressed and relieved! She was dancing actual choreography! Singing live!!! Had a big more energy! When the dvd was released from Epix, I ran straight to the store! Watched the dvd a few times. Was satisfied even though the show was dubbed over. After a few watches, I became bored. The dvd is crap! I can't believe after ten years of not having a concert dvd, this is what we get! I'm almost to the point of never purchasing another Britney item again! Her next efforts have got to be fierce and flawless! This is coming from a HUGE fan! But I'm getting tired of this!!

what did the people rating it at 5 satrs see? Loved the books, but I would like to slap the enitre team that made the movie. Why did it have to be so dark? The other movies you san see whats happening, but in this on you just hae to listen. I am so frustrated with it I don't want to see/ listen to the last movie. What was the director/editors ect. thinking? yes the movie has dark UNDERTONES that doesn't mean you turn ALL the lights off and make everyone who didn't read the books guess what is going on. SHAME ON YOU WB FOR LETTING THIS OUT HAVE MORE RESPECT FOR THE PEOPLE THAT PAY FOR THIS WE WANT TO SEE THE MOVIES. Don't think I will buy the last one, just barrow it from some one and if it's too dark AGAIN at least I will have saved my money.

Guadalcanal Diary I was a little disappointed with this film as I was expecting a better portrail of the epic battles for Guadalcanal.  However that said it was a good WWII war epic.

Disappointed I was majorly disappointed in this film, mostly because I read the novel and came into this with BIG expectations. Unfortunately my expectations weren't met and what I got was a huge flop of a film. Stone cut out a lot of key story sequences and good dialogue, and took away a lot of the action and a lot of characters. The only thing that translated from story to screen (which made the film a little more tolerable) was Chon and Ben. I loved Kitsch and Johnson in these roles and their bromance translate well to me...unfortunately the rest of it didn't

Interesting, but Timeworn Audrey Hepburn stars as the 'world's best blind lady' and Alan Arkin is evil personified, stopping at nothing to reclaim a missing doll stuffed with heroin. The predictable portion involves a long terror scene in the dark, after Hepburn breaks all the light bulbs to neutralize her sight disadvantage. The plot also gets a bit stretched when she sends the neighbor girl to fetch her husband (who was misdirected by Arkin and is not where she thinks he is) for help, instead of simply to call the police. On the other hand, Hepburn also displays quick thinking in other portions, and the plot is creative in how Arkin et al try to fool Hepburn into revealing the doll's location.

Aloha Memories Living in Kauai, where this movie was set, makes for a delightful trip down memory lane.  The Duke shows the island before it became a tourist mecca.

Not as good as the first one I'm a child of the 70's and loved the first Arthur.  So maybe my expectations were too high.  This one just didn't live up to the first one with exception of Helen Mirren.  Russell Brand did a good enough job but wasn't impressive.  And I was sorely disappointed with the actress who played the character Liza Minelli played.  Liza played a strong, unforgettable character.  This actress didn't.  Helen Mirren, IMO, was the only standout.  The first Arthur was a classic, this one isn't.  Not a bad movie, just a fair movie.

Soundtrack is godawful Huge all-star cast, though not all of them distinguish themselves. For example, Elliot Gould is ridiculous as the cigar chomper who gets a Bailey bridge built during the Market Garden operation. Anthony Hopkins still had his hair in 1977, so that's interesting to see. What drove me nuts was the annoying marshall music soundtrack every few minutes, as the Americans and Brits would have little victories on their way to the major defeat later on. None of the big stars are particularly impressive, though Michael Caine, as usual, shows some restraint and his performance holds up well. Robert Redford was in his pre-wrinkle days here. Having read the stolid Cornelius Ryan book upon which this 3-hour plus epic is based, I can say the movie is extremely faithful to the historic record. Overall, it's almost a docu-drama, of sorts. Will you watch it raptly? No, it seems a bit dated overall. This came out two years after the Vietnam debacle ended, so  I wonder if audiences then wanted a WW2 movie showing a defeat?

A failure but not a COMPLETE failure My boy self's favorite comic book hero, assigned godlike powers that would corrupt any ordinary being, a towering but emotionally isolated paladin constantly on trial with himself, rigorously reducing his reliance on his power ring through a series of issues, resenting its foreignness, seemingly afraid of its full potential, then indulging it to the point of massive destruction, when he goes mad after the Guardians prevent him from saving his city; seldom wisecracking, in earnest of his duties on the outside as well as in...  And these filmmakers turn it into a jokey, jocular high-school computer-game session by people seeming embarrassed at the material they're working with.  A deadly dull prologue starting the film on the wrong foot, miscasting an adorable, boyish 1/2-comedian more in touch with his muscle shirts than his own soul, shallowing out every character until we can only guess what turns Hector Hammond's frustrations homicidal (or even why he gets picked to examine the dead alien), or why Hal Jordan's "humanity" is a quality no other Green Lantern has but is enough to destroy the alien threat, or how the Guardians governed the universe for billions of years but seem befuddled, confused and abashed when Hal Jordan tells them they can win if they face fear, a locker-room pep talk speech they find "compelling"...  There is no unified aesthetic here to coordinate the humble Earthly settings and the outlandish, circus-like wonders from outer space so they seem to occur in the same universe and don't clash jarringly.  Had they the imagination, they could have found the answer in the human technology on display but employed here only to service the story.  How is it we humans can live in cluttered homes, utter banal dialogue of puerile cliche's, drive recklessly and arrive late for work, waste our best talents in unrewarding teaching posts, yet produce flying machines of wondrous power and complexity?  It didn't appear out of nowhere, and everyone seems to take it for granted.  Because the WORK that went into it is left out here, with no hint of a test pilot's demanding education and technical intelligence.  People once laughed at the idea of human beings flying, but stopped laughing the first time they saw an aircraft leave the ground.  A Grail knight in armor of the Crusades, or Gandhi or Jesus in their robes -- even Batman in his spandex -- are far out of our normal visual experience, but are solemn symbols of great power and moral courage AND STUDY to millions of people.  Not that we must be entirely solemn here, but still.)  THAT said...the film grabs hold with the test dogfight, parallels Jordan's humility at his selection with Hammond's own, follows Sinestro's demands to harness the yellow power of fear against Parallax with the Ferris contract-award dance party entirely lit with YELLOW light -- in fact, with the sound off, the whole film becomes a symphony with light, beautifully, I mean BEAUTIFULLY, photographed by Dion Beebe, lots of early-morning and late-afternoon golden warmth filtering through the airplane factory office windows, sculpting the leads in their gentle romantic scene on the control tower, fretting the cool glow of the planet Oa with shadows slanting from pillars and steles and cliffs, lighting up Hammond's dreams of personal consequence at the government lab where he examines Abin Sur....The film also squirrels away little comments throughout, like the large peace sign on the wall behind Jordan's nephew (Jordan tests warplanes, but they, and the Lanterns, are about peacekeeping); the plastic female anatomy-lesson torso in the classroom belonging to the lonely, female-repellent dweeb loser Hammond, with the skin off, showing all the stuff inside he cannot, symbolically, ever reach; the caged hamster in Hammond's home, running madly in its stationary wheel or lying still, way in the background.  And for once, the nonstop epidemic of thunderous, echoing digital slamming noises that pollutes every CGI movie and every film trailer even when no CGI is in the story, has a use, announcing the power of the ring when it flashes, the way lightning heats air so fast a thunderclap results.  Kudos to the producers for shooting in the refreshing and atypical (for Hollywood) Louisiana settings.  And especially to Mark Strong and Temuera Morrison as Sinestro and Abin Sur, who take their roles seriously enough, despite wearing alien makeup and glowing leotards, that you can't take your eyes off them, and relish their dialogue readings.  Let's hope the filmmakers (and especially the writers) know what to do with the sequel.  Spider-Man 2 and The Dark Knight improved hugely over the originals.

Slow Movie Its a slow movie - I only got it because I like Emma Stone, but she doesn't have a big role in the movie. It was an OK movie

Inexpensive and amusing First, it's an adventure film with a sense of humor and a decent plot and Clint Eastwood puts on a fine performance as Dirty Harry and obtains some good support from the cast. It's one of the better Dirty Harry films and good copies can be cheaply obtained. It's a fun film and at the end of a long day when you're tired and need to unwind and both your TV and DVD player can automatically shut off then it can also put you to sleep pretty quickly. I have a core of these films which are used over the year. Like the Dead Pool they are okay but they aren't going to keep your attention all through the film like The Dresser. The Dead Pool is an amusing story. It's the way a cash cow should be done. If that's okay with you buy second hand. The market is flooded with these DVDs.

Sad, thrilling and heartbreaking I have to get soemthing off my chest first. There's a part in the film where they interview some random kid where they're having the Superman parade. The kid starts spitting out racism garbage about how the town isn't safe anymore because black people have moved in. What does this have to do with the movie? NOTHING! Is the director of the film trying to say something?  Anyway, this is a good film overall and everyone with dreams of stardom should watch it. Getting into the acting world is hard, harder than most think. It takes a lot more than a pretty face and some talent.  The film is really a look at the human condition. It shows our hopes, dreams and what we are willing to do to go after what we see has our destinies.  The Batman character was truly sad. He's lost in a world of his own making. I honestly don't think he's lying about his past in that I believe that he truly believes it happened, even though it obviously didn't.  I have hope that the Wonder Woman will make it but that is a wish... The same for the Hulk. Both of them have worked hard and I hope it pays off.  The Superman character without a doubt was obsessed with Superman and Christopher Reeves but he was also a gentlemen that you couldn't help but love.  There needs to be a follow up in a few years.

Pamela grace I thought this DVD was just O.K. No new information for a true Elvis fan. Just repeat of delightful stories. Basically, it is a white wash about the KIng. However, I think it is good to focus on the positive side from time to time. Now if you want to get a full view of the King's life, I think you should buy Esposito's book, "Good Rockin tonight".

Ok movie I love Disney movies but this one was just okay.  Maybe if I was a boy scout it might have more meaning but some parts moved too quickly and seem unrealistic.

Depressing I found Sideways to be an eminently depressing, sad little movie. Wine has got to be the most likable drik on Earth, its culture one of the most fascinating and they managed to make this out of it? You'll get a couple smiles out of it but overall, the aftertaste is a bitter one.

poor quality video The movie is great, however the video quality is easily the worst out of all the blu-rays that I have purchased.  It is grainy and the colors don't seem accurate.  Be nice if they would have released a well mastered version, but my guess is that they are holding out for a big release box set before we can get a good version.  shame.

MEDIOCRE CRIME DRAMA The movie opens with a killer (John MacDonald) shooting people in broad daylight at 12:00 in Union Station, Washington DC. We get to see the killer's face. In spite of this, there is no good description of the killer who looks like Dolph Lundgren and apparently there are no cameras in use there either. The authorities get a note and phone call from a Russian accented man, whose grammar is incorrect. The note asks for a ransom, or else the killer, known as "The Digger" will continue to kill. The killer drops black shell casings as his calling card.  Easy enough. You plant the money with a tracking device, then nab the guy...unless the guy dies crossing the street in a hit and run and there is no one to pay the ransom to. Natasha Henstridge plays Margaret Lukas, the FBI person in charge of quickly locating the killer before he kills again.  The movie runs with a brief subplot with Tom Everett Scott as Parker Kincaid. He is the best manuscript expert who left the FBI over an incident which still gives his son Robby (Jake Goodman) nightmares. His daughter Shannon (Rachel Marcus) seems well adjusted. His drunken ex-wife (Joanna Jang) is now sober and plans on getting married. She is serving papers so she can have custody of her children who she has been trying to buy with gifts. Olivia Jones plays Parker's attorney.  Of course the two plots run together as Parker consents to help. He tells us things about the man who wrote it and possible future targets. Natasha Henstridge appears to have some past emotional issues in case this crime story didn't have enough drama.  The movie is made for TV with its timely commercial fade outs, complete with a few notes of dramatic music. It has 3 Canadian award nominations.  The title, "Devil's Teardrop" comes from the handwriting analysis, the way the "i" was dotted. The movie was more mediocre crime drama than "chilling suspense" with more drama than action. The acting was a bit bland. I thought Rachel Marcus was good as a child actor while Joanna Jung was almost comically bad. There really wasn't any great dialouge.  Note: The FBI has a machine that can read indentations on a piece of paper (ESDA). It is so sensitive it can read up to the previous 5 pages of indentations. It is nothing like what the movie shows us.

Overscripted And A Bit Silly Definitely a product of 1955.  I guess I've just been bred on too much realism in script and acting to be able to take this one very seriously.  It's like a play in the way they talk and act - everything is over-deliberate, as if the film-makers were afraid the audience couldn't handle any subtlety in a character.  Characters are over-simplified to the point of being totally unbeleivable or simutaneusly totally recognizable, i.e. fairly typical of the same kind of characters you'd find in lots of other film of that era.  Yes, I noticed lots of little foreshadowing scenes along the way, a supposed testament to the "depth" of this film, but everything else smacks so bad of 1950s Hollywood it doesn't seem to make much difference.  I liked the songs and the occasional surrealism of their river ride but mostly I found it a pretty tedious ride. The storyline is maudlin, cutesy, and fairly unsatisfying with or without the stilted acting.  Though the film has been called "noir" it didn't strike me as being noir in the way that I've come to understand the term - i.e. a movie that ends somewhat mid-sentence, leaving a lot of unresolved questions relating to the story reverberating with meaning through the place at which the film ends.  No, this film ties it up about as neatly as you could so "noir" in the sense of this film seems to indicate either "dark subject matter" or a film shot in black and white.  Guess I'll have to enlarge my definition of the term.  Whatever.  This is the 3rd Mitchum flick I've seen, and if nothing else I have at least discovered I'm not a huge fan. Sorry, this movie is just border-line silly.  As for the DVD itself, the full frame version I watched was crystal clear and had no problems with the sound.

Minnelli  semi-classic An Oscar winner that never did all that much for me, this is an obvious attempt by Lerner and Loewe to recreate MY FAIR LADY in another medium --that is, not as a Broadway musical, but as an original movie.  It is pleasant, polished and lovely to look at, but hardly an equal.  Initially, it was overpraised in the media, and even opened at the legitimate theatre on 45th Street, so it would get all that added pretension. All of this hype apparently worked as this became a huge hit and got a slew of Oscars.  Now, it looks very nice and the high definition of the blu ray makes it have more sheen that ever. But the appeal is mostly sheen. Like AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, another Minnelli Oscar winner that shouldn't have won (A PLACE IN THE SUN and STREECAR cancelled each other out,) this looks beautiful on blu ray, but still can't cut the mustard as a musical. For one thing, there aren't that many songs, here. I bought the lp when it originally came out and the whole thing played in less that a half-hour. The later cd has a ton more of background scoring, but that's it.  Much of the score is composed of trunk numbers, things composed for other shows but discarded along the way.  Still, the performers are very enjoyable, although just playing variations of roles they'd already done in other films.  But, if you are a fan, the blu ray looks incredible.  It's that bland Metrocolor variation of Eastman that was around in the late 50s with one location, Hermione Gingold's apartment, with 'Minnelli red;' dominating every corner of the frame. But it has real sparkle, the variety of which I haven't seen since originally in '59 when I saw it in the theatre.  The extras are pretty nice,with a nice documentary. an ok commentary, and the original French language film, although it is not blu ray or even restored in any way.

fictional dragon action Reign of Fire isn't really one of the more appealing suspenseful fictional tales out there mainly because there's downtime concerning segments devoted to pure boredom.  The actual dragon killings that take place however, are the reason this movie ends up with a decent enough rating to suggest watching it.  Whenever a dragon appears out of nowhere ready to leap down and flame the survivors, this is when my interest goes up a few notches.  However, the acting... it's pretty terrible.  It feels WAY too boring and cheap in a "Who cares what happens to the good guys?" kind of forgettable way.  The parts that had no dragon violence whatsoever were obviously trying to develop into interesting storyline segments, but unfortunately they never worked for one reason or another.  Just an overall lack of interest in all the main characters, really.  I can only recommend Reign of Fire to those who absolutely must watch a fictional tale dealing with frightening dragons going on a rampage and ripping apart the world a little bit at a time.

"You can't fly that close to the sun" Being Dolph Lundgren's first solo release following his return to the mainstream with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002ZG999U">The Expendables</a>, "The Killing Machine" carries a lot of expectation with it. It more or less comes through, albeit in unexpected ways that may or may not fulfill the cravings of casual action fans. As a director, Lundgren continues to mature and adds another feather to his cap with this one, giving the impression that he's ready to handle a project with a bigger cast and budget if ever it comes his way...but of course, this one's not without a few annoying features that keep it from a higher rating.  The story: ex-KGB agent-turned mob enforcer Eddie "Icarus" Genn (Lundgren) finds his family's lives threatened when his attempt to leave his double-life behind has seemingly everybody gunning for him.  The movie has so many good qualities and is so above-average in terms of legitimate dramatic worth (by DTV standards) that when any evidence of its low budget makes itself apparent, you wonder what the heck it's doing there. There are no overt snafus or cinematic stumblings that bring down the movie, but a few little things keep up the annoyance level throughout. The film's story drags a bit during the middle act, and while the decision to shoot the entire movie without fixed cameras was doubtlessly an attempt at style, the film looked professional enough to begin with and makes this technique both unnecessary and distracting. Additionally, the overuse of stuttery slow-down effects and flashbacks dates the movie and makes it seem less professional.  The action content ought to be hit & miss, depending on your personal standards. It's almost completely made up of gunfights with a few fisticuffs thrown in, but none of it is very flashy. The four shootouts definitely had some effort put into them, but with the exception of the finale, they aren't quite inventive enough to keep me interested. Lundgren's usual karate is ignored in favor mixed martial arts - in other words, expect a lot of rolling around on the ground and general brawling. It's a bit more exciting than I expected, surprisingly, but seriously, give me <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6305161992">Showdown in Little Tokyo</a> over this any day. Lastly, the fact that the minor dream match of Lundgren vs. villain/fellow martial artist Bo Svenson (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00140PKCS">The Inglorious Bastards</a>) doesn't happen is also particularly disappointing.  Amazingly, the movie's real strengths lie in its dramatics, which are at a definite high point for Lundgren. Though the double-life plot and its execution hearken to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0011VIO4Q">a previously made Steven Seagal movie</a>, Lundgren goes above and beyond what's expected in the DTV realm to make it his own. Co-star Stafanie von Pfetten (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002J4X3O">Decoys</a>) in particular complements Dolph on his dramatic high: there's a great scene (slightly marred by the following sex) wherein his terrified and livid ex-wife points a gun at Icarus and screams at him to tell her what the hell is going on, but he's too set on keeping her safe and ignorant to divulge it even when she's been pushed to the brink. The subtle suspense of a scene in which Icarus scouts through a house wherein everybody has been assassinated is almost unheard of among action movies in general. (SPOILER) Samantha Kerris (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001CQONMC">The 4400</a>) does such a good job of setting up her mentor-like character that it's a genuine shock when she double-crosses Icarus.  Being a dramatic success more than anything else sets this film apart from every other movie that Lundgren has directed, but the picture's faults converge easily and weigh on its overall quality. In all honesty, "The Killing Machine" deserves a 4-star rating, but its questionable marketing (selling it as a plain action movie instead of a thriller) guarantees at least some disappointment for fans and keeps it down. Nevertheless, Dolph oughta keep it up and promises improvement with his future pictures. It's still worth being a fan!

Ty Hardin this movie was unknow for me and bought it only because I'm Ty Hardin fan.  Not the best but interessting movie about the early life of the later US-President J.F. Kennedy who's serving in the WW2.  THE DVD:  its a DVD-R, without any subtitles.  Picture-quality: good, but not perfect.  Interessting: uncredited: George Takei who became later world famous in the Star Trek original Serie is playing a Helmsman on Japanese Destroyer and Andrew Duggan is the Narrator.

Just OK This documentary does expose some of the horrific lives that have been imposed on individuals by the FLDS church.  Throughout the film, I kept wanting them the delve a little deeper.  I felt like there just wasn't enough first-hand views or insider access of the compound.  I do comprehend the danger and legality associated with attempting to get this information documented, however the crime in Johannesburg was filmed first hand.  I feel the film makers just didn't want to assume the risk associated with making a really great documentary.

Grand Theft Auto-Cool Cars,Neat Rolls but shoulda had a Vette! Ron Howard I have never liked nor Corman but I enjoy the film because of the Rolls Royce and the Neat Cars,Although I thsould have a Vette' in it as the Lead Car Star. And More Vettes,But I digress,I love how the ugly FIAT X1/9 1300(138AS)-The yellow car at the start before they take the Rolls-just comes apart.The Acting and plot I could do without,also the little as usual Ron Howard Style-jabs at Christianity-(this time at the Typical Protestants with a Preacher,but funny I never seen a movie he has made poking Fun at IslamOrthe Jewish Community?-instead you get propaganda based off the davinci book and angelsanddemons)it's the Chase and the cars,I hate the destroyed Rolls perhaps it was This LiberalElitist way of getting back at the So-called Man,regardless of the film makers motive and ugly mug I love Car movies especially of this era.

Deserves 2.5 stars since its not the best of the omen series but I'll give it 3 stars! First off to all Omen fans like me if you're expecting something specatacular to the Omen 4 the Awakening you'll probably be disappointed. Its basically a carbon copy of the 1976 film I saw 7 years ago on t.v. Dehlia is adopted by a political couple named The Yorks. Shes basically the perfect child until strange unexplainable things happen. She doesn't have any friends, animals are either scared of her or they try to attack her. And people around her die mysteriously the first nanny gets pushed out the window by the hellhound. Then a satanic nanny gets hired. And other people trying to find her past die in "unexplainable accidents." And then Dehlias mother begins to suspect that something is wrong with Dehlia and hires a private investigator to help find out where Dehlia come from. Sound familiar everyone? Its almost exactly like the first one only the villian is the girl. It wasn't the best film out of the film. It was okay but not great. Its something to watch once in a while if you get bored.

Slightly rusty, but a winner by split-decision There is no doubt this movie is relatively entertaining on purely robot fights, but there are plenty of reasons why it's not a 5-star movie.  Based in the "near" future, Real Steel stars Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton, a former fighter who uses the majority of his resources in life fueling his problems as a degenerate gambler with ADHD (either that, or he cares not to watch his fights or read instruction manuals).  Charlie nickels and dimes his way through life, shunning responsibility in favor of the next robot fight he'll bet upon and inevitably lose.  Along comes his estranged son Max (Dakota Goyo) and a heaping dose of Deus ex machine to save the day.  In no time at all they steal a decommissioned sparring robot that, through the gee-whiz engineering prowess of a wunderkind 11 year old, is suddenly knocking on the door of the championships with only a few fights on record.  Will they win?  Will Charlie and his son reconcile?  Anyone who has seen <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002GHHHH4">Over the Top</a> should know the answers already, and, like me, should start calling the movie Reel Steal.  Underdog vs. champion movies work really well.  Mixed with sports they work even better.  But if we learned anything from The Blind Side, irritating children who command far too much screen time do not work all that well.  The script is clich&eacute;-ridden, and Goyo is irritating beyond belief  Seriously, he's "Hmong actors in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002BCNK1Q">Gran Torino</a>"-horrible.  Nearly ruined, Real Steel's FX rises above Goyo's hip-hop Anakin portrayal and provides a bunch of seamless, metal crunching battle scenes.  Had this movie just stuck to the futuristic <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005BY8V">Rock 'Em Sock 'Em ROBOTS</a> routine, it would have worked much better.  As it stands, however, sentimentality was thrown in, with a kid and father who never actually acknowledge one another other than business partners, and a third wheel (Evangeline Lilly) who was so cursory she probably got paid in game room tokens.  Kids will enjoy the entire movie.  Discerning viewers will nit-pick the very corny melodrama, lack of character development, and mixed messages (seriously, the dude actively commits grand larceny with his kid).  All viewers should enjoy the robot fights.  Winner by split decision.

Movie Mixture Plain and simple this movie is a combination of Total Recall and The Bourne Series tied up into one movie. That doesnt make it bad nor does it make it great. The story is there and I at least could not figure it out until the end. Good action sequences and acting. Its more like a 3.5 stars. Worth watching for a home rental.

Quite absurd Raising Arizona is an absurd movie, no doubt. But it is also a funny movie. It's an absurd comedy! It's fun to watch, that's for sure, but I don't think I'd own it. It's one of those movies I'd put on TV if it happened to be on, but not own. -Trent Foreman, Author of Nightmare

Region 2 Oops I have no Idea what the movie was like, It was for region 2. I had no idea that there were regions where movies would not work. so heads up if you don't live in region 2 don't buy movies with Region 2 after the title. They won't work here. The seller was willing for me to return the item but for me it wasn't worth the effort. No more movies from England for this buyer.

Really tough and not your typical zen yoga.... Although from reading the reviews I already knew this before buying it but I had to get it anyway. It is really difficult and not something I feel like doing again for awhile.  I am also doing her 30 day shred right now and it is incredibly hard but good.  I like the 30 day shred better than the yoga meltdown workout. I prefer many other yoga dvds by other instructors to this one.

Great White Shark Hysteria Part 2 This movie, while not as good as its predecessor, is certainly better than the two that came after it!  The plot was okay (although a little farfetched); the problem was with the shark itself.  And while the footage of real sharks incorporated into the movie looked authentic, the shark that was used in the movie looked more fake than ever!  What I'd LOVE to see is Hollywood remake either "Jaws" or "Jaws 2" -- with today's technology, it would probably be awesome!

Well, It's okay I watched it reluctantly and in desperation after watching Millennium Trilogy 50 times each. The film bombed at the box office. The story was complicated enough to be interesting, but the lead characters, or at least the portrayal of them, were very unlikable which turns me off right away. I need to like the characters, no matter how mean or nasty they are, and I could not like these two, especially the Julia Roberts character. That said, if you like'd Michael Clayton sort of story, you'll like this.

Stopping Domestic Terrorism The Final Option, 1981 film  The story begins with a peaceful march in a street by Anti-Nuclear protesters. A marcher in the street is shot down by a bolt from a crossbow (no noise). Elsewhere an SAS officer is driven out of his regiment for an offense. (This provides an excuse for his anti-government sentiments when he joins the "People's Lobby".) A foreigner in a bank donates a large sum to the "People's Lobby". The purpose seems to be to create some crime that will destroy the leadership of the PL (who managed to acquire US-made Ingram machine pistols in "gun-free" Britain). Skellen joins the PL and reports to his contact. Later Helga poisons this contact on a bus with a spray, but no one else suffers. [This are very bad people.] As part of their plot they hijack a bus with Air Force musicians. "There's no turning back now." What do these terrorists plan to do? Skellen will find out.  The military know something is going to happen, but don't know where. The terrorists plan well, they attack the Skellen family. Their plan is to hijack the American Embassy to force them to do some thing. [But are these officials expendable?] Their plan seems to be working. An alert Marine guard challenges them and upsets their plan. The terrorists burst into the dining room. "It's a bit complicated." They want a nuclear explosion in the name of peace. [Unconscious humor?] The servants are separated from the officials and their wives. Will their actions create a better world? The US Ambassador speaks to Frankie about terrorism. What will one bomb do? [This discussion seems well-scripted.] Skellen tells Frankie what they will do next. The servants will be released but not the officials. Television carries the news. Frankie tells the authorities of the consequences if they fail to follow directions: all will be killed.  The police monitor Skellen's family. Since the terrorists aren't masked they must not plan to escape. One hostage is killed. [Did his talk give a hint?] The Special Air Services is called in to neutralize the terrorists. Does the bargaining chip held by the terrorists have any value compared to a nuclear explosion? [Are they suicidal?] The SAS blow a hole through a brick wall and kill the terrorists in Skellen's home. Next the SAS helicopters arrive at the roof of the American Embassy. The SAS break into the building and neutralize the terrorists. Then they leave as quickly as they arrived. Back in London a Minister meets with the courier who brought the cash for the PL. They have all the time in the world.  This dramatic message movie was based on true events, like an Embassy invasion and the success of the SAS in their mission to kill or capture the invaders. It is fiction to portray anti-nuclear protesters as terrorists who are paid by a foreign government. Who really wants a nuclear war with a following nuclear winter that will kill the survivors? The story does not tell who shot that crossbow, and why. Was this movie designed publicize the activities of the SAS? One value of this story is telling how an agent provocateur acts so they can be identified. [I wonder how much Maggie had to spend to produce this horror film?] Its like a war propaganda film from the 1940s or 1950s, viewable even if it is now humorous at times for a serious movie. [I wonder if the actor who played "Skellen" was ever considered as "the next James Bond"?] Was the motto of the SAS "Who Dares Wins"?

Descent movie, misleading dvd cover The movie is ok, specialy for the price. I bought the dvd at K-mart for $1.99. The dvd cover is really misleading. First off, it's not the Kumite that we know, it's more like a torniment like in the movie "the Karate Kid", second, the guy on the dvd cover is the bad guy,(the guy the star fight at the end) The story is ok, a long love story in the middle of the action. The one thing that botherd me is that at the end of the movie you don't know who wins. Over all, an ok movie. For the price. $1 to $3 is a good price to pay.

To the point with detail........sorta. I really cant put my finger on this movie. I knew it was a kaiju/comedy before I bought it so I was expecting something a little different. I have seen all the Godzilld and Gamera movies (minus Gamera: Super Monster) among plenty other related movies, spin offs, rip offs, remakes and the occasional homage film, so I was pretty aware of what I was suppose to laugh at. now with that all said this is my finger on the movie. If you dont know what kaiju means then this movie is probably not for you, unless your into random crazy movies that dont make sense. If you really do like kaiju movies you will most likley find this film extremely horrible and entertaining at the same time....unless you have a super ego...then you will hate it. You really got to be a fan of the genre and be able to make fun of yourself alot before watching Death Kappa.

Vaguely amusing I don't inherently object to new tellings of well-known stories, and R&J has been retold more than most. I don't object to kids' movies - at least, not just because they're kids' movies.  But good retellings preserve the depth of the original, even with a veneer of kid appeal, and good kids' movies offer a few nuggets to the grownup buying the movie tickets. This did neither.  "Gnomeo" was nicely done, but that's all: Nice. And I don't mean that in a particularly nice way.  -- wiredweird, reviewing gthe release to theaters

not a learning video I agree with another review.  I have pushed rewind beyond count!  Part of what I have difficulty with is Colin is facing forward which means his instructions are backwards for me.  If he is really about teaching the step, he should have his back to the camera so we're on the same facing foot. He is very talented but does go way too fast.

Not the best but plenty of Betty. FYI this two-disc set contains all the Betty Boop cartoons on the four-disc GoodTimes set (which also has two non-Betty items) and considerably more. It's a much better economic choice. But there are no "garter belt" Betty cartoons in either set, and those are the ones collectors want. Alas, there is no Betty Boop DVD issue that compares with the wonderful three-volume Popeye set.

Meh.... Weird Science was always one of my favourite movies when I was a kid. But it's the case of watching something from when you were a kid that you thought was really great, but not so much when you've grown up. Don't get me wrong. The movie is still an 80s classic, but being a kid watching it just gives it something special. The audio mix of this dvd is one of the worst that I've ever heard. It's tinny and flat with hardly any base or surround effects. A stereo mix would have gone a long way to making this a better dvd.

Movie or play?? The movie was a necessary watch for a Brit Lit class otherwise I would not view it. It is helpful to be familiar with Hamlet since Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern were minor characters in that play. It would also be good to have read this play prior to the movie or you would be totally confused.

Mh. Ok. Nothing special but entertaining enough. [Apparently, you cannot leave reviews that are too short but, seriously, there's nothing else to say about this movie!].

Very very serious in it's message to remove the monuments!!! First, be prepared for a documentary with a hidden meaning to it...Also be prepared and know that this documentary has very little combat footage and even less information about the Aleutian battles...This is mostly about the veterans recent visit there with footage mostly of the landscape  Too often do the Aleutian's get passed over by the masses, too few americans know that U.S soil was occupied by a foreign power...Even though the Aleutian occupation by japan was not an immediate threat when invaded because it was really used as a smoke screen for japanese ships invading midway and at the time posed no strategic value it was nonetheless american soil and our people died there...This was a symbolic victory for the Japanese and also a slap in the face for the united states which since has seemed to wanna bury the aleutians with other forgotten history but you cannot because those troops died to take back what was ours...  In this documentary you will see some very emotional veterans describing what it was like on the aleutian's, explaining the harsh conditions they fought in and why it was so important and should never be forgotten...These troops for the first and only time in american history had to fight to retake american soil from a foreign army, I have so much respect for these men because you could say that out of all the battles in WW2 the aleutians became symbolically to us the most important because it was american soil..Many will say that it was hell, that the terrain was worthless, that the conditions were so bad weather wise one would say " Why the hell are we going there"... It's America, thats why!  The thing that bothered me the most were also the monuments erected by the japanese supposedly for the memory of all troops that died there but as you see the emotion in these mens faces when they see this monument they call it what it is.. A disgrace to americans, that the U.S would allow the Japanese to errect a monument on American soil for the memory of any Jap that died there is a slap in the face to all the U.S veterans that fought there..You also see the impact this has on them when they say they will lobby to have this monument removed.. The research I've dug up was that the motive behind it was the Japs that committed suicide on the island and to commemorate their own dead...This monument would not stand anywhere else in the country especially pearl so why, and please do not tell me it is because it is so remote that nobody goes there but it is also insulting to some inuit who find it inappropriate  Overall I found this documentary very enlightening, there is not much footage from WW2 on here mostly just two men remembering the past but it serves it's purpose very well in enlightening some people whom didn't even know what the aleutians were or that they were invaded resulting in a lot of american soldiers lives to take back what was ours... The Japanese were the most ruthless people in the world during the war, the atrocities committed by them were never equaled by anyone else...The treatment of people by the Japanese were horrifying even to the Nazis, more than once did germany even advise Japan to treat people more humanely, worrying that what they did to any non Japanese would result in grave international consequences..  Finally, I find this film enjoyable but there was just something in the background that I didn't understand, there is almost no footage of the combat here which makes me research the real meaning of this film... I have many documentaries on this subject but this is the first with such a lack of historical footage,  yes you hear the men describing what happened but without the footage that should accompany much of this there is just passing footage of the alaskan landscape..I was thinking this was just about those men going back there for the first time since the war but through research I found out that one of the purposes of this film was TO REMOVE the japanese memorial there which many deem inappropriate...  This is the meaning to the film so if you would like to see a more accurate depiction of this part of the war I recommend checking out the title (The Bloody Aleutians) which will give you a more in depth explanation on this with many many more original pics and footage...I gave this a four because of the emotion and feeling of the men who are showed in it but as a documentary piece on the Aleutians during WW2 it falls very short...Much of what happened in the Aleutians cannot be found here so if you are looking for more of a historic view on it you should pick up something with a lil more information  As it stands, this cannot be considered a history on the battles in the Aleutians,  there is too little information

Cpt. Strong My heart just sank when Capt Strong was captured by the smugglers and poached in a vat of water like an enormous egg. A must see for all fans of Capt. Srong and smuggling operations!

set was ok i got this for my wife she kept asking if i had ever seen them and i haven't. so i finally purchased the entire set and it was OK. very predictable movies once you watch the first one.

Quite Boring I found the movie boring and could not wait for it to be over. One time watch for me. Video quality is good though.

A good followup to Trekkies 1 I enjoyed the follow up on the two people from Trekkies 1 and enjoyed seeing Star Trek fans around the world

I didn't notice the high definition I rate the trilogy with 3 stars only because I'm a little disappointed with the video quality. I really didn't notice the high definition of a typical bluray movie. One more thing, first film comes with italian subtitles, why?? I think there's more people who speak spanish than italian here in america or am I wrong? Otherwise I still love the movies.

Comic Relief, Duran Duran Ikealand Version I bought this but in the Hannibal Lecter collection, I FINALLY made it through lol. WOW... it's so terrible, but I gave it 3 stars because it's worth watching just to laugh at the 80's megastyle blow of it all... the long overly drawn out  pauses on sunsets and the lead actors gaze into the lens, the cheesy soundtrack, the scripted horridly robotic dialogue especially between Will and Hannibal in the jail cell etc. I thought I didn't care for Norton in the newer version of Red Dragon, but he's like a genius actor compared to this horrid style over substancefest.  Honestly, if I'd never seen or heard, knew... anything about this story/movie/Hannibal Lecter this movie wouldn't have made any sense at all and been utterly boring. It was an hour into the script/film that Will even mentions anything about his relationship with Lecter... come on lol, it's so horribly written. I haven't read the book? but despite that they need to make a script that is compelling and makes sense. Anthony Hopkins takes a huge dump on this entire film, he brought Hannibal to life completely... this guy Cox? whoever he is makes Hannibal seem totally forgettable in ever way.  I'd only suggest buying this stand alone movie if you love 80's Don Johnson style fluff, otherwise the only justification would be to do as I did and be forced to buy it with the Hannibal Lecter Collection just to get Hannibal on Blu-ray since it's apparently not available on it's own.

Movie Description While snowboarding, Little Gobie and his beloved pet dragon BeBe get into a hazardous accident and BeBe is badly hurt. When Gobie learns that Santa Claus has the power to help heal his friend, he decides to set off to Santaland in search of Santa Claus to make his special Christmas wish come true.

OK... Acting was good but I felt like watching an Indian version of Rambo or the likes. So not what I expected. Actions (not to the level of Holywood, of course).

Too heavy on story, but pretty much makes up for it in the traps Saw 2 was *just* good enough to make me want to get the third one. Since it was, like, four bucks here for the Blu-ray, I thought, Why not?  Short version: It's the goriest "Saw" yet, but still not as gory as some other flicks, notably the remake of "I Spit On Your Grave" (hey, wanna watch forty-five minutes of sadistic rape? Or do you prefer the girl's rather creative and tortuous revenge sequences that would make Jigsaw flinch?), nor is it on the level of some of the classics, like "High Tension", "Suspiria", or "REC", probably because Saw doesn't seem to take itself all that seriously, but the other flicks do. "Hostel" also does the same thing, which makes it more potentially disturbing. The entire "Saw" series is a bit cheesy, really, and takes a few too many creative liberties when it comes to plot and realism. At least the other films mentioned tried to look realistic, but the Saw series is almost comical in comparison, with far too much emphasis on all that crap about Amanda, and other things virtually none of us cares about. Just get to the damned traps already; we don't give a damn about Amanda or the prequel part or any of that garbage. Since when was "Saw" known for its masterful storytelling? Right, never. It's the puzzles that hook us, so stick to the damned puzzles. "Saw III" tries way too hard to make itself into a cohesive story, as if anyone cares at all, but it pretty much makes up for it with the traps involved, the entire freaking reason we go to see the films. (Unfortunately, as we all know now, the Saw series got progressively worse as it tried to make itself more than a gorefest with some stupid story thrown in we always skip over in our players).  I was a little worried going in that this was going to be a cash-in sequel that doesn't even try to hide that it's a cash-in sequel--you know, just gore, gore, gore, with no creativity in there, which is why I think anyone watches Saw to begin with. You want to see people die or come close to death through the "puzzles" they have to suffer through. Yeah, it's sick entertainment, but it's a good premise, and Saw III actually goes the extra mile here and does multiple "traps" at the same time. No one cares about Amanda or anything except the "traps", so what we get here is pretty good, and it even has arguably a better twist ending than the second one. It's quite a whopper that you very likely won't see coming. I had a guess, because I knew the plot couldn't be as straightforward as it seemed at first; that wasn't Saw. Something that changed everything had to happen, and here, it does, and it does so with gusto. I have to say, it was very satisfying. The final few minutes with the big reveals are a treat, and you get psyched-out a few times, but not for no reason, but because it's critical to the idea behind Jigsaw's plan.  The short of it? There's plenty of gore, some unique deaths (and one involving drowning in dead exploding pig juice that is rather icky), and the whole twist ending thing Saw always does. The opening one we get is pretty high up there as likely the most potentially disturbing, and for people who love this stuff (like me) and actually like how sick they're willing to go in a film, it was a fun thing to watch (but you've got to admit that the rules were downright unfair for all he had to do--a minute and thirty for all that, plus escaping before he's blown up? Who could do that in a minute and thirty?). It's got the gore, the screams, the pain, all the stuff we love to watch.  The thing is, Saw will never replace the horror films out there that are willing to push the envelope to near-impossible levels. Now, I understand that wide-release horrors can't be on the level of, say, the "I Spit On Your Grave" remake, which involved, among other things, a *forty-five minute rape scene*, and someone getting a shotgun through the mouth...in reverse. You'd have to see it to know what I mean. In any case, that was easily NC-17 material, with full-frontal nudity, unrestrained sadistic rape, gratuitous torture, and an emphasis on pain, rather than gore, which actually makes it unique. It's also not quite on the level of "Hostel" or "High Tension" or "Suspiria" or a bunch of other horror flicks, mostly foreign, you've likely never heard of. They get more liberties, or something, I dunno. American horror films don't get as much room to work with, I suppose.  Not bad, not great--too heavy on worthless story none of us watched any of the films for, and too many breaks to go into the history of Jigsaw and Amanda, and other things absolutely no one cares about. Seriously, all we want is traps. Do nothing but give us Jigsaw making traps for 90 minutes, make them creative and well-designed, and we're all happy for it. But start throwing in a story, and our fast-forward buttons start to wear out. Saw III was the beginning of this, and it got worse as time went on, almost totally ruining the series until the disastrous "Saw 3D" (now officially retitled "Saw: The Final Chapter" because 3D sucks and none of us want it).

Pretty decent, I was honestly surprised Yogi Bear is a pretty decent movie. I thought I was going to hate it, but I was surprised. It had some funny parts, which was the main strong point. I wouldn't own this movie, but if it was on TV and there was nothing else on to watch, I might put this on. Pretty decent. -Trent Foreman, Author of Nightmare

a bit too much I want to qualify my review by saying that I'm a Caucasian American that loves Bollywood, not someone steeped in Indian culture. This is obviously a cult classic, so I hesitate to not write a glowing review. I'm a fan of SRK and Kajol in other movies they've done, but this one was just a little too over the top for me -- even though it was a foundational movie for them. For starters, there were too many obstacles to resolve in the movie. I've noticed that many Indian movies have problem after problem thrown at the main characters that they have to resolve, so maybe some people really like this, but for me, it went on too long. The chemistry and relationship between the two main characters was sweet and the storyline would have been a dream come true for a young girl with all the situations the two get thrown together in. I didn't mind it myself, and I'm in my 30s. However, the ending wasn't entirely satisfying to me. The father of the bride was quasi-demonic, and SRK's character's love for Kajol's character was plenty developed without the "proof" of the crazy ending. So in summary, it was a bit much for an American like me, but if you like drawn out, complicated plots with some happiness at the end, you will probably love it. It reminded me of Chup Chup Ke -- funny and light, but with one problem after the next. My favorite Bollywood movies are Jab We Met, Rab Ne Bana di Jodi, Dil Bole Hadippa, and The 3 Idiots to give you an idea of my style of movie.

Slaughter Hotel (1971) Dr. Francis Clay (Klaus Kinski) is the head doctor at an asylum that houses suicidal and mentally disturbed women.  Hired by a wealthy socialite who's also a patient, Dr. Clay tries desperately to cure his female patients.  But when a cloaked killer begins brutually murdering the asylum's patients, the "good" doctor finds himself numbered among the suspects.  An erotic, sometimes violent Italian movie.

Entertaining but falls short... It was a fun movie to waste an afternoon on, but something about it held me back from really liking it. The casting choices were a little bizarre and the script/filming seemed choppy. Obviously from a YA book, but it could have been better had the main leads been a little older (including the love interest).

This is still a good movie, but not up to today's standards That said, I saw this in theaters when it first came out.  Maybe a different decade, maybe a hot woman, maybe never seeing the lead actor in end up in scary movie 4.  Something really hit home with me.  Now, I see what terrible acting was involved in this movie.  If you like movies for the concepts they deliver, you will like this one for going deeper into the sci-fi end of the matrix concept.  Drama galore, film noir.  Probably already seen it yourself or you wouldn't be looking at it on Amazon.  Reminder, Vincent Denofrio is the only good actor in this movie... no brainer, right.  And you should know not to purchase the 1.33 aspect ratio version like I did.

BROWNING AND DEAN: WHITE TIGER Tod Browning`s White Tiger (1923) finds the director revisiting intimate motifs and has an unusual connection to Edgar Allan Poe (Browning, who has often been referred to as the Poe of cinema, listed the classic author as his favorite).  In 1836, Poe wrote an expos&eacute; of the touring "Mechanical Chess Player" Automaton.  In the article Poe revealed that inside this mechanical chess player was a concealed, quite human, operator.  Poe's article was the seed for Browning's film, which the director co-wrote with screenwriter Charles Kenyon.  White Tiger stars Browning regular Priscilla Dean, Raymond Griffith and Walter Beery.  Griffith, who got his start with Mack Sennett, was once considered a rival to both Chaplin and Keaton.  Due to a childhood injury to his vocal cords, Griffith was practically mute, quashing any chance he might have had for surviving into sound film.  Most of Griffith's films are lost, but the most celebrated, the Civil War comedy Hands Up (1926), survives, and is thought by some to be nearly as good as Keaton's (somewhat overrated)The General from the same year.  Although that comparison is highly debatable, Hands Up is a unique film and worth seeing.  It is available from Grapevine Video, but otherwise it is hard to find.  Griffith's screen persona was that of a debonair comedian, a la Max Linder, but  Browning, of course, used him quite differently.  Griffith plays Roy Donovan.  Sylvia (Dean) is Roy's sister, but they are separated at childhood when Hawkes (Beery) betrays their father, Mike Donovan (Alfred  Allen), which results in Mike's murder.  Hawkes takes Sylvia with him.  She believes her brother has also died and is unaware that Hawkes was her father's Judas.  Years later, Sylvia is a professional pickpocket under the guardianship of Hawkes, who now goes by the new identity of  Count Donelli.  Sylvia stakes out her victims at the London Wax Museum.  There she meets The Kid, who, unknown to her, is her long lost brother, Roy.  Roy has his own nefarious gig; the Mechanical Chess Player.  When Sylvia introduces the Kid to her "father," Count Donelli, the three form an unholy alliance, which leads them and the Mechanical Chess Player to a new land of opportunity in America.  Roy develops incestuous feelings for Sylvia (of course, he is still unaware that she is his sibling), which leads to jealousy when Sylvia falls for goody two shoe Dick Longworth (Matt Moore).  Tension between the unholy three builds with the arrival of Dick.  After a jewelry heist in a mansion, utilizing the Mechanical Chess Player, the trio hole up at a claustrophobic cabin in the mountains.  The final quarter of the film casts a Poe-like eye on imagined (and real) enemies.  Mistrust between the trio is sowed and much coffee is downed, in an effort to stay awake and keep an eye on each other and the hidden jewelry.  The truth about Hawk's betrayal of Sylvia's real father comes out, as does the revelation that the Kid is none other than her brother.  The Oedipal killing of a (surrogate) father, mistrust among a trio of criminals, theft of jewels, false identities, the double cross, staged gimmickry, deception (which the spectator audience is privy to), latent incest, followed by jealousy for a righteous rival, a claustrophobic getaway retreat, and a finale in which one of the criminals deeds goes unpunished are familiar Browning themes.  Poe's deceptive Mechanical Chess Player is a bizarre, added quirk.  According to several Browning biographers, acquaintances of the director and his wife, Alice, would often be forced to lock up the jewelry when the two came to visit because the Brownings had a notorious reputation for swiping  any stones they could get their hands on.  At least Tod Browning's empathy for the criminal mindset was an honest one. * MY REVIEW ORIGINALLY APPEARED AT 366 WEIRD MOVIES

side effects it is about a lot of teenagers partying all the time,having romances with every one the meet. but one girl is looking for the real deal of finding some one who will fall in love with.

Coming of Age After reading that this film was the official Greek entry for the Academy Awards, I picked it up when the DVD was released. Last night I finally got around to watching the film.  Let me say right off the bat that the movie's opening scene was quite shocking--at least to me. But then it caught me completely by surprise.  This turned out to be a strange movie, maybe weird is the better word. It's definitely not action-packed and fast-paced, but rather it unfolds at a slow methodical pace.  Though at times the film was boring, there was something about it that kept me watching, wanting to see how it ended. It goes without saying that not everyone will like this movie. But I did. Be aware that the film contains nudity and sexual innuendo.  Plot: A character study of a young woman (circa 23) coming of age as her father is dying. It takes place in the Greek boondocks, a remote factory town.  I give this movie 3 stars out of 5.

NOT WHAT I HAD HOPED FOR I had seen the 10th anniversary version of Les Miserables and really enjoyed that, but I bought this version because it was on Blue Ray and was in Surround Sound. So I thought it would be about the same, but with much better audio and video. I was so disappointed! This production is not very dynamic at all. The singers just stand planted to the stage and sing. There is very little in the way of choreography or movement. To me, it was BORING! And the performances were not as memorable as the 10th Anniversary edition. Sure, the video and audio quality are technically much better in this newer version, but unless you're into the "minimalist" production style, I would recommend the older version because it was much more enjoyable to watch.

A little too slapstick for me. I usually love Bette Midler, but this is so overdone and shmaltzy. She is so much better without a script. I turned it off before it was over.

Sweet Movie This is a sweet family movie.  It has romance, and family issues.  It's so nice to know that there are still movies made without all the cursing and nudity.

A different kind of sci-fi Movie Very well produced, well acted film. The title and the trailer are misleading. The movie actually moves quite slow with lots of dramatic atmosphere as a couple try to escape a devastated region of Central America You rarely see the monsters except at the end of the movie. It's a very good film but different from what i expected so I'm not sure if I liked it or not. I'll have to give it another viewing.

Buckling some more swashes. He's baaaaaaaack!  The first PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN movie introduced Johnny Depp to a much, much wider audience; as Captain Jack Sparrow, he was a wonder, cracking wise and kicking butt (often at the same time).  CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL remains a family-friendly action/adventure classic.  It's sequels...eh.  ON STRANGER TIDES makes no sense.  Okay?  Should this surprise you...you're in the wrong genre, my friend.  It's big and bold (though not nearly as much as its two predecessors, thank God), features some mediocre acting (Depp and Geoffrey Rush remain strong, and Ian McShane is fantastic even though his character is crudely drawn), a few genuine laughs, a few false laughs, a few failed bits of choreography, and a whole lot of fun.  Maybe not as much fun as back at the beginning, when all of this was new, but you'll still enjoy yourself...probably.  The plot?  Something to do with Blackbeard (McShane), his daughter (Penelope Cruz; finally, a strong female character, or at least a strong female actress); Captain Barbosa (Rush) as a British emissary; a shirtless priest who falls in love with a mermaid (you think I'm joking, but I'm not); the fountain of youth; and a bunch of good pirates and evil British guys.  Oh, and Keith Richards.  Rock on.  If I sound sarcastic, it's because you just can't take this movie seriously, not even on its own terms.  But trust me: ON STRANGER TIDES is, at the very least, a fun movie (note the three stars).  Jack Sparrow is getting rather tired (I would much rather watch the first film on repeat), but Depp still has enough charisma to breathe a little bit more life into him.  If nothing else, the visuals remain spectacular, the plot interesting enough for us to forgive the fact that it is so full of holes an elephant could waltz right through it, and the pirates still delightfully funny (I'd love to see the "realistic" version of this film...well, maybe not).  It could stand to be a little darker and scarier (the mermaid premise, as awful as it originally comes across, actually had some promise), but we're willing to settle for what it is.  And that, at least, is worth a viewing or two.

A Curmudgeon Review One of the goals I have set is to view any and all zombie movies available. This movie has a lot of talent put into it.  The acting is fine, the camera was handled well.  The make-up effects were fine, and the gore action scenes were for the most part computer generated.  This movie was more like 28 Days Later than Night of the Living Dead.  A virus has mutated humanity into violent killers that look somewhat zombie-ish.  We have a rag-tag group of survivors that are immune to the virus and develop a plan to grow and be safe and secure from the mutants. When they travel and explore, they find more survivors along the way.  This is not a spoiler review.  There is enough plot to keep the story interesting.  There is not a lot of zombie action, but the story makes up for the difference.  Much of the film is filmed at night or in dark buildings. (electricity is toast-it's a given!)  Worth the $ to rent, and worth watching again.  Enjoy!

Solid Comedy That Challenges Convention, But Shies From Answers Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy embark on a buddy film that's not really a buddy film, crossing paths only fleetingly before swapping lifestyles and trying the theory of nature vs. nurture amidst the hustle and bustle of Wall Street. Like the Richard Pryor comedy The Toy, there's a puzzling vein of not-so-subtle racism running through the core of this seemingly straight family comedy, particularly when Aykroyd dons black face in the third act, which is only partially settled at the conclusion. Maybe that's a product of the era in which it was made, though, and it seems somewhat validated, if not approved, by Murphy's close presence in every remotely thorny scene. Otherwise, this is a lightly funny, straight-ahead retread with a few good laughs but no rapid-fire side splitters. Murphy and Aykroyd are both solid as obnoxious stereotypes of the worst their culture has to offer, while Jamie Lee Curtis's turn as the hooker with a head for business challenges convention in different ways.

Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia For the kid in all of us that loves dinosaurs,the Giants of Patagonia is simply fun to watch with nice 3D effects.

Canadian Zombies? For about hour or so I thought this was a bad Australian movie, but it turned out to be a bad Canadian movie.  There were some likable characters - ordinary people risking their lives to help other ordinary people.  I see a lot of movies where I really don't care if the monsters win, but in this case the humans were tolerable.

60 years is too old Quality of the CD is just fine but even though memories of this movie are vivid, time has moved on and so have we. If you are used to watching really old pieces, you may not feel the same.

Russell in prime form, but with caveats... First, Russell is amazing in this concert.  Perhaps not his best voice (due to its taping at the end of a long tour), but the orchestra and venue is superb.  Sound mixing is excellent.  Second, the filming is decent but not great.  The camera cuts MUCH too much away from Russell and to the crowd and orchestra.  We should be seeing Russell most of the time but the camera is constantly cutting away...annoying.  Finally, this is a PAL DVD.  This means that if you are in North America, you MUST have a DVD that can play and out PAL or the DVD won't play.  It will play on your PC, but that's not an ideal presentation.  The DVD is multi-region though.  This DVD is not as good or as engaging as his Auckland concert, this is an older and more polished entertainer that knows his audience and plays to his strengths.

Rent, don't buy Remarkable Power is not a great movie, and not even a really good movie, but it does have many funny moments. As mentioned in the other reviews, it earns its "R" rating through some graphic scenes of sexual and violent nature, as well as language, but really nothing out of the ordinary.  If you appreciate dark, irreverant humor and sprawling, non-linear plots, you'll probably find Remarkable Power a good way to spend 90 minutes.  This reminds me of the comedies they used to air on tv at 2:00AM on weekends (if it was edited, that is) -- just right if you're bored and want to watch something, but not necessarily something you'd spend much money on or want to buy to re-watch.  Be advised some of the actors listed don't have huge screen time (i.e., Christopher Titus), but everyone gets their moments.  The pace is slow and the plot confusing in the beginning, but stick with it, because the movie gathers steam, gets funnier, and all the disparate parts begin to come together by the mid-point.

KATELAND HOW MUCH IS THAT DOGGIE?. Im watching puppies at play, in a cage that has a glass window, i think in a pet shop. They are of diffrent breeds. The little doggies seem to be happy, none are fighting. But there is abit of over crowding, there are 9 rather big pups cramped in there, and the cage dosent seem to be very big. The puppy i would like to buy has a fluffy thick coat, a huskie tail, and a lovely cute face. This DVD is alright. Children would love it. And that background noise, i think is a person speaking softly to the little puppies dueing filming. It could be the pet shop owner, or maybe one of the film crew. But that is nothing at all, it never botherd me. Just enjoy these little puppies as they play and romp.

More for war movie fans than horse movie fans War Horse is by no means a bad movie.  It was well acted, well scripted, and in many ways a deeply moving film.  But if you are a horse lover (as I am) it will likely be difficult for you to watch.  The movie follows a beautiful Thoroughbred named Joey through various phases of his life.  Unfortunately, the horse has a very difficult life, changing owners numerous times and going through some really harrowing experiences.  I thought some of the ugliness of war would be toned down since this movie will likely appeal to a wide audience especially because of how the ads play up the bond between the horse and the boy.  While there's not a lot of blood and gore, it is still very violent and at it is very much a war movie.  One of the first war scenes depicts a cavalry battalion (with Joey being towards the front) ambushing a group of unsuspecting soldiers.  A group of 100+ soldiers on horses rush toward the encampment and cut down several soldiers, some of them in the process of shaving and getting dressed.  But there are machine guns hidden in the trees and almost the entire battalion of horse and riders is cut down by machine gun fire as they head towards the trees.  Only a few horses (Joey included) survive.  This was a very difficult scene to watch and countless dead horses on the ground gave you an idea of how badly horses generally fared in wartime situations.  There is another very difficult scene to watch in which Joey is running away from a tank and runs in a blind panic over and around several bunkers, and eventually runs head long into several strands of barbwire.  He gets so bogged down in the barbwire that he flips end over end and is completely unable to free himself.  It was heartwrenching and terrible to watch.  However, the scene that follows was one of the most moving of the movie, where two soldiers from the opposing camps come together to free him.  One of the tired, but true, war adages that came to mind while watching this movie was "war is hell."  This proves to be true for pretty much everyone in the movie, especially the horse.  While this was a good movie in some respects, it is definitely not one I enjoyed watching.

A major disappointment from a great actor and a great director The buzz about this film has been Oscar-worthy, but the actual film is a major disappointment, particularly because is was co-written and directed by Alexander Payne, whose earlier films include the brilliant SIDEWAYS and ELECTION, and whose 7-year absence from film has been deeply felt. THE DESCENDANTS feels more like Payne's ABOUT SCHMIDT, which gave Jack Nicholson a good late-career role but was still just another road movie. The film feels underwritten and too often predictable. There is little doubt where we are going, but Payne's journey to get us there is too often uncertain in tone. Scenes and incidents, some funny, others sad, are set up, and then don't pay off. Clooney gives a good, understated performance, but his character's changes, from selfish, stingy, uncaring father and husband, to loving, concerned dad and human being, are never dramatized; we're just supposed to accept it. The whole cast is good, even Nick Krause in the Keanu Reeves role from "Parenthood" (the scene where the dopey teen gives advice to Clooney about his daughter is the same as Reeves giving advice to Dianne Wiest in the earlier film). Some times it feels as though the film were too heavily edited, and the missing scenes would have answered all our questions and satisfied our emotional needs. Just hypothetical, but how else to explain the ultimate emptiness of an "important" film that just doesn't deliver?

CRAP--BUT FUN There is no doubt this movie is laughable in most every respect.  It does have both decent and terrible acting, bad special effects, and is in serious need of remastering.  But on the other hand if you're a fan of creature movies--especially low budget 'B'--well, ok 'Z' movies--this might be for you.  It's fun and entertaining, and the plot could be worse--I rather enjoyed it.  Just turn off your brain, sit on your intelligence, so to speak--as you would with, say, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.  It has nothing to do with the movie being from the 70s; the 70s were a great decade for cinema in many respects, if not the BEST decade; just don't cite this movie as an example of 70s cinema (please don't!).

Quirky and Dark Drama Charlize Theron turns in her usual stellar performance in this dark and quriky drama from the people that brought you Juno, though it is quite different from Juno.  This is not a comedy so don't expect it to be funny.  Charlize portrays a successful writer of young adult novels.  But she is very messed up mentally - she is an adult but is very immature, a young adult.  She lives alone, has a habit of pulling her hair out, drinks herself to sleep every night, and has one night stands with men she barely knows.  When she receives an email birth announcement from her ex-boyfriend , who is now married, she decides on a whim to go back to her small hometown, naively thinking she can win him back.  She misinterpret's her ex-boyfriend's interest in catching up with her, imagining somehow that he will divorce his wife and that they will resume where they left off, as if they were characters in one of her novels.  However, a heavy dose of reality rudely shatters her dreams, making her realize just how unfufilled her life is.  Unfortunately, the ending seems hurried and less than satisfactory.  Overall, it is a film worth watching; just don't expect it to be funny.

BRIAN DE PALMA, OPUS 27 I'd really like to see the uncut version in this case because it's impossible to summarize this novel with all its subplots in just two hours. The characters's behaviour isn't logical at all here and, unfortunately, the movie never creates the so peculiar mood found in every book written by James Ellroy. As it is, The Black Dahlia is a promising fim seriously ill.

Entertaining This movie was much better than I expected, but not to Alicia Silverstone's credit. Peter O'Toole, Joan Plowright and the band's cast of characters are very amusing here. I found the movie quite funny and oddly enough the band was so good I'd buy the soundtrack if it existed. Alicia is basically a bump on a log here but her bandmates are believable actors so i recommend it as a fun rock flick.

Not up to par Another re-make of original movie. This is not even close to original All the King's Men. Sean Penn's performance is not even close to Broderick Crawford's performance in the original one.

Championship Gets Old Quick, But History/Nostalgia Is Great! If you are reading this review right now, you almost certainly have played a game of Monopoly in your lifetime, as the board game has become such an icon in and of itself.  This fun little documentary gives some history of the game's origins and current status, while also showing the "competitive side" at the National Monopoly Championship.  Essentially, to put things into perspective, "Under the Boardwalk", is a carbon copy clone of the "King of Kong"-style documentary that attained so much success.  It weaves the history of the object being documented with the competitiveness it was actually meant for.  In terms of the history portion, this doc knocks it out of the park.  I mean, who can't spend a chunk of time in nostalgia for this game that we all (or seemingly all) enjoyed either as a child or to this very day!  The "competitive" stuff, though, pales in comparison to the gritty, real emotions that "King of Kong" developed so well.  There are just too many people in the competition to really get to know, and it felt as if the documentary makers tried to endow them with personalities (to create drama) to mask the fact that this was really just a friendly competition.  Overall, I give "Under the Boardwalk" 3.5 stars out of five.  It's all in good fun, but you'll find yourself really "into it" when the history lessons and general nostalgic discussions rule the screen time.

A MUCH NEEDED DISCUSSION GONE WRONG.... THIS IS A NEW EDITED VERSION OF MY COMMENT ON THIS PARTICULAR EPISODE: I THOUGHT TO REVIEW IT AGAIN....and I was delightfully surprised.  This was interesting.  I still feel like something is not quite right with the ideas of what is wrong and how to fix it...but the part I did like was this: It shows that when you talk to each other, really talk to each other and show respect instead of criticism then things can really shift to something 'better' even if "better" is not forever.

Slightly dissapointing I got this cause I wanted to stretch my vocal abilities and be able to scream and yell as much as I wanted and not be sore the next day.  It has helped as far as that goes but if you are buying this in hopes that it will Teach you to SCREAM then you should go somewhere else.  It talks all about making it so you can scream and not hurt yourself and not about how to scream like those bands you like.

No extras?! What's the story Dreamworks? Finally pulled the trigger and bought How to TrainYour Dragons 3D Bluray. I love the movie but I am more than disappointed in Dreamworks for not including any extras. Are the studios trying to make 3D fail? Why would I continue to purchase 3D disks at a premium and not get any of the content that is available on the cheaper 2D release? Other studios include everything in the 2D release with their 3D releases so I see no reason why Dreamworks can't do the same. I had also ordered Megamind 3D at the sametime so no doubt I will be disappointed with that release as well. This would get 5 stars if it was a full release.

good but should have been better. I love the actor who played Abraham, hes one of my favorites. But there's nudity that's highly disrespectful to the bible. The bible advocates against nudity. second the way it covers the stories they are not very enlightening, the bible discusses the moral reasons for Gods activities in the Bible on the subjects they cover. Don't get me wrong I am religious go to church know that one is to consider GOD above all else. I suggest the animated versions of the bible. They could have changed the nude scenes so the thespians would have been behind bushes and such so that one doesn't see parts like their buts and there by respect the bibles teachings about clothing and dress.

very slow I was a machinist for 36 years. I could not get over the lack of safety glasses. everyone in that machine shop  should be blind by now. no manufacturer will let you on the shop floor without steel toe boots and safety glasses. Now that that's out of my system, the movie is very slow and not much action. I will give Jenifer Jason Leigh a ten for the best tits in Hollywood.

Just like any other Yoga video This video is OK but it doesn't stand out from most other Yoga videos in any way. It's just another "go through the motions" boring Yoga video.

Just OK I have always been a big fan of Cher. She is one of those rare singers who, when crossing over to the movies, manages to make very high quality movies (although curiously she doesn't often sing in them). Burlesque, despite Cher's top billing, is definitely Christina's movie. I did enjoy the music, but I think I'll skip purchasing the soundtrack seeing how Cher only sang 2 songs.  The music was good. The costumes were great. The dancing was good (I may have enjoyed that better if I were a horny guy?). I liked the movie, I really did, but this just wasn't up to the quality of most of the stuff Cher does. And then I have to admit musicals aren't exactly my thing. I like some of the older ones, like Mary Poppins. And don't attack me, but I actually liked Burlesque better than some of the more recent ones like Chicago or Moulin Rouge! (I did enjoy Chicago on Broadway, however.)  I guess it was the lack of a plot. Not that that's unusual for a musical. They put that thing in the background about Cher's character worrying about losing her club, but that was overshadowed by everything else. And it was resolved very oddly. And the romance was predictable. I will definitely watch the movie again, however, because it was still a lot of fun, with a lot to see.

Not much action or charismatic acting Although this is a production of a company that usually produces very fine fast moving action films, this is not one of them. It has typical fights between fellow soldiers, and none of the action or acting in it is really exciting. The son of Chuck Norris and grandson of Robert Mitchum have the second and third lead roles, but they do not look or act like their relatives or have their charisma. The film does not use real names for organizations or countries. Thus, for instance, the UN is called IPF. The plot focuses on an IPF patrol that is destroyed by terrorist. A second patrol is sent to find them. All but the previously identified two, the lead actor, a woman, and an Arab guide are killed. The five soon work out that the terrorists have a nuclear weapon and they go against enormous odds of men and equipment to stop the blast and kill the terrorists.

'Restoration' takes away some of the character Cinderella was very carefully crafted by its original makers, and this restored version of it is strangely unsatisfying. It is difficult to even describe. Some of the grainy feeling and undertone sounds that were there when I saw it as a child added to the magic of the movie, to the enchantment of it. It felt more alive, more dynamic -- which is part of that whole old Disney way of doing things. Now that it has been cleaned up and brightened, it is abrasive and boring. They made it look like that horrible for-video sequel, so modern and cold. It's a shame. Sometimes old movies need to be left with their own texture from their own time. I wanted to watch an old Disney classic -- Not a butchered Disney classic.

Its OK, fun movie. But you dont want your girl sleep with any guy >.&lt; Your girl sleep with any guy ? No way... Maybe, its just normal in this country, but I don't want my daughter like that.

One-woman show Season 1 of FAIRLY LEGAL consists of 10 episodes, each about 41 minutes long, on 3 DVDs. It's a lightweight dramedy set in San Francisco, focusing on the adventures of Kate Reed (Sarah Shahi). Kate is the daughter of a superstar lawyer, Teddy Reed, who passed away just before story begins. A former lawyer herself, Kate is now a mediator, living on her dad's boat and operating out of his high-class firm, Reed & Reed, which is managed by her icy step-mother, who's only a few years older than she is. The other key players are Kate's ex-husband, Justin, an assistant DA, with whom she still enjoys friendship and hook-ups, and Leo, her witty, African-American assistant with a love of 'nerdy' hobbies (e.g. video games, D&D, graphic novels). In most episodes, Kate tries to mediate a couple of challenging/unusual cases while also trying to solve the season-long mystery of her father's will, specifically: why did he leave a share of his estate to a person no one knows?  FAIRLY LEGAL is sleek, painless, and pretty forgettable. It's open to a bunch a snarky criticisms, from there being about 6 decent episodes stretched over 10 slots, to the rather stereotypical 'funny' black sidekick, to the awfully out-of-place end credits song. That said, it's a pleasant diversion, thanks to the absolutely stunning, unchained demi-goddess of spunk that is Kate/Sarah. She's simply a delight to watch (though the writers should give her some personality traits beyond spunky and stubborn in future seasons). Recommended as a Netflix rental or discount purchase. 3-1/2 stars.

It's a better film than it appears This film is an historical novel, not an historically accurate rendition of Buffalo Bill Cody.  But in that sense, it is a Dime Novel on film, and is in the tradition of the 19th Century dime novelists who took a good deal of liberty with the truth as relates to actual persons and events.  They never let the truth get in the way of a good story.  The film is filled with insights into the general state of mind of the people of the late 19th Century, which is good, but unfortunately the film is a bit laborious to watch for two reasons.  First, it is a series of vignettes strung out one after the other, which causes the film to lose focus.  Each scene is a stand-alone piece, and the individual scenes don't merge into a truly coherent story line.  Second, all of the action takes place in one locale, which is visually monotonous.  The sad thing is that these negative traits cause the audience to lose interest in the story.  All they want to know is "when will all of this end?"  So it's actually quite good on substance, but quite bad on presentation.

It was OK In all, the series was good.  However, I don't think it measures up to the bar that was set by Band of Brothers.  They substituted further exploration of characters with extra helpings of explosions, violence, and sex.  In all, the acting is fairly good and the story gives you the feeling of how these folks endured the war.

VCR not usable I purchased this VCR for a gift and they are returning it to me because it is not the right format for their VCR...It will not play in a normal, regular VCR set up but must be played on some advanced equipment.  Would I be able to return it?

Very Good Film, If You Can Follow It "Second Sight, Season 1." (1999-2001) is a British-made television series, a police procedural/ British mystery/thriller. It was made jointly by the British Broadcasting Corporation, and WGBH, Boston flagship station of the American public broadcasting network.  This first series concerns just the one murder; the episodes have been cut so as to give the viewer a continuous narrative. In it, British detective DCI Ross Tanner must change his approach to investigating crimes in the middle of a murder case when he finds he has developed an obscure eye disorder (AZOOR) that causes spells of blindness and hallucinations. He chooses to try to hide the problem from his colleagues, as it is grounds for dismissal from the job.  He therefore strikes a deal with his beautiful blond second in command DCI Catherine Tully.  If she will cover his back, he will share any eventual glory with her.  Tanner, whom we understand lives for his work, desperately tries to continue his investigations; he eventually realizes that solving crimes is as much about what's not visible as what is.  A young, charismatic, rough-hewn Clive Owen (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000QGAU4E">Children of Men</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ICXQHE">Inside Man</a>) plays Tanner. Claire Skinner (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000QXDCWY">A Dance to the Music of Time</a>) who doesn't look much like a copper, and must then have been beautiful blond of the week, plays Tully.  The case involves the brutal murder of a young man, son of Judith Bendrix (Phoebe Nicholls, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005GP7ELW">Brideshead Revisited: 30th Anniversary Edition</a>) and Adam Bendrix, (Stuart Wilson,<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001NQHNGY">Fascination</a> ) who also plays Adam's identical twin, Jack Kenworthy.  Owen, who can project tough vulnerability, does not make Tanner a loveable man.  He's a drunk, a womanizer, neglectful of his family, and a tough boss - but he gets the job done.  The crime drama is interesting in its portrayal of Tanner's impaired vision, with flashes of light, and other graphic effects onscreen.  It is dark, thoughtful and suspenseful: the ambiance of London, and of the cop shop, is well-portrayed.  It's intense, and gripping - would have to be with Owen on hand.  The series was created by Paula Milne, one of Britain's leading screenwriters, who left school just before her fifteenth birthday, without academic qualifications, and pretty much began her TV career as the tea girl.  She broke in as a script writer at CORONATION STREET, did some RUTH RENDELL MYSTERIES, also penned I DREAMED OF AFRICA, and THE VIRGIN QUEEN.  I can remember loving and looking forward to this series as it was broadcast in the United States on BBCAmerica:  I'm always a sucker for intensity and ambiance.  Of course, in those days, BBCAmerica broadcast many fine British mysteries; now they broadcast supernatural crap.  More critically, I could hear it back then; make out what people were saying, whereas now, although I could follow the basic plot, the dialog of the blond, and the cockneys in the cop shop, went right by me.  So far as I know, neither the BBC nor WGBH is short of finance, so I don't know why they would have chosen to limit the audience that can enjoy this fine, cerebral film in this penny-wise, pound-foolish way.  A very good film, if you can follow it.

Sadly, my rating has dropped from 5 to 3 stars for season 2 Blood and Sand and Gods of the Arena were spectacular! Vengeance was disappointing.  The season was cut from the expected 13 episodes to 10 episodes, which in my opinion, left it wanting. The writers were not able to develop new characters nor the complex story lines in such a short time frame. They integrated a backstory for Oenomaus with his fate right after the breakout, which was simply confusing and unnecessary in season 2. The intricate and complex relationship between Lucretia and Ilithyia was crammed in between murky battle scenes and never developed to the fullest. The new codependent relationship between Lucretia and Ashur was "explained" with a 5 second flashback, which was of no use to anyone (most of us) who had already figured out that Ashur was the only one who could have possibly saved her. The two characters, Sepia and Sepius were so undeveloped that one kept going, "Who? What? Which one is which? Why are they there?" up to the point of their demise. An incestual relationship between them was hinted at, but was never developed nor explained. In the last episode, deKnight killed off all of the delicious villains as well as some well-loved good guys, leaving his cast decimated (if I may use that word prior to Crassus being introduced). What we are left with is a rag-tag band of rebels, none of whom are terribly interesting as characters. It does not bode well for season 3, where I suspect the story will leave behind all the wonderful political and sexual intrigue and devolve to a bash and slash fest.  On positive note, the one outstanding episode was number 5, which included intrigue, fighting and the spectacular burning of the arena. Yes, I was one of those screaming from my armchair. This episode was directed by Michael Hurst, which I suspect made it the spectacular piece it was. Unfortunately, he directed only this single episode this season.  My only comment about the forced cast changes this season is the new actors had big roles to fill and they did well considering the scripts they had to work with.  Yes, I pre-ordered the Blu-ray for season 2. I doubt I will do so for season 3.

Two children threatened by a faceless, nameless entity and the parents that try to protect them in involving thriller "Intruders" is an atmospheric thriller from director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VDDWEM">28 Weeks Later [Blu-ray</a>])and plays like an episode of "Night Gallery" as if directed by Guillermo Del Toro (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000WSLAUO">Pan's Labyrinth [Blu-ray</a>]. Presented in Spanish and English the film tells two stories simultaneously.  The first story involves a little boy(Iz&aacute;n Corchero) in Spain troubled by nightmares. The latest nightmare involves a faceless that the boy begins writing stories about that he calleds "hollow face". The creature returns again and again to the boy's home to try and take his identity by stealing the boy's face. The boy's mother (Pilar L&oacute;pez de Ayala)also encounters the creature and contacts a priest (Daniel Br&uuml;hl)to help drive the creature away.  The second story focuses on a girl (Carice van Houten) who finds herself haunted by the same creature. The only problem is that no one will believe her except her father (Clive Owen)who also sees the creature.  Director Fresnadillo does a good job of keeping us guessing as to who or what the creature. In a fractured story like this that takes place across two different countries the director runs the risk of losing the audience but Fresnadillo and the writers of the film do an exceptional job of tying to stories together.  The Blu-ray transfer of the film is often quite stunning. The presentation has nice detail throughout and although the image is occasionally a bit soft, the muted colors and presentation of the film appears to be quite true to the original theatrical presentation of the film.  The lossless audio sounds marvelous and the surround mix puts you right smack dab in the middle of the action.  The special features for those that pay attention to such things will leave viewers wanting more. We get two featurettes on the production of the film: the first is a nine minute featurette featuring interviews with the cast and crew discussing what attracted them to the project; the second featurette runs a good twenty minutes featuring a good amount of behind-the-scenes footage intercut with further interviews.  It's a pity we don't get a commentary track or a deeper examination of the themes of the film but what really matters here, ultimately, is the quality of the film and whether or not it's worth watching more than once. "Intruders" is a suspenseful and well made film that will keep most fans of thrillers guessing.  Although the third act doesn't quite build on the power of the first two thirds of the film "Intruders" still manages to be an involving thriller.  Recommended.

The Extended Edition is sub-titled From the description, it's not possible to tell if the Extended Edition is dubbed or sub-titled.  For your reference it's sub-titled.  My rating is not on the movie, but the limited description.

A little Raid would have done wonders for this film Another romance and ant picture, it's a standard plot in this genre.  Okay, maybe not, but it does make you think, was this supposed to be a romance or a disaster/killer bug movie?  Because it really wasn't enough of either to truly satisfy. I also saw this picture eons ago and the only sequence I remember were the ants and the moat and the guys who got in the ants way.  Completely forgot everything else, so the romance part was entirely new but just a little creepy when viewed as an adult.  The plot: a very old virgin (Charlton Heston) wants an unused wife but gets window Eleanor Parker instead and seeks to return her because she's, well, used.  Somewhere along the line he begrudging gets used to her and one supposes they live happily ever after but where is another matter. This is a really weird movie but oddly fascinating just the same thanks to Eleanor Parker and William Conrad (and Abraham Sofaer, the creepy butler from Elephant Walk).  I have nothing against Charlton Heston's performance, which befits the part perfectly, it's just that he plays such a frigid character it's a bit odd to watch.  But when the ants start to march this turns into a dandy film.....for the next few minutes.  Glad I had the opportunity to watch it again but don't plan to keep it for any future viewing.

Buyer Beware Francisco Araiza does not appear in this production despite the manufacturer's listing (and through no fault of any seller who would be unaware of the error). An interpolated, flamenco dance solo with vocal duet are used to good effect. However the principals' voices and technique are lacking. The disc is not one I was willing to view to its end or to keep.

CREEPY.... It was a good movie it really was... but WHY people r tryign to charge 150.00 for this dvd is absolutely insane. First off, it can not be a legal copy here on Amazon.... because it is not widely found so they r PIRATE copies being sold. Lastly, wake up u fools dont pay these jerks that kind of money....

Better than most Asylum pictures I managed to catch this on DTV's On-Demand channel and was pleasantly surprised with it. The plot in a nutshell: Abe's got himself a score to settle with the zombies after one of them kills his mom when he was a kid. Now that he's the President, and the scourge has appeared again, he's determined to wipe them out. But first, he's got to convince the keepers of a Confederate fort that he's not there to kill THEM, but the zombies that seemed to have begun popping up everywhere. It was more amusing than scary --- Lincoln's got himself a fold-up scythe and he knows how to use it! There wasn't much in the way of action, but when there's action, it's pretty good. I did like the use of some other historical characters and got a chuckle out of Teddy Roosevelt (who's a kid), but Lincoln was played well by Bill Oberst, Jr., who totally rocked the stovepipe hat. As Asylum movies go, this one is better than most of the ones I have seen, and I have seen MANY. If you're interested in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Killer at all, you should check this out as well. Oh, and anyone who's seen the Abraham Lincoln Geico commercial will get a laugh out of this too!

Trueblood season 3 Awesome dvds. Theres a few skips on a couple episodes, but it wasn' t too bad, im not worried about. Im pretty satisyed with my purchase. Fast shipping.

Well made but I found it predictable A well made movie and Nicole Kidman gives a good performance. My problem is that I found the movie tended to telegraph the twists and I figured out what was coming next each time. I enjoyed this movie once on a plane but I have not added to my collection.

Positive Review- Apologizing for Late Response! I bought this movie on September 3rd, 2012 and am I writing this review on October 5th, 2012 because I'm not a computer savvy. I apologize for the late response. The condition of the movie was next to new. The movie and the quality of movie was amazing. The person I originally bought this from was easy to deal with and stress free. The shipping was a little high, close to the actually cost to the DVD. However it's a Tom Cruise movie, so it was worth it!!

Would not buy Ok, not great. Spy vs spy wod be better title. Funny but not great. If you have to watch chick flick there are worse movies. It was ok for rental

Almost The acting was good. The special effects were great. The story was hard to follow. It seemed like they cut out some key scenes and dialogue along the way. It was overall entertaining, but not one I'll remember or want to see again.

After.After.Life After watching this I have to say it was just OK. It did seem to have a story line. I didn't fall asleep. Hey, Christina Ricci nude for 90 mins, Gotta like that.

Morally Unhinged Version Of The Marx Brothers I'm going to presume everyone saw the advertising - because guess what - there's isn't some deep underlying thought process here, no plot twists, no 'Sixth Sense' surprises. What they advertised is exactly what they delivered. And you can't help yourself from laughing. I tried, I really tried. Not quite full-on belly laughs, but enough to make the time fly.  These guys are stunning morons - and I don't mean the characters. I mean these people, these actors, are real-life dolts. There's a reason why some performers routinely find themselves in certain roles, because producers can see that they're naturals who fit the script. No skill required.  Notice - I did not say 'no talent'. That's because some guys are naturally talented, like Michael Jordan. Basketball was his thing, baseball wasn't; he was a natural on the hardcourt but sucked on the diamond. Some actors can do one kind of role with skill and flourish and not others, it happens. Can you honestly see Aaron Eisenberg as a Navy SEAL in anything other than a farcical satire? It's not a knock against the young actor, but some artists have a wide demonstrable skillset, others don't.  Eisenberg, Ansari, McBride and Swardson are natural idiots - it's the movie equivalent of tossing fish into water. No insult, just honest observation. And again, they're funny. :-D  I'd also be remiss not to mention a pair of my favorite character actors: Fred Ward and the always enjoyable Michael P&eacute;na, who never ceases to amaze me with his ability to transform himself into an ever growing list of character types.  Loved the old school props to Detroit. Hearing Glenn Fry doing 'The Heat Is On', cops chasing cars, guys making crazy moves - loved it. Only wish they had gotten Eddie Murphy & Paul Reiser in a cameo - that would've bleeping rocked! I would've given it a full star bump for that alone.  Had decent fun watching these demented bleepers run around having a good time with their one-page script. It worked for the Marx Brothers - I say run with it and have a blast. No pun intended. &lt;g>  Again, a fun rental, but not for the kiddies. When a flick opens with a fellatio scene, you can pretty much write off any idea of family night at the movies. :-D  One final note: I'd actually like to see these exact same actors get together for another movie. It's an old school technique, gathering the same group of actors only switching around roles - Eisenberg and Ansari as the bad guys, McBride and Swanson as their victims. Or just mix them up completely - three bad guys and a single good guy, or heck, all bad guys. Would love to see P&eacute;na as the by-the-book cop. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005KPM0P8">He's done it before convincingly</a> in other films and it would make the perfect contrasted foil to his excellent thug performance in '30 Minutes'.

It's not "Gigi" but it tries to be entertaining With an outstanding cast of singers (Frank Sinatra) and dancers (Shirley Maclaine and Juliet Prowse) plus cast-members from "Gigi" (Maurice Chevaler and Louis Jordan) "Can-Can" should be better.  But the sets look fake (they are) and the Adam and Eve ballet makes no sense...  However, it does have its moments. Most of the dance numbers are quite good, and it can still be considered a classic musical.  ("Gigi is much better, and most of it's French locations are real.) ***1/2 stars.)

Nice Movie but the product detail is wrong. The Details of this product is as follows:  Format: AC-3, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled, Widescreen Language: English Subtitles: English, German  Actually this is not a DTS Sound, the sound is only 2.0 There are no subtitles at all. I'm very dissapointed.

Not bad Not good Not a great movie, but a young Amanda Righetti is always good. The acting is passable, but the plot suffers. But again, Amanda Righetti is in the movie.

As a set-up for 'Part II' it works; as a stand-alone film, not so much As others have said, `Deathly Hallows Part I' is a good film for fans of the 7th book.  David Yates is faithful to the novel (to a fault, perhaps), and those who enjoyed reading JK Rowling's final book in the Harry Potter series will be satisfied (especially since `Part II' is coming to theaters in just a few weeks).  As a stand-alone film, however, `Part I' suffers for the same reason Rowling's book suffers - too much exposition, too many over-complicated plot threads to set up, and too little action.  It's not that nothing happens - actually, Yates manages to include all of the action sequences from the first 500 pages of the novel (the escape from Privet Drive, the aftermath of the wedding, the visit to Godric's Hollow, the incident at Luna's house, the Gringotts break-in, etc.).  But it all feels somewhat like a series of disconnected scenes cobbled together with too much talking, whining, and camping in between.  Like the book, the film focuses almost exclusively on our trio of teenage heroes as they try to track down and destroy a series of Horcruxes (magical objects containing segmented parts of Voldemort's soul) while at the same time avoiding detection and capture by followers of the Dark Lord.  Unfortunately, an awful lot of exciting-sounding things are happening to the characters who are NOT Harry, Ron, and Hermione, but neither the book nor the film lets us experience any of them.  And these other characters are sorely missed.  There is so much sheer plot in this movie that it's difficult to keep up with it - there are so many things we need to understand to make sense of it all (the mythology of Horcruxes, the meaning of the titular Deathly Hallows, convoluted wand lore . . . and how they all play into the mission to bring down Voldemort and save the world for Wizards and Muggles alike).  And none of it goes anywhere in this film.  The final film will probably be more satisfying, since it actually has an ending . . . `Part I' does not.  Several characters die in `Part I' - only one of them generates the kind of pain I expected (and as we see in the novel).  If anything, Yates sacrificed the emotional heart of the story in trying to stay so close to the overriding plot, probably the result of breaking the novel into two parts.  The pay-off will come in `Part II,' so it may all come together fine in the end.  Actually, Yates has a chance to improve on the novel in this final film - Rowling left us hanging a bit with her final few chapters (no Harry/Snape resolution, no Harry/Ginny reunion, no sense of the aftermath of that final battle at Hogwarts).  The `Part II' trailers suggest that Yates may have understood this.  I hope so.  If you love the Potter universe, you've undoubtedly already seen this film.  If you're just curious, watch the other movies first.  And wait until July 14 to watch `Part I' - then you can rush right out and see `Part II' on July 15.  Perhaps together the films will do what `Part I' can't do alone.  One final note - I watched this on a standard DVD on a pretty ordinary and inexpensive TV, and I did not find the scenes excessively dark or difficult to see.  Since so many reviewers mentioned the poor quality of the "transfer" on the DVD, I'm not sure what this means.  I had no problems.

Original and funny take on the genre "Lizard Boy" is Director, Paul Della Pelle's debut feature film, he also co-wrote the script with Bruce Brown. The film is an action/comedy/horror that also takes aim at science and asks the question, how far is too far when it comes to cloning and other genetic experiments. We get to meet the doctor's reptile son who they named Carlo early in the film then by using flashbacks along with present day we are brought up to speed on how exactly this Carlo was create, as time goes on and as Carlo begins to kill more people police and those in charge of the lab begin to take notice which leads to action packed, ultimate showdown at the end, the film tosses in a few nice twists as well. The use of flashbacks in the film work well with the present day happenings and it never takes any of the momentum away from the film, the pace is steady which never allows the audience to become bored of the story.  The film never takes itself serious, sure there's plenty of action and even some gore but the film is a comedy at heart. I found the film to be very funny at times and thought it was an original take on the genre. The whole idea of the lizard boy sets up some hilarious situations. If you go into the film with an open mind then I think you will have as much fun as I did watching it. The cast did a terrific job, each and everyone in the film looked like they had a fun time making it and it translates back to the audience. "Lizard Boy" may not be for everyone but Indie fans who are always looking for something a bit different to watch should eat this up. I don't know about anyone else but a lizard boy doing martial arts and some wire-fu gets high marks from me. I had an enjoyable time with this one and look forward to what this promising new director has up his sleeve next.  Patrick Ricketts- [...]

More martial arts would have been nice Hmmm...I'm not really a super authority on Chinese movies, though I do enjoy martial arts flicks. This movie was good, but I was hoping for more explosive action. I ordered this because it's not bad, but I wish had more action like Ip Man or the Man from No Where. Still, it's very good and not a bad movie to watch.

Good cast of actors, but watch the age group The stories are the ones you already know.  Children under 5 don't appreciate this as much as I thought they would.  It would not hold their attention at all.  Movies like Toy Story did hold their attention.  The stories were a little dry.  I give it a lower rating because we could not get the second disk to play.  My player is fine.  I never had this experience ever, with a brand new disk.  There are no scratches on it.  I had to keep skipping ahead until we finally got it to start. This indicates that the manufacturing process for the DVD disks is poor.  The other disks play fine.  I would recommend this for children between 5 and 9 years old.

cinderella I was disappointed in this movie.I know it is because it is not the movie I thought I was getting.The movie I wanted was in black and white and I saw it as a child.I thought this was the same one and it was done in color.It is a good movie if you like that kind.I just wish I had made sure it was what I wanted.

Jade of the Europeans and the Chinese The film can be seen, but as always, many European films leave a lot to say, we need a little more elaboration on this production interesting two countries, entirely opposed to culture, for that reason is I believe them extremely interesting, but not very wide, from my point of view of a better explanation of the plot, no doubt think of what would bring an action in modern times, where someone dies and what it implies, to justice, why I speak of their art making as is clear in both times, that time spent in the East, the director or writer does not tell us much we have in our minds wander to create a pattern of something, which ultimately leaves an empty explanation, but it is interesting saver not to let memories to count ...

Poor red-headed stepchild... That's exactly the treatment this forgotten gem is afforded on this bare bones DVD release.  Though I was ecstatic to finally see a clean DVD come out (My pathetic AMC recorded VHS was getting pretty crinkly), I was a bit disappointed to see it not given the treatment it deserves. The aspect ratio is too tight, maybe correct width, but much loss along the bottom of the picture.  And if any strange, belated journey of an internationally co-produced ode to epic end of the world flicks of the 1950's to the screen should be told... Crack in the World is it!  Sigh...  Maybe?... Hell, no.  Seriously doubt any future definitive edition will happen, given the continued demise of physical media (damn you, digital download streaming, on demand crap!).  So, I guess this will have to suffice. It is better than anything available before and at a fair price.  So, I am thankful to own it.  If you have never seen Crack in the World, and you are a fan of 1950's End of the World AND 1970's disaster epics, you will dig this.  Trust me.  ~ Paul

Good fight movie For me what I look for first in a kung fu movie is good power packed, well thoughtout, visually pleasing fight scenes, in the process if a reasonable story line and fine acting is included you have a first class movie. Well in this film  I felt like I got the action packed fight scenes which is ongoing but didn't produce the other attributes not a bad movie.

The Return of Frank James As uausl, the Hollywood flock rewrote history to enhance box office appeal.  This was a sequel to the popular Jesse James movie, starring Tyrone Power, where the 19th century's most infamous outlaw and his brother were heralded as poor maligned and mistreated farm boys, devoted to their mother and to public good will above all else.  Come on, Fellows.  The Return of Frank James at least features the usual excellent acting performance by Henry Fonda.  Again, the film producers played around with historical fact, pretty much from start to closing scene.

Image Quality Of Main Title Sequence On Bly-Ray Disc Poor aside from the fact the audio tracks were not given a 5.1 remastering for the blu-ray disc which i thought was standard procedure by now the image quality of the main title sequence was quite uneven. the entire sequence especially the close ups of the horses looked like the color was bleached out. the image quality only gets to what you think it should be when the film proper begins. why does the main title sequence look so faded?  also i am now quite weary of blu-ray discs from 20th Century Fox Home Video that are from the MGM/UA catalog. 20th Century Fox Home Video botched the blu-ray disc of THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD and now word as that the blu-ray disc of WEST SIDE STORY is just as bad. in fact Robert Harris the premiere film restorer in the U.S. has even gone as far as to say they should recall all copies already shipped out. if Harris has that reaction it must really be bad.

Good video but fake These dvd's worked great and I got to see the whole season, but the cover and box were not original. It looked like it was printed off a computer. I don't know if it was pirated or not.

Interesting movie This is another move based off some piece of Biblical scripture. It's not just one though, it's several mashed together, convenient parts picked out to suit the movie, which in itself is a bit odd and in my opinion, is a bit implausible, a tighter story would have made for a better movie.

Cute Cute movie and an interesting look at differing approaches to the single life.  And Emma Caulfield is definitely still a cutie although it was a kinda hard to believe her as a 29 y/o (and I'm a fan).  If you rent, try to get past the first 15-20 minutes or so. It may have just been me but the movie seems to get better after a little bit of a slow start.  Nothing exciting but still worth watching when you have to pick a chick flick. Although be prepared for some comments on the "biological clock" issue...  ***1/2 (3.5 Stars)

so-so at best I have seen the first movie, and it was quite good for a slasher flick.  This movie however, was mostly a drawn out mess.  It took way too long to really get to the good stuff, and Brian Austen Greene was just a little too over the top in this.  If you just love the gory stuff then you'll like this, it has plenty. It doesn't, however, deliver on scares.  It was kind of boring, and the whole "organization" angle didn't really add anything to the story. Overall, just okay.

Fake but fun! Nice effects-  However, please do NOT believe this as real! It's the end of an age!!!!  not the end of mankind!  peace- (its like your car milage, once it gets to 100.000 it flips back to 1 - your car doesnt blow up all of a sudden- :)  STOP BELIEVING ALL THE LIES FOLKS!  But, yeah  lots of fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One of those dated films that goes too far in my eyes Too profane . Too obscene . It's a shame too . I love Director Mike Figgis's LEAVING LAS VEGAS . This is a very compelling thriller that COULD have implied a lot more in my opinion . I saw it theatrically (INTERNAL AFFAIRS) when i was twenty seven in 1990 . I'm not a prude . Certainly i am a TCM guy . Perhaps it's , more than a bit , over the top ? It's as manipulative a film as sometimes comes down the pike . That's not necessarily a bad thing . I streamed it , so the cost was reasonable . Generally , i tend to forgive this kind of behavior and these sort of emotions and actions more in the horror genre . Are you the demographic ? Am i missing the point ? Is it "exploitation" ? Perhaps ? Judge for yourself .

A popular premise done once again This movie was like pouring "Rocky" and "Over the Top" into a blender and pressing liquify on the panel.... a popular premise that has worked very well in the past, and don't get me wrong, I liked it, but the acting was very emotionless and wooden which killed any emotional investment in it for me. I found it odd that Max never even tried to call Charlie "Dad" and Charlie never really tried to connect with his son. That made his "one last chance" at the end ring false to me and then to have all the characters at ringside at the end was just too cheesy. All in all, I could see most kids really liking this flick and it does have some mediocre entertainment value so I will call this movie "OK"...

movie review i am a big fan of the book. so the movie was a dissapointment- there was not a lot of detail in characters and political landscape.  I am also not pleased that they broke it out to 2 parts. I am sure that was for business reasons, but from an entertainment perspective I am dissapointed

Pleasant enough Worth watching, but I agree with some others that the Monroe impersonation only works intermittently. There are some moments when the Marilyn mask becomes secondary to the performance and a vulnerable but winsome woman comes through. Interesting to see Olivier/Branagh reacting wide-eyed and in wonder at the film rushes, the script having him TELL us how luminous Monroe is on screen. Yes, Monroe was, but the Monroe/Williams in the rushes is much less so, excepting perhaps the little dance scene, which notably lacks a close-up. Otherwise decidedly not luminous.  I recommend to anyone with an interest in the theme that they see the far superior  Me & Orson Welles, directed by Richard Linklater. As in "Marilyn," callow youth runs away to the "circus," as Olivier/Branagh puts it (in this case the theater), meets a great star (the central performance by Christian McKay is brilliant), gets chewed up by the encounter, but receives a valuable lesson in adulthood. The Monroe film, while fun, is a much lesser achievement.

The book was better. It's true, and if you've read the book, you can't argue otherwise. Granted, due to the size of the book, much of it had to be omitted from the movie so that it would be short enough to be made into a single film. Maybe, if I had chosen to see this first and then read the book, I might have given it a better review. Unfortunately that was not the case and because of it, I can only give three stars. And I am being generous. Read the book. It may start off a little slow, but be patient, it is amazing.

Good Movie If you are trying to get pregnant or have ever lost a pregnancy this is not the movie for you. While the movie pokes fun at pregnancy anyone who knows anything about Elizabeth Banks knows the heartbreak she experienced in her very real life while trying to conceive a child, so it was sort of bitter sweet for me to see her in this role even though she did a good job.  The movie was funny, well acted and pretty much dead on but again it's not for everyone.

Wow, this movie really hates gay people. No one in the platoon cares that Profile is dead,lol They don't even bother to bring back his body in a flag draped coffin, these guys suck!

Expensive and Where are the Extended Cut's for all of the DVD's At first I was very excited to see this but now I am disappointed. Where are the Extended Cuts for "ALL" of the DVD's??? I thought with this collection they would finally put all of the movies out with Extended Cuts. Very upset. Then the Price is very expensive. How do they think can afford this?? I will have to save most of the year for it. This is Crazy. People don't have this kind of money, especially with the way the economy is right now. I hope Warner Bros thinks about the price and adding the extended cuts before this comes out.

Abe, Stonewall Jackson, Abe love affair Madam, zombies and more. (1) Not a zombie fan. (2) Title seemed so ridiculous had to rent and watch. (3)Not sure what I expected but perhaps some camp, some humor, but this is a serious movie. I had no idea Abe's mom was a zombie and that he went on special missions himself. Lots of Civil War names, references. Overall good production values other than sound being a little off now and again. Watch it?? Don't recommend.

Thank the Gods for Stephen Fry This is an intersting show, and I'll have to give some the original written stories a try.  Well, other than Jeeves and Wooster, pretty much everyone else is reprehensible in some way.  (Heck, I don't even think that 99% of the world is)  The stories are repetitive - Wooster has to steal something for an aunt or fried, he's trying to avoid a engagement that just happens, he has to reunite a couple, etc.  Also, as is typical for British shows, no subtitles.  Hugh Laurie is good, not great, but good in the show.  Also, blackface episodes - ugh.  However, Stephen Fry is great as Jeeves.  He makes the show very watchable and a pleasure to watch work.  A brilliant comedic actor.  As Jeeves, he is much more limited in what he can say or do, but he pulls it off amazingly well with facial expressions.  Worth the price of admission alone.

Rucio's Unique Version of a Literary Classic If you're new to my animation feature film review library, I should begin this review by disclaiming a trend in the genre that nearly always ends disastrously: Domestic studios importing foreign films, slapping an English vocal track atop of the material, and claiming it as their own.  The list of films guilty of this technique is long and ever growing.  Considering Donkey X falls into this category, there was a strong suspicion going in that this one would be a proverbial train wreck.  Worse still, the few reviews I was able to track down seemed to confirm such reservations.  Fortunately I can begin this critique by assuring prospective viewers that of all the foreign translation jobs, this one is perhaps the most pleasant.  Released in Spain back in 2007, Donkey X (or "Donkey Xote" as it was originally called) tells the tale of a small town (La Mancha) where there resides a dreamer named Don Quixote (voiced by Steve Salazar).  Don is able to convince his close friend Sancho (James Phillips) to commit to an epic quest after having shared many misadventures together prior. Sancho's donkey, Rucio (Joe Lewis), is actually the centerpiece on which the literary classic tale is centered (hence the title).  With a little deliberation, the two heroes set off on chasing down the dream of locating Don Quixote's elusive true love, Dulcinea, once and for all.  The ingredients for fun are all present and believe it or not, the visuals are pretty stunning (contributing to the film often being heralded as Spanish cinema's finest computer animation effort to date).  The trouble is that the prose is a bit clumsy and, interestingly, not the type of perplexity foreign adaptations are usually known for.  The dialog is actually witty, the timing natural and the narrative strong but Donkey X plods along with far too much complexity to be grasped by its target audience.  Adults, especially those familiar with Miguel de Cervantes' classic tale, will have no trouble keeping the plot together but will likely be off-put by the film's failure to settle into a consistent theme (despite a fairly lengthy 90-minute runtime).  Angel E. Pariente's screenplay is certainly a bit muddled and shallow, and never fully establishes whether the protagonist is in fact Don Quixote or the titular mule.  By the way, the resemblance to Donkey of Shrek fame is downright uncanny!  It seems almost blasphemous when said character opens his mouth and Eddie Murphy's voice fails to follow.  In the film's defense, at least a Shrek reference/ joke is included as a reminder not to take this all too seriously.  Taking a page from the Pixar/ DreamWorks plan for success, upbeat pop numbers are scattered about for effect, some working better than others.  The PG rating should definitely be taken seriously.  While domestic efforts seem to earn it for less, Donkey X does contain a few references that parents may not appreciate (such as multiple breast references/ gags, a rather gross urine segment and some cross dressing humor).  Another oddity is the film's title itself.  In its original release the name Donkey Xote (pronounced "Hotie") was a fairly clever play on the name Don Quixote (keep in mind this supposedly the donkey's telling of the tale).  The film, for whatever reason, arrives Stateside on DVD/ Blue Ray via Peace Arch Entertainment as "Donkey X", thereby removing the first joke of it all right off the bat.  Interestingly the disc contains three vocal tracks: English 2.0, French 5.1, and Spanish 2.0 but no subtitles.  One gets the feeling that English, for whatever reason, was the original language of choice as the mouth flaps are perfect.  A trailer for the film represents the only bonus feature included.  In all, Donkey X is by no means a masterpiece though it does have much more heart and entertainment then most animated features that have undergone the dub & re-release treatment.  It is undoubtedly flawed but may serve as an hour-and-a-half's worth of entertainment for an animation-purist looking beyond the efforts of the "big boys on the block".  Perhaps the best way to surmise this feature is to take a look at the tagline used to promote it: From the producers who saw Shrek.  One look at the title character confirms this statement but if you let yourself take it at face value, it's kind of cute in its own weird way.

Some cool concepts Dark Floors was about what I imagined it to be, a zany escapade through a bleak hospital. It was the monster imagery that drew ,e to this film and I thought the movie used some creative monsters and ghosts to run rampant among the halls. I am still not sure exactly what happened or what the movie was trying to say, but I liked some of the concepts and the feeling of suspense. I would have appreciated a more sound explanation, but overall am enjoyable scary flick for an hour and half.

Waste of time, unclear plot I don't recommend this play. I couldn't get past the first half hour of it. Too much was going on, too many storylines, too much yelling. It was confusing. Fantasia and Faith Evans gave pretty good performances, though their appearances were brief. There was hardly any singing in this play, but like I said, I only watched the first half hour.

Is ok. I don't know what all the excitement is about this disc. It is good but not WOW. Peter Gabriel is a rock musician, that means bass,, drums and electric guitar, maybe he should have taken a play book from the Eagles hell freezes over, and mixed both in.

Blu Ray Region? I want to buy this  Blu Ray from Austria/Europe... will it work on my Playstation 3? I heard there might be Format difficulties?

Everyday Life Just a true love triangle. It just shows how a person let fame go to their heads and how sometimes it isn't all about the fame. This can cause you to lose those who truly love and support you.

Disappointed I was impatient for this DVD to become available for purchase. Once I had purchased it,I couldn't wait to get home and put it in the player sit back and watch it. Nicolas Cage played his part well but that kid that came into his shop drove me nuts and found each time he did something or spoke I couldn't wait for him to be off the screen and felt they could have chosen another actor who would have played the part a 1,000 times better. To think before viewing this movie it would be on my favourite list of best movies and I would watch it again and again is now totally a no it won't. Shame, as with my expectations of this being another fabulous fantasy movie I would enjoy again and again, and with a favourite actor, Nicolas cage in it, that "kid" let this movie down for me, making it one that will probably sit on a shelf gathering dust. It's only Nicolas that got the 3 stars I gave.

Would have I would have given this a great review if every single didn't have scratches on it! I mean one or two would have been acceptable but every disc?! what the hell!?

Moderately Good! In an effort to battle the exorbitant cost of 3D movies (especially the ones that undergo 3D conversion post-production), I went to the Sunday matinee showing of The Green Hornet. I don't know if that's really the optimal environment for a superhero movie, but I do know that I felt super awesome seeing a movie by myself in a theater lightly sprinkled with moms. What made me even more awesome was my flirtation with the cute ticket taker and cashier, only to have them realize that I was friendless at the movies and therefore genetically undesirable for the production of offspring. But hey, free parking downtown on Sundays! Which makes me wonder...how many of those moms were actually angry San Luis Obispo meter maids?  As my stylish RealD glasses weighed down on my nose (which, by the end of the movie, was acting rather affronted), the previews drew to a close, and what followed was a moderately entertaining film. By no means a perfect creation, The Green Hornet lived up to its Buzz with charm enough to overcome the fact that it was little more than a souped-up, buddy-cop movie. While its generic overarching plot had a bit of originality Nested here and there, what really kept things aloft was Seth Rogen's light-hearted tone and performance. Britt Reid (Seth Rogen) and Kato (Jay Chou) were fun characters to watch and had pretty good chemistry. I believed their friendship, their obligatory fallout, and their eventual reconciliation, and I laughed out loud at lines like "Do some of that Ben Hur stuff!" Sadly, I was the only one who laughed during the entire movie. Man, those parking enforcement officers really don't have souls.  As always, Cameron Diaz was totally useless. She is the Queen of inane, managing to evoke a sense of lifelessness in every role. She Bumbles through her character, Droning on and basically adding nothing. At least it was a new take on the love interest. She wasn't really interested, and neither was she interesting. In fact, I feel like she was almost more objectified this way. Rather than either of the main characters forming a connection with her, she simply served as a vehicle for Britt and Kato's argument. I guess that's what they get for trying to stick their Proboscises where they don't belong.  Speaking of vehicles, the Black Beauty was one of the sweetest cars ever. The sheer number of weapons and gadgets made it the coolest thing since MIB's red button. What wasn't particularly sweet was the bad guy. In an attempt at humor, the villain constantly worried about his image and his hard-to-pronounce name, and he was right to. He just wasn't intimidating. I never felt the Sting of real fear or the sweet Nectar of joy at any point during the film.  One of the more interesting stylistic choices comes partway through the movie when the villain puts a bounty on the Green Hornet's head. The shot then enters an ever-expanding split screen as word of the reward spreads through all the different circles of evil, from the Thorax of malcontent to the Mandibles of hate. Watching the sheer number of thugs on the screen grow as they receive their mission really does add a sense of dread to an otherwise threat-free story. More and more split-screens kept showing up until I was so overwhelmed that I couldn't keep track of them anymore. I waited for the repercussions of this onslaught, only to watch as the group of villains murdered a ton of innocent people wearing green and then never reappeared. And just like that, the sense of dread was gone.  The Green Hornet was basically fun. It doesn't take itself too seriously, and there's some entertaining action and comedy. In no way does it surpass expectations, however, and many other films are better able to embrace the genre. If you've got some extra cash and a bunch of guys are sitting around bored, it might be worth checking this out, but otherwise you should probably just wait until it's on Netflix.  2.5/5 Stars  Couldn't work these in: Venom, Insect, Antennae, Hive, Apoidea, Vespa  For more reviews, check out thenickelscreen on wordpress!

CAVEAT EMPTOR: It's not actually a widescreen version. In spite of the fact that this special edition is advertised as "widescreen" in a 1.85:1 aspect ratio, the actual DVD is a full screen version in a 1.33:1 aspect ratio. All the claims on the package about this being widescreen are completely bogus. The only good thing is that it is remastered and is visually superior to the earlier versions. At the moment (January 2011), this is the best version there is -- but again, it aint widescreen. CAVEAT EMPTOR.

Movie ok This is not up to the previous Scorpion movies.  It is ok if you don't spend more than 4 bucks for it.

Touch of Class One of our all time favourite movies, but we were disappointed with the quality of the print.  The film had obviously been 'stretched' and the sound quality was poor.  Seems that the transfer to DVD did not work well.

Keitel is brilliant; film is depressing but means to be Harvey Keitel is a great actor; no exception in this picture. A deeply "bad dude", Keitel captures the humanity trapped in a depraved human. The film is bleak, the cinematography brilliant, a little too depressing for me, but a great work, no doubt.  NOT A DATE MOVIE! If your girl sees the gratitous-and it really is the most unneccessary nudity I have EVER SEEN, you better be packing a massive schlong because Keitel sure does! Forget John Holmes, this guy is HUGE and appears to have no erectile issues! Despite the humbling natue of the nudity, it is ridiculous as it serves NO PURPOSE in the film, at all. Otherwise, brilliant, depressing movie; reminded me of feelings "year of the Dragon" brought up

Mouse Hunt Received product alright but I received the wrong jacket cover. We specifically ordered an alternet jacket cover not the one pictured that is why we had picked the vendor we did.  When it arrived I tried to convince my child that the video was the same and this jacket would be acceptable. At first she accepted it but in the long run am going to have to try again to purchase this video on dvd with the correct jacket cover. yeah, there was great rejoicing  NOT.

Great classic silent film; poor quality DVD I have been enjoying reading about Rin Tin Tin and the dogs' trainer in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439190135">Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend</a> so I went to Amazon to find some of the classic movies. It's disappointing that most of the old movies have been lost completely.  I realize restoring an old movie is difficult, but I had greater expectations for this one. The DVD menus are quite amateurish, and the opening title card for the movie was very poorly digitized so its small print was completely unreadable. Fortunately most of the scenes were quite visible, though a few suffered from inconsistent brightness. Probably there were some reels in the original print that had deteriorated terribly and needed a lot of care just to be shown.  I wish the DVD had included some more information about the music track with the main feature -- was it based upon the original music distributed with the movie? Was it contemporary to the movie at all? The DVD doesn't say anything about it. It seemed competent but not spectacular.  As for the story itself, it was fairly engaging. The evil giant "condor" (I think most folks would call it a vulture) has been killing sheep and the faithful dog gets accused of crime and sentenced to death. (Distractingly, the sound of the condor was much like the Halloween cat sounds from the hoary old classic record <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001364DB2">Chilling, Thrilling Sound of The Haunted House</a>.) There were several "cliffhanger" scenes and plenty of opportunity for Rin Tin Tin to shine. The couple and baby were attractive and sympathetic, but Rin Tin Tin was the real star of the show.  The short subject included on the DVD was nice, though its lead actor, Monty Banks, wasn't someone I had heard of before. (The IMDB has his filmography and Wikipedia has a very short bio and filmography.) Fortunately the picture quality of the short subject was extremely good overall, and the jazzy soundtrack was light and enjoyable. Again I would have appreciated a bit more information about the provenance of the music, but I found the short subject comedy quite watchable and listenable.  Overall I am glad to have bought this DVD, though this copy I could only rate it OK. With a bit more attention to detail I think this could become an excellent addition to someone's home library, but it would require just a bit more care in the restoration, professional quality menus, and some more background information on the movie and the music.

Baudy Fun The story is predictable but the musical numbers are very enjoyable.  Unfortunately it sufferes from a malady that too many modern films suffer from - the sound track.  To hear the conversations the viewer needs to turn up the sound but when the music comes on you get blown from the room.  But over all its a fun movie and let's face it - it has Cher and Chistina what more needs to be said?

Was an OK movie, nothing to write home about. Even though there are some notable actors in this, like Eric Roberts, this movie lacks a strong story line. I would rather has spent the money on another movie. Disappointing and somewhat lame.

pretty good I enjoyed this video but I thought the instruction segment could have been longer.  It's only 20 minutes of instruction....I think they should have made it 30-40 minutes long so that it feels like a full workout, and not just a sampling of a few techniques.

South Park! This was gross and funny.  I had to watch it because South Park had a new episode on Wednesday called Human SCENTiPad. I guess this is where the idea came from because it was the same thing - Steve Jobs had three people stitched together.  I alternated between laughing out loud and going eewww!  I wouldn't have paid for it though.

If you love Paranormal Activity so much you want to see it again.... I imagine the creators of this movie watching Paranormal Activity when one of them said to the other "OMG we should make this same sort of movie but set in the Amityville house!" I found it so funny to see someone else who reviewed this movie had the very same thought! I have to admit that parts are creepy even though the acting is a C at best. Nonetheless, it kept me entertained!

NOT the NEW Lorax Movie A fair word of warning for folks who may not be paying a lot of attention to the details. This is NOT the new Lorax movie that comes out March 2nd 2012.  This is a remastered version of the 1972 Lorax short (25min).  The Lorax movie on this disk is nearly identical to the Lorax on the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009ZE9XA">Seuss Celebration (The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat / The Cat in the Hat / Green Eggs and Ham / The Lorax)</a>,<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00009ZVNP">Dr. Seuss - The Lorax/Pontoffel Pock & His Magic Piano</a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000B1O9K">The Best of Dr. Seuss</a>.  However, the colors on this version are more vivid.  The other version is very faded.  That is really the only difference.  As long as your expectations are that you are getting a re-colored copy of the 25min long 1972 version, you will be happy.  If you think you are getting the new version, you will get a big surprise!

Average This movie cost almost 170 million dollars to make which honestly does not play as a 170 million dollar movie.  It does not matter what movie it is, if I have to hit the fast forward button due to extended long boring scenes then it was not money well spent.  My 3$ I paid was not the loss, the 170 million dollars was the loss.  Any how the lead acting and some of the alien scenes was what compelled me to watch on, other than that it's just average.  Watch on a rainy day.

Grainy Blu-ray Picture is Intentional Viewers who are accustomed to sharp and colorful blu-rays assume the grainy and orange-toned "Ocean's Eleven" has an awful transfer. They're wrong. The theatrical release was very grainy, had inconsistent color and orange skin tones throughout. So it's no surprise (to me at least) that Steven Soderbergh preserved his experimental look for this blu-ray. The blu-ray is actually a considerable improvement over the theatrical release. Here the picture is sharper and the grain is less present. With that said, some picture artifacts can be seen. Overall it's a great movie with a nice transfer that Soderbergh intentionally wanted to stand out among the pack.

Decent, albeit with an odd lead up to its predictable ending "Morning Glory" is nothing new...it's sort of a modern day "Horatio Alger" story in that its heroine makes good by sheer pluck and spunk.  Rachel McAdams does a good job playing that character and veteran stars Harrison Ford and Diane Keaton do a fine job backing her up as the anchors on the morning show Adams is the executive producer for.  Ford plays against type by being a dour, "serious news anchor" who McAdams corrals into the show.  It's also nice to see that Jeff Goldblume is still working (in the role of McAdams' boss).  This being said...it's entirely predictable in terms of plot and ultimate outcome with one minor exception.  &lt;spoilers>  The thing that I got confused by was the climactic moment where Harrison Ford's character makes a grand gesture of urging McAdams to stay with the show instead of going to "Good Morning, America."  The way that she reacted to that gesture by running back to the studio (with the camera focusing on her legs in a rather suggestive way) almost conveyed the impression that she was in love with Ford's character romantically instead of sort of like a grumpy father figure.  Fortunately, the movie didn't end with her falling into Ford's arms (which would have been a bit ludicrous given the age disparity) but the movie conveyed that impression that it might happen with the way it staged that last scene.  &lt;end spoilers>  See it for Rachel McAdams (who is very pretty and delightful) and for Harrison Ford playing someone who did not always come across as a sympathetic character.

What happened our series ended withe the kidnapping of charles Maynes son. Nothing after that. Wanted to see the ending. What happened. We bought The collection 1 2 and 3.

Interesting view into the current war. I hadn't heard anything about it but decided to rent this movie.  This is a "down in the trenches" view of the fight in Afghanistan.  It focus on one platoon for their one year deployment.  The movie takes a new slant on the war film.  I felt like I was suspended by ropes and the filmmakers would intermittently dunk you into the action then rip you out and dunk you again at some point in the future (i.e. there is no narration or storyline per se).  There are no real details on any of the brave men (they are all men) fighting for us other than a few small tidbits (one of the soldiers talks briefly about his childhood and growing up in a family that didn't allow guns etc. but for the most part you don't really get to know them as much as you would like).  Even the soldiers killed including "Doc" Restrepo, you don't really get any information on.  I think it is a unique peek into the life of soldiers in Afghanistan but I was left wanting more (I think they purposefully framed the movie to give you that sneak peak).  Overall, I think it is worth watching and would recommend it.  It isn't something I would want to buy.  It really hit into the emotional toll on these soldiers in a high combat area.  I wish them all well.

I dont get it The writers must have written this one up in one sitting, cause I know they must have been tired when they got near the end. Remember in Alien, when they came across the big dead guy sitting in the controls chair, with his ribcage blown out, on the alien ship? Well, prometheus was doin ok with leading up to how that came to be, then the alien guy ends up back in a different part of ship at the end, and gets infected after leaving the control chair and the alien explodes out of him in another area of the ship. Like I said, the writers must have been wacked when they wrote end part, it was making sense, then ?????????? Oh, I get it, maybe we are supposed to believe that the Alien, after bursting out, carried the big guy back to the control chair and placed him there, yeah, of course, how did I not figure that out? That way it would be easier for Dallas and Kane, to find him easier when they came along in "Alien"

Fascinating glimpse of bygone era featuring highly entertaining cavalcade of MGM music/comedy stars *** This review may contain spoilers ***  Rating: 3.5 out of 5.0  I was fortunate to see this film on the big screen at Lincoln Center and I recommend you do the same if you're able to. Made during World War II, it's a rousing tribute to the armed forces, and it still entertains to this day. The film is really divided into two distinct parts. The first is the romance between Private Eddie Marsh (Gene Kelly) and Kathryn (played by Kathryn Grayson), who is the daughter of Eddie's commanding officer. The second is a musical revue performed in front of the troops, featuring all the big MGM musical and comedy stars of the day.  Marsh comes from a family of aerialists, the Flying Corbinos. One of the many highlights in the film are the great circus shots featuring the 'Corbinos' as they perform death defying flying trapeze stunts. I suspect that the 'Corbinos' were a group created just for the movie since I can't find any reference to them outside of their association with the film itself.  While the overall plot is a bit hokey, it's unusual for its day, in that Grayson's character, 'Kathryn', is a product of divorced parents. When she hooks up with her Dad, Colonel Bill Jones (expertly played by John Boles), she's seeing him for the first time after living with her mother for many years. The film's subplot, involves Kathryn attempting to bring her estranged parents back together and at film's end, it looks like she's succeeded.  As for the romance between Eddie and Kathryn, it's pretty standard stuff. Kathryn is attracted to Eddie because he's the only soldier who doesn't fawn over her. He's too busy wrapped up with a chip on his shoulder, bemoaning the fact that the Army doesn't use his talents as an aerialist and believes he'd be better off in the Air Force. After Kathryn makes it clear that Eddie's the one for her, he sneaks into the Colonel's home so he can be with his beloved and ends up being called to the Colonel's office for a dressing down. Instead of ending up in the brig, the Colonel lets him off with a slap on the wrist (extra chores)--after the two switch roles, with Eddie pretending he's the Colonel and the Colonel adopting the role of the beleaguered private. Eventually Eddie must learn a lesson about being a good team player (after leaving his post) and this time really ends up in the brig (something must have been lost on the cutting room floor, since Eddie's transgression, when he leaves his post, is only depicted in its aftermath--we never see where he goes after he disappears).  If the rather tame plot doesn't hook you in, there's more than enough entertainment provided featuring the fantastic coloratura soprano voice of Kathryn Grayson and Gene Kelly's phenomenal dancing (his bit with the broom is classic Gene Kelly!). There's also the added bonus of the film debut of film conductor/pianist, Jos&eacute; Iturbi, who does some sensational piano playing and conducting. Watch when he accompanies Judy Garland in the second half, breaking into some boogie woogie after she exhorts him to get into the 'groove'.  The Eddie-Kathryn story is interrupted in the film's second half with the introduction of MGM's cavalcade of stars. I got a real kick out of seeing how young some of the stars looked back then including Mickey Rooney, Red Skelton and Lucille Ball. Rooney is the master of ceremonies introducing all the acts and does some neat impersonations himself of a very amusing interaction between Clark Gable and Lionel Barrymore. Some of the performers, who were extremely big in their day, are now forgotten to a modern audience. We get a fascinating glimpse of two in particular: Kay Kyser and his Orchestra, the 'funnyman' band leader and Virginia O'Brien, known to 1940s audiences for her deadpan expression while singing various big band hits of the day.  Of the stars I was familiar with, of course Judy Garland steals the show with her numbers with Iturbi. And then there's Red Skelton who I used to watch as a kid on TV. He's enjoyably goofy doing one of his slapstick routines. Also of note is Frank Morgan (The Wizard of Oz) who plays a lecherous physician, 'examining' various starlets who come by to see him in his physician's office (one of those starlets is a very young Lucille Ball). Eleanor Powell is also particularly impressive doing a tap routine and the very cute child actress, Margaret O'Brien, shows up, who was almost as popular in the 1940s as Shirley Temple was back in the 30s. Also look for a pre-'It's a Wonderful Life' Donna Reed in a short cameo. Finally, I was heartened to see some black performers featured in the film despite the fact that the armed forces were segregated during World War II. Lena Horne's rendition of 'Honeysuckle Rose' is thrilling along with accompaniment by extremely accomplished black big band performers.  'Thousands Cheer' wraps up with Grayson leading the United Nations Chorus singing a song called 'United Nations', a powerful (but not very tuneful) piece, predating the establishment of the United Nations itself in 1945.  'Thousands Cheer' served its purpose of cheering up the troops and the general public during World War II. While the basic plot can be described as 'fluff', the level of talent here is unprecedented and you will not only find it very highly entertaining but a fascinating glimpse at a bygone era.

A film that psyches itself out! 1408(released in June/07) stars John Cusack & Samuel Jackson in this film based on a Stephen King short story released in /99.The film works well until shortly after we enter room 1408,then it starts to regress into a cliche ridden,been there done that,spook story. Author Mike Enslin(Cusack)is a moderately successful writer who has written a few books on ghosts and apparitions.He visits hotels,motels and houses that are supposedly haunted,well equipped with the latest in technology so he can document everything he experiences.However Mike is so far a skeptic,as he has never experienced anything approaching the paranormal in his travels.He returns to his home in California and goes surfing,only to experience a rather violent wave wash-over while trying to read a banner being pulled by a plane.Returning home he is sorting through his  mail when a postcard with the Dolphin Hotel in NYC,catches his eye.The writing on the back says NOT to visit room 1408 there.Intrigued he phones and tries to book it but has no success.He phones his publisher who in turn brings in a lawyer and between the three of them,they manage to get the room booked. He arrives at the Dolphin a few days later and is greeted by the hotel manager Mr.Olin(Jackson),who begs him not to stay in the room because it is evil.Mike will not be talked out of it and the manager personally escorts him up the elevator to the floor,but will not see him down the hall to the room itself.Mike enters the room to find a rather well appointed older style decor.Always with his personal tape recorder in hand,he talks his notes out,describing the surroundings as mundane and frustratingly waiting to put in another fruitless night.Slowly but surely things start to happen in increments,like chocolates appearing on his pillow,the toilet paper end arranged neatly and a painting going crooked.Suddenly the clock radio comes to life blaring out the Carpenters "We've only just Begun".When the room temperature rises to unbearable degrees,he calls a maintenance man who comes but won't step inside the door.After he hurriedly leaves and the door is shut the radio comes on again;he pulls it out but the time revs forward and stops at 60 minutes,only to start clocking slowly backwards.The game is on baby. Numerous specters of guests past,walk through the room,he tries to leave by walking out on the ledge to the next room but the next room disappears into never ending brick,he sees and talks to his dead daughter and father.We slowly find out that Mike carries alot of emotional baggage with the disintegration of his marriage because of his daughters death with cancer.Mike then desperately uses his laptop to contact his wife for help.This is cut short when the sprinklers go off.He tries to get out through the vent shafts above only to be chased back by an undead figure.A painting of a ship foundering in a storm comes to life and it floods the room with water.He goes under and resurfaces only to find himself back on that same beach in California that he was at when he was washed-over previously.He now can read the plane banner and the phone number on it ends with 1408.He ends up in the hospital with his wife by his side as he tries to make sense of what happened.She tells him to write about his experience,and when he does and is finished, he goes to the local post office to mail the transcript.However the employee who serves him tells him that he can't because they're closed.He recognizes him from the Dolphin Hotel and as he looks around at the construction crew,they are also from the hotel.They start into ripping the walls down to reveal room 1408 of the hotel.He has never left but re-enters it.The room now is blackened out from a fire. His daughter appears and there is a tearful reunion with her but she suddenly crumbles to dust as the clock radio comes back on and the room returns to normal.Mike grabs a cognac bottle given to him by Olin and makes a Molotov Cocktail out of it and sets the room on fire.The room erupts in screams as the flames engulf the entire room.Firefighters rescue Mike and he is taken to the hospital.Mike has escaped,but barely.As he sits at his desk at home listening to his burnt tape recorder with his wife,the voice of his deceased daughter comes on and both stare at each other in disbelief.Fade to black. The film builds wonderfully up until the moment the radio blasts out the Carpenter song.From there on in the movie becomes filled with cliches with the walking specters,the hot and cold room,the room filling with water,his disorientation,the taps scalding him,the walls issuing forth blood and so on and so on.The writers here went to great lengths to scare us but in the end,they just end up psyching themselves out by overcompensating with the special effects and muddying the haunted waters,by combining the occult with Mike's closet skeletons.Both main stars do wonderful jobs in their respective roles,with the film eventually turning into a one man show for Cusack;and he certainly was up for the task.It is just too bad the script wasn't. Technically speaking the film is clear and crisp in its original a/r of 2:40:1.Extras include shorts on Inside room 1408,an interview with various stars on the film and the trailer. All in all a decent film of yet another Stephen King story,but expanded to lengths not necessary in order to scare.The film is strong up until shortly after he arrives in room 1408,then it goes downhill in plot and scare factor.It becomes a little too cliched and obvious with the main characters foibles thrown into the mix.But Cusack and Jackson are strong actors and they compensate for the films flaws as best as they can under the circumstances.

Deserves 3 1/2 stars I'd give it 3 1/2 stars if I could. This is an odd but good one. The main star (Gary Merrill in a western?) is the bad guy and John Bromfield, who is the hero, doesn't get that much emphasis. But it all works. There's lots of riding and action in interesting western scenery. It's a South-stealing-Northern-gold-near-the-end-of-the-Civil-War story. Recommended.

The world less known I thought this movie was going to be what it was. Ok.  It wasn't horrible it wasn't great.  I'll probably watch it again  in a month to see if I'll enjoy it more.

Not for Vietnam vets I see that there are many positive reviews of this movie.  However, I am a Vietnam vet, serving from 1965 to 1971.  All I could focus on were the glaring inaccuracies throughout the entire movie.  It just didn't happen that way, and that ruined it for me.  They should have had a Vietnam combat veteran advise the producers, and have taken the advice.

Puss n Boots The quality of the tape was great, the colors are beautiful but the story line is not as sunny as I thought it would be.  I expected a little more I think that was delivered.  The bright side was my order was on time and very reasonably priced

Tracing a Missing Woman Hickey and Boggs, 1972 film  A team of private detectives are hired by a client to locate a woman. They are given a list of names to use as contacts. Skip-tracing leads to Mr. Farrell, but won't talk to anyone. Hickey used to be a member of the LAPD. The search goes on for Mary Jane Bauer. We learn about Hickey's past. Others are interested in money exchange. Boggs searches a man's room and finds something. They tell the police. A florist doesn't know about Mary Jane. Others ask him the same question. They visit an apartment, and leave before three men enter to search the same rooms. There is a frantic escape! The fire department is called. The police trace two $1,000 bills. The client cancels their job. [The big .44 revolvers date this movie.] The money came from a bank job in Pittsburgh; there is a $25,000 reward. Stolen money must be unloaded for untraceable cash at a discount. [Don't they send the money overseas?]  Hickey figures out the code for a meeting. How many will meet there? There is a chase. A machine gun ends the chase. The buyer won't talk. A man is released from prison. Hickey and Boggs do more research. Did they reach a dead end? No, Mary Jane called about a deal. Did she lie? There is a night baseball game. Men wait in cars. A woman gets out of a taxi. Shots are fired again. "This time we need a lawyer." Pictures in the newspapers are bad publicity for private detectives. Somebody makes a deal with the villains. An address is given to Boggs. They meet Rice and Leroy and talk. A small airplane flies by and lands on the beach! Then a helicopter shows up with a machine gun! There is another shoot out. Revolvers against a machine gun? A shot brings the helicopter down. Another ends the conflict. Hickey and Boggs walks away with the recovered bank loot. They will collect the reward. Will life go on as usual?  Was this movie created to cash in on the fame of Crosby and Culp from their TV series of the 1960s? Was it a failed TV pilot? Its an average story that echoes other stories about stolen money, conflicts among crooks, and revenge. The automobiles date this movie. When Nixon devalued the dollar in 1971 he also permanently banned the production of $500, $1,000, and $5,000 currency notes.

Big boat - little budget - sink into it! Unsurprisingly, history repeats itself in this cheapola , SyFy-channel, disaster extravaganza about a new-miillenium Titanic; surprisingly, the camp value competes on an equal level with the tedious Cameron opus.  No pussyboy DiCaprio and lardass Winslet here - the ingenue heroes in this flick are a credit to Poseidon passengers everywhere.  Sadly, they don't take their clothes off, but we are spared a Slime Dion ballad.

Moon Warriors I received the item by the time that i was supposed to receive it. clean nicely wraped .The mmovie was clear with no problems.

OK but action lacked I saw them all and the first was the best. This one was least best but ok. Had a Hollywood ending. Needed more violent smackdown.

A different look at relationships It would be a understatement to say that Pyar Ka Punchnama is the most misogynistic film of the year. Through this film, all the men are losers and the women cunning, vile and treat men like dogs. However these men have only themselves to blame for succumbing to pathetic heights of despair but they love their plight.  Rajat [Kartik], Chaudhary [Raayo] and Liquid [Divyendu] are three friends who have staid lives and are looking for love and attention, someone they could have romance with. So Rajat meets Neha ( Nushrat) and they move in together. Chaudhary meets Riya ( Sonali) but she still pines and craves for her boyfriend Varun( Padam). Liquid pines for his colleague Charu ( Ishita) but she likes him for favors and her heart is with Abhijeet( Ravjeet). Thus the story is about these three losers and how they get abused by the women they passionately love. The director Luv Ranjan has done a great job with this movie. Most of the are conversations, these friends have with each other are the ones you might have had with your friends and even found some of your buddies in similar predicaments. The screenplay is witty and the situations hilarious, although I feel it could have used some editing because the proceedings get lengthy towards the end. The most amazing scene was the monologue by Kartik at the end about the perils of a relationship, had me in splits and pressing the repeat button. This scene alone is worth the time spend watching the film. The songs are okay and funny, especially Ishq na kariyo kaake and Kutta. This film is to be enjoyed. Four stars . 9/15/2011

This movie is broken... Not Easily Broken is based on a scripture from the book of Ephesians. Nevertheless, the scripture is hardly referred to in the Movie. Neither is God. I found so many parts of this movie inadequate. I understand that the goal was to not be too "preachy" so that people of all religious beliefs would be interested. Yet, if the goal of the movie is to prove that God is the way to hold a marriage together, shouldn't the couple pray together at least once? I think the movie also fell short in regards to portraying the true role of a Christian husband in a marriage. The entire failure of the marriage in this movie is blamed on the wife and her mother; in reality, all parties were guilty including the husband. The husband did not cover his wife adequately and he did not handle their conflict properly.  I think this movie had so much potential. If only a few more scene were added that mentioned how a couple in this situation could find God or what the wife and husband each did to lead to the destruction of the marriage, it would have been much more effective in portraying its intended message.  On the other hand, the acting was good and a few scenes made me very emotional because they were so real. I also like the fact that the scene of his affair is short and brief instead of long and x-rated (as is common in most movies).  Dr. Angela Isom Author of Quitters Never Win & Winners Never Quit!

WHAT'S THIS LASER FIRING THING ON MY WRIST? Well, you have to say this about Cowboys and Aliens: It knows exactly what is. I mean, the name of the movie IS Cowboys and Aliens. So you have to tip your hat to it for its honesty. I have never read the graphic novel that this movie is based on, so I can't vouch for how close Jon Favreau's movie stays with it.  For once in a western, the main character really IS a "Man With No Name" as Daniel Craig wakes up in the middle of a desert in the Old West with no memory of who he is or how he got there. Unfortunately for him, the residents of the nearby town haven't forgotten him. They know him as Jake Lonergan, a notorious outlaw wanted for robbery and murder among other things. He doesn't help his situation by racking the ne'er do well son of the local cattle baron, Woodrow Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford), in the groin either. Dolarhyde. Wow. That is a name steeped in all kinds of allusions, isn't it?....money, Mr. Hyde, formaldehyde, Dickens, etc. Woodrow is borderline psychotic because of his Civil War experiences so he lives up to some of the connotations of his name. Jake is about to get hauled off to trial to face his crimes, when ray beam blasting aliens from outer space send the whole town to Hell! Luckily for the humans, Jake has an alien wrist weapon that allows him to use the rootin tootin sci-fi tech of the aliens against them. Olivia Wilde also shows up as a mysterious gun-toting woman named Ella who is much more than she seems. And she stays that way, mysterious, before eventually giving some of her background that lasts all of 1 minute. Wilde is horribly utilized in this movie, mainly because her only function seems to be to say "They're here" when the aliens so obviously show up on the scene. It's up to Jake to find a way to lead the townspeople, outlaws, Native Americans, kids, and even dogs against some aliens who vaguely resemble miniature Rancors.  Like so many movies these days, Cowboys and Aliens is ok to watch once and be entertained, but you probably will never want to see it again. In that respect it reminds me a lot of Favreau's Iron Man films. And I can expand that to most movies based on comic books that have come out in recent years. They look flashy, they pop, they sizzle, but in the end they shrivel under closer inspection.  If there's one thing I can't stand about alien movies, it's when the aliens are basically just like us. In other words, Star Wars anthropomorphic boringness. I much prefer the creepiness of aliens like those in 2001, Solaris, or even the original Alien (although that may change after Prometheus). The whole "the aliens are here to steal our resources" shtick is just so old at this point. Can't we imagine aliens that go beyond just our own oil-sucking fantasies?  I was kinda surprised that Harrison Ford took this role since he's always critical of his Star Wars movies like they were so far beneath him. It almost made me laugh when I saw him go all Marlon Brando with Woodrow and try to make him into a living breathing character right out of Unforgiven. Daniel Craig did a good job even though without Bond behind his name, he's really not a leading man.  This movie didn't do very well, costing $163 million to make and only grossing around $100 million in the US. Taking foreign revenue into account, it made about a $10 million profit which is probably way below what the studio was expecting.  I wouldn't buy this movie, but it's definitely worth a rental.

The Wheels Fall Off In The Last Reel Every Speilberg must have a scene, usually in the last reel, that just makes you say "Oh G-- damn it, Steven!" I'm not sure if he's deliberately thumbing his nose at the critics or what.  But in this case, having to bump out a PK Dick short story to a movie length script, Speilberg throws in a final reel that is supposed to explain everything but seems to have spliced together randomly.  Spoilers Ahead!  Cruise is framed for killing Farrell even though the whole murder squad saw Cruises gun at a previous crime scene.  There is another entire murder conspiracy involving a drowning and a hired killer in addition to the main hired killer conspiracy. Knowing that they will be caught by the precogs, how would they find two people willing to take that deal as a hired killer? It seems like two alternate story lines, one of which was supposed to dropped.  To provide the chief with a weapon for the climactic showdown, at the banquet they give him a LOADED revolver. In a crime free future, people had out loaded guns as gifts. He later kills himself by shooting himself in the gut with this probably 25 caliber peashooter and promptly dies.

The color of heroism Aside from whatever aesthetic or cinematic virtues this notorious film has, it should be forcefully noted that it is one of very few films -- if there were any at all -- of any genre to come out of Hollywood that features white male protagonists risking their lives to the death coming to the rescue of a non-white character ("Angel" movingly performed by Jaime Sanchez), and that certainly was a laudable virtue. Also, I credit the director, Sam Peckinpah, with presenting images of non-white, non-American people with little or no racist condecension, at least to my eyes. Jerry Fielding's dramatic musical score is intricate yet gloriously orchestral without overwhelming the visuals and is a major contributor to the air of nostalgia and sense of loss that hovers over the story.

Just So-So Pleasant enough but it left me feeling ambivalent about the characters.  They were just too cliche to garner much interest in their trials and tribulatiions.  And honestly, it's hard to imagine anyone trading their very calm, even boring existance at retirement, age for the chaotic habitat in India unless they were forced to.

Clint Eastwood Comedy Price was great, delivery time was as expected but the product is of poor quality.  Only 3 of the 4 films will play.  I figured it was too much trouble to return it.

Very compelling film falters so bad and gets so rote in it's last 20 minutes that it pains me I really like the new Ben Affleck . I thought his directorial debut GONE BABY GONE was one of the very finest pictures of its year . I thought he was teriffic in STATE OF PLAY and that that film was quite a good picture . I'm old enough and film curious to have seen a lot of similar films to THE TOWN over the decades . My wife and i watched all but about a half an hour of the film and really dug it (then had to crash) . It was very successful in ratcheting up the tension during this period . The following day , "Boom" , it's HEAT (and a thousand others) and the career criminal with a heart-a-gold . Time to leave Beantown Ben . Solid effort undermined . It happens . No ill will . Brilliant cast . Three quarters of a very good film . 3 and 1/2 star out of five .

Sexy A wrestler comes out of 20 years retirement to relive a classic match. He hangs out at a strip club. Overall, I enjoyed it.

The damsel and her knight The movie was predictable like all other fairy tales. I knew in advance that the boy would get the girl in the end - like they always do. A little twist in the plot would have been welcome. It provided enjoyable, light entertainment on an otherwise boring afternoon.

not as good as i thought . Its quite rediculous and when one says that about an animated movie it means they really pushed it to the limit of redicule . Or maybe I am more dissapointed in the quality of the 3D in this movie that it kept me from seeing its awesoneness?  The movie is meh 'but kids will love it.

Not Impressed For a movie by itself, it is alright... but as a sequel to the first? Pretty much a bomb. They made changes to it that never should have been made. One, to the special effects they made them subtly more complex. Where the original effects were simpler and in my opinion better. Then they changed not only the devil but his name! Then where they left off in the first, they changed the meaning of it in the second (remember, the ghost rider was going to get even and fight the devil or whatever? Not in this one). They changed his attitude to an extent. I was not impressed by this one. But to each their own.

flawed Orwellian comic book onscreen I'm tired with this whole "it's a graphic novel" nonsense, when really a graphic novel is just a fancy way to say better done "comic book." V For Vendetta has lots of great Orwellian type themes, but it still comes across as far too simplistic and dumbed down for the masses.  First of all, if you can get past the ridiculous mask and '60s mop top Peter Tork haircut of V (and why in the scene at the pub when this V guy first appears that not a single patron makes as wisecrack about the fop in the ridiculous mask is so beyond me it's mindboggling).  The action is definitely good. The casting is brilliant. John Hurt (hey, 1984 and all) as the Orwellian leader of Britain was perfect as was the SCTV-like telescreen he talks through. The Stephens--Fry and Rea--were inspired. Again Britain seems bereft of actresses such that yet another American must play an English heroine (Natalie Portman, come on down).  As far as the extras, all you get is a 15-minute "Making Of" which is good but spends a little too much time trying to tell us how there are parallels in this graphic novel to the post-911 world. Sorry, but I get tired of this Conspiracy 101 drivel being spewed by anyone, and the fact this movie had virtually no impact at all on people's consciousness proves that that was a stretch (unless you now count donutheads at Occupy Whatever City wearing V for Venti masks)  It's good fun to watch as long as you leave your brain cells at the door.

Great 3D title, but mediocre in 2D. So this is the best use of 3D I've seen yet in a live-action film. Not that I've seen many, mind you, but I did see the Harold and Kumar 3D movie.  That said, it's only mildly entertaining. The story is weird and the only good character is the station guard played by Cohen. The book, on the other hand, seems much better with nice drawings and a creative approach to story-telling.  I just think this book should have stayed a book, I guess, but it's nice having an easy-to-watch 3D movie kicking around I suppose. Hopefully some day someone will make a 3D movie worth watching more than once or twice.

Working Girls This version of Working Girls is a 70s drive-in movie, not to be confused with the other later and much superior "Working Girls" w/Jane Fonda, etc.  This one features Sarah Kennedy, Goldy Hawn's replacement on TV's old "Laugh-In", Simon Sturgis, son of classic film director Preston Sturgis, and Elvira, TV vamp.  Directed by Stephanie Rothman, queen of low budget girl flicks, this one involves a comely young woman's adventures looking to make some honest bucks in LA.  I ordered a copy mainly because I was the assistant director on this film, but never got to see the finished product.  I remember the cast & crew as nice folks, especially Elvira, but the film is nothing special.  Also not the best print for this DVD issue.

1970's crime movie "The Friends of Eddie Coyle" is a 1970's crime movie, with great dialogue, acting, and intrigue. The movie reminded me of "The Sopranos" more than classic film noir. "Eddie Coyle" is more realistic and subdued than a lot of noir. It also has a lot of criminals interacting: pulling capers, making deals, and distrusting each other, like some of the criminals in "The Sopranos". It's centered more on the interaction of the characters and the story than on action. There are several great scenes, where the dialogue and the acting are engaging, particularly when Robert Mitchum speaks. I've never been a fan of Robert Mitchum, but here he's excellent, bringing a lot of emotion and weariness to Eddie Coyle. The story is also very good, as we see Eddie struggle to stay out of jail. The DVD is from The Criterion Collection, and looks good. There is a new commentary track from director Peter Yates. I don't think this film will appeal to a wide audience, because it's completely a crime film and nothing else, but fans of crime films might thoroughly enjoy it. Reviewed 8/23/2009 after watching on DVD.

Depends on what you wanted... Like with most films in this genre, `Wanted' comes with a steady list of pros and cons.  As an exciting piece of filmmaking, `Wanted' raises a certain bar.  It relishes in its abundance of bloody violence, using CGI embellishments and sharply executed editing to keep the audience drawn in from frame to frame.  Story-wise, the film is a tad underwhelmed considering that its own plot holes derail some of the satisfaction one could have here.  The acting is actually very well across the board.  James McAvoy dons a perfect American accent and Angelina is well within her element as a serious `bad girl'.  She knocks another action persona out of the park with effortless sensuality and devilish aggression.  Sadly, the film is snagged by horribly used narration (it just isn't handled well here at all) and the plot developments are weighed down by some regurgitated sequences.  Still, the action is top notch and exhilarating and the special effects are mind blowing in parts (that train sequence in particular is stellar).  McAvoy's office `switch' is the best scene in the film (I totally want to hit someone in the face with my keyboard) and the car chase in the red corvette really sets a bar VERY high for film's to follow.  If you want a mindless action flick that will keep you tuned in, this is for you.  I was hoping for something a tad smarter (even Jolie's `Salt' has more common sense at use here) but then again, when you have a film circling the actions of a thousand year old cult of assassins who get their targets names from the looms in a textile mill, well...I guess you can't expect a really `smart' film.

MM is the only reason to watch this--but what a reason Sometimes a star shines brightest when everything around them is a black hole. Such is the case with this film.  The direction is inept, and the screenplay is laboriously unfunny to the point of pain. No one comes out of this sad enterprise with any dignity or charm except Marilyn Monroe--but does she ever.  She shows you why her legend still burns so brightly.  It is possibly one of her most natural, and therefore best, performances.  Her scene with Yves Montand in a restaurant is a master class in deft comedy, subtle reactions, and pitch-perfect timing. Her musical numbers don't require more than her usual cooing sex kittenishness, but she makes them both more fun and more provocative than anyone else probably could.  The costumes she wears are a standout and work well with her fuller figure.  Whether it's the covered-up-but-super-hot sweater and high heels combo of "My Heart Belongs to Daddy," the creamy trenchcoat and sapphire beret she wears on a walk, or the bronzey-green dress she chooses for a night out, she looks wonderful and remarkably fresh.  Most of those outfits would still work today.  Marilyn and her wardrobe make this movie worth the watching.

Not quite soul surfer level If you watched Soul surfer you will be bored by this as the pace is slow by comparison. If you have not then it will be ok.  Its about a girl living in her past a lot and taking up surfing. Some of the acting is really very good I must say just a pity the story is so slow and the surfing rather beginner level throughout.

Good workout video but DVD freezes and stops working. I like the workout video. The problem is that after only a few times playing it's freezing and stops playing.

Average Spy Movie This movie isn't going to win awards, and is not what you're looking for if you want some deep plot. This is simply a traditional "spy double-cross" movie with some nice fight scenes. Honestly though, I only watched this movie for the fight scenes.  She's a pro-MMA fighter, and the techniques are all actual moves that work.  Some great armbars and chokes.  But yeah, watch this movie for what it is... a predictable spy movie with some well done fight scenes.

Don't Take It Seriously: Nobody Making It Did In this delightfully ridiculous mess of an action movie, a haunted Wesley Snipes battles the menace of Bruce Payne's overacting on an airplane taken hostage. Can the power of Wesley's 90s flat top fade stand between freedom and... uh, some people who are terrorists for no adequately explained reason?  This movie's notable for featuring an early-career Elizabeth Hurley who barely looks like herself, and for being so unbelievably by-the-numbers that you'll feel like you must have seen it before. Still, it's worth watching for a bevy of cheesy lines, especially one that's such a joke about the hero's own appearance it HAS to be intended to get you rolling.  Unfortunately, most of the action doesn't take place on the plane, which lands early on - but that's just a chance for a supporting cast made up of a vaguely racist sheriff and a literal mom and pop from a small "Mom & Pop" airfield to get in on the fun.  It's also worth mentioning that this is a short movie. If you have friends over, and they say they're not sure if they have time to take in silly movie, point out that this one is barely eighty minutes long.

One complaint My only complaint is with Warner Brothers.  I want a combo pack with an iTunes copy not UltraViolet.  SO my options are, 1. I can buy the combo pack and burn the DVD copy to my iTunes or 2. buy the Blu-ray only copy and then buy the iTunes copy.  Solution 1, the digital copy is not as good and Solution 2, I pay twice.  Why can't WB give us a code that can be used one time at our choice (iTunes, Amazon, or UV)?

Blu-ray out of print, defective Just purchased this on Blu-ray from a merchant, as it's out of print.  I should have considered why a classic like this would be out of print on Blu-ray--but I didn't.  One reason is that the transfer is far from optimal, as mentioned by others.  The other reason is that the pressing is defective....the picture/sound freezes, skips, jumps, etc at different points in the film.  This was not the seller's fault, as I should have done my homework before making the purchase.  Hopefully, Warner Brothers will revisit this title on Blu-ray in the future, from a better master and without the authoring defects.

Despite High Body Count, Creative Kills and Shocking End, "Horrible" Doesn't Rise Above the Mire of Mediocrity Sarah is an alcoholic on the path of recovery after experiencing a horrible relationship.  Her ex-boyfriend, Garrick Turrell, is a highly celebrated serial killer; her testimony locked him away.  Now she attends AA meetings and is dating a cute guy, Kevin.  Unfortunately, Sarah is plunged into a gruesome nightmare when Garrick escapes from prison  As the corpses of his murdered victims pile up in Ted Bundy fashion, she begins to fear for her safety.  Will Kevin be able to protect Sarah from Garrick?    What a horrible shame.  "A Horrible Way to Die" had so much potential.  Unfortunately, the final product screamed, "Amateur!" and "Low budget!"  The famous, groundbreaking "Halloween" (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UR9QHQ">Halloween [Blu-ray</a>]) of the seventies was low budget but I never would have known if film critics hadn't informed me.  For a slasher/serial killer film, the plot for "Horrible" is inventive; gruesome killings, a high body count and a shocking ending make this movie highly marketable.  Unfortunately, poor casting, sloppy camera work, clich&eacute;d dialogue and subpar acting have harmed it considerably.    A major hunk should've portrayed Garrick who had supposedly received marriage proposals in prison.  For example, the handsome Pavan Grover portrayed the sensual, seductive serial killer, Jesse Mowatt, of "Unspeakable" (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002KPIFA">Unspeakable</a>).  When A. J. Bowen's character, Garrick, strips naked in preparation for transportation out of prison, I thought I would gag.  Joe Swanberg, on the other hand, had nice buttocks.  Appearing pretty and vulnerable, Amy Seimetz was appropriate for her role as Sarah.    As far as film work/photography is concerned, vigorously shaking the camera during scene transitions only annoyed and irritated me.  Blurring the picture as though the camera is out of focus didn't work either.  The Christmas lights in the bedroom and at the AA meetings were inappropriate unless it was truly Christmas, which it wasn't.  On the other hand, the cold, snow environs emphasized and supported the film's chilling, depressing atmosphere.    The only extra features on the DVD are a short "making of" featurette, approximately seven minutes long, titled "Behind the Scenes of `A Horrible Way to Die'" and "Audio Commentary with Director/Editor Adam Wingard and Writer/Producer Simon Barrett."  The making of featurette showed the filming of certain graphic, violent scenes such as the knife entering a man's open mouth via his throat.  However, no explanations are offered.  I didn't learn anything more about the plot by watching this short featurette; it merely teased me.    The audio commentary was tasteless and redundant.  Most of the time, Wingard and Barrett cursed and complained about how difficult it was to make the film because they didn't have any money.  Most of the crew were used as extras.  The film was shot on location in the hometown of either Wingard or Barrett because they could beg people they knew to shoot at their businesses for free.  The Christmas lights, I learned, were used because the art budget was nil.  All the audio commentary accomplished was to confirm what I had already suspected: the production costs were virtually nonexistent.    There are not any trailers, deleted scenes, alternate endings, bloopers, etc.  There are, however, Spanish subtitles and English subtitles for those of us, like myself, who are hearing impaired.  The aspect ratio is 1.78:1 and has been formatted for a widescreen television.  I'm surprised that Anchor Bay didn't give "Horrible" a better release on DVD.  They once had a reputation for releasing only the best in high quality contemporary and classic horror.  Unfortunately, they now seem to print most anything, even if it's a homemade film made by amateurs.    "A Horrible Way to Die" would have been a tense, psychological horror thriller if the direction, camera work and acting had been more professional.  Unfortunately, it never rises above the mire of mediocrity.  Slasher fans will want to watch this film for the shocking ending; however, I strongly recommend that it be rented.  I thought Anchor Bay's recent release of "Bereavement" (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051ZIXNK">Bereavement [Blu-ray</a>]) was so much more entertaining and professional than "Horrible."  Alas, however, "Bereavement" received a lot of negative press.  Joseph B. Hoyos

Cute Film This is an enjoyable farce to watch especially if you have some time to kill. The interaction between the characters is nice.

Good campy fun An ancient form of the piranha thought to be extinct emerges in a lake in the midst of Spring Break. A bloodbath ensues in this campy horror film. Plenty of skin is shown in this one, and the violence is not too difficult to digest.

It had potential but doesn't deliver like it should This film had much promise since it has a superb cast and is based on one of America's finest novels. However, in the end, it is disappointing. It is disappointing because the script, dialogue, and narrative plot line fail to give a comprehensive credible armature on which the actors may show their craft. This is the story of Willie Stark, a common man seeking good, who becomes corrupt by power. The story is very loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana. But it is actually the story of Jack Burden, a newspaper writer, born in old Southern privilege, entranced by Willie Stark's character and populist powers, and willing to betray the class from which he came for the benefit of a man he gradually realizes is corrupt. It is the story of Jack Burden that is problematic for we never can figure out the real motives as to why he would betray his family and family friends for the benefit of a man who has become power hungry and abusive of his powers. But unfortunately, the story and motives of Jack Burden are not the only part of the film that never fully makes sense. We never understand why Willie Stark is being impeached by the legislature. We never understand Willie Stark's appeal to the daughter of a respected of a past governor. We never understand how a hospital scandal reflects on the physician son of this same respected past governor. The plot is fully of holes and unexplained actions. The actors who try to speak in a southern accent fail to pull this off, especially Sean Penn, whose accent is almost unintelligible. With a superb cast, Jude Law does his best with the character of Jack Burden. Anthony Hopkins does a credible job as Judge Irwin. However it is Patricia Clarkson who displays the high point in the acting trade in this film. As a political operative who falls for Willie Stark and then becomes bitter and revengeful, Clarkson is perfect and displays more rage and cunning in her understatements that Sean Penn conveys in his overstatements. I was disappointed. I felt like 30 more minutes of film used carefully to pull the narrative thread together would have improved this film greatly.

Unforgiven - Clint Eastwood I really enjoy Clint Eastwood's acting so I ordered this movie unseen, but the filthy language etc makes me regret purchasing this movie. I do not speak like this nor do I need to hear it.

Hmm, something lost in translation A standard bloody shoot em up.  Dready looks at Eastern European underworld.  A bit depressing with several really good scenes.

Just to have some time spend Just to have some time spend, some action, good efects, not the best movie. Also need to tell that the efects are really similar to transformers, already know that whas the same software, but didnt like this movie is not original in that.

Controversial film with plenty of real sex but hardly porn One of my favorite TV shows, "Rescue Me" has an opening theme song that I had never heard before.  A little research shows the song is called "C'mon, C'mon" by The Von Bondies, an American rock band formed in 1997.  They also appear in this short, 70 minute movie.  Here's the premise:  Two 20-somethings, an American woman (Margo Stilley, "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People") visiting England and a British glacial scientist (Kieren O'Brien, "Goal!"), somehow meet (at a rock concert I think) and hook up back at his place.  They go to another concert, then back to his place for...yep, sex.  Now that's about it.  There are shots of Antarctica spliced in once and a while as our dude compares the icy continent with relationships in a voice over.  What of course, makes this film different is that the sex is...real.  No, I'm not kidding.  Now it's not the hard core "Vivid Production" type sex, nor is it SkinaMax, soft core sex, but real romantic bedroom sex.  Unfortunately the rock concerts are shot a mile away,  I guess to show it from our character's perspective.  This certainly doesn't help the rock bands, most of which are well known (Franz Ferdinand anyone).  Back to the bedroom.  While our couple enjoy each other, clearly, it's all physical.  Certainly the young American, while smittin with the Brit, isn't in it for the long haul.  The movie is kind of cold, yet pretty realistic and certainly doesn't pull any punches in the bedroom.  In case anyone cares the film is in Blu ray with a 1080p resolution and a 1.85:1 aspect ratio.  While a step up from DVD it isn't by much.  I suspect that wasn't a big concern to the producers.  It is clear enough however to decern the American's efforts at shaving her lower regions and the Englishman's circumcisional (is that a word?) status.  The audio is DTS-HD MA 5.1 is is very good, especially in the musical segments.

All right The first sequel to Back to the Future was top-notch and well-written. This one... not so much. Sure, it's not without it's bad parts. However, this movie feels more tacked-on than the first sequel, especially with the fact that many of the characters play dual roles, including Tannen in the role of his ancestor 'Mad Dog' who antagonizes Marty's ancestors - it would have been better if completely different characters had been introduced instead of recycling. If you liked the first two movies, you may enjoy this one, just don't expect it to be as good.

Low Key S&S I was not very fond of it originally but I found I actually liked it a lot more seeing it again so soon after the 1971 version. The two share the same screenwriter, who seems to have lifted a lot from the 1971 to use again in this version. Many scenes are virtually identical, or very close. Margaret was cut yet again but other than that it followed the book more closely than 1971. It lacked all the wacky 70s costumes and hairstyles that made the earlier one so crazy and seemed much more understated to me. Part of this also has to do with the acting, much of which was more low-key. Some of the casting was better, some was worse...It's up to you to decide which you prefer!

not as good as the other two Good visual effects...but missing the relationship between the autobots and the main character.  I did not like the new girl, just a set of oversized lips.  I prefer Megan Fox who had attitude and natural beauty.  Would have been better if main character had put his friendship first with the autobots, then with his "love?" with the new gal.  I didn't see what he saw in her anyway, her character was horrible!!!  I still think Optimus and Bumblebee are the main stars that deserve more air time.

"And Your Name Is Jonah" This Title should make DVD with CC or Subtitle! cuz they're cool part of sign Language by Deaf boy and The Parent look for to learn sign Language to make son happy can talk with parent! this Title great as we collected many movies " Johnny Belinda","Heart is an Longly Hunter","Man has a thousand faces","Love is an silent" as more deaf movies! Please touch with company to make Title " And Your Name Is Jonah" subtitle or CC!  Please open voting! as Is help you yes or no?  Thank!!!!!!  Chester

Stranger & Stranger Johny Dep is once again Captain Jack Sparrow-no surprises there. He recycles the same material from earlier movies, but is more effemanent than ever. Kiera Knightley has been replaced by Penelope Cruz  She's hot & supposed to be the love of his life, but I don't feel the chemistry. There are a lot more sword fights, storms & pirate booty, but it's a bit thin. The mermaids are demented!  That whole mermaid bit could have been re-thought b/4 production, I think. I enjoyed this movie for what it is, light comedy. Definitely see it if you've seen the others. It's not much different, but why stop watching now?

Impressive Performances, But Not Much Else (2 1/2 Stars) Matt King's (George Clooney) wife Elizabeth has been in a coma in the hospital for almost four weeks. She was involved in a boating accident. Also, Matt, one of several descendants of a Hawaiian princess, is the sole trustee of a family trust that controls over 25,000 acres of untouched land on the island of Kaua'i. Matt must decide for his family what is to be done with the land. At the same time, he's given the news that his wife will never recover and she has a living will, so all the machines will soon be unplugged and she will slowly die. So, Matt has to contact his in-laws and all of his wife's friends and notify them of his wife's impending death so that they can say farewell. In addition, Matt is getting used to raising his daughters, 10-year-old Scottie (Amara Miller) and 17-year-old Alex (Shailene Woodley) by himself. In the midst of all of this, Matt learns that his wife was having an affair for the past two years and decides to find Elizabeth's lover and inform him that she's dying so he can say farewell. Thus begins a mini-journey with his children (and a tag-a-long friend of his daughter, Alex) that brings his family closer together.  The film has some really beautiful scenic shots, but when you're filming in Hawaii, that's not too difficult. The movie also features the finest performance of George Clooney's career. Even though Clooney has starred in lots of tv and film, he's best known for his good looks and comic ability (see O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU) and hasn't had many opportunities to display his range as an actor. THE DESCENDANTS gives him plenty of opportunities. It's his best role to date.  THE DESCENDANTS also features the breakout performance of Shailene Woodley. Woodley is a young actress who hasn't had much exposure but THE DESCENDANTS will be her springboard to stardom. She displays the depth of emotion of a person who has lived several lifetimes.  Beyond the fine acting, THE DESCENDANTS really doesn't offer much. Directed and co-written by Alexander Payne, the film has been nominated for and won all kinds of awards and has been listed on numerous critic's "Best Of 2011" lists. I think the main reason for this is because this is an Alexander Payne movie. Make no mistake, Payne is a talented director. I loved ELECTION and SIDEWAYS and even though I find ABOUT SCHMIDT incredibly depressing, it's also fascinating. However, THE DESCENDANTS lacks the life and personality that make those movies so interesting. There are a few really funny scenes in the movie (I don't know why, but watching Clooney run is hilarious), but there's nothing outstanding hilarious. Close to a third of the movie is told in voice-over from King. I don't have an issue with voice-over, but you can't overuse it and it has to be done correctly. THE DESCENDANTS abuses the voice-over. Also, the movie has way too many close-up shots. I realize that it's done for affect, but like the voice-over abuse, the close-up is used way too much in the movie. However, even putting these technical abuses aside, THE DESCENDANTS isn't good movie because it's really not that interesting of a story. The audience is glad to see how things turn out in the end, but it's almost an afterthought. I was looking forward to seeing THE DESCENDANTS, but much like the way I felt after seeing THE SOCIAL NETWORK in 2010 my reaction at the end of the movie was, "That's it?"  There's some great acting in THE DESCENDANTS, but overall the movie is a tale, "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

Well ... it was MUCH better than "Bad Teacher" This got a lot of positive reviews and while both Theron and Patton Oswalt are superb in this and it certainly is a major improvement from writer Diablo Cody's last film (the downright horrible <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002W21AZI">Jennifer's Body (Unrated)</a>), there's not much that impressed me. One critic said that some characters don't change, and that rule is OK for minor or supporting characters, but when your lead character/protagonist learns absolutely nothing from the past two hours (hour and a half), then the viewer is left to wonder why they even watched a film that went nowhere in the first place. While this was a definite step-up from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041KKYGU">Bad Teacher (Unrated Edition)</a> (didn't you know? Bad girls were SO in this past year?!), it's still not enough to earn the acclaim that it's received. The best thing about this movie (besides the acting) was Mavis' (Theron's) meltdown near the end of the film. REALLY well-done!

Enjoyable movie; Poor sound quality We enjoyed the movie itself, but could hardly hear it. Is there a process or someone to call when this happens?

Interesting bio pic "Wings of Eagles" is a 1957 color bio pic about Frank "Spig" Wead and his fight to promote naval aviation between the Wars. Wead (1895-1947) fought in WW 1 as an Ensign and got promoted to Lt. JG. After the war he worked at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola where he became an aviator, and he served in WW 2. In his spare time, Wead wrote screenplays, mostly military, and eventually saw 8 films made including "test Pilot" (1938), "The Citadel" (1938), and "They Were Expendable" (1945) - the latter starred John Wayne who plays Wead in this film, ands it was directed by John Ford who directs this film.  John Wayne (1907-79)  was the major box office draw at the time, having appeared in such hits as "Stagecoach" (1939), "They Were Expendable" (1945), "Fort Apache" (1948), "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" (1949), "Rio Grande" (1950), and "Flying Leathernecks" (1951), "The Quiet Man"  (1952), "The High and the Mighty" (1954) and "The Searchers" (1956). He was nominated for Best Actor for "Sands of Iwo Jima" (1949).  This was his 147th film.  FWIW - Wayne portrayed an aviator in 6 films including this one.  John Ford (1894-1973) and Wayne worked together on 21 films, one of the most prodigious collaborations in film history. This was Ford's 126th film (including 61 silent films). He had already won 4 Oscars - "The Quiet Man" (1952), "How Green was My Valley" (1941), "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940), and "The Informer" (1935).  What would a John Ford and John Wayne film be like without Ward Bond? Bond (1903-1960) was a USC football player with friend  John Wayne, and together they appeared in more than a dozen films including "Dakota" (1945), "They Were Expendable" (1945), "Fort Apache" (1948), "The Searchers" (1956), , and "Rio Bravo" (1959). Without Wayne, Bond was also a staple in Ford's stock company and appeared in "Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)", "My Darling Clementine" (1946), and "The Grapes of Wrath (1940) among the 25 films they made together. He's probably best remembered for his role as Major Seth Adams on the TV series "Wagon Train" (1957 - 1961). Bond was in more Top 100 AFI films (7) than any other actor, and appeared in 11 films that were nominated as Best Picture. Bond plays a fictional character named John Dodge who was based on John Ford.  It must be old home week because Maureen O'Hara is also in the cast. O'Hara (1921) and Ford worked together on only 5 films, but she was his favorite leading lady, not the least reason being that she was Irish through and through. Early on she lit up the screen at 19 as Esmeralda in "Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1939) and followed that with her first John Ford film in "How Green Was My Valley" (1941) for which Ford won his second Oscar. She could play comedy ("Miracle on 34th Street in 1947), or action ("Bagdad" in 1949). She did 5 films with Wayne - "Rio Grande" (1950), "The Quiet Man" (1952), "Big Jake" (1971), "McClintock" (1963), and "Wings of Eagles" (1957).  Versatile Dan Dailey (1915-78) plays Wayne's buddy "Jug head" and the chief petty officer. He made nearly 50 films and was nominated for an Oscar for "When My Baby Smiles at Me" (1948) and won a Golden Globe for "The Governor and J.J." (1969). I remember him best as "Dizzy" Dean in "The Pride of St Louis" (1952). In WW 2 he served in the Army.  John Ford staples Ken Curtis, Olive Carey, Jack Pennick, Mae Marsh, and Willis Bouchey are also in the cast. Ken Curtis (1916-91), who played Charley McCorry in "The Searchers" was married to John Ford's daughter and Ford kept him busy in many films including "Rio Grande" (1950), "Mr. Roberts" (1955), "The Searchers" (1956), "The Last Hurrah" (1958), "The Horse Soldiers" (1959), "Two Rode Together" (1961), and "Cheyenne Autumn" (1964). Curtis is probably best remembered for his role as Festus in the TV series "Gunsmoke" (1964 - 1975).  Willis Bouchey (1907-77) made nearly 200 films and TV appearances, often working with Ford and/or Wayne in films like "The Horse Soldiers" (1959), "Sergeant Rutledge" (1960),  "Two Rode Together" (1961), and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962). I remember him best as the President from "Red Planet Mars" (1952). He was a busy actor. In 1957 alone he appeared in this and 7 other films as well as guest roles on 11 different TV shows. Bouchey plays a Congressman.  Rumpled faced Jack Pennick (1895-1964) made more films with John Ford than any other actor (41), mostly as an extra. Among his credited roles he played Amos in "Drums Along the Mohawk" (1939), Doc in "They Were Expendable" (1945), Sgt Schattuck in "Fort Apache" (1948), and the barman in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962).  Olive Carey (1896-1988) plays Wayne's housekeeper. She was the wife of actor Harry Carey and mother of Harry Carey Jr., both of whom were in dozens of Ford films. In fact, Harry Sr. was the man who got Ford his first job directing.  Mae March (1894-1968) plays a nurse. She made 17 films with John Ford. She was a great silent film star ("Birth of a Nation", "Intolerance") who retired but was forced to return to films after the Wall Street crash of 1929.  The marvelous Sig Ruman (1884-1967) has a small part as the manager of a restaurant where the Army and the Navy have two big fights. You know Ruman as the prissy German officer/aristocrat who appeared in Marx Brothers comedies before the War, and then switched to dramatic roles in films like "Confessions of a Nazi Spy" (1939) and "The Hitler Gang" (1944).  The film starts out as a comedy, and Ford and Wayne were never particularly skilled in this area. As well, Wayne is supposed to be playing a new cadet, but he is 50 years old, while the real Spig Wead was a mere 24. Most of the film retells the story of Spig's life, and there are almost no actual aviation scenes. Aviation and war fans will not find the film attractive, but for fans of the Duke it will probably suffice. This is another of his good acting jobs.  Fans of  Naval aviation should take a look at  "Hell Divers" (1931), "Only Angels Have Wings" (1939), "Flight Command" (1940), "Dive Bomber" (1941), "A Wing and a Prayer" (1945),  "Midway" (1975), "Top Gun" (1986), "BAT 21" (1988), and "Flight of the Intruder" (1991). All of them will provide a lot more aviation. Fans of the Duke might be better served with films like "The Quiet Man" and "The High and the Mighty" and "The Searchers", all of which are from the same era but infinitely better films.  The film does have the pure pleasure of watching Ward Bond parody his good friend John Ford. Ward wears dark glasses, the hat, carries a stick, smokes a pipe, and drinks whiskey. His office is strewn with Western memorabilia and a slew of Oscars and he has the John Ford "slouch" down to a tee. Very funny.  The film is also one of the few times the Duke appears in a film sans toupee. Ward had thinning hair so Wayne took off his toupee and went au natural.

Not the best quality but okay for the price I paid. The quality of the movie was less then par.  It looked like someone took the original vhs and just copied it onto a dvd.  I can't really complain though.  The price I paid gave me the quality I deserved, I guess.... So to sum it up.  Great price for vhs quality movie.

It has its ups and downs. SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS!!!!  I was a HUGE fan of the original evangelion series.  It's still up there as one of my top ten even after all this time.  So I was very excited when 1.11 came out, and it did not disappoint.  It was essentially an upgraded version of the first 6 episodes.  Thats what I was hoping for with 2.22, but thats not what we got.  The rebuild was desperately trying to fill in some of the glaring omissions and confusing sections of the original evangelion... which I fell it did.  Alot of the "conceptual" plot elements are alot more clear to me now.  BUT they fixed these issues by totally gutting all the character developments and dialogue interactions that made the original series so great.  The worst example of this is in Shinji and Asuka's relationship.  That is to say, there virtually is none now.  SPOILERS!!!!!  In the original series there was a rich dynamic between Shinji, Asuka, and "wonder-girl" Ayanami.  But that just doesnt exist here.  What they spend hours developing in the original series, they condensed to about 10 minutes in this version.  And when they killed (or maimed, they were unclear...) Asuka in this version, I initially thought, BRILLIANT move!  Its so much more moving and emotional... until I realized that it wasnt.  I didnt care about Asuka at all in this version.  All the complexity and likability had been robbed from the character, and she's now just a caricature of her former self.  All of my favorite Asuka moments were gone.  Her introduction where unit 002 is leapfrogging from aircraft carrier to aircraft carrier hunting an angel is gone.  The magma diving is gone.  The episode where she and shinji have to learn to operate in synchronous by doing everything simultaneously (one of my favorite episodes) gone.  So when Asuka dies... I just didnt care.  Why whould I, in this version Asuka is almost a bit character who does nothing but whine, trashtalk, and make dumb decisions.  But despite all this, the remake is still pretty cool.  The action is flawless and exciting, the new versions of the Angels are breathtaking, and alot of questions I had from the original had been answered, but I was very disappointed by the things that were lost in pursuit of the glitzy new vision of Eva.

NO "Resistance 3" Demo on Single-Disc BD as was advertised Really REALLY frustrated and annoyed right... I had ordered "Battle: Los Angeles" a couple weeks back primarily for the "Resistance 3 Demo" that was advertised as included with this single-disc BD edition (but also because we wanted to see the film, and watch our hometown get blown to bits).  Well, my shipment finally arrived today, I opened up "Battle: Los Angeles", popped it into my PS3 ready to give the demo a whirl, and... it's not there. Tried it on my second PS3, same thing. To say I'm incredibly disappointed right now (and a bit angry) is a huge understatement.  I don't know what's going on with Amazon's copies, but the demo absolutely is NOT on every single-edition BD. I don't know if a batch of discs was erroneously packaged with the incorrect disc or what... but others have commented on missing demos as well, both here at Amazon and elesewhere.  Guess I'll have to demand a return and hope for the best with a replacement copy... but something tells me I'm gonna get screwed again. After what I just went through this past week (two deaths in the family, hacked accounts, my wife suddenly requiring eye surgery, and more news along these lines), the last thing I need to deal with is "simple" stuff like this that consumers should never have to deal with. *SIGH*  Thanks Amazon.

Close My Eyes This movie of a Forbidden love affair was a bit unsettling; just didn't understand the ending- left wondering what was going to happen to the 3 of them-  Didn't care for the young male lead  but as always loved Alan Rickhman; Too much tolerance and acceptance?? Weird!

The Descent 2 Not as good as the first. A lot of people like these movies though. I'm more into Scream and horror movies like that but definitely okay for a creature feature.

Not a hit, but not as bad as predicted. We did not go and see Cars 2 in the theater because the previews did not make it seem like it was worth the $40+ dollars that we would have to spend.  Went out on a limb and bought it the day it came out on video.  The kids enjoyed most of it, but missed seeing the old characters.  Don't get me wrong, they are all in the movie (except Hudson Hornet) - but you see so very little of them.  The new character are okay, but not favorites.  We liked the movie as it was a lot better we expected, but most definitely is not the same quality storyline as Pixar's other pictures - especially Cars 1.

Not so much... This movie takes place mostly in a world where alchemy -does not work- which kind of defeats watching an "alchemist" movie.

LIE DOWN WITH DOGS CHIHUAHUA:  THE MOVIE is somewhat a guilty pleasure.  Sure it's cliched, corny, silly and poorly acted.  But the chihuahua is cute and the movie's predictable outcome is satisying.  At least there's no CGI attempts to humanize the animals and there's a sense of reality to the middle-class characters.  The supernatural abilities of Lina are grossly incredulous, but obviously necessary to advance the storyline. The movie may lack enough action to hold younger kids' attention, may be too corny for older kids, but involving enough for pet loving adults.

A Decent Take on the Haunted House Formula, Yet Nothing Special There can be too many "boo!" moments in a film, I realized as I watched "The Woman In Black." A "boo!" moment, of course, is when the camera pans across a room and, just for a second, we see a demon watching our hero (in this case, Daniel Radcliffe), or, the camera lingers upon an object (a window, say) while our hero looks outside, and then...a face appears in the window next to him! Noooo!  Save for these moments (and there are a lot of them), "The Woman In Black" is a quiet, effective ghost story set in Victorian England. A woman with a secret past dies, and leaves a mansion behind that must have been built by architects related to H. R. Giger. Needless to say, the mansion is haunted, and poor Daniel Radcliffe, besot by financial problems, must try his darndest to sell it so that he can make a life for his son, even as the local villagers give him the evil eye for daring to step foot in the mansion. Why one of these villagers never simply runs up to him and says, "There's a crazy ghost-witch in that house and she does awful things to people when you go into her house!" I'll never know, but instead they hang back and scowl at Radcliffe's character as he just tries to go about his day.  If it all sounds rather generic, well, it is. But the movie, crafted by a reboot of the old Hammer Films Studio, is technically well-done and written competently enough to create a decent experience out of an overdone genre. There are too many "boo!" moments, yes, but the overall mood of the film is rather somber and creepy. The set design is great, and the clattering little tinker toys that fill up the mansion shelves are among the most horrid toys I've ever seen in my life. The plot moves smoothly and never gets bogged down in unnecessary exposition or bloated pretension. The movie knows what it wants to be. It is a haunted house movie, through and through, and while that lack of ambition makes it somewhat mundane, it also ensures that the movie never overstays its welcome. There's a horrible mansion, a cruel ghost, and an awful secret, and that is as far as the narrative extends. Radcliffe is likable, the ghost is appropriately furious, and the ending, while obvious, doesn't cheat.  All in all, a competent piece of genre fiction that will entertain you and then quickly fade from your memory. You could do much worse.

exercise band broke I like the work out video but the exercise band broke after 10 uses. The walking part of the video is more energetic and I like that part.  Dissappointed in quality of the fit cuffs.

I Guess It's Good. Obscure and I never heard of this before.  I figured it was a made for TV film since it is an hour and ten minutes (not 90).  This is a Bill Cosby production and I am sure that he meant well, but this was poorly directed and even poorly written.  It starts out one way and then ends another.  In the end we do not get to see what happened in the beginning topic even if we can speculate.  I guess this is one of those that must be forgotten even by Cosby himself.  The good part is, I can tell that this must take place in Bridgeport, CT since the film made reference to "St. Vincent's Hospital," Cosby had to make a trip UP to "Hartford" and of course - a friend wanted to take the kids to "Rye Playland" which is just over the CT border in NY. Not to mention it shows what looks like the Westchester County Airport at the start of the film as well. I even noticed the old school CT and NY plates on some cars.  For this alone I recommend this.  I am biased.  It's not really that good but it is something to see if you have not seen it.

Incorrect Advertising I've bought virtually every Euro-thriller and Spaghetti western that Pop Flix has issued because some of the titles are difficult to locate and often come in the letterboxed format.  The "Mafia Kingpin" DVD collection advertises "The Master Touch" as a widescreen print, but it turned out to be Full screen when I played it on the Blu-Ray player. I checked "Violent Naples" and "The Cynic, the Rat, and the Fist" and both of them are in widescreen. I've been searching for a widescreen print of "The Master Touch" for years, but I haven't found one yet. I wasn't concerned about the other Jack Palance movies on the second disc. It is really a shame that "The Master Touch" was not presented in widescreen because the cinematography was done by "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" lenser Tonino delli Colli. If you're searching for a widescreen copy of "The Master Touch" don't make the same mistake that I made.  I am happy about "Violent Naples" and "The Cynic, the Rat, and the Fist."

Too much people time not enough Monster time. This could have been a great movie for me if it was scripted different. All the monsters were cool. However, too much time was given to the scenes with people and not enough to the monsters. If there was about fifteen minutes less people time and instead fifteen minutes added to the monster scenes it would have been cooler. Also I would have liked to see the monsters put up more of a fight.  Godzilla tears through them like Oprah at a buffet. A cooler ending would have been Rodan, Caesar and Anguirus coming to godzilla and Mothra's aid against Gigan and Ghidorah  in a all out donnybrook.  I still enjoyed the movie in general.  This one is a good addition to your collection.

Good bio pic about running star "Prefontaine" is a 1997 film bio of long distance runner Steve Prefontaine who competed in the 1972 Munich Olympics. It stars Jared Leto with Ed O'Neill and R. Lee Ermey as his coaches and Breckin Meyer and Amy Locane as his girlfriend. Brian McGovern plays a disc thrower  Jared Leto (1971) is terrific. He can be arrogant and timid, exploitative and submissive, and gives a well rounded picture of who the person was. This was his first starring role.  Ed O'Neill (1946) made us laugh for 11 seasons as Al Bundy on "Married...with Children" (1987-97), and subsequently landed another hit comedy series with "Modern Family" (2009-11). His film career has not done so well, although he has been busy with a film every few years. His last film was a brief appearance in one of the best martial arts films ever - "Redbelt" (2008) - in which he played a Hollywood producer for a Brazilian jiu Jitsu (O'Neill holds a black belt).  R. Lee Ermey (1944) is everyone's favorite Marine drill instructor, a role he played in real life as well as in films ("Full Metal Jacket", "Boys in Company C", "Toy Story"). He plays Bill Bowerman, Prefontaine's coach and the man who co-founded Nike. Ermey does a nice job in toning down his bluster and presenting Bowerman as three dimensional character.  Director Steve James made his mark with the Oscar nominated "Hoop Dreams" (1994) earning himself the shot at this film. This was his only full length feature film. He continues making documentaries, and won a DGA award for his work on "At the Death House Door" (2008).  Bio pics about celebrities who die young (e.g., "James Dean", "Man in the Moon", "Brian's Song") have inherent problems - we know what's going to happen and the ending is inevitably a bummer.  This film chooses to use a flashback device in which the story is told primarily from the POV of O'Neill, McGovern, Meyer, and Locane, his assistant coach, a fellow athlete (disc thrower),  and his girlfriends. It provides a complete story of Prefontaine's life, including the time before going to college, his college years, the athletic events, the Olympics, and his subsequent fight for athlete rights. It has a documentary feel, but looks enough like as film to avoid being called a documentary.  I really enjoyed the music to this film, and the photography is great. Costumes help give this a 70s look. There are just enough running sequences to qualify as a sports film, but the story manages to focus on the person. It's definitely enjoyable and nice to see a film that focuses on a sport which is rarely covered., although if I had to pick my favorite "running" films I'd have to choose "Chariots of Fire" (1981) and "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" (1962) with "Personal Best" (1982).

Here He Comes to Save the Day I thought that Joe Johnston was a good pick to direct Captain America. He's made two movies that I'm quite fond of that are full of action, scares and laughs (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00003CXXS">Jurassic Park III</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000031EGV">Jumanji</a>), so I figured that with Johnston at the helm for Captain America, we might be in for more of the same. The trailer for Captain America sure made it seem like at least the action would be there, but ultimately I found Captain America to be very slow-moving and the weakest entry among the movies that have been introducing us to next year's Avengers.  I admit that I had a preconceived notion about Captain America way before the pre-Avengers movies even started to get made, and my preconceived notion was that Captain America was outdated and quite frankly boring. That was until sometime back in 2008 when I read all 800 pages combined of Mark Millar's epic collections of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0785110828">The Ultimates</a> & <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0785121382">The Ultimates 2</a>. Those books were nothing short of amazing, and those books introduced me to the Marvel gang in a whole new light, especially Captain America (and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0034G4P8A">Thor</a>). Thor quickly became one of my favorite Marvel characters after reading Millar's books, and similarly I gained an entirely new respect for Captain America because of Millar's books. The integrity of Millar's delivery of Captain America is somewhat still in place with Johnston's Captain America; there's just something about Johnston's that made him into more of a campy, corny kind of character that left me unsatisfied by the end of the film.  Captain America is a bizarro period piece mostly set in the early 40s that documents Captain America's making and rise. So I think that the campy, corny part of his personality that Johnston instilled was deliberate and meant to suggest it was sort of the natural disposition of a lot of people back then. But for me it just came across as rather droll. Surprisingly, with a cast that includes some other greats like Tommy Lee Jones and Hugo Weaving, you'd think that the drollness might be made up for by stellar acting. But if you ask me, those guys are gravely underused in Captain America.  Look, if you want to see the birth of Captain America and keep the continuity of the introduction of the Avengers prior to next year's Avengers blockbuster, I certainly don't recommend skipping Captain America. But if you want to read a MUCH better story with Captain America in a key role read Millar's books.

Terrific adaptation (if less inspired than the previous movies) J.K. Rowling's tale is, as always, rife with fresh ideas, and her believable characters continue to endure further challenges in the process of growing-up.  Apart from the story's more fanciful elements, there are also some real-life lessons being learned here (in boy-girl relationships and academic cheating among them).  That said, Rowling's extensive narrative doesn't fit so comfortably into a two-and-a-half hour running time.  Screenwriter Steve Kloves manages to get most of it all to work within the prescribed length (though it is hard to see the point of invented scenes like Harry's flirtation with a muggle girl in the London tube station when that screen-time could have been alloted to more of Rowling's own ideas).  Director David Yates handles the material adroitly, but his style feels more perfunctory than the series' previous directors.  One scene in particular (which I won't spoil), is a major -- and devastating -- turning point in Rowling's tale, but it lacks any dramatic intensity and proves something of a lead balloon.  The film is technically well-photographed (by Bruno Delbonnel) but is awash in low-key, shadowy lighting, and a generally drab, washed-out colour scheme.  While effective in the spookier moments, this look doesn't suit the scenes of intimacy or humor, and tends to cast a dreary pall about the film.  Nicholas Hooper provides a serviceable score, but it too is lacklustre compared to the symphonic grandeur of John Williams' Harry Potter music.  However the performers are (as usual) first rate. The established cast bring ever-more freshness to their parts, while newcomer Hero Fiennes-Tiffin (nephew of Ralph Fiennes) makes for an unnervingly sinister Tom Riddle, and veteran actor Jim Broadbent makes a fine Professor Slughorn.  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a wonderful story which results in a very good film.  Warner Bros. Blu-ray disc boasts an excellent transfer with crisp detail.  But it does lack the epic sweep of the earlier films and doesn't deliver a satisfying emotional payoff, and so proves one of the less-enjoyable Potter adaptations.

fun but forgettable I didn't realize it at the time when I brought this movie from Amazon, but I actually must have seen it at some point in the past.  Once I started watching the movie, I began to remember some of the characters and events.  It's never a good sign when you totally forget a movie.  I hoped that maybe I would like it more on my second viewing, so I watched it anyways.  But this wasn't all that great.  It was entertaining enough, but it didn't really make me laugh and I never warmed to any of the characters.  I'll have forgotten it again in another few weeks.  Fun for a rainy day, perhaps, but I'd recommend watching something like Toy Story or Shrek instead.  They're both much more fun than this one was.

Cute, good for boys My nephew would probably love this movie.  Not the typical animated film, with a second layer that adults love.

Classic Reynolds. It's a late 70's Burt Reynolds movie. What else do I need to say? I liked it fine. It's like after shooting Smokey And the Bandit the director said, "nobody leave, let's shoot another movie". Sally Field is even in it again. Here Burt plays a stuntman, but it's basically the same person as half his other films from those years. I'm not knocking it, this is why I like Burt Reynolds. It walks the comedy/action line. If you liked Cannonball Run or Stroker Ace, here's another one.

I too waited a long time for this Since being introduced to this movie by this theatrical release back in '84 I have seen several versions of it. This is by far my favorite version. Over the years I rented it on VHS several times.  Subtitles work better than still shot text between the scenes for me. The coloration adds to the movie and is not overdone. The 80's score just has a lot more appeal to me than the original score.  So when I saw Metropolis on the shelf I picked it up to take a peek. It has been a very long time since I have seen this version and as soon as I saw what it was it went into the shopping cart.  Memory is a funny thing, I ceratinly did not remember the film (video) itself being in such poor condition so I must admit that I was somewhat disappointed in the video quality of this release. Maybe the VHS release was no better but on the old Trinitron it didn't matter.  So buy it or pass on it ? If you were not already a fan of this version I would say pass. The video quality is not good and while I love the soundtrack it is probably because it is a benchmark in time to me more than the music being of timeless quality.  I am glad I have it, but I think its more like a $10 release instead of a $25 release.

it is what it is... ...play on words jokingly for a Just ok, behind scenes pre-concert prep stuff; dont have more to say about it, @ least for right now.   (i generally like j5 & especially mj-some music & vids of his; of course they both also have good, timeless music between them.)

Very Average Sort of slow moving, but original and worth the watch.  It's no con air or the rock, but cage holds his own. overall, the trailer is better than the movie, and while the dialogue isn't the greatest, the premise of the movie will keep you watching till the end.

good exercise plan difficult food plan This is a good exercise book, with an unrealistic food plan. I really felt that the author wrote the book from her heart, and what she believes will work. I don't like the word perfection in the title. I don't believe anyone can define what a perfect body really is.  I like the mat exercises,and the cardio part is fun. I do think it will get a little bit boring doing the same cardio routines every day. I feel as a chiropractor, and fitness trainer, the exercises are safe and challenging. I don't agree with doing the workout routines everyday. I think the body requires rest days in between workouts.  I think the dietary recommendations are too extreme. There is not enough protein in the plan. Even though the food choices are very healthy, I don't think there is enough food to sustain a woman, who is working, and doing an hour and a half workout each day. I think if you follow this dietary program you are setting yourself up to overeat when the 30 days are over. I started to get anxiety just thinking about how little I could eat, and all the time it would take to prepare most of the meals and snacks.

Incomplete Nostalgic Trip Which was Devoid of a Point. Viewed: 6/11 Rate: 5  6/11: I don't know about you, but every time I see Peggy Sue Got Married, I feel like nothing really happens. It's just a one big time travel just to experience the nostalgia. Is that really the case or did Francis Ford Coppola catch the American Graffiti and Diner fever? In either case, Peggy Sue Got Married doesn't work for me, and I pretty much miss the point (or maybe there isn't a one) of it. It is as if Peggy Sue really never grew up, and she learns nothing during her nostalgic trip. Her intelligence, before and after, remains profoundly average. Even worse is the acting. It's too corny and outdated. Jim Carrey makes it all worse, portraying the drug addict one too many times. Jim, time to get off coke for real, please. Now, Nicolas Cage is one of the most talented actors to emerge out of the 80s, but his performance in the film is over-the-top in a bad way. Meanwhile, Kathleen Turner doesn't seem to be into her role although her intentions are well-meaning. I just feel like her character isn't likeable because she is trying to change the fact that she got married to Charlie yet that would mean her two children would never have been born. She becomes selfish because she fails to think of them. The whole poet thing is ridiculous to watch because it's quite apparent that Michael Fitzsimmons is a one giant flake. If he is super mysterious in a cool way, kind of like a James Dean, it might work, but the selection of the actor literally kills the film. There are moments in the film that are never explained throughout the film. One glaring example is the old high school friend who ends up being in a wheelchair. So...how? Another is the red M&Ms. Although not explained in the movie, it turns out that they cause cancer. Like...we all knew that. Also, the line "Why, I oughta..." is somewhat inferred from The Three Stooges, but its reference throughout the film was getting stale and lost in its meaning. How Peggy Sue acts around certain people, making the audience think that they later died, becomes a big disappointment because we will never know for sure since nothing is revealed about the fates of everybody. All in all, yes...Peggy Sue Got Married is a charming film to watch, and I like it, but there is a lack of many explanations, leaving the film sorely incomplete.

Eeerie Setting at Chippewa Lake I couldn't wait to see this!  I read so much about Chippewa Lake Park that the thought of seeing this was inspired! There are extras included on the DVD that include "deleted scenes" and a 1993 visit throught the abandoned park in the hopes of re-opening it but the detoriation was much more than anticipated, so it never happened.  The movie itself had its moments, but as one reviewer said, the acting leaves something to be desired. I liked it for the fact that it was filmed there, for the most part. The fun house scene however, is the old bath house, as the fun house had collapsed over the years. If you're a fan of old abandoned parks, this one's for you!

1990 is a long time ago Considering the 12 years of technology that have pushed us all Fast Forward, this is an entertaining 'retro' TV show.  The season contains a few shows that are so "tired" that I was wishing for a commercial break to give some relief, Then some episodes are quite good. It is a shame they still charge the same $ for this as for any newer show, you may want to pick a few episodes rather than buy in to the whole season. At the least, if you are considering purchasing the season buy one or two episodes first just to check it out.  like I said, it is over 12 years old, when the "modern computer" is a CRT monochrome you know you have stepped back in time.  That is part of the entertainment, the 'retro' of the show.  Overall, a worth while Occasional diversion.

Great special effects, but story sucks! Great special effects, but story sucked! I watched and somewhat enjoyed it, the effects were well done. But if you are looking for that modernized version of a true classic story, or anything resembling a well written story, you will be sorely disappointed!

Cute, Family Film When Sean (Josh Hutcherson) receives a coded message from his grandfather (Michael Caine), he wants to leave immediately for the fabled "Mysterious Island."  Sean's mother allows him to go - on the condition that his new step father (Dwayne Johnson) accompanies him. But on the way to this island that shouldn't exist, their helicopter hits a storm and crashes. Now Sean, his step father, the helicopter pilot (Luis Guzman), and the pilot's daughter (Vanessa Hudgens) need to find a way off the island. Though it's full of unexplored wonders, they're in a race against time to find a way off before the whole island sinks to the ocean floor.  While this is a sequel to Journey to the Center of the Earth, it's not necessary to have seen the first installment. Journey 2 is a standalone story, with Sean going on an entirely separate adventure.  As before, this adventure is immersed in classic science fiction. Fans of classic scifi, young and old, will enjoy the numerous references and Jules Verne's Mysterious Island brought to new heights. With creatures of humorous sizes, a volcano full of gold, and other bizarre secrets - this island unfortunately can't be fully explored because of an unfortunate timetable. Of course, suspension of belief must be held for most science fiction movies (especially geared towards children), but the sinking of the island really pushes it.  But for the most part, this was a surprisingly enjoyable, if mostly corny and predictable, movie for young families. While a fast-paced adventure, there is no violence or profanity, so even very young children can enjoy (as long as they don't mind the occasional giant bug).  The acting is good for a heart-warming family film. Hutcherson ("Hunger Games") and Dwane "The Rock" Johnson of course steer the story. And the supporting cast provides comedy relief and a cute romantic interest for Sean. Johnson has been doing a lot of family movies lately, and this may be one of his more watchable ones. I love that he can laugh at himself and still be a strong character.  All-in-all Journey 2 is a cute, family film that won't make you think too much and will entertain the kids.

Tapping, Tapping at my chamber door I am a fan of Amanda Tapping and Christopher Heyerdahl from the better "Stargates," but even they cannot elevate this series beyond the pedestrian. Although some episodes are nicely done, others seem to be rejected scripts snatched from the trash bin. I purchased Season Three in blu-ray because I knew it would be at least watchable and I needed something to watch. Special effects do not support a weak script, but they create more fun than watching Oprah. It is possible that the entire series (which finds regular roles for Jack the Ripper, Jeykell and Hyde, and Nickola Tesla) is tongue-in-check, but if so, why aren't I laughing more? Like many SyFy offerings, this is good enough to watch-once.

Brutal This movie is brutal. I was introduced to it as a type of political comedy, but I honestly found very little humor in the story. The characters are excellently played. The script definitely draws in the audience. It is just a tough movie to watch. The ending is definitely not Hollywood Happy, but it makes a point about corruption, the senselessness that can be found in war, and how things just sometimes turn out badly. Definitely worth watching, but having something uplifting to do afterward or your faith in humanity may take a beating.

Low budget mindf*** The Recovered is a creepy movie. Hard to follow at times mostly due to not knowing what's real, what's not, and what's memory. But hey I personaly love mindjob type movies so this is right up my alley. Very well filmed and edited together. The acting is great for an amateur production, especialy that of the main actress Tina Krause. You really believe what she's going through and that basically makes the movie. If you're looking for a paint by the numbers thriller then this aint it. The ending may even dissapoint you.  The big question is, is it worth buying? Well, it may seem a bit pricey for something that isn't "professional", and if the company of RedLetterMedia had only made this and not done the Harry Plinket reviews then i'd say it isn't worth it. On it's own it's not as good as some thriller movies, but i see this purchase as donating to the RedLetterMedia group to encorage and fund them into making more movies with better equipment. Also it feels like paying them for all those brilliant reviews that i get to watch for absolutely free.  The movie is good though, and the dvd has some fun special features. [...]

I parked my getaway car in Harvard Yard After his success directing the gritty and absorbing 2007 GONE BABY GONE, Ben Affleck's next directorial feature was this over-the-top heist fantasy that's supposed to be in a similar milieu (working class Boston) but which is more of a fantasy thriller. Affleck plays Doug Macray, a handsome working stiff from deepest darkest Charlestown, the notorious crime-ridden neighborhood of Boston around the Bunker Hill Monument; with a father (Chris Cooper) serving multiple life terms in prison and a friend-who-is-all-but-a-brother (Jeremy Renner) pressuring him, he has no choice but to take to the mean streets and rob armored cars and banks in the streets of Boston and Cambridge. But if the cheap pubs and overripe Boston accents suggest realism, the film veers wildly from realism in its portraying of the superheists that Doug plans with the supergenius criminal planning of a Thomas Crown or a Lex Luthor. Constantly changing elaborate disguises and foreseeing every eventuality to the smallest detail, Doug's gang has the FBI (led by Jon Hamm) completely buffaloed, which Doug (a decent sort deep down, of course) falls madly in love, surreptitiously, with a tasteful, accentless bank manager (Rebecca Hall) he in disguise previously took hostage in a heist, and who represents A Better Life for Affleck's character. But (of course), just when he thought he was out, they keep pullin' him back in...  There aren't many heist and gangster movie cliches this film ever avoids, but, mysteriously, critics have taken it very seriously, probably because of the adrenaline charge that Doug's fancy heists admittedly provide. Jeremy Renner is effective in his turn as a mean little thug who starts out like Joe Pesci in GOODFELLAS but by the end is more like the crazed Jimmy Cagney at the end of WHITE HEAT; Affleck himself is quite good in his ridiculous role; and poor Jon Hamm has to wrestle with phrases the screenwriters seem to have trotted out to allow him to flaunt a faux-Boston accent (one of his choicer lines entails both the phrases "Star Market" and "a roll of quarters"). At the very least you never get bored with the film; but though it's not bad, it's also pretty silly.

Lacked something.. Wood and Hurt's scenes were magical and brilliant.  But Wood's scenes with the girls seemed forced and unnatural.  I often felt like I was watching two different movies.

tedious talkfest Time has not been kind to this film. That's unfortunate, because its central issue -- should one be honest, or play by "the rules" to keep your job? -- remains pertinent.  The problems must be laid at the feet of Nunnally Johnson, who wrote, directed, and produced. There's a lot of pretentious, wordy dialog. (It's embarrassing to see a fine actor like Fredric March given such a poorly written role.) Most scenes lack any kind of "energy" to propel them. Attempts at humor largely fizzle. The acting never rises above "acceptable", with Ann Harding as March's wife particularly bad.  The main problem, though, is that Johnson fails to energetically dramatize the story's conflicts -- in particular, Tom's eventual decision to tell March what he really thinks about the latter's plan to start a national crusade for mental-health awareness. The story and the characters just sort of lie there, without doing much to engage our interest. The sequence in which Peck accidentally kills his best friend and tries to get medical help for the corpse is particularly weak. (We do, however, get to see DeForest Kelley inform him that the man is dead.)  The film's perceived weakness might actually be the result of the way its observations about the soullessness of business have entered the common social vocabulary. But I don't think so. It is a thoroughly mediocre film.  Bernard Herrmann's score is one of his lesser efforts -- though Fox does him the honor (as it did in "The Ghost and Mrs Muir") of letting his title music replace the Fox fanfare. There are some excellent sequences -- particularly the one in which Peck and two other soldiers kill Germans to get their warm clothing -- but the music ultimately demonstrates just how hard it is to write a distinctive good score for a conventional, contemporary drama.  The transfer is excellent. The sound (both music and dialog) appears to be real stereo, typical of Fox's early CinemaScope films. (I will confirm this later.)

Does not age well, but still entertaining Two strikes against this film, 50s style film making (DeMilles specialty) and a really muddled script.  Never did figure out if Wayne was a good guy or a bad guy (and why he scuttled the Southern Cross).  But it is good Saturday afternoon entertainment.  Intereesting seeing a John Wayne film where he gets 2nd billing (after Ray Milland)

This is ridiculous! I just happened to see this movie on TV for the first time at 69, almost 40 years after it was shot, not being a fan of horror movies (unless by Polanski and the Hammer studios) and trying to postpone the real horror of filling in my IRS declaration. Well, movie nicely shot and acted, though a bit slow, good transfer - but what about the plot! How come catholic priests can exorcise a Sumerian demon out of people who do not believe in either of them? How come obsession must always be obnoxious (spit, vomit and bloody abrasions) and obscene (well, given the catholic view on sex, what else)? Why does the obsessed have to be a girl in puberty? Wrong questions? Look at your reviews slobbering on regaining faith, sorry: Faith! That much for not confusing facts and fiction. I don't, but they might. Fiction or not, I'd like to have its bias declared. For real horror, dig into the history of the Roman church among others.

Not worth buying The small web series is enjoyable to watch, but not for the current price of $14.95. For me there is no re-playability, unlike Felicia's The Guild series. I thought the acting was a bit lacking to be honest and not enough in the episodes. Save your money for future works by Felecia Day and watch this online.

"If it killed Elvis, it could kill me" "One in the Chamber" is a reasonably good direct-to-video action-thriller that nonetheless disappoints for (1) being produced so shortly before/after its leading stars' most recent rare theatrical outings (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005LAIGN2">Red Tails</a> for Cuba Gooding, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009MF5BXK">The Expendables 2</a> for Dolph Lundgren) and for (2) being an ultimately average outing by director William Kaufman, whose <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005YCEI9S">Sinners And Saints</a> became one of the few DTV flicks to generate mainstream interest. What we have here is an ordinary low-budget movie with some good parts that's nevertheless held back by some dissatisfyingly generic writing and a cinematic opportunity that's ultimately not capitalized on very well.  The story: two assassins (Gooding and Lundgren) are pitted against each other in the middle of a Czech mob war.  I haven't followed Cuba Gooding's career for a long time, but I don't think he belongs in the DTV market - he's an Oscar winner, for goodness sakes, and the only one Dolph has ever worked. However, neither in theaters nor on DVD do I think he's a great action performer: he has neither the presence nor the intensity, which adds to the overall boring nature of the character he plays, here. The script brings no new material to the conflicted loner cutout he plays, down to the bible-quoting  dialogue he espouses. Of course, it could just be that he, along with everyone else in the movie, looks bland next to Dolph Lundgren, whose character is described in-movie as "Frank Sinatra on steroids" and for all the world feels like he could have jumped out of a Quentin Tarantino movie. Lundgren really has a ball with this role, and beyond him, no one's really worth a second look: Billy Murray ("EastEnders") is sort of entertaining as Gooding's retainer, but everyone else - including Louis Mandylor ("Martial Law") as a mafia lord - speaks with an indistinguishable European accent and is all the more boring for it.  Action-wise, the movie does alright but overall could use more of it. Most of the thrills are supplied by gunfights, but because they include a cool little sniper shootout with Gooding, they're not totally bad. Dolph starts off his stay in the film by beating up a roomful of thugs in a decent brawl and then later takes on Gooding in the promised one-on-one fight. While suspension of disbelief doesn't quite cover the thought of the 5'10" Cuba Gooding going head-to-head for any length of time with the 6'5" Lundgren, their match is both fast-paced and brutal enough to be entertaining. It's a good enough outing for action choreographer Dian Hristov, but even though the film only runs 90 minutes, the fights doesn't really sustain the story, which expands to involve the relationship between Gooding's character and the daughter of a past victim (Claudia Bassols), but this ends up more creepy and uncomfortable than the writers probably planned.  Overall, I'm glad that this one is on the high end of average, but I wish both Lundgren and Gooding wouldn't settle for merely average at this stage in their career. I suppose that given the director's track record, it may not be his fault either (I smell studio meddling), but it's still disappointing that this film came relatively close to being outright good being going the way of so many others. Consider it a rental, folks.

From the Japanese Blu-Ray This is actually a 1080P Blu-disk for sure, the film has been re-mastered and the same master is gonna be on the US release and thats all fine and good~ If you wanted to see this film in HD this is what you want, no complaints about the video accept its alittle unstable but thats film for ya, nothing you could do, the transfer could not really be better. Just wanted to be honest in my review this film was a favorite of mine and watching it in HD kinda ruined it for me. On the ugly DVD or VHS transfers is easy to miss the fact that this was a super sloppy production, watch it on a 1080p Projector and ohhh-boy~ you'll know. There are missing cells, miss-colored cells, really harsh analog music editing, i mean it's really a mess of a production and watching it at its best really ruined the magic for me, just saying. For some it might be part of the charm, but being a child hood favorite of mine, it was just too harsh.

Hostel Returns With A Gory Sequel! The first Hostel movie was terrifying, disturbing, gory and had an awesome ending. So I knew I had To see the second part. This movie was good, had a cool story line, and one of the most unique and Just down right gruesome killing scene (a chick naked in a tub bathing in the blood of her victim) Eek The only thing that disappointed me was the ending. I'm giving it a 3 out of 5 stars.

Exactly who is this movie for? This movie had the potential to be great because of the relate-able premise. It had some serious moments and some funny moments. The problem with this movie is the not-so-great moments...  This movie is about 40+ year old men who get a second run. Obviously it's targeted at late 20's and older crowd. Knowing this, why did the writers feel the need to include teenage humor like waking up with another man's exposed genitalia in your face? As a grown man I can assure you that was more disgusting than funny. Did anyone really laugh when they flashed a scene at the end of someone getting sodomized in prison?  Now think about the stories/jokes/issues that this movie addresses:  -Getting older and missing your partying days -Realizing that you don't miss it as much as you thought you did -Realizing the freedom you seek applies to your girlfriend/spouse as well  Plus relatable issues like that one guy friend that you know wants to sleep with your wife if he had the chance. Or that attractive co-worker/old friend that's drooling all over you now that you're off the market. Or having the desire to party hard - only to realize that you're so out of touch you don't even know where to begin. With these issues it's clear the movie is targeted to 30-ish and older so why bother including toilet humor that puts off the very demographic they're trying to appeal to?  This movie had the makings of a classic, but they couldn't stay focused enough to close the deal. Yet another victim of the "push the boundaries of provocative" instead of staying the course and and being content with your creation.

Adventureland `Adventureland' is a down beat comedy that follows a guy, called James, who works at an amusement park over the summer to earn enough money to go to University. He makes unlikely friendships amongst the geeks and misfits who he works with and strikes up a summer romance that comes with more than it's fair share of complications. The is set during the eighties and has an appropriate soundtrack to match and the outfits are one aspect that will raise more than one smile. The trailers I saw for this film portrayed it as an all out comedy film and whilst there are plenty of amusing moments, very few of them will have you laughing out loud. Maybe I was expecting more after seeing the trailer, but this is a pretty average film, it isn't horrendous, but it isn't really great either. The best bit of this film was the performance by Jesse Eisenberg, but to be honest I just saw him in `Zombieland' and he was even better in that than in this film; but if he wasn't in this film it would have been a whole lot worse. Overall this is an ok film and will while away just over an hour and a half, just don't have too high expectations and you should enjoy it just fine.  Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.

It's Dracula DRACULA  While not the first vampire movie to be released, nor the greatest, Dracula deserves a place in horror as the most defining image of the famous blood drinker.  In fact, since the 1980s, Hollywood has been trying to redefine the vampire, steering it away from the classic portrayal by Bela Lugosi, but it is a hard sell.  Lugosi took the role and made it his, and he did it so well that it is still nearly impossible to think of the word Dracula without conjuring his image.  The 1931 Dracula follows the classic story fairly consistently.  Being the first sound version of the tale, it seems fitting that Universal would remain truer to the novel, even if just to stake its claim.  The plot should be familiar to everyone at this point, but in case you have never seen it, the story involves Renfield--a naive real-estate man--traveling to remote Eastern Europe from London to arrange for Count Dracula's transport to England.  Renfield is a modern man, and the furthest thing from his reality is the possibility of vampires.  He would rather believe the strange count is just eccentric, and that his castle is just old and spooky.  Dracula makes Renfield his slave, gets to enlightened London, and begins to feed on the unsuspecting locals.  Van Helsing is the only one who suspects Dracula's true nature, and devises a plan to destroy the beast, while saving his next victims.  It's a great movie overall, but truth be told, it has a lot of weaknesses.  The story is that most of the people involved in it's making thought it was going to flop, that the public had no interest in vampire films, and so most of the energy put into it was weak at best.  A lot of the acting is bland, and after Dracula gets to London, it seems like everything got a lot less interesting.  The dialogue is un-interesting, the actor's delivery is dry, the sets are unexciting, and the camera work ordinary.  Then, after 30 or so minutes of boring dialogue, they go and stake Dracula and that's the end.  But the first 20 minutes are really fantastic.  Dracula's castle is convincingly constructed and looks real.  It's a total wreck, with fallen stones and cobwebs everywhere--it reeks of decay.  How Renfield could have supposed any mortal to be able to live in this place is amazing.  The effect is creepy and adds considerably to the feeling of a present evil.  The interaction between Renfield and Dracula is great, with long silences and gazing looks, and the infamous lines Lugosi utters all lend to the atmosphere.  Lugosi is credited with saving the film, and with good reason.  He is unbelievable in the role as Dracula.  His entire role was on the mark and convincing.  You can tell he really enjoyed the part and lived up to it.  Rumors have it Lugosi kept in character the entire filming, and I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case.  Credit should also be given to Dwight Frye who plays Renfield.  It's a very interesting character that goes from a stiff suit to a raving maniac who eats bugs all day.  When the two of them are on the screen together, it's electric.  All their scenes together are terrific, memorable.  They alone are the reasons to watch this movie, but I think it is reason enough.  Lugosi transformed the vampire in film with this one role, and that is worth seeing, too.  Instead of playing the part as a revolting, undead devil, Lugosi added a complexity still used in the vampire role.  He is evil, his habits strange, his mannerisms suspicious, but he is also elegant, charming, and unassuming.  That's why the Lugosi vampire is so frightening, because it is like a sheep in wolves clothing.  I feel like this movie stands as a great due to the Lugosi factor, but keep in mind that an alternate version exists, shot with all the same sets, but with Spainish actors instead.  It's a superior movie, much more interesting than the popular English version.  Its only downside is it lacks Lugosi.  If only Uiversal had combined the efforts of both movies, we would have had possible the greatest horror film of all time.

Its an ok movie with unrealized potential The camera shots of detroit are well done and the characters really look and sound like people that are normal and have no idea as to whats going on. The premise is about what happens when the darkness that envelops us when we go to sleep or suffer a power outage, decides to actually envelope us and take us away from our lives and our loved ones and to stay alive we need to stay in the light and will ourselves alive. The problem is that the movie seems to lose its way, and what I mean by that is that it sets the scenario up very well with the city becoming vacant and people start disappearing left and right. Yet when it comes down to the key deciding factors that can help to drive the writers/producers points home they skimp whether its because of time constraints or budget is uncertain. One perfect example of this is one of the first characters we see get  *Spoilers read at your own risk* taken is named paul, later on in the movie he manages to fight his way back from the darkness due to a light working that didn't work before, yet we do not see paul coming back to the empty city, we just see him lying next to a blinking light and then getting up and running to the conveneintly lit bus stop with an apparent concussion(i'm uncertain if I missed something but still wondering how he got the concussion). Another factor that doesn't make sense is how the entity can drain electricity from any sort of chemical battery and yet when it comes to solar powered lights it can't seem to touch them and yet for a city that is supposedly going green and instituting more solar powered devices the power goes out and we cannot seem to find any other light devices or buildings. The ending itself does nothing to answer the questions because your left still asking what happened, what was the entity, and why did the darkness spare the boy when it nearly killed him several times earlier, and where the bleep did the little girl with the convenient solar flashlight and battery blink shoes that somehow prevented the darkness from taking her come from. Its one of those movies that had a lot of potential but its biggest problem was the story what not explained and the symbolism of the christian/catholic artifacts used in the final scenes was not fleshed out. two scenes could have cleared up the major questions and made this movie enjoyable, 1) a longer scene with paul describing what he saw and felt in the darkness and 2) at the end have the christ statue light up, to show a form of spiritual light. If the director had done these two things the movie would have been more successful, I give it an average rating because I see the direction they were trying to go with but the ecexution made it feel rush and what little plot and symbolism that was there went right over peoples heads. Not to mention the ending was abrupt and made as sequel bait. *end spoilers*  Over all this movie has a good strong beginning premise, but somehow lost its way. Its not surprising that it failed miserably due to limited release and the major issues it had.

Rip off White Christmas? I am watching and enjoying the movie, but doesn't anyone see the direct rip off of White Christmas?  Trying to surprise the old man with his old crew members and using an old time broadcast to do it?  Waiting for it to snow for the holiday?  Frustrating to say the least.

ok it came in a about a week it plays good, but it skips on some parts , which really makes me mad. I mean its not to bad, but not 5 stars

Take One Part "Smokey And The Bandit," Add Two Parts "Magnum, P.I.," Fold In A Generous Dollop of Evilized Claude Akins: Mix "Concrete Cowboys" is a late 1970s murder mystery-comedy-buddy film starring Jerry Reed and Tom Selleck as two good-natured drifters having adventures of various sorts. The film begat a very short-lived spinoff TV series starring Reed, but Selleck is the clear star presence here. The film begins with some ill-advised fisticuffs, and results in the two buddies hopping a freight train to Nashville where they encounter many country music stars of the era in a variety of cameos. I was most amused by the way Ray Stevens' live act was incorporated into the film (much to Reed's extremely exaggerated amusement, particularly when Ray mentions "Fruit of the Looms,") while Barbara Mandrell and Roy Acuff get bit parts as well. Rounding out the primary cast is Morgan Fairchild in a dual role that must be seen to be believed (if you don't see this one coming you aren't paying attention,) and everyone's favorite heavy, Claude Akins as Woody Stone, the biggest star in Nashville.  The plot is extremely farfetched and involves a case of mistaken identity, a private investigator with ulterior motives (that aren't supposed to be obvious,) a femme fatale and unrequited love subplot, and Jerry Reed in a hot tub. (To be fair, Tom Selleck is there too.) If you look closely you can see many significant Nashville locations, which are kind of fun to spot. The film has an unfocused feel at some points as it tries to walk a line between a serious life-and-death drama and a lighthearted buddy film. The dialogue underscores this dichotomy, with Reed getting most of the prize lines ("My stomach feels like a gas factory!") Even the villains get amusing names, e.g. a gangster named Mr. Hatcheck (Joseph Burke) who is the evil casino owner, and whose role in the plot does little but pad the running time.  The plot is easily deduced in the first third of the film, and actually plays more like a television show than a feature film. I won't divulge the wild plot "twists," the convoluted ending, or the theft, blackmail, and murder that make the film function on a basic level, but I will mention a couple of specific annoyances. First, the film is divided by incredibly amateurish title cards to section up the movie and let you reappraise where you are in the plot at any given time ("Chapter Six: 'Surprise at the Bone Orchard,'" which obviously foreshadows a chase in a cemetery, for instance). Another is the use of flashbacks: they don't further the story, the tension, or the suspense in any way, but they do muddy the storytelling significantly.  The film is not unenjoyable, but understand that it is not the best work of anyone involved. Selleck and Akins come off as the best actors overall, though nobody is terrible in their roles. If you want to see Tom Selleck or Jerry Reed (who gets to sing) in their late-1970s form, this is a good bet. Likewise fans of country music will probably like seeing some of the big names onscreen, though I felt sorry for poor Roy Acuff who looks positively ill at ease in his role. The plot is neither complex nor difficult to figure out, but for a Nashville-themed comedic whodunit, this is a choice that fans will likely appreciate.

Before and After DVD It is always a pleasure to watch and listen to M. streep and L. Nesson; however, the movie is not as exciting as I'd hoped for. Overall, it is a watchable film. The anamorphic widescreen is sharp.

Limitless I was disappointed in this movie.  I expected more in the plot.  It sort of dragged in the beginning and I was lost as to where it was headed.

3 1/2- Better Than Hell On Earth Bloodline had what the previous film did not, an interesting story! It was really cool to see the beginnings of the box and the how and why it was made. I think that if the movie had focused on those early years and the future, skipping "present day" 1996, it would have been a lot better. There just wasn't much to the middle of the story that had to be really said or really needed. Besides that, I really liked the movie. The only thing about the ending that I didn't like was how it just ended with no real epilogue. Overall, pretty good.

Kinda of off the Wall After watching the movie by this director, I realized early on that this is base entirely on his interpretation of events surrounding the life and death of the "Son of God". I can understand his premise and desire to give a different altho controversial view in the film. My only wish would have been that the movie would have been more historically accurate in its depiction of the characters.

Surprisingly better then I thought it would be!!! After Sandler's last couple of movies, I was losing all faith that Sandler still had it. Jack & Jill looked like Sandler was scraping the very bottom of the barrel of old SNL skit characters to make into a movie. When seeing the trailer for this movie, I thought Sandler had hit rock bottom and this movie was going to be the nail in the coffin for his cinematic releases in future.  How wrong I was! I was going to dismiss this movie and not even bother to check it out, but a friend who doesn't laugh at much at all recommended it saying it was hilarious. So we checked it out, and now I am glad I did not pass on this one. Even tho Sandler's character didn't seem real and fairly badly acted, like a drunken Billy Madison, it was still an enjoyable movie in the end.  Sandler plays a has been celebrity who reached fame as a child by impregnating his teacher in the 8th grade? She went to jail, but he became a celebrity... but over the years, he faded out of the spotlight and had now become a broke down slob who owes about forty thousand dollars in back taxes. He goes to what few friends he has left in show business and asks to borrow money, but none will give it to him. He then makes an offer to a producer about earning $50,000 for a reunion show with him and his teacher in prison, who I think is now his wife? But the producer says instead, how about a reunion show with you, your wife and your son.  The son left Sandlers character when he was 18 to have nothing to do with him ever again. His son however is getting married soon and Sandler seeks him and his new in-laws out to talk his son into doing the show. However, upon arrival, the son has told his in-laws his parents are dead, so Sandler steps in and pretends to be his sons best friend and makes up ridicules stories about how they met. Now his father is his sons best man, not by the sons choice and you can get the drift of where it goes from there as the son doesn't want anyone to know that guy is his dad. Then of coarse, the usual Happy Madison plot takes place where Sandler screws up something, and redeems himself by the end.  The humor of this movie is not kid humor, a lot of it is adult humor and almost blue in some areas, and that's how I like it! I didn't expect this movie to be this dirty or for that matter, be funny at all, but it was... to me anyway. Sandlers side kick celebrity new comer side kick is Vanilla Ice, and I think there is a few other appearances by people who where big in the 80's early 90's and have since gone into the "where are they now" unemployment line. Ice doesn't mind making fun of himself, so his role was enjoyable to watch.  A lot of WTF moments and sick humor, so if you like that, definitely give this movie a rent and see how it sits with you.

Cute Film The "Big One" happens to be a pumpkin the whole town wants to win the title to.  Silly in spots but all in all it is a cute film and worth watching.

Godzilla's Counterattack Unavailable to Godzilla fans for years and years in the United States, Classic Media finally releases Godzilla's second outing to DVD. The fact that this disc contains both the Japanese and US cuts give it an edge over previous releases, and allow younger fans of the character to catch up on both in one fell swoop. Unfortunately, the video quality on this release is marred by numerous problems with both versions, some on account of trying to cram the two cuts on the same disc. The audio fares much better thankfully, as do the extras, but the overall package leaves some to be desired from the first title in the self dubbed "Toho Master Collection" line.To be honest, I was hoping that the blemishes found on the video presentation of Classic Media's Gojira - Godzilla would be some rare early problems as the company worked toward turning over a new leaf as a firm one could expect for solid releases. Unfortunately, with this title, that doesn't seem to be the case. To be totally honest too, the video quality here is actually even worse than the company's second release of the 1954 classic, as the DVD displays a wide range of problems in its video presentation. Chief among these is simply the print damage present, including tons of grain during a number of scenes, scratches and some annoying light flickering. The English version is also plagued by some of these, although features far more scratches than the Japanese version does. Suffice to say, I'm not sure where Classic Media is getting some of these prints from, but if they are coming from Toho perhaps they should just opt to use the video feeds on the previously done region 2 DVDs from the company?Anyway, the problems don't stop there, as the Japanese version also features an unstable frame on a few occasions along with a brightness level that's too high and washes out some details. There is also a huge dilemma in the transfer process that occurs a little past the hour mark due to interlacing, causing details to look incredibly jarring in motion as seen here. Thankfully it only lasts a few minutes, although it's none too pleasant to experience all the same. To follow up on this, some have told me that the problem has been fixed for later issues of this disc, however, comparing my copy from 2006 with the one I recieved in February of 2007 generates the same results: 2006 vs. 2007. Reportedly, I just had some bad luck in the second copy, though, as apparently this has been fixed on the majority of releases.In regards to the US version, it fares even worse, as it was obviously heavily compressed in order to fit on the same DVD with the original Japanese version. This means one can expect a much softer look, as details are more blurred, while shimmering and other overt signs of compression are apparent. According to the audio commentary on this release, it seems that the DVD was originally going to be double sided, with each version on a different side. That plan seems to have fallen through, but at least the company had the foresight to heavily compress the US version as opposed to the original Japanese cut. As an interesting side note, if anyone is wondering how the title screen for the film is handled, it removes the "Gigantis the Fire Monster" part in favor of a new title card that displays "Godzilla Raids Again", as seen here.On the bright side, at least Godzilla Raids Again is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.33:1 in both versions.Godzilla Raids Again features two different mono audio tracks, one in Japanese and the other in English, both of which are attached their respective versions of the film. The quality of both isn't bad, although not perfect. The Japanese audio tends to fare much better, while the English dub isn't as clear as it could have been, but both are more than serviceable without much to raise complaint about.The Japanese version can be accompanied with, removable, English subtitles.After a lot of extras were withheld from the company's Gojira - Godzilla release, they finally make their way to the public via these later titles from Classic Media. As it turns out, it was a pretty good thing many of these features were delayed, as titles like this would have seemed very barebones without them (unless one wants to count the US version as an extra), considering even a trailer for the production is lacking. In terms of the added video content here, it's a short 14 minute documentary on suitmation for numerous Toho science fiction films done in the Showa era. The short provides a great deal of background on the actors behind the costumes, and is overall a very recommended feature. Next up is a short "Poster Slide Show", which isn't bad although the quick editing and close up pans get to be a little annoying. A feature that would have let the viewer browse through them at their own pace, instead of seeing them quickly shown over a minute's time, would have been much more preferable in this case.Finally, the last extra on this disc is an audio commentary for the US version of the film done by Steve Ryfle "and friends." The billing for the commentary might seem a little odd, but after hearing the track it's quite clear that nearly 70% of this is Ryfle talking, as he will ever so often "pass the mike" to another commentator like Ed Godziszewski who will throw in some more background information. Sadly, this commentary isn't nearly as good as the ones found on Gojira - Godzilla. Not to discredit it completely, of course, as it's still very informative. The problem is simply that Ryfle's attempts to riff the movie, sometimes in a style reminiscent to Mystery Science Theater 3000, tend to fall flat in their bid for humor. Still, due to the wealth of information present, this is still suggested listening for anyone with more than a passing interest in the title character.Bottom line, I'm sure many fans of the franchise are thrilled to finally see this movie, which has been out of print in the US for more than decade, but this certainly isn't the best release all the same.

It's ok- I expected more from these 2 I just wanted to be swept up and wasn't. It's ok but not one I would want to own or even rent again. Sorry.

One screwed up love story The Last Circus is definitely one of the more interesting foreign films to come out recently. It takes two clowns and places them on opposing sides of a woman. While one is supposed to be "happy" and the other "sad", they have much more to their characters than those base states. What plays out is an intense romantic drama that dips into pure insanity before the end.  At its core this is a tale of unrequited love. It just happens to be covered in a thick layer of blood, bullets, and madness. While I personally did not fall in love with the film it's clear to me that many will see it as excellent. The cinematography is great, the characters are well-acted, and the tale is compelling.  If you're looking for a different kind of drama (with clowns) then try this one out. Just be warned: it's brutal.

The Hidden Menace in Jamaica Dr. No, 1962 film  The film begins with three blind men crossing a street [without help?]. Inside a club four men play cards. One man leaves, he is shot dead by his car! A hearse drives up and picks up the body. [W6N is not a valid call letter for Jamaica.] Those three men enter Strangway's house to steal his file after silencing the secretary. MI6 is alerted. There is a high-class gambling casino in London. James Bond wins then leaves for his office. [Note the double door to M's office.] American missile tests have been sabotaged by radio beams from the Jamaica area. Bond will soon leave for Jamaica with a Walther 7.65mm PPK in place of his 6.35mm Beretta. At home he finds a surprise! "Almost immediately." At Jamaica Bond finds a car waiting. Is it a trap? A man watches Bond then follows him. Bond's driver won't talk.  Bond inspects Strangway's house. He finds a receipt for a bill. Bond learns about Strangway's recent past. He talks to Quarrel about a fishing trip. There is a nasty surprise! Felix Leitner introduces himself. They talk. There is a surprise from a free-lance photographer. She doesn't talk. Crab Key has a bauxite mine and a bad reputation. Prof. Dent tested some rocks for Strangway. Later Dent rushes to Crab Key. An armed guard at the dock meets him. Dent gets his orders from Dr. No. Bond returns to his room. That night a spider walks on his bed. The files on Dr. No are missing! Bond has a new toy to test rocks. Later he gets an invitation to a home in the mountains. On the way her is followed by a Packard hearse. There is a fiery accident. Bond arrives and gets close to that woman. He calls for a car, then searches her house. He prepares for a visitor who talks and then goes silent.  That night Bond visits Crab Key with Quarrel. In them morning he sees a young woman collecting shells. They talk. They hear the sound of high-powered boat. A machine gun sprays bullets on the beach. Honey tells about the dragon. They hide under water from the dogs. A straggler is eliminated. They see tracks in the sand. Honey tells about her past. "Did I do wrong?" That night they see the dragon and are captured after a fight. They are washed down to remove radiation. Next they are greeted and shown their rooms. Free coffee? At night a man visits when they are asleep. [Note their style of clothes.] Dr. No visits them. [Note the Goya portrait of the Duke of Wellington!] Dr. No tells about his past. The conversation is polite. Dr. No talks about SPECTRE and his plans. "I never fail."  Bond is "softened up" then jailed. But he has a plan to escape into the bowels of the ventilation system. He sees the operation. A nuclear reactor produces power. A man turns the power level into the danger zone! Dr. No has lost his grip! The sabotage has failed. People scurry about to escape as in an unplanned fire drill. Bond frees Honey and they hijack a small motor boat to escape. Crab Key explodes like a small volcano. Later the boat is towed to safety. Another mission accomplished.  This was the first of a long series of "James Bond" movies that ran for the next five decades with various actors portraying Ian Fleming's fictional operative. The books are usually better than the movie. The real life Dusko Popov ("Spy Counterspy") was the model for James Bond. No movie has been made from his autobiography. It looks as if Ursula Andress' voice was doubled for this movie. The hidden agenda for this story was the menace of Communist China in the Caribbean! Bauxite ore produces aluminum, the other product from Jamaica besides sugar.

Fun Animation, Decent Story In the 'Iron Giant', a young boy discovers a giant, metal-eating robot from space that has landed in his home-town somewhere in Maine during the 1950s. They end up being hunted down by the government and, in the process, form an unbreakable friendship. I personally thought that the kid (Hogarth), who befriends the Giant, is a bit on the obnoxious side, as he yells quite a bit throughout the movie. The Iron Giant is okay. He reminds me of Iron Man and a Transformer at the same time, so not entirely original, but whatever. The story sometimes feels like it takes a few detours, but it remains the same: hide the Giant robot as long as you can! But, we all know in the end that the robot is exposed and then there's explosions and I'll let you see how it ends. The reason I gave it a 3/5 stars is because of the obvious anti-gun propaganda in the movie. Phrases like "guns kill" and "I'm not a gun" made me frown. In my opinion, guns don't kill; it's people who kill, they just happened to use a gun to do it. Anyway, this movie has good animation and a decent story that left room for a sequel at the end. Unless you're pro-gun control, I'd be cautious about your kids watching this movie and getting the idea that guns are bad.

3 1/2 Stars Coming from someone who spent their college years in a southern, mostly black, marching band on the drum line I can say that this movie is atleast accurate enough to come across well. This movie isn't a documentary, it's Hollywood, hence the exaggerations on some aspects of the story. Also the movie focuses mostly on the drummers themselves while the rest of the band kind of takes a back seat. While being in a band like this does require serious commitment and hard work to pull these types of field shows off, it's not exactly as "boot camp" like as the movie tries to portray. Although i'm just speaking from personal experience with my school. Also, it may be difficult for someone who is more used to the corps style of marching to understand what's going on with band like this, but just open yourself up to learn something new and you may enjoy it. As for the movie itself, it's nothing to write home about. The best reason to watch this movie is just to see the performances of some of these bands. The only thing that I wish this movie had was a bit more focus outside of the drumlines. Although it's the name of the movie, still there's more to these bands than their drummers.

Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning(1985) The Friday the 13th film franchise "jumped the shark/nuked the fridge" with Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning(1985). Friday the 13th fans were upset at the gimmicky storytelling and plot twists. This film is still a decent horror movie. Corey Feldman made a brief cameo as a young Tommy Jarvis(from Friday the 13th The Final Chapter) during a nightmare scene. Feldman was working on The Goonies(1985) at the time. John Shepherd played an older Tommy for the rest of the film. Tommy Jarvis is put in a mental hospital/halfway house after surviving the fourth film in the series. Roy(Dick Wieand), an ambulance driver, goes insane after his son Joey is killed by an unstable guy with an axe! If things weren't grim enough, "Jason Voorhees" rises from the dead and starts brutally killing people!  Melanie Kinnaman is quite good as Pam Roberts. Shavar Ross is good as Reggie. Richard Young played Matthew. He played a fedora wearing treasure hunter in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade(1989). John Shephard is solid as an older version of Tommy Jarvis. Danny Steinmann did a decent directing job. There's a fair share of drug use, nudity, and cursing in the film. From what I've heard, the MPAA heavily censored the film so it could get an R rating. There's a lot of bloodshed in this film. Harry Manfredini is back with a solid music score. Dominick Brascia is quite good as the annoying, ill-fated Joey. The humor in this film is very dark. Debi Sue Voorhees played the sexy, doomed Tina. Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning(1985) is a bizarre entry in the series, but it's still a roller coaster ride of a horror film.

Young Aquilera This must have been very early in her career.  She was giggly and probably enjoyable by teenagers.  Her voice is more mature in 2011.

THE FORMAT THIS IS THE SECOND DVD I HAVE PURCHASED WITHOUT IT BEING STATED THAT IS WAS A WIDE SCREEN FORMAT.  MY TV DOES NOT HANDLE WIDE SCREEN.  IT WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THE ORDER FORM THAT IT WAS WIDE SCREEN.  I LIKE TO BUY MY DVD'S FROM AMAZON BUT I DO NOT LIKE TO BE SURPRISED WHEN I OPEN THE PACKAGE AND IT IS NOT FULL SCREEN

could have been much,much better... I never read the comics so just watched this as a movie. I felt that it needed more explanations of the world, and more filling out of almost all of the characters. The acting was good but Natalie Portmans talents were wasted.I liked the art and art direction. The fights were well chorepgraphed. The script could have ,as i said, explained more about well, everything. Had it done so, i would have liked this much more...

X Men, Y Men, Z Men and I still don't see why this was treated in a mediocre way X MEN: 1ST CLASS I suppose could be considered a 1st class film, in that the acting, art direction and special effects are quite smashing. Also, I have to admit that this better-than-soap-opera approach and the very subtle humor kept me watching.  This film is of course the inevitable prequel, purporting to tell us all about how Professor Xavier (James McAvoy) met Eric-the-magnet (Michael Fassbender who stars in way too many comic-book movies), blah blah blah. It is a colorless, unimaginative tale frankly, with Kevin Bacon starring as an evil Nazi in Eric's past, and this smacked WAY too much of Wolverine's past.  Even worse is James McAvoy, a man I find physically attractive, a good enough actor, always game for action foolishness. It's difficult to say if the studios are misusing him or what, but he almost always seems to be woefully miscast. That, and the fact that Gerard Butler could be his father for all that MacAvoy looks exactly like Butler did back in the late 1980s.  Everyone here (including another rotten injustice to Oliver Platt who is credited as "man in the black suit") is a cardboard cutout for the action. This had too many great, talented people for them to be shoved into the background like that. I always say, that is the director's fault. Yet they all kept their talents and dignity more or less intact, the story kept me remotely interested so I saw it through.  Nicholas Hoult (Beast), a stunning favorite of mine for a good while now, is reduced to a joke after a good start early in the film. See my glowing reviews of him for his work in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003RV43X4">Clash of the Titans (2010)</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003PDQEBS">A Single Man (2009)</a>. I hear he may be playing Mad Max soon!  I do have to say one major thing out of the goofs here: why did Fassbender start with an American accent, suddenly get a British accent in the 2nd act, and end the thing with an Irish accent?  I thought it was 3 different actors doing his voice-overs!  All in all it was semi-fun, it was quasi-interesting (I'm no fan of anything X Men anyway), and everything else I already said. One objective statement I can give you: this is a quality film at its basis, and is technically perfect as far as my old eyes could tell. I think you'll like it.

Southern Fried Reservoir Dogs It's pretty obvious during the five minute conversation between the wanna-be Charlie's Angels (Tes, Kyla, and Dawn) that this movie desperately wants to be a Quentin Tarantino film.  Which was bad news for me because I don't really like Tarantino's films.  "Reservoir Dogs" is pretty good.  That's what this seems to aspire to, though it doesn't quite make it.  This is the kind of movie where a lot of it is told in flashback, but I'll give it to you in chronological order, without trying to spoil too many surprises.  As I said at the outset there are three young women Tes, Kyla, and Dawn.  The latter two we can forget about because they die in the first ten minutes of the movie.  Tes (Malin Ackerman) is a former strip club waitress/pickpocket who works for crime boss Mel (Bruce Willis) around the New Orleans area.  She and her crew are assigned to go to a diner in the middle of nowhere to intercept a drug shipment (or something).  The drugs/cash are the film's MacGuffin, the thing everyone is fighting over and yet they don't really matter.  But as we see early on things go wrong and Tes's underlings are killed.  There's a double-cross and then another double-cross and then another double-cross.  It'd take too long and spoil too much to say who all is double-crossing who.  Anyway, like the earlier "Smokin' Aces" this is a film by a Tarantino disciple that tries to mimic the master's work, but never quite gets there.  It's got a lot of the same pieces, but feels too derivative.  (Which is maybe why I never heard of it before it showed up on the Vine newsletter and was released on DVD.)  If you're a fan of double-crosses and gore then this is a good rental, but I wouldn't buy it.  BTW, like the earlier "13" I got from Vine the DVD includes no extras.  I don't know if the actual sale version does or not.  If it does I can't evaluate them since I couldn't see them.  That is all.

So-so flick Harrison Ford looked a bit puffy and over the hill in this movie, but in the special features that accompany it on the DVD, he and the movie's director sat for an interview in which he looked about 10 years younger and fitter.  Am I to assume that the interview was shot 10 years before the movie?  Well, anyway, what preoccupied me from the outset of the story is that while Ford's assailants sent him to his office rigged with a video camera and an audio hookup intended to monitor his every action, it seemed that he could simply have written a note and slipped it to his secretary. Perhaps during or after his transferring the video camera to her pocket. Or at any of several times thereafter.

This movie aged badly - only for die hard fans or collectioners King Ghidorah is one of the most charismatic and endurant Godzilla foes, but the first movie in which it appeared aged very, very badly. The scenario is very weak and special effects poor. Ghidorah itself still is impressive, Mothra (in its larval form) is OK, but Rodan and Godzilla were showed here as rather pathetic.  I think the movie is mostly boring for the modern viewer and I had to fast forward parts of it. I would give it two stars, but there are some things that can be enjoyed - it is the first one in which the kaijus (giant monsters) are shown in a deliberately comic way. Mothra, Godzilla and Rodan have a conversation (yes!), Godzilla's fight with Rodan looks like a bickering of two kids about a ball (in this case a big rock) and we can even see Godzilla and Rodan laughing (yes!).  The twin fairies from Infant Island are also as usual very cute, as is the Venusian/Himalayan princess. Finally, you can see some Japan from the early 60s in this movie, and it comes a little as a shock to realise how fast and far this country has risen since then!  All in all - this is a movie you do not really need to buy or even watch, except if you are the ultimate fan, a devoted collectioner or a scientist making a study about oversized fire breathing dark green reptiles with bad temper, poor social skills and an irresistible pulsion to trample Tokyo...

Thought it was rises, poor packaging and advertisisng OK so I am stupid. Make that too busy, and not enough time to run to the movies. I depended on the advertisemnet of this that it was The Dark Knight Rises. Its not. Its animated and its not even the  same name. Shame on me for buying, shame on Amazon for poor advertising. It did not clearly say "ANIMATED." I wont even open it, and may try and resell. I'll definetely read more carefully in the future.

Operation Daybreak This is a good movie but the big problem with this dvd was it had no subtitles when the Germans were talking.  I feel that I missed a lot because of it.  I liked the fact that it was a true story, very interesting.

Mildly amusing remake This was a comedic retake on the TV police drama 21 Jump Street that launched the careers of Johnny  Depp and Holly Robinson (Peet).  Those who were fans of the original will find little resemblance to that show beyond some cameo appearances from some of the original stars.  Jonah Hill put in his usual fine comedic performance as the nerd and Channing Tatum did an adequate job as the muscle.  I'm giving this one 3 1/2 stars.

Not Lean at the top of his game After the bad reviews deservedly garnered by "Ryan's Daughter" Mr. Lean decided to take his ball and go home for 15 years.  We can only speculate on what great movies could have been made during that time (such as Mr. Eastwood has been doing in his old age).  Luckily for us, though, he decided to come back for one last film, "A Passage to India", before he passed away in 1991.  The trouble with greatness, however, is that once you achieve it, it's always expected.  And there's no doubt Mr. Lean achieved it three times in a row with "The Bridge on the River Kwai", "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Dr. Zhivago", and previously with "Brief Encounter" and "Great Expectations".  "A Passage to India" is not a great movie.  I'd say it's about on a par with "Summertime" made by Lean in the mid-fifties.  It's overlong and you come away from it wondering what exactly happened.  I suppose that makes for interesting after-movie conversation but it's nevertheless frustrating to someone wanting more clarity.  The production values, however, are exemplary as is the acting.  I'm not sure why Maurice Jarre won the Oscar for the music.  It's also not as great as his work on "Lawrence of Arabia" or "Dr. Zhivago".

Not a good remake Although directed by McCarey, this film can't compare to his original Love Affair. Grant and Kerr, albeit their good acting, seem to be trying to imitate the gestures of the actors in the original film. It seems that McCarey wanted to repeat the film in the exact manner as in the original.  Secondly, the scene where the leading lady prays to the virgin has a better effect in the first film. The Virgin looks quite impressive, and the light shining upon the woman lends her a powerful image of redemption for the millionaire playboy. The room and the light both give that scene a mystical quality that explains why the playboy would change. The light also shines on Irene Dunne which connects her to the mystical qualities of Michel's religion, the devotion of his mother, and his cultural background. The use of light and shadow (perhaps a quality of German Expressionism) in this scene can explain a change of heart in Michel.  In the Grant/Kerr picture this scene loses that power. It seems as if the color version steals the emotional depth of this scene. In this film, the room looks too ordinary and the virgin is only a small image on a table. The use of color also takes away the color effects of the earlier scene. Other scenes where Affair to Remember have a weaker effect on the audience are: the part when the lady looks at the Empire State Building (it looks so much smaller); the part where the leading lady is singing in the restaurant (although Kerr was a good singer, she couldn't match the dynamism of the original actress); and the picture painted in this latter film was less impressive than the original one where the woman's shroud was stressed.  I think that the Grant/Kerr presence made them, the stars, the major attraction, making everything else less important in this film. It was as if McCarey repeated this film for the sake of having these two great stars working in this romantic tale. McCarey's original was trying to convey a genuine romantic tale.

A Howling Disaster! <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000A7LR9Q">Howling II - Your Sister Is a Werewolf</a> has little to do with the first film. We watch Karen's funeral at the beginning of the movie and her brother Ben becomes the main character, besides Christopher Lee's as a werewolf hunter. Lee's character convinces Ben to travel with him to Transylvania to kill the werewolf queen Stirba. As for the rest of the plot, I, like most viewers, couldn't follow it.  This is one of the worst sequels ever made! Christopher Lee's talents are wasted. On a plus side, we do get several werewolves throughout the movie, but not enough to make me forget about the badly written script.

I was disappointed that it was a bootleg (copy) Quality was good though.  Probably wouldnt have spent so much money if I knew it was a copy not an original.

TINKERING WITH TINKER TAILOR NOT GOOD A not so great remake of the Alec Guiness/LeCarre classic, I did not enjoy this at all. Dialog is murky, hard to follow, acting leaves much to be desired. Stay with the original.

narrow scope, choppy acting, but worth 1 watch This 1964 movie was worth one box of low-fat Cheese-nips.  I figured I had it figured out, just by Jack Hawkins getting second-billing.  Ok, they outsmarted me on that. I have three problems with this supposedly "intelligent" who-done-it. 1) The viewer is presumed to CARE about these characters of whom we only get thin, almost cliche, snippets of their reportedly shocking lives, and way too many loose ends remain at the end. 2) Too many scenes are shrill, and then we are supposed to just move on. 3) Although I never did like the 40s-50s movies with guys whose "character" is established simply by "don't mess with me, I'm wearing a hat," many movies of the 60s replaced that with "I am more successful than you, because I wear a buttoned-up suit all movie long."  The biggest shock of the movie was that Stephen Boyd wasn't in a suit in the hospital bed.  Anyway, catch this one on TMC or borrow it from a friend.

IN REAL LIFE  PECULIAR THINGS CAN HAPPEN LIKE THIS... I'd say when the mother was shown yelling while the daughter is passing, one might suppose that something happens to the daughter's psyche as it is in transition going one place and the mother is calling it back to another.  So, realistically something weird could happen but this movie shows that the key to understanding this "delicate" situation is to just be patient, wait, and don't have anymore traumas and everything just may straighten itself out just as it did in this movie and that I like very much about this movie.  It was realized sensibly eventually that a choice had to be made and the choice to live both personas (both presence of minds/consciousness) as a natural course and let the mind figure out how things will go...well, I liked that part.  I can see why some peope had a problem with David Duchovny's performance; it was actually unnerving to me at times.  Is it realitic for a guy to be so horny when his daughter is so ill? Okay, I'll grant the script its take on this situation. Mourning comes in stages and it is very difficult for a husband who loses a wife he loves but the script should have been written to show him in mourning stages but then I grant the script what it did suppose that the husband did go into mourning for his wife once his daughter was fixed in her mind.  So okay.  I think that might have been a normal course for some guys but not for others.  Some fathers would have taken their daughter to their sister's or grandmother or aunt, some female in the family and that would have been it.  He would have entered his mourning stages even though his wife's "mind" was in his daughter's body.  But this way is a possible way to do it so that everybody ends up SLOWLY growing into the new reality to avoid more shock and trauma.  The point is: the body often heals itself, including the mind.  But I did have a problem with a mom who could stop herself from using drugs like the daughter and having sex with her boyfriends but she couldn't stop her self from wanting to have sex with her daughter's father.  That was out of place with the mom we were shown.  But then, again, I guess I have to allow the script to allow everybody to get use to the new reality.  But as I think about it: I still have a problem with that aspect. because the mind of a mother can have a desire for a young fellow her daughter brings home but her mother self forces her to control her lust.  And, we were shown a mother who was shown to be in control of herself for the sake of her daughter.  I agree. This was an interesting movie. A "sleeper" but in the end the idea is very intriguing and interesting.--MO

This is not fully remastered, but I'm a fan so... I won't rate the movie itself, for movie ratings go to another site. I'll evaluate the "remastering" work and the package.  About the remastered work on this movie: PROS: Well, it is widescreen. If fills nicely most screens, the detail is good. CONS: The team behind the remastering does not work for George Lucas, master of remastering. It needs more work, I can see a lot of "visual noise" (excuse the lack of proper words for this) in the images reminding us that this movie is quite old. They should do a better job although I'm not quite sure what it takes to do the remastering (I assume they clean frame per frame) so I understand if the distributor or whoever didn't want to spend more resources, this movie is the result.  At the end, I'm a fan. I bought it for the good lols and memories.  About the package: PROS: It arrived quite well protected (I live in Mexico so I used standard international shipping). The movie package is in perfect shape. CONS: Well, standard international shipping does not provide a tracking number whatsoever so during these 2 waiting months I checked the mailbox almost daily.

Stick To the Dvd The "Halloween" films have a very funny and checkered History.  The first 2 Films formed a huge fan base and loyal following however "Halloween 3" departed from the Michael Myers Story.  While many people think "Halloween 3" was a box office bomb the fact is it did make money! If you adjusted its gross to today's average ticket price the film would out gross the most of the sequels that have followed it.  Now in 1988 "Halloween" fans rejoiced when after a 7 years absence Michael Myers returned to the silver screen and to major success!  I for one loved this entry into the series and the film did deliver the scares and a believable story.  In this film Michael once again is out to kill.  He Returns to Haddenfield and is out to kill his niece. Dr Sam Loomis is also once again out to stop Michael.  While not groundbreaking it is a worth while sequel.  It is the best sequel that doesn't have Jamie Lee Curtis.  Daniel Harris was a terrific casting choice.  She would later go on to be cast in the hit tv-show  "Roseanne".  Now I have bought the DVD and it has s a great picture and sound.  When Anchor Bay announced the Blu-Ray was coming out with 30 minutes of alternate and deleted footage fans were very eager to buy the blu-ray.  Now 2 weeks before the blu-ray Anchor Bay Quietly released a statement that those scenes "Are No Longer Included" on the new release.  Well without those extras the blu-ray release has nothing new to offer to fans.  A new picture transfer and new commentary is not worth the price.  What can the director say about this film that he didn't say before on his previous commentary?  Also if you have a blu-ray player it will upload your dvd just fine and the picture will be great.  I suggest if you don't already own "Halloween 4" and you want to buy it then buy the standard DVD.  The Blu-ray isn't worth the upgrade.

It brings nothing to the real story This film was apparently done for television and the format is definitely that of television  in the late 1990s. This implies the picture cannot be as rich as on a silver screen, and special effects have to be more modest. It also implies a lot of close-up images and slower movement.  The film though is interesting in all the twists it introduces in the story.  The meeting with John Rolfe in America is purely formal and it is the fact that Powhatan, her father, decides to send her on a diplomatic mission in England that she is going to travel with John Rolfe and actually have a rather close and yet distant connection.  In fact John Rolfe is going to fall in love with her little by little and then she will fall in love with him at the same pace. The adventures in London have nothing to do with reality. She is at first a success at the Hunt Ball, but she is frightened and horrified by the treatment of a bear in some magic show presented to the King by Ratcliffe who is waiting for Pocahontas' mission to fail in order to take the lead of an armada that is already ready to sail to Virginia in order to exterminate the savages. Ratcliffe wants his vengeance.  She is then sent to the Tower to be executed on the following day. But then John Smith gets John Rolfe on a salvaging mission to the Tower. Pocahontas discovers John Smith and her old friendship is reactivated but for no avail because what John Smith proposes is not stability but adventure and Pocahontas wants some kind of stability.  They escape from the Tower of London and rush to the admiralship of the armada to stop Ratcliffe. The battle is funny, but without any suspense at all. It is then that she discovers she loves John Rolfe and that her love is answered positively. So they sail to America to live their love story in Virginia.  Nothing to do with real story, with her marrying John Rolfe in Jamestown and having a son Thomas there. Nothing to do with her dying in Gravesend and being buried there. This is pure fiction and as such does not help re-evaluating the character. It is pure commercial exploitation of a fertile field and nothing else.  Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

Just okay, and too stereotyped Some spoilers coming up:  The movie seemed too long, and it never addressed the devastation caused by the death of a child. The way it threw in god and Jesus made me think it was produced by an evangelical church.  A mother's little girl dies, and the mother is simply inspired by her billionaire boyfriend building a hospital--with a chapel, he had to add (hint, hint, you need to go to church if you want to get cured). Where is the reality of an emotionally destroyed parent?  I really liked the young girl character. She was fun to listen to, and one of my objections to the movie plot was killing her off. We don't care how much fear and tension is in a movie or novel, but we want the good guys to win. Even in page-turners where a lot of good guys get killed, we want a happy or at least satisfying ending. This movie attempted the satisfying ending with the flight of a butterfly (supposedly the girl's spirit.  If they wanted a religious theme, then have the girl saved by a miracle. How about the boyfriend trying to decide whether to invest in some polluting industry or basic cancer research. He finally decides on basic research, and a discovery made and the girl is cured!  Also, that hooky statue of Jesus was a bit much. In fact, that whole scene was a heavy handed nod to born-again Christians.  The ancient Greek Thucydides in his "History of the Peloponnesian Wars" said of the plague in Athens: "As for the gods, it seemed one and the same whether you worshiped them or not, when you saw the good and the bad dying indiscriminately." If a novel or movie about the death of a child doesn't address this issue, then it's just cotton candy for the mind.

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation I remember watching the first Mortal Kombat and then tried to watch this right after. I turned it off within mere minutes of viewing the movie and I really dont know why. It was probably because Raydon was replaced with another actor. However, I saw this movie in a pile of 2/5 dvds and couldnt resist picking it up. I watched it waiting it too suck, I waited, I waited, I waited, and end credits. I dont know the backstory to Mortal Kombat, hell I thought it was just a game. The movie is a fun action film with a few bad speical effects but other then that, it was enjoyable. Not that greatest film ever but really fun. Then again like I said, I could careless what the backstory behind a game is.

good western Here we have a new dvd on western legend Wyatt Earp; the movie suffer some slow action time but Val Kilmer deserve always a look; what we need is more western on big screen, on tv (with Hell on wheels) and also on  dvd only!!

Used Nacho Libre DVD This movie was not securely in the case. When I opened it, it nearly fell out, which may have caused more damage to it on the way here. HOWEVER, it played just fine in the dvd player. Therefore I am happy with this product. It was a birthday gift for my boyfriend. It's his favorite movie and I haven't heard any complaints from him about it.

Losers Win!  Again- Don't look for Harold Lloyd producing classic comedy without speaking, nor yet the Marx Brothers,  playing an odd game they happen to call football. Jack Oakie's  Boley Bolencowicz, couldn't even manage to make this team; its possible, though, Stu Erwin could, since he proved a double threat man winning both in football and as a boxer (under Jimmy Durante's management, when he could  take his eyes off Lupe Valez). In other words, comedy and football (as well as other sports) have had a place in films for almost as long as The Great Train Robbery. This one gave two real (acting) pros a chance to make a few bucks: Jack Warden, playing his last film role almost anonymously, since he is not even mentioned on the DVD container, and Gene Hackman, now retired, who probably made more than a few bucks co-starring. They did the best with what they had to work with: which wasn't much, Most of the film is the kind of clowning around that  passes for comedy when you use writers still attending Southern Cal's movie writing course (and, failing it). Saving the production, as it usually does, are the Big Games, which provide stunning examples of how, "Heart" beats Johnny Unitas and Company any time (it's needed in a film). Incidentally, for those who remember, Hackman is given several chances verbally to tout that grand song from Damn Yankees (which I saw in its first run on Broadway). So, if you take to very, very low comedy, or, at least, can bear with it, the backlot football games do give you something to cheer about.

Silly, Wholesome Entertainment Silly, wholesome entertainment that transport you back to the time when life was so much simpler and we still knew how to dream and strive.

Better than I expected The movie LOL was better than I expected. Lionsgate didn't do justice to the Miley Cyrus film by failing to give it a proper promotion. I enjoyed the movie. For myself, I could relate to the trials and tribulations of being a teenager and experimenting with my friends. It was totally believable. I recommend this for anyone 13 years old and up. Thank You, Richard.

Well done Croc movie, but This movie is well done, but has a very limited plot. That's to say they go to a swamp to go fishing with a guide, a croc knocks the boat over and starts chomping on them, one by one. So the whole thing unfolds in one small spot on the swamp, could have done it in an hour. Rogue has a lot more going for it than this one.

Effects and filming style is straight out of 300 but better. The movies effects, fight scenes, and the evil soldiers are straight out of 300. The soldiers are identical to the ones with the silver masks. You even get the evil lord being carried on a massive throne carried by slaves along a narrow passage in the mountains.  And these heros and bad guys can manipulate earth, water, air, and fire like Airbender. Never saw the Airbender movie, and don't plan on it either. I guess if you like the fantasy super natural type of movie with some martial arts you might like this. The effects, costumes, and set are awesome though.  Basically Japanese bad lord too powerful to defeat, only way to defeat him is to train with a more powerful master which happens to be on the dark side which agrees to train him to save China. Catch is the the evil may and does take over his good side. So after he defeats the bad lord the evil is to much for him and takes over his good side. Now his companions from before must try and get him back.  If you are a Lord of the Rings, Narnia, Airbender (cartoon) type of person you might like this movie. If you want a Kung Fu flick with just pure Kung Fu without the supernatural stuff then this may not be for you.

Not Amazing But Not Terrible Whereas "Iron Man" was a breath of fresh air and gave hope that a superhero film could be smart, funny, and appealing, "Iron Man 2" is more of prequel to "The Avengers".  It has a so-so story, great special effects, and lays the groundwork for the #3 most profitable movie of all time so it's not a total waste of time.  I'd give it a solid B+ rating; it definitely could have been better but Robert Downey Jr is so perfect in his role that the story problems can be forgiven easily.

Talent meets Overkill What a cast.  Johnny Depp along with some of the finest actors from the Harry Potter films:  Helena Bonham Carter, who is as wickedly amoral in Sweeney Todd as she was portraying Bellatrix LeStrange; Alan Rickman delivering his lines with that incredible timing I first became truly aware of in the Potter films, but showing a different dimension to his talents I truly enjoyed.  I have gained more and more respect for Rickman's talents as I have begun to explore his filmography.  Timothy Spall ... I apologize for seeing him as a "toss-off" in the Potter films; again, as I explore, I see what a talent this man has for the roles that no one but Timothy Spall could pull off so convincingly.  Sweeney Todd is over the top.  The music is incredible, the story line is engrossing, and Stephen Sondheim is at the top of his form in this English Opera.  HOWEVER, the compete bloodbath, squirting of blood everywhere, gallons of blood, was way beyond anything required for me to get the idea.  The director indulged in an orgy of bloodletting where a river would have been more than enough.  The bloodletting goes beyond anything needed to make the point and into some bizarre sexual release.  I hope to see a better interpretation of this opera some day.  I would love to see the very same stars; Rickman, Carter, Spall and Depp, with a better director.  Throwing blood all over the place only entertains me so far, and then it is as if that is all you know how to do.  Go direct "Carrie."

Has More Cuss Words Than Laughs The Hangover is a comedy that is overrated, and only fitfully funny. It amazes me that this has a 7.9 on imdb.com. I'm convinced that a lot of teenage boys rated it highly, thinking it is so cool to hear the "f" word said 100 times in an hour and a half. And I am no prude. I liked Scary Movie, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and most of the movies in the American Pie series. But all of those movies had just as many laughs as raunch. The Hangover is funny in spots, but it has more cuss words than laughs. Zach Galifianakis and Mike Tyson are the only actors who got big laughs from me.

Okay movie I liked the movie the acting was less desired on Stones part. The ending I balled my eyes out!  However would not buy this on DVD glad I only rented it.

Not the Best Harry I have all the Harry Potter films and this is by far the least understanable of his movies. The plot was hard to follow and it didn't "connect all the dots".  I hope all the questions that it left me asking will be answered in Part Two. I like to see a movie with a plot I can understand  from beginning to end with no added emblishments (computer added backgrounds), like this one. This is more of a movie for the younger, computer graphics fan.

It's Okay Took a lot to keep my attention felt there could have been more to make this a great story but it was a great ending.

Fun & Engaging Angelina Jolie is brilliant in this film - it depicts the meteoric rise and fall of a fashion model, as well as the way she was seen by people in different parts of her life. I really enjoyed this a lot for what it was - a biographical morality tale of too much success and too little judgment. And, Angelina Jolie is freakin' hot!

Good Sequel Overall #2 is not in the same league as the first. It's obvious that the resources in producing this film were less significant than the first thus reflecting on the total quality of the film. However, if you liked the first Hollow Man, you will appreciate this one for its continuation of the storyline, the first-rate acting and decent production.

I was anticipating more... Tried for days to rent Wrong Turn 4; amazon readers said it was good. It was..okay. First, the inbred brothers looked too "normal"..could have looked freakier. I suppose it was a social statement that lesbian sex was included, but I would have traded that for a few more creative dismemberments. And the mutant sister was not in it.. WTF?! But it had its moments; I'd probably watch it again. The human fondue was interesting. And the special features are always a fun-filled treat. I give it a C+.

Parody This movie is okay if you are able to think of it as more of a parody of 21 Jump Street than as a remake. I am glad I rented it via Amazon Instant rather than buying it...it's worth watching once.

I laghed so hard After watching "Ted" I couldn't resist buying this DVD to catch up on the joke.  As a product of the 80's, I enjoy some 80's acting with a heavy side of cheese.  This film did not dissapoint me; I laughed out loud at the quarterback turned intergalactic superhero as he fumbled and stumbled his way through his adventure before stiff-arming his oppenents into submission.  The love story seemed underdeveloped and disconnected at times.  I give this film a 3 out of 5 stars.

Long, slow, hard to follow, but pretty good movie I watched this via Amazon instant Video on my PS3.  I have a 25mbps Cable internet connection yet the movie was very choppy and laggy.  I paid for the HD version yet was forced to watch the regular version.  Not a big deal.  Maybe just cable internet was bogged down, but Netflix was working just fine at the same time, so not sure what to think.  Either way, the movie was a bit slow at times and hard to follow.  It seemed like the movie relied on your prior knowledge of the characters and who they are to really appreciate what the movie was trying to do at times.  My Girlfriend had to explain characters and who they were in order to make it all come together.  I started falling asleep after about 1:45 in, so I can't rate how it finished.  I can tell you that it's nothing like Gladiator as one of the reviews stated. lol

J. Edgar I expected this movie to be really good since I like Leo,but it was really boring. Thought that it would be more interesting.

So hard to find this film This has a great cast! And It is a very hard film to find indeed! There are a few cheesy segments but the historical nature of the period is quite real and interesting!

Spongebob? Nah... I'll pass.. Let me make it clear, im a big fan of spongebob. Well, sort of. 1-4 seasons. 1st is a great season with great episodes, not as good as further ones. 2-3 seasons are still the best things ive ever watched. 4th? still good. some eps better, some worse. but overall it was very good. Movie was amazing too. But what happened next? Well, it was 2004 when a movie was released and Hillenburg(creator and show runner) resigned. Most of writers resigned as well. At 4th season there was still a few previous writers, but it didnt take long till they resigned as well. so... now we have writers like Casey Alexander and Luke Brookshier that just can't make good funny plots.   No, they produce some good episodes sometimes, like "Tentacle-Vision", which was very good, "I love Dancing" was great as well. Thats the start of 7th season. Then some worse episodes followed: "Growth Spout" and "Stuck in the Wringer". Both lame and unfunny. "Someone's in the Kitchen with Sandy" is better. not good, but better, same for "The Inside Job". Then "Greasy Buffoons" and "Model Sponge". That was a huge disappointment. Especially "Greasy Buffoons". Then more of bad episodes followed: "Keep Bikini Bottom Beautiful", "A Pal for Gary", "Yours, Mine and Mine", "Kracked Krabs" and so on. It didnt get to the level of first two episodes, and of course never got to the level of 1-4 seasons. Not only plots became worse since 2004, but animation got so too! Why? You dont need those resigned people to animate. And thats not all! look at characters poses, composition, backgrounds everything is a way worse than it used to be. Look at "The Great Patty Caper", most of backgrounds show us sand. No more. A desert! Now, for the plot, if you didnt see it yet (but watched the promos or box art of a dvd made specially for it), you will think its a parody of a train detective but its not! There is just 3(or 4, i dont really remember) passengers on the train, spongebob suspect them for stealing krabby patty formula(pretty original, huh?) and doesnt do any detective work. It would be an ok episode for 10 minutes, but stretched to 20 makes it an awful waste of time. Then you will have to watch Legends of Bikini Bottom Miniseries... 6 eps about monsters... I feel sorry for you... First its episode is alright... Same for the second one... "The Main Drain" is quite watchable as well... But the other half (3 eps) is awfully bad...  Just look at the box art! It shows the show as it is. Only spongebob, patrick and sandy are happy. It also shows the quality of this cartoon: you can see sky background in the back, they didnt draw anyone behind, while they want to make it look very crowded! Now look at spongebob lips: one is black one is red. The heck?!  And it got 9 seasons.. Maybe it will get 10 or 11 or even 12, but it will end sometime. Everything comes to an end. Its normal. Now people watch it because they remember earlier seasons but it can't last forever, can it? It happens with all shows, it would get enough viewers to quality for a new season even if it didnt get any new eps cause people watch old eps... Same happens with Fairly odd parents now.  Look at other nickelodeon shows like Tuff puppy (awesome show and promising to be like that for a long time) or even new eps of Fairly Odd Parents (year, they are not good, very not good, but better then most of spongebob). Nick is definitely going downhill. Dreamworks shows suck (Penguins and Kung Fu Panda(new eps are quite good, but first eps are better than later ones almost all the time) is not promising) Planet Sheen suck, Fanboy and Chum Chum suck... Maybe Legend of Korra or TMNT will be better when they premiere...  So, overall, does it worth it or not? I would say no. Buy those few good eps on iTunes or watch on tv. Just dont spend 25$ on THAT! It not only not deserve time, but of course it doesnt deserve money. On the other side it can be fun for 5-7 years. Yep. 5 years. That the aim of new eps. They wont see how bad it is and usually they have time. Then get this dvd for them. but if the watcher is 11-further he(she) wouldn't get much fun. While in 1-4 season everyone, even 80 years grandpa would get a lot of fun.  3 stars are 3 stars, not 1 after all!  Now, i only need someone to clarify me why did i waste so much time writing this review for such poor series... :) Hope it helps at least.

Eat Pray Love Review - Enjoyable Chick Flick Was curious about this film since it includes two of my favorite actors, James Franco and Javier Bardem. I didn't read the book prior to seeing the film. Julia Roberts was refreshing; I felt she was at ease in her acting and not trying so hard as I've often seen in her previous films.  If you've ever experienced a failed marriage and have a sense of adventure, in a modern way, you may relate well to this film.  Three men, three countries, one final positive outcome for her. (What a fairytale!)  Julia Roberts plays a soon-to-be-divorced woman fortunate enough to be able to travel long term and to the places she has chosen: Italy, India, and Bali. We see her willingness to explore her inner self, meet new people (mainly the non-threatening kind), and connect the hurt pieces of herself to the world. The best character and acting job goes to Richard Jenkins (Richard from Texas); his sincere portrayal of a man haunted by his actions hit me hard.  We see the guilt for her husband (Billy Crudup), the fling(?) with David (James Franco), and her bond to Philippe (Javier Bardem).  I could relate to all three relationships so I found the film enjoyable.

operation razortooth runs amok... Following in the wake of the massive commercial success of Jaws (1975), Piranha (1978) is pretty well executed creature flick, that doesn't shy away from inflicting bloody violence, even on small children.  There may be a slight hiccup regarding one of the lead actors, but otherwise, the film unfolds in almost textbook fashion, as a school of deadly genetically engineered flesh eating fish, is released into the waters of a river.  The highlights of the film are probably the feeding frenzies that occur when the piranha attack at a water park, and a kid's summer camp.  Piranha features legendary filmmaker Roger Corman (Death Race 2000, Not Of This Earth) as producer, Joe Dante (Gremlins, The Howling) as director, and John Sayles (Men With Guns, The Howling) as screenwriter.  Special effects were rather limited back in 1978, but the film is still highly effective using rubber fish, gallons of fake blood, an intense whining sound when the fish are swarming, and lots of agitated water, in the piranha attack scenes.  The image quality isn't always that good, but this new anamorphic widescreen version may be the best the film has looked on DVD and Blu-ray.  The story begins with two young people being attacked and killed by something, while taking a dip in a pool at a restricted facility.  The disappearance brings investigator Maggie McKeown (Heather Menzies) to Lost River Lake to try and locate them.  She enlists Paul Grogan (Bradford Dillman) to act as her guide, and while investigating the same restricted facility, McKeown accidentally releases the piranha from the pool into the adjoining river.  The pair encounters Doctor Robert Hoak (Kevin McCarthy), who eventually informs them that he was conducting genetic research on the piranha for the military.  The fish soon begin feeding, killing people on their way downstream, heading toward a camp where Grogan's daughter is staying.  By this time the army has become involved, taking control of the situation, commanded by Colonel Waxman (Bruce Gordon) and with Dr. Mengers (horror queen Barbara Steele) as an advisor.  Waxman tries to restrict the activities of Grogan and McKeown, by keeping them in the local jail, but they get away and try to and prevent a disaster at the camp.  Unfortunately they are too late, as the piranha attack a group of young children.  After munching on the kids, the swam moves on to the water park where the real bloodbath takes place.  Paul and Maggie take a small boat to a refinery, where Grogan has to turn a submerged valve, to release toxins that will kill the piranha, before they can reach the ocean.  Grogan pulls up far away, and has to swim a long distance.  He manages to hold his breath for a remarkable period of time (3+ minutes), as the carnivorous fish attack.  There are some good views of the little chompers ripping into his flesh.  Grogan completes his mission, but is left bleeding and in shock, as the film closes ambiguously, with the piranha assumed to have all been killed.  The special effects and gore in Piranha may not be particularly impressive, when compared to the CGI piranha in the 2010 remake, or modern films featuring CGI and other special effects.  It is however an example of how effective the imagination can be, when combined with some rudimentary effects and tricks.  The film does go for the jugular, showing little kids screaming in churning red waters.  Bradford Dillman was great playing a by the book cop in The Enforcer (1976), but he seems less appropriate as a heroic man of action.  While he is mostly serviceable here, bringing experience to the role, Dillman just seems a curious choice.  His character Grogan, getting romantically involved with the much younger Maggie, seems pointless since what happens is very brief, not explicit, and not developed any further.  Heather Menzies Ulrich was a good casting choice, a beauty with decent acting skills, her career at the time was doing very well, starring with Gregory Harrison in the TV version of Logan's Run.  If you can imagine Menzies co-starring with someone like her real life husband Robert Urich, or Gregory Harrison, this might have been a very different movie.  With veteran actors Kevin McCarthy and Keenan Wynn making only brief appearances, Dillman and Menzies do manage to carry the film.  There is a decent set of bonus materials, including a commentary by director Joe Dante and producer Jon Davidson that while quite light and humorous, is still rather informative.  Some tidbits of interest discussed include how the piranha attack scenes were filmed, what Dante learned shooting with a low budget film on a tight schedule, and how a body double was used for Heather Menzies' nude scene.

Guilty fun How can one not like Summer Glau? And the movie was okay too. Can see it being the attempt at a TV series that didn't take off but that's okay. There are worse ways to waste time on a weekend - it certainly complimented the some pop-corn and lollies we wanted to eat. Sure the characters were cardboard cut-outs of actual people, and sure the hair and clothes were more important then the plot development, but that's okay too. It all stirred together in the pot like a bisque and came out alright in the end. Predictable and shallow but at least it was just enough fun to not matter.

It's OK I'm not into slapstick humor that much, but this is OK.  And that is all I have to say about that.

And the story... I have 2 main things to say about this film.  One is a comment on the screenplay/story, basically what the director and screenwriter chose to put on the screen.  The other is about the actual product, that is, the DVD itself.  First, when you have a great story to film, why go to the trouble to create another one?  Of course some things needed to be left out, the book is simply too big to fit into a standard-length film.  A judicious pruning was required.  Which makes it all the more incredible that the writer and director decided to add scenes they invented in their heads that are nowhere in the book, squandering valuable time that could have been used to tell more of the "real" story, you know the one that millions of us have read and loved.  About what was left out and what was, inexplicably, added, others have said much and I'm not going to repeat any of that here.  Absolutely baffling.  I can't figure out what the director and writer were thinking.  Meanwhile, I have a beef with what I guess you would call the cinematography, or at least the way the film was transferred to DVD.  Yes, the story is a "dark" one, and it's getting darker book by book, but why does the picture have to be so dark that a viewer can barely see what's going on.  Something is wrong here.  This isn't atmospheric; it's claustrophobic.  I would like to be able to SEE what I'm watching, please.  I would love to have rated this DVD 5 stars, and there is much to like, for example, the ending is certainly suitably dramatic, but these issues have forced my rating of the DVD down to the 3 star level.

Can you lose yourself in the story? Growing up in the 1950's and being a SiFi fan since then, I can appreciate the effort that went into making this series.  I liked the theme of the story.  And I'm sure back then it was made with latest technology.  But let's face it.  Nothing compares to today's advanced movie-making techniques.  The acting is filled with lengthy dramatic pauses which, in my opinion, seems to account for about half of the show... boring.  However, you don't have to think too deeply when watching.  I could sometimes imagine (lose) myself in some parts of the story.  And that's what made it enjoyable for me.

much better in blu ray 3d than 2d I 1st saw this in 2d and didn't like it,I compared it to the original and just didn't like it.However I recently purchased the blu ray 3d version and after the 1st half hr or so,when Perseus began his quest to kill Medusa,secure her head,so he could kill the Kracen,the action,good but not great 3d,combined with all the creatures he encountered made it a interesting 3d journey.

Low Budget SciFi Over all a fairly decent movie.  They made this movie with very little money and with very limited tech of the time with what they had to work with this was very well done.  I think a Series would have been a better way to present the story as it would have allowed for more interactions as they traveled but it is what it is and has some great hardware the created just for this movie.  All in all I have to rate this as pretty good.

Middle Ground In fairness to the director, I perosnally don't think modern society could handle a straight from the book adaptation of this great story, the language barrier along will turn some off the this awesome story, on top of that movies today rely on action to keep a movies chugging along. Thus I believe the director knew this thus parts of this film are edgey or over the top. So the puriest will rant the modern viewer will rave and the rest of us take the middle ground. By the way for parents looking for a much more differnet take on this story I recommend "Gnomeo and Juliet" for them it has a happy ending.

Mildly Entertaining, Highly Anti-Climatic I guess at this point I shouldn't expect good movies out of the Pirates of the Caribbean series, but each time I watch one I'm let down. Overpacked with action and violence and then sorely lacking transition and resolution. I liked it until about 15 minutes from the end and it went downhill from there. Like usual the door was left open for the next in the series instead of just ending it once and for all. We never got to see what became of the clergyman and mermaid, the Black Pearl, or even Angelica. For this reason I thought the ending really fell flat, but like I said what should I expect from a Disney movie that's looking to make the most amount of money possible with the Pirates franchise.

10th Anniversary Concert was much better I may be bias for Ruthie Henshall but she stole the show in the 10th Anniversary and her youtubes from that concert prove it.  I actually became a big fan of Les Miserables through watching the 10th Anniversary then scouring for whatever other clips i could find, then eventually purchased the 10th Anniversary DVD from Amazon.  Then i became a fan of Ruthie but that is not to say i didn't enjoy the other talent, in fact i was hopelessly addicted to the music from Les Mis altogether.  This concert is okay and not bad but Lea Songalia who plays Fantine just isn't that same immaculate voice that Ruthie has.  I enjoyed Lea's early youtube clips of her doing the Disney Aladain songs and her voice was excellent for those songs but i have not enjoyed her much in the Les Mis concerts including this one.  Her voice just seems too light and tender with a higher pitch for my tastes.  If you haven't watched or listened to the 10th Anniversary Concert i'd recommend purchasing that one before this.  There is a reason why Ruthie Henshall's TAC Youtube clips have so many views and its probably the best concert performance i've ever seen between I dreamed a dream, Come to me, and Lovely Ladies.

Nightmare on Elmstreet: a remake that wasn't bad, but unnessary. This is not a bad movie, but as one reviewer in the newspaper said, and I concur, it is simply superfluous.  All the tension of the slasher genre is gone.  There is nothing left that remains unknown or unexpected.  With that said, this movie tried the best it possibly could, and it works for the most part.  Robert Englund, who played Freddy for 20 years, has been given a well-deserved break.  But the problem with all this rebooting of franchises is simply this question: What's the point?  How many more times can we see Freddy horrifically mutilate somebody in their sleep and remain properly horrified?  The answer is none. I myself am not scared in the least by blood and guts, though I was as a kid.  Now as a mature adult, I have not nessesarily become desensitized to it, I just have seen past the illusion and realized what I'm looking at is fake.  The violence in half these movies is so over the top, it loses all sense of realism.  The thing that scared me most of Freddy was the ingenious(and frightening)make-up.  The makeup on this Freddy looks like crap.  He looks like he has a mound of clay on his face.  And the coming out of the wall scene-- please!  When you can accomplish better effects with spandex and lighting(which is how the old was accomplished) that is truly pathetic. But one thing I do appreciate about this movie is the fact that it established Freddy once again as a scary character.  Although threatening in the 1st film, he had all but digressed into a bumbling oaf, who said way too many wisecracks.  It's not like he was humorless in the first movie, but there was a limit to his macabre sense of humor, and this movie finally realized where the line was drawn, and did it effectively.  To sum up, not a bad movie, but I believe the franchise needs to be put to rest.  Stop kicking a dead horse, and just let it end.

Left me a little cold What's the deal with this movie, the sex scenes? Were they really all that steamy for an R film in 1981? If it's steamy sex scenes you're after, couldn't you get steamier stuff in the eighties?  Was there anything original about the plot? A gold-digger (Kathleen Turner) marries a rich man and then wants him dead. Maybe she knew she wanted him dead before she married him. Through seduction she manipulates some lothario sap (William Hurt) into doing the killing for her, as if it was his idea. You see, Kathleen Turner is sexy enough for the lothario to fall in love with her. Unfortunately for him, he loves money almost as much as he loves the girl, so killing the husband kills two birds with one stone.  But it's not as if the girl's intentions and greed weren't transparent. The sap doesn't recognize the big red flag when she said she didn't want to share the money. I mean, c'mon, let's not ignore the other red flag that she would rather kill her husband in order to get his money than divorce him. Hello! How could the sap ever trust her? I can't relate to such naked ambition, so to speak. As soon as I realized that they both wanted the money, even if it meant killing the husband, I stopped caring about what happened to them. And it didn't make any difference that the husband was a first-class jerk. Murder isn't justified just because the victim is a jerk. And money isn't worth murder. Even if you get away with it, it taints your capacity to enjoy "the good life."  The twists and turns in the plot added some interest, but not enough in my opinion. Any intelligent observer knows pretty well in advance that the girl is out to screw the sap (screw him in a bad way, I mean) and it merely becomes a question of how she's gonna screw him.  Surprisingly, I enjoyed the minor characters played by Ted Danson and Mickey Rourke more than the characters played by William Hurt and Kathleen Turner.  Did this movie, as some say, pave the way to Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct? I don't know. If it did, then it would also follow that movies like The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity paved the way to Body Heat. And so it goes.

Good.  Not As Good As My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Three stars because I bought it.  I bought it because "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" always seems to end to soon, and while this movie is no relation to that one, it serves well as dessert.  That said, this isn't nearly as good as MBFGW.  The plot is simple:  An American college professor of Greek Art History is out of work and doing tours between offers, in Greece.  She wants to share the fine parts of Greek culture with tourists who want to shop, eat ice cream, and suntan at the beach.  She's very uptight.  Because the forward motion of the movie is largely dependent on a bus, the bus is filled with stick figures draped in stereotypes, and so we never really develop a relationship with them, that we had--to some extent--in MBFGW.  Two actors play Aussies, which means a couple hugging cans of Fosters and uttering gibberish from the Book Of Aussie Slang, and nothing else.  The eastern European women say nothing, but dress in print dresses circa 1958.  The Americans all play shades of dumb and rude, save for Richard Dreyfus who plays a God of sorts, and always utters something pithy.  It is Dreyfus' character who helps Nia's character to loosen up.  It takes about half the movie for the film to get moving.  Again, I bought it because I liked "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", and recommend it accordingly, to those fans.  If you're considering this film without having seen the other;  I'd first recommend "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", instead, or, "Bread And Tulips" which is an Italian effort (with subtitles) that has a similar vein (to this film) in that it starts on a tour (of Italy) and ends in Venice, but has more developed characters and a better story.  On the other hand, if you're snow or rain bound, and want something light, and have some good popcorn and real butter, you won't hate yourself for watching "My Life in Ruins".

scared rabbits Some nights I'm not happy until I provoke a walkout. A lot of white people remind me of scared rabbits. When the wolf comes out, they run. That's when I find my true audience. Black people, who are always with me, and brave white people. The non-rabbits of the bunch. The ones who can laugh at themselves.   paul mooney

alien prequel This movie is a prequel to alien but directer Riddle Scott says it' not a prequel to alien it's an OK move not as good as alien

It was okay. This movie was okay.  I was looking for something fun and I had fun watching it.  I'd have been happier without the 'comic' aspect of the movie, but I could live with it.  Some lame lines, some decent ones.  There were some very decent action sequences.  All in all, I found it entertaining and I can't say that about all too many things.

Good if you liked the Stooges What can I say about a Three Stooges movie? My wife and I watched it together and it pretty much followed the same type of madcap escapades that the original shows on TV did.  If you like slapstick and if you liked the three stooges on TV, you'll like this. I liked it. My wife hated it! I thought the cast was really good. These three guys acted and sounded just like the Three Stooges.  If you're looking for a movie with a great plot though, forget this one. It's a pretty simplistic plot. But like I said, if you just liked the Stooges and want a few laughs and a lighthearted movie, you'll probably like this one.

Put him in an American Prison!! He would have been Dead This guy is a joke. I blame the prison system for his behavior and outburst.  If this Mike Peterson would have spent time in American Prison during the 70 or 80s or even now his fame or so called fame would have never happened. American Prisons are no joke and this CLOWN AKA Bronson would be dead before he was transported to another prison. He would have been accepted by whites, and if he had any rank he would still be controlled by the prisoners NOT the system.  My Point is that American Prison are Hard Core and so are the inmates that are within the walls of these prisons. London should visit our Prison to see what HELL is like and maybe they would change or at least make a system that works. No System is perfect but I can guarantee you that are prisoners are out of control.. But only if we allow them to be. Discipline goes only so far and as Mr. Peterson did not learn from his Beatings. This should have been a clear sign from the beginning that Transporting him from 1 prison to another and beating him did not solve anything.  Bring his Butt to America we will show him what Prison is all about!  About the movie>>> Strange and bizarre but interesting. I would not call it a movie but more like low budget sundance film with some decent acting.

Finally some emotion Still not a great movie compared to the book, but at least there's finally some emotion and a little chemistry among the main characters.  Fight scenes are good, but not great.  It seems this movie followed the book more closely than Twilight and New Moon did, but that's not saying much.  Unfortunately a book like this just doesn't translate well to a 2 hour movie.  Continue to prefer the books over the movies by a wide margin.  Go read a book!

Lovely and Light This is a lovely and innocent old time movie about an improbable story of a homeless person who moves from one grand house to another as the owners go away for the season.  While it was enjoyable for one viewing, I do not feel the need to see it again.

Different than the original This was an alright movie. It was a little slow, but the acting way good. I wouldn't run out to see it, but it isn't a terrible way to spend an evening.

Training in the Country Pride of the Bowery, 1940 film  The movie starts with a view of lower Manhattan. A sign says "Vassey Street Boys Club". Muggs wants to train as a fighter for a Golden Gloves bout. They join the Civilian Conservation Corps. A truck takes them into the country. Muggs learns the rules. They get $22 a month for support of their families. [Work relief?] First they get their physical examination. "Report to the Captain!" He explains the rules. The bell announces dinner, a whistle tells when to start. A pillow fight at night. Allen doesn't squeal. Road work in the morning. The doctor orders exercise. The forestry crew is cutting down big trees. Muggs rescues Allen. The Captain praises Muggs. There will be boxing bouts in town. One boy's brother is in a jam, he needs a lot of money in a hurry. Muggs will help. The boxing begins. [Are they evenly matched?]  One boy slips away from the fight to burglarize an office. The Captain declares a draw. The crowd boos the result. Muggs is shunned. Muggs meets a young woman and boasts. They walk around the camp. Muggs talks to the Captain and asks for leave on Saturday. Muggs buys flowers, then walks around town. He meets Willy, who confesses his theft. "You gotta help me." Muggs wants his money in advance. He goes the six rounds. Is Willie a sneaky manipulator? [A lesson here.] The Captain catches him! "What will he do?" "I'm awfully sorry." Elaine talks to him, the Captain suspects there is more to the story. Danny tells his suspicions to the Captain. There is a chase by the lake, and a confession. Can things be corrected? Muggs has fire in his belly now, even better than before. A distraction causes a problem. The lesson is there are times when a man should talk, it is not squealing. "Here we go again, boys."  You also need to avoid being fooled by one of your gang through misplaced trust. The scenery looks more like the hills of California than upstate New York. That's a long way from the lower East Side.

This was a quirky, enjoyable little film 'Searching for Sonny' didn't take itself too seriously and viewers shouldn't either.  If you're expecting a film grounded in reality and every day believability, well, you won't find it here.  There was some humor, a little drama, a little action, but mostly it was filled with an offbeat absurdity that held a charm of its own. It wasn't a film noir or even a satire of one, but it had elements of such in a broader sense.  I bought the film because I'm a huge Jason Dohring fan and it was nice seeing him again.  If you're a fan of him, you'll enjoy the film.  If you like offbeat quirky indie films you'll probably enjoy the film as well.

weird. This movie is definitely weird. It's unlike anything i have ever viewed before.  To me, the film felt almost pornographic and the plot was very hard to follow. The ending did not leave me feeling like i knew what really happened to all the characters involved, it simply left me uncertain where they were headed. Some scenes might be hard for certain people to watch. Be advised there is alot of nudity and sexual matter. As well as simulated animal abuse, murder and suicide.  I purchased the uncut version. If you have an open mind, go ahead and view the film. You may like it. I thought it was okay.

Shallow and fun Spinout is possibly just above average in Elvis' body of work. He does have a nice supporting cast in Shelley Fabares, Diane McBain, Deborah Walley, Will Hutchins, Warren Berlinger, and Carl Betz. All are personable and believable in their roles.  In Spinout, Elvis is once again a musically inclined race car driver. This time he runs a four member band, and through the course of the movie has to fend off the attentions of three beautiful ladies. My favorite scene is Elvis charming a rich elderly couple out of the use of their house as he convinces them to go on a second honeymoon. You get a bit of a different ending for an Elvis movie, as most of the time you are used to him falling in love with the female lead to live (supposedly) happily ever after.  Like many Elvis movies, there is no high art here. But you do get to know a likable group of people. Also like a lot of Elvis movies, there are no bad guys, just ego conflicts between various people you come to like (much like Clambake and Viva Las Vegas). Its an enjoyable bit of escapism, and another chance to see one of the best singers and most dynamic entertainers of rock and roll deliver some numbers onscreen. Let's face it, Elvis was entertaining even when delivering average acting performances, and we're 40+ years out from his last film. We have to take what was made, and luckily that's most often good enough.  Recommended as relaxing and light entertainment.

Immortal Fascism? A group of medical students came for fun in a remote Norwegian mountain cabin for just being exterminated by zombie Nazi soldiers.  Unlike the Johan Borgen's works, this movie leaves a sort of impression hinting at immortality of fascism the remnants of Hitler's soldiers impersonalized.  Anyway, is this story much worse than musicals of Holocaust "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004SIP8W0">Life Is Beautiful</a>" earned a range of awards for?

Fusing Clueless and Emma Aisha is an, if I can call it, a fusion of the film `Clueless' and the book `Emma' and takes place in New Delhi, this is not the city that most people are familiar with. The proceedings take place in upper class locations and people are all well dressed, they hardly work, if they can escape art shows and sometimes enjoy a game of Polo. Sonam Kapoor is Aisha, an inhabitant of this upper crust who spends most of her time shopping, spending copious amounts of cash on clothes, generally doing nothing but has time to moonlight as an event planner. She is fun, slightly prudish and convinced that she has the match making skills to pair up people in matrimony or in relationships. The only one who thinks this is all a waste of time is her friend Arjun Burman (Abhay Deol), and has consistently warned her that this presumption about people's feelings about each other will only amount to a world of hurt for her and everyone else. There are several interesting characters and they all have their charm but seem to be very one dimensional and superficial ( perhaps that was the idea) These bumbling characters who are desperately out of reality and living in their silk cocoon seem engaging at first sight but never interesting later. However they are all lively enough to make the proceedings brisk and fun. Sonam Kapoor is engaging and tries the hardest and why not after all it is her home production but I thought Amrita Puri as Shefali Thakur stole the show with her act as a poor girl caught in the midst of these rich folks. She was pleasant and earthly enough although the director could have toned the sweetener and bimbo effect a wee bit. Abhay Deol is wasted and could have been better used. However Rajshi Ojha the director has done a swell job for her debut and everything manages to look pretty and neat. The songs are lively and hummable, and distributed evenly throughout the film. Three stars. 6/12/11

Not quite sure what I gained by buying it The movie is an Academy Award winner for Best Picture, so you know the movie is quality and an epic vision of feudal England and Scotland.  Therefore I will not review the plot and story.  The quality of the DVD is good, but I don't see a significant improvement over other DVD's of the film.  There is some additional footage you don't get in the TV versions, more graphic killings, a bit more blood, and some extra love scene kind of stuff.  Other than being able to watch it whenever I want, I don't know that I gained that much in buying it.

GOOD STORY, BUT POOR EDITING! I enjoyed 'Edge of Darkness' for it's interesting and heartfelt story, but the film isn't without some serious flaws. The film begins with an opening that grabs your attention and may give a little too much away. We are let in on a few secrets very quickly which makes the the second act seem too long because we already have a good idea what is going on. I think this film would have played better if it had been edited to a little over an hour and a half instead of an hour and fifty minutes.  Another problem with the film is some of the accents make it tough to understand what is being said at times. Overall, I did enjoy this film and it is certainly worth a look, just be prepared to get a little impatient for it to get where it's going.

Good Not much action, the film focuses more on how Bella takes the fact that Edward is gone, no big deal.

Atmospheric with fine performance by Poggio This is good little drama about passion destroying a family - same theme as another gorgeous Italian film this year, I AM LOVE.  This involves a happily married psychiatrist, Matteo, an intellectual, who falls in love with his best friends' son.  Last seen when he was 9 years old, David is now a drop dead gorgeous model and Matteo's passion overwhelms him.  Use is made of Wagner's music to TRISTAN UND ISOLDE and the theme is the backdrop of the film's narrative.  Massimo Poggio as Matteo is quite fine, using his extremely expressive face to register every shade of an all-encompassing and ever growing passion.  Thyago Alves as David doesn't have much to do but stand around in speedos and look gorgeous - not much evidence of any acting talent here, but it is not much missed.  Tragic ending, as in I AM LOVE, but at least the latter ended on a note of hope. This one ends in unresolved despair.  Worth seeing for Poggio's performance.  Filiberti shows more restraint as a director and writer than he did with his uneven DIARY OF A PORN STAR and he at least had the good taste NOT to cast himself in the film.  His personality is an acquired taste.

Plot was interesting, complicated and then it went???? Like Statham movies and figured there would be a lot of: punch and kick; gun fire; car crashes; car chases and there was all of that and even a complicated plot or at least for a while. First half of movie is ok as puts pieces of plot, characters, in play but then, suddenly, Statham goes from totally passive to this super action hero and even that ok for a while and then plot just plain gets predictable, silly. 2 writers on this? 2 directors??  So, if you want lots and lots of machine gun fire and blood and great kick and punch scenes, this will be fine for you but sorry writing was so uneven. Oh, and I liked the little girl but she really not much of a factor and finally, not one pretty woman!!! So weird not having at least one woman, eye candy. Always one woman, looker. Bummer.

IT not exactly what i had hope for. i like king's work, but this wasn't what i call any of his best. i am unsure exactly what i expected, just wasn't impressed. i fell asleep twice trying to watch this.

Complete Hymn of the Nations I have read that the film was edited in the 1950s to remove the Russian hymn, but a complete version was issued on VHS by the Library of Congress in 1988. RCA goofed, but a government agency did better despite the craziness of the 1950s.

Interesting, but Pretty Slow This is one of those sloooow moving films that would be twice as good if it was half as long. It's an interesting story and the actors do a good job, but the setting -- small town south -- is dark and depressing.  The movie opens on the day Karl Childers (Billy Bob Thornton) is to be released from the state hospital as "cured." He's been there since he was twelve and chopped up his mother and her lover with a sling blade. We learn that he had a perfectly horrible childhood, and is at least mildly retarded. Mostly, he never had a chance to be normal with the parents he had.  But the hospital is letting him out because he's cured, and he has nowhere to go. He returns to his childhood home town, but has no urge to see his abusive and apparently psychotic father. When he finally does go, the father is played by Robert Duvall, and is at least as screwed up as Karl always said he was.  Sitting outside the local laundromat eating some french fried pertaters, he sees little Frank Wheatley (Lucas Black) struggling with four laundry bags, and asks him how far he has to go with them. Frank says it's 'bout half a mile, and Karl offers to help him carry the bags. Karl and Frank strike up a rather strange friendship, because Frank is probably smarter than Karl, and certainly more knowledgeable.  Frank, however, has a problem. His mother, Linda Wheatley (Natalie Canerday) has a boyfriend who is abusive, Doyle Hargreves (Dwight Yoakam). He's especially bad when he gets drunk, and then apologizes and Linda takes him back. A horribly familiar story.  Karl's doctor asked a friend of his to hire Karl to work on machinery, which Karl did at the hospital and had a natural talent. His boss lets him sleep in the shed in the back, but before long Frank and Linda invite him to live in their garage. Doyle, of course, hates the idea. But it's Linda's house, so there's not much he can do except curse out all and sundry.  So that's the set-up. And it plays out much as one could predict not long after seeing Doyle in one of his drunken rages. Like I said, it could be a great deal shorter.

Pretty Interesting Though I am not an anime fan specifically I always appreciate the fact that they often contain many fascinating ideas and concepts. This one has Judeo Christion slant and involves prophecy. I don`t want to say much more cause I hate to spoil the plot but besides on sexually charged scence this movie could be veiwed by 10 years old an up. There is only 1 part where a parent should standby and hit the fast forward button.

Pretty Stupid, But Also Kind Of Fun Alien Opponent is an action/sci-fi/comedy that is pretty stupid, but it does have its fun moments. There's some gore, a lot of violence (the body count is very high), and a cool alien. Unfortunately, the film has many problems. There is only one likeable character in this whole movie. All of the other characters are greedy backstabbers. Also, it ends up being more about characters killing each other than an alien killing them. I wanted to see this cool alien do some damage, but we don't really get to see as much of that as we get to see the greedy gusses killing each other. This is a pretty fun time, but it could been so much more.

Mildly Amusing Passport to Pimlico is a mildly amusing comedy put out by Ealing which made several of the Alec Guinness of the late 40s and 50s. In fact, I could see Guinness in this film very easily. The film has a clever storyline wear a document signed by the King of England in the 1400s is discovered which gave a section of London to the Duke of Burgundy. Since the document was official and never recinded the people of Pimlico, the area, containing nineteen families, is now a seperate country from Great Britain. The comic problems arise until a final comprimise can be worked out. Like I stated this is not a rip roaring comedy but a subtle and mildly amusing film which I'm sure was pretty funny in it's day. If you like the Ealing fare than this one is worthwhile seeing.

it's uh... it's alright MacGruber is actually pretty funny but I didn't have a single clue that it was even a comedy upon watching it!  I went in expecting a war movie of some sorts and got what can best be described as some kind of imitation of the 80's action flick genre.  The character MacGruber is incredibly obnoxious.  In fact most of the humor is based on really offensive swear words and even the name of the bad guy himself is a swear word.  The soundtrack is pretty awesome- a lot of really fabulous popular songs from the 80's.  Most of the songs happen to be personal favorites of mine, too such as a certain Toto and Eddie Money song.  Basically the character of MacGruber has to stop a missile from launching that can destroy Washington DC, and along the way he finds himself in hilarious situations, many of which aren't even related to the main storyline at all (such as one really funny scene where he makes out with his girlfriend then goes to a graveyard and... makes out with another woman, hehe).  I can't deny that, despite a good portion of the jokes completely missing the mark, many of them were in fact funny.  I was a bit disappointed being a WWE fan that when they shown Chris Jericho, the Great Khali and the Big Show among others, that they were only featured briefly and didn't actually play into the storyline any.  Oh well, minor disappointment I suppose.  Just be warned that this is not a comedy for youngsters because there's a lot of sexual-related jokes, and don't expect a coherent storyline either.  Just expect total goofiness.

decent family movie I watched this with my 14 daughter, 9 year old daughter, 7 year old son, and 3 year old daughter. We all watched the whole thing varying degrees of enjoyment. From young to old the level of enjoyment was loved it to it was alright. Good family fare.

Dumb fun and toilet humor This is another movie from when I was a teen. Back then, I loved it! Now, I still chuckle at the juvenile humor. Yes, it's stupid, but that's how it was intended.

Not so happy The  product of course is terrific because the series is.  I will purchase the rest of seasons as available.  However, I purchased through an outside vendor and the product was advertised as new.  At least two discs have the labels switched.  Even though we always check to be sure subtitles are off, some discs have subtitles throughout, some have them on one or two episodes only and a few have had subtitles that come and go within one episode.  Discs were not always in the correct order which is easily corrected.  The casings were in fine shape and all outside jackets appear to be corrrect.  It is my hope we can continue to trust Amazon to ensure they are not accidentally offering pirated copies of products.

A solid film that has it's moments. Tears of the Sun is a 2003 American war film, depicting a United States Navy SEAL team rescue mission amidst a civil war in the West African country of Nigeria. Lt. A.K. Waters (Bruce Willis) commands the team sent to rescue U.S. citizen Dr. Lena Fiore Kendricks (Monica Bellucci) from the civil war en route to her jungle hospital. The film was directed by Antoine Fuqua.  lets start on the pros. Bruce willis and the cast did a solid job portraying their characters. You have a nice big action scene at the end and a few good battles spread through the film. The scenes showing the brutality of the violent ethnic cleansing, against the Christian (mainly Catholic) Igbo tribes in the southern region are were this movie shines in my opinion. The cast of Tears of the Sun features refugees portrayed by true African refugees living in the U.S. I actually enjoyed the directors commentary and the dvd has some pretty solid extra content.  Now the cons. It's never really explained why the doctor is so important in the film. American citizens have been in the middle of war zones before or even been jailed and the government didn't send navy seals to save them. I could have bought it if this chick was the relative of some one powerful of even a American diplomat or something. Also Willis character completely disobeys the orders of his commanding officer in the films which is were this film jumps the shark in my opinion. some reviewers say you can easily ignore this,but not me. See I like a film's story to make a bit of sense. Why bother making a some what realistic war movie to have a character do something that's unrealistic. It's kind of funny to me how all his soldiers know that he's disobeying orders and continue to follow him putting their lives even more at risk for some doctor and a few poor villagers they don't even know. It would have bee a little bit more realistic if at least one soldier had objected or cut out on him at least. Also I don't get why they based the film on a made of conflict when you have so many real ones they could have based it on. It also suffers from your standard action film problems were of course the bad guys can't shoot and the good guys can't miss. It can be violent at times and some parents may not want younger viewers to see some scenes later on in the film. All the actors did a solid job,but no one really stood out to me. I really didn't connect with any of the characters to be honest.  All in all a solid war film that's worth watching. Don't get me wrong I actually enjoyed the film,but I like plots that make sense so this is just decent for me. Lots of action with a sensible script is what I'm asking for. I don't get the people who say it's horrible,but it doesn't deserve the high ratings either.

Seeking Justice This is not one of Cages best films but it was OK to watch if you can't fall asleep this movie will put you to sleep.  That is why I rate it  3 stars, actually 2 1/2 stars.

Babe's back bit by bat...lol after seeing the fabulous Ken Burns series, hard to go back to artistic license land, but found the drama enlightening... so funny to see John hitting right handed and the bat hitting his back, ouch! have met a few incorrigble lads in this life and always a childhood trauma to blame so could relate to this aspect... couldn't believe that sick kid asked for 2 homers, geez, he can barely breathe let alone get greedy! Kelly looked abs beautiful and downplayed the glamour puss Ziegfield type, John turns in a mostly respectable performance and shows bigger than life presence, mainly due to largesse but personality as well... struggles with his concept of The Dream was inspiring and to see the 'take good care of the fellas' priority... recommend purchase for impact of early 20th century baseball, consequences of fame, compassion for orphans.

It's odd ball but I enjoyed it; Go figure The only reason I picked this dvd up was because Clare Kramer (Buffy the Vampire Slayer "Glorificus") stared in it. When the movie started I said to myself; here we go, this looks like a real piece of junk you just got yourself into, but after watching for a while it was not that bad and I actually started to enjoy it. It is off beat, and obviously a B-rated movie, but give it a chance, what is it going to set you back, $6.00; OH NO! I just don't understand why Kramer has not gotten more and better parts in her carrier. I was very impressed with her Glorificus (Glory) part.

Battle: Lacks Aptitude Movie opens with a platoon of marines out of Camp Pendleton flying into the heat of battle over LA as the alien invasion takes shape.  A flashback of twenty-four hours gives you the backstories on most of the featured characters right up until the action starts.  The aliens quickly take the coastlines and move inland quickly.  The decision is made to draw a line inland and use fighter planes to bomb out the alien ground troops, believing they lack airpower.  Staff Sgt. Nantz (Aaron Eckhardt) leads his unit into the bombed out streets of the city to rescue civilians holed up in a police station before the strafing begins.  But the aliens soon reveal their aerial strength, negating the military's advantage and hastening the takeover of the city.  Their numbers down, Nantz must both protect the civilians and reach a safe point before they're overcome by the invaders.  In the midst of a last ditch evacuation, Nantz discovers the location of the alien's command center and leads his team in a desperate strike to cripple their forces.  As far as the action goes- Note to Hollywood: get rid of that 'Shaky-Cam' garbage!  What's the point of a battle when you can't even tell what the hell's happening?  (Ok, they're shooting- wait, what was that?  Who got hit?  Where'd those come from... and how did he get killed?)  It's not edgy, it's not gritty and it's not dramatic- it's a stupid gimmick to fudge a fight scene... and it doesn't even do that anymore.  Xbox has clearer shootouts than this.  There's lots of bodies, bullets and things that get blowed up good- everything you want in an alien invasion/war movie.  Problem is they also drown out the dialog- half the time you can't even hear what they're saying over the gunfire and whatnot.  But the images of LA burning look pretty good, especially at night, and give a great sense of the grimness of the situation.  The script gets pretty silly at times, even for an action flick.  Much was made of the whole 'aliens have been spying upon us for decades' plot, but it never materializes.  They land and they kill, with barely a handwave as to why (we got water, lots of water).  The bulk of the movie centers upon the platoon's street engagements with the aliens as they struggle to reach the safe haven of the base. But whether you've served in the military or just seen a whole bunch of movies, there's some things that don't require both hands and a map to figure out: Why would you think the aliens don't have airpower when they just landed from outer space?  Hey guys- where would you put a command center to protect it if you were invading- underground, you say?  Wow.  Dude- how do we take out the Enemy Command Ship?  By firing only one missile at a time instead of unloading everything we got on that sucker so we can milk this a little longer?  Riiight.  Characters are straight out of the cereal box, with only a few brief deviations.  You'd think for all the time spent building them up at the beginning you might get some- nope.  The moments that are supposed to tug at your heart strings and inspire you a little, don't.  With a nearly full house there were no cheers, jeers or anything.  Plus you can pretty much tell which ones have the red-shirts on.  'Battle: LA' is nothing if not earnest, but you won't be too impressed by any of it.  But it's good for tossing down some popcorn and jujubees.

Had Potential and Was Better Than Expected, But .... Well I had mixed feelings after watching this movie and to be perfectly frank, had they had a couple of different actors and a bit more money in the budget, it could have been a whole lot better. Now that isn't to say or imply that this movie isn't worth seeing, but I personally had issues with not so much the movie itself, but the portrayal of all the stupid "blonde" bimbos that seem to be so pervasive in horror movies. I mean really isn't there any females out there that have even a few brain cells between their ears and the ability to NOT scream and whine and cry at every conceivable moment? The only decent female character in this movie is the main character Alison.  Also, regardless of the community size, but especially a small farming community, wouldn't it seem to be a VERY BIG DEAL if young women were constantly turning up missing? Not quite so in this movie though.  Now I am not going to give the plot of the story away, but it did have a few interesting moments and a couple of semi-okay twists, but it is definitely not a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000LP6KNU">The Silence of the Lambs</a>.  Shawn Kovacich Creator of numerous books and DVDs.

Careful--This is not the special edition This is 1 disc, full screen only. The correct cover image is the one posted by Sandra Fox. The cover posted by Amazon is for the special edition 2 disc set, as are the rave reviews.  I love it. Just wish I'd got the special edition, which is why I gave this 1 disc edition only 3 stars.

Decent action anime flick, but when does this take place?! I. Effing. Love. FMA Brotherhood and I expected SO MUCH more from this movie than what I actually got from it when I finally watched it. There isn't much I can say aside from the fact that although the action sequences are pretty cool and the story's a bit interesting, the movie itself is just, sort of, bland. I remember severely disliking the ending because of its lack of real suspense. My MAIN problem with "The Sacred Star of Milos" is that it's IMPOSSIBLE to figure out when in the heck this story takes place! It had to have occurred sometime after Ed receives the honor of becoming a state alchemist, but that's all I can gather and, therefore, is all I need to say, allowing me to conclude that I found this movie not really worth watching, even if you're a hardcore FMA fan like myself. If you're looking for an extension to the epic story of Brotherhood then do yourself a favor and look elsewhere. In fact, look nowhere because you'll find nothing but fanfic, since there aren't really any sort of official "extensions" to the story of Brotherhood; There doesn't need to be. ...I'm DarkEcoFreak and I.. mostly approve this review.

Billy Jack Goes to Washington This is a good movie but I wanted it in full screen and it came in wide screen.I personally do not enjoy wide screen movies. Thanks

Memoirs of a Geisha This was a good movie that my wife and I had seen before, and we liked it enough to watch it again. Sometimes it's better to watch the second or third time

The book was darker. Although enlightening with a stunning cast, this film lacks the chilling factor of Wurtzel's autobiographical portrait of insanity. She didn't "come back up" while in college. Her story is so much longer--sadder--than the plot of the movie picked up. Even the drugs were toned down. The very beginning of the book Prozac Nation, she does meth. I mean, I get the point of cutting some points out of the movie, but I think this killed the soul of her message, because it is a dark story and toning it down doesn't do it justice.  If you've read the book, be warned: you'll get a cutesy ending with little recognition of Wurtzel's words.

mehopolis Once you get past the annoying violins in the soundtrack, and if you ignore the terrible French accent - you might get a little kick out of Lunopolis. Might.

Ah, sweet misery If you would like to be plunged into despair and gloom, this is the film for you.  The misery is unrelieved for what seems to be three hours.  Yes, the film is well done in every way.  But who is in the market for grief and pain?  Max Von Sydow is splendid, and so is the lad who plays his son.  The script, however, was simply unworthy of them.

dvd the proposal i thought I was buying a new product because that is how it was put on the sight. when I got  the item it was used but I paid as if I were buying a new one. Needless to say I was not as happy as I should of been.

A perfectly pleasant way to kill 88 minutes Judge Clark Douglas, DVD Verdict--  While much of Dogpound Shuffle is terribly predictable, it contains some small pleasures which allow it some measure of distinctiveness. The unlikely pairing of Moody and Soul proves a success, as the two generate some intriguing chemistry. Additionally, when it comes to putting on shows, some elaborate tap-dancing with bluesy harmonica accompaniment manages to stand out a little bit. The finest sequence in the film comes midway through, as Steps is given the opportunity to dance in front of a sizeable crowd in a lavish mansion. It's an immensely pleasurable moment that more or less justifies the occasional tedium provided by the scenes required to set it up.  Things take a turn for the maudlin in Dogpound Shuffle's final third, as Step receives some terrible news and his relationship with Pritt temporarily dissolves. This portion of the flick alternates between touching and overblown, as moving scenarios are occasionally undermined by the hammy screenplay (an extended monologue from the lady who works at the pound seems like a needless attempt at enhancing the drama of the scene). Yes, the information I've just given you may sound like a spoiler, but it really isn't. Moody does some strong work throughout, transforming a somewhat cliched character into a three-dimensional human being.  I don't know whether Dogpound Shuffle was initially shot in 1.33:1, but the cinematography certainly looks unnaturally cramped in this full-frame transfer. I'm guessing this is a pan-and-scan job, but my apologies to the folks at Scorpion if that's not the case (though if the film was shot in full-frame, I have to wonder why the cinematographer didn't pull back a bit more). Otherwise, the level of detail is actually decent, but darker scenes tend to be murky and there are quite a few scratches and flecks presents (plus some very prominent hairs in a few shots). The audio is presented in plain old mono, but it's mostly clean and clear (a few lines of dialogue are a little muffled). The only extra is an audio commentary with Jeffrey Bloom. -Full review at dvdverdict.com

Good drama... laughable research ....I am dealing only with a few of the technical details here:  First... the premise that Guantanamo is this insanely dangerous place... where a white uniform (showing rank) will draw sniper fire is just plain silly.  ...Since the end of the Cuban missile crisis there has been relatively little serious tension there.  Lots of land mines, Marines, wire... but the Cuban Army not interested... and nobody interested in firing a single shot without a direct order from Castro... who would not only not give it... but would deal severely with anybody who did.  The film also does not mention Cuban workers who enter every day and pump U.S. dollars into the Cuban economy.  We are not loved, but we are tolerated.  ...Marines out of boot camp for any time do not talk like recruits... "SIR! YES SIR!" rattled off like some robot (I was a Marine infantryman in the late '60s)  This stereotype done to death in many films.  Unless in a formation, in talking with an officer a Marine would politely speak to him and end with "sir".  ...At one point the Navy lawyer says, "Whatever happened to saluting when an officer leaves the room?"  In the Marine Corps and Navy there is essentially no saluting indoors and "uncovered" (hat off).  Exception: Being "under arms" such as MPs who are wearing pistol belt and cover.  In addition:  Prisoners generally are forbidden to salute.  The version of the film with words on screen explain that no saluting when lawyer showed up in civilian clothes... Actually if an enlisted man in uniform recognizes someone in civies as being an officer it is customary to salute.  ...And, as mentioned elsewhere... When a working relationship of the legal team up and running... casual might well be the order of the day... But prior to that time he was a jerk and would have wound up at the least in "hack" (confined to BOQ instead of his own civilian digs when not on duty) for some number of days...  ...The film itself is entertaining... Either no Marine/Navy advisor input... or ignored... I have seen countless mistakes in films and TV... Either nobody on the set who knows better... Or... they know better than to try to bring it up... Always interesting to see some film with officer wearing captain's bars sideways...  (Or on pilot for Stargate SG1... Major Kawalski wearing captain's bars... This sort of thing corrected in later episodes when they had serious USAF input...)

Naruto Shippuden:  Box Set 2 Worth the money, not as much action, more information leading into the story line, excellent dvd quality, no problems.    When buying says Japanese as Language only.  This is not true you have the option to have voice in Japanese or ENGLISH.

Campy, entertaining, and completely unmoving I was happy to watch this film because, as a fan of the Hunger Games books, I have been told dozens of times that they are merely a sanitized ripoff of Battle Royale.  Having seen them both, I don't think that the one influenced the other.  Like many have said, there is a long tradition, going back to the gladiators, of people being forced to kill other people for sport.  And the hunting aspect strongly smacks of The Most Dangerous Game.  I enjoyed Battle Royale very much, mostly because it was a lot funnier than I thought it was going to be.  The video explaining the rules, was fantastic, that whole scene was very funny- I could watch that over and over.  But I'm not sure it was intended to be funny, but the over-the-top, flat acting, just made what should have been tense and terrifying, actually loud, chaotic, and campy.  And unlike the Hunger Games, were you have children being sacrificed in a ritual slaughter where half the horror comes from the foreknowledge: the reaping, every year thinking about what might happen, then being chosen, knowing what is going to happen to them while the rest of society is observing, encouraging and celebrating the horror- no such tension exists in Battle Royale.  The world of Battle Royale the film is much simpler.  To the point of inanity.  The children are bad, disrespectful, the old do not like the young,  therefore the government is going to secretly kill a few teenagers.  I don't understand the goal of the Progam, the endgame, really.  In Hunger Games, there was a purpose, punishment for rebellion and a reminder of the central, absolute authority: everyone had to watch.  It affected all society.  No one sees what happens on the island in Battle Royale, not even the people RUNNING IT (it is a seriously low-tech distopian torture game), and the students, while they seem aware that Battle Royales have happened in the past, are sufficiently in the dark that none of them seem to know what is going on, even after they have been kidnapped and told this is Battle Royale.  They are like, what, what are you asking?  So in this society, it isn't even serving its purpose as...I don't know what.  Whatever the point of the Program, it sucks, because clearly no one is getting the message.  They need to advertise.  And get some professionals in there.  The teacher that runs it seems clueless.  Apparently the kids teased him (one even randomly stabbed him in the leg 2 years ago, but this is the kind of authoritarian society where the kid wasn't punished, WTF?), so now, he's going to watch them die with gleeful commentary.  He is also apparently primarily motivated by a snotty disrespectful teenage daughter who isn't on the trip.  (Again, clearly The Program is not effective)  Actually, he is pretty funny.  But the premise is insane, and not at all scary, or haunting, or thought provoking, because it is so stupid.  The violence, however, is the best part.  It is bloody to the point of absolute camp.  They show every death, so I guess that is what people mean when they described it as "not watered down."  Except that you don't really care that they are dying. The characters are, needless to say, static, more caricatures than characters, they don't get a chance at any sort of development.  You watch one fall after the other and what you are really hoping for is that they die in an interesting manner. And they do.  Because in covering 40 deaths, there is about 30 seconds worth of character development -for most of them seconds after they are introduced and mere moments before they die.  It usually goes, confess secret love to girl/boy you've barely spoken to as you die, or he dies, and then, survivor gets shot/stabbed.  Repeat.  The girls are worthless, they are either sheep or, if they actually decide to fight, portrayed as total sociopaths.  The "heroine" of the piece is literally carried through the movie by male after male after male declaring his willingness to die for her.  No reason, of course, I guess because she's pretty.  Girl power.  The boys are more interesting.  This was a fun new aspect of the Program, we never really got to see contestants plot their way out in the Hunger Games, because that hunt had the additional element of tributes being hunted by the game masters and constantly on camera-but in Battle Royale, it is a budget torture, they don't televise or even observe it, so you get to watch all sorts of strategies, by the boys.  These run the gamut from sheep, to sociopath, to noble hero trying to find secret love of his life, to covert resistance fighters.  All in all, they were pretty good.  But still not enough time to care about them so that you were really sad if they died.  I watched like 40 people die in Battle Royale and didn't care half as much over that bus full of kids as I did over one death in the Hunger Games.  The violence and the acting in Battle Royale is so over the top, the motives so simplistic (You teased me, now DIE!), that you honestly don't care if these kids live or die.  Which is good, because they die like, every 5 minutes.  The pacing is beautiful, which is good, it keeps you from trying to think too hard about the weaknesses in the plot.  It is, however, super-entertaining.  Funny, violent, well shot- every sadistic smile or high pitched girly fit.  But it isn't the pointed social commentary everyone told me it was.  It left me chuckling, not wondering "wow, what would I do?"  Maybe they develop something, anything really, more in the book.  Especially the POINT of all of this.  The most affecting image in the film is the first 2 minutes, when they show the outcome of the previous Battle Royale.  The smiling girl with her blood drenched sailor-style school uniform and baby doll.  It implied a sense of public awareness about the Program, like it might inspire national fear.  But none of the kids seems scared in the flashbacks, they ditch school happily and stab their teacher in the leg with immunity, so I'm still puzzled as to the point of all this glorious violence.  But glorious it is, and you should totally watch it.

Very unrealistic yet an exciting action packed cliffhanger I enjoyed this show for years. While action packed with well placed cliff hangers, this show is 75% unreal. I'm now re-watching it and can't believe the unbelievable stupidity of the people in this show. The characters are just ridiculous, there is no way this much stupidity, nosiness, complete disregard for SOP, poor communication to the extreme, and incompetence could ever exist in any Government agency office. No way.

Wedding Daze 'Wedding Daze' is an easy going, light hearted comedy starring Jason Biggs and Isla Fisher. The idea isn't that original but the actors throw themselves into it so wholeheartedly that you don't really notice. There are a few laugh out loud moments and the rest in pretty amusing too. It isn't too long so you shouldn't get bored. Overall this film is inoffensive and fairly amusing, worth a viewing if you've a spare afternoon to kill.  Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.

not "aaf" bad I wasn't expecting very much from this movie so I was a bit surprised that it got better as it went along. And I do enjoy the fact that films set in England cannot automatically rely on GUNS for all of the killing action. When the kids scatter to their apartments to get armed for the fight...........in the US they'd have assault weapons or at least a variety of hand guns. Here they must rely on baseball bats, swords, chains, gas filled (spoiler alert) super soakers, knives & yes, a few hand guns. The aliens were creepy & surreal -- like shaggy puppies with wicked fangs. And unlike most Alien movies, these critters are vulnerable & not that bright. Good at mindless killing but stoppable. I was surprised at the level of tension that was created in the various face-offs between monsters & kids, monsters & adults, kids and other badder kids, cops & everyone else. The opening sequence drags along too much but it sets the stage for the rest of the action. An interesting shout out to PBS style Nature shows too. Funny that. I did have a bit of a struggle with the cockney accent.........say what?!  But after awhile the dialogue wasn't really needed to enjoy the action. So really.....3 1/2 Stars overall. And yeah -- different rendering of "what if" by landing the Aliens in a crowded urban setting instead of a desert, ocean, small town or other more isolated setting. Good idea fairly well presented.

Another So-So Blair Witch Although slightly entertaining, the movie is average to below average at best.  However, what do you expect.  The world of bigfoot movies has always been an odd lot at best.  There has been worse, but there has definitely been better.  Actors actually do the best they can for such an ultra low budget production.

Nicely done except the subtitles You wouldn't think this would be so important, except they use a lot of direct quotes in various languages and the lousy captioning prevents you from understanding.  I finally turned on the Spanish so I could read that instead of the tiny, white, English.  The job of explaining what he wrote in the book is nicely done.

No English subtitles I read your comments that said English subtitles before I bought this dvd.  But there is no English subtitles for deaf people.  I know this movie is good but I have a hard time to understand what people said.

Did the Yanks Really Have That Much Free Time? As an Anglophile I found this film intesting and insightful. It helped me understand more about British culture and the way they really felt and still feel about us "Yanks". It makes me sad in a way.  It's an okay film (though rather depressing) as far as love stories go, but did the Yanks really have all that time to go to the movies, fool around with girls, go on holidays, go to pubs, dances, and parties, etc.? If so, I find it kind of surprising the invasion was a success. My father was billeted with a family in Wales during WW II and when I told him about all the time they spent fooling around he just laughed. He said they spent most of the time being taught everything they could be to be prepared. I'm sure they had some free time but I think it's overdone in this film. Also, call me old fashioned but I found the Lynn Redgrave/William Devane affair distasteful.

Fink Kinda Stinks Although the Cohen Bros. may have produced some good flicks, this one, unfortunately, isn't one of them. Barton Fink is a writter with writter's block, and that's about it. This movie tries to give off a dreary,erie & macabre feeling, but does nothing back it up. You would think that the hotel and the hotel room would have more to do with this background for erieness & drearyness causing the block, but unfortunately this resource went untapped. Barton Fink had writter's block and that is that. He rubs elbows with a few "odd-ball" characters, big deal. The only light in this production was the character played by John Goodman, who pulled off the "odd-ball" character very well. If it wasn't for this I'd have to 2 star this one. All the actors played their parts very well, it's just that the story isn't that interesting. Plus the questions of: 1.)Who killed the chic in Fink's bed, 2.)Did Goodman kill Fink's relatives Fink told him to visit while in NY., & 3.)Was there a head in the box go unanswered. I guess these questions go unanswered because it wouldn't have made a bit of difference anyway. In the very final scene, the hotel burning and Goodman's character's true identity finally being revealed, was the only good scene in the whole flick. Also Tony Shalhoub played a character that is way far from what you see him normally playing on T.V. and did a great job. That was nice. Goodman is a wild man. Always has been, always will be. All in all, to sum it up, you could get up and leave this movie at anytime, go to the refrigerator, make a sandwich, grab a tasty beverage of your choice, and return to your chair and would not have missed a thing. It's ok to rent this one, but don't waste your money, like I did, and purchase it.

Fairly good but could have been better... I too bought this when my son went to Parris Is. to get an idea of what he was going through. I think this movie does that to a point. Too many whining recruit women were shown, in my opinion and not enough focus on training and the mental brainwashing that really goes on. My son watched it when he got home and just laughed and shook his head. At least you get to see Parris Is. and get an idea of what the recruits do but I think they could have done a better job.

The Vow I was disappointed in the nudity in the movie and also some of the language. The theme was very good. I would have very much enjoyed it if the there had been no nudity and vulgar language in it.

the first one is great! I was so excited when I saw this three film set. I didn't even know there was a Mimic 2 and 3 and I love the first Mimic.  Well, thank goodness the first movie is in there, because the other two, in my opinion, were awful!!  I made it threw the second one...with a hollow disappointed feeling....never even finished the third, it was THAT BAD!

Incohesive Mess I'm not here to bash Superman vs. The Elite per se but the movie left me feeling a bit uneasy and confused. I have nothing against a lighter-hearted, intentionally absurd approach to the increasing stream of dark and gritty DCU Animated movies as of late so I was pleasantly surprised by the opening titles omage to the more family-friendly Superman incarnations from the days of ol' as well as the first few minutes in but then the tone changes dramatically.  So people are dying, real world geopolitical debates are highlighted and a new breed of 'anything goes' superhumans emerge onto the scene. This is all fine and good but the problem is the art direction never changes and just doesn't fit the serious tone from here on. Superman's disproportionately oversized chest and arms are only dwarfed by his even more disproportionately oversized jaw, looking more like Heavy Metal's 'Captain Lincoln Stern in tights and a cape. I was expecting Stephen Colbert to step in for voice over this time around, which would have been great, btw.  The Elite: A group of young mutants with extraordinary abilities but act like a bunch of street rats, half of which are horribly underused, especially 'The Hat', a supposed master of the mystical arts but spends most of his time kicking back and drinking wine. He doesn't really have much use other than a seemingly inspired homage to Daisuke Jigen of the Lupin III series. Then there's Coldcast, a generic big, angry black guy till the last 5 minutes of the movie where, he gets angrier.  At the story's core, it's a Superman story. Truth, Justice and the American way. Superman is probably the only hero, super or otherwise, who's never really had to struggle with walking the line between defending justice and administering justice. He's 100% committed to his ideals, even when those ideals are tested, even sometimes in doubt.  Again, I didn't hate it but I simply didn't enjoy it as much as I would have liked.  That being said, I'm ready for a Mitzelplik storyline.

Wait!!  A Better Collection Is In The Works!!! My major frustration with this DVD is that there are only 4 episodes picked at random from the 14 years of "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet."  If I were you, I'd check into the complete series.  Sam Nelson (Ricky Nelson's son) is actually raising money (from now until Nov. 3, 2011) to restore the entire 435-episode series of "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" and include the original commercials too! He hopes to have the entire series restored by the time "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" is inducted into the Smithsonian.

Combat in the Desert Sahara, 1943 film  This is dedicated to the Armor Group of the US Army. A small tank group joined the British Eighth Army in North Africa to gain experience. This tank is ordered to retreat to the south. They find a few British stragglers. Their talk tells about their condition and personality. [That M3 Lee tank was obsolete by 1942.] They must conserve their water and gasoline, and work together to survive and fight again. One British Sudanese and his Italian prisoner join them. This sergeant knows the local trail to a water well. What will they do with the prisoner? [A dramatic scene.] An enemy fighter machine guns the tank until it is shot down. The pilot parachutes and is captured and searched. But one man was wounded. This Nazi pilot shows his arrogance and contempt for his captors. They find the well, but it is dry! The radio calls them back for the battle. A building offers a refuge from the wind and sand. Can they find a well?  Yes, but it is nearly dry too. They share this scarce resource. German soldiers are on their trail, they must get water too. The soldiers talk about their lives. An enemy scout car approaches and is neutralized. Two prisoners are questioned, one talks for water. The tank sergeant discusses their options: stay or go? Can they trade water for food? A volunteer will drive the scout car ahead for help, the rest stay behind to prepare an ambush against 500 enemy soldiers. An enemy officer offers terms of surrender! No deal. Can Waco bring help? One man talks about his future. The enemy attacks in force. One prisoner escapes but is stopped. The enemy soldiers are thirsty. Will they surrender their arms? Or pull a trick? The defenders are running low on ammunition now. Waco now travels on foot. He is rescued by a patrol in a jeep. The enemy attacks again! But this time they come to surrender arms for water. An explosion affected the water in the well! They leave with many prisoners and find their rescuers. They learn of the victory at El Alamein.  This movie was typical of war-time entertainment that promised a victory for the United Nation against the Axis Powers. Its still an entertaining movie. Could ten men hold off 500 enemy soldiers? That would depend on their arms and defensive position. Note that these soldiers do not have beards after many days. That tommygun was the civilian version, not the military version of WW II. Those WW I Springfield rifles would be accurate in the early days of the war.

Meant to be the third Conan movie... Kind of...Conan was meant to be the next James Bond character having a series of adventures, mining the Robert E. Howard's books till people got sick of the movies.  At least, that was what I heard.  Instead we get Red Sonja, starring Brigitte Nielsen, Arnold Schwarzenegger (whose name is always first in the credits even on the DVD cover), and Sandahl Bergman who makes for a interesting if somewhat unrealistic Evil Queen.  Frankly, Paul Smith, Ernie Reyes, JR. and Ronald Lacey have more interesting characters even if their parts are small. Your basic sword-and-sorcery story in which Red Sonja must fight Evil blah, blah, blah.  The creators toss in a few scenes of humor that sometimes fall flat, romance that comes out of nowhere and goes nowhere, and a glowing orb which is so powerful...well, I don't know what it does but it seems powerful. Still...you can't help but enjoy it.  The action scenes, the interaction between the more interesting secondary characters, and the music makes it a good pop-corn film.  Get it used or out of the library

poor substitue This was a poor substitue for the original 3 stooges.  Curly was the only character to come close.  I do realize it is difficult to take the original of the old classic comedy and remake them.  Little rascals is another example. People that grew up with these will find it difficult to adapt to the new ones.

The teacher - same as before Disk worked fine. A rather dark story with frivolous, destracting sub plot about a maniac that deminished the rather simple 'coming of age' story. Some nudity but not much, and nothing graphic like one might be looking for today.

Pretty good Bought this for my hubby that does triathlons to train in the winter. He says they are good workouts, especially for those tht need motivation. But he prefers just riding while watching tv so unfortunately, this will not be for him.

Frivolous fun--worth the price to rent online Not an amazing movie by any means, this still delivers some laughs and fun scenes.  I didn't think I would like this movie at all and had only heard negative if neutral comments about it, until my best friend mentioned she enjoyed it.  For the price of renting it online, it was definitely a good value and I enjoyed the movie enough to watch it twice.

Great movie-poor quality blu ray A very entertaining thriller that is marred by a surprisingly poor transfer to blu ray. Since most of the action takes place in a dark subway tunnel, there are many pixelated scenes that do not appear to be of blu ray quality (or VHS quality) for that matter. Some scenes are fine- others great- but this discs inconsistencies in quality are too hard to ignore. Good movie though, it's like "Wrong Turn" in a subway tunnel.

Well filmed, well staged, but ... A lot of this <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002KPHZG">Straw Dogs</a> remake is well filmed and well staged and there are some good performances but, ultimately, it relies too constantly on people doing stupid things for stupid reasons for me to buy in and care.

If you like Christina Ricci and Liam Neeson, this is for you I caught this on Netflix, so reviewing based on what I saw there.  The movie was very slow paced, but Liam Neeson did a fantastic job with the material he was given. Christina Ricci also did well for the material given, and as always, was beyond hot.  Lots of her throughout nude, if you're into that.  The ending is rather predictable, and throughout you are kept guessing to as to what really is going on.  Some of it didn't really make sense...like (spoiler) was she hallucinating on drugs, dreaming, dead and seeing ghosts or what?  That never really got a total answer, but I'd get it was the stuff injected into her.  It is surely watchable once, and with Christina in it flaunting her stuff, good for a second go-around for visuals only.  I didn't feel the need to go back for a second helping, even with that considered.

The Maketing Control Program It's not that Tron Legacy wasn't good, it's just that it could have been so much better.  The Tron character was reduced to a mere plot device that never fulfilled his promise.  The story line was so lame that I viewed the screenwriters as journeymen hacks heavily influenced by Star Wars and working under the micro-management of the Disney marketing department.  This movie was designed to be a transitional PRODUCT.  It brought the Tron movie franchise to an end by killing off the main characters and served as a come-on to attract the children of those who loved the original movie to the new video game and cartoon series.  I would love to see what a better writing team could have done with the opportunity to create this story.

This Franchise Is Fading Fast... Eight years after the first entry into the Resident Evil film franchise, the series is still a gamer favorite as it goes into its fourth chapter, "Resident Evil: Afterlife". For horror franchises, once you pass the second or third installment, most of them begin to falter in some capacity, so how long before this critic-proof, zombie series outstays its welcome with moviegoers?  "Resident Evil: Afterlife" is set approximately four years after the initial outbreak upon Raccoon City. Alice (Milla Jovovich) is continuing her crusade to destroy the malevolent Umbrella Corporation. At the same time she is making her way northward to one day join Claire Redfield (Ali Larter) and her band of survivors that headed to a supposed infection-free zone somewhere in Alaska. However, Alice quickly discovers that the safe zone was nothing more than another elaborate ploy by Umbrella. With time and patience running thin, Alice luckily finds and enlists the aid of Claire, her estranged brother Chris (Wentworth Miller), and a few others in one last-ditch effort to save humanity from Umbrella and the undead nightmare that has plagued the world.  Continuing his writing duties, and returning to the director's chair for the first time since the original film, Paul W.S. Anderson may be running out of steam with this series. There are several indicators that lead me to this conclusion.  For starters, several elements within the movie are unapologetically borrowed from other successful films. Granted, this series has taken from many a movie or event along the way, but none so blatant and borderline lazy as those found in this film.  The most obvious sign of laziness lies with the film's primary villain (not the zombies as one may think), but a new genetically enhanced individual controlled by Umbrella. This character is so unoriginal that he appears to have been plucked directly from the mold of the Agents used for "The Matrix". From his speech pattern, movements, fighting style, and attire (right down to the sunglasses), everything about the character screams "Rip-off!" I know movies borrow from previous releases all the time, it's impossible not to; however, when it reaches a point that plays more like plagiarism rather than homage, then it's downright shameful.  Also, the energy and excitement that used to permeate this series seems to have been erased from existence, much like most of humanity. The franchise first began showing signs of a much slower, somewhat meandering pace with the previous installment. It appears that Paul W.S. Anderson was unable to shake this potential problem, and with this newest chapter we are given a film that seems to be just going through the motions with very little momentum propelling it onward.  Then there is the issue with the zombies themselves. Because this is a zombie series, it doesn't take too long for the proceedings to become stale. After all, there are only so many ways one can kill a zombie. Not to mention, the majority of the world is infected. Meaning, a way out for humanity seems more and more implausible with each passing entry.  So, my question is this, "When is enough "Enough!"? Maybe we've already reached that point with the previous film and this one is merely another attempt at delaying the inevitable? Based on the story issues I addressed here and others potentially on the horizon, if this series' issues are not rectified, I would say that it has gone on long enough. I figure it's maybe one more movie away from becoming just another horror franchise past its prime that doesn't know when to quit.  An area that up to now hadn't grown quite as stale, but was definitely showing signs of wear, is the visual effects work. The first film suffered a little from moments of sub-par CGI, but the previous two installments made definite improvements in this area, despite the continually lacking financial support from the studio. Yet with this entry the visuals seemed to take a step back as some shoddy CGI work was employed. Some of the visuals were mediocre to the point of being as pathetic in some instances as they were in the original film.  Now, there are two possible causes for this waning visuals issue, and both may be correct, but I leave that for you to decide. First, Paul W.S. Anderson wrote and directed the first film and this film, and both suffered from lacking visual effects quality. Whereas, he only served as writer for the other two installments and their visuals were noticeably improved.  Second, Paul W.S. Anderson filmed this entry using 3D cameras (which undoubtedly came with a heftier price tag) and was forced to spend more time and effort staging shots accordingly. Of course, while I'm sure the camera technology added a bigger price tag to whatever was allotted for cameras on this film, the time spent crafting scenes could have been far less involved if Anderson had chosen to not be annoying with the use of 3D.  What I'm referring to is this; he went with the "throw things at the viewer's head" approach that crappy 3D movies in the 80's employed. If he had simply done what James Cameron had done with "Avatar" by making the 3D non-obtrusive, then perhaps more of the budget could have gone towards CGI effects. Plus, the use of 3D will magnify flaws in a movie's CGI (if there are any to be found), so when your budget is insufficient for your effects from the get-go, using 3D seems to be a poor decision at that point.  By now you have no doubt noticed that the series as a whole is wearing down, and keeping that theme going is the film's cast. While the performances were decent, there was really nothing new or fresh in this department, and in particular, the two female leads are looking a bit bored with themselves.  Series star Milla Jovovich has been with the franchise since the beginning and has claimed in interviews that she knows Alice inside and out (somewhat paraphrased). Having such a familiarity with a character isn't necessarily a bad thing as it can help keep a performance on track and natural. However, in this instance, I believe that due to Alice being Milla's comfort zone as a character, she is no longer finding any challenge in the role. Therefore, she comes off as uninterested in the character, despite her comments to the contrary, and the performance suffers in the process.  In the other lead role is actress Ali Larter, who joined the franchise in the previous installment and injected new life and eye candy into the proceedings. Yet, just like Milla her performance is beginning to run thin. This is most likely due to the lack of significant character development for her character Claire since the last movie. Ali has proven in previous works that she is a capable actress, but even the most qualified of actor or actress needs a role that will continue to develop and interest them. Otherwise you wind up with the uninspired performances we found here.  Several actors and actresses joined the cast this time around, but the most notable newcomer to the series, at least in name, definitely not in performance, is actor Wentworth Miller (TV's "Prison Break"). Wentworth portrays the role of Chris Redfield, the long-lost brother of Ali Larter's Claire. His character was poorly handled as he is nothing more than an action hero clich&eacute;. To be specific, he's the prototypical strong, silent, no-nonsense type. Granted Chris was apparently in the military prior to his current situation we find him in, this based on what little backstory we are granted for the character, but his asinine tough-guy routine felt played out and lame from the get-go.  To sum things up, as I'm sure it's quite obvious at this point, this entry left a lot more to be desired than its predecessors and could easily signal doom for the future of this franchise. If another sequel is to be made, then there needs to be some substantial changes implemented to get the series back on track. Do whatever it takes to bring back the entertainment value this franchise once had in spades. If nothing changes, then the "Resident Evil" series will become just another laughing stock in the already long list of horror franchises that outstayed their welcome.  "Resident Evil: Afterlife is rated R for violence and language.

Could be better The book written by Stephen King was absolutely fenominal, but the movie  can't compare. Not that "It" is a bad movie, but there were a few too many important details and a few new things that were added in. Now, about the disk itself, everything was okay untill I had to read other review to find out that the 2nd part of the movie is on the other side of the disk. But, all in all, it was worth the price.

Pretty Good for A Mainstream Movie The writer of this film is a cancer survivor himself; so having a friend recently [lose] a battle with cancer, I could really relate the the pain in the movie, but it was told within the superficial confines of mainstream hollywood move formulas. So characters are essentially one dimensional.

Musical Classics 50 Movie Pack Collection Very enjoyable, but only viewed a few of the movies so far, would have liked to have seen more colorized

OK, but 2006 BBC version is best I was surprised when this 2011 version of Jane Eyre popped up in movie theaters.  The 2006 BBC version of Jane Eyre with Toby Stephens and Ruth Wilson was, in my mind, the perfect  adaption.  It reminded me of when Pride and Prejudice was released on the big screen with Kiera Knightly as Elizabeth.  I dragged myself to see it knowing full well I'd be disappointed.  So I resisted seeing this film but the reviews were so good that I finally watched it once it came out on DVD.  I will say the actors were good and it isn't nearly as bad as the big screen version of Pride and Prejudice, but it was still a let down.  Once you get the perfect version fixed in your mind, any other attempts to watch another adaption of a classic are a waste of time.

The Title Says it All I just finished watching this movie a little while ago and, while I knew by the title we were going to get a formulaic dating movie, I still watched in hopes of a new twist.  Okay, so this time it centers on Kirk, played by Jay Baruchel, a totally unappealing, bumbling guy with a loser job and zero personality.  He's been dumped by a nasty, very average looking girl who wears too much makeup and meets Molly, played by Alice Eve, who is not only beautiful but nice (Sorry, but in my experience, most beautiful girls aren't very nice).  The surprise is that Molly, according to her friend Patti, is into him.  Um, yeah, Houston, we have a problem right here.  I'm not saying it couldn't happen, but when in the real world does a cross between Patsy Kensit, Nicole Kidman, and Reese Witherspoon with everything going for her fall for a guy with a dead end job, a family too eerily like mine, and a beat up car?  Not very often.  That aside, I thought the movie humor was a bit gross, but it genuinely had me laughing at least 20 times.  Not bad, given the subject matter.  The shaving scene and the incident with the dog were too over-the-top gross in my book, but I thought the movie conveyed a great message.  If you don't think you're all that hot, how can you believe anybody else will?  Unrealistic or not, it was basically fun, but I wouldn't call it "original" as some people are claiming.  Mostly, it is a glimpse into how easily a person can perceive themselves based on the opinions of others, and the alternatives they can take to go against the grain.  That said, I just think better made movies get this point across with less awkwardness and crudeness.  Try Disney's The Princess Diaries or--god help me!--Encino Man.  I would at least rate both those movies considerably higher than this one. SOOML is fun, but mostly fantasy, and relies heavily on formula lots of men have used not-so-boldly before.

Foreign-voice dub 2.5 starz-voice dubbing was adequate, NOT even close to Shawn of the Dead, but if you like Zombie satire-deffinately worth a watch n decent budget-suggest rent before you buy-

Did a good job recreating the trio Enjoyable enough. Good rental, but it was not something I'd watch multiple times. My son enjoyed the slapstick comedy, which I admit was well done.

Not the best but not bad The artwork was good, the characters were good. Some of the villains used really surprised me. This is not a spoiler: the Royal Flush gang makes an appearance.  I felt like the movie was going well and was pretty smart up until the main villain revealed his master plan. At that point all science and intelligence went out the window. The Justice League also disappointed me because they had everyone fight their rivals. If any of the team members would have helped Superman, who was fighting the only villain he was weak against, he could have easily defeated every other member of the Legion of Doom. Is Green Lantern weak against kryptonite and I never noticed? Also the position of the sun and the speed of light are convenient to however much time the movie has left.  Now to get serious--- it is not a bad movie. It feels like a comic book movie and it seems like some of the ideas could have been good but just did not translate in to animation well (any time there was an outerspace scene it made the universe some how feel compact).  Some of the characters were used better than I had ever seen them before, especially the cheetah woman and Flash.  This movie is actually very easy to describe and recommend. If you like the universe these characters come from you will like the movie. It is not perfect, it is not the best DCAU movie, but even the worst episodes of Batman TAS were enjoyable. This is a middle of the road Justice League story that begins and ends in a little over an  hour. Anything less than $15 is worth it. The artwork on the box looks good too.

The beginning and end are the best parts of this horror movie This horror film is based on a semi autobiographical novel by Rula Jebreal. It is a prequel to Malevolence which I liked more. This movie centers on a boy who is taken from his home. He is made to watch horrible things his captor does who is a psychotic killer. They live in a farmhouse in an isolated area which prevents others from knowing what is going on there. But then a girl moves into a nearby farmhouse and suspects there is something going on. The acting is fair but once you've seen the first stabbings there isn't much more to it until the last 20 minutes or so. I found myself wanting to fast forward through the middle of the movie but didn't so I could properly review it. I was hoping something different was going to happen but that wasn't the case. I didn't find this movie scary but has a lot of gore. Gore for gores sake. Music and suspense cause me to be scared. The hint of seeing something or hearing something that may be scary. When it's just in your face stabbing and gore it doesn't scare me as was the case with this movie.

A different take on the overcrowded psycho-killer indie horror genre A Horrible Way to Die is a low budget horror film.  One of the many indie psycho-killer genre films that can be found in redboxes, netflixes and video stores.  But this one has a twist, Garick Turrell is a psycho- killer and he has an ex-girlfriend that he still cares about (The dude's been locked up in a prison due to his homicide habit).  What's the first thing he does when he gets out (besides get out of his bright orange jumpsuit and clean himself up)?  If you said look up his ex and remove her from her new life you win a kewpie doll.  The usual serial killer/psycho stuff happens (Mr Psycho has a very rabid fan base who do their best to please him when they finally get a chance to meet their idol).  What happens to the reunited couple?  You'll have to find out if their really is A Horrible Way to Die!  I'm tired of these psycho/slasher horror films (especially those done on the cheap and filled with cliches).  But if you want to see one that's a little bit different and photographed well then you'll want to check this one out.  Believe me, you can do a whole lot worse.

Love the movie, Blu-Ray version weak This movie is a holiday staple at our house, so I highly recommend it for people who enjoy a little good, old-fashioned, Chevy Chase slapstick humor.  The Blu-ray looked in parts like somebody had taken a hi-res camcorder into a movie and tried to hold it as steady as possible.  Other parts weren't as shaky, but the image quality was no better than DVD.  I'd say I'm disappointed, but my expectations weren't Avatar-level graphics.  Still, a great movie.

Continuous jolts.... obvious twists.... A young woman named Sarah (Elizabeth Olson) is in her family's isolated lake house with the power being out, she's trapped, panicked and terrorized by someone or something that wants her. From the Chris Kentis & Laura Lau ( directors of "Open Water") decide to take this cliched concept and try to spice it up by presenting the events in the house in real time, meaning all the action and suspense takes place minute by minute and is a massive continuous shot (well maybe, the jury is still out on that, but at least it looks cool in the presentation).  After Sarah's uncle leaves for a bit, Sarah and her dad get attacked and thus the real meat of the film begins as Sarah tries to survivea against this unknown threat. Outside of its presentation its not much different than most horror movies of recent years but at least its not always boring. It is also far, far, far better than "Open Water" ever could've hope to have been.  However the movie isn't without its flaws, the continous shots both help and hurt it, help cause it is neat to see but hurts cause it feels kinda amateurish after a while. At least its a short movie, just over 80 minutes in fact, but the directors do keep the jolts coming even if its all too familiar to most horror fans. ** out of 4 stars.

Not what I was expecting. It's valentines day and my boyfriend and I decided to go to the movies. I had been dying to see 'The Vow' and after some convincing, my boyfriend had agreed to go. I'll be the first to admit that I'm a sucker for sweet, sappy, love stories. Typical favorites include the likes of "The Notebook" and "A Walk to Remember", just to name a few. So really, it was no surprise to anyone that I REALLY wanted to see this movie.  The movie is basically centered around Paige and Leo, a young couple that seemed to fall in love almost immediately and got married shortly after. The couple is involved in a car accident, with Paige, of course, not wearing a seat belt and being ejected out of her seat and through the windshield. The movie tells the story of how the couple met and fell in love, Paige losing her memories of her husband, and how Leo struggles with the fact that the love of his life no longer remembers him and really doesn't seem to really want anything to do with him.  I thought the movie was just OK. To me, this movie kind of fell short like the movie "Dear John". Who knows, maybe had they picked a different actor for Leo instead of Channing Tatum, I might of liked it a little better, but with the way it was and Channing taking over the role of Leo, it kind of fell flat. It's not something that I personally will be buying on DVD, but if it was to ever come out on Netflix, I might watch it again. If you're like me and in to the typical chick flicks, I'd say go see it and judge the movie for yourself. But as for me, like I said, it just wasn't for me.

2 1/2 stars for a weepy drama Promoted as a romantic comedy, there's little humor in this attempt at adding a twist to the age old story of two people "meant for each other." The film opens in current time showing a young woman on a bicycle navigating through traffic but quickly cuts back to 1988.  Dex (Jim Sturgess) and Emma (Anne Hathaway) are college classmates in England who barely know each other but go drinking the night of their graduation.  Em is a bit dorky with her giant horn-rimmed glasses and equally giant underwear.  Dex is a campus stud who is still interested.  Both have been drinking.  Their attempt at copulation is unfulfilled for a variety of reasons, but mostly Emma's shyness and uncertainty.  Eventually they agree to cuddle but no sex and remain friends.  Each year they get together on July 15, so the film takes us to each of those year where we get to experience their current life's situation.  Dex becomes a TV host of a dance club show and cavorts with numerous bimbos.  Emma's career of writing never takes off so she is stuck at a Mexican restaurant for years before becoming a teacher.  At some point, Dex becomes less attractive and relies on booze to get him through.  Emma of course becomes quite the looker.  Most audiences will know where this movie is going before even turning on the TV.  None of this is new.  Frankly it's just aggravating.  Eventually what we know will happen does, but when we check the DVD player's clock and remember that opening sequence we know that the show isn't over.  Hathaway always gives a fine performance and does so here.  Sturgess is excellent as well, but this move is so maudlin and predictable I just wanted to get on with it and cut out about 5 of those yearly reunions.  The Blu ray version of this film looks very good.  Transferred in 1080p with a 2.35:1 aspect ratio, the film contrast and black levels are excellent.  No complaints.  The audio is in DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1.  Surround activity is pretty good but rare.  Expect some action coming from crowd scenes, restaurants and bars.  Dialog is clear and concise.  Again, no complaints.

wonderful 60's comedy, but scenes are missing I saw this with my dad, who was a psychiatrist and have remembered it for over 40 years.  It is a hilarious romp of a film about a psychiatrist who must "treat" a president to help him cope with the pressures of his job.  While it is dated in many ways - the Cold War is over, talk therapy is out, 60s hippydom is gone, etc. - it felt relevant and very fun.  After having treated a CIE (i.e. CIA) man with great success, the analyst is selected for the delicate job of being constantly available for the president.  This throws him not only into bureaucratic intrigue, but also interests an astonishing array of spies who want to kidnap, brainwash, or interrogate him.  Once they force his girlfriend out of his house because he talks in his sleep, the shrink realizes that he is out of his depth and, after a nervous breakdown, he flees into a tenuous freedom with a hippy rock band.  It full of happenings and the chemistry of the characters is unique.  Finally, a CIE man and a KGB agent collude to bring him back, only to find themselves facing a corporate power the likes of which none of them had ever imagined.  I would have given this 5 stars, but realized that there is at least one and possibly more scenes missing.  I distinctly remember that the analyst meets his girl in an avantgarde art show - he refuses to leave because he finds it funny rather than insulting, explaining it to her - but the scene is not in this version.  I wonder what else, if anything, might have been altered.  In other words, this is not an extant version - it is abridged.  Recommended anyway.

COULD HAVE BEEN GOOD IF I HAD NOT SEEN !HEAT! BEFORE This movie is a shell of the crime masterpiece known as HEAT,It doesn't make you understand and feel the cut throat,grimy,and cold bloodedness of the streets like HEAT does.The only thing memorible about this movie is the costumes they wore when they robbed banks & armored cars.IF you want to see true crime masterpieces then you need to rent the movie !HEAT! and you also need to see the movie !THIEF! with the actor JAMES CAAN.(In my opinion THIEF is the better movie)

Pretty Good Until the End I actually liked this movie, right up until the last five minutes, when it took the easy way out. What I liked about it was the sense of ambiguity: was the girl really possessed or just a dangerous psychotic? Most American viewers don't like ambiguity and need a neat, tidy ending. I believe the ending detracted from the film, and the story should have finished with the preacher driving away. One other minor note, it would have been nice if a few of the actors could at least simulate a South Louisiana accent, since that was where the film was set.

Disappointing -- Scorcese filmed the wrong story The trailers for "Hugo" are hugely misleading. I expected a fantasy story about a young orphan in Paris, with floating robots and mystery trains. Instead, I got a rather pedestrian tale about the orphan with little of the fantasy. Indeed - spoilers ahead! - the film became a biography of early cinematographer Georges M&eacute;li&egrave;s, he of "Voyager to the Moon" fame. As sad as was the life of poor orphan Hugo, forced to wind clocks in the Montparnasse train station, the story of M&eacute;li&egrave;s (played by Ben Kingsley) was a much more compelling and could have been a film in itself. The Hugo material was too skimpy, making this part of the film tiresome. A couple of love stories between train station regulars might have made the film more bearable. As would a btter eye for comedy. I knew we were in trouble when an early scene, in which a character catches a leg brace in a train door, fell comedically flat. And Sacha Baron Cohen, as a brutal yet lovesick gendarme, was completely misdirected. His character was not given any motivation or his foul temper - the audience was left to imagine a war wound as the likely cause.  I will say that Scorcese did a nice job of evoking 1920s Paris fashions, signage and technology. The train station was truly a bustling place full of thousands of stories every time a train arrived or departed. The Paris scenes were mostly done as matte paintings, and lacked realism. That might or might not be your cup of tea.  "Hugo" is a huge waste of money, except that it will bring more attention to M&eacute;li&egrave;s and his enormous output of wonderful early films. The man was a creative genius and his story deserved not to be twisted with a nameless and fictional orphan. And the 3D brought nothing to the film, except a buck or two extra on the ticket price.  I told you I was disappointed.

Good Old John Wayne Western This is a typical John Wayne western, to the extent there is such a thing. Wayne plays Jake Cutter, a Texas ranger. Cutter arrests Paul Regret to be extradited to Louisiana for a duel in New Orleans, just as Regret was falling in love with Pilar, a beautiful black-haired and black eyed lady. The man he killed in a proper duel was the governor's son, and Texas has agreed to cooperate with Louisiana.  Jake handcuffs Regret to his saddle and mounts him on a mule to return him to the ranger station, while Jake rides a horse. His point is that if Regret tries to take off, he will have little trouble catching him. They come upon a settlers' house burning and all 5 family members dead with Comanche arrows in them. Cutter and Regret bury the five, then Regret uses the shovel to knock Cutter out and run off with his horse. Jake comes to lying in the pouring rain, and uses the mule to return to the ranger station.  Meanwhile, the rangers have captured gun-runner Ed McBain and a wagon load of rifles he planned to sell to the Comanches. He was to take the load to Sweetwater, where someone would meet him. The captain figures they probably don't know McBain by sight, and has Cutter imitate him and take the load to Sweetwater. There he finds that Tully Crow (Lee Marvin) is the contact, and it's clear he meant to swindle McBain. But Cutter is smarter than him, and has buried the rifles prior to their meeting.  They get drunk together, calling each other partner but not trusting one another in the least, and eventually decide to enter a poker game in the side room of a restaurant. Cutter hides his surprise when he sees that Paul Regret is in the game. Cutter introduces himself to Regret as Ed McBain, and seems to successfully signal him not to let on what he knows: that he's really a Texas ranger. But Crow accuses Cutter of cheating, and Cutter/McBain kills him. Then he arrests Regret again.  He now takes Regret with him in the gun-runner's wagon. They stop at the home of the Scofields, old friends of Cutter and his dead wife. Oddly, we are told Mrs. Scofield is having a baby (as if she was already in labor), and yet her belly is flat under the covers. I guess that's 1961 censorship! A band of Comanches and Comancheros (whites who run with them) attack the Scofields, and Cutter and Regret fight them off. But Regret steals a horse again and takes off. He returns in a couple of minutes, however, leading a troop of Texas rangers to the Scofields' to drive off the Comanches and Comancheros.  So the rangers take Regret to Judge Bean, who accepts their affidavits to the effect that Regret is a Texas ranger and could not possibly have killed a man in New Orleans. They pin a badge on him and "volunteer" him go with Cutter/Ed McBain to take the gun-runner's wagon to the Comancheros.  They meet the Comanches out in the wilderness (Monument Valley of course; most of Wayne's westerns were filmed there), who lead them to a village which is the hideout of the Comancheros. Cutter and Regret open the boxes of rifles and let the Comanches and Comancheros examine them, only to find they have no firing pins. The deal is they pay him, he returns with another load of guns and the firing pins. The chief of the Comancheros laughs at this proposal, and strings them up in the hot sun. Pilar shows up and orders them cut down. Turns out she is the Comanchero chief's daughter.  Of course, Cutter, Regret and Pilar escape in the wagon, although Pilar's father is killed. Then the Texas rangers show up and everything is great.  It's a good, but not a great, movie.

Boxing This is one of many Grandes Pealas dvds i own. I think i like this one the least. Three fights on this dvd and two of them have spanish commentary wich makes it alot less enjoyable for me. The Zarate-Zaragoza fight is in english. The Marquez vs Barrera fight is in Spanish and really was not a great fight in my opinion. I expected more action from Marco Antonio Barrera. still it is a nice edition to my fight libarary.The Raton Macias fight is black and white and also in spanish. Great if you speak that but i have just very little understanding of it.

Started out great, but... This looked interesting enough for me to rent, and it started off really well. However, it started to unravel into a campy flick with some bad acting and writing. The ending especially disappointed me, which was sad because this film honestly did start out with real promise (and remained so till about halfway through) I hate it when movies start out great and go downhill. Feh.

Not what I expected Not what I expected--at least a decent storyline from Spielberg, known for his captivating (most of the time) narratives. Instead, what you get is a broken up narrative, told from the point of view of the ... horse. I would say five stories and a horse (or horses, for several were used in the filming), and a cycle of boy-horse love affair, forgotten until just about everyone in Europe during the war took possession of it, until it returns to its original owner. To be fair, some good battle scenes--the charge of horses/cavalry against German machine guns, reminding of Lawrence of Arabia, (a film Spelberg treasured) with different results.  Good luck to those who choose to see it, but if you must, the advice is to see it in two nights. It might ease the tedium. Or make for a better movie.

A Safe, Scary, Stereotypical Dose of Found-Footage Horror Found footage screamers have been around long enough to develop their own unique set of stereotypes, and this one carries an armload of them. In following a small group of boldly stupid reality TV producers, out to capture cheap footage of supernatural events, it uncovers the requisite amount of creepy crawlies and recycled scares by way of night vision lens and shaky hand-held camera. It deserves credit for finding a great setting (an abandoned mental institution that might be a cliche if it weren't so effective) and for resisting the urge to go completely over the top during the closing scenes. Too many good setups of this kind are blown on an indulgent final act, (Paranormal Activity, I'm looking at you here) so it's nice to see one that's able to keep its chills relegated to short, efficient bursts. The entire cast is thoroughly unsympathetic, though, and their intrepid leader is the worst of the worst. May not tread any new ground, but it also doesn't stumble over any tripwires.

everything but the heaven coin when i found this one here and rightstuff i decided to buy it from amazon because im use to the good service i have gotten in the past while shopping here, even if it did cost a little more. and was looking forward to getting this and of course the LE item the Heaven coin. and when i opened it up i was looking in the packaging and then opened both dvd cases and did not find the heaven coin. not finding that but knowing others got the coin made me upset knowing i could have went for the cheaper site and gotten it. while Amazon does a great job making sure the stuff you order is safe i wish they would have had the heaven coins with the box set they sold

He's improved Brooks' recent work, notably the brilliantly imaginative "Defending Your Life," and the incomparably insightful "Mother," are outstanding.  He's come a long way since he started.  "Lost in America" was one of the few movies that I couldn't finish watching, and I confess that I only continued with "Modern Romance" in the hope that it would get better.  The first part seemed to go on for hours, as Brooks, in the grip of a Qaalude overdose, made and received innumerable and pointless phone calls, and dithered endlessly over his tumultuous relationship with his girlfriend.  The two main characters, alternately drawn to and repelled by each other, seemed to be each others' punishment for unknown transgressions that both had committed in their previous incarnations.  Brooks' acting was fine as ever, in that he plays the same character in all of his films, and even in 1981 had the role mastered.  Unfortunately, the female lead was stiff and wooden, to the point that I wondered if Brooks had cast her as a favor to someone, like she was the niece of a studio executive or something.  This film is mainly of interest if you have to see everything Albert Brooks has made.  If this is your only exposure to his work, I recommend the two films mentioned above, along with the entertaining "The Muse," before prematurely dismissing this highly creative and brilliant artist.  Leopold Bloom "You're a smooth smoothie, ya know."

After awhile, too much Potter is like cold oatmeal I stopped liking the Potter films as of film 4 or 5. I got this 'cuz it was cheap and I hadn't seen it.  It did not disappointment me.  It was BORING.

not take impress good for basic high school science but conceptually simple...in fact some aspects of it is too simple! expected more from the contents but it did not delivered! the joke are lame and are presented in a very kiddish manners....buttom line, good for kids BUT not good for someones in advance topic of science.

Reduced stars for aspect ratio, NOT the movie itself. I'll leave the review of the movie to others, but I forgot this was a Lionsgate release and they did what they usually do - they very slightly zoom into the image, resulting in a full screen 16:9 (1.78:1) aspect ratio for what was in theaters a 1.85:1 release.  While for most this will be no big deal, if you're looking carefully you CAN see a difference between this and the older letterboxed DVD.  A nit to be sure, but not one that needs to be there, especially when the 2002 Miramax release got it right.  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00003CY6M">Serendipity (2002 DVD)</a>

It's been done before - generic but still entertaining I rented it on Zune marketplace because i happen to have a microsoft Xbox 360 and they stream full 1080 vids with no interruptions (way better than any other streaming method). I'm a fan of Idris Elba from alot of british shows and Charlize Theron is almost always good in her roles. I don't see alot of mesmerizing performances in sci-fi movies simply because too much is usually going on story-wise to get deep into characters. That is true in this film unfortunately, i say that not because the characters weren't explored early on and introduced through story (they were) but since i didn't feel emotionally attached to them like in some of the more memorable films i've seen. It's very hard to create that sense of feeling for a character in a few hours as opposed to tv where when an actor dies it's enveloping after watching for an entire season(walking dead, sons of anarchy, etc.) Overall, i was entertained and would say that this movie is to this franchise (alien) what terminator salvation was to it's franchise, just another installment. I've rarely seen preqeuls or sequels that are better than the original and this lives up to that stereotyping. I have to admit my #1 reason for renting was i crave sci-fi films which are few and far between unless you like the cheesy network b-movie variety and #2 was I'm a fan of Charlize Theron. This movie didn't dissapoint on either of my two reasons (good overall entertainment/charlize was steady), but the overall experience feels like it's been done before.

no Digital Copy redemption code I opened the package looking for the Digital Copy redemption code, the area where the information is supposed to be is BLANK.  No code...so how do I get one?  This is something from the manufacturer.

Smeh Wasn't really the best movie. Had a bit of suspense and leaves you questioning in the end, but I probably won't watch it again except for the mere fact that I live in the area the movie is set in. That's the only reason I was interested in it in the first place, and it left nothing to be desired otherwise even after watching it. Could have been worse for a lower production movie though.

What is new ??? I saw PA2 in Blu-ray of course. Someone still rents or buy DVDs ??? The movie has its moments but it is all. Just to have some fun.

Two Surprises in this telling of the Wyatt Earp Myth I came into this movie with low expectations, and that is exactly what I would recommend to anyone viewing 'I Married Wyatt Earp'. Temper your expectations, and then be prepared for some nice surprises.  You must know that this is a made-for-TV-movie, and thus is shot in a made-for-TV-movie frame (no Panavision here), and makes use of a made-for-TV-movie musical score. And, it stars Marie Osmond. But having said all that I was quite delighted to find the film has a fair amount of gravitas and worth recommending. (parenthetically, it's a much better movie than that stupid looking box cover intimates. Marie looks like a mother upset with her child, and Bruce looks like the child, who just got busted with his hand in the cookie jar. It's definitely better than that!)  In fact this version of the Wyatt Earp story might be a good entr&eacute;e for men wishing to entice a wife or girlfriend to sit through a Western. There's something for both sexes here. Marie Osmond's version of performer Josie Marcus, who goes on to marry Wyatt Earp, is that of a strong woman. But not the I-can-karate-chop-your-head-off-even-though-I'm-half-your-weight strong woman of today's Hollywood. No, she's got moxy, and she's not afraid to grab the reigns of a team of horses or pick up a rifle to hold the bad guys at bay... even though she knows nothing of either. For the men there are a number of tense moments of drama between the good guys and the bad guys, not only with firearms but with up close and personal stare down confrontations that rank as some of the best I've seen in all the Earp movies (I' can't believe I'm actually saying this).  In terms of how accurate this movie was in portraying the actual events, I must confess that I have given up on that game. In going through the many Earp films I came to realize that the Wyatt Earp myth is just that... myth. It's become folklore. Sure, there were the original events in 1881, but that story soon became a legend, which evolved into a myth. Every telling of that myth is drawing from the 'template' or 'archetype' of the original circumstances, and each of these tellings in my view stands on its own. I watch a Wyatt Earp movie now for both entertainment as well as the lessons brought out. And believe me, each telling has its own lessons. It's great that all the Wyatt Earp movies are not the same.  Whereas some Earp movies focus on, say, the relationship between Wyatt and Doc Holiday (My Darling Clementine, 1946 or Gunfight at the OK Corral, 1957), or the relationship between Earp and Ike Clanton (Hour of the Gun, 1967), instead 'I Married Wyatt Earp' focuses on Josie Marcus as she reacts to the very unfamiliar environment she has placed herself in, and the very different kind of men pursuing her (along with a sub-theme based on the conflict between Earp and Sheriff Behan).  The rendering of events in this movie leaves no ambiguity regarding the Earps. They are cast as solid good guys with few if any shades of gray. We watch as Josie iterates from bad-guy Behan, whom she somehow does not recognize his slimy character for some time, to good-guy Wyatt, who must contain his desire for Josie due to his married status (like I said, pure good guy).  As we approach the climax of the movie Josie attempts to be a voice of reason to the testosterone-fired men who see a gunfight to the death as the only viable solution. I liked they way they played this here because you get to see both sides of the coin. The idea of a group of men standing a few yards apart and shooting led into each other is arguably an insane act. It should be stopped! But on the other hand we're dealing with evil personified here, and the only way to be sure these bedeviled men won't hunt you and your family down however long it takes, each and every one of the bastards must be placed 6' below the surface of the earth.  In other respects we get a standard issue telling of the story with the obligatory walk down Main St. to the OK Corral, and once there the shootout is staged more accurately than other renderings. The shootout itself is placed about 3/4 of the way through the film (unlike other versions where it occurs at the very beginning or very ending of the movie).  The ending of I Married Wyatt Earp is different form any version I've seen. This is actually great because here is where the second surprise is delivered (the first being a much higher caliber film then anticipated); it's a very satisfying ending! Not as satisfying as the ending in Tombstone, but good. See for yourself.

Great price for a 3D movie I have nothing bad to say about the seller at all, the item arrived on time, even sooner than expected.  The price was amazing for a 3D movie, actually was half the price best buy was selling it for.  The only thing negative I have to say is that the movie was not really my type of movie, which is not the sellers fault what so ever.  So all in all I'd say the seller is reliable and very fair with pricing.

Decent Movie ... With a Crap Ending ... Here's the A-Z! ** CONTAINS SPOILERS **  I mean, sure, we've all fallen prey to a great horror/murder premise that leads us in to watch it with either a good storyline, a good trailer or even just some well put together cover art re: DVD or poster ... but ending anything on TO BE CONTINUED is b/s of the highest order, sorry!  OK, as you can read either a) "it was so realistic, so wonderful," or b) "it was bad, so bad" in the 22 other reviews listed here before me, let me bring you up to speed quickly with an A-Z ... a local fair is setting up for the weekend and at the same time a convicted child killer breaks out of prison (we never see his photo on the fax though) and a group of 4 teens journey out to Munger Road, the scene of some spooky goings-on over the years.  The fair is a waste of plot time, the escaped convict too (as he proves to have been already killed in a hit and run at 11pm the same night he escaped), and so the only two stories are a) the Sheriff and his deputy chasing a copper piping thief out of (would you credit it) the escaped convicts old house, and b) the four teens stuck in a broken down car gone midnight on a spooky, foggy road!  As the kids get supposedly (as we never see it happen to any of them) killed off one by one by a mysterious, red lumberjack-shirted older man (who loves to leave a single handprint on their car windows), the Sheriff and his deputy eventually make their way to the old house that the convict used to own - and kill his past victims. The only girl to escape thus far was Jo, who instead of following the rail road track into town, decides to veer off into the woods, finds the creepy house, and then chooses to look inside for her boyfiend!  She encounters the "killer" who chases her outside by the barn, where she finds her boyfriend, Corey, safe and sound - but acting too calm, too "ok" with everything for my liking! He then, off camera, goes to fight the "killer," whereupon seemingly loses and the "killer" (still unseen) comes to kill Jo - but doesn't, letting her survive. But she DOES get a look at him.  Come the arrival of the police, they comb the area but there's no sign of the other three teens - dead or alive - but the camcorder that one of them uses throughout to record ghostly stuff is quickly studied. It's then that, given it's last entry, the deputy asks Jo what really happened ... and as the camera turns to her, the screen goes black and the words TO BE CONTINUED come up!  This film was not good enough that it needed to be a two-parter, but was just about good enough to be a solid 3 out of 5 movie for entertainment value. The acting was cheesy at the start, but once you got to know the characters you accepted their level of acting and went along for the ride, so to speak.  In closing, it was co-produced by Robert Englund and his wife so that might explain a few things! (but not much!!)

"It has begun!" Blu-Ray review.  If you are reading this for the DVD, some of this information may not be relevant.  Film:  3/5, Picture Quality:  3/5, Audio Quality:  2.5/5, Extras:  1.5/5, Overall:  3/5  Quality:  This Blu-Ray looks better than I thought it would.  I am pleased with its sharpness and detail, which appears consistently well-defined.  Some noise and grain can be seen here and there, but otherwise it looks quite clean.  Colors and contrast can be pretty weak at certain spots.  Sound quality was disappointing; sound effects didn't have much impact, the dialogue was subdued in many places, and the volume was a little low overall.  One part sounded a bit muffled.  But otherwise, it is mostly clean and clear.  Extras include a God-awful 40-minute animated feature, a trailer, and BD-Live capability.  The first release of this disc includes a digital copy and a PSN download to unlock a costume in the latest MK game.  It wouldn't surprise me if future editions of this movie excluse the PSN code and DC.  Film:  Back in the 90s, I remember when the classic video game hit the markets and caused a stir.  Not only did it make a huge commercial splash, but it was also quite controversial for its graphicness.  I honestly never had the pleasure of playing these MK games, and in this day and age, fighting games are not my forte.  But action and martial arts movies certainly are, especially when they're based on popular video games.  The "Mortal Kombat" movie offers plenty of fun.  It's got enough fight scenes to satisfy; some are short and some are pretty cheesy, but some fights hold up really well and are a blast.  It's got some very old-school special effects that, even though appear gaudy by today's standards, are good in concept and design.  Above all, this is a film that doesn't take itself that seriously; it's probably an important aspect for a film with such a weak story and with so many limitations.  Most of the movie's flaws are forgivable given the tongue-in-cheek attitude, and altogether it's not too far off from the original video game.  For better or for worse though, the story suffers tremendously.  Of course, fighting games like this don't usually have a story to draw upon, so the movie does the best it can to extrapolate the characters and tournament-themed conflict into an "Enter the Dragon"-style plot.  It works for the most part, but I find it pretty darn shallow, unoriginal, and lacking in proper immersion.  Some more depth to the story, characters, or environment would probably have helped.  The film shows fine photography and editing, with some interesting lighting effects.  Acting is pretty hammy all around; Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa is almost laughable with his facial expressions and over-zealous dialogue, and I found it hard to take Christopher Lambert seriously.  But, the three main leads (Robin Shou, Linden Ashby, and Bridgette Wilson) fit their roles respectably.  Writing is not terribly sophisticated at all.  The production shows some limitations with its horrid CGI-graphics and some fake-looking sets and props.  But, the designs are awesome and the costumes aren't bad.  Music is really smashing.  I'm sure this film will appeal to kids wanting something exciting and don't mind something slightly cheesy.  Video game fans and folks who grew up with this movie will probably get a nostalgic kick out of it too.  Otherwise, I can only recommend it as a rental.  3/5 (entertainment:  4/5, story:  2/5, film:  3/5)

Not  a film for the whole family as advertised The description for the movie on the "watch trailer" page describes this movie as for the whole family. The most obvious reason this is not for children is the amount of violence, both mortal wounds and violence against women. While not visually showing the following, the script and plot refer to adultery and fornication and morbid subjects. Cuss words abound. Protect your kids.

Great music, but the practice is lacking. I loved the music in this video it was great and there was a long and enjoyable restoration session at the end of the video. There are some con's I felt that this session while relaxing can get boring and some of the moves begin to feel repetitive. After the fourth Sun Salutation I began to feel my energy and enjoyment waning. Also, the setting in which the class took place can sort of undermine the feeling the teacher is trying to get across. It seemed cluttered and there was an echo in the room I would have preferred a more serene setting or maybe something outdoors. Overall, I was disappointed with what could have been a great Yoga session.

The book is better. The book by this title is phenomenally well written and enjoyable. The movie was just metiocre, because the lead was cast with a one dimensional, flat actor whose acting never allowed me to suspend my disbelief. Read the book if you have the time.

kinda boring i'm not sure why, but i thought this movie would be a little more than a story of betrayal and lust. i really wished they would have focused on the time before she took the crown, and ended when she finally got it.

Ok, but could be better I just bought this for my almost 4 year old who is obsessed with the Nutcracker and all things Ballet.  She is in her 2nd year of ballet but could use help perfecting her steps so I thought this was a great 2-for-1 DVD.  It's a great concept but the picture quality of the actual Nutcracker performance is poor and they really cut it down.  I like that they help tell the story but thought they glazed over a lot of the beautiful dancing.  I agree with the other reviewer that the animated ballerina could have been skipped altogether.  I also think that showing people skiing, sledding and going down slides is not really "showing" them how to glide.  Showing the girls doing the actual moves is a lot more effective and my daughter kept asking me to rewind it so she could watch them, not a big group of ice-skaters, etc. She seems to like it enough so I'm not disappointed to have bought it, but after having read all the other reviews I expected a lot more.  Don't think I'll be buying the Swan Lake version.

Freelancers Just So-So I know Curtis Jackson (50 cents) is not a stellar actor but I like him anyway. Really wanted to like this movie alot because the top 3 cast members are some of my favorites. But alas, as stated by some before the movie is very predictable, the script gets boring at times, definately no Oscar winner here LOL. But I believe the movie was just intended to be entertaining and that it was. Your typical, corrupt cop bang bang shoot-em-up very weak plot type of movie. They are not trying to make a point so just enjoy.

Graphic Portrayal of a Significant WW11 Battle The movie portrayed a WWII battle (Huertgen Forest) that is often overshadowed in history by the Battle of the Bulge. The movie was violent and graphic and probably could not even come close to portraying what actually occurred. It did not provide much history of the battle, or the significance of the battle, but clearly delivered the message that the battle was costly. It was a war movie centered around the story of an individual who was a de facto leader with significant issues and a follower who blindly obeyed on the hopes of staying alive. There was a bit of irony at the end as it looked like a replay of the beginning, different characters same circumstances. It was a good movie that could have been much better with more development and a plot rather than just battle scenes and violence or at least some historical narrative on the significance and reason for the fight.

case 39 The point of this film is to teach us that we shouldn't adopt children because who knows what we really end up bringing into our home.. nah, i doubt that's the point but i'm not about to adopt any time soon. So this thriller is about a social worker named Emily who is given a new case: a little girl who's having problems at hime and school. Her parents are strange and things don't seem right. I'll say right now that the coolest scene is when Emily sees the girl being cooked in the oven and her attempts to free her while her parents are grabbing knives and stuff.. So after all that fun, Emily ends up adopting the girl and then strange things happen, like people who are close to emily end up dying and the little girl is suddenly not sweet anymore but seems to be something not of this world.. I saw it coming from the start, thanks to the film Jennifer. What the parents of the girl were doing, now Emily ends up doing.. it's an ongoing cycle that needs to be broken. It's a fun creepy film with good moments and fun ending. I enjoyed it.

It's Okay... I adore Shiva Rea. I own 3 of her DVDs total. This one kind of let me down. I do love the routines. I think they are a great addition to my practice; however, I feel like the DVD is incomplete. I can't quite put my finger on it, but the shavasana (excuse my spelling) is way too short and I feel like the routines end abruptly. I'm not a huge fan of the music selection, but it's nothing I can't tolerate. The 108 push up sun salutation sequence is very repetitive, but great for practicing and doing something to get focused and heart rate up. The balancing sequence is my favorite, but just ends abruptly like I said -- not sure how to explain that further, but that is the best word to describe it. :) I pop this DVD in for the scenery and coloring. It's beautiful. But if you are looking for a first DVD of hers or want to grow your Shiva collection, this one won't make or break it.

Real or not! I visited Pripyat soon after.  The movie wasn't even shot there.  That's how flawed the movie is.  Come on! At least shoot the scene at the ferris wheel on site.  If you want to see my adventure, type in "Decay is headed your way! (Pripyat)  Thanks

Dumbed-down history for the NCLB era It's very pretty, I'll say that for it, and the acting's certainly pro. That b/w process they used is terrifically lush, almost Max Factor.  Beyond that, though...boy, this is Journalism Heroes 101. The McCarthy story's a great one and Murrow was a serious guy, but the story's reduced to semaphore for this thing, a series of journalistic cliches. All the President's Men did much better, and that was with Woodward writing his patented Fantasy Internal Dialogue of High Officials. I'm sure the excuse goes that it's a movie, it's supposed to entertain and teach people who've never heard of Joe McCarthy, but that's all messed up. If they've never heard of Joe McCarthy, you want to serve up a shovelful of reality, not gleanings.  The acting-to-newsreel trick's a nice one, but it doesn't compensate for the thinness of the storytelling or the punch-pulling with the elbow out to Mars (there's a suicide? I'm shocked!). If you're not just looking for eye candy, try actual books instead on this subject. There's no end of books on both McCarthy and CBS -- I think Fred Friendly wrote one of his own.

Marilyn and Betty together in one movie! Good or Bad? During 1953, Marilyn Monroe's star was rising, Betty Grable's popularity was waning, and 20th Century Fox was struggling financially due to TV competition. Fox came up with an idea to save ITS skin: they cast the new fame Monroe and the old fame Grable in a romantic comedy spectacular "How to Marry a Millionaire". To give the film an extra sparkle, Grable garners top billing, Monroe second, and other co-star Lauren Bacall receives thrid. Ironicaly, Bacall is truthfully playing the lead role. The movie recieves a three star from me because there isn't enough of Miss Monroe. I enjoy Miss Grable's performances (and others as well in other films), but I'm not to crazy about Bacall. Her husky, deep, and somewhat manish look about her makes her unattractive to me. Fox could've cast someone else in this movie with Monroe and Grable, like Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Linda Darnell, or maybe even Susan Hayward. I guess if you like romantic comedies, this would be the one to see; however, don't go searching for much Monroe/Grable screen time.

Good Addition To Your 3D Collectiion An enjoyable 2D to 3D mythic adventure.  The 3D was adequate but not overwhelming.  Needed better writing, character development and chemistry between the various actors.

Decent but not what I expected I wanted to see this movie based on the preview of it I saw before watching another movie. However, the preview of what the movie's about and what it's actually about are 2 different things. The basic premise is a social worker (Zellweger) gets cases of abused children and works with the families to bring them together or remove the children from the home. Then she gets an intriguing case of a little girl who's parents are very strange and almost threatening when she meets them.  She talks to the little girl who seems terrified and knows she has to get this little girl out of that house and away from her parents. One night the little girl calls her, she races over there, and something pretty horrific is taking place. Parents arrested, little girl now has nowhere to go. So Zellweger takes her in until she can be placed in a good home with a good family.  As the movie goes on, we see that the little innocent girl isn't so innocent at all. I won't say much more but the previews made this movie out to be a good paranormal type movie where a negative spirit is somehow attached to this little girl who follows her. It's not. There's definitely underlying factors and undertones but it's more of a creepy little girl we learn isn't as she seems.  It's a psychological thriller on a somewhat supernatural level and is still a decent movie. But if you want to buy it thinking you're going to see shadows, things moving on their own, strange voices, and the unseen scaring you more than what's seen.. this isn't it.

I didnt buy this for the great acting... This is one of those movies i bought because i couldnt get it on netflix and i have a thing for conchita alonzo being the sexy vixen.i'll see almost anything she is in...at lease once.  Blackhearted is a pretty much a by the book crime thriller that ends with the appropriate people being done in at the approrpiate time.

Mediochre Performance A mediochre performance.  Entertaining, but not very exciting to watch. Perhaps that is because it is not performed in front of a live audience.  The concert hall is empty.  The sound and picture quality are quite good.  The conductor is a bit wierd.  Check it out on YouTube.

Worst Ending In Film History, But Enjoyed The Insight Great insight to Timmy's training and seeing him out of uniform but the ending sucks bigtime. The film leads up to the 2010 draft which ends at Timmy's parent's house here in Jacksonville. Shows him working out, traveling, talking to the camera and shows him doing charitable work. There are out takes on the everywhereinbetween website that sells this, which shows that what appear to be candid interviews really aren't candid at all. Even though it might appear natural and spontaneous, it is all scripted, just as most films are. Some of those out takes are even better than what was included in the DVD because it's funny to see Timmy mess up and laugh about it.  The ending is very, very, very disappointing because when his name was about to be called as the Broncos draft pick, the film abruptly ends with a black screen before they even announce his name. So, you don't get to see his reaction or anyone else's that was at the house, all who were watching intently. They lead you up to this moment the entire film and get you excited about seeing it, and then they steal the best moment by not showing it to you. I was like, WTF? I felt really cheated and can't believe someone in post production didn't stand up and say, "Hey, where's the rest of it"? Of all of the films I have ever seen, the ending to this one ranks #1 as the worst ending of all time.

Mr Wong DVD While it's certainly racially incorrect it is indicative of the era for the portrayal of Asians as played by Caucasians. If you can get past that it is watchable for the genre. However the last of the six films does not have Bois Karloff in the lead and does use Keye Luke in the title role which was way ahead of it's time, but certainly much more believable. Now, if they only had better plot lines...... of course these were not made as A list movies so you need to watch them for what they are. Before TV escapism with a touch of the "mysterious Eastern atmosphere".

Love Mad Max Movies.... and I had forgotton how dated, sexist, and just plain old this one would now seem.  Still, if you're a fan of this series, as I am, you have to watch them in chronological order, or it just isn't the same.  An extremely young looking Mel Gibson.

Another DeCoteau Horror Okay... I am not sure that I am the right one to review this movie. My twin sister and I have been David DeCoteau fans since the 90s, so we know what we are getting when we watch a DeCoteau film, and, usually, we enjoy it for what it is.  All David Decoteau movies are okay, but they have a...catch... that keeps us coming back. That catch is eyecandy engaged in potentially homoerotic exchanges. The problem is, most of DD's movies aren't as homoerotic as they could be.  David's older films had better pacing then his 1313 films, but I still enjoy these films for what they are. What are they? Essentially, cute guys walking around in their white boxer briefs, taking showers (sans soap), and engaging in water sports or working out. There's always a token female, though I am not sure why.  1313" Giant Killer Bees is your standard "scientists play around with nature, nature bites everyone on the a**" horror movie. The dialogue, acting, and editing issues make the film laughably bad. So, if you are in the mood for beefcake and a few laughs, you might want to give any of the 1313 movies, including Giant Killer Bees, a try.

Jeepers Creepers This is definitely one of those movies that would scare the crap out of anybody. Fortunately I was not scared. Had some very creepy parts but overall a good flick.

Do not expect a high quality video It is not bad in terms of explaining some theories, however I expected a movie type production and not a man speaking from a podium with his computer and showing some pictures/drawings. As I said it is not bad but would not recommend for the expectations I had. I expected more realistic information and better quality of the video. It is not bad for people wanting to learn basic ideas about this theory as there are not many videos about this topic in Amazon at the moment.

Kun Fu makes the world go round "Shaolin Soccer" is just one of those films you should never go into expecting some great, ground breaking cinema.  Just look at the title, can we really expect much?  But, with all that, it is still a very entertaining and unique film with a wonderful premise and awesome action...and even some amazing lessons to be learned along the way.  This is, in many ways, "The Little Giants" if they were older and Asian.  FOR CONCERNED PARENTS AND FOLKS: You really don't have much to worry about.  No sex, no nudity, only comic violence (this is soccer...and a martial arts flick), no real innuendos (the only instance that can be taken that way isn't really if taken in context...it's the egg scene if you want to look that up).  All in all, it's safe and sound.  PLOT (NO SPOILERS): The basic premise is "what would happen if a poor, rundown (but aspiring) Kung Fu practitioner ran into a soccer coach?"  There's not much else to it as far as the complete story arc is concerned.  But it is executed convincingly (for what it is) and very well.  Tinge of romance, issues of letting fame and wealth go to your head, themes of controlled strength abound in the film.  Expect to see a lot of old school martial arts idioms...some of which are intentionally exaggerated for affect.  The pacing is quite slow and gradual though...this is definitely still an Asian film and not a comedic Jim Carey film.  Still, the film was very creatively done with many funny moments that had me rolling.  CHINESE ORIGINAL FILM CUT VS US THEATRICAL: Ok, it should be noted that the DVD carries both the original Chinese cut of the film as well as the US theatrical cut.  Only the US cut has English dubs to go with it.  Well, I'm on the fence with this.  It's cool to hear the Chinese...but it's also hilarious to have the English dubs.  With the English Dubs, it plays just like the classic "bad dubs" of early martial arts films...and it seems quite intentional.  Still, in the end, though I've seen both, I would greatly recommend watching the Chinese original cut, since it fills in gaps in the story much more.  ALL IN ALL: This is a fun and amazingly humorous light film.  It does have some touching moments and great and deeper lessons...but is very much slapstick through an through.  It is important to note, again, that some may be turned off by its slower pace.  Still, it should be seen at least once.

Not Horrible Very predictable story, nothing more than recycled Mel. Too bad, I liked his movies. The interesting part of the movie is the history of the prison.

10 hr set vs 3 hr dvd I have the 10 hr set of they sold their soul for rock n roll and I recently bought this 3 hr version so I could have more dvd disc to share with people.  I liked the 10 hr set better because it had the major 60's and 70's band on one disc that I could let friends and coworkers borrow.  The 3 hr dvd seemed very preachy and I wish it had more facts about the bands and kept the preachy stuff for the end of the dvd.  It would be nice if the dvd had a menu option by bands.  It just seems that if your trying to convince someone that music is bad, then you would want to present the music band facts first while the person is interested in watching and then present the scripture info and extra side stuff.  With this 3 hr dvd I'm afraid too many people will turn it off while waiting through the scripture info, discussions and extra stuff that's not band based facts.  I wish the 3 hr dvd discussed the Eagles and their Hotel California song like the 10 hr set.

Great movie for the kids, poor audio quality... Not sure if the audio problem came from streaming the movie on the internet through Amazon, but it was a huge bummer. It would get really loud during action parts and when dialogue came up, it was barely audible.This movie is fun for the whole family, it has some incredible special effects that for that time were stunners, just know that kids nowadays have seen better cinematographic advances so they might think its cheesy. Anyhow, my kids loved the movie, its funny, quirky, perfect for family night.

Truer to Harryhausen's vision I was disappointed with the remake of Clash of the Titans. It updated Ray Harryhausen's outstanding stop-motion animation with CGI more soulless than a clockwork Bubo. The plot was stuffed with irrelevant characters, bad acting, and unnecessary 3D.  Wrath of the Titans learned from all those mistakes.  This is not to say that Wrath of the Titans is a good film. It is an action flick that's much more interested in rivaling God of War's special effects than it is in telling a good story.  But that's okay, because nobody came to see Sam Worthington as Perseus act.  No, we're here to see the gods pontificate: Hades (Ralph Fiennes), Poseidon (Danny Huston), and Zeus (Liam Neeson).  With their prayers sapped from the first film the gods are slowly becoming mortal, making death a real possibility.  Hades discovers a solution in the depths of Tartarus; by releasing the imprisoned Kronos, father of the gods, Hades' immortality is assured.  Complicating things is the familial relationships between fathers and sons. Kronos is Zeus' father, Zeus is Perseus' father,and Perseus is widowed with a son ten years after the first film (John Bell as Helius). He is trapped in the mundane life of a fisherman as a promise to his dying wife to never involve his son in warfare. But that is about to change, because the gods can no longer keep Kronos under control.  War is coming to mankind, whether they are ready for it or not.  Cue the giant monsters!  We get a chimera, Cyclopes, Pegasus, the Minotaur, Makhai, and Kronos himself.  Unlike Clash of the Titans, which never bothered to create a sense of dread, none of these monsters immediately appear.  Each is hidden out of sight before making its debut, and we even get Cyclopes Monstervision (a Syfy Channel staple) before we see them in all their savage glory.  Most of them are awesome to behold. The weakest of the bunch is the Minotaur, who just looks like a horned guy with a harelip.  There's also the comedic sidekick Agenor (Toby Kebbell), Andromeda from the first film (Rosamund Pike), and Ares (Edgar Ramirez).  Ramirez is nigh unintelligible thanks to his thick accent and his one emotion - a dreamy gaze that never conveys the rage he supposedly feels for father Zeus and half-brother Perseus.  Considering he is a major villain, he simply can't stand next to Neeson and Fiennes without looking a bit foolish.  Wrath of the Titan's father/son allegories are rivaled only by Green Lantern.  There's a lot of drama here, but the film doesn't have the acting heft to really make it work. But we didn't buy a ticket to watch good acting, we came to see monsters get their butts kicked and in that regard Wrath of the Titans delivers in spades.  This is a monster film that stays true to the spirit of Harryhausen's vision, and if you squint it's easy to see his influence on the design of the Cyclopes and the chimera. There may be no kraken in the sequel, but it's finally been released.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Deluxe Edition) I was disappointed as the 2nd dvd, of the deluxe edition which had a problem veiwing it, it would let you see one or two frames then just stop, tryed to skip the next frame but it didn't work, so it went into the trash.  I got this item form my grandson who is 2 1/2 years old.  He saw it at Christmas and  wanted to watch it everytime it came on.  So I decided to by the dvd. I have no idea what is on the special edition dvd as I could not view it.  I hope the regular dvd stays working or I will have to purchase it again.  I have never had a dvd not work. Thanks

Pixar's "Transformers" Movie *** This review may contain spoilers ***  One prominent notion stood out in my mind after watching "Cars 2" - it was the Energizer Bunny on speed, steroids, and any other drug that gives you superhuman endurance. From the opening shot where a British spy operative is communicating oil rig coordinates to suave James Bondesque agent Finn McMissile (voice of the ubiquitous Michael Caine) to the last shot in Radiator Springs where Gomer Pylesque tow truck Mater is hailed as a hero, "Cars 2" hits the ground running (or rather, rolling) and almost never stops. Cars zipping around, racing, diving, skydiving, flying, the movie is seemingly an adrenaline junkie's dream. It was exciting, up to a point, then it eventually became too noisy and tiresome - like, some would say, a Transformers movie.  (PLOT SYNOPSIS: on a dare from the boastful Italian Formula One (I guess) race car Francesco Bernoulli (sp?) (John Turturro), superstar racer Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) challenges him to three races in Tokyo, Paris, and London. This secondary plot is just a pretext for McQueen to bring his "goofy goober" buddy and mechanic Mater (Larry the Cable Guy) along just so Mater can unwittingly blunder into a Bondian "Big Oil vs. Alternative Fuel" spy caper orchestrated by McMissile and his capable young assistant Holly Shiftwell (Emily Mortimer).)  The races and the spy caper both move at Road Runner speed, sometimes parallel, sometimes intersecting where a mysterious villain is eliminating race car participants with an electromagnetic field in a plot to blame their crashes on the alternative ethanol they must use and bolster Big Oil. Yes, I know, it's confusing. Besides the incessant action, you also get meticulously rendered depictions of all three cities and bright, splashy colors (if nothing else, "Cars 2" is visually enthralling). You also get a depiction of what the world would be like if sentient cars, buses, helicopters, and ships ran it (Example: Cars must remove their wheels to go through airport security). There's a lot to process in the movie. Maybe too much.  Again, I call "Cars 2" Pixar's "Transformers" movie because it is noisy, busy, stuffed with colorful characters, locations, weapons, and hardware, and sometimes needlessly complex and hard to follow. In spite of all the action and violence which should have received a PG rating, at least),occasionally I found my attention drifting. When Mater eventually deduces that Axelrod (the alternative fuel mogul) and not the German mastermind (Professor Z) is responsible for the race car sabotages, and explains his reasoning, it seemed half-baked and vague. Some Scooby-Doo mysteries have more coherent explanations. If adults could get confused by all this, I would imagine that young children watching "Cars 2" would get bored and tune out completely.  So, did I like the movie? Generally, yes. "Cars 2" does maintain Pixar's record for producing ambitious, intelligent movies with important morals (in this case, stay true to yourself and never underestimate anyone, even a country bumpkin). However, the frenetic action and labyrinthine Bond plot unfortunately weigh it down. Nevertheless, there is more good stuff than bad stuff to make "Cars 2" a respectable, if not exceptional, addition to Pixar's canon.  P.S.: Actually, it would have been kind of cool to have one of the vehicles be a "Transformers"-type robot!  3.5 stars out of 5.

Keep the memories The live show is the best,especially in New York City,but to bring the memories home is good as well.Had I not seen it live, I probably would appreciate this video much more.

The Godfather It didn't work in one of my dvd players. It did work on my laptop and sister's dvd player. For this reason I'd give it 3 stars.

British Whine Country The movie is supposedly based on the book of the same name.  Aside from sharing the same title, a few of the same characters and the setting in India, however, the two have little in common. In this case the movie is far superior to the book, which is muddled, disconnected and populated by a m&eacute;lange of characters, most of whom, thankfully, never made it into the movie.  Despite the best efforts of the screenplay writers to rescue a tedious and confused novel, it is the excellent cast of actors who make the movie worthwhile. I suppose the intention was to focus on the trials and tribulations of the elderly as they come to terms with the sordid reality of their past lives and the prospect of making the most of the little time they have left. Instead we seem to be faced with a bunch of whining, self-absorbed, petulant and obnoxious Brits who by the movie's conclusion are supposedly transformed into loving, caring individuals (for the most part) who teach the poor inadequate Indians how to sell things by telephone, how to run a hotel and how to stand up to domineering mothers so that love can conquer all. Clearly, despite all evidence to the contrary, the British still think they have so much to teach the world while they coincidentally continue to shoulder their long-standing, self-assigned White Man's Burden.  Despite the cast of excellent, well-known British actors who stole the limelight in terms of credit, I enjoyed the performance of Dev Patel more than the others.  Interesting also that in the novel it was the lecherous & creepy heterosexual Norman who died in a brothel, while in the movie Norman finds respectability and true love, but the one gay character is killed off.

Lighthearted, Enjoyable, and Actors Really Having Fun First, let me preface this by saying that I enjoy Abba's music. This is basically a group of Abba songs loosely tied together with a charming storyline. Despite its relatively weak storyline, the movie is thoroughly enjoyable. I don't remember the last time I saw a movie where the actors seemed to really enjoy themselves. Kudos to the established actors for singing their songs (vs. lip synching) - particularly gorgeous Pierce Brosnan, who doesn't have the most lyrical of voices. That takes courage. By the same token, I was impressed by the musical voices of Meryl Streep and Colin Firth. The vocal talents of young Amanda Siegfried are impressive. Of course scenes of the beautiful Adriatic just add to the enjoyment, as does seeing the always handsome Colin Firth and Pierce Brosnan in the same film. So, if you want an uncomplicated movie that just leaves you feeling good - maybe singing a few Abba songs - rent this movie.

Not what I imagined... I workout from videos A LOT. I wanted this to be like the dancing I saw in Slumdog Millionaire...and it was NOT. I got bored pretty quickly and the background graphics were distracting to say the least. It was kind of cheesy and ridiculous. Also, it is a British-English person narrating for the English version. It was at times hard to follow the narrator as she did not always follow with the movements.  Sometimes she was ahead or behind of the movements.  I quit doing it after about fifteen minutes.  It would be good for people looking for a less strenuous workout routine.  I liked the music, just not what I imagined.

Attractive Americans traveling abroad beware! (again) Two hot American girls - Ellie (Odette Yustman) and Stephanie (Amber Heard) - are in Argentina on a cycling tour when they decide, "Hey, we don't have a map, can't speak a foreign language, have very limited supplies, nearly no money, and have existed up to this point in life on looks and revealing clothing alone, screw it; let's separate from the group and do our own thing."  Great idea!  I didn't hate this movie, but I didn't love it either.  Categorized as a PG-13 horror/thriller, there wasn't much to be expected other than two beautiful and talented women showing off their bodies and their acting abilities.  Somewhere in there we get Karl Urban as an expatriate with bad acting skill and a missing sister.  His character is supplementary at best, distractionary at worst.  Hint: His role could have been filled by a scarecrow.  Ignore him though, because these two chicks have jean shorts so short they literally touch internal organs.  Speaking of the literal, there is literally one single moment in the entire movie that wasn't status quo for this subgenre.  Of course, nothing completely disappoints either.  It's simply a recycle of the same thing you've seen before.  I guess the views of Argentina are beautiful enough to ignore the predictability.  Maybe not.  In the end, this is equivalent of the first half of Taken.  Except now it's two hot chicks, and they're in enough trouble that if Nancy Grace has seen it, she probably got moist before the credits rolled.

It matters how you look at it There are two ways to look at this movie;  1) Taken as a serious film, it's ridiculously   stupid. I mean this movie is aimed at the   lowest common denominator. It' so   unbelievable that it's practially a live   action cartoon. Other than the Jolie   character, the other characters are idiotic,   especially the Liev Schrieber one.  2) Viewed as a "guilty pleasure", this is a fun   piece of mondo trash. Angelina Jolie is   super sexy, makes as good as a heroine as   any, the action sequences are thrilling and   the plot turns are akin to pro wrestling.  I do not condone the use of controlled substances but this is essentially "pot"/drunkard  entertainment. It's the type of movie where , if you just catch snippets, it's good enough. This is not a movie that you need to view from start to finish.  If there would have been some choice nudity, then it really would have upped the trash-o-meter a la "Showgirls"

NOT THE BEST EVER Matt, what were you thinking when you took this one on?  It would be better named 'grass' and the hell with any kind of responsibiity.  The scenery was good, surfing wonderful, and the eye candy was pleasant to no end....but the story line and dialogue were terrible.  However, I did like Willie Nelson playing spaced-out himself in the hills with marijuana and goats. The movie had a good array of actors, Matt, Woody Harelson and Scott Glenn (some kind of spirtual guru and veteran surfer). The kind waves of Malibu deserved something better than this mess.

static in the air Static had the potential for a phenomenal movie but mediocre acting, a slow pace, an uninteresting first half and an underutilized storyline ultimately drags down the rating to a 3.  It's about an attractive blonde, her mild-mannered friend, and another friend (with a SERIOUS attitude problem) get a chip installed in their brains.  This chip has special powers that apparently allows them to read peoples minds and predict what's going to happen before it actually does.  Unfortunately it takes a REALLY long time for this crucial aspect of the storyline to make an appearance- the first hour of the movie (which is about 65% of it) is occupied with pointless communication between the three friends involving flirting (between the blonde and the other guy) and trying to calm down and rationalize the quick-thinking, touchy and explosive other friend.  Oh, and the guy with the attitude and the blonde positively HATE each other.  Only when a certain segment arrives while the two guys are sitting together at a diner does the storyline finally get going.  We're also introduced to Jimmy- the brother of the mild-mannered guy, and even though it was never stated, I believe he was mentally challenged.  What's odd is that whenever people approached the guy they treated him with silence and fear like he was unstable and going to explode at any moment.  Anyway the suspense comes whenever static and frequencies in the air interfere with the chips that the friends installed in their brains.  This interference can come by way of radio signals, radio towers, and other things.  First a nose bleed occurs, then a sensation and an awareness that peoples personalities are changing to a more negative one comes next.  This is the function of this special chip which had a LOT of promise upon reading the description for the movie but unfortunately this aspect was never thoroughly explained nor did it ever take us through a healthy amount of suspense.  You can tell it's a low budget film by the quiet tone that takes place for much of the movie.  Overall, not really very appealing, but I guess if you're willing to wait about an hour a few good scenes will arise.  Expect disappointment though.

Great Visuals, Poor Script "Prometheus" is a Ridley Scott sci-fi action movie, which means it has amazing cinematography and tough heroines. If you are looking for them, you will not be disappointed. But how about the story? Please don't expect an intelligent and intricate screenplay here because "Prometheus," an indirect prequel to the "Alien" franchise, is a typical case of Hollywood blockbuster full of sound and fury, a visual extravaganza with so many big plot holes.  Set in 2093, an expedition team of scientists and experts including an archaeologist Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) is sent on a mission to the moon LV-223. This is a trillion-dollar project financed by the Weyland Corporation (the CEO Peter Weyland is played by a nearly unrecognizable Guy Pearce), to discover the "Engineers" and secrets about the origin of the humans.  The film starts promisingly, benefitting the veteran director's assured control of scenes, but as the story of "Prometheus" (script penned by Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof) unfolds, you may have a very strong feeling of d&eacute;j&agrave; vu. While the film's main theme is very ambitious, each set-piece looks as if borrowed from some other sci-fi films including Ridley Scott's own works.  Michael Fassbender plays an android David. Though Fassbender as always delivers a solid performance, the android's decision making is random and sometimes unaccountable. The way he speaks reminds us of HAL9000, but Fassbender's character behaves more illogically than the computer of "2001: A Space Odyssey." In fact, there are so many illogical motives and implausible situations in "Prometheus," where characters almost always end up doing things in a wrong way.  Had "Prometheus" been directed by someone other than Ridley Scott, what would the film have been like? A terrible mess of a grade-B sci-fi movie, perhaps. "Prometheus" is a gorgeous-looking and action-packed sci-fi film, of which poor storyline is barely covered by the special effects.

Not what I expected.... From the previews, I kind of expected a good doom and gloom movie, not a psychological thriller. In a large way, it demeans the prepper culture as "crazy," instead of responsibly looking out for your own. Acting and script were fine. Decent movie, just not what I expected or wanted to see. I wish I had my money back. My loss.

Getting old...... Not as entertaining as the first ones were. The writers are evidently getting tired of coming up with new ideas for this series.

A Haunting in Connecticut Movie centering on a family that moves into a house that was a former funeral parlor.  Virginia Madsen plays a mother who's son is battling a rare form of cancer.  It becomes a hassle to keep driving him miles to the hospital so they decide to move closer so that their sick son doesn't have to suffer on the hard ride.  Little does the family realize about the house's history until bizarre things start to happen leading the family to think they are hallucinating until matters get worse.  This isn't a possession type movie and the storyline gets kind of annoying after a while.  As a ghost story, it isn't in the catagory of the Exorcist or Paranormal Activity and only became annoying as the movie went on.  Buy it at your own risk or better yet, rent it from netflix so that it doesn't sit on your dvd shelf collecting dust.

"Bad acting in Hollywood" This movie had a lot of potential, but...just wasn't a home run.  The story line was endearing - based loosely on real events.  I have to say that as much as we hoped to enjoy this film we were surprised at the general lack of quality acting from a number of the characters.  I think that my favorite characters were the guys from MN who flew to AK to try to help out.  At the same time I was generally disappointed by Danson and Barrymore's efforts, and the young woman newscaster was appropriately annoying.  I hesitate to be too critical, but my family and I agreed that we were happy that we waited to watch this film on DVD rather than paying to see it in a theater.  And, having seen the movie, we all agreed that once was enough.  That's from my wife and I and our 13 and 21 yr old daughters.  The special effects used to show the whales were adequate and did not distract.  All in all, 3 stars is all I can manage for this film.

Interesting, but not requisite a bad hollywood attempt to address the psychedelic era, with a serious director and a memorable cast?  sounds like fun.  with the potential of a classic bad film that bungles it's way into the hysterical.  unfortunately, as it turns out, not so much.  carol channing is game and fairly well provided for.  but why cast a great comedian like jackie gleason to play an irritatingly grim thug?  despite looking uncomfortably frail, groucho tries to put a little personality into his lines, but, again, there's no attempt a providing him with any humor.  and why go to all the trouble of casting all of the villains from the batman tv show and not use the opportunity for at least some sort of gag?  maybe otto found the whole alcatraz scene a pretty hip take-off on the p.o.w. gig he worked with Stalag 17, but funny it ain't.  and if this is his attempt to be contemporary, the leaden and bland portrayal of hippie life proves him to be pretty clueless about the cultural changes he claims to be celebrating.  compare this with I Love You Alice B Toklas, which may be equally stereotypical, but at least it was actually funny, and displayed some modicum of affection for it's characters.  harry nillson's contributions (the convincingly radiant trashcan dance, the closing credits) are allowed to shine throughout.  and there are plenty of moments that reflect the clash that abounds in 1968,  but you're probably better off with any episode of rowan and martin's laugh in or the smothers brothers comedy hour.

Terrific Performances from a Great Cast "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel"  is a joy for those who love veteran thespians who can act up a storm.  A group of English retirees decide to relocate to a seniors hotel in Darpur, India, to live a relaxing life of leisure.  Unfortunately, the hotel turns out to be a dive -- rundown, dreary, and depressing.  The characters are a lot more colorful and interesting than the plot.  Tom Wilkinson plays gay magistrate Graham Dashwood, who has returned to India to find the boy he loved and left when he was young.  Bill Nighy is retired bureaucrat Douglas Ainslie with an irritating, constantly complaining wife (Penelope Wilton), whose savings have been lost by a daughter's careless investment.  Judi Dench is recent widow Evelyn Greenslade, who has never before looked after herself.  Maggie Smith is Muriel Donnelly, an unapologetic racist in need of a hip replacement.  And Celia Imrie is Madge Hardcastle, a gold digger still very much on the prowl.  The film attempts to tell too many stories simultaneously, which gives it an overstuffed feel.  But it's unusual to have a movie these days reliant on Golden Agers,and it's a pleasure watching these superb actors sinking their teeth into sometimes underwritten characters and enlivening them with years of experience.  Once the principal characters are assembled and disappointed by what they find, director John Madden provides their back stories.  There are many cliches and maybe too neat an ending, but the performances more than make up for the script's shortcomings.  Personally speaking, I would be happy to watch Maggie Smith peel an apple.  She is, at this point in her carrer, legendary and a master at her craft.  Available on both DVD and Blu-ray, "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel"  bonus extras consist of only behind-the-scenes footage and some location interviews.

Could have been so much better For eleven hours of hd video you do get your money worth with this overview of Italy, but this could have been so much better. It is spoiled by never ending fast moving footage from the air that is often very dark. They can't resist keeping the camera in motion no mater how interesting what they have to show the viewer even on the ground. Editing is incredibly sloppy, seemingly done by rank amateurs, who have never learned to remove the most obvious goofs and that a simple cut looks much better than fading and devolving from one scene to another. For the low price, it is worth watching, but this could be a lesson on how not to do a travel video.

Love the movie issues with shipping I order the movie Rango for my son's Birthday. I watched it with my nieces and thought it would be a movie he would love. I ordered it through Amazon Prime two day shipping. It was suppose to arrive on July 28th the day before his Birthday Party. This way we would would have time to wrap it. It didn't not make it to my house until the following afternoon. Yes I understand that I could have selected for amazon to wrap it for me but it was more money for them to do it than for me to do it myself. So he got his birthday gift in an UPS envelope. I was very upset about this even if my now 8 year old son was not. Two day shipping should mean two day shipping. If it can not be done it should not be offered but that is my own personal opinion.

Not bad for the price... I'd never heard of "Trans-Siberian", but bought it really cheap at a well-known bargain department store. The cast intrigued me, and I couldn't resist. I was hoping to see some cool scenery of Siberian landscapes, but I'm sure it wasn't filmed on location. Emily Mortimer is the central character, mostly annoying, and Woody, as her hubby, was vapid, sexless and naîve. Most interesting were Eduardo Noriega and Kate Mara, as an enigmatic couple they meet on the title train. Intrigue ensues, and Ben Kingsley appears, with dubious concern. It was a fairly interesting ride, and had moments of true interest, but, overall, quite routine. Noriega's smarmy charm gave him the best character, and he was quite fine. Twist ending was interesting. Director Brad Andrson has done better.

A HO HUM THRILLER A ho hum thriller that feels very formulaic.  Ford is the head of security for a bank that is about to be robbed by high tech robbers who are holding his family hostage.  See Ford try to get out of this one.  See Ford save his family.  Like I said, it's a bit formulaic and as long as you don't mind it you should be fine watching it.  This movie is a bit dates, too, when everyone was super concerned about identity theft ruining your life so the phase has somewhat passed. CHARACTERS/DIALOGUE: C plus to B minus; STORY/PLOTTING: C plus to B minus; THRILLS & CHILLS: B minus; OVERALL GRADE: C plus to B minus; WHEN WATCHED: early May 2011.

Dont look back I think its a good movie. somewere the lableing should include that is has to be read (subtitled) to be understood. They did it with "Des Boot" which was from another German Tv mini series. vary good effects just wish i could figure out what was going on and why it happened. and because i had no real idea what was going on in the movie had no idea who it ended. was worth the money.

it's ok but it has been done so many times before... I picked this movie up simply because it was a horror movie with John Carpenter's name on it.  I was hoping that it would be entertaining and bring a little something different to the "mental patient/psych ward" story.  However, I was wrong.  The movie is OK, but it is nothing new.  It is the same old story rehashed over and over thus making it very predictable.  It is well directed and the acting is ok.  But when a story is rehashed so often with nothing new added into the mix it becomes rather boring regardless of the talent behind it.  From the reading the back cover of the DVD, I was hoping for an actual ghost story.  But it turns out the predictable "twist" alot of ghost stories have used is in this story too.  Nothing new, descent acting, good directing, the make up of the ghost looked a bit cheesey as opposed to scary.  However, I did like the camera views of the hallway.  As much as I liked the looooong stretchy hallways it isn't a movie I would watch again.  On a side note it was nice to see a horror type movie without alot of gratutious sex and nudity.  There wasn't any gore or extensive kill sequences in the movie so that was a treat.  Just wished it was more original.

Good for a laugh This was pretty funny. It wasn't great and it didn't break any new ground, but I laughed. If you are a fan of David Gordon Green and/or Jonah Hill, you will like it. The Sitter is definitely a case of a movie showing the best parts in its trailer. There is a soft, moral lessen push that gets a little clunky towards the end of the picture. It's as if the director was making up for some of the harsher comedy. There was no need. This is a comedy, just let it be funny.

Video I was diappointed only in that I could have done without the narrative, which I did not realize was going to be a part of this video and that was probably my own fault for not paying enough attention

Gam(m)era the Invincible! The Showa Gamera series has its charms, especially the first three (GIANT MONSTER GAMERA, GAMERA VS. BARAGON [WAR OF THE MONSTERS], and GAMERA VS. GAOS [RETURN OF THE GIANT MONSTERS]), but I just can't say I've ever been much enamored of the big turtle--at least until the Heisei Gamera series, which put a whole new spin on the critter. The original series' overt aim at young audiences put me off even as a very young member of said audience, and only as an adult delinquent have I managed to derive much enjoyment from the antics of the inkorrigible kame.  GAMERA: THE GIANT MONSTER plays things considerably straighter than most of its successors, but there's no getting past the little kid, Toshio (Yoshiro Uchida), who just looooves turtles, continually popping up just when you think the filmmakers have come to their senses and forgotten about him. The story goes like this: A flight of Soviet jets on maneuvers over the Arctic Circle trespasses into U.S. airspace, and American fighters shoot down one of the bombers, resulting in a nuclear explosion, which frees Gamera from its eons-old icy prison. After sinking a ship and whooping up on the survivors, the beastie hurtles its way to Japan, where it attacks nuclear power plants to consume the energy they produce. Assaults with conventional weaponry have the usual effect on the kaiju--nada--so the brain trust devises a last-ditch plan aptly named Plan Z: lure Gamera to Oshima Island, where the critter is contained inside a mammoth rocket and then launched into outer space, thus ridding the world of another city-trampling menace (at least until the next movie, GAMERA VS. BARUGON, in which the rocket crashes into a meteor, releasing Gamera to return to Earth and commence a whole new path of destruction--and fight another big, bad lizard to boot).  As I mentioned, in the overall, the original GAMERA is actually enjoyable, with a significant amount of monster vs. miniature action and a marginally palatable storyline. Though obviously patterned after GODZILLA, the movie serves up no serious subtexts; the whole nuclear element is just a device to rationalize the monster's appearance, and Gamera itself is played more as a novelty than any sort of metaphor, even a lightweight one. Its rampage through Tokyo is pretty spectacular for its day, and there's no denying Gamera is a meanie; the filmic carnage is a little more graphic than in most of the Godzilla movies--which, despite the fact the Gamera films are aimed at a younger audience, is true throughout the Showa series. The monster's ironic rescue of young Toshio (the kid falls from a toppling lighthouse, into Gamera's waiting claw; rather than eat him, Gamera gently lowers him to the ground) seems more a result of the monster's curiosity about little people than a display of authentic compassion.  The Shout! Factory edition features the original Japanese version with subtitles. While it's certainly superior to the 1966 American release (titled GAMMERA, THE INVINCIBLE -- don't forget the extra "m"!), the scenes added by World Entertainment Corp./Jack Harris Associates, which feature Albert Dekker, Brian Donlevy, Dick O'Neill, and Alan Oppenheimer, for the U.S. release are agreeably whimsical. The scenes they replace--a bunch of military and scientific posturing by some very poor western actors--in the original Japanese version are far less engaging.  Shout! Factory plans to release the rest of the Showa Gamera series in order, continuing with GAMERA VS. BARGUON in July 2010. I'm actually going to be looking forward to these, since it's really high time that Gamera--or at least the celluloid on which it appears--was treated with a little more respect on this side of the water.

Not as bad as you might think Okay, so the other reviewers fairly criticize this movie, and most points against Mega-Pyhon vs. Gatoroid have been made. I can't argue with any of them really. But I want to argue a point that is for MPvG.  To be fair to this b-grade monster flick, I have to say that the second I began watching it, I found myself instantly staring at the screen in rapt attention, gazing with a slack-jawed, contented smile for one reason and one reason only.  That's right. Tiffany's cleavage.  It's mesmerizing. It's enthralling. It's utterly fascinating. I promise you, no matter who you are, no matter what gender or sexual orientation you may lay claim to, the minute this movie starts your eyes focus in like a laser beam at Tiffany's world-class blouse bunnies and stay there right up until the end. Even my very hetero sister, who called me a pervert when I mentioned how magnetic Tiffany's cleavage is, turned to me a half hour later and said, "I hate you. Now I can't stop staring either." So it's not just me thinking it. Oh, no indeed. The other reviewers were just too polite to mention it.  In truth, the movie is at its best in the second half. I missed the first half of the movie the first time I watched it on Scyfy, and after watching the whole thing, I came to the conclusion that I missed nothing by skipping the first half except the sight of more of Tiffany's cleavage in an unbuttoned police uniform. On second thought, maybe it is worth it. :D  So there you have it. This movie is either awesomely bad or badly awesome, but either way it's a treat for the eyes. The producers of this movie knows sex sells, and Tiffany obliged them in a rousing display of success.  Your mileage may vary. Happy viewing, folks.

70s fans and kitsch fans will love this- not very scary, though If you remember this as a kid, you may find this a fun trip down memory lane. However, like some have said, sometimes, people wonder if they should've left their memories in the past and not revisited what scared them at age 5, since those films will appear stupid and bad as an adult. That's the nostalgic's dilemma, always. But if you enjoy regressing to 70s badness, this will appeal to you. It's also proof that the old rule of what you don't see is scarier than what you do- there are some dumb effects here that are laughable.  Also, it is very dark, literally; I don't know if that's due to a poor transfer, as others have complained, or partly due to the fact that it was likely photographed in very dark lighting for a spooky effect and the limitations of the times, and the budgets, produced a flat effect visually. You can see how dark photography also influenced its thematic offspring, "The X Files", where the photography technology was miles above technically and you get much more depth of field and complexity of imagery.  This is probably of interest to fans of this particular genre, but not to horror fans in general. If you want a good scare, you won't find much here, especially if you are accustomed to CGI, and Blue-Ray/hi-def etc etc. you will likely be frustrated by the poor quality. But if you're like me and you grew up watching low-fi stuff, you might have some fun with this.  Also, Darren McGavin's cliched yet fun gumshoe act saves the day; his personality really carries this show.

good (+) it was shipped fast. (+) it was shipped in an envelope with bubble wrap lining in it. content was great. (-) it wasn't a blue ray official case (the blue kind). It was a black dvd case, with the mamma-mia cover. Since it was for a gift, I was saddened by that.  Overall good review. I'll read more specifically next time what kind of case it'll come in. If not specified, I'd ask first. :o)

Good action, sketchy premise If you can get past the basic premise and story background, it is a decent movie that takes into account a reasonable amount of the physics that goes into being a sniper. It still has a lot of Hollywood-isms, but from that aspect it is a decent action film.  The main problem was that I had trouble getting past the background and premise where the US Government knowingly and intentionally backstabs one of their best and most talented snipers, twice. It goes against basic military credo and basic common sense. The military has a whole culture built around "Leave no one behind" and the movie immediately starts out with them intentionally leaving Mark Wahlberg and his spotter to die. Missions do go wrong and people can get left behind, but they will always go back for them and would never do it intentionally.  Even without "Leave no one behind", a sniper as good as Mark Wahlberg's character is so valuable and rare that no one in their right mind would willingly sacrifice him because they're so hard to find.  So, if you are just looking for some entertainment it is fine, but I found the premise too far fetched to suspend disbelief.

A very short advanced workout The "Step Barrel/Spine Corrector" DVD is a short and advanced workout at about 21 minutes.  It is fast paced and you are already expected to be knowledgeable and have experience already from a Pilates instructor.  [Please note that the video quality is that of a VHS tape and the audio has a slight echo.  The setting is in a room at a house.  Nevertheless, it is o.k. enough to see and hear without any issues.]  I felt that the workout was a little short and there should have been more exercises shown.  Many exercises were advanced, and in general,  modifications were not shown.  Jillian Hessel instructs and demonstrates.  She also uses an audible Pilates breath technique.  I have to admire that Ms. Hessel shows amazing strength, core stability, control, and flexibiliy in her demonstration of the exercises.  Here is the breakdown.  Total time (21:13)  1. Spinal articulation and abdominal exercises  Port de Bras arms (or reach): A pair of two pound weights are used. I got a little dizzy doing this first exercise.  I had to stop momentarily.  I continued and I was fine. Roll-up: A Pilates pole (a wand, a wooden dowel or short bar wiil do) is used.  2. Supine leg & core work:  In this section, some positions were awkward.  Some of the exercises were too difficult, advanced, or dangerous for me to attempt.  Running Scissors Bicycle Fish (had to modify) Roll-over (skipped) Small bridge with battements High bridge (skipped) Corkscrew (had to modify) Side scissors Helicopter (skipped)  3. Prone extension exercises  Back, arm and leg extension (had to modify) Swimming (could not do) Grasshopper  4. Side-lying exercises:  These are actually stretches and were  easy to do.  Scapular mobilization Diagonal reach Arm circle  5. Teaser (an advanced teaser which I had to modify)

Cool idea, could have been executed better I've been on a run of similary-themed movies: Jumper, The Speed of Thought, and now Push. In some ways Push promised to be the most intriguing of the three. And there were things about this movie that I loved. But...why is there often a But?...it sort of fell apart for me after a while. The action sequences were the best of the three movies I'm talking about, but the plot just started to fall apart for me. I ended up preferring The Speed of Thought (which also had a Kira in it!), because it was much more distinctive and unusual, even though it's obviously a much smaller movie without any major action sequences. But it constantly made me think, which this movie didn't want me to.

"Of Mice And Men" meets "Snatch". A good but slow moving movie with good acting. Worth a watch though. Very OK. I say B. After waiting for Danny (Graham) to pay off his debt the local mob boss (O'Hara) is ready to settle up right now. After Danny's large and strong but feeble minded friend Joseph (Akinnuoye-Agbaje) steps in and saves him. The mob boss offers Danny a way out. All he has to do is let Joseph fight in underground cage fights until Danny's debt is paid. This is a dark and depressing updated version of "Of Mice And Men" mixed with a more serious version of "Snatch". The acting is good and the movie itself is very good and very watchable. Like most British movies I have seen there are scenes of intense action that keeps you glued mixed in with scenes that tend to drag on a little bit longer then needed and you start to lose interest in parts. I am in no way saying that this is a bad movie at all because I did like it, but the flow wasn't smooth to me. Danny reminded my a lot of Tony Montana in this movie in the way that you want to root against him, but find yourself rooting for him and want him to succeed. That may just be me though. Overall, a serious and somewhat slow moving "Snatch" like version of "Of Mice And Men" that is worth a watch. I thought it was good. I give it a B.

Entertaining! This could have gotten 5 stars...if Hollywood would learn that you don't need to infuse bedding one another and fowl language to "enhance" a good plot!  The plot is charming, but it is insulting to have to sit through cursing and a couple bed scenes thrown in for....who knows why they throw them in!  The acting is great with legendary Michael Caine and Maggie Smith as the two battling spouses/ghosts.  Almost well-done from start to finish.

Entertaining but heavily influenced by Guns of Navarone! Watched this after reading amazon reviews. It is an entertaining movie, no doubt, but rather heavily influenced by an earlier classic Guns of Navarone. Staring with Peck as stiff sounding captain and Niven as the awkward guy handling explosives, one guy who is hit on the leg and is lame, a nazi boat to blow up, a female spy who is killed, the crew sticking bombs on the boat and anxiously waiting for them to explode, (including Niven rubbing the grease to stick 'em on!), the climax and even the crew grinning to one another when it is done..go get the original if you can and it makes for some chuckles to see the influences!! But light entertainment nevertheless.

Just OK The flick was "just OK."  A lot of action but I found my mind wondering and that is unusual when I am watching a movie.  I spend a lot of my entertainment dollar on movies so I usually am selective in my choices...  this one got me.

21 Jump Street - Great show - Bad film quality I love the show and yes it can be cheesy, but what can I say but Johnny Depp!  My only regret is the film quality.  You would think that in this day and age, they would be able to print a better quality film.  Oh well, the price was right and it's now in my library.

Thought it was a CD I made the mistake of thinking this was a CD..Bought it for a  present and it was opened..now unable to return.  All my fault.

Rushed release? This release looks like it was just slapped together, with little regard to accuracy and consistency. There are numerous errors throughout the movie. Numerous times in the Japanese dub, the subtitles show 'magus', when the characters are saying the English word 'master'. The subtitles show 'magic circuit', when Japanese speaking Gilgamesh says "Reality Marble." The subs are really basic in many scenes, and could have been treated better.  I will admit, it was pleasant to hear most of the English cast from Fate/Stay Night return. It isn't without fault, however. There is a different voice for Saber (she did a pretty good job), and she ruins the famous quote when she is summoned. Instead of "Are you my master?" she says, "Are you worthy enough to be my master?" Also, the English dub sounds awful when a character is to scream.  These are the the points that stick out in my mind, as I just watched it last night. I know there's more errors than what I listed. Would I have still purchased this movie, knowing about all the mistakes? Perhaps. I want to support the anime industry. But I think I'll stick with my downloaded version with better subs than this version provides...

Decent Thriller This movie isn't bad and certainly not great but an okay film to take in if there is nothing else on.  A female cop Rose (Marg Helgenberger), harbors feelings for her partner Stash (Michael Biehn), and becomes involved with him romantically when his wife is killed. As time goes on their relationship threatens Rose's reputation and job. If that isn't enough her own peers on the police force believe she might have something to do with Stash's wife's death. But it also begins to look like Stash is not so innocent himself.  Is Rose being set up? Is Stash to blame? Did he kill his wife and seduce Rose as a part of some crazy scheme? Did Rose kill Stash's wife?  You gotta watch the movie to find out.  This movie has some thrills here and there but what I liked was the chemistry of Michael and Marg. They played their parts realistically and the sexual chemistry was so intense that they sizzled in every scene they were in. This is a hot romance and thriller rolled into one. Not to mention it has a super steamy sex scene.

Price??? I bought the Collector's Edition 2 years ago for $10.99 and it was distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment.  I seen now the price is $21.99 and distributed by Paradise.  That is an awful big increase from two years ago.  Don't know anything about Paradise, but the distribution by Artisan was absolutely wonderful.

Lady in the Mud Here is a film ripoff of a play, according to what I read. I also read that this was a vehicle for the lead, though it seems funny to me that a woman would go out of her way to play a dishonored woman as a showcase for herself. I went in blind, and it seems early that it's fairly exploitative and by the end it becomes more of a legitimate film. I wish it had chosen one route.  We follow a dark protagonist, a beautiful woman working for a magazine, a whore and thrill seeker who apparently takes after her poppa, who was apparently a pink plunderer with an artistic flair. That's mentioned, but again the movie feels split in two between the skank-at-large and the story of the redeemed lady.  The dishonored lady meets the man of her dreams, a geeky scientist. It's not totally convincing when he falls snap out of infatuation for her when confronted with her other side. Plot is too much at the forefront. The acting is fairly good. In some instances the film chooses to "tell rather than show" with a virtuous psychiatrist character. The film seems to me to milk Casablanca and Citizen Kane imagery, but maybe I'm crazy.  It brings some sadness to me when reminded of the fact that at one point it was actually a bad thing to be a whore. That day is behind us. These days, it's pretty hard to become "dishonored".

lavishly okay - but watch out for flawed Vol 1 sets to put it simply - this isn't my favorite South Korean TV drama - i enjoyed <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009WSO66">DAE JANG GEUM</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0011Z1T4Y">COFFEE PRINCE</a> much much more - however - this is a colorful, intense and heavily fictionalized account a of a historical figure - the first female ruler of what is now Korea - it managed to keep up my interest - barely in some places - but the highlights made it worthwhile - a sumptuous costumed treat - strong on characterization and emphasizing intelligence along with superheroic martial arts skills - with some very good actors  the slack parts allowed me to ponder the dilemma in rooting for a queen who wants all her subjects to feel the same way she does - especially about forcing other Korean Penninsula kingdoms to "join" them - how do you say "diversity of opinion" and "self-determination" in ancient Korean  NOTE: the first volume was known to have defective transfers which would cause the player to freeze - most times for a few seconds - but occasionally fatally - unfortunately for me - one of the fatal freezes came at the last episode of the first set - you may find you have to get yours exchanged - Vols 2 & 3 did not have any such defects

A Pretty Good Crime Thriller This starts off seeming like a torture porn home invasion thriller but turns into a crime thriller about half way in and is better for it. The usual Jim Haggerty traits (that I notice anyway) are here, nudity with girls you usually don't see naked (small boobs, average rears) but should. The odd couplings (fat guy pretty girl) and the incidental scenes.  This is not as good as Is This a Joke but it is the best Haggerty thriller I have seen. The actor playing the husband is quite good as are some of the supporting players. The fight scenes need work and one should fast forward thru the opening title song (it is the scariest thing in the picture), but all in all, I liked the true crime elements and low budget feel here.

As Good As A Film Can Be With No Context There's no question that Alfred Hitchcock is a master film director, seeing as how a movie this old can hold up decently in 2011.  However, "Sabotage" lacks one key element keeping it from really being a classic: context.  For a basic plot summary, "Sabotage" sees an English theater owner (Oskar Homolka) and his wife (Sylvia Sidney) get caught up in an espionage plot with shades of terrorism.  This movie is classic Hitch through and through.  It has the conflicted characters, moments of high tension, and the eventual "MacGuffin" that drives the story forward.  For what it does accomplish, the film is quite good.  Not overwhelming in any sense, but the tension (at times) is palpable and will hook viewers into wanting to see how it all turns out.  The problem, though, is that the characters and events are given absolutely no context whatsoever.  This "exposition" phase of the storytelling is skipped altogether.  Thus, it is difficult to be 100% engaged in the story when it begins and ends so abruptly.  Overall, this is a decent Hitchcock film that is more than worth a viewing from hard-core Hitch fans.  It doesn't hold a candle to his later American works, but for what it is it's entertaining.

Good story, poor video quality First off, the story is pretty good. Shows soldiers in a wide range of emotions and puts a face to those fighting the war. I would recommend watching this documentary.  However the bluray is bad 1080i quality. When you mix fast movements/action, and hand camcorders with interlaced video it looks choppy. Obviously bluray is not designed to play on anything other than LCD, Plasma, DLP, pretty much everything that doesn't use a tube. Interlaced video is deisgned for tube TV's do why 1080i is even around, I dont know. The producers of the bluray should have deinterlaced it to 1080p. There is a large amount of noise in the video, especially in low light scenes which is expected since you don't want to be using an additional light where this is being shot at. If I was the videographer I would be also been cleaning that lens constantly considering in that environment. The dirty lens is a distraction to me. This is noticable even in the planned shots that aren't during action.

good cheesy fun It is one movie, but re-dubbed to make it a comedy.  It is super cheesy, but fun.  If you are a fan of cheesy bad movies you should watch this.

MODERN DAY SHAKESPEARE Ralph Fiennes is a well known actor made more famous for playing the arch enemy of Harry Potter, Lord Vole mort, in that series of films. Surprisingly that's the most famous thing he's remembered for. Forgotten are the roles he played in QUIZ SHOW, THE ENGLISH PATIENT or RED DRAGON. So it's nice to see him return to something away from the Potter universe once more.  CORIALANUS is based on the lesser known Shakespeare play concerning the main character of the same name. But Fiennes has also taken on the role of director here and chosen to situate the story not in Shakespearean times but in the modern world, a world where wars are fought on a daily basis and bloodshed and politics are strange bedfellows. Caius Martius (Fiennes) is a solider of high standing whose escapades inspire his men and who is hailed as the warrior in chief by politicians, especially Menenius (Brian Cox). But not everyone loves this warrior.  Among those who fear and hate him are the rabble rousers whose job it is to do nothing more than stir up trouble against the status quo. This group knows less about what they really want and more about protesting than most. They are represented by politicians whose desire is for nothing more than power while preaching that they have their good will in mind. Martius remains a warrior, a man whose life is pledged to defend his country. At the same time his contempt for those he considers beneath him shines through in his every word.  Leading the rebels is Tullus Aufidious (Gerard Butler), a man who is passionate not about his social standing or the will of politicians but a true leader who wants what is best for his people. While Martius has a respect based on fear from his men, Aufidius has respect based on the love of his people. These two have collided more than once and will do so again and again until only one stands.  After a serious battle Martius is put forward to drop his warrior role and take on that of a statesman. To show their gratitude the politicians rename him Caius Martius Corialanus after the town of his last victory. Menenius sees the potential he has for this role as does his mother (Vanessa Redgrave), an overbearing woman whose own status lies in the role of her son. But Martius doesn't have the skill for politics rather saying what he believes and thinks instead of what they want him to say. His reward for his service to country is to be betrayed by the politicians who sought to use him for their own devices. Martius finds himself banished from his own country and sets out to find his destiny.  That path leads him to Aufidious and the rebels. Martius sees first hand what their life is like. He witnesses what role Aufidious plays in the lives of his people. In so doing he realizes that he must seek revenge on those who did him wrong.  The character of Corialanus is a tragic one as were most of Shakespeare's characters. Here we have a man who has dedicated his life and based his career on the country he loves only to find himself cast out by them. Eventually even the love of his mother is called to question as the film heads for the final reel.  By setting the film in the present, Fiennes has attempted to bring new life into the classic work of its author. Much of the dialogue fits well within this setting, discussions of warrior spirit and the like. The war torn streets seem recognizable as those of European world where fighting continues to this day. It becomes believable. And the actions of politicians who do little more than seek power fits so well into the current world that one wonders how many acts displayed here take place daily in the halls of power.  This may not be enough to gain popularity for the movie or for Shakespeare. But then it might open the world of the author for younger viewers who never seem to want to take a chance on anything considered classic, instead opting only for what's new. But if you enjoy the words and writings of Shakespeare then you'll want to give this one a watch. If not, watch anyway to make a better equipped judgment. Not for all tastes, those who would like something different than usual should seek this one out.

Betty White: "I'm Also on the Twitter" This movie had its moments as any rom-com should.  Thank goodness for the great performances from Weaver and Curtis b/c the plot was seriously lacking.  It was intentionally preposterous, but was exactly what I was expecting.  I managed to stay awake the whole way through--that puts this movie in a league of its own compared to others I've seen in this genre.

Read the books! They're much better :) Heigl wasn't quite convincing as a half italian jersey girl. Plot was ok.  Morelli was not a fit.  The chemistry was lacking . I think it only appealed to me because I'd already read the books.

24: Redemption Quality of product great and shipped almost immediately. A 2 hour movie cannot be compared to the season series. Somehow a story based on 2 hours of real time in Africa seems stretching the concept of "events in real time!!" But nonetheless still enjoyable...and flowed into season 7 nicely!

Decent, nothing more, or less. Not a bad film.  3 star worthy I feel, which to me basically means a movie is solid, worth watching once, but by no means is it a film that has significant power.  However, to me, It's just not in my wiring to be someone who would go "half-way" with a project.  In other words, if my goal is to make a "scary" movie, than by god all stops will be pulled in this attempt to make just that.  A scary movie.  This movie, however, basically goes "half-way".  If the goal was to make a "kid-friendly" horror movie, than I suppose mission accomplished.  Not near "dark" enough or raw for my liking.  Very hollywood-ish, and too "clean, pure and kiddy" for my taste.  But....  It's a decent film with some value.  It's just dark enough to warrant adults a bit of entertainment, but do NOT expect anything other than what I have stated if you are an adult who truly seeks out genuinely good "scary" movies.

Good, but not new. Very happy with the price of product and I guess the product itself.  All disc are there and work.  No scratches.  This was to be a NEW item but, that was not the case.  The seller re-shrink wrapped the box and saved all the original shipping materials for re-packaging.  Seller is a lair.  Item is not new.  One of the pouches holding disc 2 of season 1 is torn.  The Pilot script is missing.  Other than the seller being a lair the product was great.  I over paid for a used item, but oh well.  Sold for $249 is store a year ago.

this was pretty good,not as good as i expected. the colors were good..jim carrey was ok and the length was too short...overall it was an ok experience. i guess for the price it is worth it

Woodstock Blue Ray search I was just in high shool at the time and first saw Woodstock at the drive in. Bought and loved the VHS and the orginal soundtrack. The problem is DVD. I bought the directors cut and found the sound quality superb but it was nevertheless not the orginal. I keep looking for the orginal in Blu Ray but can only find the directors cut. Id the VHS version is out there on Blu Ray, I'd buy it in a heart beat. many thanks for any help in my quest.

Gattaca The movie was intriguing in theme.  It would've been stronger with less narration. It was visually and conceptually interesting.  The deleted scenes helped me understand some of the plot.  Ernest Borgnine's part suffered from the deletions.

Great Concept Technically this is not a great movie, but as I watched it I wanted it to be better because this story of reincarnation is a worthy one.  I don't care for the photo on the dvd case.  It seems to be packaged for the wrong audience.  Overall, I commend the maker of this film and would like to see a re-make that a larger budget would permit.  I also liked the closing song.

very disappointing this 3 DVD set was very disappointing. i like 2 see the full show with the Dancers and the dancers dancing in a line. someone needs to come out with the full shows not just half a the show like time life did. i rather record it on Centric. i never buy any thing like this from time life again. if i knew time life did this i would not have brought it from some else on Amazon.

Not for ladies, in my opinion The movie was cerebral in its own way, but it's just so dark. Heartless murder by terrible means-- had me closing my eyes thinking, "Just kill him already!" at least 4 times.  I think it's one of those movies for men to watch a think, "I just saw me a good, thinky movie!" but really it's just violence, good cinematography, and solemn acting. All the acting was wonderful, particularly Woody Harrelson.  I enjoy a good thriller, but this one didn't have enough dialogue for me I guess, and the ending was very unsatisfying.  A good movie for a boring evening at home if you're a man or with one, but a real mood killer after having a nice dinner with your mother and sister...

man on a ledge This was a filme that turned out to be much more exciting than my expectation based on the title of the film.  It is worthy of a rental and will provide worthwhile entertainment.

Always good to see Karloff in anything It was ok, but, Thriller is the one by Karloff, that is the better of the two. Karloff is the King of Horror, so it get a pass.

sun saluation a bit anemic Lots of hand and shoulder rotation. Good for people w arthritis  however: the sun salutation glossed over technique prompting during down dog and plank.No mention where your body alignment is during this more strenuous section. The section abruptly ended before the flow was over.It just moved to the next section.Could have used some better editing.Peggy is animated but the others looked waxed.

Max Manus Man of War I purchsed this DVD for a Norwegian friend as a gift.  She and I watched it together and she was quite familiar with the subject matter of the film since her father was also a very active member of the Norwegian underground during the Nazi occupation of Norway in WWII.  Personally, I would have enjoyed it more if it had been "voiced over" in English.  All-in-all, a good film and a reasonably accurate account of the Norwegian resistance against the Nazi occupation of WWII.

I wanted something more When I first heard about the premise forCowboys & Aliens, I just had to laugh. It sounded absolutely ridiculous and I had no idea how it was going to work. When I first saw the preview, it still seemed crazy, but giving a piece of alien technology to one of the cowboys seemed like a reasonable step to making this seem plausible....or at least as plausible as this scenario could be.  The movie started out very promising and reminded me of what I've loved from Westerns in the past....great, gritty character and plot development with the rebel cowboy standing up for the oppressed citizen, but only so far as he sees fit. Sadly, I felt like some of that strong plot and character development fell by the wayside once the aliens appeared. Instead we were filled with a lot of flash in the pan action sequences which were fun but not as compelling as I would've liked.  I really enjoyed both Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford in their roles. I especially loved the "slow" sequences with Harrison Ford as he interacted with some of his hired help or other cowboys searching for the aliens...one of my favorite scenes was when Harrison was talking with the young boy.  Overall, this movie didn't set me up to expect too much out of it...and sadly, that's all it delivered. It was fun, but not outstanding.  3 out of 5 stars

Great concept...very poor ending Overall, I like this movie and the for the most part I would have rated it 4 stars...but the ending was so bad, I had to down grade it.  I suggest you watch it and miss the last 5 min of the movie.

"Not my rules" Jason Statham began his solo action hero career with a film made by two diverse kings of cool cinema: writer Luc Besson and director Corey Yuen, the latter making his return to American cinema over a decade after his contributions to the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002848WQ">No Retreat, No Surrender</a> series. With such a collection of talent to drive the production, a guy like me expected great things, but ended up sort of disappointed. It's hard to criticize the film since there's nothing really wrong with it and it has some really cool moments, but overall it seems to merely graze the target instead of nailing it.  The story: Frank Martin (Statham, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002ZG999U">The Expendables</a>) is a transporter - an expert auto driver and fighting machine who'll deliver anything in his car, even armed bank robbers making their getaway, if the price is right - who finds himself caught up in a deadly game of human trafficking when he finds out that his latest delivery is a kidnapped young woman (Qi Shu, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767851161">Gorgeous</a>) with knowledge of a massive moving operation of immigrant slaves...  Since his solo debut with this movie, Jason Statham has been the only performer in the last decade-and-a-half of Hollywood who's consistently thrown himself into the role of action hero. Forget Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel, and even Sylvester Stallone - none of them can match Statham's track record, and he has a considerable leg up on them thanks to his indulgence in martial arts. With that said, while he does pretty good drama-wise, his physical talents don't seem fully realized here. The fight scenes compose only about 50% of the film's total action content, but as the attraction I was most looking forward to, their lack of consistency weighs more heavily on this review than it might on others. While I liked the fight on the bus and got a kick out of the oily garage brawl, all of the encounters seem overly reliant on dreadful quick-cut editing, and at least the first one also indulges in debilitating close-ups. Statham's kicks are nice, but the nicest of them - a sort of flipping dropkick - was almost definitely performed by a double. The vehicle scenes are pretty good also, with the highway chase drawing parallels to the one in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0014Z4OMU">Raiders of the Lost Ark</a>, but they're not what I'm after.  The story and characterizations are stronger than you'd expect from a run-of-the-mill action flick, and what else would you expect with Luc Besson behind the pen? The relationship between Statham's character and Qi Shu's is nice, despite including mandatory out-of-nowhere sex, and I love how endlessly hammy and obviously evil the main villain played by Matt Schulze is. He'd pretty much play the same role two years later against Steven Seagal in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000255LCK">Out of Reach</a>, but it's a bit more refined here and able to be taken seriously. With that said, the film definitely has a problem with its pacing - the finale really sort of sneaks up on you - and I can't help but reference that indecisive feeling of unfulfillment that comes with movies that Besson wrote/produced but didn't direct. The man got so much juice out of films like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006GVJEE">Leon</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00008ZZ9E">La Femme Nikita</a>, whereas in comparison something like this that has his handprint on it but not his auteurship sort of feels like a full-course meal that was interrupted midway through. Corey Yuen is my favorite action director of all, but drama- and development-wise he just can't hold a candle to what ol' Luc can do (co-director Lous Leterrier would do much better on his own three years later, when he directed Besson's Jet Li vehicle <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000A2IPQY">Unleashed</a>).  In a surprising turn, the film's PG-13 rating doesn't work against it: blood and excessive language isn't missed. It's a decent action movie and probably more accessible to general viewers than any number of other offerings from both Statham and Yuen, but it's definitely not the best work of anybody involved. Rent it, first.

Civil Rights Lite The feeling of guilt I had when viewing The Blind Side were echoed with The Help. Like that movie, it took the issue of racism and turned it into light-hearted comedy; all the while, the African American characters were left totally under developed.  For example: *Spoiler Alert* When the one maid defecated in her boss' pie, she was simply blacklisted. If it was truly reminiscent of pre-civil-rights Mississippi, she would've been tracked down and killed! Just to pay tribute to the real horrors of the south at the time, the filmakers did throw in one KKK related murder plot, but it seemed half-hearted and lazy.  The big saving grace of this film are the performances. Octavia Spencer more than deserved her Oscar win. Viola Davis was also excellent. But that brings up the bigger problem: how come talentless pretty white actresses like Katherine Heigel and Kate Hudson can continue getting starring roles in Hollywood films while brilliant actresses like Octavia Spencer and Viola Davis are still playing maids? If anything, that's the biggest question that arises from this film.

Love the Show, but DVD is low quality I was thrilled to see this DVD was finally available. I fell in love with this show on A&E. The family is great: Christian, honest, FUNNY, and loyal to each other. It's good, clean fun. Where can you see this on TV or DVD these days? I bought it almost as soon as I saw the DVD was available.  I'm disappointed in the DVD, though. I should've known the DVD wouldn't be crystal clear when I saw the price point. I thought the Robinson family wanted to get the DVD on the market fast. But the DVD isn't as clear as the TV version. I don't even have a high definition TV, and the A&E broadcast was way clearer than the DVD version.  As other reviewers wrote, there are no special features, but that doesn't bother me at all.  What DOES bother me, though, is that they don't play "Sharp Dressed Man" on the opening sequence. This is one of my favorite parts of the show. I doubled over laughing the first time I saw four men in tux jackets and Muck Boots step out of a limo to the tune of "Sharp Dressed Man." The DVD title song isn't half as good as "Sharp Dressed Man."  I'm sure they'll come out with a different version of the DVD at a higher price, so you might want to wait. But if you're just looking to watch the show, this DVD is adequate.

BREAKING AWAY --DVD This is a good movie with fine acting and writing.  Breaking Away may seem to some a little dated, but I felt this is a good period setting film that can be enjoyed by the whole family.

Not Funky Enough Funkytown is a drama centered on the disco era. I expected more disco dancing and less drama than what I got. Funkytown, in my mind, was going to be a fun upbeat movie with lots of music. It does have a lot of music, but this is not a fun movie. It's too serious for a movie about music that's all about having a good time. I like the gay themes, though, and Justin Chatwin is hot!

Decent flick This movie is worth checking out. The disk is loaded with extras if you're interested in filmmaking. Its a low budget film but if your into gritty cop films you'll probably like this. It's one of the few Alex Cox films I like.

A relationship triangle in the squared circle ALPHA VIDEO is the dba of a Pennsylvania-based outfit called GOTHAM. They specialize in niche market material, mostly vintage programmers and public domain stuff. Quality of their unrestored movie transfers varies from fair to good, based on condition of film stock and source material (often old 16mm broadcast prints). The only extras provided are a catalog insert and DVD-accessible title list.  . 'B' grade musical programmer THE GIRL FROM MONTEREY is the story of a Mexican nightclub singer (Lita) who finds herself torn between brother (Baby) and lover (Jerry). Lita hopes to get a scheduled middleweight boxing match between the two men cancelled. The manager of her brother's opponent tries to distract Baby from training by hiring a girl to seduce him. Film's highlights are the realistic ring scenes.  CAST AND CREW TRIVIA--  Wallace Fox is best known for the several East Side Kids comedies he directed for MONOGRAM in the early 1940s.  Comedian Edgar Kennedy claimed he once battled Jack Dempsey for 14 rounds. He co-stars here as fight promoter Doc Hogan.  Anthony Caruso (Baby) had an extensive TV career-- Star Trek fans will remember him as gangster Bella Oxmyx in the season 2 episode, "A Piece of the Action."  Boxer Tito Flores is Jay Silverheels, who later portrayed Tonto opposite Clayton Moore's Lone Ranger.  Armida's 'B' film career ended with 1951's RHYTHM INN, and her appearance as a specialty dancer. .  Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 IMDb viewer poll rating.  (4.6) The Girl from Monterey (1943) - Armida/Edgar Kennedy/Veda Ann Borg/Jack La Rue/Terry Frost/Anthony Caruso/Jay Silverheels

Dragon Dragon is an entertaining film, but terribly inaccurate. Director Rob Cohen had an opportunity to shed light on the real Bruce Lee and blew it! Like so many Hollywood Bio pics, Cohen was more interested in perpetuating mythology than giving Lee the respect he deserves, and telling his real story. If your interested in entertainment, dragon delivers; but, for anyone interested in learning about the real Bruce Lee, this film will not help.

Are We Alone In The Universe When making a documentary, and asking people to pay for it, one has a certain obligation to potential customers.  There need not be an entertainment quotient; but there most certainly should be quality control.  The things missing from this documentary are clarity, continuity and conciseness.  The viewer should be able to sit down and watch it without any prior knowledge of its content and still come away with at least a minimal understanding of what's being presented.  Fortunately, I had done some research on Zecharia Sitchin prior to watching "Are We Alone In The Universe"; otherwise, I'm afraid I would have written him off as something of a crack-pot.  There does seem to be considerable controversy, however,  as to Sitchin's competence as well as his expertise.  In a separate DVD focusing on  Sitchin's work - "The Gods From Planet X" - Jason Martell refers to him as one of the most accomplished linguists in the world - and one of the few who can translate virtually every piece of Sumarian writing - in fact, you learn almost more about Sitchin in Martell's documentary than in "Are We Alone In The Universe."  His critics, on the other hand (per Wikipedia), dismiss his translations as incomplete and misleading.  His field of academic specialty was economic history; he was not a trained linguist.  As far as I can tell, he was mostly self-trained as a Sumarian linguist; this in itself doesn't disqualify him as an expert in the field.  But since so many trained linguists have criticized him for having incorrectly deciphered the texts,  I have to dismiss Martell's depiction of him as one of the world's foremost linguists as somewhat fanciful.  The thrust of Sitchin's hypothesis, based on various ancient texts but in particular the Sumarian, is that a planet with a greatly elongated orbit around the sun has, in the past,  created catastrophic damage to the inner solar system - and perhaps the outer solar system as well.  This planet, according to Sitchin, was and perhaps still is the home world of beings called Anunnaki in the Sumarian texts.  The Anunnaki, according to Sitchin, visited Earth and seeded the native humanoid population to create what has become the human race.  He derives the term Nibiru from ancient Sumarian texts as the name of this planet; the Planet X depiction comes from the few astronomers who, like Sitchin, believe there to be a tenth planet.  The thrust of this particular DVD, though, is simply to claim for each of perhaps a dozen textual artifacts seeming to verify Sitchin's hyopthesis that there exists hundreds, perhaps thousands, more such artifacts.  But no attempt is made to put the artifacts in the larger context of Sumarian culture; so basically the viewer must take Sitchin's word that what he sees in the artifacts is not subjective on his part but an objective interpretation of the symbology.  Presumably, this rogue planet idea is dealt with in much greater detail in Sitchin's books.  So, while it's true that one should read his books before making a judgement of his competence, it's equally true that one should do a bit more research before making a documentary of the man.

The first one is still the best I am a huge fan of everything Resident Evil, but this movie was lacking.  The first Resident Evil movie grabbed you and didn't let go.  It was fresh and had plenty of action.  This movie had a kick butt opening sequence and faded off from there.  It was like the writer had a great idea for a movie (the beginning sequence) and then had writers block after that.  I thought it was ok, but if you are not a fan of the series, I would just rent it.

Overlong, feel good take on boxing family dysfunction, still entertains *** This review may contain spoilers ***  With so many fight flicks out there, it helps to be a little bit different. The film's creator, Mark Wahlberg, wisely explores Prizefighter Micky Ward's family conflicts for three quarters of the film, rather than dwelling mainly on the conflicts in the ring. Wahlberg was attracted to Ward's story since they both grew up in large families, in a working class Massachusetts environment. For those who have no interest in astrology, I apologize, but I would like to point out that the natural inquisitive nature of a Gemini (Wahlberg), goes quite well with the laid back, easygoing Libran (Ward). What we end up with 'The Fighter' is an 'airy' concoction--a film that manages to exude a 'feel good' sensibility coupled with the strong dialectic between two brothers, whose mutual attraction and repulsion is constantly shifting.  Since 'The Fighter' is based on the true story of Ward's rise to the top as a champion welterweight, whenever reality weasels its way into the narrative, the film is quite absorbing. The entire scene where Ward, goaded by his mother, agrees to fight an opponent twenty pounds heavier than he is, and then gets his ass kicked, is something I've never seen before in a boxing film. Ward's brother, Dicky (played by a chameleon-like Christian Bale), also provides a great deal of 'color' to an otherwise traditional tale of pugilistic ambition. Who can forget when Micky ignores his trainer's game plan and adopts his brother's strategy to win the title fight? This despite Dicky's continual descent into the hellhole of crack addiction.  The bulk of 'The Fighter', however, is much more a tale of filial obligation (or should I say obsession?) than the history of Micky Ward's ascent to the welterweight crown. Why does it take Micky so long to realize that Dicky is actually holding him back? The answer in a nutshell is misguided filial obligation. A deeper subtext is that the Ward brothers are both in an unconscious incestuous relationship with their mother (played by an over the top Melissa Leo). While Micky eventually breaks free, Dicky takes a more circuitous route toward redemption. He must first go to prison where he finally overcomes his crack addiction and eventually allows his brother to fight without any conditions (that is, with Dicky no longer acting as if his brother owed him something).  I would urge anyone who has seen 'The Fighter', to also see Visconti's "Rocco and his Brothers"--both films deal with two brothers who are prizefighters. In 'Rocco', the stakes are much higher: the successful prizefighter brother also has a misguided filial obligation to his now washed up sibling. Unlike Dicky (who eventually gives up his unhealthy family relationships), Rocco covers for his brother who has committed both rape and murder. Unlike the Visconti classic, Wahlberg is content to offer up a happy ending, where Dicky is welcomed into Micky's new boxing family, accepted by them despite all the past recriminations.  The three principals here all acquit themselves well. The most impressive aspect of Wahlberg's performance is his physical conditioning; he trained for four years to get himself into shape to play this role. Even better is Christian Bale as Dicky. Bale lost approximately sixty pounds to play Micky's crack-addicted brother; when you first see him, you won't even realize it's Christian Bale. Amy Adams finally breaks out of her 'good girl' roles and plays a sexy, working class gal who helps Micky break his ties with his mother.  Less successful is Melissa Leo as Alice Ward, the mother of the seven daughters. Yes, we get the idea that she's a control freak, but does all that 'control freak' stuff have to repeat itself ad infinitum? The daughters (described by many critics as a virtual "Greek Chorus"), provide additional cartoonish machinations; the stale comic relief reaches its apotheosis in the scene where the daughters try and pummel Micky's girlfriend, Charlene.  Micky Ward's victory during the Championship Fight in London seems a bit anti-climactic. Wahlberg went to great lengths to reproduce the actual fight as it appeared on HBO in 2000. The actual recording of the HBO announcers was utilized during the film and the fight sequences were choreographed to match the actual movements of the boxers. It just seems kind of lazy to pad the end of your film with the reproduction of an actual event, which you could probably better enjoy by watching the real thing.  'The Fighter' probably would have worked better had it been cut down by about 20 to 30 minutes. A good number of the scenes feel as if they're improvised and sometimes drag a bit. Nonetheless, the holy trinity of Wahlberg, Bale and Adams, make this fairly traditional boxing yarn, entertaining. Wahlberg stays true to his Gemini sign--there is something for everybody here: whether it be over the top acting performances, intense family conflict with incestuous undertones and gritty recreations of fighters plying their trade in the ring.

"I don't care what you're into. I'm not washing anybody's underwear." 2008's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001ILHY1I">Death Race</a> is one of the few post-<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000E1NXAY">Event Horizon</a> flicks directed by Paul Anderson that actually works and ranks as one of my favorite action movies of the last decade. A follow-up film was inevitable, but it was a bit surprising that it would be a direct-to-video prequel helmed by a director who had never worked in Hollywood. At first glance of its high production values, you'll wonder why it didn't make it into theaters, but unless you're content with the film giving up substance for style, you'll realize why soon enough.  The story: sent to the notorious Weyland penitentiary after a botched bank heist, Carl Lucas (Luke Goss, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00011CZQU">Blade II</a>) will first have to fight for his life in corporate-sanctioned death matches between prisoners and then race for his freedom when the brutal Death Race tournament is enacted.  This movie has a couple of good storytelling opportunities in chronicling both the manufacturing of its namesake and the "birth of Frankenstein"  angle, but it disappoints on both accounts by dropping each into your lap. The titular race's creation is presented as nothing more than a bright idea of the villainous corporate entities (played well enough by Lauren Cohan of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000N3AW7A">Van Wilder - The Rise of Taj</a> and Ving Rhames of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1558908242">Pulp Fiction</a>) to spike the ratings of their pay-per-views - you don't even see the track or cars being constructed - and I can't help but feel as though the filmmakers were simply ripping off <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JLXH">Revenge of the Sith</a> with how they built up the Frankenstein character, who doesn't even emerge until the last ten minutes of the film.  Director Roel Reine has been making a good name for himself on the DTV action scene, but this film's offerings aren't very inspired. For one thing, it features Danny Trejo (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002ZG98C8">Machete</a>) in its cast but he neither fights nor races. There are three of these races, but only two of them are actually Death Races and these don't happen until into the second half of the film. There's some decent stuntwork in each, but these scenes can't hold a candle to the original's: most of the time, the "action" is merely the camera swinging around while the cars are driving straight ahead. Very disappointing. About three hand-to-hand fights comprise most of the adrenaline pieces in the movie's first 50 minutes, and though the brawl between Luke Goss and Deobia Oparei (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000CNER1S">Doom</a>) is decent (they get to use flamethrowers), these also include the single worst fight that returning Robin Shou (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0790729997">Mortal Kombat</a>) has ever been in.  Considering that the film was made on only a $7 million budget, its production values are extremely high. Again, the movie *looks* like it should belong in theaters, and I'd be very surprised if director Reine didn't receive more lucrative offers in the near future. However, he overdoes things with dramatic slow-motion shots and sad music during the races: this is definitely not the movie for a "what madness hath man wrought"-type moment. Nevertheless, the film is more solid than my previous words gave it credit for: the characters are hammy but do well in furthering the story, and I consider it pretty responsible of Roel Reine to focus predominantly on the plot when he realized the action may not be quite up to par. By no means does this prequel match <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0038SUBEG">the original</a> or the version it's derivative of, but I have to give it credit for at least being competent...and for its admittedly awesome finale and the comeuppances of most of the major villains.

Movie is great, Blu-ray comes up short. (3.5) Fist of Legend, the movie, is a solid 4.5 star event.  Jet Li is fast, fast, fast.  The fights are not too repetitive and the story isn't annoyingly bad.  I probably have a soft spot for this movie, but I really can't think of too many pure martial arts flicks in my library that are better (maybe Drunken Master).  But FULL DISCLOSURE I don't practice martial arts and probably could not tell you the first thing about it.  All I know is that this is entertaining and head-and-shoulders above a good deal of Li's later, blockbuster-type stuff.  Now the real review and the reason for giving the Blu-ray 3 stars overall.  Most of the movie looks great, and certainly better than the VHS copy I have been working with since high-school, but that's just what you would expect.  The last third of the movie, though, looks pretty bad.  There is a light, black line running vertically along the right side of the image in about 5 scenes.  During the last fight when Chen ends up in the small courtyard there are artifacts all over the image - it looked like rain at first - but it's just a light dusting of "snow" on the image for most of that scene.  And, finally, the subtitles and audio are a major step down from my old copy.  I don't speak Cantonese or Mandarin, so I'm not evaluating faithfulness to the spoken language.  My beef is with the subtitles being out of sync with the audio and characters having multiple voice actors (it seems!).  Also, referring to Japanese swords as "Sabers" seems weird, especially when the person talking is Japanese.  At the end of the day you should be watching this for the martial arts, which are at least worth 4 stars, but when you buy a Blu-ray it seems reasonable to have certain expectations regarding the video and audio.  Since those expectations weren't fully met, I give the Blu-ray 3 stars overall.  If there were half-star ratings I would give Fist of Legend 3.5 stars.

Blah This movie had every potential to be up there with Brazil.  Instead it just drug on and on.  The fight scenes were masterful works of computer CGI and her dream world was interesting.  The real world was poorly done and boring.  It is worth a rental but not a purchase.

Best viewed as comedy I waited for this this to be released on DVD but now, having viewed it, wish I'd seen it in the theater.  The visuals are very attractive.  I found myself frequently freezing the action just to enjoy the frame as a still photo (viewed on 1080p 50").  The scenic views of towns and countryside in Italy were fabulous.  At the opening of the movie I enjoyed the evocative spell of the snow covered frozen lake in , presumably per the plot, Sweden.  There are some attractive women in this movie.  Clooney himself is shown doing exercises in his room at about 48 years of age that I stopped doing at 38.  Things like tip of the toe push ups, chin ups, and crunchy sit ups.  He looks good.  He looks like he's personally disciplined.  By golly, he can certainly afford a personal trainer and it shows.  Kudos to him for his fine physical conditioning.  The movie itself is, in fact, much better viewed as a comic parody of the genre than as something serious.  Yes, I know, it's supposed to be serious. Perhaps with another 15 or 20 minutes of materials....like who are these "Swedes"?  Swedes?  C'mon.  The "Swedes" find the the secret love shack ( by the frozen lake ) where the retired hit man is sequestered with a lady of very lovely proportions.  Alas,well, no spoilers here.....but what's his past, who's the woman, where's the lake, how did the "Swedes" find him?  So, he's off on a train to Rome.  But, his handler, is never identified with any nation, group, organization etc.  But, the handler in Rome tells our man he's not safe in the eternal city and must leave.  He's told where to hole up and magically "just one more" job pops up.  There's quite a bit of action in the Italian town.  People get shot, cars get raced, bad guys ( at least guys who are after the main character bad guy ) get killed here and there yet all the while nobody even looks out the window of this sleepy town.  You'd think it was deserted.  The plot is as thin as the soup fed to Ivan Denisovitch in the gulag.  The final scene is awash in gore and features hundreds of witnesses during a religious procession in the town yet they all dutifully disappear.  No police of any kind are ever seen or, for that matter, even called.  One endearing thing about the movie, for someone older, is that cell phones are not used as the ever present writer's crutch.  Our man uses a pay phone booth.  For those old enough to recall the TV show or young enough to have watched the reruns....this guy does remind me of Maxwell Smart.  The movie simply isn't serious.  If you want a serious movie you will probably consider this one lukewarm at best.  But, if you can watch it with a wink and understand it's a joke.....you will probably enjoy it.  As a serious spy/action thriller I'd rate this "0" if they had that rating or a "1".  As a pure comedy/farce it's a 2 on my rating.  What pulls it up to a three is the evocative photography.  It's monument valley in Italy.

Odd but entertaining At this point in time it would seem that there's nowhere left for film vampires to go. From Billy the Kid vs. Dracula to Dracula: Dead and Loving It to Let the Right One In all possible film genres have taken a crack at bloodsuckers. Maybe it's time for vampire stories to move on to ballet or Damien Hirst-style installation art. But wait! Here's something new: a vampire film actually filmed in Romania, the country that invented the damn things. And just to add to the novelty factor the film is set in the here and now and features Romanian actors working in English from a script written by an Englishwoman, Faye Jackson, who also directed the film.  .  Another variation is that the undead in this film are called Strigoi, which is evidently a kind of downmarket vampire. The Strigoi, it seems, simply refuse to remain dead due to grievances they have with the living. And although they do take blood, they also seem to be content to gorge on whatever food is handy. The story has Vlad (of course), a medical student, returning to his ancestral village after a failed attempt to make a life for himself in Italy. He's arrived shortly after a local couple, the Tirescus, have been killed by the villagers. The Tirescus were local tyrants first under the Communists as well as after the fall of Ceausescu. Even after death Constantin and Elena Tirescu haunt the village. Constantin still strives to buy up all the land, and Elena is content to eat everyone out of house and home. Vlad tries to be rational about what's going on around him, but in the end he has to do some vampire hunting.  The political message in Strigoi is obvious but interesting; communists, and now capialists, continue to plague the Romanian people with their insatiable thirst for power and wealth and...blood.  The political aspect to the film isn't overplayed, and neither is it a splatterfest. The film's tone is droll, observational, and quite laidback. The actors have to be commended for doing an excellent job in their second language, and despite the low budget the film has a very polished look. It would be a better film if it was shorter and if the humour was not so understated, but it's definitely an interesting addition to the vampire genre.  Read more of my reviews at JettisonCocoon dot com.

KEN RUSSELL SAID: "THIS IS MY BEST FILM"  WHY? Adapted from D. H. Lawrence's novel, this is really a prequel to the Lawrence novel WOMEN IN LOVE that Russell directed two decades earlier.  Interestingly, Glenda Jackson plays the mother of the character she portrayed in the previous film.  It's rather muddled drama, nowhere near the artistry of Russell's earlier adaptation, even with its nudity and central lesbian affair. This film is not yet available on home video in the USA.  Strangely, Russell is said to have considered this his best film.

Visual bubblegum Other than the two young leading ladies there is absolutely no reason to watch this movie. They are eye candy but the movie is stale bread. This theme has been done more often than our President lies....many, many times. Worth a rental? Good question....could have made a much better choice but there was the eye candy factor that cannot be overlooked!!

APACHE:  Film, Format, Timing & Quality of the 2001 DVD Release Although I'm a huge fan of Burt Lancaster, with an affinity for Westerns, even I have to admit that "Apache" is not one of Burt's best films.  Very loosely based on the true story of the last member of the title tribe to resist the sociological and cultural changes brought about by the advancement of the white man, the film is well-acted, ably directed, and impressively photographed.  However, the script by James R. Webb too often sacrifices characterization and context for action, and thus the audience is never really given the opportunity to learn much about the background of Lancaster's character, Massai, and what has made him into the man we meet in the film's opening sequence.  "Apache" runs roughly an hour and a half; had an extra fifteen to twenty minutes been added showing Massai's early years and establishing his tribe's cultural heritage, the movie would have taken on additional dimensions and layers and might have been a great motion picture rather than just a good one.  Speaking of the film's length, its actual running time has been in dispute since its original theatrical release back in 1954.  Even then, various resources listed it as running as short as 86 minutes, and as long as 91 minutes.  The MGM "Western Legends" DVD release (copyrighted in 2001) runs 87 minutes, and there is no solid evidence to indicate that any footage is missing from this version.  Similarly, although some modern sources claim that "Apache" was originally exhibited in a 1.85:1 widescreen format, that ratio would have made the film an anomaly back in 1954 when CinemaScope was still in its infancy and most features were still being produced in the standard 1.37:1 format.  The "Western Legends" release notes that the DVD is presented in a standard, "modified to fit your screen" ratio, but my research has lead me to conclude that the film was modified from 1.37:1 down to 1.33:1, not from 1.85:1 down to 1.33:1.  What is certain is that the "Western Legends" DVD release does not offer the best print of the film now available in terms of visual clarity.  While some scenes are remarkably sharp and clear, others are too soft, with improper color balance.  A more consistent, seemingly restored print has been screened on various premium cable TV channels during the past few years.  Hopefully, this improved edition will be made available on DVD and/or Blu-Ray in the future, now that the "Western Legends" DVD has gone out-of-print.

I knew there was a twist, but really?? I knew there was a twist, but really?? I would only rent this movie to fill time. This movie has a great start and then just tapers off.  Your left with more questions.

Dennis Hopper and Yvonne Craig Western, staring Pat Wayne (the son of John Wayne), Yvonne Craig (later to become TV's Batgirl), and Dennis Hopper. Dennis Hopper plays a young malcontent who has goaded a respected Hispanic into a fatal gun battle in the new state of California in the year 1848. His jury trial is watched with great interest by the largely Spanish-speaking citizens of the new state, who consider it to be a test of the Anglo system of justice. Wayne plays the sheriff. Yvonne Craig plays Wayne's love interest, and has several scenes throughout the movie; this was her first major role. The film was shot in 1957. The movie would probably mainly interest the fans of Dennis Hopper and Yvonne Craig.

Compelling, but... This is an interesting and complicated series, well cast.  The overall theme is that individuals over time have been abducted into the future, somehow altered (individually), and then sent back in time as one large group.  The early episodes tend to focus on one person at a time, as they discover their individual "gift" and try to adapt, but then the story seems to get bogged down in trying to figure out who in the future was doing what and why, and what these 4400 people are supposed to be accomplishing, and who in the future would be the "good" guys vs. the "bad" guys... whether the "gifts" are to save mankind or sabotage us.  Also, who can be trusted, and the meaning of a child born as a result of impregnation in the future.  My interest petered out as the series went along.

average all around Sweet Home Alabama is about Reese Witherspoon's character planning to get married, except technically she's still married to a man who lives down south, so what does she get a strong urge to do?  She travels all the way down to Alabama where her (first) husband lives and immediately hands him the divorce papers so they can officially be separated except... he doesn't want to sign them just yet.  Instead he wants to toy around with Reese for a while because apparently the two still have a thing for each other.  Now, I never thought Reese Witherspooon was the most attractive woman in the world, but she's absolutely *beautiful* in this film.  Maybe it's her hairstyle that won me over, or perhaps it's that I finally took a long hard look into her eyes and realized I see true beauty- I don't know exactly WHAT it is.  Perhaps I'm just growing older and noticing women more, who knows?  Anyway, Sweet Home Alabama has a couple flaws.  For one thing, for a romantic type concept, it's not very emotional or interesting.  It's not even predictable, which is normally the problem with romantic comedies.  It's just... the actual storyline is average.  Extremely average, in fact.  Neither Reese, her husband down south, or her new husband ever really say or do anything that I would consider interesting or, to put it another way, worthy of your time.  There's never any lengthy scene devoted to Reese going out of her way to indicate which man she'd like to spend her life with, or for that matter, she doesn't seem to care either way.  It feels more like Reese is just there for a nice quick vacation to check up on the family.  It's never really made clear through the storyline that either Reese's character or her two husbands have a serious thing for Reese- it's more like "They just do" and leave it at that.  To me this is a flaw because the movie never builds into an enticing storyline.  It tries to fill in the crucial elements of the storyline towards the end but by that point it feels like you just sat through too much pointless mediocrity to really care.  As far as comedy is concerned, there's not a whole lot of laughs either.  The jokes are normally really weak and uninteresting just like the storyline.  Now some of the characters are alright, such as the sarcastic and strict mother of the (new) husband, and the bloodhound segments are fun (and scary in one particular case involving an underwater dive) but the actual storyline leaves me completely bored.  I can't really recommend it to anyone except those who absolutely must see what all the fuss is about concerning this movie.  I don't really see the appeal myself.

Sadly lacking! It's more than 25 years since Arnold Schwarzenegger first uttered the words "I'll be back" in Terminator (1984) and in that time there have been three further instalments about the rise of the machines under Skynet and of the mother and her son (Sarah and John Connor) that would become pivotal to mankind's ultimate victory in the end. While the first three Terminator films dealt with time travel and Skynet's attempts to kill John Connor, McG's Terminator Salvation is set during the war that we have only previously had glimpses of.  Terminator Salvation begins in 2003 where Dr Serena Kogan (Helena Bonham Carter) convinces a Death Row inmate Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington) to donate his body to science. Wright duly obliges and after being given a lethal injection his remains are at the mercy of Dr Kogan. The devastating Judgement Day occurs the following year in 2004 when Skynet is activated and perceives mankind as a threat, opting to wage a horrific war on the world. Our focus quickly switches to 2018 where John Connor (Christian Bale) is part of the Resistance against the machines but is not yet the leader we are familiar with from the prophetic visions in the other films. Connor is revered by many as a future saviour and treated with utmost respect while others question the validity of these claims. Connor's problems in the war mount when the Resistance learns that Skynet are planning to assassinate specific members of the Resistance within a week. While Connor is second on the list, another Resistance member, Kyle Reece (Anton Yelchin) is the primary target, being the one later chosen to go back in time to protect Sarah Connor in the 1980s but also to become John Connor's father during that mission. Meanwhile Marcus Wright emerges in 2018 and begins searching for Dr Kogan but along the way he meets Kyle Reece and they join forces. Following Reece's capture by Skynet, Wright heads for a meeting with John Connor to enlist the help of the Resistance in a daring rescue mission. Connor, eager to prevent Reece's death and therefore his own, also volunteers to test a new radio frequency the Resistance believes can shutdown Skynet and its machines and lead to the end of the war.  As with the other Terminator films there is potentially the path to some head scratching as the protagonists look to ensure not only John Connor's survival but more importantly that of Kyle Reece. It was interesting having John Connor as just another member of the Resistance and during the film he has the chance to demonstrate his potential as a leader. Connor is somewhat stubborn, abhorrent of the authority and orders of the Resistance leaders whose scepticism of him as mankind's saviour mean they are happy to forsake Kyle Reece once he's been captured by Skynet, despite Connor's pleas. In the end victory is all that matters, but with Connor having been through encounters with terminators prior to Judgement Day he knows how crucial both he and Kyle are. In an interesting twist Kyle is a young rookie in Terminator Salvation, already adept in combat but not yet the battle-hardened soldier he was in Terminator.  This is the first time we have been fully immersed into the war between mankind and the machines and inevitably it's effects galore throughout. Only released in 2009 I somehow expected some of these effects to be better and I felt there was too much emphasis on them to carry the film. I can't blame McG too much for this. Terminator 2: Judgement Day was so groundbreaking with its effects that anyone trying to do similar with future incarnations would inevitably struggle. The historical context of the film sees Skynet only just developing the T-800 Terminator that featured so memorably in the first film. Instead we have older models that are still reminiscent of the terminators with a metal skeleton infrastructure but they don't have the same fear factor. While some terminators patrol the barren wasteland looking for human prey, others burn rubber on motorbikes while Skynet's machines scour the world from the sky and even send giant robots to capture humans and take them back to the main headquarters. As fascinating as it was to see the war in detail I was left lamenting the loss of the mystery built up in the first films with those teasing glimpses. Brief shots of Terminators crushing skulls beneath their mechanical feet and opening fire on the Resistance stayed with you long after the film, but Terminator Salvation has undone all that. The original films always seemed to depict the future war to be conducted beneath dark skies which seemed to emphasise the bleakness of the struggle. Terminator Salvation veers between day and night but is most effective during the twilight exchanges. The addition of dialogue used in the previous films and even the odd image just made me nostalgic for the other instalments.  While John Connor fights continuous battles against both the machines and his superiors we have the story of Marcus Wright unfolding. After Kyle Reece is captured, Wright befriends a Resistance member Blair (Moon Bloodgood) in what is a weak romance plot. Blair leads Wright to Connor but even before stepping on a mine and revealing the truth of what science has done to him it's already pretty obvious what Marcus Wright's secret is. Both Connor and Wright join forces to storm Skynet and rescue Reece and we do get a welcome introduction from the newly developed T-800 models and in one instance a familiar face returns! In the end an average plot is resolved with a very corny ending as Connor and Wright put their differences aside with one making the ultimate sacrifice for the future. Terminator 3 was quite good but had it not been made I wouldn't have minded, while Terminator Salvation is nearly two hours of a very thin storyline, elaborately decorated with glossy effects.  As interesting as it was to see the war between mankind and the machines Terminator Salvation offers very little that is engaging. The absence of Arnold Schwarzenegger cannot be ignored and though Bale and Worthington do try they sadly cannot fill the Austrian's shoes. I'm sure I read three Terminator films were planned depicting the future war so one can only hope Arnie will return in some capacity, otherwise I will approach any further films in this series with some dread.

Entertaining but flat This was a visually interesting film and the music was sometimes good. Yet it seemed flat. For example there were so many scenes when intelligent people would have been talking with each other about their situations and feelings and these two and often the wife just sort of looked at each other mysteriously. It just did not click.  Even less sophisticated people would have talked more. In this sense and others the characters were just not developed.  One got the impression that the filmmakers were over their heads in trying to get into the characters. So we are left with an affair between two famous people in a beautiful setting.  Okay.

I think I kind of like this movie It had some interesting concepts still not sure what was happening, but hey it was a .99 rental day. I would say watch it and let me know what the heck was happening. Did he go into another dimension or was he always in one place and he was being used as a test rat. Craziness it was like 2001 a space odyssey meets blair witch, but with better acting than Blair Witch and more action than 2001.

A Chlorophyll Monster, Loads Of Snakes, And A Cave On Fire...What More Could You Want? "Mad Doctor of Blood Island" is perhaps the weirdest of the Blood Island series of cheap 1960s horror films from the Philippines. Regular Blood Island hero John Ashley is back as Doctor Bill Foster, and this time uninhibited Angelique Pettyjohn co-stars as Sheila Willard, who is looking for her father. You might think that the moniker "Blood Island" would frighten visitors away, but you'd be wrong. (Leech Lake is popular in Minnesota, too, so I guess there's just no accounting for taste.) Ronald Remy appears here as Doctor Lorca the lunatic scientist, and does a better job with his role than the entire remainder of the cast does with theirs combined. Much like the remainder of the films in the series, this film features huge swaths of padding, mostly of the "walking through the jungle" type, but also of the "long, preachy scenes of expository backstory" variety, with some "senseless dancing" and "random knife attacks" thrown in for good measure.  The film opens with the hilarious "green blood" prologue that is the single element the movie is most famous for. (In the commentary Sam Sherman claimed correctly "It was a gimmick picture from the word go.") The prologue is a ponderous invitation to drink green blood to protect the audience from the horror they were about to witness. The film has a second gimmick besides the green blood: snakes. The snake footage is not especially terrifying, but it is plentiful. The true hilarity starts when the monstrous creature is revealed to be a green guy with a terrible complexion. Every time he attacks the camera zooms quickly in and out in a ludicrous special effect that not only didn't work, but is almost enough to induce a seizure. Another thing amusing about the creature is the inability of victims to escape: you would have to be awfully slow not to be able to outrun a plodding ponderous creature that uses a walking stick to aid its locomotion (of course this is common to many other horror movies, too.) Lots of the actors and locations look familiar to people knowledgeable about the genre, and the only truly distinguishing thing about the plot is that the science that went awry involved experiments with chlorophyll in the blood in the treatment of leukemia, hence the verdant hue of the experimentee.  The film is slow and really drags at times, but the action picks up in the last ten minutes when a fight breaks out in Dr. Lorca's cave laboratory. For whatever implausible reason, the climactic fight concludes with the cave catching fire (!), exploding (!!), and romance flourishing in the much-maligned paradise of Blood Island. The film is interesting though not especially distinguished if you happen to like the genre, and Ronald Remy turns in a good performance while the rest of the acting is minimally satisfactory. The DVD features a couple of extras including trailers and an interview with director Eddie Romero which is fairly amateurish and has poor sound quality. There is also a commentary track with Sam Sherman who was involved with Hemispheres, the original production company. His commentary is a mixed bag. Some is interesting, but much is repetitive and comes across as a bit self-aggrandizing, although he does share a fascinating tidbit about Ray Milland's hairpiece. The commentary only lasts about half the length of the movie, and is worth listening to once, as it does provide a lot of good background information on the production of the Blood Island series of films and his views on the actors involved.  "Mad Doctor of Blood Island" is necessary viewing for fans of early Filipino horror cinema or B-movie aficionados; unless you fall into one of those two categories it is probably too boring and disjointed to merit a look.

Sub par for large screen After reading other reviews that said you could see individual blades of grass on the Blu-ray version, I decided to purchase this.  I have a 55 inch Sony HD TV that has an excellent picture.  Playing this in a Sony Blu-ray player, connected by HDMI, I expected to have a crisp picture also.  Sadly disappointed.  Maybe it would be all right on a 42" screen but on a 55" screen the picture is very grainy.

Movie good, Ultraviolet BAD I thought the movie was good. It could have been a bit longer for me. My problem is with the Ultraviolet Digital Copy. I have all my digital copies in iTunes. Ultraviolet requires another player, two more website accounts and a bunch of hassle. I will ALWAYS choose a digital copy that I can download in the format I CHOOSE over Ultraviolet!

A Distortion of History Has Its Moments Rescue Dawn may distort history, but for a Hollywood production it has more than moments which do not.  And the odds are it's been appreciated over the last half-decade for exactly that reason by Americans knowledgeable about the Vietnam War.  The movie stars Christian Bale and Steve Zahn as American warriors captured in Laos or northwestern South Vietnam in 1965, when according to the movie's pre-narrative, "few Americans thought the Vietnam War would become an all out war."  I must have been one of those few, because I knew President Lyndon Johnson was fully committed to America's long-dead South Vietnamese puppet Diem's refusal to honor the Geneva Accords; and I sensed that America's buildup for (if not the actuality of) the bombing of North Vietnam, Operation Rolling Thunder, had begun.  The movie's first scenes take place aboard the U.S.S. Hornet (having survived WW II with laurels), in the Gulf of Tonkin, and the most cracking-wise loudmouth among the officer-pilots is a man with the soon-to-become-notorious moniker "Spook."  A Navy pilot, Bale is shot down by ground fire on his first bombing mission from the Hornet across South Vietnam.  At the time, America's attacks on Laos to interdict Viet Cong supply lines into South Vietnam were well-guarded CIA secrets, and kept out of America's big media; after all, Laos was a separate country bordering on South Vietnam, a member of the United Nations and presumably protected from American aggression by Article 4 of the U.N. Charter.  Bale and Zahn meet soon after Bale is shot down, in captivity in Laos (the DVD's blurb says the POW camp is in northwestern South Vietnam, but Zahn says he thinks it's in Laos), and in less than a year they escape down a tributary to the Mekong River.  The escape is reminiscent of The African Queen (regarding leaches among other things), while before the escape the POW camp scenes were reminiscent of The Bridge on the River Quai (regarding POW in-fighting and the "impenetrable forest" being the POW camp's walls).  But what impressed me most about Rescue Dawn were not its war and POW camp scenes, which occupy probably 98% of the movie's running time, but two after-Bale's-return-to-safety scenes.  There is first, Bale's hospitalization, rest, and recovery -- interrupted by his interrogation by two laughably sinister men in black suits from the CIA.  And then, this CIA interrogation is interrupted by several of Bale's shipmates, who clandestinely whisk him away from the hospital and the CIA clowns and return him to the Hornet.  Once back on his ship, Bale is honored by all hands for his extraordinary courage and escape from captivity, but more like the hero who scored a high-school football team's conference-winning points than like a Navy pilot and officer.  And at one point, the chubby master of ceremonies for Bale's shipboard reception says loudly to him: "You MUST believe in something."  Nailing it for 21st century moviegoers, Bale replies with his school boy's modest grin: "I believe I could use a good steak."  And these two completely impossible scenes brought home to me just how unlike Vietnam are America's apparently unstoppable wars in 2011; how de-institutionalized is military heroism today; and how most Americans only tolerate our soldiers like they tolerate Wall Street Billionaires and the inmates of our prisons -- if they remain nameless and faceless.  Yes.  Goddamit.  And how the very little in the larger scheme of things that was positive about soldier-ing in 1965 is gone, truly gone now the way of all flesh.

My review of War, Inc. (Blu-ray) The picture and sound quality are good. The movie itself is decent. It's your typical Hollywood liberal propaganda, so it's obviously biased and not quite accurate.

It's watchable, with lots of gore. An "ok" B movie, nothing more. I've seen this movie now about two and a half times. The 1/2 time was when I caught just part of it on tv. I can watch this from start to finish, comparing it with the three other movies that it hopes to join: The Last Man on Earth, The Omega Man and I am Legend.  On a scale of greatness I rank the movies like this:  1) Omega Man------------------ the perennial classic, if not the first. 2) I Am Legend---------------- the big money modern remake of two movies. 3) The Last Man on Earth------ the idea is fleshed out. The movie plods, Vincent Price was no action hero. 4) I Am Omega----------------- modern B Movie homage to three other movies.  I think "I Am Omega" is a good title. I think the lead actor is pretty good, even if his character is a bit wacky. I think the martial arts idea was a good one, even if it wasn't employed well. Mostly the character just practices. As for the "dead or diseased mutants", yes it's actors in zip up suits but it still works. The mutants in this movie are muscular and they look reptilian. These mutants come out in the day which is new to the series of movies. The sun does not burn these mutants. These mutants may or may not need to sleep in the day.  As for the movie, there is little plot. There is a flashback of the main character watching the news, or was it a radio broadcast, but some crisis is being broadcast. This viewer has no real idea why the world went to hell. All this viewer knows is that the main character wants to blow up the city. He travels in the sewer to plant explosives so he can blow up natural gas lines.  The movie is pretty good when "Omega" is trying to escape the city. Omega fights off zombies in the parking garage. The rescued girl takes off; Omega rejoins her. They meet up with another character, a two faced bad guy who shoots the good guy and takes off with the girl. The girl has the cure in her blood. Omega later fights the bad guy, white from blood loss, he stands on what should be broken bones and kills the bad guy. The two escape in a very nice car. Omega does not DIE at the end of this movie, which is NICE for a change. The End.  The movie presents some new elements, zombies in the day, Mr. Omega does not have to DIE at the end of the movie. The ZOMBIES get blown up for a change. Humanity makes progress. This movie really needed a happy ending because it didn't have a whole lot going for it. The lead character Mr. Omega was pretty cool, athletic, quirky, too trusting, too heroic for his own good. And finally, it's strange how the internet still worked after the world went to hell and all. Not sure how it works, but it worked for Omega and the girl with the special blood.  This movie is good for the new ideas alone. I just hope they keep remaking this movie. The movies have never been literal adaptions of the book, but that's ok because the book is little dark, a bit crude/nasty, and a bit dark and dumb.

Didn't have much of an ending I found much of what was in this movie shocking and disgusting. The main male character was played weakly, he was supposed to be some hot stud that all the girls wanted but was not really good looking enough to play the part. When the scene came on where the girl said she had slept with 15-20 boys, I was thinking was 16 and was bothered by it. Then I find out that the girl is only 14! We find out later that this is because her mother is about as immature as she is, she basically encourages her daughter to have sex so she can be more popular. I can't imagine a 14 year old girl having that many sex partners, unless she was raped or abused at a younger age, or having sex with older men. Throughout the movie there is a persistant theme that the guys are basically douchebags who just want sex, watching porn and basically trying to reenact whats in porn movies. The movie seems to show girls only having sex because it will make them popular, or because they think the guy will just leave them and find someone else. This idea that pornography and unhealthy views of sex have become so prevalent among teenagers really bothers me, but I think (and hope) this is an extreme case. One thing I didn't like about the movie was the rehashing of old gender double standards...guys are just jerks who want sex any way they can get it, and if girls have sex they are just doing it to please the guy. I thought this whole emphasis on being "popular" was way overdone...Please God tell me people aren't really that stupid.  I was disappointed in the ending, there wasn't really any resolution.

SLOW PACED MYSTERY Author Robert Parker is perhaps best known for the series of books he wrote about his private detective Spenser, mostly due to the popularity of the TV series which starred the late Robert Urich. But he began a series of books based on a second character named Jesse Stone and those stories have been turned into TV films starring Tom Selleck in the lead role. The latest has just arrived on DVD.  As the film opens Jesse is dealing with a form of depression, falling back into old habits of drinking (the character has a history of alcoholism) after being placed into forced retirement by the town council of Paradise, the town he lives in. The head of that group has plans for Jesse's position, namely inserting his son in law as the head of the police department.  Jesse ends up having more to worry about when a young woman named Cindy Van Alden (Eileen Boylan) turns up dead, an apparent suicide. This was a young girl that Jesse had helped in the past, getting her into rehab and trying to save her life. The new police chief is more concerned with the tourist trade in town and the damage the death of a local tied to drugs could do. So Jesse takes it upon himself to look deeper into the girl's death.  Without a badge how can he do so? Jesse was recently asked by his friend Healy of the State Police to assist in a different investigation. This side story takes up little of Jesse's time and permits him to carry a badge while looking into Cindy's past.  It turns up that Cindy's rehab experience wasn't quite what Jesse thought it would be. As he talks to the doctor that heads the facility he learns that the man is a resident of Paradise and that for all the talk of trying to save people's lives the facility is actually a rehab mill, a place that offers a quick fix to addicts and then turns them lose with little or no follow up.  As Jesse puts together the pieces of the puzzle elements of the Russian mob, an assist from a former foe named Gino (William Sadler) and taking on the responsibility he felt he ignored that resulted in the young girl's death all come to play. The guilt of her death weighs heavy on his shoulders and inspires him to find justice for another life lost.  This film is quite different than most mysteries seen today. Rather than count on heavy duty gunfire and fast paced car chases, the film focuses on character development and dialogue that rolls smoothly rather than at a whip snake pace. Conversations seem like conversations and words by all characters are chosen wisely so as to not trip themselves up, the result being placed in jail.  Selleck does a great job as Jesse Stone, a man with a troubled past and who is currently troubled with the present. He intends on taking back his job, the only one he's truly ever known and excelled at. The town council may be more interested in the appearance of the town on the surface but Jesse is concerned with justice and the safety of the people who live there. At the same time his inner demons have started him drinking again and the depression he deals with has caused him to seek help in a psychiatrist/ex-cop played by William Devane.  The pacing of the film seems incredibly slow but on reflection you realize that it's just the story unfolding in the most natural way possible. Plot devices aren't tossed in randomly and the interaction between characters makes this a much better film than one would expect.  Parker only finished 9 novels with this character before his death.  This story was written by the man continuing the tales of Jesse Stone, Michael Brandman, and Selleck himself. They've done a great job and one can only hope to see more.

"I thought you wanted to . . . regain your honor." The fourth installment in the "Kickboxer" franchise isn't a great movie by any means, especially when compared to the original Van Damme classic and the better-than-average first sequel. However, after the sheer disappointment that was <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00009P9MM">Kickboxer 3: The Art of War</a>, I see fit to cut this one some slack for just being a carefree karate B-movie. It has some disappointing parts that nearly earn it a lower rating, but considering that you ought to watch a film like this in a none-too-serious mindset to begin with, I can't complain too much.  The story: when he is framed, sent to prison, and his wife is kidnapped by a returning Tong Po (Kamel Kriffa, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GNOSD6">Thunder in Paradise 3</a>), the happy-go-lucky David Sloan (Sasha Mitchell, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EU1QC2">Step by Step</a>) transforms into a dark soul, hell-bent on revenge. He's released by the DEA to infiltrate a tournament set up by the fighter-turned-kingpin to bring him to justice - a task he must accomplish alongside rescuing his wife and keeping Po from discovering his identity.  Though not completely humorless, you realize early on that this film isn't going to be quite as (intentionally) silly in temperament as its predecessors. Sloan is presented as more of a Charles Bronson-type character than his usual goofy self, and this actually aids his acting performance, which is easily the best of the three movies he's done for this series. The film's dramatic offerings in general are decent, but few things can redeem the decision to have Kamel Kriffa take over the role of lead villain from his cohort Michel Qissi. It's less of a performance qualm than a technical one: apparently the only way to make Kriffa look Oriental was to fit him with heavy makeup and a prosthetic brow, the result of which looks not the least bit convincing. In hindsight, this shouldn't make too much of a difference since the regal, instrument-playing, evil-laughing Tong Po of "The Aggressor" is so different from the near-stoic beast that menaced the first two movies that they may as well be two different characters. It's admirable that the filmmakers wanted to tie this movie closer to the original films than the third one, but it really would've been better if they had just delivered a new villain and not attempted to substitute one of the more notable bad guys of martial arts cinema.  The movie's fight content is highlighted early on by a thoroughly entertaining bar brawl Sasha Mitchell has to save 20-year-old Michele Krasnoo (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6303236898">Death Match</a>): playing out more like a Steven Seagal beatdown than a Van Damme karate fight, it's no technical masterpiece but nevertheless undeniably fun to watch. All the fighting that follows it, however, must be taken with a couple grains of salt. The tournament itself doesn't begin until the last 35 minutes of the film, and though it features capoeira mestre Amen Santo (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000DD76R">Only the Strong</a>) and two of the legendary Machado brothers, sixteen of the twenty fights last under fifteen seconds, with some not even exceeding ten. There are some neat moves to be seen, but it's hard to appreciate them in such short bursts. The eventual showdown between David and Tong Po is an absolute joke, with less karate than there is rolling around on tables and having Po be absolutely destroyed by Sloan from start to stop - a definite step down from the characters' encounter in the second film. What's more (SPOILER), the movie offers next to no resolution by having Tong Po simply run away from the fight and not be seen again for the movie's remaining sixty seconds.  The film's first half is definitely the more balanced and consistent, but even the disappointments offered by the last 45 minutes can't drag it down completely. In a way, my three-star rating is honorary, considering that director Albert Pyun was unable to even match the overall competence of his own <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00009MEBU">Kickboxer 2</a>, but in light of Sasha Mitchell leaving the series to make room for Mark Dacascos in the not-really-any-better <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00009MEBW">Kickboxer 5: Redemption</a>, it's nice to know that at least he didn't have to bow out at the end of one of the worse entries of the series.

Great Commentary Track; Otherwise ? (As I am having problems with my Blu-Ray player -- the Aspect Ratio is messed up), I cannot really tell if the picture is indeed 2:35 to 1???  Other than that, I bought it through Amazon.com, as it was cheaper than my store. Of course, Peter Hyams's commentary track is really good.

Just average This movie isn't the worst horror/supernatural movie I have seen. It was just enough to keep me seated to watch ONE time.

Diana , Not Dave, Harold, John and Ricardo No one enjoys performing for their audiences more than Diana Ross. She loved the stage and the stage loved her.  But enough with audience participation. Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh. The greatest concert ever on Earth is Diana Ross' "The Boss" concert in 1979 from Caesar's Palace. This concert, in 1983 I believe, was good, but for the fact that she stopped singing and asked the audience to finish verses and stanzas. Enough audience participation already. If she just asked the audience to sing on "Reach Out and Touch Somebody's Hand" like she did in the 79 concert, that would have been fine. But on every song? I did not buy this dvd(actually I bought 2, in case one gets worn) to hear the audience sing on every song. Diana stopped singing on so many of her hit songs, and held the mic out for the audience to finish verses. The throngs loved her almost as much as I did(do).  This is the only reason I gave this dvd 3 stars, not her performance. Her performance was five stars. The quality of the dvd was five stars. I was into every song. I love Diana Ross. And that is who I paid to hear, not Bob, Roetha, Rodeshia, Clarise, Mary, Bobby, Johnson, Patrick,Carlos...........

Could have been SO much better! This movie was okay with the potential to have been SO much better. Sadly the good parts were withheld until about the last 15 minutes. I would not watch it again but I would recommend fans of hauntings give it a shot.

Just when you think the original can't be topped??!!... First half, watch for laughs...second half, more of K Williamson's genius from the first...you'll appreciate this sequel for making fun of itself, casting hot young stars (pay close attention to Emma Roberts, 'Sydney's cousin'), and delivering a NEVER-COULD-HAVE-GUESSED finale...FOR REAL!! Completely shell-shocking!! A few of the death scenes were annoying because they spout out humor before they die BUT what follows will quickly make you forget!!

Tons o fun This is a stupid movie. This movie was also a lot of fun to watch, and I found myself getting swept up in the ride, laughing at parts almost against my will.  Not recommended for feminists.

The Verdict Is In!  3 Stars [Blu-ray] "...And Justice For All" isn't a bad Pacino film, but I wouldn't go so far as to say that it is "one of his best."  Personally, the end scene in the courtroom is the type of acting behavior that Pacino is best known for (and it is the best scene in the whole movie).  Now don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoy Al Pacino a lot, but I wouldn't necessarily call those instances where he gets emotionally violent to be "great acting."  It's ENTERTAINING....not great acting.  There's a difference!  I also don't believe that he should have been nominated for a Best Actor Oscar or Golden Globe for this role.  As far as the Blu-ray quality is concerned, I don't think they did a good job at all with the transfer.  I noticed plenty of grainy areas throughout the film.  Maybe that's because it was filmed in 1979, and Blu-ray quality doesn't mesh well with that era?  I don't know, but the quality was certainly not up to par for Blu-ray standards.  All in all, this product is worth 3 stars:  Four stars for the movie itself, and one star deducted for the sub-par Blu-ray quality.  Hence, 3 stars total.

Should have been better It was ok. What was up with that rape scene though? This movie should have been so much better. It just didnt have that effect the original had. There are 2 people who should stay away from movies, Uwe Boll and Rob Zombie.

1/2 and 1/2 I loved this movie up until about half way. Me being a movie collector I of course purchased it, but I was a bit disappointed with it still. It had SO MUCH potential! But still worth it to own, great sci fi flick.

Could be great, but it is only good. Anime Review  X'amd: Lost Memories    What an odd anime, I really, really like X'amd, but no matter how hard I want to, I can't love it. What keeps X'amd from achieving true greatness, is its lack of development and explanation of the world of the story. For while there are many wars, governments, battles, and creatures, the show never takes the time to give you any substantial explanation for what any of them are, or why they are significant. As a result, it is always hard to feel for the characters, and the gravity of the situation they are in. The potential for true drama is wasted most of the time. Instead we're just expected to believe that war and hatred is bad, and peace and love is good. Unfortunately this is far from the first anime to have that message, and others have done it far better.   This particular story of good and evil begins with Akiyuki, an average, everyday high school student. But the anime universe seldom allows average high school boys to average for very long, and by the end of the first episode, his island home is attacked, and his body becomes the host of a mysterious being known as a X'amd. He is then saved and spirited away by a mysterious girl who has all the answers (But never gives them to the audience), she takes him to the postal airship she lives on, and introduces him to the rag tag group who also occupy it, and who will be responsible for teaching him the life lessons he'll need to learn in order to overcome his status as average high school boy, and help save the world.  It's a shame this story doesn't rise to become something unique, because it always feels it has the potential to do so, if someone would just explain what the heck a X'amd is, besides some sort of generic supernatural guardian of the world. Part of me wonders if this isn't drawing from some well-known piece of Japanese mythology, which would explain the lack of explanation. Sadly this is unacceptable as truly great stories should be universal, so there should have been some kind of explanation.  What this series does have going for it is its lovable cast of characters (but what anime doesn't?). They must have meant something to me for I did shed a tear or two towards the end, not something that happens often, I just wish I had understand the situation more, maybe then I would have cared when one of the characters died, and why his sacrifice was significant. The animation for the show is also quite good. It must also be noted that the English dubbing of the show is superb (save for some brief cringe worthy lines from background characters), another example of how far English dubs have come in the past half decade.  Another high point is overall atmosphere of the show, which is extremely reminiscent of Princess Mononoke. It really does ultimately feel like this anime could take place in the same world as Mononoke only thousands of years later. Sadly X'amd's world is much more complicated then Mononoke's so the simple explanations don't suffice. And neither does the ambiguous ending. Though as far as ambiguous anime endings go, this one is pretty good.  If you can watch this show for free on Netflix streaming or some other streaming service, I would definitely recommend it. Otherwise I would never suggest paying for Blu-Ray's or DVDs or digital downloads(I Especially wouldn't pay this $80 for the Blu Ray), without seeing the whole show first, and then deciding its something you always want to have with you.

chace crawford boring As in 2 other recent movies including "Twelve" all duds at boxoffice, chace crawford proves once and for all he is poison at the boxoffice

not the best i got it as stated and on time i am a collector and it was cheap couldve been better and jerry seinfeld as a bee? pass

Six Episodes: Some Good, Some Questionable I knew the DVD was six different episodes by six different animators. However, some of the animators were questionable. I'm not a big fan of anime and I wasn't a big fan of Bruce Wayne being depicted as the stereotypical skinny man you can find in any anime. In the first episode, the setting animation was amazing but the character animation was very odd. A few of the episodes in the DVD featured amazing animation all around and decent writing. Overall, I got this on a deal for less than $2 but if I had paid more I would be very tempted to return or trade-in this DVD. It was only okay, so I'm not sure what re-watch value it has.

I never thought a book would be more visually appealing and enticing than a motion picture I love the Potter movies but this one just seemed like a badly abridged version of the book. Maybe it is because Half Blood Prince is the first Potter book I read and the book is bound to be better than the movies, but I dont think that is the case here. Voldemort's childhood and how Dumbledore uses the pensive to travel back in time to see his parents and then meet the young boy at the orphanage himself was just amazingly fleshed out and detailed, capitvating and descriptive in the book. Reading through how Voldemort came to be was fascinating and it allowed the audience to grasp the troubled past he endured, the darkness he exhumed and the demons that haunted him so early on eventually rendering him the person he became. There is suddenly an entire human side to Voldemort never seen before and that was powerful. But the movie missed through all these details and just rushed through it. The lake scene was pretty cool - but again in the book it was just so much more eerie than in the movie. I dont think anyone who hasnt read the book will truly understand the artistic mastery that went into creating this work of art; and it really is a work of art: Rowlings outdid herself on this one. I was captivated until the last word and i dont like fiction books.  They should have made this movie into two parts, just like with The Deathly Hollows. I must I admit I still liked it because I love Harry Potter and the visualization of the world of Harry Potter, but I think they could have done a much better job on this one especially because now, after reading all the Potter books, I believe The Half Blood Prince is THE best book in the series. Even better than The Hollows and they were pretty awesome.

not the 10 th To me - combine both the 10 th and this 25 th ... Ms Salonga is tops of em all , given the show is really about Javert & Valjean  and of course nothings gonna top the 10 th but this is a fine variant for the intense fan

Seve Film was obviously rushed out after his passing and a liitle more thought, quality of filming and effects would have enhanced the production more fitting the great man he was !! I am sure an improved version will be distributed in the future.

Jason needs to come back with a different director Directed by Marcus Nispel (Familiar with remakes from directing The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in 2003 and is currently working on the reboot of the Conan series that is due out next year.) While some movies have a single writer, to properly bring the new Friday the 13th they had Damian Shannon and Mark Swift for the screenplay and story as well as Mark Wheaton on the story as well. Shannon and Swift both have experience with the Friday the 13th universe as they co-wrote Freddy vs Jason together. Knowing this will turn some people away immediately as this was one of the more ill received movies of both of these franchises (I'll admit it having hated it when it came out but having re-watched it recently it wasn't nearly as bad as I remembered.) The final writer has done a couple movies previously though is his first entry into the Slasher genre.  This film is kind of a tough one to really go over because for as much as they got right with the reintroduction to the franchise there was so much that was wrong. The movie feels like it is a short movie at the introduction followed by the main feature that both involve the same characters (much as Rob Zombie's Halloween 2 felt like.) The only difference is all of it is "real" in the realm of Jason Voorhees and the first part of the movie actually takes classic moments from the first couple and remakes them to give us a kind of prologue for anyone who hasn't seen the originals. This does not feel like a waste of time though. Just like Halloween 2 the introduction was the best part of the film. It had the classic moments that all felt just right while showing how little actually happened in the first few movies.  While the movie was able to follow the formula of a Jason movie "decently" after the introduction there was a slew of problems that brought everything great to a drag. Jason's kills in the past all had that huge build up and pay off to each and everyone. This new entry into the franchise has the buildup down pat but each and every kill felt as if it lacked the payoff. While some of the styled in killing weren't predictable this was due to them lacking the true strength of previous kills.  While it holds up as an OK watch and I highly enjoyed the introduction to catch anyone up on the series it kind of falls apart after that. There were modern day additions to a classically proven formula that just should not have made the cut: torture, traps, prolonged kills, abduction, a high level of gore, and Jason actually taking the time to run. Jason doesn't run the entire point is a pepe le pew styled slow walk that would always catch up to the person running due to a mistake on their part or just getting tired. I really wanted this movie to work since the originals were all full of campy fun (and not something you should take as a serious slasher flick) but it just never seemed to reach the fun level and that's a shame for all Friday the 13th fans.

Steven King's "It" Steven King's 'It" was a Ok video, a pale comparison to the book. The casting, even though it was a TV movie from the 80's, was suspect. But the good news is, I hear producers are looking to remake 'It" for the cinema, with a proper budget and a top director. Too often King's books never get a proper budget when that make the transition from book to film. Over all if you wnat to remember your childhood from the 80's its a good 10.00 dolare spent.

Stardust DVD Saw previews of this and thought it would be good.  It looked like it fell in the category of movies I like.  It was just Ok, not worth buying, unless you can get it cheap.  I bought it at a good price, but would have rather just rented it.  I liked the main story line, but that was all.

RED SCORPION Remains a Near-Perfect B Movie Say what you want about the 1980's, but studios new a thing or two about churning about some memorable B pictures.  The 70's are revered for their Grindhouse productions, and I think many studios had to go through that phase in order to best position themselves for these incredible 80's cult classics.  There were so many of them, sprinkled through the decade, and RED SCORPION remains a true gem definitely worth a look if you've never enjoyed it and maybe even worth a second look if you have.  Lt. Nikolai Rachenko (played by Dolph Lundgren) is a Soviet Special Forces killing machine who's assigned to infiltrating a band of rebels in Africa.  His mission is to assassinate their leader before his anti-Communist propaganda turns more of his nation's people against the Soviet forces.  But a failure and a change of heart later, Rachenko joins forces with the man he was sent to kill, now waging an all-out attack on the Soviet Army!  (The film is over twenty years old, so the usual spoiler rules don't apply, folks.  I'll try to mind my P's and Q's, but I may cross into sacred territory, if you don't mind.)  As a B picture, there's plenty to love about RED SCORPION.  Clearly, the film was written with an action star in mind, and the 80's put Lundgren on the map.  He faced off with Stallone in ROCKY IV.  MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE followed, and, while a bit of a cinematic blunder, it still cemented the blonde as a `go-to-guy' for bad-buttness for years to come.  UNIVERSAL SOLDIER (with Jean-Claude Van Damme) was still a few years away, but Lundgren clearly had the look.  Only a big bronze body with chiseled good looks could play the Anti-Rambo with such aplomb, punctuating his dialogue with bursts from a machine gun or hacks from a machete, so the Dolphster was snatched up and put to good service by no less than Jack Abramoff (yes, you may need to do some reading to understand the history, good readers!).  Certainly, RED SCORPION was a tailor-made action vehicle.  The story practically revolves around one action sequence after another.  Lundgren beats up his captors in jail.  Lundgren steals a military vehicle.  Lundgren endures a truck chase.  Lundgren rides a motorcycle.  Lundgren trades barbs with veteran character actor M. Emmet Walsh.  Lundgren poses and sweats in desert.  Lundgren dives away from explosions.  Of course, the tale event features some noble `come-to-his-senses' moments as the wounded and ailing Rachenko is befriended by an African bushman who kinda/sorta teaches him the error of his ways, but, as you can expect, it's all remains centered around the rat-a-tat of machine guns and the blam-blam-blam of Soviet tank fire, of which there's plenty.  My biggest complaint with the picture is that it never quite felt like it delivered a suitable ending.  Sure, Lundgren and his new allies best the Soviet military, but for enduring the last stand the audience was essentially only treated to a popular catch phrase at the time (not printable here).  My guess is that the production either ran short of funds and had to judiciously tack on the final scene as haphazardly as they did, or Director Joe Zito lost his copy of the shooting script.  (It could happen.)  In any case, what they delivered never did justice to the character or his thematic arc; rather, it kinda/sorta feels like a punchline, and that remains to this a day a creative disservice to an otherwise respectable first (and only) outing for Rachenko.  Still, the picture remains widely entertaining.  Lundgren proves he had the right stuff to grunt and sweat with the best action stars, which is largely why he remains in employ even today.  You know when he goes running through the compound where his curiously 80's shorts (think Lt. Dangle from Comedy Central's RENO 911), he's bound to kill or maim somebody, and - so far as an action star will tell you - there's nothing wrong with that.  RED SCORPION was produced by Shapiro Glickenhaus Entertainment.  DVD distribution is being handled through Synapse Films.  Video and audio presentation here is very solid, though whoever miked Lundgren deserves to be in an unemployment line somewhere.  Granted, it's pretty obvious he struggled a bit with some of the dialogue, but no matter how high I cranked the volume up on this it never quite sounded like what the subtitles told me was said.  The disc is full of extras, including a commentary by Zito and Mondo Digital's Nathaniel Thompson; some terrific behind-the-scenes and `looking back' featurettes; as well as an assortment of trailers, notes, and stills.  It's a handsome presentation for one of filmdom's curiously overlooked action films.  A solid three-star RECOMMENDATION.  You want to see how a great late 80's B movie looks?  Check out RED SCORPION.  It's actually aged fairly well, given the fact that much of the stunt work was done in-camera AND by Lundgren himself AND you can see that it's him!  Nicely done.  While the Blu-ray probably doesn't really add all that much in terms of its digital resolution, I'm happy to proclaim that, if you're a fan, than you owe it to yourself to have it in your library.  In the interests of fairness, I'm pleased to disclose that the fine folks at Synapse Films provided me with a Blu-ray DVD screener of RED SCORPION by request for the expressed purposes of completing this review.

Decent but forgettable action film The prison takeover film has been a Hollywood staple for decades and Lockout runs with the formula with the only real snippet of originality being that the prison is set in space.  It is the year 2079, and CIA agent Marion Snow (Pearce) is framed for the murder of another agent who was investigating stolen government secrets.  Snow is sentenced to 30 years in prison at MS One, a maximum security prison set on a floating space satellite where prisoners are kept in a cryogenic stasis.  Before his sentence can be carried out, however, Snow is given a chance at a reprieve.  The prisoners have broken out aboard MS One and have taken several people hostage, including Emilie, the daughter of the President, who was on the satellite on a humanitarian mission investigating the well-being of the prisoners.  Snow is initially reluctant to take on the mission until he learns that Mace, the man he gave the briefcase containing information that could clear him, is aboard the prison as well.  More determined to find the case rather than rescue Emilie, Snow sneaks onto the vessel to find it overrun with the most dangerous prisoners on the planet, led by Alex, and his psychotic kill-crazy brother Hydell.  The entire pretext for the prison breakout is incredibly flimsy...First the daughter of the President going into such a dangerous location with little more than a couple of Secret Service agents.  Then the whole idea of the warden unfreezing perhaps the most mentally unhinged prisoner out of some 500 total is ludicrous.  It would be like someone going to Corcoran Prison in California to check on prisoners and the warden wheels out Charlie Manson.  And of course one of the Secret Service agents are dumb enough to sneak a gun into the interview room even though they were supposed to check all weapons.  Now remember, this is supposed to be 67 years in the future...So what, they stopped using metal detectors and Backscatter X-ray machines in 2079 and now just take guys words that they are unarmed?  Right...  I've been a fan of Guy Pearce ever since Ravenous and have always enjoyed his performances, but he seems to be trying to channel a combination of Snake Plisken from Escape from New York and John McClane from Die Hard with his performance.  He forces one bad one-liner after another and ends up being more of a parody of action heroes than an actual action hero.  Thankfully Pearce is bailed out by a solid supporting cast including Maggie Grace as Emilie, and Peter Stromare as Langral, the head of the Secret Service.  The action in Lockout is wildly inconsistent.  On one hand the prison has an automated defense system of Death Star like gun turrets that are able to repel the aircraft of security forces that Langral sends in to re-take the prison.  On the other hand, Snow is able to escape at least a half dozen times from prisoners just by running through a door and closing it behind him.  Why is it he seems to be able to operate all the doors and the prisoners can't?  Lockout is a futuristic film but it didn't have the budget ($20 million) to truly pull off a futuristic look.  This unrated edition amps up the violence a little bit but this could still really pass for a PG-13 film.  Ultimately, Lockout is a middle of the road actioner that provides a mild diversion but is completely forgettable.

The Chihuahua Sequel As a fan of the first Beverly Hills Chihuahua movie, I was a little disappointed in the sequel. It was the casting, the original cast was far superior and I tried but couldn't get over it. I have watched the original several times but I don't think I will watch the sequel again.

Kennedy: The Complete Series (DVD) I must admit, for the Civil Rights Bill alone, I had President Kennedy on an enormous pedestal.  Although I am not sure the series is true to the Kennedys' lives, I have to say that I was stunned at how the Presidency operated.  Naive' would be a good word for my state of consciousness regarding how the President runs the United States.  I thought most things were researched, well planned out, and implemented with as much forethought,intellience, and wisdom as possible. Instead, I discover Jack and Bobby riding on the seat of their pants constantly.  It was so disappointing to observe Hoover, as the big crazy bully, hanging over his own President as a vulture continuously waiting to take the Kennedys down. I definitely have a different mindset after viewing this series and have some major contemplation to do regarding governments and how they are run, not just the U.S., but all over our planet.  If you want to be disillusioned, please watch the series.  More truth is good for all of us if this was the truth.

I Hate to Dissent, but... Of the famous film noirs, The Big Sleep has never really gelled for me, after three or four viewings so far. There are some memorable scenes, to be sure, but the plot is notoriously, needlessly convoluted (even Bogart and Chandler were said to be confused by it) and lacking a clear dramatic arc; it feels more like a loose framework upon which to hang a lot of catchy dialogue. And really, the dialogue often comes across as too clever by half, too stilted, stylized, and baroque, even by noir standards; compare the great zingers in The Maltese Falcon, where the really clever lines do a better job establishing character and fitting into a swift-moving, clear, and engaging plot.  For noir with the great Bogey, I'd recommend The Maltese Falcon over this film not merely on the aforementioned grounds, but also for featuring delightfully memorable performances by Lorre and Greenstreet (and Elisha Cook, Jr., who makes a more memorable impression there than in The Big Sleep).  Of the four Bogey/Bacall pairings, their first, To Have and Have Not, has hotter romantic chemistry. The crime drama Key Largo is better constructed and benefits from the presence of two film legends, Edward G. Robinson (in fantastic form) and Lionel Barrymore. Dark Passage is certainly worth a watch, with a few particularly memorable scenes and a great supporting part by Tom D'Andrea; as striking as some of the visual moments are, the extensive use of a subjective camera admittedly might strike some viewers as awkward and gimmicky.  For noir in general, there are plenty of stronger options than The Big Sleep: The Third Man, Laura, Out of the Past, Kiss Me Deadly, The Big Heat, Double Indemnity, Gilda, etc.  And regardless of how well you might like The Big Sleep, I think all film buffs will agree that this DVD transfer (the 2000 release) is weak and in need of further restoration. At least with this disc you get to see the original cut along with the familiar release version, and there's a short but informative video essay explaining the differences between the two versions and how they arose. (In a nutshell, there was a push to play up Bacall's role in the film, still only marginally effective to my mind.)

worse Harry Potter to date Slow and at times boring. I think WB's attempt to milk the cow by splitting final chapter into part 1 and 2 added much slow and uneventful scenes.

Beware the quiet one Today you would be looking for a roommate on Craigslist and not in the want ads but it's the same gamble, you never know what mess you may find yourself in. This is pretty much a retelling of the first movie and it's been a while since I saw that, I remember thinking it was pretty good. S.W.F.2 stands on it's own as a made for DVD or skinamax B movie and is worth a look. I like most of the characters in this movie and think to crazy room mate (Allison Lange) play's her part nicely, it's always the quiet  one's you need to keep an eye on.

Love Gary Cooper; Hate Ayn Rand.  What Conflict! Gary Cooper plays Howard Roark, an architect who does not compromise. He is an individualist, and since this is Ayn Rand's book, an objectivist. The whole thing would work a little better for me if I liked his designs, but they represented radical modernism in 1948, which was the point of the story. I just don't happen to like the sleek modernist buildings most of the time.  Anyway, the point is not whether or not the audience likes his designs. We are to understand that his designs are original, completely original, and that he will not compromise them. And in fact, the compromises offered are sufficiently horrible to make the point. A man of genius knows that a building, or a sculpture or a book or whatever, must have its own internal integrity; it must function as a whole, not a conglomeration of disassociated parts. At one point his proposed sleek modern building (model) is given a Greek temple face toward the street, while the rest of the building remains a large block. It's thoroughly disgusting, and he will have none of it.  So rather than compromise, he goes to work in a stone quarry in New England, where a wealthy and sophisticated young woman played by Patricia Neal (who had a off-screen love affair with Cooper as well as the on-screen one) notices him and makes a play for him. Finally, he is called away to design a building the way he wants to, and at the grand opening of the building, she shows up. She is introduced to Roark, and we discover that she never even learned the name of the stone cutter she seduced.  For reasons that are too complicated to spell out here, she marries her former boss, an older man played by Raymond Massey. Massey asks Roark to design his home, saying it is to be a temple to his beloved wife. (Remember, Roark loves her too.) Roark goes from one success to another, but there's a snag.  An old school friend, a third-rate architect who admits he never did anything original and copied from Roark all the time, asks him to take over the designing of a housing project which is supposed to be for low-cost housing. Roark stipulates that he will design it and let the third-rate guy take the credit and the fees, but only if it is built exactly the way he designs it, with no alteration at all. His old friend agrees, Roark designs it, then goes on vacation while it is built. Predictably, the wimpy third-rate architect gives in to the demands that it be modified, and the results are truly horrible. The thing looks like what it is: a design made by a committee. No unity, no grace, and just plain ugly. Even someone who doesn't much care for modern architecture can see at once it is an abomination.  So Roark blows it up. The crowning of the movie is his speech to the jury at his trial for the crime. It is brilliant, and pure Rand.

They coulda done better Pros: It's "The Man Who Would Be  King", a good flick with good acting.  Cons: 1. Though it's not an especially long movie, you have to turn DVD  over to play the second half. 2.  For no discernible reason one of Saeed Jaffrey's lines (that I love) has been muted out. The footage is still there, but silent. In the movie, from atop the wall of the city, he calls out "You just wait one jiffy!" before he runs down to greet Peachy and Danny (and unfortunate captive).  On the DVD that line is missing.  Not sure what else may be gone elsewhere.

Slow Paced but Not Too Bad This is a case of close encounters of the third kind and its impact on a young girl who has to sort out her role in society as a result of those encounters. Courtney Halverson does a good job as the young girl and draws the viewer into her plight; much of the movie deals with her emotions and her reaction to the events which seem to follow her.  Although the movie seems to drag at some points the overall impression is still fairly good; there is action, suspense, and mystery so most of the elements of a good story are there. Halverson is convincing in her role as a young girl haunted by events in her past and troubled by the rejection of her school mates.  This is a movie I would recommend watching before you buy.

A rather basic and incomplete look at the Kecksburg UFO Crash On December 9, 1965, something came down in the woods outside Kecksburg, Pennsylvania.  Multiple witnesses saw the object in flight, and a number of locals made their way to the crash site before the military swooped in and took over.  Officially, nothing was found, and Kecksburg is a non-story; unofficially, the Kecksburg crash is probably the second most compelling case (after Roswell) for a UFO crash in American history.  There is ample evidence that the military removed an acorn-shaped object matching witness descriptions of the crashed craft and transported it to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.  Kecksburg UFO Crash: What Really Happened at Kecksburg? relates the basic story of the crash and the seeming military cover-up, as told by remaining witnesses and UFO experts, and examines several possible explanations of the event.  It breaks no new ground and, as such, offers very little to those already familiar with the story.  It ignores important elements of the after-story, such as the mysterious death of newsman John Murphy, and refers early on to alien bodies without ever following up on this important claim.  I've yet to see a Kecksburg documentary that truly does the story justice, but I would recommend <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00014NEGC">Kecksburg - The Untold Story</a> to this particular documentary.

Chloe or Nathalie? "Chloe" (2009) directed by Atom Agoyan is the remake of the French film Nathalie... (2003) made by Anne Fontaine with Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle B&eacute;art, and G&eacute;rard Depardieu, as three participants of erotic thrilling psychological drama. Chloe follows the Nathalie's footsteps quite closely. The difference is in the final act, and I prefer Nathalie's ending. All Atom Agoyan and the rest of Chloe's creators had to do to make it a truly great movie -was just to remake step by step the French original. The most amazing thing about Nathalie... was its palpable erotic tension on the screen and at the same time, the lack of steamy sex scenes which was more than compensated with the subtle communication between two women, older, Catherine and younger, Nathalie and between Catherine (Ardant) and her husband of many years (Depardieu) whom she still loves but does not know anymore how to make them both happy.  Both movies run almost the same time, French film - 100 minutes, and North American -96 but I prefer the intelligent, insightful, nuanced, implying and not shoving in your face the sensational fatal attraction ending film Nathalie. It is not to say that Chloe is worthless. It is gorgeous to look at, and three main actors, Julian Moore, Liam Neeson, and Amanda Seyfried all gave very good performances. The young Amanda Seyfried was a very worthy screen partner to Juliana Moore who can do no wrong to me. I was especially impressed by Amanda's face and how it changes from young and innocent to sexy and seductive, resentful, dangerous in a course of seconds. The problem of Chloe is its script which goes weak and out of breath in the final part. The final of Chloe makes me think that the authors of the film don't trust their audiences and feed us with sex, melodrama, and very unsatisfying a la fatal attraction climax because they are afraid we don't get the subtleties that made the original film so thrilling.  Another problem I have with Chloe is the character of Catherine and David's son, Michael. He existed in the French film but on the background. In Nathalie, he left his parents' house and from what I could judge, he had quite normal relationship with them which allowed the plot to concentrate primarily on the unusual and quite fascinating relationship between Catherine and the call girl Nathalie whom she hired to find out if her husband cheats on her and what he actually expects from a woman. In the film Chloe, the character of Michael was annoying, and in the end his only purpose was to justify unsatisfying final act of the film.  Chloe - 5.5/10, Nathalie - 9/10

I consider watching you again... I really didn't want to see this.  There is a never-ending trend in Hollywood to stuff pointless fluff with talented actors, saddling them with poorly managed scripts and plot points that go nowhere, essentially wasting their talent wholly to turn a dollar.  As a rule of thumb, if the film stars more than two `BIG NAMES' then it is probably terrible.  So, when you factor in that comedic goldmines Sigourney Weaver, Jamie Lee Curtis, Betty White, Kristen Chenoweth and Cloris Leachman are all starring alongside current `it-girl' Kristen Bell and reliable supporting man Victor Garber, one has to assume that this is going to be a train wreck.  Add to that the fact that this film is a PG rated slapstick comedy and you have my anticipation level plummeting to the floor.  As could be expected, the critics hated this film.  Here's the thing; the film isn't terrible.  In fact, until you get to the ridiculous ending, the film is actually pretty funny and fun.  Everyone involved steps up and makes the most of their outlandish characters and they all seem to have fun playing alongside one another, which plays to the strengths of the genre (likability).  You can't help but smile while watching these people fall all over themselves trying to outdo one another.  Some have balked at the behavior presented as childish and immature, but isn't that the point?  I mean, this isn't supposed to be entirely realistic but an exaggerated (as are all films within this genre) example of true feelings.  Rivalries spark and some never die and some rear their ugly heads over time without any real resolve.  Sure, not many people go to petty lengths to exact revenge, and things could have gone a lot smoother had everyone just say down and TALKED about things, but then the movie wouldn't have been as entertaining.  For a quick overview; Marni was a geek in high school and was tormented by J.J., the warden `so-to-speak' of the school.  Marni is now all grown up, VERY successful and pretty hot herself.  She comes back home for her brother's wedding only to find out that he is marrying J.J., who claims to have never met Marni.  Marni tries to put things behind her, but she can't.  Marni's mother also has old feelings stirred when J.J.'s aunt turns out to be her ex-best friend from high school.  Insert slapstick.  The gags don't always work, but the actresses involved (especially Curtis and Weaver) keep things moving at a great pace.  They teeter on the schmaltzy at times, but they handle it with a certain finesse that I didn't expect.  It is in the final chapter, after `the cat is out of the bag' that the film falls to pieces; and quick.  All this bent up anger that the film had been building up is instantly let go of and replaced and a faux sense of resolve in an effort to make everything `happy' again.  The character of J.J. makes no sense because she appears so fake and skin deep throughout the whole film only to be forced upon us as sincere in the end (seriously, it doesn't work).  That is why I have to give this three stars instead of four.  I loved the first three quarters of the film, but it really took a sharp nosedive at the end.  I understand that Hollywood is obsessed with the happy ending, but this was just too much.  Thank god the final scene was between Betty White and Cloris Leachman!

not as good as the second, more recent Clone Wars series After watching some of the newer Clone Wars series (the one that started in 2008), I was a bit disapointed in this earlier version of the series. The biggest thing that I don't like about this 1st clone wars series is the cheap, poor-graphics animation used. Many of the characters looked NOTHING like they do in the movies- since when does Anakin have a rectangle for a head? The graphics quality of the light sabers is pretty poor also. I also have to agree with some of the people hear who've mentioned how everyone's powers are widely exagerated, but that does make it kinda funny.  For a much better depiction of what goes on in the Clone Wars-era, I highly recommend checking out the newer Clone Wars series, which goes into much more depth of what happens in that time period, as well as displaying MUCH better graphics & animation.

One sick movie! You have to go to Divine or ANdy Warhole to find a sicker movie. I recomend it highly for showing in frat houses.

Sold Criterion Release, middling/pointless film I really am not sure what to make of this one. Admittedly it was a bit of a "blind buy" of a film and director I knew next to nothing about. I'm not a classic or foreign film buff, yet over the years I've discovered a few personal favorites thanks to Criterion. I figured I would go completely random and give this Criterion release a chance. On paper it sounded like the type of humor that would be right up my alley.  This film, unfortunately, greatly missed the mark for me.  I knew it was an "avante-garde" French comedy based on the product descriptions. Sadly I did not know exactly what I was getting into. I was not prepared for a film with ZERO plot, no real character development, almost no meaningful dialogue for 2 hours. You are meant to process only what you SEE on screen at any point in time. Throughout the entire film the viewer is denied any particular narrative about what is going on or WHY. On the plus side, some of the scenes were visually interesting, and there was some mild humor. Not "ha-ha" funny, more akin to the understated visual humor in a Wes Anderson film. The type of humor that might not be obvious, that you have to be on the look-out for lest you completely miss it. In some cases you might have to watch a 2nd or 3rd time to notice it in the scene. I'm sure there is a good bit that I didn't catch on first viewing, however I'm also quite sure I picked up on plenty of the intended comedy as well. It just wasn't particularly funny most of the time. The visual interest and silly humor just wasn't enough to sustain the length of the feature. For the majority of the 2+ hours I watched this, I have to say my overwhelming feeling was BOREDOM. At best there were moments where I might have thought to myself "oh... that's clever", the rest of the time I was probably contemplating why I purchased this and how much I could trade it in for. Playtime seems like it would have worked better as a series of short skits. As one comprehensive 2 hour feature film, it was just too much... nothing.  I will still give this release 3 stars for the occasional visually clever imagery, and the quality of the Blu-Ray transfer for a 1960's film is more than solid (god help anyone that watched this on DVD or VHS). However the film itself is only worth 2 stars.

Classic boys movie for the video library, cute but flawed This video was for my daughter, but the way things are, my wife and I have watched it with her several times.  I get a little tired of the Pixar formula - similar Randy Newman music, lots of the same voices, similar chase scenes, but these Pixar films are good solid kids entertainment.  Pixar also weaves content into films to promote other Pixar films - the often repeated line from this movie ("To infinity and beyond!") also makes its way into the blooper reel on "Its a Bug's Life", and "Monsters Inc" shamelessly hawks Pixar toys (the fish, woody, and others).  My biggest negative on this film is that it is more of a boy's movie than a movie for my daughter.  All the main characters are boys and the only memorable female role is Bo Peep who is trying to seduce Woody and at one point leaves lipstick kisses all over his face (not exactly a role model I'd like my daughter to emulate).

Enjoyed it but could have been better This is my first troma film i own... and yes i wacthed Toxic Avenger IV - Citizen Toxie and i love it... i like how toxie was super violent & funny but Class of Nuke 'Em High was not thit vioent & funny the effects are pretty cool it needed more of it here and there.The story was kinda good but nothing to brag about.It would have been better if half the people in the school was Infected by the toxic backteria instead of just 6 or 7 people.This is probley one of the best troma films out there.

A fun watch, but a few things could be improved Do not expect this to be a strict interpretation of Emma, but an enjoyable one nonetheless. I personally like Romola Garai, and for the most part I enjoyed watching her as the ever vain but good-natured Emma. But oftentimes I found myself cringing a bit-- Romola's Emma was occasionally a bit overdone.  My biggest pet-peeve (although something many modern viewers would not mind) was that she never carried herself the way a woman in Austen's age was expected to.  She frequently flopped into or slumped in chairs and bounded into rooms.  The camera work and set was very good, and the actors were well chosen for their parts, but aside from Mr. Knightley, the characters were approached a bit differently than what I have read and seen before.  Some additions were made to the storyline, such as the focus on the emotional difficulties of Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill over being separated from home as children...and the marriage between Emma's sister and Knightley's (grumpy/discontent) brother.

Good. It's too derivative of Heat, to the point of distraction. Nevertheless, The Town showcases some nailed performances - particularly the mentioned Jeremy Renner but also Affleck himself, the reliable Chris Cooper, Blake Lively, and Pete Postlethwaite - characters which anyone familiar with the neighborhoods depicted would recognize, certainly to a greater extent than, say, The Departed. It is impressively constructed, production-wise and narratively, if a bit less sweeping than some of the influences it echoes (the original Thomas Crown Affair, The Friends Of Eddie Coyle, Heat, Monument Ave, Boondock Saints, The Brinks Job, even Point Break), and perhaps we should take Mr. Affleck seriously as the actual brains behind the Affleck-Damon partnership.

Good for the humor and conflict but thats it (SPOILER ALER NO NAMES) This season while amusing definutly ranks below other seasons of the mole for many reasons. Let's start out with what's good about this season. First the humor like I said is quite good, be it remarks from the cast/host or fails on assignments or music in a specific moment: you should be laughing your heads off while watching this. Also if you know any of these celebrities you should enjoy seeing them on camera and have a good time with them. The assignments are clever, every cast member has reasons you want them to stick around, (Except maybe the first one booted) or for being the mole (Again except for the first one booted). The mole did a fantastic job and interal conflicts between the cast really aid the show.  Now here's the bad side of the coin. Being a smaller cast half the people go before you can really view everyone long enough to form suspishions about them (The first two excecuted later reveal that's why they left). Also shorter cast and shorter seasons made ties happen more often, which didn't suit me. Also the last assignment had a possible penalty option that was really ineffective to the point it didn't even matter that the penalties occured. The cast also doesn't develop at all which was something, that hooked me to the first two seasons and later the 5th one. Also the host's personality (while good, doesn't have the same effect as Anderson Cooper).  I did enjoy watching but probubly won't buy the dvds and just watch it from another source because it does merit rewatches, just not well enough to own it unless it's a combo deal.

Review Decent movie with some good, light-hearted humor. Not a bad story either. It's worth seeing once or twice. Probably not more than that, though.

Fantastic Performance Meryl Streep deserved the Oscar and I am pleased she won. I do agree the movie focused too much on Margaret Thatcher's senility and not on her achievements as PM. Still, this is a movie one should see at least once. Rent to watch? Absolutely. Buy? Probably not.

How to kill your neighbor's dog This movie was recommended by a friend. I anticipated it's arrival, when it came and I watched it, I thought it was kind of cute, but at times, the humor felt rather strained. In retrospect, a move to rent, not to buy. As a Brit married to an American woman, I could identify with the main character to some extent, but not as much as Hugh Grant in 'did you hear about the Morgan's?) That movie was much better.

An Episodic Journey Through Musical History: Too Much To Cover In Too Short A Time I watch documentaries about every subject under the sun, not just topics that I have a pre-existing knowledge and/or interest in. I know this may sound like a crazy notion to some, but it has allowed me to learn about a myriad of topics as well as discover hundreds of incredible films that I might not otherwise have viewed! I say this in preface to reviewing "Give Me The Banjo" because I am not a banjo enthusiast. If you love the instrument and its contributions to several musical genres, I certainly wouldn't attempt to dissuade you from enjoying Marc Fields' loving tribute. But in attempting to cover 200 years of history in a scant 84 minute presentation, the film seems as distinguished by what is left out as by what is included. Instead of a comprehensive history, you get several interesting anecdotes and mini-profiles of a handful of prominent figures (Gus Cannon, Charlie Poole, Pete Seeger, and Earl Scruggs leap right to mind).  The movie is most successful in charting the progression of the banjo throughout several musical genres. From its origins as an African instrument, to its inclusion in minstrel shows, to its incorporation into ragtime, folk, jazz, blues, bluegrass, and country (and many genres in between), the banjo has evolved and been redefined throughout the years. The film highlights a few performers along the way that were pivotal to this evolution. I was familiar with some, while others were new to me. The most fascinating tale was the hard luck story of Charlie Poole, and the most individual time spent is probably dedicated to Earl Scruggs. While "Give Me The Banjo" certainly held my attention, its goals were perhaps more ambitious than could be pulled off in such a short period.  Steve Martin plays host and narrator to the piece and a number of contemporary figures weigh in on the current state of banjo playing. And there is plenty of music throughout. If you love the topic, you will undoubtedly wonder why some people were included and others overlooked. But that's often the nature of these types of documentaries. It's a nice tribute overall, but it plays better to established fans than to those looking to learn about the subject. It lacked some of the universal appeal that would make it a more mainstream success as it never quite breaks away from its niche audience. About 3 1/2 stars. KGHarris, 6/12.

Not Bad, But Pretty Predictable Pretty predictable plot once it gets started, and not that great in the special effects, but not by any means a bad flick.  The time is near the end of the 21st century, and humans have gone exploring. Only problem is, they are not alone in the galaxy. The Dracks are encountered, from the planet Drackon. And since they are fighting over turf, they don't bother to get to know anything about one another other than fighting.  But then human Willis Davidge (Dennis Quaid) and drack "Jerry Sheegan" (Louis Gossett, Jr.) are stranded on a very inhospitable planet together. To survive, they need to learn something of one another's languages and lives. This much is sufficiently predictable that it was even included in the trailer.  There are some dangerous animals on the planet, as well has incredible meteor showers that are sort of like bombs (pay no attention to any logically absurd elements, and to the obvious line between mask and mouth on Louis Gossett), but they survive. They not only learn one another's language, but Jerry teaches Davidge something of his religion, including giving him a miniature of their holy book.  There is one other major danger. A ship of scavengers (human, more or less) shows up and apparently left before they knew Davidge and Jerry were there. They are obviously bad guys, because they left litter laying around, and because they use dracks for slaves. Davidge reminds himself that they are tolerated by the space authority for that reason.  Did I mention that dracks are androgynous and apparently self-fertilizing? Well, again somewhat predictably, Jerry dies giving birth to his/her son/daughter, and extracts a promise from Davidge that he will take the child to Drackon so that he can be formally registered in his lineage. The baby is cute, which is natural, and Davidge raises it to call him Uncle. By this time it should be obvious that these two will bring about peace between the two races. But there's a good bit of action and adventure before that point, so enjoy. It may be a bit corny, but it is entertaining.

Disappointed Not what I had hoped for.  Doesn't flow as good as some of the other My Friends DVDs.  Lost my Childs interest within five minutes.

Interesting watch for film enthusiasts and filmmakers I purchased this out of intrigue as I had heard about the movie, specifically from the point of view of how Ed Burns shot it on a very tight budget, with no name actors in the main roles and then released the movie himself, with success. So I was interested to see what had been produced under these circumstances and in my opinion, the movie is definitely worth a look. There's some good acting and then some not so good acting, but overall it is enjoyable. Don't know that I would recommend spending $20 on the DVD but if you can rent it or purchase a used copy that would be best.

Stretching For Realisim I was impressed at how close to the Bible the movie was and loved the way the director portrayed Jesus' personality. However, I saw a couple of things I felt should have left out. Like when Herod had all the babies killed... we don't need all the 'realism' that secular movies emphasize (Christians should uphold a higher standard). Also, at the last of the movie when Jesus was being crucified one woman was crying and her nose mucus was a bit too much and the director seem to think it was important to keep the shot on her for too long - and as if once wasn't enough he had to show it again... same amount of time. In my opinion the movie was poorly directed. Nevertheless, it was a good movie and stayed close to the Bible. I do believe it was worth the money... I just wish it had been directed by someone with a little more finesse.

Thouroughly ENJOYABLE..... ...and isn't that what an action/epic film should be? Sometimes I tire of armchair critics who hold a directors feet to the fire simply based on historical inaccuracies. Gladiator was chock full and I loved that film, in my humble opinion I think this is a fine work for Marshall,and I am a big fan of the Descent AND Dog Soldiers. Implausibilities aside, the film to me was vastly superior to the bigger budget and seemingly more popular The Eagle with (ho hum) Channing Tatum in the lead role. Decent enough film, I just enjoyed Centurion much,much more. I am reasonably sure that anyone who dug Braveheart (and that movie was RIDDLED with historical inaccuracies) will find Centurion to be a great Saturday afternoon or evening popcorn muncher,capable acting,good story and chock full o action. Dont listen to the nerdy historian haters or the armchair directors who think they can do it better,just watch,and enjoy. I did.

Firefail As a kid I remember there being more action and more Airplane dogfighting. The movie is about 40 minutes too long but still enjoyable.

American Warships Amazon Instant Video is a great way to shop but some movies are just not worth it and Warships is one of those. If you want to see a naval movie in this catagory Battleship was the movie to watch; Warships is a poor second.

Commercial This Zhang Ziyi film is a good movie in general. It is much more commercial than some of her previous works such as House of Flying Daggers an Touching Starlight. The movie concept is good, but not her most powerful or moving piece. For best and most accurate viewing view in Mandarin with English subtitles (if you can not understand Chinese). I would not recommend using the dubbed versions as much is lost in translation.

LOVE Hercules... this DVD is disappointing though Hercules is easily in my top 10 Disney movies, possibly top 5 of all time. I love the characters, animation style, all of the songs are fantastic and I think the story (yes, we know, isn't 100% accurate to Greek myth, get OVER IT) is wonderfully written :) I am disappointed that this is the only option we have for home media of the film. It is not anamorphic and is just a terrible transfer. This and Hunchback received the same poor treatment. If you are looking to purchase this film for the first time I would say just wait for the blu-ray. It is hopefully coming soon (probably not 2012, so 2013 perhaps?) A clip of Hercules was featured in a Tangled special feature highlighting Tangled as the 50th animated feature and the clip is CRISP and BEAUTIFUL, so again, hopefully a blu-ray release is on the horizon, it's LONG overdue.

I was hopeful but disappointed I was watching this with my 6-year old and was amazed with the beginning of the show. Barbie and her friends were excellent surfers in a competition - daring, athletic, very cool. Before this I was not a fan of Barbie because it just seemed to teach little girls the wrong values. But after those first few minutes I decided that I needed to rethink Barbie. The new Barbie was confident, athletic and tomboyish.My daughter was so excited about Barbie's awesome surfing. But then Barbie's hair started to turn pink and the announcer started to comment on the mic, making Barbie so self-conscious that she deliberately crashed to hide her hair. That blew it for me. It actually *is* the same old Barbie. In the middle of an extraordinary competitive performance, she decides that looks are more important, and looking a little different is something to be ashamed of. Not the type of message I want my impressionable young daughter to be absorbing!

lots of nudity in some short scenes or clips this movie is just a bunch of short skits of women in differnent situations. now it does show some scenes whith some of the biggest breast in porn. like candy samples, ushie digard, and Roxanne Brewer. even though I cant rally call roxanne a porn star because she only appeared in one porn film where she has sex but the film was so choppy it might not have even been here in the sex scene just a shot of some couple haveing sex they never showed her whole body during that scenes. she is more of the stripper type and she plays short skits just to show her breast. all in all not a bad film but no sex just some R rated skits oh they didnt have a BJ scene with john homes and some sex which was the only porn type act in this film.

Somewhat satisfactory, but mediocre thriller overall Safe House has Denzel Washington return to the role everyone loves him for; that untouchable, bad ass, man of the hour kind of role that he's essentially played the majority of his career. Meanwhile, Ryan Reynolds sets out to try to prove he's capable of being more than a raunchy goofball. CIA agent Matt Weston (Reynolds) has anxiously been waiting to prove himself. He's been babysitting an empty safe house for twelve months and is eager to get out in the field. Matt gets his chance when Tobin Frost (Washington), ex-CIA agent, traitor to the organization, and currently one of the CIA's most wanted fugitives, is escorted there. But things are turned upside down when a group of unknown soldiers attack the safe house and take out the entire team who accompanied Frost. Now in over his head, Matt tries to cope with handling the situation on his own while Frost does his best to manipulate the rookie.  You'll probably notice the visual style of Safe House right away. It makes full use of that raw, gritty style. It's especially grainy at times as fluorescent lighting seems to jump off the screen. Judging by how the movie looks alone, you'd think Tony Scott directed it. But it's actually the English language debut of Swedish director Daniel Espinosa. So it just seems as though he patterned Safe House after Tony Scott's films. It doesn't take long for negotiations to get tense. Those moments in between the mayhem are when Safe House is at its best. It's like a game of tug of war between Frost's way of manipulating and Matt's attempt to stick to protocol while also juggling a relationship. Those moments of panic are explosive; especially the one at the safe house Matt was in charge of and the intense car chase immediately afterwards. Safe House has a way of getting really LOUD when you're totally expecting it. It usually involves a gunshot or six, but it's kind of the movie's way of telling you that some heavy stuff is about to go down.  The majority of the movie is basically Matt trying to prove himself as an agent all while absolutely everything that you could imagine to go wrong does. Safe House is actually pretty damn good for nearly half of the movie. Sure, Denzel is playing a character you've seen him play a few dozen times before but he does it so well and the audience obviously eats it up. So why wouldn't you give the paying viewer what they want to see? Ryan Reynolds makes the most of his performance though. He seems to be the most emotionally invested actor of the film meaning he shows the most emotion and has the most range. The movie kind of gets coiled up in itself with everything it has going for it in the last twenty minutes or so. It's like it couldn't handle the pressure of being a fairly strong action thriller or something. It becomes extremely excessive and it throws a ton of twists at you in this small amount of time. It's difficult to care about any of them when all of the characters feel so similar and you can pretty much see them coming a mile away. The movie follows this certain path that you may be expecting, but then it shifts direction before shifting again and shifting back again. Did you ever see the movie Basic with John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson? Safe House was reminiscent of the amount of twists in Basic.  Safe House begins as this white knuckled thriller with a fairly strong screenplay from first time screenwriter David Guggenheim. The action is heavy, the story reels you in, and the performances of both Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds are pretty superb. Everything eventually falls apart though as Safe House falls victim to stereotypical mediocrity. Brutal and intriguing at times and completely frustrating at others, Safe House is mostly exactly what you're expecting and the type of action thriller you've seen done several times before.  It's basically a safe bet for success.

Horrible Video Quality - Craze DVD While the movie is decent for a 3rd sequel, the video quality on the new Craze DVD is horrendous. It looks like a bad VHS source; very fuzzy with washed out colors. Stick with the German DVD with the red and black cover, it has comparatively vastly superior video quality (although still somewhat poor).  See link here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stepfather-3-Fathers-Day-uncut/dp/B0038K676U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1334877736&sr=8-1

a rock hard Van Damme competes in the kumite in Hong Kong... Loosely based on the life of fighter Frank Dux, Bloodsport (1988) has a very familiar storyline, where a westerner trained in the martial arts goes to Hong Kong, to participate in a fighting tournament known as the Kumite ("sparring" in Japanese).  Jean-Claude Van Damme is in top form physically, his acting is reasonably good, and his boyish charm shines through, making Frank Dux a likeable hero.  The fights feature flashy choreography, leading to an eventual showdown between Dux, and the current champion, Chang Li (Bolo Yeung).  Against the wishes of his superior officer, soldier Frank Dux leaves his base, and visits his marital arts sensei and mentor Senzo Tanaka (Roy Chiao) who is in poor health.  Tanaka had been training his son to participate in the Kumite, but after his son's untimely death, Dux replaces him as Tanaka's representative.  Arriving in Hong Kong, Dux becomes friends with fellow American fighter Ray Jackson (Donald Gibb), local fight organizer Victor Lin (Kenneth Siu), and reporter Janice Kent (Leah Ayres).  Dux is followed to Hong Kong by Helmer (Norman Burton) and Rawlins (Forest Whitaker), a pair of military police types, who want to prevent him from fighting, and bring him back to face charges.  Defending champ Chang Li (Bolo Yeung) is destroying his opponents with brutal ferocity, and severely injures Jackson in a match.  Emotions run high, and dirty tricks are employed, when Dux and Li meet for the championship.  With a secret tournament featuring numerous top fighters, Bloodsport has superficial similarity to Enter The Dragon, perhaps at this time, the most well known Hollywood produced martial arts film.  To its credit, Bloodsport does attempt to show some respect for Asian traditions as Dux trains with Tanaka, and learns some spiritual aspects of fighting, as well as the physical.  A bulked up Van Damme is in fantastic physical condition, and frequently displays his amazing flexibility.  His fighting moves are very solid, although he doesn't always have the charisma and presence to dominate the screen.  .  As you might expect, the fight choreography isn't very realistic, but it is mostly entertaining.  Bolo Yeung, probably most known for being in Enter The Dragon (1973), is pretty menacing as a one dimensional villain, although like many of the fighters, Yeung is limited as an actor, and has his voiced dubbed.  Key supporting characters like Ray Jackson and Janice Kent, aren't given a lot of depth, and along with Helmer, Rawlins, and Siu, are mostly window dressing.  Now regarded as a cult classic, Bloodsport was a solid financial success that has thus far spawned three sequels.  The film is elevated by the presence of Jean-Claude Van Damme and Bolo Yeung, who are the primary reasons to see the film.

sitcom in hysterics, Spanish style This is one of those rare Euro-comedies that translates easily to an American audience.  The hysteria - extremely romantic yet with plenty of wiggle room for occasional infidelity that is tolerated and largely ignored - would certainly feel alien to Americans, but the antics and situations are hilarious.  A typical latin lover has left his latest mistress, and she is not happy about it, to put it mildly.  Suddenly, one of his earlier mistresses and their son  (a young Antonio Banderas) with fiancee appear almost by accident.  Add a friend who fell in love inadvertently with a terrorist  and now fears he will denounce her as an accomplice, and you have all the elements for a manic comedy, especially when the cops arrive.  There is no question that they pull it off.  It is just that comedies are not so much my thing, which is personal taste.  REcommended.  Almodovar is always interesting.

Disappointed! I don't know why every movie has to be ruined by cussing and nudity.  I know that the true Amish are very humble and modest people. To see an Amish woman stand in front of a man naked was sad to see.  It really wasn't necessary to do that to get the point across.

So so Nothing outstanding here.  A couple of the girls are attractive, all would be better looking without the tats and piercings.

Dance When I picked this selection I was hoping it was the musical part where he is walking to work the next day.

Too Campy For It's Own Good The Seventies were a boon for black action films.  On the whole they were riveting but didn't lose sight of their social message and themes of African-American empowerment.  The best of the bunch of course were the "Shaft" trilogy and most of Pam Grier's output.  "Cleopatra Jones" is somewhat enigmatic.  It purports to expose the scourge of the heroin trade in the inner city.  The film, however, resorts to rank stereotype to be taken all too seriously.  About the only cliche not present is the drug dealer with goldfish bowl platform shoes.  Shelley Winters is particularly annoying as a scenery chomping drug kingpin.  The best that can be said about the movie is Tamara Dobson's turn in the title role.  Dobson is both elegant and cool in the classic sense.  It's unfortunate that she's undermined by the film's far too campy premise.

I have a gun and I know how to use it! She might not have been a critic's darling, but the reading public loved author Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1957.) Her 1907 novel THE CIRCULAR STAIRCASE was among her most popular works, and in 1917 Rinehart joined forces with playwright Avery Hopwood to adapt it to the stage. After three years of work and much revision, THE BAT's combination of eccentric characters, spooky effects, slapstick humor and mystery took the New York stage by storm. And in 1926 it became one of the most popular films of the late silent era with stars Jack Pickford, Emily Fitzroy, and Louise Fazenda.  The movie was so popular that when sound came in it got a remake titled THE BAT WHISPERS, this time with early widescreen and a cast that included Una Merkle, Chester Morris, and Maude Eburne.  In its early versions, the play and film helped establishe a host of conventions that have been popular ever since, most particularly the idea of an old, dark house beset by a phantom-like creature and a mixture of comedy and thrills.  But in 1959 these notions had become cliche, and this verison of THE BAT is distinctly "B."  Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder (Agnes Moorehead) and her maid Lizzie (Lenita Lane) has rented a mansion in the country for the summer--but it soon transpires that their choice of residence has been unfortunate: the owner has died, his bank has been robbed, the money is concealed in the house... and a master criminal known as The Bat wants it!  Before you can say "It's the BAT!" there are secret passages, suspicious characters, screaming maids, and shots in the dark.  But in truth, and in spite of solid performances by Moorehead and co-star Vincent Price, THE BAT is pretty mild stuff, and it reminded me a great deal of a William Castle production.  All this said, THE BAT is fun if you don't expect too much.  Watch for Darla Hood, a member of the "Our Gang" troup grown into adulthood, in her final screen role--and there is a surprise twist that will amuse.  It's good fun for fans of the period and the genre, but most others will probably be unimpressed.  GFT, Amazon Reviewer

it wasn't that bad As a zombie fan i enjoy this movie,it have nothing to do with the original,just the title and some names like Sarah,Dr Logan Captain Rhodes that in a way is stupid but after all the terrible reviews i thought it was really a disaster but is not. Dawn remake is better but not that much better. In this movie you find spider zombies and in Dawn remake there are sprinters zombies but what can you expect from a remake,there is no way to compared them with the original,just enjoy them for what they are remakes and enjoy the zombie action in honor of the old classics and the master George Romero.

Interesting.  Verifiable? Credibility is at stake here.  I do believe our economy is in trouble, but I don't necessarily believe everything this guy says.  Politicians are corrupt.  Oil is not infinite.  The dollar has no real value.  We do need to plan for our future much better than we have.

skipped DVD skipped a whole scene. Didn't find this out until the person I gave to as a X-mas gift watched it. Not such a great gift I guess. I Kind of knew it wouldn't play perfect due to the scratches.

That Uneasy Feeling This movie version of the popular Broadway musical should have been a spectacular success; Diana Ross had proven herself an effective and bankable leading lady with the twin successess of MAHOGANY and LADY SINGS THE BLUES, the affable Ted Ross reprised his acclaimed stage role as the Cowardly Lion, and director Sidney Lumet had helmed many a classic by this point in his career.  Add Richard Pryor and a seemingly limitless budget to realize the picture's extraordinary production design, and THE WIZ must have seemed like a "can't miss" project, yet this turned out to be one of the biggest box-office busts of the 1970's.  So what went wrong?  Viewing the film in retrospect, one can't escape the ever-present creepiness of Michael Jackson's Scarecrow;  we may be in Oz, but the notorious horrors of Neverland Ranch are never far away.  Funnyman Nipsy Russell makes a charming Tin Man, and Diana Ross successfully reinvents the character of Dorothy as a sheltered school teacher; along with Ted Ross's cool yet Cowardly Lion, they make for an ingratiating trio -- all that's missing is a Scarecrow that doesn't leave us feeling uneasy, and a class act like Sammy Davis, Jr. would have fit the bill here perfectly.  Sadly, it was not to be; THE WIZ lost a bundle, effectively ending the First Lady of Motown's film career and striking a serious blow to the future of the traditional Hollywood musical.

Packaging inadequate The product was listed as new but the packaging was broken and there was no cellophane on it.  The dvd appears to be playing ok.

definitely a couples movie Beautiful scenery--great message about couples and the keeping of a marriage together in the movie Couples Retreat <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002ZGW92E">Couples Retreat</a>Funny but certainly some scenes not for children as sex is implied. I am not a prude by any means but would not want my teens to see. Couple of almost nude scenes but appropriately covered. Feel good happy ending. Movie is better suited to couples or girls night. Definitely not a family movie.  But would watch again.

Not bad Red Shoe Diaries are pretty good.  Enjoyable to watch.  Some of the plots are better then others.  This one is OK.

Has It's Ups and Downs The plot does take a back seat in this film, despite the filmmakers' attempt to make it seem like it is the main focus. The focus here however is the music. It was a good excuse to make a movie to sing Beatles cover songs, romanticize the sixties, and try and say something about the Vietnam war. Lesbianism is briefly covered as well here. The movie is not terrible, but it also is far from perfection. Also, between the director and the presence of Bono, there is some massive ego going on here. Some of the visuals seemed pointless, but were weird. Not that everything The Beatles did made sense but this is a film, and some parts felt thrown in just for the sake of being strange. I'm glad I saw it, and perhaps I will again someday. But until then, 3 out of five.

Why does Amazon lump reviews together for different disc manufacturers? If you are looking for a version of Flying Deuces and only read so far down the reviews, you think this is either the best version available or the worst image of a movie ever released to DVD.  For the record Kino is excelent picture quality in detail, has a re-issue title and has a print that, while sharp, shows its age.  Stonevision is the best source material available, but does not show well on a large projection screen due to its compression ratio.  Legend is nice, but edited in both the color versions and the B&W version (which they say will be corrected).  Madacy - RIP.  Not everyone reads the entire review, and while I think Amazon is the best to buy from with selection, service, and return policy, they need to attach the reviews to the product they are reviewing.

subtitles the movie is very good. only problem is having to read the english sub-titles. the premise of the movie was very good. just wish i had been warned about sub-titles.

Journey 2 Review I think the synopsis that I read before I purchased the movie gave an adequate summary of what to expect when I watched the movie. The movie made an attempt at not being to predictable and the same as Journey to the Center of Earth. The interatction between Dewayne Johnson's character and the other characters were comically entertaining. There were some great one liners and Dewayne Johnson even sings!!! The action was not as good as the Journey to the Center of the Earth. But overall, it was a good family movie to watch because it showcased the difficulties a man maight face trying to fulfil the role of stepfather to a teenage son.

The Met production was a bit better. I hope the Met puts out this opera on DVD as I liked the production a bit better than this one from Vienna.  I love Garanca and she had to bow out of the Met's run due to pregnancy so I bought this for her performance as much as for Anna's.  The singer in the role of Henry wasn't as impressive as the Russian in the Met's version but the Russian singer of J. Seymore wasn't as good as Garanca.  The sets for the Met production were far superior as were the costumes.  I do love this opera and recommend this DVD to anyone who wants to hear great singing and I'm glad I have it in the collection.  It will do unless the Met issues theirs on DVD, then this one may sit on the shelf more often.  It was Anna's debut in the role and I though it excellent - but in the Met's - she was just stunning!!

Deserved a better reception in theatres than it got "Red Tails" based on the adventures of the first group of black fighter pilots in the US military, known to history as the Tuskegee Airmen, was brought to the world by George Lucas and roundly trounced at the box office and in reviews and having sat through it, that really was too bad. This isn't an earth shakingly great film, but it is no where near as bad as reviewers made out. What it is is an enjoyable war film that probably works better on the small screen than on the big.  While the movie does cover issues with prejudice from white officers and conflict with the Germans, it is a war picture, red tails strikes out on its own by focusing more on the internal battles the men fight. They know they are in the spot light from racists officers in their own service who want to shut them out and they don't want to be the one who lets the side down. While the characters are recognizable stock characters Red Tails focuses on their inner demons, youth, discipline, drink etc wanting to be accepted and respected for what they do than the external battles and this is done very well.  George Lucas put a lot of his own money into Red Tails and got most of the grief for this but he didn't write or direct it. He just supplied the studio and support for a story he, rightly, felt should be told.  What doesn't work in the story  are some bad historical mistakes which make no sense- such as the landing strip for planes going right through the middle of camp-where a crash will take out building/tents/people/small farm animals, or planes on the field being parked side by side. It looks pretty but the US learned at a place called Pearl Harbor how badly that could go if attacked. There are a few more like this that don't exactly ruin the film but are so clumsy for the knowledgeable viewer that it gets in the way. Far worse is the CGI affects of the planes. Some look good but all too often they look less like a sky full of planes than a video game promo, in other words as a shocker coming from the primo f/x shop in the world, the f/x is the biggest failing.  In some ways it is impossible not to think of other, generally better films, approaching many of these same topics as you watch Red Tails. For example when one hot head is being told off for picking fights with white officers, you think "Morgan Freeman did this better in Glory" and so on. But on its own red tails is an interesting entry to a field of men at war and does have a story of its own to tell.

Classic movie but awful transfer to blue ray Saw the original at the movies when it first came out.  This is a classice movie featuring Paul Newman, Robert Redford and Katherine Ross. The transfer to blue ray is absolutely awful.  Where is the clear detail that blue ray offers?  Amost the entire disc is the same as the DVD. I was very disappointed in the quality of the transfer.  The only reason I gave it 3 stars is because it's a great movie. If you have the DVD, don't bother ordering the blue ray.  There are some nice special features, but not worth the lousy transfer.

Yet another disappointed viewer I would have given it two stars, or even only one star, but I was struck by the silence of the city in the aftermath of the disaster.  The evening and night footage is positively eerie.  Otherwise, the film was short and unimpressive.  You can find similar things online for free.

If you are looking for sex this is not the movie From what I can tell this movie is a somewhat factual account of what actually took place.  There is nudity in the movie and several sex scenes.  The sex scenes and not explicit nor are they erotic.

The Journey of a Thousand Miles Must Begin with a Single Truth "The Way Back" is said to be about gulag escapees who, during World War II, trekked to freedom on a 4,000 mile journey from Siberia to India. I'm well aware that there are many true stories from that time about the triumph of the human spirit, but this particular story seems utterly impossible to me. Maybe it's because the film is based on an autobiographical book that has, for all intents and purposes, been debunked. Or maybe it's because director Peter Weir has flip flopped on the issue, on the one hand stating that the film is essentially fictional while on the other hand dedicating the film to those who made that journey. Then again, it could be something as simple as the way the film was written and shot. Whatever the case, this is one of the few World War II films that truly does seem like a work of fiction.  At the start of the film, a Polish POW named Janusz (Jim Sturgess) is sentenced to twenty years in the gulag after his wife was forced into signing papers implicating him as a foreign spy. Once there, the film's language barrier is conveniently dropped, at which point he meets a number of critical characters. They include a Russian gangster named Valka (Colin Farrell), a cynical Yugoslavian accountant named Zoran (Drago' Bucur), a Latvian priest named Voss (Gustaf Skarsgård), an artist named Tomasz (Alexandru Potocean), and a young pole suffering from night blindness named Kazik (Sebastian Urzendowsky). The most important is an American known only as Mr. Smith (Ed Harris), who now believes that kindness can get you killed.  An actor named Khabarov (Mark Strong) convinces Janusz that escape from the gulag is possible, despite warnings that the surrounding Siberian wilderness is unforgiving. They plot to hoard as much food as they can until the end of the winter, at which point they will go south towards Lake Baikal and eventually cross the border of Mongolia. Janusz eventually escapes with all the inmates listed above - with the notable exception of Khabarov, who was in fact preying on Janusz's youth and strength to boost his own morale in the gulag. Valka insists on tagging along so as to escape reparations for gambling debts. Mr. Smith decides that Janusz's weakness, his kindness, may prove beneficial. Who else but a kind person would carry someone should they be unable to walk?  So begins their harrowing journey, one that will take them from the snows of Siberia to the forests edging Lake Baikal to the Gobi Desert to a ruined monastery in Tibet to the Himalayas, the latter because it eventually becomes clear that India is the safest country for them. Along the way, they pick up an orphaned Polish girl named Irena (Saoirse Ronan), who's on the run and depends on the fugitives to take her to safety. They will all endure starvation, dehydration, heat, cold, and exhaustion. And, of course, not all of them are likely to survive.  Part of the problem is that the characters are little more than tiresome escapee stereotypes - broadly developed, simple minded, and always with the talk of their hopes and dreams. This occasionally allows for moments of unnecessary humor, as when Tomasz describes at length his recipe for seasoned chicken. Mr. Smith is probably the most complex character, but even then, he's only at the service of the film's message, namely that one cannot continue in life without forgiving themselves first. This is where Irena comes in; aside from using her youth and femininity to melt Smith's heart, she serves no real purpose to the story; this will prove problematic when he allows himself to feel long before the film has come to end.  Another problem is a confusing and unconvincing depiction of distance and time. There are long passages in the Siberian forest and Gobi Desert, but as soon as the characters reach the Himalayas, it's as if someone pressed the fast forward button; no more time is spent on their travelling, so we must assume that, after thousands of miles and stretches with little to no food or water, they suddenly have the strength to go from one side of the mountain range to the other. Never mind the thin air or the freezing temperatures.  The film is based on "The Long Walk," a book in which Slawomir Rawicz recalls his experiences escaping from Siberia to India entirely on foot. This is interesting because in 2006, the BBC released a report based on Soviet records, some supposedly written by Rawicz himself; it stated that Rawicz was actually released as part of the USSR's amnesty of Poles in 1942. It also stated that, rather than walking to India, he was transported across the Caspian Sea to a refugee camp in Iran. Further complicating matters is a Polish World War II veteran named Witold Gli'ski, who in 2009 claimed that Rawicz's experiences were in fact his own. This too has been questioned. With so much confusion over something as basic as the truth, it's no wonder "The Way Back" is one of the least satisfying war movies of recent memory.

ok The cinematography was great. Acting ok. The thing that really creeps me out is when they emphasize religion. Jesus had nothing to do with your recovery. Human resilience is an amazing thing, and under dire circumstances the human body can overcome incredible strain. Why did she need god to find herself? Simple: she didnt. it was her hard work and effort that made her rise above the rest. if you want something badly enough, eventually you will get it. Nothing to do with a mythical fairytale that supposedly happened 1200 years ago(ie the bible). I guess if people want to continue to participate in religion, they have to at least realize religion divides far more than it unites and just using the good side of religion doesn't mean you are doing a good thing for yourself and the world.

Not as advertized The video was true to the original and of good quality, but the special features did not work. For example : The UK version wouldn't play. It came up as a selection and when selected the video reverted to the previous screen.

Short and Sweet Charlize Theron is perfect in this role. She made the movie. The scenery was awesome. The Black Forest was cool and creepy and the Dwarfs were good as well as the creatures and special effects in this movie. I personally won't buy this unless i can get it used for a few bucks. It was a good movie but lacked something in my opinion. It just wasn't the block buster i had hoped for.

Quite unlike the book, but interesting in its own sense. At first, I saw this as a butchering of Oscar Wilde's original masterpiece, but the main difference is the sex.  There is so much of it in this film. The film Dorian will have sex with anything that walks and talks, and things get weird very fast. There was nothing in the book that ever mentioned bondage, unusual fetish, or orgies. There is also the fact that it is implied that Dorian sleeps with Basil, which is highly controversial and can be debated in several different ways. In the novel, it can be ascertained that Basil has homosexual feelings for Dorian. These, however, come out in an expression of love rather than lust. In the film, they do the deed and that's that. This was my primary issue with the film.  My other issues with the film are based primarily on personal expectations that were not met. While I think they did an excellent job casting Basil and Lord Henry, I never pictured Dorian as a brunette with brown eyes or Sybil to have flaming red hair. That's another thing,  Sybil. She seemed extremely devoid of character. Blank. I didn't understand her character, or her relationship with Dorian in the film. They also left out the scene I find most powerful, the scene where Sybil is weeping at Dorian's feet.  I appreciate the thematic elements and the creative license taken by the directors, but I probably would have liked the film more if I hadn't read the book.

Good insight into a dream. Nice directing, script and cinematography showing a selected part of everyday life in Senegal. Whether the conditions are worse than was shown was never discussed  and so it's hard to tell from the movie how stable the country is politically and economically. The storyline is essentially the final process of selecting basketball youth with some potential to warrant playing at some higher level. We follow a few players as they travel to the US for high school and hopefully collegiate offers.  The negatives that I noticed are: (1.) We don't see or is it discussed what percentage of those who devout themselves to the dream actually succeed. What happens with failure. (2.) We don't see if the middle men receive compensation that might be either ethical or rules violations. (3.) We don't see how private high schools in the US take advantage of and make money off exchange students. One example, there's a private school in the Seattle area that circumvents the one year visa rules by longterm, years of high school boarding which then gives those students unhindered access to US universities and afterwards automatic US residency. The school's owners are exceedingly wealthy as a result of what they charge the parents of those financially privileged students.

Henry Hopper recommended it. There was an interview with Henry Hopper, Dennis's son. He took some friends to the theater to see it. I bought it. It is far out and I am still trying to figure it all out. I guess you have to be smoking pot to really get into it.

Like Crazy Looking for a little romance to fill your Friday night with the significant other? If you don't mind them in the bittersweet variety, Like Crazy may be right up your alley. After two little-seen films, director Drake Doremus achieved some significant buzz for this third feature, which took home the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2011. Based loosely on Doremus's real life experiences, the film stars Anton Yelchin as American college student Jacob and Felicity Jones as Anna, the British exchange student he falls in love with. After a passionate summer together, Anna overstays her student visa but returns to London; when she attempts to return to Jacob, she is denied reentry into the States, and a difficult long-distance relationship ensues. While Like Crazy sports a lot of the elements one would expect to find in a romance, the film succeeds in portraying real characters and genuine emotion, crafting a true, intimate study. It's not your average happy-go-lucky movie, but if you relish the ups and downs of rapturous joy and deeply felt heartache, this could be the movie for you.

It was ok. I mostly liked the accent the girls have. Sexy! I would love to try my hand at making one of these but I have no idea where to get the hot chicks to be in it... :)

Wonderfully Incomplete! This story is about a daughter learning about the true origins of her father by being surreptitiously made to read her father's diary. Her father is Mr. Benjamin Button who is "born under curious circumstances": born old and aging backwards. Themes of family, the purpose of life, unfulfilled love, fate, end of life and death were principal to the plot with fate being a major element. But the portrayal of key relationships was not sufficient to match the message. Noticeable was the amount 'dark' scenes: there was an air of perpetual night. Overall the story is a wonderful reflection on living, love and relationships. Unfortunately the greater messages of the movie are much undeveloped or contradicting. It was unfortunate that the beauty of the picture was complimented by these incomplete relationships and messages making the movie wonderfully incomplete.  The theme of fate is the source of one of many comparisons to Forest Gump, but unlike Forest Gump a review of destiny is mostly encumbered so as to be disguised. The comparisons are fair considering that the movie is essentially filled with vignettes of key relationships in Mr. Benjamin Button's life and the philosophical, moral and spiritual lessons he adopts from each. His reverse aging almost appears as a secondary or tertiary theme compared to the attempts to philosophy the meaning of living. I would compare this movie to a cross between Forest Gump and A River Runs Through It.  Revealing the summary knowledge and wisdom of these supporting characters often felt manipulated and palpably advertised so as to lose emotional effect. At other times thought provoking message were distracted by titillating interactions. It felt as if `sex' was being use to attract attention to the message which it was obscuring. There was an abruptness to many of the key messages of the film which was in part due to a lack of depth in key relationships. Exemplary of this is the depictions of the relationship of Benjamin with his father. Also curious were the reemerging past relationships which seemed awkwardly placed. ____________________________________ I found many of the messages contradicting. One contradiction was that of accepting ones fate (Artist Captain), but then being unwilling to deal with the consequences of his life by living out his life with the love of his life despite is reverse aging. I found similarities and contradictions in that his daughter was easily made to forgive him for abandoning, something which he was unable to do with his own father. His moral character only stood when he was with the love of his life (Paris Gazebo), otherwise he found little contradiction with using women to fulfill his needs.

An improvement over the previous films This movie by far, is the best Punisher movie. This deserves a sequel. Ray Stevenson IS The Punisher! This is the way a Punisher movie should be like. 100% faithful to the source material.

good. Quick easy and inexpensive! The DVD had a skip, but it was so cheap it's not worth doing all the return stuff.

Glad to see a box set but disappointed about the selection I'm glad to see that Jean has gotten a boxed set but there are so many of her films not available on DVD, and these were all already available.  What about Red Dust?  Three Wise Girls?  Bombshell?  I'd love to see another box where some of the films not available on DVD are featured.

One four star  One two star movie I must admit that I have always been a Addams Family man If I had to choose between the two  But I Always felt the Munsters had their charm I picked up these movies cause I had never seen them ever  Thanks to Nick at night and Tv Land I felt I had scene all the munsters a 100 times over  So I was curious about this as I found it on Amazon Munster go Home  Herman inherits a castle in England  (the story explains why england and not Germany But I wondered why they choose to go that way  Germany seemed so natural of a choice)  And of course the story is Relitives try to do away with Herman and get the castle The whole cast came back except Marilyn  No disrespect to the gals who play Marilyn but you hardly notice  small part Munsters Revenge Herman and Grandpa are mistaken for Wax Robots who rob people at their creaters command  Sigh  Sadly this was not as good as the first movie  IF there is an upside to this movie you get a very 60s ish feel to the movie This time you have yet another Marilyn  She has a bigger part in this movie as she is the object of affection to the young cop trying to clear Herman and Grandpa But this time Butch Patrick was Not Eddie And even as he too has a small part  You missed hime  If you liked the serise you should like Munster go home  If you like Munsters revenge  Your a bigger fan then I am

Clerks meets Ghost Hunters Not a bad little ghost story, but it ultimately wasn't that scary. Really just a good movie for a slumber party, sitting around, teasing the actors, and talking back to the screen.

Good Story, Rushed Ending The story itself is pretty good, with 5 short intertwining stories.  My only complaint without revealing any spoilers is the ending seemed rather rushed to me.  The voice work was pretty good also.

ok These two movies weren't bad. I got them for my husband. There are a lot of funny parts, but I fall asleep while watching the movies. Nothing against the movie. It just didn't keep my interest.

Not the best interpretation of the Matheson classic I Am Legend is a decent movie, as far as big Hollywood productions with big stars go.  This Will Smith vehicle has some compelling moments, and Smith uses some of the acting chops that were a big, big deal in his Muhammad Ali biopic; however, as far as serving as a worthy adaptation of the Richard Matheson sci-fi classic - this version of I Am Legend falls woefully short.  Note: this is the third attempt to adapt Matheson's story to the big screen, with the first being The Last Man on Earth (1964) and the second being The Omega Man (1971).  Missing from this 2007, CGI-heavy version is the nihilism and psychological horror which, in the original story, inspired George Romero to create his cult-classic, Night of the Living Dead.  This version of Matheson's tale is simply too slick, too polished in the name of a big-time celebrity to succeed as a horror movie; and the plot is too thin and loosely interpreted to succeed as science fiction - so it resides firmly in the realm of entertainment, losing Matheson's apocalyptic message in the translation, and sanitizing the most dark and chilling parts of a great story.  I recommend this for a night where you are in the mood for a mild thriller without too much tooth or bite or need for brain; also, the violence here is pretty tame by contemporary standards, but it will still be too much for small children and complete scaredy-cats.

It tastes Familiar..... Devil May Cry is a truly beautifully created anime series that has very few flaws within it's story.  The main premise has been done to death by Cowboy Bebop and Outlaw Star.  Lazy or disinterested hero gets sucked into a story, beats down the bad guys and resumes life as normal because each episode can honestly stand alone.  For the comedic type, there is some dark/fun humor involved in the series but in the end, still lacks a bit for the elegance of the games UP TO  and NOT INCLUDING 4.

PRETTY FUN FLICK FEROCIOUS PLANET  A that silly SyFy Channel and that crazy Maneater Series, yes I love them both. In fact I try to collect as many of these films as I can. I may have reviewed a few of these flicks and so it seems I am reviewing another. This one right here is very much like many other flicks but like them it also has a silly charm to it. Also it stars Joe Flanigan of Stargate Atlantis fame, so that adds to the fun in my opinion. Besides who does not like a creature feature, there is a fun element to them.  The government is looking at a device that some scientists have come up with and are interested in it. Well not everyone is behind it of course since it is a device that can transport you to another dimension. While looking at the thing something goes wrong and everyone is transported to another place. This place is full of all kinds of creatures, very dinosaur like. So the group must find a way to not only survive but get back home as well.  This is your typical SyFy flick but it is not completely bad, at least the action is good. From the moment they arrive things kick off. As soon as dude goes.........well just see for yourself. The creatures do look cool although the budget strains them, but you can get what they were going for. The action is quick like you would like and helps the film flow. Flanigan does a good job here and it was cool to see him back in action on a SyFy production.  This is a decent low budget flick that is not horrible if you like these types of flicks. The film moved quick enough and the picking off one by one deaths kept me interested.  Now this is not for everyone but if you don't mind these bad but good B movies then this is for you. Also there are some completely ridicules things in this flick, you'll see.

One of better Star Treks Though this is not a great movie, it is much better than the first Star Trek, and it fills a gap in my Star Trek collection. The story is well told, and the cinemtography is very good. I enjoyed seeing it again and will enjoy watching it occasionally in the future.

Justice: What's the right thing to do The video is fine.  The quality of the dvd is the problem.  This is the second copy we have purchased. Thedvd's are weak and break even coming out of easy release cases.  This copy already has cracked just in our opening and examining the dvd's.  The quality of the discs is poor.

Ok The content is OK. There are other DVDs on this topic that I feel present the facts in more compelling and interesting ways, but that is because I have watched soooo many of these cannabis videos. The only problem I had (and I hope this was specific to my disc only) there were 3 parts in the movie where the disc seemed to have trouble, it was a bit stuck temporarily and the drive didn't seem to be reading... for a short period, then it continued. I could not see any visible signs of scratching or prints on the disc so I figure I got a bad copy.

Bad acting, ok action All special agent Paul Ross (Randy Coulture) wants to do is to win back his ex-fianc&eacute;, but his plans are sadly thrawrted when his love is on a mammoth plane that's been hijacked (hence the genius name of this film) by terrorists, which makes his day that much worse as he had been suspended earlier that day.  While not nearly as bad as some of the reviews that I've read, it's not a particularly good film either. The action scenes are all right, it's just that it's plot is devoid of any originality and is hopelessly derivative which draws comparisons to similar terrorists on a plane films that this movie can't help but not fair well to. The acting is also not one of its stronger.points. All said, the movie while watchable is a bit forgettable.

Some funny riffs and segments help a very boring movie As MST3k is sort of a show within a show within a movie concept, I think it is better to look at the individual parts of the episode in order to properly grade.  The Movie: Let me ruin this movie and tell you what happens:  Nothing.  That's right absolutely nothing interesting happens despite being a movie about fighter pilots.  Be prepared for 5 entire minutes of watching planes refuel and another 5 minutes watching constant bombing.  They do try to build up some suspense but the paper thin characters sort of prevent the viewers from caring.  (The only part I found interesting was when a pilot's date explained the process of detasseling corn.)  Host Segments: The segments are funny with Mike launching his own BBQ sauce, Crow trying to get tech support (nice to see tech support was terrible even back in the `90's), and Tom leading a singing band of Toms.  Riffs: Nothing great but Mike and the bots try and try but the boring movie doesn't help.  But at least the movie does introduce the phrase "poopie suit". (And I loved the shout out to Eegah!)  Overall: This is by far one of the most boring movies shown on MST3k.  The writers, Mike, and the bots rise to the challenge but it is very hard when given such a non-action movie.

Julia? I like her Stiles This movie had a lot of scenes that could very easily have become cringe worthy, but they were all handled pretty sensitively. The racial stuff about black and white relationships. I liked the acting, both Julia Stiles and her leading man, Sean Patrick Thomas. The rest of the cast all did a good job, too. I think the weakness of the film was that the hip hop music and dancing is just not very interesting. There wasn't a single memorable song on the soundtrack. I like the ballet sequences and Julia's contemporary dance for her Julliard audition, but the dancing in the club was very lackluster. You got the feeling that dance was something that was important to their community, something that they enjoyed, but it wasn't that great to watch it. I liked the scenes where Sean Patrick Thomas was showing Julia the latest dance styles though because I needed the explanations to understand what the h they were doing. I wasn't seeing it in Steps, the dance club where they would go.  Comparisons: In Saturday Night Fever, the Disco Dancing sequences in the club were exciting. The Bee Gees music was very memorable and in fact the tunes were bona fide hits. STLD songs were throwaways, and dance scenes were not all that.  Both STLD and Flashdance end with a similar dance audition. I think I liked the Julia Stiles audition dance better than Jennifer Beals' but again, throughout the film, the dance sequences and music were much better in Flashdance. If you look at Jennifer's dance to Maniac on the Dance Floor, she is really just running in place with close-ups on her rear. But it works. Julia Stiles is no J Lo in the back end department.  8 Mile was not a dance movie, but it did have rap music. 8 Mile presented a much more solid case for rap than STLD did for Hip Hop. The sound track for 8 Mile was outstanding, with breakout songs from 50 Cent, and some of Eminem's best stuff ever. "Lose Yourself" was a really good song. It didn't win a Grammy but I think it did win an Oscar. Fact checkers? I am thinking that happened because at the time I wondered why the Grammies had no love for Eminem when the Oscars did.  In some ways this was about being the only White Girl in a Black High School, or at least about having to fit in at a new High School. There is even the obligatory scene where she goes to the cafeteria and has to figure out where to sit, sits with the nerds, and has to be rescued by Sean Patrick Thomas' sister. Flashback to Mean Girls and maybe even Clueless? Fact Checkers? I had that feeling of Deja Vu all over again, and I bet there are more examples of this type of situation in teen films.  The Black Swan also had ballet as one of the major themes, but in that Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis both really put a lot of time and effort into learning ballet and preparing for their roles. Julia Stiles did OK, though, but not even close to Nat and Mila.  I must say that I think the character of her father was largely wasted. He was supposed to be a jazz musician, therefore he lived in the Black part of Chicago, where of course, the Blacks all support jazz clubs by vigorously staying home in droves or hanging out at Steps. It was a very poorly thought out excuse to get Julia Stiles into the hood. But as long as we had her father supposedly a trumpet player, we could have had her go and listen to him play at least once, or perhaps take Sean Patrick Thomas out to hear him and meet her dad. It makes me mad that jazz is ignored when such a fuss is made over mediocre Hip Hop music. Do these kids even know who Miles Davis is? Sad.  So, The Bottom Line is that it was an OK but not great movie. I might have been comparing apples to oranges, but the weakest aspect of STLD was the lackluster Hip Hop music, and if there is any great genius of Hip Hop out there, STLD was a wasted opportunity to showcase him or her, and both could have benefited from that collaboration.

So-So Ah,kind of "Tongue in Cheek", The acting not that great but the action and effects were worth watching the whole movie.Thats just my opinion though. Still by all means,check it out,theres just enough action to hold your interests.

RIVITING BUT PAINFUL TO WATCH I have mixed feelings about this movie.  I did not critique the actors or the directors, but I was focused on the message.  The message was disturbing but typical of the life style some people may or may not choose to live.  Hopelessness, addiction, violence, abuse, child neglect and exploitation, prostitution, etc.  The parts that disturbed me most were the "enema scene"--I turned my head away--and the abused and neglected children.  After the movie I cried for the human race and I asked God to help us all.  To help us to realize that we have the gift of a higher self that we can tap into for salvation.

The Wiz The music really elevates this movie, Diana Ross was miscast for the role of Dorothy and overacted at times, her and Michael's chemistry was nice though, you want to like 'The Wiz and it's watchable but after it's over you get that somethings missing feeling.

Tolerable Quality for Most of Us -- the Tune is There, but a Few of the Notes are Missing - Literally This edition of "One-Eyed Jacks," by Echo-Bridge Entertainment, appears in general video quality pretty much identical, if not entirely identical, to the edition released by Brentwood Home Video "Exclusively Distributed by BCI Eclipse LLC" as part of a four-video collection entitled "Legends of the West." One difference is that this Echo-Bridge edition gives more vidoo chapter options but also, unforgiveably, starts the movie a few notes into Friedhoffer's magnifican musical score, which is a bit like starting Beethoven's Fifth Symphony a few notes in.  There is some color washout in a scene early on with Brando, Malden,etc.ins ide the bank, but otherwise, except for video purists, it is certainly much better than not having this masteriece at all.  If you can find the "Legends of the West" collection (which also includes "The Sundowners", set in Australia, with Robert Mitchum; "The Big Trees," with Kirk Douglas; and "Vengeance Valley," with Burt Lancast, if things like cutting off the first notes of a magnificanet score drive you nuts, you'd be better off with the "Legends of the West" collection if you find it.  Surely "One-Eyed Jacks" deserves a restoration and since it is reportedly Martin Scorsese's favorite western, perhaps one day he might shell out the fortune to restore this classic.  However, other than annoyingly cutting off the first notes of the score, this appears to contain the movie though with the aforementioned color washout in the bank scene.  It is a truly magnificent movie with awesome performances by Brandon, Malden, Ben Johnson, Slim Pickens, Karty Jurado, Pina Pellecer, and all the rest.  If you like Brando in this, be sure to look him up in "The Appaloosa," which, to my knowledge, is the only other western featuring him as the protagonist.  (He is a villain in "The Missouri Breaks" with Jack Nicholson as the ptortagonist.)  For Karl Malden doing another great villain perfromance in a western, don't miss "Nevada Smith" with Steve McQueen, Brian Keith, Martin Landau as a heavy, and Susanne Pleshette.

Okay Film After watching this film I come away saying, an okay film but....not as good a production as the original Magnificent Seven. On a scale from 1 to 10 with 10 being the highest and best rating. I rate this a 7.

Ho Hum <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001B23ED6">Popeye the Sailor: 1941-1943, Vol. 3</a>Having bought the first Vol and really enjoying it,i thought i would give the last Vol a try.To be honest i wished i hadnt.The difference between the two is startling.It was episode 10 before Bluto appears and the early episodes with Popeyes family (Father & Nephews)are dreadful.It picks up a bit when you get to the wartime ones but they are a bit samey and i dont know if its my imagination but both Popeye and Bluto didnt look the same as in Vol 1.Having said that,for the price its not a bad buy but compared to Vol 1 its very ho-hum

Straight to the point Straight to the point. This movie was what I thought was my ideal movie, cowboy sci-fi action thriller. What could go wrong? I'll tell what went wrong the entire middle of this movie is stupid. It loses it's way. The story could have been so much better if they would have figured out the end before the beginning. Just seems like they where winging it.

one of the better spoofs out of some of the recent spoof films superhero movie is one of the better ones.it has many jokes that i found funny and i even lol sometimes when i watch it.trust me though if you want a good spoof buy scary movie 1,naked gun 1,airplane,or top secret.they are all good and this one is better than disaster movie and meet the spartans.

ULTIMATE or not ULTIMATE Wondering if this will be the ULTIMATE EDITION for Harry Potter long awaited last two UE Bluray, hopefully it will be since a lot of us are collectors and wouldn't want to be disappointed by the studio unwillingness to produce those Ultimate Editions sooner than this.

A very very good but depressing movie that makes you wonder what will happen the entire time. I recommend this. I say B "On this date at 2 pm eastern standard time August 5, 2040 I'd like to kiss you. Until then I'm married but after 35 years of being faithful to my husband I think I'll have earned one kiss from you." Margot (Williams) is happily married to Lou (Rogen). After meeting a man named Daniel on a trip she is surprised to learn how close he lives to her, and how quick she seemed to fall for him. She now has a choice to make, either stay in her happy marriage or take a leap and try the unknown. I have to start by saying that this is a very good but very depressing movie. Also even though Seth Rogen and Sarah Silverman are in this this is not a comedy. The movie will make you feel very different feelings from scene to scene (which is the mark of a good movie). I also have to say that 90% of movies like this are pretty formulaic but this is the exception and it actually makes you wonder what will happen the whole time and the ending I have to say is perfect. Michelle Williams is great in this and I would compare this to the movie "Blue Valentine" in pacing and feel so if you liked that movie then this will be right up your ally too. Overall, a very good but pretty depressing movie that is very much worth seeing. I give it a B.

Out of print and too expensive I purchased this from one of Amazon's associate retailers and it was as described: brand new and remastered. I have listened to several of the tracks and they sound clean and are typical of the soundtrack recordings from that era.  I'm also a big fan of this musical as well as the movie and I really wanted this soundtrack to add to my collection, even though it was greatly over-priced.  I can appreciate that it's out of print and I have no idea from what source the seller obtained it, but I feel that it was priced in this way just because copies were rare, so why not "jack up" the price?  This CD probably retailed new when it was released for around $16.00 and that's really all it's worth.

Legend of the Guardians The animation and 3D effects were outstanding.  The detail on the animation was stunning--you could see the fuzz on the feathers of the owls.  The story was a repetition of many that have gone before.  This time it featured owls.

It's ok but takes a while to get there For me, this film didn't get interesting until about 75 minutes in. I actually bailed because it was so uninteresting. I came back a few hours later to watch a bit more and it did improve and actually become interesting for a bit. It definitely has it's high points and John Malkovich is always great to watch. I wasn't wowed but it was "ok". Maybe in 1987 I would have been. Perhaps this formula or storyline was fresher then. Was decent enough to watch using the stairstepper. Not on my list of movies to recommend to friends, nor is it one I'd watch again.

An average film. An animated film based on a Dr. Suess story that tells of a young man who is looking for a live tree to impress a girl that he likes. All the live trees were cut down and the businessman running the town sells fresh air, so he doesn't want the boy to find a tree. It's a little more interesting when you see the movie. Anyhow, this is an average animated effort, with songs that are unspectacular, few funny characters, and a plotline that clearly embraces an agenda of environmentalism. There are a few laughs to be had, and the storyline of promoting the virtues of live greenery certainly has its redeeming values. Overall, this one just does not measure up to some of the fine efforts we have seen in animated films of late.

Creepy and Disheartening The box art on The Alphabet Killer (2008) looked really interesting, the premise sounded intriguing - especially the fact that it was based on a series of real murders, and it starred Eliza Dushku (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Tru Calling, Dollhouse), so I Netflixed it and settled back with my wife to enjoy something of a cerebral romp as we chased a killer through the clues.  Well, the movie doesn't quite cut it as a police procedural.  That became apparent the first time Megan Paige (Dushku) starts to see and hear the first dead girl.  The effects are totally creepy, with a skin-crawling voice and prosthetic visuals that definitely belong in a horror movie.  There's one scene where Megan crawls under a bed to get inside the mind of the murdered girl that actually made me jump, and I don't jump easily.  The storyline is uneven to a degree.  We never know why Megan Price is so obsessed with the case and I really wanted to know.  With stories like this, the motivation of the characters is really important.  We just don't get it in this one.  Dushku does a good job portraying the character.  Megan Price is a far cry from Faith in Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Echo, the character she played on Dollhouse.  As Megan Price, Dushku is fragile and barely holding it together, and I instantly sympathized with her.  I bought into the portrayal, but that made the missing motivation even more apparent. The scenes are pretty good overall.  The story is set in Rochester, New York, where the actual murders took place back in 1971-1973.  The world looks very gray and industrial, thick and oppressive.  The horror imagery is almost black and white at times and pops out as very stark, very attention-getting.  Overall, I just wasn't as happy with the film as I wanted to be.  The movie doesn't deliver full closure for either the character or the plot.  In real life, the murders were never solved either, but in fiction I'd like to have things neatly tied up.  Megan Paige's resolution isn't a happy one either, and I couldn't believe when the movie ended where it did. The movie is worth a look if you're a Dushku fan or are wanting a curious blend of horror and mystery and true crime, and if you won't mind being left somewhat abruptly at the ending.

Could Have Been Six Stars Dakota Fanning and Denzel Washington are absolutely Superb acting off each other --Too bad there weren't more scenes with them together. The main reason I subtracted 'STARS' was due to the Spanish Dubbing [Almost a 1/3 of the Movie]- I have a hard time really enjoying a film when I have to read what's being said while trying to watch the action / acting. The other actors could have been anybody Dakota and Denzel make the film worth watching.

girl who played with fire I have just started ordering products online. I really enjoyed the convencience and how easy it was order from you. I got my movie within the time the site said I would. I liked the pricing as well. When I received my movie though there was a scratch on it and about 1/2 through it starts to skip. However, I did purchase a previously owned movie so I knew it was a risk. I will continue to order products from Amazon.

An Argument for Universal Health Care Sicko, 2007 film  The movie begins with a man sewing up a cut on his leg. Another man cut off two finger tips on a table saw. Fifty million Americans have no health insurance. We meet a married couple who have health insurance, but heart attacks and cancer cost them their home. A 79-year old man works for his medicine. In 2006 Michael Moore began collecting horror stories about health care. You can't get health insurance if you have many, many diseases (such as a heart problem or diabetes). What if you have health insurance? You can still have a problem. Denial letters are rubber-stamped to keep a denial rate that is measured. Insurance companies look for ways to deny coverage to their customers. Physicians are rewarded for denying care, even if it results in a patient's death.  Nixon speaks about health care; there was a trick here. Clinton tried to create Universal Health Care, but was defeated. Health Insurance companies have more lobbyists than there are Congressmen. Drug companies also buy Congressmen to get laws passed. George W. Bush raised costs for Medicare patients. The film explains the advantages of the Canadian Health System. Canadians must buy health insurance when they travel to America! "Even for a day." Those who need help get it right away in Canada. Canadians live three years longer on average. There is a flat charge for prescription drugs in Britain. No fee for medical services. We see how the "Cashier" office works in Britain. You get carfare. Democracy brought National Health Services to Great Britain in 1948, just after World War II. People in Britain are healthier than in America. [Is this part of political oppression in America? To keep people demoralized?] There is a horror story where a child was refused treatment and then died.  We hear about medical care in France and its system. Doctors make house calls. Five weeks of paid vacation there. They explain the reason why: the government is afraid of the people, not the other way around. Moore interviews a family about their life in France. [No mention of taxes. Moore needs to push himself away from "Freedom Fries".] Back in Los Angeles we see how patients are dumped by the County Hospital when they can't pay their bills. In some places in America people help each other when in need (an old tradition). Volunteers who helped on 9/11 were denied health benefits. Insurance companies did this because the system works that way. Do the prisoners at Guantanamo get better treatment that people in America? [Moore is very clever in his examples.] Free universal health care in Cuba has the benefits of lower infant mortality and greater life expectancy (the two are linked).  Documentaries lie on the continuum between fact and fiction. Authenticated events are often recreated for the camera. I think this movie would be better if it concentrated on Canada instead of foreign countries with different languages and cultures. Before 1945 America was the exemplar for personal liberty, but that has changed. Now many European countries are more advanced in personal rights because of their politics. The lack of universal health care correlates to political oppression (low wages and high taxes) since the end of World War II.

Lucille Did not like all the emphasis in Little Lucie. Although she is an ok dancer, I wanted to see Lucy doing all her hilarious things.  I do not care much for the music scenes with little Lucie.  Just my opinion.

split decision This was a watchable, workmanlike movie. Some interesting acting & a few novel twists but the movie wants us to root for a guy who kills people quite easily & lies to their kidnap victim to make sure his buddy doesn;t need to kill her too -- & then.........falls in love with her?? What did he think was gonna happen?? I guess I'm an old fashioned girl but I'd like to root for somebody a little less violent no matter what his upbringing was like -- and after he tells his true love that he wants to change.....he actually kills even more people than he had before his revelation. Yikes. I gave it 3 stars because hey.........the guys are mostly good looking (and do bank robbers have the time to be so buff?!?!)the film moves at a good pace, and some of the acting is spot on.

Around the World in 80 Days This was a remake on the one with David Niven that was great.  I was a little disappointed in this one though.  Jackie Chan is not the lead character but a side character.  There is a lot of comedic things to laugh at, but the picture doesn't quite come up to par.

SUBTITLED This one is also in Japanese, with English subtitles.  The best parts of the movie are when all of the classic monsters emerge, but the rest of it is cheap sci-fi nonsense.  I gave it an ok because most all of the original monsters are in it, with their original sounds.

So... horrible. The only reason this gets 3 stars instead of 1 is because Bruce Lee is so talented. I wish I didn't force myself to finish it, because that last scene crossed the line between stupid-funny and stupid-annoying (most of the movie was on the edge).

Confusing anime Purchasing this dvd after hearing a lot of great things  from Gaia Online,  watching it I founded myself abit confused. The plot is cool and all but it piles to much on at once  without explaining anything about it, for example the black cat sure when see it a lot maybe telling the viewer it's going to be throughout the whole anime but out of nowhere the cat can talk without saying one word about it up to that point it that would have made the show more interesting if it explain that right off, Darker Than Black is drawn well and has great animation the voice acting is great also its an aright anime if your curious buy it,its very cheap

OK but Only Average At Best Given the higher than normal rating (4.5 stars) by the watchers, I thought I give this movie a watch, but I'm disappointed to say it was only an average movie at best.  The acting was decent given the very short and unimaginative story, but it was certainly not worth watching before it's theatrical release, which will certainly be short-lived before it gets put out to the Redbox dollar rental kiosks within weeks if not days.

Gun Control in Colonial Africa Sundown, 1941 film  This movie is dedicated to the few men whose courage and faith serves many others. There is a map of Africa and Kenya. A small airplane lands, a lone woman leaves. The natives welcome her. "A man with a good wife is never a poor man." Justice is served. Two trimotor airplanes land with supplies. A new official arrives, he is taking over. What are the Shenzi doing? "May I have a drink, please?" says the stranger, a Hollander. Kuypens is a geologist. The next day there is an ambush. Can the Askari capture his gun? Yes. It is a Manlicher rifle from the Skoda works in Czecho-Slovakia. The Italian prisoner explains the importance of Africa for world domination. [Still true today?] They caught a trader suspected of arms smuggling to the Shenzi tribe. He's only a go-between. Security is strengthened at the post with night patrols.  A new trading caravan stops at the post for permission to travel. Zia is the new owner of a large trading company. They have a dinner party. Commissioner Crawford talks to Zia about local events. Suddenly many of the people leave. Will one of the six white men die soon? The natives say so. Later a man opens fire with a tommy gun, but misses Crawford. He is pursued and shot. Zia knows what the Hollander Kuypens is really doing. She wants to be a supplier. The body of Fellini is found next to a word in the sand. Nairobi orders a troop movement. The contraband arms were brought to the Shenzi people. No added forces are available to Crawford. He and Dewey discover arms and ammunition among the natives. But Crawford is captured by Keypens. Zia tells him what happened. Can Crawford escape to send a warning? Can Major Coombes stage an attack on the enemy to turn the situation around? Will the good guys win at the end?  There is a speech about the church and the army as the supports for civilization: moral leadership and physical force. [No mention about who controls them?] In London there is a memorial service that sums up the message of this early wartime movie.  This movie is just about average. Its value is its setting in Kenya and outlook for the times. The story could have been set in WW I due to the save colonialist intrigues. After WW II there would be an anti-colonialist revolt that would result in the independence of Kenya. Would this be followed by a military take-over by troops trained by the former colonial rulers?

Darling Companion The movie was good on the whole as a movie, but the end was too fast and left you hanging as to what was going to happen.

Men, Etc. On the Moon Apollo 18 is a compilation of video that has been edited from upteen hours of recently declassified NASA footage. The footage is snowy and appears authentic. No one outside the government is aware of Apollo 18's secret mission to the moon. What secrets does the moon hold that the Department of Defense would quietly arrange the mission without telling the American public?

Boring and Just Does Not Cut It Wilson applies some of Moore's techniques towards film making. Problem is that it just does not make the grade. It comes off as tediously boring.....Like when a female, NRA executive explains some of Moore's alleged use of Charleton Heston speech footage the argument becomes drawn out and loses the viewer.  Wilson should simply attempt to come up with his own angle on trying to get his point across on film.  Twenty-some minutes into Wilson's film and I could not wait for it to finish....BORING, NOT ENAGING ENOUGH. It seems to really preach to his kind of crowd.

The Aspect Ratio of 2.40:1 RUINS The 3D Viewing! I have to say that I'm very disappointed to find out that this movie has the horrible ASPECT RATIO of 2.40:1.  WHY SUCH A BIG DEAL ABOUT THIS ASPECT RATIO?: For those of us who already hate the so called "black bars" on top and bottom of the screen while watching a regular movie, the Aspect Ratio of 2.40:1 on 3D Home viewing brings back those horrible "Black Bars" and with that TAKING AWAY FROM WHAT MAKES 3D WORTH THE PURCHASE TO BEGIN WITH, minimizing the effect by a big percentage.  Usually I don't mind those "black bars" on 2D viewing, maybe because we are all used to it by now, plus it doesn't take anything away...BUT ON 3D viewing this is the complete opposite.  SO WHAT'S THE "APPROPRIATE" ASPECT RATIO THAT SHOULD BE IN 3D HOME MOVIES? Most 3D movies right now are NOT being released with the desirable Aspect Ratio that will fill the whole screen giving you the whole 3D effect BUT movies like Wrath Of The Titans, The Avengers, and the soon to be released AVATAR 3D, are some of the very few that could display with an average Aspect Ratio of: 1.78:1 WHICH WILL take advantage of the FULL SCREEN of your New 3D TV as you expected to display from day one.  With that said, This movie unfortunately does NOT support that type of Aspect Ratio which makes it NOT worth the extra few dollars on the 3D Bluray version.  Even with an enormous TV set you wouldn't want to watch a 3D movie with the black bars because...the bigger the TV, the bigger the "black bars" .  ABOUT THE MOVIE IN GENERAL: I did like this movie when I went to see it in IMAX 3D, I think that was the best way to see back then, now that is on 3D for home viewing...not so much unless it gets re-released with the "proper" Aspect Ratio.  STORY: The Story is not groundbreaking as it certainly leaves more questions than answers opened...but it's not bad at all, I enjoyed it.  SPECIAL EFFECTS: The Special Effects were really good in my opinion, it certainly makes you think you're in a different world far away from Earth.  ABOUT THE 3D Elements: Although this movie was made with 3D in mind, it doesn't take full adventage and capabilities of the 3D technology as it should have been done, that alone the "Black Bars" found in the 3D Bluray version will ruin the experience even more.  If you have a 3D TV and a 3D BluRay player, this movie might not do justice to the 3D part of it, and that alone just think on the bluray 2D version instead.

So-So Crime Noir As I have mentioned before at the start of other reviews in this crime noir genre I am an aficionado, especially of those 1940s detective epics like the film adaptations of Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon and Raymond Chandler's Phillip Marlowe in The Big Sleep. Nothing like that gritty black and white film, ominous musical background and shadowy moments to stir the imagination. Others in the genre like Gilda, The Lady From Shang-hai, and Out Of The Past rate a nod because in addition to those attributes mentioned above they have classic femme fatales to add a little off-hand spice to the plot line, and, oh ya, they look nice too. Beyond those classics this period (say, roughly from the mid-1940s to mid-1950s produced many black and white film noir set pieces, some good some not so good. For plot line, and plot interest, the film under review, The Dark Corner, is under that former category.  And here is why. The dialogue, even though the film itself was under the direction of Henry Hathaway a more than competent &lt;em>noir&lt;/em> director, if not of the first order, is, well, way too smaltzy for a good crime noir. First off the love interest between the framed-up detective, Brad Galt (played by Mark Stevens), and his girl Friday secretary (played by Lucille Ball) is played up front and without subtly and lacks the dramatic cat and mouse build-up of classic noirs. In any case whatever Ms. Ball's later recognized talents as a screw-ball comic, and they were considerable, here as a lower-class "good girl" with all the right morals, all the right world-wiseness for her joe, and all the right instincts to stand by her man set my teeth on edge. That lack of tension between two such leading characters spills over into the rest of the doings. This one does not even have the cutesy "Oh, you devil Sam" of Sam Spade and his girl Friday secretary, Gladys, in The Maltese Falcon.  A little summary of the plot line is in order to demonstrate that lack of tension. Said detective is being framed again in New York (and had already been framed before, although not in New York but San Francisco) by, he believes, his SF ex-detective agency partner. That, however, is merely a blind ruse used by a certain high-powered high society art dealer (played, naturally, by Clifton Webb, a central casting fit for such a role if there every were one), an art dealer with a young wife. After all the other misdirection this one was telegraphed the minute that we see the "divine" pair together, and that fact is cemented when we see said ex-partner and lovely trophy wife ready to take off right under the nose of Mr. High Society. But a high society art dealer, with a young wife or not, does not get where he is without a strong possessive desire and so the frame is on and our detective is made to fit the frame, and fit it very easily until our real culprit is discovered and dealt with. And dealt with forthrightly, as all overwrought, possessive older husbands are dealt with in noir. By the pent-up hatred of that trophy wife, after she finds out that dear hubby has killed her man. You don't need to know much more to know what that will mean, or that the framed guy and his good girl Friday will eventually walk down the aisle together. Doesn't this sound a little too familiar? Like, maybe a low-rent Laura in spots? Hmm.  Note: Clifton Webb, as mentioned above, seems to have been a gold-plated central casting stereotype for the repressed, possessive, and, well, psychopathic high-powered high society swell with an eye (or maybe two eyes) for lovely young women. As seen here, and more famously, in the classic &lt;em>crime noir&lt;/em>, Laura. Apparently Mr. Webb never learned that those 1940s lovelies may be wily enough to latch on to a rich man for fame and fortune but are a little headstrong about being roped in, roped in completely by, well, an old lecher, high class or not. It doesn't take a Mayfair swell to know this is not a country for old men. Any young joe could have told him that.

Sometimes a Re-Tread just doesn't take...... (( BACKGROUND FOR VIEWERS: This Feature Length film is a reworking of Director Eldar Rapaport's 2005, well received Short, "Postmortem" ))  "August"....whatever is meant by that, you might ask? Well, rather than looking at the title as being merely a play on words, let's just assume what's meant is the "simmering"..."sweat-drenched"..."torridness"...of that particular time in the yearly weather cycle. In fact, this is what becomes visually and audibly obvious to us, as our actors/characters experience sometimes uncomfortably high temperatures---a condition reinforced by repeated soundtrack use of Los Angeles area weathercasts. So, indeed, this film does have "Heat"! ....But, it's not just that sort of "Hotness" which involves us...because "Lovemaking Action" makes up a significant part of what's being shown in this film.  Still and all, IF a film director is going to expand an earlier released 16 minute Short into a 100 minute, Feature Length work....and essentially retain the same storyline and same 2 lead characters (tho now 6 years older)....there has GOT to be more provided than "Heat"....more than "Hotness". Admittedly, a much lessor role in the short film's "triangle of 3 guys" has notably (and most SIZZLINGLY) been expanded in this 2011 production. For now we see the character of "Raul" being torridly played by relative newcomer, Adrian Gonzalez (giving us something not weather-related which definitely IS HOT). Oh, and we also have added a female role in the form of B(Girl)FF (and Green Card facilitator) "Nina", played by Hillary Banks.  Now, allow this Reviewer to give just a few closing thoughts involving the "old and new" productions, as coming from someone who's lived with the former for years...and with the latter for a couple of viewings:  - In the Short's early scene...involving former lovers meeting once again at an outdoor coffee house...there was an intimacy, a "Heat" between the 2, which burned off the screen and into the viewer. That is pretty much missing in today's re-tread scene and, for me, is due to one actor in particular.  - Adding several extraneous scenery and street-related shots may add minutes to a feature's length....but it does not necessarily add interest.  - I was sometimes left wondering which way writing and direction were heading with the sex shots. There is an anal sex scene, with virtually a full length, nude shot of the 2 going at it. Yet, at another point we're given an after-sex scene---our leads still together in bed---BUT wearing underwear (even tho the camera is, obviously, avoiding any "crotch shots"). Are we advertising boxer briefs? Is this American network TV filming? Does our director expect this is ever to be shown as a K-Thru-12 (grade school thru high school) afternoon school special?  - What I would consider a production glitch involves occasional sound problems, with music and background conversations drowning out conversation between lead characters (this is even with earphone listening). There is no captioning provided...at least in my Region 2 DVD.  FINALLY -- Perhaps the best thing I can draw from this comparison of Short vs. Feature Length film, is that the feature definitely gives us a FINAL Ending...one which cannot be misconstrued or that is left up in the air. And even better than that....everyone gets what they deserve.  PS -- Writer/Director Rapaport strikes me as being particularly capable of developing intense and interesting storylines; he should stick to doing that...in all-new works. (I do acknowledge it is not easy for anyone to expand a short story into an acclaimed full-length novel...let alone achieve fully successful refilming.)  PPS -- If you would like to join in the fun of 2 guys who scorchingly C-O-N-N-E-C-T....grab a look at "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005Y2HXAY">3</a>" (I've done a review)

Good, up to a point I have seen the tv episode 'A Haunting In Connecticut' and was curious to see how a Hollywood version would go, so I went ahead and bought this.  The first two thirds of the movie were very good. There were some moments of high tension and a good few frights. The movie was getting better and better, even though it fell victim to a few horror cliches, (like the son inexplicably choosing the coldest, darkest, spookiest, dampest room in the house to sleep in).  Then it seemed once a certain point was reached, the movie suddenly took a sharp nose-dive. The climax and the ending were pretty ridiculous. I was very disappointed that a movie that had been so good suddenly became tired and predictable.  I think any horror fan would enjoy this movie, but the ending is woeful.

The Leopard (Criterion Collection) Disappointed with the quality of the video. The visual was not very clear - blurry in some places and also, there were "spots floating" in the flim. This is the first purchase from Amazon with which I have had a complaint.

A family trama. An interesting film, which depicts the hard truth of separation for a family that unfortunately must live apart to survive and have hope for a better future. The young and elderly are left to cope in village life, while parents struggle with the hope that what they must endure will make for a better life for their children.

Not the greatest but still enjoyed it Like others have said, the production value of this is pretty poor... looks like amateurs did it. Definitely left a lot to be desired in terms of seeing good shots of George Lynch and the band as a whole. But overall I still enjoyed the concert. While the bonuses were not lengthy, or anything special, I still enjoyed those as well. Since there isn't much out there for these guys, if you are a fan its not a bad buy.

The series left it behind I think I'm a latecoming fan of South Park.  I remember watching a little bit of it online back in 1998 and while I found the image of Santa Claus and Jesus having a knife fight hilarious, I thought the show was a little too full of profanity and gross out humor.  Flash forward to 2011, I thankfully discovered the true genius of the series and have seen all but a handful.  I'm a long time Simpsons' fan but I think South Park is right up there in being funny and satirical...and has the added virtue of being evenhanded in its political humor (the Simpsons sometimes gets annoying liberal/left in its plotlines).  So I watched this movie with high expectations, but it just wasn't the laugh fest I expected.  I think South Park has gotten far more edgier and topical since this movie was made, and I think maybe that's the reason that the movie fell a little flat for me.  But it's still a great series.

Kind of weird, dark. But still enjoyed somewhat. It is dark version of Snow White, definitely.  It wasn't horrible, didn't have much language. Not something I would watch again, but didn't regret renting it.  May have regretted paying the high price of seeing it in the theater.

Idiocracy: An Interesting Concept Hello,  Idiocracy largely based its wit and humor on a variety of comedy often referred to as "stupid humor" or "stupid comedy." I knew this before beginning this epic DVD journey. Although I'm not a fan of this type of humor, I was willing to sit through the many idiotic moments to explore the concept the film investigates.  The Plot: If you read the product description, the plot centers on a gradually decreasing human intelligence in the species that takes place over a 500 year period. Essentially, human existence in 2505 has devolved or been "dumbed down" by an overload of commercialization and mass media entertainment. In this new evolutionary era, the fate of the country (perhaps the world) rests on the shoulders of our intrepid protagonists, who hold the distinctive positions of Pentagon librarian and street prostitute in 2005 society. The fate of the species rests on these two to clean up humanity's mess after centuries of ignorance and decadent behavior.  The Concept: One of my favorite political philosophers told an allegory about a prehistoric society from an evolutionary biologist's point of view. To paraphrase him, "there are about 50 homo-sapiens huddled around a fire at night. The roar of a sabre-toothed tiger echoes in the distance. Scared, the group huddles closer to the fire for safety. Finally, 3 or 4 of the most brave, intelligent, and concerned men--stout men of character--decide to do something about the tiger threat. So they march off into the night with their spears, rocks, and little wooden shields. Come morning, only 2 of the merry band have returned, but they bring back the carcass of a mighty sabre-toothed tiger. So, the group has roasted tiger for supper that evening and all is well until...  ...another roar in the distance. Once again, the group huddles closer to the fire with nervous eyes gazing beyond the fire's warm light and blinking hard at the thought of being eaten. Finally, our 2 valiant heroes from the last night decide to do something about the threat. They recruit 2 other tribesmen of lesser skill and sally to save the camp from danger. In the morning, 3 are dead and 1 is carrying the body of a slain sabre-toothed tiger. Meanwhile, as the 2-day sabre-toothed adventure takes place men of charm, deceit, and indulgence--blighted men skilled only in the use of their personality--take advantage of the situation by mating with the tribe's females thereby producing a lesser quality of offspring. And so on goes history, the best among the population are systematically replaced overtime with an inferior quality of human stock." I think the story is hilarious. :)  Fortunately, the political philosopher and I share the view that evolutionary biology, insofar as human beings are concerned, is a little off base. However, when you combine it with an influx of commercialization, mass media entertainment, and social indoctrination to consumption and attention pursuit, the idea of a "dumbed down" society looks less like a fantasy. Idiocracy gives a version of what this reality could look like.  In the movie, we have a mixture of bad breeding and escapism to fantasy that results in a society crushed under the weight of its own superficial excesses. It's barely able to function coherently because satisfaction of baser instincts (eating, sex, violence, and entertainment) has replaced higher-capacity thinking (reading, writing, intellectual discovery, and analysis). ***SPOILER ALERT*** So when the Idiocratic society discovers a smart ol' boy from the 21st century among them, they demand that he fix all of their problems. Simple enough, right? Especially, for a guy who actually thinks that the people of the 26th century invented a time machine that will return him to his own time. A time machine located at, excuse me, CostCo. ***END ALERT*** Hahahahahahahaaha!!! :)  The Comparison (WOW!! The parallelisms look like fiction becoming reality. If you don't believe, just take a look around next time you're at the mall):  Delusions: People are increasingly finding it difficult to distinguish fantasy from reality. Today, we have people who seriously believe that a boogeyman lurks in EVERY shadow, not just one, but EVERY shadow (criminals, sexual predators, terrorists, clowns (lol), the devil, etc.)--a fear propagated by our mentally-astute *cough*, wise, and all-knowing, EHEM!! (throat clears)...leaders. We've been indoctrinated through commercialization and mass media to fear our neighbors, not love them. ***AUTHOR'S NOTE*** If you hear the sound of upchuck, that's the sound of it depositing in a toilet along with any remaining warm feelings I have for most political/society leaders and so-called pop cultural gurus. Rrrrrraaaaaaaalllllllffffffff! Wheeeeezzzzee'ah!! There it goes again, 'scuse me. ***END NOTE***  There are some people who really think that the zombie apocalypse could begin as soon as next season's "The Walking Dead" is over. A buddy of mine read a story about a guy who chewed some ol' boy's face off in Florida. Then he revealed to me that he had cleaned all of his guns and stocked up on extra ammunition just so he could be prepared to survive the coming zombie wars. He was quite serious at the time. My many reassurances to him that it wasn't what he thought did little to alleviate his fears. "Whoa," I said to myself. It wasn't until a few other more level-headed individuals recommended that he give it some time to see if the apocalypse comes. He began to back off his fear, fortunately. Whew!! Close call.  ***ANOTHER AUTHOR'S NOTE (on the Zombie Apocalypse)***I for one, believe the zombie apocalypse began in circa 1900, when people urbanized and celebrity worship began. Initially, it started with one or two people per city; usually, newspaper journalists. It gradually spread, zombies creating more zombies, until the early 1990s when the internet went commercial.***END NOTE***  The following is a fictional continuance for the above paragraph which ends with a reference to the movie "Idiocracy." Enjoy!  (Queue thematic music)  Zombie numbers exploded!! Now there are zombies everywhere! Today was no different than any other day. As I write this, a flood of memories make my brain spin. The kid who mows my grass is inseparable from his iPod--constantly "jacked" into mind-numbing minutia. I've never seen him without it.  (Shallow breathing)  Women I have dated who found it imperative to check every text message or Facebook alert, no matter how trivial, that comes into their phones while we're having dinner and in conversation. I've seen dorm room college students from my last university playing "World of Warcraft", "Halo", and "Call of Duty" for hours and sometimes days--skipping class and earning poor marks, then blaming it on anyone/thing, but themselves. People at work trading stupid youtube videos then watching them together with grunting whoops, hollars, and school-boy/girl giggles following!  (Eyes dialating)  A while back, I watched Dr. Phil counseling some poor young lass and her mom that Farmville isn't real. I've seen people glued to iPads with subscriptions to NetFlix or Hulu catching up on the latest drama-filled intrigue. I've driven by zombie lines outside theaters waiting for the midnight showings of Star Wars, Harry Potter, Twilight, Batman, and now, Hunger Games. Many zombies had dressed up like fictional characters. I couldn't help but notice the empty stares sometimes with mouths agape and back-and-forth swaying many of them displayed as they filtered into the theater doors.  (Skin going cold and color going pale at the thought. A sharp tingle travels down the length of my spine)  (Several hours later)  Folks, I am in a panic. Today, I shopped for groceries. I casually looked at the checkout stands and was barraged with Celebrity and Entertainment magazines. My feeling is these magazines sell out quickly to the zombie hordes. "Worship Kim Kardashian," one magazine seems to whisper. "Sexy abs in 30 days," one health rag bellows while another reads, "Buff, Bikini Body in Less than 2 Months." "Get the scoop on the latest fashion trends." "Check out Miley Cyrus's new 'do." "Anna Paquin's Baby Bump!" "Angelina Jolie says 'Back Off, He's Mine!' to Jennifer Aniston (over Brad Pitt)." A strange feeling is coming over me. Something is not right. It's like a nauseating infection that I NEED to get rid of. Perhaps, it'll pass after I have some Starbucks coffee. ;)  (Panicked breathing)  Finally home! I made it. I know what the feeling is from. The zombie-like ways are beginning to infect me.  I'll relax by eating my 12" chicken cabanera for the low, low price of $8.99 at Quizno's. Crap! The "commercializers" are trying to infect me. There has to be a cure or a vaccine somewhere!! I see that there are more advertisements littering my mail stack and newspaper bin. Leaflets, fliers, brochures, pamphlets, and junk mail all telling me to buy, buy, buy. Here's a sampling: Credit card offers from JP Morgan/Chase and Citigroup gleefully announcing that they have pre-approved me to go into debt with them. Zit cream so I can stop `em before they sprout, then a girl might want to have sex with me. Motivational speaking seminar to bring out a more confident, secure me, then a girl might want to have sex with me. Shampoo, body wash, deodorant by Axe to make me smell like a man, then a girl WILL want to have sex with me. Damn it! I need to burn these! The zombies are getting close. They'll single me out, make fun of me `cause I'm not like them, and guilt me into consumerism, sexually objectify women, and pop culture. They can smell my resistance to these phenomena like flesh-eating zombies smell blood and brains.  If I resist them, they will blog about me on their zombie Facebook. I need to go in hiding. I need to avoid bad things being said about me on zombie Facebook.  (Heart racing. I hear creaking floorboards and dragging feet!!)  Oh no! A girl friend texted and just asked to "friend" me on zombie Facebook. Thankfully, I don't have an account. Gasp! Someone just emailed me a link to a stupid youtube video featuring a man crashing his car into a lake. A junk mail message by a fake, sexy woman feigning interest in me is titled "Meow honey, wanna be my f*** buddy tonight?" it seems to purr. I know! I'll delete all of it. That'll keep me safe from the zombie infection that seems to be everywhere. On my internet homepage, there's a big, bold advertisement to join Netflix among many others, which may expose me to zombie infection. I've got it, I'll change my homepage default settings. Yahoo! is advertising, "see who's viewed you" on my non-existent profile on a singles website. I'll fight back by disconnecting my internet, just as soon as I post this blog to warn the world! Maybe, just maybe there are uninfected people still left. I've got to warn those who are not infected! Maybe we can join together and strike off into the safety of the Alaskan forests. I've got to save humanity!  (Door knob twisting on the door to my barricaded room. Scratching on the door. I freeze. My breathing shudders. Queue suspense music)  Oh no folks, they are here. They found me!!! They won't get in for a while. I have my place zipped up tight. No TV, no radio, iPhone, iPad, HDVD, nothing. The bad news is, I hear them moaning outside my door. I think there is 5 or 6 of them. Their dialect is angled toward pop culture/consumerism; clear and present symptoms of infection.  One groans, "(zombie moan) Ohhh-whoooaaaahhhhhh, check out my new coin-flipping app on my iPhone, hee hee hee...ooooooaaaaahhhhhhhh!"  Another utters, "New season of Spartacus can be seen on Amazon.com for $2.99 an episode...ooooooaaaahhhhhhh...let's watch it from my HDVD on my, heh heh, flatscreen TV from Walmart that I went further into debt for...ahhh-whoooohhhhh!!!!"  A low growl voice says, "I got an invite on zombie Facebook for a party at Suzy-Beth the sorority girl's house. We can take beer there, and, ah ha ha ha, you know, hee hee, try to hook up. She's got some bangin' friends, yo...ooooowhhooaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!"  "Whoooowhhhooooaaaahh, hey, man, it's National Talk-Like-A-Pirate Day, 'yo hoe me matey,' heh hee heh...ooooooooooooo!!" another zombie gushes.  "Yo, bro, you're sista' is sooooo fine. So, like, WTF, can you, like, hook a brother up so I can tap that sweet...raahhhaaarrrrr!!" (zombie growl).  Incidentally, my sister is calling me on my outdated blackberry: "The Royal wedding was, like, soooooo amazing!!! I was, like, oh my God!! Her maid of honor was oh sooooooo totally pretty! Did you see it! Did you see it!! Hee hee hee (school girl giggles). Love you, big brother! Mu'ah! Whoooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh oh oh oh oohh!!" Click!  Not much time left, folks. They're coming. My house is surrounded and I can't call in the Marines, they may be infected too. I see the door is losing strength at the hinges. My choices are clear. I can load my own guns and fight it out with the zombies or take my own life. If I take my life, I won't be able to save the planet like that ol' boy did in "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World." I won't be able to "friend" all of my future children that I will be unable to properly provide for because I'm in debt, working two jobs, going through my third divorce, and paying alimony/child support. I must stay alive because then I can get those new kickin' dockers my friends all have and complement my wardrobe with Joop cologne--it's a fashion necessity. Not to mention, there's an entertainment article explaining all of the cool cars that celebrities drive. Speaking of which, I have to know if Katie Holmes makes it. She's been through so much since her divorce and Tom was so hard on her during the marriage. I hope she finds someone special. Like true love. Like all those wonderful conversation lines that couples say on TV to make the relationship special. I see that soooo much in real life, and it makes me feel, like, everything is going to be totally okay. ;) I know, my next blog should be about this! Tee hee!!  My "friends" are in 'da hizz'ous. What was I thinking!! They're wondering why my door was barricaded. "I don't know?" I said. "Strangely, I really can't remember anything beyond a few minutes ago." Oh well! I show off my collection of newly-acquired baubles that serve no purpose, but look cool. "Oooo aaaahhhh!" My friends muse. Strange how familiar that sounds. Okay folks, my friends and I are going order pizza from Pizza Hut and watch a "1,001 Ways to Die" on television. I hear it's, like, 'da bomb, man. Heh heh heh!! Hold on, folks. Something is coming up from my throat, "OHHHH--WHOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!" (zombie moan)  Conclusion:  WELCOME to the Idiocratic States of America (ISA), 2012. Guess the movie has some truth to it. ;)  FINAL NOTE: This is meant to review the movie without too many spoilers and also express the author's views of it as well as how it relates to our community. If the reader didn't notice, the author likes to entwine a little humor in the writing. Comments are always welcome, preferably ones without insult. However, if the one commenting feels like an insult is warranted, feel free. The author promises not to take insults seriously. :) :)

Interesting the first viewing This video was interesting to watch the first time, but if I had it to do over again, I would have rented rather than purchased. Not good enough to own IMHO.

Not as lyrical and edgy as original, but better in some ways The original was a beautiful mess made by a brilliant drunk(Peckinpah). It also contained one of the best Dustin Hoffman performances ever captured for cinema. Hoffman IS the reason to watch the 1971 version. That being said, Peckinpah didn't even attempt to cover up the gaping plotholes and the total lack of logic in a story that was always high melodrama at best. While Lurie doesn't have Peckinpah's artistry, at least he makes Amy into an intelligent woman and not some strange, helpless girl-child. Peckinpah's Amy can't decide if she's been raped until a second rapist shows up. The choice of setting the 2011 film in the Red State American South makes a whole lot more sense than putting it in rural Wales. Peckinpah probably chickened out on this most logical choice because he had too many cracker and cowboy drinking buddies. Too bad. Strother Martin(or Warren Oates) would have been ideal as the town drunk hellbent for revenge. Not knocking James Woods 2011 interpretation, but you can tell he's not a natural southerner or country boy of any stripe.

Good history, but incomplete This is a two-disc set. The first one contains the team history. I have been a Bruins fan for many years, but was not a close follower of the team, so I took a lot from this that I did not already know. It was interesting to see the team's history chronicled from its beginning to the present day and to see old footage and the progression of their uniforms over the years.I was surprised that two significant players in team history were not mentioned. Andy Moog, one of the more popular players they had, and Joe Thornton, the high draft pick who never lived up to expectations. These are glaring ommisions. The first disc also has personal stories about the current players, showing them participate in hobbies they like. I would have liked to see more, information about their wife and kids, how they got to where they are.   The second disc is a complete waste. It has nothing more than the ceremonies retiring the numbers of some Bruins greats and the ceremony for the final game played at the Boston Garden. I would have liked to see highlights of The Bruins greatest games, or stories focusing on their Stanley Cup runs.   Overall the History is interesting, but does omit some significant figures. The rest of it is nothing special. A good watch for a Bruins fan, or any hockey fan, but this could have been better.

Silly, crude comedy but it succeeds (barely) because of all-star cast My feeling after seeing this movie was that it is silly, adolescent, vulger & crude, but that it is pushed (just barely) up into the level of 3 stars by its all-star cast (Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Ferrell and Jason Bateman).  Of course, many people can relate to having bad bosses, and fleeting thoughts of knocking them off sometime.  So our modern three stooges (three 30-something middle-class guys) each have a bad boss: Spacey is the arrogant bastard boss, Ferrell is the selfish druggie boss, and Aniston is the overly sexual female boss.  Each is over-the-top unrealistic.  Actually the whole movie feels over-the-top (I guess that Hollywood thinks they have to do everything that way -- like hitting you in the face with a mallet.)  But Spacey does play a very effective flaming jerk, ultra-arrogant, rich guy, and Ferrell a flaming jerk, coke-head, and Aniston a flaming jerk nympho dentist.  The guys decide to knock off each other's boss and things get out of control.  Really, the plot is just a vehicle to run a number of gags & jokes.  Like breaking into the druggy's house & spilling his cocaine all over the place & sweeping it up with a dust-buster.  Like hiring a "hit man" from "men seeking men" in the local paper and learning that he's got other things on his mind.  Like going to a black bar in a seedy part of town and hiring a scary-looking ex-con named "M********r Jones", and our silly, wimpy stooges calling him by his name all the time.  Like getting an Indian guy on the GPS help line in the car, named "Gregory" because his real name is unpronounceable (Gregory plays a big role at the end though).  Everything is exceedingly stupid, but it hits the funnybone about half the time.  The three stooges have pretty good comedic chemistry.  Aniston does add a lot of stimulation by showing off her (pretty darn sexy)  body in different stages of undress in a psycho-nympho role .... that old adolescent Hollywood trick works all the time I guess.  Then there's the old "who would get raped worse in jail?" supposedly humorous discussion ... there's nothing better for yucking things up than prison rape jokes!  Then there's the old "we are three white goofy buffoons talking to a cool black guy who calls us morons and rips us off" situation.  i.e. self-abasement by the immature and non-streetwise white men is supposed to be hilarious (or maybe it's just a Hollywood requirement if there are blacks & whites together in a movie.)  But the abasement goes both ways, due to the first name of the black ex-con, which has to be the most despicable word in the English language.  So there's a lot of low-class humor in this movie.  Actually, I get pretty tired of the F-word interjected into half of the lines in the movie by its end.  Don't the writers, who are supposedly the best in the country and very well paid, have any more literary talent than to say "F-this, F-that, F-ing F" all the time in order to get laughs?  Well, OK, that's what to expect from a modern R-rated comedy.

About a real, infamous town in Boston In a part of Boston, Massachusetts, a group of armed robbers loot a bank and take the manager for hostage. This is one of numerous criminal activities Doug (Ben Affleck) engage in, as this is the life they have been used to all along in their low-income neighborhood. Doug slowly develops a relationship with that bank manager, Claire, and wants to leave his crime-infested home and lifestyle to run off with her. The rest of the story you can find out yourself if you choose to watch it.  And you should watch "The Town" at least once if you can. The villains managed to come up with creative schemes to maximize their loot, and the movie made good use of its Bostonian setting. I learned that Charlestown, the neighborhood Doug is from, really had been home to bank robbers and other criminals in the past, so it was pretty refreshing to see a crime thriller based on realistic situations. On the other hand, I didn't feel like enough action happened in the 2 hours I spent watching this movie. I was expecting the plot to be a lot more complicated, as crime thriller movies tend to be, but it wasn't.  Overall, it was still a good movie. I might watch it once more sometime but probably not again after that.

night the lights went out in Georgia Movie is good but on our new tv looks horrible. The picture is very fuzzy. the old movies were not mmade for these new tv's.

Just Good! I felt that this MI did not live up to the other's.The movie just was missing something,maybe because it seemed to drag from action to action!I realy enjoyed the last three sequels.The stunts were breathtaking, leaveing you on the edge.MI-4 may have been just one to many sequels,it wasn't bad but it sure wasn't great!

Good movie, questionable creative and voice casting choices Let me preface this review by saying that I read the original graphic novel series many years ago. I understand that such a work as done by Frank Miller could be difficult to translate into an animated film simply because of the nature in which it was written and the way in which the artwork was constructed. All in all, while I did feel some disappointment with this film, I did find it to be an entertaining re-telling of Frank Miller's original work. It seemed to hold the proper tone that Miller was trying to capture in that an aging Batman has to contend with a society that no longer wants his presence as well as his age handicapping his abilities.  One thing that did bother me was the lack of "voice-over" narration by Batman as seen in the graphic novel. While the lack of this narration did not detract from the film and it's impact, I think there would have been an even stronger impact upon viewers if we could hear those intimate, calculating, emotional thoughts that Batman had during each encounter. A perfect example is when he first comes back onto the scene and is climbing a rope to reach the bad guys. One bad guy says that Batman has to be old by now. In response to this, the Batman voice-over says, "Old enough to need to use my legs to climb a rope". This occurs in the comics, not the film, but I think it really allows the audience a peek into the mindframe and mindset of Batman while he engages in his crime-fighting activities. As I said, it is not a mood-killer that it was left out of the film, but I do think the creative team behind the film kind of missed out on a very good opportunity to really suck the audience of the film into the mind of Batman.  Another thing that bothered me was the voice casting for Batman/Bruce Wayne. Yes, Peter Weller did a fine job with this, and I give him his due credit for giving life to an aging Batman. I also understand why the creative team might have wanted to not utilize the legendary Kevin Conroy (the one and only true voice for Batman from the animated series of the 90's, the Justice League animated series, the animated movie between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, and the Arkham video games) for the voice in an effort to open up people's minds to the concept of more than one person being able to bring Batman to life. Unfortunately, I feel like the creative team missed the boat a bit on this one. For anyone who ever watched the animated series from the 90's, you may recall that they did a storytelling episode that actually made use of Frank Miller's graphic novel. In specific, they showed a scene that blended Batman's initial attack against the Mutants with his final fight against the Mutant's leader in which he utter's the infamous expression, "This isn't a trash heap, it's an operating table, and I'm the suregon." In this instance, the creative team behind the animated series made, in my opinion, an absolutely genius decision to utilize Michael Ironside ("Jester" from the film Top Gun) as the voice of Batman. I really and truly wish the team behind the Dark Knight Returns movie had decided to retain his voice or, if they had indeed tried to go that route, that Mr. Ironside had accepted any offer to do said voice for this film. While Peter Weller certainly exemplified the cold and dark visage of Batman, Michael Ironside, in just a ten minute clip, truly seemed to epitomize the dark, gritty, dangerousness of a Batman who, while having grown older, has also become a lot more calculating and deadly with his experiences. It was a truly missed opportunity.  Overall, I was generally happy with the film and look forward to seeing how they put the rest of Miller's story into film in part 2, particularly the verbal back and forth and eventual combat between Batman and Superman.

Fun teen action flick I went into this movie knowing absolutely nothing about it. I had heard that it was about  aliens, but I really didn't understand at that point. I wasn't necessarily excited about the film, but I still walked away without being disappointed. I Am Number Four is based on a teen novel about a high school student trying to hide the fact that he is an alien from humans and the monsters that are hunting him. While I won't say that I loved this movie, it wasn't a bad film, even though there were times that it seemed too Twilight-esque for me. The acting in the film was a bit rough at times and some better performances would have done a lot for this film. The special effects in the film were well done and the action scenes were pretty cool to watch (Michael Bay produced the film and you can sense a lot of his influence in some of the action moments). The story was interesting and kept viewers involved enough to last the film. Let me expound a little more on that last statement. The pacing of the movie didn't flow well. The first 3/4 of the film was pretty slow-moving mainly because they kept building the intensity of the pace and then breaking it by throwing in some rough and drawn-out get-to-know-the-characters scenes. Not well played. But once the movie finally got going and stayed moving, the film became more engaging and fun. It just took too long to get there. The last 1/4 of the movie is non-stop action and CGI. Pretty cool stuff, really.  **Spoiler Alert** One scene that irked me the wrong way was after John first engages the Mogadorians and then runs to save Sarah. Despite the danger they are both in, John and Sarah still find time to go down to the school and develop a whole roll of photographs in a darkroom? Seriously? No, they would have died while still waiting for the first picture to develop. And the monster slipping on the bar of soap...well... **End Spoiler Alert**  Overall, the film was a fun teen action flick and worth the time.  As far as questionable content: The film bounces back and forth between kid-friendly and adult quite a bit. There are some pretty violent and scary moments in the film and it certainly earns it's PG-13 rating.  [...]

Weakest entry of the series Edmund (Skander Keyes), Lucy (Georgie Henley), and their obnoxious cousin Eustace (Will Poulter) are hurled into Narnia, where they join Caspian in a search for seven lost lords.  "Voyage of the Dawn Treader" was the weakest of C.S. Lewis's books, and it is the weakest film in the series to date as well.  The screenwriters cobble together a serviceable overall arc for the story, which did not exist in the book, but it remains a terribly episodic narrative, and the filmmakers do not summon enough inspiration to make it more than one damn thing after another.  As a result, it is intermittently entertaining.  New characters and subplots are introduced into a story that is already too busy, and there are some pointless CGI action scenes, such as a sea monster attack, that fail to create much excitement because I could sense that nothing was really at stake.

Creature feature Probably because I live under a rock, I wasn't aware that this was supposed to be a prequel of sorts to the Alien series. Judging from previews and this being a "Ridley Scott film," I watched this movie with some hope that it would be a slightly artistic sci-fi offering.  Mostly, this is true. The film progresses very promisingly in the first half, with the haunting, intriguing set piece of an Engineer destroying himself to scatter his DNA, a 2001-like solo turn from Michael Fassbender as a puzzling, brooding android strolling around his futuristic ship, and finally an exciting set-up with a team of geologists, scientists, and archaeologists on the verge of investigating the outpost planet of an alien race that has supposedly created humankind.  After the inevitable plot thickening of the mission suddenly being revealed to be clouded with corporate or perhaps darker personal interests from the CEO figure Weyland, the scientists get into sleek spacesuits with egg-shaped helmets and investigate the outpost structure.  All this is done very well, but soon the movie starts to suffer from its provenance:  Alien was essentially an artsy horror flick on a spaceship, and Prometheus shows elements of that as the scientists start to die off in various outlandish ways.  As other reviewers have noted, the people on this ship behave much more childishly and quite simply MEANLY than anyone hired to engage in interstellar space travel would.  Prometheus has some beautiful scenes, an advanced artistic vision in places, and is quite effective at its gross-out moments.  But I felt as though the film wanted it at least three different ways:  classy sci-fi, suspense and horror scares, and philosophical enquiry all rolled into one big-budget behemoth.  Sometimes it's incredibly puerile, which is a shame considering the thought and range of its special effects and untapped acting talent.  But I guess when you come from face-huggers, anything beyond that is progress!!

They DO Serve Beer There! I don't have proof that Tucker ever belonged to a fraternity, but he sure behaves like an ex frat boy.  That said, and he being an ***hole as a given, this book is well worth reading, if you like reading about drunks gone bad (wait, drunks are ALREADY bad, aren't they?).  The chapter in which Tucker visits Odessa, Texas (nearby Midland former home of George W. Bush) and drinks beer with some rednecks as they round up a couple of goats made my ribs hurt I laughed so hard, but the part where he goes to the hockey game and picks a fight with the mascot brought tear to me eyes.  I don't think I've cried--er, laughed--so hard in my entire life.  Basically, lots of fornication and inebriation, not necessarily in that order.  Usually it goes like this.  Tucker goes to a bar, meets a "chick," they get drunk and go to his/her place managing to avoid the cops along the way and culminate the occassion with wild, drunken sex.  Both sides try not to vomit, although at times that is not possible.  The next morning he runs away, if possible, so that he can repeat the process with a totally new and (unsuspecting?) woman the next evening.  I give this book three stars because as funny as he is, I think that Tucker doesn't set a very good example for anyone and I don't necessarily condone this sort of behaviour so I'm withholding two stars.  But, he is brutally honest, even though he's a brutally honest ***hole.  So, he's gonna go down under where it's 500 degrees.  Good thing they serve beer there.

J. Edgar Way too long with too much information anyone who is an American already knew about this horrible man. The only saving grace was Leo's performance as well as his partner and mom (judy dench) I was disappointed with Clint Eastwood I thought there would be more to the back stroy

Good Try, but not Good Enough Good Film for the most part, just falls short. Takes too long to get going. Good enough to rent, worth one watch. Wouldnt buy it. Edward put on about 100 pounds, the females are clothed too long. Once the demons started chasing them it picked up and rocked. So I would rent the film, wouldnt waste money buying it.

OTHELLO The quality of the picture was good however it kept buffering and locking up. I was unable to finish watching the movie. I wonder if I can get a credit or refund.

A horrifying and disturbing look at what a group of strangers do after the apocolypse. Not bad but very disturbing. I say B-. "This ain't exactly the garden of Eden." After a nuclear bomb is dropped and earth is uninhabitable a group of tenants of an apartment are forced to live together in the basement of the building. What starts off as a tense situation quickly explodes into something much, much worse and everyone's views of each other change. This is not what I was expecting. I thought this would be more of a Sci-Fi type movie and what it was was a very disturbing look at what different people will do when pushed to the edge. For those that have seen the movie "Blindness" you will know what to expect. For those that haven't be warned, this is a very, very disturbing look at the human condition and makes you wonder what you would do in this situation. Overall, more disturbing then anything. Not bad, but you must be ready for what you will see. I give it a B-.

D&eacute;j&agrave; vu Tattoo So we all know that this was originally a Sweedish movie with English subtitles, right? And we all know that Director David Fincher simply re-did this American version of the film albeit with a completely different cast, right? And we all know that the movie(s) is based on the first of three books in a trilogy by Sweedish Author Stieg Larsson (RiP), right? And we all know that the original title of the book and movie were changed from Men Who Hate Women to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo so that it would be well received marketingwise in the US and not perceived as a bash against men by antisexism groups, right? And finally, we all know that two more films in the trilogy have already been released with the Sweedish cast (with less than positive reviews) and that Sony says the American cast has signed on for re-dos of the two sequels here in the US...right?  Whew. With all that out of the way, I thought The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was very good. Two story lines woven together nicely. The first story line follows Journalist Mikael Blomkvist after being convicted of libel for accusing a high powered businessman of unethical and illegal activity. The widely publicized trial brings Blomkvist to the attention of another high powered businessman named Vanger who is looking for a long lost niece; Vanger thinks Blomkvist would be the perfect person to solve the mystery of his 40 years missing niece.  Enter storyline 2: Vanger has hired a Goth lady named Lisbeth to determine if Blomkvist is the right man to hunt for his niece. And the story arcs from there to the struggles of Lisbeth's everyday life of trying to make ends meet while on probation for some crimes committed in her relatively distant past. Be warned, like the Swedish version, there are some scenes of rape and torture that are very unsettling and difficult to sit through in this film.  Ultimately, both story lines are brilliantly connected with each other in a thriller tale of intrigue, deception, mystery, murder and revenge. It's a very good movie that stands on its own with no cliffhanger ending that requires seeing the upcoming sequels. Highly recommended but not for the squeamish.  Having seen the original film I found myself involuntarily comparing Fincher's US version to the Sweedish version a few times during the film. And there was something about the original Sweedish version that made everything so much more real...especially Lisbeth, the character played by Rooney Mara. Fincher made Lisbeth somewhat of a, how should I say this?..."anti-superhero???" While Noomi Rapace played Lisbeth in the Sweedish version with a seriousness that made you think she was a real person out there somewhere, and that a camera followed her like a fly on the wall. Mara was good, but Rapace was great.

Movie gets an "A" /UltraViolet "digital copy gets an "F" I've got to concur with the review that talks about pawning off an online "UltraViolet" license as a digital copy. I've played around with this technology and it is not ready for prime time. I don't want to have to go to multiple places to watch movies that I've purchased.  If I want to watch a movie on my iPad/iPhone, then I should be able to launch it from the Video's App.  I shouldn't be forced to go into some buggy 3rd party app to stream a movie that I theoretically purchased.  But in all honesty, I feel Warner Bros in general has not been playing fair in regards to "Digital Copies".  Even prior to UltraViolet, they often distributed digital copies with new releases but only allowed a very short time frame to redeem those copies via iTunes or for use in Windows Media Player.  In my case, I always bought the more expensive Combo packages in part to get the digital copy.  However, I just started redeeming those digital copies recently after getting an iPad. With almost every studio, I didn't have a problem redeeming the digital copies - even if the blu-ray or DVD was several years old.  But I was locked out of almost every Warner Bros digital copy because it was "expired".  The expiration date was listed on the disk, but in fine print.  I find it ludicrous that an unused digital copy redemption code should ever expire.  But back to the movie - Sherlock Holmes 2 was a very entertaining movie, though I felt the first movie had a more logical flow. And with Sherlock - logic is EVERYTHING.  This movie seems to move from scene to scene often with very tenuous connections and a thin plot to hold things together.  But with that said, Robert Downey Jr & Jude Law are both great in the movie and it's the quintessential popcorn movie to enjoy on a Friday night.  My new philosophy - if a movie comes with a true Digital Copy, then I'll buy the blu-ray combo pack.  If it comes with a UltraViolet copy, I'll bypass the blu-ray and just buy the 1080p digital copy on iTunes.

some cheese, but not as bad as some make it out to be I watched this last nite, i can tell you that ive never read the books, only watched the movies and i draw my opinions from the entertainment value of whats infront of me.  I gain from other reviewers that the die hard twilight fans that have read the books may love the movie more, or be more critical or downright mad/disapointed, Im neither, Ive watched the entire saga with my family and "Breaking Dawn" had a few highs and low's A point of intrest is there are a few scenes in the movie that you wont get or understand if you have not read the books, I only know this from reading others detailed reviews. SPOILER ALERT.. your faired warned.  The part with the wolves talking was just awfull, bad CG, and the fact that this ability only shows up in this movie is a little hokie, Bella's walk with her dad down the Isle before she lays eyes on Edward was also Horrable, she looked like she was in pain, not mental anguish but real pain.. I also agree that the whole "sparkly vampire issue" is true, why dont they sparkle in this movie ? The lovemaking scene that these movies have led up to this point was a big letdown, im not asking for porn but they coulda done alot better. If you can get past this stuff and take the movie for exactly what it is and not what you want it to be if your a die hard fan you can get some enjoyment out of it, I put my feet up, got snacks and crashed on the couch.. I think the Overall acting in this last installment is better than previous twilight movies, there's less fighting action, and just more storytelling.. a few parts drag but overall its a fun popcorn movie to continue on with the Twilight saga. i gave it 3 stars instead of four becouse the parts of the movie that i commented on were BAD and truly brought my opinion down.. and tweaked my overall opinion of the movie. If the mentioned scenes were better/different i would have no trouble giving the movie 4 stars on entertainment value.

A Dark Movie A well done but creepy movie. Hard to watch at times and the ending seemed abrupt. You will not walk away with a feel good feeling but you will ponder this for a long time.

IT'S OKAY TO WATCH ONCE! Okay, first off this movie isn't that bad. The acting is okay and the special effects are pretty good. There really isn't any real plot to the movie except that aliens are invading the planet(think Independence Day). The action of the movie and battle sequences between the marines and the aliens are straight up Blackdown (if you've ever seen that movie). It's not a bad movie to watch once just to say you've seen it, but it definitly is no blockbuster. If you were a fan of Blackhawk Down or Independence Day, then you'll love this movie. I personally think that those type of movies fall in the category of " Yeah, I've seen it and it was alright". Bottomline, just another movie looking to cash in on action, aliens, and violence alone.

Pretty blah for Hilary Duff... To be completely honest...I tried to watch this movie 3 times, but fell asleep within 30-45 minutes.  I usually like Hilary Duff movies and most of the romantic type comedies, but this falls short.  For instance, 'Raise your voice' was a cute movie when she has to overcome shyness... 'Cinderella story' was cute because it was another remake of a lost soul finding love (I still think that Selena Gomez did a way better remake of Cinderella...)

Why Sledghammer? I enjoyed this series before E. B. Sledge took over the story. In the first episodes it highlights a Marine named J. Baselone ( forgive me if I misspelled his name) His story is one of amazing courage, honor and self sacrifice. The story then takes up with the so-called diary of Eugene Sledge. A story by a man that saw nothing except horror and dishonor in his fellow marines. Others must have written about the war. It' too bad they chose Mr Sledge as their source of information. A Band of Brothers left me with a feeling of pride while showing the horrors of war. The Pacific shows the horrors of war but left me feeling I needed to take a shower. Eugene, the son of a wealthy doctor, went on to become an alcoholic while his less fortunate friend, Sid Phillips, (who wished he could help the wounded at Guadalcanal) came back to become a doctor. I would rather have had the story continue with someone that came back from the war with the drive to improve his life and help others than someone who came back with a drive to drink. This series IS NOT for those who know history and the story of these man.

Organizm if you like weird sci-fi movies, this one will be up your alley... mix of tremors, slither, etc. It was a bit too dark (picture-wise) for my taste, as there where scenes that couldn't be seen very good because of it. Overall, it is a decent movie for a lazy Sunday afternoon.

We all have roots, and His Dad Mentored also mentored his friend. As an artist and apple user. I am always wondering what was the youthful influence that created whatever I have witnessed.  You can find this out online also that Steve Jobs was adopted, raised by some great parents, and His dad even mentored his friend that introduced him to Steve W.  Steve Jobs must have been raised by loving Christians parents. What an amazing house to be brought up in with love, encouragement, and a great dad.  Steve Jobs and Tim Tebow had similar upbringings and I'm very glad that their life did not end in the womb with an abortion that was medical recommended in TIms mom case, or Steve case with his biological parents.  I use a Macbook Pro, iPhone 4S, and IPad2.  Praise to The creator of everything.

Entertaining It's not art, but it is a movie that entertained me. I don't understand why it didn't do better, I guess if it doesn't have a throw up/puking scene in it or the approved PC agenda scenes (at least one) then a movie doesn't do well.

Bernie After all the reviews, I was a little disappointed. It had a great premise but it seemed to plus along with very little drama. Bernie was a Casper Milquetoast and then to do what he did was incredible. But there was.no build up.

War Horse War Horse is a well written, scored, shot, edited and directed film.  Character casting and horse footage are wonderful.  One doesn't have to be an avid horse lover to be drawn in by this affecting production.  It is a film story expertly told, aided and abetted to good effect by the latest cinematic technical tools available.  The WWI battle scenes are especially involving and exciting.  If any faults are to be found it would be in the seemingly overlong beginning sequences, where the bond between boy and horse are established.  While certainly necessary for story development, the forward motion of the film temporarily bogs down here a bit.  Additionally, I feel that the film closes perhaps three or four times, where one time would have been more effective.  It is for these reasons that War Horse has lost it's fourth star in my evaluation.  Even so, this is definitely a well crafted film, enjoyable and certainly worth experiencing.

Lots of running around but not much suspense I've not read any of Dan Brown's books, so my opinion that this movie is not as gripping as it could be shouldn't be attributed to any reaction to differences between the book and the film.  The flick is marvelously seamless in its combining of location and studio shots and computer-generated material.  Unfortunately, the nonstop action seems considerably less interesting than you'd find in an episode of the English TV series "Spooks" (called "MI-5" in the U.S.).  It essentially involves chasing around Rome in search of a bomb that is assumed to be set to destroy a lot of people and property.  I say " assumed" because the device's active ingredient is an eighth gram of "antimatter" filched from the CERN particle-accelerator facility in Switzerland.  The premise is that this stuff will raise some real hell when it blows.  This would probably happen, although it's apparently near impossible to assemble enough antimatter to permit building a bomb with it.  Anyway, the antimatter bomb has been planted by the philosophical descendants of early scientists persecuted by the Catholic church.  These people have also kidnapped four Catholic cardinals who are to be murdered in various religious sites around the city of Rome.  I guess killing cardinals and blowing up things are intended to bring about a revision in Catholic dogma.  The movie seems to have omitted the background info most of us would need to understand the historic relationship between the Catholic church and the bomber/kidnappers besieging Rome.  The numerous errors attributed to the novel, and I suppose also affecting the movie, have been gone into by various critics and involve the author's mislocating of historic structures in Rome, misspellings of Italian and religious names and terms, misrepresenting Catholic procedures, and so forth.  I suppose some of this could be excused as artistic license if it improved the story, but when so much of it exists, sloppiness in research and editing comes in for much of the blame.

"You'll Be Buying Tonight My Friend" ~ Defeat The Demon, Save The Girl While no one will ever make the mistake of placing 'Season of the Witch' on a list of film classics, it is in my opinion a watchable and overall enjoyable storyline for anyone in the mood for a little something from the sword and sorcery film genre. Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman are perfect in the role of two dis-illusioned Christian Crusaders who have recently disserted from a war and cause they found to be anything but holy. They make the perfect anti-heroes. The rest of the cast is also surprisingly good. I particularly liked the lovely Claire Foy in the role of the suspected witch. She conveyed a wonderful mix of innocence and evil that brought added depth and atmosphere to the screen and held my interest when I may have otherwise lost focus.  Again, definitely not a classic and probably not something you'll want to watch over and over. But one viewing, why not?

No Subtitles on Farscape DVD I read online that this product had subtitles, which it does not have. There is no menu where one can navigate to add them on the DVD version of this series. I was bummed about that because the house is too noisy for me to hear everything when the kids are home. I prefer to turn on subtitles rather than crank the volume.

A Woman's Review I'm a big fan of French films so I'll sit through anything and find things to love, that many people hate.  In this case I feel like the opposite.  I did like the photography, the great music, the male star, Jean-Hughes Anglade, and yes, the sex scenes.  About the sex scenes:  they are so natural and in keeping with the characters that I found them really sweet.  Also, as others have mentioned, the man is nude as well as the woman...which seems only fair.  What failed to grab my affection was the character of Betty.  It could have been that I didn't much care for the actress, Beatrice Dalle, whom I don't find charming or beautiful or particularly interesting.  Men will probably like her a lot more than I did. Perhaps it's just the character as she is written:  a hot, uninhibited young girl, still a teenager at the beginning of the film, who has no compunction about either taking her clothers off or displaying her temper. I guess this free spirited type appeals to the imagination of a lot of men, but to me....not so much.  Other than being archetypically unconventional, there's nothing in her character to recommend her.  She shows up on the doorstep of the guy she's had sex with for a week, when she lost her job and needed a place to stay. He said that he wasn't married, and didn't have any children, so he guessed it was ok.  Not a real good way to start a romance.  However he didn't have much else going on in his life and she was sexually available so he sort of got used to her.  She did give him plenty of signs that she wasn't all that stable....like throwing all his things out the window. But by that time apparently he was hooked.  He is such a patient, sweet guy (or loser, depending on how you look at it) that he doesn't complain.  Then she torches the place....forcing them to get outta there.  As they catch a ride on a pickup she exclaims to him from the cab (he is riding outside) that she loves him.  Ah, there's nothing  like seeing your home go up in flames to ignite passion.  To her credit she discovers his unpublished novel, types it up and sends it out to publishers. She does believe that he is a genius and encourages him to take his writing seriously. They find refuge in her friend's house in Paris and then in another small town in the country, where another friend has offered them a job and a house. There are some sweet and tender moments between them but their good times are mostly of the manic variety, fueled by drink.  Her anger erupts in some ugly ways, as when she stabs a woman with a fork in the restaurant where they have been given jobs by their friend. When that friend loses his mother everyone is sympathetic except Betty, who laughs. I guess this is why I fail to like Betty....not only is she crazy, she is not-very-nice crazy.  I have been around a fair amount of mentally ill people, having worked in a mental hospital and many of them are beautiful souls who really capture your hearts, even when they do sick things.  But Betty just seems self-absorbed and I found myself wishing that the inevitable end would come quickly.  I kept pulling for poor Zorg, the writer, as Betty's behavior drove him into more and more distress.  Then I had to remind myself that he must have had his own (bad) reasons for falling for such a disturbed woman.  Could he have loved a healthy woman or does he need someone this far gone on whom to hitch his own romantic star?  Well, as the film says it, Betty brought him the great gift of returning to his writing....and his next book is dedicated to her.  I guess if you believe in this kind of romance, you'll love this film.  Otherwise, maybe not.

Better the second time around Being a fan of the original cartoon I went to see this live-action version of "Scooby-Doo" in the theater in June, 2002 (Was it that long ago?). After the first 15 minutes or so I slowly became more and more disappointed. But after seeing it again last night, I must say it's better on repeat viewings.  What most impressed me on my first viewing was Matthew Lillard as Shaggy and Linda Cardellini as Velma. Both Freddy Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar as Fred and Daphne weren't quite right for the roles, although serviceable. Yet this is made up for by the addition of the ultra-winsome Isla Fisher as Mary Jane. The CGI Scooby was good for the time (2002), but not as effective ten years later, but the CGI's okay, it's certainly nothing to miss the film over.  What disappointed me on my initial viewing? I was hoping for a straight live-action adaption of the cartoon sorta like 1994's "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0783231644">The Flintstones (Collector's Edition)</a>." What I got instead was part homage and part parody. This would have worked for me but the film bogged down in the "Spooky Island" segment, which comprised the 2nd and 3rd acts, a full hour of the film. What's wrong with this large chunk of the film? The whole "Spooky Island" set was just too cartooney for a live-action homage. It's hard to explain, but it just turned me off. In hindsight, I suppose the cartooniness was intended since the film's based on a cartoon (aduh).  Viewing it a second time, I had the same impressions of the film up to the 30-minute mark, but the final hour won me over. How so? I still don't like the limitations of the "Spooky Island" set but I was impressed with the whole 'well of souls' aspect (I can't remember what they called it in the movie) and the complications thereof, as well as the ingenious way they included Scrappy-Doo in the plot. I used to think I was the only one who literally couldn't stand Scrappy-Doo, but -- after seeing this live-action movie -- I saw that my feelings were pretty much universal. What's wrong with Scrappy-Doo? Scrappy rightly become the symbol of an annoyingly overexuberant or cute character added to a series in an attempt to maintain ratings, also known as the Cousin Oliver Syndrome (from the final season of the "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000MGBSEY">The Brady Bunch: The Complete Series with Shag Carpet Cover</a>").  The film runs 86 minutes, which is perfect for cartooney fare like this, and was shot in Queensland, Australia.  FINAL WORD: This live-action version of "Scooby-Doo" is defintely better on repeat viewings. If you loathed it on your initial viewing be sure to give it another chance. Aside from obvious positives like Matthew Lillard and Linda Cardellini nailing Shaggy and Velma, the film features cutie Isla Fisher in a significant role, plus the creative plot elements of the 'well of souls' and Scrappy-Doo.  GRADE: C+ or B-

Below average film for these guys, excellent BD clarity though Millennium gets another lower budget straight-to-DVD/BD title this month, but having such big budget films as The Expendables and the new Conan, they obviously have access to the nice cameras.  The story follows Hounsou's assassin character in Thailand as he decides to kill a bunch of bad guys. Kevin Bacon (who has the single WORST accent I have heard in years) plays the gun-running buddy/sidekick. The story has some razor thin plot lines as to why any of this is actually happening or why they keep killing when the story ran out long before, but Hounsou gives a concerted effort here and proves he is better than the whole of what was trying to get accomplished.  There are no special features and the TrueHD was mixed average to horribly (a lot of bad voice dubbing and remixing). But the picture quality is what sells this. The majority of the film is at night with a great deal of action and killing, so even with plenty of chances to falter it does not. The lines are solid, there is no grain and the lighting actually shines perfectly (for the scenes that were being made anyway). Some nice footage of Bangkok is preserved here and might be worth the watch for the fans of Hounsou and/or Bangkok films.  The cover art is incorrect: (Hounsou and Bacon never look like that in the movie - both with facial hair and clothing) that gun/scope is never in the film, and it says Region 1; three strikes or more on cover art shows to me they could care less about marketing the film. 1.5 stars for the film and 1.5 for the picture clarity. A renter at most as the final twist they throw at you gives the film some credibility over being a skipper.

Interesting, but not my favorite movie I supose movie critics would love this movie. I wanted to watch it because I am trying to see all of Daniel Day-Lewis' movies.  It was okay, but I wouldn't watch it again.  I wouldn't say it was one of Daniel's best, but his acting as always was great.  Lots and lots of female nudity and some real looking sex scenes.  Lena Olin was great, I think she is a very good actress and a beautiful woman.

Total Recall (blu-ray) This review is not for the movie itself but for the blu-ray edition.  If you're an Arnold fan you already the movie is a great action film.  The blu-ray edition is very "grainy". the picture quality for a blu-ray is just not very good.  If I compare it to a TV program like Fringe, Total Recall loses: big time.  Although, it was inexpensive (I suppose you do get what you pay for); I still expected a higher quality picture.  If you have the old version on DVD it's as good as the blu-ray.

descent slasher flick while i was bored at work i decided to watch the mutilator to kill some time.  the movie has a typical slasher plot for the day it was made.  the movie centers around a boy who accidentally kills his mother with his father's shot gun thus causing a series of murders years later.  the acting is lackluster and the kills are cheesey which is ok considering the genre of the movie; however, the happy music at the end is rather annoying.

so so I enjoyed watching the performers on the TV presentation. Brought back many memories. More detail on the Bay of Pigs. Ted Kennedy was noticeably absent from the entire series. The true story of Miss.Kopekne and Chappaquitik (sp) remain untold and the great Ted and his nephews crimes remain  hidden from view. It's a shame as this was a story as much a part of the Kennedys as was the series was. So many Americans will continue to suffer from the misrepresentation that Teddy was a white knight of the people.

Should have been better Bette Davis stars as Henriette, a governess who comes to work in the Paris home of the Duc de Praslin (Charles Boyer), in 1847.  The Duc's jealous wife has always made his life difficult and the presence of the pretty, young governess brings their marriage to the boiling point. The Duc's children soon adore Henriette and he grows close to her, too, but does he feel gratitude for a job well done or is he falling in love with her?  This romance/murder was based on a true story which was instrumental in bringing about the French Revolution of 1848.  The movie is generally entertaining but falls short in several areas.  First, the cast all overact so much that it quickly becomes soap-opera/melodrama.  The costumes and interior sets are elegant,  but the exteriors are cheap fakes.  The movie is 30 minutes too long and consists mostly of exaggerated, grand speeches that aren't at all realistic.  Davis sounds like Davis, which is to say, not French in the least.  None of the others (except Boyer, of course) attempt a French accent, either, and the youngest child sounds Southern when he calls Davis, "Mam-zayull."  Homespun character actor Henry Davenport is also miscast as a Frenchman.  Handsome Boyer gets a lot of close-ups but one can't tell if he's trying to be suave and loving or suave and sinister.  Typical of the women's movies of the day, there are lots of tears and swelling violins and noble self-sacrificing, but it's just an okay movie for me.

not the best It was fun to see them in color and the end is gooood...for once the little fellow is a big winner! But I was expecting more comedy...I was almost bored. I was hoping for something as funny as "Hold that ghost" but it was not....from far! It's an OK movie if you're a big fan of the duo.

good it was a good show but i read the manga and the show cut alot of stuff out. if u did not read the manga you will not know the difference.

DISTURBING TALE OF PARANOIA The Norwegians are at it again..THE MONITOR is their latest.  I watched the dubbed version, which was surprisingly well-done. Noomi Rapace stars as Anna, a young mother afflicted with severe paranoia and a smothering over-protection of her 8-year old son.  Her abusive ex-husband allegedly tried to both drown and pitch her son out a window.  Now under protection from a Gestapo-like children services duo, Anna has relocated to a dismal apartment.  She purchases a baby monitor to ensure her son's safety and strikes up a friendship with the monitor's salesman, nicely played by Kristofer Joner. The movie is intentionally surreal, with a fine line between reality and hallucinations.  Rapace has a bird-like vulnerability which inspires both empathy and aversion.  THE MONITOR maintains interest and its twisty ending is unsettling.  Don't be surprised if Hollywood grabs this up for an Americanized version ala LET ME IN.

Julia great acting, entertaining, average to a little better fun movie - love julia. word another word an additional word to reach 20 - silly rule.

Disappointed Chauvet cave is my favorite of the painted caves, so I was truly looking forward to this film. Unfortunately, there was absolutely nothing in this film I hadn't seen or heard before in terms of the paintings.  The narration didn't go deep enough to be an introduction to painted caves, nor was it scientific enough to satisfy a person with a particular interest in Chauvet.  And the musical score...I see in the reviews that many people were enthralled by the score. I found it horribly over-dramatic, discordant, and outdated in style and production, as though composed in the 1980's.

one of a kind This movie is one of a kind for better and worse.  Wow. I have watched and loved horror movies for many years and probaly have seen hundreds of them, but I have never seen anything like this.  "Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl" truly is a movie in search of an identity.  There is easily enough blood in this movie for at least a dozen movies, so it's kind of a horror movie, though it lacks scary moments.  On the other hand, it is kind of a live action anime-style cartoon, which is more of a spoof.  It really is a train wreck that moves along just fast enough to keep your attention: you're really not sure you want to continue watching it, but you want to see what happens next.  It starts off as a boy meets girl movie.  After that, it morphs into something more than bizarre.  There is no logic at all to this movie.  If you told me the screenplay writer was doing hallucinagenic drugs when he wrote the script for this movie, I wouldn't be surprised. Though there is a lot of imagination in this movie, there is no continuity.  If you want to win a "weird movie night" contest with your friends, buy this movie because it can't be beat. Otherwise, you might want to take a pass on it.

Great, but... First of all, I love Bob Harper.  Second, I've had this DVD for a few months now, and have hesitated to review it.  I'm in pretty good shape, run three to five days a week, lift a day or two, a day of power yoga.  The first two times I did this DVD, I thought I was going to die and stopped at the halfway point.  Now I've gotten to the point that its *almost* easy (simply because of muscle memory).  However, EVERY time I've done this, I've had horrible back pain the next day.  I stretch, am pretty sure that my form is dead on, and I'm not a new exerciser.  I even take glutamine for muscle recovery afterwards.  I have no back issues.  So if you have any pre-existing back issues, I wouldn't touch this with a ten foot pole.  If you want a good cardio workout and can deal with walking like a hunchback for a day or so afterwards, have at it.  I really do love this DVD, but am not the biggest fan of icing my back.

Sort of boring The story is sort of boring but the character of town sheriff saves this movie from being a snooze fest. It has it's moments but not nearly enough of them.

Milk DVD, <span class="tiny"> Length:: 1:35 Mins  </span>I purchased this milk sometime in June. When I say the "Outside packaging" I'm talking about the plastic thats wrapped around DVDs when you buy them. I have no idea how the cartridge was messed up but not the packaging?? But all and all the DVD plays well, had there been damage to the DVD I would have sent it back.  I hope this helps! :)

A nice trip to the Tahiti's A good movie to see the waves of Tahiti.  I was a bit disappointed that there weren't more in your face/through the barrel action shots.  I was also hoping for a bit more environmental message.  This was the first 3-D movie we watched at home, so I can't yet compare it to other 3-D movies out there.

Cool...but disappointing I live in China and Ip man is a pretty big thing here. It is a fantastic movie that, like fearless, captures the essence of Kung Fu. This makes fights turn into epic fights because everything has a purpose to it. It also accurately tells the story of Ip man. It really was a fantastic movie. However Ip man 2 just...is more holly wood and less story. Yes, the fights in the Ip man 2 are really cool and well choreographed, however, the story is just sub par at best. It talks Ip man, who wants to teach students his style of Kung Fu. However he is unable to get the respect of the other masters, therefore cannot open one. He does his thing and at the end of the film, has to fight a 'super' villain. The story just not very complex. This is a film for a friday night where you just want to see guys beat stuff up. Its great for relaxation but its sub par story sets it off. However, if you want to really see a full fight movie, watch Rocky, Ip man ONE or Fearless(Huo Yuan Jia). Sadly, Ip man 2 just does not live up to that standard.  I really would like to love this film, but it really..is just not in the same level as any of the other movies stated.  Its a classic sequel that disappoints the audience since it does not live up to its original standards.  Pretty cool movie with well Choreographed fights, however Average Story earns it a 3 ):

Great bands.....poor quality for a blu ray. Like i say...great bands! Metallica and Megadeth presents the best performances to me.The set list is excellent in both cases and the songs are played with full force, but i expected a really HD image and sound quality for a blu ray edition. The image is grainy and the sound mix is horrible.I have the 2 DVD set edition too and presents the same problems. So, fans of trash metal, this blu ray is a very good option to see 4 of the best bands in the world in stunning presentations.....if the low quality don't represent a problem for you.

Just Okay, not really great I am a period drama junky.  I did not get to view this one on PBS when it aired so I was delighted that I could get it on DVD.  It comes with four episodes each an hour or so long and frankly I thought each one was redundant.  This story could have been told easily in 2 or three episodes at the most.  This was so repetitive that I actually thought I had cued up the wrong episode.  That said the DeFoe story is a classic and worth the watch.  But this only rates an "okay" from me.

FRED ZINNEMANN, OPUS 13 Based on Carson McCullers' <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0618492399">The Member of the Wedding</a>. Firstly, I must notice Julie Harris's performance who, at the age of 27, plays the 12 y.o. Frankie. And she's totally believable in the role. Of course, the film may seem a little verbose at times but Zinnemann manages with success to give life to the Addams' mansion and to convey the sweaty atmosphere of the South. Recommended.

Easy A review This movie was terrible. I liked Emma Stone in "The House Bunny" (when she was unknown). In Easy A, I didn't like the personality of her character.  The plot circles around Emma Stone's character who tells a lie, and then the lie quickly becomes out of control.  Terrible movie. I watched it once and that was enough.

Good But Not As Good As They Say... Rent First As a monster movie fan, with a habit of blind buying Blu-ray movies(the collector trait in me); I bought this because of great reviews people are giving it.  The first thing I noticed as my cousins and I watched this, is how good the picture quality is. It is very good! And do know this is a Korean movie, so you got the choice of subtitles or english dub, in which I recommend the former for a more authentic feel.  The movie itself, without spoiling, is a monster movie terrorizing an area. The effects are well done, that I am truly amazed by how good it is. The monster is cool looking, both original in its own way, but also copied from other monsters. The story though, which is good for the most part, tends to be dragging. I got bored halfway, because it just doesnt give you that sense of heart-pounding excitement and terror you expect from a monster movie(compared to say, Cloverfield and even Godzilla/Gamera movies). Personally, I think the movie is 15 mins. longer than it should be.  Another complain is that the main character is too goofy looking(and overacts at times) for a movie they are trying to pass as something serious. I understand they are trying to make his character that way, but I think they could have made him more... "manly" for the lack of better term.  Overall, its not a bad movie, in fact, its good, but I just expected better, especially with the rave reviews many gave it. So I suggest to rent this first, rather than blind-buying it like me.

Meager More abstract and more reserved than Anderson's other films, which are usually accessible and which usually contain elements of pop culture.  This one just aspires to be art, and in particular aspires to be Godard's "Pierrot Le Fou".  It imitates that film heavily, but with kids as the fatalistic couple rather than adults.

Some good things There are some good things about this mat workout. I think the arms and legs are great workouts but she is inconsistent in her counting of reps so you have to be on top of doing the same amount on each side. I think the ab workout leaves something to be desired and ultimately, I ended up downloading another ab workout of hers from the internet and I add that to the ab workout in the DVD. I noticed results on my abs once I upped the amount I was doing, but have yet to see any difference in my legs & glutes after 3 weeks of 4-5x a week. I think it's a good change of pace but I don't think the workout has that great of a flow so you have to concentrate and do your own counting to make it work.

Good...No Masterpiece though... Ah, sweet memories of playing Shinobi while at home sick from school. I've always been fascinated with ninjas and the culture surrounding them, when I was younger this fascination expressed itself through video games, and now that I'm older it's done through books, movies, and anime. There are quite a bit of movies about Ninjas, some good; some horrible... this one falls towards the good end. From the beginning you'll notice this film is very visually stylized... there is plenty of slow motion, bright colors, and CG. I quite enjoyed the look of the film, even though you're going to have to forgive some of the special effects; they're passable but nowhere near big budget Hollywood quality.  The story is pretty intriguing, and involves what can best be summarized as a forbidden romance during a time of struggle between two clans. I was surprised that there was a great humanistic message hidden here within all the swordplay, which towards the end gets driven home pretty hard. Many of the shinobi in the movie have really cool unique powers, and it makes the movie a lot of fun in my opinion. Overall I was pretty pleased... if you go into this one with modest expectations you'll enjoy it. There's nothing groundbreaking here, but it does what it should well. 3.5/5 stars.

The Book Was Much Better The acting was very good-especially Cliff Robertson- but the book (Flowers for Algernon) conveyed a much more subtle experience. If a person cannot read the book, then the film is very good.

Enjoyed Piranha 3D BUT... Piranha 3D is a very simple movie, boobs alcohol parting and piranha's, pretty simple formula here that harkens back to the good ol' 70's and 80's exploitation flicks. So we have Christopher Lloyd gloriously overacting, Jerry O'Connell playing a huge loveable A-hole (with a very gruesome death), Ving Rhames playing his usual badass self (putting a boat propeller to good use), and Elizabeth Shue playing concerned mother/cop.  Seems like a fun dumb time right? Wrong! Elizabeth Shue has a teenage son and two even YOUNGER little brats, and so much time is focused on these stupid children that it feels like the centerpiece for the film that's called PIRANHA 3D! So we see the teen run into Jerry O'Connell's Girls Gon-sorry, Wild Wild Girls character and they take the whiny puss in so he can show them the good spots around the lake. So the whole time the Wild Wild Girls crew is having a blast the kid is acting like a freaking goth sulking around in the corner and basically adding the suck factor to this movie. But don't worry it gets worse.  Meanwhile the two even younger brats for some reason get stranded on some island in the lake, and that's when you really feel your full money's worth for PIRANHA 3D when you watch two kids squabbling with each other on an island. See the main problem with the kids besides the fact that they're always horrible actors is that in movies like these there's absolutely 0 tension in it. We can see a bunch of teens on spring break get killed violently but if they're wittle childwen then suddenly it's too disturbing for modern audiences. I may just be a sick f*** but if I got to see both of the little kids getting torn to shreds underwater with a look of extreme pain and terror on their faces I would've been dying of laughter in the theater; maybe in the future that'll happen in a big budget horror movie sometime but in the meantime we have to choke down kids being shoehorned into the movie for no reason.  So that's all that really bothered me about Piranha 3D, it seems like a small thing but you'd be suprised in how the screenwriters manage to shove these stupid kids into a script that really should have no place for kids. The teen himself wouldn't have been so bad if he didn't have any siblings and was just looking out for the girl he had a crush on.  Also on a side note *spoilers* WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU SHOW THE LAST SCENE OF THE MOVIE IN THE TRAILER!?!?? While it's not as offensively bad as Quarantine which in all it's wisdom put THE ENDING OF THE MOVIE ON THE POSTER, it's still an awful decision. That's how I'll remember Piranha 3D, a very nice and simple premise hampered down by a few really stupid decisions.

Bande a Part This movie is replete with brilliant moments, gorgeous B&W (mostly grey) photography in Paris and a desolate suburb, and wonderful music, but still manages to be a mess. Two jerks trying to be crooks team up with one moronic girl to pull off a half-fast robbery: what could possibly go wrong?  Everything.  So far so good, but the film itself succeeds no better than the robbery. Godard's second best film after "Breathless", it was a favorite of mine for many years (I even raved about it not long ago in a comment on one of the five star reviews here), but a recent viewing proved very disappointing. It's certainly worth sitting through a couple of times for the great moments, but then, sadly, enough is enough.

Jennifer Lopez's second movie First of all i've saw this movie yesterday under the name : LOST IN THE WILD which runs 2 minutes longer than Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7.this movie has potential because has good shots(was filmed in Mexico),very good cast,good soundtrack,interesting scenery but it had been more entertaining if it was an intersection between the drug dealer and the nurses and if it was a love story between the adventure.that's are my only discontent.robert loggia and jennifer lopez were awesome and the other cast too.i've read in other commentaries about this movie that jennifer lopez has a minor role but this is not true.if think that her real fans will enjoy her in this movie.She brings beauty and talent to this movie.i wanted her to speak more in spanish in this movie but are not so many ocasions into this movie for doing that.so all in all it is a pretty good movie that could have been a much better movie even a classic one if the story had been more intriguing.

Disappointed - not by the movie Disappointed that there are no extras for the regular DVD version in this combo pack (the single disk DVD version that you can buy apparently has no extras either). That means that folks without a Blu-Ray player don't get any extras. That really wasn't clear in the product details and I would probably have just bought the single disk version if I had known.

The show was in a decline. I found the DVD set to be very good in quality. The problem is that the overall shows was not as good as the great Virginian shows were when the Virginian was at its peak. This shows needed to have some episodes with the enitre cast, most shows are with one of the stars which detracts from the series. I am glad I made the purchase but I can see why the show ended.

one of the most distrubing films you will ever see Hc2 is graphic and nuts.  It pushes the limits of what can be done on film.  I've never seen anything like it.  I first heard about hc one watched it, and was also shocked.  But this takes it ten times further.  The main actor doesn't say a word in the whole movie, yet his facial expressions and body language say he's mentally ill.  It's a well acted movie by all people.  But I think this is designed to gross you out and not so much tell a story.  I mean the story is making a human centipede, but that's all the story you're gonna get.  Like a previous review I read, its certainly not a nice film to watch, but also cannot be ignored.  I sought out the movie, so its my own fault that I watched.  For the other, oh, 90% of the population, you'll probably not seek out this movie.  It'll be mentioned to you by somewhere else, and you probably won't watch it.  But you will hear about it, so either way, it'll be hard to dismiss it.  I give a overall three stars because with these movies, I don't want to run around saying its my new favorite movie.  At the same time, Tom six has big cahones for successfully making a movie ill never forget and that will be talked about for a long time.  I walk away from this movie only watching it once, having the guts to do it, and giving in to my curiosity.  When part three comes out, ill most likely watch it once as well because at this point, how much more gross can it get?  Tom six will probably achieve that too...

Amusing Comedy from the Director of "Notting Hill" and the Writer of "The Devil Wears Prada" The screenplay of "Morning Glory" is penned by Aline Brosh McKenna, better known for her works including "The Devil Wears Prada" and "27 Dresses." This time around the romantic comedy's heroine is Becky Fuller (Rachel McAdams), an aspiring morning show producer of a national TV network, who has to deal with very difficult people.  The most difficult person happens to be Mike Pomeroy (Harrison Ford), a curmudgeonly veteran journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, who accepts his new job as a host of a TV show DayBreak just because of money. According to Adam (Patrick Wilson), another producer and love interest of Becky, Mike Pomeroy is the third worst person in the world and Adam is not obviously joking. To make matters worse, he simply doesn't like the show's longtime personality Colleen Peck (Diane Keaton), and he is not willing to hide it even before the camera.  Like Anne Hathaway's Andy in "Prada," Rachel McAdams plays a feisty and overall likable heroine effortlessly, but some might find her a bit too feisty. Her character goes to extraordinary lengths to boost the show's sagging ratings, which is amusing to see, but with her underdeveloped back story, we are not allowed to know much about this charming heroine. The subplot about her romance with Adam is terribly underwritten.  Unlike such films as "Network," "Morning Glory" does not offer satire of or insight into the TV industry, which is fine with me. Directed by Roger Michell ("Notting Hill"), "Morning Glory" is sweet and charming enough as a comedy, but as a romance it is disappointing.

A Little Intrigue, But Mostly Big Names & High Society Alfred Hitchcock films usually fall into one of two categories: either they are taught, tense thrillers (e.g. Psycho), or they contain a lot of "eye candy" in both the acting and cinematography department.  "To Catch A Thief" falls mostly in that second category.  For a basic plot summary, this film focuses on retired jewel thief John Robie (Cary Grant), who may or may not be continuing his string of past burglaries (or is he being framed?).  Along the way, Robie meets and falls hard for Frances Stevens (Grace Kelly).  There are many things about this movie to enjoy.  It is (as befitting a Kelly flick) "high fashion, high society" all the way, with diamonds and ball gowns figuring heavily into the screenplay.  Kelly and Grant both play the exact same persona they are known for, but do so perfectly.  There is romance, humor, and a whole lot of tuxedos/gowns.  However, those into Hitchcock for his plots/suspense will be disappointed when, after a strong start, the film loses its dramatic steam about half way through.  In a rare Hitch faux pas, the suspense kernel of the film is resolved roughly at the midpoint, allowing the "society" stuff to dominate the rest of the way.  Overall, this is very much more of a light-hearted Hitchcock effort.  It has a bit of decent plot, but this one is all about the actors and their high-society roles.  If you like that kind of filmmaking, then this one will be a real treat for you.  If not, it will just be so-so.

Slow moving This is much slower paced than the other Potter movies.  Perhaps because it's a 2 parter, but slow. Also Amazon promised to deliver on the release date.  This did NOT happen.  It came about 4 days AFTER the release date.  I would have purchased it several places, which match internet prices, had I known I wasn't going to get it on the release date as promised.

Hope's Hippie A- Go - Go America's favourite comedian gets all caught up in the Age of Aquarius when his free-thinking daughter drops out of college to join a rock group and search for spiritual enlightenment under the guidance of a bumbling Persian mystic. But there's a twist to the usual generation gap scenario. Bob's wayward kid wants to do the "establishment thing" by tying the knot while her parents have (secretly) decided to call it a day on the marital front.  Hope's shot at impersonating the aforementioned guru, complete with flowing robes, turban, fake beard and a drooping orchid which he uses to "bless" his "disciples" provides plenty of chuckles. Another change of costume sees him decked out in a Nehru jacket and sporting a groovy hairstyle as he takes a "space trip" to some pot-filled Go-Go joint down on Sunset.  Although some of the gags fall flat others work just fine as Bob and Jackie Gleason team up to add some real sparkle to the film's better moments.  Hope to the perpetually loaded Gleason: "And about your breath... you could start the windmill on an old Dutch painting".  Bob had just about lost interest in the big screen by this late stage, having decided to concentrate on his top rating TV shows instead. This was, in fact, his second last theatrical release.  Contrary to what many critics would have you believe, this is not a totally bad movie. It's actually a pretty sharp satire of some of the more nonsensical, new age clap trap what was permeating western culture at the time. Even the Beatles quickly realized that they were being taken on a one way elephant ride to fantasyland by their own giggling guru.  As for this one, it's a low key walk - thru which doesn't demand much of its stars but it still generates enough laughs along the way to keep it going.  Not outstanding but fun

For such a character to be fascinating in such an isolated environment, Boyle needs a flawless approach! And, well, he lacks it! Note: Certain Spoilers, but considering you probably have heard of this true story, this should be no surprise!  Slumdog Millionaire may be the most sentimental film that won the Best Picture Oscar in recent years, but it did turn Danny Boyle in a household name-for a director. Despite the great screenplay, and fabulous musical score, one must give some credit to Boyle for granting such steady pace to that film that may have lost its emotional side, and become an overly violent caricature of the slums, in the hands of another director. One must give him utmost respect for trying this after the worldwide success of that high budget award winner, considering how low-key and modest this is in scope.  This film is based on a true story that should not be unfamiliar for most westerners, or at least Americans. In 2003, the real Aaron Ralston actually experienced, and outlived this incident which is so conveniently presented in 2010 by Danny Boyle and James Franco, as Ralston. Aaron is an adventurer, a hiker, and an individualist who loves to appreciate the beauties of the Utah Desert all by himself.  This incident begins possibly like any of his other trips. He sets out alone, rides his bike near his destination, getting a few bruises on the way, and meets a few confused hikers, eventually leading to the BOULDER. His charisma shines in his conversation, and enthusiasm in reacting with the two female hikers, played by Amer Tamlyn and Rooney Mara. It is notable of his personality that Mara's character falls for him not due to any romantic gesture on his part, but his adventurous nature that pulls everyone in.  In the first thirty minutes, Aron has contact with humanity, from phone messages to his friendship with the girls, his 127 hours has yet to arrive. After his hand is caught, however, he loses all contact with humanity for the rest of the film-besides the closing minutes. The decision to make a film that centers on more than seventy minutes of literal isolation was a dangerous one. For this tactic to work, one needs to have a fascinating story, and an amazingly charismatic protagonist and performance. If not, this film can become a mind numbing study of a character that bores and irritates the viewer. Worst of all, if the protagonist is not engaging, we are stuck with him for 3/4 of the entirety of the film. As such, the character must be so appropriate as to work for this idiosyncratic idea.  Unfortunately, for more than a couple of reason, the delivery of Ralston's tale is not as smooth as it should be. Unfortunately, Boyle pushes the wrong buttons, engaging the audience excessively in the actual struggle, and makes Aaron's video recordings, dedicated to his family after his presumed death at this location, only an afterthought. Aron's actual struggle could be interested if the boulder did not confine his right hand so precisely that he has to spend day after day standing and leaning on the boulder.  In this position Aron can only try to free his hand to, obviously, no avail, and chip at it with a dull knife. Unfortunately, Boyle focuses on this for a large amount of the seventy minutes, showing his failure each day to pull himself free with the knife, and countless pulleys. It's admirable how hard he tries to escape with the methods at his disposal, but, unfortunately, Boyle focuses on these elements that are well after the third day, and shortchanges in other areas.  His recordings are fascinating, fueled by his regret that he did not tell anyone where he was going. It is filled with love for his parents, and his sister, and regret that he will not be able to attend his little sister's wedding. Considering how upbeat he is when recording these, addition of similar clips would have given the film a slightly optimistic and funny tone, without distracting the gravity of his situation. Boyle does the terminal crime of using a laugh track during one the funniest recording involving an imaginary phone call from another "Aron." There was no reason for this, as Franco exudes so much spirit in to this performance that we are grinning before the appearance of the laugh track, and when it does arrive, it seems as if the film developed in a melodrama.  It is a shame that Boyle covers his past by showing his previous relationships, his boyhood years, his sister on the piano, and glimpses of his parents. It's fine that we learn more about Aron, but the frank retelling of his past seems vastly intrusive and explicit. It would have much preferred if this was done in a form of "confession," and recorded on the camera. It would more personal, emotional, and grant the ability to elaborate on each memory. For the reasons, this is not a captivating film, BUT a heart wrenching incident. We cannot blame Boyle for showing Aron in such a light, because this is an actual event-not Boyle's fictional tale open to liberty. However, there is a difference between a Discovery documentary on the incident, or a magazine or newspaper article, and a motion picture. Boyle either gives Aron's tale the wrong treatment, or this this incident is untranslatable to a film; however, my gut tells me the latter is possibly more valid. In its current form, 127 Hours is a powerful document of humanity's struggle for survival, but not necessarily a good film. Many films fall to this fate, most famously the original Godzilla film: Gojira. It, too, was a tremendous document of man's misuse of technology for warfare, but was a weak film with a dated, soggy, monster-even for its time. Aron's story does not necessarily need to divert from the facts, however Boyle's version fails with the straight forward factual approach.  James Franco performance has been singled out, and he is bound to be nominated for an Oscar considering the hype surrounding the film as of now. My major concern with the performance is that it is too isolated, and one-note. Let us analyze what Franco does in this film: He tries to free his hand by brute force, he stabs that damn flesh, he amputates it, he records his thought while stuck on the boulder, daydreams, and reminisces about the past. All of these occur while he is the "prisoner" of the boulder. Franco often plays it better than accepted, but this character has not much to offer us, due to his condition. There is the occasional groan and laugh from Aron, but he is isolated, and after a few days he is just too drained to offer the audience any insight in to his life. He is ready for death, and he just sees no possible path to survival. Franco embodies Aron pretty well, yet the character is too two dimensional, allowing Franco little ingenuity. The issue is that he cannot be three dimensional, for his lack of communication with any outside source. Even Tom Hanks in Cast Away was able to interact with his environment, and especially the ball, "Wilson." As good as Franco is in this film, Boyle needed a more charismatic and subtle comedic actor. Even in interviews, Franco shows himself to be overly shy, and this shows here where Aron is unable to utilize the segments he records for his family. Someone like Jake Gyllenhaal would have done much better in these scenes, and would have allowed Boyle to make these scenes insightful. Franco is fine, but Aron's 127 hour imprisonment leaves him unable to leave a significant impression. Sure, the amputation scene is horrifying, but what does Franco do afterwards than scream his balls off? Then again, what could anyone else add to this scene?  127 Hours conclusion may seem bittersweet, yet it is euphoric because he escaped that damned condition. He lost part of his hand, gaining much more: The ability to live, witness his sister's wedding, and finally tell his parents of his love for them. Overall, this film depends on the endurance of the viewer to understand that the main stars of this film are Aron, his "imprisoned and eventually amputated hand, and a "cruel" boulder. If they can live with more than eighty minutes of watching Franco and this boulder fight till one victors over the other, this may be the film for them.

Rainy Day Entertainment Great escape from the rest of the world, especially if there's no place to escape to outside your own space .

As a DA fan... I purchased this based on the voice performance from "mark of the assasin".  Taking into account that it was a web series its not the worst thing that I've ever endured (w/out a paddle 2 takes that hands down).  Take a look online for one of the episodes before you purchase it on DVD

Funny and Sweet I am surprised at how much I enjoyed this film. It is not a movie that takes a whole lot of thought to understand - two guys like one woman and in the end woman chooses one guy. I would recommend this to those looking for something light and funny.

Good and Bad This is a two VHS product. The first VHS (Basic) was wonderfully done and photographed. Bravo to them. The second VHS (Professional) was pretty bad. The sound quality was bad, the writing on the board was bad-and at times-you couldn't read it. The massage viewing part was good. So, if you are only interested in watching other people's massage techniques, then this is the video for you (well worth the money).

Made me fall asleep I tried watching this show with my wife.  While there were some funny parts in it, I was not very impressed and feel asleep about 25 minutes in.

skipping?! the season was great, i love the show; however, the final disk, last episode SKIPS. i cleaned the dvd after it skipped, and it didnt work. i was really disappointed.

bad writing This film suffers from very bad writing, and even Anne Hathaway's superb acting is not able to overcome this. Ms. Hathaway portrais Kym, a recovering addict home on leave from rehab for her sister's wedding. She acts spoiled and insufferable, but you can feel her pain underneath all of that. You love her and want to smack her all at the same time. The rest of the characters are equally spoilt, whiny and pretensious, except for the dad, and I could not feel any affinity with any of them. The scene with the mom (Debra Winger) should have been more fleshed out, as it was pivotal to the great tragedy in this family's past. It shows that the mom was at least equally as culpaple as Kym, but seems to have moved on. And instead of talking to her daughter, and comforting her, she slaps her in the face. In my thoughts, the mother was really the worst offender, but Kym was the sufferer. This all plays out against the backdrop of a truly nauseating wedding, so multi-cultural that it is laughable. If you like Anne Hathaway (and she is the only reason I gave this movie 3 stars) I recommend you watch it. Otherwise, skip it.

Not Sure if this is What I Ordered I went back to check the sellers ad, but it was gone. I thought I was ordering a licensed copy of "55 Days in Peking." I was surprised to find Korean words on the box and Korean subtitles.

Monsters Inc. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000062V9C">Monsters, Inc. [Region 2</a>]  Monsters Inc. is a clever original story with likable characters, lots of humor, and an enormous amount of imagination. The alternative, but instersecting with our own, monster universe draws us in seamlessly. And of course, laughter being more powerful than anger is a wonderful theme. Good for kids of all ages, definitely.

Mixed reviews on these movies The first installment on this DVD, The Christmas Shoes, is a wonderful movie. In fact, I would go so far as to say I thought is was better than the book. While the book is inspiring, it is relatively short and the characters aren't developed nearly as well as they are in the movie. Most movies based on a book, of course, contain dialog and some story-lines not found in the book, in order to make a full length movie. That said, the movie was well-done in all aspects, even with the addition of some material not found in the book. Five stars for this one.  That is NOT the case with the second movie in the set...The Christmas Blessing. This was a horrible and totally unnecessary re-write of a wonderful book. What were the producers/writers thinking? and why didn't the author object??  I actually read the book shortly AFTER I saw the movie, and was appalled at the changes made in the movie. The book was a moving, wonderfully told and uplifting story. The lead characters in the movie were horribly MIS-cast. They looked much older than they were supposed to be. There were a few relatively mild (by today's standards) profanities included, not in the book of course. With the exception of a few basic story-lines taken from the book, the entire thing was  rewritten for the movie with some parts straining credulity...up and out to Christmas festivities shortly after an organ transplant??? I didn't enjoy the movie at all when I saw it, and after reading the book I understood why. I give a total thumbs-down on this movie version. ONE star for this movie. FIVE stars for the original book.  The third movie, The Christmas Hope...was MUCH better overall than the second. Since I have not yet read that book, however, I can't comment on how true it was to the book.  The movie itself gets 4 stars from me.

Good Muslims PARADISE NOW(2005)    A Moslim film about two Palestinian homicide bombers who run into some difficulties while attempting to infiltrate Israel so as to murder as many Jews as possible when they detonate.    A surprisingly reasonably good film that has an almost Hitchcockian feel in its handling of the basic suspense plot. The acting and direction are expert. The film is an interesting presentation of Palestinian culture for those curious. The film is not at all successful in explaining and indeed does not even address the Moslem obsession with death.    It is generally anti-Jewish though since it IS from the Palestinian viewpoint that is not necessarily bad form. The film comes dangerously close to being pro-terrorist but pulls back at the last moment. The only fumbles are 1) All the Palestinian whining about being oppressed and living in hell is defeated by the simple fact that the West Bank does not look all that different from parts of Queens or Brooklyn and the residents are shown being able to rent or purchase snuff videos for their home entertainment so what is the big problem?? B) The film keeps insisting that the Homicide bombers are only targeting Israeli soldiers when obviously the reality--aka civilians, women and children--puts the lie to that. And one was amused to see one of the terrorists(who is portrayed as being a nice terrorist who would never blow up children) somehow managing to get on a public bus occupied mostly by soldiers. Uh.Uh. And finally C) the film cheats by ending at the point of detonation and not showing the results of this barbaric war crime.    An Israeli film dramatizing the other side needs to be made. One wonders if it HAS been and simply has been prevented from being shown in this country by those great defenders of free speech who tried to censor PATH TO 9/11. In any case, a worthwhile film that is recommended. In Arabic.

just another pirate movie this is just a final part of the series. Somehow it was not overly impressive and I was not looking to be knocked off of my feet. The cast did what you would expect them to do considering their collective skills.

A good routine except for my idotic pet peeve While other reviews mention the high points of this DVD (which I completely agree with), halfway through I noticed Ralphie tacking "OK" onto the ends of sentences, and then in the middle of sentences.  I've worked with a couple of people who do this and have developed this weird compulsion to focus on it once I notice it.  If this is the kind of thing you notice, be careful watching this disc!  Just to make sure I was hearing as many "OK"s as I thought, I kept count on a 2nd viewing and ended up with 227 "OK"s in 1:46.  I know this is picky, but it really is one of those things that distracts me when people are speaking (along with "You know" waaaay too many times per minute).  With that said, I still think this is a better stand-up routine than Ralphie's earlier discs.  He covers a broader range of subjects and is still funny as hell!  The last 10 minutes is worth the disc alone.

Crazy Heart How this won an Academy Award is beyond me...it's just OK in every aspect. I'm a fan of Jeff Bridges, but this is not his best work.

Ever After:  Cinderella Story Good movie however I was hoping to transfer it to my Mp3 player but was unable to.  Bummer.  Now the movie sits on my computer taking up precisious space.  Just becase Amazons states you can transfer the movie onto a portable devise does not necessarily mean you can transfer it to yours.  I was unble to transfer it to my newly acquired Ipod touch.

What A Disappointment This Was! Creation is a beautifully-filmed motion picture that looks amazing. If only the plot lived up to the on-screen scenery, it'd be a fine production indeed! Instead, Creation re-casts Charles Darwin as a madman, Emma Darwin as a shrew, and poor Annie Darwin as a revenant (if only in her father's tormented mind). It also seeks to add drama to an event in human history (the release of Darwin's theories on natural selection) already so remarkable in itself that it requires no gilded reinterpretation.  While Darwin look-alike Paul Bettany was truly excellent in his interpretation of the great naturalist, poor Jennifer Connelly was left to struggle to make something out of the filmmakers' terrible perspective on Emma, who was by any account I've ever seen nothing like Creation would have us believe. (Connelly also looked almost nothing like Emma, and never came across as convincingly Victorian in dress, manner, hairstyle or tone.)  Creation was bad enough to merit two stars for plot but the visual satisfaction it provides does go some way toward carrying its multitudinous defects. For a more informative take on Charles Darwin's life and mindset in the period before the release of The Origin of Species, or on the Darwin family itself, look to the many other biographies in both print and film that tell the story more accurately than the failed melodrama that was Creation. I'd recommend Darwin's Darkest Hour, and Charles and Emma as being two excellent places to start, though why not simply explore Darwin's books for yourself? They combine readability with a vast sense of intellectual stimulation that no analysis can hope to match. Just please don't make the error of seeing Creation and then coming away thinking you have an education on the Darwin marriage, or the writing of the theory of evolution, because you most assuredly haven't.

Not Bad Not Good It's one of those 3am type flicks when nothing else is on in the days before cable and satellite TV.

"A Time Capsule" I have just recieved and watched the Blu-ray version of "My Son John".. I'de seen it when I was a teen ager in the 50's and I thought it was pretty slow, but interesting. I went to see it because of Robert Walker who had been MGM'S Golden Boy next door. He was such a sweet charming guy in those Golden Age of MGM films. But of course Walker never got a chance to really act until he got from beneath MGM's grasp. Like he did in Hitchcock's "Strangers On A Train". And I don't believe that Leo McCarey produced or directed anything quite like this either. Poor Robert Walker had a sad personal life and I believe it showed in his face in this film. And it's a shame that he passed away, because he had just proven what a great actor he really was. But I don't believe they had the help back in the early 50's that they do now. Help that may have saved Robert Walker. Helen Hayes was also very good, but I thought that half her scenes were drawn out too long and very overacted. (excuse me Helen Hayes fans, but that's the way I saw it) I know they probably didn't know really how to deal with communism on film 'back in the day', but some of the scenes were very vague. And like Kurt Corbin said in his review that it was hard to catch onto what Robert Walker's character "John" was really up to. And I really couldn't really tell if he was 'all that bad'. Because my open-mind is set in the new millennium, not in the early 50's. What was John really up to? What were the unlawful activities? Yes it was rather vague. But I do remember as a child and teenager the sence of patriotism all around me. I sort of miss that 'long ago feeling'. I'm afraid with all that's going on today people don't know what to believe anymore and that's a damn shame. Dean Jagger was also very stong as a real old fashioned patriot. God bless his character. And I remember many like that. Oh yeah. So I say this is 'a time capsule of the way people thought back in the day. And God bless each and every one of them.  Bob "Ziggy" Anderson

Watch out parents My three years old son loves Team Umizoomi and can watch them over and over again. I also like all the episodes and think that they are really educational, the characters Milli, Geo and Bot are cute, smart and inspiring. Songs are also very catchy and easy to follow for a 3 years old. However, this particular episode "Journey to Numberland" based its story on a wicked wizard who doesn't like numbers. He was casting spells through out the stories and has this scary laughs. It's just not a good theme to expose to little children.

The Pirates!  Band of Misfits We usually like Aardman films but this one didn't fly.  It was just "okay", the story line being weak.  I wish, too, that the girl pirate twist was handled a little better.

For The Dogs -- Too Zany for Me! Behave Yourself!  Not sure why the film is titled the way it was.  I did want to watch it as I have not seen an early Shelly Winters film.  I could only imagine an older, larger Shelly from the film "Poseidon Adventure."  The film is a situation comedy of sorts.  The early 50s version of situation comedy includes lots of misunderstandings, a mother-in-law doing Dianetics classes in the evenings, and an innocent man who (a) forgot his wife's anniversary; (b) had a run-in with a dog who is trained in finding drop-off points for smugglers and (c) is always at the scene of a murder or three!  Sorry but the overacting was just too much.  The comedy was not that funny to the modern viewer and the cops not really understanding what was going on as the stumbled through the scenes and the equally dumb gangsters with pratfalls and further misunderstandings - well!  Stars:  Fun to see William Demerist in something other than his "My Three Sons" TV series (from the Sixties).  And Lon Chaney Jr. as a heavy was a sight to see.  Shelly Winters acted as a clueless woman who faints more than she babbles on about her husband.  The mother-in-law was a gem, how she accuses her son-in-law of murder and says "it figures" several times throughout the film.  Unless you're a big Shelly Winters fan, probably not the style for you.  Lucille Ball played this theme so much better.  DVD:  My DVD was from Alpha Video and did not have any features other than scene selections.  Cast & Crew:  Director: George Beck Writers: George Beck (screenplay), George Beck (story)  Stars: Farley Granger, Shelley Winters and William Demarest

Awesomely Uneven Weed and philosophy aren't usually two things that we think of as compatible, but Tim Blake Nelson's witty, literate script and Edward Norton's dual-role virtuoso acting make them seem like peanut butter and jelly.  When we first meet Norton's Bill Kincaid, he's delivering a philosophy lecture to a mesmerized audience of Brown students, and Nelson allows this sequence several minutes to develop and present a heavy conceptual point. He follows this with a controlled-slapstick sequence in which a female student attempts to seduce Bill, only to be interrupted at an awkward-looking juncture by his staid secretary, who delivers the news that kicks the whole plot into motion: Bill's twin brother Brady has died. Bill reluctantly heads home only to discover that his brother is alive and well and has drawn him into a fustercluck of epic proportions.  The seesawing effect of following tension or heavy emotions with smart, masterfully written comedy is something Nelson sticks with throughout his screenplay, and this rhythm serves the plot well until about the final fourth, when unexpected and highly implausible violence erupts and compromises the overall quality somewhat. The characters who initiate the violence, two peaceful, philosophically-inclined, perpetually-baked good ol boys, have up to this point shown no inclination whatsoever to the sort of bloodlust that fuels the crime they commit, and a minor character who had previously served no purpose is clumsily inserted into the aftermath seemingly for the sole purpose of justifying more mayhem.  But there's a lot more good than bad here, especially if you read poetry and philosophy or grow dank 'dro. Ed Norton literally looks and behaves like two completely different people and is riveting in both roles. Nelson inhabits his second-banana role like wearing a second skin and delivers a natural performance. Keri Russell's Janet, a love interest for Bill, actually does and says things a real woman might say and do and has a whole personality, which puts Tim Blake Nelson ahead of 90% of the male scriptwriters writing movies these days. Janet is a plausible person, not just a flimsy wish-fulfillment fantasy insertion character who exists only to reflect on the males in her orbit. Susan Sarandon is her usual drawling, easygoing self as Bill and Brady's pothead mom, a vital and attractive sixtysomething woman who has decided, for her own eccentric reasons, to voluntarily put herself in a nursing home despite having no visible infirmities. Richard Dreyfus turns up to briefly amuse as a local crime boss who happens to be an esteemed civic leader in Tulsa, Oklahoma's Jewish community, which is apparently a real thing (Tim Blake Nelson is himself a Jew from Tulsa).  The strong characterizations, beautiful dialog and literacy of the plot as a whole make this movie worth spending money on. Bummer of a climax though.

Not to bad of a flick, Decent 3D but with some flaws. I swear maybe I should change my name to the 3D nut cause it seems like thats all I ever review on!!!  Shock Labyrinth was not a bad movie at all. I can see why some reviewers might have been a little confussed at times. I had to watch it twice to really pick up everything in the story and there is a lot of back and fourth with flashblacks. So in other words when watching this film you really have to pay attention or you could be missing out on a key thing in the movie. It really wasnt a bad movie at all and the acting was above decent I felt. If you like the wierd twist that you see in a lot of those asian suspense horror films then you will probably enjoy this one too.  Now for the area I usually love the most...The 3D!!!!!  The 3D in this movie was decent but with some flaws. There is a nice bit of shadowing in some scenes but then you will have very clear shots in other scenes, i guess the phares "mixed bag" is the best way to discribe the 3d in this. It's not by any means horrible and does bring some more fun to the movie. There are a few fun pop out scenes and some shots with some really great depth to it then some scenes not so much. I dont think this was a bad buy at all for me and to be honest i am not that huge of a fan of the asian suspense horror.But over all I did enjoy this one a lot.If you are a fan asian 3D horror I would also recommend "childs eye 3D" and even more so "Sector 7 3D" which has fantastic 3D in it.

fun to watch This is the movie based on the best-selling book of the same title by Lauren Weisberger. Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci all do a marvellous job in their roles. Of course, Hollywood sees fit make a few significant changes from the book: Andrea's best friend isn't alcoholic, Andrea takes Emily's place in Paris under different circumstances, and Hollywood makes Miranda Priestly NICER than in the book, especially towards the end. Fun to watch.

Good in spots, but dated I saw Michael Nesmith's ELEPHANT PARTS many years ago on either cable TV or home video.  I decided to purchase the DVD and give it a second look.  While the five music videos for Nesmith's songs "Rio," "Cruisin'," "Light," "Magic," and "Tonite" are well done, the comedy bits in between are a mixed bag: some are amusing, others are dated (as old SNL sketches are) and others just aren't funny at all.  I don't think the sketch about homemade nuclear bombs would fly in today's post-9/11 world.  Overall, the video is well-done, considering it was made on a shoestring budget (Nesmith had just started his Pacific Arts record label/video company a few years earlier).  The DVD has an interesting commentary track by Nesmith, which was apparently made in the early-to-mid 1990s.  There is also a gallery of photo stills, but caution: it does not play on all DVD units (it would not play on my DVD recorder, which kept defaulting to the film itself, but played fine on my portable DVD player).  Overall, 3 1/2 stars.

Worth Watching Great combo of danger, shoot 'em up, explosion and... heart. Perfect Abrams/Speilburg combo. The playback was rough toward the end.

Sounds like a Wholefoods commercial There are millions of us that eat industry food and its working well enough. 'Mericans ain't got time for running around to farmers markets, getting run over by elderly folks. Any HFCS product is better than the crap we were eating in 2000bc.

Froggystyle! First things first, Lost Boys: The Thirst was flat-out entertaining. Crazy, right? I wanted to hate it, I really did, because the first sequel was such steamer but it's hard to hate on a film with zero pretension. Boobs and blood is all the rage! Feldman is back in the saddle as Edgar Frog and about fifteen minutes is all it takes to give you a good idea of what you'll be getting into and that, friends, is pure direct-to-DVD cheese. The third film in the Lost Boys franchise offers viewers and fans exactly what they've been asking for all along, namely the Frogs and vampires. Big time goofy fun.  High entertainment value aside, as in all low budget films there were a few things I took issue with though none of which matters I suppose. Truthfully I could have done without the dated (read: 90's) rave storyline, the re-designed "30 Days of Night" style vampires and the whole vampire blood drug (shamefully jacked directly from True Blood). One might be lead to believe that all of this was intentional, winks to the new breed of vampire entertainment, and considering the middle finger given to the Twilight book series and author Stephanie Meyer, I might be inclined to halfheartedly agree but it still felt exploitative and cheap.  Wait, did I just whine about exploitation?  Honestly, this flick was fun so don't take my above gripes to mean its' not worth viewing, I just wouldn't purchase this for my collection despite the eye-candy actresses and occasional cool action sequence. However, I will be coming back for the next sequel as a new possible antagonist (perhaps protagonist?) has been introduced and it would be insanity for Feldman and fellow producers not to jump while the fans are paying attention.

monster blu ray!!! well the movie is so great and obviously well cast.but in the blu rays deffence this really's not hi quality.its just a dvd and nothing else.i dont know why they keep making blu rays that are not hi def..

needed serious editing Starting with the extras which are nothing to write home about really but director Quentin Taratino gushes over his longtime editor Sally Menke. Somebody needs to tell Tarantino it's in the editing where his movies fail (and as good as Kill Bill was, it is the prime example of something in dire need of editing).  This is the entire problem with Death Proof. Visually it looks great. The music and dialogue (although these scenes go on far too long especially the ones of the women in their cars) are first-rate. Kurt Russell channels a deliciously evil version of Snake Plisken. The "chicks" in the flick are all first-rate although I did not really get the fully clothed lap dance which was less than sizzling and seemed like just stuck in there for no reason.  The movie seems to end after an hour then (SPOILER ALERT) we basically get the exact same movie scenario playing out again. Yes, it plays out with a different ending but what was the point of running pretty much the exact same plotline (Russell stalks women, tries to run down said women with his car, action ensues).  Basically, Tarantino has made a stylistic B movie but a B movie nonetheless that runs about 30 minutes too long.

important note The *only* people who should be watching Angels & Demons are those who actually understand and follow the Pope, the Illuminati, the Cardinals and everything else associated with the Vatican City because if you DON'T follow any of these events, I can promise you- you WILL be completely lost and uninterested.  Such as the case with me unfortunately. Being a non-religious person nor someone who follows the Pope or the religious history connected to the events portrayed in the film (whether fictional or not, it doesn't matter) I wasn't able to comprehend a single thing concerning any of the stuff presented in Angels & Demons so as you can probably imagine, I was completely confused and unsatisfied.  The second half of the film is devoted to quite a bit of action and suspense, however not being able to even remotely understand the storyline makes all that action and suspense completely ineffective and almost comical for unintentional reasons. Comical because there's no reason someone like me should be watching it.  You're probably asking yourself "Why bother writing a review for a movie you didn't get?" and the reason is very simple. Let me explain.  It would be completely ignorant for me to give Angels & Demons a low rating just because I wasn't able to understand any of it. However I believe it's important for me to write a review for those out there reading who might be leaning on the fence deciding whether to see this film or wondering whether it will just be a giant bundle of confusion. I can say with certainty- yes, it *will* be confusing.  I can almost guarantee those who don't know the history of the Pope or his religion -nor those who keep themselves up to date with the Vatican City events- won't be able to grasp the storyline. Even in the film they say there's over 1 billion Catholics. That means there's 7 billion who aren't, which definitely increases the chances of more people not getting it compared to those who do.  Obviously not all 7 billion people on the planet will have access to this film, but that's beside the point. Angels & Demons is designed for those who follow and get the plot, which is a minority.  The description did not warn me about this.  As for Tom Hanks, his acting skills are right on the money like always. However I prefer the easily understandable storylines he's starred in over the years such as Forrest Gump or Castaway.  You've been warned.

Packaging makes discs hard to store The packaging of this product is AWFUL.  Though the package is attractive with its big, red heart-shaped box, it does not fit standard dvd shelving units, which makes it a pain in the butt to store, especially if you have a fair number of DVDs and storage space is at a premium.  The discs are housed 2 abreast, inside 2 big accordian pleated envelopes, each shaped like half of a heart, that expands to hold all of the DVDs.  I've never seen anything like it.  If you are interested in subtitles, they are only available in Spanish, not English.  However, the discs do have closed captions in English for those who are English speaking and hearing imapired.  If you don't mind the screwy packaging or the Spanish only subtitles, the price of $135 is a good one compared to other I Love Lucy offers.

Wanted to like this film To start off with what I loved about Prometheus, I'll say right now that I loved revisiting that distinct practical future aesthetic. The art direction was amazing and I might go as far as to say that it has the best art direction I've seen in a Sci-fi film since The Fifth Element. I loved what was present in the film and I even loved the viral ad campaign and all the little graphic touches that made Weyland Corp feel as real as Apple Computers.  The film established a great setting and visual tone but I get the sense that the script was a secondary priority. I can see that a lot of other people have gone into great detail about all of the moments where you had supposedly intelligent people do and say incredibly stupid things or arrive at decisions that made no sense. Not to beat a dead horse but I can't stress how greatly these instances effected the movie and diminished my enjoyment of it. It seemed any of these problems could've been avoided by hiring a fresh film school grad to sit in on the writing process and chime in with comments like "why are they taking their helmets off?" and "why is the biologist spooked by the remains of a dead alien but eager to play with the face-raping snake monster?" The dialog seemed like it had also been dumbed down I absolutely hate it when scientists in movies speak in gross over-simplifications or misuse their own terminology.  Scientist A: "Why did this happen? Scientist B: "Because DNA"  When the biologist referred to the theory of evolution as "Darwinism," I lost all hope of not being patronized. The only people who use the term "darwinism" in reference to the theory of evolution are creationists and they do this to equate evolution to a philosophical "ism." I do not suspect Damon Lindelof knew this and was merely attempting to sound sciency. Why dumb down a movie like this? Science fiction fans are quite often intelligent people. Why cater to a common denominator and make a mediocre film when you could've made a great film like 2001: A Space Odyssey? In fact, if you want to see great alternative that actually is everything that Prometheus tried to be, get 2001. Ridley Scott would agree. [...]

Designed for the Younger Viewer This is a comfortable, reliable movie that delivers a suitable story for the younger viewer, say between 7 and 15 perhaps. I can see a viewer in that age range enjoying this movie whereas adults may find it rather predictable and boring. The appearance of the dragon is more similar to a children's cartoon dragon than the dragons that scare you by their appearance. This dragon talks more like an innocent child which is what he's supposed to be.  If you have children in the household or as frequent guests, this could be a good baby-sitter type of movie but not much more.

Decent Movie With Your Son Your 10 year old will probably like this a lot, and you will be reasonably annoyed by the cliche's, and unimaginative story, but at least you'll enjoy some decent robot FX.

A period piece with good acting from Genevieve Bujold & James Caan Although the movie is a bit drawn out & loses the viewer's attention; it's worth buying if u r a fan of Genevieve Bujold & James Caan

Somewhat Nice An entertaining film,  but there are a few distractions which will lessen your enjoyment. Chloe Sevigny's painfully inadequate attempt at an English accent is a total failure - toward the end of the film she seems to stop trying altogether.  Did the director not notice this?  Second, the over-40 Ifans pretending to be an Oxford undergraduate was stretching it a bit too far, but fortunately that part of the film is quickly over.

PROMISING IDEA LOST IN A SEA OF CLICH&Eacute;S I was in no rush to see BATTLESHIP knowing it was based on the Hasbro game and it had not been well-received by the critics or public. I did not know the story and imagined battleships fighting each other on the high sea. BATTLESHIP became a must see when I saw that lovely, sexy singer Rihanna was one of the stars. Rihanna? In an action film? Really? It was worth a look.  BATTLESHIP is off to a slow start. A troubled loser with no future joins the Navy as a last resort. Despite his bad attitude, he shows potential and moves up in rank. Is any of this a surprise? How about the fact that he is in love with the admiral's daughter. Any surprise there? Our hero butts heads with all of his superiors and is about to be thrown out of the navy when it happens...  Scientists have discovered a planet that seems to be in the right position from its own sun to be a twin of earth. Maybe life exists so signals are sent from earth to this distant planet to make contact. Here was the huge twist from what I expected. What happens if the aliens receive the signal and decide to come visit their "brothers" on earth?  Suddenly, BATTLESHIP has some potential as the alien spaceships are seen. Here come in the amazing visual effects and possibly an interesting story. Are the aliens here as friends or conquerors? What are their intentions. At first it seems they are interested in destroying machinery and not out to destroy humans. There is a bit of confusion here. The US Navy fires first and maybe our alien friends are just in self-defense mode. The visual effects are amazing and we get to see human-like aliens. How would life develop on a "sister" planet light years away. It is an interesting premise.  Unfortunately, amazing visual effects can't always save a film riddled with clich&eacute;s. BATTLESHIP is a combination of so many films we have seen before. It's part JURASSIC PARK and INDEPENDENCE DAY. Add in Pearl Harbor since the on land part of the story takes place on Oahu with a connection to Pearl Harbor and the Japanese are involved again (as the good guys) attacking Oahu.  Apparently, the director thought Rihanna would be good in the role of a sailor and she was eager to do a movie role. It's hard to imagine Rihanna as a sailor helping to save the world but the woman is talented. I guess she could help save the world.  BATTLESHIP misses so much of its potential. Why not have the aliens come with a clear message. What do they want? We learn they have one problem with life on earth. There always has to be one simple problem that aliens can't cope with on earth.  The movie drags on. The beautiful daughter of the admiral obviously will have some role in helping to save the world while her navy man is at sea. Lian Neeson is the admiral and suprisingly this is a relatively small role for Neeson. Maybe he needed the work.  BATTLESHIP is worth seeing because of the phenomenal special effects but if a good story is important you, this is a film that can be missed.

not too shabby. These are fun and at times laugh out loud movies that are a perfect thing to run on a night with friends over. All shot a time when anything was possible.

Kinda depressing.  Not what I'd want to watch twice. A handsome guy (Jake Gyllenhaal), who can pick up any girl just by snapping his fingers, apparently meets and falls for a mediocre, tolerably attractive woman with an apparent caustic behavior problem.  If true love is mysterious, then I guess it can also be cruel.  Usually, I don't think much of Anne Hathaway as a girl to pursue for love.  But, she actually did fit the part of a woman with a deep rooted problem (Parkinson's).  She's got a trashy look about her, so I would expect that a good looking guy like Jake Gyllenhaal could have easily pursued any other girl who would have had her act together more.  Anne Hathaway was trying to push him away.  So, I would have certainly taken her advice from the word "go", from the very first abrasive moment she threw at him.  Especially after getting a "head's up" from a man who married a woman with Parkinson's disease. The man even told him that, if he had to do it all over again, he certainly would have moved on and looked for a relationship with somebody else.  That would be all that I'd need to hear.  Anyway, this movie is probably true to life about dealing with someone with Parkinson's Disease.  But, as a young man, I would have tried to avoid starting a relationship with someone who obviously has issues already so early in her life.

Conflicted about the story First, let me say that the performances are outstanding.  I was impressed across the board, but if Octavia Spencer doesn't win the Academy Award, let there be pitchforks outside the Kodak Theatre!  Now, for what I didn't like:  it's yet ANOTHER story about how a white person saved the day for a group of oppressed black people.  I appreciate the context of the times, etc., but I hate that the story had the maids empowered by a white teenager.  Skeeter may be merely the vehicle used to tell the story of what it was like for domestic workers in those times, but I think it's demoralizing for young black people today to be exposed over and over again to the concept that without white intervention, black has no hope.  Another example would the "The Blind Side."  It's a great movie with great performances, and despite that it's a true story, it fosters that notion that a white person is needed for a black person's success and that black people don't take care of their own.  I work for a public housing agency and each day I see people struggling to grasp hope.  So many big movies either deny this or reinforce it.  So, for the performances, I say "GREAT film."  For the plot, I say "Hollywood, do more black success stories, with those successes due to the efforts of the people themselves."

Is That Killer Robot's Grandpa in Disney's "Blackhole" ? The storyline is pretty good but the script needed a bit more work. The cgi had a few flaws (i.e. when the killer robots entered the secret passage)and could learn a few things from SyFy's "Sanctuary" computer modellers. The background masking left much to be desired. But after all is said and done, I'd give it a "B" Movie "B minus". Mainly because I found myself wondering if it could be a series or have a sequel.

Worth seeing just for Connelly It is nice to see an actress step out of their comfort zone (I am talking to you Jennifer Aniston) and try something different. Jennifer Connelly usually doesn't play mentally unhinged women but she excels at it in Virginia. It's a shame her talent is wasted by Dustin Lance Black's poor script, and poor direction. If he was more competent doing his job, Jennifer Connelly would be getting more critical acclaim for her work here. This is the best she has been in her career and that is saying a lot considering she won an Oscar for A Beautiful Mind and rave reviews with Requiem for a Dream. The movie is all over the place and the only saving grace is the work of the actors. They are all superb with Connelly the stand out.

Starts slow and gets better I have a passing interest in Iranian politics and enjoyed this film. However, as a documentary it leaves much to be desired. The film starts off really slow. The first several interview scenes simply show the queen and the interviewer sitting nervously with each other. I understand the point was to show them building trust, but it just took too long. The context, including a short recounting of the Shah's life and their marriage, comes a bit later, perhaps a bit too late for viewers with little familiarity with Iran. For most of the first hour or so, the film is kind of chatty and follows the Queen in her life in exile. There isn't much to show that she's anything but a rich socialite. Still, this documentary is a valuable look at the queen and has historical value. Overall, 3.5 stars.

BOND WITHOUT TESTOSTERONE It seems that we've never had a female version of the James Bond character. Certainly Bond has had his share of femme fatales but never has one taken the lead role in a film. The closest we've had in the past was Cynthia Rothrock who starred in a series of martial arts films, but those were always B movie quality. That all changes with HAYWIRE.  MMA star Gina Carano starts as Mallory Kane, an operative for a private group that hires out to the likes of the CIA. An ex-Marine, Mallory is more tomboy than girly girl. As the film opens she makes her way to a diner where she meets up with Aaron (Channing Tatum), a fellow operative sent to bring her in. When she refuses the first of many well choreographed fight sequences begins. Mallory escapes and is on the run with a young man from the diner in tow. As they speed off she begins to tell him her tale.  It all went sour with a job in Barcelona. Mallory's boss Kenneth (Ewan McGregor) has sent her out at the request of Coblenz (Michael Douglas), the head of a secret government agency one would assume is the CIA, and fellow spymaster Rodrigo (Antonio Banderas). It should be a simple snatch and grab, rescuing a hostage and taking him home. When one of the guards for the hostage takes off, Mallory chases him down resulting in another well choreographed fight sequence.  Home after the run Mallory finds Kenneth waiting for her and asking her to do one more job before some well earned time off. This time the job takes her to Ireland where she is to meet up with a member of MI-6 named Paul (Michael Fassbender). At a party hosted by some big wig, Mallory wanders around and discovers the hostage from the Barcelona affair with a bullet in his head. Something seems wrong which becomes painfully obvious when Paul tries to kill Mallory when they return to their hotel room. He doesn't succeed.  Traveling home with the intent of revenge, Mallory has ended where we found her at the beginning of the film. Just who she can and can not trust is in question. The only person she does is her father, an ex-military man himself (played by Bill Paxton). When a hit squad with Kenneth shows there the chances of their survival are slim even though they exude confidence. How the film finishes, just who was it that was behind all the skullduggery and who will pay make for a fine film.  Directed by Steven Soderbergh this is not his usual style of film. This outing into the world of action adventure shows he is quite capable. While not quite up to par with the Bourne films, the movie does take its action sequences seriously and shoots them in the way they should be shot, with the camera back a way so we can actually watch the fight scenes rather than in the middle looking for close ups.  The story is well written and thought out though it takes a while to get to the bottom of things. Perhaps more clues along the way would have upped the ante here, but as it is the movie still tells a compelling story.  The movie seems made for Carano, forming around her and her incredible fighting skills, showing them off as best as they can. One would think that her acting ability would be lacking but she demonstrates an ability to do better than most real life action stars pushed into the world of film. Her character does offer a rather stoic look more often than not, but for a first feature role she does outstanding. Future films will tell if she can get the acting chops she needs or not.  For an action film the action must be non-stop and well thought out. It must be paced at regular intervals and those scenes must work well within the story. That is done here in spades. It also must feature someone who can handle the action as well as co-stars who can do the same. That's also well done here, including having Fassbender do his own stunts in the fight sequence he performs with Carano. It all results in a fast paced, well made action film that's worth your rental fee.

A reboot of Agent Vinod Saif Ali Khan has been on the scene many years and somehow never attained the giddy heights of stardom some of his peers have enjoyed. However the man has managed to eke out a niche for himself and found scripts that he himself produced to notable success, case in point Love Aaj Kal. Agent Vinod is a reboot of the Mahendra Sandhu starrer of the same name which came out in the 70s. There are many things that work in this film and it is a great looking film for sure. The movie is also a global ride beginning in Afghanistan and taking you through Russia, Latvia, Morocco and Somalia. Agent Vinod ( Saif Ali Khan) is a spy at an Indian Governement outfit and is handed an assignment when his partner is murdered. The search for the mysterious 242 takes him on a global manhunt and encounters with various goons Kazan ( Prem Chopra), Colonel ( Adil Hussain), Jimmy ( Anshuman Singh), Hufeza ( Shahbaaz Khan), Teimur Pasha ( Gulshan Grover) and Ruby ( Kareena Kapoor). Many sequences are splendid and the 70s style music adds a watchable element to the film. However the movie was supposed to be an edge of the seat adrenalin rush and unfortunately this never materializes, except for the last 20 minutes. Sriram Raghavan is an awesome director who made Johnny Gaddar and Ek Haseena Thi, seems to suffer from the same problem that ails many of his ilk which is small directors who made movies on a tight budget seem to have a problem executing when the canvas becomes bigger. Saif as a desi bond works big time and has the svelte and polish to look the part. Kareena Kapoor has nothing significant to do but looks gorgeous as usual. The music is fine, Pungi, Ishq Muft and Raabta( brilliantly filmed) as favorites. On the whole, this is a great entertainer with a lot going on that can leave you confused. However still enjoy the ride. Three stars. 3/23/2012

Luke yes, but not complete I've seen this before, and recently bought it.  I was intrigued because I own "The gospel of John" which is by far the best Jesus movie I have ever seen and is word for word, straight from the book of John.  Enjoying how a movie was made from the unadulterated word of God, I got "Jesus" which claims to be from the book of Luke. I tried to follow along and realized exactly how much is left out.  Quite a bit is left out and parts that could be narrated are visually shown instead.  That was why I liked "The Gospel of John"  everything that was written was either spoken by the actors or the narrator in the movie.  Nothing was added and nothing was taken away.  Unfortunately, I was hoping for the same thing in this movie and was slightly disappointed.  It wasn't a raping of scriptures as some movies are and just want to recreate Jesus in their own fictional ideal, but it wasn't perfect either.  You could definitely learn from and enjoy the movie, but I highly recommend "The Gospel of John" more.

Sad revisitation of old stuff Copy cat in the bag catches copy rat in the camera. Bourne has already done all that in Berlin, Moscow, London, Paris, Hong Kong or Shanghai, and a good twenty more touristic destinations. This one is touched by some nostalgia with a special focus on East Berlin. Friedrichstrasse Bahnhof, the entering station of East Berlin, a little bit of Unter den Linden, next door, and then the Brandenburg Tor on the East side essentially, the East German TV tower on Alexandra Platz, the Hohenzollern Palace' rebuilt after the fall of the wall, and an ex-Stasi agent, and some survivors of the Cold War, terrorist style from the West. We just miss the Karl Marx Allee and the Vopos [Volkspolizei for the younger generation who never met them] of course. I guess East Berlin is cheaper for film makers than West Berlin. Then the whole thing is wrapped up in some kind of nice pieces of ideological good will. The Stasi commits suicide on the screen. The brutal Serbs are killed one by one and one after another. The Arab prince is a nice-looking nearly Caucasian young chap and he is supporting western science. The scientists are developing a new type of maize that will grow in the desert and will kill all insects five hundred miles around and the NGOs are even said (or is it told?) to approve it, and it is true the ecological zombies have been made scarce. The only negative point is that the terrorists are plain criminal hit men paid by the agricultural industry to kill the scientist and steal his files. And all that goes down the chute because of a weirdo professional killer who loses his memory and his mind. Superb! Well, people my age can always get some kicks out of the little bits of East Berlin they remember when the Stasi was everywhere. But I guess that will do for this plagiaristic European TV elite.  Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

A disappointment. I love Dr. Suess (as does my daughter) and the Lorax is a favorite.  Why then, did I find this movie boring and dull.  I rate it as 2 stars, but my daughter loves the Lorax so much, that I have to give it 3.

Had me until the end!! Such a scary movie that really makes your hair stand............then the last 5 minutes or so of the movie happened. I don't wanna spoil anything for you viewers but the ending is so unbelievable and ridiculously stupid that it actually stopped me from purchasing the movie. I enjoy scaring the life outta myself with exorcist style movies and this one was great until the end. You can tell that they rushed the ending and probably had no idea what to do with the characters. I mean they really took the blair witch project idea and made an exorcist movie out of it which isnt a bad idea at all since the blair witch was garbage and this wasn't. So at least the movies are improving with this reality approach that the movie industry is taking, but they need to finish strong. I'm sorry but not one person in their right mind would think this ending was good in the slightest bit. If you like being scared to think that something REALLY crazy is going to happen you will be disappointed because its not real crazy its just REALLY ridiculous to the point where any viewer would think, "Wow there is no possible way this would ever happen and the fact they even wrote this shows the writers were on drugs.........heavy ones."

Almost but not quite... I would really love to give this higher marks being as I am an avid 3d supporter/fan, However even though ghosting wasnt too frequent I got a case of tired eyes from this flick, ghosting was pronounced in a few instances as well but nothing that distracted for too long. It is hard for me to explain the issue I had with this film.. I could only describe this one as having hotspots on the outer edges of objects for quite some time. The picture was excellent in resolution and clarity with the exception of this weird effect I had from the 3d. maybe its because the strength of the 3d? I tried adjusting the 3d output strength to weaken it a bit but little help occured from this. I have noticed this effect more often in the earlier 3d bluray releases and its almost non existent in the later releases everything is crystal clear yet seems as though a haze effect is present and makes the eyes grow tired.  Dont get me wrong, the movie was still a blast and at times things came out of the screen especially the scene with the grouper fish and kelp in the kelp forest.

Hit or myth? This movie has the most mixed set of reviews of any that I can recall seeing. At one end of the spectrum are those who think this is a great movie and are impressed by the fact that it's about Greek mythology. At the other end are those who loved the book and can't get over the differences in the film version. Somewhere in between are the rest of us.  Dealing with the five-star reviews first- have you people seriously not seen any movies better than this one? It's an exciting enough adolescent caper, with state-of-the-art special effects (already, of course, outdated). The principal character is likeable, his sidekick is funny and the girl, who remains just a friend, is attractive. The three of them set out on a quest to save the world from evil. Now, let me think, has that idea ever been used before? I'll just repeat the name in case you missed it: Per-cy Jack-son. Does that happen to remind you of Har-ry Pot-ter, by any amazing coincidence? As for Greek mythology- this story tells you nothing about it except the names. The author, instead of calling the three brothers Zeus, Poseidon and Hades, could have called them Larry, Moe and Curly and it wouldn't have made the story one jot less authentic. Indeed, he DOES call Medusa 'Auntie Em'; so much for Greek classicism. Take the movie for what it is, a rather derivative romp with no real substance, and enjoy it- but don't award it five stars.  As for the one-star crowd, why is it impossible for you to accept that a movie is not the same vehicle for a story as a book? If the director had tried to create a movie as faithful to the book as you would like (several people mentioned as one of their complaints that the character Annabeth has dark hair instead of blonde- is there no nit too small to pick?) the film would have been so long that everyone would have gone to sleep long before the intrepid trio got anywhere near the underworld. The test is not whether the movie is faithful to the book, but whether it works as a movie. Try to separate the two in your mind and you'll find you enjoy your evening a whole lot more than if you sit there muttering "That wasn't in the book." By the way, I read the book before I saw the movie, so don't accuse me of not knowing how wonderful the book is (it isn't, but that's another story).  In short, those who opted for a star choice somewhere in the middle have got it right. The average review rating is three stars and that's exactly what this movie deserves. It's an enjoyable, light-hearted couple of hours, with a good director and a decent cast. It's not a classic and it's not a dud. Now, if you'll excuse me, I must get to Auntie Em's before they close. I need a few more statues for the garden.

A Trashy Soap Opera That NEEDS Dyan Cannon's Talents... [DOCTOR'S WIVES - (1970)]  After seeing and enjoying 'Such Good Friends' by Otto Preminger, starring Dyan Cannon in a marvelous role, I thought I'd try another film from that same time period with her in the lead and thought this might be the place, even though I suspected this would likely be fromage of the smelliest kind. No such chance. In spite of top-billing and being prominently displayed on posters for this film and flagrantly touted as a her vehicle in its re-release here and elsewhere, Dyan Cannon clocks in just under three minutes of total screen time - WTF? When she was knocked off before the five-minute mark took place, I assumed there would be flashbacks aplenty with her character, as hers was the most pronounced, enjoyable and hand-wringingly foul-mouthed of the five women the film centers around, but no, she's gone for good. What a waste... On another note, I was correct about it being of the smelliest kind...Oh well, one out of two ain't bad, I guess...but a bummer regardless.  A well known and eccentric cast elevates this one from sheer cinematic dumpster-diving for entertainment - it's ridiculously trashy without the graces of being charmingly campy or cult-like, garish with all the guilt left in, tasteless without tact, and as subtle as a bludgeoning. It's as artful as TV is at its lowest ladder-rung (and that's why I didn't enjoy it), nothing but a brash soap opera, a pre-`Dynasty' era flowerbox in sad need of water. That said, those who enjoy cheap, cheesy soap operas with familiar names and little adornment will no doubt love this one. I mean, look how long 'General Hospital' was on the air...it's not still on, is it?  In spite of product details, there's no murder mystery here; we learn immediately who killed Dyan Cannon's character, and he's a despicable SOB, and the rest of the cast are about as sympathy-deserving as Casey Anthony. Even the peripheral characters are no one you'd ever think of socializing with, so I'm clueless as to why I'm supposed to care about the cheating wives clandestine activities - if I wasn't raised (somewhat) properly, I'd contemplate killing them myself. But why stop with just one? Don't get me started...  As for the women involved, Janice Rule is great in her role of the least despicable wife (at least she knows how to dress), and Rachel Roberts turns in a good performance as well. Richard Crenna is adequate in the main male role considering there isn't much to do. There's about as much moral fiber on display here as there is in a South American prison. The major insult was casting John Colicos as the murderer - he's incredibly vile and loathsome, true, but he always is, so you knew was the bad guy, he always is, and he's as embracable as Glenn Beck. And wasting talent such as Gene Hackman and Carroll O'Connor in such small, supporting roles without even giving them one scene each to thrive in was the true transgression. That and killing off Dyan Cannon so criminally early on. A two and a half star flick that should've easily been four with all the talent involved. Makes you wonder why people get married in the first place.  I'd like to state something more positive about this one, but at these prices, someone's gotta look out for the other guy before someone else makes the same mistake I did. 'Not my cup of tea or what I'd place in my flask or snifter. 'Nuff said.

A very, very dark version of "Dead Poet's Society" set in an all girls school. Not bad, but was hoping for better. I say B- "Let nothing hold you back except the air itself. You are between heaven and earth. The rules no longer apply."  A teacher (Green) at a boarding school for girls tries to teach them about real life.  When a new girl arrives at the school and takes Miss G's (Green) attention from her, Di (Temple) becomes jealous.  This is a movie that drags a little, but is still very good.  Eva Green's performance alone is worth watching this for.  The entire movie she keeps you guessing as to what kind of person she is. Just when you think she is helping the girls, something changes and you are not sure anymore.  I would compare this to "Dead Poet's Society", but a darker version of that movie.  I did enjoy this but again, it is pretty slow in parts but it is worth it to stay with it until the end.  Overall, this is a good movie, but not for everyone.  A very dark British version of "Dead Poet's Society" for girls.  I give it a B-.  Would I watch again? - I don't think I will.  *Also try - Never Let Me Go

Looking at the Dark Side This is a good program at looking at the dark side of human kind.  There are a lot of gaps in every story, especially if you see it many times over.  The storytellers and the performers are staged and there are so many gaps that can be seen, but does have some truth as per the perversions of human frailty.

not the biggest movie of the year I love the satc series but this movie certainly lacks its main background character which is new york! its sort of ridiculous to see the money overflow in this film, i liked it better when it was less dresses and more plot...at least its entertaining!

Started off rough but had some good moments Mike Epps had me concerned at the beginning of the movie. I think he's pretty funny in movies, but a relative told me his stand-up was terrible. He said Mike got to the point where he'd mumble, "That wasn't funny" and try again. I was surprised by his opinion because I couldn't believe I wouldn't like Mike in stand-up. Then I watched the beginning of this DVD. He used the b-word and the n-word more times than the entire hip-hop community for 2011. At some points I was thinking, "Okay, take a break. Call them something else." But every time he got the crowd to laugh, he'd repeat the same joke two or three times (ex. the leg kick). I was ready to turn the DVD off, but when he got to politics and Obama, the DVD started to pick up the pace. It took me far too long to laugh, but when he got to politics, I smiled. From then on, it was pretty good. Mike Epps is funny, but some of his vocabulary can be so disrespectful that it distracts you from the punchline. Ironically the funniest part of the DVD was not the stand-up; it was him going through Detroit to meet the people. I watched them and the smile never left my face. Watching this DVD confirms that I'd never pay to see him perform live, but I'll definitely continue to watch movies he's in.

Good DVD set, but wrong zone The set of Cadfael DVDs are good, but they were coded for North America and didn't play on my DVD players (coded for Australia).  In the end I found a computer that would play them.

NO closed caption for Season 1? I am not sure if I purchased a genuine edition because: (1) there is not closed caption (2) there is no print "Season one" on each disc while the images available on the Internet has it.  Would somebody clarify the above?

Expected More I was really looking foward to being blown away with the Blue Angels in Blu-ray, but sadly  wasn't.  There is no bigger fan of the "Angels"  then I am.  Lost count of how many times I've seen them in person and have several DVD's of the Blue Angels  and the Thunderbirds, sorry guys But the Angels are best by far.  I wanted to see more of their flying,  I wanted to "feel it "  with the system I've got, But compairing the Blu ray with the regular dvd it was truly  compairing apples to apple  there was no big difference.  That's just one man's thoughts ,,,,,,,

Event Horizon:Scary Type of Space This film came out two weeks after Spawn,but I remember seeing posters for it maybe 3 weeks before the august 15th release date in 1997. when me and father went to go see it(I think I was 13)the theater was packed.Long story short,Event Horizon has an ominous beginning with the musical score and title credits.Still,it had the classic set-up of a ghost ship story(though this ship in set in space).I did not really jump out of my seat like the other audiences,but indeed found myself disturbed at the gory scenes(one particularly eerie scene is when Sam Neill's Weir is in an air condition like duct and the lights keep flashing on and off,till he sees an image of his dead wife).True, it dosen't let you know what really happened to E.H. until halfway through,and the cast is somewhat on point(given the material).If you don't like scary jolters,best stay away from Event Horizon.

Apes More Enthralling Than The Humans In the original "Apes" films, the one aspect of those movies that could legitimately be improved upon is the special effects and ape character presentation.  Though the outlandish ape costumes were state-of-the-art in their day and give those films part of their homely touch, today's CGI can bring so much more "realism" to science fiction scenes that could never have been dreamed of 40-50 years ago.  "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" does just that, but unfortunately gets pretty much everything else wrong.  For a basic plot summary, "Rise" focuses on two "individuals": Will Rodman (James Franco), a scientist developing a cure for Alzheimer's disease who discovers that its effect on apes is extraordinary.  One ape in particular, Ceasar, gains such increased intelligence from the experimental drug that he leads his fellow simians in a revolt against the humans keeping them in captivity.  As I previously mentioned, the special effects are the hallmark of this flick.  Whereas the "Apes" of yesteryear (especially the late sequels) struggle to visually depict an ape rebellion, "Rise" nails that scenario and makes it impressive to behold.  The main problem holding "Rise" back, though, is the acting (or lack thereof) from the humans in the film.  James Franco is utterly uninspiring and wooden in what needed to be a key role, and that malaise seemed to trickle down through the auxiliary cast members.  By the end of the viewing, I didn't care whatsoever about the human element, instead getting antsy to just see more "ape stuff".  Also, in referencing the "Apes" cannon, "Rise" is so-so.  Some lines/moments are epic and true to form, while other plot points stray far away from the established material (for better or worse).  Thus, I consider "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" to be a decent re-imagining of the chronological beginning of the "Apes" saga.  It is too uneven to be any kind of classic, but does warrant a watch from sci-fi junkies or "Ape-heads".

More production design than psychological depth in period piece about Japanese occupied China *** This review may contain spoilers ***  With excellent cinematography, impeccable direction, a haunting score and top-notch performances, why is 'Lust, Caution', such a ho-hum affair? For starters, so much of it is stretched out that we end up with only tidbits of compelling drama. This film could have and would have worked a lot better had about 45 minutes of celluloid found its way on to the cutting room floor.  'Lust, Caution' is divided into two parts. The first part is set in Hong Kong in 1938, before the Japanese have occupied all of China. Leehom Wang does well in his first acting performance as Kuang Yu Min, a radical student at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He conscripts a pretty, shy co-ed, Wong Chia Chi, to act in a patriotic play, designed to inflame the passions of a Chinese audience, who naively believe that they can defeat the Japanese, who are on the verge of taking over the entire country. Chia Chi is so successful in moving the audience to tears that Kuang becomes convinced that she could assist him and his acting group turned real-life conspirators, in a plot to assassinate Mr. Yee, a local party chief affiliated with the Wang Jingwei puppet government in mainland China. Kuang concludes that only Chia Chi can infiltrate Yee's organization and perhaps help facilitate his assassination.  Chia Chi assumes the identity of Mrs. Mak, the wife of an import-export dealer and is introduced to Mrs. Yee, the wife of the intended target. While we're expecting some kind of exciting, assassination attempt by Kuang and his confederates in the first hour of the film, that never happens as Mr. and Mrs. Yee unexpectedly move back to Shanghai. What we are treated to during the first hour is a long-winded sequence of "Mrs. Mak" playing Mahjong with Mrs. Yee and her social circle, Chia Chi being deflowered by one of Kuang's co-conspirators in order to gain some skill in seducing Mr. Yee and the clumsy murder of Tsao, one of Yee's subordinates, who pays a visit to the Kuang and company as they are packing up their bags following Yee's sudden departure from Hong Kong.  While the conspirators are supposed to be the 'good guys', Ang Lee makes the point that they're really no better than Mr. Yee, who both use Chia Chi as a sex object. When she's forced to lose her virginity in such a mechanical way, Kuang wants her to understand that this is her service to a greater cause--at the same time, he does nothing to comfort her and worse, express any deep-felt feelings he has for her. All this only serves to harden Wong who later betrays the group. The betrayal at the film's climax is foreshadowed by the group's awkward attempt to train Wong as a seductress--this is where she really loses her enthusiasm for the group's cause.  The second part of of 'Lust, Caution, takes place four years later in Shanghai. Kuang now is an undercover agent for the KMT, which seeks to undermine Japanese occupation rule and the Chinese puppet government. With her past contacts with Mr. Yee and his wife, Chia Chi again is able to infiltrate the Yee inner circle. This time she becomes Yee's mistress and most of the film deals with Yee and Chia Chi's relationship. Yee is first depicted as a sadist as he rapes Chia Chi during their first sexual encounter. Gradually he warms up to her and by film's end, he's buys her a very expensive diamond ring. By concentrating on the sexual relations between the two, Ang Lee sacrifices any chance to develop Yee's character. He's played by Tony Leung Chiu-Wai who desperately tries to humanize Yee by showing his tender side during love-making (although he's afraid of the dark, Yee eventually allows Chia Chi to place a towel over his eyes, connoting some vulnerability). But we surely would have liked to know more about Yee--for example, what does he exactly do in his job as head of the secret police? (I think that's a lot more interesting than all those sex scenes that go on ad infinitum). Why not more like the scene in the Japanese district where Yee confides to Chia Chi that he really despises the Japanese and their cause is lost? Now that's ambiguity (and we needed a lot more of that!).  As for Chia Chi, her failure to help the good guys, is meant to be seen as tragic. While Mr. Yee plays with her emotions, she begs the KMT to act before she becomes an emotional basket case. Due to 'strategic concerns', Chia Chi is told to wait and before you know it, she's fallen for 'bad boy' Yee, hook, line and sinker. Lee seemingly sees her as a victim of a male chauvinistic society. Others might view her as a weak woman who had a job to do during wartime and betrayed her confederates, resulting in their tragic death.  Chia Chi warns Mr. Yee at the film's denouement and he escapes with his life. I had no objection to Ang Lee trying to avoid a sentimental, happy ending. Given the time period the film is set in, there actually weren't too many happy endings for Chinese people under the Japanese occupation. Nonetheless, it sure takes us a long time to get there. But even if you're willing to go along with the film's glacial pacing, one is struck by the fact that this is not a film that appeals to the intellect. Rather, it's a film that relies merely on the sexual chemistry between the principals without bothering to virtually flesh out any other element of their personalities. The same can be said for the supporting players (the conspirators) who we find out next to nothing about.  For all its wonderful atmosphere, 'Lust, Caution' serves up only a few surprises; along the way, its characters remain ciphers who we can hardly become involved with.

Okay The movie was a little less than I expected.  It was not the actors, it was the story itself.  If you watch it on streaming, you have probably seen as much as you want.

Viva La Bam Season 1 I recieved my order in very good condition, I was a little sad that it didnt have the box and bonus disc, but you cant have everything.

Go to the concert hall, this DVD is ok but can't reproduce the impact of this work This review is for the standard DVD.  It is possible that the blu ray version is better but I was not that impressed with this recording.  First, I think it virtually impossible to get the dynamic range and spatial characteristics of this huge work onto a recorded disk and this disk was lacking in both dynamic range and spatial sound resolution.  My response to hearing this work in a concert hall was much different -- to use the phrase, "I was blown away."  Second I was really bothered by the scene choices of the video director.  Whomever it was spent much too much time on close ups.  The insides of a soloist's mouth when singing full out, or the sweat and plastered hair on the conductor's forehead would not be my first choice of images, yet variations of those seemed to be the re-occuring shots chosen.  Also the scenes shown were of very short duration -- often just a few seconds before there was cut to something else -- I found this distracting and disorienting.  I may have enjoyed the program more if I had turned the video off but then I would not have been able to read the sub titles.

Strange but interesting I first saw Time Bandits when I was just a kid.  I thought it was the coolest movie ever.  So in a fit of nostalgia I bought the movie when I found it at Amazon.  While I still enjoyed it I had forgotten how strange it was and that it had no real ending.  It's like the movie just stops with none of your questions answered. Other than that it is an entertaining movie with several very good actors.  I do recommend this movie for a night at home with some friends.  Just make sure they all have good imaginations or you will do a lot of explaining.

Decent Movie to Watch I bought this movie, mistakenly thinking it was a different movie I had been looking for. I decided to give it a chance anyway. The beginning wasn't too exciting, but eventually it did keep your interest. I'm a very difficult critic when it comes to horror type movies, being a huge fan of the genre. This movie was decent, not great, not excellent.... decent. It was slightly predictable, but there were many times you caught yourself jumping or reacting to a certain part. As it continues you do feel like you're there with them in the dark cave, feeling a bit claustrophobic as the characters tried squeezing through tight spaces. So I'm giving it 3/5 stars. Something to watch, but nothing to get too excited about.

Buy it for the memories, not the quality. I have to say, I am not the type that usually notices the technical details of a DVD. However, I can say with certainty that this DVD looks like a bootleg VHS tape. It is sad, because this was on my must see list every year growing up, and while I am glad to have a copy, I think it looked cleaner and sounded louder when they used show it on PBS. I hope an anniversary comes around and they give it the remastering that it deserves.

Slow Slow Slow - Long Long Long Beautifully made, beautiful scenery, and beautiful acting; that is what is wrong with Water for Elephants. This is a movie about the depression, the film should be gritty and dirty, and instead it was a perfectly clean, perfectly manicured Hollywood set.  This is one of the most predictable movies I've seen in a long time. An old man shows up at night in a circus parking lot. He sees pictures of the Benzini Brothers Circus and waxes nostalgic. The young man that runs the ticket office is impressed that the man recognizes the Benzini Brothers Circus, it didn't exist beyond 1931. The film is then told in flashback with the old man narrating occasionally (his voice appears to remind the audience the film is really flashback).  There are moments in films where I wonder why a character does a particular thing. If the thing is so far from the way a normal person would respond, I believe less and less in the film. Sometimes those actions are so far fetched the film jumps the shark, I can no longer enjoy the film. Water for Elephants is full of those strange moments where characters do things that just don't ring true. The first huge mistake, Jacob is in the middle of taking his last exam to become a veterinarian. His parents are killed in a car accident. Somebody interrupts the test; Jacob must come immediately to identify his parents in the morgue. He never goes back to take the test. No professor ever would have not allowed him to take that exam. It was a simple two hour test; he could have taken the test. The next big mistake, a few days later a banker tells Jacob his father had no money, was in debt beyond belief and they were taking away his house and all his belongings - Jacob is now homeless. The banker tells Jacob his father was a fool and an awful man. And the house was repossessed so fast, Jacob still has no chance to take his test. He barely has time to gather a single suitcase. No matter, the banker never would have said things exactly like that. Why tell somebody their dead father was an awful stupid man.  The bottom line, for me, this movie jumped the shark within the first fifteen minutes. A lead character that was that stupid to not go back and finish, to just leave, I had a hard time believing any of his motivations from that point forward. In a lot of ways, I didn't really care deeply about what happened to him. And then to simply rub salt in the wound, Jacob was always perfect, his hair was perfect, he never got dirty, his clothes were nice, and he always had a silly smile on his face.  The moment Jacob sets eyes on Marlena; it is clear what will happen. At roughly thirty minutes into the film, the ending is telegraphed. This film marched slowly, oh so slowly, down a predetermined path that was so predictable.  Robert Pattinson, as Jacob, is supposed to be Polish. Pattinson tries to speak Polish a lot in this film, his Polish accent is awful. I'm terribly sorry to all the Pattinson fans, but he does a very bad job acting in this film. He's handsome and beautiful window dressing, but I never once believed any of his motivation or really cared much about what he did. The solution to his problems all seemed to be, smile, be handsome, and everything will be OK (it's kind of a blending of Tom Cruise and Robert Redford). Reese Witherspoon as Marlena had moments of good acting, but she also spent a lot of time just looking pretty and smiling. As much as I hated the August character, Christoph Waltz was the only believable character in this film. He was the best actor.  So many little things that ruined this film. It was just way too Hollywood, too glossy, too perfectly done, too much of just a vehicle to pander for Pattinson fans. The film is two hours long and is honestly a full hour too long. The story plods along so slowly and relentlessly.  Water for Elephants is a pretty film that shouldn't be pretty.

Funny movie, DVD could be better While this movie is funny and always a good watch, I'm somewhat disappointed in the DVD itself.  The biggest disappointment is the pan-and-scan only presentation.  Whether one has a widescreen TV or not, I've always equated pan-and-scan to butchering a movie, forcing the audience to watch it in a way the director certainly didn't intend.  Given the increased technical capabilities of DVDs as opposed to videotape, there's really no excuse for a movie to be presented outside of its original aspect ratio.  Also, the picture quality of the movie is somewhat washed out.  I've seen the movie look better on cable television.

Stop this camera, I'm going to be sick Good film until somebody thought that it wasn't exciting enough and the camera looked liked it was being held by somebody on their eighth cup of coffee.  Really, the script, the acting, it was all really good - why ruin it with over the top panning and camera shaking?  Could barely follow the last half of the film.  Like JJ Abrams and his abortion of a Star Trek film.

Decent period epic While it has the expected jingoistic/nationalist tone for a British film made on the eve of WWII, it's actually a bit more cynical and somber than many such films made contemporaneously.  The focus is more on personal duty, honor, and friendship than "national service".  While the plot is somewhat routine, there are moments that elevate it and the performances are good.  The battle sequences are good but (obviously) lose some impact on the small screen.  It may be apocryphal, but real British soldiers (in period outfits) and real dervishes were used as extras, and it is claimed that the British rifles were loaded in case the dervishes got "carried away" during filming.  There is the usual casual racism of the era in the portrayal of any non-Europeans and the usual stilted dialogue of 30's films, but neither of these issues ruins the film.  Anyone who enjoyed Lawrence of Arabia should find enough to appreciate in this film, although it obviously isn't anywhere in the same league.

Moderately humurous. Nothing too special in my opinion. It's okay if you're looking for a few laughs and a cliche comedy story line in which raunchy humor and loopholes follow your mind throughout the movie. I really disliked the children in the movie, if it wasn't for Jonas hill I wouldn't have chuckled once while watching this flick.

Lightweight (well, actually kinda heavyweight) "Gulliver" still has its lighthearted appeal ***This review may contain spoilers***  First of all, in response to Swiftian purists who were disappointed that Jack Black's version of "Gulliver's Travels" (hereafter GT) was not strictly faithful to Swift's ageless satire, I say, are you hopelessly naive?  In spite of its fantastic locales and characters, GT really doesn't lend itself to cinematic treatment because of its episodic structure and laceratingly pessimistic satire of human nature.  As Hallmark proved, GT is more suited to a mini-series approach, and while, I believe, Hallmark's GT (starring Ted Danson as Lemuel Gulliver) is the best (and probably the only) faithful adaptation of Swift's satire we will ever witness, even it had a contrived upbeat ending antithetical to Swift's themes.  As movies go, I think a somewhat whimsical (albeit somewhat superficial) fairy-tale approach is the best way to deal with GT.  Just about every GT movie version (animated or live action) does so, and I have enjoyed them all.  That goes for Jack Black's "GT" too, which is about on a par with the others.  (PLOT DESCRIPTION:  Lemuel Gulliver (Jack Black), a boisterous, but surprisingly shy, mail-room clerk for a New York travel company, can't seem to advance professionally or romantically.  He has harbored a 5-year crush on Darcy Silverman (Amanda Peet) without acting on it.  Gathering his courage one more time to ask Darcy out, he loses his nerve and instead pretends to be a noted travel writer looking for a better job.  After Gulliver fabricates a plagiarized travel article on Mexico, Darcy gives him a Bermuda Triangle assignment. Gulliver goes to Burmuda, charters a sailboat, gets sucked into a watery maelstrom, and finds himself bound on the ground in Lilliput, a miniature kingdom of doll-sized people.  At first their chained slave, Lemuel gains freedom and respect after saving the tiny princess (Emily Blunt) from a palace fire with his - excretions and the whole kingdom from an armada sent by Lilliput's enemy, the equally tiny kingdom of Blefescu. Lilliput celebrates the "giant" Gulliver as a hero and protector, all except the treacherous and jealous Lilliputian general Edward Eduardo (Chris O'Dowd), who schemes to take over Lilliput (and treasonously orchestrated the fire and armada attack) and resents the intrusion of the "big, hairy beast".   Feeling like a "big shot" for the first time in his life, Gulliver gets the royal treatment from the industrious and tech-savvy Lilliputians, who amazingly build him a seaside home, theater, and even miniature Times Square mockup, and cater to his every need.  In the meantime, Gulliver regales the tiny folk with tall tales of his exploits, cribbing from "Star Wars", "Titanic", and other movies.  But the facade quickly crumbles as Gulliver receives voicemail messages from Darcy, who has realized Gulliver's deception and threatens to fire him.  Even worse, General Eduardo constructs a 7-foot metal robot (from a blueprint Lemuel accidentally brings with him) that humiliates, defeats, and exiles Gulliver to "the forbidden land", which turns out to be Brobdingnag, land of the giants (not named in the film).  For a while, the demoralized Gulliver becomes the plaything of a sadistic little girl until the heroic Lilliputian Horatio (Jason Segel), Gulliver's best friend in Lilliput, finds him and convinces him to come back to save the kingdom.  In the meantime, Darcy, who has set out to perform Gulliver's assignment, is also caught in the whirlpool and whisked to Lilliput, where she is also made prisoner.  Gulliver finds her in the dungeon he used to occupy, along with the king (Billy Connolly), queen (Catherine Tate), and the rest of the royal retinue, frees them, and vows to save Lilliput from the usurper Eduardo and his Iron-Man like robot. With Horatio's help, Gulliver does defeat Eduardo and the robot and save the kingdom, and wins Darcy's love and a real job as travel writer.  Also, Horatio finally overcomes his "base" origins and wins the princess's love.  Gulliver and Darcy go back to New York. Whew!)  Now I'll admit that "GT" is far from a seamlessly perfect movie.  It contains improbabilities and plot holes a Brobdingnagian could walk through (e.g. how did the medieval Lilliputians acquire enough resources and technological know-how to feed and house Gulliver?; why didn't Gulliver trample any Lilliputians with all his jumping around; why didn't the Blefuscudian cannons wound Gulliver like a pistol?, how did Horatio make it safely to Brobdingnag to save Gulliver?; how could Gulliver's phone have enough bars to receive Darcy's call?).  The special effects and CGI were also wildly variable, from stunning to background projection phony.  And no, "GT" does not address Swift's satirical themes at all.  In spite of these shortcomings, I did enjoy the movie.  I guess Jack Black's Gulliver insidiously won me over.  Sure, he's a chubby, fun-loving, energetic goof, but he is also (and not inconsistently) an endearingly diffident, uncertain guy with self-esteem issues.  Even in Lilliput, he is initially intimidated by the tiny kingdom and general until he proves his worth.  Even when he is exploiting and deceiving the Lilliputians (who reminded me of the Doozers in "Fraggle Rock"), Gulliver is sweet and gentle to all of them.  He acts as a huge, funny Cyrano de Bergerac to Horatio by giving him song lyrics from Prince help him woo the princess.  Gulliver doesn't want to hurt anyone; even when he faces the Blefuscudian armada, he tries unsuccessfully to cut a deal with the ship commanders and says he'll only pretend to attack them if they promise to leave.  When Gulliver's fortunes fall because of his deceit and he sinks into despair, I think it's touching. When he regains his confidence and vows to be a genuine hero, to both Darcy and Lilliput, I think it's both touching and inspiring.  Gulliver's tussle with the robot was also fun and even a bit hair-raising, as when the robot knocks Gulliver back and he (or maybe a stunt double) performs a temporary headstand (with no arm support).  I guess I am part of the group that like's Jack Black's frat-boyish, exuberant, but basically decent persona (as I did in "School of Rock" and "King Kong"). "GT" showcases believable character growth and development.  Ultimately, "GT" is what it is: an engagingly silly but enjoyably lighthearted romp with gently-presented themes of integrity, courage, and self-improvement.  And yes, I really mean that (even taking the butt-crack and urination scenes into account).

A great cast but otherwise disappointing The Debt (an American remake of a 2007 Israeli film of the same name) is best described as a story on two levels.  On one level, it's a melodramatic espionage thriller that takes places in the 1960's, while on the other, it's a mystery that unfolds thirty years later, one that is centered around the events of the original espionage mission.  The film cuts back and forth between these two story lines, with a different trio of actors portraying the three main characters in each story line.  In 1966, a trio of Israeli Mossad agents - Rachel Singer (Jessica Chastain), David Peretz (Sam Worthington) and Stefan Gold (Marton Csokas) - are sent behind the Iron Curtain in East Berlin to kidnap an escaped Nazi war criminal, Dieter Vogel (Jesper Christiansen), the infamous "Surgeon of Birkenau".  The mission goes awry when, after successfully capturing Vogel, the plan to smuggle him out of East Berlin is disrupted and they are forced to go into hiding while they try to make other arrangements.  It is while he is being held prisoner that Vogel overpowers Rachel and almost escapes, leaving her face grievously scarred in the process.  But Rachel manages to shoot Vogel before he gets away, killing him, and the trio return to Israel as heroes and their mission becomes a Mossad legend.  Later, Rachel and Stefan marry, for reasons that are quite frankly never made clear and end up having a daughter, and David decides to leave.  But in the current day (1997) story line, things are more complicated.  Rachel (Helen Mirren) is being honored at a publication party for her daughter Sarah (Romi Aboulafia) who has written a book about her parents' legendary mission.  Already visibly uncomfortable when asked to read a key passage from the book, Rachel becomes even more displeased when Stefan (Tom Wilkinson), now in a wheelchair and from whom she is completely estranged, shows up at the party, a situation clearly set up by Sarah who had told her mother than he wouldn't be there.  At the same time, David (Ciaran Hinds) has also resurfaced, clearly troubled. And we begin to learn that there are cracks in the legend, and ultimately, that the legend is nothing but a self-serving lie that all three have lived with for the last thirty years.  I will acknowledge that my reaction to The Debt is in the minority as it was garnered a fair amount of critical praise, but that said, I found myself ultimately disappointed.  I cannot fault the performances of the stellar cast, nor can I really fault the director, John Madden, beyond the pacing problem.  I would probably lay the blame for my overall reaction with the script (the one done for the remake) which was written by Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman.  I have not seen the original Israeli film on which it was based, but in reading the plot summary it appears that some substantial changes were made for this version and that, from what some reviewers say, the original was better.  But that aside, for me the problem with The Debt lies in the fact that it requires some considerable suspensions of disbelief, and that, quite frankly, most of the characters are not particularly likeable or sympathetic.  Stefan is a manipulative, self-centered ladder-climber whose only concerns are his ambitions and his career.  And both Rachel and David are easily manipulated, in addition to forever vacillating in their feelings towards each other, towards Stefan, and inexplicably at times, towards Vogel.  And in their older selves, they have not grown wiser so much as simply worse.  The pacing in the beginning is also something of a problem and I actually found myself falling asleep before things finally picked up with the abduction of Vogel. But even when things did pick up, I found myself not really liking it all that much. The characters were so flawed as individuals - and even more flawed as a team - it was difficult to accept the initial premise.  I wouldn't have sent that crew around the corner to pick up a pack of gum, let alone behind the Iron Curtain to kidnap an escaped Nazi.  And the fact that they weren't very sympathetic as individuals made the tepidly melodramatic love triangle subplot more tedious than anything else. I also found it difficult to believe that Vogel would've left Rachel alive before fleeing the apartment.  Or that any competent intelligence officer would've simply accepted their story when they got back.  It also says something when the only halfway interesting scenes are the ones with the Nazi doctor, even when written as it is in the The Debt as something of a cliche. For that I'd have to credit the actor - Jesper Christensen - who manages to at least make his repellant doctor fascinating to watch - much like a particularly vicious caged rat - even if you've seen the basic character in countless movies before and the dialogue is just variations on the same old theme.  That Christensen's Vogel, even with the clich&eacute;s, was about the only thing in The Debt worth seeing, says a lot about the rest of the film.  As does the fact that even having Vogel for contrast does not make the ostensible heroes particularly sympathetic.  Again, I recognize that my opinion is a minority one.  If you read a review by someone you trust and they say see it, then go ahead.  For myself though, I'd say The Debt is okay if you don't go in expecting much and if you can wade through the ramped-up self-inflicted angst the main characters wallow in for most of the movie.

it could be better think "blackhawk down" plus "independance day" without any of will smith's silliness. the alien invaders dont seem very formidable considering they came here from somewhere else.its watchable, but not more than once.

Alien/human hybrid on the loose... "Species" (1995) is directed by Roger Donaldson (The Recruit, The Bank Job). This sci-fi horror film stars a notable cast from Ben Kingsley to Forest Whitaker, Michael Madsen and Alfred Molina. Natasha Henstridge plays an alien who is a product of science. An alien transmission gives information about alien DNA which earth scientists use to splice with human DNA. The movie is primarily a chase to track down the alien which escapes from the lab before it can mate and reproduce. The movie was a lot more fun to watch than I originally remembered it being when I first saw it in 1995. The creature itself is a creation of H.R.Giger.  The movie has unfortunately not been remastered, and I was surprised to see how many instances of dust are on this relatively recent film, particularly at the front end of the film. This however didn't spoil my enjoyment of the film once the action got started. Perhaps one of the biggest pluses with this set is that the blu-ray version has a featurette (in standard definition) with H.R. Giger working in his studio/house on the skull-train that appears in the dream sequences. There is also a "Designing a Hybrid" featurette which doesn't appear on the DVD disc of this blu-ray/dvd combo set.

The Greenest Movie Of The Year! The Green Hornet is another box-office hit that proves that teenagers decide what movies become box-office hits. There is nothing much here for adults, but the 13 year old boy inside of me dug some of the silly humor and action. Seth Rogan is kind of funny. Cameron Diaz is pretty, and also pretty wasted here. James Franco shows up for a couple of minutes and then gets blown...up. End of story.

harry strikes again but wait for future its hardcore to review a series of ongoing movie deliberately spread over years and the finale is yet to come leaving you half breathless for another year. good teenage entertainment.

Lets make it cheaper I wish everyone would stop giving this movie such a high review so I can buy it for a dollar

dated and subdued Do not expect Liz Taylor's usual dynamic performance. She's practically asleep in this one. I blame the script. Burton is more alive but nothing like he usually is.  There is also an element of 60s cultural isolation. What I mean is that we are shown what was then considered exotic, but not so exotic these days.  What was cutting edge in 1967 is pretty dull now.

Rodman Down Under Pretty good event for the value of this DVD. Paid only $0.98 for it and the "No disqualification" match between Dennis Rodman and Mr. Perfect was worth the price of this DVD. Hennig was "Perfect" as usual and made Dennis Rodman looked like a legitimate threat in the ring.  Not a stellar event, as most of the matches were past-it wrestlers wrestling for one last chance at glory. Kinda reminiscent of the now infamous Heroes of Wrestling pay-per view event back in the late 1990's. The one other good match on the card was The Road Warriors vs. Public Enemy opening match.

Good points but flawed presentation Woody Harrelson does an excellent job narrating this documentary, but the rest of the presentation is flawed: sound goes in and out; video segments are very poorly done, and there should have been more comments from the intellectual giants mentioned in the film. And they left out Naomi Klein who could have added her take on how corporations and government prey on catastrophes to enact their reactionary agendas. If you stick with the movie it does have some excellent points but the advice at the end is a huge letdown. And Harrellson should have totally avoided any reference to conspiracy theories. No doubt corporations run our lives and even more so today. This film was made before the Citizens United ruling, and no mention is made at all of the conservative bent of the Supreme Court. Our Congress was derelict in its duty to properly review the facts that led to the iraq war. We are now a warfare state more so than a welfare state. The Patriot Act should never have been passed and both political parties will have to answer for this usurption of our Constitutional rights. Our police forces have beome more militaristic, and the media has been feeding us the corporatist line for decades. The rhetoric from the right calling the media "liberal" would be laughable but it is more sad. We can barely count on the N.Y. Times to give us the facts we need to make intelligent decisions as citizens, and the U.S. is mainly apathetic on political affairs and prone to actually believe the sound bites thrown at them. All these points and more are made in the movie but what we can do about them was the biggest letdown. Just avoiding companies that promote reactionary agendas is a start but it puts the citizenry in a huge economic box. We need to really talk about the apathetic nature of America and why more people don't vote. The real power is at the ballot box which is why Republican governors are pulling out the stops on voter-id laws to prevent the unrich from voting. The movie should have focused more on that.

Glee The season itself was amazing, but there was one disc that didn't spin right, and skipped around in one episode. It was frustrating that this happened because not only did it make a lot of noise when it was spinning, but I had bought another season 2 set before that did the same thing, so I was hoping this one would be different. Other than that everything else works fine.

Could be better As I don't have cable TV anymore, I watch TV/movies on my computer, rent DVDs, or borrow them - many from the library. For this show, I borrowed it from a friend, as I couldn't afford to buy it, and even if I could, I certainly wouldn't watch it more than once. Read on to learn why.  If I still had Netflix, I would have gotten it from them, but they p.o.'d me for the last time over not having movies I wanted, bad quality DVDs, splitting their services up, then reuniting them, and then the price increases. However, that's not what this review is about.  So... I watched the complete first season of The Game of Thrones over a weekend that I had a lot of ironing to do. This was a good thing. I could go from one episode to the next without waiting and forgetting what had happened. However, as an HBO produced show, I was sooooooooo disappointed!  George R.R. Martin must be steaming mad about the script writing on this HBO series! They really botched it up. The acting is only marginal for many of the characters and character development is sorely lacking. It's overtly sexual in nature (as is so much HBO content), which isn't necessary to tell a good story, and way too much gratuitous violence as well, which also is not necessary to get one's point across. IMO, I think they had to add in all the sex and violence just to sell it, considering how badly written the program is. It seems a lot of information is just plain missing, as far as background goes. I really hate badly written and badly acted shows, whether they be live or filmed.  I'm going to read the books instead of bothering to watch the rest of series. Hopefully, I'll get more into this fantasy fiction series through the printed word.

Ok. What I had hoped it wouldn't be.. First off I'm already in very good shape and wanted to search for a yoga or flexibility/fitness program that I could supplement with my normal routine. I've tried many yoga classes and often found them boring, not that hard, and a little too spiritual for me. The ultimate yogi pretty much fulfilled all those qualities with a lot more corny qualities.  First off the introduction dvd was very extremely laughable. There's a short film that I thought was a joke at first and I'd really recommend they delete that content. It shows Travis searching the streets for answers where he finds an old shop with eastern ancient books, where then a person leads him to an old man who teaches him the secrets of the universe through yoga. Sorry but this DVD is way too out there. This content will go against most Christian values and will make you question if you should even take up yoga.  The workouts are not too bad if you're into moving very slow and listening to Travis talk in this very  annoying manner. I was already disappointed with the first day calling for Crosstrain and Hardcore DVDs to be performed. They both where pretty easy and again just boring. I already thought I just wasted money (good thing there's a 36 money back guarantee) The people in class also fit the stereotype of yogis. I was really distracted by one dude I think cut scars into his chest for some design. Anyways I digress. I've tried them all and find it a challenge to rely on these dvds along (for 108 days) for my exercise. And that's what I want exercise not spiritual nirvana. Again the biggest challenge was would be making through the monotony of the workouts.  The books and other materials included are also a little misleading. The book is hardly a book, but more an insert to a cd. There's about a paragraph on the diet, not explained in detail at all.  If you're searching for a more modern approach to yoga or a routine to increase flexibility and strength I suggest Yoga Meltdown or Bob Harper's Yoga. Both would be ideal for combination of body weight strength, cardio and increase flexibility. Another great dvd system that look comparable that AMAZON doesn't sell here is one called DDP Yoga that I've heard great things about.

So bad, it was good Easily one of the worst movies ever made. Definitely the worst Christmas movie.  However, it was so very bad that it was actually hilarious. Don't expect much and you just might enjoy it.

Beautiful, but doesn't live up to the first movie This third Narnia movie continues to ride the coat tails of the success from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000E8M0VA">The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe)</a>. Unfortunately, it fails to live up to the magic of the first movie.

First Was MUCH Better... I didn't quite remember this movie being quite so cheesy... I've been trying to find the first one on DVD since it is 100% better than this... But, as far as 80's horror goes, this movie gets a B in my book!

Kitsch by name kitsch by accent Liked the book. The movie was a bit  dumbed down but genrally OK. Good production values etc. Good extras too.  Taylor Kitsch's accent runied it for me though. It went here, there everywhere, North America, Europe, curius melanges, african inflections. Truly bad. Truly distracting and annoying. In fairness his acting was fine.  Memo to casting agents. NEVER LET THIS GUY DO A  ROlE WHERE HE NEEDS A FOREIGN ACCENT AGAIN!!! Dub him if you have to. Other North American  actors in the movie did OK with this aspect.

Three and a Half Stars I wanted to see this film because I enjoy watching Frances McDormand's performances. I would describe this movie as more of a stage play on the big screen than a typical Hollywood film. As for the story, ordinary yet resourceful Miss Pettigrew lives the life of "the other half" for the day as an assistant to a beautiful, exciting young socialite. Miss Pettigrew may be plain, but her down to earth pragmatism comes in handy and is appreciated not only by the young socialite, but by a certain someone.

It was alright, nothing to write home about, honestly! I picked up this bluray for 5 bucks at Wal-Mart, and for what it was, it was okay, nothing that made me jump out of my seat. Would I watch it again? Probably, but not anytime soon. The first one was ofcourse the best, the second ( the tribe ) was not too bad and this was just mediocre in comparison. I will say, however, that the bluray picture quality was very good and the sound was excellent!

interesting but A show about the supernatural with dismemberment stabbings and yet just like the late show with craig ferguson they  bleep any  swear words and  pixel the  whats a come a go  tootsie frootsie mouths so pious hand clappers wont be offended.  Guess what supernatural themes will offend the righteous so dont watch if you hold lil baby jesus dear to your heart...the rest of us can handle a little profanity.

Relatively true to the book, but nothing great It would be incredibly hard to do true justice to any of C.S. Lewis' Narnia series. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe was a pretty good attempt (very good, in fact). But it's all gone downhill from there. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is equally as insipid a movie rendition as was Prince Caspian. And I don't hold out much hope for The Silver Chair (who could possibly equal Tom Baker as Puddleglum?).  I know this sounds like I'm absolutely panning "Voyage". I'm not, really. We've just come to expect so much more from a movie rendition of a book in this day and age. C.S. Lewis' classics are so beloved, anyone who grew up with them can't help but be a bit disappointed with their transfer to movie format. The human imagination is so much more powerful than man's ability to shoot something on film. I would even go as far as to suggest the makers of the Narnia movies call it a day right now - I shudder to think what a visual rendition of The Last Battle might come out as.

Too advanced for a beginner I haven't done yoga in over 7 years and wanted to try it again.  The positions are too difficult for a beginner, this should be a intermediate/advanced yoga DVD.

Warning, majority of the film shot in 2D! I like the movie and think it deserves 4 starts but the extra money to include the 3D version is not worth it. The vast majority of the film looks like 2D. There is in fact a disclaimer on the 3D version. Save your money and get the 2D version.  Overall the film is fun. IMO, Bridges is the star of the show and has some really great scenes. I wasn't too thrilled with the ending but overall this film is easy on the eyes and ears and kids are going to love it.

Transport yourself back to 1944 First off, this is an OLD black and white film and the sound quality is less than great sometimes - but don't let that stop you.  Personally, I'm not all that fond of most of the songs in this film - but yet I can truly appreciate the overall strength of support for all our service men/women and alies, where the whole country did whatever they could to help - even if that was just briefly meeting trains at 3am as they passed through with service men to hand them apples or sandwiches or whatever they could and collect the letters they want to post and warm them with a smile... in that aspect, this film will both warm and break your hearts as you empathasize. It was great to know that so much food talent, time and labor was gladly donated to feed and cheer/entertain the troops and help them enjoy what they were fighting for. Women around the country spent hours baking and supplies were rationed and every penny you had counted - but they gave even when it hurt, when it wasn't convenient, when it was uncomfortable...they went way out of their way to be ready to do whatever little they could when a group of our armed forces was going to be coming through their area. Did their best to be pretty for them, make them feel welcome and cared for. And our fighting forces dug deep and gave their best.  ---- All those feelings and memories are right here to be experienced/remembered.  And in places like NY and Calif there were plenty of famous stars to help entertain like this - but many many troops never got this kind of entertainment so this film was also intended to give that to them as well so they packed in a lot of star spots.  In this movie, 3 servicemen are followed and they will likely remind you of friends, family or just the best of us in general in those times.  Maybe you'll be able to glimpse how it might have been for your father or grandfather or other relatives - or the women you know from those times.  If you watch this with emotional detachment and criticism, you're missing the experience and the whole point of watching.  It's not the best film you'll ever see, but that's not why you watch it.  Watch this for the pride, the emotions, the memories and a PEEK at our past.  I teared up with pride and compassion many times watching this.

Entertaining, but also really naïve and childish To begin with, I would like to remark that I am 40 years of age and that I never read or watched "Charlotte's Web" when I was a child, so I have a different approach than most reviewers here. I was lent the DVD by a friend and watched it in some interest because I had heard it was a children's classic.  It may be my very own attitude, but I have always believed that to be really good, a children's tale must be one that captures and convinces adults, too, and not because they love it on account of having grown up with it. While the tale is sweet and capturing, too many things strike me as being illogical in an emotionally manipulating way. I am not so certain whether Wilbur's completely "positive" attitude is one I would wish my own children to adopt; it is, on the downside, severely noncritical and superficial. Wilbur is not only sweet, he is too cute to be true.  Charlotte, the real protagonist of the story, is depicted in an even more manipulative way: two eyes instead of eight, a warm, kind voice (everybody knows that one of the most sneaky and eerie characteristics of a spider is the fact that they never make any kind of noise), smooth, almost dancer-like movements instead of the twitching, nervous ones that usually make spiders so creepy. That she can read and write can of course be banished to the realms of a fairy tale; and perhaps this is what so irritated me about the story - it does not seem to know whether it wants to be realistic, so that one can apply it to everyday life, or a fairy tale, where naturally things happen the way they would not outside of a book respectively a TV screen.  From this point of view, in the end, it stroke me as particularly sad that this story has most probably never convinced any child to eat the least little pound of pork less instead of supporting the cruel and unnecessary intensive stock-rearing that seems so perfectly normal today. That would indeed be an "ordinary miracle" - not seeing the world through a fluffy pink cloud so that everything and everybody seems "cute", the way it does to Wilbur.

Funny at times. In a parody of old Spanish westerns, Will Ferrell stars in an all Spanish-speaking role as a Mexican man whose family is involved with local drug dealers. He takes on the bad guys and seeks to save the life of a beautiful woman in the process. Some scenes in the film were intentionally done in a manner to appear to be amateurish to emulate a low-budget production, and these scenes are good for a few laughs. The movie was not done as a non-stop laugh parody, but is actually played straight more so than expected. I would have liked the movie to be a bit zanier and a clear attempt to parody the genre, but perhaps this would have tread into the territory of silliness. Overall, the movie was okay, and is worth seeing.

Cute Movie This was a worthwhile rental for my long flight to the East coast. It is a romcom with a twist, which I appreciated. It is hard to do something new with the romcom genre. The characters were believable, even if somewhat stereotypical. The quickfire banter was entertaining. I'm glad I didn't see it in the theater, but I am happy that I rented it.

Great "Resident Evil Afterlife" 3D quality, but the movie... If you're looking for your next movie to showcase for great 3D, The Three Musketeers delivers the same great 3D you've seen in Resident Evil Afterlife 3D, as Paul W.S. Anderson returns as director and has not lost his 3D touch (currently filming Resident Evil: Retribution 3D, which looks equally great from the 3D trailer as of Jan 2012). How good is the 3D here? Anderson learned his 3D from the Fusion 3D used on Avatar. Any more questions? Exceptional 3D in depth and the occasional pop outs.  Moving on to the movie itself, I went in with the expectations that the film would deliver interesting, like-able characters, a decent storyline and plenty of great action. They sort of got the last part right, but the rest is debatable IMO.  Characters: The lead hero is portrayed as an arrogant jerk, and the Three Musketeers are directionless, without a goal when the film gets underway. So who do I root for? Milla Jovovich of course. Too bad she didn't have a bigger role. Orlando Bloom appears, but does little more than talk for the few moments he appears.  Storyline: The story needs a strong goal right from the start. Without it, the film feels directionless and pointless. Just some clueless characters wandering about waiting for something to do, is how I perceived it. And I wanted to enjoy the film, but by the end, I didn't care how great the 3D was, I couldn't wait to leave the theater. But that's just one opinion. Another viewing might change the bad taste.  Action: Good action when it appears. The sword fights are good, but fencing is limited in the amount of jabs and strikes you can do. More creativity is welcome here. The other action scenes, ranging from Milla squeezing through some obstacle courses, to an in air battle of floating ships, are pretty well done and woke me up in the theater, but if you don't care about the characters, it's still hollow action.  Visuals: Great scenery and elaborate costumes if you like the style, top notch lighting and cinematography. Solid special effects.  If you like Pirate movies, then you may very well enjoy this. The setting is France, with all of the etiquette, pomp and circumstance, frilly wardrobes and prissy attitudes to go with it, notably displayed by the intentionally annoying King. Decent at best.  Film: 5/10 Story: 4/10 Characters: 6/10 Action: 8/10 Visuals: 8/10 3D: 9/10 EXCELLENT. Overall: 6/10 (not an average, saved by the 3D and action). If you need another 3D action movie for your 3DTV, the 3D will not disappoint. The movie on the other hand...

Great OffBeat Format and Humor, But Missed the Mark for Me The offbeat docu-drama style of this movie created a lot of great funny moments - mostly in the interviews with 'real- life' individuals involved - but overall it just missed the mark for me. It dragged in parts, and the fact that you pretty much know where it is headed from the first few minutes of the film leaves you nothing to enjoy but the quips and performances. And while both Shirley MacLaine and Jack Black do fine, I didn't feel their performances were as good as many have said. Jack Black in particular just couldn't help mugging it up a bit in parts, and that left me mistrustful of his character, which undermined the sympathetic tone the movie overall seemed to take to Bernie.  Just to cover the basics, in case you don't already know, this movie is based on the real-life murder of elderly ornery widow Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine) by Bernie Tiede (Jack Black) in the small town of Carthage Texas. Bernie was a local legend, a quirky but beloved town member who was active and generous in his church and community. He befriended Marjorie after her husband died, eventually becoming so indispensable to her life that he went to her house daily to help her with meals, and traveled around the world with her. Marjorie was not well-liked, and upon the discovery of her death and Bernie's confession to her murder, much of the town rallied to his defense (this isn't a spoiler, most of this is laid out in the first few minutes of the film.)  The film is told in a docu-drama style through a combination of interviews with real-life members of the Carthage community and the actors in character, as well as actual scenes played out. The funniest moments in the film really come from these interviews, and the colorful anecdotes and phrases used to describe both Marjorie and Bernie, and their reactions to the events that transpired. The scenes between Bernie and Marjorie just didn't always work for me, for the reasons I described above. I didn't feel their chemistry, so the evolution of their relationship just never really made sense.  So overall, a film that delivers some great funny moments, but just missed the mark overall for me.

Ip Man 2 Just finished watching this movie.  I thoroughly enjoyed the first part and found it to be pretty great story line and of course sweet kung fu.  I enjoyed this movie as well.  The fight scenes were great but the story line was a little weird to me.  Perhaps, if one knew a little bit of history of the British relations with the Chinese at the times, it may have made more sense or more realistic.  The movie kind of felt like a version of Rocky V where 1) different cultures clash, 2) someone gets killed fighting, and 3) revenge is taken and all is well at the end of the movie.  I give it 3.5 vs 4.5 for the original.

This House is Condemned. CAUTION: THIS MAY CONTAIN A SPOILER. TREAD EXTREMELY CAREFULLY IF YOU NEVER SAW A COMMERCIAL, READ AN ARTICLE OR SAW ANY PRESS ABOUT THE FINAL SEASON OF THIS PROGRAM. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION. YOU MAY RETURN TO READING.  The formula to this show started to wear extremely thin in the seventh season, but they energized it with the romance between House and Cuddy. The bravura episode when Cuddy was potentially dying (because everyone close to House HAS to be near-death at one point so that he can help them) that Hugh Laurie himself directed was probably the best episode this show's ever had. Sadly, just a few episodes later, he crashed his car through Cuddy's dining room and started this season in prison. Honestly, this whole final season would have been much more daring and interesting if House had to stay in prison.  Alas, Fox didn't think that was too good of an idea because, if time teaches anything in regards to television, you HAVE to stay formulaic and predictable.  Aside from the addition of Odette Annable and Charlene Yi as the beautiful wealthy-but-feels-bad-about-it and quirky-yet-plain-jane doctors respectively, there is literally no new ground to cover. The team gets an unusual case that somehow ends up playing as a metaphorical subplot to the episode; House plays mind games with the team; the cure is magically discovered with 6 minutes left in the episode.  However, the show still remains somewhat interesting because the ensemble plays it well. Hugh Laurie, though, is starting to look tired of this character and that sometimes comes across.  The best but possibly also the worst thing about this final season is the friendship between House and Wilson. Robert Sean Leonard always works, but they might have gone too far this time. Near the end of the season, it's discovered that Wilson has cancer. The next couple of episodes deal with that news and a possible cure. This brings them closer, but will Wilson survive?  This is the kind of hack plotting that I would expect from ER or GREY'S ANATOMY, but the Ratings Gods demand that you CANNOT FOOL WITH FORMULA. It worked for big ratings for those shows. Why not here, especially since this season had its lowest ratings yet?  That should tell Fox something: You can't beat a dead horse (or House... UCWIDT?), so you should start running something with more life. Not that they should have just axed the show, but they could have really played with this season and made it interesting and compelling instead of trite, rote, and dull.  It's also a conundrum when you've got a series finale where the one person in the world who House cares about is perhaps dying or dead. This does NOT feel like something that this entire show has been building up to, especially when it happens so late in the season.  But this entire season has been a miscalculation of potentially epic proportions, and I would only recommend watching to die-hard fans of this show, which I doubt there are many left.

Apollo 13 I want to Like this movie A lot I really do but I can't stand Tom Hanks' Mug and Kevin Bacon's And Ron Howard has always left me with a bad taste,nonetheless despite my personal biases towards the cast and also the length of the movie,It has some enjoyable parts and attempts to tell the story,My favorite parts though are the Cameo Appearances of Corvettes throughout,I wish the 1969 Riverside Gold/w Black(made especially for the Previous Apollo Astronauts which is why it's not in this movie-427/390hp Corvette Coupe)would show up in this movie or any,The Apollo 12 "AstroVette"(not the concept car Astro),but that's a minute detail and hardly something that should make or break this movie,I just think it drags on and at times so technical despite being done in a way for most to understand,cut it down an hour and get to the point,I preferred the Movie The Right Stuff which Ironically is Longer than this melodrama of a flick..Would Have been nice to have someone like Clint Eastwood instead,but I digress I ask too much.

Different type of horror film Quentin Taratinos Death Proof was a different kind of horror film.  It reminded me of Pulp Fiction with Psycho elements addes.  Kurt Russell is fantastic as he usually is.  He plays a demented psychotic who enjoys killing people with his cars.  What is interesting is that we also see that he is a coward, which adds a more interesting side to his brutal character.  There is also the element of his being someone who wants to be a killer, rather than someone who IS a killer by nature.  I took off a star because this goes on a bit too long during wordy dialog scenes.  I am not terribly into most car chases in films but this has a spectacular one at the end.  It is not a must see movie, but it was mostly entertaining, with some unique parts.

great actors but bad plot I really appreciate Bing as an actor but I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone since it lacked any real depth or direction... I guess it was a good movie to pass the time with but not likely I'll watch it again ...the only reason I completed the movie was because of Bing.

The experience in Boston made it better than it really was ... The film itself is well-made, though utterly predictable, thief-with-the-golden-heart stuff.  And of course, for those of us who either live in Boston, or are familiar with the area(s), it adds another element of enjoyment.  But for me, the best thing about this film is the memory I have with my wife, of being at Fenway Park, for the world(?) premier.  This was the scene (after fighting traffic into the city): Outside the park, there's a huge line, with folks waiting to see the stars, and hoping to possibly get a "golden ticket" into the event; a massive screen erected in the famous ballpark, with the cityscape of Boston above and around it; free popcorn and drinks for everyone; lots of projection and sound equipment, paparazzi, and all sorts of artsy folks who probably know people, who know people, etc.; and everyone got a free black blanket with THE TOWN (in red) embroidered upon it (it's still in the trunk of my car).  Ben Affleck, along with a large number of the cast, as well as pal Matt Damon with his pregnant wifey, all showed up for the event. It was really fun, though we thought seriously about trying to scalp the tickets to the frothing fans outside. I'm sure we could've bagged several hundred dollars for them.  Thanks to my pal Christopher for giving us the tickets.

Good News/Bad News So first the good news.  There was real and refreshing chemistry between the stars, Drew Barrymore and Justin Long.  Of course we know that they are (were, not sure don't keep up) a real couple and I'm sure that helped.  I liked that.  You really believed they cared about each other.  Awesome.  Now the bad news.  This movie was rated R and, personally, I would have liked it much better as a PG.  All of the usage of the F word and other graphic language, the casual use of smoking dope and Justin Long's bare behind didn't make the movie for me.  The story and the acting did.  I know I am old fashioned, and I will agree that those things, in the right setting, do contribute to the verisimilitude of the occasional movie, but honestly, not that often.  Too often it seems gratuitous and related to pandering to the real or perceived intended audience of the movie.  But probably that's just me, I watch mostly rom coms and I like them because they are pretty in just the right ways.  So this movie was predictable in the way that all rom coms are, but it was very well done, the characters were appealing and believable and the story moved along as a nice clip. No need to summarize the plot here, the title says it all, they meet while Drew Barrymore is temporarily working in NYC, she returns to California and they begin the relationship described in the title.  Christina Applegate plays Drew's sister, in what appeared to be an extremely clich&eacute;d and mostly unpleasant although apparently not unhappy (hard to tell) marriage.  Justin Long had the usual oddball friends who provided color (as in commentary).  This movie had the potential to become one of my "keepers" (the movies I buy and watch over and over) but it was just a little too crude for my rosy escapist taste.

Quality a bit off! I bought this just so I could see the "incredible Mr Limpet". I was a bit disappointed in the quality of the DVD. I skips in parts, even though there are NO visible signs of scratches, etc on the disc.  Other than that, you still can not beat the value of getting 4 movies in one set!

a poor quality transfer of a great film Most of the reviews here already say it. It's one of the great British films of its era. I just wanted to make a point about what a poor quality transfer to DVD this particular release is. It's so dreadful it looks like it's done from an old U-Matic master used for VHS releases. It's also worth mentioning that you should see "If" first if you are to get the joke in the final scene.

Great Episodes But horrible Price I have yet to buy this box set but im just going to say that the price is horrible for a little 11 episodes...I meen we need to let amazon know this its just horrible it should be like dragon ball u get 31 episodes for like 20 dollars 25 dollars....But the good thing is that this box set has kakazu and hidan In it them in there final fight witch actually makes it worth it in some cases but the price needs to go down....

Average Young-Adult Film My expectations going into this film were average and that is this film was--average.  The characters seemed somewhat immature for the college-ages they were supposed to be.  I also found the parent/child relationships poorly developed.  I have seen several films with Kristen Stewart and she does a good job portraying conflicted young women. I will be interested to see how she transitions to playing more mature female characters in the future.  The one exception to the averageness of this film is Bill Hader's scene with the baseball bat--a classic!

Little Similarities to REAL Bible Story!!! If you just want to watch this as a movie fine. If you're looking for any similarities to the book of Esther in the Bible you will be VERY disappointed. "Creative License" is another way of saying nothing alike.

Amazon lied I love this movie but amazon lied , It say it was rated R so i buy it thinking it have that 18 mins R rated stuff that I heard got cut But come to out i got the PG 13 one.  It still a good movie But i think if it was rated R it could have been that much better.  so this is a low 3 stars for amazon 3 because the price was a good one only 14.99  but - 2 for lying to the buyers .  and 4 stars for the movie it self .

A TOUCHING STORY BUT LACKS MAGIC I have mixed feelings about this movie. Some parts I liked such as the cozy cabin in a snowy country setting but other parts, I was not fond of. First of all, I didn't think that Olivia Newton-John and Gregory Harrison had any chemistry between each other. Also, I have to agree with a couple of other reviewers, some of the yelling an screaming should have been toned down. The other thing I didn't care for was when they show the birth of the lamb in the barn. While I appreciate the magic of a new birth, I felt that they showed too much blood especially for an audience which includes children.  It's a touching story but I feel that it lacks magic.

Enjoyable Spy Thriller - More like a Bond Film This one is often overlooked film in the middle of Hitchcock's greats, for good reasons. The story has 4 parts. The 1st part relates to the KGB official defection and thereafter. The 2nd part is in Cuba, which I feel dragged a little as the 1st. The 3rd part is in New York city and the most dramatic one. The role of Philippe Dubois (the florist-cum-spy) is a pleasure to watch and reminds similar character in Bond's spy stories. The 4th part, mostly in Paris, is the only part which deals with the title issue, the 'Topaz'.  In the end, I feel the Topaz issue (which really happened in '62) could have been given more space and depth in the film than the missile crisis issue - no matter whether they are related or not. But the film did just the opposite which left questions and motives on the Topaz issue unanswered and the film bit long.  Overall, it is an enjoyable film to watch - like a Bond film. Best passages are the defection and the Uribe/Parra part in NYC.

Acceptable for a very narrow audience It's a sci-fi/horror-action film about a sprawling, secret undeground research facility where illegal and dangerous scientific experiments are taking place.  Naturally something goes wrong.  A SWAT team is sent in to figure out what happened.  They figure out they are in over their heads, and spend the rest of the movie fighting their way out.  That's basically it.  Insofar as these types of films go, this one isn't terrible.  It does have its strengths.  Being underground for the majority of the film, there is a creepy, middle-of-the-night atmosphere to it that kind of works (kind of).  And the lead actress, Milla Jovovich, has a certain presence that works because she manages to be tough and gorgeous at the same time.  On the other hand, there is no depth to the plot, or the characters.  The dialogue is cringe-worthy at times (e.g. "These people used to WORK here!"), and for an action film, the action is pretty tame.  It's also worth noting that the zombies are not particularly scary.  If you are in the mood for a simple, cheap guilty pleasure to watch late at night when you can't sleep, this film is decent.  However, if you are looking for something challenging, unique, or moving, you probably won't like this movie.

Worth renting I get a kick out of the editorial review for this flick - "(it) is unable to thread its diverse elements, which include ... assorted exorcisms, rituals, and come-and-go powers, into a cohesive and believable film."  A believable film about a guy with his head on fire.  Somehow, I don't think believable is what we should be looking for.  Coherency would be admirable, and, unlike some other reviewers, I thought this installment of Ghost Rider made perfect sense within the logic of its own universe.  Cage as Blaze is enlisted to help protect the Devil's son, whom old Scratch needs as a new vessel for his powers; and the only ones that seem capable of stopping the transfer is an assembly of coven-like monks led by Christopher Lambert (Ha!) - but they need the help of the Ghost Rider to do it.  In exchange for his help, they'll exorcize the Ghost Rider demon for him, once the Devil gets his due.  As one might guess from thousands of other movies, that deal is probably not going to work out, and in the end, Blaze is forced to re-rent the spare room in his head to the demon in order to save the day.  I get it.  In fact, I saw most of it coming once the parameters of the movie were established at about the thirty minute mark.  But there's a sort of manic energy about the whole thing that made it fairly entertaining.  That, and the fact that the film got such poor reviews that my expectations were flatlined.  Reading other reviews, it seems that either people don't like that this (sort of) sequel departs from the tone of the first, or that it doesn't conform to their idea of the source material, or that there's a kind of 'piling on' now that it seems safe to pan the flick.  I think the second reason is the only one that might hold water - if you've been following this character for years, I think you have a right to expect certain things.  You're the reason the franchise ever got off the ground in the first place.  I never really got into the whole Blaze character before, and thought that the first flick really dumbed down a bare-bones (ha again!) concept in the first place.  This one goes darker, albeit at the expense of much character development.  I like the drunken priest Moreau (Idris Elba, also known as Heimdall in the Thor franchise) best here - everyone else is pretty much cardboard.  So, thread-bare characters, threadbare plot, lots of crazy energy.  Pretty much like any other empty-headed action flick.  Great for a Sunday afternoon rental.

Tea: Drinkable, not "have to have" Overall, another miss for me with this movie series. I should point out, I haven't read the books so my opinion is based soley on what is on the screen. It was a let down for me, in two major areas. First area, the characters were a downer. I didn't burn for them, I wasn't captivated and riveted to the screen. In fact, the only character that I found compelling was Taylor Lautner's performances. Added to this, that the "bad guys" didn't come across all that bad. I wasn't repulsed or made afraid by them, and I feel I should have been. That's why you have the "bad guys", because they are really bad dudes. It's what helps with the conflict and tension of the story. Now, to be fair, this lacking could very well go back to the author of the books and not to the director or scriptwriter. The second area that I found lacking, was the visual portrayal of the story, which I also had an issue with on the first movie. Make-up bothered me again. I'd watch it again just for Lautner, and to be reminded how not to tell a story, but that would be about it.

Wrong Packaging I thought I was getting a digibook version of Battle Royale, but instead it is just a standard Bluray Case. I already own the movies on import, what I really wanted was the packaging... so buyer beware: current production of this is just a standard case.

buyer beware I was delighted to see this wonderful film performance available on a blu-ray dvd.  I immediately ordered one from Amazon... However watching the disc, halfway into act 1, there were several spots where the sound just dropped out...  I returned the disc to Amazon who prompltly sent a replacement... However the replacement disc had exactly the same problem of sound drop outs in the same places.  Apparently this is either a problem in the production run of these discs, or sloppy attention to the mastering from the original film.. I returned the replacement disc for a refund.  I would love to own this dvd.. but I am not going to pay the price for one that does not play perfectly..

The Company Men For me, this movie was sort of a swing and a miss in the whole feel-good-pull-ourselves-up-by-our-own-bootstraps genre.  The movie opens with Bobby(Ben Affleck)going through his usual morning routine- putting on his expensive watch and shiny shoes, leaving his sprawling suburban mcmansion in his Porsche  Afflecks character is not particularly sympathetic in the beginning.  He's the guy living in the suburbs in his Mcmansion, loaded down with all the trappings of the 'good life'- wife, kid, expensive watch, shiny shoes, porsche, club membership...  their family is certainly 'keeping up with the Joneses'.  The movie opens with him going into the office on a typical day, only to find he's been downsized.  The upside?  Some enthusiastic life coaching and a job search service provided in his severance.  It's not long before he's lost his house, waves bye-bye to the porsche that he found so pathetically difficult with which to part and moves in with his parents.  Kevin Costner is a bright light in this overall depressing film- he plays Bobby's brother-in-law who gives him a job on his construction crew.  Jack is one of the more likable(and believable) characters in the film and helps Bobby shed some of that corporate veneer so we can see his underlying work ethic.  Chris Cooper plays an older manager who is also downsized.  Pressure builds throughout the film as we follow both men struggling to hold onto, not just their homes and families, but their identities.  Tommy Lee Jones plays an executive who was part of 'building the company from the ground up'- somehow his idealism is a little hard to swallow given that he's living the cushy executive life until he, too, is downsized.  These and a few other minor characters converge in the midst of tragedy and some small triumphs(like Bobby finally earning his tool belt).  Jones' character has a vision of starting over- rebuilding what he built in the first place.  The movie tries to end on an up note and it seems like the movie was intended to inspire and instill hope.  There is some heavy-handed moralizing on the evils of corporate greed, executive pork and disregard for everything and everyone but the bottom line.  The whole 'Can we build it? Yes we can!' message seems a bit trite and sophomoric.  I'm not entirely sure if we are meant to sympathize that the guys at the top were hit just as hard with losing their luxury cars and big houses, or extrapolate that this country can fix itself in the time it takes to watch an episode of "Bob the Builder", or is this just a lets-see-these-guys-pull-themselves-up-by-their-bootstraps-YAY! movie gone wrong.  I found it depressing overall.  I'm giving it three stars because I did find myself rooting for Tommy Lee Jones' character, despite his unrealistic rose-colored glasses.  Kevin Costner was excellent in his role.  I probably would have even given it four stars if Ben Affleck wasn't playing.... da da dum HIMSELF! yet again.  I don't know who I would recommend this movie to... maybe the guy that handed me my severance in 2008?  Watch Rango instead, way more inspiring!!

Poor remake of an average 80s movie Remaking a movie that wasn't all that great is usually a bad idea.  The opening scene is laughable as with most of the "dramatic" moments.  Why are there sand people? Sand? Really?  The blood is over the top in some scenes, but the overall look of the movie was good.  The actor was better than Arnold too!

One of the Best of Reena Roy, Reena Roy, Reena Roy and only Reena Roy.... What a performance by her. Indeed, thats the best role of her. Ambitious lady who left her husband and son for fame, money and married to his fathered aged person. But, heart changes when she re meets her husband and son and wants back in her life. Reena Roy showed both the shades Grey and emotional. She is the soul of movie. Sulkshna Pandit and Jeetendra are OK with their role. Not to forget very talented Hari Bhai aka Sanjeev Kumar. He is also impressed in small role. Especially in the plantation scene where he is planting trees for future not for himself. Anil marries Kamini and the two become parents. An ambitious and liberal Kamini wants to be free and does not want to live in subservience to her husband. When Anil demands that she stay at home and look after the kid she files for divorce. A few years later Anil remarries, this time with a young and principled Radhika who is all willing to be a mother to his six-year-old son. That's when Kamini appears in their life. Her approach has changed and she understands her mistake upon meeting her little son.  This is the basic story of J. Om Prakash's Apnapan, a colourful melodrama involving relationships and social norms of those times. The film is not completely convincing and the script has its share of overdone emotions, but it does manage to move you on several occasions. Apnapan is shot quite beautifully, some of the locations are eye-pleasing, and the music is very melodious. Lovers of Hindi cinema and its unrestrained nature would certainly enjoy watching this movie, but otherwise the movie is a tad too melodramatic at points. That said, some scenes are well handled and the dialogues are generally well written.  The movie stars Jeetendra as Anil. He is quite okay but is not particularly impressive. Sulakshana Pandit is beautiful and lovely as Radhika. Reena Roy is a bit too aggressive in the first portions of the film while playing the noisy wife, but she gets far better in the film's second half, although the transformation itself is not very well done. As a woman who realises her mistake and turns into a tormented mother longing for her son, Roy is credible and exudes warmth. Apnapan could have been better, but as a Hindi movie of its sort, it is quite enjoyable and at times moving. A must see movie with family

Is it OK? what really kills me is during the last credits the "big lie" is put out there once again.  it comes in many forms.  this time it's the so called 'gospel of thomas'. it is like MANY other 1st and 2nd century gnostic belief systems that were condemned by the early church fathers and correctly so.  it (the gospel of thomas) essentially promulgates and encourages the idea that an individual Christian 'leader' of a specific sect has the ability to gain insights or enlightments that can exceed or go beyond Christ's teachings.  so you have people walking around claiming they knew what Jesus REALLY meant, 'cause they saw it in a dream, etc.  like 'god was a simpleton and created the universe badly' kind of nursery material.  that's actually one of the beliefs that one such 'christian' group had.  and to imply the church, i.e. evil greedy individuals who have power over people and won't give it up (by belief in the 'sayings of jesus' per the 'gospel of thomas' or other apocryphal materials) is a BIG LIE.  the church has always (especially in the early days when the Apostles and disciple of Jesus were still living) ASK them if said information agreed with what Jesus told them or they heard him say, was how many things were decided.  Christ did not leave a book behind when he rose from the dead, but He DID leave an 'institution'(the horror!)of people consisting of his 12 Apostles and His following.  so smoke on that, producers of the 'stigmata'.  otherwise a 'just above' middle rated horror movie that can be entertaining.

Christmas special missing My boyfriend got me this from amazon.com back in 2006 or 2007. At the time there was no complete series set. Seeing that this says it has the entire 3rd season I figured it would have my favorite episode the Christmas Special. IT does NOT and I think that's a false advertisement to state that it has the complete third season and not include that episode.

Dark, heavy, and slow I was looking forward to this movie. The underlying subject is pretty serious: a future where genetic engineering leads to a quasi-caste system where society is divided between people who are enhanced and people who are "normal." The actual plot of the movie, however, moves a bit slow. This is definitely a more cerebral movie; no car chases or shoot-outs here. Even so, I was underwhelmed by the film...  Not bad but not recommended.

Same plot as "Outbreak" Same old plot as "Outbreak".  Movie slow, and a waste of excellent actors. Thought "Outbreak" was better with Hoffman, Freeman, etc.

pretty good, but standard Excellent Affleck in this, excellent Rebecca Hall, all the performances, actually. It's 15 minutess too long, though, and the Fenway Park sequence was where to cut. (Far too similar to same scene in The Heat.)  But I hate films with shaky plot devices, and this film has one: so the young woman they fleetingly kidnap (Hall) lives in Charlestown? So what? She didn't see them, and it's doubtful they hang out at the same bars. So why would they all be so upset by discovering she might be a neighbor? But Affleck decides to keep an eye on her, see what she knows. Huh? Far better, I think, they bump into each other at same Laundromat -- in the Hollywood world, that's hardly a preposterous scenario -- and the relationship starts there. He is immediately taken by her (this time) and that element, kidnaper/victim, adds more, not detracts.  Loved the line, Affleck to the late great Pete Postlewaite, "You think you're the only guy in Charlestown with a gun?"

I AM WASHED, SANCTIFIED, AND JUSTIFIED Gavin (Charlie Hunnam) is a faithless jumper on a ledge. Terrence Howard plays Hollis, a police officer whose job it is to talk him down. The story as to how he got to the ledge is a flashback and the main part of the movie. This is interrupted by scenes of Hollis confronting his wife, which we don't know if these are flashbacks or if this is something he is thinking about doing.  Gavin is a hotel manager. His roommate is a gay Jew and HIV positive. Liv Tyler plays his mousey neighbor married to an unlikable Christian who wants to convert gays and atheists. Liv gets a job working for Gavin, who wants to liberate her from Mr. Joe Christian. I grew weary of the stereotyping of both Christians and atheists before this thing was half over... Catholics burn in hell and atheists are atheists because of some event in their life to make them hate God. Later the movie deviates from the stereotypes. Christians are not always good and atheists are not always bad. They are both human. Ho-hum.  Joe Christian treats his wife like dirt. Liv Tyler tells a far fetched story on how she met Joe, who as it turns out is a bit psychotic. The movie starts out slow and draws you in to where you have to see what happens. It doesn't make any definitive statement about God or atheism.  F-bomb, sex talk, sex, nudity (Liv Tyler)

Taking pot-shots at my taste level... The fact remains that Steven Seagal and DMX will always play the same characters in countless reincarnations of the same films.  Seagal is the good cop in a sea of bad cops and DMX is the misunderstood thug.  Every film, the same thing.  Throw them together and you have a marginally exciting and entertaining repeat of their last venture, just this time they are in it together.  Thankfully, DMX has an unfakable charisma that soaks his every scene and so he actually pulls most of his films through the fire and makes them watchable.  Seagal, not so much.  I have never been a big fan, and this film certainly didn't change my mind, but fact remains that Seagal or not, you really aren't watching this film for convincing acting.  You want action and action is what you will get.  The plot is generic and contains the types of twists you saw coming before the film started, but it doesn't matter.  The fight sequences are slick and well executed and DMX chews away at every second of camera time.  I wish someone would saddle him with a serious role.  I remember being blown away by his performance in `Belly'.  Please, someone give him another one of those.  For what `Exit Wounds' is (lone cop fights corruption in the force alongside wealthy thug), it works.  You get exactly what you expect, so you can't really fault it for that.

Extravagant chick flick. This movie is what you would expect if you have watched an episode of Sex and the City.  Full of love and heartbreak between the 4 women.

Spooky Insidious builds to some decent chills and a couple of scares and is a very good haunting movie. The second half has a strong Poltergeist feel to it and closer resembles Polergeist than Paranormal activity but a little scarier and a little less corny. To be watched late at night with the lights off. I insidious 3.5 out of 5

VROOM VROOM! Rolling Vengeance is one hell of an obscure and entertaining entry into the revenge sub-genre! This had it all: a monster truck, rednecks, rape, revenge, nudity and Ned Beatty chewing frames like an elementary school projector! Some of the dialogue was lame, the rednecks were outrageously cliche and the score was an butt-clenching, easy-listening travesty but this was really quite good anyhow! How can you go wrong when you combine a monster truck and a tale of small-town revenge? I defy any geek to say that a monster truck wouldn't have made Last House on the Left or I Spit On Your Grave crowd-pleasers!  You can't.

"My first ray gun" Okay, I'll admit I was very doubtful of this one (I got a copy of the synopsis early on, and sent my blow-by-blow dissection to Ron Moore; he never has responded to my comments....), but thankfully, the finished product came out much better than that synopsis (a few key changes, namely leaving out the horribly contradictory backstory for the Borg Queen, and scaling back on a few of the "really spectacular" moments that we had in store for us, like Data becoming fully human, then being reduced to a "Terminator-ish" metal skeleton in the final fight with the Borg Queen).  A large portion of the credit for this film goes to director Jonathan Frakes, TNG's version of Leonard Nimoy when it comes to having a basic understanding of the material and a respect for the viewership. I'm convinced that if Paramount had stuck with the promotion of this film a little longer, it would have surpassed ST IV's box office totals.  We have some excellent character development, at least with regard to Picard, Data, Zefrem Cochrane, and Lily Sloane, no major contradictions in continuity (what does get contradicted is either acknowledged and done is such a way that it leaves open the possibility for an explanation to reconcile it with the established continuity, like the Borg Queen, or the point was conjectural anyway, like the date of Cochrane's first warp flight, and is close enough in this case).  Bottom line: Good Star Trek, good action-adventure movie, and an excellent recovery from Generations.

Walk softly and carry a big stick I think my expectations may have been too high for this film.  I ended up a little disappointed, though I'm not sure what would have made it a better fit.  Bill Oberst Jr. takes on the role of the 16th president, and, as some others have noted, he does a fantastic job with it.  This has to be one of the most under-rated actors you've never heard of, expecially seeing how he handles presidential here and then can switch to the psychotic priest of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0064SVOD4">Nude Nuns with Big Guns</a>.  Most of the other actors are competent, even given the strain of acting in the style of the period.  Not all of them though.  A few sound as if they are working in a re-enactment piece for a high-school history class.  Still, the acting was above average, especially for an Asylum movie.  And once the fact of the zombie infestation was established, the script was pretty linear.  It didn't have a lot of the silly, obvious plot holes a lot of these Asylum movies have.  Not that it isn't pretty silly overall, but what are you expecting?  Silly is what you should be hoping for with a title like that.  So Abe, due to a previous experience with the zombie affliction from when he was a youngster, sees that he is the perfect man to lead a small group of men hand-selected from the newly minted Secret Service when reports begin to come from Fort Pulaski of re-animated Confederate dead.  This fort is especially important strategically for the success of the Union blockade of the South, but once the President hears of the nature of the disease, he quickly realizes that all other differences must be put aside to combat this 'zombie' menace.  There are two thumbnail images attached to this movie here on Amazon.  The one that is attached to the regular DVD show a towering Lincoln with a scythe hanging at the ready.  The other, with the blu-ray, has a Lincoln mid-leap, war-face on, scythe drawn back for a tremendous slash.  The first probably fits the tone of the movie better; I wish it had been the other way around.  Yes, this film avoids some risks by playing it straight, but it seems to me that an opportunity like this comes around very seldom, a chance to make something really offbeat.  I can hear you now 'isn't Abraham Lincoln vs Zombies offbeat enough?'  No, not really, and that's my point, and why I think I was a little disappointed in the film.  It's not a bad zombie flick, but really, what's the point of dragging in all this historical baggage if you're not going to use much of it?  Once you get past the weirdness of Abraham Lincoln as a zombie killer, the rest of it is pretty straightforward.  Instead of a genre-busting moment, we get a novelty within the zombie pantheon.  It's not a bad novelty, but it never reaches that totally bizarre level that I'm always looking for in B-movies of this type.  In the end, if you are a zombie movie fan, you should probably check this out, even though most of the effects are on the level of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006QFB7GE">2012 Zombie Apocalypse</a>, which was also done by Asylum.  Extreme gore fans will likely be disappointed, as well as anyone looking for some extra special bizzare-ness to spice up their Friday Night dinner and a movie.

1931 Was a Very Long Time Ago Well, maybe it was thoroughly predictable because it has been much imitated over the years. But this one is Frank Capra, and frankly I expect more from him. In 1931, I suspect he was pretty new to the film industry. I'll have to look that up.  Ann Schuyler (Jean Harlow) is a rich girl who flirts with reporter Stew Smith (Robert Williams, which is a name I don't think I've heard before) in order to try to persuade him not to print a scandalous story about her brother and a Ziegfeld girl. He prints it anyway, but manages to steal the blackmail letters from the girl while interviewing her, and brings them to Ann. A romance commences where it is pretty obvious she's interested in him mostly because her mother hates him.  In fact, she marries him for that reason. But her idea is to make a gentleman out of him, and sweet-talks him into moving in with her mother in their huge mansion and basically becoming what his buddies refer to as a bird in a gilded cage.  Only one buddy is really against the match: Gallagher, his best pal. Gallagher is played by Loretta Young, but somehow Smith neglected to mention to his wife that his buddy Gallagher is female. Imagine that.  From this point, I suspect you could write the script yourself. It's fun, but rather trite.

The Artist A very unusual picture, very interesting,  Loved the dog.  The black and white setting was very good as was the music.  Characters well played

Connecticut Yankee In King Authors Court Although both films were entertaining of the two I enjoyed Connecticut Yankee more.  The transfer was clear with good color. Would have been a better combo with Road To Bali but you have no choice. Amazon delivery was on time.  C6

You've seen this movie before You've seen this movie already, probably 50 times.  While it wasn't boring, there was absolutely nothing unique or original about it.  At this point, Denzel is going through the motions.

English subtitles poorly done I watched Stairway to heaven years ago when it first came out. It's a great drama. However, the version I saw on cable t.v. in Hawaii had much better english translations. I was not aware there were different versions. The one I received seems to have been reproduced in Hong Kong and the default dubbing they had it at was chinese. At first I was worried it did not have subtitles at all as the subtitles cannot be found in the main menu. Depending on your DVD player you can press the subtitle button and they have various languages. It seems the version I have was translated in China as many of the names are romanized into Chinese names and the contractions, verbs and words are often misused or misspelled. It is almost unwatchable as the subtitles are so poorly written. So for American/English speaking viewers just be cognizant that there are several translated versions.

Not the best. I have seen almost all the videos in the series.  This is the least impressive.  I was very hopeful, but was let down.  Coach Fulmer mostly goes over drills, and they are good, but he does not talk much about playing offensive line.  The other coaches in the series really get into teaching and have a lot more to share than Fulmer.

2012: Zombie Apocalypse.......... 2012: Zombie Apocalypse begins in June 2011 when the VM2 virus infects a French woman. Within the next 28 days(?), 84% of the European population is infected. The virus becomes a global pandemic as it eventually reaches Japan and all the way to the United States. Six months later, the zombie plague has wiped out ninety percent of the US population. A small group of survivors fight their way across the United States to a rumored refuge on the island of Catalina.  If that sounds like your typical zombie movie plot, it is. Course, this low-budget zombie flick was better than what I expected it to be..considering it's a Sy-Fy movie. What's surprising is it stars Ving Rhames. This is, what?, his fourth zombie movie to date? That's what made this one better than I expected, to be honest. The other actors put in decent performances, though. I loved the action. The special effects and FX Makeup were pretty decent as well. The only thing I disliked was the bizarre ending to the movie.  Taken for what it is, 2012: Zombie Apocalypse is an above-average typical zombie movie that fans(like me) of the genre will gobble up. It's not that bad but not one that fans of the genre will likely remember in years to come. Probably in five or ten years, this movie will be part of a collection of older zombie movies. Sad but true. Rhames has made better zombie movies.  I did like it, though, and thought it was okay for a good zombie fix.

Very nice movie, beware of the subtitles I wanted to have this movie and I waited for the blu ray release.  If you are interested in the spanish/espa&ntilde;ol subtitles/subtitulos, beware that this particular edition has both DVD and blu ray discs, both only the DVD has the above mentioned.  The blu ray disc only has English SDH subtitles

guardedly true This film makes very good points. I watched it fascinated a couple times. It convinced me to try for a home midwife birth. Unfortunately I wound up having an emergent C-section due to my son getting the cord wrapped around his neck not once but twice and "tightly" per the surgeon. My son would have been a still born 100 years ago. You think it will never happen to you until it does. I became that statistic that needed the "medicalized" birth and thank god for it. Otherwise I would still be mourning the loss of my son and not just the loss of my idealized birth plan. Be careful. Infants and mothers died regularly before modern medicine advent. Yes hospitals suck but it's good to be there when life is at stake.

ONLY the BluRay has Bonus features This DVD will not be released until Tuesday - Feb 1st - But I want to alert those without DVD Players that - like Destino and other great material on the Fantasia/Fantasia 2000 release in December, there is NO BONUS material on the DVD copy included in this combo pack. You MUST have a BD player to see all the new bonuses. I'm told a DVD version coming in April but why do we have to wait? Also - VERY important for anyone reading reviews on this Amazon link. AGAIN, they are combining reviews from EVERY released version of the film in one pot. That's way there are over 400 reviews posted for a DVD that is not even available to buy. Hence my 3 stars. When I can watch the Bonuses, I'll revise the review.  Steve Ramm "Anything Phonographic"

great video, so-so audio mix This is still a good movie. The look of it is nice in HD. Some of the CGI are a little sub-par for todays standards, but still do the job.  I have a real problem with the surround mix.  The center channel rocks throughout the film, maybe too much.  The big problem is the other channels.  Here and there throughout the film the surround just seem to cut way back.  The worst case is during the big shootout at the gangster meeting. It's gets so bad at points I was wondering if my speakers had cut out completely.  The center channel does great, the fronts, rears and sub all seem to cut back about 50% during the shootout.

Eh. I was very excited when this movie came in ... I had been wanting to watch it for several years, as I had read the manga series and watched part of the anime series.  But I have to say, I am a bit disappointed with the movie.  It is impressive that they crammed so much into roughly 87 minutes, but it loses a *lot* by so much cramming.  The anime series deviates from the manga a bit, but this movie deviates a LOT from both for no apparent reason other than they just didn't want to introduce yet more characters into the movie's plot.  Basically, you're getting the wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am version of the series from this movie.  If you just want a quick run-down of X/1999 and are in the mood for some action-oriented, violently bloody anime, then I'm sure you will enjoy this.  But if you are a purist and prefer your anime to stick to the original storyline as much as possible, you might want to skip it.  I have been a big X and CLAMP fan for years, so I was curious and glad to at least give it a try ... so if you do plan to watch it regardless, just don't expect a thorough story here.

not that great. The case look's great,i just like the target exclusive one better.All this set has is the fabric poster,and the blu-ray disc with extra feature's.Save your money just get the regular blu-ray edition.

Mediocre Immortals The only appeal to this movie is the bloodshed if you're into that. The story is a complete distortion of Greek mythology and nothing more than a rehash of Conan the Barbarian and The Beastmaster with a somewhat different twist. But not enough of a twist to make it interesting. Watching it once was enough. Buying it...out of the question.

Really wanted to like this- closer to a 2..just okay This was just so so.  It had so much promise.  I liked the actors and I'm not sure where it fell flat.  I just didn't feel invested and never was sucked in.  This did have lots of action, but not the greatest special affects.  Watch this when it's free and you'll be satisfied.  Otherwise, maybe not.

Expect the Unexpected Guillermo Del Toro has garnered quite the reputation as a director of horror films and deservedly so. It's not just that he's interesting on a technical level. His movies always have an odd spin to them. I doubt "Mimic" would have been anywhere near as interesting or good in the hands of most other directors. In "Cronos", his first feature length film, you already see some of the things he would go on to develop to a greater degree in his later successes.  Here's the scoop. An aging antiques store owner gets tipped off that a statue in his shop may contain something of great interest and value. Upon discovering it, a bug like contraption, he is "stung" by it. But the result is more than enjoyable. He uses it again, but, without the manuscript written by the inventor of the device, he doesn't realize he's opening himself up for real trouble. Meanwhile, another aging, wealthy man has sent his nephew (played by Ron Perlman) to do anything necessary to retrieve the contraption.  This isn't a great movie but it contains some great stuff. The story never turned where, or in a way, I thought it would. I was not able to predict what would happen in any given scene. There is not all that much plot here. The story is very sparse but it's the way Del Toro explores some of the nuances that works so well. What happens when an old man suddenly and unexpectedly finds himself reinvigorated? How far will he go to keep that feeling. And what about a person whose life is painful  due to never-ending maladies but wants to live longer nonetheless? What is so dear about life, even a painful one, where aperson simply cannot let go of it? And the device itself is interesting. The nifty ganglion of gears on the inside would be repeated later in "Hellboy II."  It's directed very well. Del Toro knows how to set up a shot. I never felt the camera was in the wrong place. It's cut well and the musical score is good. The performances are good. Perlman is always worth watching and he has a good character here. The young girl playing Aurora does a fine job even though she only utters one word of dialogue. The set designs are very good. Most of the sets are filled with nifty stuff but not so much that they seemed crowded. My eye was always searching the frame in a comfortable way.  If you're a fan of the horror genre of film this is a must see. It's not stupid and contains no cheap thrills. It's more for the adult sensibilities and well worth your time investment.

Decent workout, decent price I travel alot and am always looking for fitness DVD's that provide a really good workout in a hotel room.  I found this to be a decent overall workout for all body parts.  What I don't like: 1.) Starting the upper body section with a triceps exercise.  The standard is to start with larger muscle groups like chest or back, and move to smaller muscle groups like biceps and triceps. I find it difficult to do the triceps exercises when my upper body is not warmed up, so I have to do pushups first when I use this DVD. 2.)  The abdominal section.  I'm not a fan of staying in this scooped out position for an entire segment.  I usually modify to include some crunches.  On the positive side - The DVD covers most of the muscles in upper and lower body, giving a fairly good workout in a short amount of time.

decent anthology that doesn't add up to much Replete with an all-star cast and a roster of A-list directors too numerous to mention, "New York, I Love You" is an omnibus tribute to Manhattan's powers as an aphrodisiac.  The movie strings together a dozen or so vignettes in which random couples meet and share a few significant moments together - all against the backdrop of a city steeped in vibrancy, color and romance.  As is to be expected with this type of film, the episodes themselves vary somewhat in quality and interest, but with no real standout amongst them.  My favorite, if I had to choose, would probably be a charmer about a virginal teen who winds up taking a wheelchair-bound date to the prom.  The actors aren't given much of a chance to develop their characters, though, interestingly, the best performance (by the perpetually elegant Julie Christie) and the worst performance (by the mannered Shia LaBeouf) are to be found in the same segment.  Of course, this is a largely upscale view of the city - predominantly white, gentrified and problem-free - that never gets north of the Park in its geography.  Still, the movie takes its place alongside such earlier works as "Tokyo!" and "Paris, je t'amie" as an affectionate and generally watchable love-letter to the town it calls home.

Mild Target An efficient but repressed hitman(Bill Nighy) who always gets his man meets his match with a kooky thief (Emily Blunt, whose star continues to rise) who has more lives than the Roadrunner.  Both run a afoul of a sadistic gangster (Rupert Everett).  Throw in the mix a kid (Rupert Grint) who may or may not have been at the wrong place at the wrong time.  A nice mix of Ealing and screwball that ultimately is as memorable as fish and chips.  Not bad but had the potential to be better.

Weird Version of Life Force I haven't had a chance to watch the other films and to be honest I'm not familiar enough with them to know any difference but this version of Life Force differs from the version I've seen.  It watches like a rougher version of the final edit.  I know this movie backwards and forwards, it isn't the greatest film but is memorable because it was the first R feature I saw underage in theaters.  There are extra scenes and extra dialogue that were cut-out of the theater version.  The musical track differs from the regular version somewhat.  Striking differences in the score are the more "scary scenes" where the pathologist is being attacked by the guard and where they are being attacked by the soldier ghouls on the helicopter.  The score on this version just doesn't work in some scenes.  I think the music was re-edited again afterwards to improve the score.  There are other subtle things like sound effects and voices being different. Some of them here sound a little half-baked compared to the theater version (the radio voice discussing the plague in London wasn't as intense).  Although, it is kind of cool to hear the mix like this compared to my theater version VHS tape from the 80's.  Kind of reminds you why there is an army of people who work on a film, each version changing and getting tighter.  Also, how these little subtle things add up to effect the effectiveness of the whole movie.  While it was cool to hear some of the extra dialogue, I can definitely see why it was cut-out.  It added nothing and some of it was way too On-The-Nose.  The final editors must have zapped the words "space vampire or vampire" out of the theater version multiple times.  This expository dialogue on vampires really sounds silly.  They also condensed some of the dragging scenes found on this version (The space ship vampire chamber, Carlsen opening the vampire's casing).  If you're a fan of this film and want to see some of what was cut-out, check it out. If you're someone wanting to watch this film for the first time (if that's possible), SKIP THIS DVD.  It is way inferior to the finished theater version.

more an own goal than a Chicarito special How do you make a sports-themed movie with virtually no sports action in it? Call Guillermo del Toro, I guess. The comedic elements are just laughable. The one brother as a singer doing a Spanish ranchera version of a Cheap Trick song just made me think, "Is '70s rock still alive for Mexicans in 2009?"  This is an identikit by-the-numbers telenovela story really. Two poor brothers make it big in the world of soccer and end up (SPOILER ALERT) in the "pen[alty]ultimate faceoff.  The acting is first-rate although Gabriel Garcia Bernal is looking too much like Freddie Prinze. Jr., in this flick for my liking which drove me to distraction. The soccer scenes, albeit brief, are good especially of the training ground and the final match complete with the ever "classy" vocal rendering of Mexican soccer crowds. Problem is we rarely get to see either brother show off their soccer skills. Then again this is more a movie about sibling rivalry and love than anything else.  That's where this movie falls flat. The script is brutal. What do the boys do when they go to the big time in Mexico City--one falls into drugs and gambling and the other hooks up with a hottie who dumps him the minute he stops scoring the big goals. It reads like a very bad romance novel.  The last half hour on the soccer pitch more than makes up for the "you see it coming from a mile away" plot up till then.  The weird thing is why did they decide a penalty kick would be the most dramatic event to drive the movie from start to finish. When Rudo the keeper comes up with the suggestion of one penalty kick to decide whether the scout Baton will take him or his brother, Cursi, is the guy insane? Face facts, 90 percent of the time the penalty taker will score. Why not challenge him to something with a bit of a 50/50 chance of success?  I guess it's all in there to set us up for the final scene but still I thought it proved how dumb Rudo was at gambling and maybe that was the point. I don't know but that got this movie off to a stupid start really.  The extras are decent with the usual making of, deleted scenes, commentary track but the bonus is a classic in theater "turn off your cell phones" clip with the stars of the pic.

Informative discussion of Chaucer's life and career The title is "Chaucer & The Canterbury Tales." Anyone who wants a acted version of the Tales will be disappointed with this DVD. Instead, what Terry Jones and narrator Jones offer is a detailed discussion of Chaucer's life and career as a courtier, diplomat, administrator, and poet closely aligned with the powerful John of Gaunt and King Richard II (who became king at age 14 and is thought to have been the first English king in a long while to speak English).  Much of the photography accompanying the narrative is of sites and buildings around London and Canterbury that are associated with Chaucer and his time. I visited London in 2009 and found the street scenes and buildings and interiors not only familiar but apt. Others might know London too well to need that or might not especially care. The close-ups of manuscript illustrations are sometimes not in focus, which is a shame, but the narrative is intelligent and informative, though the low-tech recording reveals slight background hiss stopping and starting when the narrative pauses between scenes. I found the voices easy to follow, but I tend to turn up the volume on videos. Standard classroom equipment might not work as well. And the English do have English "accents," don't they?  Terry Jones brings life to the presentation by discussing interesting problems of interpretation about the facts of Chaucer's life, which are mostly derived from documents. As the narrative points out, we know more facts about Chaucer than we do about Shakespeare, despite Shakespeare having lived 200+ years closer to our time, because Chaucer was an important person at court during the last 30 years of the 1300s. This makes what happened to Chaucer an interesting problem, because after Richard II was deposed and murdered by Henry IV, Chaucer simply disappeared from the documentary record. Did he happen to die of natural causes at that time, or was he eliminated as a close associate of the deposed king?  Terry Jones points to the satirical portraits of churchmen in the Tales (the friar, the monk, the pardoner, the prioress) and theorizes that Archbishop of Canterbury Arundel, who fled to the Continent for a time and then returned with Henry Bolingbroke, may have taken offense at the anti-clericalism and/or seen Chaucer as a potential propagandist for Richard and against Henry. Jones also discusses the Lollards and Wycliff, with whom Chaucer may have been in sympathy. This would have been dangerous because of the supposed Lollard influence on the bloody Peasants' Revolt of 1381.  In short, this DVD will be most useful to those who already know something about Chaucer and his writing and who want to deepen their understanding of the period. As for the nude piano player (who is properly wearing a necktie), it is a little distracting to see Terry Jones jowl by cheek with the painting behind him. One view was amusing; repeated views not so much.

Somewhat limited I am not sure if I have seen a main storyline with more potential wasted.  So a person with limitless brainpower would use it to make money on Wall Street and run for politics? Really? The imagination of the writers were certainly limited, and that's too bad, because this film had its unlimited potential reach only about 5-20% of its capacity (depending on whom you believe).  This isn't a smart film. It is a trick; a gimmick with no real substance.  There are, however, few saving graces. Bradley Cooper (main character) is very convincing as an actor. I am convinced if he reaches 100% of his acting potential, he would be worthy of an Oscar, and he is far more than 20% there.  Before anyone tries to copy the concepts of this film and make yet an another script of enhanced-brainpower person making riches in Wall Street, then I suggest such person take more NZT 48 and enhance his/her own brain function first.  And how come the brother-in-law gets himself killed? Doesn't he know taking that pill will save his life from assasins? And how come he never gives it to those who want it? I mean it's for sale. Just sell it. But I suppose no one in the writing team has thought of that. More NZT 48 please.

Looks like were gonna be friends after all, RICHARD Awesome movie, i loved this movie as a kid and finally decided to check it out on blu ray. It had two extra shots of gore, when the yes man is being shot by the ed 209 in the conference room and when murphy's hand is draining in blood. Well written, the story does not lag or speed or do you feel as if you've missed something, truly well written. Also well acted everybody did their characters justice. Well directed, the action sequences do not disappoint. This movie gives you that "real" feeling, just like the new action hero movies do. They are dark, deep ...they're not cartoonish or gay. In a way this movie was ahead of its time during an era of real gay movies and even then swept into the nineties of gay movies. Finally in the last 5 years or do hollywood if FINALLY giving those "real feeling" movie such as dark knight or ironman. As far as i remember robocop has been the only film of the era with those elements. Action, "real", dark, entertaining (not gay it was the eighties or nineties remember?)  As far as the blu ray goes, eh. Quality was terrible, but the best your gonna get from the original footage. Very grainy. Looks like you can get same quality as the dvd but on a blu ray disc. Still, its blu ray and id rather own blu ray than dvd any day.

Yes, it's true... This DVD version (CFS RELEASING - ASIN: B006OT0T6G) is very difficult to watch due to bad transfer to DVD format... I guess I had to see for myself.

In a way, this first film sets up Spielberg's career Some critic commented that this debut feature, made when the wunderkind was just 26, is highly untypical moviemaking for Steven Spielberg. While in some ways this is true, The Sugarland Express also sets up nearly everything that's both right and wrong with SS to this day. It's interesting how both his strengths and his weaknesses were evident even back then.  The movie works best in the scenes that require atmosphere, and there is a lot of it. As with Close Encounters and Jaws, he is great at showing how masses behave to extraordinary spectacle. The well-wishers who surround the car as though it's on a religious pilgrimage, the crazed way the media reports on the chase, the out-of-proportion law enforcement response, all these are seen in different manifestations in the director's next several films. Likewise Spielberg nails the atmosphere perfectly. In the scenes that are all about procedure, or about what it feels like to be there, he has a keen eye that, with the help of brilliant cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond and legendary editor Verna Fields (who would later cut Jaws as well), depicts with energy and freshness the time and place of the story. These same strengths, this "feels-like-you're-there-with-them" quality, the strong sense of realism, is present also in the evacuation scenes in Close Encounters and the scenes with the local fishermen in Jaws. The approach is almost 70s documentary, and it works.  Now for the weaknesses. As with just about every Spielberg movie I've ever seen, with the semi-exception of Saving Private Ryan, a unique creation in the director's oeuvre that deserved all its accolades, the characters in Sugarland Express are fairly one-dimensional. Everyone in this film is a stock character, from the driven-but-crazed mom who just wants her son (and whom Holly Hunter brilliantly satirized in Raising Arizona) to the nice but a bit dopey husband, to the green and sympathetic symbol of the law, to the tough-but-cautious (too cautious by today's standards, I think!) captain who wants to save his patrolman, there's not a surprise in this story, which, when you remove the great style and flair with which it's shot, is rather pedestrian. Spielberg has always liked plots with a simple through-line, plots that can be expressed in a simple sentence, even way back here. (At least Lucas, in his directorial debut, was more edgy and daring, though he soon fell back on easy characters as well.) One longs for just one twist or surprise in this thing, but it never happens.  And the final weakness, which would become more pronounced with Spielberg as his budgets got bigger and bigger: he goes in for overblown endings. This film would have had more dramatic impact if it ended in a confrontation at the house, but instead we got a gratuitous ten minutes of additional pointless chase, which gives the director lots of opportunity to show off his flipping and tumbling patrol cars (at times I almost felt as though I were watching The Blues Brothers). These officers don't brake when they see danger ahead. Instead they veer off the road, keeping their foot firmly on the accelerator so that they fly into the air and land spectacularly in pieces. Obviously real cops don't drive like that (Or maybe they're just dimmer in Texas? This film sure depicts Texas law enforcement as a bunch of dullards.) but more importantly, we get a resolution that's visually-spectacular but flat in terms of storytelling, as we would again in so many later films.  This obsession with the technical over the emotional is something Spielberg shared in common a lot of his movie-brat generation, from bud George Lucas to John Landis. They set up situations to the n-th degree, but their films treat the humans in them as secondary, excuses for the chases, explosions, fights, battles, and melting Nazi heads. These particular filmmakers and others came to light at the height of the "auteur" craze, when the director was briefly *the* deity, even over the actor and producer, in Hollywood. These men were all ambitious and hard-working, and aspired to this godhood, but I have a feeling, and boy I know I'm going to take a lot of flack for this, that in another era, an era where the director wasn't quite so powerful and the star and the story were more prominent, they'd have been technicians--master technicians to be sure--but not directors. There's something maddenly incomplete and stunted about their film educations and cinematic tastes, despite all the lip service they give to character development and script, and it shows in what they (still) bring to the screen.  The Sugarland Express is a good film, and Hawn surprised me with her crazy-yet-sympathetic performance. Yet it could have been a lot better if the writer/director worried less about flipping squad cars and more about who these people were, what their background was, who the child's guardians were, how this might have been affecting the child, why the captain was so reluctant to engage, how the kidnapped officer felt towards his captors, and so on. What little we get is straightforward and cliched. It's clear most of the planning in this film went towards discussing how they'd move the camera so freely through the interior of the car (remarkable for 1974) and how to stage the stunt shots (there's a spectacular crash of a news van where bodies fly through the air and land perfectly framed right in front of the camera) rather than where the characters were coming from and how they came to feel about one another as the movie progressed.  The DVD looks good, especially considering the film's age, and again, Zsigmond's work is one of the reasons to rent this. Play back the beautifully-lit and perfectly balanced nighttime scenes an extra time to savor some gorgeous lensing. The only supplement is the trailer, which is presented non-anamorphically. (The film is anamorphic.) Everything looks good and is clear. But ultimately, nothing stays with you longer than the popcorn you munched at the theater.

More grey than just a wolf. Grey is a good description of this movie since the wolves are grey, the dark, snowy setting is grey, the mental outlook of the "hero" is grey, and the plot gets ever greyer as it progresses to its inevitable end.  The language is appropriate for the kind of men depicted but still that much profanity is off-putting.

Screaming Skull You know why I love those old "classic" horror movies so much? Because for all their problems and limitations (mostly due to lack of budget and the primitive state of special effects at the time), those movies, the really bad ones, took themselves way too seriously. Case in point: THE SCREAMING SKULL.  The plot is an old one. Widowed husband brings new wife to old home with the intention of driving her either insane or to suicide in order to gain her inheritance. The husband in this case is Eric Whitlock (played by John Hudson) who's bringing his new wife Jenny (Peggy Webber) back to the mansion he shared with Marion before her untimely demise. Untimely in that Eric didn't wait long enough to kill her before she revised her will and all he got was the house and the land, but where's the money? Luckily new wife Jenny is loaded. And she's got a history of mental illness to boot--score for Eric!  Rounding out our cast are curious onlookers Reverend and Mrs. Snow--friends of Eric and Marion, now Eric and Jenny--and Mickey the gardener, played by Alex Nichol who also directed.  Spending her nights alone in the mansion while Eric is "in town" tending to the business of their moving back into the place, Jenny is woken by a screaming late at night, which turns out to be coming from a skull she finds stashed in an armoire. Jenny tosses the skull out the window, but it finds its way back onto the porch and begins knocking loudly at the door until Jenny opens it to let it in. But when Jenny tries to explain to Eric what's happened, he insists she's simply having a reaction to the new home and a portrait of his deceased wife that reminds Jenny of her own dead mother.  The audience, meanwhile, is left to wonder which of the three possibilities is really at play here. It's either Marion's ghost come back to haunt the mansion, or it's Mickey trying to scare away the new wife (Mickey and Marion grew up together and she was one of the only people the feeble-minded gardener could relate to). Or, it could be stone-faced dead-inside Eric. The whys of this last theory don't come out until close to the end, so for the most part we're led to believe Mickey the likely culprit.  The only problem ... the only REAL problem the movie could have solved but didn't (you can't hold crappy effects and even worse acting against them, it was 1958) is that the movie never really makes up its mind. Yes, of course it's really Eric trying to get his hands on Jenny's money without the trouble of an actual wife hanging around, but the skull Jenny finds really does move on its own, and she's clearly haunted by a real ghost while Eric is out looking for Mickey and is nowhere near the house. So THE SCREAMING SKULL actually wants to have two protagonists at once--the murdered wife, and the sociopathic husband. In the end it just leaves the audience confused.  I had originally seen this movie years ago on MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATRE 3000, and it's probably one of my most-viewed episodes, so it's almost impossible to watch the regular version of the movie and not hear the jokes in your head. But believe me, if you know the jokes, just say them out loud because you'll need something to take your mind off how truly boring this movie is.  And now back to that part about taking themselves too seriously. In the 50s, moviemakers used to come up with some crazy ploys to get audiences in the theaters, such as William Castle's vibrating seat device during screenings of THE TINGLER. THE SCREAMING SKULL played the same game, including a short introduction stating the climax was so frightening you might actually die, and insuring free burial to anyone who did succumb to the "shocking horror". Well, if super-imposed skull images growing to giant proportions over the backdrop of the scene is enough to scare you literally to death ... you've got bigger problems than bad taste in movies.  THE SCREAMING SKULL is a movie with simply too many strikes against it. The story is predictable, the pacing is eternal (even at only 68 minutes, it feels like a week). The editing is choppy, the sound is off balance, and the lightning changes from shot to shot. The dialogue is ridiculous, the acting even worse, and watching John Hudson writhe around while clutching a skull to his neck and pretending it's attacking him is just embarrassing.  As much as I love crappy old horror movies, THE SCREAMING SKULL doesn't even qualify as cheesy bad; it's just plain bad. If you want to revel in your lack of quality, at least have something original to bring to the table. This isn't it. And that's why it wound up on MST3k in the first place.

i keep being told its only a movie well i finally got the want to watch it after purchasing it, oh i dont know how long ago. but i didnt really like the beating of the women at all. ouch! actually the first reason i didnt like it was because it was a western, i think, and im not really a western fan. all the actors did very well in their parts, of course. is not a bad movie. now wonder when ill want to see "ride with the devil"

Great movie, WAY TOO SHORT, and should have been free.. This movie was really good, but way to short and I agree with the other reviewer, there was no real value in it. It was too short to be a paid product, but maybe too expensive to make to give away.  When you are trying to sell a $50 video game, this could have been given away with the game.  The bottom line...Do not pay for this and watch it on the internet because I sure it will be up on the companies website soon. Especially since the PC version of the game has not received good reviews, anyway.  Looks like they dumped all their resources into the movie and not the game.  Don't believe the hype.  LOL.

eh A bit artsy fartsy for me. A middle age guy looking for a young woman he can love and grow old with after his wife's death seven years prior. I'm not sure how available a beautiful woman that age would be to a man in his 40's/50's in Japanese culture, but he falls for her hook line and sinker. The acting was very good by all around and the subtitles took nothing away from the film. That being said, this reminded me a bit of Black Swan with Natalie Portman. The first half of the film was realistic and well done, but later on we get the make believe "artsy" scenes that were a turn off.  Note also some of the scenes are gory and quite disturbing as others mentioned. In some sense the whole thing was about men getting up there in years and wanting a younger woman to fall in love with and being dangled and rejected.

An Overstretched, Unnecessary Continuation of the Franchise A classic case of too many cooks spoiling the stew, Alien³ isn't necessarily a bad movie, nor is it devoid of potential direction. If anything, it tries to do too much: when Ripley crash lands on a sparsely-populated prison planet, she stumbles into no less than a dozen unique plot points and divergent storylines. Paired with the natural hide-and-seek drama surrounding the alien itself, a closer look at one or two of those may have resulted in a textured, interesting picture. Instead, first-time director David Fincher tries to delve into the lot of them, which often shuffles the alien to the backburner and discovers - after the fact - that they each didn't deserve such a microscopic analysis. That leads to a film with neither a distinct personality nor a purpose which is, often, inconceivably dull. By the time it gets around to wrapping things up, in an admittedly sharp, ballsy climax, the moment is already tarnished and wasted. Even the alien effects, which were so convincing and outstanding in the first two pictures, seem like a watered down afterthought in this chapter.

Good noir flick, lame HD transfer Being a huge booster of Blu-Ray as the ideal (so far) medium for improving the sight and sound of older movies I was fairly disappointed with this and HD Cinema's concurrent release, "The Stranger".  While Blu-Ray transfers typically make details sharper, shadows blacker and faces more detailed, these two films' details seem softer and less focused despite the BD transfers.  Ironically, this can be proven by watching the short side-by-side comparison each disc offers as an extra feature.  The non-Blu-Ray half of the screen looks sharper with more relief.  First time I've seen that.

Candy for the eyes, but not a compellingly told story Are the special effects nifty and cool?  Goodness, yes.  But that's where the uniqueness ends.  In trying to make sense out of "Tron: Legacy", it helps to have seen the original "Tron".  Other scenes you will recognize from other movies anyway.  Never mind the fact that the chronology is off and our hero Sam Flynn's age is off by about 7 or 9 years:  The film supposedly takes place in modern day - 2010.  Sam, once in the grid, tells his dad Kevin he is 27 years old.  Kevin disappeared 21 years earlier, back in 1989, making young Sam six years old at the time.  But on the night in 1989 when he disappeared, we see Kevin and Sam talking together and Sam is WAY older than 6.  He's probably closer to 14 years old.  That should make him at least in his early thirties in modern day.  Fail.  And there are a great many moments in the film that seem lifted from other films.  I counted at least 2 moments that were blatantly lifted from "Batman Begins", two from "The Dark Knight", god knows how many from "The Matrix", one or two from the original "Star Wars", and several cliched moments that could have come from any of a dozen generic action films.  When Sam, on a quest to locate his missing father, gets pulled into the grid and is forced to engage in gladiator games, no explanation is offered why those games exist or are necessary.  It is explained in "Tron" but not in this sequel.  A newbie to this universe might be left scratching his head.  And seemingly everyone in this new universe knows martial arts.  That wasn't the case in the original "Tron", but it seems necessary in "Legacy" because movies of recent years feature a lot of martial arts fighting and "Legacy" borrows heavily from recent movies.  It is great to have Jeff Bridges back on board, but his character in this film is almost indistinguishable from his "Dude" character in "The Big Lebowski".  His Flynn character in "Tron" wasn't at all like that.  The film's score is heavy-handed at times.  Even during an overly-long dinner and plot exposition scene, the score plays too loudly and forcefully.  Very intrusive.  What drives the thin plot in "Legacy" is our hero's attempts to escape from the grid without the chief villain obtaining Kevin Flynn's identity disc.  It is never explicitly clear what the villain really needs it for, either.  There's a lot of talk about the urgency of it but not very specific detail.  Sam Flynn manages to escape the grid by employing a move that I doubt he would have known about unless he had seen the first "Tron" movie.  So I guess in the "Tron: Legacy" universe, the film "Tron" had played in theaters or on home video and Sam saw it.  How fortunate.  Truth is, aside from the very impressive visuals there is not much in the storytelling of "Legacy" that is all that original or compelling.  Most everything about it seems borrowed and the sentimentality seems forced.  The Blu-ray release is visually stunning on all fronts and has a satisfying amount of bonus content.  But that stuff is expected nowadays and can hardly be used as a selling point anymore.  In the end, "the play's the thing".  You can watch it only so many times before the "wow factor" of the special effects wears off.  After that, the story has to sustain your interest.  That's where "Tron: Legacy" is the weakest.

Twilight Zone-The Movie "Let the Midnight Special shine a Light on me..." The only good parts of the movie is the very start of the movie on the highway and the last story in the airplane.Otherwise it is downright silly not even scary,I did like the story of the elderly people but it does not belong in a Twilight Zone story.

Cute for senior citizens. I can't believe that some prudes gave this a bad review because of the content. You shouldn't give a bad review because you thought it was a family film and it is about sex, it is not a film for children. Most mature senior citizens will get some big laughs out of this film, which is about an 84 year old man who is lonely and wants to meet a companion. His grandson gives him advice on how to pick up women and as it turns out there's a nice twist at the end.

A-tisket a-tasket I almost always enjoy Jean Reno's work.  But.  Rarely do I enjoy Robert De Niro.  I wasn't certain if I was going to like this movie at the onset so I wasn't surprised when I found I didn't really care one way or another when it reached its rather disappointing conclusion.  I just sat there and thought....so what?  Two fantastic car chases do not make a good movie, especially when wedged in between a rudimentary caper flick involving a metal case that could contain anything from a bomb to dirty laundry, the contents are never revealed.  I have the suspicion that they didn't know what to put in this mystery case that would justified the cons and double crosses and all the forced urgency, so they decided nothing would do just as well as something.  The sad thing is I really didn't care what was in this case (worth killing and dying for) as it is not a movie I will ever watch again.  Not a keeper in any case.

IT HAS IT'S MOMENTS It has it's moments however few. Now don't get me wrong my wife laughed her backside off. Me, well I found a moment or two that made me chuckle; mainly the horse collapsing under Jill. Now spare me the that is cruel garbage. If I were to jump on that same horse the movie would have ended there for cruelty to animals. Ok it had a couple more but they elude me at the moment, it has been a couple of weeks since I watched it. Try to catch it in the Deal section. It is worth a couple of bucks.

Decent, Not As Good As I'd Like It To Be Though While this Blu-ray edition of Dementia 13 looks way better than any previously available version I've seen, it doesn't look any better than a well-made standard DVD release. The picture is quite soft looking, for the most part, with some pretty bad ghosting in many of the night-time scenes. It's hard to tell whether this is the result of a bad print or a substandard high-definition transfer, as the crispness of the image varies, sometimes within the same scene.  For a while now, I'd been hoping that the negatives to this were safely tucked away in the Metro Goldwyn Mayer film vault, waiting to be released in it's full pristine glory. However, with this release, MGM will most likely be scared off (yet again) by it's competition, as was the case with the American International cuts of Mario Bava's Black Sunday and Black Sabbath (a real disappointment) and a handful of other public-domain Roger Corman productions.

WRESTLEMANIA XXVII WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP 7.5/10  REY MYSTERIO VS CODY RHODES 7/10  8 MAN TAG TEAM MATCH 2/10  RANDY ORTON VS CM PUNK 8.5/10  MICHAEL COLE VS JERRY LAWLER WITH SPECIAL GUEST REFEREE STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN 5.5/10  TRIPLE H VS UNDERTAKER-NO HOLDS BARRED 9.5/10  6 PERSON INTERGENDER TAG TEAM MATCH 4/10  WWE CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH 6/10  GOOD MATCHES:HHH VS TAKER-ORTON VS PUNK-MYSTERIO VS RHODES-EDGE`VS DEL RIO BAD`MATCH: 8 MAN TAG TEAM MATCH COLE VS LAWLER 6 PERSON MIXED TAG TEAM MATCH MIXED MATCHE:WWE CHAMPIONSHIP

Adequate but not great Blu-ray I don't review often, but I felt the need to in this case.  This is one of the rare times I've really had a hard time distinguishing between my prior high-bitrate DVD and a Blu-ray.  Yeah, it's a little sharper, but nothing that makes you think "WOW! Now THIS is HD!"  Part of that, I'd have to attribute to the original film.  This is a movie I saw five times--my personal best, ever--in the theater, and I do remember that the print seemed a bit grainy, like the film stock they'd used wasn't all that spectacular.  I do support the natural treatment of film, though, so I'm glad they didn't attempt to sharpen the film and use DNR to give it that glossy, HD look.  Overall, it's worth the $10 you'd pay for it.  The commentary track is from one of the old DVD's and fully illustrates that Arnold is perhaps one of the funniest, and worst, celebrity commentators ever.  He simply doesn't understand what's expected of him.  Verhoeven, however, is terrific both in the commentary and the supplementary interview, which was clearly filmed more recently and in HD.  Overall, I gave the Bluray three stars.  The film itself I give four and a half, but I think the reviews should be more about the quality of the disc than about what you thought of the film.  (That's what Rottentomatoes is for.)

Meh... Not Bad... Not Great I'll just get right to the point.  I'm not going to get into the details of the plot since they've been mentioned in more than one review already, so I'll tell you what I thought.  Like most everyone else I discovered this movie being a fan of Castle and Stana Katic, and I was very eager to watch it.  Overall, the movie was just okay.  The film had it's moments, but overall just didn't have a big impression on me.  The black & white cinematography was a nice touch, but the sound suffers.  There are a handful of moments where it's hard to hear what the characters are saying, but what bothered me the most was the ambient voice around them which got to be somewhat excessive.  The music throughout the film is absolutely lovely, and fits the film very well.  I particularly liked the opening song "La Noyee."  As for our two co-stars - Stana is stellar and definitely plays her part very well and she comes off as very believable.  Polish is just okay.  Sometimes he does ok, and other times it just feels phony.  The film as whole doesn't really hold it's own compared to other romance films.  Some will obviously feel differently, but I just felt that their relationship was a little to physical to my liking.  I didn't get the impression that there was any real substance to their relationship, at least until about the last third of movie when reality really started to kick in for the characters.  To be fair, I don't think I've ever been truly in love with someone before, so who am I to judge?  Overall, the film was definitely overhyped a little.  For an indie film it's okay, and there definitely moments throughout the film when the couple is just talking that things feel really genuine and honest, but as whole it just didn't do it for me.  I am a little disappointed.  I would definitely recommend at least renting it, but certainly don't go out and buy it on a whim.

credit for guts You've to give this film some credit for guts. No style, no substance and zero star -power...And yet it carries a flamboyant flag for that frisky female fantasia known as The Wanton Woman.

Mind Games I think this movie is brilliant - in a sense that it works very well confusing the viewer on which part is reality and which is a dream. Vanilla Sky toys with your mind, it does with shades of grey and you can interpret it many ways.  Even in the beginning, the story of publisher David Aames (Tom Cruise) starts off as a dream. Things start to go weird after he is disfigured in a car accident, even imagining that his dead sex buddy (Cameron Diaz) is his current flame (Penelope Cruz).  Halfway through the show, though a series of dreams alternating with reality, I wondered if I was going insane. In this sense, Vanilla Sky is that good.  The cast put up generally robust performances. You really need to concentrate as I gave up sitting through the first viewing.  The reality of David's situation is revealed towards the end. Even then, there is a playful yet disconcerting thought going through your mind - now is this for real or what?  I generally hate ambiguous films and movies that have hidden meanings. So if you are up for mind games, pick up this one.

As many hits as misses. This movie could have been so much better. Tekken is a great franchise. The plot is typical movie fair that deviates from the game. The use of some characters like Christie,Kazuya, Nina, Anna, and Eddie Gordo are ridiculous. The costume designs and acting are fairly decent, the actions scenes are a mixed bag of good and you've got to be kidding me.  The story focuses too much on Jin and that is the main flaw. (When did Jin become the main hero???) Jin does not enter the Tekken until the third game. The story feels rushed and while the costume designs and some fights are spot on the movie never really feels like Tekken. It's an enjoyable Martial Arts movie that would have been better served to be called King of Iron Fist as opposed to Tekken. Jin and Heihachi are done ok but the rest of the characters are not even close. This movie is on par with Street Fighter but doesn't even come close to the great first Mortal Kombat movie. Hollywood has to find the perfect match between satisfying fans and making great film. With popular examples and epic fails they should have gotten this right. Decent movie worth a rental and if you are a collector buy it.

Unconvincing story to end a great show I thought I had seen most of the show back when it was on TV.  I recently started watching it again from the beginning in a six-week marathon, only to realize I didn't recognize the last three seasons.  It was wonderful to see so many great stories for the first time.  However, when I got to the series finale, I was very disappointed.  Not so much by how the show ended, since that was definitely a valid route to go, given everything that happens throughout the six seasons.  It was more that the story didn't seem to have anything to do with the rest of the series.  Out of the blue, Xena needs to go somewhere we've never seen, to help someone we've never heard of.  While that was done in other episodes and they could pull it off, I was never convinced by the premise and setup for the finale, which ruined it for me.  I just kept thinking to myself that the story didn't make any sense.  I didn't find Akemi very convincing (or even remotely interesting), and didn't buy that Xena would have become at all attached to her.  The scene with Xena drunk, a complete mess, carrying out a stranger's last wishes didn't make any sense to me.  She barely knew Akemi, and the story didn't develop enough to create any chemistry between those two characters.  Also, I didn't buy the idea that everything that happened in Japan was Xena's fault, which is vital to the finale.  It seems to me that bad things were already happening there, and Akemi set the rest in motion by killing her father and then killing herself.  The fact that Xena couldn't carry out Akemi's wishes shouldn't have made the consequences solely her fault.  If someone needed to remain dead to make things right, well, keep Akemi!  I viewed her as being ultimately responsible.  I thought the finale was well-made (it looked pretty enough, although I thought the beginning was too dark and I couldn't see anything), but I didn't think the writing was up to par.  Several of the individual season finales (even some random episodes) were far better than this one.  The acting from Lucy and Renee was very good, but I still have a problem with Akemi's character.  While that might have been bad writing and not bad acting, I just viewed her as disposable and generic - not enough to get such a strong and emotional rise out of Xena.  None of it was believable to me.  They could have ended the series in exactly the same way (Gabrielle alone) but with a completely different storyline, and I might have given it 5 stars.  The only way to rationalize for myself that the finale is part of the overall story is either to hope for a movie someday to resolve it and give the characters a believable story for their ending, or simply to pretend the finale never happened.

the print, not the flick a lot of the negative reviews here seem focused on the movie itself-  and while i really like this film, i do not take exception with much of the negative criticism; rather my enjoyment of the film is in spite of its faults, or through suspension of disbelief.  i am in agreement with those who say the dvd itself kind of sucks; it is not anamorphic, which is an absolute travesty after all of these years of widescreen television manufacture, though i am fortunate enough to have purchased a widescreen teevee that has its "zoom 1" setting properly dialed to compensate for this.  were i among those whose televisions are not set up with such a compensatory arrangement, i would have immediately returned the dvd.  as far as the letterboxing goes, 2.35:1 is 2.35:1, no matter how much you dislike the "black bars" at the top and bottom of the screen.  if you want to see the whole film, as opposed to some panned and cropped version that fills your screen, you're going to have to try very hard to concentrate on the content, rather than the negative space.  believe me, watching the film will be more rewarding than looking at the black bars.  well, unless you really don't like the movie, i suppose.  the resolution of the print definitely sucks.  i do not mind that, because i am used to seeing this film as it was originally presented- in grainy celluloid.  but if you want anything even approaching hi def, forget about it.  for some reason the studio has not seen to the appropriate remastering of this film with modern enhancement.  i would buy this dvd again, but only because it is cheap, i like the flick, i don't mind a low res picture, and my lcd zooms the pic to just fill the width of my screen.  if you have higher expectations than those (and i think that it is reasonable to expect more be available, even if it mandates a higher premium), then you will likely be disappointed.

Okay; Interesting OK; Interesting (didn't want to write a review; just wanted to give it three stars; Amazon forces a twenty-word review).

Cut my favorite moment Just got in an import CD as a gift (both the DVD and CD won't be available in the US until 2012) and my favorite moment from the concert was cut from the CD - the Sarah Brightman 'Phantom of the Opera' -with the Phantoms from Around the World - was cut from the 'Grand Finale' number.  (Though ALW's long speech and 4 minutes+ of audience applause was left in  - shame!)  Hopefully this number will be present on the DVD/Blu release.

Everybody Lost After the Cultural Revolution The "Queen and I" is a former communist and successful documentary filmmaker's attempt to acquaint us with the former Queen of Iran.  What I liked about it was it showed the humanity of both the subject and the filmmaker and how they had both survived some awful situations, albeit under quite different circumstances.  I also appreciated the overview of recent Iranian history, with particular focus on former Queen Farah and her late husband, the former Shah.  However, this film was not really a substantive documentary about the former Queen Farah. Rather it is a superficial and placating account of a short period spent with Farah in Paris that has the single virtue of perhaps providing the filmmaker closure on her younger brother's senseless death.  The filmmaker has every right to be angry with the former Queen yet she is charmed and touched by the woman behind the title. I had a hard time with this because I really disliked the Queen and found her to be fairly self-absorbed and insensitive. She is so removed from reality and historical accuracy that when the documentary filmmaker movingly recounts how she, the filmmaker, had endured real poverty and suffering as a child - her father had tuberculosis and her mother had to work 15 hour days to support her 8 children - the Queen says, "Your mistake was that you should have written me a letter and I would have helped you" as if the filmmaker, then a child, should have borne the responsibility for such social injustice.  I really liked the filmmaker, or at least that part of her personality we get to know in the film,  but I was shocked that she even wanted this project. The filmmaker gives us all a lesson in compassion. Her ability to forgive is quite astonishing.  To me, the Queen comes off as nothing more than a woman who has never lived a real life and due to her limited experience with what challenges regular people face, she remains a protected and spoiled child with her lavish lifestyle in tact. She says she cares deeply about her country and its people yet she spends her time and energy engaged in trivial activities from one of her luxurious homes - usually in her Paris flat - being waited on hand and foot by servants.  Her lack of analysis of the terror inflicted on the populace by her husband is simple denial and it made me very uncomfortable. However, it explains how people can commit atrocities and then walk away, as if the blame always lies elsewhere.

A nostalgic, inaccurate tale of 1881 Tombstone I am sorry to disagree with most of the reviewers of this film. John Ford, as usual, presents a sentimental tale of Wyatt Earp in Tombstone, but he was notorious of disregarding the locals and the actual events. The most glaring mistake was the gunfight at the OK corral which the movie'Tombstone' accurately showed, but not in the present movie. I have been to Tombstone many times. The most ridiculous mistake was casting Victure Mature as Doc Holiday.  This was a joke.  I have seen Mature a few times, he was a big, husky guy just right to play Samson.  Google 'Doc Holiday' and see how he looked like. He was a sickly, skinny, man. But, John Ford was a master in presenting the 'spirit of the west' that we all love and cherish.

TNA Unbreakable review The 6 man tag team match between The Diamonds in the Rough against The 3Live Kru stinks but the crowd so that should count for something right? Dr.Robonik:"NO!" The Austin Aries-Roderick Strong match was good but could have gone longer. The Tag team match between the team of Lance Hoyt & Alpolo against the team of Monty Brown & Kip James was fairly boring most of the way though. The Chris Sabin-Petey Williams match was the usual stuff solid stuff from both of them but the finish was needlessly silly. The No-DQ match between Sabu & Abyss was a good reminder of Sabu's days in the 1990's ECW. The Jeff Hardy-Bobby Roode match was okay in spots but still stinks. The 4 way tag team match for the NWA World tag team titles was standard stuff to say the least. The Raven's Rules match for the NWA Worlds title between Raven & Rhino was a fun hardcore brawl and a good reminder of both wrestler's days in the 1990's ECW. The 3 way dance for the X Division title(Christopher Daniels vs. Samoa Joe vs. AJ Styles) had great high-flying,ground-and-pound,back-and-forth,heart-pounding,nail-biting action. Translation:It was...AWESOME!!!!! I give this PPV a 6 out of 10.

The Book was Great!! I read "Moneyball" several times before seeing the movie.  In my opinion, the movie did not capture the entire story of what the Oakland A's had achieve when forming this low budget team.  The story is about Billy Beane, and how he built a team based on statistics, not on the established player evaluation system. The movie failed to mention the drafting process where Bean and Paul Depodesta (played by Jonah Hill) seen the value of college ballplayers compared to high school standouts.  Most teams were drafting high school star players while Oakland concentrated on the mature college athlete.  It also failed to mention their star pitchers like Zeto, Mulder and Hudson also drafted by the A's and instrumental in their success. I thought Brad Pitt did not portray Bean in the same context as in the book. Pitt, comes across as a monotonous lack of character Oakland GM.  Pitt's dialogue in the movie was limited to his chewing tobacco and mumbling a few words. This role would be perfect for Matthew McConaughey (Lincoln Lawyers) as a smooth talking GM portrayed in the book.  There are other actors who would fit the part and portray Bean as a more stimulating character than Pitt.  I can't imagine anyone who has read the book would nominate Pitt for a best actor oscar.  The book was great the movie a reluctant good, Pitts acting leaves much to be desired.

No digital copy Awesome movie, awesome cast, awesome Blu Ray quality.  Sucky penny pinching vendor who used digital copy for himself. So its a two-pack instead of two, which means it is not forever burnt into my apple TV.  You kinda need to disclose these things.

D&eacute;j&agrave; vu + Quantum Leap = Source Code Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes up inside the body of another man - get your mind out of the gutter, I mean "inside" like Quantum Leap - he must use his next eight minutes efficiently, because the train he's on is about to explode.  How does he know this?  Well, it turns out Stevens is part of the Source Code, a secret government program that can use "parabolic calculus" (whatever that is) to fold time and put him into another person's identity.  A little like D&eacute;j&agrave; vu with Denzel except their superior technology had a 4 day window and...actually, it's a LOT like D&eacute;j&agrave; vu.  This borderline plagiarism would have been better off using the term "velluvial matrix" instead of "parabolic calculus" to explain the technology, because there are numerous problems with the time travel aspects of this film.  For instance, if there is an 8-minute window, and the concept behind the limitations is glossed over, why can't it be 8.5 minutes?  Or 9 minutes?  For something so unknown and unexplained it sure has a strict timeframe.  Second, some of the movements and discoveries while possessing Chicago school teacher Sean Fentress are simply impossible.  If Fentress never did it, he couldn't possibly have the memories capable of supporting Stevens' escapades throughout the train.  What I'm trying to say is, ignore the metaphysical connections because the science is pointless.  Nonetheless, the majority of this film is enjoyable.  Gyllenhaal exudes anguish in most roles, which made him perfect for Stevens.  He's unaware, dazed, and rushes through each 8-minute iteration with the gusto of irritable bowel sufferer.  Vera Farmiga, who I normally enjoy, appears to be coasting through her role as the pseudoscience facilitator, giving Stevens helpful guidance along the way (e.g. look for bags, hold on I'm playing Minesweeper).  Although, a more military and scientific approach to finding someone responsible for crimes in a parallel plain of existence would be to simply kill half of the people.  If the event doesn't happen, the culprit is in the dead half.  If it happens, next time around kill half of the left overs.  Divide by two ad nauseum.  Even the terrorist portion doesn't make a ton of sense.  One of the most predictable misdirections in cinema history is created when a Hollywood political slant is subtly inserted.  Ultimately, however, the movie asks more questions than it answers, and an ambiguous ending furthers the confusion.  It's fun, well made, and performed well.  But if you think too deeply, the brain shutoff valve is necessary.

Hoboken Hollow Received this movie expecting it to be a fairly good Horror Movie. After watching it, I felt as if it could have been much better but then again, I was not the writer of the story, nor did I write the screenplay.

Alice in Wonderland Adaptations can be difficult to pull off. Even if you're not adapting a work that is particularly well known among the masses you have to look at how the source material speaks to you and what you want to say to the audience with your film. Beyond that you have to consider what you possibly might need to change in your adaptation to make the source more cinematically viable. If you're working on a project that is ingrained in the public consciousness, or adapted previously into a universally adored film, then the line you walk can feel like the green mile.  Tim Burton has had a lot of experience with film adaptations, making massive hits with Batman, Batman Returns, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (which is not a remake, but that's a discussion for another blog post). He's also at times shown a capacity for not really understanding the source material. For his adaptation of Alice in Wonderland for Disney Burton said, "It's a funny project. The story is obviously a classic with iconic images and ideas and thoughts. But with all the movie versions, well, I've just never seen one that really had any impact to me. It's always just a series of weird events. Every character is strange and she's just kind of wandering through all of the encounters as just a sort of observer," but such observations ignore that this was Lewis Carroll's intention in his writing. In the end though, Burton's film became only the sixth film to gross more than $1 billion worldwide.  Alice Kingsleigh (Mia Wasikowska) is 19 years old and on the verge of getting engaged to a man she doesn't love. But when she sees a white rabbit she feels compelled to follow it down the rabbit hole (so to speak). When she arrives in Wonderland, a place that she has been to before but doesn't remember, she's confronted by various creatures telling her that she's the wrong Alice. Soon she learns that on the fateful Frabjous Day she is supposed to become the champion of the White Queen (Anne Hathaway) and slay the Jabberwocky to restore the kingdom from the clutches of the evil Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter).  Tim Burton has a tendency to view the world through dark shades. If Armani made a pair of gothic sunglasses they would belong to Burton. For a film like Alice and Wonderland which is known for its bright Day-Glo colors he might not seem like the right choice to direct, but in the end his style works well for his interpretation of the source material. You still have the bright colors and Burton retains some of the tones of outrageous zaniness that were present in the Carroll stories and in previous incarnations of the tale.  A relative newcomer to the Hollywood stage, Wasikowska is the biggest acting surprise of the movie. She adds a certain gravitas that grounds the flick when it could have easily been lost in its excesses, and it could serve Wasikowska far beyond films of this nature. Helena Bonham Carter (whose casting in Burton films has been blamed on nepotism) steals every scene that she's in. She's typically brilliant and the choice to not hold back in this particular performance allows her to reign as an evil queen should. I must make a note here on Johnny Depp who more than a few people have made a note that he seems to be unable to properly act anymore without donning crazy makeup and disguises. Here I feel that the Mad Hatter he plays was taken in a hopelessly dark direction that should have been lightened up quite a bit more. Although watching the film I did look forward to his "Scottish" freak outs.  There's a certain detachment from the material of the movie though. I don't really feel that Burton actually invested much of himself into this flick the way he did with, say, Nightmare on Elm Street or Ed Wood. His view of the world here, that imagination builds confidence, feels generic at the end of the day as if he were a hired hand who felt the need to put his stamp on the film out of necessity rather than artistically. The animation borders on ironic, which in 2D works quite well, but didn't hold up as well in the initial 3D viewing. Also, I felt the end was compromised slightly by the Mad Hatter's Futterwacken which seemed a bit too modern styled to fit with the rest of the narrative. In the end it just ended up being corny.  Critically, this turned out to be Burton's third least enjoyed films among critics. (Planet of the Apes being his critical worst and Mars Attacks! which I think is underrated, not being far behind.) That's interesting considering Tim Burton only has three films that are considered by Rotten Tomatoes to be rotten. In my humble but honest opinion this is far from Burton's best film, but it's also not that close to being his worst film. I recommend you give it a try if you haven't already. It's a fun flick even if it isn't quite as perfect as I, or even some of you, wanted it to be.  3.5/5  Be sure to check out: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006K7WZ7S">Armadillo & Sands: Intellectual Properties at Work</a>!

a nice selection, and fine introduction to Bob Hope's movie career...if you can find it The Bob Hope MGM Legends Collection contains seven of the funny man's films, spanning over two decades of Hope's illustrious screen career.  Bob Hope (1903-2003) got his start in vaudeville, and enjoyed a successful career in radio and on the stage, and became a huge star in film and on television.  In the movies, Hope's style was usually characterized by fast talking, witty repartee, and generally being light on his feet.  After teaming with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour, in The Road To Singapore (1940), the first of the seven "Road" pictures, Hope's career elevated to new heights.  In chronological order, the films in this collection are They've Got Me Covered (1943), The Princess and the Pirate (1944), Alias Jesse James (1959), The Facts of Life (1960), The Road to Hong Kong (1962), I'll Take Sweden (1965), and Boy, Did I Get A Wrong Number (1966).  A quick summary of the films follows:  They've Got Me Covered (3.5 stars) Set in Washington D.C. during World War II, Hope plays a newspaper reporter who is on the trail of some Axis agents who are trying to implement a nefarious plan.  Dorothy Lamour co-stars.  The Princess and the Pirate (3.5 stars) Bob plays an entertainer on a ship bound for America, who gets tangled up with a princess (Virginia Mayo), when the ship is captured by pirates.  Alias Jesse James (3 stars) Set in the American West, Hope is an insurance salesman who sells Jesse James (Wendell Corey) a life insurance policy, and then has to try and make sure that no harm comes to the infamous outlaw.  The Facts of Life (4 stars) Comedic legend Lucille Ball co-stars with Bob in this sensitive and funny drama about marriage, love, and fidelity.  Not to be missed.  The Road to Hong Kong (2.5 stars) The final installment in the "Road" series finds Hope and partner Bing Crosby involved in an out of this world escapade, as Russians agents send the pair on a rocket trip to the moon.  Joan Collins co-stars.  I'll Take Sweden (3 stars) Hope is a father worried that his daughter (Tuesday Weld) may marry the wrong guy.  He takes her to Sweden to derail her wedding plans, but once there, both father and daughter find romance heating up.  Boy, Did I Get A Wrong Number (1966) (3.5 stars) Elke Sommer plays a starlet looking to get away from it all, who gets a misrouted telephone call from a real estate salesman (Hope), which instigates a kooky escapade that threatens to break up two marriages.  These seven films illustrate that while Bob Hope's unique comic style evolved through the years, in many respects, it remained essentially the same.  Ranging from Westerns, to swashbuckling tales, to wartime adventures, to the close of the Crosby era, to coming to terms with the beatnik generation, the affable guy with the quick wit, endless quips, and ski slope nose was there to entertain.  As this set has apparently gone out of production, getting a copy may unfortunately be a difficult and expensive proposition.  Due to a glitch at Amazon, this set and the film Boy, Did I Get A Wrong Number are linked as being the same product, so this review is listed for both products.

Better than anticipated Movie starts a bit slowly, but soon picks up the pace. Quirky stuff not always appreciated. But acting good and ending very good. Would recommend.

A Tale of a Mutant Born on a Bayou From the mastermind behind such disturbing horror classics as "The Hills Have Eyes" and "Last House on the Left" comes a new dimension in terror... "Swamp Thing!"  Yes, "Swamp Thing." For real. Wes Craven really directed a "Swamp Thing" movie.  Showing the world that he was capable of handling more than just mutants and lowlifes, Craven set to adapting the comic series of the same name to film. The results? Well, let's just say there's some mutants, some lowlifes and a topless Adrienne Barbeau. Not a bad mix if one may say so.  Meet Dr. Alec Holland. Holland, played by the great Ray Wise, is a scientist who likes spending his free time bogged down in the swamp. On the verge of an ecological breakthrough, he is tragically transformed into a hideous yet unstoppable mutant. Treading water and stomping through the bayou, it's up to him to help save a beautiful colleague (Barbeau) from certain danger while trying to come to terms with his rubber suit...I mean his new body.  The film is mostly harmless fluff. Craven has his heart in the right place, and even when the film misfires (as it so often does) it's hard not to love it regardless. Barbeau absolutely steals the show and runs with it, although it must be noted that in the short time he spends on film, Ray Wise delivers a charming and wholly human performance. David Hess also pops in to do what he does best: playing a merciless thug. There's also a score by Harry Manfredini at hand that evokes images of Crystal Lake, but for the purposes of this film, let's just call it Crystal Marsh. Also, look out for a cameo from the elusive Manbearpig towards the end of the film.  In the end, "Swamp Thing" is far from the finest comic adaptation, but then again, it's not the worst either. Fact of the matter is that it's a harmless and enjoyable affair, provided one is in the appropriate state of mind. Filled to the brim with oddball characters (Jude deserves his own spin-off) and goofy monster antics, "Swamp Thing" is an odd creature that you can't help but adore.

Not quite right The DVD was interesting and informative,bringing back some great memories,but I am specifically looking for something that has mainly the 1967 Trans Am series which I was involved in as a youngster,so if anyone out there could help please do thanks, P Thorn.

Occasionally entertaining, but far from good As Conan the Barbarian (2011) begins, a baby is born on the battlefield, literally cut from his mother's womb as swords clash around them. The scene oozes delicious, delicious cheese, and if the rest of the movie had followed suit, this may very well have been a four or five star review (what? I like cheesy movies). Unfortunately, save for a few action highlights, things go downhill from there.  The entirely unmotivated romance between Conan and his damsel-in-distress-of-the-week is a major problem with the movie. Jason Momoa as Conan has a kind of blunt charm to his character, but it is very rarely apparent in his interactions with Tamara, his love interest. Her attraction to him comes out of nowhere, and what little character development she had is lost as soon as she falls for Conan. She shows a few traces of personality towards the beginning and middle of the film, but by the time the final battle rolls around, she is reduced to screaming and being nobly willing to die to protect Conan. Cutting Tamara from the movie entirely would have fixed a number of the problems I had with it. (Another way to fix those problems, of course, would be to give her character development and a purpose. Somehow, I'm not holding out much hope.)  The villainess Marique is a far more interesting character who also suffered from underdevelopment. Despite the fact that her motivation seems to be "daddy issues," it's still far better than Tamara, who had no motivation at all. Her powers and appearance are intimidating and mysterious as well. Unfortunately, the writers seemed to run out of ideas for her, resulting in a lackluster final battle and death. Similarly, her father started off strong, with an interesting backstory that promised more than it actually delivered. In the final battle, he is reduced to a cackling and ineffectual villain who is dispatched in the most cliched possible way, with no real consequences for the protagonists.  In fact, the entire second half of the film is only borderline watchable, though there are a few worthwhile scenes. Namely, Jason Momoa dual-wielding greatswords. In fact, I feel like the movie would have been vastly improved if 99.9% of it had consisted of Jason Momoa dual-wielding greatswords.  Even with the reservations I've mentioned (and those I haven't), Conan the Barbarian was largely entertaining. The action is fun, the dynamic between Conan and Artus is convincing (and he lives! Although, admittedly, this is because he drops out of the plot entirely and is replaced by a somewhat whiny one-eyed thief who is not even present for the final battle), and the depiction of Conan's childhood is pretty good storytelling, though over far too soon. The first half of the movie is far better than the second, but the whole thing is watchable and reasonably fast-paced, so despite its two-hour runtime, you don't get the feeling you've wasted a large chunk of your life.  If you enjoy riffing on movies or would like to watch some standard sword and sorcery fare, this movie is definitely rentable, but I wouldn't recommend it for a permanent space on your DVD shelf.

All About John Deere I was super excited to get this for my son and he really wasn't too interested in the movie.  There was a lot of music and not a lot of farming go on according to him!  He usually loves tractor movies and he was not interested in giving this one a second chance.

Robin Hood Well, this is probably going to be the last pairing of Crowe and Scott for some time; a $200 million budget blown on a confused - albeit well intentioned - origin piece.  In a way, it's not all wasted time for the duo - if this is a commercial flop like Scott's last medieval-driven effort, Kingdom of Heaven, he may look to directing an Alien prequel far more quickly.  Gladiator was a pleasant fluke, guys.  Not that I should be one to be analyzing Scott's portrayal of the iconic english outlaw.  My earliest and strongest memories of robin hood still reside alongside cartoony foxes and Cary Elwes.  But I don't need a hand on the backstory to know that Robin Hood's story is one that's meant to embody the spirit of adventure, courage, and heroism in the face of injustice.  And there's really not much of that here.  The scope feels smaller than it actually is, and that'd be okay if the little scenes felt as if they had any real depth or enthusiasm kicked into them.  Instead, we're left with something that's as flat as a pancake and not nearly ambitious enough to warrant much interest aside from good performances and high production values.  Perhaps it was restrained in order to provide authenticity and historical accuracy, but even that falls way short of standards when things start to get a little sloppy midway through, eventually coalescing to make a wholly implausible conclusion that may or may not aid in the making of a sequel.  I can't immediately say if I want one or not.  The performances are certainly worthy of digging, though.  Say what you will of Crowe and his short fuse on and off the set, he still the go-to ruffian role player.  Mark Strong, the only villain that we get the satisfaction of seeing slain, is just popping up everywhere these days, and I can't really say that I'm discouraged by that.  He's got a future, for sure, and if his supporting efforts remain this consistent, a lead role is in the books.  Veterans Blanchett, Hurt and  the immaculate Von Sydow share little screen time (actually, I don't think Hurt ever manages to get in the way more than I would've liked him to), but are a joy to watch, nonetheless.  Danny Huston, a personal favorite of mine, also makes an appearance as the doomed King Richard, but the film's excessive length means that you'll likely have forgotten about him by the time the credits begin to roll.  But the real draw should have been Ridley Scott, who's directorial hit-or-miss margins seem to be growing more whacky by the year.  The guy's a visionary, but it seems as if the new generation of filmmaking isn't gelling well with him.  His heart still belong's to science fiction, even if he doesn't know it yet.

Shinji starts showing signs of character progression Neon Genesis Evangelion Collection 0:6 is a single DVD that contains episodes eighteen through twenty of the series.  During the episodes included on this disc, Shinji goes through a couple of situations that ultimately help to progress him from the whiny kid he had been to someone who is starting to develop a little more backbone.  It will be interesting to see how this change in Shinji's character affects the final few episodes of the series.  Animation-wise, it's obvious that shortcuts were being taken; I would assume that this was done in an effort to cut down on costs.  As the episodes progressed on the disc, it was obvious that the animation had less detail than earlier episodes in the series.  Also, it was very noticeable that animation was being reused.  In one section, I understood that the reused footage was being used deliberately for an effect; however, in other spots, it felt more like a "cheat" than for any real aesthetic reason.  In addition to the episodes on this disc, there are three extras.  The first is labeled as "Character Bios"; the bios include a picture of the character and a brief text write-up.  The characters included in this feature are: Pen-Pen, Makoto Hyuga, Eva Unit 03, Thirteenth Angel, and Fourteenth Angel.  The next feature is "ADV Website"; all this selection does it to take you to a screen that has ADV's website featured on it.  However, since ADV no longer exists, this link is rather irrelevant.  The final extra in this menu is the DVD credits.  In addition to these extras, some trailers are also included.  If you're a fan of Neon Genesis Evangelion and haven't either already picked up this DVD release or one of the DVD box sets that were released for the series, this could be worth adding to your DVD library if you can find it for a reasonable price.  I wrote this review after watching a copy of this disc that I checked out through the King County Library System.

Fun and entertaining but not close to what I hoped for Indy is at it again this he's old.  I have a hard time even giving this movie a 3-star rating to be honest with you, but there was enough of the good stuff to make this movie enjoyable.  Many old characters are brought back for some good memories.  This movie is filled with excitement, adventure and a lot of humor and it is sure to keep your attention. Once again, the reason I love all of these movies is because Indy seems like such a normal guy & not some super hero.  Many didn't like the play on Aliens, but that didn't bug me at all.  My problem with this movie started as soon as Indy's son starts swinging on vines like he's Tarzan or something and some how catches up to cars moving 50-60 MPH.  It was cheesy and the special effects were garbage.  I didn't like the ensuing ant scene either.  This movie got sloppy in places which is something you NEVER would have seen in the original films.  One of the things I love most about these films is that they are good for the whole family.

broken vhs case The Tae-Bo workout itself is great but the problem was that the 2nd vhs case was broken so I do not get to advance to the ultimate workout. It was in plastic, so I suppose it was held onto for too long. Returning it seemed like more trouble than it was worth.  Just dont take for granted even new items still in package can be broken.

Archie and Reggie vs. the Axis. Chester Morris and Richard Arlen are lifelong rivals(like Archie and Reggie in the comics) who somehow end up in the Air Corps, in the same unit, at the same time, as.... (Drum roll)....Aerial Gunners! When they're not busy training with their .50 caliber machine guns they're busy trying to outmaneuver each other for the attention of the scrumptious Amelita Ward, who looks young enough to be their daughter. (I'm not sure if she was Mrs. Mugs Mahoney at this time. Ha! Imagine Mugs as a bomber's Tailgun Charlie!). Anyways the  men carry on like  a couple of Tom Sawyers trying to impress Becky Thatcher, which seems out of place since they are both well beyond  the age when men typically do that. Of course one guy is the straight arrow and the other is the rat who learns his lesson albeit too late to do him much good.  It's kind of funny how that happens in these movies. You'd almost think it would be better to NOT learn your lesson, that way you would at least dramatically increase your life span.  This is a typical WW2 propaganda movie which won't do you any damage but it's not really exciting or interesting either.

Saw is borderline into the B-movie category with 3D added on I have enjoyed the Saw series for some time but the specialty of the series is definitely worn off. I've felt this way for the last couple of Saw movies but thought I would give this one a buy for the 3D effect since there are so few 3D movies out. The movie was just OK. I will most likely not watch it again but I am not an uber fan. It has it's twists and the scenarios are original and a throwback at the same time.  3D- I would rate the 3D effect at a 3. There were times that it was really neat but they were very few and far in between. It lacked the depth I've seen in other live action 3D films. There were times with the lighting that it completely washed the scenes out and I thought it was completely unacceptable.  Bottom Line. If your a Saw fan you probably aren't reading this and you probably already have the movie. If you are still interested I would say rent it.

Didn't draw me in The film certainly did what it set out to do ... documenting the making of a Steinway piano. There are numerous scenes depicting the various steps involved, and we get to hear the various workers talk about the pride they take in their work. We also get to watch a few notable pianists choosing their special Steinway for their special concerts. However, none of it drew me in emotionally, or really got me engaged in the documentary or story. Maybe if I were a pianist I would have enjoyed it more. Oddly, I didn't even find the music in the film to be particularly memorable. The only scene that was somewhat memorable was the scene of the family purchasing a Steinway so that the elderly grandfather, a pianist, could enjoy hearing his grandson playing. That was a lovely scene. Otherwise, the film somehow did not draw me in. It wasn't bad, just not particularly interesting or memorable.

TERRIBLE SOUND QUALITY!!!!..... THIS DVD IS RECORDED FROM THE AUDIENCE ON A HOME VIDEO RECORDER...THE SOUND QUALITY IS REALLY TERRIBLE!!...HOWEVER THIS PROBABLY IS ONE OF THE LAST PERFORMANCES OF QUENTINS LIFE AND IS WORTH WATCHING ANYWAYS!!,IF YOU CAN TOLLERATE THE SOUND QUALITY THAT IS!!..

STEEL MAGNOLIAS Very good movie. Worth watching again. Only exception is very poor sound quality. Throughout entire movie you have to adjust sound.

Worth looking at more for its impressive animation than politically correct narrative *** This review may contain spoilers ***   Who knew? Fire-breathing dragons deep down inside are really touchy-feely creatures as long as you know how to train them right. That essentially is the premise of the much-acclaimed Dreamworks animated film, 'How to Train Your Dragon'. Of course there's a deeper message here (quoting the late Rodney King): "Why can't we all get along?".  This is perhaps the first film I can remember where the great pillaging clan of Vikings are not pitted against human opponents and hence their reputation as a group of sadistic, murderous thugs is tempered by the aggression of their dragon antagonists. Leave it to the film's protagonist, Hiccup, the young nerdy son of the Viking leader, Stoick the Vast (curiously voiced by Gerard Butler, with a Scottish accent!), to teach his community an important lesson: it's better to use your brains instead of brawn.  It takes a while for 'Dragon' to get going as the break into the second act doesn't occur until Hiccup begins nursing 'Toothless', the cute but hyperactive dragon (that he's responsible for injuring), back to health. Toothless looks like a leopard with wings but appears to have the temperament of a lovable canine. It turns out that the dragons have an excuse for all their bad behavior: they're beholden to a giant 'killer' dragon who the Vikings fear but who have never seen. Hiccup uncovers the mystery of this frightening behemoth when he flies into its lair after figuring out how to pilot Toothless, without falling off of him, in the air.  Meanwhile back at the Viking village, Hiccup, much to his chagrin, is forced to participate in dragon training school with a coterie of fellow young misfits. Voiced by such comic luminaries as Jonah Hill and Kirsten Wiig, Hiccup's 'associates' all follow the 'macho' Viking line: kill the unpleasant dragons at any cost. Much of the antics of the youngsters are rather one-note, as they parrot the macho posturing of the community at large. Finally, Hiccup, through his sensitive handling of the out of control creatures, turns his colleagues around and trains them how to calm the dragons down, without killing them.  The stakes are raised when Hiccup refuses to kill a dragon at the end of the training and his father disowns him. Stoick, raises an armada of his heavily armed Vikings, and with Toothless in tow (now chained on board the lead vessel), head out to the island where the big, bad monster awaits them. Leave it to Hiccup and his buddies to save the day by flying out to the island on board the formerly imprisoned dragons (back at the training school) and eliminate the monster in a rousing fight to the finish.  With the bad dragon eliminated, the dragon population 'understands' that the Vikings are really on their side and are now quite amenable to being house trained. And of course, even macho Stoick, sees the light and ends up apologizing to his son. I suppose all this is an acceptable children's story but adults will feel a little less satisfied. If underneath, this is a tale about how humans treat animals, it's a rather fanciful conceit that leopards or tigers (which the dragons seemingly represent), can so easily be domesticated. If on the other hand, if the dragons represent a misunderstood group of humans (demonized by the Vikings who lack the insight into their nature), the fact that they ALL suddenly become peaceful (because they're now treated with 'sensitivity' by humans), hardly seems to reflect the reality of true human-to-human interactions. Throughout history, attempts to mollify belligerent peoples through appeasement, have resulted in disastrous consequences.  In short, 'How to Train Your Dragon', is a feel-good tale, politically correct tale, best suited for children. Adults, however, will still be much impressed by the excellent, sumptuous animation, painstakingly created over a number of years by a group of highly talented animators. Whether the animation is enough for the viewer to overlook the rather lackluster story, is a matter of personal taste. For me, 'How to Train Your Dragon' is worth a look, decidedly for its impressive technical achievements, as opposed to its rather predictable narrative.

Epic and goofy fun.  Lower expectations and enjoy. Wow, you'd think this was "Plan 9 from Outer Space" after reading some of these reviews.  I watched Battleship last night with my expectations set to low and was surprised at how entertaining it was.  Sure, it's implausible, no...actually quite far fetched, but then it's an alien invasion movie and there are a lot of worse ones out there than this.  So -- assuming you didn't pay full admission at a theater a while back to see this cliche ridden sci-fi spectacular -- sit back, suspend your disbelief, and enjoy.  I can't wait for the movie adaptation of Angry Birds.

NO HAT! My husband loves this movie and was excited about getting the collectors edition, but when he opened it Christmas morning there was no hat :(

Not  BAD, but definitely not GREAT. This movie has a STELLAR voice cast that kind of fell short.  It reminds me of the disaster movies o the 80's that always had the all-star cast and yet always seemed to fall drastically short.  My daughter who is 3, LOVES penguins and she adored the first movie, but this one wouldn't hold her attention for more than 5 minutes the whole way through.  I wasn't altogether impressed with it myself, but to be fair, I wasn't altogether impressed with the first one either.  I will say this however: The human animation was really good, especially when they are on the deck playing the guitar to Lovelace.  As a matter of fact, I really had no problem with any of the animation. I was mildly annoyed at the fact that Mumble is still sporting his half baby fluff, even though he is a father now.  That is both lame and in very poor taste because the message is either that he has Peter Pan syndrome and is refusing to grow up, or that he is still an adolescent that is now a parent... neither of which is a message I like for kids. I'm also not thrilled with the deception of the Puffin and there being no consequences for the lying and manipulation other than his self-imposed momentary isolation. Then the elephant seal, who goes from being an honorable and loving father to one who seems as treacherous as the sea lion.  Moodiness and crankiness is one thing, but that was a complete personality shift. The only really fun thing was the journey of self-discovery by the krill... and the possibly gay overtones therein were mildly amusing. The talent involved in this deserved a well-written script and not this one.  It felt a little like a last-minute paper, written by a frat boy after a beer bust.

Great screen presence, poor film overall Without a doubt Dave Bautista has an amazing screen presence and proves here he can carry a film without having to shoot his way through it or by beating up tons of bad guys (as surprisingly he hardly does anything physical in this entire film).  Story follows a former cop that served time for being on the take and now does private security for a high end illegal club. Things go from bad to worse for him as he has to figure out who robbed the club and try to prove to everyone he is actually a good person now. The filmmakers really tried to go the artistic way with this one, including well over 15 minutes of filming Bautista driving through the cold city, chain-smoking and walking the streets (I finally timed it because it became apparent they were needing filler for the actual 60 minutes of story). Amy Smart plays the love interest, but the "R" rating comes strictly from the strippers in the club. Danny Trejo has a few lines but it is always fun to watch him. The special features:  * Making of, 9 minutes. Some brief insights spliced into too much film footage to be that informative. * Interviews with cast/crew, 4 @ 8 minutes. Longer takes of what was put into the making of docu. The Trejo one was only 90 seconds but he gives that great story of how he got into acting (the story has been told 100 times - but I love hearing it again anyway). * Commentary with director and Bautista. I did listen to it but will mention why at the end here.  5.1 English with subs in Spanish and English. Region 1 coded. The artwork is deceiving as he never carries a gun in the film though he uses one once or twice in self defense. The action is sparse, especially with Bautista so if you are looking for that skip this film; even more frustrating is he continually gets beat down and shoved around while never really handing out any great fighting. This is a solid showing for him on an acting front, but the writing is horrible and that ending is so bad I turned on the commentary to find out why they made it that way - and they did not have any real explanation. Tough investment of time without the fast-forward button and by far the worst ending I have seen with any of these fighter-turned-actor films.

Not your 80s Smurfs. So let's start by saying this is pre-80s Hanna Barbera mega popular Smurfs tv series material. It's a 1976 original Belgian film though the English version came over and was shown in the US in 1983 due to the Smurfs being so popular. So don't expect Papa Smurf or any of the other smurfs to have the same voice you're probably use to in the Hanna Barbera series. The first half of the movie is pretty much Johan and Peewit heavy. The story has already been summarized above so I'll move on to other details.  The movie is about 70 mins, it's quite charming and has that European cartoon feel to it. The movie did feel rushed at the end, I think another good 10 or 20 mins could have really flushed out the story a little more and made it more satisfying. It felt like at the end just time to wrap up things like it was a television episode which was disappointing. On the plus side the picture is crisp and the colors pop and it seems like a decent job of remastering was done here BUT, and this is strange but the last 2 mins the picture goes from beautiful to some un-mastered grainy looking footage. I don't know how Shout Factory let this past but truth be known their standards have been dipping in recent times.  On top of all this the dub is not the North American dub but the UK dub which has different names for characters, this is just a straight port of the Region 2 dvd, Shout Factory put no work into this, the aspect ratio is awful as well, old style letterbox. Shout Factory will defend itself saying they only distributed it but they knew it's for the North American market they could have added the NA track. Lazy indeed. All the people finding the negative reviews unhelpful must be big Shout Factory fans, c'mon we are just telling the truth. Isn't that what people want,honest reviews?  The extras on here seem uninspired, most text based info (smurf terms, about the smurfs) that isn't that informative or entertaining, the font chosen especially makes it difficult to read, even if you've got great eye sight expect to be close to the screen to read the info and I was watching it on a big television. The only other extras are a few stills and art pages, also not that entertaining. Shout Factory really needs to do a better job with extras and also about quality control hence the lower score.

great actors, so-so story I didn't laugh, cry, or come away thinking anything new. The characters just weren't likable to start with. Not any of them. The ending was the best part, but that lasted all of five minutes. If Girl in Progress was meant to be heartfelt with a dash of edgy it missed the mark.

Great movie... faulty Blu-ray This is probably the best X-Men film so far. Unfortunately, the disc can have some internet connectivity issues when viewed on the PS3.  When I first purchased this film, it was very frustrating to watch. The picture would frequently freeze, while the audio continued, and then jump forward- almost like there was some kind of buffering problem. Turns out, the internet-enabled features of the disc were hampering playback. This was during the film itself, mind you, when there shouldn't have been any internet activity at all.  The problem can be solved by deleting the "X-Men: First Class" folder- located in the BD Data folder in the video menu- and disabling your internet connection whilst watching the movie. Not a huge hassle, but it's pretty pathetic for a major release to have such a serious flaw.

Should Tucker die? To mark a wedding oncoming of one of them three friends had got a bachelor party with a genre-style usual set of happy-ended misfortunes embedding their very egos by deploying sexism and rude slang.  Also all them are very keen males something same gender attractive is in the air.  I have no clue whether this work is linked to "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000LXXTRW">John Tucker Must Die</a>" but it could be logical also this is of Tucker Max.

Overall a fascinating movie, but with some faults. This was a rather disturbing, but fascinating portrait of one man's obsession.  What that obsession might be is the real question raised by this movie.  Was it really as much about the animals as it was about his trying to find a unique role for himself?  I agree that he was not likely made wealthy by his ventures and many good works have been done for actually selfish interests.  If I'm poor and someone feeds me, do I care that the person is helping due to selfish or selfless reasons?  Of course not, I'll judge the deed on what good happened.  That said, I don't know if Treadwell did do any good here.  I found the museum curator (Native American) very credible when he noted that Treadwell more likely did harm than good by making animals believe that they could get close to humans.  I'm sure that would make the job of a poacher of fax fur much easier that Treadwell trained the fox and cubs to approach at least a human.  The movie does make clear, and his family seems to agree, that the guy was deeply disturbed.  He even tried to change his voice to sound more of an authentic outdoorsman.  He also falsely portrayed himself as venturing on all of these trips by himself.  In fact, he had company for at least several of his trips.  The movie does not clearly state how many.  I think that he suffered from Bipolar disorder accompanied by delusions of grandeur.  He would have made for an interesting clinical discussion.  As for the movie, my only problem is with Herzog telling the owner of the "death tape" (yes the guy dies, that is not a spoiler to the movie, it is stated at the very beginning); he tells her to destroy the tape!  Really that is what a documentarian does with unique evidence--destroy it?!!  This is where Herzog erred in this movie.  He became too involved and placed himself as a character in the movie.  I'll give it 3 stars since I do recommend it, but fewer than I would have because of the above concerns.

My least favourite of the 10 Friends seasons For sheer enjoyment, it's a shame to say, this is my least favourite Friends season (probably tied with Season 1).  There's nothing particularly wrong with it, it's just that there's nothing much to grab the attention.  Well, that's not exactly true - there are, of course, some very funny episodes and story arcs - but taken as a sum over the whole season, I just didn't enjoy it as much as Seasons 2-8.  The ongoing plots illustrate the aging of the characters, much to the credit of the writers who made no attempt to try and keep the characters in a forever-young time warp.  For example, in my favourite arc, Ross is gaining reputation as a professor of paleontology, so much so that he's asked to give a keynote speech at a conference in the Caribbean (when Joey shows up at the conference hotel, he's shocked that Ross could be more popular than he!)  At the same time, Aisha Taylor is introduced as Ross's university colleague who immediately starts dating Joey.  Since the character is played by Aisha Taylor, it finally brings some real ethnic diversity to the program (which is never specifically emphasized, which is also to the writers' credit, given that they had received grief over the level of "whiteness" in the cast).  In other multi-episodic plot developments, Rachel has a crush on Joey, which feels contrived, and Monica and Chandler have trouble conceiving a child, which is an unexpectedly serious subplot.  Unfortunately, I never felt particualarly invested in either subplot.  But both were probably more interesting than the Mike-Phoebe relationship, which went from such promise early in the season to being very mundane/trite by the end.  There is a little liveliness supplied by the return of Hank Azaria's David, the physicist who moved to Minsk, and who is my favourite minor character.  But who are we kidding, really?  Anyone who's bought seasons 1-8 is also going to buy this, if only for completeness.  Every episode is still funny, and there are some very good episodes.  There are just none that really take off for me.  It almost seems like the pseudo-limbo the show was in (whether or not it would be the last season) was distracting.  As I recall, the 10th season, which was well-known to be the last, was tighter and had better subplots.  I'll let you know in my next Friends review!

Thrilling, but flawed.... Wilderness is a thrilling action/horror film. Several juveniles are sent to a deserted island to rehabilitate and learn team work; they are soon attacked by an unknown person and chased through the island. It has a lot of thrills, but also has many flaws.  What did I like? As I previously stated, Wilderness is thrilling; the dog chasing scenes are epic. It also has some decent effects for gore fans. You'll see everything from faces being torn off to bodies being burned. The acting ranged from decent to bad.  What did I dislike? Some of the acting was bad. Also, some off tge dialogue seemed off and forced. I ended disliking most of the characters. It doesn't really build the characters either; we never find out what most of them did to get there. And the ending was decent, but also slightly generic.  Overall, Wilderness is the definition of a time killer. Although the story, and some of the acting, is bad, it is also very fun and thrilling. I recommend watching Wilderness. If you're interested, Wilderness is available on Netflix Streaming and Amazon Prime if you want to save money.  Wilderness has excessive scenes of violence and gore, plenty of strong language, and a sex scene (no nudity, only some motion can be seen in the dark and some noises can be heard).

CARELL AND FEY MAKE A SILK PURSE FROM A SOW'S EAR! Despite some very over used clich&eacute;s, Carell and Fey really make the most of this funny comedy. Clocking in under an hour and a half including credits, this film is consistently fun, but dwells on the "hum drum" marriage thing in the first act. Once the hijacks set in, it is silly fun for the rest of the ride and not to be taken the least bit seriously.

VENGEANCE ALWAYS HAS A PRICE Nicolas Cage has made some great movies and some bad. The sad truth is that lately he's made more mediocre films than ever. Perhaps that's because he's been making them at such a frantic pace or at least it seems that way. In any event his latest thriller SEEKING JUSTICE offers a decent night's entertainment but still finds itself in that so so stack of Cage films.  In the film Cage plays Will Gerard, an English teacher in an inner city school who is married to Laura (January Jones), a cellist with the local symphony. One night after practice while Will is playing chess with his best friend Jimmy (Harold Perrineau), Laura is attacked and raped when she gets to her car.  Sitting in the hospital waiting room filled with dread and despair over the event Will is approached by a man sitting nearby. Introducing himself as Simon (Guy Pearce) he tells Will that this is not the first time this man has raped someone. He has the man's picture and shows him to Will. Then he offers him a chance for justice. He tells Will he might ask him for a favor in the future, no questions asked. In return, Simon and a group of like minded individuals will take care of the rapist. All he has to do is give them a predetermined sign.  Will makes the choice and gives the sign. Several days later he is given a picture of the rapist who was shot and killed that night. The months go on and Will and Laura move forward. Then one day Simon shows up and asks Will if he's ready to repay his debt. When he thinks it involves his killing someone else, Will reneges on the deal. But Simon forces his hand and lets Will know he's willing to put Laura in danger if he doesn't go along.  Will agrees and is instructed to meet a man they identify as a child molester on an overpass near the highway. Unable to bring himself to kill the man he tries to talk to him but the man attempts to fight Will and accidentally falls onto the street below to his death. While it appears Will has honored the contract, he later finds the police looking for him to arrest him for the murder. It turns out the man wasn't a molester at all but a new reporter.  Avoiding the police and digging deeper, Will finds out the man knew something about the group that Simon is in charge of. On the run and trying to find a way out, Will follows the clues as to who this group is and how high up they go. With helps along the way, he tries to find a way out of the predicament he's gotten himself into.  The movie offers a decent mystery here and a chase that last long enough and not too long to keep the action moving forward. The cast is excellent with the exception of Cage I'm sorry to say. Cage just doesn't feel like the meek type, the milk toast who finds it in himself to take on this group. It's not that his acting is bad but the casting of Cage in this role leaves a lot to be desired.  As with any good thriller there are plenty of plot twists going on here. Some you may see coming while others will catch you off guard. All in all it's an entertaining film that will keep you guessing. It may not be Cage's best film but is by far not his worst.

Great singing, etc but.... Purchased this version based on the reviews above, but find that I cannot completely agree with them.  The music, singing and acting are top notch, but I was very disappointed in the sets.  They look like something you would see at a local amateur production.  Very minimal.  Sorry.

Nice Cult Sci-FI When this movie came out I Wanted to see it but never made it. THEN I went to rent it & couldn't find it for YEARS! Now that I FINALLY saw it.... Well it wasn't as cool as I remember thinking it would be as a kid.  But it IS an interesting story line & plot.

Cute Romance It isn't the best period romance movie I've ever seen, but it was a cute popcorn flick for when you need a girlie fix. Don't get this movie if you are one of the types that points out all of the historical inaccuracies in movies. You will hate it.

Hank Williams movie I bought this based on other reviews. I watched it 3 times now. I'm done and would not replace it if it came up missing. It's a good movie but the kind you see once. I usually judge things on "would I replace it if I lost it" and this one I would pass on.

A beautiful but flawed film Science fiction films have a special place in my heart, so I am rather lenient in my criticism of them.  The Cell is hardly a perfect film, the plot is preposterous, and the story has some problems, however, the acting is fine (J Lopez is a better actor than singer, IMHO).  What i really like is Tarsem's visual style.  The colors, the sets, the framing of the shots are just stunning.  There are things in this movie that I have never seen in a movie.  For that alone, it's worth the price of admission.  And on blu-ray, oh my...

Different shades of love This is an okay movie.  The prime minister has a relationship with the girl who brings the tea and she is 15 years younger than him (reminiscient of President Clinton who was 26 years older than Monica Lewinsky).  There are some good moments and a few funny ones. I get the impression that public performances of the nativity are more acceptable in England as compared to here. The film features a lot of famous British actors: Hugh Grant, Keira Knightley, Emma Thompson, Liam Neeson, Rowan Atkinson, Alan Rickman, and Kris Marshall.

3 1/2 stars for HBO biopic with a sizzling Nicole Kidman This HBO film is more about the career and life of Martha Gellhorn who became Ernest Hemingway's third wife.  Don't get me wrong, Clive Owen's Hemingway gets equal screen time with beautiful Nicole Kidman's Gellhorn but as she puts it at the end of the movie, she won't be a footnote in someone else's life.  With a close up of Kidman as a now 70-something subject of an interview, the opening scene gives the viewer an idea of the quality that would persist throughout the next 2 ½ hours.  I'm reminded of Kidman's ability to become unrecognizable in "The Hours" from 2002.  Here as well, as she not only uses a masterful makeup job but the deeper voice and cadence of an older more experienced woman.  Marty Gellhorn was a reporter for "Collier's" magazine, a weekly that competed with "Life" and "Look" in days past.  After meeting Hemingway in a sweaty bar in Key West, she becomes interested in a civil war in Spain which would eventually lead up to WW II.  While Hemingway goes there as well, he goes in luxury as the famed writer that he was.  Gellhorn, hitches rides where she can, including inside an army tank.  Directed by Phillip Kaufman ("The Right Stuff"), the film mixes in scenes in beautiful living color along with regular changes that drift throughout the artist pallet.  This includes grainy black and white to match real news footage of the late 1930's.  That trick was a little off-putting at first but becomes very effective as the film progresses.  While I'm a big fan of Clive Owen, I wasn't taken with him as Hemingway.  While it seems clear, Hemingway was loud and boisterous and loved women, booze and a good time, Owen just seemed over the top at times.  Kidman was perfect.  From the aging newswoman to the long-legged blond in tight pants, she gets your attention.  The movie is longer than it needs to be, but is none-the-less and effective portrayal of Ernest Hemingway and the lesser known Martha Gellhorn.

Somewhat disappointing While there was more action in this instalment, there was absolutely NO character developement and very little plot.  It's okay if you are just looking to mindlessly entertained for two hours. But the movie did very little to add to the story. It was more like it was just a set-up for the next movie.  Eve's character was very disappointing. They did not develope her character at all. She went from a scared child to a powerful monster in minutes. You learned nothing about her life or who she is. Nor was there any developement of Selene's character. While we all knew that both were going to survive, this movie does nothing to make you care whether they lived or not.  This seemed very much like just another run of the mill sequel put out to make money off of the franchise. If this was the first movie that I had seen in the series, it would also be the last.

Its Okay.... Julianne is fun, sexy, but she is NOT a dance instructor. The moves in this DVD are fun and upbeat, but it is almost impossible to follow her. She does not count out the moves and really show you how to do them, she just flies right through each routine. You end up spending more time rewinding the DVD and watching it over again trying to learn the moves than actually dancing or working out. Once you are familiar with the routines, I could see how this would be a great workout once you actually learn the moves. Unless you are experienced dancer or a super fast learner, I'd look elsewhere.

Not what we were expecting, but nice This wasn't quite what we were looking for on a night with the grandkids but they tolerated it well. Would have hoped there had been an indication of the target age of the audience.

This is not the 1st episode of the Alvin show This is not the 1st episode of the Alvin show it is actually the Chipmunks short from episode 8, the Crashcup short from episode 6, and the musical segments from episode 3.

Too complex for young kids/Lacking the morale center From an adult who watches kid's movies, it was enjoyable. It's an animated action movie. They brought James Bond and Fast and the Furious into the Cars world. It had Pixar's high quality animation and voice acting, but I think they missed their target audience. The first Cars movie was about being loyal to your friends and those who have supported you, doing whats right, and not always thinking about just yourself. Cars 2 lacks this morale center. It's just an action film in Cars clothing. There is a subtle plot line about McQueen being embarrassed by his rustic friend and how he should accept him for who he is, and Mater learning that the world sees him as an idiot and his need to prove his self-worth, (as well as a political commentary about alternative fuels and big oil companies) but these plots are likely missed by young children (and probably many adults).  If you don't care if there is a lesson to be learned, its a great film. Enjoyable for all ages. If you believe that children learn social skills from their entertainment and see their movie heroes as behavioral models, they aren't going to gain much from this movie.

Not the Best The voice acting wasn't the best and the dialogue was rough. The story wasn't the most engaging. The animation was very good and the action was great but other than that the movie was mediocre.

Very Poor Transfer to Blu-ray All three movies are great, like that they are dubbed in English. Sorry but had to take away 2 stars because of the very poor transfer to blu-ray, I can't believe they couldn't have done a better job, very fuzzy in a lot of parts.

Reference quality Blu ray film for the kiddies Pixar changed the face of animation back in 1995 with "Toy Story" and the studio continues to do terrific films.  This isn't one of them.  Pixar's stock in trade has been to not only produce the best visual animation, but to have heartfelt storylines and enough inside humor to keep the adults interested.  In this sequel to the significantly better original, they get the visuals right.  In fact, I don't know if I've ever had a better picture on my plasma.  And the DTS-HD sound is perfect as well.  From a technical aspect this is reference quality stuff.  Lightning (Owen Wilson) gets invited to a World Grand Prix which will take place in Japan, England and France.  It is sponsored by a company that has developed a new fuel that is expected to replace oil based gasoline.  Lightning reluctantly invites his best friend Mater the tow truck (Larry the Cable Guy) along.  A spy plot surfaces as nefarious losers cars (Pacers, Gremlins, Yugos) are bent on destroying the race cars with some type of laser beam.  They don't want fossil fuel to be supplanted.  British master counter spy Finn McMissile (Michael Caine) and his cohort Holley Shiftwell (Emily Mortimer) mistake Mater as an American contact.  Larry the Cable Guy has the most to do in this adventure and frankly a little goes a long way.  After a while, I could certainly understand Lightning's reluctance to bring him along.  Still as his best friend, Lightning shouldn't be upset when Mater screws up and embarrasses everyone.  In the end of course Mater saves the day.  Unlike most of the other Pixar films, I had no tears welling up in my eyes and don't remember laughing or snickering much either.  I saw this in 2-D and I suspect the 3-D is spectacular if unnecessary.  Most kids and some parents will likely have fun with the movie.

Fun an entertaining, if a bit predictable. I really liked this show when it was on Kids WB.  I don't know if this is all of Season 1 or not but it was a good selection of episodes.  Some of them did seem to repeat the same theme/story over and over and were pretty predictable for the most part but this is a kid's show so I take that for what it's worth.  One gripe - based on the cover art I thought one of the DVD's had episodes from Season 2 since it featured Kon-El in the cover graphic.  This package is only from Season 1.

Consumerism on Trial This film was an interesting view into consumerism interwoven with horror and humor.  It shows how people have a belief that if we have material means met, our lives would be better.  The original Dawn of the Dead delivered on this idea.  People found this movie popular because of the fantasy of "owning" a mall. The film went further to show that even with mall ownership, the characters were still flawed and bored with having everything (all except the character Fly Boy Stephan).  The premise of the movie was totally excellent.   Many people cite the fact that the "blue-face-zombie" look was not scary enough.  That may be true but the major flaw of the film was the use of the same zombies in multiple scenes (another continuity problem or lack of money to pay more people.)  For example, the lead zombies (the nurse, the guy holding the gun, etc.) showed up when Fran, Stephan, Roger and Peter got to the mall.  They were in the scene when the main protagonists pulled the trucks up to the mall doors (those zombies were outside.)  When our heros drove around the mall in the Volkswagon to secure and lock it down, those zombies were inside.  When the bikers opened the mall to looting at the end, those same zombies were there.  That didn't make sense because the main characters "went on a hunt" inside the mall after locking it down thus destroying those zombies earlier. The viewer is left to wonder if the zombies were twins because they showed up with Stephan after he became a zombie at the end.   Most people forgive much of this because it was a low budget film. I still consider this a good film because of its humor and overall message.  People who watch George Romero films look to his films for the message AND the guts.

Sweetly Cheesy, Mean-Spirited with a Heart, and Moments of Laughs I love Steve Carell. He's the perfect blend of nice, nasty, geeky-cool. So, of course, Dinner for Schmucks would eventually have to hit my orbit.  The premise held great promise. And the dinner party itself had terrific moments of all out quirk and bizarre. Almost worth the price of the rental. And there was a sweetness that Carrell channeled. His character is inept and intense all rolled into one wacky guy with some serious relational dysfunctions.  Barry (Carell)has quirk...my favorite was his defense mechanism. When being hit (which is actually pretty often throughout the film) he plays dead. Amusing. And one scene with Rudd's character, Tim, was laugh out loud funny as he tried to explain to his girlfriend that he was being the him she didn't know via some snappy dialogue.  Speaking of dialogue, ugh, there's some lameness throughout. The movie relies on adolescent sex humor over cleverness several times. Tim (Rudd) is being stalked by Darla and Barry (Carell) ends up causing that situation to explode. There's an awkward few scenes where Darla is a Tim-hungry woman intent on seducing whomever will get her to Tim. Way too long scene. And then there is Barry's boss who has a certain control over Barry. Another awkward scene with the multi-use of clinical term for a female body part. Finally, a (throw up in my mouth) sexy artist who really, really gets into his work. This film is not kid friendly.  If you absolutely love Carell or the idea of the film give it a Redbox or Netflix go...but don't buy it til you try it.

plot? The sardonic handling of wall street mentality is a little entertaining. The dialogue from Bale such as his rants about 80's pop artists, was fun. But overall the movie really fails to have a plot outside of "guy kills people in twisted and colorful ways." I don't know, is that all it takes to get 5 stars from so many? Perhaps this is a commentary on the audience. If you see it and aren't repulsed by the violence towards women, you may continue to watch and be entertained and then be confused by it's ending. Thank you director, for toning down the violence of the book, still though, this really just emphasizes the lack of plot. 3of5 because it did have a few laughs.

It's middle of the road, but worth a gander... One of those cult 90's teen comedies that has a huge fan base despite being rather uninspired, `Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead' is highly preposterous fun that passes the time rather easily without giving the audience much to remember.  It feels like it is trying to follow in the footsteps of successful 80's films like `Adventures in Babysitting', but it doesn't quite find its own voice and thus suffers accordingly.  Christina Applegate plays Sue Ellen; the eldest teen in a family of rebellious children who seek independence when their mother flees to Australia for two months with her boyfriend.  Left in charge is an ancient disciplinarian who happens to croak the first night of her stay and instead of telling the authorities and risking the return of their mother, the children decide to dispose of the body and fend for themselves in their mother's absence.  Sue Ellen lucks into a really good job, but her inexperience and romance with the younger brother of an office rival threaten to derail her good fortune.  The cast is mostly really on point.  Applegate is charming and Josh Charles is endearing.  Keith Coogan plays his role well, even if the slacker pot-head routine gets old in parts.  Joanna Cassidy is likable aloof and Jayne Brook is effectively sinister.  Major flaws are found in John Getz, who is just GROSS and a young David Duchovny, who just feels like he's forcing it the whole time.  This is predictable, and the laughs never feel completely genuine, but it is a film that is entertaining in the moment, and sometimes those films are just what the doctor ordered.

But If They Didn't Tease the Dinosaurs, They Wouldn't Have a Movie! **This review may contain spoilers**  "The Lost World" (hereafter TLW) is the epitome of the "Idiot Plot" movie. As defined by critic Roger Ebert, an "Idiot Plot" movie is one that has "..a plot that requires all the characters to be idiots. If they weren't, they'd immediately figure out everything and the movie would be over." Oh, where to start with the inanities this movie's characters commits? From the beginning, I suppose:  1. Industrialist Hammond (Richard Attenborough) recruits the decidedly cynical intellectual Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) to keep tabs on occasional scientist/girlfriend Sarah Harding(Juliette Moore) as she investigates the breeding dinosaur colony on Site B island. Wouldn't more physically adventurous and pragmatic Alan Grant (Sam O'Neill) be a more logical choice?  2. Sarah is supposed to study the dinosaurs unobtrusively. So why does she bring a laboratory trailer the size of a boxcar with which to crash through the jungle?  3. Moore's scientist startles an infant stegosaurus with a noisy flash camera and nearly gets decapitated by an infuriated adult's spiked tail.  4. Ian's high-maintenance brat daughter Kelly (Vanessa Carter) stows away on the trip to Site B and jeopardizes Ian's safety by wanting to go into the "high hide" (a suspended cage) when two tyrannosaurs decide to visit the lab trailer.  5. The two tyrannosaurs decide to visit the lab trailer because solicitous photographer Nick (Vince Vaughn) brings their injured infant for Sarah to set its fractured leg. As a reward for their benevolent humanitarianism, the lab trailer is hurled off a cliff, with Ian, Sarah, and Nick nearly following suit.  6. Ian and company free the dinosaurs that were captured in the round-up conducted by InGen's mercenaries for transport to a San Diego zoo. As a reward for their benevolent humanitarianism, the animals stampede and destroy all communication with the outside world, forcing the two enemies to join forces to travel to the interior towards an abandoned radar post.  7. An InGen mercenary strays from the group into unknown wilderness to urinate. A herd of tiny Compsognathus fatally mutilate him. Another mercenary would have heard him, if not for his MP3 headphones.  8. For some inexplicable reason, Sarah takes a blood-soaked denim jacket and hangs it within her tent, allowing one of the tyrannosaurs to track and nearly slaughter all the group.  9. Supposedly wilderness-experienced mercenaries allow themselves to be picked off by velociraptors in tall grass.  10. Why wasn't the captured tyrannosaurus properly tranquilized on the abortive trip to San Diego? Sarah mumbles something about not being able to calibrate the dosage properly. However, when the tyrannosaur is corralled back into the ship, Sarah fires a tranquilizer dart into him. Why didn't she do that earlier and prevent the theropod's San Diego rampage?  11. The tyrannosaur visits a house with a swimming pool to satisfy its thirst. The family inside takes a picture of him with another noisy flash camera right in the eyes. The tyrannosaur roars (and presumably kills the family).  12. Hammond's villainous nephew (Arliss Howard) steals the infant brought to lure the tyrannosaur back and brings it to the ship. The tyrannosaur traps him there, cripples him, and lets the infant practice his killing skills.  13. Towards the end of the movie, Hammond mentions that the Site B dinosaurs "require our absence" in order to flourish. Now he tells us!  Despite this cavalcade of stupidity, I have a grudging affection for TLW and even own it on VHS. After all, we should be grateful the characters teased the dinosaurs because those ancient, resuscitated beasts were quite spectacular, and dynamic, and were the raison d'etre for TLW at all!

Not as good as "Adentro y Afuero" I purchased this video at the same time as "Adentro y Afuero".  The two are similar in look, feel and sound.  Both feature the effervescent "Maria" speaking solely in Spanish, along with catchy music and bright, attractive visuals.  In my opinion, however, "Adentro" is a much better video and is a better choice to start with.  This video focuses primarily on body parts such as facial features and limbs.  One of the songs is a Spanish version of "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes".  There is also the obligatory counting in Spanish, which seems to be a required element of every language instruction program.  The video is enjoyable enough and, like "Adentro", it's easy enough to follow even for beginners because of the use of simple language, repetition and visual clues.  But it's not as engaging as "Adentro" - the songs aren't as catchy and the video isn't as interesting for young children.  My daughter practically has "Adentro" memorized, but I have a hard time getting her to watch this one.  It's also significantly shorter than "Adentro", which itself is plenty short (and my one complaint about the Whistlefritz series).  This video is only about 25 minutes long, as compared with slightly over 30 for "Adentro".  This video is certainly a good addition to the Whistlefritz series, as it teaches a whole new set of vocabulary and expressions related to a new subject area.  If you're going to get the entire series, there's no reason to skip this one.  But if you're only going to get one video from the series, this is not a good one to start with.

"Classic:" of historical interest. SOCIAL coustoms of Era. Rated "CLASSIC."  Well demonstrates the social setting at the time of film's making. Example: the pharse--"STOUT FELLOW" as used for (A GOOD SPORT)...or a good person.  All effects, uniforms, metals, weapons and such are classic French Foreign Legion. And  settings , events , histortical correctness in materials, are excellent. A quite bit too slow in action for the young. Does sag in interest at several spots, which may be o.k. the first time you watch it, but not the second.

Just Enough: the movie Jaqueline Lovelle Never really got the parts her skill deserved And that's a shame. She is a suprisingly talented actress despite being known for nudie shlock films. The problems with Head of the Family is that it understands excatly what it is; it's a chance to see Jaqueline Lovell naked. It's not pretensious in believing it's a horror movie or anything but a vehical for Lovell's naked (albeit georgeous) body. Normally this would be a good thing, and I'm sure most will find that it is. It's the sort of movie that doesn't do anything wrong but it doesn't do anything outstanding. The story is shallow but coherant. The sets and the acting are adequate, The nude scenes are adequate but never outstanding. It's almost like a parody of Texas Chainsaw Masacare but they forgot to add humor. And that's my problem with it. The movie is self aware without being fun. No one is chewing set, their are no outstanding sex scenes. It's just adequate all around and that makes it forttable as a whole.

Boys of Fall DVD Love the song and video but a little dispointed in DVD. Still very good, just not what I expected. Needs more high school scenes I think.

great movie, poor picture quality The movie is a classic and worth watching. We rented it during the 2012 olympics.  The HD is questionable, picture was grainy at best.

Transgressions leading to chaos... "Re-Animator" is directed by Stuart Gordon. This sci-fi comedy horror film is based on the H.P. Lovecraft story "Herbert West-Reanimator". H.P. Lovecraft was guided by the philosophical principle that life was incomprehensible to human minds, and that the universe was inimical to the interests of humankind. In "Re-Animator" this notion is explored as experiments in bringing animals and people back from the dead sets in motion an uncontrollable orgy of madness. Herbert West's experiments are transgressions of societal morality that open the doors of madness upon the medical staff at the Miskatonic University in New England. This film is more comedy than horror with its almost giddy exuberance and over the top handling of grisly reanimations of humans and their body parts. The horror is transcended by this hysterical mania of people creating and then trying to escape from the ever growing chaos of gruesome creations. The obsessions of West, and his nemesis Dr. Carl Hill, to explore the boundaries of the known and transgress moral limits leads to terrible consequences for all, though right to the end of the story the desire by the living to bring back those who have died is represented as the greater need than the incurring folly of the inevitably horrible consequences for the reanimated ones. The world depicted by Stuart Gordon is of an absurd universe where people who are unbounded by moral conscience create chaos for those around them. If you like your horror over the top then this film may be for you.  For those that enjoy this film one may want to also check out "Evil Dead II", and "Dead Alive".

High points . . . Action Scenes . . . Low Points . . . Ridiculous Dialogue and Situations Idris Elba is an exceptional actor, but in 'Takers' his talent was wasted. The film had well-choreographed action scenes, particularly Chris Brown's, but there were some moments that were supposed to be serious and poignant that my husband and I burst our laughing at the ludicrous dialogue. And seriously, who told T.I. he could act? Because a guy has a criminal records does not mean that he can portray a credible criminal on film. His acting was too wooden, and the writers asked the viewer to suspend belief too often.  A mediocre film. Fortunately, I watched it on Demand for free with my cable company.

I Liked It.. I liked this movie as I think that with the return of Jane Fonda after 15 years since Stanley & Iris,She did a great job playing the part of Viola Fields, a TV personality who was on top of the world only to be replaced by someone who fits the demographic better. The replacement sends Viola into a tailspin and she has one hell of a breakdown on the air, tackling a Britney Spears look-alike, thereby forcing herself into an institution for a few months. It's during these months that Ms. Fields' son, Dr. Kevin Fields meets Charlie. And of course he wants the two women in his life to meet.That is where the movie really takes off as Viola is not letting her son go that easy.

WANNA SEE HELEN MIRREN HALF NUDE? Well this is your chance. Joe Pesci is hilarious as always. A cast of real classics out in the dessert strut their stuff for the knife wielding maniacs. You could live without seeing this movie but why risk a date with madness?

Bring back Love of Life I just received the Feb 2012 Member Calendar from the Museum of Modern Art in New York.  They will be showing "Love of Life" twice in February.  I'm in Los Angeles and if I didn't already have commitments on both dates I'd fly there to see it!  I saw it back when it was produced and have been trying to see it again ever since. I went online again to see if it was available and found all these other people who feel the same way as I do.  Rubenstein is my favorite pianist precisely because that love is at the 'heart' of his playing! I would love to have this film as I remember it captured that so well.

Good, not great Good, not great. Some parts such as the opening and the backstory are not bad but who the hell put the children in it? Take out 50% and it could have been great.

Not entirely faithful to the book! they take a lot of liberties with the book, but still pretty good.  They add a love interest for John Thornton, which is very non-Jack London-like.  Great acting from Charlton Heston, and beautiful scenic filming too!

Route 66: Marathon Tour Too many interviews and not enough scenery ! Would have liked vision from the moving vehicle and lengthy roadside sceens. We have missed out on the trip on this one! Robbo

So Awful, It's Awesome!  Riffing At It's Best! Like the music video to Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up," there are some films are so just so gosh awful that you just have to watch it with sheer enthusiasm.  The Sci Fi... er... SyFy channel is not exactly known for putting out any made-for-tv films of enduring quality, especially when they recruit Hollywood wash-up Eric Roberts and "B-Movie King" Roger Corman to do the honors.  So when I had the opportunity to watch their newest installment, Sharktopus, I couldn't help it but say, "oh hell yes!" and plan get together with my friends to preview the film.  Even the instantly memorable Scrabble word combo of "Sharktopus" has a certain ring to it that made me say it at random much to the dismay of my coworkers.  After serving up some good ol' fashioned cooking to my friends and passing out a round of beers, we started the film... and the riffing wouldn't end.  Ever seen Mystery Science Theater 3000?  The show where they heckle or "riff" bad movies while they watch?  Yeah, that's what happened during the whole showing of the film.  Between the horrible dialog ("Oh no!  Not like this!"), the non-relatable arrogant characters that had us actually rooting for the monster ("Sharktopus!  Sharktopus!"),  and the fact that Eric Roberts wore the same shirt throughout the entire film despite the passing of time... we had plenty of material to work with.  I knew going in this would be bad, after all, SyFy did make Raptor Island and Frankenfish.  It was really amusing watching the cut-rate actors trying to pretend to 'squirm' in the tentacles of Sharktopus, or deciding what arrogant characters we didn't like were going to be eaten by Sharktopus since the film doesn't bother with little mundane things like plot and character development.  Seriously, the only two characters we liked was the Spanish cameraman played by Jack Black's tag team partner in Nacho Libre and the mercenary's cool partner.  The only reason they didn't make our lunch menu for Sharktopus was because they were the only ones characters that weren't full of themselves.  I'll leave it to you to decide if the film decided to keep the only two likable characters.  Personally, I think SyFy and Corman do this on purpose where they make the films so bad that they're awesome.  There's no way on earth anyone with a pulse and a steady paycheck (except congress) would take the time to make this drivel and expect anyone to ever take them seriously again.  The horrible nature that goes into every one of these films must be intentional, cause they keep mass producing them like Adam Sandler films.  The funny thing is that despite how awful they are us idiots in the general audience keep acquiring them.  I've got my copy of Sharktopus loaned out already with two more people wanting to take it home to show their friends.  No joke.  So, despite how incredibly awful this movie is it is that horrific quality that actually redeems it.  My friends and I had more fun riffing this film than we did watching Tron: Legacy three times in theaters.  Whether this is intentional or not, which I have a strong suspicion it is, we enjoyed it thoroughly but not because it was good but because it was bad... really, really, bad.

Didn't live up to potential I read the bad reviews but every time I saw the trailers I just had to see this movie. Unfortunately, the bad reviews were right. It had so much potential. Great action, great special effects, a good premise. Where it failed was a bad story and the action was literally non-stop. You never really got to know the characters. You had glimpses into the main character, the Staff Sgt., but that was about it. I have to mention though, why is he still a Staff Sgt? He's been in the military a long time, he should be a higher rank by now. The majority of the movie centers around this Staff Sgt and a group of Marines sent in to rescue civilians while being under attack from aliens. As much action as there was, I actually started to get bored. It was just one action scene after another of shooting & things being blown up. After awhile you kept waiting for something different to happen. Maybe if we knew the characters better it would have added a level of suspense since you would feel more of a connection. This was definitely a disappointment. It could have been a great movie but it turned out to just be a mindless action movie of stuff getting blown up.

Great and not-so-great I loved this film when it was first released in 1973.  In many ways it still works very well, especially when juggling the varied moral implications.  I guess as audiences we have become more critical of details.  As such, I noticed flaws this time that were significant:  Why are the revolvers possessed by the guests incapable of firing at a warm target, but the one that Yul Brenner has can?  Why does Brenner's infrared sensor allow him to "see" Benjamin's boot prints on concrete?  They certainly do not emit any warmth.  Worst of all, how does Brenner's ultra-sensitive infrared sensing manage to miss Benjamin on the gurney when Brenner walks by?  Why does Brenner become an instantaneous inferno when touched by the torch in Medieval World.  Are we to believe such an ultra-modern amusement park really has oil-fed torches?  All of these errors combined to put me off a bit.  Still, a good film and well worth revisiting.

OKAY This movie was not what I expected, but was still a cute show. The way the family was formed was a curiosity. there wasn't a real strong feeling about the Movie. I should have rented it instead of buying it.

(2.5 STARS) Average B Movie with OK Martial Arts Action What do you expect from an action flick blatantly titled "Ninja"? Shô Kosugi and those ninja movies made in the early '80s like "Enter the Ninja"? Though a low-budget martial arts action "Ninja" suffers from incoherent storytelling, stock characters and clich&eacute;d narrative techniques (a secret organization?), the fast-paced movie is not boring with surprisingly decent action stunts including some nice sword fights.  The story is about Casey (Scott Adkins), a westerner adopted in the Kouga ninja clan, trying to protect the "Yoroi Bitsu," a box containing the sacred armor that has been handed down from generation to generation. Adkins shows what he can do in the action sequences (and there are many of them), but watching him kicking ordinary thugs on and on is not very thrilling. The repetitious action choreography needs more creative moves.  Tsuyoshi Ihara plays Masazuka, a disgraced disciple who craves for the clan's heirloom.  Movie fans outside Japan probably remember him as Colonel Takeichi Nishi or "Baron Nishi" in Clint Eastwood's "Letters from Iwo Jima." Mika Hijii plays the sensei's daughter Namiko. Several scenes of the film indicate both players have enough skills for action stunts, but sadly they are not allowed to show them here.  Like the most low-budget action movies you see on DVD, it is not the silly storyline or cheesy effects that bother us. What is really disappointing about "Ninja" is the lack of creative ideas in action choreography, which could have been better considering the martial arts skills of the star.

Cuts Copland Short I bought this DVD thinking it was a blu ray disc. Nope. Regular DVD.  This DVD has an excellent program but I was expecting it to cover all of Copland's career as a composer. The last decades that he adopted serialism was missing, works like Inscape, Connotations, are not discussed. I would have expected this to be in the program as he turned towards composition in this method sort of unexpectedly, just like Stravinsky. I would like to hear MTT's take on this turn and whether it was something we now consider a "mistake" on his part.

There were shades of Gray in this movie I love movies like this.  Unfortunately, this new movie had major issues even my city wife noticed right off.  First off, let me say this is a solid movie, but came up short of being one of the greatest of its genre, due to the shortcomings of its storyline and survival techniques.  First off, the crash of the plane: I had to suspend disbelief that so many could crash in a plane and come away almost, if not totally, unscathed. Liam Neeson's character wakes up all by himself in the snow, like a car had thrown him out on pillowy snow, not an airplane in brutal conditions. Yeah, right!  Secondly: I had to again suspend disbelief that a group of timber wolves all the sudden hunt humans. At least the director/writer tried to explain this, but it was weak. (BTW, the CGI wolves were the best part of this movie!)So, again, as a moviegoer I have to say, OK, I'll let that go for the sake of entertainment.  Thirdly: Why would manly men leave the plane crash? They had everything there! Food, shelter, warmth, and the very place that rescuers would be looking. And not one man created or fashioned weapons out of all the debris, even though a pack of huge wolves almost instantly attacked them! Stupid.  Fourth: Now Liam Neeson's character plays the hunter that protects the oil men, killing and shootings wild wolves, right? And since he is supposed to know about hunting, animals behavior, etc, then why does he take the survivors right to the very den of the wolves he told the men he was helping was the very bloody reason these wolves were acting the way they were?!  Fifth: Now, why on earth did no character bother to fashion spears and walking sticks from the numerous trees that always surrounded them? Here they are, trudging wearily through snow drifts and snow storms, and not a one of them thinks primal! Not one of them thinks to trim some branches and make some makeshift weapons/walking sticks to help them defend themselves and just to walk. Been doing that since caveman days, but modern man in this movie never even thought of it. Stupid!!!!!!  Sure, in one scene Liam's character shows the others how to make a sort of shock stick out of branches and shells. OK, on the right track here. Problem is, they use them once and you never even see any of the characters use makeshift spears ever again, despite leg wounds and exhaustion. C'mon, do these directors and screen writers think the audience is that stupid? I guess so, their marketing sucked me in.  And lastly is the ending. Total rip-off! Fade to black my ass! Just like the ending of The Sopranos. Rip-off.  The movie had so much going for it, too. Haunting. Good idea. Interesting characters and plight. Almost totally wasted to to piss poor directing and writing in minute details that even my NY city wife could see that was so stupid and wrong with this film.  I'm just glad the wolves won.

Vampire Flick This is one sexy, low budget, original modern day vampire flick. I would recommend it. There is vampire violence with the vampirism bites on the neck. Surprisingly good.

Basic workout I'm new to kettleball and thought this might be a good start; however, it's a little boring.  Need to keep looking for a little more of a challenge.

Much weaker than the first installment (Dundee I) This is Dundee again and here and there there is the old humor (e.g, the scene with the would-be suicide on the ledge of the skyscraper). But on the whole is a routine preposterous good-guys/bad-guys adventure story.

The Really Big Show of the Year Woodstock, 1969 film  The story begins with a local man talking about the famous outdoor show put on in August 1969 in Bethel New York. Workers prepare the ground (a cow pasture) for the show. There is a raised stage, lights are lifted into position. It took nine months to prepare. Bands rehearse. People arrive on various vehicles, like old school buses rented for the occasion. Unusual costumes are worn. Some dance, driven by an inner spirit. [If you drove south from New Paltz that Friday evening you would have seen tremendous lines of cars waiting to exit.] The various comments tell what they thought. Accommodations quickly fill up in the nearby towns. Helicopters are hired to transport performers and their equipment. An announcer reads messages to the crowd.  The show begins with a song by Richie Havens, how life and war goes on. "Clap your hands." People enter the grounds by climbing over the wire fences. "It's a free concert now." Next its "Canned Heat". Joan Baez dreamed about Joe Hill (framed for a robbery-murder), then sings a gospel song. "The Who" sing Eddie Cochrane's famous "Summertime Blues". A couple talk about their non-traditional lives. "Sha-Na-Na" sings their one big hit. A man talks about yoga. Joe Cocker sings a Beatle's song and feels the emotions. Rain causes a pause that creates mud and complaints. Sliding in the mud and other acts are shown. This show will be a financial disaster. "Country Joe and the Fish" play music then sing. Arlo Guthrie sings about flying into Los Angeles. People pass a joint around. "Crosby, Stills and Nash" sing and play music. [They needed more practice.] "Ten Years After" sings "Go home to my baby" and other songs. Then the Intermission.  The new dawn brings new acts. Grace Slick sings with the "Jefferson Airplane" band.. Visitors comment on conditions and phone home. "Its so great in some ways and so lousy in others." People walk through the mud. Is there gas for cars? A group sings. John Sebastian speaks to the crowd then sings about aging and new conditions. [Does it make sense?] "Country Joe" sings his big hit song. [Nihilism?] An old man complains about the crowd, he lost all his milk and the hay was ruined. Others comment on "the kids". Some bathe in the pond, skinny-dipping. A surfboard in this pond?" "Santana" plays "Soul Sacrifice" with its frenzied drumming. "Sly and the Family Stone" sing about getting higher. He asks for a sing-along at night. Janice Joplin sings about not having someone to love. [Maybe it's a personal problem?] Can they feed breakfast to 400,000? The portable toilets are serviced. "See you later." Max Yasgur speaks to the crowd. What does this show?  Jimi Hendrix plays a guitar in his style and sings. Recognize the tune "To Anacreon in Heaven"? The empty grounds look like the aftermath of a tornado, clothing covers the grounds. A man tries on discarded shoes. We see the large crowds still there. Then it ends with a view before the show. The credits roll naming the performers and the others who worked on this production. The song "Woodstock" was written by Joni Mitchell. At the end there is a list of people who have lived. "Find the cost of Freedom"? This movie is dedicated to the "Woodstock Generation". Does anyone use that phrase anymore? After forty years this movie seems less great as if it has aged. Those performers are mostly a memory today. History has turned another page. Politicans passed new laws to ban this type of concert. [I once read that some of the investors bought out the others, then profited by selling the film rights. Does that sound like show business?]

Video Quality Since I am a beginner, the instruction fit my needs, however this is the first time I have rated video quality as average.

Yeeeeah I'm a huge Clive Cussler fan, own all the books. Was really looking forward to seeing this movie when it came out, but once again. No director or screenwriter can make a good movie out of a clive cussler book, like Sahara.  A very good book, with an incredible twist at the end. But Dirk Pitt, Al Giordino, and well. Everybody else for that matter, were horribly miscast. Dirk Pitt is not a treasure hunter, and in the book he didn't believe that a civil war ironclad had ended up in the sahara. Rudy Gunn is a nerd, but not to this extent. Yeves massarde are portrayed horribly as well, I was looking forward to the escape from the boat, but this movie totally, and I mean totally changes the plot from the book. The only common denominator is the ironclad, and that's it. I do own this movie, and every now and then I get it out and watch it. And I'm just amazed how you can take an awsome book, and totally change it, there's no tabeza jail moment where Giordino kills the evil lady. They would have been better to not put Clive Cussler's name on this.

2 thumbs up ! Great comedy ..with nice songs and visuals -Loved it ! Neel (Jimmy Sheirgill), a brilliant student at Columbia University and the pretty Maya (Nisha Rawal) the love of his life, are on the verge of starting a new life together in New York. Sunny Malhotra (Rajpal Yadav) is Neel's roommate, teammate and best buddy. Academically challenged and a compulsive flirt, he gets involved in a series of hilarious situations with his American love Tina (Sarah Thomas).  Just when life seems perfect, Neel accepts a career opportunity that requires him to go to India to set up a business. Much against Maya's wishes Neel travels to India with Sunny.  Tanvi (Monishka) is a young executive who goes out of her way to help Neel and his team in India. Attractive & aggressive she is instantly attracted to Neel and tries her best to win his heart. Neel being deeply in love with Maya rejects Tanvi. Now seeking revenge, Tanvi creates a trap which leads Neel into deep trouble professionally and personally.  Will Tanvi succeed in her plans? Will Neel win Maya's heart again? Will Neel succeed in clearing his name from all the accusations? Hastey Hastey is a youthful, musical, romantic comedy with a twist in the tale

it's alright. This could be a much better film. I just wish the director could delves deeper into the mind of the grandson and deepen his perspectives around what is happening between the grandmother and his uncles. I keep on waiting for the characters to be fleshed out much more. But the film just merely touches the surface. It's like an unfinished movie. Interesting but halfway through, the plots sort of hurried. Nevertheless, the atmosphere of this flick is tight. This is a crime family drama. Jacki Weaver deserves her Oscar nominations in my humble opinion. Rent, don't buy.

Paris Travelogue Nice way to visit Paris, but very little in the way of plot.  I thought it slow-moving and boring, and felt no connection to the characters.  Very forgettable film.

Entertaining but not consistent Really enjoyed 3/4 of this movie, last part of plot was not consistent with the way the main character was initially developed.

Pretentious but Pretty Director Jean-Claude Brisseau seems to be using this movie to proclaim his innocence after being on the sticky end of a fair amount of criticism following his first "female masturbation movie" Choses Secrets. So here he's showing us what went on behind the camera, supposedly, and telling us that really he's been misunderstood and wrongly accused. Well, I suppose if you can get a budget for what is essentially a 100+ minute essay on "why I'm really a nice guy" then more power to you.  French movies, in years gone by, often seemed to be on the edge of tipping over into self-indulgence and wilful obscurantism. Sad to say, this movie is guilty of the same thing. In a way you can almost imagine it inspired by Peter Greenaway - though there's none of Greenaway's elaborate framing, just his penchant for obscure symbolism.  Perhaps the biggest problem with the film is that it is pursuing the director's own personal obsession with female sexuality in much the same way as Choses Secrets (and later A l'Aventure) without actually developing beyond what was explored in the earlier film. Yes, it's charming to watch pretty women masturbate and Brisseau is to be commended for seeing sexuality as something potentially ecstatic and mystical, rather than merely mundane. But he explores this trope relentlessly through the narrow passageway of female masturbation and in the end the corridor is simply too narrow to enable him to develop his theme adequately. Although it seems difficult to imagine in the abstract, the fact is that after a while the repetition is simply boring. The director lacks the breadth and depth of vision necessary to move beyond the obvious. In the end it feels like we're watching a big-budget art school project where the ambition is much greater than the talent available.

the deal first disc wont play through on my computer so I have to use a seperate dvd player and it works fine.  Kind of upset me though, then I saw a smudge on the disc and haven't tried it since I cleaned it.  Good series though hopefully I will enjoy and bring me back to that old will and grace feel.

Last Night On The Town--A Classic Formula That Offers Too Little, Too Late When the Australian film "Three Blind Mice" began, I was sure I had uncovered a winner.  The eternal premise--three men on leave the night before they're shipped into duty--is ripe with both comedic and dramatic possibilities.  I know it's been done in countless different ways, but I thought this would be a fresh and engaging twist on things.  As the three are introduced in a hotel room, the screenplay hits some comic highs as well as hints at a disturbing past the mates must overcome.  Three distinct types--the soldier that just wants to party down, the one re-uniting with his fiance for his last night, and the troubled soldier looking to go AWOL--don't exactly break expected stereotypes, but the actors are game and appealing.  But after the initial set-up, I was surprised to find myself becoming more and more disconnected from the central action.  Part of the issue may be that the concept is so familiar.  To make this movie work, it needs to connect on some emotional level with the viewer.  In truth, the more time I spent with the boys--the less I cared about their individual stories.  The screenplay, with its overlapping dialogue and cold bluntness, doesn't really distinguish why we should invest in the increasingly obnoxious trio.  I'm perfectly good with obnoxious as well--as long as it serves a specific character design or is played for humor.  But three guys ripping up, in unfunny and unsurprising ways, held little appeal for me.  And the fact that everyone is constantly talking over one another with superficial chatter just gave me a headache.  Seriously, I contemplated the mute button in several scenes.  I know this sounds harsh, but I really thought the film and its actors had potential.  Amazingly, though, just as I'd given up the ship so to speak--the movie finally connects with a plot device that works.  The troubled sailor starts to rediscover himself through romance (a fairly uninvolving courtship based on nothing visibly discernable to the viewer) and when challenged with violence, the movie takes a lively step in the right direction.  Combining absurd humor with a real pathos, a hotel fight scene and the resultant trip to the hospital are played with excellent precision!  I loved the movie hinted at in these scenes--but they come very near the end of the picture.  When all is said and done, the film also wraps in a satisfying way.  I wanted to love this movie, but couldn't.  Maybe you will identify with its leads and enjoy their antics--I never felt that the screenplay allowed the necessary closeness and connection.  A good finale makes this three stars for me.  KGHarris, 4/11.

Okay movie Bought this film because my wife wanted it so bad.  She loved it but I thought it was just okay.  I found Sandra Bullock's character unbelievable at times.

Purchased This Movie Thinking It Was Funny, But It Was Not. Ok Movie, But Not Very Funny, Good Video Transfer, Very Good Burt Reynolds Performance, Also Marilu Henner, Along With Julie Andrews.

Middling slasher film This movie works on some levels. Part of it does have some good shocks, a lot of the rest of it is weighted down with cliches that don't work too well. It is quite annoying in places and to be honest, I can't really recommend it except for some undemanding Friday night fodder. Otherwise I wouldn't bother with it.

I applaud him making an effort, but his efforts weren't sustainable The goal of this documentary is to inspire people to reduce their impact on the environment by reducing their carbon footprint.  Therefore, technically this should be called Reduced Impact Man.  The fact that Colin Beavan is alive him treading on the earth and using it's resources means he's making some impact on the environment.  Beavan wants to make changes that are big, so he goes big by making some drastic cuts.  Some of those cuts include no shopping for anything new, no takeout, no flying, no t.v., no plastics, no air conditioning, no elevators and even no using toilet paper.  Instead, he either wants to reuse what he already has or borrow what he doesn't.  However, something struck me about him borrowing ice.  If everyone were to make the same drastic cuts as him, then who would he borrow ice from?  He's passionate about this cause, but not everyone is on board with it...not even environmentalists who think he gives environmentalists a bad name.  His neighbor calls him delusional and tells him he's making the solution seem too simple so the government doesn't have to extend effort to change (why make the effort if the problem is simple?).  And the media criticizes his efforts, too.  There's a clip of Beavan on the Colbert Report where Stephen Colbert tells Beavan that although he's having Beavan on his show, he doesn't support what Beavan is doing and even says it's dangerous.  Now normally Colbert is a jokester who says the opposite of what he really means, but from the look on Colbert's face, it looked like he was dead serious.  The clip is so quick, though, I couldn't tell for sure.  His wife is also hesitant about this change.  Beavan wants to dive right in and experiment, but his wife is more comfortable dipping her toe in first.  She admits to being addicted to shopping and watching reality t.v., so this change is a little scary for her.  Beavan wasn't very sensitive to his wife's concerns, which bothered me.  For instance, when his wife had a hard time giving up coffee, Beavan didn't make any adjustments in the plan to accomodate her.  But when HE had a hard time giving up his laptop, he did make adjustments for himself by switching from  not using electricity to using solar.  When his wife shared her concerns about not being able to conceive a child at 40, he dismisses her concerns by telling her if she's not going to talk about the cause he's working on, he doesn't want to hear it.  He softens his dismissal by using the phrase "I hear you" (probably a phrase he read in a self-help book or heard about in therapy), but it's clear from his demeanor he wasn't hearing her.  He seemed oblivious to the panic in her eyes and his insensitive treatment towards his wife made him a hard person to like.  I do applaud him for making an effort to change, but when the experiment ends, it turns out all the changes he made aren't even sustainable for him.  Perhaps had he been more prepared, he could've gotten his message across more successfully.

Decent, If Not Great, Post-Apocalyptic Thriller The year is 2016. Because of the increasing solar activity, the earth's temperature has become higher by 10 degrees Celsius. The land has dried up and crops have perished. Modern civilization has collapsed and the earth has become an uninhabitable place for humans. Few survivors keep travelling under the scorching sun, looking for water. Two young sisters Marie and Leonie are among them, travelling with a man named Phillip driving around in a dust-covered car.  Executive-produced by Roland Emmerich ("Independence Day" and "2012"), the low-budget post-apocalyptic thriller begins with an interesting premise, but without developing the sci-fi theme, "Hell" quickly shifts into a familiar formula about the travelers and their predicaments in the backwoods. In short, you have seen this in "The Road" or other horror films.  Tim Fehlbaum's direction is slick once action gets started, but details of this catastrophic disaster remain vague at best. The cinematography of the bleak landscape soaked in overflowing light is impressive enough to live up with the film's double-meaning title ("Hell" means in German "bright"), but the effects of the sunshine such as heat and UV exposure are not fully made use of to enhance the film's drama and suspense .  But the real problem of "Hell" is that the characters are not really interesting, including the sisters Marie and Leonie. Why are they travelling alone? Why does she have a CD of Nena's "99 Luftballons"? The film wastes every chance to flesh them out. When the two male characters are less memorable, why should we care? "Zombieland" did it much better.  This is not to say "Hell" is a terrible film, but as a survival thriller or a H.G. Wells-like modern-day fable "Hell" leaves much to be desired, lacking its own voice.

Justice League: Doom summay What I seen from the up coming trailer is Vandal Savage is behind a plot to assassinate the Justice League, buy hiring quite a few villains, that include, Bain, Queen from the Royal Flush gang, Cheetah and Star Sapphire, just to name a few.  I look forward to purchase this DVD for my collection.

more young adult than the others the special effects in this movie are definitely improved, but the story line is becoming tiresome.  After reading other books in this genre and watching more adult movies, I found this a bit slow and definitely "young adult" fiction.  If I seem to be reviewing the book, I'm not.  the movie just seems a bit tedious and even confusing at times.  Great for the "Club Edward" and "Club Jacob"  set, but not a serious movie, even for vampires.

angels and demons dissapointed this move was ok but it wasnt what i expected i was expecting something like the first one the thrills and the chills left the first 10 mins of the movie they talk alot in this movie. the only thing  i can suggest is buy it at goodwill if you find it there but dont be in a hurry to get it

Dumb fun Green lantern really isn't any better or worse than any of the other cookie cutter comic book movies out there.  It's pretty average in most respects but also kinda cool here and there.  I think Martin Campbell is a very competent director but I don't think he took the movie as seriously in some places where he could have.  Basically, in a first movie like this, focus less on all mythology and focus more on Hal Jordan.  Leave most of the aliens for the sequels.  Skarsgard is pretty darned good as the bad dude and surprisingly Ryan Reynolds, who I normally can't stand, is tolerable as Jordan.  The 3D is pretty uneven, but I've yet to find all that many movies, even Pixar ones,  that truly hold up over two hours.  Yeah you can do better, but you can do a lot worse too.  Green Lantern is pretty tame.

Where's the Vs.? When I saw the previews of the other movies this studio produced and were directed by the same director, I thought this movie was going to suck. And then, early on in the movie, when a character ask another character; who is bleeding from their eyes, "Are you okay?" ... well, I really thought the movie was going to suck big time! But no, the movie got better! I rather enjoyed the first half of it. However, this is one of those movies that seems to not be completely thought out and becomes rushed toward the end. Script and character development could have used more in-depth thought and several major rewrites ... one such case being that the character of Tommi is a bad ass and has her crap together, she is ready to get up and go with a plan of escape! And then she gets all soft and cuddly,  she then has a freak out segment like a stereo-typical "horror movie girl" and then quickly snaps out of that to regain her bad ass self.  There is a lot about the characters that needs to be explained... like why does "jock" boy like his comic book reading, HvZ playing, Freshman roommate, especially when "jock's" best friend is "Jack Black"? And why is "jock" boy so attracted to bad assed gamer girl who for some reason folks tend to think is a lesbian? And where are they getting the lesbian idea from? Nothing about Tommi's appearance looks like a lesbian! And what makes conspiracy theory campus security guard come to their rescue in the 1st place and what was he doing when the outbreak 1st hit the campus?  Why didn't he try and help some folks then? Really, why is he even in the movie at all? He is the weakest and lamest character (aside from the preacher!) in the whole movie.... I would think that if folks have been playing H vs. Z for a while, wouldn't it have been interesting to make a movie were H vs. Z players were the ones who had the skills and knowledge to survive and help others during a infected / zombie outbreak???? Now, with all that said... the acting was pretty good from some of the major cast and though there were a few places of lame, unrealistic dialogue, the 1st half of the movie was pretty believable, and it tied in with the movie`s title. Now, the movie really starts going down hill when they decide to leave a campus building, which I think would probably be easier to lock up and make zombie proof, and run to a hardware store with huge plate glass windows!  H running from Z! Sure, said hardware store has hatchets and machetes and the oh so cool pitchforks that campus security guard is so fascinated by...  but once they get there, do they try and cover up the HUGE glass windows??? No! they get all cozy, eat some Twinkies, have some sex and cuddle until morning!  The movie continues to spiral downward as they somehow are able to see that the infected don't seem to bother with a church and so,  they decide to go there. In the church there is an incredible waste of film as preacher and campus security babble nonsense ...  their budget is just big enough for them to buy a new window for the church cause zombies pop through the window and then the end... or better yet... they decide to end the movie with video footage of zombies eating what could be our final survivors...(H eaten by Z) and who is supposedly shooting said footage?  Instead of making a zombie movie, maybe they should have all gotten together and played H vs. Z for a few months, talked / interviewed folks who played H vs. Z and took notes, written an interesting zombie story, made a script from their story, and then make their zombie movie!

Great movie, really terrible digital copy! If you buy this version of the movie thinking you're also getting a digital copy, you'll be sadly mistaken.  The UltraViolet digital copy will not load into iTunes or the Kindle app.  You would think with the number of DVDs being purchased on the decline the movie studios would make it easier for their customers but unfortunately this is not the case.  After over an hour of trying to put this movie on my iPad I have finally emailed Ultraviolet's tech support group.  I have two other movies I was considering buying which also have UV digital copy but wanted to try it with this movie first.  No way am I going down this road again.  I'll wait to catch them on Redbox instead.  BUYER BEWARE!!!  **Update** Just received a response from Ultraviolet's tech support group:  "I am sorry but yes ultra violet does not work with downloading to ipads however in some cases the retailer may give you a itunes code but you would have to contact them directly."

Excellent....ish DVD works great before and after the huge scratch. Too bad there is still a scene i have yet to see in the movie...... Good thing I paid less than $5 :-)

Defective DVD Good movie Original vampire tale with excellent performances by David Bowie and Susan Sarandon. Beware of lesbian sex scene or "hey" lesbian sex scene if you're interested. Just um don't let the kiddies watch it. ;)

WAIT FOR THE DVD This movie is literally banking on the success of "300" knowing its fans will come out in hordes to see this film which is a fictional version of Greek mythology. Or that is to say, "Inspired by an actual myth." I was disappointed in the story line. If you are going to spend $75 million on a movie, spend more than a dime on the script. And who came up with that ridiculous looking Venus Fly-Trap hood? What was most sad was that these are really good actors, but you couldn't tell it from this film.If you are a fan of Greek mythology or a decent script, you might want to skip this one. If you like 3-D CG violence, go for it or better yet, wait for the DVD and fast forward to the fight scenes at the end. "Everybody was Kung-fu fighting..."  Brief sex, brief nudity. 3 stars is generous.

Dynamic and entertaining neo-noir plot trumps Gosling and Mulligan wooden parts and performances **This review may contain spoilers**  'Drive' is directed by Nicholas Winding Refn, a Danish director known for films with a violent bent. 'Drive' is no exception, as it emulates some of the darker film noirs of the 40s and 50s as well as the neo-noirs of later years. Refn shot 'Drive' in a contemporary Los Angeles but due to the use of an 80s, synth pop score, the story feels like it's more from the 80s rather than today (sounds like some of those synth tracks with the choppy bass parts were 'borrowed' from one of Hall and Oates' more popular hits).  For women who might be drawn to the film due to the casting of Ryan ('The Hunk') Gosling in the lead role, be forewarned that 'Drive' is anything but a 'chick flick'. Gosling, in an unnamed part, moonlights as a getaway driver but has more respectable jobs as a part-time stunt driver and auto mechanic. Unfortunately, Gosling has little dialogue and speaks mostly in a monotone. Even worse is Carey Mulligan who plays Irene, the Driver's next door neighbor and mother of a five year old, who appears to drift about in a perpetual stupor (I seem to recall that when Driver crushes the hit man's head in the elevator, Irene backs off in shock but later never discusses or alludes to the incident at all).  Things pick up in terms of action when Irene's husband, Standard, is released from prison but is being forced to commit another robbery by a brute named Cook, who claims Standard still owes a debt to former inmate associates who 'protected' him while incarcerated. A normal guy might feel some jealousy when another man encroaches on his territory, but 'Knight-in-Shining Armor' Gosling is ready to help Standard simply because he's taken a real liking to Irene and the kid.  'Drive' soon begins to shine through some neat twists and turns in the plot as well as the introduction of cool supporting players who overshadow both Mr. Gosling and Ms. Mulligan. Some critics have argued that the violence in 'Drive' is gratuitous, but I beg to differ. It might be a bit over the top, but is never cartoonish. In fact, the violence underscores the menacing, ruthless character of the antagonists Gosling's Driver must face.  Cook beats Standard to a bloody pulp and the shocks are just beginning. There's the big double cross at the pawn shop, where Standard is shot in the back and later Cook's moll, Blanche, is gunned down at the motel room (there was a significant gasp that could be heard throughout the theater from a taken aback audience when the moll is dispatched). Gosling also gets the chance to be ruthless when he works Cook over. Later Bernie (a mobster played by Albert Brooks, who earlier backed the Driver and Shannon, the owner of the auto body shop where the Driver worked, in a joint stock car racing venture) kills Cook by stabbing him in the face. In addition to the aforementioned 'stomping in the elevator' scene, Bernie eliminates Shannon 'mercifully' by slicing his artery, causing the Driver's former pal, to slowly bleed to death.  Who would have thought that comedian Albert Brooks, could actually be so good as an amoral crime boss? Bryan Cranston is also excellent as the Driver's seedy employer. Ron Perlman is always great playing the heavy but I would have liked to have seen more of him, as his character Nino's declaration of his Jewishness, remains wholly underdeveloped.  The film's climax, where the Driver cuts off Nino's car on the highway, leading to his death by drowning at the hands of the Driver, was quite exciting. Less exciting and more awkward was the Driver's agreement to meet Bernie in public and return the money. For a person as crafty as the driver, didn't he anticipate that Bernie would try and hurt him at the scene of their meeting place? Or is it that he just didn't care? One other thing I wondered about at film's end. If the loot belonged to the east coast Mafia, even though Bernie and Nino were now dead, wouldn't the Mafioso still come looking for the Driver as well as Irene, who they would have discovered was affiliated with him? Thus, how could the Driver ride off into the sunset, knowing full well that Irene was still vulnerable?  When I saw the title 'Drive', I expected the film to have many more chase scenes. Fortunately, director Refn took the story in a different direction, emphasizing the rivalry between the Driver and his criminal antagonists. 'Drive' is a film which doesn't have a lot to say. In other words, if you're looking for great 'meaning', you will not find it here. With the exception of the more complex Bernie, its characters are pretty much one-dimensional caricatures, especially the main protagonists, played by Gosling and Mulligan. Nonetheless, in the tradition of some of the great noirs and neo-noirs of the past, 'Drive' manages to be highly entertaining, due to a dynamic plot, that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Great for kids! Jim Carrey was in fine form.  Not even the penguins could upstage him. But, I found it odd that the director felt the need to convey so many moral messages in this film.  I guess this is what passes for "family entertainment" these days.  I think the film would have been more fun if they just simply let the penguins "fly," as the Captain finally did.  Instead, Mark Waters felt the need to bring the family back together, culminating in a wild rescue scene and the "feel good" ending you can imagine.  No surprises here, other than what Mr. Popper found in those ice boxes.  Great for kids.

BLU-RAY REVIEW  (from a fan!) Just to throw this out there - Tokyo Shock either needs to step it up, or get out of the Blu-Ray business.  Their latest effort, Machine Girl, hits Blu-Ray with a number of problems.  Let me start off by saying I really like the movie. It's an over-the-top, low-budget, Japanese action/comedy film. Similar to movies like Riki-Oh, Vampire girl vs. Frankenstein girl, Tokyo Gore Police, Mutant Girls' Squad and a number of other titles). Very gory, but very entertaining! The other reviews should give you an idea of what to expect - or just pull up the trailer. You should be able to tell if it's "for you" or not. My 3 star-rating is for the BLU-RAY, not the movie.  Anyways, I bought the original DVD: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0016K76V4">The Machine Girl</a>  ...Then a couple months later they released a 2-disc DVD: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0029Z8KCO">The Machine Girl</a> Remix -- I bought that too!  A few months after that, they had the nerve to release a 3-disc DVD: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00393SG2E">Ultimate Machine Girl: Collectors Tin (3pc) (Ws)</a> - I even bought that one.  4 days later, they announce the Blu-Ray.  Being a sucker for the movie, and having already bought it 3 times (what harm is a 4th time??) - I bit.  A little back information here - in addition to Tokyo Shock's need to re-release movies multiple times with little differences (in the above cases, the 2 disc set was the same as the original Disc 1, but with an added short film (20 minutes) on disc 2. The 3 disc set were the previous 2 discs and a 3rd with some extras), they put very little effort into their blu-rays (see: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001OBBR42">Ichi the Killer [Blu-ray</a>] and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004L49JYO">Tokyo Gore Police [Blu-ray</a>] ).  Knowing this, I decided to give them a chance.  Problem #1:  The case states "2X DISC SET" - much like with the Tokyo Gore Police Blu-Ray, this is just an error (?) as there is only 1 disc inside. Don't get excited thinking they put all the extras onto 1 disc either, as you'd be mistaken.  The back of the case lists: * Special features DVD with interviews and promo events * Machine Girl Lite feature * Behind the scenes of Machine Girl * Original Trailer  The "Special features DVD with interviews and promo events" is what's missing. This sounds like the 3rd DVD from the 'Ultimate Machine Girl' set above. No big deal for me since I own it, but it would have definitely bumped up my review (as this Blu-Ray is 1/3rd the price of the Ultimate DVD).  On the bright side, it does have the Machine Girl Lite short film (~20 minutes). All the extras are in 480i, not HD.  Audio is in either DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 or 5.1 (and English or Japanese) - I can't comment on it as I don't have a DTS-HD MA system, but the bitrates appear to be around 1.2 - 1.6 mbps throughout. Don't expect much though.  The video is probably one of the worst looking Blu-Rays out there. Not faulting Tokyo Shock completely on this one (as these are generally low-budget films), but it doesn't even seem High-Definition. There are jagged lines through (aliasing problems), terrible video noise, banding, and it's all noticeable from a distance away (I saw about 8 feet from a 50" TV and could easily see it). The flickering during motion scenes was the worst. The video was also uneven, looking good in some scenes, horrible in others. Probably an issue with brightness (indoors/outdoors).  In the end, this is basically the MACHINE GIRL DVD + MACHINE GIRL REMIX DVD, on a Blu-Ray disc. This Blu-Ray is (currently..) cheaper than the regular DVDs, and for that it's probably worth buying. It can regularly be found for 10-12 dollars, which isn't bad. I wouldn't pay much more though.  Long story short -  If you own a previous DVD, PASS on this one. If you don't own it, but are interested, go for the Blu-Ray.  If the missing extras (and nice Steelbook case) are important to you, go for the (very expensive) Ultimate Edition 3-disc DVD.

Camino al Infierno I order this movie because I couldn't find it in any other place. However when I received this product, the product was incomplete. In other words content was missing. It was not a complete movie. Why? I do not know. But I am just not happy that what I order is not complete. Thank you very much.

Worth to check out if you liked the first part. The Ghost Rider movie is pretty specific. There are many negative reviews for the 1st part as well, but if you personally liked it then I would recommend to watch this one. It has lots of action and not much sense in it but still there is certain spirit of Mr. Blaze riding on a flaming bike. One-time watch, definitely. Does not deserve 4 stars since I did not see much other than computer graphics action movie.

Beautiful score but watch the '07 version instead It WOULD have been a beautiful movie if it would not have been cut so brutally. My husband who has never read the book or seen other Jane Eyre adaptations where confused by explanatory "details" that were missing. So at the end he felt confused and I was just left with the feeling of complete dissapointment. I had to patch up the missing information for my husband.  I love Michael Fassbender and was excited to read he was to be Mr. Rochester. I was however disappointed. He did well but the whole movie does not move me as the Masterpiece Theater version did.  I need to watch the Masterpiece Version again, but it seemed to be that they reused the "same" Thornfield?  The scenes that were deleted, I think, are absolutely essential. It is just a shame and very unfortunate they were cut from the final movie.  Such a shame!!! Such a dissappointment.  However I do give the movie 3 stars but only in hope they would make an extended version with the deleted scenes. Also the music is very beautiful and reflects and extends the feelings of the characters. The music suceeded where the acting did not. The score reminds me a bit of "The Piano". It will not surprise me I will buy the soundtrack.

video quality is okay but packaging is pretty low quality the video quality in this release is alright, not as clear as a fan of the show would like but children wouldn't notice or care, the stories are still just as interesting as they were before but the 3d graphics are definitely showing their age. the packaging is awful, instead of the logical packaging most sets like this use (actually having separate spots for the discs in the case) instead they opted to cut costs by putting the discs into paper sleeves that fit into a small space in the middle of the case. quite the let down.

Good but could have been better. I bought this blu-ray title an addition to my collection of the biblical epics of the fifties thru the mid 60's, such as The Robe, King of Kings, Quo Vadis etc. I first saw this movie when it premiered in NY city and was somewhat disappointed in it. It's a mixed bag of good, interesting and sincere. I think George C. Scott as Abraham is probably the best thing about the film. I also found the music by composer Toshiro Mifume to be very bland and mundane. Definetly not as uplifting a musical score by likes of Miklos Rozsa or Alfred Newman.  Upon viewing the blu-ray disc, I again found the transfer to be good not great. A future restoration would be better to wait for, unless you are an avid movie collector like me. If so, add this one to your collection.

Not bluray worthy.. I am in the process of trading in all my dvds for blurays.  Under Siege is one of the movies I turned in for a bluray.  I like this movie but the bluray quality is severely lacking.  The only reason I do not regret getting it is because I like the bluray packaging better vs the dvd packaging.  The reasons I still give it 3 stars is: 1. I like this movie 2. Amazon had it at a great price 3. Bluray packaging (I know, that might be a dumb reason but I am weird that way.)

English Dubbed... English dubbing any Asian film IMO is always a distraction, and in "Shogun Assassin" Wakayama Tomisaburo's commanding growl being incompatibly replaced detracts from his character's presence.  Further, I agree with others that condensing the first two original episodes into one damages the original plot line and initial character development.  This monumental classic IMO is best enjoyed as the original 6 episode "Lone Wolf and Cub" series also US released thru Animeigo which I would rate 5 stars for technical quality and accurate English translation subtitles.  However, I do commend Animeigo for making this dubbed version available for those that prefer not to deal with translation subs.

Generally good, but not all that memorable This was one of those movies that was good enough to generally hold my attention, but not so good that I'd ever want to watch it again, or listen to the commentary on the DVD. Nothing really stood out for me, either good or bad, although there were some significant implausibilities in the story line (including one of my pet peeves - skirting the issue of the economics of living in NYC).  I would say it is a somewhat promising start for Josh Radnor (the writer/director). Hopefully, he can continue to hone his skills on his next film.

Should Have Let Harry R.I.P. This released seventeen years after the original "Dirty Harry" and, for my dollar, it's plain that the franchise should have been given a headstone.  Here's the scoop. Harry Callahan is a media celebrity due to his having locked up a big time hood. A new set of bodies are beginning to pile up. They are all on a betting pool list circulating San Fransisco and most are tied to a celebrated director of horror films. As Harry's name is also on the list it's in his best interest to find the killer pronto.  Harry is his usual, irreverent self, gunning bad guys down willy-nilly (some he shoots in the back as they're running away) and being nasty to the press and his superiors. But the fire has gone out. He doesn't have the rabid pulse he had in the earlier movies. And the story is lackluster. It read like any number of episodes of any number of TV crime/cop thrillers. The directing was hack level. A third act car chase scene bordered on laughable. Another scene with a radio controlled toy car rigged with explosives bordered on surreal. With the exception of a few clever scenes it's hard to see why Eastwood gave this the green light.  Clint is decent enough. He has a gravity all his own. Liam Neeson, 10 years into his career is Okay at best. Patricia Clarkson does a decent job as a TV reporter, but the role isn't written all that well. Jeezo Peezo Batman she was a tiny little thing back then. The killer, played by David Hunt, is finally exposed in the climax, but Hunt doesn't have enough room to flex the character. Clint's side kick, played by Evan C. Kim, is OKay but could have used a bit more flesh on the character.  This isn't clever enough, nor directed well enough, to bring it to 'major motion picture' status. It doesn't amount to much more than fleshed out, polished up TV.

Way too much graphic violence shown This was a good movie, however I personally found all the graphic violence to be over the top and definitely excessive.  The story itself was good and interesting, acting wonderful.  Think about the lives that are being destroyed when you need that "Bling".

JB Did not like the movie.  It was just not what I expected it to be.I thought it was going have more about what was going on in life above the ground and compare the difference between the two.

I love Coco...not this I enjoy Conan O'Brien (Coco, for those cool cats out there). I have been watching him for years, and I was excited to get in on this action.  My major complaint is the length...it is FAR too short. I was expecting more clips, more fun and just...more.  The production values were on par with his show, which is enjoyable. I guess for 68 cents, this is a good hour or so of enjoyment.  Long live Coco!  [...]

interesting early horror i wanted this classic horror film for a long time and it was finally released on DVD. upon my first viewing of this movie, i must admit was both impressed by some aspects but disappointed by others. the premise was very intriguing but the actual screenplay was a bit too lumbering. it seemed to rely too heavily on suggestive innuendo rather than stark depiction. i realize this was probably due to the era in which it was filmed. i suppose i just overexpected due to the fact it was released prior to the censorship code. it did have some strong morbid overtones, especially the subject of the panther woman. very wierd and almost sickening.  the dvd itself, although showing signs of age in the picture, was quite good considering the film is over 80yrs old. the audio is also very good.

Quality not up to WB standards I loved the movie when I saw it at the cinema, but this DVD was a real disappointment. The video quality is very poor - everything is very dark and green-tinged. The backgrounds (?? where there were green screens) are also pixellated and these pixellations move about distractingly. I will be writing to WB to get a replacement on the basis that Amazon must have received a bad batch. I thought it was a bit of a cheek to call three deleted scenes 'Features' as well.

Once Is Enough The acting in "The Iron Lady" is superb.  Merle Streep brings Margaret Thatcher to life, visually vocally and in spirit.  Jim Broadbent, as her husband Dennis, is a performance to match and enhance Streep's own.  The blending of the roles of Alexandra Roach and Harry Loyd as the young Margaret and Dennis with the later manifestations is seamless.  The story itself recalls memories, even to Americans, of the Falklands War and introduces us to some of the controversies Thatcher's policies engendered in Britain.  I am sure that British memories would be stimulated much more than Americans.  I found the focus on Thatcher's presumed dementia to be a distraction from the film.  It is the milieu in which the life-long love story between Maggie and Dennis is presented, but I still find that detracts from the power of the film.  The real story of Margaret Thatcher is the story of her active life, her life of struggle for the British people and the Free World, not the story of an elderly woman in decline.  If a movie of Ronald Reagan purported to present his life but focused on his final years I would find it offensive.  I feel the same about Lady Thatcher.  This film makes me want to know more about her and read her books, but I think it will be awhile before I watch this movie again.

The Mystery of the Marie Celeste Originally titled THE MYSTERY OF THE MARIE CELESTE, the 1935 PHANTOM SHIP arises in an unexpected sort of way.  American movies were very popular in England--so popular that they were putting English film studios out of business.  In order to sidestep the problem, the English government introduced a quota system: English studios must make a certain number of films for every American film imported.  Somewhat later, American films like THE BLACK CAT, THE RAVEN, and MURDERS IN THE RUE MOURGE ran afoul of English censors, who placed an embargo against American horror films.  In 1935 the fairly new Hammer Film Productions sought to get around the quota restrictions and horror embargo by importing Bela Lugosi to make a movie that was as close as they could get to an American horror film without bring down the wrath of the censors.  The film in question was THE MYSTERY OF THE MARIE CELESTE, later known as PHANTOM SHIP, suggested by the maritime tale of the ship Mary Celest, which was found floating and abandoned under mysterious circumstances in 1872.  The story concerns two ship captains, Briggs and Moorehead (Arthur Margetson and Clifford McLaglen) who vie for the love of Sarah  (Shirley Grey.)  Sarah selects Briggs, and the two plan to sail together on the Marie Celeste after their wedding.  Moorehead, however, is consumed with jealousy and arranges to stack the crew with a number of questionable characters, including alcoholic and mentally disturbed Lorenzen (Bela Lugosi.)  In short order members of the crew begin to meet mysterious and gruesome ends.  Which of the many disreputables is the killer?  The film has several interesting points.  Although British censors declined to let audiences see unduly gruesome events, they have no qualm about the occasional profanity, an attempted rape, and ultimately the deaths of every single person on board, some of them described in brief but grisly detail.  And on a technical level the film is occasionally interesting, with dolly shots and the like.  On the other hand, the director seems to have forgotten that the interior rooms rock when the ship rocks; the story is unimaginative; the script is very stiff and most of the actors are the same; and the whole thing is very uphill viewing.  One of the few bright spots in the film is Lugosi, who demonstrates that he was indeed a truly fine character actor when he had the opportunity.  Four years after DRACULA, he plays a dishevelled, alcoholic, and half-crazed man with one arm, his accent little more than an extra note in the performance, startlingly believeable.  I find it hard to recommend PHANTOM SHIP, but there is that great Lugosi performance, and on the basis of that alone I'm inclined to let is squeak by.  If you're interested in English 1930s cinema, or Lugosi, or even just in seeing a Hammer Horror before there really such a thing, you'll enjoy it.  GFT, Amazon Reviewer

Neat Kids' Movie ONLY With Adult Supervision Before I begin, I would like to say.....ISN'T VICTOR WONG THE CUTEST LITTLE NINJA MAN EVER OR WHAT??? He's like the combination of the Pillsbury Doughboy wrapped in a costume made out of ripped up plastic bags! IT WAS SOOOOO CUTEEEEEEEEE, not to mention the main villain's fat body guard he was cute too!!! I wish I had a cute grandpa like that! I just wanna poke him to death sooooo cuteeeee!!  *Ahem* Anyway, back to my more masculine manly side.....in all honesty, I would have given this movie probably a 2 stars instead, even though it was for kids does not mean the flaws should be excusable. 3 stars is for the cute grandpa. Before I continue though I would like to acknowledge that yes I do know it's a kid's movie and it's meant for jokes, but that aside, I would also like to point out that bad acting is simply bad acting regardless of what kind of film you watch.  CONS: 1. This movie had a lot of bad acting, using the excuse "oh, it's just a kids movie" is bad. I would think that all parents would want their child to be exposed to high quality things. Like if they are interested in music, you'd want something intellectual or stimulating instead of exposing them to rap that have a bunch of black people singing about b***ches and drugs and shootouts. In a way it's the same with movies. There are a ton of kid movies that have great cinematography, acting, etc etc. This movie had mediocre / goofy acting, but it's not horrific. It's still okay, I just wanted to point out that bad acting and directing is NEVER excusable. Don't let your kids watch dumbed down movies just because they're kids.....our population is already messed up because of that idea.  2. This movie had a lot of unrealistic and highly dangerous aspects that I would advise all parents to go over with their children. a) It is NEVER EVER a good idea to go after people that are armed with weapons like guns and samurai swords and think it is a joke, as displayed in this video. b) In reality, the boys wouldn't have stood a chance because when you fight, you also have to have weight and strength to somewhat match the opponent that you're fighting, regardless of skills. I know strength is not everything, but it is something. I remember awhile back an Asian man with a very high degree in black belt karate fought a regular, but very large white man in a caged arena, maybe UFC? Anyhow, with all his experience, the karate master quickly lost when the huge white man grabbed him, shoved him against the cage, and rammed his knee into the guy's face. It ended in less than a round. The kids were so small and under developed muscles and lack of weight, their punches and kicks would not do enough damage. So the truth comes out, in reality, they'll get killed, the movie would have ended during the first attack. c) Martial arts training takes many, many years. Some people learn it for decades without fully mastering it. So the kids learning it from their grandpa and taking on a whole army of gun and samurai sword wielding villains is fun to watch, but might give kids the COMPLETELY wrong idea about reality.  One giant thing this movie lacks is that there's a price to pay for being a hero. Death and pain. Being a hero is not always rewarding, sometimes the people you try to save go and backstab you. I wonder how any of the boys in this movie would react when one of their brothers is literally cut in half right in front of their eyes. The boys are never really hurt or cut due to the possibility of parents complaining, but about what? How reality really is?  3. The ending was extremely unrealistic because after all of that, no dad's going to be like "congrats kids! Let's go out for a pizza yay!" The criminals could have won as well since they had the old man and three kids as hostages.  4. Ninja's are known to be stealthy, so I thought it was hilarious that they would run down the corridor, going "ARRGGHHHHHHHHH!!!" So major frown on that...Also the part where one ninja is like "yeah Frank is that you?" lmao!  Overall, bad acting, mediocre film, completely unrealistic. It's nice to have your kids watch a kid's movie, but expose them to higher quality stuff or they'll grow up to be just as messed up and ignorant as the mass majority of our population.....  Let your kids watch movies like these, but PLEASE FOR THE SAKE OF HUMANITY AND OUR CIVILIZATION ....educate / reeducate them afterwards or they'll just be dumbed down by it. Please don't let your kids just watch movies, use it as a chance to educate them on the true facts of life and to educate yourself, not to mention using it to spend time with them as well.  Please stop letting your kids become as messed up as I am. Good luck and have a good day.

Sloppy, but better than most video game movies This movie feels sloppy, the pacing the editing. It's like the director filmed way more than what made it into the final cut and lots of scenes were trimmed, or the editor was given bad direction from the director, or the editor just sucks. The movie is choppy, goes from being slow and drawn out to crammed with content. It seems like a three hour movie or couple of episodes of a show smashed into a two hour slot. Some of the visuals are really good, some not so much. The acting is not great, the story is convoluted and only makes sense in about the last 20 minutes of the movie at which point I felt unmoved since I didn't care about any of the characters. There is no beginning to this movie, it just starts and not much is explained like you are starting the second episode of a tv show having missed the first episode. Just not a very good movie, and yet it's still better than most video game movies. On Blu-Ray it looks really good. Since a lot of the film is dark, the black levels are deep and never murky, most shots are crisp in detail and when color is used, its vibrant and looks really good. The movie looks better than it is, the sequel does look better but I just can't imagine doing more with this series. Christophe Gans did an amazing job with  Brotherhood Of The Wolf and his upcoming Beauty And The Beast should be really good as well. Unfortunately his attempt at a Hollywood film is a bit flaccid and I can only assume those Hollywood Dougs had a big influence on the script and final cut of the film. For a horror film, the only thing that is scary is the terrible story this movie tells and is rivaled only by the flat acting.

Not Bad I didn't think this movie was that bad, unlike many who have stated that it was.  It definitely wasn't scary, but it seemed to go along at a steady pace.  The ending leaves you wondering...

Intriguing Concept, but Flat, Uneven Superman Reboot... When Scottish writer Grant Morrison was invited to reboot the Superman franchise, making it more relevant for the 21st century, his vision became the foundation of a 12-issue Limited Edition collection, "All-Star Superman". On a positive note, after viewing <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004EE301O">Dcu All-Star Superman (Two-Disc Special Edition)</a>, I'm looking forward to reading the series...but unfortunately, without having read them first, I found the video confusing, stilted, and surprisingly uninvolving, a disappointment after several terrific previous video entries.  The Bonus Feature, 'Superman Now', on Disc Two, is a must, to understand what Morrison (in a wonderful, if nearly incomprehensible brogue) was intending; the concept of using classic myths of solar-influenced Gods (such as Apollo and Helios) as an inspiration, and returning to the Man of Steel his nearly God-like powers of the 1950s-1960s (reversing the 1980s make-over, and attempt to 'humanize' him), is intriguing, if more than a bit retro, for a 'new' look. The idea does allow two elements I really enjoyed; Lex Luthor, complaining that, while HE gets older, Superman DOESN'T (an idea straight out of Frank Miller's "The Dark Knight Returns" that I always liked), and the concept that Supes could 'overchage' on solar radiation, increasing his powers dramatically, but inevitably resulting in an overdose that would kill him. Things, unfortunately, get pretty mixed-up, beyond this...  Supes tells Lois they could never have children, as their DNA is too different...but he possesses a 'future telescope', allowing him to chat with his descendents(?)...um, who was the female ancestor? Wonder Woman? Lex has an offspring (Nasthalthia)? And he LIKES Clark Kent, sort of? Fellow Kryptonians Lilo-El and Bar-El appear and disappear abruptly, as do super-powered(?) Samson and Atlas; the whole Krull subplot; events jumble up, and the time-frame gets muddied; a way to recreate Superman through his DNA is offered by Lex, but now it WILL take Lois (or another human woman's) DNA, to complete to task...Huh??? And Lois waits, expecting Supes to launch out of the Sun, cured...HUH???  I accept that the 12 graphic novels probably puts all this into perspective, but the video can't, in just 74 minutes.  I was disappointed by James Denton's vocal interpretation of Clark/Supes, also. Perhaps he was aiming for Godlike and aloof, but it seemed one-note, and flat, which was a shame, as Christina Hendricks (Lois), Anthony LaPaglia (Lex), Ed Asner (Perry White) and Finola Hughes and Arnold Vosloo (Lilo-El and Bar-El), were all superb.  I do admit, however, the line artwork for each character was exceptional, as were the backgrounds and animation, some of the best work, ever.  All-in-all, a surprisingly uninvolving entry...c'mon, DC, you can do better than this!

Okay Not as good as the book but it gets a close as you probably could with a movie like that.

Ok Sci Fi Flick. Not what I was hoping. The previews made this seem like a riveting addition to the series , even more so than the A vs P movies in the franchise. There are some beautiful images here but the lack of character development really kills this potentially awesome movie. The plot disappoints also. I really wanted to like this movie but uncharacteristically Ridley didn't allow that to happen. Wait for the price to drop and pick it up on sale.

Loved Pacino but not the movie I was following the movie until the end. Felt like it left me hanging.  I don't want to write my detailed thoughts because I would surely ruin it for someone else. It wasn't horrible because I love Al Pacino in any movie so it is definitely worth watching just to see him in action but I was a little lost towards the end on the plot.  Enjoy!

Retired? It was not as god as what I have seen before. He has aged and that hair? Hasn't he learned that the sweats a perm too out? Anyway, there were some real truths to what he was saying. There was truth in a lot that he was saying. Guess that isn't really funny.

weak storyline leading to satisfying conclusion The Lodger WOULD have been a terrific movie because it definitely has twists, turns, surprises, a few moments of above average suspense...  but then we have to consider that the actual storyline was distractingly mediocre.  The storyline is about trying to solve the mystery over who exactly is the modern day Jack the Ripper among a select group of people.  Without spoiling what happens at the end, the storyline constantly jumps back and forth between the husband and a man living in their spare room (outside behind the house).  You're constantly guessing which one of the two is the actual Jack the Ripper going around killing innocent women on the streets late at night.  However, what severely hurts the plotline is that it focuses more on the detective/police side of the storyline, and less on the actual suspense and killings (which are just tossed to the side without giving the violent segments much attention, if at all).  I personally would have preferred a violent version of Jack the Ripper because every interpretation that I've seen NEVER focuses on the muderous/violent side of the killer, and it's a shame.  However, that's just personal preference- I suppose the movie writers never intended to focus on the murderous side of Jack the Ripper and wanted to keep things authentic concerning the myths and legends.  Other than that, it's an alright film, though geez... Simon Baker had to play a major role in this film, seriously?  I like the guy but he's not someone who should be playing in a supposed suspense.

A Cut Coming of Age Tale It's quirky, it's funny, and I genuinely enjoyed it. That said, it's certainly not ground breaking or particularly memorable, and I'd say one viewing was plenty. Cinematography is nice enough, and the picture looks pretty good, and I could understand everybody through their accents, so the sound's pretty well done also. I like the design of the cover, though the title might throw some people, as there's not much to do with submarines! Worth a view on a lazy afternoon, but nothing to get too excited about.

Unrated and Theatrical (cleaner) Version on same DVD There are quite a few reviews up before mine so I'll try not to be repetitive. First off, you should know that, unlike most films released in an "unrated" format (usually meaning more sex and language), the "unrated" DVD of "Bad Teacher" contains BOTH the Theatrical Version and the "unrated" version. I did not see the film in the theater and have not watched the "theatrical version" here, but the unrated version contains nudity (only topless females - as the main character wants to get a "boob job") and lots of four- (and more) letter words. Even the image on the cover lets you know that the comedy is trying to "push the button".  The story gets serious (well, sort of) in the second half but all the characters are played as broad comedy (no, there is no pun intended here) and so none of it can be taken serious. For those looking for a nude (or partially nude) Cameron Diaz, don't look here. She wears a "Daisy Dukes" skimpy outfit in one scene (which even gets its own 3 ½ minute featurette!) but that's it. Most of the "shock" is in the language. (Think Terry Zwigoff's "Bad Santa").  The bonuses are a bit skimpy with 4 "blooper" scenes (4 min.), six "deleted scenes" (3 ½ min.), and a really dumb "Behind The Scenes with Jason (Segel) and Justin (Timberlake)" (5 ½ min).  If you like films like "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" you'll probably like this. It's in the same vein; but not as good. For me, I'll watch FTARH again instead.  Steve Ramm "Anything Phonographic"

disjointed and sad. There is a sad and cold undertone in this version that was missing in the original. Humans are callous to each other, and characters who lose loved ones show no grief. Several amazing actors are wasted in this disjointed film where plot lines are picked up and dropped. The movie is excessively dark in a literal sense as well: it's often unreasonably hard to tell what is happening. A person who like the orginal Fright Night will probably not like this version: it is missing the wit and humanity of the first.

A FITTING TRIBUTE One thing is certain when it comes to the Three Stooges: you either get them or you don't. Those that don't never find the humor that comes from their antics. Those that do are die hard fans who love each and every slap and eye poke. These were the comedies that fueled not just one generation but several. Their short films played in theaters across the country only to later on become a daily staple for the TV generation. But their popularity waned and their recognition factor dropped. All that is about to change with the release of this new film.  The Farrelly brothers, the comedic team behind DUMB AND DUMBER, THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY and SHALLOW HAL, are major fans of the original Three Stooges. What they've done is attempt to recreate the stooges original form of comedy for a new generation with three new actors in the roles made famous by Moe, Larry and Curly. They succeed on all levels.  The story revolves around three babies dropped off at a Catholic orphanage. As the boys grow they unwittingly terrorize the nuns that run the place. Their antics continually get them into trouble and since they tend to run together they never find a home. When Moe is about to be adopted, he tells his new parents that the best thing would be if they took all three boys. Rather than do that, they take him back and adopt a single child.  As the three grow older they remain at the orphanage, helping out on the property and doing their best to keep things running smoothly. Then again these are the three stooges and anything they touch rarely runs smooth.  The day comes when the church decides they can no longer fund the orphanage. The children are to be slit up into foster care and the nuns placed elsewhere. The boys can't let that happen and go off in search of fame and fortune so that they can save the day. Ill prepared for the world the sisters trust them to at least give it their best shot.  As with the classic stooges' comedies, the three rarely have a clue what is actually going on around them. Seeing them seeking work Lydia (Sofia Vergara) hires them to kill her husband in his sleep explaining he wants to do peacefully. Thinking Mac (Craig Berko), the man with her, is her husband, they accidentally toss him about and land him in the hospital where they try to finish the job. This leads to a hilarious squirt fight using peeing babies in the maternity ward.  Eventually the boys meet an old friend from the orphanage named Teddy. Teddy was the boy adopted over Moe. Now a wealthy lawyer, he tells the boys to get in touch with him. As fate would have it, we later find out that Teddy is the husband of Lydia that she wants taken out. Before we get that far the boys have a falling out and Moe sets out on his own only to wind up in the reality series JERSEY SHORE where he slaps the cast of that show like his brothers. Oh how we wish that were true.  As the plot threads come together the comedy stays with the whole idea until the problems of each character are solved. The film moves along at a brisk pace and the comedy of the situation is mixed well with the slapstick physical comedy that was what the stooges were noted for.  The acting fits the tone and tribute exceptionally well. Chris Diamantopoulos does a great job as Moe, not just in looks but in attitude. Sean Hayes not only looks the part of Larry but sounds just like him as well (his bit with a lobster is hilarious). Will Sasso has always impersonated Curly and he morphs himself into the role with ease here.  The Farrelly brothers have captured the essence of the Stooges and brought them back to life on the big screen once more. Fans will be pleased with the outcome of this film which is not only enjoyable on its own merits but makes you long for the original Stooges films as well. That will be one of the biggest benefits of this film, bringing the originals to the attention of yet another generation. If you never loved the Stooges then you will probably get little from this film. If you did love them, you'll appreciate the tribute paid here. Either way if you're looking for comedy with little depth and plenty of laughs, then make sure you rent this one.

Wish they would have mastered it in hi-def first. Although the show looks painfully dated, it's still very funny and watchable, even in repeat viewings. I bought the entire series a season at a time for my wife and watched them with her. On our little 27" tv they looked merely "ok" but on hour high-def 42" they look awful. Even my $900 Oppo blu-ray player can't upscale them to clarity. Yeah, I know they're 4:3 ratio, yeah, I know they were likely shot on video but that's no excuse for this. I have loads of DVD's that look really good on my TV, these are barely watchable. Hopefully they'll fix it for a blu-ray release, but then I'll have to buy them all over again.  One nice feature, continued playback. Just start one episode and only have to watch opening/closing credits once, the shows just flow right together until they all play (or choose one at a time form the menu.) Also some extra scenes edited seamlessly in.

Received but not yet viewed I don't feel qualified to review because it is laying where I placed it after I received it.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001JRB16U">Mary Poppins (Two-Disc 45th Anniversary Special Edition)</a>  Looks great from outside of the package and it came as Amazon promised.

Doesn't live up to Mega Shark vs Crocosaurus's absurdity, but still entertaining I hadn't planned on watching "Mega Python vs. Gatoroid" but when I realized it was written by the same screenwriter as "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041UUNUM">Mega Shark vs Crocosaurus</a>", I had to see it. Unfortunately, it doesn't live up to that movie's insane absurdity. This one is a more down to earth standard creature feature, but still pretty entertaining if you like that genre, as I do.

Interesting concept but flawed Earthling tells the story of beings  who have come to earth because they are drawn by the collective human psyche.  The aliens must now choose to stay or go.  Neither choice for them is a satisfying selection.  This film is in need of editing since it has too many subplots.  Some well written exposition would have gone a long way to make this a much better movie. The script is angst ridden and could have used some light moments.  I have to give it three stars since it at least tries to step out of the main stream Sci Fi film genre.  No real violence, megasharks, superheros or vampires in this one.  The plot line sounds familiar to me and I am sure I have read or heard this story in one of my science fiction sources.  Tried to do research but there is no real info on the film.  Although the film does meander it presents us with a picture of an group of aliens who are totally different from humans.  They seem to be some form of space going microrhizomes which share a mind.  There is a lesbian theme involving this shared consciousness that viewers may not find to their liking  but it does work for the film. I would only recommend this film if you are an avid science fiction reader who wants something a little different.  Kids will definitely wander off after about twenty minutes of the film.

Slow paced, but worthwhile The tale of two brothers, one average and one a math genius, make this low budget indie come alive, even if the payoff is minimal at best. What's William Hurt doing here? He's not bad, but I thought he would be in bigger films. The whole thing is a little offbeat, of course, and that's why it's worth watching. Not many films are set in as bland a place as Ohio.

Some Laughs Provided You Get into the Right Frame of Mind This deadpan spoof of Mexican "telenovelas" generates a fair quotient of laughs provided you tap into its goofy spirit. Will Ferrell stars in this all-Spanish language tale of a Mexican rancher who has to defend his father's land after his no-good brother (Diego Luna) shows up having owed a debt to a drug lord (Gael Garcia Bernal). Andrew Steele apparently wrote "Casa De Mi Padre" in English, but the film is a faithful Mexican soaper all the way through, and one's familiarity with the genre probably will dictate how much of the film you'll find funny. Though I'm certainly not a constant viewer of Univision, there are some inspired moments here along with several amusing songs penned by score composers Andrew Feltenstein and John Nau. Lionsgate's Blu-Ray of this barely-released comedy hits stores on the 17th with commentary with Ferrell, Steele and director Matt Piedmont on-hand; deleted scenes; commercials; a featurette; music video; and interview with the late Pedro Armendariz, Jr., who co-stars in the film. The 1080p transfer is fine (English subs run on the picture itself as opposed to below it) and the DTS MA audio is nicely engineered.

laboring under an illusion...was just "eh" i was going to buy this but saw there was an option to watch on the computer for a cheaper price.when i was pregnant with my son, my hubby and i took bradley birthing classes. those were the ABSOLUTE BEST decision that we have ever made. phenomenal. i delved into documentaries such as the business of being born and also pregnant in america (both on netflix)and read books with the best one being "pushed" by jennifer block and "ina mays guide to childbirth" by ina mays and "real food for mother and baby" by nina planck. all very phenomenal. ive seen "birth as we know it" documentary too and thought it was pretty good. so when i saw this one avail i was excited....unfortunately i wasnt impressed. it seemed like the person who made this has lots of knowledge but filled this with 80% clips of tv shows etc instead of educating about natural childbirth. it was almost like she needed fillers to make it long enough. if youre not familiar with just how "out of touch" media portrays childbirth and if youre not familiar with the fact that induction and epidurals are not natural nor are they beneficial ESPECIALLY TO BABY...then i strongly suggest watching this as a starter to your journey in learning. but if youre like me and already know the fact that epidurals may take the pain from mama but in turn it causes baby to feel EVERYTHING and all the pain, and the fact that inductions raise your chances of csections by 50% bc of the complications and the actual benefits of vaginal birth (reduction in asthma,squeezes fluid from lungs,lines esophogus with the FIRST bacteria needed for their gut)as opposed to csection...then id suggest something different to watch.

Is there a purpose for buying this in Blu-Ray? After watching this movie in the theater I found no reason to buy this movie in Blu-Ray. Makes no sense to make a HD movie and then shake the camera the whole time for effect. Hollywood needs to find a better way to stress action than the 1940's effect of shaking the camera. I won't even buy this as a regular DVD for this reason. It is really too bad because the movie had a great premise and great writing. Shows what a bad director can do to a good movie.

What A Shame We should all be ashamed. We fell in love with 3 little girls from Detroit. All the bad things that happened in the group was because of their age... they were just 20 when sucsess overtook them. They were babies, and not equiped with the maturity to handle the attention bestowed upon them. Yes, egos were running rampart, but it was the magic of the 3 of them together that enthralled me and everyone else. Yes, its a shame that their story has so many bad chapters, ...I wish that the Cinderella story had better endings...but I will always envision the 3 girls together, making magic, music, style and beauty,...all 3 of them. Why it has turned out to be such ugliness and division is truly a shame. Diana, Mary & Florence, thank you for sharing your dream,.. entertaining me for many years. I love all 3 of you.

3.25 stars for a moderately good job While this wasn't the most scary or even creepy horror movie i have seen it did manage to have an interesting enough background to keep me glued to the television. The fact that there is more than just one type of bad guy is kind of cool. I really liked the whole puzzle machine concept as well as the twist with the wife/mother at the end. Overall this is definitely worth renting for some late Saturday night popcorn flick.

I really wanted to like this Zodiac's first hour or so was excellent, however once the killer's populatrity dwindled so did my interest in the film, and the last hour and a half of the cartoonist looking for clues draaaaaaaaged on. The film does a good job of showing the public stop caring about the Zodiac killer but it's not good at keeping my interest in it for two and a half hours. Thanks Dave but I think I'll stick with Se7en.

Icono del cine independiente Esta pelicula fue parte del llamado cine "independiente", norteamericano, junto a Easy Rider o Zabrisky Point, tiene una banda de sonido excelente y muy representativa del fin de los 60's y principios de los 70's, merece una mejor condici&oacute;n t&eacute;cnica por lo menos con subtitulados, esta edici&oacute;n doble tiene la versi&oacute;n teatral. A pesar de todo vale como documento historico

Punisher Warzone The movie was pretty good,the effects were good. It's worth the $2.99. More like the comic than the first one.

The Grudge + Inception + Neverending story+ Cocaine = This movie. I honestly felt like someone left some cocaine powder in my DVD case and I inhaled somehow. This is a trippy movie that makes no sense at all. It's pretty much what I said it was in the title. If the main character wasn't so hot I'd probably have chucked this one.

Painfully Dull People Babbling Nonsense at Great Length. Richard Linklater burst onto the independent film scene in 1991 with "Slacker", the film that earned him a career in Hollywood. This is a micro-budget stream-of-consciousness walk around Austin, Texas shot on 16mm. It's grainy in low light conditions. A talkative, likable fellow who grabs a cab at the bus station starts us off by babbling about his dreams and alternative realities to an unresponsive cab driver. He concludes that, if he had stayed at the bus station, it might have resulted in a better reality. The conversations deteriorate from there. The film generally moves from person to person when they have contact, so the characters know each other through various connections.  There are nearly 100 characters in total, though all of them don't have lines. But they are all "slackers", Gen-Xers in their twenties who have not yet found or have consciously refused to have any direction or do anything productive. Instead, they rationalize their aimless existence with anti-authoritarian pastiche. Conspiracy theories are a common theme, from a US/USSR secret space program using stolen Nazi technology and financed by the Medell&iacute;n drug cartel to someone who believes Elvis is alive. A lot of people think the media or government are plotting to control them, but they are probably just too lazy to take control of anything themselves.  Profiteering and violence are also common themes -profiteering in the sense that people do it, violence in the sense that people talk about it, as they are too lethargic to do it. There are occasional encounters with emissaries of other generations, children or old men. A man who claims to be an anarchist and veteran of the Spanish Civil War advocates blowing things up. He's more feisty than the young folks. But there is not one interesting character in "Slackers", and there are only a few clever lines. I'm a Gen-Xer, and it was common for people to be aimless for a few years after college in the early 1990s, but there are more interesting layabouts than this lot.  Richard Linklater likes to let his characters tell the story through dialogue. I'm surprised he has only made one documentary, as he has a natural affinity for that format. But he has developed his skills over the years, as is evident in his recent true crime black comedy "Bernie" (2011), where Linklater makes excellent use of characters who like to talk. "Slacker" was his first concerted effort in this area, and it's not very good. Impressively, he made "Dazed and Confused" just two years later, which has a lot to recommend it. Looking back at some of the micro-budget films that launched careers in the 1990s, they had more stylistic influence than their substance seemed to merit.

A good time If you're looking for a fun, no pressure movie that you can just sit back and relax with, this one's for you. Not the most complicated of plots, but certainly has its funny parts and charm. Rob Corddry is a comedic genius in my opinion, and I always enjoy his performances. This movie was no exception. Overall a good time, if you're aware of what you're watching, which is a simple comedic picture.

Rare island treat - a brief replay of early human life! What I liked most is that as if the story is a replay of man's days during the dawn of civilization. Hanks makes fire, grabs fruits, brings out coconut water, builds a shelter, makes bare minimum dress, prepares improvised tool for fishing and builds the boat  - everything that man had to do in prehistoric time without help of any modern tool or technology. All he had on his side was to strong will to overcome all problems in hand with undying spirit.  No woman is there in this action replay of human history, but it emphasizes enough on importance of a partner in human life through 'Wilson' - the soccer ball. This idea of the ball as companion to talk was innovative and effective one as there was no other person on the island.  The entire episode on the island is very fresh, rare and exciting. Usage of dialogue is very economical but thanks to Hanks, its always lively. We can feel that this is no vacation, but sort of an exile at a remote place and the resulting loneliness.  But the end is rather clumsy as the beginning is more lengthy than necessary. Fred Smith's (FedEx's real life CEO even today) inclusion adds surprise and genuineness but the story could have well ended there. It tried to deal with another matter which demands a full scale film for itself.

Meh. This book has some good points, some very good points actually, but any pro on YouTube will tell you the same...for free...and with video instruction.  There are also some flaws in this teaching technique that most YouTube pros will tell you "not" to do (hip turn on the back swing should be less than 50 degrees, not a full turn).  I have learned to swing via YouTube, and refined my swing through GolfTec instruction, and I tell you that there is not a book in the world that will help you more than lessons from a PGA Professional will.  Don't skimp on your training or you will learn bad habits that will have to be broken from your muscle memory and frustration will set in because your swing will get worse before it gets better.

Lot of Action I didn't have high expectations from this movie, but all in all, it was a very good movie in every respect.  Acting, script, casting, etc all great, with lot of action.  The plot is fairly simple: an incompetent employee makes a mis-judgement and lets the freight train go unattended, without brakes, under power, with a dangerous cargo.  The rest of the time the people from the corporate headquarters, the yard master, employees, the local authorities, all have to deal with this problem.  In the end the two low level employees become the heroes by saving the day.  Everybody go home now!  That is one problem with this movie: no surprises.  I still recommend it, it is a great movie to watch.

Ozymandias Treatment for Maggie In Phyllida Lloyd's 2011 film, "The Iron Lady," the ever-accomplished Academy Award winning actress Meryl Streep adds another accent to her repertoire of outstanding characters with distinctive speech patterns that mark their identity.  However, it is not the duplication of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher's voice cadence that wins her her third Oscar, it is her ability to play a woman in angst with multi-faceted nuance.  As Thatcher, Streep ripples and reels with the passing of time--for most of the film we see her as an aged oldster missing her now deceased husband with not much to check off on the daily to-do list other than seeing doctors, packing off her hubby's clothing and battling hallucinations.  Why Phyllida Lloyd decides to use Thatcher as a case-in-point for the ephemeral nature of success and the poster child for a modern-day Ozymandias lesson in the inevitable decline of any human, great or small, along with whatever empires they build, seems understandable on the surface, but results in a dreary portrait of "The Iron Lady" and her myriad of accomplishments within the United Kingdom.  Of course, Streep portrays Thatcher in her dotage with a befuddled excellence that entitles her to be thought of as one of today's most brilliant actresses.  As the older Thatcher, she becomes visually disturbing as her mind meanders, chasing after dreams of yesterday as epitomized by the appearance of her deceased husband (played with panache by Jim Broadbent) who reminds and coaxes her to maintain control of whatever is left of her life.  Seeing Thatcher depicted in this way is almost embarrassing and decidedly irreverent.  Should not the woman who was prime minister of the UK longer than anyone else in its history be allowed the perseverance of her private dignity?  If writer Abi Morgan's motivation for depicting Thatcher from this vantage point is to garner support for dementia-awareness with unsolicited cooperation from the former prime minister in order to show that it can happen to anyone despite one's former glory, this reviewer supposes that both Morgan and director Lloyd accomplish in projecting this theme.  However, the life of any woman would have done just as well to make this point.  Sadly, anyone expecting to understand the climate and politics of her time at the helm of the British nation will see montages of events like the IRA bombings, her battle with the unions and her mission to reclaim the Falkland Islands but will be ultimately disappointed when attempting to discern her contribution with regard to advancements for women and the British world.  Instead of a strong woman who leads an important world nation for over 15 years, the audience sees a woman struggling for her sanity because her physical body is failing.  But what of Thatcher's quick mind?  What of her accomplishments?  Should she not be applauded for her tenacity and ability to stand up to others?  The filmmakers give us a glimpse of this, but focus on Thatcher's deterioration instead of her crested glory.  The resultant film wears thin in the mind of the viewer--the lows are underscored too brutally while the highs are barely explained.  Even though Alexandra Roach bristles as the young Margaret Thatcher--she is all about quenching her thirst for change and getting done what she thinks must get done--this reviewer does not get a sense of who Margaret Thatcher really is.  Instead, the image of Streep as the old woman in a world that has passed her by remains steadfast--a cautionary tale almost Buddhist in its leanings towards the insignificance of the world of politics and materialism.  Why bother to strive when what awaits you is forgetfulness, a body that betrays and death?  Bottom line?  Phyllida Lloyd's depiction of Margaret Thatcher does not contain enough data about this longest serving British prime minister to consider it a biopic.  Instead, the film, sadly, depicts the trials and tribulations of the aged as dementia and other dehabilitating diseases set in.  This "make hay when the sun shines" mentality depresses rather than instills ambition or rallies motivation towards world progress in any positive manner.  Streep excels as the aging Maggie, missing her husband, her son and underling the importance of having some purpose to even the longest days.  Recommended only for those who want to see Streep's award-winning performance and realize this is not an upbeat biographic film bullet-pointing Thatcher's actions during her ministry. Diana Faillace Von Behren "reneofc"

Not dialogue based The biggest disappointment for me in this movie was that Lord Henry's lines, which are supposed to be funny and witty, are omitted or truncated in this version. Colin Firth is a good actor, but his lines were mangled by the writers. He'll say the first part of a paradox and then the rest of the line is omitted. Another disappointment is this version doesn't give the characters motivation for their actions. Why does Dorian break up with Sibyl? Why does he kill Basil? The 1945 version provided reasons for each action. This Dorian acts more like American Psycho, Victorian Version. They've added in traumatic childhood flashbacks. That's a symptom of our age - everything must be blamed on childhood. I found it distracting. I did think the women in this movie were well drawn, and this movie does a good job of depicting the homoerotic tensions and the luxuriant opium houses. However, there was much more to the aesthetic movement than that. This version gives us some stuff that older versions have missed, but this version loses a lot in the process. Don't make this the only version that you see!

It's *Kind* of a Funny Movie... Better than I expected, but certainly no surprises. Good for a Sunday afternoon rental. Also: People in the nuthouse are never this beautiful, sexy, alluring, or fascinating. Ever.

NOT anamorphic. "narrow letterbox" A good low buget movie with Judy Geeson, but a 2.35:1 letterbox is rediculous.  Anything with that ratio should be anamorphic.  I have to hit the zoom on the widescreen tv and that soffens the image.  Don't know if it is cropped on top and bottom yet.  I'll have to see a vhs version.

Good movie! Pretty cool special effects and action scenes. Some of them are just too long though. It would have been better if the director left about 1/2hour in the cutting room...including the scenes about the civilian family.

good singer poor stage Even the artists are good the stage is poor. Those chairs in the stage during the whole presentation make me sick. The garments completely white are absolutely not attractive

2 1/2 stars for a confusing drama Juliette Binoche is an unnamed woman who manages to get a front row seat at a book signing in Tuscany.  The author is a British writer named James Miller (opera star William Shimell) who admits he has no training in art.  His book argues the point that a "copy" of a painting or piece of art that is a well made counterfeit is no less valuable than the "original."  The woman slips an address to the writer's translator after being hounded by her teenage son that he's hungry.  It is the address of her art shop.  Miller shows up and they begin a conversation that will last for the next 90 minutes.  The woman drives him to a remote village and along the way they have some mild disagreements.  Do they really know each other?  Once in the village, a caf&eacute; owner assumes they are married after overhearing an argument.  Are they?  Were they?  The couple now behaves like a once married or now married couple.  The woman suggests they visit a room where they had their honeymoon.  Miller doesn't seem to be interested or even familiar with the town.  So what's going on? Beats me.  To complicate matter further, the woman and Miller speak fluent English, French and Italian and shift in and out of those languages often.  Sometimes they speak the same language, sometimes one is speaking one, while the other is speaking something else, all at the same time.  I'm sure Iranian director and writer Abbas Kiarostami is trying to confuse the audience and he succeeds.  For me this was pretty boring after a while.  Certainly Binoche and Shimell are a handsome couple and look like they belong together.  Their performances are very good but I'm not sure they knew what Kiarostami had in mind either.  I watched this film on a Criterion Blu ray 1080p transfer. It has a 1.85:1 aspect ratio and in a word, is perfect.  The audio as well has DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and is likewise pristine. Subtitle options are provided.  I watched it in French with subtitles except when English is spoken (often).  Extras include a film by Kiarostami called "The Report" (1977), a documentary, and interview with Kiarostami and a booklet with an essay by critic Godfrey Cheshire.

Lots of action not alot of story Aeon Flux is a good movie but it is lacking in the story.  The whole story line was taking down the Goodchild.  The only mix that was thrown in was at the beginning about 30 minutes into the movie.  After that everything was pretty much predictable.  Other than that the effects were amazing the action was good (even though extremely far fetched.  How does someone break a persons neck with a twist of the wrist?)  The CGI and lighted effects were amazing.  For what there was of a story line that was even good.

Almost there I've never met Steve Byrne, but from what I've seen of him, he comes across as a genuinely nice guy.  In my book, that's worth a lot of points.  Steve's WTF Podcast interview alone was additional fuel for me to keep rooting for his success.  Steve has spoken about how he wanted to step away from the frenetic physical comedy that he did in his previous special in deference to doing more spoken material, and The Byrne Identity definitely has that.  There are plenty of laugh out loud moments, but this special does not meet its full potential.  The risks that Byrne takes are misplaced in jokes about racial stereotypes, which produces a shocked response at times, but even these risks are somewhat safe, as this kind of ground is well-tread.  A lot of the material is safe and therefore comes across as pandering, as if the comedian was thinking, "this sounds like something they'll laugh at," rather than material that gives the viewer an idea of what the Byrne Identity actually is.  Also, there were places during the show where Steve's timing is rushed, and rather than building tension in the audience (letting them out and then reeeeeling them back in), he rushes to the punch line, giving him the appearance of being overeager for the laugh.  However, where Steve gets personal with his material and the timing isn't rushed, (So as not to give punch lines away, The iTunes bit and the Chinatown bit were great)it works very well and is very funny.  Steve has great tags, is visually entertaining to watch, and knows when to escalate a punch line.  The Byrne Identity is funny and shows Steve's evolution as a comic.  However, beyond being half Korean and half Irish, I'm still not 100% sure yet just who Steve Byrne is.  I look forward to his next special and wish him all of the success in the world.

Snow White and the Huntsman I liked the movie, but charlize Theron really did not do well. Sometimes she did, but for the most part the role did not fit her. She was not convincing and she did not pull it off. It didnt suit her for some reason. Her english accent was terrible, and it would have been better that she spoke normally than do the accent badly. She is a fantastic actress, but this one was not her best. Overall the movie was very good, good action, acting, etc. I liked it, but not as much as I whished I had.

Weak Ending This movie has some good things going for it, like the actors and cinematography, but while based on a true story, the film falls flat toward the end, leaving me with the impression that a "true story" alone doesn't make great movie-making.  It could be a case of reality being stranger (and more unbeleivable) than fiction, or maybe it was just a bad treatment of the story's final and crucial events.  * SPOILERS *  I enjoyed the 1973 vibe and the performances of the main stars more in the first half of the movie.  I wouldn't fault it for occasional slowness in the second half, but where it fails is in its final scenes when the cop and his boy are chasing the two guys and the girl.  We don't see the cop getting shot, nor do we see his son actually kill one of the brothers.  We're left instead with tell-tale impressions - the cop lying dead in the bushes, the dead brother and the boy with the gun in his hands.  But the kid - what is he, 10 years old? - has prior to this demonstrated none of the qualities that would put me to believing he is even capable of this, with the result that by the end of the film I feel a little ripped off as a viewer.  In these critical final scenes the film-maker does more telling rather than showing, as if afraid to give a realistic interpretation, or any interpretation at all, of how "the facts" occured.  Bottom line is that the final scenes are very short and unconvincing and didn't leave me with much of an impression of the overall movie.  Especially after reading some of the glowing reviews on this listing.  This movie had 5-star potential in terms of its actors, location and film style, but while the gun is loaded and ready to shoot, when it finally does, it's shooting blanks.  Not hard to understand why this film didn't fly on original release.  All's well that ends well, and unfortunately this movie did not end well.  While it wasn't terrible, I wouldn't go so far as to recommend it to anyone.

Not a bad 80's flick I would imagine sales of this Blu Ray wouldn't be that great since TBS and many other cable stations played this movie to death for almost two decades. After watching this 20 years later, I can not believe how small and tight that Red Wings hockey sweater was that Alan Ruck wore. Hockey jerseys aren't suppose to fit like a damn t-shirt geek. He looks like such a jackass wearing that jersey. Then again this guy is the biggest nerd on and off the camera. Is the principal - pedifile still locked up? I hope so. This is a good movie to see once a decade.

G rated but should have been PG Watched this movie tonight with my kids. Not sure what age demographic the creators were targeting. Honestly, I feel like it should have been rated PG - there are definitely a few scenes which are not preschool appropriate. In reading many of the other reviews here, I can see that many other parents felt the same (that'll teach me to read reviews before watching movies with my kids). The Nightmare train is enough to give ME nightmares...my kids couldn't watch these scenes (they are 3 and 4). It comes out of nowhere; up to this point the story is very cutesy, perfect for small children. And since the original story has no mention of a nightmare train, I was sitting there on the couch frozen in shock, morbid curiosity, and sheer terror, as well as utter contempt thinking (how could they have gotten away with a character this scary in a G rated movie?!). So if you have really small children, or children who are really sensitive to demonic ghost trains, consider yourself warned. Otherwise, a good spin on a timeless classic with a good message for kids.

A different review I'm taking a different approach here. I just caught the last 2/3rds of this movie on AMC, and it motivated me to search the net for other people's thoughts on it, and as usual, I ended up here. I first saw this movie when it was originally released, so it had been a while, but the one thing that has stuck with me is the memory of not liking it very much. So after catching the last part of it on AMC, I brought it up on Netflix and watched it through so I could give it a new honest review. What I had remembered still rang true.  I love John Carpenter movies, so it was with disheartening that this one fell flat. This movie is like an instance when all of the wrong things come together at once. All of the wrong actors were chosen and the budget appears to have been really low. Christopher Reeve does his best to carry this movie along, but even he should not have been cast for this particular role. Mark Hamil is the creepiest priest ever and Kirstie Alley is as horrible and unconvincing as she is in just about every role she plays. The woman who plays the priest's wife is better suited for a comedy role. Watch the scene when they're gathered together like angry villagers with torches and you'll see what I mean. The school custodian was made to be the stereotypical closet mumbling drunk as with every movie that has one.  I believe it's the little things, the attention to detail that can make or break a movie which is another problem with this. This was filmed as if it was a Lifetime movie, and everyone knows how terrible those are. For instance, when the entire town blacks out, it shows half of them lying comfortably with their heads resting on one outstretched arm. When the fellow in the truck that drives back into the "hot" area at the beginning swerves to miss a truck and blacks out, one shot shows him passed out, then another shot shows the truck clearly empty, then before he crashes, he's there again. The children's acting is just ok, but even that is almost forgivable. Even though the children are supposed to be emotionless and clone like,for the life of me I don't understand why in the world would they all have the same haircut. Why were only 10 children conceived when the town is full of women? Why does the one stillborn missing child look like a leftover alien prop from the X files?  This film falls into what I consider John Carpenter's dark days, where he was either under budgeted or was lost in his film direction like "In The Mouth of Madness", which is may be his worst film ever. The best part of the whole movie for me is Carpenter's cameo at the gas station pay phone around the eight minute mark.

Scientifically Possible Good film with a scientifically feasible experiment of a couple of lesbians having their stem cells transformed in spermatozoa and have their own genetical children. It touched both the ethical and human part of such an issue with realistic optimism. I liked the family members of both ladies in the couple. One of them reminded me so much of my mother. Nothing was spared. Lighted hearted to the end.

RENT ONLY HUMORLESS SALESMAN DO NOT RENT OR BUY IF YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY!!  It is NOT FUNNY!!!  Will is a salesman who HIT rock BOTTOM one day only to find out that you can HIT EVEN FURTHER.  This is a DRAMA not a COMEDY!!  It has a very slow pace and is completely different from any movie Will has ever played and you may NOT like it if you are seeking FUNNY Will.  It was SAD but worthwhile to see if your ARE NOT LOOKING to crack your sides.  There are some moments and the movie appears to be genuine and certainly has some heartfelt moments.  I liked it because it I GOT IT!!  I can see WILL without LMAO.  The questions is CAN YOU???  People who I feel should really see this movie are people who like dramas, underdogs and those experiencing an INCREDULOUS DOWNFALL.....Salesmen(women), People who have been treated unfairly, and those who continue to BE GOOD no matter their hardships.  Oh and all those people who know people who are going through a 'thing', watch this movie with them with fair warning ....................IT's Memorable but NOT FUNNY.  Well, it has it's moments and some are VERY TOUCHING.  SEE 1st, Don't BUY.  BUY only afterwards, it may be WORTHWHILE.....  ENJOY!!

MY GRADE: B minus to B. This picture has a suitable enough tale (especially if you ignore a few holes) but is something you see more for the special effects and archetypes.  The "Big Three", Zeus (Lian Neeson) and Hades (Ralph Fiennes) and Poseidon (Danny Huston), are trying to stop their father, Cronos, from coming out of captivity and basically taking over the world. It seems like an easy enough task but then Zeus is betrayed and the walls of Tarterus (which hold Cronos captive) begin to waver and monsters are unleashed. Wouldn't you know it but a two headed chimera shows up in Perseus' village. What were the possibilities? Maybe they're attracted to demigods just like in the "Percy Jackson" novels.  Anyway, as the world begins to unravel Perseus is called up to be a hero again and he and some others seek out to find Hephaestus. Princess Andromeda, now a warrior woman, assists.  What follows is predictable but again this is film you see for the special effects, not the story. Watch it for the battles and the mythological monsters.  A third installment is planned and that shouldn't be a surprise since the budget was $150M and it made a bit over $300M at the Box Office.  STORY/PLOTTING/EDITING: B minus; CHARACTERS/DIALOGUE: C plus; SPECIAL EFFECTS/CGI: B to B plus; ACTION SCENES: B; OVERALL GRADE: B minus to B; WHEN WATCHED: mid August 2012.

Not bad, but you've seen many of these stories since in better versions. &lt;strong>Dead of Night&lt;/strong> (Alberto Cavalcanti, et al., 1945)  I've spent months studiously avoiding writing a &lt;em>Dead of Night&lt;/em> review, because I'm at a loss what to say about it. I've never been a big fan of Ealing (compare Alexander MacKendrick's work when he was an Ealing guy to what he was able to produce in Hollywood--one of the very few examples of Hollywood importing a director and actually getting him to produce better work than he did overseas), but I'd heard enough about &lt;em>Dead of Night&lt;/em> over the past thirty-odd years that I figured I needed to give it a try. To my surprise, it wasn't half bad, and thus my confusion.  &lt;em>Dead of Night&lt;/em>, an anthology film, was trotted out in order to show off the talents of four of Ealing's rising directorial stars: Cavalcanti (&lt;em>Went the Day Well?&lt;/em>), Robert Hamer (&lt;em>Kind Hearts and Coronets&lt;/em>), Charles Crichton (&lt;em>A Fish Called Wanda&lt;/em>), and Basil Dearden (&lt;em>Victim&lt;/em>). The four of them film six stories, all told (including the linking narrative, about a guy whose recurring dream seems as if it's coming true, which incites the other guests to tell the movie's tales), from writers like H. G. Wells and E. F. Benson (all uncredited, natch).  The linking narrative involves an architect (&lt;em>The Day of the Triffids&lt;/em>' Mervyn Johns) who goes off to a country house, where despite a distressing sense of &lt;em>deja vu&lt;/em>, he is encouraged to stay by the guests, who alternately encourage him to fight against feeling as if he's bound by the rules of a dream he had just like this and tell tales of their own supernatural experiences.  None of these things are overly scary, especially these days, and you've seen most of them done better (a few were reprised quite well in &lt;em>Twilight Zone&lt;/em> episodes, for example), but it's a well-made film, and an extremely stylistically coherent one for being the work of four directors; the only other anthology film I can think of that has this much stylistic integrity despite being the work of multiple directors is 2005's &lt;em>Rampo Noir&lt;/em>. These days it's more worth seeing for the quality of acting and direction than it is for any stray scares that may come along, but of all the Ealing movies I've seen, this is the best. ***

Just another action-"like" movie I must admit that I am fond of Stallone's movies. Not all but few. The same applies for Stone's. I am not going to discuss or criticize the plot, play and atmosphere of the movie. After all too many people had already done that. All I have to say is why a mid 90's movie is presented in 4:3 format on DVD? I just cannot get it.  Enjoy!

Costumes were great I was not disappointed with the historical correctness of the clothing.  The costumes were great.  However, some of the actors and their story lines were boring and sub-par.  Ending was like a dangling rope.

Good movie. Young Elizabeth Blair and her sister Mary live at a orphanage. Their parents were killed in a automobile accident. A Mr Morgan likes Elizabeth and her sister and wants to adopt them. But he did not want Mary and Elizabeth to know. After pretending he was watching Mary and her sister for his friend Hiram Jones Mary and Mr Morgan fall in love. And they live "Happily ever after."

Some good performances from the kids The kids they chose for this film were great and held their own among the adult cast members.  There is some rather bloody stuff here, with the kids becoming killers and not realizing it or being able to help it.  I just wish we had known a bit more about how they got infected and how others were getting it too. This is never explained.  Is it happening everywhere?

Amusing Enough For Youngsters Story Recap: Mr. Popper (Carrey) grows up with an absentee, explorer dad, so he has failed at his own marriage and attentions to a pouty teenage daughter and easygoing pre-teen son. He has, however, succeeded as a high powered real estate developer with designer apartment and ever-present, British assistant who unconciously alliterates her every utterance.  When Popper inherits six penguins, sent by his recently-deceased father from Antarctica, he regains the affections and attention of his estranged family as he turns his slick life and apartment into a snowy playground for the little scene-stealers.  He must defend the tv-watching critters from a slightly evil zookeeper, and he must close on a big real estate deal to keep his job. No plot really matters here: the sight gags are enough....at least for young children.  My 6 and 8 year old granddaughters laughed hysterically at every penguin sequence which is just about every scene.  There is only gentle humor in this movie....no real vitriole or despair.  The kids, thankfully, are not the usual smart alecs, and the ex-wife is a sweetheart, clearly eager to repair the marriage. I think you will enjoy watching your young children enjoy this, and get a few laughs yourself.  You really can't resist the penguins' antics.

Detailed documentary but don't don't expect to hear or see Whitney's performances Starting from her birth and early childhood, Whitney Houston's life - the highs and the infamous lows- are chronicled. Some of those who knew her are interviewed. If you are looking for biographical info that isn't just glossy and full of praise, this film provides that info: how she was surrounded by music at church and at home, her famous relatives, being groomed for success by Clive Davis, and more.  So what won't you find?  There aren't recordings of her songs here, not even as background music for parts of this documentary. There IS one sad partial performance of  Whitney singing a broken rendition of Jesus Loves Me shortly before her death. So if you want to see or hear her incredible voice you'll need to look elsewhere.  There ARE some very early photos of her and the interviews and opinions of some who knew her or wrote about her as music critics or for magazines, online publications, and newspapers. The biographical info seems solid and well-researched.  Some sections did seem overly long. I wasn't particularly interested in watching endless debates about whether Clive Davis should have had his annual pre-Grammy party hours after Houston died, even as she lay upstairs in the same hotel (her body wasn't removed until later).   Mention the debate? Fine. But more of this film could have been focused on other aspects of Houston's life.  Other than that, however, and the obvious omission of Houston's performances, this is an informative biographical film.

Ninjette Triple Threat With the boxed set entitled "The Ninja-Thon Collection" - Switchblade DVD authoring has provided a (reasonably priced!) nice little 3 pak of female ninja themed tales - each on its' own separate disc!  Martial Arts purists may be a little disappointed in the  `martial action' aspects of these 3 flix, but fans of naked Japanese girlz  hamming it up in Ninja-gear will doubtless find their wishes fulfilled!  The `action' in all of these little `kunoichi' offerings is definitely skewed to the erotic side and features lots of interesting little `kinks' to lift the ero-elements above the mundane.  Although there are some thematic similarities in all 3 movies, there is no interconnection of the plots - each story and the characters portrayed are unique in themselves.  "Ninja She-Devil"  provides the most pulchritudinous of the Ninja-ettes in actress Yuma Asami.  As `kunoichi-philes' know - ninja maidens possess certain `sex powers' that often give them an edge over their opponents - this film's heroine has a particularly bizarre one:  the `transport power" which allows her to `carry the seed' of a man for up to 7 days and transmit it to another woman!  Esoteric as this `power' may be it becomes the focal plot point for this film as the female ninja is conscripted to carry the `seed' of a dying warlord to his distant mistress so that they can produce an heir.  Needless to say, her `trip' isn't smooth!  This flik has the `softest' of the erotic scenes - mostly built around the `transmission' and `delivery' of `the seed'!  "I Was A Teenage Ninja" has more `mystical/magical' elements within its' contents and the most complex of the plot-lines.  The super cute teen ninja (Saki Ninomiya) has a mysterious `Christian' background that plagues her with guilty feelings as she carries out numerous kills at her `master's' bidding - until one of her designated victims presents a startling revelation about her past.  The sex gets a little wilder in this film with more of an emphasis on girl/girl encounters.  "Ninjaken: The Naked Sword"  rounds out the trio and it is the kinkiest of the batch in both plot and ero-action.  While on a mission to dispatch a rival war-lord, kunoichi `Asa' is wounded and ends up in a Buddhist convent to recuperate. Unfortunately for her though, it turns our that the `convent' is actually a `front' for a female slavery ring and our poor ninjette is subjected to rigorous erotic `conditioning' in order to make her appealing for a slave auction.  Throughout this flik our heroine (played by perky Kaede Matsushima) finds herself in bondage a lot - being groped by the bad guys - until she `plays her aces' in the final reel!  All of these `movies' are shot direct-to -video affairs with a typically short runtime of about 75 min each.  The cinematography is pretty decent and the productions values are `sparse' but OK for the quality of the general product - which is decidedly sex-ploitational. That said - the primary selling features of this set are the generous doses of nudity and sex scenes portrayed, and in that department all 3 deliver pretty nicely! While not total `knock-outs' - all of the actresses featured in the films are plenty attractive and spend more time out of their ninja-suits than in them.  The sex scenes are (of course) all relatively soft-core simulated with no `full nudity' but also no annoying fogging' block-outs.  I found that the 235 odd minutes required to sit thru them all whizzed by fairly effortlessly. I'd likely even give them all more than a single viewing - light weight fare but worth a look if U R into this particular sub-genre of Asian cinemarotica..

Strong subject, great deal of violence, predictable This movie is set in an Irish institution for delinquent children in the 1930s.  Many of the children are very young, so it's hard to imagine why they were incarcerated.  The Catholic men running the facility were made out to be monsters -- the head person was sadistically violent and his aide was a pedophile.  The plot is that a good, non-Catholic man comes to teach there and tries to defend the kids.  It is very clear that the head person is going to eventually beat one of the kids to death, and it's pretty clear which one it will be.  The violence is extreme and hard to watch, as is the sodomy of a young child.  The performances are very good, but the editing is poor, jumping around so that it's hard to follow the story - there must have been explanatory parts cut to shorten the movie.  Also, there is never any rational given as to why the head master so enjoys beating the kids.  NOTE:  this is not a movie for pre-adolescent children.

Good, but didn't live up to the hype If I could have avoided all of the hype that's been buzzing about over Black Swan, I would have. It's just that with this film being up for so many awards, it's been absolutely impossible to avoid all of the people gushing "this movie is so awesome- Portman is amazing!" Unfortunately this just didn't fully live up to the hype for me.  The movie's story is a good one, with Portman playing a beautiful & talented ballerina who may or may not be getting harassed by a more talented peer. When the suspense does kick in, it's a very good film. However, for every good moment of suspense there's just as many where not much really happens & I sort of sat around waiting for anything, something to occur to help move the plot along. Portman does do a wonderful job with the film & when the movie hits its high notes it's a very well done film. It's just that there's too many moments where nothing happens & the film just gets a little repetitive at times. The movie is almost 2 hours long but felt more like 3, but not in a good way.  I do have to say one thing about the film- the ending is incredibly well done & is truly the highlight of the movie. I just wish that it didn't feel like it took so long to get to it. The choreography is also something to be admired & like I said above, when the movie gets into it's groove the suspense & tragedy really does hit you pretty hard. I also have to admire Winona Ryder's role in this film- she plays a ballerina past her prime that loses everything to Portman's character & she does an awesome job of it.  Maybe it's all of the hype that ruined the experience for me- I just kept expecting it to be this amazing experience & perhaps later on down the road I'll have a better time rewatching it. For now, though I have to say that this film will really only be appreciated by a certain group of people. Those who are going in hopes of it being some high tension film or a movie where something happens all the time will be highly disappointed.

Blu Review 51 - 2012 Zombie Apocalypse 2012 Zombie Apocalypse Blu-ray Review  Distributor: The Asylum Home Entertainment (US)  After the success of George Romero's Dawn of the Dead and Lucio Fulcis Zombie in the 1970's the movie industry of the time decided zombie films were the next big thing and released countless movie imitations all of varying quality. Well, it seems as though history has repeated itself, after Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead remake proved that zombies could still be cool we were once again inundated by numerous zombie chillers again of varying quality. The latest one being the made for TV effort 2012 Zombie Apocalypse.  There really isn't a great deal to say about this one as its a familiar story and something we have all seen before with a group of survivors trying to cross a zombie waste land to find passage to a safe haven. That being said, the acting is reasonable throughout and for once the characters don't seem to deliberately place themselves in mortal danger whenever they have the opportunity. The only real gripe to be found here is some pretty shocking CGI effects which really stand out from the picture (probably even more so on Blu-ray) The story however moves along at a steady pace and is ultimately entertaining enough for what it is, just don't expect anything different.  Released region free on Blu-ray by Asylum Home Entertainment, you have to bear in mind that this was originally a made for TV movie when critiquing the quality of print. Presented in a 1080p 1.85:1 transfer surprisingly the level of detail on display is actually quite good, colours are more than adequate and black levels hold a moderate amount of depth. With no real visible print damage on display the transfer is actually a lot better than it might have been especially considering the low budget roots of the film.  Audio is presented in Dolby Digital 5.1 and again does a reasonable job providing clear dialogue and a certain amount of bass to the proceedings. Admittedly this is never going to be a reference quality disc and your rear surround speakers will be left feeling a little redundant by the end of the movie however overall there are no real complaints regarding the audio track. Also included is a 2.0 stereo track however the 5.1 option seems the better of the two.  Extra features are represented by a making of featurette and gag reel footage. The featurette consists mainly of  cast/crew interview footage and some behind the scenes takes involving zombie make up effects and is certainly worth having if however a little short, running at just under 5 minutes. There is also a handful of trailers for about 8 other movies in an attempt to persuade you into further purchases.  All things considered, this is certainly far from the best zombie movie ever made however it is also nowhere near the worst either. At a relatively cheap import price it is certainly worth an afternoon's viewing although the story has since been done so much better in The Walking Dead television series and it is extremely difficult not to draw direct comparisons throughout the film. This one does however have one last (love it or hate it) surprise in store for the viewer with the final minutes of the film being nothing short of unique which is ultimately quite a task for this type of movie these days. Without spoiling the moment, lets just say the characters have more than just the regular zombies to worry about this time around.  Blu Review Obscura - for reviews of those less mainstream Blu-ray releases - find us at [...] and on Facebook

Distributing Topic and Intend This movie isn't really scary or gory. It's just disturbing to many people. Most people will find this movie really great for what they show in this movie, but for the same exact reason many people will hate that part too. The subject involves two girls, 13, 14 years old getting murdered. This is a sensitive issue because of the young girls ages.  Spolier Alert below!!!  Since, it's about young girls and actually seeing violent rape scene and buried alive - people find that very graphic and disturbing to view. People against this movie say that they could had just wrote in all that graphic stuff into the movie and not actually show it. People for this movie will agree with the movie for drilling the issue into people minds.  I agree with both camps of thought. I give this movie 3 stars.

a good popcorn movie. I ordered this from amazon a few days ago and recieved it today, its a fun "popcorn thriller" although i recall several scenes from the theatre that i didnt find on this DVD version  (like when all the new members get there new cars, in the theatrical version ther was also a Ducati motorcycle sitting with the cars) this was completely missing from the DVD, so there abviously been some cutting.. still a enjoyable film,

Cameron Does Billy Bob You can nutshell this as "Bad Santa" on estrogen.  No surprises here.  This is a catalogue of rude behavior that doesn't include Cameron Diaz soiling herself or seducing her students.  Diaz is adequate, not remarkable, in the title role.  Jason Segel is essentially wasted as the gym teacher and frustrated suitor for Diaz's affections.  Justin Timberlake, though, continues to impress as a nerdy substitute teacher.  Lucy Punch is a real find as Diaz's squirrely adversary.  Regardless, if you want to see women behaving badly watch a repeat of "Ab-Fab".

Predux, Redux Okay, okay I know this one is a crime noir by Fritz Lang and I will bow down, bow down profusely, over his use of interesting cinematic techniques, his photography, and his attention to detail that were his hallmark traits.  That done though what is there to yell about in this noir? Sure there is a femme fatale, sort of, played here by Joan Bennett who whatever her ruby red-lipped, bedazzled charms for 1940s male audiences, or female audiences for that matter, does not compare, compare at all, to such femmes as Lauren Bacall, Rita Hayworth, or Jane Greer.  And sure there is a murder, sort of, committed by a learned New York professor of psychology, no less, played by, well played by, Edward G. Robinson, better known for his great 1930s gangsta movies. And there is a blackmailer, sort of, to complicate the plot, played by Dan Duryea.  And there is a circling around the wagons to find the murderer by law enforcement, headed by clever, sneaky clever Raymond Massey. That is natural for this genre. But didn't I already, sort of, review this film before under the name Scarlet Street with this same cast of characters. Fritz Lang directed that one as well and provided us with his hallmark traits. And the crimes were real there, if not rightly solved.   Maybe I had better give a little plot to show what I mean. The good professor, the good middle-aged professor, (Edward G. Robinson) is having something like a mid-life crisis as his wife and kids leave town, New York town, to get away from the bustle of the city. On the way to his Mayfair swell club (on a 1940s professor's salary?) he is entranced by a portrait of a beautiful woman  in an art gallery window (hence the title of the film). Well one thing leads to another and while he is a little drunk after dinner he has what turns out to be an adventure, a theoretical adventure, which will have him facing the gallows before dawn. Seems our lady of the window (Ms. Bennett) appears in "real" life, is in distress due to some caddish lover, and is in need of our professor's services as her gallant knight. In short, he kills, kills in self-defense really, the cad.  Of course, under the circumstances, they have try to commit the perfect crime by covering up, covering up as it turns out in such a poor way that any school boy could sent them to the electric chair on day one of the investigation and have time for lunch. To add to their cover-up distress woes, a blackmailer (Brother Duryea), a worldly-wise (at least in comparison to their amateurish antics) wants dough for his silence. Ya, I know, the suspension of disbelief part associated with any movie just doesn't quite make it.  And it doesn't have to because at the end the good professor merely had just too much to drink. So back to the drawing board on this one, except now we get our noses rubbed into the theme song of this genre. Crime doesn't pay, awake or asleep. Sorry Fritz but you will always have Metropolis as your immortal work.

ok I mean it was ok. Entertaining for as long as it lasted. Wouldn't watch it again. I hope it's not true :)

A comedy/drama about real life After graduating high school, james has to face the real world when his parents can't afford the college he wants to go to and has to take a summer job. so he applies at adventureland, a dead end job where he meets shady co-workers and this girl who he falls in love with but she has a secret. its a comeing of age story written well, its not laugh out loud funny as this is more of a serious movie with some comedy elements to it. decent movie to catch on tv, no crude humor like most teen comedies out there.

Good for the money. I was weary purchasing this because a lot of the reviews state that the discs skip and it was packaged cheap. I had ordered a series collection before from amazon of a different show and it was packaged smilar and had no problems, so I decided to buy Friends anyway. Most of the discs did work, however there was 2 - 3 episodes that had a bit of skipping. But considering there are 236 episodes plus and maybe two of the episodes didnt work at all and another episode skipped and I only caught half, I mean, probaly still a good deal. Also note that this goes WAY on sale on cyber monday so if want an even better deal, wait til then. We purchased on black friday and then cyber monday came and it was $20 cheaper still! So heads up on that.

A bit disappointing If you are looking for more great examples of Rita's dancing, skip this one.  Of all the films of hers that I have seen this was the only one that I was a bit disappointed with.  It simply didn't measure up to the hype that it was given.

Fairly engrossing The 24th Day follows two men who meet at a bar. One follows the other home, ready for a night of fun, but the other has different ideas. James Marsden plays Dan, a confident movie executive. Scott Speedman is Tom, who is a cook. Directed by and based on a play by Tony Piccirillo, the script wavers between genuinely interesting and over-the-top, as the relationship between Dan and Tom is alternately believable and unrealistic.  The acting is not bad, but it is rather overshadowed by the soap-opera-level production values. Awkward editing, dramatic music, and cryptic flashbacks yank the viewer out of the genuinely tense apartment scenes. The most interesting aspect of the film is the interaction between Dan and Tom. Their characters bring up questions about class differences, honesty, guilt, and denial. And AIDS, and responsibility, and sexual orientation. Dan can be remarkably calm and sassy, while the sad Tom is so obviously unbalanced one wonders why Dan sticks around at first. While this is ultimately a rather poor movie, one has to admire it for trying.

Audio Track is disappointing Saw them on this tour and they were great. This concert is great as well, but the audio track is stereo only. It's a Blu-Ray with a DTS HD-MA STEREO track. Very disappointing on a music disc.

Good time had by all... Ok when I got married I didn't have to go to war with my bestfriend.  This movie was very funny, you can't take it to seriously and I don't believe the director or actors were thinking they would get any sort of awards for this movie. Some movies you just have to sit back with your friends or family and a big bucket of popcorn and enjoy.  For the story, both actresses did a very good job, it's cute and there is always a happy ending right?  I have to say I did enjoy watching the movie, if your a fan of Miss Hathaway or Miss Hudson I thinkk you will enjoy this movie.

Big Surf on North Shore Good DVD in respect to camera work and ability to catch some of the nice big stuff on North Shore.  Great diversion for those like me who spend the winter in snow, sliding down big mountains.  Much rather slide down a big wave.  Worthy adding to a library and helping overcome the cabin-fever that sets in when you're landlocked in the winter.

Surf movie heritage Macgillvray/Freeman set the benchmark for surf movies in the 60's and early 70's.  They helped define an era that was reflective of the social and cultural changes in America through a "surf" filter. Fun, rebellious behavior, more fun and freedom; a soul approach to life that was centered on the rhythms of the ocean is expressed in these important 3 film package for any surf aficionado. "5 Summer Stories" in particular is an important film in that it heralds the changing approach to surfing from flowing on a long board to rip, tear and lacerate on a short board. It also introduces a more global approach to surfing through the radical approach of Shaun Thompson in particular to a parochial laid back California based spirit. Another high light is the surfing of the up and coming Hawaiian surfers of the era that paved the way for todays loose and aggressive style of wave domination. "Free and Easy" and "Sunshine Sea" really are the testing ground for Magillvray/Freeman's form and content. You can see how they develop their camera skills and framing structure watching each of the 3 films. "5 Summer Stories" is the cracker. A really good  compliment to "5 Summer Stories" would be Alby Falzon's "Morning of the Earth" which gives another perspective of a similar time in other surfing centers around the globe; Australia and the discovery of Bali as a surf haven.

Sadly Contrived and Gimmicky When I saw George C. Scott's name my expectations for the movie increased, usually Scott turns in a convincing performance and this was what I expected from him this time too. Although his presence made a contribution to the overall effect, it could not help pull this one out of the fire. There are altogether too many contrived "scary moments" in this one used to influence viewer perceptions and try and create the necessary atmosphere of mystery and suspense.  The characters are all too frequently overdone with exaggerated responses that really go over the top. There are a few good moments but they are more than offset by the larger number of overdone, overacted moments. I watched the entire movie with some interest but found the exceedingly contrived ending to be almost unbearable. I will not say more but heartily recommend watching this movie before you buy it. I do not regret having seen it once but have no desire to see it again.

Really (juvenile) funny! Do not watch this with your kids! An OK movie like all the movies of the series with a lot of juvenile, funny moments. Cannot watch it with your kids. Shows what really happens to people who don't get a real life and keep going to this totally unnecessary high school reunions. Get a life and put high school behind you. Stop thinking about the past and look into the future. Move on!

Men who hate women Swedish movies always had quite a reputation for being "loose" and "liberal". This one is no exception. In fact, it takes Swedish sin to new hights. Sado-masochistic violence, sadistic rape, explicit sex between a middle-aged man and a twenty-something woman, and a serial killer who makes Hannibal Lector look like a joke.  Yepp, that's "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" alright, based on the best-selling novel by the late Stieg Larsson. In Swedish, both the novel and the film are called "Men who hate women". Larsson was a left-wing activist and feminist, and probably believed in various conspiracy theories as well. I never met him, but I've met people who have. (One of them used to write reviews here at Amazon years ago.)  The heroine of Larsson's story, Lisbeth Salander, is a young woman with Asperger syndrome and a background of mental illness. Her story isn't fully revealed until the sequels, but we do learn that she's a survivor of sexual abuse, a computer hacker and something of a feminist vigilante. In "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", she teams up with a reporter named Mikael Blomkvist to investigate a cold murder case which turns out to have staggering implications.  I don't deny that the acting is superb, and most of the actors are well known in Sweden. I'm not sure how much the dialogue looses in English translation, but believe me, it certainly works in Swedish!  Still, I don't like the movie. It's too violent and bizarre, and the character of Lisbeth Salander is simply unbelievable. Of course, feminist vigilantes *are* unbelievable (there are very few of them around!), but Salander is just too much.  Unfortunately, however, the dark plot isn't completely unrealistic, not after the Fritzl case in Austria and other cases of children kept in captivity. The two other Larsson movies, with their conspiracy theories, are far less believable than "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo".  I therefore have very mixed feelings about this one. But since it's Swedish and well acted, I nevertheless give it three stars.

Too bad The spectacle for the taping of The Phantom of the Opera is visually great, however Karim Raminloo, although he shows his effort and stron performance, his tendency to make a hissing sound between breaths can be a minor distraction/annoyance.

Good John Cassavetes was a filmmaker who made his independent films in two primary modes: brilliant character-driven masterpieces like Faces, The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie, and Opening Night, or interesting character-driven mediocrities with `moments,' like Shadows, A Woman Under The Influence, and Gloria. His 1970 film, Husbands, however, falls somewhere in between. It's nowhere near a great film, for it is poorly edited and, surprisingly, poorly scripted, most of the time. But, there are certain scenes that are not overly long and utterly pointless. And in these scenes lie the seeds for what could have been a brilliant, if not great, film. As it is, though, the 142 minute DVD version of the film, released by Columbia and Sony Pictures, plays out more like the opening scene of the film that came before it, Faces. That film had an opening scene of drunken revelry and misery of the sort never before committed to celluloid. The difference is that it, for all its greatness and minor flaws, ran only about 20 minutes into that film. Now, extend that scene and try to cobble and sustain a film narrative about seven times its length, and the problems with Husbands becomes obvious. It simply needed the touch of a good editor.    Proof of this claim comes, in fact, from the brief final scene of the film where the character played by Cassavetes himself (Gus) returns home after a drunken weekend in London, England, with two other buddies mourning the loss of a fourth pal, to confront his crying daughter and mischievous son in his driveway, as they call on there never seen mom to tell her that daddy is home to take his lumps. This scene is poetic, spare, and filled with realism. By contrast, far too many scenes in Husbands are bloated, overly long, pointless, and prosaic- in the worst sense. The whole film opens with still photos of four fortyish male friends, then cuts to the funeral of one of them, Stu (in the photos portrayed by Cassavetes' wife, Gena Rowlands' real life brother, David Rowlands). Interestingly, the putative main character of the film makes his exit from the film at this point. Another good touch, in fact, is that, save for the wife of Harry (Ben Gazzara)- who works at an advertising agency, in a brief scene of domestic violence, no other wives make an appearance. The two other surviving members of the male quartet are Gus (Cassavetes himself)- a dentist, and Archie (Peter Falk)- profession unknown.  No amount of rewatching can exorcise the screenplay's flaws which make this film merely a good and interesting one, rather than a masterpiece. Far too much testosterone in place of intelligence, and a too easy reliance on melodrama over real drama make the film something that a great film never is: soap operatic. A better editing job would have allowed the film to have been shaped into a coherent whole, rather than an often formless mess. The old maxim about films being made or broken in the editing room seems to have been uttered for films like this. Husbands is one of those films that, in a sense, makes one wish for what could have been, but is good enough that what is can satisfy, at least to a point. Beyond the point, though, the sky is how you make it.

NOT SO SWIFT Okay what did you expect? I didn't expect much, but they turned it into a chick flick. This has been the way of Hollywood. Vampires and werewolves: chick flick. Red Riding Hood: chick flick. The sinking of the Titanic: chick flick. Red Sox Nation: chick flick. Shouldn't us guys get a warning label? Please Please, leave Star Trek alone!!!  The product placement in the movie was higher than normal, Coke, Red Bull, Cremora, Planet Hollywood to name a few. If we list other movies, we would have to use scientific notaion.  Jack Black, mail room boy,  has a crush on the travel editor at the newspaper where he is employed. He ends up writing a story for her which lands him trip to the Bermuda Triangle. This in turn sends him to Lilliput where he ends up helping a lowly commoner in love with the princess. Not too difficult to figure out the symbolism.  Jack has the Lilliputians construct items similar to our own. While there is humor in this, as well humor in Jack's fascination with Star Wars and Guitar Hero. However, the movie lacks the biting political satire of the original tale, something they could of done if they had a half decent script writer.  No nudity, unless you count Jack Black's butt crack, no sex, no f-bombs. Jack crudely puts out a fire through urination. Looks like it was made for tweens.

Passion We had this for our young grandchildren. They enjoyed it but was a little too long for their attention span

Good movie The movie was good, not as good as the first but still very entertaining. The quality was excellent. Played smooth no loading issues.

Cute but Predictable There were things I loved and things I hated.  I loved the characters. Alex O'Louglin's character is ridiculously adorable. He is sweet and funny and, unfortunately, a guy that we wish we could all catch but few could get. Even Jennifer Lopez is surprisingly amusing. I didn't have high hopes for her, but was was better than I expected.  I hated the plot. There were several things that were just so out of the blue and ridiculous that I just rolled my eyes and stopped watching for a few minutes. There was a definite lack of realism here. Only once or twice did I laugh because of the actual plot. Everything seems  very much blown out of proportion.  I was also rather disappointed with the ending. Terribly cliche and lame.  The characters were the only thing that made the movie worth watching.

John Hughes style teen comedy - but with twenty-somethings Pretty decent John Hughes style teen comedy set in the Eighties (but with twenty-somethings instead of teens - not that that changes much.)

only watch for the queen There's an awful snoozefest in the middle where she's not in the movie.  She is the only reason to watch the movie.  They should have given her more screentime because she's beautiful,has great screen presence, and is a great actress.

Wish it had more music and/or sound effects This is a cute movie, but you should know that Bing & Bong don't talk and there is a narrator...my daughter lost interest quickly.  Probably suitable for 4 and older, but the attention span of anyone younger is probably minimal.  Still cute :)

Not Quite What I Thought It Was - But Is A Good Documentary The DVD is not quite what I thought it was - but it is a good documentary.  For whatever reason, I assumed that this would a movie/story based on the DVD title/theme.  Instead it is more like a talking point.  I must say that it was rather informative for me and it reinforced some thoughts I've had about the slave culture in those times.

Cute Movie The movie was cute.  There were a lot of words and references that the kids had no clue about.  However they stayed entertained most of the movie.  They said they liked it afterwards. My kids are both girls, 3 and 6.  My 6 year old did seem distracted once or twice, but my 3 year old was paying attention the whole time, even though I know she didn't understand quite a few parts. Overall a decent family movie, but not much to make it stand out other than a happy ending you knew was coming.

Stop Looking for 9's I think the game is an interesting concept, but the acting and story line left something to be desired. It was a rough and confusing story line that kept you wanting to just say no to 9.

nothing new, but not bad If you were expecting an action packed ape attack like it was advertised, then you will be let down. The action sequences are few are far between, and are VERY short. This is not the story of Apes taking over in a Rebellion against humans. It's the story of an exceptionally smart Ape (chimp) who finds his place in the world. If you liked A.I., you will like this. If you are expecting Transformers, Terminator, ID4, etc. don't waste your time. The Movie poster, where you see an angry monkey, and a burning bridge, and a horde of angry gorillas, should instead be a monkey looking longingly toward a forest from a fenced in yard. This would better depict the actual movie. The other gripe I have with this film, is there is nothing new in here. Everything is something taken from other films. The apes escaping is from I-Robot, the bridge scene is from one of the giant spider films, there are many hints of Deep Blue sea in here as well.  We have all seen King Kong, so we seen CG primates before, so.. nothing really new there either. The other big problem I had with the film was that it seems like it was made for the PG or PC crowd. The apes (with very few exceptions) don't kill people. There are SO many scenes where people should be pounded into pudding, or limbs ripped off, or impaled by spears, etc, but nothing like that happens. They seem to have taken the A-Team rule book of violence. Harry Potter has more violence and death. Again: It's not a bad film. Not a bad waste of 2 hours, but not the action packed ape take-over it was advertised to be, and not close to the feeling of the original. It's one of those re-invisioned timeline kind of film.

Ok for film buffs but for others....? The cinematography is fine black and white, and historically this film is interesting.  But as a movie to watch for enjoyment, not really.  Could benefit from some extreme editing.  At times it was so tedious, I thought if someone didn't get murdered soon, I'd do it myself.

UltraViolet Copy.. The Green Lantern movie is pretty good. What I didn't like so much is downloading the UltraViolet digital copy. You've to install Flixter to your computer to able to download the movie and with restrictions. They should put a digital copy disc with a code to access the disc instead of downloading.

Great original film, but the packaging lets down this set The original film is great, the transfer is also good - The film on it's own is a 5 star. The other films don't quite live up to the original, but are fun none the less.  What is disappointing with this set and hence only the 3 stars 1) The lack of digital copies for the latter two films if you see the Toy Story or Cars sets, all films in the set came with digital copies - This might not be an issue to everyone, but in this digital age, putting the films on a iPad et al, is very useful for trips. 2) The way the discs were packaged, they were `clumped together' and sitting vertically in the `drum'. Not only could this be damaging to the discs over time, this was a complete waste of space.

Scarface? Scarresolution I've had a lot of recent HD, Blu-ray version letdowns and this is certainly one of them, I won't review the movie because I assume any would be buyer is already a fan, but you should check this out since it does come with the old B&W classic original. Basically many of the scenes simply look BLURRY and out of focus, it's unavoidably noticeable and made me CRINGE in agony upon seeing such scenes in the movie. To me this is an overall letdown and I don't know if they can put out a better version... maybe it's just the nature of the source material that cannot be enhanced without also enhancing original problems with those certain camera shots?

meh watchable.  nothing special though.  seems to have been a cash grab at the show's peak.  didn't further the story enough for me even though several significant events occur.

Its Sahara...but not really Sahara This has been a difficult movie to find over the years so nice to see it available and in great quality as well. Personally I dont think you can compare it to the original which was an absolute masterpiece but its a decent film in its own right and well worth having in your collection.

Whupass on the titans I really enjoyed this lighthearted action movie.  It's a fanciful contemporary spin on the myth of how the three brothers Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades, long after having dethroned and permanently immobilized their titanic father Cronos, have become less powerful due to the declining devotions of the people. "Not without reason" says Perseus sarcastically when he's visited by Zeus with this complaint.  Now here you have the first departure from the Tradition: per Hesiod, the declining sacred religious devotions of people signalled the fall of the golden age into silver, then bronze and iron.  IE, devolutionary descent into skepticism and religious non-observance harms the people rather than the gods.  But of course we live in the modern secular "kali yuga" ourselves and so the common inverse of the Tradition principle is the pretext instead.  Well that's enough semiotic interpretation there.  Back to the story.  So anyhow Old Cronos is about to bust loose, and hence the need for Zeus to enlist demigod assistance to whup the titans up oncet 'gin.  I wasn't overmuch bothered by this modern heresy against the ancient polytheistic Tradition, since the movie immediately presents not as grand tragedy, but as  fun and humorous.  Rather than the pretentious desacralized "Troy" of diretor Wolfgang Peterson, which plods unhappily along without the gods, as a kind of secular revisionist unsuccessful stab at improving the Illiad.  The all star cast was not wasted on this film.  Liam Neeson makes a fine Jove, a wee bit humbler than one imagines Zeus Olympias, but it works in the story.  Ralph Fiennes really steals the show as a conflicted Hades who goes the wrong way due to his ressentiment of his brothers, then turns back to the right path in time to save the day.  Unexpectedly, Vulcan has a big role in this film, which I found very imaginative, depicting him as a kind of skinny elder tinkering sage more so than the jealous cripple often conjured by the Hellenic myths.  Sam Worthington perplexes as Perseus a bit, overplaying the reluctant hero theme a bit.  I realize he was probably trying to bring value to a simple action role but hey Sam, thats all it really was. The demigod aspect of the character was just backstory.  Rosamund Pike plays an Amazonian Andromeda, all dressed up in a tunica intima and bronze greaves etc, leading the phalanx and so forth.  An even odder twist, but one sense that Hollywood now demands a female presence to fetch in more ticket sales.  She played it well even if it was obligatory and she's easy on the eyes for sure.  The special effects to me here were totally satisfactory and can't really help being besides the point with this series since the original "wrath of the titans" evoked by the title-- the one with Laurence Olivier and Harry Hamlin-- was unforgettable for how cheesy the stop-motion effects seem today.  All in all a good rental for watching with one's teenage kids.  I totally recommend it served up with pizza and beer.

great movie I felt the movie was fun to watch, but Emma Roberts should have push the evenlope a little more , and bring out her sex appeal in the movie like the other actor.

A mixed bag I'm not going to mince words: I was pretty disappointed with this season compared to the first two. It had some pretty clunky writing and some really bad episode ideas. (One involved Threepio and Artoo and their mission to buy a piece of fruit for a senatorial banquet.) In addition, the package is pretty bare-bones. This time there is no concept art booklet, there are five medium-length featurettes instead of a small one for every episode, and the season is contained in a standard clamshell case instead of the beautiful books you got with previous seasons.  All my gripes aside, these episodes still have a distinct Star Wars feel and there is something to be gained by wathing each episode. This definitely isn't one of Lucasfilm's high points but it is worth buying if you want a fun experience in the galaxy far, far away.

I'll never let go; err... Coming into this viewing experience I was expecting brilliance.  Yes, I had read the reviews and I had heard the mixed responses, but truth be told I really expected BRILLIANCE.  Sure, a lot of that comes from the fact that the novel was a stunning portrait of growth and adolescence and life lessons and I was hoping (praying, crossing fingers) that the film would follow suit.  It doesn't quite do that.  The story told is that of a group of clones who grow up with the knowledge that their whole purpose in life is to supply their `originals' with valuable organs at the time needed.  The focal point of the story is on the love triangle that forms between Katie, Ruth and Tommy.  Growing up together at Hailsham, the three friends go through many changes that shape them, for better and worse.  Of course, their life must come to `completion' as they start caring for donors and then eventually donating themselves.  I'm just going to get right into my issues.  I may have actually liked this film a little more had I NOT read the novel, but my biggest pet-peeve here is the fact that the film omits some serious plot embellishments that the novel weaves so beautifully into the prose.  Without those moments, those lost conversations and glances, the film loses a bit of its heartfelt core.  That isn't to say that the film doesn't deliver in the sympathetic department, but the lack of follow-through on some of the plot developments left the film feeling a little thin.  It just doesn't `go there' or at least not `all the way there' like it could have, especially with a subject this controversially intriguing.  While I loved some of the directorial choices (I am not one for narration, but Mulligan's was astonishingly well placed) I found some of the script work to feel rushed and underdeveloped.  There were so many small facets from the novel that were nonexistent here, facets that would have certainly helped flesh out the characters.  Sadly, the rushed feel to the film leaves the ending conclusion feeling uneven.  But, where there are negative things to be said, there are also some positive.  Carey Mulligan makes good on the promise she made with last years `An Education' by delivering a beautifully in tone performance that digs deeper than the script initially allows.  She tries to hand us Katie on a platter, uncovering her darkest secrets, and even though her ending resolutions don't quite feel heavy enough, it is solely the fault of the script and the films direction; not her performance.  Keira Knightley is slightly uneven, but when she delivers she delivers quite nicely (her breakdowns are legitimately felt).  UGH, another pet peeve is the handling of Ruth.  When I read the novel I really felt that Knightley was going to WIN the Oscar because that role was just so baity.  After watching the film it is obvious why she wasn't even in contention this year.  The film fails to really flesh her out the way the novel does.  You interest does not fall on her, like it does when reading the novel.  The film is far fonder of Katie and Tommy.  Speaking of Tommy, Andrew Garfield is astonishingly good here.  This guy, I mean where has he been?  This year is the year of Garfield (that Oscar snub stings more and more every day).  Between this and `The Social Network', he is the highlight of the year for me.  The way he molds Tommy is so effortless, so moving.  It is such a quiet performance, one that is almost unnoticed until that last moment when he just collapses.  That moment on the couch when life leaves him and you see his face turn every shade by the natural one; it is just flawless.  But, enough gushing over a film that just doesn't truly deserve it.  I mean, outside of a beautifully manipulative score (some gawk, but it really works), some intriguing camera work and Garfield's Oscar worthy performance, `Never Let Me Go' fails to make a mark strong enough for us to hold on.  We don't resist letting go; it just seems right.

A good watch I'm not a Godzilla fan, but I am a fan of disaster movies. This movie by no means comes close to topping the list, but it was fun to watch. I own the DVD and Blu-ray, and the first thing I noticed with the blu-ray version is that the deleted scenes were... well, deleted. Maybe I missed it in some menu somewhere, but once you know the deleted scenes, its quite annoying when they aren't there. The picture quality is ok and doesn't seem that much better than the upconverted DVD.

Not Bad It was that bad, honestly.  It was a little heavy on the villians and War Machine deserved a bigger part.  Isn't he a giant part of the story anyway?  Overall, it was a really good film and the possibility of Iron Man 3 is a great idea.

Not how I remembered it when I was younger I bought this movie as part of my Heston collection (Ben Hur, Planet of the Apes, El Cid, Midway, etc) but was disappointed. Heston is great in it and there are many great scenes, but the actor playing Nefertiri is almost comically bad and the special effects fire on the mountain is lame.

So much potential.... What a shame. This movie came so close to being awesome. I'd say the first half of this movie had all the elements to make it a classic B-movie. The effects are amazing. The dragon lore is great. Its like Jaws with dragons. Even Matthew McCaughey was pretty good and could have been a classic film badass. Unfortunately, I think the (lack of)budget showed and too many cooks in the kitchen derailed the second half. The budget could not support large scale dragon vs tank battles so it was a much smaller movie. That could have worked, much like Terminator or Jaws, but the characters are just not developed enough to support a more intimate film. None of the characters are fully formed and it all just kind of fizzles in the end.

daisies the package came sooner than expected. the shows ok, but i bought it more for my wife that loves the show after seeing some at my daughter's apartment when they watched her dvd.

if you enjoyed the first installment you'll probably enjoy Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 If you saw the first Beverly Hills Chihuahua movie, you'll have a good idea what to expect in this straight to DVD sequel. Cute dogs, silly antics, an outrageous plot, and did we mention cute dogs? Lead pooches Papi and Chloe have just gotten married and soon have a brood of five little pups to keep them on their toenails. Dad Papi (voiced perfectly once again by George Lopez) takes it all in stride and every night, with the best of intentions, tells his little ones stories of the Chihuahua warriors of long ago. The only problem is the puppies take the stories literally and get into all sorts of mischief. Poor Papi ends up in the dog house more than once for filling the puppies' heads with grand ideas.  But it's not the dogs that need saving this time around. The parents of Papi's owner Sam are about to be evicted from their beloved home. After several attempts to make things right with the bank, it's not looking good. But when a pack of determined Chihuahuas is on your side, how can you lose?  With the original grossing almost 95 million in 2008, it was at first surprising to see the sequel going straight to DVD. But with little of the same star power attached, it makes sense. At least Papi kept his original voice. Chloe and Delgado did not, though it's not too distracting as their new voices are similar enough. However, it was disappointing to see no human actors reprise their roles from the first film. Susan Blakely takes over for Jamie Lee Curtis as Aunt Viv, but she only appears briefly in one or two scenes. Most of the human acting was actually rather wooden, but there were a few supporting characters who made things interesting, namely Elaine Hendrix as the owner of a snotty French Poodle and the cat loving bank clerk. Also, Morgan Fairchild does justice to a dog show commentator alongside French Stewart.  The best part of the movie was seeing cool German Shepherd Delgado again. The subplot involving his two estranged police dog sons was a nod to every melodramatic father/son movie ever made, but it actually worked here and was a touching addition.  All in all, if you enjoyed the first installment you'll probably enjoy Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2, especially if you're a dog lover or a kid. It's clean entertainment with a good message about love and family. Just don't expect too much, and you'll have an enjoyable family movie night.  --Reviewed by C.J. Darlington for TitleTrakk

The Boy Friend - Restored Version Ken Russell's wildly imagined film version of the musical that introduced Julie Andrews to Broadway and Twiggy to film, The Boy Friend, has been re-released in its full 136 minute version, which was reduced to 1 hour and 38 minutes in its general release, when entire numbers were cut and several shortened, and much of the story didn't make any sense.  When a Hollywood producer, De Thrill, decides to visit a fourth-rate company's production of The Boy Friend at a sparsely attended matinee, the cast and orchestra ham it up, playing directly to him as he re-imagines the numbers as Busby Berkeley extravaganzas, similar to those seen in Forty-Second Street, which this movie parodies.  Twiggy is a delight as the stage manager who goes on when the star, played by an Oscar-winning actress in an unbilled cameo, has an accident.  She and her love interest, Christopher Gable, have some wonderful songs, imaginatively staged, but too many go on and on and need some editing.  A bacchanalian ballet, cut from the wide release of the original, is eight minutes long and hilariously bad but not in a good sense.  Still, the movie has its fun moments, many provided by dancer Tommy Tune, who later starred on Broadway with Twiggy in My One and Only, and some supporting players well-known to fans of British TV and films, among them Barbara Windsor and Murray Melvin.  I'm very happy to have the complete version of the film, though it's more of a curiosity than a terrific film version of a stage musical.

disappointed After all the great reviews I was excited to watch this movie.  I found it rather dull and didn't see the great romance to the degree others did.  It isn't a movie I would watch twice.  Liam did the best job but the actresses, none will stick in my mind as memorable.

Not worth the high price. This is a cute, informative movie and my three boys enjoyed it, but beware it is only 30min and it's pretty much ancient. My thought is, I would only purchase this again if the price were to drop, maybe to $9 or $11 at the most. Or just buy one used and hope it was in decent shape. I paid well over $20 and it's definitely NOT worth that much!

Really only a 2.5 So let me state first that I am a fan of True Blood.  That being said, I prefer the books.  I understand that the show can not be just like the books (though Season 1 came really close) but the books should still be the blue print.  The writers took Maryanne too far and they have gone overboard with Marnie.  I preferred the initial character they laid out for Marnie but by the end of the season she had transformed into the absurd.  The Sookie Stackhouse books are best sellers for a reason.  The show just can not seem to capture the essence of the characters.  Sookie in the book does not act the way they make her in the show.  I don't recall a single time she has dropped the f bomb in the book and she now uses it left and right.  Eric this season was mixed.  He is scallywag in the book that you can't help but love which Alex Skarsgard has done a great job with.  However, the writers are limiting him.  Bill is an ass.  The show has allowed his character to maintain the Southern Gentleman persona which complicates the story line building with Eric.  I do not know if they do this due to the relationship between the actors or what but it is time to show Bill's true colors.  All this crap with Sam is annoying.  Sam is great character and did not deserve having it butchered.  And they took an extreme liberal license when it came to Hotshot and the kidnapping plot with Jason.  I liked the idea of making Jason mature as a deputy but the whole gang rape was too much.   I will give the writers props for two great liberal licenses from the books:Layfette and Jessica.  Layfette was killed off in the first book and it would have been shame to do so in the show.  Lafayette is one of my favorite characters.  I enjoyed his relationship with Jesus and was very upset when they killed him.  Now Jessica is a real treat.  Her character is so multidimensional versuses so many other flat characters in the show.  Her Halloween custom is what fantasies are made of.  Overall, this season was a disappointment with a few characters carrying it through.

Cute story and fun for kids I brought my 6 year old niece to this film and it was a bit adultish for her to get into for the first 20 or so minutes but its a great story and great acting.

Ups and (mostly) Downs of Season 2 (Spoilers) Season One of Glee was amazing. It had humor, it had great songs, and the characters were one of a kind. I assumed that Glee would be able to continue it into Season Two, and in some ways it did. But for the most part, season two was a huge let down compared to the first.  Let's start off with the good things first.  -Naya Rivera's Santana Lopez. This was one of the best things of the season. Though she is in season one, she isn't really developed as she is in season 2. Rivera is phenomenal and delivers an Emmmy performance as the bitchy and misunderstood cheerleader who hates all her fellow Glee Club members, but has a soft spot for them at the same time. She kicks it into high gear especially in the second half of the season where the character struggles with her sexuality. Her performance in some ways rivals Jane Lynch's Sue Sylvester. She is truly awesome at it, and is this years MVP of the cast. If there is anything worth watching this season, it is her character.  -Jane Lynch. Nuff' said.  -New Characters. Glee brings in a bunch of new characters to mix things up. This includes Sam (Chord Overstreet), the new Glee Club member. He is funny, and is fresh air. There is also fan favorite Blaine (Darren Criss). A gay character brought in to connect with Kurt. There is also Dr. Carl, played by John Stamos brought into the Will and Emma conflict. Also including new football Coach Bieste (Dot Marie Jones), new Vocal Adrenaline memeber Sunshine (Charice), her coach Dustin Goosbly (Cheyenne Jackson) and substitute Holly Holiday, played by Gwyneth Paltrow.  -The singing and numbers have gotten bigger. Glee's second season features a wider selection of songs that for the most part are great. The cast has also gotten better especially Monteith. More solo's are spread out, so it is guaranteed no matter who your favorite character is, you will hear them sing. Songs from Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse, Florence and The Machine, Jay-Z, Jason Mraz, Adele, TLC, The Zutons, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars, and many more are featured. Including episode tributes to Fleetwood Mac, Britney Spears, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Original Songs written by the show's writers in two episodes. The music this season will not disappoint.  -The Return of old characters. Characters  from season 1 come back for season 2, including April Rhodes, (Kristen Chenowith), Jesse St. James (Jonathon Groff) Sandy Ryerson (Stephen Tobolowski), Burt Hummel (Mike O' Malley) Carol Hudson (Romy Rosmount). As for their classmates, there is Dave Karofsky, Lauren Zizes, Becky, Azimio, and Jewish nerd Jacob.  While those are some great things of the season, there are more bad things unfortunately.  - The Warblers. During the season, the character of Kurt transfers to Dalton Academy, an all boys school who compete against New Directions in Sectionals and Regionals. While at first this seems like a good idea, as it moves the show in a new direction, it eventually takes a turn for the worse. The show starts to feature the Warblers heavily and spends a huge amount of time on this choir, despite the show being about New Directions. Some people like the Warblers, but I put it in the bad column because it stole time from other characters, for Kurt who ends up transferring back to McKinley for just in time for Nationals.  -The Neglect of other Characters. Storylines for characters are certainly wasted this season. The roles of Mercades, (Amber Riley) Puck (Mark Saling), and Artie (Kevin McHale) are reduced this season compared to last. Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz), Mike (Harry Shum Jr.)only storyline is them being a couple and is only showcased in Audition, and Duets. Ushkowitz does perform some great solos, but is wasted. Even the adults have taken back seat. Terri (Jessalyn Gilsig) is drastically reduced to a mere 6 episodes of a 22 episode season and leaves the show as a series regular in episode 21. Will hardly has any storylines other than a romance with Holly.  -The Rachel/Finn/Quinn love traingle. The storyline takes up most of the second half of the season. To make it short, it is repetitive and the characters become way out of sync. It seems they learned nothing from last season's baby drama, and the audience suffers for it.  -Dropped and rushed storylines. This season, lots of storylines are formed but dropped an episode later. This makes the show inconsistent and frustrating. Some of the dropped storylines include Terri making Will jealous, Santana and Quinn's quest to become the Queen Bee, Santana pining over Finn, the Artie/Tina/Mike love triangle, Quinn getting her revenge for Finn's betrayal,  Mercades getting a boyfriend, no aftermath of Quinn and Puck's baby, and many more.  -The show also became sort of an "After School Special" kind of show. The show tackles religion, sexuality, death, homelessness, and the season long bullying arc for the character Kurt. While it was ok at first, the show dealt with it more with emotion, rather than comdey, as it is a comedy show. Too much of a PSA announcement for my tastes.  -Lackluster Finale. The finale for Nationals is not that great as I expected, even though it is in New York. Everything was rushed, and the Original songs performed sound just like the ones from Regionals. The Fall finale "Special Education" is more of a season finale for the show than the actual season finale. It is one of those things you have to see for yourself.  Despite a leap in ratings and the show producing way more money, the heart of the show is just not there anymore, which we all know was during the original 13 episodes. If your a big fan of Glee like I am, I'm sure you will see more of the positives and hope season 3 will be much better, as it is the last season with the first generation's cast. But I'm still not sure. I'll give the season 3 stars, nothing more, nothing less.

Oh, my captain my captain, how I hate the smell of napalm in the morning! Kurtz, a white whale and livid energy-rich creatures from another realm off the port bow! Yawn. Every series has a few of these. Well at least this version is only 44 minutes long as opposed to 1000 pages and doesn't suffer from an inordinate amount of repeated words like leviathan and unfathomable.

Not as good as expected After reading the excellent book of the same name I had great hopes for a serialization.  My initial disappointment at the news that HBO would only be creating a 2 hour movie based around Sarah Palin (who only warranted - and received - a few pages in the book) was somewhat tempered by knowing the producers were behind "Recount" and the cast included Julianne Moore, Ed Harris and Woody Harrelson in the main roles.  Now I've finally seen it, my feelings are mixed.  I wish I could be more glowing about the acting.  Harrelson is almost one-dimensional as Schmidt.  In the circumstances, Schmidt would have remained professional but been a whole lot angrier and even shocked with Palin's lack of knowledge and having to focus so much energy on her presentation.  Harris's McCain was much too "cool" for a man who has a reputation for being alternately cold/stilted and hot-tempered.  Finally, although Moore captures some of Palin's essence - from her ability to connect to her audience to her notorious conniving, she wasn't as fluid or confident as Palin.  Where was the word salad - that refuge of unconnected words Palin finds time and time again when she speaks, or the bared-teeth snarkiness?  There were glimpses of the voice but not enough. Moore was trying so hard to perfect the accent she abandoned the character.  I will forego some details (makeup, wardrobe, music - all good) but focus on the ones that made headlines.  One was plot, and that was a weak point.  I very much doubt Sarah Palin calls her husband "First Dude" in bed or that she winks at people that regularly or peppers her speech with so many colloquialisms - surely a caricature?  I equally doubt McCain's campaign team spent their downtime exchanging Dick Cheney jokes.  I can't believe the whole room would erupt in applause because Palin pronounced Ahmadinejad's name correctly in a debate rehearsal, and key moments of the book - such as Joe Lieberman praying with Palin - were missing.  Indeed, perhaps the most embarrassing mistake Palin made was to accept a phonecall from the Canadian comic team the Masked Avengers - and flirt like a silly schoolgirl with an obviously fake Nicolas Sarkozy.  That incident above all others made Schmidt's blood boil.  And rather than McCain examining the political fall-out of inaction over the financial crisis, when he received a call from Hank Paulsen he - according to the book - handed the phone to Palin who - in typical fashion - chattered for ten minutes about unrelated nonsense.  The other key weakness was the transitioning between archive footage and Moore's Palin.  It was not seamless, and it could have been.  The movie had a big enough budget that the editing should have been perfect.  The nagging question for many is, "What was the point of this?".  To counter the finger-pointing (aimed at Schmidt and Nicole Wallace) in "Going Rogue"?  We didn't need "Game Change" (the movie) to tell us that Sarah Palin was an irresponsible VP pick.  She proved it over and over again during the 2008 campaign.

Good Entertainment, But Lightweight This Ridley Scott version of Robin Hood is well-made and entertaining, but considering the number of heavy hitters involved (Academy Award winners Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe, and Cate Blanchett), it's surprisingly lightweight.  I read some reviews by movie critics before watching the movie, and it wasn't nearly as bad as the reviewers made it out to be, but still not nearly as good as it could have been.  Russell Crowe is great in the movie.  But because he's so great, his scenes with Cate Blanchett are almost hilarious for that reason - by the end of two hours they're supposed to be in love, but they have zero chemistry between them.  Cate Blanchett plays the character of Marion as part-Nervous Nellie, part-ice queen, and expends little effort into developing her attraction to Robin.  The class struggle story is given added depth through a revelatory scene about Robin's origins - there is a serious statement about abuse of the lower classes that suggests that some deep thought went into developing the story, but the director (understandably) is focused for much of the movie on presenting the basic "Robin Hood" storyline such that the mystery of Robin's origins is given short shrift.  Max Von Sydow and Russell Crowe are terrific together in their revelatory scene.  And when the surpise is revealed, I wanted to know more about the surprise, rather than the familiar "rob from the rich" storyline that we've already seen in countless versions.  [About the surprise: Without giving it away, I'll just say that Robin's forgiveness toward his transgressor would make Jesus Christ proud.]  So there are elements in this movie that elevate it above the action-and-adventure genre.  For instance, the King John character in this movie is not just a stock evil king; he believes that his right to abuse the lower classes and to demand tribute from lesser nobles comes from God (the "divine right of kings").  But those original moments are too few, and overwhelmed by dialogue and scenes that only serve to move the plot toward the next battle scene.  At the end of the movie, I was impressed by the movie overall because it wasn't nearly as bad as I was expecting, but I wouldn't voluntarily choose to watch it again.  So my recommendation is this:  You should rent, not buy.

Mostly Wooden and two dimential. Full credit to Nicol Willaimson This is the weakest three stars I have ever awarded. It took a very fine measurement to conclude that I liked this movie more than I disliked it.  When the book was first published, Nicholas Meyer almost single handedly invented a new kind of mystery novel. In a very creative way he brought together historical figures and fictional characters. That Sherlock Holmes and Sigmund Freud are both products of German Rationalism and logical analysis help to make the entire premise more compelling. The reminder that the fictional Holmes had been a drug user was also a powerful thing back in the mid-70s. In short, the book was a very memorable read.  I had all but forgotten ever seeing the movie. Having just watched it 30 plus years later, I know why. Despite a very strong cast, the movie is largely wooden and two dimensional.  First the good: Nicols Williams portrayal of Holmes initially irritated me. Then I realized that he was acting out a drug addicted, demon haunted Holmes. The contrast with his portrayal of a sober Holmes constitute excellent acting.  The scenes of Holmes going cold turkey are well enough performed, but the director lacked imagination. Perhaps having a character throw up on screen was then not allowed.  I agree with others that having a competent, effective Dr. Watson is a good decision. I agree that Robert Duval handles this role well. However his character is in fact very minor, very secondary and in the end lost. Even so, letting Watson finally get to cold cock Holmes was a nice touch.  Alan Arkin as Dr. Freud is able, except when he cannot decide what his accent should be. Then again, accents are a problem throughout this movie.  I almost forgot Sir Laurence Olivier, doing an eloquent and convincing Professor Moriarty. In this movie a put upon, aging mathematics professor and former tutor. Unfortunately he is only needed for about 5 minutes and so bright moment that his performance may be, it is but a brief moment.  Every female character is peripheral and underwritten as to be unworthy of comment. Mostly this is not a big deal, except to say that any woman with red hair could have played the Vanessa Redgrave character. Her inclusion was as much a waste of talent as was Joel Gray's. The former drugged out or inert throughout the movie, the latter buried under his costume, makeup and a mumbled, impenetrably accented dialog.  The villains are stock, flat and even less intelligent than is usual in a poor movie. The criminal plot is secondary to the issue of the cocaine addiction, and is mostly true to the book. On screen it takes too long and the logical impossibilities are too apparent.  Tiny example: two trains begin from the same station, with the same destination and find them selves on parallel tracks. The engine with a fraction of the weight to pull is barely able to overtake the one under higher load. Perhaps if the entire train chase had been shorter, there would not have been the time to count how many things in this sequence ask for too much suspension of disbelief.  Bottom line: worth viewing. More to like than dislike, but only just barely.

Light comedy A nice, light comedy from the 40's.  It is dated and if you don't have any knowledge of life then, you may not connect.  It's nothing really special except fairly good acting by a fine cast with only a fair script. The film doesn't do much for the status of women in that the intellectual heroine is portrayed as a "know-it-all" and becomes all-a-twitter for a flyboy (John Wayne).  You can find better performances of all the actors elsewhere but this movie can occupy some time.

not my favorite 1 and 2 are SO good. 3 is kind of a let down. It was like they were all excited to use new technology that made the movie worse, not better.

Lighthearted fun I began watching this movie with some trepidation.  I was not a fan of the first installment of the film.  I was pleasantly surprised by some unexpected moments.  As an adult I found some of the humor to be dry and witty; I don't know how that would translate to children (the target audience for this film).  I am the mother of an eleven year old and I am quite sure that the bulk of the wolf's dialogue would go completely over his head.  There were the requisite cheesy moments and "teaching moments" that seem to be  the norm for animated films.  The slapstick moments (falls, bodily noises etc.) would garner belly-laughs from children and cringes from adults but I I guess that is the point.  Most of the characters are charming and formulaic, there was no unexpected whimsy, depth or meaning in the film; which is why I rate it as average.  It is a pleasant passing of time but there was nothing about it that made it a standout.  It was good for one viewing but it would not be one that would warrant incessant re-playing as really memorable animated films warrant in our household.

Charlotte's Webb I just received this DVD...have not watched it but the outside cover near the opening has dogs teeth marks on it. Of course it not being new you know "it's not perfect" but "dog's teeth marks?"!! "Come on"!!

Just an OK movie We were looking for a clean family movie and this did pass that test. However, it came across as a low-budget movie and some of the acting was not so great.

disappointing I like Bogart and I like Hepburn but I couldn't get into this movie. It just wasn't interesting in any way. I really wish I could rate this higher but it was a major disappointment to me when I saw it on the movie channel yesterday.

let down I was expecting so much...movie didn't live up to the hype.  Movie was good, visually impressive but was let down by story and screenplay.

Time to take a look at how we are treating ourselves The film presents not an opinion but a list of facts about diet and its profound relation to general health.  You may not like the conclusions and you may be able to argue some minor points but, on balance, the information is good science.  Coupled with the book The China Study, and a few other informative videos (like Food, Inc.) you will get a picture of how nutrition and health are inexorably linked. Unfortunately, we are manipulated by a culture of excess and marketing that has far less than our best interests at heart.  Prepared foods, restaurant foods, cooking shows all contribute to a diet saturated with fats, sodium, preservatives and scary chemistry that wreaks slow havoc with our fragile systems.  The word "natural" has become a euphemism. The four case studies followed in the film, though somewhat anecdotal, do present proof that is repeated daily in the offices of health professionals across the globe.  The sad news is that physicians, by their own admission, are taught little, if any, nutrition while in school.  With the insidious influence of the drug industry, their curricula is more devoted to medication and treatment, not prevention.  Surgery and drugs play an important role, to be sure, in getting people to a healthy state, but it is high time that prevention got its fair billing in media, medicine and government sponsored programs.  The inestimable benefits of preventive care would have a most profound effect on the ever escalating cost of health care in our country.  Not a palatable prospect for industries that only make money when we get sick. Not to mention the fact that a double cheeseburger with bacon and special sauce and a large fry tastes better.

Good companion to the book Dafoe was fantastic as Martin. If you read the book, then you may enjoy watching it on the little screen. The ending in the book is less abrupt and more fluid. If you haven't read the book then the  pacing of the film's ending may seem awkward.

Awesome HD,Soso Audio...xDx( Loved the New HD Blu tenged Quality of color,I bought this on VHS New.Sadly the color washed out in spots,like when there were some Intense firebomb scenes,but in HD the Color was Visually stunning! Can't say the same for the audio-treble high/Base too Low. other than that, Great Decision to move this Movie cult Classic to Blu Ray HD...x)~

It was what is was to be, But I was wrong about what I would be. The product came quikely and in purfect condition. Sorry to say that 'I' did not know what I was ordering, and that is my falt. I Still give an A+.

D&eacute;j&agrave; Vu on Ground Hog Day This movie puts a new spin on the possibility of changing realities. It is a wild mix of the movies: D&eacute;j&agrave; Vu and Ground Hog Day. And yes there is the element of a terrorist bomb and yes there is an iterative segment of time involved, in this case it is only 8 minutes.  The storyline centers around Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal)- an American Army helicopter pilot whose last memory is flying in Afghanistan. He then wakes up on a commuter train, but he looks like someone else.  The movie starts off like an adventure computer game, where you are thrown into a scenario where you are not sure where you are and what is really happening. As the movie progresses, you begin to realize that Colter is also in the same position, being totally unaware of his full situation.  The movie is very interesting and like the case with Ground Hog Day, in each iteration of the eight minutes, Colter gets more and more done. The story is quite gripping and unfolds on two levels:  - [1] the Train bomb situation - [2] the real situation of Colter Stevens  The latter is quite moving emotionally and draws you into a deep longing that Colter has to make peace with his father and to hear his voice just one last time.  So, although it may not be quite original in its design, there is a lot of emotional content to absorb the viewer in. In my opinion, it is a good movie and well portrayed. The end had a nice twist to it. Enjoy.

almost new quality The set was mostly perfect.  only a few flaws which didn't really interfere with watching the dvd's. You just had to start each episode from scene selection instead of just play.

Party Til You Drop Dead Where do you start with a movie like "Killer Party"? Well we have three "gorgeous" babes going through hell night to join a sorority. A whole bunch of horny guys dump bees in the sorority's back yard as a joke. Where, of course, a bunch of girls are naked in the outside hot tub during said bee attack. Their house mother gets talked into letting the girls have a hazing party in a forbidden frat house. When she goes there to make sure the place is safe, she first stops at a handy grave in the front yard to explain to `Allan' why she's letting the girls use the house (who `Allan' is has not yet been explained). She tells him that it was all an accident and it's time for him to just let it go. Allan doesn't answer her, since he's dead. Or is he? As she is nailing down a loose banister on the stairway, a mysterious figure appears before her, brandishing what looks like a tire iron, she turns, asks "What are you doing here?" and this person answers her by striking her dead.  Back at the sorority, the three pledges go through a hazing (and there are some very nice set pieces here, watch for `em), and are accepted into the sorority. One of the pledges is really good at special effects and she is told that the only reason that she was accepted was that skill. IN fact they want her to stage a traditional April Fools party that the sorority is hosting for a fraternity. Twenty-two years ago, the boy in the grave ("Allan") was killed at one of those parties by what everyone carefully refers to as an "accident." The girls talk about strange disappearances while they begin to set up the old house for the party, and more strange things happen. Will the youngsters figure out what's going on and who is doing it before they are all horribly killed?  "Killer Party" is grade-A 80's cheese and I loved every minute of it. From the campy opening music video number to the pink hair and the big glasses, this film is a loving tribute to everything that was wrong about the 80's. It's just plain fun and a hell of a good time. That's not everything here works. The film goes from slasher to supernatural possession thriller about 2/3's of the way through and it makes for an interesting ending that doesn't seem to fit the rest of the film. Nonetheless, you could do a lot worse than this little slice of sleaze Heaven. The slasher gods shine down nicely on this one.

Above average... After watching this, you might think that Bobby Heenan had passes away. You see clips of his wife and daughter, but no present clips from him. Hopefully he is doing all right. A few brief clips of his AWA days leading up to his time in the WWE. Lots of brief comments from colleagues, including Greg Gagne, Baron Von Raschke, Ken Patera and Vince McMahon. A good bit of time devoted to his stint with Gorilla Monsoon. Enjoyed the clips of Bobby in the weasel suit. The Brain is definitely the best manager ever! Great during interviews and always witty...the man people loved to hate.

Shallow Hal This was a good purchase. The dvd works well and the case is in good condition. I am glad that I bought it.

"He's So Cool That When He Sleeps Sheep Count Him," In order to do this review I must compare this film with another 2001 heist film called The Score. Both films deal with thieves, and both deal with fences.  Heist is well-conceived film that has a fantastic cast. Sam Moore (Played By Hackman) is the leader of a crew of thieves that pull off a bank heist in broad daylight. Problem is, Sam is caught on camera due to a snafu in their plan. He decides to retire from the business with his cut of the money. The problem is, his fence, Mickey Bergman, doublecrosses him into working one final heist. This does not sit well with Sam or his crew, but in the end they have no choice. The job is to hijack a Swiss plane filled with gold plates. This time Jimmy Silk (Bergman's Cousin) accompanies the group at Bergman's insistence. After a series of cons and a quick grab, the gold is stored on a van... or is it? During the setup, a trooper checks up on the crew and Hackman cons the cop. This is where Pinky's great line comes into play as he tells Silk not to start the car engine. "He's so cool that when he sleeps sheep count him." Great line and great quote!  After he plane is hijacked, Bergman's cousin does a double cross of Sam, knocking him out and then driving off with the gold. After a near miss with an 18-wheeler, Silk spins off the road (A Contrivance) and checking the rear of the van he realizes the "gold" is nothing but ball bearings and washers. This sets off the climax of the film, which ends with a gunfight at a local pier, but only after poor Pinky is murdured trying to save his baby niece.  Mamet's script was convoluted and had one too many endings. The climax of the film should have been its end, not the last scene where Jimmy Silk is duped again! The guy has to be the stupidest crook in all film history! He's beaten up by Lindo in the beginning of the film, and by the end of it he is conned no less than thrice!!  That leads me to another facet of this film. The crews led by Sam are grifters as well as thieves! Unlike Robert De Niro's character in The Score (Who Is A True Safe Cracker), Sam's people are smash and grab men. None of them appear to have any safecracking skills, although they are well skilled at what they do, they did not have the nuanced perfectionist trade that DeNiro's character, Nick Wells has. Wells would have been a perfect addition to this crew led by Hackman's character Sam. Not only that, but Nick's fence, Max, was not a doublecrosser. He stood by his word and if anything would give his workers better deals in order to keep them.  I recommend this movie if you like heist movies. Also, as recommended by the late great Siskel & Ebert show, you should see Blood & Wine; The Friends of Eddie Coyle; Straight Time. Those are some other really good heist movies. See them and you will be pleased. The only thing that keeps Heist from a Five Star rating is it has too many convolutions; unnecessary plot twists that could and should have been avoided. It is a Three and a Half Star movie I round up to Four Stars. The Score, by comparison was straight forward to the end. Although the doublecross in the end was unexpected and a real surprise to me. I enjoyed that movie as well. Buy both The Score and Heist and you will not be disappointed.  A. Nathaniel Wallace, Jr.

A CLASSIC!!! This movie is a classic, even though it's not as good as 1 or 2, but it's definitely worth watching.

Endless beauty in this film This is such a great film. Great to own. Captures the passion, sexiness, heartbreak and devastation of first love. It's a bit extreme in how far one man will go for the woman he loves but it makes for a grand story. The book is amazing but watching the characters come to life is great too. No one but Brooke Shields could capture Jade so well and the actor who plays her boyfriend is perfect in the role and makes you really feel his pain. The 80s music is wonderful too and adds to the story. Definitely worth owning. Love the ending because it lets you decide what happens next in their story instead of making it a perfect Hollywood ending. If you get the chance, read the book with the same exact title, by Scott Spencer. There is more detail and more sadness but the same beauty of love is captured.

Despicable me They love the minions! Very funny but a bit on the violent side so make sure you as a parent is there to explain that some actions are not nice and not acceptable.

Breathtaking Scenery Blu ray has beautiful imagery and breathtaking landscapes from Alaska.  The picture is clean, crisp with detail and excellent sound-highly recommended.

Ultimate Collection This DVD collection is more of a show "highlights" disc- culling the best episodes from the run of the show. Those looking for a collection of the episodes as they were aired will not be satisfied with this DVD set.

Surprisingly......pretty darn good! Looked great, decent acting, awesome battle and death scenes (some were thoroughly disgusting). My boyfriend and I went in knowing the movie was gonna be lame but there are only so many 3d movies to choose from.  Anyways, when it was over we both said " that was actually pretty good!".  I would watch it again......weird that I never heard anything about this movie.

Harper Valley PTA DVD Recieved prodect on time and good quality. Also a great price for the item. Was well pleased with experience, will gladly do business with vendor again.

Garfield's Funfest Garfield's Funfest is a excellent childrens movie. Keeps children very entertained while watching. Had a very good storyline to this movie. Would recommend to a friend.

national treasure Good movie. It was under the radar screen when it was first released. It has a good mixture of real history and fantasy. The sequels that followed were not as good.

Goofy SF with a girl-power theme This amusing and kid-safe bit of fluff makes me wish for a rainy Saturday and a bucket of popcorn. It starts off tamely enough, with Our Heroine preparing herself for the white wedding of every girl's dreams. At the very last instant, that goes horribly awry - providing a cringeworthy moment for anyone who's seen last minute catastrophes at big family events.  In a moment, Susan transforms from the princess in the fairy tail to the monster. At this point, cue the secret military lab, self-important general, and aliens promised by the movie's title. Mousy habits of a lifetime die hard, but Monster Susan really comes into her own as the battle progresses, and discovers a lot more in herself than she or anyone had ever seen.  "Anyone" includes the fiance that dumped her at the altar when 'for better or worse' got worse than he bargained for. But, now that Susan is something really special, he's suddenly willing to give her another chance at boosting his career. Susan has a career of her own now (monstering and saving Earth), and realizes she can do better than him. I like the message: a girl doesn't have to settle for any jerk just so she can have a boyfriend. So, if you have a kid, a rainy afternoon, and a yen for popcorn, give this movie a try - but remember, the kid is optional.  -- wiredweird

Delivery No Especial Delivery time left a bit ot be desired, also the differenced between this product and the first movie product are dissappointing, HGowever notmuch can be done from your end... sorry about the spelling... i'm drunk

Pastures filled with meadow flowers This movie has alot of dream threads for me. I will just write them down so as to remember and to share. Green open range, Calgary, Happiness, stagecoaches in mud so thick you have to dig a day to get them out, cattle runs, cooking out with all the cowboy stuff, pots hanging from something over a fire, biscuits, tin plates, coffee with smoke still on it, playing cards, thunderstorms with a tarp over your head and talking, rustling up brekkie, clear streams filled with clean rocks and pebbles with horses drinking the best sparkling water in the world, like in the Talisman, old towns dusty with supplies, fun books to pick the things you want to buy, candy stores with old fashioned candy in big glass jars, bathhouses, stabling your horses with someone, tlc with someone who just loves you to pieces, cleans the wounds, listens to you, listens to your dreams, listens to your prayers, gives you warm broth and never leaves, old saloon with sassparilla, talking in the moonlite with intimate thoughts spilling out like stars, playing a fiddle and dancing a jig, flower gardens with all kinds of flowers everywhere, bees and birds and bugs, fyne china with teacups...Love

Wonderfully Relateable This short documentary makes great use of it's time. I found it informative and relatable. I found the narration a bit stilted though honest and grounded. From receiving a call for help in a letter, to the outcome of a suit against a town's school system that turned a blind eye, through an expose of a kid who's just a kid, and a salt of the earth lesbian couple working to make a mark to revitalize the town, the doc stays grounded and plain spoken. It's a bit uneven certainly and I found myself wanting to see deeper into the spectrum of homophobia in middle America, but the filmmaker wasn't interested in stereotypes or grandstanding. The antagonist isn't demonized, she's a woman using the voice of civil rights against civil rights, she's calm hatred and urgency, a voice veiled in the language of family and morality. She's the feeding trough of homophobic frenzy in the town where the movie makes its focus. She tells people they will loose something, tells them calmly that the world will become dangerous and insane and the afterlife promises to be painful if they allow something different than what keeps her sane. This keeps the doc's focus minimal but if we look deeply enough we can see how dangerous and powerful she is. But the narrow focus keeps the film restrained from being as universal as it could be. We see her, but hardly a glimpse of those feeding from her and what she means. Still, I personally found the doc profound in it's simplicity and relative lightness. An easy and deeply affecting watch. It's not over folks.

very funny had me in stitches,and the colorized version of the classic whos on first is a nice touch.This video shows that one doesn't need to use vulgarity to be funny.

Time flies with this workout Just to give you an idea of my viewpoint for this review - I am a midlevel exerciser and have lots of JM DVDS, my favorites being NMTZ and BFBM which I do three times a week each (occasionally changing around with others) I've been doing this for around 4 months.  So I'm not super advanced or super beginner. I've done a bit of Muay Thai training, not a lot.I'm also 10-15 lb overweight.  So anyhow, this workout is really fun and flies by. I did workout 1-3 all together which comes in just under 60 minutes. To me it didn't seem as intense as BFBM (which has me huffing and sweating by circuit 2), and in kickbox fastfix I didn't start really feeling it as much until the 3rd workout.(40 mins in) However, I think part of that is still learning the moves, and the first time you do something with more complex combination, you cant do it full effort since you're trying to get the moves down. I think once I have the combos it'll be a great all over workout that flies by in 60 mins. My only complaint is that there is no "play all" option . I think 20 minutes isn't long enough , but all three together is great. I just wish you could choose that option instead of having to go to main menu after each mini segment.

Comparision of US Unrated vs Rated R Versions This is an excellent movie, but my review is more about comparing the two versions since I'm sure you'd all like to know. I do have both copies.  The first thing I check was the display timer at the introduction of the last scene. The timers were at nearly the exact same time.  The second thing was the examine the BJ scene, which I understand is the most telling distinction in an "uncut" version. There was a difference in that scene. In one shot of that scene, a few extra seconds were added. In the next shot, about 1 second was added.  For lack of going into detail, nothing that was added to that scene should have (IMO) affected the rating enough to drop it from NC-17 to R. Maybe it's the amount of onscreen seconds, who knows.  Both versions read 1hr 43min on the back. I'm sure that's true. You'd only see the distinction if it were down to the second. I dont know if Amazon will allow the external link, but here's a direct comparison site stating that 24 seconds were cut: [...].  Seems like maybe 4 seconds tops were cut to me. I think they're being overly generous.

Very Good for Corps A great DVD for corps in all Acts especially for those interested in observing the Kirov version of this Ballet.  For Siegfried and Odile/Odette, the artistry is lacking but the technical skill is high.  Again, much better for the corps than the principals.

Good action Film Love the Shirley Temple movies and I had a bunch on VHS that I wanted on DVD. This collection killed 3 birds with 1 stone as it were and I even got one that I didn't have before! My 16 yr old niece and I watch them often!

A not so bad gay film for once I was expecting the typical "gay" film which appear to all be about shallow 20 something old pretty boys having all kinds of sex until "Mr. Right of the month" shows up. Add to that, most lower budget gay films have almost no plot(except the typical mentioned earlier) and very poor acting. Most gay films in this genre are nothing more than soft gay porn. Luckily this movie moved beyond that. This time around its about, yes, a 20 something male prostitute that for whatever unknown forces is "stuck" in an apartment building for he encounters a series of new "customers" in the same building one after another - each experience being more of a "life lesson" then just a trick. There is no incredible acting but its a good plot and, for once, there is substance to this gay film. I actually liked this film for a change!

You spelled evil wrong, idiot! When it comes to DVDs, it's safe to say that stand-up performances form an important cross section of my collection. From classic mainstays like George Carlin and Robin Williams to more recent acts like Jim Gaffigan the bases are pretty well covered. Still, I don't think any catalog is complete without Christopher Titus hopping from personal experience to personal experience pointing out how strained our lives have become within the never-ending vacuum known as society.  In his third outing, Chris quickly amends the insanity that made Norman Rockwell Is Bleeding and The 5th Annual End Of The World Tour successful with his various tales of marital discord. Whereas the aforementioned shows focused on a variety of topics while using a dedicated cast of "players," Love is Evol is a little more focused in its pursuits. It goes without saying that divorce and the situations surrounding it are often ugly, but it's a joy to see it tackled as it is here, where it is knocked to the ground and righteously smothered with a pillow.  The real treat is this experience fails to get heavy handed. While one can't say these moments are an outright flaw of Titus' shows, it is awkward how these segments of personal evaluation stop a routine on a dime despite their noble intention. Love is Evol also makes a small gain that's in direct correlation to the faults in the recently released Neverlution! Again, I can't say what is exactly to blame for the perceived hesitation in that special but is helps bolster this show against its slightly superior predecessors.  As odd as it may sound given this is a review for the DVD, the real question that surrounds Love is Evol is whether to opt for the DVD or the audio recording. While Chris has a much better stage presence than someone like Jim Gaffigan (who is so stoic throughout his performances it isn't even funny) I have to suggest the audio recording. In general, the more portable you can make Titus the better although there are obvious exceptions - Norman Rockwell Is Bleeding greatly benefits from its video even though the audio is good on its own. Regardless of which path you choose, Love is Evol is more than capable of holding its own if you're willing to listen.

cann't wait for the next one to see how it will end the action is great and it has a story line a little disappointed with the end of the first movie. i guess they must be looking to make at least two maybe three.

Excellent I am flabbergasted by the predominance of extremely low ratings for this movie, by both viewers in general (here) and critics (Rotten Tomatoes). There are injustices in the world, and that's one of them. The film is a new take on War of the Worlds. Except for a brief prelude, all it shows is the attack. Given certain fantastic capacities of the aliens, who aren't really interested in explaining themselves, what would the attack be like? How would people react? The movie isn't perfect but it's pretty damned good.  Best line: "I hate LA."

Fun/Sassy British comedy Cute, fun/sassy and TOTALLY ENJOYABLE British comedy. Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt and Rupert Grint gave wonderful performances. If the trailer appeals to you - then watch this movie - you won't be disappointed. :-)

Must Watch! *AVOID THIS MOVIE IF YOU ONLY WATCH MAIN STREAM HOLLYWOOD FLICK* - If, and ONLY if, you want to watch a movie that makes you think* (and pardon the movie for it's language or action but it's necessary)...then watch this. No big HOLLYWOOD action sequences or Vin Diesel scenes..Just one of the most refreshing new pieces of film making I have seen in a looooooong time.

Love Drew Great movie. and costume designs!!! I watched it with my 17 yr old daughter and it was fun, romantic and a happy ending.

Not really a comedy but entertaining and good In backwoods Norway a young married couple with a son rent their adjoining house to another young family from the city. Everyone discovers something about themselves in this quirky independent entertaining film.  There are a lot of plots taking place at once. The rural couple has an unhappy marriage and the perky wife Kaja is getting less perky and more horny. The new couple have moved out to the country when the husband discovered his wife's affair and wanted a change of scenery. They have a black son, possibly adopted but it could also be the mother's from another man. The rural white child is disturbed from the strained family dynamics and can be bullying and insulting. The younger quiet black boy is just discovering what it means to be black in a white world. The new couple and the perky wife join a church chorus as she has always wanted to sing but had been told she had a terrible voice. There is a male quartet who does American standard musical interludes as a Greek chorus.  (Are they connected with the church choir?) The two couples interact over dinners and games and secrets and passions are revealed.  The acting is great as is the photography.  There is a great soundtrack.  It almost becomes a quirky comedy but it also almost becomes a darker more unhappy film and this tension continues to the end.  There is a lot of love and finding yourself in this movie and most importantly it treats the audience as well as the screen couples as grown-ups.  The story is about problems but they might yet work out as life moves on.

Fun, Entertaining Version of Puss N Boots This isn't the greatest movie every made but the 1-star ratings are absurd. Those 1-star reviews sound like they were written by the same person: "I watched it for [insert small number] minutes and turned it off."  The musical numbers in this movie are very good although most of the music is taken from popular operas and musicals. The animation, voices, and plot are good. The cat's voice is fine, Shatner does a great job. My daughter and I really liked the movie and have watched it three times so far. It is a bit off-beat but after watching hundreds of Hollywood animated productions and especially the horrid Disney sequels to its commercially successful movies such as Bambi II, Lady and the Tramp II, The Lion King 1 1/2, etc. this French movie is a breath of fresh air.

Great classic. More language than I remember from seeing it a couple of decades ago, but some good messages: take some risks sometimes; stand up for yourself; etc.  Fun movie - showed it to my teenagers just before the Superbowl commercials came out.  Great timing!

Copacabana The DVD arrived in great condition and within the timeframe specified. We watched the DVD and got into the spirit of Copacabana!!

Great season! This is a hilarious season, just like all of them.  It has a lot of great episodes.  I highly recommend it!

Enjoyable as a first project for the late Ms Houston Enjoyed it immensely when it first came out.  Watching it now, because the suspense is not there since it's been seen before; makes it more nostalgic in a way than anything.  Kinda sad to watch knowing that Ms Whitney is no longer with us.  But makes you appreciate her first real acting effort all the more.  If the movie, A Star Is Born can be considered a classic for Barbara Streisand, then this should be considered in the same light for Whitney Houston; especially since it was her first effort.

Directors Cut Versus Theatrical Version I got done compareing the two as I have seen so many comments saying the directors cut was much superior and a completely different movie, well I can't really say its better nor is it that much different. Sure there is a little more depth to the charectors, what is taken out from the theatrical version is nothing more than scenes that should belong in a deleted scenes section. you have added footage of a long scene such as the chimp escapeing and meeting jobe, than the chimp getting killed. you have alternate footage of the wife who stays with Dr. Lawrence Angelo instead of leaving him in the theatrical version and jobe using mind control on her which resulted in her getting killed, some added dialogue with jobe and Dr. Lawrence about him learning history. They are nice scenes but I don't think they make the film better and at times they slow the film down a bit or they are unnessary. I can see why they were cut out, the theatrical version got to the point. A decent scif-fi flick.

Country Boy Rocket Enthusiasts Make Good This is a pretty good movie based on Homer Hickam's autobiographical take on his years as a Sputnik-era high school rocket enthusiast in 1950's rural West Virginia.  Having read Hickam's book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385333218">Rocket Boys (The Coalwood Series #1)</a> before seeing the movie, however, made me aware of some of the film's awkward approach to developing the film adaptation.  In addition, having spent my early high school years in the 1960's launching Estes-type model rockets with my friends at a farm down the road gave me some insight into the world of Homer Hickam.  For my taste, this movie spent too much time on the fictional melodrama of the supposed mine injury of Hickam's father instead of fleshing out its various characters.  The role of Hickam's girlfriend "Valentine" was not properly grounded in character development; nor did she correspond in any way to the girl of the same pseudonym in the book.  The most troubling deviation from the events described in the book (at least from my point of view) was that of the boys' search for a lost rocket to prove that it had not caused a fire.  The idea that simple ballistics calculations could somehow guide them to the location of the downed rocket was hard to swallow--as well as the fact that finding the rocket in such a way did not occur in the book.  Hey, if you are going to change an event from that of the book--please go with a substitution that is at least as interesting as one in the book!  From my experience with searching for much lower altitude rockets in just ten or so acres of corn fields, the idea that they could find a much higher altitude rocket downed in extensive forests seems implausible.  I still liked this movie and encourage the reader to see it.  It captures the excitement of young people who first encounter the joy of discovery--especially for those interested in science and engineering.  This movie also makes the important point that you don't have to live in a major city or an affluent suburb to get the education and inspiration you need for a challenging and exciting career--the willingness to work independently is often the most important element in achieving success.

good action adventure movie My family rented Clash Of The Titans from Netflix this weekend.  Plot: Perseus - born of a god but raised as a man - volunteers to lead a dangerous mission to defeat Hades, the vengeful god of the underworld, who is seeking to seize power from Zeus.  Our verdict: We very much enjoyed it and recommend it.

happy this is a movie about a guy.  old school Adam Sandler film, funny and not to slow paced.  worth watching again many times throughout life.  great stuff.

Beautiful But . . . A truly beautiful movie but please do not miss reading this most incredible book (available on Amazon of course) by Lisa See.  The movie was a joy to watch but so much was just missing from the book; and having to parallel the story with a modern story was tedious at times.  But worth seeing just for the visuals of China--a beautiful period piece.

Treadwell a lunatic, narcissicist and saint, unspoiled by Herzog Fascinating look at Treadwell, thanks to his own half-baked but inspired footage in which he plays center stage.  Yes, he was obviously a narcissistic fool, but who else has even come close to this and lived 13 summers?  Who else would have had the guts to pop a surly grizzly on the nose and scold it, and then turn your back to it and continue talking to the camera?  This is impressive, and heck, even another grizzly might have only lasted that long. I for one trust the fox family's instincts -- they must have sensed something pure in Treadwell.  It is a little harsh to judge him by the footage, obviously much of it was just him acting for himself and never meant for the public.  In many ways Herzog did Treadwell a greater insult by showing that private footage than he would have playing the audio of his death.  Now, I found the film fascinating, and I thank Herzog for that, but ... I think this works only because Treadwell was already dead and so Herzog could not interview him.  Have you ever noticed how most people perform like sick puppies for Herzog?  He must encourage them to bring on the weird for their minute of fame ultimately to reflect Herzog's own power.  In doing so he is ultimately just making documentaries about himself, and that has become boring.

Out In The Be-Bop Doom's Day Night Sure I`m a film noir buff. And sure I like my film detectives that way as well, Sam Spade, Nick and Nora Charles, Phillip Marlowe and so on. Normally Mickey Spillane and his 1950s-style detective, Mike Hammer, would no hit my radar though. Believe me I did, however, spent many a misbegotten hour reading Spillane's detective stories, maybe as much for cover art work that ran to provocative bosomy, half-clothed femme fatale dames in distress as for the insipid story line that ran heavily to Mike's anti-communist warrior pose ready to smash heads at the drop of a hat, and grab an off-hand kiss from every dame he ran into along the way. Aside for the question of that scurrilous (now scurrilous, maybe) cover art that is better left for another day my tastes in detectives were more to the "highbrow" Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammet and their more knight-errant-worthy story lines, and a little more reserve in the fist department, although for a damsel in distress they were ready to duke it out with anyone, and gladly.  That said, now along comes this classic 1950s film noir Mike Hammer story line and I was hooked, well, maybe not hooked so much as intrigued by it. Moreover, director Richard Aldrich seems to have had a flair for the noir film, from those black and white filmed shots of streets scenes in the seamy Los Angeles be-bop night (and day too, come to think of it), to an incredible be-bop jazz bar scene, complete with "torch" singer where after the lost of a friend Mike gets plastered (drunk), to the endless line-up of high end "golden age of the automobile" cars on display. Of course there is the normal bevy (maybe two bevies, I didn't count) of alluring, mysterious women just waiting to fall into Mike's arms when he comes within fifty paces of them, and he is, as usual, ready to put on his white knight uniform when he senses that something in evil in the world, and he most definitely is willing to thumb his nose as the governmental authorities who are always just a step, or seven, behind the flow of the action. But most of that is all in a day's work for a noir detective. What makes this one stick out is the doom's day plot.  Of course, the 1950s was not only about the rise of the "beats" and of teen alienation and angst-driven rock and roll but the heart of the international Cold War, a scary time no question, where if things had taken a half-twist a different way. Well, who knows, but it was not going to be pretty. And part of that Cold War, a central part, was the presence of the "bomb", and for those who are too young to remember that was nothing but the atomic and hydrogen bombs that could, at any non-be-bop minute, blow the planet away.  And it is that threat that underlines old Mickey Spillane's tale. See, with that kind of threat, but also the power potential , private parties, evil private parties could think of all kinds of nasty ways to wreak havoc on the world. If only they could get just a little of that bomb power. And that lust, that seemingly eternal lust, for power by certain of our fellows is where we are heading. See, someone privy to the atomic secrets (no, not the heroic Rosenburgs, this guy was in it for the dough) had a little pot of the stuff ready for the highest bidder. And the highest bidder, so to speak, also happens to be a guy with plenty of dough to buy a ton of modern art (and a fondness for classic quotes). I knew there was something funny about those modern art collecting guys. Didn't you?  And all it takes to spoil that nefarious plan is one Mike Hammer. Now, and here is the beauty of the Spillane method, this is not for governmental agents to handle, as one would think in trusting 1950s America, although they are hot on the trail but one threadworn detective. Threadworn? Yes, threadworm. See Mike is nothing but a low-rent, dirt-peddling divorce work detective (in the days when such dirt was necessary to get that desperate divorce), working this racket with his girl Friday (and lure), Velda. But see maybe Mike just fell on hard times and needed some dough (although his car, office set-up, digs... and fetching Velda belie that). But once Mike gets on the case, and only when he knows in his gut that something is wrong and he has that feeling here, then they are no limits. He faces off the mob (naturally, if there is something evil to broker they are in on it), half-mad women (one that he picked up on the hitchhike road, kind of, and her roommate) and that relentless modern art collector before he is through. I could go on but, really, this is one you have to see. And add to your list of film noir be-bop nights.

Sling Blade Billy Bob Thornton great performance, Lucas Black same great performance as a actor show with what happenes way down south of yesteryear  a must see film .enjoy  regards jim.Y down under

Yesss... i like this movie for many reasons.... When i saw the preview, something positive clicked.  Then the reviews started coming in and most were negative. Well after watching the movie,  rest assure, the movie is pretty good.  I do not have a clue who Ryan Reynold is, and that helps watching this movie cause i did not have flashbacks to all the roles Ryan Reynold did which could have affected the way i saw him on screen, that was bonus one. Bonus 2 instead of having a bad guy with more super powers...we are introduced to a different kind of evil... he has a face...but also lots of tentacles making it quite a monster.  hey... monsters that does not have a human body are much better i think. And also i never followed the Green Lantern in comic books, so i do not freak out if the storyline does not follow what was in the comics. I Do recommend this DVD.

Shakespeare in High Definition... Baz Lurhmann's Shakespearean adaptation receives a whole new treatment on blu-ray.  The film always relied quite heavily on visuals since the lavish cinematography was as much an integral part of the film as the story itself.  Elaborate costumes, beautiful sets, incredible props are what the movie is remembered for just as much as the performances of the actors.  The blu-ray render of the film makes the colors pop in a newer and brighter way than ever before.  It's amazing how young both Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio look since they have become such widely recognized faces in their twenties and thirties (they were just teenagers when the movie was made 15 years ago).  Details the viewer might have missed when they saw it the first time are much more apparent in high definition.  The included extras are nothing to write home about and don't change the viewing experience in the slightest.  If you decide to purchase this, you are purchasing it for the movie and the high definition treatment of it, not anything above and beyond that.  I still think it's worth it for the film alone.

Romero - Classic Movie "Romero" is based on the life of Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Savador. He served in the 1970's when the country was going through very turbulent political times. The movie magnificently portrays Romero's inner conflict about the role of the Church in caring for the suffering of the ordinary people or remaining too closely aligned with the State. Romero's change to set himself against government corruption and become a "man of the people" was akin to a religious conversion experience which ultimately cost him his life. A beautiful and moving story and so well played by Raul Julia as Oscar Romero.

Not the book, but pretty darned good! Capturing the book with a movie is essentially impossible. But this movie did as good a job as could be done to get the point of the book across. If you don't like her philosophy, you wouldn't like the movie, no matter how good it was. If you like her philosophy, you will love the movie. The graphics on a few scenes are kind of lame but considering how little money was spent making this movie, it is mostly surprisingly good!

A big hit in our house My 2 year old and 1 year old love these movies! I love them too, because they keep my boys entertained, are educational, and have great music.  My little boys especially love Let's Build. In addition to teaching different types of construction equipment, this movie teaches about shapes and colors, and encourages kids to keep trying when things are hard. It features live action music videos, and skits with the Curious Buddies puppets.  I would recommend any of the Curious Buddies DVDs to parents of toddlers and preschoolers. Your kids will love them, and they won't make you want to pull your hair out!

Good movie If Zuckerberg is anything as the movie shows, I wonder what is the message of this movie. Be like him and you'll succeed in life? Not quite an inspiration for the young generation (if you take away the money).  If it's a a fiction, it's an interesting movie. But at the end the sadness remains in your heart too. I cannot be happy for this character Mark, not the way he found success in life, cheating his friends and colleagues and almost everybody around him. Hm....

Histerical Rat Race I had seen this movie a few years ago and forgot how funny it is !  Had movie night with a bunch of friends, everyone brought an appetizer, we had a few brewski's and got comfy and watched the movie.  Some had never seen it before and we were all laughing so hard had to rewind a couple of times because we were missing some of it.  We're all 40 + but we sounded like a bunch of kids ! If you're need a good laugh, rent Rat Race - you won't be disappointed. Some big name stars in it too.  Let me know what you think.

tyler perry's good deeds This film was very good with twist that were unexpected. It started very slow and then it gets better, the storyline was delicate with challaging issues. Loved the movie.

Action packed!! Great movie! My husband wanted to watch "something with lots of explosions" so we chose Safe House. This was a very fast paced action filled movie with a good plot. Definitely worth the rental.

Great movie with a great twist at the end. Just a little too long. The story is really good.The acting very good. With a little more editing the movie could have been great. I liked it and loved the ending but it was just a bit too long and should have been edited more to move it along. Still, worth your time for sure.

Good Chevy Chase and Not Much More This was the second time I've seen the film. It holds up pretty well, but it is clearer that it is essentially Chevy Chase and Company. Sam Neil has little more to do than put on a not very convincing imitation of himself doing a really nasty guy. Darryl Hannah does what she is supposed to do-be the girl who finds invisible irresistible. There are chase scenes, explosions, helicopters and assorted other manifestations of the get him or kill him attitude but the tension level never rise to more than luke war. In sum, a decent comedy-thriller which should keep you entertained.

Happy feet DVD Cartoon for children Unfortunately my grandson did not like this DVD to much!! It was boring!! My grandson went to sleep after 15 min of the movie!! IAs grandma I liked the movie and thought the penguins were cute but would recommend a child over 4 for this movie company was very professional  and on time. Thank you kc.

An awesome (if short) show As someone who wasn't even born when "The Great Lead Singer Switch" occurred, I have great appreciation for both halves of Van Halen's career. That said, this DVD makes a great intro to the Sammy era and shows that the fans would still flock to see them without Diamond Dave. Sound and picture quality are both great, far superior to "Live: Right Here, Right Now" where the sound was pretty good but the video was actually pieced together from a few shows (even within songs!) Sure, Sammy helped make the band somehow more grown up and more dorky simultaneously, but VH did, does, and (hopefully) will always rock. Personal favorites from this set are getting to hear Sammy's "One Way to Rock" with an Eddie solo, and "Best of Both Worlds" and "Why Can't This Be Love". My single complaint is that it is rather short, barely over an hour of actual songs plus the guitar, drum, and bass solos. I was shocked to find that the setlist does not include one of the biggest Van Hagar hits, "Dreams". Maybe I'm just spoiled by all of my 3-hour-plus Rush live albums, obviously this complaint wasn't enough to keep me from buying it. I'm sure I'll get haters from both camps for this, but here's hoping all past and present members of VH (except maybe Gary Cherone) can learn to get along and give us a 4-hour show that cover their entire amazing career.

Not bad for a rental I have been a fan of Mel for a long time and was waiting for some new stuff. I had not seen anything about this one until I saw it as a rental/  After further investigating I know why.  This was never released in the US on big screen, only overseas. It makes a good rental when you need your fill of Mel and action.  The character he plays is pretty much an older version of the character he played in Payback (one of my favorite Gibson movies).  He is cooler, smarter and luckier than anyone else around him which makes you ask yourself - if he was this cool and smart how does he get himself into these predicaments in the first place.  The movie opens with Mel and his partner in clown costumes.  As you get to know the character you realize this is totally out of character.  He does very ingenious things in the rest of the movie so you know they added the clown suits just to try and add some humor.  The movie and character are so close to Payback the final lines in the move are almost identical.  But for a Friday night rental, not bad.

Cowboy and under rated movie I saw this movie when it first came out and I must admit it made quit an impression on me as a kid of about 10 years old.  Even at that age I was a bit tired of the Hollywood version of the "old west" a part of our history that lasted only about 20yrs.  I have the VHS version of this movie and as far as I'm concerned it still holds up as one of the best westerns of the '50s (it is not Shane, but what movie is).  As stated by a few others here this is a somewhat real slice of life on the trail (tho the set-up is a bit contrived).  The movie at least shows the guy not getting the girl, so not a tottaly happy ending.  However I do recommend that you watch this movie.

Stargate Blu Ray Blu ray transfer was good and movie was captivating. As usual,however, the extended cut was unnecesary.  Why can't directors learn that sometimes more is less and less is more.  I guess some people think if they're getting a few minutes more of the movie, they're getting more for their money.  By that logic, I guess the next horror will be to release all the film that was shot with no editing. Editors work very hard to create movies that don't drag.  If a scene is cut, it usually is because the film was better without it.  I can't think of a "director's cut" or "extended cut" that was better--or even as good--as the original theatrical version.

A Cartoon with Facts! I received The Best of Where On Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? in a DVD giveaway package I won from a blog several weeks ago. The show aired in 1994 and ended in 1998. I vaguely recall the series ever airing as I was a thirteen-year-old and I was more into horror movies at the time. The series is based on the popular pc/video game and the PBS kid's game show; both titled Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?. Thanks to Cookie Jar (Mill Creek Entertainment) this cartoon and others are now available on DVD.  The show takes place in a virtual reality where a 'live' kid known as "The Player" is playing the game as two sibling characters Zack and Ivy, who are both ACME detectives. Carmen Sandiego is the main thief along with her V.I.L.E gang, who in each episode steals an artifact and travels the world to through off the authorities. This is where Zack and Ivy come in as they must find the clues Carmen leaves behind and figure out her next move. Of course at the end of every episode, the kids recover the artifact and Carmen gets away.  A lot of cartoons in the 80s and early 90s got a lot of heat from Congress over their violence and for being non-educational. In 1994 Fox Kids aired the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and the X-Men which contained some violence, therefore Where On Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?.    If Where On Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? aired a few years earlier, I probably still wouldn't have watched it, as I was more into TMNT, Thundercats, etc... Now as an adult, I enjoyed watching these ten episodes, which does contain some G-rated adventures, while at the same time you learn a little history and geography lesson. Younger kids will like the two fun teenage detectives as they try to stop the legendary thief, while adults will like the educational aspects of the series. Overall, I enjoyed the DVD and I recommend it to others.

A Hidden Gem of sci-fi movies. This movie is well structured and careful to detail to express desired effect. Anyone who likes dark and mysterious apocylyptic movies, this one is for you.

LIKED IT ALL IN ALL, I ENJOYED THE MOVIE, BUT WAS REALLY SHOCKED OF THE ON-GOING SEX SCENE AT THE FIRST OF THE MOVIE.  MELISSA MCCARTHY WAS HILARIOUS THOUGH. I THINK I ENJOYED HER MOST OF ALL

Little Engine Movie Cute little movie for kids.  Some scary parts for younger kids (2-3 yr olds), but great movie overall. Lots of singing through out the movie.  Fun characters and storyline.

A Worthy Continuation of the First In my opinion DreamWorks has always played second fiddle to Pixar in the computer generated feature film genre.  Their rivalry has existed for nearly as long as there has been a computer generated feature film genre! Pixar had Toy Story, DreamWorks had Small Soldiers. Pixar had A Bug's Life, DreamWorks Antz. Pixar Monsters Inc., DreamWorks Monsters Vs. Aliens.  Pixar with Cars and DreamWorks with Trucks.  No wait, I made that last one up.  But you get the idea.  It seems to me like DreamWorks' best efforts are the ones that don't have a direct Pixar counterpart: The Shrek saga and How to Train Your Dragon to mention a few.  I am of the stance that 2008's Kung-Fu Panda perfectly represents this phenomenon of high-quality DreamWorks originality.  What we had there was a bit of tribute to the Kung-Fu classics with a lot of unexpected character charm to cement the intense action sequences and lovely visuals.  When I heard a sequel was in the works, I naturally feared for the worst.  Generally speaking sequels in the CG film arena are hit or miss (with emphasis on miss).  Ever see Space Chimps 2, Hoodwinked 2 or Open Season 2 (or even scarier, Open Season 3)?  Sure you have your Shreks & Toy Stories but more often than not it seems to me that animation studios have a hard time recapturing the magic of the originals; especially when the original contains the ever-illusive element of heart.  That said Kung-Fu Panda 2, riding on the success of the first one, was given a budget increase to the tune of 20-mil ($150,000,000 versus 130,000,000), brought back all of the key members of the original cast (with a few new ones) and even retained the vast majority of the production & animator crew.  To summarize, DreamWorks made darn sure not to risk losing said heart of the first film.  Did they succeed? For the most part absolutely.  Viewers looking for something more grandiose may be disappointed but the good news here is that Kung-Fu Panda 2 succeeds at feeling more like a continuation of the first film than it does a genuine sequel.  And considering the first film ended in such a manner where a sequel wasn't necessary, this is a very good thing indeed.  Jack Black reprises his role as the titular overweight martial-arts trainee panda and his entire Furious Five retinue return uninterrupted (Tigress (Angelina Jolie), Monkey (Jackie Chan), Mantis (Seth Rogen), Viper (Lucy Liu) and Crane (David Cross)). Series staples Dustin Hoffman as Po's master Shifu and James Hong as Po's noodle-peddling dad return as well. The villain is new this time; a sociopath peacock named Shen, and played to perfection by Gary Oldman.  Other noteworthy additions include casting real-life karate aficionado Jean-Claude Van Damme to play Master Croc.  The story takes us back to the visually lush Valley of Peace and finds a newfound camaraderie between Po and his Furious Five cohorts.  At just about the same time Po suddenly realizes that he bears (no pun intended, for now) no physical resemblance to his dad, the villainous Shen surfaces with a weapon of mass destruction and plans to conquer all of China.  In terms of scope, the bar has been raised slightly but it's clear that the focus here was to expand upon the character back-stories and their interaction with one another over expanding geographically strictly for the sake of spending some of that additional 20-mil.  The plot thickens slightly once Po realizes Shen's ambitions and the fact that he doesn't remember his birth parents aren't completely unrelated occurrences.  Unfortunately though, canceling out the slightly deeper plot structure of the sequel is the fact that Po's clumsy, lighthearted enthusiasm seems somehow misplaced now that he has been revealed a psychologically scarred Kung Fu disciple.  Pacing is decent, if a bit longer feeling than the first, though all in all the 90-minute runtime does go by fairly quickly since no time need be wasted setting up backgrounds for our heroes.  Hans Zimmer nails the musical score with his trademarked near-subliminally perfect melodies and heart thumping action accompaniments.  In all Kung-Fu Panda joins a pretty slim gathering of titles that actually manage to do the concept of a sequel justice.  While it could be argued that DreamWorks played it safe by failing to stray from the path established in the first one, at least they knew not to fix what wasn't broken.  The old phrase, "it's not as original as the original" certainly applies as well but here's hoping the formula continues to stay fresh as DreamWorks has stated they hope to milk this into a 6-movie franchise.  Will fans tire of Po's antics through four more films? There's a swamp-dwelling big green ogre who thinks not.

GREAT BECAUSE OF THE MUSIC AND DANCING  ALONE I played my first copy of this DVD over the years so many times it became scratched so I bought this one.  I listen to the music while I embroider.  I know it sounds silly and why not throw in a CD but it mesmerizes my one cat for some reason or other also - hee hee.  The story has a happy ending despite a rocky road getting there.  I don't want to spoil it for those few who haven't seen it but it's a story of coming of age in New York City while surrounded by dysfunctional friends and family.  "Tony" from the beginning never really truly is one of them despite being raised by a father who is extremely abusive and uncaring in what appears a loveless marriage.  His mother is someone you feel sorry for who is trapped  (or at least FEELS trapped) in this existence.  His older brother Frank escapes and makes his own way so kudos to him.  His friends are pathetic slugs in my opinion. They are the negative side of being raised by what we assume are also dysfunctional families but not having enough where with all to also rise above it.  The bright spot is feisty Stephanie.  Without giving any more of this away if you haven't seen it, buy it for the music and dancing alone or if you, like me, wax nostalgic for the 70s and the fun of that era.

Sweet "first love" story Good story line, good character development.  The story is sweet and the ending is powerful.  I would've liked to have seen the parental dynamics (support or dismay) in the movie as it's hinted to but never shown/developed.  I definitely recommend this movie for the sweet "first love" love story dynamic of it.  Everyone knows how it feels to have that first love and this movie does a great job of portraying the various aspects of a first love and coming out.

Errs on the side of PC, even a little far-fetched BUT... An American woman from Brooklyn (grandparents Palestinian and evacuated (ousted is more precise) to a Lebanese refugee camp in 1948, parents born in Lebanon and emigrated to the US) comes to Israel to retrace her family's roots.  She seeks the 315 Palestinian pounds her grandfather left behind in the bank.  The money is long gone.  The family house belongs to an Israeli woman.  The house is still tiled with the tiles her grandfather laid down.  She strikes up a friendship with two men in Ramallah, one of whom has not left Ramallah for 17 years.  And has never seen the sea.  We see her arrival at the airport and the humiliations she experiences.  We see the roadblocks and the searches.  The three commit a crime and escape to inner-Israel, Jewish Israel, where Arabs must have ID cards.  It is an exhilarating road trip for awhile.  A day at the sea, going to her grandfather's house and being invited to stay by the Israel woman who now owns it, and surprise surprise--these few days do not end well. Camping in ruins of an old Arab town which is now a national park, and this, too, does not end well.  This is the first Palestinian film by a woman.  The "little murders" that occur at the hands of the occupiers are filtered through a woman's sensibility.  There is no other way:  there must be a two state solution.  This is not the message of the film.  This is my opinion.

Battleship is interesting We enjoyed Battleship -- one of the few action movies we didn't go to see.  It was full of fun action.  However, it was a bit confusing.  Spoiler here --  The crew inside the field was able to move quite a bit, but the movie never explained how the field got so large or why other ships were excluded.  A good use of WWII veterans made that part of the movie more enjoyable!

Good Season 1 sets up excellent Season 2 Other reviewers have covered a wish for more action, though most agree the writing and special effects are good, and the subdued presentation is in keeping with the premise that unspectacular "average folk" are forced to resist alien invasion or simply accept extermination.  But Season 2 really takes off with plot points I should not spoil here, and has enough of a solid audience that TNT has ordered Season 3 to be made.  So yes, buy Season 1 now, add Season 2 to it when it is finally released on DVD (broadcast tv showed the season 2 finale just a week ago)and collect a very worthwhile sci-fi series.

Great series lots of fun! This is a fun set of movies. The Mummy maybe a Universal classic but it was never the most popular. Even as kids we would say "Just run away he can't get you" But that was part of the fun. The original was more of a romance than a scarefest. Boris Karloff is as always the highlight of the movie. It is well directed and has some very intersting scenes. The make up job on Karloff is pure Jack Pierce and is worth seeing. The sequels are a mixed bag. They are still very enjoyable. The Mummy's Hand has a couple of Musuem archeoligists looking for a long lost tomb. Of course they find a map on a vase and start an expidition with the added female and her dad. If this sounds convoluted it is! Just go with it. It is fun and enjoyable you won't feel like you are wasting your time. At the end there is a fall off a long set of stairs that is a remarkable stunt by the great Jock (Tarzan)Mahoney. Also Tom (Captain Marvel) Tyler is the Mummy. The other 3 sequels all star the wonderful Lon Chaney jr. as the Mummy these movies are a blast and I have a wonderful time with them and my kids and grand kids. You will have great time recognizing a lot of character actors who show up in all of these films. Such as John (Dracula) Carradine,Turhan Bey, Robert (Batman) Lowery and more. In some ways this Legacy collection is the best with fine extras and a good time to be had.

The movie is as great as ever; the transfer, not so much... First, I'm not reviewing the movie, which in and of itself is worth 10 stars.  Yes, it follows "Citizen Kane" as the second-best movie of all time.  But it's probably the best overall and most enjoyable movie ever made.  So enough about what we already know...  Second, with a couple of exceptions, I'm not really reviewing the quality, quantity, or variety of extras in this special edition as a reason to purchase or not to purchase this movie.  It's got some cool souvenirs, extras, etc.  Some of the extras I watched appear to have been re-mastered vs. the 2008/2009 edition they were in.  In that edition, the extras look as though they were poorly upscaled from the DVD version.  The extras on this edition seem to be of better quality, and the menus are a bit more refined.  What I am reviewing is the quality of this transfer vs. the 2008/2009 Blu-Ray edition of the movie.  Sadly, I think the 2008/2009 edition is superior, both for the video and the audio.  Let me start by saying I watched all versions on an HDTV and on a newer 1920x1080 Dell laptop with the appropriate player software.  For the heck of it, I also took an HD recording off TCM, as well as a TCM standard DVD because I could not really believe what I was seeing, or rather, not seeing, with this edition.  The problem with this edition is that the contrast/gamma is off.  Way off, at least on my monitors, relative to the 2008/2009 edition Blu-Ray and DVD, and the TCM HD airing.  While the other versions seem to have no problem with grays, this edition contains too much black.  I had to create a custom setting on my monitor to expand the gamma.  When I went back to other shows, they were far too bright and washed out, so I don't think it's in my monitor or laptop.  And yes, I can watch the TCM edition on my laptop via SageTV.  This leads me to believe one of two things is going on - either "Casablanca" has been transferred incorrectly all along, and this edition finally got it right, or this edition has a problem with its transfer.  I think it's the latter.  The gamma is just plain too low.  Things are either too black, lost in the shadows, or too white.  The good news is, relative to the 2008/2009 Blu Ray edition, the resolution appears even higher and more detailed.  The grain of the film is so apparent it almost hurts your eyes, in a good way.  Needless to say, either edition beats the TCM HD airing in that department, as one would expect with the lower bitrate of satellite TV.  Obviously, they also beat the standard DVD, but not by as much as one might think.  I take issue with the contrast/gamma so much because of the important use of shadow, both with the characters' faces and costumes, and with the backgrounds, to convey emotional states and atmosphere.  It's not solely because the detailing on someone's top or sleeve gets lost due poor contrast/gamma, although that is almost as bad.  The other issue is the audio.  It's not that I expect surround; I never did from any edition.  The problem is that the movie starts out loud and then gets softer.  It's the same with dialogue normalization engaged or disengaged in my players/monitors.  I was hoping that since the movie was in mono, and not being listened to with the expectation of a surround-sound festival, that I could correct the steadily-dropping level by using normalization and not destroy dynamic range that was never there to begin with.  Unfortunately, that did not help either.  Again, neither the 2008/2009 blu Ray or TCM DVD editions, or the TCM HD airing suffered from this, so I don't think it's my systems' fault.  Am I saying not to buy this movie?  No, I am not.  Casablanca is hands-down my favorite movie.  But at $45 for this edition, I think one should be prepared for what one might or might not get.  Maybe it's my monitor and laptop.  I doubt it's both, especially with three other versions to compare it to.  If you think I may be right, rent the last release and watch them both and decide for yourself.  As to the extras, the ones I have watched so far look as though they have been at least re-scanned in HD, even if their aspect ratios are not right when showing clips of the movie within them.  I also recommend listening to Ebert's commentary at least one time while viewing the movie.  He makes some great points about the composition of the movie itself and offers some compelling arguments against the popular "Casablanca" urban legends such as Bergman's alleged confusion about not knowing the eventual outcome of her character (aside from the order of the shooting, as an actress she had to know all along that her character could never go off with Bogart's character since her character was married and the film censors of the time would never have allowed her character to leave her husband for another single man in the movie).  Details such as those might cause you to look further into the fascinating story of how this movie came to be so highly regarded, when in reality no one at the time expected it to be anythig more than one of the 50 or so movies Warner Brothers would make that year.  ****Update****  Just for the heck of it, I purchased a used HD DVD copy as well. My above criticisms against this 70th. Edition would also stand as compared to the HD-DVD transfer.  It also has much better contrast/gamma, but I still have to give a slight edge to the 70th. Edition for the detail.  As I stated earlier, the resolution of the 70th. Edition is so good at revealing the grain of the film that it almost hurts to look at it.

Time Capsule I first saw Matinee when it first hit the theaters back in 1992. I was charmed by the nostalgia of the piece and by the performances of the leads. I was particularly taken with the child actors. I don't know what became of them but they are all gifted performers. I loved the time in which it was set,1962, and tying the Cuban Missile Crisis with the horror film John Goodman's character brings to this small Florida community. Goodman's character is a riff on real life horror-meister William Castle who made the original House on Haunted Hill and many other low budget gems. I recommend this movie to anyone who has a love of old Hollywood films and a longing to visit that time again.

Abridged Downton Abbey - PBS Response 'You were wrong last Sunday to say Masterpiece on PBS is downsizing Downton Abbey by two hours because of the allegedly short attention span of Americans. As with virtually all our co-productions, Downton Abbey was edited for our commercial-free time slot. Approximately 35 minutes came out of more than seven hours and the cuts were made in the UK by the original producers. None of the characters, themes, or plotlines (including about the "entail" inheritance law) was eliminated. We have hundreds of talented colleagues in the UK whose work we showcase in the U.S. Any impression that we violate their work would be disrespectful and just plain wrong.'  Rebecca Eaton Executive Producer, Masterpiece on PBS  Read more from Mail Online: [...]  I've seen both the PBS and the original uncut UK versions. They are similar enough not to have to spend the extra money just to buy the uncut version but the purist still may want to do so. Keep in mind that last episode in the Season 2 PBS version (as well as the non-BluRay uncut version?) is the Christmas Special. If you buy the BluRay uncut UK version you may still need to buy the Christmas Special separately as it wasn't included in the one I purchased through Amazon.

Funny and Poignant This is a movie I had seen at the theater when it first came out, and I enjoyed it enough that I wanted to get it on DVD so I could watch it again.  I did, and enjoyed it again.  It is really an insight into life that sometimes happens among friends.  It has a nice ending as the friendship, which becomes strained, is re-established.  I do like movies with happy endings, and this has one.  I also loved the funny parts and got some really great laughts, as well as a few tears during some other parts of this movie.

A very funny documentary by the "Super Size Me" guy. You will never look at product placement the same. I say A- "At what part do I just let myself completely become a foil to do everybody else's bidding?" Morgan Spurlock sets out on a quest to make a movie about product placement in movies, paid for entirely by marketing for product placement. This is a documentary that is very funny and will make you think. The movie begins with Morgan very excited about getting the movie made and going from company to company asking them to sponsor him. Eventually, after the commitments are made the contracts come. Morgan goes from excited to worried about if he is losing control over his movie. This movie exposes the truths behind marketing in movies and exposes the control that companies have over even the littlest aspects of movie making. One of the most interesting scenes is when he visits the school in Florida and talks to them about marketing in schools. It really made me think that this may be a way to help with schools budget concerns. Overall, a very entertaining documentary that is very fun to watch. I really enjoyed this movie. I give it an A-.  Would I watch again? - I think I actually might  *Also try - Super Size Me

Eclipse was good. Eclipse was good but not as strong a story as Twilight or New Moon.  Major characters from the first 2 films were not seen much in this film. I especially missed the Cullens and Volturi.

Very happy with it While we wait for the complete series to be on Bluray this is a must have for fans of the series.  Haven't had the chance to see it all yet but everything looks great, aside from season 1 and 2 still being 4:3.  Personally I got this for the Unlimited seasons which look amazing.  If anything I just wish it had english subs, but other than that I totally recommend it.

Despicable Option I love this movie!  Packaging was great and there are 3 DVD's included. For good entertainment you can't go wrong with this movie.  To me, the price was right and after watching it you know I had to have it.  Great for the kids and I am sure most adults would love it.

Great Sword and Sorcery tale! I loved this movie, despite a few continuity issues. James Purefoy did an excellent job in the role of Kane, the anti-hero. The ending was clearly designed for a sequel.  Sadly, despite the fact that Amazon shows the movie to be a 2012 release, it was actually filmed in 2008, released in 2009, and never screened in the United States (see IMDB for details). Given that history, it's disingenuous for Amazon to advertise it in its Instant Video section with the phrase "Watch While It's In Theatres" and then charge $5.99. This movie will clearly never be shown on any screen at a theater near you, but might get a wider audience by dropping the price to the typical $3.99 for recent DVD releases.  Despite all that, the movie is a great romp and considerably more entertaining than the recent pathetic remake of Conan.

THE LUCKY ONE fairly good movie, predictable story line, the acting was very good. all in all a good movie. Better than what has been out there lately. worth seeing.

A simple plot, but fun to watch In this 1951 fifteenth Tarzan film, the third in which Lex Barker plays the famed jungle hero, the rather simple plot seems a lot like those found in its predecessors, but it is still fun to watch. However, unlike some other Tarzan films, blacks play the natives, and not Caucasians. Cheetah, as usual adds to the humor in the movie.  A tribe elects a queen who assures the white commissioner that her people have no guns. During the inauguration ceremony, the leader of a rival tribe offers to make her his wife. She rejects him with strong language. White men bring guns to the rival tribe. They attack the queen's people and overcome them. Tarzan swings through the trees and saves them.

HONEST ABE HAS AN AXE TO GRIND The whole premise behind ABRAHAM LINCOLN VAMPIRE HUNTER is so preposterous, you can't be expected to take it seriously...and that's why it works as a fantasy using historical figures and events as its backdrop.  All the elements of an action/horror film are here:  stunning special effects, outlandish kung-fu fights, breathtaking set pieces and a noble hero in Honest Abe.  It's impossible to resist the movie's lure in spite of its incredible storyline. Benjamin Walker, looking like a young Liam Neeson (he ironically played a young Neeson in KINSEY), brings a naievete and sensitivity to his role of Lincoln.  Mary Elizabeth Winsted is a glowing Mary Todd Lincoln and Anthony Mackie is fine as Lincoln's childhood friend.  Rufus Sewell is evil incarnate as the head vampire.  Only Dominic Cooper as Abe's mentor seems ineffective in a one-note performance. Go in with an open mind without expecting historical accuracy and you may enjoy this film for what it is---a bloody good horror flick.

Nostalgia Seen this movie many years ago and wanted it in my library. Building a library for my Grandchildren to enjoy and feel this is one of the classic's that belong to those in the future. Thank you Amazon for being a go to place for most all my need's.

The Yankee vs. the Limey The video ' The Gathering Storm ' staring Albert Finney, when compared to the film 'Into the Storm' from HBO(Gleeson)is hard to rate either one of them as better than the other?! They are both excellant films, with slightly different priorities. One is pesented to us from the British point of view, while the other is an American production.(HBO). I may be completely off base, in comparing these two great bio/movies,by useing the idea that nationality can produce an effect in them. Sir Churchill was not only a great man & respected by all Americans, he was also extremly loved by every man, woman & child who had a loved-one die during the bombing of London. The public took Winston into their hearts as their Savior. These same people, would later betray him & elect a new Prime Minister. They did not stand by him, when it mattered most to him. This hurt him badly, & during a session in parliment...it brought him to tears in front of all the other ministers. The general public of today,the off-spring those responsible, have a deep guilt/love for this iconic great man.  Both of these films are important, as well as beautiful to watch. They portray a world gone mad with arrogance & fear. They accuratly show the ugly side of mankind, when racism & hate rears it's head. They also show the great potential we have when our faith in a common-good prevails. King Arthur would be proud of us.

Pretty Creepy If you were thinking of adopting, maybe you should think again.  You could get a "bad seed"  is the premise of this book.  The creepy girl who is the main character, has absolutely no conscience and is completely narcissistic.  This is attributed to genetics.  Anyway, it is an entertaining tale, suspenseful, well written, a quick read and a surprise ending....

G #  ,huh? Good stuff. I had just bought a used Huber Lancaster,logic would lead you to this DVD.It was informative,should I change the head or make other adjustments.It shows how to dis-assemble and re- assemble Huber ,or any banjo.So that alone is worth the bucks. I had already been schooled in the tap tuning of the head to G #,I get the concept but still not sure if I'm there or not.I know I'm close .The video didn't make it any more clear than my instructor did.I think it's either you got or you ain't got it. If you have read this review,I'll pass on something Hubert Davis told about head tightening,before he passed away.Use a torque wrench,I bought a click micrometer, screwdriver type, and at least I know I won't warp a flange.

Double trouble I just finished watching "Dead Hooker in a Trunk" by and starring the Soska twins.  Jen and Sylvia play the leads in one seriously messed up grindhouse-y indie horror film (their first).  Originally planned to star four female leads, someone apparently dropped out and one of the characters was re-written days before shooting began to be a male.  So while this would have been a different film if it starred and entirely female cast, I have to say the inclusion of C.J. Wallis as "Goody Two Shoes" was a stroke of luck.  Although he was busy co-starring in the film, as noted on IMDB he also "...edited, shot, sound tracked, marketed, and did all post on the film."  He is absolutely hilarious in this film and show a key sense of comedic timing.  As for the Soska twins...what can I say.  Smart, sexy, dark and a little disturbing...well a lot disturbing.  At one point, I realized that they might be just playing themselves (seemed so natural as loopy twins).  So how was the movie?  For an indie first time horror film I have to say hats off to these ladies.  They really took on an ambitious amount of locations, story, and action for a first film.  I wasn't sure what the film would look like or feel like, but having seen it would argue it's very much a "grindhouse" film as much as "horror."  Is there blood?  Guts?  Violence?  Absolutely.  The twins handle ever increasing horror, violence, confusion and surreal accidents with passion and strength.  While one sister ("Geek" played by Jen) is a bit of a wallflower, it's soon apparent that she's not just a brainy beauty but able to step into the shadows.  Her sister ("Badass" played by Sylvia) is a loose cannon dealing rage, violence and death blows without hesitation.  These two excite, frighten and subdue all who come in their way.  The plot is a bit light and confusing at times (essentially a serial killer stalking hookers and following the twins after said hooker ends up in the trunk of Badass's car), but overall it keeps moving at a frenetic pace and you don't often linger on any scene.  I guess I am a twisted, dark soul (see my book "Dark Bites") so much of the blood, violence and guts was very familiar to me and often made me laugh out loud.  There were some genuine, "I didn't see it coming" moments that made me jump (batter up).  Is it perfect?  No, but it's a really great, ambitious first step to the dark side.  They wrote something and made it happen-that alone should be demand our support (in particular from those of us in the horror community).  But you'll also enjoy some great music (a trifle loud over the dialogue at times), kick ass gals put in insane situations and a lot of gory/violence.  I suspect and anticipate that with success, more time/budget/equipment they'll have ever increasing success making horror films we can all fall in love with.  I recommend you rent this movie and leave a review here and follow these ladies as I do on Twitter (@twisted_twins).  Stay bloody!

Goes well with the book on Steve Jobs Enjoyed the movie and thought that it married with the new release of Steve Jobs...the book. It is always wonderful to learn how a company like Apple found it's begining.

By the number rock docummentary, but a good one  all the same I'll not by any stretch of imagination a member of the "Lemmy is God" entourage. No way, But I enjoy Motorhead music in general, so I went for this DVD.  It's a good rock docummentary all the way. No surprises, of course. No personal insights or great revelations or great psychological disclosures by Lemmy or his band mates. MUch lees than the autobiography by Lemmy, anyway.  But there is a lot of interesting footage, all nicely edited and webbed through the film.  A nice film.

Cult favorite still has some mileage in the tank. &lt;strong>Scarecrows&lt;/strong> (William Wesley, 1988)  An above-average supernatural slasher that has achieved cult status since its 1988 release, &lt;em>Scarecrows&lt;/em> has found new life with the proliferation of video streaming services; you can stream it online at both Netflix and Amazon these days, and probably others.  Plot: five marines--Corbin (prizefighter Ted Vernon), Curry (&lt;em>X-Men 2&lt;/em>'s Michael David Simms), Jack (&lt;em>Terminator 2&lt;/em>'s Richard Vidan), Bert (&lt;em>Night Angel&lt;/em>'s B. J. Turner), and Roxanne (Kristina Sanborn in her only screen role to date)--hijack a plane containing the entire payroll for Camp Pendleton (I'm not sure what it was in 1988, but today, Pendleton has a population of about 100,000; that's a lotta scratch), kidnapping the pilot and his daughter, intending to fly to Mexico. Well, you know how these things go, and they end up having to abandon ship over a creepy cemetery on a farm owned by the Fowler family, who are a few bricks shy of a load, and have a pretty effective system for keeping people off the property--undead who masquerade as scarecrows. Once the marines are on the ground, it's all about survival horror.  To be fair, it could've been &lt;em>more&lt;/em> about survival horror. Marines vs. zombies? How much fun could we have with that? Wesley makes it into a pretty straight supernatural slasher, and I reiterate that for a supernatural slasher it's not a bad movie at all, effective and tense and loads of fun. Wesley, who (as of this writing) has directed only one other feature, the 2001 Lou Diamond Phillips vehicle &lt;em>Route 666&lt;/em>, had some interesting ideas and enough competence to pull them off. It's my fault, not the movie's, that I was looking for a steel cage match between Rambo and Bill Hinzman. Worth checking out, if you've never seen it and you're a fan of the genre. *** ½

MISSION to MARS "MISSION TO MARS" begins in 2020 with the introduction of all the crew members and their families at a farewell celebration before the launch of NASA's Mars One spaceship. The Mars Two will launch a year later and relieve the first team. We'll get to know all the members and their backgrounds so we can sympathize as they die horrible and agonizing deaths. Sound exciting, right? Well you be the judge.  The first team lands safely and the Martian landscape looks pretty convincing so after about a year of chipping away at rocks and probing our scientists finally have to investigate a strange looking object at the peak of a mountain. They point a radar at the thing and boost the power, they shouldn't had done that. All kinds of bad things begin to happen. Turns out the Martians left the security system on.  A grainy static frizzy message is bounced off a Martian satellite to Earth for help and the Mars Two team has to rush and prepare a rescue mission. The weird thing is the ship is renamed the "Mars Recovery". Which I'm to understand means you're too late for a live rescue and it's now considered a recovery. You know,like in recovering bodies.  Anyway, our heroes back on Earth take off to Mars and wouldn't you just know it, minutes before orbital insertion freaking meteoroids, pebbles in space that's going to really screw up the paint job on your new rocket ship. The good news is it's still under the four million mile warranty. Bad news is they fix most of the holes except the most important one on an external fuel line and blow their ship up. Don't give up hope, after a major sacrifice and we go through the sad scene, we find most of our guys safely down on Mars. The wife of the poor guy that sacrificed himself seems to have recovered and she's okay now. If we learn anything from this movie it's that husband and wife teams are not a good idea on long trips in space.  They find the sole survivor and repair the Mars One ship but before they return to Earth they have to temp fate once more and go poking around that old Martian relic.  They figure out the message left by the ancient people and are shown the secrets of creation. Turns out Creationists and Big Bang Evolution theorists were both wrong and we lose another astronaut. Well not so much as lose but he doesn't go back to Earth. He was pouting all through the movie anyway because his wife became ill and died while they were training at NASA for the first Mars' mission, blah, blah, blah.  Okay, I'm a huge fan of just about anything to do with Mars so I'm going to give this movie four stars just for the background and effects. I think it's worth a look.  Please be kind to animals and report any abuse.   Thanks, Goodcat S.C.

Matt Damon is really an actor! An amusing, understated movie. Matt Damon is completely believable as a self-deluded schlub. He really is an actor, I didn't know that before.

John du Prey - Classical Review « Les F&eacute;lins » (en français, B&W, dirig&eacute; par Ren&eacute; Cl&eacute;ment ; alias « La Cage d'Amour » dans le Royaume-Uni et « la Maison de Joy » dans les Etats-Unis ; d&eacute;visageant Delon, Jane Fonda, et Lola Albright) l'a tous - un Robert Comme &lt; a photographi&eacute; raidement le film d'&eacute;vasion &eacute;troit > (voit « Le Livre Noir », 1949, B&W) a transform&eacute; en un classique de myst&egrave;re/thriller de film français extrêmement rapide. Il a la perfection sublime de temps en temps avec le dialogue intime superbe entre Delon et Albright. Leur sur l'&eacute;cran &lt; a tenu l'entreprise & proche en > le baiser peut singe vos sourcils (il pourrait avoir fondu la lentille d'appareil photo). Elle avec l'intensit&eacute; pleine de d&eacute;sir directe le supplierait, il r&eacute;pondrait en embrassant son visage, lui roucoulant, calmant ses inqui&eacute;tudes, grignotant &agrave; sa l&egrave;vre plus basse ; elle donnerait en partiellement (Pourquoi ? ), et il lui chuchoterait alors comme un amant consacr&eacute; mais prudent. Les femmes appr&eacute;cient-elles en fait ce type d'attention ? Probablement. Devoir c'est inexprim&eacute; de temps en temps ; je suppose si.  Ebranler la passion fait clairement pour exciter des moments quand deux acteurs traversent cette ligne dans l'oubli romantique. Cette tension entre l'homme et la femme est si tendue de temps en temps : il se sent comme un tuyau en nylon est tir&eacute; votre tête et vous suffoquez en aspirant son parfum. Il pourrait allumer un feu long par le tapis doux ; ce renverser d'intimit&eacute; dans les s&eacute;quences de chasse. Le drame exceptionnel comme ceci m&eacute;rite une r&eacute;compense, un mots de louange, un soulever du voile pour permettre des d&eacute;clarations que les femmes ch&eacute;rissent quand chuchot&eacute; par un bel amant au temps juste. Peut-être nous observons la passion peu subtile chaque fois notre h&eacute;ros &eacute;chappe ses poursuivants et ses fins sur parler avec l&eacute;ger et dirige de côt&eacute; le contact avec les yeux &agrave; ou la femme, que deux semble l'aimer malgr&eacute; son potentiel être captur&eacute; ou être tu&eacute; &agrave; n'importe quel moment - avant leurs yeux mêmes. Pouvoir j'ajoute, « Les F&eacute;lins » a des ex&eacute;cutions passionn&eacute;es, rapides comme un mouvement de l&eacute;opard par Delon, et la cin&eacute;matographie sup&eacute;rieure.  Ce film r&eacute;sonne clairement une direction exacte dans le complot quand le caract&egrave;re de Delon vainc son ravisseur tr&egrave;s tôt dans j'Agit, abat une auto en car&egrave;ne de la falaise dans les profondeurs d'oc&eacute;an en est tir&eacute; &agrave;, et nage alors comme un poisson par le courant de fond dans l'a fil&eacute; le refuge d'un bassin ; il court sur l'escalier et &eacute;chappe la mort aux mains d'hommes qui cherche le faire le grand mal. Son mouvement, son agilit&eacute;, son charisme, sa stature comme un acteur physique capable de travail de tour de force passionnant, et les traits de Juan de Don presque incroyables entre les sauts et les sauts - excite le t&eacute;l&eacute;spectateur au-del&agrave; de l'empathie normale ; &agrave; moins que je suis m&eacute;pris. Me pardonner pour l'être pr&eacute;somptueux.  Extrêmement recommander ce film fantastique. Il a l'intention subtile partout, comme un saphir qui luit brillant dans le clair de lune. « Les F&eacute;lins » frappe si dans son originalit&eacute; que l'un doit se pencher en avant pour &eacute;viter manquer &lt; ses yeux qui elle supplient ou ses yeux qui lui adorent >. Faire taire maintenant, la colombe douce ; votre vol est assur&eacute;, le sommeil calmera vos &eacute;motions pour la nuit.

Birthday gift I purchased True Grit as a birthdat gift for my oldest son.  He ia a die hard fan of John Waynes.  They share May 26 as their birthday.

I liked it. Entertaining. I liked it. Marky Mark did a good job acting. If you like action adventure movies - reminds me of a lot of the 80s/90s "classics" Terminator, Rambo etc shootem up movies. Has a little bit of a Bronson "Paul Kersey" revenge feel at the end.

surprised I must say Im surprised how much I enjoyed this little snowboarder movie.. Having picked it up just from ED Westwick on cover ( i love gossip girl) I actually very much found the story of Kim a girl from england trying to find herself and get over her past to be a very endering movie.. great choice for a nice night in

mclintock this is one of my favorite john wayne films. with maureen o'hara at his side it is part comedic and historical. john wayne plays john wayne. it is a lighter side of some of his dramas.

Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi This was a great movie. I would watch it again. It was not over played or unreal.Not hard to follow when it comes to foriegn language.

The Notebook The reason this got four stars instead of five is the cheap packaging. That's my only complaint. As far as the actual movie goes, hello, it's the Notebook. The movie itself deserves 5 stars.

The world's a cold place without love As I watched this I went through moments of hating it due to the absurdity of so many of the plot elements.  I think that only the presence of Phoenix and Danes carried me along.  But, at the end I found myself feeling strangely good and that's not a bad thing. The idea is simple...it's in the title.  It's a well-intentioned, probably highly flawed, film but you can't argue with the basic thought---that "it's all about love."  If you can suspend your rational mind for a while and just accept the beautiful people and the beautiful images, you might like the film a lot more than if you insist on it making good sense.  Both Joaquin Phoenix and Claire Danes give moving performances.  Some reviewers complain about their wavering accents but I thought they did a good job by going lightly on the accents.  Claire, especially, seemed to convey the sense of an Eastern European woman in a subtle but real way.  The cinematography is startling beautiful in places.  The quartet of the "four Elena's" on ice was hauntingly lovely.  The film isn't for everyone, as you can tell by the mixed reviews.  I suggest it for people who have a strong visual sense and are open to poetic images.

Sure, it's improbable, but FUNNY! I was very pleasantly surprised by Just Go With It.  My wife and I are fans of Aniston and Sandler, so we figured we'd give it a shot and it turned out to be really funny!  In fact, one of the funniest movies we've seen in a while.  Sure, there's a lot that isn't probable in it, and some plot points that are glossed over with little depth, but this is a romantic comedy!  There are some brilliantly funny scenes, more than one of which involve Dolph Lundgren (no, not THAT Dolph Lundgren).  Light-hearted, feel good, and laugh-out-loud funny at MANY points, this movie is highly recommended, despite the critical reviews.

Just as ITM promised.... No unwanted surprises. ITM said the overwrap was gone, it was; the white security strip intact, it was; and never viewed...idk about that, but the movie was in great viewing condition. So I'm pleased.

Soylent Green My husband thought it was dull and boring, maybe so by todays standards but it scared me when I was kid thinking we might end up this way in the future at the rate the economy is going can it still happen? Scary!

Sweet Bird of Youth This movie was ahead of it's time.  The inuendos and the subtleness of them are wonderful. The fact that an abortion had been performed and the doctor was getting the girl as a prize is unbelieveable. Paul Newman's character is so selfish but your heart feels for him. I just loved the movie.

"He was a cop, and good at his job..." A Review of Season One, Mill Creek Edition Behind <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JOA4">Falcon Crest</a>, "Renegade" is Lorenzo Lamas's chief claim to fame and certainly the body and soul of his action hero image. What we have here is a TV show that almost perfectly encapsulates the essence of the low-budget martial arts/action movie genre of the early-to-mid '90s, and which kept Lamas in the mainstream after his tenure in soap drama. I had eyed its DVD incarnation for a few years and recently I gave in to Mill Creek's release of the first season, and that's what this review will consist of: the content of season one and, to a lesser extent, Mill Creek's production of it. It's much better than I expected...  The story: dirty cops seeking to keep their illegal dealings a secret frame detective Reno Raines (Lamas) for murder, leaving his fianc&eacute; comatose in the process and him on the run. Hooking up with Native American bounty hunter Bobby Sixkiller (Branscome Richmond, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JKYX">The Scorpion King</a>) and his half-sister Cheyenne (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VI70Y0">Kathleen Kinmont</a>, Lamas' real-life wife), he takes on an alias and the mantle of bounty hunter as well ("an outlaw hunting outlaws"), as he waits for an opportunity to prove his innocence.  As the star, Lorenzo Lamas does pretty good. While the Reno Raines role isn't fantastic and definitely could have been written to make him interesting beyond Lamas' sex appeal, the part definitely has room for growth and Lorenzo covers it smoothly. A more intriguing character comes in the form of Branscombe Richmond's Bobby Sixkiller, whose ongoing habit of pointing at the clich&eacute;s of his Native American identity is prone to get on your nerves once in a while but he's nevertheless entertaining and extremely confident in his acting. At times I wish he was the lead instead of Lamas, and it would've been nice if he had gotten into more solo work after the show. I'm not sure how I feel about the inclusion of Kathleen Kinmont's character: Kinmont is certainly inoffensive and plays the role better than her wife-of-the-star status would assume, but I can't help but think that the role's just there for the sake of convenience, since she rarely contributes to the story as anything more than a pair of helping hands. Still, her occasional physical exploits are fun, and - underdeveloped as it is in the first season - I like the relationship between her and Bobby.  Occasionally more interesting than the main cast is the series' choice in supporting stars for individual episodes. The show helps earn its genuine action movie vibe from its choice of costars, many of them staple players from the action circuit: you've got well-known guys like Cary Tagawa (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004AWQBQG">Mortal Kombat</a>) and Jesse Ventura (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003GX5CWY">Predator</a>) making satisfying appearances, but also cameos by lifetime supporting characters like Al Leong (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000O77SRC">Die Hard</a>) and Donald Gibb (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006RCOC">Bloodsport</a>). Dig it.  In my book, an action movie can get by without having a particularly intelligent story, but sixteen hours of TV programming can't, so how does the first installment of "Renegade" stack up? Well, the show's a lot more episodic than I normally care for - every now and then we'll look back at Reno's fianc&eacute; or what the dirty cops are up to, but there's no true overlying arc or mission - and yet I'm pleased that the episodes are mostly microcosms of action movies by themselves, making them entertaining despite the lack of show-to-show connectivity. The majority of the episodes are variations of the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000K0YLZ0">Yojimbo</a> template, with Reno & co. riding into a town en-route to a bounty and ending up helping the townsfolk with some sort of violent trouble. The topic of xenophobia is addressed frequently, along with domestic abuse, post-war syndromes, institutionalized brainwashing, and some others. Personally, I was never really convinced that Reno could get away with rolling around the country on a motorcycle while there's a warrant out for his arrest, and it's always uncomfortable to see him nonchalantly smooching a pretty woman while knowing that his wife-to-be is comatose, but in the end it's forgivable on account of the general fun that the series provides. Despite the legitimate gravity of some of its storylines, the show never takes itself too seriously. While I'd be hard-pressed to sit down and watch episode after episode, it was fun to see one or two every other day, and this way, I leisurely finished the season in a little over a month.  "Renegade" is an action-oriented series and therefore can't escape scrutiny over its adrenaline content. Succinctly, I didn't have high hopes but was still somewhat disappointed. Each episode is usually limited to one or two shootouts and the same amount of hand-to-hand scuffles, and sometimes there's a car chase thrown in. At least once, the season afforded itself a helicopter sequence. While this seems fine and good on the surface, the fact is that these scenes generally feel like mandatory window dressing: very little creativity is afforded the setups or choreography, and the result is that each scene feels familiar and unimportant. I was most struck by this when it came to the martial arts content: Lamas would prove himself to be an above-average film fighter in direct-to-video fare, but even though he throws nice kicks and eventually has a couple of well-rounded fights in the last two episodes, he's mostly underutilized, even when it comes to fighting another legitimate martial artist like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002BWP3W0">Michael Jai White</a> (he would, however, make up for this somewhat with a pretty decent bout against <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006OBPTA">Martin Kove</a> in the 22nd episode).  Mill Creek's DVD release has no special features and displays noticeable cutting of pre-commercial transitions and fade-outs, but to my knowledge, none of the actual footage has been cut or censored. The picture and audio looks and sounds fine, but close scrutiny of the video on some episodes reveals apparent need for a bit more clean-up. It's nothing to gripe over, nor should it deter you from buying the set, but tech nuts might feel uncomfortable with it.  If I didn't know better, I would have looked at the first season of "Renegade" and probably enjoyed it overall but pegged the show for a short run. The fact that the show ended up running for five seasons says a lot about the mindset of the American TV audience back then, and how much I had in common with them. If the rest of the series was like this season, then I'm glad that a show this fundamentally based on macho fun had such a satisfying run. Lamas fans should not be without, and general viewers who are cool to the B-movie action vibe ought to at least investigate the show online. Thumbs up.

Love This! I love Stanley Jordan's music.  I've seen him live and he puts on a good show.  If she like him, you'll like this.

Pretty Damn Good! This is a really cool DVD. The sound is spot on and it has the full concert including Paris is Burning (missing from the USD CD release). There are some annoying split screen shots which make some of the show hard to follow as the screen gets too busy. It's worth your time and money if you enjoy the CD version of this concert. The interview portion is short, but interesting.

Typical love story with a not so everyday twist :) Even though I view it as another typical love story, the storyline is one that I haven't seen in a while. It was cute and it opens up your eyes to relationships in a sort of weird way. I love the line, "If my wife and I had fought like that, we would still be married."

Satirical History as Entertainment Dick, 1999 film  The movie starts with a view of an electric typewriter and two girls who are love with the current popularized singer. Two men across from the Watergate complex watch their apartment. Putting tape over a latch prevents the door from locking. A guard sees this and calls the police. A man with a flashlight finds them in a stairwell; the girls flee. The news tells about the burglary and the arrests. The girls visit the White House on a tour. [There are comic comments.] A man invites them to the West Wing. "I don't really think about him." Do dogs like Nixon? "Are you the President's dog trainer?" Official White House Dog Walkers? Is that Constitutional? The girls have a good excuse for being late but are not believed. The brother is drafted. "The President always means what he says." The girls use a secret recipe to bake cookies for the President. [Do they look fifteen?" "Stupid kids." The girls visit the White House again for another comic scene. "The President will see you now."  "It's a secret recipe." The secret taping machine is turned on. "Don't worry your pretty little heads." "Wow!" The girls enter a room that has cash and shredded paper. The girls will be Secret Youth Advisors. The President speaks to the nation (January 1973). Are the girls believed? They bring more cookies to the White House. "Groovy!" Soviet Premier Brezhnev loves the cookies too. [High sugar content?] Have they saved the world from a nuclear catastrophe? [Too good to be true?] Arlene dreams of Nixon, as if in a commercial. Who are those "snot nose reporters"? Arlene telephones Nixon, he knows nothing about Watergate. Can he do something for her or her family? "Why does the President need a lawyer?" [Everybody needs a lawyer at some time in their lives.] The girls find a tape machine hidden in a desk drawer. Arlene leaves a message: "I love you". She talked for eighteen and a half minutes! They play back the tape. Should the President record conversations like that? [Yes, it goes back a long way.] Those `Washington Post' reporters are liars. "What dog?" Nixon has a report on them. Overdue library books! "Get out and never come back!" "Its too late for apologies."  Arlene falls out of love, those photos are burned in the house. [No smoke alarms.] The girls whisper about a movie. One calls Bob Woodward about things. Does she have documents? Yes, a list of names and cash amounts. They will meet in an underground parking garage. "Deep Throat." Do trench coats and sunglasses make them inconspicuous? They talk. "They all look alike." The documents? "The dog ate it." A black van follows the girls. Creepy? There is a telephone conversation. Is it fail-safe? A strange man meets Arlene at home. Later their home is burglarized. Clicks on their telephone line? "I'm not a crook." They run outside. A threat to National Security from stupid teenage girls? Can they find those tapes at the Haldeman house?  John Dean is a team player. "We never met." Can Arlene find an important reel of tape? [More comic scenes.] The tape has the goods on Dick. Their sources are "embarrassing". John Dean resigned. How high will it go? Did Nixon know? Woodward and Bernstein win a Pulitzer Prize. Dick hears Arlene's message. "Maybe that's why he is so paranoid?" The TV set tells of Nixon's resignation. "They'll never lied to us again." The song played while Nixon leaves is "You're so vain". When did these girls ever learn to sew a swimsuit from a flag? The ending messages are also funny. What is a "roller disco"? What is more vain than a fashion fad?  If you remember history from forty years ago you'll find this screwball comedy funny. Its worth watching, but not all the scenes are equally funny. This film reminds you how the corporate media doesn't always tell the truth, like politicians. Or Hollywood movies. Woodward's previous experience was not in Journalism (like Bernstein) but in Naval Intelligence.

Love the Genre, Great adaptation! Love the story, loved the dark side of hero worship!  The director's cut is definitely more gory, but well worth it. The editorial extras are interesting, but a bit dry.  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001QTXM5Y">Watchmen: The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)</a>

Awesome Blu Ray Set! This blu ray trilogy set is absolutely worth picking up. I do have all 3 movies on dvd, but this is one film franchise I don't mind double dipping into. The transfers to blu ray are spectacular. Great picture quality, and sound. My only complaint is that the special features for the first 2 films are non existent, but like I said, I have the dvds so if I needed to get my special feature fix then I could just pop those in. If your like me and love these movies, then do yourself a favor and get the set. You won't be disappointed!

A horse without nationality The story is written from Joey's perspective, in the first person. This was a little awkward for me at first, but Morpurgo does a good job of making the point of view believable. Joey can't talk with other people or animals, though he shares his thoughts with the reader. His interactions with others are the same as you might expect from a horse, which adds to the believability.  Joey's limited knowledge of the world serves to add to the novel's themes. He doesn't understand boundaries, and as such there is no difference in his mind between England and France. He has no idea of nationality. He likes everybody all the same. The men around him, whether German or English or French, admire him as beautiful. Joey serves as a common thread between all people. If everyone can fall in love with a horse, then why can't they love one another, too? There's even a wonderful scene in No Man's Land where a Scotsman and a German wave a temporary truce to free Joey from barbed wire, converse about the tragedies of war, flip a coin for possession of the horse, and sadly reflect that in an hour they might be shooting at each other.  The novel's main weakness is that Joey, as a horse, can't do much to affect the story himself. He is guided along, as if on rails, and his destiny depends on where other men take him. However, Morpurgo writes the story in such a way that this isn't much of a problem. He is a horse, anyway.  This works well as Young Adult fiction, but even adults will find something to enjoy. While there is a lot of violence, much of it occurs outside of Joey's perspective. We know people die, but Joey rarely sees it happen. It's an easy read, and the perspective of horses in World War I is a unique topic. If you like horses and/or you're a war buff, you'll find something to enjoy here.

Nice but some possible sound issues? I noticed when I was playing just the 3D Blu-Ray disk that there was no analog sound output coming from the RCA jacks.  Maybe I'm doing something wrong?

lake como in 1939 i liked this movie.  it was quiet, quaint and vanessa redgrave and edward fox were very good in their roles.  i was not so keen on uma thurman.  it was worth the price i paid.

Show great, extras not so much In the aftermath of Trinity and Rita's death, this season of Dexter finds him off-balance, his "normal" mask gone, kids to raise, a killer/victim to train/save.  I really liked Julia Stiles in the role of Lumen -- although I finally had to pause an episode and look her up on IMDB.com to figure out where I knew her from.  The alternating cold, creepy, revenge-seeker and terrified victim is quite a departure from "The Prince and Me"-'s Paige Morgan.  For just the episodes themselves, I would have given Dexter, The Fifth Season 5 stars.  I took off one star because the box promised "Special Features: ... Via E-Bridge Technology: - Interviews with Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, C.S. Lee, Lauren Velez, Julia Stiles, James Remar, Desmond Harrington, Chip Johannessen and David Zayas - Reflecting on Season Five: Julia Stiles"  I'm still not sure what "E-Bridge Technology" is or how to access it, but despite my best efforts, I was unable to access any of these special features.  Internet searches elicited comments that they may not even exist.  I'm inclined to agree.  If a DVD is going to promise a special feature, please put it ON the DVD!

Odd, Exhilerating, Interesting - Left a Bit Much Unresolved Though This was a truly unique movie, and the young star, Saoirse Ronan, puts in an exceptional performance that will hopefully lead to much more to come for her. She is gorgeous and ethereal on screen, with a face that subtly displays every emotion, without overacting. It's hard to say too much about the plot of this movie without spoiling it, so I won't, but basically Eric Bana plays her father, and the movie starts with them in a remote, frozen tundra where he is training her as an assassin or warrior of some type, although we don't really know why. Cate Blanchett also stars, as an intelligence officer somehow embroiled in what is going. The movie is an action adventure, but the pacing, filming, music, and soulfulness are more indie than blockbuster, and the entire thing really hinges on the performance of Saoirse Ronan, who more than pulls it off.  I was engaged all the way through, but my husband found it a bit slow and dull in parts. I was OK with the pacing - I appreciated the more nuanced character development, which you don't usually see in action films - but I did think the ending lacked a bit. While I welcome the attempt to not simply tie everything up in a neat little bow, in this case a little too much was left unexplained, IMHO. So that's the only reason I give it 4, rather than 5, stars. But definitely worth seeing.

Devoured by DeVour DeVour was a fun movie. I have to admit the only reason I bought it was because of Jensen Ackles. The best part was that I only expected Sam Winchester to appear to save the day once or twice. Ackles didn't remind me of Dean Winchester at all. Several unexpected twist in the movie made it worth watching. I've watched it twice already so what more can I say.

the thrills and romance of working security... Paul Blart Mall Cop (2009) provides some mild laughs mostly based on the personality and physique of Kevin James.  James (The King Of Queens) who co-wrote the film and stars as Blart, doesn't seem to be interested in showcasing himself to excess, as some in comedy are prone to.  And James is not afraid to poke a little fun at himself, and his slightly pudgy build.  Directed by Steve Carr, the film incorporates some action sequences that perks things up, and a goofy but entirely expected romantic element, that isn't too intrusive or syrupy sweet.  A security guard for ten years, Paul Bart has dreams of joining the New Jersey State Police, but has been unable to pass the tests, mainly due to his less than ideal physical condition.  A single father of one, Blart is also looking for love, and sets his sights on Amy Anderson the owner of a hair accessory kiosk in the mall.  After giving Amy a cozy ride to her car on his Segway, it appears that the big guy might actually have a chance, but after getting drunk and making a fool of himself, the opportunity may have been lost.  The drunk scene seems out of place, as Blart comes off as an unsympathetic jerk.  Things between Paul and Amy are up in the air, when a criminal gang led by Blart's new partner Veck Simms (Keir O'Donnell), takes over the mall, chases everyone out, and locks it down.  The plan is to obtain as many security codes as possible, and then electronically steal funds.  After the takeover, just the gang, a few hostages in the bank including Amy, and Blart, remain in the mall.  Blart establishes radio contact with his boss, and the police who have surrounded the mall.  What follows is kind of fun, as the mall cop singlehandedly battles Veck's crew of extreme sport enthusiasts.  The stunts are cool, but not spectacular, with the incident where Blart is trapped in a ventilation duct, probably the funniest.  Each gang member that Blart puts out of commission, gets Veck more annoyed, but he can't get too nasty in a PG-13er.  Stuart (Stephen Rannazzisi) another of the hostages, predictably turns out to be a weasel, and the addition of Blart's daughter Maya (Raini Rodriguez) to the hostages, raises the stakes in the game.  To its credit, the film doesn't push things to extremes trying to be funny, and there are a few unexpected twists that make things a little more interesting.  The final twist may be one too many but the crisis is resolved so quickly that it hardly matters, as Paul Blart rises to the occasion and emerges as a hero.  Goofy, clean, fun for the entire family, the chances are we haven't seen the last of Mr. Blart.

"I ran into some ninja last night..." It's bad cess whenever the girl dies on you on the first date. Chuck Norris plays Scott James, once a world-renowned martial arts champion and currently on a date with a beautiful dancer. Scott is invited inside her home, at which point ninjas just erupt out of the woodwork. And just like that, Scott James is dragged back into the world of deadly martial arts and eventually into direct conflict with his sinister adopted brother.  1980's THE OCTAGON came pretty early in Chuck Norris' acting career, but even at this stage he'd already made inroads in establishing himself as a cinematic action star. He'd already laid down that man of few words persona. From jump Norris came across as regular folks, and that, I think, is what made audiences flock to the theater to check out his films. Didn't hurt, too, that he was a legitimate martial arts champion, having won multiple titles in karate before he retired. 183 wins to 10 losses ain't no joke.  I prefer early Chuck Norris to veteran actor Chuck Norris. His films from the late '70s to the early '80s just came with more energy, and I think he hit his peak with CODE OF SILENCE in '85. THE OCTAGON is regarded more as a cult classic. The film's reigning cool factor is, of course, all the ninjas onscreen plying their sly trade of ninjutsu, only to get whacked upside the head by Chuck. I'll admit to this film's being hampered by a sluggish pace and dull flashback sequences (even if there's cool trivia in that Chuck's son, Mike Norris, plays his character at eighteen years old). I'll say that one of the characters, A.J., is borderline intolerable. I'll even agree that the echoplex voice-over plot device - utilized to register Chuck's inner monologue - gets pretty damn silly. I guess the echoplex comes in handy in that it fleshes out Scott James that much more. Chuck Norris really doesn't have a lot of lines in his movies.  Characters keep trying to manipulate Scott, keep trying to pull him back into his old world. He's persistently harried by a beautiful heiress (Karen Carlson) and by a right wing anti-terrorist vigilante (Lee Van Cleef, looking shifty as ever). Later, he's approached by sultry Carol Bagdasarian's character who also wants him to take on the ninjas. Running parallel to Scott's dilemma is a story arc which takes place in a secret ninja training camp, the goal of which is to impart ninja tactics to mercenaries from around the globe. This camp is headed up by Scott's adopted brother, Seikura (Tadashi Yamashita). But keep your eye on the more imposing figure of his enforcer Kyo (played by another martial artist Richard Norton).  The story's shoddy execution in pace is salvaged by the action-packed final twenty minutes, that's when Scott James at last fully commits to taking out the Octagon organization and he sets out to infiltrate the ninja compound. Chuck Norris, in motion, is a whirling dervish. He takes out hapless ninja goons with whiplash combination of strikes and kicks, and when he gets his mitts on ninja weaponry, he uses them to lay waste to even more sucker ninjas. Watch for one scene in which Chuck navigates a series of wooden platforms thru a water hazard area. Chuck performs an impressive forward flip and catapults a ninja in the water, and he keeps that ninja trapped underwater with a leg until he drowns. Except that the stuntman in the ninja costume couldn't draw a breath thru his wet mask and the guy almost really did drown.  The film's absolute highlight is the dynamically choreographed showdown between Chuck and Richard Norton near the end. This is a tasty fighty fight with both cats getting their licks in. It showcases Norris at his best. It makes me rate the film 3.5 stars out of 5, instead of only 3 stars. Never underestimate the influence of an impeccably delivered roundhouse kick.  The film is shown in full screen format, which renders me all kinds of incensed. The DVD's bonus features: The in-depth "Making of THE OCTAGON" documentary (00:39:27 minutes long); "How American Cinema Changed Hollywood Forever" - a featurette chronicling the rise and collapse of the American Cinema Group, an independent film company that revamped how movies were marketed and a company that also produced and distributed a series of box office hits, including several Chuck Norris pictures: A FORCE OF ONE, THE OCTAGON (00:27:57 minutes); Cast & Crew biographies; and THE OCTAGON theatrical trailer and TV promo spot.

To the point I purchased this for a Psychology of Women's class. It is to the point about gender differences, which there are only slightly differences. It was useful and short.

A very wrapped & fitting ending This show has changed so much over a 10 year run. The only original characters left were Clark of course and Chloe(MY FAVORITE). The original laws of anyone who finds out he has powers dies ended long ago. Fot a few seasons It was nothing more than a night time soap opera. With everything for 1 special effect was even gone. Still the effects of there slow motion technique, allowing us to see what happens In the blink of an eye Is well worked and Impressive. So now the ending. Without giving anything away, It was the most creative season In 3 years. Everything and the many many subplots were all explained or had an ending. I guess that's the good thing about knowing It was the last season the cast seemed to want to work even harder for that lasting Impression of their acting. I'd give this 5 stars If I was rating my personal taste and if a 4.5 I would but I can't give It 5 stars. It's just not In that catagory In any way. BUT please all you long time fans will love the season and 2 episode ending. After Zod, this was fresh and Lois of course who brought the show the best new blood of all when she arrived' Is the best of the season again. I believe her and Tess are the best actors on the show. Get this on Blu Ray If you can, It's eye popping. The top of the daily Planet , and everything. Hope this helps at all.

Enjoyable movie! Not for everyone but I enjoyed the movie.  Still not sure why it was pulled from the theaters. It was believable and you cared for the characters.

The beat The movie with the beat has stuck in my head since young. I wanted to go back and visit in this era. A new time. A patty duke fan still.

Need a strong stomach This movie was definitely disturbing.  It's not for the faint at heart.  The acting was superb and the reversal of events was a clever twist.  It gave the viewer one surprise after another.

Remember the Night Rider I loved the Mad Max movies,the first one is pretty good if you haven't watched it in a long time.I've never liked racing movies or high-speed pursuit movies except the Mad Max films...it's just good old-fashion action without slow-motion moments or re-hashed effects you see in modern movies.The movie has one thing I wished they changed-the legendary villian known as the Night Rider dies at the beginning of the film,yet throughout the film the biker gang he led honors his name deeply yet throughout the story you just don't get to see what made the Night Rider so legendary.Overall a good film.

Desmond's I loved this show, it was nostalgic. A plus for caribbean families living abroad and longing to return home either to retire or visit. A positive image of Afro-caribbean life, and so inline with the Cosby era of sitcom.

Love this movie I love this movie! If you hate sci-fi you probably won't like it. I saw this movie in the theatre when it first came out and I fell in love with Milla.

"HOT TRIANGLE" doesn't begin to describe this...... .....strangely philosophical and sometimes wondrous take on the Lives & Loves of men and women in today's world.  BUT, hold on a sec...hasn't the behavior we are being shown likely EVER been so....even in humankind's earliest days, in the dark protectiveness of caves?  Well, whether that is the case or not...now and today, a most perceptive Director of Film (Tom Tykwer) is giving us a stripped bare view into the lives of 2 Men and 1 Woman....the "3" who make up this proverbial TRIANGLE.  So, you need only sit back...relax...then watch and see:  ....Their discovery, first, of love with one another----then, finally, a loving-union of the "3".  I cannot tell you that the Male-Female Hook-up (can we call it "illicit") being shown us is any differently played out than in 100s of movie stories which have come before.  BUT...on the other hand, and strikingly so, it is in the Male / Male "Connection" where you will find the Difference in this film.  In a mainstream production such as this, rarely will you ever see shown Physically Realistic (and Tender) lovemaking between 2 men....being presented in such a forthright manner.  Devid Striesow ("Adam") and Sebastian Schipper ("Simon") absolutely "ZING" in their scenes together.  The word, Hot, does not describe it; though if written as HOT, perhaps it begins to do so.  (WORD OF ADVICE:  Director Tykwer's use of "split screen" techniques throughout, sometimes showing 4 to 6 activities occuring in one scene/shot, makes some of the "HOT actions" a bit difficult to follow and fully enjoy.  Better you watch on video....rather than in the theater.)  As to the movie's performers and their abilites, these "3" actors are highly competent and experienced (extensive film histories)....though perhaps not being in the paparazzi-pursued, top tier of German celebs.  YET, what they truly are is BELIEVABLE....bringing you to a point of SUDDENLY realizing their characters' origin:  ....Perhaps from Earth's First Garden----but here we are being given a "Hanna"...a "Simon"....and, most especially, "The Enticer".  So...this Enticer; what can be said about him?  Maybe just this, Reader Mine:  ....When your self-image is at its lowest...and your need to be desired is at its highest, just stop and look around you.  HE's out there, close by....waiting, waiting to enfold you in Tenderness and Excitement.  Waiting to make the rest of your life its very Happiest.  I'll say Goodbye to you now...upon leaving this Garden of "3".  And concede that this story may, perhaps, contain instances of possibly over-dramatized familial and midlife crises---not to mention startling images of a male medical procedure.  Nevertheless, this is a work which I will be re-watching on a somewhat regular basis---concentrating on the Male / Male action, of course.  (Uh..oh).  PS:  For those interested, see the excellent Devid Striesow in the very good and "gay-tinged" 2004 film production:  "BEFORE THE FALL".  That is, IF you can find it available as a rental; used DVD copies are going for a high price.  Oh, and for something very "different"...but very well done (in a "straight" love story mode), try Tykwer's 2002 "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004SUDQBS">Heaven</a>" (Cate Blanchett).  You, likely, will not be sorry.  PPS:  Don't forget about signing up for "DVD Release Notification", here at Amazon.com....if you are interested in viewing 2011's, perhaps, most celebrated gay-themed releases:  "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005WIE2R2">Weekend [Blu-ray</a>]".  GOOD TIP:  If you own an All-Regions DVD Player, this release will become available on March 19, 2012, at Amazon.com United Kingdom (click Link at bottom of this page).

The Birth of Hammer Horror England's Hammer Film Productions had been around since 1934 and gone through bankruptcy, reorganization, and a purchase by Exclusive Films.  Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, English law required that a certain number of English films be made for every American film imported; Hammer specialized in these "quota quickies," for which Exclusive acted as distributor.  But by the late 1940s and early 1950s Hammer's product improved, and a series of business deals brought an infusion of cash.  Then, in 1955, the popular film THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT gave the studio a brainstorm: an up-dated version of Mary Shelly's FRANKENSTEIN, complete with color, bloody gore, and heaving breasts.  Seen today, it is hard to know what all the fuss was about; there is no nudity, the gore is almost circumspect in comparison with such films as SCREAM, and the graphic surgeries used to create the monster tend to happen just slightly off screen or in scenes that fade out before anything particularly unpleasant can be seen.  Even so, censors were so horrified by the film that they rated it X, and critics were so outraged that they described it as debasing, depressing, and degrading.  Needless to say, audiences on both sides of the Atlantic flocked to see it, and "Hammer Horror" was born.  Mary Shelly's novel has never been closely adapted to the screen, and this particular version is no different from the rest.  On this occasion we find Victor Frankenstien (Peter Cushing) less a serious scientist than a cold-blooded nut who doesn't draw the line at committing murder in order to get the body parts he needs for his experiment (Christopher Lee.)  Victor's former tutor and current assistant Paul (Robert Urquhart) becomes increasingly disenchanted with it, considers Victor insane, and remains in the house only to protect Victor's cousin and fiancee Elizabeth (Hazel Court) from harm.  But soon even this motivation is not enough, Paul flees the scene, and Elizabeth's curiosity about Victor's lab gets the better of her--with predictable results.  Although it isn't a patch on Universal's FRANKENSTEIN, Hammer's THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN is entertaining in its own way.  True, it longer has the power to shock, but the cast is quite good, the laboratory set is fun, and the re-imagining of Frankenstein as coldly evil and his creation as almost machine-like is a stroke of genius.  The money came rolling in for the film, and Hammer would go on to make six more Frankenstein films between 1958 and 1973--when, of course, the studio wasn't making Dracula films.  The Hammer movies may not have been "A" films, but they were certainly better and a great deal more sophisticated than most "B" films of their era, and they remain fun to watch.  Recommended to fans of the genre.  GFT, Amazon Reviewer

Flawed But Worth Watching If I'm going to give a rating, it is really 3 1/2 stars.  This could have been a great film, but it lost focus on the way.  Some of that loss was in the contradictions of the film and its main actor, Willem Dafoe. At times Dafoe is a stunning actor, at other times his mannerisms overwhelm the character and cloud the film. One review of the film mentions what seems to be a trivial point about him always keeping his hair in place, even when he is in the bush for weeks at a time - but it isn't trivia, it is observation. It is about an actor losing the focus of the film even as he loses himself within it. At times that ironically suits this film - because in the end the film is about the search for love, with its turns of loss and discovery and of sadness and joy.  Stunning cinematography aids the film immensely, and poses questions about the massive loss the earth has incurred under human hands without once preaching about it. Those underpinnings of muted thought and elegant visuals could have made for a classic. But some of the vanity as illustrated above and a loss of clarity in the plot and writing cut those aspirations short. The schism of the locals hating those who want to save their paradise was handled somewhat haphazardly, and so an occasion to render the love-hate relationship between nature and nurture is lost.  Still, it does have some very good points - primary amongst them the lack of bludgeoning the viewer with ready-made talking points and chase-explosions blockbuster window dressing. But some trite turns of the scene in the middle and at the end dull these positives a bit.  The film somehow feels like something that was originally strong(er) was later dulled - in re-write maybe?  And possibly a stronger person in direction could have told Dafoe to get a little dirtier too.

Genius or just weird? First of all, you probably need a kind of weird, offbeat, twisted, morbid sense of humor like I do to watch this show.  It's seriously unique, that's for sure.  Premise is basic enough, and I'll sum it up in a couple of sentences since you can just look it up yourself.  Ryan (Elijah Wood) is a lost slacker, used-to-be lawyer that tries to commit suicide, and his neighbor who he sort of has a crush on has a dog named Wilfred.  The catch is that only Ryan and the viewers see Wilfred as a grown man in a dog suit; everyone else just sees a dog.  That premise is strange enough, right?  Basically, Wilfred is constantly provoking Ryan and making him think, while being kind of a jerk who sets him up a lot to get him in trouble and in messy situations.  He's also sometimes creepy and a total liar.  Not to mention, this dog loves to smoke marijuana, drink booze and smoke cigarettes.  Yet he still does "dog-like" things, like being confused over a laser light, being overprotective of his owner, etc.  They touch on interesting themes, and have a "feeling" at the beginning of every episode that comes from a quote (anger, guilt, whatever).  Sometimes it's difficult to tell when this show is just being weird or is actually smart.  It is thought-provoking and like I said, a little creepy.  It's the perfect recipe for a cult classic, which it pretty much became right away.  If you have an open and strange sense of humor, give this show a chance and you might like it.

A Sleeper A very enjoyable movie, it took us back to a simpler time, my wife and I really enjoyed it.  But unlike Disney films, no happy ending.

Cutback I enjoyed the film overall but the first half has a lack of plot or story line. It was hard to keep teens interested through the whole film but I think the message that was portrayed was great. I wish Casey would have been a funny guy the way it was intended to be, his acting skills weren't the best. I think for a teen movie it needed a bit more action to really get their attention as well as get the point across. Good family film!

The Outrageous Milestone Otto Preminger was roughly 63 when he made 1968's "Skidoo," a youth-bent comedy written by Doran William Cannon, the guy responsible for the script of Robert Altman's "Brewster McCloud" (1972).  Otto even experimented taking acid along with Groucho Marx, whom he had cast as "God" (the head of "The Tree," the protection racket or the Mob).  The film also starred Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, John Phillip Law, Frankie Avalon, George Raft, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, Burgess Meredith, Frank Gorshin, Peter Lawford.  At the premiere in 1968, Gleason walked out fuming it was reported.  It was considered an abysmal flop by the critics.  Even though it was definitely a traditional Preminger picture, the whole choice of it was the result of his desire to understand the youth revolution at the time.  As with his next picture, "Tell Me that You Love Me, Junie Moon" Preminger wanted to understand what the culture was saying about love as he was always a great humanist.  The film has beforeto been shown on television rarely from the vault at the Preminger estate mostly in embarassment and a great notoriety sprung up about it.  It has been available for quite some time at a high quality DVD-R outlet called thevideobeat.com which specializes in great copies of a youth-based catalog.  They have come to my rescue in finding obscure oddities years before and sometimes as the only miraculous provider of access to these films.  I watch "Skidoo" and think the mechanics behind it are entertaining.  I mean so many staples of Preminger's career are skewered, the casting of Burgess Meredith (he turns up in many Preminger films (even in a nude scene in "Such Good Friends" (1972)), Doro Merande, Arnold Stang (from "The Man with the Golden Arm"), clips from "In Harm's Way" in a witty segment skewering the lawsuit Preminger won against television cutting his films for commercials.  Harry Nilsson did the music.  Olive Films, whose product in the recent past have been excellent, high quality transfers, has added "Skidoo" for a new era in film.  In May, they took on "Hurry Sundown" and "Such Good Friends."  I thank them sincerely for their efforts and wish them continued success.  It is terribly important that these films are available to get seen and to treat them respectfully deserves due credit.

Funny stuff Jeff Dunham is one of the best ventroloquists of this decade!! This was some funny stuff. The DVD arrived ahead of schedule. I am a very satisfied customer!

Awesome! but the package... I ordered this movie back in December, and i was so thrilled when i got it!  the only issue that i had with it was the package it came in. It came in just an envelope, which caused my case to get a bit squished, but it wasn't such a big deal.  It came with the bandana, as promised, though the only thing wrong with it was a few loose strings, but i don't think everyone else's would be like that.  Overall, i have to say it was a pretty good product and i watch Hetalia all the time. All i have to say is, Hetalia lovers, if you haven't seen this, YOU MUST WATCH IT!! &lt;3

Not writing you anything that you don't already know Recently an issue of Joe Kane's magazine , The Phantom Of The Movies VIDEOSCOPE" , featured this film squaring off with TIME AFTER TIME in the publication's Split Screen section . Film writers Tim Ferrante  and Scott Voisin , ostensibly , pitted the two films against one another in a written debate to determine which film was the better time travel feature film . Suffice it to say , there were no losers and both films were much lauded by both men (great magazine by the way) . It's been since the time of it's theatrical release that i've seen the lovely and romantic film . I own TIME AFTER TIME . I streamed SOMEWHERE IN TIME via ROKU and NETFLIX . I think i can find space on my shelves for both pictures .

Iron Lady Mery Streep gives an awesome performance as usual in this film. In Iron Lady, former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is an elderly woman who suffers with dimentia. In her mental state, she frequently converses with her beloved deceased husband when no one is nearby to overhear. The movie flashes back and forth from present day to earlier times and touches on her personal life as well as her political ambitions. Scenes from her formative years as the daughter of a grocer give glimpses into the formation of her political thought. It was in this environment that she learned firsthand the value of a hard earned dollar. No doubt, that life experience contributed to her grit as an adult. The movie may be lackluster for some but I enjoyed seeing the old girl again via Meryl Streep.

good workout for an older lady I researched this Gilad guy online and he has a pretty good track record.  This DVD is for beginner to intermediate levels. It works every part of the bod.  I'm a woman in my 50+ and have been diagnosed with high cholesterol, so I need to exercise more.  Like many people, I seem to find no time to exercise, so I have this DVD permanently set-up in my player and I make it a point to exercise 4x a week with this DVD, and let me tell you, I work out a sweat. Hard to beleive that seeing and hearing this guy on DVD would be so motivating.  Since this DVD is quite lengthy  for my own good, I tailor my workout (one session: upper body, next session: lower body), being careful to do the warm ups and cool downs (don't need to hurt myself as I don't heal up quickly like I used to). This DVD makes it possible to pick and choose what is needed, as it is divided in various sections.  Gilad explains very clearly how to do certain exercises so you won't injure yourself.  That's perfect for me due to my age and the fact that I'm out of shape. So just remember that based if you are in pretty decent shape, you will possibly find no challenge at all with this DVD.  Gilad has other DVD's on the market for all levels of fitness.  You just have to go check out the internet.  I like the setting in this video: beautiful sandy beach, inviting ocean, with people swimming or walking along the beach.  It makes you want to call the airline and go South right now (winter here...brrrr!).

Delivers exactly what should be expected! Movie goes, especially in America, are intensely over-stimulated.  Major movie producers crank out over-polished CGI "masterpieces" that are so shiny, they tend to blind you to the movie itself.  Every now and then, we all need some unexpected quantity to walk up behind us, tap us on the shoulder and sucker punch us to let us know that it is still possible to make a really good movie without all the excessive flash.  The Indonesian movie industry has done exactly that with "The Raid: Redemption."  This movie is expertly filmed with exquisite fight choreography and once the action starts, it almost never stops.  The plot is somewhat shallow and the characters are underdeveloped, but this does not exactly detract from the film.  In fact, it aids in it's enjoyment as it frees the viewer up to enjoy this movie for that it is:  an ultra-violent blood bath.  The Raid: Redemption is well worthy of being mentioned in the same sentence as such action movie classics such as Commando, Rambo: First Blood Part II, and the original Die Hard.  This is an action movie.  If you're looking for an intricate plot or deep characters, then you don't really want to watch an action movie.  If you're looking for some of the most epic violence you've ever seen, then this movie delivers and then some.

Geekfest! If you loved "Shaun of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz", or if you're just a huge geek at heart...you'd be crazy to miss this movie. The special effects used to create Paul have been sorely undervalued; the character looks real enough to blend right in with the live actors. Raunchy, hilarious, and at times even heartfelt. Good, nerdy fun.

An enjoyable Saturday afternoon flick I was very pleasantly surprised by this movie.  It has an interesting plot that holds the attention, lovely scenery, fairly good acting all around (Moore brings down the curve just a bit, but is good in the movie), and a storyline that slowly evolves and doesn't offer the solution too quickly - a great movie for a gloomy Saturday afternoon.  The supporting cast is good, and you'll probably spend some time (as I did) figuring out where you've seen them before, i.e. Henry Ian Cusick from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0036EH3WU">Lost: The Complete Collection</a>,  Hans Matheson Born, who played Thomas Cranmer in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0042RJWTC">The Tudors: The Complete Series</a>, and Kate Isitt from the BBC series <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006HBLU0">Coupling - The Complete Seasons 1-4</a>

Great movie and solid blu-ray release At this point, I will assume that everyone is familiar with the film itself - it is a great piece of entertainment.  The film itself, the image quality, and the audio specs all remain the same as the previous blu-ray release: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0042AGNC8">Spider-Man [Blu-ray</a>].  Here are the main differences between the previous Spider-Man blu-ray and this newer version: - Bonus Material, including an audio commentary and several featurette (all of which come from the Special Edition DVD but were not on the previous blu-ray) have been included here. - There is new cover art for the blu-ray - Included is an Ultraviolet streaming copy of the film that works with various portable devices so that you can watch the film on-the-go.  Obviously, the studio is releasing this new blu-ray to capitalize on/promote "The Amazing Spider-Man" film which arrives in theaters this summer.  But the least they could have done for this "new" blu-ray is give us some new material, whether it be an extended cut of the film or some new features.  So while I love this movie, I really see no reason to buy it again because it doesn't add much to the experience that I am getting now with the previous Spider-Man discs that I own.  But if you are new to blu-ray or did not own the previous version, then I highly recommend you pick this up.  And below are links to "Spider-Man 2" and "Spider-Man 3": <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007L4HF74">Spider-Man 2 (+ UltraViolet Digital Copy)  [Blu-ray</a>] <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007L4HET8">Spider-Man 3 (+ UltraViolet Digital Copy)  [Blu-ray</a>]

My God, what have I done? I am biased.  I love anything Star Trek.  The loyalty that has been portrayed by the Original ST  crew is second to none.  It even helps to put in proper context my favorite scene in the whole movie.  Not to say what happens when these words are spoken because I do not want to spoil it for anyone; but they are as Follows:  Kirk:  My god what have I done?  McCoy: You did what you had to do, what you always do; turn certain death, into a fighting chance for life.  The act that prompts this exchange is a profound moment in mythos of Star Trek.  It makes one think of the James T.  Kirk who does not believe in the "No Win scenario"  While many have earned the right to be called  Star Fleet Captain, James T Kirk will always have a special place in my heart, because of this movie.  I will add that one day while waiting to get into a studio taping of a daytime  talk show William Shatner  walked by me and "I did brush the hem of his garment"  and I was as speechless not because it was William Shatner but because in my mind it was James T Kirk and it don't get no better than that.

Classic needs subtitles This great classic, which I have in VHS, DVD, DVD Limited Edition (LE), and now in Blue Ray, needs subtitles in its Olive Film release. Also it's time to include more information about the making of High Noon in addition to the interview included in this Blue Ray and the DVD LE version. Else, we don't gain much purchasing the Blue Ray version. For me, High Noon is one of the greatest Westerns made in Hollywood.

great why do you make leaving a review such a pain. let me have the option to just do the stars and be done.

To out of date The Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory movie was boring compared to the new vesion of Charlie and Chocolate Factory. The only good thing about the Willy Wonka... movie was the characters sing. This is just my opinion and if you are planning on watch both version watch the old version before the new, because if you watch the new version before the old you will get bored.

Stay through the credits I just saw the movie this evening. I enjoyed it. It is not Oscar material. If you like the book, you are in for a good film. I stayed through the credits and there is a scene that sets up Breaking Dawn Part 2.  Sit and watch. It is interesting.

contact i liked it just as much as i did the first time i saw it and was good with special effects for when it was made

The best DVD edition of the German Classic This 2 disk CD of "The Blue Angel" is the one to get. As well as both the German and English versions of the film in reasonable prints, the set contains many extras which will help the novice understand the significance of the film. Of the various combinations of the film with or without subtitles, I recommend the German version with subtitles. The English version is a better print but is shorter, mainly due to censorship and the accents of the actors are sometimes thick.  The star, Emil Jannings, was a giant character actor and star in Germany. In 1929, he had recently returned to his homeland having won the first Academy Award for best actor in an American silent film, "The Last Command", directed by Josef Von Sternberg. Jannings brought Von Sternberg to Germany to direct his first talkie and Marlene Dietrich, who had been in pictures for almost 10 years, was tested and chosen to play the corrosive femme fatale, Lola. The film tells of the destruction of a repressed school teacher who degenerates under the sexual magnetism of a seedy cabaret singer. Janning's performance is mesmerising and harrowingly tragic. The film was a triumph at the box office, started Marlene Dietrich on her path to immortality and was banned by the Third Reich in 1933 as subversive.  The set contains a commentary attached to the German version of the film. Presented by a German historian whose accent is sometimes unintelligible, the best of it highlights the meticulous construction of the film with every detail pointing towards the tragic end and the worst what is happening on the screen as we watch. With the exception of a few quotes from Von Sternberg's autobiography, he also misses the opportunity to tell us about the cast and crew, particularly the complex relationships between Von Sternberg, Jannings and Dietrich.  There are many other extras. The snippet of an interview with Dietrich is amusing and the songs from her cabaret act are enchanting. In both, she perpetuates the myth that the film was her debut. Her 1929 screen test is fascinating and funny. There are many notes about the production calendar and the cast but these would have been far better if they had been printed in a booklet. It is always tedious reading such information on the screen. The inside cover of the DVD contains a synopsis of the film but it is surprising that it contains at least 2 errors in the story.  The DVD is sometimes available at a very reasonable price if you shop around.

Nice concert film I am a huge David Gilmour fan and Pink Floyd fan so it was very easy to like this DVD.  I really enjoyed when he was joined by Grahm Nash and David Crosby.

Sample of intriguing animation from nine nations James A. Stewart, DVD Verdict --Actually, there are ten shorts in Nine Nation Animation; this is one of the few times when a DVD cover blurb offers less than you get. Part of "The World According to Shorts," Nine Nation Animation offers a sample of intriguing animation from nine nations:  * Deconstruction Workers (Bygningsarbeidere)--Real actors are surrounded by animated chaos as their construction site turns to rubble while they deal with personal doubts and problems. It has teeny, tiny English subtitles, which could prove annoying. Kajsa Naess, Norway.  * Average 40 Matches (Ortalama 40 Ç&ouml;p)--The matches aren't just thinking outside the box; they're heading outside for a smoke, and not waiting for a smoker. Burkay Dogan and M. Sakir Arslan, Turkey.  * Bâmiyân--A child narrates the story of a Chinese monk's journey. Patrick Pleurin, France.  * Please Say Something--In a story of a cat-and-mouse couple, the cat finally gets up and leaves the mouse, until the rewind. Their do-over can't last, though. David O'Reilly, Ireland/Germany.  * Flatlife--In these four flats, all's well until someone decides to hang up a painting. The banging starts off a chain reaction of noises, bumps, and grumps. There's some tiny type here as well. Jonas Geirnaert, Belgium.  * She Who Measures--Smiley faced people with shopping carts go through a desolate landscape. Veljko Popoviç, Croatia.  * Home Road Movies--Dad loves buses, but buys a car because his family is large. The mix of live action and animation is more about growing up and growing old than about the road trips the family takes. Robert Bradbrook, United Kingdom.  * The Tale of How--Pythonesque animation illustrates an operatic song. The Blackheart Gang, South Africa.  * Never Like the First Time (Aldrig som f&ouml;rsta gangen!)--Interviews, a la Creature Comforts, about starter sexual experiences are animated in four distinct styles, starting with a hip retro look and ending in catalog style. Jonas Odell, Sweden.  * The Runt--The "bonus" short tells how a boy saves a runt rabbit--for a while. Dialogue's in English. Andreas Hykade, Germany.  I don't think there's a disaster in the bunch. My own favorites were "Deconstruction Workers," "Flatlife," and "Home Road Movies"; the first two are stories about the general unawareness of people, while the third shows a keen awareness of the human condition. Your reactions will surely vary, but fans of animation will likely find a few gems in the selection.  Of course, that's fans of adult animation. This definitely isn't one for the entire family. "Bâmiyân" contains scenes of snakes slithering through skeletal skulls and naked women, "Please Say Something" has profanity, and "The Runt" depicts the death of a rabbit. With "Never Like the First Time," the adult themes should be rather obvious.  Picture and sound quality are fairly good; all of the originals seem to have been in good shape.  -Full review at dvdverdict.com

Great Movie on a questionable format The movie is wonderful. Unfortunately, the Blu-Ray format does not have subtitles for viewers who may be hearing impaired or non-native English speakers who need the subtitles. It is very disappointing that the DVD production company did not  include the subtitles. If they ever update the Blu-Ray version, they ought to send new versions to those of us who purchased this one.

This was a cool movie.  But I feel like I missed something. Ok, my mom and I went to see this movie.  We got there like 5 minutes before it started.  The movie was really cool.  The ending completely changed things.  I can not say what or why.  Just trust me!  There was action and humor in the movie.  However, I didn't feel like there was as much as in the first two.  Same with the music.  I honestly can not remember even hearing music in the film.  The first two were cool.  Smiths character was just getting used to what was going on.  Figuring things out.  This movie though is like 15 years after the last.  Seems nothing has changed since the second.  I kind of feel like some stuff should have happened.  I almost felt like I was watching a movie from the 90s that had been made high def and 3D.  I think because I have not seen Jones or Smith in such a long time.  It's like they decided to make a movie, threw a dart at a board and got this.  It was funny.  I will buy it as soon as I can.  I just feel like it was missing something.  I actually think it was because I got there so late.  I felt rushed.  Not sure if that makes a difference.  I am leaning towards yes.  I will watch the blu ray and update.  Whenever they release it that is.  I am giving it 4 because the action was great and it had a fun story.  It is something I would and will watch again.  update: I realized something about this movie.  Everything seemed to be in the same place.  There was not much moving around.  Nor was there any working up to the story.  In the first two, something would happen.  Then they would go and try to get information on the people or aliens that were causing the trouble.  In this movie, something happened and that was it.  There was no working up.  Everything seemed kind of dull.  It was fun but it just seemed to have been missing a lot of what made the first two so great.

Blithe Spirit What a classic - awesome. The VHS was all good and played well. No problems. I was studying this play for an audition, so wanted to see the original again ... it met all expectation .. sadly I didn't get to audition for the part of Mrs Ruth Condimine, it was pre-cast!

Fast Service Got the movie fast then expected and in very good shape. The movie was a little cheesy but had to get it cause my husband never seen it and wanted to before he saw the new one. Worth keeping though because everyone has offered to by it from me.

A Good Ride This movie has some great action and effects. The story line is interesting and it has a great cast. The performances are good, but it just seemed like there was something missing from this movie. But all in all it's a good movie worth watching.

If not for the title, this movie would be rated much higher. Nothing will beat the original Halloween.  But for something completely different, give Halloween III: Season of the Witch a try, you will not be disappointed.  It has nothing to do with the other Halloween films or Michael Myers, and, when viewed on its own, it is a good horror movie that has a cult following of its own, a great score (thanks to throwbacks to John Carpenter's Halloween and The Thing), a brilliantly catchy and scary song to the tune of "London Bridge is Falling Down", and a creepy story that make it a very worthy watch.  The original idea behind Halloween was to do a new movie every year, based around Halloween, with no other connections.  From there, the movies could go off on their own and spawn their own franchises accordingly.  This started with John Carpenter's Halloween and Michael Myers introduction, but the mistake was made to do a direct sequel first, before going with something completely different, like Halloween III.  So history remembers this as the red-headed stepchild, a movie with nothing to do with Michael Myers, so it was panned and booed around the country upon its 1982 release, destined to be a gas station barrel bin movie.  But hidden behind the title is actually a good movie, written and directed by Tommy Lee Wallace, the same guy behind the movie adaptation of Stephen King's It.  The other sequels (and Rob Zombie's 2 lackluster remakes) are just more of the same: Michael Myers mindlessly killing people, missing the beauty, tension, and originality of the original movie.  This movie's only similarity is that the story happens on Halloween too, that's it.  No Shape, no Jamie Lee Curtis screaming, no giant butcher knives, just a story about a mad scientist who wants to bring back the real reason why people started Halloween in the first place, with a great ending.  There are pieces of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Stepford Wives, and even some of the tension from Carpenter's Halloween present.  It is shocking that a movie like this is getting a Collector's Edition release, but the latest Blu-Ray/DVD release gives a great transfer, and has some great special features, so for fans of the movie, or for people who want to check it out for the first time, you will have plenty to keep busy with.  The cast and crew are present for a Making Of Halloween III feature, and they really gave everything they had for what they felt was a good movie, and I cannot disagree.  If only this was made before Halloween II, then both Michael Myers and the different Halloween movie each year idea could both have survived and worked.  If you are curious why people think of this so badly, watch and judge for yourself, you won't be mad that you did if you are a horror fan who wants something fun and different.

"a headless blunder operating  under the illusion of a master plan..." With a rather minimalist approach kind of reminiscent of 70's era science fiction, Cube (1997) is a fantasy adventure where a number of individuals are trapped in a very strange environment, and struggle to work together to find a way out.  How the people got there and why, are questions that are never addressed, as the film primarily focuses on survival in the present.  The construct consists of a series of interlocked cubed shaped `rooms' of different colors.  There is a hatch in the middle of each of the six sides in each room, with a short tunnel leading to a similar cube shaped room.  There are traps in some of the rooms, so determining which rooms are `safe', becomes a key for the survivors.  The group are strangers to each other, and not much is revealed about their backgrounds.  Quentin (Maurice Dean Wint) claims to be cop, Leaven (Nicole de Boer) is a student adept in mathematics, Holloway (Nicky Guadagni) is a doctor, Rennes (Wayne Robson) is a button sucking convict, and Worth (David Hewlett) is a man who knows more than he is telling.  Having no food or water, provides some motivation for escape, and when one of them is killed in a trap, safety becomes the primary concern.  The series of numbers engraved in each of the tunnels, becomes the key to their movements.  Her facility with numbers, makes Joan the one who determines which way they go.  Along the way, they find Kazan (Andrew Miller), an autistic man who proves to be something of an idiot savant when it comes to numbers.  Eventually, the group discovers that they are in a huge cubic construct made up of thousands of interconnected cube shaped rooms, that actually shift positions periodically.  Even when they succeed in reaching a room that is on the edge, they find that escape is still not possible.  According to Vincent Natali (Splice), who wrote the original story and also directs, the story having no context was a critical element.  As so little is known about the characters, you tend to float along with them, and take things as they come.  The film does a good job of putting you there in the cube with the survivors, as they struggle to come together and understand their situation.  After a long journey, things starts to deteriorate under stress, and the characters turn on each other.  The evolution of the various relationships is quite fascinating.  While not entirely credible, the violence adds some interest, and takes the story to its conclusion.  The acting is generally good, with Nicole de Boer, Nicky Guadagni, and Andrew Miller, perhaps doing the best jobs.  Cube has an interesting premise, with a solid and creative story built around it.  Shooting most of the scenes using the same room, the film was innovative at the time, and still holds up well today, although with a relatively low level of action, and the requirement that the audience use their brain some, Cube may not capture the fancy of those who are expecting slick special effects.  Thus far there have been two more Cube films, Cube 2: Hypercube (2003), and Cube Zero (2004), which is a prequel to the original film.

Featuring a Cast of Thousands This is an epic in the classic sense. Lots of bodies. Huge outdoor locations. Gargantuan battle scenes with copious amounts of blood. What's not to like?  Here's the scoop. The Brits are in Africa. They want to not only inhabit, they want to rule, so they are going to impose their will on the Zulu and ask them to step down for no real reason. The Zulu king figures the Brits wouldn't do it if he asked so why should he? So they go toe to toe with some devastating results for the Brits.  This was a real chapter in history and it feels as though they stuck close to the general way things actually happened. The Brits are depicted as racist and stodgy. They are trying to bring England to Africa. They are too organized for this circumstance. The Zulu seem to be doing just fine. They're predominantly farmers who are able to feed themselves and they have an organized society. The Brits are the intruders. Lord Chelmsford (Peter O'Toole) is pompous and figures there is no way he can be beat by these savages. As a result he doesn't think things through well enough and ends up making poor decisions in regard to strategy. The Zulu hand the Brits the defeat of all time.  This is a cool flick in the classic sense. The set up and execution seem right out of the manual. The characters are written well enough (some needed more filling out) and the Zulu aren't made to appear less than human. They're smart and brave. Good use is made of location and the acting is steady. Almost every actor you've ever seen in any British movie is here. This is a solid effort all the way around. Unfortunately, it seems this was a straight film to DVD transfer with no enhancements. The picture quality is decent enough but the sound is awful. I had to crank this puppy way up and much of the dialogue was still unintelligible.  If you like the classic style epics, this should be a fun watch.

American Gangster Based on a true story 'American Gangster' takes us on another gangster style journey, but made refreshing as not based around the Mob or Italian stereotypes. As other reviewers here have noted, this film stands out by the great performances of both Washington and Crowe and they both add depth and flair to their respective roles. I was hooked in the first ten minutes and although Washington plays a flawed character, you can't help but like him. Excellently directed and with great supporting actors as well, this film managed to hold my attention for the duration. If you like crime and gangster films then this rates pretty highly and is well worth a look and even if you're not a fan of these films this has enough on offer to appeal to everyone else as well. A solid four star film.  Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.

Good movie I enjoyed this movie, though a little unbelievable at times, it was still fun. It's worth a watch. The ending was satisfying.

Cage was Denied an Oscar Nod but still great performance Cage was nothing short of briliant in his role and just like LEaving LAs Vegas he pulled off a tortured soul without overacting.  Although Harvey Keitel did great in the original Cage pulled off really good but crazy character.  Disturbing yet funny.  Herzog pulled off a good movie.  Either way Cage could have been nominated but never was.  Either way great movie

Bon Appetit! I very much enjoyed this movie, as I like just about anything French.  Quite different and inspired, colorful and with many enjoyable characters. And if you like food, well then - savor this.  ahhhhh, Magnifique!

Definitely Worth Viewing Unlike all of the other 15 people who have "reviewed" this film so far, I am actually an objective reviewer who is not affiliated with the movie. I checked all of the other 15 "reviews," and all of them are written by people who are obviously affiliated with the movie (since, if you click on "See all my reviews" for each of them, this is the only thing they have ever reviewed on Amazon). That's a dead giveaway. One of them even admits to being affiliated with the movie. Yet, despite these 15 other meaningless reviews, this actually is a really good movie. I wasn't expecting much, given that it was obviously a low-budget production. However, I was pleasantly surprised. It was authentic, fast-paced, and smartly written. The characters were likeable, and virtually everything in the movie was realistic. The writer/director also obviously has some unique creativity, which he wove into the story in some interesting ways. If this guy could get funded with a larger budget, he could really make a name for himself with some high-quality, innovative, and entertaining movies. The only problem with the movie (other than the somewhat dark, grainy, and slightly "washed out" color quality that is common with film in low-budget movies) is that two of the four main characters look so much alike that it took me about half of the movie to distinguish between them, causing me to miss some of the plot advances for each of these characters.

Wonderful Mumbai Full of light, rain, color, joy, sorrow and all that is life: it's a must-see. Absolutely loved the film. For a debut film, it's superb. Not perfect, but in the aggregate, phenomenally moving, sweet, powerful. Unforgettable.  Yasmin...heartbreakingly lovely.

Charming! There are plenty of detailed reviews here, so I will just be brief. This is a feel-good movie with a stellar cast set among the cacophony that is India. I smiled, and laughed through the whole thing and cannot wait to see it again. I urged all my FB friends and more to make the time to see it. As I said in my title- Charming film!

Epic Show...ruined by a horrible digital copy! I ordered this through the "instant video" thinking it would be at least dvd quality or 720p hd quality...but it's below dvd quality. Sound was great, but video lacked quality it should have when it comes to a $15 digital copy.

Good Reason 'Perez' Was a Hit in Mexico This combo-genre film (action/satire/war/drug dealers/buddies) is an antidote to all the action films that are so routinely put out by Hollywood.  A Mexican drug dealer has to rescue his brother from Iraqi terrorists to win back his mother's approval.  He assembles a gang of bad guys a la dirty dozen and they cross the globe in search of the brother.  Good timing, and good fun, this film gives us the pleasure of enjoying our cliches even as we laugh at them.

Classic I have always enjoyed this film since i first saw it. I like the atmosphere and the claustrophobic tension. The music is also something i enjoy in this film. I still think monster effects and gore looks very good. I think the cast of this film does a very good job, in particularly Kurt Russel and Wilford Brimley.  I also have The Thing (2011), which i think isn't as good as this, but the monster effects in this looks much better to me than the mediocre use of CGI in prequel.  Picture quality: 4/5  Universal Studios strikes again with DNR. This BD has DNR applied, when the HD DVD Universal previously released didn't or used less DNR. I don't think it was wise of Universal to apply DNR to soften the picture quality along with erasing the film grain. Trying to make it look "newer", "better" and like it was a more recent film shot on Digital cameras. Not the worst first case of DNR usage, but could looked at least looked better if they didn't use DNR.  Moving on, despite the use of DNR, it still looks much better than my old DVD. Which i think is from the early 00's. The colours looks nicer and of course better black levels. More details and sharpness is evident and appreciated. The monsters, blood and gore effects now looks improved and more realistic in 1080p.  Audio quality: 4/5  The English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 sounded good to my ears. It's been a few years since the last time i saw it on DVD, but of course it sounds better due to it now having lossless audio quality, as every film or tv-series should have on Blu-ray. Sadly not every releases have that.  Not the film with most Stereo effects i have seen, but i was happy with the audio quality. The music comes to mind, which i think sounded good. No bass from explosions, flamethrowers or guns.  Film: 4.5/5 Overall: 4/5

Very good Deep movie From Hell was a very good Deep movie and Graham did a great supporting role helping Deep out with the case of the Ripper.  The movie itself was good also in the fact that you felt as if you were there in that time period with the buildings and clothing so forth.  If you like your history and a good very good horror movie with lots of drama elements thrown into the mix then pick this movie up for some good acting and a good horror movie.

People Just Don't Get It The people who gave this movie one star just don't get what this movie was about and what it was trying to do.  Watch it for yourself and then judge.  Don't take the haters word for it, this movie was well done.

4 stars for ages 7-14 As one can tell from other reviews, not an adult offering for adults who are into superheroes. It's perfect for kids though. Good social positions on truth and bullying and trusting one's dreams and (earthly) powers.  It's a nice little movie for that age group, exciting to them. Good for imaginations.  I could give an adult review and discuss all kinds of technical issues like continuity and probability within context. The wings. But the target audience is not one that knows or cares about these things. My 13 yo boy thought the wings were beautiful. The wings hit right into a childhood archetype of having wings and fantasizing about flying.  When I watched it, I was very well aware of the wings's inability to lift the mass, and that they weren't very well done. So what?  If your children under 15 aren't cursed with too much cynicism, I think they willenjoy it.

Corny 90's Classics Plus a New Cartoon "Go Ninja, Go Ninja, Go Ninja Go!" (I promise this will be the only review I ever write that starts off quoting Vanilla Ice)  How can you not love the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? If you grew up in the 90's, you probably had the video games, the action figures, owned the music and watched the cartoon after school and of course went to the movies. As a child of the 80's I missed out on most of the Turtle hype as they hit their popularity peak in the mid-90's, a bit past my time. But as a lover cheesy bad movies, it wasn't long before I discovered these films and put them into regular rotation at my house.  "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" - The original is still tons of fun. The titular turtles have to stop Shredder and the Foot Clan from taking over New York City, and turning the city's kids into karate kickin' thugs. We get the complete backstory on all of the characters, and there are some fun fight scenes sprinkled throughout.  "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze" - The first sequel may still be the most over-the-top film in the series, but remains my personal favorite. A large chemical company is cleaning up an old chemical dumping ground, when a canister of the ooze that created our heroes is stolen by Shredder and the remnants of his Foot Clan. Shedder wastes no time in using the ooze to create his own monsters to destory the turtles. Love the Vanilla Ice tune featured during the showdown at the end, yes it's corny and dated, but I guarantee you'll be singing the thing all day.  "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III" - The series jumps in a completely different direction with this entry. Instead of fighting Shredder and the Foot Clan, the turtles find themselves sent back to 17th Century Feudal Japan and into the middle of a budding war. This is a fun entry, and of the original three films, I think this one really hits the mark comedy-wise.  "TMNT" - This was a cartoon movie done just a few years ago, and while it's a nice "extra", it's not the reason to own this disk.  These movies are quite a bit of fun. I see some other people talking about the quality issues of the film. All I can say is that each film gave me the option of watching in widescreen or pan & scan, and the picture quality as well as the sound were great.  I understand there are plans to "re-make" (or is the current term "re-imagine"?) the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles into a whole new film. I'm sure that if/when this happens, we'll get a CGI version of the turtles similar to what they did to Scooby-Doo and it won't be nearly as good. Grab this disk while you can, pop in these movies and enjoy with noshing on a large pizza, cause trust me, after watching the turtles munch on pizza through three 90 minute films, you will definately want some too!

sherlock homes well first sherlock holmes is a fake character and so is super man so we have to go from there. the movie has its points and the best to me is seeing the look of LONDON back in that time. is almost like being there . now the plot and all the action well its bit  to much but better than bored and has class.

Fabulous film! The quality is iffy, like it was made from a copy of a copy of a copy, but the movie is just so good it doesn't take long to overlook the quality.  I couldn't find an inexpensive copy of this movie, but this "cheapest" version made me wonder: maybe there aren't any good copies of the movie around.  This would be a travesty, of course, but a movie with this much notoriety should have an affordable decent copy available somewhere.  Anyway, I am happy with my purchase , which arrived on time in good condition as promised.

Cool Drama that is Not as it Seems In the Raymond Chandler tradition, Jack Nicholson portrays an excellent spin-off character of that era.  While investigating misaligned marriages, the private eye stumbles onto murder and mass corruption at the Los Angeles' water and power company. John Huston plays the top dog; as family head and the influence under the silent partnerships that motivate murder. Faye Dunaway provides the romantic lure angle.  Good entertainment value for this genre.

Fun Guilty Pleasure - Recommended "Independence Day" is one of those movies that I can watch anytime, even if we had recently seen it. This is just a fun movie that has a very likeable cast, great special effects, exciting action scenes, a lot of humor, and more scientific flaws and plot holes than just about any movie other than <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000AKCKM">The Core (Widescreen Edition)</a> (which was not a fun movie to watch, even the first time).  The plot is fairly straight forward, aliens are here and they do not come in peace. With their overwhelming technology (remember, they brought their entire civilization light-years across the vastness of space in ships 1/6 the mass of the moon), they should be able to easily wipe out mankind and just take what they want, but they obviously didn't count on Will Smith (a very self confident fighter pilot) and Jeff Goldblum (an under achieving technical genius) to team up against them. There are a lot of plot devices to move the show along, mostly in the form of a string of improbable coincidences, stereotypical characters, and unlikely technical wizardry.  All that taken into consideration, this is still an incredibly watchable and enjoyable movie (we own it on DVD, Blu-Ray, and have even used "On-Demand" to watch it on my PC when stranded in an airport).  Recommended!  CFH

Sixteen More Episodes From Season Two: About Six Hours For A Half Season Price Admittedly, I was extremely critical when A&E switched marketing tactics midstream in its releasing of Storage Wars.  The first season was released in a full DVD set.  But the next release was branded Volume Two and only consisted of the first fourteen episodes of the second season.  In truth, though, I have nothing against the idea of volume releases (especially for shows that aren't held together by continuing plot threads) as long as three things are clear:  1) They need to be priced according to content and no more expensive individually than a season set would be. 2) Don't start releasing Full Seasons and then confuse unsuspecting buyers by changing things up. 3) If it isn't a season, all content needs to be disclosed on the DVD packaging so the consumer knows what they are getting!  While Volume Two of Storage Wars disappointed with rule number two, its most egregious error was also disregarding rule number three.  Nowhere, in any of the marketing or on the DVD case, did it tell you how many episodes (and which ones) you were receiving.  It looks like they've learned from their mistakes, however, and the DVD release Volume Three does list exactly what is included.  This presents the next sixteen chronological episodes from Season Two over 2 discs for just shy of six hours worth of programming.  At a lower suggested price point, it is essentially half a season for half the price.  In a strange decision, though, it does NOT include the final three episodes from Season Two which, I presume, will begin the next Volume.  Here's what you get: (1) I'm The New Mogul, (2) Driving Miss Barry, (3) Winner Winner Chicken Dinner, (4) Auction Sesame, (5) Stairway To Hemet, (6) Scoot-A-Toot, Toot, (7) The Empire Strikes Out, (8) Make It Rain, Girl, (9) Smoke 'Em If You Find 'Em, (10) The Drone Wars, (11) Brandi's First Time, (12) Hooray For Holly-Weird, (13) Don't Bid So Close To Me, (14) Not Your Average Bear, (15) Hook, Line, And Sucker, and (16) Operation Hobo.  In short, if you're shopping Volume Three of Storage Wars--you are well aware of the show's premise.  Just wanted to include its content listings for potential costumers.  KGHarris, 6/12.

For a B Movie, it's a good one Now, I admit, I adore B movies, especially the haunted house, spooky kind.  When you enjoy such things, you take into account that they aren't going to be the greatest when it comes to things like acting, special effects and such.  This was one of the better ones out there.  It's in the genre with movies like the Blair Witch, Paranormal Activity and such but with the original premise that a paranormal investigative team was going to spend the night and investigate the house that was built on the grounds where John Wayne Gacy (serial killer) had lived and killed his victims.  This was fairly original when it comes to movies of this kind.  There were some things off that I noticed that were akin to glaring errors (such as the house they stayed in wasn't the standard ranch style build during that era but something from the 50's or earlier and a two story) and that there was a crawl space that was more akin to a basement but, overall, this was good.  There was, of course, some bad acting and over dramatics (in a bad way) but it was good.  Don't expect much as the way of a seriously dramatic script or superb special effects but it's good for a couple of jumps here and there and worth the money.

Funny, refreshingly focused on the "fairer sex" I always love the notion of women being dubbed "the fairer sex."  I've always been raised that a woman can do pretty much anything a man can do, and if my 41 years on this earth have taught me anything, it's that women can be just as crude, boorish and stupid as men.  Hollywood seems to forget this, basing far too many of its female characters (especially in comedies) on sterile models of Barbie-esque perfection.  Perhaps this is due to the fact that Hollywood has milked the "funny good guy must steal the bombshell from the rich jerk" storyline for ages - the object of desire in these movies is invariably given little to do.  (Think Rachel McAdams in "Wedding Crashers" - a talented actress does little more than grin and look gorgeous).  "Bridesmaids" takes a refreshing break from tradition by focusing almost exclusively on the ladies.  And these ladies, by and large, do not act like "ladies," but instead are well-rounded, flawed, funny women.  Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph of "SNL" fame play lifelong friends who are going on different tracks as they head into their 30s.  Wiig's Annie has her self-esteem in the dumpster after her Milwaukee bakery failed - now she's content to be on the booty call speed dial for a spectacular jerk (Jon Hamm of "Mad Men").  Rudolph's Lillian, on the other hand, has gotten engaged to a successful guy in Chicago and she seems destined for a life of country clubs and European vacations.  Both friends understand they are growing apart, so Lillian asks Annie to be her maid of honor, naturally.  Annie is thrilled, only to be horrified that Lillian's future sister-in-law appears to be all-too-eager to become Lillian's new best friend.  This harpy, Helen, played with WASPy evil by Rose Byrne, is everything that Annie is not - rich, poised, and (seemingly) self-assured.  What ensues is a traditional battle royale between Annie and Helen as they vie for the role of maid of honor.  Thanks to the other bridesmaids, including Megan (Melissa McCarthy) and Rita (Wendi McLendon Covey of "Reno 911"), this is a battle spiced with raunchy humor and replete with poetic profanity.  These are good things.  I must admit that I came to "Bridesmaids" late, after all the hype and Oscar nominations.  Ultimately I can't say that this is a great comedy - it is genuinely funny and has a few laugh-out-loud moments, and it definitely has a heart.  But all I've heard is that "'Bridesmaids' is the new 'Hangover.'"  That just flat-out isn't true - even despite the great comic performance by Melissa McCarthy as Megan, there is nothing in "Bridesmaids" that is as original as "The Hangover," if only because there is nothing in this movie that approaches the comic genius of Zach Galifianakis.  (Perhaps if Wendi McLendon Covey had been given a little more to do - she inexplicably gets no lines in the second half of the movie.  The lady is comic gold.)  Definitely a solid comic effort - something that is all too rare these days - and an enjoyable reminder that women can do far more in a comedy than be the sterile object of desire.  Recommended.

Charming story, silly comedy. I have a passion for everything Japanese, so this blu-ray caught my eye. I had never seen any other Jerry Lewis productions before (a result of my young age) but I am a film addict and I enjoy a wide variety of films, including those from before my time. So I gave this one a chance, and ended up enjoying it for what it is.  Mr. Lewis is a silly man, there is no doubt about that. His comedy is a product of the times (50s-60s it seems) and as a result the film feels a little old. I didn't find him very funny, his facial expressions are goofy and his high voice isn't consistant throughout the film (during the more dramatic scenes he speaks very normally). During the film he seems to switch back and forth between a comedy act and a normal man. This might have seemed very strange, but in this film it works a little because of the story: he plays a down-on-his-luck magic man who is traveling to Japan in hopes of striking it big. So when he is performing a trick, when he's "The Great Wooley", he is over-the-top and silly. When Lewis is involved in the film's serious moments, he acts like he would normally. It isn't my favorite type of comedy, but it works here well enough.  The film DOES have some truly funny moments, however, and I cracked up on more than one occasion. These bits were well executed and clever, including the magic bunny that travels with Lewis, named Harry. Kids today will get a kick out of that rabbit, if not from Jerry's silly method of comedy.  The pacing in the film could have been better as well, and it does become annoying when Lewis continually calls out "Harry" or does his back-and-forth looks.  The little Japanese boy, who takes a liking to Jerry, truly steals the show. He is sweet, innocent, and provides the film with it's heartwarming story. His cute little grin was enough for me to forgive some of the film's ridiculous aspects.  Fans of Jerry Lewis will enjoy this blu-ray release, along with fans of Japan/Japanese culture. The shots of Japan's streets and locations are very cool and a real highlight.  4/5 stars. A little silly, very touching, bright nostalgia trip.  Blu-ray quality: 1080p video looks good for its age, nothing distracting for the most part, colors are great. The sound is very 1950s, early 60s, but its clear and crisp enough without any distracting hiss that I can remember. No special features.  Not rated. Likely PG. Possible mild language, some brief mild nudity (little boy's bottom), some mild suggestive humor, some comic violence (slapstick stuff here, a few explosions near a trench, guns are present). Pretty mild stuff here, great for everyone.

"Get Out!"  Fun 70s Horror! Amityville Horror was quite the popular movie in its day - I even remember when it first came out and had a great movie date night as my gal got weirded-out.  What is it about this film that makes it a "great" horror film?  Well, it builds the suspense pretty well, starting with a slaughter at the house and a young couple a year or so later buys the place for a song.  And then weird things start to happen.  I would have liked more of an explanation of the hauntings at the house.  There were allusions to an Indian burial ground and a place in the basement that was a "gate to Hell" but not much to that.  The dog scratching under the wall until he bled was sad, but no closure for me.  When George (played in an overdramatic way by James Brolin) would get more and more possessed, you can see the over the top acting that was going on - screaming "I'm coming apart" and all that, knocking his wife around and throwing an axe quite deftly.  The weird daughter who talked to her friend Jody, who was really a ghostly pig.  And the red ooze running down the walls as the family got into a van to drive off when George wanted to get the dog - and you're tense yelling "No, don't go back!"  Margot Kidder was just off her Superman gig at the time and did let out a pretty mean yell and there were some scenes that were meant to be sexy and a little chest action, but that was just for audience interest and didn't move the plot at all. She's a great screamer but that's about it.  Rod Steiger as the priest - and I didn't understand how a house could be against priests and Catholicism when it was a pagan burial ground - who yells about how the house is, trying and failing to get cooperation from his parish (what were they supposed to do about it?  See The Exorcist!) and failing, and ending up a blind, catatonic in a park.  Oh well!  Features: Outside of some trailers and a radio promotion for the show, I did enjoy the chat with Margot Kidder and James Brolin, both much older, and reminiscing about the film. And one thing they said that really sticks is that "films are supposed to be fun."  So Amityville Horror is not a serious ghost film - just a fun one.  Cool!  Bottom Line:  Not all that scary and the lighting, editing and acting make it a fun film actually.  But don't expect Nightmare on Elm Street or Saw.  This film is pure silliness, camp and cheese and made for a warm Saturday night.

Very Cute! I think this was a really cute movie.  Not sure it would be worth buying, but it was worth watching.  I am sure I would watch it again if it was on television.

A chick flick - but a WONDERFUL one. Bullock = movie gold With the exception of a couple of her earlier films, Sandra Bullock is movie gold. If she's in it you know it's going to be good.  This film is more proof of that.  Growing up in a small town, Birdee Pruitt (played by Bullock) was something special. The pretty and popular girl who got the boy who was the popular football hero. They married, had a daughter and in a few years life came crashing down around her.  Turns out she married an ass who was having an affair with their next door neighbor, who (Birdee thought) was her best friend. And they picked the worst way possible to break the news to her -- blindsiding her on national tv.  Birdee has no college, no job experience, no husband, no best friend - and so she heads home to moms with daughter in tow, to try to get her bearings and figure out what to do next.  Naturally, the whole town saw (or heard of) the whole humiliating tv show - and many of them seem to take pleasure in watching the girl who had it all, fall on her face.  With encouragement (and a shove or two) from her mom, Birdee does her best to cope and get on with life... and Bullock expertly takes us emotionally right there with her through it all as she "gets a little of her own back" and bravely forges a new life.  Her daughter and her sister's boy (living with her mom) are wonderful stories of their own within the movie and absolutely wonderful little actors (the little girl should've won some type of award really), and Gena Rolands just shines throughout the movie as the quirky, sunny mom. [As always, Harry Connick, Jr. absolutely sucks as an actor - but the movie manages to still be good in spite of him.]  It's a wonderful story with heart and a good ending (as all of Bullock's films seem to have).  Would have to classify this as a "chick flick" (not likely to be on most men's top 10 lists), but well done.  I've enjoyed this MANY MANY times and the magic formula still holds true - if Bullock is in it it's going to be a good movie. Enjoy!

Like 90 Minutes of Cinco Man-Nip Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie is basically a really long and uncensored Awesome Show, Great Job!, which makes this something you've been waiting years for, or something you'll despise.  There's not much to say about the movie itself, even if it was cohesive. You've seen the show, the movie's not much different. As for the disc though, the Blu-Ray version is packed full of deleted scenes, extended scenes, interviews, commercials... it's fairly exhaustive, and makes for a pretty decent value.  Packed full of Awesome Show favorites, fans of the show are destined to love this. One weird thing though: there are some almost intentional cutscenes that look like placeholders for commercials. An Adult Swim: After Dark kind of presentation seems almost inevitable, but in any case, I thought it detracted from the production value a bit. Also, David Liebe Hart fans will undoubtedly find themselves under-served. So, those are holding me back from the five-star treatment.

Great Sci-Fi fun! I must agree with just about everyone that season one is far better than season two. But, this is a great set...lot's of extras.  This is a show from the 70's...so seeing it pretty much as it was filmed doesn't bother me at all. It's like i remember it when I watched it years ago.  Season one had some terrific story lines and good stories. "Dragon's Domain actually scared me to death!  Season two, the stories get a little weak and contrived, but still fun all the same. best story was "The Bringers Of Wonder" a two parter. Season two was sexed up, too, with more revealing costumes and more kissing.  Don't go into this expecting politically correct sci-fi, just watch it for the fun and exciting stories!  I will say that season two had numerous flaws. Characters come and go without explanation. Sandra, who was present throughout season one, is only in season two about half the time with a name change to Sahn. Victor and Paul disappear without explanation. Tony appears without explanation. Yasko suddenly appears in season two, but disappears later through it.  In "Space Warp", Alan fights with Maya on the surface of the moon while Maya is in a meta morphed state. She picks Alan up and throws him, his helmet striking a rock and obviously bouncing open---in space! In "New Adam, New Eve", Maya, Tony, Helena, and John are placed on a earth like planet to start over, but are to switch mates. If they touch their true mate, they are shocked. But Maya, as a hawk, lands on Tony's are, and neither are shocked.In another story, Koening and Maya are on a planet where they kill some plants, and are forced into a deadly game. The three monsters they are pitted against are so poorly made, you can actually see the arm hole in the one's costume.  But overall, this series is well worth the money!

Family fun It starts off a little bit slow and speeds up with Jackie Chan Finesse.  I always look forward to seeing new action scenes with Jackie and this lives up to it.  The movie is a good for family viewing and goes to show you to never ever judge a person by their apperances alone.  Also included at the end is the bloopers and I love those.

Great film, unusual plot Darius, a young magazine intern (played by Audrey Plaza), is recruited to help a staff writer with a story about a bizarre young man who has advertised for a time-travel partner, specifying that "safety is not guaranteed". When she finds him, she goes undercover to get the story. As she gets to know Kenneth (played by Mark Duplass), his story gets more and more interesting. He really believes he'll be able to go back in time. Soon, she's attracted to the lonely young man and feels guilty about deceiving him.  I love indies. This one is funny, sweet, and unpretentious with quirky but genuine characters. Besides Darius and Kenneth, there is a second intern, Arnau, and the staff writer, Jeff. While Darius gets the story, Jeff and Arnau are pursuing everything but the story.

Reality check This was a cute little piece, pretty good if you need to feel that cusy, huggy feeling (and sometimes I do). But, it's not realistic. I'm relatively, culturally experienced, and believe me it's a fairy tale.

Tommy fakes us out....puts one over on....... .......almost all of us.  Read on to find out how).    This isn't as well done as "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0013D8LCW">Shelter</a>".....nor quite as good as "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002I84JO">Latter Days (Unrated Edition)</a>".....BUT it's not far off their mark  A CAST OF ENGAGING CHARACTERS (making up the Devilish and Age-old TRIANGLE):  - Tommy Miller (Guy #1) - (played by: Ian Novick) ---- To date, a smaller parts actor.  Yet, this film shows he merits so much more....if nothing else, for the cute hunkiness and honesty he brings to Tommy....a Guy who grabs our hearts....a Guy who's In Pursuit.  "T" is Open...he's Out...knows the man he wants....and he takes us along on the joyride to get him.  He's an upfront Guy, who tells it like it is.  A Mister Personality....most definitely deserving of that capital "P".  Of our two male lead characters, Tommy's "The One" you're most likely to fall for.  And you will have a ball while doing so.  - Daniel (Guy #2) - (played by: Jon Prescott) ---- Lots of TV series work....yet with a plum film role in 2010's gay-related, "Howl", playing the James Franco character's oft-time lover.  Here, in this story, he's playing the built and pretty Daniel....an emotionally torn man, suffering a severe case of "Closetophobia".  Perhaps now's a good time for the question:  WHO is the love of this man's life?  Is it the fiance and wife-to-be?  Or is it, perhaps....what's that Guy's name, again?  Oh, and you should watch for what is, to me, the somewhat puzzling way in which Prescott plays this role:  facially expressive with other characters in the film.....BUT, strangely, almost always detached looking / fairly expressionless in his scenes with Tommy.    AN ASIDE ABOUT DANIEL ---- Did ANY of you out there, having seen this film, realize how very many guys Daniel's life represents?  A man, like so many of us, who becomes engaged...marries and fathers a child....all the while never facing up to who he is, sexually.  How many of us are living this kind of life, one which Family...Society...expects of us?  A life which is not really our own...not who we really are?  Should it be at all surprising how many of us are Daniels  - Jen (The One Stuck in the Middle) - (played by: Margaret Anne Florence) ---- Quite a bit of TV work...with 3 or so lesser movies thrown into the mix.  Jen is a pert and pretty gal, as both fiancee and bride.  A level headed woman, very much in love with her man.  YET, she's a someone who unknowingly comes to meet and grow quite friendly with "The Other Man".  In doing so, Florence pulls it off in a most believable manner.  Even though you and I are watching her through guys' eyes....she'll MAKE us deeply feel both her happiness and her despair.  Be prepared.  A LAST THOUGHT (I told you at the beginning to watch for this):  - For those of you UNhappy with the way in which this film SEEMINGLY ends....in a less than romantic way (yes, I've looked at your reviews and displeasure here and there)....just read on.  - Aaah, yes.  So, Tommy...Our Mister Upfront Guy.  See...right about here is where you movie watchers should be remembering...recalling that really important thing he's already told us (more than once).  What?  What is it, you ask?  ....THAT HE IS IN LOVE...IN TRUE LOVE...(something he's also told the object of his affection).  SO...you doubters out there....put all such thoughts aside.  For there is NO way in which a man like the Tommy we've come to know...with his depth of feelings...would just walk away from "The One".  From that person who he just learned has again become available.  NO way in which a caring sort like Tommy would leave another man waiting at the altar.  Unless.....UNLESS he has very definite plans to reenter the life of "The One" (though he may wait a bit...just to make a Someone squirm).  And if you think otherwise about this, then "T" has, indeed, Totally Faked you out.  So....BUCK UP!...CHEER UP!......in the REAL ending of this film, you're going to get exactly what you were hoping for.  HAPPY viewing!  PS:  You might want to try these 3 great little REGION 2 DVDs (probably for more mature Gays):  "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0056CYHW4">Four More Years  Fyra år till  4 More Years  [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Sweden </a>]"  ///  "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004RZXIM6">He Is My Girl  La folle histoire d'amour de Simon Eskenazy (He's My Girl  Ma mec &agrave; moi (O trelos erotas tou Simon Eskenazy  [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom </a>]"  ///  "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002MSQO2Q">Different From Whom?  Diverso da chi?  [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Italy </a>]".....(I've done reviews).

Yes, a terrible transfer to DVD I completely agree with those reviewers who give this series top marks for creative content, and just about zero for the quality of the DVD transfer.  Because we've got a region free DVD player and the price was agreeable, I bought a Region 2 disc set. It was released by the BBC itself (or rather, 2 entertain), not by Acorn, and appears to have exactly the same content. For the record: the quality is total crap. Acorn merely passed it on.  It looks and sounds like a deliberate attempt was made to "age" the program. Not that I believe anyone would do that. But it's that bad.  The BBC has a long history of not giving a ding-dong about its own best work after the fact. Kinda weird. At least they didn't completely destroy this one. To me, Alec Guinness is even more of a pleasure to watch here than in TTSS; he brilliantly communicates the new and almost demonic urgency in Smiley without changing his basic nature. The obssessive implacablity of the character becomes an event in itself.  There are also a number of superb one-on-one scenes between Guinness and various other cast members - particularly Bernard Hepton as Toby Esterhase (or whatever his name is at the moment). And a greater variety of characters, also, which was dictated by Le Carr&eacute;'s book.  TTSS is, for the most part, about ponderous public school types. Yes, there are a few exceptions - and it is, start to finish, a brilliant piece of work - but on the whole it's got one tone throughout. In Smiley's People, by contrast, we get to see George in delightfully varied circumstances. I will always like that about it, and will always relish the contrasts between the two productions.

Informative. I have watched this dvd 6-7 times,  it is great way to understand the value of our diet...however the recommended diet is not for everyone.

A fine homage to Woody Allen This film plays out as an homage to Woody Allen - both in plot and stylistic, formal filmic choices of the writer/director.  If you're a fan of Woody Allen - it's well worth the view.  In all actuality, it's a "poor-man's" Woody Allen film done by Edward Burns (and this is not to indicate a pejorative slant on the categorization). NB: It does not come close to, "When Harry Met Sally" - another (and major, I admit) homage to Allen!  Burns does however, shamelessly rip-off lines from Allen's "Husbands and Wives"- see Mia Farrow's confrontation with Allen's character regarding the impossibility of him surviving outside of New York for more than a day or so as he's waxing philosophical about an "author's" idealized life in the cafes of Paris...  That said, I enjoyed Burn's film.

good movie i found this to be a smart and funny film. i also found the video quality was very good. all around, it was a good rent

Delivers on What's Expected It doesn't have the most intricate plot in the world, but it doesn't pretend to be anything more than it is. It's pure and simple Good ole fast-moving action-packed ass-kicking movie--and that's exactly what you you pay for...

Cool vampire vs werewolf movie It was nice to see the beginning of the Underworld series. I saw this after watching Rise of The Lycans, and the movie made a lot more sense after seeing the first Underworld. The video quality is ok, but it's standard definition which is to be expected. I watched it on my tv through my xbox; there weren't any visual problems. The visuals in the movie were pretty good for a nearly 10 year old movie, good sound too. I really have to check out the new Underworld, but I think I may have to wait until it comes out on Blu-ray.

pretty good movie funny and interesting. Good to watch on a Saturday night, some of the scenes were hilarious although others were on the edge of being too serious

Great, but disappointing Like others here, I am a long time L&O fan. I also happen to be a real Abbie Carmichael fan. Unwilling to spring for the entire box set of all seasons, especially with the comments about the aspect ratio on some of the discs [though the price itself is fair for what is provided], I have been buying season by season. I started with Season 9 [Abbie's line "let's hang 'em all") perhaps my all-time favorite, and like others here, although concerned when at first it was difficult to find the Homicide crossover, it was there. Could this boxed and packaged better? Absolutely. Going to the wiki to get show titles, credits, and air dates is a modest PITA, but it's not that big a deal. The real labor is still ripping and tagging on to my media server. But like others, I was incredibly disappointed by the absence of Entitled Part 1 from this disc set. So, I dutifully downloaded it from iTunes to complete what I think ought to be this disc's full set. Video Quality: 4+ Story & Production: 5 Package Production: 2+ BTW, anyone know where to get Season 11? I can't stand Dianne Wiest, but the rest of the show makes up for, and she does have a few moments.

One of the BEST shows on TV I thought the second season of Breaking Bad was really its breakout season.  It continues the story of Walt who is a high school teacher who becomes ill and resorts to selling meth with his dubious partner in order to support his family. In this season, his relationship with his wife Schuyler is challenged, he has a baby on the way (and by the way you won't want to miss that part of the season when it actually happens), and his whole world is almost shaken upside down when he meets a potential new source to unload significant quantities of product.  This show is well worth watching if you haven't started already and I am eagerly anticipating the third season.

Just good Not my favorite of her movies . I just didn't care for the plot or David Niven opposite her. But it is still Doris Day and what is not to like about her !

Finally a DVD of the Climax Blues Band I have been wanting a DVD of this group for a long time. Even though it is later in their career (1984) and it doesn't have any of their early work on it such as Flight, I Am Constant and Mole On The Dole, it's a pleasure to watch them work their magic. At least it's got Couldn't Get It Right & Watcha Feel & other songs that are quite enjoyable. I love their saxophone & lead guitar playing in tandem- good stuff...

Always fascinating and sometimes uncomfortable (mostly in the good way) This documentary celebrates the 25th anniversary of Paul Simon's great Graceland' album. At the same time it questions Simon's political choices in going to South Africa to record during the U.N. approved cultural boycott, seeking to keep South Africa isolated and thus put more pressure on the white regime to step down.  Simon's reply is that artists shouldn't be subject to arbitrary political decisions - they must follow their heart and muse first, and he did more to help raise awareness of South Africa by going than by staying away.  The film doesn't take clear sides on these questions and that's fine, a documentary doesn't have to take sides on such a morally complex issue to be successful.  But there is something a bit slippery in Simon's somewhat pat answers that seem to be given a pass. And a meeting between Simon and Dali Tambo, the South African head of 'Artists Against Apartheid' feels awkward and staged, each man explaining to the other their point of view on what happened, ending with what felt like a very forced forgiveness hug.  Is the film letting Simon off too easily? Or is his very awkwardness Berlinger's point? (even his embraces of the musicians who played with him on the album sometimes feel like they might not have happened if there wasn't a camera rolling) .  One telling detail, the fact that Simon took first credit on all the music, even though - as we hear some of the original pre-Simon instrumentals from the album - we realize that many of the songs are almost identical, just somewhat re-arranged by Simon. Taking first writing credit seems like an act of hubris that the film never mentions or questions.

Piligirl It came quickly and I have seen the movie. It has a good quality and I am glad I purchased it, for not very much money.

Cute, lesser known movie before Laurence Olivier made it big So Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon did two films together. The Divorce of Lady X and Wuthering Heights, one of my favorite films. (Merele Oberon and Laurence Olivier so famously did not get along on the set, as he called her "A bloody little idiot." See, he was probably upset Vivien Leigh, his lover at the time, didn't get cast. Yet Despite their off camera relationship though, Wuthering Heights turned out to be a fantastic film, and in fact, made Laurence Olivier a mega star.) However, this isn't about Wuthering Heights. This is about the other film Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier did, before they butted heads in Wuthering Heights. It's not a cinematic masterpiece like Wuthering Heights, but The Divorce of Lady X is a cute film with some cute dialogue and a cute storyline. All in all, it's cute. Cute, cute, cute.  Olivier plays a misogynistic lawyer by the name of Everard Logan, who ends up spending a chaste night in a hotel with Oberon's character, Leslie, due to a bad London fog. He thinks she's married, when in fact she's not, but none the less, he becomes hopelessly in love with her. After their chaste night, he is asked by an old school friend, Lord Mere to represent him in divorce court, in a case agianst his wife. Everard thinks it's Leslie, she doesn't tell him she's not, and hilarity ensues.  Easily the best part of the movie is the first thirty minutes, when Olivier's character and Oberon's character spend the night in the hotel room. Their interactions are hilarious, and while the movie is good after that, and certainly not boring, the first part was simply the most entertaining. The two leading actors aren't brilliant in this film, (The script doesn't exactly warrant brilliant acting.) but they are pretty good, and it's interesting to see what Laurence Olivier was doing before he became the mega-star Sir Laurence Olivier, head of the Brittish Theater. And let's face it. He's gorgeous, and looks great in a suit. (Although I think the prime of his handsome-ness and gorgeous-ness was in Wuthering Heights.)  This movie may not be that well known, but I think any fan of Laurence Olivier or Merle Oberon need to see this at least once. Even if you aren't, you'll probably find some enjoyment out of it. Next time you have ninety minutes free, give it a watch. It's well worth your time.

A pleasant surprise At first the gang was annoying me to heck. I mean seriously, in terms of fulfilling the roles of a bunch of punk kids trying to be all tough and thug-like, they did a good enough job to make me not like the very much. And for them to become the eventual protagonists of the story and not the happy little nurse character does make for a bit of a shift for any audience member.  But don't worry, the aliens totally make up for it. They're wonderfully visual with their luminescent teeth set against their pitch black bodies - seriously awesome look. And what's funny is that for the most part it's obvious that they're guys in what are practically gorilla suits - but the contrast of the green glow versus the rest of their bodies is just awesome. Throw in some classic horror movie blood and gore effects and you're pretty much set.  What makes the movie work is how it combines elements from your classic alien invasion kind of movie with the sensibilities of a zombie apocalypse or survival horror flick. I'm really impressed with how Cornish managed to create that kind of a mood for the movie without having it dip too far into being overly scary or brooding. Thus it maintains a weird humorous undercurrent to things without going too far into the realm of slapstick or something.  The whole movie is visually impressive - you'd never think that it was produced with a budget of approximately $13 million. The shots were generally well done, the action nicely intense and the aliens fairly scary all throughout. It doesn't pretend to be a more complicated story than it is - so you just get good entertainment as the crew try to kill the aliens before they get killed in turn.

Tell that stupid mick he just made my list of things to do today Rushmore is a fantastic film for many reasons. As someone who lives in Houston, it's still amazing to think that a big portion of Rushmore was shot here. This little independent gem was more than likely your introduction to both director and Houston native Wes Anderson and actor Jason Schwartzman and what an introduction it would turn out to be. Anderson would go on to continue giving us quirky yet extremely heartwarming films while Schwartzman evolved into a very talented actor and worked with Anderson on several other occasions. Once you hear Bill Murray say, "Yeah, I was in the @#$%," you know you're in for something special. Rushmore is just what every comedy, independent or otherwise, should be.  The love triangle between Max Fischer (Schwartzman), Herman Blume (Murray), and Rosemary Cross (Olivia Williams) is one of the things that makes Rushmore so good. Each character brings out the best in the others while their flaws only seem to strengthen the performances of those around them. Max is devoted to so many activities and clubs around Rushmore Academy that he finds himself on the verge of expulsion from failing grades, Ms. Cross is still grieving her husband who only passed a year ago, and Mr. Blume is one of the richest guys around, finds himself in a failing marriage, doesn't know how to act around people, and has a drinking problem. The rivalry that develops between Max and Herman is just extraordinary. Nearly any scene featuring Bill Murray is incredible anyway, especially the hospital scene where he shows up with flowers and rides with Max in the elevator. The restaurant scene where Max is drinking and confesses his love to Ms. Cross is really exceptional, as well. Mostly because all three of the of the main cast have the chance to shine.  There's this sense of quirkiness to a Wes Anderson film that you can't find anywhere else and that's its charm. Anderson also has a knack for picking some pretty memorable soundtracks and knows how to make a scene look better than it should, but his writing is what stands out the most. Flawed people and unusual dialogue and situations; that's a Wes Anderson film at its core. Maybe that's why his movies are so easy to relate to since nobody is perfect and everyone finds themselves slipping up from time to time.  There's just something about Rushmore that speaks to you whether you relate to one of the characters, love Bill Murray, or have a thing for independent film. It's awkward and touching when things get heavy and hilarious and lighthearted when things are more laid back. It's well-written, you actually care about these eccentric characters, and the performances are top notch all around. Rushmore is one of those films you just have to see; you HAVE to. It's the type of film that latches onto you and never lets go while you're more than willing to let it stay as long as it's willing to stick around.  Rushmore isn't loaded with special features, but there is some really great stuff in what is included. The Making of featurette and MTV Movie Awards Shorts are the must see features. The Making of "Rushmore" is the lengthiest (around seventeen minutes) and is mostly just a brief behind the scenes documentary shot by Eric Chase Anderson, Wes Anderson's brother that includes interviews and a rundown of the cast. The EPK (Electronic Press Kit) was shot for something like five months, when most films shoot them in a matter of days. When you consider that bit of information, it's kind of surprising that the footage they shot wasn't used to make a full-length documentary. The MTV Movie Awards Shorts are brief (three segments, each about a minute long, and a thirty second introduction), but are just fantastic. The shorts are theatrical adaptations of films from 1999 including The Truman Show, Armageddon, and Out of Sight. If you liked Max's plays in the film, you'll enjoy these.  Other special features include cast auditions, a film to storyboard comparison, storyboards, an episode of The Charlie Rose Show Featuring Wes Anderson and Bill Murray, the theatrical trailer, an image gallery, and audio commentary by Anderson, co-writer Owen Wilson, and actor Jason Schwartzman (which was recorded in 1999). There's this pretty incredible collectible poster included inside the case and an essay by film critic Dave Kehr included in the liner notes, as well.  Criterion Collection, as you've come to expect by now, has made Rushmore look and sound better than it ever has before. The Blu-ray is a digital transfer of the director's cut, which was supervised by director Wes Anderson with a DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. The film is presented in a 2.35:1 aspect ratio in 5.1 surround sound and is approximately 93 minutes long. The Rushmore Criterion Collection Blu-ray will be released in stores and in most online retail outlets on Tuesday, November 22nd.

computer problems Good movie but it has been done before and better. Not to say this movie isn't good, it is, but not enough to earn five stars. It about the same thing as many more before it. Computer is of brilliant design and decides to take over ruling mankind by the strictest meanings of the constitution of the US. Been done in I Robot to much better affect. Also done years ago in Logan's Run. Need I mention War Games. As it goes there's new wrinkles in the storyline making it worth getting, and the action is just the right amount to keep action freaks happy. I would recommend it, but, don't compare it to the other movies.

BRAAAAINS... Return of the Living Dead on blu ray is by no means a demo blu ray.  In other words, the picture and audio quality isn't going to blow anyone away like Alien or Blade Runner on blu ray.  However, the film was shot on a low budget so chances are the blu ray transfer is as good as its ever going to get. But even though it doesn't offer up an outstanding picture, it is still a significant upgrade from the dvd.  It also has a lot of fun extras such as a documentary about the horror genre over the years.  For those who've never seen the film at all and have recently gotten into zombie films and/or shows, this is a must get.  It isn't serious and dramatic like the Walking Dead, or as action packed as the remake of Dawn of the Dead, but it is a fun, tongue in cheek, classic 80's horror film.  And it also has a wicked soundtrack featuring the likes of 45 Grave, SSQ (Stacey Q's old band), TSOL, The Cramps, and the Damned.

Good life movie Good movie with surprising ending, not your typical hollywood love story. Good price, easy to view via Vizio TV with Amazon app.

Kick-Ass This movie is kick-ass. Can't wait for the second one. This movie is funny and serious. Go ahead, buy it. You'll have no regrets.

Good Yoga Workout As one who cannot actually do yoga, I found this workout really helpful as this is in Jillian's words, a "hybrid Yoga". She takes typical yoga poses and puts movement into them which is helpful to me because I can't hold a pose for very long, so she has you start in a pose, do some motion in that pose to work muscle then hold each pose for 15 seconds. If you're like me and not all that familiar with yoga and the terminology, it can take you a bit to get caught up on what they're talking about. It is a tough workout. I still haven't gotten up the courage to try level 2 yet.  The only reason I gave it 4 stars is because I feel like even though I'm satisfied with the workout I got, the only thing I didn't enjoy is the pace. It goes pretty fast in some areas and if you're not sure of what you're doing, it's hard to stick with the workout and not get out of time. That's just my opinion.

Mister Brainwash Rules! ...? This documentary is alternately inspiring and depressing.  But above all, it is interesting.  Graffiti artist, Banksy, positions himself as storyteller here.  The story of guerilla art vs commerce and subversion vs sell-out, dance around the background of one man's dream to make his life count for something.  If you enjoy art and irony, you'll probably love this flick.

A Rousing Adventure Movie This is a movie filled to the brim with action and adventure; if you enjoy a wild ride action movie this one should leave you fully satisfied. The pace is essentially non-stop from beginning to end with fighting, action, intrigue, and adventure.  One reviewer compared it to Pirates of the Caribbean and that's probably a rather good comparison. One thing you should not expect is the Sherlock Holmes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Although there may be a few hints of Doyle's' literary Holmes character the movie creates a very contemporary Holmes in the spirit of the first Holmes played by Robert Downey Jr. In other words you'll enjoy this one if you enjoyed the first one. If, on the other hand, you're a devoted fan of Doyle's Holmes you may be disappointed in this version of the famous fictional detective.  For a general action/adventure movie it does a good job; if that's what you're looking for you should be satisfied with this one.

Very enjoyable comedy/romance with some good values underneath The bright spots in Mr. Deeds are all the actors, good guys and bad guys. The stand-outs are Winona Ryder in a comic performance that matches the best work of the 1930s screwball comediennes, John Turturro as the 'odd' butler, and Erick Avari as a light hearted opportunist businessmen after Adam Sandler's inheritance.  There are many references to the original classic movie from the 1930's, as well as to pop culture from 20th Century America. So it is fun watching for these little bits amidst all the goofy and romantic scenes.  What is most compelling about Mr. Deeds, though, are the values it presents: love, heroism, caring for others, respect, etc.  Long before Occupy Wall Street, the movie pointed out -- as did the original -- that money is not the only goal in life and that the greedy pursuit of mega wealth leads to evil consequences.  Sandler gets to point this out in a big climactic scene, and does so quite well with his everyman comic persona.  The happy ending shows that money is not always evil, it just needs to be shared in order to unlock the giving goodness in most of our hearts.

great thriller! watched this last night...what a cool film!  not sure about the ending but who cares...its was fun thriller  highly recommend it...my BF loved it too

Oh, that old rhyme... First comes baby, and no marriage, and parents who like to disparage... LIFE AS WE KNOW IT manipulates you like a marionette, tugs at your heartstrings, tries to melt your heart with a bombardment of cute baby. It gets away with it because of the two good leads and because the screenplay draws a nice balance between comedy and melodrama, and because the baby really is freakin' adorable. LIFE AS WE KNOW IT has Katherine Heigl once again playing one of those fussy, career-oriented, yet vulnerable roles she so excels in. This time her character is Holly Berensen, an up-and-coming caterer. Josh Duhamel stretches his range from playing G.I. Joe on TRANSFORMERS to a fun-loving, laid back network sports director named Eric Messer (but no one calls him "Eric"). The story kicks off with Holly and Messer set up on a blind date by mutual friends, and the date is a horrible, utter disaster. A colossal dating no-no: arranging for a booty call later that night when your current date is in the same car with you. Holly and Messer quickly part company, quite disenchanted.  So imagine their alarm when those same friends who set them up die in a car accident and Holly and Eric find themselves the legal guardians of a suddenly orphaned baby girl named Sophie. Can these two very different souls put aside their mutual dislike and their warring agendas to make a home for Sophie? Well, no, they really can't. They adore the kid. But they can't stand each other. In the parlance of cinema, there's no better recipe for romance.  For the common denominator crowd, there are the baby poopy gags and the smoking the extracurricular stuff. We get the expected hijinks revolving around our couple's attempts to juggle careers and social obligations with their parenting of Sophie. Except that the screenplay delivers enough depth and serious moments to offset the silly. It restrains itself enough. To be honest, there's nothing here that you haven't seen before. But the performances carry you through. Heigl and Duhamel work really well together. The inevitable love story pays off when it suprisingly takes an honest, emotional turn down the road. And you have to appreciate the neat little touches brought about by a supporting cast which features odd neighbors, a teen (pre-teen?) baby whisperer, and a social worker who develops a case of slow burn hysterics. Josh Lucas also shows up as a hunky pediatrician, not that anyone feels threatened. LIFE AS WE KNOW IT is a romantic comedy as we know it. And, I guess, sometimes, there's comfort in familiarity, if the execution is right, if the two leads are compatible, if the baby is all kinds of huggable. Aw, cripes, I'm a sap.

Great movie Not as good as the first one, but it was very entertaining! It was a fun movie night. I would watch it again for sure.

A Kaiju Klassic! Forget what you saw on MST3K, Gamera deserves to be seen in all of its uncut glory! Is this film occasionally silly? Name a Kaiju flick that isn't! Does this film feature often confusing jumps in time and location? Yes but in its defense, lapses in little things like time and location are an odd thing to gripe about when you're watching a film featuring a giant, fire-breathing, flying turtle with tusks. You either accept and embrace the absurdity of it all or not. When you consider much of the science fiction cinema coming out in the sixties and earlier, it's not at all strange to see hokey dialogue, bad FX and inconsistencies in continuity.  Shout Factory have done a magnificent job on this release and they're to be commended for bringing this entire series, uncut, into the states and to DVD/BRD. They get a big thumbs up for the effort they put into the clear transfer and special features though I would like to recommend for the future that they consider a menu option that allows for selection of subs for the film. All in all, ace release. I love Gamera just as much as Godzilla, King Kong and Mothra. If you're a Kaiju Eiga fan or a cult cinema geek, this is a MUST-HAVE release of this film. Grab it now.

Hilarious. The previous reviewe must be an IDIOT.  the woman is hilarious.  She has an accent but it's not a THICk accent.  Anyone with a basic understanding of languages could understand what she was saying.  She's hilarious.  if you like funny women comics, then you will like this video.

worth the price Always a fan of the spawn series was a must buy on amazon for price cool movie fun addition for fans

True Blood Seasons 1&2 After watching seasons 1&2 of TB, Please tell me that Sookie&Jason are not going to be this stupid for the remaining series? In season 1 Sookie seems very naive for a WOMAN her age.After watch more episodes I began to realize that she's a stupid little girl who talks too much.Her actions and mouth get almost everyone danger someway somehow.Poor Bill after hundreds of years on earth he picks Sookie,the man can't get a good days sleep for always having to come to her aid. Honestly if it wasn't for the other actors(Tara,Lafayette,Sam)I might stop watching the show at times.I hope for Jason & Sookie sake they smarten up,cause as of now they are down right funny! Waiting to receive Season3 so that I can yell at Jason & Sookie some more.Also Rutina(Tara)is great,Tara and Lafayette work well together

As song from the Heard Great acting. Listened to the heart.  Fame isn't everything. Glad it finished the way it did. Could feel the music.

Just another review for Amazon. I liked this movie! I thought it was fun to watch. The action and acting were very well done. The characters of Van Helsing and Anna were well matched and enjoyable to watch. The depiction of the creatures (including Dracula) were some of the best that I have seen. Hugh Jackman's (Van Helsing) acting was excellent, especially when he said "Ladies first" to Kate Beckinsale (Anna). His chagrin when she did not respond was very funny.

Jaws Lite This DVD earns a special place of honor on every teenage boy's video shelf.  That's because Piranha packs more bare boobs and dismembered body parts than any ten ordinary horror movies!  Unfortunately, the work of plastic surgeons is displayed as prominently here as the effects of the CGI wizards, but for the teenaged boys who have never seen natural boobs, it may not matter...  Mostly this film is a hoot, but it's not the classic that Jaws was.  Piranha suffers from a lack of character development and interesting information about piranhas.  But the film does boast unique pleasures, notably the stunt casting of the first victim, plus the always welcome appearance of Christopher "Doc Brown" Lloyd as the local piranha expert and pet store owner.  The film gets bonus points too for the scene in which Deputy Sheriff Ving Rhames, hefting a roaring outboard engine, mows down scores of hungry piranha in the water.  Last but not least, this release is welcome proof that DVDs can still pack plenty of extra features, here a director's commentary and full ninety-minute making-of featurette.  Bravo!  I'm texting you, Machete -- there's no reason except corporate greed that your DVD included just a few brief deleted scenes!!!  The featurette makes you appreciate how much expert work went into the onscreen mayhem here.  About the only fault I could find was the short shrift given the piranha themselves.  These are some scary suckers, and I would have liked to have seen how they were designed and realized.  At any rate, fans of boobs and blood will find plenty to enjoy here.

Dinoshark season is officially open Roger Corman proves you're never too old to make a cheesy bad movie, unleashing Dinoshark on an unsuspecting world.  After spending the last 150 million years or so frozen in a block of ice, the creature (basically a shark with the head and scales of a dinosaur) decides he is more than due for a vacation and sets off for the sun and fun of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.  Like any tourist, Dinoshark overindulges himself in the local cuisine, takes part in a number of outdoor activities, and just has a great old time.  Even though his trademark killing move includes jumping out of the water, only one man ever manages to see him - local boat operator Trace McGraw (Eric Balfour).  Authorities blame the first few deaths on a tiger shark - and then they apparently just stop caring, no matter how many people disappear or die. They are apparently more concerned with drug smuggling (yeah, right) than a rash of local deaths.  There's certainly no Mexican equivalent to Roy Scheider's character in Jaws running around yelling "Get out of the water!"  Instead, it's game on for all the excursion boats, parasailers, jet skiers, and swimmers - and nothing is going to stop the big regatta festival.  In other words, it's feeding time at the Dinoshark corral.  Unfortunately for Dinoshark, it makes the mistake of eating the bottom half of one of Trace's friends - that makes it personal for him and mutual friend Carol Brubaker (Iva Hasperger), a tall, blonde Princeton graduate who supposedly teaches but spends most of her time coaching girls' water polo, hanging out in a seedy bar, studying marine biology just for the fun of it, and holding off the advances of creepy old men.  Together, Trace and Carol set out to find and kill the creature.  With what, you ask?  Well, it seems that any Mexican can borrow all kinds of heavy equipment from the military - and the local bar owner is Mexican.  Carol also has connections with a local scientist (played by none other than Roger Corman himself) who might be able to determine the creature's vulnerabilities.  The special effects of Dinoshark are both good and bad.  On the bad side, it's obviously a computer generated creature, and some of the shots of it swimming along tend to be on the repetitive side.  On the other hand, many of the killings are of the up close and personal variety, with Dinoshark clasping victims in its jaws and taking them down to their bloody deaths.  We're also treated to several shots of gory remains, which I certainly appreciated.  In the end, it doesn't really matter that the creature looks smaller than it should or that what should be the most spectacular scene in the film lacks any excitement whatsoever - the special effects are still a positive, as far as I'm concerned.  If you're a fan of the "awesomely awful made-for-TV movie genre" or happy traveler in the schlock-filled world of sci-fi B-movies, you're probably going to enjoy Dinoshark.  It's a heck of a lot better than a lot of the low-budget movies Roger Corman has made over the years.  It's true that there's a lot of bad acting on display among the supporting cast (including Corman), but I think Balfour and Hasperger actually do a pretty good job carrying the movie on their shoulders.  This is just a good, low-budget monster movie made in the old B-movie tradition, and I quite enjoyed watching it.

Entertaining but not totally educational My daughter likes watching it but yet to follow it......may be because she thinks it is just for entertainment but i continue to play it in the hope she will get it some day soon.

fun! I have been a fan of the books for a long time. I liked how they tried to keep as true to the book as possible. Fast moving, and funny, I'm a Stephanie Plum fan!

Pretty cool... I enjoyed Constantine quite a bit. It has a good storyline as the Spear of Longinus/Destiny is a topic of considerable interest for history lovers such as myself.  The graphics and effects were good, altho I'm not a fan of CGI FX. The acting and cast are a nice touch.  I think they performed well.  It's worth the asking price and one of those movies you might wanna watch more than once.  I'd buy it again. 4*

Spectacularly done! From the film itself to the commentaries with either th actual astronaut, Jim Lovell, or the director Ron Howard, you grow tremendously to love and appreciate this movie for its technical achievements and an era of exploration that is lost to today's society.

3 year old gives 5 stars, mom 3 My 3 1/2 year old and I both liked The Great Discovery and Hero of the Rails, but I was not so pleased with Misty Island (too many unbelievable/out there/"ugh" moments), but that didn't stop him from LOVING it. He saw that movie a year ago and there still isn't a week that goes by that he doesn't re-enact something from the Diesel & jobi wood sequence (in fact, tonight Emily was hooked up to Rocky and Rocky was dropping her over the side of my couch "into the sea below.").  I was very excited there was a new Thomas movie, and the re-appearance of Diesel 10 (who you see at the very end of Misty Island as a set up for this movie). Well, I can say my son has seen it about 20 times by now and really likes it. He has the Cranky and Flynn TrackMaster set and re-enacts the fire sequence and makes up his own play, which tells me it captured his imagination.  The movie is beautiful to look at. It starts with a fire, and Flynn (fire engine that can go on tracks) and Belle (new engine who fights fires) help put it out. Flynn is touted as a hero. Thomas is told by Sir Topham Hatt to take care of them, leaving Percy feeling abandoned. Diesel "oils up" to Percy and starts sowing the seeds of discord, and Diesel 10 is Percy's new best friend who just wants something from him. In a brave move, Percy goes to the Diesel Works, and then when he finds out how run down it is and how the diesels lack even a crane, talks Kevin into going with him from the Steam Works.  Diesel 10 schemes and manipulates and finally the time comes when everyone is away from the Steam Works. The diesels and Percy charge over to the Steam Works and take it over. I don't think any parents will mind if I spoil the ending here, but Percy, Thomas, and Sir Topham Hatt end up confronting the diesels. Sir Topham Hatt is cross (isn't he always? =), but Thomas and Percy cut in to explain the poor conditions of the Diesel Works. A little later, everyone (steamies and diesels) work together to build a new Diesel Works.  My son had big saucer eyes during the fire, and was a bit tense at times when Diesel 10 was being particularly devious. He wasn't scared, but definitely anxious at certain points. The measure of the film, however, is that he has continued to ask for it again and again. I didn't like this one nearly as much as other Thomas movies, and less than the TV series. So 5 stars from my Thomas fanatic, 3 stars from me. Maybe it's because Percy is so annoying!

Loved the movie! Loved the soundtrack!! The movie was great!  I loved Joshua Jackson, the scenery, the story and the music! Where can I buy the soundtrack? I can only find one song on Amazon...

Great Price for Blu Ray Although this site did not have a way of tracking my package ... they did an awsome job in delivering it by the set time!

Great TV movie on high quality DVD The Rough Riders is a jingoistic bit of film that is both entertaining and of use in classroom instruction.  The first part of the movie is actually excellent at giving a sense of the nationalism and such things as Randolph Hearst's yellow journalism.  It fairly accurately portrays the differences in class of Americans and there is a great attempt to portray the technology, clothes, weapons of the era with great accuracy.  There are no John Wayne's in the movie.  Even TR is portrayed as a normal, flawed man.  Gary Bussey as General Wheeler, the only man to serve as a General in BOTH the Confederate and Union Armies is a bit over the tip in the second half of the show.  General Shafter is the one character that is treated unfairly. The music score is by Leonard Bernstein and is magnificent, inspirational, and moving. It really hits the era well.  I plan to purchase it for listening in my car.  This film was originally a made for TV effort that was very under rated.  Demand for it pushed TNT into putting it on DVD.  It's not "The Longest Day" and we are better off that it's not.  The DVD itself is high quality in sound and picture.  Since it was a made of TV show there aren't the usual outtakes and features.  There is a version with commentary.  Personnally, I think it a waste. The movie's characters tell a compelling story.  Tom Barrenger may not be Lawrence Olivier, but his career demonstrates and incredible range of acting ability.  His TR is not academy award material, but it sure is entertaining. Likewise, Chris Noth,  Sam Elliot and slew of other stars give good depth and entertainment.  George Hamilton as William Randolph Hearst was inspired casting.  Flawed, but educational and darn entertaining.  Go Rough Riders!

Mommie.Dearest I really enjoyed this movie but it was hard to watch at some points...I cant believe Joan Crawford was actually cruel and mean to her kids like that..but the daughter could have been disgruntled bec she was left out of the will...sad..so very sad

Chronicles of Narnia I got this series for my Daughter, she loves the entire series.. I find this quite entertaining we have watched this second movie twice since it arrived

In the misty moon light This is a definite must for any Barbeau collector. She keeps up her high standards found in "Swamp Thing" (1982) and "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death" (1989).  This film also is designed to add to your John Carpenter collection.  Fog night and slow pacing will drive you up the wall. The unseen is just as spooky as the seen. There is gold, revenge, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Janet Leigh. What, want more? What if we throw in John Houseman and Hal Holbrook? Still more? There is a lot more. But don't get greedy. Sit back and enjoy what you can see in The Fog.  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000A7Q1UQ">Swamp Thing ~ Louis Jourdan</a>

Explains a lot Not quite the scare factor of "Lambs", but it paints a picture of the trauma that could create a Hannibal Lecter.  I liked it.

Almost 5 stars I would give this season 5 stars if they'd taken the glimpses of brilliance that are evident in specific episodes like the last two especially precedence during the entire season. While much of the show has a rather, rinse, repeat feel to it, when the writers of this show focus on really moving the story forward instead of writing filler episodes (the fourth from last "noir" episode anyone?) they really hit the nail on the head. The best episodes are the ones that show how Peter came "here" and how our Olivia got "there". Overall I still recommend this show to everyone that likes television and am looking forward to finally catching up with the third season which I have all DVR'd except the first few episodes which I'll watch online. Good Stuff!

Brutal reminder of racial hatred in the South Outstanding cast reveals the depths of racial hatred in the South and the influence of politics on the legal system at a bleak time in our history.  Many unexpected turns in the story yet you walk away with a feeling of vindication at the end.

back to basics I bought this blu ray because of the low price (under $10). While I don't have any significant complaints about it, I will say that it is a pretty bare item. The packaging is plain and the only special feature is a commentary. Overall, though, I'm happy with the purchase.

quality movie, good actors quality movie, good actors. sometimes boring and predictable, but a good one. in general i like it. quality movie, good actors. sometimes boring and predictable, but a good one. in general i like it

A Fun Animated  Film for Rob Zombie Fans Fans of Rob Zombie and his films will certainly enjoy this animated film.  Its about El Superbeasto, a celebrity of sorts in a Mexican wrestler's mask, who falls in love with a stripper and must have her.  Unfortunately, Dr. Satan saw her too and has her kidnapped by his gorilla henchman so he can marry her in unholy matrimony.  El Superbeasto must save her in order to keep Dr. Satan from becoming all-powerful and taking over the world.  He enlists his sexy sister and her robot sidekick to help him in his mission.  The jokes come fast and furious and there are a ton of sight gags.  Fans of Zombie's films will see cameos of some of the characters from those films.  This movie is certainly intended for long-time fans of horror films and many of the jokes are aimed straight at a Generation X audience.  This is a fun little film with lots of silliness and action and clocks in at 77 minutes.

A Small Life The documentary was better than I expected. But to sum up the entire film, it's about a man that lives a terrible childhood, has an even worse adulthood, and makes a run for what he figures is "safety."  He probably lived a better life as a turn coat. But only because that is what he was. A hero in the twisted place they call the People's Republic of North Korea. A wife and two sons that are treated like the landed elite. What more can one ask for?  Communist living obviously took it's toll on him. Little things like the gold teeth. And the way he smokes his cigarettes down to the filter. And he would presumably live off the best life had to offer in NORK. One can only pitty the poor souls that failed to shed enough tears when 'Dear Leader' departed the living.  Slater did a good job as narrator.

Great song at end The movie is slightly horrible. But I am satisfied with the purchase because I only bought it for the sensational Dave Matthews song at the end. If not for that, I wouldn't have given a thought to purchasing the movie.

Entertaining but unconvincing There's no chemistry between the weather girl and her younger beau, though that's what this whole indie hinges upon. But then there's none either between her and the older anchor man, played very well by Mark Harmon. So what's left? Well, the script is smart, goes way beyond the essential comedy here to look at relationships and what they mean. Would this on screen meltdown by the weather girl ever be shown in real life TV? Nope. Still, it's watchable. I recommend this one.

The scenery is stunning Rented this to test our new Plasma HDTV after the rear projection died.  Not only was the movie itself pretty good, the video colors were stunning.  An enjoyable film.

Finally A Really Good Horror Film I have to say that its been a good while since I have seen a truly scary, macabre, and wonderfully written horror film. V/H/S/ is about a group of hoodlums taping their acts of depravacy on women, destroying property, and one main job that sets the film in motion. They are contracted by a mysterious person that wants them to do a job for him. And their doomed task is to break into a house in the outskirts of town and steal a vhs tape for him. But little do they know this tape is nothing as expected it is a tape of five short but grueling point of view scenes. The first film called Amateur Night is probably the best in the movie but really I love four of the five scenes. Amateur Night is about 3 guys going out to clubs to find some women and one of the fellas has spy cam glasses on to film the guys cherades and end up picking up 2 women to bring back to their hotel room to film them having sex with the two girls but one of the girls is one wicked demon vampire maneater. thats all I am saying of the first scene. The second scene titled 2 honeymoons has one of the best twists I have scene in a while, where a newly married couple are traveling to their last spot on the trip in the midwest. They get a room for a couple of nights and a mysterious women that asks for their help turns out to be more than one had bargained for. Now, for the 3rd scene titled Tuesday the 17th a group of 4 young adults go to a swimming pond in the woods are hunted down viciously by a sadistic murderer that had killed 4 other youngsters in the past. This one is very violent but a one of a kind slasher short film. The 4th scene and I am sorry but cannot remember the title now to it, is about a women is being haunted by something in her newly rented abode. The whole scene is the woman talking by webcam with her boyfriend and lets him help her try to find out what they want and try to get her through each horrifying incedent. But, are they ghosts or something else. This scene is my least favorite but it is still very unique and very watchable. The fifth and final scene is titled 10/30/98 and is about four friends going to a halloween party. But when they arrive at their destination are they at the right spot and why is the house totally empty except a few apparitions very quickly seen on the camera they bring with them. But they finally find the party and all hell breaks loose literally. The hoodlums at the beginning of the film that finds the tape has a pretty neat twist. Will they get out with their tape and score some good money or is their fate doomed. You will just have to watch to find out. The title to the hoodlums scene is titled Tape #53. O.K. now about what I think about it is this is one of the best scary films I have seen in a while, well at least in the past 2 to 5 years. Each story has a different crew workig on it not to mention some directors that are going to frighten for for a long time. Most of the stories are very violent in one way or another, and 3 of the 5 are some of the best and truly shocking endings you will never ever see coming. It is about time a horror film has come out in the 21st century that will gice nightmares. Sweet dreams ladies and gents.

Loved it My son loves these movies and was very excited to recieve it so soon and not expensive at all.  I will deffinetly look for more movies

Pretty good I had heard of this movie from the late 80s but only watched it in 2012. I enjoyed it, I must say. Well worth renting. What more do you want me to say?

This Generations Apocolypse Now Based on a true story, The Battle For Haditha follows the events that transpired in Al Anbar province on the 19th November 2005.  An investigation of the massacre of 24 men, women and children in Haditha, Iraq allegedly shot by 4 U.S. Marines in retaliation for the death of a U.S. Marine killed by a roadside bomb. The movie follows the story of the Marines of Kilo Company, an Iraqi family, and the insurgents who plant the roadside bomb. From the opening scene it is clear that this is going to be a very ambiguous movie. We join the Marines in what appears to be a home movie, where they describe their feelings for war. The first stating that he is not sure why they are there and that his only goal is to get back home to his family. Contrast that with another Marines tale of being excited about being the `Ultimate hunting experience' and you may very well be looking at this generations version of Apocalypse Now. The line that separate the traditional sense of good and evil continue to blur throughout the movie and you see how, as an Iraqi citizen, speaking up can end with your life and that of your families in danger. This point is not lost on me with an early scene showing a dead body in the middle of the road that transpires to be the local English teacher. The man that would later lay the IED shows here he has no love for the insurgents either as  Broomfield continues to smudge the lines. In contrast the Marines are clear on their objectives but even the best trained and best equipped are still only men when everything is stripped down and after the roadside bomb is detonated Cpl Ramirez makes instant miscalls that results in what we now know was to happen. Nick Broomfield adds to the confusion and destruction by dulling the background noise at various points after the explosion and during the resulting firefight. With this Nick manages to make a film which is not anti Muslim nor is it anti marines. It is just a story of two very different cultures, with two very different sets of procedures, prejudices and misconceptions that set them into those tragic few minutes. Preceding the events conditions in Haditha itself were known to have been deteriorating under militant rule, and attacks on U.S. troops as well as executions of suspected informants were common so the fact, as I said before, that the Iraqis were afraid to inform the Americans of the bomb as well as the Americans being more likely to shoot first and ask questions later are equally understandable. The Battle For Haditha is a great movie and certainly up there with the other great war movies.

A very well done found footage Horror film. I'm quit the fan of found footage horror films, and I was very pleased with Grave Encounters. The film builds the atmosphere very well, by allowing the supernatural events to start small and then grow as the night continues. The characters are well established, and I found the obvious jab at Paranormal State very amusing (I especially found the main actors channeling of Ryan Buell's self-important airs was spot on, as was the "off camera" hoaxing.)  There are some flaws. A few of the special effects fail, but generally they do a very good job of keeping the over the top special effects to a minimal to avoid them looking too cheesy.  Part of the ending is clich&eacute;, and didn't really need to be part of the film. It's scary enough to think of a doctor experimenting on his patients unscrupulously for science.  The added "surprise" motivation ( I won't go into it to spoil the end) is just cheesy.  The actors are very convincing however, and I very much liked how the movies messes with time, and physical space, and the idea that less is more in what you see.  While it's not a perfect horror film, it's one of the better in the found footage genre.

Battlin' beasties, mashin' monsters, and grapplin' with gods You gotta give it up for Liam Neeson. Who else gets to take on roles for a Jedi Knight, Batman's mentor, and Zeus, the King of the Gods? Unfortunately, he isn't given much to work with in this particular role, but neither are any of the other actors. The closest thing to an enjoyable character we get in this flick is Poseidon's estranged, hippie son, who begins to refer to himself as "The Navigator" about halfway through the movie.  But this movie is not about character development and the existential dilemma. It's about battlin' beasties, mashin' monsters, and grapplin' with gods. And on that score, this movie is a pure success. The CGI is masterfully done (for the most part), with the high light being the two-headed, fire-spewing creature that smashes up Perseus' town BUT GOOD. Although it's strange to see (MINOR SPOILER AHEAD) a really lame looking minotaur rampaging about a labyrinth (it damn near looks like some dude running around in a rubber mask), the other special effects are just that- special (END SPOILER). The climatic showdown with Kronos can't quite live up to the Kraken's finale in the previous movie, but "Wrath" still has its merits. Fans of Greek mythology and monsters will enjoy the show.

Solid Movie With Noble Ideals and Moral Convictions Let me begin by stating that I am not a movie critic; I do however like movies and can critique a film to an extent.  Ultimately, to avoid needless suspense, the movie was a very pleasant surprise.  I have read other reviews lamenting that the movie was edited and cannot proffer an opinion on that since I have never seen any other version of this film than the one here.  Nevertheless, for what it is worth, this is a solid film, the acting is decent, a little better at times, and somewhat worse at others, but overall the actors did their job.  The visuals were inspiring as was the storyline - in fact, the storyline drove the movie, much more so than any acting or special effects; however, to be fair, Arn, for example, was a little too two-dimensional at times and other characters were not fully developed as well.  This could be due to the unfortunate editing that others have noted before.  However, that aside, the main story was inspiring and entertaining.  Thus, it was, in short, a very pleasant movie littered with noble ideals and strong moral convictions.  Sadly, these two characteristics are too often missing from other contemporary (US) movies and why this movie is a `buy' overall.

great argento without the dream logic Wow. What a pleasant surprise, if that can be said about a film which features several decidely unpleasant DEmises. I can't believe I let lukewarm reviews make me put off seeing this one for so many years! I thought it was great!  Now, don't get me wrong, I love Argento's films like SUSPIRIA and DEEP RED for what they are- often fever-pitched, nightmare-logic, saturated color labyrinths. However, OPERA has a solid narrative which almost completely makes sense without suffering for it. Also, almost all the acting is quite good and I found myself truly caring about almost every murder victim, unusual in my experiences with Argento's other films. It was an added layer of characterization which enhanced everything else about the story.  My only significant problems with the story were a few significant lapses in common sense judgement- I won't be spoiling anything by saying that, once again, I found myself wondering why someone who's been threatened by a stalking maniac wouldn't turn on every light in their apartment. And, occasionally, the heroine shows a distracting almost blase' attitude after witnessing some truly horrible events. This may have been intended to show her in shock, but, if so, I felt it wasn't entirely successful.  One aspect which didn't bother me nearly as much as I expected was the occasional use of loud, generic Italian heavy rock music. It's SO infrequent and for me it actually works within Argento's contrasting images (and the wonderful editing) of beauty and brutal violence. In an ideal world, I'd like him to have chosen something, well, BETTER, but, it didn't spoil or distract me from immersing myself in the movie experience.  The camera-work, lighting, set design and editing are SUPERB without being distractingly "hey look! this is arty!" Almost everything works without being too carefully melded together. The violence is shocking as ever, almost more so in places where we only HEAR what is being done to someone. The music overall is PERFECT. And the ending, while puzzling, was more thought-provoking than outright annoying.  This is the work of a true, dare I say it? maestro with more to share and show and tell than to prove and shock with. I look forward to watching it again and again.  Oh! And, the dubbing isn't half-bad either! QUITE the accomplishment for this type of and era of film.

Deceptive title, solid movie With a title like "Monsters," you expect the movie to be about monsters, but it's not.  The focus is on the journey of two people through a monster-infected area.  It's a well written and acted film that builds the chemistry between the two characters.  This is a movie that could appease those that like romance and drama, but not those looking for action.

Tax dollars @ work! Thank a Vet! Gives a good idea about US Special Forces & their sacrifices to keep us safe! Thanks to all our Soldiers, Airmen, Marines & Coast Guardsmen past, present & future! "The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive veterans of early wars were treated and appreciated by our nation."- George Washington

It's Kind of a Funny Story It's Kind of a Funny Story, based on Ned Vezzini's novel, is a black comedy that surprisingly keeps you entertained, Zach Galifianakis, keeps you wanting more. Mental illness is certainly not a comical thing but people portraying it is. The movie is mainly shot in a mental hospital ward that host an array of characters. When an over stressed sixteen year old, Craig (Kier Gielchrist), feels that he can't cope anymore; he freely checks himself into a mental hospital for depression. He meets Bobby (Zach Galifianakis), a depressed patient (that is hilarious), is the "go- to guy" for the psych ward. He befriends Craig and surprisingly help one another. Noelle (Emma Roberts), plays a depressed teen, who Craig sees a love interest in, and blossoms into a unique relationship. Craig, may be depressed and somewhat suicidal but when he arrives at the hospital and realizes everyone really is "crazy" and  his problems are really not big anymore. Reluctant to stay, now forced to be committed for a five day stay, Craig works through his feelings with the help staff psychiatrist, Dr. Minerva (Viola Davis). Once, the un- cool kid in school, is a now "Cool Craig." Craig, realizes his life is really worth living for.  Directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Half Nelson, Sugar), It's Kind of a Funny Story, gives plenty of animation, retrospect and music as audio components. Boden and Fleck, do a superb job coinciding the music with animation. One scene, when Craig is the vocals on music night. He "rocks- out" Davie Bowie's Under Pressure.  It's kind of a Funny Story, is a whimsical, light- hearted story, that combines humor and seriousness into a unique story.

Great film in series I was very happy with this film. I didn't see it in the theater so having it on DVD has been great. I'm not much into the special features for movies but this movie has some decent special features.

Kids love it. We've already watched it at least 20 times. The best thing was that it arrived on the day it was released in stores and not after. We came home after the fall storm and had the movie before we even had our power back!

Not Bad! I liked it,good speical effects.Great action,drama and romance a little bit of everything.I found the movie to be very entertaining.

Great action film I love ancient Thai culture--particularly the elegance of dance.  The plot confused me sometimes with what I believe were flash-backs. It ends on a sad note, I think!  Beautiful filming but I was left somewhat unsatisfied, and confused.

Great price! I grabbed this movie for a great deal.  My husband is a big Harry Potter movie fan and was happy to add this to his collection for less than five bucks.

Astonishing concert, but too much docudrama I saw the I Am...World Tour. I was fortunate to get exceptional floor seats and Beyonce, the background singers, dancers and musicians are phenomenal. However, when I bought the DVD/Blue-ray, I was not expecting to watch documentaries throughout the entire concert. After watching several documentaries after a while, it was like, okay enough already - stop cutting parts of the performance to show documentaries! At the concert, from my memory, a great portion of the narratives that are in the DVD/Blue-ray were shown during the concert, but mostly while Beyonce and her dancers changed costumes, and I think a few may have been shown as a background during Beyonce's performance. Therefore, it was fine to view live, because the performance did not feel as if the documentaries were smothering the performance. I wanted to see at home what I saw at the concert. Bottom line - the documentary would have been better served as additional footage on the DVD/Blue-ray.  Still, Beyonce is my favorite entertainer and I have not had a favorite entertainer/group since the 80s and 90s Michael Jackson, Prince and U2. She puts on a great show. Beyonce voice is strong and beautiful, she sounds incredible and it's amazing that you can understand each word that she utters - no matter how fast she's singing. She also is an incredible dancer, stunning, seems to be sincere and spiritually grounded. I would have given this 5 stars but the docudrama during the concert was a bit overkill. Still, anyone who is a fan of Beyonce or is undecided about Beyonce would enjoy this concert. By the way, I think the Beyonce Experience concert DVD/Blue-ray (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000WGZGNS">The Beyonc&eacute; Experience - Live!</a>) is better than the I Am...World Tour concert DVD/Blue-ray. The I Am...Yours at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002RSDWHQ">Beyonce: I Am... Yours - An Intimate Performance in the Encore Theater</a> is pretty good too.

stealth movie a movie that sneaks up on you.  not a big budget.  but an excellent film. and i like excellent films.

A Frivolous And Fun Movie. John Travolta Was Huge. Last night's bargain-rack DVD was "Hairspray." I found it at a Ross Store. Hairspray is a musical and I just don't watch many musicals. Okay, there was "Mama Mia" and I admit to enjoying it. Well, I'll admit to enjoying "Hairspray" too. It was a fun movie. Not much depth. So-so acting. Light on the story, but somehow everything seemed to hold  together and it was an enjoyable movie to watch. The actors seemed to be having fun too. It was probably the biggest role of John Travolta's career.  Well, what can I say? It was a musical set in Baltimore at about the time that the integration movement was sweeping over the country. Old attitudes and new attitudes were thoroughly mixed and, of course, conflicts of ideas abounded. I'd say it was one of those looking-back things that was almost embarrassing to view. The movie had a sort of frivolous fun feeling and everybody gave the appearance of having a good time. Light, chuckling laughs were abundant. Seeing John Travolta cast as an overweight mother was worth the price of the disc. Where did they ever find a fat suit that large? Of course, it also looked as if he was wearing his own personal fat suit, in addition. Well, it was sing and dance, sing and dance, all with a comical light story to hold things together. It was a pleasant and enjoyable movie, but short of first rate.  Gary Peterson

Such sweetness Somehow I managed to see parts III and IV and recently V many times but never II and I.  So I watched them backwards...II, then I.  Ooooooh, Sly in this film just made me SWOON.It wasn't even the story line, though that was fine.  It was the relationship with Adrian...he was SO sweet with her and liked her so much...sigh. :) And except for the hair, he was pretty hot in his own way back then...still is! He was just so charming, and watching them fall in love...so well done.  Good acting from a man who gets made fun of a lot.  The Academy didn't think he was so bad!!!  I know I'm not focusing on what I am supposed to focus on, but who cares? That's what I took from it and that's what I really enjoyed. Their marriage and pregnancy in Part II is almost as sweet and cute, by the way.

Great I remember being a little kid watching him on VHS and loving it. Now 20yrs old watching these music videos makes me so o yea remember back when. Ray Stevens has great videos that are funny, catchy, and well great to watch. Great buy.

Missing Something When adapting a well-loved book to the screen, there are certain risks that must be taken and sacrifices to be made. If that book happens to be the second installment of a best-selling series, the stakes are even higher. After the smash success of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" on film, the second book was made into a movie. And while it's by no means bad, there's something about it that just doesn't sit quite right with me.  I guess one of the easiest things to do would be break it down into what I loved - and what I didn't. I'm going to assume that, if you're reading this, you're familiar with the book's plot, so I'll just focus on the movie. The biggest plus in the Harry Potter series has to do with casting; it's one of the few long-running film series I can think of that kept the same main players the entire time. Yes, the kids got older, but their characters did as well. It's wonderful to see everyone back, from the main cast (Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint) to the supporting characters (Alan Rickman, Robbie Coltraine, Tom Felton). Also, as this book features many new characters, filmmakers had to come up with the actors to fill those shoes. Probably the two best casting moves here consist of Kenneth Branagh as the vain yet incompetent Professor Gilderoy Lockhart and Jason Isaacs as Lucius Malfoy, father of Harry's enemy Draco. And it's bittersweet to see Richard Harris in one of his final roles as the beloved Albus Dumbledore.  I was also impressed with how well certain scenes from the book played out; Dobby, the house-elf, was as described on the page, while the Weasleys' flying car seemed even better. For a film that relies heavily on special effects, this one didn't feel over-done, and much of it did occur as I had imagined.  However, there was a lot from the book that was cut out. Due to time constraints (the film does come in at an impressive 2.5 hours) I understand that sacrifices must be made, but one of the novel's main themes (fame) was not even explored in the movie. I also felt that the first hour or so of the film dragged on quite a bit. The book is brilliant in that it slowly builds the intensity level to the final battle; unfortunately that slow-build was missing here.  Is the movie good? Absolutely. Is it a reasonably faithful adaptation of the book? Yes. But it's missing that indefinable something that made the first film sparkle and the book come alive.

Dobby looks cute i only bought this for the Dobby bookend. It was worth that. the DVD is ok. the volume level is low. I have to turn the volume up to almost double what I normally use, but other than that no complaints. the Dobby bookend looks nice next to my HP books.

Honest and well made. Jumanji is quite decent effort from the director and cast. Very well made, with correctly established lines of dialogues, enough subtexts for adults to enjoy it. The Blu-Ray edition is a lot better picture wise and sound wise. Highly recommended, especially to the fans of the film.

Movie Review The movie was good. I purchased it to show to a group of students and it was a little slow in places and didn't always hold their attention.

Blues Brothers 25th Anniversary Edition So much fun watching this movie with my kids.  Last time I saw it i was their age.  Was a little disappointing to see that they added a few scenes that were not in the original movie, but still laughed out loud.

Good Movie I would recommend this movie to anyone that enjoys a spy-type of movie. It is action packed and Harrison Ford plays a great Jack Ryan. If you want a who-done-it movie, this one is for you. Good movie.

Monumental: The Movie When I viewed this, I wasn't quite sure what it was about.  It was shown on the Inspirational Channel, but now I may have to purchase a copy of the dvd.  I was amazed at ALL the information Mr. Cameron dug up about our fore-fathers--much of it has been a part of our history lessons (well, it 'was' years ago) but there were some things I wasn't aware of.  It was helpful to have him speak with experts along the way.  Our country so needs to be aware of where it's now going...NOT what our fore-fathers had in mind when they were putting together our governmental leadership.  I highly recommend families to watch this dvd together, then discuss it after-wards!!

Distrayantes ann&eacute;es 70 Annie Girardot est parfaite dans son rôle de prostitu&eacute;, drôle, &eacute;lectrique, humaine, une rousp&eacute;teuse au coeur d'or. Brigitte Bardot, toujours la même, est peu cr&eacute;dible en naïve novice. Miss Girardot FAIT le film.

xxx:State of the Union Excellant action and drama. Would have been better with Vin Diesal, but Ice Cube did a good job filling the role. Good descriptive info on the movie and great service. Always satisfied.

Great but not Complete! It's amazing this is getting released but when it was shown on ch.13 I noticed it wasn't the whole show. When I saw the setlist I was shocked that "Pieces Of Ice" and "The Prophet" were cut from the dvd. Not sure why but it's just a LIL Disappointing that the WHOLE show isn't released. That being said....  Super glad that the 1st night is included in this released. After all... It's the most exciting one!

American Pie II (Blu-ray) Great price, fast shipping, great quality! Needed this to complete my collection. This is a funny movie but not as funny as the original. Nice to see the main cast back together.

The Fabulous Bridges Boys Still a Crowd-Pleaser "The Fabulous Baker Boys," (1989) is a strong, steamy American romantic comedy/drama filmed at the end of a decade that, for whatever the reasons saw Hollywood make many strong romantic dramas.  It's certainly a showbiz drama, set in the Left Coast City of Seattle. Sibling pianists Frank (Beau Bridges) and Jack Baker(Jeff Bridges), played by the actual sibling Bridges boys,  are professional musicians who've never needed day jobs, but they're playing dismayingly schmaltzy music, and they're sure not getting work at the city's best venues.  So they decide to get a chanteuse to spice up their dual piano act.  After enduring a day of hilarious, off-key auditions, highlighted by a witty romp by the uniquely-voiced Jennifer Tilly(<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JND2">Seed of Chucky</a>) as Blanche (Monica) Moran, they choose beautiful, sexy  Susie Diamond (Michelle Pfeiffer).  Mind you, Susie comes with, as they used to say, a checkered past: she used to work for an escort service.  At any rate, the trio become successful beyond their wildest dreams. But when a relationship develops between Susie and Jack, the brothers are forced to consider where they're headed , and how honest they've been with each other.  The fabulous Bridges boys are, of course, excellent, light-footed actors, each of which has had a long film career, Beau in (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0039UT3LK">Crazy Heart</a>); Jeff in (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AEF6D6">The Big Lebowski - 10th Anniversary Edition</a>).  The piano work is dubbed by the distinguished Dave Grusin, who also wrote the film's score,  and John Hammond.  Michelle Pfeiffer,(<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000W4KT64">Hairspray (Full-Screen Edition)</a>) is also, of course, an excellent actor, in addition to being a great beauty; her versatility has given her a much longer career than that enjoyed by most Hollywood beauties.  She has good comic timing, can sing, and even danced, I believe, in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00008Z45B">Grease 2</a>, though it's a long time since I've seen that film.  She does her own singing here, and, with choreography by Peggy Holmes, delivers possibly her career signature scene in a scorching piano top rendition of "Making Whoopie." The young Ellie Raab (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00008977D">The Ref</a>),  gets fourth billing as Nina, the pain in the neck neglected kid who lives above Jack, and  visits him via the fire escape when things get too tough with her mom.  Now's the time to admit to an ulterior motive in writing this review.  I knew, from the Brooklyn neighborhood, the talented Ellie when she was making this picture, her younger sister Anya, and her hard-working, big-hearted, hospitable single mom, Debbie.  Deb died tragically young.  Ellie was only eighteen, and a freshman at Vassar College, having previously gone to Saint Anne's School for the Gifted in Brooklyn Heights.  Anya was going, I believe, to the Packer Institute of Brooklyn Heights.  Both these girls dropped out of sight after Deb's death.  If anybody knows anything about their whereabouts, I would appreciate hearing from you.  The movie is a fairly accurate and frank depiction of musicians' lives-on-the-road that reveals what happens after the audience goes home and the musicians retire to their nice hotel rooms to soak their aching feet. Sydney Pollack executive produced.  It's an inspiring, witty, understated, and romantic film, with a nuts-and-bolt, noir outlook.  Although it does, perhaps move a bit slowly for modern tastes.  It was written and directed by Steve Kloves, and is still a crowd-pleaser.  Worth catching anyway you can.

Fun for all the kids- big and small This was bought for my 37th birthday as I am known to be a Sherlock Holmes fan.  Shockingly my son who is 3 years old has never seen Tom and Jerry.  We both loved this. Theres nothing funnier for me than someone walking into a rake or having bricks fall on them...and Tom And Jerry are the masters of this.  Theres knowing nods to the Sherlocks and Watsons of old...as well as some Conan Doyle stories.  Theres even a cheeky nod to the end of the first Robert Downey Junior film...  As Droopy would say...you know what, theres a sequel in this.

ummm... loved the actors ;) I received the package in a timely manner.. no problems.. my issue was that something was missing in this production.  I don't know what.. but it fell a little flat for me.. it was too predictable with a lot of unnecessary cursing that seemed to come from mouths of people who probably don't curse so it sounded... weird.  It was just off.  The people were all gorgeous and unrealistic looking.  The guys were nice to look at though.. especially Christian Keyes ;)

Peter Pan Syndrome, it does exist. The problem with a lot of great shows that try to be more than SpongeBob or Flapjack, is that it has no audience. They end up stuck in this void between its targeted audience, and people that don't know how to grow up and move on.  Granted, everyone is entitled to their opinion. But when it becomes clouded by what you loved as a child and not letting something move on in a creative way while still maintaining its core ideology, that's when opinions become questionable at best.  X-Men ran off in the opposite direction of Iron Man and Wolverine, and what I mean by that is that it doesn't suck. The plot is put together well enough that it's easy to follow, but it still has some twist and unexpected turns. It may have been a little out there for people who rarely watch anime, but it still doesn't reach anywhere near far-fetched.  Each of the X-Men represent themselves well here. Cyclops is cocky towards Logan, even though he shouldn't be, and a bit of an emotional wreck. Logan is still the angry little hairy man he always is. Storm is the level headed voice of reason. Beast is the scientific genius we all know and love. Emma is the sensual den mother with very capable psychic abilities. Xavier retains his role as father, mentor, and guide for his students. Hisako is a teenager who is coming into her powers. They all come together nicely, even during the few times the characters clash over certain things.  I hate to dedicate a section of my review to this, but since it seems to be an issue, yes Storm, Emma, and Jean are shapely women. But when have they not been!? Look at the females in the comics and 90's television series. Unless they are teenagers, they are shapely. Actually, Storm has more fabric on in this, than she has had in a while! Why this sort of thing is even an issue, is a little outlandish. The best I can come up with and not offend anyone, is that some people are either too blinded by rage to remember that women tend to be shapely in ALL comics, or that they just lived a sheltered life. I honestly don't know their thought process.  Action wise, the show does a good job. There is just enough action to break up the drama of the show, and when there is action on screen it impresses. The show is wonderfully animated, Madhouse really did some of their best work here. While it is a bit more graphic than shows created for children, it's no more graphic that what you would see in the PG-13 DC releases. If you're familiar with Super-Man: Doomsday, Batman: Gotham Knight, etc, it's on par with those, but with a lot more style. Even when Logan has his Berserker Rage triggered the show doesn't exceed PG-13 status. Though it is the epitome of epicness!  I've gone on long enough, and my apologies for making the review so long. This all wrapped in a nutshell is me saying, have an open mind people. Stop comparing every show that comes out directly with its source material. Source material is merely a road map for new ideas. As long as it is done in a creative way that doesn't throw away everything that made the source material great, diamonds can be formed from coal. This take on The X-Men may not be the best one available, but it is a good show and deserves to be recognized for that. Not bashed because it's not word for word, action for action, what you grew up with.

trekies are happy I liked this movie. stuff blows up, people fight,the story stays interesting. I didn't like how some of the key players in the story were replaced. But you can't really do anything about hollywood and it's inability to see ahead

Entertaining Tangled has probably received more popular attention than any other Disney animated feature since Lion King. It is quite entertaining and has some funny scenes. The film has a few running jokes, such as the use of a frying pan as a weapon and the intelligent horse Maximus. The animation is definitely a huge step above the traditional Disney animations and Rapunzel really looks beautiful. Unfortunately, I took off one star because the plot isn't really anything to write home about and is pretty predictable. It seems Disney put its effort into the characters and animation rather than try to develop an original story. Still, the movie's entertaining enough that you'll almost forget how banal the plot is. Overall, 4 stars.

Sure To Please An engaging piece of meaningful 50's fiuff filled with noble lies, good deeds and soggy hankies.  Very entertaining.  If you enjoy an adventuring into history's cinematic past, you'll love this movie.

great clasic of Rome Love the movie, you can see the most interesting places of Rome with a beautiful history. The back and white movies have some sharm that let you want more.

The Blind Side Good movie.  I am not sure that reading the book didn't take away some of the story. The acting was good.  I would and have recommended this for good entertainment.  Also shows how actions can be misiterpreted by buracracies.  They "have" to find something wrong.  Well worth the cost.

interesting and gorgeous film After watching Sarah Polley's gorgeous film Take This Waltz written and directed by Sarah,  i will definitely be anticipating her future films.  Michelle Williams is fantastic as always and this really is a film that will leave you thinking long after having watched it.

Since You Went Away - Worth the purchase Since you went away is a wonderful story about a family at home during WWII.  There is realistic sadness without getting maudlin.  I'm sorry to say the only problem I had was watching Shirley Temple as a pre-teen(?).  Other than that, the acting was excellent.  I like having the DVD because I can watch it whenever I like, and it certainly is a keeper.  Try it - You'll like it. :)

Japanese Macbeth Interesting film of about a medieval samurai based on Shakespeare's Macbeth.  A ghost prophesies that a castle ruler will become the ruler of all surrounding forest castles.  The prophecy comes true but with unintended consequences for himself and his family.  There is even a Lady Macbeth moment.

Superb JC, good DVD (First of all, sorry for my English, in case of mistakes. I'm not a native speaker.)  For me, Joseph Campbell was one of the most brilliant minds of the past century! I love all his works, and they have really changed my life for the better. This Mythos series is a must, if you already know him. It may be a bit hard in case you have no idea at all about comparative mythology/religion, or spirituality concepts. Nothing to complain about the quality of the lectures here!  Now, the bad points: Susan Sarandon's appearances are quite annoying (although necessary for you to take a breath!). And, more seriously, there are NO SUBTITLES in this DVD, not even in English (I've read that Mythos 3 does have, but this one doesn't). Finally, and this is merely personal, I miss some extras. You have the five lectures and that's it, nothing else.  To sum up, "Mythos II" is definitely worth buying if you are a JC fan, and/or enjoy spirituality and history of religion. The package, though, is not impressive.

"Appaloosa" pretty much a winner...except for Renee Zellweger There have already been enough synopsis' given concerning the movies plot, so I will focus more on the casting and authenticity from a historical perspective.  First and foremost, both Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen make an excellent pair and play off of one another very convincingly, Viggo is himself an excellent horseman, and from my eyes, really the main character in this film, although he is playing a supporting role. I see more of the movie from his eyes and dialogue than any other. Renee Zellweger was horribly cast in my opinion. It is not the character that I despise, but more her treatment of it. I think that there could have been a MUCH better choice to play the role of Allie French, as I believe Renee hurts the movie. Jeremy Irons is great in his first western role, and it a character that, while despicible, has a couple of funny moments.  Historically, (although I am not a professional historian) the film is pretty much spot on in everything from weapons, to dress, to decoration and the like for the time period. Not all westerns have paid as much attention to the most minute things that "Appaloosa" has. I dare say that MOST westerns have not. To the discerning eye, it is important. If one can believe the setting, the story tends to be more credible.  "Appaloosa" is a winner for the most part. It is a sorry shame that Hollywood doesn't take more notice of the western genre these days, and if they looked at recent western movies (Open Range, 3:10 to Yuma, Unforgiven, etc.) they would note how well they tend to do at the box office, and gives a public bored with the simple rehashing of old classic movies remade a breath of fresh air.

incedent proposal Good Movie. Yes, there is sex but not anything that would hardcore. There is brief nudity...lil nip slips here and there. A couple in need of money get's offered money from a billionare to spend a night with the man's wife. At first they flat out reject the offer and tell him "to go to hell" than later that night not being able to sleep start having second thoughts...yea that's all i'm goin to say about it.

Burn Notice Gets Better As a fairly faithful Burn Notice fan, I was happy to see how Season 3 stepped up Michael's game. If you're a Burn Notice fan, you should buy Season 3, but if you don't know much about the show, try Season 1 first.

Glenngarry Glen Ross Good movie. Good acting. Entire moving takes place in an office setting, pulled off very well, I would recommend it. I would be remiss if I did not mention that my wife was not a big fan. What does she know:)

Solid One doesn't hear much about Maylaya's place in the scheme of things during and after WWII. This film will give you a decent taste of that wrapped up in a strong drama.  Here's the scoop. Ferris (Holden), Dhana (Capucine) and Ng (Tanba) have been fighting the Japanese up to the end of the war. With the war over, Ferris buys land and goes into the rubber business. Dhana stays on as a teacher. Ng goes to Moscow and becomes indoctrinated into the ways of Communism only to return later to enforce Maylayan rebels who are trying to kick the Brits out of the country. Dhana is framed to look like a rebel. She won't rat out Ng so Ferris needs to find Ng and turn him in before the noose tightens.  This is a decent story decently directed. What it has going for it is the way the characters are written and performed. Holden, and Capucine are really good. Tetsuro Tanba as Ng runs close behind. Susannah York as Candace Trumpey is Okay, but this was still a bit early in her career so she's not quite up to the others. The directing is a bit on the pedestrian side. The action/fight scenes are a bit sloppy and the talk scenes needed a bit more movement in them. The crowd scenes are typical of the time as is the musical score. Those things have gotten so much better in film over the years. Decent use is made of the location in both the villages and the wilds, but overall it's a bit leaden. It also has an interesting ending and, given this was released in 1964 it was a bit ahead of its time. Holden remarks to a British diplomat how they have learned nothing in the centuries they've spent trying to colonize other countries. The U.S. would make this same mistake a few years later in Viet Nam.  This is a good solid watch. It probably won't hit your top ten but it's a good ride none the less.

SPOILER ALERT:  If you haven't seen Wrath of Khan Yet WARNING: If you have not yet seen the earlier movies in this series, THIS IS A SPOILER! I cannot tell anything about this movie without explaining its connection to "The Wrath of Khan."  So anyone still reading has either already seen "The Wrath of Khan" or doesn't mind spoilers. Right? OK: here we go.  At the end of the last episode, Spock was dead, having sacrificed himself to save the Enterprise. He was placed in a coffin-capsule and shot to the surface of the Genesis planet. So Kirk and the remaining crew returned to the Starfleet dry dock for extensive repairs. Unfortunately, the bureaucrats see it differently: they are going to scrap the Enterprise. It's 20 years old, there's a whole new generation of ship design, and it's no longer worth repairing.  Then Spock's father Sarek visits Kirk and discovers that Spock had shared his "essence" with McCoy just before he died. Sarek says that Kirk must bring Spock's body and McCoy to the sacred mountain on Vulcan "so that both can have peace." Obviously, having Spock in his head is driving McCoy crazy, literally. But the commanding officer of the Starfleet denies Kirk the ship he would need to go fetch Spock's body, and also tells him that the Genesis planet is quarantined and top secret.  So Kirk hijacks the Enterprise with the assistance of Sulu, Chekhov, McCoy, Scotty, his son David, Saavik and (though she stays back at Starfleet HQ) Uhura. They get to Genesis only to find a cloaked Klingon ship that starts firing on them. Fortunately, they have to lower the cloaking device in order to fire, so Kirk gets a second or so to see them and fire his own weapons.  Well, there's a lot more to the story, but the bottom line is they manage to destroy the Klingons, get Spock (in a sense) and McCoy to Vulcan, and restore them to "normal." But Kirk's son David sacrifices himself to save Saavik and Spock. And the planet Genesis destroyed itself just after they left. Apparently David had used the wrong sort of material for the Genesis Effect, and it was unstable.  I enjoyed this one, although not quite as much as "Wrath of Khan."

This is a Tunisian film and it's terrific Someone  wrote "It was an OK gay flick, but not a great one." This is the mentality that makes me crazy: all the porn-heads who insist upon ghettoizing any film with any homoerotic content whatsoever as "gay." True, like the hammer that can only see nails, if you are a fan of soft-core guy-on-guy action, this movie was o.k. at best. If, however, you care about things like subtle undertones, an intrinsically coherent story, good acting and gorgeous photography, this is one very good film. Long-ago sex pot Claudia Cardinale has aged well into that manipulating chienne from hell who sends good gay boys everywhere straight to their shrink's office. Because the movie is Tunisian and sensitive to contemporary Arab attitudes toward same-gender relationships, The String (it's a pun on "the son" in French) rises to the status of very, very good film. If, however, eye candy is your sole hunger, the men here are indeed very beautiful, but that is far from the filmmaker's sole preoccupation, and true, you'd be better satisfied elsewhere. Have a nice trip, but absolutely do stay out of the deep end until you are a little more grown up. TEKNOZEN 2vii11

A story that needed to be told. This is a great movie that tells about saving the great art of the world that was stolen by the Nazis during WWII. This little known story is thrillingly told in this film. Well acted by Burt Lancaster and the rest of the cast. The cinematography is excellent with great action. This is one movie I'm glad I bought.

THE GREAT RAID THIS MOVIE REALLY TOOK ME BY SURPRISE. IT IS AN EXCELLENT STORY AND WE REALLY ENJOYED IT. TO MAKE IT EVEN BETTER, IT IS BASED ON A TRUE STORY. WE WILL WATCH THIS ONE AGAIN.

Brilliant video, but DVD image quality not quite as high as hoped This was made in 2002 and I guess it was shot on analog video equipment since it's interlaced and there's some slight chroma noise.  But I guess this is as good as you're going to get considering.  Definitely an improvement over YouTube of course, but not by as much as I'd hoped.  Still worth it just to see this brilliant video in better quality than you can get online.  Wish they'd shot it on film so they could release an HD version.  On the other hand, given the lyrics and the archival footage mixed in, maybe it's fitting that the image is a little flawed.

Overall, a fairly well done movie with a very predictable and familiar plot My short review...  A predictable good guy in the wrong place, now I have to rescue my wife and save myself from the dirty cops, Mel Gibson/Harrison Ford'ish, crime drama.  Fairly well acted, action packed, with a good pace. Had a fairly gritty, dark feel to it.  It certainly didn't keep you guessing and it ended in a very familiar sort of way, however I guess it was worth a watch before bed.  Yawn.  3.5 stars (I wish you could give 1/2 stars on Amazon!)

Good Western Drama with Great Actors Anthony Perkins is Ben Owens, who took the job of sheriff mostly to keep out the bad-guy who wanted the job as a "license to kill." Henry Fonda is Morg Hickman, a bounty hunter who brings in a robber and waits to collect the reward. The town doesn't like him: there's no room at the inn, no stable for his horses. But Betsy Palmer, the widow who lives on the edge of town with her half-Indian son, gives him a room.  Perkins persuades Fonda to teach him how to do the job of sheriff after he discovers that Fonda had been a sheriff years ago, and got out of him the reason why he quit to take up bounty hunting. I won't spoil that story.  So of course Perkins ends up a good sheriff, but along the way there's plenty of adventures and unexpected turns for the whole town, including the doc, the robbers up in the hills, and the widow's son. I enjoyed this film, mostly because the people seem real (well, the ones we get to know, anyway), and the story is quite original in places. I appreciate that there's a lot of repetition of certain elements in any western; that's how the west was won, as they say. But combining them in unusual elements, and making characters you can't always predict how they will act, along with characters you care what happens to them, adds up to a good story.

Star Trek IV It's nice to see all the classic Star Trek movies on DVD. They look and sound great, but now I wish I'd held out for the Blu-ray versions.

Great collection pack For all the kubrick Lovers: it's a must buy!  great size, great looking and of course, the blu-ray quality that's just breathtaking (2001... looks awesome!).  I think the only "but" that I founded was the discs storage system, because feels like your are going to damage the blu-ray.  Anyway, I'm really happy with the product!

Mature people who try to make the smartest most responsible choices they can. How did this get made? You know those "Adult" Comedies? The R-rated ones with lots of vulgarity, sex, drugs, and stupid choices? The ones fifteen year old boys love? This isn't one of those. This is a fine comedy for truly mature audiences about mature people who try to make the smartest most responsible choices they can. There's some vulgarity, some talk of sex, a little responsible drinking and none of that drives the movie. Not a great movie, but a really good one - and a truly refreshing change from the idiotic embarrassing pablum usually fed to us.

John Ford's Hidden Gem Sandwiched between "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" (1949) and "Rio Grande" (1950), the simple, unpretentious "Wagon Master" remains among John Ford's most overlooked films. One of the director's personal favorites, this leisurely Mormon adventure benefits from the Ford Stock Company's strong ensemble and stunning Moab cinematography by Bert Glennon. The performances of Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond are splendid. Though not without minor scripting flaws, "Wagon Master" is sublime visual poetry in the Ford tradition.

Hair-raising facts This movie was hilarious and educational and sad.  I'm a Latina, the minority, in a mostly African American work environment.  Almost daily I listen as my African American female coworkers (the men could care less) talk about the hair of customers and coworkers. . . very negative.  "She looks like a poodle"  "Her tracks are showing."  "She needs to pull that lace front back up."  I myself can't tell the difference from weave, a lace front or a wig .  I rented this movie because my daughter is Hispanic/African American. Everyone LOVES her hair, except for her so I wanted her to see what other women go through to "feel beautiful."  We were both shocked at the amount of money women spend on hair treatments.  More shocking was how much damage the chemical in perm solution can cause.  I was also glad to see that Chris interviewed people from ALL walks of life (celebrity to school teacher) and went to various salons from the high end to the salon around the corner in a strip mall.  I also enjoyed the short expose on the Bronner Brothers hair show held annually in Atlanta, where I live.  The movie not only highlighted the impact hair has on the African American culture but also the economic impact on the African American culture and the business world.

The legendary Mae West takes her final bow The mere fact that 82-year old Miss Mae West actually made a film in 1977 is a pretty amazing thing. It took many years for her to realize filming her play "Sextette", but she got it done, to the delight of fans and the consternation of everyone else. Considering that her previous comeback "Myra Breckinridge" was such an utter disaster that this film seems like a joyful fling in comparison, Mae handles herself quite well here. The tone light & campy most of the time, Mae plays Marlowe Manners, a big-time movie star who's getting hitched (for the sixth time) to British gentleman Timothy Dalton (it's purely coincidental that a James Bond reference is made, considering he bagged the role a decade later). But the marriage is put on hold when peace talks keep breaking down (Mae's affiliation with this is her character was once married to Russian Alexis, played with flair by Tony Curtis). And so, Marlowe's manager (the always-funny Dom DeLuise) convinces her to "take one for her country" by stepping in & helping untangle this political mess. There's some amusing business with hubby Dalton jamming his foot in his mouth in interviews by insinuating he's gay (he misunderstands the meaning), and the contemporary covers of musical numbers are utterly cute & charming. So how does Mae look? Well, close up, she's just not as attractive (hence, plenty of long shots). But she's in good physical shape for her age, and she still sounds like the same ol' Mae West. Fans will be relieved that she hasn't lost her touch with tossing out her trademark racy one-liners, which surprisingly, haven't lost their impact for the 1970's. Some may be shocked that Marlowe is marrying a man decades younger. But then you have to consider the facts: Hugh Hefner nearly married a 25-yr. old Playmate; and Carol Burnett remarried someone over 30 yrs. her junior. So yep, it's perfectly acceptable. The parade of male actors is like a who's who of the times: Curtis, DeLuise, George Hamilton, Ringo Starr, Dalton, Walter Pigeon, Regis Philbin, Alice Cooper, Keith Moon, etc. Of course, Mae has some frollicks checking out the beefcake in a gym, and she flaunts some great costumes. Whether you love this film or thinks it's awful is up to you. Just the rarity of seeing a legend like West has to be worth the look!

Fresh new different great stuff Being a movie nut, 2 or more per day due to injury to my back.....I'm pretty hard on movies shows etc,I must say being a father of 10 7 of which are girls this movie is a great fit between parents teens and below. Done in a play type film it brings a Quentin Tarantino style of film rated for family. A must see and well worth the money.

Not unenjoyable Honorable intentions (interleave the stories, reflect the issues that affected Britain in 1912, make the most of the above stairs/below stairs element) but fails through insufficient boldness, plus impossible to top mastery (each in their own way) of A Night To Remember and James Cameron's Titanic.  The brave decision might have been to put together a Titanic drama that did not show the ship or its sinking at all. A four parter picking up on the story from the arrival of the Carpathia and the subsequent arrival of the survivors in New York would be fascinating, for example.  Nevertheless an absorbing and enjoyable four hours with many fine performances.  Nice recreation of the interiors too, especially the first class dining room: a Jacobean hall as envisaged by Stanley Kubrick in dazzling white with the merest hint of Viennese Secession creeping into some of the details (like the glazing bars) to remind us that the 1920s are on the way.

Josh Jackson's best work since Dawson's Creek I've always liked Joshua Jackson as an actor, but most movies he's done have been pretty much total crap. One Week is an exception.  This is a "subtle" film, the type you might watch and go "What was the point of that?" before it hits you later. (Sort of like a Canadian Elizabethtown.) It's also quintessentially Canadian, which likely means you'll either love it or hate it (Tim Hortons, hockey folklore, breathtaking scenery, whales and all).  Much of the cinematography has a documentary feel. Most of the film appears to have been shot handheld, but it fits the story nicely without being obtrusive (in other words, you don't come away feeling like it was just shot handheld because the filmmakers couldn't afford a tripod). The folksy soundtrack and score are also very well-done.  This isn't a blockbuster by any means, but it's a solid movie. Jackson is excellent, but Liane Balaban's supporting performance as Jackson's fiancee was a little week, IMHO. She wasn't really bad, she just didn't bring much life to her character whereas Jackson's character was easy to connect with.  Canadian singer-songwriter Emm Gryner, on the other hand, is hard to take your eyes off of in her brief but important supporting role.  If you're a Jackson fan or just tired of all the standard Hollywood flotsam, seek out this movie for a nice change of pace.

Well done film in Chinese periods. Qi Shu has always been a favorite since I saw her in Transporter.  The film is done in Mandrarin and Tawianese back & forth, my wife from Taiwan really enjoyed the film. She was more into it than I not totally up on the culture.  Good film worth the money.

quick read Interesting POV. Moving words n emotions. A father's testimony. Timelines are revealing of Amy's sttruggles but no mention of mental health diagnosis. Seems early in life she had issues with impulse control and manic episodes? Then as she aspired to stardom had no comfort from anxiety a debilitating disorder. Perhaps her family wishes to keep private. Saddened by her loss of confidence n joy. Heart break for her family n friends, people like me who grew up with extremely talented mother who treated her demons from bipolar disorder with alcohol can relate to Amy's father and his loss.

War and werewolves! it's amazing. When you talk about a decent combination of horror and drama in a film,'Dog soldiers' is definitely a name that comes to your mind. Everybody is already aware its about werewolves, spooky atmospheres, howling sounds all around the air, but wait! that's not all, there is much more to offer us. One of the initial reasons that makes the film worthwhile is the brilliant cast-performance. Almost everyone deliver a satisfying performance and not only you enjoy the whole ride, but you also feel and care for each and every character in the film. Not a blockbuster or a perfect film, but the film fulfills its promises decently and satisfies you.

Hard This is an advance yoga program. I really do not recommend this DVD for beginners  because it may be discourage by starters due to the difficulty of postures.

Crossing Delancey Delightful... Sweet. Silly. Good movie regarding the Jewish mannerisms. Ends with a twist. Peter and Amy are a good combination.  Amy's grandmother pulls the the story together with her witticism.

Iconic Western Cinema with a great performance from John Wayne Beautifully filmed, including several iconic Western cinema images and, of course, the always photogenic Monument Valley and Natalie Wood. John Wayne's does a great job playing a character who is unrelentingly racist and, though his violent racism is the dominant theme of the movie and obviously meant to make him an unsympathetic protagonist, one wonders how evident this was to audiences in the mid-Fifties as opposed to how much it may have boosted Wayne's status as an American icon in the eyes of those who didn't realize that the character's hate-filled racism was supposed to be a bad thing.  The stabs at comic relief using the cartoonish Swedish neighbor and the intellectually challenged Mose Harper wear thin after a while. Occasionally the staging, sets, and costuming are anachronistic; more 1950s Western than 1860s Texas - but the only really, truly jarring anachronism was white-girl-living-with-the-Indians Natalie Wood's very well applied lipstick.

The Forsyte Saga The acting was first rate.  The filming was in black and white, sometimes somewhat hazy but satisfactory.  The story followed the book reasonably well.  The set was worth the price.

Jolie Breaks On Through in Wild Action-Thriller Guided by Phillip Noyce's masterful direction, "Salt" (2010) provides a memorable action vehicle for Angelina Jolie. This preposterously entertaining spy thriller moves at a fast clip with plenty of dynamic set-pieces and plot twists. Liev Schreiber effectively underplays his role as a pursuing CIA agent - an ideal counterpoint to Jolie's vigorous presence. Far superior to the recent Bond and Bourne entries, with a "Salt" sequel already in the works.

Quite a Suspense Ride Volcano is quite a suspense ride that will leave you on the edge of your seat. The concept of the film is plausible, technically any or all of what happened in the film 'could' happen in theory. The film was well researched the info about the Mexican farmer was true and as another person commented the techniques used to stop the lava flow are real methods used in other parts of the world. The acting was great. Most notably the main character. Tommy Lee Jones plays, Mike, a seasoned disaster coordinator. He has dealt with everything from floods and tornado's to earthquakes. However this is a new one and you watch as his character tries to hold his composure together and keep his crew from realizing that he is flying by the seat of his pants and that he has no clue how to stop the relentless tide of lava. He is willing to put his life on the line for other people, from trying to save a firefighter to a unconscious man.  Volcano is a good movie that will make you sympathize with the characters and makes you feel the overwhelming odds and the feeling of helplessness that you see the people in the film feeling.  The suspense in this film will leave you on the edge of your seat. Overall Volcano gets 4/5 its superb acting earns it many points along with the excellent portrayal of the slow-moving ominous tide of relentless lava. Volcano is a great disaster film that is worth watching.

. . . and my dog died I can see why the reviews of this flick are all over the place.  Styled as a "thriller," it's going to pull in viewers who expect the hyperactive, shock-a-minute plot with plenty of black and white hats.  Margin Call is definitely for a niche audience.  It's a stylish, understated, and intellectually challenging story with compelling acting, especially Spacey's performance.  Many reviewers made salient points, such as the unreality of allowing the fatal disk to be passed at the elevator -- not going to happen.  And not being a film sophisticate, perhaps I'm missing some directorial faux pas' that others notice.  But as a debut director, Chandor is excellent in choosing his subject and portraying it well, learning it first hand at his father's knee. The movie has a subtle and complex urbanity that is much more realistic than many caricatures out there.  Frankly, I'm the first one to demonize Wall Street, and this story did not convince me otherwise.  But what Chandor does do is animate the hallucinatory nature of what it's like to make a living manipulating financial air castles for the endowed.  You cannot do such work and retain any human sensibility without operating within a world of illusion that rationalizes the value of such a career.  The film made it easier to step inside this world and understand how the pressure and tension, and yes, even exhilaration at times, allow financial manipulators to disconnect from the reality of how their work and employers affect the lives of those outside the bubble.  It's like one gigantic virtual-reality video game and even the high stakes of losing your job or jumping off a building are perceived in a hallucinatory trance.  If the characters seemed restrained and automatic at times, here's why:  Margin Call is a zombie film.  Without the blood and guts, but nevertheless, a startling affirmation of what humans can become when they're divorced from the rest of the world long enough and programed to do the firm's bidding.  It shows that threats against family and physical survival are not necessary in the financial arena.  Participants become so boxed in by the inherent nature of operating in that venue, that real choices vanish like the air castles they manipulate.  Some reviewers are critical, but personally, I found the digging sounds during the final credits to be profound and tragically representative of the hole that the financial industry has dug for the rest of us to fall into.  And while some of them smile from the rim, the hole keeps getting bigger . . .

Tora! Tora! Tora! only 4 minutes longer. THIS IS A Fine Blu-Ray Disc but it is NOT 160 minutes. The other Blu-Ray offered on amazon is 2:25 or 145 min.  This version offers Theatrical and Extended but the Theatrical is 2:25 and the extended is just shy of 2:29. ALMOST 4 mintues longer.  It is NOT 160 minutes -- It is 148.  So what is in the extra 3minutes plus? I am not sure yet.  They might have included the intermission music not sure yet.  As for extras...same as the other Blu-Ray but you're not getting the book pages AND THIS EDITION LACKS THE EXCELLENT COMMENTARY ON THE OTHER EDITION.  SO Pick one...but Pick wisely.

Egg-celent. This movie tells the story of the much loved Puss.  We learn that as a child growing up in an orphanage, he becomes best friends with Humpty Dumpty.  Together, the two youths fall into trouble, but it seems that Humpty will never be able to shake that life.  Fast forward a number of years, and Humpty runs into Puss again.  This time he's got the ultimate scheme, to steal the Golden Goose from the Giant (of Jack and the Beanstalk).  Humpty convinces Puss to sign on to the idea, and the two go after the Golden Goose.  This is your typical Dreamworks film.  The cinematography is stunning, the landscapes never better.  The humor is very strong, although there are a couple lines that (in my opinion) are a little too crude for children 6 and under.  The puns are great, and the movie is laced with them.  The only thing that I felt it was missing was how Puss got linked up with Shrek.  All-in-all, though, this was a very good film.

A Real Yes Show I agree with most of what has been said about it: great performances, great setlist, so many highlights. But Revealing Science of God (Dance of the Dawn) is the only movement from the album Revealing Science of God represented here. Don't think that it is the whole work as I did by reading these reviews. Great price, great to listen to all the way through. However, the video is a sketchy VHS quality much like the Union boot stuff on Voiceprint and the sound cuts out on more than one occasion. Too bad they couldn't locate the broadcast master tapes or remix it properly, but that is symptomatic of their organization - otherwise we'd be basking in the glow of Close to the Edge in 5.1 Surround, or Relayer in DTS right now. Still, it's a real Yes show! Even without Wakeman.

Lady and the Tramp As usual the amazon experiance was wonderful.  Ordered lady and the tramp and received it a few days later.  Watching a movie I wathed as a child with my child was a wonderful expericance.  Disney has done such a wonderful job of with these movies.  They have done what they do best, make slight chamges to make it blu-ray without ruining the movie.  Great job.

Calgula After years of hearing about this film, I finally obtained a copy of it and found it to be every bit as wild and controversial as I'd always heard. Interesting that there were never any other films of this type, that being a production that included top rated actors & actresses, high dollar production values and an intriguing story line too boot. Aside from the low quality of the cinematograpy, I was pleased with this purchase. It definitely was a memorable film to watch.

4.5 stars for this excellent adult thriller with great performances Helen Mirren has star billing in THE DEBT, and while her performance is yet another in a long line of noteworthy turns..the real reason to see this film NOW is Jessica Chastain.  Chastain, who garnered significant acclaim for THE TREE OF LIFE and then pretty much stole all her scenes in THE HELP, continues her star-making year with a complex, even riveting performance in THE DEBT.  The movie jumps around in time a bit, but is never difficult to follow.  We meet three aging former Mossad agents (Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkenson (her ex-husband, confined to a wheelchair) and Ciaran Hinds.  All three are clearly unhappy and we learn pretty quickly that they are carrying a secret knowledge about the time they spent together 30 years previously in East Berlin.  At that time, they were assigned to capture and bring back to Israel a noted Nazi war criminal (Jesper Christensen).  SOMETHING happened during that time.  Much of the film is an explanation of what that SOMETHING was...and then, how the aged protagonists will deal with the consequences when the pigeons return to roost.  When the "secret" is revealed, it's a doozy because we have been set up very nicely.  But WHAT the secret turns out to be is far less important than HOW the secret has seeped into and poisoned almost every aspect of their lives.  This is a low-key espionage thriller that also serves as an interesting exploration of ethics.  At the risk of revealing too much, I won't discuss what those ethics are...but suffice it to say that when over, audiences of THE DEBT will likely spend more time discussing moral dilemmas than they will on the plot.  It's a solid plot, with some very tense scenes set in those early days in East Berlin.  Chastain is the young Mirren, a new agent on her first assignment.  She's eager but very naïve.  And very vulnerable emotionally to spending so much time living in a truly lousy loft with two handsome but very different men.  Sam Worthington (from AVATAR, and quite effective in this very quiet role) is the young version of Hinds...he's a deeply reserved man who clearly carries deep feelings.  This attracts Chastain, but his reticence pushes her into the arms of the team leader (Marton Csokas), a far more charismatic and forward man...but also vaguely repellant.  The dynamic of these three is very interesting...and becomes much more so when they capture their prey.  This experienced (and very evil) predator smoothly plays the 3 agents not so much against each other, but against their own inner doubts.  The group threatens to unravel.  I think I've said all I dare about the substance of THE DEBT.  But I must praise the very good performances all around.  Wilkinson and Worthington are nice in their roles.  Mirren, not surprisingly, is terrific in a very non-glamorous role...and in the movie's final few scenes, she is quite stunning.  Csokas, looking like a young Russell Crowe, is as charismatic as he character requires, and I look forward to this performance launching him into a stronger career.  Christensen is chilling...the role of "old Nazi war criminal" is almost a clich&eacute; in films now, but here is seems freshly creepy.  And Chastain is the emotional heart of the film and she hits all her marks.  Her amazing bone structure grabs your attention first, but her subtle performance makes her the focal point of every scene she's in.  She's a star.  So, there are many reasons to see THE DEBT.  It's not perfect...some of the modern scenes in Israel have little spark to their staging.  Occasionally the emotions on display teeter on the brink of melodrama.  But it's a very entertaining, thought-provoking film for adult audiences and I highly recommend it.

Great Concept First off, I bought this for Randal Malone; second, I love funeral home related horror (of course, I love horror movies in general, but that's another story). In the age when Hollywood has given special fx make-up the boot, Jackson Pierce Dawn uses black magic to resurrect two horror movie stars (think Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff) and then forces them to wreck havoc on Tinseltown; we are given intermittant interviews within the movie to act as a sort of stylish documentary, but it actually gives the movie an Ed Wood feel. Randal Malone plays Jackson Pierce Dawn in an over the top turn that harkens back to dozens of low-budget flicks from the 60's throughout the 80's which starred the likes of John Carradine, Robert Forster, William Shatner, John Agar, Boris Karloff, Robert Foxworthy, Karen Black and Vincent Price; I've started searching for Malone's other films and there ARE at least a dozen in this genere; he's fast becoming the straight-to-DVD B-Horror king. I felt the conclusion was a little rushed, but was more than satisfied.

Tense and Exciting The last time I saw this film was in Paris many years ago, on their equivalent of SBS.  How lucky we were to be there at that time.  The killing is actually a robbery, planned to take place at a horse racing carnival.  Sterling Hayden is the leader who has brought together a number of people, each of whom has a certain role to play.  The weakness is that one of the characters has an unfaithfull wife.  He is devoted to her and does all he can to keep her interest.  He knows that she has no love for him, only hate and disgust.  She manages to prise the robbery information out of him, then she and her lover have plans of their own.  All of the characters are so well written and played that you almost hope that they will get away with the robbery.  Do they??

Some quibbles; otherwise a great set Overall, the appearance of these films befit the greatness of a director known for his stunning visual style: The transfers are crisp, bright but not saturated, revealing in terms of the nearly garish color schemes Stanley Kubrick chose for some films, especially "A Clockwork Orange."  I compared these transfers to my two previous Kubrick collections, both of which were issued on DVD. On those earlier sets, even Kubrick's later films could suffer terribly. Case in point: The print of "Eyes Wide Shut" used for the 2001-released box was truly wretched -- dark, smudgy, surprisingly grainy. And of course that version still included the infamous CGI figures in the orgy scenes, but my understanding was that was what Kubrick wanted at the time.  There isn't a brad transfer on this new blu-ray set. As for the continuing argument over Kubrick aspect ratios, I think it should be a non-issue by now. HD and widescreen TVs and playback devices were not common home-theater features at the time of Kubrick's death. They're ubiquitous now, and I am convinced Kubrick would be appreciative of the wider aspects. Even a moderately priced, properly calibrated home theater system now can approximate the cinema experience, thanks to blu-ray's superior visuals and sound quality.  Now the quibbles:  1. If you're going to put out a set that includes nine films from a director who only ever released 12 (not counting the withdrawn "Fear and Desire"), why not just go ahead and do them all? Including "Killer's Kiss," "The Killing" and "Paths of Glory," along with the films here plus the included "Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures" bio would have made for a total of 13 movies, 12 of them stunning and one, the biopic, admirable. Fortunately, though, the re-releases of "Paths of Glory" and "The Killing" were given over to Criterion, which did a GREAT job -- Criterion even included a transfer of "Killer's Kiss" on the release of "The Killing." Thus, at this writing, all of Kubrick's films are available in high definition, which is as it should be.  2. I've read numerous comments here about the packaging, pro and con, and I am going to have to come down on the con side. The cardboard slots for the discs are simply too tight (the opposite of most box sets, where the discs can shift around during shipping). Getting each disc out required a great deal of care. For fear of scratching them over time, I took mine out permanently and stored them in individual aftermarket sleeves. It may look klunky on the shelves, but it protects this investment.  3. I found the "O Lucky Malcolm" documentary to be rather annoying and tiresome. Part of the problem is Malcolm McDowell himself. He's a great actor, no doubt, and Alex in "A Clockwork Orange" is his greatest role. I knew McDowell could be abrasive, and have no problem with that, but in this documentary he comes off as very self-aggrandizing. This was directed by Jan Harlan, Kubrick's brother-in-law and sometimes executive producer. Harlan also directed the "Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures" documentary, which remains part of this box set, and that film truly was moving and magical. Given a choice of a full-length actor bio for this box, I would have gone instead with the mysterious Keir Dullea from "2001" or the elegant James Mason from "Lolita."  Again, these are minor objections to this set. I believe Kubrick to be the greatest filmmaker of the cinema's first century. I find I can view his films over and over and over again, finding nuances I had not considered before. It takes greatness to make art to which we are compelled to return, time and again. This set is a document of the man's genius.

the new, brutally efficient Universal Soldier... Universal Soldier Regeneration (2009) is a hard edged continuation of the universal soldier saga that forcefully demonstrates how violent and brutal the original concept could have been.  The film reunites the stars of the original 1992 film, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren, and features ex-UFC champion fighter Andrei `the Pit Bull' Arlovski.  The original Universal Soldier (1992) was released when Van Damme was near the height of his popularity.  Based on the intriging concept of reanimating soldiers and turning them into hybrid fighting machines, the film featured some action and violence, but had a comedic comic book undertone, that was fairly typical for Van Damme's films in that era.  The lightweight goofiness was cranked up, in the poorly conceived sequel Universal Soldier: The Return (1999), which could easily have brought the saga to a sad close.  Directed by Peter Hyams, Universal Soldier: Rengeration (2009) is a gritty and meaner reboot.  With Van Damme and Lundgren past their physical prime, Andrei Arlovski assumes the most physically challenging role of the NGU (Next Generation UniSol), a genetically modified fighting machine.  Unlike previous versions of Universal Soldier, NGU is a truly ruthless and efficient killer, deadly with weapons, or in hand to hand combat.  Dr Colin (Kerry Shale), a renegade scientist has made NGU's services available to General Boris (Aki Avni), the leader of a band of terrorists who kidnap the children of Russia's prime minister.  The group occupies the remains of the Chernobyl nuclear plant, threatening to blow it up unless their demands are met.  The opening sequence where the abduction takes place, gets things off to a flying start, and establishes the brutal character of the film, as NGU operates with deadly precision.  The Joint Forces Command send a strike team to Chernobyl, that includes four older model UniSol's, but up against NGU, they are decisively crushed.  Dissatisfied with the situation, Dr. Colin releases a revamped version of UniSol Andrew Scott (Lundgren) to eliminate General Boris and his men.  Scott accomplishes this task, but proves to be mentally unstable.  Captain Burke (Mike Pyle) is sent in to try and recover the hostages.  Luc Deveraux (Van Damme) has been in a rehabilitation program, but soon returns to his violent ways, and with time running out, is dispatched to stop the destruction of Chernobyl.  There is a jumble of activity inside the plant, as hostages Dimitri (Yonko Dimitriov) and Ivana (Violeta Markovska), led by Burke, try to escape.  Van Damme has one major action sequence, but it's a damn intense.  Operating like a character in a video game, he racks up kill after kill.  Lundgren's availability was limited, so his part is rather small, but the film has a fantastic tightly executed fight sequence between Scott and Deveraux, with a mind blowing finish.  Lundgren and Van Damme do show signs of age, and although in reduced roles, they battle like true gladiators.  There is no shortage of high intensity combat, as Arlovski, MMA fighter Pyle, and others handle the remaining action scenes.  Regeneration establishes the NGU as a cold-blooded and ruthless fighting unit.  The once affable Deveraux is all business, and Andrew Scott is just raving mad killer.  They don't have many lines, but the performances by Van Damme, Lundgren, and especially Andrei Arlovski are all very solid.  And Mike Pyle is quite impressive in his film debut.  Wherever these guys are, becomes a killzone.  The plot of Regeneration doesn't make a lot of sense, and the ending is a bit clich&eacute;d, but the film delivers an abundance of solid bone-crunching action.  Kudos to Peter Hyams and those responsible, for resurrecting Universal Soldier, and restoring much of its lost luster.  The writers made provisions for continuing the story, so perhaps there will be another sequel.

Pretty It is a very pretty movie and I enjoyed learning about the FFVII characters. I couldn't quite figure out the point/moral of the story though. It seemed like Cloud was struggling with something, but the ending didn't really make me feel like he'd made progress resolving his issues. Just a big fight scene. Meh. Still a lot of fun.

Riding In Cars With Boys... I love this movie. This is a great movie. I love it. So glad Amazon carried it, as I could not find it in any local stores. I am not impressed however, that it came with a torn inside cover... very disappointing Amazon!

Crass but SO True! I happen to see this on TV one time and missed the first 5 minutes.  Didn't really make that much of difference and was feeling like it was such as stupid movie, but by the end I was laughing that it is a great movie.  Some of the dialogue and pretty bad and some of the seances are gross, but I see that is what this world is coming to.

Happy surprise --- so glad I said Yes I am a difficult, snarly customer at any video store: cautious, suspicious, what an old grouch.  ENLIGHTENMENT GUARANTEED was suggested for a more positive experience after I hated Leigh's Another Year.  Brave woman to recommend it.  I love this movie.  How can European directors and actors come up with such a human and loving depiction of what could be treated -- by someone else -- as a negative sleazy downer?  The relationship between the two brothers is a marvel --- it was like seeing two actual guys who had known and been fond of each other for many years. I love this movie. The determined Zen of one is played off against the determined "oh well, what the hell" of the other --- and that's the joy of it --- nobody wins over anyone else.  Did I say I love this movie?

A good time funny movie for all ages This is a good time, funny movie with an all star cast. Sometimes a bit hard to follow the Barons wild web he weaves. Well worth the watch no matter your age.

Overpriced but it's good <span class="tiny"> Length:: 2:03 Mins  </span>Good packaging status when I received it.  I like how the parts snap into place and how all the disks are in the rotating wheels to keep all the disks in the actual case and separate from one another.  This is a classic so if your willing to pay the price then go for it :) BTW DO NOT BUT THE Sleeping Beauty (Two-Disc Platinum Edition Blu-ray/DVD Combo + BD Live) [Blu-ray] It was horrible!

Great Comeback Season For Trey and Matt Season 15 gets off to an awesome start with the Humancentipad episode. A great goof on Apple and the Human Centipede film. After a lackluster Season 14, the boys really pick it up with Funnybot, TMI and the Crack Baby Athletic Association. The last episode (the rumored LAST episode) with Stan thinking everything is s*** is genius as well as hilarious - just the image of the duck and what he "quacks" still makes me laugh as I write this. Cartman discovers AssBurgers to start off the second phase of Season 15 and this batch also includes my favorite - A History Channel Thanksgiving with a great cameo from Natalie Portman: "Ummm...no." All in all a great season - they even rip on themselves with the Broadway Bro Down episode, and considering Trey and Matt were putting The Book of Mormon together at the same time as Season 15 makes it even more remarkable. I gave it 4 out of 5 becasue of the Royal Wedding and Bass to Mouth which are funny, but not really up-to-par. Anyway, I can't wait for the DVD (and those 5 minute commentaries).

an odd mix music and odd trippy scenes with color makes me think juno, plus the untimely courtship in a screwed up situation thirsten and caroline have is alot like a darker not so bubbley likeness of paulie and juno. the darkness and creepy twists and turns- donnie darko.  throw in a little "lovely bones" and some pot and you have Daydream Nation i really liked it. kat dennings was awesome, she is in everything, andie mcdowell did a great job as usual.  Josh Lucas was perfect for the part but after Undertow that doesnt shock me. hes a great actor. its not a movie id wanta watch every day but i plan on making it part of my dvd collection.  just like donnie darko, its perfect for those moods where you just wanta get drink a few brewskies and watch a dark movie.  its not totally depressing like donnie darko was though.  a few people die throughout it but well,  theres a serial killer in it. but like i said, dark but not depressing.

Great production that gives a peek into a facinating era! Terrific casting makes this colorful historical drama a great success.  Maybe not quite so compelling as "Pillars of the Earth", but great entertainment.

Great movie/ Price but not Widescreen I love these two movies and got them for my Dad for Christmas. The price was excellent. Only problem was that they were in 4:3 format. He'll never realize it, but it still bothered me.

Mediocre quality but enjoyable As a social studies teacher, I found this film to be both entertaining and full of information. Finally, we teachers could no longer get it The film copies became repeatedly broken, spliced, and broken again. I was happy when I was able to get it on DVD. The DVD was obviously copied from a low quality film and the DVD (especially the sound) is thus mediocre. However, I love that film and the feeling it gives me when I watch it, so I am happy to have it.

Beverley Gledhill Sometimes you find a show that really brightens your life.  This is how I felt when I first saw "Nuns on the Run.  I have been searching for a copy, and now that I have found it I am laughing all over again.  It is not only great comedy, but it has a lot of philosophical points as well.  For instance "how would YOU explain the Trinity?

16 candles cute story, pure intertainment.  just a nice story, no complicated twist and turns.  a feel good story  with enough humor to make you smile.

Solid movie It seems to me the negative and positive reviews follow whether you have seen the animated version or not.  I have never seen it and I liked the movie.  I had extremely low expectations given all the negative reviews but the previews looked too good.  I have to admit the acting is not always great from the childhood actors (in particular Nicola Peltz as Katara and Jackson Rathbone as Sokka).  The movie is heavily influenced by Buddhism and the "benders" who control the elements do so by Ta Chi movements.  If you could give half stars I would rate it a 3.5 but rounded up.  I thought the movie was entertaining and enjoyed it.  If you have watched the animated version and have some preset expectations it seems like you might be disappointed.  Definitely worth watching.

Love the red hair! A young princess resists the tradition of being betrothed to a suitor. She is independent minded and wants to pursue her own destiny. She receives an unfortunate spell from a witch and must try to undo it. This is another solid effort in the animated category that combines a compelling storyline with excellent computer animation. The heroine should be someone that little girls will admire and all audiences should find the film quite entertaining. Her beautiful flowing red locks are quite the site to see, and add an element of visual flair to the film. This is a nice animated film for the family to catch.

Do you like the show Leverage? If your a fan of the TV show Leverage, you will like this movie.  Its starts off a little slow, but gets better as the story progresses.  I am glad to see Ryan Reynolds breaking into other roles besides comedy.

Harry Potter Video Series Well, I am probably one of a very small group of people who is just now getting into the Harry Potter series of books and/or films.  I chose to forgo the reading of the books and simply order and watch every one of the Harry Potter movies from the very first one to the final, Deathly Hallows Part 2.  Being an older adult, I was surprised how much I enjoyed these movies.  The special effects and characters were unbelievable.  Again, having the ability to watch these Videos on Demand from Amazon at the simple touch of a finger is wonderful!

A film on love and all its permutations and challenges It is extremely difficult for a motion picture to compete with the novel on which it is based, especially if the novel is outstanding and evokes oceans of images in the minds of readers as they read.  This is the situation faced with this movie based on the outstanding and sweeping novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.  So how can I be fair in reviewing the film? If you use the novel as the standard, the film often does not measure up to the novel. However, if you review the film as a stand alone product, independent of the novel, it might not be so bad after all. The later is the approach I took, in all fairness, since many viewers may never have read the wonderful classic novel by one of South America's greatest novelist.  The story is that of a romantic idealistic fellow, Florentino Ariza, played very well by Unax Ugalde.  He is employed by his uncle as a telegraph operator and happens to see and then fall into an obsession with the beautiful, wealthy, Fermina Daza, played by Giovanna Mezzogiorno.  Her father is scandalized that a poor boy is courting his daughter and that she is responding to his efforts to se her and speak to her. Her father is played by the talented actor John Leguizamo.  Her father decides that the only way to kill this budding romance is to take Fermina away so that both parties have a chance to cool off.  To save the love sick Florentino, his mother, uncle, and close friend all conspire to encourage him to undertake a series of sexual encounters with a broad range of women. Florentino's mother Tr&aacute;nsito is an especially wonderful and wise character. She is played to perfection by Fernanda Montenegro.  His uncle involves him in the telegraph trade so that he might earn a living. The sexual encounters are humorous and even touching in this film. Florentino grows up and is now played by the actor Javier Bardem. His performance is excellent, often understated and gentle. At this point I would like to say that the novel was not able to capture the depth of the love letters and the ingenious way Florentino was able to communicate with Fermina through a series of telegraph operators who all collaborate in the clandestine romance. The novel has an abrupt break that is not quite as dramatic in the film but Fermina marries the brilliant, wealthy, handsome  Dr. Juvenal Urbino, played by Benjamin Bratt.  She settles down to a life of luxury, motherhood, and is a faithful wife.  Her eyes are opened that he husband is not the saint everyone believes, but he repents of his sins and remains devoted to his wife until his dying day.  Florentino on the other hand becomes wealthy through inheriting and managing his uncle's telegraph business. This is probably enough said about the plot since the ending is charming and interesting. The film is about love, one of Marquez's central themes, and is wonderful at depicting love at various stages of life and a broad range of love experiences and perspectives. The film honors the fact that love is a phenomenon beyond time, age, experience or understanding and this is the strength of the film and the reason I don't judge it too harshly. It does not compare to the outstanding novel but its messages around love are wonderfully played out and entertaining.

Fun I enjoyed these books before they came out on the tv but you know how tv is nice to avoid the comercials so I was happy when they released these onto dvd. It was nice not being bombarded with ads and having to wait to see what would happen next. I received my dvds in a timely manner. I have purchased several items before on the internet and I will probably continue to do so. I hope amazon will continue to offer tv movies on dvds as they are so hard to find and there are so many good movies that were made for tv and are not shown anymore but you can find them on amazon now.

hot rod Stupid but funny. A moive teenagers will laugh about. A movie that has some great one liners and a love story so it catches the attention of girls and boys.

Great Post-WWII thriller story Voight isn't my favorite actor in the world but I did love him in this and an older Maximilian Schell--neat :). I hate people who give away the movie so I won't say anything but I will say this: I wasn't expecting the ending. Worth the watch especially if you like WWII/post-war thrillers.

Blu-ray Review: "The Rescuers" and "The Rescuers Down Under" 35th Anniversary Edition I can now show my children this wonderful film thanks to Walt Disney Home Entertainment's 2-movie Blu-ray release of "The Rescuers" and "The Rescuers Down Under" in a 35th Anniversary Edition. Both films are charming and hold up well. However, the original remains the jewel in the crown.  "The Rescuers" tells the story of two mice named Miss Bianca and Bernard. Miss Bianca is a member of the international Rescue Aid Society and Bernard is their janitor. Miss Bianca chooses Bernard as her cohort for a mission to rescue a little girl named Penny from a devious woman and her inept accomplice. They're using the child to look for a lost diamond in the swamps of Devil's Bayou.  Besides the messages of good wins over evil and you have to confront a challenge even if you're afraid, this movie is just fun. There aren't any great social commentaries or life lessons to be found. It's a whimsical and suspenseful adventure for the whole family.  "The Rescuers Down Under" takes Miss Bianca and Bernard to the Outback of Australia. There they must rescue a boy from the clutches of an evil poacher named McLeach. McLeach uses the child as an unknowing guide to the nest of an eagle and its eggs. Can they save the boy and keep the poacher from killing the great eagle and her offspring?  Unlike its predecessor, this sequel carries an obvious statement against the hunting and killing of animals. It's still an action-packed thrill ride and very humorous even with an agenda. I think every animated film in the early 1990s needed a purpose and reason to exist.  Hungarian actress Eva Gabor voices Miss Bianca with all the sophistication and panache she was known for. Bob Newhart brings Bernard to life with his trademark quiet and indifferent vocalization. John Candy gives a comical performance as the bumbling albatross Wilbur. George C. Scott sounds as malevolent as I'm sure Disney allowed him to as McLeach.  The high-definition transfers of both films look great. The recent "The Rescuers Down Under" looks finer than the original as far as animation quality goes. You can see the limits of the art in "The Rescuers" getting pushed a bit beyond their original "real film" intentions. The movie still looks and sounds better than it ever has. The audio for the movies shine brightly through their 5.1 surround mixes.  There are quite a few special features in this edition. They include the deleted song "Peoplitis" and a sing-along song entitled "Someone's Waiting for You." It contains the classic Silly Symphony short "The Three Blind Mouseketeers" and the featurette "The Making of 'The Rescuers Down Under.'" The "Water Birds" Disney True Life Adventure is also included.  The 3-Disc 35th Anniversary Edition of "The Rescuers" and "The Rescuers Down Under" on Blu-ray is a perfect addition to any family's movie library. You get two spectacular films and a satisfying amount of bonus material in one package. It's recommended for all devotees of animated Disney features.

Amazing in 3D 3D in home video is an amazing development, and this movie, filmed in 3D, delivers a great viewing experience. In my opinion, the first and fourth episodes, both directed by Paul Anderson are notably better than the other two in terms of story, camerawork, and particularly as regards the soundtracks, and sound in suspenseful movies is after all what creates the atmosphere. I hope he directs the fifth, and I hope it's done in 3D.

Great, but.............. The series is great like the other reviewers pointed out, but the only problem is that the final episode (number 3) is missing. The full series should be 387 minutes, but they only included 215 minutes. For $5, most people cannot complain much. Otherwise, it's the most fun series on cats. If you want a more scientific one, then check out the National Geographic Cats documentary. This series is focused just on house cats, but the one by national geographic contains wild cats as well.

Enjoyable This is actually a fun movie, and I enjoyed the story. It might be a bit cliched - a bee falling in love with a human woman - but the story overall is good, with lots of funny bits. It might not be the best movie I've ever seen, but I definitely found it to be a solid and engaging one. The view of life in the beehive and the bees' fight for themselves is also fun.

Michael Mann's Take On The 'Hannibal Lector' Saga Michael Mann's 'Manhunter (1986)' is heavily embedded in the (now) unfashionable 80's milieu. Personally, I have a soft spot for everything associated with the 80's: be it mohawks, synth music, pastel colors etc. So the 80's ambiance didn't bother me as it seems to have contemporary viewers, who find it 'cheesy' and 'dated'.  If you get past that, this is quite an engaging thriller. For one, its beautifully photographed: cinematographer Dante Spinotti has framed it meticulously with striking colors and inspired lighting (Francis Dollarhyde's sickly green-hued house, Hannibal Lector's sterile white cell). Sure, it looks like a Miami Vice episode, but it was made at a time when director Michael Mann (and the rest of America) was riding high on the 'Miami Vice aesthetic'; the pastel color palette, the clothing and specially the music is very indicative of the era. 'Manhunter' has some enthralling set-pieces, but on the whole it feels awkward; maybe some scenes should have been cut, as they seemed to intrude rather than intrigue the viewer. On the acting department, William Petersen playing the distraught, haunted FBI detective Will Graham is great--each gesture, each word from him is convincing. Brian Cox as Hannibal Lector is subtle, slyly menacing (the scene where he lies his way through the telephone to get Will Graham's home address is noteworthy); Tom Noonan, though physically intimidating, comes across a bit hokey--he's not all bad, the 'betrayal' scene is great, but he failed to make a lasting psychopathic presence--mostly he comes across as a lonely 'gentle giant'.  The ending, as many have said before me, is a bit anti-climatic--I don't know whether it was a conscious decision on Mann's part or the fact that the production ran out of money towards the end (Mann was left with a skeleton crew when filming the final show-down at Dollarhyde's house), but I had the feeling of being let down and cheated. A second-viewing made me appreciate it a little more, though the feeling lingers that 'Manhunter (1986)' had the potential to be so much more.

Mae's Best, Young Man Not all hilarity, but good old-timey drama and laughs. Mae herself cracks me up, though. She just has a WAY about her. She's not gorgeous, she's overweight by today's standards--no matter--Mae West defines sexy because there's no other way to describe her. Really fun way to relax.

A must see of any SYFY fan. Not an action movie. Early George Lucas. A must see of any SYFY fan. Most excellent plot, actors, scenery. Well paced. This is not an action movie but rather a tale of a possible future. Hyper extension of trends of today and tomorrow. This is a film based upon a George Lucas film school project or so is my understanding. Certainly not a big budget film and suspect it did poorly upon theaterical release but still one that has to be added to anyone's classic SYFY movie list. George did really well in setting a tone, feel, in this one.

Amazon was great movie was terrible The movie arrived from Amazon quickly and was exactly as advertized. The actual movie, however, was not worth the effort. I did like the three formats, 3-D blu-ray, blu-ray, and regular DVD. I kept the blu-rays and gave my parent's the DVD. That worked out as an extra bonus.It just cost me a few pennies for a jewel box for the DVD. Not too bad.

Great fun. This is one of my all time favorite laugh a minute movies. Jack Lemon at his all time funniest. If you enjoy good old slapstick comedy you wil love this .

THOUGH HATED BY MANY, I LOVE THIS SEQUEL  8.5 OUT OF 10 Exorcist II: The Heretic gets a bad rap all the time. Many label it as not only the worst horror sequel, but also the worst sequel period. One critic labeled it as "The anti-Exorcist", and in many ways it is the opposite of its predecessor. For one thing, audiences and critics alike were terrified while watching the first to the point of where there were cases of people passing out in the theater in sheer terror. Exorcist II on the other hand, had audiences and critics jeering with laughter and boos which made John Boorman, the director, try to re-edit the film to make it work to no avail (The DVD version is the original version). However, amidst the hatred, this sequel did have its supporters such as legendary director Martin Scorcese, a few film critics, and it has also gained somewhat of a cult following over the years which I am now also a part of. I know people have legitimate, understandable reasons for hating this sequel, but come on, this is not the worst sequel of all time! That is a gross exaggeration that needs to be reexamined, much like this film. WHAT IT'S ABOUT: The story takes place four years after the events of the first film, focusing on a new priest known as Father Lamont who is also struggling with his faith after he fails to exorcise a demon from a girl who ends up dying. He is then charged with the task of investigating the death of Father Merrin four years earlier and find out what happened. The story then focuses on Regan, who is now living in New York with her guardian named Sharon. Regan doesn't remember anything that happened during her exorcism four years earlier, and now seeks treatment at a psychiatric facility run by Dr. Gene Tuskin, who wants to unlock her memories. Then Father Lamont manages to track down Regan at the institute and convinces Dr. Tuskin use a device known as the "synchronizer" (A device which allows two people to connect with each other's brainwaves to share memories and thoughts) in order to unlock Regan's memories. So when Dr. Tuskin synchronizes with Regan, she nearly dies when Regan's memories attempt to kill her, so Father Lamont then has to retrieve Dr. Tuskin and erases her memory so she doesn't remember what happened, but also manages to collect details and information. He also receives additional information, even though the memories he obtained were not of Regan's but of Pazuzu's (The demon who possessed Regan in the first film) which show past memories of Father Merrin's in Africa which talk of a healer boy named Kokumo. So Father Lamont decides to retrace the steps of Father Merrin in Washington D.C. and Africa, even though he is defying the orders of the Cardinal. Meanwhile Regan seems to be developing new abilities and is not sure if the demon Pazuzu ever really left her. Together, she and Father Lamont must unravel the mystery and defeat Pazuzu once more. MUSIC: The score by Ennio Morricone is rather bizarre. There are very beautiful themes especially the piece entitled "Regan's Theme" and others. However the score isn't perfect, due some rather bizarre choices of musical composition which sometimes make the score seem imbalanced and jarring at times. However, despite this flaw, it's still pretty good. ACTING: Only three actors from the previous film reprise their roles. Linda Blair returns as Regan, Max Von Sydow reprises his role as Father Merrin during scenes of his memories, and Kitty Winn returns to play the character Sharon. Ellen Burstyn did not return to play her character (Though it would have been less of a career embarrassment if she returned for this poorly-reviewed sequel rather than playing in the terrible remake of The Wicker Man). I'm surprised at some of the talent they managed to get for this sequel, such as Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest), Paul Henreid (Casablanca), and James Earl Jones (the original Star Wars trilogy) which is surprising considering this film's poor reputation. Most of the actors are pretty good, but Richard Burton was definitely not one of them. I'm not sure whether to blame cheesy dialogue or him, but there were quite a few moments with him that I couldn't take seriously (Try saying Pazuzu in a dead-serious tone, and then picture Richard Burton doing it), and he is one of the reasons for why this film is part unintentional comedy. James Earl Jones is a good actor, and I don't blame him for coming out cheesy at all (You try and remain serious when the script calls for you to wear a locust suit and spit out a tomato for no apparent reason). The dialogue is undeniably cheesy at times, but at least these actors manage to work with the material with a straight face. ACTION: This film is so absurd, so wildly over-the-top, and so surreal that it becomes part unintentional comedy, part surrealistic dream, part sci-fi, and part horror all at once. It's for reasons like these that I loved this film because it is so imaginative and entertaining with its lurid imagery and crazy ideas. Even if you hate this film, you cannot deny that it is overflowing with all sorts of neat ideas and it is a very ambitious film. However, there are some pacing issues and plot holes which do drag this film down a bit. OVERALL: While it will never ever beat The Exorcist, Exorcist II: The Heretic is still a highly entertaining and bizarre sequel that I feel is an underrated classic. While many call it a failure, I call it a success, even though its ideas didn't quite come out as planned. This film doesn't blatantly copy its predecessor, it tries to be different and imaginative and succeeds immensely in my opinion because it certainly is different and intriguing, which many people don't give it credit for. What were you asking for exactly? A carbon-copy of the original? Watch this film with an open mind because it has a lot to offer with all of its strange qualities. THE GOOD: Interesting story, generally good acting, it feels like a wonderful surreal dream, it's also funny (though unintentional), pretty good musical score, and it's also incredibly strange which is why I love it so. THE BAD: There are pacing issues and plot holes.

A tricky mix of blockbuster videogame and arthouse angst & weirdness I think that Sucker Punch is a much better and more interesting film than many critics give it credit for. I don't, however, think that the subtle machinations of the plot layers are the point of the film, or should be used to intellectually justify it by saying "complex=good". For me, this film is less an intellectual exercise than a stream-of-consciousness expression of emotion; it's about feeling powerless, and escaping that feeling through fantasy. The mechanics of the plot are just there to support the emotional content.  After the plot's complexity, the most controversial part of the film is the "video game" action sequences. Honestly, I am a bit iffy about them conceptually, as their relationship to the main plot is extremely tenuous, but to my surprise I found these sequences mostly very engaging and even moving. The exception to this was the sequence that most needed to be emotionally engaging - the train heist. It might have been because it was poorly directed, or because I was worn out by the preceding action scenes. Whatever the reason, I found this part just didn't work. It's the one big flaw of the piece.  Another controversial element often mentioned is the skimpy outfits the heroines wear. I don't think the allegations of sexism are valid as generally stated. If women are working at an exotic dance club, it is natural that they would "hang out" in their costumes or in their underwear - this is pretty much standard for back-stage behaviour. I didn't find the photography at all leering. What might be questionable is the fetish outfits* the heroines wear during the "video game" sequences. This is part of a wider argument about the double-image of feisty female protagonists, going back at least to the Alien movies, and I don't think Sucker Punch will solve the argument conclusively for either side.  Maybe these diverse criticisms are inevitable if you try to combine accessible contemporary action with arthouse explorations of plot and emotion. But Snyder deserves points for trying, and succeeding as much as he has.  3.5 stars  (*And of course by "fetish outfits" I don't mean kinky leather, but outfits containing certain elements which have become iconic to the video game-playing, anime-watching generation (i.e. sailor suits, samurai swords, aeronautical goggles, etc.). Failure to comprehend the iconic nature of these and other elements is the main reason older critics disliked this film. The question of what meaning these symbols possess when stripped of their original context is an issue so big I won't even attempt to deal with it here.)

Fun and Good thriller. It was entertaining. It tells the story of a Blind man Arjun Rampal, who finds his wife (Amisha Patel) dead. The police are investigating what has happened and they lead to a suspect Zayed Khan. What follows is a series of cat and mouse games among the two stars. I don't think Arjun and Zayed are good actor's at all. After watching this movie, I think this and Yakeen is Arjun's Best Film. Zayed Khan shows of a bit too much, but he does perform a good act in this film. He doesn't copy Shah Rukh Khan's style of an obsessive lover as Shahid Kapoor does. Finally the actress Amisha Patel hasn't got a lot of scenes in the film, but she does appear in flashbacks. Her acting is quite good but unnoticed. Thanks to her sexy dance and amazingly body, that i sure would like to dance with. Who cares about her acting as long as she shakes her curves in the dance sequences. There are many fun and entertaining scenes. This is worth the watch and does have a good twist at the end.

a-head up "Wrong Turn 4" is hardly an epic master-piece or even a really quality slasher. But as far as direct-to-blu-rays go in the context of this genre it was pretty good. The movie includes lots of gore, enough T&A to make even Sean S. Cunningham blush and lots of melodramatic screaming by a slew of b-grade actors. I have only seen the first movie in the series besides this one and "Wrong Turn 4" is at least as good as the first one. A couple of standout performances that deserve an honorable mention... It was perhaps a stroke of genius casting Sean Skene as one of the annoying snow-mobilers and as one of the inbred cannibals in a dual role. And, although she started out superficial and shallow, Tenika Davis gave, perhaps the most impressive performance because her character was the most multi-faceted. Some scenes in the movie bordered on high-camp as it was obvious that the directors and producers were trying to shock audiences just as much as they were attempting to make audiences laugh (just think, when was the last time you saw a small group of deranged lunatics ballroom dancing, or fondueing a man alive?) The movie also had a really "killer" ending that was congruent to the entire over-the-top theme. Remember, just say no.

Not so bad.. Hubby wanted to see this and I didn't.  But, in the end, it wasn't a bad movie at all!  It wasn't badly written, and it kept moving reasonably well.  Good time killer.

Comedy for all ages Happy Gilmore is a feel good comedy for all ages to enjoy.  Some of us in real life know how it feels to try going after a dream you have but can't quite make it due to whatever reason.  I am a fan of golf anways and enjoy Adam Sandler so I pick this up and loved every moment of the movie. I was laughing so hard I cried in a few scenes, and one of my favorite scenes was when he got in the fight with Bob Barker and said "The price is wrong...." That did it for me and I said I had to have this movie.  But if your going to pick this movie up get the Special edition more special features to enjoy.  So if your a fan of old school Sandler then pick this up savor some laughs and put a smile on your face.

San Francisco Inspires Hong Kong On Labor day weekend in 1977, several people were shot at the Golden Dragon Restaurant on Washington Street at Grant Avenue in San Francisco's Chinatown. This was the result of a war between two youth gangs. The Wah Cheng gang was based in Chinatown centered on Grant, and Joe Fong's Boys were based in New Chinatown centered on Clement across town. Some Joe's Boys tried to shoot some of the Wah Cheng but hit innocent bystanders. Next weekend, some Wah Cheng went to New Chinatown and shot some Joe's Boys. Thus did the war continue all through September 1977. I knew one of the founders of the Wah Cheng, and I saw two shooting episodes, since I lived about 2.5 blocks from "Gum Long-Chin Lung (Golden Dragon)" then. Chinatown was soon deserted by tourists, and it was unusual to see that. It was big news in Chinatown when Shaw Brothers decided to make a movie loosely based upon this gang war. Fu Sheng, aka Alexander Fu starred, and the female leads Shao Yin-Yin and Yu Sai-Li both resembled my girlfriend Chu Bi-Zhen. I love this movie, even if it has little resemblance to the real people involved. It is a better story however. I recommend adding it to your collection, and when you do, be aware it was inspired by a real series of events.

Meryl Streep is the ULTIMATE ACTRESS Last week my husband and I watched this film.  As always Meryl Streep was wonderful as the "Iron Lady".  Although the film was a little choppy in that it did not fully develop the relationship between daughter and mother in the absence of the obvious favorite "son", I found it to be very enlightening from a historical stand-point.  I realize it took artistic license in some cases, but all in all I thought it was a very well written film and again, the acting was wonderful by Ms. Streep and the supporting cast as well!  (We purchased the actual DVD. We did not use the instant video option.)

Taking fire might back-fire  Theatrical release review In Greek Mythology Prometheus presumed to steal fire from the gods for the progress of mankind. He was banished, punished and bound for daring to interfere with domain of the gods.  Similarly the author of Frankentein called her book the modern Prometheus, where a scientist presumed to usurp the very process of creation itself, and created a monster using lightning.  In Prometheus the movie scientist Elizabeth Shaw played by Noomi Rapace, and her partner makes a series of scientific discoveries which shows that we were put here by extraterrestrials, and embark on a funded mission to a distant planet to meet these aliens.  While the scientists aims are pure other people on board have mixed agendas. We have a soulless humanoid played by Michael Fassbender, and a ruthless female leader played by Charlize Theron and the mysterious owner of the company.  Director Ridley Scott directed the Aliens series starring Sigourney Weaver, and I think Prometheus will please fans of Aliens and win new fans. Like Aliens we have a heroic female protagonist played by Noomi Rapace from the Girl with the Dragon tattoo series. Their arrival on the planet sets in motion a series of events with implications beyond the mission.  While it appears to be a dead planet there is mischief on board the craft and danger on the planet itself.  The alien planet is menacing as you expect, (so rarely do we meet friendly aliens), and if there are alien life forms they may not be friendly.  There are several surprises and some well crafted scenes, which were quite originally done, including the duffel bag, and an improvised medical procedure which I found highly intriguing.  One of my favorite lines from the movie: 'We may have gotten off on the wrong foot.'  I love movies with a strong female protagonist, and Noomi Rapace really excels at this type of role. If you have seen the Alien movies, I think you will appreciate that he has given a style of science fiction that he pioneered a fresh and interesting twist. Who can forget that famous scene with John Hurt in the original Alien?  Will Prometheus spawn a sequel? You could argue that it already has. I cannot speak as yet to how it will be on Blu Ray except to say that it was a visually stunning experience in the theater.  I think you will enjoy it, and I hope this was helpful.

Cute movie The best part of this, is it shipped much faster than I expected.  It's a good movie but doesn't compare to some of the more elaborate ones like the Tinkerbell series.

Nicely Done, Suspenseful & Beautiful Scenery This is not my usual genre; in fact, I don't think I've ever seen anything by Agatha Christie!  Captivating scenery reminded me of one reason I enjoy foreign films so much.  No sound stages, CGI, or blue screens.  Nothing like being at exotic places.  This movie is very enjoyable.  Interesting plot twists and decent acting.  Plus, the French language is like listening to music.  Oh, and by the way, interesting to have those musicians on that carousel-type thing.

Cute Movie I liked this movie as I have a Chihuahua and know their antics.  I saw Beverly Hills Chihuahua ( first one ) some time ago and thought it was a terrific movie.  As with most movies, the sequel is usually not as good as the original but it was still good.  It is a great family movie. I have purchased movies from Amazon. com before and I like the fact you can pre-order movies and they generally arrive soon after release to stores if not before.

If Thou Hast Not Seen "Thor", Rectify Thine Grievous O'ersight and Hasten to Do So, *** This review may contain spoilers ***  I saw "Thor" on Monday, May 16, 2011 and I was generally pleased. Consequently, I should forget filing a future Mensa membership application. So be it. The movie probably lacks that precious moralistic profundity the Academy Award Committee purports to seek in its cinematic viewings. Nevertheless, I found it intelligent, competent, engrossing, AND respectful of its source material - namely Stan Lee's interpretation of Norse Mythology.  "Thor" is not a mindless fantasy romp. It addresses various themes such as simmering sibling rivalry, filial fealty, overweening presumption and haughtiness that comes with power, resentment, self-sacrifice, and the wisdom of self-restraint. The overbearing, overreaching warrior Thor is thrust upon the road to humble self-redemption, and what better place to do so than upon an unassuming New Mexico hamlet on Midgard. Perhaps a tad too quickly (but that's all right), he learns of a warrior's, a god's, a being's true worth - forgiveness (of Loki's tortured treachery) and self-sacrifice (to protect Jane, her friends, and the New Mexico town) from the Destroyer juggernaut. In short, I found "Thor" ultimately uplifting.  Flaws do exist. Occasionally the luscious, staggering Asgardian and cosmic backgrounds seemed like scale-model work. Thor becomes acclimated to Midgard customs a bit too easily; more "Fish Out of Water" encounters would have rectified this. Some of the S.H.I.E.L.D. security personnels' behavior was implausibly lenient. Nevertheless, "Thor" serves as a more than adequate introduction to the God of Thunder and Lightning, the devious but surprisingly conflicted God of Mischief and Evil Loki, the imperious but circumspect Asgardian lord Odin, the Asgardian dimension (NOT planet) and the richness of Norse mythology. It takes itself seriously enough, but not too seriously, because it's a rollicking, energetic adventure, too.  Furthermore, the very last end credit whetted my appetite for "The Avengers" movie. Overall, "Thor" is a quite satisfactory accomplishment.

Too Short... INSTINCT is a movie that has a lot to say about social dynamics, human nature, and our need for dominance. Unfortunately, it only has 2 hours to get these complex ideas across. Anthony Hopkins (THE ELEPHANT MAN, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS) is excellent as always, portraying the supposed "madman" who is actually something quite the opposite. Cuba Gooding, jr. is also good as the man who attempts to break through Hopkins' psychological barriers. If only this film were about 3-4 hours long! The story definitely needed to be fleshed out. Things happen too quickly, like a whirlwind, leaving much of the tale untold, or at least under-developed. I give the movie 4 stars because, in spite of its brevity, it actually made me think. Not many films do that...

fantastic but.... love the movie...madonna's best work by far...antonio banderas' least offensive attempt at acting...fantastic musical, clothing, sing-along, some funny spots, and even some beautiful touching moments at the end.  saw this in the theater. loved it.  'buenos aires' is fantastic, the waltz scene is gorgeous, and the addition of 'you must love me' to the film version was timed perfectly.  so - why does the dvd have no special features?  i wish i'd have known this -there must be another version out there that talks about the making of it and all that great stuff???  other than that - it's fantastic.  madonna earned that golden globe award and was ripped off for not getting an oscar nomination for her work.

Good approaching great. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000053V7E">The Tuskegee Airmen</a> Period was well portrayed but the inserted footage stood out because it inevitably seemed primitive. Acting was uniformly good and there was sufficient characterization to make the people believable.

cute family film The patriarch of the family is a uptight man, as is evinced by the opening sequence of this movie. He doesn't have need or want of a dog, especially a St. Bernard. However, as you would expect of a movie like this, life lessons are learned as the family raises and loves the dog, and the dog is instrumental in foiling bad guys. Cheesy? Yes. But it's still a cute film, especially if you love dogs.

A shoot-em-up movie based on a young girl's desire for revenge! Young 10 year old Cataleya witnesses the murder of her father and mother at the hands of a vicious drug cartel leader and his assassins.  The murder was caused by her father's wish to leave the cartel and start a new life with his family.  Before her father is murdered he gives his young daughter a memory chip and tells her where to go in case something happens and to give the man the chip and tell him that it is her passport.  Cataleya (A name for a local Columbian orchid) escapes by attacking the man who helped kill her family and winds up in Chicago living with her uncle and his mom.  He is a ruthless criminal also and she tells him that she wants to grow up to be a professional killer.  He teaches her that anyone can be a killer and stupid and get caught but she must go to school, learn, be trained and become the best to be able to always get away.  Thus starts the saga of Cataleya's life and her goal to find and avenge her family's murder by killing the men who did it.  Zoe Saldana plays the sultry and beautiful woman who becomes a mass murderer to achieve her goal.  The movie features a lot of fast action and her methods of getting to her untouchable enemies are reminiscent of "Mission Impossible" type of assassinations.  Several of the escape scenes are fun to watch!  This is a fast paced shoot-em-up movie and you will enjoy it if that is what you like.  I gave it 4 Stars based on that fact.  The script and dialog at times are lacking and the movie counts on the beauty of its lead actress to carry the show.  It is bloody and vicious so be ready if that genre is not your favorite type of movie.

I Like it but I don't love it Thanks, I've been wanting this movie ever since I've seen the Nostalgia Critic's review of it, but I have a problem with the DVD itself. When I put it in my DVD player at certan times in the movie, it froze and I had to skip ahead, what happened to the DVD?

cool vfx Good story, interesting characters and good steady pace to the movie.  I was totally impressed with the visual effects.  Some cool scary moments but overall I would call it more of a relational drama, I think, than horror.  Definitely worth a watch and an impressive start given that this seems to be the director's first film.

Excellent political movie with outstanding cast I got sucked into the excellent story very quickly due to the wonderful cast. Ryan Gosling is magnetic in his role as a super ambitious campaign guy who is still new to politics.  He balances perfectly the brilliance and overconfidence of his character. Philip Seymour Hoffman is perfect as the been-there-done-that overconfident veteran of campaign politics. George Clooney, Marisa Tomei, Evan-Woods are all terrific, too, but Ryan Gosling and Philip Seymour Hoffman made this movie more than your "usual politic drama".  The story explores the human characteristics of politicians - we all should know they have those human characteristics & flaws, but we seem to want to delude ourselves into thinking "this one will be different"...  Great movie, great actors!

Fantastic!! I'm wait this moment a long time: To see him in blu ray record. But, it is important to have a 3D blu-ray player to see all of performance.

Enjoyable for Whole Family, Not as Funny As Shrek Though My whole family really enjoyed this movie, and it is action-packed, so there's no question of boredom. It centers on Puss in Boots, the character Antoinio Banderas made famous in the Shrek movies. A friend/nemesis from his past (Humpty-Dumpty) re-enters his life, along with a new romantic interest played by Selma Hayak, and they attempt to steal a goose that lays golden eggs. Like Shrek, it's full of fairy-tale references and 'inside' jokes that play more to adults than kids, although kids love the action. I didn't find it quite as funny as the Shrek movies though - maybe because there's no Eddie Murphy/donkey sidekick to lighten things up. Certain parts were also a little mean-spirited - lots of fighting in this movie. But other than that, it's very enjoyable and well-executed family fare.

Entertaining and Fun This movie was great, it did what I expected a movie should do....entertain!  Don't listen to all those lousy review from comic book nerds.  Yes, I was not expecting a good movie while reading some of those other reviews from Amazon, I'm glad I didn't listen to them and took my chance.  I have heard of Johnna Hex, first introduce to the name from the Justice League Unlimited animated t.v show.  I have never read any of his books, but I expected to be better than that movie with Will Smith, Wild, Wild , West.  Let me tell you this, the movie rock, the soundtrack I did not expect it be Metal.  Mastodon was the band who created the soundtrack for album.  Why not 5 stars instead of 4 well I guess it would have to be a resemblance to one part of the movie the crow, watch it you will understand.  Take a chance, have fun watch this movie.

Better Than I Anticipated When I saw, "Letters To God" being advertised, I had no desire to watch it. I don't know why, really. But for some reason it just did not appeal to me. But it did appeal to my 16 year old daughter so tonight we watched it on Netflix instant stream and all I can say is..."Pleasantly Surprised".  I expected it to be over-the-top acting, as most Christian films I've seen are, but aside from the constant talk about God, religion, heaven, and spirituality, it wasn't one of those hokie "Christian" films at all. It, in fact, was rather well done.  I rented this video to review.

The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three I have seen The Denzel one first before seeing the original, I like the original better.Even if Walter Matthau is a bit annoying,and you have Stiller'(Constanza's dad From Seinfeld)among another noticeable face,The movie drags on though and you get the feeling that NYC is a Dump,I am pretty sure the Mayor who is sick with the Flu in the movie and who is lazy is most likely a Democrat.The movie might have been exciting when it first came out but in a Age of A.D.D./Short Attention spans it is quite boring,however the movie is worth watching even if it a one long ride.

quality horror Hurt is one of those horror films that takes a while to get going but once it does, it's worth your time.  It's worth sitting through the generic character interactions that take place in the beginning.  Though truth be told, it's not as generic as other films.  This is because the storyline is about a demented foster girl that this family adopted, and they live in the middle of the desert with nobody else around.  When the storyline finally gets going, the movie leaves viewers guessing whether the girl is causing the assortment of problems or maybe there's a lunatic out there on the loose.  It's actually fairly well-written in the "Who's causing the problems?" department.  My only grip is that there was one line where the demented girl was sitting in her bedroom and gave it ALL away.  That line should have been removed.  At first the problems are minor and insignificant- a bird is lying dead on the kitchen table and the family points the blame at each other.  Then eventually, people begin to die.  Because so much storyline is devoted to the build-up between the family and the foster girl, you will definitely learn more about the story as it unfolds.  Actually a key piece to the storyline is executed brilliantly by the movies conclusion involving how the foster girls parents were killed, and it's surprising how well-written and compelling it is.  What I find totally makes this movie a winner is the final 30 minutes.  Not only are the deaths interesting and creative, but the foster girl totally nails her role and actually improves her acting skills by quite a bit once we get closer to the end.  Overall, worth watching.

Get Your Buzz ON! Get Your Buzz ON is an excellent concert video of Chickenfoot featuring Sammy Hagar, Joe Satrioni, Chad Smith, and Michael Anthony. This video rocks, check it out. Excellent camera shots show the excitment and energy of this performance. Satrioni plays great. Hagar screams his well-known Daltry style. Chad ponds the skins. Anthony appears to be having the time of his life... The sound quality and song selection are excellent. They even end on a WHO classic (MY GENERATION) that Chad's original band (Toby Redd) used to perform at all the rock clubs in the Detroit area way back in the 70's (before I was even born). Rock on, Chickenfoot!

Anatomy of a relationship The issues that befuddle couples are at the heart of this Argentinian film that doubles as a comedy while gently exploring some real emotional issues that married couples face as they go through life. Here, a man decides he cannot put up with his complaining stay-at-home wife, so he hires an organized crime Lothario to seduce her. Naturally, this goes awry, but she does come out of her funk, becomes an unlikely hit on a local radio talk show, bemoaning her dark view of life, and also gets interested in hubby again. This presents the quandary that plays out over the second half. Decent script, and a nice soundtrack, plus interesting interiors of Argentinian suburban life.

Fun Movie Found it a fun little movie.  Not going into it with any expectations of it being some type of artistic classic, it met my expectations of being a fun, action flick that doesn't take itself too seriously. Lots of violence. Rude and crude.  All in all, not bad.  William Fichtner ("the Accountant") was a riot.

4 1/2 stars for an excellent follow up to "Dragon Tattoo" This sequel is an obvious bridge to the concluding part 3.  It is none the less a near equal to "Dragon Tattoo".  A different director injects a lot more characters than we saw in the original, so it's sometimes difficult to pay attention when you have to read all the fast dialog.  And several subtitles blend into the background making it even harder to see.  Like "Dragon Tattoo", once the movie it gets going you just have to hang on.  The leads are terrific, especially Noomi Rapace who once again sizzles as Lisabeth.  I can't put my finger on it, but this flat-chested wisp of a young woman with unremarkable looks is remarkably beautiful and sexy.  And she is afraid of nothing which occasionally gets her in hot water.  She is being framed for murder and her sometime ally, Mikael, believes she's innocent.  I only nudge this film down half a star because of the limited screen time together Lisabeth and Mikael share.  Only at the end to they get together.  With the chemistry they have, that was a disappointment.  The Blu ray transfer is in 1080p and has a 1.78:1 aspect ratio.  The colors and clarity are fine although I'm not sure the darker scenes are transfer issues or the director's choice.  Some seem a bit weak.  Not a big deal unless you're watching in a strongly lit room.  The audio is Dolby Digital 5.1 in both Swedish and English version.  It is fine but lacks the lossless element.

Classic This 1940 film is a definite classic, though many people don't know that the version they see today was actually edited from the original, since the original had some racism in it (namely in the scene with centaurs) You can find these deleted scenes on YouTube.  There's a nice variety of short stories, including the famous one where Mickey is a sorcerer's apprentice and tries to get out of a menial chore by using magic that actually makes the situation worse. The music for this film is great, with some memorable numbers, and the artwork is gorgeous - I loved the dancing flowers!

Awsome movie but a few problems I got this movie a while ago I LOVE IT!!!! It was a great price the only have two problems one it took a long time for it to come and it skips besides that its perfect!!!

I like it this dvd is good for beginners that have a lot of chatter in their heads like myself. She helps you to quiet the mind.

Great Movie My husband and I love this movie. The music is good the story is great the acting is good too.

CATCH UP WITH CARRIE AND THE CREW Really enjoyed this movie and watched it over and over last year on HBO so much that I decided I should buy it :-)  I had friends that never watched SATC series that enjoyed the movie as well. I was excited to see where Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte were in their lives and I think they did a great job picking back up.  There was plenty of drama and relationship mayhem that kept it interesting.  One of the things that I loved about the series was that the show was not just about sex/romantic relationships but also about friendship.  Female friendship to be exact and the special bond that women have and the trials they go through.  I loved that the movie also dealt with that.  Miranda and Carrie's friendship was tested and I loved the way Charlotte in her typical "Charlotte way" showed her loyalty and the way they all rallied around Carrie like true friends do.  I laughed, I cried, I got angry at the characters. I think this is a must for all SATC fans (some may not enjoy as I've seen on other reviews)to catch up on their lives.  Also a must for those that like love stories or movies about friendships. I am still a Carrie Bradshaw fan and will continue to watch this over and over.

Well written and perfomed Downton is a visual  feast. The setting is clearly a character in its own right, but the humans are equally complex, diverse and involving. The writing is balanced, with good, though not complete restraint in attaching current views and sterotyoes onto the past.

enjoyable Started off good.  Ended good.  It got a little tiresome with so many things going wrong for poor Noah, but they pulled everything together nicely, and left me feeling good.  I enjoyed it overall.  Too me, I would give 3 stars to a movie that was just ok, but I had a good time here, and so I gave it 4 stars.

Enjoyable ... if you like this kind of thing. I don't think you would rent this movie unless you were a fan of Joss Whedon or the horror genre in general, and with that I don't think you will be disappointed.  It kind of takes the self aware slasher film semi spoof (brought to life so well 16 years ago in Scream) to a new level.  My main complaint is that the writing that is so great in the "control room" scenes (a big thumbs up for Bradley Whitford and Richard Jenkins), is not as good in the cabin scenes - they just are kind of standard - but it still works.  One thing I love about Joss Whedon (besides his plotting, dialog, and visual sensibilities) is his devotion to people he has previously worked with and he is rewarded with Fran Kranz's performance here as the obligatory stoner in the group - great.  It was also funny to see Chris Hemsworth, after seeing the Avengers (multiple times), Snow White, and Thor, as a college student.  I had the same feeling here as I used to when I was a kid and my mother would watch Big Valley, and I would wonder why Lee Majors didn't beat the bad guys up with his bionic arm.  Anyway, good movie, interesting premise, worth the rental.

Entertaining French Film We had planned to see this film at a local theater but it was so far away that we would have missed the first part of the movie.  I checked on Amazon and found it for rent.  We streamed it to our laptop and watched it on our flatscreen TV with an HDMI hook-up.  The beginning started out blurry but it cleared almost immediately and was so clear that it was possible to read the very small credits at the end of the film.  The film streamed seamlessly, although we never tried to pause and resume it.  The story was very enjoyable.  Catherine Deneuve was gorgeous, as usual and the French subtitles were reasonably easy to read.  It was nice to find the exact film we wanted to see at a very affordable price and to watch it in the comfort of our home. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005DD7MDM">Potiche</a>

Interesting.... I saw the preview for this when I was watching another movie, I honestly don't remember which but this one looked interesting enough to warrant a rental. The first thing that shocked me was that it was an Eastwood movie. I didn't think this was his sort of thing but he did an excellent job here.  Here is what I liked... Excellent performances from the entire cast especially Damon. Beautiful direction. An interesting story. You really have to be interested in the subject of the paranormal to enjoy this movie. Most movies usually make this subject out to be some sort of joke but that is thankfully not the case here. We get three stories that are interwoven and everything wraps up into a neat little package at the end. I have heard other people say this movie was boring and nothing happens. I disagree....nothing happens, everything sort of unfolds... A patient viewer will be rewarded by this movie. If you're expecting a "Bourne" flick, go elsewhere. This is a VERY slowly paced movie, there's not a whole lot of action, just a whole lot of emotion and story which for once is a breath of fresh air.  The only thing I didn't like was the ending. I DID NOT want the movie to end that way, I won't give it away but I found the ending to be rather annoying. For a movie with so many loose ends for it to wrap so nicely seemed to contradict the entire movie itself. That minor gripe aside, I found it to be a beautiful movie on a an interesting subject. Recommended.

Tough Skin First, in reference to the chimps attacking monkeys for food and each other for territory not being appropriate for children those critics must have spent their entire lives in concrete, asphalt and glass while only experiencing nature in parks and zoos. Any child raised on a farm, ranch, or in the developing/undeveloped rest of Earth has seen much "worse" (aka reality). Even the parts shown were heavily edited so that compared to other documentaries showing the same encounters, it was very tame. Second, the film crew must have "tough skin" both literally and figuratively to survive the insects, rain, mud, animals and every other imaginable extreme discomfort to slog daily through those jungles for a year+ and for at times 20 seconds worth of useable film for that day's effort. I bow to you film crew. Didn't they think of bringing insect repellent netting for clothing either during or between times when they trekking in heavy forest? Third, the decades of preparation and the years of filming/editing etc. was an amazing accomplishment. Fourth, the storytelling part was a double edged sword in that it was engaging for the human interpretation and presentation of chimp life, but also seemed too anthropomorphizing under guidelines for a strict academic style doc. If you can look past that last part and just relate to the storytelling as a human to chimp interpretation then I find no fault in this exceptional filming. Fifth, if after viewing this film the shared commonalities between chimps and humans is not apparent then some "soul" searching is in order.

Corny but enjoyable! Yes this was corny storyline but if you're a Marty Robbins fan I think you will enjoy it.  I bought the movie because I'm a Marty Robbins fan and I wanted to see how well he did.  I thought his acting was at least satisfactory.  I didn't buy it because I thought it would be Academy Award material.  LOL

Great movie but not a history lesson The Hurricane does a great job enthralling the audience with Rubin Carter and his boxing career and causing people to have an emotional connection to Rubin "Hurricane" Carter's racist and unjust situation (his multiple imprisonments). The movie has twisted many of the facts to turn this history into a Hollywood blockbuster and viewers trying to understand the real Rubin Carter would be misled but the movie itself was thought provoking and in itself great entertainment.   My biggest problem with this film was the way the movie portrayed Rubin Carter compared to what the real Carter was like. The movie understandably changes some details of his life to paints a clear picture of who is wrong, and who is right; the wrong being the white detective and the right being Rubin Carter and his Canadian pals.  Some details of his life, which were altered in the movie, were that in the movie, 11-year-old Rubin Carter throws a bottle at a child molester to protect the other kids. But Rubin Carter was in fact 14 years old and had stolen $55 dollars and a watch from a man. Also, Rubin Carter was seen returning from war as a successful soldier but in truth, he was released after 21 months after receiving an "Undesirable" discharge for being constantly AWOL. Finally, Rubin Carter was seen in the movie sitting confidently in the front seat the night of the murder while in reality, he was either hiding in the back seats or lying down while two other men sat in front.   These detail changes may seem miniscule and I believe they are because even though the movie doesn't truly represent the kind of person Rubin Carter was, his situation and the injustice done upon him were still shown and (I think) portrayed in a way that the viewers could understand and also relate. The movie on its own is a great entertainment but one should take caution if they want to learn about Rubin Carter's life.

Flaming Bulls! So pretty much all the 3-5 star reviews are pretty spot on.  I never saw the theater release so I don't know about the missing 15 (or so) minutes.  However there is a character who might be a forest spirit or a bandit that is kind of hard to explain.  Apparently some of the missing 15 help with that. The 1st hour is a little hard simply because the bad guy is really bad.  Some of his badness was hard to view.  This makes the last hour worth hanging on for.  Once the action starts it doesn't stop.  There are flaming bulls involved.  I don't know if this was supposed to be funny, but that was the best humorous beat down since Jet Li beat the Samurai at the end of Fist of Legend with his belt. If you liked "Seven Samurai" or even "The Magnificent Seven" you'll know what's going to happen, but you'll like it anyway.

Enchanted April I loved this movie.  It presents the plight of women at the turn of the 2oth century.  There are subtleties that make it refreshing and enjoyable.  A real feel-good movie.

Excellent Movie I wasn't really sure about this movie when I was given a basic synopsis of its content however after viewing it myself I would have to say I definitely recommend it to anyone !!

Begging for a sequel My brother bought me this movie for Christmas after attending its theatrical debut. Not only do I love this movie, I hope they make a sequel!

Took a chance... I took a chance and ordered a used Watchman Owl for a gift because the price was such a great deal. I was very pleased when it came in perfect condition and on time. I know it will be the perfect gift. The seller was honest about the condition of the packaging and I would trust their descriptions for future purchases.

Fantasical Adventure Based on a true story, the movie makes the gambling and risky life style very glamorous.  My thoughts:  - settings, props, buildings, scenes are all believable and adds to the realism  - it looks too easy to maintain that lifestyle. Flying from the east coast to Las Vegas every weekend? That's exhausting. I can't imagine how it's possible to keep such composure through the night.  - Kate Bosworth. Goodness, she is charming and beautiful.  Adventurous movie. You'll feel like you're right there by their side while they're winning or losing.

The only twist was how entertaining this was. Before renting The Cabin in the Woods, I had read articles and blog posts from people who desparately wanted to avoid spoiling it by talking about it in any detail. I think that was a mistake. Because of this air of secrecy, I went into the movie thinking it would probably feature an M Night-esque twist and ultimately get filed under "Things Rod Serling Did Better" (although I knew the dialogue and characterization would be better than Shyamalan's because of Joss Whedon's involvement). That was enough to put me off seeing this movie in the theater when, had I known what it actually was, I would have gladly shelled out the 30-odd bucks and made a date night of it.  Cabin is a delightfully witty post-modern take on the horror film that, unlike the Scream films, manages to maintain a self-aware sense of humor without crossing over into self parody. I fully credit Whedon for this feat, because the premise and structure come across as things that easily could have co-existed within his Buffy-verse.  The idea is that the often ridiculous conventions (or "rules" for Scream fans) of horror film plots exist for an entirely sensible reason. Specifically, because they are contrived by a lab full of scientists who arent't terribly concerned with character or plot consistency (let alone internal story logic). They are simply trying to create scenarios in which irrational fear will prime the unsuspecting (but only because they're being chemically manipulated) victims for a necessary ritual. The frequently hinted at scope of this plot device also provides a convenient meta-excuse for the vast number of slasher/horror cinematic stories out there and their inherently incestuous/repetitive nature.  A cast populated by many familiar faces for Whedon fans (and some others that will be instantly recognizable to anyone who enjoyed quality TV in the 90s) handles the script and the horrific absurdity of the plot perfectly. And the visual effects are definitely on the high-end of horror fare.  All in all, a thoroughly enjoyable rental but not one I'd recommend for die-hard horror or Whedon fans. No...those people should just buy it.

Watch it.  Now it's our skin in that game. I don't know guys...it looked pretty damn authentic to me, but I'll defer to combat vets on that.  OK.  This movie has been made many times before and will be made many times again.  Green recruits, tough drill sarge, scared kids, hardened vets, horrible battle, band of brothers. It's an old formula. So what?  So is war itself.  Nonetheless this movie is of particular relevance; for all you and I know  right now there's a company of our guys dug in the old Russian camp on that ridge fighting off another onslaught.  Someday when this is over, maybe we'll make our own Afghanistan movie.  Until then 9th Company is our story too.  Well, hopefully the aftermath won't be our story as well, but that's just one of the many things this movie gives us to ponder.  And, yeah, I ended up rooting for the Russians.  Sue me.  The only reason I can't give it 5-stars is because there are inherent language and cultural barriers for a non-Russian.  The subtitles sounded stiff in places.  The names were hard  to remember.  A short piece in the "extras" menu that gave an brief overview of the military situation for the Russians would have been helpful.

Great Fun, But Not Very Scientifically Accurate.  (So what?) A sequel that lives up to the original! Amazing! This one is as funny as the first, and in fact one could say certain scenes are even funnier. For example, Sid notices the buzzards watching them, and says he wishes he knew what they were thinking. In response, they go into a song and an aerial ballet all about "Food" that is quite as spectacular as anything from Ziegfield's Follies!  Of course, the basic story line is obvious from the title: the Ice Age is coming to an end, and the valley where the "Herd" we followed in the first movie will be flooded. So they must move south. A doom-saying sharper says there is a boat at the mouth of the valley where everyone will be safe. This turns out to be the most amazing take on the Biblical story of Noah's ark you have ever seen. We also get a totally amazing glimpse of Heaven through the eyes of the still-anonymous little squirrel who has been pursuing that acorn all over the planet.  There are a few new characters: Ellie, who is a mammoth brought up by possums and thinks she is one (voiced to perfection by Queen Latifah), and her two "brother" possums. As far as Manny knows, they are the last two Mammoths in the world, so naturally, he points out that they have a certain responsibility to repopulate the species, which Ellie considers quite an inappropriate come-on.  There are also monsters of all kinds in the water, to the point where the general conclusion "land good, water bad" is stated firmly by Diego. It also seems that Diego is afraid of water on general principles, and Sid tries to talk him out of it. But it takes his buddies being in real danger that forces him into the water. Turns out he can swim.  And wait until you see what happens to Sid when he is kidnapped by a band of miniature sloths! Naturally, everyone thought he was dreaming for much of the sequence. We find out near the end that he was not dreaming.  The dangers are constant, but met with amazing and funny rescues, every bit as good as the ones in the first movie. All in all, this is a very fun movie.

Lethal Weapon 4  review 8.5/10 Now I'm going to review LW 4 which is the final LW movie. Released in 1998. Richard Donner returned.  Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, & Rene Russo all return also stars Jet Li as Wah Sing Ku, Kim Chan as Uncle Benny Chan & Chris Rock as Detective Lee Butters. Movie stars off this guy is going nuts with a flamethrower downtown Riggs & Murtaugh try to shoot him but he's armored up Riggs tells Murtaugh throw all your clothes at him stand in front of him & cluck like a chicken he does Riggs gets the shot on the gas tank he got owned. Which all that stuff Riggs had him do was so he could get a quick laugh. Which for 9 months at the police station the same news paper clipping has been on the police bullish board which p  is  s  e  s  Murtaugh off the guy behind it is Riggs. It also turns out Lorna is pregnant & Murtaugh's daughter Rianne is too. Murtaugh doesn't know who the father is. Lorna tells Riggs it's Detective Butters. Which is why he's always nice  to Murtaugh. Murtaugh doesn't want his daughter to date cops. 1 night Riggs, Murtaugh & Leo who is now a Privet Investigater. A ship comes through they find these Chineese Immigrants Murtaugh takes some to his home. Murtaugh tells Riggs that he feels that he is freeing slaves. They go after this guy named Uncle Benny in Chinatown. Before they get there you have a hilarious back & forth between Leo Getz & Butters. This where Wah Sing Ku is introduced. They question Benny but he denies it Riggs says " Maybe we can get some fried lice?" Benny: " it's fried rice you plick." Riggs spots the ships captain from the night before you have a good chase scene. He gets away Detective Butters arrests this guy which he turns out to be a cook. The boat captain guy is killed by Ku. The dad of the immigrant family tells Murtaugh he tried  to contact his uncle Which leads Wah Sing Ku & his henchies to Murtaugh's family. Murtaugh's family  & Lorna have been taken hostage a big fight breaks out good scene but I can't buy a pregnant woman  almost due kicking a  s  s. Ku owns Riggs & Murtaugh The Immigrant family is taken away. Riggs, Murtaugh & his family are tied up they set the house on fire. 1 of the immigrant kids that wasn't  Ku taken by Ku cuts the rope they all get out of there. Then you get an awesome chase down the freeway you have Riggs in a mobile home being pulled by a truck he pulls 1 of the bad guys out of the car they have a fight in the mobile home. The guy is tossed out on to the freeway & is owened by a bus. Riggs gets back in the car with Riggs they continue the chase they are knocked into a construction site they drive right through an office building they still go after him but is hit by on coming traffic he & the car get owned. The car Riggs & Murtaugh were in took quite a beating. Leo calls them & at The Dentist's office he tells them Benny is there it leads to a funny scene where they use the laughing gas as it's called to get the information from him Detective Butters who is with them turns the gas up they all start acting goofy. Riggs reveals Butters is the father.Later on some of Ku's men try to kill Riggs, Lorna & that little boy when he was stopping at railroad crossing. Riggs hits the break the S  U  V with Ku's henchies is hit by a train then it gets hit by another train they got F  U  BAR'd. Ku has some kind of money conter f  it  t  ing thing going on cause he has to pay this General to free his brother . The cops go in they find the father of The Immigrant family dead they find the con fit money During the deal with Ku & The General The cops show up Riggs reveals that it's co u  n  t  e  r fit money then you have a giant almost Hong Kong style shoot out Detective Butters is shot. Murtaugh tries to kill Ku but he does some kind of trick where the bullet misses &it hits his brother his brother dies outside on the dock. You get to see Jet Li show off his martial arts ability. Riggs & Murtaugh get owned Murtaugh manages to impale Ku with a rebar. Murtaugh gets knocked out Riggs & Ku fall into the water Ku is shot to death when Riggs grabbed an A  K  4  7. Riggs is stuck Murtaugh gets up & saves him. We have Riggs by to his  wifes grave 1 more time also great monologue by Joe Pesci. Lorna & Rianne are having their babies on the same day Riggs & Lorna get married the family Murtaugh took in have all became citizens. Great ending with the photo & pictures. LW 4 isn't the best of the series but it's a solid sequel. The stuff with the coun  ter  fit  ing was eh. The villains are forgettable except for Jet Li. Richard Donner did a good job he brought a different style of action scenes to this movie. Mel Gibson was good. Danny Glover was good. Joe Pesci did a good job. Chris Rock was there I'm not a huge Chris Rock fan he's funny in some things Joe Pesci is what made him look good. Rene Russo was off & on for me. Jet Li was good originally they wanted Jackie Chan but he declined I'm glad he did Jet Li was the best choice. I know a couple of years back there was talk of a LW 5 witt  Shane Black directing. I'm glad it didn't happen I hope the remake doesn't happen either. Cause the past 5 years Mel Gibson has lost his mind being meanspirted last thing I saw Danny Glover in was Missing In America which  is a good movie. Leave it be & thank you Richard Donner,  Shane Black &Warner Brothers for setting the standard for buddy cop action flicks.

Low budget, home-made feel to this Canadian film Others have commented on the pros and cons and the jest of the story, but technical aspects were not mentioned.  Picture is very clear and sharp, for the most part.  No menu however, and no chapters or scene selection; also no way to turn off the subscripts.  This applies to the 2004 release; the newer release may have added these?  Overall, I did enjoy the film.  Very informative, including some maps.  There is a lot of very good photography and this is a true adventure, if a bit slow.  Certainly could have done without the butt shot when Karsten bathes in the lake.  I support their politics too - we need an energy plan that doesn't depend so much on oil (but I find Obama's push for nuclear power unsettling - let's push for renewable energy, like wind and solar).  The 'W' doll was a bit distracting but seeing Bush's negative remarks about the refuge, I can empathize with Karsten's decision to include it.

Eye-opening and powerful I don't know what I was expecting when I started watching it, but I was pleasantly surprised. If it played out a bit more like a documentary than a film, the style only enhanced the horror of the facts they were trying to convey. The acting was superb, the story compelling, and it left me wanting to learn more about these issues.

Instant Video = Instant Laughs This was a movie which I missed in the theater on my small Hawaiian island. Now, thanks to Amazon Instant Video, I was able to view it on my Sony HDTV at home for only $5 in HD.  The video quality was superb!!! The movie was funny with some very good actors. I'm glad I chose this for my 1st Instant Video. Aloha, Al

Guerilla Filmmaking About Renegade Iranian Musicians Bahman Ghobadi's "No One Knows About Persian Cats" is a minimalist docu-drama in which art mimics real life.  This rogue film, shot completely on the fly and without permits, depicts the near impossibility of being an independent rock musician in contemporary Iran.  So the great irony is that the film itself was conceived and executed in the same stealthy way in which the musicians depicted in the film must construct and then hide their illegal endeavors in underground exhibitions.  "No One Knows About Persian Cats" is really a celebration of artistic freedom and a tribute to musical expression.  The plot may be virtually non-existent, but the musical appeal is really undeniable.  In a nutshell, the entire film revolves around a couple of musicians who are attempting to travel to London for a gig.  They've got two obstacles, however--they need passports and travel documents and they need additional band members.  The rest of the movie is a loose excursion around the streets of Tehran as they hunt for leads to fulfill both goals.  With plenty of humor, some disappointments, and loads of musical performances--"No One Knows About Persian Cats" isn't about narrative flow or plotting, but about the almost documentary experience of "being there."  The performers are all incredibly naturalistic, as you might expect, and the youthful exuberance of rocking out permeates every frame of the film.  In addition to indie rock (some in Farsi, some English), there is more traditional fare as well as surprising forays into jazz and even rap.  A particularly memorable sequence showcases a musical montage of Tehran's street people set to a rap accompaniment.  Performances occur in abandoned warehouses, rooftops, and anywhere else they can get away with their "crimes."  It's odd, though, I'm not sure it makes sense to describe a film as simultaneously grim and hopeful.  And yet, that's exactly how I'd describe "No One Knows About Persian Cats."  If the idea of the movie sounds like it isn't your thing--guess what?  It probably isn't.  If, however, you love international music and an insider's peak into another world lacking the freedoms we take for granted--check this out.  KGHarris, 1/11.

Big Sandra Bullock fan! This movie was heartfelt and funny.  Sandra Bullocks first attempt at a southern accent before blindside. I know she's from Virginia but it just sounds funny.  Sandra Bullock and Harry Connick Jr. make a great team, and their chemistry is amazing.  I would think that almost everyone could find something to relate to in this movie. Get it!

It works It kept me chuckling throughout and kept my 4 year old's attention so I guess its a pretty swell family flick.

Certainly Satisfied This movie is a great one and it was delivered quickly, just in time for the Holidays. Still wrapped in plastic, with a shinning cover, the DVD was brand new and in great condition. I would definitely recommend this item to a friend.

Claudia Jennings, Tanya Tucker, Terri Nunn...wow what a package!! Just gotta say this triple feature two disc DVD is a blast! Good to finally get the Claudia Jennings classic The Great Texas Dynamite Chase in anamorphic widescreen, is worth the price alone. The quality is good comparing to original pan and scan DVD. Still could look better. As for Georgia Peaches (aka Follow that car) from 1980 has a young Tanya Tucker and Terri Nunn (from new wave band Berlin) in a very decent anamorphic widescreen print of the international print. Looks really good for originally made for tv. As for Smokey Bites the Dust, it is sad that this is pan and scan and looks like a tape copy. Horrible transfer! Why didn't Shout try harder to get a decent print of this forgetful classic. Still a fun movie, but this bad transfer is hard to watch (and dark). The only special feature is two trailers. Sadly, the best transfer of the three is Georgia Peaches. Just wish the other two looked this good. Still, Claudia Jennings on DVD? I am sold! Thankfully this is DVD and not blu ray, boy they would look bad!

Vigilantes... 1973's "Magnum Force" pits San Fancisco police Detective Inspector Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) against a group of ruthless and committed vigilantes, out to rid the city of its worst criminals by any means necessary.  "Magnum Force" is the sequel to 1971's controversial "Dirty Harry"; its premise puts the maverick cop Callahan in the unexpected position of having to defend the system he often claims to dislike.  As the movie opens, a mob leader, released on a technicality, is gunned down in his car by a traffic cop using a .357 magnum handgun.  As the story progresses, other criminals are eliminated in a similar manner.  Detective Callahan, banished to stakeout duty for some prior offense against the police brass, gets pulled into the investigation despite the efforts of his hard-nosed boss, Lt. Briggs (Hal Holbrook).  Callahan will eventually learn what the audience already suspects, that the killers are a group of cops, hardened by military service and prepared to bypass a failed system to mete out rough justice.  When Callahan refuses to join the vigilantes, he and his partner become targets themselves.  A surprise betrayal triggers an extended, action-packed, and nerve-wracking conclusion.  The movie is a nice set-piece of early 1970's San Francisco, even if the overly-long plot tends to send mixed messages.  Story development is clearly secondary to setting up the action scenes; the forensic piece will look primitive to audiences raised on "CSI."  Three of the vigilante cops (David Soul, Robert Urich, and Tim Matheson) went on to successful television careers.  "Magnum Force" is the second of the five "Dirty Harry" movies.  It is highly recommended to Clint Eastwood fans.

Cute little family movie I didn't watch this expecting cinematic greatness but was looking for a nice family night and ths movie delivered exactly what we were looking for- good family entertainment. An enjoyable family movie nigjt just add popcorn and enjoy!

Which Black Sheep Movie? Just FYI when I ordered this, the dvd pictured was the New Zealand release of Black Sheep, but I received the Chris Farley version. I wasn't upset because I was aware of this potential for a mix-up and was happy to receive either movie for such a low sale price.

A Unique Family Dramedy About Searching For Truth, But Finding Something More Important It seems hard to believe that it's been seven years since Alexander Payne's "Sideways" became the critical darling of 2004. Nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and winning Payne an Adapted Screenplay Oscar--that picture (along with Election and About Schmidt) signaled a talented filmmaker with an unorthodox worldview. Blending elements of comedy and drama, Payne has crafted complex characters simultaneously frustrating and sympathetic--but altogether real. In adapting Kaui Hart Hemmings' intimate novel "The Descendants" to the big screen, Payne demonstrates (once again) a deft balance of emotions to create a picture both funny and heartbreaking. I so admired how Payne made vineyards and fine wines a major component, an extra character really, in the sublime "Sideways." In much the same way, Hawaii is a principle character (and I would contend one of the most pivotal) to "The Descendents." It would be easy to imagine someone jettisoning much of this rich texture, but Payne has crafted a loving tribute to the state's heritage in addition to one of the year's most surprising family dramas.  George Clooney plays one of the titular descendants, someone whose family has great historical significance to the Hawaiian Islands. In fact, he and his many cousins own a great tract of undeveloped land that plays a major role in the film's fascinating side story. Front and center, however, is a more personal tale of family dysfunction and pulling together in crisis. When Clooney's somewhat estranged wife is incapacitated in an accident, Clooney must take charge of his troublesome teenage daughter (an astute Shailene Woodley) and his rebellious younger girl (an appealingly unexpected Amara Miller). With mom in a coma, Clooney is left to do his best to reconnect with the girls that he hasn't made enough time for. While this seems to be leading to some routine comic hijinks, the film takes a decidedly more serious turn as Clooney learns about his wife's true feelings. The rest of the movie walks the tightrope about how he and his daughters can channel these revelations and emerge stronger for it. And the film runs the gamut of emotions with anger, betrayal, love, and regret sharing equal time as the family embarks on a tumultuous journey together.  While I know this makes the film sound like a bit of a downer, there is much humor to be enjoyed as well. While I'm confident that many will reveal far more about the plot than I am willing to, I think that it is best to let the story unravel without expectation. This is very much an in-depth character study. As such, Clooney has one of his most rewarding roles. He goes through a lot, but he maintains a subtlety that always keeps the picture grounded (even in its more extreme elements). Woodley is a revelation and this is as far a departure from TV's "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" as she's likely to experience. I'm confident we'll be seeing more of her. Miller has a real ease and provides many well placed laughs and a few tears as well. Perhaps the film's biggest secret weapon is Nick Krause playing Woodley's friend. As a laconic and laid back surfer dude, Krause's scenes with Clooney have real impact. As an odd source of wisdom and support, he is a unique character in this piece.  "The Descendants," at the end of the day, is a quiet and thoughtful film. The film never plays up the huge emotional moments or strains for melodrama. It simply lets the characters exist as complex creations, with all their foibles and flaws in evidence. Its understated power, therefore, is all the more successful as it feels patently real. A treat for adult movie goers, 4 1/2 stars. KGHarris, 12/11.

Good Space Western - Recommended "Outland" is one of my favorite '80s Sci-Fi movies due to the above par acting and solid plot line. I first saw this when it was released in theaters back in 1981 and, as it happens, that was the same night I met my future ex-wife and I still like the movie.  No plot spoilers from me; This is basically a western set in a corporate mining colony on Io, one of Jupiter's moons. The story is centered on William O'Niel (Sean Connery), a marshal responsible for upholding the law in the dangerous, frontier setting. O'Niel has the same problems that come up whenever men have too much money and free time, complicated by the remoteness of the outpost. This does take the time needed to give us good character development on the principle players so when the action starts you actually care about what happens to them. The industrial feel and claustrophobia settings inside the colony add a lot to the realism and the special effects are good enough for when the movie was made.  This is one of the movies that I can pick up and watch anytime that we can't decide on another movie and everyone will enjoy it.  Recommended!  CFH

The First Part of the Epic Conclusion!!! Over the past few years, I've lost a little interest in the Harry Potter series, but I have to see it through 'til the end. This first part was fast-paced and decent, but kinda dragged a little bit toward the end, like it was hurrying to get to the second part. After the death of Dumbledore, Harry, Ron and Hermione drop out of Hogwarts in order to find and destroy the last Horcruxes in order to kill Voldemort. In Dumbledore's last will and testament, Harry receives the Golden Snitch. Ron receives the Deluminator, and Hermione gets a book. Each will help in their journey. Harry also must find the sword of Godric Gryffindor so they can destroy each Horcrux. I would definitely recommend HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1!!!

somehow Age of Innocence meets There Will Be Blood The romance takes an unfortunate Age of Innocence turn BUT the best part of the story is when it shows how American industry was built by hard work, sacrifice and reinvestment and putting technology before personal financial security.  It's admirable and due respect just like the birth of the oil industry depicted in There Will Be Blood.  American wealth and development came about from hard work and ingenuity and determination - and enslaving Africans.  This movie is set after the Civil War.  The Irish are depicted in a strange way but Greer Garson has beautiful eyes and is much better with a fake brogue than with her usual speaking voice.  It's kind of ridiculous how the Irish are depicted.  And it is absolutely unbelievable that no one loves Gregory Peck.  Jessica Tandy is in yet another thankless supporting role but her acting in it is INTENSE and she looks beautiful in a Hayley Mills, Liv Ullman way.  The costumes are pretty good even in black and white showing off all natural narrow hourglasses to great effect.  I hate how the story turned after my favorite part about the steel smelting but I would recommend this film.  Jessica Tandy's character AFTER she gets what she wants is awesome.

kfm I first saw Kentucky Fried Movie when I was 17 years old. I am now 51. A friend of mine mentioned a line from the movie and it was so funny that I went online to buy this movie to show my son and also to see it again with my friends now. It is made up of little skits that are all funny. Maybe a little silly also, but still a good movie to hang out and watch.

A memorable film that introduces large moral questions This film, set in World War II on the Eastern Front (not well known to Americans), includes a fine performance by Daniel Craig, stunning photography of the forests, and the portrayal of Jews as fighters not victims.  These are strong pluses in this memorable film produced by Edward Zwick.  As the film ended, however, I was not quite satisfied.  The film only touched lightly on some of the large moral questions it introduced.  The screenplay gave glimpses of real dilemmas without probing them more deeply.  Among them:  --  "Forest wives." --  Treatment of prisoners captured by the Jewish fighters and other partisans. --  "Equal rations for all" when some contributed more to seizing the food needed by the community. --  Treatment of local peasants, related to the larger question of whether "if you're not for us, you're against us." --  While opposing the horror of the Nazi war and racial machine, sorting out the conflicting claims of loyalty and identity -- Polish (the area they came from had belonged to Poland before the war), Belarusian, Soviet, and Jewish. --  Executions -- both of prisoners and those who challenged the camp leadership. --  "No infants allowed."  Sitting comfortably in a living room nearly seventy years after the events portrayed in the film, one hesitates to second guess decisions made at the time.  None of us were there, many of the choices were between evils, and a few lines or scenes in a film don't do justice to the awful dilemmas forced on the partisan band and its leaders.  In the forests of Byelorussia, occupied by the Nazis, the Bielski partisans lived in a severely constricted and pressured moral universe, caught in the midst of a murderous war between the Nazi and Soviet dictatorships.  Life and death were the stakes.  Peacetime moral strictures were distant from the immediate needs of survival.  Even so, memoirs, historical novels, and films implicitly revisit choices made in the past.  In "Defiance," the screenplay develops and honors some of the moral decisions like "equal rations for all."  But it mutes the treatment of other issues.  Different viewers may have different misgivings, but I found the non-judgmental treatment of "forest wives" discomforting because it was so casual.  More depth on some of the moral issues in the film, moreover, might better illustrate the meaning of "lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil."  "Temptation" in the prayer may be understood as "trial" or "test," and it asks the Almighty to spare an individual from the perilous situations that require denial, compromise, and bad choices.  Watch "Defiance," then, for more than its history, photography, and performances.  Talk over the issues it touches on.  Understand that in societies less fortunate than ours, in times more perilous, people considered mere "questions" or "issues" as blessed luxuries, for they lived in circumstances that required answers.  -30-

A scifi classic. This is one of my SciFi favorites. The only copy I had was the old VHS release and no VHS player. There are approximately one bazillion different releases of this movie and each one is slightly different. In fact they may have made 10 copies for each release and there isn't a single one that is all encompassing. Anyways, this specific DVD is an older Pioneer release the video is interlaced not progressive scan. It has plenty of extras: an interview, images, trailers, Japanese & English dub but doesn't have the old streamline dub. I didn't even know they redubbed it proper until a year ago. I kinda wish I had a copy of it on DVD with the old streamline dub, even though the streamline dub is a bit silly it's triggers a bit of nostalgia. If someone can give me a UPC EAN for a DVD or Blueray with the streamline dub Ill whip that one up too. Otherwise Ill just have to enjoy a decent copy of a great movie without ninja turtle voices and quirky dialogue.

I liked it. A good movie. I thought it was very imaginative. It surprised me a few times, and I liked the ending.

you're bloody well rite The Rite is an *extremely* slow-moving -but ultimately very satisfying- horror film.  If I were to judge it based solely on the first hour, I'd have to say it lacks considerably in the suspense category.  However a horror film THIS well made has to be allowed an appropriate amount of time to develop and careful attention and patience on the part of the viewers is a requirement in order to witness its greatness.  Basically the storyline is about a seminary student who travels to Italy and initially questions the existence of the devil but well... without spoiling what happens, let's just say, he changes his tune eventually.  At first he finds himself involved in an exorcism that a young pregnant woman is forced to persevere, and we witness some pretty decent acting on the part of the woman when her voice changes and the actual supposed devil takes over her mind and body.  Now some might find her behavior laughable if you've never seen an exorcism and don't understand (or believe) any of this stuff, and let's be honest, nothing will ever beat the original horror classic the Exorcist released in the mid 70's so her behavior wasn't *nearly* as frightening as the little girl who portrays the devil in that film, however for basically a repeat of what was better presented in the Exorcist, this is decent enough.  One problem with the movie is that for every suspenseful moment, there'd be several minutes of not so suspenseful (or in other words, downright boring) segments that accomplish very little of anything.  The second half of the movie is *clearly* when the film improves dramatically, and especially when Anthony Hopkins' character becomes the center of attention at the very end.  Without this segment, the film surely wouldn't have stood a chance of receiving more than a 3 out of 5 from me.  This is when the suspense increases almost to a boiling point which is amazing, and the way Anthony's character communicates with the seminary student and reveals to him things that nobody else could have possibly known are MAJOR highlights.  Basically the storyline is about making a believer out of someone who's too convinced the devil isn't real.  You will get to witness his journey and gradual change of thinking as the film rolls along (with scattered moments of suspense and a few exorcisms to boot).  Pretty satisfying overall and certainly worthy for all horror movie fans out there.

Good, Entertaining Movie - Great Cast While critics and fanboys alike roasted the Sylvester Stallone version of Judge Dredd I found that the movie was very entertaining.  First, the city looks MEGA.  This looks like a futuristic city where tens of millions of people live.  The look of the movie is great.  Second, the plot is solid.  The story itself is actually quite good.  Third, the cast is excellent.  Stallone is ideal as a big screen Dredd, while Armand Assante, Diane Lane, and Max Von Sydow give fantastic performances.  What's the drawback?  Rob Schneider.  His performance is a little too comic, and he goes just a little too far over the top.  Plus, his character has about 10 minutes too much screen time.  Thus, like Jar Jar Binks, he (for many people) ruins the movie.  Then again, his character goes a long way towards humanizing Dredd and reminding him that justice sometimes means following the spirit of the law, not just the letter of the law.  What is right and just isn't always what is specifically written in the law.  By the end of the movie Dredd learns this thanks to Fergie.  But even though Dredd IS humanized he is still an engine of destruction taking out the lawless.  Even at the end, where Dredd has been humanized, he is still a nearly unstoppable force out to bring justice to Mega City One.  Yes, this version of Judge Dredd borders on camp. BORDERS on camp.  It doesn't cross that line the way, say, Demolition Man did.  It may have a few campy moments, but there is still a serious movie in here among the bits of humor and campy over the top characters.  Judge Dredd may not be a great movie, but it is good, and it is VERY entertaining.  And the blu ray looks a lot better than the original DVD did.  A lot better.

classic Roger Corman productions form Shout Factory Shout Factory has relased a quality product here, three great 70's Corman productions on two DVD's. I bought this mainly for The Great Dynamite Chase, but I enjoyed the other two as well. The PQ and AQ are pretty good, the only extras are a few trailers. They dont make great cheapies like these anymore, mostly due to very few existing drive-in theaters, sadly direct to video releases are what we have these days, and most of those are pretty bad.

Quest for fire review My recent purchase of "Quest for fire" from Amazon.com was a great experience. The DVD arrived on time and in very good condition. The film was a joy to see again. the screening went very well, as the movie was very clear with great sound. I highly recommend Amazon.com for your next DVD purchase.

Best Superman film to date I was disappointed with the film, but only because it was approaching perfection.  The flaws stand out the closer you are to that ultimate goal.  If you have not seen it, though, it is well worth watching as it is easily the best Superman movie made so far.  The only bothersome things, to me, are questions about Superman's morality in personal matters (which may actually appeal to some) and the plausibility of him overcoming a certain crippling element which is supposed to render him helpless.  Oh, and some of the "homages" to previous films are a little too much like "copying."  The acting, cinematography and music are great, though!  This movie is very heroic.

Great movie I bought this movie after the prequel came out, it is a good science fiction show. Makes me wonder what I'd do. Both this one and the newest one are good.

A New Look at the Old West Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid rode together in the late 1890's, during the twilight years of the golden west. This 1969 film, made the same year as Lawrence Kasdan's "The Wild Bunch" highlighted the same theme--the final days of relative freedom for the bank robber.  As railroads flourished and ranches became fenced, modernization encroached on the rustler and bank robber's ability to escape from the law. The film spends 27 minutes in a chase scene, with the Pinkertons (the Super Posse) running Butch and Sundance 500 miles and finally to Bolivia. Paul Newman and Robert Redford provide the realism and comedic moments that carry the life and times of...very well.  Disc 2 provides plenty of information of the real Butch Cassidy and the real Sundance Kid. Commentaries are heard from Paul Newman and Robert Redford about how the actors were chosen over others like Steve McQueen, Marlon Brando, even Jack Lemon. A sister of Butch Cassidy tells tales of the times.  The music by Burt Bacharach won an academy award and amazes to this day how modern themes can support an old fashioned set movie.  Fewer westerns came along afterwards, and that marked the beginning of winding down Hollywood's western era.  Very good movie and worth the money.

Kids love it! Cute movie.  My boys love it!  They have watched it over and over again.  Same cast as the original 3 Ninjas.

As described I was satisfied with my purchase it was just as described at a very good price. It made a great gift for my grandson who is studying the martial arts.

Classic! Purchased the DVD to replace the old VHS version we had of this movie.  Totally enjoyed the movie again!

GREAT MOVIE! 1980's SCARY!  Product in great condition Bought a used DVD. Product came in great condition. Worked like new! A little scartches was on the DVD. But nothing that you could not just clean.  The movie didnt mess up anytime during the movie. Overall 4/5 for the condition not perfect but worth the price set!

Until the finale, I loved this season. Yes, the rumors are true: John Lithgow is amazing as the main villian in this season. The biggest dissapointment to me was the conclusion, everything leading up to it though was amazing, but the finale (for the first time for me) was a letdown. The image in the finale was pretty upsetting too, I won't say anymore for those who haven't seen it yet. All that side, the acting was incredible, who could imagine JL as a cold-blooded killer? Well, anyone see Cliffhanger? Obviously, he had alot more development in this, and better script.

Halloween H20 Rocks! This 7th installment of the HALLOWEEN film series is set in an alternative timeline in which the events of HALLOWEEN 4-THE RETURN OF MICHAEL MYERS, HALLOWEEN 5-THE REVENGE OF MICHAEL MYERS, and HALLOWEEN 6-THE CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS never occured and continues directly from HALLOWEEN I and 2.  HALLOWEEN H20 is set 20 years later after the horrific events in the original HALLOWEEN centering on a post-traumatic Laurie Strode(Jamie Lee Curtis)living in fear of her ghoulish mass murdering hellbent brother Michael Myers who maliciously murdered 16 people on Halloween night of 1978 attempting to kill her all those years, but when Michael eventually appears on Halloween night of 1998, Laurie is forced to face evil one last time whilst the life of her teenage son John Tate(Josh Hartnett) hangs in the balance.  Meanwhile back in the fictional midwestern town of Haddonfield, Illinois on Halloween Eve of 1998; the now deceased Dr. Loomis's colleague Marion Chambers(Nancy Stephens)gets killed off after a brief confrontation with Michael Myers(Christopher Durand) when she discovers she's been burglarized and ransacked in search for Laurie's file and discovers that Laurie is still alive and has relocated to a small fictional town in Northern California called Summer Glen to start a new life with a new identity.  Then on Halloween Day of 1998; this flick reveals to us that Laurie had faked her death and is now living under the alias of Keri Tate who seemingly had a perfect life with a son, a boyfriend named Will(Adam Arkin), and a great career as headmistress at a private boarding school called Hillcrest Academy High School, but the tragic ordeal from 20 years ago still continue to haunt her & adversely affect her parental capabilities, yet to everyone else including her school secretary Norma Watson(Janet Leigh), it's just another Halloween day, but Laurie still continues to live in constant fear from the attacks back in the Fall of 1978 & partially believes Michael is still alive & will eventually return and finally find her one day while Michael is already stalking the school grounds & eventually Michael & Laurie come face-to-face again for the first time since their last encounter 20 years ago, except this time they have a fight to the finish on Halloween night of 1998.  HALLOWEEN H20 was also the last film to have Jamie Lee Curtis co-star with her late great mother(Janet Leigh)too, plus Jamie Lee Curtis & Janet Leigh had previously co-starred in John Carpenter's THE FOG back in the Winter of 1980 too.  Something else I found intriguing was John Carpenter(Director of HALLOWEEN I)was originally in the running to be the director for HALLOWEEN H20 since Curtis wanted to reunite the cast and crew of the original HALLOWEEN to have more active involvement in it, but since Carpenter's starting fee was $10 million dollars, the job was given to Steve Miner from the director of HOUSE, FRIDAY THE 13TH-PART 2, and FRIDAY THE 13TH-PART 3 instead.

Relateable Theme This play has a little of everything in it (laughter, sadness, reality) and of course great singing.  If you are a Christian and have children, I would definitely recommend that you to watch this DVD.

The Least Among You Based on the inspired events of  Reverend Dr Charles Marks.  It was the year 1965 and racial tensions were still at a boil, it was during this time that a young man by the name of Richard Kelly( Charles Marks) is wrongly arrested during the Watts Riots, given a choice to either spend time in jail or serve out probation at a all white seminary, Richard Kelly takes on the school. Little did he know that despite its facade of being a seminary to become future leaders, Kelly is told to just be a follower or get out. Feeling down and low and trying to live each day as he can among the other students,before they may kick him out of the school and send him to prison.. Richard befriends a recovering alcoholic...Samuel Benton, the schools gardener who also happens to live under the basement. With Samuels guidance and knack for encouragement, Richard Kelly continues to toughen it out in the seminary. And along the way he finds his true calling  among the blockades of a race war.    We found this movie to be a great watch, it is real and raw and there are a few references to alcohol, drugs and violence... But unlike most "Hollywood" theatrics, this movie takes the real life struggles of those hurting and makes the viewer's heart swell with empathy.  After the movie was over our family discussed a bit of how life was back then and sadly still is today, regardless of the colour of ones skin. I would reccomend this movie for everyone, churches, home school families, just based on the sheer fact that ... The Lord  does not have preference over any one colour of skin to make his purpose known. If the Lord has a calling for you He will do the most extrodinary things even amongst the Least Of You.

Another Great Holmes This movie doesn't seem to be nearly as well liked as the first one and I'm not sure why that is. I thought this still contained the Holmes and Watson from the first film, just with a less 'traditional' focus and more character development between the two main characters, and of course the addition of Moriarity. I will agree that this is not the Holmes I imagine from reading the official novels & short stories, but there really isn't that many inconsistances between two; the movies just focus more on the action and grit instead. I wouldn't say this is the best Holmes adaptation, I too liked the first movie better, but that doesn't make the sequel bad in/of itself. It had action, intrigue, mystery, drama, and even a little romance. Enjoy this movie for what it is, a different yet still mostly accurate representation of Sherlock Holmes. I know there are those who will disagree with that assessment but not only was Holmes a respected fighter, in multiple styles and with multiple instruments, but his final 'battle' with the good Professor was in fact a fist-fight.

Realistic and worth watching !!!!! I would recommend this video for anyone interested in the culture of the mountain people of West Virginia. It does not sugar coat the hard life that these people endure. Southern people, particularly those brought up in hard times should be able to relate to this no nonsense video.

Don't tell her it's me. VHS I love the movie and although I was sent the VHS instead of the DVD it is still great. It is romantic and very fun and very much a chick flick, the cast is well  done. Steve Guttenburg is always fun to watch.

Village of the Damned This movie stands the test of time. I have watched it several times over the years and still enjoy it.

I hate Musicals to death, but this was funny and decent The movie singin'the rain is a very good movie. It's funny and you shouldn't miss it. And that's coming from someone who hates Musicals. So on a rainy day, go watch it or get it off of Netflix.

the searchers Although John Ford's film the Searchers is considered by many to be a classic,and although it is a good film, I don't think it is the best John Wayne movie ever made. It does not surpass John Wayne's film, the Alamo, in any way, shape or form. I personally think the Searchers is an overrated film in the same way the film High Noon is. It's almost as if people in our society have no original opinions of their own. Classic films in our society should be weighted by their emotional impact, and not by what a critic may say.  And that is the case with both the Searchers and High Noon. Films that I consider to be epics are: the Alamo, Braveheart, the Kingdom of Heaven.

a surprise within a gimmick Secret Garden starts out as a conventional Korean drama with a joke-y premise (the body switching) and the usual class / generation conflict. It did not impress me much for the first half of the episodes, but the actors were so clever with the body language and screw ups from the switching, so it was lightly entertaining. I was not prepared for the romance between the rich dept store heir and the poor stunt girl to actually become believable, and for Oska the pop star to suddenly become sympathetic, almost stealing the show. In the end, this show will sneak up on you and tear your heart out.

Burning Bright does just that! If you can swallow the ridiculous setup you'll be well rewarded. The majority of the film is Kelly tiptoeing around the house in silence in an attempt to find a way out while being stalked by a ferocious tiger. Long stretches of silence/tension are punctuated by terrifying tiger attacks. All 11 feet and 600+ pounds of him. A scene in a laundry chute is one of the tensest sequences I've seen in years. Adding to the pressure is Kelly's autistic brother, who I'd throw to the tiger in order to escape (yes, he's that annoying) because he is unable to appreciate the feline danger and often disobeys Kelly when she hides him in a room or closet and instructs him to remain quiet. Adding a raging hurricane was a necessary plot convenience but it's ultimately brilliant! Even if Kelly is able to find a way out she'll be confronted with the life-threatening storm.  It would be a tremendous disservice to sum this film up as "a woman is stalked by a tiger", which while factually accurate does not capture the nail-biting tension the set-up affords. The tiger is very real and director Carlos Brooks does an excellent job showcasing just how scary it would be to encounter one of these orange monsters in real life. Loved this predicament!

Before Hunger Games... there was Battle Royale. But I did not know that at first. I'm a big Hunger Games fan and while reading reviews for the books I saw a lot of references to Battle Royale. I had the book on my wishlist to read in the future but then I was able to obtain this movie. I really liked it. Very violent though. It made Hunger Games look like Disney. The discs were nicely done and packaged well. Now to read the book so I can compare.

I'll split the difference and give it four stars I see that most reviewers before me are giving this either three stars, if they found parts of it silly and maudlin, or five stars, if they found it another wonderful example of Italian cinema.  I can definitely see how people could react either way.  For me, it is overdone.  Very overdone, in fact, so I'd lean more toward the three stars.  But it was also totally engaging, and the lead actor--one of several handsome Brazilian male models who is trying to make a career in acting in either Italy or the U.S.--was a joy to watch onscreen for the duration.  I don't think it's as profound a film as many have made it out to be, but it's also not so cheesy that it can't be duly enjoyed for what it is.  I did laugh out loud once or twice at the attempted grandiosity of it, but all in all, I recommend watching.

Lots of belly laughs! Ignore the religious nut & their review. It's just a movie dude, lighten up, it's not to be taken seriously!  If you like movies such as "Shaun Of The Dead" you'll love this. Really funny & the effects are just great. Paul pokes fun at lots of subjects & does it in a non-offensive, comical way. There's a lot of cussing, lots of action, great story, hilarious characters, what more can you want from a lighthearted, well made movie?

Dabangg I liked the dancing and the music.  I was expecting more from the movie review and preview.  The music was good.

Beautiful and edgy Kenya Moore, again, played the role as a beautiful, rich woman who gets caught up in her husband's crap, gets sexually involved with another female, gets real near to death, then miraculously comes out on top at the end.  Boris, talented actor as well as very handsome, is absolutely perfect for this role. Now, the role of Jackson was under-developed; I expected much more fury from him; he was spoofed through and through. He handled no situation well, even from the beginning where he took the fall. I thought he had a plan, expecting 'turnabout fair play' with the maid. And the female gambler, if Jackson was behind her demise, he did everyone a favor. Guess somebody had prevail at the end.  Richard Roundtree's character was inserted to explain the other characters; had he instead narrated, the movie would have been abundantly interesting.  Two things that made me unhappy: first, the trailer told the entire movie, and, second, this underdeveloped story's ending was unbelievable. The Confidant was edgy, far from boring, the actors were gorgeous and talented, and the setting was luxurious, however, it offered a little less than expected.

Very funny I saw this movie the first time in Spanish (we were on vacations) and didn't like it. But then I saw Kung Fu Panda II and love it... so I bought this one and I really like it (saw it in English) it was really funny.

'To sleep, perchance to dream...' Allen Wolf makes a fairly impressive writing/directing debut with this tense little thriller. Though there are many aspects of the film that seem like it is a very low budget, quickly produced little grade B movie, the presence of Philip Winchester makes it work. Not only is this actor first class eye candy, he holds a character well and makes us believe a rather implausible plot.  Marcus (Philip Winchester) suffers from parasomnia (a category of sleep disorders that involves abnormal and unnatural movements, behaviors, emotions, perceptions, and dreams that occur while falling asleep, sleeping, between sleep stages, or during arousal from sleep. Most parasomnias are dissociated sleep states which are partial arousals during the transitions between wakefulness and NREM sleep, or wakefulness and REM sleep). He awakens with blood stained hands and when he hears that a close friend Ann (Kelly Overton) has been murdered he fears the worst. His best friend tries to be supportive but the police disrupt Marcus' own investigation of his behavior patterns when they come to arrest him for the murder. How the story ends is wracked with suspense and keeps the audience in suspense to the last minute.  The supporting cast is spotty, but Lacey Chabert, Abigail Spencer and even Kirsten Vangsness from The Mentalist television series give solid support.  This is not a great movie but it is a chance to watch Philip Winchester grow beyond his previous roles and become a solid leading man.  Grady Harp, March 12

pleasant surprise I was excited to be getting Johnny Mnemonic, didn't know The Net, was also included.  Glad to get two good movies.  Enjoyed both movies growing up, so happy to have both in my collection.

Nice show and sticks with me I can see the lack in acting at points but they pull it off! Not ground breaking material but a variety of realistic situations. This is a nice show and it sticks with me. The music was catching and I find myself interested to see it again!

Underrated sci-fi classic This film, I believe, is an underrated sci-fi classic. That opinion is based on the fact that the film continues to be over-looked on periodical lists and/or discussions of the like, and I really don't know why. It provides adventure, character-development, a bit of comedy, decent acting, good cinematography, and good dialogue (not to mention some fine special effects for their time, provided by none other than Ray Harryhausen). I've always been fascinated by genius trumping contemporary thinking--in this case, by almost seventy years! ('The Fly' does this as well). For this story, instead of someone figuring out the mechanics of teleportation long before the scientific community does (or, at least, eventually will), the scientist in this film does the same with his approach to going to the moon. But all that aside, the movie, to me, is quite enjoyable. I was fascinated by it as a child and as an adult I continue to enjoy it. Edward Judd does a great job and, of course, Lionel Jeffries (who died last year without much fanfare) makes the character of the scientist sing (great job, Mr. Jeffries!). Overall, this movie is highly recommended to fans of semi-sophisticated, early sixties sci-fi. In regards to that kind of genre, it doesn't get any better than this.

Never Try to Prove Ghosts Exist A groups of bored teens decide to spy on the creepy funeral director because they think his home is haunted. Sounds like the beginning to a bad idea, huh? It gets worse when the kids see something and decide they need to know what it is, deciding it would be worth it to snoop around the next time said home owner is away.  There is something about Dennis Quaid that makes him really creepy now. Its not simply acting - although it is really good - but maybe age or possibly years of acting that shines through in films like these. From the start he is out there being disturbing, too, and i liked that. This movie is powered by him, after all, and his character has to be believably disturbed and it is.  While there are a few places in the beginning that are slow, and the ending of this film - No Spoilers - isn't the best thing in the world, I still liked it. The plot is not one that is complex at all and, as with a lot of horror movies, it can be figured out rather quickly. That said, the chase, the uncovering, the mistakes - those things make up a movie to me. And those kids earn a nice little "why the hell are you doing that" badge. The acting is good enough and I kept wondering exactly what Dennis Quaid would end up doing next. there are also a few points that I did not expect - the stairs thing for one - that made me enjoy this more.  This is NOT going to overwhelm you as a film, and it shouldn't see that way. Simply watching the previews should tell you that you can figure it out fast. This is more like a character study off its medication, and I enjoy that. Quaid more than made up for any shortcomings for me.  4/5

Malkovich I like John Malkovich. He is consistently above averaage and either he or his agent does an excellent job on selecting his scripts.

More than a mystery... This is not only a mystery, but the story of how death affects those left behind. While the flashbacks can, at first, be disconcerting, the investigation unfolds as to how the teenager really died. Is there a coverup by the school administration? Is the police captain hiding something? Abel's partner is accepting gifts from the school and admits that the school has the police on a string. What do the students know about the boy's death? The question is whether Abel is letting his own personal history affect his judgement, or is he the only one who is willing to dig deeper into the mystery? The least satisfying part of the movie is the relationship between the teacher and Abel, which is melodramatic and not entirely believable, but the performances are solid, and beautiful -often haunting- scenery as a bonus.

Chick Flick the Guys will Like, too. Originally started watching this without hubby.  He kept coming in and out of the room until finally he just sat down and watched.  He admitted this one seemed different than your typical chick flick. Picture quality over Amazon app for Roku very good.  Did not read the book, so I can't say how it compares.

Great one man show, but uninspiringly filmed NEVER APOLOGIZE is a 2007 documentary of Malcolm McDowell's one man show/tribute to director Lindsey Anderson.  McDowell has a sharp wit and is a wonderful storyteller.  Sadly, this event is filmed on video and presented full-frame.  It's not nearly as fun as O LUCKY MALCOLM (the feature length McDowell career retrospective included on O LUCKY MAN DVD and CLOCKWORK ORANGE ANNIVERSARY/STANLEY KUBRICK COLLECTION BRDs).  Still, it's a touching tribute to the underrated and (sadly, to US audiences) largely unknown Anderson.

Good workout with some watchouts The instructor, I thought, is perfect. She is energetic, without any of the fake perkiness typical of many workout instructors. And the workout is tremendous, high impact and using muscles you probably have not used in other cardio workouts giving you quite the burn. One of the major pluses of this workout is that it has one of the most intense, comprehensive cooldown/stretch section I have ever personally seen in a cardio video. Most I have done are cursory at best. This minimized soreness IMO.  The ab section is great and so is the upper body toning. I thought the lower body was a bit weak, but she gives your lower body a thumping in cardio so I give her a pass.  Why did I dock one star? Because she is terrible at cueing. Now, note that this video does not break down steps for you so you basically start off in full speed. Thus, cueing when to shift steps or transition to the next move or what to watch out when it comes to form is extra critical. She is okay with this in the "wine and tone" sections but in the cardio sections, she is not at all helpful. You will eventually catch on to transitions (you are on your own when it comes to form, mostly) but I think cueing is a very important part of any routine, especially when you switch between workout tapes constantly, and  given the high speed of this cardio routine.  Key things to keep in mind:  1. She does not break down steps for you, so you better be prepared to take longer learning this routine, or to pay careful attention. 2. Requires a LOT of space. If you have a small crowded study you might knock over stuff. 3. You need very good shoes. This is high impact. Plus, if you have knee trouble, hip trouble or ankle trouble, you might want to google the moves first to see if you can do all the jumping and wining down.

Ooh pretty Short circuit is about a military robot that is struck by lightning and basically begins to act human.  He befriends Stephanie Speck and she tries to help him.  While the military wants it's robot back, there is one particular fellow, Newton Crosby, who tries to meet with Stephanie to get "Number 5" back.  Newton winds up telling a joke to Number 5 and Number 5 starts laughing, proving it is alive.  This was a very good film.  I'd recommend it.

Love the 80's If you grew up in the 80's you already know about the A-Team.  This movie does the original A-team justice.

High Body Count thriller Action packed testosterone boosted flick with an unending body count and continual fist-fighting that only a man could think up. I liked it anyway, 5 thumbs up for Icecube and the rest of the cast. Just not recommended for family viewing, and definitely not for children under 16. Contrary to some of the racist viewers posting here, I thought Icecube did an excellent job, and was extremely articulate. Good job.

Fine Film First, I should tell you I'm a Jet Li fan. I've seen "Fearless" about 50 times. I love that movie. In this movie, Jet Li shows his fine talent as an actor. The story line is historic, and the production is amazing. Plus, being an artist and photographer, I fully appreciate good art direction. Other reviewers will give you a better review, but suffice it to say, Jet Li doesn't kick enough butt in this movie. Jet Li works with a fine cast. It's a very good film!

Good, but not as good as I'd hoped There's plenty of reviews for this, so I'll keep it brief. After watching the original, I was expecting the same quality to persist to the continuation, but I was a bit disappointed. From the very first episode, the show felt really cheesy. Having said that, the longer I watched, the more the show started to grow on me, and I soon started to look past the bad acting and the second-rate animation and focus more on the story. In conclusion, the show is good, but could have been so much better.

Pretty good I heard about Bundy on TV, on a french justice channel ; I'm french, by the way. And I couldn't believe the story of the guy. So when I learnt there was movies about the case, I've decided to watch some of them. Frankly, I think Matthew Bright movie is quiet nice. Not perfect, that's for sure, but it' a very good essay. First, you learn personnal stuff about Bundy, like he was a kleptomaniac. Michael Reilly Burke is excellent playing the normal guy ; I like the opening sequence. Although, Boti Ann Bliss is a terrible actress in this movie ; I just laughed when she's with her supposed new boyfriend at the end, and she says she can't believe she didn't see the real face of Bundy, all the time she was dating him. And, also, I don't understand why there are so much mistakes, like the BW, which is beige in real life, or, still in the movie, the victims are seated on the passenger seat, fact that never happened in the real case. But, it still works for me ; some of the scenes are so shocking, that you think it's true.  I can say too that in the french edition, there's the interview of St&eacute;phane Bourgouin, french specialist on serial-killers, who interviewed loads of them and wrote loads of books about it, talking about Bundy. But, I don't know for the american edition.

The Reef Not for children! It is on the edge of you seat action.  You know what will happen, you just don't know when. Reminiscent of Jaws. You feel like you  are in the water too.  You can feel the terror that these people are going through.

Good depiction Well crafted movie that conveys the horrors of Stalingrad during WWII. The only reason I only give it 4 stars is that it was a little too long and predictable in parts. But well worth the price.

If Cruise is Knight is Diaz Day?  But her name was June Havens!!! If you enjoy watching Tom Cruise the person playing a character like Tom Cruise the actor would play when he plays a super-spy in the way that Tom Cruise would be a super-spy if he could be "Tom Cruise, super-spy" then you'll enjoy this movie.  This movie has a lot of Tom Cruise going for it.  I can't wait until he plays a super-spy with the nickname "The Cruiser".  Alas, not in this movie.  This movie is a lite actioner with some lite humor that works.  Cameron Diaz (IMO) has seen better days; she's looking a little worn down here honestly (my wife even thought so) but she's still fun as the romantic interest and helpless lass.  With decent comedy chops of her own she actually gets to play it a little more straight than Cruise whose super-spy character is not just super-talented he's also super-caring with a twist of quirky and a dash of zany thrown in for good measure.  This movie never tries to be anything other than fun and it succeeds.  If you're looking for a "Mission Impossible" or "Minority Report" or "Collateral" type of intense Cruise look, well, at one of those I just mentioned because you won't find him here.  If you've seen a lot of action movies then you've seen these stunts before.  The movie isn't going to make you scratch your head and wonder what just happened.  If anything it's actually like a 1930s action romance comedy but with an actual budget.  Enjoy it for what it is.  Oh.  And lame name for the movie.

Epidemiology and Terror CONTAGION is an important film for the general public to see. It addresses the etiology of contagious diseases, how they begin, how they are introduced in to the world population, how they can be viewed as instances of germ warfare, how they are examined by both the US Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization, how they are disseminated, the processes required for creating a vaccine, how the treatments are managed, how individuals are affected both directly and indirectly, who decides the priorities of treating large number of people around the globe, and how in the face of a world crisis certain evil people can take advantage of the fear and make millions off unsuspecting terrified people. Yes, this information is in articles readily available for public consumption, but nothing surpasses a well-written film for getting the message across in a memorable way. Writer Scott Z. Burns produced the script and Steven Soderbergh mold this story with great skill. The cast is filled with major actors but in a film of this size few of them are given much screen time.  Interestingly the film begins with the marker 'Day 2' and the significance of that move is held until the film's satisfying end. Beth Emhoff (Gweneth Paltrow) is returning home form a business trip in Hong Kong, has a layover in Chicago where she calls her husband Mitch (Matt Damon) informing him of the delay. She arrives home ill and son is dead form a seizure disorder brought on by encephalitis - and infection of unknown type that has spread to her brain. Soon after her death her son dies leaving Mitch terrified by the unknown disease. The US Center for Disease control is headed by Dr. Cheever (Lawrence Fishbine) who engages Dr Mears (Kate Winslet) and Dr. Hextall (Jennifer Ehle) and Dr. Sussman (Elliott Gould) to investigate the disease. The World Heath Organization represented by Dr. Leonora Orantes (Marion Cotillard) becomes involved as the point of origin of the disease seems to be Hong Kong: her attempt to help the Chinese is at first assisted by young Sun Feng (Chin Han) until the Chinese forces decide to hold her hostage until the vaccine can be sent to save a province in China. As the contagious disease is studied, identified, and a vaccine becomes available some smarmy people such as 'journalist' Alan Krumwiede (Jude Law) goes on the internet blogging the use of forsythia as the cure, bilking millions of dollars around the world for his fake cure. The story is both catastrophic and immediate as Soderbergh intentionally develops personal stories to demonstrate how a severe contagious disease can impact both throngs of peoples and individuals as well.  The supporting cast is filled with fine actors and the momentum of the story is almost intolerable fast. Steven Soderbergh provides his own cinematography and the electrifying musical score is by Cliff Martinez. This is a fine cinematic accomplishment and one that should be seen by every citizen in the world - for many reasons. Grady Harp, January 12

A surprisingly fun little horror comedy Watching The Hazing (also known as Dead Scared), I kept thinking how unfortunate it was that the film kept resorting to stupid horror comedy shenanigans - that is, until I realized that this basically was a horror comedy.  So, basically, what we have here is a horror comedy that actually had some potential to be a decent horror flick.  The movie's official web site describes it as "The Evil Dead meets Scream," but that is pure hype.  While enjoyable, The Hazing lacks the intelligence and unique appeal of a true cult classic.  Comedy is one thing, but this film has moments of utter silliness that take away from an otherwise entertaining viewing experience.  Of course, if The Hazing had given me more than a short but stimulating cameo from Brooke Burke, all sins might have been forgiven.  So it's Halloween, the perfect night for the hazing of wannabe frat boys and sorority girls.  The final task of our three guys and two girls is to collect all manner of items in a scavenger hunt, bring their stolen possessions to the town's very own haunted house, and get through the night without leaving.  Naturally, pranksters will already be there preparing all sorts of thrills and spills, but that goes without saying.  It turns out they needn't have bothered, as this party will be crashed by a supernatural uninvited guest.  Doug (Phillip Andrew) and Marsha (Tiffany Shepis) take it upon themselves to abscond with the scavenger hunt's most valuable item, a Necronomicon-type tome in the possession of weird Professor Kapps (Brad Dourif).  Things don't go quite as planned, and the end result is that our gang of crazy college kids ultimately find themselves trapped inside a haunted house with an evil human spirit trying to torture and kill them as part of his bid to conquer death and gain unlimited powers.  Naturally, these being crazy college kids and all, there is some nudity and sexually oriented humor.  What you will not find are any scares or frightening moments whatsoever, which I find to be unfortunate.  Even the couple of gorier moments aren't that effective because you can't take them seriously.  On the plus side, there was a little bit of effort made to diverge from the seemingly stereotypical characterization of the "bimbo" (Nectar Rose) and the "nerd" (Parry Shen).  The acting itself is surprisingly good and the special effects rather impressive for the most part, given the low-budget nature of the whole production.  The end result is a surprisingly enjoyable little horror comedy that could run circles around a few of the more prominent films in the genre.  It's sort of hard not to have fun watching this.

A Classic Ahead of its Time Tis' a shame, Big Trouble didn't get the recognition it deserved back in the 80's.  It's a very fun film that delves into fantasy, but doesn't take itself too, too seriously.  Kurt Russell is hilarious in this film, and his costars lend enough serious acting to make this bizarre story work.  John Carpenter is a director whose style is like no other.  I enjoy being both creeped out and astonished by his work.  Big Trouble is my favorite of his.  On Blu-ray the movie looks beautiful.  The special features may be a little dated, but they are still worth the pennies here.  The commentary is a little old, but I can't expect them to record two commentaries for two separate releases, 10 years apart.  All in all, the blu-ray is fantastic, for a catalogue release.  Do you like crazy lore, monsters, and magic?  Do you want to see a goofy, unlikely Kurt Russell plunged into a mystic world, while comicly failing at saving the day.  They made that movie, and its a riot.  Big Trouble in Little China is a childhood film for me, that while it failed at its time, it is a rewatchable classic in this day and age.

Shaun is awesome This movie is awesome a great combination of fright and laughter. I highly recommmend this film. This is one of the first movies to have comedy and horror it was a great mix.

Extremely Epic I would just like to point out this isn't just a review of just Vol. 3 but of the series in general. Gunbuster2 is a Super Robot Space Opera that later was the inspiration to Gurren Lagann. It plays up many of the stereotypical mecha elements in most anime and exaggerates it to the max, and it works! The Juxtaposition of the two heroines gives right amount of character development that breaks up the action. Fans of the original series will notice a lot of references from the first series and will not be disappointed.  The only reason why I have to give it a 4 out of 5 would be the that this brand only hold two episodes per disc. I must also point out that for the casual anime fan, be warned that the series (along with the original) was never domestically dubbed for English audiences so subtitles are a must.  Overall it's a must have for any hardcore Gainax fan.

Two actors that can make you believe stuck in a box that gets intense This is the story of a peace loving, understanding man (subtle hippy) who signs up for a social experiment paying $1,000 a day to be locked in jail either as a guard or as a prisoner for 2 weeks and what happens when normal people are either given power or have that power taken away. The greatest part of this low budget movie are the actors involved. First is Adrian Brody who will make you believe everything is real and he is a man that stands up for what is right. Second, but never to be understated is Forest Whittiker (hopefully I didn't botch the spelling) who is a heavyweight, fantastic actor who plays a man that was always opressed in life, but now is given the power. The other actors in the cast are dynamite, very believable and do a fantastic job for a movie that is essentially men in a box.  Now there are rules to follow for the prison guards... if you don't follow the rules a red light goes on and no one gets their money. There is to be no violence at all. No prisoner may touch a guard. Prisoners must stay in designated areas. Prisoners must eat all food... no matter how nasty it is. So then what happens from there? An oops accidental basketball pass to a guard bangs him in the nose and lays him out. Was that an accident? Does someone need to be punnished? See here's where the talking points come in that you as an audience member can ponder. That is another thing that makes this movie so great. You as a watcher be the judge. It makes you think in good ways while sucking you in.  I'm sure you can guess what happens, but what holds this all together is the dynamic of Brody and Forest who both actually start out as aquaintainces that meet before the experiment when they enlist in it. They aren't bffs, but two men that met on the outside are torn apart and rise up to what they were meant to be, which are the two leaders of their groups. If it wasn't for how good the acting is this movie would be nothing special to watch.  This is worth everyone's time to watch at least once to ponder what would you do? What is right and what is wrong. It is worth a watch just to see two fantastic actors act without explosions, guns, car chases and so on. It proves their acting might to stick them in a low budget box (jail) and watch what happens.

A great Show for movie night! I have been collecting all these Paranormal Activity movies. I think they are fun to watch! I like seeing my wife jump alot!!!  Your delivery was so prompt too! Thanks again, Jerry Arnett

Better than the 1st one I actually enjoy this sequel. The final battle was very enjoyable & brang back a nostalgic feeling. I highly recommend this movie to anyone.

3 1/2 stars for an overlooked '70's classic This is one of those movies that got away from me. I don't even remember it or the 1997 remake. The special features suggest the movie bombed in the U.S. when it was first released but was a huge hit overseas. It then was re-released as the second half of a "French Connection" double feature. Still, somehow the cult classic lives on and I'm glad I finally caught up to it only 39 year later!  I guess one thing that stands out and many who saw the movie remember is Gilda Texter's nude motorcycle riding and yep, it's worth watching. She gives an interesting interview in the special features as a now 60 something part time actress. Also fave, Charlotte Rampling shows up as the hitchhiker you dream about.  Having said all that, this movie is about a '70 Dodge Challenger RT and some of the best stunt driving you will ever see. No CGI just exciting chases from beginning to end. Hidden underneath however is an understated political statement about freedom, cowboys and here it comes...the last "American Hero". The movie is hampered by a lame musical score, but fortunately does have a few good rock tunes here and there.

Another in this genere After a sucess in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000B8QFZU">Death Race 2000 - Special Edition</a> David Carradine returns in a modernday cross-country race from Santa Monica Pier to New York City, it opens with a grim dream sequence. David and another former racecar driver are in a duel to win to earn a spot on the Modern Motors Race Team, Davie as Coy 'Cannonball' Buckman drives a Pontiac Trans Am while his rival has a Dodge Charger, Coy eventually has a Mustang which made me think of the Mustang vs. Charger battle in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001F4UHGC">Bullitt</a> which ends up the same way.  There is a van full of women (one of the gals was also in Deathrace) a Corvette (driven by David's real-life brother) a Pantera, a borrowed Lincoln.  Also, Coy has a friend driving an identical Pontiac.  A guy flys his Chevy Blazer to New York in an attempt to win the $100,000. Coy's brother bets on Coy to win.  At one point David get to show his <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000X07TLA">Kung Fu: The Complete Series Collection</a> skills in a fight. We are treated to gear shifting, some highway and some backroads. Some CB talk. Coy backs onto a guardrail as a ramp to change a tire as his jackstand was taken. Some engaging situations.  Toward the end some violent deaths in a massive car wreck pile-up.  The Special Features include the theatre movie trailer and TV spots in addition to an interview with David, insightful.  Entertaining.

Nice print, uncut Ewa Awlin! This film, also called, Death Smiles On A Murderer, is an "arty" attempt at horror, with several scenes of people living the "casual" rich life.  Klaus Kinski, billed as the star, is in it to about the second reel, then dissapears completely.  The premise is mumbo jumbo about reviving the dead, but Ewa Awlin carries the picture completely, with her beauty, nude shots, and as a rotted corpse.  Shades of Edgar Allen Poe also enter, with a theme of being walled in.  Glad it was made available.

Entertaining and sweet One great effort at depicting not only a gay man's mother's behaviour in a latin country but also the effects of money and a class system in gay life. Very entertaining.

The symphony of The Ring As a lover of Wagner's music was inescapable the acquisition of the Blu Ray synthesis of the Ring conducted by Maazel with Berlin. Maazel has also distinguished itself by making orchestral version of Tanhauser (Maazel, Tanhauser Without Words, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 1990, Sony). These versions have led to opposing views that reject (pure Wagnerists) although welcome for other people. I think that in general are welcome, as the first step in attracting new audiences to the Wagnerian operas, which length and complexity can be frightening to the uninitiated.  The Ring without words have few precedents. A version of Leopold Stokowski (partial recording in: Stokowski, London Symphony, 1966, Decca) and  Jos&eacute; Serebrier ( symphonic fragments of the Ring, edited by Stokowski, on a Naxos recording of 2006 with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, with support from the Leopold Stokowski Society). These recordings are fragmented and cannot be compared in magnitude with the Maazel synthesis.  Maazel himself offered his The Ring Without Words in 1988 for Telarc, conducting  the Berlin Philharmonic. This is a recording of almost 70 minutes filled with energy and strength, impacting sound. The video version of 2000 (Blu Ray) has the advantage of offering more music, lasting 83 minutes (13 minutes longer than audio version), in addition to see the director and the orchestra, in high resolution of video.  However, the orchestra is not the same of 1988, now with several new players. Several passages do not have the same force and impact of the audio version. Maazel seems very rigid, even at very expressive moments of the Wagnerian saga. As another reviewer said, striking is the many empty seats in the auditorium, in a country with many wagnerians.  In general, this Blu Ray are welcomed by the work and the synthesis that can attract new interested in the powerful music of Wagner, but this version does not have the force and charm of the audio version of 1988.

Spies Like Us Valerie Plame could have stepped out of a spy novel or a Hollywood thriller. A beautiful wife and mother, married to a diplomat, she has a day job, and she's a CIA spy. It's a true life version of something like "True Lies."  It is a story we all saw unfold on the news and Sunday morning news shows in 2003. Plame's husband, diplomat Joseph Wilson is asked by Vice President Dick Cheney's office to go to Niger to investigate whether 50 tons of yellow cake uranium was secretly sold to Saddam Hussein. While at the CIA Valerie is involved the controversy of whether aluminum rods sold to Hussein are meant for the enrichment of uranium to make nuclear weapons. Both are discovered to be unfounded, both are answers the White House didn't want to invalidate their effort for a war with Iraq. The Bush administration sent Scooter Libby over to the CIA to try and intimidate the CIA into providing the answers they wanted about WMD. In response to President George Bush's State of the Union address in which he said Niger sold the yellow cake uranium to Iraq, Wilson writes an opinion piece that contradicts the President's assertion and the next thing they knew, Plame was outed as a CIA field agent, and it appeared the leak came from the White House in an attempt to discredit Wilson and Plame.  As Wilson, Sean Penn turns in a performance where he disappears into the role without totally disappearing. Being the consumate actor that he is, Penn doesn't offer an impersonation of Wilson but delivers the sense of Wilson through his mannerisms, and that's what really sells the believability of the character Penn has created. Naomi Watts looks like she could be Valerie Plame's younger sister, and turns in one of the better performances of her career. David Andrews as Scooter Libby conveys all the condescending arrogance, not only of the Bush administration but of power. Adam LeFevre does a good Karl Rove. Sam Shepard does a cameo as Plame's father and provides a nice moment as the voice of reason providing her character with sage advice and perspective. President George W. Bush is shown in news footage.  Director Doug Liman who directed "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" realistically shows the flip side of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" they could be bookends, one that shows a fantastical husband and wife spy team, and one that realistically portrays a couple in that situation. "Fair Game" is a low key antidote to the fantasy. Limon also shows the repercussions of Plame's outing not only in the Wilsons' relationship but in the bigger picture that with Plame's outing, U.S. officials knowingly exposed her contacts and they "disappeared."  In the end "Fair Game" is the story of a family withstanding the most divisive forces brought to bare to divide and conquer Plame and Wilson. In the beginning of "Fair Game" Plame and Wilson have to live their lives as a lie. But in the end it is the truth that saves them.  The only bonus feature is a commentary by Wilson and Plame which is good when the corroborate the factual in the film.

Scenes from a broken relationship This is a story about a marriage that is nearing its end, only awaiting the final verdict of its demise by the couple. In Blue Valentine, there is no beginning, end or middle in the narration of this tragedy, the scenes shifting back and forth between the happier days (the past) and the sad present. There are many scenes that reveal these fissures, the couple arguing about the correct way to serve oatmeal to their only daughter or the reserved anger over the realization that a simple act of locking the yard door could have saved the family dog, Megan. Then there are the faces always tense and worn with age, full of pensiveness and trouble. Dean (Ryan Gosling) and Cindy (Michelle Williams) are the married couple who are drifting apart due to many reasons, the very past, broken homes and bad marriages that they both tried to run away from is catching up with them. Cindy is full of resentment that her husband has become a functional alcoholic and has chosen a life of menial labor and that she has become the primary breadwinner. That she had to put her dreams of becoming a doctor on the backburner because of the unwanted pregnancy. Although theirs was a union of equals, but in many ways unequal too, with the seeds of dissolution sown at the beginning. Michelle Williams ( my favorite actress) and Ryan Gosling give one of the most outstanding performances of the year. In each frame they are superb, the happier times capture their youth and careless romance and the present day reveal their pain. Both are such outstanding performers that they nail this role effortlessly. In a scene, when Gosling barges in to Williams's office and acts like a jerk, one cannot help but feel sorry for this guy or sadness for her pain. This may be a very depressing story of a marriage in ruins but still hopeful because it makes you protect what you have even more. This is a fantastic movie with great performances. Four stars. 5/20/11

Full of quotable one-liners I watch this movie at least twice a year and quote it all the time. Mike Myers playing his Scottish father is a riot. You can't help but quote it. "We have a piper down....I repeat a pipers is down.", "Head! Move!","That boy's head's like Sputnik.", "He'll be crying himself to sleep on his large pillow."

Saw this recently. I liked it I've never heard of Salvatore before I watched this movie. Don't know how historically accurate this film is, but i really liked this political robin hood outlaw character. I'd rather sympathize and root for Salvatore than capitalist thugs like  Vitto and Michael Cornleone.

Pros and Con Great acting and storyline. I was disappointed though that there wasn't any closed captioning in English. Choices are French, Spanish, and Spanish - yes, two for Spanish and none for English. We leave the CC on to catch words or phrases we miss due to noise.

Just as good as Raimis' Spiderman and a good reboot, but, not completely necessary. Lets get something straight, you don't HAVE to choose which take on Spiderman you prefer. Know one says you can't like The Amazing Spiderman if you liked Raimis' trilogy. You can have BOTH. You don't HAVE to choose. Also, some people are saying "THIS is the TRUE take on Spiderman" or "Sam Raimis Spiderman was the REAL Spiderman" this is FALSE. One thing I love about the Spiderman character is that there are multiple takes you can spin on the character. Raimis' Spiderman trilogy was the more classic 60s cheasy Spiderman, while this movie is a little more modern for a take on Spiderman. There is no "true" take on the character, see? Personally (as a big Spiderman fan), I actually ended up enjoying this movie and the old trilogy EQUALLY.  Now That THAT'S out of the way, The Amazing Spiderman pretty much started production once Spiderman 4 was cancelled. I was really looking forward to Spiderman 4 at the time, and when they decided to reboot the series, I was pretty ticked off. Don't get me wrong, if they had just made Spiderman 4 to give that series a conclusion, I would have been perfectly fine with a reboot. To me, a reboot just didn't seem necessary. In my opinion, the only purpose in rebooting a franchise is if the series had a strong ending, or if the latest entry was so terrible that it would be time to try something new. Looking back, Spiderman 3 did have a good ending to that trilogy overall, but this reboot still came out WAY to soon. 5 years, really? WAY to soon.  Once the first trailer and marketing began for The Amazing Spiderman, I decided to finally accept that the trilogy is done, and this reboot is really happening. Now, after seeing the film, it's very good, and does a great job at separating itself from Raimi's trilogy. However, there is ALOT of hit and miss with this film.  The plot is pretty simple. Peter Parker is a nerdy, geeky teen at high school. When he gets bitten by a radioactive spider however, he develops "amazing" spider-like powers. Laters, to avenge the death of a loved one, he becomes the superhero "Spiderman" with his new abilities. Along the way, he develops a romance with a crush, and later must come face to face with the villain "the Lizard" a powerful creature Spiderman is (ironically) responsible for.  The POSITIVES: -Most of the cast was great. I loved almost each portrayel as I did with the cast in the old trilogy. Andrew Garfield did just as good a job as Tobey Maguire, while giving a very different take on the character.  -The effects and action were very good. Not improved over the old trilogy by THAT much, but still very good.  -MOST of the writing was really good. They did a great job at establishing this new world for future movies.  -The dircting was great. The film was paced very well.  -If there is one thing that was "improved" comparing this to the old trilogy, it's Gwen Stacy. I actually thought Gwen Stacy was both written and acted very well in Spiderman 3, but, Emma Stone stole the show whenever she was on screen. Also, the love story was very good in the old trilogy, but, it's REALLY good in this movie. Garfield and Stone did a great job together.  The NEGATIVES: -The biggest problem with this film is how it never feels that "necessary". Say what you will about Spiderman 3, but it certainly wasn't TERRIBLE. The trilogy just didn't feel "complete" at the time. A reboot to compare this to is Batman Begins. Why did Batman Begins work as a reboot? It was a reboot that NEEDED to happen (considering the last Batman film we had before this was the horrible Batman and Robin). Also, Batman Begins was a VERY different film in comparison to "Batman, 1989". The Amazing Spiderman, however, is another origin story. Although Amazing Spiderman is very different from "Spiderman, 2002" there is still writing that is almost identical (with it being another origin story). If this came out BEFORE "Spiderman, 2002" this movie would have seemed much better. But, watching this, there are differences for the sake of it, so you can't help but think "this scene is almost identical to the first film" or "that was changed ONLY to be different from the original", so that can be a problem while viewing this movie.  -In terms of casting, almost all the actors did a great job. However, the one character I thought was MUCH better in the old trilogy is Uncle Ben. The actor in this film is OK, but isn't nearly as good as the original actor.  -Another big problem with this movie is the Lizard. For one thing, the character design isn't BAD, but it reminds me WAY to much of Killer croc from Batman: The animated series (just with a tail)The CGI was great, but I didn't care for the design at all. Some people are trying to defend this design beacause it's based off of the "original" Lizard character (because of him not having a snout) BUT, when you compare the designs, they are still VERY different. Also, I personally thought the Lizard character was written the weakest out of all the characters, which is a shame considering he is the main villain. They had a great build up and origin for the character, but once he was established, it seemed like they ran out of ideas. As a villain, I thought his character was written REALLY badly in the climax.  -This film was promoted as "the untold story" but in reality, they don't give you much more information than what you got in the old trilogy. Specifically, they HEAVILY marketed a plot premise in this film, which is the fate of Peters parents. Unfortunately, everything you get in this movie about his parents is pretty much given to you in the trailers. There isn't any plot twist or "reveal" given at all, as the trailers promised.  -And another thing I hated? MORE false advertising! In the trailers,there are a few lines of dialogue that aren't heard (or even hinted at) in the film: "Did you actually think that what happend to you Peter, was an accident?" and "If you want the truth Peter, come and get it!" I swear, there is NO WAY these lines were cut from the film without there being changes in the writing first, NOTHING like these lines were even hinted at in the film.  -The 3D. I didn't HATE the 3D, but it is converted, which I was not aware of. There are 1 or 2 cool scenes in 3D, but that doesn't make up the ticket price. This movie just is NOT worth paying the 3D price, which is a shame considering Spiderman is a PERFECT concept for a 3D movie.  Overall, the biggest things that weigh this movie down is the poor writing of the Lizard, and that you can't help but think of the old Spiderman trilogy in some scenes, which takes the fun out of the experiance. But hey, Spiderman is one of my favorite super heros, and I thought they did an excellent job in this new direction. Like I said, there is no "true" take on the character. Tobey Maguire did a great job with his performance, and Andrew Garfield gives a great performance to. Overall, The Amazing Spiderman isn't quite "amazing" but it is just as good as Spiderman 1 and 3 (just not nearly as good as Spiderman 2) So, if you didn't care for the "classic 60s" take on Raimis' Spiderman movies, you should have a good time with this one. A solid 4 out of 5 star superhero flick. :)

Bob Dylan forever It's a long time ago I saw this concert on TV. With this perfect DVD I can see it many, many times more. And every time I enjoye.

sniper reloaded I love all the sniper series and this one starts with the sniper son and the cop sniper from first one what can i say to me it is great watch it twice now and watch it again

CLEVER Sin City has made me more aware of the many entertaining films Frank Miller has written, produced, and or directed. I just put Sin City's writer,Frank Miller, together with a film and script that I have greatly admired since the late 1990's titled Ronin. This film "Sin City" depicts the dark side of life in a lite style manner. It reminds me of taking  a "R" rated movie such as Roger Rabbit to a "R" plus more violence rated status of the same genre. The special make-up work by K.N.B. EFX GROUP,INC. is excellent. I am so impressed by their work I felt compelled to make sure I give credit to the proper group of artist which created this work. In addition AMAZON once again made a Bul-Ray Disc available to me at a great price!

interesting I purcased the video for the song, "Paradise," that Gloria Graham sings in her audition.  This the most erotic rendition I've ever heard of this wonderful ol' tune.  The film is pedestrain, at best.  Its premise is inchoherent and is never explained.  Addditionallly, there other semi-major coherent lapses.  Nonetheless, it's a pleasure to see Gloria Graham and Murine O'Hara working together.

a fun, sweet film Thirty years old and fresh on her third marriage, Marilyn is not only an acclaimed actress but the most desired woman in the world-- her appearance in a small town in England, to film "The Prince and the Showgirl" with Sir Laurence Olivier, threatens to produce riots and heart attacks among young and old alike.  Yet Marilyn does not want to be worshiped, only loved and respected, and both seem beyond her reach.  Her Lindsay Lohan-esque antics aggravate her colleagues, and her new husband-- playwright Arthur Miller-- condescends to her and secretly wishes he had never married Marilyn.  Enter directing assistant Colin Clark, who looks about 15 and drinks in Marilyn's curves as voraciously as her words.  He needs Marilyn as much as she needs him.  Eddie Redmayne's Colin, though undeniably pretty, did not really communicate anything to me.  Michelle Williams, on the other hand, is a beautifully expressive actress who brings to life the frightened girl beneath Marilyn's carefree facade of dancing, laughing and flirting, making her fears of ending up mad and alone-- like Marilyn's schizophrenic mother--seem real. People sometimes have a funny idea that beauty is insurance against being abandoned or betrayed by those you love.  As this movie shows, sometimes the opposite is true.  A fun, sweet and enjoyable movie that allows you to imagine-- for 99 minutes at least-- what it would feel like to be Marilyn Monroe.

Good movie Good movie. Whitney is a doll. She's adorable. Acting is great. Kevin is fantastic actor. The story is not super strong but good enough. Music is nice.

Hitchcock Prop If I were to some up this film in one sentence, it would be this: Alfred Hitchcock does propaganda! That pretty much tells you the good and the bad of it. It has some very nice and effective camera work and sequences, but these are at times bogged down with an annoying patriotic undercurrent. The ending speech is a particular example of this.  The narrative itself follows this pattern, with the most interesting aspect obviously being the murder of Basserman and the circumstances behind it. What's not so interesting is the forced romance subplot witch feels about as natural as botched plastic surgery. This could in part be due to the two leads poor acting. Joel McCrea and Laraine Day give wooden performances that shifts far too swiftly from one inflection to another.  On the other side of the acting spectrum is Georg Sanders, who is far and away the best part of the film. Playing the good guy for once, the scenes that focus on Sanders in the latter half of the film are the most engaging and memorable. It's a pity Sanders never had a lead role in any of Hitchcock's films.  Foreign Correspondent could have been much better with a re-arrangement of cast and themes, but as it is still an enjoyable experience that's worth a watch. 3.5/5

Spoiled Brat with Bette Davis Eyes Look at the date and consider: This was after the book "Gone With the Wind" was published and was very popular, but before the movie of it was made. Or at least released. It's quite possible Hollywood insiders knew it was in process. This movie bears enough resemblance to GWTW that it's clear it was meant to compete, or at least to tap the same interest in the antebellum south.  Spoiled young Julie Marsden is played by Bette Davis, in the role that won her an Oscar. She's been toying with at least two men's affections: Preston Dillard (Henry Fonda), an investment banker and something of a progressive, and Buck Cantrell (George Brent), the classic Southern Gentleman. As the movie opens, she is once more engaged to Preston after having argued with him, gotten engaged to Buck, and then back again. She simply loves controlling and manipulating men.  The push comes to shove in no time at all. Preston is tied up in a critically important meeting at the bank when he was expected to go with Julie to buy her new dress for the biggest ball of the season in New Orleans. She sends her boy (little black boy who is apparently the carriage driver's son) into the bank to tell Pres that she is waiting for him, and he sends the boy back with the message that he is tied up in a very important meeting and will join her as soon as possible. So she marches into the bank (an impropriety that turns a lot of heads) and calls him out of the meeting to berate him. She tries to tell him that she (meaning anything she wants him to do) is more important than his business. He disagrees, and she goes off in a high dudgeon to choose her dress.  Mostly because she's feeling bitchy, she chooses a red dress that would normally be for a prostitute. (That word is never used, of course; they refer to the "ladies down on X Street," where I don't remember the name.) Her family is scandalized, Pres insists he will not take her to the ball in that gown, but she manipulates him into it. Once there, when she sees everyone is disgusted with her, she asks him to take her home. But he is mad too, now, and insists she keep dancing, even though everyone else is off the dance floor and staring at her. Then when he takes her home, he says goodbye.  One wonders what she expected, but no matter. He goes north on business, and is gone most of a year. What happens when he returns is the drama of the story, so I'll leave that for the movie to tell you. Let's just say it's a considerably shorter movie than GWTW, (1-3/4 hours), so it's less complex. But it works. It's definitely worthwhile. As with most antebellum stories, the costumes and sets are marvelous. And Bette Davis is a major talent, as we all know by now.

Like a friendly quicky Skips lightly through the story pausing only when there's a joke. "Stripes" is definitely not all that it could be, but it succeeds quite well at hitting the less ambitious target it aims for. The movie is a friendly quicky with no commitment and no repercussions.

Some of Sandra's best work Sandra Bullock has wonderful comedic timing as Gracie Hart, the hopelessly unfeminine FBI Officer. I did enjoy the first movie more than the second movie, though the second one does have it's moments. All on one disc, how can you go wrong.

Varieties of Love I have seen this film several times.  I see something new in it each time.  The film explores the varieties of love and the opposites of love:  hate and indifference.  The film has many layers with a great deal of symbolism connecting them.  It tells an emotional story about boys becomming men and learning to love -- each in his own way.  Though the film is entertaining to watch (more than once!), there are flaws in it.  For example, the film refers to a strained relationship between Pip's father and grandfather.  The film never explains that and early in the film one is left wondering if the strained relationship between Pip and his father had roots in that earlier strained relationship.  Later, the film reveals the source of the bad blood between Pip and his father and we discover that the relationship between Pip's father and grandfather was irrelevant to the story.  This film tells an extraordinary story.  I strongly recommend it for purchase.

Sky Captain Took Me By Surprise After I saw ads for this when it came out I was upset because "it was all on green screen" and up to three minutes before I watched I kept calling it "Sky Captain and the Amazing Green Screen World of Tomorrow". I even had this sitting in the "B-Movie" section of my Netflix instant queue and intended to give it the same love as the members of Mystery Science Theater 3000. But I have to admit... I liked it.  Sky Captain uses green screen in the same way old action film serials and features used matte paintings, model effects and cardboard sets and they got the same effect.  If you take it for the action film it is it's worth a watch. Although, I did tune my TV's color to black and white about halfway through. (IMO it should have been presented that way)  Anything I have to say negative about the film is only nitpicking. They got the feel of the 30s-50s style down with the exceptions being that the acting wasn't hammy, and if they where going to use CGI they could have made it look like the model effects and puppetry used in the 30s & 50s, and it should have been in black & white. However, those nitpicks aren't enough to detract to the film and should be over looked if not ignored.  At the end of the day it's simply great adventure cinema and fun for the whole family.

Beautifully done Fictional Story.... I think Michelle Williams is just wonderful in My Week With Marilyn. It would be impossible for ANYONE to be Marilyn, of course. But Michelle Williams did a wonderful job learning Marilyn Monroe's mannerisms and did the best that could of been done with this movie. The costume designer was just amazing and the wardrobe flawless to what Marilyn wore in "The Prince and the Showgirl". All in all movies are meant to entertain which this movie did, just know it is not a "documentary" it is a story like many movies mostly based on a fictional story. I do not believe Clark to be truthful nor did I ever from his original book. I found this movie entertaining and enjoyable to watch.

Facing The Giants An excellent movie that brings the excitement of football and the seriousness of Fatherhood to an excellent blend of a good story.

Ghostbusters 'Ghostbusters' is an ironic, tongue in cheek comedy from the eighties and although the effects look dated, the humour and fun has not. Bill Murray has some great lines and performs them in his usual dead pan way and Rick Moranis is as gawky and geeky as he is in all his films. The plot is pretty silly, but considering it's not trying to be too serious it's best to suspend disbelief and sit back and enjoy the fun. This film spawned many spin offs, from a cartoon, a sequel and a host of toys (which I loved playing with as a kid!) and you can see why, some of the characters are iconic looking back (The Stay Paft marshmallow man and slimer to name two). A good, fun film that should keep you watching and entertained and makes you want to watch the slightly darker Ghostbusters 2. Worth a viewing if you haven't seen it before and a trip down memory lane for those of us that have.  Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.

Predictable, Yet Fun Action Movie The story has been done before. You see most of the twists and turns coming a mile away. But that doesn't necessarily make this film less enjoyable. It's all about the ride to the end, and I enjoyed that ride. I would say the end leaves a little to be desired, but that is definitely subjective.  This film isn't going to set the world on fire. As said before, the plot could be a little predictable, some story points a little illogical, Cage's hairstyle a little questionable (Who saw that hair and decided to go ahead with that?), but the story was solid enough, the tension was enough to keep you interested, and the action sequences were a lot of fun.  The Blu-Ray includes an alternate ending and two featurettes, which I enjoyed.

It was an equipment error. I wrote an earlier review about video and audio problems with the BD version after a second set presented the same problems as the first set. It was not the Monster speaker cables as implied by another "person".  I decided to try it on a friends player.  It was flawless.  My BD player is now in for adjustment and cleaning.  There will be a follow-up when my player is returned to service. I am person enough to admit my mistake at jumping to conclusions. A big thanks to Amazon for their customer service and return policy.

Very, very good movie First, I have to admit to being a big Val Kilmer fan......I just hope he quits trying to imitate Marlon Brando as far as his physique is going. Good movie with no real surprises but was very entertaining. Did I mention that I was a sap for Val Kilmer? I even enjoyed, though was sickened because of the movies director, Kilmers role as Jim Morrison in the "Doors" movie directed by the disgusting, treasonous, blatantly Stalinist Oliver Stone.....or at least I enjoyed watching Kilmers take on the "Lizard King" in that movie. This movie didn't leave me with a sour taste in my mouth because of its director and was thoroughly entertaining...I really enjoyed it. Thanks again Mr. Kilmer!!

music score -not! Update Great story, good acting by Darby and Wayne, Duvall, Campbell so-so, beautiful scenery well shot. But -the music is overwhelming and borders on corny. If only there were a way to lower the music without lowering the dialogue. Update 1/8/12: I just watched the 2010 version and am disappointed by it. So much of the story was left out if the viewer hadn't read the book some parts are not clear. Too much 'action' not enough story line. At least the music wasn't overwhelming this time. Although I liked its ending more as it was truer to the book, a little more narrative dialogue could have clarified why she called James 'trash'. Oh well.

Shin-Chan Fan NOT a show for kids. This is adult humor. Okay guys, I LOVE Shin-chan, I looooove the voice actors, and I, in general, love Funimation. So I got the new Shin DVD set and preordered the second one. I watched this set and nearly every line is about sex, at least with some characters. I thought all of the filthy jokes from the first 2 seasons were hilarious and so are most of the ones I've seen here. It's just nearly EVERY new character is acting like a hipster horndog and eventually it looses a small bit of it's charm. Season 3 doesn't have quite as much diversity as the first 2 seasons which gave us more adorable situational humor allowing the viewer time to dig into the characters and their little "twisted world" right before the hard jokes pop out and shock us. One big dark or dirty joke after the next without pause can make the viewer feel numb. It almost transforms the characters more and more into, well.. psychos trying their best to be hip (think Quentin Tarantino), instead of the oddball overwhelmed maniacs we all adore. Things do feel more balanced after you adjust a little, but never as balanced as seasons 1&2. It't all shock and no innocence and the (relative) innocence is what seperates it from its competition (ie. South Park and Family Guy). Honestly, most of what I find overdone were the new characters and all of the teachers. I do realize it's just a continuation or evolution of the brilliant work Funimation did with the first two seasons. For me, at least, it's a bit to far of an evolution. Still enjoyable and funny, they're just not quite the same characters you remember.  What doesn't change much are many of the central cast: Shin, Hiro, Mitzi, Hima, Georgie, Boo, and Ai for example. So there's tons of fun to be had as always. The voice acting... amazing as ever.  Summary: If you thought the first two seasons went way to far and were insultingly crazy, or even traumatizing, steer clear. If you can't get enough sharp no-holds-barred, break every rule comedy in your life then look no further. Dedicated fans of the show will consider this a no brainer. It gets half a star removed for not quite having the congruity I was expecting personally and another half star for lack of real bonus features like commentaries, so 8/10. I love love love Shin so I'll probably keep buying and watching and I hope my review was helpful.

Two Great Films: Only ONE Great Transfer What can be said about the first two "Home Alone" films that hasn't already been said?  I don't want to spend this whole review talking about the greatness of these two films, so I'll keep it brief.  Are these cinematic masterpieces?  No.  But are they fun films that you can watch with your entire family, sharing the joy of the feeling of the holiday and creating magical memories of your own?  Absolutely!  These films aren't long on logic or realism, but they're full of the "John Hughes spirit" of fun, and anyone who has seen and loves these films knows they're an absolute must-watch during the holiday season.  'Nuff said.  Now, about these Blu Rays: these were a long-awaited release for me.  And, as crazy as it sounds to some, as I prefer it to the first, I was even more excited about the second film.  But, since I watched the BluRays with my family, we of course watched them chronologically.  The first film looks absolutely MAGNIFICENT.  Seriously, it's difficult to believe this is a twenty-year-old film when you see this BR transfer: sharp picture, depth of color, gorgeous contrasts...it's everything you'd expect from a great BR transfer.  And it is LOADED with Special Features.  Unfortunately, the same can't be said about the sequel, which REALLY disappointed me.  From the moment I put the DVD in, I was shocked: pixellation, digital noise, excessive grain, blech.  The lack of quality transfer for the film really upset me because the cinematography in the second film is absolutely fabulous: the vistas of New York, the rich colors in the brownstone, not to mention the gorgeous tree in the finale.  And as for special features...they're at a bare-bones minimum.  But...the one thing I wasn't disappointed by on either BR was the sound quality: crisp, clear, deep when it needs to be, simply wonderful.  Williams' scores have NEVER sounded better in these films!  I recommend the set, but only if you can get it cheap (I got it through the Lightning Deal offer on Black Friday): because while you're going to love the look of the first film, if you're a fan of the second (which I very much am), most likely you're going to be disappointed by your Blu Ray "upgrade".  Cheers...and Happy Holidays!

Art of Crumb When I first starting really listening and collecting music the artwork on Janis Joplin's album Big Brother & The Holding Company intrigued me. The art was 'in ya face', painful, and evocative. 'Keep On Truckin' was the catchphrase of the young. The doco Crumb is disturbing, funny, and at last gave me an understanding of how the artwork came about. Crumb himself is earthy to say the least, and has no inhibitions when it comes to his own honesty. His family and their background is truly disturbing (note that word again) and highlights the behaviour and expectations of a father figure who attempted and failed to instill his rigid disciplines on young kids. The dad epitomises a parent from post-WWII USA; a strict, unforgiving military approach to life that fails in epic proportions to produce healthy 'normal' kids - the kind of dysfuctional kids who in this day and age go out and shoot people. A dad so out of touch with reality that his sons creativity and genuis turned into a decidedly weird survival mode. The sons are intelligent, the mom is scary. Great doco/historical piece on a man and era that infected and shaped the 60s & 70s. Here's to you Crumb!

Bizarre and Oddly Hysterical I think I am still in shock over this one.  David Hyde Pierce is astounding in this very unorthodox role of madness.  This movie is so psychotically delicious, it borders on "The Twilight Zone" meets "Sybil".  I found myself laughing out of total fear of the incredulousness and depravity of the host.  I did NOT see the ending coming or even imagine it to end the way it did.  The movie works on several levels, from the civility of human compassion to the intrinsically evil darkness of insanity.  This movie is a must see for those looking for just plain "bizarre".  This one had me thinking about it several days after watching it and when a movie does that to me, then my appetite for wanting 'something different in a movie' is complete.  Get ready for one heck of an emotional roller coaster ride.  Mr. Pierce, WOW.

Laugh out loud My wife and I laughed often while watching this movie together.  I rate it a four instead of five because some of the raunchyness of the movies is too much; but overall its histarical.

P51's rule! Very informative movie, plenty of action, mixed with good commentary. I can't imagine what fortitude it took to participate in the air wars late in the war.  Also, what an impact the P51's had! If you like WWII history and especially air battles, this is the movie to watch.

Bob and Meryl and Klaus and Michael Her lover arrived in his bi-plane For he couldn't afford a tri-plane. He'd land at her farm, She'd give him her arm, And say he was driving her in-sane.

Children love movie...only one problem My children love this movie and it is so nice to have a digital copy of it so they can watch it anywhere! The only complaint is that sometimes it stops right in the middle and then we have to restart it and fast forward to where we were. This might be a problem with the Bluray player that we are playing it on, but it seems to only be a problem with the amazon movies that we watch. It doesn't happen that frequently, and it hasn't happened when we watch it on a computer so I am thinking it might be a problem with the bluray playing amazon. not sure. But I will continue to buy my kids movies on amazon because it is so convenient, and again it doesn't happen that often.

Great fun Hopscotch is a funny, clever and relaxingly entertaining spy film.  It manages to combine intelligence with a sweet good humor that is unusual in this genre.  Most of the time one is either biting one's nails engrossed in the taut suspense of a thriller or laughing in an embarrassed manner over the antics in a slapstick spy comedy.  This film breaks such stereotypes in its witty story of rogue CIA agent Miles Kendig, played expertly by Walter Matthau, out to get revenge on his cruel and crude CIA superior Myerson (Ned Beatty).  The story of how Kendig outwits his CIA boss is compelling not primarily in its suspense but in its creativity and good humor.  Yet the humor is more thoughtful and imaginative than the norm.  It is significant that as an active agent in the field Kendig has not carried a weapon for years, and uses trickery, not force, on his enemies.  In the same vein, weapons and firepower in the film are kept to a minimum; characteristically, no one is killed.  The film does include a heavy shot of vulgar and profane language, primarily from the villain Myerson, so anyone wishing to avoid such a verbal blast for themselves and their children, be forewarned.  The romantic relationship between Kendig (Matthau) and a retired agent played by Glenda Jackson is a bit forced, unnecessary, and coarse.  But aside from these issues, the film is excellent.

Blu-ray Review: "Treasure Planet: 10th Anniversary Edition" Leave it to Disney to come up with a way to update Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale "Treasure Island" into a science fiction epic. The studio that brought you the unforgettable live-action film version returned to the source material once again with the idea of taking the adventure into deep space and to other worlds. Unfortunately, moviegoers weren't interested in "Treasure Planet" when it came out in 2002. The film underperformed at the box office but was still nominated for a 2002 Academy Award in the category of Best Animated Feature.  Thanks to every movie on the planet receiving the high definition treatment, audiences get the chance to give this entertaining film another chance with the release of "Treasure Planet: 10th Anniversary Edition." It's hard to believe the movie came out 10 years ago. It was the first to be released in IMAX and regular theaters on the same day. The movie is also of importance as a shining example of 2D hand drawn art used on top of 3D computer animation.  Not much changes in "Treasure Planet" as far as story and characters go. It still revolves around Jim Hawkins (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who discovers a holographic treasure map that supposedly leads to a pirate's loot on a far-off planet. Hawkins and his mentor Dr. Doppler (David Hyde Pierce) embark on a trek across the stars on a ship whose crew is made up of dangerous aliens led by a mutineering cyborg named Long John Silver (Brian Murray). Can Jim and the rest of the loyal crew of the ship find the treasure and collect it before the traitorous buccaneers do?  This will relate to fans of sci-fi both young and old. It takes the great classic tale and successfully makes it relevant to kids in the 21st century used to watching "Star Wars," "Star Trek," and other movies and TV shows that take them to other worlds. The pacing of the film is good and the story will keep the viewer's attention.  The high definition transfer of the film is magnificent. The picture is crystal clear and filled with bright and vivid colors that keep your eyes glued to the screen. The 5.1 surround further brings to life James Newton Howard's musical score and the anthemic pop songs of Goo Goo Dolls' John Rzeznik. The explosions, laser shots, and flying ships will jump out at you from all over your home entertainment center with this great audio mix.  Special features for the film include 43-minutes of production featurettes introduced by actor Laurie Metcalf and a "behind-the-scenes" one entitled "Disney's Animation Magic." There's also comprehensive feature commentary with co-directors/co-writers Ron Clements and John Musker, producer Roy Conli, and supervising animators John Ripa, Ian Gooding, and Glen Keane. Three unfinished deleted scenes are included with introductions by directors Ron Clements and John Musker. A 17-minute "R.L.S. Legacy: Virtual 3D Tour" and the six-part "DisneyPedia: The Life of a Pirate Revealed" featurette are here as well.  The "Treasure Planet: 10th Anniversary Edition" gives movie lovers a second chance to see this excellent example of how hand drawn and computer animation can co-exist. The story is complex enough for adults yet simple enough for children to take in. A great feature film and plenty of bonus material make this a recommended buy for Disney and sci-fi fans alike.

Great Workout! This workout is a great find because it is challenging to find a workout dvd that uses exercise loops or "rings".  This is one-on-one toning - there is no class of students. The instructor starts out with a standing warm-up and then proceeds to demonstrate exercises using a chair, exercise tubing and exercise ring loops, followed by a standing cool down. Takes place in a nice studio with large windows overlooking a city.  Two things that stand out positively for me are the instructor's cueing and the music.  The instructor tells you what part of your body each movement develops to prepare you and does a good job of describing the movement before you do it without breaking the flow of the workout.  She also counts the number of reps out loud while focusing on breathing.  There are appropriate pauses between toning moves to "shake out".  Two criticisms:  1) Floor movements were mixed in with standing movements. I personally don't like getting up and down from the floor during workouts.  2) The warm up starts out with unsupported squats. I am not a fan of squats or lunges anyway, but definitely not in the warm-up phase.  The music is simple, rhythmic and upbeat and at the right level.  I appreciated the non-frantic pace of the music because muisc that is annoying or too loud can spoil an entire exercise video for me.  Highly recommended for beginners and intermediates!

Es Muy Bien I enjoyed the "Ghosts of Machu Picchu" and would recommend it to those interested in that topic. The great mystery, of course, is how so much was accomplished, so precisely, with so little knowledge and such rudimentary tools. I am always left wishing to know and understand more.

Uneven, but rare and special at times. 7 very different  animated shorts.  Some brilliant in their storytelling, others a little dull.  But all are visual striking and very inventive, with multiple styles of animation on display  (my ratings are out of 4 stars)  `Riddles for a Candy' (1978)**3/4 8 min. Funny, playful, but I couldn't quite follow what it meant.  More traditional animation than the other shorts, as a weird character tries to answer riddles, but the riddles, at least as translated, don't make much sense.  `The Disc Jockey' (1980)**3/4 10 min. Everything in the short is circular, in the shape of a record, each morphing into each other.  Interesting visually, but doesn't add up to a lot.  `The Vanished World of Gloves' (1982) ***1/4 (16 min) The history of cinema from silent slapstick comedy, to Fellini, through modern sci-fi blockbusters all acted out by gloves (?!?).  Very weird, not every moment works but a lot of it is very funny and entertaining.  `A Ballad About Green Wood' (1983 )**3/4 8 min.  A confusing little fairy tale about a log of green wood split into pieces and having adventures while being transmogrified into different forms.  Pretty, with some interesting underlying themes of death and rebirth, but doesn't quite all hang together.   `The Pied Piper of Hamlin' (1986)**1/2 53 minutes. Generally considered Barta's best film, I respectfully disagree.  I appreciate the beauty of the woodblock carvings Barta creates here, as well as the wooden world that surrounds them.  And I like his darker re-telling of the story, making it even more blatantly about greed, and more to the point that the people themselves are the rats. But it feels like it takes twice the time it needs to tell the simple tale and make it's points.  That said, the images are unique and beautiful, so I'm not sorry I saw it.  `The Last Theft (1987)**3/4 21 min. A lot of this is creepy fun, with live actors in manipulated images playing with speed and color.  Once again Barta attacks greed, and a lot of it works, but I saw the twist ending coming a mile off.  `The Club of the Laid Off" (1989)***1/2 25 min. My favorite of all Barta's shorts, this dark, trenchant, sometimes very funny satire of both the stultifying decay and meaningless changes of modern society.  A bunch of abandoned mannequins in an empty warehouse continue to repeat their pointless actions, until a new, hipper group of mannequins are dumped in with them and take over.  A war ensues, but what is there really to win, except who rules a pointless world of decay?  Overall a somewhat uneven, but well-sorth seeing collection of brave experiments.

A love story Mademoiselle Chambon is a little jewel.  The photography is superb.  The shots of Sandrine Kiberlain playing the violin, the arc of her arm, the position of her head, are like a 17th century painting.  The shots of the Vincent Lindon's expression as he discovers a new perspective in life, in art, in music, are wonderful.  The photos of interiors, outdoors, near the sea, in the garden, are enchanting.  You understand the transformation of both characters.  You don't want them to go there, but at the same time, you see the futility of trying to stop them.  Both actors are incredibly good.  You want to hold them and comfort them.  Vincent Lindon is the perfect everyday, hard working man.  He is not looking for anything, but that "anything" finds him and he is helpless to control it.  I loved this movie and recommend it hightly.

goodmuvie los blu-ray son productos de buena calidad en imagen y sonido,recomiendo comprar estos productos.hay gran variedad de peliculas de todo genero y para todos los gustos, asi promovemos la industria,los empleos, las familias y la competencia leal que nos veneficia a todos.tambien hay peliculas en dvd, vhs.

Tom Clancy's Gundam 0083 is set in sort of a lull between the huge epic wars that make up the UC shows (it's a prequel to Zeta). Don't worry, though, as all-out action is replaced by some very compelling intrigue. A nuclear-capable mobile suit, illegally developed by Earth, is captured by Zeon loyalists, and the uneasy peace between the inner and outer colonies is threatened as the conspirators try (and succeed) to drive the war back into high gear. Conflict is plentiful, but unlike some other series in this franchise, it is made up mostly of sudden, small skirmishes that have surprisingly detailed, realistic consequences. We get into the heads not only of the good guys and the lead villain (who in good Gundam tradition is more of a misguided idealist) but even of some of the incidental pilots that the heroes must face. One memorable sequence sees the protagonist willingly help a disabled Zeon vet who takes him in repair his own mobile suit, with both of them knowing their bonding will end in one of their deaths.  Eventually all-out conflict erupts, and the storytelling goes off the rails a bit, but the final action sequences are hectic and brilliant- watching the whole show at once you get a great sense of escalating tension and violence until it errupts. And you can watch this show in one sitting, it's not even as long as Wing- although the short length allowed the team to pack in consistently smooth animation that maintains a near-theatrical quality the whole time. The soundtrack is perfect as well- outstanding 80s-90s anime theme music with great vocals and exciting guitar work to get you pumped for each episode, and tense, atmospheric music for conspirators meeting in shadow and gunfights erupting in the desert...  Overall, this series is a great bridging point between classic gundam shows and later fare, and its quality art, manageable length, and wonderful characterization make it a fantastic entry point for new fans as well.  PROS: -Visually beautiful, with a great soundtrack -Compelling and very human characters -Very well thought-out action sequences -A tight plot that seldom drags and is totally free of holes  CONS: -The climax, while turbulent and exciting lacks the crazy one-on-one duel the series seems to build to (the "ultimate" mobile suit used by the Zeon forces is pretty much just a spaceship) -In the context of the Gundam universe one mobile suit with nuclear weapons seems like a pretty tame threat (spoiler: what "nuclear weapon" means in the Gundamverse is a bit more extreme than what it means now) -It's a bit of a downer to know that the good guy elite task force in this series will go on to be the jackbooted thugs in Zeta Gundam  COMMENTS: -Disk 3 of this series gave me tons of problems. 3 different ones were lemons. Maybe that's not a problem with this set? -Familiarity with past Gundam series is not necessary to enjoy this one, but it helps.

Stunning, Thrilling Spiritual, Political, Metaphysical Techno-allegory On the surface, Tron Legacy is a Sci/Tech-Fi fantasy, a visual and audible thrill ride. It does this very well indeed, with the appropriate jeopardy, humor, and human interest: a son's quest to find his father that becomes the father's quest to save his son.  But there is a great deal more in this film, and one can debate how much was deliberate and how much flowed from human nature and the essential purposes of fiction and drama.  Superficially, the authors of this film made execellent use of various tropes, including our memories of Triumph of the Will, Casablanca, Caberet, and even a bit of the Batman visual mythos (watch for a character waddling off like the Penguin!). There are also throwaway references to the various left-wing preoccupations of our time--yet the film celebrates both the value of the individual over the collective and the precedence of the mysterious, the numinous, and the supernatural over mere human creation, all deeply conservative values. (Look for the website of the author of  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1557788367">One Cosmos under God: The Unification of Matter, Life, Mind and Spirit</a> to explore these topics.)  The mysterious, the numinous, and the supernatural are represented by beings who simply "came into existance" because "the circumstances were right", offending a naive sense of perfection and fitness and providing a moral issue that is treated all too briefly. They are presented as being uncreated, which is metaphysical and ontological nonsense. If they came about because the conditions are right, then there are two influences at work: the hidden rules that declare what the right circumstances are, and do the creating; and the agents who bring those circumstances about. The former corresponds to the Sky-Father and the latter to the Earth-Mother (or the Earth-Mother's father). Thus does the world's creator become their mother or grandfather, with some creepy overtones near the end of the story.  Their mysteries can be captured in a simple question: does Quorra have a navel?

Love all the movies, but Foster should be in this. Maybe a different character would have worked, but the actor replacement is one of the worst I have ever seen.

Technical problems solved by Sony Fun movie! We had technical problems using it. Actually returned it once, but the second didn't work either. Contacted Sony about the problem and they emailed a solution. If your blu-ray won't play it, try contacting Sony online. They can fix it!

Hilarious! Funny and great movie. I loved it as a kid and I still love it... The songs are great too

One of the original spoof movies Blazing saddles is one goofy, irreverant, enjoyable romp of a movie. This is the ORIGINAL cut, and may be offensive to some , with comments that are not really meant to offend (at least I think not). Pokes fun at various groups of people thru the movie.

Well, it's about time... "They Call the Wind 'Mariah'" first gives me gooseflesh - and ends moving me to tears. I've long intended to buy a copy of "Paint" - especially if I remember the report by the preacher's son on the educational facilities offered by No-Name City - and now, at the age of 62, I'm going to do it!

Great action movie If you love a great action film then this one is for you.  There are explosions, romance and lots of cool gadgets. I loved it and you will too.

Endgame is a must see British sexy crime drama.......... The cover for this dvd reads sex is currency and death has no price.  They weren't kidding.  Daniel Newman plays the handsome sexy rentboy used as blackmail bait for his cruel and sadistic pimp George.  I couldn't believe the cruel and unusual punishment he endures in this film.  Knowing too much of the illegal drugs, corruption and violence associated with the police and other powerful people, Tom tries to escape his situation in London but is pursued by a corrupt detective Dunston(John Benfield of Prime Suspect)who is a part of all of the criminal activity going on.  He wants to silence Tom for good. The chase is on and Tom is running for his life.  I enjoyed this movie very much although some of the cruelty done to Tom was hard to watch.  I encourage you to give this movie a try.

A great family movie! Although there were parts I did not like in both of these movies, the overall family friendly theme made up for that with great story lines.  I especially loved the performances of Julie Andrew.  Mrs. Ann Z.

Kind of Mixed Up I thought it contain Toy Story 1/2/3 but it only has Toy story 1.  However the 3d is uncanny perfect picture.

"My testimony & summation" is well done. I am looking for the speeches. Those speeches that cast the principles of an Individuals ethics to the results of those choices(morality), that scream off the pages of Atlas. Like the Fountainhead..... "I know what is to come from the principles on which it is built"....... excellent 1st part.

GEEZER ALERT! For those of us who are wearing reading glasses at this moment to read the review, be warned.  The package states that there is a DIGITAL COPY.  Well, I looked and looked.  Not being an iPhone 7x kind of guy, I could not find it.  Expected some type of disc to put in to transfer.  Oh, well.  Called.  Found out the digital copy lives where all of our e-mails live, the ones that we send and that never arrive.  Turns out that there's merely a code planted deeply inside a throw-away ad kind of insert.  DO NOT THROW ANYTHING AWAY when a product says DIGITAL COPY!  Once I found the code and went on-line, the movie downloaded into my ancient MacBook, over a period of hours.  So, if you still miss 8-tracks, or if you REMEMBER 8-tracks, beware of throwing anything away.  Stuff now lives in the Cloud.  And for those who remember reading the Greeks in Big School, you know what kind of folks lived up in the city in the clouds, right?  And if you own an iPhone 7x, you probably never read the Greeks and don't know about the city in the clouds.  You can google it, though.

mismatched expectations So I have been a Tony Horton - P90X and Shaun T - Insanity fan for the past year.  With these two programs, my fitness level has increased dramatically.  I'd say that I am in the best shape of my life.  So when I heard about P90X2, I was really looking forward to it.  PAP, Core, new YOGA and Ab ripper2.  Bring it! Bring it!! Bring it!!!  But the reality hit me after I did a few of these workouts.  P90X2 has a different focus than the original.  It is almost like they want to make it to be something in between insanity and the original p90x.  So here are the workout I have done and what I thought about them.  I will update my review as I tryout the workouts.  However for the ones who only want the short and sweet bottom line - see below.  so comparison: P90X - original, no thrill muscle building, fat killing workout. Insanity - Awesome cardio-conditioning, which p90x lacked.  But not as much resistance training. P90X2 - attempt to cover both cardio/muscle building/balance control - a mix between the two above.  So for p90x2: Pros: Great overall body workout with individual phases (1, 2, 3) Yoga is shorter and faster New moves for the p90x grads Lots more focus on warm up and cool down (about 20 mins total in each of the 55 min workout) Lots more focus on balance moves  Cons: Too many equipment required Too long of warmup and cool down - about 1/3 of the video...really...1/3 of the video Progression between moves are very fast (too fast to follow at times) Some moves are unnatural and can be dangerous to do Tony did not count out the moves very well...or at least compared to p90x.  Different from P90X - not as focused on muscle building...people who really dislike this program should think about that maybe they are at a very different point of their fitness (p90x did what it suppose to do...so now you are looking for that something extra).  The last thing I have to comment: looking at p90x to p90x2; then looking at insanity to asylum: both workout progression published by beachbody appears to incorporate a lot of new workout equipments in the second iteration.  I hope they realize that people buy their product because of the workouts...not the equipments.  of course, your profit goes up when you can get people to buy all the accessories that comes with the workout...but you may also turn people off.  Besides...you already got great first generation workout without the need for all the excessive workout gear.  Think about it...we are trying to do this at home/apartments.  if we want to get all the gear and create a home gym maybe we should just buy a gym membership...  Individual workout review - this is a little lengthy...so have patience:  1. Ab rip 2 VS. Ab rip 1 = I really liked ab ripper 1.  the new ab ripper just did not do it for me.  The number of moves progressed too quickly.  I did not feel a great amount targeted work.  Now, it is like they decided to modify a couple of moves from ab ripper 1, core synergistic, yoga 1 abs and do a mix match to create this.  I am not sure what I am expecting but which it was harder...  Also, some of the moves are not natural...unlike P90X ab ripper where everything just felt right.  maybe it's because I am used to ab-ripper 1.  -- a couple times later -- I stand by my opinion and recommend if you really want a day to just do abs - try to do ab ripper 1 and 2 together for a session.  2. Yoga 2: shorter yes, different moves yes, better...NO!!  I hate it....I liked the original yoga so so much better.  the moving options progressed so quickly, you felt like you were doing a cardio workout.  I mean guys...this is yoga!  you need to hold your poses not just progression from move to move....  Anyhow, I do like the fact it is shorter.  I did not like the yoga belly in the new workout.  the original yoga is so much better....I'd just add a couple of moves to the original, shorten the stretch sections, and just do the moving options.  I think that is enough for strength and flexibility.  The standing options are good to do but if you are sick of it like me...don't bother...stick with yoga 1.  3. PAP lower: great workout.  really pushed you to the limit.  I would not have been able to do this if I have not done insanity.  It is a mix of lift and cardio...or if you want to use the correct Post-activation potentiation terms - resistance then explosion.  If you look at some of the studies, the elite athletes perform better than the recreational athletes with this workout.  Also all the studies used heavy lifts (squats).  Anyhow, without getting into the details, I'd say this is a great workout.  It really made me sweat - dropped 4 lbs in one session (all in water weight).  Do be careful with explosive moves...you may get injured if you don't be careful (esp. when you are exhausted.)  4. PAP Upper: okay workout.  moves are okay...first complex is better than the second.  I'd say they probably could design a better resistance workout before you go explosive.  This workout does a total upper body - ie. arms, core, back...so maybe that is the goal.  Anyhow, it is an okay workout.  I am tired at the end of the workout but definitely not feeling the muscle burn in my arms like you do when you do P90X chest and back or shoulder/bi/tri.  5.  Core x2 - good workout but not as good as core synergistic for p90x.  It has a couple of moves that I'd incorporate into synergistic workout but that is about it.  Alot of the balance moves with medicine ball/balance ball are very uncomfortable and dangerous...you can really hurt your wrist or lower back or simply fall on your face...  too much focus is put on balance rather than actual core work.  Did not like it that much, stick with the ab ripper 1&2 combo and core synergistic for the core.  6. Plyocide - This workout is not like plyometrix...It is more like insanity's max interval plyo.  There are a few moves that I thought it was really like insanity's workout.  Anyhow, really good cardio...by then end of the workout, I was showering in my own sweat (not a great picture...)  Great cardio-workout.  A few moves changes way too fast...really hard follow the first time around.  7. Total Body - This workout has a litte of everything.  Hits the shoulders, back, bi/tri, core and legs.  I think that is why it is  total body.  The only thing is there are some balance moves that makes you feel like either you are gonna to slip or fall so to injure your wrist.  This is a great workout though - you will sweat like a bear.  12 moves 2 rounds - reasonable and doable.  8. Chest/Back - This workout is full of balance moves.  NOT A FAN.  Most of the moves are unstable without any instructions on how to do the moves or what modifications to do to work up to the balanced moves.  I don't feel that I really worked out afterwards...well...that was because half of the time I was not able to push myself due to falling off the medicine balls.  I feel that this workout could have been so much better.  Becareful on the moves with medicine balls - if you are not careful, you will slip and hurt your wrist.  9. Shoulder and Arm - This is closest to the original p90x workout.  After the workout, I felt similar to when I first started p90x.  But be careful, there are still alot of balance moves.  10.  Base and Back -  This is basically a pullup and jump training workout.  Not as intense as the p90x's legs and back.  But I did learn in the video that Tony is 52 during the filming of p90x2.  I guess that is a pretty good testament to taking care of yourself then you can look and function better than a 30 year old when you are 50.  okay I am done for now... untill next workout..

Great Show I didn't like it at first but then I actually started watching right before the season with Seinfeld Reunion and HBO was showing the season before that on demand in the summer so I kind of got hooked by the time the new season (Reunion) started.  Now I"ve shown it to some friends who aren't fortunate enough to afford HBO and they are hooked. They want to come over every few weeks to watch more.  I'm basically watching like it's a new show.  I'm not a left winger but I still enjoy the comedy.  I can sometimes look beyond those things if it's written well enough.  I don't think Larry David thought this show would do so well when he first started out but it being on the air still shows that it can't be all bad...  Just my opinon.

SATANIC PANIC This movie is a 'must watch' for anyone directly involved in the criminal justice system, or for that matter, any citizen that lives in our great country.  It will make you play closer attention to what happens in our courtrooms and prisons.  On May 6, 1993, three 8-year-old boys bodies are found murdered and mutilated.  There is panic in the little town of West Memphis, Arkansas, and the citizenry is wanting/demanding quick results and arrests of the culprits.  The search centers on three teenagers, Jason, Damien, and Jesse, who wear "dark clothing" and listen to hard rock music.  The follow-up investigations lead to questions about the blood work and the lab results, and there is 'a coerced confession' from Jesse in question, a borderline retarded boy.  Over the years, many questions have arisen, and the case needs to be re-examined by seasoned, objective detectives.  I suggest that everyone watch this movie, or others like it, so we never stop scrutinizing our criminal justice system.  Watch this one, or read the book, and you too will find yourselves working as amateur investigators and forming a definite opinion about the innocence of the accused...or not.

Classic Ebert once wrote that movies like this are only as good as the villain and he is spot on. Fortunately Khan is the best villain in the Star Trek universe, the Borg being the other. That is why Khan and First Contact are the best movies before the re-launch. It is human, almost touching but also full of humor. No coincidence they decided to bring Khan back for the new Star Trek movie.

Creative and interesting The first reaction I had was: "So this is where Mozart took some of his ideas from!" The opera is interesting but not great. There is no surprise that it sounds similar to Mozart. That is the main problem of the opera, it is similar, but it is not Mozart. The staging is very creative, full of colors which only help the plot. The high-tech props are very effective, while not disturbing the story and the music. The staging by itself is worth watching. There are also some audio tricks that are very interesting and ingenious. The singers do a very good job making the most out of the music and libretto. I give my kudos to the Liceu for putting up this production. I enjoyed the Opera, but I will recommend it only to those interested in learning about Mozart contemporaries and the cross pollination between them. This is not for the casual Opera listener though. Dynamic should have added more background information on the opera and a Bonus on the DVD to present this not-well-know-opera to its public.

Very Likeable Little Flick What a pleasant surprise!  Had never heard of this but watched it on a lark and it was really fun.  The cast is very likeable, the humor is good-natured, and the overall tone is just goofy and fun.  In many ways this reminded me of 80s comedies like Better Off Dead or some of John Hughes stuff like 16 Candles, back when comedies didn't rely on extreme gross-out gags and in-your-face obscenity to generate laughs.  In fact, whenever an off-color word or phrase is used in Ping Pong Playa it is effectively bleeped out by the sound of a bouncing ball - a very random running gag that nevertheless made me laugh out loud more than once.  In this story about an underachieving wanna-be baller who finally has a shot at redeeming himself in the eyes of his family & his community via a local ping pong competition, you get a nice mix of satire (sports movies get their send-up through the dramatic come-from-behind ping pong tournament climax), cultural humor, very mild family dysfunction, and very mild teen angst as the bases for what ends up being a winning comedy.  If you're in the mood for a sweet comedy that forgoes the usual cheap-laughs raunch and succeeds instead with charm and wit, give this one a shot.

Any Given Sunday This is one of the best movies ever. It has so many truths of life and how people act to those truths.  Great movie.

definitely above-average I watched this film with trepidation, as it appeared Charles Goodnight's life was to be reinvented, making him a hard-fightin' crusader for justice. (Not that he wasn't a fine human being -- he was -- but he was a cattleman, not a lawyer.)  Turns out the film's principal character is fictional, one John William Goodnight, a hard-drinking lawyer. The story gets off to a bad start, portraying him as an amusing-and-not-very-serious roughneck. This is corrected as we learn his Batman-ish backstory, and he's made a circuit judge serving the area where his parents were murdered, in the hope he'll not only dispense tough justice, but exorcise his demons.  Not surprisingly, the story comprises mostly clich&eacute;s, especially the one of projecting 20th-century liberal values on 19th-century characters. But the sober, believable dialog, and everyone's (including the director's) underplaying largely suppresses the "I've seen this a hundred times before" reaction. The slight twist at the end isn't much of a surprise, but the murderer's motivations are unexpected and surprisingly cruel.  Given that Luke Perry is credited with creating the character, and the story's lack of a conventional romantic resolution, it would seem Mr Perry has a series of films in mind. (A check of IMDb indicates two more films are "in the hopper".) Perry is not only a competent actor, but he's appealing dressed -- and even more appealing dis-habille. The visual clich&eacute; of the nude man in the wash basin is trotted out, with Perry pushing it to the limit of acceptability for a film children might see. Nevertheless, this is a PG-13 film not suitable for pre-teens (despite some reviewers calling it a "family" film).  "Goodnight for Justice" is light entertainment, but well-done. That's why I'm giving it a positive, four-star review.

From one kid's perspective My kid loves this sequel, and that's enough for me. I was never a NASCAR fan or even a fan of cars (I actually dislike motor vehicles!!!), but I grew to love the original Cars as a kids' movie, and after seeing Cars 2 three times in the theater, I can say I liked this sequel much more than the original. Honestly. Pixar promised something bigger and more intense, and they kept that promise.  Now, I could pick apart the movie with a critic's eye, but what would be the point? Watching a kids' movie as a family is an experience, and if my kid loves this movie and can see the good in the characters and in the story at such a young age, then there is no point in my faulting Pixar or my listening to the dozens of critics who hated this sequel and who weren't really judging this movie from a car-loving kid's point of view anyway.

A Good Movie With Qualifiers I finally got an opportunity to see this movie last night and while I think it was very good overall, there are some things that bugged me about it. First, the good parts. The pacing of the movie is perfect. The action is constant without being overwhelming and the tension between the protestors and police is palpable. Woody Harrelson does another great job and Ray Liotta is understated, but effective, as the city's major. The movie also does a great job of explaining why the protestors were protesting against the WTO and it is fairly balanced in its approach to all of the participants without resorting to hero-worship or demonization. In short, there is a lot to like about this movie.  However, I would recommend this movie with a couple of caveats. First, the movie is never sure whether it wants to be a drama or a documentary. If this were a movie about something innocuous like the Olympics or a sporting event, that would be fine. However, this is an event that is still quite emotionally charged to a lot of people and to waver back and forth between drama and documentary does a disservice to both genres. In other words, it would either have been a stronger and more meaningful drama or documentary if it has been one or the other and not tried to be both. The second quibble I have is with the depiction of the protestors. Overall, it is not a bad depiction. It is certainly MUCH better than the mass media's cartoonish depiction of the protestors as being a bunch of bomb-throwing anarchists looking to destroy all that is good. However, the movie does depict them as naive and at worst, mentally and hygienically challenged. I mean, one guy is out there putting up with beatings from police, tear gas and arrests because he wants to save the turtles? Really?  Again, I did enjoy this movie and it is one that I do recommend watching if you want to know about this historic event that is still something of a traumatic event for many who experienced it in Seattle. The acting is great and the storyline is compelling. Just be aware that it probably will not be the last word on the topic.

Simply Inspirational! One of the most uplifting/inspirational movies that I have ever seen. The acting could have been better, but altogether a very good movie.

Despite Keanu, What A Fun Film! Keanu Reeves is as wooden as the desk my keyboard rests on, and he has about as much range as a slug on an ice cube, but in the case of SPEED I could not possibly care less.  Paired with the feisty, super cute Sandra Bullock, and pitted against Dennis Hopper, who is as good as it gets as an uber villain, Keanu is surprisingly palatable (if not totally forgettable) in SPEED, one of the best high octane action films on the planet.  Yes, we're all familiar with the plot:  when SWAT cop Jack Traven (Reeves) and his partner, Harry (Jeff Daniels), foil a terrorist/ransom plot at an LA high rise, maniacal villain Howard Payne (Hopper) reacts worse than the proverbial woman scorned.  He rigs a city transport bus with explosives, then activates the bomb once it's in motion; if the bus ever slows below 50 mph, it's curtains for those unfortunates on board.  Of course, good ol' Jack delivers himself for the rescue (via a commandeered convertible, of course) and, aided by Bullock's bewildered character, who takes over when the bus driver is shot, this ADD thriller really starts to move.  Is all of it over the top, with most of Reeves's action sequences in the cartoon realm?  And is the ending so silly and disbelieving the viewer is chuckling at the zaniness?  Absolutely, but who cares?  SPEED is a white knuckler thriller that will have you turning somersaults from your couch.  If you haven't seen SPEED, you're way overdue for a grand roller coaster ride.  Just make sure your heart meds are on hand. --D. Mikels, Author, The Reckoning

Do yourself a favor and watch it before considering it as bad. The movie was stupid and just funny overall. I recommend it to watch if you have nothing else to do or truly bored. It's a good movie : ) Give it a try, before considering other negative feedbacks left from other people. I liked the cast for the movie : )

Just Watched It On TV I just watched this on tv just the other day again. I don't own the dvd, but I like the movie a lot. I think of it as a semi-classic

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Those who know me may be inclined to say that I'm not one who's really in a position to review anything associated with Harry Potter, not the least of which being his sixth installment.  I do acknowledge that my indifference for the franchise has flourished in an age dominated by movies that I believe pay more respect to the fantasy realms.  You may understand me, then, when I say that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is one of the best films I've reviewed all year, and speaks for itself as a testament to the non-believers like myself that such a late film in the saga has driven me into humble conversion.  Those behind the scenes have finally figured out how to bring the people to the center of attention, as opposed to the magic.  And, ironically, you feel that this is the way it was supposed to have been all along.  The magic is still there; it's in the delightfully comfortable actors and actresses, many of which have come to form elegantly and beautifully.  And elegance is certainly the name of the game, here.  Everything about this film emits a sophisticated, casual eloquence to it that is much easier to appreciate than the anxiety and disjointed flash atmosphere that seemed to coalesce in the past films when there was an intermission between significant events.  Novice David Yates was patient this time around, and it paid off in spades.  Predictably, the Harry Potter universe is getting increasingly more crowded, and it would prove difficult for anyone to keep screen time balanced.  Yates does this with as much precision as one could, all things considered, but it is saddening to see some once-prominent characters now taking solace in the distant background, clearly obstructed by the charming trio, surprisingly solid Draco Malfoy (who just shines, especially considering his very minor roles in the past few installments) and the solemn Dumbledore.  The film is exempt of a great deal of action, and explosion enthusiasts may be turned off by such.  The effects play their part, though, complementing the performances instead of suffocating them, and are as striking as ever.  Ultimately, The Half Blood Prince has made me genuinely excited for what the end of times may hold for Harry and his friends, to the point where, even now, I cant help but feel a haunting and bittersweet twang of the heart that this epic journey is finally coming to an end.  Lord knows that, whatever happens, I'll be in line to witness all of it on day one and, come number seven, you should, too.

Item was good, seller should be more careful Movie is great, had a nasty surprise when I went to eject it.  Apparently a label with a gum backing had been on this previous rental, the seller shipped it that way and I had no knowledge that this was a problem.  Took a local expert to get it out of my machine.  I wrote the seller asking them to be more careful as they sell to both skilled and unskilled persons and should remove label residue before shipping when the product is stated as good to excellent in condition.  No answer back, not the customer service I would wish for.

Very Interesting I heard good things about this documentary, and the brief outline I got of the subject matter intrigued me. I found the movie engaging and well made. The subject matter did not disappoint; it held my attention the whole time. The tiles are introduced and explained in detail, and in a systematic way that I appreciated. The narrative follows the three main characters on their hunt for clues chronologically. The way they continually revealed new hints kept me glued to the screen. Definitely worth a watch.

Superb on every level ****1/2  In this day and age when quality animated features are the rule rather than the exception, "How to Train Your Dragon" still manages to beat all comers with its charm, imagination and honest sentiment.  Based on the story by Cressida Cowell, the movie focuses on Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (Jay Baruchel), the scrawny young son of a Viking leader (Gerard Butler) who worries that his boy may not possess the mettle a true Viking warrior must have to smite the many dragons that periodically swoop in on the village to steal its food.  It's not that Hiccup doesn't WANT to be a dragon-slayer; heck, he's even enrolled in a dragon-slaying course replete with real dragons for the students to practice their moves on.  No, the problem is that Hiccup has met and made friends with an injured dragon in the wild (a beast he calls Toothless) and the lad soon discovers that dragons are not the natural-born enemies to Man that he and the other Vikings thought they were.  Beyond its glorious visuals, eye-popping action sequences, and terrific voiceover work, "How to Train Your Dragon," written and directed by Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders, emerges as a surprisingly compelling human tale of a boy who wants desperately to live up to the high standards his demanding father has set for him, but who just can't betray his new-found best friend in order to do so.  Without getting sappy about it, the movie provides fine moral lessons for the youngsters - though, one should point out that the intensity of the action scenes may prove a tad disturbing for the very littlest in the audience.  Its soaring flight scenes are some of the best we've ever encountered in an animated movie, and its canny combination of humor, adventure and sentiment catapult it to the head of the class among recent animated films (along with "Toy Story 3," that is).

Jay Hernandez should not be in this film!!!!!!Jay almost ruins christmas! I would of gave this film 5 stars if they took the Jay Hernandez character out, we did not need to see the pointless thug/gang crap in this film.Who the hell cast him????The story is beautiful with just the family John Leguizamo,Melone Diaz, Freddy Rodriguez, elizabeth Pena etc they do an amazing job in this heartfelt film.Its great to see a Puerto Rican christmas on film..dramatic and beautiful.But, why when there is color in film they have to add gang violence or that thug crap?????????They do not do that in white films like "Four Christmases", "Christmas with the cranks", "Its a wonderful life" etc..I enjoy the Puerto Rican family chemistry and the loved ones in their lives.The director and writer should of concentrated on that..a real family.It just bugs me to see Jay Hernandez even in the film, his role and thug scenes should of been cut, the gang/thug crap should of not been in film..This ghetto crap needs to be cut out of Latino films.Watch the movie again and ask do we really need Jay in this film?Its pointless to have him there with the needless violence..this is a christmas story.I rather see more on Melonie Diaz and Freddy Rodriguez character, they have great chemistry and are way better actors.

Wanted dead or alive great show. I like Rutger and this was a great role for him, and Gene Simmons playing the bad guy was great and seeing him outside of KISS a treat good movie.I have not yet watched Death before Dishoner.

An interesting tale. The Lookout starts off as a movie about a man trying to get by in life after a car accident leaves him with memory issues and before you know it, it turns into a heist film. With great performances by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Jeff Daniels, it's a sadly underrated film.

4 stars for fun, not for quality I enjoyed this film. Straight off, it was fun. If you liked Transformers, or ID4, you'll like this one. It's fun, and stupid, and full of holes, but that what cheese is all about. It's also a good family film, as there are no real violent deaths, or blood, or nudity, or even swear words. This is not Skyline, or Battlefield LA. That said, here are some spoiler questions: 1) How does a guy who just broke into a store, get out the next day and able to enlist in the Navy? 2) How does said guy, who has about the intelligence of Homer Simpson, get to lieutenant? 3) How can Alien Race who can travel the stars, not have a guided missile, Just mortars? 4) Why does a Race that prefers dark, need lights to see in the dark? 5) Why can they detect the insides of something, but can not detect that it's the same kind of creature that attacked before. If you killed a roach, then saw a second roach, you would know it was a roach. 6) If the guy can break into the satellite station to get a radio, why can he not just turn off the satellites, or redirect them? 7) why do the aliens carry no weapons, except a hammer/sword thing? 8) In the 1 hour trip to the North side of the Island, The captain on the destroyer could not take the time to lock onto the Radar dishes and destroy them? 9) After being fired on twice by the enemy (with major damage), the Navy ships still only fire single shots at them with their main gun. Why not open fire with everything? It is a Destroyer, right? And we see what opening fire, can do to the enemy later. Pretty effective. 10) Why are the enemy soldiers bulletproof, but the ships are not? 11) How do the aliens fit into their armor? The legs on the unit are thinner then most super models. This list can go on and on.....

The best Jason Statham movie that I have seen in a while! Arthur Bishop (played by sexy Jason Statham), an extremely organized assassin has decided to take on an apprentice, Steve McKenna (played by Ben Foster) following the death (at his hands) of his mentor/friend (played by the talented Donald Sutherland). Trying to instill patience and control in his new assistant, Bishop sets out to teach him the ropes (basically how to kill someone and escape notice). Engaging and entertaining, this movie was chopped full of great fight scenes, great action, and a decent story line. "The Mechanic" was well worth the $1 that I paid to rent it. I highly recommend it.

Old School movie for the grandkids This was a buy to replace a VHS that was one of my kids favorites, now my grandkids like the movie.  Great buy.  Fast delivery.  I would purchase from this vendor again.

MORE ROBERT SHAW, PLEASE! This film is excellent! They could not have picked better music, or costumes, nor scenes. If you are a fan of the time era, and people who lived then, get the film and enjoy! Only rebuke... Robert Shaw, who was nominated for best supporting actor for this film, has one big scene! That is it, that is all! However, the scene is very memorable! Perhaps it is more memorable that he was just in the one scene! None of the rest of the film, lives up to it! But I will say, memorable throughout, and the dramatic music is still in my head. Watch and enjoy a classic. KING HENRY THE EIGHTH, I AM!

Least favorite of three prenatal DVDs I recently purchased the The Perfect Pregnancy Workout, 10 Minute Solutions - Prenatal Pilates and this DVD. This is by far my least favorite, although there are some great leg and butt exercises (at least in the first trimester session). The actual workout is on the easy side. I find Summer and her sister-in-law trainer to be obnoxiously goofy - and I've dealt with three rounds of Tony Horton in P90X - so I can handle goofiness! I will continue to do this DVD in my workout rotation (on low energy days) but will put it on mute and play my own music.

Beginnings This is a must have for all Dr. Who fans.  It shows how the program first began.  The first serial may have the doctor a little out of his usual personallity. Be sure and watch the pilot of the first show.  See how this never aired pilot differs from the first program aired.  You'll find the dr. a lot more combative and disagreeable in the pilot. But the Daleks episode is classic doctor, and shows his true nature.  We see the doctors most iconic nemesis for the first time and you dislike them immediately.  Great place to start your back cataloge of Dr. Who, all the way at episode 1.  Be sure and watch all the documentuaries they are very insiteful.  Very much worth purchasing.

Favorite episode Thunderbirds Whilst not in the series, Thunderbirds are go is a fun and highly imaginitive Science Fiction movie that is full of high adventure as only Gerry Anderson knows how.

An unusual, haunting and, at times, quite surreal western. No film is perfect - at least none that I've seen; and this one does have its flaws, particularly involving the ending, which is quite bizarre to say the least.  Nevertheless, there is much to compensate for those flaws, not least the acting of both stars and supporting cast, and, apart from the ending, it's easy to banish them to a level just below that of conscious awareness and allow them to drift away.  Essentially, it's a chase and revenge movie set against a backdrop of sumptuous scenery and majestic skies; Neeson, in company with four `employees', doggedly pursues Brosnan across frozen mountainous wastes and parchment dry deserts and, on several occasions, comes close to seizing and dispatching his quarry for reasons, not forthcoming until we approach the end.  Along the way, we meet various ancillary characters that add a bit of spice to what might otherwise have been a somewhat one dimensional narrative.  As others have mentioned, it is quite slow paced for a chase movie but I didn't find it any less tense for that and felt the pace a perfect match for the vastness of the country across which the pursuit took place.

Must Viewing For Aspiring College Applicants Good story with some very funny scenes and good acting, but it's the moral of the story makes it worth watching.

Old friends in collision Soft-spoken railroad detective Luke "Whispering" Smith (Alan Ladd) crosses the mountains in search of the train-robbing Barton Brothers, kills two of them, and is wounded himself.  His old friend Murray Sinclair (Robert Preston), in charge of clearing wrecks from that division of his road, takes him home to be nursed back to health.  But it soon becomes clear that these two are bound for an inevitable wreck of their own: Murray's wife Marian (Brenda Marshall), though five years married to him, is still desperately in love with Smith, who's never gotten over her either, and Murray has succeeded beyond the bounds of legitimacy by supplementing his railroad work with an alliance with Barney Rebstock (Donald Crisp), a rancher-cum-rustler who also peddles goods "salvaged" from the wrecks Murray works.  When Division Super George McCloud (John Eldredge) fires Murray for his light-fingered ways, the furious Murray sees no reason not to go the whole hog in avenging himself, and now it's up to Smith to stop him.  This and the sinister, cold-blooded gunman Whitey DuSang (Frank Faylen) give the movie more than a little of the same tragic feel as Ladd's generally-acknowledged masterpiece-Western, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0792163710">Shane</a>, but the presence of bluff, hearty Murray and veteran character actors Crisp and William Demarest (as Bill Dansing) give it a lighter feel and a touch more humor.  There's also some beautiful scenery that looks as if it was filmed somewhere in the high Rockies.  I don't usually care for Ladd's work, but this is a DVD I was determined to add to my collection.

What a kiss!!! This is the best recently made movie I have seen at the moment. The story line was beleivable and most people would be able to relate to all the characters in this movie as someone they may know in real life.  The movie dealt with a range of topical issues. They were well portrayed by each character. Most lesbians will also feel deeply connected to Peyton and her cycle of feelings for Elena. The longing and struggles she faces for loving Elena are clear, even without words.  And....what a kiss. Best kiss between lesbians on screen in any movie I have watched. You can almost feel the passion from these women radiating off the screen, red hot. Well made, well acted, GREAT cast.

What?  There's another one? This is an interesting "take" on the famous / infamous love affair between Henry VIII and his mistress & future queen, Anne Boleyn.  The central figure in the story is her sister, Mary (portrayed by Scarlett Johansson).  While everyone is @ least vaguely aware of Henry & Anne, the same cannot be said of Henry & Mary.  And yes, Mary and the English King has their own sexual liasons.  Anne (Natalie Portman) is depicted as a very deceitful & conniving femme fatale in the present movie.  Her's is quite a controversial persona as the opinions of her have gone the full spectrum in the minds of various historians.  Or, to put it another way, there are probably as many differing views of Anne Boleyn as there are Medieval historians!  Eric Bana is a solid choice to play King Henry.  Some may say he's too debonair & buffed to play Henry VIII, but this is simply not true.  Most people know Henry as the fatso he became in his latter years, but in the early yrs of his reign he was known as being a very dashing and athletic fellow.  Bana even looks a bit like him in a few of the sequences.  ***WARNING:  THIS MOVIE MAY LEAD TO SENSORY OVERLOAD IN THE SCENES IN WHICH NATALIE PORTMAN & SCARLETT JOHANSSON ARE BOTH ON THE SCREEN TOGETHER.  I had to keep a defibrillator by my couch while viewing the DVD ~ just in case.  Guess I'm getting old.  The main "problem" with the present film is not with the acting, directing or the point-of-view of the story that it takes.  Rather, the difficulty lies with just how big a historical chunk that it's trying to bite-off in a very limited amount of time.  As such, it glosses over an awful lot & omits even more.  What the film-makers tried to do was the theatrical equivalent of fitting a cruise ship into a 2 stall garage.  With that in mind, if you want a more ambitious & thorough rendition of what is really going on, I would HIGHLY recommend <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0042RJWTC">The Tudors: The Complete Series</a>.  Michael Hirst's masterpiece is sure to fill in all of the blanks on what happened back in 16th century England.

What Dreams May Come From a Mans point of view, I extremely liked this movie. I would recommend it to men and women alike. From the start it held my interest and curiousity.

GOOD LUCK HARRY As always I PITY the FOOL who just watches Harry. You need to read it too. This is a pretty good film and good set up for the battle of Hogwarts and final duel.  I must say Hedwig had a much more heroic death in the film. In the book she just died in her cage. But they should have used JK's dialogue between Harry and Ron about the deluminator.  Ron: Dumbledore left it to me because he knew I would run out on you. Harry: NO Dumbledore left it to you because he knew you would always want to come back.  Or SOMETHING kinda like that, I can not seem to find it in the book now, but it was far more moving than the movie version.  I am going to scribble on my scar with purple sharpie [ Dead center of my skull right between my eyes as JK intended.] Put on my round glasses, my black cape grab my wand and off to the final film. I MAY review it but who cares we have all read the book anyway.

Skimmed through a lot but many useful tips I didn't read all of the book, but I skimmed every page, watching for the bits that would be really helpful. One tip I found was that if your calves are getting tired before the rest of you, try jumping in a way that one foot goes forward and the other one back and then reverse it. This immediately enabled me to lengthen the time I could spend rebounding.  The parts about Carter's life were interesting enough to me that I read them, but I did skip over a lot about how the body works. I already knew the basics and he often took it further than my interest level.  I recently bought a good rebounder, and I got this book to help me understand more about the science behind rebounding. The book did that, far better than the many websites that list benefits and often cite Al Carter!

Not as scary, still good and creepy This miniseries movie scared the crap out of me when I was a kid...long before I ever read the book. King's novel is exponentially more terrifying, but the miniseries is a relatively faithful adaptation (come on, there's just some things they can't show you on TV). I didn't find this series as horrifying as I once did, but you really have to give Tim Curry credit for creating a truly eerie and sinister version of Pennywise. He'll probably haunt my nightmares forever.

Dickens / Fenster 50 year memory I was 5 when I last saw this show, but I remember it being very funny. 50 years later it's still funny, great slapstick, and great performances by Astin & Ingels.  The sets are cheap, staging is dated, but it still made me laugh. One complaint only and that is that they should have added closed captioning. After 50 years I imagine a lot of the show's fans are hard of hearing.

A great addition to your Blu-Ray collection! The film is great and looks awesome in HD, this goes without saying. What's even better is the additional footage and Behind-the-scenes documentaries that come with. They even included a whole other cut of the movie with the stories placed in the order of the comics plus additional scenes that were cut for timing. A really cool addition.

Love This Video and The Glaciers of Alaska My mom got this Alaska dvd for me. We were thinking of a cruise in Alaska to view the glaciers and Alaska wildlife.  After watching this dvd we are even more enthusiastic about visiting Alaska, but we have decided to postpone our trip so we can save up a little more money and afford a longer cruise than we had initially considered.  If you want to cruise Alaska and see the beauty, and you don't have a cruise ship, grab this video for instant satisfaction.  We love it :)

SIMPLY SUPERB So much has been said in praise of this superb adaptation, there's not much to add.  Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros in HBO's medieval fantasy adapted from George R. R. Martin's best-selling series A Song of Ice and Fire for HBO by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss.  Lena Headey, Jack Gleeson, Peter Dinklage and Sean Bean star along with new faces, all of whom wonderfully inhabit the warring clans - kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars and noblemen - in the two mighty families who vie for power in the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros where summers span decades and winters can last a lifetime.  The seductive ten episodes that cover the first book in the on-going series, which is still being written, is a visually rich, sweeping epic and arguably the best thing on TV right now.  If this is new to you, prepare to be hooked and engaged as betrayal, lust, intrigue and supernatural forces shake the four corners of the Kingdoms in a bloody battle for the Iron Throne, the outcome of which has unforeseen and far-reaching consequences.  The cliff-hanging ending will prime you for Season Two.

The Music MAN This production of Meridith Willson's "The Music Man" is a treasure, marred only slightly by the weak, wobbly singing of Shirley Jones. How that woman achieved a successful career in the movies and TV (Partridge Family series) with a voice like hers is beyond belief. Nevertheless, Robert Preston, Buddy Hackett and Ron Howard make this a real toe-tapping hum-along feel-good experience. Buy it, rent it, play it again and again!

"Hanna, what did your Mom die of?" "Three bullets." What to make of Hanna Heller (Saoirse Ronan)? She's 16, pale blond, light blue eyes and has been raised since she was a few months old in the isolated, frigid forests of northern Finland. The things we begin to notice are the grimly serious hand-to-hand combat she and her father, Erik (Eric Bana) practice; the sneak attacks on each other and near-death blows; her knife skills and her bow and arrow expertise; her seriousness, her apparent lack of empathy, her high pain threshold; her relentless hunting down a reindeer she almost killed with an arrow, eating the steaming raw liver, skinning and butchering the beast and then hauling it back to the isolated one-room cabin she shares with her father. The cabin is rough living at best; heat comes from wood, clothes are rags and skins. This is all Hanna knows...plus several memorized identities, several languages and many facts about places  One day, after Hanna beats her father in combat, she declares that she is ready. He takes out a small transmitter with a button. "The choice is yours," he tells her. She reflects for a day, then reaches out and pushes the button. Hanna, the movie, is underway.  That button has alerted CIA agent Marissa Wiegler (Cate Blanchett) that Hanna is alive and where she is located. Hanna's father takes an old set of civilian clothes and leaves. He tells Hanna how to meet him. Hanna waits quietly for Marissa's agents to show up. There are three. She kills one, then is captured and taken to secret headquarters, where she meets Marissa face-to-face...or is it a false Marissa. Hanna kills several more before she escapes.  The rest of Hanna is a thriller chase, with Hanna intent on meeting her father at a place called Grimm's House in Germany and learning her origins. Right behind her is Marissa, now searching for her father while one of her off-the-books operatives, Issacs (Tom Hollander), a small dyed-blond man who favors tight white jumpsuits and whistles while he works, seeks to capture Hanna and bring her to Marissa.  Hanna is a clever thriller. A little of the air seeps out when the CIA is brought in. Making up for this is the consistency of Ronan's character. Hanna is a deadly naïf. Was she brought up to be an assassin? I don't think so. She was brought up to defend herself against Marissa, with good reason. On the one-hand, Hanna's ruthlessness when it comes to killing bad guys is bracing but disturbing. On the other hand, her utter unfamiliarty with such concepts as "friendship" is also disturbing, and quite touching when she begins to grasp the idea. Ronan does a fine job.  So fine, in fact, that Cate Blanchett doesn't walk off with the movie. Still, Blanchett's take on a cool, amoral, murderous woman, who must have control, is vivid and scary. She dominates every scene she's in, even those with Ronan, but she can't quite dominate Ronan's character.  Even the smaller parts have been cast with care. I like three, especially. Tom Hollander is one of Britain's finest actors. Too short, perhaps to ever make it as more than a character lead, Hollander as Issacs plays a homosexual killer with verve. He enjoys using a man being interrogated for target practice. Martin Wuttke lives in Grimm's House in the middle of what appears to be an abandoned fair ground. He's eccentric, friends with Erik Heller and wants to protect Hanna. Michelle Dockery plays the false Marissa. She has a small role. She doesn't last long, but what time she has she uses well.  Hanna is the kind of adventure movie that, like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001D5C1GW">Tell No One</a>, is well made, well acted and clever. Does it mean anything more? Nope, but like Tell No One, it will stand up to repeated viewings, just for the pleasure it brings.

Twist like a sixth sense, keep you guessing How can I say great things about the movie without giving it away. Best part of the movie is not knowing. Movie filmed mostly in dark, gothic style, light. There is no rainbows, bright sun light in the movie. It takes place in an old mansion. Kidman and her two kids lives in this mansion. We find out that her husband went to war and did not comeback yet. Movie starts a bit slow, almost like a BBC TV series. After first 20 mins, you begin to ask questions and figure out what is really going on. This feeling will last almost until ;ast 10 mins of the movie. If you liked sixth Sense, you will really enjoy this movie.

The Writing Is a Mixed Bag, but Lewis & Hathaway Entertain for Another Series. "Inspector Lewis" Series 5 maintains the quality of the last few seasons, which is to say that the episodes are entertaining but the writing is inconsistent. The plots are improbable, of course, but credibility is stretched to the breaking point in "Fearful Symmetry", in which it seems like everyone in Oxford has a connection to an obscure simian research lab. In "Generation of Vipers", the detectives make liberal use of CCTV and private information from the internet, which makes me wonder if the writers are trying to promote the UK's growing surveillance programs or question them. Also in that episode, critical information that cracks the case comes from a journalist who turns up something obvious, not from detective work. I didn't know what to make of that.  In any case, DI Robbie Lewis (Kevin Whately) and partner DS James Hathaway (Laurence Fox) still have a nice chemistry. Chief Superintendent Innocent (Rebecca Front) returns as their boss, though she has very little to do this season. Pathologist Dr. Laura Hobson (Clare Holman) is also back and still Lewis' might-be-but-never-quite love interest. Series 5 introduces a couple of new recurring characters in the competitive DI Peterson (Jason Durr) and striking young DC Julie Lockhart (Kemi-Bo Jacobs), who does a lot of spade work for Lewis and Hathaway. This is Series 6 in the UK, by the way. Entertaining, with lots of great Oxford locales. The episodes are:  In "The Soul of Genius", the body of English professor Murray Hawes is found buried in the woods by botanist Liz Nash (Nadine Lewington). Hawes was obsessed with solving a mystery hidden in Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark", so much so that he had recently purchased a rare manuscript of the poem. As Lewis and Hathaway dig around at nearby Oxford Botanical Gardens, which Hawes frequented, and interview his manipulative brother Rev. Coner Hawes (Alex Jennings), an amateur sleuth named Michelle Marber (Celia Imrie) is also on the trail. She believes the death had something to do with drug trials that Hawes participated in under a Dr. Alex Falconer (James Fleet), but her investigation threatens to interfere with the professional detective work.  "Generation of Vipers" finds a lonely Oxford English professor dead in her home after a video she submitted to a dating web site was pirated for all to see on a site called Barker. It looks like a suicide, as Professor Miranda Thornton (Julie Cox) had painkillers in her stomach. But Lewis and Hathaway aren't sure, because the cassette tape from her antiquated answering machine is missing. Investigations lead to a web of relationships from twenty years ago, when Thornton was at school. Kit Renton (Daniel Lapaine), owner of the Barker web site, was at school with her, as was Susanna Leland (Kate Maravan), owner of the dating site to which the video was posted, and David Connelly (Toby Stephens), a real estate developer with whom Thornton was doing battle.  All roads lead, oddly, to a research lab for simian neuroscience in "Fearful Symmetry". When Nick (Ciar&aacute;n McMenamin) and Honey Addams (Georgia Taylor) return home from a party, they find their babysitter Jessica Lake (Abigail Hardingham) dead and bound to a bed in a fetishistic pose. Jessica had been filling in for her friend Yasmin Randall (Leila Mimmack), who works at the lab under the tutelage of Dr. Joshua Ezrin (Gregor Truter) and Dr. Bob Massey (Con O'Neill), father of Jessica's boyfriend Gideon (Pierro Niel-Mee). Some art photos taken by controversial anthropologist and social pundit Marion Hammond (Lucy Cohu), depicting Jessica in a similar pose to the one in which she was found, may be the only clue to the identity of her killer.  "The Indelible Stain" also harkens back to events at Oxford decades ago. Dr. Paul Yelland (David Soul) gives a controversial lecture about a new theory of "criminal dangerousness" and is later found dead in his room. Ch Supt Innocent encourages the detectives to wrap this case up quickly, as the department had declined to provide Yelland with security. Initially, protesters who crashed the professor's lecture are suspect, but the criminologist who invited him, Prof. Anne Rand (Nancy Carroll), was cruelly using him . Her husband, Robert Fraser (Patrick Baladi), is having an affair with his accomplished student Nina Clemens (Pippa Bennet Warner), who might have motive for murder. And administrator Lillian Hunter (Nina Sosanya) has a connection to Yelland from long ago.

Not for the novice.... I liked this series, I gave it a very respectable 4 on the overall rating. To break it down though: Comedy: 5 Drama: 3 Story: 3.5 Fan service: 4 Character developement: 3 "H/ecchi/pervertedness" factor: off the charts...  But, this isn't your typical "ecchi" anime. Which are usually 'harem' types, with 1 guy being the protagonist and having multiple girls chasing after him. This series gives you the perspective of a female protagonist, who's main goal is to lose her virginity and thus become more 'experienced'... At least that's what she keeps telling herself. And thus, chaos ensues. It's actually a pretty nice story but not one for the family, or anyone really under 15-ish for that matter.  I was really intrigued by how perverted a mind this character has. I would definitely "NOT" use this anime as an introduction to anime for anyone...."ESPECIALLY" if that someone is a girlfriend. She'll just be creeped out by the whole thing, even though parts of it could coincide with the way she probably thought when she was that age. But, you and her both know she'll never admit to. Even if that someone is a guy friend, I wouldn't recommend it if they're not already totally into anime. A show like this might set their expectations for other anime a little too high on the "H" scale.  If you want to start someone out on a good comedy romantic anime I'd probably go for something like http://www.amazon.com/Ranma-Season-Digital-Dojo-Anime/dp/B000JVT28G , as long as they keep in mind how long ago that anime was actually made. If you really want to get a gf hooked on anime though I'd probably go for something like http://www.amazon.com/KANON-COMPLETE-BOX-SET-Movie/dp/B0030ZOYPO , http://www.amazon.com/School-Rumble-First-Semester-S-A-V-E/dp/B002FOQXRI , or http://www.amazon.com/Clannad-Collection-Artist-Not-Provided/dp/B003E51VUQ .  Almost all these I've recommended are pretty suitable for anyone 10+ except maybe Ranma 1/2.

Chekov, the Doctor and McLovin do a little vampire hunting... Back when I was a wee lad and the only way to see movies after they left theatres was cable or your VCR, I stumbled across the film Fright Night. It was a bit cheesy, but it was a lot of fun, and I had enjoyed Roddy McDowell ever since I first saw him in Planet of the Apes. It was a film I was deeply fond of, and so I approached word of a remake with great trepidation. Thankfully this movie is at least as good, if not better, than the original.  The story follows Charlie Brewster (Anton Yelchin who, thankfully, has the good sense to take off his shirt at one point), a high school senior living in Las Vegas who tries to forget his former friendship with a boy named Ed (Christopher Mintz-Plasse). Ed is convinced that a vampire (Colin Farrell), has moved in next to Charlie, and the disappearance of their mutual friend Adam has pushed him to the point where he's nearly in a panic. Charlie initially blows him off, as he's far more interested in hanging out with his "cool" friends and being around his girlfriend, Amy (Imogen Poots). Then Ed disappears, and Charlie starts to wonder what's really going on.  I liked this film a lot more than I expected to. Farrell does an excellent job playing Jerry the vampire. He plays as someone who is just a bit "off", almost like your basic movie serial killer, which technically is what he is. Mintz-Plasse also does a good job with what he's given, though I wish he'd had a bit more screentime as, frankly, his portrayal of the character isn't as memorable as that of Stephen Geoffreys (who later turned to doing gay porn. No, really!).  The real star of the show, however, and the one who steals the screen every moment he's on, is David Tennant (who, yes, fanboys and girls, goes shirtless for large parts of the movie), playing the McDowell role of Peter Vincent. Now instead of being a washed-up actor, he's a Las Vegas stage magician who pushes a vaguely Criss Angel image. He hams it up considerably, and does a good job of breaking away from his image as the Doctor. Rumor has it that his character is going to be spun-off into his own movie. I really hope that's the case.  The movie doesn't bring much that's new to vampire lore, aside from making the vampires non-sparkly and restoring all the old weaknesses that modern movies seem to want to gloss over. It does occasionally dip into cliche, but it executes the cliches well, and I'll say this: I'll never look at a Century 21 sign the same again.  Ultimately this film stands well on its own and is a very good way to end the summer blockbuster season. One last note: this is a physically dark film, with most of the action taking place in dark rooms or at night. Do not see it in 3-D if you actually want to see the movie.

A Trip Down Memory Lane <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6301973356">New Moon [VHS</a>]This film creates a delightful and nostalgic journey. It's splendidly performed by two really great singers. My one regret is that it has yet to be issued on DVD. When this happens, and I anxiously await it's happening, I will be one of the first ones, when notified, to obtain one or more copies.

Worth a view if you liked the game. This is a prequel to the game, and it seems like it was a prequel conceived AFTER the game had come out.  Just little details here and there seemed like they were trying to hard to keep the story within the limits of what would come later.  The new characters weren't amazingly well-developed, but they were mostly entertaining and moved the movie along.  If anything, watch for the adorable scenes of Puppy Repede.

New World Order I quite enjoyed the film but, in part, for reasons that have to do with past and present politics.  The mysterious and powerful 'Lord Blackstone' is the leader of a secret society that has an obvious resemblance to the Masons.  Together, and through the ceremonies/rites of this society, he has a sinister plan to take over England, America and eventually the entire world.  His plan, amongst other things, involves corrupting the police and other institutions.  Blackstone will, of course, be the literal dictator--King, Emperor--of the entire Earth and will rule by fear.  There is a fascinating political tract written by a mysterious individual supposedly named 'Nilus' and published in 1906.  The title is 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion.' [Available on Amazon].  The tract--almost certainly fraudulent--claims to be nothing less than the minutes of a French conference of Masonic Jews and details a plan to take over the World creating a one world state.  The mechanisms for doing this will include the insidious and subversive corruption of our institutions--police, courts, media, politicians.  Monetary manipulation and instability is an important part of the plan.  The terrified and demoralized masses will welcome the peace and stability that comes from the leadership of a benevolent, and all powerful, 'King' who will be chosen by a cadre of 'Wise Men.'  The similarities to Blackstone's sinister organization are, I think, obvious and makes me suspect that the writers of 'Sherlock Holmes' are intimate with Nilus tract.  By the way, I DO NOT believe that 'Protocols' are the actual minutes of anything, let alone the minutes of a subversive Masonic organization with Jewish guidance.  On the other hand, many of its assertions and predictions are alarmingly accurate.  I don't know who actually wrote 'Protocols' but, whoever they were, they definitely wanted to get their message out to the world.

Blood is Thicker Than Law Oh we do love our westerns, do we not? So many fine, articulate reviews posted for this installment of the Wyatt Earp legend. As it happens I am currently accumulating a collection of two great -almost mythological- stories that are told again and again on celluloid; the saga of Wyatt Earp, and Alice in Wonderland.  Although Wyatt and Alice may seem to occupy disparate niches in the archives of story telling, I propose that they are similar in that each tale acts as something of a template -or even an archetype- from which various interpretations of the core story can be rendered. It seems somehow ok that liberties have been taken with the exact way the events, either in reality or in the mind of the author, originally occurred in either story. The concepts of good, evil, morality, the impetus to do the right thing (The Wyatt Earp story), as well as the need to make sense of our dreams where the logic and proportion so often fall away (Alice)... are foundational to the human experience. To tell the story of Wyatt Earp or Alice in Wonderland with the characters and events reimagined by the current story teller allows us to examine these same core concepts through the fresh perspective of an individual's own interpretation.  In Hour of the Gun, it seems that director John Sturges is asking us to compare the morality of the two key players; Wyatt Earp and Ike Clanton. Such a comparison is of course done with regularity, but in this case we have the events as they are laid out by Sturges to judge. For example, in this telling of the story, Earp kills Clanton. We know it did not actually go down this way, but let's take this version at face value and see where it leads us.  It occurs to me that we are being asked whether Wyatt and Ike are in essence the same man. Ike Clanton is described not as a mindless killer, but rather a man with a goal --rule the world he is creating on his own terms, free of the interference of the Easterners. Clanton would prefer to work within the "law" ("if this were back east I could make law the way they do"), but in the end Clanton is willing to use death and violence to reach his goal.  Is it the same with Wyatt Earp? Wyatt generally works within the law. He's even willing to 'make law', such as prohibiting the carrying of firearms within city limits. But once the blood of his kin is in play, Wyatt forms up a goal that becomes more important than the moral code he has been living by. Still, he attempts to work within the framework of the law. He stretches his morality to the very brink when he goads his adversaries into drawing down on him. Yet even near the end, when he and Doc track down Ike Clanton in Mexico, Wyatt at first tries to work with the local authorities to apprehend Clanton. Only when the witnesses are killed and there's no chance of a trial to see justice done does Earp -for the first time really- step completely outside the law.  So, is Mr. Sturges telling us that when push came to shove Wyatt and Ike were exactly alike? And perhaps by inference, that all humans, under the right circumstances, will sacrifice their core beliefs... a juxtaposition of the old adage "Every man has his price"?  No. I don't think so. Hour of the Gun leaves intact a key difference between Ike Clanton's actions and the actions of Wyatt Earp. Ike was willing to sacrifice the lives of innocent people to reach his goal. He appears to care nothing of either the loss of his own brother or the deaths he sponsored of the innocents who would testify against him.  Sturges's Wyatt does not go that far. Even when Earp tricks his adversaries into gun-play over arrest, the argument can be made he did so because there was no hope of a fair trial. To support that idea we have Doc Holliday's line; "You couldn't get a conviction in a Federal court or a local one...".  And Wyatt never killed an innocent man to get to the men guilty of assaulting his brothers. For Wyatt Earp, blood was thicker than law, but even then he did not place himself above the law out of pure self-interest. Vengeance carried out in the name of another rises a few clicks above that. And even back when Wyatt 'made law' it was for the common good.  Therein lies the difference; root motivation, and I would insert that when asked how this tale of the Old West applies in modern life I would suggest that sometimes men, standing in judgment of one another, don't always take this further step of looking beyond a person's actions to their core motives.  Of course at then end of the day every film that tells the Wyatt Earp saga, from Frontier Marshall in 1934 to Wyatt Earp's Revenge in 2012, begs the question; What would be the right thing to do in such circumstances? What would YOU do?

Childhood memories Watching these made me think of myself when I was a child.  There were a few sad cartoons (so I don't think I'll watch those any more), but over all I enjoyed it.

Good Movie It was a surprisingly good movie. It would have been great if it was available in English with optional subtitles.

Taken I find the story very interesting.The actors are very good, particularly Liam Neeson is perfect. In my opinion it is one of the best thrillers.

Visuals 4 STARS, Acting 3 STARS, Plot 4 STARS My title says it all really.  The visuals and the plot are awesome but the acting is a little dull. I enjoyed the idea of the movie and the ending enough to recommend it. I've already seen it twice and the movie looks great. Keanu Reeves is a little lacking but that's normal.

The kids were in love I have 2 kids aged 5 and 8 and they absolutely loved this movie. They usually don't sit still to watch a full movie but this time they not only sat still, but they were quiet the whole time! This is a great movie!

Good Smorgasbord of Mid-Century Crime Films, but Most are Not Noir. This fifth volume in Warner's "Film Noir Classic Collection" includes 8 crime films that were made between 1945 and 1956. Only three of the films could reasonably be called "film noir". Those are the three that were made in the 1940s: "Cornered", "Desperate", and, to a lesser extent, "Deadline at Dawn". Film noir fans have to buy the set to get those, but this is not necessarily a bad thing. It offers a virtual smorgasbord of mid-century crime film styles, and most are of high quality -the exception being "Armored Car Robbery", which is mediocre. "The Phenix City Story" is a docu-drama about a real battle against corruption and organized crime in an Alabama town. "Dial 1119" unfolds in real time. "Crime in the Streets" is a social conscience film about youth gangs. "Backfire" is an entertaining, though straightforward, mystery.  Unfortunately, Warner has cobbled together yet another set of films without scene menus, making it nearly impossible to use these discs for study. There are two films per disc, on four discs. There are no audio commentaries. The only bonus feature is one theatrical trailer (2 ½ min) for "Dial 1119". Subtitles are available in English SDH, Spanish, and French. Prints and sound are not restored but are generally good, with some qualifications. The sound on "Cornered" is not quite clear. The print of "Crime in the Streets" has some minor flaws. But a nice collection of crime films, featuring some impressive talent behind and in front of the camera. The films are:  "Cornered" (1945) exhibits the great noir ethos of identity confusion and a disordered universe that cannot be conquered or understood by its protagonist, but this is an unusual film noir in that it does not take place in the United States or involve any American characters. Lt. Laurence Gerard (Dick Powell) is a Canadian veteran of World War II determined to track down the man responsible for the murder of his French wife: a Vichy official named Marcel Jarnac (Luther Adler). He traces Jarnac's wife Madeleine (Micheline Cheirel) to Buenos Aires, Argentina and hopes she will lead him to his quarry. But the first person Gerard meets off the plane is a "guide" named Melchior Incza (Walter Slezak) who imposes his services. And the society surrounding Mdm. Jarnac is a cast of characters whose motives and place in the drama Gerard cannot grasp. 4 stars.  "Desperate" (1947) is a surprisingly cynical and brutal film noir considering that the protagonists are an innocent young couple, Steve (Steve Brodie) and Anne Randall (Audrey Long). Steve is called away on a trucking job just as the couple is about to sit down to their anniversary dinner. When he gets to the warehouse, he is surprised by Walt Radak (Raymond Burr), a crook who insists Steve drive on a heist. Steve refuses, but when Radak's brother is arrested for killing a cop, Radak threatens to disfigure Anne if Steve does not confess to the crime. Convinced that the police won't believe in his innocence, and in danger of his life from Radak, Steve flees with a pregnant Anne. Steve must navigate unscrupulous citizens, a callous police detective, and obsessed, violent Radak in a hostile world that has spun out of his control.  4 stars.  "The Phenix City Story" (1955) is a docu-drama based on true events that led to the murder of state attorney general nominate Albert Patterson (John McIntire) of Phenix City, Alabama, known for its vice industry, high murder rate, and criminal syndicate. Made only a year after the events took place, it follows a movement to rid the city of corruption. John Patterson (Richard Kiley) has returned from Germany to join his father's law firm in Phenix City. His father has given up fighting the mob, but John is so outraged by the murders of some acquaintances that he vows to bring law and order to the place. This time the citizens think they can win -if they can convince Albert Patterson to run for state attorney general. The film is preceded by interviews with the real people involved, so we know the outcome. It has a typical noir milieu but not a noir perspective or themes. 4 stars.  "Dial 1119" (1950) unfolds in real time. Gunther Wykoff (Marshall Thompson) has escaped from a mental hospital for the criminally insane. He heads to Terminal City to see the psychiatrist who treated him, Dr. John Faron (Sam Levene). Unable to locate Dr. Faron, Wykoff goes to The Oasis Bar. But a police bulletin, with a picture of him, appears on the bar's television set, causing the bartender (William Conrad) to recognize Wykoff. Wykoff takes the patrons of the bar hostage as the police, under the command of Capt. Henry Keiver (Richard Rober), converge on the area. The hostages are an interesting mix: an older married man (Leon Ames) and the young guilt-ridden woman (Andrea King) he planned to spend the weekend with, a bold barfly (Virginia Field), a burned out journalist (James Bell), and a young bartender (Keefe Brasselle) soon to be a father. 4 stars.  "Deadline at Dawn" (1946) is light noir, though Clifford Odets wrote the screenplay from a novel by Cornell Woolrich (as William Irish). Alex Winkley (Bill Williams) is an ingenuous sailor on leave in New York when he discovers that he has a wad of money in his possession that isn't his. He thinks he must have taken it from a woman he met earlier that night, Edna Bartelli (Lola Lane), as compensation for fixing a radio. But, in a drunken haze, he took all her money. With only 4 hours left before he leaves town, Alex asks a cynical dance hall girl named June Goth (Susan Hayward) to help him return it, but they find Edna has been strangled to death in her apartment. Alex fears he will be accused of murder, so he and June set out to solve the crime before morning. The dialogue to too highbrow for the characters, but June makes a strong impression. 4 stars.  "Armored Car Robbery" (1950) is a conventional crime film, not noir, dominated by three strong personalities. Dave Purvis (William Talman) is a very careful crook. He plans robberies, moves constantly, and cuts the tags out of his shirts. He has planned an armored car heist at Rigley Field for Benny Foster (Douglas Fowley) and two other men. Benny needs the money to keep his stripper wife Yvonne (Adele Jergens) from straying. But she already has. With Purvis. Police interrupt the robbery, but the crooks get away. Lt. James Cordell (Charles McGraw) and rookie cop Danny Ryan (Don McGuire) of the LAPD track the culprits down, step by step, until they find Purvis. It's a good cast. Dave Purvis, Yvonne, and Lt. Cordell are strong characters but without nuance or conflict. The story is also simplistic. 3 stars.  "Crime in the Streets" (1956) is a social conscience film about urban youth gangs. The gang is the Hornets. One of its elder members is 18-year-old Frankie Dane (John Cassavetes), a young man consumed by anger at everything. He is especially angry at a neighbor, Mr. McAllister (Malcolm Atterbury), who constantly derides the gangs. Frankie ropes Lou (Mark Rydell) and the younger "Baby" (Sal Mineo) into a plot to kill McAllister. But a social worker, Mr. Wagner (James Whitmore), who has made it his mission to reform gang members, is trying to dissuade Frankie from escalating the violence. The view that violent youth were a product of their environment may be pass&eacute; now, but it was progressive for the time. The story is conventional, but Cassavetes' performance and those of the parents are powerful. 4 stars.  "Backfire" (1950) is a straightforward mystery with plenty of entertainment value but lacks any greater implication. Bob Corey (Gordon MacRae) was wounded in the War and must endure a long stay at a veteran's hospital. He and army buddy Steve Connelly (Edmond O'Brien) have plans to purchase a ranch and go into business together when Bob recovers. But when he doesn't hear from Steve for 6 weeks, and a mysterious woman appears in his room to say that Steve has been injured, Bob begins to worry. He learns that Steve is wanted for the murder of a gambler named Solly Blayne (Richard Rober). Bob and his paramour, nurse Julie Bensen (Virginia Mayo), try to track Steve down. They go from person to person, asking a lot of questions, trying to piece things together. The plot is a bit difficult to make sense of, but it doesn't want for complexity or glamour. 4 stars.

Light and funny This was much better than I'd expected (I didn't have high expectations).  Very light and funny; the two leads have good chemistry.  I recommend it.

Her choice: workaholic husband or cynical artist? First a word about privately manufactured DVDs-- Often, these transfers are of a quality similar to multi-film budget brands. The movies themselves are unrestored and rarely pristine yet still watchable (unless there's an inordinate number of repaired breaks). Extras are non-existent and inclusion of artwork or liner notes varies by manufacturer. These niche companies can provide a valuable outlet for movies unavailable anywhere else. .  Ernst Lubitsch's comedy, THAT UNCERTAIN FEELING is the story of a psychiatric patient with a case of severe hiccups.  SYNOPSIS-- NY socialite Jill Baker (Oberon) consults a shrink (Mowbray) about her insomnia and recurring hiccups. After Dr. Vengard asks stressful questions about her husband Larry (Douglas), Jill's hiccups return. That night, Jill decides that the work-distracted Larry isn't at all attentive when he fails to notice she's spent all day at the beauty salon.  At her next therapy visit, Jill meets Alexander Sebastian, a somewhat misanthropic artist (Meredith) and they in time become romantically involved. Larry's attempt to make Jill jealous by claiming he has a girlfriend fails and Sebastian moves into the Baker home after Larry goes to a hotel.  We are left to ask: Do Jill and Sebastian find happiness together, or does she reconcile with Larry, and if the latter, how can it possibly come about? .  Merle Oberon fans are "certain" to enjoy: A SONG TO REMEMBER (1945). This Technicolor biopic stars Oscar-winner Cornel Wilde as Fr&eacute;d&eacute;ric Chopin and Oberon as crossdressing novelist George Sand. Paul Muni co-stars. (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/630242500X">VHS edition</a>)  (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0010VQRGO">DVD edition)</a>) .  Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 IMDb viewer poll rating.  (6.9) That Uncertain Feeling (1941) - Merle Oberon/Melvyn Douglas/Burgess Meredith/Alan Mowbray/Sig Ruman/Eve Arden/Richard Carle

Mystery of the Rusty Badge The discovery of an old human skeleton on the outskirts of a military firing range begins the murder mystery of this small Texas border town. The investigation turns to local sheriff Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper) son of the famous Buddy Deeds (Matthew McConaughey) whose investigation will uncover many of the working class towns' past hidden secrets. The many plot twists, turns, and insightful look at this small Texas towns crimson past, and present day struggles concerning class, race, and politics makes for an unusually entertaining, and insightful drama. And like the great classic Westerns of the past John Sayles' modern day passion play presents us with a cast of characters whose different viewpoints and ambiguous characters are presented in both positive and negative terms minus the black, white cowboy hats. We are reminded that despite the often confusing complex  class, cultural issues that we as Americans  are faced with we have for centuries solved many of these issues on a more individualistic, and personal level then on a political one. So get comfy, set up the desserts, dim the lights, and let yourself become entangled in this multileveled drama, and romance whose notable cast members deliver some of the finest performances of their careers.

A nice, refreshing 6-pack of Drew, but it's missing two iconic episodes First off I love this show and I think this is a very nice sampling (of course we ALL want the entire serise on DVD, but you gotta make the best with wat you're given). You get six episodes of the Drew Carey Show on this DVD. The only reason I'm giving it 4 stars intead of 5  is because they excluded two of the most iconic episodes of the serise! The episode where Drew wins  the Batmobile and who could forget when Mimi shipped Drew all the way to China (I start to chuckle just thinking of those episodes). Had the people who are responsible for this release included those 2 episodes I would have given this 5 stars.  4 stars/5

Fun, 'Mindless' Summer Movie Back when this appeared on the big-screen (this past Valentine's Day) I was all jazzed up and ready to go see it. It was one of the films I thought would be a better bet to see at the box office. As it turned out, I may still wish I had, but in the end it was all for the good that a seven dollar ticket was spent on something else.  CIA spooks are subjected to rigorous training; they can handle almost anything... right? They are skilled in hand-to-hand combat. Learn how to load and handle any weapon they may be asked to use, and are intelligent to boot. For FDR (Chris Pine) and Tuck (Tom Hardy), the two are not only some of Langley's finest but are best buddies - like family. Right now they have been pulled from the field after blowing a covert mission, leading them to do a lot of nothing at their desks. FDR flirts with any woman who is not looking for long term while Tuck has done the whole black-tie-and-white-gown shebang. Tuck wants the kind of love that is still true even after 50 years which prompts him to join a dating site where he meets the girl he thinks he could have that with. Around the same time, FDR meets a girl who he cannot charm. It isn't long after that they decide to show each other their girl's photo.... Turns out, it is a snapshot of the same girl. Little did the friends know that the girl they are dating is the one girl neither can get out of their head.  Lauren (Reese Witherspoon) is a consumer product tester, work that she loves. A week ago she was a pathetic 30-something woman without a man after she moved to the west coast for a guy and now she has two men despite being  warned not to date two men at the same time by her best friend but can she help it if she likes both guys...? Is it possible to love two people? Tuck is the more kind-hearted romantic; he makes Lauren feel safe and is easy to talk with - plus he has a British accent. Then there is FDR. Sparks immediately fly between her and the arrogant FDR but she is not impressed. Little does Lauren realize that the two men know each other! Now Lauren will have to choose or this spy vs. spy rivalry may just get messy.  As an actress, I like Witherspoon - a great deal. I think she has a cute girl-next-door personality that usually works in her favor in each role. Unfortunately that doesn't completely save her in this particular situation because we are a bit ticked off at her for playing two guys against each other (albeit, unknowingly) - not to mention the ramifications of dating two men. Many critics were disgusted with this high-tech action flick for not just the idea that a woman was dating two men (admittedly that conjures up a lot of unpleasant connotations - and says to me that society still has some scruples) but also that those two men would fight over her. I don't have as difficult a time with that because to his credit FDR is willing to step aside despite liking Lauren but first he insults his best friend and then allows himself to be goaded into a bet - let Lauren chose who she wants without telling her they know each other. That is just not right... and is in fact, really twisted. The fact that Lauren is willing to sleep with two different men in the span of a week to "decide" puts her as one woman not above reproach.  Having sufficiently given appropriate space to the cons and flaws in the film, I'll just come out and admit it: I loved this movie. It was a lot classier than I had pegged it as being and there was some restraint used where I expected it not to be. For instance, even though it lasted a short time, Lauren wasn't interested in FDR when they meet because she has his "number." She knows exactly the kind of guy he is - and he is not the guy she is looking for. Like so many other rom-com flicks, this one has a lot of baggage in the character's backgrounds. Tuck has a son and Lauren is still reeling from breaking up with the guy she moved to L.A. for. There are some great jokes in regards to that past, and I felt like the film took the time it needed to be both a fun spy movie (just not of the caliber as films that are strictly a thriller) and a cute piece of romantic-comedy (even if it isn't dripping with chemistry).  If you can watch this through a perspective in which you don't objectify it by all its shoddy qualities, then This Means War is a great deal of fun.  Fortunately, this was made more entertaining as I ran it through ClearPlay. I feel satisfied that I didn't miss anything important to the skeleton of the script (one that is witty but sometimes sappy) even when the editing job was a bit of a hatchet job early on. The gist of the love triangle is still made very obvious. All involved learn good lessons and while I wish there had been more restraint in the relationship between Lauren and the guys, the film provided me with just want I needed: Some hearty laughs. There are clarifying moments that make us momentarily proud of Hollywood for recognizing the sanctity of true love and marriage but there is always something around the next corner that seems to shatter that beauty. Bottom line, will I see this again? You bet. This Means War is definitely a more-than-once title that combined all of my favorite genres.  © Copyright 2011-2012 Scribbles, Scripts and Such

A nice distraction This was not a feature length film, but two short shows combined.  It was a nice distraction for my girls, the princesses learn good lessons.  It is not a "family movie night" kind of show, but perfect to put on so that I could get some things around the house accomplished.  It is not the kind that they will be watching over and over, but they enjoyed it while they watched it.

"80's Classic!" This 1985 action film features a martial artist confronting thugs and finding love. I watched this a lot on tv growing up and always liked it. I'm glad to have it on dvd that has good picture and sound, but only commentary and trailers. I recommend this 80's classic.

disappointed in language We saw the show in Chicago and loved it.  So we ordered the DVD to share with friends and family.  But apparently the DVD is produced from the 2nd show he did here and at one point he screams the f-word, which was totally unnecessary.  I'm hesitant to share it with others because there seems to be a little more of that language in here than I remember from the show.  Too bad - that language is just not needed to make him funny!!

A Beautifully-Shot, Psychological/Survival Thriller The Grey follows an oil drilling team as they try to survive after their plane crashes during a blizzard; not only do they have to survive the harsh weather conditions, they must also survive attacks from a pack of gray wolves. The Grey has a simple story but also goes deeper into the characters; for example, John Ottway (Liam Neeson) often questions life and has lost faith, and some of the audience may be appreciate the attempt to create deep characters. The movie has plenty of thrills, including many chase scenes with packs of wolves. Some of the thrills also come from the environment and the survival. Also, I thought the music was amazing and the film was shot beautifully; the acting was also great. It does get a bit repetitive, though, which may be because of the 1hr 50min runtime; it doesn't have as much variety as it could've had and does feel like it drags on.  Overall, I highly recommend The Grey. As of 9/15/12, this film is available on Netflix Streaming, if you'd like to save some money.  The Grey has strong violence and gore, including strong animal violence. No sex or nudity.

"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" overcomes some missteps to retain the overall series' high quality SPOILERS FOLLOW  "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" works very well in spite of a rushed script, and a gripping climax pushes it into very nice maintenance of the series' extraordinarily high standards of quality.  First-time series director David Yates and screenwriter Michael Goldenberg present largely top-notch work.  The movie's titular 'Order of the Phoenix' is an honor guard of highly decorated Hogwarts teachers and associates who have sworn to protect Harry from the growing threat of a strengthening Lord Voldemort.  In a choppy movie from a narrative point of view, the Order of the Phoenix itself is somewhat a victim of fast cuts and general shortcomings.  It does provide a window into Grimmauld Place, the expressively dark family manse of Harry's godfather Sirius Black.  Gary Oldman again delivers a nuanced performance in what is a very important film for his character.   Simultaneously one of this movie's strengths and weaknesses, The Ministry of Magic ensures Harry will have enemies inside Hogwarts as well as outside of it.  Due to creative shortcuts, the Ministry is often glossed over in the film.  Ironically, in the book Ms. Rowling spends too much time expounding on it.  A balance could have and should have been achieved.  In the person of Dolores Umbridge, though, falsely sweet insincerity has a monstrous voice.  The name itself can mean 'painful offense.' Esteemed actress Imelda Staunton plays the character very well.  Returning actors Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint again deliver natural camaraderie and acting skills, and are joined by returning colleagues Michael Gambon as Albus Dumbledore and Alan Rickman as Severus Snape.  Messrs Radcliffe and Rickman have an impressive scene together as Professor Snape ruthlessly attempts to train Harry to resist Voldemort's violent encroachments into his mind.  Series newcomer Evanna Lynch makes a positive impression as Luna Lovegood, the offbeat sweetheart whose odd pronouncements always carry an ironic kernel of wisdom.  It's a difficult part to play believably, and Ms. Lynch does so extremely well.  "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" is very, very good.

Tense, unique and entertaining I knew nothing about the book or the series, but I enjoyed the movie quite a lot. I would recommend it for a good spy movie even if I was not entirely clear on what happen (:

Unfairly Misunderstood (**CONTAINS SPOILERS**)  I really enjoy SEED Destiny, which is not actually half as bad as what other ppl said it would be.  I think the reason ppl reject this sequel mainly because they have a different expectation toward the series prior to viewing it.  I was fortunate enough to read many negative reviews, gathered all sort of opinions before actually watching it.  All their warnings and negative concerns on the series helped me prepare what to expect this series in an objective kind of way.  With low expectation, I found myself extremely surprised by how exciting and addictive SEED Destiny truly is.  I notice that some ppl criticized this series for being overly similar to its highly successful prequel SEED (2002).  Some even mocked it as parody or copycat.  After finished watching SEED Destiny myself, I found this criticism is a bit unfair and invalid.  There are actually VERY FEW similar incidents repeated between the two.  Of course there are minor similarities, but they are justified and can be explained with scenario. For example they say how this series copied SEED from the beginning where Gundams were stolen and then the protagonists went to pursue. In the original Gundam series (0079), it also began by Amuro Ray who drove off the Gundam without Earth Force's authorization. The same go for Zeta Gundam where Kamile was seen hijacking the Black Gundam without Titan's approval then followed by a pursuit. With all these similarities, it seems to me the same repeated feature is more of a tradition rather than a blatant intent to copy from one another. For instance how many Gundam main villains we found wearing a mask and took after Char Aznable's mannerism from the original Gundam series?  Too many.  Even if I am wrong, SEED Destiny definitely didn't copy from SEED as they say. Gundam series has been taking inspirations from one another since the very beginning, so let's not pretend SEED Destiny is the only guilty party here.  In addition, some ppl also have a problem with previous heroes like Kira, Lacus, Arthun etc. rejoined the cast and save the world yet again.  I would have agreed with them if it weren't because SEED Destiny is supposed to be a sequel rather than a new alternative universe in SEED series.  That means in order to continue where the previous series left off, Kira, Archangel and other former protagonists are justified for appearing in this sequel again.  However, in other perspective, I do understand why the ppl think Kira and others shouldn't have returned in this series.  This problem is largely caused by the creator who mistakenly tried to market an uncharismatic and super dumb antagonist - Shin Asuka as the new protagonist, which resulted in unnecessary confusion and wrong expectation for the viewers.  Throughout the course of the series, we are often misled who to focus on the series - is it Shin who represents the Plant, Arthun or Kira?  I think I agree with other ppl about this point because this is a huge inconsistency. Despite that, the returns of Kira, Arthun and the Archangel are written smoothly and justified with good reasons.  The show inherits all the good parts from the usual Gundam series we normally love:  the actions or gundam battles are fast-paced, intense and explosive; the plot has a lot of unexpected twists and at the same time it is complicated as well as a bit ambitious in the end (especially the part involving the Destiny plan, which I think should've been given a longer time to revolve); all the drama depicted seemed a bit tiresome, but generally well-written with clear transitional approach and explanations; characterization is not necessarily bad, it's good to see old characters like Kira and Arthun grow a bit in this series.  Kira has developed into a much more mature, insightful and determined as a Gundam pilot; he's no longer the whining reluctant hero we used to see; Arthun also keeps fighting what he believes in but never sold his souls to the wrong side and he appears more adaptable and less stubborn than he used to be.  Visually, it's on par with it s prequel SEED (2002), it doesn't seem the pictures had been remastered and it's not full-screen.  In music-wise, it's done very well. I especially enjoy the first ending song, I think it's called "Reason" or something, it's very catchy and upbeat. In my opinion, that's the best song for the entire SEED franchise.  Now let's talk about the bad parts.  There are basically two setbacks hindering the quality of the show.  One in particular is the characters.  As I said above, Shin Asuka was wrongfully made as the main protagonist while he fought for the wrong side the whole time.  I have no excuses for this character since he's extremely dumb, easily manipulated, downright annoying and awful as a jerk from head to toes. I won't spoil you with examples, but this character lacks redeeming quality to the point that almost ruined the whole show.  The other new characters also lack serious character developments and interest.  I got no more to say about them except they are all flat and boring.  The only new character I found interesting is the Chairman Gilbert Dullindal who is arguably one of the most intelligent and persuasive villains I've seen in Gundam series.  Although it's not that difficult to suspect the character has a hidden agenda behind his smiling face, surprisingly the character made a lot of sensible points I agree with; therefore, it's shame to see him fallen in the end.  Another major setback is the lackluster ending.  Normally in Gundam series, they at least assign 4 or 5 episodes to conclude the series, but in SEED Destiny, I was surprised they only used two to resolve all the conflicts and they also wasted an entire episode 48 dedicated to a dead supporting character before ending the series. The final conflicts seemed to happen too sudden and was ended abruptly without fully fledged out.  The battle between Minerva and Archangel lacked impact and interest; The Gundam fights from both sides also lacked explosion and intensity because the final battle is relatively short and hindered by the limited time.  I don't know what went through the creator's head at that point, but he seemed to rush to finish the series, which turned out to be a huge disappointment.  Although he tried to make up for it by recreating a new ending in Final Plus (which has a much better ending), but the revised battle has been made very little change itself, leave alone the quality has been improved in general.  Furthermore, it really irks me that they had to make Rey suddenly act out of his character to end the whole thing.  I won't spoil you with details, but I have to say Rey's sudden change of heart is the most unconvincing thing in the entire series.  In my opinion, Shin should've been a better choice to end it (since this way could help improve his negative image a bit in the end) or Kira or Arthun whatever, just anyone but Rey who proved to be the most loyal servant to Gilbert Dullidal.  All in all, SEED Destiny is very entertaining sequel despite of some weaknesses.  Although it's not as good as SEED (2002)in general, it still succeeds in delivering a great deal of exciting values that could only be seen on Gundam series.  Just remember not to dismiss the series based on the overwhelming negative reviews. You should read them, but don't jump to conclusions until you finish seeing it for yourself.

Pygmalion theme, Quite worth watching My expectation of this film was a simple chick-flick Pygmalion story with bad adaptation to the screen and even worse acting. My hope was to have a little noise in the living room while I ate dinner and then did some reading.  The story is not particularly earth shattering and follows the typical Pygmalion theme. There are some interesting and entertaining tidbits and a few truly funny scenes. The overall plot is readily anticipated and involves only a few minor twists which are not surprising but nonetheless entertaining.  The film features several newcomers and a few established actors also. The male lead is Scott Elrod and this is his first major role in a film. The female lead is Elika Portnoy. She also wrote the screen play and produced the film. Vincent Pastore and Natasha Lyonne are among the established actors in the film and their contributions carry several of the weaker scenes.  Predictably, there is no great character development but fortunately the film assiduously avoids caricature and triteness.  There is no nudity or overt violence to justify the R rating, but some elements of dialog seem to have elicited it. While a few phrases may startle the more puritanical, most middle school hallway conversations would be far more offensive.  Should you decide to watch the film, pay close attention to scenes and dialog which foreshadow future elements of the film. For many this will result is a hearty chuckle if not a good laugh. Filming was done in Boston and for those who know the city the location scenes are very nice.  I found the film surprisingly watchable, entertaining and worth a second viewing. More from Elika Portnoy is welcomed. Her followup film 'Immigration Tango' shows significant development both as an actor and screenwriter.

spy kids review This item was in good condition. This seller shipped my this item quick. only draw back is the person didn't list that item was not a english/spanish spy kids dvd. seller needs to put a better description on his items he is selling but in all great item for the price.

Well Done I saw Paul Verhoeven's Black Book in the theatre(not to be confused with Little Black Book, a horrendous romantic comedy.) Paul Verhoeven is a director whose American portfolio includes such films as Basic Instinct, Starship Troopers, Robocop, Total Recall, and the truly horrible Showgirls. None of these films are particularly good, and all seem to share a common theme of excessive violence, of excessive sex, or a combination of both.  I was astonished to learn that Verhoeven has directed two movies that are considered the greatest Dutch films of the twentieth century: Soldier of Orange, and Turkish Delight. While the plot synopsis of Turkish Delight does not appeal to me, Soldier of Orange, the story of students involved in the Dutch resistance, does. I hope to see that movie some day.  Black Book was of particular interest to me because it deals with the Dutch Resistance during World War II. Being of Dutch extraction, and being a student of history, I was excited about seeing this movie. My excitement was tempered by a certain anxiousness. What would Verhoeven do? Would there be any resemblance of actual historical events, or would it be an excuse for bloody shoot-outs and mindless sex?  In the end, I was neither satisfied nor disappointed. The movie begins with the words "based on actual events" which, in the film world, is code for "we dressed everybody old-fashioned and then made up a story." The movie does a fine job in recreating the war-time Netherlands (I think), but the fictional characters do not correspond to any Dutch reality. The film is poignant at times, while at other times it is so over the top it borders on ridiculous. There is a lot of violence, which is to be expected in a movie dealing with a clash between the resistance and the Nazis. There is also a lot of nudity, which is, for the most part, completely unnecessary.  Carrice Van Houten plays Rachel Stein, a Jewish woman in hiding. Circumstances force her out of hiding and into the resistance. Further events lead her to befriend the German SD officer, Ludwig M&uuml;ntze whom she initially uses for information but later falls in love with. I had a difficult time with the idea that a Dutch Jew could have possibly fallen for any Nazi, no matter how sympathetic, during this dark period of history. I myself could not build up any positive feeling towards M&uuml;ntze, a man who presumably would have served Nazism to the end if it had been successful.  Perhaps this is just due to my own bias, however. The film follows Rachel Stein's trials and tribulations right through to the liberation of the Netherlands.  Despite the problems I had with this movie, I still consider it to be very well-done. While it often seemed forced to me, it packs an emotional punch. The dark underbelly of the resistance is shown in all of its ugly glory. Van Houten's performance is superb, the story is intense, and many of the characters are intriguing. Verhoeven's often heavy hand succeeds in sculpting a work of true merit.

Such fun! To the delight of little children everywhere, a film like `Home Alone' really never goes out of style.  Sure, the subsequent sequels pale in comparison and tend to overstay their welcome a bit, and yes that same overuse can ware on the integrity and adoration of the original, but when the dust settles and the smoke clears there are still bountiful smiles to be found in a group of people watching this film.  As some have mentioned, it can get over the top, but isn't that what we are paying for here.  How else would an eight-year-old boy get one-up on two dim-witted thieves if it wasn't `over the top'!  The film tells the story of underappreciated Kevin McCallister.  Brother to four siblings who pick on him and son to two parents who are apparently distracted by life in general, Kevin has had it.  He just wants to be alone.  In preparing for a family vacation in Paris, the McCallister house is bombarded by family and countless other little rug rats who clutter every crevice of the house making it pretty easy to lose track of who is who and who is where; which is precisely why the McCallister family makes their way across the globe to Paris without young Kevin.  Fooled by his young mind into thinking that his family's disappearance was his fault, Kevin finds himself initially gleeful over his newfound freedom (a house all to himself), but soon he encounters two thieves who didn't count on Kevin's presence when they broke into the McCallister home.  The night gets interesting as Kevin fends for himself with witty and highly improbable tactics, while his parents lose their minds overseas to the point where his mother stops at nothing to get home.  Yes, there is much about `Home Alone' that is beyond ridiculous, but one thing that isn't ridiculous is Macaulay Culkin's performance.  For such a young boy, he slays this.  He's hilarious, totally three-dimensional (in a performance that could have become generically one-note) and truly believable, even when he's engaged in highly unbelievable activities.  He just oozes a charisma and charm that defies his age and creates a legendary character.  There are few actors who create such unforgettable screen images, but everyone (even people who haven't ever seen this film) will recognize that adorable little face pressed between two hands with that wide open scream.  Yes, Culkin is unforgettable.  So, at the end of the day, `Home Alone' is a lot of fun.  At times it is cheap fun, and if we're going to be completely honest it is Culkin who really remains the most endearing and memorable facet of this film (if his performance had not been genius then this film would not be a landmark) but none of that matters with a film so rich with nostalgia.  You have to love it!

Not the best, but not the worst... Some reviewers have called this the worst movie ever.  Sorry - that award goes to 1984's Against All Odds.  Nicolas Cage was cast just right to play Johnny Blaze in both movies, mainly because the Spirit of Vengeance is said to be insane by Moreau and Nic Cage has long proven that he's not all there.  :-)  Violante Placido is absolutely gorgeous, and the fight scenes on the highway aren't bad, either.  If you have an Amazon Prime membership, rent it with Amazon Instant Video and watch it on your computer so you'll only be out $3.99.  Whatta bargain, as Eddie Murphy said long ago.

GREAT MOVIE Anne Hathaway did a great job as Jane Austin and this movie stayed very true to her real life (what we know of it anyway).

The Attic Is A Great Movie I would definitely recommend The Attic.It's a great movie.It will keep you suspenseful throughout until the end.You won't believe the ending.

Just a fun flick Dark, sword swinging barbarians vs. native Americans. OK, questionable, but possible considering our lack of history back then. Fun to watch with lots of action.

Beautful caves, scary movie Sarah is an adventure junkie, but it isn't whitewater rafting that gets the best of her. A freak accident leaves her husband and daughter dead, and Sarah traumatized beyond anything she believe she can survive. What she needs is to take her mind off the tragedy and get back to what she loves. So, with her friend Beth, she travels to the US to meet up with 4 American friends, led by the fearless Juno, deep into the Appalachian Mountains Juno has promised them a level 2 adventure; nothing too trying. But where she takes the unsuspecting party is an entirely different sort of cave, a cave never before explored. But this cave has more than bats and narrow precipices to challenge the climbers. There is an entirely new species of humanoids living below the ground, and their home has been disturbed.  The Descent is interesting on several fronts. It is a new sort of eco-horror film. Go where you should not go, fail to leave the land untouched, and it will fight back. It shows us a parallel line of evolution, humans that went below ground and took a different path than us. But it is also a classic kill-them-one-by-one film, where those who make mistakes are marked for death. Add to that a film starring entirely women, women strong enough to fight creatures instead of screaming, and you have a very unique combination of themes.

Fun trip into the past Humorous look at what it was like to live in the 50's. Remember the fallout shelters?I first saw the video with a group of friends at one of their houses. We were all in that age group and laughed throughout the entire movie. Younger folks might find it a bit too corny - kind of a "had to be there". Wanted to share it with some other friends and my kids (in their 30's) but couldn't find it anywhere - even to rent. Thanks to Amazon I now own it. Great cast!

Obama Exposed! WOW, what a controversial ideology Obama was exposed to.  Islam, Marxism and anti-colonialism.  Can't deny these facts, they come straight from his own written words.  I am guessing Michelle exposed him to Christianity through Reverend Wright.  Then there is Bill Ayers & Tony Resko.  I found the film compelling, in spite of the assumptions regarding his paternity.  Doesn't matter who the father is.  What matters is these people influenced his way of thinking.  Whether you're conservative or liberal, you should be aware of his past.  This film should make you angry.  Whether you are Republican or Democrat,  you should want to know all the facts, before you vote.

Journey to the Center of the Earth, Blu-ray, 3D combo Over the years I have seen many versions of this movie, and I don't consider that any of them should be taken seriously.  So all in the spirit of fun I find that this Brendan Fraser version is a keeper for me. I enjoyed the regular DVD version initially...until I upgraded my television set. I just bought and watched the 3D verstion of this movie and even though I found the 3D glasses a bit difficult to wear throughout the movie, doing so was worth it. While I believe there is still much work to be done on the quality of 3D movies in general, I found the depth and the "pop-out" to be delightful experiences and I plan to purchase a few more select 3D movies. As far a this version of the Jules Vern Classic, this was my favorite as Trevor Anderson (Fraser), his nephew make a breakthrough discovery and a breakthrough in their relationship that improves the story for me.  This predictable "never-before-seen world" (except by Hollywood and previous versions of this story) holds a few new twists and turns as well as an ending that works for me.

More Entertaining than "War of the Worlds" This enjoyable variation on "War of the Worlds" from executive producer Steven Spielberg finds a group of survivors struggling to maintain their existence in a post-alien invasion Boston. Noah Wylie stars as one of the de facto leaders of a resistance movement intended to stop the aliens, who mostly leave the deserted suburban areas of Massachusetts alone outside of occasional patrols, but who also abduct younger humans for their own - as of yet unknown - reasons. Wylie often clashes with military veteran Will Patton over balancing the group's safety with trying to make a dent against the extraterrestrials, all the while taking care of his family, including three young sons.  Though familiar, "Falling Skies" is entertaining stuff, mainly because the quality production values are matched with a strong human component. Wylie, so good for many years as John Carter on "ER," makes for a perfect everyman - a professor reluctantly thrust into battle, who often finds himself reflecting on the group's predicament in the context of history - and he's matched by a fine supporting cast including Patton, Moon Bloodgood  and Sarah Carter. Fine special effects and a satisfying mix of sci-fi action and human drama make "Falling Skies" well worth checking out.  Warner's Blu-Ray edition of "Falling Skies" looks terrific with 1080p transfers and DTS MA soundtracks. A good selection of extras include commentaries, a San Diego Comic-Con featurette, behind the scenes featurettes, a sneak peak at Season 2 and a BD exclusive look at the Dark Horse comic book.  In some ways "Falling Skies" comes off feeling like Spielberg's second stab at "War of the Worlds," but the series ultimately works better thanks to better fleshed out, and more likeable, characters. Before Season 2 hits the TNT airwaves this summer, newcomers would do well to check out Warner's Blu-Ray Season 1 release when it streets on June 5th.

WHO WAS THE ZODIAC? I saw this flick in the theatres on opening night and it was a full house of San Franciscan 's, who were all ready to experience a visual sense of the murderous crimes of the Zodiac killer.  The movie is adapted (not entirely) from a book entitled "Zodiac" written by Robert Graysmith. The movie moves at a suspensful pace, but begins to wane and become a stretch to stay interested by the final act. But overall it is cast well, acting is superb, music was wonderful and it ends on a HIGH NOTE (in my opinion)! I felt I was at every crime scene (literally) as each location was introduced throughout the movie.  It is definitely worth viewing (in my opinion) and I own the Blu Ray, which looks spectacular! The "Special Features" are insightful and I became even more entranced as a detective in solving this case from watching the movie. I don 't think you 'll be disappointed for 3/4 of the running time...........but you may have heard enough by the final 1/4 turn to the finish line.  MIG OUT.

Great rainy afternoon movie Was looking for a good spooky movie to go with the weather outside and was pleasantly surprised at how good this was! Acting was very good. Setting creepy. Did get a bit tiring going back over and over the same scenes (you'll see what I mean if you watch but I guess that was part of the story). Well worth the watch!

One of the last "Great" musicals. The classical musical genre embraces the social uphevals of the 60s, and gives us a Woman's Lib performance in the form of a lower class poor girl delegated to legalized brothels and hoodlums to earn a living.  This is not "Camelot", "The Music Man", nor even "Finians Rainbow" which also touches on social progress.  This is "West Side Story" and "Hair", minus the Jets and Jesus, with the girl having bobbed red hair striding off into the tree dotted streets of Manhatten, a kind of hopeful tragedy unto itself.  I've seen this film numerous times growing up (albeit edited for general audience consumption), and at the time I didn't think much of it.  Reviewing it with a more adult mind I can see that the film was trying to reach the then faction of the dissatisfied female population who wanted more opportunities as opposed to relying on male companionship to give it to them.  It's a double edged sword as a social message, but, it is a commercial film, and like all commercial films, it is a product; this one in particular being one of its time.  But for all that, the parable contained within is still applicable to those afflicted with a lack of opportunity, and who must rely on wit, guile and charm to succeed in their survival.  This last evening I had it on in the background, and all the memorable scenes from when I, first saw it are still there, and the strangely ambiguous ending as I recalled as a boy is more of a story of hope for those who have failed to find a man of their dreams, or at least basic needs.  It's not a film I'd readily recommend, but it is an interesting artistic window on a time when burning draft cards and bras were making headlines.

Very Strange, Very Funny This is another one of those movies I resisted for a long time. You know, the premise is rather absurd: scissors for hands? How could he do anything delicate? And then the cover photo of the earlier edition had his face full of scars, and I figured it was just another horror story.  But I turned into a Johnny Depp fan, and one day someone listed Edward Scissorhands in a list of Johnny Depp movies. THAT was HIM??? Amazing!  This is a much better movie than the posters would suggest. Yes, there is some stupid stuff about it, but the whole point was that these suburban people among whom Edward tries to have a comparatively normal life are mostly pretty stupid, and in ways most of us can recognize, at least if you think of it as the 1950s or early 1960s. Nobody ever said what year it was supposed to be, but I suspect it was meant to be contemporary. It was filmed in 1990. It takes place in a small town, probably southern given the accents, and was actually filmed in Florida. The houses are all pastel colors, and the cars are all pastel colors (none matching the garages they come out of) except for the van the teenagers drive which is dark with red and orange flames.  Edward finds a place for himself in this suburbia, first trimming trees into fantastic topiary shapes, then trimming dogs (fancy poodle cuts are just the beginning), and finally cutting ladies' hair. But when the teenagers discover he can pick locks with his hands, and sucker him into breaking into a house, things go badly awry.  It's a touching story, for all it is very funny, and eventually you will see that although he's a construction, Edward is more human than most of the rest of the people in the film.  Four stars. It would be two if it wasn't for Johnny Depp.

Loved it..... I came across this movie trailer while searching for another one and was very interested. When I read the reviews on Amazon, I became a little wary. Boy am I glad I went with my curiosity! I never really got the feeling that the budget was low while watching this movie. And I came away thinking this could easily be someone's life under those same circumstances. I thought it was well directed but a little choppy at times. Never the less, it held my attention until the very end. Ed Harris is a genious. He is one of only a very few that can draw you in like a moth to a flame, saying so much with little actually being said. Peter Weller was fun to watch as the comedy relief in this dark drama. In fact, all of the actors in this film did a great job. I prefer this movie to anything the big budget studios are showing today.

Phenomenal Series. Season 6 is Mediocre. Quite possibly my favorite series of all time!  Entourage is very entertaining.  The product itself is flawless.  The purchase through Amazon was top notch as usual.  As for the rating of Season 6, I'd say the show is going down hill.  The first few seasons are much better in my opinion, though still a must watch.  For this, I give 'Entourage: The Complete Sixth Season' a 4 out of 5.  Highly recommended.

Nice video but redundant If you have no other train videos this is pretty good.  As I have purchased quite a few, however, much of what is contained in this one I have already seen in others previously purchased.  Do yourself a favor.  If you don't already have it get the History Channel's "When Giants Roamed."  It is very well done and you won't see the material in several other subsequent videos.

Serious content, serious characters I hate spoilers more than anything, so rest assured.  This movie is about a victim who refuses to be a victim.  The way the story is told is extremely graphic, so know that before you watch it.  If you aren't squeamish about the presentation, the series is amazing.  Since the Swedish series is finished, you can see them all without the wait.  Compares favorably to the American version, which I have seen as well as reading the books.  I like her, what can I say?  I could only hope to be so strong.

Awesome! My family and I enjoy big thriller action movies. It doesn't get better than the A-Team. Liam Nesson is terrific and his team member are hilariuos. We got the movie for Christmas and we have seen it 4 times (three with the extended version). We can not wait for a sequel.

great movie The product was received in a timely manner.  it was delivered in the condition as it was advertised.  I loved this movie.  It had enough action and humor to keep me riveted.  I hated having to pause to answer the phone or get more popcorn.  Great plot, great characters, great movie.

Great visuals being a fan of disaster flicks (Armageddon, Day After Tomorrow, 10.5) I really enjoyed this film. Unlike Armageddon, the meteor actually hits the earth (hence the title) causing huge tsunamis and other pretty cool stuff created through CGI. If you like apocalyptic disaster films, definitely see this one!

Good quality on remaster Finally a Dune version that can keep up with HiDef without being atrocious.  However, it's a pity that it is not the fully extended version.I had a lower quality 180 min. version before, but this one is only 137 minutes.

I laughed, cringed, turned my head.... so it was good. The Cottage falls into the same category as Shawn of the Dead and a few other UK films that I have seen in the last few years.  It was fun to watch for the first half, more of a farce crime caper movie than anything else.  Then in the second half, with the introduction of the psycho, it still had many comic elements, but was much bloodier.  And it worked.  Even in the bloodiest scenes, there was a laugh.  The acting was great and the story, although done a million times (not the comic caper part) at least provided enough interest until the end.  It's what I was looking for for a horror/dark comedy.  Note:  I was a bit worried that I wouldn't be able to understand the British accents (Sexy Beast) but I had very little problem with this film.

Better Than Expected!!! I watched this earlier today, and it was actually a very decent psychological thriller. Alicia Silverstone's acting as the psychopathic, but pretty Adrian was amazing. She was my favorite character. She begins a seemingly harmless crush for her new neighbor, Nick. Adrian is just a teenager of 14, but Nick is 28, and she forces herself on him. She soon starts stalking him, calls him 98 times on the phone, abuses herself and blames it on Nick. Alicia Silverstone was so perfect for this role. I would definitely recommend THE CRUSH!!!

Adequate BD For the price, this BD is worth it. Definitely an upgrade from any of the dvd releases while still looking far from as good as it could on BD.

A movie that captures my own predicament in the Great Recession FILM RATING: 3.5 stars  The Company Men (2010) is a gripping 21st century drama about white collar men loosing their jobs and a part of themselves in our recent (and still current) Great Recession. This movie has been mostly overlooked, which is too bad, because this is a very good film that deserves to be seen. I can see why people wouldn't want to see it, because it hits very close to home. But hopefully it will find its audience on Blu-ray and DVD. I saw it in the theater back in January when it was finally released after several postponements.  Screenwriter and first time feature film Director John Wells has crafted a movie that really speaks to me and my predicament these past 4 years...as I'm sure it does for millions of Americans. I for one escape into film not only to avoid the reality of my life and to be entertained, but also to find solace and sympathy in knowing that I'm not alone in what I'm experiencing or have experienced. There's a cathartic healing that film brings my psyche and emotional soul when it powerfully connects its stories and characters to my own life's journey. I can see I'm not alone. I know you know what I'm talking about. So I really don't have to say anything more.  The story of The Company Men is simple: It follows the lives of 3 men who lose their jobs due to a failing economy. But they find out that their jobs were more than just jobs. As men, we have a built-in programming that we tend to define ourselves by our work, our titles, our income, our family, our accomplishments, and everything else that we do and get. What happens when all of that is taken away? Who are we then? And what do we do with our lives? How do we define ourselves without our work and our material belongings? What do we tell other people when they ask who we are and what we do? These are just some of the questions and ideas that The Company Men explores, but unfortunately doesn't really answer the way I think it should have. One of my disappointments in The Company Men is how the movie spends 90% of its time showing us the intricate complexities, paradoxes and lack of answers for everything I've mentioned, but then rushes to wrap it all up into a nice, relatively happy Hollywood ending where everyone ultimately goes back to their original jobs in a new form. I've gone through pretty much all of the same experiences over the past 4 years as The Company Men do. I lost my job (as an Architect), which then turned into a feeling of losing my career since I couldn't find another job in the same field for years. I lost most of, if not all, my income. I had to sell many of my belongings, face losing my home and everything that defined me, and discover who I really am in the face of real adversity. I've downsized to a quarter-sized lifestyle of my previous one. And it still hasn't ended "happy" per se. I'm still not working again as an architect. I do believe things have worked out by me redefining myself and that I'm on a better foundation now than the shaky one I had built, ironically, as only an architect. But I don't feel like The Company Men shows enough of that struggle and forced redefinition. Granted, my situation is unique to me, so maybe I'm too close to this story and not unbiased enough to evaluate it. Maybe most people will go back to what they were doing before. Hard to answer right now.  My point to this discussion is that what I really like about The Company Men is its willingness to look at these ideas and explore them from a number of points of view. Even if I don't totally agree with how these ideas and characters get resolved in this movie. Anyone who  has had to rethink things and redefined themselves due to the Great Recession, should find something in The Company Men that they can relate to. And I'm grateful that a film like this is out there for each of us to seek out, whether its now or in the future when things are good again or people are ready to look at these stories. Or maybe things will never go back to the way they were? We will see.  Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, and Tommy Lee Jones lead the fantastic ensemble cast here, which includes Kevin Costner, Maria Bello, and Craig T. Nelson. All of these actors bring their A-game to The Company Men and make it a very good study on character acting. I can see why they all signed on to this project...it was an opportunity to bite into some juicy dialogue and serious storytelling. If it weren't for the subject matter, I think they would all be receiving more praise for their work here.  The filmmaking craft is solid in The Company Men, with good cinematography and production design, good editing, music that works for the most part to convey the film's emotional content, and writing that works through most of the film in telling its story and keeping my interest. In a lesser year for film, The Company Men would probably have made my Top 10 movies of the year, but there were just too many very good 3.5 star films in 2010. I've got at least a dozen of them. The Company Men is one of that pack that  should show up in your home theater at some point.

James Brooks Brings Life to an Old Nag Back when Homer was a wee lad some thousands of years ago, he heard the then ancient story of the grouchy old man whose life is turned around by a beautiful young women. He built it into one of his many monologues so that ultimately it moved from the oral to the written tradition in what we think of as Ancient Greece. Since that time story tellers have repeated the tale with many variations, but it remains basically the same: Love Conquers All. Having plenty of cash available, Brooks and his backers were willing to insure success by giving a great deal of it to Jack Nicholson and lesser amounts to his co-stars and the remainder of the cast. The result: a first rate romantic comedy likely to make its two hours and twenty minutes seem but a few minutes of pleasure. Nicholas as the Grouch and Kinnear as his gay neighbor, play their roles as if they were made for them (as they were); Hunt, as the girl in the story, manifests some of her characteristic acting oddities, but, on the whole, holds her own. This is a good one likely to entertain most people

Great flying footage This is a part of the war that I hadn't heard much about and was great viewing.  The flying scenes are worth the price for the aviation history buff.

carmen Having gone to opera, I knew pretty much what was going to happen, but this movie really fleshed it out. There is a lot of nudity, but it makes sense ? I didn't mind reading the subtitles as I would rather hear their real voices instead.  Hard to believe a opera written in 1800's still stands up and is still current.  Actors were outstanding in their roles, I highly recommend this movie.

Gothic Horror In The Old Time Fashion of the 70's The actors are well played and Kim Darby's talents are well acted out in the horror filled movie.  I suggest you take sometime to render and note the plot which will scare you out of your wits.  One of the better B Horror movies. I recommend it's viewing.  Enjoy!

Better than the reviews indicate If you go into this not expecting this to be like "Alive" or other survival flicks then you won't be upset at the end.  I thought it was realistic and touching at some points.  Had to watch it twice to appreciate this movie for what it is. When I watched it the first time I was expecting more action and more fights with the wolves.  The second time (about 2 months later) I watched it and just let it be with no crazy hype from the commercials.  I think people were expecting Liam Neeson to kick some wolf tale but that wasn't in the script.

Wow The movie has heart, I love that it tip toed in to the down, dirt and ugliness, I wish it had lived there a bit longer instead of wrapping up the serious issues in a 30 minute sitcom fashion. All in all it was a good movie and I like the fact the characters did not settle for less Great job Patrick!!!! I do wonder why every character with a speaking part but two was of a caramel complexion or lighter.

Exciting and Suspenseful We watched this movie and were completely captivated by the story and the acting. At first I was mildly surprised by the black and white but after a few minutes that ceased to be a factor and the movie grabbed hold of my attention and didn't let go. The movie is well acted and very suspenseful and does a fine job of creating an ambience of uncertainty and fear over what may be about to happen.  The characters are sympathetic and believable; I recommend the movie highly.

A Dark Look on a Classic Tale that will Blow Your Mind!!! Everything from the phenomenal acting by Charlize Theron to the mind blowing special effects made this movie the amazing movie it was! You will definitely be surprised how intrigued you will be after the first 10 minutes...its that good! Even though many people are wary,because of Stewart from Twilight is one of main roles don't be! I am a very big fan of Twilight. Although I know many people aren't fans of her or Twilight and don't let that stop you from seeing this movie. You will be missing out on one of the best versions of the snow white tale so far, but is not for really young children for it is not you  typical G rated snow white film. However it is definitely a movie that should not be missed!

Wonderful story This shows that a movie can be great without profanity, sexuality, or gore. A beautiful, positive story of being the best you can be. Peer pressure is something that can make you not like who you are when you're alone and the male lead in this discovers that he can live without the approval of the wrong crowd. And teaches them they can be better without doing wrong to impress someone else. The person you've always ridiculed and called names may be your best friend or the love of your life. A lesson to teens or adults who live to follow the crowd. Or just a great movie to relax with, with tissues handy of course.

The Age of Innocence A novel by Edith Wharton about old New York and its unwritten rules of behavior for a certain class structure.  Faithful adherence to the novel, good acting, and setting.  The parts played by Michelle Pfeiffer and Winona Ryder really should be exchanged one for another with respect to their physical attributes as described by Wharton, but since the actresses are who they are, the discrepancy can be passed over.

Love The Muppets Can't go wrong with the Muppets! No matter how old we get, we still love the Muppets. This is a great family movie.

Best film I have seen depicting traumatic bonding... The film begins with a dramatic portrayal of a kind of perverted love story, the traumatic bonding between a Nazi Doctor and a female prisoner; a young woman abandoned by her parents escaping  Nazi Germany leaving her behind, alone, and how she sacrifices the last of her self respect in order to survive Nazi captivity.  Surviving that captivity and suffering from the effects of her trauma unknown to her, she marries and becomes the mother of two sons living in New York City.  What follows are the desperate measures by the family in grappling with the results of the mother's failure at managing her life and how, like a virus, her abusive past has infected her two sons and the people they are involved with, now adult men trying to cope with the lives they have inherited.  To me Death In Love is a depiction of the hidden cruelty within our society as a whole, the incapacity to truly love, the sado-masochism hiding behind what we blindly accept as being for our benefit or best interest.  The film was better than expected. I was hesitant in viewing it based on the previews I watched but I have rarely been misled by Bisset's choices in her roles or films and they have surprised me recently, so I felt compelled to see it. This film is different than The Fine Art of Love as the rage is seriously repressed and the cruelty not so obvious.  In Death In Love the anger and rage being reenacted is abounding, real and often frightening.  If you want to be enlightened and know nothing about post traumatic stress disorder, traumatic bonding or Stockholm syndrome, then this is a film to see that leaves little hidden from view.  The acting is excellent and believable.

Lies that life is black and white While I do not necessarily anticipate PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES addressing it, somehow it disappoints me that this documentary leaves the so-called demise of newspapers at blame-the-Internet.  I have read that many papers would be in better shape, and certainly fewer out of business, had publishers not left what was already a very profitable business alone by unnecessarily cutting costs, the appeal of even bigger short-term payoffs dooming long-term revenue.  Still, I can't complain about PAGE ONE being what it is, especially since many NEW YORK TIMES reporters we meet aren't the stuffed shirts I, for one, would have expected.  PAGE ONE reminds us that even if the Internet had not cut in on some of the newspaper industry's action, THE NEW YORK TIMES probably still would have lost readers when its complicity with the Bush White House became public knowledge.  As a subscriber to the F.A.I.R. (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) publication EXTRA! for 25 years, I've read more than a few articles about the TIMES' pro-moneyed interests reporting, but the Judith Miller/Iraq scandal took it to a higher level.  Nonetheless, I'm still rooting for the NEW YORK TIMES to survive and be a great newspaper, even if it was never as great as we think.  We need newspapers.  There is no substitute for them.

just what the kids needed bought this for my niece and nephew, it is a great babysitter when they are not in the best mood. It will cheer them up after 5 minutes of watching. It was a good investment in peace of mind for me.

Classic film. wuthering heights is an absolute classic film. i searched and searched for a copy of this on DVD in the stores, but i found out it is actually out of print? (Crazy i know) . i decided to look on amazon and found that it was extremely expensive for a U.S. copy of the movie. like $70! i was not going to pay that i just wanted a copy of the film on DVD, bc my VHS copy is completely ancient. i saw this verion (import) and i was a little nervous at first bc the reviews said something about a subtitle in koren that they could not turn off? well i recieved mine and played it and the subtitle is very easily turned of with one click of the 'subtitle' button on the DVD remote. the only people with any issues might bc a collector who wants all perfect packaging, bc the box has some korean writing on it, but whatever for $12 i can't complain.. the dvd plays wonderfully. i dont know if the movie is digitally remastered or anything but it is a pretty clear picture for a movie from the '30's. i have no complaints.

Good The story is great. It is unfortunate that they have to try so hard to turn it into a long movie; the diversions and extra crap I can do without.  Good music!

Funnier than expected We rented because I wanted to see a comedy.  My husband is more of an action drama guy, but he liked this movie more than he expected. It turns out to be a really cute, funny and more relatable than initially expected love story.

Remember from when I first saw it.. The begging and for the most of the movie is conceivable.  It's been years since I first saw this movie, forgot how it ended till now.  Which I still don't get. Seems the ending should've been time dated (i.e. 5 year's later). Appears to have happen overnight which for anybody to believe would happen without a explaination would be at lost.  Overall a good movie, a little corny at times, but looking at when it was made, still good..

Hocus Pocus Revisited This is the first Buddies movie I have watched, so I can't compare it to the others. The first thing I have to say is that the puppies are adorable, the kids are charming, and the set is colorful.  The second thing is that (at the risk of sounding picky) this movie is basically a remake of the Disney movie Hocus Pocus with a few minor changes, different actors, and of course adding the puppies.  Hocus Pocus has always been one of my very favorite holiday movies, but I am genuinely shocked that Disney produced this Buddies movie with basically the EXACT same story line.  Were they short on writers or short on creativity?  If you have seen Hocus Pocus, you will be amazed at the similarities.  The story opens in a big old house in the past, just 75 years ago vs. 300 years, and sets up the whole story for present day Halloween in a small town.  Instead of three witches who are brought back to life by a candle, it's a warlock brought back to life by a mirror.  Instead of sucking the life out of children, the warlock needs the souls of 5 puppies (not as scary as it sounds).  People are turned into little talking animals, just like Hocus Pocus, and the warlock wanders the streets filled with trick-or-treaters searching for his stolen spell book (sound familiar).  All of the town's clueless parents are at the town Halloween dance and don't believe the children when they come looking for help.  Seriously, I think they must have used the same script and just replaced the teenaged children with this younger group (more akin to the Goonies clan) and the Buddies.  The children seem to be the main characters is this movie, with the Buddies as an aside.  I really expected this movie to be more centered around the puppies.  Okay, now that I have complained enough about the fact that Disney took a major shortcut by copying Hocus Pocus, I have to say I am at least glad that they copied a GOOD movie and that it was their OWN movie that they copied, not somebody elses.  I also have to wonder if it's possible that they did this intentionally because the story from Hocus Pocus was so successful and felt that it was worth redoing for a slightly younger set.  Guess I can't blame them for that.  Don't get me wrong, this movie can't compare to Hocus Pocus which had an all-star cast and was overflowing with humor.  Spooky Buddies is obviously intended to give us an opportunity to watch some adorable little puppies in cute costumes outwit the bad guys with the help of some equally adorable kids.  They were successful in doing just that.  The opening of the movie is the scariest if you are concerned about your little ones, but the rest of the story lightens up and of course has a happy ending.  So why did I buy this movie?  I have grandchildren who have several of the other movies and loved them and were eager to see this one as well.  I like to have movies for all the holidays on hand for sleepovers, so I bought this one for Halloween. They haven't seen it yet, but I'm pretty sure they will enjoy it for a number of reasons. First, the children in the movie are their age and that is always a big plus when it comes to whether or not they can connect with the characters. Second, the movie is just scary enough to make it fun (after all, it is Halloween) but not scary enough to give them nightmares.  It may be a little spooky for really small children.  And third, everyone loves adorable puppies. I will try to do a follow up with "reviews" from my grandchildren after they see it.

A great video A friend who loves horses recommended <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005SAZA8O">Buck</a>, or I might never have found it. It is amazing to watch Buck work with horses, but this is a great personal interest story as well. Buck overcame the odds to become an amazing man, and I found the story to be inspirational. The movie is entertaining to watch, but there are many life lessons included in his story as well. There is also a short segment about his work with Robert Redford (including an interview with Redford) on the movie The Horse Whisperer. I would highly recommend this to anyone who likes animals or biographies or stories about overcomers.

Minimalist! To say this movie is minimalist would be overstating it.  Essentially, this movie is nothing more than one guy and three (or four?) women filming something akin to a porn. There is no plot, as such, the movie is strictly a bizarre movie hailing towards Wes Craven's "The Last House on the Left" with extra nudity and explicit female masturbation. Or, alternately, something modern out of the "Something Weird Video" portfolio that Herschel Gordon Lewis might have directed. Well, OK, Herschel Gordon Lewis would have had 20% more plot in the movie.  There are three rape victims and the principal character's (Peter Gruber) sister who seems to be systematically trying to seduce him after having been their father's main squeeze. This and the principal character's obsession with sexually driving the devil out of young women seem to be the only hints of plot, but again, to call the plot threadbare would be a fulsome compliment. The special effects are craptacular. The editing is terrible. The background score was deplorable (Although my friend liked the music). The makeup is amateurish. As another reviewer made note of, the women in the movie are...less than hot. Suffice it to say this movie lacked a lot of what would have made it a contender. It has an anticipation associated with it...It has a "Can't turn away, there's a car accident on the side of the road...I have to see if anything interesting is going to happen." quality to it.  So, on to a rating. There are Hollywood movies and there is hardcore porn. Some porn companies have attempted to make a movie that attempts to bridge the gap between Hollywood and hardcore porn, but have largely failed. Softcore and independent movies have touched the gap, but usually lack a lot of things including something even coming close to hardcore porn. There is no hardcore porn in this movie, just to be clear. Its much harder than what you would find in a softcore porn or in a "Skinemax" movie. Some of the old softcore porns did a decent job of making the gap between the two pretty small, but its been 20-some years since anything decent came out. This movie somehow makes the divide seem smaller. It lacks plot. It lacks lots of stuff, but it has some sexual energy to it, although its energy is sick, abusive and incestuous. So, on its merits, I would give this movie 2 stars. I give it generously one-and-a-half bonus stars for making something that made a place between opposite spheres of movies. 7/10

It's very nice myseries movie The best thing about debutant director Navdeep Singh's oddly entitled "Manorama Six Feet Under" is the sand-swept Rajasthani ambience. Once, there was the grandiloquent Rajasthan of J.P. Dutta's cinema and now there's the telltale, accusing, culpable and guilt-laden Rajasthan of Singh's cinema where crime coalesces into grime to create a kind of brackish brittle but sturdy concoction that Quentin Tarantino would approve of and Alfred Hitchcock would find hard to recognise.

Excelente German Culture Story - Cultura Alemana del Amor Me parece excelente la pel&iacute;cula, al mostrar como la frialdad de la cultura alemana alberga oportunidades para mostrar amor entre dos hombres, y como a pesar de esa frialdad los sentimientos son s&oacute;lidos y constantes. Muy europea y tierna bien que mal.  Excellent to show the german culture of love between men, cold, but solid... slow but taking chances. I hardly recommended.

Cars 2....... When Lightining McQueen and Mater head to Japan and Europe to compete in the World Gran Prix, Mater becomes involved in international espionage by mistake.  Cars 2 is the second film, besides Toy Story, to become a sequel. Unfortunately, the movie has recieved mixed reviews all over. Everyone claims this is Pixar's first misfire with their animated films. I'm not as convinced as others that this movie is so bad. It doesn't have the emotional impact that the first movie has but it is a fun movie. Whatever possessed them to make a spy movie out of the Cars universe is beyond me but, for what it is, it actually worked and turned out to be a pretty good movie to me. It's not great but it isn't godawful either(if I had to pick another Pixar movie that I felt was godawful, it'd have to be Finding Nemo-even though that one did well at the box-office). On a technical level, Cars 2 is the best looking Pixar movie to date.  Given Pixar's track record with movies(even if people do consider this to be bad), they deserve one misfire- they're only human. We all make mistakes. The important thing is we learn from our mistakes. In my opinion, Cars 2 is a winner so don't let these bad reviews persuade you otherwise.

Great family movie! This movie was a really a nice surprise!  Bindi Irwin did a great job and all the characters are played very well.  My five and two year old daughters LOVE this movie and watch it over and over.  I think I like this free willy movie the best out of the whole series.

Perfect Movie to Watch Alone As an avid Harry Potter fan, I was drawn to this movie because of Rupert Grint and Julie Walters (who is also one of my favorite actresses). It soon became apparent that it was so much more than that. It almost runs along the same plot as Sunset Blvd. for those of you who have seen it. This movie is a great one to watch by yourself, or with anyone who appreciates good acting. This has definitely become one of my favorite movies and was a great find to add to my collection.

Dolly and Queen Latifah Need to Act Together in More Movies Set in the small town of Pacashau, Georgia, JOYFUL NOISE follows the members of a church choir as they attempt to win the national "Joyful Noise" gospel choir competition. G.G. Sparrow (Dolly Parton) is the chief benefactor of her church and when her husband, the choir director (Kris Kristofferson) suddenly passes away, she believes she will be made the new director. Instead the church board gives the position to Vi Rose Hill (Queen Latifah), Gi Gi's nemesis. There's some infighting that becomes more interesting when Gi Gi's grandson Randy (Jeremy Jordon) comes to live with her and falls in love with Vi Rose's daughter, Olivia (Keke Palmer).  JOYFUL NOISE features Dolly Parton's return to the big screen in a major role after a long absence (beyond a few cameos and a vocal cameo in GNOMEO AND JULIET, Parton hasn't been on the big screen since 1992). Welcome back, Dolly! Don't stay away so long next time.  Parton and Queen Latifah have a great onscreen chemistry. I'd love to see another movie that features these two women as co-stars.  Some of the supporting actors give so solid performances too, particularly Dexter Darden as Vi Rose's son, Walter. Walter has Asperger's Syndrome and Darden's portrayal of the character is particularly moving.  There's a lot of music in JOYFUL NOISE. That's both a good thing and a bad thing. It's a good thing because it provides the audience with an opportunity to hear some of the wonderful voices of the cast. It's a bad thing because many of the songs in the film are unnecessary and don't do anything to drive the plot or develop the characters. Dolly sings the song "From Here to the Moon" and Queen Latifah sings "Fix Me Jesus". These songs are beautiful and it gives these unbelievably talented performers an opportunity to sing a solo. Unfortunately, they aren't necessary to the film. There are several other songs like this in the movie. In this aspect, JOYFUL NOISE attempts to copy the formula from the tv show "Glee". I know that "Glee" has been a successful tv show. However, the "Glee" formula really doesn't work in Christian-setting with mostly gospel music (heck, the "Glee" formula doesn't really even work on tv anymore).  I didn't think I was going to like JOYFUL NOISE very much. I've never been much a fan of gospel music. When I saw the movie with family, the main thing I was looking forward to was seeing Dolly (I've been a fan of hers since I was a kid). Despite the "Glee"-vibe during certain moments and some unnecessary musical numbers, I was surprised by how much I enjoyed JOYFUL NOISE. There are some really touching moments that are grounded in reality: the death of a close love one, the economic downturn, and the struggle against loneliness, and the existence of God are issues that most everyone can relate. JOYFUL NOISE deals with these issues and though it does so in an optimistic and joyful way, it's doesn't feel false. The movie does have some foul language and there are some sexual references, so there will be some who will be turned off by that. However, if you don't mind a Christian-themed movie and can deal with some "Glee"-inspired motifs, JOYFUL NOISE is a movie that might leave you with a joyful heart.

Last Exile: The Complete Series (Classic) What can I say about this anime series? It's more than great! The animation is incredible! How can I give you a review without spoiling it for you..well..this is not your typical anime...the story can start off a little bit confusing at first but everything starts to make more sense as the story develops. You will love the characters as well and it is a show that will make you think. I'm surprised they have not made this into a live action movie...that is how great it is. I'm glad I bought last exile.

Disgustingly good This is one of the most gruesome movies i have seen and it is MUCH more gorey than the first.  However, still doesn't top the First Sequence in terms of quality.

great movie this is my favorite startrek movie by far. theirs alot going on, spock isnt acting himself, kirk needs a whale, they dont know how their going to get back earth is being drained of electricity, the whales lives are in danger,and scotty needs parts to turn the ship into an aquarium. if you loved the 80s,youll love this startrek.

Great Slow Burn Horror Film Ti West is a fantastic filmmaker of modern horror. He knows how to build that sense of dread throughout his films. With The Innkeepers and House of the Devil, he is quickly becoming one of my favorite directors. His old school ways of building a slow burn film up to a fantastic and horrific climax is what I want out of a horror movie. The Innkeepers is a perfect example. West slowly fleshes out the story and lets you get to know the characters, while staging some creepy and tense sequences throughout until things get really crazy and the film becomes terrifying. I watched this with my girlfriend and she closed her eyes the last 15 minutes because she was so afraid, and then she asked me what happened after the movie was over. The final shot of the film perfectly exhibits how West can build that tension and sense of dread throughout his films. Loved this movie

it's pretty good I was looking for beginner to intermediate instruction on chair massage. I got this because of the great reviews.  Pros - techniques, sound, picture, viewing angle, excellent descriptions and demonstration, marketing portion, easy to understand, great instructor Cons - lot of thumbs  I changed my review from a 3 to 5 to 4. I recommend the viewer to watch this dvd several times as you will most likely miss the details in the descriptions. Techniques can look very similar but minor variations in the application have a huge impact on the effectiveness of those techniques. For example the directions may say 'compress medially, pull superiorly, and push laterally'. This is far superior to merely circling your thumbs over muscle tissue and skin. I recommend this video and am pleased with my purchase.  I encourage anyone already familiar with chair massage or looking for advanced techniques to check out Advanced Therapeutic Chair Massage with Patrick Ingrassia. AMAZING. With these two dvds, I have everything I need for an amazing chair massage routine.

editing causes one line blunder I really like the movie; however, one line is flubbed on the dvd. As a matter of fact I returned my original order thinking it was just a defective dvd, but the replacement has the same issue. Scene: Edward and Bella talking outside of sheriff's office. In promo he says, I'll do whatever it takes to protect you." This line is completely left out of the dvd and the line he says is: "Do you think people have notice how strange, Alice?" It's irritating.

Rumpole of the Bailey This was the pilot of the later full TV series. Good but not as good as the series that followed which were pretty uniformly excellent. So if you haven't watched any of the Rumpole start with the main series. If you really enjoy Rumpole you will want to come back to this to see how it all started.

Mi revisi&oacute;n de biutiful Yo pienso que Biutiful era una pel&iacute;cula muy triste pero muy educativa al mismo vez. La pel&iacute;cula contiene muchos diferentes temas que ayuda en educar sobre muchas diferentes cosas como las luchas en la vida con su familia y la econom&iacute;a. En la pel&iacute;cula puedes ver como Uxbal empiece a ser un padre bueno que realmente tiene cari&ntilde;o para sus hijos. El empieza a pensar de sus hijos y de su futuro despu&eacute;s de que el muere. En todo era una pel&iacute;cula deprimente que es bueno para ense&ntilde;ar en un sal&oacute;n de clase porque es tan educativo. Estoy acuerdo con la revisi&oacute;n de Selma T. "Selmich"  de la pel&iacute;cula en Amazon. Esto acuerdo con ella porque para mi era una pel&iacute;cula que siempre voy a recordar porque era tan poderoso en explicando como la vida realmente no es "beautiful" pero la vida es una cosa "beautiful".

Flavor Flav Is P.I.M.P! Flavor Of Love has got to be one of the most funniest reality shows in the world. Season one was awesome, and Season Two was even more awesome! 20 girls fighting for this dude (and his money)to..( well especially his papers) makes it all look funny, and who cant not forget, the HBIC returning during the mid season, New York acts more crazier than ever and getting in the face of Deelishis, Bootz, Buckwild and the others left. Man i loved every moment of it, i am thought a little disapointed that the seasons reunion was not in here, since it was the BOMB! I used to think about since 06' but now i am happy that i have it and watch it to get a laughts.

Worth watching I recommend this movie it tells about WWII history and the strength of people against all odds.  I enjoyed the book even more.

Digital Copy for iTunes ONLY!?!? I have nothing to add about the movie, in fact I didn't even buy it for me, I bought it for my wife.  BUYER BEWARE!!! If you are anything like me and were expecting to find a Ultraviolet Digital copy included with this movie, you will be disappointed! This movie only includes an iTunes digital copy, which is so 2 years ago in terms of what most studios are offering now a days. I've seen many movies come with either only a Ultraviolet Digital Copy or the option of choosing an iTunes or/or Ultraviolet Digital Copy so I didn't even think it wasn't going to include an iTunes Digital Copy only. Thanks for nothing Paramount!

New to the 'Dark Shadows' I rented this because I'd seen the promos that looked funny. This movie is a comedy, but as expected it's 'dark' without as much humor as I would have liked. It's there, and it's smart, but I was just hoping for more.  Since I had not seen the television show my mind wasn't tainted with what should have been.  I viewed the movie without any preconceived notions; not having read any reviews here or elsewhere.  That was probably a good thing.  Nothing to compare it to and not a diehard fan of the series, I found it enjoyable.  Depp was excellent, as usual and his supporting cast very good as well.  Tim Burton didn't disappoint this viewer, but it was different than expected.  It's not for kids.  Both the sexual references, and scary gore would be too much for most under 12. Remember, he's a vampire and needs to feed.  If you're looking for a fairly mild Halloween-ish movie, with a few laughs, some nostalgic 70's references and mild discomfort from anxious anticipation of what might come next with vampires and ghosts, this one is for you.  It's also for Johnny Depp fans.  Yes, a bit like Jack Sparrow and Edward Scissorhands, but you won't mind.

Lost Fleet of Guadalcanal The Video arrived on time and in good condition.  It contained excellent photography of Dr. Ballards underwater search for the ships sunk in the 4 month Naval battle for Guadacanal and the complicated submersible vehicles used in the search. It also contained film footage of the of the land  Battle for Guadacanal.

A Feel Good Film When I first saw previews for the movie in the theater, I was not sure if I was going to like this film.  I was pleased though, when I saw it on DVD.  It is a touching story of someone forced to start over in the mid point of their life.  I especially liked how Larry, who was nowhere near where he had been (financially) was able to find happiness.  The sound track is very good too.

Dogs may lead you to your lethal fate This film is fascinating and does not need a long commentary, though a decent review has to deal with a certain number of problems the film evokes and even invokes.  The first element of note is the brunt and even brutish description of criminal violence in New York City. You have to shoot first, kill the shopkeeper as soon as you enter the corner store, then take the money without even checking if there is anyone around and then run. Killing is always the first step of that crime. Stealing is second and cleaning up is even farther down the road to hell. Who cares anyway since most of these criminals are still running, no matter whether they have been "introduced" to a judge and a court or not.  The police has no power whatsoever when confronted to these thugs. The vigilante reflex is then one possible reaction from the public, passive most of the time but one out of a million makes about 15 ready to draw their guns and start shooting at them. Shooting them dead of course.  The second problem is the point of view from which this film is seen, that of the victim of some violence of that type who has managed to survive by sheer luck. She wants to get out of this past but this past will never be bygone, so it has to be expurgated, purged, flushed away and the homeopathic method, since the standard police doctor is out, is the best way to extinguish the pain.  The rest is the final twist. You will not be able to foresee the end even if you know the victim at stake here is a radio show anchorwoman. Radio people often have a strange imagination because they are used to being invisible since they are only a voice.  Enjoy the ending, and the in-between details. A good film altogether and the vision of Central Park is slightly less conventional than usual.  Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

I'm OK with it It was a light hearted story that tends to reflect some personalities you see in daily  life.  Fine movie to watch to fill that void for a story that makes you gratified that it's not you.  Good filler movie.

building empires rocks Being the huge queensryche fan that I am, this video brings back all kinds of awesome memories. I truly enjoyed how it takes you back to the beginning of the band, as well as takes you through so many memorable years. I have seen the "Ryche" three times, and am always brought back to a great place when I watch this video.

GREAT MOVIE FOR CHILDREN TO SEE This movie really teaches a great lesson for both parents and children. It's a must see family movie. I watched this with my younger relatives so they can learn the lesson of the movie.

Excellent Video We're totally enjoying revisiting what was our favorite series back in the day.  Video quality is very good and the product is a good value for the money.

One-Eyed Jacks One of the great westerns and a marvelous vehicle for Brando to display his superb acting talents.  However, the print quality of this DVD is mediocre at best.  Can't say what sort of remastering it received - but it is decidedly sub-standard.  I recently ordered a copy of "The Caine Mutiny", made 6 or 8 years earlier than this film, and the picture quality is outstanding.  Why wasn't "One-Eyed Jacks" given the same treatment?

DECENT - INTERESTING DIRECTING STYLE 'Long Pig' should have been called 'Long Movie'! This is one seriously long movie that stretches out the usual hour and a half premise of a slasher movie to monstrous length. Still, it's never boring thanks to Carlo Rodriguez's directing style which is steeped in montages, smooth dissolves and copious amounts of eerie stock footage from slaughterhouses and various horrifying world events. The script is decent if only a bit preachy but it works well and the characters aren't nearly a obnoxious as you usually see in micro budget horror movies. There is always a sense of movement in this lengthy flick which helps it feel like an epic and there are a few nice and twisted 'Saw' style torment scenes with some truly creepy looking villains. One bizarre scene in particular features a nasty old guy trying to kill a woman who is hiding in a room by attacking her through a hole in the wall with a chainsaw attached to the end of a pole! There are several other WTF moments like this just to keep you on your toes. It's too bad they didn't have much of a budget. Rodriguez is clearly a talented and stylistic director whose work is interesting enough to keep track of. Now, will somebody please give this guy a decent budget?!?

Highly recommended On this video you can see Michael performing his rehearsal, but there is no difference between real show and rehearsal even though his dancers were singing and clapping for a while.

Imitation of Life 1934 I reviewed "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" by Beverly Daniel Tatum. In the chapter called Identity Development in Multiracial Families she writes that, "The stereotype of the `tragic mulatto' - as portrayed in the classic film Imitation of Life, for example - is one of marginality and maladjustment." I thought it would be interesting to watch the film to gain a better understanding of what she was writing about.  The 1934 movie stars Claudette Colbert as Bea Pullman, a widow who is struggling to make ends meet after taking over her late husband's maple syrup business. One day Delilah Johnson (Louise Beavers) shows up at her door with her young daughter Peola looking for a job as a housekeeper. She offers to work for Bea for no pay, just room and board. One day, Delilah makes delicious pancakes for Bea, using her secret family recipe. Bea loves the pancakes so much, she opens a pancake house to sell them. Eventually, she and Delilah go into business selling pancake mix and they become wealthy.  While all this is going on, Peola is struggling. Even though her mother is a dark skinned black person, Peola is light enough that she can pass for white. (Delilah tells Bea at the beginning of the movie that Peola's father is very light too.) Peola is ashamed of being black and passes for white whenver she can. Of course, she is outed whenever her mother shows up unexpectedly somewhere, which happens quite often. She grows to resent her mother because of this.  It's interesting to view this film through the lens of today's world. Delilah is very much the stereotypical Mammy character. She wants nothing more than to serve Bea and take care of her. Even after Bea gives her a twenty percent interest in the business, Delilah tells Bea to just keep all her earnings for her. She doesn't want her own home or car, she just wants to keep living with Bea. (And why does she only get a twenty percent interest? It's her pancake recipe and her face on the box!) When Bea comments that Peola is smarter than Bea's daughter Jessie, Delilah says something to the effect of we're all born smart, we get dumb later on. It was somewhat unclear to me if she's talking about the black race or the human race but it sounded like she was just speaking about black people.  There are just a handful of scenes that are focused on Peola and her struggles. In this film the main plot is Bea's business and her romance with Steve Archer (Warren William). The kissing scenes in this movie were hilarious. They didn't pucker up so much as just smash closed mouths together. Is that how everyone kissed back then? My husband and I tried to kiss that way for fun after watching this movie and were cracking up. But I digress...  I didn't think that Peola's subplot had that much depth. She talks about wanting to be white but doesn't talk about why. Perhaps that would have been too much for a film to delve into in the 1930s. When Peola and Jessie are in elementary school, Peola comes home from school crying because Jessie called her black. Bea asks Jessie why she would say such a horrible thing and gives her a stern talking to. I thought that was really interesting that "black" would be considered an insult or slur back then but "colored" was not.  Fredi Washington, the actress who played Peola as an adult, was a green-eyed, light skinned black woman. Ironically, she was encouraged to pass for white by studio heads so she could be cast in more roles but unlike Peola, she refused to pass. She was a fantastic actress but unfortunately there weren't many roles for a light-skinned black person back then. For some of her roles she had to wear makeup to darken her appearance.  This was an eye-opening film for me and I think anyone interested in the history of race relations in the United States would find it very interesting to watch.

Deep Valley This is one of my very favorite Ida Lupino films. I think she is as an underated actor and unfortunately forgotten today, remembered more by people for having been a pioneer woman director in the 1950's, but she was just as strong as Bette Davis and Barbara Stanwyck when it came to her acting talent. Just look at this film or "The Hard Way" or "Roadhouse" and you will see what an excellent actor she was.

Great entertainment! There is a lot of great action in this set.  And the images of this set is crispy.  Nice subtitles can let those with hearing difficulties understand and those whose English is not mother tongue learn much about how it is spoken.  Great for Naruto fans!

Shocking and horrifying, the best Jack Ketchum adaptation yet Lucky McKee (May, The Woods, Red) returns to the world of Jack Ketchum with The Woman, which is undoubtedly the best Ketchum adaptation yet.  Country lawyer Chris (Deadwood's Sean Bridgers) is a manipulative piece of garbage that regularly subjects his long-suffering wife (frequent McKee cohort Angela Bettis) and family to horrific abuse.  When Chris captures a lone feral woman from a cannibalistic tribe, things change...and it isn't long before they get even worse than anyone could possibly imagine.  Definitely not for everyone, The Woman is an unforgettable piece of horror that surprisingly comes off as something all too-real.  It's hard to watch and leaves a more than lasting impression on the viewer, which is just what you should come to expect from a film of this type.  It's also McKee's best effort since his brilliant film May, and just may be one of the best horror flicks to come out in the past year or two.  All in all, though it is definitely a hard watch just based on its tone alone, give The Woman a look, you won't forget it.

amazing movie - watch out for rape scene i lved the movie, amazing choreo. sexy. short mysterious dialogue. just what i was hoping for.  however, there is a rape scene in it, a gang rape scene near the end. so if you, like me, have problems veiwing such things, watch out for it. molly goes into a room w the guy w the long hair. just mute it and close your eyes for about 3-5 minutes and you'll be fine.  minus that, it's a great movie very artistic and intreeging. shows how dance and sex can be the same and yet not. just how i feel.

Pristine copy I have always loved this movie but I guess from a distance.  I was scared to death when I first saw it but now that you know the ending it does not have the same impact.  However, the transfer is pristine and it allows you to focus on details that you would have otherwise missed.

Cute Christmas flick A cute movie to watch at Christmas.  Nothing too deep and has a little romance too.  Safe for Kids to watch as well.  If you are into Christmas, you will enjoy.

just what i wanted Its a great collection of classic biker films! Its exactly what i hoped it would be.The casting is great and the image the films portray is very reminescent of the late 60's and 70's. These are not movies that you will see on tv or cable. Every clubhouse should have this in the collection!

THE BOY FRIEND When you want to see a movie for decades & finally get the chance to do so, you really want to love it, but I can only "really like" this movie, because most of the characters are grating, & watching grating characters for 2.5 hours can get to be exhausting. The basic idea of staging a musical in the framework of a Busby Berekely movie plot is very clever, though, & the fantasy Berekely numbers are very well done. Twiggy is disarming in her debut; she dances well & has a sweet voice. Glenda Jackson's unbilled cameo as the star who sprains her ankle, giving Twiggy her big chance, is a hoot. The real show stealer is Antonia Ellis, who plays the bitchiest of the cast members desperately playing their parts directly to Hollywood director De Thrill. She looked really familiar to me, but her scanty IMDb credits didn't yield anything else I'd seen her in. Then I realized that she reminded me of Catherine Zeta-Jones in CHICAGO, who obviously saw this film & used Ellis as a role model. WB butchered this flick in 1971, removing entire numbers & shortening the runtime by a half-hour. Judicious trimming within scenes could have shortened it by 20 minutes and made it an 8 or 9. Oh well. 7/10

Doris and Perry This brought back many memories for all us watching.  I purchased this for my elderly parents delight.  We use to watch Perry Como every Saturday night and Doris Day is such a delight, I decided to purchase this DVD having both to watch on the DVD.  They truly enjoyed watching the singing and dancing.

A Bloody Psychodrama---VERY PSYCHO! Slasher films are a genre of their own, part horror film, part psychological drama, and all blood. These films are produced fast and heavy. With so many of them, you end up watching a blatant snuff film, or gore fest. Mena's film BEREAVEMENT transcends this pitfall, by providing believable, humanizing elements to the characters. It helps build the horror, when the audience can identify, or sympathize with the film's victums and heros. Interspliced with the shocking slaughter scenes, the film's central plot builds slowly to a finish that, unlike most of these types of films, you DO NOT see coming. (And expect no spoilers here.) Actually, the grand finale is so gruesome and creepy, I felt truly shocked, since the film subtlely works from the first moments, to bring you into sympathy with the kidnapped child, whom I thought would be saved. The psychological motives of the villian were sympathetically spelled out, thru flashbacks, and the disgusting, sad world he inhabited all his life. Most of these films dont, or cant, accomplish that--giving you humanizing connections to ALL the characters, good and evil.  The writer/director/producer/editor/music composer, Stevan Mena, by carrying all the reigns, is able to transmit his singular vision of a boring backwater town out near Pittsburg, where a panel truck, or an abandoned factory, or even the huge ominous looking electrial towers (which symbolically reinforce the nightmarish creepiness of the scarecrows made from steer skulls), become secondary characters in their own right. Even giving the child a disease which doesnt allow the perception of physical pain, a real disease by the way, makes an interesting symbolic motif for the disease of the psychopathic, where feeling emotional pain of others is absent. (And of course leads to the events of the film.) I enjoyed that symbolic level the film was operating upon. Altho its not an art film by any stretch of the imagination, its solid. The characters seem believable within the context of the plot. Even tho there is this realistic, rural setting for the film's heros to operate within, this realism breaks down within the surreal, hellish world of the severly disturbed Muller the Butcher. The film's major plot hole, was how SO MANY MURDERS of young women in a rural community, would not invite a massive legal investigation. Muller's trophy notebook with clippings from a newspaper of the various murders/abductions, makes a weak attempt at addressing the community's awareness of the abductions. Still, this lack of any detectives in the mix, remains an obvious plot flaw. Then again, in any slasher film, if you put to much logic into the equation, the film loses its focus, ie, the bloodsoaked world of the psychopathic murderer. Mena does attempt to show the bizarre, freaky inner world of the slasher, with odd strobe lighting, and a strange color pallete with the lighting inside the slaughterhouse. Inside that tortured and torturing enviorment, the whole nightmare realm of bloody death grows more powerful thruout the film, until its surprisingly brutal ending. Personally, this is more of a 3 and a half star film for me. Usually I see most slasher films as 1 or 2 star films, but this movie has plot, interesting characters portrayed by good actors, and clever symbolic devices to connect the realm of normal humanity with the abnormal realm of the psychopath. Since the film isnt dumbed down into a second hand clone of your average teen horror film, I found it enjoyable for what it was. And you most likely will too, if this is your cup of tea.

MY GRADE: B. Tom Selleck, sporting not only his Magnum PI mustache but also a beard, plays an American who comes to Australia seeking a job based on his sharpshooting skills. The job turns out to be more than expected which turns him against his employer. Alan Rickman plays the employer rancher and Laura San Giacomo plays Crazy Cora, a prostitute turned lady. STORY/PLOTTING: B; CHARACTERS/DIALOGUE: B to B plus; SCENERY: B minus to B; ACTION SCENES: B minus to B; OVERALL GRADE: B; WHEN WATCHED: 2010 (streamed).

The BodyGuard This movie is still a good one to watch after all these years. I love Kevin Costner and Whitney together.

Both insightful time capsule & intense psychological drama - 4 & 1/2 stars The early 1970s were a great time for different & offbeat TV-movies. This fascinating film explores the dynamics of the encounter group, a then-popular method of delving into one's own psyche & one's relationships with others ... and also the ways in which an emotionally troubled but dangerous individual could threaten the group. It's really a microcosm of society at the time and as such provides an on-the-spot window into what now must seem like a very foreign world indeed.  But all that aside, it's also a strong story, with interesting characters whose lives have reached various breaking points. For that alone it's worth watching, as what begins as an earnest psychological exercise gradually turns ugly & menacing, but also revelatory. The encounter group was like many other things in life: it could easily become a two-edged sword. Yet it could also reveal a great many personal truths for those willing to take the risk.  I'm especially impressed with both the writing & the acting, raw & edgy not only for network TV circa 1971, but for today as well. At times I forgot these were actors, because it seems so spontaneous & genuine -- a young Dorothy Lyman is a real standout. And there are no magic, easy answers at the end; their problems aren't wrapped up neatly for a tidy, unrealistic conclusion.  This could easily work as a stage play, and it would be a good one!  You may have to make a couple of mental adjustments to get into the 1970s worldview, but that's partly the pleasure & point of an older film like this, after all -- highly recommended!

"Victorious: Season One, Volume Two" featuring ten episodes + the "iCarly/Victorious" special From the executive producer of "Drake & Josh", "iCarly", "Kenan & Kel" and "Zoey 101' comes a new series titled "Victorious", starring Victoria Justice (known for her role as Lola Martinez on "Zoey 101') as Victoria "Tori" Vega.  In "Victorious", the story focuses on Victoria "Tori" who has been accepted at Hollywood Arts High School, after taking her sister Trina's (played by Daniella Monet) place in a showcase. While Trina is known more for her drive to become an actress, her sister "Tori" has talent that she is not too conscious about and now trying to fit in her new school.  She becomes friends with a talented musician Andre Harris (played by Leon Thomas III), a journalist/ventriloquist named Robbie Shapiro (played by Matt Bennett) and rival Jade West (played by Elizabeth Gillies) and her boyfriend Beck Oliver (played by Avan Jogia) and naive actress Cat Valentine (played by Ariana Grande).  With the DVD release of "Victorious: Season One, Volume Two", included are 10 episodes from the first season plus the "iCarly/Victorious" special.  "Victorious: Season One, Volume Two" features the following episodes (spoilerless summaries):  Note: Episodes listing on this DVD is not going by episode series #, but is going by production code #.  DISC 1:    EPISODE 16: The Diddly-Bops - Tori and friends book a performance at a children's party, meanwhile Andre receives a call from a record producer.   EPISODE 12: Cat's New Boyfriend - Tori finds out that her ex-boyfriend Danny is dating Cat.  Meanwhile, Trina introduces her friends to fish that eats callus.   EPISODE 20: Sleepover at Sikowitz's - Sikowitz teaches the group a lesson about method acting.   EPISODE 18: The Wood - A new reality show called "The Wood" is being filmed at Hollywood Arts and the group end up on the show.   EPISODE 11: The Great Ping-Pong Scam - Tori wants to know why her friends are avoiding her.  DISC 2:    EPISODE 8: Survival of the Hottest - A heat wave hits Los Angeles and Tori and friends decide to go to Venice Beach.   EPISODE 9: Wi-Fi in the Sky - When Tori and Trina's flight gets delayed, Tori uses web conferencing to work on a group project with her friends.  Special Guest: Perez Hilton   EPISODE 13-14: Freak the Freak Out - When Trina gets her wisdom tooth pulled off, Tori must take care of her because her parents leave for the weekend.  VIDEO, AUDIO & SUBTITLES:  "Victorious: Season One, Volume Two" is presented in full screen, Dolby Digital (English Stereo). The series is shot via Digital and the picture quality is very good on DVD. I didn't notice any major artifacting or digital noise. But for the most part, fans should be pleased with the video and audio.  There are no subtitles but closed captions are included.  SPECIAL FEATURES:  "Victorious: Season One, Volume Two" comes with the following special features:    iCarly Crossover Special: iParty with Victorious - (1:09:50) When iCarly finds out that her boyfriend is dating Tori in Los Angeles, iCarly and friends travel to LA to confront her boyfriend and Tori.   Behind The Scenes: iParty with Victorious Mash-Up Performance - (1:22) Behind-the-scenes of the cast of "iCarly" and "Victorious" recording their music at the studio and scenes from the set of the special episode.   Music Video: Best Friend's Brother - (3:37) Featuring a music video featuring Victoria Justice.  JUDGMENT CALL:  "Victorious" is a fun and entertaining show that isn't deep, just teenage fun with music and comedy!  When I saw Victoria Justice appearing on "iCarly" last year, I had the feeling that Nickelodeon or even Dan Schneider was planning to use the actress for a new show and I was right. Victoria Justice who had starred on "Zoey 101' and had short roles in various Schneider-related series has her chance to not just showcase her acting but also singing.  And here we are with "Victorious"!  Because Dan Schneider's name is attached to this series, I know that the series has been compared to "iCarly" and when you make those comparisons, it makes it difficult because "iCarly" is such a popular show and if it doesn't measure up, some people tend to think its not a good show.  With "iCarly", the series tends to focus on three friends (and one family member) and there is a good amount of character development within those four characters. It's a tight-knit group featuring tight-knit stories and with "Victorious", you have seven individuals and storylines that primarily focuses on Tori.  In some way, because it's taking place at an art school, some people may feel that it's a contrived series that is a Nickelodeon take on entertainment ala "Glee" and some may even compare it to Disney's teenage film series such as "High School Musical" or the TV series "Hannah Montana" but in this case, it's not. It's a different type of series that takes on teen issues, friendships and wacky situations.  The show is primarily about Tori Vega and while others may display their musical or acting chops, its a series about Tori and friends. No one breaks out in song or dance unless the situation calls for it but if anyone is doing any singing, it's Tori Vega and sometimes her very crazy sister Trina.  I found the series to be fun and wacky at times. You have the teen drama, the teen angst and crazy moments, especially when it features ventriloquist Matt Bennett and his dummy Robbie or Tori's bratty older sister Trina.  Also, it was cool to see the special "iParty with Victorious" included with this DVD release and the collaboration with Miranda Cosgrove and Victoria Justice once again was very cool!  One thing I noticed about this second half of episodes is that the cast are more comfortable, especially with one another and they happen to be much more in sync.  As "Victorious" is on its second season, it's important to note that this is the second half of the first season DVD release, not the complete first season.  As for parents who are wondering if this is fine for children, for older children, I can say yes as there is no scenes that caused me to rethink of having my own son watching the series. But the series does focus on teenagers and it's a teen-driven comedy series. I didn't see any violence but kids who like to mimic what they say on TV, it's up to parent if they feel that the show is appropriate. I personally didn't find anything wrong with older children watching "Victorious" and may enjoy the music especially the comedy presented in the series.  Overall, "Victorious" is a fun and enjoyable series and with the second half of the season, the episodes continue its fun and crazy hijinks but moreso, the acting is much better as the talent are now settled in.  If you are a fan of "Victorious", this DVD is recommended!

This Is a Must Watch! When the movie began, I could not help bu he captivated by it, and I was that way till the end. Although the movie wae extremely sad, it was brillient! Just another amazing movie about a normal man, set out for revenge. Its shows how cruel our would can become, if there is no one there to stop it. The Punisher is definately a must watch!

Decent I bought Eddie Murphy Delirious DVD. It was decently priced considering I bought from Amazon themselves and not a random seller. The very beginning of the DVD had a couple of skips, which I was not happy about. The rest of the DVD was perfect, so I kept it.

With a Title Like That.... What do you expect? Over-the-top acting? "Idiotic" (not to be confused with poorly written) script? Asian American scientists? Cars going through mountains? Rock and roll music? Flashes of Ellen Barken's leg? Yeah, all of the above...and more! Who needs "avatars"?

Pretty darn good! CONS Somebody wasn't very good about the details in this movie - young snow white had medium brown hair instead of "hair as dark as a raven" (and you see this RIGHT after the narrator is saying her description) and on top of that, instead of "skin as white as snow" she had freckles!  And they don't even make her lips red. The older snow white does have dark hair but they still didn't redden her lips - went with a more natural rosy mauve.  Much to my surprise, the online picture quality for some reason was not very good (might have to buy a BR-DVD disk instead of watching this online).  PROS: Good special effects - the evil queen has some pretty awesome powers Charlize Theron gives an excellent performance as the evil queen in this, and Kristen Stewart (SW) and Chris Hemsworth (the huntsman) are good too.  It was a little long but I enjoyed this and absolutely recommend.  ======  STORY: Queen finds a rose in the winter, goes to pluck it and instead is pricked.  Some of her blood falls on the white snow and she decides it looks so pretty and hopes that if she has a daughter that her skin is white as snow, with lips as red as blood, hair dark as a ravens wings (the queen herself has black hair and fair skin), and that her daughter has the strength of that rose she couldn't pluck.  Later on she is blessed with a beautiful daughter like this.  Perhaps 7-8 years later the queen dies (doesn't say of what) and a "dark" foe draws the king into battle.  When they are killed, these soldiers break into dark shards - they are clearly not natural.  When the battle is over the king finds what appears to be a prisoner of the foe, all chained up and dirty like a prisoner - but she is beautiful and he marries her immediately.  On their wedding night she reveals her hatred for men and kills him and lets in her brother and her real army and they take over the kingdom.  Snow White (SW) tries to escape and ends up being locked in the north tower (as her blood/life may be useful to this dark queen at some point.)  And the land of the kingdom suffers under of evil and neglect (so everything appears to be covered with ash/soot or is mud, the plants all dead.  One day an attempt is made on the evil queens life and when she uses her magic to kill the would-be murderer it drains her beauty and her powers.  And on this day the mirror tells the queen that SW is surpassing her beauty and becoming the fairest of the land (which threatens her powers) but if she takes her heart she will never again weaken or age -  basic immortality.  The evil queen sends her brother to fetch SWs heart. SW manages to wound him and escapes into the dark forest - where the queen has no powers.  She promises a huntsman that if he brings her SW, she can give him back his beloved deceased wife with her powers. And so begins the story...

the office Timely arrival, there was a slight problem on the last disc with the volume being low. Lasted less than 1 min.

Twisty Fun I really enjoyed the ride.  Lots of twists and turns leading up to a fun conclusion.  There are lots of layers you go through before you get the aha ending!

Weird Horror-spoof film Surprisingly entertaining, but weird horror-comedy film. The horror comedy genre is definitely an acquired taste. This film has some definite horror in it, but also some entertainment value that sends up Chucky as a villain, but also with some human qualities. Watch this with an open mind.

April Showers This was a great movie. There were a few scenes that were somewhat suggestive. But overall, this was a great movie. Also, the seller provided speedy service and followed up with me. Good movie, great service!!!

Great underrated movie This is a terrific movie, an interesting mix of sci-fi/alternate reality and romance. Great acting and an original premise make this fun to watch. The mix of drama, suspense, and action will engross you, but at its heart, this is a moving and powerful romance.

Excellent acting by Ryan Gosling Very good movie - shows the disillusionment that one feels when their heroes inevitably let them down.  Only those quick on their feet survive in politics.

Loved it For those that read and loved the book, this is a must-see mini-series. I found this series a much better depiction of the story than the Dune movie that came out in 1984. Much of the dialog is directly from the book and brought back fond memories of reading it.

The movie itself ages like wine 2004's "little film that could", following "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and "Lost In Translation". A film whose subtle touches, scenes and words stay with you long after you've left the theater. A few serious plot holes in the second half can't cancel out the writing, acting and "I-know-someone-just-like-that (and sometimes it's me)" realism of so many of the situations and characters' reactions to them.  The location shooting (almost all the wineries and restaurants are referred to by their real names; the Windmill Inn, which in real life is a Days Inn, is one of the few exceptions) adds to both the realism and the "indie" feel of the film. Likewise the writers' knowledge of wine is extensive - though it's odd that Miles would shout "I'm NOT drinking any EFFING Merlot" when his most prized bottle, a 1961 Cheval Blanc Bordeaux, is 40% Merlot.  Obviously the most discussed scene concerns the gorgeous metaphors exchanged by Miles (Paul Giamatti) and Maya (Virginia Madsen) on Stephanie's back porch. Absolutely nobody in the theater exhaled until the cutaway of Miles cursing himself in the bathroom. Here's hoping the Academy will use a strategically-placed bleep to permit what one wit on IMDB called "The Virginia Monologue" to be shown in its entirety when they acknowledge Madsen's nomination. Some here have protested that "people don't really talk like that", but Maya has an impressive academic resume (a professor's ex-wife who's taking post-graduate courses), and who among us hasn't used a nice buzz as an excuse to make profound pronouncements? (Nobody really says things like "the problems of three people don't amount to a hill of beans in this world" either....)  The plot holes (spoilers):  - Jack *had* to know that it was Miles who spilled the beans about the wedding.  - Jack's confessional about really loving Christine. If it was on the level, it runs totally counter to the scenes where he raves about Stephanie and considers calling off the wedding. If it was a put-on (remember, Jack's an ACTOR), then the audience was never given the "wink" to let us in on the scam.  - Miles is built up as the ultimate "loyal friend" with a sense of duty, yet as Best Man he abandons the wedding before the reception where he has the obligation to make the toast. This is not only completely out of character, it squanders the tragi-comic possibilities of the reception (Miles + Jack + pregnant ex-wife + alcohol...).  But again, the thoughtfulness and performances overcome these annoyances. It's also interesting that a film set entirely in California is so non-Hollywood: the lead is a balding overweight alcoholic with a blanket of back hair, there are no CGI effects, the one car crash goes "wrong", and even though there's a lot of sex, neither female lead has a gratuitious topless shot (and trust me, NOBODY is going to do a screen capture of the film's one frontal nudity scene!).

"I'M A HOMOSEXUAL!" I'm a bit late to the party, but I recently watched But I'm a Cheerleader and can't--stop--watching! The music is catchy, the sets are dramatic and fun, and the cast is extremely talented. From my queery perspective: Megan blooms from a character ya kinda love to hate (she's a nark, a prude, and a tad snooty) into an inspiring, awesome teenage homo hero. The romance that blooms between Megan and the tomboy character Graham is truly the picture of teeny bopper romance movies from the 80s and early 90s- which is what I loved about the film. It was a romance movie for folks who never had them in their teens! The other kids really make the movie for me-- Sinead was a standout as the masochistic goth girl who is Graham's first girl before Megan shows up. In short, it's a film that doesn't take itself seriously, and thank goodness for that! Queer films need to have fun too!

this movie is good enough for me fun movie with some good twists and turns. Lot of, then at least, young actors and actresses including Sean Astin. Kids and adults will enjoy it.

Funny I love Gabriel and this is a good concert.  Not his best but still, many laughs.  A good way to pick yourself up after a hard day.

Great movie, lowsy extras!!!! This movie should have had the DVD commentary that was included on the original release. Just a note, some of the music has been replaced as well as some dialogue.

MIB Good and funny movie. Of course it is helpful if you enjoy SiFi movies. Fast deilvery as usual, and no problems.

Once is not enough I have read the book, underlined it, practiced the exercises, reread it and then highlighted new information that I missed the first time, but found it to be important the second time. I continue to use it as reference when in doubt. As with most books it is always good to read them 2 or 3 times and there is always something new to learn.

Excellent Stagecoach is not only a quality film, but an influential one. It set the standard for the modern Western, outside of B film level entertainment (both in its literacy and daring- the stunts of Canutt, during the Apache attack, are justly famed), and it made a star out of John Wayne, right from his dramatic entrance into the film (replete with out of focus zoom and twirling rifle). But it also is a great example of a film that, on the surface, seems to be all clich&eacute; and melodrama, but via Dudley Nichols' and Ben Hecht's non-wasteful screenplay (adapted from Ernest Haycox's short story The Stage To Lordsburg which had roots in Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule De Suif), and acting, rises well above such. It resists clich&eacute; by subverting it with the performances and writing. There's not even a mediocre performance in the film (look at how often details of plot are conveyed via the eyes of characters). I know of no film where the eyes of its actors convey so much, so many times, and so consistently. Even John Wayne comes across as sympathetic, gentlemanly, and lovable, and most of his `acting' comes in reaction shots where he is silent or says little. One need only look at many other films from the 1930s to see how different Wayne's acting style was from the remnants of the overly theatrical acting styles of the silent film era actors that were still around. Claire Trevor is adorable as her non-trite version of the hooker with a heart of gold, and Thomas Mitchell won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, as the Doctor, and deserved it. His progression from drunk to indignant righteousness in the face of Luke Plummer's gunbarrel, is truly a pleasure to watch, and a clinic in acting subtlety and bravado in tandem. The other Oscar the film won was for musical scoring, for Richard Hageman, W. Franke Harling, John Leipold, and Leo Shuken, yet, the score is really unmemorable, and the worst scene in the film (one of only a few points which keep the film as a near-great, not great film) is a scene where the Apache wife of a local Mexican sings. It simply is out of place in the film. The cinematography, by Bert Glennon, is quite good, especially in the Apache chase sequence that alternates between live locations shooting, and rear screen projections, and in numerous compositions in Monument Valley.    As mentioned, watching Stagecoach, then comparing it to later films in Ford's canon, is sort of depressing, because it makes one wonder how much of this film's success was just happenstance, since, such a literate and well acted film never again made its way to the screen under the John Ford name. Nonetheless, watching this film was a pleasure, both in and of itself, and in how it is that rare work of art that forcefully demonstrates to me that even I can succumb to the rigors of habit, in expecting too little from a certain work of art merely because most works of art, in any genre, or from any artist, so often conform to one's worst expectations. Thus chastened, I implore anyone else with that or a similar bias to toss it aside, for a while, and allow its destruction under Stagecoach's ever turning wheels. What's left won't be worth much, if at all, but often it's the loss of something that is the best part of the thing. I think Doc and Curly would agree.

Good straight to DVD that my little girl enjoyed The movie is approximately 77 minutes long, and is a basic story about faith and friendship.  Both virtues and values that you can't really get enough of.  The tale takes place before Tinkerbell meets Wendy and the Lost Boys of "Peter Pan," and focuses on her meeting a young girl named Lizzy.  The two become friends, while Tinkerbell's fairy friends plan a rescue, not knowing that Tinkerbell has befriended the human girl they believe captured her.  The adversaries in the movie are the girl's cat who would like a tasty fairy lunch, and the girl's father who collects, to the fairy's dismay, butterflies.  My little girl really liked when Tinkerbell got mad at him when he didn't believe.  But when he grabs a fairy, the others, including Tinkerbell must switch from rescuing Tinkerbell from the Lizzy, to rescuing their friend from Lizzy's father.  Besides the movie, the Blu-Ray/DVD also contains a number of special features.  These include previews of other Disney movies, deleted scenes, a music video of the song "How To Believe" performed by Disney Channel's Bridgit Mendler, and a couple of activities: Design a Fairy House and Fairy Field Guide Builder.  I sort of relate this movie for kids like the B action flicks I enjoy.  I often watch straight to DVD action movies, and many of them I enjoy and find to be of very good quality, even though they didn't play in the theaters.  This movie is the same.  It didn't play in the theaters, but it was still very well done.  My little girl really enjoyed it, and I thought it was good to watch too.  Reviewed by Alain Burrese, J.D., author of Hard-Won Wisdom From the School of Hard Knocks.

Casino Blu Ray The Blu Ray itself is great, never seen this movie look or sound so good. The disc is faulty however, it skips at the same place every time. Bummer.

best John Wayne and John Ford Western Although I am not a big John Wayne fan, this is a movie that I can watch every couple of years.  I bought the bluray for my Dad who just got a new bluray player. He grew up in Southern Utah where many of these type of films were shot, and he likes these type of movies. While John Wayne's acting style isn't the best or most believable and the main Native American characters look like Caucasian actors in make up, if your a movie buff, you should see this at least once.  Some of the supporting characters are very amusing as well.

Mostly Very Good The only negative thing I have to say is that this movie was too long. It seemed to drag. Should have been 30 min less, at least. Aside from that, it was a touching storyline. Makes me want to take a pilgrimage. It was inspirational.

moving performance Howl stands out as a gritty and edgy peek back at the literary rebel Ginsberg, who personified literature of  the beat generation.  It dramatizes the hearings of Mr. Ginsberg, and nods, tongue in cheek, to many other artists' own trials of the time.  James Franco shines as he delivers a rousing performance.  Symbolism and criticism interweave seamlessly as not only the trial but the work itself is beautifully examined, with a talented cast that recreates the era without being too eager.  Highly recommended for poets and all artistically inclined moviewatchers.

Good transfer - much better than the old version, even when streaming Be aware there are many versions of this movie and all the reviews are lumped together!  This is a review of the "Newly Remastered" 2012 edition from Amazon Instant Video.  It's available to own for less than five dollars.  I believe it's the same as the "Mind-Bending" blu-ray edition.  I have a fast internet connection, and I was really pleased with the quality of the video.  It's MUCH better than the older versions.  It appears to be at least 720p (hard to tell if it's really 1080p or not) and the size of the picture completely fills a widescreen TV with no black bars.  This is so much better than the old DVD release!  However, there is still some grain present in most of the scenes and it's just not crystal clear so that's why it's getting 4 stars instead of 5.  I've also experienced zero audio problems as another reviewer has mentioned, although there isn't much for surround sound - it's mostly just stereo.  Also, you should know that you don't get any extras with this, like you do with the physical blu-ray disc, so if you want those, order the disc instead. I feel that for $5 and the ability to watch this on any CPU or device with the the Amazon Instant Video app, it's awesome. Now I can even watch it on my iPad via the newly released Amazon Instant Video app!  This is a great deal!

When Evil is Couched within Innocence & Respectability "The White Ribbon" was shot in black and white; in a flat, deadpan style.  Upon reading several other Amazon reviews of this DVD, I observed that even if the reviewer didn't care for the film, they did admire Christian Berger's brilliant cinematography. The cumulative effect of tone and pacing is subtle, as if the director (Michael Haneke) did everything he could to make a suspense/horror film, without resorting to the use of any suspense/horror picture cliches.  This film is a testament to the corrosive power of family and societal secrets.  Its characters live in an oblivion of denial, in a village where certain key male authority figures wield power with an iron fist.  For the most part, the perpetrators of the various heinous events occurring in this picture are not revealed; these incidents are presented to the viewer "after the fact".  On occasion, there is a silent, visual implication of involvement; for example, the scene where the boys watch the burning barn from their bedroom window; the group of children gathering outside the doors or windows of various homes.  Subliminal evidence of the "revenge of the abused" is directly and/or indirectly hinted at.  But ultimately, the villagers are working very hard at appearing to be innocent (the white ribbon, after all, stands for innocence).  In Chapter Two of this DVD, a child attempts to lift the veil covering the face of a dead woman.  He is then comforted by a man sitting nearby in the dark; watching this scene, I suddenly feared that the father was sexually abusing the child.  Although the plot is easy enough to follow, in that particular scene, I wasn't 100% sure who the dead woman was, who the child was, and who the man sitting in the dark was (the director purposely kept him "faceless").  And so I assumed that those characters were the doctor, his former wife (now dead), and the boy was his son.  The point being--whether or not one knows who these characters are, the effect of this scene is chilling; it is the most disturbing one in the entire picture.  Following that scene, the older sister of a little boy explains to him that everyone must die; he struggles to understand mortality.  That is probably the most touching scene in the film.  There are two characters in "The White Ribbon" who are equally abhorrent in their roles as abusers; the Doctor and the Pastor.  The Pastor is bigger monster of the two, as he hides behind his mask of moral superiority.  The Doctor, although reprehensible, is at least aware that he is a monster.  When the Schoolteacher (who, along with his fiance Eva, are in the minority of villagers that could be described as "good") confronts the Pastor near the end of the film, the Pastor warns the Schoolteacher not to reveal his theory about who has been committing the crimes in the village.  It's as if the Pastor metaphorically becomes a black-winged demon in that moment.  And of course, the Schoolteacher realizes by this point that there is no place for noble intentions in a village that is suffocating in a stew of its own vices.  So often in life, the worst among us are perceived to be the best; what is evil is mistaken for good, and vice versa.  Although I think this is a good film, and one that gave me the chills as I reflected back on its scenes--I still wish that Lars Von Trier's "Antichrist" had won the 2009 Palme d'Or at Cannes, instead of "The White Ribbon".  Stephen C. Bird, author of "Hideous Exuberance: A Satire"

Mediocre box set Decent value yet there is a lack of creativity with the inserts.Go for alien anthology on blu ray due to it's plethora of extra content that will make you appreciative of the creation of these movies.

Excellent Movies For those who like movies about honor, loyalty and are action packed by warriors played by some of the best in the industry... this is a movie for you.

Good attempt at a very thick book. A solid attempt to condense one of the thicker books of the series into two hours.  And while it must cut corners and would leave someone who is not a reader of the series a bit at a loss, it does justice of some of the scenes for fans of the books.

Few scratches on case Few scratches on case, but other than that looks new and as product said on website. Thank you for your business, and will buy again from you anytime. :) Thank you! And happy selling!!!!

don't watch this it will hurt your brain it's that stupid There are so many glaring mistakes in this movie it will hurt your brain unless you have had a traumatic brain injury. One of the most glaring is when he waives his right to council during his interrogation  yet when he is in court there is NO ONE at the defense table to assist him.NO JUDGE WOULD LET THIS HAPPEN. They don't keep him in the county jail they have him in PRISON-Impossible This is more like an order of Law And Order than a movie.From having a male/female prosecutor team with a white haired chief DA and a female Lt. policewoman who controls the detectives one of whom is also a bomb technician!!!!  The bad guy is so smart that he doesn't have any alarm system on his hide out!!! yet he was able to tunnel into EVERY SOLITARY CONFINEMENT CELL WITH NO ONE HEARING.  And again like Law And Order when the DA can't find what they need the girl atty has a "Friend" who can get the information.Not another legal agency,but a friend.  I could go on and on there are so many more glaring impossibilities.They are so obvious a 5 year old  can and will see them.  Please don't watch this,you can't get back the time you wasted and that will make you very angry.

It's Not "Memphis Belle" But... ...it's pretty good.  I think it will pique peoples' interest in this arena of WW2.  The acting was pretty good.  Loved that they got that P-51 start up sound in there; nothing like a WW2 plane engine starting up!  There was a little TOO much computer-generated images and not enough models or real planes and the difference is obvious but that's nit-picky.  Aerial stuff was great although I questioned a few paint job inaccuracies on the B-17s and some uniform parts were slightly incorrect, I believe. Again nit-picking. Over all, technically a good period piece.  I would definitely watch it again and wish that producers would quit gypping consumers off by not putting any of the cool extras in DVD versions too!

Obscure French Sex/Horror Flik Resurrected The Mondo Macabro DVD authoring gang have unearthed another 1970's sexploitation rarity with the French film "Seven Women for Satan" AKA "Le Week-ends Malefiques du Count Zaroff". The disk includes some interesting behind the scenes info in its' 'extras' section that does much to explain the film's background and obscurity. Directed by, and starring, Euro genre film star Michel Lemoine in 1974 - the film apparently ran afoul of the French censorship board and received a 'Restricted' rating that spelled doom for it at the box office and it virtually disappeared from public view - until now re-released on DVD. If one reads the 'notes' accompanying the film there is a lot of discussion about the multi-level symbolism inherent in the plot - relating it to evolving socio-economic trends in Europe at the time of its' production. However, just to watch the movie 'cold', one would certainly not be aware of any such underlying 'political relevancy' as it plays pretty much as a straight up sexy-horror romp.  The story line is a little confusing on first viewing as there are aspects of dream fantasy intermixed with actuality in the main character's life, and sort of a sub-plot of the principal character being manipulated by his 'faithful' servant to re-live the evil deeds of his predecessor, the 'origiinal' Count Zaroff - who apparently had a rep for raping and torturing women. What makes the rather confusing 'horror' elements worth sitting through is the cavalcade of gorgeous French damsels that cross the Count's path and manage to lose their clothes in the process. The flik starts right off during the opening credits with a scene of the Count, mounted on a galloping horse, running down a naked girl until she is forced to leap to her death. This turns out to be a fantasy/dream sequence, but in the next scene the Count is driving back to his country chalet and picks up a cute hitch-hiker.. She ends up spending the night and participating in another of his fantasies (?) being tied up in front of a fireplace while he pours champagne over her naked body & makes love to her. The following day he is driving to his newly purchased castle with the hitch hiker still in tow when he seems to lose his grip on fantasy VS reality and ends up assaulting the girl then 'accidentally' running her over with his car and killing her. From there things get ever more out of hand as he arrives at his castle and his 'man servant' reveals that he is trying to fulfill some promise made to the young Count's debauched father to indoctrinate his son into a similar life of evil. Circumstances deliver several comely young women into the wicked sphere of the Count's realm and, typically after some nudity & sex, all are dispatched in one grusome way or another. The Count is also fixated on the spirit of a beautiful long dead woman (played by the exquisite Joelle Coeur) and it was apparently one of the scenes of his idolizng her corpse that got the film 'censored' - for implied necrophelia (among other things).  As previously noted, the film was directed by Michel Lemoine - who also plays the troubled young Count Zaroff with a studied intensity. He was apparently a 'friend' of, and influenced by, fellow French erotic horror director Jean Rollin and 'Seven Women For Satan' has certain elements that are decidedly reminiscent of Rollin's work - especially the inclusion of lots of naked girls to keep things moving along. In the final analysis I'd have to say that it pretty much IS the naked girls that make this film worth watching - and you certainly get your money's worth on that front. The film is in widescreen color with an English language dub, and has a goodly helping of informative 'extras' to lend more depth to the effort than it probably actually deserves. With, or without, its' pretensions of redeeming relevance, it is a spirited and enjoyable watch.

Not what I was expecting This movie has been on my must see list for some time.  Have been a fan of Sergio Leone for some time.  I enjoyed the movie, with its twisted unpredictable plot, quirky characters, and great imagery.  And of course the music.  Just a great western.  Recommended.

One of Hitchcock's Best James Stewart and Grace Kelly, two of my favorite actors! Alfred Hitchcock, one of my favorite directors! How can I lose?  Stewart is an action photographer whose leg was broken in getting a special shot of a car race. He's in a cast, and bored to tears with nothing to do. So he looks out his rear window into all the other windows that face it. We get to follow quite a few sub-plot stories along with him in those rear windows. Because this is Hitchcock, several are pretty amusing.  Grace Kelly is in love with Stewart, but she's just "too perfect." She's a buyer for a top dress shop, or perhaps the dress department in a posh department store. Evidence: in 1954, the dress she's wearing is "a steal" at $1,700. That's at least $30,000 today.  He goes gallivanting all over the world to take pictures; she is strictly Park Avenue. She says she could get him great work doing portraits and fashion photography, but he hates the idea. What can they do?  They can turn amateur detective watching Raymond Burr apparently murder his wife and cut her up into pieces!!!  Of course, being a photographer and an outdoorsman, Stewart has binoculars and telephoto lenses. He also has a friend who is a detective. He tells his friend about his suspicions, and the friend is skeptical, but checks out the facts. It seems Burr has covered his tracks well enough that Stewart's friend decides there's been no murder. The wife just went on a visit in the country for her health.  If I tell you any more, it will wreck it for you. And this is one mystery movie you really don't want wrecked for you. I loved it.

old school epic I really enjoyed this movie.  If kinda reminded me of the type of films we grew up on in the 80's.  only thing I didn't like was the sometimes distracting blue streaks that the film maker is know for.  He went a little over board.  Other than that it was good and worth your time.

Silver Surfer Fantastic I enjoyed the Rise of the Silver Surfer-Fanstastic 4 Two more than the first series mainly because of the Silver Surfer character. As my youngest child stated, "Silver Surfer is awesome", I have to agree. I never knew too much about the Silver Surfer character or story before I watched this movie but the story of his origin(although far-fetched even as superhero goes) is very interesting to say the least. I have to think he would have to rank as 1 of the more powerful superhero after seeing what he is capable of in this movie adaptation, well at least as long he's attached to his surfboard which is his power source. Anyways, I enjoyed this movie & I got it at an unbelievable price brand new which made it doubly more fun to watch.

Still good Forgot how many times she gets topless in this movie.  Glad I watched it by myself before with my son.  Still a classic sci-fi flick.

Very Helpful! This DVD is exactly what I expected and is helping me to grasp not only the fundamental of using the the GL-2 but also many of the other features which I didn't fully understand.  For me, this is a great purchase and one which I believe will improve my video projects.

Doesn't deserve the bad rap it gets. Yeah, they could have made this movie longer and delved more into Aurora's back story and edited in some more info. But I've seen this movie on more than one occasion and it always holds my interest and if it would have been fleshed out a bit more it could have been amazing.  Instead what we get is a solid sci-fi flick starring Vin Diesel as a funny yet apathetic merc who has to transport a young woman across countries. The story unfolds little by little through out and by the end of the film you understand why she was being brought over and who wanted her there etc etc.  The action and special effects are done well, the storyline is good but again could have been more in depth and not so thrown in editing wise, the video and audio quality is very nice on the Blu-Ray, and the acting is good as well. Is this going to be a classic like let's say Blade Runner? Most likely not, however it's not nearly as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Does it have it's stutters and lapses,yes. But if you go into this with an open mind and really think about the storyline past the film's ending, you should get at least a little satisfaction from the film/story.  Anytime I watch this the movie always holds my attention, and Vin Diesel's character is a pretty cool role, and I also love the scenery during most of the movie.  I give this movie a B grade wise. Not the best, but definitely not the worst movie I've ever seen either, give it a rental and see for yourself ;)

Did you like the 1920s slang? One of the attractions of this quirky, entertaining film, shot in retro black and white, is its use of the rich slang of the "Roaring Twenties."  For viewers who might want to visit that decade's colloquial language, there are good introductory lists of slang expressions of the 1920s on the net.  However, some short stories of the 1920s would pull you into that world better than any list of phrases.  The giant of that decade's slang was the short story writer Damon Runyon.  Ring Lardner was another writer of short stories and sports columns that were admired for their slang.  Their writing inspired a number of films ("Guys and Dolls," for instance).  If these names don't ring a bell, reading online articles on these two writers would be a good place to start, and inexpensive used copies of their short stories are available from internet booksellers.  -30-

Enjoyable I bought this movie because I enjoyed it the first time I saw it and thought it would be a great addition to my movie collection. I enjoyed the acting and the all-star cast. The story is basically a continuation or sequel of the story of the three musketeers. And for that reason I enjoyed it because it is an indirect sequel of the three musketeers. If you enjoyed the movie "The Three Musketeers" (the Disney version with Oliver Platt, Chris O'Donnell, Kiefer Sutherland and Charlie Sheen) then I'm sure you'll enjoy this movie too.

nothing beats a cheap deal I have always wanted a blu-ray copy of the Planet Earth. So when I saw this combo set at Costco for $39.99, I brought it without hesitation. Since I've seen Planet Earth before, so when I got home, I started watching Life first. Half way through the first disc, I couldn't help but got on to Amazon.com to check out what other people say about Oprah's narration. Sure enough, I totally agreed with what everyone said about her performance. I can't help but think that even Oprah herself might be disappointed as well. But the visual was simply too good! It can't be ruined by anyone. At $39.99 for a combo set, this is a outstanding value and you should think of it as a buy one get one free deal. If not for Oprah's narration, I'd give a 5 stars.

Fun-nay! Pootie tang is the penultimate ladies man. You will laugh, you will cry... But seriously, you will enjoy it. Wadatah to da shamacow!

Very Good Organized Crime Movie Movie wonderful and compelling.  DVD quality a little suspect.  Great actors putting forth a very believable movie.  You will have to overlook and tolerate language to be immersed in a very good movie.  Violence, corruption, greed, passion is part of this lifestyle so expect it in the movie.

Different twist on a vampire movie The movie focuses on character development. How a person's life changes after becoming a vampire. How that person's morals and ethics change.

Awesome! This family-friendly movie is so adorable! It is a movie that I can watch again and again. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is a very funny and caring football player, and Madison Pettis is a sweet and perservering child.

Great story, not so great animation Superman vs. The Elite is a wonderfully entertaining story but the character styling isn't the best. I own all the Warner Premiere titles and this title ranks low on the technical execution. The character's proportions change from shot to shot. This is most noticeable with Superman's chin. In some sequences his chin is rounded and in others it is squared in the way that the animation fans have been accustom too. I'm not saying I have an issue with a rounded chin on Superman but the fact that it changes from one shot to the next in some sequences is a little irritating. It seems like more attention was paid to the "villains" keyframes and in-betweens than our super hero. That being said it is still a good movie and a great story but being an animator myself, it is sometimes hard to overlook the technical mistake. Especially when you look at the previous Superman Batman title. There has also been a history of emulating the art style of the comic book art the story was taken from and this title's art doesn't come close. The colors of the characters remain true to the comic but the re-design of the characters falls a little short. The cover art is closer to the original art than the animation. I am glad I purchased this title but when I have a Superman jones it most likely won't be the first title I grab from my library of movies but it is worth the money for any Superman fan.

Visually stunning I thought about watching the movie several times but passed it by because of the two reviews with three stars I'd read. Now I'm glad I went ahead and rented it. I wanted to give it five stars and why I didn't in a bit. First, Charlize Theron...amazing. I enjoyed her more in this movie than any other I've seen her in, especially after "Young Adult"-I swore I'd dislike her forever due to the character she played (yeah, dumb) and the lousy acting. But in this film, she shined! Her acting and the beautiful and sometimes haunting special effects were mesmerizing. Chris Helmsworth did a stellar job and the dwarves had me rooting for them. Now the reason for the four stars and not five: Kristen Stewart. Her performance was lackluster, boring, phoned-in. She wasn't quite as insipid as she is in the Twilight movies but I had to work up enthusiasm for a character that should have easily inspired me. I agree with that much of the other reviews: Should have gotten someone, ANYone else, to play the part of the princess.

This Dog Wants A Kid in His Kibble While watching CUJO, a grand film adaptation of one of Stephen King's best horror yarns, I cannot help but muse (or, in my case, bemuse):  Had the story taken place today, whereby a mother and her young son become trapped inside a rundown hatchback by a rabid St. Bernard, all mom would have to do is grab her cell, call 911, and in minutes Animal Control would be there to promptly dispatch the animal to Doggy Heaven.  The lesson here is, technology negates a modern remake.  But I digress.  So many of King's novels adapted to the big screen are startlingly mediocre, but CUJO is a delightful exception.  This movie is grand, hair-bristling fun, because we don't have some monster, or other metaphysical manifestation--we have a big dog that contracts rabies and as a result develops a serious attitude.  I don't care how much of a dog lover anyone professes to be, all of us are intimidated by a large, snarling, vicious dog; that's what makes CUJO so utterly and terrifyingly believable.  To enhance said believability, Dee Wallace is very convincing as the overwrought mother, and Danny Pintauro acts like all 6-year-old boys would act in such a dire situation (he screams and cries and complains a lot).  The pacing and suspense are keen, with just a tad discomfort for the Bad Momma moment at the end, but if heart-pounding suspense fits your bill, then take CUJO off his leash and enjoy. --D. Mikels, Author, The Reckoning

Funny, not as good as Old School Very funny movie with an interesting take on a bachelor party. I don't think it is as funny as Old School, but it is definitely the best comedy in the last couple of years. If you liked this movie you should check out: Old School, Dodgeball, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Superbad, and Role Models.

Well done I've heard a lot of bad reviews for this movie I thought it was very well done, the actors filled thier roles well and the story was well developed in the short time they had to work with, they completed the entire water book in one movie.  This originally took an entire season to tell this portion of the story.  All in all I think they did a very good job of moving this from Anamation to live action.

Lots of fun This is very intertaining with a great cast. This is the movie that was the prototype for the Mission Impossible series of movies.

Before you review...do your homework! After reading a few reviews, just something to keep in mind, do your homework, and get your facts straight! From the initial review off the Amazon site, to Ms. Kathleen...it was NBC, not ABC that had this sitcom for its duration. Also, thank you, whoever cleared up the fact that Mr. Mathis and Ms. Williams didn't do the intro theme song until a little bit into the 1st season, is right on. She was just starting out as a singles artist when she did the theme song here.  So, once again, please think before you leave a review, and not leave people confused about what really is "authentic" and what really you don't know about the history of this show.  Thank you!

Basic Instinct Excellent customer service and great Movie. great drama with lots of Action. Must see and enjoy the thriller and action.

How Much Can We Bear? How much shame? No more than we deserve, all of us. How much guilt? Not yet quite enough, I fear. Obviously we crave more grief in atonement for the atrocities of the foulest century of our history, since we eat up films and novels that depict it. Do you, esteemed reader, feel guilt and shame at the genocides perpetrated by your species against each other? If not, you're unworthy of something we call humanity.  W'adys'aw Szpilman, the "pianist" of the film, was not a hero. He was a survivor. Perhaps that's the best any of us can claim, to be survivors. But then, there's the phenomenon known as "survivor's guilt." I've known several Holocaust survivors; in fact, I'm related to some by marriage. Some express guilt, some express gratitude, but I've never heard one boast of survival. In any case, Szpilman was a real person, whose post-war memoir attracted little notice until decades after the events it described. The first film based on it, made in Poland in 1949, was suppressed by the Communists. Szpilman's son republished the memoir in 1998, first in German and then in English. Szpilman died in Warsaw in July, 2000 at the age of 88, two years before the release of this film directed by Roman Polanski.  The first three-quarters of this film are agonizing. Horrible. Plausible. My wife couldn't handle it. She went off to bed to read a new "Parker" novel for relief. The acting, to be honest, isn't brilliant, but the cinematic portrayal of the brutality of the Nazis in Warsaw obviated any need for character development. Then came the escape. The survival despite all odds. Battle scenes, flight across roofs, the wry humor of near starvation assuaged by a can of pickles. And at last, One Just Man, one German capable of pity. That German officer, Wilm Hosenfeld, really did appear in the memoir; his identity was later confirmed, and it's known that he died in a Soviet gulag. I suppose the end of the film is intended as a statement of comfort and optimism, possibly as a signal of reconciliation. From the moment Szpilman is discovered in hiding by Hosenfeld, music swells in the film. Hosenfeld orders Szpilman to play the piano, and director Polanski gives us quite a long concert view of the Pianist's hands on the keyboard. The Russians arrive, the war is over in a few quick edits, and Szpilman is at the keyboard again in a rebuilt radio studio. The end of the film shows Szpilman performing a concerto with a full orchestra. He survives. Music survives. Human decency survives. That's the message I think the film delivers, but I'm not persuaded. Not even music can redeem us. That's a powerful statement of grief and guilt, coming from me, a person who lives for music.

Classic Movie I have enjoyed my two-disc special edition version of "An American in Paris" and highly recommend it.  I enjoyed the documentary and learned things that I was not aware of regarding this classic.

Buck, a real horse whisperer Buck is a real person who "helps horses with people problems."  By helping owners respect their horses, Buck shows owners how to improve their own lives. The movie goes into, but doesn't dwell on Buck's traumatic childhood, and shows us we can choose how we react to our past:  we can repeat it or not.  Buck earns an animal's respect, by understanding it, and guides horses thru gentle persuasion instead of intimidation.  If everyone treated the world with the same respect Buck treats his world, we'd live in a much better place.  I bought the movie from Amazon, so I could watch it whenever I wanted to be reminded how a gentle man overcame his own past to help others do the same.  I also liked seeing how he magically worked with animals and people, and how quickly he earned their respect.

Saints Or Sinners The Boondock Saints is one of those movies for me that I've wanted to see for years but for some reason never got around to actually doing so. But after seeing this in store, I just had to pick it up and finally see it.  The movie was pretty good. It's definitely a movie I would say fits the "Rated M For Manly" name, which is more or less the opposite of the term "chick flick". The movie isn't particularly plot heavy. All in all, it's just a movie about two brothers who, after hearing the true story of Kitty Genovese and protecting themselves and a friend in a double self-defense killing, are inspired and believe they need to fight back against hard criminals, especially organized crime types.  That pretty much is the entire plot of the movie. There's no "I want to kill the monster who murdered and raped my mother" or "My girlfriend has been kidnapped!" or anything like that. Just two brothers who get tired of evil and set out to fight back. Not that i'm say this is a bad thing. Fortunately the movie is pretty enjoyable so you almost forget that it's not exactly heavy on actual plot. I'd take this over some plot-heavy movies any day.  It's kind of interesting the way the narrative of the movie is told. The way the movie begins to work is that there's Scene A where the brothers are deciding to go after someone, then suddenly we see the police at the crime scene, and then FBI Agent Paul Smecker (played brilliantly by Willem Dafoe) recounts how it went down to amazingly perfect detail but we actually see what happens in flashback.  The acting in the movie was great from all the main stars. I thought Willem Dafoe did great as Agent Smecker and is probably the strangest and most over-the-top fictional FBI agent I ever seen. Considering this was Troy Duffy's very first movie's he's ever written and/or directed, I thought he did a good job as well.

nice surprise The TV commercials made this movie look stupid and uninteresting. It was a pleasant surprise! every macho action genre mixed into one entertaining film. Vampire, post-apocalyptic, mystic martial arts, revenge, save the damsel in distress, stoic and isolated indestructible hero -- cool chick side-kick -- very entertaining. Can't wait for the squeal.

C Troop and their pocket watch leader. Joel McCrea stars as tough US Cavalry Sergeant Vinson, who has to take command of C Troop when the senior officers are killed during an Apache attack. But what drives Vinson on? And is he the right man to lead the remaining members of the Troop? Directed by Joseph Newman, the films photography comes from Carl Guthrie, screenplay is courtesy of Martin Goldsmith, it's filmed in CinemaScope with De Luxe colour and the co-star list contains Forrest Tucker, John Russell, George N. Neise & Susan Cabot.  A moody and tough psychological Western that showcases the truly good side of the "B" Western splinter. Thematically strong with its anti-racist core, and really tightly written by Goldsmith, it's also notable for containing a wonderful performance from McCrea. Tho his Western output was very hit and miss {the brilliant Peckinpah film Ride The High Country was to come 4 years later} McCrea was always value for money in even the tardiest of Oaters. Here he gets to really grizzle for all his worth, his Vinson is a bitter man, blinded by hate, yet still capable of softening up if engaged in the right conversation. McCrea is first rate in the role, never over doing the hard-nosed side of the character and garnering believable sympathy when his guard is down.  More known for being the director of This Island Earth, Joseph Newman is hardly the name one links to the direction of a psychological Western. Yet he does a surprisingly good job with the action sequences and rightly lets his actors just tell the story. There's a small complaint that the final battle is all too brief, but that's a touch offset by a hillside C Troop/Apache battle that takes place in the first third of the film. Briskly constructed and with no saggy male posturing to weigh it down, the battle shows Newman to be quite adept at crafting a good old fashioned fight to the death between two very old fashioned foes. The film also looks terrific. Tho sadly not having a widespread DVD release and therefore not getting a remastered work over, the current print of the film available to television networks and Region 1 DVD is still a treat in this High Definition age. Where once the print was apparently murky, you now should be able to adjust and reap the benefit of what is on offer. Filmed at three locations, Gallup-New Mexico, Red Rock State Park-New Mexico & Kanab-Utah, Carl Guthrie's photography really utilises these locations, one moment it be a beautiful sprawling landscape, the next the rocks are enveloping the characters to portray the tension and confinement of their emotional and physical journey. All given the De Luxe sheen as the browns, reds and uniform blues come vividly to life.  Fort Massacre is little known and certainly under seen, thus its reputation has been founded by the casual Western viewer entering into it unaware of what type of character driven film it is. It's hoped that it can now find a newer and more appreciative audience because it's one of the better B Westerns of the late 1950s. 8/10

Loved it This movie prompted me to see the real Marilyn Monroe movie that they are supposed to be filming in My Week with Marilyn, The Prince and the Showgirl.  I really think Michelle Williams captured the essence of Marilyn.  Of course, the real Marilyn's eyes spoke in such a way that no other actress can replicate.  I appreciated the story in this movie because it showed another side to Marilyn which helped to explain her pain.  On that note, see The Prince and The Showgirl.  It is, perhaps, one of my favorite MM movies!

An iron life and political career "The Iron Lady" is a biographical drama film of the life of Baroness Margaret Thatcher.  The narrative focuses on an aging Thatcher with fading health, reflectively looking back on her life and career.  It was ambitious of the film directors to try and incorporate so many facets of Thatcher's life into a single feature film. This is because several aspects of her life are significant enough to be separate films. For example her rise within the Conservative Party as a female politician or the Falklands War both contain enough depth to be separate films. Notwithstanding this the viewer is presented with numerous major events in Thatcher's life such as: her admittance to Oxford University as the daughter of a green grocer, her progression as a Conservative Member of Parliament, tenure as Leader of the Opposition, and eleven years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.  The quality of acting is engaging and this film honourably acknowledges Thatcher's breakthrough political career.  Nicholas R.W. Henning - Australian Author

Delightful and Fun but Drags in some parts I'm a fan of animated movies, especially Pixar, but as of late I've grown someone tired of the genre. I feel like every film is a tired story with talking animals, a few crude jokes for adults that the kids don't get, and great visuals.  Rango these features. There are talking animals, a few crude jokes, and amazing graphics. But the story, unlike other offerings, is complex, yet easy enough for a child to follow. Children will love Rango's expressions and wit. It has just enough slapstick to have them laughing without feeling overly corny. The tone and feel of the film is somewhat gritty, reminiscent of Western movies of times passed.  The story does drag at certain points. My oldest son lost interest at some points. He came back and finished it, though, and he says it's one of his favorites. If he likes it, then I do too!

True Grit, True Western If you grew up with westerns, this remake of True Grit will not disappoint.  All three of the main characters are played expertly and you will find it very difficult to not appreciate the young actress (Hailee Steinfeld) who plays Mattie Ross.  Her bargaining powers are incredible.  Although this movie does follow the book more closely than the John Wayne version, there are liberties taken and some story-changing, but this will not detract from the viewing pleasure.  I highly recommend this film and purchased it for my library.

The ending is bad with the extra trains, explosions, and fire This is a great amazing horse of the wild story, but it's also, the (sad) end of the wild. (Listen to the intro....) From IMDB The story that I want to tell you cannot be found in a book. They say that the history of the west was written from the saddle of a horse, but it's never been told from the heart of one. Not till now. I was born here, in this place that would come to be called the Old West. But, to my kind, the land was ageless. It had no beginning and no end, no boundary between earth and sky. Like the wind and the buffalo, we belonged here, we would always belong here. They say the mustang is the spirit of the West. Whether that west was won or lost in the end, you'll have to decide for yourself, but the story I want to tell you is true. I was there and I remember. I remember the sun, the sky, and the wind calling my name in a time when we ran free. I'll never forget the sound and the feeling of running together. The hoof beats were many, but our hearts were one."  I enjoy the fact that the horses do not speak, like in People language, as in other Disney movies! Interesting! concept! The ending is pretty ... disruptive for small children, perhaps. My child looses interest anyway. She very  much enjoys the giving birth part, the baby horse and the baby receiving mama "milkies" as she, as a baby, also received past age one. Mama milk , breast milk is best for growing brains. This milk was made for your baby. Cow milk is made for baby cows. Who wants to give bovine growth hormones, pus, blood, mold, and other additives to their human baby? EWwww! oops. Off topic.  SPIRIT> The horse movie: .;/ curious, why I order two used copies on Amazon from various vendors long forgotten, and the videos stop before all that civilization annoying breaking the horse and train stuff. It almost reads my mind. But, Does anyone understand WHY the videos keep doing this? Is there something wrong with Pixar? The videos both have original art work on outer and inner DVD. So odd... isn't it? Does anyone else experience this? I lend the videos to my friend and her DVD player also stops at that point. My CPU DVD player also stops on these movies. I don't understand it. I guess we will buy a brand new wrapped movie next time. I thought I bought brand new movies (you know, for the super saver free shipping?) but maybe I'm mistaken. I'll have to find out who the vendor(s) were. so odd.. I usually have great experience with Amazon actually. I've not contacted them yet. I bought these videos so , so, so, long ago...  I actually thought the music was very uplifting! I thought it added to the movie! It was the only way I could , personally, stomach the sad snowfall when Spirit misses his family on the train. This was a very sad movie, actually, but I fast forward, I just can't stand the sad parts. I guess I'm a freak. I like the music! with the movie! So, it's not exactly the kind of music I would listen to at home on my stereo? but for some reason, I think it very much enhanced the movie!

All time favorite movie Love the movie. Unfortunately (for me), the new extended version was too much. If you have never seen this movie, I strongly recommend it! Any person who has emigrated their town, homeland, state, or city will be able to relate... childhood memories and perspectives to adulthood. Make sure you have tissues with you! On the other hand, Amazon had send me one less movie than what I order. However contacting them, they took care of it and send me the missing one(s) right away! They were gifts for friends.

Hilarious! I had the pleasure of seeing this movie in the theater, and by the time it was over, I was in so much pain from laughing so hard! If you are a fan of horror movies, then you have to see this movie. Sure, there is a lot of gore, but it is not in the "Friday the 13th"/"Nightmare on Elm Street" gore for gore's sake, but rather simply to illustrate the absurdity of the movie itself. The movie pokes fun at the entire genre, and it spares not even itself. I can't remember the last time I had so much fun watching a movie and knew that I had to see the movie again, so I pre-ordered this as soon as I saw it available on Amazon and watched it the night it arrived, and it did not disappoint the second time around (nor the third!).

Video works fine/Delivered relatively quick/Few cosmetic mishaps I received my "new" copy several days after I had ordered it.  Upon receiving it I noticed that the "holder" for the dvd cd broke which left the cd rolling around inside the case if it was handled rough.  Also, I noticed a "splash" pattern on the disk.  Nevertheless, the product works fine despite the cosmetic mishaps and I would recommend it to anyone who "abides".

entertaining enough It seems a theme is developing- every single movie I see Christina Ricci star in happens to follow a similar type of flow as far as storyline development is concerned.  That being, the storyline is normally quite easy to understand requiring very little effort on the part of the viewers to actually think or grasp the events taking place on screen, but they are always entertaining and keep me watching nonetheless.  Plus Christina Ricci *is* quite the beautiful woman, and it's strange how her face (and her body, hehe) never seems to grow older.  Now what's especially worth noting about After.Life is that I was almost 100% totally convinced about 30 minutes before the conclusion that I knew exactly where the storyline was going.  It seemed like all the clues were headed in one particular direction.  To put it lightly, there is definitely a HUGE surprising twist at the very end that totally left me floored.  I did not see... *that* coming, hehe.  I won't dare spoil it though, and hopefully nobody else writing this review spoiled it either.  Anyway yeah, the storyline.  It's amazingly creepy because I believe for most people death is quite the difficult subject.  Difficult to grasp or understand, and just plain difficult to deal with.  It's about a girl who either believes she's dead or really is dead (I won't dare tell which one!) thanks to the old man playing the part of a funeral home worker (Liam Neeson, the second most popular character in the film next to Ricci's character) who's pretty warped and likes to fill Ricci's head with really bizarre things that nearly make the poor girl crazy.  Let's just leave it at that so as not to accidentally spoil anything storyline-related, hehe.  Overall, solid acting, a performance by Justin Long that finally DOES feel believable and pretty good, and just a really twisted take on the ever fascinating subject of death.  I recommend watching it.  No, it's not the scariest horror film out there because there is a fair amount of predictable storytelling, but just keep thinking about the ending because it's quite the shocker.

Great idea, great delivery! Summary  A hefty paycheck entices 26 men to partake in psychological prison experiment where participants will either play the role of a prisoner or a guard. What starts out as simple role playing in a fictitious world quickly evolves into a hellish real life scenario as the participants realize that they are entirely on their own. If that story line doesn't hook you, then this movie is definitely not for you.  What to expect  So the movie is very pretty dark, and quite disturbing. It opens with a brilliant (but haunting) compilation of animalistic behaviour that's very hard to watch. There's one more combination of disturbing imagery (each subject is first tested to their psychological reaction to extreme violence - which is a video we the viewer also get to see. Those are the only two parts that will make your skin crawl, keeping in the mind that the rest of the movie still holds a depressing, disturbing and haunting atmosphere.  Why this movie is awesome  The atmosphere. They absolutely nailed the dark atmosphere. Everything about this movie frustrates, and bothers it's viewer. From the irrational injustices that occur, to the indifference of the conductors as they director reminds you that every disturbing action is being watched through set up cameras. There is only minor character development, but this actually ends up being the perfect amount. Extraordinary behaviors of unique individuals are explained by the use of flashbacks of the eligibility interviews for the experiment. This was really a cool idea because the viewer is also unable to leave once the experiment has started (all stories prior to this, are introduced earlier, or dismissed).   Personally, I love the examination of the human condition, so this style of experiment is incredible interesting to me; ordinary people put into an out of the ordinary situation. Even though the film has top notch acting, with a strong the story line, and ingenious directing, the movie loses it's 5 star rating because the experiment conducted in the movie is somewhat flawed. Instead of putting 26 level headed people into this experiment, they put a few abnormal people into the mix, and gave them the roles of guards. And unfortunately, the extreme circumstances of the movie are entirely caused by those who were unstable to begin with. What I would like to know is if all 26 participants were reasonable people, if the same results would inevitably carry out?   Other then that though, it's a 5 star movie. Really well made, with everything from great dialogue to brilliant camera shots, huge kudos to the director, I just wish the experiment could have been played out with more balanced characters.

Go Ahead Root For The Villain Being bad never looked so good. Megamind has the best showmanship out of todays villains. His presentaion is over the top awesome in everyway. **Spoilers w/ the death of Metro City's(or Metrocity) Metro Man there is noone to protect them from Megamind taking control. But although he has what he wanted things arent quite the same. He misses his battles w/ Metro Man + needs a new hero to battle w/. To add to matters Roxanne Ritchie(Tina Fey)is on the hunt to find Megamind's hideout. Megamind plans to make a new hero w/ Metro Man's abilitis but misses his mark when he hits Hal(Jonah Hill)instead. From there hilarity unsues. I'll let you see the funny for yourself. But believe me when I saw there will be laughter, lots of laughter. W/ the voice talents of Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill, David Cross + Brad Pitt this is a must. Although the lead characters are plenty funny + well voiced I loved David Cross as Minion the most. This is a comedy on par w/ Shrek in the way that the humor is also geared towards adults. But loses a star because I think it was a little more geared toward adults humor + story wise. Still give this a look see, you won't be disapponited.

A Movie You Will Never Forget When you want a romantic but simple movie, Love and Basketball is the best choice. This movie will leave you on the edge of your seat, waiting for what's happening next.  Love and Basketball is about two young childhood friends, who both have a love for basketball. During the high school years they share, the two kids develop an unknown love for each other.  I started watching Love and Basketball when I was about ten years old. I had a passion for basketball and thought the movie was about a basketball team who needed help, but it turned to be something completely different. Love and Basketball is romantic. It shows how two completely different people can come together as one, by having one small thing in common with each other. With basketball being the only thing the teens have in common, they go on through high school together.  Love and Basketball also shows what true love is about. True love is about dedication and trust with one another, not just the things that most teenagers do today. Love and Basketball shows the trust that the two friends have with one another.  Finally, there's never a dull moment in the movie when you're watching. When watching you can't wait to see what happens next, if your prediction will come true or if something completely different will happen. This movie leaves you on the edge. The only downside to this movie is in the middle. One of the friends rips the ACL of his left knee while playing professional basketball. The friend gets engaged and the female friend is left broken hearted.  If you're looking for a great movie, Love and Basketball is the best choice.

Talk about Details! This movie follows the life and death of a man through a span of ten years.  He is an 'average Joe' married publishing editor who has an affair with a would-be author presently involved with an addict playwright. Confused yet?  Wait. The story is told from two points of view:  The events in the lives of four people. And the events remembered by the first three main characters who meet up after death.  Be prepared to watch this twice to be sure you've gotten the point! It's a very interesting script obviously well thought out and the characters are all very strong, so you get really caught up in it all.  But what is the real ending?  This is a good film to debate with friends because of the questions left unanswered. Nyqvist knocks another one out of the park with his portrayal of the editor. The man just cannot give a bad performance.  Have fun with this one.

Beth Hart is a throwback to the Janis Joplin style of blues belting Ms. Hart first came to my attention while watching a Joe Bonnamassa concert video from 2011.  Here, she says she's 16 months sober, so that's a good thing.  I can't image her being zonked doing a hard core blues belting concert like this.  In what appears to be a fairly small concert venue in Amsterdam, Hart comes with a guitarist, a bass player and a drummer.  She handles keyboards and an occasional guitar and of course, the gravelly vocals.  Dressed in baggy unbuttoned jeans and a too-small-for-her-boobs tank top she quickly dives into a blues driven series of songs, many of which are her own.  Among the most memorable is "Am I The One" when she gets down and dirty with the audience, in particular a comely lass in the front row.  "L. A. Song" is perhaps her best known, but I was wowed by Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" which closes the show, at least until you go to the bonus features where she kills Ashford and Simpson's "I Don't Need No Doctor."  The DVD is acceptable with decent direction and OK visuals.  There are 2 audio tracks to choose from, including a Dolby Digital 2.0 and 5.1 Surround.  I thought the surround channels were much too emphasized for this concert.  Overall this is a very good show.  I don't know of anyone else out there that can approach the Joplinesque style of Beth Hart.

Basic Instinct 2 Movie critics were not so kind to this movie, but I think it was pretty good not as good as Basic Instinct but enjoyable just the same .Sharon Stone was sexy as always. I must admit at her age she looks so hot.Dr Glass (David Morrissey) was good too,but in some parts over acting in his role,but acceptable just the same.Quality of blu ray print is very nice.

One of the best car chase scene's I've ever watched Critics rave about the car chase scenes in The French Connection, and Bullit.... I still think the primary one in Ronin, stands head and shoulders above the rest. De Niro stands out as he always does, but some of the supporting roles, are very well done.  This is one of those rare action/suspense films, that you will want to watch again and again over the years.

WONDERFUL LOVE STORY It's just as good the second and third time that I've watched this love story, integrated with a lot of comedy.  Nicholas Cage was his handsome, intense best, and Cher, as always, was beautiful and very believeable as an actress. Danny was pefect as the dumbo brother, and Vincent played a cheating husband (and plumber) right to the end when he says he will stop with the mistress. A good, fun movie to watch with the family and a big bowl of popcorn and/or spaghetti or a huge pizza under the full moon. I totally enjoyed the old grandfather with his bunch of mutts. Unforgettable movie and plenty of laughs.

I hate writing a non review, but... Where is the 3D version of this movie?  It had a 3D theatrical release, so where is it?  Okay, here's a quick review.  I loved Cabin in the Woods; inventive, fresh spin on the genre with a multitude of homages and pointed satirical sequences.  But really; where's the 3D version?

Incredible with limited credibility I enjoyed the Alien series but was warned not to have great expectations of this prequel, so I was pleasantly surprised that I quite enjoyed it.  With any fantasy movie, and this is a space one, you know that it can't be taken too seriously, but at the same time the story and events have to be somewhat credible, otherwise they becomes ridiculous. This movie vacillated between the believable and the ludicrous. However, I was willing to accept the ludicrous things, like the absurd lack of the characters' caution at every turn, because without it, they wouldn't get into danger and there would be no story.  There were other unbelievable things that were just annoying, mostly to do with the attempts to predict technology that could be conceivably developed by the movie's 2090s setting. Most were fantastic but could be reasoned to be possible, but at the same time for they were displayed next to characters and things firmly set in the present, like eye-glasses, or balding or really low-tech weaponry, such as a WW2 flame gun.  Like another reviewer, after watching the original Swedish `Dragon Tattoo' series, I had great expectations of Noomi Rapace, which were wholly unfulfilled.  Nevertheless, with all its flaws, Ridley Scott  knows how to put a movie together with sound and pictures to produce tension and excitement and I think he's succeeded again.

Lots of fun from start to finish. 80's Campiness is back! This movie definitely is having a rough time with critics and audiences, for various reasons all around. Why though? From start to finish, I was laughing consistently with the goofy and conversational humor of these guys all hanging out and bustin' up aliens together. The aliens looked great (in my opinion) and it was all just a ton of fun. It had may qualities of a campy 80's flick and references abound which made me enjoy a heck of a lot more. Overall, it ain't perfect, but it's a darn good popcorn flick nonetheless.

Good one, but has scarey parts for little ones Good movie to watch as an adult, but for little ones, 2 and 4 years old, it had some scarey and some violent parts in it.  I believe it is not G rated and that would explain why.  But when they get older, they can watch again.

Not for everyone but a blessing for many I've watched this movie three times, loving it all the way, laughing out loud and crying at least twice each time. When a movie does that to a person it's a keeper.  I guess one would need to have a heart to appreciate it.  Redemption comes to mind. Awesome music.  Moving. Hilarious. Heart wrenching. Intense acting by many.  The only problem I had with the movie was the ending song by Mary J Blige.  Not appropriate for the scene.

THE TRUE GENIUS OF WALT DISNEY SHINES IN MARY POPPINS For some reason, MARY POPPINS is a movie I have avoided through the years. I knew many of the songs and references to the film, but I never had a desire to see it. It seemed like it would be silly and cliche. Finally, I took the leap and began watching MARY POPPINS. For a while, I was sure I had been right through the years. Who cares about the Banks family and the cold and aloof Mr. Banks and the rather scattered Mrs. Banks? Because Julie Andrews literally lights up the screen as Mary Poppins, I kept watching. Her remarkable voice is a true gift and I could start putting songs I have heard into context. Enter Dick Van Dyke as the seriously miscast Bert. His fake Cockney accent was irritating and I just could listen to his voice. The story chugs along in its silliness. Then something truly magical takes place. The story and the characters come together and in my opinion, it begins when they make an emergency visit to the "ailing" Uncle Albert played by the one and only Ed Wynn. Uncle Albert's illness? He loves to laugh and the more he laughs, the more weightless he becomes and he floats to the ceiling. His joyous laughter becomes infectious and soon Bert and the kids are floating with laughter much to the chargin of Mary Poppins. Here was the turning point and the rest of the film seemed delightful. Walt Disney's mix of live action and animation was ahead of its time. He was always the innovator and I can only imagine how the eyes of young children lit up seeing this magical spectacle on the big screen in 1964. Long before computer animation, special effects were created by hand. Dick Van Dyke's dance with animated penguins is a charmer. It's Van Dyke's physical comedy that fills the screen. Forget his fake cockney accident, just relish with delight his long-legged rubbery figure as he cheefully makes his  way across the screen. There could not have been another actress more perfect for the role of Mary Poppins as was Julie Andrews..lovely and young and beautiful, her songs are full of life and zest. No nonsense "practically perfect" Mary Poppins puts on a serious face but you know she loves the Banks children and her roll in bringing the family together. Stern Mr. Banks melts into joy with his children and Mary Poppins brings the family together. We never know why Mary Poppins has magical powers. Even Bert seems to have magic in him. Mary flies over the streets of London with her open unbrella. She makes it all look effortless. MARY POPPINS was off to a slow start with me and I went with the flow and was led into a delightful fantasy. Everyone needs a Mary Poppins in their life!

LOVE this movie! I don't agree with the "R" rating, except the rating folks must think the "modern" twist on "Some Like It Hot" is too prurient. Whatever, it is still very funny, no gratuitous sex, no nudity, minor violence (the "laying the foundation" initial sequence, and a slapstick finale), and has an egaging cast... including a cameo by Debbie Reynolds!

Not a science fiction film per se but a film about loss and second chances A profoundly moving film about tragedy and second chances, "Another Earth" is science fiction in only the broadest sense (in fact it truly is a fantasy)--out of the blue we see another Earth in the sky. Is it some sort of bizarre mirror image due to a fluke in physics or could it truly be a parallel world with a door that has just opened for both them and us? The science for those that care about it is sketchy to say the least as the film ignores the impact of having another planet the size of Earth in our solar system and how the close planet might impact our tides, gravity, etc. Instead, director Mike Cahill uses the story as a metaphor for his themes.  If you're looking for a science fiction adventure or one that focuses on the other Earth that mysteriously appears in the sky, "Another Earth" is the wrong movie for you. If you're looking for a drama that doesn't answer all the questions posed, deals with the themes of loss and the complexity of relationships, than "Another Earth" is for you.  SPOILERS:  For Rhoda Williams (Brit Marling who also co-wrote the film)when that doorway between us and them occurs it  provides for the possibility of hope and second chances. Rhoda has just been released from prison after serving a sentence for manslaughter when, after celebrating her acceptance to MIT, drunkenly hits another car killing the family of a composer John Burroughs(William Mapother)and leaving him in a coma. Four years later Rhoda is adrift and feels the need to apologize to Burroughs. When she visits him she finds he is as much adrift and lost as she is. She lies to him telling him that she is with a cleaning service and offering a free trial cleaning. He takes her up on it and they begin a complex relationship as a result. Meanwhile, Rhoda applies to travel on a private expedition to Earth 2 to find out if it is real and if, as many believe, it parallels our world with other versions of us there.  END OF SPOILERS:  I enjoyed "Another Earth" although it's pacing is a bit slow (not that unusual for an Indie film which focuses less on rapid cutting styles and more on mood and character). The performances by Marling and Mapother are exceptionally good.  The Blu-ray looks quite an inconsistent but largely decent looking transfer. There is considerable video noise evident The film was shot in 720p (and upscaled)and, as a result, it isn't going to exhibit a huge jump up from the look of a DVD but it does look better than the DVD on average. Although there are flaws the movie, on the whole, looks good.  The audio is quite good although keep in mind this isn't an action film so dialogue and music clarity are the priority here.  There are deleted scenes (including a scene that suggests how Earth 2's gravity might impact our world although it is quite unbelievable). We also get a music video by Fall on Your Sword the group that scored the film. We also get featurettes with Marling, Mapother and director Cahill discussing the making of the film. Finally we get a featurette where Marling and Cahill sit down with a astrophysicist to discuss alternate universes, worlds and what it means to us. The trailer is included upscaled to 1080p.  If you keep in mind that "Another Earth" is a drama about consequences, loss and second chances rather than the planet mentioned in the title, you'll enjoy this drama. If you're looking for a science fiction adventure, you've picked the wrong movie.

Funny Rom-com This was a funny feel-good Romantic Comedy.  No surprises, but it kept me entertained.  Great chemistry between JT and Mila Kunis.  I really like both of them.

Rob Roy on blu-ray Rob Roy is one of my favorite historic adventure movies.  Although the high def was not amazing I am happy with this blu-ray dvd.  The price was right.  I reccomend this purchase.

Where are the writers going ?? This series has kept my attention for 4 seasons - but - killing off all his infastructure - Whats Walter White thinking - hope he can get it together - Me thinks its too late, now that the east Europeans are involved - and Walt wants out - ha ha ha.  Cant wait for the next one  Mike

a little disappointed I was a little disappointed in this movie. The film quality was poor, and it was nothing more than a B rated low budget film.

Quirky sleeper Offbeat? Absolutely. Quality acting? No doubt. Active attention required? Yes. This is not the type of movie you kick back and mindlessly enjoy while texting on your cell phone. "Don McKay" requires your attention. I thought it was worth the effort.

Downright Good I'm going to disagree with the "cheese" claimers about this movie. I thought it was good. The acting wont win an worldwide award but it's not bad, and there are some funny parts. A light hearted, interesting, fun to watch western.

Deserves more than 3 stars. This movie was an Odyssey.  I think the biggest problem for people who do not like it may be that they have very little patience and...I don't know what else is wrong with them.  There are several themes that run through the whole movie and were obviously done by someone very talented.  This is a top grade movie.  The idea of exploring the east, instilled in Alexander as just a boy, his dream of uniting the world, with an aged Ptolemy (played by Anthony Hopkins) relating it back to a scribe, Phillip teaching him that a king is made by suffering, not born.  Outstanding!  I could never forget the scene in the cave where Phillip is initiating him into the world of men.  I wasn't crazy about watching the repeated hints at the gayness of Alexander, but that also was true to history probably.  And then the first battle sequence was one of the best I have ever seen.  No, this movie was excellent and in my opinion anyone who has an attentive mind and appreciation of quality work will enjoy it.

A near great film I really enjoyed this film.  The acting, particularly from Williams and Sciorra was fabulous.  The visuals were incredible.  The thing that ruined it for me was the idiotic bible-thumping subtext of a heaven and hell in the afterlife and of suicide being a "sin" that must be "punished"; this is totally wrong as to everything reliable that I have learned about the afterlife.  The image of the wicked having their faces walked upon as punishment is laughable at best.  If you can get past the nauseating christian theological interpolations, the romance and the love of the characters for each other, and their loyalty to each other is uplifting.

SCI FI A good old SCI FI movie. Acting is a little corny at times, but the special effects (for the time) are very good. B&W video is good and the sound is in the original mono. A good addition to the SCI-FI collection!

Good movie A modern version of Hamlet with Ethan Hawke and Julia Stiles. Ethan Hawke plays a good enough Hamlet. He emotes the spirit of the play in general and Hamlet in particular. Julia Stile's as Ophelia was gut-wrenching. She plays this tragic figure to perfection.

A very good movie that was more of a love story then I expected. Williams does an amazing job as Monroe. I say B+ "Accept Marilyn on her own terms and you'll be OK, try to change her and she will drive you crazy. Trust me." During the filming of "The Prince & The Showgirl" starring Marilyn Monroe (Williams) and Laurence Olivier (Branagh) tension toward Monroe began to threaten the filming of the movie. She would show up late and not know her lines. Olivier was at his breaking point when a young and ambitious assistant named Colin Clark stepped in and began to help Marilyn. I have to say that I have a love of classic movies and have seen and loved many Monroe movies. I have never seen "Prince & The Showgirl" but after watching this I really want to. This movie is not what I expected and is more of a love story then about the making of the movie. That said I still very much enjoyed this and the job that Michelle Williams does is absolutely amazing and you have to remind yourself that it is her and not the actual Monroe. Much like Joaquin Phoenix in "Walk The Line" she transforms herself so much that it makes the movie easier to get lost in. Besides the acting job by her, the movie is very good and is very much worth watching if you are a fan of bio-pics. Overall, not what I expected but I still very much enjoyed this very much. I give it a B+.

Pretty Good Movie I really enjoyed this movie, however it does get you a little teary eyed and sad during some scenes. What scares me most is that people still think lke this and I hope to God do not do these awful things to others due to race, color or any other differences. Some scenes predictable but overall being a true stoery I found it a good one. Eric Roberts is too funny in some scenes.

"Champagne For Caesar (1950) ... Ronald Colman & Vincent Price ... Richard Whorf (Director) (2002)" United Artists presents "CHAMPAGNE FOR CAESAR" (1950) (99 min/B&W) -- Starring: Ronald Colman, Celeste Holm, Vincent Price, Barbara Britton, Art Linkletter, Gabriel Heatter, Mel Blanc  Directed by Richard Whorf  Can't think of any other actors at the time who could have played these parts better. Colman manages to make a character who would be despised by most everyone in real life warm and sympathetic. He plays it dead pan without putting anyone down.  This film is a masterpiece of casting. What happens when the man who knows everything goes on a quiz show that doubles your cash prize every time a you answer a question correctly? Beauregard Bottomly (Colman) is that man & what happens is you end up with 40 million dollars on the line.  Ronald Colman and Vincent Price in one of the best screwball comedies to come from the tail end of Hollywood's golden age. Colman and Price are not two names commonly associated with comedy but as this film shows they should have been - where have they been all this time!  Vincent Price is simply hilarious in what is perhaps a career best performance as the anti-intellectual soap company boss Burnbridge Waters. Good performances by Celeste Holm and surprisingly by Art Linkletter!  Special footnote: -- My good friend in St. Louis, Dale Thielker shared this story with me the other day - "When I met Vincent Price and told him that his mother had been a patient of the dentist my Mom worked for before her marriage, he remembered my Mom and he also told me that Ronald Colman was by far his all time favorite co-star. He called him "incredibly humble".  "He was bigger than the rest of the cast combined, but you would never know it".  When Colman learned that one of the camera men was  diabetic and could not have sugar, Ronald brought to the set sugar free cookies and tea for him that Benita Colman made special for him'.  Another Special footnote: -- The title refers to Beauregard Bottomley's alcohol-loving parrot Caesar, voiced by Mel Blanc.  Also the acting debut of Art Linkletter. (He played himself in his first film, People Are Funny.)  BIOS: 1. Richard Whorf [aka: Richard Baker Whorf] (Director) Date of Birth: 4 June 1906 - Winthrop, Massachusetts Date of Death: 14 December 1966 - Santa Monica, California  2. Ronald Colman [aka: Ronald Charles Colman] Date of Birth: 9 February 1891 - Richmond, Surrey, England, UK Date of Death: 19 May 1958 - Santa Barbara, California  3. Celeste Holm Date of Birth: 29 April 1917 - New York City, New York Date of Death: Unknown  4. Vincent Price [aka: Vincent Leonard Price Jr.] Date of Birth: 27 May 1911, St. Louis, Missouri Date of Death: 25 October 1993, Los Angeles, California  5. Barbara Britton [aka: Barbara Brantingham] Date of Birth: 26 September 1919- Long Beach, California Date of Death: 17 January 1980 - New York City, New York  6. Art Linkletter [aka: Gordon Arthur Kelly] Date of Birth: 17 July 1912 - Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada Date of Death: 26 May 2010 - Bel-Air, California  7. Mel Blanc [aka: Melvin Jerome Blank] [The Man of a Thousand Voices] Date of Birth: 30 May 1908 - San Francisco, California Date of Death: 10 July 1989 - Los Angeles, California  Mr. Jim's Ratings: Quality of Picture & Sound: 4 Stars Performance: 4 Stars Story & Screenplay: 4 Stars Overall: 4 Stars [Original Music, Cinematography & Film Editing]  Total Time: 99 min on DVD ~ United Artists ~ (December 17, 2002)

Nice retro horror flick Really captured the spirit and feeling of the 1980s with this one. Works as both a tribute and a period piece to that era. I really liked a lot of the little touches to the 80s that they included.  As a horror film, this definitely brings me back to the days of the main characters. We would always joke around like something like this could happen to us.

Heroes facing impossible odds and P-51 Mustangs! I was so excited to see the movie, that I posted ahead of time. Now that I've seen it, I thought it was a great telling of a true story. I give it a solid 4 stars, because the actors were excellent, the cinematography was good, the combat effects were actually better than okay. The music could have been better, but despite that it is an instant classic in my book.  The movie is fantastic because it shows the story of men who had to fight with honor and dignity against extreme odds in order to fight with bullets and power against our country's enemies. Their story has been represented before on film, and hopefully will again; it's a story worthy of being told over and over. Thumbs up to the actors, producers and all involved for doing a very good job. Was it the best of the best job possible? Maybe not, but it was entertaining and enlightening. I respect George Lucas for caring enough to put his money into this story, to bring it to the big screen like a major film, despite the reluctance of many other parties in the film industry. Could some other director/producer combination have made a technically more outstanding movie? Maybe, but they evidently don't care enough about the true story to do it. Kudos to all involved!  The events portrayed a version of history that was very engaging, and in a way that was also realistic. The heroes weren't shown to be perfect, with the flight leader having a drinking problem, for example, which seemed to cause problems, and one of the other pilots being a real hotshot. Overall, I gained a lot of insight into the difficulties that the "colored" pilots encountered but at no point did I feel like I was being "taught" a history lesson.  It seems like they didn't add a lot of extra drama to the story, which I almost wish they would have, altho the history as is has plenty of drama and heroism. The drama developed on several levels; first, the reluctance to put "colored" pilots on the front had to be overcome. Then, each mission had dramatic action, with all of the pilots and ground crew adding his sparky personality to the dramatic tone. I felt rise and fall and release of each dramatic thread.  I was already aware of the Tuskegee Airmen, and was excited to see what a George Lucas production would do with the story. Overall, I was satisfied, altho it didn't have the melodrama of a Star Wars episode, and I was looking for him to go overboard a bit, maybe just with the music. Those airmen were heroes and they really deserve to have a first class feature document the important, if not vital, contribution they made to the war effort. Now I know some of their names and I fell in love with them as patriots and gentlemen.  I saw Lucas on Jon Stewart's Daily Show, and he talked about how difficult it was to get this film distributed, because the big film distributors feared the audience would not be there for a film with a mostly-black cast. I hope their fears are wrong and this film is welcomed globally for it's production values, it's entertainment qualities, and it's documentation of a historical reality. I loved it, it's an instant classic in my book on many levels and am so happy to see this story make it to the big screen this way.  The audience showed up in droves, with the house being overflowing Friday night. The audience got engaged with the story, applauding at the end. I know a lot of us were happy to see the film and enjoyed seeing these heroes brought to life on the big screen.  Previous entry: Feature film executive produced by George Lucas, who felt compelled to bring the inspiring legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American pilots and crew, to the big screen. He called it the first all-black action film of modern times. We can expect to see an exciting true story told of the heroism of the people who rose above, aimed high, believed in themselves and used their brain, in service to our country at a time when their effort is credited with turning the tide of the war.  The "Red Tail Angels" were skilled pilots and fierce fights, often requested by bomber pilots, who wanted their escort to base. The Tuskegee Airmen flew more than 1500 missions between June 1943 and April 1945, many of which were as bomber escorts.  Unlike our beloved hero Luke Skywalker, who George Lucas made unforgettable, he is now bringing to our imaginations the real-life adventures of men who helped win the real historical fight against tyranny and hate. Let's get out there on January 20th and make it a blockbuster weekend!!!

Good christian movie what can really be said besides this is a good christian movie with good values. If your into football it makes it even better. but this movie teaches Good morals and shows how God will move if your obedient. would reccommend this one =)

Very Entertaining I have found the movie very entertaining and I enjoyed especially the scenes which I have found to be very colorful. I would recommend this dvd without hesitation. Henry

Excellent cast, compelling drama First of all, "Kill The Irishman" boasts a very impressive cast with excellent performances from Ray Stevenson, Val Kilmer, and Vincent D'Onofrio in the lead roles and supporting performances--in some cases, extended cameos--from Christopher Walken, Fionnula Flanagan, Paul Sorvino, and seemingly half the cast of "The Sopranos."  Certainly I would have liked to have seen more of Walken and Sorvino, whose screen time is extremely limited, but considering how much action and drama is crammed into a fairly brisk 100-minute running time, I am still happy with what we have here.  The story of Danny Greene and his battle with the Italian mafia in Cleveland is tense, exciting, and realistically portrayed.  Certain dramatic liberties were taken, it appears, yet for the most part, the film seems to largely stick to the real-life facts.  Stevenson is at his best here, deserving of at least an Oscar nomination, as the violent yet strangely likeable Irish thug.  My only negative comment is that some of the CGI car explosions, particularly the dark smoke clouds, look a little fake, but they do not really take away from the story.  It is definitely worth noting that the DVD offers one special feature: an hour-long professionally-produced documentary on the real-life characters involved in the story.  Slick and engaging, this program features a number of interesting interviews and a variety of rare photographs and news footage.  While I would have also enjoyed some features on the making of the film, or at the very least on the casting process, this is a fine and substantial special feature that added to my enjoyment of the film.  Recommended.

Great movie still!! The Vikings is a classic.  I saw it when it first came out and so many of the scenes were still in my mind 50 years later.  So I ordered this dvd and watched it with my wife and stepdaughter.  It was still great.  For that time frame and all, it was terrific.  Kirk and Tony at their best.

One of Mark Twains most interesting, I'll make this a bit short but latter on I'll add to this review.  This is a film of a Squad of 15 young boys (not a company) whose ambition it is too fight blue coats from neighboring Illinois. But the sad part of the film isn't really the part of the poor passer by (played by Edward Herrmann) who also latter on in the film delivers the famous "War Prayer" as a ghost I take it.  No, its the fact that these boy's never see combat as a group and brake up at the end of the film while only a hand full out of the 15 still linger on to join other militias.  I still give it 4 stars due to the fact this is  a fictional account of Mark Twains Civil War adventure. It is after all, a film based off his novel with at least some historical accuracy.

Pretty cool early 70s "B" Flick Saw this as a second feature on a double bill back in the 70s and it stuck in my mind.  A bit dated but certainly the story is still relevant - a young guy (the "rebel") stands up for what he believes and gives up a privileged life as the price for his beliefs.  Amazing to see Michael Sarrazin and Barbara Hershey when they were so young! As long as you're not expecting Shakespeare this movie provides a fairly entertaining 90 minutes.

An Action Movie That Also Bends The Mind "Total Recall", at its core, is a straight-up action vehicle for Arnold Schwarzenegger.  At least, that is what it was supposed to be.  However, it actually succeeds so much more as a psychological thriller thanks to director Paul Verhoeven and an incredible script.  For a basic plot summary, "Total Recall" follows the very strange set of circumstances surrounding one Douglas Quaid (Schwarzenegger), who one day is living the married life with Lori (Sharon Stone), and the next moment is caught up in an intrigue plot involving a stunning vixen named Melina (Rachel Ticotin) who tells Quaid he is not exactly what (or who) he thinks he is.  But is the whole thing a virtual-reality experience?  This movie succeeds because it manages to successfully indulge in two different genres:  -First of all, it is an action/adventure flick on par with Arnie's other works.  It is non-stop from the opening scene, rushing forward with special effects (well, special for the time period...!), chase scenes, and tons of gunfire.  -Secondly, though, it is also a psychological mind-bender of the highest order.  You really won't know exactly what is going on until the final scene (and even then the result will amaze you).  Overall, then, I was very impressed with this flick that I didn't have very high expectations for.  I expected a simple "action romp", but instead was treated to so much more.  It can be watched for many reasons: the action, the thinking, the acting (actually pretty good), or the nostalgia.  Either way, there will more than likely be something for you.

Ninth Gate Quirky movie with moments of dark humour. If you like Depp, then you'll like his performance in this movie as well. Enjoy it for what it is.

Nice family movie, 4* good family movie. I enjoy watching it even as an adult. I give it a 4-stars. Entertaining, good for a rainy Sunday afternoon.

a fight to get the last star LET ME DIVIDE THE MOVIE IN TO PARTS.??  BUT BEFORE I DO,  I MUST REMIND THE VIEWER THAT LANA TURNER' LAST FILM BEFORE THE ONE IN QUESTION, WAS "THE THREE MUSKATEERS".  HER BEAUTY WAS ALMOST UNBELIEVABLE, IN TECHNICOLOR,,, AND THE PHOTOGRAPHER,,,, IF NOT IN LOVE WITH LANA,,,,,,,,,, SURELY MADE SURE THAT EVERY MAN THAT WOULD SEE HIS FILM WOULD FALL ...... GOOD.  I HAVE NEVER BEFORE OR SINCE, SEEN A WOMAN SO BEAUTIFULLY PHOTOGRAPHED.  HER FACE FILLED THE SCREEN, AND A LIGHT SEEMED TO GLOW FROM WITHIN.  LANA TOOK A YEAR OFF TO GET MARRIED.  NOT THREE YEARS.  LANA HAD A PICTURE IN 1948,,,,,,,,,, AND 1950.  IT SEEMS THAT SHE ONLY MISSED A YEAR.  GOOD! THAT M.G.M. WANTED HER BACK TO MOVIES????????????  I AM SURE ALL HER FANS WANTED HER BACK.  HERE IT COMES!!  " A LIFE OF HER OWN".  GEORGE CUKOR THE WOMANS DIRECTOR.  REALLY??  SEEMS TO ME THAT HE HELPED THE STUDIO'S GET RID OF SO MANY STARS.  I WILL TRY TO SHOW YOU WHAT I MEAN.  GARBO.  "TWO FACED WOMAN".  SHEARER.  "HER CARDBOARD LOVER".  CRAWFORD,, "A WOMANS FACE".  CUKOR HAD A TENDENCY TO SHOW OTHER ACRESSES AS YOUNGER AND MORE INTERESTING,OR MORE LOVINGLY PHOTOGRAPHED.  I WOULD RATHER NOT GO IN TO CUKOR'S LIFE, ONLY HIS JUDGEMENT.  REMEMBER CUKOR "TRIED" TO HELP GARLANDS CAREER.  THE CUTS TO "A STAR IS BORN".  WERE WRONG,,,,,,,,,,,  CUKOR ALWAYS THREW UP HIS HANDS WHEN HE DIDN'T GET HIS WAY,,, AND  BLAME IT ON SOMONE ELSE.  JUDY WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFICULT TO DEAL WITH........ LET HER SING MORE,,,DO MORE,,,AND SHE DID,,, AND IT WASN'T AS GOOD A PICTURE. CUKOR ADED CONSTANCE BENNETT TO GARBO'S LAST FILM, "TWO FACED WOMAN".  GAVE BENNETT THE BETTER WRITTEN ROLE, AND PHOTOGRAPHED HER SO THAT SHE OUTSHINED GARBO. LANA DID NOT WANT TO WORK AT THIS TIME.  LANA WAS UNDER CONTRACT, AND THE STUDIO COULDN'T HAVE FOUND A LESS APPEALING ROLE IF THEY HAD TRIED. CUKOR LATER SAID THE FILM WAS A PACKAGE.  CUKOR HAD MEMORIES OF CONVERSATIONS.  EITHER MAYER AND CUKOR,, OR CUKOR AND DORY SCHERY.  LIKE THIS:  LANA'S FILMS ALWAYS MAKE MONEY.  CUKOR: "THERE IS ALWAYS A FIRST TIME WHEN THEY DON'T".  THE PACKAGE ALSO INCLUDED WENDALL COREY TO CO STAR IN "A LIFE OF HER OWN".  LANA REFUSED THE COREY IDEA, AND RAY MILLAND TOOK OVER.  GRUNGY BLACK AND WHITE OPENING WITH THE UNLUCKY LETTERS,,,,,,,,,,, OF TWO FACED WOMAN ALPABET STYLE OF PRINTING FILL UP THE SCREEN,,,, THE MUSIC IS NOT HELPING.  LANA GETS OUT OF A TAXI,,,, AND SAYS "SEE YA CHARLIE"...... SHE GETS ON A TRAIN.  WHEN SHE GETS TO THE MODELS OFFICE.... GOOD OLD GEORGE PHOTOGRAPH'S LANA SO THAT ANOTHER WHITER THINER, AND YOUNGER BLOND,, IN BLACK RIM GLASSES SITS ABOVE LANA.  NULL AND VOIDING ANY IMPACT LANA MIGHT HAVE HAD ON THE VIEWER, AS A POTENTIAL NUMBER ONE MODEL.  CUKOR WAS A DEVIL WITH THIS.  LOOK AT HOW MANY TIMES HE PHOTOGRAPHED PAULETTE GODDARD IN THE ROLE OF SCARLET.  HE NEARLY KILLED MARYLIN MONROE,,, OR DID?  IN  "SOMETHINGS GOTTA GIVE".  FOX RELEASED ENOUGH OF IT,,,TO PUT TO REST THE IDEA THAT MARYLIN COULDN'T WORK.  AND CYD CHARISE IS SUCH A PRESENCE IN WHAT REMAINS.  CRITICS PRAISE ANN DVORAKS ACTING AND HER ROLE IN "A LIFE OF HER OWN" AS SHE PORTRAYED THE AGING MODEL.  ORIGINALLY LANA'S CHARACTER WAS SUPPOSED TO END IN A SIMILAR WAY.  ALL THESE PLANS WENT OUT THE WINDOW, AS THE PREVIEWS OF THE FILM DID NOT GO WELL.  SO IT SEEMS THEY STARTED FIDDLING AROUND WITH IT, VOILA!  CUKOR MADE SURE THAT LANA WAS NOT LANA................  THE SCENE WITH RAY MILLAND WHERE SHE IS SLEEPING, IS NOT A PRETTY SIGHT.  LANA DOESN'T KNOW THAT HE IS THERE,,,,, WAKES UP TO FIND HIM LOOKING AT HER,,, AND ASKS IN A VERY PISSED OFF WAY,,, HAVEN'T YOU EVER SEEN A LADY PUT ON HER SHOES BEFORE?  SHE ISN'T FLATTERING HERE,,, AND IT IS GOOD.  SOON WE SEE LANA TURNER IN A WAY WE MAY NEVER SEE HER AGAIN.  AFTER LEAVING OFF HER GUY AT THE AIRPORT SHE LEAVES AND HAS TO GO UNDER A TUNNEL AND LANA'S EMOTIONS OVERCOME HER,HER FACE DISSOLVES IN TO A VERY UNFLATTERING SIGHT.  LANA WAS NEVER SO UGLY, NOR SO RIGHT IN HER ACTING.  AS I STATED ABOVE, THE ENDING WAS CHANGED.  MANY TIMES.  WOULD THAT SOME OF THE CUT STUFF COULD BE PUT BACK,,,, AND WE COULD JUDGE.??  THERE GOT TO BE A POINT WHERE PEOPLE DIDN'T LIKE LANA.  YET PAYED TO SEE HER MOVIES.  "THE FLAME AND THE FLESH", 1954, IS PROBABLY LOST AS A COLOR PRINT.  I HAVE SEEN A BOOTLEGED 10% OF GOOD VISION.  MOSTLY GREEN COLORS,,, THOUGH THE SOUND WAS GOOD ENOUGH TO GET AN IDEA.  FIX THE PRINT BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE, AND LET US LOOK AT IT,  THE MUSIC WAS WONDERFUL.  ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,  HAD MGM ALLOWED THE ORIGINAL ENDING.  THE STUDIO MIGHT HAVE HAD TO GIVE HER AN ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATION.  NO I WILL NOT SAY WHAT THE ORIGINAL INTENTION MIGHT HAVE BEEN,I HAVE ALREADY HINTED AT IT ABOVE.  AT THE END,,,,LILLY FINDS HER WAY UP,,,UP,, THE STREET.  ...................................... DO NOT BE PISSED AT ME.  MGM DIDN'T LIKE THE ENDINGS.  THEY WANTED A LANA TURNER ENDING........ THE MUSIC MAY KEEP THIS FILM CURRENT.  ROSEMARY CLOONEY DOES A WONDERFUL JOB OF IT.  YOU MAY............. OFTEN HEAR IT IN AN ELEVATOR,,,,,, OR A PLACE.  MICHAEL FEINSTEIN DOES AN AWSOME RENDITION OF IT.  SO AT THE END WHERE ARE WE?  I ENJOY THE MOVIE, AND JUST BOUGHT MY SECOND COPY.  I ENJOY THE MOVIE FOR ALL THE FAULTS.  I APPRECIATE LANA' ATTEMPT AT TRYING TO BE BETTER THAN SHE WAS.  THERE IS SOMETHING DARK AND STICKY ABOUT ALL THE CHARACTERS IN THE FILM.  WELL LET US SAY THAT THE MODELLING BUSINESS IS PROBABLY NOT THE PRETTY PLACE THAT SOME WANT TO SEE.  IT SEEMS CORRECT THAT IF YOU ARE GOING TO MAKE LANA A MODEL,,, AND EXPLORE THE BUSINESS OF BEING A MODEL,,, THEN WHY BOTHER TO MAKE THE FILM IF YOU CAN NOT FULLY TELL THE STORY.  SHOULD LANA SPRING IN TO YOUR MIND........ FOR SOME CRAZY REASON,  GOOD. WATCH THE MOVIE.  AND THINK AS ALL THAT IS GOING ON............  LANA TURNER NEVER LET THE VIEWER DOWN.  GLAMOUR. POISE. MANNERS!  =========  TRAGEDY, NIGHTMARES, LOSS.  ............... WATCH THE FILM.  A FADING FAST AVAILABLE MOVIE, OF THE CLASSIC ERA................ LANA GETS FIVE STARS FROM ME,,,, THE MOVIE ONE SHORT,,, STILL A VERY INTERESTING PICTURE.

Dalls 1&2 Season DVD Have enjoyed it.  Wish DVD's were not dual sided as one of my players will not read the back side but it a great purchase.  Quality good.

This may be short, but is simply outstanding. It's worth the cost just for the Video of "Sister Rosa". Definitely Worth the Buy! This may be short, but it sure is great in my opinion, and well worth the price. The songs are great, the filming, the sound, everything is fantastic. It's well worth the purchase price, just for the video of "Sister Rosa" alone. In this video, they re-inact, the story of the legendary, civil rights heroin, Rosa Parks, and how she refused to give up her bus seat, to a white man, in Montgomery, Alabama, back during segregation. It shows how her refusal to give up her bus seat, lead to the Civil Rights movement, and how Dr.King took up her cause. It's a great video story, very well portrayed. Also, I really like "Fly Like an Eagle", this is the old Steve Miller song, and is performed very well by the Neville Brothers. I like this dvd, very much, and I gladly recommend it.

Great Movie, Great Image Quality Touching movie, with humor and a great father/son duo from the Smith family. The quality of the BluRay is impeccable and I truly enjoyed this movie. I had it on a 60" 1080p screen for about 20 people and they all found the story, image and sound enjoyable. Only comment is that it completely eludes the earlier years of the main character's life (Gardner), which were not so glamorous.. But if you are seeking a good San Francisco movie (there aren't that many) this is a great choice!

Not bad for a used dvd For really small kids who just need a little entertainment while mommy or daddy get something done a used dvd is great. The one I got skip for a quick second in the beginning but other than that its in great shape. My son seems just as entertained and he doesn't know that it was used. :)

This was a titan of a movie ;) I thought this movie was very good, the story was strong and the acting and special effects were excellent.  If you enjoy this sort of movie, I recommend you check it out.

where's Rita? After she saw the hilarious take-off Burnett did of her (Golda), Hayworth called her to tell her how much she enjoyed it. Carol responded by enthusiastically inviting Rita to guest star on the show. Rita was delighted. Burnett's writers began creating skits and patter and songs and dances for this exciting show---and it was a memorable evening. The mystery is this: WHY was the original Rita-spoof show NEVER shown again and WHY was the Rita-live show ALSO shelved? I've seen very brief clips, but what's the deal here? AMTVPAS has both shows and are graciously willing to provide a private screening...

Amazing for the right audience Joseph Kahn is a cinematic madman.  I adore his previous film TORQUE- it is an underrated action movie deconstruction that actually works as the genre it is taking to task.  DETENTION has scenes that absolutely blew me away, but I do recognize that it isn't made for everyone.  Having said that, not making a movie for EVERYONE should really be applauded.  Most movies are predictable and generic, but those terms could NEVER be used to describe DETENTION.  The acting is top notch- seriously all of the kids are great (and actually LOOK like high school kids) The football coach is played with sublime genius by James Black.  Seriously, if you love cinema, you owe it to yourself to see DETENTION.  If you are uncertain about it, rent it. But if you appreciate a visionary director going off the deep end- making a comedy/horror/I-don't-want-to-spoil-it/Can't-even-describe-it masterpiece, then this is a must own disc.  I only hope there are commentary tracks galore.

Good purchase I was very satisfied with this purchase. This is a classic Clint Eastwood film and I would recommend it to anyone who is an Eastwood fan.

A decent release, considering Miramax Echo Bridge's short falls I've heard quite a few poor reviews on Miramax/Echo Bridge who seem to put out the lower end Blu-Rays. I personally think this was a pretty solid release. As long as you know what your getting yourself into with the Hellraiser films =).  First and foremost as the other reviewer stated, each movie is presented in 1080P except Inferno which is my favorite of the series and is presented in 1080i. It still looks pretty good mind you. All four films come on one Dual Layered Blu-Ray with no subtitles. And the 5.1 surround is only on Hellworld while the others are 2.0.  Without going into an in depth review and synopsis of each film, they all pretty much have the same tie in. There is a puzzle box known as the Lament Configuration which when manipulated correctly opens a gateway from hell. Hence Pinhead and his friends, the Cenobites, always come through to murder, torture, and trick the protagonist(s) in each of the film(s).  Most people would argue with me but my favorites in the series are Inferno (V) and Hellseeker (VI). I enjoy more of the thriller/mystery genre compared to the bloody/slasher genre the other films seem to offer.  This was a pre-order on a few web sites for $7.99 and can now be purchased for $9.99 in most stores. Four films with a decent video quality, most certainly better than there DVD counterparts for ten bucks ain't half bad.  The stories can vary and may not be everyone's cup of tea, but should keep your attention and they always have this cool and creepy underlying feeling due to the hell aspect, and our friend Pinhead.  Video Quality: C (sadly Inferno is only 1080i, they all look pretty good though) Audio Quality :C- (can be on the low side, even with my sound bar I have to raise the volume pretty high) Aesthetics: C (they could have made the print a little larger on the back cover, and the characters on the front don't match the films they coincide with.) Price: A+ Extras: F (None at all, not even separate menus for each film,besides the initial choosing what movie you'd like to watch. And no subtitles at all brings this set down grade wise a lot.) Overall: C+  Great for a horror movie night, or just a fan of these films in general. I recommend this set, especially for it's cheap price on Blu-Ray.

poirot fan This one is a bit predictable in my opinion.  However, the real killer isn't revealed to the very last.  God movie.

Brings Back Memories Gale Storm was a very interesting person, and she seemed to have something special that endeared her to others.  I was quite surprised to learn that Gale Storm had a drinking problem. She revealed this herself in an interview. I thought that was courageous of her,and I admired her honesty.  I always thought that she was so beautiful, and I loved to hear her sing "Dark Moon". Can't believe that was so long ago!  I like this, because it brings back memories from my past that were happy days.

Evil Has A Heart Just because you're a vampire doesn't mean you a bad person. All the right lessons with examples of the wrong solutions. Typical horror movie with a different twist. Worth watching.

Thunder and Lightning DVD This is and ok movie, I bought it for the old cars for my husband, he seem to like the movie, so that what counts.

Lion King II I enjoyed watching the movie with my children. It enriched family time with animation and drama. Good purchase. Also the purchase arrived in excellent condition and the delivery time was good.

Poor quality, great series! So I bought this item trying to avoid the customer reviews of 'poor quality of disks.' As I started watching, when I was in second season the episodes began to freeze, i was playing the disks on my DVD Player, however, everything looked just fine when I started watching on my Blu Ray Player. I love the package! It's beautiful. So I highly recommend it, just be sure to play the disks con your Blu Ray!

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix This DVD rounds out my collection of the series. It was somewhat dark compaired to some earlier movies but enjoyable, nevertheless

Better than expected I remember when this movie was in the theaters--if you blinked, you missed it.  Every review I've read up til now has been extremely negative.  Caught the last half or so on TV today.  (Actually, have caught the last half at least twice now.  Hope to one day see the whole thing, LOL.)  Absolutely loved the ending.  Thought it much more likely to happen than finding monsters as in "Prometheus".  (What a disappointment that was.)  Yes, this movie does require a little attention and actual THINKING, so I can see why it might not be for everyone.  Only complaint I have is with the special effects, which should have been better in this day and age.

Better than the book, really for working moms and those watching Read the book and cried and cried.  Mommy in the book does EVERYTHING wrong - is competitive with stay at home moms, doesn't ask husband to do anything, blurts out that her husband doesn't make much money, cheats on husband, has her baby sitter and cleaning lady boss her around, and SPOILER ALERT - QUITS WORKING like its something a heroine should do.  As a working mother with high stress job and whining/fighting children dying for my attention, it was the most disappointing message ever.  This movie ending is much more palatable.  But movie version really lost all the funny British humor and quotable lines from the book which actually read like a tragic/comedy to me, so 4 stars only.  And yes, i can see what I look like to my colleagues at work now.  I scratch my head sometimes wondering i have gotten lice too.  Anyhow, life goes on.  Cheers to all moms out there.

A well made and interesting film. I think I first found the story of the tiles sometime around 2005 on a webpage about unusual articles in Wikipedia.  The story intrigued me, and I periodically checked back to see if any new discoveries had been made.  I was happy to find this DVD had been released since the last time I had looked.  The documentary follows a man who took on the mystery as his pet project for a number of years, and I think there is an comparison to be made with the obsessive natures of both the tiler and the sleuth.  To me, this film was as much or even more about the sleuth than the tiler himself, and that wasn't a bad thing.  It told the story well, and also presented some new evidence.  You don't need to know anything of the story going in.  The DVD itself was good quality, I can't complain about the picture or sound quality in any way.

"Swastika" is a surprising and disturbing documentary "If Hitler is dehumanized and shown only as a devil, any future Hitler may not be recognized, simply because he is a human being." - Intro to Swastika  Adolf Hitler, the Fuhrer of Germany and the dictator who will be remembered as the evil devil incarnate of modern history which led to the death of eleven million people.  Through many staged videos shot during the 1930's, the images that people have seen of Hitler was the military leader who would transformer the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich, a single-party dictatorship which was based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism (National Socialism which incorporated biological racism and antisemitism).  But what many people have a difficult time understanding is how can millions of people follow such an evil man?  How can they look up to this person who preached hatred?  Fastforward decades after World War II and the death of Adolf Hitler and his bride, Eva Braun (in April 1945, as the Red Army closed in on Berlin, Eva killed herself by biting into a cyanide capsule while Hitler shot himself in the head with a pistol).  Philippe Mora and Lutz Becker had wondered about how can people follow someone like Hitler?  What kind of research material is available?  And through their research, what was found were the home videos of Adolf Hitler captured by Eva Braun.  Never touched or viewed by the American military who confiscated it.  So, this is 16 mm footage that has never been seen since they were in the possession of the Hitlers until 1973.  Both Mora and Lutz found eight hours of home videos showcasing video taken by Eva Braun but also footage that no one has ever seen of Adolf Hitler before.  Away from the staged military propaganda films, Mora and Becker assembled the footage along with other historical footage to show how people of Germany fell for Hitler and why they followed him.  The power of propaganda film could help ignite the nation to back a leader, which many soldiers vowed to God to follow Hitler and his ideology.  And thus "Swastika" was created.  A controversial documentary featuring banal home videos but showcasing a side of the evil leader among his family and friends and inter-weaved with propaganda footage as we see Hitler with Eva Braun, with children, dogs and being shown as a compassionate and beloved leader.  For the film, the audio-less footage which was overdubbed (but verified by those who were featured in the film and also by German lip readers) by actors and featured music, and while the film received a tumultuous reception at the Cannes Film Festival in 1973 (to put it bluntly, a fist fight among the audience had taken place), the film was also banned in Germany for 37 years until 2010 in worries that the humanistic footage of Hitler may inspire Neo-Nazi's, nor did they want footage to be shown of a time when Germans absolute adored their "charismatic" leader.  The film had been used as educational tools for universities as a way of understanding Nazism but also to engage viewers of why the documentary was deemed as controversial.  VIDEO & AUDIO:  "Swastika" is presented in 1:33 Full Frame and in color and black and white.  As expected from a documentary featuring older footage, footage was restored back in 1973 but the fact that Eva Braun's video were not tampered with, the quality was very good considering the age of the film.  According to Lutz Becker, the film was shot using American 16mm color stock, Ektachrome.  For the most part, picture quality is very good for archived and historical footage and the editing of putting together Eva Braun's home video along with propaganda and Nazi film were done well, although some may find the home videos quite banal as they are old home videos.  As for audio, while the audio was dubbed by actors utilizing research by German lipreaders to people who were featured in the film, it gives you an idea of what types of conversations were being discussed on the home video.  SPECIAL FEATURES:  "Swastika" comes with the following special features:    Introduction from Jonathan Petropoulos - (1:58) Jonathan Petropoulos talks about how he used "Swastika" as a teaching tool and asking the students of why this documentary was so controversial.   Filmmakers Discussion - (30:05) Producers Sanford Lieberson, David Puttnam, director/writer Philippe Mora and writer Lutz Becker talk about the making of "Swastika".   Manipulation and Nazi Propaganda - (12:12) Producers Sanford Lieberson, David Puttnam, director/writer Philippe Mora and writer Lutz Becker talk about the propaganda documentaries at that time.   Interview with Albert Speer and Lutz Becker - (14:43) In 1937, Lutz Becker was interviewed by the BBC about how he had access of Eva Braun's films and how sound was incorporated into this film.  And a discussion with Albert Speer, former photographer for Hitler on knowing Hitler and Braun.   Color Film in Nazi Germany - (1:59) A special feature on the use of color in the films by Nazi Germany.   Puncturing the Myth of Leni Riefenstahl - (5:53) Lutz Becker talks about actress and filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, who was known for a being a filmmaker for Hitler work but the discussion relates to how Riefenstahl may been given attribution of being a director of films that were not done by her but also showing how amoral she was with her footage taken in the concentration camps.   Trailers - The theatrical trailer to "Swastika" and also other titles available from Kino.  JUDGMENT CALL:  He has been called a demon.  A murderer.  And his name will be forever linked to hatred and evil... Adolf Hitler.  There is no forgiving a man who led to massive atrocities and the deaths of millions but it's important to remember that he is also human and that one human can inspire a country to do horrific things.  How is this possible?  How can this even happen?  As a person who loves watching documentaries especially to see a city and lifestyle of a time period that is no more, I am also fascinated by watching footage of propaganda films that have been used to fool a country and disguising the truth of their people.  "Swastika" is rather intriguing in a historical sense because in other footage,  the most vile person of this century, Adolf Hitler, typically shown as a dictator, shown during his speeches but mostly as a military leader.  But with "Swastika" and the home video footage shot by Eva Braun, we see a side of Hitler that no one has seen before.  We see footage of a man discussing hunting of a bore with his colleagues, the discussion with his colleagues (such as Hermann Goering and Joseph Goebbels) of the young children that look up to him as a hero, the dictator out walking his dogs and of course, his time with his Nazi soldiers and also with his mistress Eva Braun, as she stretches and has fun in the water with her dog.  Shots taken at Hitler's Bavarian mountain retreat in Berghof in Obersalzberg.  But by no means was "Swastika" trying to show the good-side of Hitler.  The film was banned from Germany for 37-years in fear that the documentary's humanistic approach may make Hitler look like a good guy than an demon.  In fact, because of the home videos of Hitler...people were so uncomfortable at Cannes that a fight broke out in the audience.  It's a controversial film but this is an anti-Nazi film that shows how a nation was fooled by Hitler's grasp on the city.  The control that the Third Reich had in instilling this belief in men, women and children.  But a film that shows that evil tyrants are human and it's important to show how a human can lead a country to do terrible things.  It's important to also note that the director, Philippe Mora is Jewish and when he took on the goal to make Swastika a film, it was during a time he wanted to document the making of Albert Speer's (a photographer for Adolf Hitler and friend of Eva Braun) book about the Third Reich.  Also interesting is how the film came about.  According to various news sources, including an interview with Australia publication, "The Age", Mora began to become interested in the project when he saw a photo of Eva Braun in a book and she was holding a 16 mm camera.  Lutz Becker then tried to find out more information and talked to an army officer who was part of the raiding party at Berghof and was told that "a pile of cans" had been taken away.  Becker contacted the Pentagon and it was revealed that a bunch of film cans were found in Eva Braun's bedroom and when they received permission to look at it, there were eight hours of footage with only a fraction being used for "Swastika", footage featuring Adolf Hitler.  And the footage featured Hitler with Goebbels, Goering, Himmler, Heydrich, Eva and her sisters and Hitler's dog Blondi.  But the question that has been raging since 1973 when it comes to "Swastika" was will this documentary humanize Adolf Hitler or will people see the anti-Nazi message of this film.  It's one thing to have seen footage of similar situations in North Korea with the late Kim Jong-il and seeing his near rock-star presence to his countrymen, the tight grasp the country has on what their people can see on television and seeing their propaganda films that reinforce their belief in their leader, their country and their goal to have this Aryan utopia.  "Swastika" shows us along with the home video footage these other historical footage of how thousands of people were enchanted by Hitler, women going so far to jump barriers to see him.  To see y0ung German soldiers making an oath to God that they will follow their leader, to see child soldiers fighting each other and then are back to marching.  To see these young women sing in glee to their leader and to see even American Olympic champion Jesse Owens smiling to the camera and talking about how great the German people are and actually praising the treatment he received during the 12th Summer Olympics in Berlin.  But when you look at the history of dictators, they all have similarity in the fact that they controlled communication and people saw their leader as charismatic and wonderful.  And while the film does showcase Germans being wooed by their leader, we are also given that image of what their had lead them to do as we see images of dead Jewish people, nearly skeletal as they are being bulldozed and buried.  The German people were so ignorant of what was going on around them that they were continually fed the good news about their leader and the Third Reich. One story that Philippe Mora had told was of a sculptor who worked with Hitler and when he saw the documentary, he felt everything featured in "Swastika" was factual until the part of the Jews being bulldozed and insisted that the video footage was constructed by Hollywood.  As for the DVD release of "Swastika", viewers are treated with an insightful filmmakers discussion plus discussion about the manipulation of the people and the power of Nazi propaganda, classic interviews with Lutz Becker and also Albert Speer, the use of color film in Nazi Germany and also conversation of the amorality of filmmaker/actress Leni Riefenstahl who worked with Hitler.  Overall, "Swastika" is an intriguing documentary especially with the home video footage of Hitler/Braun which I have never seen before and many others haven't.  But as far as the argument goes and the worries about whether or not this documentary will humanize Hitler, my feeling is that it's all subjective on the viewer.  This film is obviously an anti-Nazi film when watched from beginning to end but it's also a film that easily shows us that the worst in humanity can be disguised through propaganda and how many people believed in it.  For those who are interested in older historical footage  of Germany especially the Nazification of the German population, will find "Swastika" to be a surprising and possibly disturbing documentary.

Ann Margaret in her mature years. This was a decent movie.  They couldn't have cleaned up Hunter Tylo's character a bit.  Man chasing, drinking, smoking.  Other than that pretty clean.  A few swear words, but overall a good movie.

For Those Who Love The Eighties Three O'Clock High is one of those forgotten 80's movies that you just can't find anywhere.  And yet, if my dad had his say, it would be held up as a classic.    Jerry is no ordinary kid.  He's hypoglycemic.  He has a best female friend who believes in benevolent spirit guides named Toby.  He dries his clothes by sticking them in the microwave.  And now he's about to earn himself a reputation as the boy who was challenged to an after school fight by the one, the only Buddy Revell.    The whole school has gotten a whiff of blood, and it's worked them up into a frenzy.    Will Jerry win?  Will he be pummeled to a pulp?  I guess you'll just have to watch the movie to find out.    There's something about this movie that's a lot like Ferris Bueller, only with a different plot.    * - Painfully bad   ** - Barely watchable   *** - Could go either way   **** - Recommended   ***** - One of my favorites

3 1/2 stars for the third in this Bruce Campbell-fest! Army of Darkness(released in Oct/92)finds our hero Ash back,played by Bruce don't-call-me-Ash Campbell.It's his film all the way through,as he chews the scenery up,right,left and centre stage.The co stars are really just incidental to the proceedings. This film finds us about where the last left off.A passage read in the Necronomicon in the last film mentioned a man from the sky that would arrive in 1300 A.D. to help the people fend off the deadites.Well,Ash is THE man of legend,much to his chagrin.He takes care of the initial deadite onslaught and goes into the castle grounds.There he is forced to take care of a deadite down a large well.After this he finds that in order for the wizard to send him back to his own time,he must obtain the Necronomicon from a local cemetery.The wizard gives him the words to speak to get the book safely away:Klaatu,Barada,Nickto(words every film fan worth their salt knows as the self same ones Patricia Neal had to speak to Klaatu in the 1951 film,The Day the Earth Stood Still....and Ash obviously hadn't seen it!). He arrives at the cemetery,after a brief encounter with deadites in a windmill,only to find not one but three Books of the Dead.He opens the first and gets sucked into it.After he gets out the second bites him and continually flies at him until he is able to subdue it.Of course the last one would be the real one.He starts to chant the sacred words:Klaatu,Barada...Necktie... Neckturn... Nickel... It's an "N" word, it's definitely an "N" word!...".In final desperation he says the first two and substitutes a drawn out cough for the last one.He looks around,nothing seemingly happens,but as he starts to return to his horse skeletal hands begin to rise up through the ground and trip him and try to grab the book.He gets away and returns to the castle. He tells everyone that everything is alright,he has the book and now it's time he got returned to his own time.By now the people have thought he would stick around to fight the deadites and they are very disappointed.In the meantime the deadites have risen up from their graves and are marching on the castle.When a girl who had become infatuated with Ash is possessed by the deadites,he vows to stay and fight.It is a pitched battle but in the end good wins the day over evil and Ash is finally returned to his own time. In the finale we find Ash back at work as he is explaining his exploits to some disbelieving fellow employees.Suddenly a deadite appears and Ash is forced to take action,as he grabs his weapon of choice,a boomstick(a shotgun to you Evil Dead noobs),and blasts the thing back to where it came.The film ends as Ash has a lovely lass bent over,ready for a kiss,as he utters the immortal words"Hail to the King,baby". So ends the Evil Dead trilogy that really made a star out of Bruce Campbell;and rightfully so.Campbell has got to be the hardest B picture character actor in the business,along with being a very prudent and smart business man.He has written books,along with his movie work and has also directed.A man of many talents our Bruce is,and it shows that you don't have to be a Hollywood suck up to make it in films.We need more Campbells out there. Technically speaking the print here is beautiful and is shown in its original a/r of 1:85:1.Extras include a featurette on the S/Fx and the alternate ending to the film. All in all a recommended picture.This is the last of the Evil Dead series and shows Bruce Campbell off in his element as Ash.It is not GREAT film per se',but just a fun,fun romp in the horror genre that will have you laughing as much as jumping scared.

Capricorn One(1978) Capricorn One(1978) is a suspense-thriller directed by Peter Hyams(Outland, 2010, End of Days, The Musketeer). The film satirizes the cynicism and feelings of paranoia during the 1970's. There are conspiracy theories that the Moon Landing in 1969 never really happened. That was spoofed in the James Bond movie Diamonds are Forever(1971) as a visual gag. Three astronauts(James Brolin, O.J. Simpson, and Sam Waterston) are forced by the US Government to participate in a phony mission to Mars filmed on a soundstage. When the astronauts are ordered to be killed off, they escape from a soundstage in the desert and they try to inform the public about the conspiracy. A reporter played by Elliot Gould and a crop duster played by Telly Savalas try to help the astronauts. Capricorn One suffers from a far fetched plot, but it is entertaining. There are some well-crafted action scenes and a superb music score by Jerry Goldsmith. Stock music from this film was used in the kung fu film Blind Fist of Bruce(1981). Director Peter Hyams may have been a fan of Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick. There are scenes that echo The Lady Vanishes, North by Northwest, Family Plot, and Dr. Strangelove. The Lionsgate DVD has a commentary track from director Peter Hyams. He claims women at the 1978 screening screamed during the POV shot of Elliot Gould losing control of his car! I guess the film is more intense on a giant movie theater screen. The gas station in the desert was a set built by the producers. The 2008 DVD version of Capricorn One is blessed with a clean, digitally restored and remastered print. Capricorn One(1978) is a fun, suspenseful, solid film.

Not bad for a Zombie flick Let's face it, Zombie fans love Zombie flicks regardless of rating. We'll watch until the end, even if its completely awful, simply because we're fans. "Land of The Dead" rates in at a 4 from my perspective simply because it had the gore, the A$$ kicking, the effects, and a couple unseen/unheard ideas.   Zombies can't swim, but bodies of water wont stop them because they'll just walk through it. (Personally I always thought they would just kinda float)Taking the Zombie intelligence level up a few notches as part of the continuing sequel was a nice touch. Mindless freakbag zombies, (Although enjoyable) can only be so enjoyable when you repeatidly watch a similar group of survivors, holding-up in a similar style fortress, with similar issues and similar results. The addition of brainpower to the brain cravers opened new possibilities for the story line and actually created characters out of the zombies. Not only thinking but showing emotions such as sympathy, frustration and anger. True, the cult classics of yesteryear will most likely never be topped, but we as fans, can keep our eyes peeled and glued for dozens of runner-ups.

(3.5 STARS) Beautiful and Enjoyable In his long career as director that spans more than 40 years, John Boorman has made films that are not many in number, but cover a wide variety of topics. Just watch the list of his films and you know what I mean - "Point Blank" "Deliverance" "Excalibur" "The General" and ... well ..."Exorcist II: The Heretic." And don't forget the 1974 sci-fi cult film "Zardoz" starring Sean Connery and Charlotte Rampling. "The Emerald Forest" is probably one of his better works, if not his best. The film's message about the vanishing rainforest is still resonant, though it is undermined by the uneven narrative.  The storyline itself is simple. Tommy, a young son of an American dam engineer Bill Markham (Powers Booth), is abducted by a rainforest tribe in Brazil. While Bill tries to find the clues as to the whereabouts of the tribe (known as the "Invisible People"), ten years pass by, turning the missing son into a warrior - now Tomme (played by Charlie Boorman) - fighting to protect his love and land.  Visuals of the rain forests are gorgeous, capturing the charms and dangers of the place. Also, the film's actions (including gun fights) are not bad. Strong acting from Charlie Boorman (director's son) is also memorable, but characters' conflicting emotions are not fully explored, often overshadowed by the struggles and battles between two opposing forces. (Strangely, the boy's mother played by Meg Foster has little to do in the story.) The director seems more interested in the adventures of the two males than in the father-and-son relationship, where the film originally started.  The end result is not bad, though. This is a very entertaining film with an important message, although the message itself is a bit too obvious for viewers.

A solid 90s era flick that still holds up. The Crow is based on a graphic novel (comic book).  While it is not the first movie to be based on a this medium, it is one of the first movies to take this material seriously and present it darkly.  The Crow is graphic, violent, and presents its story in a dark gothic atmosphere.  The film also has a good soundtrack (rock genre).  There are moments of silliness in the movie and the plot has some holes, but the movie, as a whole, is entertaining and very watchable.  The Crow is not perfect, but its a good flick in a time where movies like it were few and far between.  The crow is a trail blazer for films like Sin City, Hell boy, Blade, and Watchman.  Its a good little flick and a must have addition to any comic fans film collection.

Ice Age Christmas The dvd is for children. My grandkids liked it. It was very short. It is only worth six bucks. It is a watch it once video

Great for a quick hard core workout! This is perfect for me to use on days when I don't have 45 minutes to devote to a workout. although it's only 24 minutes, it's very intense. You will be tired afterwards.

A Silver Screen Cinderella story I purchased this movie on DVD because the synopsis sounded like something I would enjoy. After watching it I have to say that I really enjoyed this movie. It was light and airy and well casted. June Allyson was adorable, Robert Walker was charming and Hedy Lamarr was lovley. I really loved this movie and would recommend it to anyone who just enjoys a good fairy tale movie every now and again!

Throughly Enjoyable! This movie is entertaining, fun to watch, interesting and engaging.  The special effects are outstanding.  The numerous monsters and creatures really seem alive and present in the scenes.  There are fabulous scenes of  temples, moving mazes, and lots and lots of creatures.  The black Pegasus is back, better than ever.  (there is one marvelous scene, where an annoyed Pegasus smacks Perseus with his wing)  There is action and excitement and heroics.  The movie does not suffer from the darkness that "Clash of the Titans" had, which made many scenes hard to make out.  What it does have in common with the first movie, is the choice of colors. Really,  if you are going to film in color, how about you use, well,  some COLORS!  The entire movie is filmed in sepia tints, with only the blue sky and sea to break up the browns, rusts, sands, beiges, and blacks.  Still for all of that, the movie is well worth watching and buying.  Spoiler Alert----Just so you know, I am going to mention specifics of the movie, what I liked and didn't, and what I thought, so if you don't like to read that kind of thing, stop here.  The movie begins in the twilight of the gods of Olympus.  Apparently following several years after the first film, "Clash of the Titans",  the human race has continued to lose faith in the gods and to turn from worshipping them.  The gods have depended for so long on the strength given them by the faith of humans that they are all losing their powers.  The most immediate threat caused by this is that the barriers between earth and Tartarus are breaking down.  All the demons and monsters imprisoned there are escaping to rampage in the human world.  And if Kronos, the monstrous father of the elder gods, (Zeus, Hades and Poseidon) should escape, all of creation will be destroyed.  Zeus, Poseidon and Aries go to Hades realm to confront Kronos, only to be met with treachery and death.  Zeus is captured and Poseidon mortally wounded. The other, younger gods (Apollo, Aphrodite, etc.) are all conspicuous by their absence.  This is one of the places were I wished the movie had been longer and with more detail.  Hades delivers a one line explanation that, like him, the other gods will live if they support Kronos.  This really doesn't hang together.  All the younger gods, and numerous demi-gods, all decided to run and hide, and trust their fates to Kronos?  Doesn't really track.  And if they did, wouldn't Zeus and Poseidon have noticed something wrong?  Are the younger gods already dead, or so weak that they cannot offer any support?  Nothing about them is really mentioned.  In fact, why did Zeus travel to Tartarus with so little backup?  Sure, Poseidon and Zeus are the most powerful of the gods, and maybe this is a case of hubris on their part.  And a fatal error, as they do not suspect treachery of Hades and Aries, and underestimate how much their powers have been weakened.  The gods seem terribly human here.  I found the scenes between Zeus and Hades very touching.  There is guilt and forgiveness on both sides.  Hades' greatest fear is very telling: humans have immortal souls, that pass on after the death of their mortal bodies---but what about the gods?  Do they have souls as well, that will continue, or do they simply fade into oblivion if they should die?  A truly human fear, and an interesting thought.  Humans have their many religions and faiths to turn to in times of trial---but what of the gods?  If you are a god, and your power fails you, where do you turn for succor, if you believe in nothing greater than yourself?  And the god Aries?  His weaknesses are truly human.  How sad it is that Aries, powerful, immortal god of war, is jealous of his half brother, Perseus.  Perseus, who has no godly power, who is not immortal, who lives in a hut and works as a poor fisherman, lucky if he has enough to eat day to day?  You would think that Perseus would be beneath Aries' notice, but Aries is jealous because he thinks that Zeus loves Perseus more than Aries himself.  And he has allowed his bitterness to fester into unreasoning hatred. He is so fixated on hurting both Zeus and Perseus that he does not care about anything else.  And so he makes a devil's bargain with Kronos.  Supposedly Kronos has promised Hades and Aries their immortal lives, if they free him.  Both ally themselves with Kronos out of their weaknesses: Hades out of his fear of perishing forever,  Aries out of his hatred and jealousy.  And neither one of them are using their heads----when Kronos is free, why should he keep his bargains with anyone? Zeus tries to warn the pair, to no avail.  Poseidon lives long enough to give warning to Perseus,  setting off the action for the rest of the story.  Interestingly enough, he sends Perseus to find his own half human son.  The two demi-gods ally themselves and set off to rescue Zeus and stop Kronos. There are some great scenes between them, although I would have liked to see more.  The passing of the gods is very well done---they crumble to ash, leaving nothing behind.  Liam Neeson does a wonderful job as the god Zeus, making the character regal, godly, but loving and human as well.  I am very pleased that Mr. Neeson has finally been getting the appreciation from the public that he deserves.  He appears in more movies, in better roles and with far better acting than half the so called "super-stars" of today combined.  Neeson makes the character of Zeus seem alive, both noble and human, with faults and strengths. In Greek and  Roman mythology, none of the gods were particularly noble or admirable characters, much less people who's passing you would mourn. But Liam Neeson gives Zeus all those qualities.  He has some short but truly fine scenes with Hades,  where both of the brothers ask for, and grant, forgiveness to each other.  Hades seems far less the monster than he was in the last movie. Hades realizes that he has been controlled by his fear, and has a "What have I done?!" moment.  Faced with their final ends, both gods forgive their offences against each other, and remember their loving bonds as brothers.  I loved the scenes where both godly brothers go to war against Kronos to save the world and the human race, even though they both know the probable consequence for that action. Between them, and Perseus, Kronos is destroyed and earth is saved.  Zeus is killed, living only long enough to give a loving farewell to Perseus.  I really objected to this part of the story, although it is very dramatic.  I really thought that Hades should have been killed,  and Zeus should have survived to rebuild Olympus.  Although perhaps this was really a better punishment for Hades, as his godly powers are now mostly gone, and he may have only a short time to live.  He must face his worst fear, all alone.  I, for one, do not believe that the gods had no souls.  No beings capable of such depths of feeling, of such great deeds, of such great hopes, could be bereft of immortal souls.  So rest in peace Zeus. And Poseidon, and yes, Hades as well.  You all did well.  And they left the race of man behind them. Just as flawed, but just as capable of  greatness.  And perhaps we are better for it, because our accomplishments take so much more effort.  In a way, the ending of this movie reminded me slightly of the end of the story "The Lord of the Rings".  The end of both stories see the beginning of the reign of man, and the end of all things of magic.  With the gods gone,  we have to assume that all the wonders (like Pegasus) and terrors (monsters, demons) will slowly fade away, leaving man in sole possession of the world. The torch is passed, from Zeus to Perseus, to his son, Helios.  The gods have gone, but left the half-gods, like Perseus, behind.  And they are more human than not.  This movie was fun, a good watching experience.  I would recommend it.

A feel good movie This is one of my wife's favorites. She loves movies about mentally-challenged people.  She thinks they are cute. She has 2 others that she loves as well: What's Eating Gilbert Grape & The Other Sister.  I enjoy them because I enjoy her reaction to them. Good times!

Nightmare Before Christmas Tim Burton has created a masterpiece with this.  Adults and children can sit and watch this together and enjoy themselves.  This movie is exceptional!  We've watched it many times and each time I pick up something that I missed before.

Fun entertaining movie This movie was a fun action flick - nothing too deep or serious but I wouldn't expect that from a movie called Cowboys and Aliens. Just good fun!

Quality Singing, Meager Staging I just saw the LA Opera's production of this rare Verdi opera starring Placido Domingo and while the LA Opera's production design and costumes are far superior to this 80's La Scala production, the voices in this video are far superior. Renato Bruson does great early-Verdi. I have La Scala's production of Nabucco with him and he never disappoints.  The production design on this stage is very sparse and makes it hard to get into this already obscure opera, but if you love Verdi and the challenges he gives his sopranos as well as the seamless way in which he goes from a duetto to a terzetto to a quartet, this production demonstrates it effortlessly. Bruson definitely steals the show in the finale.  To his credit, Placido does the same in the LA Opera's production but he definitely tires faster in his old age. His theatricality, however, is matchless! One hopes they have a DVD of the production for the sake of the costumes and production design. The soprano and tenor, however, leave much to be desired. Alas! A great age of operatic voices has ended.

Movie GREAT - AMAZon Streaming - TERRIBLE Would have loved the movie a whole lot more if the streaming was better.  Sound was off from picture and the dubbing was terrible.  I tried everything to get it working at an acceptable rate.  Amazon really needs to work on this or leave it to Netflix as they always did a good job on my computer.

Let Me In Review This movie was a very "dark" take on a really interesting story. Sure, the kids wrap you around their fingers so to speak. Owen...OMG - LOVE HIM!! His story will melt your heart!! Abby, on the other hand...for being what she is,...is really a hero. Talk about mental turmoil. My best part about this movie?...(quite unexpected from my end mind you)...was when the Blue Oyster Cult "I'm Burning" song came on. I kinda freaked myself a bit, because, as gruesome as the scene was,...like a silly, I was completely wrapped up by the impeccable song choice - JAMMING!!...PERFECT song, perfect movie to match it to...I am glad that I saw this movie. It was very touching & meaningful in a very dark way...leaves something left on your "palate" when trying to figure out how far back this story REALLY began, or, how much further this story really will live on. I'd say - watch it.

Pretty good I did enjoy this movie, I guess I thought the premise of underground stuff was a bit funny, and that they could solve the problem, but it kept my interest.

Blu-ray:  Enjoyable from beginning to end. From filmmaker Salim Akil (known for directing TV episodes for "The Game" and "Girlfriends") comes the film "Jumping the Broom" written by Elizabeth Hunter (writer for episodes of "ER" and "The Fighting Temptations") and Arlene Gibbs (producer of "Traitor").  The film is based on a cultural tradition used in other countries but also was used for American-Americans during a time when slaves were not allowed to have official marriages and so, to practice the union of a couple, in their own unofficial wedding ceremonies, the couple would jump a broom and the broom would be passed down from generation to generation.  The film was released in theaters on Mother's Day 2011 and the film which was budgeted at $7 million, earned over $37 million in the box office and now the Blu-ray and DVD release will be available courtesy of Sony Pictures and Home Entertainment on Aug. 2, 2011.  VIDEO:  "Jumping the Moon" looks absolutely gorgeous on Blu-ray.  Presented in 1080p High-Definition (1:78:1), Anastas Michos does a wonderful job of capturing the beauty around Martha's vineyard with its blue skies and earth tones.  Also, good planning for costume design to focus on white clothing, tans and dark blues as the colors do look beautiful against the serene and gorgeous environment.  Outdoor scenes are vibrant, but also during indoor scenes, skin tones are natural, black levels are nice and deep and for the most part, I detected no problems with picture quality. This is a gorgeous film and it really increased my appreciation for the film because of its presentation and beauty.  AUDIO & SUBTITLES:  "Jumping the Broom" is presented in English and French 5.1 DTS-HD MA, English-Audio Description Track 5.1 Dolby Digital.  The lossless audio features crystal clear dialog as well as music.  While, surround channels are mainly used for ambiance and music, its front and center-channel driven  is appropriate for this type of film.  Subtitles are in English SDH, Spanish and French.  SPECIAL FEATURES:  "Jumping the Broom" comes with the following special features:    Director and Cast Commentary - Featuring audio commentary by Director Salim Akil, actress Paula Patton and actor Laz Alonso.  Akil gives good in-depth information of various scenes and what he wanted to accomplish and more.   You're Invited: Behind-the-Scenes - (23:41) Behind-the-scenes of "Jumping the Broom".  Cast talk about various scenes and their characters.   Honoring the Tradition of Jumping the Broom - (8:47) The cast and crew talk about the tradition of "Jumping the Broom" and also asking the talent if they have ever witnessed one at a wedding before.  JUDGMENT CALL:  "Jumping the Broom" is a beautiful film with a good touch of drama and comedy but at the same time, there were other storylines that were incorporated to the overall film that were unnecessary.  First the good, I absolutely loved the cinematography by Anastas N. Michos ("Mona Lisa Smile", "Man on the Moon", "Untraceable").  From the costume design to how warm the colors were when the family were outdoors at Martha's Vineyard was well-done and in my opinion, helped enhance my enjoyment of the film.  As for the performances, as a fan of Angela Bassett including Loretta Devine, it was great to see these two women playing the very different mothers.  Bassett has played the stern but loving mother before and Loretta Devine has had this sassy character that she has played not just on film on television and it works on film.  Paula Patton was absolutely delightful onscreen.  She was able to deliver the naive but sensual character of Sabrina and also helped elevate Laz Alonso's role as Jason Taylor.  Another aspect that I absolutely enjoyed about the film was the "Jumping on the Broom", while not limited to African American culture, it was good to hear of how this tradition held by African-American families for generations has been integrated to the film.  As for the actual story, I did enjoy "Jumping the Broom" but it does have its fair share of problems.  The screenplay tries to integrate a few side storylines of varying characters for no apparent reason.  Storylines that felt as if they were thrown into the story because of the talent that were featured or to increase the duration of the film.  For example, we have DeRay Davis' character of Malcolm who plays the best man and cousin of the groom.  And somehow, they end up getting into a squabble at the wedding and sure, audiences will know the two have friction but the overall execution was not handled well.  There is no closure between the problems that Jason and Malcolm as things end up with one of them being slugged and somehow, that storyline is forgotten.  A few seconds of closure featuring an apology could have given closure.  Also, the storyline tries to incorporate a forced relationship scene between Sabrina's friend Blythe (played by Megan Good) and the Chef (played by CSI's Gary Dourdan).  The relationship has no purpose in the film and it felt as if the writer was trying to showcase several relationships happening outside of the main couple and their parents.  All it did was take away from the film and served no purpose.  And then there is Julie Bowen's ("Modern Family", "Ed", "Happy Gilmore") character of Amy, who is pretty much the assistant for Sabrina's mother and who appears as flustered as the family due to the multi-tasking before the wedding day. I guess in some way, it's an interesting juxtaposition of films with a white family have African-American servants, and to have the opposite with a an African-American family with a Caucasian servant.  Bowen does provide some laughs during the film but also some scenes seemed unnecessary as well.  So, the film does have its positives and some negatives.  And while a predictable film, it does have the banality of many wedding films that do have a happy ending.  And for a wedding film, I found "Jumping the Broom" to be an enjoyable film that shows that there is no perfection when it comes to families, rich or poor and that typically, when it comes to weddings, there has to be some compromise.  As for the Blu-ray release, the film is definitely gorgeous on Blu-ray and while the film is pretty much dialogue-driven (and some parts with music), I did enjoy listening to the commentary and also the special feature about the tradition of "Jumping the Broom".  Overall, if you are looking for a fun, wedding film with a good balance of comedy and drama, definitely give "Jumping the Broom" a try!

Some flaws, but convincing in the main Disclaimers: I receive nothing at all for this review. I have seen the movie twice in theaters but not the DVD.  This movie gives more time to "the roots of Obama's rage" in a psychological examination than is worth doing.  The conclusions do amount to a theory that explains what are otherwise odd and contradictory policies and procedures.  The movie explains Obama's anti-colonialist dislike of the United States that is convincing and is hard not to sympathize with.  More refutation of it would have been welcome.  Obama's brother George seems to be a smart man; I wanted to read his book after seeing his exchange with D'Souza.  The movie concludes that Obama is a dangerous person to have in the White House, and sells the conclusion well, despite some stylistic problems and emphasizing some things at the expense of others.  I hope all thoughtful Americans who will vote will see it, and those who disagree will compose some sound criticisms of it.

Great series, fair entry. I am a big fan of this series and a collector of movie trailers. I have all the volumes and some from other companies. This volume is pretty good, but my least favorite of all. 1 being my fav with 3 and 5 a close second and third.  This volume seems to focus more on action(non-kung fu) and just random movies. Not a great deal of horror or sleaze, which I watch for. Still worth owning, but I would get this one last.

Good DVD, Fair Film not the best of the bunch I watched a copy of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One" and found it a perfectly acceptible looking copy. There were a number of scenes I would have liked to see from the book which would have helped move the story along just as well as leaving them out. The film did not look as dark as some other reviewers have claimed. I watched it on a regular television with a standard DVD-VHS player. If you have not read the book you may find the film more than a little confusing, many changes were made in the screenplay that were not needed to put the story across; the special effects are as good as ever and the soundtrack is just as good as all the others in the series. Will probably get a copy of the DVD to add to my Potter DVD collection to have the full set, but do not feel that this is the best of the series of films. Cannot wait to see the eighth and last film. Though I suspect it will have many changes from the book too. One last comment I feel that the Dursleys and the actors that portray them got the short end of the stick in this film. After all they were with Harry in the beginning and should have had a little more screen time at the end than they did.

Awesome in 3D I won't bore anyone by rehashing the story line and instead review the actual 3D product.  Great product.  They threw several opportunities to really show off the 3D by having images float off the screen or point out at you.  The rest of the time the 3D is really just for adding depth to the scenes which is not a bad thing at all.

If a star is nuts enough to do crazy stunts. If a star is nuts enough to do crazy stunts. I could never be paid enough to do that. The movie is action from moment one. Never stops and let you rest.  The plot has many twists and turns that are good enough to keep you watching.  I am sure there will be another one in a year or two. Everyone involved did a great job.

Mulhulland Falls Great little mystery from the past.  It was dated, but alot of fun to watch Melanie Griffith and Nick Nolte again.  Do not get confused with Mulholland Drive which is awful (very dark).

"All my life ever since I was a little girl I've always had the same dream: to marry a zillionaire." HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE was the first-ever Cinemascope/stereo sound comedy, and the first such extravaganza on broadcast TV. In 1961, "Milionaire" was the premiere film on NBC's brand new "Saturday Night at the Movies" series.  In this amalgam of two Broadway shows, "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000R9COGM">The Greeks Had a Word For Them</a>" and "Loco," the trio of Bacall, Grable and Monroe portray golddigging gals who aggressively target wealthy men. At the end, they all wed guys as poor as they are, or so it seems.  It's frothy '50s stuff that's hampered at times by the censorship of that era. Example: Monroe must say "Men aren't attentive to girls who wear glasses" instead of "don't make passes at." There's still room for some zingers, such as Bacall's old age barb aimed right at husband Humphrey Bogart: "Look at Roosevelt, look at Churchill, look at old fella whats-his-name in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002TOL4QO">THE AFRICAN QUEEN</a>.  Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 imdb viewer poll rating.  (6.9) How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) - Lauren Bacall/Betty Grable/Marilyn Monroe/David Wayne/Rory Calhoun/Cameron Mitchell/Fred Clark/Wiliam Powell (uncredited: Merry Anders/Percy Helton/Philip Van Zandt)

Still a blast after 20 years! This is a horror movie but it is not scary in the least. What it is, is a campy, goofy gore-fest that doesnt for one moment take itself seriously. Even after all these years the "lawnmower scene" is still one of the most over-the-top bloodbath's ever captured on film. Its revolting and repulsive but above all else its simply a good time. Pop some popcorn, kick back, relax and enjoy the mayhem of this cult classic.

Jump in! Hitchcock did no favours for Tallulah Bankhead by giving "Lifeboat" one of the least appealing titles of all of his films (alternatively, think of the built-in audience appeal for such words as "Notorious" or "Spellbound" or "Psycho"). But don't be fooled. This film, and Tallulah Bankhead's performance in it, packs a whallop.  "Lifeboat" offers no simple treatment of Hitchcock's beloved theme "the evil that lives among us" (explored most brilliantly in "Shadow of a Doubt"). Instead, it offers his most unflinching, direct look at evil's social agenda. The film presents a variety of ordinary Joes and Janes (think Capra meets Hitchcock in this regard) each with their own inexperienced take on what to do. There are no predictable solutions (such as an end to evil by the death of an antagonist), nor is evil even easily recognizable.  "Lifeboat" progresses ominously from a simple scenario of the survival of the individual to a multi-faceted revelation of the threatened survival of society itself. Clever of Hitchcock indeed, but it is Tallullah that keeps your eyes glued to the screen, waiting for her next sharply insightful comment.  Unlike Katherine Hepburn, Tallulah never overplays her cards, and she carries this film effortlessly.  She may gradually be stripped of all the fine things she treasures (Hitchcock always strives to make his protagonists vulnerable), but Tallulah never loses her core values.  At the end, it is Tallulah's embodiment of the spirit of survival that the audience identifies with, and makes "Lifeboat" a complex and satisfying mature movie experience.

Josephine Baker - The Icon, An Inspiration I am a huge fan of Jospehine Baker, and as I am reading many of the reviews written about her acting (not only on this website) I feel compelled to give my views on her performance as well. Josephine Baker is enchanting; there's no question why she was such a star in her day. Her light shines so brightly, even a full century after her birth. Josephine was so free: in her dancing, in her singing, in the way she lived her life. She danced as if nobody was watching her, and for the opportunity to actually have footage of her for my generation is amazing.    Now on to her performance. When others review Josephine's transition from vaudeville to big screen, she is often criticized. It's obvious that Josephine Baker wasn't a trained actress. But what I love about her performance, particularly in this film, is that she was genuine. You get an essence of who Josephine Baker was, even 67 years after she is long gone and has appeared in "Zou Zou". She was smiling, singing, living, and loving. She never got the man in any of her films, even if she did escape racist America for a more liberated France. In a time where it was an insult for a black woman to be depicted as beautiful, Josephine stood proudly and shaked what her mama gave her - bananas and all!    I love this film for that reason alone, for the opportunity to see Josephine live and in person in her prime. She had a lovely voice, and I didn't see how her acting was "over the top" as others say. In the scene at the end of the movie where she is walking down the street and begins running and crying after seeing her "brother" kiss her white lady friend, I could feel the despair that plagued Josephine's inner self; her pain of being a black woman during a time where she would who never get the man, no matter how beautiful she was. Her performance was genuine. I also appreciate the subtitles option for this DVD. I'm not fluent in French, but truly the words were all I needed mixed with her performance to follow what was going on. I recommend this to all true Josephine Baker fans, I feel it is the best depiction of Josephine Baker that we will get these days.

Fun A throwback to the days of movie house serial and cliffhangers, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is just plain fun. Wonderfully visualized in an "All Green Screen alternate world of giant flying robots, WWII era fighter planes that drive into the sea to become submarines, flying aircraft carriers, near super heroes (and heroines) and evil geniuses... It makes you wish it were true. Silly and beautiful to look at, the film never takes itself too seriously. Watch for a cameo by legendary (and deceased) Sir Laurence Olivier.

The humanity in the film that makes it worth watching Judge Franck Tabouring, DVD Verdict--Riding a hog cross-country sure seems like an adventurous blast, but for the many bikers taking their beloved machines all across the United States in Collin Gates' documentary Road to Thunder, it means so much more than that. The film follows twelve veterans as they guide their motorcycles from Sacramento, California, to Washington, D.C., for the annual Rolling Thunder event, at which they get the chance to connect with thousands of passionate bikers and show their support of POWs and MIAs.  Road to Thunder is a sincere little documentary that gives proud veterans a voice and lets them share their love for both their country and the cause they are supporting by embarking on this extensive journey. Interviews not only focus on the former soldiers' experiences in war, but they also provide a deeper insight into who these people are now and what it is about riding a motorcycle across their country that fills their life with an unsurpassable rush of adrenaline and pride.  Road to Thunder only runs for an hour, but that's plenty of time to establish the central riders and follow them as they cruise from state to state all while battling bad weather, running into technical problems, witnessing unfortunate accidents and meeting fellow Americans rooting for their courage and their cause. Think of this documentary as a different kind of road trip movie; the kind that revolves around a group of patriots celebrating their country.  Even though a feeling of patriotism certainly dominates Road to Thunder, it's the humanity in the film that makes it worth watching. Watching the bikers ride is fun, yes, but hearing them speak and share their stories and thoughts adds a warm layer that easily appeals to everyone who may have had similar experiences. It even got through to me, and I've never been involved with military or a war. The people director Collin Gates focused on definitely help drive the story. Full review at dvdverdict.com

Minimalist Review: Director Jason Reitman's answer to never letting go of high school. Director Jason Reitman's previous pairing with screenwriter Diablo Cody on the film <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0019I6WDG">Juno</a> set the funny bar too high for this film to clear, but Cody's dramatic dialogue and Reitman's use of dry comedic delivery still punctuated this "my life is going nowhere" drama with leavening humor. It's not meant to be as funny and playful at Juno, so knowing that allows an audience to better appreciate what the film was meant to offer: plenty of us try to look at our lives through the prism of how we are doing now compared to who we dreamed we might be when we were younger. Some of us never let go of how others saw us in High School, and some of us go to great lengths to escape ever thinking of those hellish four years ever again.  But what if someone never let go of being the IT girl in school? What if she began to rewrite reality to fit still being that IT girl years later? In that role Theron made believable what might have been out of reach for many other actresses: truly living in the dream world of the high school party days never ending, and the boy she loved is just a heartbeat away from leaving his child and happy marriage if that's what she asks.  It's a film to help adults let go of the past, and empowers "Young Adults" to see that there is life after high school, and taking High School with you is more of a burden then a benefit.

Hilariously awful. Sharktopus is not a quality film. It is not believable nor surprising nor impressive in any way, except it's exceptional mediocrity. It is everything you would expect from a movie about a half shark-half octupus military experiment gone awry on bikini babes and tourists. Of course, the Sharktopus would be field tested too soon. Of course, the overbearing military officer in charge would insist on testing it beyond expectations. Of course, the power-mad scientist in charge of the project would seek to preserve his creation despite the lives placed at risk. Of course, the eight-tentacled Great White will go around slaying tourists and bikin babes and the special forces operatives sent to kill it.  The only important question: Is Sharktopus so bad that it crosses the threshold into humor? YES. Every element of this movie is mediocre. The acting, the script, the cinematography, the perverse and willful ignorance of basic science used to explain Sharktopus' behavior, even the bikini babes are mediocre. Yet, as Sharktopus swims up the far too shallow river, climbs out onto dry land, and begins spearing tourists from the rooftops in the most absurd grand finale possible, you will laugh at the sublime mediocrity that is this awful movie.

What's so funny about Peace, Love and Misunderstanding? The hippies might be the only generation in history that embarrassed both their parents AND their children. It is the latter relationship that comes into play in "Peace, Love, and Misunderstanding", a predictable but enjoyable romp that might liberate everyone's Inner Freak. After 20 years of separation, Diane (Catherine Keener), a cold, strait-laced New York City lawyer who is abruptly divorced by her husband, reunites with her mother Grace (Jane Fonda) the ultimate, Woodstock, '60's, pot-smoking, tie-dye wearing free spirit. Diane also brings along her two teenage children, Zoë (an impressive Elisabeth Olson) and Jake who both think Granny is pretty cool. The relationships they all build forms the plot line framed by the nostalgia for Woodstock Nation. Like the earlier "Wanderlust", this film posits that as annoying, reckless and self-absorbed as they were, the hippies might have been on to something. They wanted to create a colorful, free, happy world as opposed to the vacant sterility of the mainstream culture and as Elvis Costello once questioned, what's so funny about peace, love and understanding?

Are You Being Served? I was really expecting to received a DVD when I ordered this, but instead it was a "On Demand" item.  I was very disappointed in myself for clicking on the "order" button.  I had no idea that it was to have it downloaded onto my computer.  I guess I've learned my lesson on this one.  I really loved the gang from ARE YOU BEING SERVED? and enjoy them every time I can from the tv.  It was a nice movie, but I'd opt for a DVD instead of On Demand.

Much more than the title suggest You may think this movie is just about the one case where the woman was burned by McDonalds coffee. But there are many issues regarding litagation in America that are addressed. Interesting ideas that most people will be surprised to learn.

Love it or Hate it I think it depends on how people see human nature. Personally I loved this horror movie 20 minutes on because the truly frightening aspect of it wasn't so much the mostly shrouded monsters, but more so how people act in dire circumstances. If I were in that situation with my neighbors and townsfolk and they all as Tom Jane said "have all their electricity turned off and the s*** scared out of them, they're willing to believe anything". It's a very bleak and unflinching look at humanity, but look at Nazi Germany, look at the Donnor Party, look at the Salem Witch Trials for a few examples if you think that people would act like a rational team in horrible circumstances. Just thank the stars most of us haven't had to be in that situation.  The monsters themselves were unique and original, and they kind of reminded me of Silent Hill 1, with very insect/dinosaur shapes. They did look a little cheesy which I think was Darabount's way to tribute to the 50's monster movies. Still their corny look was played completely sober and all of the deaths looked very gruesome and painful.  Maybe the reason I liked the Mist so much was because of how dark and bleak the whole experience was, a man dies in vain trying to save his DoA burned brother, a local town brutally murders a local soldier, and of course there's the pitch-black ending. There were no hollywood touches on this, no silly comic relief, the cute widdle kid was pretty much comatose with fear the whole time (which is a way more realistic portrayl of kids in horror movies than I usually see). It's very refreshing to see a horror movie pull no punches.

Faithful enough to my years old memory of the book Let's face it, the "Rum Diary" film is no more likely to have mass appeal than the novel version.  The acting and ambiance were spot on. Depp and associates really "get" Thompson and I quite enjoyed it. My wife fell asleep half way through...

Classic This movie is a heck of a lot better than its sequel, 'Queen of the Damned', but from what I understand, this is because Anne Rice had a bigger voice in the first film and how it was done. While this film is not the exact same as the book - some things have been cut out and a few things have been tweaked - this film is a fairly satisfactory retelling of the book.  Of course, you should definitely read the book - it is one of Ms. Rice's best - but the movie does provide some quite nice visuals in some scenes, such as when Claudia is luring in a victim by playing the poor lost frightened girl, or Lestat dancing around with the corpse of Claudia's mother. In the book, Claudia is 5, but they had to go with a older actress for this film, but I can't complain since she did a good job.  Bottom line - if you enjoyed the book, then the movie should be a treat for you.

Its a good remake. Not too much to say. This was based on Richard Matheson's Short Story "Button, Button". The short story was also adapted to the 1980s "Twilight Zone" short episode starring Mare Winningham of the same name: "Button, Button"  The movie's late 1960s setting hearkens to the largest representation of Matheson's work on the screen, Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone". Cameron Diaz's, James Marsden's acting are fine. Worth a watch. Frank Langella as the tenebrous antagonist, on the other hand, delivers a great performance. The special effects aren't terribly shocking, but they aren't too overdone either. This isn't Batman after all.  The movie isn't a horror movie. It is science fiction...kinda. It lacks a clear pigeonhole to fit into. The events surrounding the story are not true, not based on science, so I guess it could be classified as fantasy. The movie manages to exude a creepy aura that gives you a "clanging" kind of scary movie. Something like "1408", but less dramatic.  So, this movie isn't the height of science fiction or movies in general.  I would say, however watch it once. Its well done. Given what I know now, after watching it, I don't want those two hours of my life back.  Good Movie. 8.2/10

Had a scare it would not make it before Christmas I was a little scared it would not arrive on time but it made it on the 23rd so all was good at my house. I had looked for this at several stores and could not find it but yeah for Amazon, as always what ever I need it is here. Thank you...........

Traditions I like movies involving families that follow the lead so to speak like famililies of firemen, my favorite, or families of good cops. I don't really like cops so much personally but you never know when you might need to call them. I also like Godfather type movies as long as there is a loving family history.

Interesting Film from Hospice Volunteers Interesting compilation of the experiences of hospice workers who come from all faiths (or lack thereof) and walks of life. Perhaps the pacing is a bit slow, though this may be intentional. This is not about what happens after death, or the mechanics of death. Instead it is an insight to the culture of dying in the United States and the end of life process for those in hospice. Thought provoking, unique and well rounded this film is a great addition to end-of-life documentaries.

undead Nazi soldiers march again in Dead Snow... A group of medical students on holiday encounter undead Nazi soldiers on a mission to kill, in Dead Snow (2009), a nicely paced and well executed horror/comedy, set in the snowy Norwegian wilderness.  The term "zombie" probably isn't appropriate, as unlike traditional zombies the soldiers appear to be organized, follow orders, use weapons, do not kill primarily for food, and are also motivated by greed.  Directed by Tommy Wirkola, this Norwegian production is dubbed in English, and features a classic situation, where a co-ed group runs into trouble while lodged at an isolated cabin somewhere deep in the woods.  A strange man (Bjorn Sundquist) appears at the cabin, and tells them that during World War II, the area was occupied by members of an elite SS unit under the command of an officer named Herzog (Orjan Gamst), who abused the people and stole their valuables.  When the tide turned against Germany, the people fought back and drove the soldiers into the mountains, where they presumably perished.  With background information revealed, the undead Nazis soon begin to appear, and chaos and mayhem quickly follows.  Some quirky factors contribute to making Dead Snow a fun and interesting watch.  These include the snowy setting, ruthless undead Nazis, and some creative action scenes and unique kills.  The gore includes dismemberments, chainsaw and axe kills, pulled out intestines, and zombies chopped down by machine gun fire from a snowmobile.  The film's black comedic undertone, often emerges during the action sequences.  Herzog is easily recognizable as the leader, and his SS storm troopers respond quickly to his commands.  The undead are strong, relentless, and display some intelligence, which makes things very tough for the survivors who ferociously battle them in the snow.  The film is well shot, with solid cinematography featuring some impressive snow covered landscapes.  The special effects are not overdone, and what is seen is generally very well done.  There are some nuances that are lost in the translation, but they are probably minor, as the story not that complicated.  While the cast is probably unfamiliar to American audiences, they do a fine job of communicating what was intended.  Although somewhat formulaic, Dead Snow still delivers a few surprises.  Featuring undead Nazis, ample gore, and impressive special effects, the movie is a very fun time, that provides a little different look for horror fans.  Tommy Wirkola is a director to keep an eye on, as his big budget film Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2012) is schedule to be released this year.

You will enjoy this one Great little romatic comedy.  You will enjoy this one.  The story line is good and the scenery is great.  My wife loved it!

x-men first class Good movie better than some of the other ones.Good cast I  thought it moved along & not draggy.A must see movie.

Very Good Very good production, finally, the stage version on DVD.  I missed the bride in the Lair, and also the Phantom descending the stairway in the Masquerade number; not sure why those scenes weren't used.  The pacing was a bit fast, but that's a personal preference, I guess.  Ms. Boggess and Mr. Karimloo are very good; but, I'll have to put in a plug for my favorite Christine - Rebecca Luker in the Broadway production in 1989-1990 era.  I've yet to hear a better voiced Christine.

Great Movie This is a great movie and I was having problems finding it on Blu ray locally. The only reason I give it 4 stars is that right after I purchased it from Amazon, Bestbuy got it in stock and is selling it for a couple dollars less.

Hitman movie not a bad flick. Hadn't heard about this movie when it originally came out. Bought a used version on Amazon. I was pleasantly surprised that it was a pretty good movie. Took me a while to recognize where I had seen the lead character before. His acting was quite robotic like, but he was acting to the character's upbringing as it was written. All in all the movie was worth watching.

BAGDAD CAFE CLASSIC FILM  CAN BE ENJOYED EVEN THOUGH IT'S BEEN SEEN BEFORE. GREAT CAST, UNIQUE STORY  HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR MOST VIEWERS TOO

Very good! Germany's history in the 20th century is becoming clearer every year with the likes of Goodbye Lenin (2003), Das Boot (1981), Stalingrad (1993), Downfall (2004) and Sophie Scholl (2005) being particular highlights I have enjoyed in world cinema. Austria film, The Counterfeiters, like many recent German films, is focussed on the period in and around the Second World War and there is no evasiveness about the past involving the atrocities committed by Hitler and the Nazis. The Counterfeiters promised to provide me with even more insight into German history and I was honoured to have the chance to learn more.  The film is based on a true story and focuses on Salomon "Sali" Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics), a Jewish counterfeiter from Russia living in Berlin in the 1930s and being an expert at producing fake money and passports. At the start of the film Sorowitsch is in Monte Carlo after the war and is enjoying the luxury of gambling and the attentions of a French woman who, on going back to his hotel room, is horrified at the sight of a number tattooed on his wrist. We're immediately taken back to 1936 where Sorowitsch's counterfeit dealings are ended when he is arrested by Friedrich Herzog (Devid Striesow) and begins a life of hard labour in prison. Sorowitsch is later transferred to a concentration camp but is given something of a reprieve from the malicious treatment inflicted on the Jewish communities when he, and a select group of men, are assigned to Operation Bernhard, a secret Nazi plot to flood the US and British markets with counterfeit money and destabilise the respective economies. Though adept at such a task, Sorowitsch finds his loyalties divided. On the one hand doing the Nazi's bidding will ensure his survival on the other his efforts will keep the war ongoing and aid Germany's cause. Sorowitsch is faced with a dilemma - continue with the counterfeiting operation or oppose the Germans.  I do enjoy films that depict individuals surviving the most extreme tests. The sight of Sorowitsch at the start of the film in his suit while he gambles is in stark contrast to his time in both prison and the concentration camps where he looks almost like another person. A great survivor, Sorowitsch first rids himself of hard labour by sketching one of the German officers before being highly sought by other officers and their families for portraits. All too seen he is relocated to begin work on Operation Bernhard in the Sachsenhausen Camp, supervised by Herzog, who previously arrested him in Berlin. Though initially successful in forging the English pound, Herzog demands the US dollar be counterfeited as well and this is where problems begin for Sorowitsch. Amongst the inmates is Adolf Burger (August Diehl), whose memoirs the film is based on. He is fiercely abhorrent to the Germans and deliberately sabotages the forging of money, preferring death over aiding Germany in the war. Initially focussed on survival, Sorowitsch comes to blows with Burger but over time he begins to look in the mirror and ask questions of himself.  Any film set in the concentration camps is going to be difficult viewing in places and the same is true of The Counterfeiters. In many respects Sorowitsch and the other inmates have a worse ordeal for Herzog has them living in relative comfort with good clothes, bunk bed and a plentiful supply of food, while elsewhere in the camp Jews are living in horrific conditions, something the privileged are all too aware of. Herzog is a strict but, at times, fair German officer whereas his colleagues have no regard for mercy and mistreat the so-called privileged prisoners. As unpleasant as some parts of the film were I never felt it was too much and certainly not enough to make me want to stop viewing. Executions, panic over being gassed in the showers and in one scene Sorowitsch being urinated on were the most painful for me. The pressure inflicted on the prisoners to counterfeit the money is another catalyst that leaves Sorowitsch divided in what to do for the best. As important as survival is, is it better to fight for freedom rather than help fund even more suffering? With Burger eager for rebellion, Sorowitsch has to decide quickly where his loyalties lie.  Karl Markovics is excellent in the lead role while Striesow and Diehl offer great support. In many ways the film is mostly about the trio of Sorowitsch, Burger and Herzog, which is a shame as I didn't really feel I got to know the other prisoners, save one struggling with TB. The only real disappointment with The Counterfeiters is its brevity. At just over 90 minutes a lot has to be crammed into a short space of time and I just felt if it had been extended to 2 hours there could have been further development of other characters and more time to dwell on Sorowitsch's dilemma.  The Counterfeiters won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2007 and I must say I have no complaints with that. It is a gritty and, at times, horrific depiction of the concentration camps and of a devious counterfeiting operation Germany hoped would turn the tide of the war in their favour. Though we know from the outset that Sorowitsch survived his ordeal, it is still fascinating hearing his remarkable story.

Much better than some of the reviewers here would have you believe, despite a few glaring flaws When I was about five or six years old, I remember seeing a movie that had a nuclear war, followed by acrid, red skies filled with radiation, giant bugs crawling across a desert wasteland, and a few survivors travelling across the wasteland in a huge armored vehicle.  Throughout the following years after my childhood and beyond, I still remembered this film, yet I could not for the life of me remember what the title was.  It wasn't until just last year in 2010, that I was surfing through some Youtube videos when I stumbled across one entitled "Damnation Alley."  I started watching and cried out, "Holy cow, this is the one I saw when I was a child and had been looking for all these years!"  I was so thrilled, and,  found it still as entertaining as it was back then.   The first half of film is absolutely superb.  I always thought "The Day After" was the first nuke film to ever show the actual exhange taking place.  Although I found the one in "The Day Afer" to be more intense, the exchange in this film is not that far behind and was done quite nicely. Then, after the war, it flashes to two years later where the entire planet has been devastated, and glowing, hideous, if not demonic, red skies now envelope the entire globe.  Seeing this, along with Jerry Goldsmith's riveting, haunting musical score, added a truly gripping feeling and I felt that this was one of the main highlights of "Damnation Alley."  Perhaps, though, the best scene in the entire film was how The Landmaster vehicle is finally unveiled.  Both Jan Michael Vincent and Paul Winfeld are sitting around, discussing a major disaster envolving fire that has just happened on the military complex that has pretty much become there seemingly permenant home.  Then, huge doors of one of the main buildings opens, and, as Jerry Goldsmith's haunting, yet somehow triumphant score strikes up again, we see the completed Landmaster making it's victoriously magnificent stride out.  This scene, I thought, was so wonderfully filmed.  The Landmaster was almost like a mechanical savior that was the one ticket out of trapped situation that all the men were in. (You really can't get too far on either horseback or foot when surrounded by desert scorched, nuclear wasted land.) A very superbly shot scene.   As the film continues on, we see the few adventurers leave the complex in The Landmaster vehicle and encounter giant scorpions and cockroaches infesting ruined cities as well as a few ragged survivors.  However, it's about at three-quarters of the way through the film that things start to get quite unbelievable, if not down and out hokey.  You think that Roland Emmerich has numerous scientific fallicies in his films?  Well, if you think so, then you haven't seen Damnation Alley.  It's explained in the movie that the reason why the skies are red and the weather has gone haywire is due to the fact that the Earth has been tilted on it's axis due to the nuclear war!  LOL!  That's like saying you can bring down Mount Everest with numerous firecrackers!  I don't care how many nukes you detonate. They would NEVER be able to knock the Earth off it's axis and if the Earth was even slightly off it's axis, we would all be dead.  Then, at the end of the film, they find a whole slew of survivors that are living in beautiful farmland, seemingly untouched by any radiation or damage!  What?  I thought it was an ALL OUT nuke war, not localized!   Well, anyway, despite these and a few other flaws and plot holes, this is still a very enjoyable movie and, quite frankly, I find the movie very symballic of today's world.  The greedy, crooked politicians, the bad economy, the kids killing and bullying other kids, could easily by symbolized by the rad-roaches and scorpions of the wasteland and the angry acrid skies could easily reflect the angry, hatefilled and immoral attitudes that sadly prevail in the world today.  In fact, everytime I leave my house, I feel like Jan Michael Vincent leaving in the Landmaster and venturing out to face the harsh wasteland of the world today.    All in all, though, this is a film that is definitely worth seeing.  Enjoy!

not as good as the first but good i think its funny that this movie is rated g. this is just proof how the rating system has changed over the years due to its violence.  There is quite a bit of it. It was interesting and it kept my attention. It definatly had a good story line to it. I liked it but to me none compaired to the first one. Im happy to have it in my movie collection though.

A father's love makes him fight for survival to protect his young son! This is a story about survival of a father and son after an apocalyptic end to most of the life on the earth.  The Old Man (Robert Duvall) is trying to find food, shelter, and safety for his young son (Kodi Smit-McPhee).  This is a dangerous and terrifying journey that requires fighting off thieves, murderers, and wandering groups of cannibals on almost a daily basis.  They can almost never relax and they must always be on guard for their lives.  This is a great story but the movie is not as good (for me) as listening to or reading the book.  The storyline is almost identical but since the world is virtually destroyed the movie is all grey and dreary.  I know that it is required to make the point that this is a major catastrophic event but it just seems so depressing that it seems to steal some of the storyline in the movie.  The acting is excellent and you can really sense the father's love for his son.  This is one of the cases where the storyline is identical to the book but the book to me was much better.  It is so descriptive that while reading it you felt as if you were there with them.  I still liked the movie and gave it 4 stars.  Had I not read the book first I might have given it 5 stars!

Slappy and the Stinkers Great family movie that the kids will enjoy.  Lots of slapstick comedy, cute kids and a sea lion...what more could the kids ask for?  Clean, wholesome family fun that is appropriate for all ages.

good workout, bit too much equip I consider myself at an intermediate-advanced level of fitness.  Another great workout from this instructor.  As usual, good cuing/tips without useless chit chat or annoying pep talk, great camera work, music ok, "backup dancers" non-annoying.  Ball cardio exercises suprisingly effective considering ball is not really heavy, it is just an effort in itself to hold such an awkwardly large object.  I used only free weights, ball, and step.  Substituted free weight exercises during band exercises (not a fan of the band.)  Step was not worth setting up and working around in limited space since it is not used very often or long.  Would have been better to skip the step and do more regular floor plyometrics.  Other than that, worked up a major sweat and got a decent sculpting and cardio workout.

Good Was an easy purchase and simple transaction. Only problem was digital code was not in package but was solved very soon with an email.

Pretty Good I'm not a fan of Tom, but this was a good action flix with humor. The best i've seen him do in awhile.

Nature: A Murder of Crows As a person raised in the country and in love with the outdoors, I always had a dislike for crows.  I never really understood why, it just was.  Maybe it had to do with the way they always seemed to rat me out when hunting. Having watched this documentary on crows changed both my wife and my attitude and appreciation for the crow.  It is amazing how a study like this can have such a profond effect on you.  We now admire the crow and we watch them in the wild whenever they around.  A fascinating creature of God, equally fascinating documentary.

New blu ray is good improvement but still issues Comparing this new director approved transfer to the old artizan special edition dvd it is a huge step up in sharpness and a lot of scratches and flecks have been removed. However there are some digital artifacts that appear in the first 10 minutes (in particular over arnold head and face when he is having breakfast at home) that are very distracting. Thankfully they do not last. They were not on the artizan transfer at all and neither are they as prevelant on the dvd that comes with this blu ray release (which seems odd because it is the SD version of the new director approved transfer). Anyhow the rest of the film looks good, there are still some soft shots and some smearing here and there but it looks way better. The great commentary from the artizan release has been brought across as well as a new interview with Verhoeven and some making of featurettes.  Dissappointing early scenes but well worth it overall.

Beyond Recall in Paris Right off the bat you need to know Gaspar Noe's controversial 'Irreversible' is not for everyone. If you're sensitive to graphic ultraviolence and rape, than look elsewhere. This one's not for you. If you're easily prone to depression then don't even think about it. Told in a non-linear narrative, the film tells the unnerving story of a viscous sex assault of a beautiful woman (Bellucci) by a sadistic pimp in a pedestrian underpass and the two men (Cassel, Dupontel) out to avenge the act. Noe does not shy away from using dizzying and swirling camera work that might get some people a little bit nauseous, but I think it adds to the intensity in a sick sorta way, especially during one notorious scene in an underground gay asylum in the bowels of Paris involving a fire extinguisher. The film also contains one of the longest and most brutal rape scenes ever put on film, and nobody can deny the gorgeous Bellucci was indeed brave for a realistic and heartbreaking performance that so many other actresses would never have even considered. When it premiered in France in May 2002, it is said audience reactions to both the rape and fire extinguisher scenes "have ranged from appreciation of their artistic merits to leaving the theater in disgust...". Take it for what it's worth and come up with your own conclusions of the morals of the plot, but don't expect your run-of-the-mill Hollywood junk. 'Irreversible' stands in a class of it's own.

KATELAND LIKE LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTER. The final chapter of the history of JONESTOWN. I watched, and read all the news about the final chapter of REV JIM JONES and the PEOPLES TEMPLE. I classified it as a mass suicide, rather than a massacre. Everything began to turn go wrong when Congressman Ryan and his followers arrived in GUYANA to investigate the rumours they had been hearing that all was not well at the Peoples Temple. While they were there, everything seemed just fine. There were smiles on all the residents faces, everyone looked very happy and contented. And the Congressman was about to leave convinced that these rumours they had bee hearing were not true at all. But alas, someone passesd a note to one of his entourage that they wanted out. Then more said they wanted to leave that place, then began chaos at the people temple, followed by shootings at the air strip. When it was discoverd of the mass suicide and 900 decaying corpses bakeing in the hot sun of the GUYANA JUNGLE. It was thought that many had run into the jungle and were all hideing in there. They even used loudspeakers to call all the people out, and telling them they were safe now, to please come out. But there were only just six people who fled into the jungle, all the rest of the people were dead. I listened to one JONESTOWN survivor tell as he said he left his little son there in the care of REV JIM JONES but wanted to get out himself. To make that kind of decision he must have thought his son was going to be well cared for. Rev Jones must have had extraordinary power over people. these kind of people are born with this power, and everyone becomes just putty in their hands. A very good documentary that shows you how they worked and built a beautiful village for themselves from the jungle. They grew there own food and they prosperd. Then a sudden turn of events caused Jim Jones to open a vat of poison, and every MAN, WOMAN, and CHILD that was there, includeing Jim Jones was deceased.

Great way to calm a Baby I do recommend this product to new parents that need help calming a baby.  However, this product is not for everyone.  I bought this DVD to hopefully get my daughter to sleep through the night, but there really wasn't much explanation on that. I did use some technique from the video to calm our baby when she was fussy and it did work.  The best thing that worked for my daughter to sleep at night was the pacifier.  She didn't want take the pacifier until she was about 10 weeks, and when she did we got about 5 to 6 hours of sleep on the weekday and even more on the weekend.

Good conversion quality The blu-ray conversion quality is good and the movie itself...well its Rocky Horror...you either love it or you hate it.  The extras are pretty cool and always worth the extra buck, at this price any Rocky Horror fan should grab this up.

Very professional production Good acting, excellent sound and visuals and a coherent plot.  Better than the Hammer and Corman horror flicks that it emulates.  The DVD extras - comments and 'how we did this' - are a must-view for any indie movie maker.  The commentary describes shooting around problems with the site, setting up the lighting and other practical aspects of making a movie on a shoestring.

A Great Exploration of Psycho-Sexuality I'm going to try to do this without spoilers.  You have to look at "Deadgirl" beyond its face value.  It's an allegory. It takes place on the dark fringes of teen male sexuality.  It's about insecurity, lust, peer pressure, control, and sex-related angst.  All of it was taken to an extreme, but that's what horror movies do.  The titular character was a symbol of hormonal madness and sexual dysfunction.  She was attractive and disgusting, dirty but alluring.  Each male she interacted with approached her differently, and each approach reflected his own sexual hang-ups.  She only interacted with one female, and when the two collided everything went wrong.  It's like the guy who has only learned about sex through porn finally coming into contact with a real woman and trying to apply what he's "learned," resulting in disaster.  People who write this off as simple gore porn have missed the mark. There is very little gore at all in this movie. Calling the movie misogynistic or pro-rape is inaccurate.  None of the abuse of women was portrayed in a favorable light.  It was very ugly and not sexy or funny at all.  You have to remember that there's a difference between subject matter and advocating the subject. If anything, this had a more anti-male feel to it, since every single guy in the story was a bully, a rapist, a drunk, or a doormat.  Lastly, the sex and violence in this movie is not gratuitous.  Unless you're from the school of thought that dictates all sex and violence in film is unnecessary, it's pretty plain to see that this story simply could not exist without sex and violence.  I'm giving this movie 4 stars.  The story was great. From a technical standpoint, this movie was brilliantly shot and edited. What special effects there were were awesome (FANTASTIC make-up).  The acting was above-average. The two male leads were good, but the supporting characters came off a little wooden.  Also, some events in the story seemed a little forced. This wasn't a perfect film, but it was darn good by horror movie standards.

THE FORGOTTEN WAR? Oh, yes, I know it is Korea, a far more brutal war than Vietnam, in terms of casualties per unit of time, that is known as the forgotten war, but I have a feeling that the American Revolution is fading in peoples minds because it is no longer central to early school curricula. So be it. At any rate, while not exactly an historically accurate film, not much more than OK as a movie experience, still The Patriot is a reminder of just what we had to do to create a nation for ourselves. When all is said and done, it was not Washington's way with words, oratory, that won the war, it was men being killed and shockingly wounded, for seven years, that did it. The film is best in its action scenes, OK on delineating the home front. Gibson does a satisfactory job and the rest of the cast does what they are allowed to do. And, yes, the accepted military technique in an era when rifles needed some time to reload, was to achieve greatest impact from massed weapons and cannon facing the enemy on the field. Real tough on a man who had to stand up  as a beautiful target to do his job. The film would have been improved by prudent reduction in length,  but, I suppose, it was intended to be EPIC.

Not my favorite franchise. But still funny none the less. Great cast of voice actors who carry some heavyweight comedy! Definitely worth owning on disc.

Enjoyable. I finally got around to renting this and I must say I was impressed. The acting, pacing, script, score...pretty much everything was incredible. The FX were top notch as I expected they would be. The only area where the film started to lose me was during the final act. I think the filmmakers wanted us to feel sympathy for the primates (the scene where Ceasar was pulling his "friend" from the helicopter) is a fine example. Sorry, didn't feel it. Other than a slightly iffy third act I recommend this movie. It was wonderfully acted and touched on a multitude of topics. Right, wrong, moral, ethical. Good movie. Recommended.

Smashed I believe 'Game' falls into the 'Action-Adventure' genre a genre which, very generally speaking, leaves me nonplussed because of multiple unlikelihoods or out-and-out impossibiities.  On the other hand, 'Game' is well acted and scripted and held my attention from the beginning to the end.  The Michael Douglas character--a highly successful and [to me] rather unlikeable millionaire --volunteers to play a real-life 'game' the rules and nature of which he doesn't understand.  He is told by his brother and others that 'The Game' and its results, will really jazz up his constrained life.  The implication, of course, is that his life will be 'improved.'  'The Game' involves multiple harrowing adventures bound to increase the paranoia titer in any normal human being.  Implicit in the film, is that the Douglas-character's survival is always under close control of the Gramers.  I don't see it that way.  There are multiple incidents in which Douglas' behavior--and survival--is largely controlled by chance rather than the gamers.  Add them up and Douglas should die or be physically destroyed not once, but multiple times.  In a sense, however, this is fairly typical of Action-Adventure films.  The final unlikelihood is that Douglas' life will be 'improved' by a succession of horrific events that could easily unmask a hidden psychosis, bare minimum.  It is definitely difficult to understand how such events could improve anyone's life.  More realistically, Douglas is obliged to pay real dollars for 'fun' that would necessarily have cost millions.  Like I said, it is difficult to see how this would have improved his or anyone else's life.

The Beaver Mel Gibson & Jodi Foster work good together. The story was very heart warming,dealing with mental issues. I hope people understand these issues & know there is help. I really liked the story,it was told pretty good.

Join the adventure Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart are appealing and fun in director Greg Mottola's semi-autobiographical "Adventureland", an enjoyable little tale about a young guy's summer job at a local amusement park.  Most people will be able to relate to this film... after all, haven't we all had that really crappy summer job where the only saving graces were the memorable people and after-work experiences that crossed our path because of the connections we made at the job?  While the film goes down easy, I appreciated its emotional complexity.  In particular, there's a special effort in the film to keep the characters from being too predictable and one-note: Everyone seems to have good and less-than-good qualities, and act in both stable and not-so-stable ways.  For the most part, the characters use their particular strengths to help out other characters who don't have those same strengths.  "Adventureland" is recommended to those who enjoy understated, indie-style dramas that aren't heavy on simple answers and broad set-pieces.  It's a nice little tale with a handful of funny moments that should satisfy most people looking for a thoughtful, entertaining evening of home viewing.  There's even a little romance.  The movie looked and sounded fine on the standard DVD I watched, which also featured a small handful of interesting extras.

Loved it We loved this movie when it first came out even before we had kids.  Now our children enjoy it as much as we do.  Great voice talent and action throughout!

Sexily Funny + Entertaining B movie + Gory and Horrifying special effects - There are quite a few sexily funny scenes.  - The special effects are good. The piranhas look very real in many scenes. The scene on the lake shore where people were attacked by the piranhas is scary and bloody.  - My friend and I watched it in the theater in 3D. Before that, I did not expect much from it because I know it's a B movie. However, it's much better than my expectation in terms of entertainment.  - I watched the 2D version on DVD last week. I believed it's as good as the 3D.  I've not seen such an enjoyable film for a long time. I own it.

Brittish version is better than the American version I really enjoyed this show. I was not so thrilled with the American version (different actors). It is by no means Spilberg quality, but it is a very interesting story line with actors that you want to like.

From Hell THEY TELL THE HISTORY OF EXCELLENT NARRATED WELL MOVIE THE RAPID WELL DELIVERY IN GOOD CONDITIOTHEY TELL THE HISTORY OF EXCELLENT NARRATED WELL MOVIE THE RAPID WELL DELIVERY IN GOOD CONDITIONSNS.

A good love story ... I've wanted to see this movie for awhile and nearly rented it for $4.99 on Time Warner the other day. Thank goodness I waited. Amazon charged $.99. So, if you are on the fence - let the price sway you and then be greatful that you made the right choice.  I tend to like movies such as these. Not slow, but methodical in its pace. I thought both characters played their parts well. I will be making this part of my collection. I also plan on purchasing the book, via Kindle, once I submit this.

boogie nights-the movie that brought porno into the mainstream The story of a young man,Mark Wahlberg- who didnt have to many skill sets to land himself a good paying job.Enter one of the porn worlds many movie producers,Burt Reynolds-to pluck the young man right out of his kitchen helper`s job and into the adult movie industry.Sex,drugs and rock n roll is the theme from there forward, the are other characters lives also followed too as the movie unwinds,its funny,its sad, its likely as close to true as a pornstar is on top of the world one day and then to the gutter next week-then repeat after time.If your not offended by the porn you`ll get through the movie just fine-entertaining at any angle,in my opinion.

Not great, but it gets better The first season, at just three episodes, is short and rather slapshod in content. The program's still trying to find its way, and some segments just don't work all that well (the celebrity timed tasks for one). The saving grace is James May himself. If you're a May fan, you won't be disappointed by this show. If you're on the edge on buying this, wait for season two to arrive on DVD. I can promise you you'll fall in love with the show, then come back to buy this one wanting even more.

Entertaining, good story line.  Just fun with a message. Boy meets man, man likes girl, boy has to come to terms with it.  But in the end everyone gets something.  Funny, but not too much.  Just the right amount to keep it real.  I have already watched it twice.

Amazing Amanda! I enjoyed this movie! I thought it was predictable and that the acting in it was great, however I wanted there to be more Time for the actors to come together and the ending left me feeling a bit Flat! I think they had a real great concept and could have taken it in so many directions that it went flat at the ending, and of course they left it open ended for the opportunity for another Just in time! Even with all that I found that needed fixing I really did enjoy it a lot!

A Nightmare on Elm Street (Blu-Ray) Freddy Kruegar is back in this all new 2010 remake of Wes Craven's 80s classic, A Nightmare on Elm Street. Freddy is taking revenge on teenagers, he's haunting them in their sleep and if they die in their sleep, they are really dead. While teenagers try to save their lives by not sleeping, they are only killing themselves. Freddy is here for revenge, revenge for the teenagers who told on him and for their parents (trying to) kill him!  Okay, let's start it off her, I've only seen four Nightmare on Elm Street movies including this one, I've seen the first, second, and Freddy vs. Jason (if it counts), but I actually really liked it. The acting was pretty good and the movie kept me interested. The first time I saw this movie (in the theaters) I didn't like it much, it took to long to start and I was waiting for it to begin by the time it ended, but I decided to give the movie one more chance thinking, "Maybe it's a better movie at home?" and it was! I was surprised by how much more I enjoyed it! It is definitely worth watching!  I rented the Blu-Ray and it is the RENTAL editon with no special features whatsoever. If you want to buy this movie do NOT buy it New from Amazon because they are currently selling the 1-Disc Edition. I recommend you buy it from an Amazon that offers the 3-Disc edition and I'm sure it's cheaper than Amazon itself.  [RECOMMENDED]

It's a movie. There was no surprise. This was for the kids. They love it. Its a movie we had already rented. There really isn't much that needs to be said.

A hitman tale in the European tradition Yes, it features perhaps the biggest Hollywood icon of our generation in the lead, but The American is very much a subtle, european exploration of the much fabled hitman genre.  George Clooney is Jack, an expert hitman on the run, laying as low as he can in the country hillsides of Italy.  There, his past, present, and future all collide in an exploration of how a man comes to terms with his soul, glimpsing a future he had never before thought to examine.  While many have called this film flat out boring, the truth is The American is filmed, set, and narrated much in the tradition of mid 1900's european films.  What does that mean?  Symbolism over sensational violence.  Very few characters, singular plot lines driven to help the main character find his transformative way.  Indeed, if you're looking for 10 cool guys/girls to weave a storyline in 10 different directions, this is not your film.  Simply put, this film plays out much like a novel.  Hitman novels, in fact, for years have been a subgenre of amazing acclaim yet little mainstream fanfare.  The American will remind you more of classic assassin books like 'Stiletto', Thomas Perry's 'The Butcher's Boy', or even Lawrence Block's "Hitman" series than recent films like 'The Machinist" (remake)or "Lucky number slevin"  That being said, I'm not sure i've ever seen a film carry a more novelistic feel, and it serves as an amazing canvas for an actor of Clooney's calibre to articulate a character filled with inner angst, mentally and cerebrally powerful, yet emotionally vulnerable.  A subtle yet outstanding performance that in the Taoist sense gives us "action through nonaction"

No CC or HOH A Pity that the producers have not added closed caption for the  Hard of Hearing!  PITY PITY  NO Sale here and probably none for another 100 MILLION hard of hearing people.  Ata go - come back to this when your hearing deteriorates, Mr. Movie Man.

Baseball fanaticism at its best Fever Pitch provides an amusing insight into obsessive baseball interest. With the Boston Red Sox as a key theme to this film there is a plentiful supply of ups and downs. It is the absorption of the Red Sox as a life anchor that ripples across work and social facets of life, which provides an uproarious baseball movie.  Nicholas R.W. Henning - Australian Baseball Author

The Dictator My son had wanted to see this movie which I was not thrill to see. Sacha delivered an entertaining movie, I was LMAO.

Wonderful Movie I truly enjoyed this movie. This movie was not what I expected. The story was good. I enjoyed the characters. I would recommend this movie to others. It had it sad parts, but overall it was upbeat

The Third Film Finally Delivers on the Potential of the Earlier Entries Well to begin I will say that the Tinker Bell series is one of those most rare specimens that actually manages to get better with each entry.  The first one was quite visually rich with the undeniable attention to detail that we've come to expect from the likes of Pixar.  The bad news was that the story and plot structure were most un-Pixar like in terms of sheer cleverness and depth.  The second film (The Lost Treasure) improved upon the material slightly by using the same characters established in the first but transferring them to a more stereotypical fantasy-adventure formula.  The Great Fairy Rescue, aside from having the lamest package cover-art by far, is undoubtedly the strongest entry of the trio.  It manages to take the strong points of the previous films (the strong characters and stunning CG visuals) and combine them into a plot that many would finally consider up to the standards of the companies responsible for the whole series (Disney & the recently absorbed Pixar). The plot goes like this: In our world young Lizzy and her father have just moved into a countryside cottage. Lizzy, obsessed with fairies, finds herself at odds with her scientific father who just so happens to be.. a scientist.  His particular expertise happens to be cataloging butterfly species while motherless Lizzy draws, paints and constructs homes for fairies.  Before long the title character finds herself face-to-face with Lizzy and her by-the-books father.  The remaining fairies mount a rescue effort amidst adverse conditions before their species ends up becoming an exhibit at the science museum. There is a decidedly British slant to this one (which is only right considering the original Peter Pan was set in London).  Much of this film's charm stems from the simple fact that the back-story is one centered on a very human family dynamic with the fantastical fairies becoming the catalyst for the action (not unlike another Disney/ Pixar computer generated franchise you may have heard of, Toy Story).  Apologies are certainly in order from all of the critics and naysayers who trounced on the original Tinker Bell film with complaints of her having gained the ability to speak in this series as this, the third film, demonstrates quite clearly that her ability to vocalize with her fellow fairies is rather different from what human ears perceive.  Kudos, Diz, for the attention to detail!  Little Tink's communication abilities may have been redeemed here but there is no denying that some of the fiery temper she displays in the Peter Pan films has been watered down.  The casting, which has never been a weak link in this series, seems to be best suited for the type of dynamic the Great Fairy Rescue sets up, which doesn't really have a "villain" per se so much as a series of natural consequences directly resulting from decisions made within.  Even the iniquitous Vidia of the first film has apparently taken a turn for the better; now more of a trouble-making cohort than a dedicated antagonist.  I suppose in looking back at the series as a whole, it can be said that each entry brings something unique to the table.  The first may be the weakest but it does a nice job of establishing the characters.  The second will likely be the most appealing of the trio to younger boy viewers thanks to a decidedly heavy fantasy angle that works on many levels and this, the third finally manages to capture the charm and cleverness that has become synonymous with the Disney brand.  However, I should note that thanks to a deeply placed sneak peek, it appears a fourth entry in the series is in the works entitled Tinker Bell and the Mysterious Winter Woods.  Realistically this news shouldn't come as much of a surprise considering each film thus far has centered on a season (the first was spring, the second fall, the third summer).  A winter-themed entry has been inevitable since the franchise's onset even though rumors of the filmmakers' plans to keep the property a trilogy have been dashed in the process.  The real question now is will they decide to pull the plug after four? All of the seasons may be covered but somehow I suspect Disney will manage to convince us that these little magical fairies are responsible for more than just the color of the leaves and the disappearance of the snow.  Only time will tell for sure, but after having completed The Great Fairy Rescue, it's safe to say that the franchise has gotten only stronger all along so it's hopeful to suspect that continuing the tale will only carry on the trend.

Lost my virginity on this one. Get your mind out of the gutter. It was my first War and/or military theme movie that I saw back in the day. The movie illustrates a man's journey from initiation in the Marine Corp to combat in the Vietnam. The movie takes an entertaining and sobering look at America's Vietnam experience.

Indochine I thought it was a beautiful movie, a good story about the colonial way of life and how the locals were used and abused and eventually rebelled. It sheds a bit of light on how Vietnam was born and became communist. A little bit more history would've been good, but I suppose it wasnt the purpose of this film. The pictures of the rubber plantation and the mountains and islands are amazing.

I liked it I honestly expected Misery to bore me. It seemed like it'd be a slow-moving, boring movie. But, it wasn't! I actually enjoyed it. The acting is great, it created a sense of suspense that I enjoyed, and the characters were well-done! (No I have not read the book...) This is a good movie. -Trent Foreman, Author of Nightmare

love baseball Ken burns Baseball video is very interesting although a bit slow at times.  It's the history of baseball and America.well done.

awesome the best movie of all time anthony hopkins is the greats villan ever.  good vendor arrived when expected goodd customer service as well

The sweetest movie ever I have a lot of gay friends and the way they love me make me think how lovely could be having a baby with them, of course skipping the sex part because it would be unavoidable feel the awkwardness no matter if we were drunk or not. I've always said that having a gay friend is like having a 2 x 1 because they can act like a girlfriend and they still have that male part inside of them so they can see the whole picture and open your eyes if necessary. I think I wanna live Abby's life, have a Robert being the real father of my baby because is the best father ever!!! I really love this movie

A Mother's Rage There's a legend around the seaside town of Crythin Gifford of a woman all dressed in black hiding her face beneath a long black veil.  Whenever someone sees her, somewhere in town, a child dies.  When troubled estate attorney Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe of the Harry Potter fame) comes to town to settle the estate of an eccentric client, he has no idea of the hostility the town throws his way.  No one will speak to him except to tell him that it would be wise to leave.  But he is determined to get the job done or else risk losing his job.  While staying at his former client's decrepit mansion cut of from the rest of the world by a marsh, Kipps begins seeing a mysterious woman in black and soon enough, a young girl dies in his arms.  As the sightings of this woman increases, the number of dead children begins to rise and Kipps finds himself in the center of a mystery that has haunted the town over the last forty years; a mystery involving the accidental drowning of a young boy tragically witnessed by the boy's mother whom the townspeople had successfully taken the child from due to their strict moral code simply because he was born out of wedlock.  His mother died in the midst of her grief and that grief turned to revenge.  Now Kipps has three days to uncover the truth behind the legend and bring about a close to the town's curse before his own son becomes the next target for The Woman In Black.  The movie itself was energetic enough to keep you interested and really harken back to the late Brittish horror movies of the 60s and 70s.  The score by Marco Beltrami was creepy and helped added some much needed tension that the movie lacked visually.  But there are a fair amount of problems here.  The jump scares are numerous.  And while Radcliffe is a really good actor, I thought he was miscast.  He looked really to young for the part.  In fact, he looked like he was 18 with badly grown facial hair.  I also loved how the boy in the marsh body was never recovered, yet Kipps was not only able to locate it in record time, the carriage he died in looked as if it had just rolled in yesterday instead of rotting under the water and muck for the last forty years.  But the biggest complaint lies in the ending.  For a movie this grim, I found it a little too happy, a little too Hollywood. It seemed out of place and that pretty much killed it for me.  Even so, I'm still recommending it just on its mystery quality and because it's a simple ghost story that isn't complicated or burden down by too much back story.  Good for a rainy night.

Good movies difficult to find My husband and I watched "One Night With a King" just two nights ago. It was a wonderful story! While we are not movie critics we do look for good, moral movies and this one fit the bill.  The beautiful story of Esther and how she had to put her faith in God and trust that even if she was killed she had to tell the truth in order to save her people.  This movie can be understood by even those who do not know scripture.  It was well done we thought.  If you are a scripture scholar then you will find it to be less that what we found.  None the less, this is a very good movie that the entire family can watch!

An unknown hit !! I will start by disagreeing with the low raters of this film. It is not a sleeper, it does have a story, the acting is solid, special effects are as good as any multimillion dollar movie. The characters let you in just enough to relate to them. Although it is about vampires, it is more the lazy stupid vampires. A cross between a vampire and a zombie, on the other hand a vampire is nothing more than a zombie anyway right. Also too many younger viewers are addicted to CGI effects, the really good special effects films don't needs CGI, this is one of them.  Doesn't matter anyway, the details of the spread vampire-ism are left low key, we've all seen enough vampire/zombie movies to figure those details, the story lies the the survival of this small group. Yes that kind of story has been told a few times, but as with any movie, the characters make the movie, and these characters do make the movie.  There's a few pop up scares, enough blood for the gore lovers but not too much. You will see remnants of films like "28 days later", "30 days of night", "I am Legend", "The Postman", yes I said The Postman, just some hints of it, simply because The Postman id a movie that has heart & emotion for the characters as well as action, the country side landscapes and visiting town to town give the feeling of that one.   I didn't rate this one 5 stars simply because I disliked the ending, Its not a bad ending, I just prefer a different way of concluding movies like this. Never the less, you will enjoy the movie.

Ride the Divide exposes the psychology of isolated endurance racing... I enjoyed the film. It was a bit simplistic (no Hollywood special effects or big-name actors), but it doesn't need them. I understand the intent / genre of this film is that of a documentary. I was drawn in by the three people the film maker targeted, especially Mike Dion, as I too am a parent of young children. I could see myself experiencing similar emotions if away from my family for so long. I found myself pulling for each one of the racers.  While I agree with some of the reviewers that Mary bitched and complained perhaps more than others, she was just being herself. That is the human condition. Who cares? In the end, this event reveals one's true character and we all have our flaws and strengths - adversity exposes attitude. Even though Mary seemed somewhat negative at times, in my opinion, she made the biggest comeback in my eyes... good for her - I respect her for it. Well done, Mary!  Matthew Lee was a self-aware machine; well-suited for riding for long, isolated periods. He didn't seem to get flustered at all - he was calm, cool and appeared laid back like a Zen Master; whereas almost all of the others seem to cling to anyone else (speed up; slow down, etc.) to avoid that isolation - either consciously or unconsciously. His interviews and interactions really showed me what the race is about (a positive mental attitude) and revealed just how important previous experience is! (I heard he took 30+ days to complete the race his first time; then came back to win it the next few times in 17-18 days)! Neat to hear his wife was pregnant and due just after the race; I wonder how that has changed his perspective now? As someone who comes across so introspective, this would be good fodder for a follow-up project - perhaps an annual recording of the event?  I gained important insights on the overall race. Aside from the 'common sense' ingredients consisting of the requisite fitness, bike prep, mechanical and riding ability, the biggest thing I learned was the importance of the the psychological angle: mental toughness is something one needs - in spades - to complete this race! I never thought about how being alone in the wilderness for extended periods of time has the capacity to affect most people. (One of the racers is interviewed in a hotel lobby. The camera comes up on him from behind while he is on the computer - when he turns around, he has the wild-eyed appearance of someone suffering from PTSD).  I think people are so used to being 'connected' to society / civilization (how many of you reading this DON'T have a cell phone?), that being alone, without anothers companionship as a safety net, strikes fear into most. If you can't call for help on a phone, or have someone 'right there' to commiserate with, how do you respond? As someone who has considered doing the race (or as a ride) myself, I really found that interesting and something to be aware of; that I would need to develop coping strategies in advance. I also found that Mary's comments about how after a while, the beauty of nature becomes ho-hum... BORING... and you keep asking yourself, "Why do I keep doing this every day? Why don't I just quit?"  So much time to think can lead to tough questions and even tougher answers. One of the riders refers to the race as a vision quest and I think he hit the nail on the head. Maybe that's part of the attraction. No doubt, undertaking something of this magnitude will change you; regardless if you finish or not.  All said, I enjoyed this film very much. The scenery was brilliant and after seeing the suffering and the joy, it inspires me to inch closer to participating in this event!

The Real Deal Navy SEALs are America's warriors du jour. Remember that spectacular demonstration of marksmanship when three of them, standing on a tossing boat, felled three hostage-holding Somali pirates with simultaneous shots? That was followed a year or so later by the end of Osama bin Laden, so these elite fighters are the ones we look to for military prowess.  I can only hope this film's regular release contains the introduction by the two principals behind this project. They were embedded with a platoon of Navy SEALs in hopes they would get enough material for a movie. It quickly became obvious to them that there are NO Hollywood actors who could approach the calibre of the men they were with, in terms of fitness, devotion to their families, intelligence, and skill levels. Consequently, they cast a group of active duty SEALs! (Shooting was occasionally delayed while cast members were briefly deployed.) When we know those guys up there on the screen have actually done the things we see, it adds immeasurably to our involvement; plus, many of the scenes were shot using live ammo!  The upshot is, even though the Bandido Platoon is a fictitious one, this story is based on feats of the most elite, highly trained group of effective warriors in the modern world, using up-to-the-minute technology under highly challenging circumstances. Because of artistic license, we see the same seven men off the coast of Somalia, in the Ukraine, in the tropical forests of Costa Rica and just south of the Mexican border. They are trying to stop a chilling plot that uses ceramic pellets in suicide vests. Ceramic doesn't set off metal detectors, so terrorists plan a coordinated attack in crowded areas: football games, shopping malls, concert arenas and airports. When explosives kill and maim hundreds, the economic impact will be devastating (like 9/11).  This film starts with the rescue of a kidnapped CIA operative, which leads to the terrorists, who are linked to drug cartels in Mexico (they know how to penetrate America's borders). The domino effect of international terrorism and drug trade is compelling stuff. How can the American drug consumer ignore the down-range impact of his or her folly! Expect lots of gunfire, SCUBA diving, some really satisfying blowie uppie stuff, and stealth warfare (when these seven guys silently break the surface of that stream... goosebumps!).  I found this far more involving than your average run-of-the-mill action film. It's clear that these guys are SEALs, not actors, but there wasn't a moment when anyone's attention strayed; we were rooting for them to complete their mission so they could all return home to their families. As the tag line says: The only easy day was yesterday.  I will request notification when this DVD is available on Amazon.com.

Super Special Effects Super special effects; great action sequences about a very much bigger than life period. Great for those who like mythological based story lines. Good followup to "Clash of the Titans".

FAR BETTER THAN "HUNGER GAMES" It has been called gloriously sick, twisted and disturbing.  BATTLE ROYALE is a title that thrilled and unnerved audiences with a fiendishly simple premise that has inspired many imitations including THE HUNGER GAMES.  Based on the 1999 global best seller by Koushun Takami, the futuristic tale first came to the big screen in 2000.  When Kinji Fukasaku unleashed his violently poetic epic about an innocent group of Junior High students forced by the government to hunt and kill their classmates for sport, it not only launched a global phenomenon and was nominated for 10 Japanese Academy Awards but also was at the same time banned from screens by frightened civic groups including distributors across America.  Three years later an equally disturbing sequel triggered its own firestorm.  This high-end package of BATTLE ROYALE: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION is a four disc set that includes theatrical and director's cuts as well a Japanese language versions and Bonus Content.

decent movie - great quality from seller AS far as the company who sent the DVD - fast delivery and it arrived in great  condition.  Now for the movie.  I would give it a B-/C+.  It was entertaining and funny, at times, but the plot lingered on for the last 30-45 minutes and I started getting bored with the same conversational themes.  The plot was the typical relationship comedy - not bad as far as that goes. This movie is quite different from the the orginal  movie with Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn, but it needed to be somewhat different in terms of blending in with the current social climate.  The serious social conflicts encountered in non-traditional relationships was emphacized and a recurring theme presented with a comical twist.  Most of the movie focused on the interaction between the bride's parents and the groom, but the movie did not include the groom's parents or their interactions with the brides parents, which was a pivotal element in the original movie.  If you are looking for a drama paralleling the original "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," then you might be dissappointed, especially if you're a serious movie buff.  However, If you just want a sweet, somwhat comical dysfunctional family and love story, then this movie is worth the money. It's not 1 of those movies that I will watch repeatedly, like I did with the orginal movie classic (which by the way was before my time).  Maybe I'll bring it out again on a  rainy day.

WHAT'S NEXT:  ORCASQUID? Roger Corman is at it again with the hilariously goofy SHARKTOPUS---what a title! This SyFy flick is ultimate cheese with bad acting, scientific impossibilities, tacky effects--all the things you love in recent SyFy productions! We even get Eric Roberts looking smugly embarrassed as the mad scientist! SHARKTOPUS entertains purely on the undeniable affection for grade-B movies.  Keep 'em coming Corman!!

Really enjoyed this movie I really enjoyed this movie.  Wasn't the best Disney flick and the songs were mostly forgettable, but I liked the characters and the story.  The banter between the leads was fun, Maximus and Pascal were adorable, and of course a happy ending helps!

Uh, what? Let me start off by saying that this is the best show the Marvel has produced since possibly Wolverine & the X-Men, but definitely X-Men: Evolution. I have loved every second of this show, and the fact that they want to replace it with a show more based off of the movie makes me sick. I loved the movie, but this show is better than the movie. It's one of the worst decisions Marvel has ever made, and I eat, sleep, and breathe Marvel.  Now, what on earth were they thinking when they decided to put "Behold... The Vision" as episode nine. It doesn't make any sense there. It totally throws off the storyline and gives away what is going to happen. My advice: skip that episode and watch it at the end.

Thrilling Escapism Streamed this on a "family at-home movie night" although we had all seen it back when it debuted. Matt Damon infused his Jason Bourne with believable emotions, and in my opinion his acting ability is well showcased in this film. You have to get past the explosions and chases (one of the greatest car chase scenes ever, by the way) and watch his expressions and gestures to notice...which is probably why the movie bears rewatching. I happen to love action-adventure flicks (like "The Avengers," need I say more?) and this will likely be near the top of my list for a long time. The only reason I hesitate to give 5 stars to this genre is the "suspension of disbelief" factor involved. But as the title says, escapism - one of the reasons people make and watch movies.

Wild Child It's hard to believe that The Doors (1991) is now twenty years old.  It's also hard to believe Jim Morrison has been gone 40 years already.  Time flies.  This movie was made by the always controversial Oliver Stone.  This movie basically centers around the wild lifestyle of lead singer Jim Morrison.  Val Kilmer gives a great performance as Jim Morrison.  I don't think any other actor could have done better.  Kyle MacLachlan is also great as keyboardist Ray Manzarek.  Frank Whaley does well as guitarist Robbie Krieger, and Kevin Dillon does a good job as drummer John Densmore.  Meg Ryan is a good Pamela Courson (Morrison's girlfriend).  Kathleen Quinlan is great as Patricia Kennealy (Morrison's mistress).  Look for cameo appearances by Paul Rothschild (the band's producer) and John Densmore.  Also look for Billy Idol, who plays Cat.  A lot of things that occur in this movie either never happened, or if they did, were greatly exaggerated.  Keyboardist Ray Manzarek has been quoted many times as saying that certain incidents in the movie never happened, such as the Thanksgiving scene, the exaggerated performance of Light My Fire on The Ed Sullivan Show, etc.  There are also some factual errors in the movie.  One thing I don't like about this movie is the fact that Oliver Stone portrayed Jim Morrison as a self-centered out of control drunk.  He exaggerated everything, which is typical of Stone.  I've read lots of books on Morrison and The Doors going back to the early 1980s and watched many videos/documentaries.  Morrison had a sense of humor that was absent in the movie.  He was very cerebral as well.  He wasn't wild ALL the time, but he was a great deal of the time.  Early in the movie all four band members vow to stick together, support each other no matter what, and do everything unanimously, but as the movie progresses, Manzarek, Densmore, and Krieger increasingly turn against Morrison as Morrison's behavior gets more and more out of control.  I found this interesting but understandable, because when one of the band members is totally out of control, the band can't do everything unanimously and without conflict.  This is the result of Oliver Stone choosing to portray Morrison as TOTALLY out of control.  Stone should have taken the middle road when portraying Morrison, wild but not TOO wild, but his goal is to entertain the movie audience by exaggerating things.  I saw Ray Manzarek perform live, by himself, at Pine Knob Music Theater in Clarkston, MI in July 2002.  I'll tell you, it was one of the best performances I've ever seen at a concert venue, even though it was just Manzarek and a keyboard on stage.  The other artists there that night were Vanilla Fudge and Jefferson Starship.  Jefferson Starship gave an absolutely terrible performance, with sound problems and no Grace Slick.  It was the worst concert I've ever seen.  Overall, this is a good movie that will take you to the hippie generation of 1960s America and allow you to see the story (flaws and all) of one of the great rock bands of all time.

Star of Milos This was an interesting film. I read a few reviews that said the film wasn't of good quality and the animation was off. I liked it. It was a nice side story within the series. If anyone like either series, this is a good companion to complete everything. Finally, watch and judge for yourself!

Great movie - poor extras RED is an excellent movie, as most other reviews will tell you.  I am mainly leaving this review to let everyone know that the special edition extras are not worth paying for.  - The deleted and extended scenes are mostly just slightly longer versions of what is already in the movie and are not very interesting or funny.  - The trivia track is a major let down.  Instead of fun behind the scenes trivia about the movie, you get some random facts that are remotely related to what is going on onscreen.  It's almost like at the last minute they decided they needed a trivia track and so they had some high school kid grab words from the movie and google them.  Seriously, here's one of the first ones -" the color red supposedly makes people hungry."  Very lame.  - There is a section that interviews some of the talent, but they pretty much just gush about how great it was to work with the other cast members.  There is no cool info about how they filmed anything or where, or how any of the special effects were done.  - The inside the CIA feature is also very basic last minute stuff.  They detail several things from leaked CIA documents.  The bottom line is that the movie is excellent and worth buying, but the extras are very poorly conceived and executed.  Either they forgot about extras until the last minute and decided they could get a few more dollars by adding some or they are planning on coming out with a super special edition that actually has some decent content.  Save your money and skip the special edition.

Some of the sound is missing from the Bonus Features. I'm having the same problem too. Who can we report this to so we can get a credit or refund?

Includes one of the all time BEST SCI FI Movies - With The Biggest Twist Ever I am amazed the Incredible Shrinking Man is not available by itself - rather than packaged with a buinch of lessser Sci Fi grindhouse movies from the 1950s.  It and "Forbidden Planet" and "The Day the Earth Stood Still" are the supreme trilogy of 1950s Sci Fi. In 2009, it was named to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant and will be preserved for all time.  The Incredible Shrinking Man towers above any remakes or take offs for two main reasons. The most convincing special effects possible (most everything was real physical objects - no digital - from a huge mouse trap to a match box big enough to live in) and story you may NEVER forget.  It is way more than a story of a "shrinking man". It is the story of a man who discovers a truth we all seek. An indefinable truth - the one way down in your heart - deep inside....  He discovers it through heartbreak, losing all those he loves and cares about, suffering incredible indignity and physical pain, even having his beloved pet turn on him and see him as nothing as a piece of meat.  But through survival - he discovers something very amazing... A common thread in all creatures and huimanity.  In the end our shrinking man is as large as anyone can possibly be. A true "expanding man".  In my opinion Grant Willams performance is Oscar worthy. He really knocks it out of the park and leaves you absolutely convinced that all this is really happening to him  Intrigued? ... rent it here at Amazon.

A Different Alice--but enjoyable This is a different, more "adult" Alice in Wonderland, and despite the fact it is not the classic we know and love, it is strangely faithful to the story, yet has interesting additions. I found it captivating, and really enjoyed it.  My earliest book was "Alice in Wonderland" and I still have my dogeared copy with the illustrations by Tenniel. I never did find a film that did it justice--including the Disney animation. I love the idea of an older Alice revisiting Wonderland (now Underland), and the backstory of Alice's impending arranged upper-class Victorian marriage to a doofus of a lord, this version is unabashedly not your old Alice. But it's still enjoyable.  Mia Wasikowska as Alice is often kind of blank in this role, but dresses up well as the androgynous champion who slays the Jabberwock. Of course, Johnny Depp steals the show as the somewhat Clockwork-Orange Mad Hatter and Helen Bonham Carter is positively cartoonish as the Red Queen. But my favorite character was actually Ann Hathaway as the White Queen--a "good" witch sort of character who has taken a vow never to harm any creature--and stands around with her hands poised uselessly but beautifully in the air as she wafts around her Marmorial Castle. Can't get her hands dirty (but can hock a loogie into a vessel she's concocting of re-sizing potion for Alice.)  The ending is very modern and very Un-Victorian but I actually liked it. The secret to this film is to go along for the ride and enjoy the story and the sights. It's a fine adaptation and reworking, to me, and I found it enjoyable.

Classic! My wonderful bride surprised me with a trip to San Fransico for my birthday. While we were about to depart for Alcatraz Island, I found out she had never seen the movie "The Rock" and ordered it from my phone so we could watch it when we got back home.  Watching this movie again, I remember why I love it. Quotes like "I'd take pleasure in guttin' you, boy." will now make sense to my kids! All those times that I told my co-worker she should try the shrimp so I can stab her in the heart with her epi pen!  This movie is exciting and entertaining. It should be required to be watched before graduating high school.

A comedy about people trying to kill one another This is a comedy in which an easily recognizable hit man in the witness protection program moves next door to an amiable dentist, Oz, in Canada, who is married to a woman who desperately wants him killed. The hit man, Jimmy, turned state's evidence on the mob and the mob leader, Yannie, is looking for revenge, to kill him. Oz's wife suggests to Oz that he fly to the US to Yannie and tell him where Jimmy is and get money as a "finder's fee." When he leaves, she rushes next door and propositions Jimmy to kill Oz, offering him money, sex, and information that Oz is "rating him out." Jimmy turns her down saying he likes Oz who he got to know when the two spent part of a day together. She hires another man to kill Oz.  A tall fierce gangster comes to Oz's hotel room in the US and tells him that he works for Yannie and demands that he tell Yannie where Jimmy is. Oz has no idea how this man found out that he knows Jimmy. Oz calls Jimmy to warn him. Jimmy says he already knows all about it and not to worry. The gangster takes Oz to Lonnie the mob leader's house where he meets Jimmy's wife. She tells him that Jimmy refuses to give her a divorce and would kill anyone who has sex with her. Oz falls in love with her and the two have sex. Jimmy hears about the sex and is very angry. Oz also finds out that Jimmy, Lonnie, and Jimmy's wife own 10 million dollars, which is in a bank, and both Jimmy and Lonnie want to kill the other two so that they can have all the money.   Will Oz the dentist be able to save his life from his wife and her hit man and from Jimmy who is enraged about his affair with his wife? Is Jimmy's wife in love with Oz or only interested in sex? Will Jimmy be able to save himself from Lonnie? How will the issue of the 10 million dollars be resolved? What part will Oz's female dental assistant play in all of this?

A question of relevance I originally saw "Do the Right Thing" in a theater in Southern Illinois when it first came out.  The audience was a bit sparse for our showing, but was appreciative and commented liberally throughout the show.  Some of the NY allusions sailed over the heads of the audience, although I enjoyed listening to the argot of my youth.  All in all it was an interesting experience to 'share' reactions on the fly as it were.  I was struck, at the time, at how well Spike Lee had captured the tenor of the times, and successfully showed the attitudes and biases that live just below the surface in many of us. Fast forward to 2012, I showed this to high school students after finals this year (yes, I got permission from admin - the language can get pretty rough)and was a bit surprised by the reaction.  The students were interested in the conflicts, but saw no relevance to their personal lives.  I should mention this is a school that is >95% black and the community has more than one similarity to Bed-Stuy.  I felt that the message was still an important one, and was hoping for a bit more discussion, but got very little.  All that to say, while I still feel this is an important movie, it seems to have been relegated to the status of a 'period piece' in the minds of many of today's youth.

Movie I love this movie, it's good for both Halloween & Christmas time, plus good for family time together.. the new HD is great as well!

I never liked Michael Keaton I never liked Michael Keaton, He always did dippy movies like Beetlejuice.  I was coerced into seeing this by a friend to whom I owed more than I could pay.  I was totally amazed!  Mr. Keaton does a completly believeable job as a coke addict.  The story is tight and believable, and the actors are able to make you care about them.  I grudgingly had to change my view of him and am still being ribbed about it today.  If you'd like to see proof that Mr. Keaton can really act, this is the movie for you!  (I have not viewed the DVD, these are just my memories of the movie itself when I saw it in 1988.)

Movie to watch I love this movie and loved the book as well. Have watched it several time and see new things each time.

Even that it's for girls, I still review it I liked New Moon more than the first Twilight movie. I am not a fan of the movies, nor I want to read any of the books. It all seems so fluffy and lovely and childish, mostly done for a girls to fall in love with something that is extraordinary. It's not suppose to be all like that. Where's craziness in wolves, where's viciousness? You truly think, one drop of the blood will make it any better? Creatures are not deadly and so on. The list can go on and on. Here you find romance and all creatures seem to like the ugly girl,Bella. Really, I don't find her to be pretty even on a little bit. How come all characters have to be haunting her, loving her,et.c? C'mon it's what every girl would want to happen to her and that is what we see happening. I'm not going to waste my time on that. All I'm saying is I liked the both movies because of the wolf part and I am not willing not to watch it. Because I need to know if the movie will suddenly get any better or worse. Is it rated Teen or 7+? Oh give me a break. It's all so childish. I remember watching goosebumps as a kid. Hell that was better. But anyway I gave it 4 stars for I wanted to see it because of wolves. And at that time I kinda liked it. Enough to view it one time or twice.

Never send a man to do an Astro Boy's job. Astro Boy  Do you remember watching Astro Boy cartoons on TV when you were a child? Well, I do, vaguely, and from what I remember about those old cartoons, I loved them. Osamu Tezuka is the original creator of the Astro Boy cartoon. The time is in the future, the place is in Metro City, a city that floats above the earth via electro-gravity technology. The Earth is polluted and dead, but Metro city is alive and bustling with activity, and it's human inhabitants are serviced by robots who perform nearly every mundane task that you can think of, and when they are no longer useful, the robots, along with other trash, are dumped onto the planet Earth where they wait to be recycled. But also living on the surface of the planet are a faction of Humans, and robots, who do not wish to live with the rest of the "civilized" society of Metro City.  Dr. Bill Tenma, a very intelligent scientist who creates a new military robot called "The Peacekeeper" is excited to show the President of Metro City his new creation, but during the demonstration process he ends up losing the life of his only Son, Toby, which leaves Dr. Tenma heartbroken. Later, Dr. Tenma creates a new robot in his Son's image which he programs with the existing memories and knowledge of his Son into and also powers the robot with a new energy source obtained from a comet that plummeted to earth and scientist's have extracted two high-powered energies from, Red Core, and Blue Core energies. Red Core energy is highly unpredictable and negative, Blue Core energy is more stable and positive.  Soon though, Dr. Tenma realizes that he still misses his Son Toby and Astro Boy is not nor can ever be his true Son, and so it is that he turns his back on him, leaving Astro Boy to fend for himself in the world. Meanwhile, President Stone of Metro City, a hardened military-type ruler, is up for re-election and wishes to use the Peacekeeper as a means to guarantee his re-election as President of Metro City. Against the strong resistance of Professor Elefun, and Dr. Tenma, the President powers the new Peacekeeper robot using the Red Core energy, which causes havoc and trouble in Metro City, but the President isn't satisfied with this and wants total power and control and goes after Astro Boy to obtain his Blue Core energy source in order to make himself an even more stronger and ultimate power.  Can Astro Boy, Dr. Tenma, and Professor Elefun stop President Stone from gaining the Blue Core energy and also from ruling Metro City with an iron fist? Watch this fun animated movie to find out more.  As I mentioned earlier, I have always enjoyed the Astro Boy cartoons when I was a young child growing up. I even own a few of the Now brand Astro Boy comic books from the 1990's. When I saw this new animated Astro Boy feature I just had to get it and I was not disappointed in the least by it. The CGI animation was unique, beautiful, and very eye-catching and pleasing, and the voice talent was great and includes such well-known celebrities like, Donald Sutherland as President Stone, Nicolas Cage as Dr. Bill Tenma, Bill Nighy as Professor Elefun, and others such as Kristen Bell, Samuel L. Jackson, Eugene Levy, David Allen Grier, and Nathan Lane, among many others.  If you have children, or are still young at heart, I highly recommend viewing this endearing and entertaining animated feature.

Film 3 stars - 3D effects 5 stars If you're looking for a good action flick with great 3D effects then you'll likely enjoy this title. If, however you're looking for any cerebral plot or story line look elsewhere. This is a movie to watch when you're simply looking for action and want to take your 3D TV and DVD player for a run of fun. If this were not available in 3D, I wouldn't bother with it as there are too many other action/special effect flicks that I'd personally prefer. For fans of 3D though this is a fun ride.

Just Beautiful... Location; scarecrow face makeup, prosthetics, and mask constuction; the "M.O." if you know what I mean; the music is as superb as it is repetitive; the caricature-y delivery of the dialogue and relationships; more like golems than zombies, really; it's got Barry from Resident Evil; Jack reminds me of Hud. As seen in House of 1,000 corpses and Heavy Metal's "B-17" bit.  It's the 80's in all it's glory. What's *not* to like?

Eclipse This item is awesome, but I love the movie no matter which way I got it. It got here in a timely manner. I will be using Amazon again in the future.

Great ghost story For a ghost story I love this movie, it keeps you interested. Since everyone has explained the movie, I wont have to here, not that I would anyway. This movie has its gore, scarey and creepy moments, unexpected plot twists, and death. Its a good ride for the cost of a bowl of popcorn, and an evening. Now lets turn out the lights, and go on that sea cruise!

Trick is full of surprises Such a strange movie, in a good way.  Not what I was expecting when I got it, but I was pleasantly surprised.  It was a sweet, albeit slightly unbelievable, story that was easy to watch without having to invest a lot of thought into it. The progress made by Gabriel and the change in Mark make the movie entertaining, a good movie, indeed.

excellent show Loved the show on tv.  Thought it was exciting fast moving and very entertaining.  I'm sorry it's not on tv any more.

Good WWII Yarn WWII spanned a fair number of years and theatres. The Pacific, Italy, Europe and, in this case North Africa. Each of these theatres was dotted by specific chapters that have made up the entirety of the war. This is one of those chapters.  Here's the scoop. The Brits are hemmed in by the Nazis in Tobruk, a sea port. They are asked by their superiors to hold on for three months until reserves can arrive. Three months stretches into seven and things are looking grim. They know Rommel is mounting an offensive. A Brit officer, played by the great Richard Burton, is put in charge of the Australian ANZAC troops and needs to thwart the Nazi offensive then, finally, hold a nearby hill until said reserves arrive. A daunting task to be sure.  This is a cool flick. As in most historically based films my guess is the broad strokes are true to the origin and the cracks are filled in with good writing to amplify the drama. That is done well here. Burton is a well trained officer put in charge of, what he considers, a bunch of rag tag Aussie brawlers. There is some animosity on both sides but, through the thick of it, each gains an enormous amount of respect for the other. A good job is done giving the viewer a sense of existing and fighting in the desert. Robert Wise's directing is efficient. He doesn't linger on the quieter scenes and doesn't overblow the action scenes. It's paced well and just steady overall. On the downside some of the sets looked like....sets. They didn't feel real. And the Germans had conversations amongst themselves, in German, without sub-titles. What's THAT about?! And these weren't two sentence conversations. They went on a ways. How was the audience supposed to know what they were talking about?  There were a lot of these types of films made after the war and a lot of them were very good. This one is near the top.

Love the action This movie had action from beginning to end. The fighting in the movie was awesome. and the story line was good. Not bad for a foreign film

texas massacre I really like the tin case and the special features really caught my eye. If you are a die hard texas chainsaw massacre fan you must own the original in this edition!

NOT ENOUGH LOVE IN OUR HEARTS The film is a long TV sitcom with a "Romeo and Juliet" theme. In the first scene Bernard Sparrow (Kris Kristofferson) dies, which I found amusing because I thought K.K. was already dead. Queen Latifah, who was the assistant choir director takes over the top position. G.G. Sparrow (Dolly Parton), who was married to Bernard believes she should have the role because of all the pillow talk they shared and the fact her face does a pretty good Joan Rivers impersonation.  Dolly's long lost bad boy grandson (Jeremy Jordan) shows up out of nowhere and wants  Olivia (Keke Palmer) to be his Juliet.  Dexter Darden stars as Walter Hill, Olivia's brother who has Asperger's Syndrome. He is mono-focused on "one hit wonders."  The film has a number of wonderful scenes that work. Unfortunately it uses some dumb lines such as Dolly Parton at her husband's funeral, "man had five kids, he must have loved something." or "[He is] so country he has married three times and has the same in-laws."  Dolly Parton has a distinctive voice. You know when she is singing and you know when she isn't i.e. just lip syncing as part of the chorus.  The movie had a few good dramatic scenes, but the film worked best when it is attempting to be a comedy. The only different between this a sitcom, is that in the sitcom they have to win to pay the mortgage or mom's operation. (Oh what are TV writers going to do once everyone has insurance?) Okay rental if you love TV sitcoms. Don't expect any  come to Jesus moments. 4 stars maybe a little overrated, but I laughed at every close up they did of Dolly's face (she did this to herself.)  Parental Guide: No f-bombs, sex, or nudity. One implied sex scene. Use of "S" and "BS" words.

For Dirty Harry Fans Sat down on a Saturday and watched the entire collection. Reminded me of why I have always been a fan of Dirty Harry Callahan. Picture quality was decent and sound was straight out of the periods the movies were shot, although clear and crisp.

It's funny! Go ahead and watch this. It's better than you'd think and totally worth it! The acting is fresh and though some of the humor is very much Ferrely Bros the movie still comes together in the end.

Feel good I really loved this movie. All the actors were spot on. The ending felt a little weak compared to the rest of the movie but still found myself smiling after it was over.

Blood and Iron and, um, some Vikings Whenever a film purports to chronicle a historical event (i.e. the First Barons' War in England, which began with the siege of Rochester Castle in the year 1215), and then spends approximately the first 40 seconds giving you the historical background before plunging the viewer pretty much straight into medieval-era dangers and derring-do.... at times like these, it is best to tell yourself, "It is what it is," and just sit back, relax, smile, and watch the blood and severed limbs fly.  Because you're not gonna get the formal, historical, Oxford lecture series retelling of events, my friends. No, not even if you necromantically raise the desiccated corpse of Alexander Scourby in your living room and command his cadaver to read aloud John Milton's `The History of Britain" throughout the entirety of "Ironclad." You're still not gonna get it...  The story: Grim, war-weary Knight Templar Sir Thomas Marshall (James Purefoy, an actor who snags the "Robert E. Howard" character roles as quickly as they're written) returns from the Crusades and joins forces with Baron Albany (Brian Cox, that incomparable paragon of stagecraft), who seeks to rebel against the despotic King John (Paul Giamatti, that incomparable paragon of shouting). Together, they take control of Rochester Castle because they know its strategic location will be a decisive factor in the coming civil war. Aided by a half dozen or so of Albany's comrades - all of whom make the "hardest of the hard" from "Braveheart" look like wimps - plus a few soldiers from the castle garrison, Sir Thomas heroically defends Rochester Castle against King John's army of barbaric Danish mercenaries. Note: Did the filmmakers want to include an exotic, Viking element in their retelling just for the fun of it? That was my first clue to throw 'historical accuracy' to the four winds for this one.  It's true that, taken as a historical drama, "Ironclad" doesn't offer much. Taken as a "European" martial arts film, however, it merits one's attention.  The bottom line: I've not seen another film in this genre (except for "Braveheart") that takes an array of Europe's deadliest medieval weapons and demonstrates to the viewers - graphically - exactly why those weapons were so effective in battle. To give one example, Purefoy's Knight Templar character fights using a two-handed longsword, and at times he grasps the blade to shift and swing the weapon, or reverses his grip entirely and attacks his foes with the hilt and weighted pommel. This is a real swordfighting technique, now almost forgotten, because nowadays everyone is accustomed to thinking of the hilt of the sword as "the place to put your hands."  What this technique accomplishes is to turn a (presumably) slow, heavy longsword into a body-length bladed staff, with a heavy, battering weight at one end. And if you think that's cool, watch what the character named Becket (Jason Flemyng) does with the pole-axe/halberd he wields throughout most of the film.  Plus, there are destructive siege engines. And monstrous Viking battle-axes. And throwing knives. Clubs studded with iron rivets, anyone? Right here. Severed limb, anyone? Oh, you betcha, says Ms. Palin.  So, if you should decide to watch "Ironclad," watch it for these reasons. All of the fights look cool and feel real, and overall, the performances are generally as they should be for this type of film. Not much depth of character, in other words, but who really cares when it's mano-a-mano, and steel is crashing against sanguine steel (or thudding into flesh). Ol' Robert Ervin Howard would approve. If you truly want to experience "the real Middle Ages in Britain" then go take in a Latin High Mass at Mel Gibson's dad's church, or something, and then drink until you want to fight everyone around you. And besides, who expects bona fide historical accuracy from a hack-and-slash, cheer the heroes movie that casts Paul "We couldn't afford Gary Oldman" Giamatti in the role of England's most infamous monarch?

Smokey and the "BLEEP" Bandit Laughed most of the way through the movie!  I just didn't remember all the profanity! I'm glad my 11 year old was in bed.

Good film. Good cast. Worth your time. I was really surprised at the performances in this movie. MCconohey was good in this movie. He did not try to force the character  and seemed very natural. It was good to see Marisa Tomei and William H. Macy on screen again. Their performances were very good also. I don't remember hearing much about this film when it came out. I'm glad to rediscover this hidden gem on Amazon Prime.

"Good Thriller!" Robert De Niro and Al Pacino star in this 2008 crime thriller. Two cops pursue a serial killer who could be a cop. It's great to see Robert and Al together again and this is good, but not as good as "Heat" This dvd has nice picture and sound plus a couple neat extras. I recommend this.

"Whiskey.  Soda!  Whiskey.  Soda!" Typically, I am bored at the slap-schtick humor of the old greats, but I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of this movie and even found myself laughing out loud!  Such good comedic writing.  A very enjoyable film.

Faithful interpretation of a complex book This production is tremendously well acted, and it sticks fairly closely to the original story. Due to the limitations of conversion to screen, some things were cut - such as Mollys missing Cynthias wedding due to lingering cold/flu and her resulting stay in The Towers, and a few other things.  I think Mrs Gibson comes off as a bit more of a twit in the book, and Cynthia as more of a twit in the film. The film also left out the whole storyline about Rogers wranglership - which came with a stipend (or fellowship) that allowed him to finance his brothers clandestine marriage & travel, and that Rogers whole trip to Africa was a way to make money to allow his father to continue with a project to improve the property - thus improving his fathers feelings about himself as able to provide work for his tenants. There are some things that the film does which surprised me and which I thought were really good - such as Lady Cumnors speech impediment - not written into the book (in my memory) but which is entirely possible and highly amusing. I also adore the way that they dramatized Cynthias teenage outbursts, running out of rooms and door slamming - and the Miss Brownings voices and reactions.  I do wish Roger wasn't quite so handsome in the film, as he was not described as such in the book. The film talks about several classes in the social hierarchy - focusing more on the classes which are seen more or less as social equals - with the words, deeds, feelings & lives of servants noticeably absent.  Overall - its quite a good production and its telling a time old tale of the conflicts of teenagers with their parents over who they want to date, young men striving to make their own ways while remaining close to their fathers.

Who's Afraid of ADOPT A SAILOR? I caught this  film on Showtime because I liked the cast and although at first it seemed to be yet another rehash of WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? as the film went on (really a filmed play for most of it) the emptiness and the loneliness of the older couple cam through and I admit to being a little teary at the end. The cast is wonderful. Bebe Neuworth and Peter Coyote as an unhappy couple made to face themselves when a young sailor appears on their doorstep are just right, full of self righteousness and self pity. Kudos. The heart of the film though is the understated and quite wonderful performance by young Ethan Peck. As a small town boy from Arkansas he never falls into stereotype, but instead instills his role with a goodness and honesty that never falters. I hope this young man has a long and successful career.  Not recommended for those who like lots of action, but rather for those who like good dialogue and superb acting. ADOPT A SAILOR was a terrific surprise.

Strange Delights This is one of those rare gems that crosses just about every age barrier you can think of, from toddlers to geriatrics.  "Making Fiends" exists in a world all of its own. The characters are drawn with strong, simple black lines, and are likewise colored in the simplest possible manner, with only one single hue being used per character. Backgrounds are only marginally less minimalist, but still somehow manage to suggest a delightfully gothic, even noir quality.  Within this strange world there are two principle characters. First, there's Vendetta, a young girl of pure malevolence. Vendetta possesses the power to "make fiends", which she is depicted as doing with a big pot, much stirring, and unidentified ingredients. The monsters so created allow Vendetta to terrorize everyone else in the series. Everyone, that is, except for Charlotte, her nemesis. Charlotte is Vendetta's exact opposite: a creature of pure innocence and Pollyannaish delight. The exact age of Vendetta and Charlotte is never specified, but they are class-mates in what appears to be elementary school.  Vendetta, naturally enough, finds Charlotte's relentless cheerfulness somewhat hard to take. "And" (in the words of the opening theme song) "so she plots her end".  Unfortunately for Vendetta, although Charlotte at all times remains entirely oblivious to Vendetta's evil intent, she somehow manages to thwart Vendetta's every move. Usually she does so either by winning the fiends over with her innate goodness, or alternatively, by horribly devastating them in her attempts to play with them. Indeed, just about every move on Vendetta's side is interpreted as "play" by Charlotte. And... that pretty much covers the plot of every single episode, or very nearly so. Perhaps it's for the best then that the episodes are all rather short. I doubt the premise could sustain a full half hour.  Unsurprisingly, the show ends up being rather like the old Warner Bros. Coyote/Road Runner cartoons in that you do inevitably wind up siding with the nominal villain of the piece. That Charlotte girl IS rather annoying! And damn, I wish Vendetta could just SQUISH her!  Theo.

DVD The Proposal Having rented this movie twice, I decided that buying it made sense.  I would categorize it as a "feel good" movie.  Light, but pleasant story with wonderful performance by Betty While. There are movies that do not require suspense as to the ending, and The Proposal is certainly one of them.  As usual, when I enjoy a movie which I have rented, I go to Amazon to buy it, as well as almost anything that we may need or want, or even about which we may have questions.

4 Stars Because! This is my 3rd purchase of Billy Blanks Tae Bo DvD's. I rated this one 4 Stars for the following reasons: 1) This workout was much more difficult than his "This Is Tae Bo" workout. Beginners Beware! this one will leave you crawling on the floor gasping for air and water. 2) Cardio Explosion doesn't fit some of the exercises. At the end of this video he does some machine gun sidekicks. Not exactly an "EXPLOSION". I viewed an Explosion as an intensity, Hard punching not fast punching, Hard solid form kicks not machine gun kicks. 3)***Observation**** He added stretching at the front and back of this DvD. I am now very used to doing my own stretching routine and then turning on the DvD ready to go. I was let down a little to find out he added that so now I did 2 rounds of stretching. 4) Few things I like: The combination of kicks, Doing speedbag while jumping, the hammer fist exercises, the Backfist exercises. 5) Things I dislike: Stretching front and back of DvD, Jumping jack Punches, Machine gun sidekicks, Leg lifts were way too fast and some exercises were way too fast.  I like this DvD but I was a wee bit disappointed. I'll keep it in my library though. The workout is a bit shorter due to the stretching at the front and back of the DvD. I purchased the "This is Tae Bo" DvD and I like it the best. I'll Flip Flop these 2 vids to keep it mixed a bit.

I simply love the fact that "The Shop Around the Corner" (DVD) was included with this Blu-ray release... 1998.  It was a time when more and more people would be using the Internet, a time when a lot of news showcased people who found love on the Internet.  Having enjoyed "The Shop Around the Corner" (which was an adaptation of the 1937 Miklos Laszlo Hungarian play "Parfumerie") and the Broadway musical adaptation, "She Loves Me",  writer/director Nora Ephron and producer Laura Schuler Donner wanted to create a modernized version featuring a romantic comedy centered around love found on the Internet but yet using elements from Ernst Lubitsch's 1940 romantic comedy".  And having struck gold with romantic comedies that starred actress Meg Ryan in "Sleepless in Seattle" and "When Harry Met Sally" and the amazing chemistry between Ryan and Tom Hanks in the 1993 film "Sleepless in Seattle" and the 1990 film "Joe Versus the Volcano", the filmmaker would reunite the two talents for her 1998 romantic comedy "You've Got Mail".  The film which can be seen as a sign of the times as it utilized then-popular Internet provider American Online (AOL) and it's popular trademark e-mail greeting "You've Got Mail", "You've Got Mail" would become a major hit in the box office as the $65 million film would earn over $250 million in the box office and would go on to also achieve success in the home video market.  And now both the original Ernst Lubitsch 1940 film "The Shop Around the Corner" via DVD and "You've Got Mail"  (via Blu-ray) was released together in January 2012.  VIDEO:  "You've Got Mail" is presented in 1080p (1:85:1 aspect ratio) and unfortunately it is a film that slightly shows its age, yet there is enough detail and better colors that makes this version much better than the previous DVD releases.  First the bad.  There are some moments where the film looks oversaturated and also soft and there are moments where you do see artifacts popping up once in a while.  While it shows up a few times, most people will probably not be bothered by it.  But for those expecting a pristine version of the film, it does have its issues which can be seen on a larger monitor/screen.  With that being said, the film still looks better than its previous DVD counterparts.  The colors tend to pop much more, you can see the skin pores on Tom Hanks' face during closeups and while some areas look its age, some don't and look very good.  So, for the most part, this is the best looking version of the film thus far.  It may not be the pristine picture quality that I was hoping for, but nevertheless, it does look much better than the DVD version.  As for "The Shop Around the Corner", the film looks absolutely wonderful considering it is a 71-year-old film.  The contrast levels are good, the film source looks very good for its age and I didn't detect any major problems with video quality at all.  Grays and whites are well-contrast, black levels are nice and deep and for the most part, the presentation of "The Shop Around the Corner" looks good on DVD.  Too bad, this classic film it was not converted to a Blu-ray release.  AUDIO & SUBTITLES:  "You've Got Mail" is presented in DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Dolby Digital Francois and Espanol 2.0 stereo.  For this romantic comedy and like most films of the genre, most of the lossless soundtracks tend to be center and  front-channel driven with mild use of surround channels for ambiance.  The same can be said about "You've Got Mail".  Primarily, everything is center and front channel-driven and dialogue and it's musical soundtrack is crystal clear.  As for "The Shop Around the Corner", the film's dialogue is also clear and didn't notice any more hiss or crackling during my viewing of the DVD.  Subtitles are presented in English SDH, Francois and Espanol.  SPECIAL FEATURES  "You've Got Mail" comes with the following special features:    Audio Commentary - Featuring audio commentary by writer/director Nora Ephrone and producer Lauren Shuler Donner who discuss the film, the cast and more.   Delivering You've Got Mail - (25:29) A 10th year anniversary interview with Nora Ephron and her two leads, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. Also, featuring producer Lauren Shuler Donner, co-writer Delia Ephron and more.   You've Got Chemistry - (26:18) A Warner Bros. featurette about iconic couples that appeared in Warner Bros. classic films including Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn, William Powell and Myrna Loy, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall and others.   Isolated Score Track - Watch the film with only George Fenton's musical score.   First Look Television special - (14:19) The HBO preview for the film.   Discovering New York's Upper West Side - (10:09) Nora and Deliah Ephron talk about their favorite scenes in New York City featured in the film.   Music Video - Featuring Carole King's "Anyone at All" music video.   Theatrical Trailer - The two original theatrical trailers for "You've Got Mail": "The Best Way to Meet Someone" (1:24) and "They Couldn't Stand Each Other" (1:26)  EXTRAS:  "You've Got Mail" comes with a DVD version of the classic Ernst Lubitsch 1940 romantic comedy, "The Shop Around the Corner".  JUDGMENT CALL:  I'm not afraid to admit that I am a big fan of Meg Ryan's hit romantic comedies and especially enjoy the chemistry and pairing of Ryan along with Tom Hanks.  Back in the 1930's through the 1950's, there were Hollywood couples that would light the screen in multiple films, for today's modern films, there really hasn't been American couple other than Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, two talents that viewers fell in love whenever they were together in a romantic comedy.  And like many people who couldn't wait for "You've Got Mail" to be released in theaters, I was among the many who look forward to watching the film.  For one, I love Nora Ephron romantic comedies and how she is able to focus on character but also incorporate the city that a film is shot in.  She has an eye for location but also knows what she wants from her talents and Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan have discussed how Nora Ephron's direction is much different than other filmmakers.  And for Ephron, her love for the Ernst Lubitsch classic "The Shop Around the Corner", especially for her passion towards the Broadway musical "She Loves Me" would lead to romantic magic for "You've Got Mail".  But back in 1998, this film was highly anticipated because I enjoyed watching Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan together, watching a Nora Ephron film but interesting enough, I also had a similar experience of meeting someone on the Internet with similar circumstances as the characters featured in the film.  And I was there to buy the first DVD release of the film and here we are 14-years later with a Blu-ray release of "You've Got Mail".  And where films such as "When Harry Met Sally" and "Sleepless in Seattle" are not dated due to technology, "You've Got Mail" manages to date itself with old technology via modem connection, old product placement during a time when American Online (AOL) was on top of Internet providers and also during a time when mega bookstores were not threatened by the emergence of online bookstores such as Amazon.  But still, despite the older technology and the fads of the time, I was not turned off by it.  In fact, I was nostalgic of how things were back then.  But "You've Got Mail" still manages to captivate me as it did back then.  Sure, it was not my favorite Meg Ryan romantic comedy especially when compared to "When Harry Met Sally" and "Sleepless in Seattle" but there is a magic that exists in the film, because of the wonderful chemistry between Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.  The two can literally take on these characters and bring amazing life to them, making them believable and entertaining to watch.  And also Nora Ephron's ability to make the locations and the music selections compliment the characters as well.  Also, the film managed to bring in a pretty enjoyable supporting cast with Parker Posey, Dave Chappelle, Steve Zahn, Heather Burns and Dabney Coleman.  But also "You've Got Mail" would feature actor Greg Kinnear ("As Good as It Gets", "Ghost Town", "Little Miss Sunshine") and "Grey's Anatomy" actress Sara Ramirez before they became popular.  Also, I was impressed at the time of how the Ephron sisters were able to modernize the film from its original predecessors.  I absolutely adore Ernst Lubitsch's 1940 classic "The Shop Around the Corner" and I'm so glad "You've Got Mail" was not a remake.  Sure it incorporates certain situations that were seen in the original film, but for the most part, everything was new and everything worked.  "The Shop Around the Corner" is simply a wonderful romance film that is different in the fact that both lead characters work in the same gift shop but there is also a dramatic element as the shop owner thinks the lead character Alfred Kralik (played by James Stewart) is having an affair with his wife.  But this classic film is a wonderful feel-good romantic comedy that has managed to stand the test of time, even over 70-years-later...I'm still enjoying this film no matter how many times I have watched it.  And while not on Blu-ray but on DVD, the film still looks very good on DVD!  While the Blu-ray release of "You've Got Mail" and its video quality does show the film's age due to softness and also some instances of artifacting, there is still a good amount of detail and beautiful colors that make this Blu-ray release worth owning and worth upgrading from the DVD release.  If you were an owner of the first DVD release, a lot of the special features do make it onto this Blu-ray, but also the inclusion of the 2008 10th anniversary reunion between Nora Ephron, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in the featurette "Delivering You've Got Mail" (which was released in a later DVD release of "You've Got Mail").  Also, the biggest addition for me which I absolutely loved was the inclusion of Ernst Lubitsch's 1940 romantic comedy, "The Shop Around the Corner".  While a DVD, not Blu-ray...still you are getting two films when you purchase the "You've Got Mail" Blu-ray release and for hopeless romantics, the fact that these two films are included is fantastic!  And did I mention that you can find this Blu-ray release for under $10 on Amazon?  Awesome!  Overall, "You've Got Mail" is still as delightful and highly entertaining as when I first watched it in theaters back in 1998.  Sure, things have changed a lot in technology and also economic settings when it comes to the mega bookstores in today's society, but Internet romance is much more prevalent today than it was back then and more and more people are discovering love online, so the film still has relevance today.  If you love romantic comedy films, you're going to enjoy "You've Got Mail" on Blu-ray for the fact that you get two films for the price of one and if you enjoyed the film back then and owned the DVD, you're definitely going to want to upgrade to Blu-ray.  It's a wonderful deal and both films are highly recommended!

Post modern of todays standerds. Snipes plays a the best role in the whole movie. The psycho with pride. Sallone's character does make the movie complete. Overall Demolition man is a classic stylish scify action movie but the scenery is a little dated for a futuristic movie.

An AMAZING STEP BACK IN TIME I've never seen a RUDOLPH VALENTINO film but I have always been aware of his popularity during the early silent days of motion pictures. I also hadn't seen a silent film in years, so I tried to take a step back in time and imagine the magic this film conveyed to a 1921 audience. It was surprising to see how much time was spent on costumes and the sets. I wondered where the desert scenes were filmed since they looked so much like a real desert as opposed to southern California deserts. There seemed to be a cast of hundreds in Arabic clothing and on horseback and camelback. This film must have enthralled its audience back then. I can see the charm and allure in Rudolph Valentino depsite the heaven silent film make-up. He is a powerful sheik and falls in love with an Englishwoman. So he just takes her. Lady Diana Mayo, played by Agnes Ayres, is an independent and feisty woman. The two are at ends but you can guess the outcome. It was fascinating to go more 90 years back in time so see what movies were like. It's odd to have to read dialogue cards after someone "speaks." Of course, what other choice was there? The written descriptions seem odd and archaic in a strange, flowerly manner. I also didn't realize that when a new character was introduced and described, the name of the actor was on the bottom. I finally made the connection. I can only imagine the AWE that this epic inspired in moviergoers in 1921. The print was good but seemed to have an orange color to it and I realize it was tinted. Also, the music could be overwhelming and uninspired at times. It didn't seem to match what was happening on screen. I almost think no music would have been better. The three included shorts were fun to watch. RUDOLPH VALENTINO AND HIS 88 AMERICAN BEAUTIES has him judging a beauty contest of 88 women representing cities across the US and Canada. We can see what beauty was in the 1920's--the women's hair, make-up and clothes styles. THE SHEIK'S PHYSIQUE is a funny short of Valentino dressing for the beach. His tragic death at 31 shocked a nation and we see his funeral on a Pathe newsreel and scenes of him lying in state. I wonder if Valentino would have made the transition to sound film. Was he destined to die early and stay forever young on the screen?

Foley, Foley, Foley!!!!! The Hardcore Legend, Dude Love, Ms. Foley's Baby Boy, Mankind, Cactus Jack, whatever you want to call him, but fans know Mick Foley as one of the toughest to ever step in the ring. This is a look into the career of Foley from his early days of WCW to ECW to SMW and of course WWE as well as classic matches, promos and comments from Foley himself about the matches and his career.  -4/17/93, WCW Saturday Night, vs. Big Van Vader w/Harley Race: Its a pretty stiff match as Cactus beats down the champ, but he comes back bashing Jack in the corner and does end up breaking his nose with some hard punches. Cactus gets a second wind knocking Vader off his feet then to the outside even clotheslining him into the guardrail, then manager Harley Race gets a clothesline. Vader starts punching away and busts open Cactus, then hits the Vader Bomb, but on the outside Vader accidentaly punches Race. Later on the outside Vader misses a splash and hits the guardrail, Cactus hits a flip splash and Vader gets counted out. 6/10.  -4/17/94, WCW Spring Stampede, Chicago Street Fight, w/Maxx Payne vs. The Nasty Boys: Nothing more than a brawl, which is to be expected with these four involved, so many weapons are used including a pool cue, a few chairs, a shovel and tables among others and this went all over the ringside area. Knobbs got slammed through a table by Payne, Cactus suplexed a table onto Saggs, then Cactus got sent from the ramp to the floor, Saggs hits a shovel shot on Jack and makes the cover to win. 7/10.  -6/24/94, ECW Hostile City Showdown, vs. Sabu: In the opening minutes it seemed like Cactus wasn't interested in fighting back as Sabu nailed some kicks, punches and he stomped down Cactus in the corner and worked on his injured shoulder. Of course there's action on the outside, some hard chair shots from Sabu, then Cactus comes back hitting a big clothesline over the top, Sabu hits a big leg kick into the corner. After Paul E. hits Cactus with his phone, Sabu covers and wins. 6/10. Afterwards the action ends up going into the crowd, Cactus hits a piledriver onto a concessions table, back in the ring Sabu breaks a beer bottle over Jack's head, then Cactus gets put face first through the table. Cactus comes back suplexing the table on Sabu and the action just sort of ends.  -11/18/94, Smokey Mountain Wrestling, vs. Chris Candido: Not a bad match here, there was some decent wrestling and the expected brawling on the outside. Jack comes back but ends up hitting the ring post and Chris focuses on it with an arm bar, even leg dropping the arm at one point. Cactus comes back with a swinging neckbreaker, then Candido hits a big frankensteiner but misses a splash from the top. Jack ends up taking this one after some interference on Candido's behalf. 5/10.  -2/4/95, ECW, Texas Death Match, vs. The Sandman: Foley said before the match that Sandman was out on his feet and you could tell as he was a few steps off as he wouldn't stay down even though he probably should've. There's some hard chair shots by Cactus and Sandman keeps battling back even hitting a piledriver spiking Foley's head onto a chair. Sandman also worked over Cactus' leg a bit and DDT'd him into the chair, but Cactus wouldn't stay down either. Cactus hit 3 DDT's on the concrete floor and Sandman finally stayed down and Cactus won. 4/10.  -11/18/95, ECW November 2 Remember, w/ Raven vs. Terry Funk & Tommy Dreamer: A totally wild brawl that went all over the arena, Funk/Cactus & Dreamer/Raven paired off and all kinds of weapons were brought in, Funk threw a chair into the ring hitting Raven in the back of the head. They use street signs, a shopping cart on Stevie Richards, a golf club, a shovel, a VCR and the dreaded cheese grater among others which got big reactions from the crowd. Its just an insane brawl where even the referee gets nailed with some weapons, and in all this mayhem Funk covers Raven for the win. 7/10. The brawling continues with Raven wraps some barbwire around his head and headbutts Dreamer very low, Funk and Cactus battle to the back.  -3/9/96, ECW Big A** Extreme Bash, vs. Mikey Whipwreck: This was Foley's final ECW match and its not a bad one, Jack targets Mikey's injured neck, hammering and kicking the back of it. He misses a couple of chair shots then hits Mikey with a forearm, back in the ring Mikey hits the Cactus clothesline then rams the back of Jack's head into the guardrail. Later Mikey hits an impressive dive into the crowd onto Cactus who comes back attacking Mikey's neck more, hitting a hangman's neckbreaker onto the guardrail. They battle up into the crowd where Mikey hits a nice dive from the balcony, back in the ring Cactus slams Mikey with a chair a few times then the spike piledriver onto a chair and Cactus wins the match. 7/10. Nice ovation from the crowd as they showed Foley their appreciation.  Extras on Disc 1  -Post-Vader Match Interview: Right after their match Cactus Jack talks about how he can and will beat the monster Vader. Good promo  -Cactus Spits on the WCW Belt: After losing to Sabu, Cactus talks about how the WCW tag belt is important to him but he felt he lost his pride on this night. Really good promo  -"Cane Dewey" Promo: One of the best promos I've seen as Foley just rips on the fans of ECW for a couple of fans that had a sign that said "Cane Dewey", referring to Foley's young son. He also points out that Tommy Dreamer has a chance to not make the same mistakes he's made in wrestling.  -"Anti-Hardcore" Promo: Cactus Jack again rips on the ECW fans in another great promo.  -ECW Farewell Speech: After his match with Mikey Whipwreck he gave a pretty emotional speech thanking the ECW fans for giving him the ovation they did after all the nasty things he said about them.  -WWE Confidential Featurette: Foley talks about how he needed to step away from the wrestling business and didn't talk to Vince for the 19 months he was gone. He said he did miss helping kids in need and making their days a little brighter. Pretty good piece here.  -6/20/92, WCW Beach Blast, No DQ/Falls Count Anywhere Match for the WCW Heavyweight Championship, vs. Sting (Champion): It started off quickly with Sting taking it to Cactus, who comes back nailing a sunset flip off the ring apron for two. Its actually a pretty good match, Sting beats up Cactus on the floor, slamming him into the guardrail, but Cactus comes back with a spinning clothesline and locks on a body scissors. Cactus counters a Stinger Splash into the guardrail and uses a chair on Sting, but they battle up the ramp, a double arm DDT by Cactus for two. Sting hits a big clothesline off the top and pins Cactus on the ramp for the win. 8/10. Includes audio commentary by Mick Foley & Jonathan Coachman.  (Available on Falls Count Anywhere)  -9/30/94, ECW, vs. Sabu: This was their rematch and while better than their previous encounter it wasn't an all time great match. Cactus chokes Sabu on the ring ropes and targets his neck, Sabu comes back hitting a springboard moonsault to the outside but hits the guardrail sternum first. 911 & Jack fight a bit, before Sabu gets back up then meets a chair head first, they battle up into the crowd and Sabu gets piledriving into the stage. Sabu hits a nice dive off the stage, Cactus comes back nailing him with a trash can all the way to the ring. The end where a beer bottle doesn't break over Jack's head is pretty brutal as Sabu had to hit him over and over until it finally broke then Sabu hit a splash and pinned Cactus for three. 7/10. Also includes audio commentary by Mick Foley & Jonathan Coachman.  -9/13/86, WWE, Superstars, w/Les Thornton vs. The British Bulldogs: Foley says this is his second career match, there's nothing of note really except for Dynamite Kid hitting a clothesline that tore a ligament in his jaw. 3/10 as its basically a squash.  Disc 2  -9/22/96-In Your House: Mind Games, WWE Title Match, vs. Shawn Michaels (Champion): Very nice hardcore match, this showed the evolution of Michaels' aggressive streak, while at the same time showing just how hard Mankind was to keep down. Shawn did a great job early in weakening Mankind, by going for his knee and using lots of wrestling holds. But soon after Mankind began to dominate, and even used a few wrestling holds of his own including a nice fisherman's roll-up pin, then lots of back and forth action occurs. Nice spot where both men are on the top rope and both fall back and go through the announce table. The end is a bit of a downer as both Vader and Sid interfere to cause a DQ after about 26 minutes. The aftermath saw Mankind use the Mandible Claw to choke out Shawn then called for the ringside casket to be opened, but the Undertaker popped up and chased off Mankind. 11/10.  (Available on Mick Foley Hard Knocks & Cheap Pops and Shawn Michaels From The Vault)  -9/22/97, Raw, Falls Count Anywhere Match, vs. Triple H: This was an intense brawl that went into the crowd and all over the arena, HHH got thrown into the guardrail, knocking it down. HHH did get some good shots in but in the end Cactus hit a piledriver through a table on the stage and pinned him for the win. 7/10.  (Available on Falls Count Anywhere)  -5/4/98, Raw, Falls Count Anywhere Match, vs. Terry Funk, Special Guest Referee, Pat Patterson: Stone Cold Steve Austin was on commentary which was funny, these two had a good brawl with Funk using a chair on Foley, which busted him open in the back of the head. Foley comes back taking it to his idol, but he gets another chair shot to the head. They battle into the crowd, Funk hits a moonsault from about 10 feet up knocking down Foley and some officials. Foley hits a piledriver through a table, they go under the bleachers and fight in the back and back out into the ring. Funk takes a beating but won't stay down, it takes a spike piledriver onto a steel chair to keep him down for three. 8/10. Austin comes in and throws his beer in Foley's face and they have stare down which leads to the next match.  -5/31/98, Over The Edge, WWE Title Match, vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin (Champion), Special Guest Referee, Vince McMahon: Undertaker was at ringside and with all the odds against Austin, he kept having to fight off Patterson & Brisco at ringside, Vince's officiating and of course Foley himself. Its the expected brawl, Foley takes a hard clotheline off the guardrail to the concrete floor, they battle to the stage where Austin gets backdropped onto a car hood. Back in the ring Foley uses a chair and hits a double arm DDT but only gets two, Austin gets the chair and hits a brutal chair shot but Vince won't make the count and he gets smashed with a chair from Foley on accident. After another ref gets knocked out, Taker prevents Patterson & Brisco from making the count and chokeslams both of them through the announce tables. Austin hits the stunner and Vince counts to three with some help from Austin. 10/10.  (Available on Mick Foley Hard Knocks & Cheap Pops and Stone Cold Steve Austin: The Bottom Line...)  -6/28/98, King of the Ring, Hell In A Cell Match, vs. The Undertaker: Without question the most famous cell match in history. Mankind takes a huge fall from the top through the announce table in the first couple of minutes, after some time he comes back up the aisle and climbs the cage, takes a chokeslam through the ceiling of the cage and almost blacks out from the fall and a chair smashing him in the face. Pretty brutal action as there's thumbtacks, blood and a tombstone that puts Mankind down for the 3 count. 10/10. I do like that the post match ovation was included as the crowd cheered big for Foley.  (Available on Hell In A Cell Collection, Tombstone History of the Undertaker, OMG Top 50 Incidents in WWE History)  -1/4/99, Raw, WWE Championship Match, vs. The Rock: DX and the Corporation were at ringside and this was a good match where Rock was beating on Mankind but Foley wouldn't stay down and kept fighting back. After locking on the Manible Claw, Ken Shamrock runs in, hits Mankind with a chair and a brawl between the Corporation and DX. During this Austin's music hits to a thunderous reaction, he hits the ring, whacks Rock with a chair, puts Mankind on the Rock, the ref counts three and Mankind wins his first WWE title. 7/10.  (Available on Raw 15th Anniversary)  -1/23/00, Royal Rumble, Street Fight for the WWE Championship, vs. Triple H (Champion): The build-up for this was very intense and felt quite real and this match lived up to and surpassed it. Cactus brought his A-game and Trips did elevate his game (no pun intended) as he hung with Foley and took a hell of a beating while dishing one out. Trips takes a suplex onto a wooden palet and a piece of it stabs him in the leg. Foley gets cuffed and beaten with a chair out into the aisle way before the Rock comes in for the save. Foley gets back dropped into some tacks, then pedigreed but he kicks out. Trips hits another pedigree into the tacks and covers Cactus for the win to retain his title. Best match of the night, one of the best title matches I've seen. 10/10.  Extras on Disc 2  -Mankind Teasers: The WWE fans got a look at a new and fairly disturbed wrestler.  -Music to My Ear: A classic, creepy Mankind promo where he talks about how others pain is music to his ear.  -Mind Games: J.R. talks with Mankind and Paul Bearer before the PPV, where Mankind says he will destroy Shawn Michaels.  -Jim Ross Interviews Mankind: On Raw Mankind talks about how he has a lot of anger towards many people including Vince McMahon and Shawn Michaels, then Mankind attacks J.R.  -The Birth of Mr. Socko: While Vince is in the hospital Mankind visits Vince and debuts the comical sock known as Socko.  -Mick Foley & Al Snow in Vegas: While trying to have fun in Vegas they get annoyed by fairly irritating fan.  -More Mick Foley & Al Snow in Vegas: They visit some fun places and also go to a gentleman's club.  -Commissioner Foley & Kurt Angle: Funny segment where Foley books Angle in a match.  Its a good collection of Foley's best matches with only a couple of duds and some rare matches which are a treat to see. However as you can see some are featured on other sets so if you are a big Foley fan then pick it up as its good stuff but you don't have to have it.

Excellent film While the humour of Williams is extremely funny in this film, it is not a accurate depiction of the real Adrian Cronauer. To be fair the film does not claim to be a factual biography and does tell a good story about different cultures and war. However, I think the crowning achievement of the film comes toward the end when Williams queues up Louis Armstong's "What A Wonderful World" and we listen to Satchmo sing while we witness a montage of war scenes. It is perhaps some of the most powerful moments of film Hollywood has ever produced and the film is worth owning for that footage alone.

Steven Segal Steven Segal and Tommy Lee Jones who could ask for a better combination and throw in Gary Busey and the mix is unbeatable.  I think for all time over the top Segal this is the one.

Really Excellent Animation They look real, they really do! I would have sworn they were working from photographs except that I don't think Disney really has a time machine. And of course, when he gets to the babies, they are too cute to be real. But the big ones, and the landscapes all look amazingly real.  The story is one disaster after another. First, an iguanadon egg is carried away by a variety of egg-eaters and other fateful accidents where it lands on an island inhabited largely by lemurs. When the egg hatches, inside is the cutest little baby dinosaur you have ever seen in your life. (C'mon, admit it: how many baby dinosaurs have you seen?) The female lemur is enchanted, but the alpha male points out that creatures like that eat creatures like them for snacks. But it turns out he can't destroy the cute "little" thing either, so they decide to raise him as an herbivore. They name him Aladar.  Apparently it worked, because the next scene he's grown up considerably, and the lemurs play all over him and he has a great time. But one day a huge meteor shower starts to fall, frightening them all, and eventually one humungous meteor lands, breaking up the landscape something awful and separating those few lemurs who were playing with Aladar from the island which is now in flames. Soon, they come across a huge migration of dinosaurs of all types, with the predators to the back, picking off the slow ones. The social dynamics are quite human-like in many ways, of course, and Aladar takes up with the slow ones at the back of the herd, helping them along and defending them. The leader is a tough old Darwinian, but his sister is a pretty lady of the same species as Aladar.  From here you can write the story yourself, since you've seen lots of Disney movies. It's a pleasurable movie, the graphics are quite amazing, and the story has enough complexity to keep it going. I'm sure it would be better with kids around, but I liked it. I'll give it three stars.

Mothers have to respected and run away from This film tries to explore the complicated love story between a Muslim, born in Kenya, raised then in India, then in Canada, and moved to London to have a photographer's career, if the details are right, without a father who died early and with a cousin who considered that sex had to be satisfied with him since girls were out of the picture. That practice is quite common among Muslim teenagers, the big brother taking his toll on the smaller brothers  But that is trite too. So how can we make a good film about that or with that?  Simple. Move the action from Toronto to London and make that young Alim have a doppelganger in the identity of Cary Grant who is advising him on everything and particularly on his sex life. Cary Grant, the doppelganger, was reconstructed from the numerous films he watched under the influence of his mother in Kenya or India and in Canada. That gives the film a disquieting dimension already.  Then he has to have a love affair and a boyfriend who has to be English, and he is Giles. But the mother decides to visit her son and that sets the whole situation upside down and catty corner. They decide to make her believe they are just roommates and that Alim is in love with a girl. Giles even tries to charm the mother into believing anything, but Alim gets jealous and tells the plain truth to his mother who leaves at once, in the absence of Giles who had gone to the gym.  Then Giles is angry in his turn and moves out and has an affair with an Olympic swimmer. During that time Alim went to Toronto for the wedding of his cousin. Of course it is all false and awkward, especially with the cousin trying to have a stag party with Alim for fun and in remembrance of the past. Alim refuses but the mother was just behind. She will learn from her sister on the following day that her sister had negotiated a beautiful marriage and plenty of grand children with her son by letting him do what he wanted with Alim and probably others. Pure selfishness of a mother.  Alim's mother understands then that she has been selfish in another direction. And that's when Giles arrives in Toronto, in the wedding party, and Alim runs to him and passionately kisses Giles in front of everyone. Then they can go. Alim will have to set Cary Grant on a permanent vacation, and love will live forever and ever.  The absence of the father is a real trite commonplace banality in the fictional context of a gay man. The over-presence of the mother is nothing better, though the direct consequence of the first element. This is banal and plain ordinary popular psychoanalysis that explains nothing and even irritates the audience who would like to have a little bit more than clich&eacute;s.  But the film is fine because it is well done and the subject of the contact between two societies that are so different, the Pakistani or Indian Muslim society in exile in some western country and the western society of this or these countries. Why don't the two young men just say so and run for it and let all the witnesses on the sidewalk stare and yell and roar, if they think they are and have to be judging and executing lions? Because of fear? Because they may lose what they want to keep? Because they are afraid of growing out of the traps of a family? Many other reasons that make the love at time selfish and sour.  Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

very enjoyable We collect various "christmas carol" dvd's and really enjoyed adding this one to our collection. It's an oldie but a goodie. Very enjoyable and worth adding to your collection.

Loved it The first movie sticks pretty closely to the original anime.  In terms of story, there isn't much new material in 1.01, but they did spiff up the graphics and make it very pretty to watch.  This is a nice, somewhat condensed presentation of the first few episodes of one of the greatest animes of all time.  It is also a good foundation for 2.22 which is significantly different from the original anime.

Swan Princess Swan Princess is a great movie with enough humour for adults to enjoy it as well as characters that children love. We owned this video when the girls were little on VHS and I recently surprised them with their old favorite on DVD.

James Bond travels to Hamburg, Germany and Bangkok, Thailand After the success of GoldenEye (1995), Pierce Brosnan returns as "James Bond" in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997).   James Bond is after Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce), a man who is premiering his own 24-hour satellite news channel for the whole world to see. He enjoys writing headlines and obituaries, especially before the event happens. He will make them happen.  Carver's wife, Paris (Teri Hatcher), happens to be James Bond's former girlfriend. He must try and get pertinent information from her no matter how dangerous it is for him.  Bond also has an agent, Wai Lin (Michelle Yeoh) to accompany him to Bangkok.  DVD Running Time: 1 hour, 58 mins.   Option of language: English, Spanish.  Option of subtitles: English, French, Spanish.    A special 12-page booklet is also included inside your DVD container.  Special Play Options:  Audio Commentary #1 with Vic Armstrong & Michael G. Wilson  Audio Commentary #2 Roger Spottiswoode & Dan Petrie Jr.  Parallel Action Storyboard Presentation  Isolated Music Track You may choose all options off.  Special Features:  The Secret of 007 (45 mins)  Interview with David Arnold,  Special FX Reel, Theatrical Release, Teaser Trailer,  Gadgets.  Followed by: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6305784922">The World Is Not Enough (Special Edition)</a> (1999) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JLBE">Die Another Day (Widescreen Special Edition)</a> (2002) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000MNP2KI">Casino Royale (2-Disc Widescreen Edition)</a> (2006) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001PPLIEG">Quantum of Solace</a> (2008)   SKYFALL will be released November 9, 2012.

Hail to the Queen! Enjoyed a different retelling of a classic.It's nice to see a princess kick butt.I thought Kristen did good,it's not Oscar worthy but can you blame her?If the director really wanted to bring out the best in her why didn't he?But then again it's Snowhite,she's supposed to be beautiful and delicate but not in this movie.She has more boom boom pow than any of the Snowhite movies I've watched except Mirror Mirror where Lily Collins kicked butt too.Read there will be a part 2 but with the scandal that broke out you don't know who's coming back or not.I would still like to see Stewart come back.It's like watching a different movie when an actor/actress is replaced ie Maggie Gylenhaal replaced Katie Holmes in The Dark Knight.If you don't like Kristen Stewart don't watch it.

Not Lean's best but still worth a watch No one would argue that David Lean wasn't an exceptionally talented director.  For Ryan's Daughter he assembled a talented cast and beautiful location (Ireland) to paint the picture of two lovers torn asunder by social and political forces.  Unfortunately, unlike Dr. Zvivago which was a critical and commercial success, Ryan's Daughter was unable to match the intensity or impact of Lean's other films. The fault lies mostly in the direction by Lean - this film would have been served by another pass in the editing room to tighten up and shorten some of the scenes and in the case of the two lovers, slow it down a bit to allow the audience to buy into their intense attraction for each other.  I have read that the talented actor who plays Rosy's love interest (Christopher Jones as Major Doryan) was faulted for providing a flat performance - after watching this movie, it is obvious to me he (Christopher Jones) was scapegoated for the lack of more cohesive directing and editing.  Jones hit exactly the right note in portraying the Major as a tragic character - shell schocked from his time at the front and both physically and spiritually a broken man.  There are two seminal scenes in the film where the Major is stricken by his panic attack flashback to the fronts - these are beautifully and subtley played by Jones - watching him struggle to control himself and beat back the panic it is hard not to feel compassion for him.  The character Rosy, played by Sarah Miles, is also hurt by jumps in the story - the scene in the village bar where she meets the Major is rushed and not believable even by today's standards for attraction. Lean would have been better served he he allowed the characters some time to develop a rapport versus exploding into an immediate attraction which seems unlikely based on the social mores of the time and the circumstances of their meeting.  I think that Lean himself wasn't sure how to portray their instant attraction so the next time we see the lovers is in a long, drawn out, strange scene of them riding through the forest looking for a place to have a lover's tryst.  The scene is akward, slow moving and does nothing to help the audience invest emotionally with them. While it is a flawed film - I rate it 4 starts due to the the acting which is superb, some beautiful camera work and a haunting and memorable score.  Sadly, Christopher Jones the young actor who played Major Doryan gave up movies after making this movie and Lean himself didn't make another movie for 14 years.  Yes worth a watch but expect some long scenes where you might want to use the remote to speed up a bit and do the editing that Lean and his crew should have done before the movie released!

Jerry Lewis is dead on as a Johnny Carson style talk show host The one thing that made this movie memorable for me was Jerry Lewis' performance as a Johnny Carson-like late night talk show host.  His transformation from his signature silliness to a more urbane and buttoned down man of substance was truly remarkable.  I only wish that Jerry had played more such roles!

Humorous and fun throughout I think that this movie went a long way in proving the ability of Pixar to make outstanding films and never cease to amaze their audience. This film had a lot of people worried and had a pretty big wall of expectation to overcome. I know that I personally was groaning at the idea of ANOTHER Toy Story film. I liked the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0030IIZ4M">first film</a> and the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0030IIYYS">second film</a> did a good job of topping the first one. But I felt like I had been to the world of toys enough after the second one and was not impressed with the idea of a third part in the franchise. The first few previews for the film did not help convince me either. It was not until it came out and started getting excellent reviews that I began to think differently. I have always liked Pixar, but as Pixar is teamed with Disney now, Disney has a horrible track record with sequels. I think the success of this film really rested upon the direction they took with it story-wise. In this third installment, Andy is packing up for college and most of the toys assume that Andy doesn't want them anymore and donate themselves to Sunnyside Day Care. Upon arriving at Sunnyside, they realize that everything is not as sunny and bright as they first thought. I think this film answered a lot of questions brought up by the first two films and really takes a deeper look into the emotions of the toys when they feel that the one they loved so much no longer loved them. This idea leads to some very strong character development for not only the toys, but Andy as well. While the film remains humorous and fun throughout, it definitely has a more serious and emotional side to it than did the previous films. Pixar has always risen above the odds and I hope to see this tradition continue, especially since the next film they're releasing is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001HN6922">Cars 2</a>. That will have a lot of hurdles to overcome. I felt that this was a very well-done film and really took us to new heights and new lows with the toys we have grown to love since 1995. The film was handled very carefully by Pixar and they made sure to make it a new and exciting experience for us without making it a different world all together. I also think that Pixar ended this film and this franchise perfectly with all the pieces placed exactly where they should be. A big shout-out for Pixar in this film and their ability to surprise and delight us over and over and over again.  [...]

touching this movie was a mix of a comedy with some profound words. i've always wondered what a mental facility was and this movie has cleared it up for me. i absolutely love craig an noelle they make the cutest couple!

Great Movie however only wanted to rent it one time...Got charged twice? Dynamic and captivating plot. My spouse enjoys the series so we had to view this sequel. Did not feel ripped off like some movie purchases make me feel totally ripped off!

HOLMES GOES TO REHAB! Adapted by Nicholas Meyer's from his clever 1974 novel, this is certainly among the most faithful iterations of Arthur Conan Doyle's famous fictional detective.  The Herbert Ross directed film has Holme's loyal sidekick and chronicler Dr. John H. Watson (Alan Arkin) seeking the help of Dr. Sigmund Freud (Robert Duvall) in finding a cure for Holmes' debilitating cocaine addiction.  Nicol Williamson portrays Holmes as an authentic addict, alternately hyper and depressed with manic episodes that suggest he has truly lost touch with reality.  There's no tongue in cheek, winking at the audience here, but a solid piece of entertainment with the brilliant Holmes on the brink of losing his great mind to an obsession that leads to no solution but madness and death.  The three lead actors are all excellent - Vanessa Redgrave has a supporting role -- and Williamson's drug addled Holmes is unforgettable.  This fascinating film is long overdue for the a full Blu-ray restoration.

Bare-budget drama of gay male couple whose "accepted" existence in a small Connecticut town gets overturned when the teacher hal One of the better films I've seen in a while. Very well acted. a few very recognizable actors. With the exception of one character, no real good or bad guy's here. Just a really good story.

Good for someone new to the subject I love anything regarding Sasquatch so this was a no brainer. Someone who is new to the subject will find this show most informative, myself, it didnt teach me anything i didnt already know.

Hands over Forks & Knives There are three quite simple reasons to pursue veggie protein over animal and they are: (1.) Healthier which few would disagree with. (2.) Ethically superior because even though we're capable of doing something doesn't mean we have to do it. In this case should an animal other than ourselves also have the right to live - to experience what we do within their limited niche of life. (3.) Environmentally as we all know it takes a lot of petroleum products to produce, process and transport plant food for animal consumption and in turn it takes a lot of plant protein to make a little animal protein which is wasteful and in the process there is a lot of toxic chemical byproducts. Finally animal waste in large quantities is toxic to soil and surface/aquifer water.  So, hands over forks and knives - that's all we need.

a truly awesome Zombie movie I love this movie Staring some great up and coming actors and a screen veteran.  Jesse Eisenberg is Columbus the dorky yet lovable narator, Emma Stone is purely magnetic as always, Abigail Breslin is a convincing tough kid forced to be adult and young sister to Emma Stones charactor but its the veteran actor who steals the show, Woody Harrelson in one of his greatest rolls as Tallahassee, a tough badass lovable redneck with a healthy appetite for killing zombies. This is just a fun action comedy filled with quirky charactors and humor, great action and cool death scenes. The zombies all look awesome and scary but it is the chemisty and whitty dialogue between the lead charactors that serves up the greatest treat, you wll fall in love with the charactors. Zombie fan or not, this movie is for all action or comedy lovers, it is simply just fun to watch. Sure to be a cult classic, I've already watched it several times.

Ben Affleck, the director, is what makes this movie great I'm not a fan of Ben Affleck as an actor since he has no charisma and tends to be wooden. He single handedly made "Daredevil" a terrible movie. That being said, after seeing "Gone Baby Gone" and "The Town", I'm a big fan of Ben Affleck as a movie maker.  "The Town" takes a simple premise and makes a movie out of it. A masked bank robber who takes a teller hostage, in order to facilitate an escape, subsequently falls in love with her, which creates some complications. How does he keep the relationship going? Does he tell her the truth? How will the other bank robbers feel about this? How does the FBI feel about their victim romancing their target? All of this is entertaining yet hardly break though cinema.  What elevates this film is Affleck's obvious love and ability to cinematically capture Boston. He has a great feel for the working class, Irish element that is the focus of this movie. He also knows how to balance melodrama with some nice action scenes. The movie is somehow glossy and gritty at the same time.  I love his earlier work "Gone Baby Gone" which is less flashy and has more substance than "The Town". However, the two filmed-in-Boston movies clearly shows that Affleck is the go to guy when it comes to a Boston-themed flick.  His pacing, narration, and understanding of the demographics makes this a highly entertaining movie and, for me, an eager fan of future works.

Sing a long If you have young girls who like the Disney Princesses they will love this.  My granddaughter ages 2 and 4 sing along with this.  Whenever they come over they have me put in one of the Disney Princess Sing Along Songs discs.

Ballad of Cable Hogue Good movie, Just as good as when I first saw it. Priced right, very good western.  I would recommend this movie to anyone who is interested in good old westerns

High-spirited and amusing cop-buddy romp "The Other Guys" starts off as just another cop-buddy movie  but, about a third of the way in, it suddenly finds its mojo and turns into a clever, frequently hilarious send-up of not only police procedurals but the whole corporate and bank bailout outrages of the past several years.  The mismatched big-city detectives are played by Will Ferrall and Mark Wahlberg, the former a forensic accountant named Allen Gamble who prefers crushing numbers at his desk to crushing criminals on the streets, and the latter, a stereotypically gung-ho, trigger-happy hothead named Terry Hoitz, who's been busted down to an office clerk for accidentally shooting Derek Jeter at the ballpark, and who`s chomping at the bit to get back to doing what he does best.  Together, Allen and Terry mount an investigation into  a billionaire (Steve Coogan) who's become the target of a corporate client (Anne Heche) to whom he owes a great deal of money.  "The Other Guys" could easily have been just another big-budget throwaway filled with lame comic set-ups and even lamer jokes.  Instead, screenwriters Chris Henchy and Adam McCay (who also directed the film) have come up with a manic mixture of goofiness and near-surrealism that they have refined into a tasty comic brew.  Most of the dialogue is sharp and witty, and the situations stop just short of all-out theater-of-the-absurd.  Much of the success of the film can be attributed to the wonderful performances by the two leads, whose decidedly different acting styles complement one another so completely.  Wahlberg's deadpan, "straight-man" restraint provides a perfect foil for Ferrall's more over-the-top comic outrageousness, and part of the joy lies in watching these two old pros find their rhythm and go with it.  There's also a goodly number of "name" players in the supporting cast, including Eva Mendes as Allen's ultra-supportive "plain" wife, Sheila; Michael Keaton as the police captain who moonlights as a manager at Bed Bath & Beyond; Rob Riggle and Damon Wayans, Jr. as a pair of hyperkinetic, shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later cops (their brief scene at an elementary school career day is itself worth the price of admission); and Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson in cameo roles as a pair of super-charged, risk-taking detectives who take the phrase "let's hit the pavement" to a whole new, fatally literal level.  And all are excellent.  There's not much point in trying to look too deeply into "The Other Guys."  Just sit back and enjoy watching big-budget Hollywood filmmakers get one right for a change.

Divertido pero un poco anticuado. Este video es divertido pero es anticuado. Por supuesto, el video es para los ni&ntilde;os y chicitos. La historia tiene que ver con un malvado que tiene gran placer en dominar a todos los habitantes de la tierra. El gato con botas finalmente puede conquistar el malvado e ayudar a los buen habitantes de la tierra. No es un video moderno.

good, not great It was cool to see the behind-the-scenes video from events, but it would have been REALLY nice to see his campaign for MN Senate race.

Great film, if you have an imagination. REVIEW MAY HAVE SPOILERS! I felt that I needed to review this film to counter all the analytics with absolutely no imagination whatsoever. This movie was thoroughly enjoyable for those few of us who are creative, inspired and artistic. With a very original plot (how many movies coming out of Hollywood can make that claim these days?) it opens up a world that is almost as creative as the Matrix. Maybe not quite as intricate, but I felt a breath of fresh air from this film's sheer creativity.  Since almost all of the epic fight-scenes were taking place in the mind of a character, it was absolutely open-ended. There is nothing to say that one CAN'T fight a dragoon with a WWII-era airplane. Or go into battle against steam-powered zombie Nazis in a mech from the future. Let's face it. Many of us that had over-active imaginations as a child used to DREAM about this stuff. There is a Calvin & Hobbes comic where Calvin is playing with his toy dinosaurs and introduces an F-14 fighter jet into the fray, piloted by a T-Rex. Hobbes, ever the realist and grounded one, thinks it is stupid. But the child in us all related so well to that comic because we all wanted to break the rules and have T-Rexes attacking triceratops and stegosauruses with a jet. We did it. Transformers would join in the action-figure battles with X-Men and a GI-Joe here and there in a Lego city. What I am getting at is that it was all in her MIND. So why is any of this stupid?  Maybe you felt immature letting your imagination loose and embracing the child within. Maybe you felt emasculated by it even. Or maybe you just lack the ability too imagine something so ridiculously crazy-awesome, that it made you insecure. Who knows? Who cares, though? This movie was, for me anyhow, the epitome of FUN, and in the end that is what movies are ALL ABOUT: entertainment. So look for a sophisticated plot if you'd like. You aren't going to find it here, and like Calvin's clubs, we don't want you here anyhow. We want people who like giant Samurais fighting with mini-guns. And T-Rexes in fighter jets. Because we just want to be entertained and have fun!

Great Movie Great movie!!!  Enjoyed the relationship between Abby and the Chef!!! What I liked best was how she turned her situation around&lt; no matter how hard it got.  And reaped more rewards than she could have imagined!  Inspirational!

Plausible?  Not really.  Good entertainment?  Definitely. We just finished this and it was a good movie.  There was a lot of action and it kept you on your toes the whole movie.  There were scenes that just weren't plausible (many missed opportunities to shoot or grab a gun) but the suspense and storyline kept you interested despite that. Beautiful scenery on top of that.  My husband usually falls asleep during movies at night but he was wide awake through the whole thing.

Good and could be better I bought this series because the manga was good.  The anime isn't as good but I really liked the animated characters and music.  It was flashy and fun.

Never a Dull Moment This glamorous drama, set in the 1930's, centers on an aspiring veterinarian who drops out of college and runs away with the circus after his parents are both killed in a car crash. He must to grow up quickly as a result of being left all alone in the world, and then falling in love with a married woman soon after. His life becomes very complicated, and he is forced to make painful and difficult decisions. One thing that this film isn't is dull. The characters are very complex. There is action, drama, and the magic of the circus throughout. It is also very romantic and has many poignant moments. When it's over you feel like you've been on a long roller coaster ride.  Jennifer K. Lafferty Author of Offbeat Love Stories and More

Classic Sinatra, great cast, fun locales This stylish mystery has the best of the nascent "new" Hollywood, made about the same time as The Graduate, Easy Rider, when the more "realistic" film was in demand, the outsider managing to buck the system and emerge the hero.  Here Sinatra is a tough guy, alright, but he admits he's "out of shape", he out of money, out of luck with the broads. An old school Detective, haunted by the violent demise of his idol, his Dad, also with Law Enforcement. He's happy to squeak by, in his run down 1940s styled office in downtown Miami, and maintaining his boat which mostly stays moored to the dock. But he takes on a case involving a millionaire's daughter, missing diamonds, blackmail and bigamy.  Alot of plot, as you can imagine, but the Sinatra-isms keep you interested - several cameos add an olive or two to the martini: Joe E. Ross, Rocky Graziano, Beau Jack. Gena Rowlands does a fine job as the unsettled second wife with a past, now married to the wealthy Industrialist, Koperman (Simon Oakland).  Sexy ladies include Jill St. John, Sue Lyon, and Deanna Lund (from "Land Of The Giants" and a Jerry Lewis movie).  Music is also notworthy, by Nancy Sinatra, Randy Newman. Frank sticks to the drama.  Speaking of Sinatra-isms, this one seems to have gotten past alot of people (possibly more than the all-too-quick cameo by the great boxer Beau Jack): Tony finds a hovel run by a drug dealor, where he lies in wait for a main adversary. The doorbell rings, Rome pulls out his gun, and motions to the dealor to act natural - he says "We'll do it my way. Okay?".  (Some period stereotyping).

UNCOMMON MOVIE Paul Gross plays a gunslinger, the Montana Kid in this near western. Paul reminds me of the Mel Gibson of yore, before he became Mr. Hyde. The Kid rides into town tied backward to his horse dragging a broken limb behind him. A young girl who speak-e English-e helps him down. The town graciously accepts him into their Canadian community, in spite of his uncouth ways. The general store doesn't carry a lot, but they can order stuff. It does have tea and escargot.  He ends up living with a woman and helping her build a windmill for her well.  It is a good movie. It is not a great western. It is not a great drama. It is not a great comedy. It spoofs the life of the old west and its "codes." No f-bombs, no nudity, no sex.

A rare gem ADAP is a unique, one of a kind film with a great cast, Filmed in Visalia California. Make sure to watch what happens after the credits for a shocking ending.

Enlightening Just watched this movie and found it to be very informative about aspects of the food industry that the major players don't want you to know.  Worthwhile to watch...

Great movie, high quality blu-ray I watched this movie years ago and thought it was very good. I have never bought it in DVD but recently decided to add this movie to my Blu-ray collection. Its picture and sound are excellent in High Definition. Highly recommended!

Awesome in 3D This movie was awesome in 3D.  I also love the way it was filmed, the lighting, the color was very rich in almost a lomo photographic style.  I love the fact that there is not one curse word in the whole entire movie... and this came from Martin Scorsese?!  Bravo.

He May Be Dead, But His Work Will Continue...... Here we have the fourth installment of the Saw movies. If you have not watched the previous three, please do so before watching this one, or else it will be extremely confusing. Although a prequel in many ways, "Saw IV" also ties in with "Saw III," thus continuing the chain. I've had to watch this one a few times before actually being able to absorb everything that happened. "Saw IV" makes you think and analyze a lot more than the previous movies because there are so many flashbacks from past to present and so many twists, that it can boggle the mind. But once you wade through everything mentally, you'll find that "Saw IV" is a brilliant horror film complete with a decent storyline, plenty of gore and new traps. There is so much going on in this film that I'll try to break it down as best I can.  John Kramer/Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) is dead, and we get to see a rather graphic autopsy performed on his body. A tape is found in John's stomach to which Lt. Mark Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) plays and hears the chilling voice of Jigsaw. The things he says are truly epic for this film. We saw Lt. Hoffman for a short time in "Saw III" and now he's one of the most important characters for "Saw IV." It's not long before Hoffman is seemingly kidnapped by someone in the notorious pig mask (the story behind the pig mask will be revealed too) that we've seen in the previous movies.  The movie also revolves around Lt. Daniel Rigg (Lyriq Bent). Like Hoffman, he's appeared in the previous film as well, and now his character takes a giant leap into the spotlight. After finding Detective Allison Kerry (Dina Meyer) dead, it is clear that Rigg is the last man standing, as everyone has kept dying around him. Rigg has become obsessed with saving everyone, which will soon become part of the new Jigsaw game he will be put into. After being attacked in his own home, Rigg wakes up to find out on a t.v. screen that Eric Matthews (Donnie Wahlberg) is still alive, even after being missing for 6 months. He is hanging by his neck, hands shackled, his feet balancing on a huge block of slowly melting ice. Next to Matthews is Hoffman, gagged and bound to a chair that's near water. Their fates are linked together and the ice block and chair are like a balance. If Matthews steps off the block of ice, the chair that Hoffman is sitting in will sink down into water from the melted ice, which is hooked to high voltage and will electrocute him.  Rigg has but 90 minutes to go through a series of tests in order to save Matthews and Hoffman. Will Rigg trust the people in the traps to fend for themselves, or will his obsession to save everybody make matters worse? It starts with his test called "See What I See," where there is a shady woman named Brenda whose hair is twisted in the gears of a device. Then he meets up with a convicted rapist named Ivan for the "Feel What I Feel" test where he must give up his eyes or face deadly consequences. Rigg then finds the abusive husband and his wife linked together with long steel spikes piercing through both their bodies in the "Save As I Save" trap. Rigg will then at last reach his final test where the climatic ending unfolds.  Along the way, we're introduced to some new people in the movie who make a huge impact. FBI agents Peter Strahm (Scott Patterson) and Lindsey Perez (Athena Karkanis) are hot on the case with a key and a note they obtained from Kerry before she died that says "Open the door and you will find me." While investigating, Perez and and Strahm come across a trap of their own in the form of "Billy," the infamous laughing Jigsaw doll that has appeared in the other films. This time around, Billy is no ordinary laughing doll, as agent Perez will find out. We're also introduced to Jill Tuck (Betsy Russell), John Kramer's ex-wife, who has been relentlessly interrogated about John in the past. Strahm is now the latest person to interrogate Jill about her own possible involvement in the crimes, and of course about John. Through Jill Tuck's flashbacks, we are told the back story of John Kramer and how he became who he was, from his grieving moments over the loss of his unborn son, to his first test with a soulless hustler and thief named Cecil, who gets a dose of a knife mask and a trip into some razor wire. Finally, we get to meet Art Blank (Louis Ferreira) the attorney who is linked to John as well as the people in the latest traps. He too has played a game of his own during the first part of the film where he's in a room with his lips sewn shut. Another man in there with him has his eyes sewn shut. The trap is called the mausoleum. The two men are chained by their necks to either side of the device, which keeps pulling them towards the machine. One man has the key to unlock their chains, and it turns out to be a rather violent struggle between the two men. Art has a significant role in the game that Matthews and Hoffman are playing during the movie as well.  The ending left my jaw dropping. Everything happens so fast and is so unexpected. It will definitely leave you surprised; very unique twists and an ultra-intense "Final Test" scene with Matthews, Hoffman, Rigg and Art. The film ties all the ends together in a very different way at the end. "Saw IV" is the "thinkers" Saw film, and after viewing it for the first time, you could very well ask yourself: "What the hell just happened?!" I know I did. Solid acting as always from Tobin Bell, and I was impressed by the supporting actors/actresses as well. Overall an intense, gory ride. Watch, squirm and analyze.

Great movie, too grainy I'm from Per&uacute;, here blu-rays cost 45 dollars so I bought this here in amazon (it cost me 19 dollars with shipping and delivery). The movie is great but the transfer is cheap, it's too grainy and the dark parts aren't sharp. I still recommend buy it until a better edition comes up.

initial d do you like drift ? do you like modified imports ? do you like street racing ? well thats what initial d is all about .... street racing , drifting and modified cars .. with a story somewhere in the middle .. check it out its a great series

A return to salems lot.(All things considered...) It has come to my attention that a number of comments have been posted in critique of this movie. The only logical conclusion I can come to is that the commentators either: A. Did not see the original Salem's Lot, or B. Are not thoroughly familiar with movies from this time frame.  Coming from an unbiased perspective and considering the year this movie came out, I rate this movie as a Strong 9 (not quite a 9.5) on a scale of 1 to 10. The plot was seasoned with intrigue, The acting was considerably standard for the time and the special effects were not the worst. All in all I would say the "Flow" of this movie was actually superior to the prequel. Of course, there's no winning with some individuals. As the adage points out: "You can't please everyone".

Still great entertainment The Mysterious Island is one of the great sci-fi classics of the post-WWII/pre-Vietnam era (if I can call it that). But keep in mind it bears very little resemblance to the book. Still, as entertainment the movies based on Verne's books were some of the best of this era. In some ways, this is my favorite, although 20,000 Leagues is certainly great too.  The movie sports a more than competent cast, many of them familiar faces from various character roles of this era. Herbert Lom is excellent as Captain Nemo. Lom is refined and sophisticated in the role (as was James Mason's) but in addition brings an ironic sense of humor to his interpretation of Captain Nemo which the great James Mason didn't, who was a more serious chap, as they say. Also notable is the way in which both Union and Confederate soldiers decide to work together for their survival under the union captain, including the war jounalist, played by Gary Merrill (and another familiar face from this period).  Harryhausen shows his mettle with his very believable giant creatures (the big bird was particularly good), but the giant crabs and bees were cool too. The storm scene with the hot air balloon was just amazing in its realism and just goes to show you how much they were able to do in the old days before CGI and computer graphics. Not to mention the awesome volcanic eruption at the end of the movie. Overall, still some of the best entertainment out there from an earlier, and many ways, simpler and more honest era of movie-making. I would give it five stars except for the fact that, as I mentioned earlier, the movie in many ways bears little resemblance to the book.

The video segments are very real... This is worth looking at.  The footage and real time audio is just what it was like...I was there, I know.  It is slightly slanted in the comentary...though I suspect that was an attempt to find a few subjects (the soldiers) that would give a varried view point.  By trying to balance things, you'd think the guys over there were as much for as against.  Not true.  But that really matters not, I'm willing to believe the intent was balance, not an intentional skew of the opinions.  War sucks.  Period.  Hooah

Surf Movie with Hidden Subject I am really not sure what this movie is about. It starts out talking about this boy who lives in a shack (I guess) with his mother -there seems to be only one room in this whole shack and there is a bed. The boy sleeps in the bed with his mother. Through out the movie the only part of his mother that is shown is her long fingernails. She apparently sleeps all day all the time. The story never fully developes around that particular, odd issue but instead moves on with the boy hanging out with a rough bunch of surfers and skaters. He tags along with one of his friends to pick up the friend's brother who he seems to have a small crush on, but it isnt obvious.  So basically this movie revolves around this relationshp and the secrets that are revealed regarding a relationship the brother had with his highschool teacher.  I dont know what it is about this movie I like, the ending really bothered me.  Still I couldnt help but to want to watch it again and again -so I bought it. There is something gripping about it. The movie takes place in New Zealand.

Good movie, but a bit of caution. This was a good movie, and I liked it, but there were disturbing scenes such as witchcraft and the witch spitting in a bowl mixed with blood (shudder). but, it didn't lack entertainment value. I actually bought this movie because Alan Rickman was in it (he's my favorite actor). And he played his part very well, with a bit of humor. He plays the villain quite well, he's actually my favorite character. Kevin Costner plays his part well too. Pretty good movie though.

Classic Communism & Love Epic I purchased this film because it's known as one of the greatest love stories ever.  I've never read the book & have no attachment to realistic Russian settings.  It is a very good movie but you must be in the mood for a sweeping epic to fully enjoy it.  PROs: Excellent direction, performances, & cinematography (beautiful scenery throughout the whole film) Obi-Wan Kenobi as a communist cop Realistic portrayal of the 99% stealing from the 1% during the Russian Revolution The love story between Julie Christie & Omar Shariff is outstanding Excellent Blu Ray transfer & sound [awesome remastering of an old movie]  CONs: Dr. Zhivago was too passive of a character for me to get behind [I wished we knew more of his motivations] A LONG movie at 200 minutes but luckily has a built-in intermission Very little action  [SPOILER]  The scene when Zhivago returns home from WWI after the Bolsheviks have taken over and there's 15 families that have taken up residence inside his house is VERY powerful.  His wife, child & father-in-law have been forced into a room inside their own house while the communists ransack his belongings.

Honor (As Well As Romance, Retribution and Remorse) Among Thieves Ben Affleck returns to his old stomping grounds--the working class neighborhoods of Boston--for his second directorial effort "The Town." A solidly constructed crime thriller, "The Town" is at its most successful when it's exploring the specific dynamics of the area in question. Affleck has a sense of the place, the language and rhythm of its inhabitants, that lend an authenticity to the film that elevate it beyond typical genre fare.  That's why he has achieved success working in an area and with characters identifiable to his own upbringing. His previous Boston efforts include "Good Will Hunting" (a screenplay Oscar for Affleck) and "Gone Baby Gone" (Affleck's acclaimed first feature as a director). "Gone Baby Gone," in many ways a standard detective plot, was a huge revelation for being surprisingly hard edged and cynical (it helps to be adapted from a Dennis Lehane book with similar qualities)--and it is that cynicism that made it one of my favorite films of its year.  Now adapting Chuck Hogan's "Prince of Thieves," Affleck casts himself as the stoic lead Doug MacRay. Raised in the Charlestown area, MacRay has been unable to break away from the legacy of his youth, his father, and local crime bosses. He runs a successful crew in robbing banks and armored cars. On a job gone wrong, a bank manager (Rebecca Hall) is temporarily taken hostage. When MacRay's best friend on the job (Jeremy Renner) becomes concerned she might know something to identify them--Affleck sets off to observe her as she lives uncomfortably close to the crew. But getting a little too cozy, he starts to idealize her as an opportunity to escape the life he now feels trapped in. One more big score and maybe he can get a fresh start.  Affleck plays the role with a tight lipped intensity and calm. It's left to the dynamic Renner to provide the menace and unpredictability within this tale. Turning on a dime, Renner is terrific here (as he almost always is--even in lesser films). Small roles by Chris Cooper, Blake Lively, and Pete Postlethwaite help illuminate how MacRay, while basically a decent guy, went wrong. Jon Hamm adepts himself well as MacRay's FBI foil. The cast is uniformly excellent, the action sequences are well choreographed, and the grittiness feels real and alive. However, the romance between Affleck and Hall (so inherent to the plot) is actually the least successful element of the film. The biggest lapse of logic comes after Affeck has identified that he's being tailed by the FBI. Instead of laying low--both for her sake and to appear uninvolved--Affleck continues to date Hall openly, even lunching in a sidewalk cafe. And when she learns the truth, I'm not sure her character has been developed sufficiently to make her choices appear logical.  In the scope of the picture, however, these are small gripes. "The Town" is most assuredly a successful and rich thriller for adult audiences. Affleck displays range and restraint as a director--and if that's not enough, there's a terrific cast working at the top of their game! Check it out! KGHarris 9/10.

A Familiar Story from an Unusual Perspective A fairly run-of-the-mill story, peppered with enough unusual perspective and little bits of pure Pixar genius to somehow become something much more. Although the animation hasn't aged particularly well, an ambitious scale and a knack for breathtaking compositions provides ample compensation. Great voice acting from an all-star cast, a few good jokes for every age range and a plot that's simple enough to draw anybody in, but deep enough to snag them for the duration. It doesn't hold up against Monsters, Inc. or The Incredibles, but it certainly makes for good company.

A Lost World Rarity Image Entertainment has released a staple of sixties television, Director Jack Bernhard's 'UNKNOWN ISLAND', a pulpy cross between thrills reminiscent of Ernest B.Schoedsack's 'KING KONG' (but without the quality) and 'BOY'S LIFE' magazine hi-jinks rounding out a 75 minute guilty pleasure.  The film is peppered with Warner Brothers wiseguy attitudes but has a charming poverty row feel.  Actor Barton MacLane and Richard Denning provide the male testosterone and Virginia Grey the cigarette smoking tough gal with the heart of gold and greedy, namby-pamby Philip Reed as Grey's beau who gets everyone to go on the wild expedition balances the rest.  The film has the legend of having the worst man-in-a-suit dinosaurs but at least it doesn't steal footage from Director Hal Roach Jr.'s 'ONE MILLION B.C.'-1940 and yet , some Sci-Fi titles of the fifties borrowed footage from 'UNKNOWN ISLAND'.  The highlight is the gorilla passing as a prehistoric sloth played by Ray Crash Corrigan in his suit used in Director Edward Dymytrik's 'CAPTIVE WILD WOMEN'- 1943.  If anyone is curious about the Cinecolor process, this negative is the one to view because the transfer is beautiful considering its age.  Director Bernhard who also helmed Lon Chaney Jr.s first Horror exercise 'MAN MADE MONSTER'-1941 and did some early television directs with workman like precision and the sauntering, nostalgic music score by Rauol Kraushaar enhances the mayhem. The film came along right before Ernest B. Schoedsack's 'KONG' hommage 'MIGHTY JOE YOUNG'-1948 which contained better effects and has a better reputation but 'ISLAND' is always remembered by baby boomers who viewed it on their primitive black and white TV sets in the late fifties and sixties. It's great to see Richard Denning cutting his teeth on this type of role which he would own in fifties Sci-Fi classics and Virginia Grey never looked more beautiful.  As a boy, I never saw this film in color, and this release was a revelation and still holds up well in this age of CGI eye candy.

The Simon & Simon I remember Big fan of the Simon boys. Season one was good, but that original theme song was terrible. Am glad someone decided to change that when they did back in the 80's. Once it was changed to that legendary theme music, it just brings back memories of growing up, watching TV and Simon & Simon was a must for me. So if you're a fan, this is worth the purchase. (One complaint: It is essentially full screen and is "stretched" to fit a flat screen HD tv. I have tried to zoom out or try different methods. That didn't seem to work. So just sit back a bit further and just enjoy the nostalgia)

I love when Scifi is mixed with horror Splice is a little gem from 2009 that is a great view of horror that is created purely by science. Yes that's right it's a science fiction and horror mash up which, when done well, is my favorite mixture of genre's. It's mainly a fun mix as a lot of what is focused on in science fiction is actually based in reality when it comes to being mixed with horror. While not a house hold name this is actually Vincenzo Natali's second foray into a film that mixes the two genres and as his last 1997 film that mixed the two, Cube, became a cult hit I have the distinct feeling that Splice will follow the same trend.  Gene splicing is not a new concept. It's a field that has been worked on for years and one that new breakthroughs are still occurring. Mixing genes to find ways to grow human organs is also not a new concept and the mixing of genes to create a new species has been written about for years. On the face of things, scientifically most of what is found is this film is not new. The creation of 'new' life by two scientists who aren't fully held in check by the company that they work for and who have their own ideas on how science should be done leads to a border line mad science feel mixed with the idea that what they are doing is right. Well that is at least the view that Elsa (Sarah Polley) believes and as her research partner partner, Clive (Adrien Brody,) is also her lover he will pretty much go along with anything she says.  What this leads to is not only a new species of life but one that has a mixture of human DNA in it. They of course cannot let the company that they work for know about their creation so have it hidden away in a corner of the lab. However when the creature they have created is fully 'born' they end up taking it out of the laboratory so as to not have it be found. It continues to grow into at first a child at the abandoned house Elsa grew up in and eventually into a young 'woman' that is self aware who they have named Dren (Delphine Chaneac.)  Self awareness is great but just like in an artificial intelligence it's a bad thing to have in a new species who not only wants to be able to be free but also starts to fall in love with Clive while beginning to resent Elsa. From science to the Oedipus complex to horror as Dren starts to at first be angry with Elsa to beginning to fight with her as she also falls in love with Clive. While all of this is happening we learn that the first two creatures they had created have gone from being in love to violently murdering each other. Foreshadowing? I think so! If you are a fan of mixing your horror and science I'd suggest at the very least renting this one immediately. I know it's going to be permanently added to my collection.

Here we go again with the DVD & Digital Copy included that NOBODY WANTS!! Number 1. Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Great movie.  Number 2. I bought an expensive HDTV and a Blu-ray player to watch great movies.  Number 3. Why would I want to pay an extra $5 or $10 for a DVD I'll never watch and a digital copy that doesn't make any sense?!   I LOVE movies. But what crazy person would find the need to watch an inferior DVD and/or digital copy of the same movie they have on Blu-ray?   Answer is no one.  This is another example (like Pixar's The Incredibles) where they try to justify an extra $10 to the price for inferior copies of a   movie we obviously only want to watch in HD since we bought the player.  What are they thinking?  "Honey! grab the digital copy of Planet of the Apes for my   laptop! I need my fix at work!!" or "Bring the DVD version of it so I can watch it on my way to your mother's house! yeah, you're driving!"  Honestly.

A good flick but should be PG-13 We enjoy this movie and agree with many of the other reviews.  HOWEVER, we were a bit surprised when there was a scene with brief frontal nudity.  After all, this is rated PG.  When the main characters are in the refrigeration room with "Box", they strip down to put on the warm furs and POW -- naked on screen.  Also, several naked bodies are shown that have been frozen in ice.  We were watching with the kids so it threw us off a bit.  Just be aware of this and enjoy.

So campy ... So the '80's This movie is sooo the '80's.  But there's a certain nostalgia to it if you grew up in the '80's.  It's very corny, campy, and kind of low-budget, but I still like it anyway!

Very Likable SciFi Weekend Fare Said it many times before, just like scratching a semi-decent winning lotto ticket, once in a very long while SciFi's Disaster/Monster/Alien Weekends produces a decent flick.  Clearly we're not talking anything near a well-funded mainstream production with all the bells and whistles like '<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051BVQFG">Battle Los Angeles</a>'. These flicks are made on the cheap, with rendered sfx commonly generated from desktop computers. But as always, it's the story that carries the film, not bells or whistles.  The aforementioned 'Battle' was a craptacular failure. Why? Because the plot was a pitiful retread; a story that was clich&eacute;d and uninventive. It lacked a proper foundation to build on those pricey special effects. And when you do that - you doom your project to mediocrity, or worse. So when a feebly funded project like 'Doomsday' is produced, but carries with it a decent plot that's charged with cogent energy - I'm appreciative. Even if it doesn't qualify as a hit, I suspect many of these films do well enough in the marketplace to make the producers money. And as aside, these flicks make for a fun popcorn distraction for cinephiles waiting in the lulls between so-called blockbusters and important films.  In 'Doomsday' the events of a prophesied day of destruction begins to unfold, the film's characters have been unknowingly cast into a cosmic play whose actions will either save humankind or become unwitting participants in its annihilation.  A.J. Buckley plays Fox, a junior book editor who has been handpicked by a reclusive writer who hasn't been heard from for decades. An infamous scribe whose last book became a huge worldwide bestseller then promptly disappeared. Fox been offered a chance at a his newest tome, one the author has worked on for the past twenty years, and all he has to do is show up. He's understandably a bit freaked out and suggests a more experienced senior editor take the meeting, but his boss tells him that he won't risk the loss of the publication rights by not following the instructions down to the last detail - he's going.  Simultaneously, a field anthropologist is given the same instructions. The author has promised an incredible endowment to her program - and all she has to do is meet him at a specific time and place. The offer comes on the heels of her university's funding crunch, so she reluctantly leaves her dig to receive the check.  Unfortunately, neither will ever collect anything - the author died the day before sending out his instructions. All that remains is a video recording he made at the moment of his death.  Thus begins a high-paced adventure to try and unlock the secrets of the past. A past that included visitors from another place who gave humankind a very special gift. Countering their efforts - a nihilistic military officer who has himself been hunting for both the author and the gift in order to facilitate the breeding of a new human race, one made in the image of himself. He wants to become God.  The battle of who will obtain the gift and use it properly will determine the fate of the planet.  I have to be honest and admit that a fair portion of my enjoyment comes from watching Jewel Staite, on whom I've carried a film crush for many years. It would be too obvious to throw in all the adjectives, suffice to say: As far as I'm concerned she's one of the most stunning actresses of her generation.  Personal drooling aside, 'Doomsday' really was a decent budget-conscious thriller that I enjoyed. Very much like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000A2X41U">'Maximum Velocity</a>' or '<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00064X5L6">Anacondas - The Hunt for the Blood Orchid</a>' where interesting characters and a movie plausible story carries what would otherwise be a forgettable production.

"Footsteps in the Dark (1941) ... Flynn & Marshall ... Lloyd Bacon (Director) (2010)" Warner Bros. Pictures presents "FOOTSTEPS IN THE DARK" (8 March 1941) (96 min/B&W) (Fully Restored/Dolby Digitally Remastered) -- A sprite comedy/mystery, starring Errol Flynn as a wealthy investment counselor who secretly doubles as a dilettante detective, the better to write mystery novels --- Brenda Marshall plays his wife, who can't understand why he is never home and begins to suspect hanky panky --- In fact, Flynn is investigating the murders of a jewelery smuggler and an exotic dancer.  Footsteps in the Dark was an attempt by Warner Bros. to create a "Nick and Nora Charles" team, in emulation of MGM's popular Thin Man series --- And it comes off!  --- Flynn fans will love this one.  Under the production staff of: Lloyd Bacon  [Director] Ladislas Fodor  [play "Blondie White"] Bernard Merivale  [play "Blondie White"] Jeffrey Dell  [play "Blondie White"] Lester Cole  [Screenplay] John Wexley [Screenplay] Robert Lord [Associate Producer] Hal B. Wallis [Associate Producer] Friedrich Hollaender  [Original Film Music] Ernest Haller [Cinematographer] Owen Marks  [Film Editor]  BIOS: 1. Lloyd Bacon  [Director] Date of Birth:  4 December 1889 - San Jose, California Date of Death:  15 November 1955 - Burbank, California  2. Errol Flynn [aka: Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn] Date of Birth: 20 June 1909, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Date of Death: 14 October 1959, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada  3.  Brenda Marshall  [aka: Ardis Ankerson] Date of Birth:  29 September 1915 - Island of Negros, Philippines Date of Death:  30 July 1992 - Palm Springs, California  the cast includes: Errol Flynn - Francis Monroe Warren II Brenda Marshall - Rita Warren  Ralph Bellamy - Dr. R.L. Davis  Alan Hale - Police Insp. Charles M. Mason  Lee Patrick - Blondie White  Allen Jenkins - Mr. Wilfred  Lucile Watson - Mrs. Agatha Archer  William Frawley - Det. 'Hoppy' Hopkins  Roscoe Karns - Monahan  Grant Mitchell - Wellington Carruthers  Maris Wrixon - June Brewster  Noel Madison - Leopold Fissue  Jack La Rue - Ace Vernon  Turhan Bey - Ahmed  Mr. Jim's Ratings: Quality of Picture & Sound: 4 Stars Performance: 4 Stars Story & Screenplay: 4 Stars Overall: 4 Stars [Original Music, Cinematography & Film Editing]  Total Time: 96 min on DVD ~ Warner Bros. Pictures ~ (12/22/2010)

Interesting Glimpse It's tragic the Mr. Jobs died so young, who know how much more he could have changed our world, which he certainly did.  His gadgets brought about a revolution in the computing world which is now spilling over into our everyday lives, and will continue to do so for a long time.  Despite all of this, few know much about the "real Steve Jobs", underneath all the hype the surrounded him and Apple.  This film gives a mostly positive, yet interesting glimpse into who he was and is worth a watch for those interested in him.

Shadow Boxer I Love War Dramas, This Particular Film Is One Of My Favorites. The Cast Was Well Chosen. Great Special Effects. Great Performences. Great Movie.

Enjoying this show Eric McCormack is quirky and entertaining as the consulting professor, and Rachel Lee Cook is witty and adorable as an FBI agent. The two have nice screen chemistry. It's also nice to see TV favorites like Lavar Burton and Jamie Bamber in recurring roles. I heard a blurb about this show on NPR and was interested in the writer's inspiration for the McCormack character. Very entertaining so far.

good suspense Nightwatch is a pretty good suspense, however it shouldn't be classified as a horror because it's honestly not.  The only "horror" comes in how the main character (a night watchman) exaggerates his behavior pertaining to what he believes are dead people actually getting out of a morgue and walking around.  His behavior was total fear and uptight nervousness the entire time which is funny because it's exaggerated for one thing, but even better because whenever this other guy who also works at the morgue would make a surprise appearance due to an emergency call in, he would totally make fun of the night watchman as a result!  This is actually funny to me because you have a guy scared out of his mind over the possibility that dead people are getting out of bed and walking around, and then... due to the sarcastic nature of the other guy (who actually may be the owner of the morgue now that I think about it because of how confident and well-aware he was of the place) the watchman becomes not only scared, but confused as well, lol.  What is actually happening to the morgue is that someone (the bad guy) is setting up the night watchman and accusing him of a crime he didn't commit.  The bad guy isn't your ordinary "Let's kill everyone!" type of monster like in many other films.  Instead he's a "How can I pin these unexplainable chain of horrific events (such as murdering some of the night watchman's friends and other mere acquaintances you will meet later on) on the innocent guy" kind of suspense.  It's good though... bad acting aside!  Yup, the acting is terrible.  Plus there's portions of the storytelling in the beginning (such as a bar fight incident) that seems completely out of place and uninteresting but other than that, stick with this one folks, and you'll be rewarded with a unique kind of suspense.

Lots of Laugh Out Loud moments! Very Very funny, "Date Night", I haven't laughed out loud at a movie like I did with this one in a long time.

The legends called Nadeem-Shravan For a six year old child it is very difficult to remember about movies and songs. However there are movies, their music and there was Aashiqui. It was not just another movie with hit music. It was a phenomenon. The sale of music players was increased dramatically in those days. Practically every home in India had a audio cassette(today's CD/DVD wielding kids would probably never know of them!!) of Aashiqui in their home. It is not very common to come across albums with almost all the songs being awesome. However in this case, the word "almost" can be easily dropped. Each and every song of this movie is timeless. Nadeem-Shravan may not be creative and experimental like A. R. Rehman, but it is true that if "melody" had a second name it would be Nadeem-Shravan. "Aashiqui", "Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin","Sadak", "Saajan", "Deewana", "Dil Ka Kya Qusoor", "Salami", "Damini", "Dil Wale", "Raja Hindustani", "Jeet", "Pardes" are examples of this genius combination. Mahesh Bhatt is one of the finest filmmakers we had, but it is sad that his biggest commercial success is probably his weakest work as a director, or probably got overshadowed by the lovable music.

Respect the "S", Respect It! Boy, how can I write an original review of "Superman: The Movie"?  Just about everyone knows about this guy: where he's from, what he can do, what makes him tick.  If somehow you don't know, "Superman: The Movie" will spell it out for you. I guess the best I can do is focus upon how our love and need for "Superheroes" is stronger than our urge to insult them.  Of all the things in the world to satirize, you would think superheroes would be among the easiest.  Come on, vain, self-important, overconfident, naive jerks wearing colored underwear running around getting into trouble while fighting bad people and stopping bad things from happening (and all without getting paid)?  What a joke!  And yet, in my opinion, when movie directors take a satirical approach to a superhero movie, they usually turn out an unmemorable, unsuccessful product.  Why?  I think it's because, deep down, we want to believe in and respect superheroes and their admirably unselfish goal to make the world a better place.  This is why "Superman: The Movie" (hereafter STM) got it right.  Especially in our cynical times, it is sort of tempting to make merciless fun of a near-perfect demigod who really does care for all people and fights ceaselessly to protect them.  STM does not.  Yeah, it needles some aspects of the Superman mythos (e.g. telephone booths you can't fit into, Clark not even feeling the collision of a taxi that gets damaged, Lex Luthor's elaborate real estate plot, Lex Luthor's inept henchman Otis), but it does so with gentle kidding.  Instead, STM takes the time to introduce Superman from the beginning, from his origins on Krypton to his interactions with the Daily Planet staff and especially his offbeat romance with the flinty, independent Lois Lane.  We learn more about Superman than just the "Super" part - his wonderful powers, abilities, and weaknesses.  We learn about the "man" part too - his values, his objectives, his hopes, his fears,and his kind, courageous heart.  Superman has been called the "Man of Steel", but he has also been called "The Man of Tomorrow", because he sets a standard to which all people can aspire and into which we can all evolve if we follow our better natures.  I think STM acknowledges this, and hints that all the action, special effects, adventure, and battles of any superhero movie are meaningless unless we respect and believe in the "S" - not just Superman, but also the "S" we all potentially have underneath.

A Sleeper / Very interesting Short review: It's hard to put my finger on it, there is no single aspect that jumps out at you, but this was a very interesting movie. It is entertaining as well and the performances are good, but the strength is the unique plot that hooks you very early and unfolds in a deliberate and dramatic manner throughout the movie.  This one of those movies I had never heard of until a few months ago when stumbled across it on TV. It starts out a little over the top, mainly Kilmer's overly arrogant character, but that is a necessary part of the plot and it all works out very nicely. Sam Shepherd and Graham Greene are very good in their roles, and give some good balance to Kilmer's character.  This film is a sleeper that you will enjoy very much. It is a very good cop/murder mystery with a small but interesting mystical component. Thunderheart is a unique, interesting and entertaining film that will surprise you.

A realistic survival thriller with rich characters Three friends become stranded on a ski lift in icy cold weather. Fifty feet up, with wolves waiting below, they must find a way to survive, or die trying. A riveting, all-too plausible story that has both rich character development and grisly horror. Frozen is a taut horror-thriller that will have you cringing, screaming at the screen, and hoping for an impossible rescue.  Frozen is a gripping tale, expertly carried off by three actors in extremely tight surroundings. In just 90 minutes, we come to know them as people, care about their survival, and mourn their fate. Though their actions prove ill-fated, they seem logical in such a desperate situation; we can imagine doing the same, having the same ideas racing through our minds as we are freezing to death, blown about by the wind in a tiny cocoon of cold steel.

Very fast shipping, no real problems The only problem I had was I little scratch on disc one. Nothing to get worked up about, only skipped like 5 minutes of video. I would say for this price it was worth it.

Another great animated movie Great movie for kids and adults.  Very colorfull and fun.  Many big names doing voices on this movie were a cinifile will have a good time picking out all the actors in the movie.  Saw this in the theaters with my kids and had to purchase it so we could watch it at home I think they have watched it about 5 times since I bought it.  A must have if you have children.

Birds Just what I ordered.  Great Hitchcock movie.  Received in time as promised and the product was in good shape and in tact.

Very nostalgic, perfect if you're from New York... A look back at Woody's childhood and how he became who he is, wonderful depictions of characters, over the top and very broad humor.  You may not get the humor if you're not into schmaltz. A New York/Brooklyn POV.

L-O-V-E the movie, only problem was the soundtrack The only gripe I have with the blu-ray is that the song "the trouble with love" doesn't play during the movie (the scene at the Christmas party)...although, they have the music video in the Bonus Features. I was a little bummed out about that, however, I still love the movie no matter what.

"It was a drive-by fruiting!" When Robin Williams is on his game, it's as good as comedy gets.  And when he's off, or spinning out of control, it's literally unwatchable, but that's a topic for another day.  Fortunately he brings his A Game to MRS. DOUBTFIRE, a timeless comic caper featuring Williams in drag as an elderly British nanny.  It's like putting a fish in fresh water; Williams thrives in this environment, offering countless hilarious lines and gimmicks.  Case in point, while cooking in his garb he accidentally sets his fake bosoms on fire, forcing him to put them out with two pan lids while lamenting, "My first day as a woman, and I'm already getting hot flashes!"  Funny stuff.  As a bonus, MRS. DOUBTFIRE is more than a vehicle for Williams' antics; it's also a very poignant and tender story, as the comic plays an estranged father willing to stop at nothing to spend more time with his beloved children.  Naturally dressing in drag and pretending to be a woman goes beyond the pale, so when the ruse is discovered Williams' character has a severe price to pay, and his pain is heartfelt.  Yet everything resolves with a feel-good ending and a chance for redemption.  The rest of the cast is topnotch, including Sally Field as the frustrated ex and Pierce Brosnan as Field's suitor (and subsequently Williams' antagonist).  Granted, it's impossible for Williams not to be over the top on occasion, and he does so here, but it's all in good fun.  Sure, Williams has made a plethora of fine comedies, but I'm hard-pressed to think of any funnier than MRS. DOUBTFIRE. --D. Mikels, Esq.

Messmer Movie was a little weird, but now I know why Rickman was cast as Prof. Snape.  Same moves, good with a cape and wanted to fire an arrow at someone by just his thoughts.

gotta love jimi Though much of the interviews are previously released, its nice to have a few new performances and info. The quality is good and its always a pleasure to watch Jimi work his magic.

good 3D effects and appropriate information for young students As most 3D Blue Ray programs, not movies, this show was too short for its price. However, the 3D effects are outstanding and the educational information provided was good. Prices need to come down on this type of entertainment.

THE FIRST "FREAKY FRIDAY" Disney's original "Freaky Friday" (screenplay by Mary Rodgers, from her 1972 book) proved popular and durable enough to spawn two Disney produced remakes and a genre of imitations. Think "Like Father, Like Son", "Big" or any premise with a  child/teenager inside an  adult's body and vice-versa. Here, Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster  are mother Ellen and daughter Annabelle, who magically switch bodies on Friday, the 13th. They discover, of course, that it isn't easy "being" a different person for one day. Most people today are probably more familiar with the most recent remake, starring a post -"Halloween" Jamie Lee Curtis and a pre-drug problem/train wreck Lindsay Lohan. But the original film definitely has its entertaining charms.   The main reason to watch and enjoy the original "Freaky Friday" is the spirited performance of Barbara Harris, a Broadway darling who never had enough chances to display her comedic gifts on film. Barbara Harris lost the chance to re-create her dual roles as quirky Daisy and regal Melinda in Alan Jay Lerner's "reincarnation" musical "On A Clear Day, You Can See Forever" when Barbra Streisand grabbed the movie version. You can think of "Friday's" dual roles (straight-laced mother and tomboyish, free-spirit daughter) as a sort of compensation. Harris is divine as Annabelle in Ellen's body; especially when she puts on way too much make-up and false eyelashes, and overloads the washing machine. Jodie Foster (as Ellen in Annabelle's body) does not fair nearly as well because she has few opportunities to be funny. Honestly, it is more fun, and funny, to see an adult acting like a kid than vice-versa.  Foster's one funny line is when she scolds one of Annabelle's unruly classmates by saying "What you need, young man, is a good old-fashioned spanking!" Harris and Foster are ably supported by a cast of familiar character actors, including John Astin, Kaye Ballard, Ruth Buzzi, Dick Van Patten,  Alan Openheimer, Patsy Kelly, and Sorrell Brooke. The fun premise, unfortunately, devolves into slapstick farce when mother and daughter switch bodies back at an extremely awkward moment. The finale finds Harris water-sking, and later hang-gliding; as Foster is driving a car, being followed by the cops. Mother and daughter are finally reunited, in their correct bodies, in the water.   Most interesting is a DVD "retrospective chat" with Jodie Foster, who shares warm memories of working at the "old Disney" Studios. Fellow future superstar Kurt Russell was also there at the same time, making comedies like "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes." In 1977, Disney was a studio in transition. Walt Disney died in 1966, and the studio remained blithely out of touch with the rest of the world, churning out family-friendly comedies. The Disney Studios re-emergence as an entertainment powerhouse, with animated musicals like "The Little Mermaid", was still twelve years away. Jodie Foster was, herself, a star in transition. Amazingly, Foster was featured as teen prostitute Iris in Martin Scorsese's seminal film "Taxi Driver" the same year as "Freaky Friday" and her other Disney obligation "Candleshoe". Growing up proved to be a very good thing for Foster. Her career also includes such diverse films as "The Silence Of The Lambs", "The Accused", "Inside Man", ""Anna And The King", "Panic Room", and directing "Little Man Tate" and "Home For The Holidays."

Don't understand the bad reviews. Watched with my wife and my 8 and 6 year old kids, and we all loved this movie. It is a great family movie, I think people just tend to take things to seriously.

Great movie, the extended edition pays it respects to the original characters I've loved to watch the A Team when I was younger, and I was excited when this movie was released. The movie was ok, entertaining. This release includes additional footage. Really it doesn't add anything relevant, but you can catch a glimpse of two of the original actors of the tv series.  Fyu, this blu ray includes spanish track and subtitles

Superman: The Movie, on Amazon Instant Video This movie is a classic and it is the role that made Christopher Reeve a big star. It's as good as I remembered it from seeing the first time as a little kid. Gene Hackman is good in anything he does, and steals the scenes he's in as Lex Luthor.

Have The Kleenex Handy This is a original Hallmark Movie that was just released on Sept 13th. I have always loved reading about the Amish and watching movies is even better! I sat down to watch this and I couldn't have picked a better movie to watch on a cool night. As it is a tear jerk-er for sure~make sure that you have a box of Kleenex handy. I loved the scenery in this movie~made me fee like I was right there with them. I love all the books that I have read by Beverly Lewis and now I have added her to one of my favorite movie collections!

I liked it Born in the 70s I have vague memories of Thatcher and Reagan.  I liked how they portrayed the subject matter, mostly in flashbacks.  It brought a sense of time to the piece and was original.  The flashbacks to me brought a sense of humanity to Thatcher, with the typical young to middle age Thatcher portrayed in snippets instead of taking all of the film.  I like the idea that we will all end up like she was in the film, old and nearing death.  However she had good memories and very proud achievements to reflect on, and at least for me made me reflect a bit on what I may be like in 40 more years if I live that long.  The bits with her husband, and her children I thought brought her humanity to the stage, and not just the political achievements she had.  It was original, had some human depth, and portrayed a human being in the frailty of old age which some people may find disconcerting.  If you want something more than the Biography channel type of standard fare, then check it out.

Gyllenhall is headed for greatness Though some might say he's there already, I'd say Jake is just getting going. He's so ridiculously likeable, but somewhat distant, yet always engagingly intelligent in alomst everything he does...it's a unique take on things and every time out he brings it home. Same as always here, with a good script milking the old time travel cliches to fit our current manufactured obsession with the guaranteed-to-be-never-ending War On Terror. With the wrong lead this film could really blow, but Gyllenhall keeps it happening from start to finish.  Source Code is another crisp character study of one man up against oblivion, as with the director's first film, Moon, and it works just as well. Come to think of it, Jake and Sam Rockwell would be an excellent pairing in a movie. Hello, Hollywood...  There's a lot of Philip K. Dick in here, from ideas to tone, and the best part is the clever ending, which borrows from many previous time travel works to fashion a best-of-genre ending that's cheesy yet also pretty satisfying, using technology to fulfill our desire for immortality along with happy endings (oxymoronic though that may be...hey, no one ever said we were that smart...). Yet the final conceit, the morally upright soldier doing what's right against her superior's wishes, is a great concept but almost non-existent in the real world military. We only wish our soldiers put people before protocol. Oh well, this is a fantasy after all...  If you like sci-fi or Gyllenhall (in super crisp hi-def blu-ray closeups!) or some edgy, mostly non-violent suspense, Source Code will keep you locked into an interesting mind loop for an hour and a half of your life.  Or was it 8 minutes?

Jimmy, we hardly knew ya This T.V. film version focusing on the start of the professional period of James Dean's life, up to his untimely death, written by his friend William Bast, attempts to deal with Dean's bisexuality in conjunction with his private and professional life.  When the film was made in the 80's, there was obviously still a concern about dealing openly with homosexuality.  Things today in the 21st Century have, fortunately, become much more open and accepting by many.  However, Bast has done his best in showing what went on in his own life, paralleling his emotional relationship with Dean.  Don't forget, the 50's were rife with prejudice and fear of anything that questioned the status quo....probably the most telling moment regarding the frustration and pain experienced by many gay men at that time (and, unfortunately, even today) was when Bast's character (wonderfully underplayed by Michael Brandon) sits in the empty bathtub and just IS, letting the camera bring to us a taste of love unfulfilled....  I was a grad student at UCLA in the theatre department back in the 60's, and there were always little bits and pieces floating around about the GREAT James Dean's time there.  Unquestionably a brilliant talent, a troubled soul and a great addition to the list of actors who made or could have made a great difference in the art form, James Dean is a tough spirit to capture.  Which is why the not-so-long-ago T.V. biopic directed by Mark Rydell staring James Franco in a spot-on channeling of Dean should not be missed if it is indeed available on CD.  McHattie was good, but Franco is superb.  This video is similar to those often found in supermarket bins filled with films in the public domain.  There are a great deal of excellent t.v. films out there that are slowly seeping into the public view.  Warner Bros. is leading the way.  This CD, JAMES DEAN, is one that anyone interested in the creative process, or genius, some might say, of a lost star, should take a close look at.

Got me off the couch I had seen some country clogg dancing and thought it was wounderful.  So I decided to start my self.  Very good dvd to get you stared with the basics.

Very good despite its thematic detractors... Legal dramas run a real large risk of becoming very `television movie' like, simply because stations like TNT thrive on countless courtroom dramas that basically emulate legal films to a T.  It takes something special to transcend that comparison and truly stand alone as a cinematic feature and not a `familiar' regurgitation of the same thing I saw Tuesday night on `Law & Order' or, worse yet, `Matlock'.  Sadly, `Presumed Innocent' does not do that.  This is actually a pretty good movie, with a sharp script and some stellar performances, and the ambiguous `who did it' theme running from start to finish really does hold up, right until that final twist you didn't see coming takes over.  But, when all is said and done, this feels like an episode of `Matlock' with curse words and a better looking cast.  `Presumed Innocent' tells the story of a PA with a dark secret.  He has been carrying a torch for a self-serving lawyer at his firm who seduced him for personal gain and then dropped him when he wouldn't play along.  His heart stuck up in her web of deceit, he longs for her up until the night she is murdered and he gets assigned the case.  As the clues start to pile up, he finds that he is the prime suspect and soon his career is in shambles as he is arrested for her murder.  Did he do it?  All involved to an excellent job of keeping that question legitimate.  Harrison Ford plays Rusty with this overwhelming question mark lingering over his head.  You will form your opinion (I concluded that he did it) but really, that ending is still a heavy hitter when all is revealed.  BTW, I'm not saying that I'm right or wrong, I'm just saying that it was my assumption while watching.  Anyways, the impact of the finale really depends on that question lingering, and it does quite effectively.  Still, I can't help but shrug at the overall feel of the film, since I get the same feeling while watching `Law & Order: SVU'.  Alas, it's still a solid experience.  Watch out for Bonnie Bedelia, who plays Ford's wife.  She burns slowly, letting those embers smolder until the film draws to a close and she becomes truly entrancing.  She's easily the best performance in a sea of very good performances.

good film enjoyable for Sean Connery fans, fans of vampires & other old legends, and steampunk enthusiasts. A bit too much fighting--those fight scenes could've been shortened a bit.

Star-Studded War Movie The day mentioned was, of course June 6, 1944; the location the beaches of Normandy. And from what I have read about D-Day over the years, this is a remarkably accurate account. So I won't bother filling in the details of this three-hour movie.  We see not only the beaches, but the planning at headquarters, both the Nazis and the Allies. We get a look at several individual heroes and villains, specific incidences of courage and quick thinking. It's quite an inspiring movie, and very well done.  It looks like everyone in Hollywood wanted in on this project. As the credits rolled by in alphabetical order at the end, I had many "That's who that was" and "Of course I should have remembered his name" events. Here's just the ones I recognized: Eddie Albert, Paul Anka, Richard Burton, Red Buttons, Sean Connery, Fabian, Mel Ferrer, Henry Fonda, Peter Lawford, Roddy McDowell, Sal Mineo, Robert Mitchum, Edmond O'Brien, George Segal, Rod Steiger, Tom Tryon, Robert Wagner, and of course, John Wayne.

Tron Legacy is Worth Seeing OK, I probably missed this but, I thought that Flynn escaped in the first movie? Well, either way....still a good movie. My only issue.....Flynn Sr. gets a little cheezy. He says things like "Digital Jazz, man!" So much for the coolness factor.  Special effects: 10 out of 10 Plot: 9 out of 10 - The ending was a little weak - still good though Acting: 8 out of 10 - Sometimes the acting was not that believable "digital jazz" etc.  Overall, it was a good movie but they should have spent a bit more time on the ending. I can't imagine they put lines like "digital jazz, man" in by accident so, it's just not my taste....didn't seem believable from a guy that was "cool" in the 80's....but then again look at Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley....they would say it....give me a break. ha ha ha!  Worth Renting (which is what I did)

Elegant and Entertaining A combination of action, drama and elegance.  The story line begins in the mid-1930's to relay a mild-mannered and humble man with great talents and elegance in the mastery of Chinese Kung Fu.  Soon with the impending war between the Chinese and Japanese, he and his family are taken through very dark times and great hardship.  Classic Asian perspective of drama, with some spectacular martial arts and the bonus of being based on a true story.  Highly recommended!

Billy Two  Hats I purchased this DVD at Amazon and as usual it arrived on time and in perfect condition.  I'm always happy with Amazon.  I couldn't find this DVD in any stores but I was sure if it was available Amazon would have it.

Loved it despite its flaws I've been on an Amazon Instant Video binge. I've reviewed every offering in the horror genre (3k+), rented dozens, and this is the ONLY movie I watched straight through with no fast forwarding.  pros: Well made, not your usual guy with a vidcam and made up dialogue. Good lighting. Scenes - actual scenes. The actors are a bit thin, but no worse than most and better than some. Plasterhead is a genuinely scary dude.  cons: Plot disconnects - 1) Plasterhead lives in an immaculate house. 2) He decides to go kill some townfolk seemingly out of the blue. 3) He walks into town (several miles) and makes it back in plenty of time to inflict mayhem on the usual young idiots who go places they shouldn't.  Overall, I liked it. Liked it well enough to buy it.

MODEST PLEASER FROM JOHN WAYNE & COMPANY John Wayne, Mike Mazurki and Lauren Bacall, in that order of importance, provide a couple of hours of entertainment in this film made very shortly after an armistice had been agreed to that stopped Americans and Chinese soldiers from slaughtering each other in Korea. With the excision of very few words and a few minutes film, the production could play in Mainland China today without offending anybody, even the censors. Mostly it is Wayne providing the expertise to allow the Noble Chinese political deviants to escape from the implicitly terrible Communist Chinese. With few other changes, it could be Bogart and Hepburn, or Wayne and Claire Trevor, fleeing the Germans or the American Indians (Native Americans). Given the lack of much uncertainty as to what the Wayne character would be doing, William Wellman and his stars did a good job with what was written for them, so that  reality had little chance to mar this fictional tale of a brave ship captain, his equally heroic lady friend-to-be, and the strong man of the Chinese community (Mike Mazurki), and how he managed to maneuver a rotten old ferryboat, with the population of a small village on it, from Communist dominated China to free Hong Kong. A footnote to the history of the film: Robert Mitchum had been playing the ships captain but was fired for self-indulgent behavior that interfered with production. After other choices proved unavailable or too costly, Wayne, owner of the production stepped into the Captain's role. Clearly, it was not well-suited to his patented style.

Good, but only 23 minutes?!?! I love buying a new Baby Einstein.  It's so fun to watch my baby crack up at the puppets and be especially interested.  This one was just as good as all the others.  Good music, I like the poems, funny puppets etc.  But it was only 23 minutes long!  You're killing me Julie!  Some of us rely on the half hour of Baby Einstein time to get supper on the table, and a little more time would be helpful!  I'm not a huge fan of repeat play or watching more than one video a day, I'd rather just let them pick their video for the day and have it stick to that.  I think Baby Shakespeare is a full 30 minutes at least!  Oh well, other than that, I'd say it was worth the 7 bucks (used) I paid for it.

Good buy Got this for my son's girlfriend who loves Harry Potter. The movies are being enjoyed with no problems. Great buy for the price. My only complaint --had to go out and buy the part 2 of Deathly Hallows. Would be nice to have ALL the movies come with the set.

So good even a duff modern dub doesn't distract! As all but one lone voice have given this film the credit it deserves I think I should point out to any 'old skool' kung fu flic fans that this great film comes with a (to my ears, which are familiar with the 70's dub) dire new english dub- This is in regard to the UK H.K.Legends release, which sounds the same as the region 1 release? Please Comment if I'm mistaken.  I'm unaware of any dvd release with the old/original dub- I've got a old original MadeIn HongKong VHS widescreen/subtitled print I overdubbed with the audio off the (ahem)'collectors' full screen english VHS-so therefore stuck with subtitles unless I use a strip of black paper along the bottom of the tv screen...yet,but still- the films so good it's never mattered to myself or several viewing companions!

American Movie Musicals This was a very good buy.  Have 3 movies in one pkg. Recomemend this to anyone who likes musicals.

Two-Video Movie Amazon Verified Purchase When I ordered the product, I didn't see that it was a two-video movie so my husband was a bit disappointed about that.  However, we have chosen to keep the product and then we ordered one that was advertised as one-video.  We love the movie itself.  We have seen it both on TV and at the theater many years ago.

Interesting and Entertaining I found this film very insightful even with it's time frame. I read the book before watching this film and I thought they covered everything well enough. To me, the book took too long to get their points across. The film quickly and easily summarizes the chapters in the book and I enjoyed the fact that they cover the chapters backwards. In response to one of the comments about his speech impediment, that's just disrespectful and the reason why they did not comprehend what he was saying means they obviously were not paying attention to the speakers much. To enjoy this film as well as the book, don't take it on as just another book, think of it through a detective's eyes because the data shown only comes from analysis and experimentation. This is coming from a 17-year-old.

Well, the age you first saw it helps a lot .... I will admit that, objectively, this is not a great film.  It's weak performance at the box office effectively put an end to the Conan series and meant that Brigitte Nielsen was not going to be a star (like there was ever much chance of that!).  Still, if you were young enough when you first saw it, it does retain a certain appeal.  Richard Fleischer could always direct a reasonably good movie and the action is decent, although the dialog is -- admittedly -- pretty bad a lot of the time.  And, of course, you get to look at Brigitte and Sandhal Bergman -- who I always thought was insanely hot.  Definitely a guilty pleasure, but given how cheap the DVD is, what have you got to lose?

Shows the "hurry up and wait" of combat Being a vet myself i loved this from start to finish. i highly recommend this on Blu-Ray.  Detail and sound is vivid, and for a documentary this film is paced very well.  Thanks to the folks at Nat Geo and a huge thank you to the vets that went thru hell in Kandahar.

Great Message! The characters look like clay but all in all my daughter seemed interested. The picture did not capture her attention at first as some of the other cartoon like videos but she did watch it and I am glad I purchased.

History of Violence Good movie but could of had a better ending to make this a five star.  Good acting by VM and the story was very well played out until the ending.

Amazing, but..... I really wanted to love this movie..... if only I could have actually watched it. I'm one of those wimps that gets motion sick really easily.  I had forgotten that Lars was the guy that did 'Dancer in the Dark' and 'Breaking the Waves'. Both fantastic films, except for that dated hand-held technique. Had to leave the theater on both occasions.  That old passe hand-held thingy that some directors insist on using gets a bit old real quickly (for me). I'm always left wondering if maybe there wasn't enough money in the budget for a tripod?!?  Anyway, for what I was able to see, this was a wonderful film, but certainly not for everyone.  I wonder if they'll come out with a widescreen-tripod version? ~

Epic Movie Wrath of the Titans is an awesome movie. I believe it was better than the remake of Clash of the Titans, which is a good movie but not as good as this one. Enjoy!

getting a little far from the book... Not as true to the book as previous seasons but still entertaining. I love the books and it's always hard seeing the characters you enjoyed so much in the books doing something so different. However my husband knows nothing about the books and enjoys the show very much.

Decent sequel With a different villain in play (though Erik Lendsherr/Magneto is still a important character) this movie does a good job of continuing the story established in the first movie. Again, certain points of canon are ignored or changed, this is still a solid movie which does well with a movie telling of the story of X-Men.

Better than I expected. This movie got trashed by the critics so I really didn't have my expectations set that high to begin with. I must say I was pleasantly surprised. Acting, score, FX, pacing, story were all done incredibly well. We have an alternate universe that has humans vs. vampires. The setting of the movie was incredible. The only thing I really didn't care for was the way vampires were portrayed. An alternate species that can't talk, is blind and is for the most part not very intelligent. Kind of lame... until their Queen infects a human making essentially a new version of the vampire. The guy is bad, he can walk in sun and is practically invincible. At only an hour and a half the film doesn't exactly wear out it's welcome. Start to finish I really liked the film. Heavy on action. A good popcorn movie. I recommend a rental.

good family fun I got this movie for my kiddos to watch, being a favorite movie of me when I was younger. they were delighted to watch and watched over and over

Lower Body Pilates Great addition to my pilates workouts. Like that you can do one section or all three. Some exercises are familiar and some are new so these are not just a repeat of previous workouts.

What it's got is OK, but it needs more The instructional is good, really good. But there's only one "morning" and one "evening" session. Kind of lacking and repetitive. Would have been better to have several sessions of each to showcase more of what beginners can do.

Hate that guy... played by Billy Zane.  The situation presented in this film is downright scary.  Of course Nicole Kidman is always at her best as well as Sam Neill.

Excellent Sequel I saw this movie for the first time about 20 years ago when I was a young teenager. I thought it was great. Of course I liked everything then.  I still like it today, though. What I remember from years ago was it had a cool old guy in it and it took place partly in a church. I knew the old guy as the director of one of my favorite war movies: The Big Red One. Years later, the old guy is still pretty cool and ads a little life into a movie that has a lot going for it.  Director Larry Cohen teams up with actor Michael Moriarty for the fourth time in their careers. Larry Cohen has contributed quite a bit to horror as a writer and director. His best known movies are the It's Alive series. I would have to say that this movie is one of the better teamings of Cohen and Moriarty. They first worked on the cult classic The Stuff and then went on to be participants in It's Alive 3: Island of The Alive which was an entertaining sequel. Then they made this movie and finally the last teaming between the two was the Masters of Horror episode: Pick Me Up which is my favorite Masters of Horror episode. There is a lot of action in this movie and it keeps getting better as it goes along. The vampires are totally in control of Salem's Lot and it is fun to see Michael Moriarty, his son and the cool old guy battle for their lives in this one. When I saw it was a DVD-R I thought that it would mean that this would be a VHS-like transfer to DVD. That was not the case. The picture is crystal clear and definitely DVD quality. The movie is also 1:85.1 widescreen which is another plus. This movie still holds up well. It is not as good as the original, of course, but that is a classic. It is an interesting study as to why the franchise did not go on. Samuel Fuller is still cool as the old guy.

fine character drama and acting Up till today, I don't know why I love this movie so much. I've loved it since the first time I watched it in the 90s as an 11 year old. Maybe I love it because it can happen to anyone. It depicts how your whole life and existence can change in an instant. Especially in an instant of passion and rage. Maybe I love it because Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon are just such everyday people who manage to come across as unique- simple yet complex at the same time. Geena Davis is so naiive and lovable, but you just want to scream at her at some parts of the movie because their fate could have been different if she'd only just learned from her mistakes. I love the feeling of the journey, symbolized by the vintage thunderbird car, the vast roads and expansive scenery; captured in the way their clothes and make-up go from prim and proper to very basic; in the way Daryll goes from mistreating Thelma throughout the movie to crying for her at the very end. I can go on forever about the journey...about fate, friendship, relationships,patriarchy- but I'll stop there.  I just love this movie...

great 3D effects & good in 2D also, educational, just overly priced & too short I enjoyed the movie. I bought it mainly to show off my 55" Vizio 3D 1080p Full Array LCD LED HDTV 480Hz & this is definitely the movie I would show off to friends & family coz of very good 3D effects & awesome also in 2D=so crisp & clear images, eye popping on 3D-like an open window looking thru, & they go close to your eyes. It's just a bit costly for a short movie. I wish also it was longer like 2hrs-would have been nice for the price. I like it a lot & will watch it several times just like my other favorite Blu-ray 3D movies I recently bought also such as: The Ultimate Wave-Tahiti 3D, IMAX: Deep Sea 3D, Legend of the Guardians 3D, Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs 3D, Tron Legacy 3D, & My Bloody Valentine 3D

chair aerobics for everyone This video is good it is not too strenous and at the right level for anyone, sometimes its alittle too simple but overall it is pretty good

Very good entertaining mystery This was a Very good entertaining mystery. Definitely worth the watch! The subtitles are of a good font and easy enough to read.

"God already left Africa" A quip from Bruce Willis' character Lt.Waters as he leaves a missionary run by a French priest and his wife.Africa,often referred to as the "dark" continent,while not literally true,certainly is so figuratively speaking.It has seen so much unrest and brutal bloodshed over the past untold decades with rebels fighting governments,tribes fighting tribes and warfare on a genocidal scale.Tears of the Sun(released Mar/03),produced by Bruce Willis' own company,lifts back a small curtain and gives us a look into this world. The plot involves Lt Waters and his small squad of Navy seals aboard an aircraft carrier,"somewhere off the coast of Africa".They have just come back from a mission and must turn around,within about three hours,and mount a rescue operation to a French mission to retrieve the missionary,his wife,an assistant and a doctor working there.They arrive at their destination in Nigeria,and the area is full of refugees;some who can walk and others who can't.The missionary,his wife and assistant won't leave.The only one Waters can talk into leaving is the doctor,who in turn,will not go if her patients cannot do so.The refugees are NOT part of Waters assignment but he relents and anyone that is mobile is allowed to accompany the Seals to the evac zone. They arrive and the choppers are on the ground awaiting their cargo.Waters then reveals he lied to get the good doctor to the zone and says he must leave the rest behind.They lift off but as they pass over the mission all aboard become witness to the full scale atrocities committed there.Waters orders the choppers turned around and they return to the evac zone.They get as many aboard the chopper as they can and Waters decides to escort the remainder across the boarder to Cameroon.Waters is definitely conflicted as he says this is the first time he has ever done the "right thing";at least he hopes it is.His commanding officer aboard the carrier orders him to stop what he is doing but Waters in all conscience can't.And as events unfold it becomes clear his decision definitely was the right thing to do. Behind the party and dogging them all the way are Nigerian rebel forces.As they are within about 30 Klicks of the Cameroon border they come upon an ethnic cleansing in a remote village in progress.Waters orders were not to engage the enemy unless forced to but again Waters cannot stand by and watch this unfold.His team enters the village and takes out the rebels there.This side operation has taken precious time away from their schedule and it soon seems that the rebels that follow the party have some inside help in tracking them as they get within about an hour of them.It turns out one of them had a tracking device on them.It also turns out the rebels have another reason to dog the party.The reigning leader of the country,now killed,sent his only son(and now tribal king)to the missionary and he is also among those fleeing.It now gives Waters and his squad that much more impetus to reach safety. The soldiers have a running/retreating battle with the rebels and as they are within a stones throw of the border the rebels give their final push to destroy the Navy team and their charges.In the end the squad is reduced to half its strength with many of the refugees dead.However the doctor and the future king do make it to the border as the Navy sends in a pair of birds to take out the attacking rebels with some napalm rockets.The film ends as the future king is surrounded by his future subjects promising freedom to his people. Tautly directed and edited,with high score all around in the acting department,this film has rarely if any a dull moment as the characters flee for their lives.The horrors of African warfare,or just senseless warfare anywhere,is amply illustrated throughout.Touches like one soldier finding out a rebel dying in his arms is just a kid,or a woman who died after being brutally raped and had her breasts cut off,are poignant touches indeed and drive the movies on going theme home in spades.It certainly raises this film above its basic premise of being a military rescue op. Technically speaking the film has been transferred into its`widescreen a/r of 2:40:1 and is clear and crisp.Extras include deleted scenes,commentary,a making of featurette,an interactive map of Nigeria and more. All in all a highly recommended piece of film making by Willis and company.I give it a solid four stars.

Streep Stars Margaret Thatcher acquired the sobriquet, the "Iron Lady", from the Soviet Union.  It was meant to be disparaging.  She regarded it as a compliment.  "The Iron Lady" provides a biography of Margaret Thatcher's adult life.  The highlight of this life, of course, was her more than a decade a Britain's first female prime minister.  The film covers this as a series of flash backs as seen the through the eyes of a very aged former prime minister.  The technique works.  Her life has certainly been quite extraordinary although there is little focus on her weaknesses.  In this sense, the film almost becomes hagiography.  Notwithstanding the apparent lack of blemishes in the character of the former prime minister, Meryl Streep, in playing the older Margaret Thatcher, is spell binding.  Moreover, Streep is simply magnificent. Her performance is my early call for an Oscar. She really does become Margaret Thatcher.  There are no apparent flaws.  The accent, in particular, is right on the money.  Streep is supported by Jim Broadbent as Dennis.  Unfortunately, his role tends to fall almost to caricature at times.  This is a shame as there are a number of other cameo roles and most of these are played excellently.  Michael Foot, Geoffrey Howe, Michael Heseltine, et al are played in absolutely convincing style by a great supporting cast.  The various sets and the manner in which the era of the 1980s is re-created is also first class.  In sum, apart from the danger of hagiography, this is a great film led by an actress at the top of her form.  Recommended.

Good movie; Great supporting performances I liked this movie. No, it's not `Taken 2', but I didn't feel like that was the expectation created by the previews. While the plot seemed obvious to others, I don't watch enough espionage films for that to be true for me, and I was as caught up in the mystery as the protagonist was for the first half of the film.  Liam Neeson's character is believable as a man who finds himself without his memory and in a world where his wife will not acknowledge him and another man seems to have taken over his life. Diane Kruger is excellent, but where is she supposed to be from? Ukraine? Maybe? This is a minor detail, but I guess because Kruger is German and the movie takes place in Germany, I was expecting her character to be, well, German.  Frank Langella is his usual amazing self. He looks like a teddy bear, but plays evil characters. Therefore, I love him. And Aidan Quinn gives a perfectly understated performance that adds to the credibility of the film.  Although January Jones does well in her scenes without Neeson, the two of them have zero chemistry. With him, she's very stiff, so it seems like a creepy older guy/too young woman situation there. To me, that was the only drawback in the film (although a pretty major one considering that the two of them are supposedly lovers).  Overall, I think this film won't appeal to those looking for the intensity of `Taken' or who are very familiar with the genre. However, for the rest of us, this film gets three and a half stars. Because of the performances of Langella, Quinn, and Kruger, I'm tipping it over to four.

Eye opening It's a good reminder of the people who laid down their lives to protect our freedoms. The movie posed this question at one point, to trust God and or radar?  Other historical movies, about war,  that are really well done, and offer the ultimate message of hope even in the worst of circumstance, would be:  - Sophie Scholl: The final days - The hiding place - War of resistance (return to the hiding place)  - To end all Wars  - 180movie.com an award-winning controversial video.  It's 33 minutes that will rock your world.  It's about hilter, the nazis, abortion. And the GOOD NEWS OF the GOSPEL the LORD JESUS CHRIST.  You can watch for free on YouTube. It has over a million hits.  This is the best war movie ever because it shares how we can have peace with God who we are at war with, in our sinfully rebellion.  From God's word the bible: Colossians 1:21  Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because off your evil behavior. But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation-- if you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.  From God's word the bible: Romans 5:1 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand.  Please read the following questions carefully, be honest and listen to your conscience. Would you consider yourself to be a good person? The Bible declares, most men will proclaim their own goodness. Let's see if you qualify as being a good person. Have you ever told a lie? Have  you ever stolen anything, irrespective of its value? Have you ever used God's name to curse?  Jesus said, I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart?  Have you ever looked at someone with lust? The Bible says that if someone hates another person they are a murderer (I John 3:15). Have you ever hated anyone? If you have answered, Yes, to the previous questions, then you have admitted that you are a liar, a thief, a blasphemer, an adulterer and a murderer and we've only looked at 5 of the 10 Commandments. If God were to judge you by this standard would you be innocent or guilty?  You know you are guilty and deserving of an eternity in Hell.  Jesus Christ came to earth and died a criminal's death not because He had broken the Law, but because we had. God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. What should you do?  Repent, turn from your sins & put your complete faith in Jesus Christ as your Savoir and Lord.  You may die today, in your sin. Is there any reason why you would not accept God's gift?  More info at living waters website with true & false conversion audio sermon. God Bless!

a different JOURNEY if you want to go on a Journey to something different, something out of the ordinary, watch this movie, it will take you to a secret island without leaving home.

Chin Kar Lok takes the role of Wong Fei Hung This movie is not very known and it is way better than Once Upon a Time in China 3 thru 5.The movie is directed by veteran director/stuntman Li Chao who is famous for movies in the golden age of kung fu movies in the 70s like Ninja Supremo,Ways of Kung Fu,Cantonen Iron Kung Fu,Fearless Dragons,Kung Fu Beyond the Grave.With all that resume of movies you know your in for an entertaining No Wire Fu movie.The Action is choreographed by one of Lau Kar Leungs Stars who is Hsu Hsiao famous for Monkey Kung Fu,Disciples of Shaolin Temple,Lady is the Boss,Legendary Weapons of China,Cat Vs Rat   Chin Kar Lok who is famous for starring in Operation Scorpio and in Legend of the Drunken Master,Swordsman 2,No Problem 2.He plays a young Wong Fei Hung this time along with other big kung fu actors like Jet Li,Gordon Liu,Ku Feng,Kwan Tak Hing,Jackie Chan,Sek Kin,Wong Kwan. This time his opponent is a Japanese Samurai who is played by no other than the famous Lam Ching Ying who has done about 80+movies.His famous work is the Prodigal Son,Hocus Pocus,Heroes Shed No Tears(John Woo),Mr. Vampire Movies,Magic Cop.Wong Fei Hung is out to fight the foreigners from Europe to stop them from having Opium spread to the other Chinese.One of the main bad guys is the underrated actor Suen Gwok Ming,who has also been in great martial arts movies like Drunken Dragon,Shaolin Avengers,Shaolin the Blood Mission,Shaolin Vs Manchu.  This movie came out in 1992 when the Kung Fu genre was dying and there was only Wire Fu used to the extreme like in movies like Swordsman,Zu Warriors,Chinese Ghost Story.The Tai Seng Version comes in many Asian languages and the subtitles are imbedded.Recommend this as a good New Wave Kung Fu movie with out Jet Li,Donnie Yen.

Best Zombie Movie Ever! If you have a thing for zombies, the plot for R.E. 1-3 is extremely impressive. 4 and 5 are still good, but plot lines do not transition well.

Great workout in little time I really enjoy this workout. I get a great workout in 25 minutes (that includes warm-up and cool down.) While I don't use this DVD exclusively, I do use about once a week. The circuit training is perfect for burning fat and building muscle. I am not Indian and I had no trouble understanding Bipasha or Deanne (her fitness friend who interjects a comment here or there.)  What I didn't like: **The commercials  **The repeated "Love Yourself" song. However, like another reviewer said, you can change the music to avoid the annoying Love Yourself mantra played over and over and over again.  **The cool down has no instructions and it is difficult to follow your tv if your head is facing the mat. It also moves pretty quickly, so you have to play "catch-up" with the instructors. This makes you rush, which is counterproductive in a cool down period.  All in all, I really like this video. It is like an abbreviated version of Cindy Crawford's Shape Your Body. I am glad I bought it.

No Substitles....on DVD Sets I got this DVD recently and started to watch it.  I really love this series and was pleased with the quality of the documentary.  The only thing I find missing in the DVD set are Subtitles.  I was hoping that it is included in the DVD box set, but it is not...... It should have been included to get users an option to display subtitles.  Nevertheless, I am very happy with it.

Fantastic Original, funny, and entertaining.  And it has Bill Murray... enough said.  Good for adults and kids - with humor both can enjoy.

Very well acted, very good story, very good movie, very, very depressing.  Watch it but be prepared for the impact. I say A- Can you ever recover from a devastating loss?  After their four year old son dies after getting hit by a car, Becca & Howie (Kidman & Eckhart) try to move on.  Each dealing with thier pain in a very different way they begin to drift further apart.  This is a very difficult movie to watch.  The subject matter is heartbreaking, and the acting is so fantastic that it feels almost too real.  Not only because of the loss of the child, but also because of the strain the marriage is under.  No one knows (and god forbid it happens) how to deal with the loss of a child, but this movie will make you feel like it has happened to you.  Very, very good.  Very, very hard to watch.  If you think you can make it through rent it, but be prepared.  I give it a A-  Would I watch again? - No, it's great, but too hard to make it through the first time

Good Flick I really enjoyed this movie. A lot of action and just enough cheese for everyone in the family to like.

Director's Cut Improves on the Theatrical Version Ron Maxwell's "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0019NG73G">Gettysburg</a>" has long been amongst my favorite films. Thus, upon hearing of the production of "Gods and Generals," this time intended for theatrical release from the very beginning and realized with a theatrical budget, I hoped that it would be even better than its predecessor. However, the poor reviews upon its debut discouraged me from viewing the film until several years later, when I found the DVD in the bargain bin for $5.  I liked most of what I saw -- certainly the heightened intensity of the battles, Stephen Lang's tour-de-force performance as Jackson -- but I realized that it was not up to par with Maxwell's previous achievement with "Gettysburg." The story was too broad and lacked focus, the dialogue was peppered with soliloquies and quotations ad nauseum and reeked of pretense, extremely unconvincing digital matte work that pulls the audience out of the picture, and, more disquieting, the film's treatment/glossing over of the Confederate slaves rang false. I could admire the film for its ambition, but overall "Gods and Generals" was a film I had come to tolerate rather than one that I held in high regard.  The good news is that this Extended Director's Cut is decidedly better paced than the theatrical version of the film despite increasing its length by a full hour. By splitting the narrative into five acts, Maxwell has created a sense of tighter focus to each of these segments and improved the flow. Furthermore, additions such as Jackson's discovery of Little Sorrel add much needed levity to the proceedings and better develop the narrative and characters, and the inclusion of the Battle of Antietam helps the film feel more complete from a historical perspective. Also, the much-awaited subplot featuring John Wilkes Booth is mostly an enhancement, with Booth functioning like a Greek chorus throughout the picture and the performance of the actor is very well done.  The bad news is that "Gods and Generals" remains a heavily-flawed film. The majority of the faults described above still apply, and the Booth-as-commentary scenes are occasionally too on-the-nose (especially the Hamlet soliloquy over footage of Antietam's aftermath). If you thoroughly disliked the theatrical version, the Extended Director's Cut is unlikely to win you over, but if you enjoyed the theatrical version, there's more here to enjoy and it is presented in a more well-rounded manner. On a five-star scale, the original cut would earn 3 stars and the Extended Director's Cut would earn 3.5 stars.  Having upgraded straight from the DVD, I can't compare this new Blu-ray to that of the theatrical release. The video presentation is somewhat inconsistent; one minute it will look stunning while the next will look soft and mediocre. The audio, however, is spectacular. Regarding special features, the original commentary, featurettes, and music videos are ported over, and a new commentary for the Extended Cut has also been provided, as well as a welcome new HD introduction by Ron Maxwell and Ted Turner where the two men discuss their intentions with their two Civil War epics. The DigiBook packaging, while not as nice as that for "Gettysburg," is still handsome and will look nice on your shelf.  All-in-all, this Director's Cut Blu-ray is definitely a step-up from the theatrical version, but it is not a miraculous revelation on the level of the "Kingdom of Heaven" or "The Abyss" extended cuts. "Gods and Generals" remains a respectfully-ambitious-yet-flawed epic on the most contentious period in American history, and for anyone who enjoyed the film in its previous incarnation or who is simply interested in the American Civil War, it comes highly recommended.

Liked it-but I'll be blending. This was a fantastic workout, although a little too intense for me. I'm homeschooled and use Cindy Crawford's workouts in lieu of gym class. This is an advancement over her first video, which focuses more on toning and strengthening. This one really adds cardio-which isn't bad for me-I know. But, this workout video is only supposed to take an hour-something I can manage. I work on a very tight schedule and don't have time for the two hours it has taken me to complete this workout in the week and a half that I've been trying it. I love some of the excercises in here though, especially the calf excercises-which the other video neglects. So, I will be combining my favorite moves from the two in order to have a more timely, customized workout. I love how she shows you different variations of the excercises, say you have lower back pain-she shows you a different way to do the excercise without hurting yourself. The 30 second breaks were ok for the first excercise tape, but they needed to be a little longer in this one. Overall, it was a fantastic workout, I'm just not up to that pace yet, so I'll incorporate till I get there. Thanks, Cindy for making a sincere and fun workout!

can you really go wrong? One of the most funny tv series ever to be released.  Kenny Powers is the man.  Season 2 isn't as good as the first season, but still worth the purchase if you have never seen, or just want to see again.  Watching season 3 as it airs now, better catch up on this season first.

Charming, sweet and beautifully animated 'Lady and the Tramp' has certainly earned its high ratings. The characters are charming and fun, and those with dogs will certainly identify at least one of the dog characters. Every dog in the movie has its own original personality, though there is not much character development (which may be due to the fact that it's a simple plot...with dogs as the main protagonists). The romance between Lady and Tramp is so sweet without being overdone. As for the songs, they are not up there with other Disney songs (Circle of Life, Whole New World, etc.) but are certainly memorable--especially "He's a Tramp" sung by the incomparable Peggy Lee. The plot skips around at times, so there is no real plot development, but is a small "sacrifice" in light of this wonderful film.

Terrific, intense performance by JC in an engrossing gangster tale This Hong Kong-made flick is great, like an Asian version of SCARFACE. Jackie is a Chinese immigrant in Japan who works his way up from a lowly dishwasher to a gang lord.  This is an attempt by JC to do a serious, intense acting part which... relies on his acting ability and magnetic charisma rather than pure physicality or making funny faces. He does a terrific job.  I have not paid much attention to Jackie's recent Hollywood pics - SPY NEXT DOOR, etc., as they were just too goofy, beneath his ability. However, his HK flicks of late are usually more ambitious, less pandering. If they are anything like SHINJUKU, I have some serious catching up to do!

Good movie I think this movie is pretty cool. It doesn't bet the other 80's movies like Bkf Club, Pretty In Pink, Sixteen Candles. But it does remind me of the movie Vally Girl in so many way's. Which is a movie that I love. I think Eric Stoltz is good in this movie, but I can't help but think of him in Mask as Rocky threw the whole movie. Which he did a great job in.

"Have you killed anyone"?,"Yes,but they were bad!" That's Arnold's horrified wife Jamie Lee asking the question,just after it is revealed her husband had been leading a double life as a secret agent.True Lies(released July/94)is a wonderful action romp starring Arnold Schwarzenegger,Jamie Lee Curtis,Tom Arnold,Bill Paxton and Tia Carrere.If there ever was a "guys movie" this would certainly classify as one and Jamie Lee's considerable "assets" are shown off to great advantage. The story involves one Harry Tasker(Schwarzenegger) who is a secret agent for the Omega Sector.The film opens as he and his partner Albert(Arnold)are crashing a dinner party at an expensive palatial estate in Switzerland:Arnold listens in electronically with orders and Harry does the walking.Harry meets up one Juno(Tia Carrere),supposedly an antiquities dealer specializing in Persian artifacts,based in Italy.She is actually a front for a terrorist organization called the Crimson Jihad,who are on a mission to obtain nuclear weapons for use against the U.S.Harry is found out and is chased away by the armed guards and just barely escapes. Harry revisits Juno in her establishment in Italy to reconnoiter the place.The Jihadists are worried that their cover will be blown and they chase Harry through a local mall,but loose him.In the meantime Harry's bespectacled and plain looking wife Helen(Curtis)is leading a boring life.Harry,her "salesman" husband,spends more time away than with her and their daughter.She is spotted in a restaurant one day by a local car salesman called Simon(Paxton)who is on the make for women just like her looking for a "thrill" in their lives.Coincidentally,to pick up women,he uses a story that he is a secret agent being pursued by unknown enemies and that he needs people like Helen to help him.For awhile it works and Helen is receiving calls and rendezvousing in secret with Simon.One day when Harry drops by Helen's work to take her out for lunch,he happens to over hear her convo with Simon on the phone.He immediately thinks she is having an affair.Distraught he leaves but decides then and there to bug their phone line and tail her.It all comes crashing down on Simon and Helen when they are out at Simon's trailer.Just as Simon is about to put the push on Helen Harry,with the help of his agent cohorts,storm in on them and they haul Helen and Simon off.A cowering Simon admits to his fantasy scheme to pick up women and is let go.Helen however is "recruited" to go undercover as a hooker to plant a bug in the room of one of their targets.It's all a ruse by Harry to goad her on a bit then,now knowing she truly loves him,have a nice intimate evening alone.But things go awry as the terrorists have been following Harry and they capture Harry and his wife and whisk them both to an island in the Florida Keys. Here the terrorists reveal to the world they have four nuclear warheads that they will detonate if their demands are not met.In fact one is armed and set to go off in an hour and half as a show of determination.With Helen in the loop both she and Harry combine to foil the terrorists and they cause alot of havoc.However in the process they get separated;Helen is taken hostage once more and Harry escapes and is rescued by Albert and friends.They pursue the convoy of Jihadists leaving the island,and two Harrier Marine Jets pound the convoy and take out a section of the causeway,stopping most of them in their tracks.The driver of the car carrying Helen is shot and as the out of control car heads towards the break in the causeway,Harry attempts a daring but successful rescue by helicopter. On land Harry is informed that some the Jihadists that got away have reached Miami and have his daughter as a hostage.Harry commandeers a jump jet and goes to Miami and to the rescue.His daughter obtains a key that will detonate one the the nuclear devices and is chased out onto a piece of machinery extending far out from the building,a good 200 feet or so up.Harry not only has to contend with the Jihadist leader,but also his compatriots circling in a helicopter all while attempting to rescue his daughter.It all comes to a fitting ending when the leader gets caught up on one of the jets missiles and the helicopter flies into perfect range and alignment.A press of the button by Harry sends the missile and ride into the helicopter taking out two birds with one shot. The film ends with the couple now BOTH on assignment together.Who should they run into but old Simon,still trying to play the "spy" game with someone new.Helen pulls out a tube of lipstick,pulls it under Simon's chin and vows to waste him on the spot.Simon runs off,cowering with pants wet.Helen and Harry tango the night away. True Lies doesn't have too many slow spots and moves along at a good pace.The movie has that wonderful twist;at first it's Harry leading a double life that his family are unawares of,but then Harry himself gets a shock as his wife,while not leading a double life,at least strongly fantasizes about having one,and Harry's neglect may be the cause.Just as this about to coalesce BOTH are then drawn into the terrorists plans and all is forced out and Helen's transformation from weak and plain to sexy and strong is as appealing a twist as pay day.It's a device that also gives the movie a greater character depth/appeal than would otherwise be.Each scene plays nicely into the next as the action lurks behind every corner,ready to pop out at any time. What I want to know is this;there is a scene just after Harry has found out Helen has been "cheating" on him.When he is about to get in the drivers side of the van to leave you can clearly see a woman about a car length ahead of him standing there with a purse looking in the direction of the camera but really no where in particular.Who is she and .....why?? Technically the movie has been transferred well onto DVD in its original a/r of 2:35:1.Extras include only the trailer. All in all one of Cameron's better efforts with Ahh-nold in one of his better films along with Jamie Lee Curtis looking particularly sexy,and Tom Arnold and Bill Paxton acquitting themselves handsomely.A great action flick for the guys....and ok the gals can watch too! Highly recommended.4 1/2 stars.

Glad I found it I'm glad I found this - I was being nostalgic and really wanted to rewatch this wonderful series, especially with my pre-teen son.  Whatever audio encoding was used does not work in my Sony bluray player.  The set works fine on my other bluray player, so I am sure this is simply a lack of encoding support on the one player it doesn't work in, but it's still a bit annoying nevertheless.  If it weren't for this, I would have given 5 stars.

If you liked the Blair Witch Project, then you'll like this ** This review contains spoilers **  I thought the Blair Witch Project was successful because the scares were dependent more on what you didn't see than on what you did.  Paranormal Activity is successful for the same reason.  Replacing blood and gore are strange sounds in the night, doors that open and close on their own, and other oddities.  Even though, like the Blair Witch Project, I knew this wasn't real footage, it still had a definite creep factor to it.  I especially liked the scenes where the woman gets up in the middle of the night, stands at the foot of the bed and just stares at her boyfriend....for hours! It plays on that fear of the unknown - of not ever really knowing who your partner is lying next to you at night...of not knowing if they could ever turn on you.  I also liked the progression of the hauntings in this film, too.  You see the entity testing how powerful it can be and then grows more confident as the story unfolds.  Again, this is successful because you don't see much...just shadows and moving objects...but is still successful because of that fear of the unknown - you don't know what this entity is that's haunting this couple.  I would've liked more explanation on this entity, though.  Why did it track this woman since she was 8?  Why did it wait 'till now to get aggressive?  Why was it so threatened by her boyfriend?  Did it not like him because he was interferring...or was this really about getting to him the whole time? Answers to these questions would've given this movie more depth.  I also would've liked a better ending, too.  Not that the ending was terrible, but was a little cheesy and gave away too much.  What made this movie so successful thus far was not giving away too much.  If I had to change the ending, I still would've kept the part where the boyfriend goes downstairs, yells in fear, and then you hear a loud thump followed by silence.  The part I would've changed was what happens next -- after some time passed, it would've been cooler if the girlfriend had walked, or even crawled, through the bedroom doorway, looked up at the camera so we see her mouth and clothes covered in blood and then -- without the cheesy smile -- raised her hand up towards the camera and the camera tips over on it's own, ending the movie. That would be enough information to let you know what her powers were and how she killed him.  Overall, though, I enjoyed watching this naturalistic type of horror story.

District 10 oops, Am I getting ahead of myself... District 9 pivots on the themes of xenophobia and social segregation with an underlying element of state reliance on multinational corporations as an enforcement arm. It is stripped down and gritty, guerrilla style documentary film making applied to an essentially science fiction piece of work. Using a documentary style of film making was a nice gimmick... In the first half of the film it actually made sense. We find action, imagination, and most all the elements of a thoroughly entertaining science-fiction movie contained herein but... It has the aesthetic trappings of science fiction but it's really more of a character drama. "Technically brilliant and emotionally wrenching" is how Rotten Tomatoes put it. When District 9 ends, the story isn't finished. It's only the beginning. We are left wondering what will be the fate of Wikus, and what, exactly, will happen when Christopher Johnson returns. Christopher Johnson will be back, he is bringing friends and I am left wondering just what will be motivating them. This film was banned in Nigeria. I for one enjoyed this movie however you must remember I thought Cloverfield was great and Sky Captain was well thought out and visually dramatic.

was ok I KNOW THEY BASED IT ON A TRUE STORY BUT SOMTETIMES I REALLY HATE REALITY AND JUST LIKE A GOOD MOVIE THEY SHOULD HAVE SAID BASED ON A TRUE STORY AND JUST MADE IT A HAPPY ENDING.

Good Movie :) I agree with some of the other reviews that movie is a little slow at times but it does have a great message. The story line is solid. The actors are good for a low budget film. The main characters are real feeling and you can "get" them pretty quickly. I liked that it was something everyone can watch. Like someone else said there is some tobacco smoking in the film but if you consider where it was filmed (Texas) that's pretty standard issue and it's not promoted in anyway. Just something they do. They do show the wedding scene just not in a traditional way. It's just a couple of min. long with no dialogue. I would highly recommend this movie for anyone looking for a good clean family movie.

Avoids the cliches of drug films, and Nolte is terrific Maggie Cheung plays a junkie rock ex-semi-star.  Her common law husband, also a never-quite-made-it rocker in decline dies of a heroin overdose.  She spends 6 months in prison for possession.  Meanwhile her young son is being raised by her dead husband's parents.  Nick Nolte, as the grandfather does some terrific, nuanced work as a flinty man, with a soft heart.  He won't let Cheung see her son until she gets her life together, which she circuitously does, weaning herself off drugs, getting basic work, and eventually starting the process of reconnecting to her son, especially as Nolte realizes, with his wife dying, and his own aging, the boy will eventually need his mother.  The film avoids the usual clich&eacute;s and sensationalism of drug movies - no throwing up or screaming withdrawals.  It's low key and real, filled with small moments of life rather than than dramatic highlights.  It's willing to have lead characters who are unlikable and selfish at times, and yet still makes us care for, and be moved by them.  But there's also a flatness to it.  And a sense of familiarity and predictability to the plot, if not the execution.  It's great that it doesn't fall into melodrama,  but it feels distanced.  As one critic put it `it avoids moralizing, but fails to replace it with anything'.  A bit harsh, but  not without some truth.  Also,  Cheung, while very good in spots, never seems believable as a junkie;  she's gorgeous, healthy looking and luminous on drugs or off.  On the other hand the photography is beautiful, and the score is filled with wonderful and effective music by Brian Eno.  Worth a look for the acting, and the small grace moments throughout.

A little light in the sneakers, but it's Al Pacino, what more do you need to know? This was a very enjoyable picture.  Great parts played by Jack Warden and Jeffrey Tambor, Fredrick Forsythe as a filthy pig of a judge, this was a commentary on the legal system in America.  In some ways, I thought the plot was a little thin, basically everything swiftly leading up to the big courtroom scene at the end, where Al does his typical Al angry speech.  But you either like that about him, or you don't, and since I do, this wasn't a problem.  The rest of the characters were well fleshed out, and it had interesting dark humorous moments as well as drama.  Basically, it was an all round good film, but don't look here for something as good as, say "Scent of a Woman".  If you're looking for a good basic entertaining Al Pacino film, this is your man.

Great detailed instruction Billy Robinson gives a great amount of detail for the basics of Catch as Catch Can Wrestling from the footwork to take-downs. The only reason I would not give the full 5 stars is because the audio is not the greatest and it can be difficult at times to understand what Billy is saying. Other than the audio issue this is a must buy for those who want to know the basics of catch wrestling.

This film explores many subjects in 165 minutes Besides the basic plot of a love story between a rich English noble woman who was searching for a place to settle down and a poor cattleman who had been married to a black woman and who wanted to "walk about" in 1939 Australia, and the beginning of World War II in Australia, this film explores many subjects, such as the following:  Blacks verses whites Mixed races vs. whites Rich vs. poor Allied forces vs. the Japanese Secularists vs. missionaries Hiding the parental identity of children born to mixed racial marriages Men taking advantage of wars to make money The Australian cattle industry Can magic work? Why were aborigines not allowed the rights given to whites until 1973? Who killed Nicole Kidman's husband and can it be proved?  While others may not have my problem, I found it hard to understand many of the words spoken in the film and many words uttered softly; therefore I recommend that viewers view the film with the subtitles. I also recommend if at all possible that viewers look at the film with a large TV screen so that they can enjoy the beautiful panorama of Australia.

Twisted like a Klein bottle Had no expectations when I received this film. Thought it was going to be another slightly entertaining B-movie. A certain set of events moved rather fast and made me wonder a little bit. Especially the way it happened and what was said by the characters. Then a few scenes later I was flabbergasted. And after that it kept throwing out ropes of disbelief. Put me in the mind of certain sci fi films I have seen.  And there is still one character who appeared near then end that I am wondering about. I have an idea of what that character may represent but it may be nothing.  Surprised me with its quality. Good film.

Interesting Take on Lee/Ditko's Story! Amazing Spiderman  The film is not "better" than Tobey MacGuire's version of Spiderman in the first film; in fact it is not really a "remake."  It's a reimagined version. What's best about this version?  The fact we return to the original Stan Lee(creator of the Spiderman mythos)/Steve Ditko (original artist) tale of a nerdy boy who falls for Gwen Stacy.  And like that original story, we have Captain Stacy, a kind Uncle Ben (played seriously by Martin Sheen) and a very sympathetic Aunt May (surprisingly well by Sally Field!).  We even get to see real web shooters!  (The organic shooters from the Ultimates never made sense to me - you'd run out of blood, right?  But I digress.)  Themes:  One theme is family.  The film starts with Richard and Mary Parker, Peter's real parents, and a mystery about their disappearance.  Did they really get killed in a crash?  Or is there something more?  It's fine that the film leaves me hanging, as it creates a mystery to see the next one, but man! Another theme is obsession.  Peter, obsessed with the murder of his uncle, wanting that burglar, whom he actually did nothing when he could have caught him.  What's interesting though is that unlike the Raimi version, we don't actually get a closure on the burglar.  Another mystery!  And there is Curt Connors, who as the Lizard becomes obsessed with creating a race of lizard men (just like the comics - read it!). Characterization:  The realism is great, and the emphasis is not so much on action (though there is  plenty of that) but on family, responsibility and knowing that you have a gift that you need to use it to help others.  Peter has a gift and he wanted to help others but so did the Lizard, in his own demented way.  Bottom Line:  I love a comics film that a general audience can understand without being familiar with the comics.  My philosophy has always been that a comics film has to appeal to a more general audience and not fan boys.  There were no Easter eggs for the fans in this film (but there was a fun scene with Stan Lee in a library), and I'm sure there will be Mary Jane fans wondering why she's not here. Ditko's vision lives in this film.  Highly recommended.  Also you may check:  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UR9T82">Spider-Man: The High Definition Trilogy (Spider-Man / Spider-Man 2 / Spider-Man 3) [Blu-ray</a>]

Strange, but memorable I had never watched this movie before but saw it on a list of "must see" movies.  I found the satirical commentary interesting and felt like it was a time capsule back to a different time.  Peter Seller's various character portrayals kept the movie lively and it was interesting to see him switch between his roles.  I rented this movie using Amazon unbox through my Tivo and had no problems with playback or picture quality.

Albert Nobbs I thought Glenn Close did an excellent job in this roll. Slow but steady, it was well done. It was another good period piece.

Police Brutality... A sadistic cop (Casey Affleck) goes around murdering people in a small Texas town. Both Kate Hudson (THE SKELETON KEY) and Jessica Alba (SIN CITY) play masochistic women who take severe beatings (and worse) from Affleck's character. I found the story about a devious, psychopathic lawman to be interesting and well-executed. Though there are some noirish elements, KILLER is more of a high body count, spree film. Worth a re-watch...

Batman Forever(1995) Batman Forever(1995) was lighter and more family-friendly than Batman Returns(1992). Warner Bros. kept Tim Burton as producer and let Joel Schumacher direct the film. Batman(Val Kilmer) and Robin(Chris O' Donnell) must stop Two Face(Tommy Lee Jones) and The Riddler(Jim Carrey) from controlling Gotham City. There are longer prints of Batman Forever that are hard to find. They show Two Face escaping from Arkham Asylum, Edward Nygma in a hardhat helping construct Nygmatech, and Batman's "other Batcave". The producers added songs by U2, Seal, The Flaming Lips, and Brandy to give the film a more "mainstream" appeal. The Seal video 'Kiss From a Rose' was also directed by Schumacher.  Do beware of the campy humor. Robin yells, "I'm Batman" and The Riddler's bombs make a cartoonish sound effect as they fly! Batman and Robin(1997) is a lot more campier than this. It was an homage to the Batman TV show. Tommy Lee Jones is a good actor, but he plays Two Face as a shallow, Joker clone instead of the brooding, bi-polar guy from the DC Comics. Harvey Dent from The Dark Knight(2008) was a real Two Face. Jim Carrey does add some color and fun as The Riddler. He even impersonates Cesar Romero and Frank Gorshin in some scenes.  Nicole Kidman is quite good and attractive as Chase Meridian, Batman's love interest. Drew Barrymore and Debi Mazar play Sugar and Spice, Two Face's girlfriends. Elliot Goldenthal's Batman music is solid and it sounds more energetic than the music in Batman Begins(2005) and The Dark Knight(2008). Batman Forever(1995) is still fun and it has a 1990's nostalgic flavor.

Good service/Horrible Movie Buying and downloading this movie to my Kindle Fire was easy. Watching this horrible movie was a lot harder. The purpose of this review is to say thanks to Amazon for helping me fill some hours on a long flight with a movie of my choice. Next time I need to do a better job picking something worth watching.

captivating, moving, complex and beautifully-done The stories of several mothers are interwoven in this drama about motherhood: The longing to become a mother; the pains of motherhood; the heart-wrenching suffering of those who wish to evade motherhood. It is a sad story. The joy of motherhood hardly features in this film. It is about women. They dominate the film. Men play a secondary, most of the time flat and unassuming role. Men can be thoughtful, kind and sensitive, but they have nothing to say in motherhood. This film is about the hard, lonely world of mothers.  Karen (Annette Bening) gave birth to her only child when she was fourteen and gave her up for adoption. This momentous event ruined her life. Consumed by guilt, she was unable to establish any meaningful relationships with men. She lived with her mother until her mother died but both women did not really open themselves for one another. Karen knows she is "difficult": judgmental, stubborn, opinionated, uncompromising, determined, strong-willed, and very lonely. Although her daughter plays very important part in her life, Karen never tried to look for her.  Everything changes when Paco (Jimmy Smits) enters her life. It was not easy for him to penetrate the stubborn-sturdy walls that Karen erected around herself but he finds a way, to Karen's surprise. "Where did you come from?" she asks him. Karen's opened to Paco's abundant kindness, and quickly marries him. Paco "leads his way" to persuade her to look for her daughter, Elizabeth.  Elizabeth (Naomi Watts) had a very difficult life. From a very young age, she had to live alone and to force herself  into the world. Ambitious, unflinching, smart, selfish with many qualities of her mother (judgmental, stubborn, opinionated, uncompromising, determined, strong-willed) she leads a lonely life in which she finds satisfaction. Happiness would be a big word to describe her condition and constant mood. She moves in and out of cities for unclear reasons but we can guess these constant moves were due to her difficult personality and the way she treats others, especially men: Use, play with and throw. Men are attracted to her like flies to light. Incapable of loving anyone, including herself, people are for her mere means to an end. Stubborn and fearful like her mother, Elizabeth never tried to look for her roots until she becomes pregnant at the age of 37. At about the same time, not knowing of one another, both Karen and Elizabeth deposit letters for each other in the adoption offices.  The third story is about Lucy (Kerry Washington) who is unable to conceive. To satisfy her husband's yearning for a child, she turns to adoption to make the family they desire. Joseph, her husband, encapsulates the role of men in this film: he hardly speaks, with a flat personality and simple desires. Lucy does not really need him. Indeed, the road to adoption is especially difficult for Lucy but once she is able to have a child, she fails to understand that motherhood is indeed "all about her": her child's wishes, her milk, her sleep, her quality time. Lucy's mother has to open her eyes to tell her that she is not special. Yes, this is motherhood (parenthood).  The film is built around two wonderful actresses: Naomi Watts and Annette Bening. Kerry Washington, Jimmy Smits and Samuel L. Jackson are in the supporting roles. It is very dense and very sad. There are no moments of comic relief and only seldom we see the magical, beautiful, happy moments of parenthood. There is only one striking episode of family life, to which Elizabeth enters quite astonished as she never experienced such a playful gathering in her own life. The movie, in many respects, is one sided as it highlights the pains of motherhood, not the joys, and it is about motherhood, not parenthood. The three main stories are about broken families. For many of us, luckily life is far more complex, with many shades of grey and pink, not only grey. Yet the film is captivating, moving, complex and beautifully-done.

drags in the beginning, but finishes in a murderous flesh eating frenzy... Insanitarium (2008) is a very gory medical horror thriller that probably deserves more attention from horror fans.  What starts out as an unlikely rescue mission, unexpectedly becomes an insane raging bloodbath of epic proportions.  Written and directed by Jeff Buhler (The Midnight Meat Train), the film has a dull muddled pedestrian start, but slowly builds up tension and adds dark elements, until all hell breaks loose in a murderous, blood spattering, flesh-eating frenzy.  After his sister Lily Romero (Kiele Sanchez) is committed to an institution and denied contact with anyone, her bother Jack (Jesse Metcalfe) pretends to be insane to get himself committed, so he can try and help her.  Fortunately for Jack, he ends up in the same facility as his sister, the Middleton Psychiatric Institute.  Jack makes friends with a patient named Dave (Kevin Sussman, The Big Bang Theory), and begins to investigate.  Prowling around at night Jack discovers that Dr. Gianetti (Peter Stormare), the head of the institute, is administering an experimental drug called Orpheum, to certain patients, causing them to get violent and crave blood.  Jack soon finds himself a target for elimination, and that Lily is scheduled for Gianetti's special treatment.  With Dave's help, Jack attempts to free his sister, but the trio finds themselves in a crisis situation, when the infected patients get loose, and begin killing and consuming human flesh.  Like zombies, the infected are cannibalistic, but have better cognitive abilities, and hyped up motor skills.  Once the chaos starts, most everyone quickly becomes prepared to kill to survive.  Dave, Jack, and Lily, try to find a way out of the locked down facility, but encounter new horrors wherever they go.  Gianetti is completely twisted and ruthless, and willing to sacrifice anyone.  You can almost feel the needle penetrating your own skull, when Gianetti administers a crude lobotomy.  Jack and Lily manage to escape, but their freedom appears to be only temporary, as the product of Gianetti's madness are unleashed on the world.  Insanitarium gets off to a sluggish start, but shifts into overdrive, once the inmates get loose in the asylum.  The violence and bloodshed are excessive, with many creative touches, and several memorable gore shots.  The acting is generally pretty awful, but this seems to matter much less once the craziness breaks out, and things become more of a scramble to survive.  Jesse Metcalfe, Kiele Sanchez, and Kevin Sussman, get a good workout, battling their way through the hospital wards.  Peter Stormare turns in a very creepy and ghoulish performance.  The supporting cast steps it up in the third act.  Carla Gallo is subject to all kinds of cruel abuse, as Gianetti's assistant Vera.  Olivia Munn is likeable, playing a helpful nurse, who forcefully resigns from her job.  As a patient who seems fascinated by Jack, Lisa Arturo runs around naked with blood soaked breasts, for much of the later part of the movie.  And Armin Shimerman is really vile and nasty, as a patient who has it in for Jack.  Put them all together, and you have a madhouse that makes Insanitarium a film that should be of some interest to gorehounds.  The lobotomy scene is one that may stay with you for a while.

glad to see Quasi find a girl We are happy to see Quasi in love and get the girl in the end. We just couldn't stand  seeing him alone in part I. The story here is somewhat less exciting and the jokes are less funny. Still a great buy.

i like it it came in promptly without a hitch. works fine and everything. only gets a four star cuz i dont wanna rate a movie perfect cuz you might not like the movie itself

I kind of liked it Not the best movie I've ever seen, but still entertaining.  Bernadette Peters is an absolute gem!  She alone makes this movie worth watching.  Bernadette can easily transition from comedy to drama in any situation.  Clint Eastwood, however, seemed a bit awkward in the comedic scenes, though he made up for it when it came time to take care of business.  Overall, I liked it and would watch it again.

good, but not at Godfather level I love mob movies. They seem exotic since it's such a different reality from my own life. I judge all mob movies against the Godfather. So none besides Godfather 2 would receive a 5 star rating. This movie gets 4 stars. It's good enough, but still doesn't leave me in awe like Godfather.

OUTSTANDING SCIFI FILM I have watched MOON a second time and  it is still the  great movie that it was when I first saw it.It's amazing what you can do on a small budget.Some people will be annoyed at the many references to other scifi films but that is only a small point.Yes,the acting is superb but you also need a great director to make the film a winner.It is superbly directed so it is a must see film. Warning-don't watch the trailer or  extras before seeing the film as  too much of the secret is given away.I hate it when they tell you too much in the trailer.Also avoid the  Director's interview in the extras. You cringe listening to him say 'um' every few seconds.Can't he give a talk without  continuously saying 'um' before  every sentence.He must hold  the world record for the  number of times he uses this word  in an interview.I hope he reads this review and learns from it.

Love it I've loved this movie since it came out in the theaters. I had it on dvd till someone took it and did not return it. I hunted and hunted for this move on blu-ray,since they have better picture quality.  I was not disapointed! Great movie Great format!

Great but missing extra features in first four movies It was a great deal $10 a disc. only thing that made me mad was the advertisement for the ultimate edition that made me think that I should've waited for it. All movies have a great picture and sound quality. my favorite out of the bunch was goblet of fire. Stellar package would definitely recommend it.

CHARLES BOYER IS GASLIGHTING INGRID BERGMAN I've heard the term "to gaslight" someone so I thought it was time to watch the film that stuck with people to such an extend that its title became a term for a method of psychological torture.  The talent involved in GASLIGHT automatically makes the film a must view. Directed by George Cukor, GASLIGHT brings together two European stars - Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman. Add in Joseph Cotten and an 18-year-old Angela Lansbury in her first film role, and you have quite a cast.  GASLIGHT is the ultimate romantic thriller that reminds one of a classic Alfred Hitchcock film even though this is pure George Cukor. Parts of it remind me of REBECCA and another Bergman film NOTORIOUS. The dark foggy city of London sets the stage for this psychological adventure.  Though it is slow moving, GASLIGHT shines on the talents of Boyer and Bergman. Bergman's character, Paula, has fled her Victorian home in London and lives abroad for many years after the murder of her beloved aunt. She meets debonair painist Gregory played by Charles Boyer and they marry and move back to her home in London.  The perfect love story soon begins to unfold as Gregory begins to "gaslight" Paula into thinking she is losing her mind. Feeding her misinformation, Gregory leads Paula into thinking she is "forgetting" and losing control of reality. It is a subtle scenario that goes on for a while and it is not quite clear what Gregory's extact motives and intentions are. Scotland Yard investigator Brian, played by Joseph Cotten, begins to suspect a sinister meaning to Paula's housebound situation.  GASLIGHT is lacking in a lot of areas. The story is slow. The setting is dark and dreary but both Boyer and Bergman shine in their roles. Their facial expressions and their delightful accents add charm to the film. Angela Lansbury as the cockney maid is a far cry from her role as Jessica Flecther in MURDER SHE WROTE. The value of this film is seeing several great actors in their prime.

NEW remastered DVD fixes all the technical flaws of prior releases of this classic "potboiler". As I post this review there are over 37 previous reviews here on Amazon. Amazon has an odd policy of grouping ALL reviews of a movie title (whether the release is VHS, DVD or Bluray). So many of the reviews for this title go back 10 years. Note the date of any review to see how current it is.  Because most of the prior reviews go into details about the plot (sometimes with too many plot revelations, in my opinion) and acting, I won't repeat much of that here. I will say that this 1956 film reflects the "exploitation films" made by the major studios (often with Joseph E. Levine as Executive Producer. "The Carpetbaggers" (another film based on a Harrold Robbins novel) and "Peyton Place" are just two. Watching Bette Davis and Susan Hayward go at it is a "guilty pleasure" for many and Mike Connors comes through with decent acting. Joey Heatherton (in her "brunette years" is totally miscast - and not a very good actress - again, in my opinion.  But here is the great news - for those who do want to see the film. This new (released February 2012) version has been newly remastered in HD from a 35mm archival print and looks great (even on my 35 year old television!). The Technicolor, wide-screen, film is bright and, except for a small bit OF "video noise" in the beginning has a nice sharp image. The sound is well balanced - there were some comments about music overpowering the voices in earlier reviews, but Olive seems to have resolved that issue.  There are no bonuses on the BD - and obviously not on the DVD as well. It's just the film and a chapter option. (nine chapters I think). Olive is remastering a lot of the old Paramount films and doing a great job of it.  I hope you found this review both informative and helpful.  Steve Ramm "Anything Phonographic"

Two for the Road There is good chemistry between Hepburn and Finney. How they work through their doubts and fears about their relationship is interesting to watch unfold. To me they are at their best form in this picture. The way the film goes from present to past to present keeps you interested. I love the movie.

What a Fandango I love this movie....I had watched it a few years ago & thought It was really  cool,but the best thing about it I got to go to some of the movie sites, Chata Ortega's was sad kind of like in the movie, but the wife and I walked thru it (carefully) and I got some cool pictures,did not attempt the remains of the flight school since a security guard in a truck was driving over to see what we were doing so we took picture from the fence & he drove on by....Great memories & a great movie........

Chicks Rule Just wanted to mention that one of the fighters in this movie is a roller derby girl as well.  Props to her for being able to do both.

Excelent cast and conducting produce first rate "Traviata" Backed by a lavish production, Lorin Maazel conducts this La Scala "Traviata" with fatherly care guiding an excelent cast headed by a beautiful and intelligent Angela Georghiu to a great performance. Tenor Ramon Vargas mixes bel canto style with Verdi ardor in a very good Alfredo. Veteran baritone Roberto Frontali gives Germont a credible if a bit cold interpretation.

You can relax; nobody says "you sank my [whatever]" in it It's a harmless summer action film that wasn't as horrible as the critics and dilettante cineastes would lead you to believe.  Some variation on the SETI Project has been trying to communicate with the Gliese 581 star system, and the response to those calls is a small invasion force that cordons off Hawaii in a force field to test our potential response to a full-scale invasion.  The aliens just happened to pick the time when the annual RIMPAC naval war games are being conducted, and although the vast majority of the US Pacific Fleet and several other nations are on the outside, it's ultimately up to the Aegis destroyer USS John Paul Jones and its screwup tactical action officer Alex Hopper to save the world after all the other ships trapped inside the force field and all of Hawaii's bases are summarily massacred in the first encounter.  Its affiliation with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004XV2U2I">the board game</a> is fleeting and 98% ancillary, and could've been left out altogether without anybody noticing: the only connections to it are that the invading aliens occasionally fire peg-shaped munitions, and the only time they call out the letter-number sequences when shooting is after cobbling together a fire control method by overlaying NOAA map grids onto the tsunami warning buoy network because the aliens' ships don't appear on radar and the aliens themselves are so light-sensitive that they have to wear welder's masks in normal sunlight.  It's no <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005N5S3">Midway</a> but it was nice to have a sea-based war movie pop up for once.

"Good Remake!" Jessica Biel, R. Lee Ermey and Andrew Bryniarski star in this 2003 horror remake of Tobe Hooper's 1974 film. A group of teens are hunted by a killer and his psychotic cannibalistic family. This is one of the few remakes that's as good as the original and Ermey and Bryniarski are great in it. This 2-disc set has nice picture and sound plus neat extras. I recommend this.

All versions are pixel edited... Don't be fooled; it's pixelated just as on t.v.  Tony's Review: This is the ONLY bad thing about these discs. I think it should have been spoken about somewhere on this site but I haven't seen any other reviewer speak about this fact.  So if this information was what you were looking for, you've found the only review that specifically tells you that all the episodes are pixel edited just as on television, so no, you're not gonna see any boobs, dicks, ass or snatch.  If that's what you were wondering, wonder no more.  Does this mean in a few years we might see ANOTHER full set of discs unedited?  I suppose it's possible that at some point in the future, they'll offer the full, un-pixilated versions, but this fact should NOT stop you from buying this set.  It's great if you can live with the pixel editing.  It's the same on all Season releases.  Check my other cool reviews.

Just right for your little Thomas fan! My two year old son just ADORES Thomas and this DVD was not a disappointment. It's got 20 episodes of Thomas' greatest hits, including episodes I remember from when my oldest (now 14) was a little guy. It'll keep your little Thomas fan enthralled for long enough that mom can take a few deep breaths and relax for a few moments; and my little guy jumps up and down at Thomas' facial expressions, which used to creep me out (the faces, not my son lol) but kids seem to respond to them. He just loves this DVD and that means I do too!

a very violent cut-throat movie, entertaining though. The story is, to me, somewhat typical, and easily predictable, yet, the whole invincible act of the Ajossi(Mister) next-door neighbor to Somi, is quite entertaining.  Yes, I would not eat anything while watching this movie. I had to stop eating to finish watching it. Too bloody, and often sockingly choppy.  Sad to see, although it is exaggerated, I do see the organ sellers, and CCard brokers, and junkies, in Korean society now. But that kind of child organ traffiking and ant laboring are fictional, just to let you know.  I give 4-star for being too violent! But very engaging.

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad For some inexplicable reason, Amazon has removed the rate-movie feature from the main product page. One must now write a review in order to rate a movie and generate recommendations. This is not a review, but merely a means to allow me to rate this movie and improve my recommendations. If you are as annoyed by this new "feature" as I am, please register your protest w/ Amazon help. Comment

excellent! I really enjoyed this movie. It kept me curious of who the kidnappers were and if the husband was really involved with the gang. Overall, it was interesting!! A must watch!!!

This Is A Great Collection For B-Movie Fans I purchased this collection maybe a year ago, but I recently revisited all 4 movies and I am even more impressed this time around! You figure sometimes with B grade movies that they will be fun to watch once with friends and laugh at, but they don't offer a lot of replay value. Well, that's what I figured, but I was wrong. For me 'The Giant Claw' is now my favorite to watch because of the ridiculousness of the creature and the terrible miniatures. The first time I saw this flick I was with a friend and wasn't really paying attention, but it is a riot! I consider the other films to be a bit more serious and horror-like. 'Creatures With The Atom Brain' and 'Zombies Of Mora Tau' are both from the zombie genre, but 'Creatures' adds a lot of other horror / sci-fi clich&eacute;s. 'Mora Tau' is a slower film, but worth watching for the occasionally water logged living dead. 'The Werewolf' could stand toe to toe with most werewolf movies that came before and after it. This time the creature is a product of science instead of the supernatural. My friend who is a werewolf movie fanatic loved this 50s gem and so did I. Every movie here is worth watching any number of times and you will discover something special with each viewing. Sam Katzman was a genius of the B-movie scene and the pictures presented on this box set have never looked better! If you have any interest in pursuing a great DVD horror collection, you should pick up this set today.

Amusing SF You'd think a Las Vegas cab driver had seen it all, especially with that UFO convention in town, right? Almost right, until two solemn children show up in his car. They have a wad of cash that they don't seem to understand very well, an urgent need to reach some desert destination, and a schoolbook way of speaking. It seems as legal as anything in Las Vegas and the money's green, so they're off.  So, a moment later, are the government goons in their black SUVs, in hot pursuit. The kids turn out to be something pretty special. The big bad gov guy calls them "illegal aliens," without stating just which laws they broke or just how alien. Then the chase is on with a few extras thrown in, like a killer robot and the only UFOlogist in the world who actually has a clue.  There's plenty of action, a bit of bloodless violence, some ominous but ambiguous threats against the kids, and a steady stream of one-liners to keep the mood from getting too grim. Maybe this isn't one for the ages, but it provides some popcorn entertainment where no one gets killed and everyone keeps their clothes on. Enjoy!  -- wiredweird

An almost great classic I haven't viewed the DVD, so I can't address the DVD quality, only the film itself.  This 1946 film tries very hard to be great but doesn't quite succeed, though it is worth seeing and is outstanding in many ways.  Edward G Robinson is the indefatigable Nazi hunter and Orson Wells is the Nazi mastermind Franz Kindler who immediately after World War II somehow manages to slip into a history professorship under the false name Charles Rankin in a small Connecticut town and marry the daughter of a Supreme Court justice.  Both give excellent performances.  I wasn't impressed with Loretta Young's performance, but she isn't one of my favorite actresses of the period anyway.  Orson Wells as the director does a magnificent job of playing with shadows in this black-and-white film to convey a sense of mystery that would be much harder with color, but the music is often just too flamboyant and too often draws too much attention to itself.  I especially liked how we can see the net closing in on Nazi Kindler/Rankin.  We know from the start how the film is bound to end, but we feel suspense anyway, and we can see it in Kindler/Rankin's eyes as the net draws tighter around him.  This part of the film is brilliantly done.  I found the story itself however uneven at best, and often unconvincing.  For a man who as Franz Kindler was the evil genius behind Nazi Germany and who brilliantly pulled the wool over the eyes of good Connecticut Yankees, as Charles Rankin he doesn't appear all that bright, though I won't spoil it for you by revealing details. He just doesn't act like a genius mastermind.  The very final scene on the face of the clock in the clock tower - I won't reveal details - is beautiful and dramatic but also seemed overblown to me.  I would have liked it better if the rest of the film had been as good.  Overall I enjoyed this film and I recommend watching it, especially to anyone who enjoys black-and-white films of the era, but I found myself thinking too much about the flaws that kept it from being a really great film.

Predators Not a Vacation spot you would want to end-up at! Fast action and with good actors. 4 stars because they should had more actors left at the end than only 2.

a smiple story of bonding and building relationshiops a christmas story is simple in its scope  A newly divorced woman looking for work in san francisco and joins a local choir for something to do.  She meets the other choir members and friendships and relationships develop. A stern and knowledgeable choir director takes charge in making these amateurs into a choir, and his love of doing it is apparent   It is not a schmalzy christmas movie but a tender sweet story i watch it every christmas season  it is worth a view

Classic theme This is an entertaining variation on the timeless theme of girls' hierarchies.  Good girl, Claire, has to move in to the guest house of it-girl, Massi, when Claire's father loses her job.  While Massi pretends to be nice to Claire when her parents are watching, she and her popular friends are awful to Claire at school.  There are no surprises here, but this is a good movie to watch with your tween/teen girls because it allows you to have a discussion about the importance of authenticity and kindness.

One of a Kind It is almost obligatory these days to apologize for enjoying Amos 'n Andy.  Evidently there is something presumed to be inherently racist about this once-popular franchise, but I would find it difficult to make such a case about this movie.   For the uninitiated,  two white actors, Charles Correll and Freeman Gosden, Jr., played Amos 'n Andy for years on radio, then television, and in this one motion picture made in 1930, at rather an early point in their long, successful careers.  In this picture, the two play hapless souls operating their own taxi service, a premise involving the pair in numerous adventures as the film progresses.  Ultimately, they find themselves helping an old friend who is being defrauded by a crook.   The friend is from a white family with whom Amos and Andy have past ties, and hold in high regard.  Herein lies my quibble with the "racist" label that can get applied to Amos 'n Andy.  The warm, mutual relationships in this movie between characters representing different racial backgrounds tend to defuse arguments that this is an issue.  Amos and Andy are not objects of prejudice in this picture, and in the end are central figures in resolving the difficulties of their friend.   I will not pretend that stereotypes and caricatures cannot be found within this movie, but there doesn't seem to be anything mean-spirited or condescending about any of it.  The exaggerated characterizations are meant to get laughs and, in large measure, that is just what they do.   The plot of this movie seems rather formulaic today, and was perhaps not novel even to movie audiences of 1930, which could explain why Correll and Gosden made no further Amos 'n Andy films.  But the great Duke Ellington and his Orchestra are featured here, performing a couple of musical numbers during a party scene, and it might be worth owning this DVD for that reason alone.  Apart from that, one can find at least mildly entertaining fare--and sometimes quite a bit better than that--for the length of this picture, running a bit under an hour and a half.   Realizing that different releases of even the same source material can be radically different from one another, especially a film in the public domain such as this one, I am referring here to the Miracle Pictures DVD of "Check and Double Check".  I was surprised at how well-preserved the film looked and sounded.  An occasional splice or rough spot may certainly be found, but overall the film looks clean and has quite acceptable sound quality, a definite advantage when the Ellington orchestra plays.  The film print used to make this disc is complete enough to include the majestic RKO Radio Pictures opening, a sign of minimal wear, tampering, and abuse of the source over the decades.  Again, this is Miracle Pictures; versions of this film from other distributors may not measure up.   So, on the basis of this movie's entertainment value, its inclusion of Duke Ellington in his early prime, and the surprisingly good condition of the film print transferred to DVD, I give "Check and Double Check" a solid four stars.  I should mention that I paid only a dollar for my copy of this movie, and would not likely have spent the $9.98 "suggested retail price" on my worst day.  But if you can find this one at a reasonable price, I don't think you will be disappointed.

Better than I remember First of all, picture quality is top notch. Excellent BluRay transfer.  The CG which I thought looked so poor in the movies actually doesnt look half bad in BluRay.  Not sure if the studio remastered the film during transfer to BluRay but the movie looks way better than I remember.  I really enjoyed the scenes of a deserted NYC and the alternate ending is an interesting twist for a zombie flick. For some reason I enjoyed this movie more in BluRay and on my wide screen LCD than I did in the theatre.

Starts Off Slow, But Suspense/Mystery Builds To Incredible Finale The director of "The Game", David Fincher, is well-known for his groundbreaking films that take viewers on psychological thrill rides.  This one falls nicely into that categorization.  For a basic plot summary, "The Game" sees workaholic businessman Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) given a gift certificate to the mysterious "CRS" company by brother Conrad (Sean Penn).  When Nicholas decides to give CRS a try, he is thrust into a far-reaching "game", of sorts, that touches every aspect of his life.  When this movie starts out, it looks like just any other Michael Douglas movie (where he plays the jerk boss).  It is a bit slow to get off the ground and will have you wondering which direction the whole experience is taking.  About 45 minutes in, though, the film kicks into high gear and only keeps accelerating until the end.  This is the type of movie that will have you thinking about its possibilities the whole way through.  Just when you think you have it figured it, it throws you another twist again...and again...and again.  By the very end, you'll even stop guessing and just resign yourself to the fact that Fincher is going to blow you away no matter what!  I hate to call this a "twist ending" film, but it shares many of those same characteristics.  Overall, "The Game" impressed me with its ability to effectively create high drama, character development, and a sense of mystery throughout.  If psychological thrillers are "your thing", then you can't go wrong here.

Clue Worth Your $$$ I give the movie a 4 1/2 stars. The Story is slightly similar to Neil Simons Murder By Death. Very well put together. Has you wondering who committed the murder throughout the movie.Is it the maid or is it the butler? Watch it and you'll find out. The 3 different ending were not necessary.  Only 1 for them was necessary.  If you like mystery murder movies you can't go wrong with this one. Keeps you waiting for the next thing to happen. I purchased the blu-ray dvd. The picture and the sound quality is great. Didn't think it would ever come out on Blu-ray. It just did.

An Excellent Attempt at the Impossible! There is so much meat in the book, so much back story, and so much character delineation, that it would take a truly extraordinary script writer to capture the depth and power in a visual medium.  First, there is the problem of capturing the key moments in each character's back story and weaving them into the "now" part of the story so that the audience has a chance to see both what the character's see and what confuses them.  Then there is the problem of finding actors who are not only so solidly grounded in their craft to project Rand's characters accurately and honestly but also so thoroughtly familiar with the book and the backstories for the characters that they are able to get into the heads of the characters and show the audience what they are truly thinking and feeling.  When I first saw the film in the theater, as a devotee of the novel, I was somewhat disappointed.  However, I just watched it again and was amazed at how well this first section of the novel was captured - even more powerfully than I had at first imagined. Paul Johansson did an amazing job of directing.  The cast did a terrific job of capturing the amazing archetypical characters as very real people.  Of course, people who are caught up in today's class warfare environment so ardently pushed by our politicians and the desire for the government to take care of everyone and everything, will hate this film.  They will pick it apart, and, yes, like all films, it has its weaknesses.  They will find every reason to hate it, ridicule it and the philosophy behind it.  But as you watch it, it will floor you that the book was published in 1957.  Why?  Because what is happening in the film with regard to the economy and the government's approach to dealing with it is on the news every day.  Even as we watch Greece's riots and deterioration, our government's response is to replicate the precise actions that got Greece, and those countries also coming apart, in that predicament in the first place.  If you don't believe it, just watch the news.  Not just the mainstream media - take a look at some of the others who haven't drunk the Kool-Aid.  Then be afraid.  Be very afraid.

Very Twisting This movie had many interesting aspects. Don't watch this unless you are fine with some crazy twists. No, this movie didn't have the production quality of say... Avatar. However, it was very good nonetheless.  The ending was... wow! Which leads me to say, yes. I gave this 4 stars, just notched one because of where it fits in my tastes. I will recommend it though.

Significantly cleaner movie classic but nothing new I love this movie and remember seeing it first back when it came out. There was VHS, DVD and most people don't remember that there was also a computer disc too with clips - such as the limited demo which was submitted for funding to make this movie. This blu-ray disc is virtually the same as the DVD Special edition with video/audio clean up. Let's call it as it is:  * The movie is a **great** watch in any form. If you have any knowledge of the music industry, especially the rock scene of the 60s, 70s and 80s, it's a timeless parody that is hilarious every time. This film set the standard for which all "mockumentary" films are judged and for good reason.  * The blu-ray edition is certainly cleaner than the DVD. I have just compared the DVD to the bluray and all of the MPEG noise and artifacing is gone. It makes a significant difference. The original movie's "dark" spots in scenes are now lighter and provide more detail. The sounds is much better. I realize a few bad notes that Derek hits while trying to get out of "the cocoon" which adds to the realism without losing the feel and effect. This movie was shot as a documentary so there is still some film grain in there but it no longer looks like cheap, lower end camera work prepared professionally for release. The speaking sound is better as is the concert sound. The ability to capture more data to accurately record the original source material is noticeable. Thankfully, there is just enough "grain" so as not to lose the realism of the film.  * There is nothing extra on this disc above the original DVD. That is extremely disappointing and one can only hope that there isn't the desire to milk this franchise to an already ludicrous level. I don't know why that original demo clip (I think it was 30 minutes) was not apparently included. I'd take that over outtakes any day. Enough with the "in character in real life" exploits. We got the joke. It's in movieland and that's where it is supposed to remain.  * CONCLUSION: If you can find this disco for $8-10 as I did, it might be worth it just for the cleaner reproduction of sound. I've enjoyed the clean up, my friends who watched it with me did too. I gave away my original blu-ray to a friend as a gift. If you don't have a full surround sound system and big TV and don't really make a big deal out of the aesthetics, then this isn't a disc you need to blow more money on. With bluray discs being 50GB capable there isn't any reason that they couldn't provide all the extras into one final Spinal Tap Ultimate blu-ray edition. I doubt we'll even see that since it will be a marginal difference than this cleaned up movie. The extras are so-so and, personally, I don't care for much other than the movie and the commentary.

romance, robbery, and brain dead criminals... Out Of Sight was an important stepping stone for director Steven Soderbergh (Contagion, Traffic, Erin Brockovich), as it put him more into the Hollywood mainstream, and it was the first of many collaborations with George Clooney, then struggling to launch his movie career.  The film also provided a meaty dramatic role for Jennifer Lopez (Selena, Anaconda).  The film's terrific supporting cast includes Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Steve Zahn, Albert Brooks, Nancy Allen, Dennis Farina, and cameos by Michael Keaton and Samuel L. Jackson.  Some spoilers follow.  Based on a novel by Elmore Leonard, the movie features an unlikely romance between escaped bank robber Jack Foley (Clooney) and federal marshal Karen Sisco (Lopez), and an odd assortment of characters including some of the stupidest crooks around.  The movie is centered on Foley, a handsome, smooth talking, career bank robber who fancies himself as quite smart.  Always scheming, despite his intelligence, Foley still somehow keeps winding up behind bars.  Attempting to escape from a prison in Florida, Foley has just cleared the perimeter fence, and is about to be picked up by his pal Buddy Bragg (Rhames), when federal marshal Karen Sisco interferes.  Sisco is tossed in the trunk of her car, with Foley murmuring sweet nothings in her ear.  Bragg drives to a meet up with Glenn Michaels (Zahn) an associate waiting with another car.  Sisco convinces Michaels to abandon his friends, but while driving down the road, they get into a car wreck where Michaels manages to escape.  Foley's plan for a big score involves robbing wealthy Richard Ripley (Albert Brooks), who while doing time, bragged that he has a fortune in uncut diamonds hidden in his home in Detroit.  Leaving Florida, the flakey Michaels heads to the Motor City, and blabs about Ripley to Maurice "Snoopy" Miller (Cheadle), a small time crook who did time with time Foley and the others.  Snoop and his low IQ partners in crime Kenneth (Isaiah Washington) and White Boy (Keith Loneker), are preparing to do the job when Foley and Bragg arrive in Detroit.  Things get more complicated when Karen arrives, and has a steamy romantic encounter with Foley.  The forbidden romance makes for an intriguing fantasy, and Lopez and Clooney are definitely fun to watch, but things go off the deep end when Foley and Bragg join Miller and his crew.  They arrive at the Ripley residence in a plumber's van, force their way into the mansion, and take the "maid" (Nancy Allen) hostage.  Miller locates a safe in the bedroom, and along with his genius pals, tries to shoot it open using handguns.  Sisco has trailed the gang to the house, and calls for backup.  Meanwhile Foley finds a remarkably calm Ripley hiding in a toilet.  Foley and Bragg are free and clear, but Foley decides to be a hero.  When shots are fired, Sisco heads for the house, eventually bringing the ill-conceived caper to a violent close.  The film has some comedic elements, but the tone is so consistently serious, that it makes it extremely hard to accept most of what happens.  Take away the romantic element, and you have a poorly planned impromptu robbery attempt that ends in complete disaster.  Miller and his two clueless pals are just too stupid to be believed.  Ripley's matter of fact behavior, when he should be afraid for his life is surreal, and Foley's decision to get himself killed, instead of escaping, is also hard to swallow.  Smart guy Foley criticizes others bank robbers for their lack of knowledge and planning, yet ironically Foley finds himself "winging it" with a group of morons, and then committing murder.  Karen Sisco is by far the most competent of the bunch, and Jennifer Lopez is convincingly tough, and has wonderful chemistry with Clooney.  Leonard's tale simply isn't a gritty realistic crime thriller, but Out of Sight is entertaining, and features some very strong acting performances.  None of the eclectic criminal bunch may ever make the dean's list, but they are interesting to watch.  The film doesn't have a lot of action, but what there is, is executed extremely well.  The theatrical version runs 122 minutes, and many of the deleted scenes on the DVD, fill in some key gaps in the story.  Director Steven Soderbergh and writer Scott Frank contribute a commentary track that's just not as informative as it could have been.  Rating: 3.5 stars.

Classic This movie is an all time top 10 in the musical field. The singing and dancing were superb and the acting great. Will there ever be another great musical movie made from the 20's  30's  40's or  50's ??????

Entertains... A solid western played out with Steve McQueen and Karl Malden at the helm.  The other actors do their part quite well also.

Women Behaving Badly I have to admit there were a few funny sequences in this movie.  Acting badly is no longer the sole purview of men - these women are right up there on the gross scale.  I always suspected women had it in them to be this bad.  In the end it becomes more of a "chick flick", but it's one that most guys could tolerate.  Not sure I'd want to watch it more than once though.

Touching Wonderful movie which explores piecing a family back together after heartbreak and  tragedy.  Love, love, love George Clooney's portrayal of a dad!

Wow- but compare it with the TV series... Somehow or other I missed this film until now.  I happened to watch the TV series, with Mark Dacascos, left a glowing review, and liked it so much I had to see the original.  Wow- a great soundtrack (with the Cure, a favorite band), my favorite car ('73 T-Bird), and Brandon Lee dynamic and angst-ridden as the Crow.  And best of all, more shots in the movie than in the TV series of the crow (the bird) itself, flying, guiding, etc.- more in keeping with its mystical nature.  My purpose here is to contrast the movie and the series.  I'm not sure if I would have liked the film QUITE as much had I not seen the TV show first (hard to know- you can't un-ring a bell).  Personally, I'm not a huge fan of glorifying evil, especially, with gratuitous sex and violence (cutting out people's eyeballs and eating them, lascivious sex scenes with one's sister, etc).  Nor am I a fan of films that create entire WORLDS peopled by beings that glory in others' pain- sadists who laugh with glee while cutting out others' hearts, etc.  Fortunately, in the real world such people are relatively few and far between.  But the movie was suspenseful and jam-packed, well-crafted.  It left me wanting more.  And that "more" was MORE than satisfied by the TV series.  I thought it superior in several ways to the film, but it's like comparing apples and oranges- in other ways the film was superior.  The TV series was a somewhat kinder and gentler version of the film.  Less of a roller-coaster ride, yes, but more thoughtful, detailed, far-reaching.  For example, as in the scene where the Crow wreaks such a profound change on Darla, we simply see her fix her daughter breakfast and that's it.  In the series, we see her wrestle with change, witness the complete metamorphosis of her character.  The TV show took the time to flesh out Draven, Shelley, Albrecht, Darla, everyone.  We see in detail Eric and Shelley's relationship, and his resurrection.  And it deviates in some intriguing ways from the film, e.g., in its treatment of Fun Boy, which spans several episodes.  There are plenty of challenging ideas hinted at in the movie, with no time to explore.  The main difference between a movie and a TV show is pacing (duh).  The show was 22 hours long (one season).  It took different elements of the film and developed entire episodes around them, for example, the capture of the bird itself, Eric becoming mortal, Sarah being taken hostage, all in different episodes.  There was time to explore many more issues and possibilities.  I'm no prude, but I don't think the show suffered in the least by omitting obscenities and gore (although every episode features an exciting fight scene or two).  The world created in the TV show is not quite as dark- more mysterious- sometimes menacing, sometimes beautiful.  And bad people aren't everywhere, just here and there- in boardrooms, in laboratories, in organized crime, even in internal affairs, but never fear, wherever they are, the Crow will find them.  Dacascos's violence is toned down (i.e., fewer deaths result, at least until the end) and tempered with justice.  I thought he held his own in every way, charisma-wise, with Lee, and his martial arts skills are simply breathtaking, a thing of beauty.  And, he maintained this charisma, dynamism and quasi-magical persona throughout the entire series- never a false or incongruous note.  The only person I felt whom suffered by comparison to his character in the movie was the actor who played Albrecht, perhaps too reserved, in contrast to Ernie Hudson- a TOUGH act to follow.  If the movie left you wanting more, and it's not just more violence and knee-jerk, quick vengeance you're craving, I encourage you to buy the TV series (it's a bargain).  It definitely rounded out and deepened my Crow experience.  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000OCY7OO">The Crow: Stairway To Heaven - The Complete Series</a>

Great Movie, Finally On Blu-Ray! Get Shorty is a great movie as we all know. I'm not going to get into specifics on the movie itself. The Blu-Ray conversion is pretty good. The detail is very nice and I did not detect any artifacts caused by filtering or other forms of noise reduction. Get Shorty was filmed by Don Peterman and his flicks were typically distinguished by a clean, low-grain elegance, with precise lighting and solid blacks; and the Blu-ray has accurately reproduced this look for Get Shorty. The Blu-ray captures the just-too-bright, slightly artificial look of the L.A. and Florida locales (the latter also shot in L.A.) where most of the action occurs. The DTS loss-less sound contains appropriate background noises but nothing that will make you turn your head. The menu structure for the disc is pretty bare-bones, but has some great bonus features and deleted scenes. Overall this Blu-ray is solid and I recommend it!

Submarine I like to watch sea adventures particularly submarine films. In my own opinion I suggest those who like naval submarine warfare to buy this film. There are some thrilling scenes interplayed by a destroyer cahsing a submarine and the submarine chasing the destroyer. The submarine firing torpedos and the destroyer sprawling depth charges. The irony of this film is when both captains have to abandon their destroyed vessels respectively and the enemy 'below' and 'above' are juxtaposed and seem to become reconcilable. In my own opinion I think that the message of the last scenes is a good message that both enemies suffer as humans and both parties desrve dignity.

HUGO This was a great movie. I never got to see it in the movie theater. The Blu-ray disk was unbelievable and th quality was amazing.

Charming Time Paradox Story A tender little story with a deceptively simply premise. Dr. Kate Forster (Sandra Bullock) leaves her lake house in 2006, and leaves a note for the next tenant. Alex Wyler (Keanu Reeves) finds the note when he moves in in 2004. Oooops! We never get a good explanation about how they got a bit turned around in time, but it seems they can correspond using the mailbox at the lake house. It doesn't take long to realize that they have the same dog -- a female named Jack -- and that Jack is living in her own time. She seems perfectly capable of accepting and living in the anomalous situation.  After they've exchanged correspondence for awhile, they try to work out a way to meet in person. But it's not as easy as it sounds. Do they eventually make it? How?  Ain't gonna tell you. It's sweet. Really.

Under-recognized gem The Name of the Rose is a 1986 film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud (Enemies at the Gates, Seven Years in Tibet) starring Sean Connery, Christian Slater, and features F. Murray Abraham and Ron Perlman. Based on the Umberto Eco book, the setting is a medieval Benedictine abbey in Northern Italy. Connery plays William of Baskerville, a Franciscan monk, who is called to investigate a strange death at the abbey. He brings with him his young novice, Adso (Slater). William's investigation progresses with Sherlock Holmes-like deduction. However he is confronted by abbey rules and restrictions, mainly a forbidden library. He also has to decipher a simple-minded hunchback (Perlman) and keep one step ahead of a visiting Inquisitor (Abraham) without appearing to be a heretic himself. Meanwhile, Adso meets a gorgeous peasant girl and struggles with a wavering moral compass, trying to solve some spiritual mysteries of his own. The art direction in this film is meticulous, with all the mud, mist and labyrinths. The illuminated manuscripts were authentically recreated. The makeup is to be noted too (it won a BAFTA award) since it features some of the ugliest monks in film. This may have launched Perlman's career for scarey-looking characters. This film was barely released in the U.S., probably because descriptions like "mystery" and "monastery" would not appeal to audiences rushing to see Top Gun, Platoon and Aliens. Instead, this movie touches on themes such as the changing (or non-changing) nature of the Church in the 14th century, vanity (power), even the importance of humor. I take away a star for the less than perfect pacing. The blu-ray is decently priced and has some good bonus materials.

similarities I finally saw this  last night and what struck me was a similarity in some ways  with this film and a old film with Jennifer Jones called Good Morning Miss Dove  a devoted teacher  bought gifts for her students every year  nurse in hospital was a former student and the story of the gift the girl remembers and both Hetty and Miss Dove told the little girls to wash first.  The sudden need for surgery  Very much  reminds me of that old movie.Other parts of the movie where more original I thought the parts with Janet and Alex King missing the boy where good.  I was also shocked about not mentioning Sarah  even perhaps a christmas card from her. Would have like to see Gus and Jasper.  Enjoy the actress that plays Hetty  she was always great.

Pooh VHS WE didn't open it - I mistakenly ordered the VHS but needed a DVD. But it came in good outer condition and fast service.

Good performance. Some Willy fans might be disappointed. I thought it was a great movie. It's not a comedy and its not Will Ferrell acting retarded ha. I was emotionally attached to the characters by the end of the film. Its that kind of movie.

A solid thriller worthy of the Hitchcock name "The 39 Steps" wastes little time pulling you in. You're practically thrown right into the thick of things right from the start just like Hannay. As soon as your brain has accepted all that is transpiring, BOOM! Hannay is on the run for a murder he didn't commit. Much of the film follows him as he outruns the authorities; constantly checking newspapers, looking over his shoulder, and hiding in plain sight. It's how the film keeps its thrilling aspect alive its entire duration.  It seems like even the film's flaws can be excused because the film is great anyway. Lucie Mannheim overacts to the extreme when she dies and the film has more than its fair share of outdated special effects. But this was also made in 1935 and there's much to appreciate for it being over 75 years old. Robert Donat is really spectacular in the film and his chemistry with Madeleine Carroll is extraordinary even if Pamela (the character Carroll portrays) is extremely hard headed and her actions are a bit frustrating.  Despite the film being in black and white, you're still able to notice how fantastic both the lighting and camera work really are. When Hannay is first apprehended by two men who claim to be policemen, he's shoved inside of a car along with Pamela. There's this seamless transition from the inside of the car (after Pamela complains about having to spend half the night with Hannay) to an outside shot of it driving on the road as it drives over the hilly countryside and into the distance.  "The 39 Steps" isn't exactly groundbreaking, but it's an extremely solid mystery thriller. The twist doesn't come out of nowhere, but it's still very clever. Hitchcock always managed to keep the audience guessing and always had them in the palm of his hand. "The 39 Steps" still accomplishes that. "The 39 Steps" is an enthralling thriller that looks fantastic for its age.  Supplements on the Blu-ray include a new high-definition digital restoration, audio commentary by Alfred Hitchcock scholar Marian Keane, the 24-minute documentary Hitchcock: The Early Years, the 40-minute interview from 1966 entitled Cinema: Alfred Hitchcock from British broadcaster Mike Scott, the complete broadcast of the 1937 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation starring Ida Lupino and Robert Montgomery, new visual essay by Hitchcock scholar Leonard Leff, audio excerpts from Francois Truffaut's 1962 interviews with Hitchcock, original production design drawings, and an 18-page booklet featuring an essay by film critic David Cairns.  "The 39 Steps" is now available on single disc DVD and single disc Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection. It is presented in a 1.33:1 aspect ratio with monaural sound. It's in black and white and is approximately 86 minutes long.

Rich Kids Have Problems Too Like "Catcher In The Rye" this is a blueblood teen who just wants to abandon his tedious and pointless life.  Having his father locked up as a schizophrenic obviously left him much less inclined than his older brother to play the game and pretend everything is alright.  Great acting makes this material seem richer than it is.  You understand everyone's desire to smack Igby but also understand his desire to avoid the smug superficial adults ordering him around.

Good movie Well it's a good movie it's a good start to the classic old series run on Hulu. Johnny Depp doesn't remind me of capt jack in this movie.

Great movie...  but, I really liked this movie.  It is fun and emotional, the all the characters are well acted.  I very much recommend this movie.  For the cost I would recommend getting the Blu-ray/DVD combo.  The version with the digital copy seems a little expensive for adding so little.

Excellent It's been a month or more since I watched this movie, and it's really stuck with me like few other movies in recent memory have.  It's not going to be everyone's cup of tea, of course -- its pacing is slow and deliberate, and it doesn't have much in the way of a traditional plot.  It merely follows the personal life (with brief glimpses of his professional life) of a man who's trying to juggle his work, his dysfunctional relationship with his sister, and his excessive, uh, lustful compulsions.  It felt like one of the most honest and topical movies I've seen in a long time.  We live in a culture that's obsessed with sex.  Now that computers and high-speed internet have become commonplace, the majority of adolescent and adult males consume pornography on a regular basis.  This movie, unlike just about every other movie that's come out of Hollywood over the past 3 decades, focuses on the dark reality of modern sex, and how compulsively seeking sexual gratification can lead to serious problems and even misery.  Fassbender and Mulligan both give excellent, emotional, memorable performances in the process.  If any of the above sounds like something you'd be interested in, then I'd enthusiastically recommend this movie.  If you need a traditional plot structure or constant action to maintain your interest, then look elsewhere.

Breathtaking! I've seen this movie three times now and every time I laugh, I cry, and I get inspired. I didn't have any issues with shipment nor processing.

Underrated and overhated POSSIBLE MINOR SPOILERS BELOW!  Now let me clarify this right off the bat: I'm a HUGE Anne Rice fan.  The Vampire Chronicles are among my favorite books of all time.  This film is neither a faithful adaptation of Queen of the Damned nor of The Vampire Lestat, which it also borrows from.  Rather, it is a sort of "Cliff's Notes" version of the 2 novels, with several liberties taken, the most obvious being with how Lestat is "born" into the vampire world.  Now, if you can simply accept those facts, and that this is intended to be a popcorn/fun little flick, you might actually enjoy it.  The acting isn't half bad, and the cinematography and visual effects are a lot of fun.  Plus it has a soundtrack that, if you like bands like Korn and Disturbed, you should really dig.

A Fun Family Fantasy Flick I had fun watching this movie; I was able to fully accept the basic assumptions of the movie and enjoyed an action filled fantasy ride with beautiful scenery thrown in as a bonus. If you are a fan of family friendly fantasy you'll need to be sure and watch this one. It has a story line that reminded me somewhat of Jumanji where imaginary fantasy characters came to life as one played a game whereas in Inkheart the fantasy characters came to life when a specially gifted (or cursed) individual simply read the words from a book out loud.  The story is about the adventures that follow when the father in the story discovers he has that strange gift and unintentionally sets in motion a series of unwelcome events including the sudden disappearance of his wife.  His reading draws a group of suitably villainous villains from fantasy to reality who found their lot was much improved in their new situation and decided to take advantage of it. The father, played by Brendan Fraser, and the daughter, played by Eliza Bennett are suitably innocent and charming to garner the sympathetic support of the viewer.  If you can abandon reason and logic and permit yourself to be carried along by a fanciful story, you may well enjoy this one as much as I did.

Good as it ever was! First time I saw this (100 years ago), I wouldn't get in the bathtub for 3 months.  It's still a great "anti-ocean" film.  Now, I'm older and wiser... and willing to take a bath!  (But I'm still not getting in the ocean).

Great movie and wonderful cinematics This was a good movie even though everyone probably knows the climax of the movie.  It was extremely well acted and the cinematic adventure was great.  There was a few unneeded lines but otherwise a feel good and happy movie to watch.  Enjoy!

Great Acting, Unhappy Ending An excellent performance by Lou Diamond Phillips.  Very suspenseful, kept you guessing until the very end.  Sad ending but you can't have it all.

Would totally Buy this ( we rented it from Blockbuster's ) I am really picky about the movies I would let my kids watch more than once.  I would buy this movie.  So cute and rockin' !!!

Well done feel bad A movie about the life styles of wealthy self-absorbed privileged entitled people and a wanna be. By far the best thing about this movie was seeing Matt Damon stretched to whole new level as the infatuated menanical Ripley.  Phillip Seymore Hoffman is so sleazy that just watching him makes you want to take a shower. This movie is seemingly intentionally void of any redeeming characters or plot line, making me wonder what was the point, beyond the obvious message that people can be real bastards when allowed to be. The only point of light in this movie was Peter and his attempt to reach out to Ripley. But that was secondary, rushed, at the end, and didn't turn out as one may have hope. The DVD image of Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow is misleading and the DVD could use a redesign to better reflect the movie (which is film noir not a romance).

good movie, crappy cut. i rented this movie then bought it. Its realy a good flik. the movie was destroyed because when this piticular manufacturer made this DVD they put half the flick on side A and half on side B. Pretty stupid for a 90 min flick.  I could see that if it was TITANIC.

Smart comedy/drama with strong perfomances An intelligent, well acted, sometimes funny, sometimes sad look at the dead end reality of small town life.  There's also something a tiny bit condescending about it.  It sometimes feels distanced from and judgmental of it's own characters and world. And occasionally it pushed a little hard to be `quirky'.  But it more than makes up for any flaws it with its good, true moments, both dramatic and comic.  And it has stayed in my memory in an ever more positive way.

Alaska... This is a National Geography documentary which was released in 1993 but now out in DVD. My interest was the first DVD, BRAVING ALASKA where people live away from civilization and the closest neighbour is some 50 miles away. Good quality and very educational as I expected. Bravo.

Good stuff I liked this video.  There was some really helpful tips that were provided.  Some of which I wish I had known when I encountered gale force winds on the great lakes a few times.  At least now, I will be that much more prepared.  If you're new to sailing, I recommend this, but make sure you brush up on some of the technical sailing terms in advance.

Much Needed Lighthearted Film I bought this solely because 99% of all my film collection is dark themed materials. It's a classic old time film so I can turn my brain off and just watch and remember my family watching it as when I was growing up. The transfer to HD is not as great as I would have hoped, but it's ok. One of Garland's most loved musicals, most know if they'd want this, if you haven't seen it check out some clips on youtube or elsewhere. I did find it annoying that you get a fairly nice book style case, and YET they only give you 4 song sampler disc extra? why not just include the entire soundtrack? COME ON!!! lol

Kubrick's Vietnam Full Metal Jacket is a unique entry in the Stanley Kubrick canon, as it's not quite a masterpiece but is as iconic and frequently discussed as his other films. Released in 1987, seven years after his previous film The Shining, Kubrick tackles the then-popular subject of the Vietnam War but puts his own Kubrickian spin on it. At 117 minutes, Full Metal Jacket was the shortest film Kubrick had made since 1964 despite a first and second half that seem like two different films.  As if any introduction is necessary, the film opens with Marine Corps recruits entering training at Parris Island and meeting Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermey), who intends to turn the recruits into hardened marines during their stay. Even those who haven't seen the film know about the opening scene, featuring Gunnery Sergeant Hartman meeting the recruits and spouting some oft-quoted dialogue that has become a part of the cultural vernacular. The first seven minutes is arguably one of the greatest opening scenes in film history. It's certainly one of the most iconic. Out of all the recruits, the film centers attention on Private Joker (Matthew Modine) and Private Leonard Lawrence (Vincent D'onofio), a simple, overweight recruit who incurs Hartman's wrath and is nicknamed "Gomer Pyle." As Hartman begins putting the recruits through their training, he endlessly harasses the simple-minded Private Pyle, eventually pairing him up with Joker in the hopes that it will improve Pyle's skill. These scenes at Parris Island feature some of the most hilarious, depressing, and fascinating stuff that Kubrick ever shot and it's all over after a mere 45 minutes.  I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the first 45 minutes of Full Metal Jacket is an undisputed masterpiece. After the Parris Island scenes, it essentially becomes a different film with the locale switching abruptly from South Carolina to Vietnam circa January of 1968. Here, Joker is a journalist accompanied by Private First Class Rafterman (Kevyn Major Howard), a combat photographer. With the beginning of the Tet Offensive, Joker and Rafterman are sent to cover the enemy attacks in South Vietnam. Here, Joker is reunited with Cowboy (Arliss Howard), one of the recruits at Parris Island, now a Sergeant and second-in-command of the Lusthog Squad. We're introduced to several members of the Lusthog Squad, most memorably Animal Mother (Adam Baldwin) a machine gunner, who's given some of the most interesting dialogue about the war effort.  The two halves of Full Metal Jacket are so disassociated from each other it's hard to believe, at times, they're from the same film. The second half is strong, very strong in fact, and effectively entertaining; but it fails to live up to the momentum of the first half and is simply not as memorable as what came before it. Even so, the climactic standoff with the sniper is one of the strongest scenes in the entire film.  England was used as a substitute for Vietnam and is beautiful at times, while at others Kubrick's Vietnam more closely resembles a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Even with the onslaught of Vietnam-related films that had been coming out of Hollywood and picking up accolades for the several years leading up to this film's release, not a single frame of this film seems overly familiar. Kubrick's composition of the most minor, seemingly insignificant shot was and remains awe-inspiring. Kubrick's Vietnam film may not be the best Vietnam film, but it certainly has some of the most memorable imagery. Oddly enough, there is something lacking from this film in regards to Kubrick's style. Perhaps it's the lack of classical music that characterizes so many of Kubrick's films and really lend to the atmosphere and style, but Full Metal Jacket, as a whole, lacks the distinct Kubrickian atmosphere that can be spotted in all of his output from 1968 on even by the most untrained eye. There are the unbroken, static shots that seem so still even when there's movement as well as the dead-stare of characters descending into madness that give him away, but there's a tone that's noticeably missing from this film.  Based on the novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford, who co-wrote the script with Kubrick and Michael Herr, the film is not overtly political and lacks a defined pro or anti stance on war, but that doesn't make it a straight-forward war film either. With Joker sporting the iconic words "Born to Kill" on his helmet, while wearing a peace sign on his flak jacket and discussing the duality of man ("the Jungian thing") with his Major, there's enough of the high-minded here to give a Kubrick disciple plenty to analyze. However, it's no wonder that out of Kubrick's other efforts Full Metal Jacket has arguably been most embraced by the average moviegoer and teenager.  Full Metal Jacket features some stunning and unforgettable performances, particularly R. Lee Ermey (credited without the "R.") and D'onofio. There is absolutely nothing I can say about Ermey's brilliant performance that hasn't already been said and D'onofrio too has received his share of acclaim for his sympathetic, tragic performance. There's plenty of great acting across the board here, but the acting is less consistent than one would expect from a Kubrick film (him being such a perfectionist). There are very minor, almost unnoticeable moments where an actor will briefly appear, unconvincingly deliver his dialogue, and disappear. There is nothing glaringly bad, but there are a few moments where the actors just don't seem up to snuff.  This is overall a lesser film for Stanley Kubrick, the only one of his films released between 1969 and 1999 that isn't a masterpiece. With that in mind, this shows what a phenomenal filmmaker Kubrick was as most directors would hope that one of their lesser films was of this quality. It's not that Full Metal Jacket isn't a masterpiece in comparison to his other films, it's just lacking in certain areas that keep it from being a masterpiece itself. There's a lack of cohesion between the two parts of the film; they exist so far apart from each other that it almost feels like a great film was cut short and a good film, with some great scenes, was edited onto it. It's a near-masterpiece and an undeniable cultural landmark, a film that will stand the test of time among Kubrick's other work. The biggest problem with Full Metal Jacket is that is has scenes many will remember forever and others they'll quickly forget.  GRADE: B

Can someone answer my question? I have not watched Bones since the first day, but have caught up by buying all the seasons to date. I love the show even if both Bones and Booth are a little full of themselves at times and act like ten year olds. The supporting cast makes up for their shortcomings.Mostly the stories are good and I wonder sometimes if everything they do can actually be done, but that's okay. Season 7 was short and I became frustrated by how it was on then it wasn't on. I had to be so vigilant watching for it. I have liked everything except Finn. If I wanted something like him, I'd watch Swamp People on the "History Channel". I don't appreciate bad grammar. I'm assuming this person went to school, didn't they teach him how to speak properly? Now for my question. Since Pelant has been on the scene, it's been tough going for Bones and Booth, but I wondered if anyone else, including Booth, noticed that the colonel that talked him to going back into service in season five, had the same last name, Pelant. It's not like Smith or Jones, it's an unusual name. Could they be related?

Chocolate box This is definitely the chocolate-box version of Emma. It focuses on all the comedic, light-hearted elements of the story over everything else. Quite a bit had to be cut for time, and the Frank Churchill/Jane Fairfax story suffered the most, I think. Still, most of the cast was good (with some exceptions!) and it's a fun romantic comedy...even if it's not the best adaptation.  I especially love Gwyneth Paltrow's Emma. Jeremy Northam is perhaps a bit too suave but still good as Mr. Knightley. The Eltons and Miss Bates were also great. Unfortunately Toni Collette was awful as Harriet Smith, as were Ewan McGregor as Frank Churchill (hideous wig) and Polly Walker as Jane Fairfax (too robust).  This was a fun movie, but not quite Jane Austen's Emma. The Mr. Elton story was given a lot more focus over the Frank Churchill one. I think if I could change just one thing, I'd play up the Frank/Jane story more. Oh, and get rid of the ugly wig as well.

Scary I have always heard of this movie but never saw it until recently. A good, strong story the Exorcist is about a young girl who becomes possessed by a demon (or something!) and her mother seeks out a Catholic priest to perform an exorcism to banish it. The acting in the film is first-rate and makes the characters feel real where many movies like this would have made them 2-dimensional. The videography was also awesome. The only two weaknesses I feel is the pace of the film (which is slow at some parts but it allows for good character development) and some plot points which never seem resolved. They are minor but irritating. For instance, what was the relevency to the opening location? You never really find out but I'm sure the novel probably makes it clear. Well worth watching!

Stargate-'Nuff Said If I didn't enjoy the series, I wouldn't have purchased this set. I do wish the last 2 'movies' had been included. That seems to be the case with series, however. Any follow-up episodes are extra purchases. I found this to be true with BSG & Farscape.

Satisfied Muppets fan This is an endearing version of the Dicken's classic Christmas Carol--very enjoyable and Michael Caine performed superbly with his puppet cast.  However, the disk itself was soled upon receipt and needed to be cleaned in order to play properly.

Overall Good Release of a Great Series 'Blue Gender' is a nice little series I first discovered some years ago on Toonami late one night.  The story is pretty simple, mankind fighting giant bug-like creatures.  Think 'Starship Troopers' and you are on the right track.  The animation quality varies from decent to great.  The episode length is apx 20 minutes per episode. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***Specs***  26 episodes and one movie on 5 Discs (apx 700 total minutes runtime)  Special Features:    Original Trailer   Rough Sketch Collection (Images)   Blue File 1   Blue File 2   "Break Free" Extended Version (Song)   "Love Taught Me" Extended Version (Song)   "Tokihanate" Remix   Armor Shrike File (Info on the Mechs you see in the series)   Original Japanese Media Commercials   Textless Songs (Openings for episodes)   Trailers (For other anime series) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***Pros***  Entire series and movie come in a space saving release hardly bigger than a standard DVD case.  Great for those of us running low on real estate for movies.  Good transfer of media to DVD.  No dreaded double-sided DVD's.  All disc's are singled side media with silk screened tops.  Episode/Disc guide printed right inside the case for easy reference.  Great selling price --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***Cons***  Movie the "Warrior" is nothing more than the series re-cut into a film with a different ending.  Case is cheap.  The O-Sleeve rips easily and is nothing special.  You like me will probably discard it.  Be careful with the spindles the discs sit in, they can snap if too much pressure is applied to them.  The "pages" the inner discs sit in can come loose if your not careful.  Mine is in tack, but this design can break easily. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***Final Thoughts***  Overall a great release of this series.  The case may be cheap, but don't let this deter you from buying.  Handle it with care and you should be okay.  Series is quite enjoyable to watch and you can knock it out pretty quickly.  I have just about finished it myself and definitely will be done before I go back to work.  Well that's my thoughts on this product.  It's great to see good Anime series getting affordable releases.  Here's hoping the 'Bleach: Hell...' movie is good.  I am looking forward to that one.

The Sonderberg Case The Sonderberg Case is a very thought provoking read. The post WW2 scenario is eclipsed by threads of humanity common to us all, rendering it emotionally impacting.

Alba - the only worthwhile reason to see this remake of "The Deep" I'm not exactly sure that Peter Benchley's "The Deep" needed to be remade, it was after all made into an entertaining movie starring Nick Nolte, Louis Gossett, Jr., Robert Shaw and the impossibly beautiful Jacqueline Bisset in 1977. But, fans of Jessica Alba are no doubt glad that it did get the OK since it gave Hollywood a chance to put the admittedly stunning Alba in a bikini for an extended period of time, eye candy that saves this movie that would otherwise hold little interest other than to mull over replacing the Blu-ray of "Into the Blue" in my player with the vastly superior Blu-ray of "The Deep." "Into the Blue" is a familiar plot for everyone who has seen "The Deep," and, if you haven't where have you been for the last three decades? An attractive young couple (replace Nolte with Walker and Bissett with Alba) are diving in the Caribbean when they come across a recently downed cargo plane that's packed with cocaine (vials of morphine in the book and "The Deep") which the two devise a plan to retrieve, much the chagrin of some villainous characters. Did I mention that the only real reason to see this movie is Alba? This fumbling remake is mediocrity at its most well, mediocre. The movies pales in comparison to its much better origin material and only the photography and the sight of Alba in that bikini help elevate it to the bottom of the Blu-ray collection. So, how is the high definition Blu-ray in terms of video and audio quality, well - its actually pretty good and leagues ahead (pun intended) of its standard def DVD counterpart. The Blu-ray features a all-around good 1080p, 2.35:1-framed transfer which is sharp and bright. I mean if you want to marvel at Alba in a bikini, you want to in high def right?! Seriously though, the transfer is detailed with a wide array of colors with black tones good and skin tones natural. The good news continues with the audio with "Into the Blue" featuring a terrific PCM 5.1 uncompressed soundtrack with the above water scenes (rather obviously) the more robust of the movie with a strong sense of depth. This is a very immersive track and certainly more than adequate for the movie. The Blu-ray of "Into the Blue" features several special features with a serviceable audio commentary from Director John Stockwell leading the pack. I actually somewhat enjoyed this track because it provided a nice mix of anecdotal and technical information. Next up is a 20-minute Diving Deeper 'Into the Blue' which I was surprised to find quite interesting with a good portion devoted to world of underwater filmmaking. Rounding out the extras are 10 deleted scenes (running almost 18 minutes) with optional commentary by Stockwell and 1080p trailers for "Stealth," "Hitch," and "xXx." "Into the Blue" is never going to be a good movie, despite the appreciable attributes on display of Ms. Alba, but it does feature good audio and video and the Blu-ray is recommended. I would however check out the 1977 original "The Deep" which is better casted, scripted and all-around just plain better.

The Ultimate Matrix Collection - Blu-ray Don't really have any complaints about the BluRay and it's content, not a perfect saga, but really enjoy watching it....

Passengers Very suspenseful movie.  Keeps you guessing throughout.  I really enjoyed it.  Have watched it more than once, it gets better with re-viewing.

best of series Though I can say I've enjoyed the entire series of the Narnia films, I do believe this one is the best. They wrapped the trilogy up nicely with a great story line.

Paper Clips I would definitely recommend this movie because anyone that watches it will simply be in awe when it is over. The symbolic act of collecting paperclips to represent each person that died in the Holocaust is shocking. Paper Clips inspired me to not judge people on the outside, but see them for what is found inside. This movie serves as a reminder of just how awful and nasty people can be, and in some ways, this realization can make you a better person and hopefully a better role model for young people. This movie is absolutely amazing, inspirational, and is great film for people of any age. I especially recommend Paper Clips for middle school age people because you can see how much young people are capable of doing.

A Youthful Comedy Without T & A Jay Baruchel ("How to Train Your Dragon," "She's Out of My League" and "Tropic Thunder") plays a high-school student named Leon who is barking mad. To the consternation of his exasperated parents, he insists that he is the reincarnation of Leon Trotsky, the notorious Communist who was a leader of the Russian Revolution in 1917.  His first attempt at a summer job fails abysmally because he tries to organize the workers into a labor union, at his father's business! His activism causes enough trouble at school that his parents, in an attempt to punish him, condemn him to a (gasp!) PUBLIC SCHOOL for his next year of high school. Undaunted, he forges ahead, trying to create a Student Union that is a real union of students, complete with demands of the faculty. Of course his main challenge is the apathy of his classmates.  Given today's economic climate, his anti-business/anti-bankers rants actually garnered a spattering of applause in the 2010 Seattle International Film Festival audience. It is fun to see a comedy that isn't about T & A, but instead about a youthful psyche groping with some serious philosophies.  You can get this on regular DVD or Blu Ray from Amazon.com.

I wish I had the 2-Disc Version of the Evil Dead What more can be said about a classic movie that still keeps me involved in it everytime I watch it, and now that I have it on Blu-ray, it makes the experience even better.  The only thing stopping me from giving it a 5 star rating is that I don't have the Limited Edition version with the additional bonus features (I hope Amazon get's this version one day).

A Kurt Russell Sleeper! My title says it all.... This film(and Kurt Russell's role in it) got NONE of the respect and accolade it deserves!  It fell quickly below the radar not long after hitting theaters hence my description of it as a "sleeper".  So glad to see Amazon giving it the light of day in DVD and instant formats.  But let's go back a few years.  I "fell over" this film about 5-6 years after it came and went in theaters - just like I do every other gol'darn movie I loved!! LOL. Same with "Back To The Future" - saw it 8 years after the 1985 version came out and never . . looked . .  back.  That is my favorite movie saga - but I digress.  "Breakdown" is shorter than the average cinematic release at a bit over 90 minutes, but due to killer pacing and blending of scenes and the sheer raw emotion and suspense in this thing all sense of time is suspended!  You become "Jeff Taylor" in this career-changing-cross-country-road-rage-playing-dumb-locals-abduction-conflict-redemption roller coaster.  The plot itself certainly is NO sleeper!  I invite any/all comments on the following issues I raise over some plot scenario and "technicalities" of Breakdown:  #1.  The catalyst for the whole film:  Jeff Taylor and his wife are cruising across the New Mexico desert when Taylor has an unquenchable thirst.  He adjusts himself in the driver's seat in preparation to reach for a thermos in the backseat, takes one final glance ahead of him, turns his head back and retrieves the thermos.  Meanwhile...  Black dust F-150 pulls across highway in front of the Taylors.  A near collision and violent swerve takes place as Jeff evades the truck that has appeared of of "nowhere".  QUESTION:  Was this near collision entire Taylor's fault - OR - did the F-150 not see the Jeep before entering a highway - OR - was it a combination of Taylor's distraction  and the DELIBERATE ACT of the F-150 STAGING this near collision??  Your thoughts, anyone?  #2. IMDB mentions tons of accidental intrusions into the film by cameramen and mic booms, all of which I have yet to notice only if I run the DVD at 2 frames per second.  My biggest technicality is the time of day itself.  During the scene in my #1, and subsequent scenes at Belle's Diner, the confrontation between Jeff, the trucker, and the Sheriff, the chase scene with "Earl"(Gainey) into the river, and the small town and the truck stop scene where Taylor manages to stow away under Red's truck, it seems almost no regard was given to time of day or at least taking the position of the sun into account as it progresses across the sky.  The initial road-rage incident seems to take place mid-day.  While Jeff is waiting by the road for his wife's return, then discovers the loose wires beneath his Jeeps engine, it seems like late afternoon.  During the first scene at Belles, the sun seems to be "higher".  As Jeff spots Red's truck in the distance and prepares to pursue him, it seems only an hour or so before sunset.  When Earl chases Jeff up the mountain road and Jeff escapes by driving down the embankment into the river, it's broad daylight again!  Ditto the seen in "Brackett" where Jeff is wired the ransom money.  First of all - I do believe that the events portrayed in this film could have taken place over a 24 hour period - no doubt.  But the inconsistent daylight from scene to scene(perhaps deliberate) skews our sense of time.  Am I just "overthinking" these aspects? Or is this a good point?  Your thoughts?  Overall, "Breakdown" is a movie I will never bore of.  It's a film most people fail to think of when enumerating Kurt Russell's roles, but boy are they missing out!

Good workout! I had been searching for a great Kettlebell DVD and this one was perfect. I thought I could jump into the Level 2 workout; however, I went back to the Level 1 workout, and will slowly work my way to Level 2. The proper techniques are shown & the moves are easy to follow.

"Texas (1941) ... Holden/Ford/Trevor/Bancroft/Buchanan ... George Marshall (Director) (2005)" Columbia Pictures presents "TEXAS" (1941  93 min/B&W) -- Starring: William Holden, Glenn Ford, Claire Trevor, George Bancroft & Edgar Buchanan  Directed by George Marshall  Dan Thomas (William Holden) and Tod Ramsey (Glenn Ford) are ex-Confederate soldiers who get into trouble in a wide-open Texas town. The two split up, whereupon Tod takes a job on Dusty King's ranch; by and by, he falls in love with Dusty's daughter `Mike' (Claire Trevor). Meanwhile, Dan has joined a gang of rustlers headed by town dentist Buford 'Doc' Thorpe (Edgar Buchanan). Dan & Tod confront each other when the former tries to steal the cattle that Tod is driving to Abilene. Complicating matters is the fact that Dan, too, carries a torch for `Mike'. Though Packed with action and suspense and at the helm is slapstick comedy veteran George Marshall!  Columbia Pictures' sort-of-follow-up to Arizona (1940) which also starred William Holden.  ** Special footnote: -- As was often the case during his career, Holden shaved his chest before appearing, shirtless, in this movie's prizefighting sequence.  Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC Language: English Subtitles: English, Japanese, Spanish  BIOS: 1. George Marshall (Director) Date of Birth: 29 December 1891 - Chicago, Illinois Date of Death: 17 February 1975 - Los Angeles, California  2. William Holden  [aka: William Franklin Beedle Jr.] Date of Birth:  17 April 1918 - O'Fallon, Illinois Date of Death:  16 November 1981 - Santa Monica, California  3. Glenn Ford (aka: Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford) Date of Birth: 1 May 1916 - Sainte-Christine, Quebec, Canada Date of Death: 30 August 2006 - Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County, California  4. Claire Trevor (aka: Claire Wemlinger) Date of Birth: 8 March 1910 - New York, New York Date of Death: 8 April 2000 - Newport Beach, California  5. George Bancroft Date of Birth:  30 September 1882 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Date of Death:  2 October 1956 - Santa Monica, California  6. Edgar Buchanan Date of Birth: 20 March 1903 - Humansville, Missouri Date of Death: 4 April 1979 - Palm Desert, California  Mr. Jim's Ratings: Quality of Picture & Sound: 4 Stars Performance: 4 Stars Story & Screenplay: 4 Stars Overall: 4 Stars [Original Music, Cinematography & Film Editing]  Total Time: 93 min on DVD ~ Columbia Pictures ~ (April 5, 2005)

Homage to American Action Great British take on American action films from the great minds that brought us Sean of the Dead.  Every cliche is brought into this smart, fast-paced film, but the juxtaposition of the small English town setting just makes it even more ridiculous and fantastic.  Laughs and yells from beginning to end.  Enjoy!

Great crime drama series!!! I love this series. I's done exceptionally well with very natural acting by the cast. I live in the Seattle area and love seeing familiar spots I have visited. I still watch every Sunday night and it's a very compelling story.

Once You Hit These...It's All Over It's always that one thing that when executed, it gets the crowd out of their set with a loud "pop" while also become a very important trait when it comes to a performers identity...the finishing move. Now I'm not going to post the list to avoid spoiling it for some people (just it's already listed on many other reviews) but what I can tell you is that just like the previous countdown set of "O.M.G.: Top 50 Moments", there isn't a host here & has a voice over before each selection along with a graphic (which resembles a lotto drawing in this case) while each finishing hold along with highlighted superstar is talked about for 2-3 mins. with footage & comments (both new & archived footage) from various talents like Mick Foley, Wade Barrett, Matt Striker, Daniel Bryan, The Miz, Kofi Kingston, Jim Ross, William Regal, Jerry Lawler, Drew McIntyre, Brodus Clay, C.M. Punk, Dusty Rhodes, Bubba & D-Von Dudley, Alex Riley, Lita, Rob Van Dam, John Cena, Josh Matthews, Edge, Eddie Guerrero, Hulk Hogan, and Mason Ryan.  Matches Include: DDT vs. Rude Awakening Match: Jake Roberts vs. Rick Rude - This was a rare match in itself in that you could only win the match after hitting your finishing move on your opponent while it should be noted that Cheryl Roberts was in Jake's corner while Bobby Heenan wasn't in Rude's. Jake heavily focused on Rude's arm cranking & twisting it to the point where he dragged Rude back into the ring from the apron over the top rope by his arm. Rude would eventually work over Jake's neck by whipping his head into the ropes & using various moves like the chinlock & side headlock with him constantly going after Cheryl on the outside whenever he had an advantage. Rude & Roberts were two of the best in-ring technicians at this time resulting in a match that went back & forth between both men. "MSG" Oct. 89 [Jake Roberts: Pick Your Poison]  WWE Intercontinental Champion Mr. Perfect vs. Texas Tornado - This was a match that was good for what it was as both men traded momentum throughout the contest but appropriately picked here for the heavy amount of times the signature moves of both Tornado (Tornado Punch & the Claw) & Perfect (PerfectPlex) with the only downside being how confusing the ending came off. Jan. 91  WWE Champion Bret Hart vs. Bob Backlund - Backlund was getting his first WWE championship match in over a decade & threw Bret off his game early with the various pin attempts & being able to keep countering Bret's offense. As the match went on, both men began to be more aggressive than usual with Backlund using a piledriver while Bret did moves like the headbutt to the point where he hurt himself & also had moments where both men had the same thing in mind like their reversals from the abdominal stretch into one of their own. This was very technical & physical match to the point where after the match, Bob Backlund has NEVER been the same sense. "Superstars" July 94  WCW Tag Team Champions The Outsiders vs. The Giant - This was originally suppose to be Lex Luger & Giant challenging for the tag titles but with Luger not medically cleared by Eric Bischoff, Giant took Hall & Nash who also had Syxx in their corner. Giant dominated both men & even dropkicked (yes, you read that right) Nash out of the ring to the point where Syxx had to get involved in order to give Outsiders the momentum which they kept through various double teaming. Giant didn't stop though as he was able to still fight all 3 men off to the point where Hall used a title belt to allow Nash to deliver the powerbomb that ended up hurting his own back in the process. The match was what you expected as it did it's job in establishing Giant as an unstoppable force & the abuse of power issues involving Eric Bischoff with this case being the involvement of Lex Luger. WCW SuperBrawl VII 97  Mankind vs. Jerry Lawler - This match became the face turn of Mankind with his pre-match promo along with Jerry Lawler doing his usual insults before the match as he kept avoiding Mankind early & used a hidden object whenever he could to get an advantage. Mankind took a risky move launching himself towards Lawler that didn't pay off resulting in his neck being a heavy target for the remainder of the match. Past the actual good storytelling & selling by Mankind in regards to the neck, the match itself wasn't much as Lawler was still playing the "comedic heel" during this time instead of the legendary figure we would know him to be. King Of The Ring 97  2 Cold Scorpio vs. Rob Van Dam - This match had a unique background in that during this time, RVD was still on his "Mr. Monday Night" run that originated in his crossover appearance in the WWE while 2 Cold Scorpio was still under contract with WWE under the name "Flash Funk" but returned to ECW under his original wrestling name while it should be noted that both men's respective tag team partners (Sandman & Sabu) were also involved in an intense feud as well. Both men had various stalemates early on in the match along with Scorpio's offense sending RVD to the floor but it happened too many times causing Scorpio to follow and attack RVD using the guardrails by throwing him into & dropping him on & clotheslining him over them. RVD was able to regain momentum using his legs with kicks & even his corkscrew legdrop before Scorpio took it back with a release powerbomb & belly to back suplex that folded up RVD. Both men went aerial with the big splash that he turned in mid-air followed by up a moonsault & later a somersault legdrop by Scorpio with RVD's delivering a 5 star frog splash & split legged moonsault as the match continued onto the ramp with RVD's Van Daminator before Scorpio drilled RVD on the ramp with the piledriver & reverse tombstone. As you can tell just from this review, this was a highly competitive match between both men. ECW Living Dangerously 98  Special Guest Referee - Randy Savage: WCW Champion Ric Flair vs. Dallas Page vs. Hollywood Hogan vs. Sting - This match started off as two singles matches in one as Hogan & Flair singled each other out while Sting & DDP fought from in the ring to the outside but only got involved with the other two to break up a pin attempt. Flair targeted Hogan's leg followed by DDP took a page out of Bret Hart's playbook that ended up taking Hogan out of the match turning this into a 3 way. Everyone had blocks & counters to each others moves before going in to the divide & conquer strategy of tossing one guy to the outside while attempting to get a pin on the other. This was a competitive match with everyone involved including the special referee having his moment. WCW Spring Stampede 99  Chris Jericho & The Rock vs. Kurt Angle & Steve Austin - This was the final "WWE vs. WCW/ECW Alliance" match before Survivor Series & was your basic tag match with everyone squaring off with each other at one point before the Alliance singled out one member leading to the hot tag to the fresh member of the team but the bigger story here was when all chaos broke loose leading to all the members of each Survivor Series team being laid out except for one person who was left smiling. "SmackDown" Nov. 01  Rob Van Dam & Bubba Ray Dudley vs. Brock Lesnar & Eddie Guerrero - This overall was a good TV tag match that went back & forth while allowing everyone to showcase their strengths like RVD's educated feet, Guerrero's athleticism along with a few "lie, cheat, steal" traits he would be remembered for later on, Brock's freakish strength while Bubba showing he's got some power of his own like the release german suplex that had Brock land on the back of his head. "RAW" June 02  No Disqualification Match: Shawn Michaels & Jeff Hardy vs. Chris Jericho & Christian - For those who don't remember, weeks before this match had Jeff Hardy on a losing streak causing him to get very frustrated & begin to show heelish actions with Shawn trying to reach out to Jeff to get him back on the right track. This was a tag match made last minute with the No Disqualification stipulation causing Shawn to wrestle in his normal shirt & jeans instead of his usual gear. It started out with everyone brawling on the floor before Jericho & Christian were able to handcuff Shawn in the corner causing Hardy to fight both men alone. Both men worked over Jeff while taunting HBK before Shawn was able to get himself uncuffed & deliver Sweet Chin Music to Jericho's face with a chair followed by a swanton to victory in what turned out to be Hardy's last big victory before leaving WWE a short time later. "RAW" Feb. 03 [Jeff Hardy: My Life, My Rules]  Goldberg vs. The Rock - Goldberg's WWE in-ring debut here started with dueling chants from the crowd as Rock kept getting knocked out of the ring before both Rock & Goldberg tried to show up each other here as Goldberg gave a Rock Bottom while Rock delivered a spear. Rock also resorted to dirty tactics to gain control & took advantage of Goldberg's spear being miscalculated resulting in him fight with only one arm while the crowd began to turn on him as time went on. This was as good as Rock was his usual entertaining self while you got as much as you could from Goldberg. Backlash 03  Elimination Match: Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray, D-Von, Spike) vs. Evolution (Triple H, Ric Flair, Randy Orton) - This was action from start to finish as expected in a team elimination match where both teams were able to apply their various signature moves at one time or another but this was all about establishing Evolution as the dominant faction for the future on RAW but it didn't come easy as one member was bleeding when it was over. "RAW" July 03  WWE Womens Champion Trish Stratus vs. Lita - This was a rare occurrence in the divas division where this feud between both women was built up for months on end with Trish constantly harassing & teasing Lita to the point where she couldn't take it anymore & even broke Trish's nose during their match at Survivor Series causing her to wear a protective mask. It was no big secret that Lita was a little tentative towards using her old luchador style in her matches since her return from the neck injury a little over a year earlier but she was back to her old self here as we saw her do a suicide dive onto Trish on the outside that had her land on her previously injured neck. Trish from there tried to work on her neck with a full nelson & even use her face mask as a weapon as this match just got more intense with close near falls & a very hot crowd before Lita delivered the moonsault to finally gain her revenge against Trish. One of the best "diva" matches from WWE. "RAW" Dec. 04 [Wrestling's Highest Flyers]  Elimination Match: Shawn Michaels vs. Randy Orton vs. J.B.L. vs. Chris Jericho - The winner of this match gets the World Title match against John Cena at the upcoming Royal Rumble PPV. This match had some nice interactions like Shawn & Jericho along with J.B.L. & Orton but this was all about telling the story of Shawn Michaels being under the employment of J.B.L. to the point where this was really a handicap match as it was Shawn's job in the match to keep J.B.L. in at all cost...even if it meant sacrificing himself. "RAW" Dec. 08  World Champion Undertaker vs. Batista vs. Rey Mysterio vs. C.M. Punk - This was another quick fast paced one (as usually these multi-man type of matches are) that had it's various moments like Taker tossing Punk over the top rope with Rey sitting a sitdown splash on Punk right afterwards on the floor with Mysterio again taking advantage of a situation by hitting another splash on Taker after a superplex with C.M. Punk. The main story here though was Batista & Rey Mysterio working together as a team throughout the match only for Rey to break up Batista's pin at one point that changed their friendship forever. Bragging Rights 09  WWE Champion Sheamus vs. John Cena vs. Randy Orton vs. Chris Jericho vs. Edge vs. Wade Barrett - The rules for this match were that all six men could be in the ring at the same time but it was under elimination rules meaning that this match didn't end after one person got a fall. As expected in these multi-man matches, it was non-stop action with plenty of moments & highlights such as the first quick elimination that was so shocking that everyone stopped since they didn't believe what they just saw to the point where another wrestler had to ask "was that really three?", Barrett being on the receiving end of a multi-man attack, the constant teasing & eventual match up between Orton & Cena, the appearance of Nexus, and Randy Orton going crazy & giving an RKO to anyone in sight. Like I said, this match was exactly what you would expect under these conditions which was an entertaining bout. Night Of Champions 10  DVD extras include special honorable mentions for moves that didn't make the list. Blu-Ray extras include bonus matches like Triple H & Undertaker vs. Big Show & Edge, Rey Mysterio & Jeff Hardy & Great Khali vs. Edge & Dolph Ziggler & Chris Jericho, No Disqualification Match with Mr. McMahon & D-Generation X vs. Legacy, Survivor Series Elimination Match with Team Rey Mysterio vs. Team Alberto Del Rio, and C.M. Punk's tribute to the Randy Savage in a match teaming with R-Truth vs. John Cena & Rey Mysterio with Bret Hart as the special referee.  Now just like any countdown list, everyone is going to have a different opinion on what they feel like is the best finishing move so debating it is pointless since the list has no relevance outside of this DVD set. Two things I will comment on is that I like how there didn't look like there was a case of heavy bias or outside factors effecting placement here (remember Hulk Hogan at #23 on the Top 50 Superstars list?) while getting the bonus on some of the selections showing just how the move was either invented or caused the damaged that it did however one big negative is that you can't help but notice some moves are repeated on this countdown in different positions strictly because a different performer executed the move. The matches did their job in showcasing the effectiveness of the finishing move while it was also a treat to get a high majority of matches that weren't previously released or, in some cases, so rare that most people didn't know they happened. I liked this set overall as it was a good presentation as it was presented in a more serious tone like how the Top 50 Superstars was opposed to "OMG" so I would recommend this to check out if your clearly a fan of the subject at hand.

Welles was a genius... even if he did say so himself! An immensely entertaining film focussing on the rehersals for Welles legendary production of Julius Caesar in 1937. The story is told through the eyes of a fictional character, Richard Samuels, played beautifully by Zac Efron, a young man who lucks into the part of Lucius after encountering the Mercury Theatre Company, and Welles, in the street.  Both in form and in content there are strong echoes of "Shakespeare in Love", but with the startling originality of Christian McKay's performance as Welles, which captures Welle's genius, charm, ego, pettiness and ruthlessness in a seemingly effortless sweep. The movie is worth watching for this alone, but it also has much else to recommend it: a deeply entertaining behind the scenes account of the production of a great play; a touching portrait of a youthful affair between the lovely Clare Danes and Efron; and the great Eddie Marsden, who has over the years produced some memorable performances as terrifying characters, here playing the gentleman that was John Houseman.  The looming tragedy of World War 2 is underplayed in favour of a sense of youthful hope in the spite of the encroaching fear and disappointment: even the worst circumstances are replete with possibilities as Efron's character ultimately learns.

Solid collection I won't go into detail about the production or story behind the series, there are plenty of websites where people can get information about the series. I will focus on DVD production and content.  There are 7 discs, you can check the description above and see whats included in each one of them.  The quality of this product is superb. Of course it has all the episodes, and even with some extra scenes which help understand some plots. Nothing major, but really neat that they included.  While some of the extra content is really nice, some is just so so. Some give really nice insights and perspectives on the show, some are kind of boring. The jukeboxes in particular are good, but they seem to leave out some of the best performances, but I guess that's also a matter of personal taste from the viewer.  The package is nice and sturdy, and a really important detail is that it has both spanish dubbing and spanish subtitles. While the dubbing is quite bad, the subtitles are great, and in my case, since i live in Costa Rica, this was a must for my family.  If you enjoyed the first season and want to collect the series, then this is a must.

witty and cute Friends With Benefits is a refreshing romantic comedy. It has witty one liners and a believable plot. Way better than No Strings Attached. Entertaining for both men and women. Would watch it again.

The horror has never looked better than in Blu! Bright colors, a nice sheen of film grain that makes you feel as though you're at the theater. This movie looks GOOD. I was leery of purchasing this blu-ray after already owning the 25th (or was it 30th?) anniversary DVD. There are duplicate extras (which is good for those who only own the Blu), but a few fun new extras are included.  The highpoint is the interactive feature where you can throw "virtual" rice, etc. at the screen. This is especially good for Rocky Horror virgins getting prepared to see the movie as it was meant to be seen -- at a theater with a big audience of fellow freaks and geeks. If you haven't watched Rocky Horror with a live audience, you haven't watched Rocky Horror.  I was disappointed that no new commentary tracks were included -- It's been ten years, someone must have had something more to add. That complaint aside, this movie looks GOOD (did I mention that already?). I honestly never thought I'd see Rocky Horror look THIS good THIS late in the game. The film is beautiful. The songs sound better than ever. And Rocky. Oh, Rocky!  I'd recommend this to any fan of the film. And remember, "Stay sane inside insanity." Very fun movie well-packaged and featuring a package that is ... "well."

wrong product description from amazon!!! why is amazon giving the wrong product description of this Austin Powers comedy?.i'm giving 4 stars to this great little comedy with Mike Meyers and Heather Graham--but it is not a demonic thriller with Anthony Hopkins as amazon has described!!!

Either you understand the meaning, or you don't Eyes Wide Shut simply means you know what is going on, but don't say a word! The climax of the film is Dr. Hartford going to a party he is not invited to. The members of the party are the upper crust of the upper crust members of society. The club members are there through birthright, you cannot ask for an invite. Stanley Kubrick is trying to tell his audience the people who run the planet are doing so by birthright. We slaves do not have a choice in what goes on in the world. Those who speak of what happens inside the gated party risk life and limb. My interpretation is Eyes Wide Shut is fairly basic. The sanctuary of family and home is all you have. Don't try join a club that has members sworn to secrecy. They are not happy even with all the power and money in the world.

DO OR DIE FOR "LOVE MEETS MURDER" Birmingham's hottest rock band is going through a "transitional phase" with a new guitarist. With their last album being a flop, the record company is reluctant to spend any money on them. They compromise by allowing them to record a low budget video in an old studio, one that is a bit primitive with bars on the windows and only one exit. Nigel (Adam Fray) the director brings in girls who add to the conflict.  The idea is to create or recreate the band's "primal energy." From the start you know something else is in the works for the band from the coded and secretive talks that the director and their manager (Carl Coleman) hold. As you know from the description, a hooded slasher enters the locked studio with no cell reception.  Fairly good integration of sex, slashing, and rock and roll...although we have seen better. Laurence Saunders is no Gene Simmons, still a decent film for those who love rock and roll slashers. Better than "Slumber Party Massacre 2", not as good as "Trick or Treat".  Drug use,F-bomb, sex, nudity (Alex Marieka Hanly, Emily Welch, Elle Wood)

Basic Wayne As with most every thing John Wayne did these are both workman like and typical movies. These are two more of the B movies the Duke did while learning how to really act the macho he man.

Season 7 Spongebob--Better than Season 6 My family are Spongebob fans, and I've been hooked since "Jellyfish Jam".  I agree with the other reviewers that the show has gone downhill since the movie.  See other reviews for episode list.  PROs: 9 hours of Spongebob for twenty bucks ENTIRE season instead of two purchases of half a season (Studio soaking their fans for cash) MUCH better than Season 6 "Earworm" episode is pretty good  CONs: "My Sister Sam" episode with Patrick's sister is pretty dumb Not as good as the first 3 Seasons  Season 7 is a big improvement over 6 (Vikings, really?) but I think this show has seen better days.  Overall, I love to turn off my brain after a stressful day at work and watch Plankton try to get the formula or Patrick be an idiot.  Recommended.

KATELAND THESE ARE TWO TRUE STORYS..About abduction of young girls. Some will find them entertaining, but others will lose interest very quickly, they havent got enough in them to hold you spellbound. The Elizabeth Smart story, concentrates more on her family waiting at home for some news, than what it does on what is going on with her. The second movie Taken in Broad Daylight, is about a very disturbed young guy who snatches this girl, and takes her away. I couldnt figure out why he took her in the first place, as nothing seemed to make sense, but later on he explains why he did it. My pick of the Two movies is TAKEN IN BROAD DAYLIGHT.

What's with some of the bad reviews? This is one of the few shows that has stayed strong after 12 years! I've loved CSI since the beginning, and the show continues to grow strong.  After 2 and a half seasons, Laurence Fishburne has left the show as Langston. I love Laurence Fishburne, I think he is a great actor. BUT, although he seemed to be a logical choice to replace Grissom, he just wasn't that great. I mean, he was OK, but now I missed Grissom even more. This season, Fishburne is out, and his replacement? Ted Danson. Im not gonna lie, I was REALLY skeptical about this decision. So, is Ted Danson a good new addition to the cast?  Fortunately, the answer is yes! Sure, he is still no Grissom, but, he still gives a great performance as the new character Russell. He has that strange, fun quality, yet, different from Grissom. I love this new character, and he fits in nicely with the cast. A big surprise this season is, unfortunately, the departure of Catherine Willows. It's very emotional, but well written, and her character had a good departure. A few episodes after her departure, we get another new character this season: Elisabeth Shue as Julie Finlay. Overall, her character is OK. Im not saying anything bad about her character, we just don't know much about her yet.  As for the writting, it continues to stay strong. Sure, there are hits and misses, but, there is more good here than bad. Overall, I only have two little problems with this season: I REALLY wish Laurence Fishburne had a special guest appearance in the first episode. Although the first episode is written good and introduces Ted Danson well, you don't see Laurence Fishburne on screen to welcome Ted Danson.  My one other complaint, is that the final episode ends with (obviously) a cliffhanger. The only problem with the cliffhanger is that it just isn't as emotional and intense as it should be. Specifically, we needed AT LEAST one or two more episodes just to get to know Ted Danson and Elisabth Shue's characters, we just don't know enough about them yet. BUT, the season finale is still written very well, and also brings back an old enemy from several years ago (one that I was NOT expecting).  Overall, although the only things THAT special about this season are the new cast members and departure of Catherine Willows, this is still a solid (and a little emotinal) season. I LOVE CSI :)

Good Zombie Movie My husband and I both like Zombie movies..course the plots have to be good and good acting helps. Set in Africa, 2 very different men from very different cultures,sometimes at odds with each other, team up in an attempt to get to their families...along the way, they discover something about themselves and each other. Without giving too much away, this being Africa with it's millions of refugee's, you can imagine what these two men face night and day. The inner cities are bad enough in any part of the world when you are dealing with the undead..you know what to expect, you know there is always a horde out there and might be able to hide. In Africa, there is literally no where to go, they are everywhere. If you're expecting blood and guts, this being a zombie movie, you will get it but it is not overly done. Look at it as study in survival from two different points of view. The ending will surprise..or maybe not. Either way, enjoy the movie, it is good, you just have to give it a chance.

1 Disc Blu-ray version - No Maximum Movie Mode! I purchased the 1 disc version, because a sticker on the outside cover stated "Watch In Maximum Movie Mode". However, the 1 disc version DOES NOT contain the maximum movie mode feature! If you care about such features, make sure you get the 2 disc version. Also, you apparently need the 2 disc version to use the free iPad app that syncs with the movie. That being said, I really enjoyed the film, maybe even more so than the first. Noomie Rapace (Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) plays a wonderful part in this movie. My only complaint is, these films lean more towards adventure and less to mystery. I suppose that's why they appeal to a much larger audience. Anyway, a fun and highly recommended watch!

Fast Paced Action Packed True Story KILLER ELITE is a true story taken from the book 'The Feather Men' by Sir Ranulph Fiennes, adapted for the screen by Matt Sherring, and directed with an eye toward speed by Gary McKendry. The bit of history that the film addresses is the aftermath of the Dhofar Rebellion launched in the province of Dhofar against the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, which had British support, from 1962 to 1976. It ended with the defeat of the rebels, but the state of Oman had to be radically reformed and modernized to cope with the campaign. The fact that three sons of the Sheik of Oman were killed by the British leaving the Sheik with a strong need for revenge so that he can regain his kingdom by sending his remaining son to a safe land is the springboard for the film's plot.  Before the film's action begins, the Sheik has taken hired assassin Hunter (Robert De Niro) captive because he failed to kill the murderers of his three sons. The film opens in 1980 the exiled Sheik (with his remaining son Bakhait - Firass Dirani) hires Hunter's pupil Danny (Jason Statham), a retired member of Britain's Elite Special Air Service, to kill the three assassins of his sons. A private organization of ex SAS tasks men headed by Spike (Clive Owen) is assigned to protect the British assassins. Covering the globe from Australia to Paris, London and the Middle East, Danny and Hunter, two of the worlds' most elite operatives, are plunged into a highly dangerous game of cat and mouse - where the predators become the prey.  There is plenty of incredible action in the form of one-on-one fights between Statham and Owen, car chases, and other acts of derring-do to keep the film rolling. At times the plot gets muddy and some of the characters are not well defined - those played by Domenic Purcell, Aden Young, Ben Mendelsohn and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje in particular. And of course there is the requisite romance between Statham and Yvonne Strahovski, which helps soften the film periodically. But basically this is an action film; the main reason it is of such interest is the fact that it is based on a true story - a story whose history is shared in the closing credits. Definitely a film for Statham/De Niro/Owen fans! Grady Harp, January 12

Fantasy for teens As many other reviewers have noted, Legend of the Seeker is very derivative. It's basically a melange of Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and Dune. Despite that, this is an entertaining TV show. It's amazingly well done for a weekly TV show. The sets, wardrobes, and special effects are all very convincing. It's a real feat to have accomplished this for every week for two years.  However, the show rarely goes beyond that - entertaining. Scratch beneath the surface, and it looks pretty shallow. The show relies a lot on supermodels in sexy suits and fight scenes. The story doesn't go far beyond "kill the tyrant". Each episode throws the heroes in yet another perilous situation, many of which seem to have little relationship with the ultimate goal of actually killing the tyrant. The characters constantly make ridiculous choices, constantly putting the larger mission on hold to rescue kittens from trees or go look for yet another magical jewel.  Unfortunately, the larger effect is to undermine the show and make the world less believable. While there's plenty of eye candy, I don't find myself caring for any of the characters the way I might care for Frodo or Luke Skywalker. I get the sense the show was made with Twilight fans in mind. Definitely worth checking out if you need a fix of fantasy (or just want to watch the gorgeous Briget Regan), but nothing I saw makes me want to go read Terry Goodwin's books. Overall, 3.5 stars.

Sweet movie 'nuf said.  Now reading other people's reviews begs the questions...why are they so long?  Are they auditioning for something?  EVERYONE's a movie critic.

Respectful Tribute to a Sushi Master's Unwavering Quest for Perfection Located in a downtown Tokyo subway station, Sukiyabashi Jiro is an inconspicuous subterranean restaurant with just ten counter seats, yet it has the distinction of being the only sushi restaurant with a three-star Michelin rating. David Gelb's meticulously produced 2012 documentary tells the story of Jiro Ono, an octogenarian perfectionist whose constant striving for culinary transcendence has made him legendary among epicureans in the know. He loves his job, as he readily admits upfront, and while a model of stoic diligence and invariable routine, Ono does show his adoration in unexpected ways that manifest themselves through the unassuming pride he takes in his work. He even imagines new sushi creations in his sleep, thus the title. Such an unwavering quest does take its toll on his two sons who must find their way out of his shadow.  His younger son Takashi managed to escape the constant glare of his father by running his own premium sushi restaurant in the Roppongi Hills area of Tokyo, one that doesn't bother to compete with his father's. His older son Yoshikazu, however, bears the burden of the family legacy as the one to carry on his father's standards after he retires. Over fifty and still an apprentice, Yoshikazu patiently waits for his turn at running the flagship restaurant foregoing earlier dreams of becoming a race car driver. Since his father suffered a heart attack at seventy, he has taken over the critical task of getting the best fish possible at the world-renowned Tsukiji fish market. Gelb does a particularly nice job of showing the hurly-burly atmosphere of the pre-dawn tuna auctions and the lives of the men running the tiny stalls selling fresh seafood of all kinds. Perhaps by design, the film is comparatively more opaque in having us understand the genesis of the elder Ono's drive toward perfection.  While one contributing factor was the absence of Ono's father's absence, it is unclear who actually did influence him to become a sushi chef. There is also hardly a mention of the chef's wife, even though there is an extended passage of a reunion with his childhood pals who characterize him as something of a bully. Interviews with former co-workers shed some light onto the chef's stoicism. In fact, one of Japan's better known food critics admits to being intimidated by patronizing Ono's sushi bar due to the master's overwhelming artistry and attention to detail. Toward that end, I would have liked to have seen more scenes focused on the actual preparation of the sushi rather than simply admiring them on the counter once they are finished. Still, this is a unique look into a man who has not gone gentle into the good night in his quest for the perfect piece of sushi.

great classic This first version of the book "Planet of the Apes" is the best as far as I believe.  The second one ended more like the book did, but the rest of it was no where near what was written in that great book.

Louisiana Purchase DVD Very often in American History outside influences are left out of the discussion. With the Louisiana Purchase, a great deal does not make sense unless the issues of distribution, Spain and the port of New Orleans, France and the Haiti situation are brought to light. This program did a decent job of pulling in the relevant outside influences that lead to one of the greatest turning points in What America would become. This DVD is definitely worth having on the shelf.

Fun My daughter is 5 and loves Tim Burton. This is visually fun, off-beat and entertaining. I certainly don't mind having it on in the background and love that it is visually more interesting than a lot of stuff out there.

Good Fun! This movie is a fun escape from reality. There is humor, action and unbelievable circumstance, but in all, the movie is worth seeing more than once.

Not too bad. Klown Kamp Massacre is a low bubget Troma slasher flick. But its still an enjoyable slasher flick. And when was the last time you saw a slasher flick with clowns in it.

Careful With Your Order! There seems to be confusion on versions here. I bought a copy from a reseller and thought I was getting the special edition but I didn't. I got the regular version without the documentary.  What added to my own confusion is that there is only one instance of this movie on DVD, and Amazon doesn't have "Special Edition" in the title. But the product description says it IS the special edition.  To add to the confusion, the user submitted images show both regular and special editions of the DVD.  So I guess I'll talk about the version I have - the non-special edition version. At least the version I got has some special features. Two commentary tracks. One by the director Ridley Scott, the other by Susan, Geena and writer  Callie Khouri. I was hoping for a bit more insight into the writing, but there was still great stories that they told. With my audio setup, I noticed that the left channel had both Geena and Susan's voices clear, but the right channel wasn't recording Susan Sarandon's voice. Turning up the volume I could hear here in the background, but her microphone most certainly was not coming through my right speaker.  The problem is the same for the writer. She is ONLY heard in the right channel, not at all in the left, not even at full volume.  Ridley Scott gives an awesome commentary track. The only downside there would be it sounds kind of echoey, like's he's in a big living room.  The film transfer looks fairly good however, there is some black space on the far left edge of the screen. I hope that doesn't mean the image was shifted to the right and some is cut off. My guess is that's the look of the full film space because that would be where the audio track would be placed on the film.  The deleted scenes are nice. They are isolated from the film and you can view them all at once or view them individually. They also play the footage that was kept in the final film at the beginning and end of the cut scene to give it context, very nice. There are 16 deleted/extended scenes in all.

BETTER OFF DEAD ABSENTIA is certainly a unique departure from typical horror fare.  No blond hair bimbos or six-pack abbed studs here,  The cast is refreshingly normal looking and amazingly believable,.  It's the strength of these characters that drive this low-budget indie.  We can believe Callie and Trisha are sisters, flesh and blood with faults and virtues and as the film slowly moves to its tragic finale, we come to like and empathize with them.  Mallory, the detective, also eschews the stereotypical cop, an average looking guy with strong sensitivity. ABSENTIA offers a creepy, compelling premise, adopting a Hitchcockian approach where less is more.  The tension is more palpable in just imagining what's hauling off its victims than actually seeing them. Katie Parker and Courtney Bell are stunning as the sisters and Dave Levine is great as Mallory.  The actor playing Daniel, the missing husband, is also quite good. ABSENTIA is a disturbing film, moody and subversively terrifying--an original film in a tired genre.

Pixelation and freezing issues on two copies The video is very good, but doesn't rate 5 stars. It is definitely an upgrade over the DVD though.  Audio is quite good as well.  I bought two copies at a retail electronics store (blue shirt) on sale. The first copy had MAJOR pixelation and freezing issue around the 1+ hour mark (Howard Johnson's parking lot phone booth scene).  On the first copy, it froze, and I couldn't move past it. I had to turn the player off, back on, and go to chapter selection to move forward.  Returned it and the 2nd copy didn't freeze, but it had pixelation at the exact same point in the movie.  So just beware.

One of the strongest seasons, where the larger mysteries of the plot start to become clear Fascinating, sometimes maddening mix of wonderful and silly, intelligent and dumb, insightful and obvious.  At it's best it's the 'Wire' of science fiction, challenging 'Battlestar Galactica' for intelligence and emotional depth.  This was an early case of a series having a pre-planned multi-year arc, so throughout there are sometimes intentionally confusing or mysterious details that return to be finally explained as having great importance a season or two or three later.  On the other hand, because this preceded the acceptance of truly serial cable shows, each episode is more self contained than more recent shows in a sometimes annoyingly neat way.  The show is also full of allusions; Shakespeare, the Bible, Buddhism, King Arthur, the Koran. Certainly the writing is grounded in pretty heady stuff. Of course, sometimes it's dealt with in a pretty heavy handed way.  Season 3 was a roller coaster of good and bad episodes, with the best --suddenly making sense of obscure things from season 1 -- simply brilliant, and other episodes just acting as filler.  And that may be the series' biggest problem. If this show could have been 12 episodes a year instead of 22, as is the case with most current serialized series, there would be a lot fewer episodes that felt lacking in substance, as if the show were just marking time.  I wish it was even more consistently great, but - in the end - it was more than good enough.  P.S. To echo what others have written here, be careful with the special features. They sometimes have a nasty habit of acting as spoilers and giving away plot twists to come.

Friends with Kids Occasionally hilarious, this speedy comedy is a fun, simplified version of parenting and relationships.  Lead actors Adam Scott and the wonderful Jennifer Westfeldt are exceptional as friends and believable as soul-mates. The ensemble cast is enviable, but the individual coupling-chemistry is not quite achieved.

Good But Now Quite Pixar Quality This was good, and our kids enjoyed it, but as an adult, it lacked the extra spark of Pixar movies or even some of the earlier Disney movies like Aladdin.  Some of the songs and jokes seemed tired and contrived, and the stepmother was a little too scary and creepy for my taste.

it was ok I love the item thank you. But when it was revived the plastic was craked and disc were lose and shifting . Thank you for the item though

JR Bourne always a great performance Purchased this DVD as I am a great fan of JR Bourne.  His acting overcomes the scripts deficiency.  I am giving this 4 stars for his performance.  The end leaves you with too many unanwered questions.  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00020X97E">SIX FIGURES</a>

Excellent show This movie contains some action, some myth, some romance. It is a fast moving fairly tale with just the right touch to keep the viewer glued to the screen!

One Funny Movie This movie had us laughing continuously.  It's non-stop party flick that kept us wondering what would happen next.  Definitely a movie that we will watch more than once.

great interpretation of the book WFE is one of my all-time favorite books, so I was a bit worried about how it would be portrayed in a film... I thought they did a really good job.  I love Robert Pattionson, he plays the most perfect Jacob, whereas I think they could have picked a better Marlena than Reese Witherspoon.  They don't have any of the nursing home scenes, but overall this movie gets a good review from me!

Leaving America......... This DVD had to be sent from the USA, which was costly in both time and money.  Also annoying as it was a present.  Must be in low demand.

Good movie We watched this when nothing else was going on. It had some great action scenes and an interesting plot. I didn't even mind Tom Cruise although it was the rest of the cast that made this movie great.

Godd, Good The repertoire of songs could be a lot more. TOTO have many songs in the decade of the 70 and 80 to 26 songs have been interpreted as a minimum. the satisfactory quality of the recording.

Weightier than I thought it would be. As some of the detractors have made a note, there are historical discrepancies and the military uniforms/equipment were off just enough to be distracting - but all more or less standard Hollywood fare.  But the military portions were far better then those in the formerly renowned "Deerhunter," which got an unwarranted pass at the time, and the story in "Soldiers" is decidedly more powerful, and convincing - clich&eacute;s and all.  As Hollywood also does so well, there are a few flights of fancy here and there, but from a historical perspective the story is authentic enough - ask any attorney how many marriage laws had to be changed just because of courageous interracial couples such as those fictionalized in this flick.  Overall this was a surprisingly worthy and formidable movie with above-average acting and actors, for what was doubtless a low-budget endeavor.  Good show - worth the trip.

More than worth the money. This DVD isn't amazing, but worth four bucks. The documentaries, transfer, and behind the scenes footage are all plenty worth this money.  If your looking for a load of bonus features(because you're a collector or something) you probably won't want this.  However, if you're just browsing Amazon and happen to come across it, considering it applies to free super saver shipping, you might as well add it to your cart for the heck of it and if you think it sucks, it isn't like you wasted the bank's vault. The reason i give the package four stars is the movie itself.  When people say they think this is the worst movie in the trilogy, they are definitely right.  The movie itself is great, especially if you've never seen T1 or T2, but if you have seen them,you know that T3 falls significantly out of the constant flowing story line of the previous films.  This could be a result of the fact that it was not as closely related to the magnificent Jim Cameron as T1 and T2.

Sinatra at his finest!! Caught this movie on TCM and totally fell in love with it!  Rita Hayworth is stunning...Frank Sinatra is in top form...Kim Novak was ok...I liked her at the end much better than the start...The music is fantastic!!

interesting little shocker Saw this movie years ago - haven't thought about it again till was reading King's "Danse Macabre", which had a long review of the movie....according to King, he heard a rumor that, at the end of the movie, after Milland plucks his eyes out, he screams "I can still see".

Expect a gust of fresh air to breeze through your speakers... Days of Heaven should be viewed inside of one of those antique gold-leafed frames seen at the art galleries. Every scene throughout the film is juxtaposed with gorgeous montages of vast wheat fields, brush stroked clouds, and innocuous creatures of earth milling about. Seen as arthouse and pretentious to some, Terrance Malick has certainly carved a niche in his uncanny film-making tendencies. Whether or not you enjoy the narrative story in Days of Heaven, it is likely that you haven't seen many films artfully composed this way.  At the turn of the century, Bill, an industrial mill worker, unintentionally murders his superior and decides to flee Chicago on a box car heading south. With his little Sister Linda and his lover, Abby, who he presents as his sister on their travels, they end up working in the wheat fields for a rich and lonely farmer in Texas before hatching a plan to inherit his wealth.  `Days of Heaven' is a simple story about a band of lost souls in search of paradise and of a devious love triangle. The simplicity lies in its straight-forward story telling. For those that want to delve deeper, discernible biblical overtones are present in the plot, imagery, and the title of the film itself. There is a certain quality about this film that can only be characterized as mundane. Not to be confused with boredom, it is the way the story unfolds - as carefully and whimsically as the swaying wheat and the slow rippling water in the rivers present throughout the film. Manual labor is exhaustively depicted alongside the airy joyfulness of downtime, including playing tag and singing songs. The timid and reserved performances, created by the lack of script, add an element of true human vulnerability; the dialogue never saying a single word more than necessary.  This film will always be highly regarded for its quaint characteristics. Aside from one or two stimulating moments, there is not much excitement throughout. The vast landscapes and the denied entry into the characters thoughts and motivations (with the exception of narration from Linda) lend a sort of dream-like experience. If you have enjoyed any work from Terrence Malick, than there is much to appreciate in Days of Heaven as his unique vision is indelibly crafted into every scene. For others, it is a slow-burning tale that is as much about morality and mortality as it is about existential paradise.

Uncomplicated but heartfelt "Joshua" is not, by most critical standards, an outstanding film: it's naive, simplistic, straightforward, lacking in wit or dynamic development, and, considering the respectability of the cast, not all that well acted (though we must cut the actors some slack with a script as strained as this one). Of course, once a carpenter named Joshua walks into a small town with a quiet but enchanting spirituality about him and settles in a barn full of holes where it never rains, everything and everyone else become completely and embarrassingly predictable. The plot could have potential as an interpretive tool, but the parallels between people and events in the film and in the biblical narrative are cute yet flat and don't go beyond surface hints.  Now comes the surprising part. As a scholar of theology, I tend to value complex and thought-provoking works, but I began to watch this movie and could not stop. All the while sniggering to myself, I was feeling its peace fill my heart, and I cried in the penultimate scene, at the Vatican. I have since watched it again twice. There is something about it. I suppose that the sincerity of the novel and the filmmakers, their purity of heart, their acceptance and warmth -- that quiet but enchanting spirituality Joshua carries into town -- penetrates the screen and embraces the viewer. I suppose, it's the love. That's the message.

Almost Excellent It's hard to know where to start with reviewing a series this complex. The complexity itself is certainly part of the draw, from the intricate worldbuilding to the tangled plots to the exquisite set and costume design. But here are a few points worth noting:  1) This is grimdark fantasy at its finest. As such, sympathetic characters will almost never make decisions that lead to good results for themselves, no matter how much sense that decision made at the time based on the information they had available. Viewers are advised to take this into account. Really, just expect that everyone is going to suffer horribly, get maimed, and then die tragically, and you'll get to occasionally be pleasantly surprised. (Or unpleasantly surprised, when it comes to a number of people who don't bite it in season one, whose deaths we're all eagerly waiting for.)  2) Characters spout exposition at the drop of a hat. A lot of hats get dropped. The exposition is all marvelous, mind, but this leads to a lot of As You Know Bob and monologuing. HBO has thoughtfully provided lots of gratuitous female nudity to accompany most of this exposition ("Look! Here come the Exposition Whores again! It must be time for someone to discuss character and setting background!"), which viewers will find either endearing or annoying depending on how they feel about gratuitous female nudity. There's not nearly as much male nudity as you'd expect.  3) The production values are stunning. Every set and every costume and every shot is a work of art. The opening credits alone are breathtaking. A lot of it is breathtaking works of art where everyone is covered in mud, wearing brown, and probably half-naked (if female), but credit where it's due. Trying to watch The Tudors after seeing this series first gave me the uncomfortable feeling that the king of England was being filmed while standing in someone's hastily redressed living room or backyard. The world of Westeros comes alive, in this series, with all its gritty grimness.  4) The DVD version has an odd glitch at times where it'll keep flashing subtitles briefly on the screen long after the subtitled scene has ended. Go figure.  5) The acting is excellent. The plot is excellent, even if it depends heavily on Murphy's Law at times. The characters are mostly complex, though some villains are just outright villainous with no redeeming features whatsoever. It's very grey-and-black morality. People who like that sort of thing will love this series. People who do not like this sort of thing probably will not.

Reminds a younger generation of Ali's legacy Every new generation seems to know or care less about history and the significant events and personalities that shaped our time. Muhammad Ali is arguably a very important cultural icon not only because of his achievements as a Boxer, winning the heavy weight title three times, but also because of his perseverance to define himself and broadcast his personality in a time when American culture aimed to silence him. All these themes were presented in this film; presented very well. Will Smith proves to be a versatile and proficient actor. He is so effective that you forget that he is the Will Smith of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, MIB, I Am Legend etc. In this film, you just see Muhammad Ali, the boxer, the personality, the human being.  The cinematography is exquisite and unlike any previous boxing movie. The fight scenes seems to be subdued in an effort to make it more realistic. The punches don't have the big hollywood, Rocky-ish sound effects and exaggerated blows that shock the whole arena. Albeit pivotal moments in the fights are presented in cinematic forms that have not been shown before.  Overall, it is a great film that presents not only Ali the great boxer but the real human being. Not to be mistaken as purely historical, the film is effective in prompting the young viewer outside the scope of the late sixties to learn more about the great Muhammad Ali.

I just rented it on prime, but I liked it I watched this on my TV through prime. I like the movie. I just recently watched the second, and I like both. I'm not that much of a fan of prime to prefer it over netflix or redbox. I like this movie though. it's not great, but it's good and I like the mythology and how they incorporate that into the story. Special affects are good.

A Perfect World This is a very good movie.  It held my interest from beginning to end.  I am a huge Kevin Costner fan and even though this is a different role for Kevin he is so good that you can't help but like Butch even before it is revealed why he is on the "wrong" side of the law.

Still a classic acid trip of a movie I've enjoyed Alice in Wonderland since I was a kid, long before I could even begin to appreciate the hidden meanings and double entendres you'll find as an adult. It's a classic piece of animation from Disney, and remains a magical journey for parents and their children alike. Insane and beautifully drawn characters and a fascinating storyline make this movie remain one of my favorites.

Looks really bad, but it's good I resisted seeing this based on the cover and title, but after convincing on the part of my friend I surrendered. I am glad that she made me watch it since it completely cracks me up!

A dark & disturbing look at the life of a sex addict. Fassbender is great playing a very unlikeable guy. Perfect ending.I say A- "We're not bad people, we just come from a bad place." Brandon (Fassbender) is a very private person. He does his job well and takes the subway to and from work. He doesn't have many close friends, but that fits his life style. Brandon is an extreme sex addict. He lives his life how he wants until his sister Sissy (Mulligan) shows up unannounced. He does his best to hide his addiction from her, but somethings aren't that easy. First of all I have to say that this is a really good movie. That said it's not easy to watch. Fassbender is amazing in this and I have no idea why he didn't get nominated. I'm guessing because the movie is NC-17 and there is a lot of sex and nudity. That aside watching him struggle with his addiction with few words is really mesmerizing. I can compare this to "Drive" in the style and the pacing, few words but powerful actions. Brandon is one of the most unlikeable characters I have seen lately but the entire time you really want him to change and you end up sympathizing and identifying with Sissy through out most of the movie. Movies that polarize you like that are an adventure to watch and you seem to get more out of it. All that said I do recommend this. Overall, A great but hard movie to watch, very emotional. I give it an A-.

Much better than I anticipated. Being an M. Night fan since The Sixth Sense, I have been increasingly disappointed with his more recent entertainment attempts.  However, Devil is a step in the right direction.  The suspense builds all the way to the climax of this movie.  The way everything tied together in the end and the nice little twist worked for me.  Loved this movie.

Great Movie Ive watch this movie a thousand times, its very inspirational to me. It came as if it was brand new. It also came in less than 5 days. Awesome Amazon...Robert Duval and Billy Bob Thornton are great actors....

The Fighter doesn't pull any punches with story Wow! I can see why Christian Bale and Melissa Leo won Oscars for their performances in this! Great movie that even though it's a pretty basic based-on-a-true-story plot still delivers the goods with emotion, acting and directing. Also, veteran character actor Jack McGee deserves a special shout-out as Micky Ward's (Wahlberg) dad, George Ward, in the film. As for Amy Adams, I remember when they announced she would Lois Lane for the new "Superman" film, and I felt disappointed and apprehensive. While I'm still unsure (I'd rather have Elizabeth Banks), she proves her mettle with this role! Bale especially shines as he doesn't act -- he IS Dicky Eklund! Even if you're not into boxing (although I respect the sport, I'm definitely not into watching it), you'll still enjoy this film. It's not so much about boxing but the lives of the Eklund/Ward family.

Enjoyable Movie I am pretty sure Dispicable Me will never win awards for best picture, nor do I think the plot is anything special, but it is a funny, heart warming, family show that my whole family enjoys.

This review is for people who are obese. I am an obese person who is trying to get healthy. I am writing this review for other people who are also obese, and may buy this video. I hope you find it helpful.  Let me start off by saying that I love dancing, even though I am not graceful and I'm quite out of shape. I was looking for a video that would be fun, but wouldn't have terribly complicated dance steps (I purchased a Dancing With the Stars exercise video previously, and that was a complete waste of money for me). The steps in this video are pretty simple, but I found that it took me a little practice. Of course, for the most part these are cardio exercises I wouldn't use on the actual dance floor. But still, it's kind of like dancing.  I really like that the backup dancers in the video are not all size 2, there is a wide variety. One woman was quite overweight. I feel that this video would be good for people who need to lose weight.  Richard Simmons is kind of a weird and silly guy, but he's also really encouraging and positive.  Did I mention the video is filmed in a pretend mall? Lol.

Good movie I thought this was interesting and well done.  It takes a lot of guts to do drag and I think the gay community owes a lot of our progress for rights and recognition to our sisters in heels.  This movie is definitely worth a viewing.

Classic Film. Not much to say, if your new to the series watch it. If your not new, then its a great start to the series. The dvd is great and happy to add to my collection. Waiting for Prometheus to be released on dvd next. I love the alien series and its one that never gets old. A true classic. It did for aliens what JAWS did for sharks.

Great Video! This is a really good workout targeting Abs, but it is also a cardio workout as well. It has two levels and each is only 30 minutes which is a great thing about all of Jillian's workout dvd's- you get an awesome workout in a short amount of time. Only thing I would say is do not buy it if you are looking for all floor work, half of the workout is standing/cardio exercises.

workout video this is a little challenging. i've been taking a step class and wanted something to replace the class in case i couldnt make it. this does fill that requirement. it's a little confusing at first, but i got the hang of it. its got strength training mixed with the step, really intensifying the workout.

Cheap packaging I did not have a problem with the order, or shipment and would probably do business with this company again.  I was not pleased with the construction of the DVD case.  It was very flimsy, and I immediately replaced it with a sturdier one.

Different, Refreshing, Yoga DVD, not for beginners .  What I like about this yoga class is that it feels like you are in the class with Ira. It is underproduced in a way that I like. I like the simplicity of it. Ira has a calming yoga style and voice. He does know what he is talking about. You can tell he has studied  his subject well. He seems scholarly and has that therapist energy if you get my drift. :)  The class is long, 75 minutes. I always feel that 75 minutes of practice feels good. It is grounding and helps me get centered. I like his pacing. He holds poses for longer than I am used to. Yet there is a flow to it. I broke a sweat.  This practice is not for beginners. I think he could have a section that explains the proper alignment and ways to adjust poses to suit where you are physically and then it could be for beginners too. There are some advanced moves that will need to be built up to. I know for me when I do pigeon my hip rolls off to the side without support. Also people with neck problems need to watch it on the inverted poses. He does have a disclaimer in the beginning of the dvd that is very good.  Overall a nice addition to a yoga collection of dvds for the intermediate practitioner. You get a more basic, down to earth style sans flashy, hip or yoga celebrity hype.  Was I less depressed and anxious afterword? Yes.

The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo I enjoyed this movie.  At first, I noticed the dubbing, but after a few minutes, I forgot about it.  I watched the other two movies, and I also watched the 2011 version starring Daniel Craig.  I, highly, recommend this movie, if you like mystery.  Even better, I am an Amazon Prime member, so I watched the Trilogy, at no cost!

Great action film from Indo. Brief and to the point: if you enjoy hardcore action films like "Time And Tide" (one of the best ever), "District B-13", "Fulltime Killer", "Police Story III: Supercop", "Ong Bak", "Tom Yum Goong", "Chocolate", "Born To Fight", "Ip Man", "Invisible Target", "So Close", "Death Trance" and "Unleashed", then this Indonesian film is a must-buy. My wife is from Indonesia and she did the literal translation even though English subtitles are provided and get this: all the "cuss" words in the subtitles were never spoken in the film; amazing ain't it? The character "Mad Dog" played by Yayan Ruhian (He is a beast; look out Tony Jaa, Jet Li, Wu Jing and Tak Sakaguchi). Highly recommended and a must-buy for action and martial arts film lovers!!!

Pretty good end-of-the-world flick Good cast, not a bad premise and good execution. I think I'd already seen it, but it was good enough to watch again...

My wife loves it! My wife is satisfied so a bit costly but she thinks it was worth it. I on the other hand feel that to not have the DVD in our possession is like renting a car from Hertz, only difference we can pick the car up and drive it at anytime but we cannot keep it in our garage.

A Powerhouse Movie That Doesn't Avoid Tenderness Though this film rings of Spielberg in action - fantasy mixed with the magic of kids' imagination and camaraderie - SUPER 8 is a very entertaining film.  It is a movie within a movie - a nice twist on reality versus illusion - and the writer/director JJ Abrams has the keen idea of show the intended movie made by the kids at the end of the film during the credits. it works very well.  The story involves Joe Lamb (Joel Courtney) and a group of youngsters getting together to make a super 8 film of their own writing and acting and production and films: Riley Griffiths (as writer/director Charles), Ryan Lee as the zombie obsessed Cary, Gabriel Basso as Martin, Zach Mills as Preston, and Elle Fanning as Alice Dainerd. As the youngsters struggle with their film we learn of town troubles - such as Joe's dad, policeman Jackson Lamb (Kyle Chandler) and his concern with the town troublemaker Louis Dainerd (Ron Eldard) who is Alice's Dad - until everything changes as while on location at the train stop the youngster's film a bizarre train crash with a truck driven by a wise but somewhat scary science teacher.  It becomes evident that there is more to the incident than meets the eye and as the youngsters realize that there is present among them a creature form space the speed of events wallops to a wild climax.  In the end the Youngsters are the ones who relate to the possibilities of fantasy being real and the story ends with an uplifting sense of understanding.  Placed in the year 1979 in Ohio the film manages to capture the flavor of the times and the fears of the people (could all this be a Soviet attack?!) to a tee.  Joel Courtney is outstanding in his role and the supporting cast is excellent. Grady Harp, December 11

English (dub) stereo audio issues and other DVD boxset details *Audio* First, the audio options are Japanese mono and English stereo. I was hoping for Japanese stereo myself, but I can understand that because the series is so old, they could not mix the mono into stereo or chose not to do so. Also, I did not have a chance to watch all of the episodes with both audio options, but I scanned through the episodes with the English stereo audio after reading some of the reviews here. After going through 3 DVD sets, I've come to the same conclusion. Bandai Entertainment messed up the first 4 episodes with English mono, but then fixed the other episodes with English stereo. What other reviewers said about the English audio not being consistent (in other words, audio plays in the other speakers, then breaks up, then returns, or the audio is low in parts of the episodes and high in others) may be true, but I didn't really look into that. I noticed some evidence of this, but I didn't look into it specifically. When I brought this up to Bandai Entertainment to get their thoughts on the matter, they responded very slowly, possibly because of the recent changes to their company here. But that's no excuse. They took close enough to a month to respond. Good thing I returned my defective product in the 30 day window once I learned what was going on with Bandai Entertainment. Although nothing changed, so that was a bummer. Here's the part of their response that might interest you. "In regards to your situation we had a third party quality control company check the particular problem you were having on your disc and according to their report they have not seen this happen on [their] end. We will have them check the disc one more time and see if the problem can be replicated." I would advise you to check your DVD set for these issues with the first 4 episodes in English stereo and see if you get the same problem. It would help to test out the audio in your DVD set with a surround sound system. It would probably be very hard to test the audio with TV speakers. I got this collection primarily for the Japanese audio, but I liked the English dub as well, and it's a shame it has this technical problem. Maybe this problem does not exist in all of the DVD sets, but after going through three of them, I'm not getting a fourth. Only if Bandai Entertainment will replace it, but I'm not spending a penny more for this, for shipping or any other part of the return process. I don't mean to sound like I'm rambling, but I waited almost two months now to do this review to let others know what I found out on my own. Maybe they're blowing my off with their ticket system because I'm the only one complaining. Maybe if others reported the same problem, they would take it more seriously and fix it. I will probably get the Complete Collection II in the hopes that it doesn't have the same error, but I will be really mad if it does. Hope this helps people interested in buying the DVD set as well as others who have already bought it.  *Video* I did not notice any issues with the DVDs sticking in places and/or chapters, but I did not check this out extensively. The audio for the opening and ending is in Japanese mono whether you're watching in Japanese mono or English stereo. The text in the opening and closing (not the subtitles) is the original Japanese text, not the English dub text from Bandai Entertainment if you own/owned earlier DVD (maybe VHS?) releases. The opening and ending have subtitles.  *Packaging* The DVD case is normal DVD case size, with four DVDs inside that contain 6 episodes in the first disc and 5 episodes in each of the other three discs. Here is someone's video of it. [...]  *Extras* No special features like character/mobile suit encyclopedias or anything similar, just credits and trailers for other Bandai Entertainment shows.  *Final Thoughts* I'm a big Gundam fan, and a recent fan of the Universal Century Gundam series. This would be the best release of this series in the US if this audio issue was not present. So if you can live with this error, or only care about the subbed version of the series, then you should be fine. I will update this if Bandai Entertainment ever responds to my consistent and unpleasant results.

Skip chapters 19 & 20 After my son encouraged me to read these reviews I purchased the Directors Cut given this movie, I once thought of as a bore, another chance. Well, I must admit the Directors Cut is a major improvement that makes ST-TMP worthwhile. To be honest I still find it a little boring. Yet I couldn't stop thinking about it. This movie has a lot more to it then I originally thought. The storyline is more interesting now and there's the sub story about Spocks enlightenment as well as other important historical information you don't want to miss.  Back to the boring part. My family having viewed it with me were not as excited about it. So I decided to see if it would be possible to skip the long drawn out scenes. This is what I found. You can skip chapter 19 & 20 and easily continue the movie without a hitch. Wow, the movie becomes more focused and clear. And something else, the visual effects which were always stunning now pop.  Here's why. Chapter 19 (Entering the Cloud) is the chapter other reviewers talk about where you see each of the crew stare into the cloud with goofy faces. Its almost five full minutes of a laser light show that lulls you into numbness. If you are still awake after that you are treated to chapter 20 (The Alien Vessel). This is four minutes  of exterior fly-by shots of the alien. This whole scene is done in a hypnotic deep dark blue cast. A total of almost 10 minutes is spent on chapter 19 & 20 combined which leaves you completely desensitized to any more visual effect stimuli. I mean it. If you skip these two chapters the visual effects in the rest of the movie really are enhanced.  Don't think you'll be missing out either. Chapter 22 will treat you to plenty of  eye candy while inside the alien vessel. It does the grand job of given the impression of its vastness that 19 & 20 intended to do. Also you don't have to quickly jump over 19 & 20. You can enter each scene for a few moments and then skip.  Now I can say I am very please to have this movie which I previously neglected.

Families haven't really changed all that much in 100+ years It was Tolstoy who declared that "happy families are all alike," and while he probably wasn't thinking in terms of the passage of time, this classic screen adaptation of an equally classic stage play (which was itself adapted, and very well, from Clarence Day's volume of reminiscences <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1579124321">Life With Father</a> of his boyhood in late-19th-C. Manhattan) shows that there are certain constants about family life even after more than a century.  In 1883 the Day family--stockbroker Clarence Sr. (William Powell), known to most of his intimates as Clare; his wife Vinnie (Irene Dunne); and sons Clarence Jr. (Jimmy Lydon), almost 18, John (Martin Milner), 14, Whitney (Johnny Calkins), 10, and six-year-old Harlan (Derek Scott)--lives a comfortable upper-class life in a brownstone house at 420 Madison Avenue, where "Father" definitely rules the roost, or at least tries to.  But the servant problem, a loveably scatterbrained and financially hopeless wife, and four boys with redheaded high spirits make life a lot more difficult than he'd prefer.  When Vinnie's Cousin Cora (Zasu Pitts) and a young friend, 15-year-old Mary Skinner (Elizabeth Taylor), come to visit, a revelation ensues that shocks the devout Vinnie: Clarence has never been baptized!  Will he ever get to Heaven?  Is she really married to him?  Are her sons (horrors!) even legitimate?  Vinnie resolves to get her husband to the font come hell or high water.  Meanwhile young Clarence is suffering the pangs of first love, which he tries to deal with as he thinks his father would (a situation complicated by the inexplicable fact that his new suit, cut down from one of Clarence Sr.'s, seems disinclined to "do anything that Father wouldn't do," including kneel to a girl or let her sit on his lap); John, eager to earn some extra spending money, is given "the whole territory of Manhattan" in which to sell a patent medicine that proves a good deal less virtuous than its advertising suggests; Whitney struggles with his catechism, and Harlan with issues like oatmeal (which he hates) and the prospect of being kissed by girls (which is even worse).  Clare and Vinnie don't seem to share a bedroom, yet it's obvious that they love each other dearly and have ever since their marriage 20 years ago; Vinnie is constantly trying to soothe Clare's outbreaks of temper, and Clare, when Vinnie becomes mysteriously ill, is utterly lost without her.  And while the four boys may behave much more formally than youngsters of today, they're still recognizably red-blooded American lads: girls and money interest the older ones, and though he may have to do it in a short-pants sailor suit ornamented with soutache, Whitney is so eager to pitch that he bolts his breakfast shamefully.  At the center of it all is Father, played so masterfully by Powell that he should have been awarded the Oscar (he *was* among the finalists).  This is a great family film, full of humor, unforgettable characters, and talking points.

Still Funny! My sons and I were curious to see if this move held up over the years and we came to the unanimous decision that it's still hilarious! I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. It's a different kind of funny from his normal stuff, just sillier and over the top but if that's your kind of humor I think you'll like this movie.

A Slow Start, But Hang In there I almost gave up on this movie.  About one-third of the way through and I was bored senseless.  There seemed to be no forward movement and the acting felt stagnant.  I knew that Denzel Washington couldn't let me down in this way and Jurnee Smollett is just too captivating of an actress to not keep my attention, so I decided to give it jus a little bit more time.  Once we hit the halfway point I was hooked, I do not know for sure what happened, but the storyline started to evolve and I was becoming more attached to the characters and the story they were telling.  Based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, who inspired his students to form the school's first debate team.  Not just any debate team, but a team from a small rural all-African-American college during the height of the depression.  A team that would one day take on the likes of Harvard in the national championship and would go on to record one of the greatest debate records of their time.  I do not know if this movie will appeal to all, but if you stick with it and watch the extra footage at the end of the DVD, you will get a completely new appreciation of the people and the times.  This was an extraordinary group of young people and to see what they have achieved since is in itself remarkable.

Animatrix Really good compilation of stories that will make you understand The Matrix Trilogy a little bit better. A Must-Have if you really like The Matrix.

Great "Risky Business" was always a favorite of mine.  I wanted to share it with two college students in my family, knowing it was not only timely, but very entertaining.  I wasn't wrong.  I purchased the movie for them as a Christmas gift, both students reported back how much they enjoyed it and how much their friends enjoyed seeing it at the Holiday special gatherings.  This is a great buy, an excellent movie.

I miss this movie I love westerns.  I love westerns and I love comedy.  This is one of my all time favorite movies.  Great acting, really funny.  There are not many westerns that can put comedy, action, and emotion in a movie.  One of my favorite parts is when the group enters the Spirit World. LOL.  Great price for a priceless movie.

Bombastic Yet Triumphant Clinton, one in a long line of American Experience presidential portraits, brings to the table a well-rounded and informative portrait of the president. You will walk away with an understanding of the course of his political life, and the major issues that shaped his two terms in office.  This man is perhaps least understood by people like me, who were very young when he took office and never experienced him "live." Before I watched this, I generally understood his tenure as one of a sex scandal and impeachment. Most of his other accomplishments and failures faded to the background. Thankfully, this video provides a vicarious catch-up on what happened a few years ago. Lest we turn Bill into a one-liner, it is important to watch this film, remembering what he accomplished as a politician and reflecting on his vision as a leader. Depth and fairness are really the goals of public broadcasting, and this program provides a great deal of both. The content is thoughtful and memorable.  That being said, the stylistic approach caused me to shake my head a few times in disappointment. Compare this with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BITUWK">American Experience: FDR</a>, which presented overwhelmingly-neutral and unembellished commentary. This film, though, at times strays into subjectivity, dramatization, and triviality. Some of the commentary takes on a tabloid style.  The problem is most noticeable with the coverage of the president's scandals. While you would hope the topic to be covered carefully and given due context, PBS seemed to adopt the popular approach - to make it an issue of book deals, high-powered wheeling and dealing, and attention-grabbing headlines. They had to have spent ten minutes of face time on the book publisher who wanted to expose the president for her own financial gain. Those kinds of people have no role in an objective documentary. It is something you would expect more from cable news, which will go to any length to make a story more than it is. You can also see the journalistic excesses in the bombastic language used by the narrator; he seems to seek drama out of every event.  This style reflects the 24-hour news cycle that began around the time Clinton took office and has degraded journalistic standards ever since. It seems the influence has spread even to PBS. If there is any degree of bias in the film, it comes from the mouths of these interviewees. Each talking head seems to have an agenda, be it defending the president or celebrating his decline.  Even with these objections in mind, I cannot but strongly endorse the program. It presents a remarkable biography that can add to the understanding of anyone who watches it. And it does so with a richness that makes the experience worthwhile. It is most of what you would expect from a quality documentary.

A must have for Matrix fans, but don't expect a collector-quality case I received the product in a timely fashion. I bought this as a Christmas gift for my boyfriend. I was surprised to see how cheap the actual product looked, though. The cases for the discs were very cheaply made, and two of them didn't even snap shut. It's a must have for a Matrix fan, but if you are overly concerned about the quality of the case, then I might consider passing on it.

Pretty Good Movie i really enjoyed this movie, the humor is pretty good for a comedy cop movie set in NYC, and Will Ferrel is in this movie who i think is funny and i enjoyed him off of step brothers

Great horse story I didn;t ses Secretariat in the theaters because I just thought it was another rags to riches story so when I saw it on cable for the first time I was surprised how much I enjoyed it.  I have a great fan of Diane Lane and John Malkovich and both of them are brilliant in this movie.  The film is very thoughtful and touches on one important social theme, women's liberation.  But it does so in a wonderfully subtle manner.  I love the racing sequences especially the last one.  This is a good movie for all to enjoy.

DUNE The movie is excellent, contains interesting action, locations, graphics, animation and story-line, even for a Sci-fi effort. So many things are intertwined that you sometimes forget what is going on in the "real world" outside and that is what a movie is supposed to do - entertain us. A very exilarating movie.

In her shoes. I thought In her shoes was a nice story about 2 young ladys the smarter one working for a law firm and the other being unemployed. One not so attractive and the other very beautiful but dyslexic. Along the way they have a falling out going their seperate ways. But in the long run they come back together. While one gets married the other also improves. And they live happily ever after.

Not Bad Not a bad representation of the book, as people that would not read the book can be reached this way. I do recommend that you read the book before seeing the movie (just my opinion).

A Great Presentation This is one of the best film adaptations for a book I have ever seen.  I can only compare it to 'Lonesome Dove' for its faithfulness to its source.  Highly recommended.  Can't wait to see Season 2.

A good new thought provoking movie at the time I remember seeing this on TV a long time ago.  I liked it then, and I still like it.  I think it was a precurser of Nightmare on Elm Street.  It was one of the first movies to say that if you die in a dream-if someone kills you- than you die in reality.  I like this movie.  I think everyone should see this and we'll see what kind of thoughts this puts in people's minds.  Remember, this show was shot in the early eighties so it doesn't have the latest up to date special effects.  They're not too primative though.

Ok movie The movie was ok. I watched it with my wife while writing a report. I like movies/shows that are easy enough to follow while still getting work accomplished. More bad language than I thought was needed but I guess that's why it's rated R.

Thrilling and Exciting It Was More Thrilling Than The First; You Get More To The Bottom Of How Everything Started. Though At The End, You Will Be Asking More Questions Than You Began With.

Squirrel! Perfect entertainment for young and old to watch together. My grandson watched and I laughed the whole way through. I still smile hear someone say "Squirrel!"

Excellent! There is a lot to like here.  Kristi and Erin are pleasant and upbeat, Erin explains the exercises clearly, Erin tells you what the exercises are doing for your body, and the workouts are challenging.  The first time I did this, I gave up halfway through and just watched.  Workouts 2 and 3 have lots of planks, side planks, and intense cardio.  The second time, I just did the warm up and Workout 1.  Workout 1 is doable for beginners and the cardio steps are not complicated (I've never done an aerobics class and am a bit uncoordinated).  I didn't like the cool down much-I thought there should have been more of a transition from the intense cardio to sitting on the floor and stretching. Overall, a great workout and I look forward to being able to do Workouts 2 and 3.

Very Decent I was pleasantly surprised at this direct-to-disc effort. The action is often and realistic enough to keep you interested. The story is sparse but you learn early on that this isn't a mystery film, it's a very decent action flick.

"Ride Clear Of Diablo (1954) ... Audie Murphy & Dan Duryea ... Jesse Hibbs (Director) (2000)" Universal Pictures presents "RIDE CLEAR OF DIABLO" (1954  80 min/Color) -- Starring: Audie Murphy, Susan Cabot, Dan Duryea, Abbe Lane & Russell Johnson  Directed by Jesse Hibbs  Notorious gunslinger Whitey Kincaid (Dan Duryea) is hired by sinister forces to kill Clay O'Mara (Audie Murphy), who is out to avenge the murders of his father and brother. Instead, Kincaid befriends O'Mara, and helps him track down his family's killers. What follows is a classic shootout - who will survive?  Great role for Duryea as the snide, smirking Kincaid.  Special footnote: -- Murphy and Duryea also teamed-up, "Six Black Horses." Duryea and Murphy appeared together again in Jimmy Stewart's "Night Passage," - clearly you can see that these oaters are never out of style, the genre of Westerns will always be with us.  BIOS: 1. Jesse Hibbs  Director) Date of Birth:  11 January 1906 - Normal, Illinois Date of Death:  4 February 1985 - Ojai, California  2. Audie Murphy  [aka: Audie Leon Murphy] Date of Birth:  20 June 1925 - Kingston, Texas Date of Death:  28 May 1971 - near Roanoke, Virginia (plane crash)  3. Susan Cabot  [aka: Harriet Shapiro] Date of Birth:  9 July 1927 - Boston, Massachusetts Date of Death:  10 December 1986 - Encino, California  4. Dan Duryea Date of Birth: 23 January 1907 - White Plains, New York Date of Death: 7 June 1968 - Hollywood, California  Mr. Jim's Ratings: Quality of Picture & Sound: 4 Stars Performance: 4 Stars Story & Screenplay: 4 Stars Overall: 4 Stars [Original Music, Cinematography & Film Editing]  Total Time: 80 min on DVD ~ Universal Pictures ~ (May 16 2000)

Super Trip! Hilarious. That's all I can say. Your typical Animal House style movie, this is a perfect comedy if you're into goofy humor

Comparison between 1 & 2 There is no doubt that the original Kung Fu Panda is an excellent movie.  The story, as a whole, is better.  The story develops more organically and the humor is excellent.  But in many ways the second is better, even though the story is not as strong and the humor seems forced at time.  The production value are top notch.  The visuals and animation are stunning.  The story really grows on you; certain parts really moved me.  The voice acting is superb.  There are several moments of brilliance no one can deny.  The movie has a few more lows than the original, but the higher peaks more than make up for it.  There is something for children and adults.  Brilliant film.

Good for older kids- not for 4 & 5 yr. olds. My wife and I were enjoying it very much, but the kids were a bit young for it. Too complex. Has a good story and moral; as all Dr. Seuss. The little ones (4 & 5) lost interest quickly. Good addition  to our Blue-ray library.

Pygmalion at the stock exchange! This is what we love about movies!  Fun -- heroics -- fish-out-of-water -- a lovely ingenue at the heart of things -- the rich take it on the chin -- and the nuevo rich get the happy ending!  With Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd at the top of their acting skills, and surrounded by some of the best supporting characters around (Denholm Elliott, Don Ameche, Ralph Bellamy and the lovely Jaime Lee Curtis) the story doesn't waste any time getting started and proceeds at a good pace.  Let's just say that playing the stock market is not as much fun as these folks make it out to be, but we don't worry over that because we're having too much fun with the characters!  It is clear that John Landis knows how to extricate laughs from just about anyone, and lays the groundwork for one of the best of its era -- the 1980's -- a free-flowing string of unconventional movie making.  This film has slapstick humor, pathos, a grungy Santa, gorillas de-mystified, and unusual financial arrangements.  Mostly though this is a showcase for great comedic acting with a liberal dose of redemption for several of the main characters.  Dan Aykroyd has long been one of my favorite people, be it comedy (like this or Dr. Detroit) or drama (Driving Miss Daisy).  Eddie Murphy has had some great moments (this is surely one of them!) and Jaime Lee Curtis has gone from Scream Queen to comedy and drama equally well (My Girl, True Lies, Grandview USA).  As for those Grand Old Men of the movies and stage, can anyone deny that the talents of Don Amehe (Cocoon) and Ralph Bellamy have the charm, dignity and poise to make anyones' film better?!  I'll bet you one whole dollar they do...!

"Man, you come right out of a comic book" Enter the Dragon is reminiscent of a 70s Bond film combined with elements of the Bruce Lee films, with many amazing martial arts duels. The film's slow pacing really enhances, rather than hurts, the film's build up to an intense, action-packed finish.  Sure, there's a little cheesiness, but fine performances, intense martial arts, and an interesting plot make this an intriguing, remarkable classic. Mr. Han (Shih Kien), who sits there with many of the diabolical James Bond villains, has a mysterious island laced full of beautiful women, faithful servants, secret entrances, exits and traps and plenty of other gadgetry. Han has a special delight in power, greed, and inflicting pain on others, and has the sinister laugh down pact.  Bruce Lee's shines in his final film, as he has a charismatic air about him, intelligence and a street smart toughness to not fall for Han's traps. We all love seeing Lee kick butt in martial arts showdowns, and in this film we see a climactic showdown of showdowns, but in Enter the Dragon is fun to watch him play spy, infiltrating the trickiness of Lee's island and his various secret rooms.  The premise:  Lee agrees to go Han's island to investigate the allegedly corrupt master of a narcotics gang, but also as a measure of revenge for his sister's death. Two others, Roper (John Saxon) and Williams (Jim Kelly) go to the island and join Lee in Han's Tournament, which is a tournament that is deadlier than they anticipated. Jim Kelly, who starred in many other kung fu films, brings an air of slick street coolness to his role as Williams, and has some unforgettable and clever lines when confronting Han. As Lee investigates the island, the truth of Han's corruption becomes all too clear.  Ashamed to say that I had never watched Enter the Dragon until a few weeks ago, but I'm glad I checked it out.

Tragedy That Binds Robert Saitzyk`s "White of Winter" starts with a woman, Rachael (Zoe Poledouris), stalking a man in Los Angeles, and she seems to be having flashbacks to when she was in what appears to be a mental hospital. We soon learn the man she's stalking Tommy (Bret Roberts) who has a history with her, they were boyfriend and girlfriend in high school, in a relationship that ended badly, very badly. Tommy beat and raped Rachael, then escaped to L.A. At this point writer/director Robert Saitzyk could have made this a typical revenge type, but Saitzyk makes a bolder choice, Rachel tells Tommy that she had a child from their last night together, at least she thinks she did, Rachael's baby is gone and she doesn't remember what happened to it, or maybe because of the trauma she had imagined it all, so they go back to their hometown in Montana and try to unravel the mystery.  As Rachael and Tommy head back to Montana we discover that Tommy has a little heroin problem. Saitzyk likes to use landscapes, especially in rough hewn country to illustrate his characters stark state of mind. In "White of Winter" in one scene Tommy coming to grips with what he did to Rachael races out into the snowy landscape and strips down and tries to cover himself with snow. In Saitzyk's later "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0033HKCXM">Godspeed</a>" the landscape is as much a factor as the motivations of the characters.  Saitzyk is a good filmmaker with a good eye, for instance, in the scene where Rachael and Tommy meet for the first time since high school, Saitzyk combines the features of their faces in the reflection of a car window combining and separating into their individual selves. On the trip back to Montana there are two long soliloquies that are almost back to back, and almost break the viewers interest in Rachael and Tommy's plight, but Saitzyk pulls the viewer back in as Rachael and Tommy arrive back in their home town and discover the truth of Rachael's child.

Great DVD Shooting - Poor Quality Nightwish give us once more an example of their great talent either in composing or generally creating songs that can really touch someone's feelings and move his fantasy. It is a DVD that a fan of NIGHTWISH must have in his library. On the contrary someone can easily notice the poor quality of the image of the DVD. To make matters worse it cannot be produced by Windows Media Player or Vlc. Only produced by nero show time or a home DVD player. The sound is at least very good indeed.

Fulci's Own '8 1/2' I finally caught up to this release after a few years purchasing it.  Mostly all of Director Lucio Fulci's  genre films have been released onto DVD except his wonderfully erotic 'THE DEVIL'S HONEY' aka 'DANGEROUS OBSESSION' aka 'IL MIELE DEL DIAVOLO'-1986 and his early comedies. 'CAT IN THE BRAIN' aka 'NIGHTMARE CONCERT' aka 'UN GATTO NEL CERVELLO'-1990 should only be purchased by viewers who are familiar or who have seen at least his classic titles because the film emerges as a catharsis on film making and his own personal journey in keeping up with them so first time viewers may scratch their heads in befuddlement or appalled by its graphic cartoon-like sequences. It's not one of my favorites as its constructed using clips from other films Fulci was involved in and seems to get lost in its mantric presentation of the director's supposed state of mind although many of his messages do penetrate through it all.  You have probably read all of the reviews included here but not many have commented on the superb presentation by Box Office Spectaculars of the film and its second disc of superb extras.  Not only is the film presented in a clear transfer so you can throw away your bootleg copies but disc one also includes 20 minutes of footage from Fangoria magazines 1996 Weekend of Horrors where Fulci finally got his due.  Looking very frail and obviously put off by the stupidity of the questions asked of him, Fulci would pass away shortly after this appearance which makes it more poignant.  Disc two continues with two excellent 40 minute interviews with the maestro : Genre terrorist in which he discusses the thriller and horror genres and the television years where he gives an excellent account of the Italian film industry in the late fifties and early sixties.  Its like spending over an hour in your screening room getting to know this underrated artist.  Included also is a 45 minute interview with actor Brett Halsey who discusses his film career in Hollywood and Europe with an incredible amount of stories and his work with Fulci.  Rounding out the rest of the disc are written bios and filmographies of Fulci and Halsey, an Italian and US trailer for the film, posters and stills galleries , 3 short remembrances of Fulci by actors Jeoffrey Kennedy, Sacha Maria Darwin and Malisa Longo which seem to be culled from the DVD tribute 'PAURA-LUCIO FULCI REMEMBERED'-2008, and 14 trailers to other sleazy grindhouse forays.  All in all, its worth the price tag and a must for Fulci fans.

julians opinion The movie was first class. I cannot fault either of the two movies I have watched in this trilogy. I have not yet watched the final DVD. (I purchased the first DVD from a local shop here in Brisbane) My only gripe is the condition of the disc itself. When I commenced to watch it, it showed a number of previews of upcoming movies. Which is fair enough I suppose. But what happened with this particular disc, was that it kept showing the previews over and over, repeatedly. At first I thought the entire DVD was a faulty one filled with previews.It was not until I slowly trawled through the disc, and got to where the actual movie began. This is the very first time I have ever encountered this problem, and I have over 400 movies, collected through the years. I have always owned movies instead of renting them. Which is why I love shopping at Amazon, and will continue to do so  Thank you very much Peter Bible 30th March 2011  order I.D. is 104-4395346-2808249

Very scary movie Finally viewed this a week or two ago.  The only reason I didn't give it five is that this movie would have more impact if all the scary stuff on the package were removed, so that you knew nothing of what it is about.  This starts out very realistically.  The reporter is very cute and personable, her cameraman sort of clutzy (although we never see him), the firemen are sweet.  The whole situation is mundane, then things slowly begin to go wrong, and then rapidly get out of control.  This is the best one of this kind of movie I've seen.  Also, the people speak very clear Spanish, which is good for me as a learner of Spanish.

Drive rocks. &lt;strong>Drive&lt;/strong> (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011)  When the Best-of-2011 lists came out in December and January, at least the lists from those people whose taste in movies I trust, I saw the same two films cropping up at the top. One was &lt;em>Absentia&lt;/em>, which has since come to top my own Best-of-2011 list. The other was &lt;em>Drive&lt;/em>, Nicolas Winding Refn's neo-&lt;em>noir&lt;/em> starring Ryan Gosling, which is finally got round to seeing last night. It's not the best film of 2011 (there is little wrong with it, but when it goes wrong, it goes &lt;em>way&lt;/em> wrong; more on that later), but it's pretty fantastic.  I should note for the record that I've been a Ryan Gosling fan since &lt;em>Breaker High&lt;/em>. Yes, I admit it. (And if you've never checked &lt;em>Breaker High&lt;/em> out, the actor playing Gosling's buddy is Tyler Labine. That show packed some serious young talent.) He's always been a good actor for edgy, unlikable characters; check &lt;em>The Believer&lt;/em> or &lt;em>The United States of Leland&lt;/em>. Gosling has been treading the same basic ground as Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and doing it just as well, for the same time period, but we look at him and think "hey, it's that nice, clean-cut kid from &lt;em>The Notebook&lt;/em>!". And then he pops up in &lt;em>Drive&lt;/em> and people still manage to be shocked. (Go back and re-watch &lt;em>The Believer&lt;/em>, which is just as good as &lt;em>Drive&lt;/em>, for a little perspective.)  Gosling plays Driver, a mechanic/stunt driver who moonlights as a freelance getaway guy for small-time crooks pulling heists. (The opening sequence of the film is a great account of this side job.) All is going well in Driver's life until Irene (&lt;em>An Education&lt;/em>'s Carey Mulligan) and her son Benicio (Kaden Leos in his screen debut), his neighbors from down the hall, enter his life. Driver starts to see what a life he has never allowed himself--a stable home, a family--looks like, and it's a powerful attraction. Problem is, Irene's husband Standard (&lt;em>Sucker Punch&lt;/em>'s Oscar Isaac) is getting out of prison. And he's in debt to some guys. And maybe needs a getaway driver...  The plot, from a Hossein Amini script adapted from a James Sallis novel, is pretty standard stuff for &lt;em>noir&lt;/em>, where everyone's a criminal and life is incapable of ending well for anyone involved. The best parts of this film are in the way Amini writes the characters, especially the minor characters, and how Refn brings those characters to life. (It helps that most of those minor characters are played by very big names, including Ron Perlman, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks, Christina Hendricks, and Russ Tamblyn, among others.) Our ability to empathize with Driver, a character written to have the best poker face in the movies, is pretty impressive, and that's down to the combination of Amini's writing, Refn's directing, and Gosling's acting, all of which are impeccable here.  The movie only really goes wrong in its incidentals. The soundtrack is &lt;em>awful&lt;/em>, saccharine and overbearing and as subtle as a sledgehammer to the face. In other words, it is everything the script is not, and it detracts from the movie in a fundamental way by being so painfully obvious. There's also a sense that, towards the end, some stuff is missing, though that sense is minor enough that I could have been reading more into it than there actually was (specifically, I got the feeling there was history between Rose and Driver/Shannon that went way beyond what we saw, but there's zero actual evidence of this save some of the things Rose says to each of them towards the end of the movie). If I'm right, well, I'd have gladly spent another half an hour in the company of these characters and the dark clouds that hang over them in order to explore that further.  And while I've been hammering on the acting job Gosling did in this flick, I don't want to take away from Carey Mulligan's job here, which is heartbreaking. There's a great, great shot in this flick as we're looking at her through a stationary camera placed in an elevator as the door's getting ready to close. She stands stock-still and everything we need to know about not only her character, but the entire rest of the movie, is contained in the expression on her face. As much as this word is overused in American dialogue, I think it's warranted here--that shot is awesome, in the classic sense of the word. It inspires awe. I'd stick it in the modern film canon right there with the abduction scene in &lt;em>Rabbit-Proof Fence&lt;/em> or the ten-minute shot at the center of Haneke's &lt;em>Funny Games&lt;/em> or the dance at the beginning of &lt;em>Werckmeister Harmonies&lt;/em>. It's that good.  Do I need to tell you I'm recommending this movie? See it ASAP. ****

Leapfrog vs the TV Babysitter I'm the type of dad that buys his son toys & learning items that are just above the recommended age. It has paid off in spades. My son grows into learning the toys or videos. His ability to master them is above average. That is not said to boast. That is said to promoted Leapfrog's DVD's.  My son just turned two. He is growing up in a Bi-Lingual family which can cause a delay in actual speaking of words (not speech recognition). So I purchased this DVD and others to replace the Pixar movies he spent time watching. I have to say they are a classroom @ home. He sits, transfixed and is attempting his best to speak what he hears & sees in Leapfrog's DVD's. When he knows a Leapfrog DVD is coming on, he rushes to 'his seat' to watch (bottle in hand). When it ends, he hands me the remote to re-start the DVD.  I would highly recommend these products.

DELIGHTFUL A MUST SEE,perfect for those going to Italy or wanting to remember a special time they spent in Rome. This is a feel good movie with Audrey Hepburn in her first staring role.

Great character development! "Urban Cowboy" is one of those cultural icons, a classic, now part of the popular culture. The title touches upon a sense of displacement & desire to belong to a culture that represents a great deal of idealized qualities in American life. The title juxtaposes the words "urban" & "cowboy" in a way that describes a culture clash. Urbanites have to live together & get along to a certain extent, yet cowboys are loners. Ambitious, displaced rural youth find themselves attempting to reclaim a culture that may not have been accessible to them back home but which seems more familiar & authentic to them than what they encounter in a homogenized suburban setting or big city. Really, this is a story of the suburbs but "suburban cowboy" doesn't have the same ring to it.  The characters are mostly kind people, not intellectuals, who don't think things through very well as youngsters but learn from their mistakes & try to help others. New to town, Bud nearly instantly hooks up with Sissy & marries. There's not a lot of complexity to their relationship. They don't think through how they are compatible, their expectations around housekeeping & interpersonal behavior (jealousy, etc).  The basic human foibles - Bud's insecurity & controlling demands, Pam's sneakiness, or Sissy's knee-jerk reactions - are all basic human behaviors that we have all witnessed & observed. The only exception of "real people" is the character of Wes. He represents the strongest archetype in the film of evil/avarice and the least "real" person but a necessary foil to move the plot.  This movie shows solid character development & a progression in the two main protagonists. They do learn, move on, grow up and life goes on. This movie is lacks interest for a lot of people because of this - it's not "exciting" enough. It shows fairly normal average people, situations & behaviors. Just normal people trying to surpass their own shortcomings to establish genuine connections with each other.

Entertaining and Fresh Having heard a lot of Kathleen's material on XM Radio in our vehicle, I was familiar with her type of humor.  This was a continuation of it with a lot more political satire than what you hear on the radio, but very funny and entertaining none the less.  Having been excited about hearing her in person and then her concert being cancelled, I was looking forward to seeing her on video at least as to how she interacts with an audience.  I'd recommend her dvd to anybody who has never been to her concerts or seen her dvds.

Wonderful....but old technology These are of course some of the most beautiful and romantic symphonies ever composed. Having recently seen more recent recordings of Mahler and Beethoven with the Vienna Philhatmonic, it is hard to recognize the place except for the gold columns. The video is not sharp, just adequate. The DTS 5.1 sound of 1981 is no where close to 2011. Leonard is of course dramatic as many conductors are....but I prefer conductors like Christian Thieleman with the Vienna....see his Blu-ray Beethoven symphonies on 3 disks and you will know what I am talking about. My conclusion...run out and grab this and wait patiently for it on Blu-ray and the new Vienna Philharmonic.

PAUL IS PERFECT AS A EASY GOING COP I THOUGHT THIS WAS ONE OF PAUL NEWMAN'S GREAT PERFORMANCES. THE STORY IS ABOUT A DIVORCE COP WHO FALLS IN LOVE WITH A NURSE WHOS GOT A LITTLE SECRET. I WISH FOR A DIFFERENT ENDING BUT LOVED IT ANYWAY.PAM GRIER WAS GREAT AS A CRAZED KILLER

Entertaining There is something painful in the movie in the circumstance that the company retains an employee just out of reverse discrimination (that is, because they believe that he is gay and so is firing-proof). This is a REAL matter that is happening often--whether the reverse discrimination is against whites, straights, or men.  Apart from this, the movie is entertaining and it has serious and worthwhile scenes amidst the farce. Worth seeing.

It really does have to grow on you The first time i saw this move I hated it. For some reason I decided to watch it again, and by the third time this was one of my favorite moves. It really does have to grow on you. So if you watched it once, or maybe even twice,try it again. Its really funny.

A Good Comedy Movie Ramgopal Varma comes up with a different kind of comedy. Everyone is after a briefcase which contains something valuable. Its a fun on the run kind of movie. Sanjay Dutt and Urmila Matondkar give an excellent performance. The best performance comes from Paresh Rawal. This is Paresh's Best performance after Andaz Apna Apna and Sir. The Cinematography and Sound Recording are excellent. The dialogues are very good. The climax is a let down. This is one movie that could have done well without songs. DAUD is about a runaway twosome who believe they have a 'crore' or two of gold in a black box. That it is not gold but a neutron bomb is obvious from the beginning. Sanjay Dutt, as Nandu, is a small time crook hired by a middleman for a gang of international smugglers out to destroy the nation. Urmila Matondkar, as Bhavani, is a cabaret dancer who tags along with Nandu in this &Ograve;DAUD&Oacute; from the police and the real thieves. In the process of evading the police and the smugglers, Nandu and Bhavani fall in love. But what will happen when the smuggler get their hands on the neutron bomb? Will Nandu and Bhavani leave the city or will they try to stop the smugglers before they set off the bomb?

Solid unusual thriller focuses less on the escape and more on the challenges-distinctive European feel to thriller In the unusual thriller "The Next Three Days" we follow a community college professor John Brennan(Russell Crowe)who is trying to break his innocent wife Lara (Elizabeth Banks) out of the county jail before she is transferred to a maximum security prison. It appears from all the evidence that Lara who had a fight with her boss before going out to dinner with her husband, killed her boss.  Based on the French film "Pour Elle" (titled "Anything for Her" in the United States), the script has the pacing and structure of what one would expect from a French thriller which compliments the material. By the conclusion however it shifts into an American thriller in overdrive. That's not necessarily a bad thing but the script is awkwardly structured at times with underdeveloped characters. Made for a surprisingly low budget (about $35 million), the film has a distinctive European thriller feel until the last 30 minutes where it becomes a more conventional American style thriller. I don't believe trimming it down to 90 minutes as some critics have suggested would have helped the film since the film would lose so many elements of the subplots as to make it more conventional and almost incoherent.  SPOILERS:  The film is unusual in that it focuses mostly on the efforts of Crowe's character in learning (from a former prisoner who has written a book about escapes played by Liam Neeson in a marvelous cameo)the nuts and bolts of how to escape, obtaining the money to escape, passports, etc. and his frustration has he comes up against both dead ends and potential leads that could help him without exposing his plan. We learn very little about whether or not Lara did it until much later in the movie. What's also unique about the film is that his character never tells his wife what he is planning for fear that she'll say no or that her knowledge might make her look suspicious and alter her behavior in jail.  The film written and directed by Paul Haggis is far from perfect though as the subplot involving Detective Quinn (Jason Beghe a marvelous character actor who bring as much depth as he can to an underdeveloped character)the man that arrested Lara and his suspicions that John is up to something involving his wife are not very well developed and seem almost like an after thought. Likewise when Detective Collero (the marvelous and under used Aisha Hinds)is called in on a robbery of a meth house that seems to point to John the subplot again seems clumsy and doesn't fit with the carefully constructed story.  END OF SPOILERS:  The last half hour of the film rolls along at a breathtaking pace but, again, there are some details that are unbelievable and unless you totally buy into the film and are swept away by the plot you may not buy it.  What sells the film are the performances by Crowe, Banks, Beghe, Hinds (introduced late in the film)in performances much better than the script itself. The terrific Brian Dennehy is wasted in a small role as John's father.  The DVD looks quite nice although the dark, moody lighting suggests that this would probably look better with sharper detail on Blu-ray.

Stay Focused Excellent plot! A movie where you say to yourself "what would I do?" The casting was supurb.  Great movie. Good purchase.

WARREN AND MAY ARE GREAT!!!!! I love this film, although I have to agree that the print suffers. I wouldn't be that concerned about it if it wasn't for Capra Jr. raving about it as much as he did.  Overall his commentary is interesting although somewhat repetitive.  "Lady For a Day" is a real classic and should have been on Criterion.

Interesting Character Study Clearly intended for an audience who can appreciate such studies. I suspect many reviewers were hoping for more 'action' - sharks obviously - and were disappointed to discover only the human drama.  Based on several real-life incidents, the format for this film is boilerplate, but frighteningly so: Deep into an ocean voyage the passengers are, by virtue of accident and incompetence, caught off their luxury sail boat. With no access to get back onboard, they begin to tread water in a vain hope that staying with the ship gives them a chance at rescue. But not having filed any voyage plan or even just telling someone where they were going and their expected arrival - no one will come.  Once they realize that there is no hope for rescue, playful self-assured shells dissolve away, revealing their true personalities and inner selves. And it ain't pretty.  Minor grudges become full blown emotional explosions, past differences rise to the surface, and petty jealousies warp into pure hatred. Once past the adrenaline, the truth settles in. All that remains is how they choose to face their end.  One by one, some by choice and others meeting the cold hand of nature, they disappear under the water.  Sturdy storytelling that completely loses it's razor edge with the ambiguous last scenes. Unfortunate. I'm no pedestrian viewer who has to have a "Hollywood" final&eacute;. And I definitely don't have a weepy need to spare sacred cows - like having a character survive. But the existential ending truly cheapens the suffering that the characters go through, making the film itself hollow and empty.  Rent it for the drama alone. Skip the last few minutes, as your emotional investment will be tossed to the side in favor of the director's absurd attempt at a gotcha twist.  Movie Note:  - It may seem incredibly improbable, but check out the names "MV Joyita" and "Mary Celeste". Dark, inexplicable mysteries that have haunted sailors and investigators for years.  Even as recent as 2007 this actually happened. Google the "Kaz II". To date no theory has ever fully explained what happened to her vanished three man crew. Despite the fact she was found floating off the Great Barrier reef with fuel, food, water onboard and completely seaworthy. No blood, no destruction, nothing out of order. But everyone was gone.

Warms The Cockles Of Your Heart. John Payne and Maureen O'Hara manage to prove that an old and bearded codger, Edmund Gwenn, who has been hired by Macy's Department Store in New York to play Santa Claus during the Christmas season, is actually Santa Claus, aka Kris Kringle. Natalie Wood is the skeptical little daughter of divorced O'Hara. Payne is a lawyer who works at a white shoe firm.    This will warm the cockles of your heart. It ends happily, with Payne and O'Hara finding each other and Wood won over to a belief in Santa Claus, or at least the power of will.    There are a few minor problems. I found out there was no Santa Claus early in life, around the age of thirty-five, when I took a look at my first paycheck. And later, when I tried to plead not guilty by reason of mental defect. And, as if that weren't enough, a few weeks into my marriage was enough to convince me. We might as well face head on the fact that life is full of pain. Every realist knows this. The doctor even slaps the newborn baby, except in the case of more than usually ugly babies when he slaps the mother.    No. I'm afraid O'Hara and her daughter may have had the right take on life as materialists. Our lives are determined by our circumstances or, as the famous philosopher Brillat-Savarin put it, "Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es." I don't know what it means but it sounds as if it had to do with some kind of material.    Now, John Payne is a hoax of a different color. Unable to recognize an epiphenomenon when he sees one, he insists that fantasies are essential to our lives. He doesn't explain why. He just assumes it, with a snap of his mental fingers.    He quits his job at a prestigious New York law firm in order to defend Santa Claus in court. Right. And where is John Payne now, you ask? I recently saw him wrapped in a couple of filthy blankets on a bench in Sheridan Square. Don't try to kid a kidder.    Edmund Gwenn does a fine job in the role but he isn't Santa. Edmund Gwenn, as a matter of fact, is a psychopath who tried to push the innocent reporter Joel McCrea off the tower of a London church in "Foreign Correspondent." Now he shows up as Santa Claus and we're asked to believe him? In this enshrinement of idealism, he sucks poor little Natalie Wood into his fantasy world of reindeer and North Poles and ritual reciprocity and all that. I won't deny that, fifteen years after this release, Natalie Wood began to play a part in my fantasy life too -- but what does that have to do with the venomous message this movie propounds? Nothing at all -- and let's get our minds out of the gutter, shall we?    The lissotrichous Maureen O'Hara is attractive, polite but tough as carbon steel underneath all that winsome pulchritude. Well, maybe not so hard in the end. Maureen O'Hara might be spirited if the role called for it but never tough.

Hilarious Just as funny as the other movies were. I t was great to see the storylines tied up and see that chemistry between these once never heard of actors and actresses. Enjoyed it.

I liked it I liked this movie.  Mickey Rourke was surprisingly good in this.  He was paid a relatively low salary to star in it but rose to the occasion.  The gold teeth and cockatoo were his ideas (paid for and supplied by him).  Gywneth Paltrow's role is finally given some substance instead of her just being a pretty / helpless part of the scenery  - which was what she was given in the first movie.  I can recommend this as a fun movie.

Shadowy Noir I have said this many times. Sure I am an aficionado of film noir, especially those 1940s detective epics like the film adaptations of Dashiell Hammet's Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon and Raymond Chandler's Phillip Marlowe in The Big Sleep. Nothing like that gritty black and white film, ominous musical background, and shadowy moments to stir the imagination. Others in the genre like Gilda, The Lady From Shang-hai, and Out Of The Past rate a nod because in addition to those attributes mentioned above they have classic femme fatales to add a little off-hand spice to the plot line, and, oh ya, they look nice too. Beyond those classics this period (say, roughly from the mid-1940s to mid-1950s produced many black and white film noir set pieces, some good, some not so good. For plot line, and plot interest, the film under review, Kansas City Confidential, is in the former category.  And why shouldn't it be. One fall guy Joe (fall guys seem always to be named Joe, regular Joes I guess), played here in a understated way by John Payne, a little the worst for wear in post-World War II America, having had a few legal problems of his own, gets caught up in the dragnet after a major heist (over a million dollars, a lot of money then but just pocket change today) of a bank, in of all places Kansas City. Now all of this, aside from the criminal intent and cash reward, has been set-up by a disgruntled, vengeful ex-cop (played by Preston Foster) who masterminds the whole thing. Of course such a major heist then (as now) requires several, um, "associates", in this case masked associates (for their own and Foster's self-protection against the dreaded "stoolie' syndrome. Said associates are not anyone you or I would want to hang around with, these guys are strictly losers, especially one grafter extraordinaire, Pete Harris, played to manic perfection by Jack Elam. (The others are perennial bad guys Lee Van Cleef and Neville Brand).  Now Joe, as one might expect, takes umbrage, yes, umbrage at having taken a beating from the cops, and also for being set up as the fall guy. So, naturally, as any crime noir hero worth his salt would do, he is going to get to the bottom of this thing come hell or high water. And the rest of the plot line centers of following the clues, and following the sun to sunny Mexico (low film budget faux Mexico, to be sure) to undo the bad guys, and maybe catch a reward. Or at least a stray gringa or senorita. Naturally he does, the gringa part anyway, although she turns out to be mastermind ex-cop's daughter (law student daughter, by the way, played by Coleen Gray). Other than the inevitable tacky ending ( I won't spoil your fun by telling what it is) this one moves along nicely, is filled with some nice twists, and is, as usual with black and white noir films great on those shadowy takes which reveal evil in the making. Especially those loser, grifter, chain-smoking Jack Elam takes. Some noirs you watch for the magic camera work, some for the femme fatales that drive the story line, some for the tough guys and their gaff. This one you get for the plot line.

Good family film, arrived in good condition. I purchased this product for my 27 year old brother for Christmas. To this day it remains one of his favorite films. It's family fun, appropriate for all ages, and very heartwarming.  The DVD arrived in good condition and in a timely manner.

Not Realistic, but entertaining My wife and I found this movie very entertaining, though not realistic at all. That was part of the fun though was picking it apart.

Evan Rachel Wood This certainly doesn't rank among Allen's best films.  It has its embarrassing dead spots, but it also has its very amusing moments, many of which are supplied by the arrivals, separately and separated, of Melodie's parents from Mississippi, and the bizarre surprizes they encounter in NYC. Slim stuff, perhaps, but funny.  The thrill of this film is the pleasure of watching Evan Rachel Wood emerge from a misfit runaway into the enchanting beauty she becomes as the film progresses.  A casting coup for Allen and a delight for his audience. If you want to see her looking just as great in a very fine film that isn't funny at all, see "Down in the Valley", with Edward Norton.

Great movie if you can turn off your Elizabeth I knowledge I really enjoyed the movie when I first saw it and knew nothing of Elizabeth or Tudor history. Now that I'm a Tudor history student I'm very disappointed in the film and am only really able to enjoy it because I previously loved it. I know Michael Hirst knows his Tudor history and I'm sad that this film seems to follow the first season of The Tudors on Showtime. Total disregard for historical events and persons. After The Tudors season one was slaughtered with reviews by people who love Tudor history, season two became way more watchable and I'm hoping that Michael Hirst will rewrite Elizabeth I as the next Showtime series. He can do Elizabeth way more honor than this movie and the The Golden Age.  Overall, good movie if you don't know the history. If you do I'd skip this one because you'll pull your hair out.

General Aviation Very interesting to watch, remember and enjoy. I learned abit of flight simulator flying in and out of Meigs Field, Chicago. Mayor Dailey stopped the real thing when in the dead of Night he had a crew to dig up the runway. What a loss.

Insightful performance Insightful and nuanced representation of a sociopath and powerful acting by Tilda Swinton in the role of the mother as narrator.  While we know how the story will unfold this is nevertheless a riveting movie.

This movie was, for the most part, fun! First we had X-men in 2000; a pretty good start! Then we had Spider-Man in 2002; even better! Now in 2003; we have Daredevil to start with... What I liked about the movie: 1. It was dark and brooding! 2. Ben Affleck nailed it as Matt Murdock/Daredevil! 3. Jennifer Garner electrified as Elektra! 4. The under foot actors were pretty good with their parts! 5. There was a lot of action going on through out the movie! 6. I loved the raid in the biker bar! 7. Matt Murdock was a more realistic super hero than Peter Parker! 8. The soundtrack rocked!  What I didn't like was: 1. Micheal Clarke Duncan had to much corny dialogue! 2. Bulls-Eye was too clownish of a villain! 3. Did Elektra really have to die so soon? 4. The movie was a little too violent for it's PG-13 rating!  This movie was seriously under-rated! I though with a few touch-ups it could have been better, but I think it should have gotten a little more credit than it did! My grade: B or three-and-a-half stars!

Love and Insanity: Take Me HOME! The Bronte novel withstanding, allow me to discuss the accolades for such a delicate treatment of emotions, exposition of enduring love via paranormal avenues atypical of this era film genre.... When one questions the judgements of relationship choices, this script explores so many deeply instinctual feelings that appear unexplainable but upon further examination the development of attachments, ego, desire, fantasy, jealousy, materialism, acceptance and specifically the concept of separatism are exhibited in ample culture. A curse is an affliction, evil incarnate, an insidious state of affairs, and this aspect provides the thread of ethereal bar none in serious cinema.  I appreciate the intensity of each character exposed against the delicate nature of desire.  With the many and varied disparaging scenes, only to be redeemed at closing credits, is an incomparable feat, hence, I endorse this film with a high recommend.

Really good! This is really a good movie! Don't pass it up based on these other luke-warm reviews. If you want a stupid farce movie, go somewhere else. This movie DOES have laughs, but it is rather a serious movie in general but presents us with a dilemma that is handled with sensitivity and courage. I've never seen Vince Vaughn in a semi-serious role and he really pulls it off. Give it a chance- you'll like it.

Worth watching I had seen the movie "Young Victoria" so I wanted to see how Victoria was portrayed as a matured queen.  Although I was not disappointed, the setting was quite different, this movie did not have the glamour.

Disney classic This is a Disney oldie but goodie, with lots of stuff that should keep just about anyone entertained. My parents enjoyed this when it came out, and I enjoyed it many years later. I have to admit that I am especially fond of Captain Hook, and all of the characters and storyline in this film were well-done. Some people will like this more than others - depending on personal tastes - but overall this is a great Disney classic and if you're a Disney fan, you'll want to check this out!

Fine I guess I bought this for my wife for Valentine's Day, its exactly what you would expect, gay and sappy, but I guess it was a good movie.  Even if you're a dude expect to get a little choked up at the end

A Very Gritty Classic This is another one that is so familiar, I've seen clips of it and stills, and had it described, and I think I even read the book. But oddly enough, I had never seen the movie before. Now I am amazed at how little I actually knew of the story.  Blanche DuBois is played by Vivien Leigh, Stanley Kowalski is played by Marlon Brando, Stella Kowalski is played by Kim Hunter, and Mitch [didn't get his last name] is played by Karl Malden. Each one gives a superior performance in an intensely emotional movie.  Blanche has "lost" the family home, and so comes to "visit" her sister Stella and her common, rather crude, enormously sensuous husband Stanley Kowalski. In fact, she has nowhere to go, and stays on for months. In the meantime, she flirts with the most promising of his poker buddies (they went through the war together, and now they work in a car parts place together), Mitch. Stanley and Stella are living in a grimy 2-room apartment in New Orleans, so having Blanche and her trunk full of delicate finery and her need for privacy, and her long soaks in the bathtub "to calm her down," gets to be rather a nuisance. She's nearly got Mitch to propose marriage when Stanley hears some pretty nasty gossip about Blanche, tracks it down to confirm it, and then tells Mitch what he has heard.  OK, that's plenty enough information for your imagination to run with it. Better still, let some fine acting run with it. Without saying any more, I must say that I would not have had half the patience with Blanche that Stella had.

GREAT BAND CAMP MOVIE American Reunion was good (un)clean fun.  It's particularly good to watch in high-definition - a must for the nudity scenes. I recommend that couples watch this movie if they've seen the rest of the American Pie sequels.  It'll make you frisky for ideas on what to do after the movie. It was nice to see most of the original cast and the memory lane pictures that rolled during the credits.  I had forgotten about the Shermanator, and finally, Stiffler gets revenge.  If you haven't seen the first (American Pie) you should get it and the other movies to include with American Reunion for an American Marathon.  A band camp somewhere is doing just that.

Wilson is the reason to watch it This is one of those films where it is the main character - and the portrayal thereof - that makes it worth watching. In other words, the "story line" is of secondary importance (my favorite example of such being "Bullitt"). Wilson's laconic laid-back portrayal of a gypsy-like serial killer - the most difficult to catch, by the way - is spot on. This is no Texas Chainsaw Massacre style of movie, even the violence is dispensed with via a poison that just puts the victim to sleep (eternally).  Beneath the calm demeanor, however, we are made privy to many of Vann's thoughts, which are as chilling in their sociopathic amorality as his exterior is bland.  The story takes on a more quaint dimension when Vann (the protagonist) finds his way into a small coastal town, where he rents a room from a somewhat dysfunctional middle-aged couple. They, and his on-again off-again relationship with a girl working at the post office where he works, offer a degree of "color" to the film. Yeah,I have a couple of "problems" with the film's story, including a couple of detectives that are figments of Vann's imagination, and a conclusion that has more than a couple of holes in it.  But it's Wilson that carries the film and makes it an enjoyable watch.

Jack Webb Movie Good story about boot camp in which I went through but in the Navy and not the marine corps. But the discipline and yelling is the same and marching, etc. I recommend.

Make sure you're judging this anime for the correct genre... I rarely write reviews; I'm just not good with describing things. But having just finished watching this anime and reading these reviews that are all over the place, I figure I could clear a few things up. Don't worry, no spoilers. First of all, this anime is not creepy. This is not a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007BMIGRO">Shiki: Part 1  (Limited Edition Blu-ray/DVD Combo)</a> or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009RQS7I">Satoshi Kon's Paranoia Agent: Complete Collection</a> (or Boogiepop Phantom), nor does it really aim to be a mind-bend like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005NX1N">Serial Experiments Lain - Boxed Set</a>. There are some anime that will confuse you and maintain that general atmospheric vibe -- if you are into that sort of thing, then Chaos;Head probably isn't it. Let's be clear: I wouldn't even consider this to be in the same genre as the aforementioned anime. If anything, this should be compared to its successor <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008O69T18">Steins;Gate: Complete Series: Part One (Limited Edition Blu-ray/DVD Combo)</a>, or even <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008MSNY7I">C: Control - The Money & Soul of Possibility [Blu-ray</a>]. It's more of a sci-fi with psychological thriller elements, than a psychological thriller with sci-fi elements.  What Chaos;Head is: an anime that's based on a visual novel. If you're unfamiliar with the concept of visual novels, they are like novels, except they usually have text over graphics and some music composition in the form of software. They have limited interaction, sort of like an extremely linear text-based role-playing game. Sometimes there will be choices you make at key points of a story. One popular concept in visual novels is that, as the main character, you play through the same world multiple times, and with each play-through, as you gather more information about the world, your character makes better decisions, leading up to the "true" ending. (for an example, see 999 on Nintendo DS)  So as you can see, when adapting visual novels into anime, the producers will have to either choose one ending that they want to capitalize on, or somehow cycle through all the endings, with the main character eventually gaining some power that transcends an individual world; because the main character must have the unique ability to remember events that occurred in previous play-throughs. Visual novels usually start out with Question Arcs to build up a mystery, but end with Answer Arcs to explain everything.  The nature of being a visual novel makes Chaos;Head differ from true mind-bending anime in that, as the story progresses, the questions will be explained in various ways, usually involving some psycho-(or techno-) babble, and ending with the main character as the only person that could change the world. Cliched, yes. But that's how visual novels go.  Chaos;Head, the anime, only goes through the story once. The main character is seemingly paranoid schizophrenic, but does (eventually) develop; in fact, his schizophrenia will play an important role in the plot. Enjoy his psychological breakdown in the first episodes, but later on in the series, you might want to slow down and digest what some of the other characters are rambling about. Several key conversations are essential to understanding the plot, even if they seem ridiculous at first.  I must admit, for those of you that are on the fence of whether to get this or not, the sophomoric effort of 5pb/Nitro+ (the authors of the visual novel), Steins;Gate, is a much better anime, not the least because it is twice as long, lending to a more developed plot -- Steins;Gate I consider to be a masterpiece, one of my favorite sci-fi anime. I didn't watch Chaos;Head until after I watched Steins;Gate, and although it's convoluted and a bit more cliche and less imaginative, the personality of the 2 anime are very similar. If you are pessimistic, watch Steins;Gate first, and then decide if you would like more from the same authors.  I recommend this anime to those who like to think a bit more than the average person (perhaps you weren't confused when you watched Inception or Donny Darko); it starts off mysterious but ends more or less shounen in the last couple episodes. I feel the shounen aspect is like a darker, more raw, more complicated, more sci-fi oriented version of Star Driver in that the powers that the characters develop have the ability to change the universe as we know it (and of course the final antagonist wants to play God). This is not a spoiler because it's pretty common in anime; par for the course.

morroco This movie was filmed entirely on a beach and related surroundings; A comedy that was very corny and very funny; Mostly a guys film , in part for the ladies; A mild plot, Mostly merrily very visual , enjoyed.

Answers some questions and leaves other un-answered. I've watched this twice. I'm wondering if I missed something in the movie.  How does the film makers know that Stanley Dunham worked for the CIA?  Is there actual evidence, or is this just trying to piece together pieces of the puzzle?  Other than this unanswered question, over all, very informative.  It leaves no doubt that the occupant in the White House still remains an unknown to this day.  I like many other American's really want the truth.  Hopefully this film is one of the many tools to find out who this man, who calls himself Barack Obama, really is.

Great movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When i first got the movie in the mail it was well packeged. The movie also was great. I gave it 4 stars because this movie was great, it followed history pretty well,but keep in mind this is a hollywood movie the dialouge was off for the time period.  Movie: The movie starts with William as a kid, when his Dad and brother were killed. His uncle came and trained him for awhile. William came back to find his countryman still under Engish. He went back not for his countryman but for a girl but soon enough his love dies and he goes after the english. As this story goes on you will be very pleased with the story and special effects and acting.  Mel Gibson: Wore three hats as directer, producer, and star. Mel did very great in his role anyone buying this movie will be very happy with the results. Hope that was helpful.

Unfaithful I watched this movie when it first came out and remembered thinking it was good.  I saw part of it on TV last weekend and then decided to rent it.  I found it to be very powerful and thought both Gere and Lane really nailed their parts.  But, I came away vaguely unsatisfied by the result.  After thinking about it, I realized the problem was that Lynn made two movies.  The first half is a very good movie about an affair and its impact on the women who is involved and her husband.  The second half is a mostly bad movie about a murder and its aftermath.  Unfortunately, Lynn stopped the first movie in the middle to make the second movie. If he'd continued, we would have been able to follow the aftermath of the affair to its conclusion.  Connie would have been forced to try to tearfully beat back Paul's attempts to reignite the affair.  She would have been depressed for some period about the end of the liason.  Lynn could have found some plot device to permit Edward to get into Paul's apartment without revealing his identity so he could see the outline of Connie's body on the sheets, retrive the knicknak Connie gave as a gift and heard Connie's tearful goodbye phone message which confirmed just how deeply she had fallen in love.  As Connie came out of her fog, she would have tried to reconnect with Edward and found him curiously reticent.  She would eventually have come across the knicknak and photos, realized that he was aware of the affair and discovered that he was incredibly hurt and angry.  To save her marriage, she would have had to find some way to salve his wounds.  Otherwise, she would end up with a divorce she never intended.  At some point, we would have been able to hear Edward's angry tirade without the confession of murder.  We would also have heard Connie's apology/explanation/acknowlegement of the pain she caused Edward with some sort of retrospective from her on what she thought about it all.  This would have been a good movie.  Given how well Lane and Gere were handling their roles, it might have been a really good movie.  Instead, what we got was Gere killing Paul.  He hardly seems culpable since he is portrayed as being in a vodka and grief induced fog and clearly never intended murder.  He then spends the rest of the movie apologizing to his wife, either implicitly or explicitly, for killing her lover.  This is frankly what is so unsatifying.  The first half of the movie clearly portrays Connie having created the mess.  If somebody was going to suffer consequences, I, and I suspect I was not alone, wanted it to be her.  I wanted her to tell us what she thought about the affair once all of its consequences became apparent.  I never got to hear that.  In the end, she is forgiving Edward.  I wanted the question at the end to be whether Edward would forgive her, since if there forgiving to be done, it seemed to me that was the proper direction.  I was simply not able to engage in the final dilemma.  The whole tone of the movie was that Paul's death was not really Edward's fault. I had no interest in seeing him arrested.  In short, Lynn seemed to allow what should have been a really good extramarital affair morality tale get hijacked by his fealty to the plot of the French original.  Its too bad.  He could have made an excellent movie.

Beautiful Fairy Tale "Somewhere in Time" offers a fairy tale of impossible love, two beautiful lovers, a fine supporting cast, and depicts a striving for hope beyond mortal reality.  The setting--the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, MI--is perfect for this story, and the film makes excellent use of the Island's timeless(!) beauty.  Definitely a "chick flick," the film requires several hankies but leaves viewers smiling through their tears. I rarely watch movies more than once or twice, but I've spent, at least, five evenings with "Somewhere..." throughout the years, and expect to watch it again soon.

Argento Back To Basics I put off seeing this film because of all the negativity involving the critics and also actor Adrian Brody in the controversy of money for services rendered.  I'm glad I finally got to see it and yes, it's no 'SUSPIRIA'-1977 but then again, we are not in the seventies anymore either.  At that time, there were no reality TV shows showing actual autopsies or histories of serial killers or Showtime's 'DEXTER' to measure up against.  Since Director Dario Argento never started out as a Horror Director per se, its fitting that he went back to his roots and you can look at the title 'GIALLO' as the name of the killer in the film or as the genre that Argento basically made famous with 'THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE'-1969 aka 'L'UCCELLO DALLE PIUME DI CRISTALLO'. All the critics seem to be looking at is a career slump but isn't it fitting that after Director Alfred Hitchcock made many masterpieces back to back that his career did the same thing?  You cannot say that 'TORN CURTAIN'-1966 and 'TOPAZ'-1969 are up to par with his best. Yes, Argento did the MASTERS OF HORROR series which had his best work in years ('JENNIFER" still haunts me to this day) and then unleashed 'MOTHER OF TEARS'-2007, a flawed but still outrageous piece of filmmaking. 'GIALLO' is his best thriller since 'SLEEPLESS'- aka 'NON HO SONNO'- 2001 and has all the Argento qualities we know and love: beautifully edited and photographed sequences, strong women figures and jolting surprises.  Brody is joined by Emmanuelle Seigner ( Mrs. Roman Polanski) and Elsa Pataky giving our killer a run for his money. You'll also see the credit of Roy Bava as a technician on the film joining other family members such as Lamberto and the master Mario Bava to remind us of the golden age of Italian Horrors. It also harkens back to his days without rock musicians doing the soundtracks, here the score by Marco Werba is a nicely orchestrated work and reminds us of his soundtracks with Ennio Morricone.  Unfortunately, Argento went back to the Horror genre with his new 3D version of the DRACULA legend and the critics do not seem to be kind to it either.  I recommend this film to lovers of Argento's work and also to thriller fans.  Having met Mr. Argento and his woman of that time ,Daria Nicolodi, at the premier screening of 'SUSPIRIA' in New York all those years ago and seeing his energy and love for film, its great to see he is still creating excellent work, something that is lacking in the Horror hacks that are bombarding us with inferior product these days.

The Last Brickmaker in America I thoroughly enjoyed this production. We need more family type movies of this caliber. Mr. Poitier delivers a very believable character with many human strengths. I would recommend this movie to all.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001E2OQ4O">The Last Brickmaker In America</a>

Excellent and exciting video for flight enthusiasts This video contains sublimes images about flying. It gives you a good idea of the world of aviation made by enthusiast guys. The landscapes are magic and captivating. Would be better in Blu-Ray Disk in full HD.

Ray Harryhausen Set Great set all the old special affects and films. Highly recommend getting these old classics while they are still available.

Strange movie... but worth checking out. A woman who rents out fishing houses on a lake shore, and at night she's a prostitute/Special Ops agent that would put Rambo to shame with her ability to rise out the water and sneak up on people.  Strange but very entertaining film if your looking for something outside the norm. Not sure I'd want to stay at a fishing resort with a woman that could double as a Navy Seal.  I actually enjoyed this film as it wasn't predictable. The movie wasn't about revealing the past it was about corrupt people that find each other. It's interesting that the story takes place at a fishing resort (that's the only way I can describe it). A place where men go to fish by renting out rooms on the lake. They get served breakfast, dinner, coffee, and whatever else they need. The fishing resort is interesting because it seems to only attract adulterers,criminals, and rapist. So I guess the rooms on the lake are pretty cheap.  The plot of the movie is a bit hard to explain as it isn't quite so simple. It's mainly about the life a mute woman lives running a fishing resort/motels/or whatever. There really are no sides to take. Everyone in the movie is equally as guilty. There isn't any hero in this film and not anyone to feel sorry for. The movie is as brutal as the lives these people live. In a way they are all so corrupt that they seem to mutually be able to understand one another. The prostitutes, the men, the owner etc. This is life for them and this is what they consider to be normal. The only one who seems out of place is the man in the yellow room. He seems to be concerned with something else other than fishing and the local prostitutes, and that's what makes him interesting. Unfortunately he's just as bad as everyone else. He has his secrets and lustful desires too that he carries out but just not as openly as the other men.  He's a bad guy parading as a good guy, and that's what makes it so ironic. No one is innocent in this innocent setting.  There's lots that you can get out of the movie by watching it. I don't recommend it for people who complain about everything or can't go into a movie with an open mind. It's a violent and vulgar movie so be forewarned.

Watchable (+) Wanted a jam follow up after the nail biting, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004X1VUNI">The Killing: Season One</a> and the reviews were leaning toward not bad and that's about the extent of the show. Not bad. Each episode had some highs and lows but nothing to get excited about in either direction. I do like Maria Bello and her character is the most believable....some of the time. There's a lot of potential here if the script writers and director can find a groove. I gotta tell ya', half of the show is the super NYC shots! Get a bit more edgy folks and you'll have a good run.  August 1, 2012 Edit: The show is getting grittier and the main characters are starting to flesh out much better. Still some glaring flaws where procedure is concerned but nothing that makes you want to quit on an episode. Jane's getting a bet worn in and out and she's playing her role with a lighter touch, more realistic. I'd like to see this run.

Amusing satire on the power & brainwashing of the music industry I never saw the original cartoon but decided to pick up 2001's "Josey and the Pussycats" because Tara Reid's such a cutie and it looked like some fun entertainment.  Yes, it's fun and the girls are attractive (also featuring Rachael Leigh Cook & Rosario Dawson) but, surprisingly, "Josey and the Pussycats" shoots for something deeper. As my title blurb points out, this is an amusing and potent satire on the power and manipulation of the entertainment industry.  Alan Cumming is outstanding as the villainous band manager who uses, abuses and throws away at whim. His opening scene with the fictional boyband Du Jour is worth the price of admission! Parker Posey is also good as his diabolical superior.  Ever wonder why all those musicians die in mysterious plane crashes, overdoses, etc. at the height of their fame? How about all those successful government cover-ups? How do artists with little actual talant and songwriting abilities become hugely popular while the truly talanted artists languish in obscurity (like Meliah Rage)? Why do you sometimes have this insane drive for a Big Mac or Coke? "Josie and the Pussycats" explains all, lol.  As for the doofuses who complain about the product placement, they all live on Aduh Street.  The film runs 98 minutes.  FINAL WORD: I thought this was going to be some fun, dumb girl-band flick, but it's way smarter than that.  GRADE: B

weird movie but i like it My husband saw this movie and thought I would love it. It is very weird to me but there are some funny parts and I'm a Depp fan and I think he did a good job acting but all I can say is good thing it was cheap :) My husband is happy with the purchase....

Movie Version of James Ellroy's Novel... Firstly, this is the film version of James Ellroy's Black Dahlia novel. It is not a novel that was immensely fact-based. The Black Dahlia Murder Case seems to have been an influence and an inspiration for the book, but will not offer up any insights for those of use who are avid readers/watchers of everything Black Dahlia. Nevertheless, it is worth a look, just because of the subject it was influenced by.  I didn't get an overwhelming sense of the era from this movie though. I like to wach a period piece that is steeped in the aura and feel of the time, like you get from watching 'Mrs. Parker & the Vicious Circle' set in the 1920s.  The cast is decent and the characters are well acted. The script is good. The one overpowering downer about the whole film was two of the female characters Kay Lake (played by Scarlett Johansson) and Elizabeth Short (played by Mia Kirshner.) I found both of them a little annoying.  This film, just as a murder mystery / detective movie is a fairly good one.

Love the improv You can really tell the actors are having a good time when you see the bonus features in this.  There are countless blooper reels, and the interviews with the actors are even hilarious.  Definitely the best way to get the most out of a Will Ferrell movie.  It's also one of Steve Carell's debut movie screenings which he does such a great job in.  I won't give anything away, but in the bonus features they said some things about the history of the movie that really surprised me.  It gives it an interesting perspective.  Anyway, it's a great watch.  Not a kids movie, they probably wouldn't get a good portion of the jokes let alone the how appropriate this would be for them anyway.

Enjoyable My 5 year old daughter enjoys this movie.  I prefer Spy Kids 1 but she likes them both the same.

"Who's got my f---ing strawberry tart?" I know it's farfetched but just in case my heart ever is ripped out of my chest and replaced with a battery-powered mechanical pump, I am furiously taking notes as I watch this sequel. I admit that whoever came up with this screenplay had to have been sipping from the goofy juice, the narrative is that loopy. I could've sworn there was no way to resurrect rugged paid assassin Chev Chelios after his mile-long plummet from helicopter to unforgiving terra firma, but survive he improbably did. CRANK 2: HIGH VOLTAGE demonstrates the how. Also, one peek at the film title should present a quick clue that this movie isn't about Jason Statham's character knitting in a rocking chair all the live-long day. Jason Statham is a trooper, to take on some of the insane stuff he's asked to do here.  CRANK 2 picks up moments after the first film leaves off. We revisit Chev Chelios' seemingly fatal plunge from that helicopter in downtown Los Angeles, his harsh caroming off a car roof and face planting onto cement - that's how CRANK ended it. But, in the sequel, seconds later, Triad hoods pull up and spatula Chev Chelios off the pavement. Three months elapse during which Chelios undergoes massive surgery, and it's at this stage that his highly coveted heart is removed and the Avicor Artificial Heart System - basically a battery-powered artificial pump - is implanted into his chest cavity. Upon learning that there are plans to harvest even more organs from his body, a frantic Chelios escapes captivity and begins his odd quest to reclaim his heart. His target is Johnny Vang, him what carries around a suspicious ice cooler. But Chev has to go thru a gauntlet of Triad goons and Mexican mobsters, overzealous cops and incensed porn stars on strike (look for real-life porn stars Ron Jeremy and Jenna Haze in this throng screaming out slogans like "No dough, no blow."). Our heartless hitman also finds himself fending off the unwanted attentions of a wacked-out Asian prostitute (Bai Ling). For now, Chev Chelios has to make do with the artificial pump, and what sucks is that he has to keep electrically charging the pump's battery. At least long enough for him to retrieve his "strawberry tart" (which is cockney slang for "heart").  And that's the film's primary hook, really, Chelios unearthing all manner of messed-up ways to keep the pump device topped up. It's crazy how he applies jumper cables and tasers on himself. In one instance, he even puts on an elecric dog collar and continually shocks himself. But maybe the funniest bit is when Chelios is at a horse-racing track and begins to rub himself against complete strangers, trying to muster static electricity. This sequence leads to a reprise of a famous crowd-pleasing scene from the first film.  CRANK 2 is gleefully unapologetic about its political incorrectness. It flaunts it, actually. CRANK 2 churns out elements of satire, crassness, manic brutality, and even casual racism. It for sure is damn irreverent and over-the-top and so offbeat even beatniks are thrown off. It's shot frenetically, with a hyper-realistic sensibility in mind, and it may take a bit of time before you acclimate to the disorienting camera movements. Dwight Yoakam and Amy Smart reprise their roles, only it's disappointing that Amy Smart's character Eve has been dumbed down and trivialized even more. Efren Ramirez is also back but this time he plays the brother of his character from the first movie, and maybe it's wrong to laugh at the guy's disability but when the writers saddle a character with something called full body tourettes, hey, I'll play along and willingly laugh on cue. CRANK 2 ventures into What-the-F territory. You'll be up to your ears in sudden claymation figures, disembodied talking heads, and a jarringly inserted talk show segment. Again, roll with the punches. Tasteless and offensive and lewd, ridiculously violent and pretty much certifiable, this movie marches to the beat of its own drummer. It's even more absurd than the first CRANK. And, no, it's probably not for everyone. Me, though, I laughed like a mother.

rayboo69 taylor is finally getting his own lead rolls now. with only a few films in his past, he is going to be the next will smith or angelina jolie lol

Good for those who've seen it all I remember watching Inspector Gadget when I was a kid. I remember I liked OK.  My kids watch DVDs in the car because we have a longer than usual commute to school and home each day.  They've seen everything so we were up for giving Inspector Gadget a try.  They like it.  They are glued to the screen and interested to keep watching as many episodes as time allows.  Occasionally, Inspector Gadget turns to the kids viewing and tells them some sort of "safety tip" like not to touch a hot stove, etc.  It's a bit quirky.  As a mom, I think it's alright. Inspector Gadget reminds me of Get Smart. The overall tone of the show is unoffensive.  I don't recall the bad guy being as nasty as he is.  Dr. Claw was a vague memory to me from way back when I saw the show myself. But now that I am the mom, I dislike a lot of the things Dr. Claw says and does.  Obviously -- he is the bad guy for a reason.  But this isn't what I want my kids to take into their storybook icons.  Still, it isn't so annoying that I "lose" the DVD.  The kids don't seem to notice the subtleties of Dr. Claw's evil doings.  We'll keep it in our library but will not seek any other versions.  I am not sure if this is the only DVD.

For the Red, White and Blue Chris Evans becomes America's ultimate weapon against evil in the fun-filled superhero adventure Captain America: The First Avenger. In the 1940s, headstrong Steve Rogers (Evans) volunteers for a top secret government experiment that transforms him from a scrawny weakling into the Super Soldier known as Captain America. Captain America leads the fight for freedom against the evil HYDRA organization and their leader Red Skull (Hugo Weaving) who has discovered an otherworldly power that will ensure him world domination. Captain America: The First Avenger is the latest comic book adaptation to hit the big screen, and is certainly a playful action-packed romp. Though not a comic book masterpiece, it does succeed in capturing the spirit of what a comic book movie should be. Director Joe Johnston has created a stylish old-fashioned adventure picture with some solid elements of drama, humor and action. The cast also includes Tommy Lee Jones, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan, Dominic Cooper, Neal McDonough, Derek Luke, Toby Jones and Stanley Tucci.  If you're a fan of comic book heroes or good old-fashioned adventure, then Captain America: The First Avenger is a highly recommended addition to your Blu-Ray collection. The comic book blockbuster is presented in a 2.35:1 widescreen format. Though not the sharpest transfer of any Paramount releases, the movie still looks fantastic with fine detail and vivid colors. The 7.1 DTS-HD MA soundtrack delivers fine clarity, well balanced surround effects and good bass. The Blu-Ray features a nice variety of extras: audio commentary track with director Joe Johnston and production crew, five minutes of deleted scenes, theatrical trailers, the short film A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer, and six behind-the-scenes and in-depth comic book featurettes. Overall, Captain America: The First Avenger scores a "B+".

Great Holiday show for Kids My kids really like both of the Mickey Once and Twice upon a Christmas. I am a big Disney Fan myself but to me these are just ok but my kids love them and they will watch them over and over again during the holidays.

The Italian Job (2003) The Italian Job keeps you hooked the entire time you are watching it.  I like to think of it as Oceans 11 lite.  The all-star cast gives the characters even more depth and range.  The action scenes are good, the comedy keeps the movie from feeling like a revenge saga.  Over all, one of my favorite feel-good comedic action films.  Worth the price of a ticket.

Millenium Actress `Millennium Actress' is an unusual film, with a unique storyline and with stunning animation. Chiyoko is an actress recounting her life story to a film crew and as she tells it, the films she has starred in and her real life become intertwined. The film crew go back in time with her as she acts in various films and searches for a lost love. This can get quite confusing at times, but once you get your head around the premise this makes for a unique and original style of film making. The animation is wonderful and is all the better for being hand drawn rather than the CGI pieces so often produced these days. The soundtrack compliments the film perfectly and the director deliberately requested this respected composer to work on this film for him and it is a stronger film when the soundtrack is coupled with the animation on screen. There is a `making of' feature as an extra on this disc which gives a deeper insight into the film and shows how the film developed. This is definitely a film that will get better with repeated viewings and whilst that first viewing may leave you mildly baffled, when you come to it again you will appreciate it for it's depth and beauty. Definitely a required DVD for your anime collection.  Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.

just one problem I got the 3 box sets for the indigo league and there are 2 missing episodes. I have been watching pokemon sence day one of its release and have beated all of the games so far includeing black and white (japanese) &lt;-- not in america till march. Episode #18 should be Beauty and the Beach. this episode was on tv so it should be in the box set i understand why episode #38 Dennô Senshi Porigon is not in here. this was banned from tv due to the mass amount of seizures in japan. But episode #18 was on the tv in both america and japan! Other than the 2 missing episodes the setup of the disks is nothing fancy but its a good buy. i recomend the whole season for any real pokemon fan.

Not to shabby. Not to bad of a movie. I think the animation could of looked better. Story was ok to, buoy kids really enjoyed it, so 4 stars for keeping them entertained.

A Trio Of Dark Fairy Tales--For Lovers Of Adventurous Cinema Only! I sat down to "Tokyo!" with uncertain expectations.  I suppose, in many ways, I had anticipated these vignettes by three different international directors would be an homage or love letter to the city in the vein of "Paris, Je T'aime."  Well, I've been wrong before and I'll certainly be wrong again!  This trio of short films by the esteemed talents of Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, and Joon-ho Bong re-imagine the city as a dark subterranean fantasy world.  Strange, to say the least, I think it's fair to proclaim that "Tokyo!" stands as a unique expression of cinematic imagination.  Whether, in the long run, you'll love or hate these films is probably the big question as they are certainly designed to inspire strong feelings.  But, one thing is clear, you've never seen anything quite like this collection of oddities.  Gondry, whose eccentricities worked best in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," starts things off with "Interior Design."  "Design" follows a young couple who move to Tokyo to seek their fortune.  As the guy starts to succeed and adapt, his girlfriend assumes a more peripheral role.  Her feelings of inadequacies and uselessness ultimately manifest with a physical transformation that is brilliantly devised and slyly hysterical.  It, as a whole, is my favorite segment!  But Carax's "Merde" easily contains some of the trio's most inspired moments.  A creature from the sewers emerges daily to terrorize the citizens on the streets.  Looking more like a deranged leprechaun than an actual monster, his strange--but largely benign--attacks escalate to bloody brutality when he happens upon a cache of weapons.  I absolutely loved these early scenes.  When captured, his subsequent legal battle captivates a national audience.  I'm not entirely sure if I understood the point of Carax's contribution, however, but it is an intriguing entertainment.  And last "The Host" creator, Joon-ho Bong, developed "Shaking Tokyo."  This cerebral piece concerns a recluse who finally gathers the courage to venture into the world after being entranced by a strange pizza delivery girl.  A commentary on isolation, this was perhaps the least satisfying vignette for me.  "Tokyo!" is a must-see film for anyone who loves adventurous cinema.  From a purely conceptual standpoint, I adored the ideas in these mini-films.  I don't know, particularly, if the three combine to form any universal themes--but they are outrageously different.  Perplexing and odd, I will remember "Tokyo!" and am sure to recommend it to select friends.  But it's definitely not for everyone!  So beware.  Loopy, insane, baffling, but fun--I'd rate this as 3 1/2 stars generally with an upward round for the bizarre factor.  KGHarris, 1/11.

Awesome! But I wish there was more to it... I loved getting this from my husband for our anniversary. I love this show and I want to watch it over and over again!!!  I left off a star because although all the episode were there and were as awesome as I remember. There weren't to many extra features like subtitles featurettes or languages or anything.  But most episodes had deleted scenes. And the last disc had three different extra features where the actress talked and everything.

Good classic!  You can't handle the truth! This is one from the 90's an oldie but goodie for you people that may have missed out on it.  Bluray transfer is good nice and crispy!

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, It's to bad it has taken so long to produce this series into movies. All of the main chracters are now young adults. I am a fan of the movie's series, but have never read the books. So all in all I like it!

Good, but imperfect This is a good introduction to gothic cathedrals for a general audience.  Their design and construction was an achievement which appropriately inspires awe even today, and I think this program gives us a good sense of why that is.  Looking at it from my engineering background, I did feel that some technical concepts were oversimplified and some terminology was misused - probably because the people interviewed apparently weren't engineers - but this isn't a fatal flaw and the content of the program was accurate enough for its purposes.  And indeed, I learned some things too (engineers today don't design gothic cathedrals!).  My biggest issue with the program, and the reason I've deducted one star, is that the religious connection hypothesized in the last third of the program is highly dubious.  They claim that design proportions drawn from the Bible and other religious texts were the key to making these structures stable, but the reality is that successful design proportions were the result of trial and error over a long period of time.  Sorry, there was no 'divine revelation' going on here.  Recommended, but take the last third of the program with a major grain of salt.

Clever This film is intriguing with great humor.  A classic Hitchcock piece of work.  Movie starts slow but for a reason to set the theme.  I had bought this movie years ago on tape, but now with wonderful technology, I just had to update to disc!  I enjoy watching it over and over after several months have elapsed.

Midnight in Paris Time Travel Issues The film was quirky and enjoyable, with Woody Allen's hand so clearly in it that Owen Wilson could have been Woody Allen if you'd colored his hair, made him shorter, and put glasses on him.  I'm the time travel movies examiner for The Examiner, and I'm working through the problems and expect to start posting them in a few weeks; you can find the index of those posts at Temporal Anomalies in Popular Time Travel Movies: The Examiner Connection (Amazon won't post the link, so you'll have to Google that) as soon as they appear (and meanwhile other time travel movies are listed there).  --M. J. Young

Very Cool I enjoy watching this show. It's a bit on the dirty side, nudity wise, than what I'm used to watching. But then again, the Romans weren't a chaste people. The violence is to be expected since it is about gladiators after all. Look forward to see what the writers will do with the story when the main actor is well enough to continue. We all know Spartacus is supposedly killed, but the body was never recovered. So will the writers make him secretly escape, or let it remain a mystery? Considering how disgusting the Romans are and how they treat their slaves, the viewer can only hope that some of the slaves escape the perversity and enjoy some portion of their lives.

He's the Doctor Still like David Tennant better but this guy is not too bad, plus the redhead is smoking hot.  I think she should show more leg in the show.  I'm not sure I'm too happy with theremodle of the TARDIS.  As for video quality even though it is not blue ray it has great qulality.

Not Awesome, but still Great Stuff While this wasn't the best DC Animated movie I've seen, I really did enjoy it. Just so you know what you're getting into, rather than one, long, linear story, this is a Green Lantern story told with about six smaller "episodes" interspersed throughout the movie. They're all very entertaining and contain some really impressive action.  If you pick and choose which DC movies you collect, this one may not be worth the buy, but it's definitely worth seeing.

A Film Worth Talking About Fascinating, well-acted and deeply disturbing, We Need to Talk About Kevin is a movie you'll only need to see once. Whether you'll want to see it again is entirely dependent on whether you'll feel emotionally capable of reliving the narrative's events. The images and tone, so brilliantly used to tell tell the story, have lingered with me months after I've watched the film.

Love this corny movie! It's a simple, slightly corny old movie, but I think it's adorable in its way. I'm such a huge Tom Hanks fan, and I love all his older stuff. If you want sophisticated cinema, this isn't the movie for you. But if you want a fun movie to watch, or just enjoy Tom Hanks, this is a cute one.

Charming , emotional , gorgeous location photography Just got done streaming this fantastic family picture with lots of heart and ideas . I detract one star as it would obviously take many years (at the very least) to defeat young people who have been steeped in the arts all their lives . The messages still make me smile . The film's heart and mind are in the right place . Not to mention the film crew . Enjoyed all the performances and so on . I cried and laughed . Still a winner of a story for me . Jaden's got the stuff of his dad . Good on him . One of my favorite Chan films . Delightful .

Rocky Goes To Prison Yes, I sheepishly admit it; that's why I watched this one.  I wanted another view of post-Rocky youth without the Rambo headband.  There's just something about Sylvester Stallone.  He has to go far out of his way to find a real stinker for me not to like it.  (Judge Dred might qualify for that honor).  Anyway, the story begins: he has gotten into trouble via a questionable urge to come to the defense of an underdog in a bar squabble and has been given time, but serving it as honor time.  He has just weeks to go to finish it out, has been a model prisoner because he really shouldn't be in there to begin with - when lo and behold, he is spirited out in the middle of the night without ceremony by some fearsome dudes in Prison Guard Uniforms and bulldog expressions creasing their lips.  As he is borne away kicking and resisting, the only thing he is told is that he is being "transferred".  He ends up in a hell hole headed up by a psycho warden who has harbored a grudge for him from the past and has been stewing over it; a grudge that was useless to begin because he (the warden) deserved all of it; and now he (the warden) is anxious to exact revenge.  The story is not so grim that it can't be enjoyed, and the violent episodes are tempered and not so lengthy that someone like me starts squirming in the seat.  It has a "Rocky Flair" throughout, in that his character is as rock solid as his fist; and his wits aren't bad either, because the ending is quite interesting.  So don't expect Academy Awards in this one, but it was enjoyable nonetheless if you like Stallone, and/or when you need escape from what you normally do with films.

First delivery, bad DVD - Second one, we're impressed! Rating of 4 Stars because of a large inconvenience.  Received first DVD, was preparing for some work and needed/wanted to have this available for use. Spent about 4 hours fighting with the first DVD delivered, on 5 different Computers and 3 different DVD players - darn thing would not work correctly, seizing in different areas most of the time (30min, 22min, 48min, etc.) into the showtimes.  As a result, the Amazon return was pretty straight forward and aside time and aggravation lost to delivery #1 DVD....the final return was okay, with the second one sent next day just fine.  The second DVD, well it worked perfect. Problem free.  However, we were unfortunately set back a couple weeks because of the first DVD malfunctioning.  Feedbacks here on Amazon are older (2010), but we thought since they were 4 and 5 star, this was worth a try.  The content was found to be very good actually...stated in layman terms, easy to understand graphics, a good solid foundation for learning how a residential power system/service works, and the installed devices such as switches, outlets and lights. The visualizations also really helped (i.e. rocker switches, return signals, power, phases, pre-installations, prep work, safety, GFI, AFI, etc.)  Safety is enforced throughout...shows the level of concern for the DVD developers, producers, hosts, etc. That was very much appreciated.  We liked everything about this DVD (once we got one that worked).  Its divided up into about 10-15 small chapters, it covers a vast amount in about 1.5hrs time. Detailed, easy to follow. Have already recommended to friends and let some family borrow it too.  We highly recommend this to anyone just starting out....a newbie should find this DVD rather helpful!

Sweet 80's Comedy! This is a funny old school comedy from the days when using man made narcotics did not come with a negative connotation, the 80's.  This movie is quite funny once you let the plot mature and see the hilarious situations that the good doctor gets himself into.  Worth watching indeed.

Technical Mistake From The Director !!! I don't know if somebody will listen to me, the technical mistake as I love to discover and sorry for such Oscar winning movie >>>>>> the first scene when Prof. Lambeau was writing on his blackboard (the one wrote on it "theorem"- and he was writing till the word dx @0340) then he moved it down, as all as quadruple board- means 4 blackboards appeared. Then @ 0400 he was standing behind them all, then @ 0420 the blackboard, moved up again (this is impossible !!!!), we didn't hear the sound of movement either ! The very First Mistake !!! LOL >>> How can this movie won Oscar for a technical error ... Again ,,,, @ 0433 when that student showed up as the Prof, told him to help and answer questions, the blackboards appeared quadruple one as complete 4 boards, but our main board (the one the Prof. wrote on it before) moved DOWN >>>>> The second Technical Mistake ..... >>>> I googled for the best I can do and didn't find any who wrote on that critic !!!! JUST FOR FUN !!!! I LOVED THE MOVIE AND I LIKED THE STORY ....

Nice culture conflict film Wounded Philadelphia Police Captain is taken into Amish community. We get what amounts to a suggestion of the conflicting norms governing the sect and the secular as well as the tension of the police drama as the crooked cops seek to kill not only the honest cop but also the little boy who witnessed a murder they had committed. Harrison Ford mostly underplays the hunted cop and Kelly McGillis, as the widowed Amish mother of the boy, is absolutely lovely and does a good job  in support of the star. Other performers are also admirable, although the Police Chief is forced into a pretty stereotyped behavior pattern at the end. Over-all, not much depth, but maintains an admirable level, so as to provide a most entertaining (nearly) two hours. Recommended for all, although some expletives undeleted and a breast baring close shot of McGillis, will disturb the more Victorian among us.

Guilty pleasure #2 My wife had been hinting for a while that she really wanted to see the latest movie in the "Twilight" saga at the theater, but beyond the basic notion of it being about vampires I had no idea about the backstory. So, on to Amazon I went...and picked up all of the Blu-Ray releases thus far. I hate to admit it, but these movies are mesmerizing. The acting is just so-so, the story is a little convoluted and to top it all off the friggin vampires sparkle in the sunlight. All that being said, you really can't help being drawn into this world and these characters. The movies may lack a little when it comes to vampire lore, but the whole package somehow just works. The high-def transfers look really good, and my only complaint about the discs is that the dialogue always seems overpowered by the score, even when run through a home theater system.

Addictive - even for sceptics I'm ashamed of myself - as a confirmed sceptic about the validity and efficacy of psychotherapy - but I found this series quite addictive. Following four patients over the course of nine weeks is intriguing in itself (despite the psychobabble involved) because the stories develop and build but what really kindled my interest was the fact that the therapist himself (played by Gabriel Byrne) is under treatment as well and in doing so is openly sceptical about psychotherapy and its use. The sessions between him and his therapist (played by Dianne Wiest) are crackling with animosity and cynicism; if it weren't for these I might not recommend the series. The rest is OK, the acting is sometimes excellent - particularly that of Mia Wasikowska, who on this showing has the makings of a great actress, and of Dianne Wiest, who already is just that - the various cases mostly keep a good balance between realism and drama, and Gabriel Byrne is always worth watching. He is blessed with one of those faces so redolent of Depth Of Character that he doesn't even need to act. He can just sit there and his face will do all the work for him.  Drawbacks? It could be extremely monotonous for some; virtually everything takes place in one room and it's almost all talk - anybody who begins to fidget after half a dozen lines of dialogue will find this very heavy-going. There are a few pieces of drama but probably not enough to satisfy on their own; if you don't enjoy listening to conversation you'd best leave this alone. As for the more prurient-minded, there is a certain amount of dirty talk (this being HBO) but once again probably not enough to satisfy.

Cara becomes Supergirl This movie is about Superman's cousin from Krypton, not SM or BM. She comes to earth and Superman has to help her "find herself" and what she is to become. Together, they defeat Dark Side and she joins the superheros.

Great black and white movie!! I am a huge fan of great old black and white movies.....this one was excellent. It took a while to get exciting but when it did, it was one of my favorites.

Good Family Flick This is a good family movie, for teens or older. The kids do a really good job of acting and I think that makes it especially appealing -- for both kids and adults. But it's somewhat light on plot and a bit predictable, but it still keeps your attention.

Good, but stretches the suspension of disbelief to the snapping point "Brick" is a daring piece of crime cinema that revolves around a certain subculture at a high school.  There are only two adult characters in the movie: the vice principal and someone's mother. The lack of adults in the movie, however, lends a gravity to the film and its characters.  At no time is anyone seen in class.  Everything, for the most part, takes place outside the school proper: in the parking lot; on the football field; in a dressing room; near a remote outbuilding (where the main character, Bredan [a loner], has his lunch [and where someone has his or her lunch is a point of distinction brought out several times).  Beyond the school grounds, much of the story transpires in and around a few houses.  The absence of adults, however, lends credulity to the story and let's the audience experience what serious business all these high schoolers are up to.  The movie begins with Brendan's discovery of his ex-girlfriend Emilie lying dead in a drainage ditch, after which there is a flashback two days into the past, when he receives a panicked call from her asking him for help.  What transpires from that point on is a story of drugs, murder, deception, discovery and revenge.  All in all, I enjoyed the movie.  In homage to old film noir and gumshoe movies, the characters speak with the vernaculars of Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart and Edmond O'Brien, using words like "sap," "clam" and other such throwbacks.  In fact, the dialogue is reminiscent of a Shakespeare play, where you don't quite get into the lingo groove for a third of the performance, after which everything that's said because much more clear.  This, unfortunately, is sometimes undermined by frequently mumbled lines from the actors, who all do a fabulous job notwithstanding.  While it might be hard to apply "accept the premise, accept the bit" to this film, its far-fetched setting, goings-on and cast of characters were nevertheless a joy to experience.  "Brick" is a refreshing entry into the murder-mystery genre.

Yoga with a cardio PUNCH! I purchased this DVD along with "Ripped In 30" and "6 Week 6 Pack". I have been alternating those two DVDs(Sun, Tues, & Thurs - Ripped in 30; Mon & Weds - 6 Week 6 Pack). Yoga Meltdown is my day six workout, so it was my intent to use this when I needed to stretch a bit more, but didn't want to work too hard (ha, ha). This is not your typical slow moving yoga routine.  Jillian Michaels uses yoga power poses in combination with cardio intervals to deliver a challenging yoga based workout. I have yet to do this workout and NOT break a sweat (and I'm still doing Level 1), when you are ready for even more of a challenge there is a level 2 workout included as well. The only equipment that you will need to do this workout is a yoga mat, which will provide you with a non-slip surface that will assist you in holding the poses.  I enjoy Jillian's workouts and find her teaching style extremely motivational. I also like that her DVDs offer both a beginner and advanced modification model to follow. I have been following this workout schedule for 3 weeks and have lost 2 inches from my waist (this makes me very happy). I am also pleased that Jillian does not sacrifice form for the sake of speed, so I never feel as though I am at risk of injuring myself (as I have in the past with some other workouts that I have tried).

Sweating to the Oldies does it Again! This version is a bit longer, and has more variety (there are some floor exercises).  The quality and fun factor are as same as the first.

CoyoWWWte Ugly.. Actually appreciate this movie considerably more after watching for at least the third time. Definitely an underrated offbeat light-hearted comedy IMVHO (in my very humble opinion). Well acted, good story, entertaining; co-starring a couple baaabes, piper perabo and brigit moynahan. Raucous bar.. rockin' leather pants.. chicks high steppin', struttin' & bootin' it right up on the counter.. OH YA.. Totally recommend!

PROBABLY BEN'S BEST SINCE GOOD WILL HUNTING! I have always thought that Ben Affleck has gotten a bad rap, I usually enjoy him in the films he has made...there could be a few exceptions, but I could say that about a lot of other good actors too. He's not going to win a best actor award, but he is someone I want to watch in a film. The Town returns to Affleck's roots of Boston and delivers a very good crime drama with some interesting sub plots. I found this film very engrossing, but not perfect. Some more detail to the characters would have paid off greatly, but it is still an impressive piece of work from Mr. Affleck who directed, co-wrote and stars in this little tale of love and honor among thieves.

Once Upon A Time In Texas Cinematic studies of murderous psychopaths have a long and honored position in film history. Early on in the gangster movies of the 1930s, in such films as The Petrified Forest (with Humphrey Bogart as Duke Mantee) and, perhaps more famously, White Heat with true stone-killer mad man James Cagney ready to blow up everything (and throw an off-hand grapefruit or two), audiences got to confront truly banal (thanks Hannah Arendt) evil characters. Remorseless, if not always efficient. The psycho (played understatedly by Javier Bardem)in No Country For Old Men  written by Cormac McCarthy) carries on that tradition, although as we are now a little more inured to mass murders and odd-ball methods of killing on the screen that those earlier audiences, the methods have been ramped up. In short, take no prisoners. None. Moreover, the Brothers Coen want to, around the murder and mayhem, squeeze in a little tale about how this country (well, Texas, great American West country, Larry McMurtry Last Picture Show country, anyway) has gone to hell in a handbasket since the old western frontiers vanished into, well, civilization.  Of course no savage tale of the New West, the border New West, would be complete without some drug deal going south (no pun intended), going south badly. The action of this film is centered on a discover of some dough, some serious dough, just waiting to be plucked like taking it from the low branches of a tree by the first guy (played by Josh Brolin) who comes on the scene, the first hungry, break-out hungry guy who comes along. Now if you or I, maybe not hungry enough, came upon a desert scene with a bunch of stone shoot-out dead bodies, a truckload of dope, and a satchel of dough, we would walk, hell, run away, right. There would be no story then though. So our lonesome hungry cowboy grabs for the brass ring. Unfortunately said dough belongs to those who have hired a bad-ass stone killer ready, very ready, and very willing to exterminate whatever number it takes to get said dough back. And throw in a few innocent by-standers and others for laughs.  But this is Texas remember and so once the chase is on the local law, in the person mainly, of one wised-up, old-timey sheriff, played by Tommy Lee Jones, a little out of his element in these new times when there is no honor among thieves (there really never was) and the crimes pile up more quickly and haphazardly than in the old days, is on the hunt. But age and world-weariness have taken their toll and old Tommy Lee is always about a step, maybe two steps, behind the central action. Needless to say things cannot turn out well here, and they don't. Ya, this is no country for old men. Got it.

An unjustly overlooked movie musical Although the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000AG8R">Xanadu - Original Soundtrack Album</a> was a smash hit, with several Top Ten hits including Olivia-Newton John's #1 smash "Magic" (my favorite ONJ song of all), ELO's "All Over the World," the ONJ/Cliff Richard duet "Suddenly" (one of Cliff's few U.S. hits), and the title track (performed by ONJ and ELO), the 1980 movie was a box-office bomb.  It's a shame, because the movie, while fluffy, is a delightful pastiche to Hollywood musicals of yesteryear.  Gene Kelly is delightful in one of his last roles, and dances nimbly with ONJ to "Whenever You're Away From Me."  ONJ gets to do more tapping in the movie production-number version of the title track.  Not everything works:  the '40s - '80s contrast in the ONJ/Tubes number "Dancin'" doesn't work too well (perhaps the two versions should have been kept separate).  But on the whole, the movie is delightful escapist entertainment.  This Magical Musical Edition features the DVD, with a photo gallery, a retrospective documentary (ONJ does not appear, and while Gene Kelly is deceased, there are no archival interviews with him either), and the original theatrical trailer.  The soundtrack CD is also included, although there are no bonus tracks.  If you already have the CD, buy the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001JV5BEE">standard DVD</a>.

A FEROCIOUS FARCE Chris Morris co-wrote and directed a very dark, shockingly wicked, tour de force about four inept British would-be suicide bomber jihadists.  This ferocious farce grabbed me immediately.  Terrorism can be as much about idiots as ideology.  Here's a brilliant film that does not flinch or blink in the face of the horrific reality of our times.  Can urgent truth be funny?  Yes.  Time called it "The blackest, ballsiest political comedy since DR. STRANGELOVE."  Can mockery and ridicule dilute hate?  Maybe.  Maybe not.  But laughter sure can.  Is Allah laughing?

It's Funny To Think The Titular Character Is Only In The Movie Less Than Twenty Minutes Beetlejuice is a movie I consider to be one of Tim Burton's best movies. I also consider it to be one of those kind of movies that could have come out only in the 80s (much like Labyrinth starring David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly).  Beetlejuice deals with a recently deceased married couple, the Maitlands, who finds themselves essentially "trapped" in their former house for the next century or so. Unfortunately, this means living with the house's new owners, the Deetz. The Maitlands don't mind Deetz daughter Lydia played by Winona Ryder so much but her much more obnoxious parents and want to scare them away from the house. Their case worker tells them only one thing: to NEVER even think about recruiting her former assistant Beetlejuice. Unfortunately, they manage to resist for a while before giving in and Beetlejuice causes nothing but problems.  It's definitely a work by Tim Burton. His ever-present "uniqueness" and charm is there. Beetlejuice is a fun 80s movie and a very fun watch period. the acting by everyone involved in the movie is great (especially Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice). The make-up for the necessary characters were well done and the "afterlife" set designs and make-up there were great. I loved the make-up and designs in the afterlife scenes.  The movie itself is great and I would have given it five stars. The blu-ray as a whole leaves a little to be desired. It's one of those DVDs or blurays that pretty much leaps right into the movie. No title screen, scene selection, anything. This was a bit annoying since I had to manually go skip through the whole movie to get back to where I left off the night before. There's a small handful of special features that you may or may not be interested in. The special features are only three episodes of the cartoon series (of which I watched as a kid) and an audio track. The special features it does have really aren't that bad, I would have just liked to have had more. Like some sort of commentary, deleted scenes, or something.  All in all, five stars for movie itself and three for the blu-ray (averaging four stars).

The 1970s and the Beginning of Reality Television CINEMA VERITE tries very hard to justify the trend it began in the 1970s by having a camera crew move into the household and private life of the well-to-do Loud family in Santa Barbara. The idea of a docudrama about a docudrama is acceptable as a flag for the obsession with Reality TV shows spawned by this experiment.  Unfortunately the writing (by David Seltzer - apparently based on the book written by Pat Loud 'A Woman's Story' about the experience) is spotty and the recreation of (1971 when the 'series' was filmed and 1973 when it hit the television screens) reminds us how boring that time frame was. The direction by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini imitates the dreary 'spontaneity' of live action drama the film addresses. It plods, tripping on the cables for the cameras placed inside the home of this sad story.  Documentary producer Craig Gilbert (James Gandolfini) devises a concept for PBS he calls 'An American Family' and searches for a family that does not depict the happy-wappy family of staged productions but instead inters the privacy of an American family, examining all the aspects of that institution. He selects the Loud family, particularly because he sees Pat Loud (Diane Lane) as an early women's rights activist able to say truths others might avoid. Gilbert paces his documentary  to unveil the dirt that hides behind the scenes - motivated to prod Pat to discover Bill (Tim Robbins) her husband's infidelity, which led her to seek a divorce.  The Louds have two sons involved in the dream of becoming a rock band, a daughter in the throes of discovering teenage love, and a gay son Lance (Thomas Dekker) who has moved to New York to live a raucous life without the approval of his father but one visited by Pat without complete acceptance.  The film crew consists of a married couple - Alan Raymond (Patrick Fugit) and  Susan Raymond (Shanna Collins) - who reluctantly agree to film even the most embarrassing scenes of the film.  The gradual crumbling of the Loud marriage - not helped by either Gilbert  or by Pat's 'friend' Val (Lolita Davidovich) who is actually another one of Bill's affairs - is what producer Gilbert wants to record, and he succeeds.  The Louds end their marriage, Lance later dies of AIDS, and the other children have minor successes in their lives.  But the overriding feeling of this film is showing how the inquisitive media can be destructive in attempting to share reality with the world at large. And so began the glut of reality shows that yearly grow more irreverent in respecting privacy.  Diane Lane brings moments of brilliance to her role as the manipulated Pat and James Gandolfini is given the opportunity to push his acting chops.  The problem is that we all know the quasi-tragic story on which this film is based, and making us witness it again is less than entertaining. It is disturbing.  Grady Harp, April 11

Got what I paid for This item was priced reasonably and arrived in the time alloted. However, on my DVD player, I could not select the various titles. I am not sure if this is a compatibility issue or a fault with the DVD.  I was able to view the main feature, which is what I wanted. I guess I have to learn to ask questions. Sue

good This blue-ray is a very good review of the 2010 world cup, it would have been better if the colors were more vivid.

A LOT better than I thought it would be I'll keep it brief since there are so many reviews for the movie already. I liked this movie quite a bit. not only was it a bit disturbing in places because of the "bump in the night" effects, but it also had elements of a period piece going. As far as the ending, it did feel rushed but, honestly, chasing the story down and repeatedly telling the character not to go into the house or to listen to people and not chase shadows - that's the ticket I wanted. Daniel R was good in the movie too, although the kid did seem rather big when compared to him and I still have flashes of Harry Potter fighting another sinister shadowy fellow and his minions here and there.  Overall, I'd call it a good watch and a possible buy. 4.2/5

good history lesson An older dvd, but still learned alot and really enjoyed it.  Is very well done, and I think it's a good history lesson for kids especially middle school age.

Action This movie has action. Bad guy is good actor bad roll. Twist are not unexpected. I like movie how things work out is good but hard to believe.

BLACK DEATH A well fleshed-out rendering of medieval plague hysteria that evokes the cruel flavor of frenzied proselytizing. What emerges appears to be supernatural fiction, but one of the strengths of the film is its historical plausibility. Modernist script sanfus, iffy directoral cuts, & occasional storyline drags prevent me from raving up to the 5*.

Parody, Spoof, Burlesque If you ever saw any of the '80s fantasy hero vs. whatever-the-imagination-could-cook-up adversary movies (Beastmaster, Krull, Conan, Swords & ...) then you know what this movie's working premise is, except it's a parody, spoof and burlesque (in the literary sense) of that genre. It is a 12 year olds dream dialogue - yes, lots of profanity and references to private parts, sexual innuendo with girls undressed enough to convey those ideas.  Surprisingly, despite being over the top in restricted age dialogue the acting, sets, CG effects, editing and general flow of the movie made it an entertaining package.

Speculative Fiction Meets the Wild West in BLACKTHORN For years, the infamous `what if?' scenario has played into the themes central to hundreds if not thousands of films, books, and television programs.  Indeed, what would ABC TV's program "Lost" been without more than its fair share of `what ifs'?  It's become a bit of a gimmick for motion pictures in the last decade or so, perhaps a bit overused, but BLACKTHORN takes a swing at it and gives it another play for its worth: what if Butch Cassidy never died at the end of BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID and, instead, lived out the remainder of his days in quiet solitude?  While that may not seem the most glamorous spin at speculative fiction - nor a foundation for the most daring Western adventure ever - BLACKTHORN ends up being a bit greater than the sum of its small parts, and that's no doubt due in large part to the inclusion of Sam Shepard in the titular role as the aging bank robber hoping for one, great legitimate score to give him enough money to return back home before he withers away.  It seems the Kid and Sundance didn't die when the Mexican `federales' came for them; curiously, they were able to sneak out the back, but not without the Kid suffering a fatal gunshot wound.  Once he puts his friend in the ground, Cassidy changes his name to James Blackthorn, and he takes up residence raising prize horses in Bolivia.  As luck would have it, Blackthorn learns that his and the Kid's flame from their lawless days - Etta Place - gave birth to a young man that could've been a son or a nephew, for all he knows, and the retired train robber keeps up his correspondence with the boy.  Eventually, Blackthorn wants to see his home again before he dies, so he sells off a last round of horses to a big haul of money ... only to lose it all after the fleeing accountant-turned-thief, Eduardo Apodaca (played by Eduardo Noriega), unsuccessfully tries to rob him of his horse.  In exchange for helping Apodaca avoid capture from the posse of vigilantes fast on his trail, Blackthorn will receive half of the man's haul ... if they both can survive long enough to claim it.  Therein lies the `what if' and the cruel irony at the heart of BLACKTHORN's story: the man must embrace the kind of life he long ago left behind in order to make that last big score.  Certainly, the irony doesn't stop there, as the vigilantes not only close the distance separating them but also their identities turn out to be something that not even Blackthorn could've ever suspected.  It's a startling revelation for the man who's lived a life of hard truths, and it runs parallel to the premise as laid out by the aging robber's narration: "There are only two significant events in a man's life: when you leave home and when you go back. Everything else is just the middle."  It seems that Butch Cassidy can never quite escape `the middle' as he so desperately wishes to do, even when that means running up against an aging Pinkerton agent (a wonderful little cameo-style role, played by Stephen Rea).  The two men are long past their prime, and, if they're not careful, Apodaca will be the death of them both.  Frankly, it's the kind of role an actor has to wait a lifetime to play, and Shepard fills the cowboy boots to great effect.  He entirely looks the part - a tremendous asset as opposed to aging a much younger actor under layers of make-up - of Butch Cassidy with his leathered creases and wise eyes.  There's still a spark of wit in Cassidy as he trades verbal barbs with the noticeably younger Noriega, taunting and teasing the man whose life he's saved in exchange for half of the man's stash.  As westerns go, BLACKTHORN is very solid.  It's filmed in striking locations, edited smartly, and put together in a first rate production.  All of the players - including Dominique McElligott in the all-too-briefly-seen Etta Place (she can be seen recently in AMC TV's equally entertaining oater, "Hell on Wheels") - hit their marks.  The writing is sharp, if not a bit too predictable toward the climax, which ties up a bit too neatly for my tastes.  Still, it's a winner that deserves to be seen by a wider audience, and no doubt western enthusiasts like myself will find plenty to celebrate here.  Highly recommended.

Brilliantly Disturbing Today I saw Sucker Punch in the theater, and I must say, I am NOT disappointed. Admittedly, there were some clear weaknesses, but Sucker Punch held it's high. The cinematography was excellent, but everyone already knows that.  Zack Snyder really knows how to create an atmosphere, and I found myself cringing at the disturbing actions happening but not seen on screen. I guess it just goes to show you that one's imagination can be the greatest psychological horror tool, and too me, this movie was the most disturbing movie I've seen, even more so that A Clockwork Orange.  The twists and occurrences where excellent and extremely well done. It was brilliantly disturbing, and I could only stared wide eyed with wonder at the screen.  My major criticism would be that some of the action sequences go on for too long. Although they were entertaining, too much of a good things just makes it bland. See this movie!

Action packed anime series A great action series with humor and plenty of fan service, but this is the creator's style of course. I may suggest a different series if you are not into panty shots and nudity, but it's all a joke pretty much. I love the action and characters and the designs. Enjoy.

My daughter loves this! Bought this for my daughter it arrived promptly and in excellent condition, she was so excited she was jumping up and down. Definately a hit. Just wish they'd made more of them.

excellent value We gave this as a gift as well as buying it for ourselves.  Good value.  Unfortunately, unable to play it yet until our player is installed.  Looking forward to it.

Good movie This movie is NOT for kids because of the language and graphic situations.  I have enjoyed this movie every time it's come on tv and finally sprung to buy it.  I think the acting is very good and the plot (having been an "observer" growing up out east) is probably pretty realistic (of course "jacked up" and embellished for the big screen). As in many other movies he's been in, I though Joe Pesci stole most of the scenes he's in but I'm a Joe Pesci fan too, so I may be a little prejudiced.  Personally, I like this movie but, again, the subject matter and language don't offend me as they may some.

A Night Lou reed This may be the perfect Lou Reed primer. If you are a fan of Lou's music or just looking ot better understand why he is so often mentioned as the father/grandfather of modern and post modern rock, this is the first step to understanding.

An unrealistic, though fun look at the life and times of first year students at the US Naval Academy The unlikely story line of this film is that a young man (Franco) whose mother always wanted him to go to the US Naval Academy and his father who works in a ship yard who doesn't think he has a prayer for success at the Academy gets his chance when other students opt to go elsewhere to school.  We learn later that he is recruited largely for his boxing ability...or so it seems.  When he arrives he is assigned to a dorm room with three other cadets, and they, of course, each have their own unique personalities and even racial backgrounds.  Students are shown dealing with academic challenges, issues regarding personal honor, Academy traditions, and boxing.  Franco clashes with his cadet commander, and he seeks a chance to face him in the boxing ring during an annual Academy event called "The Brigades."  The bottom line is that this loner needs to come to grips with the fact that he can't succeed at the Academy without help.  All in all this is a largely unbelievable, but fun action film set in Annapolis.  4 stars

"One bullet killed our president", but not one director so far THE CONSPIRATOR (dir. Robert Redford, 2010) is a funny little thing. It's a 2-pronged problem, I'd say. Depending on the day you watch it, this truly excellent film will either strike you as a bit dry history on the best day; on a bad day it will bore and irritate you.  The same year's THE KILLING OF MARY SURRATT notwithstanding, Redford gives us a rich, exquisitely painted and shot view of 1860s Washington. That in itself makes this worth viewing. It tells the story of Mrs. Mary Surratt (Robin Wright), an alleged co-conspirator of John Wilkes Boothe's (Toby Kebbell, who thankfully never speaks) in the assassination plot against Lincoln and members of his cabinet. (Her boarding house, where they all met and plotted, still stands in the Chinatown of Washington, far from its original Maryland location).  There is little relationship and thus no tension between the accused and her defense attorney, Captain Frederick Aiken (another sort of empty-star role for James McAvoy).  This is totally a courtroom drama, and even with Redford's love of history, he cannot make it more than what it is. I think he manages to tell a tight, seamless tale; my question is, What additional merits does that have from, say, an episode of "Perry Mason"? It IS "Perry Mason", set in the mid-19th century. Not bad for all that, but I doubt this will have a huge following. I see lots of two- and three-star reviews here.  Saying which: the star power Redford amassed is a phenomenon. Best of the bunch is Kevin Kline as Secretary of War Edwin Stanton - a good friend of President Lincoln's who started off despising his very name, and it is possible Stanton never stopped despising Lincoln. We have everyone from the stunning and stirring Evan Rachel Wood to the irascible Justin Long (in a bit part). We have Danny Huston, Colm Meany, the immortal Tom Wilkinson rather wasted in his role, Alexis Bledel, Stephen Root - these are sort of shadowy cameos, one thing about this film I absolutely hated.  One thing that delighted me was recognizing certain locations/sets from the TV film LINCOLN (based on Gore Vidal's novel, see my review).  The picture of what we all think happened, what really happened, what could have happened, was handled by Redford in a way that one feels he's like us - hates dragged-out flashbacks. In point of fact, I'm not too sure what Redford wanted to say here except that civilians need to be tried in an ordinary court, even in times of war.  If this is a solid statement that one could not separate militarily active civilians from non-military civilians during the Civil War, then OK. After all, the country at that time felt rebels had to be put down for the good of the nation - and civilians' actions were either military or they weren't. If this is a cry for the Middle Eastern folk the U.S. is presently holding, I am NOT amused.  However, I do admire the overall project and production. My understanding is that this company plans to produce the best in history-telling that we have ever seen. Well, in that mode, to heck with Mary Surratt! I want a good film about President Grover Cleveland, who in my book is second only to Lincoln.  I hope they only take what is best from THE CONSPIRATOR - because I do have certain issues with this slightly murky film. So, as I always say, You decide.

One of Columbus' best efforts There's no way a movie can duplicate the intensity of a live performance experience.  (And I think I have enough experience to confidently say that this is just as true for the cast as it is for the audience.) But I am finding the difference easier to "forgive" than some other reviewers.  Chris Columbus was, I think, justly criticized for his Harry Potter adaptations being "too faithful."  But the tendency to faithfulness worked very well here.  He cut a few numbers, made minor concessions to realism, and took advantage of things that the live stage could not in terms of scale: filming on a rooftop and a desertscape for What You Own, a huge ballroom for Tango Maureen, and the beautiful church in which his few close friends look positively lost during Angel's memorial service.  Same with the audio production techniques, which are closer to what we're accustomed to in rock albums than on a stage.  The extremely slow tempo at which Collins starts the "I'll Cover You" reprise belongs in that category also: I think that is too hard to attempt when you have to do it live every night, but it is incredibly powerful here.  All in all, I think the only thing I missed about the movie was that Mark had less depth: his very raw and emotionally intimate relationship with Roger, his vulnerability and his isolation, all of which comes out in the longer, original version of "Goodbye Love," were not obvious enough and so he was just not as sympathetic as the rest of the characters.  Oh, and I would have liked the scenes of the HIV support group to have been explored a bit more.  But really, as long as you don't hold it to the impossible standard of having the same intensity as live theater, it is quite good.

This Film Is a Charming Product to Have Supplied as a Sequel to the Earler "Centre Stage" Dance Film "Centre Stage: Turn It up" is a worthy sequel to the first "Center [i.e., Centre] Stage" film (the earlier one subtitled "Life Doesn`t Hold Tryouts"), but not quite of the same level of interest either as drama or as dance. There is more dance of modern pop styles (rap, hip-hop) in this nice sequel than there is ballet, though both are present in the two films, the difference in that regard being one of balance. Ballet (and some glamourous Hollywood/Broadway show dancing, too) is more prominent in the original (i.e., in "Life Doesn`t Hold Tryouts"), with much more dancing of all styles in that film by the entrancing Ethan Stiefel, who, however, does enough dancing in "Turn It up", in classical and pop styles, to justify obtaining the second DVD as well as the first, which had been, however, more of a showcase for him.  The storyline of "Turn It up" is not quite so engrossing as that of the interweaving plot constituents of "Life Doesn`t Hold Tryouts", but the later motion picture does hold the interest between the dance sequences, which are well integrated into the plot. Kenny Wormald, the the adorably boyish and muscular principal male protagonist in "Turn It up", is a fine dancer in his own right; it is his acting that is not quite so up to the level of that of the delightfully insouciant and self-confidently genial Ethan Stiefel, who, fortunately, is in both movies (and in "Life Doesn`t Hold Tryouts" as the main male figure of that film).  My recommendation is to buy both "Centre Stage" films, if one really has a passion for dance in all of its forms, as I do. If star calibre acting and dancing is the shopper's overridingly chief interest, then the first film is the more essential of the two to purchase for his personal collection.

Either you love it or you hate it! This is one of the movies that you must love or hate because of its style and thin storyline.  If you are into Hangover1 and still think Hangover2 was a great movie as well...then you will love it. If you don't like cheap stories filled up with fun then keep away from it.  So what did i think of it?  I loved Hangover 1 and also liked Hangover 2. so you can guess that I like Project X as well!

Pretty good sequel to the first, and even better in some parts. I thought "S.W.A.T. -Firefight" was a pretty good sequel to the first film (in my opinion), and better in some areas too.  It's darker, more grounded, and has a more believable final act than the first film.

4 1/2 stars in a battle of a dead man vs. politicians This is a well made documentary about the acquisition of the Barnes art collection in Philadelphia.  Evidently Dr. Barnes acquired a collection of masterpieces over decades that today is worth billions of dollars.  Although his will prohibited moving the collection, political and cultural leaders of the city and state managed to "steal" the collection from the trust established for its protection.  The filmmakers certainly take the side of the man's intent and it's hard not to sympathize.  At the same time the opposite viewpoint (the trust was broke) is not strongly presented.  That does not appear to be the fault of the filmmakers however as efforts were made but the power brokers involved refused to be interviewed.  This isn't "gotcha" journalism at all and the viewpoint would have added some balance.  As it is, it appears that the filmmaker's case holds strong elements of truth.  Power and money were the driving motivation in grabbing this collection.  Certainly, the ability for more people to see it in a larger facility has its merits.  Still this is expressly against the wishes of Dr. Barnes.  It would seem that it was his money, his art and his wishes should have been honored.

Dear Abby?  Not quite! I just saw this for the first time on LMN a few days ago, and this is better than most of the tawdry dramatics of Lifetime's psycho chick movies.  If you liked Rose McGowan in Devil in the Flesh and Josie Davis in The Perfect Assistant, chances are that this movie will be up your alley too.  Don't be fooled by the DVD cover, because it's not that gorey.  It is predictable, as all these genres are, but our Dear Abbey Reed (played very convincingly by little known Miariana Klaveno) is definitely one twisted sister who won't let anybody or anything get in the way of her obsession with the attorney who once took her away from her horrible, abusive mother.  I always like Gail O'Grady and William R. Moses, but they don't shine in their roles like Klaveno, whose character is sweet and idyllic one moment, and then truly scary and menacing the next.  That angry look on her face all the time is enough to give you the creeps, and you wonder why nobody else notices it until it's too late.  Nothing groundbreaking, but it's impossible to turn off because Abbey always keeps you wondering what she will do and how she will do it next.  If anything, this movie really makes you consider background checks a lot more thoroughly when employing somebody into the sanctity of your home!

Bieber fans will love this I had to buy this for my niece who is in love with Justin Bieber. She was glued to the tv set as she watched this, but not only was it interesting for her, I also enjoyed it because it tells the story of how an artist becomes famous. Anyway, I am sure it will only be young ones who watch this, and they will love it regardless of the filming styles as long as Bieber is in it.

As a middle class white person I was very impressed. I caught this movie by accident on MTV3. I was transfixed immediately.  It is violent so don't line your kids up to watch it.  However it reaches into the soul of what certain areas of our country and its people experience on a daily basis.  The acting by the rap artist was outstanding.  Griping, heart wrenching movie that every one should see.

Kept me engaged. . I am a Russell Crowe fan and I also like Elizabeth Banks a lot, so I figured I couldn't go wrong with this movie and I was right. I was hoping to see more of Liam Neeson in it, but overall this was a good movie -- the beginning has you glued to your seat wondering how the plot is going to unfold and then action portion where Russell Crowe starts putting his plans in motion has you locked it -- really good, I'm glad I purchased it.

Hey, this is a pretty good movie I have more respect for Colin Farrell after seeing this movie.  I think I would like to have a beer with him and talk about stuff. Mr Farrell is a good actor, but by doing this movie he proved he is also a person.  I believe that he did this for fun (okay maybe he did it for money) anyway he made a good modern day vampire. In his lines he kind of channeled a couple of actors.  The one I recognized very quickly was Christopher Walken.  I couldn't pin down the next one but it came with the line "Because there are a lot of bad people out there Charlie."  "Thanks for the beer"  .  May have been Clint Eastwood. It's a humorous and entertaining movie.  No it's not frightening.

Best One In Quite a While (4.5 stars) While I found the last five or six of these DC efforts subpar, I think the producers did a great job with this one. The animation was good, the story was very good, the acting and direction excellent, and the dialogue outstanding. I was really pleased to find the (correct, IMHO) voices of Tim Daly and Kevin Conroy in place as Superman and Batman. I thought the action sequences were convincing, and there were nice topical references here and there, e.g., regarding the economy and moribund newspaper industry. Both the JLA members and the bad guys spoke and behaved logically almost all the time. Overall, an entertaining and intelligent production.

Family Secret: A Fun Horror Film With A Twist An abusive relative is scary enough, but what would you do if they started murdering your family and friends from beyond the grave?  What this film lacks in special effects, it makes up for with a great plot that is much more complex than you will find in Hollywood "blockbuster" horror films lately.  Family Secret has a cast of true-to-life characters whose deplorable antics made me feel alot better about my own dysfunctional family.  The actors really bring the creepy New England town to life, and I'm sure you will love to hate these denizens from the first scene to the last.  There's laughs, thrills, and kills abound in this independant horror classic.

Worth watching with kids as a family Worth renting, just to hang out as a family and enjoy a movie together. Rented online. Easy entertainment. Kid friendly.

Great! Wish he would have taken his "dream concert" on tour. i would love to see this line up again and again! I just wish the DVD had more bonus concert material. Would have like to see the artist perform/interact more!

Pretty good, but not as scenic as some. I enjoyed this Bluray DVD it was different from some others I own.  It took more time explaining animals, caves, and land development than others did which were purely scenic with some historic facts mentioned.  The price is right and their are still beautiful scenic shots too.  Well worth the $4/99 I paid.

Much better than the trailer made it look I think this movie was given horrible previews/trailers.  I had heard some conflicting explainations of what "The Debt" was about. Basically, 3 people are sent on a mission (spy kind of thing) to track down and kidnap a doctor who used to use people in Jewish concentration camps for gruesome medical experiments, torturing, and killing them. I really enjoyed the movie.

Hot rap movie I though ice t did a bang up job he showed the true art of rap and captured the essence of what makes this art so special

Transformers: Seasons Three & Four -25th Anniversary Edition.... You'd think with me wanting to collect the Generation 1 Tranformers Cartoon series that I would start with the first set. Well, folks, I didn't...I started out with the last two seasons of the show. Even so, I wasn't disappointed that Optimus Prime or Megatron wasn't in them. I enjoyed seeing the Autobots under new leadership. Though, Rodimus Prime couldn't hold a candle to Optimus..really. What I liked most about the last two seasons is that the stories were alot darker and more intense than the earlier episodes. Too, they were alot more sci-fi in nature than the earlier ones and I liked that. We get to find out alot more about the history of the Transformers as well as travel to distant planets and galaxies.  Like everyone else, I never really cared for these last two seasons episodes all that much when they first aired way back in the day. Optimus Prime and Megatron were the reasons to watch back then. We all had our favorites. Yet, now that I've watched them over again, I kind of prefer them alot better. Overall, this set is a worthwhile purchase for the Tranformers fan to complete their Generation 1 collection. These cartoons are way better than later sagas, that's for sure.

Howl's moving castle Got the movie for my kid. I watched with him and  enjoyed the movie. It is a nice  movie, well written, not too long.

Great story line This movie was good overall, I was looking for more of that lifetime movie drama and suspense but I must remember that it was a true story Nd not fiction.. Taraji did a good job as usual..

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Blu-ray) Movie - 4.5  The first Transformers did a pretty good job. It has a great cast, great production value, a gripping score, and even a little humor. It's innocent enough that you feel for the character of Sam Witwicky, realize the scope of the Autobot/Decepticon war coming to earth, then get to watch it all unfold as a grand and adventurous sci-fi actioner. Revenge of the Fallen.. not so much. It takes the nobility out of Optimus Prime's character, overshadows the plot with a little too much juvenile humor, one-liners, and situational comedy for my tastes, then tries to go beyond the conventions of sci-fi by making a "heaven for robots," while also making its female lead completely infallible to makeup discrepancies, then decides to ghetto-fies its robot cast by adding two inadvertently segregating "black" twin robots, and even flashes the movie-goers with John Toturo's ass in a jock strap (not a pretty sight). So yes; a writer's strike, no story or script, and only a year to shoot set the movie franchise back a bit (at least from a fanbase perspective). Thankfully, though, Dark of the Moon makes up for it, even surpassing TF1 in terms of character development, overall scope, and of course, brevity of action. For the writing, I enjoyed three particular elements: the ambition and search for self-worth of Sam's character, the more gritty and no-holds-barred nature of the storytelling, and the downright sense of treachery that seemed to loom throughout many of the characters. We see Sam yearning to feel useful and finding a purpose in life. He can't a find a job despite saving the world twice already, but at the same time knows he's capable of so much more than the office job he ends up with. His new girlfriend doesn't want him to be as ambitious because she feels that same kind of ambition is what got her bother killed in the military. Yes, the first half of the film is about as "fluffy" in spirit as the first two, but the overall structure is much less comedic than the former and substitutes it with a more epic story and darker tone in the second half. People and robots are killed, betrayal runs amok, and total kinetic action ensues for pretty much the entire duration of the movie thereafter. It's escapist sci-fi robot fantasy at its best that's a technical marvel, wonderfully choreographed, and everything one could hope for in a Michael Bay film.  Video - 5.0  - Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC - Video resolution: 1080p - Aspect ratio: 2.40:1 - Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1  Prior to this BD release I'd only seen Dark of the Moon in 3D in theaters (and 3 times, to boot). If the 3D was that impressive, I'm sure a 2D BD presentation would've been just as stellar as the previous entries, and boy is it. They really went all out in filming this using 6 different cameras, 4 types of film negatives, and another 6 types of cinematographic processes ranging between 35mm, digital, and 3D dual-strip. While TF2 barely accomplished anything with its crappy IMAX sequences (not crap in the sense of quality, but the fact that there was just so little of it), TF3 has some amazing cinematography in general, whether it be 2D or 3D. As far as the 2D presentation goes it's as demo-worthy as you can get. The CG and visual effects in particular are pristine and flawless in terms of detail and clarity. All the lines in the robotic parts, scuffs in peoples' faces, stubble on their chins, tiny bits of debris falling from the sky, sparks ricocheting off of exploding structures, water droplets from splashes, steam and smoke from fired weapons, everything is perfectly visible from any given angle under every kind of lighting imaginable. Blacks and contrast are the biggest draw for me revealing lots of fine texturing in the production design, while colors are very vibrant, particularly in opposition to the grittier look of the second half of the movie. There's hardly any noise to speak of aside from maybe a couple of dark shots filmed in 35mm. Everything has either a clean digital sheen or a fine layer of film grain. There's no over-saturation of colors, no noise reduction, edge enhancement, banding, or any of those detracting elements that may otherwise bog the video presentation. My favorite scenes for demo material would be the part where Sam meets Dylan for the first time (for a good contrast of colors with the least bit of CG) and, of course, any part of that massive last hour where they're fighting the Decepticons in Chicago (for a great mix of real and CG-integrated footage). I know the Oscar committee hates Michael Bay and are all about politics, but a film as technically sound as this needs to win an award at least for something like cinematography, visual effects, or editing.  Audio - 5.0  Languages - English: Dolby TrueHD 7.1 - English: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English: Dolby Digital 2.0 - French: Dolby Digital 5.1 - Portuguese: Dolby Digital 5.1 - Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1  Subtitles - English, English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese  Well, so much for Thor being my (previous) number one loudest BD (after its two-week reign). First, I want to address the supposed controversy about the use of a TrueHD encode. Yes, while TrueHD may be have the lowest bit rates of the three lossless codecs, it also takes up the least amount of disc space. I believe the reasoning behind this logic is because 1) it's still lossless; even TF1 has TrueHD and many people still refer to it as one of the premier demo discs, 2) not only does it still sound awesome, but it's even 7.1 to compensate for the fact that it is TrueHD in the first place, which if you consider TF1 to be pretty good, then this is even better, and 3) they need the extra space for the eventual 3D version which will surely take up more disc space, so instead of barely being able to fit a two and a half-hour movie in 3D AND with lossless audio without suffering possible compression issues, you do the math and tell me otherwise. Not to mention this disc already supports 3 other spoken languages in Dolby Digital 5.1 (again, more disc space). Now, as for the audio presentation itself, it should be a no-brainer. Greg P. Russell returns as re-recording mixer for, yet another, truly wonderful auditory experience. The guy has worked on all 3 Transformers films and 200 films altogether in his illustrious career. He's been nominated for 14 Oscars but hasn't won any because, again, the Oscar committee is full of pretentious sycophants that just won't give mainstream movies the credit they're due, let alone anything Michael Bay is a part of. Needless to say, this easily one of the finest presentations you'll hear on a BD. Dialogue remains clear from the center channel, even throughout the chaotic battle sequences, high and low ends are pitch-for-pitch perfect, directionality and separation are flawless from the remaining fronts, sides, and backs, and, of course, LFEs are expectedly ground-shaking. Specifically, the score by Steve Jablonsky is very fitting for the film. It works something to the affect of Hans Zimmer's work in The Dark Knight and Inception giving a very emotional feel to the happenings on screen. But it's to be expected since Jablonsky is a disciple of his. My favorite scenes: the highway chase when Bumblebee transforms in mid-air to catch Sam and the part where they fight Shockwave. Oscar committee, please be more open-minded and at least give Mr. Russell is much-deserved award.  Extras - 0.5  There's nothing here, of course, as they're pulling off an Avatar and trying to capitalize as fast as they can. But at least Paramount gave early warning. I'm sure the eventual deluxe package will have the usual commentary and 2+ hours of special features on a separate disc when it comes out. As much work as they put into this, I'm actually very eager to see how they did it.  Overall - 4.0  Based on the average scores and whether or not you even care for extras (or even 3D) this could either be a "buy now" or "buy it later" recommendation. I, for one, love special features in general and will gladly wait for a complete package. Those who don't mind a bare bones release, however, shouldn't hesitate to get this. This is easily the best of the three Transformers films. It has a gradually building plot structure, a better balance of humor, amazing production value, and is overall a darker and more satisfying film altogether. And with equally amazing A/V quality, fans of the franchise will definitely be pleased.

The Sound of Music....would be great without the music. Before all you classic movie lovers scorn my title, I'll disclaim my review by stating that this is merely my opinion and you're in no way required to put any stock in it. So, I remember positively hating this movie as a child and, as a result, I've gone through my whole life avoiding it like radioactive waste.  I'm positive that I was well under 10 years old the last time I saw it and I'm equally certain that I fell asleep multiple times throughout it.  My brother has been asking for a copy for years because he loved it and I've even gone so far as to discourage other family members from buying it for him.  Pretty bad huh?  So, finally this year I bought him a copy for his birthday and finally he begged enough and I watched it...and I remembered why I hated it...but now I understand the reason better.  I hated the music!  If you're too young to understand the premise of the movie (the impending war, etc), what does the young mind focus on? The music!  I have to say, the music writers got away with very little work.  Having composed music and written lyrics myself, I understand how painstaking a process it can be, but having said that, these music writers had it easy. Every song in the movie is the same music and lyrics, repeated several times over for suitable movie musical length.  They are not melodically distinctive and frankly wander aimlessly in the boring note range.  Another disclaimer, THIS IS NOT A JULIE ANDREWS critique.  I adore Julie Andrews and think she did a great job with boring music material. The only remotely memorable tunes in the movie are Edelweiss  and the song about the lonely goat-heard.  Before you all say "everyone remembers "The hills are alive with the sound of music" line!", do me a favor and try to sing anything past that.  Unless you're a Sound of Music fanatic, that's all you're going to remember because the rest is BORING!  Unfortunately that's the way all of the songs are, they have one short part that you remember and the rest is sleeping pill. Moving on from the music, the story is generic, but charming. Although I have to say, and I'm sure I'm not the only one to have noticed, that this story is just the musical version of Jane Eyre with more children and set in pre-WWII Austria.  The transition of the main characters in the two stories is nearly identical as well, but if you do it right, that's interesting to watch. Upon first sight of Christopher Plummer's truly severe appearance, I wouldn't have thought they could melt him as quickly as they did, but I thought it was well done, if a tad sudden. Then by the end of it he appears almost dashing. Without the underlying threat of the oncoming war, the story would have no struggle, and would therefore just be intolerably "nice".  However, they did have some pretty good suspense there toward the end so that was a good touch. My bottom line, purely ironic as it is: I enjoyed the movie, but not the music.

Beautiful setting and a witty charm This is a movie that my wife & I have watched many times. The setting is just magnificent and the overall mood of the movie is charming with a few darker look back on the main characters life. Russell Crowe does a really good job of keeping the movie going. The story is a bit weak but his acting and the setting keep the movie more than watchable.  Grab a bottle or three of red wine and enjoy.

Masterpiece Contemporary Does It Again As an aspiring mystery author, Val McDermid is on my short list of literary heroes.  The author best known for the gritty contemporary series "Wire in the Blood" tried her hand at a throwback to the 'English village cosy' structure with "A Place of Execution".  Enough time had elapsed since reading the novel that I could enjoy this screen adaptation on its own merits.  Changes have been made from McDermid's original story, but the whole still feels familiar and has her stamp on it.  Juliet Stevenson is the biggest name in this cast, and she is very good as Catherine Heathcote, a documentary filmmaker investigating a 45-year-old case of a missing teenage girl in rural northern England.  The whole cast is a well-oiled ensemble.  But the standout for me was Lee Ingleby as young George Bennett, who perfectly captures the Bennett of McDermid's novel--the raw, somewhat awkward new police inspector whose knowledge is still largely theoretical, catching in his very first case as lead detective, the doozy to end all doozies.  Ingleby was best-known to me as the tragic young naval officer who commits suicide in "Master & Commander", and is well-nigh unrecognizable in this part from the earlier one.  In some angles, he looks fleetingly rather like Tom Cruise.  I look forward to seeing more from this versatile young actor.  Another standout efffort from the BBC's partnership with Masterpiece Theatre.  The new imprint "Masterpiece Contemporary" is proving to be as much a success as its "Classic" and "Mystery" predecessors.  Host David Tennant (Doctor Who) brings great verve and sinister fun to his introductory segments.  I highly recommend any productions in this series.

They RUINED it!!!!! SPOILERS!  SPOILERS!  SPOILERS!!  Probably one of the creepiest flicks ever finally gets the DVD treatment and for that I am eternally grateful.  The movie played like a whodunit, never revealing whether or not Bubba is the actual killer until the absolute final scene of the movie.  Perfection!!  Up till that very last second, we are left to wonder: Is it Bubba?  Is it Bubba's ghost?  Is it the prosecutor attorney that the rednecks suspected?  Is it the little girl?  Then we get that final shot and a chill runs down our backs, while still leaving it open to interpretation...is that Bubba's ghost in the scarecrow?  However, the filmmakers saw fit to shoot a scene for this DVD that shows the gears of the tractor, during the film's finale, moving all by themselves...thus spoiling the ending by blatantly displaying that it IS A GHOST!!!!  Why did they do this?  I don't know...but it truly spoils that iconic final frame reveal.  Don't get me wrong, the film is still a classic but they should have left it alone.

Fun Movie This was a fun movie, but the best part was renting through Amazon Instant video. My child was sick and it was great to be able to get her something new to watch while stuck in bed without leaving the house.

my adult sons rented this 'Must See' Cabin in the Woods movie This movie played at least 8 times the week my adult son was home for a visit. My boys rated this movie 4 stars.  Myself, maybe 3 stars.  It's a bit out there with the monster plot.

Awesome synopsis The shocking suicide bombing that killed two teenage girls in 2002 is the catalyst for this documentary, the story of an Israeli mother's search for answers to her daughter's death, a story that painstakingly reveals, in step by step progression, the real gulf that remains between Arabs and Jews in the Middle East.

Entertaining take on Malory's version of the Arthurian legend--not perfect but good looking "Excalibur" remains a fun, campy, tongue-in-cheek and exciting retelling of the Arthur legend. John Boorman might not have been the first person to spring to mind when thinking about retelling the story of King Arthur, Excalibur and Merlin. After all this is the director who gave us "Point Blank" and "Deliverance". On the other hand, he also gave us "Zardoz" which shares many of the same qualities as "Excalibur" but with a bigger budget and without Sean Connery running around with a gun in a big red diaper.  Boorman turned to Malory's tale when his plans to shoot "Lord of the Rings" fell through and you can see the influence that Malory's version of Arthur had on Tolkein's books.  This is the rated "R" version. It hasn't been edited Amazon originally had this as rated PG that was incorrect.  The Blu-ray transfer looks quite nice. I wouldn't call this a demo quality Blu-ray but it is a big upgrade over the previous DVD version (which came out around the time that DVDs were first introduced). The colors postively pop compared to the previous DVD but keep in mind that image quality is quite soft for a lot of the film and that was quite intentional and the way the film was shot. Detail is still a large improvement over the DVD (particularly noticeable on larger screen monitors).The film looks quite grainy in some scenes more than other.  Audio sounds quite nice although most of the activity is located in the front speakers.  The big complaint is that we don't get any new extras for the film. The original commentary track by John Boorman is intact. It would have been nice to get an updated featurettes with some of the actors that first appeared in this film such as Patrick Stewart ("Star Trek: The Next Generation"), Helen Mirren, Gabriel Byrne, Liam Neeson and, of course, the scenery chewing Nicol Williamson who makes Merlin a heck of a lot of fun in this big screen version of the Arthurian legend adapted from Thomas Malory's work. There is a remake in the works so perhaps we'll see a deluxe version then but in the meantime we'll have to make due with this version which fans of the film will enjoy.

My kind of anime Great story and characters, this anime will make you want more of it. Since the first season is 20 something episodes and there is a second season (did not saw the second season yet), I think you will have enough to satisfy your hunger for good anime for a while. Look no further, this one is for you!

Madagascar 3: 80% Fun 20% Afro Circus While it may not be as great as the first Madagascar film, "Europe's Most Wanted" is still pretty entertaining. With plenty of humor and only a few minor drawbacks, kids and parents will still be entertained. I watched it with my 4yr old nephew and we both laughed and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Flawed, but powerful and important I seem to fall between the two camps of critical reaction. The majority who feel this is a classic, great film, or the sizable minority who call the film boring, historically inaccurate, and all surface. I lean strongly to the positive, but I understand the complaints, e.g., being bothered that the film never really examines how hated the French were for their earlier colonialism. That larger context is part of what makes these Brothers targets. One passing mention is hardly enough to deal with a huge element of the underpinnings of the story.  Exploring that would only make the Brothers seem even more brave and help us understand that they took a huge risk just to be there even before things get 'bad'. At the same time it would make the hatred they faced from the terrorists and the Army not just seem like random 'evil' but something that had roots.  To be clear, that hatred and violence is unforgivable. But understanding how something happened, or why your enemy hates you is part of the path to peace. It is something these wise, well-read monks would have known about and must have been part of their thoughts and discussions, though its largely avoided here.  I also agree that the film is slow in parts, sometimes needed to establish the rhythm of the monks' lives, but other times getting repetitive with no seeming advantage.  In addition, besides the two main characters, the other monks are largely one-note sketches, and the sudden turn around of those who wanted to leave - maybe the most fascinating action in the film - is largely under explored. Some of the time spent used on repeated rituals or re-tread conversations could have been used to deepen the understanding of those men and their heartrending confusion.  It also bothered me that those who wanted to leave are never given strong or convincing arguments. They're almost made to seem cowardly, or 'wrong'. The film could have gone further in it's compassion towards these men, understanding that this was a complex decision, even on a theological level. When does God want us to martyr ourselves and when would God rather we not sacrifice the gift of life to find a way to live to fight another day? I can think of a number of third choices between surrender and simply running away. These men must have examined those options, but there is little sign of it here. I have no problem with the film's conclusion, but I wish it had felt both sides presented with equal weight and seriousness, as I assume must have happened among the real monks.  But my biggest problem is that the film's style, while inviting thought, is somewhat emotionally distancing, so while my brain was deeply engaged, my heart was less so than I wish it was. I wanted to weep for these men and for the world, but I found myself more caught in mind than in emotions. I believe the story was strong enough to carry both sides.  Now, all that said, I still think, unlike many of the professional critics that raised these points, that this is a very, very good film, made with intelligence and passion. It is visually simple but stunning to look at. Its slow pace adds to the meditative feel that eschews inflating drama for its own sake, and allows us a taste of the peace these men experience by living in their simple, giving way, even in the midst of war. And there are scenes of sheer brilliance, where whole stories are told on peoples' faces with little or no dialogue. Scenes where a combination of photography and acting capture a huge range of complex emotions. We watch fear, joy, transcendence, defeat, and loss run through the hearts of these men within seconds of each other without a word needing to be said, That is film-making of a high order.  Ultimately, this is a film that deserves and needs to be seen. A plea for peace and courage in the face of hatred. But that doesn't mean it isn't a flawed work, or that acknowledging those flaws dismisses those very good things the film does accomplish.

nick says A GOOD TIME FOR ALL.VERY ENTERTAINING. DORIS & ROCK AN EXCELLENT PAIRING WITH A VERY TALENTED SUPPORTING CAST. SIT BACK AND ENJOY.

A flawed yet excellent movie I really ejoyed this movie yet it has it's problems.  The problems emenate from two things;  1) The characters are emotionless and practically cardboard and  2) many apsects of this seem very implausible.  Nevertheless, this is not supposed to be based on reality, it's just a movie and it does entertain brilliantly.  Tom Hanks is Mike Sullivan, a sort of honorable hitman working for his adoptive father and crime boss Mr. Rooney, played by Paul Newman. Rooney has a biological son, played by Daniel Craig, who is a complete failure. In a [presumed] bit of jealousy (the movie never really explains this) Craig goes to wipe out Hank's wife and child not knowing that Hanks and his other son got away. In response to this, Hanks, along with his surviving son, goes on a revenge rampage against the whole gang. This is all set in early 1930's depression America.  There are problems with some narrative, Craig's actions are not adequately explained, Hanks really does not bereave when he loses his family and people find each other, in a vast 1930's U.S.A., way too easily.  I give an easy pass to the aforementioned flaws since this movie is based upon a graphic novel so, obviously, the visual takes presedence over other aspects and the visual is quite impressive.  Hanks, believe it or not, is a credible hitman and is often filmed as a shawdowy figure in a trenchcoat and face hiding fedora. As in any comic book, he has few things to say. It is imputed through the film that he is a widely regarded and feared hitman. Paul Newman is portrayed as a physically frail yet mentally strong mob boss. Consistent with comic book monologues, his lines are prophetic. In fact, everybody as brief lines consistent with a graphic novel. Teh dialgoue is just enough to carry the plot.  The scenes of old cars careening through country roads or Chicago streets are highly artistic. Likewise, many of the city scenes are done in a art deco manner and are very cinematic.  The best thing about this movie is it's visuals. Every scene is meaningful, every shadow has it's purpose, every sound advances the plot. There's not a wasted scene. Just like a comic book, every scene is punctuated and that is what makes this movie so great.  The tone of the movie, the visuals, the characters are all over-the-top stylish and that is why I find this movie to be such an entertaining piece of art.  When you realize the movie is based upon a graphic novel then you should give a free pass to the noticeable flaws.

Faithful Reenactment A very faithful recreation of Frank Miller's visionary graphic novel. It captures the more adult style of Batman which is generally absent from the animated features but very prevalent in all of Miller's works.  It is relatively short as far as movies goes, being just over an hour long, but this is do primarily to the film's staying true to Miller's original vision rather than trying to stretch it out and add in additional filler.  The animation is solid and very well drawn, the acting fits the characters and the mood sits perfectly. Overall, a good piece to have for any fan of Batman.

Best Horror Movie of the last 5 years A lot of people may have heard of this movie around 2009 when its few public screenings got amazing reviews and it was widely regarded as one of the best horror movies of that year, and even some saying in the last 20 years. It had a lot of hype upon its DVD release. Going into this I did not expect the movie to live up to its hype upon viewing it.....I was pleasantly surprised.  Trick r' Treat takes an interesting approach, along the same line as Creepshow and Tales From the Darkside, in that it is not one movie with one story, rather one movie broken up into 4 separate Halloween themed stories that are all connected in some way. We watch each story play out as a strange little boy with a sack over his head watches. This strange sack-boy, named Sam, is present in each story.  This movie is just a surefire hit all around. The stories are all fantastic and well written. I don't think I have any complaints with any one of them. None were very predictable while I was watching and the movies formula of having them all spliced together and occurring at the same time. This is adverse to the creepshow and tales from the darkside approach of playing them one right after the other which feels fresh.  The acting in this movie is really good too. In terms of straight to dvd releases its got to be the best or second best I've ever seen and I have watched so many that's hard for me to say. The acting in this movie tops the acting I've even see in some of the movies I've seen in the theater. I can't pick a particular standout because they are all really good. The movie stars veterans such as Anna Paquin who plays the main character of Surprise party Laurie, and Dylan Baker who plays Steve Wilkes.  For the full review of this movie I wrote, please visit [...]

Corporate Greed exposed, again... I suppose the idea that corporate greed should be interesting, and in the case of "The Company Men" (and also "Margin Call"), some great characters are on hand to expose it all. I enjoyed both films, due to fine acting, writing and direction. Indeed, Ben Affleck carries the film well, with very able support from the always reliable Tommy Lee Jones. There's a little more integrity in this film than in its subsequent co-film, and there's more back story about the characters.  Still, it was hard to wrap my head around the idea that these poor put-upon millionaires couldn't manage their finances. I know a lot of people who lost their jobs unfairly, and their story will always hit a more personal nerve than any film about privileged money-mongers.  Still, I admire the achievements of the film-makers.

question i want to get this dvd, but notice that both the language and subtitles are english.  Does this mean that this movie is dubbed in english?  I really hate dubbed movies, so won't buy it if it is dubbed.  Any infor will help....thanx in advance

classic samurai A very good samurai film.  Classic honor vs money/greed/power tale with interesting characters on all sides.  Worth watching.  I liked a more recent film called "Twilight Samurai" even better.  Check it out, a masterpiece.

The Shoes of the Fisherman The Shoes of the Fisherman, love it.  Is a beautiful movie, historical and full of hope.  I receive the movie in short time and in a good condition.

High-Tech Horror... 1973's "Westworld" was cutting-edge entertainment at the time, featuring a high-tech resort at which guests could interact with life-like robots in each of three themed environments: the Old West, Imperial Rome, and Medieval Europe.  Richard Benjamin and James Brolin starred as guests who chose the Old West; Yul Brynner stole the show as a robot who goes off the rails.  The opening sequences have Peter Martin (Bejamin) and John Blane (Brolin) arriving at the resort and indulging themselves drinking, fighting, and whoring in the Old West; the viewer learns the venue is set up to ensure the safety and satisfaction of guests in ingenious ways.  It includes interactive girls at a brothel and an aggressive gunslinger (Brynner) who starts gunfights but who always loses to the guests, including to a clumsy Martin.  As the movie shifts to the technicians running the resort behind the scenes (with what now looks like hopelessly ancient equipment), it introduces concern about a virus that is corrupting the programming of the robots.  Suddenly, simple errors become deadly ones, as the Old West gunslinger cuts down Blane in an early morning gunfight, then relentessly pursues the hapless Martin.  The fleeing Martin cuts through the other venues in search of help, with the seemingly unstoppable gunslinger on his heels...  "Westworld" looks and feels a lot like an early version of the "Terminator" movies.  If the high-tech and some of the acting looks less serious now, there is a real thread of horror snaking through the middle of the movie, of technology gone lethally wrong.  "Westworld" is still a worthwhile viewing experience.

good movie This movie help me to understand some of the 99%ters( ninetynine presenteres)I have seen them with  their masks and other actions and after seeing the movie ( which I enjoyed) I understand why this movie may have a lot of meaning .

Lovejoy was a great series. Lovejoy: The complete Series One was very good....exploring who the characters are and each cast member finding their way in the series. Lovejoy wasn't yet the figure we all watched and loved. The episode in Venice begins to show us what he will become. This might be called a pilot and after this it was rested for a couple years until it was ressurected again. I'll order more for this winter........... of the later episodes of the series. The antiques trade is very much as it is depicted.

Really interesting and well presented but resolution very variable This is a really interesting set. The 5 different docos and very good "making of" deal essentially with global warming as it affects mostly the Arctic but also the tiny island nation of Tuvalu and even New York. The sound is clear but only in DD stereo. It is a French Canadian production and is offered in French, (I assume Canadian French but am not qualified to be sure), many of the English commentaries are in quite strongly accented French English or Inuit English and are not that easy to follow. The final 26 minute doco is in French only but is not very interesting. The set claims to offer closed captions for the hearing impaired but they cannot be accessed on my equipment.  The picture quality is very variable, and for large parts not much better than a decent DVD. This is not the BBC. Nevertheless it is adequate for the purpose of the docos, but it should really have been better as most of these docos were made in 2002/03. Despite this the set is very good value, particularly bearing in mind the low price and strongly recommended if the subject matter is of interest. The messages are on the whole very well presented with excellent camera work and composition, it is just such a shame the resolution does not match. They give some chilling (pardon the pun) food for thought.

An interesting movie about statistics and baseball. This movie tells how statistics and mathamatics made their way into baseball.  A recent college graduate comes to baseball and hooks up with a gereral manager who is willing to give it a shot.  Their trials with the "old hands" who do it by the seat of the pants is interesting and fun.  A worthwhile move, even if you aren'a baseball fan.

Not as entertaining as I'd hoped but still good Sharktopus focuses on the story of the Blue Water members and their search for/attempted capture of project S-11, otherwise known as... actually, the title kinda reveals that already.  Okay seriously, shortly after the movie starts, S-11 gets released from Blue Water control by a boat turning at a convenient time, a victim's last words are "no, not like this" and a homeless man shows little surprise after seeing a girl dragged out to sea.  Within the first twenty minutes or so.  Obviously this movie doesn't take itself too seriously.  Actually, taking it seriously is a good way to get yourself upset. Or angry. Or requiring therapy.  Anyways, Corman's history with monster films pretty much ensures the movie provides what's needed. Scenes of the creature rampaging, killing anyone unlucky enough to be too close, and other scenes involving some more unusual kill sequences.  Aside from Eric Roberts's character, the more entertaining roles in the movie unfortunately are characters who don't get enough screentime.  The commentary is pretty interesting and worth listing to.

Bwoob, bwoob, bwoob! Much better than I expected.  Casting was right on the money. Laugh out loud funny, but you must like the Stooges to begin with to enjoy this movie.

Quite pleased Although I have not watched the entire series yet, from what I have seen the videos are very informative and well done.  Family friendly is important to us...as well as christian values, so we look forward to teaching our child about wildlife through the viewing of these wonderful videos.

the raid It was a very good and surprising movie i loved it it has everything suspense action and a surprising twist

Road less traveled This was a great indy film that was off beat and precious at the same time.  Casting couldn't have been better and who doesn't like to wish for the underdog?  Simple and interesting that makes you smile in the end.

Bosnian Noir? Three soldiers that murder a Serbian neighbor feel the noose tightening.  The narrative structure here is to cherry pick certain scenes until we guess what's happened and then replay a few of those scenes with an added minute of dialogue that reveals the missing motives and schemes.  Effective at showing what a moral black hole these soldiers lived through.

Takes me back to high school :) Great Blu-Ray but I think including the Music video by Simple Minds performing Don't You (Forget About Me). Would have truly had make this the ultimate video package.

DVD Version Just as Good My favorite movie as a child and still very entertaining from the master Walt Disney. However, I did not see any eye-popping improvements I expected from this Blu-ray version. The DVD version seemed just as good. Maybe I need the two versions side-by-side to detect any difference in presentation quality.

Incredible Movie, but Poor DVD Release Despicable Me is an incredible movie. It's funny, original, and entertaining for both kids and adults. The problem I have is with how it was released. You could get the regular DVD version, but it doesn't come with the 3-Mini movies, which are sold as a seperate disk. (Or you pay extra getting them both together.) This is just wrong. This is basicly punishing people who still value and use DVDs - because they are trying to force you to buy the Blueray edition. There is no reason this couldn't have been sold as a two-disk edition. In fact, it would have been more inviromentally friendly to just do that, instead of making a second DVD case just for some minor special features.  And the worst part of it is - those mini-movies just aren't that funny. Steve Carrel is noticably abscent from them. The only redeeming nature of the second disk was a feature telling about the voice-cast of the movie. There is no reason this couldn't have been put along with the regular DVD disk - they are just trying to make a quick few extra bucks by annoying us with "sold seperately" special features. I hope they did make money - because I'm libable not to come back and buy another movie sold in this fashion next time.  It really is a great movie. But you can save some money and just get the Single DVD Edition. The mini-movies just aren't worth it.

get in on the cult.... AS a movie, it was just OK,,,, but there are some really great lines in it...and it does have a huge cult following..

The English Patient Blu-ray I like this movie. Winning 9 academy award .. transfer picture very good and audio DTS HD 5.1 very well. A lot of Feature in standart Definition. and i hope the English Patient NOT release agaian with different Feature in High Definition . And I didn't have a slipcase with this edition

Great Video, Okay Audio Please describe the audio/video quality of any Blu-Ray you review.  The video quality of this Blu-Ray is really great.  Some scenes looked yellowish.  There is supposed to be a Dolby TrueHD 2.0 soundtrack, but when I selected that, my receiver did not say "Dolby TrueHD".  So, in a way, I feel ripped off, but since it is only 2.0, it doesn't really matter that much to me.  The surround sound my receiver selected sounded okay.  5.1 could have been better.

Good movie This is a cute little movie. My three year old son loved it. Robin Williams does an excellent narration in this film and there are plenty of funny moments for adults. I think it's a good movie for the whole family to enjoy!

sorry Brad makes me watch this movie... i could care less about the evils performed by these women, I just wanna see Brad n Gina... yes I am desperate for entertainement so run off a cliff and die, I don't give a flyin fajita... love this film for the revenge to slime f' men n have met tooo many in my life, so will skip that discussion n go for the fun parts... thank u for such diverion in film!

outstanding Very happy with the performances, video, and sound. Good mix, on sound, which is very important to me. Not too compresed, decent dynamic range,and relatively good stereo spread plus dts. Great performances like they actually tried.!

Ya guessed wrong! Appreciate the twists, also the fact that there was no gratuitous sex and swearing in the flick. Have to pay attention while watching.  Missed the pop corn cup a couple of times.

One of The Few Movies Where The Sidekick Steals The Show "A Low Down Dirty Shame" has many laugh out loud moments.  Shame played by Keenan Ivory Wayans makes a living with odd police jobs and finds he has an opportunity to strike big, after following a lead from an old acquaintance.  Shame is casted into an action hero role and gets backup from partner Peaches, played by Jada Pinkett.  Undoubtedly, this is my favorite Jada Pinkett role.  Peaches is sassy, in your face, exuberant, and downright sexy.  Although her appearance is cute and petite, she will snap on anybody who steps on her toes.  Oddly enough, my favorite scene in the movie is the very beginning when peaches is an undercover maid and barges into a hotel room and spots a man on a toilet.  Peaches - "house keeping". Hotel guest on toilet - "EXCUSE ME...do you know how to spell do not disturb".  Peaches - "Do you know how to spell Lysol, god damn you better check your pulse you might be dead".

I like This season is good! Im having a hard time getting use to the new guy playing Sparticus, and I cant really see where this show is going, but I was completley entertained the whole way thru!..

worth watching The Richard Donner cut version was worth watching, but it was not really as good as the released version.  The Donner version repeated the first Superman movie to change the past, while in the released version Superman simply did some unexplained hocus pocus on Lois' memory that he was Clark Kent.  Neither version was satisfactory, but I preferred the released version which did not have to change world history to affect Lois' memory.  It was good to see a few other scenes that had been cut.

Pretty good This movie was action packed from the beginning until the end. It will really keep your attention. I watched it on a short plane ride and the time flew by.

Be interesting to see how blu-ray effects this... I'll be very curious to see how blu-ray effects the series.  I suspect much of the live action may look great, but the early CGI special effects may look even weaker, even more obviously animated -- and they were never the series' strong point.  The show itself? Fascinating, sometimes maddening mix of wonderful and silly, intelligent and dumb, insightful and obvious.  At it's best it's the 'Wire' of science fiction, challenging 'Battlestar Galactica' for intelligence and emotional depth. At it's worst, it's like an OK episode of 'Lost in Space'.  Generally far more intelligent than most TV sci-fi (or recent sci-fi films for that matter), with stories based more on ideas than laser battles. In that, it's a little reminiscent of the original 'Star Trek' series.  The most interesting thing; this was an early case of a series having a pre-planned multi-year arc, so throughout there are sometimes intentionally confusing or mysterious details that return to be finally explained as having great importance a season or two or three later.  On the other hand, because this preceded the acceptance of truly serial cable shows, each episode is more self contained than more recent shows in a sometimes annoyingly neat way.  The show is also full of allusions; Shakespeare, the Bible, Buddhism, King Arthur, the Koran. Certainly the writing is grounded in pretty heady stuff. Of course, sometimes it's dealt with in a pretty heavy handed way.  The setting is a space station that's sort of an intergalactic United Nations. In season 1, some of the acting is so stiff, that it brings the series down. Also, the effects, production design, etc. all reflect a budget that's clearly way too low, giving it all an amateurish air. None-the-less, I found myself caught up in a number of the episodes, both emotionally and intellectually. One even brought tears to my eyes. And the layering in of deep mysteries to be only slowly solved gives it a sense of deeper meaning and arc.  Season 2 brought in some stronger cast, and somewhat better effects. The stories in season 2 continued to be a mix, mostly quite good, a few great, and some subplots that were to be honest, dopey. But overall it remained pretty riveting, with lots of interesting allusions to history and philosophy.  And it was great to see characters that seriously evolve as the show goes on.  Season 3 was a roller coaster of good and bad episodes, with the best --suddenly making sense of obscure things from season 1 -- simply brilliant, and other episodes just acting as filler.  And that may be the series' biggest problem. If this show could have been 12 episodes a year instead of 22, as is the case with most current serialized series, there would be a lot fewer episodes that felt lacking in substance, as if the show were just marking time.  Season 4 pulled off the neat trick of having the series feel like it answered it's whole core question that gave it a reason for being, only to replace it with new story lines just as rich and strong. Again, it was episode to episode how interesting and germane the stories were.  One running problem of the series, the villains tended to be a little 'Snidely Whiplash', complete with black costumes and deep scary voices. It got a little better as the series went along, but I wish the 'bad guys' were a little less cartoony.  Season 5 also bumps up and down, but in the end I was quite moved by it all, and will miss this series, with it's willingness to allow tragedy to befall characters we like, and a sense of the complexities of politics and life.  I wish it was even more consistently great, but - in the end - it was more than good enough.  P.S. To echo what others have written here, be careful with the special features.  They sometimes have a nasty habit of acting as spoilers and giving away plot twists to come.

Crusoe as  shamed by Friday and uplifted by him This a a very good version of an old classic, occurring about 100 years after the original (in 18C not 17C).  Crusoe is a civilized man who finds himself alone of the island for many years, falling into a bit of savagery and engaging in a long dialogue with his God.  Along comes Friday from a group of competing cannibals, and they begin a conflicted and complicated relationship that is funny and engaging.  Friday doesn't buy a lot of Crusoe's ideas, from wearing shirts to the promises of catholicism, but he does appreciate Crusoe and they learn to live together, in mutual respect.  This is very well done, with a near anthropological sensibility and truly fine acting, esp. Friday.  There are also two subplots in the book, one about why Crusoe was set adrift with a aftermath that is significant and the other about Friday's uneasy reception in a slave-holding colony and their subsequent departure for Europe, where further conflict and prejudice surely await.  Unfortunately, this is a clunkily dubbed copy of a French film, without the option to watch it in the original version.  I was able to forget about this because of the quality of the film, but it was so poorly done that I almost stopped watching it in the beginning.  Recommended as an excellent extension of the original story, which I now feel inspired to read.

Perfectly Acceptable The movie came in quickly and was packaged very well.  The case had a tiny crack in the spine, but I'll take that for the price any day.

How to train your dragon: Gift of the Night Fury A book that any age can read with an enjoyable story, you would need to have read the first book of the serries to get what this book is about

a world of long ago and yet.......... this movie portrays a world  goneby  but yet very pertinent to our times. The 3 protagonists are amoral yet charming and likable, the times are perilous,but in other parts of the world so are they today. The film's setting is the beautiful old city of Budapeszt.  I saw this movie twice once a few years ago in the cinema and now when I bought the DVD, liked it very much both times.

Game of Thrones "WTF" Be for warned about this series. There are so many twists and turns throughout that it almost makes you wanna stop watching but the story is just sooo good. I was left disappointed, shocked, and excited for the second season.

Entertaining Nice afternoon movie. It moves right along with some nice twists. The cast is great and the direction is excellent. Love the art direction and costumes as well - so deliciously prissy/period.  Reese Witherspoon is sadly miscast. Though there's nothing outright wrong with her acting in this role, she just doesn't seem believable and comes across as stiff alongside the more spontaneous acting of the other characters.

Too strong for some people, but an excellent film Curiously, in some reviews I read in a Spanish film website, most people give this a thumbs-down. I live in Spain and speak Spanish, and generally avoid films made-in-Spain, because they are usually depressing (or silly). This film is a minor gem, very daring in its subject matter, and with interesting actors. Flora Martinez is great, and the rest of the ladies are very well "fleshed out," but it is the fascinating performance by Eduardo Noriega that really stands out for me... performances, really, because he brings to life two drastically different brothers, as described in other posts here. You'll want to see the "making-of" too. This shows how the director, Vicente Aranda, uses his presumably limited budget in a totally professional and imaginative way. This is a director worth seeking out (Juana la Loca / Mad Love, Lovers... because he treads where no other serious director dares, and, finally,  makes you care even about the totally amoral anti-hero.

Hitchcock's masterpiece? So apparently this movie was a miserable failure at the box office and it was only years and years later that it was regarded as one of Hitchcock's greatest films. Why? Because we audiences of today are oh so much more sophisticated than the silly people of back then, who just didn't get it. (Oh, and something about how it was personal to Hitch.) Well, I have to say I disagree. While there are still good movies made today, I sadly have to opine that the art of the film has seriously deteriorated.  That said, while I find this movie fascinating, it is not my favorite Hitchcock film. I've seen it a few times and maybe I just need to see it a few more to get all the subtleties. But honestly, it is probably more the subject matter - the poor treatment of women - that kept me from enjoying this film fully. Normally, the excellent acting, intense suspense, intriguing plot, and amazing camera work would be enough to overcome all that. But I don't know. It was just so... disturbing. Jimmy Stewart was always so pleasant, the guy next door. This role was such a departure for him, and he was very convincing. My goodness, what a creep. Making over his new girlfriend to resemble the woman he was in love with! Frankly I thought Kim Novak was more attractive as the second woman, with the darker hair she wore down around her shoulders, and the more colorful clothing. I can sort of understand why she was willing to change for him, because she was already in love with him. But seriously... what if she had stayed with him the first time? Would she have never been able to change for the entire rest of her life?  But then, this movie probably intended to make us think and ask questions. In that, it really succeeded.

Check it out for yourself If you need a movie fix, consider The Job. Dark and twisted with a comedic element.  It just might scratch the itch.

Overall creative, editing questionable. Overall, an intriguing story, well written and crafted, beautifully shot and well cast.  In places the movie tends to lag due to sequences that may make sense in the overall scope of the books and the follow-on movies, but add quite a lot of lag to what is otherwise a clever, interesting and creative story.  Subtitles are well done.  Well worth watching, but could use a good editor to craft a good work into a great one.

Not as good as the others, I hope they go out with a bang with the next one. I have read books one, two, and four, and I am working on three. I own all the movies (except for this one because it is not available yet). I read this book before I saw the movie so I was looking very forward to it. It was a good movie, however it left out a lot of details that I thought were very important. The honeymoon scene should have been more like the book, and the birth scene should have been less like the book, it was disturbing and gross. They probably left out some of the honeymoon to make it pg-13 instead of R, but that birth scene should have made it R rated! For the first part of the last book, it just was not detailed enough. For me personally, I could have sat through a 3 and 1/2 hour movie at least to have the detail. I hope the last part is much longer and more detailed!

Cute Movie This movie is a bit of fluff but all in all it is a cute movie.  This was a Hallmark movie and you know they always end them happily.....which is a good thing.

Play it Again Sam Norman Jewison returns to familiar ground after his very successful "In the Heat of the Night" with this mystery/ investigation dealing with the death of a black sergeant in a Louisiana military camp in 1944.  WWII is ramping up. The black soldiers are segregated in a Southern camp and are chomping at the bit to get to Europe and kick some Nazi butt. These guys have a tough sergeant who wants them to be a pride to their race. He does everything he can to not be thought of as black and he doesn't want his men doing anything that will make whitey feel less of them, so he rides them, particularly the rural blacks, to get them to act white. One night he gets really drunk. On his way back to the barracks he is murdered. A black officer from D.C. is sent in to handle the investigation.  This is very much like "In the Heat of the Night" in that both deal with murder investigations and strained race relations. Here, though, the focus deals as much with black to black relations as it does black to white relations and it's uncomfortable to watch. The sergeant is ashamed of being black. He wants to advance in the white man's world and figures to do so by acting white. He rides his men hard to do the same thing to the point his riding drives one of his men to commit suicide.  This was adapted from a play and much is done to not give it a staged look. All the production values are good. The acting is very good. Adolph Caesar is great as the sergeant. Howard Rollins is good as the investigator. It's fun to see David Allen Grier, Robert Townsend and Denzel Washington as their careers were on the rise. About the only thing I didn't care for were the portrayals of some of the soldiers. They were a bit too caricaturish to me, but it's a minor quibble compared to all the great things happening here.

beyond beginer Good and useful licks and not a lot of wasted time with fluff.  He gets right in to it.  Licks are at least intermediate skill and beyond.  The production is jerky and at first I thought the DVD was malfunctioning.  The chapters end and begin abruptly.  I think the producer just chopped a continuous sequence into chapters.  But who cares? We just wanna see the licks! Right?

Courage Under Fire I am from a Military Family: This movie explains how difficult things/medals are given out not to mention the "POLITICS" that are involved.,

Beverly Hills Blu "That the film turned out to be coherent is a miracle. That it is successful proves there is a God." -Martin Brest on his own movie.  It's easy to understand his feelings when you consider the endless changes made to Danilo Bach and Daniel Petrie Jr's script. They got an Academy Award nomination, but the final product is a million miles away from what they originally conceived.  Axel Foley was originally written for Mickey Rourke, then it was geared around Sylvester Stallone, who significantly rewrote the script further before abandoning the project a couple of weeks before shooting was scheduled to begin. Eddie Murphy was brought on board at the last minute, and the script was re-written yet again to form the movie we know today. Bizarrely, all of the work Stallone did on the script was recycled into his reprehensible 1986 action movie Cobra, which, on top of being nothing at all like Beverly Hills Cop, called itself an adaptation of a novel called Fair Game by Paula Gosling (which it also bore little-to-no resemblance to). Nine years later, that novel was once again made into a movie of the same name starring William Baldwin and Cindy Crawford, which bore no resemblance to Cobra. When I say that Beverly Hills Cop had the biggest hodgepodge of a shooting script ever, you better believe it.  The story could not get any simpler. Young renegade Detroit cop Axel Foley, forever tormenting his no-nonsense boss with his reckless antics, meets up with a childhood pal only for him to be murdered that very night. Axel follows the trail and travels to Beverly Hills in his crappy, banged-up sky-blue Chevy Nova. It's a world away from the streets of Detroit. Even the patrol cops look like soap opera actors. Axel's fast and loose work ethic, barely on the good side of the law, doesn't sit well with the Beverly Hills police department. Detectives Taggart and Rosewood (John Ashton and Judge Reinhold doing a Laurel and Hardy routine) are assigned to keep an eye on Axel as he very quickly discovers the bad guy.  No twists, no surprises, and barely a couple layers deep, it's amazing that a story so superficial is able get 105 minutes of mileage. The film works thanks to Murphy's cheerful, upbeat performance and Martin Brest's ability to keep it light. Beverly Hills Cop would not have worked as a dark thriller. Harold Faltermeyer's iconic score and world-famous Axel F theme tune certainly help the happy-go-lucky nature.  There are certainly shortcomings. Steven Berkoff, as Victor Maitland, is completely unconvincing as the villain. In fact, with the exception of Bennett from Commando, he's probably the least threatening/most campiest villain I've ever seen in a movie. And, as I have mentioned, the story is very straightforward. Taggart and Rosewood do virtually no police work and are just bystanders watching and reacting to Axel's hustles. Apart from one cruise along Rodeo Drive, we never really see or feel the glamor of Beverly Hills to juxtapose it next to the grime of Detroit. There are just too many interior scenes.  But it never fails to entertain and is truly the highlight of Murphy's career. Once, long before he sold out to family audiences, his R-rated movies were huge business, and Beverly Hills Cop showcases his leading man ability at its very best.  The Blu Ray sports a fine 1.78:1 1080p picture with DTS HD-MA sound and a slight amount of old, recycled extras. Unfortunately, it also comes in a cheap, flimsy, easily broken eco-case.

Chaotic - at best I watched the video on Comedy Channel and enjoyed it very much. I had preordered the DVD prior to the show and knew there would be more than what was shown on TV due to time constraints.  There is quite a bit more than what was shown, but in previous shows, the DVD gave you the choice of the full version or the 'bleeped' version so that children could view it as well.  This DVD gives you no choice and it is bleeped.  I'm guessing there are constrainst of some type imposed by the lawyers over his divorce, which is why he didn't make much fun of it. I recommend it and enjoyed it very much and think you will also.

4 out of 5 stars What a performence, what a movie.... Truely greatness true talent here Bale is in the top 3 of his generation.

Good movie I saw this when I was a little girl, now seeing it again as an adult really brings back memories. It's a classic Flintstone Christmas Carol. If you have a collection of Christmas Dvds, then it won't be complete without this one.

Secret Hya Ji Won, she's still very young and still have baby fat, she's cute but I like her acting.  It's heart-breaking.  The main characters did their best to portrait the story.

Good movie, but a two-sided DVD, and matted, too. One side for half of the movie - one side for the remaining half.  A little inconvenient.  The DVD is advertised as widescreen, but it's a matted / letterboxed image.  Using my TV's zoom feature to fit it to the screen results in a slight decrease in image quality.  I'd give five stars to the movie itself.

The Incredibles is truly incredible.  Another home run for Brad Bird I caught this on ABC family channel while flipping around one night by accident.  I liked what I saw and bought the Incredibles and have now watched it many times over.  Brad Bird scores another winner with this one.  Again, I hate to be the spoiler of good things, so I'll keep this brief.  The Incredibles is the story about a superhero family.  I don't know how but Brad Bird seems to be able to convey a sense of caring and connection with his animated characters.  I think it is because he develops his story very well and the story is his main concern.  This superhero family starts with mom & dad superhero.  But like the great American story all things must come to be sued.  They are sued for being superheros and daring to do what must be done for the good of all and are driven underground where they cannot use their superpowers.  Then the fun begins when the world needs the "supers" again.  I'm sorry but I can't say anything more without spoiling the ending and I am one of those people that cannot watch a movie if I walk into the middle of it.  But all things being Brad Bird, this is a score.  Great story, smart humor and just plain funny!  I highly recommend!

New Take On Alice and the Looking Glass I watched this at the suggestion of my sister who fell in love with Tin Man and I had already seen Johnny Depps Alice in Wonderland and was not impressed. I took a chance anyway and I was pleasantly surprised.  The actress was a weak but thanks to the rest of the cast, they made her look good and the story itself was fun to watch. This was better than the Tim Burton one.  I would not only recommend this version but also Tin Man and I heard rumors that the same people are working on a version of Peter Pan. I can't wait.  This is quality work and it is nice to know that there is still talent out there doing what they do best.  The right crew, the right actors and anything can happen.  This was a pleasure to watch and not only that, but it can be re watched as well!!  I know what I want for my birthday this year

This used to be my playground A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN is the often amusing, sometimes touching biopic of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which was organized in 1942. The story centers on two highly competitive sisters, teammates on the Rockford (IL) Peaches, and their disgruntled, uninterested manager, a former major league superstar who took to the bottle after a career-ending knee injury.  After the country is combed for prospects, the fledgling AAGPBL is formed. During games, players must wear outfits with short skirts and are expected to flaunt their charms, but off the field they have to comport themselves like proper ladies. Some calculated publicity along with skillful ballplaying eventually turn the once struggling league into a moneymaking enterprise, but with the war winding down and all the men due home, the girls are expected to return to their former lives. As true competitors however, they won't simply pack it in and go away. Meanwhile, a very exciting season is coming to a close, with the Peaches battling the Racine (WI) Belles for the championship.  Several actors enrich this film with talents they bring to otherwise minor roles. David Strathairn's earnest portrayal of a P.R. man who struggles to preserve the girls' league once WWII ends, Pauline Brailsford as prissy Miss Cuthbert, the laugh-out-loud one-liners of league scout Jon Lovitz, Ann Cusack's scatterbrained Shirley Baker, Tracy Reiner's touching performance as 'Betty Spaghetti' and Megan Cavanagh's ultra-shy power-hitting Marla Hooch are particular stand-outs.  Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 imdb viewer poll rating.  (7.0) A League of Their Own (1992) - Tom Hanks/Geena Davis/Lori Petty/Jon Lovitz/Rosie O'Donnell/Madonna/David Strathairn/Garry Marshall/Bill Pullman/T&eacute;a Leoni/Harry Shearer (voice) (uncredited: David L. Lander)

Good follow up story and still really funny Loved the sequel and thought it was very funny. Enough to keep an adult interested but easy enough for my three year old to enjoy.

Good 3D dvd This is a good starter DVD for viewing 3D on your new TV.  A little dry since its a documentary but graphic are great non the less.  Who knows  ya might learn something...  I did... Graphics are computer drawn no actual video form our space craft.

Entertaining Offbeat Disaster Flick Not used to Korean storytelling - the delivery is quite offbeat. Not bad at all, in fact, quite the opposite. But the complex social structure and extreme melodrama is something one has to get used to; especially coming from a western perspective.  Rented because I'm a fan of disaster flicks, I have to say that I thought this was miscategorized because it plays as a comedy for a fair portion of the film. And it's a really excellent comedy. For the first fifty minutes of the movie, which lays out the characters and their relationships to one another, I had an absolute blast! These folks are insanely funny, and perhaps that's the point. To display and reveal their humanity; that these weren't just victims-to-be.  And that's what I mean by offbeat delivery - you don't expect a comedy to be the harbinger or platform to a terrible disaster. In western films the tone is infinitely more sombre, more serious with very light comedic touches, if at all; a wisecrack here or there is about it.  In 'Tidal' we're introduced to a very large contingent of characters - we're talking more than dozen. But surprisingly, they don't congeal into an anonymous homogenized mass as one would expect, and you fairly quickly sort out the whos, whats and whys.  The two primary characters are Man-sik and Yeon-hee.  The former is one of the survivors of an open ocean tidal wave which killed a fellow fisherman. As ship's captain he was arrogant and negligent; ignoring the warnings of an older seasoned deckhand who reluctantly followed Man-sik's instructions. A decision that ended with him being crushed and trapped by a falling crab pot; unable to escape before the rogue wave struck and sank the craft. As he lay dying, moments before the wave engulfed the ship, the man makes a final request. He has Man-sik promise to look after his daughter, who will be alone in the world after his death.  It's a promise Man-sik works hard to keep, but keep it he does. Under his guilt-driven watch, the young girl grows up to be a beautiful young woman. He's kept a protective eye on her, giving her extra money when she needs it and helping guide her way into a small business of her own.  And despite his efforts to maintain a proper relationship, it's clear that Man-sik has fallen in love with Yeon-hee. A love that she also shares, but avoids because of his domineering mother; an old hag who detests her and her lowly lifestyle - selling her meager catch of fish on the sidewalk and running a tiny out-of-the-way restaurant in a bustling port/vacation city.  What happens to Man-sik, Yeon-hee and the others is both terrifying and engrossing. The film's early light-heartedness creates a real connection to the characters as people; we don't want to see any of them hurt, even though you know some of them won't make it. The genuine empathy one feels is what really makes this a solid flick, regardless of the whipped up screeching melodrama. And there are still a few elementary sacred cows that Koreans have yet to slaughter. i.e. Inappropriate (independent) women "getting their comeuppance"; the unfilial son who only respects his hard-working mother after her death, etc. Essentially, Koreans proselytising and overacting their values, sounding a lot like social propoganda.  Still, the overall tone is enjoyable.  A fun movie and one that I would recommend to film fans in general, but disaster groupies like myself in particular.  Personal Note. One disturbing element that I had a huge problem with: Any country where dogs can be considered 'food' will obviously not be given the respect we in the west would consider acceptable behavior. But, drunk or not, you don't go around kicking our four-legged buddies. }:-(  It's a deeply flawed character trait that I find personally detestable, but one I took in stride given my belief that cultural differences are also cultural tolerances. You don't go into your neighbor's house and tell them how to live.

worth watching This movie was better than many of these kinds of films are, if not up to the usual "Hollywood" standard.  It didn't always make sense (Sarah had a good job but apparently couldn't pay her rent?) and it was pretty heavy-handed at times (the abortion doctor and Sarah's friend).  Also, Sarah was rather unbelievably dense.  Really?  She needed all three visions to make her choice?  And the Magical Christmas card didn't clue her in?  That said though, I did enjoy the film, partly because self-involved characters redeemed themselves -- Sarah, her boyfriend, and her best friend.  There were no saints in this film.  No perfect characters.  But in the end, they all grew up and figured out what was most important in life. I also enjoyed the secondary characters, especially Uncle Clay.  I disagree with those who said the acting was bad.  None of it was stellar, but I didn't find any of it particularly bad.  In fact, the acting was better, I thought, than we usually get in these kind of films.

Mystery Pie If you are looking at this I assume you are already familiar with the Pie In The Sky series and appreciate what a witty and brilliantly written (and performed) work it is.  The only reason that I did not give this set five stars is because it comes without a listing of episodes.  Not on the box, not on the individual series cases, nor on the DVDs themselves.  If you want to play a specific episode, you will have to go a hunting for it (hopefully without Freddy Fisher!) or take the time, as I did, to create your own directory.  Don't let that stop you from buying the set, though.  It really is first rate entertainment.

Tautou shines as always Directed by Anne Fontaine Starring Audrey Tautou, Benoît Poelvoorde and Alessandro Nivola 110 minutes French language with optional English subtitles  Video: Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video resolution: 1080p Aspect ratio: 2.35:1  Audio: French: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1  Subtitles: English (optional)  This is a film about individuality more than anything. There are elements of romance and some observations on how people use each other, but it's really about how a young woman chooses to be who she wants to be rather than who she's expected to be.  The film opens in a music hall setting with Coco (Tautou) singing a duet with her sister. Wealthy men use the place as a hunting ground for mistresses or prostitutes. Coco befriends Etienne Balsan, who is much older than her, but offers her the chance to spend time with a higher social class. She mixes with his upper class friends and is at first ridiculed and described as a boy because of the clothes she wears. She doesn't buy into the trend of wearing traditional dresses, corsets, giant hats or clothes designed to show off her body. She chooses an almost masculine style that's very plain by comparison.  She eventually gains a kind of acceptance and befriends an actress (Emmanuelle Devos) who takes her advice about what to wear.  Coco is not content to spend her days subservient to the idle rich and wants to work. This is frowned upon by her snooty acquaintances, but she's determined to pursue her own course.  The film shows how friendships can develop in unlikely situations and includes a romance between Coco and Boy (Nivola), who is genuinely touched by her.  I guess that all sounds a bit girly, doesn't it? Well, like Coco, I follow my own path and like what I like.  The highlight of the film is the performance of Audrey Tautou. I've been enchanted by her in a number of films such as Amelie, A Very Long Engagement, He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, The DaVinci Code and Dirty Pretty Things. She was the perfect choice for the part because she's somewhat similar to Coco in that she follows her own path. Not what most people consider attractive, but incredibly beautiful. Her face is capable of showing so much emotion. She can transition from pure joy to sorrow. If she had chosen to work in English-speaking roles, she would probably be a huge star with multiple awards. Again, she was the perfect choice for the role.  The Blu-ray is in the native French and offers the choice to see the film with or without subtitles. The presentation is decent and really comes alive in the shots of the French countryside.  I wouldn't recommend this film to everyone. It's not for those who need thrills or action in every scene. It moves slowly and is quite thought provoking. I found it fascinating and a surprisingly plausible account of Coco's early life.

Warrior Acclaimed director Gavin O'Connor (MIRACLE) does the incredible AGAIN. Warrior is about two brothers who enter a mixed martial arts fighting competition, SPARTA, in order to win the world championship prize of $5 Million dollars. The youngest brother, Tommy Conlon (Tom Hardy), who went AWOL from the Marines, intends to give the prize money to his deceased military friend's widow and children.  Tommy physically resembles the Incredible Hulk with a monster body and raging anger. The oldest brother, Brendan (Joel Edgerton), a high school physics teacher, ex-fighter, and husband/father, needs the money to rescue his family home from foreclosure. Brendan breaks a solemn promise to his wife (Jennifer Morrison) that he would never fight again and this adds marital tensions on top of their financial woes. Brendan is the underdog at SPARTA because he is unknown and has a lightweight athletic build compared to Tommy and other star athletes.  Tommy harbors childhood animosity towards Brendan because Brendan left home to runaway with his girlfriend (now wife) at the age of sixteen, leaving Tommy alone as a little scared boy to take care of their dying mother. Brendan was unaware at the time when he jumped the family ship that their mom was sick with cancer. Before the brothers square off in the ring, Brendan asks Tommy to let bygones be bygones.  Brendan even tries to show his wallet-size happy family photos to Tommy but Tommy's bitter response is that he doesn't have a brother. While the emotional fire blazes between the two brothers, their recovering alcoholic father, played by Nick Nolte, pleads with both for forgiveness and a second chance at reestablishing a father-son bond.  Warrior exhibits remnants of Rocky by separately showcasing both brothers getting into mental and physical shape. Tommy is trained by their veteran father but defiantly decides the what, when, where, and how of the training. Go figure. Brendan trains humbly in the shadow of eye candy jaw dropping star athletes and they are all being coached by his friend-trainer (Frank Grillo) known for incorporating classical music into training techniques.  Tommy advances up the competition ranks with Mike Tyson-like one-jab knockouts.  Brendan beats his opponents with mind-over-matter endurance after tiring them from several rounds. When Tommy and Brendan finally compete, one side of the arena is filled with Tommy's military colleagues cheering him on, while on the sidelines, the police await to arrest Tommy for military desertion.  As for Brendan, the typical Hollywood scene shows him noticing his wife in the arena crowd giving him the "I love you, I support you" smile. Brendan makes one last plea to Tommy to call off the fight but Tommy turns deaf ear.  The audience is left to see who will win as the toughest man on the planet.  Warrior is not a typical guy fight flick. This intense action drama sizzles with raw emotion. Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton light the screen brightly with superior acting performances. Both draw your sympathy and frustration equally in their respective roles. The pace of the movie was with lightning speed never leaving a lull spot. Let me not forget the resurrection of Nick Nolte.  He too made a promising comeback. Warrior had two drawbacks.  The first drawback is that with every fighter having a pretty baby face, no one was ugly or scarred from the heavy beating from fighting, and this seemed unrealistic. The second drawback is the ending. While it could have been less Hollywood (the two brothers walk out of the fight hugging each other), the ending may have been designed for a Warrior sequel. Due to the violence, it is not a family movie per se, but it is a movie that has several lessons for families to learn from. All in all, Warrior is definite must-see.

Good Movies.  Good Family Fun These movies are excellent and well made, especially the first one.  As the series progresses, you wish more and more that they had stuck closer to the original books, as some of Anne's adventures really don't make sense and get a little far fetched.  But that aside, they are good clean movies and very entertaining for the whole family.  The acting and quality of production is excellent.

Great film Loved the book, loved the movie. Three hours long with the directors cut, but well worth it! Make sure you read the book sometime, it makes the movie more enjoyable.

Great service, and delivery! The product was new like described, and works perfectly.  My daughter is completely happy, and the item was delivered quickly.

Great Movie for War Movie Buffs Where Eagles Dare is a great action movie set during WWII.  Quite suspenseful.  I great addition to all War Movie Buff collections.

Bad Ass Epic Ninja Action!!!! This could only have been better with Chuck Norris.  Awesome, rocking action with not a lot of complex dialog or deep storyline to slowdown the tempo.  It looks like a demanding line of work and 100lbs of gold strikes me as a bargain for the services of these ninjas.  If you like action movies you will not be disappointed.  - Ninjaluva4eva

Tracy Anderson's 30 Day Method Tracy Anderson's 30 day method is amazing! My favorite part of this method is the muscle design. There is 3 different sequences for legs and butt, abdominals, and upper body. All of the sequences use only bodyweight or a chair, but you perform a lot of reps. Her muscle design sequences are fresh and creative, unlike your basic and boring mat pilates. The book comes with a DVD, which is helpful for the muscle design. Not a big fan of the cardio. Two different routines on the DVD, each only 10 minutes. There is no words, which makes it hard to follow and it is all dancing, which is not my thing. I wonder if Tracy is a certified trainer or just a former dancer.I do like how she doesn't sugar coat it. You have to be consistent and commit to this program to get results. I disagree with her about her negative opinion about weight training. She says that weight training is not healthy and that it destroys your structure. I am a certified trainer and can tell you that is completely false! I will continue the 30 day method, but I will also continue weight train, spin, and run. I think her 30 day method is a great COMPLIMENT to anyones fitness routine.

If Perry Mason Had Horns, A Tail, & Red Skin! 4 1/2 Stars = Minor Masterpiece  Here is a great one for you Pacino fans!  Al is infatuatedly hypnotizing as Satan (the supernatural Godfather), undercover as the head of a large successful lawyer's firm in NYC. Pacino is funny, charming, & devious, as he weaves & woes his victims in this film, with devilish glee! He recruits Keanu Reeves to be his next big hot shot lawyer, or at least that is what Keanu thinks. What follows is taught, surrealistic ride, where everything is not as it seems, & Satan has plans to challenge God one more time for the world of man.   Shades of "Rosemary's Baby," saturate this film, but it is not a knock off, but a heavily influenced film of that great movie, that can stand on it's own two cloven hoofs. It is, in my opinion, the best film influenced by Roman Polanski's masterpiece, & though a lesser film, it's not by much!  The cast, direction, editing, & script are all superb, as Pacino orchestrates his agenda on those who would be his soldiers, or victims, whichever way you prefer to interpret it, to do his bidding in his war with God.

Flawed, but thrilling film-making Amazing on a purely cinematic level - assaultive, hyper-kinetic, full of breathtaking images and cuts, The performances too range from good (Jared Leto) to extraordinary (Ellen Burstyn).  But for me, after a while, the style becomes the substance, and I'm ever more aware of the filmmaking rather than the story and characters,  Also, other than 'drugs are bad', I'm not sure what Aronofsky is really getting at. There are interesting implications that our real addiction is to our dreams, and escaping whatever our reality is, but those themes are never fully played out. So we end up with a film made with the technical skill of a Scorsese or Kubrick, but missing a layer of depth in favor of (admittedly amazing) pyrotechnics.  Last, it feels like the film 'cheats' more on reality as it goes along. By the end the story twists start to join the style in being over the top, and a bit illogical.  Now, all that carping aside, I still recommend this film for it's bravery, performances, and technical virtuosity. And it grew on me on a 2nd viewing. And I'm a fan of Aronofsky's. But I'm in the minority in admiring this film, but not being able to completely embrace it.  The blu-ray is a step up from the DVD without question, but it wasn't an amazing transfer either - some white blooming, some spots where the sharpness is less than stellar. Still. it's a pretty great looking film, so if you love it, owning a pretty good blu-ray still beats a great DVD.

Great Buy Great condition and came super fast. Sometimes when buying used DVDs it can be a worry but this was a smooth transaction

I love this DVD "If you're after a polished dvd with high definition and special effects, you're going to be disappointed with this dvd. If you want clear and easy to understand information, then you will get a lot from this dvd. For me, I think I need a more in depth look into gun dog training which you can get online, the dvd advertises this at the end and I think the dvd is basically trying to get you to buy the membership. I'm now trying the membership site and I find it LOADS better than this dvd, so if you want my advice, skip buying the dvd and go ahead and sign up for the membership site, you get much more info and it goes a little slower and is easier to follow. There are some videos on youtube so if you want to find the membership site search for `Pre-Training' and you should be able to find it there. Overall, a great buy, but I feel they're holding back, but each person learns in a different way."

Decent Retelling The novel by Victor Hugo is very dark, with a lot of abuse and unhappiness. This movie is not as light as other Disney films, since it shows the death of Quasimodo's mother and Frollo lusting after Esmeralda, so this movie is not quite for little kids. But it does have a lot of the usual Disney fare - dancing and singing (particularly at the Festival of Fools) and magical or talking companions (in this case, a trio of stone gargoyles that live in Notre Dame)  The difference between the book and movie are startling, but the movie is still enjoyable and the book is very much worth reading.

Must See This movie just left me in awe.  Beautiful and heaartbreaking and powerful.  This is something that everyone should see, but it is too upsetting to watch this often so I gave it 4 stars.  Really powerful, worth seeing and not at all a waste of time.

Revisitation 3 - 2|enteratin unsuitable for upgrade.  Delete.  Delete.  Delete. Well here's another mixed bag of nuts for you to consume, and hopefully you won't have an allergic reaction from ingesting this.  I'm not going to summarize these stories since any fan already knows them, and there is already enough redundant information available for those unfamiliar with this release.  I received this as a box set, Revisitation 3, and so I am posting this general review for all three singular releases since all the information is more or less the same for all three.  Tomb of the Cybermen and The Robots of Death are the other two in this release.  To be fair, when it comes to picture and sound restoration, these have been significantly improved, and for many people, this alone makes these worth the purchase.  But when it comes down to the specials, I'm a tough nut to crack.  While yes, there has been some new bonus features added, some of the bonus features from the previous releases were omitted.  So if you're getting this new set, and want to have all the bonus material that has been released, DON'T SELL YOUR OLDER RELEASES.  Many of the recent DVD releases have been far short of impressive for bonus features, so not including everything from prior releases with new material is just sad.  Also, if anyone is a geek about the text commentary like I am, these are usually up-dated in the Revisitation sets, but the originals are also omitted.  Personally, I want it all.  Just because the information on these previously released text commentaries are old, it doesn't make them any less interesting.  After all, both new and old audio commentaries are available on the new releases when applicable, so why leave out an older text commentary?  Can we say "marketing ploy?"  Something else that bothers me is that while it's fantastic to see these restored with better picture and sound, why doesn't 2|entertain first focus on releasing all the other previously unreleased stories, before re-releasing these stories?  I would think that you should crawl, then walk, then fly.  But these releases are more like crawling, then walking, then going back to crawling, but at a faster pace.  And finally, can we PLEASE get rid of Toby Hadoke?  There has to be someone, ANYONE, who was directly part of these stories that can be utilized for commentaries and special features.  I would give my walnuts to never hear or see him on future releases.  My bottom line is, that while the stories get five stars, the few additional extras, and lack of including some previous extras, make brings it down to 2 to 3 three stars, so that's why I'm giving this overall package a 4 star rating.  Perhaps the Re-re-release will have all this, current and previously released material, with some more new bonus material.  Please let me know if this review is helpful to you, and please tell me your opinions on my review so that I can hopefully improve upon my reviews for future reviews.  Thank you for taking the time to read this and consider my opinion.

Good drama but a little too bloody. I am half way through the 5 disks.  The drama and story are good, but the action is a bit too graphic and gory for my taste.

Way over priced I liked this movie when i first saw it .But never would i pay 29 dollars for a dvd .

ending with a twist The movie dragged a little in the begining and kind of left me wondering if it was going to be another end-of-the-world picture that we have already seen a dozen or more times.....but wait until the end.....

Very entertaining, but sort of misdirected I'll keep this review short since most of my thoughts have already been covered by other reviewers.  I caught this film as a rental and found it extremely entertaining.  What's really odd about "Tidal Wave" though is that it mashes together two completely and wildly different genres.  Does it work?  Well...not really, but it's still pretty darn entertaining.  For the first three quarters of the movie "Tidal Wave" is a laugh out loud over the top comedy with almost ridiculous slap stick humor.  For the last quarter of the film-it turns into a super serious disaster movie with a ton of human drama.  Because of the earlier slapstick, it's hard to really take the drama too seriously and I think that's kind of a shame since what we're seeing on screen is horrifying (and a little too reminiscent of news footage of Japan's recent earthquake/tsunami tragedy).  Though the mash up of genres seems like a real misdirection to me in tone-I couldn't help but be entertained by both the ridiculous and the serious in equal measure.  I would definitely watch this film again-both for the goofy comedy bits as well as the somber scenes of epic disaster.  But still, one has to wonder when the movie reaches its credits, just what were they thinking exactly?

I really like this movie!!! I saw this on cable once and had to have it. Really a great movie and I'm a fan of Ray Winstone (loved him in King Arthur). . so I had to purchase this story of the warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel who is terrorizing towns, and later, Grendel's mother, who begins killing out of revenge.  Great cast too Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Robin Wright. I would definitely recommend this. . Glad I have this in my collection. . hmmm I think I'll watch it tonight!

A Completely Different Role for Cameron Diaz I've been a fan of Cameron Diaz since her days as the sweet characters in THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY and MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING. Get ready for  foul-mouthed and sleazy teacher Elizabeth Halsey, played by Diaz. I didn't know the whole premise of BAD TEACHER and I imagined Diaz would be a good-hearted but unconventional teacher who is "bad" because she doesn't follow the rules. Well, she is bad in every sense of the word...and not the "good" bad of today's slang.  Justin Timberlake co-stars as a substitute teacher from a wealthy background. He's perfect or Elizabeth since her goal in life is to find a wealthy husband, but first she has to raise money to pay for breast enlargement surgery. How about the fund-raiser car wash the students are having? It's time for the sexy teacher to get wet in her short shorts. Diaz plays the role with total enjoyment. And don't miss the fully-clothed "sex" scene between Diaz and Timberlake.  It's fun to see Diaz in a different role. Along with BRIDESMAIDS, BAD TEACHER is part of a new and growing genre where the women are the raunchy deadbeats out for a good time. It's no longer the guys who are foul-mouthed and irresponsible. The tables have turned and it is great fun.

Well Yeah, It's Kevin Smith, He's a funny guy Kevin Smith is a smart funny guy. Too Fat For 40 is a decent nearly two hour monologue. There are side splitting funny moments and then there are those moments where he went on a bit too long. Overall, this is a good watch, one time, no real repeat value here.  In some ways Kevin Smith has gone past his use by date. Maybe I've just heard him too much, with his podcast, many interviews on television and the radio, and all of his movies; his message is getting a little bit long in the tooth. He's still a funny guy, and enjoyable; he's just a little more predictable.  This event was funny overall. He claims it's a Q and A, and well, yes there is question and answers. This was recorded a while after his Southwest Airlines mess, so he doesn't rant about it. Some of the images of him with his wife are excellent. And he really has come to full comfort with his weight.  I think his 2006 stand up was much better. In fact I still do some of the stupid quotes from that event with my son (comics still gets a smile from both of us). <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000I0QLOQ">An Evening With Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder</a>  As with everything Kevin Smith, there is strong language, and the jokes run the gamut of all sexual orientations. Even though this is not rated, it is certainly mature humor. Sensitive viewers need not apply. A simple test, a recurring joke is about a fat man being serviced by another guy. The fat guy lifts his belly and slaps the other guy's head with his belly at the big moment. If that isn't offensive, then this movie will be just fine.  Wish it was a little funnier, but is well worth watching.

Excellent Bruce Willis Film Action and suspense through-out the film. Plot after plot, even from his girlfriend (partner).  The ending makes the film worthwhile.

Great tearjerker!!!!! I liked this movie very much. The story was pure fantasy (wish it was real, there are a few places and dates I would really love to go and see certain loved ones), the acting was top notch, and the movie itself was beautiful.

"But if there's love dear, those are the ties that bind, and you'll have a family in your heart forever." For April Fool's Day "Mrs. Doubtfire" seems an appropriate viewing choice.  This film concerns a divorced father Daniel Hillard (Robin Williams) who due to irresponsible behavior has limited visitation rights to his three children.  This is unacceptable to him. So when Daniel finds out his ex-wife Miranda (Sally Field) is advertising for a housekeeper, he sabotages the ad, changing the phone #.  He has his brother Frank (Harvey Fierstein), a theatrical make up artist come up with literally a new face and look, and voila he's a cozy, grey haired, elderly, soft spoken English matron known as Mrs. Doubtfire.  He completely fools Miranda and the children, and is given the job.  As Mrs. Doubtfire, he is a positive influence on them all, including himself; he becomes a better more responsible individual.  However, Daniel still harbors unrealistic dreams that the family will get back together for the sake of his being with his children, despite the fact that Miranda has moved on with her life.  So, when Miranda starts seeing a handsome, wealthy former boyfriend Stu Dunmeyer (Pierce Brosnan) who gets along well with the children Daniel in his guise of Mrs. Doubtfire jealously does all he can to sabotage the relationship.  When I first saw this film back when it opened in November 1993, I liked it all right, but I thought Robin Williams was way over the top at times, and needed to be reeled in.  While I still think at times there is too much showboating by Williams, after several viewings over the years, I've mellowed I guess and appreciate the film more.  Williams does a very good job delineating the two characters, and his Mrs. Doubtfire is a very believable characterization, he's assisted by excellent makeup and wardrobe of course.  The movie, while definitely a comedy that has its share of slapstick and farcical moments, does in director Christopher Columbus' vision try to deal realistically with the pain of divorce in a family.  This is true particularly in the performances of the three children Lydia (Lisa Jakobs), Chris (Matthew Lawrence) and Natalie (Mara Wilson).  Young Ms. Jakobs is especially effective in bringing out the confusion and conflict in her character even more so in several deleted scenes in which she registers very strongly.  These deleted scenes, which are of one of the excellent special features offered show a film that is much darker in the hurt and anger the children feel at the conflict between their parents during the divorce.  Don't worry though, the finished film is not a downer, and the final resolution is one is which there is a certain hope as evidenced by the title of the review, that their relationship as a family will continue to be strong, and perhaps better even if they can't all live together.  And as I said, earlier, you'll get plenty of laughs.  Most of the time I felt sympathy for Sally Field's Miranda Hillard, having to be the grown up and rule enforcer in the home, in contrast to Daniel's free wheeling free spirit.  Pierce Brosnan does a nice job in a basically thankless part as Stu, but he does get to execute a skillful dive off the high board and exhibit a fine if hirsute physique which would serve him well in his forthcoming role as the new James Bond. Good support is given too by Harvey Fierstein as Daniel's sympathetic brother Frank, Anne Haney as Daniel's stern court liaison, Mrs. Sellner,  Robert Prosky as Mr. Lundy, Daniel's new boss, and Sydney Walker as a bus driver that is attracted to Mrs. Doubtfire.  Regrettably that good comic actress Polly Holliday as Gloria, the Hillards garden loving neighbor, largely wound up on the cutting room floor as you again can see in the deleted scenes.

George Clooney finally discovers emotional depth! The famously shallow, permanent bachelor has developed feelings!  I fully believed his character's complicated roller coaster of emotions surrounding his wife's betrayal and the difficulties of being a single parent. Somehow, Clooney even looked more like a normal person instead of the sexiest man alive. And he still maintained an understated sense of humor through it all. This was definitely Clooney's best performance.  Two other performances I enjoyed in this movie were the skilled portrayal of the elder daughter by Shailene Woodley (who has really grown into acting since her days as a hot teenager on The O.C.) and Judy Greer (Fatty Magoo on It's Always Sunny) in a rare dramatic role as the wife of the other man.  One criticism of the film: the environmentalism versus land development back story was extremely predictable and empty. The family drama would have been enough by itself. But at least this back story gave us an excuse to see some beautiful beaches!

check out the 2nd ending! First time watching this movie, I railed against the ending. After all, lesbian movies end the same way...someone dies, disappears,loses a job, is murdered, goes to hell, etc. Then, with grace, an alternate ending appears; though still ambigious, hope appears. And, bottom line?  'Loving Annabelle' definitely has one of the hottest sex scenes/chemistry I've seen in a long time. Worth watching just for that.

A return to the jungle, of sorts! First off, I got this at a steal of a deal from Amazon when the Black Friday sale was on. I purchased this for $9.99! That was the first great thing about this purchase. Secondly, to see a film with the active participation of Robert Rodriguez is always a plus, no matter what! Thirdly, to make a sequel without the mega-star who launched the franchise was a calculated risk, but truly worth it. Anyway, the film starts, as everyone knows by now, with a freefall by Royce(Adrien Brody) to the planets' ground. He meets up with seven other "specialists", I use that word very loosely because two of them are killers! They begin to explore & have their fair share of run-ins with the planets' lifeforms! & their hosts or, in this case, their hunters! One by one they get picked off, they meet up with a survivor named Nolan played by Laurence Fishburne, who apparently has killed a few of these hunters in the ten seasons of being marooned on this planet! He has become psychotic & tries to kill the band of survivors & fails miserably in the process! As with any "Predator" movie, survival is key & only the strong & resilient survive! Just a bit of trivia or moments of paying homage are present in this sequel though, there is a man with a mini-gun, an obvious nod to Jesse Venturas' portrayal of Blaine from Predator, a man with a sword, in this case, makes his last stand, wins & dies opposed to Billy in Predator who lost altogether, the female lead survives, a trend for all of those lovely ladies in all the movies. The first movie has been referenced just like in the sequel, the Predator still amazes me as to how cleanly it can rip a skull & spinal column out of a body in tact!It's the third time that I'm seeing that & it still is frightening! & finally, I do not recall if anyone in this movie said, "You're one ugly ......!" I must have missed it or it was never used at all! Oh yes, one more bit "Kill me I'm here!" of course, a nod to Arnold's character from the original Predator. Those of you who have enjoyed the previous two movies should get this one & add it to your library. It is a pity that the Alien vs Predator franchise was not up to par with this franchise! Great special features, highly recommended.

War horse Yes I am old enough to remember the stories of. grandfather in WWI and these horses. I understand the UK is having a monument established to these wonderful "soldiers"" Thank you Mr Spielberg. Horses are noble creatures and smarter than most people think. I am proud to be owned by two.

The kids loved it! Stuart Little is one of those nice films that you can drag out on a rainy winters' day, and the kids will watch it despite having seen it lots of times before. The blu-ray quality is very good, and there is nothing in this film which will disturb young children - mine are 5 and 8 and they both enjoy it. Recommended!

Classic Woody Allen Classic Woody Allen. A funny, very awkward, thought provoking look at marriages grown old. A very solid Woody Allen film, 5 stars if it's up your alley.

Eastwood, Burton....what's better than that! Great Wartime drama set in the mountains. Great story of infiltrating a castle constructed high on a mountain top.  Burton and Eastwood are given the impossible task of rescueing an American General from the Germans who hold him in this mountain top fortress.  Super action packed adventure.

Its alright mate ! I liked it enough to feel I wasnt ripped off.  The fellas with a mach-up of the last V-8 cruising about in Australia, searching for the original interceptor and seeing some of the landscapes from the movie.  Low tech hillbillies like me can relate. The cars being manually destoyed and burned by regular party types was pretty neat. I know from expierience that swinging a sledge or a steel pipe at a vehicle can be educational as well as therpeutic.

Interesting Look at Compulsions The first thing to know about Tenderness is that it's a crime drama, not an edge-of-your seat thriller. While it does offer suspense from time to time, don't expect Silence of the Lambs.  What I found most interesting about this movie were the compulsions by the major characters. A self-destructive teen obsessed with a murderer, a young man obsessed with killing girls, and a weary detective obsessed with keeping the young man behind bars.  In the film From Dusk Till Dawn, we get glimpses of compulsions by Tarantino's character. With Eric in Tenderness, those compulsions are amplified. We're able to see the wheels turn in his head whenever opportunities for him to murder present themselves. He battles his inner demons with a sense of confliction so apparent that you can see it in his face. Those feelings, as well as the disturbing vibe of his admirer, make for an interesting movie.  The movie isn't a cult classic, of course. There are a few plot holes, as well as established actors who get only moments of screen time. My only real complaint is that we're given a sense of how disturbed the two lead characters are, but the film never delves into what made them that way. Eric doesn't seem to require state-mandated therapy for chemical imbalances, so the audience never fully understands what motivates him to kill.  If you're looking for an exciting crime drama, this may not be for you. If you're looking for something more in the way of a subtle psychological thriller, Tenderness is better than most movies that go straight to video. Worth the Amazon rental, in my opinion.

Still a fine film, worth thinking over Growing up in one of New York's commuter suburbs in the 1950s, I often heard the phrase, "gray flannel suit," from the title of the novel by Sloan Wilson and this film.  The phrase was shorthand for conformity, consumerism, and the deadening qualities of the corporate rat race.  Peck gives a good performance as a young executive in public relations.  Fredric March's portrayal of a broadcasting CEO is particularly fine.  Jennifer Jones plays some overwrought scenes.  The movie also offers a window on some things past:  the New Haven Railroad, early television, World War II PTSD, judges who cared for character and honor, and indeed, gray flannel suits.  They dressed handsomely on Madison Avenue.  On the other hand, one wonders what the interior decorators of the time were smoking.  This is the decade when Betty Freidan was doing a slow burn on the discontents of suburban women, and it strikes me there could be feminist readings of the film that support her view of the decade.  When I watched the film recently, I thought it might sermonize on conformity and consumerism.  I found, however, that the movie is driven more by its subplots -- psychological aftereffects of the war, a wife's ambition for her husband, and corporate politics.  The larger themes don't reach out and punch you.  Rather they are implicit.  Yes, the film takes you back to the 1950s, but after you've watched it, think it over.  More than half a century has passed since the film was made, and America is a different place.  Yet we still need to think about conformity, when to run against the grain in an organization, the balance between the job and the family, and how marriages need honesty.  -30-

Original True Grit This is a review of the blu-ray quality only.  The video and audio are great.For a 1969 film the picture quality is really good,could be better though(still some grain thru out especially in the courtroom scene),but you see an awful lot of detail not visible or as clear on the dvd(which i own and i have it on vhs).   The audio is much improved over the dvd.Dialogue is alot clearer(i thought John Wayne sounded different thats how much clearer it sounds)as well out door scenes and gunfire.  Overall this is really worth buying and its region free.A major step up from dvd.

Great suspense movie This is the FIRST "Gaslight," made in England before the one with Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman.  MGM tried to buy up all the copies, which is why it's not well-known.  This a very good movie, driven by an excellent performance by Viennese actor Anton Walbrook.  Diana Wynward is also good, but Walbrook steals the show.

New look at the classic Bible story Most of us are familiar with how stories can become "Disney-ified" to make endings happier and what not. The story of Moses receives similar treatment in this retelling of the tale, and covers much of Moses' life, from his birth to the parting of the sea to help the Jews escape. Lots of stuff in the movie is not mentioned in the book, and the plagues are not given much attention, so you may enjoy this movie, but do NOT expect this to be an accurate account of the Bible tale.

where eagles dare great movie plays great was a new movie very good price will buy movies from amazon again got here on time great condition

Nice! For its age it is a really good movie.  The stray, the lust, the lies, the cover-up(the attempt), the reckoning, the repentance, the re-unite it all was brilliantly put together.  I mean some of the things was a little over board but hey, its a movie.  That's what fantasizing is all about right!  The actors and actresses all played their roles brilliantly.  Regarding the streaming, there was only one interruption for buffering after that all went well.  I will give the whole experience four and half stars!

A Classic Possibly the one movie that Vincent Price made that is his best is "House Of Wax". It was the first horror film he made during his movie career that would lead him to become one of the best, if not the best, for that genre of movie. Of course his acting in this movie is nothing less then first rate. While in his career Price may have appeared in bad movies he never gave a bad performance and this ranks among the best work he ever did on the silver screen. The movie itself is well written (by Crane Wilbur) and directed (by Andre de Toth). I have to disagree with a couple of the other reviewers who complained about the film quality saying the picture was grainy. I did not find that at all in watching the movie. I found the film quality while not absolutely the best still very good and not grainy in the slightest.  Let me also say a quick word about the rest of the cast. Everyone gives an outstanding performance to match Vincent Prices'. The cast includes Frank Lovejoy and Phyllis Kirk. You will also find a very young Charles Bronson playing the deaf mute Egor. Also interesting is the appearance of Carolyn Jones. She would of course go on to become famous on TV as Morticia Addams on "The Addams Family". But the challenge for the viewer is to recognize her in this movie. She looks nothing in the movie like Morticia did on TV.  An added bonus for anyone who buys "House Of Wax' is the DVD includes the 1933 and original version "Mystery Of The Wax Museum". While the 1953 version with Vincent Price is better you should watch the 1933 version at least once. It is not bad itself though the film quality is not the best. The acting I feel is decent lead by Fay Wray who will always of course best be remembered for her acting with some BIG hairy ape. Also the story line from the 1953 version follows "Mystery Of The Wax Museum" almost to the "T" even with a little bit of the dialog. If you are a Vincent Price fan you got to get this to add to your movie collection. If you are a fan of old time horror again you got to get this for your movie collection. It is just a classic horror movie that will entertain and thrill you.

classic We rented and were able to come back and finish the movie on the second night.  48 hour rental. A Classic, Kids loved it even without the fancy animation of today.

Good clean fun. Very enjoyable to watch.  Great family fare.  Highly recommend this.  Not sorry that I made the purchase.  Nice to see to see the old stars who can make you laugh.

good, but not necessarily great I enjoyed this film, but can't necessarily call it outstanding.  In short, the film tells the well-trod story of a high school girl shunned by her love interest, who then decides to capture and torture him.  At first blush, this concept has been repeated way too often, so any new offering better have something unique to offer to be memorable.  I can't say this film really does offer anything compellingly unique, but it was still a fun ride well worth a rental.  A few observations:  1.  The film is an Australian film.  I'm coming to realize that the Aussies have a penchant for psychopaths (see Wolf Creek), and they definitely have an imagination for creating crazies who enjoy creative approaches to abusing other humans.  2.  The film has practically zero character development, and jumps almost immediately into the kidnap/torture fray.  The viewer simply must accept the assumption that the antagonist girl has been sufficiently wronged to justify (to her) her actions.  I will say the movies flows naturally, without much artifice, so despite the lack of setup story, it works nonetheless.  Further, as the story progresses, the viewer gradually comes to learn about the girl and her family's predilection for torture, so we have to simply accept they're simply psychos who need little motivation to torture.  3.  There was some very artful camera work.  Bravo.  4.  Torture films seem to have entered a competition for the most creative/novel approach to torture/killing, with each getting more and more ridiculous.  This film doesn't get lost in that race, but yet follows a generally formulaic approach to torture that still manages to work.  There is one element to their torture that appears to be new to cinema (at least based on my experience) - it was somewhat gimmicky and a story right-turn in the way the 2nd half of From Dusk Till Dawn unfolds.  Not so weird that it killed the film, but still a deviation.  5. [potential spoiler] The sine qua non of torture films is the eventual revenge.  Hostel nailed this element.  This film does a very good, but not quite great, job of it.  6.  The actual torture scenes were not as graphic as they could have been.  There are some films that exist to show torture in every gruesome detail.  This isn't one of those.  You do directly observe a few unease-inducing acts, but for the most part, the viewer directly observes the set up, indirectly observes the actual act, and then directly observes the result.  I don't particularly enjoy watching full out torture (for example, Texas Chainsaw simply makes me way too uncomfortable now to enjoy), but this one wasn't so bad.  I could watch just fine.  Ultimately, if you enjoy the kidnap/torture genre, you'll enjoy this film.  Even if you're weary of torture but enjoy a good psychopath horror, you'll enjoy.  The film may not make it to the top of your favorite lists, but you should enjoy nonetheless.

My Favorite of the Franchise I would say that this original Batman movie from 1989 is by far my favorite of the Franchise.  Jack Nicholson is absolutely great in it and without him is hard to say what this original film would be.  Many people consider this to be arguably the greatest work of his career.  Hard to say but most of everything he does in pretty great.  The movie starts out a little slow but then gets fun.  I am not a big fan of comic book type movies like this but have to say Batman is very entertaining.  Sometimes sequels or parts 2,3 can overtake the original but in the Batman series it's hard to beat this original.  Peter J. Miller

Christmas gift for son My son would watch these movies everytime they came on tv; so i thought this was a wonderful gift to get him as an adult.  This product was delivered quickly and before christmas.

Horrifying Horror Rules As an avid fan of classic and indie horror flicks, I can truly appreciate Bone Cave in all it's glory. It contains all the greatest elements from any cheesy horror film on the market ... only done better. It has Blood, Screams, more Blood, plot twists, and One liners galore. The plot, character development, camera work, lighting, and sound track is right on. Kudos to Matthew Brooks for having high ambitions and executing a solid horror film on a meager budget. Bone cave will make you fall in love with the cheese, giggle like a school girl at the one liners, scream like a chick that runs up stairs, and gasp in shock at every twist. Take time and Enjoy all Bone Cave has to offer.

Ballistic Seen it before but only thought about getting a DVD of it recently. I liked it then and I love it now, Just hope it comes out in BluRay someday. Lucy is great and Antonio is Antonio.

give this film a chance, seriously I've read the other reviews and while I agree with many of their points I do wonder if maybe I saw a different film from the one that the reviewers are describing? For the new viewers who have yet to decide whether or not to try this one I would strongly suggest that they do so, and with these observations - first, I saw a film about family, several families actually and all dysfunctional yes, but about Family, blood ties, betrayal in one family, tragedy and loss in others. The use of Mexican/US drug wars as a catalyst may have caused some viewers to think that this is a routine gritty crime movie but the writer(s) wanted something epic, life and death, which these ravaging drug wars are, to put the bigger theme of Family into high relief.  As to the casting, I appreciate it whenever actors challenge what they've already done twenty times, so I rather liked the choice that Andy Garcia made in particular, I do not think he was wasted at all. Liotta played his assassin's part almost as a mute - and that too is not an accident or a poor reading on his part, ie. who is his foil? It's the striking Mexican prostitute, her life is the battleground that all the other actors cross over, disrupt, shred, and yet she is the one who communicates to us, the viewer, what Liotta is going through, we understand him through her empathy with him. I think that this film is worth watching just to see how Liotta and Cruz pull it off. The title itself, the "line," is in my opinion, refers not to geography but the line crisscrossing over lives of real people like Cruz, it is her life encapsulated for us to see where the real terror and horror of these drug wars are fought, not some convenient metaphor of a border between countries.  However, of all the cast, and it was a remarkably competent one, the stunner for me had to be Pelon, every second of screen time Esai Morales was riveting, pathetic, tragic, and desperate and in many ways the male parallel of destruction in this environment that we see with Cruz's character. Even Assante's seemingly minor role became the pivot I never saw coming. It never ceases to amaze me how many gears this actor has to work with, be it over the top charm or almost a stunted shell of a man, merely existing on autopilot, he nails the human drama of that life every time.  So, don't view this film as some gritty routine action throwaway, as if it were Dumb and Dumber with guns. There were times when I did wish they had had a different film editor to better layer the many simultaneous story lines so that we wouldn't  lose or confuse the underlying theme of Family. Then again, most films that endeavor to be a persuasive emotional and intellectual "experience" and not just a couple hours spent in leisure mode are not one-offs, view once and move on. They become a new film every time you view it, they grow as you do, they reveal details that you missed the first time. They may even change entirely once you do see it from say the perspective of Family or blood feuds or revenge or even exposing the moral decay of a human who no longer has family?  A final thought, any film that attempts to do things differently, from cast to writing, to choices in character development, to cultures too often passed over as one-dimensional, impresses me tremendously. Give this one a look, and let it tell you a story or stories, that you aren't telling the director is the one you want, but the one they want to tell you.

good 90's cheesy film great film for its time for sure. ive taken a number of film classes and this film is well directed, produced, acted, written etc. epecially musically written, although old fashioned. for instance when the director is leading the audience to believe that Joe is going to reveal himself when he is saying good by to her; the minor tones brought a creepy feel, to me at least. typical 90's movie.  Call me modern but this movie is out of date. I found myself wanting to throw up at times from all the "touching" moments causing everyone to cry due to happiness. You would thing Death would be more wise and not act like a child since hes been around "trillions of years"  some inconsistencies like all movies especially at the end when the real guy from the coffee shop shows up. hes gonna go back to the party and everyones going to ask him,"wheres Bill?" c'mon. too corny for me. Great movie for those who like those feel good movies

Dead Snow...... Much like Fido, Zombieland & Zombie Dearest before it; Dead Snow is one of those zombie movies that's uniquely fun to watch and extremely funny. Dead Snow is a 2009 Norwegian zombie comedy directed by Tommy Wirkola, that stars Charlotte Frogner, Stig Frode Henriksen, Bjørn Sundquist, Ane Dahl Torp and Jenny Skavlan.  The film involves a group of students trying survive a zombie attack in the mountains of Norway. It begins with a woman being chased through the mountain snows of Norway by zombies. Sadly, she is cornered and eaten by the zombies. It then cuts away to seven students on easter vacation arriving at a cabin, owned by the aforementioned woman ,near Oksfjord. The students being to drink, party and sex it up when a mysterious hiker arrives and begins telling them about the history of the region. After he leaves and sets up camp in the mountains, the Hiker hears a noise outside and goes to investigate. He, too, gets attacked and ate by a zombie. Thus begins the tale of Dead Snow.  Entertainment Weekly called Dead Snow--"One of the 25 best zombie movies of all time!". While I won't go quite that far in saying that, I will say that it is about one of the most entertaining ones I've ever seen. It's quite abit better than some other zombie movies that I've seen that feature nazi as zombies(i.e. Oasis of the Zombies, Outpost).  Dead Snow, however, doesn't tread any new ground. It sticks with the formula so prevelant in zombie movies these days. Course, it works for Dead Snow. The movie does provide a few surprises that you're not expecting.  Overall, I liked the movie and enjoyed it immensely.

TCM Greatest Classic Films The Best Classic Murder Mysteries in one collection.  A must-have for any collector of classic movie or lovers of thrillers.  Reliable seller.

A great refreshing independent movie The movie is great fun and although you kind off know what is going to happen in the end you still enjoy the ride.  Some of the scenes are hilarious and the acting is top notch.  Also particularly good was the end which left you thinking about what must have happened and I'm sure everyone will have a opinion as to what really happened.  A great movie and a must watch for everyone who is urban Indian especially.

Good 50s "B" One 1950s Drive-In Class-ick that is actually a lotta fun... it's well paced, a little creepy and really funny, all at the same time. We're not talkin' Oscar material here, but this is a definite must see for sci-fi and B movie nuts. The 80s remake is also pretty good.

Good duology This is a duology of two movies. Dragonball might not be for everyone, but if you're a Dragonball fan, you definitely should enjoy both movies, lots of action and fighting and etc, and Garlic Junior makes a comeback. If you've seen this movie on TV, then know that the DVDs are uncut, and there was quite a bit that was cut out before it aired on Cartoon Network. A must-have for any die-hard BD/DBZ fan.

Not as bad as I expected Plot had some good twists and not just the usual shoot them up. I won't go into the plot details but this is partly based on true events and involves alot of politics of middle east oil back in the 70's and 80's. Pretty good overall.

brought back memories Im just crazy about movies. This one happens to be a good one almost like the old frankenstein plot. If you see it you wont be dissapointed

Great for a 7-year-old. If you are an adult, perhaps you will want a different series. But if you are a young boy, this series has everything you want: Beautiful outdoor scenery, animals of all kinds, some fighting and posturing, lots of drama and happy endings. My son is not old enough to read the Jack London book, but he enjoys this tale of a modern boy and his faithful dog. One thing that irks me is so many of the actors seem to be German and are having problems sounding like rural mountain men. German actors in New Zealand playing mountain men in the Northern Rockies? Oh well, it's TV, not the History channel.

Classic Hitchcock, Not Classic Film As one reviewer points out, different editions of the film will have been seen by different reviewers. What I saw was excellent The best advice I can give a viewer is to ignore any of we reviewers and see the film regardless of what any of us may say. It is a manual of screen style, a fascinating look at common attitudes toward was, in the period between WW1 and WW2, and a chance to see a great stage actor, one of the top names in character acting of his day, and one of the most glamorous blondes of the period. There is nothing high-tech about it, but Hitchcock displays his maturing skills with his evocation of The Railroad and many of the scenic encounters developed in the silent era, but now accompanied by a complementary sound track. Lilli Palmer, one of the truly beautiful actresses of her day, shows no sign of it in her billed, but easily overlooked, bit role. Robert Young does a good job in one of his earliest roles, one of the few that allowed him a few minutes of serious acting The story, based on a very popular novel by Somerset Maugham, is trimmed to a neat central plot: a German agent is on his way to the Middle East to make a deal with the Arabs without whose help, the Allies could not effectively combat Germany's ally, Turkey, which controlled the area. The British have sent two agents and a professional killer to stop him. This is classic film-making,although not a classic picture. For film buffs it is required viewing, for others, it is a film that has both gratifications and some rather undisciplined direction.

That's How The Cookie Crumbles... THE GINGERBREAD MAN has a lot going for it. First, it's directed by genius, Robert Altman. Second, it has an unbelievably stellar cast- Kenneth Branagh (HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS), Embeth Davitz (SCHINDLER'S LIST, THE HOLE), Robert Downey jr. (IN DREAMS, ZODIAC), Daryl Hannah (BLADERUNNER, FINAL TERROR), Tom Berenger (THE SUBSTITUTE, SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME), and Robert Duvall (THE GODFATHER 1 and 2, APOCALYPSE NOW)! Now, I'm not a huge John Grisham fan, so I didn't think I would like this film as much as I did. The story is suspenseful / mysterious, though the NY POST's declaration that TGM is  "A spellbinding thriller" is a bit overwrought. Branagh is good as the Atlanta lawyer caught up in the bizarre world of Embeth Davitz and her crazy dad (Duvall). The rest of the cast are fine in their smaller roles, especially Robert downey jr. and Daryl Hannah, complete w/ southern accents! Well worth checking out...

Great movie.  Blu-ray IQ not so good My brother turned me on to this film by letting me borrow a couple of years ago and what a great movie it is.  Much more of a 'day in a life' of low-ranking/poor samurai as well as romance.  Only thing not so good was the blu-ray image quality.  The blacks were grey and the image lacking in that 'transparent' quality for good blu-ray releases.  That being said the flaws were at least across the board and with no flaw jumping out half-way through the film one quickly got used to the picture.

Very Good Went into this blind as was not disappointed.  Great action scenes and a good, if not predictable, storyline.  Don't miss it is you're a fan of asian cinema.

Nice film, absurd cinematography The first half-hour or so of this movie is shot with the camera swinging around, unfocussed, and only partly intelligible.  OOOOOOhhhhhhh!  How artsy!  My wife and I barely lasted through this part, although as the movie goes along, the camerawork begins to settle down.  That's the only reason we managed to suffer through the first part of the movie.  The rest of the film is steadier, and almost excellent.  The story is told backwards, and (probably) would only have had impact had it been done this way.  Dialogue minimalistic, but OK, since in French and must read subtitles.  Thing is, the dialogue is essential to the overall meaning of the film, so you do have to keep up with it.  By the end of the film, I was wondering how much credit Amazon would give for trading it in (only about $4).  Next morning, voila!  So that's what's going on!  Wait a minute, so that's how all of this pieces together?  And that's why the movie is titled "Irreversible"!  Incroyable!  I gotta watch this again!  There is a lot of significance in the later scenes of the film (which, of course, in the context of the story, happened before the events in the beginning of the film).  This is not just another T&A, slice-and-dice, bloodfest, but is actually telling us something significant.  The movie is extremely brutal, and graphically sexual.  It is disconcerting, because the scenes are being shown in reverse (along the lines of "Memento"), but do not overlap in content or context the way "Memento" does.  And that is significant as far as the title is concerned.  But this movie actually makes you think, once the initial shock value (which is rather substantial) wears off.  That's not to say I won't ultimately trade this one in, but only after I've watched it at least one more time.  It could be this film borders on brilliant.  If only I could figure out why the camerawork is so weird at the beginning.

Finally Finally an official director-approved blu-ray release! Audio and video quality is superb. Very cool extras too. If you don't have it on DVD yet now is the time to get it.

Like it My husband love this movie and had it on video cassette, i surprised him with the DVD. The movie arrived right on schedule, even arrived earlier than expected.

The Pacfic Great series providing what appears to be a very insightful depiction of the time and the mind of everyday hero's.

its 50/50 I have to say it was not not great for 3D because it was not all in 3D it had to highlight its 3D in some few scenes but the story of this movie i really like and its technology too. so i say dont get to watch it in 3D but get because its a good movie.

A Classic. Dunno why so many Kevin Costner films have to start out with gratutitous gore.  But this is one of them.  Skip ahead, the rest of the movie is wonderful.  Filmed in and around Pine Ridge South Dakota.

Sweet, Loveable River Pheonix Based on a true story, the movie is about a pizza shop owner named Joey,(Kelvin Kline) who lived his life as an examplary Italian-American with his wife Rosalie (Tracey Ullman), their two children and Mama Nadja (Joan Plowright), Joey's mother in-law whom he openly despised. Joey also had a penchant for other women and was actively having affairs behind his wife's back. One day, while returning books at the library Rosalie secretly caught him with yet another woman and she realized that her husband had been cheating on her all the while. She got mad and confided with Mama Nadja who came up with the crazy idea of finishing Joey once and for all. A few futile attempts were made on Joey's life as arranged by Mama Nadja which prompted the idea to persuade Devo (River Pheonix), the pizza shop boy who worked for Joey's pizza shop to kill Joey as a favour to Rosalie. When that also failed, they both decided to hire professionals Harlon and Marlon (William Hurt and Keanu Reeves)to do the deed.  It's a romantic movie, portraying a relationship between two people at its best and worst; describing love between a husband and a wife whose passion for each other was long forgotten and how the intention of a good woman who respected her husband enough to allow him to express himself freely to members of the opposite sex was badly misunderstood by her husband. It's full of comedic moments however, sometimes so light that leaves one wishing there's more of it by the time the movie ends. Perhaps there ought to have been more lines, particularly for Devo (River Pheonix) as it might help viewers understand his liking for Rosalie. It might also have helped for Devo to have a goal while he ongoingly pursued a close relationship with Rosalie and her mother by spending a lot of time with them.  The colourful location used in the film that set the mood for love, the hilarious performance of the cast, the stoned appearance of Keanu Reeves who played a sullen drug addict with a conscience and the heartwrenching melody of Non Dimenticar that goes so well with River Pheonix melancholic expression, this movie simply cannot go wrong.

"Pretty Good!" Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde star in Jon Favreau's 2011 sci-fi western. A stranger seeks help from a woman and a colonel to fight aliens taking over the west. This is pretty good and Daniel and Harrison are great together. This dvd has nice picture and sound plus commentary and featurettes. I recommend this.

Spartacus Blu-ray Excellent video transfer; audio is about as good as it gets. Unlike some Blu-ray discs which have the audio recorded at very low levels and little dynamic range. This one is a definite keeper.

Great films, marred a little by DNR Lone Wolf and Cub is a series of films from 1970s Japan.  The story goes that Ogami Itto is Second to the Shogunate. He falls from grace due to some backstabbing and plotting. As his wife has been killed, he offers his son the option of joining his mother, or joining him in his path to Hell. His son, a toddler, takes the latter. Ogami becomes an assassin for hire, and as he has his son with him, they are the Lone Wolf and Cub.  You can read more about the movies themselves on the Internet. All you need to know for this review is that there are 6 films in total and you get all six in this set on 2 Blu Ray discs.  Video-  This is... a bit of a mixed bag. The transfer, overall, is very crisp and clean from what I can tell. The issue comes in with what is known as DNR (Digital Noise Reduction). Animeigo has made the decision to tweak the quality levels using DNR and as a result, some of the finer details are lost. Over all it doesn't seem TOO over used, but it IS used and there are occasions when it is noticeable if you know what to look for.  The video is n 1080p HD, of course. And it looks good, but could have been "better," in my opinion, had they left out the DNR or dialed it down a little. In comparison to the DVD, which is obviously SD, there is still a lot of extra quality in the Blu Ray.  Audio-  LPCM. Completely uncompressd audio taken from the source. You won't find a better sounding version of LWC's films.  It also needs to be noted, in case there is confusion, that this is in Japanese language ONLY. There is NO OPTION for spoken English language. There are, of course, English subtitles are obviously provided and, if you so choose, can be turned off. However, the subtitles can ONLY be controlled through the remote - there is no subtitle option for on the menus.  If you want spoken English and don't mind the films being edited together, check out the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0074JODEY">Shogun Assassin - 5 Film Collector's Edition [Blu-ray</a>] set instead. The edited films are the reason you can't have spoken English with this set.  Menus -  Uhm... what menus? When you put the discs in, you see the Animeigo logo, a disclaimer that if you want subtitles on/off you have to use the remote and then... you're presented with a still shot of Ogami with a menu along the bottom with a choice of which of the 3 films you would like to watch. The option under each film is for chapter selection and an option to look at liner notes about each film.  I guess you don't need menus, really, since the films are what matters.  Packaging-  Kind of lame, but I think this has more to do with the age of the film and lack of more materials.  You have the image on the front, shown on the Amazon page, and a few screen shots on the back. A short description is included as well.  Final thoughts-  These are some of the finest Samurai films ever produced. Animeigo has done a good job with the Blu Ray transfer, though the extra DNR caused me to drop the ranking to 4 stars instead of 5. If you don't care about DNR or won't notice it, then this is a 5 star release.

RE: I always prefer the original foreign versions I was going to pass on this one. I thought, another dreary remake of a great foreign film. American Cinema has the bad habit of making less then stellar remakes. But then, I found out that Kody-Smit McPhee is in it. Anyone who has seen him opposite Viggo in "The Road", realizes that this is going to be an actor to reckon with in years to come. For that reason alone, this film gets my vote.

Great movie and scenery.  Good acting and great battle scenes makes this a good classic I enjoy this movie EL CID.  One of Charlton Heston's good hero movies about the legendary medieval Spanish knight Rodrigo, an almost "pure knight", and Sophia Loren as Ximena his fiance and later relunctant wife who although must "hate" him due to him killing her father.  Great plot and a great villian make this a movie to enjoy.  Herbert Lom plays an "evil" Muslim Warlord and leader who wants to rid the "infidels" Catholic Spaniards out of Spain once and for all.  In the movie, Rodrigo shoes compassion for some Muslim WarChiefs he captures and so his "nicname" afterwards is "Alsayyid" meaning great lord or chief.  I won't go into the rest of the story since I don't do spoilers.  The music is great, the scenery of Spain is beautiful, and the other actors and actresses do a good job as well.  Okay, now to my complaints about the film.  Ready?  I always feel like this had the potential to be a truely magnificent and timeless film like Heston's other works such as "Ben Hur", "The 10 Commandments", "Planet of The Apes", BUT I think due to some overacting on all the main actors parts, the movie just falls a bit short of that.  I don't know why except maybe the director is at fault in this film.  Herbert Lom and some of the supporting actors are outstanding in this film though.  Plus, I hope they clean up the photography, because when I had this on VHS, the photography was grainy and overdubbing at parts.  Maybe I am being finicky, I just wish I could say this was an OUTSTANDING film instead of a GOOD film.  One of a few movies that could of been truely a well recognized classic but just falls short of its goal.  But hey, it is a good and historical film based on actual events in the history of Spain.  Like Heston says in this film, "FOR GOD, ALFONSO, AND SPAIN!!"

Secrets and Lies in the Bronx A wonderfully offbeat comedy-drama, "City Island" (2009) features a memorable ensemble cast in top form. There are more genuine laughs than a slew of glorified Hollywood sitcoms. Kudos to writer-director Raymond De Felitta for this quirky look at familial dysfunction. Andy Garcia's audition scene is worth the price of admission.

A visually impressive, lazily written, ultimately entertaining sci-fi romp Prometheus is a visually stunning and entertaining sci-fi movie that largely succeeds despite having elements of its story which sometimes feel half-baked. Personally, I was drawn in by the visuals and the over-all pacing of Prometheus and had a good enough time with it's eerie atmosphere, shocks and thrills - enough that I was able to overlook some weak characterizations and a story that, despite some big themes, ended up being plagued by implausible details.   What saves the movie for me is the fact that at the core of the story are some BIG QUESTIONS - about the possible origins of humanity and what our place might be in a bigger universe where we have only begun to understand our place. So few science-fiction movies even ATTEMPT to tackle ideas that have these kinds of implications, so I have to give Prometheus credit for actually TRYING to sail into deeper waters. On the flip-side, Prometheus also had enough thrilling pulp genre trappings (ooh, rocket ships and alien Monsters!) that the 12 year-old inside me was kept happy.   The things that are really missing in this movie are three-dimensional characters whose motivations make consistant sense. At this point, I have to compare Prometheus with ALIEN - especially because Prometheus trades so freely in the mythology of the universe created by ALIEN. In ALIEN, all the characters were fully realized, distinct from each other, believable, and crucial to the story. Prometheus has too many characters - many of whom are not given much to do and could easily be removed without having any impact on the story whatsoever. Other characters are a little bit too obvious about their purpose - overtly stating their symbolic role, where it would of been more interesting for us to figure that out by their actions as they respond to unfolding events. There are also moments where the actions taken by characters go completely against reasonable logic and even their established motivations - simply bending conveniently to satisfy where the story wants to go.   For me, the faults were easily overlooked and I was swept up in the hypnotic rhythm of the visuals and the shear SCALE of the thing. I enjoyed the aesthetic sensibility of the production design and the performances of Michael Fassbender and Noomi Rapace, which anchored the movie. Prometheus was a good time and did most everything I expected an ALIEN prequel to do, including giving me a few visceral shocks that were delivered in surprising ways. Prometheus isn't as good as ALIEN, but I was able to enjoy it on its own terms.

Hannie Caulder A classic western from the 70's with two unusual actors or actresses, Rachquel Welch & Robert Culp. Mission and plot of the movie is simple.  The acting between the par is very good.  Why and when to seek vengance is a good story line.  I like it in westerns but not in the current action movies as much. It seems to be over used in Hollywood now.  The movie doesn't disappoint.  I'd rate it 4 out of 5 stars for the above comments.  I especially like finding actors or actresses that did one or two westerns and look for their product on film.  I say own this one.

One of the good Fulci films Not all of Fulci's films are amazing....in fact some of them are stinkers.  However, this film stands out as one of the genre's best.  I HIGHLY recommend also checking out Zombie (a.k.a. Zombi 2), The Beyond or City of the Living Dead.  These are all classics that stand alongside horror's finest.

Not the end word on the creative process The "Black Swan" uses setting, context, and visuals very well. It is a very slick and skillful film. But the hype about it being a major statement about "creativity" is completely mislaid.  It's more about the pressures of performance and interpretation - which are far less interesting than creativity.  It is more a parable about the dog-eat-dog-job-market than about art.  We see what the main character does to get ahead, but we don't see what she does to personally grow creatively. (This is a Hollywood corporate fantasy of "individual creativity.")  A somewhat stilted but much more interesting cinematic exploration of the nature of creativity is John Turturro's film "Illuminata."  This film explores creation as an aspect of collaboration in a far more searching and intelligent manner.  Which do we value more the creator or the interpreter?  This is an on-going debate, iteration by iteration.

Hello Again! This was a present for a family member, so I haven't actually watched this DVD tht I purchased, but I have seen this movie before and it is a wonderful movie about love n pain n everyday life with a slight twist to it. Definitely a recommended buy!

desperado (special edition) FYI: the special edition version is an edited version with soft porn included.  Purchasing an 'edited version' (ie incomplete) was somewhat disapointing and the inclusion of the soft porn came as quite a surprise.

Sarah's Key is a MUST watch Excellent Franco-American co-production set between the beginning of WW2 and the present, as American Journalist, working on a story about the Nazzi occupation of France, discovers a connection as she inhabits an apartment in Paris which holds the "key" to her story. Presented in 1.85:1 aspect ratio, with subtitles during the French dialog scenes, this is a well directed and effectively photogaphed thrilling drama. Excellent performance by a great cast which includes Kristin Scott Thomas in the leading role, ad supporing cast includes Aidan Quinn. I recommend this film highly.

Expected a Little More I was slightly dissapointed with the ending, it was left more like a TBC on TV. Maybe that's how she wanted to leave, we would have to see Part 2 in order to satisfy our curiosity.

Drug-Enduced Art Why people consider Gasper Noe this amazing director I've yet to figure out. But while I don't consider him great personally, I do believe that he's... different. Different can be good. And Enter the Void perfectly represents his different-ness. From the very beginning of Enter the Void you know you're entering a Gasper Noe creation, and for any who may have seen Irreversible, a small feeling of dread starts to manifest during the flashy, seizure inducing opening credits.  Luckily for Enter the Void, it takes a step in its own direction and seperates itself quickly from Irreversible and becomes its own film (that's not saying anything bad about Irreversible). It opens in Japan, in the apartment of our two main characters as they introduce the theme of the story: death and afterlife. Without revealing too much, the lead character Oscar ends up taking a psychodelic trip through the world in which he created for himself, both past, present, and future. We the audience get to the witness all the events that lead to where he now finds himself. It's an uncomfortable journey, but one well-worth watching as Oscar's story is both interesting and terribly heartbreaking.  Enter the Void explores a multitude of uncomfortable subjects, including hard drug use, incest (implied), and abortion, to name only a few. And as is Noe's want, you're forced to experience these subjects rather than just view them. It can be quite disturbing at times. Also of note is the strong sexual content throughout the film. All of that shouldn't be surprising for fans of Gasper Noe....  Where this movie goes wrong, however, is in its length. Gasper Noe tries way to hard sometimes, and the extended camera transitions and constant flashing lights actually creates a kind of distraction. These moments make the film seem so much longer than what it is (it's already two plus hours long). There are plenty of moments in the film where you can fast-forward is miss nothing beyond dizzying camera movement. This alone was enough to take a star away from this film.  Gasper Noe's Enter the Void is no Requiem for a Dream but it has the same effect. It's troubling, disturbing, and warns against the dangers of drug use. Also fans of Gasper Noe will be getting exactly what they expect, a drug-enduced piece of art. Obviously not recommended for the casual viewer, fans of cinema of all kinds will love this movie, at least for the first watch.

Blu-ray Upgrade Well Worth It! For years this film was shown in badly duped shortened prints that did nothing to show the beauty of its Academy Award winning cinematography by Charles Lang. Kino's Blu-ray offering showcases Lang's still outstanding work in what hast to be one of director Frank Borzage's finest films. Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes are both excellent as is Adolphe Menjou. The only thing that dates this film is the music score. When the film was re-issued the newly formed censorship caused the film to be cut from 89 minutes down to 78 minutes. Many scenes had a only few seconds cut out of them while others were clipped more severely. Warner Bros. bought the rights to the Ernest Hemingway material from Paramount and re-issued the film with new main and end titles in the censored version around 1950. That edition appeared as a Laser Disc and was the first decent picture quality available for home use. Later David O. Selznick acquired the rights from WB in order to remake the film. The uncut version of the film was included in that deal. Finally Image released the full version on DVD with a somewhat weak sound track. Now with Kino's Blu-ray and DVD release the film can be seen the way it should be. While there is some print damage the overall image captures the beauty of Lang's cinematography, which is exceptional. If you enjoy classic early sound films then this is one you will want to own.

Better than the last one. This film has been released I don't know how many times now.  But I'm pretty sure this is the 2nd Blu-Ray version.  I think they did a good job with the video transfer portion.  But I still can't believe that they can't fix the atrocious "echo audio" that plagues much of this movie!  And even though I know this makes the purists cringe.  Please put the colourised version back on!!!!  For those who hate it so much.  It's not like you have to watch it.  Just pretend it's not there and let those us who like it enjoy it.

The Town dvd Entertaining for adults on an evening to relax. It is not a 'block-buster' , but keeps you interested.  Plenty of action in my opinion.

Underwhelmed by Bonus Features SO..this film is a classic within itself. Let's not take away from that.  However I was a bit disappointed with the new trend Disney is doing with their releases to blue ray. instead of giving bonus content that is new from this release, they are recycling bonus content from when it was released on DVD. I have the film on DVD and was surprised that they only chose to add 5 bonus features/documentaries. I have to say I was expecting a bit more out of the special edition.  The film was cleaned up and colors are more vibrant than ever.

Great movie, but rent it I wasn't expecting much due to some reviews.  But if you don't like this movie, buy some humor.  Amazon has some specials on that on Friday Gold Deals.  Definitely a redbox flick.  No need to buy this on dvd or especially bluray unless you like special features or something like that.  Movie wasn't the funniest, but had good parts, it slowed down near the end, but again, its a renter in my opinion.

"Heave!" Not a bad seafaring epic, I was surprised to learn it was culled from 3 different novels, the story was seamless.  Gregory Peck was stalwart as the Captain, he managed to deliver a very believable (and likable) performance.  The only thing that slowed this movie was the intrusion of a careless "romance" that really wasn't more than begrudging admiration (it took 2 deaths before they could act on it in any regard).  Loved the battle sequences.

Worth Watching for the Actors Alone I liked this movie, even in spite of all it's structural flaws (And there were many). The reason? Quite simply it's the cast. the way they bounce off one another, the way the dialogue is delivered, the sheer chemistry between the teams of Ansari/Eisenburg and McBride/Swardson, is fantastic and very enjoyable. The plot may be forgettable, but that just makes the cast stand out even more by comparison.

Borrowed Hearts uncut I am a sucker for Christmas movies and CDs and got both with this. The CD actually has a couple of songs I don't have anywhere else and the movies were all quite delightful. However, I bought this in the hopes of getting an uncut version of Borrowed Hearts and am pleased to say that this DVD has it, the same complete version as was first seen on TV. The only two drawbacks I found on this DVD was it does not have closed captioning and it is a two sided disk. Wish they would have put them on seperate disks as they did the other 4 movie collection I purchased.

Blue Planet is beautiful Blue Planet has beautiful images both from space and on the earth. It also has a vital message for earthlings.

Instant streaming Friends with Kids Movie was excellent-a cynical rom-com from Jennifer Westfeldt. Streaming was sub-par. Audio was low, and no subtitles were available. Image quality was average.

Surprisingly good! I admit to hesitating when my girlfriend recommended this to me. I'm not a huge fan of American television: it tends to be populated with pretty boys and pretty girls who can't act, and run by plots that are dull, full of corny innuendo, and stupid cliffhangers to ensure ratings. So it took me a while to get around to watching this.  Boy, was I surprised! It was really good. The pilot starts out a *little* weak as the actors find their grooves. The show takes its time establishing its backstory. This is a good in the long-term because the story feels organic and real, but in the short-term in the pilot, it made things just a little confusing.  That changes rapidly as the show progresses. The stories get real good, and the characters just keep growing on you. You learn to really love these witty, imperfect, strange, and impetuous people.  Alas, the show was canceled after only one season, but it ends solidly enough that you don't feel like there are too many plot hooks left unresolved. As such, you can enjoy this little gem in its entirety and don't have to worry about hitting some cliffhanger that is never resolved (such as what happened with the otherwise terrific show <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003URK0UU">Survivors</a>.  I really recommend this show. It's funny, witty, intriguing, and occasional will catch you by surprise with some genuinely moving emotion. Wow! Why can't America make more shows like this one? And why don't they recognize quality when they do keep them going for more than one season?  By the way, for the life of me, I can't figure out why the show is called "Terriers". As far as I can tell, the show has little, if anything, to do with dogs.

Keeps you wanting more Like the concept and the pace. Writing is very good and not real predicable..Wish this was a freebee on Prime.

What did you expect from Ryan Murphy??? I'm a childless adult, so the show's content doesn't bother me. This DVD is a great idea if you like the musical numbers, but you're missing out on the show's acting and stories. For those parents who don't like the mature content, what did you think you were getting from the creator of Nip/Tuck??, Saved by the Bell??

Classic Hollywood Audrey Hepburn stars in her most well-known movie role. George Peppard costars as her neighbor. Soundtrack with famous song "Moon River." New York City is the bakdrop for this film. Buddy Ebsen has a cameo and Mickey Rooney in a politically uncorrect role.

Downton review Absolutely, marvelous & clear viewing. The price for a season of Downton is dead on. It's not over priced; I think it's a fair price for what you're getting. They give an option to buy singular or a package of seasons as a whole. I would recommend it.

A balanced view than "Pearl Harbour.". If you compare this film with the post 9/11 epic Pearl Harbour you will notice a striking difference. Tora Tora Tora! actually tries to make sense of the event and look at it from the Japanese point of view as well. How different to the post 9/11 "Pearl Harbour" where the Japanese are dehumanised and presented as heartless villains. It shows how far back into paranoia, zenophobia and flag - waving America slipped after 9/11. Throw the later version away and buy "Tora Tora Tora!" if you want a balanced treatment of the most successful surprise attack in military history.

ABSORBINGLY EXCITING! "RUN LOLA RUN" is a Film that Grows on You. One story three different scenarios, Exhilarating as I watched Lola Run and Run through the City towards three different Endings with subtle differences between each version; by the time the third one began..."OH NO, NOT AGAIN!"...I was exhausted perspiring and in need of a Brake, but she kept on Running and Running...you see TIME is the Essence for Lola as the song goes..."What a difference a day makes twenty four little hours", By the time she was done Running I was all worn out sweaty and confused. One of the most absorbingly exciting Films I have seen in a long time. Check out the Cool music Video in the DVD Special Features. Now, if I could only SCREAM THE WAY LOLA DOES!!

How Do You Know I enjoyed watching this movie. I like the actors that were gathered for the movie.  They are all very good actors and each become the movie character, thus making the movie believable. I loved the comment "get me a list of no extradition countries."

Truly Great Gore & Femenism ! This was by far the best , I love Part 2 , but this one surpasses it because of the great lead of characters ! The death scenes are absolutely Sick ! For the most part something that really stook out to me was the embracement of Femenism in this movie.There were ALOT of female supporting roles in this film Tenika Davis (Canada's Next Top Model Cycle 1) was the female lead , however she isnt the one giving orders all the time , it even surprised me how some poorly developed Characters lived longer than others ! Overall This movie's conclusion sort of reminds me of the descent , like i said the power of Femenism in this movie is great. The guys are a**wholes as expected.And the cinematography is Pleasant.Overall 1-10 i give this movie an 8.9.I reccomend buying it , the ending is original & unlike the last 3 ends with an unexpected twist !

Great movie but BluRay problems hinder enjoyment Minus 1 star for BluRay playback problems!  Thanks Sony. A wonderful movie that we enjoyed in the theaters and a somehow you have found a way to spoil the enjoyment at home (or at least take the luster off the shine).  The DVD playback is great if you don't need the HD version, but Sony's own BluRay format playing on a new and SW updated Sony PS3 Slim (the ideal combination right?) has playback problems! I've read other players have playback problems too, so check the Internet if you haven't checked your system first to see.  On the PS3 it hangs and stutters at random times on the video playback. Audio is always fine and uninterrupted. A query on Google shows me that many others are having the same problem. Luckily there seems to be some solutions. If you have this issue, you need to delete the Rio data (Under Video>BD Data Utility menu on PS3) *and* disable the internet for playback, very convenient (not!). I hope Sony will figure out why their own stuff is broken.  This doesn't seem limited to a certain batch of discs, the bluray .com forum seems to believe it's player specific, so some folks will enjoy the movie in HD without having to bother, most likely if you're not using a Sony player.  This review reflects the problems I've experienced on 8/14 as we watched it together as a family on BluRay. This is for the 3 pack (BluRay,DVD and Digital copy). Save your money and get this on DVD or wait for it streaming.

Great I have seen this movie several times and finally decided to buy my own copy. Not thought provoking or educational, just good fun. I really like it

A Real Burner of a Film Liking it or not depends on what you come to the movie for.  The whole thing is one long drift.. actually it's only an hour and 38 minutes.  I found it watchable mainly for its 1971 vibe and cross-country shots.  Taylor, Wilson and the chick look like they just left Woodstock and it drips with existential hip.  To call it understated would be understated.  There is dialogue though in fact and a fair amount of it, but it's largely so devil-may-care in terms of relationship development and goals, that it's no wonder the film is branded existential - that and the way it ends.  Again, it's probably not gonna satisfy viewers who are looking for the traditional version of entertainment. But for a slice of life postcard from 1971 Two-Lane Blacktop gives you something to chew on.  On the other hand, if you're looking for a movie that uses racers and the 'two guys and a chick on the road' scenario that actually creates real tension and suspense on the road, with a firecracker of an ending, it's hard to beat "Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry" from 1974.

great season 30 Rock is getting better with each season.... real funny episodes I think 4 and 5 are the best seasons so far

hope you like sub-titles this such a creepy compelling story. i first found it in the dusty bins in the back of the video store's foriegn section. then 2 years later i found part 2. now thanks to the internet (amazon?)i own a copy and have re-watched them several times. i can see how Stephen King thought he could do it better. But Failed (sorry, i fell off of the Stephen King band wagon somewhere around the mad sheriff in the desert)

Secretariat If its got a horse in it, chances are I'm going to want to see it.  I've always loved horses and watched and read everything I could get my hands on throughout the years.  This movie was good, not spectacular, but solidly good.  With  her mother's death and her father's slow deterioration, Penny Chenery has to decide what to do with their expansive horse farm.  The finances aren't going well and she has to consider whether or not to sell some of the horses.  But with a coin flip her future changes and she gets to witness the birth of Secretariat.  He does well starting out, but Chenery needs him to do better.  Her goal is for him to be a Triple Crown winner.  But can she keep the finances afloat to give him that chance, and even more, will he be the horse she thinks he is.  Characters: Diane Lane: Penny Chenery John Malkovich: Lucien Laurin Amanda Michalka: Kate Tweedy Graham McTavish: Charles Hatton Kevin Connolly: Bill Nack Carissa Capobianco: Sarah Tweedy Drew Roy: Seth Hancock Scott Glenn: Christopher Chenery James Cromwell: Ogden Phipps Nelsan Ellis: Eddie Sweat Dylan Walsh: John Tweedy Fred Dalton Thompson: Bull Hancock Eric Lange: Andy Beyer Margo Martindale: Elizabeth Hamm Otto Thorwarth: Ron Turcotte Dylan Baker: Hollis Chenery Stephen Stanton: Chic Anderson Nestor Serrano: Pancho Martin  Great actors in this movie.  Diane Lane did a spectacular job as Penny Chenery.  She really came across as loving the horse and wanting the best for it.  I also loved John Malkovich and the way he played Lucien.  The guy cracked me up throughout the entire movie but he also could be serious when needed.  The rest of the side characters were great as well and all were able to express their emotions well.  And needless to say, the horse was fantastic.  Behaved and trained well and really portrayed a great champion with poise.  Since its a true story I'd have to say that they did a good job of sticking to the real story.  Of course there were some embellishments, but largely it seemed real.  And its a great story.  A real hero and feel good type of movie.  Secretariat inspires and even those against the horse racing industry would be hard pressed to prove that this horse dislikes running the races.  It seemed to revel in it.  The movie makers recreated the races well too, it seemed like actual horse races and had all the anticipation.  I really felt like I was right there cheering Secretariat on.  Despite all this activity though, there were some lulls in the movie that got kind of boring and that's what kept it from being a full five star movie.  If you love horses this is a movie for you.  Its also a good family movie.  Enjoy and cheer on Secretariat!  Review by M. Reynard 2011

A Unique And Adult Horror Endeavor: A Surprisingly Low-Key Survival Tale Set Amidst The Zombie Apocalypse While I have an undeniable soft spot in my heart for the flesh eating undead, the zombie genre has been a bit overworked lately with projects (whether in film, TV, or books) of varying degrees of quality. Let's face it, the walking dead are everywhere! I'm certainly not complaining, but it's becoming increasingly difficult to find entertainment that still feels fresh and vital. Brothers Howard and Jon Ford, however, have come up with a surprisingly effective survival story in "The Dead" that looks great, feels different, and yet still honors the old school traditions of the classic Romero zombie. It's a simple film, almost minimalist in fact, that doesn't utilize a lot of expository dialogue or develop a grandiose plot. It simply puts you into a realistic scenario set in the barren environment of rural Africa. The desolate country and atmospheric quiet of the film begs the question "Where do you escape to if there's nowhere to go?"  The film introduces us to Rob Freeman as the lone American survivor of an evacuation plane's crash. Crossing the war-torn country, there simply appears to be no end to the horde of undead. He meets up with a local soldier who is attempting to locate his missing son, and the two forge an unlikely friendship and alliance. The film doesn't attempt to explain why the country is overrun with zombies, and it offers little backstory or actual character development. Instead, it showcases the two men as they travel the countryside looking for any sign of hope. If you are looking for non-stop action and carnage, this film may not fulfill your expectation. This tale is much quieter, more introspective. The success of the movie relies on the unsettling mood as zombies are present in almost every background shot. It is a haunting and ethereal vision, especially as the pair drive through the night.  In addition to creating an effectively somber and realistic ambience, the Ford Brothers make the most of their unique environment. The African backdrop is wholly unique, and the movie looks great. The effects are solid, but the violence can be a bit disconcerting considering the real life atrocities and genocide that they bring to mind. I really liked the old-school approach to creating the undead effect, the figures aren't particularly monstrous--but more like hollowed out shells of the people they used to be (but hungrier!). Their horror comes from their ordinariness and their sheer numbers, they are simply everywhere. The action is interspersed with much quiet and melancholy, and again--this causes the picture to feel very different, very real. It's an unorthodox approach and it makes "The Dead" stand apart as a refreshingly grown-up film for adult audiences that appreciate a good scare or two. KGHarris, 1/12.

Wanted Really like the special effects and style of this movie.  Cast is very good.  Amazon.com has good prices and fast delivery.  Good place to shop when a department/specialty store is 20 miles away or more.

Some fine moments but it just goes on too long 3.8 stars  There's some fine acting here, a mostly quite realistic script, and plenty of nice thriller moments. But it should be 90 minutes long to have the visceral impact it wants to achieve. The close-ups start lingering a little too long, the fades last a little too long, and before I knew it I was thinking, this movie is a little too long. Which of course takes you out of the film's world, bleak though that world may be.  The acting is good and sometimes great, especially from Jacki Weaver as the Oedipal granny, and it all rings quite true, depressingly so. But the bleakness gets a little much at points, and a little more grim humor might have leavened the loaf a bit. They marketed this as "the Australian Goodfellas", but it's never nearly that much fun. It's too realistic for that, to both its credit and detriment. There are some good surprises and tense moments, but the music over-telegraphs those at many points, and kind of intrudes on the film; transparently trying too hard doesn't really suit this material, especially when the performances are often surprisingly understated. Those performances are fun to watch, however.  I also liked the ending a lot, very sharp and shocking and strangely satisfying in a very depressing way.  The blu-ray transfer is good, but the film has a '70s crime flick look that really doesn't need hi-def. The extras are ok  All in all, if you like crime thrillers and a dark, menacing mood, Animal Kingdom might be your kind of zoo.

Keeps In line With the Series I have enjoyed the whole Oceans series.  Clooney an Pitt really make the movie for me, and Casey Affleck is pretty surprising, funny guy.

BestBun&Leg I really like this video! It was easy but I can feel it kicken it. And I was actually sore in the morning, a good kind of sore !! LOL- I so recommend this!!

Enjoyable mystery Holmes and Watson are on the job, along with a friend of Watson's, on a train from London to Scotland. They are to protect a huge diamond, which has already had one attempt at theft made upon it in London. It doesn't take long for murder and theft to strike the train journey. Holmes and Watson, along with Scotland Yard Inspector LeStrade, find a baffling mystery. The murder MUST be one of the passengers in the very car in which the murder occurred, but which one?  Unfortunately, the ending is a bit simple for a Holmes mystery, and very little of the famous Holmes talent for putting small obscure clues together is evident in this story. Still, the mystery is enjoyable and surprising. Just the atmosphere of an early 20th century train trip makes this movie worth a watch, as virtually the entire movie is set on the train.  Recommended.

Superb Small Film "La Mission" is a superb small film that draws the audience into the characters and situation.  Benjamin Bratt is the film's star.  He turns in an excellent performance as the macho father who has a very difficult time after learning his son is gay.  Bratt does an excellent job of teetering between extremes.  On one hand, he is a loving father; on the other, he is a low rider filled with pride and bravado.  Thrown in to the mix is his struggle with alcoholism and his romantic reawakening with his neighbor Lena.  It is a replete performance, well worth the admission price.  As Lena, Erika Alexander turns in an incredibly powerful performace.  We see her as a recovering victim, probably of domestic violence, but also as a strong woman who balances her ideals with compassion.  Jeremy Ray Valdez plays Che's son Jes.  With his mother deceased and his father who spent time in prison, he has found his way in the world, often with the help of his uncle and aunt.  He does a good job showing an intelligent young man who doesn't quite fit into his own culture.  His love interest is Jordan, played by Max Rosenack who does a nice job as the caring young man who sticks by Jes' side through thick and thin.  Talisa Soto also turns in a caring supporting performance as Jes' aunt Ana.  "La Mission" is a strong film, probably not perfect, but well worth seeing.  While I didn't particularly understand the ending, the film is impressive.  Enjoy!

Exciting Thriller Director/Producer/Co-writer, Sage Bannick had to battle studio heads in order to try and get this film made and I suppose after having to endure their lists of excuses for too long he decided to go ahead and make the film on a more limited budget. I am not an expect in the matter but I would think in some ways this turned out to be the better of the two options since this way I think he had a lot more artistic freedom to get the film made the way he visioned it rather than having some studio execs getting their dirty hands on the script and changing things around as they see fit. The film starts off with Vincent and Oscar as kids and Oscar being the target of a sinister plan to collect life insurance. Oscar does a little sneaking around and soon discovers what their parents are up to so he beats them to the punch and in return he spends 25 years in prison. We then jump forward to present day and we see what Vincent is doing and as well as finding out that Oscar is being released from prison. The film stays busy during it's short 80 minute run time, it manages to keep the slasher plot going strong while fitting in the back-story on Oscar and also the suspense on the missing teenagers as well as giving us enough character development so that we can have some sort of connection to these people. The Absent doesn't try and hide the identity of the killer, it also isn't much of a mystery as to what is going on. But it isn't intended to be any of those things either, the film gives you the story right from the start without hiding any facts but the story is gripping and interesting enough to keep you at the edge of your seat waiting to see what happens next and ultimately wondering how it is going to end. The production values are good considering the budget, the settings, camera work, lighting and the soundtrack are all done very well and each plays a major part in the the over-all mood of the film. The cast is terrific as well, real-life twins, Denny and Bryan Kirkwood play the twin brothers in the film and both do a terrific job. The film seems to be a family affair since sisters Vanessa and Yvonne Zima star in the film as well. The entire cast has had experience in acting before so there was no reason to suspect the acting at all and having such a talented cast paid off. The Absent is a thriller that immediately grabs your attention from it's opening frames and keeps you glued to the screen till the exciting climax. I had a great time watching this and found it to be entertaining and one of those films you hate to see end so soon

Oldie but a Goodie My god some people's reviews are rediculous.... its like a novel .... I don't mind watching some older films if they still carry the magic of thrill... this was one fo rme that does... but can anyone tell me if this dvd being offer is the colorized verison or black N white?? Its one of those child like Friday 13th and day earth stood stood (the old one) and Halloween that seems to remain fun as we age... not every good film has to be million in special effects. This one was worth owning. I can't even watch the 1982 verison I get too scared with all the bodies busting opened and what not.... YIKES!  IS THIS THE COLOR VERISON DOES ANYONE KNOW??

Not bad considering the novelty of it all. My six year old son kept asking if he could blow out the fire and just for entertainment value, it's worth half the price of pausing the video every time he blows on the screen. I'm just glad that he didn't go fetch a bucket of water right on to the flat panel.  But on the serious side, it was nice to have it "roaring" in the background while I was reading a book. It even helped me fall asleep.

Saturation Dirty Dancing has been one of my favorite movies since it first came out and I still get chills when Jennifer Grey runs to Johnny for the lift in the final dance. The movie still holds up and it's worth 5 stars. However, in this particular version of the movie, the red is over saturated and ruins the beautiful photography.  Amazon needs a better quality print to stream.

A Portrait Of Humanity When rating the greatest films of all-time, "12 Angry Men" usually ends up closer to the top of the list than the bottom.  While looking at the movie through a narrow prism (just the murder trial at hand) the experience leaves a little bit to be desired, the lasting impact of this masterpiece will forever be its portrayal of humanity.  For a basic plot summary, "12 Angry Men" picks up after the trial of a young man for supposedly killing his father.  While eleven jurors are ready to convict the boy and call it a day, one man (Henry Fonda) has a reasonable doubt about the case and refuses to make the vote unanimous.  When the jurors get to discussing the case, "Fonda" finds that he may have more supporters than he originally thought as he lays out his doubts.  Like I mentioned, this movie is actually a bit predictable (maybe that's because it's such a classic that the plot is now well-known) when looked at in a narrow sense.  However, the portrayal of humanity in all its various forms is so powerful that it carries all 90 minutes of run-time.  The film is basically a case-study of all 12 jurors and why they think like they do.  For a few examples...  -A couple of jurors are just downright intimidated by the tougher-talking members.  -One juror is sick and wants to get out of the heat, while another has tickets to a baseball game and thus wants to hurry along the proceedings.  -Yet another juror is prejudiced against all young people and wants to see them all in "the chair".  Only Fonda is tough enough (in a performance every bit as courageous as the one given by Gregory Peck in "To Kill A Mockingbird) and honest enough to stand up to his peers and not back down.  The acting in the movie is also incredible.  Nearly every juror is a great character actor and they all bring something a little different and unique to their respective roles.  This film could have devolved into a mess without great acting, so fortunately it was provided.  Overall, "12 Angry Men" deserves its place among the film classics.  It may not be the all-around best movie you'll ever watching, but not too many other flicks can match its honest portrayal of the human conditions (warts and all).

Better than expected I have to admit... I passed on this movie several times. However, I finally picked it up and watched it tonight and what a pleasant surprise! My wife, son, and I laughed out loud for most of the movie. What a great feeling. This is a much better movie than reviews indicate. Give it a chance... You just might be pleasantly surprised like we were!

Old Matinee Type Sci-Fi Peter Graves started out in old black & white Sci-fi movies & was very good at making you believe in the plot & his part in it. The "special effects" are, of course, outdated & not up to todays standards but it's still just a short fun movie that lets you get into the "alien invader" mentality that was very prevelant in the old sci-fi movies. I know the younger people today would say it's dumb & has poor special wffects, etc. but I enjoy it for what it really is...a look back at the "old" times when we did pretty good with the effects we had!

Eddie and Martin This was a good movie, it just made me so mad at the injustice inflicted upon them. Still worth watching.

Great to get the digital copy, but.... This review is for the DVD itself and not the movie (5 stars) I bought this item for Christmas, having been disappointed that WB didn't offer a nice Deathly Hallows part 1 and part 2 combo boxset. (I waited to buy both movies for just a Gringotts slipcover?!) While I am happy to have the movie in 3 different formats, this set offers nothing in extras/bonus features. I also bought this copy for the digital copy. HOWEVER, when I went to redeem my code, I was hit with an error code all 10 times I tried to download it. Long story short, iTunes admitted there was a glitch with the file and has removed it from their store. I was sent a new redemption code when the movie become available. As of 2/4/2012, the file was still not available for purchase or download.

Great Movie Thought provoking, how far do we go to protect ourselves and yet preserve individual liberties....... Very good movie, I recommend.

We liked the Emily series. We liked the series as a whole.I loved the Anne of Green Gables feel.However we didn't care for the way that it ended.It left you hanging and wanting more.I haven't read the books yet and hope to read them soon.I know as good as any movie is the book is always better.

More on emotions, less on story I think that other reviewers found this movie boring because the story in the entire 2 hours can be compressed in 3 sentences. However, a storyline is not really what this film is about. It's not even about the relationship between Cecilia (Knightley) and Robbie (McAvoy). It's about portraying the emotions of a girl who did a wrongful act in the past, and the emotions of those whom she had wronged.  All the actors were very good, with Saoirse Ronan and James McAvoy deserving special mention, and they were able to bring out the emotions of the characters in the story. I wasn't bored by the movie, and I actually like how they use flashbacks (some reviewers found this confusing, but I thought it made everything more interesting). It's not your typical tearjerker flick. I would caution though, it's a rather heavy and sad film to watch.

Great Flick! Might have been a little cliche' in moments, but overall enjoyed!  Will purchase, so that I can watch again!  Would be well worth the $$ spent!

Wow!  What a Great Film Silent or Otherwise!  Fritz Lang Rocks! This is the third Kino Blu-ray that I've watched after <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0036SPDEG">Battleship Potemkin [Blu-ray</a>] and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002NTDX6O">The General [Blu-ray</a>] and this has got to be by far the best that I've seen!  "Metropolis" is now officially the best ever silent film that I've ever seen.  Kino has done an excellent restoration job both in finding as much of the lost material and hence making this as complete a version of the original as possible and in the excellent picture quality that we get here.  The much anticipated "lost" material from Argentina has been re-inserted and despite the horrible state of the film and hence the still poor picture quality from these frames the picture quality of the vast majority comprising of the other frames more than makes up for this and hence makes this a very enjoyable film to watch even today.  Where frames are still missing they have inserted intertitles to explain what is going on and while these are very few and far between mostly concentrated towards the end I really liked the idea as it makes this the most complete that "Metropolis" has ever been since the original release.  The original score is also very beautiful and just like for "Battleship Potemkin" greatly enhances the film coming now in excellent DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Surround sound.  The special feature documentaries are also excellent.  Kino with the 3 blu-ray releases that I've seen so far is really trying to become a viable alternative to Criterion as the leading restorer of classic films and long may it continue!  Even the slipcase is a work of art coming with a holographic sticker in the front which is quite beautiful.  The special features especially "Voyage to Metropolis" are very good too.  Watching what is now an 84-year film I was astonished at how relevant this film is even for today which is the mark of an excellent classic film.  If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then this film has be flattened by now :-)  While watching this I couldn't help but be reminded of other great films like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003ZYU3T6">Modern Times  (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray</a>], <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UBMWG4">Blade Runner (Five-Disc Complete Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray</a>], episodes from "Star Trek: TOS" such as <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005Q79B">Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 37 - Episodes 73 & 74: The Lights of Zetar / The Cloud Minders</a> and even in music such as <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000M7XSGO">Time (Mlps)</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000007R1M">Man Machine</a> or even <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000002GYI">Computer World</a> among many, many others all inspired by this beautiful film.  The theme of the exponentially increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots is still so relevant today when we look at the economic progress disparity among the so called developed and under-developed worlds and watching countries like North Korea and the recent events in Egypt, Libya and others in the Middle East is like watching the premise of "Metropolis" come to pass.  It's hard to distinguish watching the relevant scenes from "Metropolis" and the scenes on CNN or BBC of the reporting of those real-life events.  Mark Twain was certainly right that history may not repeat itself but it certainly rhymes.  The other theme of the dehumanisation of people when technical innovation is used solely for profit without regard for compassion and the well-being of our fellow man is still sadly relevant today when you look at the damage so called financial "innovation" has wrought on the lives of so many people in the wake of the recent financial crisis for example.  This film also ends very well when its thesis that the heart must be the mediator between the head and the hand is emphasised showing that if we apply common sense and compassion to innovation and technological growth then all of humanity will benefit and not just the few privileged greedy ones.  This Kino Blu-ray release of "Metropolis" is an excellent job at restoring a movie classic which is now not only my favourite silent film ever but is also among my favourite movies of all time.  Good if not perfect picture quality restoration, great sound quality for the score and excellent overall packaging of a brilliant film makes this an easy review.  Highly recommended!

POST-NAZI FILM This is a post-World War II 1946 film starring well-known and talented actors. A notorious Nazi war criminal escapes to America, becomes a teacher and marries a local woman.  But as the plot unravels, a federal agent is hot on his trail and the rest is an exciting, suspenseful story. I liked it and would recommend it to others.  The photography and lighting is innovative and adds to the drama of the ex-Nazi getting his just reward for his evil acts against humanity. I imagine the satisfying ending in 1946 movie theaters got a loud cheer of revenge from the audience.

Trip into the Past This was a fun "Trip" into a past that was a real Blast. Recommended. Looked good and sounded fine.

Not what I expected Excellent performances but unfortunately I didn't get the disks I wanted. I only received Episodes 1-4. Despite this I enjoyed what I saw immensely. These are some powerful poets, but like some people beneath me, I too was misled. ~Nylus

Robert Duvall in top form. Sit back and enjoy Not an especially deep or insightful movie, but it feels like it is thanks to consistently outstanding performances from every player on the screen - led by Robert Duvall in top form. Just sit back and enjoy.

A great little horror flick I don't get all the negative reviews -- this movie actually has a lot going for it.  And personally, I've always liked this kind of tripartite structure, whether the three separate stories interconnect at the end (as is the case with this film), or connect only through an actor or general theme (as with my favorite, 1955's excellent "Three Cases of Murder").  I was entertained by "Amusement:" it is not just a flick to help waste your time, and the folks involved in its making clearly wanted to make a good movie, despite the budget.  As mentioned, "Amusement" consists of three stories with somewhat open endings, all three of which are resolved in a common d&eacute;nouement at the end.  Other than the first story, which I felt was the weakest of the bunch, "Amusement" is mostly carried by the main actor, Katheryn Winnick.  Despite her demure clothing throughout, Winnick is decidedly more Playboy-bunny (well, a very athletic bunny -- she is after all a Taekwondo champion) than ordinary-girl-next-door, and at first I thought she was slightly mis-cast.  I was wrong -- not only does she give a truly solid performance (notably better than the norm in these sorts of roles), her inherent sexuality seemed to enhance the sense of a strong, tough woman who will survive no matter what.  Winnick is much more than eye candy here; she actually carries the film.  The sets deserve a special mention -- they are above the norm.  The pacing, and focus on telling a coherent story (really hard, I would think, in a movie structured like this) are also above-average.

informative yikes, why do i watch this stuff?  scary but informative is how i describe my experience watching this documentary.  i found the chapter on hh holmes to be the most interesting and terrifying.  yea you should probably watch this i guess, h

Quirky and suprizing Joe VS. The Volcano, remembering seeing this title on the marquee of a NOW long gone, and defunct local  movie theater.  The title raised  my curiosity and at the time, "I thought about dropping in to see it." However, it only survived a three week run.  So, I figured... it was  your typical bomb.. and never really thought about it. Many years later, I noticed it at my local video store. I asked the manager if he had any feedback, (Good or bad). His comment. "It doesn't get rented very often." A RED flag?  I decided to take a chance.  It didn't take long to see something extraordinary happening. Silly, but laced with amazing depth and insight. The writers had hit a home run, with the amazing characters, and had taken on a huge task.... creating three characters from one actress. Meg Ryan was a complete  "Gem"  The plot was "blotchy" at times, and the screen writers seemed to go off on tangents at times, but even that worked.  The was cast well knitted and always had great chemistry.  The over all feel of the movie was extraordinary,as  various scenes and moods meshed well. The music was perfect. Steven Spielberg.....It was a  odd creation for him. It was basically a " You either get it, or you don't films" The critics shredded it, when it first came. now, it has  become almost a cult classic.  Now,  I have seen it  more times than I can remember.  It never fails to make me laugh.  Just a side note:  Enjoy and don't spend your time looking for mistakes.. Saving them for the "Bloopers."  -Mark -

Worth watching for a gory, bloody, cheesy slasher movie. Overall, I liked it and would recommend it. It's a gory, bloody, cheesy slasher movie. Heavy on gore, lighter on logic - exactly what it claims to be.  The plot started out strong and finished strong, the middle was weaker, the dialog meandered in places, and the killings were graphic.  Really, really graphic, but not overly disturbing--too over the top or maybe I'm just desensitized??  They built characterizations they didn't use and spend time on scenes that didn't seem to advance the plot. Plus it had more frontal nudity than I expected and surprisingly, it didn't annoy me as much as it usually does.  I'm not going to comment on Jensen character "Tom" too much before you see the movie, but I think Jensen nailed the role and it's only apparent how good a job he did after you watch the movie.  For you Supernatural fans, "Dean Winchester" is not in this movie and if you are expecting "Tom" to act like "Dean", you will be sorely disappointed.  About the only similarities are the wardrobe.  "Tom" is a normal person that has had lots of horrible things happen around him.  He's confused and off-kilter and trying his best to adjust to everything that has happened.  Or maybe not.  There is enough ambiguity that it's not clear who's the predator and who's the prey until the very end.  Not a bad waste of time.  I watched the 2D version for this review and probably won't watch the 3D version (3D gives me headaches) but I will definitely watch the 2D version again and probably drag my husband along for the show.

Love it! It was great to get it faster then what they said it was going to arrive . Truly enjoyed it as soon as it got here. My family was happy to watch it.

Lifts the soul Great way to see a host of Yogis who have contributed much to the Yoga boom now starting its third decade. You also meet unknowns from India and a very pleasant Bhakti Yogi in Northern India. It could encourage one on their own soulful journey.

;0/ This was an ok movie, withesaying that and the issues still being current and sensitive I really don't want to say much. I don't know if everything that was shown if it was actually how it happen or it lifetime fabricated other parts. After watching I still have some questions here and there about what took place. I will say this I do travel  but not alot but when I travel to another country I have to be very aware because you just never know.  The whole thing is so sad and in the end it's the victim that nobody remembers just this big case.

A wickedly delightful Halloween classic I remember watching this years ago with my siblings around Halloween time. We laughed at the cheese factor but still loved it nevertheless. Bette Midler is wicked in her role as Winifred, the leader of the Sanderson witches, and Kathy Najimy plays the dumb witch, Mary with Sarah-Jessica Parker playing Sarah, the wannabe temptress witch. All three were hanged back in the 1600s in the town of Salem, MA for practicing witchcraft, but had vowed to return and exact revenge.  Fast forward three hundred years later, and there's a new boy in town, Max Denison (Omri katz). Max is cynical about Salem's history and doesn't believe in the Sanderson story. On Halloween night, Max reluctantly takes his little sister, Dani (a very young Thora Birch) trick or treating, and meets up with his dream girl, Allison (Vinessa Shaw). The trio go to the Sanderson house which is reputed to be haunted. When Max defiantly lights up a candle in the house, he releases the spirits of the three wicked witches and all hell breaks loose. The kids' only ally is an immortal black cat, and they have to race against time (before dawn) to ensure the witches do not get their revenge against the children of Salem, and can be destroyed forever.  The effects may seem cheesy by today's standards (they were even back then) but it still makes for a fun Halloween watch. The acting is actually pretty good, and Bette Midler in particular shines as the wicked witch who absolutely delights in her role (and it shows). I watched it yesterday with my first grader and she loved it!

Greetings from the CIA! RED is one of those movies that is so exceedingly rare these days: an action comedy with no grand ambitions, no desire other than to entertain the socks right off your feet.  At this, the film excels spectacularly.  It concerns the retired (extremely dangerous) CIA agent Frank Moses, who one night finds a hit squad in his house.  Determined to track down who's behind the attempted hit, Moses rounds up some old friends, and together they decide to take on the CIA and potentially the entire US government.  Sound like a good time?  You bet it is!  Without the spectacular cast (all of whom are delightfully hamming it up), the film would still be enjoyable.  With this cast, it borders on one of the best action comedies of recent years.  Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, and John Malkovich are all top-notch as retired agents with a little bite left in them.  Joining them for the ride is a delightfully cool and sinister Karl Urban, as the man pursuing Moses; Marie-Louise Parker, charming and hilarious, as Moses's love interest; Brian Cox as a former Russian spy; Ernest Borgnine as a records keeper; and Richard Dreyfus as a shady businessman.  The characters are two dimensional, and the plot is shallow and convoluted.  Various plot holes aren't resolved, and the trailers gave away a lot of great moments plot details (though don't worry, there are still plenty of others).  These may seem like minor things in an action movie, but in a film with this great a cast, you notice them.  That's the only reason RED gets 4 instead of 5 stars.  Otherwise, it is an upbeat, fun, funny action film, one of those rare pieces of popcorn entertainment that warrants repeated viewing.

Very funny material This dvd had very funny material, thought the beginning of dvd was little slow about the airports and family life.  But the rest of the show was very funny and never loses your intrest.  My favorite will always be Walter and Jose.  So if your in the mood to laugh very loud and have an enjoyable night of laughs and unbleeped words and humor then pick this dvd up and make yourself and rest of family memebers laugh out loud.

Funny as hell! Good fun! All the bosses do a great job in their roles and the chemistry between jason bateman, charlie day and jason sudakis is great! even jamie foxxs' part was on par! if you enjoy the style of the comedy of late than youll get a kick out of this one!

Much better than average sequel Michael Keaton was a really odd choice to play The Batman, and he brought it off very well. Its a tribute to acting that someone cast so against type could step believably into this type of iconic role and make fans sad that he left it after two pictures.  I give Batman Returns four stars instead of five only because it is very hard to match the original film. Jack Nicholson nailed the Joker so well, and the first movie was such a rush of novelty, that the second movie had no chance to capture the same atmosphere so perfectly.  Danny Devito does a great job as the Penguin, and Michelle Pfeiffer brings an air to Catwoman that Halle Berry could never hope to achieve in her stand-alone follow up. The story has some very cool moments. Unfortunately it also introduced the format of two villains per film, which I felt crowded the last three films of that sequence a bit too much.  The DVD presentation is true to the theater experience. It looks and sounds great.

Solid entertainment All good actors- good story- I watch this movie about every 6 months for years now. My whole family loves it.

Fan Read the book 3 times (so far).  The movie captured the message and mood of the book surprisingly well.  A few important lines and at least one important speech by Francisco were omitted.  Including these would not have slowed the movie down; they would have enhanced the movie.  Toward the end, Dagny tells Francisco she's going to name her new railroad the John Galt Line, and says "Let them come claim it."  What was inexplicably omitted was Fransisco's two-word retort:  "He will."  Wouldn't that line pique the interest of someone who never read the book?  Also, Dr. Stadler's (sp?), who was clearly of German descent in the book, was portrayed by an Asian.  Finally, Professor Hugh Akston appeared to be more of a hillbilly than as a master chef and mentor to 3 of the main heroes in the book.  Otherwise, it was a terrific movie!

Kudos for Araki Araki is an always interesting director.  Don't be dissuaded by one negative review.  The premise of this movie is somewhat similar to his earlier work "The Doom Generation."  There is no correlation to "Shortbus."  What's this guy talking about?

Complete Nonsense, But Very Well Done. My bargain-rack movie for last night was "Ghost Rider " (Widescreen Edition) starring Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes. I found it in the five-dollar bin at Wal-Mart. Well, to begin, I was totally unaware of the Ghost Rider thing and the comics upon which it was based so I had zero preconceived notions. Well, I have very mixed feelings about this as a movie. I didn't care much for the movie, but I found it interesting in a variety of ways. The whole story and the premise behind it is preposterous and requires a strange mixture of beliefs in the supernatural, various religions, the devil and a whole bunch of hocus-pocus drivel in order to enjoy and "understand" the plot. I'm lacking in that background and just regarded it as unmitigated nonsense. Furthermore, the acting was substandard, to say the least, and the characters were stiff and unsympathetic..  However, the production of this movie and the stunts and special effects were spectacular. Time and time again I was left wondering: How did they do that? It's really amazing and I found the movie to be very interesting, not for the story, but for the production. Some of the stuff that is shown here is of Academy Award Nomination caliber, but it's saddled with a non-sensical story line. So, what does one do and how should such a production be rated?. Well, strangely enough, I wouldn't mind watching it a second time and that's compliment in itself. Use you're own judgement. If you're tolerant of complete nonsense as far as the story is concerned and want to watch an enjoyable display of special effects, then it's not a bad movie at all.  Gary Peterson

Little bit of British history If nothing else, this movie is educational and provides a glimpse of British history.  The story is interesting.  Colin Firth is Bertie, the British crown candidate next in line after his brother Guy Pearce (Edward VIII).  After their father king George V dies, the crown goes to Edward VIII, who abdicates it to marry his girl friend.  That is how Bertie becomes the king just before the World War II starts.  Bertie's biggest problem is that he stutters.  To get rid of his stutter, he starts to work with his speech therapist Lionel.  Throughout the movie they have to resolve lot of issues that come up and later on they become close friends.  The only problem I had with this movie is that from the beginning we knew the whole story, no plot twists or surprises.  Of course all movies based on a true story will have this problem, I understand that.  Still it is as if each actor had to go through their motions to make the movie.  This movie deals with emotional issues and relationships between the royal family members.  Great acting, interesting plot, entertaining movie.

Do you know what happens when an X-Men movie is transferred to bluray? The bluray edition of X-MEN is pretty much a HD quality version of the special edition DVD that also contains the mutant watch featurette from the original DVD copy. The video quality is nice. Not leaps and bounds above your standard DVD but you do notice in certain scenes,case in point; When bobby is talking to Rogue in the school courtyard I remembered on the original DVD commentary Brian Singer mentioned if you look closely you can see cool air coming out of the Iceman's mouth. On the DVD copy I strained my eyes yet to no avail. I could never see the breath. Yet on the bluray copy it's clear as day. It's nothing huge but something any fan would catch onto.  The first "X" film is certainly more reality based than its successors and after watching X2 and 3 by todays standards it certainly comes across as a setup film. Still,X-MEN was the launching title that started the superhero wave of big budget pictures that's still thriving roughly 11 years later and rightfully so.

Great and Disappointing? Let me start off saying that Highlander is one of my favorite all-time movies (ever since I was old enough to see an R-rated movie) and I've been eagerly anticipating the Blu-Ray release of this film. My biggest complaint is the picture and sound... Now don't get me wrong, this is an incredible improvement over my VHS copy of the Director's Cut but I am moderately disappointed in the video transfer... Extremely grainy video in the scenes with low lighting (so most of the movie right?) but the flashbacks are much crisper/clean. The sound isn't much better. Definitely an improvement over my VHS copy but not up to par with this generation of Blu-Ray releases... You can tell that an inordinate amount of time was not spent on the transfer (unfortunately)... If I was not such a fan of this film and the cinematography I would rate it much lower but this is a must own for me... I'm not claiming to be an A/V expert but I've read enough (read: know enough) and have watched more than enough films (Blu-Ray) from the 70's and 80's with better transfer standards... I wanted this to be great but I'm satisfied just to have it on Blu-Ray... So in conclusion, the transfer leaves much to be desired but still is a must own for the die-hard Highlander fan... And FYI... the Special Features (if you can call them that) do not differ at all from the previous releases of the Director's Cut...

different concept results in an appealing movie The Experiment lives up to its name in more ways than one.  It's about a group of people who get paid a large sum of money to pretend to be either prisoners or prison guards.  Which one it is depends on what the assignment paper says.  It turns out Adrien Brody's character becomes the innocent prisoner and Forest Whitaker's character becomes the power-hungry prison guard.  While the two sides are taking their respective role, video cameras from above are watching closely the actions of every person in the prison system.  That's basically all I really want to say about the storyline because revealing anything more would definitely spoil the movie for everyone.  Just know that there's several moments of power abuse that leads to humiliation, and one scene in particular involves urination and it's totally disgraceful.  The Experiment is probably best described as a spin on your typical prison-type storyline.  The storyline concerning a power struggle is obviously the aspect that stands out above everything else.  In all other areas however, this is exactly what you'd expect out of a good suspense- incredibly violent and action-packed, and the acting is really good throughout every single segment.  It's a quality film with a different take on an age old storyline that centers around a prison and the mistreatment of others.  The only difference between this film and the others is that the prisoners are actually the innocent ones in this case.  Excellent movie all around.

gorgious movie, watch out for the sexual assault stuff a beautiful movie. the crazyness surrounding an indian wedding, the importance of family and at the same time, all the crzy things going on behind the scenes that people dont talk about: messing arund w the ex, child molestation, the abcd factor of 1 guy, all kinds of things. i especially lve the story of dubey and alice, they are so cute!!!! beware though if you dont like talk of molestation and rape, they make it very emotional near the end of the movie, thats a warning.

A- for a Lesbian movie I did like the movie, I think half of it was because the women in the movie were great actresses and they were amazing to look at. I would have liked a bit more build up in the film though from the kisses to the "relationship" but I do suppose it was perfect for what the characters/story was trying to achieve. There was angst in the movie I'll give it that and even though it was a sad ending - maybe they're be a sequel? I doubt it also but it leaves room for one to wonder with the story and where the characters could go with or without each other.

Tintin: the original animated series Tintin films have now branched into two different modes.  There is now the amazingly lifelike Tintin theatrical movie (by Steven Spielberg) that was created using "Motion Capture" techniques similar to those used in the excellent "Polar Express".  The other branch is more of a cartoon-like format done by the folks at Nirvana. I believe both branches are worthy of one's consideration; especially if you are a tried-and-true Tintin fan. The Nivana branch was a series especially created for TV and the animation is excellent.  Somehow they were able to capture the look of Tintin & Co. that is amazingly faithful to Herge's original books.  There were two seasons created and include most (if not all) of the Tintin book stories.  The two outer space adventures ("Destination Moon" and "Explorers on the Moon") were especially well done and are included in the Season One set.  On the other hand, the Spielberg movie combined serveral of the Herge' stories into one film; but it was also exceedingly well done.  Therefore I heartily recommend both this Nirvana set as well as the First Season set and, of course, the Tintin movie. P.S. The Season Two set also includes the UFO adventure "Flight 714" and the Alien Meteor adventure "The Shooting Star".  Enjoy

One of the most well done romantic comedies ever I really liked this movie. It has all the right elements for an awesome romantic comedy. I also really like Jay Baruchel acting skills. He plays the geeky guy role very well and I believe this his first, main star movie role in his career.  The story line is basic, 1 hot girl and 1 geeky guy end up together in the end. But before that happens, the geeky guy will help the hot girl with a problem. The problem in this movie is that the hot girl has a low-self esteem. I don't know any movie that has used that idea before and is surprising and fresh to see.  There are plenty of jokes here, but they are mostly cheesy dumb jokes. Some people don't like those things, but I didn't mind it. I always watch stupid comedies as well, so those kind of jokes don't bother me much.  Everyone should give this movie a chance and watch it. It really has something for everyone.

Jaws still alive Excellent upgrade to a classic movie. Same as the original as far as content; therefore still elliciting, intense emotions and a sense of forboding.

Very entertaining, but should have been longer While classic cartoons from Bugs Bunny to Garfield the cat are busy getting (largely unwelcome) 21st century makeovers, it's comforting to see MGM allowing Tom & Jerry to pretty much remain themselves in a series of direct-to-videos features.  Even as the stories are getting more ambitious (such as in the duo's previous release <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0040MO90Q">Tom & Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes [Blu-ray</a>]), the beloved cat-and-mouse team has remained mostly unchanged.  So here we find them inserted into one of the most-loved stories of all time.  For longtime fans like myself, the very title alone brings shivers of anticipation.  Tom and Jerry combined with the Wizard of Oz?  How can you go wrong?  And as others have pointed out, this is isn't simply the L. Frank Baum "Oz" story, it's the defintive MGM film version that is being utilized.  Right there at the Gale farm among Dorothy, Toto and those hired hands, we find Tom and Jerry.  And they're not just tagging along; Auntie Em tells the pair to be sure and "look out for Dorothy" right before the tornado strikes.  From there, the story unfolds almost exactly as it does in the film version.  This is both a great asset AND a bit of a liability, however.  The only real problem I have with this otherwise entertaining and very well-animated film is that things happen a bit too fast.  It's as if the writers are saying "OK, we all know what happens in Munchkinland, so we can just skip over that."  And Dorothy's journey down the yellow brick road is also very abbreviated; indeed, the cat and mouse (who've picked up a Munchkin mouse, the only other real deficit here) arrive too late to see Dorothy meeting the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion.  The voicework and animation are all top-notch, especially for a made-for-video feature.  And if you overlook the stuff I mentioned above, you'll likely to have a good time.  Like all the previous Tom & Jerry features, it's perfectly safe for kids.  There's even some kid-friendly activities in the bonus materials.  Oh, and be sure to watch the film with the sepia-toned opening scenes (listed here, oddly, as a bonus feature) to get the real classic Wizard of Oz effect.  Recommended for fans of T & J and The Wizard of Oz.

Good, Not Great Video Quality Please describe the audio and video quality of any Blu-Ray you review.  Thanks to those who do this.  The video quality was not great, but was pretty good.  It was soft, and really didn't look like a modern high-def movie.  I give it about an 8.5 on a 10 point scale.  It was plesant to watch, but could have been better.  The Dolby TrueHD 5.1 soundtrack was adequate for a mostly non-action movie.  The surround sounds were subtle.  I wasn't paying attention to the sound during the one action part.  The movie is worth watching (it is wonderful).

"I'm a bitter old lush." Not meant as a complaint, but for a movie titled Gingerdead Man 3 you'd think the little cookie would have had the starring role and not a shot as a special guest star.  That said, it is an amusing send-up of several films.  Of course, if you'd never seen any of the films referenced, you might not chuckle as much.  I have so I did.  Plus, there's just something so idiotic about a homicidal cookie that I can't help but respond by laughing.  The rest of the nonsense in this film only helped lighten the load, the burden of everyday life.  A few laughs, a little mayhem, who could want for more?  Me. I'd like a Gingerdead Man 4.  Please.  With or without raisins.

Enjoyable! I hadn't heard of this film and gave it a shot.  I was pleasantly surprised by how enjoyable it was.  The story isn't anything ground breaking and revolves around a TV Producer trying to save a tanking morning news show.  What makes it so good are the performances. Rachel McAdams just breathes life into this role and you just tag along with her for the bumpy but comedic ride.  A-List stars Harrison Ford and Diane Keaton are impeccable and even more so that they take a slightly back seat to give Rachel McAdams her due performance.  All three are brilliant and play off in each other with wonderful timing while adding some humanity and feeling to it all.

Visit to Italy The DVD follows the film maker's trips around Italy and includes home movies taken by various Italians which give a certain intimacy to the DVD.  It isn't a glitzy promotion of some tour company's offerings which is usually the case, but instead, a closer look into the scenes and people of a wonderful country.

the Shield: Season Seven the Final Act Owning all seven seasons, I feel this was pretty good for the last season; odd how my feelings about each character started to change once again, as in Season Five. The Final Act was totally unexpected for me, and though I didn't LIKE how it ends - the fact that it even evoked some strong feelings made it good.

If you read the book, you'll be a little disappointed The movie adaptation was good, don't get me wrong, and most of the things from the book were included, but what covered chapters in the book only covered seconds in the movie. Like the Dursley's leaving for example. They all weren't as cold as that. Harry and Dudley ended up shaking hands. The movie didn't quite live up to the book, but they never do. If you didn't read the book, you wouldn't understand. It's still a good movie though, if a little disappointing.

Great picture, not perfect There are several scenes that are not super clear - seems reasonable for a 50+ year old movie.  But, the blu-ray kept me watching the movie like the first time I ever did.  It helped me to share it with the family, too.

Good Movie Not Oscar material but still enjoyable.  Love the premise of spending all those years underground, then returning to see what has changed.

It could've been  much shorter, but it is very helpful "The Zen of Screaming" is a pretty good instructional video. Others have dismissed it as one big advertisement, but I think that's unfair. To be sure, a lot of the "Melissa's so cool" sections could've been cut out. But, the video does have a plethora of good ideas and exercises that are readily applicable to singing or screaming. It includes techniques on breathing, how to use your diaphragm to increase your power without messing up your vocal chords, voice maintenance tips, etc. Another gripe is that the brief snippets where they cut to a live show, and the music bits that introduce each segment are WAY TOO LOUD when compared to the speaking voice of Melissa and the participants. It gets annoying. I recommend taking notes as you watch, that way you can keep those tips and exercises handy. The audio CD is very good, except I think most of the exercises are too quick. She should've extended them a bit more.  In short, while this is certainly far from perfect, you will learn very useful things that will definitely help you be a singer with more control, and avoid injury.

A well executed documentary This is proof positive that a well executed documentary can be successful despite focusing on subject matter that could have very easily been dull.

Other Guys Surprisingly funny film for what I was expecting. Roommate, some friends and I all enjoyed it over drinks and dinner. Case it comes in seems cheap though, it doesn't seem like a standard blu ray case which actually might protect your disk.

Who'd a Thunk It? A Hitchcock film with a sentimental ending, no less. Tippi Henren, somewhat less-than-talented veteran of an earlier Hitch work "The Birds" plays Marnie Edgar, an embezzler who is spotted by debonair businessman Mark Rutland (Sean Connery). Mark is suspicious of her but charmed by her as well. Mark's sister-in-law Lil (Diane Baker) who lives with Mark's blind father to help take care of him but tends to play the protective kid sister to Mark as well, starts out suspicious of Marnie as a gold-digger, but over time becomes sympathetic to her. So what does Mark do after he gets the goods on Marnie but propose to her (???). It's a bit of a cliche of mid-20th century cinema for there to be a "playboy with a heart of gold". He thinks he can straighten Marnie out by getting to the root of what makes her steal. Without dropping much in the way of spoilers, this film is the only Hitchcock film I can recall with an ending that can bring an "isn't that sweet" reaction out of the viewer.  One thing sticks out immediately is Connery's Scots/ Brit accent when his father doesn't talk that way. It's kind of like the late Andy Griffith having a hillbilly twang as Sheriff Andy Taylor, while neither Aunt Bee nor Opie talk that way despite being based in the Appalachian town of Mayberry. Or Hoss Cartwright of "Bonanza" being the only member of his family who talks like a cowboy. Almost the "aw come on" situation of George W Bush having a thicker Texas drawl and more regional mispronunciations than George Senior. Marnie's mom, who gave her a way less than optimum upbringing resulting in her issues, is your cliche working-class Southerner. You know, the ones the left nowadays think of as "uneducated" and/ or "inbred"? I guess a society that always portrays working class people in a bad light in its movies and TV is going to want to see the class my late father used to call "Joe Blow" in a collective sense as "Middle Class" when thinking of us as voters, huh? And as for Hedren's name, whose idea was it to give her the nickname of a dog; "Tippi"? I never knew a girl with that name. Only dogs, and despite Hedren's acting shortcomings, a dog she ain't.

Movie This product was what I expected it was the same as was dfiscribed,shiped on time, price was ok.Would deal with this person again.

Great anime! I must start by saying that I was looking for this series for a long time, since I only caught one or two episodes when it was broadcasted, and considered it cool! So I didn't hesitate to get this copy.  Boy! It is a great series. I loved every minute of it. First I saw it in english, later  in japanese with english subtitles. Trust me, it's better in the original language! The voice-overs sound really cool, very emotional.  The 3D sections were impressive (remember this was in made last century...), and in general the atmosphere was outstanding. Kudos to the japanese creators for that.  I sincerely recommend it.

Where is the double disc of this movie on DVD? What happened to the two disc of this movies for the DVD version plus the digital copy? The Blue Ray has it, why not the DVD? If WB had release the double disc then I would have given it a 5 Star rating.

Fun but not for kids This was a different movie. Jessica Chastain was great. My only problem was that it seemed to just drift along with no real sense of purpose. I don't expect a moral but at least plot that had real bite would have been nice.

Good movie but much too long The Great Dictator is a good movie but by no means one of Chaplin's best. It is very very funny but not as funny as his silent films. I have no problem with the politcal message, the drama, or even the speech at the end. I do, however, think this movie is much too long. It is stretched out to 205 minutes. In my opinion it should only have been about 90 minutes. It is simply not funny for the last 45 minutes, and it takes longer than necessary to get to the point.  There are definitely some funny scenes in this movie. Scenes remind me of Abbot & Costello, the Marx Brothers, and of course Chaplin's own Tramp. The funny scenes are very VERY funny, and I laughed out loud many times. Unfortunately much of the film is not funny.  The dramatic story is also very good. The drama would have mixed better with the comedy had the film been shorter instead of stretching everything out. Both times I watched this movie I had to struggle to stay awake past the first hour.  The political message is highly relevent today now that the enemy of liberty is not a foreign dictator but our own government. It is true that the film ends on kind of a confusing and downer note (especially for an alleged comedy), but Chaplin gives one of the best motivational speeches I have ever heard.  In closing, this is a good movie but not a great one and is much too long. I would have given it 3 stars, but its historical significance warrants a 4th star. (It is Chaplin after all.) I recommend that all Charlie Chaplin fans see this movie, but only die-hard fans need purchase it.  EDIT: I was half asleep when I wrote this review, hence the repetition. Sorry about that.

Well, where do I start? I read lots of mixed reviews on this DVD. Most seemed to slam Megadeth and praise Anthrax and Metallica so I wasn't sure what to expect but I figured considering the price of the DVD and 4 bands, there's gonna be somewhere I'll get my money's worth?  In some cases, negative reviews come from the fans themselves complaining about two songs they thought should have been played but didn't or a drum solo in the middle, a medley or whatever.  Well, we've watched this video 9 times and here's the verdict and out of all four bands, I favor no one band over another so this is completely un-biased.  Overall, this DVD won't disappoint. It's very entertaining. The lighting and camera work are first rate.  I'm going to assume each band was given the opportunity in the final mix of the music because every band sounds different.  Anthrax and Megadeth had the most balanced sound. Slayer was very thin and sounded awful and Lars wanted to make sure the world heard his awful (and off time) drumming loud and clear over the rest of the band in Metallica's set.  Vocals - I think all the singers struggled... I'd give the nod to Mustaine out of the 4 and I've never been a Mustaine fan.  Overall performance - Megadeth hand's down ACED it... Anthrax had a very tight set too. Metallica at times had difficulty keeping time and James struggled with the vocals. Slayer's performance itself was good but was overshadowed by poor sound and an aged singer.  James Hetfield made a good point towards the end of the video. He said, "we've been around almost 30 years" and he's right. These guys aren't 20 year old kids anymore and at some points it shows.  I'd suggest buying this video, I think there's something in it that could entertain everybody... Enjoy!

Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Hlmes - the movie  It came in good shpe and in a timely manor.  I would buy from them again.

Solid Vampire Flick Nice remake of a great campy vampire flick....enjoyed watching the original Jerry get killed midway through...good special effects...would have liked to see more of a wrap up at the end

Love the movie but... Always loved this movie, but after watching it, unlike the 10th anniversary version, "If I never knew you" deleted scene is not included. It is included in the Three-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo version but you cannot view it while watching the film but as an extra on it's own. The movie truly is better with the scene included, but i guess that's what I get for buying this version.

Warm surprise I'm a rom-com junkie who's mighty frustrated with the genre--how can most of these films be sub-par? doesn't that go against the rules of statistics?--and yet I must say I was pleasantly surprised by The Switch.  It's a cut above the norm, mostly because of the relationship between father and son, which is warmly, sweetly, comedically and endearingly acted.  This film is Hollywood; despite a strange lull after the "switch" which suggests the pacing might go indie, it returns to Hollywood momentum.  Which is fine, but the editing is slightly off there.  That said, the charm and comedy of the father and son really do make this movie.  I'm not into the standard manipulation of cute faces and piping voices for ratings, but these two are really sweet magic together.  Bateman's acting is touchingly understated when he's with the kid; the child (Thomas Robinson) is earnest and adorable and is so natural in his connection with his father.  Aniston picks up credibility in a few of the intimate moments she has with Bateman--you feel her looking at him and being moved and wanting/wondering--but overall this really is a Bateman/Robinson movie.  I don't dislike Aniston in general, but I absolutely didn't "feel" her the way I did the other two.  The movie has the usual Hollywood stock characters for best friends; Jeff Goldblum is amusing in a slightly quieter way than usual. But it's Bateman and Robinson, as a duo and separately, that make the movie a four star in its genre--and that make you long for the Bateman/Aniston characters to live happily ever after.  I rented it thinking it would be bad fluff.  I watched it half-over again later that night, just to laugh and love a bit more with the father/son duo, and now I'm going to buy it for real.  This isn't going to be the best romantic comedy you'll have ever watched (I hope), but it's not at all a bad way to spend a couple hours. :)

Overall it was pretty good I wasn't much of a fan of it the first time I saw it. I found parts of it to be embarrassing for the characters, but when I watched it the second, third.....times I liked it more and more. As of now I find it to be a good comedic movie with some very humorous moments and some very touching moments. If you like Paul Rudd or Steven Carrell then its worth seeing it... give it shot or two. It's not my favorite comedy but it definitely grew on me and now I'll watch it now and again just for fun (but I also have a substantial movie collection of over 300 movies to watch when I'm in the mood for a movie). Personally, I think you'll either like it or it'll grow on you OR you just won't care for it.

A Bit of Insanity. I am not quite sure how to put this movie into words. It is very twisted and weird. It left me with a lot of questions and it also gave me nightmares, and I am 60 years old. LOL My daughter recommended this to us. I enjoyed it though. Thanks Amazon for streaming video to PS3 now. Judy

Hercules in Politics This movie opens with a confusing scene where a woman brings a man into her domicile, and shortly thereafter the young man who was there meets his end.  Okay, what the heck was that all about?  Next we see Hercules (Steve Reeves, who was the best of all the actors playing Hercules in the 1950's and 1960's), Ulysses (Gabriele Antonini), and Iole (Sylva Koscina) arriving on land as they journey home to Thebes.  Shortly thereafter the trio encounters Antaeus (Primo Carnera), a half-god giant who appears to enjoy either killing people or snacking on them.  Antaeus is another moment of confusion because other than being a pausing point in the movie, Antaeus does not appear again.  I suppose you could argue that the encounter with Antaeus shows that Hercules is lazy, thus what happens later might be in Hercules' character; or not.  Soon Hercules encounters his old friend King Oedipus of Thebes, except the king is hiding out in a cave with one of his obnoxious sons trying to get the king's help in making his brother keep his promise to relinquish the throne.  Now the story gets complicated.  Hercules does convince the other brother to turn the throne over, but soon Thebes is threatened and Hercules volunteers to go on a diplomatic mission to make peace.  Unfortunately, Hercules drinks the waters of forgetfulness and ends up on an extended dalliance with Queen Oomphale of Lidia, forgetting completely that he was recently married.  On the other hand, Queen Oomphale is beautiful and maybe Hercules had an incentive to forget his young and beautiful wife, Iole.  Meanwhile, back in Thebes, things are starting to look grim for Iole.  The brother who is the king of Thebes (I kept losing track of which brother was which) threatens to kill Iole.  Next, the other brother has allied himself with another kingdom and the leader of that army has the hots for Iole.  In the meantime, Ulysses, clever lad that he is, rescues Hercules just about the time that Laertes, Ulysses father, and a group of other men land on the island en route to perform the diplomatic mission that Hercules was supposed to perform.  They were also hoping to find Hercules and Ulysses in the process.  After a rousing round of action, they manage to escape the island and head back to Thebes.  Back in Thebes things get really exciting.  The brother in Thebes threw a bunch of Iole's kinfolk off the city wall, which did them little good, and threatens to kill Iole the moment Hercules shows up.  Hercules and company sneak into Thebes about the time that the two brothers duke it out in a duel, ultimately killing each other.  Then the army outside Thebes attacks, beginning a very good battle scene that impressed me.  After having watched several other Hercules movies, I found this one much better in general.  The plot was more complex, the special effects were better, and the action was nearly epic at the end.  If you are looking for a good sword-and-sandals movie, as these types of movies were called, I recommend this particular movie as a good example of the genre.  Enjoy!

MY GRADE: B to B plus. Based on a novel of the same title by Scott Spencer. Producer Jodie Foster pitched this movie as "GHOST for grown ups". The tale is about two lovers who possess great passion for one another (Jennifer Connelly and Billy Cruddup improvised many scenes to get comfortable with their characters for love scenes and the like) but though both liberal for their times they have very different means as to solving various problems. It isn't a spoiler to say that the female love interest dies and the man tries to get on with his life but keeps seeing her wherever he goes. It gets to the point of whether his visions of her are of him expressing his grief or him actually seeing her.  Anyway, the man, who had always dreamed of becoming a politician, becomes one but is then jaded. Notice the colors going out in the later years of his life to reflect his loss of idealism in politics. There are some very interesting themes about love which is probably the main reason as to why the novel was turned into a movie. When you love somebody and they become a part of your life they're still going to be real to you in your life even if they're dead or faraway or out of your life romantically. That's the big point about love. For this man yes she may be dead or something else but she had an impact on his life and stays in his heart until his dying days and maybe thereafter.  By the way, this is one of those rare Jennifer Connelly movies that shows her acting talents which is a nice change from her being the oh so "pretty-chesty", supportive girlfriend. Younger men won't get this picture or so the stats said when they tested it. During the testing that group was uncomfortable with the movie. No surprise there. The ending has a nice turnaround as the main character begins to see the world as his girlfriend saw people: in pain and in need of compassion. It probably didn't make much a ton at the Box Office but it said a lot more to me about the human experience than most of the summer action flicks.  STORY/PLOTTING: B minus to B; CHARACTERS/DIALOGUE: B to B plus; LOVE FOCUSES: B plus to A minus; CINEMATOGRAPHY: B to B plus (for it's year); WHEN WATCHED: early April 2012; OVERALL GRADE: B to B plus.

An amazing performance This is absolutely amazing. I have to say it ranks up with the 10th anniversary concert. And as you Les Mis fans know, that's very high praise.  Jean Valjean: Alfie Boe has such a fantastic voice! It was different from all the other Valjeans. It was so pure, yet strong. He knocked Colm Wilkinson out of the water without this one.  Javert: Norm Lewis was great. He had such a strong voice and served as the perfect antagonist to Valjean.  Fantine: I personally think that Lea Salonga is a better Fantine. Her voice is absolutely gorgeous, but I think better suited for Fantine. She sounded amazing! I have never come across a Fantine I liked until now. Lea Salonga was just...wow  Cosette: Cosette, as a character, is as boring as watching paint dry. But Katie Hall is as good as Judy Kuhn, who was also very good.  Marius: He honestly wasn't that bad. Yes, he was much weaker than the rest of the cast. However, he did show off a more immature side to Marius and brought a more youthful side to the role. While I don't really think he belonged in the 25 Anniversary Concert, he was good enough.  Eponine: Samantha Barks is probably my favorite Eponine. Lea Salonga has a beautiful voice and was a fabulous Eponine. But I think Samantha Barks injects the emotion needed for Eponine. She has rougher voice (as opposed to Lea Salonga's pure, perfect voice), without sounding whiny and still sounding beautiful. Samantha was amazing during "On My Own" and "A Little Fall of Rain."  It wasn't a perfect performance, but I still very much enjoyed it and would recommend it.

suspect review Good flick-seen it but wanted to own it-Spacey is really good & storyline is dated but well played-good casting and settings

Better Basketball This video was recommended for my son's team USA coach at the national basketball tournament. Even though he thought he knew pretty much all there is to know about basketball, his shooting skill improved tremendously. While he didn't enjoy listening to the sometimes long explanations, when he went out to put the techniques to use they really worked. His 3 point percentage is now over 60 per cent. He also has the ball handling video and it is also an excellent teaching tool. Both tapes have drills that can be used by an individual rather than requiring an entire team to practice.

Real Steel....Everything Transformers wanted to be Just saw Real Steel this weekend and I was surprised that I liked it. After being a huge fan of Transformers since I was kid and seeing over the past 4 yrs how Michael Bay mucked those movies up, especially the last one, I was skeptical, but pleasantly surprised. I'll watch this again and probably like it more on Dvd when comes out. Not to say I didnt like it, but also just saw "Warrior" recently, both fighting movies and both movies dealing w/family struggles, but "Warrior" comes out the winner on soooo  many differnt fronts. But Real Steels fighting was great and the soundtrack absolutely ROCKED, espcially if you like Electronic/hip hop/rock all rolled into one...check it out. That said, it had great moments and then went down a little and slowed down a little, picked back up, went down a little, picked back up and went down a little. Then had a fantastic fight in the final battle. Again, the action w/ the robots blew away anything Michael Bay tried to do w/ Transformers. You could actually see who was fighting who, logically figure out what what happening and still enjoy the action. Well done.  Real Steel could've been better, but also could've been much much worse and was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked what I liked about it.

Still Funny After All These Years This film holds up well.  There's plenty to laugh it, especially Tomei's Oscar-winning performance.  The picture quality and surround sound won't win any awards, but it definitely looks better than its DVD counterpart.

Cutting Edge A movie with Udo Kier, Joe Dallasandro, Monique van Vooren & Arno Juerging, all who were in Blood for Dracula, except Miss van Vooren. Both Blood for Dracula & Flesh for Frankenstein were produced by Andy Warhol & written & directed by Paul Morrissey. If you like one you'll certainly like the other. There's a scene in this that van Vooren looks & sounds so much like Madeline Kahn in Young Frankenstein, it's spooky. I'm certain Mel Brooks had seen it. Blood for Dracula has a scene the Addams Family copied.  This is a really off beat look at the mad doctor genre. The good? Baron has his castle, his laboratory, two children, a sister for a wife & a healthy disrespect for anything but his experiments. Lots of nudity, fake blood & guts in this literally, far more so than people were used to at the time (1973).  The mad Baron has a plan to repopulate the world with superior beings by creating both a man & a woman that are capable of copulation to produce his super race, one that is subject to himself. His sister & wife who loves copulation, but gets none from her husband, seems to have little problem finding the peasants involved in such activities or participating herself.  This is a great `elite society' gone to rot inside the estates under his control film. All the usual themes of degradation (not seen as such by the perpetrators), belief in the elite's absolute power & enjoyment of abnormal relationships run throughout the household. There is in fact so much nudity for a horror show that it quickly becomes common place & lets you get on with the story. The show is a near Jacobean tragedy, but not quite.  The supporting cast is wonderful & I should go into that but I don't want to spoil the few scenes they get to surprise us in. The ending is deliciously wicked I won't discuss it. It's assuredly the best show of its kind I know. It's definitely on the strange & unusual list of movies. I give it 4.5 Amazon Stars, of course, I've watched it 4 or 5 times & will again no doubt.

Pretty Good I've heard and read some bad reviews about this movie, but I liked it. It was a fun movie to watch, and I think I enjoyed it better than the first one. I probably would have enjoyed it more in the theater with the big sound and everything, but I watched it on my Kindle Fire, and it was still pretty good.

MASH Season 3 I bought this for my husband, who is a huge mash fan. We enjoy watching episodes together. Although reruns can frequently be seen on tv, watching episodes sans commercials is a much more enjoyable experience. A must for every Mash fan.

Gripping Uncomfortable to watch, but gripping at the same time. This is a movie about two men who have survived a tragedy - one who caused the tragedy and the guilt he has been living with for 30 years, and one who witnessed the tragedy and the guilt he feels for being alive. The lesson I learned - Hate creates pain for everyone involved.

IMHO - he's starting to appear desperate for humor Jeff Dunham is brilliant and professional as a ventriloquist, however this DVD having so much adult humor in it is quite a shift for him from his earlier performances.  The mocking of ethnicity seems odd at this level, the profanity isn't politically correct like he attempted to be close to before, and one of his new additions for characters was appalling due to how it minimizes hate crimes.  Jeff seems to be losing his edge, and going to burlesque-ish humor where an adults only crowd that is perverted or drunk can enjoy exclusively tailored tripe.  He was funny when Jeff started out.  He's decaying into looking like he's washed up and clawing desperately to keep from the abyss of knowing you need to find another career.  The DVD offers a "bleeped" version and an "unbleeped" version.  It sure as *$%@!!$@*$% isn't funny if you watch the "bleeped" version.

Jethro Tull - Jack In The Green DVD The idea of this DVD is almost strange, a collection of Jethro Tull's performances in Germany. In practice it does work, but more Like one concert with bonus material than as a complete collection. What you get is one very good concert from 1982, during the Broadsword era where songs like 'Fallen On Hard Times' and 'Pussy Willow' mix it up with classic tracks such as 'Heavy Horses,' 'Sweet Dream' and the ever present concert closing duo of 'Aqualung' and 'Locomotive Breath' all of which are performed effortlessly, with a pretty decent audio mix and equally decent visuals.  This part of the DVD is where you feel that you've gotten your money's worth, a well and recorded concert with enough classic material on it to keep you happy that was filmed when Ian's voice was still at its best.  Then however, you get another concert which has worse audio, worse visuals and the performance feels a little flatter and less energetic, with Ian's voice not as strong as on the other aforementioned concert. When thought of as a bonus feature this is fine, but it doesn't stand up incredibly well on its own and while it is certainly good, it doesn't exactly feel great. The performance of 'Thick As A Brick,' is interesting with some jamming and segments from the second half of the piece that the band usually don't play live and then the version of 'Too Old To Rock And Roll...' is solid enough as well.  Then there is a kind of poorly recorded, filmed and mixed version of 'Hunting Girl' that doesn't begin entirely at the beginning, followed by a well shot but very dull TV spot from the early nineties and then an absolutely fantastic 'Benefit,' era live spot where they play a haunting and fantastically recorded version of 'With You There To Help Me,' and a strange version of 'Nothing is Easy,' that's full of mistakes because it looks like Ian's ribs are injured. Then it ends, abruptly.  So, as a collection its rather strange. However, for a Tull fan I look at it as an Excellent concert from the Broadsword tour with an eclectic collection of bonus material. The aforementioned versions of 'Too Old To Rock And Roll' and 'With You There To Help Me' are good enough to make the rest of the DVD feel worthwhile and the 1982 concert would stand up on its own. Additionally, you do get a booklet with detailed linear notes from Mr. Anderson as usual so there is certainly a lot of Material here for a Tull fan to enjoy, however I feel it should lose at least one star for the flat sound in the second concert and the poorer moments of the additional material.  In conclusion, it is not perfect but there's a lot of good stuff for any Tull fan.

WOW, REAL NICE BRITISH THRILLER/SUSPENCE,DIDNT EXPECTED!!!! This is one nicely filmed but mean as heck crime thriller with as many twists and turns as your favorite roller coaster. The two kidnapping criminals play the main part. These unsavory individuals are not there for the viewer to like or to identify with. They are innately repugnant. The worst of the two of them is suspicious of everything and ready to get crazy violent at any second. The victim is pretty, but she is no more pleasant than the criminals. The bad guys have the whole thing planned out and practiced really well, but a lot of unexpected stuff happens and the plan gets desperate really quickly - and the viewer has no idea who will survive this scenerio. There are some really suspenseful moments that will keep the viewer on the edge of the seat. There is a ton of tension and drama between the three characters. The acting is all around very good. Beyond the kidnapping, a few tussles and some bondage, there isnt much violence. There is no need for extreme blood and gore. There is some (hetero and homo) sexual content, and there is a healthy dose of (male and female) nudity. If you start this movie, you wont want to stop until it concludes and you can finally stop holding your breath.

Box Set DVD Got this used and it was in really good shape. Glad to get all in one set. Wanted this for along time. If anyone likes the Syi-Fy channel this is a must !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

a different kind of zombie movie... A fantastic plot and highly original Special-FX makes this a must-see zombie flick. Our reluctant heroine does battle with a plague and resulting resurrected dead in her quarantined small town. The mounting sci-fi angle of the plot is inventive and original. A few good laughs in this one, too!

Somewhere I had seen this movie before and forgotten it This is one really good movie in every aspect. The casting was perfect from the sleazy superintendent to the incredibly sleazy creature that played the "heroines" mother. Not long into viewing the movie I realized that somewhere I had seen the film before. It has been a while so it didn't take anything away from my viewing this Amazon rental, if anything it might have made watching it more enjoyable. Has everything and more of what one expects from an Apocolyptic based movie.....or if you prefer, a horror movie as it is easily both. The film features the claustraphobia of being stuck in a building that the authorities had warned everyone to stay in to avoid "the virus", it features incredibly horrible villians, especially the building "super" and the horrid mother figure......a creature that would be hard to beat as far as being completely despicable goes. The movie features diminishing food supplies supplied by the government, stolen by the "super" food and used in exchange for sexual favors from some of the tenants the "super" was charged with handing the food out to. The movie even featured cannibalism.......the movie has it all. A BIG plus is the incredible quality of the acting. EVERYONE did a great job in this low budget movie. I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of the movie and consider it a real gem of the horror/apocolypse genre and I HIGHLY RECOMMEND that you at least consider renting this fine film from Amazon. Im going to find a used copy from an Amazon vendor and get a keeper copy to watch at my leisure. Great movie it really is!!!

"In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight, ya friggin' bastards!" That bump of cynicism suggests that GREEN LANTERN: EMERALD KNIGHTS, DC's latest animated original movie, was released predominantly to prep movie goers for the upcoming live action film. And yet it also services those like me who used to read the TALES OF THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS comic book and also those who long for a peek at the larger canvas promised by the Green Lantern mythos.  Our main man, Hal Jordan, is featured here but he's not the big draw or even the central character. Instead, our point-of-view character is the teenager Arisia, the Green Lantern Corps' newest recruit. EMERALD KNIGHTS is an anthology film, the backdrop of which is that the Lanterns have gathered en masse to await the impending arrival of Krona, one of the Guardians of the Universe's most ancient and deadliest foes. As they cool their heels, the Lanterns (but mostly Hal Jordan) regale an overwhelmed Arisia with stories plucked from the Green Lantern Corps' rich history.  We eavesdrop as Hal reveals to Arisia that, interestingly, the first being ever to receive the ring was not the first Green Lantern. The first Lantern, in fact, was Avra, a lowly scribe present on that day, standing apart from the legion of candidates. Avra was there only to record the momentous ceremony in which the four inaugural rings will choose their bearers, except that the fourth ring chose him. We learn that it was Avra who, in a time of peril, discovered that the bearer's iron will, given substance, could overcome frightening odds.  If you thought Kilowog was the meanest boot camp drill sergeant in the Corps, think again, you poozer. Next up is the tale of Sgt. Deegan, indeed the meanest, most ornery sumbitch whom the fresh-faced recruits, Kilowog and Tomar Re, ever had the misfortune to meet.  I'm familiar with most of these stories, so coming across Laira Omoto's chapter was gratifyingly like wading into uncharted waters. It's always neat learning about Lanterns I didn't know existed. This segment is also easily the most emotional of the lot. I didn't know who Laira was, but was willing to be impressed when Jordan remarked that, other than Sinestro, there was no other Lantern with whom he would rather go into battle. We speedily learn of Laira's back story. For her first solo mission, Laira is deployed to her home world of Jade, which had just been declared a hostile planet. And to demonstrate that family dysfunction isn't only relegated to earthlings, Laira finds herself facing off against the evil Golden Dragon... her father. Despite conflicted allegiances, Laira proceeds to drop all manner of asskickery.  And then comes my favorite chapter, which I know better than to spoil for those not already clued in. There's a reason why "Mogo doesn't... socialize." Bolphunga the Unrelenting considers himself the universe's mightiest warrior and, sho' nuff, he's bested hundreds of combatants. But the last chump he felled contends that there is someone mightier than Bolphunga: the Green Lantern and cosmic legend known as Mogo. Off goes Bolphunga, eager to challenge Mogo, not knowing he doesn't stand one tiny bit of a chance. One of the Corps' greatest strengths lies in its diversity, and nothing and no one exemplifies this as wonderfully as Mogo. Not even that GL squirrel, and not even G'nort the GL mutt.  The next segment features Abin Sur, the magenta-skinned Lantern who would eventually pass his ring on to Hal Jordan. He meets a foe who can glimpse into the future and who informs Abin Sur of several worrying events in the future. Except that Abin Sur refuses to have truck with these bits of prophecy. Because there's just no way that a fellow ring bearer who calls himself "Sinestro" could possibly go bad. Anyway, we get a peek at the yellow-uniformed Sinestro Corps. Blackest Night set-up, anyone?  And, finally, the movie delivers the payoff to the framing narrative. With storytelling done, with nerves settled some, it's time for the hoedown. Krona has finally wormed his way out of his anti-matter universe of a prison, and with more of his shadow demons in tow, and so cue the big epic space battle. And Krona looks like an utter badasss, a moon-sized titan and formidable enough that it absolutely requires all the Green Lanterns - including Mogo - to put him down. Note that this film isn't for the kids. There is some wicked violence here, starting early on when a Green Lantern gets torn limb from limb. The animation is decent. The voice casting features Nathan Fillion knocking it out the park as Hal Jordan, Arnold Vosloo as Abin Sur, Kelly Hu as Laira, Elisabeth Moss as Arisia, and Jason Isaacs ("Lucius Malfoy" to you) as Sinestro. I'm not too sure about Henry Rollins' take as Kilowog. He doesn't sound nearly growly enough. But Rowdy Roddy Piper as Bolphunga is pretty sweet. GREEN LANTERN: EMERALD KNIGHTS may not be for everyone, especially if you're not a fan of anthologies, and because a lot of these characters are pretty obscure. But it'll juice you up for the Ryan Reynolds film, and there's plenty of action and respectful nods to the GLC mythos. It's certainly got a consistent thru line, something you can't say about BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHT. I'd venture to say that EMERALD KNIGHTS is worth a peek just for the "Mogo Doesn't Socialize" story alone.  This DVD's bonus features: an inriguing sneak peek at BATMAN: YEAR ONE (00:10:44 minutes long); a look at the most recently released animated film ALL-STAR SUPERMAN (00:10:45 minutes); the trailer for the video game GREEN LANTERN: RISE OF THE MANHUNTERS; and a promo trailer for the DCU App (from which you can access DC's digital comics).

This is a double plus good adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's "Lost World." An incidentally put together team of an explorer (Bob Hoskins), his rival (James Fox), a reporter, (Matthew Rhys), a hunter (Tom Ward), a missionary (Peter Falk), and his jungle cloistered niece (Elaine Cassidy) become a team for a great adventure of which you are already aware of. They follow a map case of caves that will carry them up to a high plateau where no man has gone before. There they encounter wondrous prehistoric phenomena. But mostly they learn about themselves; with any luck we also learn a little about ourselves as we view this movie.  Please excuse the double plus reference as I could not think of a good adjective. Not being a Latin student I can also end my sentences in prepositions. I purposely did not go into much detail as to the story as I wanted to unfold as you're watching it. Speaking about unfolding, if you have a evolution phobia parts of the story may be a little distracting or disturbing. Have to confess that instead of seeing the DVD's I've only seen this twice on television so I'm not sure what I might've missed, however watching this BBC presentation before reading any of the reviews allowed me to be surprised to see the late Peter Falk.  I found the conclusion decision as to whether one should reveal the escarpment findings to the general public and have it overwhelmed and destroyed or give up wealth and fame by denying it exists is an intriguing question. What would you have done?

misery Awesome movie! Totally recommend it to people to watch! It is more affordable online. it includes free copy on amazon instant!

Good 3D action I toiled for a while before deciding to spend the money on this. I was deciding between this one and the newer one voiced by Jim Carey. Based on reviews, I bought this one. Money well spent. Wish it was longer and had a few more shark pics, but was good. I know your supposed to sit while watching these, but I could not help standing 2 feet from the TV and feel like I was totally surrounded by the ocean life. The 3D effects seemed to just reach out and grab you. Really good to watch on my Samsung 3D plasma 1080p with Samsung 3D BluRay player.

A must see if you're watching all the Toy Story movies No introduction needed.  You might not think it's the best one of the trilogy so far, but it's really good and a must see.  Enjoy.

grudge 3 Very interesting.  It answered more questions with the story line and a bit different from other scary movies.  You would have to see one and two and like the show to enjoy this one.

Good but not great. The quality was excellent as was the audio. I purchased this hoping it would have the deleted & edited scenes with the black centaur, no such luck.

ok The books are different and better than the movie. The movie was realy had a different ending. If I was You I would read the 1-3 books on the series of unfourtunate events

Not quite as good as the first but really liked it This started out slow but really got going and once they tied it in at the end to the first I wound up really liking it overall. Recommend it especially if you liked the first one.

Sante Fe Trail Although the ordered item has not yet reached me in Australia, I recall my youth viewing of this film, and really enjoyed it. Kind Regards.....Murray

Good movie With the previous Sherlock Holmes movie, I was seriously put off with the idea of the detective as an action star.  But it's grown on me with this new one.  Recommended.

Ray Good item was in good conditon . I enjoyed the movie watched it a few times . A vert accurate description of item .

CHARLIZE TAKES THE THRONE Let's be brutally honest, folks:  Kristen Stewart may have achieved "movie star" status, but she's definitely a mediocre actress with a limited range, relying on soulful looks and lovestruck TWILIGHT fans to validify her screen leading roles--a media fixture whose future impact will most likely fade when the vampire saga breathes its last!  Charlize Theron on the other hand is mesmerizing as the evil Ravenna.  When Theron's on screen, this movie takes fire and you can't take your eyes off her.  Her Oscar-winning stature is not denigrated in an otherwise average film. SNOW WHITE is sumptuous to view, capturing the grim fairy tale ambience effectively.  James Newton Howard's score is excellent and the effects are noteworthy.  Using noted actors such as Ian McShane, Bob Hoskins, Toby Jones, Ray Winstone, Nick Frost, etc.  was controversial and offended many SGA card carrying dwarves, but the CGI transformations are brilliantly done and its hard to fault or criticize this casting decision.  Chris Hemsworth's Huntsman is requisite hero sturdiness, but nothing outstanding. In essence, this is Charlize's movie and makes me wonder how a better Snow White would've made a much better film.  Recommended mainly to bask in Theron's scene-stealing queen.

The Best It's Not, But It's Worth It. I wouldn't by any stretch of the imagination call this the "Best" of our favorite bumbling handyman, but that doesn't mean the set is not worth it. This set contains seven feature films, some of which are hard to find. "Dr Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam," the first movie to contain Ernest has been out of print for some time. 1993's "Ernest Rides Again" was the last film to be released theatrically and has never been released on dvd. "Ernest Goes To School" (which also has never been released), "Slam Dunk Ernest" (starring basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), "Ernest In The Army" and "Ernest Goes To Africa" are also included on the set. These are the only movies I would consider "Feature Films" but the set claims "Hey Vern! It's My Family Album" and "Your World As I See It" as two more feature films. I see them more as a collection of clips along the lines of the other included material "Ernest's Greatest Hits Volumes 1 and 2."  Of course, the better-known films are not included on this set. Nevertheless, what is included are the rest of Ernest's work. Assuming one has bought all the previously released materials, you're getting two new movies (Rides Again and Goes To School), and a rare one that was hard to find when it was released (Dr Otto).  The package shown is a shell that holds two heavy cardboard holders that hold five disks each. The holders are similar to a TV season holder.  Overall, this set is worth it. Whether you're completing your Ernest collection or starting one this set is worth it.  1). "Doctor Otto and The Riddle of the Gloom Beam": Has many VHS tracking glitches in it. The source material for this film was probobly not the best. Most of the tracking glitches seem to happen about an hour into the movie.  2). "Slam Dunk Ernest": From the start, this film becomes heavily pixellated when there is a lot of movement on screen.  I've contacted Image Madacy Entertainment and will update if I get a responce.

Cool thriller and statement on society today I've been online since the late 80's and have done a lot of online support so I've watched the de-evolution of people when behind a keyboard.  This movie has interesting premiss of live online murder and speed of execution is determine by the hits online.  Sure if a computer geek some of what they do is bogus, but putting that aside it pull you in watching the cat and mouse game tracking down the murderer.  So I found it entertaining and have watched it a couple times already since buying it.

Good 3D Movie The movie was delivered on time. The 3D was very good.I liked it for the 3D on my new Sharp TV. Was made foe kids but is action packed and all round good family entertainment.

Great comedy!! Honestly, I'm not a big fan of Will Ferrell but this movie makes me laugh no matter how many times I watch it.  I didn't buy the Blu-ray because some reviewers said they re-edited some of the scenes and it's the theatrical release that I enjoy.  So this review is on the full-screen version.  Not my favorite way to watch movies,,, but what'cha gonna do?

Did someone say runaways? A dangerous lifestyle for teens who needed real adult supervision. this movie only reminded me of what happens when children are allowed to run their own lives (disastrous).

Sigourney Weaver's best role One thing I must get off my mind about this re-release, is why?  Only for it to be in widescreen?  Why no extras or interviews?  I also found out Walmart is selling this and I could have picked this up minus the shipping and handling costs.  The film itself is very well done and goes its own route of storytelling.  I wouldn't say its better than the new Snow White that went to theaters this year with Charlize Theron, it just does its own thing.  The finale gave me the chills and I do not get frightened anymore by horror films.  I think another reviewer already mentioned this, but yes, this film did have a Time Bandits-type of vibe to it.

buddhists remember these departed, abandoned and aborted Stunning visuals, kept my interest all the way through it. Mirrormask comes to mind. Very similar to Buddhist services for the departed which include the aborted, abandoned ancestors, suicided or killed.  Very interesting to included abandoned items and ideas and other mental creations.  Like the plot twists and the tweak at the end wasn't bad at all. I reccomend this one, not gross and very suspenseful.

Crime drama from TV';s Golden Age Herbert L. Maris (1880-1960) was a Philly corporate lawyer who lent his name and case files to the TV series  LOCK UP. Macdonald Carey portrayed Maris on this half-hour show, with John Doucette playing his detective pal, Lt. Weston. LOCK UP had a 78 episode, two season run from 9/26/59 to 6/17/61.  It's interesting to see a mix of up and coming actors and former stars still keeping busy. For example, the very last broadcast, "The Case of Nan Havens," has Mary Tyler Moore in the title role but she's third billed on the "also" list. Jackie Coogan, who found childhood fame in Charlie Chaplin's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001GAH9YS">THE KID</a> (1921), is just another name in the beach-based chapter entitled "Society Doctor." (Coogan's career would soon revive as <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000HEZEYG">THE ADDAMS FAMILY</a>'s Uncle Fester.)  Here in "His Brother's Keeper," Sally Kellerman is the new kid and Florence Lake a former headliner (of RKO's Edgar Kennedy "Average Man" comedy shorts). Neither get star billing.  Thanks to fine scripts and acting, these shows are all above average in quality. Definitely recommended. .  Contents of COPS VOL. 4 - "Lock Up" (Includes episode numbers, original airdates and guest stars.)  HIS BROTHER'S KEEPER (#56 - 1/7/61) - Sally Kellerman/Florence Lake/Joe Sawyer/Argentina Brunetti/Buddy Lewis  JENNIFER (#58 - 1/21/61) - Gina Gillespie/Phillip Baird/Helen Mowery/Angela Greene/Freeman Lusk  A FRENCH AFFAIR (#60 - 2/4/61) - Richard Arlen/Danielle De Metz/Louis Mercier/Marshall Kent  MR. SOBEL'S BIRTHDAY PARTY (#69 - 4/8/61) - Percy Helton/Sara Haden/Ruth Clifford  THE WILDCATTER (#70 - 4/15/61) - Guy Stockwell/Adele Mara/Arthur Hunnicutt/Joan Swift/John Howard

A potent mixture of crime procedural and human drama ****1/2  Based on the novel by Chuck Hogan, "The Town" is a superb drama set in Charlestown, Massachusetts, a neighborhood in Boston that has the dubious distinction of being the bank and armored-car robbery capital of the world.  Writer/director Ben Affleck plays Doug MacCray, the leader of a sometimes unruly Irish gang that routinely engages in both those activities (the other members of the team include Jeremy Renner, Slaine, and Owen Burke).  On one of their robberies, one of the members goes rogue by kidnapping an attractive bank manager and taking her along with them as a hostage.  Although she is blindfolded the entire time and is eventually set free, several of the robbers fear she may still someday be able to testify against them were they ever to come to trial.  To protect her against the more dangerous members of the group, Doug insinuates himself into her life and quickly finds himself developing a serious attraction to her.  "The Town" works beautifully on so many different levels at once: as a thrilling crime-and-detection tale, a complex human drama, and a richly textured account of life in an individual neighborhood.  Doug may be torn between his criminal background and the love of a good woman who offers him a chance at a better life - but that doesn't stop him from still partaking in many of the foul deeds that have come to define his life over the years.  If anything, "The Town" shows just how deeply planted are the roots that bind us to the soil (i.e., neighborhood) of our past - and how hard it is to rip ourselves free from them and still continue to flourish.  In other words, it may be possible for a man to redeem himself in the eyes of God and his fellow citizens, but it may be a long and faltering journey on the way to that outcome.  As a character, Claire (Rebecca Hall) is equally three-dimensional and complex.  She's a decent, hardworking young woman who tends her own garden in the city and volunteers her time in helping the youth in her community.  When she meets Doug, she is still traumatized by the events that have happened to her and is initially unaware that Doug had any part in them, believing him to be just an easygoing, compassionate man with whom she's falling in love.  How she'll react when she finds out the truth about Doug and how that revelation will affect their burgeoning relationship provides the key emotional focal point of the drama.  Running contrapuntally to the romance is the attempt on the part of the FBI, led by John Hamm (minus his Don Draper Brylcreemed hair), and the Boston Police Department to capture the band of thieves.  There are moments of breath-bating suspense as the law inexorably closes in on its target, and Affleck proves once again that that much abused standby known as the "car chase" can still be a potent storytelling device when we actually care about what happens to the characters - even those it is not always all that easy to like.

Probably Should Not Have Split Year 7 into Two Films, but Entertaining Nonetheless. The producers of the Harry Potter film franchise seem to have given up on using a different director with his or her unique style for every episode. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1" is the third Harry Potter film directed by David Yates, whose previous work was mostly in British television. Yates seems to have been charged with directing the young wizard's darker years. J.K. Rowling's tome of Year 7 would have benefited from much tighter editing, but, unlike the previous two volumes, the filmmakers did not decide to correct this flaw for the silver screen. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" is being presented as two installments on film. This is its only serious flaw. It could, or should, have skipped some of the wizard trio's camping adventures to create one, more focused three-hour film.  The film begins on a dark note, literally. The Minister of Magic (Bill Nighy) announces, "These are dark times," and the headlines of The Daily Prophet scream, "Dark Mark Sparks Panic." Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) erases herself from her parents' memories, and The Order of the Phoenix prepares to escort Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) to a safe house under deep cover. But Prof. Severus Snape (Alan Rickman) betrays their plans to Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes). Even the rare festivities of Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour's wedding are interrupted by the death of the Minster of Magic and an attack of Death Eaters. Harry, Hermione, and Ron (Rupert Grint) are forced to flee. The only way to save the world from Voldemort's wrath is to find and destroy the remaining horcruxes that preserve his soul.  There is an oddity in the tone of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows". It gives the impression that all of the necessary information won't fit in the film, yet there is a lot of storyline that could have been cut out to make the film stronger. Too much included, while at the same time not enough is explained. True to the book, however, the film does not shy away from the realities of a fanatically oppressive faction coming to power in the wizarding world: persecution, torture, and death. And a lot of dark imagery. This might be too frightening for Harry Potter's youngest fans. The level of mayhem probably qualifies it as an action movie. The film is generally entertaining, if meandering in parts. I found the animation that illustrates the pivotal "Tale of the Three Brothers", as found in "The Tales of Beedle the Bard", particularly effective.

great independent film Great story line. Could have been edited better and some of the acting was amateur but loved Diana Forero in it, beautiful girl and actress.

Matches the excitement of the first film in the series Jason Bourne is still running, and so is the Bourne series with this third entry, which carries on some of the plot and characters from the previous two episodes.  Bourne is still trying to discover his past, but now he must also decide about his future, and the kind of person he wants to be.  But some of the people behind the original Treadstone don't want Bourne to uncover the dark secrets that lie behind his entry into the world of espionage, and will stop at nothing to terminate his involvement.  Despite their efforts, Bourne presses on to unravel the complicated puzzle that is key to who he is, and does so not only with resolve, but also with a moral conscience.  This is James Bond style espionage, but with less womanizing and more realism, both on the level of characters and action sequences.  Rated PG-13 for a handful of profanities/blasphemy but primarily because of the violence, which is intense at times but rarely feels gratuitous, the cinematographic style adopted by the director usually makes us share in the post-combat exhaustion rather than exhilaration (although as with the Bourne Supremacy, there are times where the shakiness is excessive).  The story is gripping, arguably even more so than the previous film, and for the most part matches the appeal of the first of the series.  Bourne's techniques favour quick thinking rather than excess weaponry, and his ways of overcoming the bad guys even are touched with warm humor on occasion.  He's no cold-blooded killer, but a man with a growing conscience that we can empathize with more and more, motivated more by remorse and restraint than revenge.  In the final analysis, The Bourne Ultimatum is a ripping good suspense adventure that will keep your heart pumping from start to finish! - GODLY GADFLY

Leon review Leon is one of my favorite films.  It is a two person play in which one character saves the other and in the process is redeemed himself.  It is about violent lives in which there seems to be no way out or up.  Regardless, by the end of the story, they find love and hope.  Far from a standard love story, and far from the standard story of redemption, Leon ends at what is possibly the best point for each.

Good Movie This movie arrived within a couple of days. Very good packaging.I am very pleased with the order I placed. Thanks so much!

Blu-ray: Wonderful film but I wish they would have given this Blu-ray release better treatment! In 1993, the romantic comedy "Benny & Joon" became a hit for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.  The film would showcase the physical comedy of Johnny Depp (fresh from his hit film "Edward Scissorhands") and its theme song "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles" by the Proclaimers.  And while there was a little backstage drama behind-the-scenes as Winona Ryder who just broke up with Depp was supposed to play "Joon" and Woody Harrelson was to play the role of "Benny". The roles were re-cast and Aidan Quinn would be playing "Benny" and Mary Stuart Masterson as "Joon".  The film would also feature talent who would eventually become popular stars years later with William H. Macy as Randy, Oliver Platt as Eric and Julianne Moore as Ruthie.  Directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik ("Burn Notice", "Gossip Girl", "The Avengers", "Chuck") and a screenplay by Barry Berman ("Waterproof", "The Adventures of Pinocchio"), "Benny & Joon" would earn $23 million and also earn Johnny Depp a Golden Globe Award nomination.  VIDEO:  "Benny & Joon" is presented in 1080p High Definition (widescreen 1:85:1).  As part of the catalog titles that are being released by MGM/20th Century Fox, I can say that this film does look better than its DVD counterpart but at the same time, does feature dust and speckles from time to time.  For the most part, the film does look very good.  The outdoor scenes are vibrant, the darker outdoor scenes or vignette type scenes have really good inky blacks.  And while colors are vibrant and there is good contrast for this film on Blu-ray, I do believe a lot of these catalog titles which include "Benny & Joon" are most likely sourced from an old HD master which was originally used for the DVD release.  But it does look better than its DVD counterpart and that is a plus.  AUDIO & SUBTITLES:  "Benny & Joon" is presented in English 2.0 Surround DTS-HD Master Audio, Spanish Mono and French Dolby Surround.  Dialogue is clear and understandable and the music, including the Proclaimers "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" comes clear through the front channels.  But it's a decent lossless soundtrack that is appropriate for this film.  Subtitles are in English SDH, Spanish and French.  SPECIAL FEATURES:  "Benny & Joon" comes with the following special features:    * Audio Commentary - Featuring audio commentary by director Jeremiah Chechik.  Chechik talks about the timelessness of the film and not so much of the technical parts of the film.  We learn how the photo of a young Aidan Quinn and Masterson was created, how the film was shot on location and more.   * Deleted Scenes - (5:12) Featuring two deleted scenes: audition and mutilator.   * Costume, Make-Up Test and Stunt Reel - (18:45)Featuring various costume and make-up tests with the talent and a commentary track.   * Music Video - (3:40) Featuring the music video "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" by The Proclaimers.   * Theatrical Trailer - (2:01) Featuring the original theatrical trailer to "Benny & Joon".  JUDGMENT CALL:  It has been nearly 20-years since I have watched "Benny & Joon", a romantic comedy that was pretty cool for it's time because it didn't have the typical displays of banality of a romantic comedy.  And the fact that you have a female character who is mentally ill and a young man who probably lived his life watching movies and literally transformed himself to be a hybrid Buster Keaton/Charlie Chaplin type of actor.  And then you throw in the older brother who has not been able to live his life because he had to care for his younger sister.  "Benny & Joon" was a film that felt natural and when I first watched it, I found it intriguing, enjoyable and hilarious.  I also credit the film for introducing me Buster Keaton and eventually making me become a silent film fan at a younger age.  But "Benny & Joon" is a film that is timeless.  Nearly 20-years-later and sure, the talents are much older but the film doesn't look like it has aged.  The storyline remains fun, relevant, enjoyable and I have not grown tired of it yet.  I felt that the younger Johnny Depp showed an amazing brilliance of what kind of actor he would later become in this film.  The physical comedy and capturing that Keaton/Chaplin-esque style was fantastic and the same can be said with the brother and sister chemistry between Aidan Quinn and Mary Stuart Masterson.  As for the Blu-ray release, there is nothing new added to this Blu-ray release and as mentioned, I wouldn't be surprised if the HD master was what was prepped for the DVD release.  Fortunately, PQ is good and I didn't find any artifacting and for the most part, if you loved the film on DVD, it's worth upgrading to Blu-ray.  Overall, "Benny & Joon" is a romantic comedy that remains honest, fun and enjoyable after all these years.  While I enjoyed the film a lot back then and even now, I do wish the Blu-ray release had a better HD transfer and newer special features but if you really enjoyed "Benny & Joon" and have not owned it on DVD or LD prior, then definitely give this Blu-ray release a chance!

Bolt is a 3d keeper Like a lot of you,if you have the 3d hook-up,you'll most likely give most anything a 3d try.A lot of times i've just traded them in for store credits,knowing full well I would never watch them again.I was pleasantly suprised with Bolt !! Great animation,good story about a cute dog(Bolt)and really good 3d made this a "keeper" that I will watch again.

Finally The Great Caruso comes to DVD I have been waiting for this movie to come out on DVD for many years. The story is nice but the music is excellent. The quality of the DVD is not the best that it could be but just to have it is acceptable.

Good story but scary for the kids I have two boys - aged 6 and 3.  They both find this movie really scary and refuse to watch it.  It's quite a bit darker than the first two Toy Story movies so make sure you're with your little ones when they watch this one.  I really enjoyed the movie.  The ending always makes me cry.

The last decent film M. made Unbreakable, with excellent performances by all the main actors, is the last decent film M. Night has made.  Why anyone still gives him the cash to make his disasters is beyond me.  I would argue that this is better than "The Sixth Sense", which is definitely good, but gets its main impact from the ending.  Unbreakable, in its pacing, character interaction and mood, is a well made film and worth watching more than once.  Every M. movie after is garbage, designed only to make a person wish they were sightless.

My least favorite HP movie As a huge HP fan, this movie was my least favorite. The book was far more superior to this. This was still a good movie though

A horse is a horse...unless it's Secretariat, of course One of the hallmarks of great Disney movies is that they can take a timeworn tale and, through fine storytelling skills, draw you in to a degree that you worry that the outcome might be other than what you clearly know from the start. One of the best examples is Walt Disney's Cinderella. Will the mice get the key to the tower up the stairs so Cinderella can escape and try on the slipper before the Duke leaves? Oh no, it's broken! Now what?  Secretariat isn't a Disney movie on the level of Cinderella, but it's no less a fairy tale. Most already know the ending, but there is a lot of involvement in the journey to that fateful race. It's inspired by real people and events -- the real Penny Chenery Tweedy even has a cameo -- but the opposing horse owner's snarkiness is apparently exaggerated and there are the customary Hollywood changes to add to the drama.  Most folks won't be watching Secretariat for razor-sharp accuracy. Like my son, who knew nothing of this great horse's story yet was compelled by every second of the movie. It's pretty much the old-fashioned Hollywood never-say-die all-seems-lost saga that has clicked since Mickey Rooney was the number one star in the entire world (as he would tell you right now if he were in the room with you or anyone else).  Some compared Diane Lane's look to Pat Nixon, but there's more Mad Men's Betty Draper to her in my view. Her dubious yet loving spouse, played by Dylan Walsh, is straight out of the Jon Hamm "bubble" (see 30 Rock). But Lane does a creditable job with cool, quiet strength (she would have been a GREAT Hitchcock blonde). John Malkovich, always the focal point of any of his screen time, plays a crusty but benign (see Network) trainer. Like the film, he's very entertaining. My favorite is Margo Martindale, one of those actresses who can say volumes with her face and no dialogue -- and reminds me a little of Fran Ryan, that Hungry Jack biscuit commercial lady who also used to be on The Doris Day Show and Green Acres.  The film is gorgeously mounted, director Randall Wallace and his crew making the most of every inch of the screen space and the locations. But gee whizzies, if you don't have a Blu-Ray player and you'd like to hear his commentary, tough tomatoes, folks.  Blu-Ray is very nice, and a film like this really benefits from the enhanced visual and audio qualities that the format provides. Up until recently, consumers have had a choice. If they stuck with standard DVD, they might lose a few bonus features, but largely enjoy the same rights and privileges of those who have Blu-Ray.  Now the "haves" are being separated from the "have nots." Those who could not afford or simply did not want to switch to Blu-Ray were denied seeing Destino, Roy E. Disney's dream project, because it was left off the Fantasia/Fantasia 2000 standard DVDs.  Now the "have nots" cannot hear a director's commentary on Secretariat, a bonus feature that has nothing to do with a better picture or enhanced sound quality. They are being left out. They do not "count." It may be shrewd marketing, but this sort of thing is not very considerate to those who are still paying hard-earned and very tight money to buy home entertainment, regardless of the format.  On another note, Disney owes a debt of gratitude, at least in part, for Craig Ferguson's role in Secretariat's box office success. Ever since the film's release, he's featured a backhanded "tribute" on his late night talk show in which a pantomime horse dances to disco music every time the doorbell rings. It seems silly, but it's good promotional stuff. Ferguson's going to be the voice of Owl in the upcoming Winnie the Pooh feature. Good for him!

One of the best war films The Great Escape (1963) Adventure, Drama, History, 172 minutes Directed by John Sturges Starring Steve McQueen, James Garner and Richard Attenborough  The Great Escape runs almost three hours, but it's never boring. Don't think of it as a traditional war film as there are no battle scenes of any kind. This looks at how people dealt with captivity in a German POW camp. Although it's based on true events, there is far too much humor for us to take the story completely seriously.  It's meant as pure entertainment and features one of the strongest ensemble casts in movie history, featuring the likes of Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn, David McCallum, Nigel Stock and Gordon Jackson.  It's the duty of every officer to attempt to escape or force the enemy to deploy a ridiculous amount of resources to prevent escapes. The Allied airmen perform that task to their best of their abilities. We see seven people attempt escape in the opening 20 minutes, but these are clumsy efforts meant to test the enemy.  Once that is over, the commanding officers devise a more serious plan. This is a fascinating segment in which we are shown how every man has a part to play, according to his expertise. The group decides to begin three escape tunnels and has several men experienced in that area. While that sounds easy, it's a logistical nightmare. Wood is needed to prevent tunnels from collapsing, so the group takes planks from every possible source. The dirt has to be disposed of and presents another problem. If the escape succeeds, the prisoners will need clothes and documentation to evade capture. They will need to be able to pass as German or French. We are shown how the group comes together and acquires all the necessary materials.  Despite setbacks, a number of prisoners eventually escape. This presents another problem because they can't all use the same escape route. Some travel by train, some by river, and others by cycle, plane or motorcycle.  The most appealing thing about The Great Escape is the sense of camaraderie and seeing how well the group functions as a unit. The Allied commander and the German Kommandant treat each other with respect. It's accepted that the prisoners will try to escape, but there's a sense of honor between the two sides. The Germans would likely attempt similar escapes if the roles were reversed.  Although the humor does take away from the serious nature of the situation, I don't think any disrespect is intended. The movie is dedicated to those who lost their lives. The story works because of the charisma of the cast and the pacing of the events as they unfold. I'm not a fan of war films focusing on battles and glory, but I do appreciate a look behind the scenes at the psychological aspects and group dynamics. That's where The Great Escape shines.

Interesting "Remix" of a Classic German Expressionism Film A little late I am with the review.  I found a copy of this movie by accident, and finally had a chance to watch it.  I believe it is the second time this movie has been redone (the first remake was in the 60s, and there is a "sequel" of sorts in the 80s, "Dr. Caligari").  Basically, the film is a "green screen" remake (remix) of the classic 1919/20 film.  The largest difference is that it has sound dialogue (along with another cast), but it still holds its Expressionist look quite well.  I have studied German Expressionism in its many media forms somewhat extensively, and my following comments have to deal with what German Expressionism was as an art form.  The "look" (maybe "style" is a better word) of this movie, (re)done with green screen effects, keeps with the original psychologically-induced discomfort of its classic counterpart.  It's amazing to see the backdrops, as well as many of the smaller details, being (re)used.  I believe my problems with the movie stems from the potential audience base for the movie.  Yes, "goth" still plays its part in today's society, but the society of the German Weimar Republic was entirely different.  "Shell Shock" cinema, a term used by many, was oriented towards an examination of institutions and entities that created a dehumanization of society.  WWI was a horrible war, with chemical warfare, new technologies (tanks, planes), and, arguably, unnecessary.  The war not only destroyed Empires, turning them to nation-states, but it destroyed the minds of young men who did not truly understand the meanings for what they were fighting, and saw friends blown to bits on a battlefield from hell.  One look at war pictures really puts it into perspective.  The Expressionists visually (and through writing) attempted to show the many problems that society was forced to face, and also the psychological toll from the impact of battle for men that had enormous repercussions.  The silent version "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" was the most important movie that dealt with these problems, and gave a height of terror and horror that truly made this movie a contemporary classic of the time.  It showed the problems with psychiatry (electric-shock therapy was widely used as the only cure).  It showed an uncaring bureaucracy (police officials).  It was simply a psychological tale of social injustice.  One of the problems with the 2005 "remix" is that it is more of an interesting "fad," much like the several high-end music videos that gave nods to silent cinema greats (Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Otherside" and The Smashing Pumpkins' "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" being the most noted).  There is nothing wrong with giving respect and paying homage to great films, but the context and climate in which the original art form was produced is long gone, and a type of "nostalgic" value is put in its place.  To be fair, I really do like these visually-impressive, recent cinematic works (and music videos).  They are much more interesting than most of the major Hollywood features of recent memory, and they do pay great homage to those films that were the backbone of cinematic movements ever since (Film Noir being the most obvious example).  The 1960s remake of the movie was a mess, which took the original film completely out of context!  This 2005 version was really good, regardless of the change of times, because it was paying tribute to a classic, not destroying it for its own ends.  I wasn't that impressed with some acting, but the staginess seems to be in tune with the original acting (paying homage, once again).  Although Klein-Rogge, Krauss, Veidt, and Dagover were all GREAT (and far superior) actors, the acting here doesn't make this movie a horrible mess (although the pierced ear of JP Morgan was annoying to see in close ups).  I thought that Krall did a great job with Krauss' original role, and was a dead ringer for the original character.  I notice some accents, California and (I believe) New York, but many silent actors could not make the change to sound cinema because they had awful voices and, in many cases, couldn't speak English at all (in the case of Hollywood).  Overall, very good work by the director, Fisher.  I can see he put quite a bit of effort in this movie.  However, I would rather just enjoy the original (I have watched it 5 times);  I was not disappointed by what could have been a horrible mess if it weren't for the love of the original.  4 of 5.

BOGIE CLASSIC Great classic movie. This is what movies should be like today good writing, acting, and good morals! This is one of those movies that you have to watch all the way through, its just to captivating.

AC/DC's best Filmed in Paris in early December 1979 on the Highway To Hell tour, this is a perfect portrait of one of the greatest rock n roll bands of all time approaching the peak of their popularity. Most AC/DC fans are well aware of this concert film and hold it high as one of the coveted items in the bands catalogue. Of course the VHS version is the one everyone's had for so many years and fans have been dying for a restored DVD version. In the late 90's we had the Bonfire boxset, which contained the concert in it's entirety on CD. Not only that but the CD contained the full version of Walk All Over You which is cut short in the movie, and instead of actually seeing it, there is a strange music video type sequence of Phil Rudd in his car racing Cliff Williams in a plane in some kind of air field; as well as one of the bands encores TNT. However TNT was never included in the movie and no one seems to find it strange. Perhaps it was just never filmed, or maybe it was lost. But after all the griping the thing is finally out and it's pretty good. Awesome video and audio in all the right departments. But the extras are what's sorely lacking.  It's basically a few famous musicians like Scott Ian of Anthrax (when isnt he in something like this?!), Lemmy of Motorhead, Rick Allen of Def Leppard, The Donnas, Billy Corgan, the girl from NCIS (?!) a one off spot with a member of fellow Aussie hard rockers Rhino Bucket, metal/hard rock expert VH1 guy Eddie Trunk, and a few AC/DC afficienados. Of course they stammer on and on about how great the band is without really explaining anything and using the obvious tools of reference to describe the band (Chuck Berry riffs etc). The only ones who really say anything worth hearing is Billy Corgan and Trunk, they are real music fans here who understand the band's technique and explain it to you in a way thats interesting. Lemmy has a few cool comments but otherwise the rest are there to just rant on about how amazing rock n roll is and how great Bon was in a very uneducated way. Like they were asked to watch 5 min of the movie and then come up with something. They discuss everything from Angus' technique, Malcolm's importance to the rhythm section, Bon's death and what kinda guy he was etc. It gets slightly more interesting when they select a few songs and talk a little more indepth about them.  As a whole package its 4 stars, but the movie itself is definiatly 5. But overall, if you want the movie, if you love the concert its the package you'll wanna have. This show provides people who weren't there a glimpse of what it was like to see a band in the late 70's, before rock became corporate and acceptable, when it was still dangerous and kids who went to see them knew very little about the bands. They were just these strange magical guys who came up on stage and blew you away. That was the rebellious but slightly naive nature of going to shows in the 70's. Something that's very lost in todays times. Whether you're an AC/DC fan or just a fan of rock music, this is an essential concert movie and the short interview sections with the band provide a strange inlook without being corny. A great document of Bon Scott as one of rock's best front men. He died 2 months after it was filmed. It's a chestnut.

An Early Literacy Tool For Toddlers: 12 Stories With Read-Along Capabilities On 3 DVDs There are a lot of entertainment choices geared toward very young children, but I guess I have a special spot for those that promote literacy specifically.  It's never too early to get your kids thinking creatively and starting to enjoy the pleasures of the written word.  Reading doesn't have to be a dying art!  This collection from the Scholastic Storybook Treasures is Volume 4 in the "My First Collection" series and features three separate DVDs housed in a slipcase.  These presentations certainly aren't the most sophisticated examples of animation on the market today, but there is enough color, vibrancy and humor to connect the kids to the stories.  The recommended age group is 2-6 (I might say 2-4) and, as such, I think this series makes a great educational tool for toddlers.  I really like this read-along DVD idea, an option available for every story!  Altogether there are 12 stories over the 3 included DVDs with a running time of about 107 minutes (without included extras).  Here's what you get:  1) Robot Zot! and more rhyming stories: This includes four tales called Robot Zot!, This is the House Jack Built, Trashy Town, and Stars! Stars! Stars!  2) Too Many Toys and more stories about problem solving: This includes four more tales with Too Many Toys, I Lost My Bear, Wallace's List, and Inch by Inch.  3) The Curious Garden and more stories about nature:  Another four stories with The Curious Garden, The Lion and the Mouse, Fletcher and the Falling Leaves, and Planting a Rainbow.  Bonus features: Interview with David Shannon (author and illustrator of Too Many Toys) Interview with Peter Brown (author and illustrator of The Curious Garden) Interview With Jerry Pinkney (author and illustrator for The Lion and The Mouse) Read-Along Feature for every story  I won't kid you, though.  As these play for the very young, you might not want to sit through them on repeated viewings.  But they are guilt free, entertaining, and good for the kids--something you don't have to be ashamed of letting them watch on their own.  And when you do watch along, you can engage the Read-along function and use as a learning tool.  Various people contribute narration, including Zach Braff, and this also makes for an engaging presentation.  Check it out!  Not necessarily my favorite kid's DVD set, but one that is definitely worthwhile.  KGHarris, 10/12.

Thank God its only 30 minutes 8 minutes into the DVD, I knew why its supposed to "work" in just 30 minutes...its slow but intense. Slow, as in, she's really into form and stability. This is my first Jackie Warner DVD and I am a big fan now. Jackie is also, not annoying but not boring either. So that is a plus.

We're the Good Ole Blues Brothers Boys Band Let me start off by saying this is a 5 star movie. John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd are hilerious in this. I knocked off 1 star because the dvd itself is a flipper disc which means it can get scratched very easily. I also wished there were commentaries and maybe some of the SNL performances. But other than that this is a really good dvd and the extras are pretty good. you get the extended version and theatrical cut of the film which is nice. It comes with the trailer and some documentaries which are pretty cool. Overall Pretty good DVD I recommend it and its at a great price too.

The tyranny of memory The great Albert Camus stated once: "The disgrace of having a good memory is the nostalgia".  Our affective and emotional core has its basis in memory. Nostalgia for example, is perhaps the most poetic region of this faculty.  So when you have the chance to erase from the memory a bite of it, in a way equivalent to a lobotomy. We are not better, just different. Charlie Kaufman wrote a postmodern fable in which science fiction is the gateway to imagine the possibility of building our memories, beyond the free will. Hence the nostalgia - for me it is a verb rather than a word - makes both decide, despite the errors, and disconnectedness of everyday disagreements correct the helm and give both a second chance.  The script is nearly round, with a secondary reading of a noted physician and his beautiful assistant. That line was not sufficiently dramatically developed and its outcome did not quite measure up. Moreover, the conductor thread would have enabled dramatic confront both sides of the coin: rearrangement and impregnable tragedy.  Though it would mean not acknowledging that this was perhaps in the most interesting cult film of that year. It's a film that continues to captivate much of the new generations despite the elapsed years.  Jim Carrey has never been better in any film. Kate Winslet absolutely convincing in this role of woman-child, and also kudos for Tom Wilkinson and Kirsten Dunst who established a real sexual chemistry with Mark Rufalo.

PLEASANT SURPRISE and UNEXPECTED FUN I'm not a fan of Tom Cruise so I hesitated to see MISSION IMPOSSIBLE GHOST PROTOCOL. I waited for the DVD and now wish I had seen the film on the big screen for maximum visual pleasure. Once you look past the unbelievable plot, the movie is fun. The incredible action scenes are the main draw of this film. Agent Ethan Hunt (Ton Cruise) has to climb several storeys of the world's tallest building in Dubai and he has to do it from the outside. Incredible.  One of my favorite actors Simon Pegg adds some comic relief as the technical expert who dreams of higher exploits. Jeremy Renner and Paula Patton complete the mission impossible team of 4. The fun of this film is the exotic locales and the spectacular action scenes. Although the film is short on plot, the action takes over. The Americans and the Russians are again at odds but the twist is neither side is the "bad" guy. A rogue band of international terrorists implicate the IMF team as perpetrators of a bombing in the Kremlin. It is up to Ethan Hunt and his team to save the world. Mission Impossible!

Geneon's print is widescreen 'God's Little Acre' is a likeable Southern-gothic Depression-era drama, full of eccentric characterizations and occasional over-emoting (not unsuitable to the genre) from a melting pot of recognizable actors, all brought vividly to life by one of the most interesting directors of his time, Anthony Mann ('Raw Deal,' 'Winchester 73,' 'El Cid').  Note, though, if you're on the fence about picking up Geneon's bare-bones 2005 release, that Amazon's reporting of a 1.33:1 framing is inaccurate; the print appears to be the same in terms of picture quality (from the UCLA Film and Television Archive), running time (118 mins.) and aspect ratio (1.85:1) as Image's 2001 version (also currently out of print but much pricier).  4 stars each for content and presentation.

The missing Holmes! It was a great pleasure to seethe existing episodes of the Wilmer Holmes series.  BBC had a long history of destroying video tapes(re-using them) and these episodes are all that remain of the original run of the series.  Douglas Wilmer makes an interesting HOlmes--not quite as good as Jeremy Brett or Peter Cushing but quite serviceable.  Scripts are interesting and play well--I recommend these for any Holmes fan!

No Frills/Good Flick This movie is a favorite of my son and myself, and this DVD offers no surprises: Good quality dupe, no major extras, no hassles.  And as the film itself goes, it's Mike Meyers. If you like him -- not at his over-the-top goofiest, but as a comic actor -- though this is one of his earlier appearances his talents are obvious and his work highly likable.  Nancy Travis can do no wrong as an actor (or a beauty) in my book. Amanda Plummer as an actor possesses much of her father' (Christopher Plummer) talent and nuance, none of either parent's physical attractiveness (mother Tammy Grimes was also a notable actor) and all of her own scariness. Here she appears Amanda-Scary in a murder comedy. But honestly, Ms. Plummer could be in the "Muppet Movie" and still make children cry and run and hide...

Snake River Desperadoes "Snake River Desperadoes" is a Durango Kid B-Western made in 1951.  Most Durango Kid westerns are average entertainment but this one is not. In fact this one is well above average and I would regard it as one of the best. Sony Pictures have done it full justice by selecting it for digital restoration and they have restored it to pristine condition in both picture and sound quality. Good work Sony.  Another good feature is that there is only one title on the disc and unlike disc sets, you don't have to tab through a list of titles to find something good to watch. A little more expensive but a lot more convenient.  The story told concerns a group of desperadoes who are stirring up trouble between the white settlers and the Indians by masquerading as Indians and raiding and killing the settlers. Their plan is to start a war and to make lots of money by selling rifles to the Indians.  The Durango Kid (Charles Starrett) is drawn into action by two young boys namely Little Hawk (Don "Brown Jug" Reynolds) the son of Chief Black Eagle and Billy Haverly (Tommy Ivo) the nephew of Trading Post owner and villain Jim Haverly (Monte Blue) and together with the assistance of his bumbling sidekick Smiley Burnette, all work together to prevent a war and unmask the bad guy responsible for the trouble.  "Snake River Desperadoes" is a welcomed departure from the many years of routine productions. The numerous harmony songs by various groups over the years has been discontinued. They were really unnecessary, meant nothing and only took up valuable story-telling time. This has left the way clear to tell a more in-depth story and to extend the action scenes. Smiley Burnette sings a few humorous songs and with his comic relief this is all that is required.  Good, above average entertainment.

Mr. Brainwash is definitely washing people heads At first I thought it was a movie about street & art legend Bansky and other graffiti artists.... It's not...!! Its a documentary that engages you in the world of street art through a very unique personalty... you get a glimpse of what street art is, but the movie is really about art, art making and people who like ART! If you an artist or really like art you would enjoy this documentary and specially the tricks the artworld plays on you.

This is a great purchase! This workout is great for someone who doesn't focus much on strength training, but would like to stay toned.  It's also great for sculpting.  I workout to this video at least twice per week.  I love it.

Nia dvd - Unplugged The dvd is enjoyable and it arrived at the expected time. If only all orders did so, I would be happy.

Great Popcorn Movie! If you're looking for a movie that allows you to just crack up and escape from reality, this is it! I couldn't help but wish I was Reese Witherspoon and those two guys were fighting over me!

The Tracker Moview The movies was as described.  The Tracker is a good western.  Kristopherson did an excellant job.  If a person likes westerns, this would be a good addition.

The Wolf-Man I thought it was definitely a worthy remake of the Lon Chaney, Jr. 1941 version. Rick Baker's make-up effects and prosthetics are nothing less than amazing. It's dark, brooding and very atmospheric. I do not recommend the extended version, however, as it confuses the storyline slightly, and is really just overkill. The theatrical version is just right. Del Toro brings a pathos to the role that Chaney brought to the screen as a bit overwrought. Hopkins is very creepy, Emily Blunt is a suitable 'damsel in distress', and Hugo Weaving is perfect as Inspector Aberline. If you didn't like the original, or you're not a die-hard horror fan, you won't like it as much, but it will provide a good chill on a dark night. Also, the blu ray edition carries far more extras than the dvd, and the extra $ are worth it.

Nureyev & Fonteyn--Romeo & Juliet Great footage of 2 ballet phenom's.  Quality could be cleaned up a bit- both visual & sound. Over-all a delight to anyone who loves ballet

Pretty darn good indie. I really enjoyed this low-budget indie.  It was a pleasant surprise with lots of good creeps and chills.  It is a relief to find a decent movie away from the mainstream drivel.  I'd like to see more movies from this production company.

frenzy 1972 Director Alfred Hitchcocks' only film in which he vented the violence of murder and demented sexuality.  A London strangler is stalking women in the 1960s.  Jon Finch plays the accused-only he is innocent and must escape captivity to prove it. The usual visionary style of the suspese master Hitchcock ('Psycho') makes this film a must see!

Not quite a masterpiece but fascinating "Inglorious Basterds" was director Tarantino's biggest hit since "Pulp Fiction" yet, judging from the reviews here, many weren't happy with what they saw. Blame it partly on the marketing, which presented this as a Brad Pitt movie (he's only in it about 25 minutes) and a dark comedy, a la M*A*S*H, which it wasn't (though it does have some humorous bits). I'm sure a lot of American moviegoers aren't used to subtitles, either. Still, for fans of the director - myself included - this was a remarkable, if flawed film. The three extended scenes are film-making of a very high order, and the remainder is never less than fascinating in that offbeat Tarantino way. I enjoyed the history rewrite, with Jews taking revenge on the Nazis in gory but deliciously vivid ways. But I also felt the director was pulling some punches, going for instant gratification instead of really probing the nature of good and evil that might have raised this to the level of a true classic. Still, watching Tarantino move with such ease into such a different genre is exciting. I think his best movies are to come, if he can restrain his impulse to always place style slightly ahead of substance.

Funny movie! Worth watching. Funny movie with a good moral. I recommend this movie. Definitely not a "5" star movie, but it does deserve 4 stars without a doubt.

Lovely, quite different. Amazing that this is based on a actual theater in London before the war.  Sad to find that this movie was a huge bomb at the box office, it was so much better than so many films out this year.  It may have gone "tits up", but it looked lovely doing so.

CALL ME ISHMAEL This is a superhero movie that takes place in 1899 utilizing numerous fictional characters from that era, some more obscure than others. The main character, Allan Quatermain, played by Sean Connery, would become the model for Indiana Jones. The movie takes some liberties with the characters. For instance Mr. Hyde has been transformed into "The Hulk." There is a list of fine actors which in itself makes the movie a worth while view. Even the minor characters are names from old novels.  The fighting and action lack much of that special CG effect of bullet dodging and gravity defying martial art moves.  The movie is fairly plain and straight forward with a twist, but not complex . Certainly a worth while view if you either like Marvel/DC comic heroes or are just a fan of 19th century literature.  No f-bombs, sex, or nudity. Lots of killing, minimum blood/gore. Some sexual innuendos in the dialouge. MAKES FOR AN EXCELLENT FAMILY RENTAL if you don't mind a little violence/killing.

I liked it. While the oddball concept and such may put off some people, I actually found the whole experience quite surreal and rather enjoyable. Quite easily one of my favorite  b-movies.

Ok, but #3 is better I consider myself to be an advanced stepper and after enjoying Amy's #3 DVD I was so excited to get this one.  Unfortunately it's not as good as #3.  The choreography is more confusing (I like challenging, but not confusing!) and the music isn't as good.  I think the combinations are shorter too so it only takes a few minutes to do all combos, where all combos in #3 took close to 10 minutes.  If you're looking for a good advanced step workout I'd suggest #3, not this one.

Right up there with Lost Boys! In my opinion this movie is right up there with Lost Boys as being one of the greatest vampire movies. Of course the original Dracula is the best ever, but this one is in the top 5 for sure. I also thought the blu ray transfer looked really good. If you haven't seen this one yet check it out and enjoy!

Solid opening on a very short first season. This creation hit the mark squarely between the eyes (and you'd better).  Even though I'd seen much of it done before, it was mostly done with panache and had me getting both chills and bursts of laughter thanks to the snappy dialog, spot on acting and outrageous snippets of homage to the genre.  I am glad I bought it, will watch it all again before the next season hits the deck.

Charming - And Weird, Very Weird This was quite an odd movie.  I had no idea what to expect, as it was sent to me for review.  I purposely didn't read the description or watch a trailer.  Just popped it in and sat back.  I have to say that this is a very unique movie, and the realism of the dialog/script and randomness of it reminded me of some of my favorites like "Garden State" and "Little Miss Sunshine".  The movie bills itself as a comedy drama, which is definitely true though I found it to be more drama than comic. Maybe I was too attached to the characters too soon to see the comedy that was there, or perhaps they mean the Shakespearian version of "comedy" which included plays like Hamlet.  Still, many chuckles.  I'll end with this: if you think your family has its issues and quirks, you haven't watched this movie.

Close Encounters Again! Loved this Blue-Ray with 3 different versions featured. We've watched them all. It was really nice to watch this classic with my daughter. I can remember sitting in the theater with my own mom. Picture was amazingly sharp!

Just Right While certainly not a blockbuster or extremely clever, this is a cute movie that fits the bill when you don't want to think too hard.  Pleasant characters.  Pleasant events.  It's just right.

I'll sing you a song of Christina .... Flambards is a delightful piece of British television / PBS history. I bought this while also considering "Upstairs / Downstairs." I do not regret the purchase at all. Although it's not quite the same overall quality as U/D, it's still enjoyable as a period piece. I recommend skipping over the theme song if you marathon-watch the episodes as it will get stuck in your head... on loop.

The Intrigue.... Just watched 'The Prestige' again on cable for the 2nd time today in April 2012, i have rediscovered a gem of a film in this masterpiece. Initial released in 2006, and very much marketed like the over commercialized and packaged hollywood movie, (how could it not be with Christopher Nolan, Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman), i watched it with a 'great' pinch of salt back in 2006. Finding it pretty 'run of house' hollywood.  Watching it again today, i saw the movie in a total different light which spurred me on to write a review for this well-deserving movie. The movie will definitely go into my top 50 list of greatest movie ever made based on story, acting performances and scripting.  Many reviewed that the sci fi element in the film (Angier discovering the human duplicating machine) was the downfall of the film, i however beg to different on this opinion. The film needed this 'out of the world' element to push it to another level of intrigue and intensity.  Although one cannot argue with Christopher Nolans direction and "correct" style of film making, ironically, thats the very thing that is holding me back for giving 'The Prestige' a full 5 stars rating. I still find it a tad too "Nolan well made" aka hollywoodish. I envision the look of the film turning out much darker and moodier perhaps with more erratic camera work which would have taken the film to another level of mystique.  Summing up... Great performances and entertaining twists in the film makes 'The Prestige' a highly recommended watch for the mystery and thriller genre fans out there which will keep you intrigue and guessing all way till the end of the movie.

4 1/2 stars for this exemplary Criterion Blu ray of a wonderful Hitchcock film Although film master Alfred Hitchcock went on to make better films, this must be considered one of his earliest triumphs.  It also seems to have set the stage for introducing many Hitchcock contrivances to be used in later films.  In this espionage thriller leading up to WW II, a Canadian businessman (English heartthrob Robert Donat) visiting a London theater is set upon by a woman who requests his help.  She suggests going to his apartment which may have also suggested some hanky-panky.  Alas not.  It turns out she is an agent of some kind that has linked a man in Scotland with the plans to steal some defense secret.  She is being hunted by confederates of the man.  Asleep in different rooms, the agents manage to put a knife into her back.  Lucie Mannheim plays her death scene for all its worth, but not before giving Hannay (Donat) a map that leads to the connection in Scotland.  Of course Hannay is now on the run from the nefarious agents (no explanation as to why they didn't off him at the same time) and the police who suspect he killed Ms. Smith (Mannheim).  Escaping via train, he is found but manages to get away again, but not before a brief and unintentional meeting with Pamela (Brit Madeleine Carroll with a Scottish accent).  Ms. Carroll will become the first in a long line of blond heroines in Hitchcock films.  Pamela and Hannay will eventually reunite but for most of the film she believes he is guilty.  That doesn't stop some wonderful comedic byplay between the two, another Hitchcock trademark.  There is a memorable scene midway through the film after Hannay escapes the police on the train.  In what appears to be a walk of dozens if not hundreds of miles he comes upon a farm house just short of his destination.  Tired and hungry he asks the crofter for shelter.  He agrees but insists on being paid.  In a brief but haunting sequence, Peggy Ashcroft as the crofter's wife displays the loneliness of her existence in the rural highlands and begs for information of civilization.  An amazing performance.  As the police zero in, Margaret (Ashcroft) helps Hannay escape knowing her husband will alert the police hearing of a reward.  After Hannay finds his way to the house of the spymaster, he is shot but survives thanks to a convenient bible Margaret left in his breast pocket.  Finding himself once again in the control of the local police an unlikely chain of events leads Hannay to be taken away by the bad guys, but they also decide to take Pamela as a witness.  Uh huh.  They get away but this time they are handcuffed together.  Their continued jousting is consistent with Hitchcock's use of levity, especially when the innocent man is involved.  The couple ends up at an inn where there is a room with only one bed.  This becomes problematic in a world of 1935 and is eventually resolved but not before Hitch manages to insert a scene where Pamela must remove her wet stockings as she remains linked to Hannay.  Very sexy.  Hitchcock was a master at swerving around the various censor boards in England and The United States.  In addition to adapting a compelling story based on John Buchan's 1915 novel, Hitchcock continued his technical film mastery.  There are numerous examples of his groundbreaking use of camera angles, shots in crowds, distant figures in silhouette against a setting sun and so forth.  This is one entertaining film that uses themes Hitchcock never forgot.  The Criterion package includes a 1080p resolution with the squarish 1.33:1 aspect ratio that was originally used.  The picture quality, while certainly acceptable and watchable, does show some fading and other problems.  The age of the original and the transferring master suggests this might be as good as can be.  The audio is a mono Dolby Digital 1.0 and sounds fine.  The dialog is clear and distinct.  The extras are plentiful and are noted by Amazon above so I won't go into detail.  They include a couple Hitchcock interviews, a radio production, a documentary and a booklet that includes an informative essay about Hitchcock and the film.

Redemption Insanity The fighting is bar none the best I've seen to date. Just when you thing it can not be more over the top fighting, they top that. Insane fighting if this is your thing.

Very good picture but no so good sound Very good picture but no so good sound, I d'nt notice there is a sound treatment on it, now a day there are a lot of digital technics for reberding a new sound aspect, the image thanks to technicolor system ys very good for me (I'm 70) this  is the best version of the film, good scenarios, good lighting technics and a very appropriate team of actors, the only issue that d'nt matches the quality of the whole film is sound quality.

Again I like movies with crazy SiFi action This time I watched it on my On Demand cable and I must say it was a fun movie. There was action, space dudes, pretty girl, Liam Neeson and Alexander Skarsgård (Eric from True Blood; love that show) even Rihanna did okay. The acting was middle of the road not great not horrible and sometime just bad, but I mainly watched it for all the crazy action. You'll enjoy it if you like CG, SiFi and american heroes fighting the good fight

Much better than critics said... The movie Billy Jack is an all-time classic. It has some of the best lines in all of movie history. It does an excellent job of portraying the problems Native Americans faced in that era...and somewhat to this day. I've watched it hundreds of times since buying the DVDs for my wife. She actually owns all of the movies, but I haven't seen the others enough times to do a review.  The movie is extremely dated. It clearly took place when it took place. You can't get more late-60s than this movie. The clothes, hair, dialogue...it's all late-'60s. The acting isn't always the best. Many of the actors were friends of Laughlin's and his wife played Jean. Many of the actors weren't actors. I can forgive them being bad at delivering lines. The martial arts are top rate and much more realistic than what's found in many martial arts movies. The messages in the movie are valid and well done. They're messages that needed to be heard and still resonate today. The depiction of reservation life was precisely what reservation life was like. Native Americans were treated as third class citizens for many years and many of the struggles detailed in the movie are still valid today. For all its faults, I think the message in Billy Jack is worthy of being heard.  If it's taken for what it is, Billy Jack is a great movie. I like it enough to watch it many times.

Waco, Texas revisited This film is loosely based on the actual true life massacre of 80+ American children and their families on February 28, 1993 who were burned alive in their homes by the ATF and FBI at Waco, Texas.  This account introduces a supernatural element (in the original ending) and the movie engages you immediately with a kidnapping and later the subsequent attack by the ATF & FBI with incendiary rounds and automatic weapons fire on American families (including very young children) until all the children were dead after which the entire site was bulldozed to destroy incriminating evidence which could have exposed the ATF & FBI agents for these murders.  Well worth watching for the historical perspective of an event that has been wiped clean from the history books. John Goodman stars as the field Agent In Charge and as usual his performance is a pure pleasure to watch. That guy is a real talent.

a good watch i was surprised to see the rating on amazon was 3.5 stars, i think it deserves at least 4.  i'm not too in to boxing but this movie kept me entertained every moment.  it was worth the $3 to rent.

OUT FOR A KILLING Brutal Steven Seagal movie! Fun characters to watch! Segal is a man on a mision. Justice has nothing to do with it, this is revenge! The pool-room scene is a classic!

Surprisingly Funny This film humoured me.  Robert Englund's character was hilarious.  The supporting characters were decently watchable and gave me some laughs with dialogue and such.  It's a silly, fun movie that much better expected quality and special effects zombie makeup.

Good spy film based on real events A good if a bit talky spy thriller from France that fictionalizes the real case of Vladimir Vetrov, a high ranking spy from the KGB who in the early 1980s and under the code name Farewell gave to the DST, the French internal security service, a massive dossier of files that showed how the Soviets were stealing massively Western technology. The French decided to pass the files to the United States, a convenient thing to do since the Reagan Administration was very suspicious of president François Mitterrand having several communist ministers in his cabinet (Fred Ward has a funny cameo in the movie as Ronald Reagan; Willem Dafoe appears as the CIA director).  In the movie Vetrov is called Grigoriev and is played by the famous Serbian director Emir Kusturica. For dramatic reasons, the importance of these files is exaggerated in the movie; they are said to include all sort of things, even diplomatic codes which they did not and the dossier is somehow connected with the decision to announce the Star Wars weapons program. In the film, and since embassy personnel was under surveillance from the KGB, the DST decides to use as a contact with Grigoriev a French engineer working in Moscow for the Thomson firm (who is played by Guillaume Canet as a nervous Woody Allen type guy; Alexandra Maria Lara plays his wife who is obviously shocked when she learns her nerdy husband moonlights as a spy).  Directed by Christian Carion, who made the very good World War I drama Joyeux Noel the film is especially fine in the reconstruction of the early 1980s and especially the Soviet Union at the time (Moscow is shown here as surprisingly sunny; if a movie based on this case have been made during the Cold War, Moscow would have looked surely much more gloomy and sinister). A good effort.

Can't complain I was very eager to show this movie to my friend with English subtitle. Finally I got this DVD and we watched it. The movie is great. The print was good. I have nothing to complain.

Pretty Good First off I have to say that I was surprised at just how good this movie is.  I didn't like any of the prior JL incarnations, i.e. JL animated series, JL crisis in two Earths, JL new frontiers.  The stories were poorly developed and themes that were very shallow.  Plus, I'm not a big fan of Superman. I think he is the most boring super hero ever invented. And what a horrible disguise, a pair of glasses??? Siegel and Shuster gave the reader no credit for any sophistication or intelligence.  I could go on with the list of terrible choices for this character but I'll move on.  Warning a few spoilers to follow but I will keep it to a minimum.  This story actually has some thought provoking ideas.  Batman, as a fail-safe device, decides to create a database of plans to neutralize JL members. The legion of doom steal these plans and alter the plans to kill each member.  A number of plans are interesting and based on psychological profiles that Batman has gathered. (In fact, this movie reminds me of a Batman story rather than a JL one.)  I like the one on the Martian, the Flash and Batman himself.  The others are more run of the mill but the execution is done very well.  There's a lot of detail and development in the subplots.  The writer and director have carefully thought out the story (with exception to the ending).  The animation is great.  It is basically an anime production.  The ending is not that creative though.  It's a typical JL hokey ending.  Basically the legion of Doom's liar is elevated to the JL HQ to amplify an inter-dimensional portal so that the Earth becomes transparent to an on coming solar flare. I gotta take one star off for that (though I could take off more.)  I like the music and it sets a great tone for the movie. And the intro is very interesting, one of the better ones.  If you like Batman psychological thrillers rather than typical JL stories, you would like this movie (except for the ending).

Could have been better This movie wasn't as good as the film adaptation of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," but it's better than the film version of "The Girl Who Played with Fire." The biggest problems I have with this movie are that several things were changed from the book for no apparent reason, which is annoying. I also really hated the way the character of Erika Berger was portrayed in all three films, but this one was definitely the worst one. She's supposed to be a very tough character, and in the movies she comes across as a total wuss. Finally, the courtroom drama at the end of the film is SO much better than in the book. I was disappointed they didn't do a better job. Still, fans of the book will enjoy it very much. The good stuff outweighs the mediocre.

The correct way to sit on a baby Adventures in Babysitting is one of those movies that all of the kids back in the day saw apart from me. No particular reason, I just never got around to it. With the new Blu-ray I figured now would be right time to catch up on what I missed.  It's not a John Hughes movie, but it does have a similar aesthetic and is set in a cold, snowy Chicago (a common Hughes theme), and it's the director debut of Chris Columbus who worked with Hughes on the first two Home Alone movies. Babysitting is quite similar in that is has a bunch of kids/teens getting into all kinds of hi-jinks while evading and outsmarting crooked grown-ups.  Elizabeth Shue plays Chris Parker (no relation to Jennifer Parker from BTTF) a girl who has been stood-up by her sleazeball boyfriend and ends up babysitting for a wealthy couple while they go hob-nobbing in the city. Though content to sit in the house all night she gets a frantic call from her friend Brenda (Penelope Ann Miller) who is trapped in an inner city bus station and needs rescued. Multiple detours and deviations make the rescue no easy task. I guess in this sense the movie feels a little bit like Planes, Trains and Automobiles.  It's all inoffensive and good-natured, though I was surprised to hear a couple of F-bombs in there, and some of the dialogue is a little raunchy. Babysitting is no classic, but has lasting appeal and is a fun ride. Michael Kamen also provides a score which sounds like a Die Hard prototype, lending a little more weight to the adventure than would be typical. Stay watching until after the credits for an extra scene.  The Blu-ray presents the movie in 1.85:1 1080p with DTS HD-MA sound, both are pretty good considering the age and budget limitations of the $7 million production. Disney have some nerve calling this a '25th Anniversary Edition' though, it contains absolutely no extras whatsoever apart from a couple of brief, upfront clips of Paranorman and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. There isn't even any disc art.

Man & Machine Man and machine, can they coexist? Man and machine, do they need each other? At the end of this movie those questions were answered.It's an epic conclusion to the series in which Neo and the machines,for once, had a common enemy, a superordinate goal . A powerful virus,Agent Smith, rapidly spreading through the matrix, wrecking havoc,creating an "unbalance", ready to bring down the matrix,the machines,and all the human nurseries. Neo, was the one; he was chosen(frankly manipulated), by the machines to bring back balance, to restore order in the Matrix,to destroy Agent Smith.   To me, the whole Matrix was an allegory. An allegory of how our lives have become more and more  engulfed by technology. Our lives have become hijacked by technology, our own creation. Phones,Facebook,Twitter,and other entities alike,have deprived us of pure human interactions; everything has been digitalized to just a vestige of the true joy of seeing a beautiful smile on someone's face, the smirk on a lover's face, the fascination in the eyes of a child, the warmth of someone's embrace.Although technology has appealed more and more to our senses, some experiences will never be able to be duplicated in a digital realm.

Don't watch this if you're looking for a quick and funny Rom Com I really enjoyed this -- but I could see if someone was in the mood for something with more action and less moodiness then this wouldn't be the right movie to watch. All the various dynamics-- between father and son, friends, lovers, team mates-- were well acted in (mostly) a nuanced way. I liked the ending, with much still open but a clear path lined up.

Good movie, good value Being that I'm in my mid 50's I actually had the pleasure of seeing Secretariat run. An amazing horse to be sure. I like the fact that it's a Blu-Ray/DVD combo and the extras included on the disc. The movie is very well done and the racing scenes are particularly good. It didn't have the breadth or depth of Seabiscuit but still a good movie and worth owning. You will watch it multiple times.

God I Miss Stuff Like This I remember almost every one of these movies. I remember everything that I was doing at those times, these bring back so many memories. I MISS THE 80's, Life was so much simpler.

movie I bought this movie for my daughter who saw it once and had to have it....She loves it watches it over and over again all the time. thank you!

"No more drugs for that guy" The most gloriously over-the-top action flick ever made.  So inventive, so much fun.  I've said it before: I love John Woo.

It's Avatar. What else is there to say? This is the DVD collection of the simply wonderful show Avatar. There's not much to say. It's magnificent. If you haven't watched it do yourself a favor and buy it.

Pierce Brosnan meets volcano. Good movie overall good story line lots of great special F/X another great flick for Mr Brosnan. If you liked the other volcano flicks you ll like this one too.

Great Movies If you like movies about music and dancing then you will love Footloose. It also has an excellent Spiritual message in it.

great gift I bought these DVDs for my wife on Valentine's Day -- Casablanca is her favorite film.  The extras are very good -- particularly the commentary by Roger Ebert, who gives you a scene-by-scene exegesis that makes the movie even more of a wonder.

Classic Veggie Tales As a mom of two young boys (6 & 3), we have seen lots of Veggie Tales movies and TV episodes over the years. But we'd never seen 'Wizard of Ha's' - it was classic Veggie Tales! Great play on The original movie, funny, and great lessons to be learned. Get it!

Great gift I bought this set recently as an anniversary gift for my girlfriend. The Sound of Music has been her favorite movie since she was a small child, so it was a great choice. She opened it and has been in love with it ever since. If your significant other loves this movie, you can not possibly go wrong with this set!

I love it This is a awsome movie to have. I have all three for my girls and i love to watch them with them.

Rocky Horrrrrrror! Rocky Horror is like my favorite. &lt;3 & I love watching it at the Evansville Mesker theatre when it shows (once every year) Having it on blu ray (HD:D) it amazing. & This movie is a great movie if you like musicals, & transvestides. Lol.

Excellent Entertainment Just learned about and rented this movie here on Amazon, and it was a great two hours of music and dance, good acting, and a nice story line. Burlesque is a musical I wouldn't mind seeing again--and probably will tomorrow before the 24 rental period expires.

great movie movie was actually a gift for someone who had been looking for it. they thoughly enjoyed the gift as well as the movie.

used works Suprising for a used DVD but it works and its clean and not scratched.  I will buy more this way.

My 2 year old LOVED this movie! This was delivered so quickly.  My daughter was so excited to watch this movie.  It was GREAT!  She has watched it over and over again.

Excellent We really enjoyed this movie.  It's really worth taking the time to watch.  There were moments that brought out laughter and other parts that brought out tears.  Now my teen age daughter wants to read the book.

Very Happy with Purchase This is a great Blu Ray. Picture and sound are both excellent. Also enjoyed the movie.  Pre-ordered this from Amazon and received it on the release date right on time. The price was reduced after I purchased and Amazon refunded me the difference.

LOVE FAIRY TAIL!!!!!! Ok Fairy Tail is really impressive with how they've dubbed the cast, and I'm even more happy since the people who play Gajeel and Juvia sound perfect! My favorite episode would have to be Changeling but I'm not giving any spoilers on what happens! :P I can't wait until Part 3 comes out. I am definitely going to buy that when the date comes.

THIS is the version to see! I have seen the theatrical, director's cut, and the ultimate cut shown here, and the ultimate cut is the only one I want to watch now.  If you want to appreciate Watchmen in the closest form to the book, this is the one to see.  Don't waste your time on anything else -- I mean, compared to the theatrical cut, this is only an extra hour or so.  If you're willing to invest three hours of your time, you may as well invest four.  While the extra features on the other discs aren't that special, in my opinion, the Black Freighter clips interspersed into the live action film really bring this to another level.  Now that the price is way down on this, you can't go wrong buying it!

Great Movie This is a great movie!  Must see.  Amazon should create a different comment thread for each ASIN (bar code).  These are the same comments as the blue ray.  Same with music albums.  A newer version with additional songs on it has the same comments as the older version.  There is a blu ray version of Thelma and Louise with multiple endings on it, but it has the same comments as this, older version.

Collector's edition I was very pleased to buy this Army Wives Fifth Season.  It makes my collection complete.  I look forward to getting the next season when it has been on television and the video set is available. Thank you very much.

EXCELLENT DVD This is an excellent DVD.  There are 4 main sections, 2 led by each instructor.  They are each about 15 minutes long.  You can pick and choose by chapter.  There is also a fundamentals section.  I have not done the fundamentals section although I have done the other chapters.  The setting is simple.  There are 2 people doing the workout, the two instructors.  All of the exercises are on the mat as the name implies.  The instructions are given live and via voicover so while doing the exercises they say things and they also add things via voiceover.  The music is quiet.  There are some modifications given during each of the chapters.  This is definitely an intermediate workout.  No special equipment is needed.  My favorite section is the leg section.  It is VERY similar to Niece Pacenka's Pilates During Pregnancy workout although maybe not quite as hard.  (Although I was pregnant doing that one.)  I also really liked the slow abs section with Bea.  I have many exercise DVD's and this one left me sore the next day in a good way (not all of them do.)  Highly recommend!

A fantastic sequal/prequal and a great movie all around.  Made me a fan of the series. Really great movie. I say A "I always knew I couldn't be the only one who was... different."  After Charles Xavior (McAvoy) meets Raven as a child his life takes on new meaning.  When he runs into Erik Lensherr (Fassbender) as an adult he realizes that there is a group that needs to be accepted.  The "X-Men" are born.  Having never been a big fan of the series I was not really looking forward to this movie.  After watching it I became a fan.  This movie is the expectation to the rule that the more sequels you make the worse they get.  This one is the best of all of them.  The fact that this movie is set against actual historical events makes this seem like more then another comic book movie.  The origins of the "X-Men" set against the Cuban Missle Crisis is great for a history buff like me.  This is a movie that much like the "Star Wars" prequels you don't need to see the others first, but you will understand more and get the call-back jokes.  For someone who was not a fan of this to start with I loved it.  For those that already are fans you will absolutly love this.  For those who have never seen any of these before, this is a good start.  Overall, not just a good sequel or comic book movie, but a great movie in general.  Highly recommend. I easily give it an A.  Would I watch again? - I saw in theaters, rented it and will buy it.  *Also try - The entire X-Men series.

brings back memories Brings backi memories of when me ans some friends traveled all over SC going todifferent theaters too see the movie

realistic portrayal this is an extremely realistic movie.  I worked with kids like these back in Chicago in the 60's.  Terrific realism,acting and directing.  The lure of the streets is most often associated with enotional,physical or sexual abuse or family discord with the parents.  Lack of money is believe it or not is secondary.  The kids i worked with came from reasonably wealthy homes from the suburabs.  These kids feel generally rejected by their families-unwanted and unloved so they look for famillysurrogates to take care of and love them.  This is a great movie with pleanty of realism.  It brought back many memories both unpleasant and pleasant-thelatter was when you could eeach a kid and or his family in time before the child was hooked on prostitution and the lure of the almighty dollar.  As a marsh mellow I ended up taking some of these kids inyo my own home and ended up adopting several-some turned their life around and made it mut unfortunately some did not.  The boy who played Eric- the lead actor had an uncanny resenblance to one of the kids I adopted which made this movie all the more realistic- Great movie

Excellent Movie I loved this movie as a kid and am so glad they came out with it on DVD.  Quality is very good and the story is just as I remembered.  If only the theme song the one man band played was longer or available to buy...I love that song.  My player is even capable of listening to music and telling you what it is and couldn't find it.

Amazing film, accurate to historical events I just watched the u.s. version and have the original 2 disc set on the way! this movie had everything you could ask for in a historical warfare movie and more. I cant wait to see the original film! The action was top notch, scenery was beautiful, 80% historical accuracy, and great acting(even though i do not speak chinese). I used to be a huge fan of the Wu empire but grown a serious liking toward Zhao Zilong. The history shown in the correct light as well. I'm interested to see if the original film will fill in the some of missing parts of the actual events. I would recommend this movie to anyone and everyone. Wish they would make a movie out of the battle of hei fei or any part the Yuan Shao v. Dong Zhou years. Would love to see Guan Yu fight Hua Xiong! Even a Lu Bu fight would be amazing!

Deeper than the title This movie covers a lot of subjects and social situations. It left me with a good feeling and some insights into human behavior and relationships.

Great deal Looked everywhere for this Blu-ray and could not find it.  I was especially surprised when Walmart and Target did not have it.  Found it on Amazon and am happy with my purchase.  The movie was brand-new and never opened as promised.  And the price was very reasonable.

Best Tim Burton movie! Big Tim Burton fan so it's not a surprise I bought this movie.  I love how the menu starts. It's a pop-up affect, which I appreciated. Most DVDs are just the title of the movie, menu options and a screenshot from the movie. So just want to throw that out there.  Great movie if you haven't seen it. A lovely blend of comedy, fantasy, and romance with that Tim Burton touch that he's known for. A dark child-like creature in the middle of Suburbia (love the pastels!). I think this is and probably will be the best movie Tim Burton creates. I love Tim Burton's quirky spirit and his attention to surrounds, color and character concepts.  And who doesn't love the Bromance between Tim Burton and Johnny Depp!?

One of my all-time favorites I watched it again last night. I fell in love with Salma Hayek all over again, and I still wonder why Matthew Perry's film crew never took off.

Delightfully deranged film - Tim Burton's 1st classic I purchased this film for my dad. I had seen it a couple times but it had been years since I'd sat down and watched it in it's entirety. Since then I've been collecting art house films ala Fellini and Bunuel, Kubrick and Lynch. Needless to say, I wasn't expecting much.  This is now one of my favorite comedies - I was totally devastated by the humor in this film, which is frankly insane - high brow meets "I know you are but what am I?". It is only now, writing this review that I realized the ending of the film is a fantastic example of metacinema - a classic reference to Fellini's "8 1/2".  To cut it short, I had more fun watching this movie than I've had in a long time - and all the Tim Burton trademarks are all there in their infancy, the black and white patterns, the misunderstood (albeit potentially deranged) hero and perhaps best of all, the Danny Elfman score. This is all ages fun - HIGHLY recommended!

Excellent movie directly relates timeless message to current environment They did a great job with this movie.  It eerily showed in pictures the consequences of left-wing ideology and how their idiotic rhetoric has not changed at all in the 50+ years since Ayn Rand first published Atlas Shrugged.

Great Movie Not my first time seeing the movie, but this is one that I can watch several times.  First time streaming from Amazon, and I must say the picture quality was better than what I expected.

Great gift Bought this for my sister.  She is a halloween artist and loves The Rocky Horror movie.  She was so happy to get this.  Got her out of a "funk" and she is busy creating now.  Brilliant purchase - if I do say so myself.  Trying not to break my arm patting myself on the back. ;-)

AN INSPIRATIONAL TALE THAT LEAVES YOU FEELING GOOD ALL OVER Based on the true tale of the first African American Navy Diver, Carl Brashear, who undergoes enormous hardships as he deals with racism and a lack of education as he first tries to pass the Navy Diver program and then attempts to prove he's worthy of staying in it after completion. It truly is obstacle after obstacle on different levels so the hero is constantly trying to prove himself or get through something but there were enough lulls in between where it didn't feel like there was no breather room to appreciate his accomplishments. De Niro does an awesome job playing a reckless, know-it-all whose destructive behavior gets him into trouble after trouble, including when he tries to help Gooding's character pass the Navy Diver final exam amid rampant racism. Most of the supporting cast is good enough but a few are a notch or two below what one would expect. That said, this is a great film if you want a "pick me up" tale of someone with dogged determination who possesses a sympathetic background. The play off between Gooding and De Niro is quite good. A focus on a part of the Navy that most people don't know about was intriguing. Cynics might find it sappy or melodramatic for their tastes. CHARACTERS/DIALOGUE: B plus; STORY/PLOTTING: B plus to A minus; OVERALL FEEL GOODNESS: A minus; WHEN WATCHED: mid September 2011; OVERALL GRADE: B plus to A minus.

Fiddler on the roof dvd review We received the fiddler on the roof dvd very quickly within a couple of days.  Its was a great copy.  We enjoyed watching the movie.  It was terrific! We were very satisfied with the service.  Would use them again.

A heartfelt tale for all ages It is a touching tale, based on the life of Seabiscuit.  I recommend this DVD highly, for all ages.  I also got the documentary:  Seabiscuit- An American Experience.  That gives a more accurate biography of a scrappy little horse noone expected much from, and Seabiscuit surprised all!

Forks over Knives This Movie is very informative. Every household should watch this movie. We CAN live on a plantbased diet. It is so important for all families to know how to choose a well balanced diet and why this is so much better. The Cookbook is also  outstanding!!!!!!!!!!!

Kendra: Seasons 2&3 Episodes  Season 2- 01. Here Comes Baby 02. Date Night 03. Three Girls and a Baby 04. The Big Game 05. With a Little Help From My Friends 06. Are We There Yet? 07. Me Tarzana, You Kendra 08. Let Them Eat Cupcakes 09. The Eagle Has Landed 10. GILF Trip 11. Here's Looking at You, Kendra 12. Chips Ahoy 13. True Confessions  Season 3- 01. Welcome to Philadelphia 02. Let the Games Begin 03. Fashion Weak 04. The Unkindest Cut 05. Interception 06. Bye-Bye, Bye Week 07. Come Out As You Are 08. It's All Relative 09. Out with It 10. Reunion

Watched from the beginning to the end This Brazilian drama will leave nobody indifferent. It doesn't happen everyday that we can watch such a controversial, yet interesting story. Aluisio Abranches did a great job as a director. His picture is sublime. I watched it without taking break etc. But there is one thing that bothered me a bit. Maybe it is the way he led the actors and action, but his potray of brothers' love seems to be pure and natural (as if there was nobody around Thomas and Francisco who found their relationship at least "not propriate"). Even parents don't react (well, a small talk between divorced parents doesn't count). But it's then, when mother says that very important sentence, which could be the bottom line of the whole film. Watch yourself and find it. Moreover, the ending itself left a little marigin of doubt. A small question mark, so visible on Thomas' face...Was it meant to be there? Did the director want to tell us something? We will never know that. To sum up: Acting (both young and older actors) is magnificent, beautiful soundtrack suits the action very well. Don't miss this one!

Great movie but What about the digital Copy I ordered the  combo on 3 November 2011 and love the movie on DVD and Blue ray but wonder why Amazon sels the combo including the digital copy that has expired.  When checking the site this evening noticed that they now dropped the digital copy from the title and reduced the price by $3.00 (from 12.99 to 9.99) Receiving an email that the gave me $0.01 credit as part of the pre-order credit for Part 2 of the Deathly Hallows combo, does not change the feeling that they ripped me off for $3.00 by advertising it included a digital Copy while I can't download it. Amazon, the ball is in your court, what are you doing about this?

The best Excellent production. Great cast all around. Stands up very well over time. Very nuanced  and captures the essence of the le care book. Can been seen  several times, each with a new level of understanding and appreciation.

Good deal The order was filled promptly and the disc was in great condition - all as promised . The film itself is great and am entirely satisfied with the vendor, vendor's service and the condition of the product (disc)

Das Boat Fantastic movie, great deal all around. A classic movie from the German point of view. The victors do not always show the truth, this gets you closer.

Love This may be the best show ever. If you haven't seen it, check out season 1 and you'll fall in love! Then watch season 2 and it just gets better.

The shock of a generation socks ours I finally get to see the great film. Starts off with Charlie Watts and the photo shoot for the cover of "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out", with Mick Jagger. Then the band is doing "Jumpin' Jack Flash" in New York. Then footage of the guys watching the footage, then Altamont soundfiles play, including Hells Angels honcho Sonny Berger on the phone. Mick is visibly upset, Charlie first bemused, then serious. In live shots, we get to look over Jagger's shoulder at the audience and look at the sea of people, some of them you can see in vivid detail amazing. Funny press conference slag:    - Are you any more satisfied now than you were before?   - You mean sexually or philosophically?   - I mean both.   - Well, we're definitely more satisfied now sexually..."  Teleconference with lawyer to get Altamont concert going. Funky dandy clothes on the Stones, old cars riding around Alabama. "Keep Alabama fitter, fight litter" on billboard near the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio where they record "Wild Horses." Mick with white suit, red scarf, red hat. First the band listens to "Wild Horses", Keith is singing along. Charlie's bloodied face looks at the camera uncomfortable, Mick claps. Cut to the helicopter taking the band (minus Bill Wyman) out to Altamont (or Al-ta-mon-tay as some local announcers called it). Great slow-mo and multiple images on Jagger as he sings "Love In Vain", Keith's wearing a funky red and black Marilyn shirt. Lawyer scenes. Tina Turner, with her snake tongue, singing a very passionate "I've Been Loving You Too Long" at the Madison Square Gardens show as she jerks off mic and mic stand (an extended scene that you can find on YouTube is positively X-rated).  The band was so young - Will Wyman was the only geezer at 36, Charlie Watts was 29, Mick and Keith were 26, Mick Taylor was only 20! Mick's skinny chest and cross is so Mick, "It's nice to have a chick occasionally," says a disgruntled Mick about Tina. Pretty girls run onstage. "I think I lost a button on my trousers, I hope they don't fall down," he taunts, flirting with the audience - many probably hoped that they would fall down. Can see faces in audience during "Street Fighting Man." Shows Altamont setup and fires. Afternoon helicopter out to Altamont on December 6th, 1969, cars, crowds, hippies, bad acid trips, white lady raising money for the Panthers, topless hippy chick with big breasts, and some audience fights and freakouts, a topless guy crowd surfing. First baby born, fat naked white lady wandering through the crowd, medical kit. Fat naked Mexican guy appears many times throughout. Frisbees, cool chicks with bubbles in sunset, happenin', man. The Hells Angels show up mid-afternoon and hang out on their beer bus watching the crowd. Middle-aged couples, dogs, cool crowd, hippy chicks, topless chicks, purple-suited black man. Santana played first, then Jefferson Airplane (Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young had played that day too, but are not in the film; the Grateful Dead were supposed to play too, but when they saw the madness they refused to go on). Jerry Garcia and Paul Cantor complained that the vibe is really weird. No Stones are seen at all from 48:00 to 1:08:00. "Sympathy For The Devil" is interrupted by a Hells Angels freakout in the audience. Dancing fat Hells Angel with a red bandana. Dog walks across the stage. Lots of girls with roses, Mick spazzes at the audience, a Hells Angel with sombrero hat has a word with Mick - what is discussed? People giving each other head shakes, like they know something bad is happening, a wet-eyed girl. Mick admits he can't see what's happening. Meredith Hunter is seen in the crowd at 1:18:48, then they start with "Under My Thumb," more sick looks. "I pray that it's all right." Stabbed in a second. Crochetted dress girl was with Meredith Hunter, she's seen crying. Off the Stones go in a helicopter, end of the Stones' screening, dark looks. "All right, see you all," freeze frame. Brilliant. Closing credits with "Gimme Shelter" and afternoon setup scenes.  The DVD has lots of extras, including 22 minutes of outtakes, first showing bored Stones, Keith doesn't want the camera in his face. Full version of a song with full audio and some video, "Little Queeny", the only full song on the whole DVD. Hanging out backstage with Ike and Tina Turner, Ike is playing guitar while Tina checks out a catalogue. Keith is showin' off guitar rifs to Ike. It was November, 1969. There is a full set of Bill Owens pics, showing Hells Angels at the mic, crowd shots, Hare Krishnas, a girl on the road with a long shadow. Beth Sunflower pics show the fat naked guy, the gob onstage. There are also trailers of the Maysles Brothers' films - three trailers for "Gimme Shelter", one for "Salesman" (the cutthroat "Glengarry Glen Ross"-like world of bible salesmen) and "Grey Gardens", the tale of faded money and a crumbling mansion. There's a demo of the restoration, both video and sound. Finally, there's 90 minutes of sound from a KSAN radio special that was on the air one day after the Altamont Speedway Rolling Stones free concert disaster. First up is a Tower Records ad, pitching the newly-released "Let It Bleed" for $2.77. Tales of bad trips and freakouts, it was really heavy, man, many bad trips, bad vibrations, really something going on right from the start, even before Santana began. Woodstock was the point of reference. The Speedway was in a hot alley, everyone was in a hurry to re-create Woodstock for the west coast. The way the stage was constructed. "What's the difference between Mick Jagger and Judy Garland?" When we say we'll do something, we do it. Committed. Sam Cutler, the road manager, complained that there were 15 people left behind afterwards to clean up 15 tons of garbage, the stage, and the scaffolding. Sonny Barger, Hells Angels chapter head, told his story. There was a fire on. He told Mick to get people to sit down. "I've been hurt before and I've been hurt by experts, but over the years I've learned how to get up and do it again."  The movie has a commentary from the filmmakers. The directors were Albert and David Maysles, but the younger of the two, David, died in 1987, so the commentators are Albert, as well as editor and co-director Charlotte Zwerin. The Stones broguht the Maysles, who were in their late 30s/early 40s at the time, one day before the Madison Square Gardens gig, which they filmed. The Rolling Stones didn't want a film, they wanted to be filmed, and they have many unedited films on their shelves. Charlie Watts has a big role in the start of this film, bigger character than usual. The flimmakers discuss the use of facial expressions and the focus on the Stones' faces throughout this film, as well as audience faces and expressions, of happiness and agony. There are moments of silence when the camera is on a face you get into the mind of someone, it's a very special privilege. Anecdote of snow having fallen on the film rolls overnight. The 1969 tour happened just after Brian Jones died, this was Mick's liberation and coming out from under Brian's shadow. Nice shots of Keith's crazy transparent plexi guitar.  The Maysles got a lot of money up front and half of the profits, but they also had to put $500,000 of their own money into it. For six months afterwards the Stones still hadn't signed the release for the film, but they didn't get the release (and they needed the release for the venture to become profitable) until a friend who knew Mick from the "Performance" movie intervened. Jimi Hendrix and BB King were there at the Madison Square Gardens backstage room. Charlotte notes her amazement that Tina Turner's sexual innuendo wasn't removed by censors. "They must have been dense." Notes about Mel Bella's cathedral-sized office, which was asurdly baroque an crammed with things like parrot cages, the king of torts who knew about publicity. Commentary is made about all the cameramen, but not George Lucas, who was there on one of his early assignments. Before the concert started they saw a fence being torn down, Keith remarked "First act of violence," that stuck them as very smart. Explained logistics problems, such as getting sound to sync up with video, or of the generator at Altamont slowing down the speed of filming. Hells Angels were good to the filmmakers on the site, carrying heavy bags. The gang had a place at concerts in California, typically keeping order around the equipment area. Many of the Angels there that day were pledges who had to prove themselves. They wanted also to film the Hells Angels watching the movie, it became an ugly scene where they demanded that the film be destroyed, they demanded $1 million for their scenes in the movie, and they said that if it was released there would be a contract out on their lives, they also wanted to beat up the guys right there in the Hells Angels chapter house. Ugly scene. They also said that after the concert, people who were too stoned to go home or who wanted to party some more, tried to hang out with the Hells Angels at their party fire, and there were more beatings. "It's the true story that Woodstock wasn't."  The DVD also comes with a 44-page booklet that includes essays by Village Voice film critic Amy Taubin, Stanley Booth, who wrote The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones about his travels with the Stones, Mick Jagger's personal assistant from 1967 to 1972 Georgia "Jo" Bergman, musician and author Michael Lydon, a short piece by Ralph "Sonny" Barger himself that is excerpted from Barger's book Hell's Angel: The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club, and the final piece is by New York Press film editor Godfrey Cheshire. The booklet contains lots of details from people who were there - Taubin gives some overview, while Booth gives a fantastic portrayal of the events of the weeks leading up to the concert as well as a full description of the day itself (he was roughed up by Hell's Angels himself), and mentions Michelle Phillips and Gram Parsons and other Stones hangers-on from the time; Bergman talked more about business and logistics, being Mick's PA (she makes it a point that she's not one of the chicks Jagger sleeps with), while Lydon gives zeitgeist of the era. Sonny Barger tells a tale that is a bit different from the one that most people would think, and he also reveals that "Meredith had shot a Hells Angel. Since the guy he shot was a fugitive at the time, we couldn't take him to a doctor or an emergency ward. It was just a flesh wound anyway." Finally, Cheshire gives some of the film history of "Gimme Shelter", noting that George Lucas was one of the young cameramen on the scene that day.  A lot of other details of the concert are not mentioned, such as the CSNY and Grateful Dead bits, as well as the news that three other people died that day - two in a hit and run accident, and one who drowned in an irrigation ditch.

Grab the popcorn! What a great movie. Sure, the storyline is predictable, but the entertainment value is huge. The thing about this movie is that I could see the depicted robot fights, the computer technology, basically everything about it, as coming about in the normal course of our society. A wholly believable story, probably one of the easiest SF movies to watch in terms of suspending disbelief in quite some time -- and it's worth mentioning that this actually *is* science fiction in the classic sense; a little technology, all of it reasonable, around which wraps a good story. It's not a fantasy, as are many so-called SF stories today.  So here we have really great robots, some awesome robot fighting, a not-overly annoying kid, and scenes that are (obviously intentionally) reminiscent of big-arena sports today, all combined with some feel-good stuff in the classic sense.  It kind of looks like a kid's movie before you watch it; then when you watch it, there are adult-ish elements; at the end, I wondered who they thought they were marketing to? Perhaps that's why this didn't do all that well at the box office: the kid probably turned off the hard core SF types, the violence probably turned off legions of mommies and daddies, and the people who did go and enjoy it didn't make the case to others that it really wasn't a kid's movie or a movie that is all that violent in the living-things-getting-hurt sense of the word.  Well, whatever the case there may be, I say, forget anything anyone says and just sit down with the desire to be entertained. I think you'll find that entertainment is delivered as desired, and in spades.  They clearly set it up (very well) for a sequel, but it's unlikely we'll see one, again because of the box office performance. Too bad. I really, really liked it. I think you probably will too.

Pleased with the results I was thrilled to get this DVD at such a low price! It was great quality and arrived quickly. The movie is fun, completely outrageous, and full of action. You get to experience everything from futuristic technology to medieval fights and awesome car chases. Definitely worth it.

Amazing! If you're looking for a good sci-fi comedy, you've found it.  There are a few serious moments but every movie needs some serious scenes.

Five Standing These episodes are some of the best in the series. I absolutely love the fight with the Toguro brothers. The acting by Justin Cook is fantastic. He has this yell that is so badass, I love it. I won't give away any plot detail, but let me tell you, stuff goes down. The fights are so awesome, I can't even begin to explain.  Once again, the quality is good for these DVDs. Cheap, but they come with good video and sound. Missing some bonus features, but still great. If you're doubtful about Yu Yu Hakusho, watch a few of these episodes, and you'll be blown away.

creepy...mesmerizing little gem what a creepy little movie..........fresh new way to make stalkers seem creepier than they already are............i liked how the movie was the perspective of the stalkers view from his cameras....it was done very well....it was subtle but got the point across & was a good suspensful ride.....stalkers so have the advantage with all our wonderful technology...yikes......a bit too real....makes u wonder if anyone is watching "you" now.....check this movie out !!!!

History teachers just got movie day! I am too young to have lived through this talking head. But I know my dad would have enjoyed this look at a figure that was larger that life in the Vietnam era. The lessons were great and totally worth understanding.  I like this as a classroom history addition on movie day. If you are a history teacher this may be on your must see list.

Carefree Gigi "Gigi" was a great film about a young woman who falls in love with a wealthy man. He is only technically meant to be her "mentor".  The only thing I did not like about "Gigi" was the suicide part.  I am compassionate towards those who have attempted or followed through on suicide.  However, I do not believe that there is no human being worth committing suicide over.  Aside from that caveat, "Gigi" provided an interesting  glimpse into the life of a courtesan who is being trained to work among the upper class. "Gigi" is great for those who enjoy musicals with love stories.

Great series! This is a really great series to watch if you are a fan of good character development and storylines. I bought this for a friend's birthday present and she was hooked!

Henry VIII and the girls This DVD, which I obtained from Amazon.com, is probably one of the best representations I have ever seen of this king and his transformation from an unworldly and artistic ruler into a viciously autocratic monarch who murdered two of his six wives and many other subjects. The actors are superb and I was very glad to purchase the DVD. I am more than pleased with the wide variety of Amazon.com DVDS dealing with this and other periods of history, particularly English history.

the Next Generation Movie collection Of course if you want this collection you are a die hard Star Trek lover. It's great to have a complete set of the movies in DVD.

Strange little masterpiece Would have been exceptional without the werewolf symbolism; nevertheless, it's a charming and lyrical film about first-love between young girls. Of course, there's very little dialogue, since young people aren't as loquacious as adults, but the dialogue that is there is thoughtful, funny, and alive. This film captures the nuances of young love quite well. I guess, the werewolf is a symbol of human consciousness, especially the consciousness of desire.  Don't miss it.

Richey Rich I purchased this and once again I received it before the date it was to arrive. It was well packaged and arrived damage free. It plays perfectly and I am very pleased with this product and Amazon as well. I give them another 10 for this one.

GREAT SELLER Movie arrived within 4 days of my ordering it. This is an Excellent Seller. Will definitely do business thru amazon.com and from their own web site. Have ordered several items from this seller and have had no problems and even quicker service than expected.

A family class I would recommend! This original Yours, Mine, and Our is one of my favorite movies!  I love Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda, and my teenage children even enjoy this movie.  I was concerned that it might not be wide screen, but it is.

renewing interest I first saw this film as a young man, being nostalgic as I am. I found new meaning in the story, it touched me in a way it hadn't the  first time. Young people today might not be aware of the fact that this movie had an X rating, and to my knowledge the first and only movie to win a best picture Oscar with an X rating. Excellent storyline, direction, and acting.

Inspector Lewis Series I love this series just like I loved Inspector Morse.  Sergeant Hathaway is a great addition to the cast of characters.  I can't wait to see the later seasons.

The True Goliath is NBC I have such a love for this series it is hard to put into words.  There is a part of me that wishes to tell all who read this to steer clear of this TV series simply because it doesn't end.  I would hate for anyone to fall for this show like I have and always wonder what would have happened to the great characters.  I won't bore you with details about the show other than that it is a modern day telling of the biblical David and Goliath story.  I will tell you, however, that these characters are well drawn, excellently executed, and perfectly flawed.  I loved every minute of this doomed show.  I suggest to the faint of heart to stay away from a show that you might love and need more of, but to those with the endurance to face the Goliath of in-completion then watch this masterpiece and find the enjoyment that I did.

Great movie/great service. Rob Reiner captured the late 1950's/early '60's era of this movie perfectly. Casting was great and the script was really funny. The dvd arrived when promised. Couldn't have been more satisfied!

Dirty dancing DVD I have the VHS tape of Dirty Dancing  which is great and finally found the DVD of it except the DVD is a poor copy of the tape. Is there a good DVD of the concert?

I Love this movie! This has been one of my all time fav movies sense I was a child and is a fav of my grown daughters as well. Funny, witty and a great family movie!

Brilliant Excellent quality, cinematography and it has been put together brilliantly! Different take on the usual animal focused productions that are out and we love it!

Too terrible NOT to watch This is the BEST budget flick I have ever seen. Merely because the amount of money that they clearly saved in the production of this movie is imminent by such a horrendous set and acting. I hope all of these actors did this movie as a charity and not for any real money...that at least gives the movie a great cause to be this bad. (sigh....I miss the cheesy 90's).

Amazing - Important - A Must See Movie!! This is an amazing movie - thoroughly enjoyable while teaching some of Life's Great Lessons!  I missed this movie when it first came out and am so grateful to have seen (experienced) this wonderful production!  Simply amazing!

Enlightening I was just a small child when President Kennedy was shot.  I became interested in this movie after reading Stephen King's 11/22/63.  I felt this was extraordinarily informative and feel that this conspiracy theory is true to life. Very interesting.

Dont let the cover fool you this is a great film. I rented this on vhs back when it first came out and was blown away. Each subsequent time since then I liked it more and more. It is very much a 90s movie but that doesn't mean anything, some of the greatest cinema we have ever known has been released in the 90s. That being said, this isnt just a straight up comedy there are some pretty heavy things going on. Im not the biggest affleck fan, but he tore it up in this. Especially when he is talking about how "nothing is funny anymore." No matter what time period you grow up in you can relate to this story. Its also a sweet ass cast with some awesome cameos.

A fine movie A true classic. The source of the great "Warsaw Concerto." A difficult DVD to find since "Dangerous Moonlight" was never released in a Region 1 format. A small utility found on the web will allow viewers to see the DVD as the universal Region 0 format.

Hall and Oates Live Daryl Hall & John Oates LIVE IN CONCERT, I am a Hall and Oates fan seen them when there around any venue that they perform. I would recommend anyone that has heard any of their songs has a messege on their lyrics.  Daryl

The Title Says It All... I've been using this video since I was 11wks pregnant, I'm now 21wks and I can not stress enough how much I love this video. It is the perfect amount of exercise for me. It leaves me feeling like I've done something but not out of breath.  I do the Advanced moves in the video and if you've never worked out before the beginner moves will be challenging enough. I worked out 3 days a week and did cardio 2 days a week prior to becoming pregnant and was unable to keep up with that normal work out so this video was just what I needed.

very good Good family film, we thoroughly enjoyed it. We lived in the area of the college many years ago and remember the school at that time.

Great Chance!!! Violence is not my favorite subject in a film nor in anything else; nor explicit graphical sequences is a bearable factor for me, etc; but suspense, extraordinary acting and the greatly appropriate atmosphere achieved for this film sum an unvulnerable formula to make SEVEN one of my favorite fiction masterpiece ever. This BR disc edition is simply the nicest chance to bring home and share with friends who love good cinema a bit of the very best of David Fincher as a movie maker.

One of the best documentaries. I bought this after originally watching this show on the History Channel.  This documentary contains numerous unreleased or "lost" material that has rarely been seen before on TV.  A good feature is that most of the footage is in full color.  I love the fact that the show follows the story and the life that each person put on the line in World War two.  Also story is expertly narrated.  Do not expect a full on documentary but a telling of a soldiers story. I reccommend this video for anybody that is interested in WWII.  One word of advice some sections may be graphic.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen DVD Very happy with this product.  Watched it this weekend and it was in excellent condition.  The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a wonderful speical effects movie and story line.

Enlightening and entertaining! Although the video production in this documentary lacked quality, the subject matter was very good.  The film maker proves what she set out to prove in a manner that grabbed my attention and held on to it.  Would definitely recommend to everyone.

Great Movie this is a great movie. this movie is awesome the story and actors are great in this film. if you have not seen this movie then i recommend you do.

Walk into unending night While this movie has an impenetrable darkness too it, it is one of the best and most compelling movies I've seen.  It has so many oddities that you do not find in other movies, and it really makes it something you want to watch again.  It really goes into the depths of humans and what we are capable of.  Matt Damon is superb in playing the role of this manipulative, creative wanderer known as "Tom Ripley".  Some people wonder why good people get unlucky in life and bad people get lucky?  Well this movie is that line of thinking being exacted out one hundred fold.  One thing to take away from it is that it doesn't matter in life what anyone else knows compared to what you know.  Whether or not you think you can handle it, behaving dishonestly or doing worse (like murder) will eat you alive from the inside out.  Even if you never get caught for something bad, it hurts you and manifests more positive energy into negative energy; thus be honest and do good if nothing else for the sake of your own opportunity to explore this wondrous and unknown life with a freedom of thought.

Can't Wait I saw Jeff in Dublin a few months back. He did material from the new DVD and it was amazing. I can't wait to see what other things he includes on here that he did not try out on the Irish audience. He is the funniest, most talented comedian I have ever stumbled upon.

The ultimate horror movie This made-for-TV movie originally aired the same year I graduated from high school and went off to college.  It was definitely a product of its time.  I don't think a movie like this could be made, much less broadcast on network TV, during any other period of American history.  It perfectly captured the mood of the day, and the fears that we all had back then.  The US-Soviet d&eacute;tente of the 1970s was well and truly over; and the Cold War was hotter than it had been at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis.  The hawkish anticommunist crusader, Ronald Reagan, had been in the White House for over two years; and it would be another two years before the pragmatic reformer and peacemaker, Mikhail Gorbachev, would rise to the top position in the Kremlin.  Arms control negotiations between the two superpowers had broken down; and the nuclear arms race was rapidly escalating.  Reagan administration officials were openly discussing the notion of "winnable nuclear war" and the potential benefits of developing a "first strike" capability.  Meanwhile, Soviet troops were bogged down in Afghanistan, fighting a costly war against Islamist insurgents (or "freedom fighters" as we called them back then) covertly armed and equipped by the US.  And this was just one of the many "proxy wars" being waged around the globe between US-backed and Soviet-backed factions.  The public rhetoric between the US and USSR was often quite hostile.  Although it's hard to imagine today, back then it really did seem like the two superpowers were rapidly heading towards an inevitable confrontation that could very well end in nuclear war and the complete destruction of modern civilization.  I can recall, as a high school student in the early Reagan years, having casual conversations with my friends about where we'd rather be in the event of a nuclear war: at ground zero, where we'd be killed instantly and spared the tremendous suffering that survivors would have to face, or in a well-stocked fallout shelter far from ground zero, where we'd have a fighting chance of survival, but would face unimaginable horrors, unbearable hardships, and a very bleak future.  Okay, I'll admit that my friends and I were a little weird; but our concern about the possibility of nuclear war wasn't at all unusual back in the early-1980s.  Everyone back then was worried about nuclear war.  And this movie takes those worries and shows us what would happen if they came true.  The results are even more horrifying than you could imagine.  Over the years, many movies have been made about nuclear war; but this movie is unlike any of those other films.  This movie isn't about the actions of politicians and generals.  It isn't about the unique experiences of submarine commanders or B-52 pilots.  It's not a spy thriller or a post-apocalyptic sci-fi film.  It's not a heroic tale of intrepid survivors beating the odds and rebuilding a new civilization from the rubble of the old.  Instead, it's a bleak, depressing, utterly heartbreaking portrait of what the experience of nuclear war would be like for ordinary citizens in America's heartland.  It is painfully realistic in its portrayal of the horrors of nuclear war.  It doesn't pull any punches.  But it doesn't make things seem worse than they really would be for dramatic effect, either.  What you see in this film is a pretty good approximation of the sort of things that actually would happen in a full-scale thermonuclear war.  In a way, this movie is much more frightening than any horror film; because this could really happen.  (Fortunately, the odds of it happening are much, much lower today than they were when this movie first aired; but there's still a chance it could happen.)  This is nightmare fuel.  If you're the sort of person who can't watch horror films because you find them too disturbing, then you probably shouldn't watch this.  Likewise, if you hate depressing movies that don't have happy endings, this really isn't the film for you.  Though, personally, I actually felt pretty good after watching this the other night.  It kinda lifted my spirits, in a perverse sort of way, by putting things into perspective.  After watching this, and seeing the absolute worst thing that realistically could happen, my life seems pretty good by comparison, and the problems I'm dealing with and challenges I'm facing seem almost trivial.  It was oddly therapeutic.  (Yeah, I know, I'm weird.)  If you want to know what it would be like to live through a full-scale thermonuclear war, then this is definitely the movie to watch.  It's rather melodramatic in places; but that was fairly typical for TV shows and made-for-TV movies in the early '80s.  Like I said before, it was a product of its time.  So, I'm going to cut it some slack in terms of the melodrama, and say that it's a good film in spite of its frequent emotional clumsiness.  I'd recommend this movie to anyone who is interested in learning more about the effects of nuclear war.

"I slept with another woman.....will you marry me?" I'm an insurance agent.  Been in this business for many years.  Never been to a convention like the one portrayed in CEDAR RAPIDS.  But I'll darn sure keep looking.  The beauty of this indie comedy is the characters; I KNOW people like Tim Lippe (Ed Helms), Bill Krogstadt (Stephen Root), and yes, Dean Ziegler (John C. Reilly).  To identify with characters you already know creates instant recognition and soothing comfort; the viewer is firmly on board, ready to watch wet-behind-the-ears Tim go on an hysterical journey of self discovery. . .at an insurance convention. . .in Cedar Rapids.  I can't help but grin while typing the above sentence.  A comedy like CEDAR RAPIDS has very little wiggle room.  Either it meshes and works, or it rapidly dissolves into lame pizza supreme.  Fortunately, this little jewel works, because the cast is believable and likable and real--from taking a drunken dip in the hotel pool, to making up a Christmas song about policyholder surplus.  I've seen gung ho folks do likewise; heck, I've partied with several extroverted, rowdy, and raunchy Dean Zieglers.  (Been tempted by one or two Joan Ostrowskis; Anne Heche works handsomely on the old eyeball.)  This is one hysterical romp as Tim's innocent eyes are opened, new lifelong relationships are established, and all the while a subliminal angst is remedied.  It's physical comedy with a cerebral component, boasting an energetic, feel-good ending; CEDAR RAPIDS is a convention we all benefit from. --D. Mikels, Esq.

Schubert Mass: you must see and hear This double DVD has one new release: the All Saints Concert 1986  in Wien. In this evening Abbado conducted one of the most moving execution ol Schubert's last Mass. I believe that the E Flat Mass is one of the great sacred composition of the beginning of the XIX century.In this concert the chorus and the orchestra are really outstanding .But the soloists are even more amazing. Never the "Et Icarnatus" sounded like here. The tenors are phenomenal: Jerry Hadley and Jorge Pitta. Together with Karita Matilla......we are in heaven. This recording , of the mass,appeared in CD. Now, fortunately , we have the images.Tne other things are very good too: The Brahms Concerto with the young Pollini is amazing, Mozart's Laudate Dominum, with Matilla, and the Rossini's ouvertures are fantastic. But what is really exceptional is Schubert's last Mass.

Great to start at the beginning I missed all "The Beginning" episodes when they were on in the '60s. Now I'm enjoying all of them. Fills in a lot of blanks for me.

A great DVD We had just watched this on PBS and really enjoyed the show.  Now I can watch it without interruption & enjoy it even more.

Magical Realism at its best I loved the movie.  I'm a huge fan of Latin American magical realism, so I might have enjoyed the film on a different level than someone who is not familiar with this particular genre.  You definitely need to suspend disbelief, but once you do, you will be able to truly enjoy the magic of this movie about undying love.  Be warned, It is NOT a happy movie, it definitely made me feel sad, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

Gettysburg This super-fine movie, was originally aired on Turner Network Television or commonly known as "TNT", as a short Mini-Series. Tom Berenger, Martin Sheen, Richard Jordan, Jeff Daniels, and Sam Elliot, just to name a few of the Actors involved in this very good movie on the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.  I had taped it from TV minus the commercials, when it aired, I also bought the VHS Tape set of two, and now have bought the DVD, a very good movie offered by Amazon, a must see for Civil War Buffs!

A hypnotic puzzle! Deep red is one of the unforgettable classic cult movies of the horror. Bloody, tense and magnificentlywell written, with a bleak atmosphere of Roma by night.  A sadistic murder is watched by an Englis Jazz pianist (I have the suspect that Argento paid a deserved tribute to Michelangelo Antonioni in Blow up, due hemings was a vital witness in that film).  Since this incident our hero artist will to assume by his own, following every single track until the great finale absolutely unexpected but masterfully suppported.  Don't doubt it for a minute. This is Dario Argento's masterpiece.

Not for the Ritlin crowd If you have A.D.D. this movie is not for you. I suggest you go play a video game, a rental, then you won't have to own a game that will bore you after 2 hours of play.  If this first paragraph is boring you do not watch this movie, it is not fast pasted enough for someone with your...um...refined, shall we say, tastes. However, if you enjoy older thrillers from the '50's and '60's, have fond memories of the original Shinning (the one from before you probably were born, made in the 1980's), and don't mind seemingly trivial story telling devices such as character development this just may be a movie that you would enjoy. WARNING: this movie is so 'old school' they actually have real special effects and sets, instead of a CGC cartoon hackery. Enjoy.

amazing! Incredible story line! I cry every time I see it. Truly amazing movie. It will tear at your heart strings every time.

The Last True Western Film. Viewed: 5/03, 6/06, 8/11 Rate: 10  6/06: Unforgiven is possibly the last true Western in cinema history and is a perfect film for Clint Eastwood. An ode to a dying genre, Unforgiven is a poetic justice to dispel many of the misconceptions that numerous Western movies have established. I can see the blind-as-a-bat boy who fills in the place for the audience members while the old-timer veterans of Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, and Gene Hackman show literally what the life in the West is truly like. This is a clear-cut difference between men and boys. I love the acting, the mood, the somber setting, and the unique story of Unforgiven. What makes Unforgiven so great is how realistic the movie feels while depending on the mystique of the legend out of William Munny, played adeptly by no one other than Clint Eastwood, while it becomes a monster in the final climax. There is a great sense of humor throughout the film. Moreover, Morgan Freeman once again proves that he makes a perfect supporting actor with Clint Eastwood. I am impressed with everything about Unforgiven, and it will stand out as one of the most enduring Westerns ever made. Clint Eastwood deservingly gets recognition for this picture and also for Million Dollar Baby. I've always knew that Clint Eastwood was a true filmmaker, and this one, he proved his mark. While nobody had paid attention to this man, Jaimz Woolvett gave a standout performance as the Schofield Kid. What he did deserves accolades. All in all, Unforgiven is a genuine Western film noir.  8/11: Nearly the last true Western made, Unforgiven rights the wrongs that many Westerns in the past have committed, further mythologizing the Old West for something that it's really not. Unforgiven boasts of an all around cast including Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, and Gene Hackman. These three are the reason why you watch the film. It is as good as it gets. More important, Clint brings a resume with him when it comes to Western films, many of them quite bad, so it is obviously he set his heart on making the best Western as possible and leave his mark in the now dead genre. One underrated performance, never lauded by anyone, is by Jaimz Woolvett as the blind-as-a-bat Scholfield Kid. It's too bad he went empty that year. All in all, Unforgiven is a masterpiece and one of Clint's usual unforgettable trademarks.

A Great Video This is another one of Steve Murray's programs that I tried. It is a fantastic video and truly shows you how to make spiritual connections without being overly complicated. One of the things I enjoy about Mr. Murray is that he does not have a lot of fluff around his programs; they are simple, easy to do, to the point and they work. I also have the Spiritual Contact Volume 2 DVD that I purchased from Steve's site... it too is a worth while purchase for anyone interested in this subject.

awesome! Would definitely purchase more movies from this seller! I hadn't seen this movie since I was a little girl, and watching it brought back some good little memories!

Love! LOVE this movie. Its a good mystery movie. Brendan is awesome, but he is my fave actor so I might be biased. Either way, its one of his better works.

Gerald Finley brings this composer's opera to life! John Adam's Doctor Atomic is riveting and this production brings out fine performances all around. Gerald Finley's interpretation of Oppenheimer's agonizing decision-making is outstanding! Additionally, Mr. Finley has a truly beautifully produced voice that he colors in just the right way to bring the character to life!

for jurassic park lovers This was an excellent price for jurassic park lovers who could watch the entire collection of movies over and over.

Awesome, true, life changing..... Awesome, true, life changing.....if you follow it. Yes, much of life is a self fulfilling endeavor where we are the main arbitors of our own destiny. This is a very long term study and the facts are irrefutable. What we do with this knowledge is up to us.   By the way Jack LaLanne promoted this same concept also and of course, he was a kook for awhile and then worshipped by healthy minded folks for his decades of hard work and dedication that revealed many healthy truths for us to live by. God Bless these folks for the true sincere good that they do. TS, Port Huron, MI

iCureCancer is a Must See ~ It is Our Responsibility to Recognize Our Innate Ability to Heal Ourselves.. Your Documentary really expresses that..  We ALL Can and Should HEAL OURSELVES..  just like Leonard Coldwell has learned in his life experiences...as it is.. also his message as well.....  there is a HUGE Mental Blockage in the Consciousness of the Mainstream..(box) both Corporate, and Personally too.. (the masses).. But, it is Opening up..Slowly Awaking..  I see the Ripples Expanding everyday..  I like your documentary IAN.. it was very informative and right to the point..  Especially, the Insights of JCynthia and Burton Goldberg..  also each Story.. was profound.. each Testimony had great advice from courageous people who learned to think out of the box.. and achieve the "Knowing" that only comes from living it.. invaluable insights.. thank you so much!  ((It is really difficult to describe AIR to a FISH..))  and you do a Fabulous JOB of it..  Most important to me.. as I watched.. (when most of the other documentaries.. I don't watch.. (they upset me.. I get overwhelmed instead of informed..)  I felt Empowered and Curious and wanted to JUMP right in when I saw IAN's iCureCancer .... I BELIEVE when it is time...(soon) IAN's work will not only get the recognition.. but will be the ice breaker we all need, in so many ways..) You Go Brother! We all are going to WAKE Up... It is just a matter of When! I Highly Recommend iCureCancer... (The Power Is In OUR HANDS!) 1'

Better than the original When I first saw Heaven's Lost Property's pilot for season 1, I thought 'I'll give this show a run threw'. As I was watching the credits of the second episode, I was sold on the series. 3 years later, it has been dubbed and I bought them up right quick and it was a ruff start for the dub (that 'WOowww~' in episode one...), but it got a heck of a lot better and I was glad I didn't have to switch to subs.  Now, I've seen season two 1 year ago and found it thousands of times better than the original. The comedy was thrown so far over the top, while still keeping that dark side with love mixed in was beyond well played by the creator. I LOVED IT.  After all that has been said, I cannot wait for the second season to come out.  HOWEVER! I would like something more on my Blu-Rays than just trailers and clean credits. Heck, a little commentary would even be appreciated than nothing. (The Baka to Test Boxset is prime example that Funi CAN DO A GOOD COMBO-SET)  After all that's said and done, I WILL BE BUYING THIS SERIES and I CANNOT WAIT for the Movie.  In conclusion, I would like to add that as of earlier this week, Japan aired an Ad that shows that they're coming out with SEASON 3. Be prepared everyone. You're in this for the long run, whether you like it or not... But it's impossible to not like it, so that's all there is.

Great set These are classic Looney Tunes that should be a part of any collection. They just don't make cartoons like this anymore

One of My All Time Top 10 Movies! Rod Howard's best film by far.  This film is brillant from start to finish.  It should have won Oscars for Best Picture and for Best Director ("Braveheart" and Mel Gibson ... Really!?!). Even with the wonderful acting, directing and cinematography - the best parts of "Apollo 13" deal with the creativity and daring that NASA had in the earlier days of our space program.  All this is made better now with a Blu-Ray, DVD and digital copy ... so I can now watch it on my iPhone or iPad anytime, anywhere ... again and again!  Love it!

movie this movie made my little girls birthday. She was so excited to get this movie. The movie arrivied sooner that expected and was in great shape. Totally worth it.

Newfound favorite I love this movie, and my tv offers the zoom out option, so the fit wasn't a problem. This really is my feel good movie. Something about belting out "Lets Go To The Movies" brightens my day.

Love it! This is such a great series, I couldn't stop watching it! The other season are great too! The price seemed very reasonable.

Laughs for the whole family This has to seriously be one of my favorite movies of all time.  I wasn't expecting to like it but I love it and find myself quoting it regularly.  It's hilarious and sweet.  My 3 year old loves it, my 55 year old husband loves it and I love it.  So it covers lots of generations!

Love Bogie! Classic Bogie with a great supporting cast. It is fun to see the old cars and costumes. Bogie always has command of the scrren as well as his  ladies... good & bad.

She's All That My grandaughter and I both really enjoyed the movie and would watch it again with her or another friend I am very happy I purchaced the DVD.

Great A+ Seller! Item arrived in the promised condition within the promised date timeline.  I look forward to doing further business with this seller.

Great movie with dark humor I have always loved this movie, so i was really excited to see this one for sale on blue ray. the dvd and vhs versions I have dont have any special features. This one has gag real, bloopers, rehearsals and commentary. Its a lot of extra footage that make this well worth the buy.

One of Disney's best! As far as the movie itself goes, this is one of the prettiest movies Disney has done. The scenery looks like a painting! The music is fantastic, and really fits with the story line (not like Princess and the Frog where every song seems forced.) The story is fun and clever, and the characters each have strong personalities. I would definitely say it's reminiscent of the "golden age" of Disney movies (Aladdin, Beauty & the Beast, etc.)  While they do have some good behind the scenes (extended scenes, unrendered clips and storyboards), I did expect to get more with the blu-ray special features like a behind the scenes, director's commentary or a bit about the making of the film. Sadly, we won't see those until the next edition of the movie comes out of the vault. But the movie is amazingly beautiful in blu-ray, so I am content for now. :)

Very happy. Good Movie. Good Price. Good condition. Very Pleased. This is My second order. I will be ordering more in the future.

I love Pablo I wouldn't have the friends I have today if I never played this video to all of them. I finally got to meet him and he knows who I am since we have been tweeting each other for a while. He handed 2 DVD's to my boyfriend and I and signed both of them for us.  If you want to have a great party, this is the perfect thing for you to play when starting it off, have a drink, kick back and watch the spillage!!!

Yes its campy BUT its the most AMAZING movie i've seen in a long time! So just watch the trailer for it, it is HILARIOUS. I HAD to have it and you just can't find it cheaper than the $20 sadly... That being said, I don't really buy movies, let alone spend $20 on one! This on though, i'd spend that again because this is the best heartfelt movie i've seen in a long time. Its HILARIOUS and pretty much unrealistic how accepting the mom and aunt are but you don't really care. It makes me cry every time when the mom tells her son that she will change the world for him if they can't accept him the way he is and give him what he wants. A love like that is just amazing. I watched it with my boyfriend and mom and all three of us laughed our butts off and cried of course. =) Get it, you won't regret it!

Best show on tv in years! I didn't want to watch this show. I didn't like the original despite being a big fan of older cop shows. But my husband wanted to check it out so I did. It just blew me away.  People really, really need to give this show a chance. The pilot ep was great but then the second ep not so much third ep good and the forth ep a bit weak. I think that a few people drifted away but after episode five it just got better and better and better.  Firstly, Alex O'Loughlin is brilliant as McGarrett. He starts the show as this stoic, buttoned up Seal but slowly reveals more of the characters inner workings and we see that at times he can be a softy, he can also lose his temper on occasion and has a great sense of humor.  Danno is like a wasp in a bottle. Always riled and annoyed but funny with it. I love Danno cause he calls McGarrett on all his crazy moves.  DDK and Grace Parks are both great too, DDK brings a seriousness and understatedness to the show and Grace Parks is cute and funny as Kono the rookie who is eagerly following in McGarretts footsteps.  The arguments and banter are funny and make the show and I've read that a lot of it is unscripted and improved between Caan and O'Loughlin.  The action is movie caliber and the HD shoots of Hawaii just stunning.  This show beats the CSI's/Criminal Minds and most other procedurals out there. If you like NCIS you'll love this - although it is different in many ways it has some of the same elements.  Finally the cast have amazing chemistry and they all look great (especially the supremely gorgeous Alex).  All in all only a miserable stick in the mud could not enjoy this show. No it isn't realistic or gritty or serious - its just a big old bag of actiony fun and sometimes that is just what the doctor ordered. Give it a chance and give the characters time to grow on you - you won't regret it!

Great doc series Great documentary series. One learns a lot and it's fun to watch with the family. I recommend it to anyone.

Keeps you wanting to watch I like the show , I felt it kept you wondering and wanting to know how it ends.  Funny, scary, suspenseful, What more does one want? Worth it, In fact I think I will watch it again soon.

Love it!! We were borrowing my mother-in-law's DVD copy of Cars which my 2 year old son absolutely adored!  When his 2nd birthday came around we ordered this Bluray pack and some of the scenes are just head and shoulders above the DVD.  Thank you Disney and thank you Amazon!

Excellent! Watched it for the 2nd time tonight. Just an excellent all around movie, 708 reviews too!  I've only really started watching zombie movies after watching The Walking Dead on AMC. On the surface the story is similar to George Romero's 2nd movie where a bunch of living is trapped in a mall, but this is much improved all around.  First as in all movies, you've got to give character to the characters and the director and actors does this in spades. Just top notch performance by all the actors, you love the good guys and despite the bad guys. Kudos to Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber as well as the secondary characters: Michael Kelly, Jayne Eastwood, Mekhi Phifer and last but not least Ty Burrell as the obnoxious guy.  Secondly, I love the gritty quality of the movie, gives it a relevance and darkness. I have no complaints about the story but what sets this one apart is the action. Not that I don't like the slow zombie shuffle but the fast paced zombies really put the action into high gear. The zombies run don't walk after you so every action sequence is really fast paced, your heart literally doesn't stop. And like all good zombie movies, it's not the gore, but the story and characters which make it good. I'll definitely be rewatching this one again.

Excellent Purchase Love this DVD it was my favorite when I was a child and now My son love's it too this was a excellent purchase with a great price.

A true treat The hardships that I and others suffer, are, for a time, set aside while I enjoy this master piece.  This work, is true ART.

point break dvd product was a great price and arrived in 3 days!  nice surprise  and it worked fine - no complaints i have no other words and I am sorry they make this survey so difficult!

Great 90s slasher classic Scream, directed by Wes Craven, redefined what a slasher scary movie should be: clever, witty, funny, intelligent, suspenseful and scary.

Be Prepared I don't usually like to watch Corbin Burnson but I am really happy I watched this movie!  Yes, it is a Christian movie, but the message was a great one "Don't Assume".  My 4 kids can tell anyone they heard this all the time when they were growing up.  Because I liked it, I am buying a copy today.  It definately is not a waste of time.  BTW, wait for the sermon, near the end of the movie, it was a stand-up and cheer moment!

A Must-Own on Blu-Ray This is the best Harry Potter movie yet, and with such exceptional writing, acting, and special effects, it should be on Blu-Ray.  I'm of the mind that if a film doesn't meet this criteria, then it can just remain on DVD (for example, I only plan on purchasing the Blu-Ray versions of the Harry Potter movies from the third one on).  I was also lucky to get this for an amazing price shortly after it was released, which is great reason why people should buy what they want early on if at all possible.

One of top 5 suspense TV shows of all time I can't say enough about Damages.  The acting and plot are both excellent.  Glenn Close is amazing and I am always on the edge of my seat when I watch this series.  One to watch over and over.  There is always something new to discover.

American Pie This is a good Blu-Ray release, I've been waiting for American Pie to be released because the DVD is very ugly, covered in specks. This Blu-Ray release removed most, if not all of the specks, and the movie has always looked ugly and had an odd color, like most 90s movies. Anyways, it's worth buying if the price is right.

True Grit a good one! This was a well produced and acted movie. It was mellow but held you to your seat the entire movie. Jeff Bridges was as always excellent and the new up and comer Hailee Steinfeld was a delight to watch. Matt Damon added a little light to the fire. All in all a great movie worthy of anyone's viewing pleasure. Enjoy.

Executive Decision Great movie,  lots of action and good performances.  Well worth watching.  Have seen this movie more then once and still find it exciting.

I'm impressed I am surprised that with an all young female cast (he main cast) the writers kept it clean considering the film is based on dares. No girl on girl action as you would expect in most teen films. In anycase I'm not a fan of the ending but the movie was interesting. Triple dog dares..remind me never to play this game, Ill be damned if Im caught peeing on someones porch or robbing a convenient store. The parts are played great. You just gotta love the snotty brat on the cover. I loved Danna from Step by Step because she was a brat, always had something smart to say. It's not a horror film, its more of a comedic drama. I enjoyed it, the cast is beautiful, they each have their own style, which is refreshing.

Bible Collects I am not a movie critic but I did like the movie and it will make a great addition to our bible movie collection.  Filling your mind with stories of the bible is to make your mind true, pure, noble, lovely, admirable praising God for His wonderful blessings.

memories Watched with greatgrandchildren,we enjoyed it alot.passed  it on to my children and grand children. we need more movies like this less gore and less sex.Just saying.

Solid, Accurate Double Wing Materials I have been running the Double Wing for about 4 years and picked up this video to gain a more thorough understanding, and maybe a different angle on the offense.  I found it to be very consistent with the base materials I had built from, and had great depth of information.  It has been a great supplement.

Angel  Eyes Its  a  love story  and  I  loved  it. Not  often  is  a  love  story  just sweet  and  nice.  Now  days  they  are  usual too  graphic  and  sexy  and  not  really  lovely.

Amazing chick flick Something Borrowed was one of the best movies I have seen in a long time.  This is also one of the few movies that stayed true to the book.  I laughed & cried all the way through this movie.  My husband also enjoyed  this movie as much I did!!!

90210 series The only thing I didn't like, is that it wasn't compacted down for storage, so all 10 seasons are in their own box.

Space Jam DVD The all-time favorite movie for every one of my 5 grandchildren.  We have owned a VCR copy since it was first released, which finally wore out.  This replaces our old copy and is as entertaining as it was when new.  Who says you have to grow up?!  We like it as much as they do!

It All Started With A Big Bang! I only recently started watching The Big Bang Theory when it began airing on TBS and I fell in love with the show. Any fan of TBBT will love the first season. I received it on the day it was estimated to be delivered and it was packaged properly and didn't have a scratch on it. This is a show that you will be able to watch over and over again and still laugh at Sheldon's crazy antics.

Burlesque wows... i was so skeptical when I heard about this film but It is surprisingly AMAZING! Christina Aguilera's acting skills are quite polished and well executed! Cher is fantastic, witty, and charming all in one fabulous package! Cam G, Kristin Bell, Julianne H, Stanily Tucci  Mr. Cummings and Eric Dane compliment the main characters spanning from rivals, to lovers to co workers!  The story line is cute, the musical numbers are outrageously entertaining, and the visuals are electrifying! Its a lovely feel good film I would highly recommend! buy this film and you will love it!

great vendor! This vendor is true to his words.  DVD was in excellent ccndition and arrived here in no time.  I will definitely purchase other things from this vendor.

adorable! I've watched and loved this movie since i was a tiny child. its heartwarming and tugs at your sense of emotion. for me it always reminded me that when i feel alone or afraid that it wasn't the end of the world. When i was little i used to sing the "Sad song from Tiny" (as i called it) "when the wind blows cold and threatinging, nobodys there to comfort you" to myself and make myself feel better. i would pretend to be Tiny and be all brave. very good video for kids. the only downsides is that its crappy animation, but viewers under the age of 12 never care. also the only way to get the soundtrack is a cassette tape- which honestly i don't even know how to use. i've been looking but i  cant find an mp3 download or even CD of the music anywhere. :(

Still a great film! I saw this movie as a kid.  Of course watching this movie now had a great impact.  Unfortunately they don't make films like this anymore.  Films with great actors has gone by the wayside.  Now they need swearing, super amounts of violence, and lots of sex and loads of special effects.  None of those impress me.  Great acting does.  This is a great film, looks wonderful in Blu-ray. Great collectors film.  Enjoy!

P.K. Madaras I adore Vincent D'Onofrio.  He has such a wide range of talent.  This movie had comedy and a story with heart.

Laura I still must watch this movie again with the second commentary track. I have already watched the extended version of this classic, afterwards viewing the excellent extensive biography programs on Gene Tierney and Vincent Price. Of course it has the film trailer as well, and last night saw the theatrical release version with the first audio commentaries. After all this information I will watch the movie again and observe it with all the insight the special features have provided me with. If you like great films and special features that are really special this DVD is a must!

Even "EVIL" can learn to love ! A second rate villian turns out to be a first rate adoptive father even though he lives in an "Addams-esque" home filled with bombs, rocket and Minons that look like snack food....

Limitations?...I just let my .44 Magnum blow them away What can be said, this is the ultimate Dirty Harry collection to date. Set back and let Harry's calm demeanor tame the savage criminals and sooth your aching mind. Decent Blu-ray extras and bare bones packaging make this a lethal dose of classic viewing. Watch one per night, or do a marathon. I did notice one glaring fault in the video, but i don't have the dvd to compare... in Magnum Force when Brigs? enters the movie in a scene outside, his face goes completely blurry/out of focus, and does it again later when he's got the gun on Harry with the bomb, I'm thinking it was a directorial/ cameraman error in actually filming, but like i said i don't have a dvd copy to compare it with. But it's not enough to fault the collection.

On of the best Snow White Rendition I recommend this movie to anyone who loves classics. One of the best interpretation of the timeless fairytale.Love the digital, blue ray dvd.

Excellent my autistic son loves this Excellent my autistic son loves this.  He was so glad to see it again after all those years of looking for a missing tape.

Great movie. Shame on FOX! Amazing movie, great actresses acting , great music, everything! I love DVD cover. Im glad that FOX after Whitney's death decided to re-release this movie on new DVD with new front cover,  but c'mon, was it hard to add something extra? like some documentary, gallery, behind the camera movie, interviews? Fox just decided to make easy money after Houston death without any work from their side. Shame on them. Whitney deserved for more! 5 starts for movie quality only, not for this DVD release.  Shame FOX!

Excellent show - trancends genre What makes this show is the varied cast of characters involved in both courtly intrigue and a world sweeping epic. This is fantasy only in the setting, there is less escapism here than in shows like Sex and the City (which I also enjoyed btw!). GoT is about families, I think, more than anything else. Families we make and the ones we are born into.  The cast is superb - I liked every choice save perhaps for minor characters than appear in one episode. Not everyone is perfect, some are still perhaps growing into their roles. Maisie Williams, playing Arya, however is a show stealer. I loved her scenes!  I enjoyed the multiple stories being told, kept any one plot line from becoming too stale.  The show manages to capture a range of events and emotion - dread of a great evil on the horizon, humorous moments between characters, courtly rivalries, conspiracies, and children growing (or forced to grow) out of the shadows of their elders.

A Classic! I loved this series from my childhood and hoped when I ordered it that I would still enjoy it as an adult. No worries!! I have watched every episode of Season 1 now at least 3 times and am eagerly awaiting my shipment of Season 2. This light-hearted, '80's show is a treat and the chemistry between it's leads - fantastic. Since renewing my love of the series, I have discovered several additional SMK fans who want to borrow my DVD's... and I'm happy to share the love!

LOVE AUGUST RUSH I absolutely love this movie! Every time I watch it I love it even more! The music is absolutely beautiful and the story is inspiring!! I totally recommend this movie!!

Great Show!!!! I ordered this for my boyfriend. We watched the whole season in two days. We can't wait for the next season to start. :)

Wonderful Family Film A great story for the entire family to enjoy together. The acting is great the sets are magical. Do not miss this movie.

fun i am extremely pleased with my purchase, it is better than expected. Fast shipping, product in perfect condition, very good quality. would recommend.

O'Donnel Songs Well, I had bought and watched the first Nashville Volume after I'd seen the full show on PBS here in Seattle. So I was pleasantly surprised when the second part became available. He is different - almost still a kid - and that is not bad at all. Claus

More Great Episodes from season 1 this second volum has more great episodes from season one on it. batman is still one of the greatest superheroes.

Gettysburg Blu-Ray DVD Video was such a wonderful update to the VHS version we previously owned. My husband is a history buff and we live close to the Gettysburg Battlefield so it has a special meaning for us. The seller shipped in quickly and it was in perfect condition.  Good movie and historically precise.  A long movie but the history buffs will like that!  Thanks, Amazon for offering it at a reasonable price!

Dick Francis Fan I am a big fan of Dick Francis' books.  I started reading them over 20 years ago and now listen to the audio version on my iPod.  When I discovered that there were British TV shows based on Dick's books, I could not wait to get a hold of them.  This purchase came in advance of the delivery date and was in excellent condition.  For what they charged, it was a great purchase.

Sacharrine, but Totally Irresistable... Look forward to the Blu-Ray - saw it in Todd-AO (curved screen, quasi-Cinerama) in Hollywood, 1965, can't remember which theatre, was in the navy, stationed in Long Beach, just remember the visuals were absolutely overwhelming (saw 2 other classics there - "Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?" & "Lord Love A Duck") - the most inspired shot is the very beginning - as the film starts, you just hear a "whoosh" of air, against a totally white screen...(for a few seconds, you wonder, what's happening?...) then you realize the camera's moving through clouds.....that shot, along with numerous others, created an intense "involvement" that few films can achieve...I loved the movie, & from what the other reviewers have said, this must be the ideal release...

great deal this is a great deal for a gift for someone who loves always sunny its cheaper than buying the seasons seperatly i would recommend getting this, the show is pretty funny and worth the money for all the seasons

Pleasantly surprised... big time! I had read the synopsis and figured I would give this movie a shot.  Needless to say, I was incredibly surprised by how far ahead of time this movie was and how enticing it was to watch.  It is a slow-drama but the story is superb and definitely worth the time investment.

A Worthy Part 2 This film was a true worthy follow-up to one of the best superhero films of all time. Inspired by the storyline from the late 80s 'Armor Wars' arc, Iron Man 2 has our hero fighting against his invention being weaponized while at the same time fighting those who are stealing his tech. There is no one who can pull off Tony Stark like Robert Downey Jr. His portrayal is worth watching even if he never dons the suit. This is good, because Iron Man gets very little screen time against his alter ego in this installment. A perfect precusor to Avengers and Thor, with a slight nod to Captain America. You cannot go wrong here!

Bizarro L.A.: Two Lebowskis, Coen Bros. do Sci-Fi It's 1991 in Los Angeles, and Time has occurred in two dimensions. A bizarro world has been created, where a wealthy philanthropist named Lebowski is mirrored in a skewed hippie deadbeat version also named Lebowski (The Dude). The Dude exists in a Bizarro Los Angeles where bowling is popular and CCR is too. However, he's about to come face to face with the Big Lebowski! The Dude's world will collide with another world, where L.A. is filled with schemers and criminals who enjoy In-n-Out Burger. The Dude gets caught up in a blackmail/kidnapping plot and is forced to help extort the Big Lebowski on behalf of three German Techo dancers. It is indeed a bizarro L.A., as one can only imagine. The Dude does things very differently in bizarro L.A., like making a White Russian with half and half. The semantics in bizarro L.A. are also skewed: The Dude refers to bowling as golfing, and Nihilists as Nazis. But, in some twisted way, that makes sense in any version of Los Angeles. The Big Lebowski is a film about two dimensions colliding in an epic battle for Los Angeles. It's unbelievable that this isn't widely considered a Sci-Fi Classic.  2.342

will surprise you This DVD is essential.  I honestly shouldn't write more than a paragraph or so here, because to do so would be to either judge or provide facts and/or opinions which could be used to form judgments, and that is exactly what the directors here go to extremes NOT to do in their documentary.  You will not hear a narrator.  You will not hear the interviewers ask questions or provide comments.  You will not hear background music composed for the sole purpose of this documentary.  You WILL hear from a small handful of Norway's "fathers" (for lack of a better term) of black metal, in particularly Varg Vikernes (Burzum), Fenriz (Darkthrone), Faust (Emperor), and Hellhammer (Mayhem).  You WILL hear some music composed by these bands, particularly Darkthrone.  You WILL see original newscasts of the misunderstood acts.  You WILL hear contrasting opinions on topics such as Euronymous's shop, the muder of Euronymous, the purposes behind the church burnings, and Americanization.  Rarely does the public get such a straight-from-the-horses-mouth perspective on subjects that have spawned such controversy.  This is especially true in the case of black metal as you will hear the "fathers'" feelings towards the rise of Satanic black metal that followed the movement in the time of the "fathers."  On a final note, I strongly urge buyers to get the two-disc edition.  With it, you are getting more than TWICE the material on the one-disc version, and to be frank, one who is interested enough in this subject matter can't get enough of it.

Very crazy movie It is a wacky trip into Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory - and one that I enjoy watching!  I anticipate that my fiancee will as well. :-)

Absolutely delightful! I was familiar with the title of this book, but had never read it.  I'm so glad I got the chance to correct that...this is an absolutely delightful story for young and old.  I'm going to save it to read again and again.

AWESOME LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF THIS SERIES. DIDN'T WANT IT TO END. HOPE THEY COME BACK WITH MORE AND NEVER STOP...

Elske McCain is GREAT! Well... About the actress who made Jessicka...I didn't know Elske McCain yet. She's very cute and very good actress as well. She steals the scenes she appears, in fact SHE is the movie!  As a puppy ,she speaks with her eyes, and even makes that dog expression when she is taken to "do her business" in the lawn... She made that exactly serious face dogs make when they are pooping!Fantastic!  Do not forget to watch this movie! This is awesome!

brilliant!! I can't quite recall from where i heard this, but legend has it that Quentin Tarantino decided on John Travolta for Pulp Fiction based on this role. If it's true or not, i like to believe it. This film is one of those rare moments of brilliance in cinema. Forgive the somewhat pretentious nature of my review , but i love this film. I agree that it is similar to a Hitchcock film, as De Palma is often known for, but without some of the same examples like the the annoying cameo. This film is a great thriller. Even though Nancy Allen does sort of do the ditsy blonde role that we've all seen before, there's more of an approachable and welcome innocence about her. You're truly heartbroken when Lithgow's character attacks her. Technically, this film is beautifully shot and who cares if you're overtly aware of it. It's a visual medium and camera movement is a very large aspect of it. Obviously, this film is about sound and even though i'm quite surprised and maybe even a little disappointed that there is no 5.1 mix, it sounds amazing. I bought this years ago on laserdisc and that transfer was atrocious. I rented the dvd and it was just as dismal, so this Criterion Collection version is what I unknowingly have wanted for years. More "lost classics" like this should get the treatment they deserve. For all of who have not seen this and might be a fan of Travolta, see this and add this to the short list of his great perfomances like Pulp Fiction.

The Expendables I sure liked this movie. Plenty of action and good funny spots to cap it off. Makes me look forward to Expendables 2

Best Movie of All Time Watch this movie one time and you'll probably not like it.  Watch it again and you'll think it has a few funny moments.  Watch it about 5 more times and you'll realize you're watching a masterpiece.  This is one of the most deceptively clever, funny, deep and interesting movies ever.  It should not be surprising that it has a huge cult following of die hard Lebowskis.  I don't see a need to give a synopsis as the actions in the movie aren't what is important - they will probably seem disjointed and irrelevant the first time you watch it so try not to pay too much attention to them.  Please, watch this movie at least 3 times before you try to classify it and you'll love it.

Serger DVD Wonderful tool...didn't need to take a class to learn the fine points on how to use my serger.  Best part was being able to go back and watch a section over and over until I mastered the technique.

Humming bird video - love it! I saw this video on PBS TV - what a great video of hummingbirds! I had to have it. One of the best nature videos I've ever seen. So well done... the photography is amazing. The slow motions really show how the birds acheive what they do. Lots of birds included that you don't encounter in USA. And not enough of the ones that are here for my taste. But still belongs in the library of anyone who loves hummers, as I do.

The best of the three. Was mildly entertained by the first two films. The third installment I really enjoyed. It seemed more organized then the first two (or maybe by the third movie I was adjusted to the visuals). Really entertaining.

My Week with Marilyn What a wonderful movie!  It was like stepping into a world with  Marilyn and get to know her and the struggles she had.  The story of course is bittersweet....

Terrific Loved this movie, Ben Affleck is at his best doing his hometown movies. Great love story great twist at the end.Not to be missed.

Awsome Movie I just finished watching this movie and I was very impressed. I was a bit leary  when I read it was similar to Pulp Fiction as I did not really care for that film. I found this movie to be about 100 times better than Pulp Fiction. Sean Patrick Flanery is outstanding as Connor. There was only one bloody brutal scene that I did not care for but that is par for the course in a movie like this. Pleasantly surprised by this movie.

Like the human race, has potential but otherwise disappointing The best part of the film is the credits. This is where you see who is responsible for the real creativity, and who is responsible for all the crap.  The genius of the film lies with the more than a screen full of software engineers and digital artists, so one can speculate that each one of them was given a year and 1$ million to each create one minute of superlative special effects, and given today's technology, would be limited only by their imagination. You cannot fault the software engineers for creating the incredible special effects.  In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if these special effects companies spend all their time creating special effects which they sell to people like Scott Ridley.  So, we all remember the special effects, but we also remember the crap screenplay that still approves of smoking cigarettes by futuristic highly intelligent, highly evolved, trained astronauts who still appear to have a binge drinking ignorant and illiterate view of life better seen in your zombie/vampire movie. A line or two from one of the geologists - i luv rocks, i'm only 'ere for the money. Why doesn't Scott Ridley employ a writer who has the same talent as the computer programmers?  So, what kind of screenplay were we treated to. I can't help thinking it had to be approved by people who believe in God and who have a rather puritanical and prudish view of sex;  The central tenant of the film is somebody other than God created Man. The Hollywood film industry appears to have a problem with this, so it introduces all manner of distractions into the film such as making a big deal of each astronaut's personal egos and aspirations, and will this destroy faith, and of course we can't have that.  For me, there was only one truly upsetting scene and that was the Caesarean operation performed by the patient, and which reminded of when Rambo stitches up his own shoulder using a needle and thread that he carries around with him in the handle of his knife. Next it will be do it yourself heart transplant.

very educational I have just gotten my two boys into the Signing Time videos and they both LOVE them.  They dont even know they are learning!  My boys are 21 months and 5 years old, so I have bought a few of Baby Signing Time and a few of the regular Signing Time.  Each one has its own set of pros and cons but both series have more pros.  If I had to find something wrong with this series it would be that the cost to own the whole set is a lot of money but you get what you pay for, right?

the widest and clearest Mad World yet Okay, most fans know of the butchering of this movie's original camera negative right after its road show debut.  And many know that Robert Harris is ready to completely restore this film if someone will pony up the $1.5 to $2 million cost.  But for now, we are left with the version that most people have grown up with over the past 30 years of home video.  Having owned the original VHS, the extended edition laserdisc and the previous DVD, there is absolutely no question that this blu-ray edition is a mile ahead of them all regarding the quality of the video presentation.  Every rinkle and freckle on Spencer Tracy's face is right there on the screen.  This edition is like looking through a glassless window, it is that clear, especially on exteriors.  The sound is probably as good as it will get without a full blown remix into 5.1.  No new extras, but for $10, I cannot imagine anyone of sound mind complaining too loudly.  Yes it is a travesty that we still do not have the complete restored road show version that even Kraner, in his final years, was hoping to see come together.  My fingers are still crossed, hoping that Robert Harris will receive the funding necessary to complete his work.  And remember, next year is the movie's 50th anniversary!  Until then, this is definitely the version to own.

Holy Batsmoke Batman! Im a big Batman fan and Batman Beyond is a great series. Although Im partial to Bruce Wayan being batman, Terry is a good replacement. If your a batman fan pick'em up.

I love this movie, but it should be in a DVD format. very diasppointed :( It needs to be on dvd format! Every other movie is!!! I love this movie, but it should be in a DVD format. very diasppointed :( It needs to be because EVERY OTHER MOVIE IS EXCEPT THIS ONE!!??!???!!??? VERY SAD!!! :( I HOPE THAT IS COMES OUT ON A DVD FORMAT SOON!!!

Hilarious This is a very funny movie.  Couldn't stop laughing throughout the movie.  Shipped fast and received on date I expected it.  Have watched it several times since receiving it.

foundational problem for many Americans This video is very telling. I sometimes wonder why we pay the FDA salaries. If a dentist is taught in dental school that they can't touch mercury directly or breathe it in preparation of fillings, well how in the world can it make sense that dental patients have their mouths full of it, run hot beverages over it, crush down their foods with it and then if they have the courage to have it removed, they don't have their mouths isolated and noses and eyes covered in the procedure just like the dental professionals do? You have to go to a biological or holistic dentist to get basic safeguards in your removal procedures! What?! Why don't all dentists have to abide by these patient safeguards? I'd have a lot more faith in government if they would deliver on the regulatory safeguards they boast. As it is, it's just shallow promises with little to no protection delivered, much like the pink slime in our kids' school lunches...It's well past time that Americans stopped waiting for other people to watch out for their health. Have a look at "smoking teeth poison gas" on youtube. Not as good as this video but well full of information someone with metal fillings should be aware of.

TNA Lockdown 2011 Review The 8 way Xscape match while lacking in the high-flying action,it was still a pretty good opener. The 4 way-4 team match had solid double team action and pretty good brawling. The Mickie James-Madison Rayne match was super short but super sweet. Both the Pope-Samoa Joe and the Hernandez-Matt Morgan matches were pretty good/decent brawls. The Jeff Jarrett-Kurt Angle-2 out of 3 falls match was a solid,smash-mouth,back-and-forth bout. The RVD-Sting-Mr.Anderson 3 way match for the TNA world title was a hard-hitting,innovative,fast paced brawl. The Lethal Lockdown match between Immortal(Rick Flair,Bully Ray,Matt Hardy & Abyss) and Fortune(Kazarian,Daniels and Beer Money) was a bloody,hardcore,smash-mouth,hard-hitting brawl and once again,a good reminder of both NWA's Wargames from the 1980's and the 1990's ECW. I give this event a 9 out of 10.

Great movie!! Great movie and great service.... I highly recommend this movie to anyone with or without kids. The animation is awesome !!!

Robin Williams for President I love this movie; should be shown before all elections.I would vote for him. The best political movie evet made.

This is a classic 80's movie. Brings back lots of memories. I saw it when I was in high school when it first came out. With the new movie out I wanted to look back at the origional.

The Village Am I reviewing the movie or you service? The movie was great! I'm sure anyone who is thinking of buying it has seen it! Your service was great! just beware of the "PRIME" free delivery scam you have going, People, Prime free delivery is for ones who "KNOW" their going to order "allot" of stuff!

Still Timely I have had this collection for several years. The revelations of phone hacking by News of the World reporters in UK prompted me to watch "Outfoxed" again. Greenwald's expose of the Murdoch Fox News organization was just as relevant in 2011. You will want to share this collection with friends after watching. "Outfoxed" exposes the Murdoch media empire as an extreme right opinion molding network instead of the "fair and balanced" news network it claims to be. Greenwald demonstrates how Murdoch likes to do things on the cheap in his efforts to shape public opinion with talk shows without having reporters in the field. You will want to see other reviews for assessments of the other videos in this set.

A beautiful film that will stay with you A bittersweet story about love, loss and healing. Irene Dunne and Cary Grant are superb. Worth watching no mattter what condition the DVD is in. The streaming online version isn't great either, but does not detract from the depth of acting and the ability to sweep you right in. I heartily recommend it.

A smart and refreshing horror movie worth geeking out about. We saw this in the theatres, we went in not knowing anything about the movie, only hearing great reviews from our friends. If you are a lover of Evil Dead, Cthulu, Firefly, and Dungeons and Dragons this is the perfect movie for you. The writing is smart, and it takes all the elements you loved from horror movies when you were a kid and applies enough wit and snark for any adult to enjoy. It's gory and geeky and I can't wait to see it again.

This Series is Excellent! I bought the entire series of the Avatar, The Last Airbender TV series.  I think they are very good.  If you haven't seen this series, I'd recommend seeing it.

A "Darker" Dark Shadows After the success of the ABC's daytime soap Dark Shadows, the creator Dan Curtis directed a darker version from the script written by Sam Hall and Gordon Russell and produced by MGM back in 1970. The script was based on the popular Barnabas storyline and starred the original cast such as Jonathan Frid, Grayson Hall, Kathryn Leigh Scott, David Henesy, and Roger Davis. The movie was shot in six weeks with a budget of $750,000, which is now considered a low-budget.    The movie uses an altered version of the Barnabas plot. The recently fired handyman Willie Loomis visit's the Collins' family Old House in an attempt to steal rare jewels, but instead he unleashes the vampire cursed Barnabas from his 150-year confinement. Using his vampire powers, Barnabas makes Willie his slave. Barnabas wastes no time and introduces his self to the Collins family as a cousin to England.    Barnabas meets the young governess, Maggie Evans, who looks exactly like his lost-love Josette. While during this time, Barnabas turns Carolyn, whom is later staked by Professor T. Eliot Stokes.    The family doctor, Julia Hoffman, examines the blood of the victims and, for some unknown reason, knows that vampirism is behind the deaths. She soon realizes that Barnabas is a vampire and she offers to cure him. Barnabas accepts the offer. For a short time he is cured and begins to romance Maggie Evans.    Julia falls for Barnabas and becomes jealous of Maggie, resulting in Barnabas being given an overdose of the cure, which shows his true age to Maggie. With his true identity exposed, Barnabas must kill the entire Collins family and anyone else that becomes between Maggie and him.    House of Dark Shadows is an edgier, bloodier version of the campy daytime soap, and, in my opinion, one of the creepiest vampire movies every made. The sets have a more gothic vibe than the series did. Sadly, the movie has never been released on DVD, but rumor has it that it'll be released by Warner Bros. later in 2012. For those of you that can't wait, there is an older version on VHS which you can sometimes find on Ebay or Amazon.com for sale. Occasionally, TCM and Chiller air House of Dark Shadows, along with the sequel Night of Dark Shadows.

Great fun, exciting, and a little funny too. Great for Holloween!! Tempest has managed to create a zombie movie with excitement, heart, and humor. This fast paced adventure has a good story, solid writing, and vibrant acting. I strongly recommend this film to my friends and suggest it will be extra wonderful for Halloween. I also want to see Tempest grow and succeed to keep more work like this coming.

outstanding It was an excellent cast and Sam Jaffe always did a superb job in whatever roll he was cast in. The other actors were certainly portraying the "formula" for the time period.

Diamond in the rough This is one of those masterpiece films that for some reason never ever got the recognition it deserved. The story is well told and the characters are very easy to relate to. The Iron Giant isn't just an animation for kids. As an adult I STILL appreciate this film for what it is.

BRAVO ROGER CORMAN & RON HOWARD ! HERE IS THE RON HOWARD'S SECOND MOVIE... WITH MANY AUTOMOBILE(AUTOMOTIVE) PURSUITS... BOTH MOVIES ME MADE DIVE BACK IN THE GOOD MOMENT OF A CINEMA WHICH I KNEW IN MY YOUTH OR WE PRESENTED 4 MOVIES FOR 0.99 hundred TO EVERY END OF THE WEEK, THE CINEMA ITS NAME WAS "CINEMA CHOMEDEY".  ( VOICI LE DEUXI&Egrave;ME FILM DE RON HOWARD ... AVEC BEAUCOUP DE POURSUITES AUTOMOBILES ... LES DEUX FILMS ME FAIT REPLONGER DANS LE BON MOMENT D'UN CIN&Eacute;MA QUE J'AI CONNU DANS MA JEUNESSE OU ON PR&Eacute;SENTAIT 4 FILMS POUR 0.99 CENTS &Agrave; CHAQUE FIN DE SEMAINES , LE CIN&Eacute;MA SON NOM &Eacute;TAIT " CIN&Eacute;MA CHOMEDEY " . )

Indeed, one of God's prophets. Like all the greats that come on earth to help uplift mankind, they do not stay long.  By the age of 36, the spirit of Bob Marley had healed many people, and will continue to do so for centuries to come.  Is this not a prophet, is this not a call to higher ground for us all?  Go ahead and wish us all well that we live, inspire and love like Bob Marley.  If you feel His Presence, you will shed tears.

geeat classic This movie is for those who love comedy and an alternate reality of the present. A psychopathic general and the possible end of mankind. Peter sellers plays several persons in this great dark humor war story.

Excellent Movie but the Audio I don't like it. Whats up with this good movies that comes with English and FRENCH!!!! Audio. Seriously taking the movie a side because its really good tearerked movie i will give them a 4 stars out of 5. But still we live in United States of America and our primary language is obviously English but "Spanish" is our second. I mean who in the damn american county or continent speak French. Its obviously that not more than Spanish speaking. I wanted this more my mom but it came not Spanish, wow that is discriminated i mean Spanish should be the absolutely audio for movies in America don't you think.

Good Find! This is a must watch! love it! Kinda sad but in a good way! Rease Etzler is sexy!!! I could feel the emotion of each character! Hope this becomes a full length feature one day!

likes wholesome nice to see a family oriented show with wholesome people for  change.  always enjoy Tom Selleck.  Great cast. hope there are more seasons coming.

Movie is similar to the classic book "To Kill A Mockingbird" is one of the best American literature and movie ever made.  It is an outlier.  A rare gem that occured at the author's (Harper Lee) only published book.  The DVD is just a entertaining and engaging as the book.  If I were to understand this literature, I would read the book and then watch this classic DVD.  It was voted as one of the best films (by the American Film Institute) ever made.  For anyone wanting to keep copies of classic movies, it is a must to have this movie, "To Kill A Mockingbird", as part of your collection.  JR Felisilda Author of the book, "Nanay: Lessons From a Mother"

purple Thanks for posting this quickly and efficiently. Now I can get my copy off my mum and give her this one.

TMC Greatest Classic Films Collection The DVDs arrived on time and in excellent condition -- nice to watch some of the old classic scifi movies. Will undoubtedly order others. Very pleased.

The Twilight Saga: New Moon Two-Disc DVD Gift Set with Charm Necklace and Bonus Features I received the item very quickly & it was free shipping with $25 order.  I ordered this with the other twilight movies so I could watch them before I went to see the new movie "Breaking Dawn" that came out in Nov.  I didn't like this part of the movie but you should watch all of them before you see the latest.  Never was into the Twilight stuff but I can say it actually kind of sunk it's teeth in me.  I am hooked!  I absolutely love the series so far.  Cannot wait for Breaking Dawn pt. 2.

Dr Strangelove: or How I Learned To Love This Movie. What a great addition to my film library. Exceptional script & excellent acting. Might be the best black comedy ever. With classic lines like "no fighting in the war room" & "you'll have to answer to the Coca Cola Company" and many others, this film is memorable & it's held up through the years. It's always fun showing this to the younger folks who have never seen it. This anniversary edition includes some cool extras: interviews with reporter Bob Woodward (Watergate) & director Spike Lee offers unique perspectives & insights into this phenomenal piece of work. Also, never seen before footage of the late great Peter Sellers & a cool little booklet containing even more inside info. Thank you Amazon!!!! Very cool.

Stars shine bright~ I didn't see the original, but this remake is just as wonderful as it was when it was released when I was in High School.  The music is beautiful and beautifully performed.  I was so excited to find it.  Thank you!

It's Top Gun! Dur!  Of coarse it's 5 stars!  It's not exactly the same video quality as more modern movies, but Blu-ray isn't a magic wand.  The audio is awesome, though...  I feel bad for my neighbors!

Funniest and smartest show on network TV in a long time I hope it's given another chance to come back and gain the support of millions of viewers like me. I am just a regular guy but even the guys on my soccer team enjoyed being able to watch this show with their WAG's. KC is too funny. Love J Aspen and would love to crisp her bacon

Great movie Really like this movie, looks great on blu-ray. Highly recommend Really like this movie, looks great on blu-ray. Highly recommend!

Best Show on TV! A TV show has to be excellent for me to NEVER miss an episode and then, after the season, BUY the DVD set, which I have done with all SOA DVD's. The acting, the writing, the production value, the character developement, EVERYTHING about this show is top notch. I am SOOOOO looking forward to the new season!

Bought DVD box set for my son I ordered this DVD box set for my son and I received it promptly.  I had no problems and everything was as described.  I would definitely order from this seller again.  Great product and prompt delivery.  No problems at all.

EXCELLENT MOVIE!!! BEST MOVIE EVER!!! RECOMMENDED FOR ALL!!! VERY ENTERTAINING, FUNNY AND ALL AROUND FUN!!! 10/10 FROM ME AND A MUST FOR ALL CARTOON FANS!!!

A classic This is one of my favorite movies and I was so happy to find it on here for sale. It not only has the dvd but also special features! The movie quality is great for the date of production. Would definitely recommend this movie!

Gota love Fringe How can you not like this show.  Not only is Anna Torv amazingly hot, the show is about imaginative as they come, I rate it with X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Munsters "what a gas" Another birthday gift for my husband. He loves the drag race one best! Great DVD's Great gift! Thanks for having such a great selection.

fast 5 this was absolutly the best best besst of the series!!!!!! there was so much action n this i wanted to cry. and the ending jst blew my mind open. jst wooww!!!!! cant wait 2 c how they gonna top that n fast 6.

Departed  DVD It is  from the files  of the whitey  Irish gangs  boston Waring a lot of  adult killing etc Otheerwise  true to art

The Kern County Witchhunts This movie is based on the real-life case of Brenda and Scott Kniffen who were arrested and taken from their home and charged with child molestation even though the authorities had no evidence whatsoever to support the charges. The Kniffen's two sons, Brandon and Brian, were removed from the home and placed in protective custody. Over a period of weeks the boys were constantly badgered and coerced into giving false testimony in the belief that they would be allowed to go home to their parents if they said the "right" things. The Kern County authorities committed outrageous abuses of power against innocent citizens and sent them to prison for crimes they didn't commit. This era was known by some as the "child sex wars" of the 1980s. Some called it "witch hunts." I lived in California for 20 years, including the decade of the 1980s, so I am more than a little familiar with all that went on. Sadly, as we can see in this movie, the only abuse these children received was from the very system that was meant to protect them. And the scary thing is that something like this could have happened to anybody. You didn't have to be guilty of a crime to be sent to prison. If the District Attorney's office wanted you in prison, then you would go to prison. And they would abuse your children while you were locked away. And it was pointed out at the end of this film that many victims of these "witch hunts" are still in prison because they have no way to prove their innocence. Please note that this movie was made in 2001. We usually associate these kinds of things with more primative, third-world countries, or with countries ruled by tyrannical dictators. We don't want to believe that things like this can happen in the United States of America. But sadly, my friends, these things do happen here. Dozens of people in this country have been executed for crimes they did not commit, and then were later found to be innocent. How do you bring someone back to life when you discover that they were unjustly put to death. If this film makes you think about our justice system and see it as an imperfect entity, then something good has come from the suffering of those who were abused by the system. You might ask if we can ever have a perfect justice system. Unfortunately, the answer is "no." But we can strive to make our system the best it can be. And movies like this one can help us to understand where we are going wrong. We can learn from our mistakes. Please watch this movie. It is a difficult movie to watch. You will be sad and angry and outraged and bewildered by all you see. But watch it anyway because it is worth the effort in order to gain insight into how to make our society a better place. I know this is a rather long review, but I hope it has been a help to some of you out there. And I hope this movie will open your mind as much as it did mine. Let us hope that we will learn from our history so that we will not be doomed to repeat it.

Blown away!!! Thought provoking, exceptional film, especially given the times we live in.  It gives me goosebumps just to think about it.  Everyone must see it!

It shines on Much has been made of author Stephen King's dissatisfaction with Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of his third novel, "The Shining." In fact, far TOO much has been made of it. True, the book and movie are significantly different, but one wonders what King was expecting. Kubrick was one of the most independent, individualistic of filmmakers; whatever he did, he put his stamp on it. If King thought Kubrick was going to treat "The Shining" any more reverently than any of the director's previous source material, he was sadly mistaken.  King's main objection to the film is his belief that Jack Nicholson played Jack Torrance, the lead character in both book and movie, as crazy from the beginning, whereas in the novel, the presumably haunted Overlook Hotel causes Torrance to go gradually insane (in both cases, Jack's alcoholism also seems to be a factor). First of all, King is exaggerating. Yes, the movie does suggest Jack is mentally disturbed before he ever arrives at the Overlook. But the film is yet dynamic concerning this element; whatever is "wrong" with Jack, the Overlook amplifies it drastically. Second, I believe King's opinion was colored by the role Nicholson had played in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," insisting that the audience would identify Jack Torrance with Randall Patrick McMurphy. The truth is, though, that Nicholson made four other films in the five years separating "Shining" and "Cuckoo's Nest."  Apparently, this all bothered King so much that he couldn't resist the opportunity to remake "The Shining"; it appeared in 1997 as a three-part TV miniseries based on King's own screenplay. I can describe that effort in one word: Forgettable.  And Kubrick's "The Shining" is anything but forgettable. In fact, I think it stands as one of the great horror movies of the 1970s and early 1980s, a very fertile time for the genre.  There are images in this film that will haunt me forever. Who can forget Danny, the Torrances' son, riding his Big Wheel down those long, carpeted halls? Or the way the Steadicam followed him? Also memorable: A long, long closeup of nothing more than Nicholson's face, lingering on him as his Jack Torrance begins to come completely unglued. And of course there's the scene in which Jack, trying to get to his wife, Wendy, bashes his way through the bathroom door with an ax. And the two little ghost girls who torment Danny. And the young/old woman in the bathtub. And ...  And on and on, really; "The Shining" has so many iconic moments that it's almost inevitable that those who discuss the film will leave out something important. (I've deliberately left out one of the most infamous visuals in the film; feel free to comment on my review if you can fill in the blank.)  I think "The Shining" is a great film. Perhaps King is just too close to this particular novel to see it objectively; it is one of his most personal books, given that he struggled with his own substance abuse, as does Jack Torrance. Whether "The Shining" "scares" you or not depends on personal taste; those who love ultraviolent slasher flicks probably aren't going to be impressed. As for me, even though I have viewed the film many times, it always gives me a fright and a thrill.

Dead Snow Review I have a thing for foreign horror movies, I admit it. I get so disgusted by the lack of true horror and originality of the American films, that I actively search out foreign films. I have seen many very entertaining movies as a result and would like to pass on my reviews of them so that more people may enjoy and appreciate them. Once such gem is Dead Snow. This is a Norwegian zombie horror/comedy film that was released in 2009. Zombies, you say? Zombies have been done to death, right? Wrong! The genius of this movie is that it combines zombies and Nazis.  The film starts out with a group of young folks arriving at a cabin near Oksfjord for some fun and relaxation. Right away, they realize that one of their number, Sarah, is missing and not yet at the cabin as arranged. The group decides to continue on to the cabin and wait for her to show up. Later that night a strange old man shows up and tells them a very odd local story involving an invasion of World War II Nazis and stolen gold. He goes on to say that the locals formed an uprising and killed many of the Nazis, while others, including the leader, Herzog froze to death somewhere in the mountains.  The next morning, Sara's boyfriend Vegard decides to take the snowmobile and go look for Sara. Instead he finds a tent with the mutilated body of the old man. What follows is a horror/comedy delight of zombie Nazis, chainsaws, axes, and murder with a deadly snowmobile. This film is the closest thing I have seen to Evil Dead. It's at times gory, entertaining and even has some funny American pop culture references.  I loved this movie and would recommend it to anyone that likes movies such as Evil Dead, Dead and Breakfast, Dead Alive, Night of the Demons, Cabin Fever and Slither. Dead Snow is subtitled but don't let that scare you. If you are reading this, then you can surely watch this movie and read the subtitles!

"Do Começo ao Fim" (From Begining to End) unites two brothers beyond boundaries Even though the subject matter may repel some, as the film begins, "From Begining to end" immediately immerses the viewer into the family life of brothers Thomas and Francisco. This Brazilian import is fearless and daring in many ways as its touches on some very taboo subject matters. It slowly creeps up to you, but once this drama sees the boys as grown men, it takes a very nostalgic mood. There is a very haunting aspect to this film that will leave you lulled and wanting more. There is also a certain amount of sadness eminent from the fantastic performances from Rafael Cardoso and João Gabriel Vasconcellos. Both these men light up the screen, and their chemistry was incendiary with a very fierce dynamic relationship that takes twists and turns in many directions but ultimately leaves you yearning for what was once between them. The film is pretty much about life changes and how some of the best times are hard to let go as mere memories. Both brothers, in their own way, must deal with life's changes and its unexpectedness. Very poetic and always eloquent in its storytelling, dealing with such difficult subject matter was flawlessly handled sensitively in the very capable hands of Aluisio Abranches. Brazil should be proud to have this film. It represents very well the beautiful people of Brazil, their culture and it give you great insight of a culture that is filled with traditions as well as strong family and community ties.  As the movie beautifully unfolds, we explore and observe a relationships and how difficult it can be to let go of the tie that binds

One of Clint's best This is a terror movie, but is a very engaging story of how things can get out of hand - fast - a must see for Clint Eastwood fans!  It captures the 60s feel, and the California sea-side ambiance is very seductive.  An interesting story and well drawn characters make this movie fast moving and fun.  Yes, the trailer is very corny, but the movie itself is very engrossing, nail-biting and entertaining - one of Clint's best.

Mr. Lawrence Product arrive in excellent condition and right on time. Great movie and would highly recommend. Fairly accurate depiction of the Japanese interment camps during WW II. Japanese are very traditional and honor bond people, we should take lesson from them.

awesome i first saw this dvd as a japanese production ...since then  it has been  reproduced  by Gonzo , in the uk...i have a copy of the basic concert disc. a live show filmed in california on the 1991 union tour ...has many favorites, plus some outstanding solo work by  rabin, howe, squire...it is a complete live show , sound and video are great ...gonzo multimedia also offers a deluxe package with more stuff ...a must have for a yes fan ...

Madonna's Evita Excellent DVD and well worth the money.  Just don't expect a history lesson as there is much much more to the story, but this is a well done entertainment video.  Many other stars besides Madonna such as Antonio Banderas. The segments _The Lady has Potential_ and _A New Argentina_ are not as well known as _Don't Cry For Me Argentina_  should be more widely known.

this is really it Michael Jackson shows in this great movie that he is the most professional, loving, the most emotional, kindest populer music artist of the century. Whatever he does is magic. Even he stands on the scene and does nothing you can watch him forever. He is the grace and he is the "music" himself like the music is under his skin. And he gave this music as the most beautiful present for all the people in the world.

Great old Classic This movie never dies.Every year this movie is shown on the TV but I prefer to have my own.Chevy Chase and Randy Quaid bring out the best in this old classic that NEVER DIES.It still makes me laugh.My family still watches this one every Christmas and still laugh.Movies like this are just not made now days.

What an actor needs to see I love this dvd, acting is an art. The dvd gave me a valuable insight for acting on stage. Emotional, unemotional, the highs, the lows, what an actor does to create the character, what the actor does to fill the role. The dvd has me signing up for acting classes

Short Circuit Short Circuit is a fun and entertaining movie. It's great for kids of all ages (even old ones like me).

Nanny McPhee Returns I have a six year old. When he watched this movie he did not move.(very unusual) The best part is he laughed and laughed. Who could give this a bad review?

el norte this movie was awesome. it wasnt as modern but it had great actors. It shows how hard life is and how we shouldnt take it for granted!!!

Totally Awesome I purchased this trilogy pack for my grandson who is four years old, only to find that I his grandmother, 58 years old, watch it more then he does. Highly recommend for kids and all ages, clean, fun, continual excitement. No x words, voted number one on my list. Great Christmas gift for the holidays also.

Wonderful! As a fan of all the Twilight books, I have to say that they couldn't have done a better job casting for this movie. It is so disappointing when you read a book and have a picture in your mind of how the characters look/act, how the town looks/feels, etc - only to find that once it becomes a movie that it is nowhere NEAR what you had pictured. But "TWILIGHT" is PERFECT! Robert, Taylor & Kristen bring to life the book as I read it . . . and its wonderful to see! Great performances. Have watched this movie many times and enjoy it more each time. Highly recommended!

Close Encounters DVD Great movie & a bargain priced DVD. Seller has quality DVD's. responds & ships very quickly. I couldn't be happier.

Not Perfect, Just Great This movie is a rarity even among films marketed for "families" today -- it actually IS for family viewing.  You can watch it with your ten year old or even your five year old and not find yourself needing to explain anything related to sex, drugs, or violence.  It is not a perfect movie . . . certain scenes feel a bit rushed and could have used a bit more editing . . . but every single member of my family (including me, a 48 year old male) teared up at least once and have talked about the film constantly.  One of the best films of this type in recent memory!

A movie to remember I liked the songs by Mandy uploaded in YouTube, which led me to buy the movie. When I ordered it, my expectation was not too high, believing that it is another Love Story retold.  I was very wrong. I have already watched it more than five times, each time, reliving the memories of my high school days almost half a century ago.  No doubt that this is a MOVIE to Remember, not just a Walk to Remember

Dave Such a funny movie! Have watched it many times before buying. Let a friend named Dave watch the movie and he loved it! A great flick!

True classic! I love love love this movie. My whole family watches this on a consistent basis. I am shocked when people tell me they have never seen it. This movie takes you back to a time when the holiday season was about family, faith and presents not like today where you don't want to offend anyone by saying Merry Christmas. This movie is a classic of all time! I love Ralphie!! I don't know how some of the actors got through some of the scenes without laughing. The father is hilarious and I love the mother who hasn't had a hot meal in years. I totally understand as a mom myself.

george harrison. living in the material world. love this dvd. aalways waned to know more about this beatle, but could not find much material. recommend this to others who enjoy the beatles

I always thought it would be better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody! Tom Ripley (Matt Damon) is barely getting by living in New York city.  But he is talented, very talented.  He is a liar, thief, forger, murderer, impersonator, and embezzler.  Other than that he is a nice guy.  He plays piano at a party replacing a man who actually has a broken arm and he wears the man's Princeton jacket. He connives his way into a wealthy family by pretending to know the son of a rich shipbuilder.  He accepts money to travel to Europe and bring him back to stay in America. Dickie (Jude Law) tells Tom Ripley that he will never go back to New York and wild horses couldn't drag him back.  He is in a constant effort to keep is game playing going as he likes the lifestyle he is living for free.  He finds himself attracted to the man he is supposed to bring home and after a fight ensues about Tom leaving, he murders Dickie in a rage...  This is a deep psychological thriller that is a very good movie.  The acting is outstanding and I enjoyed the movie from beginning to end.  The cast is first class and the movie direction by Anthony Minghella is tightly done and it keeps the movie on a fast pace as you go through the good life in Europe to the despair and fear Tom of being caught.  This is an excellent movie and I recommend it to you!

GREAT STORY Not disappointed with this western. In fact, I am thinking of buying all the DVDs in this Lonesome Dove series. It is realistic, the acting is great and it provides entertainment that doesn't grow old.

Overlooked Disney Gem This movie never got the attention the princessy movies did, but not everyone always wants a princessy movie. Helen Reddy's singing was great, and it was one of Mickey Rooney's funniest films. The boy in the story who makes friends with a dragon is quite adorable. It's not technically as good as the much later non-Disney How to Tame Your Dragon, but I'd be willing to bet it inspired it. I would put it up against a lot of the later Disney films. It definitely beats some of the terrible sequels they did, like Bambi II and Jungle Book II.

comic book made into the best 90's movie tarantino made the best 90's movie with this film that has many characters from a comic book, it is very funny with a real sense of humor not like the lame comedies. this movies is great in so many levels, it's just plain incredible excellent. one of the best of all time, yes there's is no comic book about pulp fiction but the feel is the same.

Top Drawer This is a great example of Mr. 20/20's ability to take a complex topic and make it accessible.  I was able to put my friend in a trace within minutes after watching this.  This is also one of those videos where the more you watch it, the more nuances you will pick up.

The Back-up plan is the best movie The Back-up Plan was a romantic comedy that everyone will enjoy trust me I watched 1 million times and can't get enough of it and will nevr get enough of it! Trust me you will LOVE it as much as i do!

This just made her day! My little girl wanted this so bad, and was hoping the easter bunny would bring it to her, well he delivered and just put a huge smile on her face!  I love the fact that this DVD new on amazon was cheaper then at the store and I got free shipping! :) It was packaged nicely and arrived I believe a day or to before expected! I was very satisfied with the whole process definitely will order again! :)

So far so good This movie is even better than the first one! I just loved how they re-matched everything to make a better sequel, and they didn't recycled all the stuff like so many other sequels. I loved the plot (in my opinion, more original than the one from Scream 1) and Neve's performance was amazing as usual. I recommend this movie to the Scream lovers, you won't regret.

Giant This movie is amazing. An epic movie about the best country. For anyone who loves Texas this is the movie to watch.

TO KILL MOCKINGBIRD  DVD The DVD arrived very fast in spite of my ordering late in the day before. The DVD played very well and I got an excellent price.I am very well pleased with my AMAZON order!

DVD release! Does anyone know of a planned dvd release of this movie in NTSC, all region or region format? Please let me know if you should hear anything! Thanx!

VCR tape My granddaughter loves Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.  She has gone thought a lot of the  DVD's.  they get scratched  pretty easy or just break.  She has had the  tape a lot  longer than any of the DVD's she has gone through.

Bronson fan all the way! Charles Bronson was one of the top classic tough guys when it came to action movies. When paired up with the legendary mob style actor Al Lettieri this movie was destined to be one of Bronson's hit movies. Some of my favorite parts of Mr. Majestyk is the Ford truck scenes. I remember as a kid in the 70's the Ford truck commercials spot lighting the truck stunts on this movie explaining this was an actual stock Ford truck suspension, unbelievable but true!

Q is for qrazy!! if you cannot handle visitor Q then you really should leave takashi miike' alone! this director is too unique to be judged. when approaching any tokyo shock film or anything miike do expect to have your morality and senses blasted and destroyed!!! DO NOT EXPECT CONTEMPORARY! KEEP YOU MIND OPENED TO BLANK(NO EXPECTATIONS) and you won't be disappointed. i really love this film & fudo:the new generation,ichi the killer blood-pack directors cut,izo,gozu(twilight zone done psychologically morbid),tokyo gore police,machine girl,and audition. even eli roths film hostel II directors cut is/was inspired by takashi miike' ichi the killer. to be a real horror/gore/shock-value/shock cinema fan you have got to let your guard down!! fear nothing!! their are only three directors in american horror i do trust. adam green,ryan nickolson,and rob zombie. all these guys are from the euro-school of horror/gore. even rob zombies first band white zombie first album is/was called make them die slowly, and the name of an umberto lenzi film(known in the us as cannibal ferox). freddy,jason,pinhead and the first chucky film are fun live action adult cartoons with blood in them and aimed at teens. but i love my horror to be the kind only adults watch in a locked room/lights out, with some adult refreshments and forbidden fruits all night long until the dawn breaks.

good workout This is a really good long workout. Leslie has small high impact intervals  which you may modify if you need to do so) that really get the heart rate up.  You'll be surprised how quickly you'll move from doing 1-2 mile workouts to the 5 mile.  You really only need this dvd to get started because you can start at one mile and walk through the short interval jog until you work up to it.  So it's great for working out on a budget, you don't need a gym membership or special clothes or a treadmill or a kit with 8 dvds.  Leslie is really chipper so if you're like me and hate to work out, that can be annoying, that being said she can also be very encouraging.  This dvd is actually slightly easier that the 4mile which actually has more intervals.  All of Leslie's videos are great for those of use who aren't dancers, heck knowing you're left from right isn't even required, lol!  Hope this helps.

DARK SKY VERSION!!! I almost did not buy this movie because some of the reviewers ranted about the improper aspect ratio resulting in missing heads and badly framed compositions...Sorry, but I thought the image looked great, better than to be expected for a 50 year old Italian vampire movie of such a low budget. The b&w photography was crisp and clear and the estate and sets appeared wonderfully gothic and romantic. Walter Brandi could have been playing Lord Byron having one hell of a tragic nightmare! I won't go into story detail as I never really like to tell too much to anyone who may want to watch this film; only to reassure you that the DARK SKY print is exceptional and the overall viewing experience was enjoyable. Dieter Eppler made the most of his vampire presence, and Graziella Granata is one of the most beautiful, sexually alluring women to ever appear in a vampire film. Aldo Piga's score was very effective, haunting and romantic and hopefully will one day be available on cd.  I also purchased the RETROMEDIA version as well. I figured that since I wasn't going to purchase either, I'd just go ahead with it and get both for comparison. The RETROMEDIA version is just awful compared to DARK SKY's. It looks like something ALPHA VIDEO would have put out for around 5 bucks. So if you're considering purchasing a copy of this film then please, go with the DARK SKY dvd. It's a great buy for this enjoyable vampire film.

To heck with the nay-sayers, this movie kicks major BUTT! "I'm running this monkey farm, Frankenstein!" I love Day. I think it's a blast. Everyone blasts it as terribly inferior to Dawn of the Dead. Well, I think Dawn was better as well but it's a bit of an apples and oranges situation. Day of the Dead is in a more claustrophobic setting, much akin to John Carpenter's "The Thing." It's gloomy, full of insanity, and gory.  What bugs me about people who rip on this movie is that they miss the whole point of Romero's trilogy---THE HUMANITY. The zombies are not the focal point, the humans are. And just like in Night of the Living Dead, the humans are each other's own worst enemies, more dangerous than the zombies!  Lori Cardille, IMO, is mesmerizing, very believable, strong, and a deeply caring, sympathetic character in this movie.  Joe Pilato, playing Rhodes, ia the most a-holish turd egomaniac loon you've ever seen on a major power trip! I've worked for people like Rhodes! LOL....Pilato overacts like crazy but oddly enough it's part of the charm of the character of Rhodes.  I adored the soundtrack of this movie. It's amazing!  But then again, Dawn had a total kick-butt soundtrack as well!  I love the special Divimax edition of this DVD with the behind the scenes footage, the interviews, the insights, and Savini!  Savini is a master. In an age of B.S. CGI nonsense, it's refreshing to back and watch a master at work!  It's not a perfect movie but God it's close!  If you haven't seen Day of the Dead, see it. Pure and simple...see it. It's a trip!  "I'm runnin' this monkey farm now, Frankenstein!"

Excellent movie Really great movie.  It was so moving and sad at the end because Hachi really missed his master.  I really loved it and have watched it twice.  The length of the movie was just right.  I would recommend anyone to watch it.  I love animal movies anyway.

Still Good Not quite as good as I remember the original as a kid, but still a darn good film in its own right. Soundtrack is retro, classic, and yet so timeless at the same time. I must say that I was genuinely surprised by how well the film actually stood up. It still is fun to watch even as an adult. While it still has some "stupid" childish middle school kind of things to it the film just works as a whole.

Better than Shogun! Remember that boring long mini series back in 1982 called Shogun?! Well... this movie is like that but better and shorter version; less than three hours! It's only 154 minutes long to be exact! Anyway, Tom Cruise delivers his finest performance as an ex-civil war hero who is hired to go to Japan and train the modern army against the samurais. However, during the first losing battle, he was captured and held as a prisoner at the camp filled with trained samurais. Then he falls in love with a wife of the slained warrior he killed during the first war in Japan. While he is living in the village as a "slave"; he learns the culture of the samurai people. Then he learns how to fight like them as well. After he is released and returned back to the then modern day Tokyo, he isn't welcomed among friends because he wears the samurai clothes instead of civilian clothes of the 1860's. Then Samurai General is kidnapped and thrown in the dungeon. Tom rescues him from prison  and escapes back to the village. They prepares for the war the following week. The final battle scene is amazing how sword bound samurais fighting rifle shooting Japanese army. And I will not tell you about the ending because you must buy this DVD! It's superb!

Greed, God, and Michael Moore Like all Michael Moore documentaries, this film is well-researched, and full of clever montages and voice overs. The only criticism I could make of any of his films is that his documentaries are driven by an agenda rather than attempting to cover an issue completely and dispassionately, as has historically been the goal for many documentaries. I won't make it, though, because he has never promised to do this. He's an original, and his passion for his beliefs drives the film. I found his argument compelling, and I especially enjoyed his take on the disconnect between capitalism and Christianity. This should be food for thought for anti-Moore conservatives, who generally equate capitalism and Christianity as bedrocks of The American Way without apparent thought to the disconnects between the two. It won't though, because Moore is so polarizing that his films are discounted by those who could get the most out of them. Too bad.

One of my favorites Everyone has a few movies that they don't mind watching again and again.... this is one of mine. I've been a big Michael Keaton fan all my  life and also enjoyed him in "Mr. Mom" and "The Paper". Have you every thought... "if only I had some more time I would..."? Well this movie starts with that idea and takes off on a hilarious, slap stick and fun filled ride. I love  to watch Andy McDowell (va,va,va, voom) but she didn't excite me in this one. Buy, Netflix or rent this one. You won't regret it.

Apocalypse Now (Three-Disc Full Disclosure Edition) review I don't know why other reviewers say that this product doesn't provide the original format but with the edition that I received (Apocalypse Now (Three-Disc Full Disclosure Edition) (Apocalypse Now / Apocalypse Now Redux / Hearts of Darkness) [Blu-ray]) I definitely did. I bought the full dossier version about 5 years ago and hoped for 2 years that this will come out on blu ray. I purchased my player for a movie like this one, it's well worth it. The sound quality is unbelievable, the scenery is like looking at beautiful photographs and the movie itself is one of the best ever made. Over all if you own a blu ray player, this is a must have.  I have not yet watched "the heart of darkness" which comes with this pack but honestly I didn't get this bundle for anything other than the movie in HD with original theatre formatting.

A lovely, meaningful film This is far from the usual simple Christmas fare, much heartier and warmer, with good acting (I hardly recognized Edward Hermann!), a realistic plot (especially in today's hard times), and many wonderful laughs to be enjoyed.  I went right to Amazon to buy a copy for my family. Don't miss this one; it's going to be a Christmas classic.

A classic must see Finally, decades after its release, I downloaded this classic on my Kindle Fire and watched it. It has lessons to teach, guidelines to embrace, and role modeling to strongly consider following. Should have seen it years ago, as the quality of this film's leadership certainly brings with it conservatism at its finest.

I love it This is one of my favourite films, I've seen it over and over again and consider it a must seen in every school, unfortunately for me I've met a teacher like this only one time in my school life and for only a year.

The best Cindy is one of the best in the business. She encorages. And motivates I will be ording more of he workouts since they no longer have excercise tv in our area.  If you want great abs get this video I dare you to do the deadly 7!

great movie this movie kept you guessing as to whether the lawyer was good or bad. Loved Trace Adkins as a motorcycle gang member. He makes it believable. Can't wait to watch it again.

Really good series Really funny and well made - makes fun of both Jews and Arabs in the state of Israel and exposes the complexity and difficulties facing Palestinians who are also citizens of Israel.

Blu Ray Logan's Run Received this DVD very quickly. Brand new. Logan's Run. First saw this movie way back when! The blu Ray quality was fine.

Awesome Classic This is one of those movies that just doesn't get old.  It's great decade after decade.  Molly Ringwald is great, and this movie is so fun to watch!

Always been a fan of horror, but I can't believe it's been this long to watch it. Excellent package for a person who's new to these films. I watched them all, and they were great! Definitely looking forward to the second package coming out this fall!

Awesome This movie is confusing but oh so intrestion. I really love it and recomend it to everyone. One of my favorites

great clarity i had to watch a movie that dealt with psychological problems for my abnormal psych class and renting unfortunately wasnt an option. But when i found that i could rent movies on amazon i was so excited. i downloaded it on my computer and was so excited to see how clear the movie was. i was afraid it would be fuzzy but thrilled when i found that it wasnt! thanks amazon!

80's Movies :-) i love the 80's movies, they don't make movies like these anymore so I figured why not collect the ones I grew up watching, my collection is growing. Jon Cryer was awesome in this..love him!!

AC/DC Let there be Rock DVD It was great having this out on DVD at last. The only thing wrong with this is the sound. It doesn't sound the best. But not complaining just thankful it is out on dvd.

Wickedly Twisted! Now this is a movie I truly enjoyed! I found it to be very original, somewhat disturbing but kept my interest every step of the way! If you're looking for something different with great performances and like a little surprise twist, then this movie is for you!

We Were Soldiers (Widescreen Edition) I was happy with the Widescreen Edition. It wasn't quite clear to me the difference between the regular version and the Widescreen Edition when I was ordering so I took a chance on the Widescreen and liked my choice.

Awesome! One of my favorite Sci Fi movies in stunning video! The loss less PCM audio track is superb!You won't be disappointed.

one of my favorite movies i love this amazing movie its awesome from the very begining to the very end the director choose one awesome cast and crew including producers this movie features my favorite movie monster this movie is going to remembered forever in my opinon it is and i love the cast in this movie if you want to watch a good movie check out predator on dvd its worth buying trust me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dracula has never been better No character has been portrayed more in cinema than Dracula. There are hundreds of Dracula films. This particular Dracula film is a different beast altogether. It is definitely more of a love story than a horror film. Bram Stoker's Dracula has a bold sense of style and tasteful violence that hasn't been seen before or since. Gary Oldman's portrayal of Dracula as a monster cursed by love was a refreshing take on the count. Anthony Hopkins is the perfect Van Helsing: eccentric, sharp, and cunning..the perfect foe for the undying fiend. Everything in this film was practical. No CGI was used in this film. The special effects and camera trickery used give this movie an old world feel that helps to submerge you in this reality. I also enjoyed the historical tie ins to Vlad Tepes and the origin story of Dracula that make Bram Stoker's Dracula a must watch. Could have done without Keanu Reeves though. I'm sure that was the studio's choice.

Great movie The Blind Side is a movie that no one should miss. I don't buy many movies now due to Netflix movies but this is one that is great to watch over & over.  Sandra Bullock played a great role and it's an inspiration to watch since it's based on a true story.

FINAL DESTINATION 5 WOW!!! WHAT A GOOD MOVIE, I OWN THE ENTIRE SAGA AND THIS WAS A PERFECT FINISH TO THE SAGA. IT ALL ENDS WHERE IT ALL BEGINS ;-)

Great Movie Night Ive not had a chance to watch this season yet.Ive been busy watching other purchases but this is a great season to watch.I loved the first and second season.This is the next to watch on my list.

Stunning, Creative, Quintessentially Irish I've had an interest in Irish and Celtic culture for several years, and this movie is like a love letter to that culture from its people. Directed by Tomm Moore, it is a story about monks, faeries, wolves, vikings, illuminated manuscripts, and terrifying creatures of legend. Watching it is like seeing an illuminated manuscript come to life before your eyes; perspective is an afterthought, letting its characters swing and run through a changing, visually engaging environment. Colourful smoke, shimmers, shapes and shadows move beautifully across the screen; to think this was made in Adobe Flash is absolutely unreal! Bruno Coulais' spirited soundtrack beats the old Celtic drums and plays the pipes with such vibrant energy it almost feels like an extra colour you can't see; the soundtrack is worth picking up on its own, if you can. This was an unexpected nomination for the 2010 Academy Award for Best Animated Film. Featured on the Blu-ray special features is one of the film's characters, a faerie girl named Aisling, giving a short interview about the nomination. She is surprised, but grateful for the recognition. We should be, as well.  As for what the film is about, Brendan is a young monk in the Abbey of Kells, an eager, boisterous young lad that likes to find as much beauty in the world as he can, and faces it with courage and a strong spirit. He lives under his uncle, Abbot Cellach, a stern, disciplined man of God, who has laboured for months to build a huge defensive wall around the Abbey grounds, to defend from the coming Vikings. The walls soar impossibly high in the air, and teams of labourers work tirelessly on the scaffolds to complete it. Soon, a white-haired traveller comes to the abbey, and addresses himself as Brother Aiden of Iona, spoken of in hushed tones by the scribes in the scriptorium. He brings with him the Book of Iona, rumoured to be of such beauty that looking upon it can smite demons and blind the sinful. Brendan's imagination alights with visions of divinely inspired writing when he meets Aiden, and Aiden is a playful, encouraging artist, who believes that Brendan has potential for greatness.  Knowing what a strict influence the Abbot is on young Brendan, he encourages him to find some berries in the nearby woods, to make green ink. Brendan's never been outside the walls before, but he believes he's up to the challenge... at least until he gets lost. He is found by Aisling, a strange girl with piercing green eyes and flowing white hair. She hops and darts around the forest like an animal, and has a harsh yet curious disposition. When Brendan describes the Book of Iona, Aisling is intrigued, and offers to show him where the berries live, while also showing off "her" forest. The two soon form a friendship.  From here, big changes start to happen for the characters. Brendan is taught the delicate skill of illustration, Abbot Cellach becomes more and more worried as more and more survivors of the Viking raids seek shelter in Kells, Aisling grows closer with Brendan, and the Book of Iona draws ever closer to completion. Things are complicated by the invasion of the Vikings, however, depicted in this film as faceless black monsters, laying waste and leaving trails of red wherever they go. The characters are pushed to their limits when the Vikings invade, and they must come to grips with what is most important to them. The various scenes throughout the movie are inventive and unexpected, and are well-worth discovering on your own.  This isn't a story strictly "about" Irish culture or Irish people, but it creates a backdrop for a very Irish story. Catholic and Celtic symbolism feature throughout the film like a pair of skilled dancers, the entire cast is Irish (aside from the bizarrely out-of-place Chinese, Italian, African and English comic-relief monks), and much of the art style draws from pre-insular art. For the Celtic enthusiast, there are neat little historical touches; the Abbey of Kells was a real place with a tall tower in the centre, Iona is a real island you can visit, and at one point, Brendan faces off against the Crom Cruach, a pre-Christian deity that demanded human sacrifice. Smaller touches include Aiden's cat, Pangur B&aacute;n, named after an ancient Irish poem about a monk's pet cat, and Aisling (Irish for "dream") is named for a form of Irish poetry, where a white spectral woman comes to someone and gives them a vision. If you love Irish culture, there's a lot to please you. If you've never really cared, you will after this movie.  As for the technical details of the Blu-ray, it is an excellent production. The packaging features the iconic image of Aisling's face staring out from the woods, but it smacks a bit of ten-minutes-in-Quark-Express, repeatedly mentioning its Academy Award nomination, and the box has an annoying little latch that I keep forgetting to open, but as for the contents, they are excellent. A small booklet is included with a lavishly illustrated prequel comic, called "The Secret of Kells: Origins", detailing the backstory of Aisling and Brendan, and the fates of their families. For being such a short comic, it fleshes out the movie's protagonists very well.  The Blu-ray features a number of special features, including a commentary from the director, producer, and art director, videos from the voice recording sessions, and featurettes about the making of the film. As for the movie itself, it looks and sounds absolutely gorgeous! Watching it on a 1080p television, the colours absolutely explode with beauty, and it has a crisp, superb 5.1-channel DTS-HD sound mix, delicate with its ambience and subtle voicework, yet intense and full of life during the film's more thrilling scenes. The DVD is no slouch, either, featuring the same 5.1 audio mix, as well as a 2.0 mix for more basic systems, but not quite as many special features. This is a movie that absolutely begs for the best possible viewing experience.  To put it short, this is a beautiful and unique animated film, rising to the occasion on Blu-ray and DVD. The movie's probably on Netflix and Amazon Instant, but having seen it on both, I can assure you you want the full, uncompromised HD presentation for this movie. This is a worthy addition to any Blu-ray shelf for any viewer that likes a bit of fun, beauty, and heart in their movie collection, and at this price, you won't regret it.

My favorite version of Little Women I've seen every movie version of the classic Louisa May Alcott novel, Little Women, written in the 19th century--when this was a contemporary novel. I've enjoyed them all, but this one is my favorite.  The casting choices are extremely well done. Susan Sarandon makes a wonderful Marmee, and Wynona Ryder does an excellent job as Jo. A young, handsome and charismatic Christian Bale makes it as difficult as ever to be reconciled to Jo not choosing Laurie as her husband. However, the casting of Gabriel Byrne as Professor Bhaer makes her choice a bit more bearable. I've always had a fondness for Gabriel, a very handsome and personable actor in his own right.  All in all, this is definitely the version to watch if choosing only one.

GREAT SWEDISH DRAMA SERIES Set #2 of Van Veeteren is just as wonderful, intense and suspenseful as set #1. Once again he dives right in with his loyal proteges into each and every brutal murder.

Very good 3rd installment. If you love zombies and gore this is the film for you! The bluray quality is excellent as well as the sound, especially under 10 bucks, you simply can't go wrong!

British Murder Mysteries are the BEST We love British Murder Mysteries and Midsommer has never disappointed.  Midsommer Murders Series are filled with plot, character development, clues, and enough red herrings to keep you guessing until the end. If you want blood, gore and special effects then by any US made murder show.  There are precious few Midsommer's left starring John Nettles and I highly recommend getting this and the rest of the Midsommer Series.  His last series will be #19.  I recommend pre-ordering #19 as soon as possible.  We recently saw an episode from series 20 this summer in Europe.  We missed DCI Tom Barnaby (John Nettles) but his replacement DCI John Barnaby (Neil Dudgeon) was marvelous and should keep the Midsommer Murder Series alive for a long time.

It Is About Time!!! UFC 121 was highly anticipated, and for very good reason. When Brock Lesnar faced Shane Carwin at UFC 116, he got beat up, yet managed to pull of a very tired submission in the 2nd round. So, he kept his title. Now the time has come for him to defend that title once again. And with his toughest test to date in Cain Velasquez, there is no limit to Lesnar's trash talk. His thought is to beat up Cain, and eat a bean burrito afterwards. His other thought is that Cain Velasquez will not be the man to take his title. Cain Velasquez is simply nothing short of impressive as a fighter. Everybody the UFC has put in front of him, he's put them away, and he wants to be the first Mexican UFC Champion. Is it his time? This is the Main Event for UFC 121!  The Co-Main Event is interesting as well. Jake Shields finally enters the UFC to make his move towards a title. He wants the respect that you can only get in the UFC. And standing in his way is a man who's been in there with a who's who of opponents, Martin Kampmann. It was Kampmann who welcomed Carlos Condit to the UFC with a rude awakening with a split decision victory. Can he make Jake Shields feel just as uncomfortable?  Another fight worth mentioning is teacher vs. student, and that would be former Champion, Tito Ortiz taking on Matt Hamill from TUF 3. Tito needs to get it going once again to begin making a name for himself once again. Hamill has had great success in the UFC. Tito was his coach on TUF 3, and was like an older brother to him. Tito brings the trash talk, and Hamill wants this win badly. Who will school who? The teacher, or the student?  This really was a great card, and there were 11 fights worth checking out! I'll list those fights below!  Gilbert Yvel vs. Jon Madsen: One man is a legend as far as MMA goes, and he has vicious knock out power, but has yet to earn a victory in the UFC. Jon Madsen is undefeated, always going to decisions, but has never faced a man like Yvel. Now, when I saw the result of this fight, my head was filled with question marks. Did the winner slip on a banana peel and just happen to catch the other guy to end this quickly, or did he actually do something to finish this well? Well, the proof is in the pudding with a rather impressive 1st round TKO!  Chris Camozzi vs. Dongi Yang: It was disappointing to see Camozzi leave the TUF house with a broken jaw after earning his way into the house. But they put him on the Finale against James Hammortree, and he pulled off the win. He's taking a man known as The Ox, and that man comes in undefeated. This is a great fight that goes to a split decision, and the right man won!  Sam Stout vs. Paul Taylor: Stout knows about wars in the octagon, and so does Taylor! Both of them have fought some great fights, and they both put on a show. This goes to a split decision that either man could've taken!  Mike Guymon vs. Daniel Roberts: Mike Guymon has a great story to tell, and he redeemed himself with a win against Yoshiyuki Yoshida at UFC 113. Daniel Roberts is back in the picture with a win over Forrest Petz at UFC 116. One of them really shows their game with an impressive 1st round submission!  Patrick Cote vs. Tom Lawlor: Both of these guys are fighting to get careers back on track. One of the walks away with a unanimous decision!  Court McGee vs. Ryan Jensen: All I can say is I really love Court McGee, and I really don't like Ryan Jensen. This is a scrap that simply thrills me with a submission in the 3rd round!  Brendan Schaub vs. Gabriel Gonzaga: Unfortunately, Schaub couldn't handle Roy Nelson, but came back with a KO and TKO wins in his last two fights. Gabriel has been there and done that, but needs a win badly. Somebody steps up and wins an impressive unanimous decision!  Tito Ortiz vs. Matt Hamill: At the end of this student/teacher battle, Hamill told his former coach and mentor, "Thank you!" This was a fight that people will remember, and always know that one man pulled off a great win with a unanimous decision!  Diego Sanchez vs. Paulo Thiago: These guys are looking to get back on track, and do it impressive fashion. BOTH of them do with a FIGHT OF THE NIGHT performance!! A great fight that goes to a unanimous decision!  Jake Shields vs. Martin Kampmann: Now, on the other hand, you can't exactly say that this fight was too impressive. But enough was done to win. And a split decision was awarded, as well as a title shot against GSP! Good luck with that.  Brock Lesnar vs. Cain Velasquez: It is time for a celebration after this fight! It has been LONG OVERDUE!! A 1st round TKO seals this deal, and everybody has been thanking the winner ever since!!! It is about time!!!  Well, I really have nothing bad to say about this. The Co-Main Event could've been a little better, but if that's it, oh well! I enjoyed this, and watch it over and over. I hope you enjoy this as well!

Fabulous Movie!  Add this to your Twilight Collection! This is definitely a movie that shouldn't be missed.  The scenery and romance is beautiful .  Quite true to the book.  The music throughout is great too.  Highly recommended,

This just get's better every time I watch it I finally had to break down and buy this instead of renting it. There are so many layers in this movie that I find something new every time I watch it. I have watched this movie about 10 times, I obviously really like it. It. Is one of the very few broadway musicals with a rock and roll beat. The story is very poignant once you realize that most of the main characters have AIDS and expect to die soon. To me the story is mostly about the choices you make when you know you will die soon. Several catchy tunes too.

Great product! Great product! I gave it to my sister for Christmas as we used to watch this show together when we were kids. She was so tickled when she opened the package! Shipping was prompt and well packaged.

GREAT Customer Service Very impressed with the customer service!! My videos were delivered quickly so I was very pleased with that.  Unfortunately one of the discs had an imperfection in it that caused it to freeze when being played.  I contacted this vendor and the very next day I received a reply email to inform me that I had a new set of DVDs on their way. Needless to say I am very pleased and will order from this vendor again!!!!

Pleased I was very pleased with the product. i received the product on time and would do business again. Very good to deal with.

Terrific! Wow!  Amazon saved me $$$$$.  I support PBS, but Amazon saved even more.  Thank you for providing FAST and affordable service!  SueC

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Best Pearl Harbor movie This is a great movie about Pearl Harbor because it seems, at least to me, to be an accurate account of what is happening on both the American and Japanese sides.  Both the sound and the color are excellent in this collector's edition.

"I Smell a Rat" <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000M341QE">The Departed (Widescreen Edition)</a> The Departed  The recent arrest ( June, 2011) of New England crime boss and fugitive James "Whitey" Bulger has focused attention on Martin Scorsese's cinematic treatment of the story, "The Departed." Jack Nicholson heads an all-star cast including Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Alec Baldwin, Martin Sheen and Mark Wahlberg.  Coming from the Boston area, I am familiar with the Whitey Bulger legend.  Some residents of South Boston (the largely Irish-American community where the movie was filmed) see Bulger as a kind of folk hero.  But in reality he was a violent sociopath who used deadly force on his enemies and served as an FBI informant, giving the Feds information on the largely Italian-American Patriarcha crime family of Providence, Rhode Island. In return, the FBI ignored his criminal activities and the complicity of FBI agent John Connolly, his FBI handler. Cops and their informants play this game all the time - "I'll spill the goods on this target -- what's in it for me?" I think "The Departed" is Scorsese's best film since "Goodfellas" and maybe his best movie ever.  The all-star cast is superb;  Damon as  t he upwardly-mobile plant inside the Massachusetts State Police; DiCaprio as the neurotic police mole inside Bulger's organization; Sheehan and Wahlberg as the driven Massachusetts state cops on Bulger's trail; and Vera Farmiga as the police psychiatrist both Damon and DiCaprio are romancing. As only he can, Nicholson walks a thin line between steely self-control and psychopathic rage. In one scene, he holds the disembodied hand of a man he has just killed and removes the wedding ring from it. He tells an associate to send it to his widow, adding "she really wasn't that sentimental." Despite its length, The Departed moves along at a brisk pace. The cinematography reveals a gritty, working-class side to Boston that is reminiscent of Damon's "Good Will Hunting." The closing scene filmed out of Damon's Beacon Hill apartment, with the Massachusetts Statehouse in the background and a rat on the window sill, is priceless.  "The Departed" won Best Picture at the 2006 Academy Awards.

Episodes Disc 1 Welcome to PCA New Roomies Defending Dustin The Play Wbcam Jet-X Spring Fling  Disc 2 Prank Week Quinn's Date Backpack School Dance Disc Golf Little Beach Party

Rory O'Shea Was Here I LOVED THIS MOVIE. IT IS BOTH EDUCATIONAL FOR THE DISABLED AND FUNNY AT THE SAME TIME. VERY INSPIRATIONAL FOR THE DISABLED AND EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT IT IS JUST AWESOME. Rory O'Shea Was Here

Excellent...  Highly recommend viewing it. Excellent...  Highly recommended.  The letters that are presented from one forefather to another is the most compelling aspect of truth. The literary works by many of them is second.  Like most are coming to realize, there is some overseeing governing power we like to call God, Ala, Etc... But Jesus, Confucius, Buddha and Gandhi, etc... are all great men who were teachers with extraordinary insight.  This is a must see.

Award Deserving What an amazing performance Natalie Portman brought to this film. Her tranformation form the meek, barely  audible, and innocent white swan to the seething, aroused and wicked black swan is nothing less than superlative. I got chills at the end of her dance as the provocative black swan. I will watch it agin and again

watchmen i havent as yet watched this series yet but i did catch sight of about 5 minites on the tv and it interested me as i like most comic book caritures supper heroes

Super Fun This is my favorite of all the dance workouts I have.  In about a month I've notice a difference in my abs.

INTERESTING!! A lot of republicans did not like this movie!!! Angry about shearing land that one day was part of Mexico.

Delightful Thanks to Walden Media for giving us this third installment which is better than the second movie, and manages to capture much of the magic and wonder of the first. There are many fine moments, good music, brilliant color, some edge-of-your-seat action, strong performances, memorable characters such as Reepicheep, a lovely ending, and great satisfaction watching Eustace grow from self-centered snideness to courage and generosity. Another exciting, uplifting trip to Narnia and a fitting end of the trilogy.

Glee Fan I am a huge fan of Glee, and I own Season 1 and 2 on DVD. I am loving Season 3 as well, there are episodes that I like more than others. So far this season my favorite episodes are Pot'O Gold, The First Time,I kissed a girl. I also enjoyed the episode where they competed in Sectionals. I can't wait for the remaining part of the season and the seniors graduation. I really enjoy the Jukeboxes they put on the DVD, that way I can watch the videos if I don't want to watch the whole episode. I am not sure if I will watch Season 4, where most of my favorite characters are graduating. But I will see. I can't wait till Season 3 comes out on DVD so I can add it to my collection.

Good is the word Got this on time and boxed up so well that it was in pristine condition when I opened it. Lots of stuff in the box as stated in the material I looked at before purchase. IF!! you are a West Side Story fan as I am, you will enjoy this great blu-ray version. I particularly liked the commentary on the dance sequences. It was really well done and highly informative. The video quality is as good as it gets!  A real treat to sit down and watch. I recommend it highly.

Excellend Documentary Excellent. One of the best documentaries I have seen. Would recommend to all WWII buffs. Superbly crafted and well researched.

Makes you wanna dance I must say that Rio made me kick my chair on the theatre and made me wanna dance with it's songs, The wonderful way a graphic work would show Rio de janiro was pretty stunning and the fact that many secrets hidden in the movie about green world and pet freedom gives it a 5/5 stars So it wasn't a movie about a flying bird, It was a movie about family, love, friends and Rio.  Compared to other movies this one has a very complicated movement design on it and for those who appritiate a good graphic designer work this is a must see Mostly recommended  And for my last words don't judge before you see it cheers !

Great movie I've seen this movie over a dozen times. All the great actors from the 90's play in it. One of the best vampire movies out there.

WHO LOVES YOU, BABY?!! KOJAK was a great classic crime drama that aired for five seasons (October 24, '73 - March 18, '78), and starred (the late) Telly Savalas as "Theo Kojak". It was one of the few series that had strong scripting and acting talent that never retreated, up to and including these made for TV movie specials.  The special guest stars include:  Jerry Orbach, Amanda Plummer, Darren McGavin, Jose Ferrer, Ned Beatty, James Remar, Val Bisoglio, Allan Garfield, Lawrence Pressman, Suzanne Pleshette, Max Von Sydow, David Leary, Hector Elizondo, Sheri Headly, David Margulies, Mike Starr, Angie Dickenson, Nina Jones, Don King, Steven Weber, Kitty Carlisle, Donald Moffit, Richard Lynch, Rip Torn, Pat Hingle, Novella Nelson, John Bedford-Lloyd, Kate Nelligan and many more!  The episode list for this four disc set includes:  (Disc 1) THE MARCUS-NELSON MURDERS (1973) - Homicide detective Lt. Theo Kojak suspects that a black youth who confesses to a murder of two white women was coerced by the police and is actually innocent of the crime. (Based on actual events) THE BELARUS FILES (1985) - The murders of several elderly Russian men lead Kojak to a group of Nazi war criminals who are living in America with the full knowledge and approval of the U.S. government.  (Disc 2) THE PRICE OF JUSTICE (1987) - When the bodies of two young boys are discovered in the Harlem River, their mother is the obvious suspect, particularly with her scandalous past. But Kojak believes that she is innocent. ARIANA (1989) - An old enemy and a drug lord use a pretty Greek girl to bait a trap for Kojak.  (Disc 3) FATAL FLAW (1989) - While investigating the murder of a writer responsible for a Mob expose', Kojak discovers that the dead man's wife is an old flame. FLOWERS FOR MATTY (1990) - Kojak charms his way into high society to investigate art thefts that are tied to munitions smuggling and murder.  (Disc 4) IT'S ALWAYS SOMETHING (1990) - After discovering the connection between a corrupt city commissioner and Colombian killers, Kojak is framed for the murder of a call girl and is prosecuted by former police detective Crocker, now an assistant D.A. NONE SO BLIND (1990) - When an accountant is murdered, Kojak becomes suspicious of the activities of a wealthy department store owner and his family.  Bonus Feature: Kojak: Who Loves You, Baby? Featurette  Picture quality is excellent, however, there are is no closed captioning for the hearing impaired.

GREAT This video is an excellent representation of the GIANTS  season.  Everyone should own this!!  Really nicely down. A+++ Highly recommend.

More brilliance from Weiner & Co. Early season review of the season's content only:  In spite of the nay saying reviewers, we've already had a magnificent episode in E05: Signal 30. As we fast approach the midpoint of the season, the trajectory of the season is at least somewhat apparent. Don seems to have learned a lot from his mistakes in season 4. But all the while, many of Don's colleagues are learning these lessons themselves, the hard way. And the turmoil that many of the characters face are echoed in the ongoing unrest of the excallating conflicts surrounding the Civil Rights movement, as well as other historical signs of cultural tumult. Roger and Pete experience the pains of their respective failures and successes. Joan finally wins something of a victory, but it is completely bitter-sweet. Peggy even drunkenly admits that she isn't sure if she wants it all anymore. Everyone feels the changing times, but whether they will rise to meet them or fall in utter ruin is yet to be revealed.

Jesus a great movie Jesus was a person...not a God he was born of a human mother, I believe he could have had questions or doubts of what his role was to be. I took out my King James bible and followed the scriptures and yes it follows it very well. Satan is more believable as a man or a woman than as a snake...or a horned being with a tail. You can't tell me you NEVER questioned your future and what was expected of you. This is an EXCELLENT MOVIE and I support the making of this movie

The "Original" mechanic Had to watch the original before I went to see the remake.  This movie was no longer stocked at most outlets so I had to purchase it.

New kind of Yoga LOVE THIS DVD! I have tried Yoga DVDs before and got bored. I enjoy a low impact workout, yoga, pilates, etc. Well I am a huge Jillian MIchaels fan and recently purchased her 30 Day Shred (Love) and thought this would be a great DVD to try. I started on Level 2 because I have done Yoga before and am pretty flexible and in-shape. Well let me tell you the first time I did it my arms hurt to type and my legs hurt to walk. She takes yoga positions and adds action to them which gives you a body weight workout. There are no jumping jacks or push-ups. There is still the yoga feel but you walk or crawl away with a feeling that something got done. The DVD is 30 min. I do wish that there was a 10 minute workout.

Terrific for adults and kids Just watched this with the family, including my 6 and 8 year old, and we all loved it. It is brilliantly executed, with a lot of funny scenes and gags. Best role for Robin Williams in a long time too! I'm sure I could see it again and catch more that I missed. Plenty for the kids, but a lot of humor that only the adults will get.

happy as a little boy bought this for my 2 year old son on is birthday and we have yet to stop watching it. Absolutely loved the movie and I do as well.

heaven's gate I realize "Heaven's Gate" is a punch line, as well as a punching bag. Critics lined up to take shots at the film. Perhaps it's my inner-cowboy, or that I'm a large fan of Kris Kristopherson's song writing and singing, but I found the movie entertaining and interesting. Michaeal Cimini has become a whipping boy, and he was responsible for massive cost overruns, but the filming was beautifully done. Admittedly, I enjoy "westerns," but I found nothing wrong with this film. The location was incomparable (near Kalispell, Montana). For those who say it's too long (3:40), I say, "Pack a lunch." Enjoy the film for what it is--an American classic. Jim Campbell

movie review This movie was very fun and great to watch for the holidays.  Our family will be watching it as a traditon each christmas eve

Rosencrantz and Guilderstern Are Not Dead! They Are Life! One of my favorite movies from 20 years ago, and a great way to introduce somebody to Shakespeare by the backstage.

A Walk in the Clouds This is one of my favorite all time movies.  I ordered and received in perfect condition just as I expected. I would definitely recommend this if you like the movie.

Must own horror film This is one of the best films ever made in the horror genre. I rate it in my top ten films of all time. The film is like a horror film with an opulent base. The colors are beautiful, unlike any other Italian or any countries horror film in history. Argento has a lot of great giallo and horror films, but this to me is his masterpiece. The film is about a young American female that travels to Germany to study at the famous Tanz Academy. She quickly finds out after a slew of brutal murders that the school is a front for a coven of witches. If you are a horror film fan or just like any genre film this one is a viewing necessity. If you enjoy it the film is a first in a trilogy about the three mothers. The second part is titled Inferno and the third is The Mother Of Tears. Happy chills and thrills

Love this show! This season is just as good or better than season 1 and 2.  It is so witty and I don't feel like I am watching the same crime show over and over again. Love it!

Crowe & Cruise Classic This is a lovely movie which makes my eyes water at the end,yes real men do cry! Tom Cruise is simply amazing in his role as Jerry Maguire,he is a great actor,its a bloody pity more people in the media dont give him the respect he deserves for his acting ability.Instead they waste their pathetic careers reporting about his personal life & seem to forget just what a fine performer he is. Enough about these idiots lets get back to this classy film,Mr.Cruise is awesome as is Cuba Gooding Jnr. & Renee Zellweger is stunning,beautiful & emotional,all 3 actors are fantastic.Cameron Crowes direction is faultless & heartfelt,he has a great synergy with his all actors.The soundtrack  music deserves mention as well,the use of Mr.Spingsteens "Secret Garden" deserves a star for itself as does Mr.Dylans "Shelter from the Storm" at the very end,hip hip hooray! Look this is just one of those movies that makes you feel better for having seen it,thats really all thats needs to be added in the context of this brilliant film!

LOVE IT!!!!! I love the classics and am so happy to have come accross this movie. The characters and story plot are great!!! I absolutely love John Thorton and Richard Armitage does a great job at playing the role. My sis and I watched all the episodes the same day that we received it. It is the type of movie that you do not want to see come to an end. I didn't read the book before watching the movie but I am expecting to receive the book any day now (since I recently ordered it). I would recommend this movie to everyone!!!

the best This is the funniest show I have ever seen.  The first few episodes are less fluid as expected, but still hilarious.  Keep watching! This is the best cast since arrested development.  The 4th season pushes it over the edge.

One of the best newborn DVDs out there I purchased dozens of newborn baby DVDs to prepare for the birth of my second daughter (my husband's first child). This was by far one of my favourite DVDs. They did a terrific job of producing the DVD and providing parents with great information. I wish I would have known this information when I had my first child!

The Jolson Story This movie was excellent.  I think all seniors should get the jOLSON STORY AND jOLSON SINGS AGAIN, BECAUSE THIS IS OUR TYPE OF MOVIES WITH OUR TYPE OF MUSIC

A cabin NOT to stay in! This was a movie I had been waiting some time to see. Glad I finally saw it!  It's a must for anyone who likes "monster" movies or horror flicks.. Thought I knew what it was about but was surprised by the ending.  5 star in my opinion!

Dark, Disturbing and Powerful.  Best movie I've seen in years. I searched for this movie simply because it was mentioned in a list of dramatic physical transformations that actors have undergone for film role.  The story of Christian Bale losing a tremendous amount of weight for his role in the Machinist, and then immediately afterward, gaining it back so quickly for his role as Batman was intriguing to me.  I had no idea what the story was about, and for a few months couldn't find the movie because I kept searching for "The Mechanic."  Netflix doesn't offer the movie on streaming, and there is no way to even view what movies are available on DVD through them, unless you PAY for dvd-by-mail service.  (How I despise Netflix! The marketing mistakes just keep on coming with those geniuses.)  If there is a way ... they've done a great job of hiding it. Sorry, I digress. Rant over.  It finally occurred to me to search on Amazon Prime Instant Video, under Christian Bale... and viola! I finally tracked down this elusive movie.  I was stunned by how powerfully good it was.  It's one of those movies that my mind kept returning to, the day after watching it.  The more I remembered the details of the movie, the more I appreciated what a beautifully orchestrated psychological thriller it really was.  It reminds me of the way I felt after watching "The Sixth Sense" years ago.  You don't fully appreciate how great it was until you've finished watching it. The Machinist is The Sixth Sense x 100.  It's smarter, scarier, and "real-er" (is that a word?) than the 6th sense ... and I really liked that movie.  The movie is gruesome at times.  Also heartbreaking.  I can't believe anyone could call this movie "slow moving" because I found it gripping, throughout.  This coming from a person who just watched it out of curiosity, to see the physical transformation of an actor I didn't particularly even like!  After hearing the audio of his temper tantrum a few years ago, I thought this actor was a spoiled self-important, pompous ass.  Now, after seeing this movie, I understand his need to immerse himself in a difficult role... and he is really truly amazing at it.  I have a family member with schizophrenia, and much of his performance was very familiar and sad to watch.  I spent much of the movie convinced that his character had a classic case of Schizophrenia.  But the full story is much more than that.  If you are going to watch this ... don't read too many reviews here!  Because the beauty, scratch that, ... power of this film is the unfolding of the story.  If I knew how it ended, my enjoyment of it would have been diminished, I think.  You MUST watch this film.  I can't believe I hadn't heard of it before.  Did it win awards?  Was it a sleeper or I just have been living under a rock?

Great movie!! I purchased this DVD to replace my old VHS copy.  The shipping was fast and the price was right!  We had a neighborhood movie night which folks seemed to truly enjoy.  Thank you, Amazon!

Amazing Show of God's Sovereign Plan What a Delight to see a life given over Completely to God!  A Man Called Peter gives such Wonderful insights into the life of a man, Peter Marshall, who figured out what it meant to seek Him, know Him, and walk with Him daily!!!  Seeing the Truths of God's Sovereignty so vividly displayed through the lives of Peter and Catherine Marshall gave great Joy and encouragement to live life Fully for Him - no matter the cost!!!

loved it and cant wait for the next season OMG i hated how the season ended i loved it soooo much that i didn't want it to stop. i don't like to be left hanging  because the suspense kills me

Weevils in the Biscuits From a novel it maybe but a great incite to the officers and men of His Majesty ships of the once powerful Royal Navy. God help any Frenchie that appeared on the horizon. Powerful cinematography, expertly handled with a vigorous handle on detail. Great film. Hearts of Oak.

Western History Restored The Goodnight For Justice movies are excellent in that they do portray a more close account of the way things were in the old west.  Luke Perry is an excellent actor and the supporting actors do a great job.  If you lovve the old west and western movies, this is a must have.

:) I can't wait to go purchase the next season! This one was great! I was hooked on the first season, and it's still got me.

TinTin is an adventure for the whole family We rented TinTin and after watching with the family we had to buy it immediately! The graphics were incredible unlike some of the other 3D style animations like Polar Express.  It was so lifelike we had to remind ourselves that this was an animation.  The story line was as exciting as any adventure film with such likable characters.  TinTin is an amazing kid/man who can do anything and if you are fans of the comic this will not disappoint.  Everyone loved it- (ages 4-10 and adult) No one lost attention and the story line was exciting and easy for even the littler kids to understand.  We were also so excited to know that Peter Jackson was a producer and his WETA studio worked on it.  With his incredible work with graphics on LOTR this was no doubt going to be excellent.  Jamie Bell is also one of our favorites (Billy Elliot, Jumper - he stole the show, and Jane Eyre) and we were excited to know he was TinTin.  And Andy (Gollum) was Captain Haddock.  My only complaint is that I rented the movie at all and didn't just trust our instincts and buy it... We ordered the blu-ray/DVD/digital copy combo so we can watch it at all times.

inspiring This movie should be in Redbox, Blockbuster, Netflix, and all areas for movie viewing. Very interesting, hopeful, full of inspiration. Different and controversial according to science, but science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. According to HRM he is allowing science to study him so that science can get the proper findings on sun gazing. Still a lot to find out. It's frustrating how hard it is to come upon this movie. Done back in 2010. I had to do actual searching to find it. Interesting enough to me to start sun gazing withing one hour of sunrise and sunset. Starting slowly and working my way up in how long I gaze. Sometimes its cloudy so I get either one I can, but I like the morning sun the best. I shall see for myself.

a christmas dream... for my mum. my mum asked if i could get this movie for  her. i watch it  and it was fantastic  to get both colour and black and white version was great...

Greatest movie ever What can you say about such a terrific movie?  Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta were amazing in this film.  Uma Thurman was amazing.  Quentin Tarantino's acting was the worst part of this film.

Just Wow I stumbled upon this gem of a movie when Netflix updated their library, and im glad I did. Its a low budget sci-fi film that doesnt take long at all to become addictive. The acting and directing is fantastic, it feels natural. Shot mostly in the documentary style, much like Cloverfield in that aspect. The story is amazing, definitely the fans of Rod Serling or Jerome Bixby will fall in love immediately, for a more up to date comparison I will say that this movie could rival some of the best Fringe episodes. This is a must see for anyone who loves the sci-fi genre. I bought it off amazon as soon as it was over. A+

Wiggly Fun My daughter loves The Wiggles.  Every time she goes to the library, she checks out a Wiggles video.  So, I thought, why not have our very own copy of "The Best of the Wiggles".

Buster's usual great job. Buster B. Jones was a rare bird. He was a fantastic guitar player AND, more importantly to this review, a great teacher.  He puts a lie to the "those who can do, those who can't teach" wisdom.  I've been setting under some form of six string for longer that I care to admit to and know whereof I speak. If you want to play guitar this DVD is an excellent place to start.  When you get this down he has advanced classes on DVD. For your viewing/listening enjoyment he also cut CD's and performance DVD's and Amazon had them the last time I looked.

DVD Lost Boys Thank you so much for sending this film in the correct time as was stated.  The film was and is in very good quality, thnk, you.

Classic I have had soo much fun enjoying this movie all over again with my daughter. She's four and loves this movie. She's even learned the truffle shuffle!

Legendary! I come from Paris and I will try to explain how I feel about this DVD.  First of all I was waiting for a Stone Temple Pilot DVD to be released a long time ago, they are the last "grunge" band (are they really?) of our time, they survived the 2000's.  Why Scott Weiland always surprises me? I mean you could swear that his voice and performance will suck big time after all he went trough but like always he surprises me again and again:   Very nice intro, nice lights and background. They did make lots of effort on that point and results are beautiful. A big screen with waves during Creep, Circles during Plush...beautiful set up and different in EVERY single song.  Apparently Dean DeLeo added some effect on his guitar that really shines his playing. It does some amazing solos to end the songs, lots of personality in his playing and more depth than before. A guitar player will learn a thing or two.  Robert has a nice voice that you will have a chance to ear! Excellent backing, the DVD sounds very good in general.  Then Scott climbs his podium and it's on you know that's going to get crazy, he is on fire threw the whole concert. What a voice !!! He is a lot more mature then before in his voice and his performance at 44 years old don't except him to jump and bend like before and that's a good thing. My gosh what a style he has! It will inspire your dancing, I dare you not to dance above your bed during Crackerman. Make no mistake Scott might speak slowly and so on but on stage he is ELECTRIC.  If you want to see a stylish, mature and tight rock band live, buy this it will be your best purchase in a long  long long time!

Summer Coming of Age Movie LOVED this movie.  I confess to being a fan of Mark Harmon since the '70s.  This movie has the elements that should make it a great coming of age movie set against the world of California surfing.  Easy plot, Mark Harmon is a retired world class surfer (trying to cope with personal tragedy) who befriends a young boy just learning to surf.  In the process he becomes involved with the boy's mother and works to win over the older brother.  This films moves at an easy pace and will leave you smiling when all is said and done.  I consider it an underrated gem like Mark Harmon's "Stealing Home," and Bruce Willis' "Sunset."  Do yourself a favor and spend the $8 for a great time.

10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace This book was an easy, quick read that I really enjoyed.  It was filled with many ways to enforce positive thoughts and energy into my life.  It would make a great gift, or just a nice read for a lazy afternoon.  My order also arrived early, and my book was in excellent condition!

love After 9 years Maiden is and always be my fav band. couldnt wait to get this dvd. though the tin was dented when i opened it oh well its still amazing. I love it

Remastered, Widescreen, Vivid in Color - Venus Wars - A Masterpiece in Story and Animation Released twice before by Central Park Media and an owner of that release, I had to purchase this new release of Venus Wars by Discotek aka Eastern Star and do a comparison. I collect Discotek releases so I know for a fact, all their releases, are always a significant upgrade. Why else would they go to so much trouble in reviving an old, out of print classic and giving it a new release? Read below to find out.  The old Central Park Media release was letterboxed, grainy and looked like a washed out VHS source. You could just see the dust, the scratches and grain from the print. The colors looked bland and the detail was not showing through on the DVD. Considering the first DVD release was 1998 and the next authored release was 2003, standards are a lot higher today and therefore I would have to rate the video quality a D on the old releases.  Now fast forward to 2012, the Discotek release is Anamorphic Widescreen, the picture finally fits the screen and  allows the viewer to finally see the immense detail in the animation and landscapes, there's a lot to take in. Also Discotek have used a Remastered Telecline Print from what look like Japanese Blu-Ray masters, like on their Space Adventure Cobra release. The video is Progressive Scan and the colors are extremely vibrant and edgy now. This is a huge improvement on the other release and therefore the video quality is at least an A on this release.  Venus Wars was impressively animated in 1989 and was a very high budget motion picture in Japan. Released 8 months after Akira and right in the economy boom and bubble, the character designs are close blend of Mikimoto (Macross DYRL) and Kenchi Sonoda (Gall Force). The animation is simply gorgeous, especially with this new transfer, now boasts some of the best animation from this time period, a must for any 80's fan.  The original English Dub from 1992 is included here. One of the earliest anime dubs, it's very good. I rate it an A for quality and very compareable to A Wind Named Amnesia, which also had an excellent dub and well worth watching as well. The Japanese track is excellent as always, the audio track is alot clearer on this release and clearly been remastered, the sound effects and music can now be heard with much more power and clarity. This is one of the few shows which I love watching both the English and Japanese versions.  Venus wars is a serious science fiction, space opera, set on a distant planet where there is political conflict, lack of resources and the outbreak of many battles and wars. The story and dialogue is very engaging and complex, this is clearly aimed at adult audience, all the key charaters are adults and there's some violence and fan service as well. Venus Wars is a one of a kind, must see show, it's original and exciting, completely different to anything else made and representative of why fans still want to watch older shows.  I contemplated whether to give this show an A or an A+, it's been a while since I've watched it but I was so impressed and it was so much better than I remembered it, both in story and animation, probaly due to this new release, I had to give it full marks. I can only hope this show finaly gains the status as one of the best classics among fans, Akira fans watch out.  Grade - A+

Beautiful Movie I chose this film because it was from the director of "The Station Agent" one of my favorite movies.  Illegal immigration and finding your self at whatever stage of life were the main themes of this outstanding film.  The cast of this movie was superb!

Perry Mason Season Six, Vol 1 & 2 I have purchased all the Perry Mason TV series, 1 through 6, through Amazon. I have not been disappointed with any of the series. Looking forward to season Seven.

Something for Everyone! Love, love, loved this movie! Christina Aguilera is amazing! So skilled at both dancing and singing you can hardly believe it. And, did I mention, gorgeous? Cher is marvelous, as usual. Her two songs leave you wanting more, if you're a fan, as I am. The choreography is brilliant. Can't understand why more wasn't made of this delightful movie at the Oscars. Just loved every minute of it. Pure entertainment. Can hardly wait to own it.

The movie classic This is a movie that every house hold should have.  It's well made and has the two Actresses many of us are so fond of.  It's the kind of movie that doesn't have a boring moment and is so well acted by Bette Davis that it seems real when you watch it.  Earl

Subtle Force Trauma & Blunt Force Trauma Natalie Portman provides the ideal contrast and compliment to Thor's brutishness.  Natalie is the "subtle force trauma" to Thor's brute force trauma.

A must see I have it on good authority that this is an accurate account of how the economic meltdown occurred in 2008. You do not want to miss this documentary. It is not slanted in a bi-partisan way. All US presidents and their administrations from Reagan forward are castigated for the economic crisis.

classic good old classic high school movie bought for my daughter she loves it brings back memory's from when I was in high school.

on a wind and a prayer "dvd" Outstanding! Very good documentary about air ballons attached with ....... coming from Japan,to us.way of wind currents,sailing all the way across the ocean.

Extremely Motivational I do not have cancer, and hopefully never will, but I watched this after reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1599218011">Crazy Sexy Diet: Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, and Live Like You Mean It!</a> and becoming a fan of Kris Carr.  I watched the entire film in one sitting, which is a rare thing for me to do with the many distractions of everyday life, and couldn't believe how much Carr's positive attitude hit me. I've had a crappy week, and though my trials this week have been nothing compared to Carr's battle with cancer, it's given me a positive energy to deal with my problems.  The film itself goes from Carr finding out she has cancer, and spans the next three or so years of her life and how she refuses to take no for an answer. She also follows the lives of several other women with cancer, all of who also do everything then can to, as they say in the film, **** cancer. (So warning, there is a little bad language in the movie, which doesn't bother me at all, but you may not want to have children within hearing distance while you watch it.) It also goes into Carr's dietary changes, (which is how I first got introduced to Carr's work.) It also goes through the changes of Carr's relationship with her camera man, which goes from friends to marriage, and just seems to give the film a happy ending.  I also love that the film came in a recyclable and biodegradable DVD case.

A classic to see every year My whole family loves this movie - it has become for us a classic right up with A Wonderful Life, and one we enjoy watching together every year at Christmas time.

A truly phenomenal movie, of which DiCaprio should be proud This movie was quite simply amazing.  The story is one most people are familiar with on a basic level, but it takes us well beyond what, I think, the average person knows about J. Edgar.  The number of new things I learned surprised me, and I really enjoyed the movie as a result.  I am sure that a real J. Edgar buff might have known it all, but for most of us it was very "educational".  I also thought the movie was very tastefully done; while it touched on the fact that he cross-dressed and was gay, it was really not at all a focal point of the movie (although his long term relationship was certainly highlighted).  They could have easily made this into a gossipy feeling movie, and they nimbly avoided that pitfall.  I thought the acting was good, particularly DiCaprio.  While I have always been a DiCaprio fan, I think this has to be one of the finest examples of his work.  You could easily forget it was him beneath all the makeup.  He really got into character, and made you believe in what he was "selling".  I feel he understood the character well, and I doubt anyone could have done a better job with the role.  Overall, I think the movie captures all sides of J. Edgar as he really was.  He is a figure that history has a hard time seeing clearly (and who was certainly not seen clearly during his lifetime), and I think this movie really "got" him.  I highly recommend to any novice historian or political buff.  One of my favorite movies of recent times.

Aquarium lovers and fish eaters This is an incredible movie of humans risking their lives to better the world for dolphins and humans! Any one who believes aquariums are good places needs to see what goes on behind the scenes!

Regarding Henry The video was in excellent condition and it is a wonderful movie.  In picking this video, I was looking for something that shows transformation that can take place in people's lives.  WOW!  What a transformation from a ruthless, cheating lawyer (not all lawyers, by the way, are like this) to a compassionate loving person.

Laughs don't stop with this one Poor Clark Griswold! First he gets a giant tree that is WAAAAAY too big for the living room, then he decorates his house with thousands of lights that don't work until his wife figures out that it's merely a switch in the laundry room.  His mentally challenged but well-meaning cousin shows up in a REALLY beat-up motor home...too many hilarious situations to describe here.  Get it - you'll LOVE it!!

DVD I am very happy with the dvd movie that I received and the time that it was shipped to me.

Great Workout Ballerobica is a great workout.  I was having chronic pain in my shoulder area and the arm movements in this video were exactly what I needed.  It is fast paced and you really know you got a good workout by the soreness the next day (especially inner thighs)!  You do not need any previous ballet experience as there are no combinations to learn ... it is truly a workout.  I really like the voice over approach to the video.  It is awesome that you can turn off the tutorial and just do the workout straight through so that you can keep your heart rate up.  The video is set up in sections:  low impact cardio 1 and 2, high impact cardio (a brief jumping sequence), arms, legs, abs(killer), butt, and stretching.

Annie movie is fantastic I purchased the Annie movie for my granddaughter for her 5th birthday.Both she and her Mommy were so excited.My daughter loved this movie as a little girl so now they can watch it anytime they want.Sweet,sweet little movie.

White Christmas DVD OMG! This is one of my all time favorites. Great cast, music and story. It will leave you with a wonderful feeling and a positive feeling toward humanity. I could watch it over and over and will. It's a great film for all ages, my 10 month old daughter was mesmerized by it. She loves the music and dancing.

Swords and sorcerer. I read in an earlier review that the music was disco medieval. I wouldn't actually call it that but it is definitely different. The plot and the movie itself is very good and it has an undertone of corruption of the catholic church during the middle ages. Rutger Hauer plays a great knight and he wields the sword like a master. I would recommend this movie for fans of sword fighting and sorcery.

One of the Best Yes, it's a little corny. But if you can get past the going back in time, it is one of the most heart warming movies I have ever watched. Jane Seymour is what makes this movie great.The part where she is on stage and starts talking to Christoper Reeves will tear your heart out. The only reason I gave it five stars is, cause that's all the stars there are.

Great Fun Movie A very enjoyable movie suitable for the romantics or the whole family.  Tom Hanks gives a great performance with Julia Roberts and the match works well.  Well worth a watch.

I'd buy this movie just for the short! This episode features the best short that MST3K has to offer. It is always funny every time I watch it! The riffing in the short is fast paced and on the ball. The movie? Um... the riffing is alright, but the movie is pretty bad and drags down the awesomeness that was the short.

Great movie Most of the greatest movies are real life situations.  If you love golf you will love this movie.  The  humble amateur wins.

Love Lexx Lexx is funny, sexy and great science fiction. As long as you're not bothered by partial nudity and sexual innuendo, you'll love this show.

That's the way love goes... What Gong Li does in `Ju Dou' is beyond astonishing.  In perhaps her finest performance to date (and that is saying a lot for such a brilliant actress), Li delivers a breathtaking, albeit heartbreaking, look at an abused woman scorned by her confinement to a man she cannot love, desperately separated (at least in a complete sense) from the man who can offer her salvation.  `Ju Dou' tells the story of Ju Dou, a young woman sold into marriage to the elderly owner of a dye mill.  Her husband is a ruthless and brutal man; unable to produce offspring and obviously violently bitter over it.  He regards Ju Dou with little respect and humiliates her emotionally, mentally and physically.  Ju Dou seeks solace and affection in her husband's nephew; a gentle young man who works in the dye mill.  As a way to escape her lot in life, albeit only partially, Ju Dou falls in love with this young man.  It is their love and impregnation that leads to complications and eventual tragedy within Ju Dou's life; as if her life wasn't already tragic.  As a film, `Ju Dou' is straight pain.  There is no light at the end of the tunnel here, but solely emotional devastation.  Even when things appear `brighter' for Ju Dou in her relationship with young Tianqing, it is obvious that things will never be good for her as a whole.  She will only have fleeting moments of seeming happiness; but the words `fleeting' and `seeming' continually take over that narrative.  Some may object to such harsh depictions, but I consider it a strong testament to the director's vision and creative control.  What is even grander is the fact that all three main actors (Gong Li, Li Baotian and Li Wei) underscore their every moment with a complete understanding of their characters eventualities.  They all feel complete and in control of their moments.  Li Wei is effectively evil; delving into the heart of this monster and delivering a terrifying performance.  Boatian broods effectively and fleshes out the pent up frustrations of loving a woman tied to a monster.  But it is Gong Li who steals every ounce of this film.  She is so achingly realistic; so honest and dripping with internal torment.  Just watching her face recoil as she takes in her surroundings.  She delivers such a deeply assertive performance, one that allows her to soak in the atmosphere of the film and project it through her burdened eyes.  And what atmosphere there is!  From the colorful set pieces (one only wishes the DVD transfer did it complete justice) to the constrictive yet fluid cinematography, `Ju Dou' is as visually arresting as it is emotionally.  Some have balked at the DVD transfer, and as far as that is concerned I must agree, to a degree.  I didn't find it overly offensive (I have seen worse) but I was expecting much better.  Still, the film itself transcends any issues with the DVD itself (although this is one of the many films that deserves top notch DVD treatment and will never receive it because it is not popular enough) and so I highly recommend you see this film any way that you can!

finn the human Cheapest price I could find this dvd for. It arrived before it said it was going to. I watched the entire thing in one night and enjoyed it thoroughly. You don't have to be a kid to love this adorable, hilarious show.

Forget the editorial review Forget the editorial review for this movie.  If you went by that you'd think this was one of the worse movies ever made and miss out on one of the funniest action movies out there.  I watched this last night on Netflix and was surprised by how entertaining, and funny this movie was.  Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson are a delight to watch on the screen together.  What great chemistry the two of them have playing off of each other.  I'm surprised that I'd never heard of this film before.

Doom Another great DC movie. I give it two thumbs way up. I liked it just as much as Crisis on two Earths.

Perfect! Got it quick and in perfect condition. Just what I needed at the end of a long week, more tears and crying out my ex's name in bed. No but really, amazing product and amazing business.

Theater audience erupted into applause I won't cover the story line in this review -- just my opinion of the movie.  This movie is not a remake of any other Planet of the Apes film.  I did not have high expectations of this movie, but am glad to report I was pleasantly surprised.  My husband and I both loved it.  We don't care for movies that are only about special FX, and we were not disappointed by this one.  No, it doesn't have Oscar winning roles, but the script is much better than we expected and of course, the special effects are stunning.  We hesitated about going based upon some of the critics reviews who said the characters weren't developed and there was no action until the end.  Did they even watch the movie?  The movie kept our attention fully - it's well written and developed; yes, the biggest action scene is at the end, but there's definitely action before that scene.  And why would the characters need any more development?  The main character is Cesar, the starring ape, and his character is fully developed to say the least - you care about him - you root for him; he IS the star of this movie.  John Lithgow is amazing as the scientist's father who suffers from Alzheimers.  You can see him drift in and out of the fog of Alzheimers just by looking at his face.  With the primates, it was the same amazing effect.  Just by looking in their eyes, you could see the apes evolve from "dumb" to intelligent - simply outstanding FX.  I also love it that they paid tribute to the original Planet of the Apes.  In the scene where a primate caretaker is lying on a couch watching TV, pay attention to the movie he's watching (hint: the movie stars Charlton Heston).  Also, in one of the lab scenes, a primate is playing with a toy Statue of Liberty that has been broken.  And of course, the famous line from the original 1968 movie is repeated, but it's not cheesy at all - in fact, it marks a turning point in the movie, just as it did in the original ("get your paws off me, you damn dirty ape").  The moral message in this movie is similar to the one in "I am Legend" - humans carelessly creating a world health catastrophe while having developed a cure for a disease.  Unlike the original Planet of the Apes sequel, the apes are not violent in a frenzy of revenge, but rather in their quest to escape captivity.  The apes don't want to kill man and take over the planet (at least not yet); they simply want to get back to nature.  Humans, not apes, are the ones destroying mankind with their careless, greed-driven medical discovery - the type of self destruction that Charlton Heston painfully alludes to in the last scene of the original 1968 Planet of the Apes.  And yes, in my neighborhood, at the end of the movie, the theater audience applauded.  I hadn't seen that in a long time.

Amazing Love Story -- Must See Movie First of all, I did not read the book. Second of all, I did not know what to expect of the movie. I was greatly entertained and very surprised at the quality of filmmaking, acting, and overall storytelling. The time traveling was not a superhero ability. Instead it felt like a debilitating disease. That added more to the story then some fantasy time travel flick.  I am not into romantic comedies and certainly not into romance stories but this one is an ABSOLUTE MUST SEE movie. The direction was superb. I cannot express that enough. I am a screenwriter and a filmmaker and I know good direction when I see it.  If I could say one thing about this movie, I would say that it was/is completely ENDEARING. I was blown away by its complexity and its simplicity and even the wonder and craziness of time travel. You will not be disappointed because this is a quality film.

Evolution of John Lennon I was not familiar with 90% of this footage. I like it for the full-coverage of Lennon's life and personality... From the duration of the Beatles, Lennon's attitude towards the break-up of the band, to his involvement and life in American culture. It is the raw footage that tells this story in itself.  It was no secret John established the Beatles as his own band before they ever had a manager. John was the ring-leader and main spokesman of the group. Unfortunately, he was not a tactful young guy. He was cynical, clearly rebellious and mistrusting of people. He was not a good spokesman, unlike McCartney, who was better able to pander to the public and journalists alike. John consistently got the band in hot water with journalists. Right from the beginning the band worried about John's vulnerability and physical safety. His words were often twisted by interviewers, and used in such a way to undermine the messages of his songs or incite the public.  This documentary shows how John began to make adjustments in his spoken word and interviews to become more effective, protest injustice, and get a message of peace to those who were also growing and changing with his generation.

A Must Have In Your Pacific War Collection Battle 360 documents the Pacific war through the eyes of the USS Enterprise from Pearl Harbor until the end of the war and the scraping of the USS Enterprise, the most decorated ship in WWII. It is fast paced, well researched and well written, and keeps you in the action, plays like an action movie. Plus there are specs and identification of WWII planes and ships, and several eye witness accounts and historian commentary. The computer graphics are amazing and compelling, you really feel like you are there more so that earlier works. It contains information that was not available, still secret, or politically incorrect to mention in earlier works such as in the "Tigers of the Sea", Vol 6, Wall of Fire. For instance, the Battle of Leyte Gulf, in the "Wall of Fire" it "glides over" Bull Halsey's taking the heavy carriers north, chasing a decoy while, 2,800 brave men were sacrificed in jeep carriers and other light vessels against the giant central Japanese force which saved the US Landing Force at Leyte. This account goes into detail about the brave Commanding Officer E E Evans and the USS Johnson and others for instance. There is so much, for instance, like Twidell's modification of the breathing apparatus that helped save the Enterprise at one point, and that the submarines, like the USS Nautilus (Midway), Albacore, Darter and Dace (Leyte Gulf) and the key roles they played such as in the Battle at Midway. I wish they would have mentioned Joe Rochefort in connection with breaking of "AF" codename by the code breakers. But wait, there is more! Get the series and see.

Oldie but Goodie This is a classic.  It's old, but still good.  The famous cast of characters works together to make this a hit.  The fast-pace of the movie makes it all the more exciting.  You can somewhat assume that everyone is going to be on the same page in the end, but it's still engrossing to see how each one gets peeled off.

"Air Force (1943) ... John Garfield ... Howard Hawks (Director) (2007)" Warner Bros. Pictures presents "AIR FORCE" (1943) (124 min/B&W) (Fully Restored/Dolby Digitally Remastered) -- Starring John Garfield, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy, George Tobias & John Ridgely  Directed by Howard Hawks  The Mary Ann, a B-17 Flying Fortress, takes off from California for Hawaii on a routine training flight on December 6, 1941. The Mary Ann and the rest of the squadron fly right into the middle of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor unarmed and out of gas, and nearly crack up landing on an emergency field; no sooner do they make repairs than the crew comes under attack, and the plane takes off and makes for Hickam Field, which they find a flaming shambles. They fly on to the Philippines, stopping at Wake Island just long enough to meet a few members of the doomed Marine garrison, taking their company mascot, a dog, with them. At Clark Field, the Mary Ann and her crew finally go into action against the enemy, flying in alone against a Japanese invasion force in the Battle of the Coral Sea.  A truly fabulous outstanding WWII adventure film. Nothing arty or pretentious, simply a nicely executed work. One of the best films to be made during the war.  Academy Award winner for Best Film Editing; also Oscar Nominations for Cinematography, Special Effects & Screenplay - check out that final scene - when the B-17 ditches in the surf!  BIOS: 1. Howard Hawks  [Director] Date of Birth:  30 May 1896 - Goshen, Indiana Date of Death:  26 December 1977 - Palm Springs, California  2. John Garfield [aka: Jacob Julius Garfinkle] Date of Birth: 4 March 1913 - New York City, New York Date of Death: 21 May 1952 - New York City, New York  Mr. Jim's Ratings: Quality of Picture & Sound: 5 Stars Performance: 5 Stars Story & Screenplay: 5 Stars Overall: 5 Stars [Original Music, Cinematography & Film Editing]  Total Time: 124 min on DVD ~ Warner Bros. Pictures  ~ (06/05/2007)

Different but delightful I know there is a lot of controversy about this movie, mainly with the fact that it has nothing to do with the book. I have seen a very old film that I would guess is from the 80s or earlier that follows the book pretty closely, I watched this in school a long time ago. As for this rendition, it is just taking a few key concepts from the book and the rest is from the writers imagination.  You're probably wondering why I gave this movie 5 stars. Well, for one, it has Demi Moore and Gary Oldman. Demi Moore is not one of my favorites, but she fits this role nicley. Gary Oldman has not been in many substantial roles in movies, but I like him in anything he does. Not to mention, he is gorgeous in this movie...and you get to see quite a bit of him...let's just say it's not for the kids. Either way, I thought both of them did an amazing job and they have great chemistry with each other that is perfect for their roles. You can feel the emotion in every scene.  Now, I would say this is more for the girls than the guys. It's a great movie to watch alone with a bowl of popcorn and tissues close by. I have never read a romance novel, but I would say that if you like those, you will surely appreciate this movie. This movie deserves at least one run through. I won't give away any spoilers, but I actually liked this version of the Scarlet Letter better than the original *gasp*

excellent DVD My wife and I started on a plant-based diet after watching this DVD, it was really an eye opener, and we were already vegans, but now we see that we were eating to much processed food. We have been eating nothing but a plant-based diet since the first of the year and have never felt better,our blood pressure has gone down, along with our weight and cholesterol.   Craig Chamberlain

Very Eye Opening and Fun to Watch I'm not a fan of modern day organized religion.  I usually keep that to myself, but this movie was Brilliant!  I thought it was well done, informative, interesting, and even humorous at times.  I kept wanting to get up and yell "Yeah, that's what I said/thought!" but realized I was only with people just like me so they were thinking the same thing. If you are very religious, you will probably hate this movie.  If you are not, then you will probably thoroughly enjoy it.

Travelscopes South African Adventure The footage of Travelscope's South African tour given by Joesph Rosendo was breathtaking! I would love to excperience the Zebras and Lions in the moutains. I also loved the scenes with the Ostrich and Penguins by the beach.   Alexander

Can't get enough! Had to keep from watching all the episodes in one eve. I downloaded the series for Kindle and anxiously awaiting Season 2.

A SATISFIED CUSTOMER YOUR SERVICE IS AMAZING.  I AM ALWAYS AMAZED AT HOW FAST MY ORDERS COME.  PLEASE KEEP UP THE EXCELLENT SERVICE.  THE FILMS ARE GIFTS, SO I CANNOT COMMENT ON THEM.  THEY ARE A FAVORITE OF MY SON-IN-LASE AND HE IS HAPPY WITH THEM.  THANKS, VIVIAN CHURCH

Courageous dvd This was a wonderful dvd! My Sister purchased this after seeing it last week.  I will recommend it to all of my friends and family.

Only three wishes? Was there ever a better villain that Conrad Veidt as the evil Jaffar? This is almost a perfect movie.  It has great action and fantasy sequences.  Every bit of it is memorable...except the miscasting of John Justin as the love struck Ahmad & June Duprez and the equally smitten Princess.  Sadly, they fail to strike any chord approximating deep passion.  Bland and boring to the point of stupefying, it's not a surprise that neither was the first choice to play their respective roles.  Unfortunately, you have to take what you're given.  This failing aside, it's an incredible film.  It especially soars once we meet Rex Ingram as the Djinn, freed from a bottle by the hapless Abu (played perfectly by Sabu).  They're equally matched when it comes to being sneaky.  Another memorable character is the poor dimwitted Sultan of Basra, played by Miles Malleson. My favorite element has always been the mechanical flying horse.  That, and the Djinn's enormous foot! It's a keeper!

Quick and easy No complaints at all... Everything went better than expected!  Found what I needed payed for it and it was shipped. Not to mention the movie is awesome, old but awesome.

Good Sequel. Hilarious. Too Short. Note: I just saw this movie with XFinity On Demand.  This direct-to-video sequel the Walt Disney Pictures' 1967 classic hit based on The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling is a real hoot...literally. The casting is brilliant, from Haley Joel Osment ("The Sixth Sense," "A.I. Artificial Intelligence") to the late Tony Jay (Monsieur D'Arque in "Beauty And The Beast," "The Hunchback Of Notre Dame"). I really like the relationship between Shanti and Ranjan. So sweet, as most older sister/younger brother relationships are often depicted so negatively, with too much hate and no love. Then again, I'm an only child, so I can only imagine what it would be like to have an older sibling, preferably a sister. (But I digress). This is truly a first-rate sequel to its predecessor, like Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3 & Pocahontas II: Journey To A New World. My only complaint is that this film is too short, at 72 minutes. Could have been longer, like say 90-100 minutes. Other than that, great fun. Highly recommended. Rated G.

Great film for movie buffs! Movies are everyone's favorite thing to talk about at the dinner table. This movie about John Shipp gave me a great amount of new information about how movies get to the theaters and how much fun it could be doing it.  I highly recommend The Film Peddler for anyone interested in the movie industry!

Good apocalyptic SciFi An overlooked SciFi gem. Creepy and suspenseful. I think one of Nick Cage's better roles. Good screenplay, special effects and cinematography create tension and a sense of foreboding. I liked this story and would recommend. Other favorites: Red planet, Phenomenon, The Hidden, The Forgotten, Dark City, Starman, Screamers. If you saw and liked any of these you would like Knowing, too. Don't believe the pans from detractors. This movie has made it to my SciFi favorites shelf. Keep 'em coming. Tommy likey.

#1 Favorite Movie Ever since I went to see this movie in the theatre, it has been my favorite movie. From beginning to end, it is full of great action, a great story line, and an awesome cast. Jerry Bruckheimer and Tony Scott are a great match.

awesome DVD Everybody should see this thought provoking documentary.  This Dvd will change your thinking about the eating habits we think are healthy in the U.S.

Glad I got this on Blu-Ray Some brief observations:  The picture quality is much sharper than the DVD. The surround sound comes ALIVE! The audio and music fidelity is stunning - the electronic music is piercing as designed. Scenes in The Love Shop seemed to have all the haze and smoke removed for a far more 'revealing' experience (don't know if this was the directors intention as this was rated PG)  I know some of the acting is poor, there are plot holes, slow moments, even some silly ideas, but I loved this as a teenager and I still do. It's got cool visuals, great action, and some deep emotions and ideas. It's fascinating to see older movies when the only SP/FX were with matt paintings, real pyrotechnics, and intricate miniature models. Cool

Silly, Girly Fun.... This movie is PERFECT for a girls night in...especially if you (and your friends) love things like costuming, show-tunes, etc.  This movie is just so fun and silly... I love everything about it.

Tora Tora Tora Awesome docu-drama about Pearl Harbor. Watching this with a World War 2 Navy Veteran who served at Pearl shortly after the attack and heard from many survivors their stories, this is a very accurate depiction of the attack.

SCRE4M The Perfect reunion (Spoilers) I loved this Scream reunion I thought it was Scary Bloody & Funny everything I like about the Scream movies. Scream being my favorite movie ever i had to pre-order it combo pack. I just love the big twist with Jill being the Killer. I kinda had a feeling about Charlie but Jill I had no ideas I mean they left no clues for us to figure out it was her. I think (as always) Courtney,David,& Neve did a great job. I LOVE the performence of Hayden Panettiere I liked Emma Roberts and liked the roles of the girls in the beginnin so Anna Paquin,Kirsten Bell,Lucy Hale, and all the other girls great job.  Im waiting for Scream 5 Wes! Fav Quote- "First about making a remake dont mess with the original" -Neve Campbell

The Cop. Irish Style The guard of the title is Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) of the Galway Garda in Western Ireland. Garda means policeman in Irish, so the movie should, actually, be called The Cop, and, in a way, The Guard is a cop movie. But one you have not seen before.  The story starts with Sergeant Boyle getting to the scene of a car crash and helping himself to some acid he finds in the pocket of one of the dead victims.  "It's a beautiful day," he announces to the world at large.  But soon his life gets complicated. It starts with the finding of a dead man, a cult murder it seems, followed by the disappearance of his new partner from Dublin and the arrival of a FBI agent from America to stop the smuggling of half a billion worth of drugs into Ireland.  "Is that street value?" our guard asks his counterpart FBI agent Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle) as the later briefs the Calway forces. And then, unperturbed by agent Wendell cool stare, he goes on to explain that they must be buying drugs in different streets because, in his, they are not worth that much.  Sergeant Boyle is not concerned about the drug smuggling, he has a murder to solve and a partner to find. But first, he takes a day off to indulge his erotic fantasies with two call girls he hires from Dublin.  Yes, Sergeant Boyle is quite an unorthodox cop. Yet, somehow, he is easy to root for. He loves his mother, for one, and bursts outrageously politically incorrect remarks with a straight face that makes us wonder whether he's totally clueless or pulling our leg. Agent Wendell wonders that too. And, as the story unfolds, his relationship with the Irish cop progresses from total disgust to guarded respect.  The Guard is a great laugh aloud movie, where nothing is sacred, even the IRA is brought into the mixture to comical effect. And the bad guys, cold blooded killers as they are, quote Bertrand Russell and Nietzsche, wonder on the difference between a psychopath and a sociopath and complain about the quality of people they are forced to deal with in their line of business. And, for a split second, you almost sympathize with them.

fantastic Tarentino makes good films and this is one of them.  It's one of the best movies I've ever seen.  It's a little lighter than some of his, but has elements of suspense.  The movie is both hilarious and thrilling.  The love story is pretty cute and Patricia Arquette's character super likable as is Christian Slater's, who comes across as really dumb, but a guy with a good heart.  The scenes with the mob characters have great dialogue.  Christopher Walken and James Gandolfini are excellent.

EXCELLENT 3D THE MOVIE IS VERY WELL DONE. THE 3D IS EXCELLENT. IF YOU HAVEN'T BAUGHT THIS MOVIE YET, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

Errol Flynn was bloody good Captain Blood was Errol Flynn's first major Hollywood leading role. He displays natural confidence on screen, and the essence of the story allows him to present himself to the viewer in several modes, which includes: a spirited slave and an ingenious pirate.  The film has a theme of injustice that is challenged by rebellion, with budding romance following each of these stages. The movie is deep with variety, which keeps the viewer well entertained.  Nicholas R.W. Henning - Australian Author

Hackers Having really enjoyed this movie for many years, I was surprised my oldest son, Andy, had never seen it.  I could not locate it in any of the stores near us, and was told to try Amazon, which worked out beautifully!  The movie arrived within a couple of days, and we enjoyed it together!  Thanks to Amazon!!

Best Show Ever Made On TV . This is legit the best show to ever come on TV . I was addicted to it as soon as the first episode premiered . You could seriously ask anyone I talk to about this show and they'll tell you that I love it . So hell yeah it's on DVD ! Who ever pre orders this is a tank . Love this . Rockin'MyAwk ! Who else is Rockin' Their Awk with me ?

A must buy for Martial artist Shihan John McGraugh by far is one of the greatest instructors i have had the honor of training under in my 15 years of martial arts training. His sword techniques are unmatched and where perfected in Japan. Let me say it my honest opinion his has great technique and i have seen people compete in the US open of martial arts. This video is a must buy for any martial artist out there and for the price without a doubt you won't be disappointed.

loved it I bought this movie because Octavia Spencer was in it & also because it looked good. The rich women of the south think that they are the only ones who rate. And the servents are way below them. One very nice young white woman is on the side of the help so she ask them to tell her what is really going on because she is writing a book to tell the truth.

Hip Hop Abs I love it. I'm in week two and am already seeing results. Its easy to learn. It doesn't take up a lot of time, at the most an hour a day, and that can be broken up into two parts, and then you get one day off to rest. I like that it starts you in weekly stages and adds more as you get stronger. It comes with an easy meal planning guide, or you can create your own meals. By learning dance moves you don't even feel like you are working out, and yet you are strengthening your body and shedding the pounds. I was a little hesitant to try this, and now I wish I would have started sooner! I cant wait to pop in the DVD even if I have had a long day!

The 2011 remake should HAVE NEVER BEEN MADE! I had seen the 2011 Daniel Craig American remake of the first film and thought it was very good... I was advised by an actor friend to see the 2009 Swedish trilogy version (these films)... and all I can say is the American remake should HAVE NEVER BEEN MADE! This trilogy is pure GENIUS! The acting is superb... no that is not strong enough... superlative... You will find yourself applauding after each film! A must BUY.

Watch this series! Fantastic show! Witty, fast paced and highly intelligent. Best series to come along in over a decade! I can not wait for Series three!!

birdtastic i love the movie called fly away home. it is about a girl who loses her mother in a car crash. she goes live with her father and his girlfriend in ontario canada on a farm. she is trying to fit in with them. she goes into the barn and she finds these litte baby chicks which she feeds and take care of them. a very heartfelt movie. my service was fast and courteous. thank you very much.

A classical tragedy I suppose I should start off by saying I am a closet romantic if my wife new I was writing this review (not so much a review as we all know what its about but more what I take from the story) she would definitely have a good laugh. I will be the first to admit the tears rolled during the final scenes of this movie even though I new the ending had a foregone conclusion. The first time I saw it I couldn't bear to watch it again as the lovelorn Almasy asks to die to escape his grief. After more than a decade I gave it another go yes the same old punch in the stomach was there at the end but this time I was able to appreciate the story more.  The movie's principal theme has been routinely described as "romantic" but you can not fail to notice the style of a classical tragedy which centers around the relationship and ultimate deaths of the three characters involved in the m&eacute;nage a trois (Almasy, Katherine and Geoffrey).  There have been many negative comments that it was nothing more than a tale of disgusting adultery by stereotypical upper class British aristocrats that centered on the lustful desires of the two utterly unlikable main characters. Personally I saw it differently. Was there adultery? Yes. Was it fair to the husband? No. Yet if they were weak in succumbing to their desires was he not as equally guilty in his murder/suicide bid. Which would be classified as the greater sin?  The two main characters have also been negatively reviewed as shallow and self centered and utterly unlikable and that they were never in love.  In one of the many dramatic scenes Katherine slaps Almasy hard in anger through sheer desperation at her own need for him, even as she comes to him for the first time, dressed in white, presenting herself as his true though not legal bride who needs him more than she can bear. She hates and loves him at the same time; is ecstatically happy and miserably unhappy at the same time as she confesses to him, fully aware of what is happening to her, yet unable and ultimately unwilling to resist it.  In the beginning Almasy treats Katherine with cool indifference yet behind this mask his eyes begin to give away the passion that is beginning to build within him. The penetrating stare he gives Katherine at Shepeards Hotel as they dance the foxtrot is loaded with sexual tension so much so that Katherine cannot hold it but looks away and demurely looks back a second time.  Many people ask did Katherine and Almasy love each other the answer is proven by Almasy's three day trek across the desert to save her which tragically fails, his return to the cave to fulfill his promise to take her home to be buried in England even though he knew she was dead. When he tells Katherine as they lie together in his room "that here you are a different wife" is obviously a guarded reference that he wishes to possess her even though he knows legally she cannot be his wife, yet he still claims a part of her as his own, foregoing his own abhorrence of ownership. One of the most painful moments of the movie is when he demands; "dance with me, I want to touch you, I want the things that are mine, that belong to me" you cannot fail to feel the anguish of their love for each other. The thimble he gives her at the Cairo market is a classical symbol of love and togetherness forever, yet tragically he never utters the words I love you that are symbolic of so many love stories. Yet in this story the need for such sentiments is dramatically unnecessary as Fiennes and Scott Thomas have an onscreen chemistry not seen since Rhett and Scarlet captured our hearts in another war/romance/epic.  Many viewers were also unable to understand the attraction between Almasy and Katherine which was blithely discounted as pure lust. To label it such shows a complete disregard by some viewers for the intricacies of the acting and the script.  Who was Almasy; this man who tells Madox "There is no God," who states and enacts the fact he does not want to be owned by anyone that he wants to be in control of his own destiny and seems unwilling to believe that he can succumb to the greater force of love. That only insures that he will fall so much the harder for resisting and denying it.  By loving Almasy, Katherine also violates her own choice to stay, in effect, spiritually a virgin: by having married her best friend from childhood rather than anyone who would cause her pain, she had made a conscious decision to shun passion. We get an insightful glimpse of Katherine when Geoffrey states; "she was always crying on my shoulder about someone I finally convinced her to settle for my shoulder stroke of genius really". That was what Katherine did she settled she gave up on love as much as Almasy shunned it  Their need for each other, for love was eventually much greater than there ability to resist it which overshadowed for them all the other horrible consequences of their affair. As Amasy states; "The rest meant nothing to me" his reference that his promise to comeback was all the was important to him. Generally in life we do not choose who we love, I like to think love chooses us and in this respect Almasy and Katherine were doomed from the start.  This is a movie you will not fully appreciate on the first, second or even third viewing as there are so many; intricacies, facial expressions and symbolistic subjects intertwined into the story. eg ( Look for the shadow of a cross on Almasys face as they plan their liaison during the Christmas party symbolic of their sin on a religious festivity). (When in the cave with the injured Katherine he promises to come back for her that he will never leave her he leaves his Herodotus with her his only true possession to symbolize the fact he will return). Hope I have pushed you in the right direction.  Enjoy.

Great product! This is a great dvd.  Got it for my son as a gift.  Pretty funny and great for parties.  My kids used to watch his show when they were younger.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel I thought this movie was excellent -- I am a fan of Judy Dench.  I thought she and all the other stars gave  excellent performances.

You are either a fan of the Corey's or you aren't. I like this movie, I have since I was a teenager and I'm glad it was rereleased on DVD finally.  Sit back and enjoy a classic teen movie from the 80s.  The hair, the posters, the cars, etc. All 80s rolled into a fun movie.  You aren't supposed to learn anything, it won't win any awards or be critically acclaimed. It's a Haim/Feldman movie that I find a lot of fun.

Another for my collection I am collecting all the Oscar winning movies and Million Dollar Baby was one I didn't have, and now I do. It arrived in great time, in great condition, and for the right price. Thank You.

Very Heartwarming Shows I am so happy to have these DVDs.  I really wish they would release the rest of the Highway to Heaven DVDs.  Michael Landon and Victor French and the whole crew I applaud you.  Great Job!  When I watch these DVDs I can't help but to feel uplifted.  The acts of kindness, and compassion, etc.  If anyone is reading this and has the power to help release the rest of the Highway to Heaven seasons please help with that.  The world needs more programming like this.  There are very few like this anymore.  Wayne Dyer says "Choosing to be kind is also a choice to make the Power of Intention active in your life. The beneficial effects of kindness on the immune system and the increased production of serotonin have been proven. Conversely, unkindness weakens the body and puts us into a state of dissonance. So extend acts of kindness; ask for nothing in return."  If you would like to make your life more positive check out this website  just google this: healyourlife

A Shot in the Dark One of the funniest movies I own - maybe THE funniest!  Peter Sellers is hilarious.  I think you should buy it.

beautiful imagery product was exactly as described. it has been a beautiful and relaxing video to watch. no problems. i am a happy customer.

Great summer flick! I was a bit skeptical at first, given that Cage sometimes chooses mediocre roles, but found myself very sucked into the story and so glad I gave it a chance!  Lots of twists and surprises and the ending does not disappoint.

Love it! I recommend this movie to everybody. It is a great movie and exposes Japan for what they are doing to innocent dolphins. A must see.

Quigley Rides Again -- in our minds. Readers/Listeners,  Basil Polidouris outdid himself with this music.  I believe he borrowed just a bit from the 1960s' TV series, "The Wild Wild West," and that's a GOOD thing.  Very spirited theme, on both counts.  Get this CD.  As an aside, did you know Tom Selleck went to his doctor, complaining that he felt a little "Quigley Down Under"?  [Sorry about that.]

The L Word Complete Series Exactly what I wanted and paid for at a decent price. Every disk worked perfect, love the casing for the series. Excellent delivery time and packaging.

Awesome This movie is a classic! I needed it to complete my James Bond collection. Plays great and the quality is perfect!

eye opener on our crumbling education system Great documentary pointing out the failures in our public education system.  Backed up with plenty of facts.  Everyone must see this.  The more people know what is happening, the more pressure will be put on our politicians to do the right thing as they are now doing in Wisconsin and Ohio.

Not for the faint of heart If there has ever been a movie that has the potential to make a man have an emotional reaction it is this one! This is an all-around great movie with at least some historical value, but as my title indicates is not for those who have a low tolerance of graphic violence, which this movie has in spades. The acting, drama, action, romance, visuals, and even the score is excellent. If you're a fan of this period in history than this movie is definitely a must see.

Go Blu Ray if you haven't already You wouldn't think it would make that much difference, but between a DVD and a Blu Ray of this movie it is astounding the quality of sound and picture.  Go for it!

A Must-View For Any MMA Fan Anderson Silva Like Water spends most of its 96 minutes on the lead up to UFC 117, Silva vs. Sonnen I.  In fact, it could be viewed as the ultimate bonus feature for UFC 117.  It spends a bit of time on his background and his homelife in Brazil.  However, the vast majority of the documentary is about his training sessions, "day in the life" type segments, and interviews with a variety of people (not just Silva, but Ed Soares, Dana White, Chael Sonnen, and others).  There's also a segment with Silva coaching one of his friend's matches at a smaller MMA promotion.  Overall, it's an interesting behind-the-scenes look at Silva's life and is highly recommended for any MMA fan, or anyone interested in the life of a professional fighter.  It gives the story of Silva that has been largely untold, as well as a look at all the things that go into the lead-up to a fight.

Love this movie I bought this movie a long time ago my daughter, then 18 months, loved it and watched it over and over again.  She is now four.  I thought this was a very cute movie with a good point which is you are family no matter what happens.  My daughter watched it over and over and I never had any trouble with her mimicking anything she saw on TV.  She also understood the point of the movie, "Ohana" no one gets left behind.  I am not sure why there are so many negative reviews about this movie but we never had a problem.  I plan on letting my next child, due in Feb, watch this movie as well.  It doesn't have anyone die in it like a lot of Disney movies even though Lilo's parents are deceased.  I thought it was one of the best starter movies of Disney.

Great Movies This is movies for anyone who likes complex crime stories, an escaped convict who get in a middle of story where the wife tries to kill a black mailer and then her cheating husband, who is sleeping with her sister. The story gets lots of twists and turns and laughs. They must cooperate or both go to jail, with hilarious complications. This is definitely worth own and watching you will love it.

Ms. Alexis I love the dvds it took a little wait but once l got them l see it was worth the wait

Great 3D Movie!!!! Okay, the storyline and acting were not the greatest BUT the dance sequences and the 3D effects are just great!  If you are looking a film that displayes great acting and a very in-depth storyline, pass on this one, it isn't for you.  But, if you are looking for a feel-good movie with awesome dancing sequences and soem REALLY awesome 3D effects (I've NEVER seen anything like this in non-animation movies) then this is the movie for you...  if you are like me and looking to stack your 3D video library, this will be a great addition....

Dr Hook and the medicine show live I love dr hook i think this dvd of them is great as i seen them live when they came to australia quite a few years ago and would like to find more of their shows  thanking you j. rayner

Great Series I first saw Season Two on TNT, which I enjoyed.  It is a great mixture of a tough cop and knowledgeable doc.  These two ladies, their family and their male sidekicks make a great story.  Since there are several "medical-person-turned-crime-solver" series today, this one has an edge to it that is very good.  It was great to see what I had missed in Season One with this DVD set.  The quality of the picture and sound are clear.  If you enjoy watching a good police mystery with interesting characters, this series is for you.

Star of Bethlehem DVD This DVD contains a very interesting story about the Star of Bethlehem and what caused the star and why it did all the things recorded in the Bible.

Great Movie This is a great movie that I have been wanting to see for a long time.  I got a really good price on this item AND I got it very very quickly.  I would recommend this product to all my friends

A wonderful retelling of Cinderella Not all movies available today are as sweetly retold as this re-do of the Cinderella classic tale. It's actors carry their parts as an ensemble and no deeply evil theme is portayed as the more recent fairy tale plot movies.  It is nice to have a sweet choice like this one.

OMG, Some of you have got to be kidding OK, OK, we too were surprised when we got it out of the library that it was Wallace and Gromit hosting a show about inventors and their inventions, and not a series of Wallace and Gromit shorts with all their crazy inventions.  Well the fact is it is so amazing, we are buying it for gifts for young and old alike.  You will be stunned by the REAL inventions out there, and the stories behind them.  If you have a curious mind, or you want to inspire curiosity in a young one, then this is a movie for you.  And as a reminder it just has short cute vignettes of Wallace and Gromit, but the real stars are the REAL inventions.

One of the best fantasy tv series to date 4.6 stars  Why is HBO so far beyond its competitors? They keep on making cinema-quality series while the other networks make pure drivel. Game Of Thrones is quite simply, like The Sopranos, The Wire and so many other HBO shows, in another class altogether from what's on TV.  HBO is tailor-made for folks like me who avoid TV and grab the pick of the litter when it comes out on dvd. Or in this case blu-ray, which is perfect for such a lush production as GOT. Everything here is top-notch, while focusing on character above all (though never sacrificing huge sets and epic landscapes). Martin's books do, and that's why this is such a fine choice for adaptation: drama and lots of it. There's plenty of slash and hack for action fans (and be warned, there's some very graphic stuff, but less sensational violence and more brutally real), yet the real focus is on relationships, and the fine acting makes it work.  There's not a duff performance in the bunch, and some real winners, above all Dinklage and Gillen, who as in The Wire plays a morally-challenged political weasel to perfection. Dinklage has a small part, but works it to the hilt (as in the original Death At A Funeral, such a great film). There are myriad plot lines here, and the excellent casting makes it all work. Harrington and Bean are two other standouts.  The pacing of this first season is truly impressive, as is the credit the viewer is given for having some brains. Many things are hinted at rather than spoonfed to us, and it involves us to a much greater and more satisfying extent. Plus, in a rare twist, the series is very true to the books, and some of it is even written by Martin. Respect for the author's vision! What a novel concept...  Above all, I like that they didn't try to make Lord Of The Rings again (HB RR O)---this is fantasy but it's more concerned with people than mythical creatures, and that keeps it always compelling. If they keep this series at this level it will go down with The Sopranos and The Wire as one of the best tv series ever made.  {Edit: 4/12/12. Well that won't be the case judging from the first few episodes of season two. Looks like killing off your best actor and character ain't a very good idea. This new season just feels more Hollywood than the first so far. Too bad.]

Great Gift Bought this for my son and he totally love this set. The toys are collectible and well-made. I wish the box is more durable or at least in better casing.

Best. Comedy. Ever. You have to buy this movie.  I grew up watching various SNL movies, especially this one which is largely resposible for a majority of my personality and sense of humor.  You really can't go wrong with any of the SNL movies from the 90s.  Especially Wayne's World and Night at the Roxbury.  In fact you should get them all ... "for a chance to be an extra in a movie with positive moral values" ...seriously.

Great workout! Just finished this workout, I have purchased many dvd's but have to say, this is my favorite!! Loved it! I'm 47 and have bad knees so most dvd's are hard on them, not this one, it does the workouts in miles, nothing hard to follow just a great pace keeps you heartrate up and you can work out at your own pace. I would recomend this to anyone who can walk, get started, it's a wonderful way to get healthy! Loved it!

DVD The horse whisper It is a inspiring and most warming heartfelt story. I can't say this movie is a word to describe a material for our daily living.  Best movie to watch for my Physical Education, related with people who going through amputation.  Best,  MM

Perfection This package came very fast and is perfect.  Great movie that people have forogtten about.  A must see movie.  Its Jim Henson and there are even outtakes at the end.  So perfect for any child in the holiday season

war horse wow what an action movie i loved it from start to finish even found myself crying at the end of the movie a+ thanks amazon

Saawariya Beautifully done! Spectacular, like a play set to music. Will keep you singing all day long. I loved the movie and bought the CD to choreograph a dance to. Never expected to enjoy all the songs on this disk but I do.

Gorgeous! This is the real thing.  I don't know how else to describe this DVD.  I've tried to do this with instructors in person and with other DVDs but was never really inspired.  This DVD does that for me. I aspire to move the way the instructor does.  What a gorgeous "dance".  It may take me a while to be as fluid as he is but by golly I'm going to do it!  I highly recommed this DVD and would encourage you to buy his book on the same subject as well as it helps clarify what each movement is about and why it's done, etc.  Very highly recommended.

SIMPLEMENTE GRANDIOSA I love t.v. series like the sopranos, six feet under, nip/tuck, mandrake,band of brothers,breaking bad, xy ,etc. but madmen yeah madmen let me tell you this ,the first time that i saw madmen i was impact for the topic becuase i had never been imagined the way that they sell the products and how  to convince the people to love some products, also the charm for the era,the dress fashion ,the ideas of that time, the maleness, the way they make deals, just amazing. The four season is just what i expected and a little more , all the characters in some way suffer by differents situations but at the end all of them are involved for the same company and that means everything. The character of Don Draper oh gosh i just loved him, sometimes is arrogant,others times a genius, lonely, scared for his own past, always drunk, selfish ,merly lost,  but at the end everyone has a light. If you love the previous seasons you gonna love this I can assure you that.

What could I say? This movie is a classic.  For the era, the special effects are great and the acting was VERY well done.  I still find myself quoting some of the lines from the movie.

I've dreamt of a blu-ray this jaw droppingly stunning... ...and now I've finally found it. I don't usually write short one note reviews like this but there are enough reviews on the story and film itself. I just have to say that I was simply amazed at the beautiful quality of this film on blu-ray. You can truly see the light, the darks and everything in between.  It might be the most fantastic looking of all my blu-ray titles, and I own quite a few. If you are one of the people who have not yet stepped up to blu-ray I highly suggest this in high definition, it comes with the DVD too and will be well worth it in the long run.  It just look gorgeous, one of the first films I've bought that looks as good or better at home than it did in the theater. I'm happy to own this Disney computer animated fairy tale, it might be their most beautifully animated film yet and hopefully they find a way to present more fairy tales this way. Now on to the next dream...  Thanks  P.S. I do wish there had been more special features, a director's commentary would have been nice or a longer making of documentary than twelve minutes, luckily I can at least watch this enchanting film over and over, it's that resplendent, dazzling, exquisite whatever word you want to use.

The Client List I absolutely love this show! I thought I was gonna hate it because it was on Lifetime but I was pleasantly surprised!!!! Congrats to JLH and the cast for an awesome job. I hope her and Evan do hook up although it would be kind of hard to explain to the kids. And her hot loser husband who is MIA should comeback to see what he lost.

This is great stuff After years of search, researchers of this Fritz Lang masterpiece found missing footage in Argentina and created this wonderfully restored 2 ½ hour version that is pretty accurate to what was originally intended.  Most sci-fi fans are well aware of the legacy "Metropolis" left for future filmmakers.  As a lover of "Blade Runner", I first became aware of the film years ago and in fact, have 3 other versions including a rare version with a rock soundtrack.  The politics of the film are undeniable as we find the futuristic city of Metropolis inhabited by the workers who build the cities, work to keep them running and stoke the fires that produce the energy needed.  There are others inhabitants.  They are the ones who live the good life, sucking its pleasures and using the resources without giving any thought to others.  Lang's futuristic look is spectacular as was the budget for the day.  The visual designs evoke a beautiful art deco feel.  The acting of course looks ridiculously over the top, not unusual for the time.  The original musical score is updated here by Frank Strobel and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.  This is great stuff.

Willy The Candy Man Wonka This is a very good movie and I dont know why they remade it. that was a great big mistake as this will always be the better of the two. Anyway its pretty funny and pretty good. You should get it.

High schools should have a copy for students to view! If you want convincing evidences for evolution, this DVD set is it. I watched it over and over again. The DVD about the Dover Pennsylvania trial on Intelligent Design is also a excellent walkthrough of the flaws and fallacies about intelligent design, and convincing evidences of evolution - both as a fact and a well supported scientific theory. High schools should have a copy for students to view!

Good film - Sticks to the book I was impressed how they condensed and conveyed the story so well, given how long and complez the novel is. I truly enjoyed the film and the performances, as have the people I've shown it to. And I have to thank the professional critics for bringing my attention to the film. The more their political bias showed in their bashing of it, the more intrigued I got. Im not a huge fan of Rand's, but I relish an innovative and well-constructed plot - and this film does the book justice.

Unique and Quirky This is not like any other western I have seen.  The dialog is unusual and funny and cinematography outstanding.  Pure entertainment!

Powerful, Shocking Amazing performances from Margo Martindale, Hanah Hall, and Adam Scarimbolo (whose performance I also loved in "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints"). "Scalene" show three different perspectives of the same story, involving the assault and rape of a college student (Hall) by the mentally challenged young man she looks after (Scarimbolo). Soon, the young man's mother (Martindale) comes looking for revenge.  With a shocking climax and scenes of great drama and intensity throughout, "Scalene" will leave a lasting impression in your psyche.

great twist on an old story My family truly enjoyed this movie.  There aren't too many adult humor references such as Surely or Hoodwinked, but it is quite humorous and entertaining for both young and old.

Miss it on Netflix! Stumbled across this Yoga video when it was on Netflix for free, and I miss it dearly now that it's gone! Wish it was a little less expensive, and I'd buy it. I may break down, and do so anyways. Great stretches, and routine!

A Swayze classic. A classic guys movies that has parts for gals as well. Not for "deep thinkers" but excellent brain candy for sheer enjoyment.

sci fi tastic The Abyss is a very long movie being only ten minutes short of three hours, being the special edition of the film.  but it is all worth it.  for being a older film the graphic design of the aliens and their city/ mother ship is great.  The effects rival some of cgi effects used in so many movies today.  I will not go into much story plot detail because if you have seen this movie you know what it is about.  BUY THE SPECIAL EDITION OF THE ABYSS YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.  THE ONLY THING I WISH IS THAT THIS MOVIE WOULD BE RELEASED ON BLU RAY. IT WOULD BE GREAT ON BLU RAY.  HOPEFULLY ONE DAY IT WILL BE RELEASESED ON BLU.

love this movie!!! SO excited that  this movie  came out on blu ray!!  This classic movie  looks amazing in HD!!!  Get it!! Get it!!!

Demolition Man This 90's Scifi classic turns the man from the past genre on its head. featuring the classic pairing of Pratt and Bullock as partners. and dennis leary in his cleanest live action role as the down and dirty Edgar Friendly. and of course everbody's favorite high class resturant Taco Bell

Getting the Story and Getting It Right "All the President's Men," a cinimatic gem from the 1970's, tells the story of how hard journalism unraveled the Watergate scandal and led to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon.  "Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) follow leads after a burglary at Washington's Watergate building seems to suggest far more than a routine break-in.  Directed by Alan J. Pakula, the movie is based on the Woodward/Bernstein book and explores a working newspaper where the goal is to get the story and get it right.  The film received eight Oscars, including Best Supporting Actor for Jason Robards as Ben Brantley, editor of "The Washington Post."  Bonus extras include a making-of documentary; the featurettes "Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire" and "Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat;" commentary by Robert Redford; 36-page book with extensive background on Watergate, including an investigative timeline; and a vintage Jason Robards interview from the TV show "Dinah!"

SOA=AMAZING My boyfriend got me hooked on this show right before Season 3 came out. I devoured Seasons 1&2 and was dying to see Season 3. It takes a lot for me to get hooked on a tv show, mainly because I don't just sit down and watch tv. But this show is riveting, it truly sucks you in from the beginning and you feel like you're right there with all the characters. Part of me actually wanted to be an "old lady" by the end of Season 1!!! I recommend it for anyone who is looking for something other then trash reality tv, crime scene shows, and medical drama. I have FINALLY found something other then all of the above that's worth watching!!!

Bandits This movie, Bandits, is the best of all time.  It is absolutely hilarious.  Billy Bob Thornton is at his best!  Bruce Willis is as wonderful as always, and doesn't disappoint this time.  Cate Blanchett is beautiful, a wonderful comedic actress.  The 3 of them together must have been handpicked.  They play off of each other so well.  I have seen this movie probably 5 times and the lines are as funny now as the first time I saw it.  I love it and easily give it a 5 star!

Fried Green Tomatoes This is the best movie I've ever seen.  Such a heartwarming and touching movie that will make you laugh and cry.  The actors were all so awesome in their respective roles. This is a movie for all time.

loved it! A great movie for kids and adults. If you liked a Nightmare before Christmas, you'll love this. This is the first time I liked the movie better than the book. Coraline is a spunky kid who stumbles into an alternate universe that seems better than her own, until she discovers a dark haunting secret. Scary for very young kids.

katie Maria Wern is one of the best Swedish mystery series available in the United States. Wish their were more than seven episodes. All of the actors are outstanding!

Nobody puts Baby in the corner Finally Amazon Prime gets some new movies in its line-up! Watched this one tonight and was pleasantly surprised. Jennifer Grey still rocks (should've never "fixed" her nose, it was perfect to begin with), Patrick Swayze is still a hunk (R.I.P.), the music is great, and nobody puts Baby in the corner. Love this flick and its message that true lover conquers all, but only if you're willing to fight for it.

Movie The product arrived in a well packed package. The product was like new condition. Delivered was with in the forecast arrival time.

One of the best B-movies ever This movie is simply put one of the greatest horror films ever made, it has everything mad scientists, zombie like people, gore and more. It is very original. Jeffery Combs is fanastic as Herb West.They don't get much better than this.

the great John Candy i think that this is a funny John Candy film.  this is about him having to watch his nephew and niece while there parents are away.  a great and funny movie because if you know candy there would be lots of humor.

entertaining for the whole family My daughter loves it because of the long hair, my husband and son laugh at the funny horse in it, and I like the musical facet.  A great remake of a great story, not too hard to explain to a 4 year old- not a bunch of people getting killed all over the place.  Excellent movie.  We like to get the DVD for the car, the digital for the tablet, and the Blu ray for the big screen.  Totally worth the few extra bucks.

Awesome! This DVD hasto be the best pilate workout.  Kristin McGee is very thorough and knowledgeable about all the pilate moves.  And her voice is not annoying, like some instructors, it is pleasant and relaxing.

One of my favorites! Everyone in our family loves this movie!  Entertaining for the kids and entertaining for us adults.  Some really funny parts.  Other reviewers have gone into detail, so I'll save everyone an in depth review from me.  Just wanted to share how much we love this flick!

Good movie Bought this classic so that I can get rid of the tape I had and replace it with a dvd. I must say that the product arrive in excellent condition and the tape played very well. Will definitely get some more classics to complete my collection of dvd cartoons. The story of Bambi makes for a great cartoon for adults and children alike.

cat people live couldnt wait too get this movie for my library once i saw it was still out there, the movie was great then and even better now

Not A Single Complaint :) I had my doubts about this movie, but I knew I had to buy it after watching only 20 minutes. I found the portrayal of American California girls very interesting. I am from Indiana, and I admit, several things that Poppy (the main character) and her friends did line up with prejudices that I've developed through American media. So, seeing that was amusing, but made me wonder if Europeans thought all Americans acted that way (because we do not). I know not all Californians do, either.  I could not stop laughing, and these were laughs, not chuckles. I LOVED seeing Poppy's hand sanitizer. I had bought my own bottle a few days before watching the movie.  There was not a single character that I did not like. Though, Alex Pettyfer's hair could be improved. ;)  I like his style in "I Am Number 4" better, but I digress. The actors were beyond amazing, and consequently, I loved the characters. I loved their hair, accents, clothes, facial expressions, everything. The movie was a true delight, and I'm planning to watch it with my Mom. ^_^  ALSO: I am a Christian, and I personally loved the way the headmistress handled Poppy's case. Too many times in Church we encounter wild child Poppys, and we condemn them. We yell at them, order them to clean their act up, show disgust to them, etcetera. Then, we usually chase them out of the Church because they're just too wild. I think Christians should watch this movie because of the valuable lesson in it: Call out the good in people.  Poppy acted the way she did because she was hurting inside. She missed her mother. Many times in real life, people commit negative, hurtful deeds because they are hurting inside. As Christians, we are called to do what Christ did, which was HEAL them and NEVER condemn them. If you heal the wound, the behavior changes automatically. But if you try to "fix" behavior without healing the wound, well, that is as silly as trying to "fix" the speakers without turning the radio to an actual radio station. The behavior is not the problem. It's the manifestation of the problem.  NDN

This aint Mr. Ed- Its War Horse!!!!! No need for another overly intellectual movie review. Just want you all to know I personally loved this movie for all the emotion and sentimental scenes that teach us that love and hope endures forever. If not for Mr. Spielberg who then is making this kind of beautiful throwback movie to the good old days? I had to watch The Black Stallion as soon as I got home. War Horse is a wonderful film of heart, blood, sweat and the biggie-tears!!!! War Horse II anyone?

great family night movie! Great family movie filled with historical reminders and a great storyline.  I noticed no bad language or sexual references. Thanks Disney!

Top Item Been looking for this item for ages and finally got it. Haven't stopped playing it since. Great item and love everything about it.

Drag Me To Hell Review This movie blew me to pieces!!! Every single bit of it is impressive! If you haven't found a good horror in a long time, this is it!!!

Excellent movie Special movie based on true story about a normal girl who wanted to be a super star but she became finally one of the VIP. This movie is best picture and best story dont miss watching it

Others have said it better but... More eloquent writers than I have reviewed this movie and I suggest you read them if you need more in depth reviews.  Mine is simple, I was raised during the civil rights movement in the south.  I have seen hate, violence and the anger.  I saw it one sided but later in life I have tried to understand it from a different view.  This movie hit me in the gut in so many ways.  If only the lower raters would give it a chance for what it is.  It is not a action packed "Irish thugs killling and revenge" type of plot.  Pass it up if that is what you want.  I watched it twice so far and I see more each time.  The actors do a super job but also the background re-inforces the feelings of the moment.  The tea kettle in the scene where the murderer makes a decision gives you an external feeling of what is inside the man.  Well done but do not expect it to be intertaining, it is to open eyes and hearts, if you are ready and serious about doing that.

LOVE this movie! I first saw this movie as a little girl in the 90's and I LOVE it! It is very fun, entertaining, and enjoyable! :) The plot is adventurous, the music is awesome, and the characters are loveable just like they always are! :)

great movie This movie is well written.. LOVE IT!!! I bought it on VHS so the quality is not amazing, but it didn't even matter.This is a great movie.

good Your movie arrived in time, good service.  Loved the movie.  Thank you for sending the movie so quickly.  thanks, Larry

Crazy and hilarious! We ordered this one based on some of the reviews we read, and it is absolutely worth every penny! I have decided to make it a new Christmas tradition in our family, ala Santa with muscles or a Christmas story. The parts that involve Santa are very funny, but the Thumbelina splice in story was not nearly as funny....I wish it was all Santa, all Easter bunny. If your young kids are busting out with laughter in the first few minutes, you know its gonna be good!!!

The String , Loved it. Yes, I too bought it for Salim Kechiouche, and Claudia Cardinale. I didn't know the other actors but I was pleasantly surprised. A lovely film, setting was beautiful enjoyed the other actors also. Glad I bought it have watched it several times.

Best baseball Movie Out Most movies about sports (besides "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000MNOX94">The Natural (Director's Cut)</a>") are usually weird, cliche and not really good story or character pieces, aside from not properly portraying the games and how the players actually think in them.  Throw that all out the window for this movie.  This movie accurately captures what it is like to be on the field.  The voice overs are very close to what my friend and myself said we  were thinking when we played in High School.  Your mind is every where.  Your ability to focus is key, which is shown very creatively cinematically in this movie.  This movie also is a great story for Kevin Costner's Character.  Lots of flash backs based that give context and depth to his current problem make for a really interesting story.  The movie is certainly a drama with lots of romance interwoven.  It is hard to describe the story without revealing much.  Much of the movie is him pitching, while flashing back to memories of his life with a girlfriend.  One thing that I loved, but also kind bother me was Vin Scully announcing.  As a Dodgers fan, there is NOTHING better than hearing Vin announce a game (Vin Scully is does the TV broadcast for the Dodgers alone and is an old-school, one man show).  He is a living legend and one of a kind.  The problem is he would never announce a Yankees Detroit Game, but is a perfect fit nonetheless for the role and type of movie this is.  Overall, a great movie, especially considering most sports movies are awkward and clich&eacute;.  This one was not.  A great movie for baseball fans and movie fans.

nonstop laughs I just loved this film; everyone in my house did from age 9 to 50! It was certainly entertaining but it also made you stop and think. There are a lot of messages the viewer should take away from this movie.

Love this set The extras on this set are great, as usual the commentaries give you an chance to find out what might be involved/behind the making  a show such as this.

hilarious!! This was one of the funniest indi movies that I've seen in a long time. The cast was great. Lots of unexpected names.

Unpredictable Insanity well portrayed, madness at question -- The twists and turns kept me watching and in suspense.  Just when I thought I had found a huge error in the plot, I realized the brilliance of opportunity.  You won't expect the ending.

Puss in Boots This was well worth waiting for.  The character of Puss is played so well you actually believe what he says.  The character of Kitty Softpaws is awesome as she can make moves you don't see.  The story line really puts a big dent into some fairy tales I have read, but who doesn't need a little shake up now and then.  This is a good family movie and worth a lot of laughs for everyone.

EXCELLENT! This is a superb film. It is one which established Jeremy Irons as the remarkable actor that he is. In order to demonstrate this for oneself, one has only to look at his versatility as seen in films as diverse as "Brideshead Revisited" and "Diehard II". Not to detract from Ms. Close, whose version of Sunny von Bulow is remarkable, but Mr. Irons' portrayal of Claus von Bulow is jaw-dropping! When he is onscreen, one can look at nobody else. These two wonderful performers are helped by a top-notch supporting cast. An excellent cast, a wonderful script, great cinematography combinw to make this one of the best movies in several decades. I urge you to see it!

Johnny the Coolest! I saw this movie years ago and since then have found it very difficult to track down until ordering from amazon recently. I wasn't aware of the fact that is was Lawfords first trial through his production company at the time. Silva does a fine job walking through each scene trying to look tough with that baby face. Sammy has a small role, but seems fairly smooth as the suave gambling foil. Montgomery pulls together a real gem in one of her earliest movie roles. You don't have to be a rat packer to enjoy this piece. Not a classic, but it is a solid production . . . Thanks Mr. Lawford!

The Best of the Avengers Series I personally am not a superhero comic book reader, nor am I really a fan of the genre.  This movie changed my perspective on all of that.  I had been skeptical of even watching this particular film.  Before this movie I honestly didn't find Robert Downey Jr. to be a compelling actor.  Boy was I wrong.  Downey is spectacular as Tony Stark and has proved to me to be a very capable iconic character actor. (His portrayal of Holmes was great too but that's another review).  He's funny, snarky, flawed, and not the traditional hero that we are all so used to, which made me root for him even more.  He makes us love Tony despite the fact that the character's demeanor is meant to not be liked.  The graphics are great, the story is strong, and kudos for Gwen Paltrow. Her role as Pepper Potts is also nontraditional.  She's not the damsel in distress we're all use to, and is the perfect opposite for Downey's role. This is a refreshing new take of a superhero story and has thrown me head first into the whole Marvel universe as a new fan. Strong Cast and just a fun movie to watch.  Highly suggested for everyone, even the non superhero types out there.

Wish I was there Detoured to Bethel NY to visit the site of the Woodstock festival.  The hillside where the concert occurred is still there and preserved in honor of this seminal event.  There's a Woodstock museum there now and an amphitheater for concerts is adjacent to where the 1969 festival was held.  After seeing the place, I had to get the video.  I just wish I would have been old enough to go.  Three days of peace and music and nothing but peace and music...  Thank you Mr. Yasgur!

100% better than the regular DVD! I recently watched the original DVD for this movie, and it is so grainy and broken up with the two lines in the viewing that I decided to buy the Blue-ray version just to see if it is any better. It is 100% better! It is in wide-screen format so you loose a bit, but the quality was excellent. Go Blue ray period!

This is worth a ten star rating.... Shortly to the end of the dvd set I realized there has to be more, then found this finale. Now that I've finished watching all the Farscape series all I can say is I WANT MORE!!

Awesome entertainment for every age FINALLY!  We have been waiting for this to go to DVD, and now it's here.  This has been one of our families favorite movies ever since it first hit the screen.  Buy it now, you won't be disappointed.

Jesse Stone:  No Remorse Robert Parker books are some of my favorites; I have read them all.  His modern day characters are enjoyable.  Tom Selleck is the perfect Jesse Stone.  I have all six Jesse Stone movies on DVD.  Each has been viewed more than once.  I would highly recommend all of them.

Brainy Baby 123 My son loves this product because of it's vivid imagery as well as how it makes it easy for infants and toddlers to follow. My son is 2.2 and he knows his ABCs.

Men in Black As a family we enjoyed this set of dvds. They're just as funny and entertaining as when they were released. Great for those who enjoy adventure, science fictiion and humor all rolled into one.

A great action-filled movie I saw this movie in the theaters, and I figured I would buy the DVD when it came out.  One of the more action-packed movies that I've seen in a long time, especially since it was based on a true story.  Definitely check it out.

MY FAVORITE OF ALL TIME! I ADORE THIS MOVIE! DOES ANYONE KNOW IF IT IS RELEASED ON DVD! I WOULD SO SPEND MONEY TO BUY THIS! THIS TAKEN ME BACK!!!

Great family western film. Lots of people may be disappointed with this film but I think it's great.It's a film the whole family can watch.It's great to see Terence Hill back in action with his six-guns,horse,and his witty humor.It also fun to see Paul Sorvino almost taking Bud Spencer's place,though with his own sense of humor.Don't miss the sequel Triggerman.

Heathens & Thieves - award-winning, awesome! Got to view the premiere of this movie, HEATHENS AND THIEVES! Awesome story. Has won a number of awards at various film festivals, including Best Feature and Best Actress. Exciting!!

Hillarious If you're looking for a murder mystery that will keep you guessing until the end, filled with laughs and some great acting I highly recommend these movies.  I'm 30 years old and an adrenaline junky usually, and I'll still gladly sit down and watch these movies.

Great film, never looked better This movie is superb. If you've not seen it, do. The blu ray looks awesome and is the sharpest I've seen this film. It also contains both the original release and the better, more violent director's cut. Good stuff.

Don Knotts 4 Movie Pack These are FUN movies and they are family friendly! The Ghost and Mr. Chicken is the best of his film work, with the Reluctant Astronaut a close second! In these movies the "Underdog/Nice Guy" finishes FIRST! With witty humor and slapstick comedy.

Christmas drama rich with comedy and emotion A charming and warm, feel good family christmas drama. Nothing Like The Holidays is an entertaining exploration of the bonds of a tightly knit Puerto Rican family living in Chicago. The ensemble is superb, of particular note for their standout performances are Luis Guzman, and Freddy Rodriguez in the role of Jesse. Rodriguez portrays with sensitively and realism the emotions of a solider returning home from Iraq. Like you'd expect, there are tear-jerking moments but also plenty of laughs. All in all an enjoyable christmas movie.

Great DVD! This instructional dvd is awesome.  It is so helpful.  I feel like I can do so much more with my photography now!

A Gift from the Movie Gods The Devil's Own is the kind of taut, well-paced action thriller that a viewer can sit back and enjoy-until it moves you to the edge of your seat.  For some reason, Brad  Pitt does his best work wirh older alpha males like Harrison Ford added to the mix. No movie can ever explain the historical complexities of an epoch like The Troubles.  This movie does, however, do what the movies do at their best-show that there are no simple answers to complex problems.  Harrison Ford as New York Irish cop, Tom O' Meara, welcomes Frankie McGuire (Brad Pitt) into his family as a boarder from the old country, not knowing that he is an IRA operative and assassin. Frankie has seen things that children should not see in the struggle between Irish Catholics and Protestants in Belfast. This is vividly displayed in the movie's opening scene.  Frankie is emotionally scarred for life when his father meets a violent  end in a place that is normally every child's final refuge.  His cold, handsome eyes reflect the trauma throughout the remainder of the movie.  Bringing danger into an innocent happy home is an effective dramatic device that will engage the viewer without fail.  And the gradual revelation, and its realization by a credulous Harrison Ford, is developed well.  Treat Williams is excellent as an amoral arms dealer.  He generates the kind of dislike that any audience member can feel, even if they find the plot confusing.  Williams gives the kind of performance here that shows the unfulfilled potential he appeared to have  when he first appeared in the movies.  Pitt's death scene is one of the best in quite a while.  It's done with a poignant machismo which returns the audience to the movie's beginning.  There are things that are not fit for a child's eyes.  Exposing him to them creates the product of the devil's work as reflected in a dying, grown man's, eyes.

one of the best movies!! A Guide to Recognizing your Saints is an amazing movie!! well written and talented actors!! i wish there were more movies like this with so much passion

Very nice It came fast and was in good condition. I have a very nice review for it.And of course it is a great movie so you win just by having it.

Great movie!! This is a great movie.  We watched it for Father's Day.  So devastating. We will no longer go to Sea World, we can't see dolphins in captivity.

Frankenstein This is a very well done staged production.  Always in search of John Karlen films, once again, I had to be content with few scenes.  Few but good.  He's worth it.  Though not a Hollywood treatment, this film is professional and arty.  The settings and lighting are particularly good.  Robert Foxworth is quite interesting and appealing as the doctor.  Karlen has too small a part, as usual, but nonetheless, he, as always, handles himself well.  Bo Svenson makes the monster more sympathetic than frightening.  All in all worth the purchase.

Classic Ghost on Blu-Ray!! seen this in theatre and in VHS... great in blu ray... of course the movie is classic and that you can watch over again after awhile and won't get tired of the movie... great romance movie and the power of love and faith; and the question that lingers in all our minds-- good versus evil; the consequences of our actions surely lead us to our ultimate destiny.

Very Informative Sometimes people have the wrong impression of the Tea Party.  This film shows that the Tea Party is made of every day individuals with the same goal.  This film explains why the Tea Party began in Kansas.  Thank you, Paul, for taking the time and energy to make this informative film.  Everyone should see this.

Sci-fi meets Ground Hog day Solid characters, believable story line. (I don't care if the science is 100% accurate or absolutely plausible) - this film rocks, what a great ride. (pun intended) The actors did a great job - infusing heart and soul into a tense, tight, escapist, thriller. I don't buy many DVDs these days - there are so many other options. Bu when I do add to my "analog" collection, my main criteria is multiple viewings. I watched this movie at least 3 times when it first came out. I am amped to see it again. Great job Duncan, Jake, Vera, etc!

Great It had been quite a while since I had seen this movie. While watching, I remember why I was a great fan of Whitney Houston. Her voice is exceptional and so is her style. If you haven't watched this movie.....please do you will enjoy it.

A must see, touching, funny and totally fun This is such a wonderful and enjoyable movie.  It has something for everyone.  I have recommended this to many friends and they all have agreed that it is fantastic.  We all have our favorite parts and laugh when we recall them.  It is great to have a movie that you feel good about when it is over.  I'm still chuckling!!!!

DVD I didnt think I would enjoy the movie The Fast and Furious, but I was wrong, I have enjoyed all of the movies of The Fast and Furious series and I will surley buy the one that I am missing. Sincerely Janice

Joseph2012 I loved this series. Andy Whitfield was magnificent. He portrayed Spartacus with a anger and determination that was impeccable. We lost a very good actor but his performance will live on. The last episode with the gladiators taking over was the best. Watch all episodes first , but hold on tight for the finale.

Great show I love this season, and being adopted myself i always wanted to see how hard it would be for a teen mom to give up her child up. I really liked this season and it shows how hard being a teen mom is and give another outlook on how hard it is for birth parents to give up their child. I just love all the grl on the show.

awesome A must see. Highly recommended to everyone. I cheered and cried for the gardeners. This is the kind of story we need to know about and should discuss in our communities. Beautiful packaging and art work on DVD too.

Cadfael Collection Love the collection: The music, mini-mysteries, and atmosphere. Even the villains have some redeeming qualities and/or empathies. Less time consuming than a movie, but long enough for plot formation and interest.

"A Really Big Shew!" I have loved this movie since I first saw it years ago.  The theme is a bit silly but it does carry the plot along.  When Pepperland is invaded by the Blue Meanies, young Fred is deputized by the Mayor to get help from the outside.  Somehow he winds up enlisting the Beatles and brings them back with him, after a series of rather bizarre adventures.  The entire movie is perfused with the Beatles' music, which is illustrated with some strange but beautiful animation in the style of Peter Max.  Upon arriving in Pepperland, they finally succeed in doing what they had been asked to do.  They even manage to free the original Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The entire movie is a fascinating romp of psychedelic imagery and brilliant colors, loosely framed by a loose sort of plot.  There are many funny one-liners given by the Fab Four throughout the movie but you have to be quick to catch them as they fly by.  A classic is when Fred tells Ringo that the creature they're looking as is Frankenstein, Ringo says he used to date its sister, Phyllis (Stein).  If you like the Beatles, then this is an absolute "Must Have!"  Quite honestly, if it were possible, I'd have given it six or seven stars.  This is one very enjoyable movie.

very Good movie Great action movie!!!! Nicolas Cage just got home from the military. He is loving his wife at a bar. When they leave the bar three drunk guys try to start a fight. Nicolas kicks some butt and kills a guy. He goes to jail for some years. Missing his dughter being born and growing up. When his jail time is up he is looking forward to going home to her and his wife. Things don't go as plan when the inmates take over the plan home. Nicolas try's to help stop the inmates. Very good movie.

I really love Elizabeth Taylor She was such a fabulous actress and so beautiful. She was one of the greats. this movie is one of my all time favorites. Elizabeth was a shrew, and deserved everything she got. Yet in the end, she realized the power of love and came to accept it. this movie will forever stay in my library.  Here are a few of my book recommendations: Erotica <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008APOQ1G">Cupids Erotic Tales - Book 1 - An Arrow for Coco</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008DM1QU0">Cupids Erotic Tales - Book 2 - An Arrow for Victor</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008F4411W">Mina's Pussy Cat Club</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0085TK62K">Pop Baby Krissy Doucet [Pop Babies 1] (Siren Publishing Menage & More)</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007XJ72C0">The Gargoyle's Female (BookStrand Publishing Romance)</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008EYGYF4">Pop Baby Maddy Fortin [Pop Babies 2] (Siren Publishing Allure)</a> Fantasy <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007XJ72C0">The Gargoyle's Female (BookStrand Publishing Romance)</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005569HMG">Only Time Will Tell (The Clifton Chronicles)</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001DOHZBY">The Gargoyle</a>

Great Movie Entertaining look at the history and value of Hemp.  Well produced and great information presented. Thanks for the great info!

Excellent Movie on the Fascism of Our Time This movie is tough to watch, but its message is vitally important. Radical Islam is just as dangerous as the fascism of the early 20th century. Muslim fundamentalists have the will to kill or dominate all non-believers. Thankfully they only lack the means to do it. This movie is a frightening reminder of what life under radical Islam is like and why it must be opposed at all costs.

So much fun! The Girls around this house love to watch this and sometimes to sing along! I'm not much on musicals but this is engaging fun.

Just like the comic book Season 3 starts just like the comic book. I love it, watching my favorite comic book come alive its amazing. Love season 3.

Pulp Fiction (Blu-ray) Movie - 5.0  The first time I saw this I was like, 12 years old, and it was on VHS. It looked cool at the time, but my teenage brain couldn't handle anything past the loud voices and constant cussing, but kudos for style points. The second time I saw it (maybe another 12 years after the first) I believe it was supposed to be a DVD rip, but the sound encoding was atrocious, so I only enjoyed it in part. The the third time I saw it (about 3 months ago) was off of Netflix streaming with decent enough audio, but not so great video. Ironically enough, the one time I finally get to see and hear the darn thing with quality A/V is on Blu-ray. That being said, it should go without question by user vote on IMDb, critic appraisal, or any number of awards and accolades given to this film that Pulp Fiction has cemented itself as a true game-changer in the halls of cinema legend. Be it the achronological storytelling, the sassy script, the dark humor, the quirky characters, or just the amazing level of star power involved from every which way, there's a lot to like about this film. For me, personally, it's the method. I don't mean the cut-up timeline (which is enjoyable in itself and keeps you on your toes), but how so much of the dialogue is "just there" from a purely jovial or character-developing perspective. Talks of Amsterdam and their legalization of drugs, the differences between European and American culture, the frivolous comparison between a foot massage and going down on a girl, the significantly comedic monologue of a P.O.W. storing his best friend's watch up his anus for years only to deliver it to his son, and all kinds of other seemingly random stuff "capped off" by a stride at redemption would make you think otherwise about this being nominated for seven Oscars, right? Well, as most people often say about Quentin Tarantino films, "you should just see it for yourself to know what I mean." And the result after almost 20 years? It's a part of our modern day pop culture with all kinds of quotable lines, a beacon of entertainment and inspiration within the industry,and, for all intents and purposes, one really fun movie to watch. Is it for everyone? Of course not. But most would say it is.  Video - 5.0  - Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC - Video resolution: 1080p - Aspect ratio: 2.35:1 - Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1  The front and back of the slipcover and the back of the cover art says that this transfer was supervised by Quentin Tarantino himself and even has a copy of his signature on the slip, so what you see here was what the director intended. And I have to say, after 3 very poor video outings (VHS, a crappy DVD rip, and Netflix streaming), I have to say I've never seen the movie look this good (literally). The production budget was only $8 million, which by today's standards would still only be about $12 million. But wow, am I glad Tarantino used some quality film stock. First and foremost, I have to commend the black levels. All the tiny little details, linings, reflections, and textures look absolutely pristine on this presentation. Particularly, the wetness of Jules' Jheri curl, as laughable as the look is intended to be, adds a nice aesthetic sense of throwback to the Blaxploitation genre that Mr. Jackson's character is portraying. And then you have the hallmark scene where Vincent is taking Mia to Jack Rabbit Slim's, which is FULL of dark lighting, and yet still manages to display an amazing amount of detail around the restaurant itself, its patrons, on Thurman's hair, and in Travolta's suit in addition to the smoke he's blowing. Colors, while somewhat muted from an art direction standpoint, are surprisingly bold. The scene where Butch is taking money from Marsellus in the bar is full of red light, but in comparison to other brightly red-lit backdrops (which isn't many), I'm pleased at how a lot of the detail still remained intact. Then, of course, is the blood. Maybe it was more so the stuff they used to be the blood, but when it splatters, it looks great. Not real per se, but it's one of those artistic subtleties that Tarantino does well in his films. I am also happy to report that there is very little, if any, hints of dirt or artifacting. There's a fine layer of grain (and I mean very fine), but it doesn't seem like any DNR was added. Edge Enhancement? Not too sure, I'm typing this review with only 4 hours of sleep and might've seen a tiny little bit, but it's hard to say when I'm not all there. Regardless, though, I can tell you everything else looks superb, especially for its age.  Audio - 5.0  Languages - English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1  Subtitles - English, English SDH, Spanish  Another big part of Tarantino's films outside of its aesthetic and literary homages is the sound, particularly the music. As soon as Surf Rider starts playing it's easy to tell that this DTS-HD MA 5.1 track will do its job and do it well. LFEs are at their most prominent when any of this great soundtrack starts playing. Even as the radio switches to Jungle Boogie in the opening sequence, there's not a discrepancy to be heard. But how do the rest of the sound elements hold up on this seemingly quaint sound design? I mean, how can 230 pages of script possibly earn a 5 point rating? Oddly enough, this film's sound scape has a LOT of immersion. Shortly after the credits have done their thing we get a great audio treat in the first scene where Pumpkin and Honey Bunny are contemplating their change in venue for an upcoming robbery. I actually wouldn't even know this if I hadn't accessed all the extras, but the trivia track says that even in this very first scene, despite the achoronlogical plot structure, if you listen hard enough during Pumpkin and Honey Bunny's conversation you can distinctly hear Jules talking to Vincent in the background from a scene to be shown later on in the film. How cool is that? And while the weak point of the sound effects may be in the meager gunshots, the sheer sense of engulfment that every other crowded scene has to offer is sonic gold. Directionality and separation sound wonderful during these parts putting you right there in the thick of things. Meanwhile, high and low ends still manage to be very well-calibrated, specifically in the scene where Mia is getting her adrenaline shot between all the paper raffling around and the eventual thump on her chest. Oh yeah, and the dialogue couldn't be any clearer. From Jules' intimidating preacher vibrato to Fabienne's sweet and sexy accented-English, the movie has never looked OR sounded better. My favorite scenes to test the audio would be the aforementioned robbery attempt at the beginning of the film and the always-exalting trademark scene of Vincent and Mia going to Jack Rabbit Slim's (when they walk to their table and when they start dancing).  Extras - 5.0  Wow, I should really have taken a nap before work instead of trying to rush this review out for everyone to get a fresh take on the product, but I'm glad I at least got to learn a lot of things despite my soon-to-be headache at the crap hole at which I work. At any rate, this BD is loaded with extras. Most of them are DVD ports, but I'd never seen this on DVD anyway, and thus, am just seeing all of this for the very first time.  - Not the Usual Mindless Boring Getting to Know You Chit Chat (HD; 43:01) A new HD retrospective with most of the film's actors discussing how they were cast, how the shooting went, and all of the things that ensued after the film came out. There's a lot of information here about the movie itself, its writing, and how a lot of the actors felt working with Tarantino.  - Here are Some Facts on the Fiction (HD; 20:37) Another newly-produced featurette that shows a roundtable discussion with critics and their thoughts on how Pulp Fiction has affected the industry, their favorite parts, and some of the things that make the movie so good.  - Pulp Fiction: The Facts - Documentary (SD; 30:31) Is from the Special Edition DVD (as is everything else from here on out) and is something of a mishmash of the pre-production, filming, and reception of the movie up to 2001.  - Deleted Scenes (SD; 24:30) Feature commentary for 4 out of the 5 scenes by Tarantino and are enjoyable, if you want to at least take a one-time look.  - Siskel & Ebert At the Movies: The Tarantino Generation (SD; 16:00) Is a short look at the quick rise of Tarantino's status and whether or not they think he was legit at the time. It comes off rather pretentious, though, so I wouldn't recommend it.  - Charlie Rose Show (SD; 55:27) Features a GREAT interview with Tarantino and discusses a lot of his film-making roots, his philosophy as a movie-lover, and what he believes makes a good film.  - Independent Spirit Awards (SD; 11:29)  - Cannes Film Festival - Palme D'Or Acceptance Speech (SD; 5:20)  - Marketing Gallery (SD; 16:13) Lots and lots of trailers/teasers.  - Still Gallery  - Enhanced Trivia Track A trivia track that pops up all sorts of tidbits of information in the subtitles telling you all the quirks about the film itself, if any of you like that sort of thing (and some of it being very funny).  Overall - 5.0  As fervid as my review sounds, I'm actually not that big a fan of Tarantino. Aside from seeing this and Inglorious Basterds more than two times each, I've only seen his other films once. I didn't really get into Reservoir Dogs and the Kill Bills were stylish enough, but keep in mind it's been nearly five years since I've seen those, and five years is a lot of time for my brain to better develop. But to the point, yes, Pulp Fiction is definitely one of those films that somehow managed to turn a bunch of dialogue into a fun and raucous movie. It's well-written, especially well-acted, and is a good way to spend two and a half-hours. With top-notch A/V quality and over 3 hours of specials, an SRP of $19.99 is practically nothing for such an renowned title that finally made its way to a proper BD release.

THE 13TH WARRIOR LOVED THIS MOVIE.  GOT THE MOVIE IN THE MAIL AND WATCHED IT THAT NIGHT.  ANTONIO BANDERAS DID A GREAT JOB IN THIS MOVIE.

KING DAVID i love this movie.  to me it gives a good sense of how things were back in the day.   and i thought richard gere put a lot of heart into the movie. espically when he danced up   the stairs half naked as it says in the bible. also to see how he made it through his   tribulations with saul was amazing.    GREAT MOVIE.

Kings Speech In addition to the superb acting, this movie taught me the value of patience and persistence.  It also gave me an accurate account of history.

Great film! A well done film exploring the education of 3 New Yorkers on veganism and their journey. I thought the premise and execution of the documentary was done well.

Ouch! This DVD had some hard exercises and they are very intense! I couldn't get thru most of the segments on the first try. And 2 days later I still felt the pain in my abs, sides and back! This is a step up from The Abs Diet for Women Workout, which I also loved. I give this 5 stars because Jessica Smith is the best trainer and her workouts never fail!

Dirty Dancing Heaven!!! I bought this Keepsake Edition of Dirty Dancing for my daughter, who's a massive fan.  It didn't disappoint.  Packaging is excellent and the book that's included is a real gem. Amongst the extras is a Patrick Swayze tribute. If you love Dirty Dancing, you cannot go wrong with this edition.

Perfectly Executed ! I was 14 in 1973 when I went to see this film in Manhattan.  It was all the buzz and I had already read the book.  So I knew what to expect, right ?  NOT !!  I was not prepared for what my eyes would see.  I was terrified and deeply affected in more ways than one.  I actually wanted to leave right in the middle of it, but my friends held me back.  I tell you no lies when I say that for over two weeks, I couldn't get a decent nights sleep.  I just saw that face in every dark corner of my room.  I couldn't stop thinking of her, the mom, the priests, the priests mom, jeez it was something else.  It was 1973 and no one had seen anything quite like this before.  If you've done the math, you know my age now and let me say that I will still NOT watch this movie alone.  I just can't.  I was psychologically attacked by this movie and it will always be the one that scared me half to death.  The one I'm still afraid of.  The one where that damned creepy tune with the bells got inside my head and wouldn't leave.  I've seen hundreds of horror movies, but none have ever affected me like this one. A movie, Pefectly Executed.

Keeps You Wanting More I wasn't sure if I would be interested in this series but then I became addicted.  I nearly watch the whole thing through.  I heard that another season of the series is going to be made since this one became so popular.

A great light-hearted twist on an old fairy tale story. LOVED IT This movie both fascinated and entertained me. The stilts scenes were awesome. I love Julia Roberts in both drama and comedy and this movie was just another display of her talent(s). I would recommend this to everyone!

Voldemort returns and another evil force takes over Hogwart's School. This is the fifth movie in the Harry Potter film series. Movie will start automatically at 1 mins, 48 secs, if you have not chosen an option in menu. Running Time: 2 hours, 18 mins. Rated "PG-13".   Returning: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Fiona Shaw, Harry Melling, Richard Griffiths, Brendan Gleeson, Julie Walters, James Phelps. Oliver Phelps, Mark Williams, Gary Oldman, David Thewlis, Ralph Fiennes, Jason Isaacs, Robert Hardy, Michael Gambon, Matthew Lewis, Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Devon Murray, Warwick Davis, Robbie Coltrane, Bonnie Wright, Chris Rankin, Tom Felton, Jamie Waylett, Josh Herdman, Katie Leung, David Bradley, William Melling, Alfie Enoch, Afshan Azad, Shefali Chowdhury, Peter Best, Natalie Hallam, Sarah Harrison, Christopher O'Shea, Paije Richardson, Timothy Spall, Siobhan Ellen Williams, Geraldine Somerville, Adrian Rawlins.   Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) sits in the playground thinking about his childhood living with the horrible Dursley's. Dudley (Harry Melling) is meaner than ever towards his cousin. He asks Harry in a hurtful way, "Where is your mum?". Dudley knows very well that his mother and father are dead. He gets Harry upset, on purpose, and Harry lashes out at him with a magic wand at Dudley's throat and chin. The other mean kids with Dudley laugh at Harry. Suddenly, a great storm develops in the sky. Harry is not causing it to happen. They both run. In a walk-through tunnel, the Dementors attack Harry and Dudley. Harry uses his magic wand to fight off the Dementors. They got Dudley good. Mrs. Figg (Kathryn Hunter) comes along to check on Harry.   Back at home, an owl delivers a talking mailer to Harry. Because he has used  magic outside the school, he is expelled from the Hogwart's School of Witchery and Wizardry. The Dursley's take Dudley to the hospital because he is loopy.  Mad-Eye (Brendan Gleeson) with others come to take Harry to the Order of the Phoenix Headquarters. He has the right to a hearing to be expelled or not.  In the building,  Molly Weasley (Julie Walters) greets him. She shows him the room where Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) are. They welcome him. The Weasley twins (James Phelps, Oliver Phelps) and Arthur Weasley (Mark Williams) are there, as well as, Sirius Black (Gary Oldman) and Remus Lipin (David Thewlis). They explain to Harry that Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) has returned and is after the Minister's job. Voldemort wants to recruit his army of witches and wizards. He is also after one more thing.   Molly suddenly stops the men from telling Harry. She chimes, "He is just a boy".   Delores Umbridge (Imelda Staunton), who comes from the Ministry Council, comes to teach at Hogwart's School, appears to be proper, but turns about face and practices education reform and wants to change everything about the school, much to the dismay of Professor Dumbleore (Michael Gambon) and Professor McGonagall (Maggie Smith).   Also in the cast: Natalia Tena, George Harris, Helena Bonham Carter. Robert Pattison appears in scenes from the prior movie.   Option of language and subtitles in English, Spanish and French.   The next movie is: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002PMV9FG">Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Widescreen Edition)</a> (2009).  The Harry Potter film series:  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00003CXI1">Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Two-Disc Special Widescreen Edition)</a> (2001). <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000W799NU">Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Full Screen Edition)</a> (2002). <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000W745CU">Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Full Screen Edition)</a> (2004). <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000E6EK38">Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Full Screen Edition) (Harry Potter 4)</a> (2005). <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000W7GKWI">Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Full-Screen Edition)</a> (2007). <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002PMV9FG">Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Widescreen Edition)</a> (2009). <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001UV4XHY">Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1</a> (2010). <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005UG542S">Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2</a> (2011).

'Aliens' is my favorite movie of all-time!! This blu-ray gives you a super-clean transfer and awesome sound. James Cameron, also know for Avatar and The Terminator, simply abducts us into his vivid and often-times dramatic worlds. Buy this and the Alien Anthology. I'd love to see a re-make of this file with the technology Jim has pioneered. Enjoy the great lines actor Bill Paxton delivers.

Tremendously enlightening! Shows reality of Obama! This movie should be viewed by every person in this country who believes in the fundamentals of what this country grew to greatness upon. It's a WAKE UP! Call to where we're going with our current leadership & why this election is the most important of any in my lifetime! Kudos to Dinesh! Thank you for giving the public some insight into what lies ahead if Obama gets another 4 years! For the record, I saw this movie in the theater about 6 weeks ago. It was so frighteningly informative that I purchased several of these DVDs to give out to those who I know that are still "on the fence". Simply put, that fence they teeter on will have dire consequences should they fall off the wrong side! This movie shows that dangerous side in a well researched and riveting way that sends a chill down one's spine at its conclusion!

Excellent One of the best romantic commedies. A chick flick to be sure, but one that most guys can sit thru. Highly recommended

Good stuff! A great take on the Henry the 2nd/Thomas Beckett story. I had to watch this movie a second time almost immediately after the first just to fully savor Peter O Toole's performance!! They do not make em like this anymore!! It never ceases to amaze me how I assume these old classics are going to be bland and boring but actually manage to impact you in ways that movies just don't do anymore.

Top 5 sport's movies all time Whether you're an Irish fan or not, this movie shows what hard work and dedication can do for a person. never quit

Way too expensive This is one of my favorite Lifetime movies and I would love to own it but I could not believe the price!  This is way too expensive and I would be really surprised if anyone actually buys it at this price.  Lowering the price would assure some sales of this movie.  Much as I loved it I have to draw the line at this cost.

WOW! AWESOME MOVIE! didnt know much about the movie except the very few and short trailers i had seen. what a great movie from start to finish. i was on the edge of my seat during most of the movie and found myself wanting to fast forward the movie to see what was gonna finally happen. i highly recommend this movie if you like suspense/thriller types. buying the ble-ray right now.

Great for couples or a chick alone Very enjoyable movie. well worth watching.Not to mushy for a guy to watch with you. Loved the guys attitude. More like a real guy would act.

An Amazing Film that went overlooked!!! At first look, both Jason Patric and Thandie Newton give great performances in this period piece about a widowed young farmer who chooses to help a young runaway slave girl. But this film offers so much more. Beautifully written and filmed the journey is rich in symbol and a powerful story of sacrifice, authentic love and redemption. It demonstrates both the best in human nature, as well as, the worst . . . ultimate goodness and love . . . ultimate evil and selfishness. Should have been an award winning film!!!

Delightful I do not know why I waited so long to see this movie; maybe because I am a horror/action flick kind of guy who wants nothing to do with a G rated movie. This movie is awesome, the kind of movie that you would be dong yourself a great disservice by just renting it.   BUY IT PEOPLE! BUY IT!

Super!!! Such a fun movie!! I love it, my daughter loves it...!  You can't possibly be disappointed with this movie.  It's cute, it get's you moving and dancing with your kids, they start singing and dancing, you start laughing and it's all good!  Also has... has a fun set of extra stuff...  Could show it to my little one who is 2 without her getting scared= SuPER!  Bien Sur !  Super!

Delightful movie, innocent, fun. Joy with animals. Enviable TREEHOUSE! The Robinson family (consisting of father, mother, two teen sons, and a boy about 7) suffers ship wreck on the doorstep of a tropical island paradise.  Without much hope of immediate rescue, they set up housekeeping using the remains of ship fittings and furniture which fortunately include, among other things, an organ (that the mother can play), a beautiful tea set, other fine dishes, and apparently even a pretty 19th century-style salvaged wardrobe for the mother! (But some inventive leaf and straw clothing turns up later in the story, as well.)  The males cleverly build a nice tri-partite tree house, which any kid and most adults would really LOVE to have for their own!  (Is better than any "Peter Pan" tree house that I've seen.)  The tale abounds with animals, both domestic and wild.  The youngest boy is an unsinkable adventurer who brings home charming animals as family pets.  There are rollicking races in which even wild ostriches serve as steeds for the children.  (These are fascinating scenes, unique--I haven't seen anything like them before.)  Paradise is not without its evil-serpentish element, though, and some terrifying pirates come onto the scene.  There is a romantic sub-plot in which a teen-age boy turns out to be a teen-age girl.  I'm not sure if this story is still considered a Classic of Children's Literature--so much has come along in recent times to push out the classic stories (and traditional fairy tales) that children used to learn.  This movie, so charmingly created by Disney Studios, is rather old now but I think it would still probably appeal to young children from about ages 7-11, especially because of the tree house and the many fascinating domestic and wild animals.  (After seeing it, some kids may beg their parents for  baby elephants and monkeys.  I know I would have done.)  Adults may find the story a bit slow or boring, but would probably enjoy viewing it if doing so along with their children.  This is a MUCH better story and movie than "Treasure Island," which has some similar elements (mainly pirates) and was made roughly around the same time.  All things considered, it's a delightful movie with lots of innocent fun, well worth seeing.  Over-all enforces non-materialistic values--the "simple" happy life close to nature.  Might be able to pick up some practical hints to aid in wilderness survival, but not much.

The Dude continues to Abide Yes, this slacker fan classic is just as good today as it was in 1998. And this version is loaded with a good number of extras.  Now, I see super-fans are disappointed. It's true, if you own a earlier DVD version, this edition, even with it's extra disc doesn't add anything super-special. And, this version is hardly definitive, super-fans will want more, no doubt.  But for the casual fan, the person who doesn't already own a copy and just wants to watch this fabulous film, along with enough extras to make a casual fan happy- here ya go.  Now, I am writing this review assuming you have seen the film. If you have not, this film is almost impossible to describe. It's a slacker-comedy, with a mystery and some by-notes on the meaning of life. Satire is there, but nicely understated. You can watch this film on several levels, but I suggest just cracking a cold one and watching it for the fun of it.  But although "The Dude" (played by Jeff Bridges at his best) is foul-mouthed, this is not a gross out doper movie like many which followed. There's also a fab supporting cast, and solid locations.  A solid strike of a film.

BEST IN SHOW LOVE IT!! FUNNIEST MOVIE EVER ESPECIALLY IF YOU SHOW DOGS. SO MUCH OF IT IS SO TRUE BUT PRESENTED IN A HYSTERICAL WAY. IT'S MUST SEE! PURCHASE AT AMAZON.COM

Suspenseful! Wow, Ryan Reynolds shows his acting chops.  This was a really well done, What if???? kind of movie.  Really suspenseful.  I didn't know how they were going to make a whole movie from this premise, but they did a great job.

Best film ever! This truly is my favorite film of all time. I love the creativity and originality of the film. Truly a masterpiece.  The product itself is indeed fine. The only drawback is the picture size (kinda small). Other than that, this is pure entertainment.

Love the pop-up book style! Bunraku is awesome. I loved how all of the settings looked like pages out of a pop-up book. :) It's like the Sin City movie had a love child with the Scott Pilgrim movie.  The action was good. I was actually on the edge of my seat to find out if the main characters would live or die in the final battle. And there were certain scenes where so much was going on that I really want to watch the whole movie a second time (like tomorrow) so I can pay attention to some of the background stuff that I think I missed while I was paying attention to the foreground stuff. I know it got kind of crappy reviews, but I loved it!   Bunraku = 5 stars, in my book.  The plot wasn't the most complex, but the acting was good and the battle scenes were cool.  If you like "typical" movies and only typical movies, then Bunraku is not for you.  But if you want your senses to be engaged and the creative part of your brain to be stimulated from start to finish, then you should definitely check out this movie.  Josh Hartnett, Gackt, and Woody Harrelson made for a fun trio.  And Gackt really is evolving as an actor.  I enjoyed him in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001WTWII">Moon Child</a>, but I think that he dug deeper for this role.  *** Parental advisory--possible spoilers ahead (I tried not to give anything away, though):  As for sex, violence, etc...There is no nudity or sex in the movie at all.  There is a bit of dialogue that implies the duties of a concubine, but not graphically or in any real detail whatsoever.  The characters do drop several F-bombs.  There aren't any really scary or frightening scenes, at least not any that I think anyone would find frightening. Two of the main characters and several minor characters are seen smoking throughout most of the movie.  Most of the characters are seen drinking alcohol at some point.  One of the characters visits an absinthe den and is served a glass of absinthe, but is not seen drinking it; it is implied, however, that the character had been there for a while and was already somewhat intoxicated.  There is a lot of violence in the movie because there are a great many fight scenes.  However, there are no guns in the entire movie.  The characters fight using martial arts, brass knuckles, swords, axes, knives, sticks, spears, arrows, bats, etc.  There is not a whole lot of gore, though.  There are a few instances where deaths are slightly graphic.  Several characters get their throats slit, a couple get hit with an axe (one in the head), a few are impaled by swords/spears, and one character is stabbed in the eye.  The blood and gore was not over the top, but I don't think it was too mild, either...just right in my opinion.  :)  Hope this helped!

An Outstanding Family Feature This 1993 version of The Secret Garden is a superbly directed, superbly acted movie about a neglected young girl who is spoiled and angry and goes to live with her wealthy uncle in England after her parents die in an earthquake in India.  Kate Maberly grabs the screen and keeps it in a tight grip throughout the movie; you just can't look away from her character, Mary Lennox, for a moment.  The other child actors in the movie are also exceptionally good actors, and they bring their characters to vivid life on the screen.  Among the adults, Maggie Smith makes an impressive Mrs. Metlock, who is the housekeeper.  The movie is about Mary finding a closed-down garden which belonged to her aunt, who died in an accident ten years before Mary came to live on the estate.  She begins to bring the garden back to life by caring for the plants.  Then she stumbles upon Colin, her uncle's son, who is a hypochondriac convinced that he is going to die young.  Mary convinces the boy to join her in the secret garden, where they tend the plants together.  Colin slowly grows stronger.  They are joined by a second boy, Dickon, who has a gift with animals and is always in the company of animal friends.  These three are inseparable.  Mary slowly becomes a better person by helping others, and Colin gives up his unnatural fears of death and disease as he grows healthy and strong.  The plot arc of the movie is a very satisfying one, and the director does a brilliant job of showing the characters' growth throughout the movie.  I heartily recommend this movie to both children and adults; as a family feature it is rousing and most pleasing to the spirit.

American Dad the best cartoon I've been a fan of American Dad from the very first episode. Roger is the best character on television today. Love it!

The Shining If you dont like this movie, you got a short attention span.  This has been the standard for any horror movie since, especially psychological and supernatural thrillers.  The second disc has interesting on location home movies from the filming with behind the scenes like action with the cast, including Scatman Crothers, Shirley Duvall and of course Jack Nicholson. Stanley Kubrick as well. If you love to be scared and love movies you must see this in your lifetime. dont wait till.... your.. DEAD!!!!!

wake our government up ! Only if you walk through this life with 'blinders' on, will you not get the message within this DVD. I have went back and watched it numerous times to remind myself that we need to change the way we 'see' things ,as they really are...we are a distructive people. Atleast consider our next generations?

Possibly my favorite film ever Epic DVD with a lot of actors and filmmakers at the top of their games here. Who would have thought one of the greatest films ever made would center around a butler? Mr. Belvedere had a pretty good run at it on the television so I guess it's not too much of a stretch but I am astonished by how great this film is and by how much it continues to grow on me. By the time I am a 90-year-old I think this will still be a film that will feel relevant to me. Also check out Guy Ritchie's more recent film Rock 'N Rolla for a nice little nod to this film (there's a guy watching it in his SUV during a scene). Don't miss this one though.

Thanks. Into horror movies and I can't get enough of this one.  Keep up the good work so I can order more.

Another great Leapfrog video! This is a numbers video for ages 2-5 years with the Leapfrog dogs--Scout and Violet! My 2 year old daughter and 4 year old son absolutely love this video. They have watched it a bunch of times now, totally glued. They sing along with it now too. It does a great review of counting to 10, counting by 2's, and counting different objects.

Shrek Full Screen Single Disc Edition The writeup said it was new and when it arrived, it was indeed still unopened.  It played fine and has a very extensive "extras" section on the actors who provided the voices.

Definitely a keeper! I read this book a couple years ago and couldn't put it down. I've seen the movie probably a million times but I could watch it a million more!! It's a classic in my eyes and couldn't believe how cheap I got it! If I could give it 10 stars I would!!!

"More Bond, More Action" Although most critics originally dislikes "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", over time the film has warmed itself into the hearts of millions and is now considered one of the best in the movie's franchise.   This film was the first movie Sean Connery refused to do, retiring from playing Bond, so the producers had to find an actor worthy of filling Connery's shoes. Although most dislike George Lazenby, I personally think he brings his own charisma, charm, and sexuality to the role. Sadly, he would only do one Bond film, but his performance is very memorable. The movie is also know for the performance of the great Joanna Lumbly, mostly known for her comic role as Patsy on "Absolutely Fabulous".   A great villin is also included in the film (what Bond movie could succeed without a good bad boy) in the vein of Telly Savalas, who plays Blofeld, a maniac intent on ruining the world's food supply.   "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" was filmed entirely on location in Switzerland, England and Portugal on a budget of $7 million dollars. The film was a huge box office hit raking in over $82,000,000.

Absolutely Outstanding!! Whatever you are about to pay for this movie is well worth it!  A beautiful story about a somewhat shy but determined lady who changed history.  I never knew her full story which is full of sorrow and needless pain because of ignorance. The acting is outstanding as well, with a superb cast and story that will truly tear at your heart.  It did mine.

Loved by our kids Our 4 and 6 year old boys watch this movie over and over again in the car...they love the action, silliness, characters and gadgets.  We love the messages about following your dreams, never giving up, and seeking to help others above making money.  It makes conversataions about these lessons fun and memorable.  Two big thumbs up from these parents and our kids!

Annie DVD My two daughters loved this movie when they were little and now my grandaughter saw it in music class in school and she also loves it.  GREAT FAMILY MOVIE!!!

Michael Bay's best film While this is by no means a realistic or gritty crime film it is definately a fun movie to watch with your friends on Saturday night. It has all the bad*** action, explosions, and slow motion you could want; along with some surprisingly funny humor. Others have said that this film is essentially a "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" movie, but why does that have to be a bad thing? If you're looking for a fun movie about some kick *** cops then this is the film for you.

Great Movie I am 20 years too late, but I love this movie!  I have know idea what took me so long to buy it or watch it.

passed to my grandson My son who is 30 now would watch this video many, many, many times as a young boy so I purchased the CD for his son.

CUTE MOVIE This movie is great for all ages.  I really enjoyed it plus I love the director and most of his other movies.  He has a creative way of telling stories.  I recommend this movie as well as the others.  You won't be disappointed!

Plus, You Get to Watch Jackie Robinson Play Baseball! Yes, this is a Hollywood version of racial prejudice and the courage of various people (Robinson, obviously, but also the Dodger's brilliant president, Branch Rickey). But it's such an important moment in American history--and a story that everyone should know, but especially those too young to know what "the color line" was or who can't picture the hatred that greeted a baseball team in some cities because there was one black player on it.  Plus, how wonderful is it that Robinson plays himself? As an actor, he is as handsome as Denzel Washington and brings a sweet, unaffected quality to his scenes with Rickey, Dee (as his wife), as well as the relentless haters. You see him struggle to honor his promise to Rickey--to turn the other cheek, no matter how many taunts and how much hatred was directed at him (and there was much).  It's a compelling story, one that even I, as a Dodger's fan, didn't realize the complexity of. Best of all, we get to see Jackie Robinson playing second base (then first),  recreating his first major league game. At one point, when I realized I was actually seeing Jackie ROBINSON holding his bat over the plate, taking a swing, stealing a base, hitting one of those amazing home runs...whatever it was...it's hard to explain, but it was very, very moving.  This is a great story and I think the handling of our country's racism is just about the right amount to keep people watching and to keep their eyes (and feelings) concentrating on the two men who were taking these great risks to fight it (as Rickey said, "I may not be able to fight racism in the nation as a whole, but I should definitely be able to do something about it in baseball."  I think its a great film and should be part of classroom viewing.

Best Movie Ever!!! I am so thankfull I saw this movie. This movie is a must see for every American. I'am glad their were no actors in this movie because it shows these service men are everyday Americans that have dedicated themselves to our country without the need for recognition, fame, or praise. So gratefull for them and all that serve us everyday!!!

This Muppet fan mom & her 3 sons and hubby LOVED it! Suffice it to say that this movie was an absolute delight to share with my family! I grew up watching the Muppets on TV, but my 3 sons (age 9 and twins age 7) had never seen any of the Muppets shows or movies and my husband grew up overseas and had never seen any either. I was a bit skeptical that any of us would enjoy it--would my sons and husband "get it" or will I be disappointed that this movie seems watered down from what I remember years ago?  All fears were unfounded. I laughed and reminisced and enjoyed the fact that I was finally old enough to get all the adult jokes. My sons absolutely enjoyed every bit of it and laughed at all the silliness the Muppets dished out as did my husband. The Muppets is a rare treat that delights viewers of all ages and is a classic that belongs in every family's video library.

A powerful, terribly upsetting film about the lives of street kids in Romania Romanian cities teem with children living on the streets, since dictator Ceausescu - hoping to increase the work force - outlawed both birth control and abortion.  More than any other film I have seen, this captures the heartbreak and hopelessness of street kids and their lives. The 5 kids we follow scratch out an existence living together in a subway station.  It is initially hard to comprehend, as some of these kids theoretically have homes to return to.  But when we see the nightmare reality of those homes, we start to understand that there are tiny children, some as young as 8, trapped between a rock and a hard place.  A true horror film, but, like documentaries on the holocaust, one that has an important reason to exist.  To move people to action, and to make sure this kind of institutionalized neglect - a problem in many nations -  is brought to to an end as soon as possible.

Great Movie This has always been a great movie. One that we have always wanted in our collection. Finally a reasonable price, so we grabbed one. Five Star movie.

incredibly good I rated this movie very high for people who feel that society prejudges and under-estimates ones ability. Perseverance pays. And even as a testimony of how not to look a gift horse in the mouth when society over-estimates you. It is all about illusion. My only complaint is that a genetically inferior man would not overcome his genetics while drinking and smoking. He would have to hide a healthy diet and execercise regime since anyone who eats healthy in our society sticks out like a sore thumb. Struggling with putting up a facad by nibling on twinkies in public while eating collard greens at home would have been much more realistic.

Gift for horror movie fan My daughter request this as a Christmas gift. She is a true horror movie fan, I am not sure if this completes her collection, but I am sure she must have about every one that was made.

A Favorite - The Ghost and Mrs. Muir This delightful movie is a joy to own in my collection, and will be watched at least annually. It is a charming movie with great acting and storyline. There is a charm about the old black and white movies, this one is an old favorite of mine.

Better than on Broadway People who saw this show in a conventional theater, such as on Broadway, as I did, will enjoy seeing that this show is more superb because of the larger location. The sound on the video is clear, and viewers can understand the words that are sung. The filming and costumes are excellent. It is backed up by three large TV screens so that the large audience in the theater can have close ups, and this also enhances the viewing and pleasure of DVD viewer.

Out of this World !! Waited far too long to purchase this Sci-Fi Great. Packaging and Shipping were Outstanding. Quality Control at it's best. Purchased Used but couldn't tell from New. Art Work is perfect and seller to a extra minute to place a small piece of bubble wrap between case and Disc. Great protection !! This Movie ranks #1 in my Sci-Fi collection.

One of the best movies ever made Must see if you belive in god. People who do not belive in god can still watch it and start to belive in god.

roll over beethoven and let me rub that big belly It's unfortunate that Beethoven hasn't become a classic because I remember back in the day it was an *extremely* popular family film.  You see 20 years ago, comedies pertaining to dogs and cats wasn't yet beaten into the ground to the point of being predictably bland so the viewers were able to better appreciate them.  Perhaps that explains why this film isn't considered a classic- there's too many similar types out there these days.  Anyway, I'm not the biggest fan of Saint Bernards because they slobber a lot and actually strike me as the kind of dog that can suddenly turn vicious without giving warning (perhaps I'm wrong about that- hey, every dog is brought up differently) but when they're puppies it's impossible to deny just how adorable and surprisingly small they are.  I really enjoy the puppy segment in the beginning, especially the perfect timing of Beethoven hiding in a trashcan at just the right moment so the dognappers couldn't find him.  Oh, and we can't forget that biker chick who walked into the pet store looking for something suitable for her personality only to have a certain... disgusting incident happen, hehe.  This is the kind of well-written family movie where numerous scenes remain extremely memorable to me over the years, so the entire film flows with so much great humor and perfect timing.  Who can possibly forget the scene when the husband/father walks through the front door, sees muddy dog footprints all over his floor and carpet, and ventures upstairs only to be the victim of the greatest slobbering surprise of his life!  Nowadays I realize they exaggerated the amount of slobber flying around in every which direction, but back in the day I thought this segment was quite realistic, haha.  A similar incredibly funny segment that will probably make you laugh uncontrollably is when Beethoven hops into bed with the husband, unbeknownst to him, and Beethoven starts licking his face.  He believes it's his wife doing it, lol!  Perhaps a mildly inappropriate moment, I admit.  I definitely do not like the one scene with the bad guy walking up to Beethoven's doghouse and deliberately trying to get Beethoven to attack him so he has a good excuse to put the dog down.  I know when the movie was being written the actors were actually playfully teasing the dog (and you can tell because Beethoven is wagging his tail the entire time) but to me it looks frighteningly realistic like animal abuse.  Also the scene where the camera is positioned through a living room window showing the little girl of Beethoven's family falling into the swimming pool and nearly drowning while the babysitter is occupied playing the piano and totally unaware what's taking place outside is VERY uncomfortable for me to watch.  Another unintentionally realistic moment.  Other memorable scenes include those two business people who not only get a spitty-tasting glass of lemonade, but receive a chair-flipping (and perfectly timed landing) adventure of a lifetime, haha.  Oh, and the bacon-stealing scene at the kitchen table is great too.  The film is incredibly brief though, at just over 80 minutes.  It felt so much longer to me back in the day.  I don't know, Beethoven just seems like such a perfect comedy to me with no flaws.  I wish more people agreed.

Ballet Conditioning...great! If you`re looking for a challenge, this will be wonderful for you.  I think most people know that ballet is a fantastic challenge to the muscles, but emphasizing their usage through such demanding application during conditioning is just plain tough! (in a good way).  Not a single muscle can kick back and relax during this dvd.  Focusing on correct posture, stability, and technique during the execution of each move provides wonderful lower and upper body strength and endurance training....and your core will love you! ...and all in the convenience of your own home. Enjoy! - Kate

Best thing I ever did for myself, lost 35lbs in 40 days. At 49 years old and 245lbs I knew I needed to do something to change my health for the better.  This program changed everything for me, my health, my weight, my pain... I felt 30 years younger, no pain at all and I have Fibromyalgia. 40 days and I ended up 35lbs lighter, slept like a baby, no more pain... I could hardly walk I was in so much pain.  If you truly want to do something great for yourself/health this is truly is.... Juicing saved my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A beautiful film - lovely. I will say up front that this movie is probably not for everyone.  I won't make judgements as to who this film is NOT for..... I have two very dear (and sadly delusional) friends who thought is was boring and uninteresting.  (I forgive them).  I have seen this in 3d and 2d...... I think the 3d visuals are stunning, but the movie does not hinge on them.  I saw the movie is 'regular' 2d first and had the same feelings toward the film.  The acting is sincere, charming, and personal.  I felt the cast was performing with such heart - I felt the depth of their sadness, loneliness, and eventual joy.  It is paced and edited as a journey - just sit back and let the film draw you in.  If you are confused in the first 15 minutes, do yourself a favor and just take a deep breath and relax.  All will be revealed.... in time.

SIMPLY AWESOME This book is a must read. I can't put it down.The way that the author modernized the Bible stories and zero in on the biblical application is just awesome.

awsome!!!! I truly enjoyed this movie. Story line is good. The effects are good too! This movie is now in my wolf man collection.

Movie fan I am very satisfied with this product. I am happy to have found it here, I looked all over for it, and glad to have it as part of my collection.

Amazon.com Service Glowing Review I had a problem when purchasing this Toy Story 3 Blu-Ray, for whatever reason, the first two copies that I received didn't play. This review now becomes a review of Amazon.com. This company should be called AHHHH-MAZING.COM (10 stars). When I complained that the Blu-Ray didn't play it was replaced twice without a glitch or problem, it was replaced in2 days, twice. I did have a slight problem with the second one as I had requested a replacement, but Amazon.com accidentally gave me a credit instead. When I contacted them to complain because the price had gone up, they charged me the original discounted price and replaced it instantly without argument. This showed me that they really do pay attention, that they really do care that the customer is satisfied, and in the end, I am amazed and impressed with Amazon.com. Excellent company to buy from. I am now a huge fan.

LA FEMME NIKITA GREAT MOVIE. IT IS WILDER AND MORE INTENSE THAN THE TV SERIES.  YOU CAN SEE BESSON'S STYLE.  GREAT ACTING.

Classic Great classic movie.  No one can not come away with out an enjoyable 3 hours spent.  The nice thing, they did not ruin the original by making a sequel.

Burt's back on the "small" screen It was nice to see these movies again.  I was not a big Burt Reynolds fan when he was popular but the era they were filmed in was pretty cool.  I received the movie on time and the service was great.

Chuck Season 4 This was a gift and they were very happy with it. Chuck is a family favorite and this latest season did not disappoint. Great shipping time, thanks so much. :)

The British Classic While this film is very faithful to the elements of Dickens' narrative it takes many liberties with inventing other scenes wholesale.  Some may help to explain certain situations, such as how Scrooge and his father came to be estranged and why Scrooge holds a grudge against Fred.  But others seem unnecessary such as the subplot concerning the hostile takeover of Fezziwig's.  Nevertheless this film is a definite fan favorite and is very well produced.  The roles of Jacob Marley, Bob Cratchit, Mrs. Dilber and of course Alastair Sim as Scrooge are especially well-acted.  You can read in more detail a comparison of this and other film treatments of Dickens' A Christmas Carol at dickenscroogemovies dot com.

Graet Id suggest you rent the movie first so see if you are going to like it. Its a win or loose kind of movie. But throught the movie, i was awestruck.

Great Movie I am a fanatic of foreign films, because I love to learn about distinct cultures. I saw this movie and decided to buy it.  This is how much I love it. I have seen various Indian Movies, however this is one of my favorite ones because it give you a perspective about how Indian Families celebrate weddings, and and all the preparations that are done.  The actors are excellent and it has moments that are sad, happy, emotional,  I love these kinds of movies that make you travel through many emotions at the same time.

Robbed of an Oscar! You would think that a movie about one man stuck in a narrow canyon for most of the movie would get boring fast. The fact that it doesn't is a testament to the acting of James Franco and direction of Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire). The soundtrack is a perfect accompaniment to the story as well (and sounds even better on blu-ray). You don't have to be an "outdoorsy" person to enjoy this film. You just have to have a pulse.

28 week later Its a very good zombie movie. A good story from the beinning to the very end. It was so real like to me anyway.

Back to the Seventies! I was watching a movie the not long ago and they mentioned Ultraman in the movie. All of sudden my mind was takin back to my childhood and i could remember asking my asking my mom to put it on the T.V. When i was like 5 or 6 years old. Can't remember exactly but i Think it was on T.B.S.. I have not thought about Ultraman for decades. I jumped on Amazon and ordered the Complete series. It took my mind back to my childhood when i first put in the dvd . Amazing experience!!!! Even though the special effects are terrible for todays standards my 5 year old step son and my 13 year old step son love it. They want to watch it all the time. What a great find for the the Family minus mom (she hates it and almost anything else that is not on the wedding channel.LOL.). You can't beat the price either. A 4 disk set with all the episodes for 10 dollars.

Don't Miss This Extended Edition! To the point, DO NOT MISS THIS "EXTENDED EDITION" if you are interested in the Swedish film/TV production of Steig Larson's novel of the same name (or either of the other two productions in the series).  WHETHER OR NOT you have already seen the seriously truncated (shortened, mangled) version which was earlier released on DVD, BD, and streaming, THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED.  Unlike the previously released version, this "extended edition" provides a coherent presentation.  Being one of the inexplicably over the top fans of anything connected with the three Larsen novels (or associated biographies, etc), I read all three novels early this year and then waited with bated breath for the "movie" versions.  I was seriously disappointed with all three earlier, shortened movie releases, and particularly the last two of the three in the series.  This was because new characters suddenly showed up on the screen without either sufficient introduction, or even identification.  Or there were very significant holes in the story line (in addition to those already extant in the novels!).  As many of you will know, the three novels were filmed for Swedish television, with one film for each of the three novels.  This disc presents one of the three films as originally formed and appearing on Swedish television - each film, including this one, was broken into two segments of approximately 90 minutes in length, for a movie lasting a total of 180 minutes.  When the Swedish TV version was presented in American theaters (and DVDs and BDs, the latter which I own), it was re-edited, and seriously shortened.  As far as I am concerned, this ruined all three original "movie" presentations.  Despite the fact that the productions were evidently produced for first showing on Swedish TV, the production values (both sight and sound) are certainly comparable to those of first rate American movies.  This reviewer does not know but strongly suspects that the producers had ultimate theater showing in mind when the films were made.  And finally, the Amazon's streamed version of the Extended Edition is free of notable artifacts on this reviewer's 109 inch Stewart Screen - in the streamed version the color balance and brightness are good - the black levels, interfered with by encoding and transmission noise, do not equal that of the BluRay disc, but are certainly acceptable.  Needless to say, I was grateful and quite thrilled that the original version finally made it to market in Amazon's streamed version with Amazon's typical quality!

THIS IS THE ONLY ROBIN HOOD! As far as film versions go, "The Adventures of Robin Hood"  is THE ONLY ROBIN HOOD!  A very large part of this is due, of course, to the wonderful performance of Errol Flynn as Robin.  With the twinkle and energy resplendent in his portrayal of the mythical nobleman turned outlaw, he gives this character a sparkle consistent with the best retellings of this tale, a sparkle that I think no other actor of his time could have contributed so successfully.  Well matched by the beautiful Olivia de Havilland as Maid Marian, and ably assisted by Claude Rains as the evil Prince John, Basil Rathbone as the murderous Sir Guy, Alan Hale as the jovial and hulking Little John, Eugene Pallette as the gravel voiced Friar Tuck,  and a host of other venerable supporting players, Errol Flynn in this film reached for and landed perhaps one of his best performances in a long and sometimes checkered acting career.  This ambitious 1938 production, one of the first shot in the newly arrived 3-Strip Technicolor process, was masterfully co-directed by top Warner Bros. directors William Keighley and the always solid Michael Curtiz.  The script is fast moving, the themes are adventure and romance, and the period production design is amazingly near flawless.  This 2 Disc Special Edition presents a glorious Technicolor print, and the DVD extras are gratifyingly full of wonderfully interesting production tidbits,  on-the-set home movies, a very interesting documentary on the origins of Technicolor narrated by Angela Lansbury, etc.  Within these extras, for example, you will find out that cowboy star Roy Rogers' famous horse Trigger first had his debut in "The Adventures of Robin Hood" as Maid Marian's steed, and that his given name (before Roy renamed him)  was something like Golden Cloud.  In summary, this is a wonderfully complete DVD presentation, and a very worthwhile acquisition for anyone who again wishes to see and feel an on-screen fulfillment of perhaps one of the most colorful and magical dreams of adventure and romance yet filmed.  This, my friends, is truly THE ONLY ROBIN HOOD!

A Must Watch for Monopoly Fans & Collectors! You'll definitely want to see this film -- the definitive documentary about MONOPOLY! It's narrated by the star of "Chuck" and "Tangled", Zachary Levi, and has something for everyone! It's Rated G, so the whole family can enjoy it.

a lot of twists I loved this movie. It had a lot of twists and turns and the ending was pretty shocking. If u like a good thriller this is the one to watch. Bill Pullman was great in it.

A keeper Fantastic movie which is more adherent to actual Conan stories than prior offerings, including the fighting sandmen, witchcraft elements. Definitely a movie one can enjoy repeatedly....

GREAT MOVIE... TOO INTENSE FOR YOUNG ONE'S SOME 4 LETTER WORDS,BUT NOT EXCESSIVE.GOOD STORY LINE AND FINE ACTORS...I ENJOYED IT VERY MUCH.

Fantastic Movie Beautifully scripted, acted (brilliant acting by the two leads, especially Michelle Williams), filmed, and directed! When I saw the trailer to this I was not interested but I read a lot of good reviews about this movie on another website. I think a lot of people will relate to this movie as we all fall in love and out of love but this movie was so real it had me thinking for days afterwards. I later heard about some possible NC-17 scene but I didn't think it was that bad, I only thought if that actor has a gf in real life she might be uncomfortable how close some of the scenes were. This kind of reminded me of a toned-down but more thought-provoking "Revolutionary Road" (movie) But Revolutionary Road was so draining to watch and I just wanted to scream at the ending. With this movie, I felt like it was true art even though I wasn't terribly satisfied with the end but that's life. It also reminded me a bit of "500 Days of Summer."

Changing my Practice, Changing my Life! This is a great DVD. I have been doing yoga for a long time, but this one really clicks. Its great. I'm actually even losing weight (finally) getting a lot stronger and more flexible. Its a bargain too - 3 workouts on one DVD. Highly recommend.

The best and most unique show on! I started watching this show since the pilot and never stopped it has this definate hook to it.  The characters are great Neal so suave and smooth and Peter clean cut and straight as an arrow they are total opposites and are awsome togther.  That is what makes it so dramatic and funny at the same time.  Practicaly right after I got done watching the first first season wich was right when it came out I wwent and asked when the second was comming out finaly the wait is over.

A true classic Probably on of Eastwood's greatest westerns. A must see for the western community or anyone who appreciates classic cinema. A true tale of when good must be a little evil themselves to destroy evil.

very goood the movie came very fast and was brand new just like the information said it would be. Its a very good movie. If you have never seen stand by me then i highly recommend it

One of the Best Movies I have ever Seen. Since watching this movie, my marriage has grown closer. Not only has it helped my marriage it has helped me in other relationships in my life, such as with my children. I have grown closer to the people I love along with loving others that I often ignore. This movie will change your life, if you will just watch it with an open heart. It was one of the best investments I have ever made. I will buy other movies that Affirm Films has made. They are wholesome and great for the family. They shine with such depth and inspiration.

Rumpole of the Bailey Seasons 1 and 2 Rumpole is unique.  Good to watch several times to enjoy all the nuances you may have missed the first time.

Such a great classic film! This movie has it all--drama, humor, conflict, pathos, and terrific acting by every cast member!  I never tire of watching it!!!!

I loved this film An female Indian teenager Jess living in England wants to play professional football (soccer in the U.S.) like her hero Beckham. She is naturally gifted at it. She gets to play on a local women's team in secret from her traditional Indian family. Her mother wants her to learn to cook Indian recipes and marry a nice Indian boy. And for heaven's sake, a proper Indian girl cannot show her bare legs in public.  But even though Jess is fanatic about playing, she isn't comfortable sneaking about and a conflict arises when her sister's wedding is on the same day as the football final. Yes, it is a formula film; parents don't want her to play football, she is going to miss the big game, and we are pulling for things to work out. But in this film the formula works. Irresistible performances will make you love the two female stars. This is a superb tale of a young girl's struggle to be true to herself and her family at the same time. The action shots are great (these girls are superb athletes) and the Indian music captivating. You will not want the film to end.

Brilliant I could not stop laughing throughout this movie.  The Blu-Ray visuals are obviously stunning, but the main reason to purchase this is purely for the comedy.  Extras are a blast to watch also.

Worth watching and reminiscing This was a walk down memory lane for me, but it would be an interesting viewing for anyone, young or old.

Frighteners Excellent purchase.  Anniversary edition DVD has all kinds of background material not previously released.  Thoroughly enjoyed watching everything.  Service was great too.  DVD arrived when projected and in excellent condition.

Classic Chuck Norris I love this movie!  I could watch in 1000 times.  Classic Chuck Norris and a must for any fan's collection.

Wow I've loved this movie for years.  The Blu-ray edition is fantastically sharp but the improvements to the audio over the standard DVD really blew me away! It made a really fun movie even better!

SHOT AT SUNRISE!  I HOPE IT IS CLOUDY TOMORROW. THE FLYING DEUCES (1939) Directed by A. Edward Sutherland. Produced by Boris Morros. Script by Charles Rogers and Harry Langdon.  Starring Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean Parker, Reginald Gardiner. James Finlayson and Charles Middleton.  While on vacation in France, Des Moines fish mongers Laurel and Hardy, after falling a foul of love and dabbling with suicide, decide to join the Foreign Legion to "forget." However after a few days in the Legion, they decide to forget THAT only to find themselves condemned to be shot as deserters.  This..the first independent film the comedy duo did away from Hal Roach is, because of its public domain status, probably the most well known film after BABES IN TOYLAND being produced as it was by secret communist agent Morros trying to break into Hollywood. Even so, it is still lots of fun and probably the last truly great film save for perhaps A CHUMP AT OXFORD by the pair before their decline.  Besides some great bits involving a shark in the Seine, a great sight gag involving laundry and a glorious extended escape sequence at the end, Hardy sings SHINE ON HARVEST MOON and the pair do a delightful little dance. Finlayson is on hand as their jailer and that great screen villain Charles Middleton, taking a break from trying to conquer the world, is the commander of the Legion base.  The version available on KINO ON VIDEO is restored and I have never seen the film look better.  Just charming and highly recommended.  "Shot at sunrise!" "I hope it is cloudy tomorrow."

Secrets under the theater Out of the entire Dr. Who series, "The Talons of Weng-Chiang" remains one of my favorites -- it was one of the first serials I ever saw.  And it doesn't hurt that it's a ripping good yarn as well, with the Doctor and Leela going back into the Victorian era in time for Chinee cults, Jack The Ripper-style killings, and a deadly secret hidden underneath a theater. This is one of those Dr. Who stories that simply gets everything RIGHT, whether it's well-developed guest characters, humor, or even a semi-sympathetic villain.  The Doctor has decided to show Leela her heritage by taking her to Victorian London, where they attend a stage show starring the Chinese magician Li H'sen Chang. But their evening is ruined when they see a cabbie murdered by a gang of Chinese men, and find that the dead guy was searching for his wife -- who went mysteriously missing during Chang's show. And she wasn't the first disappearance.  With the help of Professor Litefoot (who is very smitten with Leela despite her odd behavior) and the bumbling theater owner, the Doctor sets out to discover who Chang is working for, and what this mysterious masked figure wants. However, nobody except the Doctor can recognize who this person really is -- and the horrors they can unleash all through history.  Giant rats, Chinese gods, a killer ventriloquist dummy and a serial killer in Victorian London -- "The Talons of Weng-Chiang" is just a deliciously pulpy story, but somehow it avoids falling into outright silliness. It's one of those episodes that is immensely fun to watch, but it is also a very well-written mystery (since we don't know who Weng-Chiang is) and sci-fi story.  But another great part of this story is the guest cast. Tom Baker and Louise Jameson are, as always, absolutely delightful as the Holmes-attired Doctor and the tomboyish Leela, but the writer and director also gave a lot of life to the supporting cast, like the professor (a pleasant open-minded sort who also holds a torch for Leela) and the bumbling but well-meaning Jago.  Even the villains are well-written -- Chang has genuine devotion to his "god," but is fearful of being discovered, and you really feel sorry for him when everything falls apart. And Greel is a pretty solid villain, deluded over his achievements and his importance, and willing to sacrifice everyone else to get what he wants.  This is also one of the few old Dr. Who episodes set in a non-1960s/1970s setting, and they do a pretty good job with the dank, slightly murky atmosphere of Victorian London. Lots of cozy drawing rooms, dark dockside alleys, and hearty men with muttonchops, although the "sinister foreigners" thing is.... um, one of the less nostalgia-inducing parts of the Victorian era.  "The Talons of Weng-Chiang" remains one of my favorite Dr. Who serials, with a mixture of nimble writing, well-rounded characters, and pulpy Victoriana. Absolutely brilliant.

Still one of my Japanese favorites Highly recommended for anyone who likes over the top type genre films. Imagine your a kid on the show Double Dare but with weapons but also on an island where all the adults are insane and if you don't win your dead..... just watch it. Odds are you'll like it.

Monroe: Class of '76 This was in great condition and I have enjoyed it several times and am happy to say I love it. I am happy with most things I buy from amazon. I thank you for your prompt deliveries.

Comentando desde Chile A great movie .... has all the desirable features, impressive sound, 1080p picture quality, original audio (which was filmed), and Spanish subtitles. Recommended by 100%.  Me encantan todas las paradojas con que juegan, ..... y como buena pel&iacute;cula, un excelente final, que arma el puzle, lol.

DVD Review My son wanted this movie. It was a good price at Amazon.  It came promptly for his birthday.  He really enjoyed the movie.  Thanks Amazon for making his birthday special.  I will order from Amazon again.

Simply beautiful. We really enjoyed The IP MAN. Beautifully filmed, well realized, impressive actions. Other kung fu movies look has-been now !

Great family movie This is a great movie to have for your family movie night.  The characters are fun, the story is suspenseful without being too scary, and there's a touch of humor that even the parents will enjoy.  There's also nothing offensive or racy to detract from the movie.  My 6, 8, and 10 year old all liked it, as well as my wife and I.  We'll be watching this over and over again.

Loved it The fist 1 hour and 1/2 I cried my eyes out, cried and cried. Couldn't stop and the last 30 mins it all came together and made sense. I want to read the book now..

Liked it It was a new concept.  I get tired of seeing the same thing done a hundred ways.  The acting by a couple of the characters wasn't as great as it could have been, and the last line of the movie was odd and vulgar.  Overall though, I was entertained, and won't forget this one like I do with other straight to DVD chick flicks.

BEN BEN BEN GREAT FILM.. SEXY TOOOO!!! Hello Everyone!!! OK here it is... BEN IS AWESOME in this film and..... WAIT FOR IT...He Directed it too... AND MAY I ADD... He's SEXY SEXY SEXY... Im just saying!!  Now this movie has it all... Action, Love, Lost, SEXY BEN, Need I say more!!  BUY THIS FLIM!!  Thanks Its your review from the Jay Guy

Entertaining for children My grandchildren recently lost their Schnauzer at age 16.  I bought this for them, thinking it might console them a bit.  They loved the movie.

Classic Film A classic film based on a Broadway hit play.  A great comic WWII film starring Henry Fonda (repeating his Broadway role), James Cagney, Jack Lemmon, & William Powell.  Fonda plays Mister Roberts, a man who wants to get out of being on a cargo vessel & actually get into fighting the war.  An extremely funny film although rather sad at the end.  A must for classic film buffs.

Still Good After 20 Years. I watched Dances with Wolves the other night.  I was surprised that this movie held up as well as it did.  The scenery in 1080p along with the Digital DTS 7.1 was outstanding.

Cold Mountain I am not a fan of Nicole Kidman or Rene Z......But in this movie they play their parts in an excellent manner. Along with the wonderful story line making this a must see in any movie buffs list.

Great Combo Pack This movie is classic. Loved it on DVD and 3D Blue Ray just takes it to another level! A must have for any fan!

Excellent just like the other 3 movies from these people Another very good Kendrick movie. Everyone should see it! Excellent story line and acting. Everyone of their movies gets better.

An All-Time Best Film This is one of those films which must be seen by anyone who seeks familiarity with the best Anglo-American films of all times and by most everyone who can enjoy a well-made film no matter when it was made. With 39 Steps, it is the most admired of Hitchcock's British made films, (although there are others from which I derive almost equal entertainment) and is a visual textbook for any budding film-maker, particular for those who seek to touch on a diversity of emotions in a film, no matter which element he/she seeks to emphasize. For those with no foreknowledge of the film, for whom Hitchcock is not a presence, and for whom the events of the thirties are equidistant with the Roman Legions, the comedy, the frustration of not being believed, the shrugging off of ones reality as a psychological delusion, the appeal to basic loyalties, should still be appealing and understandable. Whether or not the absence of a super-hero, a Bruce Willis, et al, undermines the action, I cannot tell. I can only advise those of any age or background who has the opportunity to see the film, to do so and make up his/her own mind.

Mary Poppins The kids love this classic movie. They sing and dance to it all the time.  My husband was tired of it after the 7 time in one week.

Great for toddler! Perfect little stocking stuffer for a toddler.  My daughter can fit this tiny little book in her play purse, it's gone on trips with us, she likes to open up to the picture pages and name the characters.  We read it almost nightly!!!

As Much Fun As You'll Ever Have At The Theater The first two "Men In Black" movies were successful because of a simple Hollywood "formula": fun.  By combining goofy aliens, cool gadgets, great acting, funny sight gags, wise-cracking humor, and enough of a plot to actually make you care about all that is transpiring, those movies were so genre-diverse that one almost can't help but find something to like.  After a ten year break from the action, however, there was no guarantee that the lightning could be caught in the bottle once again for MIB3.  Luckily, this film not only proves itself worthy, but actually clocks in as the best installment in the series to date.  For a basic plot summary, MIB3 sees a rogue alien escape from captivity and, through time-travel, wreak havoc on the MIB organization by causing Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) to no longer exist.  As such, Agent J (Will Smith) must travel back to 1969 in order to set things straight, along the way meeting up with the younger K (Josh Brolin).  Like its predecessors, this movie is just pure fun, through and through.  The time spent watching it will fly by (no boredom here!) as every scene contains some interesting nugget, whether comically, emotionally, or just plain exciting.  Essentially, MIB3 is the perfect balance between "summer popcorn flick" & "film series you truly care about".  While humor, action, and adventure are present throughout the film, the ending of the movie even takes an emotionally-charged tone that will likely have you completely stunned and perhaps even pulling out a tissue or two.  Of course, the acting within this film is probably what truly makes it a great experience, though.  Will Smith slips effortlessly into his old "black suit" role, while Brolin is spot-on as the young K.  Jones is, well, pretty much the same old Jones, but with an added character twist that really does help explain his character's gruff exterior.  Simply put, MIB3 vaults this trilogy into serious consideration when considering the "greatest trilogies of all time" debate.  It is pure fun, but with enough emotion to make you care about the characters.  Even after 10 years away, the black suits are indeed still as fresh as ever!

Really creative, fun & entertaining! Just finished watching. Overall it was a very creative, fun and entertaining film. Really great job on such a low budget, heck even better than alot of large budget films out there. Storyline was believable, the audience (majority of us either partake in Facebook, Farmville, or at the very least have heard of them) can relate to it and it's a clean movie with a happy ending. I rate it two thumbs up! The other reviewer that complained about the black limo with the thug rolling up in the beginning should have given the movie a chance because it actually relates to the real character in the movie. Once you get to the end the beginning pairs in line perfectly when you see who the villian is IRL. I wish that Farmville was more playful like that in actuality (I'm a Farmville player myself). Great cast of characters, Mo Bu (sp!) was great (adorable), the interaction between all the characters flowed nicely. Give this movie a chance. Really liked the soundtrack as well, nicely done, A+!

very good Very good performance,of the actors,the music,pity it was very short,anyway I enjoied it very much it made me remember the goldenage of Hollywood.

40th Anniversary Collector's Edition Blu-ray This review is for the 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition Blu-ray.  We all know Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is a great movie. This review is simply the mechanics of this special edition set.  It is very nice box set and well organized and put together. However, to keep all the items in place are these clear cheap thin plastic pieces which make the whole set look a little cheap. I rather have foam like material to keep the items where they belong. The discs are on the bottom in a candy bar looking cardboard foldout sleeve, so you must dig through all the other items to get to the movie.  The box is colorful and fairly solid. It is slightly thicker than the Warner Brothers I am Legend special edition box set. When standing upright the top just slides off, but you need it to be on it's side or all the stuff will fall out. Really nothing of any use. I'll never use the smelly pencils or eraser. I wish the Blu-ray/DVD case was a steelbook or something a little stronger than cardboard. The golden ticket is cool and some of the other stuff is all right.  I had the Willy Wonka & Chocolate Factory UK Blu-ray and I can honestly say this disc looks and sounds a lot better. It is probably the same as previous USA Blu versions, though to me it looks the best it ever has.  Over-all it is a nice set to have if you are a big fan like me. Each box is labeled as to what limited number you are out of 100,000. This label is actually a silver sticker on the outer cover of the box set. I wish it was on the inside somewhere, but that is ok. If you are hesitant, maybe wait until the price drops a little. I can't see this item selling out or being hard to find as there are 100,000 of them and it's not the best set in the world. But at $43.99, I am not disappointed with the set, movie, or cost.

One Piece Collection Four In this four collection of one piece. Nami is stricken by an rare illness and needs a doctor to save her life. The nearest island close to them is drum island. But this island is without any doctors, they where all taken away by the evil king Wapol. There are only two doctors left on the whole island, but they live on top on drum Rockies. Now luffy and sanji must climb the drum rockies to find the doctor named witch, given to her by the town folk. Luffy and  sanji now have reach the top, but fall from being chase up the rockies by king Wapol and the biggest snow bunnies ever. The evil and greed king Wapol has return to drum island to reclaim is once fallen thrown. Wapol and his men return the castle on top of the drum rockies and try to blow away the flag on top on the castle put there by copper. Luffy and the crew now defend the castle and the flag from Wapol and his crew. Nami is better now from her illness. The straw hat crew set sail for alabasta with a new crew member, Tony Tony Chopper.  Collection Four Disc BreakDown  Disc 01 79.A raid!-The tin tyrant and tin plate Wapol! 80.An island without doctors?-Adventure in a nameless land! 81.Are you happy?-the doctor called witch! 82.Dalton's resolve!-Wapol corps land on the island! 83.The island where snow lives!-climb the drum rockies! 84.Blue nosed reindeer!-chopper's secret! 85.An outcast's dream!-Hiriluk the quack!  Disc 02 86.Hiriluk's cherry blossoms and the will that gets carries on! 87.Fight wapol's crew!-the power of the munch munch fruit! 88.Zoan type devil frui!-chopper's seven form transformation! 89.When the kingdom's rule ends!-the flag of faith flies forever! 90.Hiriluk's cherry blossoms!-Miracle in the drum rockies! (with commentary) 91.Goodbye drum island!-I'm going out to sea!  Disc 03 92.Alabasta's hero and a ballerina on the ship! 93.Off to the desert kingdom!-The rain summoning powder and the rebel army! 94.The heroes' reunion!-His name is fire fist ace! 95.Ace and luffy!-Hot emotions and brotherly bonds! 96.Erumalu, the city of green and the kung fu dugongs! 97.Adventure in the country of sand!-The monsters that live in the scorching land!  Disc 04 98.Enter the desert pirates!-The men who live freely! 99.False fortitude!-camu, rebel soldier at heart! 100.Rebel warrior koza!-the dream vowed to vivi! 101.Showdown in a heat haze!-Ace vs. the gallant scorpion! 102.Ruins and lost ways!-vivi, her friends, and the country's form! 103.Spiders cafe at 8 0'clock!-the enemy leaders gather! (with commentary)  Cooming Soon One Piece Collection Five Review

Enjoyable DeNiro film This is a movie I'd never known of til it aired on shipboard TV during a Nov. 2010 cruise. Bought it to share with the kids, as the plot is a widower tries to get his children together for Christmas, but when their busy schedules and lack of interest doom his plan, he sets off (by bus) to visit each - in Vegas, NYC, Chicago, etc. He plays a genuinely proud, concerned parent unable to comunicate well with his kids, as "keeping up" with them was always their mom's job. Everyone I've had watch it has given it a thumbs up, and DeNiro comes across as a genuine proud, concerned parent; nice job.

Great Musical Score This DVD has three 20-minute videos:  the headless ghost, the ants, and a camping story with a snake.  They are scary enough to be fun without being offensive.  The little boy I got it for liked the one about the ants the best; he got so scared that he hid behind a corner and peeked around at the tv screen -- he couldn't take his eyes off it.  Personally for me the snake story was the scariest.  I think the actors do a very good job, and the musical score is perfect for the stories, adding to the scariness.  I consider this one of the best children's videos I have watched.  It is done in good taste and provides a good hour of entertainment.

Air Air is a 12 episode anime with 2 ova. It is another great work by Key with series like Clannad, Kanon, Angel Beats and the up and coming Little Busters. For under 15 dollars this is a must have in your anime collection espically if u have seen and enjoyed any of the Keys work. Its starts off with a traveller named Yukito who is on a journey searching for the girl in the sky

I LOVE this show!! I want to own all the seasons of Criminal Minds.  I love the thrill, the chase, and learning how these creeps think.  It is so realistic and intriguing.  This show is a must watch!!

Peach movie Great Movie to have for the cheap price. Disney code not in the case so if you try to get the point rewards do take a pic of your online receipt with the movie barcode and uploaded to Disney rewards. Great fast delivery.

I love at three, and so did she! My daughter was as engaged by movie as quickly at 3 as I was at 3!  What a wonderful classic that we can share!

perfect no complaints. the video arrived in perfect condition and happily it arrived ahead of schedule. i will definitely use them again.

Who Do You Love? Criterion Blu ray. Out of print. Awesome none the less. I feel foolish sharing my views on a film that is typically on the top ten list of just every film critic that ever was. But the film is really something. Everything just, works. It all combines in a magical goulash of sensory impressions, suspense, and thoughtful provocation. All the little threads knit together seamlessly. It is a film that relies heavily on style, but all of the acting is so nuanced, and understated. This may be Joseph Cotton's best role, although Orson Welles is also a standout. So many wheels within wheels, subterfuge within subterfuge, in postwar Vienna. So many great lines:  "You were born to be murdered."  "In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."  "We should have dug a deeper grave!"  "Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't. Why should we? They talk about the people and the proletariat, I talk about the suckers and the mugs - it's the same thing. They have their five-year plans, so have I."  Here is a man loved by two people, his boyhood friend, and his most recent lover. This man is also wanted by the Authorities for the grim act of diluting penicillin and selling it on the black market, with terrible repercussions to little children in the grip of an outbreak of meningitis. What to do? You love the man but the conduct was monstrous, and you never really knew the man. When looking down on people from a great height, they look like little dots. "Victims? Don't be melodramatic. [gestures to people far below] Tell me. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you twenty thousand pounds for every dot that stopped, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money, or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare? Free of income tax, old man. Free of income tax - the only way you can save money nowadays."  What is the nature of loyalty? Loyalty to people--or loyalty to a principle? What does it take to bring a sword, instead of peace between friends and loved ones? When the people we love are wolves in sheeps clothing--what does it take to see the wolf in them? Anna, Harry Lime's former lover says"A person doesn't change because you find out more." But Hollly, the old friend, isn't so sure. This Harry Lime he discovers in Vienna--he has hurt innocent people, little children, badly. Old friend or not--Who do you love? What do you love? When do you love? and Why do you love?  A timeless classic, suffused with the atmosphere of postwar Vienna. The British Film Institute ranks it the best film of the 20th century. I'm not sure I would go that far, but I understand the sentiment.

Best Star Trek Movie I used to watch the original series and have seen most of the movies. However, THIS one captures the characters the best. It has the same flavor as the series. I especially enjoy the byplay between Kirk and Spock.....hilarious! "Well a double dumb ass on you!"

Four Classic Westerns For A Remarkable Price. Albuquerque starring Randolph Scott, Whispering Smith starring Alan Ladd, The Duel At Silver Creek starring Audie Murphy and War Arrow starring Jeff Chandler all for just over five bucks.  Enough said.  Each of these films is worth the five dollar price, but Albuquerque and Whispering Smith are the best of the group.  Whispering Smith was so good that they later made it into a TV series starring Audie Murphy.  I watched each of these films when I was a child at Saturday Afternoon Matinees.  They've all been on TV numerous times and I still enjoy each of them immensely.  Universal has done a great job of packaging these four great westerns together.  If you are a fan of Classic Western Movies as I am, then this is a must have for you.  It is more than worth the $5.49 purchase price.  Definitely two thumbs up.

Hero Transformed My wife and sons saw this when it was in theaters and said I would enjoy it. "I'll see it when it comes out on video", was my reply. I realize now that I missed out not only on a tremendously fun theater experience, but also on an object lesson on the value of character. C.A. successfully transforms the comic book hero into a man. The defining moment for our superhero occurs just before he undergoes the treatment. Dr. Erskine asks, "You must promise me one thing. That you will stay who you are. Not a perfect soldier, but a good man."  Other pluses: An array of well-developed characters in spite of its genre, a nascent love story effectively carried off by the actress Hayley Atwell, and the defeat of evil personified convincingly by Hugo Weaving.  C.A. is an enjoyable reminder in our jaded age that honor and sacrificial love are "super-hero" values that do make a difference. May we all be so transformed.

Route 66 Cars has a good message and little boys will especially like the characters on wheels. When shiny Lightning McQueen takes a detour from the highway to Route 66 he learns that speed isn't everything. This movie is a keeper with Paul Newman as Doc Hudson. The cast of characters is excellent and Mater's comments are funny.

Great TV series. I love it. I was a regular TV viewer of Dennis the Menace when growing up. I loved Jay North in this TV series. He was the little rascal who would always get in Mr. Wilson's way and mess up his life. I've heard that Jay North's life was not too easy off the screen. I would like to read a biography of him and his life off the screen. I will definitely consider buying this TV series. As a child actor, Jay North endeared himself big time to me. That is why I will strongly consider buying this TV series of Dennis the Menace. addendum to review: I also liked the way this 5 dvd set was packaged. I think companies like Universal Studios and Disney could learn from this. The packaging was professional and a big plus to this movie. Thus giving me a stronger reason to recommend this TV series.

Captures the sentiment of many survivors. Captures the sentiment of many survivors, not just of the holocaust, but for any persecuted people.  I think everyone should watch this movie.

the irreverent, non-priestly priest.....??? I only got to watch a few episodes in Season 2 before my free trial of HBO was taken away and I didn't see ANY episodes with "the priest", my favorite character.  I'm worried that Dildarian might have succumbed to the powerful Catholic Church's probable objections and didn't bring him back for season 2.  Is the UNpriest back in Season 2 ?  If so, how many episodes is he in ?  Thanks, Bill

A beautiful mind . . . a beautiful story I read the book and watched the movie. Although the movie did not cover all aspects of Nash's life it was still a beautiful movie. Mental illness can be a crippling illness for everyone involved. This movie showed that John Nash did not stay in that awful place but once again became the productive person he wanted to be.

Satisfied I'm very happy with my order. I got it much sooner than I expected which was nice and it's in great condition. Thank you!

Great Movie 'Airplane' is one of the funniest movies I've seen and possibly ever made. The writers used the method of writing more than one joke into every minute of the film to keep the laughs continuous.

A good comedy with a good message George Banks is having trouble adjusting. His 22-year-old daughter Annie has just returned from a trip abroad - engaged. The tightfisted shoe designer not only has to deal with his little girl growing up, but with the burgeoning cost of her wedding. Laugh out loud as you watch the lengths George goes to in order to save money - and how the rest of the family deals with it. Father of the Bride is a good comedy with a good message (not to mention a great cast).

Castle is amazing I love the series and Amazon, as always, got it to me fast and without any hassle.  I love shopping at Amazon.com

Great Series My husband and I have enjoyed watching a show a night of this series. We are currently on the last season with two disc to go. The acting is exceptional in this show.  The plot is interesting and they bring in new characters to make you wonder what will happen next. They build the personalities in every episode and you will find yourself, overtime, liking even unlikable people. The language is extremely vulgar in this show, more so than the Sopranos. Lots of drinking and sexual content, so if you can't get over the things I've mentioned you don't want to buy this.

Silence of the Lambs The disc was in great condition, looked as if it has never been used. I have seen this movie many of times and I have been wanting to get it on DVD. It was very affordable and had a very quick delivery.  Anthony Hopkins in this movie along with Jodie Foster really do an awesome job playing their rolls.  I feel it really adds to the movie.

Funniest show on TV Seriously the funniest show on TV since Arrested Development was cancelled. The actors are all perfectly cast and there is so many things going on that the show gets better with each repeat viewing.

Another great anime by Key!!! This is one of my favorite anime of all time. The top being clannad. Angel beats and clannad are both made by the same company (Key). If you like one, you will like the other. Definitely recommend buying this series. The animation is great, and HD makes it so much better. If you like good short series, this is definitely for your. It's only 13 episodes. It's really funny in some scenes, but the overall story line is sad. Even though the ending is sad, it is still a great story with the perfect ending. Buy it!!!

Great movie I saw this movie in 1962. I never forgot it.  I purchased it recently because I wanted to use it to help educate my 10 year old grandson about WWII.  I watched it with him and he got a lot out of it.

Magnificent, Once Synchronization Is Achieved "West Side Story" is among the greatest-ever movie musicals, glorious winner of the 1961 Best Picture Oscar and nine other Academy Awards.  (My other top 5 musicals, all named Best Picture, are: "My Fair Lady", "Gigi", "Chicago", and "The Sound of Music".)  In this 50th Anniversary "West Side Story" Blu-ray Edition, both sound and picture are marvelous.  Unfortunately a pair of Blu-rays left audio and video out of synchronization.  Audio was just enough ahead of video to become terribly distracting, certainly for me, a super fan of "West Side Story".  I'm thankful for ideas below I tried, helping me find a solution.  They suggested a fix tailored to my own equipment, rather than blaming the Blu-ray.  The leading suspect thus became "7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio".  It was the "West Side Story" Blu-ray default audio setting, an advance way beyond the capacity of my 20-year old analog receiver/pair of great speakers to handle properly.  And I routinely ignored audio settings for movies, such as variations upon Dolby Digital 5.1.  Did not seem to matter, until "West Side Story".  With concert DVDs, always in synchronization, I tried to choose whatever audio option sounded best.  That usually turned out to be something like Dolby 2.0, a simple, outdated, surround sound choice for my analog receiver and two speakers.  (The endless variety of audio choices under DVD/Blu-ray "setup" still confuse me.)  "West Side Story" offered "4.0 Dolby Digital", an alternative to "7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio", the default.  Changing that audio setting to "4.0 Dolby Digital", together with unplugging/re-plugging, and multiple acts of turning the Blu-ray player off then on, ACTUALLY WORKED.  I will neither argue with success, nor conduct any further experiments.  All that matters is how glorious "West Side Story" appeared with video and audio in synchronization.

The Terminator Blu-ray I am not going to get into the story as I think it is a very well-known film. I personally think it is a great achievement in film making (especially if you consider the budgetary and other constraints) and after 28 years, it still holds his power as one of the most beloved science fiction movies.  I had reservations about buying the Blu-ray as I have read many negative reviews here on Amazon. I ended up buying it from Target only for $8 (which is unusual as I buy almost all of my movies from Amazon). I must say that I was pleasantly surprised to see that Blu-ray transfer was actually quite good, if not without flaws.  It is not very grainy but there are scenes in the movie that suffer from artifacts (I most noticed it in the scene where The Terminator is talking to the punks and later during the flashback where a terminator infiltrates the compound and starts firing his weapon). I think it would be wrong to expect it to look crystal clear like the movies that were made in the last 5 years. HD audio is excellent.  Although artifacts didn't bother me that much, if they were removed, the picture quality would be better. There are talks about a new and better Blu-ray edition being in the works to release early next year. If you can wait (and don't want to spend $8 - $10), then the upcoming edition might be a better choice. But if you are not too nit-picky, this Blu-ray edition is pretty decent (in my opinion).

Outstanding!!!!! I first heard about this movie when it first came out and Roger Ebert gave it an outstanding review. People who saw it in the show would tell me about how people in the show would get the spirit while watching this movie. One night it appeared on PBS and I could not believe what I had just saw. Everything and more to hear Mother Smith sing and to hear Delores Barrett Campbell and her sisters sing was mind blowing. Finally it came out on dvd and that was when I realize that the version I saw ono PBS was different than the version on dvd and that was a good thing. Now to be able to actually hear from the director and his thought process about making this movie was great. Also just to be able to listen to just the music on a seperate cd was also great. Now I can't wait for it to come out on blue ray, somebody say aman!

A Fun Movie!! Matinee is one of those great films that are just plain fun to watch.  I saw this at the theater a long time ago, happened to remember it, bought the DVD, and it's even better the 2nd time around!

Tim Burton's version of The Legend of Sleepy Hallow. It is 1799 in Sleepy Hallow. Peter Van Garrett (Martin Landau) has just written a very important letter and sealed it in red wax with his symbol stamped on it.  His driver rides him in a horse carriage in the darkness of night on a road that cuts through a corn field. Peter sees a scarecrow with a pumpkin head on it. Peter is worried enough on this night. he thought they were alone, but suddenly he sees a horseman riding past him followed by the sound of a sword. Peter looks out his window and sees his driver has been decapitated. The scared horses are running wild. Peter jumps out of his carriage. he runs in the cornfield where he meets his doom.   In New York City, the Burgomaster (Christopher Lee) sends Ichabod Crane to the dutch farming community of Sleepy Hallow to investigate the bodies there. Ichabod is told of the legend of Hessian Horseman (Christopher Walken) who fought many men wildly chopping their heads off with his sword. His own death, 20 years ago, was given by his own sword the same way.   Now 20 years later, it appears the headless horseman has returned upon his wild, black horse and is after the Van Garrett family and the people of Sleepy Hallow.   Directed by Tim Burton. Executive Producer Francis Ford Coppola.   From Paramount Pictures and Mandalay Pictures.    Also in the cast: Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Casper Van Dien, Jeffrey Jones, Richard Griffiths, Ian McDiarmid, Michael Gough, Marc Pickering, Steve Waddington, Joao Costa Menezes.   Rated "R". DVD Running Time: 1 hour, 45 minutes.   Rick Heinrichs and Peter Young won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction.   Nominations also given for Best Cinematography and Costume Design.   Shown in Widescreen.   Option of Language in English (Dolby Surround, 5.1 Surround), French.  Option of Subtitles in English.   Teaser Trailer, Theatrical Trailer, Behind the Legend Featurette, cast & crew interviews, photo gallery, cast bios.    Audio Commentary with Tim Burton.  Also see:   The Legend of Sleepy Hallow (1949), also known as, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004R99Y">The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (Disney Gold Classic Collection)</a> (1949-Walt Disney Productions).   The Legend of Sleepy Hallow (1972)   The New Misadventures of Ichabad Crane (1979-tvm)   <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6303269915">The Legend of Sleepy Hollow [VHS</a>] (1080-tvm) Starring Jeff Goldblum.

A unique series an early xmas present for my husband and me! we loved the show and it is so nice to have all the episodes!one show we can watch over and over. we always catch something we missed. great price!

An old friend I had not seen this movie in decades. A take-off of the Philidelphia Project - great movie. Like an old friend

Even Mel Gibson Is Outstanding I remember Mel making those goofy Australian movies in the desert; and I remember his long absence from the lists of "respectable" Hollywood stars. And as far as I can tell, this movie pretty much fits toward the end of his long absence period. But it is outstanding: a perfect mixture of casual violence, sustained sadism and old-timey stars whose names you can't quite recall. Buy it. Put on your sadism side and force yourself to watch every minute. Your mind will be wiped out, if not by the inevitable progression of the violence, then by the ending.

I Love It!!! Fly Away Home is a great movie!!! It reminds me of myself in so many ways! It's a great family movie, especially if you love animals! Go Igore! ;)

Great Video This is the best video he has done since "Here's your sign."  I would recommend this video to everyone I know.

kings speech The King Speech purchased from amazon  The movie was excellent. It shared that speech problems can be over come and that some speech problems start with some psycholoical problems that need to be over come

Wonderful Movie This is the type of film that can take you back to to the fun o'l days of yester year. State fair can bring a smile to anyones face. The days of old with the same flair as todays fairs. Watch and you will understand what Im saying is true. ENJOY

THE DESCENDENTS A FABULOUS MOVIE,GEORGE CLOONEY NEVER LETS US DOWN WITH HIS MOVIES.. I RATE THIS MOVIE A+++++ THIS IS A MUST SEE MOVIE!!

Came highly recommended I bought this for my daughter after chatting with someone who had recently had a baby. She said it was the best thing ever and that I should get a copy for my daughter and son in law as a gift. She claimed it was super helpful to her with lots of great tips. So I figured if it was tested and approved by this intelligent new mother for whom I have respect, it must be good!

Amazing 3D Conversion! I've loved I, Robot since it's release; and am thrilled that they put the money & effort into converting it into 3D. _ The "3D Conversion" process has gotten 1000% better since it's inception; and now, it's rivaling "Real 3D" (shot in 3D) films... In fact, it's gotten so good, that if I didn't know better, I'd swear they shot this film in 3D to begin with... it's that good! __ I have a 2012 Panasonic VT50 (65" - nearly $4,000), so if you get a "cheap-o" 3D-TV, your experience may not be as good as it could be; but I didn't notice a single mistake/problem w/ the conversion; and believe me, I was looking for them. -- In fact, most people confuse most 3D-Converted Film problems (ghosting, etc.) with it being a problem with the 3D-TV itself -- when in fact, it was a Conversion mistake/problem, in identifying field-depth and so on, during the conversion process.  ANYWAY... The first one I saw that had no errors at all, was Titanic (also a 20th Century Fox release)... So in addition to the conversion technology being vastly improved, this also means that they (Fox) are at least taking the effort (and money) to see that it's done correctly and error-free... even if it means it's a lengthier & more expensive process.  My single complaint about this release, is the "Bonus Feature" dismissal.  The original Blu-Ray release was loaded with (good) bonus features; and while I've come to expect the 3-D Discs having none at all... I expected it to come with either a separate Blu-Ray disc (normally, identical to the initial release), or at least have the 'best of the best' features included on the DVD. __ Well, there is no separate Blu-Ray disc included, despite it being billed as "Blu-Ray 3D / Blu-Ray / DVD Combo"... and so, I'm forced to keep my original blu-ray disc & swap it out with the DVD disc included in this "combo", so I can keep the awesome bonus features (3 Commentaries, Several CG & Behind the Scenes things, and more)... So, instead of selling my extra (Original) Blu-Ray, I now have only the extra DVD to sell (which is another thing... who on Earth, needs, or wants a DVD of this, if they're buying a Blu-Ray 3D version!??)  At any rate - Very impressed with the 3D Conversion... Keep 'em coming!  PS: I've never said this before; but don't let the 2-Star 3D Naysayer dissuade you... Read my comment to his "Review" for clarification.

The Dark Crystal, A Crystal in any form.... You know, I read several of the reviews and while I don't wish to be contrary or argumentative about anyone's opinions, it does seem that some people don't have anything else to do but go on and on about trivialities.  This was a great movie, it always has been and will always be.  Jim Henson was a great mind with the heart of a child and a wonderful love for mankind.  His foray into moviemaking was a blessing for us all.  The moral of the story and the telling of it is nothing short of magical.  I don't care about the colors, the music or anything that isn't as it was really.  Just the story and my own imagination running wild with these characters is enough for me.  I was thrilled to enjoy this movie on Blu-ray as the only other copy I had was an old VHS that was nearly worn out!  I consider this movie a BUY whether it is perfect or not.  Let your imagination do the rest!

Sometimes it's better to let the phone ring This movie has some very good acting reminds you on how much a woman will do to keep her family and that secrets will always come to to the light one way or another. Sometimes the sins of the father will affect the whole family. The little girl in this did some of the best acting I've ever seen someone so young do .She totally gave me the creeps and I loved every minute of it.

Family Favorite! This was a gift for my family, and they love it! My family loves this movie! I highly recommend this movie, it's awesome to watch.

Terrific video for kids When there is so much garbage on TV for kids to watch, I was thrilled to see this DVD.  Every episode teaches the kids how to think in order to solve a new mystery.  It's thoughtful and colorful and not at all annoying for parents.  We keep it in the car and it keeps the kids completely interested while they learn.  This gets my highest recommendation as a parent of triplet 4 year olds.

Classic! I love this movie, its so funny! They dont make movies like this anymore, back than Halle Berry was one of my favorite actress's*

Cary Grant is awesome! Cary Grant movies are aways worth watching. He was a talented comedic actor as well as more serious roles. This movie was great, where he plays a man who buys a house and struggles with all the problems that come with it. He was paired with Myrna Loy, who's flat affect way of acting plays off Cary's acting so very well. I would recommend this movie to anyone who loves the old comedies, which are so much better then modern ones.

Patch Adams My VCR ate my old tape, and I loved the movie so much that I ordered a disk version.  Very satisfied. The service is great for ordering on-line.

Happy Thank you for your promptness of my order. I am very HAPPY with the condition of the order and how fast it got here. Keep up the excellent work and i hope to order from you in the future.

John Wayne - My favorite As always John Wayne does it up right. I have learned to appreciate his movies over the years more and more. The early years of course were different but still very good. This is a great movie for any year.

Great Show We live in Portland, so its cool to see our city on a Nationaly broadcast show. We really like the characters and the story line. I hope it has many more seasons to come!

Open Season entertains us again! I bought Open Season 2 to complete my collection of the Open Season movies.  This movie is entertaining for the whole family.  My teenager and his friends watched it together and were laughing out loud!

MY FAVORITE MOVIE OF ALL TIME this is my favorite movie of all time, its also on my favorite musical list. and my favorite audrey hepburn movie. when i hear the songs it always make me smile.those of you that havent seen it. please watch it.

Awesome clever flic I think this is one of the best spoofs on Dracula.  I could not stop laughing.  Leslie Nielson is over the top.  I especially loved the mirror scene.

Love the movie! I had no problems with the purchase of this item.  The movie arrived in good time and in the condition it was descibed.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Good movie, recently in Savannah and it was wonderful seeing the city again.  Had the Miss Chablis character not been in the movie it would have been too slow, overall was entertaining.

Amazing British Naval Fleet I received this Collectors Edition within the time limits specified & in excellent condition. This DVD shows ocean battles extremely well & gives one an insight of how sea battles were fought, the characters were well cast, the concern that Captain Aubrey had for his crew is special & the respect for Officers that was required of the crew is very interesting. Overall it is a touching & amazing movie that shows ethics, loyalty, compassion, duty, & respect that is lacking in today's society. The special features on the 2nd DVD are interesting & amazing. I watch it over & over.

It's Comedy-Action-Adventure I couldn't stop laughing.  Blue camouflage in the jungles of South America?  Man, oh man, that Admiral sure wanted him to get killed.  Talk about a guy with and Punch and Judy problem; Sam Axe is the poster guy.  I can't wait for the DVD release.  I will buy it.  Bruce Campbell brings years of TV acting experience to this really unique role.  You gotta like the Sam Axe character to like this film though.  You're not gonna see Gabrielle Anwar parading in a miniskirt, or Jeffrey Donovan in one of his many alter ego spy roles, but you will get some good Sammy time.  Easy-squeezy!

Hilarious this movie was hilarious, defintely worth it. the 3D is ok, the glasses kinda suck with it, but id rather just watch the movie by itself anyways. Great buy!!

Wonderful music, dance and story Needless to say, I was impressed by the main music, Seasons Of Love. I could see various "love" in this movie and it would make my life richer.

Unexpected, undiscovered gem for Tudor-philes I thought I'd seen every movie and miniseries covering the Tudor and Stuart eras but somehow I missed this one until recently. Although yes you can tell it was made in the early 1970s (there's just something about it, LOL) and naturally it lacks the technical brilliance of some other BBC productions, I became thoroughly engrossed in it by the end of the first episode. At first I borrowed it from my local library system but after seeing only episode #1 I decided I wanted a copy for my permanent video library and after receiving my copy from Amazon I liked it better and better the more I watched.  James Maxwell is absolutely spot-on as Henry VII, a historical figure that most people remember (if at all!) only as being "miserly" and "the father of Henry VIII". Although I knew quite a bit about Henry simply from being a student of the Tudor era, this portrayal literally brought the character alive and gave him a personal dimension that is entirely missing from any printed word biography.  And it must be noted that Episode #7 ("A Fly in the Ointment") is an absolute HOOT! I was chuckling and laughing out loud all through it...and yes, it is MEANT to be a comedic episode. I'm amazed that none of the other reviewers have mentioned it specifically, LOL.

More better... please. Comment: Well I think we all get the story of the original Terminator by now... so what makes this Blue-ray different than what came before besides the book. It looks like they obtained the best print they could and cleaned it up. I am no film expert but I have heard that "cheap" film for low budget films from that time left a lot to be desired. Based on that it appears they have done a good job... so much so that you have no problem seeing Arnold's full frontal as he runs to the camera at the start of the movie. The film grain is apparent and you can see the model work and rear screen projection quite clearly if you know what to look for. Is it ground breaking re-mastery? No. But I think with the book and some extras with a little sweetening of the picture it may be worthwhile to add to your collection... at least till they release the 4k 60 frames per second 3D version...

Kick Butt Super Robot War This is yet another take on the Mazinger Z character. The DVD is non stop action, LITERALLY! The show opens and WHAM ,action packed! The Heavy Metal influence and extreme robot on monster violence means little kids should stay away from this one. My only complaint is the movie is a little short but if you like Mazinger and super robots from Japan you will love this one.

FOR ANY MUSIC LOVER ! THE STORYLINE IS WELL WRITTEN AND WELL PRESENTED BY ANY SENSE OF THE WORD. VERY ENTERTAINING FILM AND IF YOU ADD A BLU RAY VERSION, IT ADDS TO ALL IT'S SPLENDOR !

best of Disney Probably one of the top Disney releases of all time.  more interesting heroine than Bell and the best fairy tale interpretation since Snow White and the best music since Lady and the Tramp

Smallville Rocks!!!!!!! The condition was awesome, the price definately nice and all the inserts were there. I would definately trust these guys as far as condition goes. Very timely shipping as well before the stated recieve date. Thanks!

Jellicle Cats! what is that? It was a good production. I loved watching it in my home, good quality, could dance and sing along, and not wait for intermissions. Worth the money, great for younger folks who never experienced this play on the stage years back, really can't be redone as exceptional as the original run.

LION KING 1 1/2 EXCELLENT CLEAR PICTURE. I RECEIVED THIS FABULOUS FUNNY MOVIE WITH IN ONE WEEK IN MY MAIL BOX. I WILL DEFINITELY BE ORDERING MORE MOVIES. TWO THUMBS UP FOR AMAZON!!!!!!

The best ! +10 for this film... I want to buy part 2 ;) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow part 1 is very good, BUT the DVD edition that comes with this Blu-Ray edition doesnt have spanish Audio...

I do believe! I had this saved on my DVR until it crapped out and I had to replace it, now I have the DVD and I am sure I will watch it until the DVD player burns out!  No matter how many times I watch it, I still find myself back in my parents living room in 1980, watching the Winter Olympics with my dad.  Such a great documentary with awesome footage and interviews.  A must have DVD for any true sports fan!

Cheap Trick Plays Sgt. Pepper <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002G1WPGS">Cheap Trick: Sgt. Pepper Live</a>  I have to agree with all the rave reviews for this DVD.  As a Beatles fan and a Cheap Trick fan this performance doubles my pleasure. Their rendition of "She's Leaving Home" brought a tear to my eye.  And there's just enough Cheap Trick flare to spice up these timeless songs.  I highly recommend this DVD to fans of either or both of these bands.

John du Prey - Classical Review Richly textured and shockingly-visual story telling like "Brotherhood of the Wolf" (Le Pacte des loups) - with its superior action scenes beautifully staged and set in the grandiloquent forests of an 18th century France - easily trumps the epic erotic-thriller-adventure drama genre. This intensely artistic film (masterfully directed by Christopher Gans; written with virtuoso talent by Gans and St&eacute;phane Cabel) gains a strong foothold on classical status with flying horizontal kicks and spellbinding confrontations between the horrific Beast of G&eacute;vaudan, the Count Jean-François (played with nuance and finesse by the gifted actor Vincent Cassel) and our deadly heroes, Gr&eacute;goire de Fronsac as a knight in service to King Louis XV of France (played brilliantly by Samuel Le Bihan) and his fellow Iroquis warrior Mani (played equally well by Mark Dacascos).  Our two mysterious knights battle a sordid army of highwaymen (any one of them could double as a predatory wolf), a deadly temptress (Virginie Darmon) who would cut your throat with her feline dagger just for turning your back on her, a noble assassin and exquisitely-disrobed 'pretend' courtesan named Sylvia (played with charisma and natural talent by Monica Bellucci), and a stellar cast of character actors and actresses. Each element of story has meaning; each scene builds on itself professionally in 'seamlessly-edited' epic cinema fashion, allowing the audience to gasp, experience shock or exhilaration, shudder at the evil present on screen, and run the gauntlet with hellbent warriors (fresh from New France wilderness combat) now fighting unto death with manifested evil. Ultimately, we feel revulsion when Mani is tortured and killed or any of the innocent victims of the beast are attacked in the wilds. It is quite graphic.  Catharsis follows. Empathy is powerful. The unities are ever present. Dramatic and Socratic ironies abound like a cascading waterfall 'drenching us' with deceit, deception, disguised evil, French aristocratic intrigue, murderous intent, treason, and skullduggery present throughout. Highly recommend this film for hardcore action fans and zealous Bellucci fans. It is not for the sensitive audiences because of the realistic and bloody attacks on women and children. The lingering bordello romance between Sylvia and Gr&eacute;goire has its own brilliant afterglow.

Steve Goodman Live My wife and I did not know of Steve until about a month ago.  I found him while looking for John Prine music on-line.  After listening to a couple fun songs and reading up a little about Steve, I thought it would be a good idea to purchase a DVD of Steve if there were any.  Well, I found this one and we watched the entire video.  We also watched the interviews.  I am very thankful that we had the opportunity to witness such a man.  Highly recommend this recording.  Wish he were still here.

best serial killer ever ! Wished it didn't end. I would like the series to be longer. So well written and acted.Now I need to wait another year for the next season on DVD.Good quality product and best price,speedy delivery.

deadwood third season We love Deadwood, so when one of the disc's became scratched, it had to be replaced, so we ordered the complete third season from amazon,it arrived in great shape and the only problem we have is getting a disc off of the center tab-think we finally have it figured out !!!! The set arrived a few days later than quoted , but loved that we could check on where the package was on amazon's site. Don't be too harsh on the comments, please, this is my first time ordering anything on the internet and my first review. Thanks

FREE EXCHANGE OF IDEAS - YA RIGHT! Mr. Stein's expos&eacute; on the hypocrisy of several universities is eye-opening.  Unfortunately today's institutions of higher learning are no longer dedicated to the free exchange of ideas.  Any person who dares to offer an idea, position or thought that threatens the closed minds at many colleges and universities will be quashed.  Maybe these administrators and professors would be happier in China or Iran where suppression of thought is out front and encouraged.

Unfairly Panned by Critics Do not pay attention to the many critics that have unfairly panned this movie.  My question for them are:  What were you expecting, exactly?  I firmly believe that many critics gave this film poor reviews because of their wunderlust for James Cameron and Avatar.  How anybody could believe that Avatar is an immensely greater film than TRON:  Legacy is absolutely ridiculous.  The visuals and music make this a must-see experience to behold on the big screen.  If you must wait for the DVD or Blu-Ray, I highly suggest watching it within the confines of surround sound.  Not doing so will greatly diminish the intended viewing experience and may actually detract from your enjoyment.

A movie that will touch your heart I have watched this wonderful movie over and over for at least the last 20 years. A favorite of mine. I had it on VHS, then went to DVD, gave that to a friend, and have now bought 2 more copies, one for me and another for a friend.  This movie is long,but the time goes quickly. This is the kind of movie that you will remember for long afterward. Ingrid Bergman was an amazing actress, and to me this was her best work.

Great film Saw this film on a plane trip to Italy and it changed my life. Have had a love affair with it and RDJ ever since.

The Single Greatest Movie Ever Made Simply put, this is the greatest movie ever made in the history of cinema.  No joke.  It is beautifully shot, especially the training montage at April's abandoned farm.  The action scenes are spectacular without the use of any special effects.  And, there is a seriously complex plot involving a lot of complex human/turtle/rat emotions which explores themes of family, loyalty and love, all within the confines of a classic coming-of-age story surrounding four brothers who happen to be mutated turtle ninjas.  Oh yeah, it's also HILARIOUS and one of the most quotable movies I have ever seen.  Buy this movie right now.  Seriously.  Do it.  Buy it.  It's awesome.

:D This is my favorite movie, and I'm so glad I bought it and it even came with a special edition cover.

The kind of movie you can watch many times. This is an easy movie to watch. Not heavy or lengthy. A great cast of characters accentuates the humor. This movie should appeal to most audiences. It is one of my favorite Sandra Bullock movies.

Great service! There wasn't enough time for this movie to arrive before we flew down to Fla. for the winter. I was so happy to see it arrive promptly down in Avon Park, Fl. because it is a Christmas gift and it's here in time to be mailed with the other gifts. Your service is truly appreciated. Mary Jane Rettig

Eating Out: The Open Weekend I was counting down to the release of Eating Out: The Open Weekend! Finally, I'm glad to say I have enjoyed each and every one of these films. There are 5 of them! Eating Out: The Open Weekend (the 5th one) is a really good one! Better than the last one I'm sure. I appreciate the comedy and the (lead) actors. Daniel Skelton is such a good looking and sincere (character) actor, he gets better with each one of these films. Although I have mixed feelings about Chris Salvatore I enjoy seeing him and Daniel Skelton get into comical and sexual (for lack of a better word) naughtiness. After watching this one I feel like going back and watching Eating Out: Drama Camp (4) and Eating Out: All You Can Eat (3), both Daniel Skelton and Chris Salvatore star as well. It's worth a watch or 5!

Tough yoga I bought this thinking it would be a stepping stone to the P90X yoga that had been giving me fits.  I think this might even be harder than the P90X yoga!  It's a really good workout though so I tough it out.  It's 84 minutes if you do the entire workout, but it's divided into sections if you just want to do one or two.  The sections are warm up, vinyasa flows, power flows, floor work (including two sets of 50 bicycle crunches), inverted poses, and a final relaxation.  I take a couple breaks here and there, and sometimes I have to come out of a pose, but I improve every time I do the workout.  I feel invigorated afterwards.  This workout, the P90X yoga, and Kristin McGee's power yoga have really made me love yoga and made me appreciate yoga's ability to improve balance, flexibility, and endurance.

Gru's Minions steal the show! I rented this movie from Amazon's OnDemand video library (FYI: When you rent an OnDemand movie, you also get a $4 voucher towards the purchase of the same movie in DVD or blu-ray).  I didn't have high expectations for this movie. It look cute and silly, and it delivered. Steve Carell as Gru was weird and funny. The little girl, Agnus, was probably the cutest character ("It's so fluff!").  The scene stealers, however, were Gru's minions. In fact, I wish the movie had been a little longer with more minion scenes. Just listening them laugh will make you laugh.  This movie was definitely not as deep or drawn out like some of Pixar's classics, but it's definitely worth your time, especially if you have kids.

classic and hysterical this movie is a classic Jim Carrey comedy. I've seen it about 105 times and still crack up while watching it. Mary Swanson.. sweeney... samsonite! Its samsonite!

Logan's Run review I have always loved this movie and I was glad to find it in DVD and thank you it arrived just fine and no problems.

Plaid's Heaven Steller performance, nostalgic American behavior and atmosphere coupled with stratospheric music, a 'must hear' and 'see'. This is an investment in uplifted souls, your audience will be improved and refreshed!...

Great Saturday afternoon thrills! This hails from the classic Saturday afternoon movie era. It seemed like those cheap thrills were on every weekend. Thats when television was free and cereal had lots of sugar in it. Growing up was much more fun in those days and First Men in the Moon was escapist fare for my nine year old mind. It seemed a lot longer in 1973, but that was probably because of all of the toy and cereal commercials wedged in it.  I loved the Harryhausen monsters and the silly professor. I always thought it was true. Selenites from 1899. Now I have a copy to watch any time. All thats missing is my sugary cereal and the waves on the screen everytime an airplane flew over. Ah the good old days...

MLP G1 DVD Set My daughters love this DVD set and I enjoyed taking a trip back to my childhood. Sharing the laughter of watching my favorite show with my daughters was amazing. Highly recommend to any parent who has daughters and loves MLP of any generation. Well worth the money!!

"Rosebud? I'll tell you about rosebud." If the stories are to be believed, Orson Welles created CITIZEN KANE as an act of vengeance for a sleight he received from W.R. Hearst during a dinner party at the tycoon's enormous California estate. Welles supposedly included "Rosebud" in his semi-bio of Hearst to embarrass the man. This mysterious word was the publisher's nickname for an intimate body part belonging to his mistress, Marion Davies. (BTW... watch closely in the film's early snow scene for a revealing "Rosebud" hint, when young Kane hits a visitor with his beloved sled and we see the famous flower insignia on it.)  Is this picture, as so many claim, THE GREATEST ever made? Since all art is subjective, can there ever be a single BEST motion picture, painting, statue or song? Whether or not "Kane" is numero uno, two things are certain: 1.) CITIZEN KANE is *classic* film making in every sense imaginable. 2.) Its high regard and place in cinematic history are assured, perhaps for all time.  "Citizen Kane" is available on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00003CX9E">DVD</a>.  Also recommended:  The excellent HBO biopic about the creation of "Citizen Kane," <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0783116764">RKO 281</a> (1999) features Liev Schreiber's remarkable portrayal of the enigmatic boy-director. Co-stars John Malkovich as Welles' collaborator Herman Mankiewicz, also Melanie Griffith as actress Marion Davies and James Cromwell as newspaper czar William Randolph Hearst.  Orson labored for many years to finish his superb adaptation of Shakespeare's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ALAT64">OTHELLO</a> (1952). After winning the prestigious Palme D'Or at Cannes, this film played in a limited number of American theaters, flopped badly, then disappeared. The long-presumed "lost" negative of "Othello" was finally located in New Jersey, in 1992.  Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 imdb viewer poll rating.  (8.6) Citizen Kane (1941) - Orson Welles/Joseph Cotten/Ruth Warrick/Agnes Moorehead/Dorothy Comingore/Ray Collins/Philip Van Zandt (uncredited: Nat 'King' Cole/Alan Ladd/Herman Mankiewicz/Benny Rubin/Gregg Toland)

Great movie Loved this movie. Some of the story was predictable but never the less, it was fun. The numbers are really great - costumes and performances by all are amazing. I rented it first on Netflix and watched it several times before returning it. Then I purchased the DVD. If you love musicals as I do, you will enjoy this movie. I also enjoyed Moulin Rouge and Chicago (for comparison).

Classico imperdibile Che piacevole sorpresa! Iniziare la visione e constatare la presenza della traccia audio, nonche' sottotitoli, anche in italiano: esempio raro, se non unico, nei miei acquisti diretti dagli USA. Quanto al film, beh ogni commento appare superfluo. Basti dire che siamo di  fronte ad uni dei capolavori di film musicali che oggi, ahime', non si producono piu', vuoi per le musiche, che per le coreografie, e gli interpreti. E che interpreti!  Il trasferimento in blu ray e' splendido, colori brillanti e ottimo audio originale. Classico che vale la pena di rinnovare oggi  che finalmente esiste in alta definizione .

If you missed it in the theater, now's your chance! One Saturday, I was trying to find a movie to go see that I hadn't already seen.  I came across "Bernie" and was surprised to see such positive reviews!  I hadn't heard of the movie.  Unfortunately, it wasn't playing at the local mega-plex, but only at a couple smaller theaters in town.  Not only did I enjoy this movie, I also have seen it several times, taking other family and friends to see it as well! I also have a new appreciation for independent theaters and have found that they offer some great movies.  Jack Black does a great job depicting Bernie Thiede.  Shirley MacLaine portrays Marjorie Nugent brilliantly.  Matthew McConaughey is almost unrecognizable as the prosecuting attorney, Danny Buck Davidson.  Look for great performances from his mother, Kay McConaughey, Sonny Carl Davis (love him!), and Kay Epperson, who steals every scene she is in!  What makes this movie so enjoyable are the local citizens that are cast in the movie.  Also, don't make the mistake of turning off the movie when the credits start to roll - make sure you keep watching, so you don't miss a few extra scenes and music!  If you haven't heard about the true story and events from Carthage, Texas, in 1996, do yourself a favor and watch the movie first. There are plenty of articles you can read afterwards, including the one by Skip Hollandsworth, "Midnight in the Garden of East Texas" from 1998 Texas Monthly, which served as the basis for the screenplay.

Great Movie! Outstanding value and great movie! The famliy loved it and the extra information that is included in the set. Highly recommend!

So funny! It is what it is.  A very cute family movie.  Yes, it's cheesy, but it had my 4-year-old hysterically giggling through the entire film and we couldn't help but laugh with her.  She's already watched it several times (we rented it) and I plan on purchasing it for her for Valentine's Day!

Beautiful and gripping If you are looking for an extremely well produced, well-acted, spy-thiller that doesn't insult your intelligence, you will enjoy every minute of this.  But understand that it is historical fiction.  Everyone giving this movie less than 4 or 5 stars doesn't understand the concept of historical fiction.  I've watched it three times now.  Honestly, it gets better each time.

One word... GREAT I bought this for my... get this... 18 year old son. He loved it when he was young and still does! It's a nostalgic thing. He has always loved Looney Tunes and still does (he LOVES Pepe' Le Pew.) I like the Looney's myself. Brings back memories of watchin them in the 60's & 70's. Not even about the basketball just the fact that the Looney Tunes are in it (and Pepe' Le Pew) is why he loves it.  But anyway.. I wouldn't say that this is JUST for little kids. If your a fan of the Looneys or a fan of Michael Jordan... Your sure to like this movie! Now this is NOT a GREAT "GROUNDBREAKING" movie in anyway. But I don't think it was suppose to be. It's just fun & silly. It has humor for the little ones but also stuff that adults can understand. And it defiantly blows Mary Poppins out of the water! (Not that they have anything in common) just a reference since they're both live CG animation movies.  All in all if I could give it 6 stars I would! Anyone who gave this movie a rating of 2 stars or under are stupid! They can't understand good old fashion fun, with some good old fashion Looney Tunes humor! And it has Bill Murray in it. So you cant go wrong there.  GREAT - FUN MOVIE EVERYONE CAN ENJOY!

Don't listen to the haters This is a thoughtful and well-crafted film, fully deserving of its praise. I strongly suspect that any negative reviews are motivated out of nostalgia for staid-and-clich&eacute;d productions, and a consequent bias against more modern versions.

Love Ben Hur This is a marvelous set of Ben Hur with a book of pictures and interesting stories. Ben Hur is my favorite movie of all time and I recommend everyone see it.

Mike Hammer Private Eye I liked it very much, quite realistic in its depiction of New York life and crime. It gives a rather warped view of humanity, you never know what dark thoughts may lurk under an attractive exterior.

Stardust I saw this on TV several years ago, and I saw the last 45 min about a mounth ago. MY wife could not make any sense of what was going on. So looked it up on Amazon and ordered it. It came in less than a week to our PO Box. We have watched it several times and enjoyed it every time. It is a Love story that does not seem to be a Love story. Like "Ghost" It will be part of our small list of watch again movies. Dave

What A Find Came across a new vhs copy of Chiefs this weekend and after watching all 200 minutes I feel as if the thrift store gods were looking down on me.  The movie/mini-series "Chiefs" was so captivating that I simply couldn't pull myself away from the screen for all 200 minutes.  The story, the setting and the acting all just jelled together with timeless taste.  One reviewer pointed out that this movie is proof that the major networks really knew how to put together made-for-tv productions at one time; I agree.  Everyone plays their role so convincingly and with such conviction that you never feel a dropoff in the many branches of the story.  Actually, every turn in the story brings out more curiousity from the viewer. I'd suggest making this movie a two night viewing, as I'd originally planned. But be careful, you might find yourself putting off all other plans in order to see the startling outcome of Chiefs.  Believe me, it's worth every minute.  5+ stars

One of the greatest shorts I've seen- I first heard about this from a friend he sent it to me as an inspiration , I'm an animator myself, it's a great story and well worth the investment- its about ten minutes long and a great short I have no regrets.

Really Great Movie! Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro deliver an exceptional performance in this fast-paced action thriller.  The movie rarely slows with constant fight scenes and amazing stunts.  The final battle is epic and just a bit unrealistic but still keeps you on the edge of your seat.  I found the knife fighting to be incredible and very exciting.  I highly recommend The Hunted.

Starstruck: Got to Believe Extended Edition LOVE this movie. Am always looking for morally clean, fun movies, especially if they also include music. Am very happy to have this movie in my library. And looking forward to finding more as charming.

dare to defy Great video for kids, that "dares to defy" the status quo. Some critics had a problem with the repetitive argument; I think it was designed that way for kids, maybe. The other critique thatjumped out to me is something like this- "What I'm seeing is the same old thing. If it can't be explained, "yet", it must have been created by some supreme being. That just doesn't cut it."   I felt the movie did a good job of not only showing the "gaps" in evolution theory but making the case that all the pieces to the puzzle must be working at the same time. If people don't have "faith" the rational mind still has to admit that it appears in nature to have come about suddenly. Two thumbs up.

A Warm and Touching Movie This is a movie designed to touch the heart and soul and it does a spectacular job of doing that very thing. Filmed in Central Texas around San Antonio the settings and the all-Texas cast create an amazing mood of reality as you watch them and listen to them tell their stories. My wife and I are both native Texans and she commented early on about the accuracy of the accents. When we saw the cast all came from Texas we understood why their accents were so good, they were natural.  This is the story of a mysterious, beautiful, and sensitive dog that just happens to be there when needed most. The movie focuses on the story of Jake Bryant, played by Jon Michael Davis, who is an ordinary guy with a loving family whose life is drastically changed by an automobile accident. A dog they named Cooper had come into their lives a short time before and had become a part of their family life.  The dog, the only survivor of the accident, is taken to an animal hospital where it is checked and found to be uninjured. The vet, Caroline Mason, played by Farah White, is drawn to the dog and develops a special concern for its well being. This concern has a significant impact on the rest of the movie.  The movie is sensitive and carefully crafted to show the phases of grief that Jake endures as he attempts to put his life back together with Cooper's help. If you appreciate animals this movie shows the marvelous bond that can develop between animals and people; Cooper is a precious life and fills a significant need in Jakes life as he begins the process of healing.  Cooper is, however, a dog with a mission and Jake must discover and make peace with Cooper's mission as his healing process continues and things change yet again for Jake.  This is an excellent family movie and I highly recommend for the entire family.

The Grace Card Pulls on the heart strings, makes you look at reality.  You Can't judge you just don't know where other are coming from.

Ripped in 30 Wow! This is one tough workout! My hamstrings were always sore for like 2-3 days after doing the Level 1 workout! I think I should keep on doing this workout! I definitely recommend doing Jillian's "Killer Buns and Thighs", it's so tough! :)

*A MUST HAVE* My little daughter & I are absolutely thrilled & enchanted by this Disney Blu-ray edition.Beautifully restored & better then I ever remembered it to be.Such a great great movie made greater with pristine audio too :)Great flowing animation & soundtrack is just perfect for bonding with your little princess where you both feel like starry eyed kids when you watch it together!

Are you a fan? Watch this movie! Awesome, really enjoyed this flick. If you are a rush fan this is really worth a watch or two or three

Planet Of The Apes Fantastic movies along with the extra disk. Mailed to me rather quickly. The picture and sound quality are great. Looking forward to the new ape movie to come out on disk.

If your not an Elmo fan, u will be after watching this dvd. my 3 month old love this dvd and so do I! It is the only thing that he will actually be still and watch peacefully...i even enjoy it myself.....this dvd is full of celebrity appearance...beyonce,adam sandler, jon bovi, india arie, jack black, david beckham I think I even seen martha stewart! This dvd is a keepsake...very good music performances.

Crisp and flawless I don't remember seeing Jaws or even Jaws 2 in theatres.  The first Jaws movie I remember seeing in theatres was the horrid Jaws 3.  Anyway, the excellent transfer on this movie has to be seen to be believed.  I can tell that Universal spared no expense in restoring this movie.  It was worth it.  I really hope this movie continues to attract audiences, both new and old.  Believe it or not, Jaws still reminds me that shark attacks can and will happen and nobody is immune, not even Quint.  I will never forget his last stand when he met his match with the great white shark.  That scene makes me cringe every time I watch it.  I admire the painstaking effort of the cast and crew that went into the making of this movie and I especially applaud Steven Spielberg for sticking his neck out and making movies like this one and Saving Private Ryan.  This movie was the first summer blockbuster and it's in a league of its own.  Kudos to Universal for releasing such a mint copy of the film with extra features.  Happy Camper here.

Truly Outstanding Performance & DVD Please do NOT hesitate to purchase this outstanding video as EVERYTHING about it is so enjoyable.  Hall and Oates have produced a truly remarkable repetoire of classic rock hits performed here in the intimate venue of this tiny club, and captured so wonderfully on this DVD. Its like being at a private performance at a party at Daryl's house, where everyone is just a few feet away from the musicians.  I have watched it at least 40 times since purchasing it, showing it to many friends who absolutely had no idea that HALL & OATES have so many wonderful songs. Sadly one of the musicians, guitarist and bass player T-Bone Wolk passed away in 2010, but his talent lives on here in these songs.  Everything about this DVD is outstanding, the songs, the performances, the recording, visuals, the whole package.  Enjoy a magical evening and a wonderful, melodic and rhythmic walk down the memory lane of pop music.

Very effective! After reviewing these videos, my 21 month old daughter now knows all of her colors, shapes & can count to 10!  She applies what she has learned to everything on a daily basis, and even wakes up in the morning pointing at things in her room and letting me know what color it is.  It's truly remarkable how effective these DVD's are.  We try & limit how much she is watching, and I must admit, these DVD's are QUITE annoying to me as an adult, but they captivate her.  The most amazing part is that she is really learning from them, and not just memorizing the DVD.  Like I said, she applies the information to things all around her today and doesn't just remember the information when watching the DVD's.  We have been very impressed, as have been other parents of older children who do not know any of this information yet.  Highly recommend!

Exceptional Treatment of a Classic The 50th Anniversary Edition of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is a fantastic 2-disc set that gives this American classic the treatment it deserves.  The film itself is crystal clear, the sound (and score) are magnificent, and the bonus features included in this package alone are worth the price of admission.  The making-of documentary, Fearful Symmetry, is particularly well done.  TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD chronicles a small town rocked by a racially-charged court case as seen through the eyes of an innocent young girl.  This movie is superbly written and acted, there doesn't appear to be a wasted frame in the entire running time.  The story here (much like its source material) is heartwarming, heartbreaking, tear-jerking, and laugh-out-loud funny.  This movie has received a lot of attention and hype over its year, and it is all well-earned.  I'm glad to say that this film has stood the test of time.  If you have not seen TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD before, this is definitely worth a purchase.  If you have seen this movie before, but outside of this 50th Anniversary Edition, it's still worth a buy for the fantastic quality and bonus features.

workit excellent workout. this one really moves. I have auite a few of her dvds and this one really kicks it up a notch. if your new to kick boxing it can be hard to follow, not a beginners workout but there is a tutorial on it.

LOVE IT I bought this movie for my little girl who is 2. She loves this movie. We watch it everyday. This is a new copy for her for christmas. I love the movie myself!

No Words I can't think of any words to express how utterly devastating this documentary is. Through tragedy, this documentary seems like a sweet rememberance to a good friend, despite what the premise it is heart-warming the sentiment the friend (Kurt) put effort into this documentary, until the story unfolds. Nothing can prepare you for it; as a mother, a father, a grandmother, grandfather. It will squeeze your heart, and it's hard to breathe as it unravels. The Bagbys are so amazing, one can not fathom how strong they must be.

Stop Corporate Greed This is a real shocker of a movie.  It sets the record straight on how corporations have been using manipulative public relation tactics for pure corporate greed.  Shamefully republicans have bought into these deceitful methods.  Watch this movie and you'll learn why the Bible states, "the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil."  If you consider yourself a Christian (as I am) watch this movie and educate yourself to the true evil on earth -- corporations.  And the next time you go to vote, cast it for someone who cares about PEOPLE not soul-less corporations.

Grabs Your Interest And Doesn't Let Go This film is based on the novel by Stephen King. It stars Kathy Bates, who does a phenomenal acting job. This movie grabs ahold of your interest and doesn't let go until the credits roll. It is shocking and thrilling and downright creepy at times. This movie is full of suspense and you will want to watch it over and over again when it ends.  BubblesReviews.com Rating: 5 out of 5

Great childhood movie! A great movie from my childhood, looks fantastic on our flat screen, MUCH better than my old scrappy dvd copy.

Love it I watched this in high school, It brought me to tears but it was a very heart warming movie. Some of the actors are familiar the dad is Remus Lupin from harry potter and the boy is from Hugo. not familiar with the others.

Swan's Mate For Life With an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other, Nina (Natalie Portman) looses herself in a once in a lifetime performance. Portman's acting skills are worthy of an Oscar for best actress in this twisted tale of the classis ballet "Swan Lake." Trained in dance since age 4, Portman's dancing is breathtaking and visually stunning. Actress Mila Kunis, (The Book of Eli) is perfectly cast as the evil twin sister.  Kunis continues to show Hollywood why she will be around for many years to come. Veteran actresses Barbara Hershey and Winona Rider round out the supporting cast with small roles. If a person understands the art of movement and facial expression to tell a story, "Black Swan" should be on the must see list. 5 potato 6 potato

Great Movie!!! This one certainly kept our interest from beginning  to end.  There were some breathtaking moments.  I would call it a must see.

Great Movie Gotta love these two actors.  I'm sure this story will become an instant classic hit.  I highly recommend everyone watch this movie at least once.

I am editing my review. The first fifteen minutes or so of this movie are impossible to hear what the actors are saying.  Once we get past that approximate time, something changed.  Maybe they fired their sound man.  But, the rest of the movie is great.  The actual movie is wonderful.  I lived the story being told, so, i really loved the movie.  I feel like it is honoring all those black women that rose so many of us white children in the south.  They never were honored in their life, so, now this movie honors them in their death.  Old Review: I had one of those black ladies raise me.  I would love to see this movie.  Whoever was in charge of the sound was on vacation.  Can't hear a word they are saying.  All the actors are mumbling incoherently.  I would love to be able to see and HEAR this movie.  Not possible. The sound folks were incompetent.  Can't hear a word they are saying....................

Good classic cinema. Even though the first is in subtitles, hard to follow if you don't speak or understand spanish, its good classic cinema that makes the language unnecessary once you are into the drama.  The story line is simple,  good guy being attacked by bad guys.  I liked the leading man, he returns in the second movie with Antonio Banderas as one of his compadres in battle, I also believe his name is in the credits as a producer.  All of Robert Rodriguez's films are a joy for me to view on my day off, including Spy Kids.

Love it Good horror movie fun.  Sit back with some popcorn and watch Jessica Beil scream her way through the movie.  Ok, she doesn't do that through the movie but she is fun to look at if you're not a fan of some sick fun.

And you get to see and hear Gove Scrivenor and Vaughn Cochran pickin and a grinnin!!! I was there for most of the filming hanging out with Jimmy B and crew... Vaughn Cochran and I were asked to play a little tune on autoharp and washboard... Vaughn went on to become the original Coral Reefer!!

loved it I saw this movie in the theaters and I absolutely loved it.  I can't wait to get the Blu-Ray.  I will definitely watch this the first night I get it.  I hope that they keep making the Pirates movies.

alligator Thank you sooo much it was a wonderful surprise for my husband I received it just in time great condition.

love it 10 times over Just did my preorder!! Can't wait to rewatch the entire series and biting off all of my nails waiting for Season 4! I love this series, I wasn't too sure about vampires and werewolves but they were so HOT! I hated how bill and sookie were this season but I guess change is good, and the shape shifters were CRAZY!! I like Talbot though and Eric's character was great this season, I'd love to see him with Sookie. And maybe Tara with Bill, I'm kinda over sookie and bill now!

Captain Kidd My husband wanted this movie on DVD for Xmas and found it with this vendor.  He has already watched it and will probably do again soon.  Thanks

Outstanding!!! Excellent portrayal of the Book of John!  My highschool girls' Bible class really liked this version. Great teaching tool!

Two Mules For Sister Sara Spoiler: My only problem with the movie as a Catholic is the Nun who isn't and the fact she would be who she is as it turns out,other than that before you know who she really is she plays a convincing role and represents what a True Christian is,my only beef besides the Nun Who is not is this so-called Nun helping So-called Revolutionaries(Mexicans) Against the French(The French need we say More?)Revolutions are never the solution, that being said,the overall movie is good,Clint Eastwood does his best with what he has given.It's not the Man With No Name and the Masterpiece The Good The Bad and The Ugly but it's worth watching.And nothing bad was said about Catholics which was a surprise given the trend in the movies around this time til' now.The Soundtrack while not my favorite From The Man with no Name Specifically The Good,the Bad and the ugly,it's a little Different and Donkey effect is cool,I don't care for Romantic Comedy/Westerns but it's decent.

Good Action This film was a good action movie. it ws an added bonus to see my favorite actor play the leading role as a hero. I would tell more folk about this film in hopes that they will see the true evils of women place in sexual slavery.

Well-Written, Well-Acted, and Relevant to Contemporary Life... After owning this movie for a few years (on the strength of seeing a portion on IFC), I finally got around to seeing it beginning-to-end. As others have said, the acting is nuanced and fresh, the style is Indie, and the comparison is with earlier films written and directed by Woody Allen.  However, I find two things most interesting. The first is the way the movie makes it very clear that most of the characters' suffering arises from their failure to honor and respect the institution of marriage. The second thing I found interesting is the failure of every other review to discover and reflect on this movie as a cautionary tale. I found it easy to imagine this film as a good conversation-starter for couples seriously thinking of becoming married or someone considering having sex outside of marriage.  I understand how both things are beyond the pale of what people deem interesting enough to comment on these days. However, as I reflect back on a life of many mistakes in the area of relationships, I find strong similarities between it and the behavior of all the characters in the film. The failure of other reviewers to even remark in passing on the content of this cultural narrative sugggests (to me at least) how completely amoral (or a-something) we have become.  Consider the enormous damage: a young man gets married "too early" and cheats on his wife... she is unforgiving, traumatized, and divorces him, only to sleep with the next man on their second date (to his surprise). Then, she does not call him back, and after a chance encounter, becomes too conflicted to call him back a second time even after learning that she is carrying his child. A second man is completely self-deluded and narrowly self-serving as he ignores his wife and sleeps with a young woman half his age... and she ignores the fact that he is married and sleeps with him! At the end, we are left with people stumbling in and out of each other's beds, and occasionally producing children who will grow up with only one biological parent.  This movie does an excellent job of bringing all this turmoil and suffering into clear focus and, too my mind at least, shows how indifference to long-standing cultural mores and opportunity destroys lives, unnecessarily propagates suffering, etc. From my point of view, this earns the film a fifth star for "relevance" to contemporary American life.

Almost as good as the first one! The first Pirates of the Caribbean is one of my all-time favorite movies!  I was sadly disappointed with the second and third installments, but this one... is so good!  It rivals the first in every way.  I love that we get to see a little further into Jack Sparrow's character in this one.  They also brought back a lot of the simple humor that was displayed in the first movie.

Depart from the ordinary. Departures features several smaller stories telling one larger.  There's by far the most screen time for Daigo, a young man who leaves his profession as cellist in order to be a caretaker of the dead.  Basically, he prepares the dead for their loved ones to view.  Because he knows his wife will dislike his new career, he tries to keep it secret.  He is also troubled by the unresolved bitterness resulting from his being abandoned by his father.  It is a major transition the protagonist is to make, and that is why this movie is very fun to watch.  I was awed.  Although many of the scenes are of moments resulting from death, it isn't a dramatic portrayal but is uplifting, comedic, and respectful.  It is evident that Daigo admires and respects his new employer--the head honcho in this business.  He seems to see him as a father figure.  The scene of the employer enjoying a nice meal is my favorite.  The employer is really my favorite character, and I recommend this movie to anyone.  Its theme is to always follow your heart, and accept others when they do the same, even if it's difficult for you to understand at first.  If it's something that brings joy to other people, it is worthwhile.

fivestarss one of the better bond films. I recently saw a reedited opening from a fan on you tube of what this movie what have been like if it was made in typical bond fashion. And it was quite good. Who knows the way they can make movies today maybe they can come out with an alternate version since EON productions bought the rights to the film maybe it will happen and make it like the rest of the films. I reccommend people to watch it. Go to youtube "never say never again offical 007 style opening'"

. The original plot of skateboarding. A great diplay of vintage times.Venice made skateboarding what it is today. Stacy is a bit fake but the rest is spot on. Thanks to Sean Penn.

The characters are easy to relate to and it's just plain funny! This is the first movie that I've ever pre-ordered! I absolutely love this movie and I'm certain that you will love it too! The characters and situations are easy to relate to. I laughed from the start of this movie to the end and I'm certain that you will too. People say that this movie is the female version of Hangover, but it is in a class of it's own. I know that this movie is from the female point of view, but it's easy for men to enjoy too.

Good movie This movie is what started it for me as a Will Smith fan. It shows he ability to be an action star and him and Jeff make a good combo. plus it add a berief felling of strong in a moment of trial because of our heros.

Fantastic Movie I love this movie.  It was rather confusing the first time i saw it but now that i have watched it many times as i have been compelled to share it with other friends of mine it has become one of my favorite movies.

HILARIOUS! I love this movie and I think any girl would!  If you're into that type of humor (Superbad, Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist, 40-Year Old Virgin), then buy this movie.  It's not exactly a chick flick but I think girls would definitely appreciate this movie more than guys.

AWESOME! BEtter than I remembered it.  This is a great medieval set movie.  Not your typical 'Prince saves dansel in distress, falls in love and dies at the end.'  I highly suggest buying this movie.

Best comedians ever! I've always loved A&C, and when I introduced my son to them, he did, too.  We loved the movies so much we had to buy the TV series when offered.  This set offers a disc of Costello home movies and other extras.  However, I don't care for too much physical abuses that the older comedians seemed so fond of - hitting, slapping, etc.  So we can't watch them too often.  But it really is an excellent series and a must have for any Bud and Lou fan.

Perfect Pregnancy Workout Lives Up to It's Name When I was about 5 months pregnant, I was searching for a workout to perform: something safe, but also something that made me feel like I was actually doing something.  I was really impressed with the results I received from this workout.  Some people complained on their reviews about the dark lighting, the dreary background, and the voiceover.  I will admit, these weren't exactly the best, but the results you see and the way you feel after completing the workout completely make up for those drawbacks.  Not once during this workout did I feel that I was overexerting myself, but it was still challenging.  I feel that it really prepares the muscles you will need during labor and I felt an increase in energy immediately following and even into the next day, as with any exercise, it helped me sleep better also.  I alternate the workout with walking and light jogging on the treadmill.  Near the end of the workout, she has a few minutes where she does a "Keeping Up Exercise."  This really prepares you mentally for the challenge of labor.  At the beginning of this exercise, I didn't think I'd be able to do it, but I finished it, and have plans to add weights to it, once it gets easier.  She also incorporates Kegel exercises throughout the workout.  I have had issues with my hips, and she really works the hips in this workout, I'm excited to see how this workout positively affects the issues I've had with my hips.  The day after I completed the workout, I felt a little of the soreness you want to feel after a workout, this soreness assured me that I did workout.  I kept a close watch on my heartrate during the work out, and it was raised, but never to the point that doctors say is unsafe.  Thanks for this workout!  I plan to perform it 3 times a week until my baby comes!

Extened Cut is a must for any movie lover Thie special edition is a must for any movie lover. We loved all the extras and seeing all the actors making the movie. 2 Thumbs up!

Blow-Soda-Out-Your-Nose Funny! Seriously.  Don't eat or drink anything while watching these shows.  Pause the program if you put any food or beverage into your mouth.  I can see why some people are upset with the dinosaur-as-Archer "Unaired Pilot."  There's a reason it was unaired, so don't waste your time.  The other bonus features are okay.  I didn't watch any of these episodes when they aired on TV, so I still feel the DVD set is worth the buy and the 5-star rating.

Seller Feedback - Purchased Through Amazon This movie will keep you on the edge of your seat the whole time. Brad Renfroe does an excellent job in this movie. In my opinion is a definate "Must See"!

Gay family? This film touches on question of whether gay love can form a permanent bond between two people and whether it can form the foundation for a family.  Is gay love strong enough to form a family and hold it together or can only straight love do that?  In the film, a gay couple wants to adopt a baby.  A "mistake" in a social service agency form sends a 15 year old rather than a 1.5 year old to the couple.  The mistake turns into a tragedy because the 15 year old, named Patrik, is a homophobe scared to death of the couple and the couple is scared to death of Patrik.  The couple wants to send Patrik back to the agency and Patrik definitely wants to get away from the couple.  The story is brilliant in that it keeps you guessing and evokes tears and laughter -- often at the same time.  The story moves so well and seems so authentic that I was never bored.  I am glad I bought this DVD and I will watch it again and again because the film is so entertaining.

Nuns: forget "Sister Act." Nuns have for too long been the subject of humor and stereo-typing as stern and uncaring disciplinarians; the hyperbole stems from images of Catholic School culture (of which I am a product) before the 1960's.  Sisters of War is an incredible true narrative about nurses and nuns of a particular order and their lay RN counterparts; they are put in prison camps by the Japanese in WW II and nearly reduced to the level of starving animals; but the spiritual strength and commitment of these women is incredible to watch as they consistently disregard their own personal pain and suffering and tend as best they can to the needs and chronically deteriorating health of each other; it is the Good Samaritan story in overdrive.  The interview at the epilogue of one surviving nun who is now in her 80's left me struggling to avoid complaining and carping about the daily annoyances of life.  This is a must see.

A great combo for those who have only seen Desperado Two movies for a great price. Now the movies:  I have owned Desprado on DVD for a while and love the movie. I would give it more than five stars if I could. As for El Marachi surprisingly another fine Robert Rodriguez film. Frankly I never before had heard and believed that it was Desperado but in Spanish. I was wrong and found out what El's motivation for killing drug dealers came from. Thank goodness the film was transferred as is and was not ruined with a computerized enhancement. You see the grain of the film which added grittiness to the film. The only thing that I highly recommend that you turn on the English subtitles and listen to the original Spanish audio. The English dub track is Godawful you will enjoy the film much better.  As an avid anime and Chinese Kung Fu fan I have heard worse dub tracks and this is the same. You will get more enjoyment and the translation of the subtitles give more depth to the story then listening to the dubbed audio. In wanting to match lips to dialog inevitably is butchered when English I'd synced to the film. All that said both films are trademark Robert Rodriguez movies. These are not masterpieces in need of an award, but they are great action films for guys to enjoy with humor mixed in with the blood and guts.  I am happy these were released together. Otherwise I most likely would have watched it on cable with the horrible English dub.  Even though it is said that Once Upon A Time In Mexico is the finale of the movies it does nothing but embarrass Robert Rodrigez. I am sure it was made with a bigger budget and they tried to make up for the poor script with some big named actors and blood and guts. These two are all you need to see IMHO

GodFather II Did anyone read the book? The book is part 1 & 2 together. So to claim its greatest sequel ever is misleading. They took One book made 2 movies. Great movies but get a little to much credit for greatest sequel ever...

good movie a real good movie 1 of the best that i have seen so far. Ever1 of all ages would love this movie.

A Great Editon of a Great Movie Dawn of the Dead is not only my favourite horror movie, but me favourite movie in general. I absoluetly love the acting, story, setting, and gore. George Romero's finest. I will not be reviewing the movie but the 4 disc uliimate edition, which is the only way to own this movie. Before I was aware of this set, I owned the anchor bay version, with the theatrical version and no special features, then I found out about this. The anchor bay version cost me 20$, and the ultimate edition was 25$, well worth the extra 5$. This set is packaged nicely with tons of amazing artwork, it contains a sample of the dawn of the dead grapic novel. This set has four discs,one for each of the three versions of the film, and one for special features. I will now be reviewing the three versions. Theatrical: what I originally saw, great mix of score, fast paced and the film that everybody loves. Extened: added nothing important, made the film way more boring, not recommended Eurpopean: my faourite version, better music making it more supsensful, way more gore, and extremely fast paced, the best version. Special Features: two main documebtaries, both extremely good and informative, a great addition to the set. Overiew: A great edition of a great movie, bursting with special features, a nicely desingned case with plenty of artwork, three versions of the film, and the grapic novel sample as an enjoyable bonus. A MUST BUT FOR ANY DAWN OF THE DEAD FAN... THE ONLY VERSION TO OWN...AND A GREAT PRICE!!!!!!!

Good movie and good quality My daughter really loves this movie and this version was very good, the quality of the stream was clear and kept her entertained

Lots of fun well done. I really enjoy this movie. It was well done and suitable for the entire family. (Check out the background antics on the roof when he rides into town.) It isn't a 'great' movie, but it is one to watch to cheer you up and have a vacation from mundane life.

The Notebook is a Great Movie! When I first watched this movie I cried so hard because I could relate to Allie.  She had her TRUE love but was being forced by her mother to marry someone else.  You should never compromise your heart and you should never make trade offs.  If you truly LOVE someone, you should tell him/her and be determined to follow through from that point on.  No one has the right to tell you who YOU should love OR marry for that fact.  I loved James Gardner because he shows how much she meant to him by admitting himself into the senior facility and always being there to help her.  And the end, they both die together.  Label me a romantic but I think we all fantasize about romance some point in life.  Who doesn't!!  I keep this movie in my DVD library and watch it when I want to cry.  This was an excellent movie and I would recommend you buy it.  Thanks for reading and Much happines and joy, Anna R. Wells <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004WI5F">Where the Heart Is</a>

Classic is still strong after all these years "Tommy" was & is one of the best rock films of all time. I was enchanted when I first saw this film years ago & viewing the video brought back that magical feeling. It's worth the price of the dvd just to see Ann-Margret in the "Smash the Mirror" scene & Tina Turner as the "Acid Queen".

Definitive Edition of a Noir Classic Arguably the finest film to be based on the writings of Mickey Spillane, director Robert Aldrich's KISS ME DEADLY (1955) has just received a new, restored and remastered release from Criterion on DVD and Blu-ray.  L.A. "bedroom dick," Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) picks up a blonde in a trenchcoat named Christina (Cloris Leachman) that he finds running barefoot down a lonely road in the middle of the night. Shortly thereafter, his car is run off into a ditch, and he and his hitchhiker are abducted. The girl is tortured to death by unseen assailants, and both her body and the unconscious Hammer are put in his car and pushed off a cliff. Hammer survives and soon finds himself embroiled in a search to find a mysterious and valuable box - "the great whatsit" - a prize which he hopes will pay off big. Unfortunately, the slick P.I. is in over his head, playing a game far bigger than he can imagine.  Director Aldrich and screenwriter A.I. Bezzerides made no secret of their dislike of Spillane's novel and the character of Mike Hammer, who they perceived as a stupid thug. So their story portrays Hammer exactly that way, and ignores the various virtues of the literary version. In the film, Hammer is a sleazy operator who uses his secretary Velda (Maxine Cooper) to entrap married men in sexual honey traps, enabling him to go to their wives with incriminating - and profitable - photos. Despite Christina being murdered while in his company, he doesn't pursue the case out of any noble effort to find justice for the girl; he just smells an opportunity to make a score. Like his literary counterpart, this Hammer is often violent, but unlike the Hammer of the books, he's portrayed as a cowardly sadist who only beats up on those weaker than himself.  The Mike Hammer of Spillane's novels is an occasionally brutal, rough-edged hero, while this film's version is almost the very definition of an antihero. The movie's Hammer is deftly summed up in one line: "What's in it for me?"  Despite this deliberate misrepresentation of the character and the filmmakers' choice to almost completely discard the novel's plot, KISS ME DEADLY does portray the dark, twisted, Fifties noir universe of Spillane's novels better than any other film or TV adaptation of his work. Aldrich's direction is appropriately slick and stylized, and the cinematography of Ernest Lazlo perfectly captures the shadows and stark contrasts that visually represent the story's noir milieu.  The Criterion Blu-ray edition features a gorgeous, 1080p HD, 1.66:1 widescreen transfer that has undergone extensive digital restoration, removing virtually all evidence of print damage, dirt or wear. Contrast and detail are extraordinary, and far better than any previous home video release. I've owned this movie on VHS, laserdisc and DVD, and it has never looked this good before. Audio is in its original mono, but has been cleaned up, eliminating all pops and background hiss.  Supplemental features include an audio commentary by film historians Alain Silver and James Ursani, an odd video tribute to KISS ME DEADLY by REPO MAN director Alex Cox, excerpts from a 2005 documentary on screenwriter A.I. Bezzerides, a featurette on the locations used in the film, the alternate ending, and a slightly shortened version of the Max Allan Collins documentary, MIKE HAMMER'S MICKEY SPILLANE (originally part of the author/filmmaker's SHADES OF NOIR anthology film) covering the life and career of the legendary author. Finally, there's a 22-page booklet with extensive liner notes and articles about the film.  Ultimately, Aldrich & Bezzerides' KISS ME DEADLY tries to be an indictment of Spillane's work that also attempts to blatantly exploit the author's fame and popularity. The result is an "anti-Spillane" flick that somehow manages to depict his particular worldview better than any other. If you own any of the earlier editions of KISS ME DEADLY, the new Criterion version - though a bit pricey - is likely to be the definitive edition for the foreseeable future. It looks and sounds amazing, and is well worth trading up to. If you've never seen the film, and have any interest in 50s film noir, it is essential viewing.  Highly recommended.

A Top Five Picture. Viewed: 7/05, 12/07, 7/11 Rate: 10  7/05: A magnificently stunning picture, Lawrence of Arabia is David Lean's best work. It is a story of a seemingly ordinary man who became extraordinary. The film is complexly made and is one of the very few most beautiful and breathtaking pictures made. Lawrence of Arabia far engulfs the epic films such as Gone with the Wind and Ben-Hur. The supporting cast gives extremely good performances.  12/07: Lawrence of Arabia is undoubtedly a masterpiece, and it's among David Lean's best. Everything about Lawrence of Arabia speaks of volumes when it comes to epic pictures. It's actually meets the standard of epic pictures that Ben-Hur had set forth. The acting is excellent, the cinematography is resplendent, and the costumes are impressive. I am pleased with the use of hundreds of extras to make Lawrence of Arabia bigger than it seems. Peter O'Toole, in his debut, makes waves with his perfection of T.E. Lawrence, a character that is complicated and different. Not only he is an unusual kind of a hero, T.E. Lawrence is a dynamic person. Omar Sharif, who plays Sherif Ali, does a wonderful job in counterbalancing Lawrence. Anthony Quinn, playing Auda abu Tayi, brings momentum to the film through his characters. Alec Guiness, as Prince Feisal, performs just like how a king would. One of the most remarkable jobs that David Lean does with his characters in Lawrence of Arabia is not only to make them indirect but mysterious in terms of ambitions and wants. That's why Lawrence of Arabia remains a difficult picture to comprehend. And that is also why I keep re-visiting the picture from time to time. Having said that, Lawrence of Arabia is one of the most thrilling, beautiful pictures I've seen. How could I not forget that transition from one scene of T.E. Lawrence surrendering his destiny to next scene of men cheering and chanting his name loudly? That has to be very moving for anyone to see that. Seemingly ordinary, T.E. Lawrence is an extraordinary person; he doesn't even pass for a leader yet he can lead a country that isn't even his country. He is the kind of a person that Che Guevara aspired to be and never succeeded at being one. There have been many revolutionary leaders over the course of time, and T.E. Lawrence belongs in that upper echelon of the list. Living today in the year of 2007, Lawrence of Arabia sadly remains a lost art and is a true motion picture experience. To think of the film less than magnificent is a travesty. Ironically as Lawrence of Arabia is almost four hours long, I just wish it was doubled. As one would say, "Forget the length. Feel the quality." Indeed so!  7/11: Lawrence of Arabia is simply one of the greatest movies made. I watch it all the time, and I never get tired of the beautiful cinematography. There are so many hidden meanings within the picture that I learn something new each time. All in all, a masterpiece.

SOA Easy to order, fast turn around, had it 2 days after ordering. I have purchased all there seasons here, will order the rest here as well.

blade wesley snipes is blade... a vampire hunter who is half human and half vampire by an accident happening at birth(or was it really an accident?).  turns out his "misconception" is a part of a grander plan in trying to bring back an ancient being from vampire legend and lore.  his captors will soon realize this one man is hard to cross and kill.  also starring n'bushe wright as an ematologist who's caught in the middle of the war,now is assisting blade.  and kriss kristopherson as an elder assistant and mentor.  tons of action.  pure entertainment.  watch it!

A WONDERFUL MOVIE &lt;33333 spirit is one of the few movies that ever took my breath away its story is outstanding and the music gives me chills there is no movie that could ever be like spirit its amazing. this film is a master peace.

A Cast That Dreams Are Made of The granddaddy of the modern detective film, John Huston's 1941 "The Maltese Falcon", the third version of the Hammett source material, features a byzantine plot and a cast that cinematic dreams are made of. Although Bogart had played both sides of the law before, never had he combined them in one such flawed but compelling character as Sam Spade. Spade is the decidedly anti-heroic hero of the film, not above adultery, fornication and homophobia, but still devoted to a flexible code of honor: one's partner's death must be avenged, even if he is a lecher and you were sleeping with his wife.  Bogart's morally complex character is evenly matched by those of  Mary Astor (in the performance of her long career), whose permutations from seemingly innocent schoolgirl to manipulative and treacherous vixen are afforded three different names, none of which may be true. Using sex as but one in her formidable arsenal, Astor's chameleonic characters intrigue the police, the detectives and the gang of supremely inept but deadly thieves headed by Sydney Greenstreet, who embodies both greed and the desire to dominate in equal measure. His fellow travellers, incarnated by Peter Lorre, with a whiff of gardenia, and Elisha Cook, Jr. as a baby faced and completely insecure gunsel, are the victims of Spade's sexist taunting and mockery. The five actors are perfectly cast and totally irreplaceable, five cards dealt by the hand of Fate or a Deity with a particularly wicked and perverse sense of humor. The Blu-ray version is scrubbed free of speckles and the vivid black and white contrasts in this full screen film have never looked better. John Huston, making a most auspicious directorial debut, began to forge, in his alliance with Bogart, one of the most powerful director/actor partnerships the cinematic world would ever  see. The brilliant script, direction, performances and ambience of "The Maltese Falcon" in this lovingly rendered Warner Blu-ray merit repeated viewings. If you want only one private eye movie in your collection, this is the one to get.

Pillars of the Earth As soon as I started watching this show I knew I had read the book before.  Shouldn't I have known this you ask?  Well one would think but its on my to-read list and I hadn't thought I'd read it but the whole plot seemed strangely familiar.  But this isn't a bad thing because I absolutely loved the series.  Sure it had a few things that could have been better, but largely it was excellent and very captivating.  Based on the book by Ken Follett, Pillars of the Earth has a very simple premise that is made much more complicated by the events of the time it is set in.  It is Tom Builder's dream to work on a cathedral.  He is a master stone mason and very good at his work, but having trouble finding jobs in the turbulent times after the King's death.  What makes this time so turbulent?  There is an usurper to the throne over the King's daughter and her infant son and the country is in an uproar as she fights the new King Stephen for her rightful place and to secure the throne for her young son.  Mixed into this is Prior Phillip, a man dedicated to god but still ambitious in his own way.  He wants to see a cathedral built, and with Tom set in his path he sees a way to build the best cathedral ever.  But of course nothing is as easy as it seems, politics and jealousy reign high in this time and not all want to see a cathedral built or the prosperity it will bring to the area.  It will be years of struggle to try to build this building with so many tragedies along the way.  Characters:  Ian McShane as Waleran Bigod Rufus Sewell as Tom Builder Matthew Macfadyen as Prior Philip Eddie Redmayne as Jack Jackson Hayley Atwell as Aliena Liam Garrigan as Alfred Builder Tony Curran as King Stephen Sarah Parish as Regan Hamleigh David Oakes as William Hamleigh Robert Bathurst as Percy Hamleigh Alison Pill as Princess Maude Sam Claflin as Richard Skye Bennett as Martha Builder Emily Holt as older Martha Gordon Pinsent as the Archbishop Natalia W&ouml;rner as Ellen Anatole Taubman as Remigius Donald Sutherland as Earl Bartholomew G&ouml;tz Otto as Walter Skye Lourie as Elisabeth Jody Halse as Johnny Eightpence David Bark Jones as Francis Kate Dickie as Agnes Builder Marl Phelan as Otto Blackface Tibor Pinter as Jacques Shareburg Freddie Boath as King Henry II Clive Wood as King Henry I Douglas Booth as Eustace Matt Devere as Robert of Gloucester Feodor Atkine as Abbot Suger Ken Follett as a merchant  As you can see there were quite a few characters in this series just as a listing of main characters.  But I do have to say they were all fantastic!  There were some that were just so easy to hate and they did a wonderful job of being the bad guy.  Like always, Ian McShane was one of those bad guys (I don't think I've ever seen him play a nice person) and he was devious, dangerous, and many other scary attributes.  Tom Builder was sweet and I really enjoyed his character although some of his motivations confused me at times.  All of the actors and actresses portraying the role of the Hamleigh's were fantastic as well.  They were very believable and you could feel the ambition that the mother especially possessed.  The only character I really didn't connect to with Ellen.  Not to be too much of a spoiler, but with her background of being a nun, her character in the present time of the show is hard to believe with that inconsistency of her path.  I can see rebelling a little, but the extend that she changes/grew from that time period in her life makes me a little skeptical.  As stated before I really liked the plot and notion of the series.  Even though the basic premise is about building a cathedral, there are so many sub plots and other things going on that it is really quite exciting.  But something to bear in mind when starting this series is that it contains some very mature themes.  There is nudity, cussing, violence, implied romance and much more.  Those opposed to these things probably shouldn't watch it.  I on the other hand loved that they made it that realistic as I think it absorbs the viewer more into the times and lives of these people.  Excellent series that I highly recommend watching.  I know I"ll probably watch it again and read the book again.  Review by M. Reynard 2011

excellent movie Baby blues has to be one of the most shocking and disturbing movies out there not for the weak of heart but in my opinon this is one of the best films of its genre

One of our all time favorites I don't know why this movie is not more well known because it is a treasure. We saw it with my stepson and now my two little boys are in love with it. They act out the scenes together with foam swords. My husband and I still laugh though we have seen it about a hundred times. I really like the messages of the movie as well. Frankly, we found it refreshing that the religious characters were the bad guys!

Never looked better. My son is a huge superhero fan and loves the original Superman. Our old DVD was so dated but this Blu-Ray is a highly recommended upgrade. I can't remember this movie ever looking greater.

A classic family movie. Upgraded to the DVD version of this movie instead of my aging VHS. I loved the movie as a child and still love it as an adult. My kids are growing up enjoying this move as well, and I expect that our grand-kids (when we have some) will enjoy it also. This is one of those ageless movies.

Gosford Park 'Gosford Park' is an atmospheric period drama set in 1930's England. It looks at the relationships between upstairs and downstairs in a country manor, combined with a murder mystery story. The murder is the least important aspect of this film and it is excellent as a social piece looking at the hierarchy and social conventions of aristocracy at that time. There is an amazing cast who all perform superbly, Maggie Smith is especially good, but they all act with skill and draw you in to their various characters. The costumes and sets add to the overall feel of the film and it is directed perfectly. It is quite slow paced, which I liked, but those expecting a fast paced thriller will be disappointed, this is one that builds in layers. 'Gosford Park' deserves all the accolades it received and is well worth a viewing.  Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.

What a Deal!!!!!!! I loved Home Improvement...  When I found that I could get all the seasons for this incredible price, I ordered right away.  I received it today.  It was displayed beautifully.  I had read a review on another series anniversary set and they were disappointed in the packaging.  This is beautiful.  Each season individually wrapped and put into the display tool kit.  It even came with a binford tool (a level).  Each season has bonus features such a bloopers.  I can wait to start watching.  I just wanted anyone wondering about the set to know  that is is worth it.

Loved it. I can't put my finger on exactly what enticed me to buy this sense I've never read Shakespeare or watched any Romeo and Juliet movies but what ever it was I'm glad I went with it. Romeo x Juliet blew me away on just about every aspect I could think of, the story, the writing, voice acting, music, animation, you name it this show hit a home run. The whole environment they created within the original story was awesome and it made you think about what was going to happen without going over your head and made good use of the 24 episode format. All the characters are lovable or detestable (depending on which one) and the voices match up great, I especially liked Juliet because quite frankly she was just a badass. The music was a perfect match, disposing with the anime guitars and using more subtle tones and the action sequences were well done. The SAVE set is exactly as advertised, super amazing vale edition, 17.99 is almost like stealing. It all came together to form a unique creation that didn't need flashy gimmicks or over the top antics, but used excellent storytelling and character development and should have a place in any anime collection.

THE MAGIC CONTINUES ... Gargoyles Season 2 Vol. 1, More of the Thrilling Shows now that the Magic spell has been broken, the Struggle between Heroes and Villains continues in Season 2 with 26 Episodes in three DVDs and Bonus Features. The Suspense builds as archenemy Demona releases a plot to turn the population of New York City into Statues and we learn more about these Creatures of the night through many flashbacks. No two Gargoyles are exactly alike, when angered Gargoyle Eyes glow like Beacons, Gargoyles can not fly but they can Glide from high Places, once airborne they use updrafts and downdrafts to their advantage ...Action packed Animation Very Entertaining Shows. Thank You

A great team William Powell and Myrna Loy made 14 movies together, 6 of which were Thin Man movies as Nick and Nora Charles. This set is 5 of their other films. 1. Manhattan Melodrama- With Clark Gable as a childhood friend of Powell who is a criminal now. This is the movie John Dillinger saw shortly before he was gunned down. 4.5 Stars 2. Evelyn Prentice- A drama and the least of their efforts on this set. Still anything with Powell and Loy is worth watching- 3.5 Stars 3. Double Wedding- Fine Comedy with Powell as a beatnik artist and a Loy as a conservative businesswoman. Powell is slated to marry Loy's sister but we know that isn't going to happen.- 5 Stars 4. I Love You Again- GREAT comedy with Powell as a former con man with amnesia and Loy as his unhappy wife. Funny and clever and one of the alltime best screwball comedies. 5 Stars is an understatement. 5. Love Crazy- Another fine comedy with Powell being a little more silly and less sophisticated than usual. 4.5 Stars.  The chemistry is there in every frame as their talents just seemed to complement each other and fit the situation. They were both great in their own movies but it was certainly special when theyteamed up. A 5 Star set.

Blu-Ray coming soon... Shout Factory.com has announced that Deadly Blessings,Terror Train,Halloween2 and 3 and many more will be coming soon on dvd and blu ray

Only five stars allowed Best film ever made...the cast of excellent characters, multiple plot lines, great acting, fantastic action set against an immensly sad true story!! The addional footage adds colour to the real actors and how the film was made only by subtle persuasion by many!!  Well done

Epic Story of an Extraordinary Man I'm in love with Peter O'Toole after watching this movie. Lawrence of Arabia is an epic story about a poetic British army officer who leads an Arab rebellion and achieves god-like status among his followers. The hero's self-confidence is both his greatest strength and weakness and it is fascinating to watch him struggle with this. I was disappointed that Lawrence did not have a love interest, but this was probably because all his passion was for "the desert."

KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS i think the movie is awesome, this is what people need to know more, and about the benefits of fungi. i will  defenately recommend this movie to any one that would like to know more about mushrooms.

For Gods sake just GIMMIE THE D@MN NUMBER!!!! This is one the best comedies ever made and it has pefect pacing.  They don't make movies like this anymore 5 stars!!!

Outlander Very good story.  The video is extremely gory and not for everyone.  Some things are better to be read about and not actually viewed.

K lm Great movie. Lots of fun. Never get tired of it. Great movie. Lots of fun. Never get tired of it.

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist This have to be one of my favorite love movies. I am a Kat Dennings big fan and I have to say, this bluray looks amazing I was very happy when i started to watch it. I love the special features that the blu ray has that the DVD donesn't have included. I was very happy of the choice I made. I ordered the DVD at first but then I send it back because the blu ray version was cheaper than the regular dvd so i had to put hands down and get me the better quality. But i do recommened this love comedy movie its just amazing to watch with your family and friends.

Sensational Movie Steven Spilberg's Schindler's List was an amazing movie in my opinion. Ever since grade school we have been educated on the Holocaust and the horrible slaughter of several Jewish individuals--men, women, and children. Some where killed lethally by gas in shower chambers, experimented on, shot, or tortured; then their bodies where burned and the ones still alive where made to pick up their bodies or shovel the ashes. That was something that  I thought was interesting, throughout the movie you think it's snowing. But you then find out, it's the ashes of burning flesh. That singular thought alone, made me sick on my stomach. Throughout the movie I shed tears because of the torment and disgusting torture they had to endure.  One of the best scenes, in my opinion, in the movie was when Schindler is standing in front of all the Jews he helped save, approximately 1100, and Stern hands him the ring they made from a Jewish man's teeth - with the engraving "save one, save the world."  Oskar looks at him and says "I should have sold the car, or my ring, it would have saved several more."  My eyes flooded with tears of passion and reaching out. Because a man, who sacrificed his own llife (if he had been caught) to save thousands still found room to criticize himself and found room for improvement. I personally know an individual who's great uncle was on Schindler's list. And he is alive today because of Oskar Schindler. That's absolutely astonishing to me. When you watch a movie, such as this one, you look at your life and say "What can I do for others?"  or "How is my life so bad?" Wonderful movie, I would recommend to anyone -- even outside of educational purposes or personal attachment. :)

The greatest movie ever! The DVD came is very good condition and very on time. I love this movie, that's why I bought it in DVD. This film is so realistic!

amazing movie wish i watched it long ago believe it or not i have never watched this movie. i thought it was amazing some crazy twists i liked in it.

Stunningly Surprised I was stunningly surprised at how wonderful this film is.  It is modern, yet classic, moody, atmospheric, and memorable.  I could honestly go on and on listing the moments and the scenes which stand out to me, and there are many.  It's just wonderful.  I proudly give a round of applause to James Watkins, Daniel Radcliffe, Ciar&aacute;n Hinds, and Janet McTeer.  Wow!  Wow!  Wow!

My son loves it. The price was right too! My son loves this series. He saw it at Walmart some time ago, but didn't purchase it at the time. I believe there was only one left because when he eventually went to buy it, it was gone. He was so happy that he was able to get it at Amazon.com and the price is why I purchased it from Amazon. Just can't beat it!

Great purchase and gift Just what my wife wanted for Christmas, Only wish that there had been a gift set with both parts 1 and 2 included!

Wonderful movie...adding to my list of favorites! I caught this movie recently on TCM, and it is a true gem. I became a Greer Garson fan about 10 yrs ago in high school when we watched Madame Curie during a chemistry class. I was impressed with her acting and followed that up with Mrs. Miniver, Pride and Prejudice (bonus for having Sir Olivier), Random Harvest, etc. She had such talent and was such a beauty.  She was equally lovely in this. She and a really young Gregory Peck (so handsome and a great talent) had wonderfully palpable chemistry with each other. The supporting characters, including Lionel Barrymore and Jessica Tandy(!!), were excellent in their roles as well.  This story had humor, tragedy, love, sadness, joy...just a wonderful film to behold. I stayed up late finishing it bc I had to know what happened at the end. The ending might surprise you! (that's not a spoiler, btw). I can't say enough good things about this movie.  I plan on reading the book now, and of course, purchasing the dvd!

Great Show is great , I dont have HBO so I had too get the dvd set , and I am loving the show so far. I am not going write a full review just wanted too leave my stars.

Becoming perhaps one of my favorite Anime This is becoming perhaps one of my favorite anime series. Everything about it draws you into its world, from the drawing style, the intricate story line and characters, to the merger of philosophy, modern findings within neuroscience (think <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0688172172">Phantoms in the Brain</a>), the notion of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935251740">Biocentrism</a>, to its use of Japanese style horror. And that's just for starters. Everything is here to ponder in a medium that, for lack of a better phrase, feels like utter perfection.

Quo Vadis Item received as advertised and on time. This should be a must for all ancient Roman movie collectors. Great story.

love 8 min abs feel the burn up to 4 days later. best video for abs. when you are done the video, you don't really feel like you worked out. You feel it the next day for the next couple days.

Solid action film with an evolving story With several surprises and twists in the story as the movie progresses...mixed with all around great action fights, I highly recommend giving this a try. A sure to be cult classic and among my favorites of recent years...BKO delivers a knockout!!  The young men and women in this trained hard (as evidenced by bonus interviews on the disc) and delivered well with exciting fights ongoing throughout the film. Some CRITICS are too hard on this film and need to just take it for what it is and enjoy the product.  Give it a try and if anything, I'm sure you'll appreciate the amount of work they put in to bring this movie together!

Keta I love shopping at Amazon.I find everything I need at this website and I tell all my friends.My DVD I Robot was shipped fast and on time. I Love It

love it this is the second of the trilogy of the girl with the dragon tattoo. done in sweden that inspired america to redo it in u.s.a. i haven't seen the american version, but, this one is super.

One of the best action films of the 1990s "Heat" is an action packed bank robbery film with a finely assembled cast.  Al Pacino plays policeman Lieutenant Vincent Hanna and Robert De Niro is career larcenist Neil McCauley, which is the first time these two Hollywood greats have appeared in the same film since "The Godfather II". Val Kilmer complements the mix as clever crime partner Chris Shiherlis.  It is Lt. Hanna's pursuit of McCauley's gang that forms much of the film narrative, and the gang faces its own problems when rogue gun for hire Waingro is too trigger happy, and is later hired to bring down the gang.  The film contains many exciting action scenes, and it is rare for a film of this genre to have such an accredited cast who provide a solid performance.  Nicholas R.W. Henning - Australian Author

A Blast From The Past I vaguely remember watching these movies while growing up, but didn't own copies.  After watching the latest installment with my teenage son - Rise of The Planet Of The Apes, we both enjoyed it so much that I decided to buy all of the original versions.  This 5-Film Blu-Ray collection was such an amazing blast from the past.  The quality was excellent and arrived in the mail very quickly.  I would highly recommend this collection to any fan or anyone interested in the origins of the newer versions.

Great memories Although this was not a typical Disney love story, it was a story of friendship which could be love. This was not as popular as most Disney movies, but my son and I enjoyed it when it originally came out and watched it over and over and even role-played. I highly recommend this movie because it is a step away from the Cinderella-type movies and just fun-loving and special. My son is an adult now so the memories of this movie will stay in my heart forever.

Keeps you watching... I really enjoy watching this movie.  Have read the book, like that as well.  Obviously all of the little details don't get addressed in the movie, but then again, they rarely do.  This is one of only a few movies I have been willing to purchase digitally for viewing anywhere, anytime on my Kindle Fire.

Great movie One of the best movies I've ever seen. You should also read the book, it's much more detailed and you get a more accurate picture of the reality of the situation. But the movie is great!!

Best Bollywood film in years Bought it for a friend in US, a first bollywood film for her. One of the best from the best director with one of the greatest actors ever. Most probably Amitabh Bachchan's finest performance and I'm sure he'd agree. No singing or dancing in this one but a well directed, acted and scripted film. Even the musical score is brilliant.  Would recommend this to newbies and veterans of Bollywood, although I doubt some of the elder generation will appreciate this as they will call it an 'art' film (no singing or dancing).  The young girl in it is unbelievably good, I'm sure she has a bright future.  The only down side is some of the translation into English is not always spot on, a problem with most Bollywood films but it will not distract you from the fine film - so buy it.

Harry potter and the Deathly Hallows, part 1 Thought the movie was great better than the last Harry Potter movie.  Very much looking forward to the next movie, Harry Potter and the deathly Hollows, part 2...

More information.. So prophesied Abraham Lincoln, in a speech given on June 16th, 1858--two years before his election to the Presidency would trigger the collapse of national unity. The cause--a fundamental paradox in the country's architectural plan. Built as an experiment in freedom, America remained committed to the institution of slavery, and its foundations were cracking under the strain.  THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR creates a vivid portrait of America's greatest internal crisis, from the first antislavery protests to Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Along the way, this series examines the moral, political, and strategic forces that set brother against brother for more than four years, in what is generally understood to be the first modern war.  Created by some of the most respected producers and historians of the genre this 5-DVD set entertains, educates and conveys a message that should remain with us all. With the help of several thousand living history re-enactors, THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR goes beyond the fog of war and allows you to experience the glory and heartache of the battles that changed war forever.  Special Features: Bonus Feature Film: GLORY starring Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman Civil War Timelines Slide Show Previews

Godzilla Rocks! Are you a Godzilla fan? If so, you'll love this film! Godzilla always has an adversary to fight that looks like it's going to beat him but we know better! All of the Godzilla films follow the same type of scenario...a new monster comes on the scene & Godzilla has to save Tokyo or the entire Earth! All good fun! We all enjoy watching the final battle where Godzilla wins in the end! That's because we always root for the "good guy"! Enjoy!

Love Happy Endings I love fairy tales and I love remakes of fairy tales. This is a movie for anyone that love happy endings. Lucy Hale has a gorgeous voice and the prince charming Freddie Stroma is very dreamy and he can SING!

A must see for every american This film is inspiring.  It shows a true point in what our presidents true colors are.  We believe in the message this film is sending.  We're hosting a public view party because of how powerful it is.

good movie bought this for a gift to my mother, he is one of her way back relatives. was in great condition, got shipped fast, a couple days.

DONT LISTEN TO HATERS! GOOD MOVIE! This is an A movie. For 1998, very good special effects. I love monster flicks and this one is awesome! Not as good as the original Japanese films.Nor not as good as an academy award. But I LOVED THIS MOVIE! Matt Broderick did an amazing job! The setting in NYC was awesome too! People need to stop with the bad reviews! This is a great movie! Made a lot of money in the Box office. Give it a chance. It's really good! 5 stars!

Purchase the Warner collection I've seen several reviews stating that some versions of the North and South DVD collection are incomplete.  However, the DVD set by Warner Home Video has about 1400 minutes of footage and seems to include everything the original VHS version contained. If you're looking for the complete set, go with this version.

Can't Get Enough I literally cannot get enough of Smash. I continue to re-watch the episodes and always enjoy the experience. I love all the singing, dancing and acting. I think that Katharine Mcphee and Megan Hilty are amazing leads and are great at portraying different aspects of the very complex Marilyn Monroe. I cannot wait for Season 2 to come out and for Season 1 to be released onto DVD.

excellent resource for pet owners and professionals both This DVD is an excellent and comprehensive collection of canine communication signals.  I've used this DVD in our local rescue's volunteer education program, and the volunteers all had wonderful things to say about it as well.  There is enough great content and detail to benefit even experienced dog professionals (including some signals one doesn't see all that often), but the explanation and commentary are grounded enough so that novice trainers and pet owners can enjoy it as well.  In hindsight, the volunteers probably would have benefitted from breaking the video into two sessions - just because it was a lot of new materal for them to digest at once - but I have continued to get great comments back from them weeks later as they are able to observe things they saw on the video in their foster dogs.  Thank you Sarah, for putting in the countless hours it must have taken to put this DVD together!  Ann Withun, BS, ACDBC, CPDT-KA Instructor, Fieldwood Dog Training Center Certified Professional Dog Trainer - Knowledge Assessed Associate Certified Dog Behavior Consultant, IAABC

For those of us who knew Bernie, a superb portrayal and well written movie! Knowing Bernie very well and having been a Panola College student who benefited from his  generosity, and having met Mrs. Nugent on several occasions, I did not know what to expect when I went to see the movie. I was pleasantly surprised to find superb acting and the the story was accurately told. There were a few minor indescrepancies, but overall, the story portrayed Bernie and the City of Carthage very well. Bernie was not as affeminate as Jack Black portrayed him as, but over all the acting was excellent. If I hadn't known anyone involved, I would still think this was an excellent movie!

Great movie for kids and adults This is a funny movie...doesn't matter how old you are. The actors who do the voice over work make it a movie that adults will get the humor without cringing that their children are watching it.

great set The video arrived in a timely fashion and in perfect condition.  I love all the behind-the-scenes stuff and this set is full of extras.

Loved it!!! I don't usually write reviews.  I just comment on how well I like or dislike a movie.  I really LOVE this one and will watch it again many times.

Spark Of Insanity Jeff Dunham Indeed it Was As the title reads it was a Spark of Insanity.  The boys didn't fail with the laughs, (Oh and Jeff was pretty good to) LOL If you are looking for something different in comedy to keep you laughing check on Jeff Dunham and the boys.

Don't be a Turkey Denny made these movie discs with his electric compruter. Fly like an eagle, ya hunks. And don't let those dingus Turkey's get you down.

Deadwood, The Complete Series If you are a fan of Deadwood this is a great series of DVD's. There is plenty of comentary included, historical background and photos, and insite into the actors and characters in the series.

Excellent This DVD is superb!  I was afraid the beginning of the movie would be difficult to see, since it is on any TV version I've seen.  However, this is  crystal clear throughout.  The movie itself is not a complicated plot. It is an interesting take on what could be the future based on our current over consumption.  Actually it fits today's generation better than the one it was created for. Charlton Heston is really good in this role, as is Edward G. Robinson in this his last role.

Brilliant and Challenging In Kundalini yoga there is a huge focus on the breath, this makes for an energizing, cleansing, aerobic workout.  With or without the breath of fire, the exercises are tough for doable.  I have been doing yoga for roughly 8 months now (including a handful of other raviana dvds), and I found this dvd to be a thorough and challenging workout.  Just a quick word for those who haven't tried a raviana dvd or Kundalini yoga yet:  When I first tried them, I was a little startled at the breathing exercises (their dvds introduced me to Kundalini yoga), the breath of fire burns at first and it feels like you are hyperventilating.  The burning quickly goes away after cleaning out the toxins and you won't hyperventilate.  I also was a bit surprised at the "new-age" feel and Ana's skimpy outfits.  Please get over your inhibitions and give it a try, their yoga is truly life-changing and beautiful, don't let first impressions ruin the experience for you.

Game of Thrones Season 1, Episode "Winter Is Coming" The streaming download was seamless and I was pleased to see that repeated viewings are possible.  As far as the episode goes, it has a great story line, is well acted and well directed, I will probably pursue the series.

Excellent Excellent edition of this product, I think it's a high quality product, although a few faults on the menu editions and chapters. The series reminds me my childhood in the contry when I was young and it has an enormous emotional value for me.

Excellent deal I bought this and the ICarly season two, volume two for my twin girls age 8.  Since we cut our cable bill they do not watch much tv.  It is really nice to for them to just pop in the dvd and watch their shows.  Both dvd's have lots of their favoriate shows.  It's definitely worth the money!

Arrived promptly Arrived promptly and on time. No hassles or confusion and arrived in good condition. Thank you very much. would buy from them again

Enjoyed this Movie I love Bill Cosby.  I love Fat Albert.  I love this movie.  Had to add it to the collection.

Best film I've seen in decades Tom Shadyac's documentary "I AM" is the best film I've seen in years. The film is based on two questions: 1) What's wrong with our world? and 2) What can we do about it? Then he travels the world talking with world renown people seeking answers. The film is a blessing - full of humor, common sense, grace, beauty, and the triumph of the human spirit. I plan on seeing this movie again. First time was with 12 friends, next time it will be with lots more. Tom hit this one out of the ballpark!! Great job. I give it 5 stars, more if I could.

Make it Happen I LOVED this movie! the Danicing is good the Story is better,The Music is good,I would like to find the Soundtrack to this movie.

great movie, about so much more than just a hobby I love how this movie revealed paper folding as relevant to math, science, and technology.  It was interesting to hear so many different points of view and to see it as both an art and a form of discovery.

Great customer service This company has great and fast customer service. The DVD arrived extremely fast. They definitely take care of their customers.

Awesome series I love this series! The storylines are great and the dialogue has me laughing out loud at times. I also love the relationships between characters. I bought both parts and can't wait for the next installment. Great work Marvel!

An Edition to Enjoy I've grown up and cut my teeth, literally on this film. Watches my VHS recording of it from The Movie Channel when it hit the old C-Band dish ages ago, basically until the tape wore out. Then Years later ran across an official VHS copy, wore it out. Had a DVD copy until several years ago when it went AWOL.. Now here it is again.. A classic film that will never die. Something you can enjoy with your family and get amerced in. Great piece of 80's history here!

Remember the Titans Review The movie Remember the Titans is an outstanding movie that shows that it does not matter what skin color you are.  All you need is teamwork and respect for one another to be a great team.  Denzel Washington (African American) and Will Patton (White), coach an integrated football team.  The team at first has trouble getting along with each other.  But, after Head Coach Herman Boone (Denzel Washington), delivers an inspirational speech at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg, they respect each other and work as a team.  Julius Campbell, played by Wood Harris, and Gerry Bertier, played by Ryan Hurst, at first do not get along with each other, but they become the leaders of the team.  This movie is based on a true story.  It is rated PG and the age range is everybody.  This movie is 1 hour and 53 minutes long but every second of the movie is worth it.  Denzel Washington brings out the best of his character.  All of the actors play their parts perfectly.  This movie shows us that we need to respect each other no matter who we are or what our skin color is and that teamwork prevails.  This is an overall great movie for all ages. There are inspirational points in the movies, where the Titans persevere.  During one of their games, the other team's coach bribed the referees to call an unfair game.  When the assistant coach, Bill Yoast (Will Patton), realizes what was happening, he gives a motivating speech to the players which leads to the victory.  This is personally one of my favorite movies and if you are looking for a family movie, this is a perfect choice.

Our Government was and Still is Complicit Just finished inside job about the financial meltdown of 2008. I am more convinced than ever than our government played and continues to play an integral role as even Obama's administration is filled with wall street bankers and lobbyists. In fact Obamas number one contributor was Goldman Sachs which became the biggest bank in America after he took office. This is not a democrat or republican issue but the very core of our government has been corrupted by banking interests which consistently is responsible for widening the gap between the rich and poor. It's important to be educated as if u are not in the 1% percent u will certainly be effected.  2008 is just when the house of cards started to fall. But it was the process of deregulation which took many years to undue and the continuing process of corporate infiltration into America's highest levels of government that has led to this catastrophe. And on top of it all America not only bailed out these industries making them even too bigger to fail but actually made the culprits richer with bailout bonuses and tax breaks.  Not one person has really gone to jail for their misdeeds which puts millions out of work and out of their homes leading to I'm sure among many other things addiction, prostitution, and suicide. These people are responsible and need to be held to account. Instead they raided their own companies and got government money and jobs to boot. They did not lose one penny of their gains and often dumped their stocks in a timely fashion. If America does not wake up and fast their will be no real government to speak of but only a hallow shell that houses a plutocracy inside. Obama's administration is no different with many of his top financial positions held by ex CEOs and lobbyists. This is an obvious conflict of interest.

An excellent film I watched it several time with this movie. It's about a guy who has to follow a series of 'gifts' or tasks from his deceased grandfather. it is worth to watch.

Great movie Great old movie with good story, great characterization, and some twists and turns.  Recommend to anyone who likes a good story.

Improved believe it or not I've always been a big fan of this movie, but I've only ever seen it in standard definition VHS or on cable. So when I first popped this movie in I was pleasantly surprised at how crisp and clear the picture was. There are so many little details that I've never seen before. Probably one of the best conversions to Blu-ray I've seen. Bravo.

Remarkable Writing This is the best written series I've come across.  The characterizations are complex yet spot on, which is difficult to do, but these writers make it look easy. Well acted and featuring a courageous, competent, moral protagonist. Try it. You won't be disappointed. Larry Abrams, author, The Philosophical Practitioner.

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Ernest is so funny! I've always loved Ernest & his movies!  My grandma & I cracked up watching these movies!  :)  I had seen them all before- but it was so fun to watch them again!

DVD -- Tales of the Gold Monkey I ordered this complete set because I liked the series at the time it was running, but I don't think I saw all the episodes.  It hasn't been a series that has been replayed.  Keep in mind that this series was published in 1982 -- before all the technical advances in the film industry had been introduced.  Even though the setting is pre-WWII with American spies and Nazi military personnel, the intrigue is countered with entertaining characters, incuding the one-eyed dog Jack. The action in the stories are pre-Indiana Jones style with a little bit of Donovan Reef's setting & bar room encounters.

Not what everyone is saying. Okay, so as a former owner of the individual sets lemme just say....  This version is not what everyone is saying. I think the "complete series" implies completely new extras but that's not always the case or a better option (i.e. Buffy the vampire slayer dvds - where the director/creator Joss' commentary does actually include the words "I don't even remember this episode") If you are an extras fanatic like I am this does have the original extras as the individual sets but it also includes new cover art, new gilmorism book (overall covering the entire series), and the easier-to-manage holders. I have read on here that the disks are so hard to get out most trolls out there gripe about it. I found that not to be true. While yes, they are a little snug so they don't go flying about just a slight tug and its out.  So honestly, for the reduced price and the functionality of it (the ease really) I say go for it!

John Grisham Novel the Way It's Supposed to Be Mark Sway is an 11-year-old boy from the trailer park who witnesses the suicide of a sleazy lawyer. The complications said lawyer was running away from makes this a big deal hassle for Tommy Lee Jones, a federal prosecutor who was about to close in on the lawyer's murdering client. Mark gets involved because everyone suspects he knows things about the lawyer he's not telling. He manages to contact Susan Sarandon, a lawyer in recovery from some very hard times indeed. Both attorney and client must use all their wits to protect themselves and Mark's little brother, who suffered such a shock when he witnessed the suicide along with his brother that he's in the hospital, unable to speak or even recognize his poor mother. Mother loses her lousy job for being at the hospital looking after her son.  What a mess! How will they ever get out of this? Like I said before, John Grisham loves to write about smart people, and these two seemingly fragile people add up to one smart team. Everything works, but you have to pay attention because the southern accents are thick and the action is very, very fast paced. Five stars for this one.

awesome beauty words cannot describe this just wonderful movie beautifully filmed and great settings,just beautiful. fantastic story and a cast of millions a must have,a must enjoy. highly recommended

Great film Great in every sense of the word.  Great acting, great action, great story and a wonderful experience from beginning to end.  Great dvd quality as well worth every cent.

Warning! Do not buy this film if you are afraid of small dark cramped spaces underground. This movie will scare the bee-jabbers out of you.  Other than that -- it's a good thrill ride.

It's Not Going To Be For Everyone But If You Are A Patient Film Goer Then You Will Find A Lot To Like I've long been a fan of John Le Carre's novel "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" and the BBC miniseries that starred Alec Guinness as George Smiley.  The novel is very dense and I wasn't sure a two hour theatrical film could do the work justice.  It does but there is so much great character and story elements that had to be jettisoned I still wonder if a moviegoer who hasn't read the book will be able to keep up.  I'm fairly certain the patient and astute filmgoer will be able to, others may have a hard time of it.  TTSS is not a film for the ADD set. If you feel you have to continually text or talk during a film then you should stick to something within your comfort zone because this movie will plow right over your short attention span. TTSS is a film about spies in the '70's Cold War but isn't REALLY about spies, it's about betrayal, political and personal disillusionment and whether or not there is a clear separation between right and wrong. It depicts a morally bleak landscape populated by gray little men and women who work in a field that has an inherent moral rot to it to begin with. It's a slow and deliberately paced film that demands you pay attention to it. I know this doesn't sound like a positive critique but TTSS really is a film worth seeing. It's a rich film with many layers to it and you will probably see something new in it with repeated viewings.

Greatest Guy Movie Ever What male wouldn't like to conjure up KELLY Le BROCK for love lessons!  Nerd gets the girl, and bullying is repaid in a most interesting manner

Best tornado movie!!! No matter how many times I watch this, I love it.  I love the tornados, the action, and all the characters.  Couldn't ask for a better movie to put on when the weather is stormy!

Very Cool Blu-Ray 3D! I'm not a big sci-fi or video game person, but I still really enjoyed this movie with my husband, who is.  The scenes and the bad guys looked great in 3D!

Great movie - can't wait for the next one! As a huge Potter fan, I'm excited for the final movie this summer. What will we do when it's over?

Ip Man - Blu-Ray Movie I love the action and storyline of this movie which centers on the Teacher/Master of Bruce Lee. You will not be disappointed if you purchase it.

Awesome!!! Memoirs of a Geisha is one of my favorite movies of all time! Found a cheaper price for a 2 set DVD through this seller and was not disappointed at all. Quick shipment and great service! Highly recommend! :)

The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Music...indeed I first saw the Sound of Music when I was in the first grade. I remember liking the songs  (Do-Re-Mi was always a favorite) but not understanding the story at all. The six -year old me never did quite get the whole Nazi part of the film. It wasn't until years later I understood what the red flag with the weird spider, as Gretl (or was it Brigita?) calls it, really meant, and it was then I fully comprehended the heaviness of the third act of the film.  As I was going through a musical dvd shopping spree I decided to revisit the Von Trapp family. Realizing that the time I saw it in 1st grade was the ONLY time I had actually seen the film. 20 years later I sat down to watch Julie Andrews sing about the hills being alive and a few of her favorite things, and I was riveted from start to finish. I half expected to stop the dvd or skip a few chapters, but instead I was enthralled in the story line which I could now, as an adult, both understand and appreciate.  While the threat of the Nazi regime's take over of Austria is woven throughout the story, it does not take center stage. What is at the heart of this film is the power of music and how it can save a life and awaken the soul.  Up until Maria's arrival at the Von Trapp household (or should I say mansion, the place is huge!) Captain Von Trapp treats his children like little soldiers--they march and stand at attention at his command, and respond to his whistle like dogs.  Maria's entrance into the household brings tenderness and the showing of love back into the home.  What follows is an endless parade of musical magic, songs that stay stuck in your brain and moments that make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.  As a viewer you bare witness to the evolvement of a man and his family who are captivated by sweet Maria, and the flourishing of a love between a man and a woman. It was a story that was so good I didn't want it to end. As the filmed closed, and the camera pans back to reveal the family making their way through the mountains, I found myself truly sorry to say "so long, farewell, auf Weiderseshen, good night."  The film is truly lovely, and the Blu-ray presentation is spectacular. A must see!

Amazing movie I love this movie. Fantastic soundtrack, and killer visuals/acting. What's not to like? It probably is the definitive Arthur epic. Most likely based on the Once and Future King version by TH White as it aligns pretty closely with that story. Recommended.

TRULY intense Let me begin by identifying myself as a fit individual. This workout program is INTENSE. I thought I had a rigorous physical training program before starting, but day 1 floored me as does every stage of this program. Just when you start to get accustomed it changes up and wipes the floor with you again. The first month is challenging and very fun. Month 2 is the second phase of the workout and the fun wears off a little because of the huge jump in physical intensity. And yet despite the difficulty, its still addictive. The results are truly fantastic. But be forewarned, this work out is NOT for the person looking to start a workout program. You HAVE to be in very good shape to START the program. And a critical factor for getting the results this program offers is dedication. You have to give every workout everything you have, and follow all the instructions. Insanity is not an easy get fit program by any means. It requires you to destroy your bad habits and old conventions to get a beast of a body. The routines require a good deal of floor space of at least 10ft by 15ft. You can do it in smaller spaces, but that adds a great deal of risk to the workout as you'll jeopardize your form or risk impacting an object, wall, etc. Unlike P90X the only equipment required for this program is a good pair of shoes (you need the support) and non-restrictive, cool clothing. I would not recommend doing this program on a surface that is smooth either as the sweat that pours off you will make the floor very slick and unsafe. SERIOUSLY research this product before starting, because it demands a lot out of you and at its price if you aren't willing to follow through then you will be wasting a large chunk of change.

2012 My sons favorite movie and mine since now we are actually exprience gobal warming who knows what will happen in the next few years :) then we will see where the money comes in now.

A Ghostly Love Story..... I have loved Patrick Stewart forever. What ever he acts in he gives it a 100% as he does in this. He makes the ghost seem so real and the pain he feels you feel. This movie is a family movie for children 8 and older. Younger children may become scared in some sences. I would recommend it to everyone who loves ghostly movies but most of all those who cherish a good love story....

A Treasure of Robin Williams Talent I love Robin Williams, and this is a good example of why. Daniel Hillard (Williams) is doing the voices -- all the voices -- for a cartoon as the movie begins. The canary has been singing Figaro, the cat catches him, and rather than permit him a phone call as he requests, offers him a last cigarette. Hillard ad-libs an anti-smoking message for the canary, and the director is furious. Hillard points out that as a cartoon, it is aimed at children, and promoting smoking on a children's movie is unethical. He's told to do the script the way it was written or take a hike. He takes the latter option.  So he's home early, can create a birthday party for his son, and make enough mess for his wife Miranda (Sally Field) to blow her top and ask for a divorce. Well, he did make quite an awful mess, but really!  Anyway, once she's kicked him out, and gotten custody of the three children, and a court order that Daddy sees them only on Saturdays, she needs a housekeeper. After all, she's a successful career woman and can't do everything herself. However, she has the ad copy with her when she comes to pick up the kids at his chaotic apartment, and he manages to change a couple of numbers so that she gets no legitimate calls. Then he calls with a variety of fake voices and successfully creates the impression that only seriously unsuitable people are answering the ad. Then he calls and makes an appointment for an interview for Mrs. Doubtfire.  Fortunately, Daniel's brother is a theatrical makeup artist, really very good at it, and after half a dozen hilarious attempts, comes up with just the right transformation into the dumpy but lovable British Mrs. Doubtfire. Of course she is hired.  No, I have not told you too much. This is just the background to the funniest situation you can imagine. There's some predictable elements, but enough Robin Williams twists to keep you laughing so hard you'll find it hard to breathe. As the perfect "straight man" to the best of the jokes Pierce Brosnan plays Stuart, an old boyfriend of Miranda's who comes back into her life and seems prepared to settle down with the whole family. He's wealthy, charming, of course very attractive, and just the perfect foil for some of Robin Williams' best jokes.

Back to shorter episode arcs Collections four and five, which I liked quite a bit, had the all-encompassing arc of the Alabasta fight. As I mentioned in my review for Collection Five, episodes 110 to 126 span the course of a half an hour.  I liked it, but it was kind of exhausting. Also, with one key bad guy that must be stopped, at least one event is predictable.  Collection Six is back to smaller arcs. The first episode has Tony Chopper accidently breaking a water barrel, and he has to go refill it. In the meantime, he relates some of his origin. A series of these short, well-written character stories follows.  There is plenty of blatant foreshadowing, that I managed to miss completely, until it was explained.  Throughout the collection, the stories and characters are good, and there's never a false note.  The episodes covered are the following.  At some point, it becomes obvious that they'll eventually reach a place called Skypiea, but that's about the only obvious outcome. Bookend episodes are:  131. The first patient! The untold story of the rumble ball! 156. Already criminals?! Skypiea's upholder of the law!  Well-planned, well-written.  These are a bit different than most US TV shows, which start with a few episodes, then maybe get funding for a few more episodes, and then get permission to write and finish a season if the ratings are okay.  Highly recommended.

Very Interesting Movie This movie is very well written and kept me interested the entire time! Watched this multiple times and still love it every time

No One Would Tell I'm a health teacher at a high school in brooklyn and I thought this was a great movie to show to wrap up my lesson on domestic violence (teen dating). Students were crying at the end because they can relate to the movie and they felt bad for the young lady in the film.  I would recommend this for high school students.

This is the version to have! After reading some of the reviews on Amazon,I thought I buy this version,I already had the first one.I figured this would be a nice birthday present to myself(okay,forgive me you guys).MAN!,I'm glad I did.What a difference the whole three hours makes in the story of this great movie!It's like watching it for the first time,everything about this epic was more detailed and made sense when watching it with a fresh mind.That is to say,as if you hadn't seen it before.What a wonderful story is told here,I don't want to spoil this for those who have not seen it,but here it goes.From the heartbreak of Balian's wife's death and losing his faith to Sybilla's son!Geoffery fully explains his actions in coming back to France.Why Balian throws the priest into the fire and his skills as an engineer and warrior.Saladin's taking to war and marching on Jerusalem!WHAT A STORY!.In my opinion,all these added extras did not drag the movie along,but gave it clarity to the contrary.It was insightful and helped the viewer to understand the whole of the subject playing out before them.I could both see myself in this movie and was moved by the story.So much so in fact that I have memorized the Knight's creed(but that's just the romantic in me!).The whole of me wanted to be in the middle of the action!To fight alongside Balian,defend the city and the fair maidens.This movie also helps in understanding the differences between the two faiths and hopefully coming to a meeting point in the future.Then,it would truly be the Kingdom of Heaven.Good and bad actions are carried out by both sides,history declares this,and so does this movie.No one side is glorified or villianized,I for one find that refreshing(as a Christian I mean).Great action and again great story,this movie has it all!Mr.Scott,you did a wonderful job making this movie and putting this out on the director's three hour cut!When I first saw the previews to this movie,I fell in love with it even before I went to go see it!I have always wanted to be a knight with a great and noble cause to carry out.This movie helped me to realize that boyhood dream....Mr.Scott,thank you again.

LOOK OUT!  Giant fighting robots are awesome Nothing makes cinema more compelling than giant fighting robots; combine that with characters confronting adversity because of their involvement with giant fighting robots, friendships that develop because of the giant fighting robots, and moments of genuine peril BECAUSE of the giant fighting robots... well this is great cinema, no?  Transformers didn't have the budget to show the real wonder and majesty of giant fighting robots, but Real Steel pulls no punches in this department; the trailer alone must have cost $100,000,000 and half the scenes aren't even in the movie.  The simple fact of film (and life) is this; if it looks awesome whilst Queen's "We Will Rock You" plays in the background, and has giant fighting robots, then it's an awesome movie.  If it pulls this off for 90 minutes, then it's above awesome - it's Real Steel.  I haven't actually seen this movie yet, but I can tell it will be the greatest movie of the year, possibly even the decade. I sometimes cry during Karate Kid (not the new one)

The Social Network Wins Big I totally love this film. The Social Network really did surprise me. I was really invested in this film and the story about how Facebook became to be.  If you like films like this I totally reccomend!

Excellent collection This is a good collection , in fact it is the best ever set of movies I have gotten. I recommend this collection I give an excellent opinion about it.  No doubt in buy these movies , good sound . good definition and the animatrix collection is great.

Typical but Well Done Fairly typical, formula-like, ghost-in-a-house story except that it had enough twists and surprises to keep you engaged. Usual special effects of ghostly images in the usual places (dark hallways, basement, cemetery) with appropriate sounds and music with very effective sudden scene shifts with sound to frighten the unwary viewer. Beautiful location, authentic sets and props; one of the best I've seen for this genre. Very good acting, dialogue, characterizations, editing and cinematography. Attention to detail is usually a good indicator of a well crafted movie and the studio fulfilled that obligation to the highest degree. Surprising ending  so don't read any spoilers.

Christmas Gift Arrived within days of ordering, it was in great condition and my friend (who's been looking for a good yoga for beginners) was very pleased! I'd definitely order from this vendor again. :)

Wonderful Math is my worst subject and this DVD brought me up to speed. I also bought the advance disc and work sheets. Some of it is remedial but I needed it and the discs worked!

No Complaints here This is probably (god this is hard to do) my favorite John Woo movie.  Again, I'll focus on the DVD.  For once, everything works.  The color is vibrant, the editing didn't mess with the flow, and for once the subtitles aren't all messed up. Many of John Woo's films suffer immensely at the hands of the DVD port, but inexplicably this one has managed to escape.  Nothing feels wrong with this film. In fact, I might watch it right now. I highly recommend this version of the film.

amazing movie after watching makes any car lover feel like a badass. ive watched it over and over again. 2nd part of the movie is alot better though

American Gangster I collect Denzel Washington movies and was glad when this movie arrived.  The movie was clear and there were no scratches.  I am glad to add this movie to my collection.

Deeply Moving on so many levels The Way is a beautifully scripted and shot movie.  It speaks to the relationships between father and son, faith and despair, our humanity in its primal cruelty and elemental mercy and forgiveness.

Sweetening Snathces This film is for anyone who appreciates great poetry, literature, or character development. James Franco continues to amaze with his commitment to his work and in portraying the extraordinary wisdom of Allen Ginsberg. You must watch this, but read 'Howl' first.

A Really Great Family Movie From the moment you first see the cover, before you ever open the case, you already know how it will end. Doesn't matter. The acting is superb with an encouraging look at strong relationships, and for once a dad is not portrayed as an idiot. It is the kind of story that lets you want to believe in yourself and the people around you. It's not sappy or overly cute, but refreshingly good. The humor fits without being contrived, and doggone-it, it makes me want to buy a horse.

Cheech & Chong's nice dreams Came in quickly, great condition, funny movie.  I'm not much into it, but my husband (the one I bought it for) loves them.  Great stress reliever.

MY ALL TIME FAVORITE MOVIE AND CAN'T WAIT TO OWN IT ON DVD. I LOVE THIS MOVIE AND WOULD GO SEE IT 90 MORE TIMES IF I COULD,BUT I CAN'T.SO IM WAITING FOR IT TO HIT DVD AND THEN I WILL BUY IT AND WATCH IT A THOUSAND MORE TIMES.I HAVE 3 THINGS TO SAY ABOUT THIS MOVIE AND HERE THEY ARE 1.BETHANY HAMILTON YOU ARE MY ROLE MODEL.2.I LOVE HOW THIS MOVIE HAS GOD IN IT AND THAT TO ME IS SO AWESOME.3.YOU GUYS MUST GO SEE THIS MOVIE YOU WILL ENJOY,I KNOW I DID AND IT TAKE ALOT OF STRENGTH AND COURAGE AND LOTS OF FAITH TO DO WHAT SHE DID AND U MADE ME WAN'T TO GET CLOSER TO GOD AND HAVE THE AMOUNT OF FAITH AND STRENGTH AND COURAGE THAT YOU HAVE.SO I REALLY CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS MOVIE TO HIT DVD AND SO WITH THAT BYE.

Amazing Animation! I honestly had no clue what The Lorax was before we watched the movie.  I knew it had something to do with trees and since it was a Dr. Seuss tale I knew it would be a good story.  The movie blew me and my family away.  The animation is truly amazing and we have watched this DVD more than I'd like to admit in the two weeks that we've had it!  You can see the everything so clearly and I can't imagine how the animators even captured all those details.  The voices made my husband and I laugh as they are from popular actors/actresses including Taylor Swift, Zac Efron, Danny Devito and Betty White.  The story is actually quite moving too and was perfect for me to introduce some lessons to my children.  "The Lorax" is a tale of a young man, the Once-ler, who goes off on his in search for the perfect material to make his Thneed (a crazy sweater.)  He meets the Lorax when he cuts down a tree and the Lorax explains how he speaks for the trees and takes care of the animals.  The story goes on of course as he cuts down more trees until there is none left.  As a side story there is a town in the future where there are no trees but one girl (Taylor Swift) wants one.  They actually sell bottled air since the air and pollution is so bad!  So anyways a young boy (Zac Efron) goes on a mission and hears the story from the Once-ler.  Can he grow a tree and save the town?  The story is great to teach kids about caring about the environment, recycling, and how one person can make a difference!  This is a must-see movie in my book, even if you don't have kids!  Truly amazing animation, hilarious songs and dancing and a great overall story.

Beautifully Done! This was well-cast and beautifully done. It is a painful story of triumphs and defeats. Each character adds something to the tale and enriches the experience. I have not read this piece by Edith Wharton, so cannot comment regarding its adherence (or lack thereof) to the original story, but it is compelling to watch. I always have to watch it all the way through in one sitting!

Bus Wankers!! HAHAHAHA! I absolutely LOVE this show! Too bad it ended after the third series. I have the UK discs and will be ordering this set as well!

a christmas carol (collector's edtion) my sister wanted the simms version of carol (told her i would check amazon) found this one on the site purchased it kept the colector version gave her the regular copy i already had

Vindication - a movie to be recognized in the horror genre. I saw Vindication when it played in NYC at a Fangoria show, and I saw a longer cut of the film, but I can say the new cut is far better and moves better. The film is certainly cared for on the DVD as RSquared packed the DVD with so much material. The short film version of Vindication that director Bart Mastronardi made is also on the disc.  I can see why Clive Barker wrote a great review for this little indie horror film.  Vindication is one of those horror movies that focuses on story, emotion and utilizes the conventions of filmmaking wisely. The performances are top rated and some of the actors have gone on to win awards for this film as has the film itself - rightful so.  The camera work and use of angles definitely compliments the psychology of the main character, Nicolas Bertram, played by actor Keith Fraser, who gives a subtle performance, ( a new horror name in the likes of Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees) It is a psychological horror movie that uses Shakespeare and some great classic literary devices mixed into the horror genre like Jacob's Ladder, Lynch films and Barker himself.  Vindication is one of those indie films that is well worth your time. If you enjoy more dramatic and story driven horror with a layered plot then this film is for you.  I really enjoyed this film. I hope to see more from this director. The movie poster is creepy.  Give this one a chance.

Marilyn and Jane are a great pair! I really enjoyed this movie. The fashion is amazing and so are the music numbers.I couldn't keep my eyes off Marilyn the entire movie. She was such a beautiful and talented actress!

A+ My husband always wanted the Rocky collection. Figured I would get it online for him for Christmas. He opened it a day early and LOVED it. He was so excited, as it's bed time and he says he wants to watch the First one, (which hes never seen before) I said NO! it's bed time, "I'm re-wrapping it!" lol. It was also shipped very quickly as well. Thank you amazon. I am glad I ordered it when I did because it went up $20 in price. I give it a 5 star since he was super happy when opening it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great collection A Charlie Brown Christmas is just as brilliant as I remembered it.  It was so engrossing that it was done, and I wondered where the time had gone.  Don 't get that feeling often anymore.  It's the Great Pumpkin is another all-time classic.  When Snoopy rises up....just perfect.  He's your Dog, Charlie Brown is right up there with the first two.  Peppermint Patty'e house turning into a gulag...wow.  The others are fun also, but the Vince Guaraldi feature is amazing.  As my wife said, that a man can bring out that sort of emotion 30+ years after his death says a lot.  Definitely worth getting.

All The Right Reasons I can't wait to have this DVD in my collection.  It is a family friendly feature that I can watch over and over again with my grandchildren, nieces and nephews, (and the adults won't be bored by it either).  It is about family and faith and overcoming adversity and giving back.  Every actor was perfect for their role.  The scenery is beautiful as is the message.  I am also looking for a soundtrack for the movie.  If I could give this movie 10 stars I would!  Bethany Hamilton is a true American Hero, for all the right reasons!

Very satisfied I ordered my product on a Monday and had it in my mailbox by Saturday afternoon in the exact condition it was described; I'm very satisfied with my order.

has to be watched twice first let me start im a huge fan of romero. And i think his zombie movies should be the foundation for the genre. NO RUNNING ZOMBIES! But thats another conversation. diary of the dead is a masterpiece the second time you watch it. I'll admit when i first picked up a copy the 1st day it was released i was really pissed off that i spent money on this movie. But unlike the other garbage i take chances on i didn't sell this dvd, and i'm glad i didn't. years after i watched it, i watched it again. I was amazed on how much i missed in the first viewing and got on the second. The movie goes back to day one well night one. this movie takes place in the same time frame as night. but unlike night your not trapped in a house your on the road. you see what romero wants to point out as far as societies hang ups, and people and theirs. I know that sounds preachy but you have to expect that from the PUNK ROCKER that is GEORGE ROMERO. even his non-zombie film have little point your finger scenes in it. I think in the future that this movie will go down with day as an underrated masterpiece. and if time doesn't see this movie as the masterpiece it is, then its times loss!

Classic <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00018WMMA">Hercules The Legendary Journeys - Season 3</a> This is one of the most excellent series that i have ever seen and i watched it on TV from day one all the way to it's final episode....And to see it again on DVD is even better...more clear and with amazing audio!!!I am happy to now own the collection of this entire series!!!!!

funny for the whole family Great movie for the whole family.  Kids really enjoy shrek and family.  Prince Charming.  Made us laugh...

Vincent Price at his best! This is a true classic; and, IMHO, this is one of Vincent Price's best performances.  If I could, I would deduct 1/2 star because the action scenes run a bit long and feel forced at times, but, that is my only complaint. This movie is not so much scary as it is thrilling and I love watching it every Halloween right before The Pit & The Pendulum. )O(

THE FIGHTING SULLIVANS I REALLY LOVED THIS MOVIE A LOT. I AM INTO HISTORICAL AND MILITARY MOVIES VERY MUCH. I AM VERY MUCH INSPIRED NOT ONLY BY THE SONS BUT BY THE PARENTS WHO HAVE GIVEN UP SO MUCH.

Nice movie If you're a fan of Naveen Andrews from "LOST", you'll love this movie. Low budget film, but interesting story. Naveen looked pretty good in his youth.

Suits and Vegas in their proper place... Funny funny movie!  Depp and DelToro are always on target in what they choose to do.  If you understand the movie's "statement" you will understand Depp and Thompson's friendship.  He, Thmpson, is tryin' to tell you somethin', folks... that some of us appear to be carnivores at the bar! And who are the clowns here - the ones in costume or the ones in costume? And mayb you can see that with the shrooms; mayb that's y they don't want u to have them.  Thompson got hassled, discredited, jailed, beaten, but he was always a truthsayer.  It says much about Depp and DelToro to take up his cause.  And I'm glad that they have made money in their ensuing careers...yay for the good guys.  Buy the movie, see if you can SEE...

It's easier to theorize about human behavior than it is to look at it Reviewer "From Hades" spends 1,620 words supporting a thesis that can be stated in a sentence: The civilian interrogators were responsible for Abu Ghraib, and this film is flawed because it doesn't suggest that.  The reviewer makes clear that he believes the film spends too much time "humanizing" the military personnel when instead it should have been placing blame. He wanted the film to single out the civilian interrogators as the responsible persons so that, I guess, we can wipe our hands and move on.  It's distressing that his is the top-rated review because he is doing the precise thing that the film magnifies to absurdity: Telling the simple story, reaching the simple conclusion, identifying the "bad guys," and being satisfied with your tidy little explanation.  It's easier to theorize about human behavior than it is to look at it.  It's easy to look at the photos from Abu Ghraib and construct stories. A social psychologist might say that Abu Ghraib illustrates the results of the Stanford Prison Experiment. An economist might say that "rational" people were responding to grim incentives. An evolutionary biologist might say that Abu Ghraib merely shows apes gone amok amid environmental pressures. A neurochemist might say that the military personnel were experiencing a severe chemical imbalance in the brain.  It's hard to do what Errol Morris did, which is to examine the events that actually happened and listen to the people involved. The result -- this movie -- shows how grossly inadequate simple stories can be.  Before watching Errol Morris's films, it's important to understand that he does not make traditional "issue" or "historical" documentaries like you might see on PBS. His purpose is not to document factual events, although that's part of it. Errol is after deeper truths--not just what happened, but why it happened, what it means, what it can tell us about ourselves.  If Standard Operating Procedure does not make you think about anything other than what happened at Abu Ghraib and who's responsible, then I wonder whether you were really paying attention.

AWESOME Best comedy for a long time , have watched all 4 seasons twice. Amazon service was great. If you want a good laugh I reccomend , Sheldon Rules

Felicia Day by day Felicia Day is a talented actress, writer, web entrepreneur and the sweetest girl on earth. The Guild her creation is a beloved runaway hit! Felicia plays Cyd Sherman a painfully shy girl whose life is out of control. While playing a game leaves her unbalanced, her online persona Codex gives her the courage to act. Following my own philosophy of supporting the arts and the small guy or in this case the cute little redheaded girl I have bought all five seasons of the Guild.

CLASSIC The film is a classic! One of Jack Black's best ever. How can you not love this movie? School of Rock should be in everyone's movie collection.

Great Loved this movie when I first saw it! Been meaning to buy it on DVD for years.Finally did it! The scene with Salma Hayeks dance is awesome!!!

Birthday Gift On my Son's Wish List so I imagine that he liked it. He now has all but #8 and #9. Thanks

Excellent learning tool We are fans of all the LeapFrog material. The kids love it and is amazing how fast they have picked up letter and number recognition and phonics from the LeapFrog products. I can easily recommend them to parents.

Clever and funny I wanted to see The Cabin in the Woods back when it was in theaters.  But every time I went to the movies during that time period I was with someone else.  And they never wanted to see a horror movie, either because horror was too scary or because they considered it a dumb and predictable genre.  (And let's face it, I'm not about to accuse slasher films of being smart.  Their feelings were not invalid.)  But The Cabin in the Woods is not a horror film.  There's about 45 minutes of a slasher film in it, but it isn't really scary and I don't think it's meant to be.  It's mostly a horror parody, with a pinch of satire thrown in for flavor.  The Cabin in the Woods is the product of Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Drew Goddard (Cloverfield).  They both wrote the script and Goddard directed.  I can definitely see Whedon's mark on the story, so if you don't like his style, The Cabin in the Woods probably won't work for you.  I am totally unfamiliar with Goddard, but this film was a great first impression.  There's one scene, where a character goes out into the woods and looks over his shoulder, because it is a little creepy outside.  The audience can see the monster weaving in and out of the shadows, but the character just misses her.  It's beautifully framed.  And I can say that for several scenes in this movie - the way things move in and out of frame is very well done.  One thing The Cabin in the Woods does very well is that it doesn't fight the cast's charisma.  In too many horror films you just don't care if everyone dies or if anyone escapes the monster.  Chris Hemsworth is the movie's only big name (though he wasn't when the movie was filmed), and anyone whose seen Thor and The Avengers knows he's a pretty jovial presence.  He's the alpha male of the group and a football player, but he's also shown to be smart, both well read and a good problem solver.  After all, the boxes horror movies put people into are ridiculous.  The Cabin in the Woods shatters those stereotypes.  At the same time, it offers a reason for them.  The Cabin in the Woods pokes behind the scenes of horror movies, teasing out totally ridiculous reasons for why horror characters act the way they do.  One of the pleasures of The Cabin in the Woods is how it flings the silly, the mundane, and the brutal together.  I know lots of people who were disappointed by the third act and others who thought it was brilliant.  I veer towards brilliant.  It's slower paced than the rest of the movie, but it's different and exciting.  I think most people don't like it because it's where the film totally leaves traditional American horror behind.  And, that's about as much as I can say without giving anything away.  Now, I actually think some of the "spoiler" arguments around this movie are dumb.  It would be just as fun if you know what's coming.  But at the same time, there's a pleasure in keeping mum.  I'll leave it at this: it's a fun movie and I've been enjoying thinking through the layers.  My final word is to those who don't like gore.  The Cabin in the Woods is definitely not torture porn, and while there's quite a bit of gore, most of it is shot in a discretionary way.  If you don't like any blood, this isn't the film for you.  But there are no over-the-top gross gore scenes, in my opinion.

Classic Steve McQueen! This is one of my all-time favorite McQueen movies that isn't a western. This action film stars: Robert Vaughn, Jaqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Robert Duvall, Simon Oakland, Norman Fell, plus others. This film was released in '68 and is filmed in Widescreen formant in 114 minutes. I would recommend this to anyone who likes Steve McQueen or likes action films or any fans of these stars.

Awesome Workout!!! I love this because I don't have much time and every second is well spent in this DVD. He works every muscle in your body and you'll see your body toning up in no time.

Awesome This movie is a favorite of my daughter's. I purchased this for her birthday in October of this year. She has then since watched it numerous times. I am thrilled with the service I received for this item. It was the right price and arrived in plenty of time for my daughter to open and enjoy her birthday present. :) This movie is a very inspirational and great family movie. I'm glad my daughter enjoys this so much!

Why? Right so the story is actually pretty simple - Stunt man is injured and ends up in the same hospital as a little girl.  Little girl is basically adorable but also the nosy neighbor busy body of the hospital.  Instead of playing with the kids her own age, she's always hopping from adult to adult doing what kids do best - asking "Why?" and getting in the way, exploring things they shouldn't explore, but smiling a smile that makes the adults forget the kid is in the way.  The stunt man, unable to get up and do his own dirty work figures this little girl is the perfect person to do it for him.  He takes her in as his new best friend.  Tells her stories.  Gains her trust.  All in an attempt to trick her into getting him the pills he needs to end it all. But in life things don't always go as planned.  It has all I could want in a movie -  Character interaction so good that the movie relies heavily on it, even while having other tricks up its sleeve (in this case stunning graphics) - check  Beautifully filmed - check  Even the aspects that you feel have been done before (c'mon nothing is 100% original) do feel new in the movie - check  Really it grabbed my full attention and didn't let go.  I'm recommending that everyone I know see it.

Cesar Millan Season 4 Volume 1 Excellent value. I watch all of Cesar's DVD's many times and pick up something new every time. It's great to be able to watch the episodes right through without any interruptions for adverts. I would recommend getting as many of Cesar's DVD's as possible for anyone with dogs. If you are looking for a 'how to' DVD on training, this isn't it. Cesar is not a trainer, as he has told people many times. He is a dog psychologist; he evaluates the dog then trains the people to be the dog's leader. Each dog is different and he points this out often. What works like a dream with one dog may not be effective with another, but he is able to pinpoint with incredible accuracy, exactly how to approach any problems with any dog.

DVD purchase I was pleased with my purchase of DVDs from movies originally released on VHS.  I was able to complete my library.

Perfect Condition Came completely sealed, never opened, with plastic wrap and bar code. It's great to find a timeless classic like this on DVD. Cover looks exactly as pictured and it shiny and untouched. Great buy! Great seller! Came a day earlier than estimated.

best godzilla film ever!!!!!!!!!!!! This is my favorite movie of all time. I know some people think its the worst but I think the fight scenens are amazing. The final fight is so amazing. It's a tag team battle godzilla and jet jagwire vs megalon and gigan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Must Watch Movies! Don't wait for the American Version..... The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl That Kicked the Hornet's Nest are the best movies I have seen in a long, long time. And it figures it would be foreign films.  If you don't like reading subtitles - you need to get over that - foreign films are generally the best. Plus you get the added benefit of hearing the language that is being spoken. Casting was great too.  These movies will keep you on the edge of your seat the entire time.  I was so tempted to fast forward just to see what was going to happen because it was so intense at times.  I can't imagine that the American version will be better - we will see. Lisbeth is such a challenging part - how could anyone do it better? Fastastic - well worth your time to see. You won't be sorry.

Excellent sequel, two more stories would have been nice though. I think this is just as good as the original, even though this movie didn't have as much money as the first movie, hence the three stories unlike the first which had five.  Other than that, this a great 80's horror flick with a decent amount of ectras, which the original version, or even the Blue-ray version of the original Creepshow did not have.  Two thumbs way up!!!

Good Good product, delivery was slow and not on the date requested but came a few days later. Worked well and well packaged. Seemed to be missing the booklet that normally comes with these dvd packages but dvds were all there and working great.

Amazing film Dark, haunting, and timeless. The film takes its time and builds suspense and doesn't rely on gore and action like modern horror flicks. Very excited for Prometheus this summer.

Brilliant man this video is for anyone and everyone and i love it and love what Joseph Campbell had to say about myths and the theories about life and death! A must see!

Fantastic, dark, funny, and entertaining....a must for any mature fantasy reader Well, there are already hundreds of reviews praising this series for all that it entails...the quibbles between the books and the tv episodes are minor at best, and with at least two more seasons on the horizon, one can only wait and hope they do as well as this one.  The only issue I've had so far is with the discs themselves...they refuse to remember where the episode left off if, say, I had to turn off the PS3 and go do something else, if I come back to it, it starts all over again from the episode menu.  Anyone else have this issue for blu-ray?  It could be a PS3 issue I suppose, but one never knows...  This is a story, first and foremost.  It is not a happy story, or a friendly story, or even a story told from just one character's point of view..it's told from many, and how their lives all intersect and weave together...the choices they make, for good or evil, the people that live or die as a result of those choices, and the maxim that "power corrupts, but absolute power corrupts absolutely" hanging over everyone's head.  In one of the special features, George R.R. Martin said something to the effect of seeing the world in shades of grey; a "good" character can have flaws and perform an evil deed or two, and "evil" characters can have shining moments of redemption under certain circumstances. Thus, the characters in the series reflect this, and everyone will  be able to identify with at least one character here, regardless of his or her fate.  A good story should be able to make you laugh, cry, want more, identify with the characters and situations, and watch repeatedly and possibly learn something new each time...for me, this series does that in spades.  It should be mentioned, however, that the MA rating is well-deserved, as this series doesn't shy away from violence and bloodshed, or wanton acts of cruelty, or..and this is probably the biggest thing.."sexposition".  Steamy nude scenes mixed with important plot points are scattered throughout the episodes, on top of "normal" sexual discussions, portrayal (and most of it is well into the hard-R rating territory) and natural nudity (male and female), homosexuality, incest, and the fact that some of it revolves around children coming of age (they're younger in the books, so I can only guess a few older actors and actresses were switched in to prevent some major issues).  I wouldn't let any kids I had watch it until they were much older, is what I'm saying..for those of us that can handle it, though, the above review stands.  Give it a couple of episodes and let it flow...by the end you'll definitely be hooked.

Family I love the way the movie describes how families can grow apart, but it also shows us that those relationships can be repaired.  I truly enjoyed how the characters worked at getting the family together again.

nice Nice story telling the tale of a marine in our latest war..Very strong language  which is not always necessary, but seems like a thing that writers seem to think is vital to portray  emotion in conflict. Scenes are very realistic, acting is very good and overall, it is a very enjoyable movie. I guess we can look forward to more stories from the wars in the middle east as the old World War and Viet Nam  stories fade into the past.  The desert locations are certainly different than the jungle scenes from  the "Nam" movies but still make for beautiful shots.

Fabulous Fun for everyone. As a friend of mine said, after we saw this movie, "I'll never look at grass the same way again. There's wars going on down there!"  It does give one pause to respect the littlest creatures with whom we share this Earth. Wonderful satire, colorful and very entertaining.  I highly recommend it.

Good Job with the Historical Accuracy. I learned about this movie while visiting Ft. Apache. It is sold at the Apache Museum there. They endorse it and much of the details are confirmed in Geronimo's own auto biography. It is filmed in Utah so the scenery is not the same and Ft. Apache was not the primitive F-Troop type fort with a stockade and tower as depicted in all TV shows and movies. The real fort looked like a Victorian small american town complete with brick houses for the officers and their families.  To really gain an understanding for what happened to the Apache see the movie then go visit Ft. Apache.

Fabulous! So worth getting! I was so pleasantly surprised to find the Christmas Special as well--make sure you get the Season 1 UK edition as well!

movie A master piece always ready to see again want to watch and watch and watch music wonderfully evoking takes me back to old Hollywood

He picked another winner I think Robert Pattinson is going to have a long, steady career after the "Twilight" films are complete because he keeps picking winners to star in. I absolutely loved this film. To sum it up, it's about a college student who finds out his parents were killed. Now he has to make ends meet (with no money to support himself since his parents used it to put him through college; talk about mixed feelings) and jumps on a train. Although he didn't intend to run off with the circus, he ended up doing just that. Unlucky for him, one of the stars of the circus is the wife of the guy in charge, and this guy is temperamental to the point of being long overdue for some therapy! Between his temper and Pattinson's character needing to learn how to fight (pronto!), there were moments when I wanted to turn away. My skin boiled a little watching the way the horse and elephant were treated. (Note: I will refrain from the lecture going on in my head about why I hate going to circuses in my adult life and prefer they be human-only events. Also, this is one of the many, many reasons I'm a vegetarian. All right, I'm done.)  The film did show how overzealous some circus trainers but did it without turning it into an animal rights film. (They certainly dropped more than enough hints though.) Between the triangle with the wife, the unofficial veterinarian (Pattinson's character) and the psychotic husband, there was never a moment for anybody to get too comfortable. At one point, it seemed like some animals had it easier than the circus cast.  I loved this film. I was elated with the way it ended and literally stood up and cheered during the last fight scene. This will definitely be in my DVD collection now that I've rented a copy of it.

buy it! this movie is one of the best horror movies i've watched in a long time! the ending was something i didn't see coming at all! the newer horror movies are poorly budgeted remakes or nothing but a blood bath with no storyline. not this one.

Great Movie For Children My school class read the Newberry Award Winning Book "The Whipping Boy" and totally enjoyed watching the movie. The story stays close to the major elements of the book with the addition of a younger sister who is left alone when Jemmy is kidnapped to become the whipping boy. I highly recommend this movie for children or adults.

Walking Dead II We truly enjoyed Walking Dead I and II. So much so that we ended up staying up way into the morning hours with the anticipation of *One more show* until there was One more left and we called it a night *er or early morning?* lol Can not wait for Season III

I watching this at least 30 times Think thats crazy. I do to. I was 11 when this move came out. I feel in love with Maxwell Caulfield and that age. I was so in love with him. Anyway seeing the movie now in my "ripe old age". I think its was suppose to be comedy. Right? Funny movie. Give it a chance.

Funny I love this movie. It is a big crack up. Every single scene. I can't even watch Robin Hood Princes of Thieves with out thinking of this movie. I keep waiting for the funny lines when I watch Princes of Thieves.... but it never comes.

A Powerful And Relevant Anime Classic: A Journey Of True Love And Heartbreak Remastered For A New Generation Note:  It seems a crime that this classic has been off the DVD market.  Now this digitally remastered and restored version will be able to reintroduce the film to a new generation.  "Grave of the Fireflies" is a film that I'd heard about for years before I finally got around to viewing it. As one of the most well-respected early anime classics--of course, I expected great things. I knew vaguely what the picture was about and knew that its tone strove for realism as opposed to fantasy. But what I didn't really comprehend is that it would be such a mature story geared toward adult audiences. The sophistication, complicated subject matter, and sorrow contained within "Grave of the Fireflies" made it one of the more surprisingly moving films that I'd seen in quite some time.  The story is simplistic. Set in war-torn Japan near the end of the World War II, two kids must deal with the unexpected death of their mother in a bombing attack. With no one to care for them and their home destroyed, they attempt to live independently. Naturally, there are many obstacles to overcome, and the horrors of war are depicted with surprising candor. I had not expected the film to be so forthright in its depiction of such a serious subject matter.  What really distinguishes "Grave" is that it becomes a powerful story of love and commitment. As the brother embraces the responsibility of caring for his much younger sister, we see him take the reins of adulthood.  It is a coming-of-age story by necessity. The relationship between the siblings is amazingly realistic and thoughtful. And even though the film is animated, it is perhaps one of the most stirring tales of familial loyalty that you can see. The plot unfolds in a heartbreaking way with moments of such tenderness, such love, and such inevitability. The film never condescends to its characters or its audience.  Not a cheerful or easy film, "Grave" easily transcends most animated endeavors. The film has, through the years, reduced many of my friends to tears. For a realsitic anime film to elicit genuine and earned emotions, that's an enormous success. One note on the technical animation.  Keep in mind that the film was made in 1988, it's not going to be a glossy or polished Pixar film. Instead its appearance and style is appropriate for its timeframe and narrative.  But beyond the visuals, more importantly, the film is a powerful and relevant meditation on war and family. KGHarris, 11/06.

time to wake up Shocking. Really shocking.  As a mom, you want what is best for your children.  I always thought bottled water was the best.  Do you realize that the quality of bottled water is unregulated?  What a wake up call.  Tap water is tested and regulated more frequently than bottled.  And the effect of plastics on our food and water supply is shocking.  Well, you just have to watch this DVD to get informed.  Don't close your eyes.  Be informed.

Solar Awesome I remember this movie like I watched it just yesturday.  This movie brings me back to my childhood and all time favorite.  Beside short circuit and police academy series of the 80's, I find my collection wrapped with more and more 80's movies.  A must own for the die-heart 80's collections.  Also Lost Boys!  Never a boring movie!  This movie takes place when the work is controlled by overlords.  They control the earths water supply and if you want to survive this cruel enviroment, you have to pay the price of hard labor in the rock mines.  But just when the future seems impossible, a group of teens who form a family find a sphere that soon they find of having powers.  The sphere becomes a deaf childs friend and they embark on a adventure of a lifetime to save the earth and release the water that is being held hostage by the overlords.  I think what has held the past of time is the innocent nature of this movie.  I believe that the 80's generation can appreciate this movie more than our newer generations.  I have been looking for this movie for years and glad I finally able to acquire it once again.

Amazing Grace If you like the song then you will enjoy learning its history, and hearing it sung at least twice.  As a world History teacher in California, I have found it useful at the end of 7th grade, as a manifestation of the Enlightenment. Triangular trade, mercantilism, humanism, the Reformation, politics, Europe, Africa, the Americas, early slavery history and Abolition are merged with a lesson on the English Parliament. As we say in our curriculum... it has all the "GRAPES": Geography, Religion, Achievements, Politics, Economics and Social Structures.  And a love story for some minor skin and bling that seem to be necessary these days to zap 12 and 13 year olds. Give it some time when first watching and don't be afraid to stop, discuss and answer questions. I have a lesson plan for this. A fine work.

Beautiful Movie I love the cinematography, the casting and the costumes. It was a slice of a different time and a different world.

AWESOME MOVIE I THOUGHT THIS WAS A PRETTY GOOD MOVIE FOR WHAT IT WAS. IT IS AN AWESOME MOVIE AND i WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF IT WON AWARDS THATS FOR SURE

Better and Better I don't like rehashing plots. Let me simply say that Inspector Lewis is getting better and better, due mostly to the enhanced characterizations of two others in the ensemble -- Hathaway and the Chief of Detectives. It's mostly Hathaway, however. He's developing into more than simply the troubled, brilliant foil for Lewis. It's as if he's maturing in his job. I have purchased the entire new season and will continue to do so for this endlessly interesting series.

Great! Great Movie! This is a delightful movie! You won't regret your purchase! I've seen lots of Robin Hood movies and I love the sense of humor in this one! Everything is perfect...story, actors, colors, etc.

If this VHS is selling for over $35, isn't it time it was on DVD? This is one of my 2 favorite Sonja Henie films (the other being Sun Valley Serenade) but I have to stand by my convictions - Sonja Henie is not a good actress but, wow - are her leading men are sure good looking! Fox made every effort to pair this non-acting star with all of their handsomest leading men, perhaps to make her acting to appear better or perhaps to give her audiences a wider appeal. Regardless, if this VHS is selling for over $35, wouldn't you think that someone a Fox Home Video would smarten up and release it on DVD?

very happy My family and I were happy with the movie.  We saw the remake of the movie and the sequel to it.  We wanted to see the original.  We enjoyed watching it.  It came when it was supposed to and we were happy with it.

Best Memories This was my favorite movie when I was a pre-teen, my most-watched movie as a teenager, and still my favorite comedy as an adult.  I really wish that Weird Al could have made more movies, or maybe that he had had a larger audience at that point, because I would have loved to see more movies from him!

Archer Season One If you enjoy good writing with adult humor you will love this series! I received this in a timely fashion and it was in perfect condtion.

loved it Awesome movie- my grandson who is 3 lost his copy and kept asking me for it and I didnt have it so I ordered him a new one - my daughter shocked at what I paid for it and how fast it came - now he has his movie and is so happy = the movie was in great condition and couldnt have asked for any better!!!

Under The Yum Yum Tree DVD I have not had a chance to watch this, yet. I think I remember seeing this as a child, that is why I ordered it, plus the fact that I love Jack Lemmon.

Fantastic! I've always loved this movie! So good! So emotionally powerful! It's just an amazingly huge movie! It's wonderful to have it on DVD at last! It's in perfect condition! The special features disk seems to have an unlimited amount of information!

A One-Of-A-Kind Movie I simply can't say enough about this film. (I've never felt the need to write a movie review before, but I think this movie deserves the effort).  The first time I watched Bronson, I was completely blown away - so much so that I immediately rewatched it (about 4 more times to be honest!) and bought it the next day. It's a completely unique, mind-trip of a movie that will leave your mind absolutely reeling. It'll make you realize just how talented of an actor Tom Hardy truly is; his performance is one of the best I've ever seen in my opinion, and you can see that he takes the role very seriously. Really, everything about this movie works - it's a perfect blend of dark humor, violence, art and drama. Once you see it, you'll fall in love. It's raw, real and bold as all get out. Plus, the music is fantastic.  If you are a true movie lover, this movie is a definite must-see.

Great movie If you like watching movies that are just completely ridiculous but entertaining this is the one for you. It has some really funny things going on, a lil action, nice soundtrack in the background i actually like this movie.

A Great True Story...Well Made....Sooo Good This movie has fallen off the radar as "generation text" has influenced hollywood to produce the CGI 3-D wave of forgettable fluff that has come out.  Such a good movie that is now over a decade old.  People have forgotten that Steven Spielberg directed this movie...not just produced.  Music by John Williams...well acted by an all star cast.  This movie will stir your emotions while increasing the 'quality' of your dvd collection at the same time.

TOTALLY ENTERTAINING BRU  Bruce Willis shows that he still is the current champion of action movies. Interesting, Exciting and fun  action movies are hard to come by. Watch this one and it will become one of your favorites.

movie Has always been a hilarious movie.  Just wanted to see again & pass on to friends to watch.  Good quality - fast delivery.

A Treat for the Eyes and the Heart When I first heard of this movie at Otakon, the large anime convention held in Baltimore each year, I literally knew nothing about it. So when Funimation posted the Japanese subtitled version on YouTube just prior to the US Blu-ray/DVD release, I had to take a look, and I am quite glad that I did! I immediately placed a pre-order on Amazon, which came today, and I am writing this having just watched the movie with my family on Blu-ray.  Oblivion Island is a visual treat for the eyes with animation on par with Pixar and Dreamworks, and imbued with overtones from Japanese anime and manga. The character design of Haruka is gorgeous, and you can see that a lot of love and care went into animating her every move. But it doesn't end with Haruka, the film makers have created a world alive with color and texture that even moved my teenagers!  Beyond the beautiful animation is an equally heart warming tale of lost memories and one girl's struggle to retrieve them, making new ones along the way. The soundtrack very ably communicates the emotional mood without being over powering or intrusive. The voice acting in the English dub is excellent! The characters are all well matched and the script localization could not have been better! This is a story that parents and kids can equally understand and enjoy, because at its core, that's what the movie is all about, family and the memories we make together.

Excellent 'Nazi hunting' movie!  Well paced and done! I truly enjoy almost everything that Michael Caine has done.  The man is a 'class act' and first rate actor extraordinaire.  The acting and directing in this film was top notch, and the film kept me riveted for it's almost 2 hours.  One can tell that Norman Jewison is an exacting, detail oriented Director just by the pace and cinematography of this film.  I find the subject itself intriguing, and the whole movie was very well executed.  To what extent was the Catholic church implicit in covering up and protecting Pierre Brossard?  Was Brossard going to be murdered by a Jewish war crimes revenge group?  Or was he going to be finally arrested and tried by the French government for war crimes?  The ending was excellent, by the way!

hardcore found here This movie has plenty of titilation.  It is hardcore, meaning there is plenty of mouth to genital contact without any pixilation of scenes or any thing happening off camera.  As to the storyline it was somewhat hard for me to follow.  I never undertsood where the wife was when the husbund was having sex with the mistress.

good i like this i like the move and i like stallone i like all hes moves he is a good man

What can you say, it's a classic! Not much I can add, its a true Classic! Just bought it to add to my movie collection.

Good buy I purchased this as a gift for my wife and she loves it. The only problem is that now all I want to buy is the blu-ray DVD combo's

Must See If you missed this in the theater, you must see the DVD.  This movie has taken "Bollywood" to an all other playing field.  It is bringing them much more even with "Hollywood".  In fact in my opinion HW had better watch out!  I am from the USA and saw it with my daughter who has never watched a Hindi movie, she was surprised at how much she enjoyed it.  My grandson's first words when it was over "Can we see it again?" Needless to say we will be buying the DVD.  A wonderful family film, with fantastic special effects, and a strong message about family love. The reviews in America, especially "Hollywood" were very good. But something is very wrong with the "Bollywood Movie System"  this movie was treated very unfairly by the Indian press, I feel very sorry for the Indian public who did not see this film.  Not only have they missed a wonderful film but they have missed Hindi film history in the making.  The people who have written bad reviews on here never saw this film "Period"  I have watched 100s of Bollywood films, and this one ranks in the top, for story, acting and special effects. If you are an International film buff, you must see it.  If you have kids you all must see it.  If you just love a good time, fun and want to see a new super hero you must see. I know you will enjoy it!

Name of song I haven't seen the entire movie yet but it looks amazing...but can someone PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me the songs on this trailer it's driving me NUTS!

Wonderful Video!  Will help your child learn sight words. I have a 6 year old who has really struggled to learn to read.  She has no desire to and it's like pulling teeth to get her to try.  I purchased this video and the sight word cards and after watching it one time she knew over half the words.  It was amazing.  I would definitely recommend this video and have already ordered the other two to go with the flash cards.

Great Show... Great Buy This is a great show from HBO, and at ~$3 per episode on Blue Ray it's a fabulous buy! Can't wait to watch it again...

Starman The Blue Ray DVD of Starman is in good Quality. It's a must see movie. One of Jeff Bridges excellent movies he was in. It's not only touching but shows how the world is when they come upon something different they cannot explain.

One of the best films ever ! ! One of the best films of all time,  Zelary  fulfills all of my expectations for a truly enjoyable, heart rending story.  The camera work  captures the beautiful natural scenery,  and  the details, from the beautiful wooden bathtub  to the  old stove  and the old  pan she picks up at the end. All  is so believable that you can just imagine yourself as one of the people in the village. Every one of the actors is  beyond outstanding.  Five stars are not enough. Rarely have I ever seen such a beautiful  film.

Classic No more needs to be said than that it is a wonderful classic movie that no one ever tires of.

A Very Good Movie I loved just about everything about this movie. The plot was good, acting excellent, so what else could one ask for? Only a couple of things needed to be tweaked, but this was offset by the acting performance of Michael Caine and others. Needless to say, there is a lesson to be learned with this movie; one I was taught long ago and one those gangers should have had put into their skulls: age and treachery will always beat youth and ability.

Outrageous Fun! The Birdcage is outrageous fun. What more can be said about this film? It is one of those films that you can watch repeatedly. Lane and Williams are brilliant. The plot is alluring and absolutely funny. With the right frame of mind and sense of when this film was released, it is that much more enjoyable.

I really enjoyed this movie This not just a good Elvis movie, this is a great movie period. I watched this movie when I was a kid in the theater and haven't seen it since then. I would rate this picture in the top 20 westerns ever made. I was surprised by the quality of the script, acting and production of this movie. There are a few weak moments in the movie, but remember this was released in 1960. I would put it in the same category as Shane, Hombre etc. This is a movie that plays with your emotions more than once. Why this movie did not receive more acclaim is a mystery. Definitely a movie you want in your western collection.

I love Mel Gibson movies I have recently purchased several Mel Gibson movies and this is one of the ones that I love. It has been added to my collection of over 700 movies.

judas priest live vengeance Great footage from a great band that is a part of history now. Any hardcore priest fan should have this for a collection.Nice era that the band was in.

It really is a Wonderful life I really like "It's a wonderful life" and now I can watch it anytime, And having it available in color or black and white is a great option.

Great anthology from the 80's Creepshow 2 is a perfect example of an 80's anthology horror film. A little cheesy, very gory and simple but entertaining stories. While not as good as the original Creepshow, it is still a good horror film. The only low point in the movie is the third story, which I at least think is a good ten minutes too long. But, if you liked the original you will like Creepshow 2.

A great film from a great book Atlas Shrugged has been called the most influential movie of the 20th century.  For years it was considered to be un-filmable.  By breaking the book up into parts, the film makers have done a great service to the memory of Ayn Rand.  The book is one of my all-time favorites and I was not at all disappointed by the movie.

Movie Review Received merchandise very quickly.  The item was part of my sister's birthday gift.  Had no problem wrapping it up and giving her all goodies to her.  And...a great fuzzy feel good movie, too!

Back to the Future DVD This was a great buy!  The product was in good shape when it arrived, and also it arrived very fast.  Really, faster than I expected.

Minor end of the world The world is about to end.  Mass panic.  Man sets aside his differences and works towards saving the world. (Like that would ever happen)

Beautiful Africian American Princesses This movie is a keeper.  Loved it!  Definitely a good movie to share with your girlfriends.  This DVD was of good quality and I had no complaints regarding it's quality.

Timeless movie trilogy Back tto the Future is a classic , a look back to the 50's, forward to . well . a few years from now. Micheal J. Fox is wonderful as is the rest of the cast. I had to have this set, as it never gets old to watch, compleatly entertaining, with a lesson to be learned from watching it.  The Blue ray is a compleatly differant experiance to watch and be able to engage in the movie and mark your favorite places.

DVD Loved this movie!!!  The stars were great especially Stanley Tucci.  A movie for family enjoyment.  Captain America was a real hero.

As Powerful today.............. My friends mom insisted on bringing us to see this movie back when I was 13 years old. Her enthusiasm was contagious. She was going through a rough time in her life and saw the movie more than 7 times. I saw why she liked it so much. It is a very emotional and powerful movie especially coupled with the music. At the theater in Cleveland where we saw it, they played it at blistering volume. This is a fantastic audio-visual experience if you have a taste for drama. Play it loud and pay attention. Highlights are Cousin Kevin, Amazing Journey, Sparks, And Tina Turner belts out "Acid Queen" like no bodies business. It's also worth getting the soundtrack CD because the songs are edited and cleaned up really well.

A Classic This is one of those classic movies that has aged well and is as compelling now as it was on its release. Did not notice a markedly better picture with the BluRay edition, but the sound was good.  Lots of extras, the best of which is the documentary from some years back.

Johnny Depp: An unprecedented achievement This is a wonderful film, a classic for all time and every age. All aspects, music, each scene, every role, with the possible exception of Anne Hathaway's (and I think that's Tim Burton's only failure here) is sublime. Its most remarkable aspect, however, is Johnny Depp's Mad Hatter, a performance that reaches new heights. His eyes, his facial expressions convey more in a flash, mere seconds really, than any actor has conveyed in hours and hours of performance -- hell, entire careers really -- especially the scene in which he resumes his hat-making at the behest of the evil queen and Alice arrives. From Alice's entrance to exit, Depp utters no more than 50-60 words -- the critical line has three -- but his stunning face reflects a lifetime, a history, a tour de force of emotions, volumes and volumes. In an instant. The pace is lightning. So fast. Maybe that's why Depp hasn't gotten the credit deserved. Hopefully, this DVD will provide the opportunity for closer, more thoughtful appreciation of a stunning performance that, personally, I don't expect to see equalled.

The movie that saved Christmas I have been tiring of Christmas, no actually dreading it,  until I saw this movie. It clearly captured the essence of celebrating a seasonal holiday, from it's pagan roots to it's well intentioned if commercially skewed modern incarnation. Now instead of dreading Christmas I can look forward to Hogswatch. Christopher Lee as Death was wonderful, and Michelle Dockery was a captivating Susan, and I loved Teatimes creepiness in spite of his many detractors in other reviews. Thank you Terry for saving the Holidays for me!

Great Release -- sorry mine was missing autograph I purchased one of the limited editions of the 2,500 copy run.  The numbered sticker is on the bottom of the coffin box.  However, despite the sticker on front and envelope, my Frid postcard was NOT signed!  I was upset, to say the least.  And now Jonathan Frid has passed!  Oh, well, it will be immense fun seeing each and every episode.  Did anyone else have a problem with the missing autograph?

Very inspiring for beginner to intermediate This is one of my favorite yoga videos.  Great instruction and models beginner through intermediate poses.  She has total beginner, which is good for very wimpy days.  Love her imagery and flute music.

The Patsy This is another of Jerry's really great movies! He is really good in this. This movie is one where you want to get a nice bowl of Popcorn and watch it, because it is wonderful! He is a one of a Kind....Thank you, Jerry! And thank you to Amazon!

The Devil's Double Every now and again a movie comes along that satisfies all the criteria, great story, great acting, cinematography and direction. The Devil's Double is that movie, based on the true story of Latif Yahia, the Iraqi Army Lieutenant forced to become the double for Saddam Hussein's eldest son Uday Hussein it is a gripping, violent (although some of the stronger scenes are left to the imagination) emotional roller-coaster ride. Although not historically accurate and having read the book of the same name not 100% true to that either, it does bear enough resemblance to the original story to hold up, touted as "a gangster movie set in the middle east" it is indeed that, with scenes that stand alongside those in "Goodfellas" or "Scarface" it is definitely worth watching. It is out of the cinemas here in the US now, more's the pity but we can look forward to the DVD, having said that the movie certainly did not reach it's full cinematic potential here in the states and because of that when it is released on DVD a lot of people are going to think that it was a "straight to DVD production" which of course it wasn't. Well done to the production teams that brought this project together, a totally European "Indie" movie, it certainly looks "Hollywood". I've heard through the grapevine that there may be a push for an Oscar nomination for the lead, Dominic Cooper, it's well deserved, his dual role as both the victim Latif Yahia and the villain Uday Hussein are indeed the stuff of Oscar making dreams, his ability to swap between the two roles is for want of a better word brilliant, you are never, ever, left wondering who you are watching on the screen, unless of course that is the desired effect. I would recommend that you see it in the cinema because that is how it was shot, for cinema, but since we can't here anymore if you didn't get a chance to watch it the first time around, rent or better still buy the DVD you won't be sorry, it's a classic, a movie that will stand the test of time and will be enjoyed for many, many years to come.

Growing up in the forest Author Felix Salten was an Austrian, and his original book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735840113">Bambi</a> was naturally set in a European forest.  In the hands of the Disney studios it becomes an American one (with skunks, opossums, raccoons, and chipmunks among its inhabitants) and the story becomes more of a tale of growing up than of nature in and of itself.  Little Bambi, "the young prince" (his father is the "very brave and very wise" Great Prince of the Forest, a splendid 10-point buck who has lived longer than any other of its deer), learns to walk and talk, explores his world in ever-widening circles, makes friends (most notably with Thumper the rabbit and "purty Flower," a young skunk), discovers girls (in the person of the little female fawn Faline), asks questions, learns of the existence of dangers ("Man was in the forest") and suffering (a bitter winter), loses his mother to hunters, and grows to a handsome four-point who is faced with young love (Faline again), a duel with a rival buck, a pack of dogs from which to defend his mate, and a forest fire (not in the book, and caused, tellingly, by human carelessness).  The animation, as in all early Disney films, is splendid--note the atmospheric three-D look of the forest in the opening scenes--and the voice talents, though uncredited, are notably fine (Will Wright as Friend Owl is especially good).

fantastic concert Overall just a great concert - I put it on for my entire family on a new year eve and all generations were enjoying it - from 5 to 65 year olds.  I agree with one of the reviewers that 5.1 mix is not perfect but the overall enjoyment from the concert makes me put the highest rating!

Good service Item was shipped promptly and arrived on time. Movie was in the condition described as well, absolutely no problems. Thank you for the good service!

Silly Movie I thought this movie was silly and odd. But I didn't buy it for me I got it for my boyfriend and it is one of his favorites! He enjoyed it! Big Christian Bale fan.

An essential purchase. "Ultimate" sums this item up perfectly.  You get three versions of the film, each with commentary. These are featured on discs 1-3. Disc four contains additional supplements. For me, one of the more interesting is the home movies recorded by one of the extras. He captures George Romero setting up shots, and make-up artist Tom Savini whipping up zombie effects.  Another great extra is a tour of the mall where the film was shot. Ken Foree, who played one of the SWAT team members, leads a group of fans through various shooting locations.  The discs are housed in an attractive slipcase with minimal artwork. I highly recommend this item for any hardcore zombie fan. You will not be disappointed.

Chato's Land MAN, I AM IN COWBOY HEAVEN! TWO HEAVIES ACTING AND TAKING OUT THE BAD GUYS. GREAT QUAILITY TOO. I WATCH PRETTY MUCH EVERY NITE. YEAH! THOUGH I FALL ASLEEP. BUT IT DOES ME GOOD. NICE QUAILY, ONCE AGAIN. THANKS BRONSON IS A BADDDDDDDDDDDDD MAN!

shogun a great movie this is a great movie annd i recommend it to anyone who likes the asian culture. it was made in 1980 and stars Richard Chamberlin as the character pilot major blackthorne

Great movie. Couldn"t wait to watch it as my vhs was worn out. Disc came in good shape no problems.Very clear and the sound was good as well. I"ll be glad to get rid of the old video tape version.

This series is Awesome This is a one of the greatest anime series I have watched, as long as you are okay watching more emotional and less violence. It is very heartfelt and touching. The only problem I have is the packaging... The Disks are all stacked on top of each other instead of there being a page to flip to allow them to each have a place. I ended up putting them in paper sleeves and setting them along the front cover side of the case. But don't let that stop you from buying a series that you will fall in love with.

THE concert DVD This is the concert DVD that all other concert DVDs will be measured against.  Some of us have spent a long time putting together our home theater/sound systems and we like to put them to the test.  This is the DVD I use to justify those efforts.  Superb video, great chemistry and un-matched sound quality.  The DTS mix is absolutely perfect and sound engineers should learn from this concert.  The band plays all the Eagles hits, plus hits from Don, Glen, and Joe going all the way back to the James Gang.  If you are a fan of the Eagles or any of the member's solo hits, you must get this DVD.

TO WHOT MAY CONCERN KA SHENS JOURNEY THIS WAS A GREAT MOVIE ABOUT MS KWAN. SHE IS ALSO A GREAT TALENT. SAD THAT BECAUSE OF HOLLYWOOD STIGMA SHE WAS WAS NOT GIVEN MORE ROLES!!!!!!

a perfect story A perfect story told perfectly by a director with a vision that lent itself beautifully to the big screen. From the horrifying brutality of the war crimes happening all around her, the little girl can barely find solice in her own fantasys where cruel monsters eat children, and fairies are interchangable with insects. It moved me terribly and throughout I felt a compassion i only allow to surface when I watch those commercials asking me to pledge a starving child, or support the SPCA against animal cruelty.  A beautiful story brought to life by a wonderful cast and crew. Truely a dark fary tale, but not for a child's eyes.

Was not expecting to even enjoy this (as an adult).... but WOW! I first saw this movie in the theater, in 3D, because I "had" to go with a group, and they had young children.  I was actually looking forward to taking a nap for a couple of hours after getting only 4 hours sleep the night before.  But after the first couple of minutes, everything changed....  From the very beginning, this movie captures your attention and doesn't let go.  The graphics were absolutely outstanding!  And the jokes were actually... funny!!!  And the MUSIC?  Totally engaging and blanketed the entire film with a Spanish ambience that only added to the already exciting experience.  The 3D from the theater was superb, I might add.  But many weeks after leaving the theater, I saw this was available on Amazon... and I just HAD to HAVE it!  Everything the movie offered couldn't possibily have been diminished to the point where ordering this DVD to watch at home in 2D would be pointless.... just for the music alone!  Every twist and turn in the movie was unexpected and exciting.  Every time I thought I could predict what would happen next -- BAM! Within seconds, the movie took a new turn with head-slapping moments of disbelief.  I wouldn't dream of putting any spoilers here to rob you of the level of enjoyment I had when viewing it for the first time.  I was no fan of Puss or anything remotely related to Shrek as far back as Shrek 1.  But THIS movie?  IT WAS OUTTA SITE!!!!!!!!!  Note on the Three Diablos:  This product does have The Three Diablos DVD in the package for several dollars more than buying the featured movie alone.  This movie/short doesn't have the impact the feature movie does, nor did I expect it to.  It's only 11 minutes in length, and features three "baby" pusses with swords as the "stars"... sort of like "little pusses in boots," the way the "baby muppets" spun off the original muppets.  I only saw parts of this short, but that was on You Tube (the full 11 minutes version) and before I purchased this set.  The only reason I ordered this set and not the movie alone was that I knew I'd be pulling it out for some of my friends' kids who visit from time to time and thought they may enjoy it (kids' taste do often differ from adults' taste ... never met a kid yet that said "I hate that cartoon!" -- they love everything!!).  And I certainly didn't want to enter a situation where those kids knew about the second movie's existence or may have had it at home and then ask ME if I had it.  I didn't want to disappoint the yunguns who would be watching this and thought the little bit difference in price was not unwarranted and was worth having it on hand.  Ages 1 to 101, get the popcorn and enjoy!  Adios, amigos!

Shine On This is a bittersweet movie about a boy and a controlling father.  He plays the piano and is based on a true story.  If you are a fan of Geoffery Rush (Pirates of the Carribean) you will enjoy this film.  It has a happy ending.

deep blue sea hey everyone i have seen this movie at leased 10 times it it is such a great movie by it you will love it

Incredible Movie The scenery is magnificient and the music will have you "humming it while you do your daily routine. The story is very good as it is mostly true.  The overall experience in watching this movie make it truly outstanding.

Timeless I wanted to watch Alien again prior to seeing Prometheus in the theatre.  My fifteen-year-old daughter, who had never seen Alien before, watched with me.  I was amazed at just how well this movie has aged--in the sense that it is just as scary and wonderful as when I saw it way-back-when.  Alien is timeless; aside from the green-screen monitors, you would never know that this was filmed over 30 years ago.

Family Movie A refreshing, family movie!  A dog finds a boy, boy keeps dog only if he takes complete care of him.  Dog, he names Yellow, becomes boys best friend.  A functional family teaching their son responsibility.  The scenery in this movie is beautiful. You will laugh, smile, and have tears....ending with joy.  Years ago we purchased this movie for ourselves after seeing it on HBO.  We have since purchased it for adults and for children.

Followed the Book The Railway Children was one of my favorite books when I was growing up, and I enjoy this movie version of the story.  It closely follows the book and doesn't deviate into areas that don't apply to the story.  I enjoyed this take on the book very much.

Cinderella Man Fantastic movie!  Well worth watching again every few years.  Nice to own in your own library, Widescreen Edition of course<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ARTN3I">Cinderella Man (Widescreen Edition)</a>.

Amazing Movie easy review...BUY it!  It's worth it!  I get always get squeamish about uber violence, but it makes total sense in this movie.  This film is now in my top "Fives!"

outstanding This movie is outstanding just seems to suck u into it. you just want to be at the bar to watch what is going to happen next.

There Can Be Only One! This movie has me hooked from the beginning with two great actors (Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery) who both provide an amazing performance throughout the whole movie.  This movie is about a group of people around the world who are, for reasons unknown, immortal unless their head is cut from their body. This gives that immortals "power" aka strength to the victor.  One day their are called to do battle in a far away land until their is only one remains, and the winner gets supreme knowledge and an unkown power which can spell doom if it were to fall in the wrong hands. So Connor Mcleod (played by Christopher Lambert) is fighting his greatest challenge. The Kurgan, an immortal Connor met in the 1500's who activated Connor's immortality.  This movie is just a feast for the eyes, and was very impressive in the mid 1980's and is still very impressive to this day. The video quality is amazing and this picture is highly enjoyable.

45 minutes of fun cardio! This is my favorite cardio workout.  It's not so intense that you need to stop and breathe, but you wouldn't be able to hold a conversation either.  I've lost 4 lbs so far after doing a mix of this dvd, walking, and Tae Bo, and just placed my order for 3 other "Your Body Breakthru" dvd workouts. I like that if I'm short on time I can do the "express workout" which takes half the time.  You can also go online with your access code for a nutrition plan.  Be ready to break a serious sweat but have fun doing the aerobic dance-like moves.

The first Nicktoon series to go HD, even if it's not an episode of the actual series (in production order). Yellow & blue make serious "green" for Nick & Paramount. The SpongeBob Movie can now be seen in full HD, including its hysterical Teaser commercial, on Blu-ray disc. This is a combo pack since you can see the Blu-ray disc at home and the DVD wherever you want. The "Blu" disc has some bonuses not seen on VHS OR DVD. There's a second SpongeBob Movie in production when I typed this, due to be in theatres in 2014, and it's only fitting that this movie might become a Blu-ray combo pack in 2015. The first one was meant to conclude the whole shebang, but SpongeBob's universal appeal & popularity extended the show to at least 9 seasons & 2 theatrical movies; it's THAT good. Which means it'll be the next-to-last chapter in the whole shebang, behind the second movie. Since the Blu-ray disc is in HD, you should still keep an eye out for a picture of Popeye the Sailor inside The Krusty Krab 2 somewhere in the movie! His own theatrical shorts used to be made by Paramount at one time, now owned by the WB & in the Public Domain. SpongeBob has become the first Nicktoon in history to be released on Blu-ray disc, even if the movie, or the next one, isn't in the show's production order. Who knows if Nick will decide to release the series on Blu-ray disc? No other Nick TV show, animated or otherwise, has gone that far. Enjoy this combo pack, since this movie isn't part of the First 100 Episodes DVD set.

A wonderful anime about a terrific family "Summer Wars" is a two hour long anime movie with animation so close in quality to the masterful Miyazaki I can only assume they learned they trade under him, yes it's that good.  It follows the adventures of Kenji, a sad sack computer nerd who is asked by pretty girl Natsuki to go with him on a job to help with her great grandmother's 90th birthday party. With family coming from all over Japan they will need help. Kenji is exposed to just a few of the characters that make up this family, led by the wise matriarch they've come to honor,  when he finds out that in fact the job is not quite as it was `advertised.' Natsuki wants him to pretend to be her fianc&eacute;e so her family will get off her back. He's never kissed a girl and now he's supposed to be all romantic?  It looks to be set up for a typical anime rom/com until a computer virus brings down the internet server for Japan and the evidence points to Kenji as the hacker who caused it. Now he must prove himself innocent of hacking, stop the virus and somehow keep in the heart of this bizarre wonderful family. They are not perfect, far from it, but it's the arguing you get in any big family and at the heart of it there is love and pride and all the things you'd want in your life-except maybe the grilled squid for dessert- ew.  Well written, well paced and wonderful to look at this is anime at its best.

Last of the Mohicans at its best Great purchase price for one of my favorite movies.  Great sound and picture.  A must have if you like this movie.

Robinson Crusoe on Mars One of the best sci-fi's but BE CAREFUL the dvd is listed as 235.1 aspect ratio and it IS the only way to see it! The BLU-RAY is listed as 177.1 meaning CROPPED......YUK!You'd be better off with the dvd version.I'm suprised Criterion would make such a mistake unless it's misinformation from Amazon.Warner made the same mistake croping Willie Wonka to 177.1 too on Blu-Ray.! I don't want my screen filled,I want to see the movie in it's proper aspect ratio.When will they learn?GOOD NEWS I contacted Criterion and they e-mailed me that AMAZON HAS IT WRONG!!!! The aspect ratio on the Bluray disc IS 235.1  NOT 177.1 as published on Amazon.So I say BUY THIS GREAT MOVIE ON BLURAY!!!!! It's one of the best Sci-fi's ever!~

Like opening my senior yearbook Like everyone else of my generation (especially those of us who were in Southern California), Fast Times at Ridgemont High resonates for me on a very personal level.  This was a slice of our lives up there on the screen.  Ridgemont High was Venice, Taft, Mira Costa, Culver, West, SaMoHi, or any number of other high schools populating the coastal LA landscape.  And whether we identified more with Brad, Stacy, Rat, Damone, Linda, Spicoli, or Arnold, this was our story and our experience.  We all knew kids like that weasel Desmond.  We all had teachers like Mr. Vargas or Mr. Hand.  We all had the fumbling, awkward dates in which our lack of self-confidence and hyper awareness of our own geekitude sabotaged our more base desires.  Sure, every generation has something similar. But there was something unique about those of us born in the mid-60's who came of age in the time of Blondie and Led Zeppelin, Elvis Costello and Van Halen, Fleetwood Mac and Oingo Boingo, Tom Petty and Earth, Wind & Fire, Jackone Brown and Blue Oyster Cult.  It was after the sexual revolution, but before the sexual explosion.  It was pre-AIDS but post-Crabs.  It was when pot just mellowed you out and cocaine was restricted to Hollywood Big Shots.  The real charm of Fast Times is that it captures exactly the essence of coastal LA in the late 70's - early 80's.  For some this is just a clever little comedy, but for us - we who lived it - it's a slice right out of our life, and it elicits the same sort of nostalgic laughter and bittersweetness that opening our yearbook does.

Up there with Criterion's best releases. The Night of the Hunter is a true cinematic miracle. It's amazing that this film was made and released in 1955. I say this because it's one of the strangest, most disturbing movies of the era. The acting, specifically from Mitchum and Gish, is incredible. Robert Mitchum's character of Harry Powell is truly one of the creepiest movie villians ever. The cinematography is gorgeous and wonderfully creepy and the music is intense and sometimes beautiful. I honestly struggle trying to find complaints for The Night of the Hunter. It is simply one of the all time great movies.  The video and audio are enormous leaps above the MGM dvd. But the extras here are really something special. Charles Laughton Directs is one of the best special features I've seen on a blu-ray.

"I wonder why in L.A. ..." As a big fan of hard-boiled crime thrillers (and as a Southern California native), I knew that I would admire this one. The story is solid, even if it IS a bit unoriginal. Seeing how two Secret Service agents would go through many obstacles in order to hunt down a notorious counterfeiter is an almost phenomenal experience. I especially admire the famous car chase sequence, which simply rivals a majority of car chases in today's movies. There are also outstanding performances throughout the movie: credit should go to Peterson, Pankow, Dafoe, and Fluegel for their award-worthy material. The cinematography is brilliant: the dark night sky and the decaying urban buildings and even the neon lights surrounding the City of Angels sure gives a grim, but beautiful, look to the film. Wang Chung's song "To Live and Die in L.A." is a marvel, though their other songs aren't as pleasing to the ear as I would have expected before. William Friedkin may not be one of my favorite directors, but he has sure created an underrated classic. I do think that this movie will soon become one of my all-time favorite films.  Grade: 9.6/10

excellent workouts both workouts are great - short workouts that really make every minute count.  even the beginner's workout gets you working.  you will not regret this purchase.

Best Musical Ever This is the greatest musical I have ever seen. Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renee Zellweger, Richard Gere and Queen Latifa are at their best. I am not a person that cares for musicals but my sister encouraged me to watch Chicago and I have watched it, off and on, for a couple years. So if you don't care for musicals give this one a try.

Praising to Prettyness I am the mother of 4 girls and this has been a wonderful and fun way for us to praise/thank GOD and workout. My 8yr daughter comes to me and ask to work out together. This is also wonderful time for making lasting memories with them and impacting their future in a better way. Thank you and continue to honor GOD!!

Fantastic! I've been a Dean Martin fan and collector of his records for years and whether you remember the show or don't, this collection is a comprehensive culling of the show's best moments. It's been digitally remastered so it's a pleasure to watch (even more so than the real show!) and there are priceless clips with everyone from Dom DeLuise to Jack Benny to, obviously, Sammy Davis Jr. It's a kind of comedy that doesn't exist on the tube anymore, sadly, and it's cool to see Dean in all his chain-smoking, heavy-drinking glory, interacting with guests and ad-libbing hilarious comedy skits. The bonus features are great and there is a wonderful interview with Bob Hope that is worth the price of admission alone.

Just in time for my Birthday I've been a fan of the books for a few years before the HBO show was even mentioned. I normally get into a series because it is being adapted for either film or television.  As to the show itself: FAN-F-EN-TASTIC!  The show is a great adaptation of the first book, there is very little changed in the overall story, what was changed was the inclusion of moments that although were not in the book themselves, were written as a what-if they met and talked. The best of them were the one with Robert Baratheon the King of Westeros with his wife the Queen Cersei Lannister.  The character dynamics were fantastic, the casting and the set designs. The clothes and the props. Everything was superb in production design.  It even made me like the moments with Sansa a little bit and I never liked her character in the book, and since I already know what is in store for her in Season 2 and on-ward, lets just say things get worse for her.  My favorite (sorry for jumping around, I just really like this show and the books) character/casting of all were Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister and Sean Bean as Ned Stark. Those two made this show in my mind especially Peter Dinklage. If you haven't seen the show, watch the bit when he is on trial at the Eyrie "confessing" his crimes. Pretty much any scene he is in is wonderful and a joy to watch.  So if anyone has not read the books or have not seen it on HBO, buy this DVD set or Blue-Ray, can't go wrong with either. Although from what I usually see with Blue-Ray they throw in a few extra Extras, plus a giant Map of Westeros and the Free Cities (locations of the show/books).  Overall, great show, great everything. Throw in the fact it comes out the beginning of the month and my Birthday is towards the end it makes figuring out what to get myself all that much easier.

Instant Classic If you like unique fantasy fairy tale  type movies with a slightly dark egde then you'll probably enjoy this. If you are a parent thinking this is for children, watch it first perhaps then decide wether or not your child should view it since some of the imagery and storyline might seem too horrific/dark. The stop animation really pops in HD. The only thing I didn't care for was the one brief musical type song the "other father" broke into at one point in the movie... it was just a week song, and if you're going to do a musical then you have to fully commit to it, and... Don't hire Danny Horrible Song Writer Elfman to do it as in The Corpse Bride etc. But that's another topic altogether.

Exciting Mix One part Inception, one part Ground Hog Day, one part Run Lola Run, and one half part It's A Wonderful Life, and you have this exciting movie, Source Code. Great acting, great pacing, excellent sound, and Chicago make for a movie well worth watching.  No, there is just no way to describe the plot without ruining the film, those other films are great even when I know the plot; this film, there would be something ruined knowing too much about it. If, by chance, you understand the Run Lola Run analogy, that will not ruin the film for you at all - Source Code is not as cerebral as that film but there is still a flavor.  Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, and Vera Farmiga are outstanding in this film. Gyllenhaal shows just exactly the right emotions. Michelle Monaghan is radiant; she has just exactly the right amount of vulnerability and tenderness in her face. Vera Farmiga is perfectly robotic throughout the film, a real stretch for her. Her gorgeous blue eyes are almost a character all their own. These three actors show a rare chemistry - the two women are subtly attracted to Gyllenhaal.  The cover art makes this movie look like a shoot 'em up film, it is far from that. The film is rated PG-13, aside from one f bomb, and the psychological factors, this film would be perfectly fine for a mature younger viewer. There are some very brief disturbing images, nothing worse than what is on television frequently. It is an exciting, edge of your seat film.  I particularly enjoyed this film since it was filmed in Chicago and Glenview, two places I'm very familiar with. The opening montage of Chicago is incredibly beautiful. The Glenview train station was used mostly as is, with some minor additions. The only oddity, there is no lower level or stairs to be chased down (certainly not a big deal, artistic license is important). Some of the geography gets a little mixed up (like Skokie is nowhere near the Metra line they used, so it couldn't be the next stop), but you'd have to be from this area to even remotely see those mix ups. In no way do these details take away from the film.  The running time of ninety-three minutes is about right; the film isn't too long or too short. About midway, the film hits a story transition that is a bit rough, the peak of the plot arc has passed and the film is on its way to resolution. There is a short ten minutes when I wondered if the film was going to end sometime soon. Gratefully the plot moves along and the film hits a whole new exciting pace. The roughness is like a song changing tempo, at first it feels wrong, and then a new groove settles in.  This is a really wonderful intense film.  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002ZG980U">Inception</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000Z8GZYW">Groundhog Day (Special 15th Anniversary Edition)</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000021Y77">Run Lola Run</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000HEWEJO">It's a Wonderful Life (60th Anniversary Edition)</a>

Soft as a cloud This is one of the sweetest movies I have ever seen.  A sweet, clean, tender love story, but yet has enough action to hold the attention of everyone.  It is a sense of belonging when you're alone, a sense of caring and respecting other people....something not very common these days.  It is just the perfect story and we watch it over and over. A top-shelf and an all time favorite.

Great Christmas Movie for Collector's Plays excellent! I wanted this for my dvd collection. It arrived in excellent condition, I have no complaint's at all and I would buy again if it was needed.Good service / delivery

"Mama never loved her much and Daddy never keeps in touch" having parents who married and started a family for all the reasons and never let you hear the end of it helps to watch this movie - so go out there and have unprotected intercourse, marry for non true love and have a baby you would rather see dead, by golly!  Seriously, this IS how I would recommend anyone to watch this movie.  It's enjoyable in a mouth agape wow, that's unattractive way like cellulite or a mild case of scabies.  Have fun!

Joni The movie shows how Joni was able to come back from braking her neck, and work for the Lord. Everyone who gets DVD, should show in their churchs

PERFECT This DVD presents Dr.Karp's techniques in a practical, clear and fun way! If you don't have time to read the book this is perfect for you.  The bonus Q&A section is very useful for parents FAQs about Dr.Karp's techniques.  5 STARS

I loved this film I enjoyed this film. The actors were great. The clothing was beautiful and Italy blows my mind.  My family was there when they were filming the Tourist and they  took me to the movies with them to see it. I liked it so much that ordered the DVD. I was not disappointed

Imaginative and unique This movie has a unique blend of good actors like Malcolm McDowell and Ruby Dee and musicians like David Bowie. This is one of good under the radar movies that many people have either forgotten or too young to know about.

one of the best movie i have ever seen I just watched this movie yesterday and damn.... this is one of the best movie i have ever watched in my life, period. be carefull with this version tough some people say this dvd is not widescreen and stuff, anyway the movie is the best.

Incredible film - yet I'm not sure I ever want to see it again Over the years, there have been a number of movies I've seen that I have found to be remarkable achievements on all levels (acting, directing, editing/structure, overall story, script, etc.) - yet, as glad as I am that I saw them, I've not attempted a second viewing.  For me, Blue Valentine potentially falls into this category.  It is so real and visceral and sad.  Even the happy, beautiful moments are hard to watch because you know what's coming... you know they are ephemeral and they will not be able to sustain this relationship.  I love movies that make me feel like I am a fly on the wall watching real life, not "reel life".  And yet they can be so difficult and emotionally draining that it makes it hard to want to relive them.  For anyone who loves good, strong, real, honest films - this is for you.  Not at all sorry I watched.  I've been wanting to see this since it first came out.  It was SO worth it.  But it will stay with me for some time.

May very well be the best Marvel cartoon ever made Wolverine and the X-Men was a fantastic adaptation of the X-Men for this generation. The episodes were seriously well-written and sometimes it felt like watching a Bryan Singer X-Men movie in animated form. Not only was it great action for the TV-Y7 rating, but the plotting was very mature and felt like a Toonami-style drama with some honestly heart-wrenching and exhilarating moments and it made this series awesome. It may be the best Marvel cartoon ever made. It's disappointing that this show didn't get a second season, hence the name "The Complete Series" instead of "The Complete 1st Season" like it should've been. I just hope that in the future, we'll get to know what happens past the series finale cliffhanger.

WSP at their best! Fantastic performance by a fantastic jam band. The tunes that include the live orchestra are spectacular. It's presently my favorite thing to watch and listen to.

feel like a kid again great product, the enhanced color and sound brings back fond memories of when i saw it for the first time but better. recommend to all fans of feel good movies and huge imaginations.bonus features are exceptional. well worth it!!!

BRILLIANT, BEAUTIFUL, WONDERFUL... We can't get enough of this marvelous series - and the price was great! This series is so soothing, moving, thrilling, calming... it has every kind of effect on the viewer. It demonstrates for us how very small and insignificant we are - and it also shows us how amazing and precious we are. The universe - and however many of them there are - is/are breathtaking in every possible way. Learning about space and seeing the BEAUTIFUL photos, the fantastic graphics, the way everything is explained - the scientists who explain things - the narration. I can't say enough. My husband and I absolutely love this series. It is one of the best investments we ever have made.  This series will give enormous pleasure for many years; I recommend it without any reservation.

Can't go wrong with Jack. . he was so funny in this movie. . the whole cast worked perfectly together. . it's a movie with a message, but also some great laughs. If you haven't seen it, this is a great movie, another must have for me.

Happy and fund This movie is just too much fun. The plot, though weak, is funny. The music, ABBA, is wonderful. All in all this movie is a good romp. I like to watch it when I've had a bad day at work. The movie just brightens my mood.

Amazing I love this show and to have it on DVD is the best. How great is it to be able to see two hot vampires whenever I want.

Nanny Express DVD Great movie.  Glad to have it in my library of DVD's.  Enjoy watching it over and over again.  Arrived just a few days after I ordered it.

Amazing...simply amazing This documentary starts from JFKs childhood up untill his tragic death. It starts off with some amazing footage that I haven't seen anywhere before. It gives great detail about his family life,college life and political career. I simply love it. Brilliant. 1000 out of 10

Really, it is fun for the whole family! This movie is a little different from your average "family" movie...in a good way.  There's some rude humor (but not as overt as Shrek for example) but enough to keep my youngest very happy. It's a fun adventure with a heart, creative and not completely predictable.  And the best part?  Minions, of course!

Good documentary on warheads and rockets If you're looking for nonstop footage of bomb tests, you want to see Kuran's earlier film "Trinity and Beyond".  "Nukes in Space" is a good documentary about the development of rocket delivery systems, with a lot of rare footage, beautifully restored of course (Kuran won an academy award for film restoration technology).

great! great movie, everyone should take some time and give it a view! perfect cast for this wonderful telling of a western legend.

THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER!!! I was such a fan when it came out in 1973 and after seeing Mr. Ted Neeley LIVE....I just had to have the DVD!! What an awesome man of God he is! And his voice is just as great as ever! Really brings back fond memories! It truly is my favorite!!!

LOVE IT BILLY MADISON  Now I know a lot of people that hate this movie but then again I know a lot that love it, I am one of those that loves it. Honestly has there ever been a better "dumb" movie as my boy Kenny calls it. In my eyes it still holds up today with classic lines and one liners that I still fin myself repeating today. Honestly anything with Steve Buscemi, Chris Farley and Norm Macdonald in the same film had to be a classic.  The film is about man child Billy Madison who is the son of a very wealthy man so he really doesn't have to do anything but lie around and do nothing. Follow penguins around, magazines and two friends enjoying it all with him, until someone else wants to take over his father's company. It is at that point that Billy decides he must get serious and take care of the family business. His father reuses at first but then agrees that if Billy goes back to school and passes each grade from first to 12th he will hand the company over to him.  I have to admit that I have always loved this movie, don't know what it is about these crazy early Sandler flicks but I love them. I mean come on, Sandler, Steve Buscemi, Chris Farley, Norm Macdonald and more. It is that stupid humor but it is also fun humor, Sandler interacting with the kids and everything is priceless. There are some classic moments in this film like the peeing in ones pants and the interactions between Billy and the man looking to take his father's company. You classic stupid/dumb humor like that, I can't help it but I love it.  Director Tamra Davis [who directed other classic comedies such as "Half Baked", "Best Men", and "CB4"] does a good job keeping Sandler and Tim Herlihy's script moving at a good pace and the film never gets boring. As far as acting it is just what you would want from this type of flick. Sandler is his usual crazy self and Norm MacDonald is his perfect self as well. Bridgette Wilson is as hot as ever, I still wish Billy would have gotten more questions right in that tent. Bradley Whitford is a show stealer throughout the entire flick and is a great villain. Every one here is perfect for their part including the uncredited Steve Buscemi, love it.  I know a lot of people do not like this movie but I know a lot love it, I am one of those who love it. It is the perfect movie for a nice and relaxing lazy day, I need me one of those so I may watch this once again here soon. The DVD is great with a commentary from the director and is a good one. I recommend this movie to all those out there that like dumb comedies.

obrother This movie is great! It is comedy at it's best and can be watched by most of the family. The music also adds to the movie!

Genius I'm not a fan of the "Zombie Genre" but this quirky indie sells it.  Funny, well acted, clever script and concept with low gore factor and high wit (even for zombies :-P)  Fun for Zombie fans and Indi fans a like.  Smart little film.

Perfect! I think this movie was made in the true spirit of the Three Stooges.  Moe, Larry and Curly would have approved!  Laughed my a** off. Good job guys!

BLOODY & AWESOME! This series has everything for everyone(adults only please!)!!  Andy Whitfield is AWESOME as Spartacus!  Can't wait for Season 2!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice Blu Ray Upgrade for The Blues Brothers I love The Blues Brothers! I am not ashamed to say I have seen this film more than 50 times since it's release back in 1980 (I am 55) and when the Blu ray release was announced I was very excited!  That said, this review will focus mostly on the technical aspects of the Blu Ray release and Video/Audio quality rather than the film itself.  You get both the original theatrical release and the extended release which is accomplished via seamless branching. I prefer the theatrical version myself. The extended footage is not quite as good to look at and seems to not quite match the grain and contrast levels of the rest of the film so you will probably be able to notice whenever it kicks in. It isn't horrible, just not quite up to par with the rest of the footage in terms of overall picture quality.  The Blues Brothers shows up on Blu Ray on a BD50 single disc in an Eco Case. I was surprised at how cheap the media is, the actual disc is thinner than most and looks and feels cheesy and without artwork on the disc, just some el cheapo silk screened single color lettering. No respect at all, as Rodney Dangerfield might say!  I was hoping the contents would make up for the crummy and cheap look of the disc itself.  Luckily, it did!  So is The Blues Brothers on Blu Ray worth the upgrade from DVD?  IN a word, YES and here is why:  PICURE QUALITY:  3 and 3/4 stars out of 5  I must say I was initially worried about the picture quality during the first few minutes of the film which shows excessive grain, mosquito noise and soft focus shots, but once the credits finished rolling and the film settled in things quickly picked up.  Although the bit rate for this transfer is on the low side it still looks pretty good.  Colors are VERY good! The color timing looks natural and vibrant. I was impressed!  I noticed no obvious compression artifacts, no banding, no overt edge enhancement and hardly any print damage. I DID see some mosquito noise here and there on skies and other large areas of light color. Some might say it is nothing but film grain, but it sure looks like some mosquito noise to me.  This only happens perhaps less than 5 times during the show and as such is nothing to worry about, many people wont even notice it. (probably most people)  I LOVE IT that we are treated to what appears to be the Original Aspect Ratio.  If you don't use your TV's over-scan you will notice the picture doesn't quite fill the frame at the top and bottom which is how it should be. I always use 1:1 pixel mapping  on my LG (just scan) and enjoy the extra little bump in resolution I get from it as well as knowing I am seeing the film framed correctly or close to it.  I can only imagine how good this film would have looked on Blu Ray had Universal got off their lazy cheap butts and actually remastered this film fully and did a decent 4k scan.  It is much better than most Universal Blu Ray releases, but still pales in comparison to the visual quality of much older catalog releases made even 30 years earlier. (Ben-Hur , The 10 Commandments and North by Northwest spring to mind) By the looks of the final result here, the negative appears to be in good shape and could have greatly benefited from a new scan in the 4k range. This appears to my eyes as no more than a 2k and it could have just been the same scan Universal made for the DVD release of a few years ago that included the two versions of this film.  I know I might be overly picky, but I really love this movie and had higher hopes for the end result on Blu Ray. Still, it is MUCH BETTER than any previous home video release and easily bests even the HD cable showings, if for no other reason than being in 1080p and without current broadcast compression algorithms applied.  I don't think any fan of this film will be disappointed in the video quality. It is really a huge improvement and that alone makes it worth the cost of the upgrade from DVD.  AUDIO QUALITY: 4 and 1/2 stars out of 5  I admit to being one who was totally dismayed when I read The Blues Brothers was being released with just standard DTS 5.1 sound, forgoing the lossless options available now days.  No amount of excuses currently being bandied about can convince me they didn't have room on the disc since both the theatrical and extended version is presented by using seamless branching which uses very little extra disc space.  So how IS the sound anyway? It is GREAT!  While it may only be standard DTS the bit rate seems to be much higher and it really cooks.  All the musical numbers sound so good I could not imagine them sounding better. Dialogue for the most part is very clear and easy to hear. Much of the sound effects are still in mono and sound flat and lifeless while others have been expanded to give us some special depth.  I would have to guess a few things were actually rerecorded for the surround mix such as gun shots and tires screeching in full stereo surround.  I am guess this is the case because SOME effects sound crystal clear where most do not and that probably indicates the places the audio mixers inserted some newer stuff to sweeten up the mix. Overall it works very well and I was NEVER disappointed with the sound of The Blues Brothers.  I highly doubt DTS HD Master audio would have done much more for this film and I can honestly say it sounds as good or better than it's theatrical release.  YOU get a few special features on this disc, namely a documentary about the making of the film and two shorter featurettes with one being a tribute to John Belushi. You also get the films trailer. All the special features are presented in SD.  If you have the special edition DVD set then you have already seem them.  I bought this Blu Ray for the uptick in video and audio quality so the special features were not even a selling point for me, although having them is fine.  Much has been said about certain scenes having their audio slightly amended or abridged to accommodate a seamless transition between the theatrical and extended versions. I agree with that assessment. There are numerous small places during the film where audio and musical cues have been slightly changed, making some things longer, other things shorter. This is not totally blatant and only the most rabid fans will even notice it. (I am one of them, hence I noticed it) I also noticed that the final musical number at the very end of the movie (Jail House Rock) is a longer than it should be in the theatrical cut and also that the framing for that final scene is different from anything I am used to.  I noticed this when I could not see Matt "Guitar" Murphy's fingers playing his lick while his name was under him in the end credits. Every other version I have seen has shown his fingers go up and down the fretboard of his guitar but here they are slightly cut off. Maybe this is due to the earlier 4:3 versions using open framing and pan and scan, I don't know.  Anyway, no big deal but if you've seen this film as many times as I have you will notice a few things here and there that don't seem quite right. None of them are deal breakers for me.  Bottom Line:  The Blues Brothers on Blu Ray is really good. Picture is better than any other version I have seen for home video and much of the time it is WAY better, and the sound is also just plain kicking it! This is the BEST The Blues Brothers will ever look until the next big revolution in home video hits.  A solid upgrade that no fan will dislike!  Heartily recommended!

who doesnt like sister act! shipment was fast and product was in good shape. great movies! would reccommend this to anyone who loves comedy and loves whoopi goldberg. !

another Disney classic Great movie. Has some mature themes that newer movies tend to skip. There is a good reason in the movie that I feel is important for my daughters to learn.

2.5 year old son loves it! This captures my son's attention and it amazing that he absorbs a little more every time he watches it. The material is presented in a fun way it is teaching him stuff he needs to learn. When we are out he tells me the letters he sees. It's great!

One of the Great Classic Westerns I was talking with a friend when the Mag 7 came up and being an Amazon.com regular I searched, found, ordered, received.Then added to my collection. This is a Great film with an all star cast and GREAT music. 3 for 3

Gunslinger vs Terminator One of my favorite movies, back in the day... Yul Brenner, as the android Gunslinger makes Ahhhnold, as the Terminator, look like a wuus!

Movie DVD Is a wonderfull movie. Is a opportunity to think about the real focus in the life, and to recognized the blessings are all ready.

End of a Generation. I personally like this movie because it surrounded Data, which was a childhood hero to me. Star Trek: Nemesis was an excellent was to provide closure to the STTNG franchise. The fact that Brent Spiner helped co-write it was an extra treat(in my opinion).

So thankful for this film We have had off-and-on difficult financial times in my family since I can ever remember, some worse than others.  Raising a child, in these past few years, increasingly shows diminishing expectations for continuing what they once (and we once) took for granted.  Specifically: in our county, some towns have around 70% of their children on free lunch or lunch assistance programs.  We are hard hit as a community by mill closures and other huge blows that come along with that.  This film has been a perspective-inducer that has helped a very good but fairly oblivious tween realize that neither is having less an unusual thing, but it could be much much worse--that family is a group effort and a comfort when appreciated and worked at.  The perspective of the parent is classic but full of strength as a widow with so many children must make the impossible happen.  What is new is the perception of the children doing all they can to give back, help out, earn for, and build their lives (and home) together.  Sometimes their little efforts aren't much..or even lead to disaster, but they are REAL.  The expectations on the two eldest chidren (one a teen who feels not only typically "teen-ish" but mostly has to take on the responsibilities of a full-grown man) are a source of real-world situations and language.  The widow's grief expresses itself as anger at her undeserving deceased husband and is psychologically realistic (one of the "stages of grief").  She does have a phrase which is expressed in an imperfect way...something her children shouldn't exactly hear...but again this is not for young children.  The children recognize it more as an endearment and cry for help from a single mother than as a slam on themselves or their father.  It becomes more of a rant...and oddly a bonding phrase (!!)......BUT: the children do know and continue to learn that the father always treated the mother like a queen...that he is sincerely missed and needed.  Unlike what some have said here, it is NOT a typical feminist manifesto film--as if believing women are equal to men is a bad thing.  It is a film with psychologically realistic layering--losing a parent and husband and all financial security IS a point of real suffering...and there is not a moment where the father is seen as a true fiend or loser.  Removing a wedding ring to sell it with tears in her eyes, the widow rolls off her rant...but it is a way to cope...not a slam at her husband.  As far as the complications of the film for children goes:  This level of maturity involves "gray area thinking" rather than a black and white understanding of life.  If your child can't comprehend life's gray areas yet, then it is not the right time to see the film together.  Parental presence and interpretation would be a must for tweens.  Yes, this is not a G movie...but it is a GOOD movie.  By the way: "G" means General Audiences and does not always mean "Good for Children" or just plain "Good."  The most inspiring scene for me (remembering my own life as the eldest child of a struggling single mother and now as a parent myself) was when the mother relates her recurring bad dream: that she's pushing their giant clunker of a car up a hill and all of the children are looking at her through the rear window; that in the dream she is just so tired and pushing and pushing, seeming to go nowhere, afraid of giving out and letting it all roll down.  Her oldest daughter reminds her of a thing novel to most family films: the kids aren't IN the car.  They're outside pushing with her.  How true.  A comparison to this story would be "This Boy's Life" (a great film made in the 90's and taken from a perfect memoire by the same title)...starring De Niro, Di Caprio, etc.  A very similar set of circumstances...but this is lighter fare with a more redeeming outcome and much much more inspiration: all because of a strong mom's ethical and moral compass, strong backbone...and enduring love.  Compared to many films with a sense of purpose: lessons are aplenty but the narrative is strong rather than blandly tedious or didactic.  While "family" is sometimes a huge struggle, it is sometimes all you have and essentially one of the few things that matter.  Having pride in oneself and one's own power does not mean you can't have times of humility where others can step in to help: none of us are an island.  While being poor is pretty damn bad, being a poor person does not make you worth less.  Some have said this is from a true story and I'm hoping to find it, as I did This Boy's Life.

Graverobbers from outer space I hadnt seen this movie in 10+ years, but found it on Amazon for a whopping $4.00.This movie is so horrible-its great.It was nice to watch the movie in DVD quality rather than VHS,I noticed the difference.My copy doesnt have a logo or company name down in the corner of the screen(like other reviews talk about),but there are interviews & old Ed Wood movie trailers-which is pretty cool.And then theres Vampira.. even more beautiful with a crisp picture than on that old VHS tape! The movie is cheezy & campy,the special effects suck,the acting is horrible,but thats why its so great.

Awesome This is awesome Iove it. It got here really fast an It is really good quality. Buy naruto it is awesome :)

Awesome funny movie very funny movie and worth to watch it and keep it at your DVDs library to share it with friends.

I love this movie I usually watch only true stories but this one is so sweet and touching that I had to order it. I've watched it before so I know it's a wonderful movie. I haven't watched this particular copy yet but it looks like it's in perfect condition. I received it fairly quickly and appreciate the customer service. I would purchase from this company again. I rented it from Netflix last year and loaned it to some friends at Thanksgiving. They had a houseful over for dinner and said they all watched it and enjoyed it very much. I will be sharing it again now that I have the movie to pass around. I would recommend.

Amazing This movie is fantastic, i saw it a couple of times in theaters and had to buy it when i saw it on bluray. I highly recommend it.

spell binding This book held my interest till the completion. well written . story line amazing. the feats of brotherly love fantastic. must read... over and over again never tiring .

Pure excitement! Some kids in a small Ohio town are filming a movie when they witness a train crash. Mysterious things begin to happen around town and the kids are right in the middle of all the occurrences. This is a very exciting science fiction drama that is sort of a cross between E.T. and Close Encounters. The acting, the visuals and the sound effects here are all top notch, and there is constant excitement throughout. The movie can be a little intense at times, so it may not be for children. If you are looking for pure escapism, and a movie that will keep you on the edge of your seat, this is the one.

This movie takes me back 20 years back I used to watch this movie when i was 7-8 years old.... and I just loved it!  In fact, my parents and brother still remember this movie and it brings up all the good memories of the time we used to watch it togehter (yes, we used to watch it over and over again!)... we were also singing along the songes together!  In fact, there is a big differnce in cartoon movies back then compared with today's cartoons.... even though today's movies are of more technology and new innovative ideas, but this classic is just... a classic! Love it a lot!  The quality of this used product was like new!  Totally recommended

Cute, zany, incredibly clean comedy This movie is a gem of a movie that reminds me of Clark Gable zany romances of the '30s. Despite its somewhat unattractive reviews to be found from professional critics who praise Kelly MacDonald and no one else, I find this to be a movie that fulfills on its promises. Despite its reliance on genre tropes, and maybe because of them, I loved it. Bravo!

"Deadwood" an epic worthy of Shakespeare "Deadwood" is a profane & profound look at the rough'n'tumble daily life of the gamblers, gold miners, whores, and con artists who all inhabit this town. Desperados & despicables abound in the gotta' "get rich" atmosphere of Deadwood. The pigs eat well, and the complicated machinations of the varied folk are worthy of Shakespeare. Love this series!

pleased Very pleased with the product. It arrived in a timely manner, is very finely made, and is exactly what I wanted. Thank you very much.

Rated "97% Fresh" on Rotten Tomatoes -- It's not just me. This is a 5-star film, starring two C&eacute;sar-award winners in a C&eacute;sar-award-winning screenplay (directed by a later winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes).  The quality of this film is obvious at every level, and the plot is absolutely unique -- you will never know 'what happens next.'  Rarely does this kind of offbeat, one-of-a-kind script get produced with such a high level of acting, direction and photography.  Honestly, this isn't something we see very often in a crime thriller.  I just wish the U.S. studios were capable (or maybe just willing) to make this kind of movie again ...  READ MY LIPS isn't a big, splashy piece of cinema; rather the opposite.  It embodies the evolution of those intimate, fate-driven stories that we (Hollywood USA) perfected in the 30's and 40's.  Though not really a film noir, READ MY LIPS nonetheless owes a few debts to 40's noir films like "Moontide."  In fact, the superb male lead in LIPS, Vincent Cassel, seems every bit a modern day Jean Gabin -- and a higher complement I cannot imagine.  In 2001, READ MY LIPS ('Sur mes l&egrave;vres') won C&eacute;sars for Emmanuelle Devos (Best Actress) and for director/co-writer Jacques Audiard (Screenplay). IMHO, Audiard also deserved the best director C&eacute;sar (for which he was nominated), but it wasn't until the 2002 Newport Film Festival (USA!) that Audiard finally was recognized as 'Best Director' for READ MY LIPS.  Also at Newport, Emmanuelle Devos again was chosen as 'Best Actress,' for the same movie.  Devos and Audiard both were awarded for their work on READ MY LIPS, and both deserved it. But Vincent Cassel, also the owner of a C&eacute;sar, is the talent to watch here.  Known best to Americans  for his roles in OCEAN 11-13 and BLACK SWAN, Cassel may indeed be the long-awaited successor of the late, great Jean Gabin.  And that's pretty exciting.

Amazing Loved this DVD, so good to see real country people outside of "thier box" of Nashville. Carneige Hall must have felt very special that night. She must have felt very honored to have hosted this special group of people.

summer wars i fell in love with this story because its basically a family film. all generations of 1 family coming 2gethr 2 rid the world of an internet threat. think facebook getting hacked by an evil program. this is the same thing and u'll understand where this story comes from because u can relate to it n a way. characters are all very comical, and u'll care what happens 2 them. i love it, and i know u'll luv it 2.

Classic Good price. Good movie. Gonna miss the arnie action movies. There all classics. A few bummers but it's terminator. Can't get more badass

The ultimate "now and later" The Beverly Hillbillies is as funny today as it was when it first came out, but now I can watch as many episodes as I want and when I want.

Perfecta Una gran pelicula, de las buenas que ha hecho J.Carrey. Recoemendada, una gran historia y una mejor musicalizacion que se ve perfecta en BluRay

Classic DVD Another quality Disney product. If your child is a fan of Winnie the Pooh, this is a must have. Highly recommend.

Sure thing What a great classic movie to saw with a mate. It's one of those movie you watch every year. If you want to laugh and who doesn't see this movie.

City of the dead excellent movie very clean black and white picture a great horror classic excellent bonus features all age groups will enjoy teenagers and up

Good series on a great battle. Although it had been sitting on my wish list for a while I finally gave in after seeing a seller offering it for a good price. If you think that it's suspicious that it has so many good reviews you needn't worry. Everyone is pretty much on the mark.  This program series offers a lot of information and education concerning the greatest, costliest and most fascinating battle fought on the North American continent. Unlike many other reviewers I hadn't seen this on television before so I wasn't familiar with it. I guess I didn't know what I was missing. Episodes cover some of the important leaders and the decisions they made, the civilians caught up in the battle and a day by day coverage of the battle itself. Using narration, photographs, reenactments and written excerpts from the participants themselves as well as input from some modern historians makes this series both interesting and entertaining.  I saw very few mistakes (Barksdale was lost near the Round tops...huh?). The most annoying feature I found was the atrocious subtitling. Granted most people don't use it but in the few instances where I did it was quite obvious whoever did it has no background in this subject. There were so many misspellings of places and names that I luckily still had the audio on. If anyone has to use this feature I hope they are somewhat familiar with the battle to enjoy this series despite this minor flaw. All in all this is a great item to add to your collection and you won't be disappointed.

My Kind of Drinking Establishment Nathan Cole's script provides a darkly funny and striking tale of a young man trying to "find himself" in a place, much like the locales many of us are familiar with, that seems to prevent him from doing so.  Patrick J. Adams plays "Miller" in a way so that we identify with him and somehow are irritated at his inability to conquer himself.  The coup-de-grace of the film, far and away, is Joey Klein's reckless "Cracker", who brings an unexpected gravitas to the reality of his own demons.

Review I only ordered this stupid movie because my wife wanted it.  I had to leave the room when it came to his stupid looks.  He was good playing a deranged idiot in 12 Monkeys.

Riveting This movie was highly recommended to me while living in Japan by nearly everyone I met. Originally released in theaters in 1988...and it being 1994 at the time I scouted the local video stores and purchased a copy. Was I blown away. The movie opens 21 Sept 1945, in a train station in Kobe, Japan. A young delirious boy, dying of malnutrition calls his dead sisters name one last time before joining her. Two janitors cleaning the train station and piling up corpses for burning noticed that Seita has just expired. Before placing his body atop the other corpses they go thru his pockets to find anything of value. They find a tin candy can with ashes and bones for contents. Deeming it worthless one of the janitors pitches the can into a nerby rice patty. Seitas body is burned and a few moments later the narration begins by young Seita as two fireflies fly out of the can. The movie was written and directed by Isao Takahata, who published a book in 1968 by the same name. He lost his sister Setsko in the war and never forgive himself for not being able to save her. This movie was crafted with love and dedication and the animation portrays that in every scene. You must add this to your collection. Never has any movie so moved me....

Runnin' Down a Dream Runnin' Down A Dream is the superb 30th anniversary documentary from acclaimed director Peter Bogdanovich. It provides a four hour documentary across two DVDs, where you get the full story of the band and some brilliant interviews with Petty and other of the Heartbreakers. Petty comes across as an extremely likeable guy, with a great deal of integrity and it is great to see someone I admire so much talking so candidly about his career. The third DVD is the 30th anniversary concert from Gainsville, Florida, Tom's hometown, and shows just how wonderful he is live and how he can still whip up a crowd and hold them spellbound. Finally the forth disc is a soundtrack CD and has a good selection of his songs from over the years. This is a great package, with an excellent booklet and additional picture cards, that tells the story of who is now a rock and roll institution. A great place to get the full story from the people who truly know how it happened. Insightful, fun and damn good rock music, what more could you ask for? If you like this, check out 'Conversations with Tom Petty by Tom Petty and Paul Zollo', an excellent book of an insightful interview that covers much of the same ground in this documentary.  Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.

Love Harry Connick Jr This is THE best DVD. His Broadway concert was fantastic. The music is beyond great. Never get tired to watching and listening to it!

WOW Amazing and Inspiring. The actors used where amazing in their roles. Could not have asked for a better film. I did have a bit of a hard time to get the video to lode. Had to refresh the page several times for it to work with out stopping every time I moved my lap top....Might be something wrong with my computer, but it might not be.

Great A fascinating documentary about this little railroad.  These are old vintage films, and the transfer quality looks very good.  Commentary and music was tastefully added.  Hope to see more railroad films from this film company.

Non-Stop Action Films!! If you are a fan of Chuck Norris you're in for a real treat with this Movie Collection!!  I highly recommend this Collection!!

One of the best documentaries ever made. Crumb is one of the strangest, saddest, and most honest documentaries I've ever seen. I was really impressed by how the filmmakers did not attempt to make Robert Crumb out to be a genius, but weren't trying to bring him down a peg either. They were simply showing him as he is. You have to decide what you think of him.  The image and sound are in fairly rough condition, but Criterion has done an excellent job (as they always do).  The extras are informative and entertaining. The commentary with Roger Ebert and Terry Zwigoff is a real treat, in particular.  This a film that must be seen, and this blu-ray is the best way possible.

the best of the best As I see the price of this combo I put immediately in the shopping cart, as I get it is amazing the quality, all the extras included (I havn't tested the online features yet) and I'm veary pleased with this.

excellent buy This product was exactly what I was expecting it to be. It was delievered on time and in perfect condition. It was a gift for my Dad and he was very happy to receive it on Easter.

Awesome product A++ all the way  great price, great item, awesome communication,  Product packaging was great  not a lousy pouch was in a good amazon box and seems to be on top of it all !!

wishmaster 3:scary horror movie with a lot of sex Wishmaster 3:beyond the gates of hell is a scary,fun and sexy horror movie.The evil djinn is released from a mystical red gem by diana collins(a.j.Cook)and kills and takes over the identity of college professor joel barash(jason connery)and is killing and terrorizing college students in evil and horrific ways until he gets diana collins to make the third wish.The scene when jason connery wishes he could get two of the most beautifull women in the world and the djinn grants him two half naked beauties that are very beautifull,but deadly demon women that slash him to death is evil and sexy.The scene where the djinn has assumed the identity of professor barash and is teaching his class and telling them that the ancient greeks worshipped the djinn through their mythological gods zeus,hera,aphrodite and all the girls in the class are fascinated and turned on by the wishmaster`s charisma,power and intelligence.Later one of the girls a goodlooking brunette tells him she likes older men and he, "strikes her as a man that can break a girls heart" and he replies," you wish me to break your heart" and she says "OH YES",and she doesn`t know he is a demon from hell, and her heart explodes and she falls down on the ground dead with blood coming out of her mouth is another cool scene.The battle that happens when diana collins invokes the spirit of MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL  that goes into the body of and possesses her boyfriend(tobias mehler) to stop the evil wishmaster is another great scene.Wishmaster 3 is not the best in the wishmaster series(wishmaster 4:the prophecy fullfilled directed by chris angel is),but it is still a pretty good movie.

when you think that you know everything... than you discover that it isn't I've been strumming guitar for many years. I've read many books about guitar theory and I thought I had a good knowledge  of the theory that one should know to master the guitar, but when I first discovered this author Desi Serna I had to admit that I was on the edge of the beginning. I started to study this book and then I bought all his publications. They are always on my desk and every time I reread a chapter I say to myself that I have found a gold-mine. [...]

One of my nephews favorite movies A great movie with a story of redemption and doing the right thing. I rented this from Amazon instant video to entertain my 4 year old nephew. We had a great time watching a great movie!

Excellent Movie This movie with Richard Gere gives you a example of people with Mental Problems who don't take their medicene.

Greatt!!&lt;3 I Really Love this Movie. Renee Zelweger Really played her role good, and so did the little girl. I Would love to see a part 2 to this movie! Hollywood makes magic, so im sure that they would make it happen!

HILARIOUS - especially for married couples This was just right for my wife and I to relax and laugh at our lives.  Married life in suburbia can seem like a drag.  Watching Steve Carell and Tina Fey's "date night" start our as normal and monotonous and end in violence, danger, and funny escapades was highly entertaining.  I understand some disappointment as this was not the typical Saturday Night Live Carell/Fey everyone may have been expecting.  But for us, it was better.  We still quote lines and laugh at each other months after seeing this movie.

Absolutely gorgeous! I absolutely love the Nutcracker ballet. After looking at all the versions available online and in the stores I loved this one best. The costumes are just perfect and the dancing is spectacular. Everything about this version seemed the best to me - from the overall appearance, the sets, the detail and quality of the costumes and especially the ability of the dancers. This is one of the first things I have to watch for the holidays. I would definitely recommend this version of The Nutcracker to anyone who wants the best experience of this ballet.

Jesus Christ Superstar - an Amazon special The "I don't know how to love him" song has haunted me for years and I thought that, someday, PBS would run Jesus Christ Superstar. Then I saw that I could get the DVD at a price I could afford so I did.  Basically it was a big disappointment. Most of the 'singing' was shouting and Judas, especially, was the worst. On the other hand, the emotion generated by the story's methodology was extremely well done. I still haven't been able to eject it from my mind.  Well worth the price for the unique experience.

Yaaaaa!! This is pretty good American Horror. American horror has had a long and very hard journey almost invalidating itself with the first centuries of its existence but this film really tries. Yes it is still unbelievable and improbable and the protagonist and antagonist sometimes act contrary but the girls are a pretty uncommon bunch and though this is technically a "chick flick" it does the name proud an is actually more gory and primal than most other movies on the pop market. It was good to see the girls get primal again but in the end the last girl finds out that though you may work hard to avoid one race of ancient cave dwellers when you get above ground you better continue with act with supreme caution.

DVD One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Our granddaughter has read the book by the same name and now will see the DVD and critique it to see if it follows the book.  Product came in as promised.

Spot on. Surprisingly well done! I must say that as a fan of the original three stooges I was very skeptical when I heard that a movie was being made. Well, this was spot on. The cast was perfect, and most importantly it was funny! If you enjoy the three stooges at all, you should love this. I think the original stooges would be pleased.

SUPER DUPER FAST This is actually a birthday gift for a friends daughter so we haven't watched the DVD.  My friend was SHOCKED at the GREAT price of this product.  And I am shocked at how fast it arrived....that being 2 days BEFORE the expected arrival date.

Superb This Blu-Ray of the French Suites is a nice companion to the DVD of the English Suites. But unlike his English Suites he plays the 6 French Suites one by one without a break. A remarkable effort. This performance is pure genius and beyond my power to criticize any part of it. If you are a Bach devotee you will not be disappointed with it. It's one of my favorites and I have listened to it(and watched it) many times.  One technical glitch. You can select a band to listen to but when it's finished the disc wont let you return to the main menu. So if I wanted to listen to suite 3 then suite 6 you would have to eject it, reload, then select suite 6. Maybe this is a fault with my LG player. I don't know, but I thought I'd mention it.

Review of Johnny Guitar Blu-Ray I pre ordered and received the blu-ray today.....finally my own copy of this American classic!  The restoration and transfer are magnificent..................most of the movie looks like it was shot yesterday....this film is known for its color palatte and the rendering of color and image far surpasses any tv version I have ever seen.  Watching this blu-ray is like watching Johnny Guitar for the first time.  The soundtrack is crystal clear....all in all Olive Films did a great job.  In addition to the excellent introduction by Martin Scorsese, I would have liked a commentary track or in depth documentary..............the stories about the making of this movie are the stuff of epic myth..believe me, the negative chemistry off screen between Joan and Mercedes comes through on screen in spades.  Mecedes gives a performance for the ages in this film.  If you love this movie like I do, this is a must have...............highest possible recommendation.

A miraculous kind of an horse... I thoroughly enjoyed this film. After seeing it at the theater today I came onto Amazon, as I often do, to add it to my wishlist. I then read the unexcited reviews currently found on the page and thought I should write a review to posit a counter opinion. The other reviews currently posted don't seem to have enjoyed the film, two major criticisms being that they found it melodramatic and heavy handed, comments like these make me wonder if audiences have become so cynical that they view any attempt at displaying open/honest emotion to be an attempt at manipulation. Everyone has differing opinions but I feel this film will appeal to anyone who enjoys stylistically well made films and/or anyone who enjoys stories about bonds/will being tested. In a general sense Spielberg uses the story of this horse to explore the human condition and explore some very well done set pieces/environments.  As I saw it, the horse is a metaphor for hope and how it can be shared and spread, how it can inspire and endure. I don't mean this in an oversentimental way but just in a very real way. We are all hopeful for different things, big and small, and this film is about how under the right conditions and with the right persistence that hope can avoid being snuffed out or lost.  The film, based on a play I have not seen and cannot compare it to, is episodic as the horse goes from owner to owner during the years of World War 1. The fact that the film was episodic didn't make it feel chopped up or give it the feel of a broken narrative. I felt the throughline of the film was the human condition and the travelling horse facilitated the telling of several viewpoints while exploring the excellent recreation of a time period. The acting was top notch by everyone seen on screen. To counter another criticism, the main human character, a boy named Albert, does show strong affection for the horse, a character in the film quips "come on now boy, it's not as if he were a dog". I didn't find this relationship to be strange, the horse simply becomes very important to Albert because as we see he doesn't have much to his life and the horse is something he gets that then works to make his life better. Perhaps I also never found it strange as I always found the horse to be representative of hope rather than as just some random animal.  The writing in terms of dialogue flowed and felt incredibly natural, as it does in most Spielberg films. John Williams score, while clearly a John Williams score, is the perfect mix of innocence, action/adventure and drama as the story calls for it. I would strongly compare the pacing and acting to Catch Me if You Can, as that film also had several major settings that shifted as the film progressed. I found War Horse to actually be better paced as it has a few more settings (about 5, possibly 6 in total?) and each one is shorter than the ones in the aforementioned film. Best of all the film actually ends when it ends, the story concludes and there are no tacked on or forced endings for the sake of pandering or overexplaining as many recent films have had.  As far as the directing, I don't know if one can compare anything to the seeming effortless magic he created in his early films or certain efforts from the 90's but this would be Spielberg above his recent best and closer to those older films in quality. Everything unfolds visually in such an easy to follow an familiar way while still being unique and involving. There are some masterful shots that recall the opening of Saving Private Ryan but in an artistically different way. This is unquestionably due in part to the fact that this film has been made family friendly, while that could serve as a criticism I didn't find the film to be aimed specifically at families, though it has been made to fascilitate viewing by younger children. Rather than illustrating the pure violence of battle as he did in SPR, Spielberg spends his time in this film showing the brutality of war in a creative fashion that suggests the horror more than displaying it. There is one such scene in particular where mounted soldiers ride into battle and on the other end of the shot their empty horses emerge without many of the riders they once carried.  In a sea of films about special effects, high concept stories or big names here is a film that is a complete film on its own without any gimmicks, as fun as gimmicks can be (Mi4 for example). This film is an actual experience for those who are open to it. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was an excellently crafted film that pushed the dark and grittiness, War Horse is a excellently crafted film that pushes the lighter elements but both are equally enjoyable and excellently made. Watching a good Spielberg film is like watching the epitome of what film is. It's like more recently watching Christopher Nolan's films, there are always flaws in any film but films such as theirs are so carefully and purposefully made as films that they are engaging and fully engrossing.  One potential weakness I will admit, though I feel a reviewing of the film would diminish it, is that the film doesn't have as strong an arc as most films. The characters change but so much of it is internal here. The horse's first owner does change but he is absent through the middle of the film, the various other owners also change in varying ways but all during their own vignettes. The horse itself has changed in much the same way as his owner as suggested by the final shot of the film, but perhaps critical audience members won't pick up on this. That said, one could (and I would say should) view this subtlety as purposeful. The film isn't as much about how the boy or the horse has changed but how despite all they've been through they managed to stay so much the same, they maintain what could easily have been lost.  I dunno, I personally love it (5 Stars) but for objectivity I'll give it 4/5 for general audiences, I think most everyone I described at the beginning of this review will like this film if they view it. For those who feel it is heavy handed and melodramatic go and watch Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, its also an excellent film but there is no overt display of emotion to be found there. Thanks for your time

One of my all time favorite movies My husband and I love this movie. This may be my favorite Anthony Hopkins role ever. Bert Munro wants to set a land speed record. He sets out to get to the place where that is done, and simply just doesn't give up, despite all. We all should live life the way Bert did. Watch it when you need a lift!

Clerks 2 review Clerks 2 looks fantastic on blu ray check it out if you are a fan of kevin smith you will love this blu ray

cats and dogs: the revenge of kitty galore Me and my family enjoyed watching this movie because it had no language and some funny parts and we got it at a very good price!

The Phantom is back! As much as I would have loved to have seen Michael Crawford in the title role, Ramin does an excellent job of bringing him to life. I loved it and will watch it again and again.

One of the Greatest Movies of All time This movie is epic. I love this movie it was amazing back when it was made and it is still one of the best movies ever made. The acting, direction and cinematography in this movie are amazing for the time it was made. The story is just amazing and I love it. How many times can I say Amazing I don't know but this movie is Great

FILM WORTH OWNING I THOROUGHLY ENJOYED THE FILM.CLEESE AND BOOTH COMBINE EXCELLENTLY TOGETHER AND THE CHEMISTRY IS DEFINITELY THERE.PERFORMANCES ARE TREMENDOUS AND THERE IS A MIXTURE OF FEELINGS THROUGHOUT THE ACTION.I WAS PLEASANTLY SURPRISED BY THE QUALITY OF THE PICTURE AND SOUND DESPITE BEING A 40 YEARS OLD MOVIE.DETAIL IS HIGH AND COLOURS ARE RICH HELPING THE VIEWING. CONNIE BOOTH IS BREATHTAKING IN MY OPPINION AND I WOULD UNCONDITIONALLY RECOMMEND THIS DVD TO ANYONE.I THINK IT IS OF CULT STATUS.

The Miracle Worker This movie was amazing.  To bring a child from a dark and silent world is quite an accomplishment.  Of course, Helen was a very bright child to begin with.  She had her own way of communication, however limited it was.  Being as she did  not have these obstacles in her life since birth might have helped her in that area.  A good view.  A "feel good" movie.  Comical elements kept it moving at a good pace.  The black and white format did not distract from the theme of the movie.  In fact, being as that is how it was filmed made it more valid.

Felicity - An American Girl Adventure One of the hardest things these days is weeding out videos to watch with your children.  This movie should be on at the top of your list to watch -- with the entire family.  Felicity is a young, 10-year old girl at 1775.  Living in Williamsburg, Virginia at the time when the colonies are aching for their freedom from England -- and Felicity is growing up, with a strong spirit and sense of right and wrong.  She rescues a horse that is being abused, against the background of growing unrest leading up to the revolution.  There are many touching moments between Felicity and her grandfather (a Loyalist) and there are lessons to be learned for all -- especially friends and family are forever.

Shop Smart Shop S-MART!!! Bruce Campbell Is God! they still don't have the whole complete seen with the little mini evil Ashs but it was restored amazingly. MUST HAVE blu-ray!! of course I own this on VHS, all the DVD releases and I have a complete library of Bruce Campbell's work but all fans should have this one.

Such a Good Looking Film I don't have much to add to the intelligent reviews already presented here.  But I wanted to mention I was stunned by the cinematography of "High Noon."  I couldn't take my eyes off the screen.  It might be, visually, my favorite black and white film.  These images are straight-forward, but very haunting, maybe like Seven Samurai in that way.  You could take a screen shot of almost any frame in High Noon and it would make an evocative photograph.  Does anyone know why they shot it at such a square ratio in 1952?  I was bummed out about that at first - I guess we all want our tv screens filled up - but that lasted about two minutes and then I was hooked.  Seems like the shape is perfect for framing this story.

Absolutely wonderful I'd give this series 25 stars if possible, I absolutely love it. I'm enjoying watching it for the second time and am enjoying it as much as the first. From the beginning, I was drawn into the complex personalities of the Grantham household, the Crawleys and everyone involved. Each episode follows the other perfectly, giving answers and creating more questions. Interesting plots and sub plots, emotional, uplifting, enjoyable, extremely well acted, a perfect casting. Wonderful story telling - you must see it!

What if you're not born with that perfect button nose? Or those perfect chubby cheeks? Man has struggled with it for centuries. But everyday, science comes closer to untangling this problem.  To help me untangle it I turned to one of the most delightful, bubbly, and special scientists I've ever met.

Great movie The movies semidocumentary feel and look is what makes it soo good and the black and white filming and humor is another thing that seperates it from other serial killer movies.

Fun Fun and imaginative with a fast pace.  It was a horror movie but not really scary. Just interesting.  Very well done.

DVD It came perfect, the movie is cute. I liked it, the story line is different than most Indian romance stories.

American Jazz, with other contributions This is American jazz, with Carlos Santana, being the front man. (He's actually more often in the background.)  Most of the songs have a jazzy feel to it, with a variety of instruments and a little Latin flavor sprinkled into it.  Some songs have an African influence.  Some songs have a religious theme and some have a civil rights tone.  There's some soul and there's a Caribbean song.  There's anti-war sentiment and a call for peace and tolerance.  The first song, "Afro Blue," features African drums.  My favorite is the medley "Blowin' In The Wind/A Place In The Sun".  The last song is "Ode To Joy," done partially a cappella. The variety of songs is fairly large.  The set list follows.  Intro Afro Blue Adouma Redemption Song Exodus/Get Up Stand Up Blowin' In The Wind/A Place In The Sun Just Like A Woman What's Going On Peace On Earth/Boogie Woman Why Can't We Live Together Light At The Edge Of The World Let Us Go Into The House Of The Lord Banana Boat Song Day Of Celebration Ah Sweet Dance/In A Silent Way Jingo A Love Supreme Ode To Joy  The blu-ray has three bonus songs.  One Love Imagine Give Peace A Chance  This concert is composed of an ensemble of many different peoples and singers.  It's a bit different.  There's no overall lead singer.  In general, different people sing different songs, and a song may have a few singers taking turns.  A few songs are instrumentals.  Artists include Carlos Santana, along with the Santana Band.  Keep in mind that this is not a Carlos Santana concert.  He is only one of many artists.  Other artists include Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea and many others.  The concert almost feels like an impromptu jam session.  When you first watch this concert, and if you are not used to Jazz, (or are acquainted only with traditional Jazz), you may not understand or appreciate it.  But when you get to know this ecletic music, you begin to appreciate this style of American Jazz with various elements thrown in the mix.  This concert was filmed in July of 2004 at the Montreaux Jazz Festival, at Auditorium Stravinski, located in Montreaux, Switzerland.  At 2 hours, 39 minutes, consider this concert a mini-jazz festival in itself.

Simple, but so touching The Bicycle Thief / Bicycle Thieves (1949) Drama, Crime, 93 minutes, Italian Language Directed by Vittorio De Sica Starring Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola and Lianella Carell  This film shouldn't work. The story is so simple and the actors aren't professionals. But I kept hearing about the film and gave it a try when I found a copy at my local library. That proved to be one of my better decisions.  The story is set in post-war Rome. Jobs are scarce and people queue desperately each day for the chance to earn enough money to feed their families. Antonio Ricci (Maggiorani) accepts a job one morning, but one of the requirements is a bicycle. Although his has been pawned, he lies and says that he has one. His wife helps him pawn other items and he manages to get the bicycle back. That doesn't sound like much of an event, but it's a triumphant moment in the film.  Antonio is so happy to have the job hanging posters and the joy and relief is evident on his face. We feel happy for him. The problem is, someone steals his bicycle. By this point, we are fully invested in the story and the loss feels personal. We realize how important the bicycle is to his survival. The police don't seem interested so Antonio searches the streets with his son.  The film is ranked No. 85 in IMDBs Top 250 at the time or writing and not one of the films above it has fewer votes. It's a shame that it hasn't been seen by more people. I understand that it's over 60 years old, in black and white, and that the language is Italian, but the story is so pure that it's worth seeing. Let's hope for a Criterion Blu-ray release in the near future.

Great cult classic movie! I purchased the dvd as a christmas gift for my sister-n-law.  We had been discussing movies we liked a week or two before and she mentioned how much she liked the movie and wanted to know if I had so she could borrow.  I thought I did but after much searching discovered I did not.  I decided to buy the movie for her for Christmas.  She loved it!  My brother had bought me a copy too!  It is a great movie for those who love the stars of the 90's!

Great Action Flick! Bacon does a great job in this pure action flick.  Non-stop momentum makes this movie a must see.  Little tip, check out the "brand name" of the tv in the closing scene of the movie.  Highly recommended!

Pretty good series!!!! I bought this series cause the cover look good and it was a good prices.....I actually really liked the series....it made me cry lol and that was a first for me in anime's...I've no real complaints, I would recommended this to anyone that like anime :)

Interesting Remake I enjoyed the modern-style refresh that they gave this movie and thought that Johnny Depp did a great job in the lead role.  The other characters did an admirable job at capturing the personality and character of the original cast.  This makes for a nice complement to the original to have in your collection.

Terrific Movie for Those Who Do and Don't Like Football This movie shows how anyone can go from a life seemingly destined to have a rough life on the streets to becoming very successful thanks to kindness from others.  Michael Oher just happened to become an tackle for the Baltimore Ravens.  Overall, it is an outstanding movie.  A neat part is real football coaches being in the movie, showing who actually recruited Oher, including Nick Saban while at LSU and Philip Fulmer while he was at Tennessee.  It is a must see film.

Unguarded is intense Chris Herren does an excellent job telling his story.  After watching this at home, I brought it to the school I work at and showed it to 430 12th graders.  It's a no nonsense story that sends a powerful message to all audiences.

lharris21 Just loved this movie with it turns of events and secret in this time piece. Love Don Cheadle character. Off course loved Denzel

Excellent movie This movie is very well made. I am not sure if it is truely based on history but I know that it is not a complete fiction. I highly recommend watching it. I watched it when I was a kid when it was first came out and I enjoyed it. The 2nd time I still enjoy it.

Great series ~ For those who've seen the first series Please watch the original series first!!!!!!!!!!!!! <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003SPDSA8">Fullmetal Alchemist: The Complete First Season (Viridian Collection)</a>  I am and have been a HUGE Fullmetal Alchemist fan.  I was very excited when the Brotherhood series was released.  I do enjoy the new 'Gaiden' story that takes a different approach and changes some key events; however: I think that if you have NOT seen the original series, then you should not watch this one until you have.  Here is why (mostly spoiler free - I'll note if there is a spoiler ahead):  The original series proceeded very smoothly and transitioned to the flashbacks quite well.  The viewer was taken along to various towns and jobs that the Elric brothers performed before and leading up to their State Alchemist exam.  The first few episodes of the first series set the stage very well and didn't reveal much, giving the viewer a great sense of mystery and intrigue.  In Brotherhood, several events are glossed over or just mentioned.  The series jumps right into the action.  One major problem that I have is that they reveal WAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much too soon.  If you haven't seen the first series then you are not going to be too shocked later on.  Plus, Hohenheim was a mysterious figure who didn't appear until the end of the first series (his photo was always blocked out during the intro), now he pops into the intro right away.  The first episode also reveals a giant transmutation circle, an event which lessens the impact of an event later on in the series.  Overall I like this series a lot: it sticks close to the manga.  But the original series was filled with much more "WOW" moments than this.  Please watch through the first series before diving into this, I think that you will enjoy the series more viewing them in that order.  Also, the Japanese voice is good, but some of the characters were voiced better in the first series (Col. Mustang for example).  Though I watched the first series once in English (and it was very good), the original Japanese voice work is superior.  View whichever style you prefer in this series.  ------------------ Update 1/27/2012 I've now read the manga and this does go along the lines of the manga, at least after around episode 13 or 14 (in the second season of the Brotherhood series).  The first 10 episodes are very similar to the manga and the original series, just with a few events taken out.  Most notable are the mining town with Lt. Yoki, the incident on the train, and a few other key events.  I think they did remove these so that those who watched the first series wouldn't become overly bored watching the EXACT same thing as the first run.  The part in Rush Valley in Brotherhood is more along the lines of the manga.  Let's just say that I was a little bored until episode 13 or 14 (second set).  Once the crowd from Xing enter the series, it changes dramatically from the first series and starts to follow the manga more closely.  Still, I recommend watching the first series before Brotherhood.  Just because there are more WOW! moments in the first series that would be spoiled in the first 10 episodes of Brotherhood, but no WOW! moments from the first series that would be spoiled in Brotherhood.  You get me?

Sickest Action/Thriller of last year!!! I loved this film so much!!!!!! The Killer Elite kicks ass from the opening and never lets up till the ending! I wasn't even a huge Statham fan before I saw Killer but I am now. I watched it because De Niro and Clive Owens are two of my favorite actors - and totally deliver in the movie!  The script is smart and original (and really funny at points - there's one amazing diss by Statham that still cracks me up) and the action scenes were directed perfectly! I kept saying how did they do that?!?!? It's definitely the kind of film to own and watch on Blu-ray over and over.  The only negative thing I can think of is I wasn't a huge fan of the Scorpion's song in the trailer, but that's about all. And who cares about the trailer. Get this movie on Blu-Ray and you'll love it.

Brilliantly done. Well acted; scenery amazing.  Great special effects.  Followed book very well.  Well worth seeing again!  An absolute must for Twilight fans of all ages.

Hilarious movie This movie is hilarious, just so funny. The Blu-ray came just as what supposed to. Great Christmas gift for my cousin!

Great classics Good quality. I grew up on these cartoons. Really brings back my childhood. They do not make good cartoons like this anymore. What a shame

Cellular This is a fun and exciting film to watch.  Chris Evans is fine to look at and is a great action star.

Tangled Fabulous DVD--am so amazed at the animation process that makes the characters so life-like!  Our grandchildren love the magic just as we did with Snow White and Lady and the Tramp.  DVD arrived on time in excellent condition!

i LOVED this film Well, you have to love Brit humor for one thing. Steve Coogan was lovely, Rob Brydon was equally as. Coogan's character... during the scene in the grave yard, when he was giving the fake eulogy for Rob, his sentiments obviously echoed the feelings that he harbored for himself. This movie and the characters were very well developed. I like that the impetus for 'the trip' was a food expedition, and that it was not the primary focus. It was a layer, the locations were another, the mains another, the adjunct characters another. It loved that Brydon and Coogan 'played themselves', and I loved the juxtaposition of their private lives -- Coogan's lonely to Brydon's fulfilled -- it added another element/layer to the story. And all in all, I found it very rich, meticulously woven and very well sorted out. Great find. Another film I had put off for some time (because of the low star rating -- never a good idea to avoid a movie because of the star rating), that has become one of the best I've seen in a long time. Highly recommended. Would definitely watch it again.

Excellent Movie Amazing story, great cinematography.  For how ling this movie is, it's over way too fast.  Amazon streaming does a fantastic job, never had a buffering issue.

Unstopable excitement in a well-told tale I recommend this second film in the Stieg Larsson trilogy. Of course the book is far better than the film. This is almost always true because the book has more details, greater characterization, psychological explorations, more depth, and additional sub-plots. Yet this film is filled with no-stop excitement, the acting is superb, and the scenery appropriate. While the film is in Swedish, I doubt that most people will find it hard to follow the subtitles. Additionally, in all likelihood, people who did not see the first film, for which this is a continuation, will have little problem understanding the story. Viewers bothered by scenes of naked lesbian sex may be annoyed, but the heated adventure only lasts for a minute or two; and others will find it interesting and important to the tale.

Great Blu Ray for a classic film If you have neither room nor can justify for the collectors edition box see the standalone blu ray has everything you need a wonderful sharp well presented transfer of the 1942 Classic and hours upon hours of extras from a Looney Tunes short (which does fall flat as it was done years after Mel Blanc had passed) to everything shown alongside Casablanca (news reels shorts ect) Documentaries, deleted scenes and more.  Obviously the film is a classic and there is nothing I can say about that hasn't already been said in the 70 years since this film was made. I myself only just saw it for the first time and a second time just a few hours prior to writing this review.  If you are on the fence about getting this film on blu ray, don't be pick it up you won't regret doing so.

Great movie.... We enjoyed this movie at the theater and wanted it for our home library, digital and otherwise. Movie is funny and fresh, kids and adults can enjoy it at the same time.

The Exorcist When this movie came into the theaters it was one of the best movies. At that time no cust were made. No movie better than the original Exorcist has been made. Until this date even with the technology in 1973 this movie was the nest..!!

An Inspiration for the Terminator? Too bad Michael Crichton didn't make more movies, but his books certainly gave me longer enjoyment than a movie could. I re-watched this movie at least 30 years later, and I think it is a groundbreaking story. This is a story of the Turing Test being turned into an amusement park. Humans can go to different "worlds" like the Roman Empire, Medieval Ages, or the wild American West. Crichton would later add the Jurassic Park to his worlds. Tourists there live out their fantasies with human-like robots, whom you can't really tell if they are human or robot; that's the Turing Test of Alan Turing, the computer scientist extraordinaire of the first-half of the Twentieth Century. And then the robots get out of control...

An eye opener I really enjoyed this video. It gives a clear picture of where our food comes from and how harmful it is. So many have no idea what we are putting into our bodies and feeding our children. This video is a good wake up call!

About World War 2 in Palestine/Israel It is a touching film of how Israelis were being drafted for the war.  People trying to rebuild their lives.

MI-2 Again this is one of most exciting movies in the series.  Great intertainment movie and the series is not over yet more to come.

TO FUNNY This was the best movie I've seen in years!! A famiy movie. I laughed until I cryed. I bought It new at a great price. I recieved it fast and in great condition (new). If your going to buy give them a chace.

Love, love, love it!!!! I am huge zombie/end of world fan and have totally fallen in love with this show and all of the people! (Especially Norman Reedus, Daryl, OMG!) He is an amazing actor and can't wait for them to develop him even more in the show! I know it has that soap opera feel but that helps to make it seem real. The show is not all zombies walking around everywhere all the time and that helps to draw you into the "family" feel of the show (as in this group is a family of sorts). I do not want them to make Carl into a bad kid though, they need some sense of normalcy and he can bring it eventually. I would like to see more of the fall of Atlanta and even more about what the Dr told Rick at the end of season 1, maybe take an excursion to the greater Atlanta area to get supplies or something. Maybe even another group of people like this group in another area, and develop the show where they meet up. Could be interesting. Open some kind of door that can bring others into this show, other people would surely try to settle down in surrounding farms? Maybe even some neighbors that Hershell and Maggie know. Anyway, I just wanted to say that this show is awesome and it was worth every dime to me to be able to watch it on my desk top at home. No way can I wait for season 2 to hit the shelf! Season 3??? CANNOT WAIT!!!!!

Love the movie, not the cd. Fortunately I also have this on VHS. The thing is just better on the tape. Don't know why? Back to the movie. Fasinating! I love the fact that the guy had the balls to investigate this(in the life of the time), to bring someone to trail for JFK's assination & murder. There are parts in the movie where the hair on the back of my neck stands up! Where the Government does whatever it feels it needs to do to keep tabs on & strongly discourage & discredit (Kevin Costner's) character. Watch out for BIG BROTHER, & all his machinations. The scene in the courtroom where Mr. Garrison gives that riveting speech! Awesome! Personally, I think alot of what they showed in the movie could have happened. I don't for 1 minute think 1 bullet could have moved the way the warren commission said it did in real life. It hit too much bone ( which damages the bullet each time it hits) for it ti be in near pristine shape. I still think there was more than 1 shooter & the gov't has covered it up all these years. It's A Fantastic movie about a subject that never ends.

Charming love story. Charming film about a young couple just starting out. The young woman comes from a wealthy family, but keeps her wealth a secret from her new husband. Her husband tends to buy too much on credit and struggles to make ends meet.  Likeable characters hold your interest in this simple love story.  Filmed in 1938.

Dexter's Dark Passenger This is by far the best season in the entire series and certainly one worth spending money buying the Blu-ray discs for. I am ready for more Dexter already.

Simply AMAZING!!! Take all the good stuff you've heard from previous reviewers and believe it.  I had goosebumps watching the opening of the movie with Julie Andrews on the hill.  The difference between the new bluray version and the previous version isn't even a comparison.  The sound improvement is even noticeable on my Sony flatscreen.  The picture is amazing.  It's like I've rediscovered the movie all over again!

Beautiful movie about pain and decay When I read the reviews for this movie, almost all of them lined up to state that the whole movie is Johnny Depp dying of syphilis. He's a little witty, sure, but then he gets syphilis and man does the pretty fade fase. So it's the Johnny Depp with Syphilis movie.  When I borrowed it from my library, I discovered that I loved it. Depp is a 17th century poet who is part of King Charles II's court but an annoying part - the part of the court that Charles would just assume kill as make into the Shakespeare of Restoration. Call it <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6305428379">Restoration</a> without the main character becoming a Puritan and saving his baby from the Fire of London.  Depp's Lord Rochester is a talented poet with a bigger talent for sex and shenanigans. His life is a party and he's enjoying it to the fullest. He has a wife with whom he recites fond stories of kidnapping her. He gets involved with Samantha Morton's actress and trains her how to act while falling in love with her. Eventually he has to flee London but it doesn't help him. When he returns his body is wracked with diseases and his nose is falling off.  That is a terrible way of describing the movie. The storyline is one thing as it discusses the limits of what you can do when you have a lifestyle that cannot support your health and well being. His venom spewed attempts at reconciliation and redemption toward the end are sad because he has become a man who needs people long after those people even wanted him around.  The best part of the movie is the set - both elegant and dirty. It shows the beauty of the 17th century without shying away from its ugliness. Completely enthralling movie. HIghly recommended.

Great family film- Walt would be proud. No nudity, No profanity, No gross scenes Just Good Clean Entertainment. I watched it with my grandchildren (ages 3 & 5)and they loved it!

Great set, no problems with DVD's not working I just finished all 10 seasons and I've found no problems with the DVD's. With some bad reviews about poor packaging I wanted to mention my experience about buying this product. I had no problems with any of the disc not working. Personally, I feel this set was great to watch over a period of months in little bits on my laptop. I have watch all the seasons of Babylon 5 as well, although the last season is tough to watch, they should have stopped sooner, but SG was still great to watch even in season 10.

Good Movie Enjoyed the movie quite a bit. Worth every penny of the purchase price. Probably watch it over and over again.

One of my favorites! I love this movie. Steve really brings out a character you want to feel for as a: parent, a widower, a love seeker, a sibling, and a cluts. This movie is touching, funny, and thoroughly entertaining.

George fan, rejoice! For all of you George Harrison fans, you'll love this CD..There's so much great footage..I whole heartedly recommend this CD!

Pleased Really, who doesn't love this movie? Nathan Lane cracks me up. One of the great dont have to think to hard to watch it movies. Shipping was great as always with amazon.

Wow! It has been a long, long time since I have seen a movie with this much depth to it.  There is a lot here to think about after the movie is done.  I would highly reccomend watching this... in fact, I am going to make my teenage kids watch it too.  But be aware, it is not "entertaining" like most people would expect from a movie.

South-Eatern Colorado. Filmed in La Junta, Colorado.  A great and friendly town in South-Eastern Colorado.  Great Scenery, great presentation, used local people as extras.  Communities change.. New business signs, new businesses, but this brings back all kinds of nostalgia.

black moon it is about an old lady every one thinks she is going mad. and only two sisters can make her calm by breastfeeding her. the movie is good to watch.

Speechless Everything you would want in a movie.  Ryan Gosling is superb in this movie along with the rest of the cast.  Easily one of Gosling's best performances showing he's much more than a romantic movie actor.  This movie has it all and not just another lame Fast and the Furious movie.

This got so-so reviews but I thought it was a great film "Unknown" is a wonderful suspense/thriller action-er that finds (the always excellent) Liam Neeson's Dr. Martin Harris fighting an identity crisis as another man (Quinn) has taken his identity after a car accident. There is a twist that I have to admit that I figured out fairly early in the film. However, that doesn't take away from the film. It all plays out very well. The movie is based on the French novel <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/014311901X">Unknown: A Novel</a> by Didier van Cauwelaert, and there is no lull in the film. This is probably the best suspense action film I've seen so far this year. Definitely a film that should've had much better reviews, "Unknown" delivers the action, drama and suspense that you want in a film.

Very Enjoyable It is instrumental music but enjoyable for all ages to watch and learn how music is made by certain instruments even if they are animated without humans doing the work of playing the instruments. This CD and the second of the same group I have enjoyed alot I first saw this on the public television station on tv and watched it amazed at the computer generated animation, and listened to the music. It was great then as it is now still today. I just wish they would do some more.

unforgiven I looked everywhere for this dvd. To find a blue ray version was great. I think this is one of Clint Eastwood's better movies.

Don't go cold turkey on Cold Turkey Prior to Norman Lear's mega-success on TV, he showed just how brilliant he could be with this movie.  So many of the people in it, like Jean Stapleton, for example, would go on to be Emmy winners in the TV series he would cast them in.  Dick Van Dyke, of course, is the star and he never is better and more committed to his role; Bob Newhart also shows us why he has been such an enduring actor/comedian as well. I love this movie because it shows addiction at its finest moments...Bravo, too, for the great score and lead off song, "He Gives Us All His Love" by Randy Newman.

Wonderful movie!!! My husband, my 2 year old daughter, and I went to see this movie at the drive in near us on Memorial weekend.  My daughter has NEVER sat through an entire movie, but she was comepletely enthralled by The Pirates!  My husband and I loved the humor and the movie was just beautifully done.  I will definitely be purchasing this movie and hope that there are sequels made - we would go see every one!

Cool Movie This movie is so freakin cool, i had no idea I would love it this much.  The entire premise was great.  A convicted killer being hauled back by plane to stand trial.  Everything that follows is so action packed and unpredictable, you will love it. I had it on VHS (taped it from cable tv) but I loved it so much i just had to order the DVD.  Ray Liotta is such a phonomenal actor, he can play anything.  The Christmas setting, the decorations on the plane and in the flight attendant's house was just so beautiful, this movie was excellent.  So well put together, the acting, the scenery, the plane - 100% on point.  Loved it!!  I highly recommend purchasing this film. Get yourself a cup of egg nogg and watch it in front of a crackling fire and enjoy!!

Great entertaining movie for all ages! Loved the movie! My son and I watched at least 10 times over the first weekend.  Fun for all ages. Something that everyone can relate to. Awesome entertaining even for the squirmiest little ones that usually don't sit still during a movie.

ONE OF THE ALL TIME GREATS IN CINEMA A massive  world wide hit when it was first released.Simply the greatest film about childhood ever made.An absolute flawless film in every way. The final  scene  combined with the memorable music will stick in your mind  forever.  A  masterpiece of film making -  truly unforgetable and exceptionally moving.I have seen it  numerous  times over the years.One of the  ten best films I have ever seen.

Standing in the shadow of mowtown If you grew up with Mowtown this is a must see.  Outstanding documentary.  Unbelievable band, musicians beyond compare.  Can't recommend enough.  You will not be disapppointed.

bevb Love Patrick Swayze. This movie is a classic love story. Good family entertainment. Get a bowl of popcorn and just enjoy.

loved it Wanted to re-watch the pilot and was glad I did. Love the series.So glad it's back for a new season. Can't wait to watch them.

charmed I really enjoyed watching the series and always looked forward to the next one.  It was a refreshing different twist on an old favorite.

Easy to follow and very effective!! I just got this a few days ago, and I've watched the whole thing and done the first 2 practices yesterday.  I can't believe my lower back and hips feel better already!!  I've been battling my chronic lower back pain for years.  It's been so bad recently i was afraid of doing anything that will make the pain worse.  I'm an active 45 year old woman.  When just 3 mile run would put me into excruciating pain for days, I knew I had to do something about it before it is too late.  I've purchased Gaiam yoga for lower back DVD of Rodney Yee's first, but it wasn't right.  The dvd would play same 5 postures over and over again.  There was no instructions or anything, just Rodney Yee doing the postures on the beach with a chair.  What a waste of money!!  Don't buy any of that crap unless you buy it on Gaiam's website at full price.  What you are buying might be crappy copy version. Then I found Viniyoga Therapy for the low back, sacrum & hips on amazon, and the reviews were so wonderful that I had to give it a try.  I'm a believer already after the first practice!!!  I'm so looking forward to practicing everyday, and being free of pain.  I highly recommend listening to what Gary Kraftsow have to say in the beginning.  It gave me a great understanding of my back pain.  Watching the technique workshop before the practice is helpful as well.  You really want to do the every move correctly to maximize the impact. I hope everyone with lower back pain finds one's way to this dvd somehow!!  I'll recommend it to all my friends for sure!!!

True Blood - season 4 I've enjoyed every season I've seen of this HBO Series.  If you're hooked on the series - you won't be disappointed with this season!

Please - DVD! I watched this as part of a class. I would love to own it but it is only available on VHS. Make is available on DVD. While I realize that some may find it outdated, I (like many others) do not even own a VHS player.While I could spend the money to purchase it, I would not be able to watch it.

Kudos for Hugo! Martin Scorsese's paean to the pioneers of the motion picture industry and his message championing film preservation is a true masterpiece not to be missed by true lovers of the cinema.  Perfectly cast, Hugo represents storytelling at its very best, and I found myself thrice drawn back to the theatre to witness his spectacular foray into 3-D.  It was by far the finest presentation in that process these eyes have ever beheld.  This lifetime movie fan is at a loss to name a film in recent memory that he enjoyed more than Hugo, and I hastened to pre-order my DVD copy after watching it for the first time.   Deservedly, Hugo received eleven Academy Award nominations.  Undeservedly, it failed to capture the Best Picture Oscar, The Artist winning instead.  Evidently, many Academy voters had never before seen a silent motion picture, and felt that moviemaking techniques abandoned in 1928 with the advent of sound to be revolutionary today.   Of course, some modern moviegoers found Hugo not to their liking, having been weaned on glitzy special effects, car chases, splatter, and street language.  They considered it boring.  Used to be that a good story was all that was necessary to fill theatre seats, but, and sadly, no more.  But I am among those who still demand that of a motion picture, and can only say well done, Martin Scorsese; well done Asa Butterfield, Chloe Grace Moretz, Ben Kingsley, Christopher Lee, and yes, you too, Sacha Baron Cohen.  Thank you and all concerned for a movie I won't soon forget.

Pure Filmmaking With a Twisted Soul I love films of all types. Big bangs, little bangs, and no bangs at all.  What I look for is craft and imagination. And this has it in spades. It is a very simple tale about a man and woman who meet on a road and begin a relationship to get to know one another.  Or do they?  The craft comes in with the writing, acting and directing and is simple to the core. There is no overblown hysteria or hype. It's about psychological warfare and the struggle for connection between two people.  How they get to where they are going is the fun in the piece. The filming is simple and bare bones which points the laser at the story of the characters instead of the technology of filmmaking.  Done on a very low if even existent budget, the filmmakers, as it is obvious everyone was a part of the process, make sure they are telling the story the way it was meant to be.  As the saying goes, it's the writing stupid!  Great piece for those who know how to really watch a film/story unfold instead of needing escapism Hollywood fair.

Granddaughter loved it! I ordered this two-disc special of Cinderella for my granddaughter's 3rd birthday.  It arrived in great shape and I was told by my daughter that she LOVED it and that it has been the only thing she wants to watch over and over again.  It was a great buy for us because we had to send it far away!

The Candy Man I like this version so much better than the remake.  Actually I don't even like the remake.  I love all the characters in Willy Wonka.  My favourite one is Veruka Salt.  I hate to say this but she sort of reminds me of myself when I was her age.  I WANT IT NOW!!!!!  I also think Gene Wilder played his character brilliantly.  This film has alot of heart and has some important lessons infused with the plot. This film also makes you crave candy!

I just love this movie and this sequel Anaksunamun is gorgeous, so it Nefertiti, and the rest of cast, I love this kind of adventure movie, so I thoroughly enjoyed it!

Camaron en eo AsadorI I am very happy with my product and with the prompt delivery and the good condition and the way you keep in contact to make sure I got my  product thank you sincerely Diana

What a Movie!!! This movie is one of my Top 10 of all time. The portrait of the South, the courageous look at racism that was very contoversial in the days this movie was made. And the human relationships that included Boo the man that saved the children. I knew when I first watched this movie it was one of the best. "Don't miss seeing this movie" at any price!!

Out of Africa A very romantic story plus beautiful setting in Africa. It depicks what wealthy womens lives were sometimes like back at the turn of the 20th century but in a foreign country.

Great Response Time They send a good product and it was to me in a fast timely manner. The disk looked like new and it was in a nice case with origin cover art. I was Pleased.

I Love This Series Downton Abbey is an English manor house which houses a family with four daughters and their bevy of servants. The second season picks up where the last season left off with the declaration of war. Everyone is in a tizzy about which men will volunteer or who will be called up, but the excitement soon dissipates as injuries and deaths from the war hit close to home. Downton Abbey is used to house convalescent soldiers and the women of the house find themselves doing useful work.  This season has plenty of excitement and progresses nicely from the beginning of the war through to 1920 and we see history shaping the way the world works for the characters. The ending is a Christmas special which is highly satisfying and paves the way for an thrilling third season.

Pulp Fiction!! This is my favorite movie of all time! It's funny, it has drama and it has action. It's witty banter between characters is legendary. I love quoting this movie. I do love the fact that it's been remastered into HD.

Terminator Salvation I got the product very fast, good price and good conditions. In addition, the movie is the best of the best movies. thanks

First Love This was the first home yoga product I ever purchased and was not able to duplicate the sensitivity, visuals, sounds and quality of the product.  It is truley a relaxing yet athletic product.  I ALWAYS feel better when I have completed it.  I purchased a VHS tape in 95 and used it periodically until it broke due to a faulty devise in my player.  Recently I purchased the DVD and am glad I did. While i wasn't willing to play $124.00 for the new version, I purchased a good used copy and am glad I have it as one of my home resources.  It is a good way to treat myself and my body.

Awesome flick! This is a hard to find movie. A classic. Filmed in the East Los Angeles High School, Garfield High. Great story and great message. Love this movie. Go Bulldogs!

i love it love it love it love it! I am so happy the sequel to the "girl with the dragon tatoo" was a lot different than the first movie. of coruse the movie picks up where it left off but lizbeth was a lot different in this movie. and their are more twists and turns to the plot! THey couple aren't together in this movie at all so it also has the feel of setting you up for the next movie. Oh man so good. I watched all 3 in one night because i could not stop watching ....so much action intrigue, suspense, and adventure, backed by love! Love the skills of everyon. well done

Intense One of my all time favorites.  I have watched this movie so many times and I love Demi.  Best movie she was ever in.  Yes, even better than Ghost.

i love chris odonnell I think this series is fantastic, though not as awesome or epic as the original. This one is somewhat lighter and tries to set a more fun tone and the cases are exciting. This show has a great (and very attractive) ensemble cast.

I WOULD GIVE IT 10 STARS!!! I loved the humor, the HOUSE that belongs to the bad guy, the scenery, and the story!  Johnny Depp was great.

Hilarious! Gabriel Iglesias is so genuine, talented and extremely funny. His impersonation of Paul Rodgriguez is priceless. How he changes his voice to that high-pitch is laugh out loud funny. I love it and will watch this over again and again!

Mr. Doug Kershaw... "Godfather of Cajun Music" Mr. Doug Kershaw is "The Best." I had the privilege of hearing a skinny young man from Cajun country at the famous, "Uncle Sam's Nightclub," in Atlanta, Georgia back in the early 1970's. He put on the most energetic and fantastic show I had ever seen. Here we are 40yrs. later enjoying his wonderful music on DVD. If you love Cajun Music or even if you are not sure, this will be the best $20.00 investment you will ever make. If you can listen to him perform and NOT tap your feet to the rhythmic beat and have your heart leap in your chest, then you are deceased.  Mr. Doug Kershaw..... "Godfather of Cajun Music."

Great Entertainment I was not interested in this movie because of the title.  It made it sound like it would be a simple slapstick type comedy.  Then I watched the trailer and that changed my mind.  This was a well put together movie.  A nice family movie to watch!!!  My wife and I gave it two thumbs up.

Fatherhood theme via a Christian Faith-based dramatic backdrop Expect in-your-face fatherhood morals bursting from an action/emotion story. Expect the F-words: Faith, Fatherhood, Fears, Failings, Family, Forgiveness. Expecting goodness, I entered the theater for the 1st opening day matinee. Found it great. Sheriff Deputies know the necessity of partnership. They take it to heart by forming a small group of men, adding one ethnic carpenter outsider, and strive to make a difference in the lives of their families. They base their "Resolutions" vows upon the Bible. Unfortunately it takes some tragic circumstances to get the men to this point. Their courageous open faith position will not always be taken well...as Dep. Adam Mitchell (Alex Kendrick-Dir, Writer, Editor, Actor) states, "some will mock, some will have no resolve, others will say `I WILL'. Men of courage with God's help." He notes they will (and do) face conflict, challenge, controversy, & need courage. Each man has his own family issues, each an individual path of struggle.  A debate is sure to develop. Which is best, "Courageous" or "Fireproof" (2008); the last 2 films by the Kendrick brothers. I vote, equal. Alex does it all in this 4th Faith-based film adventure, while Stephen writes and produces. They also did "Flywheel" 2003; and "Facing the Giants" 2006. Is this film a moral and faith statement from the writers? YES! Of course! That's what they and their church intend. Expect it, and perhaps be blessed.  This film begins immediately with ACTION, life-threatening, a crashing peak, and then an emotional end to the scene. Hold on to your hat, because you have almost 2 hours of emotion, action, and even some comedy ahead after that. Ken Bevel, as Hayes (Yes, from Fireproof) is new to this police squad. No big HOLLYWOOD stars in this low-budget film that relies on none of the typical theater gimmicks. This film, as in preceding Kendrick film successes, relies on spiritual subject matter, PG13 rating, and the targeting of the Christian Theater viewer, eager for BIGGER-FASTER-STRONGER, but also family and faith oriented. It's worked for the Kendricks' casts & crews in the past, it will work again. Expect "COURAGEOUS" in the theater for a few weeks, and then the DVD will be bought by those same viewers...and more.  Viewership will grow, word of mouth, father to father, mom to mom, pew to pew, family to family.

It Is The Best! I love this movie, I watch it every week. I know all the lines, songs everything! It is very addictive watching. Everyone is well cast.

Incredible Movie One of the best movies I have ever seen. After I saw it the first time, I knew I had to add it to my DVD collection. Some people may not like it because there is not enough cursing, nudity, or violence in it for them. It's not a trashy movie. But this film touched my heart in a way that not many movies have ever done. If nothing else, it's worth watching once just to make your own decision. Most people won't be disappointed and will be glad they took the time to check it out. It's one of several movies I always recommend to people when they want to know about good movies to watch or buy.

One of the best tv shows out there If you haven't seen The Wire yet, you're missing out.  I originally watched this show downloaded off the internet, and just bought the box set so I can re-watch it - it's that good.

Lucky Star, Vol. 1 Limited Edition Okay, this is a very good product to invest in if you are a fan of the anime Lucky Star.   The box that everything comes in is extremely cute, so there shouldn't be a reason to throw it away. The chocolate cornet screen wiper is a bit smaller than seen in the picture, but it's still adorable! My only concern is the fact that the t-shirt is an XL and looks HUGE on me, so I advise you be prepared to face troubles wearing it in public. Overall, it's a 5 star limited edition and I hope you all enjoy it!

Quality Christian Movie cool exciting movie with great actors. better than average end times story made by Christian filmakers. this is one of my favorites, even though some people give it low rating. they don't know what they're talking about. you won't be disappointed.

Passage to India The product arrived when it was supposed to.  It was in excellent shape.  We loved the Movie - and several friends have been enjoying it too.

Cheap price, good movie If you enjoy action films and/or Jason Statham films, you can't beat these movies.  The price also makes it very appealing as well....

So typical of parents This was a great and fun/funny film. A drama where two kids parents meet at ones apartment to decide "how to handle" the situation where one of the boys hit another boy with a stick, knocking out teeth. Who's fault was it? Who should apologize to whom? Should the parents get involved? Should they also take responsibility for their kids aggression and the others timidness? We learn the issue of aggression and short comings might be more so with the parents, than with the kids. And that poor hamster? A film by Roman Polanski, more so a short dinner theater type play brought to film. The shortest film I've seen in a theater. 1 hr 15 min. But great stars, fun plot. Things go from simple casual attempt(s) between two sets of parents with coming to an agreement concerning responsibility for their kids actions, to the parents engaged in something close to total WWIII. With a little apple cobbler tossed in (and up) along with way, plus way too many social cocktails in the mix. And a busy cell phone adding to the never ending comedy-drama. With stars this wonderful, this film is a must see hit. And again... that poor hamster. There are great court room dramas that keep you engaged. This is not a court room drama, but equal to such as a social drama between agreeing/disagreeing, then agreeing then back to disagreeing sets of parents. With everyone carrying, then unloading, a lot of psychological baggage. And YOU are the fly on the wall. Great! Very fun! Interesting! Too short. I wanted more, a lot more. But what Roman Polanski gives us is totally worth experiencing. Great directing mixed with great actors/acting really does make the difference. NOTE: And just who was that peeking out the next door apartment at all the ruckus going on in the hall way? Could it have been by chance a VERY FAMOUS DIRECTOR's face???? And no... it wasn't Alfred Hitchcock. lol  What a good film. What good acting. Great stars. Great director. Great directing. But I'd totally skip the cobbler...

Carefully crafted and emotionally satisfying, this film deserves at least a second viewing. I knew absolutely nothing about this movie when I began watching. While the very first scene made me wonder if it would be boring, I quickly found myself entranced by the world, both of farming and of the unfamiliar-to-me German apprenticeship structure. The story of the relationship takes a second viewing to fully appreciate because there is much that is left unsaid, but is rather illustrated in a puzzle of actions, expressions, gazes, and utterances. I call it a puzzle, but it is a well-designed one: after the second viewing, I understood things that had not been clear after just one. I was left with the impression that every decision had been carefully and very successfully crafted. The settings, the music, every action and expression, contributed to tell an important story. The end was completely unexpected, yet could not have been more perfect. Had I not been too engrossed to make predictions, I would have been afraid it would be either too big or too small, but I was perfectly satisfied, both intellectually and emotionally.

My favorite movie among thousands. Watchmen is the best movie ive ever seen in my life, with its complex story, dazzling effects and an amzing script Watchmen boasts great action sequences behind the direction of Zach Snyder, this is the movie of movies.

Amazing This ten part tv mini series is just like it was when I was a little girl watching this movie with my mother. This is one of the greatest tv mini series of all times.

Pure Joy Sir David Attenborough's nature presentations are simply the gold standard of the genre.  He himself is a treasure as are the creatures he profiles. This DVD set takes us to the magical island of Madagascar.  We see a panoply of curious sights and sounds including several species of Lemur. These critters are guaranteed to melt even the hardest of hearts with their beautiful faces and mischievious chicanery. Also present are a great variety of chameleon - a smallish member of the lizard family, I believe, who are also quite winsome but in a different way.  In several spots I found myself wishing for less musical accompaniment. The music, as it is, is suitable in style but I prefer to hear the natural "music" of the surroundings: the crunch of leaves under a lizard's foot, the wind in the trees, the rain, the animal calls  ...& so forth. These are still present with the music overlaid, but I prefer only the natural sounds alone. Aside from this, I have no complaints and can give this set my highest recommendation.

Very Edifying First off, I must confess that rather than see this actual DVD I watched McLean perform it live. So understand that my review will tell you nothing about the quality of the video, DVD features, or anything like that.  Seeing this telling of Genesis was very edifying for me and I hope it will be for you, too. There are a number of reasons this would be helpful for any believer to accompany a study of Genesis or just to have a good family night together:  1- Before Moses wrote it down, these stories survived by oral tradition, probably much like what we're seeing here. I believe that Moses, under the Spirit of God's inspiration, used oral tradition heavily as a source for the writing of Genesis. Before the book was written, this was the only way these stories were shared. So you are hearing the creation story in the manner Abraham told it to Isaac, Isaac told it to Jacob and Esau, etc. That alone makes it a profound experience.  2- When was the last time you read Genesis 1-11 all at once? We tend to chop the Scriptures up when we study them, which does help us digest it sometimes. But it's also helpful to get a big-picture sense of the story. Though this isn't the whole book (just 1-11), it is very helpful to walk through the first few thousand years of Biblical History all at once.  3- What an encouragement and reminder of our ability to memorize Scripture if we work hard at it!  I do plan to order and watch this with the Small Group Bible Study I lead this Fall, as we study Genesis together. If it bombs. I'll update this review!

Fantastic! I first viewed this movie on Netflix.  I purchased the movie for myself at Christmas time but wound up giving it as a gift because I knew the person I was giving it to would love it as I did.  I wanted the Blu-ray version of this movie because I loved the presentation of Superman/Batman Public Enemies in Blu-ray format.  Batman Under the Red Hood did not disappoint.  The presentations as well as the extras were superb.  The voice acting, story, and animation are fantastic.

Really Good, Sexy A movie that manages to portray women as sexual beings without degrading them. This is one sexy movie, with lots of nudity that's completely approriate and essential to the story structure. But a fair warning: you and your companion are going to like this a little too much, so plan ahead.

Classic This movie has everything you want in a movie.  It is a fantastic classic!  No Kardashians, no hip music & whatnot.  The film has everything you want in a movie.

It will make you want to cry This is a VARY sad movie. I cry just thinking about it. John Coffee is a very good man. He didn't deserved to die. He new it, but excepted it anyways. This is a movie that you don't want to pass up.

Awesome This movie is awesome... not just as a kid's movie. Truly a great piece of art. Really captivates the viewer... and does a wonderful job getting the viewer attached to the main character, Mulan.

Worth to take a second look First of all, I'm not an English native speaker, please excuse grammatically mistakes :-)  After watching the movie in cinema I knew I would buy the DVD. The people who still dont know the film and thinking about buying the DVD, I really recommend it. The critics who where disappointed after first watching, I'd like to make a second look/ a second chance with the DVD accessible to them.  During first watching, the viewer was confronted with a lot of impressions at the same time. This, and the anticipation for the movie made it a little bit difficult to handle with it immediately and to recognize the wonderful things of the film. Now, after watching for the second time, I like Legend of Aang much more than before. The actors who I thought they fit to their role from the beginning inspired me even more. And the characters who I thought of less good personated during the cinema performance - like Katara - became more and more likeable during watching at home and I changed my mind. (Just in Sokka's case I think the actor should be changed or should learn to show emotions in a stronger intensity.) Besides in comparison to the animation the rather fearful and desperated characters and the darker atmosphere is better appropriate for the movie. In animation is war shown as easy and kindergarten like something. In the movie its more realistic.  Right, after second watching you'll recognize from time to time little mistakes which will be improved in (I'm praying) the second movie I hope, but those peanuts don't damage the film. Those people who are able to turn a blind eye to it - actually you have to in every movie - and get into it without listen to the extremely overstated negative criticisms, will see / will confirm that the movie is all in all really good. By the way, the people who still dont know the film should not be put off by the negative criticisms. I'm convinced that at least the half of the bad critics are just followers. Unfortunately it happens often in our world, that one is saying something bad (sometimes to gain fame and to be showed in TV/Internet...) and others let their-selves influence. Everyone should form his/her own opinion :-)

love this movie This movie has it all, i.e. romance, comedy, tragedy, suspense.  The what if you had done this versus doing that story line.  Well written and very entertaining.

good movie This movie is a good way to spend some time being entertained.Enjoyed the plot, well laid out and explained.It tied the story line in a way that unfolded to give you who and what the dragon wars was about.I will be useing this movie on a saturday marathon party.

A Fun Sitcom! A fun sitcom from the 80's to enjoy all over again. Tony Danza is always fun to watch, I just wish he had done a few more successful sitcoms for us to enjoy. I'm wondering why there aren't more seasons of 'Who's the Boss' out on DVD, lets hope they plan to release them in the near future.

Excellent film! These are great stories!  It includes the whole story including the continuing story!  This is a must have for all girls!  Excellent!

Foreign Zombie Film with Ken Foree!!!! Low budget, but more on a B++ movie scale. Ken Foree (star of 1977 Dawn of the Dead) is back in action against zombies and for us hardcore DOTD fans it is a must see. Decent special effects, but some really poor acting by some supporting cast members. Seasoned actors such as Foree stand way out against the less 'gifted' actors, but overall a fun film. Nice to see that foreign film makers respect American zombie films enough to emmulate them and to get actors such as Foree to star in them. Being a B movie buff I have to give them a thumbs way up. It seems somewhat like a cross between Dawn of the Dead and Assault on Precint 13.

Finally a great transfer! This is an epic that never had a good transfer for home video. Untill now. In fact, the DVD transfer was dark, blurred, with huge problems with consistency in color correction. A sad way to experience this great film for generations that - such as myself - could never see it in a movie theater. But now, with this blu-ray release, it's all changed. One of the most pleasant experiences one can get with blu-ray is to get the feeling like you were watching that old film for the first time. As if it was a completely different movie. And this blu-ray transfer of The Bridge on the River Kwai does that. Picture quality is not as astonishing as in transfers made from films shot with large format negatives, such as Technirama, UltraPanavision etc. But it is certainly as good as a Cinemascope film can look, in my opinion. In that sense, this transfer is as perfect as it can get. And it did really well on my 120-inch projection screen. A tough test for many transfers. Besides the Blu-ray, this edition brings a DVD copy of the film, good extra features, reproductions of lobby cards, a book with digi trays and a slipcover with embossed details on it. Worthy to be in any collection.

Funny Hilarious and witty! I have spent the whole day watching a few seasons, but this season is my favorite! It's the first season and although some parts are corny, it is funny. I'd recommend this to a friend.

Last Man on Earth? I really enjoyed this film. I think it is much better than the remake starring Will Smith called I am Legend, same name as the book which inspired both films.  This is the oldest zombie film I have seen so far, what surprises me is in this film these Vampires? are not called zombies.  This movie was similar to Night of The Living Dead because of the ghouls and the tragic ending with the hero getting killed as a result of mistaken identity by people who shoot first and ask questions later.

Best movie EVER!!! I thought that this is a great family movie that reccommend to those big and small, it's a movie that anyone can enjoy it also has a really great message at the end. Its a better movie choice than "MIRROR MIRROR" so give it a try.

Tin Cup, A love story I ADORE ALL OF KEVIN COSTNER'S MOVIES. YOU CAN'T GO WRONG BUYING HIS MOVIES. TIN CUP HAS A GOOD ENDING. THEY BOTH FOUND THE LOVE THEY NEEDED. THERE IS COMEDY. PLAYING GOLF WITH GARDEN TOOLS. YOU CAN'T RESIST IT. BUY IT YOU WON'T REGRET IT.ALWAYS GO TO AMAZON TO BUY YOUR FAVORITE MOVIES.

Loved it! This kind of film always cheers me up. I loved the transformation the girl goes through. Ann is an excellent actress and I was cheering for her all the way.

Relaxation Moments I found a new way for perfect relaxation, even while working in my office. Those images,even as the music are giving me moments of rest and agreeable stay in my office. This purchase gives me totally satisfaction. I can recommand this product as very succesfull! Thank you Amazon!

Baby Einstein-Baby Van Gogh - World of Colors I bought this DVD for my grandaughter who is nine months old.  She really loves it! My daughter said it is the best of the ones she already has.

Badass! movie I absolutely love this movie over the Original Poseidon it was really cool and action packed I might add.the storyline was good to and the Special Effects were great the ship was AWESOME!and so was the original ship used for the movie but I would choose this movie over the original anytime cause its soo! much better.I rate this movie 10 stars.also I only wish they would make more movies with ship disasters that happened in the past like during WWII.

I loved it The story focuses on a varied group British senior citizens who all find themselves feeling useless and wondering, "Is there more to life?"  They each decide they need a complete change of pace and move to India to live in a fabulous retirement hotel, which, of course, turns out to be not at all fabulous.  They adjust to the very different Indian culture to varying degrees; some find what they were looking for, others not so much.  The outstanding ensemble cast is headed by Judi Dench as a recent widow who finds a job at a call center.  She's quite likable and a pleasure to watch. Tom Wilkinson plays a man who was in love in India decades ago and hopes to reconnect. Maggie Smith is fun as an acerbic woman who goes to India for surgery even though she hates Indians and Bill Nighy plays a henpecked husband who longs for happiness.  I absolutely loved this movie; the characters were sympathetic and real and I cared about each of them.  Their storylines were believable and entertaining and I was left with a smile on my face. I think it would especially appeal to people of a certain age who may find themselves at loose ends. The movie will certainly make you examine your own life and perhaps convince you to try a very different, if initially frightening, path to fulfillment.

A Teaching Aid at Children's Sunday School Class The DVD Pinocchio is utilized by one of our teachers to teach the logic of conscience to the youngest class of children at our Church. The question of right and wrong decisions which will face each one is protrayed by Jiminy Cricket and while the children are learning to select proper values in life, they are entertained by the visual story of Pinocchio, who did not do so well in his selections. Not only is this children's story entertaining to this age group, it is a wonderful teaching aid. Life's values from a Christian view-point is essential to produce well balanced human beings in our society.

This film is what blu ray should always be like We watched the film through.  Then we watched it again with the Robert Wise commentary track. Then we watched it again with the Julie Andrews commentary track and then re watched selected parts yet again.  The film is beautiful.  The color balance is superb, the images clear and detailed.  The sound is fine with reasonable channel separation.  This is the definitive version of this great movie and an example of what Blu ray can, but often doesn't, do.

Comment on quality people! The 5 stars are for the movie. I love it. I haven't aquired the blu-ray yet because I need to know 2 things first. 1) Is the the quality worth upgrading to blu-ray 2) Is this the Pizza Hut edit or the original Taco Bell edit. I can't stand the Pizza Hut edit because you can clearly see the lipsinc. It's really annoying.  Anyone, please help!

Stephen King Rules! I love this movie and Stephen King.  What more can be said except it holds true to all of Stephen King's works.....WONDERFUL, AMAZING, GLUED TO THE TUBE horror that only Stephen King knows.  I highly recommend for any Stephen King fan

You'll Hoot and Holler and Want More! This film was such a success that it spawned a pilot entitled "Black Bart" which is on here. This anniversary DVD has about 28 minutes of a retrospective to a legendary comedy film. There is a few minutes from Lifetime's Intimate Portrait of Madeleine Kahn (Too bad they couldn't show the entire episode).  Besides the extras and features, it's a first rate comedy and genius in it's delivery. Cleavon Little is perfect as Black Bart. In the special feature, we learn that Richard Pryor was Mel Brooks's first choice. Anyway, Black Bart experiences prejudice in 1874 in Rock Ridge (spoof of the old western cities).  The cast featured Gene Wilder (played Waco Kid); Harvey Korman (played Hedley Lamar); Mel Brooks of course as the Governor; Madeleine Kahn as a German singer; John Hillerman; Dom DeLuise and others to mention. It was a great comedic film if you don't mind the lack of political correctness.  If you love to laugh at life, Hollywood, and the westerns, you'll love Blazing Saddles which could easily be turned into a Broadway musical after "The Producers" and "Young Frankenstein" were onstage.

Great!! This DVD is very inspiring and helpful tool, I love it, and I would recommend it. Thank u! Changing lives one avocado at a time! :) Heart disease Protocol is revolutionary !

Comfort Comedy This is one of those shows I feel like I could rewatch at any time. I'd put it up there with SPACED and The It Crowd as one of my top comfort comedies. I also can get people easily hooked on it.

Omg ahhhhmazing I freaking love this movie. It's the best movie ever. I'm getting an Alice in wonderland tattoo great quality movie. I love amazon

Powerful and amazing movie. This is one of my all-time favorite movies. Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving are phenomenal ! This movie has so much to say politically and is very moving, action-packed, and inspiring. You will definitely want to watch this again and again! I know I do. Amazing.

Good quality Great movie with good DVD quality. Two extra discs contain some special features that are worth to see for a superman fan!

terrific Great acting and great storytelling.  The CGI was barely distinguishable and looked very natural. This was better than the originals, and I anxiously await more from this series.

twilight breaking dawn part 1 i had excellent service,speed,and great copy. Will definitely use them again in the future for other movie choices.thanks for a positive buy. I don't always get that from other on-line sites.

The Perfect Movie This has everything: comedy, romance, bad guys, and cynical heroes all wrapped up with the wittiest dialogue and rapid-fire delivery ever written for screen by by Hollywood's best writers. It has wonderful A-list casting with Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Paul Henreid, Ingrid Bergman and the underestimated Humphrey Bogart in his first romantic role. Treat yourself and see this one. One cannot imagine a more perfect movie.  See: [...] for more information.

great movie, great transaction I immediately went looking to purchase this movie after watching it on TV.  Found it quickly and at good price on Amazon.  Seller was super fast on service, package arrived so quickly I looked at package and tried to think of anything I may have ordered because it sure couldn't be the dvd movie already.

Dog Whisperer I have acquired an American Eskimo about 3 years ago and have been searching, buying and trying a lot of books, training courses and dog obedient classes since.  I ran across the TV show recently when I switched TV to satellite.  I only wish I have found out about this earlier.  A lot of the reviewers have covered almost every aspects, I just want to include a few points from my views from the shows.  The whole idea of Cesar's method is really simple, be the pack leader and the dog will follow, that will indirectly solve most of the unwanted behavior.  Although the execution is more complicated plus he has a pack of dogs to help him(this is a significant tool that most of us or other dog trainer lack of).  I have owned Season 1, 2 & 3 in DVD, plus all the episodes I have taped from Season 4 to 7.  I cannot find any evidence of inhuman behavior or forces as described by some viewers.  Pinning the dog down is the most "violent" I have seen but even that, Cesar did not use force or tool, he was only making the dog in a laying down position.  In face, Cesar has been bitten quite a few times!!  And the touches he uses are for correction, if that's really hurting dogs, I am sure the dogs would have attacked Cesar already.  All dogs seems to responded to Cesar all the time and his touches are so effective, almost like miracles.  Let's not forget he is gifted with some ability such as feeling the dog's energy.  He always touch before the dog escalate.  Until we practice this, we'll never have as effective touch as he is, but the shows are definitely fun to watch, just don't expect the same result.  The last point I want to make is about the comment of his technique.  Some viewer regard it as old school.  It is probably true but then it will always works as long as following the leader is still in the DNA.  This is still true today for pack animal such as lions or elephants.  In fact, all those so called new technique does not work well for abused dogs.  I believe Cesar's method covers a much more variety of situation.

Everyone should see this movie This is a terrific film. It's astonishing to find out from the film how many people suffer and die from the effects of eating the standard American diet. And it's easy to rationalize and think you'll be the exception. Given the evidence, not likely.  One thing I really liked was the combination of historical background/scientific research with inspiring case studies--very persuasive. I changed my diet immediately, feel much better, have lost nearly 20 pounds without trying, and can't say I really miss meat or processed foods. I look forward to seeing my "numbers" the next time I have a medical exam.  I would also recommend the film Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead, which deals with similar issues, and the work of Dr. Joel Fuhrman, which essentially agrees with this film but doesn't cut out animal products and oil entirely.

Absoluetly Amazing Footage I've always wondered what Alaska is like, so this Alaksa DVD has proven to be very helpful, and exciting!. I loved being able to see the animals such as whales and bears in the beautiful Alaskan nature. The footage was absolutely beautiful, and the narration was great and didn't make me bored to listen to. I am determined to go on an Alaskan cruise now!

One of My Favourite Movies I remember when this movie first came out when I was like 5. 12 years later and this is still one of my favourite movies. It's a good movie parents, and older siblings can watch too! It's funny, it's sad, it invokes hope and inspiration. It's amazing!

Worth watching Ayn Rand creates characters that are exaggerated, good or evil with no grey in between.  This is how she makes her points and makes people think, and the movie appropriately reflects her approach.  Of course, this has always opened her work to harsh criticism, and it has perpetually been politically correct to attack her work.  But it does force you to think, and this story is particularly relevant to today when we actually see some eerie parallels between her novel and our current trajectory as a country.  This movie is only part one, and you can always pick up the book if you can't wait for the next movie.  The book has frequently been rated #2 only behind the bible as the book having the most effect on people.

Good Movie This is a wonderful movie and is a good addition to the Harry Potter series.  There are a couple of things they could have added to the movie to make it flow a little better, but I know time is a consideration.  I have read the books, so it is hard sometimes to not wish some details were added to the movie to keep it in line with the books.  The actors played the characters brilliantly and you can't come away from it without having strong feelings about the characters.  I like the two-disc special edition for the extras and details that you just don't get with the regular DVD.  This is definite must-have for any Harry Potter fan.

Great Movie I was surprised at how well this movie was put together. The Tyler plot line could be distracting at time but this movie is worth the purchase.

One of the most educational films of all time. I'm planning on using the 3 Keys to Success at work, and feel it will do a lot to advance my career.

The REAL Obama Excellent movie. Maybe NOW the remaining sleepers will awaken!!!! Hopefully America is waking up and with the help of this movie maybe we can get our country back!!!

Awesome Book I am learning so much, and seeing things that I never saw before, gives you a different outlook on life, made me see that the problems I have are nothing compare to what others go through. I saw Christine speak at the WOF in Anaheim, on Sept 14, 2012, at first I thought she had so much energy so possitive, and then you hear what she went through, amazing. I wondered how many more are out there so on fire for God, I want to be like that too, not caring or thinking about failures and heartaches but focusing on the Lord. I want to be UNDAUNTED!!!

INSIDE MAN EXCELLENT MOVIE,WATCHED IT TWICE AND LIKED THE INTRODUCTORY MUSIC,JUST NEED TO KNOW WHO THE ARTISTS ARE AND WHAT COUNTRY?  DENZEL`S ALWAYS A VERY GOOD PERFORMING ACTOR!!!

137min Extendet Cut  does it really exist.. ? Alien Blu-Ray /DVD ?? OK , Maybe the Guy just wrote a totally wrong running Time on cover...? There is NO 137.min Running time an the first Alien Movie at all...???? Hopefully Amazon.com is going to change it somehow for misleading Customers...? Saying 137.min but its 20.min shorter in reality...?

Highly recommend to other parents I recommend this to other parents. My daughter is 19 months old and she absolutely loves this DVD. I need to buy more.

My Favorite Version I saw this on tv in 1989 and recorded it, trying to cut commercials as I went.  It was narrated by Tony Randall at the beginning of each act, explaining the story and providing details that made it wonderful to watch.  It was the first ballet that I loved, bcs it was the first one that I understood. I've been looking for this for many years, and was delighted to find it today on Amazon's video on demand.  The artwork by Maurice Sendak makes this beautiful, eery, and fanciful. Everything about it is wonderful. I can't recommend it highly enough. I love the "peacock" symbolism, and this movie has the best Drosselmeier I've had the pleasure to watch.  Enjoy!

A Sequel That doesn't disapoint Kody's parents are still missing and Dean Cain is still getting used to the parenting life.  There's another plot to ruin things this time from someone from Dakota's past.  Dean's character is finnally starting to get teh message that it would be a good idea to go after Dakota relationship wise before it's to late.  Another great family movie but I wish they had or would make a 3rd to tie up a few loose ends they leave at the end of this movie.

Want to see a great movie? See this film.  "The Lucky Ones" (2008) is a true hidden gem.  I wasn't expecting much when I put the DVD in my player but before too long I knew I had stumbled on to something great.  THE PLOT: Three soldiers coming back from Iraq meet at JFK in NY where all flights are delayed due to a blackout. One soldier is older and getting out of the Army for good (Timothy Robbins), one has a serious groin injury and is trying to heal-up (Michael Pena) and the other is on leave to visit the family of a dead comrade (Rachel McAdams). They end up in a rental vehicle traveling across the country where they experience many sides of American culture and each other's deepest secrets, hopes and pains.  All three stars have great chemistry and Rachel McAdams (who I've never seen in a movie before) is a total revelation as Colee. Although Colee isn't highly educated she's not dumb. In fact, she excels socially and is the catalyst to hope and healing for the other two. A more beautiful, spunky, stimulating woman could hardly be found!  Both Timothy Robbins as Cheaver and Michael Pena as TK shine in their roles as well. Cheaver becomes the necessary father-figure in the trio and the others become increasingly concerned about the well-being of their temporary "dad."  The film features a good balance of Eastern and Western locations, shot in Illinois, Missouri, Colorado and Las Vegas.  FINAL WORD: I don't want to say anymore. If what I said perks your interest, be sure to check out "The Lucky Ones."  RUNTIME: 115 minutes  GRADE: A

jillyj When growing up, I detested history all thru my school years.  Therefore did poorly in it.  Now, many years later, it has piqued my interest and I'm really enjoying it.  This is a wonderful set of DVDs.  So glad I purchased it.  Seller described it just as I had received it.  Very good condition.

The Last Wave with Richard Chamberlain This is a great film. It didn't remain long at Copley Square, Boston, and I went in to see it years ago by myself before it left. Film takes place in Australia, concerning the beliefs of the Aborigines.  I find it very metaphysical, very deep, with long-term predestination or fore-telling of the present tsunami's.  Richard Chamberlain doesn't know, isn't aware that his presence is very important.  The film makes one wonder, what's it all about? What is life all about? Important to study mysticism. Study the psychic abilities of primitive tribes such as the Aborigines.

Awesome documentary!!! Well,as soon as i saw this,i knew i had to have it.I am a huge Jackass fan,and love when Manny is on the show.This is all about Manny though,which is why i like it so much!!!All i can say,is he is CRAZY.This has a lot of intense moments in it,and Manny is very brave,as well as knowledgeable!!I would recommend anyone to buy this if you like action packed wildlife footage,a long with his show from the Outdoor channel.I know you will enjoy them both!I can't wait for more to come from Manny!!!!!!!

Good one Its a really good movie, it has violent content won't recommend for kids... Acting and direction was superb.. the plot was ok

Worthy of Dickens himself! North & South is a masterpiece. It has a beautiful soundtrack, wonderful setting and costumes, and unearthly acting (particularly on the part of Richard Armitage). The story itself is inspiring and beautiful. A definite must-see!

LOVE IT! This movie is a classic, funny, awesome musical for anyone who likes musicals!  Yes its kind of cheesy and corny but most musicals are that way and thats part of the charm!

A suspence This movie is full of twists and turns. It was hard to follow at first, but the ending reveals all. This movie has the story line quality of a mystery novel.

What a spectacular film Extremely late to the party of course on this one. I just watched Apocalypse Now and I'm aware that I'm not going to bring anything new or original to the analysis of the content so let me just get my impression out of the way and movie on: this is an amazing movie.  Spectacle in modern film comes cheap. When I go to the movies today and see cityscapes with flying traffic, long shots of enormous crowds, famous landmarks incinerated in disaster films, or dogfights high above a besieged city, it all lacks the impact knowing that 99 percent of what I'm looking at was generated on a computer screen rather than an actual set. There is value to knowing that what we're seeing exists in some fashion even if it's a model on a table at ILM. Apocalypse Now has so many shots that are crammed with detail. Especially at the beginning of the movie there are shots with a dozen helicopters, tanks, and crowds of soldiers running through. I'd like to think that awe I felt at the spectacular undertaking it must have been to achieve those shots is an approximation of what that might feel seeing it in reality. It's a much more uniquely magical feeling than anything constructed in the digital universe.  It isn't just spectacle though. The movie is gorgeously shot. As Captain Willard's odyssey gets deeper and deeper into the jungle the movie starts to drown in ethereal smoke and vapor. I was amazed by how many times I could have paused the movie and had a beautiful still. The Redux edition has gone through a technicolor process that has created a deeply saturated look for the entire film.  The story is wonderful. Based on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Willard's journey is like the gradual on-come of intoxication. The imagery in the films opening act is crisp and bright. As the characters near the end of their outward journey, a metaphor for their journey into themselves, the shots are doused in smoke and darkness. The movie is pitch perfect and though it's very long, the passaging of time was unnoticeable for me.  That is, except for the Redux addtions. The original Apocalypse Now was two hours and ten minutes long. The Redux edition features 50 minutes of restored footage which bumps the movie to just over the three hour mark. The voyage into the dark hearts of men proceeds beautifully, until at about just over halfway through there's a new addition. In the sequence the voyagers on Willard's boat come to a trashed medivac station and find the Playboy bunnies hanging out there, presumably waiting out a bad rain storm. Willard trades gasoline for time with the bunnies and what follows is a bizzare sequence where the two women babble nonsensically while men slowly and remove their clothes and pose them in positions. At one point while a soldier and one of the women are about to have sex they knock a casket off a table which falls open revealing the naked body of a soldier. Obvious symbolism aside, the scene doesn't work. The women behave so bizzarely and the dialogue is so odd that the whole thing feels haphazard and out of place compared to the silky darkness of the rest of the movie.  Later in the film, virtually right before Willard finds Kurtz, the crew of the boat run into some French colonialists. What follows is a long LONG dinner party with the Frenchman where they get into an argue about politics. Willard then gets high with one of the women who tells him he has two side: one that loves and one that hates. This far into the film it was as though the little boat I'd come to feel like a passenger on hit an iceberg. And that iceberg was France. All the forward momentum and intoxication of the narrative is almost wrecked on it's shores. The journey, which up until this point has occurred through symbolism and action bogs down in this talky expository mess. A story as epic as this can't be ruined by two scenes but it certainly made me wish I'd seen the movie without them. Eventually the crew climbs back into their boat and finishes the journey, finding Colonel Kurtz (an already swelling Marlon Brando) and their destiny.  I tried comparing Apocalypse Now to the other war films I've seen but the difficulty is (and the mistaken assumption I believe lead to reinserting the French sequence) that I don't really believe Apocalypse Now is a war film. If so, unlike other war films, the fact that it is is incidental. What matters is it's one of the most well assembled, completely engrossing stories about the darker facets of man's inner natures and could have occurred at any point in history. Definitely one of my favorite films.

My rifle is my best friend, it is my life!, During the Vietnam War, marine recruits are sent to boot camp to undergo training and be prepared to go to war in a foreign country. They face a Gunnery Sergeant who uses severe and cruel treatment to hammer the recruits into tough marines and ready to fight. One recruit in particular is a clumsy, slow to learn and does not do well in following discipline. His story is one of the first tragic stories in this movie.  Another of the recruits winds up being a reporter for Stars and Stripes and he is assigned to go into battle with a marine squad. There his will and preparedness for battle is tested to its limits....  This movie was directed by and produced by Stanley Kubrick. He also helped to co-write the script and it is one of his best movies. It is certainly one of the most dramatic movies I have ever watched and that starts at the boot camp scenes though the final battle scene. The movie features a good script with excellent acting from multiple actors. It even features some of the best depictions of the horror of war and the effect that it can have on people.  This movie is ranked among the top ten war movies ever made and it deserves that ranking in my opinion. I strongly recommend it to you if you like war movies and seek realism in what our soldiers went through. This is also one of Stanley Kubrick's best films that he ever made. Buy it and watch it, you will not be disappointed.

What Fans Have Wanted I first watched this movie when I was in 7th grade (probably too young but I undoubtedly fell in love with it) and I have been a fan ever since. The story, the characters, the look, the sound, they all add to the overall feel of the film and make it a great example of American satire. The dialogue is witty, the characters smart, and the plot line solid.  I already owned a copy of "Heathers" when this edition was released so I hesitated to buy it, but I ultimately caved in and got it.  And boy was I happy I did so.  First off, the locker is a fantastic idea for a rerelease of this movie. So many movies don't even try to capture the essence of the film in their rerelease packaging but I really think the marketing & design departments went over and beyond for this one.  Included in the locker were two DVDs and a Blu Ray. The film itself is same old same old but the special features disc includes two documentaries and a few other extras. I don't own a Blu Ray player as of yet so I haven't been able to watch the Blu Ray version but I'm sure the quality is amazing.  The discs were inside of a shockingly realistic yearbook from 1988, profiling the trends and such from that year. Also included was a fake Algebra II book that held a t shirt inside. The t shirt is quite large, but I'm sure it'll shrink a little after being washed.  The magnets are fantastic! I put them on my fridge so every time I get something to drink I can laugh a little.  All in all, this is the perfect box set for such an iconic film. Every element captures the essence of the film; there's no random items the production company just threw in. This is a set for the mega fans, like myself, that want a blue locker so sit on their bookshelf.

Magnificent Both Ford and Holden were early in their careers, and full of vim and vinegar.  They established a life long friendship working on this film, and it carried over into the movie.  TEXAS is full of action, and is a tale of friendship, love, and loyalty.  The good guys win, and it was critically praised.  (Why don't the good guys win anymore?)  Sadly, Holden and Ford only teamed up once more.  TEXAS is included in the book, "Head `Em Off At the Pass! 94 Westerns You Should Watch." <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1460905016">Head `Em Off At the Pass!: 94 Westerns You Should Watch</a>

unbelievable! The workouts are twice as intense, making you more motivated to finish each time you attempt one. Tony is still the same d-bag he was in the first one but hilarious nonetheless. want to go from average joe to spartan in 3 months time? well than this is your answer, not for the faint of heart.

Laugh with Max Linder" is a fantastic DVD to honor the career of Max Linder! Before many people knew of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, there was Max Linder.  The French actor who captivated audiences worldwide with his short films based on his character Max, the suave and dapper man known for wearing his hat and a suit and always charming the women around him.  In fact, no matter where he traveled around the world, he was mobbed by his female fans and was literally the first International movie star.  He directed wrote and directed his own films, was one of the most financially successful comedians during the silent era (making 1 million Francs back in 1912), the man responsible for introducing future star Maurice Chevalier and is known for inspiring Charlie Chaplin.  Unfortunately, like other silent film stars who were not able to transcend from the silent era to the sound era, Max Linder, who's career was hindered because of a German poison gas attack when he was called to serve during World War I.  Despite having opportunities to revive his career in America, because of his ill-health and his fading popularity, Linder was unable to jump start his career and unfortunately lived the remainder of his young life in severe depression.  In 1923, he and his wife made a suicide pact and both were successful in killing themselves in 1925.  For Charlie Chaplin, the death of Max Linder was a blow to him as Chaplin looked up to Linder as mentor.  Chaplin, hearing about Linder's death, closed down his studio to honor him and in one of his movies, Chaplin wrote the following dedication, "For the unique Max, the great master - his disciple Charles Chaplin".  Unfortunately, Max Linder has become an unknown to many people who are familiar with Chaplin or Keaton, but before there was the tramp, there was Max.  And although many of his work is not available on DVD, in 2003, Image Entertainment, courtesy of film preservationist David Shepard released "Laugh with Max Linder" which contains his 1921 film, "Seven Years Bad Luck" complete and digitally mastered from an original 35 mm tinted print and a new small-orchestra score by Robert Israel using authentic period arrangements of silent film music.  The DVD would also contain four of Max's early short sketches made in France: "Troubles of a Grasswidower" (1912), "Love Surprises" (1909), "Max Takes a Picture" (1913) and Max Sets the Style" (1914).  The DVD would also include an excerpt of "Be My Wife" (1921), Max's second American feature.  In "Seven Years Bad Luck", the film is written, directed, acted and produced by Max Linder.  Max Linder plays the suave character named Max, a wealthy man who gets drunk one night.  Meanwhile, the following morning, while he is sleeping, his valet John (played by Ralph McCullough) and his maid Mary (played by Betty Peterson) are having fun with each other and in the process, accidentally break Max's mirror.  As John and Mary call the mirror maker to prepare another mirror and have it delivered to Max's home immediately, the two enlist the chef (played by Harry Mann) to imitate Max's actions on the mirror and make him think that he is looking at his own reflection.  First Max questions the way he looks in the mirror but John tells him that after a hard night of drinking, their facial features change.  At first Max accepts this answer and as the chef is able to mimic nearly every move that Max is doing, when both bend over and turn around, Max bumps into the chef's rear end and realizes the prank.  But before he is able to swat his chef on the head with his shoe, he receives a call from his fiance Betty (played by Alta Allen) for him to come over.  But while he is on the phone, the delivery people come by to replace the mirror just in time.  After Max is done with his phone call and gets back to the mirror, he throws his slipper at it expecting to hit the chef but instead, shatters the mirror into pieces.  Unfortunately, because Max is quite a superstitious man, he knows that breaking a mirror will give you seven years of bad luck.  Max is so bothered by this that he can't ride his car (thinking he will die in an accident), afraid of other transportation as well, but when he meets a fortune teller, she tells him that a dog will interfere with his life.  Meanwhile, Max's best friend and rival is trying to get close to his fiance Betty but she turns him down.  So, when Max eventually gets to Betty's home, he notices that her little dog is there and while Betty is out, he tries to put the dog in a flower vase, so the dog doesn't disturb his time with Betty.  Unfortunately, when Betty comes back and the two discuss their future together, she notices her dog is missing and when Max tries to hide it, the dog is all wet and immediately, Betty thinks that Max tried to harm her dog and breaks off their engagement.  Feeling that he has seven years of bad luck, Max decides that he needs to leave for awhile and when he goes to travel by train to an unknown destination, he is robbed of his money.  With no money, he does all he can to sneak on the train and by doing so, Max will undergo an exciting adventure as he tries to allude the authorities who are hot on his tail.  VIDEO & AUDIO:  For this DVD "Laugh with Max Linder", all are presented color-tinted or in black and white and are in standard definition (4:3), while the new music by Robert Israel is presented in Dolby Digital Stereo.  Considering the age of these films, the fact they are in-tact, there are no major nitrate degradation or warping, just scratches and speckles which are visible but for a silent film, that's pretty good that these films and shorts were not in terrible shape.  They are watchable and frankly, I was quite pleased with the quality and very fortunate that you had a professional like David Shepard work and preserve these films.  As for audio, Robert Israel did a fantastic job with the music on this DVD!  SPECIAL FEATURES:  "Laugh with Max Linder" comes with the following special features:    * Troubles of a Grasswidower - (9:50) A 1912 black and white short featuring Max and his wife who are having marital problems and learns quickly how difficult life is without his wife.   * Love's Surprises - (6:12) A color-tinted short from 1909 featuring Max and a group of guys try to win the affection of a woman's heart.   * Max Takes a Picture - (13:05) A black and white short from 1913.  Max accidentally thinks his girlfriend that he is photographing in the water has drowned.   * Max Sets the Style - (8:50) A black and white short from 1914.  It's the day of Max's wedding but while he is getting dressed, he accidentally catches on fire.   * Be My Wife - (13:10) A black and white excerpt from the 1921 short "Be My Wife" which Max Linder shot in America.   * Boxing with Maurice Tourmeur - (2:39) "Candid" footage featuring Max Linder having fun with boxer Maurice Tourneur.  JUDGMENT CALL:  It is truly a shame that many people have forgotten about Max Linder and his accomplishments in the silent era.  But he was possibly the equivalent to a Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise of the early 1900's and early teens.  The highest paid actor possibly in the world at that time (1912) and women would literally fall whenever they saw him in public, as he traveled to various countries around the globe and he was the most noticeable star and considering that cinema was just blossoming at the time, he was a man who did it all.  He wrote, directed, produced his own films and he inspired many people including Chaplin.  It's unfortunate that his career was cut short because of the first World War and from that injury, had to battle ill-health afterward and never really could get back to the limelight even when he was given the opportunity to make things happen in Hollywood.  But despite how tragic his career and life ended, like many other silent film stars, they were unable to cope with their lifestyle change from being a huge star during the silent film era and then losing the fame and money during the talkies.  For Max Linder, he was probably a man that could have transcended to the talkies if he had not battled these health problems but what is important now is that his name and his work be remembered.  But what you get with "Laugh with Max Linder" is his very accessible "Seven Years Bad Luck".  Although late into his career, the film is absolutely fun to watch, hilarious and exciting.  The mirror sequence was fantastic and just the overall story and pacing was very entertaining!  And of course, you get the four shorts and other bonus material that really makes "Laugh with Max Linder" a wonderful DVD release.  The fact that these films look so good, yo have to give credit to David Shepard for preserving these films but also releasing them to the public.  I'm hoping he has more of Linder's works and we will see another release in the near future.  While the shorts may not be as accessible and fun as "Seven Years Bad Luck", they are quite intriguing to watch considering they were created between 1909-1914 and how these shorts look very good despite their age.  For a man who has created so many short films in his career, it's sad to see that not many of them are available on video and if they are, there are many that are incomplete.  Personally, "Laugh with Max Linder" may be the best DVD out there that showcases Max Linder's flair for physical comedy.  Before there was the Tramp, there was the character of MAX and he had a good number of films based on this character.  The problem is finding those other short films is not going to be easy.  Overall, for film historians to the silent film fan who want to know more about Max Linder and his work, this DVD is what you want and it is fantastic.  "Laugh with Max Linder" is highly recommended!

Just amazing incredible incredible incredible i dont know what else to say, this brought tears to my girlfriends eyes. I would definitely recommend this to anyone as a good tearjerker

Conspiracy Theory? I'm not sure when a conspiracy "theory" ceases to become just theory and are taken seriously, but JFK is one of those movies which present actual information which should remove any doubts any reasonable person would have about this murder of one of America's most popular presidents.  JFK wasn't my favorite president, but didn't deserve to be murdered in office.  This is the movie of the only trial (except for the 2000? senate investigation) to actually pronounce that this "theory" had a basis in fact.  The acting, scripting, and photography are good examples of what Hollywood can do when it tries!

The real McCoy This is authentic stuff, including the 1960s era audience, who apparently loved this good ole blues DVD just as much as I do now.

A Great Gundam Series In UC 0079 the Federation is mass producing Gundams for their ground forces. Shiro Amada is the commander of the 08th MS team who fights a ground war against Zeon guerrilla forces. Zeon, however, is making a weapon that will tip the balance of power in the war.  This is a great Gundam series. The action is good and there are lots of cool characters. There is also a great love story in this one too. It's definitely worth watching.

DiCaprio and Scorsese Do it Once More Everyone's favorite combo in director Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio is here once again in Shutter Island, and the end result is a masterpice. Every character, every scene, and just about every word in the scrip is pure perfection. This psychological thriller has Leonardo searching an American prison for a missing patient and, eventually, answers to the island's true intentions. I won't spoil the plot, and since words do it no justice, I will simply say that if you love Scorses and DiCaprio and don't have this movie, you do not love them. Simple as that.

Musical Summit, indeed! Having a chance to see Jimmy Page up-close and personal after all these years was truly a gift!  The man's STILL GOT IT!!!  Seeing how HE played some of those fabulous Zep songs was also 'a gift'!  Learning more about Edge; and where he came from (and all the U2 boys) was very interesting - especially the school vid of them as teenagers.  Wow - were they ever ROUGH!!!  But lookit how THEY turned out!  Gives the rest of us hope!!!  Jack White I was not familiar with. (And thought him lesser - why should HE be here?)  But he kinda does (just) hold his own in here.  Overall: extremely, extremely well worth investigating for any Zep/U2 fan; and any fan of guitar in general.  ~BTFP.

The Enforcer Sadly San Fran has always been a Freakshow Cesspool of immorality and hippies,in this film with a great opening not because the gullible liberalbroad backtalks to the guy but Because the Man is driving a Beautiful mean sounding Yellow Corvette with Sharp wheels,what follows though is that this time instead of vigilantes gone wild you have a so-called "Liberation Army",a sad excuse for a Priest(a Radical Sadly The Church as some but they are not True Catholics,Pfelger anyone?)some Black militants who for some reason(Spoiler) are not the ones responsible for running amok but are helping the PoPo(or Five-oh,the Po-lice),then you have the City of Sand Fudge wanting to impose new "Diversity"Measures such as putting unqualified people or in this case Women not for the skills but for the typical libby causes. all in all a Great film as usual with Eastwood and Malpaso,and in the end the Hippies lose just like in real life.Get a Job and Conform.

Spotless The blu-ray was delivered in a timely manner and was securely wrapped. The blu-ray was free of blemishes and played on my blu-ray player with out a probably

Well directed, Wonderful Actors This is one of John Bormans best.  I love Sean Conrey's outfits.  Thoughout the whole flim I was look at his outfit.  I love the house it was shot in.  It is also nice to see Sean Conrey gets to makes out with a lot of diffrent women. That is how I feel I am not good at wirting reviews sorry.

Great work Movie arrived quickly and was in great condition.  I was pleased that it was packed with another movie I ordered at the same time.

Must-see DVD! As soon as we started watching this series on TV, we knew we had to own it on DVD.  We enjoyed watching the characters and story evolve, and hated that it ended so soon.  Can't wait for Part 2!

Winter is Coming This season 1, is as riveting as the books. I loved the stories. The nudity was a shock. I liked this series very much.

Great buy !!!! This is a great video and a great buy.  If you are a Jeff Gordon's fan, this is a great dvd to watch over and over.  Great Christmas gift for the racer in your family.

A powerful and wonderful tragic-drama I have watched this movie countless times, and I am always greatly moved by it. I actually cried the first time I saw it... even after several viewings, I still get misty-eyed.  This is the true story of John Merrick, a horribly disfigured man who became famous as a sideshow freak known as The Elephant Man.  The movie, itself, is as close to the truth as any other Elephant Man story told, with certain exceptions. David Lynch's direction gives it a thoroughly haunting but beautiful atmosphere, though depraved and ugly as some of the story is. Anthony Hopkins gives a brilliant performance as Dr. Frederick Treves, who discovers The Elephant Man and brings him to the hospital for treatment and study. Freddie Jones is superb as the carnival barker who enslaves The Elephant Man and guards his money-making freak. John Gielgud is perfect as the hospital administrator. Anne Bancroft costars as a theatre actress who begins visiting Merrick and becomes his friend. But, the truly outstanding performance of this film is that of John Hurt as John Merrick/The Elephant Man.  He lends a passion and humanity to his character, even from behind several pounds of body and facial prosthetics. The story is absorbing and emotionally charged. The final scene (with Albinoni's Adagio as soundtrack score) is particularly moving... I dare you not to cry. This is a stunning, haunting, unforgettable masterpiece, aptly suited to black and white. No film collection is complete without this one.

great movie movie came in a timely manner and in good condition.  The Borgias was an interesting movie. The fact it was based on a true story made in more exciting and interesting.  Showtime has again done an excellent job on a new series. The setting, cloths, story line and actors make it so real you can get lost in it. Can't wait for season 2. I love this time-period as I did with the Tudors. Another excellent series by Showtime. I recommend both, The Borgias and The Tudors for anyone who loves history with a juicy twist added in for flavor.

como perros y gatos movie I have been looking for this movie for a long time, so I was very happy to finally find somebody who was selling it, a nice mexican movie

Amazed that I LOVED it! I borrowed this movie from my local library and with great trepidation i started watching it.  I have been less than impressed with Disney's "real people" movies since their stellar BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.  POCAHONTAS, HERCULES, MULAN....not great.  THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG,  while having some of the best music Disney has put out in YEARS, was disappointing.  But I digress.  In TANGLED you get a good story line, great characters (the horse was hysterical, a really evil villain (talk bout Mommy Dearest....yuck!) and enough adult humor to keep the Big Kids interested.  In many ways, I thought this more of an adult film than for little kids really.  Kind of like old Warner Brothers cartoons.  Pixar animation was absolutely beautiful!  First Disney movie with human characters since B&TB that I am going to purchase.  As in spend my hard earned bucks on. NOT the Blu-ray but the DVD version.  Highly recommended.

Super deal I have yet to watch the original Ocean's 11 (included), so I can't speak for that movie. Out of the other three, Ocean's Eleven is a solid A+ and Ocean's Thirteen is easily an A as well. Unfortunately, the middle movie, Ocean's Twelve was rather unimpressive, scoring a meager C in my estimation. With all this said, you simply can't beat the value of owning all four for for $11 -- the first movie alone is well worth that much. The double-sided disks can be a bit annoying to handle and change out, but it is a minor inconvenience and something well overshadowed by the value. If you're willing to spend an extra ~10 sec figuring out which side of the disk you want, in order to save $20+, then this is for you!

Creative I can't believe that I held off watching this movie because of all the reviews moaning about the blood and gore. Some review even said this took the violence a notch higher than Kill Bill. Really? What nonsense.  This movie is just awesome. I haven't read the comic book but the script, casting, acting, editing and cinematography are just brilliant. Not to forget, the selection of music is really creative. Speaking of creative, the direction is inspired and this helps the movie flow from beginning to end, scene by scene. I didn't even feel the romantic side-show was bad. What's a superhero without a love interest, right?  Anyway, if you were turned off from seeing this because of the reports of violence, give it a try. If you've seen any war film/fantasy film/historical war film/alien film this won't bother you. The action is choreographed very well and I nearly cried with joy when I saw the night vision First-Person-Shooter segment complete with the reloading animations and the "Commando" perk (FPS fans will probably get the reference). And the Good, the Bad and the Ugly soundtrack during the final act.  And when  ***spoiler alert***  Big Daddy is issuing tactical commands to Hit-Girl while being burned alive.  ***spoiler alert***  It's little touches like this that make the movie better than any superhero movie I've ever seen.  Anyway, the little girl really does deserve all the plaudits coming her way. Many complain that she should have received more screen time, but her lessened presence probably contributed to her swashbuckling persona. Aaron Johnson doesn't seem to be a favourite of the reviewers here, but he does a great job too.  I'm definitely looking forward to the sequel. I wonder who the bad guys will be this time.

Gumbo for the soul ... "Black Is, Black Ain't" raises the question of Black identity in America which is as relevant today as it was in the 90's when Riggs produced this movie. This is a fine artistic testament to his legacy.

Best Superhero Cartoon Since Justice League Unlimited Without wishing to raise the specter of ancient Marvel/DC rivalries, it's impossible not to compare this series with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003L7DK88">Justice League</a>, and with Justice League's successor series, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GYI33Q">Justice League Unlimited</a>. For although The Avengers doesn't quite have the philosophical depth of Justice League Unlimited, like the Justice League shows it is nevertheless proof positive that a superhero cartoon can be done entirely seriously and - astonishing as this might be for some people - still wind up as an intelligent piece of television. Far more so in fact than most live action "grown up" shows that get made.  One thing I particularly loved about this series was the way that even from the very beginning, the season-spanning plot arcs were slowly, almost languidly moved into place, even as we were blitzkrieged with the superheroic action sequences of the moment. For like Justice League Unlimited, this show is as much a serial as it is a series. In this, the final instalment of season one, just enough of the big picture is revealed to keep us feeling like we've travelled some ways down our journey. At the same time, just enough is held back - or perhaps I should say hinted at - that I for one can't wait to see season two!  But for me, the best thing about The Avengers is the truly seamless melding of silver and iron age aesthetics. Old-school fans will delight in all the countless references to the original Avengers comic books from the 1960s. This applies on virtually every conceivable level, from costume design to inter-character conflicts. At the same time, we also see at least the beginnings of a far harder-edged iron age cynicism, and even political consciousness - particularly in the characters of Tony Stark, and, arguably, Henry Pym. Neither of these elements were ever even remotely present in the original comics. Contemporary comic book fans will likewise note the merging of elements from both the original and "Ultimate" Marvel Universes. Yet here again, these disparate elements are so perfectly combined that it is difficult to imagine them ever being apart.  At the time of writing, this disc is not yet available for purchase, and the product info does not state which, or how many episodes are included. As you may have noticed, I've reviewed the show, not this specific release. However, by a process of inference what we appear to have here are episodes 15 to 21. It does kinda suck when companies milk their new releases like this: I think it's obvious that most consumers would far prefer it were the show to be released in whole seasons, or at least half seasons.  While we're on the topic of this release, it's also worth adding that on a purely visual level, the DVD cover art we see in the product snapshot here on Amazon doesn't really do this show justice. The art in The Avengers actually has a very slightly "gritty" feel to it that I haven't seen in an animated television show before; at least, not outside of some of the older MTV stuff from the 1990s.  Oh, and finally, if you're wondering about the actual content of the episodes on this disk, I don't give away spoilers in my reviews, but do bear in mind what I said earlier about the threads finally coming together, and just a few of the deeper secrets being revealed. At this stage in the season, the writers are primarily engaged in fulfilling promises already made rather than making new ones. If you're an old comic book fan from way back there won't be too many surprises. But you can expect the stories that are told to be told well.  And comic book fan or nay, you can definitely expect to see a great deal of things Asgardian!  Theo.

This is alot of good action 90's style This movie has alot of good music alot of 90's action alot of big named stars whom IMO play their parts rather well.  I do think this story focuses more on the legend of the O.K. Corral and the events around it then it dose with actual facts in history.  However the story is well told and the action and special effects are done very well.  If you want a good 90's Action western then do pick this one up

p90x 2 review Let me start out by saying after the first week of doing p90x m2 I hated it.  I thought it was not hard and I didn't like how the moves made me feel (awkward and weak).  The first week of phase one I I took it easy to try and get the moves down and was going to really push the next three weeks, and I was not impressed.  After week one my lower back was hurting and my legs were wasted.  I used the foam roller on my back before starting week two which took care of the back problem, but unfortunately my legs are my weak spot so they continued to hurt throughout my first three weeks (phase one is meant to work on your weakness i.e.  my leg strength).  I had to modify some of the moves in order to keep up, if I didn't have to modify some moves that would mean the workout was too easy for me and I am wasting my time.  This is p90x 2 folks this is not supposed to be easy!  I started to like p90x 2 after week two of phase 1.  The funny thing about phase one is that the better you get at the workouts the harder they become.  I was able to push myself farther and so I got a better workout.  I noticed at work that my posture at my desk was better and that my lower back didn't hurt after work anymore.  I stared to lose weight and gain def in my arms and chest.  I lost around 9 lbs after three weeks of phase one (I did the fat shredder plan 50/30/20) and had my nutrition dialed in.  I think of phase one as practice for the next phase you most def need to complete at least three weeks of phase one to continue or you are going to be lost.  I have started week phase 2 around two weeks ago and this is more like p90x.  Phase 1 focused more on legs and core, and phase 2 focused on each individual body part covered that day and core.  I still have to modify some of the harder moves but I am able to get a great pump for these workouts.  As of week two of phase 2 I am down 12 pounds and feeling great.  I just ordered the other 2 strength workouts because I am going to stay in phase two for 5 weeks.  I am really looking forward to phase 3!  In regards to the equipment I spent much less than I did when doing p90x.  I purchased a stab ball, two 8lb med balls and a foam roller.  I don't think you really need to foam roller but it is nice to have.  Pushup stands are also optional since you will be using mostly med balls to do pushups.  When doing p90x I spent $300 for block weights and $15 on cheap push up stands and around $30 for a pull up bar and another $30 on a pull up assist.  For p90x 2 I only spent $100 for the extra equipment  I know a lot of people are saying this program is dangerous and not worth the money but remember these people have not completed the program.  They only did phase 1 for a week didn't like it, moved to phase 2 early and couldn't do the moves because they didn't complete phase 1.  It was hard so they quit.  P90x 2 is different and it's hard but it is suppose to be challenging and take you out of your comfort zone.  Tony could have come out with another p90x clone but what would be the point?  Heck that would have been easier for him and he would have made more money but he didn't take the easy way out!  He came out with something new that will challenge you and make you want to quit, but if you stick with it you will see great result I know I have so far.  If you're still on the fence wait a couple of month for people to actually finish the program to see their result I think you will be surprised.

A boy and his dragon, or how to befriend an alien intelligent creature, live the PERFECT first date and end a 300 years old war This film is a masterpiece in the "kidult" (kid/adult) movie category. All family will find something to love here - younger children will love the funny dragons and Vikings, teenagers will most probably be seduced by humour and music and the adults will certainly appreciate the most excellent dialogues and especially this incredible first date during which the main hero steals forever the heart of the girl who just one hour earlier furiously, insanely, visceraly and totally hated his guts!  Without providing too many SPOILERS, I will try to describe the appeal of this film focusing on four points: the main hero, the First Contact with an alien intelligence, the PERFECT First Date and the PERFECTION of the scenario.  1. The hero. From the first moments of the film it is simply impossible to not like, at least a little, a young boy named Hiccup the Useless (a.k.a Hiccup the Horrendous), son of Stoic the Vast, of the tribe of Hairy Hooligans, from the land of Berk...))) Living amongst possibly the proudest and fiercest tribe of all the Vikings, Hiccup has problems to fit in, as he has less muscles and natural born ferocity than his kinsmen.  Having suffered from social isolation for most of his life, he developped a very sarcastic and bitter sense of humour, a solid complex of inferiority and a taste for staying away from others, in the safe haven of the workshop of the blacksmith Gobber, of whom he is the only apprentice.  It would be however difficult to see him as a loser, as he spend most of his time since early childhood working very hard and also intensely studying - which made him into the chief tinkerer of the whole Viking village and a very promising future blacksmith. However, his love for extravagant contraptions put him in a lot of trouble many times and many Vikings of Berk consider him almost as a threat to the public safety...)))  Now, the Vikings of Berk are tough customers, because since 300 years they wage a desperate war against the local dragons. The land of Berk is poor in natural resources and dragons try daily to steal every scrap of food they can find in Viking village - sheep, fish and even chicken are stolen at the first opportunity. Unwilling to starve, the Vikings developped weapons and tactics to fight the various dragons and until now managed to survive. But the fight is getting tougher and tougher and when the story begins the food supplies are running exceptionally low - and the long and cruel winter will be coming soon... In such hard times everybody is needed to fight to the best of his abilities and Hiccup is send finally into military training together with other youths of his age: Fishlegs, Snotlout, twins Tuffnut and Ruffnut and especially Astrid, the girl with whom he is hopelessly in love like since always - and who despises him openly and comes even to hate him passionately...  Now, Hiccup, although being weaker and less bloodthirsty than other Vikings, is definitely not a peacenik. He certainly likes tinkering - but what he builds are war engines! He is also all in favour of waging the war - but as the story develops he will realise that it is crucial that his tribe starts waging the RIGHT KIND of war... And ultimately it will become clear that far from being a loser, he is in fact the greatest warrior of his tribe as he will face, defeat and slay the most powerful, terrifying and evil creature that his tribe has ever met! And there are some moments in the story, in which he displays a steel strong determination and he even can be a little bit ruthless... Combined with wits, humour, honor, courage and generous heart, all this makes him a very likeable and exceptionnal hero of a movie for kids... Small wonder that he finally manages to tame the (lovely and clever) shrew whom he loved from the first sight when they were both barely out of their diapers...  2. The First Contact with an alien intelligence. Of all the dragons the Vikings of Berk ever faced, there is one, which even the most ferocious warriors fear - the Night Fury! Nobody ever saw the Night Fury and lived to tell the tale, so even after 300 years of war, nobody has any idea how this dragon looks like... But it exists, that much is certain and it is an absolutely deadly creature. The Night Fury is so fast, that it is impossible to see it clearly in the night sky (it comes out of its secret lair only after sunset) and it creates supersonic blasts when it accelerates! Also, its flame blast is exceptionally powerful - so hot, that it is white-blue and so fast, that it hits the target before even people on the ground realise that they are being shot at. And the Night Fury is also more clever than other dragons, always avoiding traps and always attacking in the weak spots of Viking defences. In one word, Night Fury is death.  But because of his intelligence and courage (and also a little bit of luck) Hiccup will manage to see this particular dragon - and even better than just see... During the film the teenager and the deadly but intelligent alien creature will establish a truce, then an understanding, then an alliance - and finally a very deep and sincere friendship. This gradual process is shown with a breathtking perfection, a great intelligence and attention to details and tons of humour - and it is very, very touching...  3. The PERFECT first date. I will not enter into details here, because it is important that you discover this great moment of cinema unspoiled, but this is one of the most beautiful scenes I saw in a film ever. I am now a married man and a father of two children (so not really a teenager anymore) but the PERFECT first date from this film very pleasantly reminded me of this time in life when the world seems to smile to us, when the sky is singing, when nothing else counts that this magic moment and when everything is good, pure, beautiful and exactly as it should be... Allow yourself to open your heart beginning with the scene in which Astrid beats Hiccup with her fists and the handle of her battleaxe (definitely a required thing for the PERFECT first date) and let yourself be seduced by the magic of everything that follows. Believe me, you will not regret it...  4. The perfection of the scenario. The film makes a full circle and the ending of the story connects perfectly with its beginning (including a very clever use of words "pest" and "pet"). There is not even one moment of weakness. There is absolutely no one scene which could be deleted without harming the film and I can hardly imagine what else could have been added. The dialogues are simply perfect - full of wit and humour, they all have their importance. All characters are very well developped - other than Hiccup, Astrid and the Night Fury, those who are the most crucial are Stoic the Vast and Gobber. A good thing is that the film doesn't bash any characters - there is no "bad guys" amongst the Vikings and even when Stoic the Vast makes a huge mistake of judgment we can actually very well understand his reasons - and also there is no doubt that although pigheaded and very conservative, he is nevertheless a very brave and absolutely selfless man, entirely dedicated to the survival of his tribe. A very succesful character is Fishlegs, a somehow obese young Viking who clearly played too much "Dungeons and Dragons", as he knows all the dragon statistics by heart... As a long time ADD player myself I laughed out loud during all his nerdy comments and interventions...)))  The story gets quite serious towards the end, by showing that the real evil (with capital E, V, I, L and an exclamation mark) can not be ignored, escaped or appeased - it must be faced, fought, defeated and mercilessly eraditcated. But when there is a fight there are casualties on both sides and there is no blodless victories - and so even the greatest triumph brings its part of grief, loss and sorrow. The great thing about "How to train your dragon" is that although there is a happy ending, it is not precisely an eezy peezy pink candy sweet kind of happy ending - it is a surprisingly serious happy ending in which relief, happiness and cheerfulness are mixed with just a tiny little bit of sadness (not enough to make little kids cry though).  Bottom line, this film is a treasure and a pleasure. If you didn't see it, go get it. It will make you laugh a lot, cheer you up no matter how bad was your day. And the PERFECT first date scene will mend many wounds that time unavoidably inflicted to your heart (as it did to all of us) and certainly make you smile with just the right kind of nostalgy (if you are a fully grown up adult) ot just the right kind of expectation (if you are still in your early teens). ENJOY!

The Sound of The Music Blu-ray Great Quality awesome Sound :) I would recommend this DVD if you like Musicals this one is the right one.

classic american adult ent!! i own the single disc re-release of this film which i bought in 2007 by image ent(general media ent) as "the unrated edition" and is the same time frame and widescreen.  because of how extreme the sex(uality) is for a film of this nature, it's a rare ocassion when i do watch it because the devient behavior going on makes my jaw drop in shock, almost making me want to shut it off. but because i have a daring mind, i don't. for those with innocent minds and weak stomachs, i strongly discourage buying this film. those with a firm grip on reality whom want a very close representation of caligula's true crazed state of mind, buy it if you dare!

Introspective, Thought-provoking Film The first time I viewed this movie was in 1981 (11 years after release).  I laughed aloud at the humor and wit this movie had. It had balance, allowing the viewer to see the highs and lows of men who are both comfortable and uncomforable with being gay.  The character, Micheal, was especially interesting.  He seemed to be the most tortured and not neccesarily because of his being gay.  He had problems with aging.  I especially liked his "Picture of Dorian Gray" moment when he looked at a large painting of himself when he was in his bedroom with Donald.  He made reference to Oscar Wilde, who was also gay and wrote the book "Picture of Dorian Gray", later in the film. The film explores the stereotypical and not-so-typical views society has with homosexuality.  A very good movie!

Great movie! This is a great movie for kids. I also enjoyed watching it. My one and two year old loved it. We can watch it over and over.

Shooter You see a lot of different films being drawn into this one but timing is everything and the pace focuses on the action, just enough to pull it together. I saw an alternate ending. However, I have a hunch there will be a sequel or a series under different titles.

Great movie You will either love it or hate it. I loved it. My only complaint is that the region A disc doesn't seem to have come out yet.

A classic - can't go wrong An all-time favorite of mine.  I had to upgrade my regular DVD of this movie to HD.  Wish the sequels were better.

Great New Item! I bought this for a Christmas gift.  It arrived soon after purchase and is in New Condition!  We had watched this movie the day it came out on DVD. It is great!  I do have to say that it is kinda adult themed though.  If you are a Johnny Depp fan, you'll love it!

Tron Legacy Tron really grows on you especially the music.  It is quite addictive.  My grandkids love it too.  I listen to the music when I work out.

highly addictive We were hooked from the minute we started watching.  We watched the whole first season in one day!! We couldnt pull ourselves away from the kindle

Quo Vadis I purchased this for my neighbor.  I saw it when it first was made a long time ago.  My neighbor is reading the book for a religious book club and had never seen the film.  Amazon was about the only place that carried the film.

Moving Submarine Drama WE DIVE AT DAWN directed by Anthony Asquith is an excellent submarine film. This is a very realistic film containing skillfully structured dialogue giving insight into the daily lives of the sailors aboard a British Submarine. It is very atmospheric and gives a good feel of what life may have been like aboard a submarine during WWII in part thanks to cinematographer Jack Cox and art designer Walter Murton whose efforts helped achieved this immensely. The exceptional cast includes Eric Portman, John Mills and Niall MacGinnis. Once again it's ordinary men put into extraordinary circumstances and they do their duty for country and honor.

BLOOD AND GORE THANK U I was thinking to myself couple weeks ago what was one movie that scared you when you would rent it as a kid at the local video store and there it popped up Slaughterhouse. Well I picked it up and I'm so happy I did this movie may look like a bad horror movie ,but It beats most horror movies now with the blod and guts it has. One sick and twisted family. Also tons of extras on this disc you won't be mad buying this dvd one bit.Wish they would make a 2nd one and they could if they wanted to cause horror fans would see it.

Wonderful TV Show I Never Heard of Before I am not sure how I came to not hear of Thriller all these years or miss reruns on TV but I did.  Thriller is an anthology TV show from 1960-1962.  I love Boris Karloff and when I heard about this DVD set, I was sure it was for me.  The entire series is great.  There are some stories which are crime and mystery stories and increasingly more in the horror genre.  Many are outstanding, some are good, others are Ok.  A nice plus is that the show never went downhill like many series in their last season.  Actually the 2nd season was better than the first.  I highly recommend this series and DVD set.

Colin Farrell is one badass vamp! I hope there is a sequel just so I can see Colin Farrell reprise his role. He did such a great job of playing a vampire, I is actually kind of creepy how good he was at it. Having McLovin in this movie didn't hurt either. Lol. Check this one out and sit back and enjoy!

Movie I bought this movie for my grandkids, ages 5 and 3.  They loved it!!  We are planning to take them on a train ride on the Polar Express in December so wanted them to see the movie first.  We all enjoyed the movie!  I love ordering from Amazon-great prices, free shipping, and fast delivery. Thanks!

Dudley's Arthur A great classic.  We loved Hobson's deliver.  Arthur has a charming childlike approach to life. Fun to watch as a family, if your kids aren;t to young.

much better than the more recent item of this name this is a feel good movie for the whole family.  The songs are fun and catchy (I think my favourite would be "the emporah's new clothes"), and danny kaye and his young co star are a joy.  the dvd copy I have is in excellent condition - sure it mighta been nice to have some extras, but that is fine and it certainly does not detract the fact that this is a classic.  This movie was reportedly years in the making, and apparently when danny kaye travelled to Denmark, after it came out, he was greeted with quite a postive reception.

Everyone should know this piece of history. It is a very inspiring part of history that for no reason you should miss knowing. No fiction writer would have been able to equal the real Estonian history of their culture, union, resistance, valor, courage, intelligence, singing revolution and triumph.

Great movie The best Bring it On movie ever. The sequels are good, but not as the good as the first. I would like to see this movie on Blu-ray.

Cate = Success i am a total Tudor fan and Blanchett does not let you down.  Elizabeth was her own person during a time of complete misogyny.  this movie gives her credit.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil I could go on and on about this movie but here's the deal. Clint Eastwood and this cast have created a near masterpiece that weaves an amazing story, even if you had never lived in the south! It tells a mystifying story that does not answer all the questions. The cast and its creators will leave you wanting to view this film again and again. Kevin Spacey, Jude Law and John Cusack are magical in there roles.

Dumbo 70th Anniversary combo pack It arrived within two weeks and in great condition. This is a Christmas gift and it will go wtih her Disney collection. I know she will enjoy the combo set.

A CLASSIC! If you are like me and enjoy watching foreign films that's twisted, you must see this Korean classic! This isn't an action movie. More of a thriller/mystery. If you want to get your mind screwed, look no further.

I'll remember you for longtime... To say that I'm shocked that a film like `Longtime Companion' was even made in the time that it was made (1990) is an understatement.  The very idea of a film about homosexuality that focuses on the plight of the AIDS epidemic seems almost too taboo for a film made over twenty years ago.  Then, to actually see it and see how genuine and realistic and `human' the film is; well that's an even bigger shock.  I went into this film (especially after the first scene) expecting this to be a total stereotype with flamboyance and nearsighted ignorance splashed all over every frame.  What I got was something far more tender and true.  You can `feel' this movie.  `Longtime Companion' tells the story of a group of gay men living during the AIDS scare of the 80's.  Spanning the entire decade, we open with a newspaper article about `gay cancer' that is startling some and making others roll their eyes.  To some, the idea of a gay cancer is a joke, but to others it soon becomes a reality.  Having no known cure and really no known distributor, the friends start to change their lifestyles and second guess every action; for fear that they may catch this disease.  Soon, AIDS starts to take its toll on the friends, and some actually lose their lives to the disease.  The script is semi-genius in the way it really fleshes out these characters without saying too much.  Just the situations and the facial expressions (bravo to the ENTIRE cast) help tell a story of internal conflictions without feeling the need to spell everything out for us (I hate it when a script insists on having the actions speak their every thought).  It has such graceful subtlety, despite dealing with ingrown flamboyance from time to time.  Like I said, I would have never imagined a film dealing with this subject made so long ago would have the class that this film possesses, but it does.  That class is thanks, in large part, to the extraordinary cast who really digs deep into these men and finds such strength and humanity.  Campbell Scott, Stephen Caffrey, Mark Lamos and especially Bruce Davison all deliver strong and effecting performances.  It's no surprise that Davison was singled out though.  His character has such personality, and he really develops over the course of the film.  His final scene with Lamos is especially `real'.  You can feel the emotions being withdrawn in his speech, and you know he's fighting back with everything he has.  It's a tremendously subtle and haunting performance.  With the great combination of subject, script and performances, `Longtime Companion' was a big surprise for me, a film that really understood its purpose and serves as a landmark (in entirely `good' ways) in film today.  That closing scene, with the harsh reality as if waking from a dream, is eternally etched in my mind.  Heading on down to the post-mortem bar.

Absolutely Loved it Not only the story, but the singing was fantastic.  The reality of a live play seemed to make it more enjoyable than a movie version where every movement and line is perfect.

Old Friends: A Gospel Homecoming Celebration "Old Friends" is a sentimental reminder of the roots of Gospel Music and the impact Bill and Gloria Gaither have in nurturing artists and performers in this field.  Among the "old friends" featured on this DVD are: Doris Akers, James Blackwood and the Blackwood Brothers, The Cathedrals, The Imperials, Doris Akers, and The Happy Goodman's.  Other favorites I especially enjoyed were: Greg Cook's rendition of "When He Was on the Cross I was on His Mind," Jake Hess's "Then I Met the Master," and Doug Oldham's "Thanks to Calvary."  Gloria Gaither's effective narrations and Bill's stories from the early beginnings of many of the featured guests and groups were heartwarming and poignant. Bill paid tribute to Rusty Goodman and interviewed his daughter. I was moved by the authenticity of her testimony.  Throughout the filming at the Gaither studio a genuine spirit of camaraderie, friendship, love, and devotion to Jesus (the very theme of Gospel music) was evident. Good music, enjoyable entertainment, and inspiration.

i love this a bunch this got to be one of the top greatest natural disaster movies out there and if not on any list well it is on my list.  see the point of the story is there are storm chasers following tornadoes and they also got to have these little thing to get picked up in the storm to tell them the storm from inside out.  that way to give every one more of a warning.

great movie This movie is a great twist on the original Wizard of Oz.  If you've ever seen a SyFy mini series and enjoyed it, you will like this movie.  If you've never seen a SyFy mini series, this is a great place to start.  Total time is about 4 hours. Part 1 is two hours and part 2 and 3 are one hour long so the value is high considering the price of movies these days.  Great actors, great movie.

loved this collection All three workouts are very different and effective. You can never go wrong with Rodney Yee. Power yoga continues to be my favorite.

Eat this, Punksters A fabulous, frenetic, off the hook performance by some so-called "dinosaurs" of rock, Summer 1978, just when punk and disco were waging a war to the death.  Rising above it all are the original punks, the anti-Beatles, presaging and outdistancing the more monochromatic Who by a year or so.  The Stones get away with every trick, from disco-Miss You to twangy Girl with Faraway Eyes to Chuck Berry Sweet Little 16 and everything in between.  It's like a history lesson in American music traditions, pumped through several dozen monsterous Ampeg rigs turned to 11 or 12, lovingly restored by audio guru Bob Clearmountain.  The soundtrack sync is perfect, no slapdash edits that don't match what is actually being played. It's a joy to listen to through headphones. Ronnie Woods' playing is from the heart, Keith as intense as Johnny Ramone ever was, Charlie Watts provides a drum clinic in keeping the groove, Mick showing, like a crazed marionette, why there is only one Mick Jagger. This is one of those dvd concerts everyone from 8 to 80 should have so that their collection of cultural artifacts of the mid-to-late 20th century is complete. A must-have for fans of Rock and Roll.

KING & I This was a great purchase. The musical numbers are so memorable and lovely to hear--younger viewers may not recognize some of them, but they stand the test of time:  "Shall We Dance" is still so romantic, "We Kiss in a Shadow" truly tells the story of people in love, and "Hello Young Lovers" tells of the generous heart that has known true love.  Beyond the romantic aspect of the story, however, is the struggle of the King to bring his country out of third world status--something that easily resonates even today. The musical is quite true to the factual account in the book, "Anna and the King of Siam".  There are a few deviations in the story (for example the slaves were actually burned at the stake for running away--but this would have put quite the damper on a musical--even so the treatment accurately depicted the harsh cruelty toward slaves).  The story of slavery is one that should not be forgotten--the historical ties to the United States and our own struggle with the slavery issue at that same time period is very well done.  The middle school teachers showed this film to our students, since there is so much of world history, customs and challenges still faced by countries and individuals today, there is quite an educational opportunity. Certainly as entertainment, The King and I is funny, thoughtful, interesting, lavishly produced, musically lyrical and memorable.  As a history study, it is also a worthwhile way to learn about a place and a period of time.  The quality of the DVD was fantastic. I highly recommend it.

Top Gun Got here super fast...good shape, love love love this movie, best ever, I will watch it till it disintegrates then I will get another

Prometheus - As analogy to the conquistadors of old Advisory: there may be some spoilers as one reads this review. I have tried to minimize these, however, and I don't think the spoilers contained herein would ruin the movie, as much of this content is either implied in the trailers or is now word of mouth.  In the mid-2080s, Archaeologists find evidence of ancient visits of aliens to Earth, and have a star map which points to a location in space. A fabulously wealthy narcissistic elderly man has a space ship built, mans the ship with what might best be described as many equally morally compromised crew and sets out looking for the fountain of youth. The ship, Prometheus is the Spanish galleon of its time, some seeking wealth or youth, some seeking knowledge and adventure. The Director Scott, has fashioned an even more complex story because there is a tie-in to the Alien movie franchise.  How successful is the movie? If one imposes the conquistador template, the peculiarities of the characters can best be understood. Without that, there appears to be an element of illogic permeating the script and character motivations. Basically, these are NGO treasure seekers and mercenaries of one kind or another, not an organized governmental expedition. If you find it hard to imagine a company or wealthy individual being able to originate this expedition, just look to the past and the conquistadors invading the new world and imagine a future society with wealthy narcissism continuing to run-amok.  The most intriguing character is the robot David (Michael Faasbender). Fassbender does a spectacular job `simulating' the artificial human; His actions appear to be the most distinct and believable because his motivations run in parallel with his human "masters". David can only understand his origins in the context of humans understanding theirs.  The hero or heroine of the movie is Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace). She is the pious of among others, seeking the hand of God in the new world. Most other characters, including that played by Charlize Theron are more accessory to the overall plot. They are to an extent the expendable mercenaries perishing due as much to their impetuousness as their ignorance. Clearly some were recruited for skills, not judgment, but that is consistent with the nature of the expedition. Guy Pearce plays the wealthy patron Peter Weyland, and has the greatest difficulty being credible with his sometimes implausibly unrealistic makeup. If Scott insisted on youngish Pearce for the role, why he didn't resort to some CGI to assist with the makeup is mysterious, especially considering the CGI largesse expended throughout the film.  The Director Scott was laboring under the constraint to make this movie both a great statement unto itself (Clearly he had Kubrick's 2001 in mind), and also be something of a prequel for Alien. This is where the movie struggles a bit. A more subtle tie-in would have risked the box-office payoff and bean counter moguls. A stronger Alien prequel would have meant abandoning the human origins story he undoubtedly wanted to tell. Overall, I would say the movie works. It is possibly too cerebral as an Alien prequel, and too horror-fest as a human origins story.  I didn't find anything show-stopping unbelievable, even Shaw's medical emergency from which she seems to recover so quickly. As a society, we have constantly underestimated technological advancements. Medical procedures and medicines of today seem almost miraculous to a 19th century perspective, and would appear to be magic to earlier generations. This does give one pause for the Weyland character's motivation; I fully expect that aging will be slowed considerably within a century, though perhaps not possibly reversed, as Weyland might seek. I found it most troubling that the Prometheus apparently possesses faster than light (FTL) capability in view of the otherwise scientifically believable story. However, the Alien movie franchise implies FTL is available, thus Director Scott has maintained consistency, at least. Possibly FTL will be invented one day, but this is one development I wouldn't expect within one hundred years. If not constrained by the timeline of Alien, Scott could have had Prometheus remain slower than light.  I recommend this movie, but in the context of considering some character motivations that might have been morally or ethically compromised as expected for mercenaries. Do not look at the Prometheus expedition as the endeavor of mankind, but that of a selfish individual with the power to make it happen.

Just Too Darn Funny To Get Old After watching this third installment of the Austin Powers film series, one can't help but wonder how director Jay Roach can get by with using the same type of humor for three go-'rounds.  Well, the answer is simple: The characters are just too darn funny to get old!  For a basic plot summary, "Goldmember" sees Austin Powers (Mike Myers) once again battling Dr. Evil (Myers), this time with 1970s "supervillain" Goldmember (Myers), a spoof of the classic James Bond villain Goldfinger, thrown in for good measure.  Once again, the same basic jokes and tone of humor is used in this effort, but it just never seems to get old in the least.  Plus, more of an actual storyline (dealing with "daddy issues") is present in this one than in its two predecessors.  New characters Nigel Powers (Michael Caine) & Foxy Cleopatra (Beyonce) also add a bit of spice to the cast.  Overall, this film simply keeps the Austin Powers comedy ball rolling.  It may have slipped a tiny bit from "The Spy Who Shagged Me", but nowhere near enough to drop it a star ranking.

Best "Much Ado" ever I saw this play on Broadway in the 1970's as a teenager and was gripped, enchanted. I have seen productions of all the Shakespearean comedies and this is by far my favorite. The televised version is different but equally charming. The cast is in love with the language, they are clearly having the time of their lives, and the production is at once faithful to the text and the spirit of the original and marvelously inventive with everything else. One piece of advice: flick past the introduction by Joseph Papp before your first viewing and watch it later: that way you don't have to watch a preview of the "best bits" before you see the play itself.

Video Game Collecter Item! I've been a fan of COTV since Rob was skinny, so I had to buy this to add to my collection of video game documentaries. Rob & Hailey go to all the cool insider events in the gaming industry, so watching this makes me feel cool. I hope they re-release all their DVDs on Blu-ray at some anniversary point and maybe it will come with a cool retro gaming toy or something. My parents think I have too many toys anyways, so that may not be a good idea. I should move out already. I'm 40.

Excellent Movie Mark Wahlberg does a great job in this movie. Thought the story line was excellent too. Thoroughly entertaining flick. The first half-definitely piques your interest.

A must see! There are no words. This is a well researched, very well put together documentary that will make you dance, laugh, and cry.

Powerful! a fantastic film, one that i will buy. (i watched a library copy.) i won't repeat the other positive reviews; i agree with most of what they say. i just want to mention that the cinematography is perfect. it creates a bleakness that is perfect for the story. also, the music is amazing; it's  like nothing i've heard before.

Jackie Chan at his finest If you like Jackie Chan, you'll love The Spy Next Door.  While the story is different from the usual cops & robbers type movie the talented Mr. Chan stars in, this one is a very good family movie.  Jackie, known as "Bob" in the film, in love with his next door neighbor offers to look after her three children during her absence to visit an ailing relative.  The children are a 13 year-old girl, easily classified as a real brat during the first half of the story; a brilliant boy-child who has spent much of his young life as fodder for school bullies, and a precicious four-year-old girl who steals many of the scenes.  While the children's mother may in fact be in love with Jackie/Bob, the children loathe him, and the older girl and her brother, set out to torment him during his tenure as their babysitter.  The fact that Jackie/Bob is a spy is not known to either the children or their mother, the young ones consider him to be a real wuss.  As a good spy should, Jackie is able to devise some electronic gadgets to keep the children in line (for example, a gizmo that saves him from chasing the four-year-old by snaking out a line that latches onto her clothing, lifts her up, and delivers her back to her babysitter when she wanders off as she tends to do.  The rest of the film is fairly predictable.  There are the requisite "bad guys," (Russians, of course), the growing affection between Jackie and the children, and the inevitable confrontation between the good and the bad.  And of course, there are plenty of gymnastics and stunts performed by our favorite humorous good guy.  All in all, this is a very enjoyable film with plenty of laughs and delightful characters.  You can also spend quite a bit of time wondering if "Jackie really did that?" or if what you're viewing is some sort of camera or computer trick.  Whether it is or not, this movie is definitely worth the price.

One of the best movies of all time I do not like action films, but I absolutely loved this movie. It combines the best of adventure in a small enough dose that even the ladies will enjoy it. Everything is very believable, which makes some of the wilder scenes feel all-the-more real and absolutely exhilarating. If you're looking for a Pirates of the Carribean, then this is probably not for you. But if you're looking for a drama which will leave you breathless and on the edge of your seat, you have found it.  Bonus - Dane Dehaan is absolutely brilliant, and reminds me of a young Leo Dicaprio.  Be prepared for a slower build-up than you'd expect. It's worth it.

Great Product, Arrived Fast I ordered this for my mother who was wearing out her VHS copy and needed the DVD. It arrived very fast, and she loves the product.  Included an array of special features any lover of "To Kill a Mockingbird" would enjoy.  Thank you!

JUST PLAIN MINDLESS,FUNNY , CLASSIC AMERICAN ART. Rock and Doris were made for each other , hollywood legends , at a time when  hollywood had the ability to tell a story.

Quietly Intense I see a lot of people who have given this movie bad reviews for being slow or boring.  Go watch Avengers.  This is a movie for people that like to out themselves in the place of the characters. It will make you uncomfortable for the whole 2 hours in the best way possible.  I knew nothing of this movie when I saw it and I'm glad.  Once of the most intense and emotional movies I have ever seen. The feelings this piece conjure up will stay with you for days!

family favorite Family favorite, just had to get it. Not the original black and white but the colors are great.I would recommend this for a family movie.

espionage Very very good movie about espionage in world war ll with 2 men from Denmark doing the spying.  Would recommend this movie to history buffs.

Great characters Bernie is a wonderful character study of the effect that a very different and original  character has on a Texas town.  Jack Black is splendid as Bernie.  This actor just gets better. In fact the whole cast gives five star performances. It is good to see Shirley McLaine in a film again.  She gives just the right of crankiness to her mean, old lady character without going over the top.  Another reviewer complained that the residents of Carthage Texas were stereotypes.  I did not find that to be the case.  One of the chief attractions of this story is the use of real citizens to tell the story.  They are not portrayed as  dumb hicks.  Nor are they shown as gun toting blood thirsty people who want to fry criminals in the electric chair.  I do not want to give away any of the scenes or ruin the plot of this story for anyone so I will just tell you to watch and judge for yourself.  I am ready, like the town folk, to forgive Bernie for his transgressions. This film was recommended by the Filmspotting podcast on iTunes.  I have to plug them because their reviews lead me to films I might have missed.

Great!!!!! I have watched all seasons of True Blood and think it is great!!!  I hope it dont every end.  Sookie and Vampire Bill make the series.

Looks to be a great DVD I like the matches on this DVD Disc 1 I Am Randy Orton The Road to WrestleMania Begins Preparing for the Chamber Embarking on a Path of Destiny Training Days The Elimination Chamber Facing the Media The Next Diamond Signs of Trouble Dealing with Injuries The Legend Killer The Man of Destiny Punked Out Coming Home A Hard Lesson to Learn Evening the Odds The Mecca The Price and Reward of WrestleMania Making a Difference Dark Days Madison Square Melee Randy's Redemption Axxess to the Apex Predator Legacy The Day Has Arrived... I Won't Be Your Hero The Evolution of Randy Orton  Disc 2 - Matches  Randy Orton vs. Slick Robbie D OVW Christmas Chaos - Jan. 31, 2001  Randy Orton vs. Hardcore Holly SmackDown - Apr. 25, 2002  Randy Orton vs. Shawn Michaels Unforgiven - Sept. 21, 2003  Intercontinental Championship Match Randy Orton vs. Rob Van Dam Armageddon - Dec. 14, 2003  Handicap Tag Team Match Randy Orton, Ric Flair & Batista vs. The Rock & Mick Foley WrestleMania XX - Mar. 14, 2004  No Holds Barred Falls Count Anywhere Match for the Intercontinental Championship Randy Orton vs. Mick Foley Backlash - Apr. 18, 2004  Intercontinental Championship Match Randy Orton vs. Edge Vengeance - Jul. 11, 2004  Handicap Casket Match Randy Orton & "Cowboy" Bob Orton vs. Undertaker No Mercy - Oct. 9, 2005  Disc 3 - Matches Randy Orton vs. Kurt Angle Vengeance - Jun. 25, 2006  Legend Killer vs. Legend Randy Orton vs. Hulk Hogan SummerSlam - Aug. 20, 2006  Texas Bull Rope Match Randy Orton vs. Dusty Rhodes The Great American Bash - Jul. 22, 2007  Triple Threat Match for the WWE Championship Randy Orton vs. Triple H vs. John Cena WrestleMania XXIV - Mar. 30, 2008  "I Quit" Match for the WWE Championship Randy Orton vs. John Cena Breaking Point - Sept. 13, 2009  Hell in a Cell Match for the WWE Championship Randy Orton vs. Sheamus Hell in a Cell - Oct. 3, 2010  Randy Orton vs. CM Punk WrestleMania XXVII - Apr. 3, 2011  World Heavyweight Championship Match Randy Orton vs. Christian SmackDown - May 6, 2011  The matches are great This looks to be a really good DVD im happy that Randy Orton is finally getting a DVD great job WWE. Just wish they had more matches with The Undertaker and Edge but still a very good list of matches can't wait for Sept 6th to go out and but the DVD!

As Good As It Gets.. After reading all the other great reviews here on Amazon,I could't resist buying it and taking a look myself.It's not that I didn't believe a black & white movie that was made in 1960 could live up to those high expectations,but I really wanted to see for myself.Well,I must say that I agree 100%  This is easily one of the best video & audio transfers to Blu-ray that I've came across from ANY year of origin.The black & white picture is dead perfect,with no signs of wear or artifacts of any sort.The same goes for the newly created DTS-HD Master Audio...WOW.This 50th anniversary edition also includes a ton of great special features (check the item description for the compleate list).All in all,I cannot see any reason anyone who purchases this could be disappointed in any way.I just wish ALL Blu-ray transfers could even be 50% this good.To relive the experience you had when you first saw this great movie,just but it and see for yourself.

Yoga with a twist that I love I have done yoga for years. While I love the traditional classes, recently after doing power yoga for awhile, I wanted something else. This was exactly what I was looking for! She uses common yoga positions then modifies them incorporating moves you've seen in common fitness classes. After doing any yoga, I was never sore, but after one day of this, I was! Worth a try (I tried it for free on hulu to see if I liked it). Now, I'm adding it to my wishlist.

Love it !! My Family is my favorite british sitcom,  I wish american sitcoms were as funny,  I highly recommend this show if you have never seen it, you will love it !!

Dirty Dozen with a Clean Print I ordered the Dirty Dozen on Blu-ray and was not at all disappointed. The print and transfer to Blu-Ray is outstanding.  This film has an excellent cast, and Lee Marvin is at his best being Lee Marvin.  The picture is a classic and will wear well with time.  No pansies here.

Perfect collection. It is just amazing how quickly my baby learned letter recognition and puting words together in order thanks to these animals. The whole family was amazed how those little hands could put togehter the dog, cat, zebra, cow, etc.. all animals in the set together in a snap.  We started with the dog as it is her faforite animal, obviously - like most kids :) and then we gradually were adding on animals untill we ended up with the whole set before we knew it. It is so rewording to see your tinny treasure to be able to do words!!! that it is jsut breath taking.  We did not need any foring techinques, flash cards or anything, she was just grasping the concept from my taking apart the animal, sounding the letters and puting them together back for her few times and then she got it like in the same day and from that day on she knew.  I think this should be every paretnt's every baby first educational toy. It is so baby friendly, perfect for the sens of touch, soft and cozy - what actually is said to develop brain faster. It is sucha pleasing design and there are places to chew on if you need ha ha ha.. We take the animals everyhwere we go and she does not only have fun she is reinforcing her reading skills and preparing for future writing without knowing it!  We were lucky to get the animals that were issued in those white boxed packaging with DVD inside. Not the other version in the orangy cheaper packaging and without DVD. Difference is really apparent. I got the animals as a gift to my niece but I could not find anywhere the first edition in white packaging with bluish background and DVd included in the box so Igot the other set on e by and apparently they are not the same. Similar and all but the quality is not the same. The original edition animals are more plumpy, solid, and have better and more baby friendly feel and touch to them whereas the other - not the white box- edition has cheaper feel to it.  Overall we are very very pleased with the set. I have heard that this design got so many rewards and it is so popular among parents and I totally agree with the notion. It is great for the baby and it teaches something useful for life unlike so many toys that do nothing. It is good to see your baby having so much fun and stay engaged for good while with them. It is amazing how long attention span the baby has while playing with the animals.  As she grows I marvel how she can put together the simple words from different animals for fun.. as in she would take different letters from different animals and still spell the word dog or cat or cow correctly and giggles that each letters is from different animal.. like for instance she will take L from the lion with the head, then put i from the fish and then o from the dog and n from the lion again and she is so proud to do that. It shows me that she is not only putting animal together, she is actually aware of the letters.. and to prove it she can take just the letters without heads and not color coded and at random pull the letters and put together a word that is independent of characters..  soooooo cooooooooool  I am shopping for the original set now to get it for Christmas for two beloved babies in the family and they are so hard to find, yet I won't stop till I find them. This is THE gift of learning and I wont' settle for less :)

Deeply Moving Korean movies are setting the Gold Standard in Asian Cinema for all to see.  A deeply moving and exciting film well worth the purchase and the time of viewing. Beautifully Poignant; a perfect film.

LOVE IT!! This movie was just inspirational.  The scenery was gorgeous, even though during the after movie credits we could see they "blended" scenery from other rainforest type countries also.  The story was touching and perfect for the entire family.  Sadness and happiness and beautiful scenery and a little chimp you are actually touched by.

A Promised Marriage that ended up Right. These bollywood movies are so long that to even give a proper review you have to write a long review to make sense for a viewer.  Another well-respected family with many girls that have to be promised to another family in marriage. The promised husband was spell-bound with his intended wife, and at the time, he was like a nerd and shy. He was a lawyer who had lost all of his cases in court.  His Father was a well-known prominent attorney with a big lawfirm. He saw Nandini and he was spellbound, while she was dancing at her sister's wedding.  An Italian, Sameer came to them to learn how to sing and dance as they do. He was a guest in their house and took her bedroom and she did not like it. However, they eventually fell in love and she wanted to marry him and he, her. But it did not work out like that. A man can't touch a female in India unless they are married. They can't hug them, feel or put their hands on them, and he did all that. He broke all the rules and when they find out, he was band from the house and sent home to Italy.  Nandini was upset, crying, Sameer was upset, and leaving. They love from afar. But Father promised Nandini to Vanraj, son of the prominent lawyer. The marriage took place and she was very unhappy. Never consumated their marriage in sex and love, and they slept on opposite sides of the bed. She would not even talk to her new husband.  Finally, a servant of her family came with some letters from Sameer, her lover, and she read them. One blew around the room and when her husband came in, he saw one of them and read it.  Then the argument began, but she would not say or defend anything.  He told her in the beginning, that the one thing he hated more was a liar. Never to lie to him, so he was furious when he saw the letters.  He then decided to take her to her lover in Italy. If she did not love him, then she should not have a miserable life nor he. He told his Father, who disagreed with the plan but gave his blessings to him to do what he think best, and take her to her lover and make her happy.  That her being happy will make him happy.  His sister said to him and the wedding of her sister when Nandini danced, that he was a good man and had a good heart, and that maybe he could have her, but he disagreed, saying that she would not look at a man like him. He was withdrawn, and like a young boy at that wedding, and spellbound in her beauty, speechless he was.  They went to Italy looking for Sameer, and missing him at ever place by minutes. They found where he lived, went there, met his mother, and she told where he would be. Mom even knew who Nandini was, said Sameer talks about her all the time. She was getting glad to see him and it would be over, but it did not work out like that.  I was surprised at the ending of the movie, but I guess it was the right one. She finally got to be with and see Sameer at the Opera House where he was going to perform that night...however, the love of her husband to help her get to the man that she really loved changed her mind about her nerdy husband.  He was not such a nerd anymore.  You see, they tried to catch a bus Sameer was on and flagged a ride from some people and they got robbed, wife got shot, had to flag another ride down to get her to the hospital, the lost all their money, had no money to pay for hospital bills; he had to give up his wedding ring, and she gave her to pay the bills.  As he did all these things for his wife and was beaten by the robbers, and all he went thru to save her from dying, she began to realize that he was a really good man and love her so much that he did all these things for her to make her happy.  In the end....I can't tell you that.  You are going to have to see the movie to see this ending, because it is one to behold.  I was even shocked at this one.  But Sameer....was full of tears crying.  Was it of happy and joy to be with his beloved Nandini or was it for something else.  You have to see it to find out.  Truly a must see movie.  Such deep love.  They really love deep in India. Wish that was here in the USA.  Hard to find it these days.  Love it.

You can't go wrong with this one! We bought this DVD when our first daughter was 3 (she's now 9).  She watched it over and over, and her younger sister again a few years later.  This is the children movie to be played over 100 times in any home.  Smart, fun, tender, educational, full of messages on values like friendship, loyalty, etc in a way kids understand.  You can't go wrong with this one!

The Real Deal This lovely, sweet, and offbeat film tells the story of a neurotically shy young man who has a relationship with a silicone love doll -- and in the process, winds up re-joining the human race.  Everyone in the film is splendid, including Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, and especially a de-glammed Kelli Garner (one of the sexy stews in the dopey Pan Am TV series) as the real girl of the title.  If you like whimsical romantic comedies in the "Harold and Maude" vein, you will love this film.  I notice that Amazon is offering a two-fer deal on "Lars" and "Crazy, Stupid, Love", and that is an excellent combination.  CSL is as sweet and funny as "Bridesmaids" and possibly even more so.  I sure wish Hollywood made more films like this one instead of the mega-budget, mini-minded comic book spectacles that have sent intelligent audiences fleeing from the cinemas.  "Lars" is the real deal, to be sure.  Highly recommended.

Film V. Book While I was a child, I first saw Disney's version of Pollyanna with Hayley Mills.  It was a very popular film among my age group.  I purchased the DVD on Amazon and read the reviews.  I was quite startled when I realized the several of the reviewers HATED the Disney film.  The general theme of the criticism focused on a comparison of the book to the film.  As in most cases, the reviewers noted that the book was MUCH better than the film.  As a result, I read the book and I must agree.  The storyline in the novel is much more powerful than the film.  The book is much less melodramatic.  The characters in the book unfold in a more realistic manner.  In the book, Mrs. Snow is a secondary character while Mr. Pendleton is vital to the story.  Jimmy Bean's character is VERY minor in the book.  He is not a tree climber as suggested in the film.  Pollyanna is the tree climber and is too skilled to fall from a tree.  It is a wonderful book to read to a daughter!  However, watching the film with a daughter is also a good experience.  We can talk about comparing the film to the book!!

3-D Awesome, best 3-D technology I have ever seen, this is the movie we put in to demonstrate our 3-D TV !

Wow Can't wait to get it!!! The Best Batman movie. My son loves batman so i thought that i should buy this for him.

Controlled Chaos I have always been a big fan of Jeff Dunham and his "puppets". Always love watching his shows.... I would recommend this DVD if you won't be able to watch this show live.

Ghostbuster 1 & 2 Limited Edition Gift Set DVD at least i have this edition . i wait for so long to get this edition because can not delivery to my country. i love this figure and all most collection insert it in. i know it's just dvd but limited for me

Very User friendly workout The workout is very basic but effective.  Unlike other more complicated DVD's, it gets the job done and you feel the results.  Although several year's old I have not found one better.

The best Elvis concert movie The best way to see Elvis in concert now that he is gone! I got to see him in concert many times!!! I was a Radio DJ and I got to meet Elvis! WOW. every fan needs this movie!!

Excellent movie... Excellent movie - very interesting approach to movie making.  You truly get a feel for the real story when you get to see 3 different viewpoints.

ONE GREAT COMEDY, WITH AN ADVENTURE, TO MATCH THIS MOVIE IS A MUST HAVE TO ANY MOVIE BUFF COLECTION. BURSTING WITH COMEDY AND ADVENTURE. IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THIS MOVIE YET THEN YOU HAVE REALY MISSED OUT. NO TIME TO GET BORRED WITH THIS MOVIE, JUST GREAT

Just a Fun Movie I have been looking for this in the stores for a long time. I like Gene Wilder and this is the cleanest I have seen of Richard Pryor's work.

A great movie I alwasy love this movie, I always watch it every Christmas on TV. It takes four hour with commercial. The Blu-ray made it great to watch, It also has it in color. It was like watching it for the first time. I was very happy with it. I might even watch it before next Christmas. Well worth the money.

This is one of the best used DVDs I have ever purchased. The product was in great condition. All three disc worked wonderfully and just as described in your listing. Fast shipping. My daughter was very happy to have this added into her princess collection. Thank you for offering such a wonderful price on this movie.

Halle Berry rules Halle Berry steals the show in this film.  It was super-fantantic as she is ultra gorgeous.  Although how she became Catwoman was a bit cheesy, after that part of the film she steals the show.  It was long overdue to have a female star in a film about a super hero.  Purrfectly recommended.

A Peek At What Made Morse Tick There is something very tender about the early life of Morse.  Colin Dexter, in his many Morse mysteries, never really explored why Morse was the deep thinking, humorless, cranky individual who liked his solitude and his music.  He appeared to reject relationships, especially close ones.  Now we see Morse in the early years and his e reference to his formative years when he thought the world was bleak.  Then he heard the magnificent voice of a beautiful soprano that changed his outlook on life.  Not only is "Endeavor" a five star mystery delving into the seamy side of life, but it introduces us to Detective Morse, the man we have loved through those wonderful books by Colin Dexter.  I sincerely hope this will be a series - it's about the only way we can honor Morse's memory and the outstanding acting by John Thaw.  Colin Dexter is certainly the very best mystery writer of our time.

Excellent Presentation of Techniques I have watched a great many airbrush how-to videos, and found this one to be one of the best. Michael shows you how to achieve many results (listed in the other review) through his demonstrations. I find it very helpful to actually see them being done rather than just reading about them.

Just as good as the first two. I liked the story line and the voice talents werent bad either really enjoyed it I dont really understand what the other peoples issues are with the movie maybe they think their too grownup and thats why they dont appreciate this movie but id recomend this one for the whole family and the first two.

So good! This is one of the smartest, funniest, most uplifting films I have seen in some time. The acting is great and the story is so good! Highly reccomended.

Great Television! I have always been a fan of QAF since it first aired on SHOWTIME and this complete collection does not dissapoint. So far all the DVD's I have played has worked well on my DVD player.  No complaints here!  A very good series that will totally be a classic someday!

Feel Good Fun Romantic Movie A feel good, fun romantic movie.  I thought the Leslie Wright part was perfect for Queen Latifah and I don't think it required much acting on her part.  Seemed like that is how she really is.

One on One Continues to be one of my most watched and favorite "feel good" movies. You're only an underdog if you allow yourself to be one.

Glori I've been a lacto-ovo vegetarian for many decades. I've been off eggs for many years but cheese  has always been a favorite food for me. However,the research in "Forks Over Knives" egarding casein in milk recently pushed me over the decision edge to become a vegan. It  has been my pleasure to share this information with relatives and friends both in the USA and in the UK. particularly those with heart and weight problems. One very resistant relative is now reading the book and is afraid that  he might be persuaded to give up his daily pint (alcohol)! The recipes at the back will definitely help as a starter to fill in the  gap of wondering how to change one's diet.  Thanks Amazon.com for having this material on your website  Glori

My daughter still loves this...... Alice in Wonderland (Two-Disc Special Un-Anniversary Edition)...is a bonus movie I have never totally understood this movie but it's a Disney classic!~ Always the best price on Amazon!~

Great Movie For All Ages This is a classic. You won't be disappointed. And if you watched it as a kid you'll still love it as an adult. You get a talking spaceship, cute little aliens and a kid that hits his head and wakes up years later. It's a great sci-fi adventure movie for kids.

The Centerpiece to the Blu-Ray Collection of the Planet of the Apes Fox Finally did something right.  The case opens up to a detailed timeline of Ape events.  The case opens further, providing a 200 page full colour, glossy imaged retrospective worthy of any collection.  The presentation of each film is beyond reproach. It is still this reviewer's opinion that anything being released on this scale on BD should be released in 7.1 digital sound. Each film presents its own harsh review of humanity and some on the purported truths thereabout.  The BDs themselves are mounted on hard board backs by what amounts to pegs of gorilla glue (natch). These discs come away with a twist of a turn, not the man-handling we mere humans are accustomed to.  It's too pretty (and too big) to fit with my present collection of BDs, but it doesn't belong with them per say. This is a collection treated dearly and presented as it should be: a milestone in cinema, sociology, and dystopic science-fact.  These movies should be required viewing for all whom claim civility. This set deserves centre seat in any BD collection

Great movie for whole family! Adults and kids alike in our household enjoyed this movie. And the quality of Amazon's video was excellent. HD worked perfectly.

Looked Nice and no Interruptions We had never seen Hercules in high def so this was a nice treat to rent on a lazy Sunday.  We enjoyed the movie thoroughly... the picture quality is not of the same high standard as retail Blu Ray releases, but it looked far and above better than a standard def DVD.  There were no interruptions or any hiccups in the service and we were very pleased with the rental overall.  Being able to rent a movie in minutes on your tv is a great service, especially with the wide range of titles they have.  This is something that's not available at retail in high def, so this is the only way to watch it in HD.

Almost perfect! As a Billy Crystal fan, this was a nice find - "Throw Momma from the Train", "City Slickers", and "Running Scared". Three movies in one package, all are anamorphic widescreen, and all are very funny. There's only one thing I noticed though that, I guess, might disturb anyone who is also a George Carlin fan - in "Throw Momma from the Train", when Larry reads the title of a book, his lips form the words "Women I'd Like to F---", but what we hear is "Women I'd Like to Pork". So we get a DVD with an "F" bomb removed, but the "S" word still happens. Curious. I guess S is OK, but F isn't? Whatever.

ariadne - unusual opera this is very different from the usual opera- strauss has 2 operas being stagesd at the same time - some chaos but generally very funny with excellent syntheses - the singing is excellent  as is the music

Powerful!!  A must watch for all grown children with parents. This movie should be watched by all adult children.  Please take in the facts that not all elderly parents are incompetent and should be sent off to live in an old folks home.  A good compromise can always be reached and adult children should NEVER EVER sell off their parents belongings without coming to an aggrement first.

excellent DVD for young children who like animals and the world around us This is an excellent DVD for young nature-lovers. The photographs are outstanding and the investigation of water, weather and life in ponds, tide pools and the ocean keeps their attention. The appearance of a pirate gets even the youngest viewers involved.

The COMPLETE Metropolis For everyone's information this IS the most complete version of the movie with the additional missing footage.  The remastering looks great for really old black and white.  The inserted missing footage is not remastered, but this was impossible and I am just happy that those parts of the story are finally included in the movie.  The music is the original score and the title cards have been redone so you can actually read them.  This is a great movie and it looks really good on Blu-Ray.

An eye opening film! Exposes the fraud known as obama. Do your country a favor by not voting for this piece of trash and deporting him and his ilk back to kenya.

One of my favorite films. A delicious, heartbreaking comedy that's not afraid of emotion and sadness, about the love affair between a death obsessed 19 year old, and a life obsessed 80 year old.  Amazing performances by Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon, not to mention the whole supporting cast.  Beautifully shot, and with transcendent use of Cat Steven's songs as score.  A film I simply never tire of seeing again.  This is finally being re-issued, on blu-ray and DVD by Criterion, so if history is any judge of quality, I'd wait for those.  You may pay a few dollars more, but will likely get vastly improved picture and sound quality, as well as more and better extras.

The Blu-Zone 37 episodes of The Twilight Zone on Blu-ray this is a Great TV show the first episode i have seen was Nightmare at 20,000 feet and i liked the Twilight Zone ever Since then.my top 5 favorit episodes on season 3 is "The Shelter" "It's a Good Life"  "The Hunt"  "The Midnight Sun"  "Five Characters in Search of an Exit".the picture is good but i wish the screen was full screen and the sound is pretty good.  1.Two  3/5  2.The Arrival  3/5  3.The Shelter  5/5  4.The Passers By  1/5  5.A Game of Pool  3/5  6.The Mirror  4/5  7.The Grave  5/5  8.It's a Good Life  5/5  9.Deaths-Head Revisited  2/5  10.The Midnight Sun  5/5  11.Still Valley  4/5  12.The Jangle  4/5  13.Once Upon a Time  3/5  14.Five Characters in Search of an Exit  5/5  15.A Quality of Mercy  3/5  16.Nothing in the Dark  3/5  17.One More Pallbearer  4/5  18.Dead Man's Shoes  5/5  19.The Hunt  5/5  20.Showdown with Rance McGrew  4/5  21.Kick the Can  4/5  22.A Piano in the House  3/5  23.The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebark  1/5  24.To Serve Man  3/5  25.The Fugitive  4/5  26.Little Girl Lost  5/5  27.Person or Persons Unknown  4/5  28.The Little Peopre  4/5  29.Four O' Clock  2/5  30.Hocus Pocus and Frisby  5/5  31.The Trade-ins  4/5  32.The Gift  2/5  33.The Dummy  3/5  34.Young Man's Fancy  5/5  35.I Sing the Body Electric  3/5  36.Cavender is Coming  1/5  37.The Chaning of the Guard  4/5

A truly classic film For anyone who loves classic and/or foreign films, "Wages of Fear" is a must.  It's beautifully done, white-knuckle thriller and a companion piece to the director, Henri-Georges Clouzot's other classic thriller, "Diabolique".  Yves Montand and the other actors do a marvelous job as these down-on-their luck folks stuck in Nicaragua without the money to return home, who take on an incredibly dangerous job of driving 2 trucks of nitroglycerine to the scene of an oil fire.  The petroleum company is owned by Americans and they will pay well, but want people who will not be missed if they get blown up - a distinct possibility.  Don't miss this one.

Great Blu-Ray I got this Blu-Ray for my girlfriend for part of her Christmas (we're in to the whole nature video thing).  The shots in this film are remarkable.  The BBC did a great job on this Blu-Ray as well as the Planet Earth Blu-Ray.  If you have an HDTV and a Blu-Ray player you NEED to see this film.  It really shows off the beauty of 1080p.

xmas gift This was an xmas gift for the family gift exchange. It was exactly what was requested. So I guess it was okay.

The Thing...Carpenter version This is a good quality movie. I try to get all sequels to some favorite movies. This is the remake of "The Thing From Another World' made in the fifties. Now I am getting the newer version. Dealer is good. Sent movie quickly.

Review - Sin City This movie is an absolute must get.  It is one of the best movies you will possibly see and is amongst the best graphic novel based movies you will probably ever experiance.  The movie pays tribute to the great film Noir genre, throughout the movie, the director utilizes a series of predominantly black an white color palates while using color only for specific "popping" effect.  This movie has a wonderful gritty, deep, feel that perfectly portrays the dark underworld that it is narrating.  The cast in the movie is phenominal, and the acting is amazing.  This movie has the best of all possible worlds in movie making.. it has violence, a deep story line, sex, and action that keeps you wanting more and more.  The beginning scene of the movie leave you begging for more, the end scene leaves you stunned and the middle is just unbelievably amazing.  I have never read the graphic novel, seeing this movie certainly pushed me to go out and get it.  I absolutely loved this movie, and you will too, it is phenominal.. no plotholes here!  GO AND GET IT!!  Just a note if you can get the unrated collector's edition.  Appearantly movie companies think that people want an edited, censored version.. WTF, I hate when movies are censored and edited so they can make the R cut.. Just give us the unedited movie to begin with with a choice in teh menu for the edited version.. But no, they feel the need to double dip and make double profit off you... Get the unrated version, it is worth the extra money.

great ... This is my favorite of all the Trek movies.  Humor and adventure make up this movie.  Great addition to my Trek collection.

The Game is never over I love this movie...it's a non-stop murder mystery/thriller that leaves you guessing right up to the end. And then still manages to surprise you.

One of my top two favorite movies! I do not agree with the Amazon reviewer here at all!  Meg Ryan is my favorite actress, and both Meg and Kevin are brilliant in this movie!  Their chemistry, comic timing, mannerisms and Kevin's accent are priceless, along with the hilarious dialogue! The other players are extremely well casted too.  I repeatedly watch this movie and Meg and Kevin never fail to give me a lift.  As a lover of all things French, I enjoy the scenery and the French flavor of the movie... Having been there, it brings back wonderful memories of all of the sights, not to mention the fabulous cheese!  I also recently purchased the soundtrack CD and I love it....

FAR BETTER THAN I EXPECTED.......... I live to find the next cult-classic.........I love movies, but I want them to be my own. A movie I can say only I know and if I give it to you, so feel lucky.......this is something special. Apartment 143 is exactly that. I read about this movie a few weeks ago and just assumed it was another band-wagon found-footage rip-off. I found out it was released VOD last night and thought I'd kill 90 minutes just to know I saw it...........WOW was I surprised.  What I found was an incredibly well acted, quality shot, perfectly made found-footage horror...........no fluff, no placating, no cookie-cutter plot.......just a movie that wants you to take it seriously and rewards you from start to  finish. Don't read any more reviews, don't watch any trailers, don't even read the movie description again........just watch it!

Great! This season is really amazing. In my opinion, it is the very best one. Funny, sexy and Carrie (my least favorite character of the series) is not even that annoying. I would highly recommend this season to any Sex and the City fan.

The best of British drama This is a wonderful series, we enjoyed it a lot, especially as it reminded us of our last visit to England.  I really did like the way the story wove between the affairs of the family and those of the servants.  As for Maggie Smith, she is wonderful as the formidable Victorian dowager just like Lady Bracknell. Having been horrified about a rumours of a truncated version being peddled around I strongly urge anyone to go for the full UK series.

Very cute and funny movie! This movie is very funny and very cute. I would recommend it to anyone.  Ellen Page is a great actress and the storyline was light and fun with some great rollerskating action. Definitely buy Whip It on Blu-ray!

really a good Vegas-movie I love this movie and my friends love it. I know that there are many Vegas-movie but this one is really. It is a must-see no matter you've been Vegas or not.

HP ROCKS!! I am a huge Harry Potter fan.  I own all the books and movies.  They are so great!  The effects in this film are great and it is such a fun story.

Gaming Great movie, but it could've been a little better. It is just a plain ole guy movie but more geared toward Gamers. Fast shipping and great seller.

Breesy loves Rio! We bought this video for my granddaughter, Breesy.  She absolutely loves it and watches it over and over again.  Thanks, Amazon!

Grace is Gone Great movie!  It's a real tear jerker!  Makes you really think about how lucky your have the love ones you have!

Excellent Companion to the Hidden Messages in Water - Book! This DVD is an excellent companion to the Hidden Messges in Water book. It can be a little challenging to listen to the interpreter however it is great to hear Masaru Emoto discuss this in his own words/voice. It expands further on some of the background related to the book. There is also another DVD called Water Crystals in Motion - 2004 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0966531248">Water Crystals in Motion- Messages From Water</a> that is really fabulous and has much more information on how the water experiments were conducted and some close up pictures/video of the water crystal formations. The Water Crystals in Motion DVD is also available on Amazon.

good movie good movie for all the family. sometimes predictable but all the way enjoyable. this is rewatchable too. rent it or buy it

I liked it Really good version of the classic Japanese Ghost tradition type stories... in a series.  Merry is a very interesting character and the story line is well written. This is good anime, no need for fan service! The story stands on its own merits.

Interview with the Vampire dvd The original Twilight movie except without all the teenage drama. If you're a fan of vampire movies this is a must for collection.

raymone Love this and have had many hours of laughter!!! It is so fun to pop it in and have many hours of enjoyment

Quick and easy It was very easy to find and purchase this movie on Amazon. The quality was excellent. We did not experience any technical problems.

Still makes me cry A story of good and evil, tender love between a manly man and a feminine but strong woman, and motherly love even for a child not of one's own blood.  Historical, entertaining, sad and happy.  One of my favorite movies.  I will say that when I first saw it I thought it might be a comedy because it's done in a different way but it's worth watching.  Even if you don't fall in love with it like I did, you may enjoy it just enough.

I adore Fred Astaire This is another wonderful movie with my favorite dancer, Fred Astaire.  I think he's absolutely the greatest dancer of all time.

Have I told you lately that I love this??? I thought I would hate this dark set---but I don't pay it any attention.  Nor do I pay a lot of attention to backgrounders (though I did notice these backgrounders are a wide variety of body types), so I can't comment on their behavior.  However, I CAN tell you that Amy is an EXCELLENT, easy to follow, professional instructor.  Some favorite things about this one: it's time efficient (not a lot of waste time and it gets a variety in), FUN balance work (I'm a sucker for balance work), versatility (it's programmable), excellent cuing.  It also has decent camera angles--which is great compared to the dvds out there that spend so much time focused on faces that you don't see what your feet are doing!  This one does show what you are following.

Great Film! Just for clarification, I am writing a review of the 2 disk Bluray 50th Anniversary Edition only and not the box set.  I just watched this film for the first time, and I must say... How did I not know about this great film? I am still a college student, so most of my friends prefer movies more in the "popcorn flick" style, but I have always been a fan of classics. This is probably one of the more understated classics, as I discovered it on a Bluray sale on Amazon and had never heard of it before. After a little research on ye olde Rotten Tomatoes and a few other reviews, I just went for it, and I am glad to now have this as part of my collection.  STORY  The story takes place in biblical times and covers Ben-Hur, a Jewish prince who grew up with the childhood friend, Messalla, who went on to join the Roman empire, and you can probably already guess that there would be conflict there. It is sort of a classic tale of revenge and forgiveness, and that is probably all I want to reveal.. I hate spoilers. I will say that the movie advertises as being a Christian film, which it is in a way, but not really "in your face" about it. You do see Jesus, but it is filmed in a very classy manor and leaves some mystery behind who Jesus actually was, instead focusing on Ben-Hur, his family, and his arch-nemesis, Messalla.  There are some amazing scenes in this film, including the infamous chariot race, and another one of my personal favorites, the battleship scenes.  All that said, the film is quite long at over 4 hours, and I recommend watching it in two sittings, stopping at the intermission.  Bluray  The Bluray was done VERY well. You can tell that this is a complete restoration, and I read that they spent a LONG time restoring it cell by cell from the master film reel. It shows. The picture is amazing. There were a few hiccups throughout the film, likely where the master film had to be spliced, but it is nothing major. This is probably the only way to watch this film anymore, as I am sure any previous versions pale in comparison.  Please note that the only extras included are an audio commentary and two trailers, as well as a separate music track. If you are looking for extras, you are going to want to splurge on the boxed version.  Overall  To sum up my review, this is a great film. It is a little long and a little drawn out at parts, but some of these scenes are just unspeakably good.

Another Great DC movie It is a simple fact i have come to realize over the years DC has the best Animated movies out there right now. Marvel Studios and only hope to make a movie half as good as any DC universe one so far. All-Star Superman is another home run from DC animated. The story adapted from the Grant Morrison comic by the late great Dwayne McDuffy is one of the best Superman stories i have ever seen. It is a big fantastical Sci-Fi story enjoyable from beginning to end.

A well made thriller I love scary movies.  And I finally had to write a review for this little gem, since I am watching it again tonight after having this movie in my possession for almost a year.  It's one of those movies that you watch when you just want to escape and be taken on a joy ride.  Where scary things happen  - to other people - and you can sit comfortably in your living room and go along with them as they try to get out of a terrible situation.  This movie is not Oscar material, but it wasn't meant to be.  We are invited to a day in the life of a spoiled rich teen out on spring break, drinking with her girlfriends and fending off her boyfriend for the night.  She drank too much and she is tired.  So she jumps in her jeep with the ridiculous headlights on the top and heads home.  She runs off the road after trying to avoid something in the road and has a bumpy few seconds of a ride, but all seems well so she continues on home.  Too bad she didn't inspect the car before going to bed.  After viewing this movie as many times as I have, I have come to appreciate the skill of the young actress, Laura Breckenridge.  She gives an amazing, natural, and spontaneous performance.  The actor who plays the victim in this movie, is one of the creepiest villains I have come across in horror movies.  There is one scene where he is standing in the road, facing her jeep, and his visage is pure evil and insanity.  Scary stuff indeed.  I like the twists and turns this movie takes and I loved the ending, because by then all tables have turned.  I found it very believable and this is probably what makes it so horrible.  And fun.  I appreciate this movie for what it is - a very well made thriller, perfectly paced, that is meant to make you thankful that you aren't Mary.  No matter how many times you watch it.

Best in a while Most movies have one or two scenes that I really enjoy. This one has 5 that I like to see again and again. Very amusing in spots too. Rapunsel appears to have big feet for such a petite girl. Really enjoyed the music used in the dance scene. I wonder what type of music that is so I could see if I could find more similar music.

I had wanted to be a journalist...before I became an acupuncturist. This is a movie about those of us from the 60s who wanted to make a change in the world and we actually did. An enormous change; one in which we have taken the icons off the shelf and shattered them, not merely to destroy them, but to determine their character, internal mechanism, values.  I think we did this because we all wanted the unvarnished truth; even if we can't take it, don't know what to do with it once we have that truth. Making tough decision and then standing up to the consequences can be a rare tight rope walk, and someone will or even has gotten hurt. Yet changes are inevitable and while we seem to have less control over these events that are taking place, it is all part of the ebb and tide, or the current term may be more like the yin and yang of all things. I, myself wanted to become a journalist before making the final choice to use my investigative and analytical nature in the field of health care. Choosing Traditional Chinese Medicine allowed me to use the same searching within a large field of knowledge and wisdom, in order to collect and determine a diagnosis and treatment, and relieve suffering. Funny, it has been nearly impossible to survive the loss of integrity in the printed or virtual word, however. Followed by use of public opinion and fear based accusations, regardless of the successes in undisclosed patient records and lives successfully changed, I have not survived the drastic use of fraudulent documentation. I can no longer refer to myself as an acupuncturist, even in the past tense, according to the legal threats, indicating that I am responsible for using the title doctor on the internet, when directories posted my name as such to promote their 'lists'. In the not to distant past, it was referred to as slander and libel, or even fraud. I am not sure that these terms still exist in the legal codes any longer. Now we call it bullying and frown on it. I am a digital subscriber to the NY Times out of loyalty to the truth and integrity that it (truth) can call forward when published, albeit in print or online. Of course, I was already getting my news throughout the web on other sites, before returning to pay for my subscription at the NYT. Somehow, it is an exchange of trust. I with my meager digital subscription rate get to read the headlines and breaking news 24/7, search for stories on topic that influence my daily decisions, share articles that are noteworthy with collaboratives or combatants, while the NYT continue to use journalism ethics, reporting as accurately as I expect them to, I hope... [This was a great and informative video. Thank you for sharing. And thanks to Amazon for providing it as a benefit to my paid membership in their Prime program.]

Excelentisimo, un clasico en su esplendor.. Excellency, a classic in its glory .. Que puedo decir amo esta pel&iacute;cula y ahora al verla en calidad espectacular la amo mas.. Espero la Warner ponga disponible otros cl&aacute;sicos de Eastwood que todos estamos esperando, haciendole honor en calidad a estas pel&iacute;culas, que fan&aacute;ticos como yo y otros queremos..  Los extras est&aacute;n muy buenos y el formato de presentaci&oacute;n en Digibox, lo hace ver como una historieta &eacute;pica... muy bueno.  I can say I love this movie and now see it as spectacular love her more .. I hope Warner put the classic Eastwood are others we are all waiting, honoring as these films, and other fans like me want to .. The extras are very good and the format in Digibox, it does look like a comic epic ... very good.

Great TV entertainment - hope they release Human Target Season 2 on DVD It's too bad they canceled this series - my wife and I thoroughly enjoyed watching it.  Hopefully they will release season 2 on DVD soon.

Love it I bought this movie a few days ago. It came in yesterday. I bought it to replace the VHS of American Sweethearts that I have. I love watching this movie. It is a crack up. Special when Eddie is on the roof of the hotel and everyone thinks he is going to jump. The other guy, I forgot his name, is trying to keep him from jumping and ends up pushing him off the roof.

Love it! I love Zuma dancing. So this one is great makes your body move and burn those calories. I have quiet a few dance workout tapes and this is one of my favorites.

"The eternal silence of those infinite spaces terrifies me"(Pascal) Patricio Guzman, Chile's poet-documentarian, remains haunted and riveted by what happened in his country during the revolutionary years of Salvador Allende's administration and the US-backed fascist coup which ended it.The coup d'etat was depicted in the great political film,The Battle of Chile.and the long period of amnesiac forgetting takes us up to Nostalgia for the Light,his present filmic essay taking in archaeology,astronomy and recovery of the disappeared.Art must confront its Guernicas and 9/11s.We get the scene of dust particles swirling in a sunbeam, a Lucretion settling of the thoughts about our being and origins.He takes us back to the Chile of his youth,where he "loved science fiction stories, lunar eclipses and watching the sun through a piece of smoky glass".We get tableaux of nostalgia,"Only the present moment existed".A dissolve follows setting out the cosmological and historical parameters,in the specific setting of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, visible from space,the driest place on Earth.This humanist document unites idealist skysearchers and realist earthsearchers.  The translucent sky allows astronomers to see the boundaries of the universe,light from the past takes millions of years to reach us.The desert is also home to pre-Columbian shepherd's bones and rock carvings, and the place where Pinochet buried bodies in mass graves,following imprisonment,torture and murder.The desert is a palimpsest of the past,ossuary and observatory.Elderly women search among its stones for murdered loved ones.Balancing philosophical reflections on human memory and the matter of the stars,the calcium of our bones comes from the stars." The present doesn't exist",according to Gaspar Galaz,a young astronomer,'Now' is a mental construct.We get an extraordinaryshot of a constellation.Guzman uses poetic intuition to connect his subjects,associations of thought.Although at times you feel he's edging one subject in via another,he claims to be obsessed by the 100 years life of the Chilean republic,the miners in the Atacama(19C),the disappearance of the indigenous Indians. Lautaro Nunes archaeologist, reveals the depth of the amnesia.The images are beautiful.The telescopes with their fabulous visibility contrast to the invisibility of the lost ones,beneath ones feet.  Guzman gathers testimonies from Luis Henriquez,survivor of the Chacabuco concentration camp(mines adapted by the military+barb wire)relates how the inmates felt totally free due to astonomy lessons they took.Another veteran Miguel memorises the exact dimensions of each camp and makes architectural scale drawings of them when in exile,so their existence could not be denied.The heart of the film shows women from the town of Calama,Vicky Saavedra, finding her brother's teeth,skull bit and footbone in a sock,or Violetta Berrios,tenaciously searching for her husband,or the unearthing of shards of bone and mummified body parts by the diminishing band of bereaved relatives of the `disappeared'.Only memory Guzman says allows us to live in the `fragile present moment'.Valentina Rodriguez, unites the two halves of the film,a mother of two in her 30s who works at the astronomical organisation.Brought up by her grandparents when her parents were `disappeared',they taught her to observe the stars.Astronomy has helped give another dimension to her pain." We are all part of a current of energy,of recyclable matter...nothing comes to an end."Nostalgia is counter-atomist,bringing together the worlds of science and human affairs and Guzman reactivates the `gravitational force of memory'against the atrocities.Truly moving transcendence of materialism.

Love this disk Watched this movie on the USA Network. Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe is funny, serious and packed with punches in all the right places.  If you know someone who is a Burn Notice fan, this would be the movie for the fan in your life.  Bruce Campbell is a great actor.

A step closer to intelligent sci-fi Remember the old thought-provoking science fiction films of the pre-nineties? While there have been a few since then, in general, Hollywood appears to have been languishing in the originality and thought department. Modern films also tend to treat their audiences like morons, or just be very simplistic in nature. Rest assured, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" has all the greatness of a future classic - the viewer won't walk out of THIS one disappointed.  "Rise" tells the story of Caesar, who, for those who have seen the other "Apes" films and thus remember this, began the original ape rebellion against humanity. A new drug has been developed by the aptly-named Gen-Sys to cure Alzheimer's disease. Used on the chimpanzees taken specifically for animal testing, it makes them super-intelligent. Caesar, as a baby, is taken in after his mother is killed, kept under the care of Will, whose father has Alzheimer's. The results of this have a domino effect for spoilers:  saying much else about the plot will take away much of the enjoyment factor of the film as surprises wait around each corner.  Homages and nods to the original films abound throughout, from the name "Bright Eyes" to Charlton Heston making a brief appearance on a TV screen to one of the series' most iconic lines. The film is packed with minute after minute, from beginning to end, of intelligence - there are no unnecessary scenes, little graphic violence, no sensuality, and very little crude language of any sort. Every scene has a purpose, and each one leads off to an ending that is both satisfying and perfect for a sequel hook. The apes, created completely with CGI using Andy Serkis's awesome motion capture work, were incredibly well done - I was particularly impressed with the orangutan! They are believable, living creatures onscreen, although there were some moments where the animation seemed a bit cartoonish, but they were far between. The music was well done, and the performances by all the actors were practically Oscar-worthy by themselves.  All in all, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" reminds me very much of old-school, thought-provoking, science fiction epics, updated for the modern day. It barely earned its PG-13 rating, in fact - the film is EXTREMELY tame compared to many others of today. Well-acted, taken seriously, a commentary on the modern world, and a wonderful film!

a must own show I could not believe that i saw that this might be the true end of the show, what a show, got even better and better, So sad that once again another show will be gone so quickly, Some time next year will be the last one, then the christmas show, well good luck finding this show, it is very cool

Don't miss this film!!!! Alan Wolf has created a masterpiece in film....this is a gripping,powerful story.... with an incredible message.  It will leave you thinking...pondering... and marveling at the storyline and development of characters.

Lady in the Water is an Excellent Movie! M. Night Shyamalan wrote directed and produced this movie.  His movies have been hit and miss with me.  I loved "Sixth Sense" and "Lady in the Water" is one of my favorites.  One of the worst movies I have seen was "The Happening" (yikes!), but let's get back to "Lady in the Water".  This movie has a wonderful plot, excellent acting (kudos to Paul Giamatti for his range in this movie)and holds your attention all of the way through.  It makes everyone feel like they have a purpose and it is time very well spent.  It is in my all time top 5 favorite movies, so I highly recommend it.

Perfect movie! Just got back from watching the 3D film in theaters. IT's been my favorite film for the past 15 years! I love it & I love Titanic!!!

Departures `Departures' is a beautiful Japanese film that left me surprised by it's depth and poignancy.  This follows a young cellist, called Daigo Koboyashi, whose Orchestra is disbanded and so he returns with his wife to his home town to earn a living.  He takes a job as an encoffiner (someone who puts the deceased into their coffin) and learns the trade from an experienced older mentor.  He is shunned by some parts of society due to the taboo nature of his job, but he gains the respect of others when they see the level of dignity and honour with which he handles the deceased.  There is more to this film, but I won't spoil your enjoyment by divulging it here.  This film has a wonderful score and the direction is among the best I have seen from a Japanese film of this type.  This film is beautifully framed and it has some amazing scenes showing the ceremony where they prepare the various deceased people.  The story kept me engrossed throughout and despite it's gentle feel, it also has a degree of gravitas and emotion simmering beneath the surface the whole way through.  I wasn't expecting to enjoy this film as much as I did and despite being a fan of Japanese cinema, even I was surprised at how well constructed, acted and directed this was. This is a moving and heart warming drama and if you are a fan of world cinema, or just wish to see an excellent film in it's own right, then this comes highly recommended indeed.  Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.

excellent my kids love it My kids are in the mickey mouse age. They like this dvd, it is Spanish doubled. I also like it has enough duration to keep them entertained for a while.

Richard Gere at his best! This was an awesome movie! When I saw Richard Gere in the previews this movie looked like a great thriller and it did not disappoint! Great acting, great story, holds your interest from beginning to end!

Unique, Intriguing I saw this film on IFC several years ago and had been searching for it again for some time. The two leads give excellent performances. It is a bit odd, but I personally loved every minute of it!

Great value Classic movies at a reasonable price. If you still buy dvd's this is a worthy purchase and great to watch all these movies once a year.

Awesome Great movie now on the best platform for home viewing. Great special features, and picture quality and sound are fantastic. No brainer for fans of the film.

tremendous value for bluray, great performances. Since I already had all the dvd versions of these first seven symphonies, I debated at length whether to spring for the bluray upgrades.After all, the dvd video, when upconverted, can approach HD quality, and regular dts is almost as good as DTS MASTER AUDIO. Or so I thought! Plus these are exemplary performances.  First off, this set is a remarkable bargain. I was able to get this for $66 plus shippping, less than $10 per symphony! So just on that basis, get this and sell your dvd versions, if like me you bought those previously. With the huge storage capability of bluray, more effort should be made to put more content on the bluray releases as in this set, given the huge price premium normally being demanded. The Theilemann Beethoven is another example of offering much more material on the bluray set.  The video on this really is very good, later performances showing greater improvement than the earlier ones, at least to my eye. The DTS MASTER AUDIO is much better than the original dts, more detail being evident with better dynamic range., and they appear to have fiddled with the balance in some areas, to beneficial effect.I usually had to reduce the center channel output relative to the left/right channels in the dvd versions to get proper perspective. Not so with these. The earlier problems noted by early acquirers of the individual bluray releases seem to have been fixed.  The only problem I found was I was unable to the get time elasped/time remaining status feature to work on these discs. These are the only discs in my collection (dvd or Bluray) that won't respond to this. Since I like to cue in on certain passages, this is annoying. Unless I somehow have pirated discs, I don't understand this!  Anyway, These are definitely worth having, and are a true steal!

Great action and drama I really liked this series a lot. It  is the story of 2 assassins. Ein and Zwei have had their memories wiped and are made to do assassinations for the Inferno syndicate. They start to grow closer to one another and question whether they should continue their work. There are lots of good action scenes and plenty of drama. This anime was kind of a mix of Noir and Darker than Black. Very cool and engrossing.  Everything about this anime is top notch. The animation is incredible. The voice actors are great, and the soundtrack is very cool. You could go on forever about the coolness of Phantom. Instead of rambling, I'll just recommend that you check it out. I really enjoyed it and I hope you do to.

City of Angels Movie was excellent and will view many times as well as dharing with friends.  Would recommend this as a feel good movie and a real love story.

Wow.. One of My Best Amazon Purchases Yet... Got exactly what was described and the Shipping was Amazingly Fast!!! Now I can enjoy My Movie on My Day oFF... Thanks a Bunch!!

2 days!! I bought this as a birthday present for my mom, who's birthday is on Valentines Day, thinking it would come by the next week and then it would be ready for her...nope! The same day I ordered it, it shipped, two days later, it arrived at my house while I was at work! The DVD is in perfect condition, the case looks very nice, and I know it'll now make a wonderful gift for my mom. :)  If you're going to buy this, buy from goHastings! They won't let you down.

A movie to watch over and over! I was skeptical about renting this, I am not a huge Dwayne Johnson fan. But I was pleasantly surprised! I actually ended up buying it on Blu-Ray

Taken Taken was a very good movie, action packed loved it. Liam Neelson was fantastic I can't wait to see Taken 2

A fine British comedy with Peter Sellers at his delightful best! The Mouse that Roared(released Oct/59)is a brilliant British comedy starring Peter Sellers in three different roles in this anti war/cold war film based on the /55 best selling book by Leonard Wibberly.Sellers is backed by a powerhouse of a British cast including such stalwarts as William Hartnell as Sgt.Buckley(to become in a few months ahead,the first Dr Who),Leo McKern as the head of the opposition party(better known as #2 in The Prisoner and still later Rumpole of the Bailey),and well known Canadian actor as the U.S.Secretary of Defense William Austin.Also along as Seller`s love interest is a young Jean Seaburg. The plot involves the tiny country of Grand Fenwick.Their only export was their wine and their only country of consumption was the U.S.However an American winery started using a name very similar to theirs and their wine exports dropped off the charts.Fenwick,now in bankruptcy,declares war on the U.S.,thinking that post-war reparations will put their country back into solvency.A tiny band of Fenwickian soldiers(dressed in chain male,with bows and arrows as weapons)&igrave;nvade New York city(dig that New York skyline!).At that very moment the streets of NYC are deserted as a practice drill for a bomb attack is underway.The little group make their way to the exact facility,where a professor(Dave Kossoff)who has developed a Q bomb(the most powerful weapon yet made)and his daughter(Jean Seaburg)are working.The original plan of the group was to surrender themselves,but Tully(Sellers)who is in charge changes things midstream and takes the two prisoner along with a general and four NYC cops.They return to Grand Fenwick,and as expected,the world comes to them with various offers of monetary assistance;each after ownership of the bomb. In the end Tully and the professors daughter fall in love and he is made the new prime minister.The bomb,it is decided,will stay in Grand Fenwick and a new peace treaty with the U.S. promises to be more than generous with Grand Fenwick. From the very beginning of the film,you know this is going to be different from any other,as the opening Columbia logo of the girl holding the``flame``,comes to life `when she sees a run in her stockings and leaves the podium.In the end the only reference to a mouse comes out of the ``dud``bomb,which comes to life again,unbeknownst to its new owners.In between this is a comedy of errors and faux pauxs all designed to hit the funny bone,which it does in spades.Peter Sellers is at the top of his game here playing the Grand Duchess,the prime minister and the head of the army.Of course the uncanny likeness of all three to each other is explained because the original founder of Fenwick really was the FOUNDER of Fenwick.This film became a staple of TV back in the 60s and to watch it again,in colour at that,after so many years,it stirs up many memories of that era and the cold war this is based on.The on going paranoia that existed in the background of day to day life in everyone`s minds about a possible attack by enemy forces,the bomb shelters,the air raid drills,etc.Wow,how the world has changed.But what has not is this movie`s message and the grand and hilarious way it portrays its` smart send up of those times. Technically speaking the film is in its original w/s a/r of 1:85:1.The film could use a good remastering(especially the opening credits),but overall the picture is pretty good.The only extra is the trailer and others from other Sellers films. Overall an excellent and funny film,highlighting the cold war at its height and its star peter Sellers,playing three different roles,all backed by a great British cast.Highly recommended.

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riveting and compelling (4.7/10) my roommate and i both enjoyed this film on the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.it's basically told from the perspective of Antonio Salieri(F. Murray Abraham).the movie may or may not be historically accurate,but so what.it isn't a documentary.it's a Hollywood film,so of course dramatic liberties have been taken.the point is,it is a beautiful looking film.the music is superb.the acting is first rate.the costumes are exquisite.the tension is at times palpable and there is comic relief.Tom Hulce doesn't get a lot of recognition as an actor,but he is certainly brilliant here as Mozart.Jeffrey Jones has a great turn as well,as Emperor Joseph II.Roy Dotrice is also a standout as Mozart's Father Leopold.all told,this a remarkable achievement. 4.7/10

A heart felt holiday tale An understated piece of yuletide cheer. It was a delight to watch and worth the rental! If you're looking for a movie about young gay love, but don't want it too steeped in the dramatics or overdone in ways so many gay comedies are: this is the movie for you.

Ultimate Got this as a surprise gift for my boyfriend. He LOVES the Matrix series. Picture is wonderful and makes the movie even more awesome than it seemed back when they first came out.

A Christmas Carol Bottom line review: This movie looks and sounds great on Blu-Ray. This version of "A Christmas Carol" is most likely the most definitive version. I loved the story as a child and loved the movie versions. I have watched pretty much every contemporary version available, and this version is without question THE version to have. Buy it and enjoy it!

Betty I have been a Christian Bale fan, since he played in Empire of the Sun, and this movie reminded me of that, only Mr. Bale is all grown-up. The movie was very good, and again I think Christian Bale is a superb actor. Some of the war scenes are hard to watch, but very informative and sad how war can be so cruel to the human spirit. Again, I really loved this movie and have told others to watch it. I think it is a movie for all to see, if you are of the right age. I think they don't have enough movies out there that show how women were treated during these wars, telling the truth, and show how brave and courageous they were.

Good movies I got this disc for Christmas from a co-work. I am over joyed. These are great movies. It always makes me laugh. I'm not a fan of old man.... but I have to love these two lol.

Top Movie "Enemy of the state" has become a classic movie by now. A non-stop action movie and now with the spectacular clarity of blu ray, you just cannot go wrong. I've watched this movie a thousand times and I never get bored of it. Now in blu ray, the quality of this movie is astonishing. I'd recommend it to anyone who love thrilled-action movies.

3rd dragon tattoo movie This is the Swedish version of the last dragon tattoo movie.  The entire series is very well done.  There were subtitles but it was easy to follow along.  The acting is very good.  I recommend this series.

dance away my daughter is fascinated with watching the mice dance in this movie and has gotten her interested in learning to dance.

My Favorite Tarkovsky Film "My Name Is Ivan" ("Ivan's Childhood") was a 1962 Russian (Soviet-Era) film by director Andrei Tarkovsky. It is his first full-length feature film (made after his short film "The The Steamroller and the Violin" from 1961). Of all Tarkovsky's films, this is my personal favorite. This is a great film: you should watch it. The film includes several dream sequences . . . which might make things a wee bit confusing if you weren't expecting them. There are many detailed reviews here (some, sadly, with "spoilers"), so I shall be brief.  This film is based on a 1957 Russian short story ("Ivan") by Vladimir Bogomolov, who was born in 1926 and joined the Russian army as a young teenager at the start of World War II. The film is set in World War II where the German army has invaded Russia. The film tells the story of Ivan, a twelve-year-old boy whose entire family has been murdered by the Germans. He now works for the army on the front lines, delivering messages and running dangerous recon missions. Ivan resists all efforts to send him to safety; he is intent on avenging his family by helping the army kill Germans. Ivan's childhood has been completely obliterated by war; he is a boy no more.

My Daughter's Favorite! I bought this as a birthday present for my daughter's second birthday, and she LOVED it! It was cute! Very reminiscent of the old Winnie the Pooh movies. It's one of the few movies she has that I ENJOY watching too!

Classic Clouseau Peter Sellers and Blake Edwards are at their Best in A SHOT IN THE DARK. The Pink Panther (Inspector Clouseau) films were so popular that once seen you will never forget them. Whether it was the animated image of the Pink Panther or images of Peter Sellers' bumbling yet likeable screen personification of Inspector Clouseau or Henry Mancini's unmistakable theme you never forget.  A SHOT IN THE DARK has somehow come up short with the younger fans for no good reason other than its title. It does not say "Pink Panther" yet once discovered A SHOT IN THE DARK is a true gem. A SHOT IN THE DARK is a great example of sophisticated slapstick (screenplay by Blake Edwards and William Peter Blatty based on plays by Harry Kurnitz and Marcel Achard). A SHOT IN THE DARK has Herbert Lom as Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus and Burt Kwouk as Kato, which THE PINK PANTHER did not. A SHOT IN THE DARK focuses on Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau. It is really more character based and driven than THE PINK PANTHER. In many ways A SHOT IN THE DARK is much funnier. It really defines the character of Clouseau a good-natured inspector who just cannot see the forest for the trees. George Sanders is once again brilliant in another similar role, the type that he perfected throughout his career. This time he is the very sardonic yet stately Benjamin Ballon one of Clouseau's suspects. The cast also includes Elke Sommer (the most obvious suspect to the audience), Tracy Reed, Graham Stark and Martin Benson. The opening shot (shots in the dark) and the nudist colony scenes are great examples of Blake Edwards' direction at his best. Production designer Michael Stringer and cinematographer Christopher Challis visually replicate the idea of shots and murder taking place in the dark or at least in places where passions run uncontrollable.  A SHOT IN THE DARK has a much different look than the invigorating and opulent images found in THE PINK PANTHER. Henry Mancini once again delivers a very good score. A SHOT IN THE DARK's main title theme is very good but has been greatly overshadowed by THE PINK PANTHER theme. But can you blame it? A SHOT IN THE DARK is somehow in a league of its own yet it spawned all the great supporting characters found in the subsequent films which we all came to love and couldn't get enough of. A SHOT IN THE DARK was the foundation for what was to come and made the world of Inspector Clouseau so enduring and endearing yet there is something very different and special about this one film. It is somehow etched in a time that can never be replicated. To really enjoy it try to place yourself back in that time.

excellent I ordered this DVD because it has Snoopy's brother Spike in it, who my boyfriend loves!  I was really excited that this movie was available.  The shipping/receiving time was SUPERB!  Thanks

funny, funny, funny This movie was so hysterical, the humor was so elementry and juvenile.It is very crass at times, but in the end, ends just as you would expect.

HAPPY TO ADD THIS TO MY COLLECTION I received "Save The Last Dance" dvd in great time,in great condition and for a great price. This movie is one of my favorites and I am happy to add it to my collection.

Classic Movie! Great close after reading the book with my kids at school!  Surprised the actually preferred the older movie...I do too!

It was GREAT! The Little Mermaid DVDs were terrific and brought back many memories. The DVDs arrived fast and perfect.  The whole process of ordering and receiving was flawless.

Stepford Wives Loved the original movie, but Christopher Walken? It can't get any better than this! Glenn Close is incredible, as well. Funny movie with great acting by Nicole Kidman and Matthew Broderick. LOVE this movie!!!

Whoa... TUB. I just watched tub. There were scenes that honestly made me feel like vomiting, but in the end there was something that made me like it. The movie was really well made in a weird messed up kind of way. I think I would buy the DVD just for the extras.

Intricacies of Raga Shuddh Kalyan NOTE: The complete program includes performances by Pandit Jasraj, Pandit Vyas, and Pandit Joshi.  It is not every day that three senior most music pandits are honored together for lifetime achievements and receive the affection and reverence from their long-term, devoted and enthralled audience. In this program, the three pandits come together to receive the honor, and the delight the audience with their spell-bounding performances.  Two of the pandits-Pandit Vyas and Pandit Joshi have passed on since this momentous occasion, which makes this program all the more precious. The pandits come from different music gharanas (traditions). Their styles are different, but the unity in their approaches to the gharanas is evident.

Kids Enjoyed it My children really enjoyed watching this movie. They had been so anxious to get it that everytime we were in the store they would look for it. The item came in excellent condition.

The best turtles movie ever! I'm a huge turtles fan and I must say that this flick is a pure gem. Despite the lack of improved special effects we have today, It's got its charms, paying a tribute to the classic graphic novel that brought the turtles to the spotlight. Due to the dark photography and plot, the other movies of the franchise were molded into a cartoonish vibe, which can't compete with this first one. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is one of my favorite movies ever!

Take the Money and Run If you enjoy comedy this movie will surely fit the bill. Woody Allen is excellent in the comedic adventure of a bumbling criminal. This is a must have collectable.

YOU CAN DO BETTER--GET  COMPLETE SERIES got ALL 635 episodes in great to good quality(color episodes too) from ioffer.com with art work and on dvd)-(90 bucks)---but as i told the wife=this way or NO way---thoroughly satisfied-bootlegged?sure-screw paramount--they want to haunt me to my grave on their over priced releases??let em-and BOY am i enjoying them!!!--they wont release them at a fair price? and in a timely fashion?we have to wait yrs for another half season release?well i found a place that gives me all the episodes---they can kiss my grits--do i feel guilty buying bootlegged copies?lolololoolololo screw the greedy bstrds at paramount--im 67-cant wait 20 yrs and 2 thsnd bucks for the episodes --GREATLY satisfied!!and i resold my studio released seasons - 1-4 on amazon and was ahead of the game---dont be foolish and wait for the stupidly slow overpriced studio releases--get the bootlegs and sit back and enjoy---they are NOT that bad

Beyond my expectations...so different from the U.S. version Bought this Region 3 DVD after reading the review of the director's cut.  The US release was interesting, but not very memorable.  Agree with the other reviews stating that this is the version that should have been released.  It provides much more depth to the main character and the story. Highly recommend this movie.

Raaaaaaaaaaaawwwwr! Growing up, I have seen many of the terribly dubbed Godzilla vs (insert monster's name here) spin off films.  I had not until last night seen the original Godzilla film.  I received this from my local library (thanks Washington County!).  The set includes 2 discs.  The first disc contains a restored version of the original Japanese film.  This disc also contains a handful of extras.  The second disc is the American version, Godzilla King of Monsters.  There is also a booklet included with a few essays on the film.  I was completely blown away by the film.  It seems that the Japanese original film was intended to convey a subtle message against war, nuclear testing, and aggression in general.  We actually see much more of the principal characters than we do of the monster.  Even in some scenes, when the characters are discussing a recent attack, they refer to it as 'the tragedy' or 'the horror' or 'the event' rather then specify 'Godzilla's attack'.  The scenes in the hospitals could be taken right from a post Hiroshima or Nagasaki post atomic bomb fallout shelter.  There is a sense of helplessness and a bit of subdued anger here, but it's portrayed in a way to not lay blame, but as a warning for future generations.  The scenes actually involving Godzilla are pretty amazing.  We all can tell it's a rubber suit, and that he is smashing up models.  But it seems the filmmakers didn't really try to hide that.  It's not too campy or quirky, but it's like showing the destruction as an example.  Not special effects just for special effects sake.  I feel for the Japanese people too, because they are watching shots of Tokyo being set on fire a mere 9 years after then end of World War 2 (and the firebombing of Tokyo).  This probably stirred up some mixed emotions among the Japanese viewers.  The music and sound effects are superb.  Everything works well together.  The shots (not the Godzilla dominated scenes) are very well laid out.  The black and white photography is superb.  Though the story gets a bit cheesy and melodramatic at points, the story still flows rather well.  We start with a sense of suspense and pending dread with the loss of the ships out in the bay.  There is a big flurry of activity, then things seem to quiet down again just before Godzilla attacks an island.  We don't see the monster yet, but we see the after effects, including the presence of radiation.  We finally see a portion of the monster while the researchers are out on the island, but he quickly vanishes and we don't see him for awhile afterwards.  At this point we really get into the back story before the next two attacks.  I can't tell you how awesomely cheesy I thought the scene with the Japanese Air Force was!  Told my girlfriend "What are they thinking trying to shoot Godzilla with holiday sparklers!?!?".  Terrific!  And Criterion went one step further by including what has to be the worst Americanization of a foreign film EVER!  The American version of the film is so terrible, not even cheesy in a good way.  They added extra scenes with Raymond Burr, most of the scenes he stands around staring while we cut back to scenes from the original.  We are also treated to a pretty terrible voice over.  Also note how many times they reuse the same eight second shot of the girl (dubbed over) for when she is talking to Burr's character, and how they then switch to a shot from behind, so they can include Burr, but not really show you the replacement actress.  It's nowhere near as funny as the later cheesy dubbed Godzilla films.  Instead it's sad and horrible what was done to the brilliance of the Japanese original.  Being dubbed over with cheesy voice acting would have been fun and campy... but yeah... Raymond Burr in quick takes and narration... wow... terrible.  But it's nice they included this extra, because the comparison is quite interesting.  I would say this is one of the most solid releases from Criterion in history.  They have taken a great film, restored it well (though there are some missing segments - you can tell where they are when the people seem to teleport ahead instantly), and re-mastered the audio in all of the screaming monster glory!  A solid 5 stars and a film worthy to be added to any film lovers collection.  This is a monster movie, a moving melodrama, and an anit-war and anti-nuke film all in one.  How can you go wrong?

Still Worth Seeing After More Than 15 years Nothing to add to the many reviews of this successful pictur, save that it is no flash-in-the-pan. It looks as good today as when it was first to be seen, as a first run movie, on television, and, then, on disc. The chase for an innocent man, seeking only to prove his innocence, is right up there with the best, although not the best among them. Ford is perfectly cast as the hero without "side", without the arrogance of a man of achievement, without the loss of humanity, to which nature predisposes any person in his situation. Repetition has taken some of the luster off the Award winning Tommy Lee Jones performance; he still fits the bill, pretty well, in the role of man-hunter. There is enough action to keep up the pace and more than adequate acting skill, by the supporting cas,t ably to reinforce the stars performance. Those who have never seen the movie, and who like action thrillers, should enjoy this one.  Those who have not seen it for some time, should be able to see it again with almost all the initial pleasure.

Love all 3 movies! Normally twin/triple pack movies will only contain the contents of one movie you like, but this one contains 3 great movies! The package includes 3 separate blu-ray movie discs, one for each film.  V for Vendetta is a great film that everyone should see multiple times (I literally watch it every Nov 5th). It's a great reminder that the people shouldn't fear their gov't; the gov't should fear their people. This is easily in my Top 10 fav movies of all time.  Watchmen is a excellent graphic novel adaptation that stays very faithful to the original source (except for a tiny part in the end, but it was understandable). It is a little lengthy, but it too is a great film with an interesting philosophical debate and an amazing "ending".

Not a chick flick at all I like to catch up on all sorts of movies in every genre.  With Bridesmaids I had heard of it and it was getting good buzz so it was on my list of movies to eventually see.  I let it drag on and on because I'm not a fan chick flicks so to speak.  I thought, "Oh another movie about a bunch of women pining over some fairy tale with lame cliches."  Boy was I wrong, this movie is the equivalent to "The Hangover" except its with women.  Thus proving that women can be equally fraternizing, comedic and intoxicated as the fellas in "The Hangover".  Kristen Wiig plays the protagonist Annie with a fantastic performance that takes you back to the Lucille Ball slapstick days, but put here today in modern times.  I almost want to go out on a limb and say that this may be more of a film for guys.  Never mind that it's all women in the leads of the film, don't let that turn you off guys, as the humor is downright crude, almost repulsive and crass.  Women who are seeing this hoping for a sweet, romantic love story will be sorely disappointed and maybe even turned off.  This isn't to stereotype men and women as I'm simply generalizing that the Bridesmaids title with all female leads can suggest to someone this is another kind of film.  It most definitely is not.  I highly recommend this and in fact make it a double feature one night with a group of friends and watch, "The Hangover" and "Bridesmaids" in one sitting and get the best of both worlds.

An American Family I like Seed of Chucky as much as The Bride of Chucky.  It has the same kind of camp effect as Bride of Chucky.  Jennifer Tilly is fantastic, she offers comedy relief and she doesn't take her character too seriously.  It's also bizarre to watch the spawn of Chucky, it's fun to watch "it" in action. There's some funny campy lines in Seed of Chucky.  "U can always smell it on girls who sell it". Haha.  Seed of Chucky has some cool special effects, an interesting story and some gory scenes like a good horror movie should have.

dr zhivago 45th edition A classic that never grows old. Each time viewed I see more and understand the basis of the times and circumstances surrounding the story plot. A must for the romantic and historic enthusiast.

X-Men This Blu - Ray movie was bought as a gift for my nephew. He has just started his Blu-Ray collection. He likes it a lot!

On time and good DVD On time and work as mansion. I will do business again with them. My wife like this gift for her.

Beautiful Film!!! I bought this film in a set. This is the first film I ever saw with Shah Rukh Khan. The love story is powerful and beautiful. The devotion Shah Rukh Khan's character had for his love (Preity Zinta) was very impactful to see. Every aspect of the film was superb...from the cinematography, to the music, to the story...just everything. I highly, highly recommend this film!!!

What could be bad about the Flamingo Kid? Excellent movie, the teens can watch it and laugh along with the grownups. A lot of good lifes lessons are learned here too.

Frickin AWESOME!!! This is an awesome Sci-fi Horror flick that blew my mind back in High School... Space, Hell, Time travel... Great cast and acting... Sam Neill, the dude from Jurassic Park as a possessed psychopathic engineer who built a spaceship... and Larry Fishburn, amazing actor, nuff said... this movie seriously tapped a nerve, scary as, well, Hell... but fascinating and enjoyable... Anyways, was just about to netflix it again and figured I'd check and see how much on Amazon... $3.99????!?!?!?! SOLD!!!

great This product was a great buy. It's very informative and educational. Makes a great gift this holiday season! Amazon has never let me down with any purchase! I highly recommend this product. Thank you Amazon for having such a wide selection the chose from.

great movies One of the best movies ever made. you get history, mystery and a love story rolled into one movie with fantastic acting from the best actors and actress of the time. Bought it for my wife's anniversary and she loved it.

Love It The best movie ever. This is a great addition if you are a Prince fan or not. The movie itself has amazing music and of course the best artist ever...Prince. This movie will have you singing all the songs. The product arrived in perfect condition. And the price was amazing. I always wanted to own this movie, but I could never find it in stores. I just so happened to find it on Amazon and ordered it immediatley. You must own this classic.

an underrated movie, despite IMDB's 7.7 score There is a bit of "street philosophy" between the two main characters, Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx, that I found actually quite important to me and have thought about as reference points repeatedly since seeing this movie... Judge for yourself on that count, but it does at least hint at possible reasons for a kind of callous disregard for life that Tom's "Silver Fox" character, as Tom describes his character, shows us; and in contrast you have Jamie Foxx who, in the movie, is perplexed, surprised and bewildered at Tom's hardness as a hit man. Yet watch as this observation by Jamie molds his own behavior and character. Another stand out specific was a scene where Jamie Fox, the taxi cab driver, is stuck in a very vulnerable spot with skinhead hardcore street punks, ...and then what happens next has a kind of sudden impact, as Tom Cruise, hit man extraordinaire, arrives and "rights" things. Usually it's a visually striking image that grabs the eye into entertainment enlightenment, but this scene has both visual and audio impact. So I watched this full scale assault of a scene again and again because it was so well done. There is another shocker of a scene (a hit) that is so up close, intimately personal, and it incorporates a violent change of mood, emotion and human connection that adds a kind of heart felt pathos that may only be matched again by the end of the movie on the rail car. Watch how a strange and dynamic relationship develops between Foxx and Cruise, one mixed with revulsion, respect and even a kind of teacher relationship with Cruise as the teacher, not to mention his last line of the movie which is really a key commentary of our collective cold culture of which Cruise mastered to full effect and profit for as long as his ride took him.

Best version! This is without a doubt the best version of Supergirl, because it includes the "European" version, which is in reality the complete movie before it was tampered with and gutted by the movie executives. Even if you get a used copy, it is a much better buy than any other release out there.

awesome this movie is good for some laughs and has an awesome story to follow. its full of surprizes and at the same time is as good as you expect. :)

One of my favorites movies I love this movie I have lost count of how many times I have seen it. I refuse to be without a copy. This movie is cast well the acting is great love is the theme. Grant and Kerr are just great together.

A very well-done and captivating film I honestly don't understand the strange, negative reviews here. The acting is absolutely spot-on. The cast could not be more perfect than it is. So what is the problem with these lame, pestilent, reviewers?  This is a rivetingly good film. (The only thing I kept thinking was in 1997--cellphones were not the small soap-size gizmos we have nowadays. They could have had the characters talking on what was more on the market back in the late '90's) Otherwise, this film was engrossing as any suspense drama could possibly be. Jessica Chastain was amazingly good (and gorgeous) as were Sam Worthington and  Marton Csokas. Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, Ciarin Hinds were brilliant as the older versions of these characters' selves so many decades later. So we have the final scene--but there was a juicy twist and I found it very plausible and believable.  This is one viewer who will be recommending this marvelous, on-the-edge-of-your-seat thriller.

fun I am glad I found this film on DVD because it was a walk down memory lane.  I would recommend this film to anyone who enjoys family adventure films.

No gym membership needed. First off let me say this program is not for an out of shape individual.  I've worked out for 16 years, was in the Marine Corps, ran cross country in high school and have ran 50K's.  Let me tell you this is one of the hardest things I've ever done.  When the background people start leaving the set because they are exhausted you know this is crazy.  If you are out of shape do not buy this.  This is not for people looking to just get back in to exercising.  This is for a person that is in moderate to good shape.  You will definitely be ripped after 60 days by following the program and eating right.

We laughed and "lizzed," even while driving home in our Prius Just hilarious, my husband and I both LOVED this in the theater and bought it the second it came out.  We've seen it several times and still enjoy it.  We don't like all of Will Ferrell's movies, but we love all of Mark Wahlberg's (as far as we know), so we're unbiased in this review.  I know it's received mixed reviews, which honestly shocked us.  Their characters are just hilarious, every cast member absolutely perfect for his or her role.  Eva Mendes was gorgeous and the scenes with her are unforgettable.  Michael Keaton was awesome in his role.  Don't want to give too much away, but it's worth watching at least once.  We thought the plot was unique, there are too many hilarious lines to count, and the credits made us love it even more!  4 very enthusiastic thumbs up!

Me Likely Good story, nice art and good characters - everything I need in a anime - so this passes and is recommended for a watch, check it out!!

Brilliant lost gem - pls re-release this! George C. Scott has made so many great movies, it's impossible to list them all. But "They Might Be Giants" is truly marvelous, one of those simple yet heart-breakingly poignant movies that one sees and can never forget, even years later. These days it would be called an "adult's movie" - meaning there's no explosive bombs wrecking havoc or gunplay mowing down a hundred villains in five seconds flat.  No, this is a movie with heart and a soul, a movie where intelligent people have conversations that fascinate, even when one of those people is clearly delusional. Scott made some amazing movies during this time period and it's unfortunate that most of them aren't easily (or affordably) available any longer.  Losing movies such as "They Might Be Giants" would be a real tragedy.  I hope Amazon can wield some of its considerable purchasing power and convince Criterion or another vendor to transfer some of these films to digital format.

Wonderful, Warm and Great Movie ! This movie is almost as good as Stand By Me. Makes you wonder about Stephen King's own childhood. And as usual Hopkins and Morse are both fantastic! Great acting by the kids as well. Best movie i have watched lately.

Great workout for all abilities I've been one to workout consistently but my multiple disabilities create an obstacle to overcome and cope with as I've strive to stay fit. I really enjoy working out with this DVD. It's all done on the mat, and she goes at a great pace and provides modifications that are useful for someone like me with hamstring tightness. It's well paced and great for focusing on the core. The more I've hung in there and used this DVD the more results I see. Of course I'm a big fan of Ellen and her DVDs and I enjoy her workouts. I've really been able to accomplish my fitness goals with her. I recommend this for anyone who wants to start working out or added to their workout routine to enhance their abilities.

Great movie that doesn't get enough credit Hollywood is running out of ideas and we all know it.  Remakes happen all the time and I am scared someone will remake this cult classic.  Tom Selleck is the man!  To anyone who hasn't scene this movie, you will really enjoy the story and be entertained.  It's a must have for sports movie collectors.

One Of The Best Christmas Movies Of All Time!! This has always been a favorite movie of mine.  Sure all of its content is not for children but its a great adult holiday classic.  Bill Murray is at his comic best and the fact that his family, plays his family adds a little extra.  If you dont laugh at this movie you dont have much of a sense of humor.

Easily one of the best things of any kind I saw this in the theater way back when.  I had no idea what it was.  It was a hugely delightful surprise.  Pure candy.  I got the Ultimate Version with the extra features disc.  It has an interview with designer Mobius (Jean Giraud)!  I've watched this thing all the way through at least twenty times, and I've seen random chunks of it on TV hundreds of times.  It never gets old.  This is the only real HEAVY METAL movie.  The crappy parts are completely outweighed and negated by the movie's overwhelming general excellence.  I would give it many more than five stars if Amazon didn't so cruelly limit that option.

Have the tissues ready This film is a touching true story that shows the faithfulness of a dog to his master.  I was glad that there was a box of tissues next to me as I watched.  If you've ever had a pet that was more than a friend to you, you'll enjoy this movie.  I would not advise it for someone who has recently lost a pet, however, because it would make the fresh wounds bleed unnecessarily.

A Tale of Two Cities... Remake. This was a gift to someone, who loved this  production.so excited that  I found it for her. For me who is 15 years older ,loves the  Ronald Coleman earlier version..I was in love with this actors beautiful speaking voice.It is a strong story of good people and the evil, greedy ones. Thankfully good came out as the winner. worth watching and getting involved with the lives of the characters. I was pleased to receive the film promptly and that I have it in my collection. So thankyou Amazon..

fun movie I Bought this for my Grandaughter and she loves it.  Pleased with the price and speed of delivery.  Will purchase additional DVD's in the future.  Love purchasing on Amazon.

You have to know a little about music to enjoy If you don't know about Brian Wilson, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash and Ray Charles (among others) - you will never "get" this movie. Those who hated it probably don't watch many music biopics. If you do, you will be laughing your ass off.

What a fun film!!! Okay, this was such a fun film to watch!!! It was great and I enjoyed every mintue of it. The plot was pretty the same, as the show. Except for a few changes here and there. But, there was plenty of action and laughs too. The cast was really great. This is a good old fashion action pack movie!!! So check it out!!!

American Full Moon I have been looking for this movie everywhere. Waiting for it to come out on tv. Waiting and looking. Who knew It was just a click away. Thanks Amazon. It was worth waiting for. Not that I had to wait long for my order. I ordered 3, 1 for my son and 2 for me. The movie was better than I remembered. It is a great werewolf movie. This is a must see movie. It's funny, scary, sad just all around entertaining. My 2 teenage sons even liked it. That's why I'm giving it 5 stars.

The only way is ape.. This is the best of the apes series. The story is very moving and thought provoking at the same time. You could actually feel sympathetic towards the apes. The live motion capture using human actors to mimic the apes is the first of its kind in the world thus lending the movie a uniqueness that is astonishing as it is outstanding with sterling (ape) performance by Andy Serkis. HAIL CAESAR!  Picture quality 5/5, audio 4/5

yes! It took some time for the product to finally ship, but when it did it arrived fast! Though the DVDs weren't locked in the case there isn't a scratch on them!

Scream DVD Fast delivery, great price!!  My 6 yr old wanted this movie as well as we did and I was able to find it brand new a Amazon.Com at a great price! DVD in excellent condition and we are very pleased!!!

Interesting with a hint of rhetorical zest. "I give this at least 5 cookies and 2 internets; I mean stars for being able to convince me that shelling out 18 rupies was worth it to hear such an ignorant examination of the cultures it describes. Bravo!"

Jacob's Ladder takes you to heaven this is by far my favorite movie, i recommend this to anyone, especially those who love phycological thrillers.  its hard to explain to someone with out giving away the huge twist at the end but i guess i can say this, the acting is perfect, tim robinson's performance is heartbreakingly beautiful and his character has a childish innocence that you can easily sympathize with and root for.  this movie involves demons and hellish notions but they are used more for a philosophical metaphor than something to make you check under your bed the night. even though the demons are not out to make you scream, the way the director focuses only on small glimpses of terror rather than giving you a monster to stare and and desensitize yourself to, it keeps you on the edge of your seat unlike other movies where you are only laughing at cheesy makeup. Jacob's ladder takes you into the mind  of a troubled man's mind as he searches for answers to questions he himself, is not quite sure of, and you are left guessing and pleading for more until the very last moment. Jacob's Ladder is a movie you wont soon forget.  (also if you check out special features you get a "making of" video that only makes watching it again better.)

It's a gas! We were introduced to this Canadian series by our friends from the north while we were living overseas!  This is one of our family's favorite comedy series.  It is definitely geared for a more mature audience (teens and older).  There is mild "language" ("hell", "damn") but nothing explicit either in the language or situations.  The series is no longer in production but we own DVDs for all of the episodes.  It reminds me in many ways of the TV series "Northern Exposure".  Fans of that series would enjoy "Corner Gas"  with it's unique characters and small town situations.

So classy! Oh, the 1960's. That was the era of silly stuff. Not that I don't own and adore Green Acres, I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, and Get Smart. But The Dick Van Dyke Show definitely stood out in that decade as a show full of class, sophistication, and maturity, and made me a fan of Dick Van Dyke for all time. In fact, if it were not in black and white (which is the only sad thing, as the other four I mentioned are all in color), you might not realize the show is that old. Well... you might get another clue of its age from the lack of bad words or dirty jokes. If there is any proof that you can actually entertain an audience with intelligent humor - and we are still laughing 50 years later - The Dick Van Dyke Show is it.  I'm not even sure what else to say! There are too many great episodes for me to try to pick a favorite. The Walnut one of course. The one where they stay in the haunted cabin. And the one where Rob goes off to work on his novel and Dick Van Dyke carries almost the entire episode himself as a monologue. What talent! This show led me to Diagnosis Murder in 1993, and to collecting all of Dick Van Dyke's movies. All of them I can get my hands on, anyway. (They should really work on that. Some were never even released on VHS.) Dick Van Dyke fan forever!!!  Naturally, I totally recommend Seasons 2-5 as well. I observed on here how consistently all the seasons have top ratings, 4.8 or above, no poor ratings to bring them down! That never happens with other shows that have lasted many seasons. That is really saying something, especially for a show so old.

Loved It Once again Tyler Perry has blessed us with another screen banger. I love Tyler Perry because he is always able to bring it home. I can't even began to put in words how much I love this move. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1456481975">Twisted Obsession</a>

Awesome footage! At first I was a bit skeptical about the "colorized" versions of WW2 footage.  Since viewing this DVD I've been nothing but impressed.  Although I've noticed some minor errors in the narration (for instance General MacArthur said "I'll be back") the majority of it was spot on, and the video...WOW!  My friend watched part of it and also was amazed.  Well worth adding to any WW2 collection.

MAGNIFICENT!!! I am reviewing the September 2011 Blu-Ray edition of Ben-Hur.  In a word, it is spectacular!  Initially scheduled to come out two years ago on its 50th anniversary of the original theatrical release, it was delayed so that the high-definition on this old-school film could be achieved properly.  Trust me --- it was worth the wait.  The video is magnificent.  Details are clearly visible.  The HD has added the perception of depth to this two-dimensional feature.  I was amazed by the detail, such as the leaves of the trees blowing in the breeze.  Those who watch this primarily for the chariot race are not likely to be disappointed either. The rich color and depth add life to this film which has always been fun to watch but often showed its age.  The sea battle scenes, which I always thought looked fake on the smaller screens of television, look so much more realistic in this edition.  I cannot say enough about the high-definition video.  The audio is also fantastic.  I could not detect a single audio artifact in the entire soundtrack.  The digitized recording is clear and free of hum and hiss.  Rozsa's score is amazing and so much more enjoyable in this remastered format.  I was reluctant (because of the extra cost) to purchase the Ultimate Collector's Edition.  I debated both before I went to the store and at the store whether I should buy this edition or the basic Blu-Ray.  I am more than happy with my purchase of the Collector's Edition.  It comes with a 64-page Production Art book and a 128-page reproduction of Charlton Heston's personal diary of the film.  And, of course, there are quite a few video features (including the 1925 silent version) on Disc 3 of the Blu-Ray set, most of which I have yet to watch.  There are two things that bothered me.  The one major thing that disappointed me was that the face of Jesus in the scene before Pilate was deliberately blacked out.  I think the intention was to make it look like a shadow.  Instead it looks like someone went into  Microsoft Paint and used an airbrush to black out his face.  For a very brief second, you can see his face when he begins to bend down to pick up his cross.  I imagine that the actor who portrayed Jesus had something in his contract about his face not being seen, or maybe it was a personal preference of William Wyler's.  With the higher definition now available with Blu-Ray and on the bigger high-definition TV screens, the face of Jesus would have certainly been clearer in this format.  Personally, I wish they would have left it alone and allowed his face to be shown for that one brief scene.  The "shadow" looks ugly.  The other thing that bothered me is more minor but noticable.  Perhaps the problem exists in previous versions and I just never noticed it.  In the scene where the slaves are being marched through Nazareth and Jesus gives Ben-Hur water, if you watch towards the end of that scene, you will notice that the audio sync is off.  When the Roman shouts something along the lines of "Back to your places!" the audio is clearly out of sync with the Roman soldier's lips.  Other than those two things, I am amazed by this Blu-Ray edition of "Ben-Hur" and will watch it again in the very near future.  It is a beautiful upgrade from DVD and I agree whole-heartedly with Blu-Ray.com's assessment that Ben-Hur is the gold standard of what can be accomplished with high-definition Blu-Ray.

wonderfil product. Grandchild loves the music and characters.  She is 8 month old she loves this DVD.  Very cute.

BEST SHOW IN YEARS! AMAZING.  Parenthood is one of the best shows currently on air.  The storylines are realistic and tug at your emotions.  I can laugh and cry in the same episode due to the fantastic writing and phenomenal acting by each of the cast members, especially Lauren Graham, Mae Whitman, and Peter Krause.  In a world filled with dumb reality shows, Parenthood is a breath of fresh air.  Everyone I've talked to about this show can relate to this show in some way and I find that incredible.  You will not regret this purchase! (And don't forget to watch Parenthood every Tuesday night at 10 pm EST!)

A pretty authentic look at D-Day Before "Saving Private Ryan" there was "The Longest Day."  This film is short on characterization and long on story.  And the story is one of the greatest sagas of all time: the Allied invasion of France in June 1944.  This is an all-star cast, realistic looking action by 1960s standards, and a pretty accurate portrayal of the invasion.  This one omits most of the gore of "Saving Private Ryan" as was the custom for 1960s war films, but other than that it is pretty realistic.  It accurately portrays the terrible obstacles faced by, and sacrifices made by, the Allied troops as they invaded Normandy by air and sea.  In particular, the Germans are portrayed realistically as the competent and ruthless foe that they were.  This film is in black-and-white, I suppose to give it an air of authenticity.  I personally regret that, but the film is very well done and may be forgiven for this.  No one who enjoys war films or military history should miss this one.  Highly recommended.  RJB.

price getting lower? I will buy it when the price goes down. I was always looking for the second season but then I kinda missed the release anyways and did not pre order then. What a pity.  As I already bought so many other movies, I dont wanna spend 60 bucks on one box now...  hoping for a better price as it is only a dvd :-) quality is not so well then.

This one sits with you Wow, this one really got me. I really felt for all the people in this extremely well-written story. Twilight's star really brings his character to life and you see a real connection with his female co-star. Bronson and all the rest do a great job. The protective brother in the classroom scene is one of my favorites.

very inspiring, a true delight, Very peaceful, inspiring and delightful. Most amazing scenery and simply beautiful music, to inspire one to worship the Creator. Definitely recomend to anyone. Did not find one fault with it.

Vulgar and tasteless This is a great film. Make sure you get the 108 min version and not the 100 min version. There is also a 128 min version, which I am not familiar with.

Great DVD I love this DVD. I just watch every match on this DVD, anxiously. It just might be my favorite XPW DVD out of the about ten XPW DVDs that I own in my collection. If its not my favorite, then Retribution is my favorite. But my favorite just might be Redemption.

My Favorite Year Enthusiastic and utterly entranced by the quality of the acting and the message that it delivered.  I know that this film will be enjoyed over and over.  Peter O'Toole was utterly enchanting.  I was delighted to find the film and be able to purchase.

The Notebook my side of it I loved this movie from start to finish.  I never read the book and now am interested in finding that too as the books are usually always better than the movie.  Okay, I only have one minor problem with this movie.  Towards the middle of the movie the rich snobbish mother reveals a secret to allie; that she too fell in love with someone from the other side of the tracks and also gave him up for someone that was better off.  So why than, after being through the same thing herself, wouldnt she be more understanding about her daughter and encourage her instead of trying to end her daughter's relationship.  This makes no sense to me.  It seems the father is more understanding than the mother and you would think it would be the other way around.  But still a great movie.  A real tear jerker

A Missing Hero - Rick Rescorla, the cover photo for the book This is a minor comment - judge as you wish -it is relevant for accuracy.  A missing hero is Rick Rescorla, the subject of a wonderful book by James Stewart, "Heart of a Soldier".  Book plug - don't just watch the movie - Rescorla is (rightfully) on the cover of "We were soldiers, once and young".  The movie deleted Rescorla, combined him with Hal Moore (Stewart explains).  Aside from minor flaws, this movie has a lot reality in it.  Buy it to gain a sliver of understanding for the complexity of V-N that few truly understand, even now.  But it was a tragedy for many warriors who fought and served.  In watching the movie, I once again felt profound sadness for those who perished ... for not much gained ... even though all were committed.  In the end we fought only for each other.  FYI 2/7 wasn't my outfit.

As good as I remember I bought this because my 22 year old daughter said, "What is Roots?"  when I mentioned it in conversation and I thought how sad that she'd never watched it.  We watched it over xmas break and she loved it.  It was every bit as good as I remembered it to be when I watched it on tv!

Please watch this wonderful movie! The word "Lovely" drew me.  The word "Bones" sort of repelled me, but in the end, the content of this movie was well worth watching.  I found it so touching that it brought me to tears.  It was both heartbreaking and beautifully and sweetly uplifting.  You're left "smiling through your tears".  Kudos again to Spielberg and all the rest of the crew and actors who created this film.

A beautiful and well-told presentation! We missed seeing the series on Animal Planet and after reading the mostly positive reviews, I decided to surprise my husband with this selection as his relatives owned ranches in Nebraska and Montana.  The scenery is just breathtaking.  The families' stories are inspiring, informative, and a reminder that they indeed are carrying on a generational business and lifestyle that the majority of us wouldn't choose to (or could) exist in.  We would highly recommend this 2-disc presentation to add to your western collection and plan on seeing it again...and again.

this dvd brought back my child years! i saw these cartoons back in the 60's when i was a kid. i found a vcr tape of them in the 90's, but had alot of flicks thru out cartoons! this dvd was great!! no flicks,great color and sound and action. i watch it 2x, now im excited to watch it again! also the dvd came to my door fast! thanks again! Doug raczkowski

TPS Reports Hi Peter, what's happening...  Yeah, so I'm gonna have to go ahead and ask you to come in on Saturday... there's a lot of stuff to do. Mmmkay? Thanks. Oh oh and I almost forgot, we lost a couple people this week, so I'm gonna have to ask you to go ahead and come in on Sunday too, we kinda need to play catch-up.  Mmmmkay? Thanks.

Great workout dvd! I think this is an awesome pregnancy workout dvd. I love it! I have several pregnancy dvd's that I switch out, but this is one of my fav's. It has a full length work out (that's over an hour long) and an "express" one (which is 35 mins). I have never actually done the full length one because I just don't have time these days to work out that long... but even after the 35 min one, I feel like I have gotten a good workout... and it isn't so short that I don't feel like I've gotten anything done. Anyway, I highly recommend this!

The True Robin Hood There have been many adaptations of Robin Hood. I have to say this is by far my all time favorite version. I mean don't get me wrong I enjoyed the disney's version, laughed at mel brooks version, and others......yeah won't go into them. However this version I feel truly represents the fun, the adventure, the excitement, and the romance of Robin Hood.  This Blu-ray copy is fantastic, I thought it all looked fantastic on screen, the extras were interesting and love that they put Rabbit Hood and Daffy Robin Hood cartoons from that time as well. This film is perfect to introduce kids to the character (yeah disney is alright but show them this one first). Fun for the family, I actually bought this for my date night with my girlfriend and we both sat on the couch and had such joy watching this.

Cohen DVD This DVD arrived undamaged.  It was the same condition as described and when played the quality was great with no damage.  I'd purchase from this seller again.

Great Movie and wonderful image quality This is a wonderful sequal to "Twilight". With it being Blu-ray, it has the wonderful image HD quality that can be expected with Blu-ray. This also has wonderful collection of special features. They include: audio commentary, 6 part documentry that takes you behind the scenes, Team Edward Vs. Team Jacob - the Ultimate love Triangle, Edward Fast Foward or Jacob Fast Foward (which takes you straight to the scenes with them), Becoming Jacob, Introducing the Wolf Pack, the Music Videos, as others. It is worth adding to your collection of "Twilight" movies.

Beautiful Movie. Super Duper Bluray. The people that came up with the idea to make this movie the way it was made are geniuses. Playing with colour, shadow, etc. Totally cool and brings out the awesomeness of the movie, scenes, actors, actions, etc. Bluray is so freaking clear, I finally know what black really looks like.

Greatest Martial Arts Film Ever Made I am a huge fan of martial arts cinema and have been for the majority of my 25 years in existence. I've tracked down and seen every notable martial arts film made up until now from all corners of the earth. When I first saw this film in 1998, I hailed it as the greatest martial arts film I've ever seen.  There have been a plethora of films released since then but this film still stands as the greatest in the history of this genre.  The fight scenes are an example of exactly what a martial arts film is supposed to be.  Flawless choreography, pin-point execution, blinding speed, unique and innovative techniques. Every fight scene is well detailed and perfectly shot, none are too long and none are too short. The main thing that sets this film above all others however is that each fight scene tells a story in and of itself.  It's just absolutely brilliant and breathtaking to watch.  This is Jet Li and martial arts cinema at its absolute best. There has never been a better martial arts film and there likely never will be. A must watch.

Wonderful film - "additional footage" version is preferred Saw the 236 minute version on VHS years ago, but haven't seen it on DVD since then.  The additional footage makes a great movie excellent.  Looking forward to the 20th anniversary blu-ray version as it is the 236 minute version.  The landscape scenes are wonderful and I'm looking forward to them on the blu-ray version as well.  Overall: 5 stars Acting:  4 stars

great kings rules. great purchase. Im bummed that this is the only season in existence. I wish there were many many more episodes. Dont get too attatched, as you will never get to finish the story. But when the last episode ends just pick uo the bible, you can read all about King David and find out what happens!

Perfect DVD was delivered very fast, and was in perfect condition. Thank you for a great transaction. Would highly reccomend to everyone.

D&eacute;j&agrave; vu This is one movie that provokes a viewer to look at her/him self from distance and question surreality of life. What is dream, and what is reality? Both are just a state of mind. I gave "Triangle" five stars for a decent attempt to twist and exploit this fact.

Wonder movie and super clear I seen this movie in the theater years ago with my then small kid's and decided to purchase it in Blu-ray on DVD. Excellent quality and fantastic audio and picture quality and a good price. This is a classic movie! Thanks, Amazon.com and the delivery was quick and easy. I give 5 stars for this DVD and the vendor! Thanks!

Great Movie! I have never been very interested in Gilbert and Sullivan's creations or Opera in general but I decided to try and watch this on Netflix a while ago. I ordered the Blu-Ray and soundtrack two days later. Topsy-Turvy is a (only)slightly Hollywood-ized recount of the period leading to the creation of G&S's likely most famous work, The Mikado. This has excellent fully-staged excerpts of The Mikado along with very well performed music(Sullivan's arranged for the film) conducted by Carl Davis on what, in the movie, appeared to be period instruments in an authentically sized ensemble. I'm no movie buff but the acting and writing all seemed top notch and three of the leading actors I recognized from the Harry Potter films. I highly recommend it to anyone with even a slight interest in classical music or Opera, though some of the content may be unsuitable for children.

Gripping series. (DVD) I bought this for my wife and it inadvertently became an Indian-gift.  She thought the human stories were good but I was riveted with the feats and the lifestyles many of the people had.  If you are a person that really loves story-lines through a whole episode this isn't the greatest series.  If you really are into footage and seeing some different lifestyles to survive in the planet this show was great.  I became so interested in the show that I actually finished the 8 hour series within 3 days.

game changer This movie, IMHO, is a must see. If you don't know Chomsky, you should. This man opened my eyes to foreign policy and it changed my life forever. I am so grateful for his work.

Wonderful I previously had the first-four-seasons box-set, as it was my brothers. However, once he told me he was going to sell it; I looked up the last four seasons, so see price-wise, what I'd be out - if I gave my brother money for the first four, and then paid for the last four on Amazon. And, actually - it was cheaper/more cost-efficient to get the Complete Series. So much so, that my brother could've taken a hit in selling the first-four-box-set, if he wanted, and we still would've been okay, with what I spent on the Complete Series.  I'm never truly sure if people are wanting these reviews for the 'shows', themselves, or if they're wanting the review of the product, the condition, etc.  As far as the condition - I was very pleased. Just as well-made as the four-seasons, when we got that (when it first came out). It's a nice box/set, too. It's a great display piece, if nothing else. It takes up less room than the four-seasons, as well.  As far as the show. Man, it's a great show. Honestly, I'm upset that it ended (due to Tony wanting to retire from the show). I would've been okay with another eight seasons, to be honest. Even if the episodes starting getting predictable (they had not gotten predictable, cliche, or 'usual'; at all during the eight seasons).. I still would've watched another eight seasons. I love the cast - excellent arrangement, even with the VERY FEW changes ('natural changes', and not just 'get rid of this character' changes); I loved every bit of them. Their characters were well-written, and EXCELLENTLY performed/executed - it all looked just so natural. And really, their characters added diversity to the actors' list of 'character types'. It's great.  I love this show. And just love that I have all the seasons in one place (and cheaper than individual seasons).

GREAT MOVIE Great movie! Great Soundtrack and Gosling is really good.  You won't be bored watching this. This will become a classic

Must have for Halloween! The new Roseanne Halloween Specials DVD is a must have for anyone that grew up during the 1980's or 1990's when the show was on, and can remember how good they were. Roseanne was one of the first shows to air Halloween episodes every single season back in the 80's and 90's... back then Halloween specials were hard to come by.  Also can't beat the price!

Great Overall Full Body Workout I really enjoy this workout and feel I have worked every part of my body.  Jillian is a great motivator and she works you at a good pace.  You won't be bored with these workouts and will definitely feel energized.

my grandson loved it my 8 year grandson loves John Wayne.  He has collected most of the great movies of John Wayne. His bedroom is done with John Wayne; clock, blanket...pictures.

CHARMING!! If you love animals, you'll LOVE this story about an orphaned chimpanzee. It's enough that the little guy is absolutely cuter than anything, but then the story will completely warm your heart. And if that isn't enough, you have Tim Allen giving his classic wit and cheeky narration. He makes you laugh with his inimitable style and you are sure to be entertained. And the cinematography is right on par with IMAX's Planet Earth. This is a must-watch!

LOVE this movie! The movie is one of my favs! The books are awesome too... where is the sequel? I can't wait for book three, movie people need to get to work on movie#2 The Power of Six

classical movie Even though in black & white, this is still a great movie with excellent actors, unfortunately no longer living. The drama is exciting, the plot excellent, & the characterization wonderful.

Wonderful... The DVD was great! Brand new and I got it only a few days!I would definitly buy from here again!

Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.: The Fourth Season (Purchased on 12/04/2011) Movies Arrived well on time when they were supposed to: we were Well Satisfied and well pleased with the service Amazon Gave Us. We most certainly be back buying their products again. Many Thanks: Arnold  Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.: The Fourth Season

Bogart is my favorite! It doesn't matter if Bogart is playing the good guy or the bad guy I'm always on his team haha.  He amazes me with how he makes his character his own.  He makes it hard not to love him and that's why he is my favorite actor.  If you like Humphrey or you want to watch a real classic In a Lonely Place is the one to watch.

Stunning and pristine HD just like the package says!!! Don't doubt yourself for one second.  You need this!!!  Whether it be a first time purchase or replacement for the regular definitive dvd versions, the crystal clarity and remastered sound is simply stunning.  The resolution is so high that, in close ups, you can see the pores on people's faces and see the individual fibers that make up their clothing.  I am simply amazed that they could take old film and make it look so good.  What you see on this set is likely better than anyone has ever seen them, even when they were originally broadcast.  The bonus features are cool and also in HD as well.  I love the packaging.  It's slim and the same size as any other single disc bluray release.  It has two sturdy flaps on the inside that hold the discs very nicely.  If I could give it 10 stars I would.  You will not be disappointed!!!

Boo One of my top five favorite movies! Gorgeous scenery, great music, fascinating story line.  Makes you want to head to the Black Hills. right now.

Glee is a great show For all you Gleeks or people who want to become a Gleek. Dont buy Seasons until the season is completely over. I made the mistake of buying Season 1, Part 1 and waited too long to get the get the Season 1, Part 2. So I had to buy the complete first season. This time for season 2 Im waiting till the show is completely over!

Fabulous The Châtelet's impressive staging of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel, recorded here in Paris in 2002 (and hence the French title) is one that dates back to 1984, a co-production with San Francisco Opera. This recording has already been released on DVD, but it is another of those productions that are so visually splendid and memorable that it more than merits an upgrade to Blu-ray. Designed by Ennosuke Ichikawa as a Kabuki staging, it's an impressive production that fits surprisingly well in tone and content with the intentions of the original fairytale opera with a moral.  Both Rimsky-Korsakov and the librettist V. Bel'sky laid down very specific remarks about how The Golden Cockerel should be performed and it's clear that this production, even if it has a somewhat more oriental flavour, is nonetheless completely faithful to the composer's original intentions and even perhaps recognises that the opera was inspired by the conflict between Russia and Japan in 1904 at the time the opera was composed. The basic stage dressing is accordingly simple and abstract in the manner of a fable, but it is also extraordinarily beautiful with all the magic and fascination of a fairytale. If the stage then consists of little more than a brightly luminous backdrop to reflect the time of day or mood, and there is little on the stage but some steps to suggest a royal palace and stylised trees to represent the kingdom, the colourful costumes and Kabuki make-up reflect the larger-than-life characters and, to a large extent, Rimsky-Korsakov's rich romantic scoring of the work, filled with fantastical melodies and folk influences, with leitmotifs and a Scheherazade-like middle-Eastern exoticism. It's given a wonderful warm account here at the Châtelet with Kent Nagano conducting.  The space is needed on the stage moreover to contain all the extras, chorus and dancers - all beautifully costumed - and give room to the principals because this is a singer's opera (rather than say a dramatic opera or a conceptual one), with a wonderful range of voices and expression from bass declamation to soprano coloratura. Using a largely Russian cast, those roles are in good hands in this Châtelet production, with bass Albert Schagidullin as King Dodon and Olga Trifonova the Queen of Shemakha. In among all those Russians however is Barry Banks, perfectly cast for the specific demands of the high tenor role of the Astrologer. The singing is of a very high standard throughout.  This beautiful, colourful production certainly benefits from its upgrade to Blu-ray for the High Definition 16:9 widescreen image and for the sound mixes in PCM Stereo and DTS HD-Master Audio 5.1 that put over the qualities of the orchestration and singing. It's really quite breathtaking. The Blu-ray is All-Region, 1080i, a BD25 disc with no extra features, although the booklet is informative and includes a synopsis. Subtitles are English, German, Italian, French, Spanish and Chinese.

Love this series of movies. This was a ground breaking movie. Especially the 1st one. The makeup was like nothing anyone had seen before. I remember a show where the actors had to keep moving their faces under the makeup or it would go bad. I grew up on the series of movies, the tv series & the cartoon series. It was all so intreging that our society could be up ended by a group of animals. The most memorable scenes I have of the movie was when the apes were hunting the humans & of course that final scene. Which for that time was scattering to movie goers. It's stood the test of time & I think the original is better than the remake planet of the apes movie from a few years ago. I'm glad to see it here on amazon.

SO FUNNY I quote this every single day. I absolutely love this. It's just a video of him doing stand-up. Right before this was going to be filmed, he threw out his "kosher" script and had a dirtier one which is referenced when he talks about the HBO lawyers writing checks...LOVE IT! I highly recommend this to everyone.

A unique artistic film geared more toward older children and adults. This version of Puss 'N Boots is quite unique and this is probably the reason why it has received such bad reviews. I would say it is a film that would be more enjoyable for children above the age of 9 and also adults. Read the title people "The True Story," this means it is based on the true story of the famous Puss'N Boots character by Charles Perrault. My 10 year old son, my husband and I watched it together and we all enjoyed the movie, completely. The animation was unique and so is the princess and all the characters. The princess is not your average pretty long haired blonde with gentle manners, which is what some mothers prefer their little girls to see. The princess has short dark hair, is spoiled, and can be rude at times. Yes, she has her own unique personality, unlike those fake fairy tale cartoons. Puss is quite the character, he is not your average cat and William Shatner did a fine job as Puss 'n Boots, as far as I am concerned. I found the characters to be very interesting and entertaining. A refreshing change from some of those high end cartoon films that seem to always be overly advertised. I loved the feel and look of the characters and the music and voices were unique and again entertaining. I feel people these days don't take unique art and concepts into consideration. Why can't a movie be enjoyed just for what it is? It seems everything must be a perfect fairy tale or compared to a high end film for them to enjoy a movie, which I find truly sad. I give The True Story Of Puss 'N Boots 5 stars for uniqueness, entertainment and unconventionality.

Excellent Amazing how the technology today can convert such an old movie to such a modern perfect picture.  will continue to purchase more old time movies.

American Best For an American made Anime Style Cartoon Avatar is a show I would recommend to any one. It may look a childish but old and young alike can come to like this. It is able o produce character development, Love , and comedy all while keeping a well developed storyline. If you love anime, cartoons, or want to try something new this is something you would want to check out.

yea it was a pretty legit movie I thought.  It was great.  must see movie  watch.  this is making me write this much so.

Must have Bruce Marchiano is an excellent Godly actor who shows the Jesus in scripture to be the God of the scriptures. Must have for video library!

would give this 20 stars if I could This anniversary celebration of Les Miserables is simply wonderful.  If you have loved this musical for years, you will tremendously enjoy this DVD. I think it would also be a great first experience with it.  Alfie Boe has a voice that is pure velvet.  And seeing all the casts from over the years together was wonderful. We have the ten year celebration VHS version and did not think it could get any better but it does.  If you love a story of redemption, courage, and love, nothing beats Les Mis.  And these gorgeous voices!  Just have to say WOW!  Could you be disappointed (I'm not sure how).  And the rendition of Bring Him Home with all three tenors is surely heart stopping.  this is one that you will watch repeatedly.  I wish I had more knowledge of music to make this review more meaningful.  Let me just that this is wonderful (from the perspective of one who has seen Les Mis performed probably 10 times on stage).

Hilarious This movie is hilarious every time, but the first time I saw it, my cheeks literally hurt from laughing so much! Way better than I expected!

Documentary Review These dvd's came on time and in perfect condition. We have several already and like to give them as parting gifts when people leave our house after an event. We will order more soon, I'm sure.

Crazy Stupid Not to get this DVD Loved the movie in the theater and knew I'd add it to my DVD collection. Terrific writing. Very funny. Good characters well acted and a nice twist that I genuinely did not see coming. Kuds to Steve Carrell and Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. The whole cast shines.

The Way Great message to this movie.  Don't put anything off when you have the opportunity to do it.  Especially when family is involved.  Take the time to notice the little things and partake of them.  Never take family or friends for granted.  A great movie for every age.

awesome I got this product in a timely manor. It was in good condition me and my daughter have enjoyed this and other charmed season for hours

Top Notch movie! My husband and I started watching this a little later one night and thought we would turn it off and finish it the next evening. Well, come midnight, we were absolutely riveted and there was no way we were going to bed without finishing it!! Fantastic movie! A complete nailbiter - I recommend to all

A great movie This was a fun movie to see and hear.  I was surprised at all the negative reviews, but perhaps a few wanted something simpler; and there seems to be someone with an agenda who is bringing down the overall results. This movie, with all its various characters and journeys, could be used as a basis for discussions in classrooms.  And those classrooms could be from elementary school to college. In addition to the philosophical points made in the movie I thought it was very funny.  And the music and visuals were great.  Give it a try.

Beware of what you think is a gift from heaven. The movie has all the genre of a mystery written by Stephen King, et al. The performances are outstanding. As an aside, does any one have more beautiful eyes than the leading lady? The "nanny" was outstanding. Mr. Peck is looking aged in this flick.

Ended way too soon Very funny with a lot of running jokes and things that you have to watch twice to get. Very worth it.

Spectacular Spectacular. Beautifully and flawlessly acted and wonderfully imagined and directed, with themes that touch  on gender and class. This movie is wonderful and detailed in its intimacy yet sweeping in its scope.

Fabulous movie. This is a really good movie. Cher & Christina did a fabulous job. Very happy with this movie. Movie arrived in great condition. Have already watched it three times.

Annabelle's Wish I received my dvd- Annabelle's wish. It was in perfect condition. I have watched it many times this Christmas Season 2010. Thanks Amazon.

ABSOLUTE THE BEST! What can I say about CATS? Being the 2nd longest running musical-{behind "The Phantom of the Opera"} in Broadway history, not one word can describe CATS! Preformed in many countries around the globe, it became the most popular & became everyone's favourite musical. Eventhough I never saw it live, but the DVD is just as good as seeing it live. I just love it & so will you! A very great addition for any DVD library. NOTE: Bryn Walters who played "Macavaty" also plays "Plato" that does the elaborate dance w/Victoria at the Jellicle Ball.

Exotic Marigold The actors in this movie are all so superb they would receive thunderous applause for reading a phone book or menu. Not the greatest screenplay; certainly the best players.  Loved it.

Fantastic! One word, INCREDIBLE!  Caught this show last fall live and the blue ray performance was like being back in the third row center once again!  Very few bands get better with age however Styx is definately one of them.  This was a difinitive performance!  The music of Styx is timeless!  Being able to experience these two great albums live in their entirety was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that we can now relive anytime we want!

best of the best anime I loved Tokyo Babylon, like the movie X, but this anime is by far the best of the whole series. It had everything a fan needed to enjoy and cry over this anime. The stroy-line is complex but well-planned, character are beauitful and vioce actors are great. Th artwork is heavenly beautiful. I do have to warn you that no matter who you are this anime will make you cry.... it has drama like rain has water. Do highly recommend this anime^^

got this for a friend since he has not complained about it, it must be OK. best to look at other reviews for opinion on this one

THE BLUE ANGEL Great value. It was definitely worth getting the 2 DVD edition that has both the English and German versions rather than the single disc hybrid version of the two.

Still The Best Dragon Movie Dragonheart is one of those rare gems from the early days of CGI effects, when the new technique still offered so much promise, before it became so commonplace and over-used that audiences have come to resent it, and, like Jurassic Park, the work done in this film was and remains spectacular. This was the first film to show us a living, breathing dragon, in a way entirely unmatched by any film before or since.

Outstanding translation! Didn't like original L&O, but do like SVU and Criminal Intent, but this one is amazing! Probably because I lived in England and like the BBC and Channel 4. Love Jamie Bamber from Galactica too.

excellent movie! Excellent movie!!! Very intence! Di Caprio is great as always! Your heart stops there almost at the end of the movie....gosh....I almost died when that scene took place. Very intense!  Recommended.

A good family movie The entire family enjoyed the movie. The one's that is in their teens stop and watched the movie and like it also

The End Of Potter! I'm a "Harry Potter Child" growing up around this huge franchise. I was first introduced to Potter by watching the first movie on HBO soon after it was released on DVD, since then I have been hooked - read majority of the books and saw all of the remaining films on opening day at the theater. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1 does not disappoint! While I wish each part of the final installment were 3 hours long, the flow of this film is good and your left wanting more. The only thing that could be better is having an extended version, so lets hope David Yates is open to doing it!

Earthlings Are So Stupid!... THE LOST SKELETON OF CADAVRA is, of course, a send-up of all those sci-fi cheeeze-logs from the 1950s. If you've experienced and loved films like PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, ROBOT MONSTER, TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE, ASTOUNDING SHE MONSTER, etc., then SKELETON will be a dream-come-true! Made for minimal money, it includes aliens, a killer mutant, a good scientist, an eeevil scientist, an animal woman, and the dreaded skeleton! Is it ridiculous? Yes, but it's supposed to be! Just sit back and enjoy it...

What can I say? What can I say about this movie...watch it!  It is a great movie for the whole family. This is a very touching true story and it would be wonderful if more folks were as honest and giving with their hearts and homes.

Back to the future Trilogy I purchased this item as a gift. I haven't heard any complaints so I am sure it has pleased the receiver.

Ingenious Are you in the mood for a different kind of horror movie?  How about a horror comedy?  Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988) fits this description.  The plot?  Alien killer clowns arrive on Earth from outer space in a spaceship resembling a circus big top tent with the intention of feeding on humans.  The weapons the clowns use are in the form of traditional clown and circus-related items, such as popcorn and pies.  They put their victims into cotton candy cocoons.  These are simple concepts, yet so effective.  This is imagination at its best.  This movie is a horror movie that's on the lighter side and funny.  These clowns manage to be scary and funny at the same time.  This movie is a cult classic that has a sequel coming out in 3D in 2013.  One of the strengths of the movie is the characters.  Not just the clowns, but really all of the characters.  The movie is never dull.  The clown costumes and makeup were done very well.  The smiles on the clowns' faces are classic.  If you're looking for a breath of fresh air, then give this cult classic a try.  This is one of those movies that can be described as "it's so bad, it's good."  Highly recommended.

Fantastic It's hard to come up with anything original these days, but this film did it. Instead of just watching a guy in a mask slice -n- dice a bunch of teens, a tv crew follows and interviews the would-be-killer prior to doing the dirty deeds to see how he prepares for his "big night."  Funny at times and scary at the end, Behind the Mask was an enjoyable experience.

A great little horror flick I really enjoyed this underseen gem.  I will admit that the leading lady is not too appealing at first.  This would get a four and a half for that factor, but wait fifteen minutes and the rest is gold: atmospheric, fast, scary, and surprising.

Dances with Wolves This is a great, great movie.  I've watched it several times and bought it for my kindle to watch while traveling.

DVD -  Curse of the Golden Flower One of my favorite movies I bought it now to share with my niece to whom I am introducing all my favorite films, especially international ones like this Chinese story. This story is of an Imperial but dysfunctional family dealing with issues of sucession, greed, jealousy, ambition found in many royal families though included here is incest complicating things even more. This movies is also a colorful, rich, oppulent feast for the eye in color and almnost overwhelming detail. This is a movies you won't soon forget.

Vampire Diaries: The Complete First Season Very well written story with a more real way of daily life in a small town.  One of few that is actually not silly and stupid.  A story line that seems real.  Keep up the excellent work!!

Has more chills than the original I think!! I know many would disagree with me here, but it wasn't until a few years ago that I actually saw these films for the first time, I was too scared to watch them as a kid, the first film for me just seem to drag a bit, but it was good nonetheless, this second film I think is better, this shark is more menacing than the one in the first film, & this one is has better pacing, this one revolves around another shark picking off people in the water, & Roy Scheider is once again very convincing as  patrol officer Brody, who is very real & knows that these deaths can only mean on thing, his on-going battle with the city's politicians who are more concerned about tourist's profits than safety is very real & he is soon let go because they think he is a liability to them, when he learns that his sons have taken to the high seas & that a oceanic team member is suffering decompression after a frightening encounter with the shark, he sets out to the high seas to find his sons & hopefully put an end to this shark's wrath, unlike the first film that focused on the the leads, this one focuses more of the shark's point of view as we see him take out a water skier, her boat driver, the beautiful Ann Dusenberry, whose boyfriend is taken from their boat, a helicopter pilot who attempts a rescue & a bunch of teenagers on rafters, when Brody discovers a frightend & terrified Dusenberry hiding within the boat (she was spared) he knows his suspicion is right, & soon decends on the group of teenagers being terrorized by the Great White, what results is a battle of wits & will as Brody accidently in an attempt to rescue them pulls a power cable leading to a power station on a small island & uses it to bait the shark in a very satisfying conclusion that quite literally shocking, all in all, this one is a worthy follow-up.

1950's Scfi - can't beat it One of the greats - this movie is popcorn, a Coke, and a girlfriend. I never get tired of watching this movie. It's a classic from the 50's - no PC crap, no hideous gore. I always get a kick out how these modest budget 1950's flicks out do half of the modern Scfi garbage which cost a bundle. One of the Scfi essentials.

WOW !!!!!!!!!!! My husband and I had the greatest opportunity to see this in a small community theatre setting. It was followed by a question and answer which was very eye opening. We have watched this movie more times than I can count. We have purchased this as gifts and will continue to follow Buck. He truly is an amazing, caring and compasionate man.

Surprising As a sucker for holiday movies I was running out of things I'm familiar with, so I moved into uncharted territory. I don't know why I thought it was a holiday movie though, because it really was a nursery rhyme romp. However considering when this movie was made, and the budget they likely used, it's almost amazing they did such a good job. I forgot the point, but the two foolish large men saved the day, won the girl (for the good guy) and all was well. It probably looks like the film quality of other things from that era, it's not particularly cleaned up but certainly it's tolerable cinematic viewing. It might be a nice introduction to youngsters to Laurel and Hardy, and they'll certainly get a kick out of the nursery rhyme parts. Everyone old enough to know who Laurel and Hardy are probably already saw this and liked it. And for the rest of us it wasn't bad at all.

VERY FUNNY! love this movie!!!!! Was very easy to purchase, movie was exactly as described, great experience with amazon..... Movie is amazing. Very funny, but  for the grown-ups.

Not for the faint of heart This is an anime made just for older fans, not much of a story but the action makes up for it. This anime sends you on a wild ride filled with action, gunplay. Aliens and people getting maimed left and right. This does contain lots of blood,cussing, and a few nude scenes. If you like all the things I listed above you should wait to enjoy this series

The Ten Commandments I have purchased many dvds and have always been very pleased with them. The Ten Commandments is definitely one of the best films ever made !! Mr. Heston is a fine actor .I really enjoy all of the Biblcal films made, the older ones are the only ones worth viewing !!!! I watch this one over and over because I enjoy it so much .

Great racing movie This movie shows sennas incredible talent...especially in inferior cars or in rain soaked tracks...he would have won several championships if he had lived

Peter and Paul Generally, Christian movies disappoint as the acting is usually pitifully inadequate and make the participants look like baffoons.  Anthony Hopkins, however, is of a different caliper.  He is an excellent actor in his own right, but in this movie he really brings the Apostle Paul to life!  This movie parallels the Book of Acts and deals with the tension between the predominately Jewish church in Jerusalem and the exploding Gentile church in Antioch.  This movie will open your eyes to the Book of Acts and help you to read it in an entirely new way.  I felt it was scripturally accurate and just about as annointed as "Jesus of Nazareth".

Top Qualitee Its the Before Sunrise of the Sci Fi film.  Really nice believable relationship, obviously with two people who were in a relationship.  Bit like Julie delphy and Ethan Hawke.  Travel film and romance just with monsters and a Central American backdrop.  Nice play on immigration and environmentalism.  All in all great film, arthouse and imaginative.

Lovely film. As I was looking throw the instant movies available I saw a fild called dirty love which instantly reminded of this movie.  Its to bad this isn't available for streaming.

The Girl... Nicely packaged, perhaps a little overdone in light of the movies' Scandinavian starkness, complete set of the original movie trilogy.  I wanted to get this before Hollywood floods the marketplace with their remake.

a timeless classic the previous reviewers have mostly said all there was to be said about this great film and i do agree with most of them. the movie doesnt let go all throughout and i was glued to my seat reveling in the awesome acting of the entire cast, starting with the always great danny de vito, christopher lloyd (the actor who'd give us some of the looniest performances in Back to the Future and Who framed roger Rabbit), up to the otherworldly showdown between nicholson and the glacial almost satanic louise fletcher, with her hair aptly combed to vaguely resemble curved horns. you forget that mc murphy (nicholson) is a petty criminal who's avoiding hard labor in some prison, when you see him injecting life back into the heavily sedated ward patients. thanks to mc murphy, those patients whose brains were wrecked with powerful drugs and were never meant to be cured, get back to appreciating life, playing ball, fishing and having an identity. a truly memorable part is when nicholson tells a card playing inmate to wait his turn: 'you see these people here? they are all REAL people' and again during the fishing trip, he assigns to them specific jobs by telling them jockingly that 'now you're an expert sailor, not a loonie'. little by little, those patients start having back a taste of life, and one starts to question the means employed by mental institutions: there are many alternatives to brain melting drugs to mental cases and these alternatives include the very basic forms of entertainment, play, friendship and giving purpose back to the treated person. for me the whole movie culminates into one of the last scenes where nurse ratched busts the stuttering bibbit with candy: bibbit's stutter is gone during the night he spent with candy and he was again a normal person, with confidence. he was cured, by a very simple 'method', yet the nurse proceeds to destroy his newly found confidence by clubbing him with guilt. mc murphy is horrified at the true evil on display, as he sees the man he helped shed his stutter and lack of confidence, dismantled back into wimpdom. i found myself cheering for him when he leaped at nurse ratched's throat. the concepts displayed in this movie are timeless ones (leadership, play&humor, conformity, individualism) and are played to perfection by a stellar cast. the result is a film that defies age and a permanent reference in hollywood's golden era cinema and moviemaking in short.

The Hunt For Red October In my large movie collection I already own a regular DVD and a VHS of this movie.  I upgraded to a Blu-Ray version of the movie and I'm well pleased with this purchase.  The Hunt For Red October is already a classic.

Fun, circuit workout with lots of variety! This is another workout in Kelly Coffey-Meyer's 30 Minutes to Fitness series.  This circuit workout contains 2 - 30 minutes workouts, both are fun and interesting.  Each workout has 2 cycles, each cycle repeated once.  Each cycle includes athletic cardio first, then sculpting with lighter weights, shadowboxing, and lower body work mostly using heavier weights.  Most of the exercises are done for about a minute but some go a little longer than that.  Some of the cardio is higher impact, Lauren is back to demonstrate lower impact options for those who prefer, like myself.  I personally don't care for high impact so it's really nice to have another option.  I have honestly steered away from other instructors who do not have a modifier after trying to modify on my own.  Often times, it just doesn't work.  Lauren will also modify some of the more advanced weight exercises which also helps.  This DVD has tons of premixes, making a great value for the money.  Kelly has made just about every option on this DVD possible with the variety of premixes.  Some refer to her as the "premix queen", I have a tendency to agree!  Some are long, some short, you can just do boxing and cardio, or just sculpting, all sorts of options.  There is also a short bonus ab workout available which is easy to tack on.  I really like Kelly as an instructor, she has fast become one of my favorite instructors of all time.  I like her personality, she is friendly, encouraging, funny and works hard along with you.  She is not fake or annoying at all.  The 30 Minutes to Fitness series has something for everyone, weights, cardio, kickboxing, circuits and then some.  Another great choice from Kelly!  Give it a try!

One of Sandy Bullocks best. I own this DVD and am glad for the opportunity to review it. I think this movie was very well acted and presented. I also found a deeper side to Sandy Bullock to be well acted and a great side to her persona. The story has so much heart that it even allowed my husband to enjoy sitting with me. A must watch.

True To Life John Steinbeck wrote it as he saw it.  Maybe, not the same exact story he knew, but hit the nail on the head as to the way it was.  The reproduction on Blu Ray was a good job as far as I could tell.  I don't know how much technology they have it this time to improve on the old original films, but it seemed like a decent job to me.  In 1940 they could've made it in color.  I suppose they would've, if they knew at that time it would become #21 in America's top 100 all time movie list by the American Film Institute.  I should also mention that John Steinbeck also recieved a Pulitzer Prize in 1940 for the Novel.  He later won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work as an author.  This movie should be in your collection, even if you're not a staunch Movie Fan.

Excellent It was just what I needed. Using it in the classroom. It goes into the genetics and how all the breeds were produced.

Spielberg at his finest. The two-disc Blu Ray edition of CE3K is amazing.  The movie itself is on Disc 1, in all three of its incarnations (original, special edition, and director's cut).  I love that a "map" of the differences among the three versions is included in the packaging so that you can easily tell which changes were made to each version.  In addition, there's a feature on the Blu Ray itself that makes you aware of these changes as you're watching.  The second disc is chock full of interesting and informative special features.  If you're a Spielberg nut like me, you'll have no problem sitting there for hours devouring all of the behind-the-scenes featurettes, trailers, etc.  Somehow, this film seems to have lost some of its "buzz" over time, in comparison with other Spielberg films, but I still hold it up there in his top 3 or 4.  Highly recommended viewing.

Reference Level Blu-Ray video, 'nuff said Reference Level Blu-Ray video - possibly the best transfer of a classic movie to Blu-Ray. Original film grain structure intact [thankfully] wonderful warmth and detail!  Audio - eh it's so so. WB why no lossless?

Shark Night I watched shark night and i loved it especially the Blue Ray verison it was crystal clear :-). It was a very exciting movie everyone should see it. Donnie

Great Final Chapter? DVD arrived early, in new condition. This was a great addition to the Die Hard series; an essential one if you're a fan.

KOOL NEW LOOK AND EASY TO PUT IT BACK !! WELL I am big fan of FRIENDS.  love the special pack with all picture of the main characters and its easy to deal with pictures while u r putting the disk back from the pile u were watching.   Simply excellent job on dvd's  new look !!!

Excellent DVDs! I already knew I would enjoy Season 7 and I was right.  I haven't finished it yet but so far so good.  The DVDs were shipped in a timely manner and the box was in excellent shape.  Altogether I am very pleased with my purchase.

Awesome Anime I love the video, it was actiony and just all around awesome!!!!!! and I love the fact that it came the day it said it would, because I've ordered other products and they take forever to get to me. So i really love Amazon and will be ordering again and again. Thanx!!!

A Rare Awesome Movie that came under the radar.... I recall seeing this movie when it was first released in the US and I watched it thinking it was going to be a strange forin film poorly dubbed with things that would not make sence to the Western Culture...However I was very much mistaken in all points.  First the acting and people in this film do a great job in  there roles and none of them try to over play there roles and make the movie centered around just one actor/actress. That means the directing was done very well even to some movies now days.  Second The story I have seen stories like this before but not offten and this happens to be realy good treat I love how it was written and how the story was told.  Third you go into this film expecting one thing but get something else much much better.  Over all this film is enjoyable it is done realy well and your will enjoy this film.

Falling Skies Season 1 Absolutely wonderful show. I've only ever had a couple of shows that kept my interest. Hopefully this show doesn't suffer the same fate as my favorite all time series, Firefly. Amazon is always top notch when it comes to ordering. No hassles and no wait. Received my purchase within 2 days or ordering it. Thanks Amazon!!

8028th Century If you are H. George Wells, you long to live in a time without war.  Perhaps that is what drives your obsession with time, the devices that measure it, and the desire, above all, to invent a machine that will allow you to zip through the centuries to a more peaceful and saner era. . . .  Tucked away in your solarium, you have crafted such a device.  At first glance, one might think it was a one-man sleigh, with bent brass bars, a red-velvet chair, and a large odd-looking concave copper disk just aft of the traveller's seat.  When the disc spins, the encoding on its rim ( 1 4 2 3 1 4 5 1 etc. ) activates the machine like the prongs on a music box; the faster it spins, the faster it moves through time.  You take a seat.  The controls are simple.  Firstly, you activate the display circuits; the switches are on top of the control cylinder in front of you:  yellow is for the "days" indicator, green for "months", and red for "years."  Secondly, you reach down underneath the cylinder and switch on the machine's motive power.  To the right of the display is a polished green-mineral lever topped with a faceted quartz knob.  You push the lever upward, the disc spins, the display flutters future dates, but on each stop in the 20th century you find war; you push the lever to its max.  When you stop, you find what you were looking for:  a society that is at peace, no war, but when night comes, you discover that fear rules, and in the day, when the siren calls ... well, the attrition of the flocks of humanity goes on, even in the 8028th century. . . .  Picture (DVD): 3.5.  Measured Aspect Ratio as:  1.78:1.

Smart + Heart = Great Film The title is captivating and the film lives up to its promise.  A smart, out-of-the box and funny script by Charlie Kaufman, a good director and dynamite performances make this both thought-provoking and greatly entertaining.  Jim Carrey, whose manic/zany performances turn me off, is brilliant here (as he was in The Truman Show).  He plays vulnerable so well, I'd like to see him do more of that.  The early scenes with him on the bus, wanting to talk to the girl, but terrified of actually doing it, are perfect.  Kate Winslett is always good.  Here her youthful joie de vivre makes an indelible impression on Joel, the Carrey character, and on the audience.  As Clementine, aka Tangerine, with her multicolored hair and quixotic personality she makes a perfect match to the shy introvert Joel.  A subplot, involving the employees of a company that erases troublesome memories works in its own bizarre way.  Tom Wilkinson, Mark Ruffalo, Kirsten Dunst and Elijah Wood are all very good in their roles.  I got a little bored with the flashbacks to Joel's childhood, wanting Mommy to hold him, etc.  They were a little too literal for my taste.  But there was so much that was wonderful that I won't subtract a star from the rating.  Some of my favorite scenes:  -Carrey and Winslett playing in the snow at the beach.  Wow---how much fun was that?!  -The sheer zaniness of Dunst and Ruffalo dancing in their underwear over the sleeping body of Carrey as he's getting "the treatment."  -The scene of Jim and Kate in the hall, near the end, when she confesses that she'll probably get bored with him and he says "OK" and she bursts into tears.  Whoa!  Cinema doesn't get much better than this---it reminds me of the emotional honesty of John Cassvetes' films.  I didn't care all that much for Kaufman's films, "Malkovich" and "Adaptation."  I admired their cleverness but didn't really like them.  This has the same smartness but with a lot of heart and that's what makes the difference.  That's what makes this a film worth seeing, which I think will last for a long time.

A riveting ride from start to finish, fantastic acting!  Dexter still rules. Mmmmmmmmmmm, where to start. We know Dexter has to cope with the loss of Rita's death and the responsibility of being a single father. But what of his Dark Passenger? It still needs it's release. We start to find out slowly that Dexter is having actual human emotion, and after he kills an innocent?, out of frustration. Not by Harry's code yet,"That's the first human thing you've done since Rita died." We have a new investigation, the barrel girls, started by Dexter from being seen in action. This season really starts to take off as we meet a tortured woman saved by Dexter. Julia styles(Lumen), her performance is unbelievable, and I'll stop here not to give anything away. Other new cast members include, Peter Weller(Robocop) and Johnny Lee Miller(Hackers,Trainspotting),whose performances are genuinely real and will make you hate or love them. Another great season that I think is better than season four which was also unbelievable. Top notch Drama.

Mama Mia what an absolute joy! There are a few movies I can watch over and over again...this is definitely one of them!  Meryl Streep is outstanding and amazing as is the rest of the cast. Buy it, watch it, then watch it again and again and again!

"There's no contradiction in being both ridiculous and magnificent." Although she wrote steadily from about 1957 to 2004, Muriel Spark (1918-2006) is very specifically remembered for one novel: the 1961 THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE, which been consistently cited as one of the best English language novels of the 20th Century.  With various changes in structure, the novel was converted to a fairly popular stage play in 1968; with still more changes in structure it became a motion picture in 1969.  Maggie Smith was already a well-regarded actress when she starred in the title role, but the film would bring her much wide recognition and an Academy Award as Best Actress.  It also provided Pamela Franklin, who had grown up before the camera in such films as THE INNOCENTS and THE NANNY, with her finest screen role as well as including notable performances from an emsemble cast that included Robert Stephens, Gordon Jackson, Celia Johnson, Diane Grayson, Jane Carr, and Shirley Steedman.  Set in 1930s Edinburgh, the film concerns Miss Jean Brodie (Smith), a flamboyant woman whose personality is more than a little out of place at the Marcia Blane School for Girls, a conservative institution.  Although she is a teacher, she is actually more interested in self-dramatization.  She is torn between two love affairs: one with the school's art instructor Teddy Lloyd (Stephens), who is Roman Catholic, has six children, and will not divorce his wife; and one with the school's music teacher, Gordon Lowther (Jackson), who is single, respectable, and hale and hearty.  But she ultimately rejects both--saying that her true devotion is to her students, most particularly to four who are her special girls: Sandy, Jenny, Mary, and Monica (Franklin, Grayson, Carr, and Steedman.  Although the girls move to the senior school and out of Miss Brodie's classroom, they continue to see her, and she continues to exert a powerful influence on them, particularly in political matters.  Miss Brodie, it transpires, has been to both Italy, where she much admired Mussolini, and to Spain, where she much admired Franco.  But she fails to see these men as fascist dictators, and her admiration will have tragic results for both herself and her special girls.  Maggie Smith gives a truly brilliant performance here.  We are constantly aware of Jean Brodie as an affected, often silly woman who is convinced of an insightfulness she actually lacks; at the same time, we cannot help but like her in spite of all her destructive and self-destructive qualities.  Smith has gone on to a long and memorable career, and deservedly so, but to my mind the real revelation of the film is Pamela Franklin, who was about nineteen at the time the film was made and who, along with her classmates, ages from about fourteen to eighteen over the course of the film.  Franklin had appeared in several notable films during her childhood, most famously the 1961 THE INNOCENTS; she is fully in command of herself as an actress and the equal of Maggie Smith in their scenes.  Unfortunately, in the 1970s Franklin became somewhat typecast as a horror film ingenue, and with her work drifting more and more into television guest spots, she made the decision to retire in the 1980s.  Retirement or not, the producers of this DVD managed to coax Franklin back into the business at least long enough to give an audio commentary on the film, and it is nice to note that she sounds as lively and clever as she did when she made the film some forty years earlier.  The audio commentary is, however, dominated by director Ronald Neame, whose true masterwork this is.  The film moves smoothly, gracefully, and the characters unfold with a power that at times reaches grandeur and edges over pathos towards tragedy.  We believe in Miss Brodie and her love affairs and her misguided sincerity; we believe in her lovers and her love affairs; we believe in her students as little girls (although at least one, according to Neame, was a twenty-year old mother of two) as they progress from giggling fourteen year olds to young adults.  The one awkwardness, to my mind, is the soundtrack by Rod McKuen, which is distinctly of the 1960s and which seems designed to give McKuen--perhaps better known as a poet--the opportunity to sing the ballad-ish "Jean" over the closing credits.  McKuen aside, strongly, strongly recommended.  GFT, Amazon Reviewer

FAB! Although I'm a longtime fan, I've seen relatively little footage of the Dolls live in action from their vintage glory days. Consequently, for me, this was a real treat. The often grainy black and white videography only enhances the band's infamous garage-type image. In fact, had the production been any slicker, it would have likely diminished their mystique. I found the behind-the-scenes bits and interview segments, particularly Lisa Robinson's poolside interviews with David and Johnny to be revealing and insightful. In short, I'm more than satisfied with this one!  -Christopher Long (Author)

the dark knight rises...SAY WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is an easy review...pre-order the blu ray...seen it three times at the show enjoyed every outing. gona be amazing on my 65 inch screen...yea if u dont have a huge tv buy one off Amazon, lets stimulate the economy...yes

Awesome workout!  Bob's no softie! I bought this workout after owning and loving most of Jillian Michael's DVD's and all of Jackie Warner's DVD's.  I love a good and hard workout, and I love lifting weights.  I've seen the Biggest Loser from time to time, and it makes Bob appear to be tough, but not as insane as Jillian.  I was soo wrong.  I have worked out with this DVD many times and each and every time I want to stop but I can't when I hear Bob yelling.  Each and every time I yell back and tell him he is insane.  It's a great workout.  I use 10lb. dumbells in this DVD as well as most others.  Love it!  Buying his Kettlebell DVD's now... I didn't realize he had them, but then again I'm new to Kettlebell and Bob.

lady and the tramp 1 well what mroe can you say for this them adorable sweet a very amazing look at a love story from a animal point of you very creative and a very brilliant plot and happy ending

Awesome musical! Used to watch this and other musicals as a child and loved them, it's really great to be able to watch them with my kids now!

At least as good as the first one We were a little iffy about buying this one but were pleasantly surprised. We have watched it twice within a week. Great special effects and story line.

loved it For an older movie i loved it and i love horses so i loves it even more. love this movie!!!!!!!

Great La Valentina (DVD) ~ Maria Felix. Very good movie. we received in nice condition. we enjoyed it. It was just in time for a gift.

great movie great movie, Saw it in the theater and everyone in the family wanted us to buy it as soon as it came out.

Humor, action, and morality all in one package Everybody knows that Star Trek: First Contact is widely considered the best of the TNG films, and also probably one of the better Star Trek movies overall. I won't add much more except to say that the movie works so well because it blends the best of Star Trek - humor, action, and a morality play - into one package. The film has some genuinely funny moments, especially when Drs. Cochrane and Lilly are forced to adapt to 24th century technology and expectations.  Given its reputation as an action-packed battle against the Borg, there aren't that many action sequences in First Contact, but those that are included are deliberate, emotionally tense, and advance the plot. Jonathan Frakes (also William Riker) made some interesting decisions in portraying the fighting scenes. Often, the best moments occur just before or after the battles start, when the Borg seem indomitable. Unfortunately, the producers learned the wrong lessons from First Contact's success and overdosed on the action scenes in Insurrection and Nemesis (which actually has its moments, despite the action scenes).  Finally, First Contact contains two morality plays. The first focuses on Picard's thirst for revenge against the Borg. The second disabuses viewers of the notion that historical visionaries need have a saintly persona. Dr. Zefram Cochrane, the inventor of the warp drive, comes across as a self-absorbed alcoholic. However, as viewers learn to readjust their expectations to fit the man, Cochrane also comes to realize that he can be a man and be part of history.  It's a shame that nearly 10 years after the last TNG film aired First Contact is really the only TNG film that stands as unanimously beloved. Despite what many producers and market analysts claim, it's not simply because First Contact uses the Borg and time travel as plot devices - although both work well. Rather, it's because it combines the best of Star Trek. Hopefully future Star Trek movies will learn these lessons.

Superior Independent Film This is less a movie and more a prayer, a whisper of the heart searching for the meaning of life, death and creation itself.  It must be seen many times to begin to see that every scene, every word, every blade of grass has meaning.  It's beautiful!

The hard truth of growing up I enjoyed this film.It is not a flashy fast moving tale but allows you to get a feel for the young mans life before he finds something he can actually get close to, the kestral. It may take a couple of viewings to be able to get the dialog in mind, but it is worth the effort. Criterion has included a series of interviews which I found of intrest because as with many foriegn/european films there is not the neatly tied up ending to the film. The additional interviews gave me a little insight as to what the director was aiming for with the film. If you enjoy a film you find yourself thinking about after it's over, you'll like this one.

There is more to this movie that just one great song! This movie was never high on my list to see since I had seen the title song scene many times.  But there is a lot more to this movie.  It is a great lighthearted musical.

from begining to end Beautiful & moving movie!!  Loved it!! It was a real treat to watch a gay film (several times) where drugs, alcholism, or the boring bar scenes aren't the main topic.  Awesome love story that makes one completely jealous why we can't experience the same.  Simply a moving film.

Great Kids gift This is such a wonderful kids movie. It is so great to have something you can pull out every year around Christmas and watch it with the whole family.

Doc Mstuffins DvD Rocks This DVD rocks. totally entertaining and instructive. My 5 year old loves it. I will buy it again without thinking twice. nice

B&B Thank you :)One of the best animated Christmas features. Thank you once more. I have always loved Disney ever since I was a kid.

Legendary This, in my opinion is one of the best films ever made.  Scary as hell, beautiful to look at, great acting all around. Just watch it you haven't yet.

american pie series this is an up-to-date version of american graffiti.  you will bust a gut with the first three movies in this group, and, then check out american reunion, cuz this is by far the best one they made yet.  i saw the first movie with my teenaged son, and, quite frankly, never had a more hilarious time.  kind of gives you an inside peek at life of a current-day teenager.

Really good Nat. Geog. movie.... My favorite of all time concerning animals.  Compelling story and fascinating battles between competing predators.  Much of interest caught on film --- not just a carcass or something.  And I thought lions had it easy!

Loved it! A great laugh, loved it! I enjoyed all the movies in this series and this was no exception -well worth watching!!

Great comedy! This comedy about getting that first buck is entertaining! It also gives you a view of the Michigan Upper Peninsula.  I am not a comedy lover, but I love to watch Jeff Daniels in the movies. He is an humble soul and gives a lot of himself to his work. He brings this movie to life with his portrayal of a 40 year old man who is still after his first buck. And so his nickname throughout the community is "Buckless." We follow him on his quest to get that elusive buck and put an end to the shame of failure.  Even though I am not a hunter, there is enough going on in this movie to keep me entertained. I have to laugh just remembering scenes.

I smurf'in LOVE this Movie!!! This is the BESt Smurf movie ever. So great and the animation is just amazing. I highly recommend this movie. It's great for people of all ages.  A+++

Good Fun esp. for teens This very cute movie is good for any age, but esp. teens.  Mark Harmon is his usual type A personality that just never gets old.  Upbeat attitudes all around.

Excellent set for a great movie This is an incredibly well done transfer of a fabulous movie. Totally worth buying even if you already have the DVD.

Restrepo with Blu-ray I ordered Restrepo as a follow up after reading "War" by Sabastian Junger.  Was excellent as was "War".  Highly reccommend to anyone interested in what's going on(on the battle field) in Afganastan and Pakastan.  Gives a vivid picture of what our troops are dealing with and how dangerous this enemy is to the American way of life !!

THE PEACEMAKER This is an excellent product AND an excelletnt movie. It held my attention and suspense until the end. Very good actors as lead roles. I'd like to see more movies like this without sex involved in the story line. Just good action . Please offer MORE of these kinds of movies to us. Even the older movies are great sources of entertainment.Keep up the good work.  Thanks, Ed

Best sit-com since Arrested Development For those who know t.v. serials, most would agree that the king of sit-coms in recent history was "Arrested Development".  But that King has died.  Long live the new King--Modern Family.  It is rather ironic that the casting includes an icon of possibly the worst sit-com of all times, Ed O'Neill, from "Married With Children."  As much as that show sucked, appealing to the lowest common denominator of newly-pubescent adolescents, Ed has redeemed himself with finally a mature role as the politically incorrect and curmudgeonly patriarch in Modern Family.  The casting is ideal.  The scripts are savvy.  The dialogue is crisp.  And the humor is effervescent.  The only slight criticism may be that they risk "gaying-up" the gay couple a bit too much.  Granted, it is funny, but it's a fine line between character and caricature.  The limp wrists, swishing and flamboyance is sometimes a little over the top and becoming too predictable.  The chemistry however, with all the character's is sublime.  I literally DVR every episode, watch it live, and then rewatch the DVR version twice.  It's like a shot of humor-cocaine injected directly into my funny bone.  If you like laugh out loud, tears down you cheeks, biting humor with a dose of even pathos on some occasions, this is the best sit-com on planet earth.

The Presidents I have seen this program on the History Channel. I enjoyed it so much I wanted a permanent personal copy to view as I wished I really liked watching it again w/o commercials learned a lot.

Just amazing! Currently I have been trying to put together a strong mixture of concerts,,, hopefully Blue-ray and have been finding things a little slim out there of QUALITY work. I am watching it on a 210" hd projector system and so the picture has got to be there for me. I started ordering concerts from Netflix for a demo to see if they are worthy of purchasing and not just a money toss- which for the past few months I have been thanking Netflix for saving me lots money! Read the reviews both here on Amazon and on Netflix and had this one in the "Q". I just received the blue-ray several hours ago in the mail from Netflix and told my wife, well this could be over in 5 minutes........ well that was over 2.5 hours ago. OK, I will admit that I did not know the real history of David's work, what rock was I under? But as most of the posts noted, I was beyond stunned- speechless- and then a little 16 year girl came out named Charice, I then just lost my breath too. I just ordered it in blue-ray to add to my collection (Thanks Amazon!) Video for a concert- 5 stars, details and camera work are always difficult for concerts but this was pulled together nicely, reminds me of Sting with the RPO in Blue-ray Sound in DTS-HD, again,,, I just lost my breath, incredible balance and with such an array of signers,, WOW! 8 stars!!!! I am not writing this review to get thumbs up approval but to ensure people out there, like me that kinda look at concerts with a grain of salt- until proven.... Well I hope you have a good sound system cause you WILL BE TESTING THE HELL OUT OF IT'S LIMITS. You could just tell how each artist was really pushing their levels and still just having a great time. This is important to me, I enjoyed the very brief history through several of the songs and getting a better understanding of David's life. What a gifted group of people.  The music just continued to flow- this is entertainment!

of unknown origion very good believable movie. not a computer cgi monstrosity of today. good old fashion fear. i was 9 when this came out. and still enjoy watching it. um shannon tweed.

national pride Never  knew Linda Ronstadt was of mexican heritage. She did an outstanding job with this concert. Brought smiles and tears of joy to a lot of people. Had a poor copy on vhs tape that i played from time to time & thouroghly enjoyed. When I saw it on dvd i bought 5 copies for friends & family. somewhat removed from my mexican heritage, i found this to be a great comfort. Purists may feel that mexican artists might have done as good, or better, can't deny Linda did an outstanding job. Highly recommended. My complements to the seller. Viva Mexico! Viva America!

Good movie I'm in my middle 20's but still like watching this teen flic. It is funny and sweet. It takes me back to high school. What a great place to be.

Movie Afternoon Yes, it's hard to read which movie is which on the DVD labels. Tiny print in the circles. However, in bright light, it's not a problem. The quality is perfect. Enjoyed the savings for 4 movies.

Perfect for me This set of DVDs is just what I wanted.  I see the benefits other people get with yoga, both physically and mentally, and I've tried before, but it was always just too challenging for me.  This set is more than I could have hoped for.  All the DVDs are specifically made for the flexible challenged person.  The instructors really get it!  You can tell they are experienced teaching people yoga who are starting where I am, with zip for flexibility.  If you are willing to put in the time and do the work on a regular basis, I can very much recommend that you try this set.

Oh...Lord... This is a SECRET, GUILTY pleasure to say the least.  Troma is not known for throwing tons of money into their movies, and less known for making movies that even have a snowballs chance in hell of standing up to movie critic scrutiny.  But...despite this, Troma has a large fanbase.  It has survived all these years and may still be making movies.  I remember some "zombie chicken" film that came out no more than 6 years ago.  Why do people like Troma films?  Alchohal may play a part, along with...other substances.  But the biggest factor is just the shock value in the movies.  This studio seems to follow the formula of "so bad it's good."  This does make since, think about it.  When a film passes itself off as a work of gold, and really thinks it is good AND is marketed like it will be, once you watch it and feel different, you are FURIOUS to say the least.  I remember going to see 'Funny People', with Adam Sandler.  You would swear by the commercials that this was going to be the comedy of the summer.  This is the only film I can think of that I was 99 percent close to getting up and walking out.  If my feet had not been stuck to the theater floor on some really old spilt soda, I just may have.  But when a film just blatently trys to be stupid and down right awful, people seem to have an inverse reaction to viewing it.  They in fact love it, they tell their friends how BAD this movie was and how they MUST see it also.  The film explodes and gets a cult following very fast.  'Toxic Avenger' is a prime example of this.  I personally watched the cartoon series in the 1990's and thought this was all there was.  Upon growing up and seeing there was films also, I had to give the first one a see.  I literally could not believe my eyes.  Arms getting ripped off, sex left and right, how bad the acting was, and that HORRIBLE death of a child on a bicycle.  This movie right or wrong shocks you.  Is this garbage, YES.  Are there things in it that shouldn't be, YES, namely the unnecessary death of that child in the first film.  Also when the Toxic Avenger is having sex with his blind girlfriend, that's weird also...  In the end, this is love it or hate it.  If you love films so bad, that you find yourself unable to look away, this franchise is for you.  If your lucky enough to have more cultered tastes, good for you, (I envy you), check out the 'Iron Lady'.  I've heard that is a really good film.  In conclusion, all the films PLUS the entire cartoon series!!!  If this is a must own for you, this set is the one to own to add to your secret stash.  Now if you'll excuse I am going to go watch 'Masterpiece Theater' and get some culture...

Totally awesome!! This movie for die hard fans just opens your eyes up to even more. I fully enjoyed this movie and though it well worth the price!

Great movie! This is such a hilarious movie. I highly recommend it. But if you aren't in to slapstick, british humor...this may not be your thing.

back to the 80's! this was a great throwback movie. so much like the raunchy, funny, lighthearted movies of the 1980's.  in fact one of the characters could have been the daughter of the roxy character in 'hot t-shirts' !

my favorite movie of all time. after watching Hedwig and the angry inch, i looked up john Cameron Mitchell to see what other movies he had been in. this was when i discovered shortbus, which was written and directed by Mitchell. the movie ties together three story lines, severin the dominatrix and her search for a human connection, Sofia and her search for an orgasm, and james, jamie and Ceth's open relationship ( and the stalker that watches them from the apartment across the street.) This movie shows a whole lot of graphic sex, but the purpose of it is to show that sex is a huge part of a relationship and in life. those that think this movie is vulgar and in bad taste don't realize that these characters grow throughout the movie, and to omit the sex scenes would take out scenes of character development in the movie. This is a great film if you can accept the loads of nudity, and it even helped stop the red ban of movies in Korea! look it up! :D

Great movie for small girls My granddaughters, ages 7 and 4 now, have enjoyed watching this movie now for about year or better.  It has a cute story line and educates kid on how to help each other, and everyone have a part, as well as understanding others feelings.  A good product!

Be careful what you wish for -- Absolutely Delightful  :) What a wonderful family film!  I guess it's a "kid's" film but I absolutely LOVED it!  It has such wonderful lessons and it was done so well.  The film is happy and sad, funny, and has emotional momemts, even a touch of magic is in the air.  It is colorful and has music, even to the bagpipes of Scotland.  This is a Disney Pixar film, so you have the wonderful animations that feel almost human.  The movie begins with the king and queen playing with their little red-haired daughter on her birthday.  Even at the ripe old age of maybe 5, little Merida is headstrong, bright, and bubbly.  And she sees the wisps, a kind of blue fairy type light that sends her in certain directions.  We watch Princess Merida grow, and be instructed in the ways of a Princess by her "Mum," the Queen.  Now that she is of age, Mum decides it is time to have a suitor party so the gents can compete for her hand.  But Merida has a mind of her own.  Just to add a little extra excitement, Merida has three young brothers (triplets!)  Again, this is a fun flick with lots of funny moments, some even laugh-out-louds.  And the bagpipes are always special to me (some of my heritage).  Some valuable lessons for the children about perception, seeing things in a certain way, responsibilities, listening to others, considering alternatives, forgiveness and love.  Many of you with children will likely buy this movie when it becomes available.

Just like the series The movie brought back memories of the good ole days when Carrie and gang roamed the streets of New York on a weekly basis! While I enjoyed the film I felt like the storyline was too rushed. If anything this could have easily been stretched out into another season--hint hint! I know they want to make more SATC films, but ultimately the films will always fall short because they leave the fans wanting so much more. More characters, more depth, longer storylines. Oh well. In the interim at least we have the series on DVD and the movie to keep us entertained. I'd skip the second film, and go with this one instead. This one felt more like an extension of the series, giving it some finallity. I give it Two Manola Blahnik's!  Also I love that this is available on Amazon Instant Video as a download! Thank you Amazon!!!

Great! Awesome movie, I think everyone should see it. An instant classic! Nice to have the extra features disc too so you can experience more of the movie :)

Eye Opener This is a great documentary, especially since Robert McNamara narrates much of it himself. It gives an inside look into how the US Government operates under stressful circumstances, and how hypocritical they can be. War is an ugly reality, and I support the US troops wholeheartedly, but there needs to be some restraint when conducting operations abroad... After watching this movie several times I've concluded that the use of the Atomic Bomb was completely unnecessary, it was simply a "live test" the US Government wanted to do. Buy the movie and decide for yourself!

Better on BLU-RAY! Love this movie, story and Leo. Watching this movie on Blu-Ray made it even better. Better sound, visual, EVERYTHING!  The movie, story and acting itself, was pretty good and TRUE to the actual language, speech and adaptation to the original Shakespeare playwright.  Awesome adaptation from the original, and making it fit into a trendy, entertaining, well acted, and visually eye catching version.  I love it. A classic I had to have in my Blu-Ray collection.  Try it.

Great acting by Gere and Basinger. "No Mercy" was the best work by Richard Gere and Kim Basinger; they both excelled.  The story, drama was very intense, yet contrasted with very earthy music and great chemistry between Gere and Basinger.  It moved very fast and kept you on the edge of your seat.

A must-own The Sound of Music earned spot #55 on the AFI top listing, a list only a few musicals got into. How did this movie get onto a list with Gone with the Wind and The African Queen?  Yes, the plot is a little simplistic. Evil nasty Nazis are threatening smiling beautiful children, and the family has to make a run for it. The children are not only photogenic but also have the voices of angels. Some of the lyrics are a little silly as well.  Still, these are minor complaints in a moving story based on a real life adventure. The captain really did fall in love with his governess, the children really did have musical talent, and the threat of the Germans drove them to flee. It's great to see this true world tale brought to the big screen with such beauty.  The scenes in Austria are just beautiful, from the elegant dances to the gorgeous landscapes. The movie really was filmed in Salzburg, Austria, and the exterior of the convent is the actual one the real Maria stayed in. You're getting an authentic world of the world these characters inhabited, although the house shown was not their real house.  Julie Andrews is phenomenal. From her pure voice to the glow in her cheeks as she falls in love, she is an ideal heroine.  Even more unusual, this movie actually passes the Bechdel test! The Mother Superior at the convent talks about how each of us has to follow our dreams, take on the challenges our life presents to us. Yes, in part it was about the captain, but it was about life in general, and she was talking about herself as much as Julie.  A great movie well worth watching and rewatching for the pure joy of the story.

Great Classic movie Bought for a relative who was a high school wrestler, he heard about the movie and just had to see it. He said it was pretty good and had some good wrestling scenes.

MIB movies These are very good movies and our daughter hadn't seen them so i sent them to her. She loves them now.

Really great movie about how far someone will go for love Really great movie i think,  It made me nearly cry a few times which i dont do that often.  You know. you might think that not being able to remember anything might be a curse but maybe. sometimes what holds us back the most is some of our memories we get afraid or caught up in some past things or little stupid things that might have happen the day before or week before and if we could just start over each day fresh maybe it would make our lives better?  But its great how its a good message about how a guy goes from dating a ton of girls he never wanted to really keep up with but then falling for one women who keeps forgetting who he is :-) Love makes you do funny things.  I hope someday i think even if its just for one day i could find someone like that myself.  because life is tough!  great movie. good message its great how Adem Sandler can be the "bad boy" of movies but also do touching movies as well. Great stuffs :-)

A 'Knight' to Remember I was so excited to get this movie in the mail.  Everything about it was great!  Definitely one of my favorite movies.  I'm so glad I used Amazon to purchase this film!

SWEET!! I ordered the movie and it arrived next two days, great copy, I brought mine brand new, had special features and everything, its the real deal!!!....I wasnt to say thanks ;-)

Great Movie!  Horse Is Character, not sidekick! I really liked this one and requested it from my Husband for Christmas.  You know the plot, so here's my takes on things.  I LOVE that the horse is his own character and not a side-kick.  He is a kick-butt cop, doing his job at all costs.  He is the typical humanized animal with projected feelings, but it's a kids movie, he's supposed to be.  Our star grows and learns to stand up for herself and be independent and make decisions for herself.  Our hero grows and learns to think of other people and make sacrifices for the one he loves.  Our villain...maybe the creepiest ever for me.  The fact she is psychologically controlling/abusing a child from infancy is just really super disgusting and creepy to me.  So, definitely not light on villain for me.  Cons would be the typical; they fall in love in about 2 days.  Not terribly realistic, but often occurs in movies.  Love the chameleon, he's adorable.  Great movie!

A great re-imagining of Transformers for both the old and new generations of TV watchers. Although I wasn't really a big fan of Transformers: Animated, I was surprised when I heard that Hasbro was already giving the Transormers franchise yet another reboot for TV. Hasbro has been on a real roll lately with their TV re-launches of classic franchises on their new network "The Hub"-- everything from G.I. Joe to My Little Pony has been getting another shot on TV, and the results thus far have not disappointed-- and in many cases, they've surpassed their G1 counterparts. While many in the TF fandom insist that the original version is still the best, in my opinion Prime surpasses it. The characters feel a lot more three-dimensional, the writing and voice acting is a lot less campy, and the animation is gorgeous-- and until recently, I would have been hesitant to say that about a CG animated TV show. Between this, Clone Wars, Kung Fu Panda and the upcoming Green Lantern series, CG animation on TV is definitely proving itself a viable medium.  If you want a smartly written action show with the explosive action as Michael Bay's movie trilogy, this show is for you. It's got a little bit of just about every incarnation of Transformers somewhere in there, all stirred up with a few new ingredients of its own. If you have kids they're going to love it, and if you are a fan of the franchise or animation in general you will probably love it too.

Adorable! This is one of those movies that is almost one of those 'in the closet' B rated movies that honestly will melt your heart the first time you watch it...and the second and third times too haha! The little "Welches Grape Juice" girl steals the camera with absolutely every scene and the movie itself pulls at your heart strings. It's sad she hasn't done anything after this because watching her in this movie you can so tell she was born to act!  A great family gem to add to anyone's collection!

Muy Bien! This is a great, informational video about Cinco de Mayo for middle and high school students.  My students are generally entertained by it and engaged for the whole video. Great as an extra Cinco de Mayo activity!

Great low-production value chick flic The music would have been better if it were not recorded with a synthesizer but the acting and storyline is fantastic. I have seen it many times and fall in love with the characters even more each time I re-watch the movie. I have yet to read the book, but am looking forward to doing so. This movie is appropriate for teens and young adults and serves as a great lesson-type film for it reveals the rewards and consequences based on a one's morals. This is not your typical "knight in shining armor' fairytale, but an uplifting, progressive story about women who take control of their own lives in an age where women could not yet vote.

The Original Kung Fu Comedy Jackie Chan gives a remarkable performance in this 1978 film. It follows the young Wong Fei-hung as he gets into trouble, causing his Father to refer him to the disciplines of his Uncle So Hau Chi. He learns Drunken Boxing through his training, overcomes foes, and saves the day. Classic. The film can be experienced on different levels: for humor in dialog or slapstick, or for the brilliant, real-time choreography. There are no strings, no tricks, no special effects. Just good old-fashioned, authentic Martial Arts. This film is the definition of Kung Fu Classic. S+

Awesome Movie Jason Scott Lee is Bruce Lee. Great story about Bruce Lee with great acting and incredible actors. I absolutely love it!

an exceptional film wow.  I just read the most recent review and realized I viewed the theatrical version (which i still found stunning).  Now I have to go on and purchase the director's cut and re-view this film!  Ridley Scott selects a few real personages from the history of the times and then virtually completely reinvents the actual historical account.  Balian and Sarisan are real figures from real history, for those who are interested.  If you want to know what is documented and what "really" happened as far as recorded history goes, you might check out the synopsis on Balien of Ibelin at Wikepedia.  Not quite as glamorous, or as humanized, but still pretty epic.  Anyway, I would say the deployment of this story, Kingdom of Heaven, is easily as good as Gladiator, although the main character (Balian) may not be one that males of the population will as readily enjoy identification. The pacing is good, i agree the theatrical version could use more character development so i look forward to the directors cut, but still bears the Ridley Scott stamp of reaching into your gut and pulling them out to stamp on an ethical message.

Love this series. Rookie Blue is a Canadian import and is set in Toronto.  It is well written, well acted and well produced.  The story lines are current and relevant.  I only wish that ABC would put together a full season of this show.  Nevertheless, I will keep on watching and adding each season, as it becomes available, to my library.  This is well worth the price of admission.

Classic Ignore the reviews that go on about how bad this film is since it's obvious they were written by people with no clue whatsoever what they're talking about. This film is essential viewing for all fans of zombies. Dan O'Bannon does a masterful job and this movie is entertaining from start to finnish. Iconic.

Moretz-Let Me In Horror is not my typical first choice for movies.But I'd heard so many good things about this movie that I went ahead and got it. I've liked it a lot. As actresses go,Chloe Grace Moretz has been one of the busiest in the business,especially for a young person.She and her older brother seem like a great couple of folks.Keep up the good work,Y'all.

The real NYC of the 70s and 80s. One of the best police series of all times. It presents the crude reality of the "big apple" from 30 years ago.

My favourite Housewives kick it up a notch Have always been a fan of the OC ladies from Season one, but this is the season where drama takes the center stage. Saying bye to boring Tammy and Quinn, we get Gretchen, who I'm not a fan of but her lies and secrets really made the show more interesting to watch. Tamra and Vicki's friendship is awesome and we get loopy Lynne as well, whom I've grown to love.  Can't wait for season five to be released, just hope my season 4 dvd arrives soon so I can rewatch the show!

north to aslaska john wayne find somebody today that are even worth putting his boots on. action and comedy at the same time, pure greatness

Mo Willems- A Crowd Pleaser for the Elementary Set This week I have entertained the lower elementary classes I see in the library with Mo Willems' stories Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, Knuffle Bunny, and Leonardo the Terrible Monster.  My students are already familiar with these books, but now they have been brought to life for them on DVD.  There has been a great deal of laughter as they watched these familiar stories, and my own children at home have watched and re-watched this DVD many times.  Although I will always love reading a book more than watching a video, I will admit that the added dimension that video brings to the story makes them come alive for my students. I am already adding this to my list of must-do things for next year's students.

great movie Funny, sometimes not to nice to the older lady but all ends well with Nanny McPhee. teaches children how to respect others.

Kick-Ass Really Kicks Ass. I loved this movie.  It was a great combination of dark, disturbing and funny.  It's not something I would normally watch, but I have to admit I was curious about it based on the reviews.  I was so glad I picked this up.  This movie was fantastic; one of the best movies of 2010 by far.  There were some really stand-out performances by Nicolas Cage (Big Daddy), Chloe Grace Moretz (Hit Girl) and Aaron Johnson (Kick Ass aka Dave).  Dave's two nerdy friends Todd (Evan Peters from American Horror Story) and Marty (Clark Duke) gave great comic relief.  I have to admit, I was really surprised by the level of violence, but not enough to be turned off by the movie.  It's definitely an adult movie; not for the kids.  Dave is your average teenage boy who loves comic books, hangs out with his geeky friends Marty and Todd, and has fantasies of becoming a super hero until he actually is one.  He gets himself into a lot of trouble and his new hobby soon becomes way too dangerous when he inadvertently pisses off a major crime boss.  He meets Hit Girl and Big Daddy when they save him from what is sure to be a death sentence.  In an attempt to gain his crime boss father's approval and bring back Kick Ass, Chris aka Red Mist pretends to be a friend to Kick Ass.  He soon realizes there is a much bigger threat to his criminal father's business and plans to take out Big Daddy begin.  This is when things get really out of hand.  This movie was absolutely fantastic and I highly recommend it.

Wow - I've been looking for years for this DVD! The only uncut version I've seen previously was the old Thakral DVD from Taiwan that while uncut, had a disappointing transfer, and picture quality. This is the updated version from the same company, and quality and features are awesome. You can either view the movie in the slightly edited version that is commonly available, or uncut. This DVD has an amazing amount of language and subtitle options. There are TWO english audio dubs, if that's your thing. One being the original english dub, and the other being the newer english dub that actually uses Jackie's real voice. There's also a new and old English subtitle track. The old one is a more literal translation. The new one takes more liberties, but makes more sense for most English speaking viewers. Of course the original Cantonese and the original Mandarin dub are also included. If you're a Jackie fan, this is pretty much a required DVD to own, even if you have other versions of the same movie.

Great Movie I love this movie. It's really funny and in every scene you'll be laughing your butt off at everything that Eddie Murphy does or what he says. I will highly suggest people to get this movie.

Excellent classic movie This is one of the top classic movies that I'd like to collect especially in BR.  I always enjoy watching this one, and the picture is dynamite!

addicting I love this movie. I'm not a fan of the original graphic comics - - just never crossed my radar, not that I travel the right circles (sadly) -- so i am ordering a rebinding of the original series, set 1, today. I remember seeing this the first time and thinking, eh, it's ok. But I knew that was because some element touched something basic in me. But I watch it again and again over the years and love it more every time. Now--exactly today -- i would say, i'm an entrenched cult fan. My status as a KR fan completely aside (and undiscussed) is irrelevant. Although if this film had been made with the originally envisioned Nicholas Cage (who I will freely confess my belief to be a truly great actor) it would have had a completely different feel, tone, and I'm not sure I would have liked this combination. I absolutely adore Rachel Weisz without qualification. (KR's career has been attended by so much controversy I just abstain). I feel the chemistry is sufficient, sorry I can't say more, but again put this in context - I still absolutely love this movie for some indefinable subliminal (or sublime) factor I can't put into words. And the more times I watch it the more strongly I feel this way. I hope I enjoy the comic series, which I know is qualitatively somewhat different, but I've always enjoyed this type of comic or graphic novel. So I expect I will.

LOVE IT! When I found out that there was gonna be a zombie show on television I was super-excited! I love zombies! And this series is great! The cast is excellent, and there are some truly beautiful moments.   I'm just here to make the rating go higher. If you want a more in depth review, there's plenty.  Annnd If you like zombies, buy this. It doesn't focus completely on them, but I think it does so sufficiently. i

Can't wait to see the new ghost rider film: spirit of vengeance I'm excited to see the new Ghost Rider film : spirit of vengeance!!! When will the film come out in cinema in France???!!! Can't wait to see it...  ***Princess-Lullaby***  (France)

The reason I went to see "Hot Tub Time Machine" A great 80's movie! Many parodies and funny stereotypes have been made from the scenes in this movie! Quirky and very comical! If you're a fan of the movie "Hot Tub Time Machine" then consider this a prequel of sorts, since HTTM draws from several elements of this movie. (btw both staring John Cusack) I've searched and searched for this movie for a long time since my old vhs tape finaly died 4 or 5 years ago... lo and behold I find it here on Amazon! So buy this dvd and you will enjoy it possibly reliving your childhood as I did every time I watched it. Since it's on dvd I'm sure the will be lots of extras and maybe behind the scenes stuff or commentary thus further enhancing the awesome retro-coolness! Decent price too by the way!

Touching without becoming corny Greenfingers is about a bunch of prisoners turned gardeners. As you might guess, it had the potential to become yet another cheesy, touchy-feely movie. Fortunately, thanks to some subtle script-writing, the final product is beautiful. The movie never goes too far in stereotyping any of the characters. Yes, there's a "big, bald prisoner who's really a softie at heart" character, but he never becomes "ridiculous" (well, maybe once or twice). The movie works so well because of how the characters themselves describe their "redemption." as realizing that they had the ability to create as well as take away life. I also thought the ending was quite clever, pulling on just the right emotional chords - although I won't spoil it here. Definitely recommended, especially if you need a little pick-me-up story.

A christmas Carol The movie came fast, although the case was broken. I got 4 different types of the movie. Awesome !  My fav movie.

THANK YOU! Just what we were looking for...actually, MORE.  Didn't realize it was a limited release that had a set of dog tags in it.  Arrived very quickly..so fast that we had to bite nails waiting for 4.0 to arrive from another source.

Sensational show! This unassuming little show about a small Texas town and it's football team was a great ride, all the way through to the final season.  The show features well-rounded characters with realistic problems and believable flaws.  And, that's refreshing, compared to some of today's reality shows (where the filthy rich drum up pseudo-problems to complain about).  Maybe the fictional town of Dillon, Texas reminded me nostalgically of my own hometown, where the whole town populace came out on Friday nights to cheer on the football team of the only high school in town.  Or maybe the fictional characters just remind me of my own classmates, teachers, and coaches.  But, whatever the reason, this is one great show, well-acted and under-recognized.

Drummer Boy I remember watching this show every year with my mom.  It is a great story to share with my kids, and it takes me back to memories I shared with my mom, who is no longer with us.

Jumpin Jack Flash This is one of my favorite movies..when I received it, I took it on a trip with me and shared it. We laughed alll over again. Whoopi's best/funniest movie EVER.. The comedy will never get old. It was in excellent condition! LOVED it!

My favorite movie of all time. Ever since I've first seen "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961), it's been my favorite movie. Every time I see that taxi pull up at Tiffany's on Fifth Avenue in the early morning, with Audrey Hepburn coming out and window shopping while eating a pastry and drinking coffee, it makes me happy for some reason. I can just watch this film over and over and over again, because I think it's a perfect movie with great acting, characters, and, of course, I love Audrey Hepburn, and that iconic photo of her standing in that black dress with a cigarette holder. Marilyn Monroe was originally supposed to be Holly Golightly, but declined, and as much as I love Marilyn, I'm glad that Audrey Hepburn took the role, because she's my favorite actress and I can't imagine anybody else being Holly Golightly. This is definitely my favorite film of hers, and my favorite of all time.   Audrey Hepburn plays Holly Golightly, her most iconic role. She's a 19-year old socialite (Audrey was really 31 at that time), who is also a call-girl that takes "50 dollars for the powder room". George Peppard plays Paul Varjak, a writer who moves into her apartment, and later on they fall in love, but it's complicated since she has a troubled past and is irresponsible. The other names in the cast include Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, and Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi, a very controversial role.   The special features to the Paramount Centennial Collection of this film are definitely worth watching. The Disc 1 comes with the film and a commentary by producer Richard Shephard. The Disc 2 comes with "A Golightly Gathering", a 20 minute featurette that reunites all of the cast members from the famous cocktail party scene (it took a whopping 8 days to film!). It's one of the best featurettes on the DVD. The second feature is "Henry Mancini: More than Music", a 21 minute featurette about the life and music of famous composer, Henry Mancini, who did "Moon River", the theme song to "Breakfast at Tiffany's". "Mr. Yunioshi: An Asian Perspective is a 17 minute featurette you probably should skip. I can see how the whole was controversial and upsetting, but there's a lot of not needed things in this film, like talk about World War II and different Asian actors in films. I know it kind of relates to the featurette, but it doesn't even relate to the film itself. "The Making of a Classic" is a 16 minute featurette that talks about how the film was made. It comes with a lot of good information and it was really enjoyable. "It's So Audrey: A Style Icon" has to be my favorite featurette on this whole DVD. It's 8 minutes long and has different interviews with designers and even her ex-husband, Mel Ferrer, along with her son, Sean Ferrer. It also shows clips from different films of hers, which is my favorite part of the feature. It shows movies like "Breakfast at Tiffany's", "Roman Holiday", "Sabrina", "Funny Face", and "Paris When it Sizzles", along with some cute photos of Audrey. "Beyond the Gates: The Tour", is a 4-5 minute featurette that tours beyond the gates of Paramount, and talks about the history of my favorite movie company of all time. "Brilliance in a Blue Box" is about 6 minutes, and it talks about the history of Tiffany & Co. It's very interesting. "Audrey's Letter to Tiffany" is only 2 minutes long, and it shows the letter she wrote to Tiffany's for it's 150th anniversary book in 1987. It also comes with the original theatrical trailer and production photographs, which are enjoyable, too. It also comes with an 8-page booklet, like all Centennial Collections have, full of great information and photos.   Altogether, "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is a classic that has so many things that make the movie great, like Audrey Hepburn, a great supporting cast, great New York setting, some nice drama and romance, an iconic ending, and, of course, Cat, which is Audrey's cat in the film that she doesn't give a name to. "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is without a doubt a great romance, and one of the most iconic movies of all time. Happy 50th anniversary!

RED review I am not a big Bruce Willis fan, but he is great in this movie and the supporting cast are at least as good as Bruce, if not better.  The plot is not complicated, but all the twist and turns will definitely keep your attention.  When I spend money to buy a movie while I can watch it free on HBO free, you know that movie is worth watching.

It works!! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this DVD!  Once a day for an entire week and I could see that my body had slimmed!  You have to keep it up because the weight will come back.  Well done, Denise.  Thank you for making a program that actually works.

So Funny!!! I saw Sebastian for the first time on his Showtime comedy special and I was laughing from his first sentence.  His take on everyday occurrences and his observations are dead on and so darn hilarious. His voice changes and body language are just part of the whole treat. I would love to see him in person.  Funniest comedian and clean (meaning no foul language) in a long time.

Excellent movie I have read all the Harry Potter books and seen all of the movies our so far. This one is not my favorite but still quite a fun movie. Can't wait for the next one. I appreciate when a movie follows the book without adding too much of their own dramatic influences and this one is true to the book.

Amazing Show Absolutely love it!! It arrived in a timely manner. I spent the weekend watching all the episodes that I missed in Season 7. Its so gripping once I start watching it is so hard for me to stop. I love the actors its such an amazing show. I love the profiling and I love the bond between each of the characters.

Amazingly Great Remake I was truly amazed to see this offering- and reasonably priced too! This is a movie on The Great Heston's must do list. Heston's son Frazier, who played the Baby Moses in the Ten Commandments,directs this and several other pictures for dad.   The score is very "period" and the acting top notch. I was, of course, spoiled by the Best Picture winning original- so buy both. Both prices are reasonable!

Great season for a great show Chances are, if you're this far into Psych then you know what to expect and are already a fan of the show.  Season 4 offers more of what you've come to love, the obscure movie references, the romantic intrigue between Shawn and Juliet, and, of course, the fantastic chemistry between all the characters.  This perhaps the best of the seasons currently available and is capped by what might be the best episode of the series with the season finale.  All in all, this is a great show and a very enjoyable season all wonderfully delivered by Amazon!

5 Stars Jeff Dunham has always been one of our favorite entertainers, and this new one is even better then the rest, the man is an absolute genius, someday we would love to see him in a live performance, I highly reccommend this DVD and any of Jeff Dunham's DVD's to everyone  Sincerely  Tim Kinn Garden Grove, Ca.

Love the slim cases and small box Love the Harry Potter movies, and I love that each movie is in a small, slim case so the box isn't huge.

Very Moving I first watched this documentary on the Documentary Channel while flipping through channels. Later, I bought the dvd.  I found this film to be very moving, and very well done.  An excellent film!

June M I love this movie. The cast was perfect for the parts. I've watched it a lot and each time I watch it I get something new from it. It's funny and witty and deserves five stars.

Very Happy!! Hi  i am very happy with the product i received.  it was a dvd that i thought i would never see as it is old.  great service prompt delivery and the DVD worked great.  Thanks

½ humor ½ drama ALL 1940s post-WWII wonderful A dramatic comedy with ample Vaudeville snippets of suggestive song & dance comedy routines. A period series of post-war London and the people who had to learn to live without the war. They were changed. The costumes, sets, and locations are period realistic in detail and delight. That's worth the watch itself. The story is with comic appeal but also has the tenderness, struggles, and difficulties written into the drama to get a good look at what it was like for some of the soldiers returning on "demob" as well as the impact on family and friends.  Two soldiers who were troop entertainers during the war, have little other skills to fall back on. How will they cope? A star British cast provides 6 pleasurable, funny, and sometimes troublesome episodes, each  50 minutes. SUBTITLES--YES.  1--Deasey (Griff Rhys Jones-`Alias Smith and Jones' `Funnybones') heads to family after WWII. His war buddy, Dobson (Martin Clunes-`Doc Martin' `Lorna Doone' `William & Mary') finds new friends but they're a bit on the shady side.  Janet Deasey (Amanda Redman-`New Tricks' `Little Dorrit' `At Home with the Beraithwaites') finds her returned hubby changed. Post-war efforts catch up with them and the post-war-stage is reset.  2--Deasey tries day & night jobs till he gets the sack. Should the boys go pro o the stage? Club's blonde dancer, Hedda (Samantha Janus Womack-`Pie in the Sky' `Eastenders') looks for information on a MIA spouse. Hedda shows bare chest in more than one episode, and she can sing too. Dick weds...kinda!  3--A week Liverpool gig for "Deasey & Dobson." All does not go well. A post-war bomb. Meanwhile, back at London, Janet has her own bit of `funny business' happenings. Best friend Annabel (Tilly Blackwood) is dismayed. Special guest star, comedian Les Dawson plays Liverpool comedian Morton Stanley.  4--Deasey is unemployed again and without a stage. The act dumps Dobson, Deasey's choice, in favor of Hedda. This can't go down well! Next effort is at "Happylands."  5--Wow, a BBC audition. They finally get their break. But success will not be without costs in other areas, like relationships. Scantly clad Hedda gets involved.  6--Final curtain in this final episode. What new changes will be required of the ex-soldiers Dodson & Deasey? And others? James Faulkner (`The Queen' `Upstairs, downstairs' `Agony') guest stars as a movie actor. Janet's mom, Edith (Liz Fraser) has her own surprises after hinting in all 6 episodes.  Another star actor is in 5 episodes as Maj. Rudy Lorimer (James Faulkner-`first Among Equals' `Bridget Jones' `I, Claudius'), a shady character in "DEMOB."  The box says: contains partial nudity. At one point it is complete, but short lived. A smashing late 40's rendition of the post-war British soldier and the pain and struggle of demobilization--`demob.' Good for fun entertainment and historic drama/romance. The wife said 4 stars, I said 5, and drooled once. Not the level of "Foyle's War" in the newer post-war series, but still nice.

Understanding Islam Professor Bogart really teaches the facts in easily understood English.  I very much enjoyed this work, and look forward to others like the Mormon religion.  This is a must if you want an unbiased look at Islam.  You can use this as a basis to form your own opinion as to how this religion interacts with Western society.

Astounding in 3D! This review is for the 3D Blu Ray.  Having watched Titanic in the theaters in 1997, owning it on VHS, and then on the first DVD release I knew that the Blu Ray would be a must have, especially the 3D version.  I've probably seen the movie about 50 times before this release.  So, I knew there wouldn't be a lot of 3D shots that would jump out at me.  Besides, that expectation is a little much considering this movie was shot before today's technology was in use.  Firstly, as many times as I have seen this movie I was still very very presently surprised by how much detail I'd missed all these years, from the very opening scene until the end.  The 3D really adds to the movie in such a way that it enhances all the detail of each scene.  There are many times when I honestly felt as though I was on the Titanic or that the Titanic might sail straight into my bedroom.  That was new for me and I've seen a lot of 3D movies at home.  Keep in mind that I'm watching this on a 32" Vizio.  So, not really a large television at all.  I would definitely recommend the 3D version to those who love 3D movies or just really love Titanic and would like to feel like they are apart of it.

What a Beautiful Movie! Heartwarming, funny, and loving are just a couple of words that come to mind after watching Corrina Corrina. I highly recommend this movie. It shows love, death, and shows how people can come together in their darkest hour despite their race, culture, religion, and era. Enjoy

Great movie This movie was good from start to finish. I had heard about this movie and seen previews but never watch it but now I'm glad I did I see so many true and untrue people in the game of chasing paper, also let's not forget who your friends are either. This movie is so worth the money. Lady's you will love the rapper he is sexy  and fine as hell.

Advertised Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Came Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 . Great flick! Really filthy and raunchy comedy. Loved it! bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla cIaO!

Heartwarming and Inspiring! This movie was a joy to watch!  Living for others instead of oneself comes with many blessings.  The movie's message is a refreshing and welcome one!

Great Movie - To Catch A Thief Awesome movie - highly recommend it. Loved watching it with my daughter. Movie extras great! Learned a lot about Alfred Hitchkock

Awesome! Sherlock season 2 was as great as season 1.  Loved it!  Wonderful adaptation of the original Doyle characters; but keeps you in suspense because they are completely different stories.  Would highly recommend to both Holmes aficionados and viewers who have never before ventured into the world of Sherlock Holmes.

Love it! To me, Alistair Sim is THE definitive Scrooge.  To me, all others pale in comparison.  The quality of the DVD excellent.  I will not though view the colorized version.  B&W is the way to view Scrooge!

great a** movie This movie is awesome. Usually a movie gets kinda run down after the 2hr mark but this movie kept me and my family interest throughout the 3hr mark and left us in awe. Its hard to follow if you dont pay attention to it. Buy it on standard dvd because the sellers on here are selling it way to high for a blu-ray movie. i won't go into any detail as to all the reviewers have done that. buy this movie without hesitation

Mask DVD Quickly received. I was a hit with my grandkids when I purchased this. I had checked it out of library and they watched it several times and was sad when we had to return it. The look on their faces was priceless when they received their own DVD!

This show is the bomb.....yo! Breaking Bad is the best show on TV. After watching the first three seasons, everything else seems boring. I am bugging out waiting on season four to be released.

buying a used product on the internet from amazon. buying used on the internet from Amizon is the best way to shop for a lot of things. You don't have to leave home, save gas, no stress,cheap,the product was like new and gracie was happy to get toy story. Good experience and you made Grandpa the hero.

"Two of the Greatest Actresses Ever Do Battle On The Big Screen" By 1962 Joan Crawford's career was at a standstill. Her fourth husband, Al Steele, had died and left her broke so she tried desperately to find a film project that could give her the financial security she needed and to put her back on the A-List of Hollywood actresses. This was by no means an easy feat to achive as Crawford was well past 55 and during the early sixties most films were "men's pictures" with women having supporting roles.   Joan found the book "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" and loved it. She went to Robert Aldrich (her director on "Autumn Leaves") and told him this would make a wonderful movie. She then went to Bette Davis (whoses career was also in the toilet) and advised her the roles of Blanche and Jane were tailored made for them. Bette, not a true fan of Crawfords by any means, loved the book and immediately signed up to do the picture with Crawford. Bette plays the title role of crazy Jane and Crawford played the crippled sister confined to a wheelchair as Jane torments her with unbridal passion.   Upon the release in November, 1962 "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" became a certified hit and restarted the careers of Davis and Crawford's although neither would appear in a film as successful as "Jane" for the remainder of their careers.   As for Crawford she hated doing the film with a passion as the role required her to tone down the glamour that she was known for, but knew she had a hit on her hands. When signing her contract she asked for a bit of cash up front, but wanted 10% of the film's profits that were enormous. On "Baby Jane" Joan made well over a million dollars. When asked in later years about "Baby Jane" Joan would say it was one of the hardest movies she made because she felt "as if they were filming a newsreel, not a movie" and she found Davis to be "a challenge to work with". Bette also had a few words to say about Joan especially when it came to Joan's alcohol consumption. Bette later said "Crawford read every line off cue cards because she was so drunk she couldn't remember her lines and that Joan was very arrogant to Bette's daughter B.D Heyman who had a small part in the film. When Bette introduced Joan to B.D. the young girl held out her hand to Crawford who looked horrified and swung her hand behind her back as if B.D. were disease and exclaimed, "Over there are my two youngest twin girls who have been carefully brought up from the wicked side of the world and you obviously my dear have not. I don't want your influence to corrupt them so please stay away from them won't you dear. Bless you". Bette's jaw dropped to the floor.   Despite the problems behind-the-scenes "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" is a superb film, well-acted and directed and comes with one of the greatest scripts of all-time. It is so nice to have the movie on Blu Ray finally for a whole new generation to enjoy!   Bonuses will include Davis singing on the "Andy Williams" TV show, a rare 1967 interview with Crawford where she discusses both Bette and the film and much more.   The only new bonus feature that was not included on the DVD set is the beautiful 35-page booklet which features scenes from the film and neat info!!!   Simply one of my favorite movies that would lead to two other films that were sort of sequels to the original: "Hush, Hush...Sweet Charlotte" (1964) and "Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969)".

Great Series, loosely based on the graphic novels A well done zombie apocalypse survival series, that deviates a large amount from the graphic novels it is based on.

goodness They just dont make movies like they used to anymore.. i think the casting and plot of this movie is great. Excellent movie.

PURCHASE Breaking Bad: The Complete Second Season EXCELLENT!!!  Top notch . . . . five stars.  Breaking Bad is an outstanding series.  My family is hooked on this series.  DVD's are in  Brand New Condition w/SONIC DELIVERY!!!

Winter Guest DVD I made a mistake earlier in reviewing your service.  Please accept my apologies.  The DVD of The Winter Guest is wonderful! Excellelnt service.

Fantastic look at other cultures These videos are fantastic.  I'm a history teacher and I use these videos to show the old world and new for each culture we study.  I highly recommend these to anyone interested in educating themselves about how the world works.

Good pick Good family movie for all ages.  Bullying is such a great topic these days and it doesn't hurt to start early teaching this principle.

Sleeping Beauty DVD Great service, was shipped and received within a week!  I will definitely order from her again and recommend Amazon for your orders!

all time favorite movie This movie arrived sooner than expected. One of our all time favorites and I was shocked to see that we hadn't already owned it in DVD, just VHS, hence the purchase. As we get up in years it becomes more relevant to our lives. If you haven't enjoyed this movie before, it is a must for your collection.

Excellent book, great author I was in a book club for this particular book, when my son was a little over a year old. The book itself is very informative and helps you look at parenting and life at different angles... I would definitely recommend to a friend, first time parent, or a parent struggling through a rough patch with their children (terrible 2's, teenage angst, etc)...

Yes this product DOES include a digital copy inside the dvd case you will find the instructions to access your ultraviolet copy. With the ultraviolet you get online streaming access as well as being able to download up to 5 copies of the movie to your computer.  just thought I'd clear that up.

The Grey I saw the movie at the theater and liked it so much that I wanted the DVD.  Somehow I got the instant video version and couldn't watch it on my computer.  It is a movie that you can't miss.  I just wish that I can get a DVD so I can watch it as many times as I like on my blue ray player.  Excellent movie.  Very intense.

BEST VAMPIRE SERIES ONE WORD: KLAUS! awesome actor (joseph morgan) and he plays the part of bad guy very well. what i love about VD is that you cant hate the bad guy for too long. First/second season we get to know damon more and understand why he is the way he is... and now with this season you get to see The Orginals and understand Klaus more. i hope they make him a regular!

A beautiful film of an ugly event Kristen Scott Thomas, as a modern-day journalist, researches the WWII story of Jewish families who were evicted from their homes in Paris, brutally herded into the Velodrome and ultimately sent to German concentration camps.  As her story unfolds, the journalist begins to suspect there's a link between the Paris apartment her husband's family owns and has passed down to them, and the story of one of these Jewish families. Her research suddenly becomes urgent and very personal. What she discovers could cause her marriage to unravel. The story hinges on an old key and a girl who desperately wants to find her brother.  This is a riveting film. The viewer is spared any scenes of these families' horrible fates, but the anguished scenes of children being ripped from their parents, and husbands from wives, is heartbreaking. I often find that movies that go back and forth between generations don't work -- that you're interested in one story but not the other -- but this one works on all levels. Don't be concerned about subtitles -- you'll be so captivated by the film that you won't even notice them. The words just seem to seep into your consciousness.

A Great Gift for the Aspiring Actor! Truth be told, I haven't watched the DVDs.  I only watched the trailer from the MeisnerDVD.com website.  The trailer was absolutely breath-taking!  I have a good guy friend who happens to be an aspiring actor.  He's struggling to make it to the top in Hollywood and has not gotten very much formal acting training due to his low funds.  He has done some reading on techniques and has participated in a few small scale productions.  Anyway, he happened to have a BIRTHDAY!  So, I decided to make an investment in his future by purchasing him this AMAZING, MOTIVATIONAL, and INSPIRATIONAL DVD as a surprise gift!  He absolutely LOVED it!  Long story short, this DVD is DEFINITELY a keep-sake and a MUST have for ALL aspiring and CURRENT actors!  Sanford Meisner is a LEGENDARY acting instructor and has trained many greats, such as Sandra Bullock, Sydney Pollack (who happens to be the director of this "Master Class DVD Set"), Manou Topou, Jon Voight (Angelina Jolie's father!), Robert Duvall, Gregory Peck, Diane Keaton, and the list of greats goes on!  My guy friend has watched this DVD set over and over!  And it has been making a GREAT reference/resource tool to refine his acting craft!  While an actor can invest money in a class, there's nothing like having a DVD of a legendary class to watch over and over again for a fraction of the cost!  This DVD set is the ONLY footage of Sanford Meisner teaching his techniques that is made available to the public!  The rest of the footage is archived and placed in his estate, NOT available to the public!  What better gift to get a struggling actor?  I am pleased with this purchase!  And so is my guy friend!

Alice in Wonderland I love this movie, I have watched it dozens of times and never get tired of it. There is so much symbolism that I saw something new each time for the first 3 or 4 times. The special effects are great and Johnny Depp is great in whatever he does.

Another Thing from Another World This movie was good.  Was it better than the Carpenter film?  No.  A lot of people are mad that there are CG effects in this film.  What major box office film these days doesn't have computer generated effects?  Get over it.

rio This is a great movie . My spouse &I loved the movie . Then we had the grandkids over and they watched it also . I rate this movie at 5 stars

Great! I am so glad that someone is putting those great old series on DVD. I love McGyver and I ordered the complete set--6 DVD's.I already had the first season. All but one came in a few days and the last one is on its way.  I haven't had a chance to watch all of them yet, but I'm sure they'll be worth watching. I just received 4 and 6 seaoons yesterday, but I'll be watching some of them this weekend. Thank you Amazon, for making these available. Now if you'd put In the heat of the night series with Carroll O'Conner on DVD, I'd be a happy camper.

wrere is the dvd??? I really enjoyed this western and how can you beat a cast of Kirk Douglas and  James Coburn.With all the junk coming out on dvd today why is there no room for this really fun western on dvd?

If you want action and suspense-then, here it is It is what you would expect, but in a good way, for those who are interested in the action/drama genre

Freud and Lacan would be proud of this movie. I ordered this from Amazon Marketplace and it came immediately in good condition. It is by all means brilliantly Russian ballet, the best and is Lacan/Postmodern with all the "ego" alter-ego, id of Freud. Acting is excellent Symbolism is brilliant. Should do and have done well on the Continent with its messages. Great director and caste. A great piece of film  WG<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041KKYEM">Black Swan</a>

Very Good I was so glad to find just what I wanted, Mutany on the Bounty, an old classic! And  I got it right away!!

Reno 911, indeed This coming-of-age (read: sober up and get a life) film is a fine example of independent filmmaking.  Joey Klein gives a gripping performance and the biggest little city in the world never felt so hauntingly desolate and warm at once.

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Shirley Temple volume 4 I loved this as a child and purchased this for a friend of mine who has a daughter (sorry) actually cute and smarter than Shirley...

WOW. Ok, I'm reading lots of really dry, factual reviews here. But I just watched this. And I started crying. And I started praying.  Praise God. This is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen maybe in my whole life.

Striking! It's not often that I will sit down to any non-documentary film.  This is a work of art, absolutely stunning.  For those who enjoy Wes Anderson and other films like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Love Love Loved it!

Great Book!  I'm learning to crave God, not food! This book is a good and Godly book.  I have marched around the mountain of gluttony, long enough.  I gain and lose faster than a yoyo.  This book has helped me turn North and conquer my cravings with God's Word.

Great Movie!!! I havent seen Speed in years but it was a great movie to watch with my 11 year old son who loves a good action movie.

A MAJOR FINANCIAL AND CULTURAL SUCCESS I'm not going to review every aspect of this movie, or every member of the brilliant cast, just thought you might want to know that.  The Godfather is a masterpiece of film making, and was the end product of the skills, dedication and passion of many people, not just Francis Ford Coppola. I, unlike many die-hard fans, don't consider this cultural classic to be the greatest production ever to be crafted by human beings, but that doesn't mean i don't appreciate the sophistication of this pioneering American movie. The Godfather is more than just a mafia flick: it is an epic depiction of the American underworld and how that underworld straddles right beneath (or behind, depends on how you look at it) mainstream American society.  Members of the Corleone family - one of the most powerful and feared crime families in America - are basically living in a circle of lies and denial. The patriarch of this Italian-American family, Vito Andolini Corleone (played by the memorable Marlon Brando), brought wealth and power to the Corleone family and, therefore, achieved the American Dream - but only through intimidation, calculated greed and through shedding a lot of blood. As a result of accumulating an enormous amount of money and power, Don Corleone has successfully "purchased" many politicians and journalists; this tactic is still being implemented all over the world today by powerful individuals who obviously have no qualms about getting their hands dirty (or soaked in the blood of innocent people). As expected when a ruthlessly ambitious man involves himself deep into the blood-soaked and corruption stained pits of the criminal underworld, he will forever be chained to a world characterised by heartless, treacherous people that constantly conspire with each other - and against each other!  The Godfather has actually inserted some interesting questions into my inquisitive mind, questions like: How many Italian-Americans were/are involved in organised crime? Do the wives of the mafia dons know what their criminal-minded husbands get up to? And How would have Vito Corleone's father felt if he knew that his offspring had become one of America's most "efficient" crime bosses?  Vito Corleone didn't have to enter a life of crime to help him and his growing family escape the poverty-stricken ghettos of New York; he could have achieved the American Dream through honest, hard work, but, then again, The Godfather wouldn't have been The Godfather if he had chosen to lead a morally elevated life. I really do wonder how many of today's privileged and secure Americans lead prosperous lives as a direct result of their ancestors securing great wealth and power through bad deeds - including hurting innocent people.  Anyway, going back to the movie after slightly digressing, there is no one defining or spectacular scene or dialogue that places this movie into Hollywood's Hall of Fame; the whole movie has great scenes and dialogue that have shaped the way mafia movies are made - even to this day. It was comforting to know that Vito Corleone wanted his son, Michael Corleone (played by the hugely talented Al Pacino), to make a legitimate living...but fate would not allow it. Ironically, it would be Michael who would bring more wealth, more power, more connections and, yes, more fear to the Corleone family, but only by digging a deep - and darker - hole for the family in America's criminal underworld; sadly, maybe that's the easiest way for a rich and powerful family - that is already tainted by corruption - to get access to bigger vaults that house untold riches. The Godfather can indeed teach many people about how somethings really work and how believing that absolute power doesn't corrupt is as stupid as believing that a morbidly obese person shouldn't go on a diet.  There are so many shining factors that make this piece of historic and cinematic film making truly remarkable and special. And i really hope future generations of people (our descendents) also understand the different layers of this movie and appreciate the passion that went into bringing this movie into the world...and into our constantly active imaginations.  Oh, if anybody is interested to know, my ultimate favourite movie from this genre is Road to Perdition which, along with Cast Away, Tom Hanks gave one of his best performances in.

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Roadie Rocks with BOC Ron Elder is very good as A Roadie who gets fired from his dream job working for the amazing Blue Oyster Cult. The acting is good the story is kind of sad. But the music of Blue Oyster Cult is fantastic. And not just the typical radio fare of Burning for You, Godzilla, and Don't Fear the Reaper. There is Buck's Boogie with guitar genius Buck Dharma jamming on lead guitar. You have Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll, The Red and The Black and  The Last 30 Days of May. A reminder of how great Blue Oyster Cult sounds.  Great soundtrack by others too. A must for BOC fans and all rockers. The Elfman

very pleased The video quality is very good, just like I remember them, maybe even better.The picture was crisp and clear, the audio was also perfect.

happy endings i love this show it gives me so many laughs and side pains more thin a blond sniffing a sticker at the bottom of a pool

wanted, a complete set Wanted to trade. I have this 4 disk set with 2 disk one's.  If you have this set with 2 disk two's lets trade. Then you can see the start of the movie and I can see the end.  Just kidding of course, waiting for amazon to actually resolve this problem.  Update:  Sent bad set back to amazon on Jan 8th.  They signed for it on Jan 12th.  It is now the 24th, my account doesn't even show that I have a return being processed.  So glad I keep all my emails, it had the tracking number and return number in it.  I then had to explain over and over again what I sent back and how I have not gotten any reply (english would be good for customer service), it seemed to just disappear.  Now I am told they are sending a refund.  Their help says I would get a refund 2 days after they get the item, it has been 12.  In the mean time I have already reordered the movie and watched all 4 disks.  Great movie, I like the added intrigue in the original silent film, that was missing from the remake.

Temple Grandin One of the best if not the very best movie I have every seen. After watching Temple Grandin I just had to share this wonderful movie.  So I purchased copies as gifts for family members, and they loved it as much as my husband and I did.

The way the hand feels with time Taking the stance that history is told by the victor, this tale of "the Blood Count" looks at her life both as a romantic tale and also as a tale of tragedy. First you see the woman and her life as a maried woman, then as a pwerful figure, then a social giant, then a lover, then a fiarytale, and finally a shatter enigma. It is all told from the lips of one that was there, and the tale is something of a cautionary one and also one that seems pained and heatfelt. This makes it different, remarkably so, and something that interests more than the normal persons that might otherwise find themselves watching a story on this particular subject.  From costuming to the way the subject is spun, this is rewarding. True, it is not the way you would normally see this subject but that is not a bad thing. Breaking with tradition can be strong and, looking into what it says, an interesting stance. It has a way with thoughts and a way with perspectives, putting us just slightly out of reach of truly knowing. It does not make excuses, offering instead obsession as a remark for murder, and it does not coat the subect. Perhaps it is not as bleak as some other ventures into this idea, but it is nonetheless dark.  I liked this enough to give it a 4.6, rounding it to 5. I would say more but things have a way of brekaing when words try to stangle the mystery from them.

Fascinating Stories I had to have a laugh at some of the reviews here,so worried about what skin color the original people were.I suppose we may never actually know that for sure,because all we have is some letters from these ancient people. What was most important was the stories themselves. I found this entire series amazing.Watching the people act out there part,at times i imagined what it would be like to be amongst it all. The Egyptians kept great details of certain happenings,and i suppose it's lucky so many artifacts have survived.I get fascinated by these people,their way of life and the things they left behind are amazing. The embalming of poeple,and animals sounds kind of grotesque,but the good part of that is that we can view a people from that time. The stories from that time were at times brutal at times,such at with what happened to the tomb robbers.The story of the twins was kind of unfinished,you were left wondering about how they managed to survive.There was 4 stories. I loved these stories,pity there wasn't a whole lot more of them here.

A perfect finale to the series! The blood was a little pink but who cares!  It provided all of the answers to questions the previous movies left Saw fans pondering about.  I loved it.  Too bad it's already over.

Fun Movie I had to have this movie because I knew it was low budget and it had a Hollywood making movie theme. The acting was a little cheesy but it was a fun movie to watch and see just how movies with a limited budget get made.

Only Godzilla thats not a man in a suit I loved this version and have it on VHS, DVD and Bluray. While some parts of the movies are comical the main attraction to this movie for me is that Godzilla looks and acts like a real monster. Its not a man in a rubber suit, if you like Godzilla and love CGI then this is your movie.

Historical Drama In The Desert - Enjoyed It This Time Because I Understand So Much More About It Years after watching it the first time, I bought and watched Lawrence of Arabia again.  The movie itself has been described in great detail many times in other reviews. I will just say that as old as it is, it's still as impressive as ever. If you enjoy the history of the Middle East, I doubt that you can beat it. Lawrence was an unusual fellow, to say the least. I was too young to understand any of it the first time I saw it. Parts are brutally realistic, but that's the way it was.  I'm not sure why they designed the DVD this way, but starting out there was nothing but black, followed by a long period of music. I finally fast forwarded to the point where it started. The second disc started fine, but shortly after had an Intermission, followed by more of the black screen and music. I almost thought the disc was defective, but apparently it was just designed that way.  Music and acting were brilliant. In fact, everything about this movie is just as good now as it was when I first saw it years ago.  One thing that made it different for me was seeing many of the locations where it all happened, both the filming and the actual events. Last year I had the opportunity to visit many of the areas included both in the filming of the movie. The movie is so real I could almost feel the desert air. You may want a large glass of ice water to drink as you watch it. You also may want to plan to watch it over a couple of days. It's long.  The Bedouin community really hasn't changed much. I had met several Bedouin men during my travel through Jordan recently. Their appearance and behavior was very much like they were portrayed on film. One was a guide on a long bus trip through the desert and another on a camel ride in Petra. Others I saw scattered around Jordan and Israel living in tents, with camels, goats, sheep, and donkeys scattered around. Some were dressed as shown in this movie and others in jeans and shirts. They don't appear to have changed much over the years. It made the movie even more interesting to compare the Bedouin community then and now. Many of the people I saw could have been used in this film without any wardrobe change.  It doesn't take much imagination to feel as though we were really witnessing these events take place.

Long Awaited DVD This is Tom Selleck's best movie.  It is an Adventure-Romantic-Comedy.  Bess Armstrong could not be better in her role as an adventurous rich, spoiled flapper.  The movie is about a rich girl in the 1920s enjoying a life of partying after WWI.  Her father's business partner decides to have him declared dead which would cause his daughter to change her lifestyle.  She hires an ex-WWI fighter ace to fly with her to find her father in Asia.  The cinematography is fantastic and should look great on Blue-ray.  This movie was never released in the US on DVD until now.

COME ON, WE'RE ALL ADULTS HERE. So you've survived a plane crash in the Kalahari Desert, and it's you, 4 other men, and 1 woman.  So what's the first question that comes to mind?  Is it water?  Rescue?  Uh uh.  Who gets the woman? (Susanna York - Battle of Britain, Tunes of Glory)  And this movie isn't shy about asking that question either.  This is one of the great survival movies of the 60's, and it's a mystery to me why this movie wasn't out on DVD 10 years ago.

Satisfied I received this item a few days after ordering it and it was in good condition I would purchase from this seller again in the future.

great locomotive chase very quick response to the order received it very quick order am happy with order would purchase from this person again thumbs up

Jet Li fan I purchased this movie as a gift. The person I bought it for loves Jet Li movies, so I know he will enjoy it.

Johnny Got His Gun Saw this movie years ago and never forgot it. I couldn't remember the name of it then did a search of words and found it. I watched it as soon as I recieved it and am so glad I can watch it anytime now. The way the movie goes from black and white to color really helps everything come together. This story really makes you think.  Not a movie for children but do watch it with a close friend.

Clockwork Orange Ahhh, me droogs, classic Kubrick movie. Strange, eery, unusual. not many of these out there on UMD. Better snatch up a copy before they are all gone.

Bel Ami by Rob Pattinson Love, loved this movie! Rob Pattinson exceeded my expectations to say the least. Was exciting how they build up his role then he gets knocked down then back up. He was amazing in his role and nailed his character. Made me feel many emotions. Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Chrisina Ricci, Colm Meaney all a superb job in their roles. Was hoping to see this movie in theaters when it first hit the US but was not going to travel 2000 miles. I was disappointed it never made it to closer to my New England. So, waited til the dvd released and now it is mine to watch whenever, in the comforts of my home. Again, Rob did a stellar performance!!! A+++ :)

Best Yet Eclipse is the best movie yet of the Twilight series.  Good acting and great action scenes.  Good tension in the love triangle.  The special effects porttion of the DVD is very interesting and entertaining - almost as good as watching the movie.

"its your thing, do what you wanna do" THIS MOVIE ROCKS!! no question about it. i loved E.T. and saw it 100 times like everyone else in the world but when this came out i was in awe of it and went back to see it 200 times. course it didnt survive in theatres as long as E.T. did so i went almost every other day after school to my neighborhood theatre to see it until they took it out. when it came to video i must of rented it everyday. i got an awesome poster of it when i went to a fangoria convention in L.A. and got my copy of it when dvds came around and know this bluray. thank you universal and thank you sir john carpenter for remaking this masterpiece. in this digital age and CGI days this film was done using nothing but good old fashioned imagination. rob bottin is a master and a genius for doing what he and his crew did in this show. and ennio morricones score is absolutely terrifying. I still see it to this day and im in total awe. and to other THING fans please go check out THE THING out right now. it is the best prequel since RED DRAGON. and props to the filmmakers of the new one for going the "prequel" route and staying far away from a redue. wise choice. this explores the "the crazy swedes" point of view before kurt russells team finds the thing. this new film had me shaking and breathing heavy with great scares all the way thru just like carpenters film did. GO GO GO! stay scared!

Overlooked Tennessee Williams Beautiful and exquisite Tennessee Williams script with wondeful performances and flavor of the period. A must have for Williams fans.

Gettysburg Widescreen An excellent movie and historically accurate. Keeps focus on the battle and those who fought it from the viewpoint of both sides. It does all this without drifting into off topic subplots or love interests. Although the movie is rather long, it successfully keeps your intense interest. A five star event!

The most horrifying and shocking monster flick ever Even though I was not a kid when I first saw this, it planted kernals of fear and revulsion in my imagination that has lasted until today.  A group of men - some scientists, some army grunts - are isolated in Antarctica, when their routine is disturbed by the sudden appearance of a helicopter that appears to be hunting a dog.  Though it explodes, this doesn't slow down one of the mysterious occupants, who are Norwegian, from shooting at the dog regardless of the danger it poses to the Americans standing aghast at the spectacle.  It is inexplicable, horrifically violent, and violates all the assumptions that men would normally make.  Several terrible mistakes are made:  the surviving Norwegian is shot by a security man without any explanation elicited, the dog is allowed the run of the compound, and the communications man fails to contact the outside authorities.  This casts the die for all that follows.  OK, I am going to assume that anyone reading this knows the plot, so am not going to try to avoid the ***spoilers***.  The dog, it turns out, is an alien that the Norwegians discovered.  Its true nature is revealed when it is at last put in the kennel, where it transforms itself into a mass of greasy, flailing tubes and ripped flesh that spews liquid while seeking to ingest the other dogs.  The men quickly realize they are facing something unprecedented, a being that is like an infection that can consume any living creature and mimic it almost perfectly.  While it is vulnerable during transformation, this makes it a most formidable enemy.  Not only do the men not know who has become one of the creatures, but they suspect eachother to such an extent that all order and trust begin to break down.  The ensuing mayhem is unlike anything I have ever seen in cinema.  You wait for the characters - none of them particularly  likable or even interesting - to get picked off or murdered one by one.  An additional danger is limned by a scientist who later appears to go insane.  He calculates that, should the creature reach a civilized area, the entire world will be infected in 27,000 hours.  But the purpose or goal of the creature, which first landed on earth at least 100,000 years ago and was frozen in suspended animation, remain opaque and hence food for the imagination of lovers of hard scifi.  This, I think, is the most frightening part of the film, indeed it is a completely original extrapolation from Bodysnatchers and other 50s scifi.  It heralds the end of humanity.  At the end, one of the characters admits that, because they have no idea of the limits of the infection, it is perhaps better if they die.  The perfect ending, with everything left hanging in the balance and yet no need for a sequel.  The special effects, while primitive as modeled clay and rubber puppets rather than computer-generated images, are nonetheless compelling and utterly disgusting.  During transformation, the creatures appear to secrete a bloody liquid, though their interiors contain grotesque remnants of their past identities, from slimy dog or human heads to presumably alien lifeforms of singular ferocity.  There is a scene where the doctor is treating a heart attack victim, only to find the man's chest peels away to reveal giant jaws that bite off his hands; once incinerated by flamethrower, the creature's head seeks to survive on its own, pulling itself to safety by a prehensile tongue and then growing spider-like legs studded with eyes.  In another scene, a human-appearing creature captures a man, covering his mouth with a hand while tendrils corrupt his body with infection, which his eyes reveal he is helpless to stop.  These images are unforgettable.  The acting is particularly strong, with Kurt Russel in his prime.  I completely believed what was happening, from their confusion to their paranoid frenzies.  That makes this a first-rate hard scifi thriller, full of action and unanswered questions.  Beyond the horror, the film filled me with wonder at the possibilities of the universe.  It is by far the best Carpenter film I have ever seen.  Recommended with the greatest enthusiasm for those who can stomach the horror.

The Best This 70th Anniversary edition of what i would call the best movie i have ever seen of the old Film Noir movies , Bogart in his wonderful role of the casino/club owner Richard Blaine ...Rick. The Cast is a wonderful group of actors and supporting actors of the time. The 70th anniversary edition contains the Blu-Ray of the film , with the dvd of the movie as well a nice little drink coaster set , a replica of one of the Casablanca movie posters and a wonderful book with info on the film , the sets and the actors. If you buy this set i dont think a true collector and fan of the movie will regret it. for my money , this is absolutely the best

Explores the meaning of nobility and importance of religious freedom This is a very satisfying film. Based on the real Cristero War in Mexico, in which Catholics fought against the president's anti-clerical laws in the 1920s, this movie is a strong exhortation to take a stand for what you believe. I can see no better way than this movie for people to understand the importance of religious freedom if they've started to take it for granted. It's essentially a mix of the war movie genre and epic "El Cid"-type genre. Unlike almost every other period movie made in recent years, this movie didn't feel fake to me. The young actor who plays Jose, one of the main characters, is excellent, and the actor playing the general leading the Catholic "Cristeros", Andy Garcia, makes his character believable even though the script doesn't allow him an extensive character transformation from skeptic to die-hard Christian. The Mexican president, Calles, was also very convincing, having developed a rationale to convince himself violence against Catholics was necessary. People don't order atrocities without beliefs motivating them, including Calles, who was convinced Catholicism was a barrier to progress because it created divided loyalties between the pontificate and the president. The R rating is on account of the extent of the violence (many soldiers get shot down), but it is not graphic. There are 3 criteria I have for good war movies, ALL of which this satisfies:  1. Not overly dramatized 2. Not gratuitous (that is, not graphic without cause) 3. Not overly glamorous/glorified  The cinematography was well-done in its location shooting and violent sequences. The power of the violent sequences comes from the gun noises and the fast whirls of the camera, but I never got confused about who was where in the battle scenes, to the filmmakers' credit--I know that's hard to perform. This is a movie that keeps alive the memory of a major and successful struggle for religious freedom, which should inspire us to safeguard our liberties.

emillio!!! Too funny, I bought another when ours was accidentally stepped on. Maybe kind of cheesy, but Will farrel, and chris katan are funny in just about every movie they're in!

Great entertainment I rented this from Netflix and found it to be very entertaining. If you are buying it to watch Swayze, you may be a bit disappointed, but his interview about his part is very nice and it's easy to see he enjoyed doing this movie. It is one that I would recommend for children (I am buying it to share with my grandkids) and, though it does have some violence of the time period, it is mild compared to most anything approved of for kids today. There is some death, one main good guy does die, but its not bloody and plays an importatnt part in the story. The ending it quite delightful.

GREAT HORROR FILM Based on a video game, this is without a doubt one of the top horror movies of all time. A woman (Radha Mitchell) goes into a town to locate her adopted daughter (Jodelle Ferland), who has a past connection to said town. As she looks for her daughter the film intensifies as we keep asking ourselves what is going on?  The movie includes weird inner dimension Sci-Fi stuff as well as horror movie tension. I was on the edge of my chair the whole time. Great horror movie to build the evening around. Lots of conflict because it was a video game first. Don't pay more than $5.00 for a new copy.  If you haven't seen it, you can't go wrong.  F-bombs, no sex, near nudity.

Clint Eastwood at his BEST!!! "Are you gonna pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?"  Love this movie definitely my favorite for Clint Eastwood.  His character is such a bad ass and just trust me if you like westerns you will love this movie.

An excellent sequel to a classic Sequels are often not as good as the original movie. 'Return to snowy river' as a sequel to 'The man from snowy river' is almost as good as the original. The strength of the sequel is in the continuation of the story, while retaining the two lead actors (Tom Burlinson and Sigrid Thornton) in their original roles, outstanding cinematography and original score that are even better than in the first movie. The only thing missing is Kirk Douglas.  Brian Dennehy's Harrison is just adequate, but he has less scope for acting than Douglas did in TMFSR. Both lead actors (Burlinson and Thornton) are outstanding in their roles. The supporting cast is good, but the story demands less from them than from the cast of the first movie.  'Return to snowy river' is more action oriented and more romantic than the original. It is entertaining and thrilling. The part where Jim Craig gets to ride the stallion is particularly exciting.  The visuals of the Australian Alps, horses running through water, through sand, and horse riding stunts are spectacular. At the end of 'The man from snowy river' Jim Craig tells Harrison (Kirk Douglas) that he would come back for Jessica. He returns after 3 years in the story, but six years had passed between the original movie and the making of its sequel, so the two main characters look considerably older (and sometimes better) than in the original. The plot is simpler and rather one dimensional- good guy vs. bad guy, but it is an entertaining movie, and it remains one of my favorites. I like watching the two movies as a series because it sort of completes the story.  The only complaint I have is that on the DVD of 'Return to Snowy river' the subtitles are not exactly accurate. They leave out some words spoken by the characters, though no major damage is done. If you don't watch the movie with subtitles, it's a non-issue. In my case, after watching the movie many times without the subtitles I was still having difficulty understanding some of the Aussie accent, so I decided to watch it with the subtitles and discovered the minor omissions. Since this is a minor issue, I still gave it 5 stars.  Overall, I love this sequel.  It is exciting to see the 'Man'from Snowy River back, with his great horse riding skills, and with his life with the woman he loves.

As a vet, it gives me chills... For those who haven't been down range I can't suggest this movie enough. I was an Army HUMINT specialist in Baghdad and this movie can gets to me like nothing else. The dull sandy surroundings, creeping terror at every step and the urge of panic with every action this move goes beyond any other when it comes to a dose of unflinching reality.  The mundane approach captivates when you first see it. I remember how routine it seemed to be deployed then a few mortars and IEDs made the experience far more humbling. Walking around a market changed. Saying hello changed. Taking a step without worrying changed. The movie gives you that horror and intimacy at the same time. I still have nightmares about Iraq and this film in an odd way soothes that. I remember working with EOD and the sheer terror operating around them. Cellphones didn't escape your gaze, wrong looks didn't go unchecked. All perfectly captured on film.  If you can't sleep after watching this movie the first time then it did its job. I still can't go a month without hearing mortars and seeing dead bodies.  The lingo is sound (ish, there are some flaws) still hearing a redneck yell "imshi" brings me back. I can't tell you the fear of operating a 50 cal the first time. You're parylized and just hoping militia doesn't sense it. One thing though, don't smoke when you've left the wire unless you want to get shot. Oh, and eyepro is a must but aside from that I abandoned my disbelief to the point of panic. Hell, I even wore a shemagh just like the movies. Didn't know it looked cool, it just kept dust out of my mouth.  Granted, Iraq will be a distant memory soon enough bu this is a movie I'll watch and watch over again to at least think that the sacrifices made weren't in vain.

MUST WATCH THIS IS AN AMAZING STORY! EVERY DOG OWNER SHOULD SEE THIS MOVIE. IT IS HEARTWARMING AND AT THE SAME TIME HEARTBREAKING! HAVE THE TISSUE BOX AT YOUR SIDE!

Definitely in the Top 3 of the best Vietnam movies For a look at how a young man is trained into becoming a soldier, this movie offers a look like no other.  The movie never drags or slows down and Kubrick does an incredible job with the background sounds(as with all of his movies!!)  Pretty brutal and yet realistic look at the war.

The rite of exorcism Amazing,great,truthful makes you believe,the power of movie making and the genius behind it.couldnt take my eyes off the screen. Riveting intense

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Awesome I would watch this over and over again, and plus would share wirth friends and family. Mr Bean is a legend of his time. want clean comedy watch Mr Bean

Great gift I gave this as a gift.  The recipient was delighted with it as well as its companion DVD.  Great for Doris Day fans.

This is one of MY FAVORITE THINGS. I have loved this movie ever since I saw it in 1965. When I saw this as a Gold Box Deal I went for it and so very happy I did. I was blown away when I opened the box at the quality of the set. It looks like it should cost over a hundred dollars. The music box is the very same color and print of the drapes in Maria's room that she makes the children's play clothes from. I am enjoying the books and learning more about the real Von Trapp Family.  Now for the Blu-ray oh my goodness. It is like being right there. It is full HD viewing pleasure. I already had the DVD which was really good but when you look at one then the other there is a BIG difference for sure. The sound is amazing also. This set is so worth the investment if this is a favorite of yours. I also have the Wizzard of Oz set my other favorite of all time.  Highly Recommend it is worth the few extra dollars if you want a beautiful keepsake.

The Outlaw Josie Wales The DVD 'The Outlaw Josie Wales' met all of our expectations as advertised. Lots of action, mixed with humor and some romance. Plenty to please everybody.

Under rated MUCH If you've played the games, this movie might be disappointing.  Other than that, it's WAY better than ANY Star Wars movie IMO.  I mean, this is by no means as bad as the original Star Wars and stands up to "The Empire Strikes Back" pretty well.  All the rest of them where garbage. (come on, even you die hard Star Wars fans secretly agree with me on that).  This is not the best movie ever made but, it's a great space adventure, especially compared to George Lucas' banal noodling.

the most realistic cold war senario film ever probably We still live under the cloud of nuclear war, although it's not like it was during the cold war, a time when total devastion of the entire world was a REAL possibliity. The senario involving IRAN too remains topical, but in todays world IRan wants the bomb so they can use it on Isreal, or the west. this is not the same as the cold war era at all. This film looks great and it was shot on film , not all bbc dramas were shot that way back then. Although the tape era was thankfully coming to a end by the time they made this movie. THis is similiar to the very good 'the day after' but done with a smaller cast. The cast does a great job and the film builds up logically to the war for about 45 minutes and then it's a horrorfest of devastation and doom. But that's what that type of war would have been like. I am glad this film is in such good shape too, often we get films with scrathes and lines in them , 'the day after' has this problem. This one looks great and the effects of the war stand up even today. The scenes of the aftermath are very effective too. It would have taken hundreds of years for some sort of real society to return probably after this type of devastation and this film is worth every penny. Why it's not out in region one is beyond me. It's one of the bbc's finest moments fromt the 1980's. So you need a ALL region player which available right here on amazon.com to watch this. Get this one. It's very realistic and pulls no punches.

A feel-good movie with top notch actors I first watched this movie simply because I love to watch any movie at least once that has Christmas as its setting. This one, however, is good all year long. I didn't even realize that it had four, yes four!, of my favorite actors. I knew that any movie with Cameron Diaz and Jack Black would have great humor (which it does), and Kate Winslet and Jude Law would be icing on the cake.  It's a romantic comedy in which all four main characters are having issues with love and/or commitment. The sets are great; Amanda's (Cameron Diaz) beautiful upscale home in Los Angeles and Iris' (Kate Winslet) cozy winter cottage in rural England. They swap houses for the holidays and find more than they were looking for; love, friendship, learning what is really important in life. Some of it is predictable, but there are a few surprises.  This movie will have you laughing most of the time, choking up on occasion. You'll want to have this one in your collection for those times when you want to watch a feel-good movie with a good ending.

Legendary film revealing potent & painful truths More than any other, this film reveals Peter Weir as a human with tremendous awareness and deep conscience regarding the ongoing destruction of the original inhabitants of Australia. He wrote the "story" upon which his film is based.  The speculative element involving people who appear to be just ordinary white folks who are in fact not what they seem and tragic events resulting in large part from the casual way in which wealthier white Europeans exploit the resources of planet Earth while denying that their consensual reality and prevailing religious beliefs are not shared in common by everyone is an important moral statement.  Many are trained from birth to ignore and forget what is true about themselves. In forgetting, we are molded into someone who "fits in", very often to the detriment of ourselves and others. Some are born with gifts which frighten those who hold strong opinions about what constitutes "normalcy". Rather than embracing these gifts or simply permitting the person to retain what is unique and different about themselves, what is true is discouraged and suppressed.  Just as the indigenous people of what became America and the Tibetan people today, the Aboriginal Australians have had their tribal customs ridiculed, their sacred sites destroyed or made into tourist attractions. As with Native Americans, alcoholism became a serious problem. When human beings lose what is meaningful to them and are told that their knowledge, tradition and beliefs are wrong, they often seek comfort in oblivion. The tragedy of this result of attempts to "civilize" those who already have a superior, Tribal, culture continues today.  When one understands that the Dreamtime is real, that we are all in a sense dreaming even while we are awake and the perception of time being linear is, in fact, only a perception that is in fact incorrect (quantum physics 101 will verify the truth of my statement). When one can accept that a Shaman or spiritually evolved human possesses knowledge and can be strong enough to acquire abilities which most Western minds would deny being within the realm of possibility, this is "reality which is truer". Westerners who possess a prophetic gift are often misinterpreted, dismissed and denigrated unless they conform to the prevailing beliefs of the people around them. The "witch hunts" continue to this day, although burning people alive is no longer condoned.  This film casts white Europeans in a less than favorable light, because it tells the truth about the results of fear, greed and bigotry. This film also underscores the damage that is often done by the most popular religion of Westerners. If you believe Western white culture and its prevalent beliefs are superior, if you believe we can continue to exploit the resources of our planet without dire consequences, you will feel insulted by this film. To all others, I highly recommend The Last Wave.  Richard Chamberlain, an often underrated actor, was superbly cast. Peter Weir deserved huge accolades for this film which, once viewed, is never forgotten.

Best movie ever! The 50th Anniversary edition was such a wonderful surprise! Not only for the movie itself being one of the all time classiics but the extra bonus features were outstanding! Seeing cast members recall making the movie, interviews with Gregory Peck, details of the production are such a delight to watch! Highly recomend!

Great movie! This is one of the best romance movies I've seen in a long time.  Definitely worth the 5 stars and the 5 Kleenex!

TITANS!!! I loved 300, so it was no surprise that I loved Clash of the Titans. It looks great on bluray and the action was cool. The CGI was really well done, can't comment on the 3d version cause I have read that out really sucked so I didn't even bother with it. Great all around fighting flick, check it out and sit back and enjoy!

Witness We've searched long and hard for "Witness" in CD form.  We found it here on Amazon at Christmas, ordered it and now we have the Amish ih our living room everynight!

love it! This movie is really nice, sad, happy and thought provoking. If you have not seen this movie, please do! My husband loved it so its not only a chick flick!

Great dialogue, if you can understand it Of all the film genres, action and action comedies are where films by foreign directors have reached the quality of films by US directors.  It used to be that the best action movies and action comedies had names like Lucas, Spielberg, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola attached to it.  No more.  Now the top action and action-comedies are often made by Guy Ritchie, Matthew Vaughn, Christopher Nolan, Guillermo del Toro, Peter Jackson and other non-US directors.  This is probably most epitomized in the field of crime-action-comedy.  American films of this class has degenerated into rehashes of franchises such as Die Hard, Terminator, and Bad Boys, with over-the-top special effects, forgettable soundtracks, and bad dialogue.  England, on the other hand, is producing 1 or 2 great urban crime comedies annually.  It all started with this production from the pairing of Guy Ritchie and Matthew Vaughn, Snatch.  Taking a look at the criminal underworld of the UK, we see splices from the world of gambling, money laundering, illegal fights, pawnshops, and the black market trade in jewels.  The movie populates this world with a collection of characters of varying dryness and sarcasm, all trying to outwit the other while staying alive.  Yes there are gunfights, but they are few and far between, and like real gunfights, and unlike those featured in US-made movies; almost everyone gets hit.  What carries the movie is the dialogue, and seeing how the different characters talk down, or up, or to each other; profanity or no profanity.  This ranges from Brad Pitt's take of a Irish vagrant to a Jason Statham's personification of an exasperated middleman caught between a rock and a hard place.  All of it is well-crafted and speaks to the script-writing underlying this movie.  Overall, well worth the watch.

great movie I absolutely love this movie. It's just an amazing, feel good Christmas movie. I think Kate Winslet is one of the most beautiful and talented actresses out today.

Twelve Angry Men My dad has told me several times about how good of a movie this was. He never said much of what it was about but he loves this movie. After spotting this at a library, I decided to see why he likes it so much. As he warned me before: no action whatsoever, precious little change of scenery (as only 3 minutes and 15 seconds were filmed outside a certain room), and filled with nothing but dialogue. As boring as it may sound considering the movies made today, I found that you don't need action, scenery, etc to make a GOOD MOVIE. I was drawn into the plot and the debate and contentedly sat there as it continued. I'm glad I watched it because it's a movie that I find worthwhile.

Well done Well done, followed the book quite well.....am looking forward to seeing Part II. Would recommend this to see or read an author that was way ahead of her time.

Best price My 15 month toddler loves Coraline. She always watches it off the DVR at home. She is always on her best behavior when she's watching it, so I knew I had to purchase it for when we go on vacations, road trips, and for when she is visiting grandparents. We didn't really need the 3D right now but this combo DVD was cheaper than all the rest.

Guilty Pleasure All movie reviews are, ultimately, a person's opinion. I've seen the reviews of this movie and find something in all of them to agree with.  It's easy to do so, depending on what you are expecting from this viewing experience.  This movie is a "self-shot documentary" of a couple's experience with supernatural events that rapidly escalate in severity.  Obviously, there are going to be moments of "For heaven's sakes! How can you be *that* dumb?!"  On the other hand, there are often moments of unexpected shocks.  To believe that a true-life couple would lug a camera around or have one running at all times to capture this stretches credulity to the breaking point.  That said, if you allow that and other expected snags to pass by, this can be a rewarding viewing experience.  You never see the "monster", a point that I find makes this movie MUCH more scarey than it would have been if they'd floated by all sorts of CG phantasms.  They leave it up to your imagination to craft the monster, to shiver over its decision to escalate its attentions, to almost see it in the darkness just beyond the lighted doorway.  The actors are believable for the most part(in my opinion).  I give this movie a high rating, not for its technical excellence or superlative story line, nor even the actors.  I give it marks for allowing me, the viewer, to make it as scarey as my imagination is capable.  And, as anyone who's ever jumped at a sudden inexplicable noise in the dead of night knows--our imaginations are very very capable!

The Greatest DVD Commentary I Have Ever Heard Often funny, wildly bizarre and consistently entertaining, this film will appeal to those with an open mind and a taste for the absurd.  Adolescence and sexuality have rarely been captured with such vulgarity, respect and insight.  Being largely ignorant of Italian history and culture, the DVD commentary was absolutely essential for a deeper understanding and appreciation of this film.  I say this not to discourage but to entice.  The DVD commentary is simply brilliant, providing incredibly poignant and concise context for scenes that, while superficially entertaining, are actually embedded with symbolism and intelligence.  If you are willing to invest some time into this film, you won't be disappointed.

the outsider This is 1 excellent movie.definetly 1 you can watch with your husband to.love the story line wish they would make a second 1.words can't describe how good this movie isyou just have to watch it.I will admitt when I read what it was about I did not want to watch it but did anyways and I am glad I did

excellent for those equipped with an imagination. I think this was a very well done, original film. Yes, there are holes in the plot, but all in all I really enjoyed it. It has a great, dark, creepy atmosphere. I thought the acting was just fine. This is a supernatural horror film; I don't expect every thing to be believable. If I want realism I'll watch Nova.

Sin City [Blu-ray] A MUST OWN for your Blu-Ray collection.  The picture UNREAL and of course it is SIN CITY. The movie itself ROCKS!!!

Wonderful Story and Thrilling Journey This is yet another wonderful Spanish film that weaves a truly masterful storyline.  The acting is excellent.  I truly love the lead actress.  The story has an eerie and thrilling edge, and as is so typical of Del Toro, you really don't know where the tale is leading you until that one 'Ah-ha' moment... and then it all falls into place.  I highly recommend this film for anyone interested in a solid film, or if you are a fan of genres such as 'thrillers'.  If you like Guillermo Del Torro, you will certainly love this film.

Good Movie What else can I say, This movie will blow your mind. I saw it in both spanish and portugues and they were both good translations.

Beam me up!!!! This show is great if you like Sci-Fi? It is hillarious from start to finish. Paul is a true down to earth Alein with a foul mouth, so it's not a kids show. Have fun with him and prepare to laugh!!!!!!

Fandango Fandango is a coming of age movie set in Texas (Austin), in 1971. The main problem with the movie is the song "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting". That song didn't come out until 1973...but other than that, it's a terrific movie.  The "Groovers" are graduating from college (not all of them) and a couple of them have been drafted into service for the Vietnam War. So, they decide to take a road trip...their final road trip as the "Groovers".  The scenery in this movie leaves a lot to be desired, but that's not the focus of the movie. The focus of the movie is growing up into responsible adults after leading lives of fun loving, irresponsible young people. They realize that their lives are changing and the change is frightening.  One of the main charaters dated the fiance of one of the other main characters and there are some flashback/dreamlike sequences with "The Girl". The girl is Suzie Amis. Without this story arc, the movie doesn't have much of a purpose. It deepens the characters and gives them a past.  The movie starts to drag just a tad, but then, the movie savior of all the movie saviors appears on screen...Truman Sparks. The whole skydiving scene was the catalyst for making this movie. After the Truman Sparks experience the movie takes on a more direct path.  I left a lot of things out on purpose. It might seem like the typical coming of age movie, at first glance. But, do yourself a favor and give it more than a glance. If you visit IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes, you'll find low viewer ratings for this movie. Maybe they didn't give it the chance it deserves. Watch it and rate it for yourself. You won't be disappointed.

Airplane!(Don't Call Me Shirley) This is a Classic and one of the funniest Movies ever made. It's a movie you never get tired of watching. They just don't make them like this any more.

death race2 was great so much action which i love in a movie.   KEEP IT UP YOU GUYS/GIRLS

Sweet and funny Could easily have been preachy or heavy-handed, but instead, felt like watching the home movies of really nice people who care a lot about their families. Charming, but not sticky-sweet, either. Yeah, families!

breaks a lot of new ground This series really is an extraordinary pleasure.  While the HB Prince and Order P were a bit of a blur, this film is completely distinctive - it doesn't take place in HogW and is a running adventure chase in full, with many principal characters killed off.  It moves much faster, the dangers seem far greater, and everything is at stake.  This is even character development, with Ron rebelling and coming back, the progress of young love, and Harry's flaws coming out more clearly.  After so much time, it amazes me that the quality is still going up.  The comic touches, depth of theme, and fine acting continue, of course.  Warmly recommended.